Ok, so I have to start off with a BIG OLE apology for completely forgetting to write my message this week (until now). I am so sorry about that! I really don’t know what happened to my brain this week! Maybe it’s this nice weather we have been having! Anyway, we are back on track with services this week – hopefully you already knew that…
The good news is that I didn’t really have any NEW news this week so you haven’t actually missed anything – as long as you read my prior messages. Below is information on the upcoming events, beyond our regular services and Torah study sessions. Right now the most critical things are highlighted in red, below, so please take a minute to read that.
A History of Temple B’nai Israel Celebration
Our combination 97th birthday celebration/book signing event for Erwin Coleman will be held at the Temple on Sunday, May 28 from 2pm-4pm. Howard Zeff has a group of volunteers to help get things organized but your help will be needed for two thing: 1) Set-up and clean-up – if you can help with the set-up, this will be done on Saturday afternoon (May 27) at 1:00pm, Clean-up will take place immediately following the event; and 2) Please plan to bring a finger food or a vegetable or fruit plate to share with attendees. Erwin’s book will be available for purchase and, of course, to be autographed by the author!
2017 Handy Fest
This year’s WC Handy Festival runs from July 21-30. As has become a joyful tradition for festival attendees, the last Saturday of the event, July 29, Rabbi Nancy and her husband, Scott Whitehead, will share their talents with all who join us at the Temple for their performance. As the date grows closer, I will be asking for volunteers to assist in the preparations for and clean-up following the event so please consider helping out – we won’t need a lot of volunteers but it would be nice to see some new faces! Stay tuned for more details as I get them.
Service Schedule
The schedule for our upcoming services through the end of June, is as follows:
- May 12 – Robert Adler
- May 19 – Rabbi Nancy
- May 26 – Ken Wolf
- June 2 – TBD
- June 9 – Rabbi Nancy
- June 16 – TBD
- June 23 – Rabbi Nancy
- June 30 – Buddy Bernstein
As always, congregants and members of the Shoals community, at large, are invited to attend the weekly Torah Study session which is held each Saturday morning at 9:30, at the Temple.
Reminder items:
- Soup Kitchen – Saturday, May 20 – please bring dessert items to the Temple no later than 9:30am that Saturday.
- Small Jewish Community Survey from the University of Virginia – please complete by Monday, May 22. Use the link: http://www.smalljewishcommunities.org/ and the unique community ID of THEAL03 to complete it.
- Book Signing and Birthday Celebration for Erwin Coleman – Sunday, May 28, 2pm-4pm, at the Temple – Please plan to bring a finger food item to share.
If you are aware of something in the community that you would like me to draw some attention to in my message, please let me know! And, as always, if you have any announcements you would like for me to share with our membership, please don’t hesitate to reach out to me.
I hope you all have had a wonderful week and I look forward to seeing you Friday night.
Shalom!
Traci Welch