Special Events
Kehilla Seder for 20’s and 30’s
at Temple Sholom
Monday, March 29, 7:00 p.m.
Whether you live away from home or would just like to make some new friends on Passover, this year’s Young Adults’ Seder is a perfect fit for you! Join us for the first night of Passover for a wonderful seder in the city led by the Sidney N. Shure Kehilla Rabbis. The cost is $25 before March 23, $36 after March 23. Reserve at www.shurekehilla.org. For more info, email Kehilla@gojcc.org or call 224-374-9090. Kosher for Passover dietary laws observed. Sidney N. Shure Kehilla is a partnership of the Heller JCC, and congregations Anshe Emet, Anshe Sholom, Temple Sholom, Emanuel and Or Chadash.
Annual 2nd Night Temple Sholom Congregational Seder
led by Rabbi Taron Tachman
Tuesday, March 30, 6:30 p.m.
Gather around the Passover table with members of the Temple Sholom family and friends. The cost is $36 for adult members, $45 for adult non-members, $20 for all children 12 and under. Seder will be kosher style with vegetarian options available by request. Register by March 22 with Lauren Mielziner at 773- 435-1559 or Lauren@sholomchicago.org.
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Feed the Hungry
Sunday, Mar 14, 9:30 a.m.
(Temple Sholom)
Assemble sandwiches and other healthy foods to be distributed as bag lunches to the hungry. This is a monthly program sponsored by Temple Sholom and several other area synagogues. Volunteers are needed for an hour (or less!) to prepare the lunches. Please contact Kevin Gladish for details.
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Warm Up America
Sunday, Mar 14, 9:30 a.m.
Join the knitting group to make squares which will be sown together to create blankets. Meets Sundays when there is adult education.
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Temple Sholom’s Annual JUF Event & Bagel Brunch
Sunday, Mar 14, 12:30 p.m.
Join event co-chairs Diane Saltoun and Bruce Braun, Jo Ann and Steven Potashnick, Kathy and Ken Tallering, along with Temple Sholom’s clergy for our Annual JUF Event on behalf of the 2010 Jewish United Fund. Guest Speaker: Aaron B. Cohen, executive editor of JUF News, Chicago’s largest circulation Jewish community newsmagazine. Cohen writes a monthly JUF News column, “The Heart of the Matter.” He also has written commentaries about Israel and the Middle East for the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, and Daily Southtown newspapers, and for National Public Radio and Monitor Radio. Please RSVP to Jody Horowitz, Jewish United Fund at 312-444-2838 or JodyHorowitz@juf.org.
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Monday Meal
Monday, Mar 15, 3:30 p.m.
Preparation starts at 3:30 p.m. and more volunteers for serving should arrive by 5 p.m. Volunteers are encouraged, also, to stay for the entire time.
Volunteers are needed to shop, prepare, serve and clean up, as well as prepare bag meals for guests to take home and for any overflow crowd. This project is organized entirely by members of our congregation and provides an opportunity for Temple members to meet
each other and to give back to the community.
Monday Meal is always looking for sponsors and volunteers. If any person or organization wants to sponsor or volunteer at the meal, please contact Kevin Gladish at 773-435-1536 or kevin@sholomchicago.org. CPS students can volunteer and get community service hours.
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Adult Education Classes
Monday, Mar 15, 7:00 p.m.
Monday Night Adult Education Classes, including Film Class and "Israel Beyond the Headlines."
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Genetic Education and Screening Program for Young Jewish Adults
Tuesday, Mar 16, 6:30 p.m.
(Congregation Beth Shalom, Northbrook)
When Temple Sholom hosted this program in the fall it filled up almost immediately. $90 per person, or $36 for full-time students with current, valid student ID. To register or for more information, contact Taryn Brickman, at Tarynbrickman@juf.org
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Study Group
Wednesday, Mar 17, 10:00 a.m.
Explore a variety topics that affect and influence all aspects of Jewish life.
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Mercaz New Yorker Discussion Group
Wednesday, Mar 17, 1:00 p.m.
(Temple Sholom)
On the third Wednesday of each month, we will meet at Temple Sholom to discuss one article from a recent issue of The New Yorker. The group will be led by a volunteer participant facilitator. Discussion group members are eligible for subscriptions at the discounted rate of $25 a year. For more information contact 773-508-1006 or lakeshoremercaz@cje.net.
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NO Crown Family High School
Wednesday, Mar 17, 6:15 p.m.
These Religious School classes are canceled today.
