may 2008 ~ nissan - iyar 5768
in this issue
-- Rabbinical Support
-- Gifts of Life
-- News from Dor Hadash Religious School
-- Board News
-- Birthdays and Anniversaries ~ May
-- Community Announcements
-- Yom Hashoah ~ Sunday, May 4
-- Donations Make a Difference!
-- eScrip and more...
-- Jewish Family and Children's Services
-- Newsletter Guidelines
SERVICES for the month of MAY as follows ~
Saturday, May 10 ~ 10:00 am. ~ Shabbat morning in honor of Israel Independence Day led by Reb Tsvi Bar-David
Friday, May 23 ~ 7 pm. ~ Kabbalat Shabbat led by Reb Tsvi Bar-David
Saturday, May 24 ~ 10 am. ~ Rose Triest's Bat Mitzvah led by Rabbi Elisheva Salamo
Saturday, May 24 ~ 7 pm. ~ Havdalah and Lag Ba-Omer celebration led by Reb Tsvi Bar-David
Please note that more details will be available in the list of services via e-mail. Rabbinical Support
If any Ner Shalom member is in need of spiritual counseling or rabbinic support for a life cycle event please feel free to contact a member of our current rabbinic team: Reb Tsvi Bar-David or Rabbi Ted Feldman.
Reb Tzvi Bar-David is available this month for office hours on Friday, May 23 at 1:00 pm. and 5:00 pm. prior to evening services. He is available by telephone at 415-272- 6982. Drop-ins are welcome as well. You may set up an appointment by phone or e-mail at: tsvi@bardavid.net
Rabbi Ted Feldman of B'nai Israel Jewish Center in Petaluma will be available for spiritual counseling or rabbinical support. Please feel free to contact him directly at 707-765-2937.
We are very pleased and honored that he has agreed to assist in serving our community and hope this will also create ties with the members of B'nai Israel. Gifts of Life
MEMORIAL DONATIONS...
KAREN & JEFFREY SOMMERS, a donation in memory of their father and grandfather, Arnold Sommers, and a donation in memory of their son, Justin Sommers
THANK YOU to...
ELLYN LAZAR, for once again coordinating the Passover Seder, and all of those who helped her in making it a success
ANNA BELLE KAUFMAN, for stepping in as a new member and joining the Board
Thank you so much to all who called, wrote, brought food and in so many ways expressed loving support on the occasion of the death of Ethel Eliaser.
From Margo Miller and Jerry and Max Eliaser News from Dor Hadash Religious School
Dear Chevre,
We will be having a Shabbaton camping weekend on Friday May 30 -Sunday, June 1. Any individual or family interested in joining us, please e-mail Shari Brenner at sbrenner @sonic.net or Irwin Keller at irwin@irwinkeller.com
Dor Hadash meets at 10 AM for our last session of the school year on:
Sunday, May 4
Many blessings,
Shari Brenner, Education Committee
Pamela Pepper, Education Committee Board News
Dear Members of Ner Shalom,
On behalf of the Board and membership of Ner Shalom I wish to thank all those who have participated in our recent Member Poll. Your input in this matter was vital and the Board are, at present, producing a plan for rabbinic leadership based upon the results of this poll. If you have not yet advised the Board of your views concerning the Member Poll, please respond as soon as possible so that your opinion can be included in the final results. You can e-mail shalom@sonic.net with your reply and subject it "Member Poll" or telephone 664-8622 and speak directly to Carol our office administrator. All replies are strictly confidential.
