The Bulletin of Congregation Ner Tamid, April 2003

Ccorrelation Ner Tatpid Tan u rftip The Reform Jewish Congregation of Las Vegas ...A Special Place to Belong April 2003 - Vol. XVI No. 13 28 Adar ii - 28 Nisan 5 763 Sanford D. Akselrad Rabbi Jennifer C. Weiner Associate Rabbi Philip Goldstein Cantorial Soloist Stewart Blumenfeld President Irv Duchowny Jacqueline Fleekop Lois Bergman Andrea Brunner Executive Director Education Director Preschool Director Bulletin Editor it's that litre cf ifear again !' Fiesta d? Tatr id ! A sfrirt| mSiJtit all wr teftfie ttoiikrs F??d - Fun - :&afe/@r All A?& luiidai/, If lil id Nlitticr Hills Parly, it IKrJtiter CTaJye vsys C#S?g? Sr. arte turn right) ert t>? gfHi I All ages - Plait to get wet at the pirate themed water area! (Bring swimsuits) ?Nr RSVP to the Temple at 733-6292 Sponsored by the Membership Retention Committee A Fond Farewell to Bella A special?Scfecfiianoo? Service Aprillltfi It was some 15 years ago that a 21 year old Bella Schwartz came to Temple with her mother Bobbi Newman. Doing a little Schul shopping, Bella never dreamed that soon she would be asked to become a soloist at what was then a small schul called Congregation Ner Tamid. But, al?ways the ?talent scout? Rabbi Akselrad heard her golden voice and asked her to become what was to be a rotating system of soloists for Shabbat worship. As the Congregation grew, so too did the musi?cal needs of the Congregation for pro?gramming and lifecycle events and the Temple was able to offer the newly mar?ried, Bella Feldman a full time job as its cantorial soloist. Since that time Bella has served the Con?gregation full time and in the past few years, part time, as its musical director, B?nai mitzvah program supervisor, choir director, and worship soloist. During her tenure she has been responsible for some of the most innovative musical program?ming in our community including adult, teen and junior choirs. And of course our ?Shabbatone? Band. Bella has worked with our Congregation to bring in some of the biggest names in Jewish music to our Congregation and community includ?ing Debbie Friedman, Doug Cotier, Judy Kaplan Ginsberg, Michael Isaacson and most recently, Danny Masseng. In talking with Bella, she said that some of her proudest moments have included singing with her mentor, Cantor Sharlin and having him work with our choir; working with our Junior Choir on our Hanukah plays and L?maasei V?reisheet; putting on our first jazz service and hav?ing Jay Bowen here to work with both of our choirs; The Shabbatones, of course; recording with Michael Isaacson; meet?ing our Special Needs B?nai Mitzvahs, and watching all of our B?nai Mitzvah kids grow up, and break the cardinal rule, of becoming taller than Bella! At Shabbat services, April 11th, at 7:30 p.m. a special ?shechianoo? service, we will bid a fond farewell to Bella and her family as they relocate to Ukiah, Califor?nia to begin their new lives. This will be a beautiful evening of music and a cele?bration of Bella?s long time service to our Congregation. In This Issue.. Worship Services 2 Rabbi's Message 2 Message from our President 3 Executive Director Message 4 Religious School/Preschool 5-6 Auxiliaries 7-9 Anniversaries 14 Birthdays 14 Tributes 15-16 In Memoriam 10 Yahrzeits 17 (the Bulletin is published monthly) A Special (Place To ?BelongWorship Services Conducted by Rabbi Sanford Akselrad, Rabbi Jennifer Weiner; & Cantorial Soloist Philip Goldstein Friday, April 4 6:30 Tot Shabbat 7:30 Shabbat Service Oneg sponsored by the Quint Family in honor of Brad Friedman and Stephanie Quint s wedding on Sunday, April 6. Saturday, April 5 10:00 a.m. Bat Mitzvah of Brittany Keating Kiddush sponsored by the Keating Family 9:00-10:00 a.m. Bible Study 10:00-11:00 a.m. Minyan and Torah Study Friday, April 11 7:30 Family Shabbat Service with the Shabbatones Oneg sponsored by the Sisterhood Saturday, April 12 9:00-10:00 a.m. Bible Study 10:00-11:00 a.m. Minyan and Torah Study Wednesday, April 16 Passover First Seder 6:00 p.m. Thursday, April 17 Office closed 10:00 a.m. Passover Morning Services Friday, April 18 5:30 Singles Shabbat 7:30 Family Shabbat Services Oneg sponsored by the Sisterhood Saturday, April 19 9:00-10:00 a.m. Bible Study 10:00-11:00 a.m. Minyan and Torah Study Tuesday, April 22 6:00 p.m. All Women?s Seder Thursday, April 24 Office Closed 10:00 a.m. Yiskor Services Friday, April 25 6:15 Connections Shabbat Dinner 7:30 Family Shabbat Service Oneg sponsored by Gertrude and Sam Moldave in honor of Sam's birthday Saturday, April 26 10:00 a.m. Bat Mitzvah of Corina Torchin Kiddush sponsored by the Torchin Family 9:00-10:00 