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Warm Up America
Sunday, Mar 21, 9:30 a.m.
Join the knitting group to make squares which will be sown together to create blankets. Meets Sundays when there is adult education.
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Bagels & Schmooze with Rabbi Aaron M. Petuchowski,D.D.
(Jewish Parenting Part III)
Sunday, Mar 21, 9:45 a.m.
Do you have questions about raising a Jewish child? Interested in meeting other Temple parents? On Sunday, March 21st, drop your child and yourself off at Temple Sholom. Join us at the “Coffee Corner” in Bettie Port Hall for a relaxing Sunday morning with bagels, juice and words of wisdom from Rabbi Petuchowski. Rabbi Petuchowski will be speaking on the following topic:
Jewish Parenting (Part III)
Exploring the essence of Judaism and how we can impart our beliefs to our children
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Passover Seder Led By Our 3rd & 4th Graders
Sunday, Mar 21, 11:00 a.m.
Parents of 3rd & 4th grade students are invited to attend a special Passover Seder. The students who participate in the Seder will read various sections of the Haggadah to celebrate Passover. Watch your mail for further information to come.
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Passover Seders in the Religious School
Sunday, Mar 21, 11:00 a.m.
In addition to our 3rd and 4th graders, our JK-2nd, and 5th-7th grade students will also be celebrating Passover in the classroom on March 21. We are pairing our younger and older grades together to have seders from 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Room parents will help to provide our seder food for this wonderful event.
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SHOUT Culture Club (40s, 50s+) Passover Cooking Demonstration
Check us out on Facebook – enter Sholom Shout!
Sunday, Mar 21, 1:00 p.m.
Chef Jennifer Cafferty is going to share her secret recipes of preparing mouth watering desserts using matzah.
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Monday Meal
Sponsored by the Sisterhood
Monday, Mar 22, 3:30 p.m.
Preparation starts at 3:30 p.m. and more volunteers for serving should arrive by 5 p.m. Volunteers are encouraged, also, to stay for the entire time.
Volunteers are needed to shop, prepare, serve and clean up, as well as prepare bag meals for guests to take home and for any overflow crowd. This project is organized entirely by members of our congregation and provides an opportunity for Temple members to meet
each other and to give back to the community.
Monday Meal is always looking for sponsors and volunteers. If any person or organization wants to sponsor or volunteer at the meal, please contact Kevin Gladish at 773-435-1536 or kevin@sholomchicago.org. CPS students can volunteer and get community service hours.
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Adult Education Classes
Monday, Mar 22, 7:00 p.m.
Monday Night Adult Education Classes, including Film Class and "Israel Beyond the Headlines."
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Lakeshore Mercaz Presents - “Passover and the Power of Story”
with Rabbi Tachman
Tuesday, Mar 23, 1:00 p.m.
(Temple Sholom)
The tale of the Exodus is a remarkable and evocative one. Join Rabbi Tachman as he delves into the details of the story of Passover and examines how its themes can be interpreted while considering the relevance of this kind of inspirational tale today. For more information and to reserve a place on the bus, call 773-508-1134.
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Study Group
Wednesday, Mar 24, 10:00 a.m.
Explore a variety topics that affect and influence all aspects of Jewish life.
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Temple Sholom Sisterhood presents the Evening Book Club--"Days of Awe" by Achy Obejas
(Open to all Temple Members)
Wednesday, Mar 24, 6:30 p.m.
(Temple Sholom)
Obejas's second novel may be the first in the subgenre of both Jewish American and Cuban American fiction: the Jewish-Cuban-American novel. In this well-considered and heartfelt examination of exile and return, two-year-old Alejandra San Jos has left Cuba in 1959 with her parents. Her father is Jewish, though he hides it, even breaking a window in anger when his daughter and her friends spy him praying in his basement office in Chicago. Her mother is both Catholic and a sometime believer in the Santeria gods. Ale's visits to Cuba in 1987 and 1997 lead her to extraordinary discoveries about herself, her cultures, and her family, as she slowly learns of her great-grandfather's and father's clinging to a religion whose Cuban adherents have become scarce over time. Her own sexual experiences, more vivid in Cuba than in the United States, help her recognize that Cuba, Judaism, and tropical eroticism make up a complex personality, which Ale bears on her back like a Bedouin. With intelligent, intense writing, Obejas approaches, in ambition, the heady climes of Cuban American stalwarts Oscar Hijuelos and Cristina Garcia.
