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Home About Us Contact Us Minyan Info Learning Weekly - What’s the Spiel Email Subscription Recent Activities Donate to CTI:	An Orthodox Synagogue in Austin, Texas Congregation Tiferet Israel – meets at: Jewish Community Association of Austin 7300 Hart Lane, Austin TX 78731 (map) · On Shabbat and Yom Tov - in the ECP building · On Weekdays and Kabbalat Shabbat - Room #147 in the AJA Yom Kippur Sources Laws and customs of Yom Kippur are available on the  OU website.  Click here to download a free 19-page Yom Kippur reader from aish.com. (It may take a minute to complete the download.)  Shana Tova  Best Wishes for the New Year     To the Tiferet Israel Family andTo All Klall Yisrael Debbie and Joel Tendler                          Lucy and Rabbi Eliezer Langer Yom Kippur & Rosh Hashanah Schedule Davening will be at the Beit HaMikdash starting tonight See Full schedule here Rabbi's Column וְתִפְתַּח אֶת סֵפֶר הַזִּכְרונות. וּמֵאֵלָיו יִקָּרֵא. וְחותָם יַד כָּל אָדָם בּו. וּנְתַנֶּה תּקֶף  You will open the Book of Chronicles-it will read itself,   and everyone's signature is in it. (Unetaneh Tokef)   Unetaneh Tokef, said at the apex of Musaf immediately preceding Kedusha, describes the events taking place in the Heavenly court on the Yamim Noraim - these days of awe. "Angels will hasten, a trembling and terror will seize them-and they will say, 'Behold, it is the Day of Judgment, to muster the heavenly host for judgment!'-for even they cannot be vindicated in Your eyes in judgment." "All mankind will pass before You like a flock of sheep. Like a shepherd pasturing his flock, making sheep pass under his staff, so shall You cause to pass, count, calculate, and consider the soul of all the living; and You shall apportion the destinies of all Your creatures and inscribe their verdict. בְּראשׁ הַשָּׁנָה יִכָּתֵבוּן וּבְיום צום כִּפּוּר יֵחָתֵמוּן On Rosh Hashanah it will be inscribed and on Yom Kippur it will be sealed... In recent weeks and months, we have seen the vagaries of earthly, human courts. A man is released from prison after 25 years when DNA evidence shows that he was not the murder; in Europe a woman incarcerated for four years is suddenly released with the court reversing a lower court's decision, in another state the higher court turns down an appeal refusing to hear the plea that a judge with prior knowledge could not be impartial, and in Iran, after more than two years in custody, two Americans jailed as spies are  released on $1 million "bail". These are the types of verdicts in the earthly realm, effected as they are by politics, public opinion, prejudices and human frailties. The Heavenly Court before Whom we stand is different. For it is before "Avinu Malkeinu" our Father, our King that we stand - our loving Creator who acts as a father to his children and judges us fairly, with love and compassion. All He asks is that we acknowledge that we have in fact not lived up to our potential and strayed from His Torah. He desires our return for our own good and therefor He gave us the day of Yom Kippur with love, the day on which we are given the opportunity, nay the obligation to atone for our shortcomings, to admit them, to feel contrite and to pledge to mend our ways in the future. And with this we are promised that our prayers will be heard. וּמֵאֵלָיו יִקָּרֵא. וְחותָם יַד כָּל אָדָם בּו The Heavenly Book of Chronicles is open ; -it reads itself, it is our own signature in it   and it is in our hands to correct. Shabbat Shalom and Gmar Chatima tova to you, to us,   to our families and to the entire Jewish people. Rabbi Eliezer Langer   ------------ National Jewish Outreach Program's ( NJOP) latest eBook Jewish Treats' Complete Guide to Rosh Hashana! provides in-depth explanations, delicious recipes  and inspirational thoughts and experiences associated with Rosh Hashana. http://bit.ly/RHebook Customs of Erev Yom Kippur Please follow this link to read and print out a copy of the explanation found on the OU website. One of the beautiful customs of Erev Yom Kippur is Birchat haBanim, parents blessing their child with the wishes for the new year. The blessing may be found here. Brief Explanation of the Thirteen Attributes of Mercy The high point of the Yom Kippur services is when the Congregation with one voice cries out to Hashem with the Thirteen Attributes as found in Exodus 34:6-7. Please follow this link to read and print out a copy of the explanation found on the OU website. Explanation of the Vidui - Ashamnu and Al Cheit- Confession  Please follow this link to read and print out a copy of the explanation found on the OU website. Mazal Tov Suzanne and Jeff Luftig on the birth of their daughter.  