Dear Member and Friend of the Kol Chadash Congregational Family,
The coming week at Kol Chadash:
Shabbat Shalom. This Shabbat we will be having a "Tubing for Tu Bishvat" Havdalah service and learning experience as part of our "Exciting Destinations, Jewish Explorations" series. This event will take place on Saturday evening, January 28th from 7 to 9 pm at Alpine Valley. Alpine Valley's tube run has lots of snow and they will be making snow should not enough fall today so the event will definitely take place. It is not too late to sign up to join us. The cost of the event is $5 a person.
Our next service is next Shabbat evening, February 3rd at 7:30 pm. This will be our Tu B'shevat celebration and will be led by the young people in our 2nd and 3rd grade religious school classes. Come ready to try different types of fruit and to sample four cups of grape juice or wine as the students share with us the meaning of this holiday.
Religious School and Hebrew School will both be in session this week. In addition, on Sunday our adult Hebrew group will be meeting from 10:45 to 11:45 am. Book group will be meeting at 12:30 pm. There will also be a KoCHaTY (Kol Chadash Temple Youth) meeting on Sunday from 6 to 8 pm to plan the programs for the remainder of the year.
Other upcoming activities include
A self defense clinic on Sunday February 5th from 9 to 10:30 am. This clinic will be led by Diane and Jerry Cyncynatus, both Level 3 black belts. No experience is necessary. The suggested donation is $20.
Our 6th and 7th grade will be participating in a citywide educational program entitled "Count Me In" on Saturday February 11th from 4 to 9 pm. There is no charge for the program but please sign up at the web link provided asap. If you need this link resent, please contact either me or Morissa Freiberg at
morissa.r.freiberg@gmail.com
Our Renaissance group's "Let's Get Reconnected" wine and cheese reception will take place in the evening on
February 10th at the congregation. Come to this meeting to meet other empty nesters in the congregation and to have input for future activities for this adult only group. For additional information please contact Marilyn Benjamin at
mcbenjamom@yahoo.com
Sisterhood will be meeting over bagels, coffee, and juice at the congregation on Sunday morning February 12th at 9:15 am. Sisterhood is open to all the women of our congregational family, and we would love more people to get involved in our Sisterhood!
Save the Date for our Purim Talent Show: Kol Chadash's Got Talent! on Saturday evening March 10th with MC Brian Adams. The evening will include hors d’œuvres, drinks, and lots of entertainment. Each religious school class will be preparing an act. Those individuals or groups who also will to be in the show are invited to come preview their act to our show's director Tina Adams on Sunday February 12th right after religious school. There may also be another opportunity on Sunday March 4th. Everyone is welcome to participate. Acts must be under 5 minutes, you must be able to attend the dress rehearsal (date to be determined) and you can only be included in 1 act. There are no age requirements. Adults are encouraged!
Kol Chadash's
Texas Hold-em Fundraiser is back and will take place on
March 17th at the congregation. This tournament draws participants from beyond the congregation and in the past has raised three to five thousand dollars. Members are welcome to play in the tournament and we will happily accept your entrance fee, however if you are not a poker player, we could really use your help that evening with preparation, selling food and cards, and clean up. Please contact Debbie Levison at
debbielevison@yahoo.com to volunteer.
Finally, our congregational trip to Israel is scheduled for December 2012. Posted below is the itinerary including cost for a 11 day trip beginning on December 24th. A deposit of $300 an individual is required over phone at 1 800 811-2812 x1 or at the website of ARZAworld
www.arzaworld.com. Please let me know if you have any questions etc about this trip. We do need a minimum of 20 participants, but according to the interest shown, we may have closer to 30 individuals going on this trip!
Thank you to Susan, Greg, Mallory and of course, Cameron Schwartz for a great Mitzvah day last Sunday morning. The mitzvah day was Cameron's mitzvah project for his upcoming Bar Mitzvah and it was absolutely wonderful!
Thanks also to Lisa Durbin for chairing our Rick Recht concert, and thanks to all of you who supported the concert!
We send wishes for a Refuah Schleima, a complete recovery, to Fred Litt who is recovering from gall bladder surgery.
And say "Break a Leg" to Kiara and Mark Durbin as Twinsburg community theatre's production of Peter Pan opens tonight with Mark as Captain Hook!
Shabbat Shalom,
Rabbi Estelle
