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Message from the Rabbi Contents Volume 44 Number 10 May 2020 • Iyar / Sivan 5780 Shavuot 5779/2019 Message Thursday, May 28th Shavuot from the Rabbi Services By Rabbi Rachel Blatt 7:00 p.m. Learning for Shavuot Schedule Timing is always with Tampa Bay Area Community everything. I think the Thursday,Saturday, June 8 May 28th 8:30 p.m. Ma’ariv Service 8:00PM - Erev Shavuot Services (Jacobson/Wolf Chapel) timing of this pandemic, 8:307:00PM - Shav up.m.ot Dessert &Learning Study Session (J aforffe Bo aShavuotrd Room): with that we are spending AlmightyTampa? No Way! Lov inBayg The G oAread We Rea llCommunityy Believe In: Details to follow. A Discussion for Those Who Can't Believe most (if not all) of this 8:30Su np.m.day, June Ma’ariv9 Service staying at home order, 9:30AM - Shavuot SDetailservices (Jaco btoson /Wfollow.olf Chapel) during the omer. This Monday, June 10 9:30AM - Shavuot Services with Yizkor (Sanctuary) period, 50 days from Friday, May 29th the second day of Passover until Shavuot, 9:30 a.m. Shavuot Services parallels the fifty years of the Jubilee – 6:30 p.m. Shabbat and Shavuot Services seven cycles of seven years, the fiftieth https://zoom.us/j/795031104 Meeting ID: 795 031 104 having special significance. Now, we look Join by Phone: 646-876-9923 at it as marking the journey from Exodus Livestreamed here: www.kolami.org/streaming.html to Sinai, from physical freedom to spiritual freedom. Later in history, the period of Saturday, May 30th the omer became a time of mourning, 9:30 a.m. Shabbat and Shavuot Services commemorating various calamities in with Yizkor and Megillat Ruth our history. Here we are, in an incredibly https://zoom.us/j/795031104 Meeting ID: 795 031 104 jarring moment – it is a journey except we Join by Phone: 646-876-9923 don’t know the end point or what it will Livestreamed here: www.kolami.org/streaming.html look like; it is sad with illness and death reported each day, prohibitions on being 9:00 p.m. Havdalah able to be with loved ones in-person, https://zoom.us/j/558571447 Meeting ID: 558 571 447 disrupting the way in which we observe Join by Phone: 646-876-9923 holidays and life cycle events. I have been particularly moved, however, by the concluding prayer added in the Contents Siddur Sim Shalom for weekdays. It reads: President’s Message ......................... p.3 SCHool SCHpiel .............................. p.18 Our personal journeys in life are marked Tree of Life Long Learning............... p.11 Youth Groups ................................. p.19 by enslavements and liberations, revela- May Events Calendar ...................... p.20 Facility Focus & tions and promised lands. Just as we mark Security Spotlight ....................... p.13 Yahrzeits, Birthdays & the approach of significant moments in Sisterhood ...................................... p.14 Anniversaries .............................. p.24 our own lives, so we count such days in Brotherhood ................................... p.17 Donations...................................... p.25 (continued on next page) Message from the Rabbi (continued from page 1) Congregation Kol Ami the life of our people. As we pause to recall our ancestors’ bond Contact us: (813) 962-6338 with the soil, their dependence on its fertility, and their gratitude David Pearlman, President for the annual harvest of grain, we also give thanks to God for [email protected] renewing for us a year of life and of blessing. Rabbi Rachel Blatt [email protected] This period of time, both that of the omer and of the pandemic, is a journey. During some moments we may feel that this experience Mitchell Weiss, Executive Director is an enslavement, being stuck at home without opportunity for [email protected] in-person social interaction. Some of us may see opportunities Jennifer Halls, Education Director for liberation - being able to eat lunch with their kids each day [email protected] or not have the same restrictions they might have had before all Abby Salem-Goldman, Assistant Director of Education this. We approach this experience in a special way. We marked [email protected] it by preparing to have enough toilet paper and groceries, maybe Abby Salem-Goldman, Youth Director by setting up schedules for our families. Perhaps we marked it [email protected] by learning how to use new technology. Maybe it came on so Joanna Paley, Office Manager quickly that we can’t remember what the transition looked like. [email protected] We should, however, consider how we make each day purpose- Rosie Grumbley, Accounts Receivable & Billing [email protected] ful. It feels like each day blends together. It’s not Wednesday, it’s the third Sunday of the week. Time changes differently now and Steve