Join us as we celebrate and salute our amazing volunteers. We’ll thank those members of our Board of Directors whose terms are ending, elect and install the new Officers and Board of Trustees, present four deserving volunteers with awards and enjoy a video retrospective of our congregation. We’ll also enjoy an (indoor) picnic lunch. 

Nominees for elected office:

• President – Lloyd Roitstein
• Vice President – Janie Murow, Jon Jabenis and Wayne Schwarz
• Treasurer – Jay Gordman
• Secretary – Michael Schop
• Past President – Bev Fellman

Nominated for their first two- year term:

• Karen Cohen
• Glen Fineman
• Jeremy Friedman
• Beth Friedman
• Andy Greenberg
• M’Lee Hasslinger

Nominated for their second two-year term:

• Roni Reiter-Palmon
• Ari Riekes
• Ben Shapiro
• Scott Simon

Many thanks to those who have served and are leaving the board:

• Sharon Broody
• Marc Kahn
• Mark Kelln
• Jeff Kirshenbaum
• Allan Noddle
• Juliana Reno
• Linda Saltzman
• Caryn Scheer
• Alan Shulewitz 

Congratulations and thank you to our amazing volunteers who will be honored today:

• Joel Rich – Earl Siegel Memorial Award, given to a board member for outstanding service to the board
• ??Beth Friedman - President’s Award, presented to a non-board member for exceptional volunteerism to the synagogue
• Joan Latchaw – Selwyn Roffman Award for Religious Growth
• Caryn Scheer – Emerging Leader Award

We hope you’ll join us in ushering in the new board and thanking our incredible volunteers. There is no charge to attend but reservations are required by Wednesday, May 30 so we know how much food to prepare.

Talmud, Baba Metzia 32a
“You shall each fear his mother and his father” (Lev. 19:3). From where do we learn that if one’s father told him: ‘Do not return a lost object” (or, to desecrate the Shabbat) that the son should not listen to him? From the verse, ‘You shall each fear his mother and his father, and keep my Shabbats’ – you are all (your parents no less than you) obligated to honor Me. 

Kitzur Shulkhan Arukh 143:11
If a child is told by his father not to speak to, or forgive, a certain person with whom the child wishes to be reconciled, he should disregard his father’s command. 

Mishneh Torah, Hilchot Mamrim 6:10
If one’s father or mother become mentally disordered, the child should try to indulge the vagaries of the stricken parent, until they are pitied by God and die. But if he finds he cannot endure the situation because of their extreme madness, let him leave and go away, and appoint others to care for them properly. 

Menorat Hamaor 4
A son must not dishonor his father in his speech. How so? For example, when the father is old and wants to eat early in the morning, as old men do because they are weak and the son says, “The sun is not yet up, and already you’re up and eating”.

Or when the father says, “My son, how much did you pay for this coat which you have given me?” And the son says, “What do you bother yourself for? I bought it and I have paid for it, it is no business of yours to ask about it!”.

Or when he thinks to himself, saying: “When will this old man die so that I can be free of what he cost me?” 

Yerushalmi, Kiddushin 1:7
There is one who gives his father force-fed birds to eat, yet will inherit Gehenna; and there is another who sets his father grinding at the mill, yet will inherit the Garden of Eden.

How is it possible that one who gives his father fattened birds to eat should inherit Gehenna?

There is the story of one who used to provide force-fed chickens for his father. Once, the father said to him, “My son, where did you get these?” The son replied, “Old man, old man, eat and shut up, even as dogs shut up when they eat.” Thus, though he gave his father fattened birds, he inherited Gehenna.

How is it possible for one to set his father grinding at the mill and yet inherit the Garden of Eden?

There is the story of a young man whose work was grinding wheat. When the king sent word that millers be brought to work for him, the young man said to his father, “Father, you go in to the mill to grind in my stead, and I will go do the king’s work. Should there be humiliation in it, I would rather be humiliated, and not you; should there be flogging, let me receive the blows, and not you.” Thus, though he made his father grind at the mill, the son inherited the Garden of Eden.

Talmud, Sotah 49a
The love of parents goes to their children, but the love of these children goes to their children.

An evening of sipping, singing, study and celebration will be on tap during Beth El’s Shavuot festivities. The program will follow Minha service, and will feature study sessions, a kosher-wine tasting led by Kansas City food and wine enthusiast, Michael Levine, and a song session led by Cantor Beth Schlossberg. Ma’ariv and Havdalah will follow the study sessions. Free babysitting will be available by reservation. Mark your calendar now and plan to attend!

Shavuot Service Schedule

Saturday, May 26

• 7;00 pm – Minha
• 9:00 pm  - Maariv

Sunday, May 27

• 9:30 am & 5:30 pm

Monday, May 28

• 9:30 am (Yizkor is said) and 8:40 pm

For an unforgettable summer experience, join the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism for its annual Family Israel Experience, planned for July 30 – August 10. This exciting trip offers a multi-generational approach, and features many of Israel’s wonders and the texture of modern Israel. For more information, click here or contact trip leader Rabbi Charles Savenor.

An evening of sipping, singing, study and celebration will be on tap during Beth El’s Shavuot festivities. The program will follow Minha service, and will feature study sessions, a kosher-wine tasting led by Kansas City food and wine enthusiast, Michael Levine, and a song session led by Cantor Beth Schlossberg. Ma’ariv and Havdalah will follow the study sessions. Free babysitting will be available by reservation. Mark your calendar now and plan to attend!

Shavuot Service Schedule

Saturday, May 26

• 7;00 pm – Minha
• 9:00 pm  - Maariv

Sunday, May 27

• 9:30 am & 5:30 pm

Monday, May 28

• 9:30 am (Yizkor is said) and 8:40 pm

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Yahrzeits are observed the evening before and the day of each date listed below

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Yahrzeits are observed the evening before and the day of each date listed below