Contact Debra Magad at debramagad@gmail.com for more information.
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20s and 30s Sushi Shabbat
Friday, Mar 26, 8:00 p.m.
Join us for the ever popular 20's and 30's Sushi Shabbat Services led by Rabbi Tachman. Enjoy a familiar, upbeat Shabbat Service with guitar, visit with friends and meet new ones. There is no charge for this evening, but please RSVP to Kevin Gladish at 773-435-1536 or Kevin@sholomchicago.org.
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Young Couples Pre-Passover Game Night
Saturday, Mar 27, 8:00 p.m.
Join us for a fun chametz filled evening before we must say goodbye to our favorite foods for eight days. Bring your favorite game and favorite non kosher for Passover food or drink. We will eat, drink, and have a couples game competition. Prizes will be provided. We have the following games: Catch Phrase,
Cranium, Taboo, and Jenga. Email Susie Panza if you are able to attend! suzgonso99@aol.com
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NO Warm Up America
Sunday, Mar 28, 9:30 a.m.
The knitting group will resume at its normal time next week.
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NO Sunday School
Sunday, Mar 28, 9:45 a.m.
Sunday School classes are canceled in preparation for Passover.
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NO Adult Education Classes
Sunday, Mar 28, 10:00 a.m.
Classes are canceled because of preparations for Passover.
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Passover Mitzvah Bakers
Sunday, Mar 28, 11:30 a.m.
(at the Hallmark)
Bring your favorite macaroons to the Hallmark as we celebrate Passover and sing songs to the residents with Cantor Katzman.
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NO Monday Meal
Monday, Mar 29, 3:30 p.m.
There is NO Monday Meal on this date as the Temple kitchen prepares for Passover.
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Kehilla Seder for 20’s and 30’s
Monday, Mar 29, 7:00 p.m.
(Temple Sholom)
Whether you live away from home or would just like to make some new friends on Passover, this year’s Young Adults’ Seder is a perfect fit for you! Join us for the first night of Passover for a wonderful seder in the city led by the Sidney N. Shure Kehilla Rabbis. The cost is $25 before March 23, $36 after March 23. Reserve at www.shurekehilla.org. For more info, email Kehilla@gojcc.org or call 224-374-9090. Kosher for Passover dietary laws observed. Sidney N. Shure Kehilla is a partnership of the Heller JCC, and congregations Anshe Emet, Anshe Sholom, Temple Sholom,
Emanuel and Or Chadash.
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Adult Education Classes
Monday, Mar 29, 7:00 p.m.
Monday Night Adult Education Class "Israel Beyond the Headlines."
NO Film Class
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Temple Offices Closed
Tuesday, Mar 30, 8:00 a.m.
The Temple offices are closed today in celebration of the Passover holiday.
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Annual 2nd Night Temple Sholom Congregational Seder led by Rabbi Taron Tachman
Tuesday, Mar 30, 6:30 p.m.
Gather around the Passover table with members of the Temple Sholom family and friends. The cost is $36 for adult members, $45 for adult non-members, $20 for all children 12 and under. Seder will be kosher style with vegetarian options available by request. Register by March 22 with Lauren Mielziner at 773- 435-1559 or Lauren@sholomchicago.org.
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Study Group
Wednesday, Mar 31, 10:00 a.m.
Explore a variety topics that affect and influence all aspects of Jewish life.
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Temple Sholom Sisterhood presents the Morning Book Club
featuring "Catcher In the Rye" by J.D. Salinger - Open to all congregants
Thursday, Apr 1, 11:00 a.m.
Since his debut in 1951 in "The Catcher in the Rye," Holden Caulfield has been synonymous with the "cynical adolescent." Holden narrates the story of a couple of days in his sixteen-year-old life, just after he's been expelled from prep school, in a slang that sounds edgy even today and keeps this novel on banned book lists. It begins, "If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. In the first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, my parents would have about two hemorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them." His constant wry observations about what he encounters, from teachers to phonies (the two of course are not mutually exclusive) capture the essence of the eternal teenage experience of alienation.
For information about this month and future Book Club meetings, contact Debra Magad at debramagad@gmail.com.
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Temple Offices - Closed
Monday, Apr 5, 7:00 a.m.
Temple Offices are closed in observance of the Passover holiday.
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Last Morning of Passover Festival Service
Monday, Apr 5, 10:30 a.m.
(at Temple Emanuel, 5959 N. Sheridan Rd)
Once again this year, we will celebrate the Spring Festival Services (including Yizkor) with Emanuel Congregation.
