Hello everyone! I hope you all had a wonderful weekend and, if you celebrated Mother’s Day in any fashion, I hope it was a delightful event! The weather couldn’t have been better!
While this week’s note is back on schedule, there isn’t a lot to share so it will be short…
Soup Kitchen Weekend
This is once again our weekend to provide desserts for the Soup Kitchen. Please plan on helping us meet the need by either baking up a batch of whatever dessert you would like to contribute or picking something up at the store and bringing it by the Temple no later than 9:30 this Saturday morning (May 20). If you don’t have time to do either of these, finacial donations are also apprecited! Please let Fran Jacobs know if you will be bringing a dessert item to donate.
Celebrating 97 Years with Erwin
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) Please plan to bring a finger food or a vegetable or fruit plate to share with attendees; and 2) 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. Erwin’s book will be available for purchase and, of course, to be autographed by the author!
Service Schedule
The schedule for our upcoming services through the end of June, is as follows:
- May 19 – Rabbi Nancy
- May 26 – Ken Wolf
- June 2 – Robert Adler
- June 9 – Rabbi Nancy
- June 16 – Ken Wolf
- 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.
- LAST WEEK – 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.
- Temple Board Meeting – Sunday, June 4, 10:00am, at the Temple – congregants welcome
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
