Monday, December 17
Sisterhood night out (see below) 7:00 p.m.
Adult Choir 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, December 18
Ritual Committee Meeting 7:30 p.m.
Board of Trustees Meeting 7:00 p.m.
Thursday, December 20
Jewish Study Group 10:30 a.m.
Friday, December 21
Torah Study 12:00 noon
Family Shabbat Tefillah (with birthday blessings) 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, December 22
Torah Study 8:45 a.m.
Shabbat Morning Prayers 10:00 a.m.
Yes out - no cooking or cleaning-up involved - just a relaxing & fun night to celebrate the season.
Monday, December 17 at 7 pm
Panda House Restaurant, 93 Mill Plain Road, Danbury
RSVP to Natalie at nat@gpsadvantage.com or 203-740-2833
Please come join the Brotherhood at Taipei Tokyo, for fun, food and fellowship at 4:00 PM on Tuesday, December 25.
Please respond to Art Prager (prager@us.ibm.com) or call Art at 746-1072 to make your reservation today!
Our next Havdalah Service will be on Saturday, January 12, 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. We have a potluck dinner before the service and dessert after.
For more information, please contact Stacey Spilka at 203-431-5783 or email Stacey at staceyspilka@sbcglobal.net.
If you haven't yet been to one of these beautiful services, please join us!
Please join the Rabbi for coffee and bagels on Sundays in the Young Board Room.
| 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) |
The Social Action Committee is responsible for supervision of the Overflow Homeless Shelter at the Congregational Church on Deer Hill Avenue for three weeks this winter. Contact Nancy Marcus at nancymarcus@snet.net to help out during these times; January 21st through January 27th, February 25th through March 2nd. Spend the night and enable those less fortunate to have a safe place to sleep.
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
Social Action projects are funded by your contributions to the United Jewish Center Tikvah Fund and Mazon.
Remember and honor family and friends with a donation to the Tikvah Fund and contribute 3% of the cost of the food at family and synagogue celebrations to help feed the needy at the Dorothy Day Hospitality House soup kitchen.
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.
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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-y'hi (Genesis 47:28 - 50:26) will be read on December 22, 2007
Genesis 50
22 So Joseph and his father's household remained in Egypt. Joseph lived one hundred and ten years. 23 Joseph lived to see children of the third generation of Ephraim; the children of Machir son of Manasseh were likewise born upon Joseph's knees. 24 At length, Joseph said to his brothers, "I am about to die. God will surely take notice of you and bring you up from this land to the land that He promised on oath to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob." 25 So Joseph made the sons of Israel swear, saying, "When God has taken notice of you, you shall carry up my bones from here."
26 Joseph died at the age of one hundred and ten years; and he was embalmed and placed in a coffin in Egypt.
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