a. m. Bible Study 10:00-11:00 a. m. Minyan and Torah Study Congregation Ner Tamid Rabbi's Message Passover 2003 As Passover approaches, my mind drifts to family. Last year, I spent the seder with my own family in Atlanta, Georgia. For someone who has lived so far apart from her family for so long, this was quite a treat. For a rabbi who has not lived near her family since or?dination, this was a privilege. And what made the holiday even more spe?cial was that I conducted the second night seder at a family friend?s home for my family and other close friends for the first time since becoming a rab?bi. As I looked out at the seder table with my parents and sister and other friends who are considered family, I knew what it meant to celebrate Pass- over and to truly live the tradition of ?L?dor v?dor.. .From generation to gen?eration.? My parents passed on the tradition of Judaism to me and now it was my turn to pass it down to the next generation. Yet, it was not so long ago that our people were living another exodus. As an undergraduate studying in Israel, I had witnessed the integration of Jews from the Former Soviet Union into the community of Israel. Then a few years later, as a rabbinical student living in Israel, I saw the Jews of Ethiopia walk down the stairs of the plane, kiss the soil, and be absorbed into society. And still there are Jews who are not free to celebrate the traditions handed down through the generations. Some live in coun?tries where they are still persecuted due to their religion. Others are enslaved through poverty or economics. It is these Jews who we must reach out to and bring into our midst so they too can feel that they went free from Egypt. As a congregation, we reach out to those in need. We help not just Jews but all people in need. Through projects like IHN (Inter?faith Housing Network) and other social ac?tion programs, we participate in the work tikkun olam, the repairing of the world. Thus, anyone who suffers needs our help. Therefore, on this Passover as we say we should all feel as if we left Egypt, let us think not just of Jews but of all people whm are in need of freedom. Let us extend ofl thoughts and our hearts to all those in neecr of security and hope. This year may we truly be able to state that we have worked to annihilate the enslavements of our world. Then can we pass on the traditions of Juda?ism, the rituals and the customs without any?one being passed over. And then will we truly know what ?L?dor v?dor? means, the passing down of Judaism and its values from generation to generation. Hag Kasher Pesach- a happy and kosher Passover! fab hi Jennifer Weiner Yom Hashoa Congregation Ner Tamid Wednesday April 30th 7:00 p.m. Rabbi Akselrad is the chairman of this year?s Yom Hashoa community wide observance which will be held at Congregation Ner Tamid on Wednesday April 30th at 7:00 p.m.. A project of the Board of Rabbis of Southern Nevada and_ the Jewish Federation of Las Vegas, this year?s observance will feature nc( scholar and author, Yaffa Eliach. continued on page 9 April 2003 Temple Board Members Dr. Stewart Blumenfeld President Scott Stolberg VP Administration Cookie Lea Olshein, esq VP Membership Ira Spector Hillary Torchin Mindy Wadkins Gina Polovina Ira Miller Doug Unger Maxine Molinsky Yvonne Gordon Beth Bromberg Aimee Knox Cecilia Schafler Stacey Yahraus Marla Letizia Leon Marco JORDIE PRIMACK Ruth Urban Howard Layfer Samantha Willey Herman Steiner Drew Levy Bob Unger Esq. Jerry Gordon Esq. Cal Lewis Eileen Kollins Kenneth Schnitzer Dr. David Wasserman S)r. Steve Kollins Ton. Michael Cherry Dr. Bernard Farrow Eugene Kirshbaum* David Goldwater* Rabbi Sanford Akselrad Rabbi Jennifer Weiner *Deceased VP Religious Activities VP Education & Youth VP Member Activities VP Social Action VP Ways & Means Treasurer Trustee Trustee Trustee Trustee Trustee Trustee Trustee Trustee Trustee Sisterhood Men's Club NTTY Golden Chai PastPresident Past President Past President Past President Past President Past President Past President Past President Past President Past President Past President Past President Ex Officio Ex Officio ?Please join us for ourannual Congregational Passover Seder on SLpril 16 at 6:00 P'M in our social hall ?for more information please see insert. We loo Of forward to sharing this holiday with our congregational family. EXODUS: THE UNRESOLVED QUESTION A year ago at this time, I asked if, as we sit around our seder table and re?tell the story of the Exodus, we are loosely describing a real event or a complete myth. A year later, there still is no consensus among historians, archaeologists, and Torah scholars and the