WAM's next Scholar in Residence

Scholar in Residence Feb 10-11

Summary of Events

Feb 10, 5:45 pm: Friday night services followed by Shabbos dinner for those with reservations. 

8:45 pm: Keynote address by Rabbi Simcha Willig. 

Babysitting will be available

Feb 11, 9:00 am: Shabbos morning services with special sermon from Rabbi Willig. 

3:30 pm: Women’s class, details TBA. 

5:30 pm: Mincha. 

Saturday night: Melava Malkah, details TBA.

Dinner reservation information: The cost for the dinner is $14 for adults 12 and older and $11 for children 4-11. Children 3 and younger are free. Your check is your reservation. Please mail your check (made out to Arlene Rosenthal) to Arlene Rosenthal, 2221 Portside Way, Charleston, SC 29407. The deadline for reservations is Friday, February 3. Reservations will not be accepted past the deadline. Please do this right away as we do want everyone to join us for the dinner. 

Scholarships are available if needed. Please email westashleyminyan@gmail.com for more information. All emails will be kept strictly confidential.

March Scholar in Residence

This weekend, March 5-6:

Scholar in Residence program is being sponsored by Sandra Schwartz and Family in loving memory of Yonni, OBM, who was such a big part of the beginning of WAM.

Unveiling of the stone for Yonni will be Sunday, March 7, 10:00 am at the BSBI cemetery in Maryville.

Etan Ehrenfeld will be the visiting Scholar in Residence.

He is currently a third year rabbinical student at RIETS. He grew up in Teaneck, NJ and attended Torah Acadamy of Bergen County. He continued his studies for two years at Yeshivat Netiv Aryeh in Jerusalem before attending Yeshiva University where he majored in mathematics. In addition to his studies at RIETS, Etan is currently completing his Masters at the Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education. In addition to his studies, Etan teaches at RAMAZ, and gives a class at the Jewish Center in New York City. He resides in Washington Heights with his wife, Tamar

Scholar-in-Residence Shabbat

All events
at the JCC

Fri, Feb 12, Erev Shabbat

5:44 pm Candlelighting
5:45 pm Mincha-Kabbalat Shabbat-Maariv
7:00 pm Shabbos Dinner
8:15 pm Keynote address by Matt Rosenberg

Sat, Feb 13, Parshat Mishpatim & Shabbat Shekalim

9:00 am Shacharit
4:30 pm Study session
5:30 pm Mincha followed by Shalosh Seudos
6:48 pm Shabbos ends
7:00 pm Havdalah

Please join us as Matt Rosenberg will be delivering a Dvar Torah at Shalosh Seudos and concluding remarks at Havadalah

Kiddush/Seudah Shlishit Sponsor:
Kiddush is lovingly sponsored by the family of B.Jay Novit in honor of B.Jay's Aufruf. We join them in wishing B.Jay and Ricky all the mazel in the world. It will be a meat kiddush per request of the groom. Mazel Tov!

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Friday night dinner reservations

For February 12, Friday dinner reservations: $12 for adults, $4 for children 4-11 years old, (maximum of $35 per household). Group tables may be reserved, at up to 10 places per table. Please let Arlene know. Checks should be made out to Arlene Rosenthal and mailed to her at 2221 Portside Way, Charleston, SC 29407. (You can RSVP in the meantime by email to her at arleneshawinsky@yahoo.com.)

Next Scholar in Residence Feb 12 - 13

Matt and Sabrina Rosenberg will be WAM's guests for the next Shabbat in the "Climbing the Ladder" series.

Matt grew up in rainy Portland, Oregon, where helped found the local chapter of NCSY. Following high school, he attended Yeshivat Kerem B'Yavneh in Israel before continuing on to Yeshiva University, where he graduated with a BA in Psychology, magna cum laude. He received his Master's in Talmudic Law from Ner Israel Rabbinical College in Baltimore, Maryland, where he is a candidate for s'micha. He has taught Torah on five continents (including Africa) and in many communities across the United States. Matt is a talented musician and singer, and a terrible athlete. He enjoys travel, cooking for Shabbos with his wife Sabrina, and scouring Wikipedia for random facts.

