December 11, 2004 Announcements

Details of the following announcements can be found at http://www.bnaishalomofolney.org/

Go directly to the topics that interest you!

  1. Weekly Highlights and Schedule of Services
  2. Religious School News
  3. Sisterhood
  4. Men's Club
  5. Hazak
  6. Youth Events
  7. Film: Paper Clips
  8. Mitzvah Project Ideas
  9. Save the Dates
  10. This Week's Parsha
  11. Community Events

Weekly Highlights & Schedule of Services
[Events in green will occur before the next Shabbat.]

  • Friday Evening Shabbat Service - 7:30pm, Special Instrumental Service
  • Saturday Morning Service - 9:00am followed by a luncheon - Celebrate Rabbi Pohl's 26+ Years with BSO
    • Additional parking for Saturday, Dec. 11, service:
      Refuge Church
      3618 Olney-Laytonsville Road
      Olney, MD
  • Melaveh Malkah - Mincha/Seudah Shlishit - 3rd Ritual Meal of Shabbat along with Singing and Havdalah, 4:30pm
  • Sunday, Minyan at 8:45am
  • Evening Minyan, Monday-Thursday 7:30 p.m. in the Shuman Family Chapel

Friday night's 7:30 pm service is a great way to start the Shabbat of Hanukkah with your favorite Shabbat melodies, some new tunes, instrumental accompaniment. We also hope to have an old fashioned Hanukkah sing along after the oneg.

Celebrate 26+ Years with Rabbi Pohl at a special Shabbat Morning Service beginning at 9:00am, followed by a Kiddush Luncheon.

Melaveh Malkah- make a special Shabbat Chanukah at BSO even more special by joining us for a Melaveh Malkah- a traditional way of extending our celebration of Shabbat as a community- with minchah, seudah shlishit- the third ritual meal of Shabbat-, singing, ma'ariv and havdalah, followed by lighting Chanukah candles (all finished by around 6 p.m.!). Sponsored by BSO Sisterhood, Men's Club and Youth Dept. beginning at 4:30pm.

Religious School

How 2 University registration was due on December 8. If you have not turned in your registration, please do so immediately. You can view the catalogue and the registration form on our website, bnaishalomofolney.org or call the religious school office and Elaine will be happy to assist you. We look forward to seeing everyone on December 19. The schedule is :
8:45-9:15 Minyan/Opening
9:15-9:55 Registration/Continental Breakfast
10:00-10:55 First Session
11:00-11:55 Second Session

The Junior Congregation originally scheduled for December 11 has been cancelled due to the Shabbat service in which we honor Rabbi Pohl. We encourage everyone to celebrate this special Shabbat service with us. The next Junior Congregation is December 18 from 9:30-11:30 in rooms 13, 14, and 15.

Winter break is December 23- January 2. Religious School resumes on January 4.

Grade 4 Havdalah workshop is Sunday, January 4 during regular religious school hours.
Letters were sent home to all families and the tear-off should be returned to the religious school office by January 5. The Havdalah ritual items that will be made at the workshop will be used at the class Havdalah service on January 22 from 5:00-7:00 p.m.

It is still not too late to sponsor a Junior Congregation Kiddush. A sponsorship is $36.00 and should be forwarded to the Religious School office.

Donations to the Rescued Torah Fund are still being accepted. We are approximately $1200.00 away from our goal of $10,000.00. Thank you to those who have contributed.

Men's Club

  • Men's Club Basketball Leagues are starting up. Now is the time to join or form a new team. Contact Larry Parizer if you are interested in playing.
  • Seaboard Region Federation of Jewish Men's Clubs will honor Stanford Dubin and Fred Goldberg at The Blue Yarmulke Men-of-the-Year Dinner on Sunday, January 16, 2005 at 6:30pm in Owings Mills, MD at Congregation Beth Israel. Tickets are $60 per person.
  • Men's Club is once again selling Entertainment books at the low price of $35. Please contact Larry Parizer at 301.570.3475 or the synagogue office to purchase your copy!

