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Shalom Dear BA Family, 

As we make final preparations for Pesach, we wanted to send a special "Love Note" your way. Blessings to us all for a Zissen, a sweet, and healthy Pesach. May we soon feel a deep sense of release from the current Tsuris and march forward, as our ancestors did long ago, towards freedom and liberation.

With Ahavat Olam, unending love, 
Rabbi Carnie, Rebbetzin Paulie, Noa, Zakai, Levi, Ellior, and our foster dog, Lincoln

Wednesday, April 8

Enjoy the First Seder
Candle Lighting: 7:14 pm

Thursday, April 9

First Day Pesach Services with Cantor Sharon Nathanson: 9:00 am
via Livestream and FB Live

Minchah with Rabbi Josef Davidson: 1:15 pm

via Livestream and FB Live

Enjoy the Second Seder

Candle Lighting: 8:16 pm

​​​​​​​Friday, April 10

Second Day Pesach Services with Rabbi Josef Davidson: 9:00 am

via Livestream and FB Live

Second Day Pesach Afternoon Services and

Kabbalat Shabbat/Ma'ariv with Rabbi Carnie Rose: 6:00 pm
via Livestream and FB Live

Candle Lighting: 7:16 pm

Saturday, April 11 - Shabbat, Chol HaMoed
Shabbat Chol HaMoed Services with Cantor Sharon Nathanson: 9:00 am

via Livestream and FB Live 

Shabbat Minchah/Ma'ariv/Havdalah with Rabbi Carnie Rose: 7:30 pm
via Livestream and FB Live 

Sunday, April 12

Morning Minyan with Rabbi Josef Davidson: 9:00 am

Meeting link: https://zoom.us/j/647335695 ​​​​​​​
Meeting ID: 647 335 695
also via Livestream and FB Live 

Evening Minyan with Cantor Sharon Nathanson: 6:15 pm

Meeting link:  https://zoom.us/j/542349507
Meeting ID: 542 349 507

also via Livestream and FB Live 

Monday, April 13

Morning Minyan with Rabbi Josef Davidson: 7:00 am

Meeting link:  https://zoom.us/j/647335695 ​​​​​​​
Meeting ID: 647 335 695
also via Livestream and FB Live 

Evening Minyan with Rabbi Carnie Shalom Rose: 6:15 pm

Meeting link:  https://zoom.us/j/542349507
Meeting ID: 542 349 507
also via Livestream and FB Live 

Tuesday, April 14

Morning Minyan with Rabbi Carnie Shalom Rose: 7:00 am

Meeting link:  https://zoom.us/j/647335695 ​​​​​​​
Meeting ID: 647 335 695
also via Livestream and FB Live 

Erev Seventh Day Pesach Services with Rabbi Josef Davidson: 6:15 pm

via Livestream and FB Live 

Candle Lighting: 7:20 pm

Wednesday, April 15

Seventh Day Pesach Services with Cantor Sharon Nathanson: 9:00 am

via Livestream and FB Live

Minchah/Erev Eighth Day Pesach Services with Rabbi Joe Davidson: 6:15 pm

via Livestream and FB Live

Candle Lighting: 8:21 pm

Thursday, April 16
Eighth Day Pesach Services & Yizkor with Cantor Sharon Nathanson: 9:00 am

via Livestream and FB Live

Minchah/Ma'ariv/Havdalah with Rabbi Carnie Rose: 7:30 pm

via Livestream and FB Live

Passover Ends 8:10 pm

To join us on Zoom, click one of the meeting links above, or dial in via one of the following phone numbers and enter the meeting ID when prompted:
+1 312 626 6799 

Chol Hamoed Pesach
Candlelighting: Friday, April 10 at 7:16 pm
Shabbat Ends: Saturday, April 11 at 8:05 pm

To join, please visit the link below at 5:00 pm this Sunday, April 12
https://zoom.us/j/178796241

Monday, April 13 at 5:00 pm
Ask the Rabbi: Processing this Perplexing Passover!
Facilitated by Rabbi Carnie Shalom Rose via Livestream, our BA Facebook Page & Zoom
Zoom Link:  https://zoom.us/j/683669100
Meeting ID: 683 669 100
or join by phone: 312-626-6799 and enter the meeting ID above

BA Curbside gives you an option to order fresh, Kosher takeout meals! We are offering meals on Tuesday, April 21 and Thursday, April 23 in three size options:

1-2 ppl, 3-5 ppl, 6-8 ppl

BA Curbside Menu:

Tuesday, April 21

Mac and cheese, Seared Atlantic Salmon, Green Beans and Cookies

Thursday, April 23

Vegetarian Chili, Baked Potatoes, Caesar Salad and Brownies

Tuesday, April 28

Pasta Con Broccoli, St Louis Italian Salad, Minestrone Soup and

Chocolate Mousse

Thursday, April 30

Vegetarian Tacos, Southwest Chopped Salad, Churros and Watermelon

BA LEHRHAUS ADULT EDUCATION

Sunday, April 12
A Thinking Person's Judaism - 10:15 - 11:30 am
Facilitated by Rabbi Neal Rose via  Livestream and our BA Facebook Page

Introduction to Judaism - 2:00 – 3:30 pm;
Facilitated by Rabbi Neal Rose via Livestream and our BA Facebook Page

Monday, April 13
Ask the Rabbi: Processing this Perplexing Passover! - 5:00 pm

Facilitated by Rabbi Carnie Shalom Rose via Livestream, our BA Facebook Page & Zoom
Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/683669100
Meeting ID: 683 669 100
or join by phone: 312-626-6799 and enter the meeting ID above

Tuesday, April 14
Encountering Mystery - 10:30 - 11:45 am
Facilitated by Carol Rose via Zoom (Pre-registration required)

HEBREW CLASSES (Pre-registration required)

Monday, April 13
Ulpan Ivrit - Advanced Modern Hebrew - 2:00 - 3:00pm 
Ulpan Ivrit - Beginning Modern Hebrew - 5:00 - 6:00 pm
All facilitated by Ophira Nitzan-Melnick via Zoom

For questions, please contact Liessa Alperin at 314-324-0936 or liessa@bnaiamoona.com

SCHOOL-AGE FAMILIES

Although our classes will not be meeting in person we will be sharing ideas and activities through the new Facebook Group BA Sharing Spot. Additionally, MKLC families with 3rd-6th graders should have been contacted by Morah Ophira or Morah Marci about virtual Hebrew experiences. Please let Liessa know if you have not been contacted.

LRECC

Our LRECC teachers are creating videos from our classroom and specialist teachers to be uploaded via Facebook, using Zoom to do virtual class activities with their students, and Face Timing students and/or parents as needed.  Anyone is welcome to join our  LRECC Facebook page. This page is where you can connect to other parents and view uploads, etc. If you are not a current LRECC family, but would like your child included in our virtual classes, please email Anita Kraus, anita@bnaiamoona.com, with your contact information. 

Click HERE to download and print the Feast of Freedom Haggadah

Click HERE to download and print our BA "A Seat For All - Makom LeKulam" Haggadah

RABBINIC ASSEMBLY RESPONSE TO COVID-19

The Rabbinical Assembly has issued these three important Halachik rulings in light of Passover 5780 and Covid-19:
Please click each title below.

Passover Prepatations at a time of Pandemic

Streaming the Seder at a time of Pandemic

The Rabbinical Assembly Haggadah for use, free of charge, at this time of Crisis 

JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES

We are proud to be partnering with the Jewish Federation, Jewish Family Services and all area congregations in a coordinated effort to help those hit hardest by this pandemic. 
 
If you would like to volunteer with Jewish Family Services to help members of the community get needed groceries or medicine, please contact Jeremy Goldberg, JFS Volunteer Coordinator directly at 314-513-1679 or jgoldberg@jfcs-stl.org.

ELDERLINK

If you are 65 years of age or older and would like to reach out directly to Jewish Family Services for support, you can contact Lori Zimmerman with ElderLinks St. Louis at  lzimmerman@jfsstl.org  or 314-812-9300.

