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Purim Is Coming! March 2006 | Adar-Nissan 5766 Temple Rodef Shalom Bulletin PURIM IS COMING! March Shabbatot & Other Services Save these Dates for fun filled Purim activities! Shabbat Terumaah – March 3 & 4 Exodus 25:1 – 27:19 Friday, March 3 ■■ Sunday, March 12 — Family Megillah Reading and 6:30 pm Bo’i Shabbat Service Purim Carnival 8:15 pm Erev Shabbat Service 11:00 a.m. Purimschpiel-Come join the fun featuring your Saturday, March 4 very creative TRS Clergy and Staff 9:00 am Torah Study 11:30 a.m. Purim Carnival 9:00 am Tot Activity 11:30 a.m. -1:00 p.m. 10:30 am Shabbat Morning Service Pick up of all pre-ordered Hamentaschen B’nai Mitzvah of Nathan Roberson & Mitchell Whittington ■■ Monday, March 13 6:30 p.m. Adults Only Purim Cocktail Party No Mincha Service Older Family Friendly Purim Party Aliyah & Haskalah Purim Party Shabbat Tetzaveh – March 10 & 11 7:00 p.m. Megillah Reading Exodus 27:20 – 30:10 7:30 p.m. “The Megillah Zone” Friday, March 10 6:30 pm Erev Shabbat Service for Younger Families Additional Performances of The Megillah Zone 8:15 pm Erev Shabbat Service Saturday, March 18 at 7:30 pm Saturday, March11 Sunday, March 19 at 2:15 pm 9:00 am Torah Study Reservations are not required but are extremely helpful for planning 10:30 am Shabbat Morning Service purposes. Please log on to www.templerodefshalom.org to RSVP. B’not Mitzvah of Maya Kavaler & Mattie Shepard ■■ Saturday, March 18 Thursday, March 16 6:30 p.m. Jr. TRSTY Purim Pary 6:45 pm Service of Strength, Comfort & Healing Shabbat Ki Tissa - March 17 & 18 Exodus 30:11– 34:35 Friday, March 17 DESSERT ORDERS ARE ON-LINE THIS YEAR! 6:30 pm Erev Shabbat Service 8:15 pm Erev Shabbat Rocks Service Choose from a yummy assortment of Hamentaschen for Saturday, March 18 Purim & Kosher for Passover-style desserts for Pesach. 9:00 am Torah Study Log on to www.templerodefshalom.org 9:00 am Tot Shabbat Service 10:30 am Shabbat Morning Service B’nai Mitzvah of Nathan Borak & Ethan Gaba 10:30 am Parallel Shabbat Morning Minyan SAVE THE DATE…Saturday, May 13, 2006, The Bellagio Shabbat Vayahel-Pekudei March 24 & 25 Exodus 35:1 –40:38 Ball! Come try your luck at our blackjack tables, enter the poker Friday, March 24 tournament or just enjoy good food and drinks while honoring 6:30 pm Erev Shabbat Service for Older Families 8:15 pm Erev Shabbat Service with Czech Ambassador Karen Simpson, sending her into retirement knowing how much we Saturday, March 25 all appreciate her work at TRS Nursery School. 9:00 am Torah Study 10:30 am Shabbat Morning Service B’nai Mitzvah of Paxton Jablin & Haley Slone SERVICE SCHEDULE For descriptions, please view our Temple website at www.templerodefshalom.org FIRST SHABBAT OF THE MONTH • Friday 6:30 pm – Bo’i Shabbat • Friday 8:15 pm – Shabbat Evening Worship • Saturday 9:00 am – Tot Shabbat Activity • Saturday 10:30 am – Shabbat Morning Worship • Saturday 5:00 pm – Shabbat Afternoon Mincha Worship SECOND SHABBAT OF THE MONTH • Friday 6:30 pm – Younger Family Shabbat Worship (K-3) • Friday 8:15 pm – Shabbat Evening Worship • Saturday 10:30 am – Shabbat Morning Worship THIRD SHABBAT OF THE MONTH • Friday 6:30 pm – Early Erev Shabbat Service • Friday 8:15 pm – Shabbat Evening Worship • Saturday 9:00 am – Tot Shabbat Service • Saturday 10:30 am – Shabbat Morning Worship Table of Contents • Saturday 10:30 am – Parallel Shabbat Morning Minyan 18 ARZA-Bridge to Israel FOURTH SHABBAT OF THE MONTH 08 Adult Education • Friday 6:30 pm – Older Family Shabbat Worship (Grade 3- and up) 11 B’nai Mitzvah • Friday 8:15 pm – Shabbat Evening Worship 30 Calendar • Saturday 10:30am – Shabbat Morning Worship 03 Clergy Our Onegs for early services will preceed the 22 Donations service. There will be Israeli Dancing immediately following the young family and older family 20 Library services. 07 Membership 15 Men’s Club SCHEDULE FOR TOTS! 06 Music/Cultural Please join us for our TOT SHABBAT events! The first Saturday of each month will include: a 09 Outreach craft and Sing-A-Long or story with Libby Chisholm 10 Religious School Location: Multipurpose Room Time: 9 AM The third Saturday of each month will include: a 17 Scrapbook Shabbat Service and Sing-a-long with clergy 14 Sisterhood 12 TRSTY & Jr. TRSTY 2 From the Clergy Israel Trip Recap Please join Rabbi Henry Weiner he youth trip to Israel in for Two Special Havdalah Programs December was a wonder- Each program will conclude with Havdalah and a T ful success. As many of you know, ten light nosh. For planning purposes, please RSVP members of