BORSCHT
dice everything else up and add to pot with sugar.
Serve hot or cold with boiled potato and sour cream,
Amy-Jill Levine to Lecture in Helena, September 23-25
Professor Amy-Jill Levine of Vanderbilt Divinity College will again be lecturing in Helena!
Professor Levine, who last lectured on the Jewish roots of Christian traditions, will be lecturing on “Sex and the Bible: Thou Shalt Not, Thou Shall and Though Might Want To — What the Bible Says about Sexuality” as part of the annual St. Paul’s United Methodist Church lecture series, September 23-25, 2011.
Congregants can sign up for lectures at the series through this brochure. The lecture series is offered at $25/day or $50 for the entire series.
Article By Clair Baiz in the Jewish Magazine
Our sharp-eyed Cantor, Hazzan Elliott Magalnick, noticed that our own Clair Baiz, daughter of Arlene Reichert, penned a very poignant and personal article in the May issue of the Jewish Magazine entitled “Growing Up Jewish in Great Falls, Montana.”
The article talks about many of the Jews that lived in Great Falls over the previous years and our previous worship space at the Malmstrom AFB chapel. The article is worth your time and attention — mazel tov Clair!
Mark Your Calendar for 2012 MAJCO and Hadassah Shabbatonim
The Montana Association of Jewish Communities (MAJCO) held its annual Shabbaton over the past weekend, July 15-17, near Glacier Park hosted by Congregation Bet Harim of Kalispell. By all reports, it was an exceptional event. The weekend saw a keynote address by Rabbi David Sapperstein, the Director and Chief Legal Counsel for the Union for Reform Judaism’s Religious Action Center.
Unfortunately, scheduling conflicts kept any congregants from Aitz Chaim from attending the Shabbaton. The next MAJCO Shabbaton will by hosted by Congregation Beth Aaron in Billings over October 5-7, 2012. The 2013 Shabbaton is scheduled by be hosted by Great Falls.
During the MAJCO business meeting on July 17, Hadassah also announced that their 2012 Hadassah Shabbaton will be June 22-24, 2012 at Big Sky. (ed note: This information has been corrected as of 7/26/2011).
Other news from the meeting included:
* Announcement of an election for MAJCO officers during the December, 2011 meeting in Helena (coinciding with the annual menorah lighting in the Capitol).
* A series of changes to the MAJCO bylaws. Those by-law changes will be the subject of an additional article on this site.
PLEASE MAKE PLANS TO JOIN US THE WEEK END OF JULY 22
- Airport Pickup: Don Cherry
- Week end Hospitality: Don and Helen Cherry
- Friday evening Dinner with Cantor Elliott: Jerry and Nadyne Weissman
- Friday evening, July 22, 7:30 P.M.: Shabbat (Parashat Matot) Services led by Cantor Elliott Magalnick at the Bethel
- Oneg by Helen Cherry and Arleen Heinzelman
- Saturday morning, July 23, 10:00 A.M.: Adult study led by Cantor Elliott Magalnick at the Bethel
- Saturday lunch with Cantor Elliott Magalnick: Arlyne Reichert
- Saturday evening, July 23, 5:30: milchig (dairy) Potluck at the Bethel
July Aitz Chaim weekend coming soon!
Aitz Chaim will be holding services the weekend of July 22 (Parashat Matot).
This is the first time we have experimented with mid-Summer services, in an attempt to cater to the ever-growing segment “snowbird” contingent of our congregation.
As such, please watch this site in the coming days — another virtual issue of the Ram’s Horn will be soon posted here, with all of our standard features, articles, columns and information!
MAJCO’S FIRST SUMMER CAMP FOR YOUTH
Congregation Beth Shalom in Bozeman, in association with Soul Train from Israel, and the Montana Association of Jewish Communities, is pleased to announce our FIRST ever statewide Montana Jewish Summer Camp for Youth!
Contact Jenny Rassaby Ryan by email (rassabies@gmail.com) or phone 406-579-3846 with any enquiries
Ages 11 years and up.
Monday, August 8– Friday, August 12, 2011
The Summer Camp at Beth Shalom is designed to give young people who are being raised as Jews, from Montana and surrounding areas, an enriching opportunity to learn more about Judaism, Israel and Jewish cultures and traditions, while getting to know youth from other parts of the state, making friends, having fun, and practicing some Hebrew!
Two camp counselors from Soultrain in Israel will facilitate the program, with support from Beth Shalom families. Participants from outside Bozeman will be billeted to stay with the families of Bozeman participants. Read the rest of this entry
MAJCO SHABBATON REGISTRATION
Shabbaton,
MONTANA: JEWISH VOICES, MORAL CHOICES
26TH ANNUAL SHABBATON
Hosted by… Bet Harim Jewish Community of the Flathead Valley
The Sanctuary At Kila, Montana
Registration is also available at Bet Harim’s website: www.betharim.com
Debate on Patrilineal Descent on Greaterfalls.com?
One of the most interesting aspects of our new online technologies might just be the advent of “blogs.” In this writer’s opinion, these websites are today’s equivalent of the town squares and cafes of yesteryear, where interested people discuss subjects ranging from aardvarks to zymurgy.
One local blog, greaterfalls.com, often discusses Great Falls politics, the weather and photos of geese. Today, however, it discusses what it means to be a Jew and a subject of common debate here, patrilineal descent.
I encourage you to take a look at the discussion, which can be found here. If you think the subject interesting, you might also want to join the discussion by posting a comment!
June 2011 Joke
A Doctor was addressing a large audience in Tampa.
“The material we put into our stomachs is enough to have killed most of us sitting here, years ago. Red meat is awful. Soft drinks corrode your stomach lining. Chinese food is loaded with MSG. High fat diets can be disastrous, and none of us realizes the long-term harm caused by the germs in our drinking water.”
“But there is one thing that is the most dangerous of all, and we all have eaten, or will eat it. Would anyone care to guess what food causes the most grief and suffering for years after eating it?”
After several seconds of quiet, a small 75-year-old Jewish man in the front row, raised
his hand and said:
“Vedding Cake?”
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