Sabrina hails from sunny Los Angeles (yes, she knows celebrities). After high school she spent a year learning at Michlelet Esther on the Neve Yerushalayim campus in Jerusalem. She studied Communications and Social Work at New York University, and is now completing her BA in Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Maryland. She hopes to pursue a MSW (Must Save World) and to work subsequently within the Jewish Community. Sabrina is an avid snowboarder, aspiring photographer, and world traveler. She has even gone skydiving and is much more adventurous than her husband.

The Rosenbergs reside in Baltimore, where they are Jewish Learning Initiative Fellows at Johns Hopkins University. They love having Shabbos guests - so let them know if plan to be in the Baltimore area!

Rabbi Avram Bogopulsky scheduled to be next Scholar at WAM

Rabbi Avram Bogopulsky, seen here at a Torah Dedication Ceremony, will be the next Scholar in Residence at the West Ashley Minyan in Charleston, SC on Shabbat of December 4th and 5th, 2009.

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"My favorite aspect of the Rabbinate is to see people growing spiritually [and] emotionally . . . . There's really nothing so special or unique about what we do. We are just trying to help Klal Yisrael in our small way."

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Shabbat Vayishlach, December 4th & 5th

WAM Welcomes
Rabbi and Leah Bogopulsky
back to Charleston

Friday Night (JCC) – Services 5:00 pm
Dinner 6:15 pm
Keynote Speech 8:00 pm

"CLIMBING THE LADDER & ACROPHOBIA"

Shabbat Morning - Pre-Mussaf Drasha (JCC)

"WHAT RUNG ARE YOU ON?"

Pre-Mincha Class - Rabbi Bogopulsky 3:45 (JCC)

"CHANUKAH -
BEIT HILLEL and BEIT SHAMMAI
GOING UP AND GOING DOWN"

Melava Malka – 7:30 pm (Home of Robyn & Randy Cohen)

"SATURDAY NIGHT!" or "MOTZEI SHABBAT"?
by Rabbi Bogopulsky
"EMPOWERMENT THROUGH JOY"
by Rebbetzin Leah Bogopulsky

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Dinner reservations for Friday night -
please send your check to
Arlene Rosenthal,
"Attention: Dinner reservations"
2221 Portside Way
Charleston, SC 29407

Next Scholar in Residence at WAM

“Behold, a ladder stood

on the earth, the top of it

reached to heaven;

and behold,

angels of G-d were ascending

and descending on it”

The West Ashley Minyan
Presents
Another “Climbing the Ladder” Event
Shabbat Vayera – November 6th and 7th

Rabbi and Mrs. Nosson Kaiser
Jacksonville, Florida

Program of events:

Friday Night Nov 6th 2009

Carlbach Shabbat and Dinner* (all at JCC)

Mincha at 5 pm

Ma'ariv at 5:15 pm
Dinner 6:30 pm

Keynote Address at 8 pm
An ‘I’ for an ‘I’: Exploring the Hidden World of the Self

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Shabbat Morning Nov 7th
Pre-Mussaf Shabbat Drasha (JCC)
The Most High and I: Finding G-d’s Love in the Dow Jones

Women’s Class - Rebbetzin Kaiser 2:30 pm

at Linda Kirshstein’s home
Empowerment through Prayer

Shalosh S’eudos (JCC)
When the Sun Gets in Your “Aye”:

Finding Inspiration & Opportunity by Cutting through the Glare

Melaveh Malka 8:00 pm

(at home of Arlene & Peter Rosenthal)
The South Shall Rise Again:

