Parents of all
students in grades 2 through 7, B’nai Mitzvah Orientation is this Sunday in the Temple sanctuary from 9 am to 10 am.
This is a terrific opportunity to learn about the requirements for
becoming a Bar or Bat Mitzvah as well as helpful information for parents when
planning such an event.
Take
a look at these three interesting events coming up shortly:
April 6th, 7:30 pm, Congregation Beth
Am, Los Altos Hills
“Address Unknown”, an Israeli theatrical
production with English surtitles. This is the stage adaptation of a book that
was written as a series of letters between a Jewish art dealer, living in San
Francisco, and his business partner, who returned to Germany in 1932 and
gradually adopted Nazi ideology. This
novel was credited with exposing, early on, the dangers of Nazism to the
American public. The play stars Zvi
Schwartzberg and Rafi Kalmar. This
production would be of particular interest to our 7th through 12th
graders. Tickets are $50 (for front row
seats; $15 of this is donated to the “Warm Home” project of Yad Be Yad), $35,
and $20. To purchase tickets, contact
Vered Ravid at 408-530-8243 or Tziona Tassa at 650-965-3799. You can also purchase tickets by Visa or
Mastercard from Orly’s Bookstore at 408-732-3238.
April 13th, 7:30 – 9:00 pm, APJCC
Family Campus in Los Gatos
How to Get Into and Pay for College is a program sponsored by the Silicon
Valley Jewish community (including Temple Emanu-El). All high school students and their parents are invited to attend
to learn how to get into the right college for each individual student, how to
pay for college, how to get financial aid, and how to find out about Jewish
life on college campuses (you can speak with Hillel students). Attendance is free.
April 14th, 4 pm, Board of Chambers of
the Santa Clara County Supervisors
THREE UNTOLD STORIES FROM THE HOLOCAUST: WOMEN, NORTH AFRICA and ASIA. As a
culmination of research and interviews, students from Palo Alto High School,
St. Francis High School, San Jose State University and the County Youth Task
Force will present this program. The
survivors they have interviewed will also provide personal testimony. The program includes the unique opportunity
to hear the music of Gideon Klein, a brilliant composer who tragically perished
in Furstengube, performed by students from Santa Cruz. The program is free and open to the public,
and free parking is available in the County Employee Parking Lot at 70 W.
Hedding St., in San Jose. For more
information contact JCRC Director Diane Fisher at 357-7504 or diane@jvalley.org
This Saturday, April 5th,
you can enjoy Shabbat in Nature at Uvas Canyon Park in the foothills of the
Santa Cruz Mountains. The Minyan Service begins at 10:30 am; the
site is reserved from 8:00 am until sunset, so plan on spending as much of
Shabbat at the park as you like. For
more information, contact Ginny Hoffman at 408-993-1139 or ginny032849@yahoo.com or Nancy
Weintraub at 650-694-4604 or nancyweintraub@sbcglobal.net.
Miranda Katz is holding a bake sale
this Sunday, April 6th, immediately following Religious School at
12:30 pm in front of the Temple House to raise money for her mitzvah project.
She is donating her proceeds to the Multiple
Sclerosis National Society in memory of her aunt who passed away
from this disease last December.
Miranda will become a Bat Mitzvah on May 3, 2008.
Thank you Bob Teeter! Our
temple community is so appreciative of all the long hours Bob has worked,
either on his own or with other volunteers, to organize the library in the
Religious School building. The room is
a lot less cluttered and it is now easier to look for and check out books. Alas, we still need more volunteers and
hours to finish up the job and keep the library running smoothly. If you would like to pitch in, you contact
Bob at rteeter@sonic.net.
Passover Candy orders have arrived.
The orders will be delivered to classrooms this Sunday, April 6th. The Haggadot have not yet arrived; orders
will be distributed as soon as they come in.
Need some help practicing the Four
Questions before the first night of Pesach? Go
to this link on the Behrman House web site – http://www.behrmanhouse.com/family/welcome.shtml
- where your whole family can practice reading and singing the Four
Questions. You can also use the website
to gather information on Judaic subjects as well as practice Hebrew skills.
We are collecting Passover food items to
donate to Project N.O.A.H. – No One Abandoned Here.
The major goal of this food drive is to collect and distribute packages
of food to lower income and elderly Jews during Passover. You can deposit any of the following wrapped
Kosher for Passover items in the big blue bin outside of the Religious School
office from now until April 18th.
Gefilte
Fish Horseradish Jam
Candies Honey Latke Mix
Potato
Starch Grape Juice Matzo ball Soup in a Jar
Matzo Macaroons Cookies
Matzo
Meal Cake Meal Tea
Dried
Fruit (pre-bagged or pre-boxed)
**EESY members are going dancing on Saturday April 12th.
This high school age only event (9th through 12th
grades) will cost $25. Contact Amanda
Schmitt for more detailed information and to RSVP.
Events for
our 4th through 7th grade youth groups are planned for
the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month. The next get
together will be this Wednesday, April 9th.
Here’s
the schedule for each event:
6
pm – 6:20 pm Dinner ($5;
RSVP a must)
6:20
pm – 7 pm Secular school
study time (bring homework)
7
pm – 8 pm A fun
activity
Do you still
have family participation hours to fulfill before the end of the school year? Because there is work to be done! Please contact Robin Hurwitz at travelmaven@gmail.com.
**SUNDAY SCHOOL ENDS AT 12:00 PM INSTEAD OF 12:30 PM
ON MAY 11TH to
attend festivities in honor of Israeli @ 60.
For a preview of what’s coming up, go to www.svjcc.org/israel@60.
Important
Upcoming Temple Emanu-El Dates
April
4 Aleph Hebrew
and Grade 4 Shabbat Family Services.
Temple-wide potluck
precedes at 6:30 pm (RSVP please)
April
5 Shabbat in Nature
April
6 B’nai Mitzvah
Orientation
April
9 4th Through
7th Grade Youth Groups Get Together
April
12 EESY Dancing
April
13 Model Seder in school
for Pesach
April
19 Erev Pesach – First
Seder
April
20 First Day of Pesach – NO
SCHOOL
April
23 4th Through 7th
Grade Youth Groups Get Together
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