1. Executive Director, Shelley Engel will be available Sunday morning, at BSO from 10:15-11:00 for High Holiday Tickets
2. Please bring your tickets to High Holiday Services, for security they will be checked at the door
3. Take a grocery bag on Rosh Hashanah and bring it back filled on Yom Kippur for the Capital Area Food Bank
4. High Holiday Schedule of Services listed below.
5. Sisterhood Meeting, 10/6 @8:00pm - we need you there to vote on the budget
6. Check out the YOUTH EVENTS - something for everyone!

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

1. Friday, September 30 - 7:30 pm Shabbat Service
2. Saturday, October 1 - 9:00am Shabbat Service
3. Sunday, October 2 - 8:45 am - Minyan
4. Erev Rosh Hashanah - Monday, October 3 - 6:30-8:00pm at BSO for all ticket holders
5. 1st Day Rosh Hashanah - Tuesday, October 4
   • 7:45am-12:30pm at BSO for Morning Ticket Holders
   • 9:15-11:30am at BSO for Junior Congregation & Teen Service
   • 1:15-4:30pm at BSO for Afternoon Ticket Holders
   • 1:45-3:45pm at BSO for Junior Congregation & Teen Service
   • 10:30am-noon at Blake HS for Young Family Service
   • 10:00am-noon at Blake HS for Interactive Learning Service
   • 6:30-8:00pm at BSO for All ticket Holders
6. 2nd Day Rosh Hashanah - Wednesday, October 5
   • 8:45am-1:30pm at BSO for All ticket holders
   • 10:15am-12:30pm at BSO for Junior Congregation & Teen Service
   • 6:30-8:00pm at BSO for All ticket Holders
7. Thursday, October 6 - Minyan at 7:30pm
8. Friday, October 7 - Friday Night Services, Family Birthday and Anniversary Shabbat

Religious School

• Religious School is closed Oct. 4 and 5 due to Rosh Hashanah.
  
• Religious school is closed on Wednesday, October 12 and Thursday, October 13 due to Yom Kippur.
  
• The next Junior Congregation is Saturday, October 8 from 9:30 am-11:30 am in rooms 13, 14 and 15.
  
• Primary Open House for grades K-2 is Sunday, October 9. Parents are invited to attend class with their children during regular class time. Come and share your child's Sunday school experience!
  
• Joe Corbi Pizza and Cookie order forms are due October 16 to the religious school office. If you need an order form, please call the religious school office at 301-774-9323. What a wonderful, delicious way to support our school! Orders will be ready for pick up on Sunday, October 30 from 8:30-10:30 a.m.
  
• We wish everyone a Happy, Healthy and Peaceful New Year!

Youth Department

• During this time of the year where we remember what we are thankful for, it’s also time to remember those who are in need. The annual B’nai Shalom of Olney Food Drive is here again for the High Holidays. Grocery bags will be available in the lobby. Please take some home and fill them up and bring them back before Yom Kippur. The food goes to the Capital Area Food Bank who very much appreciates B’nai Shalom of Olney’s generosity.
  
• 11th graders, spend a day touring two college campuses to begin figuring out what’s important to you. To make it more fun, invite some Jewish friends from school or camp or your youth group. By the end of the day, you’ll get a taste of two very different types of schools to help you start figuring it all out. It’s happening November 6th. For more info, check online or look in your mailboxes real soon!
  
• The registration deadline for the Kadima Kallah is just a few days away. Please get your applications in as soon as possible
  
• BSO USY is going to the Warner Theatre on Thursday, October 20th with Kehilat Shalom USY. Don’t worry there’s no public school the next day. But please note that BSO has only 15 tickets to sell! Order your tickets now.
  
• USY Lock-in October 22nd...more info
  
• Kadima and USY will take a tour of WJLA on Sunday, October 30th
  
• Our Bonim kids will make crafts and have a sing-a-long in the Sukkah on October 22nd. Information is coming soon.
  
