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CHAILITES
August 21, 2019
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- Friday, August 23, 7:00 pm - Shabbat Service
- Saturday, August 24, 9:30 am - Torah Study, Special Guest Rev. Marissa S. Rohrback
- Sunday, August 25, 3:00 pm - Listening Session
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TEEN CHOIR FOR THE HIGH HOLY DAYS!
This year's Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur Family Services will feature a fabulous
TEEN CHOIR
! If you're a post B'nai Mitzvah student and are interested in participating, please send an email to Student Cantor Hamstra at
shmastra@templebnaichaim.org
and add the following rehearsal dates to your calendars!
Teen Choir Rehearsal Times:
September 6, 4:45-5:45 pm (Bonus! We'll give you free pizza at the 6pm preneg!)
September 13, 4:45-5:45 pm
September 28, 12:00 pm-1:00 pm
October 6, 1:00 pm
Everyone who wants to participate will have a chance. If these times don't work for you but you want to be in the choir, you should still reach out to Student Cantor Hamstra. Thank you in advance to our amazing teens for adding their voices to our High Holy Day experience!
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Summer Torah Study: This Saturday With Special Guest Rev. Marissa Rohrbach
Are you curious about the New Testament? Join us as we transform Torah Study into a class dedicated to exploring the New Testament from a Jewish perspective.
On Saturday, August 24 at 9:30 am we will welcome special guest, Rev. Marissa S. Rohrbach (St. Matthew's Episcopal Church), who will be joining us to answer questions and join our conversation.
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Next TBC Listening Session Sunday, August 25
At
our Listening Sessions we have had fascinating and wide-ranging conversations about TBC life and our dreams for TBC's future. Thank you to the congregants who took time out of their schedules to participate!
If you haven't been able to attend, please plan to join us on
Sunday, August 25 at 3:00 pm
A few days before the Listening Session we will email the location to those who RSVP'd.
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Special Shabbat Family Service with Preneg
Friday, September 6 at 6:00 pm (service 6:30 pm)
Join us for a Shabbat family service starting at 6:00 pm with a kid-friendly Preneg (pizza & veggies). At 6:30 pm, song, story and worship followed by an Oneg with a certified nut-free option at the dessert table. If you will be attending the Preneg,
click here
to RSVP.
We will be continuing our Birthday Book Minhag (Custom)! Everyone 13 and under who is celebrating a birthday will receive the gift of a Jewish book.
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Save the Date: September 8!
First Day of Religious School & Community Cookout
Sunday, September 8, 9:30 am - First Day of Religious School
Sunday, September 8, 11:30 am - Community Cookout
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TBC Book Club Meeting!
TBC book club meeting will be held on September 16 at 7:30 pm and we will be reading Memoirs of a Fortunate Jew: An Italian Story by Dan Vittorio Segre. For more information contact Ria Miller. This is for TBC members only.
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SAVE THE DATE
Saturday, October 19, TBC will be participating as a congregation in the 9th annual Rise Against Hunger meal packaging event in Wilton. Last year we packaged over 150,000 meals that were sent to Haiti. TBC was well represented by about 90 volunteers.
Since we started we have packaged over 1,000,000 meals.
Our goal is to package over 160,000 meals this year and raise $2,000 as a Congregation to fund 6,500 meals. These meals will be sent to hungry children in developing countries. It is critical that we raise the $2,000 to contribute our fair share of the costs. Please support this
event
by sending a check to TBC and note that it is for Rise Against Hunger or
contribute online
. This year each meal costs $0.31, so $20 buys 65 meals and $100 buys 322 meals -- a really good deal!
The volunteer sign-up site will be available in September. As in prior years there will be opportunities to sign up for set up, clean up and 4 two hour production shifts. Don't forget that children 5 and older can help (our 5-year-olds last year had a fantastic time and really contributed!).
If you have any questions, please contact
Don Weber.
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Midrashic Monologues
Follow Rabbi Rachel Bearman's and Rabbi Paul Kipnes's
Midrashic Monologues as they restore the voices of biblical women and men who have not been given the opportunity to speak.
Zipporah's Fire
In Bamidbar (the Book of Numbers), Zipporah seems to fade away until, ultimately, she no longer appears in the story. Rashi and other commentators imagine that Moses chose to set her aside, effectively divorcing her. In this Midrashic Monologue, we continue our exploration of Zipporah's point of view and suggest that she was the one who decided to remove herself from her husband's story.
Read more ...
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Send Rosh Hashanah Sweetness to Far-Flung Family & Friends
 The
TBC Sisterhood ORT Honey from the Heart website sale is open and ready to share a bit of new year cheer! This program is different from the traditional all-TBC honey sale for all that we do prior to Rosh Hashanah (about which details will be forthcoming in a couple weeks).
The jars are $12 each (plus $5 shipping), of which TBC receives $6.
Click
HERE to send a little sweetness to your loved ones far away!
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| Social Action Volunteers Needed!
TBC Social Action Committee. The TBC Social Action Committee has many local ways for you to help others, from pitching in at a soup kitchen to preparing dinner at an emergency shelter. New opportunities, dates, and times are posted to the TBC website, so please take a look and see where you can help. Click here to participate!
Other Community Opportunities. There are also other ways to get involved in our communities. You can serve as a foster family, deliver food to those in need, and/or host a high school child in the ABC program.
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Share Your Simcha - Sponsor a Preneg, Oneg or Flowers!
A great way of celebrating special simchas, such as birthdays, anniversaries, graduations, the birth of a child or grandchild, is sharing your nachas with the entire congregation by sponsoring the Shabbat Oneg, preneg or flowers for the Friday of your special week. We will arrange for the flowers, food, and set-up, you just make a minimum donation of $125 for an Oneg, $180 for a Preneg or $250 for the flowers. Sponsor a Shabbat!
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Upcoming Events and Save the Dates!
Saturday, August 24 at 9:30 am
Laundry Love
Wednesday, September 11 at 1:00 pm at White Street Wash, 30 White Street, Danbury
Monday, September 16 at 7:30 pm at a location TBD
Donate Now / Sign up in September for a two-hour shift
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Yahrzeits, August 23-29
Zeicher tzaddik livrachah!
May the memory of the righteous be for a blessing!
| Evelyn Rapoport |
Sunday |
8/25/2019 |
mother of Claude Schrag |
| Bertha Rolle |
Tuesday |
8/27/2019 |
mother-in-law of May Rolle |
| Hilma August |
Wednesday |
8/28/2019 |
grandmother of Alan Masarek |
| Walter Bloom |
Wednesday |
8/28/2019 |
father of Richard Bloom |
| Irving K. Braunstein |
Wednesday |
8/28/2019 |
father of Wendy Nadel |
It is traditional to light a memorial candle on the eve of the yahrzeit at home and to recite Kaddish when lighting the yahrzeit candle. It is also a custom to
make donations in memory of loved ones
around the time.
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