CONGREGATION P’NAI TIKVAH

(Formerly Valley Outreach Synagogue)

Kol Kiruv

April 2013 Nissan/Iyyar 5773 Vol. 19—No. 10

Table of Contents

Cover Page 1

Rabbi’s Message 2

Cantor’s Notes 3

President’s Message 4

Women’s Rosh Chodesh 5-6

Jewlicious Learning 6-7

Mitzvah Envelopes 8

Mi Shebeirach 8

Updates & Fundraising 9

Birthdays & Anniversary's 10

Kidz Korner 10

Shabbat Joy/Davida… 11

Yahrzeits 12

Survivors by Rabbi Zaslow 12-13

A Letter from Anat Hoffman 14

Beit Shemesh Signs 15

Yom HaShoah Flyer 16

Community Yom Flyer 17

Family Promise Cardboard… 18-19

Carly Matt’s Performance 20

Swanson Music Service 21

Doheny Glatt Kosher Meat 21

JNF Flyer 22

Calendar at a Glance 23

Clergy and Staff

Rabbi: Yocheved Mintz

Cantor: Marla Goldberg

Accompanist: Timothy Cooper

Newsletter: D’vorah Turrentine,

Educator: Rabbi Mintz

Bookkeeper: Lynn Pisetzner

Office Administrator: ‘D’vorah Turrentine

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Congregation P’nai Tikvah will worship on Shabbat, April 5th and 19th,

at Kraft-Sussman Chapel, in the Bank of Nevada Business Park at 3975 S.

Durango, Suite 104, in Las Vegas. Tot Shabbat will be held on April 5th

at 6:30 PM. Kabbalat Shabbat and Maariv services will begin at 7:30 PM.

Torah Study will take place at 10:00 AM on April 6th and 20th at Rabbi

Mintz’s home. A bagels and lox brunch is served. Please RSVP by calling

the administrative office at (702) 436-4900 or by emailing

gkmintz@aol.com.

APRIL IS FILLED WITH POSSIBILITIES

Check out the services and community celebrations happening this month: April 5th and 19th—Shabbat joy at Kraft-Sussman Chapel April 6th and 20th—Torah Study at the Rabbi’s house April 7th—Community Yom HaShoah Commemoration at

Midbar Kodesh April 14th—Women’s Rosh Chodesh at Nancey Kasse’s house. April 17th—Yom HaAtzmaut at the Venetian Whether it’s with the Congregation or with the greater commu-nity, we can nourish our souls with Springtime nectar in this first full month of Spring. Likewise, since the second day of Pesach signals the beginning of the Counting of the Omer, we can consciously pause each day to elevate our spirits day by day as we continue our journey to Shavuot next month. If you would like a word of inspiration for each day, please let the office know and Rabbi Mintz will send out a thought for each day to help you do your own spiritual count up. (436-4900)

Rabbi’s Message to the Congregation

rights for people everywhere and, hopefully,

energizes us to do more to repair the world.

The memories of those who gave the ultimate

sacrifice to establish the State of Israel immedi-

ately catapults us into celebration of the fact

that it has been established, and, hopefully,

alerts us to its existential challenges.

Did you know that there is no Hebrew word for

“history”? We use a borrow word, “Historia.”

But, more commonly, we use iterations of the

root z-k-r, remember (zikaron, z’chor, zeicher),

and we share this communal memory in order

to learn and grow.

So it is with our souls. The adventure of life is

the nurturing and growth of our souls. Ralph

Waldo Emerson said, “What we are born with

is G-d’s gift to us. What we become is our gift

to G-d.” Our individual potential is infinite.

Just as we are awakening ourselves to our per-

sonal potential, Congregation P’nai Tikvah has

begun the process of awakening this holy com-

munity to its potential. With the recent Shab-

bat Retreat attended by a group of members

interested in the future of this holy community

and facilitated by Rabbi Dr Henry Shreibman,

we have embarked on the process of strategi-

cally planning for the promising future of CPT.

We need input from every member, imagina-

tion, interest, and invested intention, as well.

We each aspire to be first a blessing to our-

selves, but the purpose of being a blessing to

oneself is so that we can become a blessing to

others. May we become a community of bless-

ings. Happy Springtime! Let’s get growing!!