question is still sufficiently in?triguing as to merit its own hour-and- a-half workshop at February's UAHC Pacific Southwest Region Biennial. The workshop was led by Dr. David Sper?ling, a distinguished Professor of Semitic Languages at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York. One aspect of the Exodus story is rather easily cast aside, namely that there was a mass exodus of Hebrew slaves from Egypt all at once. Exodus (12:73) tells us that those who fled Egypt numbered more than 600,000. That was an enormous, and highly im?probable, population for that day and a group that size would surely have left traces in the Sinai or wherever it went. None have ever been found. However, Egyptian records describe small groups of Asiatic aliens living there around the 13th C. BCE, one of which the Egyptians called "Apiru". We can't be sure they were slaves but according to Egyptian sources, over the course of a couple centuries from about the 14th C. through the 13th C., groups of these people did leave the country more or less illegal?ly. Alternatively, the enslavement sto?ry may well have derived from the fact that the Egyptian empire reigned over most of the Middle East around that time and essentially all the peo?ples of the region were vassals of Pha?raoh. One thing we know for certain, by the early 13th C. BCE, a rival super?power, the Hittites, had arisen in an area where present-day Syria, Tur?key, and Iraq come together. In 1273 BCE, the two dominant powers fought a monumental battle at Kedesh (in present-day Lebanon) and the Hit?tites, according to their monuments, won big. (The Egyptians prefer not to mention Kedesh.) The thinking is that the resulting decline of Egyp?tian military power enabled many peo?ple to break free from Egyptian control. The Apiru may have been among them, departing to the east, as some contemporary Egyptian pa?pyrus military reports imply. Or it may be that Egypt's controlling grip on a population already living in place in Canaan may simply have been bro?ken and that allowed existing cultures to flourish. Dr. Sperling leans to?ward the latter explanation. I per?sonally tend to believe that over the course of a couple hundred years a steady trickle of "Asiatics" left Egypt for Canaan, but that the trickle turned into a torrent in the decades following Egypt's historic defeat and that these people, upon arriving in Canaan, blended in with, and added to, those who had arrived decades, if not centuries, before. The reason I disagree with Dr. Sper?ling's theory of no exodus is that ar?chaeological evidence shows that late in the 13th C. a new a culture emerges in Canaan rather suddenly in archae?ological terms, a culture quite dif?ferent from the native Canaanites'. How different? Well, first of all, the homes of these newcomers are different in form from their Canaan- ite neighbors: U-shaped, with sever?al rooms arranged around an open courtyard. Second, new agricultural technologies, terraced hillsides and rock-cut plastered cisterns for im?proved management of water, appear around the same time. Third, al?though the bones of swine were plentiful in excavated Canaanite town- April 2003 A Special Place To Belong CNT's Second Friday Musical Shabbat Services April 11,2003 at 7:30pm Don't miss the Shabba-Tones in action! CNT Sisterhood Cookbooks are available at the Gift Shop or through the Sisterhood website www.cntsisterhood.com for only $10.00 each. Don?t miss the opportunity to purchase this rich piece of Jewish heritage. A Message From Our Executive Director 1 Year and Counting As I write this, I will have been with CNT for one year now. When I first accepted this position, a good friend of mine (and the man 1 work to emulate) gave me some terrific advice - ?Be on the job for one year, with your eyes and ears open, and your mouth closed?. He was suggesting that I observe, get the job done to the best of my ability, and wait at least one full cycle (year) before making any significant suggestions. In my first year, I have learned, with a tremendous amount of Rabbi Akselrad?s help, some of the differences between doing the job, and ?The Art? of being an Executive Director. I have gone through my first High Holidays experience, gained the obligatory 10 pounds that all Exec. Directors are supposed to gain (from the long hours, countless meetings, etc) and met many wonderful families, all with different situations and personalities. And still, as Robert Frost said, ?And miles to go before I sleep? -1 have so much more to learn, to do, and to contribute. Our Temple board and our office staff, have been, and continue to be, extremely support?ive