Shabbat Corner
- Candle Lighting: 8:33 p.m.
- Shabbat Morning Service 🔀: 9:30 a.m.—Zoom
- Torah Study 🔀: 10:30 a.m.—Zoom
- Rebbe's Tish ⏺️: 12:15 p.m.
- Mincha Ma'ariv Havdallah Service ▶️: 8:30 p.m.—Zoom
- Conclusion of Shabbat: 9:17 p.m.
- Torah Parsha (Pinchas):
- Annual: Numbers 25:10–30:1
- Triennial: Numbers 25:10–26:51
- Haftara: Jeremiah 1:1–3:3
- Parsha Video of the Week: The Schechter Institutes—Parashat Pinchas: Understanding What leadership Really Means
Feel-Good News
Yasher Koach to Ambassador Stuart Eizenstat
Yasher Koach to Ambassador Stuart Eizenstat who led discussions to secure the $1.4 billion compensation package for the estimated 240,000 remaining Holocaust survivors around the world. It is the largest monetary figure agreed to for a single year since German reparations began more than seven decades ago. Eizenstat has served as the special negotiator for the Claims Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany since 2009.
Rabbi Sam Visits Camp Ramah Darom
Rabbi Sam had a blast visiting our campers at Ramah Darom this past Sunday, June 25. Check out the pics of these happy campers!
Kiddush Sponors
Sheila and Dave Adelman in honor their anniversary on 6/1
Barbara and Ken Feinberg in honor of Barbara's Birthday on 6/3
Cookie and Fred Aftergut in honor of their anniversary on 6/6
Ana and Ryan Posner in honor of their anniversary on 6/8
Sandy and Dave Abrams in honor of their anniversary on 6/25
Other Things Happening at AA
As the High Holidays approach, we invite you to honor the memory of your loved ones by including their names in the Ida Pearle and Joseph Cuba 2023–24 Yizkor Memorial "Pages of Remembrance" book. By inscribing their names in this book, you fulfill the mitzvah of giving in honor and in memory of those who have passed.
In order to meet our mandatory publication deadline, requests for inclusion must be received on time. Due to mailing constraints, the deadline to receive submissions is Friday, August 4.
Are you fun? Innovative? Passionate? Love kids? We are seeking exceptional 9th–12th grade madrichim (guides) to join our Kesher team. Kesher is AA's supplementary education program for students four years old through sixth grade.
If you are interested, please email our Interim Director of Education: Annsley Klehr (aklehr@aasynagogue.org). Hourly rates start at $10/hr.
Are you fun? Innovative? Passionate? Good with children? We are seeking exceptional teachers to join our Kesher team. Kesher is AA's supplementary education program for students four years old through sixth grade.
Kesher Lead Teacher Job Description
Kesher Assistant Teacher Job Description
If you are interested, please email our Interim Director of Education: Annsley Klehr (aklehr@aasynagogue.org). Hourly rates start at $30/hr.
This year, we would like to include grandchildren in our college and graduate school outreach. In addition to letters and treats around the Jewish holidays, our rabbis will be making visits to schools with more than three Ahavath Achim connected students. Let us know where your grandchildren are studying, and we will make sure they receive something meaningful from you and your spiritual family! If you have a grandchild enrolled in college, please contact Jill Rosner (404.603.5741; jrosner@aasynagogue.org) with the student's name, email, and school housing address.
We feel blessed to have a vibrant community that believes in the power of prayer as a source of comfort, strength and healing. At every service, we take a moment to recite the names of individuals we are holding in our hearts for health and healing. Beginning January 1, 2023, all are welcome to add names to our Misheberach (Healing) Prayer List for 30 days. These names will be recited each morning during prayer regardless of their support's presence at services. At the end of 30 days, we request that names be renewed with our office receptionist, Fern Schorr (fschorr@aasynagogue.org; 404.355.5222). Without renewal, names will be removed from the list with our hope that our prayers were successful in sending strength and wholeness.
It's time again to send the sweetest Rosh Hashanah greetings and support Ahavath Achim Sisterhood with your honey purchase. Honey is $14 per jar. Shipping is FREE for orders submitted online through Tuesday, August 1. After August 1, $7.00 per jar is automatically added for shipping.
If you cannot order online, mail your order to Janet Kupshik, Honey Chairperson, 769 West Paces Ferry Road, NW, Atlanta, GA 30327. Mail orders must be received by Thursday, July 20, or shipping charges will be added and charged.
Through our membership with the ADL's (Anti-Defamation League) Kulanu Initiaitve, our AA family is creating an antisemitism task force to partner with other communities across the country to collectively fight hate and antisemitism. Membership on the task force will require a year's commitment and involve participation in ADL virtual meetings and community of practice working sessions. Our congregation will also offer special programs, initiatives, and action steps to raise awareness, call out local and national antisemitic incidents, and build relationships with communities susceptible to antisemitic infiltration. To learn more about or to join the task force, please contact Rabbi Rosenthal (lrosenthal@aasynagogue.org).
In 1977 a very special Torah came to reside at AA. Czech Torah #1339 was originally written in the 1800s for the community of Plzeň, Czech Republic. The Torah survived the Holocaust, a coup, and 20 years in a basement with 1500 other scrolls before making it's way to London as part of the Memorial Scrolls Trust and eventually Atlanta. Today we are working to restore this piece of history to a usable state and welcome it into our sanctuary ark at our dedication in August. To do that, we need your help. Please consider making a donation to help restore this special Torah so it can be used for generations to come. The Czech Torah is championed by six generations of the Goldstein Family in memory of Betty and Leon Goldstein z"l and their love of Torah and learning.
Donate to the Ukraine Emergency Fund of Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta