As we welcome 2010, we look forward to a year filled with change. We can take some comfort in the constant things in life. The weather will get warmer and the celebration of Purim is approaching. When we celebrate Purim at Temple Sholom, in addition to remembering Esther, Mordecai, and Haman, we remember our special friends and family with Shalach Manot…..the giving of a gift to those you love.
We at Temple Sholom have adopted this tradition as a meaningful yet inexpensive way of telling friends and relatives that we are thinking of them. What could be nicer than sending them a basket filled with goodies? And what could be better than doing it while contributing to a Temple fundraiser?
This is how it works….choose to send a basket to one temple family for $18.00. Send additional baskets to other temple families for only $7 per basket. Want to get a basket for someone outside the Temple (neighbors, teachers, work associates)? Order and pick up baskets for them for just $12 per basket. Of course, if a family has been chosen to receive a basket by more than one family, they will receive only one basket with a warm note listing all those who have contributed on their behalf.
Finally, if you wish, you may reciprocate to all families who thought of you for only $7 each, and you will be billed for the reciprocal amount when the program is complete.
Baskets will be ready for pick-up beginning with the Purim Megillah reading on Erev Shabbat, Friday, February 26th. Please click the link below to download and print the enclosed form and enjoy the pleasure of gift giving to those you care for and the mitzvah of helping out our Temple. Time is short so please act quickly.
Perhaps the largest crowd to-date. 3 Packages of rolls, 14 boxes of pasta, and 4 jars of sauce disappeared by 6:00. Rachel Sessor openned up the dividing doors and brought over a ninth table, and people still had to stand.
Both clergy and layleaders were well in attendance. (There's nothing to the rumor that Melissa would like this to be a weekly event.) We hope to have 1 more dinner in April. Chefs Samantha & Rebecca will be scheduling in conjunction with the office.
The Discovery Science channel should be attending with high speed cameras. Something about investigating whether people can consume pasta without chewing. More information as events are finalized.
Choral Healing service with Jazz Elements Planned for the Dr Lynne B. Harrison Choral Shabbat Friday April 30
On Friday April 30th at 8:00 after the TSWE Renaissance dinner at 6:30, the Adult choir will Join with the Rabbi and Cantor to interweave the themes of healing, spiritual and physical into our Shabbat service. This moving Healing service created by Rabbi Norman and Naomi Patz will be the basis of this musical Shabbat. In many ways its meditations and music is the sermon.
This Shabbat also interweaves Jazz elements of contemporary Jewish Jazz composers into the mix. Many of the songs that will be sung are written by composers active in the musical life of the east and west coasts jazz scenes and movie and recording industry. It creates a mellow contemplative setting for rest and renewal which are inherent themes of Shabbat and expanded further with the healing theme.
The choir starts preparing for the April 30th Shabbat with four Tuesday 7:00 rehearsals April 6, 13, 20, and 27. New choral participants are welcome.
The Last Cyclist
The Last Cyclist
The Temple will present a reading of The Last Cyclist , a bitter comedy originally written by Karel Svenk in the Terezin Ghetto, adapted by Naomi Patz. The play will be performed at Temple Sholom of West Essex on May 1 and May 2, 2010.
Contact lauriekatzmann@aol.com to find out how you can be part of this dramatic presentation.
WANTED: large folding screens, music stands and clothes racks to be used for the production of "The Last Cyclist". Please call Ruth Frankel or Laurie Katzmann.
New Gift Card Program!
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Tot Shabbat
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Building Family Traditions! The Holiday Experience.
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Rosh Hashanah Intergenerational Service
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Pasta Dinners
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