of my efforts, and understand that this particular job takes time, dedication, and a learning curve like I?ve never experienced before. Temples, as I?ve written about in previ?ous articles, are equally wonderful and mysterious places to be, and even more so, to work at. We are a temple, and a business, and a temple, and a business,.....well, I?m sure you get my drift. Running a temple takes time, energy, caring by many people, and financial commitments by many more. The delicate balance of keeping a temple budget balanced, having a positive cash flow, providing the programming and services that are required, and maintaining our facility that is used 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year, and being able to ?turn rooms around quickly? to provide the best service possible for the maximum number of people is a tr^^k challenge. And, we are fortunate to have an excellent maintenance crew that allows this Ww to happen, quickly, quietly and without being noticed. So, let me take a moment to thank everyone who has made me feel so welcome, and who has helped me along the path of learning to be a better administrator. I commit to you that I will continue to learn and to do my best for you, as CNT truly is ?A Special Place to Belong?. to be continued, Irv Outreach Committee PASSOVER PIZZAZ Do you know a MATZO BALL from a MANDELBROT?? Do you want to know all about Passover Foods? Do you want to know all about a Passover Seder? Come to Passover Pizzazz: The Who, What, & How of Passover When: Sunday, April 6,h 2PM to about 4PM Where: CNT Social Hall What: Everything you want to know about Passover Kids: Special craft activities for children Who: Anyone, but especially geared towards interfaith couples and families a^ well as singles who are thinking about or involved in Jewish conversion. | Open to anyone... Members and non-members 4 Nf Congregation Ner Tamid April 2003 Religious School News Religious School Calendar April 2003 Sunday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday 1 2 3 6 3 9 11 13 No K15 15 No K/5 16 No K/5 17 No K/5 20 No KI5 22 No K/5 23 No K/5 24 No K/5 27 29 30 No K/5 Family Matters In February I was able to do the ?family stretch?. I stretched my wallet, my time and my energy and flew across country to attend a Bar Mitzvah. It was worth it just to see elderly aunts, my cousins now grownup with children and grandchildren. I could have done without seeing snow. When I arrived, my cousin ^cked me up at the airport and we went to one of our old favor- deli for breakfast. It felt warm and familiar to see the old places I enjoyed in my youth. I was trying to think of why I left Pennsyl?vania and then the snow came and I remembered. I never got to the Shabbat dinner or services on Friday night because I was snowed in. Saturday evening, the Bar Mitzvah was at a Reconstructionist Synagogue and it was a Havdalah Service. It was different and yet nice. The party was in the ?Coast Style?, east or west, overdone and extremely expensive. The young man made a few mistakes, but everyone Kvelled anyway. All in all, it was family sharing a life cycle event that mattered. For some of the elderly it may have been the last time the family would be together before their funeral. Events with family or extended families mark memories in our lives. When all is said and done, 1 am aware that Jewish education is two fold. It is learning in Religious School and living it in our homes. As Passover approaches we remember the lessons we have learned about the Exodus. We sit with friends and family and create memories. Think back to your youth and to Passover. You will see why it is so important to have or go to a Seder. Someday your children will reach back into their memories for warmth and comfort. Have a wonderful Passover. Shalom, Jactqe C?i>?re$ati?p Ner Tanjid Tan u rfrp Hurry! May 1st leadline Your help is needed! Congregation Ner Tamid is planning to publish a membership directory for our members' use to help build community. The directory will be distributed to our members for their PERSONAL use only. The goal is to offer a way for those who wish to participate to be able to: ? Contact new members and welcome them into the community! ? Have an easier way to have information at our fingertips to invite members of the congregation to lifecycle everts. ? Build relationships. ? Plan car pools for those with school-aged children. ? Help each other during difficult times and offer support. ? Contact board members with new ideas. Please look for the special form in the mail and/or at the synagogue and get it to us soon as you can! Thank you!!! April 2003 A Special