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Chanukah Essentials Available Locally at Amazing Toys!
Looking for dreidels or a menorah? Amazing Toys has a great selection of Chanukah items waiting just for you!
xmas at the Mercy Home
By Wendy Weissman
It hasn’t even started snowing yet, but it is time to think about xmas at the Mercy Home. Once again this year, we will be taking shifts at the local Domestic Violence Shelter for Women (Mercy Home) so that the dedicated 24-7 staff at the Mercy Home can spend xmas with their families.
Here are shifts we need to fill:
Saturday 12/24 2-5 PM
Saturday 12/24 5-8 PM
Saturday 12/24 8-11 PM
Sunday 12/25: 8-11 AM
Sunday 12/25: 11 AM to 2 PM
Sunday 12/25: 2-5 PM
Because Chanukkah falls during Christmas this year, the annual Chanukkah party that is traditionally held on the Saturday of Chanukkah has been moved to Friday, 12/23, so that we can continue to perform this mitzvah and the volunteer does not have to miss the party.
Men are welcome with an accompanying female (to comply with the Mercy Home rules). For those of you who have never done this before, it is a great mitzvah to help out with the Mercy Home and the women who reside at the shelter. Duties include answering the phone (a script is provided, and an on-call staff member is available if you need help), monitoring the alarms, and signing residents in and out. Residents often stay with friends or family members during the holiday, so there typically have been only 1 or 2 residents on the premises. There have been many xmas’s with no residents, so make sure to bring a book to read or a movie to watch.
If you are able to help, or have any questions, please contact me (Wendy Weissman) at 727-4098 or wendy@weissman.com. The location of the shelter is confidential, so once I have the volunteer list, I will tell you where you need to be.
Two weeks left to register for URJ Virtual High School
Aaron Weissman
aaron
Begin forwarded message:
From: “Farhi, Vicky” <VFarhi>
Subject: Two weeks left to register for URJ Virtual High School
Date: October 18, 2011 10:46:23 AM MDT
To: SMALLTALK
Reply-To: List for members of URJ Small Congregations <SMALLTALK>
Shalom!
I hope this email finds you well, enjoying a festive Sukkot.
We wanted to share information with you regarding the URJ Virtual High School deadline for registration which is approaching!
There are only two weeks left to register for the URJ Virtual High School with reduced tuition! This new program offers our post-Confirmation teens an opportunity to continue their Jewish education by learning online with Jewish teens across North America in a virtual community. The cost is now $550 per person for a full year, which includes one course per semester.
Here is some more good news! If your synagogue has more than one child to enroll in Virtual High School, they may share the lesson and the expense by experiencing it together at one location.
And some more good news! If finances are an issue, there is some scholarship money available. We don’t want to turn away a teen who wants to learn. Just contact Rabbi Jan Katzew, URJ Director of Lifelong Learning jkatzew for information.If you would like more information on this amazing opportunity for our teens in share Jewish learning in a virtual community, please contact URJ Education Specialists Debbie Niederman dniederman and Rabbi Joan Glazer Farber jfarber. To register, please go to www.urj.org/teen/vhs/
Register now for the Reform Movement’s family gathering
December 14-18, 2011 in Washington DC
URJ Biennial | WRJ Assembly | NFTY Leaders Assembly
REMINDER: Aitz Chaim Annual Meeting is TODAY
All Aitz Chaim Congregants;
The Great Falls Hebrew Association is YOUR shul. How it is managed is YOUR business.
Our Annual Meeting is today, 1 pm, at 1015 1st Ave N. We will be deciding how we can move forward and the direction we should take as we are faced with declining membership and revenues. Please come and make your voice heard.
The Aitz Chaim Ram's Horn 