Y'hi ratzon shetizku l'gadla l'Torah l'chupa u'lemaasim tovim. May you merit to raise her to Torah, marriage and good deeds. Mazal Tov also to big sister Lilly Kinder Kongregation The new and improved Kinder Kongregation meets Shabbat morning 10:00-11:30 AM with supervision and a parent volunteer.  Each Shabbat morning includes a Dvar Torah and a snack and drinks. Try it, you'll like it. Refuah Shelayma To: Janet Goldberg, Shayna Masha bat Chasha Mina    Rosemary Robbins, Rachel bat Fayga Benny Rowe, Binyamin ben Sarah      Sara Slomovic, Sara bat Matil Hannah Tankell, Chana bat Rochel Bea Tendler, Bryndel bat Rivka Ruth Tendler, Rochel bat Gital Michael Aryeh ben Fruma Rachel Kalmen Chaim ben Chaya Rochel Mazal Tov to:   Shown here at the naming of Sara Jaramilla, (L-R) Gabbai Matthew Schmerer, father Yaakov, Rabbi Moshe Lans of Fort Hood and Rabbi Eliezer Langer Mazal Tov to the Rika and Yaakov Jaramilla family of Fort Hood who named their daughter Sara at Tiferet Israel on Thursday morning. A yasher koach to Chaplain Rabbi Moshe Lans who recently returned from a tour of duty in Afganhistan and serves as Fort Hood Rabbi. Much Hatzlacha andderech tzelaycha to Yaakov Jaramilla who leaves to Iraq on Sunday.  Mazal Tov to Adi Miller on her birthday. Mazal Tov à la réception du Prix Anderson High School première récompense pour la langue française. Upcoming events: Here Come the Judges and... Deborah, Samson and the Delilah, Concubine in Giva' What do these all have in common? They are all in the Book of Shoftim-Judges which We will be studying the book starting      Monday July 11 at 7:00PM. Come Join Us in for An excursion in History, Hebrew and Ethics. The first Yahrtzeit of our good friend Alex Sole follows the High Holidays. A committee is being formed to create an appropriate commemoration. Please email to join the Tribute Committee. Recent events: Mazal Tov Graduates Mazal Tov to our wonderful Tiferet Israel Sunday School students who are shown proudly displaying their certificates.  From left to right. Middle row: Emily Freeman, Garrett Robinson, Abby Jones, Joshua Mina, and Lilly Luftig; and on the front row: Mason Robinson, Ana Clara Garfield, Marina Garfield, Netanel Ramos, and Abby Jones. Very special thanks to our dedicated teachers Morah Sarah Ben-Saadon and Morah Susan Slomowitz who presided at the closing exercises on Lag B'Omer morning along with Rabbi Langer. The masthead at the top of the Spiel shows the "cupcake cake" and part of the celebration. For information and registration for the Fall Semester please call 512- 981-7323 Zehava Robbins, pictured to the right, graduated from Tufts University in Boston,majoring in Psychology.  She has been working on the Perseus Project an evolving digital library with information and a database of art and archaeology images. Joshua Sorin, below on the left, graduated from Indiana Univ. Kelly School of Business. Off to work for KPMG in risk management consulting in Chicago.  Adam Sorin, below right, graduated from University of Texas at Austin  from school of Radio Television and Film. He will be going to USC Peter Starks School in film production.   He will be traveling to Ghana this summer as a film maker. Rachel Rubin, shown to the left with her parents, graduated from Tufts University Medical School in Boston. Ayal Shavit graduated from Anderson High School.  