Place To Belong dMT Presahool and Kindergar+en March was a fun filled month here at the Preschool Kindergarten.. Our youngsters began our read-a-thon program, and celebrated Dr. Seuss?s 100"' Birthday Our boys and girls also all enjoyed preparing for the jolly holiday of Purim. We made Hamentashen (or Haman?s ears as they are called in Hebrew), they were sure delicious. The youngsters all came in costume and we enjoyed hearing the traditional reading of the Megillah, stamping and twirling our groggers when we heard the name of that mean man, Haman?s name. The students exchanged Purim treats.. Hand made groggers and crowns rounded out our celebration of fun. Raggedy Ann the clown made our holiday complete. She painted our faces and even taught us some magic tricks Our school is a buzz with excitement for the plans that are being for the new school year and summer camp. We are already taking applications for our summer program ( Camp Chaverim) for children ages 2 ?- 9 years of age. We are also taking deposits for next years preschool and kindergarten programs, our waiting lists are growing, and we can only accept a limited number of students in all of our programs. If you have any question or want to sign your child or grandchild up for any of our classes, please do so sooner, rather than later. One of our classes is already full. Call us at the Temple Office 733- 6292. Immediately after Purim we began to prepare for the model Passover Seder which will be held on April 14th"'. We will all enjoy hearing our youngsters chant the Four Questions and all of the traditional Passover prayers. The students continue to learn and grow in their secular studies and social skills as well. CNT preschoob kindergarten is a very busy and exciting place to be. Of course this month we will also celebrate April fools day and talk about April showers and May flowers. Our Preschool Kindergarten Shabbat will be held on Friday April 4"1. Come hear our little ones sing the traditional Shabbat melodies and Kvel with our students and parents as we chant. Next month we will be preparing for our Mother?s Day Brunch on the 11"' of May (this year look for a fabulous surprise from our Mother?s Day committee). Have a Happy And Kosher Passover From all of us at the Preschool Lois (Bergman Early Childhood director WANTED Substitute kindergarten teachers needed. Must be licensed in the State of Nevada. Call Lois Berg?man, 733-6292 for further details. L-R: Michael Levine, Tamar Diaz, Danielle Goldstein, Sydney Basham having fun L-R: Jared Katz, Michael Levine, Emory Beem finishing a project In line getting ready for outside play Our Bike-A-Thon was fun Congregation Ner Tamid April 2003 Auxiliaries cSiitzxhoo d d\fz Itych'f CM Shalom, Don?t know how many of you have read the book, Who Moved My Cheese. If you haven?t you might want to do so as it is an excellent change-management book. What does this have to do with Sisterhood, you are probably asking. The answer is everything. Sisterhoods across North America are changing in their demographic make-up and many are shrinking or becoming non-existent because the role of women has changed greatly. For the most part their lives don?t evolve around the Temple like it once did. Many members are employed outside the home, still maintaining the role of the primary caregiver for their children, and involved in many outside activities. Few women have much time for Sisterhood activities, much less time to bake and help with Onegs and other Temple food functions as they once did. As 1 mentioned last month, Frances Klamian has retired as the Sisterhood Catering director. With her retirement the Sisterhood Party Shop catering services came to an end. As you are aware we sent out an announcement to our membership and the entire congregation asking for individuals or groups to step forward with a plan to replace Frances. No one individual stepped forward to assume her responsibilities, which were primarily voluntary. We did have several members come to the meeting to offer their assistance on a limited voluntary basis and we are grateful to these individuals, Susie Plotkin, Maxine Molinsky, Lil Finkel, and Sherri Speaker who joined Fern Percheski and me to examine what, if any, food function we could do on a voluntary basis without a catering director. We worked out a plan for Sisterhood to try to continue to provide the Onegs. ?) researching what options were available, we obtained information from lany synagogues and Sisterhoods across the country. We found out that niost Sisterhoods have nothing to do with Onegs or any food functions at their temples. That responsibility is