february 2008 ~ shevat - adar 5768
-- Rabbinical Support During Transition
-- Gifts of Life
-- News from Dor Hadash
-- Board News
-- Birthdays and Anniversaries ~ February
-- Community Announcements
-- Yom Hashoah ~ Sunday, May 4
-- Donations Make a Difference!
-- eScrip and more...
-- Jewish Family and Children's Services
-- Newsletter Guidelines
Chevre and Friends...
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Jewish Perspectives on Disability: B'Tzelem Elohim
In this workshop we will look at disabilities through a Jewish lens. Through brief sensitivity training activities, we will raise our awareness of people with disabilities in our community and learn how our tradition teaches us that we are all created "B'Tzelem Elohim", in G-d's image. This will be a part of our series of classes Ner Shalom and the Bureau of Jewish Education are sponsoring to meet the needs of Jewish children with special needs.
We welcome teens who are thinking about working as peer tutors with special needs children, parents and interested adults from our greater community.
Date: Sunday, Feb. 10. 2008
Time: 2:00 -3:30PM
Light refreshments will be served. Donations appreciated.
Our Speaker:
Flora Kupferman has a BA in Social Welfare from UC Berkeley and holds teaching credentials in elementary and special education and a Resource Specialist Certificate from San Francisco State University. She has been the Special Education Consultant at the Bureau of Jewish Education and a teacher at Congregation Emanu El for over 19 years and has worked with typical and special needs children in preschool through high school and their families. She also does private tutoring to prepare students for Bar and Bat Mitzvah. She is the mother of two teenage daughters.
RSVP to : Mary Ann Malinak at 707-766- 6667 or e-mail: mamalinak@comcast.net with any questions. Thank you.
Rabbinical Support During Transition
Rabbi Ted Feldman of B'nai Israel Jewish Center in Petaluma will be providing rabbinic support to our congregation during this transitional period. If any Ner Shalom member is in need of spiritual counseling or rabbinic support for a life cycle event 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
OFFERINGS...
MESSING FAMILY, a donation to the general fund
ARIANA ELSTER, a donation in honor of Reb Tsvi Bar-David
THANK YOU TO...
BERRINE DeCARMO for her continual time and effort in keeping our kitchen spotless. Everything is so easy to find now!
SHARI BRENNER for her continued hard work in keeping e-mails flowing to our parents and communication going with our teachers at Dor Hadash.
IRWIN KELLER for all of the wonderful tefillot, music and lessons on the parshiot of the week for our Dor Hadash students and parents.
JACK FENDER for his time and passion he puts into our shul.
News from Dor Hadash
Dear Chevre,
It has often been said that it takes a village to raise a child. And it certainly takes a village to raise a village of children. And so it is with Dor Hadash - a new generation of Jewish children. Our children are growing up in a different world than the one in which adult Jews were raised, and it will undoubtedly take our entire village to raise them.
The world around us is changing, so what is the most important information to impart to this new generation? Is it factual information? Do they need to understand traditions that we, as adults, abandoned long ago? Do they need Hebrew language? Is it a feeling of being at home in a sanctuary? What relationship do we want them to have with the divine? Do we need to teach Jewish values? And what ARE Jewish values anyway? How do we impart a Jewish identity?
Oy - what DO our kids need? We will simply have to ask them. Just as Ner Shalom had time for visioning in late January, we will ask the Dor Hadash fifth and sixth graders what is important to them.
And we ask you, what do you have to offer them? Our Dor Hadash teachers have created rich curricula, but the membership of Ner Shalom can only make it richer. What stories, wisdom, talents or gifts do you have to offer?? Please, let a member of the Education Committee know what you have to bring - and how you will be part of the village that raises the new generation of Jewish children.
Shari Brenner, education committee
Pamela Pepper, education committee
Board News
MEMBERS OF THE BOARD
Jack Fender 588-8824
e-mail: fenderola@yahoo.com
Berrine DeCarmo 588-9088
e-mail: berrine1988@sbcglobal.net
Ellyn Lazar 838-4785
e-mail: emlazar@sbcglobal.net
Nancy Rapp (415) 897-5090
e-mail: rappwayne@prodigy.net
William Rogers 762-8645
e-mail: willrogers13@gmail.com
Renee Kramer 823-9555
e-mail: reneek777@sbcglobal.net
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
Finance Committee -Ariana Elster 824- 5609
e-mail: aelster@comcast.net
Membership - position open
Personnel - Barbara Lesch-McCaffry 585- 2291
e-mail: mccaffry@sonoma.edu
Visioning Committee - Sally Churgel 823- 0541
e-mail: churgel@pacbell.net
No-Cost Fundraising - Anna Ghandour 584-4829
e-mail: huskyanna@yahoo.com
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
Administrator: Carol Vanek 664- 8622
e-mail: shalom@sonic.net
Office Hours: Tues.-Fri. 9:00 AM- 2:00 PM
Birthdays and Anniversaries ~ February
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO...
FEBRUARY18 ~ LORRAINE LICHTMAN
FEBRUARY 19 ~ MARY ANN MALINAK
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO...
FEBRUARY 23 ~ RUSS MESSING and ARLENE NASCKE 1986
Community Announcements
The Jewish Community Free Clinic is now accepting donations of toys and children's books. Please bring them to the Jewish Free Clinic located at 6307 Commerce Blvd., next door to Summit Bank.
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: I am concerned about my elderly parents, and would like to explore options for senior activities and housing. Can you tell me where to start the search?
A: Yes, of course we can help. The number of options for housing has grown in recent years. Let's start by sending you senior housing guides and Seniors and the Law. We can refer you to many senior services provided by our Jewish community, including medical support, senior transportation; meals on wheels, cultural and social activities, Holocaust survivor services, long-distance senior care, and help at home.
For more information about connecting to Jewish life, 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
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.
Donations Make a Difference!
Donations to Ner Shalom Make A Difference!
*Building Repair Fund
*Dor Hadash School
*General Fund
*Music Fund
*Rabbi's Discretionary 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 |
