Grinnell College: April 28 "The Futures of Holocaust Memory"

Thursday, 7 pm Israeli soldiers tell their personal stories

 

Come meet Anat and Iris, two very different Israeli soldiers.  Hear their personal stories.

 

Thursday, April 10    7 pm  at Beth El Jacob Synagogue, 954 Cummins Parkway, Des Moines. 

Refreshments served.   A program of Jewish Federation and the Drake Hillel.  All are welcome.

 

 

 

 

 

Sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Greater Des Moines and Drake Hillel with support from our synagogues and Temple.

 

Contact: jcrc@dmjfed.org

 

Fri and Sat. with superstar musicians Josh Nelson and Neshama Carlebach

 

March 22: Vigil for Peace in South Sudan

Local Purim Schedule for our congregations!

 

 

Happy Purim everyone!  Chag Purim Sameach! 

 

Here is a listing of the local Purim schedule for our congregations!

 

 

From Beth El Jacob Synagogue:

 

We have a busy weekend we are all looking forward to!
 

Purim:

Megillah Reading Sat evening 8:15pm

Sunday:
Minyan 9:00am
Megillah Readining 12:00pm followed by Purim in Disney

 

 

From Temple B’nai Jeshurun

 

 

This Friday, March 14, Purim weekend, we will have a special Friday evening Shabbat service at 6:00 p.m.

It will feature the reading of the regular (Adult version) of the Megillah. The entire service will take place in the social hall where food and drinks will be available throughout the service. It's going to be a great party!

Join us! Come in costume! Have fun!

 

 

 

 

 

From Tifereth Israel Synagogue

Shake Your Gragger! Tifereth Israel Purim Celebration Saturday, March 15th at 6:00pm   Celebrate with your Tifereth Israel community as we commemorate how Queen Esther helped save the Jewish people!   The evening's family-friendly activities will begin at 6:00pm with an abbreviated Purim story, followed by our annual costume parade, and a chance for our children to make sh'lach manot (Purim food baskets) for their friends.  Dinner will then be served, and after that, we'll begin our formal reading of the Book of Esther at 7:45pm.   Our Purim celebration is free and open to the community!  Donations  to help cover the cost of the event will be gladly accepted;  if you would like to contribute, please mail your donation to the Tifereth Israel office at 924 Polk Blvd, Des Moines, IA 50312.   If you plan to attend, RSVP to the office by phone at 515-255-1137 or by email at office@tifereth.org.  Your RSVP is very important, as it will help us determine how much food and how many supplies to have on hand.  Thanks very much!

 

From the Judaic Resource Center

Shabbos

Mincha: 7:00 PM,  Maariv: 8:00 PM 

Reading of Megillah: 8:30 PM 

Megillah reading in Ames, IA at 9pm. Please contact  Dr. Krill Tuchin tuchink@gmail.com

Sunday Morning Minyan at 9:00am followed by Megillah reading.

Please RSVP for "Purim in Circus" event if you have not done so yet.

Jrcspark@msn.com/515-277-1770

 

The Ames Jewish Congregation held a megillah reading and party on March 9.

"Romania Rumenye!" Concert March 12 with Yale Strom and Hot Pstromi! At Caspe Terrace 6 pm

Jewish Federation presents Yale Strom and Hot Pstromi at Caspe Terrace, Wed., March 12.  6 pm

 

 

Ari Shavit: Palestinians Must Recognize the Jewish State

Palestinians Must Recognize the Jewish State - Ari Shavit (Ha'aretz)

The demand to recognize Israel as a Jewish state is the most natural and justified demand imaginable.

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict did not start in 1967 and does not revolve around the occupation and the settlements. In order to end this 100-year war, we must recognize their nationalism and their state, and they must recognize our nationalism and our state.

Israelis recognize that there is another people in this land. There is no reason that Palestinians cannot open their eyes and see that there is another people in the land.

Those who believe the Israelis and Palestinians are equal have a moral obligation to demand from the Palestinians exactly what they demand from the Israelis.

The Palestinians must concede that the Jews are not colonialists but legal neighbors. There will not be peace if Palestinian children grow up not knowing that the country across the border is a legitimate Jewish state of a true Jewish people, whom they are decreed to live with.

It is those who give up on the recognition of Israel as a Jewish state who are actually giving up on peace.

Distributed by JCRC    Comments to jcrc@dmjfed.org