He will start college in the Fall at UT Austin. Yuval Shavit graduated from Middle School. Mazal tov to all our graduates and theirfamilies. May you give your parents much nachas and go "me'chyil l'choyil" from strength to strength. Yom Hazikaron  -  Yom Haatzmaut Yom Hazikaron Ceremony, Commemoration for Israel's Fallen Sunday May 8, 7pm at the JCC Special Yom Haatzmaut Services at Tiferet Israel  -- May 8 Evening  Yom HaZikaron honors and remembers fallen Israel Defense Forces soldiers and victims of terrorism, who have given their lives to protect the land of Israel. Stand together in gratitude and respect for those who have sacrificed their lives for Israel's independence and for the continued existence of a Jewish homeland. Poetry, music, readings and prayers will be read by clergy, former members of the Israel Defense Force and community members. The film "Michael Levin (z"l) A Hero in Heaven" will be screened as well. Just 22 when he died in the IDF, Michael Levin (z'l) gave his life defending Israel from her enemies. Michael was 22 when he fell in Aita al-Shaab, a village in southern Lebanon that was the site of heavy fighting against Hezbollah forces. Born and raised near Philadelphia, Michael grew up in a traditional, loving Jewish household. Active in HaGesher Region USY and Camp Ramah, he attended the Alexander Muss High School program and the year-long Nativ USY program in Israel. At 16, he decided that he wanted to make aliyah and join a front-line combat unit in the Israeli Defense Forces. He followed his dream three years later; he was chosen for the elite paratroop unit #890. In the summer of 2006 Michael received permission to travel to the United States to visit his family. When the fighting broke out, he decided to return to help his unit. He went straight to his commander and demanded to be sent north. Shortly thereafter he was killed. On Tisha B'Av he was laid to rest in the military cemetery of Har Herzl in Jerusalem. His family was joined by thousands of mourners from all over Israel. The Levin family has established a foundation with the sole purpose being to better the life of those "lonely soldiers" who while in the IDF, have no family support in Israel. Prayer at the Texas State Senate, Austin, Texas March 22, 2011 Rabbi Eliezer Langer Congregation Tiferet Israel Shabbat Hagadol Luncheon   Shabbat, April 16 Come poin us  for Lunch will include kiddush, challa bread, a deli platter, salad & drink (nonalcoholic). Price of the luncheon is $9.50 per person, family price for two adults and two or more children,age 11 or under, $30.   Since all the food must be ordered, paid reservations will be accepted until Monday, April 11. Please  pay through  or by bringing your check to weekday services by Tuesday.  For additional information please contact Joel Tendler via email or by phone at 981-7323. Chag Purim 5771! Our Purim Seudah DATE: Sunday, March 20 TIME: 4:30 PM LOCATION: Hillel Building ADDRESS: 2105 San Antonio St. MEGILLAH: 5 PM Costs -- Adults: $25.50 Children 5-11: $13.25 Children under 5: No charge Families (Adults & Children under age 12 in same household): $65 max RSVP by: Wednesday, March 16 to Shoshana Schmerer at 241-1728 or rose7shosh@gmail.com Payment by:  Wednesday, March 16 to Shoshana Schmerer at 3524 Greystone Dr., Apt 149. Austin, TX 78731 or via PayPal Your guide to participating in CTI's 2011 Mishloach Manot Fundraiser:   A Night at the Movies! may be found by clicking here. Print out your return copy of the order form and return it to Michelle Ramos (3609 North Hills Drive, Apt A, Austin, TX 78731) or email your order to Michelle (michramos@gmail.com). IF YOU DO NOT HAVE ACCESS TO A PRINTER, please email Michelle or leave a message for Michelle at 965-6896 and request that a hard copy be sent to you and it will be!  Shlock Rock Coming to Austin March 10  When: Thursday, March 10  Dinner (optional): Falafel Dinner ($5 per person, sponsored by CTI)  Concert: 6:00 PM ($5 per person, $18 maximum per family) Where: Dell Jewish Community Campus Sponsors: Austin Jewish Academy, CTI, Congregation Agudas Achim, Jewish Community Center of Austin, and Temple Beth Shalom For additional information please click here Shabbat Luncheon   Shabbat, February 26 Come poin us  for Lunch will include kiddush, challa bread, a deli platter, salad & drink (nonalcoholic). Price of the luncheon is $9.50 per person, family price for two adults and two or more children,age 11 or under, $30.   