Category Archives: 2025
YAHRZEITS — IYYAR, 5785
RAM’S HORN POLICY FOR LISTING YAHRZEIT MEMORIALS:
Yahrzeit memorials are listed by consecutive Hebrew month, date, and year, if known, or at the beginning of the list for one calendar year following the date of passing.
Compiled by Aitz Chaim over many years, this list is maintained by the Ram’s Horn. Please send any corrections or additions to editor@aitzchaim.com
May the source of peace send peace to all who mourn, and may we be a comfort to all who are bereaved.
- Evelyn (Magra) Green, 2 Sivan, 5784
- Yoel Zilkha, 3 Sivan, 5784
- Arlyne Reichert, 25 Nisan, 5784
- Maurice Weissman, 2 Iyyar, 5751
- Marion Kelman, 11 Iyyar, 5776
- Gary Ray Holsclaw, 11 Iyyar, 5780
- Sheldon Maznek, 12 Iyyar, 5776
- Ada Handler, 15 Iyyar, 5740
- Florence (Flo) Barrett, 19 Iyyar, 5756
- Toby Jane Weissman, 23 Iyyar, 5701
- Bessie Stiegler, 27 Iyyar, 5758
- Donald Goldman, 29 Iyyar, 5778
YAHRZEITS — NISAN, 5785
RAM’S HORN POLICY FOR LISTING YAHRZEIT MEMORIALS:!
Yahrzeit memorials are listed by consecutive Gregorian month, date, and year, if known, or at the beginning of the list for one calendar year following the date of passing.
Compiled by Aitz Chaim over many years, this list is maintained by the Ram’s Horn. Please send any corrections or additions to editor@aitzchaim.com
May the source of peace send peace to all who mourn, and may we be a comfort to all who are bereaved.
- Evelyn (Magra) Green, 2 Sivan, 5784
- Yoel Zilkha, 3 Sivan, 5784
- Heidi Espelin, 2 Nisan, 5746
- Sherri Estil Hopperstad, 2 Nisan, 5763
- Sid Kelman, 4 Nisan, 5763
- Bill Hinton, 4 Nisan, 5779
- Janet Woodcock Getzenberg, 7 Nisan, 5765
- Gary Cohn, 15 Nisan, 5744
- Harry Wasserman, 17 Nisan, 5763
- Elaine Thall, 17 Nisan, 5766
- Margaret Breslauer, 18 Nisan, 5729
- Naomi Bay Kaplan, 20 Nisan, 5767
- Irving Greenfield, 23 Nisan, 5760
- Arlyne Reichert, 25 Nisan, 5784
AITZ CHAIM COMMUNITY PESACH SEDER INVITATION — APRIL 12, 2025; 14 NISAN, 5785
The 2025 Aitz Chaim/Great Falls Jewish Community’s Passover Seder will be held on Saturday, April 12, 2025, at 5:30pm; 14 Nissan, 5785. It’s time to get your reservations in!
In order to plan effectively, we ask that you make a reservation by Friday, April 4, 2025; 7 Nissan, 5785. You can do that easily by filling out this form at: https://bit.ly/GreatFallsSeder5785 or just contact me directly, if you prefer, at president@aitzchaim.com
We will provide additional details once we receive your reservation.
This year’s Seder will be self-catered by volunteers in the community. We will also need volunteers for setup and clean-up. Please let us know if you would like to help out!
We do not have a set fee to attend this year, but a free will donation will be accepted at the Seder to help off-set costs.
The meal will include all the traditional fixings and a multi course dinner, including:
- matzo ball soup
- brisket
- chicken
- vegetable
- dessert
We look forward to seeing you there!
-Laura
REGISTRATION FOR CAMP YALLAH, SUMMER, 2025, IS NOW OPEN
Hello Parents, Campers, and Community Members,
We are extremely pleased to announce the registration for Camp Yallah 2025 is now open! Camp is from July 16th-20th at the same location as last year.
If you have any issues with the registration or payment portals, please let us know by emailing yallahmontana@gmail.com
This is just the registration form. After registration there will be follow-up forms to get all necessary information – so don’t worry that we haven’t given you space to tell us every detail yet.
The whole team at Camp Yallah Montana are looking forward to another magical experience getting to know the Jewish youth throughout the state and helping to forge lifelong bonds between our communities while having a whole bunch of fun!
Yallah Bye,
Jason Palevsky
Camp Director
Camp Yallah Montana
Q: What do you call a fish with no eyes?
A: FSH!
YOU’RE INVITED — PURIM CELEBRATION IN GREAT FALLS 5785
Dear Great Falls Jewish community,
Join us for this year’s Purim celebrations!