L’Shalom,

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Chevreh:

“ Aviv, Aviv hinei zeh ba!” Spring is here and

along with the blooming of the flowers and trees,

humanity gets a sense of hope and renewal.

Some animals hibernate in the winter and awake,

refreshed, renewed in the spring. While we do

not physically hibernate, we humans tend to re-

treat a bit, hunker down in our individual “soul

caves” and slow down over the winter. Some

even become disturbed by the world around us,

some become complacent, and some even be-

come depressed; but, with the warming sunny

days of spring, let us consciously look within and

do some soul-nurturing, and work to emerge from

our soul caves.

We are told by our sages that what we do in this

world below is reflected by the world above, and

vice-versa. Holy intention (we call it Kavannah),

not just in prayers, but in our everyday interac-

tions, brings down the Shefa / abundance from

above. And we all, every one of us, has the ca-

pacity to summon this Shefa. Rabbi Aaron of

Karlin said: “There is a divine light in every

soul. It is dormant and eclipsed by the follies of

this world. We must first awaken this light, then

the upper light will come upon us.”

The holiday of Passover last month, and the

“Yamim” (Yom HaShoah, Yom HaZikaron, and

Yom HaAtzmaut) tend to bring up memories,

make us look backward. But they are actually all

intended to encourage us to look forward.

Learning from what we have experienced we are

supposed to plan for a better future. We end the

Seder with L’Shanah HaBaah BiYerushalayim/

Next Year in Jerusalem. Likewise we use what

we learned from our experiences in the Shoah to

heighten our awareness of deprivation of human

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Cantor’s Notes:

Many of you know that I have been attending a program called Davening Leadership Training Institute

7 (DTLI-7). It is a program that brings Rabbis, Cantors and lay leaders together to learn more about

leading meaningful worship, for themselves and their congregants. Rabbi Mintz took part in this

course and encouraged me to take it as well.

You might wonder, what does ‘leading meaningful worship’ mean, and how do you learn that? First,

there are a lot of ways to find meaning in worship. And we learn by doing, and participating together

in worship and have workshops in nusach, the music of our prayers. The nusach portion is lead by

Chazzan Jack Kessler. We have been working on the mode, or style, of nusach known as ‘Freigish’

which I wrote about a few months ago. Each holiday has its own mode, and even the time of day has

its own mode. It has been very enjoyable for me to review these musical styles I learned in Cantorial

school.

For the worship part, members of our group get a chance to lead either the morning, afternoon, or

evening service. We are then critiqued by Rabbis Shawn Zevit and Marcia Prager on how we can im-

prove our connection to the prayers and the congregation, or how we really did connect well. We can

connect using body, song (with or without words) and spoken word, and it doesn’t have to be in He-

brew. Using English is just a spiritual as praying in Hebrew. Also leading into the prayer, with an

explanation of the prayer can be done. The idea is that the explanations should not take away from the

flow of the service, but can be an important part of worship. If you don’t know what you are praying

about, how can you really pray?

One session really showed that. It was fascinating to watch Reb Marcia show one of my classmates

how to make her explanation of the prayer flow better. At the service, the leader did a nice job ex-

plaining the prayer by introducing it with what the words meant, and she sang it in English before we

started chanting the prayer together. At the review, Reb Marcia had her redo the prayer, having her

give the translation within the prayer (while still singing it) instead of giving the explanation of it to the

congregation before they joined in chanting the prayer together as it was done during the service. The

effect was monumentally different. We still got the explanation and knowledge of what the prayer

meant, but it flowed so differently that we felt the explanation was now a part of the prayer, instead of

an explanation that was separate from the prayer. We got the meaning, but it was now not just intellec-

tual, but spiritual.

This is just one small part of what I am getting out of attending DLTI-7. The other wonderful thing is

the connections I have made with people from all over the country who are learning along with me. I

have two more weeks to go, one this summer and one next winter. I look forward to joining my

friends and colleagues in continuing an motivating program, helping me to be a better davener, and a

better divining leader.

L’Shalom,

Cantor Marla Goldberg

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Message from the President:

Thank you to those who participated in the wonderful weekend with Rabbi Dr. Henry Shreibman of the

Jewish Reconstructionist Movement. I’m impressed by the optimism of the group and know that their

efforts will serve the congregation well. In addition, thank you to Jennifer Cohen and Annie Goodrich

for the beautiful 2nd Seder that was both meaningful and uplifting for all who attended. We are grateful

to Rabbi Mintz for her leadership that evening and always and to Cantor Goldberg for always uplifting

us.

