Sunday, November 25
No Sunday School
Tuesday, November 27
Sisterhood Meeting 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, November 28
Faculty Meeting 6:00 p.m.
Active Adults Meeting 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, November 29
Jewish Study Group 10:30 a.m.
Friday, November 30
Torah Study 12:00 noon
Shabbat Evening Tefillah 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, December 1
Torah Study 8:45 a.m.
Shabbat Morning Prayers 10:00 a.m.
Stephanie Pagelson will be called to the Torah as a Bat Mizvah.
Sunday, December 2
Rabbi’s Sunday Seminar 10:00 a.m. Topic: Is War Ever Justified?
Brotherhood’s bowling and dinner day 2:00 p.m.
Tuesday, December 4
Erev Chanukah (first candle) Haspel Menorah Lighting 6:00 p.m.
A few good folks are needed to help stack the shelves of the St. James Food Pantry on Monday, November 26th from 10:00 – 11:30 a.m. For more information please contact Denise Maleh @744-6184 or Peggy Zamore @ PeggyZ18@aol.com
Bowling on Sunday, December 2, 2:00 PM, at Brookfield Lanes, followed by a no-host dinner at The Tavern (formerly Harvest, right next door). Cost will be the normal game charge and shoe rental, and of course the dinner. Spouses and children are welcome. Thank you to Alan Wunsch for planning this event. Please respond via e-mail to confirm your attendance to prager@us.ibm.com
Friday, December 7, 2007
A night of celebration, tefillah, food and fun as we light the 4th light of Chanukah as a congregational family!
Please contact the UJC office by Wednesday, November 28th to reserve your spot!
Our next Havdalah Service will be on Saturday, December 8, 2007 beginning at 6:30 p.m. at the UJC. Please join us. Held at sunset, Havdalah marks the end of Shabbat and the beginning of a new week. It is a beautiful service including prayer, music, wine, a box of aromatic spices and a special braided candle. For more information, please contact Stacey Spilka at 203-431-5783 or email Stacey at staceyspilka@sbcglobal.net or call the UJC office at 203-748-3355.
Please join the Rabbi for coffee and bagels on Sundays in the Young Board Room.
| December 2, 2007 | Is War Ever Justified? |
| December 9, 2007 | The True Story of Chanukah |
| December 23, 2007 | Why I “Believe in” Santa Claus |
| February 10, 2008 | Israel and the Middle East: An Open Forum |
| February 24, 2008 | The Classic Jewish Wisdom of Pirke Avot |
| May 4, 2008 | The Many Faces of Torah |
| May 11, 2008 | The Mishnah of the Bikkurim (The Temple Ceremony of the First Fruits) Part I |
| May 18, 2008 | The Mishnah of the Bikkurim (The Temple Ceremony of the First Fruits) Part II |
| May 22, 2008 | Judaism and Happiness (7:30 pm Thursday evening, Lag B’omer) |
UJC Religious School joins the campaign to Help Save Lives in Israel. Currently there are only 400 fire trucks in all of Israel. Of this number only 200 are serviceable and useable with the remaining 200 either dangerous, obsolete, or in poor working condition. When the workable units were called to the North to deal with last summer’s rocket attacks, the South was left vulnerable. The truck currently used in Afula/Gilboa was built in 1964.
In light of this desperate need, we are teaming up with communities throughout the Northeast to purchase a new lifesaving fire truck for our sister cities of Afula/Gilboa. The Rotem Mini Pumper has been chosen as the ideal vehicle for us to purchase because it is smaller than conventional fire trucks making it a quick response and high performance vehicle which is perfect for the narrow streets and off-road terrain of our sister cities.
Please join in the campaign by encouraging your children to fill the fire truck shaped tzedakah boxes provided from now until Chanukah. Or, send donations directly to the Federation office: The Jewish Federation, Inc. 69 Kenosia Avenue, Danbury, CT 06810.
Please contact Norman Greenstein at the Federation office for more information at 203-792-6353.
We’re still looking for volunteers for the overflow shelter for the week between Christmas and New Year's. If you can help, please contact Nancy Marcus @ nancymarcus@snet.net
Publicity/Public Relations specialist (or committee) Need one or more volunteers who have experience working with the media, to publicize our events and accomplishments; to create and sustain a positive public image of UJC in the media.
Computer expertise Need a Microsoft Access Developer and a Web application developer, to create a members’ skills inventory to be maintained on the UJC office computer.
If you have the experience and the interest, please contact Neil Corday, Long Range Planning Committee Chair neilcorday501@cs.com
Project Homeless Connect is a one-day, one-stop community wide event on December 3rd, at the Elk’s Lodge on Main Street to deliver services to homeless people in our community by providing much needed information and counseling.
To sign up for the day to help the homeless fill out forms and make appointments, contact mconderino@ccfc-ct.org by Tuesday, October 9th.
Remember those less fortunate!
Please don’t forget to drop off person care items for the Interfaith AIDS Ministry and old cell phones for the Women’s Center on the bin in the synagogue in the downstairs hallway.
The Jewish Federation's 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.
Va-yeishev (Genesis 37:1 - 40:23) is read on December 1, 2007
Genesis 37
1 Now Jacob was settled in the land where his father had sojourned, the land of Canaan. 2 This, then, is the line of Jacob:
At seventeen years of age, Joseph tended the flocks with his brothers, as a helper to the sons of his father's wives Bilhah and Zilpah. And Joseph brought bad reports of them to their father. 3 Now Israel loved Joseph best of all his sons, for he was the child of his old age; and he had made him an ornamented tunic. 4 And when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of his brothers, they hated him so that they could not speak a friendly word to him.
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