B'shalom,
Jack D. Fender
Board President
MEMBERS OF THE BOARD
Jack Fender - President 588- 8824
e-mail: fenderola@yahoo.com
Berrine DeCarmo - Vice President 588- 9088
e-mail: berrine1988@sbcglobal.net
Barbara Lesch McCaffry - Secretary 585- 2291
e-mail: mccaffry@sonoma.edu
Renee Kramer - Treasurer 823- 9555
e-mail: reneek777@sbcglobal.net
Nancy Rapp (415) 897-5090
e-mail: rappwayne@prodigy.net
Ellyn Lazar 838-4785
e-mail: emlazar@sbcglobal.net
Anna Belle Kaufman 824-2997
e-mail: rxarts@gmail.com
Barkat Ferar 765-1844
e-mail: ferarfamily@yahoo.com
COMMITTEE CHAIRS
Education - Co-Chairs Pamela Pepper 588- 8824
e-mail: p.pepper@yahoo.com
and Shari Brenner 575-5863
e-mail: sbrenner@sonic.net
Personnel - Barbara Lesch McCaffry 585- 2291
e-mail: mccaffry@sonoma.edu
Finance - Ariana Elster 824- 5609
e-mail: aelster@comcast.net
Membership - Nancy Rapp(415) 897- 5090
e-mail: rappwayne@prodigy.net
Building and Maintenance - Jack Fender 588- 8824
e-mail: fenderola@yahoo.com
Newsletter - Pamela Pepper 588- 8824
e-mail: p.pepper@yahoo.com
Website - Anne Woods
e-mail: rainywoods@yahoo.com
Dor Hadash Education Director - position open
No-Cost Fundraising - Anna Ghandour 584- 4829
e-mail: huskyanna@yahoo.com
Visioning Committee - Co-Chairs A.J.Levis 480-6010
e-mail: ecocontractor@earthlink.net
and Jerry Green 824-4344
e-mail: yitzak@medagree.com
Administrator - Carol Vanek 664- 8622
e-mail: shalom@sonic.net
Office Hours: Tues.-Fri. 9:00 AM- 2:00 PM Birthdays and Anniversaries ~ May
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO...
CARINA WAGNER ~ MAY 23
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HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO...
BARBARA and MICHAEL LESCH McCAFFRY ~ MAY 20 1984
Please e-mail Pamela Pepper p.pepper@yahoo.com with your birthday and anniversary dates so we can wish you a happy celebration! Community Announcements
What Do You Want to Do With the Rest of Your Life?
Group Meeting ~ Sunday, May 4 ~ 11:30am-1pm at Ner Shalom.
Meetings every other Sunday thereafter.
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Interfaith Peace Party at Ner Shalom
Saturday, May 10 ~ 6-11 pm
FREE
Jews, Muslims, Christians & others
With fabulous music
Build the Peace
Share Prayers
Break Bread, Sing & Dance, Food & Drink
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The Jewish Community Free Clinic is now accepting donations of toys and children's books. Please bring them to their new location at Center Drive in Rohnert Park behind the public library.
JFCS RIDES hits the road to help seniors go to medical appointments, shopping, personal care appointments, and local community events.
Please check our website nershalom.org for more information.
OPEN YOUR HEART TO A WAITING CHILD
Sonoma County has a serious shortage of caring foster families.
Foster parents are needed for children and youth of all ages and ethnic backgrounds.
Please check our website nershalom.org for more information.
Jewish Reconstructionist Federation West Coast Region website: www.jrf.org/westcoast ASK JCI & R...
Q: Israel! Israel! Israel! My family would like to plan a trip to Israel, and wonder if there are resources within the Jewish community.
A: Everything you have always wanted to know about Israel, but didn't know who to ask... now you know! There are many travel options, from missions, group excursions, volunteering, and student visits. As parting gifts, we can send you a touring map of Israel, travel brochures, and the Insider's Guide to the Israel Experience. We can also send you a DVD for program options for young adults.
If you're not leaving town and prefer armchair travel:
*We can tell you about great web sites for visiting Israel
*You can learn Hebrew and go to Israeli films and events
*Socialize in Tzavta, an Israeli café
*Visit Israel @ 60 in the gardens, Sunday June 1 www.israelinthebay.org
For more information about connecting to Jewish life, or for your free copy of Resource/A Guide to Jewish Life 2008/5768 (which has a Yiddish section), call JCI & R at 415/777-4545 or local toll-free 877- 777-JCIR (5247)
Jewish Community Information and Referral is a service of the Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin, and Sonoma counties. Visit our websites at: www.JewishNfo.org or bayarea.planitjewish.com
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.
For more information please check their website at: hebrewfreeloan.org Yom Hashoah ~ Sunday, May 4
"Dor L'Dor", Passing the Flame of Memory to the Next Generation" is the theme for the Holocaust commemoration of the Jewish Community of Sonoma County. The annual event, which celebrates the lives of Holocaust survivors and honors those who were lost, will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday, May 4 at The Friedman Center, 4676 Mayette Avenue in Santa Rosa.
