Sha’are Shalom Weekly News July 17 – 23

Torah Study 

Torah Study, 1st and 3rd Saturday’s 8:30 am via Zoom

Summer dates:  July  20th and August 3rd
Currently studying the book of Samuel I
Please contact Suzanne Darby for more information ([email protected])

Join Zoom Meeting
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Passcode: 524459 

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR NEWLY ELECTED BOARD
President – Jacob Lindsay – 2 year term
Vice President – Marshall Jones – 1 year term
Secretary – Suzanne Darby – 2 year term
Treasurer – Jackie Schoch –  2 year term
Financial Secretary – VACANT – 1 year term

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VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES

Lead a Friday evening Shabbat service — we’ll help you!

We at Sha’are Shalom are proud of our long tradition of member participation in everything our synagogue does — including leading Friday night services.  While we’re fortunate to have Rabbi Gail Fisher on the second Saturday morning of most months, it’s our own congregants who lead the evening service on the fourth Friday.
Our prayer book makes it easy — just choose your favorite reading from each two-page spread, either in English or Hebrew, spoken or sung. We even have some pre-chosen plans to use.   The pressure is very low — the audience is usually small and supportive.  If you’d rather not write a brief  d’var Torah (a mini-sermon on how something from the week’s Torah portion might apply to our lives today),  Suzanne Darby has volunteered to write it; and if you’re hesitant about leading songs, I can help out with that.
We’d just like more of our members to come up and play a part in services, and so we’re eager to help any way we can. 
     You don’t have to know Hebrew,  and you just have to be past bar/bat mitzvah age.  You can even enlist your spouse and/or kids to be your co-leaders.  We’re looking for volunteers for Friday evenings.  Please contact me at  [email protected] to sign up or for more information.
   See you at our next service

HELP WANTED

Dates Available for Oneg Sponsors  

Shar’are Shalom each Saturday morning (every 2nd Saturday) and Friday night (every 4th Friday) service at the temple ends with the pleasure of fellowship. A little nosh usually makes this fellowship last longer and adds to its delightfulness. Each post service nosh or oneg requires an Oneg Sponsor. Whether it is wine, juice, a challah, and some cookies, or even more – it is always appreciated by those in attendance.

Contact Mike Green, VP, at [email protected] or (240) 210-1064 (text or call and please leave a message if I don’t answer) if you would like to sponsor an oneg or lead a Friday Night Service or have any questions about doing either.