With spring upon us, we look forward to an exciting year and calendar of activities. We are actively in-

volved in planning for both the High Holidays and the New Year. Please continue to share your time,

talent and treasure with this CPT community. Today we are building and solidifying our tomorrows and

guaranteeing a bright future for our congregation. Call me at 286-0739 to get more involved or share

your thoughts and ideas. Thanks for all you do.

B’Shalom,

Sam Lieberman

President

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Women’s Rosh Chodesh for the month of IyyarApril 14, 2013 – 7:00 pmHome of Nancey Kasse

Dreams are said to be a place where the soul can rise and attend to work on other planes, while the body rejuvenates and rests for the work on this plane.

Did you know there were prayers to be said when waking from a bad dream?

Join us as we explore what Judaism has to say about dreams.

RSVP by April 10th to Nancey Kasse at naftala2006@hotmail.com

For details regarding current CPT fundraisers or sug-gestions for future fundraising opportunities, please contact Dale Gardner cabinutsky@aol.com

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Women’s Rosh Chodesh Group

Iyyar: Sunday, April 14th: 7:00 – Dream Circle – Nancey

Kasse’s home (see page 5)

Sivan: Sunday, May 16th: 7:00 – Gather ‘Round the Pool –

Rabbi’s House

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ANNUAL CPT WOMEN’S RETREAT Thursday July 25th—28th

Come and join us at Deer Valley Utah in Rabbi’s condo:

A wonderful opportunity to refresh and renew, to re-soul

and re-Jew. We’ll enjoy the galleries of Park City and the

beauty of summer in the Uinta Mountains. We will eat,

pray and play. Contact the office at 436-4900 so we can

take advantage of Southwest web airfare of $99 each way

plus $100.00 to cover costs of the retreat. We would like to

fly on SW flt#1964 departing LAS at 8:35am and arriving

SLC at 10:50am —Returning on SW Flight #3406 depart-

ing SLC at 1:25pm arriving LAS 1:45pm. Please feel free

to check other airlines to compare prices.

Mitzvah Envelopes:

Mitzvah envelopes are given out at services with

the hope that they will be filled

out and returned with a dona-

tion for the congregation. Hon-

oring or remembering loved ones,

giving tzedakah for a

MiShebeirach, simply being

thankful for meaningful services,

and any other reason you can think of helps the

congregation’s sustainability and funds future

Jewlicious Learners

Having learned the Four Questions, lots of

songs, the symbols of Passover (see page

7), and the story, our Jewlicious Learners

were ready to celebrate with family and

friends, and now we begin our counting of

the Omer and count-up towards Shavuot

and the end of our sessions for this year.

Our beginners are polishing their de-

coding and beginning printing of the Aleph

-Bet with a fun new text and our more ad-

vanced group is reviewing word attack

skills, understanding the relationship be-

tween the “shoresh”/root of the word and

its meaning, and becoming more familiar

with vocabulary and prayers. It is hoped

that they will complete their text in the

next six weeks and be ready to begin

studies preparing them to join our leyners

when they become B’not Mitzvah.

Revised snack schedule for parents:

April 1 –DeLee Family; April 8—Jaeger-

Lockett Family; April 15– Holland Family;

April 22-Linker Family; April 29-DeLee

Family; May 6-Holland Family; May 13-

Jaeger-Lockett Family; May 20-Rabbi will

host the annual end-of-the-year splash

party! Happy Spring!

Jewlicious Learners making charoset

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MITZVAH ENVELOPES

Roz Tessler -In memory of Louis Tessler

Harriet Bernstein -In memory of Louis Tessler -Get well wishes to Rachel Bernstein

Phyllis & Stan Zuckerman -In memory of Henrietta Block Zuckerman

Rabbi Yocheved Mintz -In memory of Aileen Cherner -In memory of Fran Boyett -In memory of Rabbi Dr. David Hartman

Carol & Larry Bernstein -In memory of Albert Bernstein -In honor of Paige Miller's Bat Mitzvah -In honor of Jeremy Roth's 5th birthday

Kraft Sussman Funeral Services -In memory of Aileen Cherner

Dotti Elgart -In memory of Frances Silverman

Nancy Goldberg

Susan & Rick Bindhamer In memory of Ken Elgart

Eileen & Cort Ancman Carol & Larry Bernstein Harriet Bernstein Susan & Rick Bindhamer Ann Brandt Jennifer & Jerald Cohen Dale Gardner Nancy Goldberg Annie Goodrich Gloria Granat Nancey Kasse Lesley & Marvin Korach Kraft Sussman Funeral Services Sam Lieberman Scott Linker Ann Mandell Rabbi Yocheved Mintz

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Mi Shebeirach/”Get Well” Wishes

to…

Marie Ackerman

Marjorie Lieberman

Annie Goodrich

Linda Kauffman

Davida Lewin Schermer

D’vorah Turrentine

Barbara Grossman

Edith Rome

Gary Paykell

Elliot Bender

Paul Bodner

Marie Lodeski

Rocky Fazio

Guy Fazio

Olivia Bender

Gittel bat Libba Heika

Libba Heika bat Sima

TORAH FUND

PLANTING TREES IN ISRAEL

PRAYER BOOK DEDICATIONS

OR PURCHASE

For $40.00 a prayer book can either be purchased for per-

sonal use or be dedicated to the congregation “In Memory”

or “In Honor of” and a card from CPT will be sent to the

family. The prayer book plate will be placed on the inside

cover of our new Kol HaNeshamah siddur.

In memory of Ken Elgart

Lynn & David Pisetzner Sandy & Neil Rich Marlene Silverman Roz Tessler Doris & Palmie Turrentine Phyllis & Stan Zuckerman

UPDATES and

Fundraising Opportunities

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Box Tops For Education are an Easy Way to Support P’nai Tikvah’s Jewlicious Learning Program!

Box Tops for Education is a very simple way for you to contribute to CPT’s Jewlicious Learning pro-gram every time you shop! Clip box tops from hun-dreds of products. Each box top is worth 10 cents for the program, and some products are offering double and triple box tops! Bring them to services with you and place them in the “Box Tops for Edu-cation” box. For a complete list of products bearing the Box Tops for Education symbol, go to: http://www.boxtops4education.com .

All Box Tops should be brought to Shabbat Ser-vices or sent to Dale Gardner cabinutsky@aol.com

On’gai Shabbat— Time to Sign up!

We still have a few openings left for those of you who want to celebrate a simcha or commemorate the memory of a loved one by sponsoring an Oneg Shabbat. And for you foodies who want to get your Bobby Flay or Gordon Ramsey on, there’s still time! Check the schedule below; an opening is your opportunity:

April 5 Lesley & Marvin Korach Lesley & Marvin Korach

April 19 Sponsor needed Caterer needed

May 3 Roz Tessler & Harriet Bernstein Marlene Silverman

May 17 Phyllistans—Sponsors

Phyllistans—Caterers

June 7 Sponsor needed Caterer needed

June 21 Sponsor needed Caterer needed Call the office at (702) 436-4900 or email Doris Turrentine at cptdoris@aol.com for more information or to book your date now!

Note URL for Congregation P’nai Tikvah , As well as Facebook and Twitter Addresses

Make our web address, www.pnaitikvahlv.org , a favorite! Social networking with our shul is easier than ever! “Like” us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/pnaitikvahlv and follow us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/pnaitikvahlv . Thanks to Cindy Fox, Jon Axelrod, and Danielle Holland—CPT’s social network mavens—for keeping us current!! Any-one else wish to volunteer? Just call 436-4900 to be our new maven!

TORAH STUDY

THIS MONTH:

Rabbi Mintz will lead Torah Study

for Parashat Shemini, April 6th, and Parashat

Acharei Mot-Kedoshim April 20th, at the Rabbi’s

home at 10:00 AM. We will be studying Pirkei

Avot during the weeks leading up to Shavuot. If

you wish to get a thought for the day, during the

counting of the Omer, let the office know. And

do RSVP for Torah Study at gkmintz@aol.com

or call —the office at 436-4900.

Homes are always needed for the various

activities and meetings of our congregation.

Offer a Personal prayer – If you’d like to write your

own, please do so. If you would like to see it published

in the newsletter, e- mail it to cptdoris@aol.com BE A BIRD DOG??