Lynn, Facilities [email protected] I’ve appreciated being able to count each day and therefore try to make each day count. Roberta Baer, Sisterhood President [email protected] The last line of this concluding blessing is the one I cling to each Mario Rodriguez, Brotherhood President time I read it: I thank God for renewing for us a year (a day, an [email protected] hour, this moment) of life and of blessing. ChaiLites Staff Request from Rabbi Blatt Graphic Design: Black Marker Creative Please keep us informed of significant events in your family life. www.blackmarker.net It is our desire to be of help and service to you in times of special Staff: Jamie Krischer & Jody Sampson-Nair, Proofreaders need. It is especially important that we know of those in the hospital, Office Hours: Monday through Thursday: 8:30 a.m. and assisted living or nursing homes, so that we can offer pastoral to 5:00 p.m., Friday: 8:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. care and they may be included in a prayer for recovery at Shabbat May 2020, Vol. 44 Issue 10 Services. Congregation Kol Ami ChaiLites 3919 Moran Road, Tampa, FL 33618 Ph. 813-962-6338 Fax: 813-968-2219 Amazon Smile [email protected] Hands up - how many of us The Kol Ami ChaiLites is published on the first of every shop at Amazon? Did you month by Congregation Kol Ami, Conservative know that when you shop Congregation affiliated with The United Synagogue through AmazonSmile, of Conservative Judaism. Amazon donates 0.5% All articles and announcements are due two weeks prior of the purchase price to to the month being published. We reserve the right to Congregation Kol Ami? edit for length and consistent editorial tone. Bookmark the link The ChaiLites is published 11 times a year. https://smile.amazon.com, select us as your charity of Advertising choice, and support us every time you shop! Same great Please contact the office at 813-962-6338. products, same price, same service. Seriously...SAME. 2 Congregation Kol Ami • May 2020 • Iyar / Sivan 5780 B’Yachad By David Pearlman, President Tampa Jewish Family Services Happy Anniversary! Community Food Bank I know it’s not the most common thing Tampa Jewish Family Services (TJFS) Community in the world to do, Food Bank distribution is offered twice in May but I have decided to at the agency’s Citrus Park location at wish myself a happy 13009 Community Campus Dr., Tampa, FL 33625 anniversary. That’s right, it was one year ago that I became The Community Food Bank Distribution dates for May: President of Congregation Kol Ami. May 7 and May 21 Can I just say, wow! What a year we have from 10:30 a.m.-12 noon and 4:30-5:30 p.m. had together. Doesn’t it seem like ages Please help spread the word in your community ago, May 2019? Rabbi Siegel was our that this service is available in Citrus Park. Rabbi; we had only briefly interacted The Jewish Family Services Food Bank is working twice as hard as ever with Rabbi Blatt. We had not even had providing food for those in need. At this time they are asking for our first Transition Committee meeting donations of gift cards in $10 increments rather than food to reduce the yet; our Executive Committee had not met risk of contamination from the coronavirus, as well as donations to Jewish yet; our new Board of Trustees had not Family Services. Monetary donations can be made through the yet met. There was a palpable feeling of TJFS website. Gift cards can be mailed to Lea Merrill Davidson-Bern’s excitement in the air as we embarked on home or left at the front desk at the JCC in Citrus Park. this journey together. Anyone who needs assistance can reach out to Rabbi Blatt There has been much that has happened or contact Jewish Family Services and Lea directly. this past year; way too much to reflect on here, but suffice it to say, that from that Mitch Weiss and his entire team, Shabbat & Services the passing of Mike Korenvaes, z”l, to Joanna, Rosie, Steve, Jamie, Amy, Jenn, at Kol Ami the current pandemic our world is experi- Abby, and our teachers, have done and encing, we have had our share of sadness. continue to do amazes me. Rabbi Blatt May Candle Lighting Times We have also discovered Nachum Peter- is such a great gift for us! Our Executive May 1 ............................ 7:47 p.m. seil, Rabbi Rachel Blatt, we have stabilized Committee has such passion for doing May 8 ........................... 7:51 p.m. Congregation Kol Ami in difficult times what’s best for Kol Ami. I am in awe of May 15 .......................... 7:55 p.m. for Conservative Kehillot, and we have their dedication to Kol Ami. Our Board May 22 .......................... 7:59 p.m. come together as a community in all of of Trustees has been engaged and active.
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