Asking for money isn't easy. It isn't easy for the homeless on the street. And it certainly isn't easy for synagogues and other nonprofits to ask for the money they need to do their work. Our Torah reading, Terumah, gives a hint how to do this. God tells Moses to ask the Israelites to take up an offering. The ask, it seems, should come not from Moses, but from our peers. And for the Israelites themselves to ask their friends and neighbours might not have been easy. But it was authentic. If a neighbour or friend says to us, "I personally believe in this cause, and I hope you will consider a contribution," that resonates. We are happy to give to causes that matter. We all want hunger and disease to be vanquished. We all want to support Israel and the Jewish community. We all want to support the local and greater communities we live in. Provided, that is, that all these causes can make the case that they are doing good and im-portant work, work that we believe in. So, too, with the synagogue. Our members are exceptionally generous in their support, because Beth-El is a cause that we believe in. Our work is authentic. And we need to grow the work that we do. We need to grow our commitment to Jewish life, to Jewish learning, to Jewish living, to outreach. And as we do, we will also be able to grow the support that our members and friends provide, because Beth-El's vibrancy will resonate.

Shabbat shalom, Rabbi Steven Schwarzman

Friday Evening (March 3rd, 2017) Services: 6:00 p.m. Candle lighting: by 5:26 p.m.

_____________________ Saturday, March 4, 2017

6 Adar, 5777

Parshat Terumah Morning Services: 9:30 a.m. Torah Reading

Torah Page: 326

Maftir Page: 336

Haftorah Page: 336

Mincha at 1:30 p.m

Torah Class with Rabbi at 1:00 P.M

Shabbat ends: 6:36 p.m.

________________________ Next week Shabbat Candle lighting:

Friday, March 10rd, 2017 by 5:36 p.m.

Con-gregation Beth-El 1000 Lucerne Road, TMR, Quebec H3R 2H9 Telephone: 514-738-4766 www.beth-el.ca info@beth-el.ca

Rabbi Steven Schwarzman Reverend Gershon Katz

Rabbi Emeritus: Rabbi Ronnie Cahana Rabbi Emeritus: Dr. Allan M. Langner

Cantor Hyman Gisser, z”l

Congregation Beth-El Staff 514-738-4766

Rabbi Rabbi Steven Schwarzman ext 229

Administrative Director Reverend Gershon Katz ext 228 Bookkeeper Rosie Ferla ext 222

Administrative Assistant Aviva Katz ext 223

Sponsored Breakfast

• Monday, 2017 — Sponsored by Hannah and Hershey Frankel

Beth El Book Club!

Come join our very own, newly formed Beth El Book Club!

We will meet monthly in people's homes, and have a cozy chat about a Jewish-themed novel or biography we've all read.

Our first meeting will take place on Tuesday, March 28, 2017 at 7:30, at the home of Bettina Schwarzman.

Our first book is Dara Horn, A Guide for the Perplexed This is a novel about a software prodigy, Josie Ashkenazi, who has invented an applica-

tion called Geniza, that records everything its users do. On a business trip to Egypt, Josie gets abducted, while her jealous sister back home takes over her life. The book also takes us back one hundred years, as we see Solomon Schechter himself wading about in the Cairo geniza. As if that weren't enough, this novel features a flashback to another four hundred years earlier, as we follow Moses Maimonides, also in Cairo, worrying about the fate of his brother lost at sea.

The novel is available at the Jewish Public Library as well as the Town of Mount Royal Library. It can also be purchased online. (For next to nothing, if you're willing to buy it

second hand.)

Call Mount Sinai today to book your spot! (514) 369-2222

CBE PURIM PARTY Come one and all to Beth-El’s annual Purim

party on March 12th, 2017 at 2:00 p.m

GAMES, BOUNCY CASTLES, PIZZA, CANDY,

HAMENTASHENS, GRAGGERS, TATTOO ARTIST AND MORE!

Adults $10.00 Children FREE!

Prepare your best costumes!

Upcoming Events at Congregation Beth-El and in Community

• Every Wednesday— Bridge at Beth-El 12:30 p.m—3:30 p.m

Sunday, March 12th, 2017 — CBE Purim Party at 2:30

p.m

Thursday, March 16, 2017 —- Movie night at 7 pm : Woman in Gold With background provided by Mel Himes. (refreshments provided)

Tuesday, March 28, 2017 —— Launch of Beth-El Book

Club– 7:30 pm at the home of Bettina Schwarzman

Thursday May 11, 2017 —- Lag B’omer BBQ at 5:30 pm

Tuesday, June 6th, 2017 — CBE Raffle event

Mount Sinai Book review at Beth-El

Wednesday, April 26th, 2017 : Nightingale by Kristin

Hannah

Wednesday, May 17th, 2017 — The Green Road by

Anne Enright

Wednesday, June 14th, 2017 — Orphan by Kim van

Alkemade

Congregation Beth-El Remembers the Yahrzeit of:

From March 4, 2017 To March 10, 2017 From Adar 6, 5777 To Adar 12, 5777

Muriel Segal Paul Goldin Ida Blumenthal Mordechai Kling Dr. Lawrence N. Cohen Rachel Cohen Ben Finkelberg Max Freedman Maurice Fishel Freidman Arnold Gampel Rose Gans Jack Gitlitz Annie Goldberg Joseph Greenbaum Mordechai Greenbaum Samuel Grostern Jennie Herman

Rwya Hutman Sybil Israel David Kobernick Anna Kuzmarov Libby Lerner Joseph S. Levine Dr Maxwell Levitt Bernard Needleman Rose Rosenthal Sara Ksiaznicki Schlussel Leo Sedley Fanny Segal Barnett Seide Daniel Sidel Matthew Surkis Paul David Waxman Harold Aron Wolofsky Dr. Alexander Zaritsky

At Beth-El

Gilbert Starosta