Pleasantville Community Synagogue
Pleasantville Community Synagogue is a welcoming Jewish community with people of diverse traditions and backgrounds who want to share a joyous spiritual and cultural home.
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Shabbat Services
Friday evening:
5:30 pm: Tot Shabbat Purim celebration!
Saturday morning
9:30 am: Meditation with Rabbi Julie
10 am: Morning Shabbat service, followed by a special kiddush lunch sponsored by Robin Berman in honor of her daughter Sybil's wedding! All are welcome.
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Coming up at and for PCS
Friday, Feb. 28, 5:30 pm:
Tot Shabbat for Purim! Bring costumes to dress up. Snacks, stories and songs.
Sunday, March 1, 10 am:
Exploring Judaism class with Rabbi Julie. Email Rabbi Julie at
rabbi@shalompcs.com or call 769-2672 if interested.
Wednesday, March 4, 7 pm:
FIRST MEETING OF GALA COMMITTEE!
At Crabtree Kittle House in Chappaqua.
Wednesday, March 4, 7 pm:
5th-6th grade meeting for B'nei Mitzvah families.
Sunday, March 8, 3 pm:
PURIM celebration! No Hebrew school that day so all are invited to come to a party for ALL ages! Click
here for flyer.
Friday, March 20, 7:30 pm:
A Special Friday Night of Music with
Chava Mirel and Aydin Mayers, followed by a delicious oneg.
All are invited, all are welcome!
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March 2020 Yahrzeits
Ida V. Cohen, mother of Hirsh Cohen, March 5
Druzilla Lumpe, grandmother of Cheri Neuman, March 10
Joan Fixler, mother of Karen Fixler, March 12
Charles Lubelsky, father of Janice Sandbank, March 14
Lester Mayers, husband of Nancy Mayers
and father of Michael Mayers, March 15
Harold Altman, father of Barbara Altman Bruno, March 23
Charlie Sandbank, husband of Janice Sandbank, March 24
Hank L. Mayers, grandfather of Michael Mayers, March 25
Martin Neuburger, father of Jerry Neuburger, March 27
Arthur Zucker, father of Steven Zucker, March 29
May peace be upon them and
may their memories be a blessing.
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In the Area
Click
here to see WJCS Jewish Spiritual Healing Center spring calendar of classes and programs.
Tutors Needed
Literacy Volunteers of The Tarrytowns, Warner Library
Tutor Training Workshop:
March 7, 14, 21, 28, April 4, 18
(9:30 am- 12:30 pm, Saturdays)
Youth Mental Health First Aid Training
Sunday, March 15, 9 am - 5 pm at WJCS headquarters in White Plains.
Free 8-hour course
designed for adults who regularly interact with adolescents and introduces participants to the unique risk factors and warning signs of mental health problems in adolescents while educating them on typical stages of adolescent development.
RSVPs are required.
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Sign Up for a Meal for Diana Benattar!
Please click HERE or below to sign up, or copy and paste the link below to deliver a meal, if possible. It is so appreciated!
Thank you!
Diana Benattar and PCS pup, Mason, sharing a smile on PCS' front steps.
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Sprout Westchester programs for the little ones!
All events take place at Sprout Westchester, 500 Yorktown Road, Croton-on-Hudson, NY
Purim Prep
Wednesday, March 4
, 4-5:45 p.m.
Get ready for Purim by baking
hamentaschen
cookies. Participants will make some cookies to take home and pack others in their
mishloach
manot -
Purim gift baskets to share with family and friends.
Ages 4 and up. $18 per child.
Tour offered at 4:15 p.m.
Sunday, March 29
, 1:30-3 p.m.
Sprout's art specialist will lead this hands
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on activity, and each participant will bring home their own handmade piece of
artwork
to use during your Passover celebrations.
Ages 4 and up. Tour offered at 1:
45 p.m.
Jewish summer camp is one of the top ways to build Jewish identity and pride in a fun way. Sprout Westchester is a Jewish Day Camp for young and school aged-children, and is affiliated with Young Judaea. Rabbi Julie has some $180 discount certificates, and there are also scholarships available.
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Stay Inspired.
Help Repair the World
Leslie Mack, chair,
PCS Social Action Committee
How can PCS contribute to repairing the world? What individual and group social action and tikkun olam projects can we participate in throughout the year?
Click
here
to go to PCS' home page to find the link for the growing list.
E-
mail Leslie Mack
with any ideas that you would like to share with PCS as part of our mission to become a Lamed Vavnik community.
We want to hear from everyone!
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PCS and "Partners in Caring"
Jill Schreibman
, a social worker from Westchester Jewish Community Services (WJCS) has recently been assigned as PCS' new Partners in Caring contact.
Jill can be contacted at WJCS at 914-761-0600, ext. 2170 or at jschreibman@wjcs.com.
All meetings are strictly confidential.
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Come to the GALA Committee meeting at Crabtree's Kittle House!
Wednesday, March 4, 7 pm.
There are many ways in which your involvement is needed. The following list of "tasks" will be discussed at the meeting. Please consider where your interests and talents lie.
Theme
Decorations
Invitations
Entertainment/Activities
Silent Auction
Live Auction
Sponsorship
Outreach & RSVP's
Check-In
Check-Out
Raffle
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Questions or to RSVP:
Costume contest with prizes!
Megillah reading, noisemakers, and
holiday activities!
Live music with Brian Gelfand!
And holiday Tzedakah:
Please bring in canned goods and/or $
for the Mosholu Montefiore Community Center Food Pantry in the Bronx.
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Come to PCS to help make a minyan!
Come enjoy the spirituality, learning, community, and Shabbat Shalom at PCS. Bring a family member or invite a friend!
Please click on the link below to sign up!
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Ava and Lila Berkowitz's
B'nei Mitzvah Service Project
Our project includes volunteering at the JCCA cottage school as well as hosting a gift drive. We got this idea after going to the JCCA with PCS. Spending time with the children and young adults at the JCCA was an eye-opening experience for us. Our drive started in the beginning of December and since then, family and friends have generously donated gifts. We were able to bring the donated gifts to the JCCA on December 24 in time for Christmas.
We also volunteered at the school in February with the synagogue. We got to spend time with the kids decorating cakes and other desserts as well as talking and playing games with them. The students seemed to really enjoy themselves and so did we. We took a bunch of pictures and the students were really excited to pose with us
(see below; top photo also with PCS congregant Evan Kingsley). We plan to continue to volunteer monthly until the end of the school year.
 
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From the Rabbi
Click
here to read Rabbi Julie's most recent blog post on how to "vote for your voice in Israel."
See flyer below or click here
for more info.
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The PCS office is closed on Mondays but messages are checked. Please feel free to leave a message at 769-2672, or send an email. Someone will respond as soon as possible.
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