Sunday, February 3
Brotherhood Superbowl party
Monday, February 4
Adult Choir 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, February 5
Executive Committee Meeting 6:45 p.m.
Thursday, February 7
Jewish Study Group 10:30 a.m.
Rosh Hodesh 7:30 p.m.
Friday, February 8
Torah Study 12:00 noon
Shabbat Evening Tefillah 7:30 p.m.
(including the Choir)
Saturday, February 9
Torah Study 8:45 a.m.
Shabbat Morning Prayers 10:00 a.m.
(Evan Gorry will be called to the Torah as a Bar Mitzvah)
Havdalah Service 6:30 p.m.
Sunday, February 10
Rabbi’s Sunday Seminar returns! Topic: Israel and the Middle East: An Open Forum
Join the Rabbi for bagels and coffee while we learn, beginning at 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.
The UJC and IGive.com have teamed up to make it easy for you to support the UJC -- and it doesn't cost you a penny!
IGive.com's stated mission is "to enable the economic power of individuals to benefit their chosen communities"; their goal is to have a portion of every online transaction benefit causes close to home. IGive has created a shopping portal that allows you to shop at your favorite online sites and stores as you always do; when you make a purchase through IGive's portal, the store donates a percentage of your transaction to the benefit of your choice. It's simple and easy -- you don't have to do anything special, and donations are made in your name.
The list of vendors on IGive's portal is 700 strong and growing; you'll find that all the most popular shopping sites (Amazon, Zappos, Barnes & Noble) are represented, plus a long list of more specialized sites. Most anywhere you shop now, you can shop through IGive.
The UJC is now a registered cause on IGive's portal; all you need to do is register as a user on IGive (it's free!) and identify the UJC as your chosen cause. Then, go about your normal online activities; IGive provides you a regular tally of the donations that have resulted in your transactions, so you can watch your support grow.
Go to www.igive.com to get started -- it's a fast, simple and zero-cost way to raise money for the UJC.
Held at sunset on Saturday, Havdalah service 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.
On the second Saturday evening of the each month, we will be holding Havdalah services at the United Jewish Center, with a kosher dairy potluck dinner before the service and dessert after. Each guest family will bring an entree or salad, please call Stacey Spilka for an assigned dish to bring.
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) |
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 Friday, March 21st. Write the date 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 for the 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
The Office Staff, Cantor Kessler and Rabbi Librach helped to stock the shelves and hand out grocery bags to our less fortunate neighbors at the St. James Food Pantry this past Monday. Then on Tuesday, Cantor Kessler and the teenagers and parents of Henry Dick Club made sandwiches for Dorothy Day Hospitality House soup kitchen. And, on Wednesday, UJC volunteers served the meal at Dorothy Day Hospitality House. We also had many UJC volunteers stay at the Congregational Church Overflow Homeless Shelter in December and January and more volunteering this month! Thanks to all for doing this mitzvah for our community!
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.
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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.
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.
Parashat Terumah (Exodus 25:1-27:19) will be read on February 9, 2008
Exodus 25: 1-8
The Lord spoke to Moses, saying: Tell the Israelite people to bring Me gifts; you shall accept gifts for Me from every person whose heart so moves him. And these are the gifts that you shall accept from them: gold, silver, and copper; blue, purple, and crimson yarns, fine linen, goats' hair; tanned ram skins, dolphin skins, and acacia wood; oil for lighting, spices for the anointing oil and for the aromatic incense; lapis lazuli and other stones for setting, for the ephod and for the breastpiece. And let them make Me a sanctuary that I may dwell among them.
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