Parshas Vayeitzei, 5773

News and Announcements 
     Chanukah 2012 is now LIVE! 
     What We Can Do for our Brothers and Sisters in Israel 
     You Can Give Us $25 At No Cost To You 
     Hurricane Sandy Gift Card Drive 
     Thank Yous 
     Chief Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau will be in Chicago 
     Jewish Youth House Update 
     Camp Gan Israel Winter Camp 
     All Women are Invited 
     Kiddush Committee News 
Kiddush Sponsors 
Timely Reminders 
Schedule for the Coming Week 
Shabbat L’Yisraelim 
Useful Information 
From our Online Magazine

We are excited about Chanukah this year! With an event every night, it’s going to be a very bright holiday.

Information about ALL the events of Chanukah are online. The Chanukah pages are up and running on the website at www.SkokieChabad.org/Chanukah2012. Check it out! You will see that we really do have an event happening every day of Chanukah. Reserve online now for a discount to each of our Chanukah events, help share Chanukah with the IDF (via our partners in Israel), read articles, request free menorah lighting kits, and more! Anything you might need for Chanukah is on the website.

Check your mailbox this week for information about the Chanukah Wonderland for kids, and the Chanukah Lounge for adults. The Chanukah holiday guide should be there too! Make sure to share these with someone else, when you have absorbed all the useful information.

Don’t forget to click over to www.SkokieChabad.org/Chanukah2012 for the full inside scoop on everything that’s going on.

Our prayers and thoughts are with our brothers and sisters in Eretz Yisrael. The Mitzvahs that we do add to theire safety and security there. The Rebbe encouraged to increase our Mitzvah observance and to encourage others to do likewise, specifically in the areas of Torah study, Tefillin, Tzedakah, Mezuzah and having Torah books in the home which all have the benefit of adding to the safety and protection of the Jewish people. Click here to read more.

If you want to help the victims if the Hamas rockets and their families, click here.

Please take 2 minutes and do something really easy, which is really helpful to us. American Express has an interesting program right now called Small Business Saturday, and here is how it works.

1. You donate at least $25 to Lubavitch Chabad of Skokie on your AMEX card.
2. AMEX gives you a credit of $25 on your next statement.

You will have given us a donation and it cost you nothing! THIS IS REAL and there is a very small window of opportunity, because it is all over at 11:00 pm this Saturday night.

It takes two easy steps:

1. Simply register your card with Amex, by clicking here:https://enroll.amexnetwork.com/US/en/SBS2012/
2. Donate by going to www.SkokieChabad.org/AMEX

There is no catch. Please do it right away.

Thank you!

Rabbi Chaim has arranged an initiative with the Jewish Youth House, and we are partnering with Rabbi Eli Goodman of Chabad of Long Beach, NY to assist folks to rebuild their community.

Many families have to start from the ground up, trying to get everything from furniture and appliances to pots and dishes, as well as actually getting their own homes back to safe and livable conditions. The thing that would be most useful is to help people set up their homes, by providing them the means to replace some of the larger essentials that they need. It isn’t practical to make a collection of furniture or pots, but what we can do is send them with gift cards to shop at stores that would carry those items.

We are collecting gift cards to stores like Bed Bath & Beyond, Target, Home Depot, and Toys R Us..

If you prefer to give a donation, that is also fine, we will purchase the gift cards and send them along with the others. You can drop off the gift cards/donations at the offices of Lubavitch Chabad of Skokie/Jewish Youth House, at 4043 Dempster in Skokie. To read more, or if you prefer to give a donation and have us purchase the gift cards, there’s a webpage for that here.. For more info contact Rabbi Chaim.

We thank Tal Adar, Yehudah Leib Burgeman, And Rabbi Menachem Slavaticki for for putting up the Menorah outside of Shul

We thank Gil and Tal Gold for sponsoring a changing table in men's room.

Come hear the gripping presentation from Chief Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau, entitled: “Buchenwald Exposed.”Rabbi Lau is a powerful speaker and has a strong message to share.

The event will be held, Sunday evening, December 2, 7:00 PM at the Niles North High School Auditorium (across from Old Orchard mall).This event is organized by JLI of Metropolitan Chicago.

Tickets are $18 in advance; $25 at the door. Reservations can be made here.

JLI Teens 
JLI Teens had another amazing week. This past week, the topic of our class was timely, "Defending Israel." The students discussed and debated the Jewish-Arab conflict dating back to Yitzchak and Yishmael, Tehillim was said, and Tzdaka was given in the merit of our brothers and sisters in the holy land.

The coming week we will be discussing "Why was Christianity, for most of its history, virulently anti-Semitic?" and “How do Jews respond to Christian challenges and ‘proof’ texts?” To take place this Monday 7:00 - 8:30 at the Mooz. Dinner will be served.

Jewish Youth Club 
This week’s Girls Club was the last of this session. The Boys Club did not meet this week so we will be on for this coming Thursday.