Since all the food must be ordered, paid reservations will be accepted until Monday, February 21. Please  pay through   or by bringing your check to weekday services by Monday.  For additional information please contact Joel Tendler via email or by phone at 981-7323 · Shmooze and Learn     Men and Women - Perceptions and Differences Why are men from Mars and women from Venus? Dr Adi Raz of the Department of Middle Eastern Studies of the University of Texas at Austin will be the next speaker in our Shmooze and Learn Series. Dr. Raz has written and lectured extensively on  learning skills and differences in perception and will be sharing an enlightening talk that has fascinated and baffled men and women for 5761 years. Dr. Raz received her BA from Bar Ilan University,  masters from Hunter College and Columbia University and her doctorate from JTS. Her thesis, "Is it the Right Fit? The NETA Program and Students with Language Learning Disabilities" focused on the needs of language learning disabled (LLD) students. To reserve for this evening please follow this link or call 981-7DAF (981-7323) January 27-30 -- Tapestry of Jewish Learning.  Rabbi Langer will be teaching a class entitled, "You put a spell on me: Jewish magic from Biblical times through the modern age," on Sunday January 30, 2:50-4:00 PM.  This is part of a full day of classes.  Kosher box lunch is available with advance registration.  Registration and additional information here. Chanukah Dinner: Sunday, December 5 Chanukah is early this year so mark your calendars and make your reservations now for our Chanukah dinner on Sunday, December 5 at 4:30 PM.  This year it will be held at the Texas Hillel, located at 2105 San Antonio St. Prices -- Adults: $25 per person Children 5-11: $13 each Children 4 and under: No charge Families (Parents with children under 18): $65 max Reservations and Payment -- Last date: November 29 To: Michelle Ramos Email: michramos@gmail.com Phone: 512-965-6896 Address: 3609 North Hills Dr, Apt A, Austin, TX 78731 Tiferet Israel Inaugurates Third Shmooze  and Learn Series Who else knew they existed? An archaeologist's take on biblical personalities Y Shmooze and Learn, Tiferet Israel's popular discussion group opens the 5711/2010-1 season with a presentation by Rabbi Dr. Harold Liebowitz of the University of Texas  Department of Middle Eastern studies. The community is invited to make reservations to attend the first in the fall series which will take place on Saturday night November 6 at 8:30 PM at a private home. Dr. Liebowitz has served as professor of Biblical History and Archeology since 1974 and was   Chairman of the Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures Department .of The University of Texas at Austin  He is the author of more than 25  books and articles and is in the process of completing works in his fields of expertise, including Excavations at Tel Yin'am II:The Iron Age, Daily Life in Roman Palestine., and Mexican Folk Art from 1940-2010. The format of the evening is a lively lecture  followed by spirited discussion of what has often been a controversial topic. For reservations and directions to the site please call Tiferet Israel at 512-981-7DAF (981-7323) or email info@tiferetaustin.org. FallFusion 2010 To Honor Philip Spertus On Sunday, October 24, 2010,JCC Austin presents its annual fundraising gala, FallFusion.  In celebration of the 10th anniversary of the Dell Jewish Community Campus, four local leaders will be honored, including CTI member Philip Spertus who will receive the LBJ Humanitarian Award at the event.  For online registration and event details, visit www.shalomaustin.org/fusion. LBJ Humanitarian Award Philip Spertus will receive the LBJ Humanitarian Award, presented each year at FallFusion to honor those who are dedicated to public service, passionate about philanthropy, and committed to the Austin community. He will be recognized for providing the original vision and organizational leadership to launch the project that would become the Dell Jewish Community Campus. An MIT graduate, Phil moved to Austin in late 1989.  