Building a Torah Community below the Mason-Dixon Line

*For reservations for the dinner

or to volunteer contact

Arlene at arleneshawinsky@yahoo.com

RABBI NOSSON KAISER

A native of Toronto, Canada, Rabbi Nosson Kaiser has been Rabbi of Etz Chaim Synagogue in Jacksonville, Florida since 2001. He helped to found Torah Academy of Jacksonville, where his wife, Rebbetzin Orit Kaiser, was the founding principal. An alumnus of the Talmudical Yeshiva of Philadelphia and Jerusalem's Mir Yeshiva, Rabbi Kaiser served previously on the faculties of the Miami Beach Community Kollel and Mechina High School of South Florida. His accomplishments in Jacksonville have been recognized by the National Council of Young Israel, which gave him its Young Rabbinic Leadership Award in 2005. He has taught and lectured in three languages and is a popular guest speaker and scholar for synagogues, schools and national organizations. Rabbi Kaiser is also a trained cantor and is a past winner of the Canadian Mathematics Competition. The Kaisers are the proud parents of six children.

Scholar-in-Residence August 2009

Rabbi Yehoshua Steinman
of Boca Raton, Florida

Sponsored in memory of
Celia and Sol Cohen
by the Cohen families



A brief synopsis by Nathan Kirshstein

The first of the monthly Scholar in Residence Program of the West Ashley Minyan at the JCC was a resounding success. Rabbi Steinman, who has a Masters degree in Special Education, gave three talks, one during services Shabbos morning, a women’s class in the afternoon, and d’var torah at Shalosh Seudos.

For me, the most challenging of the discussions was at Shalosh Seudos, where he talked about leaders in the community. It is not only the job of leaders to inspire the community but (for) the community to inspire the leaders. We all too often hear of a “lack of leadership” in a community but it is also the congregation’s responsibility to “push” the leaders to movement. It takes good followers to make good leaders and it takes good leaders to make good followers; it is a symbiotic relationship.

The best part of the first “Climbing the Ladder” series was the camaraderie of the “WAM” (West Ashley Minyan); in fact, that is what makes every Shabbos at WAM so meaningful. Rabbi Steinman fit right in. The food was terrific, with the best Cholent (next to my wife’s - she might be reading this!) prepared by Marcie Rosenberg and her sou-chefs.

This would all have been impossible without the foresight of Arlene Rosenthal, who came up with idea of a monthly luncheon after Shabbos services.

The first monthly scholar-in-residence program was sponsored by the Sol and Celia Cohen Foundation, who were instrumental in Jewish education in Charleston, and through their foundation’s generosity, The West Ashley Minyan at the JCC was able to get a great start to the “Climbing the Ladder” Series. Also, thanks to Nick Muzin for asking Rabbi Steinman to come in and for hosting him.

I can’t wait for the next one . . .

It is only going to get better.

WAM announces . . . .

Scholar-in-Residence

WAM has confirmed August 29th as their first
Scholar-in-Residence Shabbat.

Rabbi Yehoshua (Scottie) Steinman will be coming from Boca Raton, Florida, to spend Shabbat with WAM. He will participate in Saturday morning services and give a short sermon. There will then be kiddush followed by lunch, with an address from Rabbi Steinman during desert. If there are any specific topics you would like to hear, please let Nick (nickmuzin@gmail.com) know.

In order to keep costs down for the lunch, WAM's event organizers are again asking for volunteers to help shop, prepare and cook. We are trying to determine when would be most convenient for this - either Thursday afternoon (between 1:00pm and 3:30 pm) or Friday morning (between 8:30 and 11:00am.) The more volunteers we have, the quicker we will get through the work. Please let Arlene (arleneshawinsky@yahoo.com) know what your preference is.

Your check will be your reservation - $10 per adult and $5 for children between 4 and 13, capped at $25 per family. Make your check out to
Arlene Rosenthal and mail it to
2221 Portside Way, Charleston, SC 29407.

Thanks and looking forward to everyone participating.

Arlene, Edie, Janet, Marcie, Nick and Randy