Sunday, January 20
No school
Monday, January 21
Martin Luther King Day
Office closed
No school
Tuesday, January 22
Sisterhood Aquasize at Kids Club Brookfield 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, January 24
Jewish Study Group 10:30 a.m.
Friday, January 25
Torah Study 12:00 noon
Shabbat Evening Tefillah 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, January 26
Torah Study 8:45 a.m.
Shabbat Morning Prayers 10:00 a.m.
Why not buy your groceries, coffee or gifts with UJC script? It doesn't cost you anything to buy from us and the UJC makes a percentage from each card purchase.
Go to www.glscrip.com and send a list of what cards (business name, denomination and how many) along with a check to the UJC. This is a great (and 'painless') way to help the UJC fundraise!
Drop your order off the next time you're at services, Religious School or in the building for any reason.
The next order will be placed on Monday, January 21st. Upon receipt of the cards, the purchaser will receive an email notice that they are available for pickup.
Any questions, contact Bonnie Wunsch at ujcscrip@aol.com or 313-0578.
Monday, Jan. 21, 2008 at 6 p.m.
Ives Concert Hall, White Hall
Western Connecticut State University Midtown campus
181 White Street, Danbury
Please call (203) 837-8278 for more information.
Reception immediately following program.
This event will feature singing, praise dancers and so much more!
This program is sponsored by WCSU, Coalition of African American Churches and Organizations, Faith Church, Union Savings Bank and Mutual Security
Keynote Speaker:
Carlotta Walls LaNier,
Little Rock Nine
Our next Havdalah Service will be on Saturday, February 9, 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) |
A fun way to keep moving during the long winter months! Tuesday, January 22 at 7:30 pm Kids Club, 94 Old State Road, Brookfield Bring towel and bathing suit - Refreshments served
RSVP to Natalie at nat@gpsadvantage.com or 203-740-2833
Get Ready! Our 3rd Annual Barton's Passover Candy Sale is coming; beginning January 27th and running through February 24th. Support our Religious School by making this year the best ever. Contact Daryl Bain at 203-743-1180.
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
On January 30th, United Jewish Center volunteers and friends will be cooking and serving the meal at the Dorothy Day Hospitality House. Contact Sandy Brenner @ shbrenner@charter.net to help out. This is another rewarding mitzvah, providing a delicious meal for our needy neighbors.
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 Roberta Sol (roblsol@charter.net) or Sandy Brenner (shbrenner@charter.net) to help out during these times; January 21st through January 27th, or contact Nancy Marcus at (nancymarcus@snet.net) for February 25th through March 2nd dates.
Spend the night and enable those less fortunate to have a safe place to sleep. It's a mitzvah you can do in your sleep! Arrive at 9:00 p.m. where you'll meet the coordinators (Annie and Ray Orr) who have already prescreened the guests. The coordinator gets the coffee ready for the morning and explains where things are and what needs doing (and believe me, it's not much at all that needs doing!). Once everyone is in and settled the coordinator leaves. Then its lights out soon after and wake up at 5:30 a.m. to coffee and a breakfast snack and some warm conversation. The guests leave whenever you're ready between 6:15 and 7:00. The guests are very appreciative for what you have done and it's a good feeling to know you've given those less fortunate a warm, safe place to spend the night.
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.
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.
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.
Yitro (Exodus 18:1-20:23) will be read on January 26, 2008
Chapter 20
1 God spoke all these words, saying:
2 I the Lord am your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, the house of bondage: 3 You shall have no other gods besides Me.
4 You shall not make for yourself a sculptured image, or any likeness of what is in the heavens above, or on the earth below, or in the waters under the earth. 5 You shall not bow down to them or serve them. For I the Lord your God am an impassioned God, visiting the guilt of the parents upon the children, upon the third and upon the fourth generations of those who reject Me, 6 but showing kindness to the thousandth generation of those who love Me and keep My commandments. 7 You shall not swear falsely by the name of the Lord your God; for the Lord will not clear one who swears falsely by His name. 8 Remember the sabbath day and keep it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is a sabbath of the Lord your God: you shall not do any work - you, your son or daughter, your male or female slave, or your cattle, or the stranger who is within your settlements. 11 For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth and sea, and all that is in them, and He rested on the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day and hallowed it.
12 Honor your father and your mother, that you may long endure on the land that the Lord your God is assigning to you.
13 You shall not murder.
You shall not commit adultery.
You shall not steal.
You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
14 You shall not covet your neighbor's house: you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his male or female slave, or his ox or his ass, or anything that is your neighbor's.
15 All the people witnessed the thunder and lightning, the blare of the horn and the mountain smoking; and when the people saw it, they fell back and stood at a distance. 16 "You speak to us," they said to Moses, "and we will obey; but let not God speak to us, lest we die." 17 Moses answered the people, "Be not afraid; for God has come only in order to test you, and in order that the fear of Him may be ever with you, so that you do not go astray." 18 So the people remained at a distance, while Moses approached the thick cloud where God was.
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