Featured guests will include Dr. Debbie Findling and Miriam Susan Dregey. Dr. Findling a noted Holocaust and teen educator, is co- author of Teaching the Holocaust. She led "March of the Living" educational groups to Poland and Israel for 10 years. Her theme will be creating the connection between memory and action. Dregey of Santa Rosa will talk about her family's experience during the Holocaust years, which she survived as a hidden child.
The event will also honor the teen winner of the Suzy Raful Essay Contest, established by the Santa Rosa resident's children to honor their mother, who survived both concentration camp and a death march.
"This is an opportunity not only for honoring the survivors, but also for our young people to be honored themselves for accepting the legacy of Holocaust remembrance. For this reason we urge the entire community to participate, as an expression of intergenerational continuity," said Gesher Calmenson, event chairperson and Jewish family educator. He is also co-founder of Remember Us, the national Holocaust B'nai Mitzvah project that invites children who are preparing for Bar or Bat Mitzvah to connect with the memories of children who were lost in the Holocaust.
Activities will include a candle lighting ceremony by local survivors, a remembrance pledge by local youth, and music provided by the area's liturgical soloists Leira Satlof and Fredi Bloom. Musician Gale Kissin will provide interludes of Yiddish music in honor of the culture decimated by the Holocaust.
The event is sponsored by the Jewish Community Agency of Sonoma County, with the cooperation of the Alliance for the Study of the Holocaust, all Sonoma County Synagogues, and the Jewish Community Federation.
For more information, phone (707)528- 4222 or visit www.jccsoco. org.
Donations Make a Difference!
Donations to Ner Shalom Make A Difference!
*Building Repair Fund
*Dor Hadash School
*General Fund
*Music Fund
*Teen Fund
*Tikkun Olam Fund
*Written Word/Torah Fund
Honor some one; remember an event or a special person. Donations (minimum of $6 {1/3 Chai} per listing) will be listed in the Gifts of Light section of the next newsletter. Send the donation to the office with the appropriate designation or call the office at 664-8622 for more information. Your generous support of Ner Shalom is greatly appreciated.
Memorialize the memory of a loved one with a Yahrzeit Plaque on our Wall of Remembrance. The cost of a plaque and inscription is $200 Please contact the office at 664-8622 for more information. eScrip and more...
Do you need new tires or more for your vehicle? If you do, than check out the participating merchants in the eScrip (two are Big O Tires and Pep Boys) www.eScrip.c om and Communitysmart (such as McLea's Tire) www.communitysmart.com programs. All it takes is having work done at one of these merchants and then when you go to pay for it present your Communitysmart card or use your credit/debit card linked with eScrip. Its so easy to make your vehicle safe and provide a donation to your community.
eScrip shoppers please make sure you keep your credit/debit cards up to date. Just go on-line to www.eScrip.c om and check out "my escrip" to see what your expiration dates and card numbers are on their records.
Oliver's and about 9 other markets belong to the Communitysmart Card program. Oliver's shoppers please note this major change!! To join this program you can: instantly join by asking for a card at Oliver's checkout counter; call COMMUNITYsmart at 568-4995 or go on-line to www.communitysmart.com. When you check out at one of the participating merchants, you slide your Communitysmart card just like a debit card to get credit for your transaction. This program requires that a certain minimum be spent but then we receive a greater rebate (for Oliver's you need to spend $25 for a rebate of 5%).
Albertson's shoppers can participate by connecting your blue and white Preferred Savers card to Ner Shalom by going to www.Al bertsons. com or using a tan and white Community Partners card Anna can provide you.
Raley's users just need to obtain a Raley's partner's card from Anna and activate it through their website (Raleys.com). Using the card without activating it for Ner Shalom will leave those rebates in suspense.
Not sure where you stand with all these programs? Give Anna Ghandour a call at 584- 4829 or e-mail her at huskyanna@yahoo.com and let her help you make a difference today.
Newsletter Guidelines
*1. Deadline will be at 2:00 p.m. on the first Friday of every month (unless arrangements have been made with the editor of the newsletter.)
*2. All submissions should be sent to the editor via e- mail with the subject heading: NL submission.
*3. Editor will change, edit, or delete any or all portions of submission(s) as deemed necessary without prior approval of the author.
*4. Editor is not responsible for retrieving submissions from other sources. It is the responsibility of the author to submit all necessary components to the editor by the deadline.
Contact Information
email: p.pepper@yahoo.com
phone: (707)664-8622
web: http://www.nershalom.org |