He served as Chairman and CEO of Intercraft Industries Corporation, the world's largest manufacturer of photo frames and other frame products, and became President of Spertus Investments following the sale of Intercraft to Newell Rubbermaid in 1992. The dream for Austin's Jewish community to have a place to come together, embodied today by the Dell Jewish Community Campus (DJCC), began two decades ago when Phil traveled to North Carolina on a business trip.  He was astounded by what he saw in Charlotte's Jewish community-a JCC, Reform and Conservative congregations, a Chabad House and a Jewish education building- on a single campus.  With this inspiration, Phil hosted a meeting of nearly 60 community leaders on September 15, 1991, in his home, where he presented what he had seen in Charlotte and the possibility of doing something similar in Austin.  Phil served as the driving force behind efforts to create a new Jewish Community Campus in Austin. Phil has a long record of civic involvement in Chicago and Austin.  He grew up in Chicago in a family that created institutions, including the Spertus Institute for Jewish Studies and Spertus Museum, both started by his father and uncle. He served on the Boards of numerous organizations, including Chicago Youth Centers, American Technion Society, Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies, KLRU-TV, and the Austin Lyric Opera.  He chaired the Spertus Institute and the Austin Lyric Opera, and served as the Campaign Chair and Special Gifts Chair of the Austin Jewish Federation during the early 1990s. He and his wife, Sylvia, have four children, four grandchildren, and are members of Congregation Tiferet Israel and Congregation Agudas Achim. o Online Classes where ever you live – sponsored by OU Once again the OU Job Board will be giving On-Line classes to help you find or move up to the job you want. Time is getting short and registrations are filling fast. Please go to www.oujobs.org to register for classes now. Registration discounts may be available. All classes are archived and can be reviewed any time to enhance your experience. All classes are fully interactive allowing you the ability to ask questions as the class is going on. Special times have been scheduled for people in Israel and on the West Coast. Please do not delay. Register now at www.oujobs.org .Questions? Please e mail sarahd@ou.org · Yom Kippur Schedule of Services – click here · Child Care - Rosh Hashana & Yom Kippur · Tiferet Israel will provide childcare over Yom Tov, Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, 10:00am - 2:00pm, Kol Nidrei evening and at Neila. Snacks will be provided. Please email so that we adequately prepare. · Break the Fast Y'yasher kochacha to the anonymous sponsor of the light Break the Fast which will follow Maariv and Havada. Customs of Erev Yom Kippur Please follow this link to read and print out a copy of the explanation found on the OU website. Brief Explanation of the Thirteen Attributes of Mercy The high point of the Yom Kippur services is when the Congregation with one voice cries out to Hashem with the Thirteen Attributes as found in Exodus 34:6-7. Please follow this link to read and print out a copy of the explanation found on the OU website. Explanation of the Vidui - Ashamnu and Al Cheit - Confession Please follow this link to read and print out a copy of the explanation found on the OU website Yom Kippur Sources Laws and customs of Yom Kippur are available on the OU website. Click here to download a free 19-page Yom Kippur reader. (It may take a minute to complete the download.) (To save the file to your computer: Right click on the file link, then select "Save target as".) Rosh Hashana: The Tipping Point Back to School Summer is (almost) over.  You can tell because our Sunday School program had its first class this past Sunday.  Pictured above is Sara Ben Sa'adon standing, one of our Sunday School teachers with four of the students, from left to right, Aby Freedman-Jones, Ella Freedman-Jones, Lilly Luftig and Netanel Ramos. There is still time to enroll in the program.  If interested, please contact Suzanne Luftig.   