WRT Weekly Updates and Events

WRT Weekly Update - June 22, 2017 This week's Torah portion

Shabbat Services

Summer Shabbat Services in the CJL

followed Baby Boomers Sha-ba-baque

Friday, June 23 at 6:15 pm

The evening begins at 6:15 pm with a short summer service in the CJL (services end at approximately 7:45 pm). Then join friends immediately following the service for a BBQ dinner outside the CJL. There is a charge of $25 per person. Please RSVP here.

Torah Study

Saturday, June 23 at 9:00 am

Upcoming at WRT

	Cooking4HOPE Monday, June 26 at 10:00 am in the Temple kitchen Members are invited to help prepare a hot dinner for 125 clients of HOPE Community Services, an ecumenical soup kitchen in New Rochelle. (Click here for more information...)
	Star Spangled Shabbat - Celebrating the Fourth of July Friday, June 30 at 6:15 pm This special Friday night service features music of the American Jewish experience, in honor of July 4th.
	Independence Day - Building and Offices closed Tuesday, July 4
	Healing Service Led by Cantor Jill Abramson and Nancy Abraham Wednesday, July 19 at 5:30 pm Join for a service dedicated to the concept of healing. Through song, silent prayer, meditation, poetry, and texts on the subject of healing, we will send prayers outward and delve inward, exploring what healing can mean.
	Living with Divorce (offsite) Wednesday, July 19 at 7:30 pm Join those living with divorce for a social evening at CHAT Restaurant in Scarsdale, 1 Christie Place. RSVP to Suzanne Saperstein at [email protected].
	Save the dates for upcoming summer events Tisha B'Av - Monday, July 31 at 8:00 pm Summer Stage - Wednesday, August 9 at 7:30 pm High School Graduating Senior Send-Off - Friday, August 11 at 6:15 pm Civil Service Shabbat - Friday, August 18 at 6:15 pm
	Just a reminder that Membership Renewal and High Holidays Entrance Cards Order Forms have been mailed. If you have not received a packet by mail, please call Hillary Fontana at 468-0523. Entrance Cards will be mailed beginning August 14th. Please note if you have guest attending WRT, or if you and your family will be attending another Reform Synagogue for High Holidays, reciprocal forms are required. It is very helpful for our staff to start this process early. For any questions, please contact Nattalie Rodriguez at 723-7727.

For WRT members: If you would like to receive notifications of birth announcements and deaths within the WRT community, please email [email protected] with your full name and email address. Please specify if you would like to be added to one or both of these notification lists.

Westchester Reform Temple is committed to the value of inclusion, and strives to make worship and programming fully accessible. Our building and bima are wheelchair accessible, and the sanctuary is equipped with assistive listening devices and large-print prayer books. ASL interpretation is available for any worship service upon request, and remote viewing of most services is available via webcasting from our website. If you need any additional accommodations to participate in a temple program, please contact Cantor Amanda Kleinman.

WJCS [Westchester Jewish Community Services] : Through the Partners in Caring Program , WRT is able to offer the support of an onsite Social Worker from WJCS, as well as offer social services to congregants in need.

UJA-Federation of NY: We are grateful for a special grant to enable and empower WRT to be the most inclusive congregation we can be. UJA-Federation also facilitates our partnership with the Jewish Deaf Resource Center, to provide ASL interpretation on demand at services and WRT programs.

URJ [Union for Reform Judaism]: Our Reform Movement's synagogue arm; WRT is a proud member of the URJ and celebrates the leadership of URJ President, WRT Rabbi Emeritus Rick Jacobs.

HUC-JIR [Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion]: WRT supports the HUC-JIR, the official training ground for Reform Jewish professionals, and celebrates the leadership of its President, our congregant, Rabbi Aaron D. Panken.