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WEEK END HOSPITALITY
Todah Robah to the following congregation members who have offered their hospitality to student Rabbi Bess Wohlner and to help with the oneg the week end of October 11.
- Airport Pickup: Marty Foxman
- Dinner Host: Laura Weiss
- Oneg: Stuart and Hillary Lewin
- Saturday Lunch: Terry Thall
MAY YOU HAVE AN EASY FAST!
May You Have an Easy Fast!
Aitz Chaim Kol Nidre and Yom Kippur Schedule
As we draw to an end of the Days of Awe, we prepare for Kol Nidre and Yom Kippur. We hope to see you at our services, which will all be at the Bethel, 1009 18th Ave SW, led by Student Rabbi Bess Wohlner
Kol Nidre services will begin at 7pm on 9/13/13 at the Bethel, 1009 18th Ave SW, led by Student Rabbi Bess Wohlner. Sarah Weissman will be our cantorial soloist for the Kol Nidre.
• Yom Kippur morning services will begin at 10 am on 9/14/13 at the Bethel, 1009 18th Ave SW, led by Student Rabbi Bess Wohlner.
• A discussion on Yom Kippur will be held at 3pm.
• Yizkor service will begin at 4:30pm
• Ne’ila service will begin at 5:30 pm
• A community potluck (milchig) break the fast meal will follow the conclusion of Ne’ila services. Please contact Helen Cherry to sign up for the potluck.
Mark your Calendars for Upcoming Services and Events…
- MAJCO Shabbaton, October 4-6 at Congregation Har Shalom in Missoula
- Aitz Chaim Services for October, 2013: Weekend of October 11-13, led by Student Rabbi Bess Wohlner
- Chanukah: 11/27 – 12/5. Watch your email and aitzchaim.com for more information!
- Bar Mitzvah of Max Weissman, Saturday, December 28. Contact Aaron and Wendy Weissman for more information.
WHAT IS MAJCO?
Montana Association of Jewish Communities (MAJCO) is an umbrella organization that represents Jewish communities across the length and breadth of the great state of Montana. Membership in MAJCO is open to any Jewish community; whatever the denomination; within Montana.
Small Jewish communities in rural areas do not exist in a vacuum. Over two decades ago, the Jewish communities throughout the state created MAJCO, an association of all the organized Montana Jewish communities. Through MAJCO, we keep in touch and have created a community throughout this great big beautiful state.
The Jewish communities in the Big Sky, from East to West, include:
- Congregation Beth Aaron, Billings
- Congregation Beth Shalom, Bozeman
- Congregation Aitz Chaim, Great Falls
- Helena Jewish Community, Helena
- Congregation B’nai Israel, Butte
- Congregation Har Shalom, Missoula
- Congregation Bet Harim, Kalispell
- Synagogue of the Northern Rockies, Whitefish
- Chabad Lubavitch, Statewide
A LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Greetings, Aitz Chaim congregants and friends.
I trust you have had a wonderful hot summer. One of the highlights of mine was spending two weeks in Billings with my daughter and her three kids and two of my dearest friends. One of my dearest friends was one of my neighbors in Billings, and we had kids of similar ages so we “adopted” each other’s kids. The wife ran a daycare out of her home which I took advantage of when I worked days, and I watched her kids and often fixed dinner for us all during the gap between the time she went to work as a waitress and the time her husband came home from work. When their kids grew up and left home, the parents decided to revive an old dream which they had b.k. (before kids), and “run away from home” and become team truck drivers and see the country, which they have been doing for five or six years now. I picked my vacation to coincide with a time when they would be home for a couple of weeks. Both my husband and my son said I’m not allowed to take vacations alone anymore. I got a kick out of that. That probably won’t stop me, though.
With the High Holidays fast approaching, this is a good time to renew or increase your dues to Aitz Chaim. For more information or to fill out a donation form, please click here Thank you for making this a priority in your life.
Last year, we had a meet-the-new-student-rabbi potluck at the Bethel before services. Do we want to do something like that again?
Does anyone have a recipe or anything else they would like to contribute to the upcoming issue or any issue of the Ram’s Horn? This is your newsletter, and as one of the editors I would rather not see it degenerate into just a calendar of events and an old joke repository. Thanks in advance for all your moral support and your contributions.
Looking forward to another happy and sweet new year for Aitz Chaim.
Shana Tova
Joy Breslauer
editor@aitzchaim.com
ROSH HASHANA SCHEDULE
Todah Robah to the following Congregation members who have offered their hospitality to Student Rabbi Bess Wohlner and to provide the oneg for Erev Rosh Hashana:
Airport pickup: Marty Foxman
Dinner host: Jerry and Nadyne Weissman
Wednesday evening, 09/04/2013, 7:00 P.M.: Erev Rosh Hashana Services led by student Rabbi Bess Wohlner, at the Bethel. Oneg to follow.
Oneg: Jerry and Nadyne Weissman
Thursday morning, 09/05/2013, 10:00 A.M.: Rosh Hashana Morning services led by student Rabbi Bess Wohlner at the Bethel.
Tashlich to follow at Giant Springs, 4600 Giant Springs Road.
Meal to follow Tashlich at maple Gardens, 5401 9th Avenue South.
The address of the Bethel is 1009 18th Avenue Southwest. click here for map and directions.
MEET OUR STUDENT RABBI FOR 5774
EDITOR’S NOTE: Adapted from an e-mail.
I am thrilled to be serving as the student rabbi in Great Falls next year. I want to introduce myself to the Great Falls Hebrew Association community.
Immediately below you will find a brief introductory paragraph.
Bess Wohlner, a rabbinic education student in the Rhea Hirsch School of Education at Hebrew Union College on the Los Angeles campus, is currently in pursuit of her Masters in Jewish Education and will be ordained as a rabbi in May 2015. She grew up in Shawnee, Kansas and earned her BA in Judaic Studies from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Before beginning her studies at HUC, Bess worked as the Assistant Educator and Youth Director at Temple B’nai Shalom in Fairfax Station, Virginia. Since being at HUC she has served as a student rabbi at Congregation Havurim in Temecula, California (2010 – 2012), an education intern at University Synagogue in Los Angeles (2012 – 2013). Next year, in addition to the time she’ll spend in Great Falls, she is also the rabbinic intern at Temple Akiba in Culver City, California. When not studying or working, Bess can be found playing her guitar, traveling, and video chatting with her six-year-old niece.
I am very excited to be joining your community next year. Looking forward to meeting you in person in September.
L’shalom,
Bes
BOARD METING THIS SUNDAY, JUNE 2, 2:00 P.M.
There will be an Aitz Chaim board meeting this Sunday, June 2, at 2:00 P.M. at the Washington building, 1015 1st avenue North. Any congregation member is welcome to attend.
YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED – JUNE 18, 7:00 P.M.
Friends of Natalie Guerin (formerly Fisher) are cordially invited
to a get-together at the home of Don and Helen Cherry
Driftwood Condos
349 Fox Drive, #13,
Tuesday evening, June 18, at 7:00 P.M.
No RSVP needed.
Please bring tales — short or tall — about what you’ve been doing since you saw her last.
Natalie will also be at the Hadassah gathering in Bigfork June 21-23. Looking forward to seeing you at one or both upcoming events.
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