The program runs on Sundays from 9-11 AM on the JCAA campus. Kiddush This Shabbat To Recognize Alex Sole's 96th Birthday and Bid Tzetchem L'Shalom to the Schiffours Alex Sole is sponsoring the Kiddush this Shabbat recognizing his 96th birthday, Kein Yirbu, and to bid farewell to the Schiffour family.  The Schiffours will be making Aliyah to Eretz Yisrael in a couple of weeks. Join us as we sing Happy Birthday to Alex and wish the Schiffours a Tzeitchem L'Shalom and thank them for all they have done for our community over many, many years. o Tishah B’Av Tiferet Israel/Chofetz Chaim Heritage Foundation's Annual Tisha B'Av Event  In some seven hundred locations around the world, people gather on Tisha B'Av afternoon for guidance and inspiration from some of the Torah world's greatest leaders and speakers. These people, seeking to grow spiritually on the Jewish world's saddest day, never leave disappointed. Over the years, CCHF has received feedback from thousands of viewers who have credited the Tisha B'Av video with inspiring significant changes No wonder Tisha B'Av event has become the largest Torah event in the world. This year's event, which falls on Tuesday, July 20, is expected to reach tens of thousands of people in sixteen countries. The theme of this year's event, entitled, Emuna: Our One Safe Harbor, is one of today's most pressing spiritual issues: strengthening and maintaining our Emuna in troubled times. Given the suffering that many Jewish families face, the topic could not be more timely. To address this most sensitive of topics, the Chofetz Chaim Heritage Foundation has yet again lined up speakers known for their eloquence and the emotional power of their words. The event features lectures by Rabbi Jonathan Rietti and Rabbi Zev Leff. Viewers will also hear a brief message from Hagaon HaRav Shmuel Kamenetsky, the Philadelphia Rosh Yeshiva. The program aims to help the viewer reach greater heights in Emunah and apply what they learn to their lives. Mincha 8:00PM o Fast of the 17th of Tammuz (June 29^th 2010) § Check out our complete schedule here § Learn all about ABC about the 3 weeks · Come watch Yiddishkeit movie on Tuesday June 29th 7PM – Room #147 On Shiva Asar B'Tammuz we will screen "Sh'eiris Hapleitah", the presentation of the inspirational narrative of the concentration camps survivors after their liberation and their early existence in the Displaced Persons camps. The film focuses on the tremendous resilience of the survivors in rebuilding their shattered lives and rekindling Yiddishkeit. Congregation Tiferet Israel's Annual Meeting Sunday, May 23rd at 4:00 PM in Room 150c of the JCAA · Jewish History Alive - May 16, 2010 JCAA Room #147 R Rated* *Rabbinically Approved read all about it here · Our own Offer Shavit son’s Yuval Bar-Mitzvah May 6^th 2010 · Lag B'Omer picnic May 2^nd 2010 What a wonderful Lag B'Omer picnic we all had this past Sunday!   As is the case with all such events, there are many folks we need to thank.  But there are some in particular. The Shonfelds have been members of our Congregation since before Rosh HaShonah this year.  They have contributed much to our community.  They are returning to Israel, at least temporarily we hope.  As a parting gift they underwrote the entire cost of this year's Lag B'Omer picnic. The Schiffours have been with us for many years.  And over the years they have graciously offered their home for picnics numerous times.  Once again they hosted our Lag B'Omer picnic.  As I'm sure you'll agree, they were indeed great hosts. Our Rabbi, Lucy Langer and Paula Orrin all arrived at the Schiffours early in the day to help with the cooking and preparation.  Yasher Koach to them.  And finally to the over 100 participants who all contributed to the ruach of the day. Todah Rabah to all. · Vus Noch? : · Ø Rabbi Langer@ Arutz Sheva Listen to Rabbi Langer's Shiur on "OU Radio" ("How far can one go in fulfilling the hidur mitzvah of expounding the story of Yetziat Mitzrayim?") For information emails us: Information	KOSHER establishments MAP - Click on each of the location links to see the graphics and try out the "Get Directions" tool. 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