RSVP at:
(406) 970-4049
(510) 434-4220
Rabbi Mendel Spiero mmspiero@gmail.com
Rabbi Mendel Spiero
Great Falls, MT
YAHRZEITS — ADAR, 5785
RAM’S HORN POLICY FOR LISTING YAHRZEIT MEMORIALS:!
Yahrzeit memorials are listed by consecutive Hebrew month, date, and year, if known, or at the beginning of the list for one calendar year following the date of passing.
Compiled by Aitz Chaim over many years, this list is maintained by the Ram’s Horn. Please send any corrections or additions to editor@aitzchaim.com
May the source of peace send peace to all who mourn, and may we be a comfort to all who are bereaved.
- Evelyn (Magra) Green, 2 Sivan, 5784
- Yoel Zilkha, 3 Sivan, 5784
- Arlyne Reichert, 25 Nisan, 5784
- Elizabeth Orphal, 3 Adar, 5769
- Paul Aaron Lewin, 4 Adar, 5780
- Roger Reichert, 11 Adar, 5779
- Benjamin Barrett, 13 Adar, 5728
- Sarah Lewin, 13 Adar, 5777
- Ruth Levie, 14 Adar, 5784
- Judith Lenore Astrin, 15 Adar, 5774
- Fanny Drellich, 17 Adar, 5690
- Edith Semple, 17 Adar, 5770
- Sylvia Fineman, 18 Adar, 5769
- Norman Lepow, 19 Adar, 5779
- Allan B. Silverstein, 22 Adar, 5772
- Mary Alice Barrett, 29 Adar, 5760
- Sophia Weissman, 30 Adar, 5727
- Marcia Eisenberg, 10 Adar II, 5752
- Harry Crombie, 19 Adar II, 5727
- Bernadette Nice, 21 Adar II, 5774
- Sandra Albachari, 24 Adar II, 5765
MONTANA SUMMER SHABBATON 2025 — PLANNING
MONTANA JEWISH PROJECT INVITES YOU TO JOIN OUR STATEWIDE JEWISH COMMUNITY IN:
Shabbaton :
An Intergenerational Family Weekend Retreat
WHEN? JUNE 27- 29, 2025
We are very excited for this! We are hiring a Shabbaton Coordinator to oversee all the logistics, but we are hoping for volunteers from all of Montana’s Jewish communities to help us with program ideas, expertise, and energy. Our vision is to collaboratively create this opportunity for Jewish folks from around Montana to get to know one another and to engage with Judaism in new ways.
INFO@MONTANAJEWISHPROJECT.COM
MONTANA JEWISH PROJECT: MODERN HEBREW CLASSES
Dear friends from the Helena, Great Falls, and surrounding Jewish communities,
I hope this email finds you well. I wanted to let you know about a wonderful new learning opportunity in March at MJP.
We’ve had several requests over the past few months for an in-person adult Hebrew class. We are excited that, with the help of Helena Jewish community member Yotam Ben-Haim, we can make this possible.
Yotam recently moved to Helena from Israel. Our book group participants have the good fortune of getting to know both Yotam and his lovely wife, Christine. Yotam has past experience in tutoring adults in modern Hebrew, and in teaching small groups.
Before we reach out to the broader community, we wanted to offer this first to families in our Jewish community.
Yotam has offered to teach a pilot program of 10 sessions on modern Hebrew for adults here at MJP in historic Temple Emanu-El. The group will be limited to ten people.
This group will start the week of March 17. We have a preference for Wednesday evenings and can be flexible with times (whether starting at 6:00 PM, 6:30 PM, or 7:00 PM).We can also explore Tuesday and Thursday evenings. Each class will run for approximately 90 minutes. The week of March 31 will be off.
Since Yotam is putting a lot of time into planning this, and it takes staff resources for anything we offer, MJP is breaking with our policy of not charging for programs. It’s important for folks to show up, if they are taking a spot. For these reasons, we are asking for payment in advance of $100 for the series. Of course, if financial concerns are an obstacle to you attending, please just be in touch.
If this group is successful, Yotam is willing to think about continuing this.
I’ve spoken with Rabbi Sonja at Congregation Beth Shalom in Bozeman because they offer on-line Hebrew classes (and one of our core principles as an organization is never to duplicate the work another congregation or community is doing). Rabbi Sonja is happy for MJP to do this–as we can offer in-person learning opportunities in the evenings. If you want to explore what Beth Shalom is offering, their website is here.
Please fill out this Google Form.
We will wait until February 24 before opening this up to others in Helena.
Please feel free to forward this to others you think might be interested. And for those interested in coming from outside Helena, we can explore overnight accommodations for you in a volunteer’s home.
Thanks very much!
Rebecca
Rebecca Stanfel
Executive Director, Montana Jewish Project
https://www.montanajewishproject.com/
(916) 216-1580 (mobile)
(406) 282-4706 (MJP)
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