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| PRESIDENT’S ARTICLE Well, it is here – PESACH! My favorite holiday. You know we had to wait a very long time from Tu’BShevat to Purim – there was an extra month in there – but now it seems like only yesterday it was Purim and now it is Pesach. All the special foods, Keftes de Prassa, Huevos Haminados, Megina, etc; the Seder telling of our flight from Egypt to freedom; our families all together – I can’t wait. I am wishing all of you Moadim L’ simcha – Happy Pesach. I know you all recently received a letter from the membership committee asking you to help us know you better. We are asking you to give us some family information – birthdates, anniversaries, meldathos, family members, friends, etc. PLEASE TO NOT PUT THIS ASIDE. Fill it out as best you can and send/fax/bring it in to the office. If you need help, please call the office and Susan will help you fill it out on the phone. It is my hope that we can start again having birthdays/anniversaries of the month Kiddushim and other recognitions of you, our members, on a regular basis. This is what families do. We remember each others important dates. We can only do that if we know when those dates are. PLEASE HELP. A little about want has been going on. The Adult Education and Program Committee has been very busy. They have outlined and are in the final planning stages for all of the programs for 2008. A few examples – On Yom Haatzmaut we will have Sam Ser, an editor on the Jerusalem Post, who will speak on two separate occasions about what’s going on in Israel. Later, in the summer, we will begin a summer symposium titled “A Matter of Life and Death” where we will bring out several well known Rabbi/Doctors to discuss/lecture on the Halachic approach to modern day life issues. In November, we are looking forward to a musical concert by Liat Cohen and Luiz de Aquino. You will receive an informational letter about these and other programs we have coming up this year. The Gala Event Committee, under the leadership of Harry Alhadeff and Harley Franco, is moving out - full steam ahead. There is a lot of energy in this committee and the detail planning for this event in September has already begun. Needless to say, this committee can use more help. Whether you want to serve on the committee or not, I am asking you to start looking through your albums, boxes of old pictures, stacks of old synagogue information for family pictures and synagogue information from the 1904 - 1914. We will need everybody to help put together the story of our beginning. We especially need pictures from the very early times ~1910 or earlier. Please start looking and bring copies or a description into the office. A couple more items – Recently, Jordan Assouline with Rabbi and Mrs. Cohen-Scali, organized a Shabbat Hamin Club, where several young families get together for Shabbat lunch in the synagogue. I am happy to say that I counted over 20 families on the first Shabbat. This is very exciting. I know there will be more to come. Morning and Evening Weekday Services. We really need your help. Even if you are only able to come once a week, please do so. We have been having a little difficulty getting a minyan occasionally for Shachrith. Morning services start at 7AM (Evening at 7PM) and are generally over by 7:30AM (Monday and Thursday a bit later). I’m looking forward to seeing you there. Again, Moadim L’simcha and I hope your Seders are filled with the questions and the enjoyment of your children and grandchildren. |