our youth group traveled to Israel — at www.templerodefshalom.org we were also joined by a group of high school stu- dents from Temple Rodeph Shalom in Philadelphia and their rabbi. Our exciting adventures will be Saturday, March 25 4:00 pm — “Praying Without Words” We will explore meditation as both the oldest and the newest technique for recounted for years to come. At a recent reunion I achieving peace, beauty, trust in our ability to appreciate love, happiness and joy. asked our students to share a memory or two of their Together we will experience a journey affirming Abraham's response to God experience. One student wrote something so power- "Hineni", Here I Am. ful I think that you all would enjoy it. David Steiger, an 11th grade student and son of Saturday, April 22 4:00 pm — “Freedom is not Free... Passover: Laurie and John Steiger, wrote: After Freedom What?” The Israelites going to the unknown at Sinai might have asked: what now? We “Of all the beautiful and astonishing places we are commanded in the Haggadah, our story of liberation, to retell the story toured on our trip to Israel, I would have to say the throughout the generations. How is this message relevant to us today? How and one I enjoyed the most was visiting the Wailing why did God select Moses, an eighty year old man, with a speech impediment, Wall. It was a very spiritual and life-changing expe- married to a non Hebrew and not mentioned even once in the entire Haggadah? rience for me. When I went up and touched the wall it was like I was talking to God in a new light. The Wall made me feel as if God put everyone else's prayers on hold and focused on mine. It was Adopt a New Orleans like a direct connection to the greatest force imagi- nable. I put my hand on the holy wall and prayed. Family for Second Night Seder Words cannot express what I felt. During that exact magine, a long table covered with white moment I felt more Jewish than I ever felt in my tablecloth, goblets with sweet red wine entire life, more Jewish then at any Temple service Iin front of every gold-trimmed plate, or even at my Bar Mitzvah. At the Wailing Wall I felt Matza plate in the center and [from both a solid connection to God. I will remember and sides] the holiday candles. The Haggadah is embrace that the rest of my entire life.” ready, opened the first page. If you would like to hear any more about the Who would you invite for dinner? Mom trip, please be in touch. I would be happy to share and Dad, your best friend from college, your more, as I am sure all of the participants of the trip children and their children…. would like to as well. Congregation Gates of Prayer in New Orleans offers an annual Second Seder. Congregants come to celebrate the holiday as a community; some because they do A special thank you to all those who contributed not want to cook, some because they have no space in their homes for all their as part of our “mitzvah mission.”We took over three guests, some because they do not have family to share the holiday with, some very large pieces of luggage filled with many, many because they have no other way to commemorate Pesach. This year, more mem- donations that will be used in Israel by bers find themselves without a house to host a Seder or without funds to finance hundreds of people. It was especially meaningful to a Seder. Gates of Prayer, true to its tradition, will offer a Second Seder celebration be able to share our congregation's generosity with in the synagogue so all its members can have that long white table. This year the those in need. Thank you to all who made it possible temple needs help providing this service to all its members whether they can afford and enhanced the name and reputation of Temple it or not. Rodef Shalom. Here is an alternative to inviting all of Gate of Prayer members to your Seder! You can adopt a family for $120, or adopt one member for $35. Your table will be L'hitra'ot —See you soon! as long as the distance from here to New Orleans without having to buy a new Rabbi Marcus Burstein tablecloth! To donate, please log onto www.templerodefshalom.org. 3 From the Clergy HELP CHILDREN AT Visiting New Orleans HADASSAH HOSPITAL by Cantor Michael Shochet IN JERUSALEM could not believe it. I didn’t even know how to capture it with my camera. What we have seen on the news abbi Schwartzman will be joined by 35 does not illustrate the severity and the enormity of the members of the Temple on an adult trip I destruction left behind in the wake of hurricane Katrina.
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