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So, when is Pesach next year?
Beware! This post has math.
The Wired Science blog has a great post up today on how to calculate the first day of Passover given the Julian date and the Hebrew year. You can read the post here.
The formula to calculate the civil/Julian date for Passover, given any particular Hebrew year Y, is below:
Beth Shalom Summer Camp for Older Youth
Shalom!
It’s that time of year again – planning summer for your kids. This year, we are pleased to announce that Congregation Beth Shalom will again be hosting a summer camp for youth 11-18. Please forward this email on to other parents I might have missed.
August 13-17 is for young people 11-18 and is open to youths all over Montana. Jenny Rassaby is coordinating this camp, which is designed for an older group of Jewish kids, providing them with an enriching opportunity to meet with peers, learn more about their Jewish culture, heritage and traditions and have fun! Participants from outside Bozeman will stay with their Beth Shalom peers and their families. For more information, and to register, contact Jenny Rassaby at rassabies@gmail.com, or phone 406 579 3846.
The camp is $175 for the week, including food and other costs.
Registration forms are attached. Forms are due to Beth Shalom by July 1.
Camp Signup form: BSyouthcamp_signup_form_2012
Mark Your Calendar for Beth Shalom Summer Camp in Bozeman!
For the second year, Congregation Beth Shalom in Bozeman will be hosting a Montana Youth Summer Camp for Jewish youth, 12 years old and up. This year, the camp will be during the week of August 13 -17, with arrivals on Sunday afternoon at the Rassaby home. Camp counselors will be provided by the Israeli outreach group Soultrain.
For more information, contact Camp Director Jenny Rassaby Ryan at rassabies@gmail.com.
What if Moses had Google, Facebook and Youtube?
Pesach items for sale at 10th Ave S Albertsons
Photo of pesach food display at 10th ave S Albertson's in GTF
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Eaton Road Jewish Cemetery, South of Great Falls
Yesterday I had the opportunity to take some photos at the historic Jewish Cemetery near Eaton Road.
This Summer, I propose that our congregation have a work party day there. Between road access, the fence, crumbling monuments, etc., we could make a very positive impact in this cemetery, which our congregation has managed since the early 1910s.
Aitz Chaim TO HOST MIME ARTIST OFER GOREN MAY 3
The Aitz Chaim board has received the following e-mail message.
From: Motti & Chaviva Isaak
Date: March 10, 2012 3:48:14 AM MST
Dear friends
Shalom,
I hope you are well and enjoying a very happy Purim!
Ofer Goren, our wonderful mime artist, will be in the USA between April 29 and May 13. He will perform with his new program.
Please let me know ASAP if you are interested in his visiting your community.
As soon as I hear from you, I will send you a proposed schedule for his visit.
Thank you and all the best,
Motti
Ofer Goren’s program has been a good one, but our audience participation in the past has been rather minimal. If we are interested in having him come, then we need volunteers to organize it, and to help set it up and take it down.
An event organizer would be responsible for the following:
* Secure Location for the event
* Secure Lodging for Ofer
* Arrange Advertising for the event
Stephen Boyd has volunteered again to organize this event. Please watch your Ram’s Horn for further information as it becomes available.
TALMUD and the art of Ben-Zion and Marc Chagall
The title TALMUD is appropriate for this show of over FORTY prints that brings together the Biblical work of two of the most important Jewish artists of the 20th Century. Even though Talmud deals traditionally with text and not image, these images are commentaries on the text of Scripture in the best of the Talmudic tradition.
MARCH 12TH through April 20th, 2012. At the Carroll College Art Gallery in Helena
The gallery is open from 9am to 9pm weekdays and is closed weekends and college holidays.
Here are directions to the art gallery, for those unfamiliar with the Carroll campus:
Enter the south end of St. Charles Hall, go up one flight of stairs and it’s in the art studio off to the left (glass doors, so you can see the art exhibit from the hall).
There is also a conference:
Click to access Not_One_Without_The_Other.pdf
Contributed by Karen Semple
Passover is Almost Here!
How did it get to be March already? Spring–and Passover–will be here before we know it!
Once again, Congregation Aitz Chaim will be hosting a community Pesach seder. Our community seder this year will be on the first evening of Pesach, Friday, April 6. By popular demand, the Seder will again be catered by and held at Clark and Lewies restaurant in downtown Great Falls. Aaron Weissman will lead the seder.
Details have not yet been finalized, but watch this page for specific times, prices and a reservation form!
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