borne by the temples or assigned to members by alphabetical order. The one change that is clear is that Sisterhood cannot continue to provide the Onegs without the help of everyone in the CNT family, including the Temple Board and the Men?s Club. Therefore we are asking all Temple members and Sisterhood members to volunteer to help us, by signing up to help set up an Oneg by arranging the platters, and/or contributing money to the Oneg Fund to help defray the costs of the oneg, or helping to sign up volunteers every Shabbat. Right now we have a committee, which has expanded from the women already mentioned above, and includes, Lynette Solomon from Sisterhood, Irv Duchowney representing the Temple office, David Shapin, representing the Men?s Club, and Maxine Molinsky representing the CNT Board. Please contact Fern Percheski at 566-0078 evenings if you want to help. At the Sisterhood Shabbat, May 16th, we will be honoring Frances Klamian for all her hard work and TLC as the catering director. We know she made many wonderful simcha's even nicer with her touch, be it a Bar or Bat Mitzvah Oneg or Kiddush or special party. Maxine Gratz has suggested a book of appreciation be put together for Frances which will include letters of appreciation and any special pictures you might have of an affair Frances catered. We encourage you to contribute to this book by sending any special messages you have for Frances to Maxine at 5610 Neosho St., Las Vegas, NV 89120. Until next month, please don?t forget to visit us on the website, www.cntsisterhood.com for the latest programming dates and 1 hope to see you at one of our events. My best, %utfi Ur6an, Sisterhood President # Sisterhood Congregation 'J^er'Tamid Do We Need an Active Men?s Club? ?Do you think 1 could get a copy of the videotape you?re going to make?? asked one of the NTTY teens after Regina Hirsch spoke. It was obvious she and her friends were moved by the story she had heard. They felt what it was like to live through the holocaust. It was at that moment that I knew all the work everyone in Men?s Club had been doing was worth it. When Steve Joseph asked me to join the Men?s Club a few years ago, he told me about his vision. He said for the temple to be vibrant it needed a Men?s Club that could make a real contribution. It should be an organization that the rabbi could turn to for special needs, an organization that could provide a place for friendship and a group which would promote programs from which the whole temple and community would benefit. With about fifteen members and no funds, most people would have considered Steve?s vision nothing more than a dream. We believed that it could happen and began to work to build a new reality. Looking around the temple on that Sunday morning in February, I understood Steve?s vision had happened. A crowd estimated at over 225 had come to hear a woman who told a story none of them would ever forget. Men?s Club had once again made a difference, not only for the men of the temple but for the entire Jewish community. Our commitment to remembering the Holocaust is not new. Every year we send temple members Yom Hashoa candles. This year with services at Ner Tamid we helped assure the programs success. At an early Temple Board meeting Rabbi Akselrad was excited that the Reform movement was working to change our prayer books for the first time in over fifty years. He wanted our congregation to be one of the leaders in the change and asked for help. I brought the idea to our Men?s Club board and we donated the funds to assure the temple?s participation. Las Vegas has the fastest growing Jewish community in the country, but it remains largely a Jewish cultural wasteland. Therefore when the idea of aiding the Jewish Film Festival was presented, Men?s Club once again stepped up and helped. Men?s Club supported entertainment at the temple, both secular and religious. Last month began with a rousing performance by the Celebrity City Chorus which the Men?s Club helped sponsor. At the scholar in residence weekend we were again there with publicity, ushers and lunch. Listen to the hate groups and you would believe all Jews are rich and powerful. Yet Jewish Family Services proves every day that members of our community need assistance. I am proud that we launched the year with a request that our members add a little to their dues to help JFS. Our project raised needed funds and raised awareness of the problem. Our health is another area of importance. It is here that we had another great success. Some of the leading physicians in our community and auxiliary health contributors all pitched in to make our second