Reminder about Nafshenu this week ... and beyond Thursday Torah study canceled because of Book
Club from Rabbi David This is Book Club week at Nafshenu. At 6:30pm TONIGHT (Feb. 29), the club meets to talk about “Coco at the Ritz,” a work of historical
fiction by Gioia Diliberto based on the life of fashion pioneer Coco Chanel. Here’s a link to a review and order site: bit.ly/NafCoco. IT ISN'T TOO LATE TO GO, EVEN IF YOU HAVEN'T READ THE BOOK YET. For location and other
details, please text, email or call me at rebdovid@nafshenu.org or 248-508-0874. Coco Chanel is a fascinating figure. For background, this is from a Wikipedia article about an earlier biography of Coco Chanel, “Sleeping with the Enemy”: During the [Second World] War, Chanel became a spy, and an active collaborator for Nazi Germany. In 1943, Chanel was an instrumental part of operation Modelhut (Model Hat), in which Nazi intelligence officers, using Chanel's position of prestige among the British aristocracy, attempted to get a message to Winston Churchill stating that some SS officers, operating independently of Adolf Hitler and the rest of Nazi Germany, wished to broker a cease fire. After the war Chanel was able to keep her Nazi past hidden from French society, and the world. She paid off General Walter Schellenberg, who was her commander during operation Modelhut, to keep her out of his memoirs. After the war, Chanel was able to cunningly re-integrate into French society and continued her rise as a style icon. The book also documents Chanel's fervent antisemitism, including her attempts to use contemporary Nazi laws to wrestle control of the perfume division, Chanel No 5, from her Jewish co-investors Pierre
Wertheimer and his brother Jacques. *-*-*-*-*-*-* In place of our regular Torah class on Thursday, I'll talk briefly about the week’s portion tomorrow night (Friday, March 1) during a Zoom candle lighting, kiddush and “say hi” session. We’ll be on from 6-6:30pm. The portion includes the Golden Calf
debacle. Please join Pearl and me as we welcome in Shabbat! The link is the same one for all services and Torah study: bit.ly/NafTorah. Israelites gone bad: the Golden Calf Image courtesy of sergeantninja.blogspot.com *-*-*-*-*-*-* Next week, we have both our regular Torah class from 7-8pm on Thursday (March 7) and a special Saturday morning (March 9) service with breakfast, sponsored by Howard and Mimi Lewis in honor of Howard’s father’s yahrzeit.
Breakfast starts at 9am, a half-hour before our normal Shabbat morning start time. The service gets underway about 10:30am and ends about noon, with kiddush. It’s at our regular space at Prince of Peace Church, plus a Zoom option: bit.ly/NafTorah. Look for registration form soon. *-*-*-*-*-*-* NAFSHENU AHEAD Purim and Passover are coming soon! Here is a list of our holiday celebrations and other Nafshenu events through the end of April. All Zoom events are at bit.ly/NafTorah: - Saturday, March 9: Breakfast and Shabbat morning service, honoring the yahrzeit of Howard Lewis’s father. Prince of
Peace, 9am-1pm
- Thursday, March 14: Torah study, Zoom, 7-8pm
- Friday, March 15: Shabbat candles-kiddush, Zoom, 6-6:30pm
- Thursday, March 21: Torah study, Zoom, 7-8pm
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- PURIM: Saturday, March 23: Purim party and megillah reading, dinner, 6-8:30pm. Location TBD.
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- Thursday, March 28: Torah study,
Zoom, 7-8pm
- Friday, March 29: Shabbat candles-kiddush, Zoom, 6-6:30pm
- Thursday, April 4: Torah study, Zoom, 7-8pm
- Saturday, April 6: Shabbat morning service, lunch, Prince of Peace, 9:30am-1pm
- Thursday, April 11: Torah study, Zoom, 7-8pm
- Friday, April 12: Shabbat candles-kiddush, Zoom,
6-6:30pm
- Thursday, April 18: Torah study, Zoom, 7-8pm
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- PASSOVER: Tuesday, April 23: Passover Seder, 6-9pm, location TBD.
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- Thursday, April 25: Torah study, Zoom, 7-8pm
*-*-*-*-*-*-* I'd love to hear from you about matters large and small. Please reach out to me by text, phone or email! rebdovid@nafshenu.org or
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