Sisterhood

  • Sisterhood Chanukah party/brunch on Sunday, December 12 at 11 a.m. at the home of Cindy Simon to the announcements. Cost is just $5 and attendees are asked to bring a new, unwrapped children's book for donation and, if they'd like to participate in a Chanukah grab bag, a wrapped gift valued at $10 or under.

Hazak

Saturday, December 25, 9:15 a.m., 2nd Annual National HAZAK Shabbat Service. Kiddush will be co-sponsored by HAZAK and Sisterhood.

Youth

  • Sunday, December 12th: USY Israel Space-Capsule program. Come see a day
    in the life of Israeli teenagers, packed into a box!
  • Saturday, December 18th: USY Lazertag Lockin with B'nai Israel!
  • If you have any questions about Youth Group Activities at B'nai Shalom of Olney, please contact Youth Director Jacob Komisar, at 301-774-0879, or at BSOYouth@bnaishalomofolney.org. To RSVP for events, or for information about specific youth groups, you may contact their respective advisors.
    Kindergarten: Eve Margol, 301-570-5615; Bonim: Debbie Kovalsky, 301-924-2851; Machar: Mickey Parel, 301-924-0233; Kadima and USY: Jacob Komisar, 301-774-0879.


    The Youth Minyan needs Torah readers!!! If you are interested in reading 9 lines from the weekly Torah Reading on December 4th, 11th, or 18th, January 8th, 15th, 22nd, or 29th, or February 5th, 12th, or 26th, please e-mail Jacob at BSOYouth@bnaishalomofolney.org, or call 301-774-0879!

    Attention all parents of Day School students!!! There is a chance that your child is not on my lists for the youth groups at BSO!!! If you have a child who attends a local day school, or if you have a child who has not received any mailings regarding B'nai Shalom of Olney Youth Group activities, please contact me with their name, address, grade, birth date, phone number, and e-mail address!

Film Worth Seeing with your Family

“The town of Whitwell is a tiny community of about two thousand people nestled in the mountains of Tennessee. Its citizens are almost exclusively white and Christian. In 1998, the children of Whitwell Middle School took on an inspiring project, launched out of their principal's desire to help her students open their eyes to the diversity of the world beyond their insulated valley. What happened would change the students, their teachers, their families and the entire town forever… and eventually open hearts and minds around the world.

PAPER CLIPS tells the moving story of how these students responded to what had been to them a completely unfamiliar chapter in human history – the Holocaust – with a promise to honor every single soul lost in that horrible event by collecting paperclips to represent each individual exterminated by the Nazis. Their dedication was absolute. Their plan was simple but profound. The amazing result, which stands permanently in their schoolyard, is an unforgettable lesson of how a committed group of children can change the world, one classroom at a time.”

The G-rated film is playing at the Avalon Theater, 5612 Connecticut Ave., NW, Washington DC (1 ½ blocks below Chevy Chase Circle) now through Dec 16.

Help in the Community

 

Check out the link below for multiple opportunities in Montgomery County to donate specified items and to volunteer your time during the December Holidays.

Click here: http://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/content/volunteer/pdfs/decemberpdf.pdf

We are all looking for ways to help others and this is a free way to help animals, people and the planet. Through my internet travels, I found this opportunity.

All you need to do is bookmark 6 web sites and click on the button every day. Advertisers pay these sites per click, so click away!!! There are actually links on each site to the rest!

The sites are:

1. www.theliteracysite.com to help provide books for children in need
2. www.therainforestsite.com to help save the rainforest,
3. www.theanimalrescuesite.com to help feed animals in shelters,
4. www.thebreastcancersite.com to provide free mammograms to low income women,
5. www.thehungersite.com to help feed the hungry here and overseas, and
6. www.thechildhealthsite.com which provides limited health care for poor children.

Save the Following Dates for Upcoming Events:

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Torah:
Parshat Mikketz
Genesis 41:1 - 44:17
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Haftarah:
Haftarah for Mikketz
I Kings 3:15 - 3:28
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