annual Health Fair, ?La Chiam?, an exciting source of information. Men?s Club will never forget that its primary mission is to build camaraderie among the men in the temple. This month is our annual golf tournament. It is our biggest fundraiser, but more importantly it is just plain fun. Sunday morning brunches also give us a chance to get to know each other better. Does Men?s Club make a difference? Do we need Men?s Club? 1 am proud of all the hard work our members have done this year and feel their efforts demonstrate that the answer is yes. I would like to invite all the men of CNT to join us so we can continue to grow and achieve greater success. Sozvard Layfer, President April 2003 A Special Place To Belong CNT U! Drop-in-Judaism Tuesdays are now complete! Study Judaism on the Tuesdays when there is no Torah class. Same time, different teachers! Come learn with the Rabbis, Bruno, Jackie and guests. You won?t know who is teaching unless you show up. Subjects will range from Jewish Art to Israel to many surprises! All requested subjects. Classes will be held in the Library at Noon on April 8th and 22nd for an hour each. Bring your lunch (re?member it?s Passover!) and we?ll provide the coffee and tea! RSVPs are encouraged but not necessary. Come lunch and learn with us! Tuesday Torah Study with Rabbi A Join Rabbi A for this on-going class. Tuesday Torah Study meets ever other Tuesday. For this month the dates are April 1st, 15th, and 29th. Class meets at Noon. Bring a lunch and munch on Torah! You Are Invited.... To Participate in a New Project at CNT... Mi Shebeirach Tapestry This project is inspired by Arlene Miller, originator of the tap?estry pictured, and seen by many at the 2001 National UAHC/ WRJ convention in Boston. Our tapestry will involve those of us who are interested in in?creasing awareness of the healing energy within and around us. Saturday Minyon Ever wondered why Reform Judaism is known as prophetic Judaism? Have an appetite for Jewish books and thought? Want to talk Torah in a low-key, heimeshie atmosphere? Then come to minyon! Saturday mornings: 9:00 a.m.- NACH (Niviim and Ketuviim) and leam A study of the Prophets, holiday writings, and Jewish thought 10:00 a.m.- Shabbat Morning services with Torah service 11:00 a.m.- Torah study of the weekly portion And don?t forget your KEVA credit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! On-Going Adult Education Opportunities at Congregation Ner Tamid: Tuesday Torah Study April 1st, 15th, 29th 12:00 noon-1:00 p.m. Saturday Minyon Saturday mornings 9:00 a.m.- Prophets 10:00 a.m.- Services 11:00 a.m.-Torah study Squares of fabric will be given to those who wish to participate. On the fabric, each person can convey, in whatever medium they like, positive thoughts, images, and/or symbols of healing, love, peace, well-being, etc. Every square will then be connected to all of the other ones. This will be an ongoing labor of love and will be used periodi?cally to embrace us during prayers for healing in our services. Through artistic expression, our ideas, hopes and prayers healing will be woven together as a community. You may pick up your tapestry square kits in the office, and return them to the office when your square is complete. For more information, or assistance with your square, please contact any of the below Tapestry Team Members, or look for more information in future bulletin articles and Temple Happen?ings. Fem Percheski: Lynette Solomon: Nancy Silber: Rita Malkin: Sherri Speaker: 566-0078 (evenings) 436-0551 458-1347 451-9412 547-3755 This project is coordinated by CNT Sisterhood for the benefit of the CNT Community. All are welcome to participate. Drop-in Judaism Tuesday, April 8th, 22nd 12:00 noon- 1:00 p.m. Taste of Judaism May 5th, 12,h, 19th 7:00 p.m. Other Adult Education Opportunities: Torah to You KEVA Credit Congregation Ner Tamid Tell and Ktfetl Mazel Tov to Sara Weil and Daniel Schulman on their upcoming marriage, July 4, 2003. We wish them much happiness. April 2003 continued from pg. 2 % Mommy-n-Me Shabbat ! Daddies are welcome too! ? Mommy-n-Me Shabbat Are you and your toddler look- ? ing for something to do on Friday mornings? So you ? like fresh challah and apple juice? Would you like your . child to learn the Shabbat prayers and interact with ? other Jewish children from the temple? Then do we ? have a program for you! We are proud to be expanding ? our early childhood program to include a daytime Mom- ? my-n-Me Shabbat. In Mommy-n-Me Shabbat (daddies ? welcome too!), you will participate with our preschool- ? ers in learning songs, singing prayers and having treats. . The pr