Sha’are Shalom Weekly News July 25-30

KVETCH AND KVELL 

Wednesday July 24 at 7:30 pm via Zoom
Hang out and share your Kvells and Kvetches
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85039798832?pwd=QVVER3JUWFI4dHNXMHRpdUJiRVVUUT09
Meeting ID: 850 3979 8832
Passcode: 2982FRIDAY NIGHT SERVICES
JULY 26th at 8:00pm. 

Torah Study 

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

Summer date:   August 3rd
Currently studying the book of Samuel I
Please contact Suzanne Darby for more information ([email protected])
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84590304211?pwd=VUY1WnltUEY0Q0xSU2JrNmJMMXYwZz09
Meeting ID: 845 9030 4211
Passcode: 524459

We are in need of a new Financial Secretary for FY25! Currently, it would be for a 1 year term. Any members have an odd obsession with numbers or balancing a checkbook? Like figuring out budgets? Have about an hour a month you would like to donate towards these tasks? If you have an interest in helping out the congregation as Financial Secretary, please let me know. I am no longer able to do this position as of August 2024. The board is looking for someone who can take on the roll for a one year trial period before the position is up for its normal two year reelection period in FY26.

Ceitidh

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.