Sunday, March 4
Megillah Reading at 11:00 followed by costume parade and Purim carnival.
Monday, March 5
Adult Choir 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, March 6
Executive Committee 6:45 p.m.
Wednesday, March 7
Library Committee Meeting 4:00 p.m.
Social Action Meeting 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, March 8
Jewish Study Group 10:30 a.m.
Academy of Jewish Learning 7-9 p.m.
Friday, March 9
Bagels and Babies 9:30 a.m.
Torah Study 12:00 noon
Shabbat Tefillah 7:30
Saturday, March 10
Torah Study 8:45 a.m.
Shabbat service 10:00 a.m.
Sunday, March 11
Tallit Workshop 9:00 a.m.
Brotherhood Brunch with Daria Rockholz 10:00 a.m.
Sunday, March 4, 2007
Megillah Reading and Costume Parade at 11:00 a.m.
Purim Carnival to follow at 11:30 a.m.Order forms for the Brotherhood Wine Sale are available at the UJC and on our web site. All orders must be in by Friday, March 16 and will be delivered on Sunday, March 25. There will be a tasting of some of the wines at the auction on March 3. Please contact Joe Bain or Simcha Gralla for more information.
Dr. Daria Rockholz, an expert on the college admissions process, is coming back to the UJC by popular demand for the third time!!! Dr. Rockholz will conduct a workshop on the admissions process, college aid, and other related issues on Sunday, March 11, 2007, at 10:00 in the Rose Dick Room.
If you have a son or daughter in high school, you don't want to miss this opportunity. Please contact Art Prager to register (prager@us.ibm.com or 746-1072). Adult donation is $5 and students are free.
Sunday, March 18, 2007 at 5:30 p.m.
This year we will be seeing the Israeli film “Time of Favor” (winner of six Istraeli Academy Awards, including best picture) and enjoying another delicious kosher deli buffet.Time of Favor is an unflinching complex portrait of a modern Israel that is rarely seen on screen.
If either you or your spouse are 50 plus, and you are members in good standing at the UJC, you qualify as Active Adults and are urged to join us on March 18th. To reserve your tickets, please send your check made out to the UJC ($15. per person) to Stephen Cohen, 35 Deer Run Road, Brookfield, CT 06804.
Any questions, call Steve and Laurel at 203-775-6785 or email Steve at sjcohen730@aol.com
National Council of Jewish Women Greater Danbury Section, United Jewish Center and Temple Shearith Israel’s Annual Passover Second Night.
This evening includes a family-oriented seder with an explanation of all of the Passover symbols and a retelling of the Passover story from a specially prepared Haggadah. Families, singles, those new to the community and those new to Judaism are especially encouraged to join us!
Seder includes a catered Kosher for Passover dinner. Each family brings their own wine or grape juice Seder begins promptly at 6:00 p.m. Tuesday, April 3rd.
RSVP by Tuesday, March 20th. A $20 per person refundable deposit, payable to NCJW, must be received by March 20th.
Please send to Bonnie Wunsch, 1403 Pinnacle Way, Danbury, CT 06811.
No reservations will be accepted without a check. Deposits will be forfeited for no-shows and/or cancellations after the 20th.
If you have any questions, please contact Bonnie at (203) 730-8530 or at GrDanburyNCJW@aol.com
An introductory course in Jewish Holiday Traditions and Practices.
Be sure to join us for relaxed, fun-filled Sunday morning sessions of discussion, facts and foods. The focus of these workshops is to provide a basic understanding of the Jewish festivals with special emphasis on home observances. The scheduled dates are:
| March 18, 2007 | Involving the whole family in preparing and celebrating the Passover Seder |
All workshops will begin at 9:30 a.m. with bagels and coffee and will run approximately 90 minutes.
For additional information call Daryl Bain at 743-1180 or Ruth Gruber at 798-0745.
Remember those less fortunate!
If you’re cold these days (and nights) when heading outside, remember those who have no warm homes to go back to. Our homeless are in desperate need of socks, long underwear and heavy winter gloves. It’s a very long day when you’re homeless and just trying to find a place to go to get out of the cold.
Please bring your donations to the UJC and leave them in the box at the bottom of the steps inside the UJC. Thank you!
Jewish Federation's NEW Website
Visit http://www.thejf.org to see
Israel News, Community Calendar, Local Jewish Resources, Worldwide
Jewish News, Jewish Life Resource, Jewish Federation news, Federation
Campaign e-Giving, registration for the Learning Exchange, reservations
for Jewish Federation events AND MORE!!
The news will be an automatic feed with frequent updates. Our goal is for the site to be your destination for all Jewish information including links to many local and worldwide Jewish resources. All area synagogues and local Jewish organizations are encouraged to check the new website's Community Calendar prior to scheduling any events that are open to the community to prevent conflicts. Area synagogues and local Jewish organizations are encouraged to submit upcoming events to be posted on the community calendar and to submit news items, photos and announcements for posting on the website. Please submit your items to info@thejf.org.
Message from Mazon:
MAZON has opened a fund dedicated to disaster relief. To find out more about MAZON's efforts or to donate online, visit us at www.mazon.org, or call us at (310) 442-0020.
If you or a loved one is ailing - at home or in the hospital - and you would like a phone call or visit, please call and leave a message on our clergy’s voicemail(s). Danbury Hospital’s security concerns mean that we may not find out in a timely manner.
This translation was taken from the JPS Tanakh
1 The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying: 2 This is the ritual law that the Lord has commanded:
Instruct the Israelite people to bring you a red cow without blemish, in which there is no defect and on which no yoke has been laid. 3 You shall give it to Eleazar the priest. It shall be taken outside the camp and slaughtered in his presence. 4 Eleazar the priest shall take some of its blood with his finger and sprinkle it seven times toward the front of the Tent of Meeting. 5 The cow shall be burned in his sight—its hide, flesh, and blood shall be burned, its dung included—6 and the priest shall take cedar wood, hyssop, and crimson stuff, and throw them into the fire consuming the cow. 7 The priest shall wash his garments and bathe his body in water; after that the priest may reenter the camp, but he shall be unclean until evening. 8 He who performed the burning shall also wash his garments in water, bathe his body in water, and be unclean until evening. 9 A man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the cow and deposit them outside the camp in a clean place, to be kept for water of lustration for the Israelite community. It is for cleansing. 10 He who gathers up the ashes of the cow shall also wash his clothes and be unclean until evening. Mordecai had this message delivered to Esther: “Do not imagine that you, of all the Jews, will escape with your life by being in the king’s palace. On the contrary, if you keep silent in this crisis, relief and deliverance will come to the Jews from another quarter, while you and your father’s house will perish. And who knows, perhaps you have attained to royal position for just such a crisis.”