• Machar - Save the Date...October 22nd for a Havdallah and Sukkah Party
  

KOACH

We would like to stay in touch with your son or daughter while in college. They receive holiday goodies and communications throughout the year. To add your student or to update their information, please send the following to Ruth Burka at raburka@aol.com.

Nursery School

The B'nai Shalom of Olney Nursery School will hold its Twelfth Annual Fall Boutique and Silent Auction on Sunday, October 16, 2005, from 10:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. This fabulous boutique will feature over 60 vendors with unique merchandise such as jewelry, toys, apparel, holiday gift ideas and home accessories. Also featured are a silent auction, themed raffle baskets and free gift wrapping. The event will take place at the Longwood Community Recreation Center located at 19300 Georgia Avenue in Brookeville, about about one mile north of Route 108. For more information call 301-260-1406. Admission is free and open to all.

Mens Club

• On Sunday, November 6 the Men's Club will host a Sunday Morning Brunch program on "Jewish War Veterans." Our guest speaker will be Richard Rosenzweig who is the Senior Vice Commander of the DC Jewish War Veterans. All Congregants are invited to attend.
  
• Entertainment books are available once again in the front office.

Sisterhood

• All Sisterhood members are urged to attend Sisterhood's monthly meeting next Thursday, October 6 at 8 p.m. at the home of Naomi Yadin-Mendick. In addition to other business, we will vote to approve the Sisterhood budget for 5766 (the fiscal year from July 1, 2005 through June 30, 2006). It's important that Sisterhood members participate in this process, and it's a great opportunity to gain insight into and help guide the mission and priorities of BSO Sisterhood.
  
  Those who have not had a chance to submit their dues by the date of the meeting are welcome to pay Sisterhood dues that evening so that they cam participate and vote. Remember, new BSO members' first year of Sisterhood membership is complimentary and entitles you to all the benefits and rights (such as voting on the budget) of membership.
  
• We're looking for a few more Sisterhood member volunteers to help staff the Sisterhood Judaica shop. In order to meet the needs of the BSO community we want to have regular hours to serve nursery school families, religious school families, working adults, etc. If you can commit an hour or two (or three) each month, please call Ellen Lemberger.
  
• Sisterhood Shabbat is Saturday, January 21. It's not too early to start thinking about your participation in the service, learn some new skills, practice your Hebrew reading so that you can lead a new prayer or section of the service. If you think you might want to try something new but need some help or if you are interested in helping coordinate Sisterhood Shabbat, please call Naomi.
  
• Go on line to check out our Sisterhood calendar for upcoming events

MOVIE NIGHT

There was a huge crowd at Bonjour Monsieur Shlomi. If you missed the film, it is available through NetFlix.

Next Month - October 23rd we will show The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg, directed by Aviva Kempner
The story of Baseball Hall-of-Famer Hank Greenberg is told through archival film footage and interviews with Jewish and non-Jewish fans, his former teammates, his friends, and his family. As a great first baseman with the Detroit Tigers, Greenberg endured antisemitism and became a hero and source of inspiration throughout the Jewish community, not incidentally leading the Tigers to Major League dominance in the 1930s.

Save the Following Dates for Upcoming Events:

• October 12 - Erev Yom Kippur - Kol Nidre
• October 13 - Yom Kippur
• October 17 - Erev Sukkot
• October 18-19 - First two days of Sukkot
• October 24 - Erev Shmini Atzeret
• October 25 - Shmini Atzeret
• October 26 - Simchat Torah
• Jewish Community Events Calendar

Text of Weekly Torah Portion is brought to you by The Jewish Theological Seminary of America

P A R A S H A T N i t z a v i m
Deuteronomy 29:9 - 30:20

The text of Parashat Nitzavim is available online at
http://www.jtsa.edu/community/parashah/jpstext/nitzavim.shtml

H A F T A R A T N i t z a v i m
Isaiah 61:10-63:9

The text of the Haftarah for Nitzavim
http://www.jtsa.edu/community/parashah/jpstext/nitzavim_haft.shtml

Light Shabbat candles Friday, September 30 at 6:36 in the Olney, MD area. Shabbat ends at 7:42 on Saturday, October 1.