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Downtown Study Group
Tuesday, Apr 6, 12:00 p.m.
(Out of the Building)
Meet downtown with one of our Clergy or layleaders to explore a variety topics that affect and influence all aspects of Jewish life.
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Study Group
Wednesday, Apr 7, 10:00 a.m.
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News from the Union
*The Union's Weekly Briefing
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Read this week's news from the Reform Movement and Jewish news from around the world online - or subscribe to receive it as an e-mail each Friday.
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Pelavin Named New Director of Commission on Social Action of Reform Judaism
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JTA: Op-Ed: Our Tu b'Shevat responsibility, by Steve Gutow and David Saperstein
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As the holiday of Tu b'Shevat approaches, congregations and families prepare to look at the natural world with wonder and celebrate the abundance of earth's incredible resources. At many of our celebrations, we will read from Ecclesiastes 1:4: "One generation goes, another comes, but the earth remains the same forever."
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Jweekly: At the Wall, which side is the right one?: The Kotel belongs to the entire Jewish people, by Rabbi Eric Yoffie
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I am saddened and dismayed by recent events at the Western Wall. These events are a tragedy -- a blow to the State of Israel and to the unity of the Jewish people.
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The Jewish Daily Forward: Haiti's Jewish Remnant Keeps the Faith and Lends a Hand Amid the Crisis
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Each year on Yom Kippur, Rudolph Dana locks himself in his Pétionville, Haiti, home -- protected by guard dogs and security personnel -- and passes the Day of Atonement fasting, praying and reciting the traditional liturgy of repentance and forgiveness.
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Jewish Tribune: URJ president's Shabbat sermon inspires resolutions
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The November 4-8 biennial event for the Union of Reform Judaism (URJ), serving Reform congregations in North America, ended with nine resolutions, three of which pertained to the Middle East.
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Worship Services
| Friday, Mar 12 |
| 5:30 p.m. |
Canceled - Tot Shabbat Dinner and Service |
| 6:15 p.m. |
Shabbat Service
with Shir Shalom Choir, Oneg to follow |
| Saturday, Mar 13 |
| 9:00 a.m. |
Shabbat Morning Study Minyan |
| 10:30 a.m. |
Shabbat Service
Isabel Weiss Bat Mitzvah |
| Friday, Mar 19 |
| 5:45 p.m. |
Wine and Cheese Reception |
| 6:15 p.m. |
Shabbat Service
Oneg to Follow |
| Saturday, Mar 20 |
| 9:00 a.m. |
Shabbat Morning Study Minyan |
| 9:30 a.m. |
Tot Shabbat Service |
| Friday, Mar 26 |
| 5:45 p.m. |
Wine and Cheese Reception |
| 6:15 p.m. |
Shabbat Service
Oneg to Follow |
| Saturday, Mar 27 |
| 9:00 a.m. |
Shabbat Morning Study Minyan |
| 10:30 a.m. |
Shabbat Service
Julia Selch Bat Mitzvah |
| Friday, Apr 2 |
| 5:45 p.m. |
Wine & Cheese Reception |
| 6:15 p.m. |
Shabbat Service |
| Saturday, Apr 3 |
| 9:00 a.m. |
Shabbat Morning Study Minyan |
| Friday, Apr 9 |
| 5:45 p.m. |
Wine & Cheese Reception |
| 6:15 p.m. |
Shabbat Service - "Finding Sholom" Shabbat Service
Oneg to follow |
| Saturday, Apr 10 |
| 9:00 a.m. |
Shabbat Morning Study Minyan |
| 9:30 a.m. |
Tot Shabbat Service |
| 10:30 a.m. |
Shabbat Service
Sydney Lehmann Bat Mitzvah |
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More Great News from Temple Sholom
Son of Senior Rabbi Aaron M. Petuchowski, Benjamin (Ben), appeared in the credits of the HBO new series “How to Make it in America” as Assistant to the Executive Producer, Jada Miranda.
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Central Asia Institute Annual Gala Chicago 2010
Saturday, April 3, 2010
Temple Member Heidi Picard is helping to run an event featuring the bestselling author of Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson. At this Gala dinner, the acclaimed author will speak about his new book Stones into Schools. The event is to support the Central Asia Institute, a 501(c)3 nonprofit that supports community-based education, especially for girls in remote regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan.
For more information please see: www.ikat.org/cai-annual-fundraiser
Monthly Bulletin
March 2010
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