If you refer someone to a car dealership, on behalf of CPT,

we can receive a referral fee. This is a wonderful and easy

way to do a mitzvah for CPT . More information contact

Doris 869-2700.

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Happy April

Birthday!!

KIDZ KORNER for April Nissan/Iyyar

HAPPY APRIL BIRTHDAYS

Kristen Jaeger April 10 Roz Tessler April 13 Sam Lieberman April 16 Fern Kosh April 23 Sabrina Linker April 28

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY

Kristen Jaeger & Tim Lockett April 2 Lesley & Marvin Korach April 3 Dale & Vince Gardner April 24

Davida had been hospitalized in February but now is doing well. “I don't cook, clean, go shop-

ping or anything! YEAH” this is one of her famous sayings.

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Tim Cooper our pianists

Shabbat Joy!

Memorial plaques are available for your consideration,

To honor the departed,

To inspire the living.

To be remembered in the hearts of those we leave

behind is,

In a sense, to live forever.

For further information, call the Synagogue office at

702-436-4900

Mitzvah donations also appreciated

YAHRZEITS

FOR APRIL

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How To Get Through Life

Sleep as much as you can ....

Read books that you enjoy...

Play with simple things...

Do whatever you want --

Whenever you want…

Look for affection when you need it...

Get serious once in a while...

Forget about diets…

Show some affection…

Get angry once in a while....

Change your looks…

Above all, be happy,

Regardless of what

Your challenges may be…

Have a great life!

May your troubles be less,

Your blessings more,

And may nothing but happiness

Come through your door.

Irwin Berger -Remembered by Laura Sussman & Wendy Kraft David Bernstein -Remembered by Harriet Bernstein Sheldon Elliott -Remembered by Rachel Piekarsky Edward Fox -Remembered by Marc Fox

Pearl Dratler Hewel -Remembered by Jackie Ackerman & Family Abraham Platt -Remembered by Zandra Bender Lee Burger Shilepsky -Remembered by Ann Brandt Helene Sussman -Remembered by Laura Sussman

Remembering Friends and Family: If you know of someone who can use a little cheer in their life because of illness or a death in their family-or a simcha -mazel tov celebration; the "Sunshine La-dy” Phyllis Zuckerman would like to send a card. Please contact her at:(702)617-0585 or phyllistan@cox.net

Survivors by Rabbi David Zaslow In 1958 I was about to meet Max and Mutte, and their daughter, Ruth, who was going to be my sister-in-law in a few months. My mother told me, "when you see numbers on their arms, don't look. Don't ask. Don't say a word." I was twelve, but I understood. There was something sacred here. A sacred object that I dare not look upon. Enter with humility. Like Moses, go barefoot and avert your eyes. But Mutte knew that it was time for her to talk. It was 13 years after that Event. She put me at ease as no one I had ever met. They were released, stateless, and lived in camps for the stateless another five years. Five more years until in 1950 they are able to come to America. Five more years.

Mutte, everyone calls her Mutte, "mother." Even my mother calls her Mutte. Raised Christian, married Max and converted to Judaism. They kept her in a special camp because her eyes were blue. Today her deep blue eyes draw from the well of Miriam and from the flames of that unspeakable place, like no one else I have ever met. (Continued on page 12)

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Today, in remembering, Mutte speaks easily. Max, G-d rest his soul, never uttered the Amidah without remembering, but not so easily – wailing loudly from the other room

through the eighteen...no, nineteen.

Mutte speaks easily though.

She knows the inner meaning of memory.

It is not something from the past,

it is her air.

The air of a German blue sky

and the smoke rising filled with ashes.

She permits us to to breathe

this air today,

so that we might remember,

and know it when we see it

in Rochester, or Brooklyn, or Ashland.

To know it when we see it

and not deny it, or run from it.

To know it when we see it,

and to never permit it to be forgotten.

To know it when we see it,

and never let it lose its sacred meaning.

To know it when we see it,

and never let it happen again.

Never again. Never again.

With God's help,

through our eyes;

with God's help through our voices,

never the silence again.

The question, Mutte asks,

is not “where was G-d?”

The question, Mutte asks,

is “where were we all?

Where were our eyes?

Where were our voices.”

Never again?

The answer Mutte says,

“...is not G-d willing.”

