community announcements
New Women's Group
What Do You Want To Be When You Grow Up?
Meets every other Sunday @ 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
at Congregation Ner Shalom
Next meeting dates: June 1, 15 & 29 (in 1st classroom off hallway)
All ages welcome; deals with life at any age. May bring a sack lunch or snack.
For more information, contact Myrna Rogoff at 538-3502; mylem@aol.com
Israel in the Gardens
Sunday, June 1 @ 11 AM - 5 PM
Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco
This event has something for everybody! Listen to the hottest new music on stage through continuous live all-day performances; participate in a variety of activities for teens, young adults or families; taste freshly made ethnic foods; watch a movie at the film festival; get information on local organizations and resources; learn about short and long term Israel programs at the Israel Center and MASA booths; and shop for everything from jewelry to handmade clothing from dozens of local artisan craft booths. Free admission. For more information, visit www.israelinthegardens.org or call (415) 512-6274.
Heichalot Meditation: God yearns to be known by us Humans
by Reb Tsvi Bar-David
Thursday June 5 @ 7:30 pm
Many Rivers Books & Tea
130 S. Main Street, Suite 101, Sebastopol
For more information call the store at 829-8871
Tikkun Leil Shavuot
Thursday, June 8 @ 7 PM
Congregation Beth Ami, Santa Rosa
The Tikkun will begin with an ice cream social, geared toward kids and their families. The evening service will begin at approximately 8:15 PM, and a series of talks on Torah will follow, given by a number of teachers, including Reb Tsvi.
Grand Opening Celebration
Contemporary Jewish Museum
Sunday, June 8 @ 11 AM - 5:30 PM
736 Mission St., San Francisco
Free admission, live music, architectural tours, family-friendly activities, storytelling, drop-in art-making, and more.Reserve your free timed ticket in advance. Visit www.thecjm.org or call (415) 655-7800. If you have any questions, please contact the Museum's Education Department at (415) 655-7850 or tours@thecjm.org.
A Shavuot Workshop with K’vod Weider
Uniting Heaven and Earth: How Revelation and Mystical Experience is Lived in the Details of Our Lives
Sunday, June 8 @ 1:30-5:30 PM
Congregation Ner Shalom
Workshop fee: $36.00 (partial scholarships available)
We might say that the most challenging and rewarding aspect of the spiritual life is how experiences of depth and wisdom ("Receiving Torah") translate into our everyday choices and responses to our world. In the cycle of Jewish holidays, the journey from Passover, through counting the Omer, to Shavuot shows us how deep and lasting revelation of Divine Presence is fruit that is harvested from psychological insight and conscious actions in each of our lives.
In this workshop, we will prepare our personal vessel for revelation and mystical experience by exploring Jewish texts on revelation and Shavuot, and then examining and refining our tendencies of character and personality through meditation, inner inquiry, and journaling.
For more information and to register contact:
Dr Sheila Katz, Director, JCC Jewish Meditation Program
(707) 528-4222; sheilak@jccsoco.org
Presented by the JCC Jewish Meditation Program and Congregation Ner Shalom
K’vod Wieder, M.A received his masters degree from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology in Palo Alto. K’vod has been teaching classes, leading retreats, and counseling students in meditation, prayer, and creative forms of Jewish spirituality in the United States for over twelve years. He is also a professional magician who has performed at restaurants and private parties. K’vod has served as the assistant director of Chochmat HaLev – a Jewish meditation center in Berkeley, director of the B’nai Tzedek Teen Philanthropy Program for the Harold Grinspoon Foundation, and program director for Elat Chayyim Center of Jewish Spirituality. Currently, K’vod is a student at the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies at the University of Judaism.
Jewish Community Free Clinic Open House
Sunday, June 22 1-4 PM
490 City Center, Rohnert Park
A celebration on the opening of thir new facility at 490 City Center, across from the new library in Rohnert Park. They are inviting the community members to see the new facilities they have built for their deserving client population. Food and refreshments, clinic tours and health care demonstrations. Rabbi Gittleman will be dedicating the new facility at 2PM.
The Jewish Community Free Clinic is now accepting donations of toys and children's books. Please bring them to Ner Shalom and drop off in lobby. Or you may deliver them directly to the Jewish Free Clinic now located at Commerce Blvd. next door to the old Albertson's and across
from Summit Bank.