J.Y.C. second session begins January 16th.

Girls Kiddush 
The Girls Kiddush will take place on Shabbos after davening, at the Mooz. Girls 6 grade and up are invited.

Do you have winter break plans yet? Why not send your children to the only "camper-approved" Jewish Winter Camp Experience in the Northwest Suburbs? Camp Gan Israel Winter Camp registration is now open! Camp is for boys, ages 5-8 and girls, ages 5-11. Dates are Dec. 26th 2012-Jan 4th 2013 - daily and weekly Options are available. Camp will take place at 16296 West Aptakisic Road, Lincolnshire, IL 60069

For more information: 847-345-6406, [email protected], organisraelchicago.com/winter

Sign up before November 13th to receive the Early-Bird discount atwww.ganisraelchicago.com/winter.

Iva Shudnow invites all women to her home for a Melave Malkah/Chanukas Habayis (home dedication) gathering, this Motzai Shabbos, November 24, 2012, at 7:30 pm, in her home, 8440 Karlov.

Thank you to the salad committee of Friedman & Scheer for making our Kiddush salads.

WANTED

Earliest Tallis: on Mon: 5:59 am - Fri: 6:03 am * 
*) The time we are posting is primarily with our weekday 6:30 minyan attendees in mind. If someone must daven earlier, please be aware that there are other opinions of how to calculate this.

The tenth of Kislev, which occurs this Shabbos, is celebrated by Chassidim as the day that the Mitteler Rebbe was released from Czarist imprisonment in 5587/1826. We do not say “Tzidkas’cha” in Shabbos Mincha. You can read more about the life and times of the Mitteler Rebbe on our website, here.

Wednesday, the fourteenth of Kislev is the anniversary of the wedding of the Rebbe and Rebetzin in 1928. The Rebbe said of this day to the Chassidim: "This is the day that bound me to you, and you to me."

4:04 p.m. Candlelighting 
4:10 p.m. Mincha and Kabolas Shabbos

9:14 a.m.Latest Morning Krias Shma 
9:00 a.m.Shacharis 
11:30 a.m.Kiddush sponsored by TBA 
2:30 p.m. Rabbi Raices’ class in his home, 3534 Arcadia 
4:00 p.m. Mincha 
followed by Gemara Megilla with Rabbi Raices, or Seudah Shlishis with Nigunim & Divrei Torah 
5:08 p.m.Maariv and Shabbos ends

8:00 a.m. Shacharis 
10:30 a.m.JLI: “Kabbalah of You” with Rabbi Yochanan Posner 
4:10 p.m. Mincha 
followed by “The Living Torah” 
4:54 p.m. Maariv 
8:00 p.m.Introduction to Chassidus with Rabbi Moshe Miller

6:30 a.m. Shacharis 
7:15 a.m.Gemora Brachos with Rabbi Posner 
7:00 p.m.Parashat Hashavua L’Dovrei Ivrit with Rabbi Raices 
7:00 p.m.JLI Teens 
7:45 p.m.Maariv 
8:00 p.m.Weekly Torah Class with Rabbi Yochanan Posner

6:30 a.m.Shacharis 
7:15 a.m.Gemora Brachos with Rabbi Posner 
10:00 a.m.Weekly Parsha and discussion with Rabbi B. Epstein 
2:30 p.m.“What Page are We On in the Prayerbook?” Davening class in the home of Susan Rosenberg, 8343 Lowell 
7:45 p.m.Maariv 
8:00 p.m.Knit, Purl, and Parsha with Yona Posner in the Phillips home, 9040 Kildare

6:30 a.m.Shacharis 
7:15 a.m.Gemora Brachos with Rabbi Posner 
11:00 a.m.Explanation of Tefila, Halachos of Shabbos, Etc. with Rabbi Posner 
5:00 p.m.Jewish Youth Club - Girls 
7:45 p.m.Maariv 
8:00 p.m.Gemora, Mesechta Pesachim with Rabbi Raices

6:30 a.m.Shacharis 
7:15 a.m.Gemora Brachos with Rabbi Posner 
10:30 a.m.JLI: “Kabbalah of You” with Rabbi Yochanan Posner 
1:00 p.m.Tanya Class (Women) – contact Mrs. Raices 
5:00 p.m.Jewish Youth Club - Boys 
7:45 p.m.Maariv 
8:00 p.m.JLI: “Kabbalah of You” with Rabbi Yochanan Posner

6:30 a.m.Shacharis 
7:15 a.m.Gemora Brachos with Rabbi Posner 
4:00 p.m. Candlelighting 
4:10 p.m.Mincha and Kabolas Shabbos

Shabbat L'Yisraelim, provided by Rabbi Menachem Slavaticki and the Chabad Israeli Center, will meet this Shabbat at 10:00 a.m. on the lower level for Shacharit. The Tefila is followed by a complete Seudat Shabbat.

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