The answer Mutte says,

“..are we willing?”

For God to be willing,

the Holy One must have

our eyes and lips!

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Beit Shemesh Signs

A Letter from Anat Hoffman:

Have you ever been in a restaurant and seen a sign reading “No shirt, No shoes, No service”? If you feel that this dress code is strict, imagine living in Beit Shemesh, where women are intimidated while walking on public streets if their clothes do not conform to a strict interpretation of modesty. A group of Orthodox women from Beit Shemesh found this situation intolerable and they came to IRAC for legal help. Representing several of these women, last week we filed a lawsuit against the city of Beit Shemesh, claiming that city authorities have allowed a small but extreme sect of ultra-Orthodox Jews to act as a “modesty police” against the city’s residents. The suit centers on street signs that were put up in public places telling women they can only enter wearing “proper dress” and a description of the kind of dress that is considered proper. City officials, including the ultra-Orthodox mayor of Beit Shemesh, have so far refused to intervene and act against the radical group behind these signs, thereby giving the signs tacit approval. It is important to understand that the four women we are representing, and the many other women who have come to us about this issue, are not radical non-conformists. They are modest Orthodox women in every sense. The stories they told us about be-ing afraid to walk down the street for fear of men hurling insults or worse at them was heartbreaking. It is hard to fully express the level of intimidation these women are feeling. We are suing the city for not taking steps to remove these offensive signs and we are seeking significant damages (25,000 shekels) for emotional distress on behalf of each of the women named in the case. It is our hope that the sting of Israel’s justice system will remind the officials in Beit Shemesh of their responsibilities to protect all resi-dents. The views of this extreme group represent neither the majority of Israelis, nor the ma-jority of Orthodox Jews, but they hold a disproportionate amount of power because hardly anybody else besides these brave women and IRAC are pushing back or providing help against this kind of religious coercion. . This case accentuates how important it is for Israel to have a government that repre-sents all its citizens. Prime Minster Netanyahu has asked for a two-week extension in forming a government. We need to keep the pressure on him to fill his cabinet with moderates. Click here to email the Prime Minister and send him that message. L’shalom, Anat Hoffman Executive Director, IRAC

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These are a few of the signs that IRAC is trying to have removed in Beit Shemesh

This one is outside the main shopping mall that is used by both secular and religious Israelis.

It reads:

"Kryiat Mishkanot Yaakov, Beit Shemesh Welcome to the Haredi Shopping Center

Customers are required to respect the feelings of the residents that are faithful to God and his Torah. And to wear modest dress. This includes: Closed blouses with long sleeves, long skirts, no pants, no

tight or revealing dress."

This one is on one of the main thoroughfares

It reads: "Women passing through this neighborhood are required to dress modestly. Including: Closed blouses

with long sleeves, long skirts, no pants, and no tight or revealing dress"

This sign is outside a synagogue on the main street.

It reads: "Women are requested not to loiter in front of the synagogue."

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Yom HaShoah Yom HaAtzmaut Women’s Rosh Chodesh

CALENDAR AT A GLANCE:

April 1 Jewlicious Learning 4:15 pm & Simchat Chochmah 7:00 pm

April 5 Tot Shabbat 6:30 pm Kabbalat Shabbat and Maariv Services 7:30 pm at Kraft-

Sussman Chapel

April 6 Torah Study 10:00 am., at the Rabbi’s home

April 7 Yom HaShoah at Midbar Kodesh 7:00pm –9:00pm

April 8 Jewlicious Learning 4:15 pm & Simchat Chochmah 7:00 pm

April 11 CPT Board Meeting 5:00pm—7:30pm Production Meeting MBFJW II at

Rabbi Mintz’s home

April 13 Torah Study 10:00 am., at the Rabbi’s home

April 14 Women’s Rosh Chodesh, at Nancey Kasse’s home

April 17 Yom HaAtzmaut 5:oo pm—8:30pm –Lido Ballroom Venetian

April 19 Kabbalat Shabbat and Maariv Services 7:30 at Kraft Sussman Chapel

April 20 Torah Study 10:00 am., at the Rabbi’s home

Blessing for the Month of Nissan/Iyyar

In this month of healing of body, heart, and soul, may we be blessed to di-

rect our energies that optimize our growth and transformation, person-

ally and as a holy community.

Amen

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