JFCS RIDES hits the road to help seniors go to medical appointments, shopping, personal care appointments, and local community events.
Rides will be available:
Tuesdays and Wednesdays from Windsor to Rohnert Park (North to South) and from Oakmont to West Santa Rosa (East to West)
Thursdays are reserved for Petaluma
Mondays are reserved for Friendship Circle luncheons
How to Apply:
Those interested in enrolling in JFCS RIDES need to complete an application and schedule an in-home interview. The cost for this one time enrollment fee is $30 per year.
Rides can then be scheduled between 8:30 am and 4:00 pm based on the above schedule and the cost is $5 per stop.
For example: $10 for a round trip ride to a doctor
$15 for a round trip ride to a doctor and a stop for grocery shopping.
(Scholarships are available for those who do not have the ability to pay).
Please feel free to call Seniors At Home, a program of JFCS, at 707-571-8533 with any questions.
JFCS RIDES is funded through client fees, individual contributions, corporate sponsorships, and a grant from the Jewish Community Federation.
Thank you very much for your help to make sure our community's seniors receive the help and support they need!
OPEN YOUR HEART TO A WAITING CHILD
Sonoma County has a growing number of children and youth whose families are unable to meet their physical and/or emotional needs. At the same time, we have a serious shortage of caring foster families
willing and able to provide safe, loving homes for children and teens, including those approaching adulthood.
Foster parents are needed for children and youth of all ages and ethnic backgrounds. Both short and long-term homes are being recruited. We particularly need people who are willing and able to care for siblings, and for children who may return home to their
parents.
Both couples and single people may become foster parents. Renters are also welcome. We pay a monthly stipend for each child, and medical and dental coverage is provided. Training and
support are also provided.
Foster care information meetings are held monthly at
Sonoma County Family, Youth & Children's Services.
If you or someone you know is considering becoming a foster parent, please call Rita Jacobs, Foster Home Recruiter, at (707) 565-4274.
Interested in an Interest-Free Loan?
The Hebrew Free Loan Association provides interest-free loans to Jewish residents in Northern California needing assistance with personal or financial matters. Types of loans include: Student, Emergency, Adoption, Personal, Business, First-time Home Buyer, Life Cycle, Debt Consolidation, Institutional (for Jewish communal agencies and synagogues) and Special Needs (for emotionally and physically challenged people).
Since 1897, the Hebrew Free Loan of San Francisco has provided vital assistance to more than 50,000 families. Each year, we help more than 350 people to reach their goals and pave their way towards financial security and future success.
We offer a helping hand, rather than a handout. Whether we're providing people a way out of their financial distress, or helping them to realize a lifelong dream, our recipients maintain dignity and self- sufficiency as they repay their interest-free loans.
If you, or someone you know, needs financial assistance and would like to apply for an interest- free loan, please contact us by phone (415- 546- 9902) or e-mail info@hflasf.org .
Check out our website: www.hflasf.or g.
Jewish Reconstructionist Federation
West Coast
Region website:
http://www.jrf.org/westcoast
COMMUNITY YOM HASHOAH COMMEMORATION 2008
The theme of the Sonoma County 2008 Yom Hashoah commemoration on May 4 will be transmitting meaningful Holocaust memory to coming generations.
Featured guest speaker is Dr. Debbie Findling. Her topic will be building the connection between memory and action. Dr. Findling led March of the Living groups for ten years and is the co-author of the recently published Teaching the Holocaust. She is deputy director of the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund of San Francisco, a major philanthropy that supports environmental activism.
Speaking for the Survivor community will be Sonoma county resident Miriam Dregey, a hidden child who survived through the actions of her family.
The program will include a candle lighting ceremony by camp survivors and participation by the next Jewish generation in a pledge of remembrance. Community rabbis, cantorial soloists, and community musicians will contribute the liturgical and musical setting for the event. The teen winner of the Suzy Raful Essay Contest will present the winning entry. There will once again be a Memorial Book honoring victims of the Shoah remembered by the community. Forms will be distributed in February.
Yellow candles will be available at the event for private commemoration of the Shoah.
The public is invited to this annual event which will take place at the Friedman Center in Santa Rosa on Sunday, May 4, 2008, 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.
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