Be a Jewel & Pay it Forward! As an act of Chesed, BA Sisterhood invites you to participate in their annual Mitvah fundraiser. Your contribution will help Sisterhood in the  many ways they support our congregation and community. Please click the image for more information.

St. Louis Public Radio recently interviewed Rabbi Carnie Shalom Rose along with other local spiritual leaders and people of faith to discuss Passover and Easter in the midst of the Covid-19 crisis for their article, Pandemic Disrupts Holy Season For St. Louis Jews And Christians Alike. To read the article, please click HERE.

MAZEL TOV TO...

Jamie & Adam Heldman on the birth of their son, Eli Warren Heldman. Proud grandparents are Debbie & Jeff Dalin and Julie & Roger Heldman.  Great-grandparents are Oscar & Elaine (Z”L) Goldberg, Harry (Z”L) & Lil (Z”L) Dalin, Iris & Harvey Diamond, and Anne & George (Z”L) Heldman. Eli is the nephew of Zach Dalin, Andy Dalin, and Erin Heldman, great-nephew of Marta & Mike Goldberg, Kenny Goldberg, Barbara & David Furman, Gary & Debbie Dalin, Debbie & Karl Guyer, and great-great-nephew of Phyllis & Sidney (Z”L) Goldberg.

Jan & Warren Schultz and Laurie & Bert Schweizer III on the birth of their grandson, Liam Jude Schweizer. Proud parents are Stacy and Zac Schweizer.

WE MOURN THE LOSS OF...

Gerry Schenberg; beloved wife of Joseph Schenberg (Z"L); dear mother of Elaine Knobler (Carl), Robert Schenberg (Z"L) (Susanne Wandling), and Sandra Wexler (Michael); grandmother of four, great-grandmother of two; sister of the Wilma Hollander (Z"L). Dear wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, sister and friend to many.

Dr. Deborah Kantor Nagler; daughter of Dr. Alan (Z”L) and Liz (Z”L) Kantor, wife of Fred Nagler, mother of Shira Price Marshall (Dan) and Chana Rackliff (DJ), Sheryl Solomon (Ely), Sharon Nagler (Z”L), Aviva Mermelstein (Simcha), Yael Zimerman (Michael) and Yoni Nagler (Naomi), sister of Kathie Kantor Young (Z"L), Dr. David Kantor and Mark Kantor, aunt of Nava, Eitan, and Noam Kantor, Ellie Young Ander (Jeremy) and Robyn Young Loscutoff (Walter), Debbie (Isaac) Pourati and Daniel (Abigail) Nagler; former sister-in-law of Lynnsie Balk Kantor, sister-in-law of Gary and Kathy Young and Mel (Joan) Nagler; grandmother of 25, great-grandmother of one.

To view and print our Misheberach List, please click HERE.

Please click HERE for our Yahrzeit list for the week of

Nisan 17 - Nisan 23 (April 11 - April 17)

Happy Birthday to:

Ronald Becker
Myles Bogner
Sonia Breit
Asher Brown
Maxine Cohen
Elizabeth Dennis
Jeremy Feldstein
Dennis Firestone
Richard Frankel
Winifred Frelich
Bessie Garland
Lisa Glaser
Lesley Goldenberg
Francesca Grad
Andrew Hanin
Marley Hermann
Edward Herzog
Robert Hoffman
David Kantor
Toby Kraus
Madeline Lapp

Jacqueline Lueg
Ari Maayan
Jackson McLemore
Marcia Mermelstein
Brant Miederhoff
Robin Moll
Bruce Nahm
Vicki Parker
Cynthia Picker
Ezra Pliskow
Robert Rafael
Naftali Reznikov
Sandra Rosen
James Rothberg
Andrew Schatz
Michelle Schuval
Lynn Shirley
Jacob Singer
Rebekah Tennenbaum
Edward Weinstein

Happy Anniversary to:

Craig & Kerri Alper
Michael & Susan Mlynarczyk