Tuesday, January 1
Office Closed
Happy New Year!
Office Closed.
Thursday, January 3
Jewish Study Group 10:30 a.m.
Executive Meeting 6:45 p.m.
Friday, January 4
Torah Study 12:00 noon
Shabbat Evening Tefillah 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, January 5
Torah Study 8:45 a.m.
Shabbat Morning Prayers 10:00 a.m.
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!
Free to Parents and Grandparents
Sunday, January 13
9:30 a.m. -- Complimentary Brunch in the Heyman Auditorium
10:00 a.m. -- Examining and Understanding Synagogue Ceremonial Objects.
The workshop, led by Ruth Gruber, will include:
A walking tour of the synagogue to explore the stained glass windows, are décor, eternal lights, Torah scrolls, etc. The 10 stained glass windows in the Dick Chapel will provide the basis for a brief introduction to Kabbalah, Jewish mysticism, while the arc doors will introduce the role of the high priest in Temple times. See the miniature paintings on the eternal light in the sanctuary and learn what the Hebrew inscriptions are over the doors on the bimah. Bring your questions and share your feelings on praying in the chapel and sanctuary.
RSVP to Daryl Bain at 743-1180 or EdDir@unitedjewishcenter.org
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.
| 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) |
United Jewish Center volunteers will be working at the St. James Food Pantry on Monday, January 28th and Friday, March 21st. Write these dates in your calendar and help stock the shelves to feed needy families this winter. Contact Denise Maleh at ndmaleh@sbcglobal.net
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.
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-era (Exodus 6:2-9:35) will be read on January 5, 2008
Genesis 6
2 God spoke to Moses and said to him, "I am the Lord. 3 I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as El Shaddai, but I did not make Myself known to them by My name YHVH. 4 I also established My covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they lived as sojourners. 5 I have now heard the moaning of the Israelites because the Egyptians are holding them in bondage, and I have remembered My covenant. 6 Say, therefore, to the Israelite people: I am the Lord. I will free you from the labors of the Egyptians and deliver you from their bondage. I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and through extraordinary chastisements. 7 And I will take you to be My people, and I will be your God. And you shall know that I, the Lord, am your God who freed you from the labors of the Egyptians. 8 I will bring you into the land which I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and I will give it to you for a possession, I the Lord." 9 But when Moses told this to the Israelites, they would not listen to Moses, their spirits crushed by cruel bondage.
10 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 11 "Go and tell Pharaoh king of Egypt to let the Israelites depart from his land." 12 But Moses appealed to the Lord, saying, "The Israelites would not listen to me; how then should Pharaoh heed me, a man of impeded speech!" 13 So the Lord spoke to both Moses and Aaron in regard to the Israelites and Pharaoh king of Egypt, instructing them to deliver the Israelites from the land of Egypt.
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