Wednesday, March 10, 2010 | 24th of Adar, 5770

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Details... Hide Details... 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.

Details... Hide Details... 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.

Details... Hide Details... Study Group Wednesday, Mar 17, 10:00 a.m. Explore a variety topics that affect and influence all aspects of Jewish life.

Details... Hide Details... 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.

Details... Hide Details... 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.

Details... Hide Details... 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.

Details... Hide Details... Study Group Wednesday, Mar 24, 10:00 a.m. Explore a variety topics that affect and influence all aspects of Jewish life.

Details... Hide Details... 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.

Details... Hide Details... NO Warm Up America Sunday, Mar 28, 9:30 a.m. The knitting group will resume at its normal time next week.

Details... Hide Details... Temple Offices Closed Tuesday, Mar 30, 8:00 a.m. The Temple offices are closed today in celebration of the Passover holiday.

Details... Hide Details... 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.

Details... Hide Details... Study Group Wednesday, Mar 31, 10:00 a.m. Explore a variety topics that affect and influence all aspects of Jewish life.

Details... Hide Details... 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.

Details... Hide Details... Temple Offices - Closed Monday, Apr 5, 7:00 a.m. Temple Offices are closed in observance of the Passover holiday.

Details... Hide Details... 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.

Details... Hide Details... 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.

Details... Hide Details... Study Group Wednesday, Apr 7, 10:00 a.m. Explore a variety topics that affect and influence all aspects of Jewish life.

Details... Hide Details... Feed the Hungry Sunday, Apr 11, 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 at 773-435-1536 or kevin@sholomchicago.org for details.

Details... Hide Details... Study Group Wednesday, Apr 21, 10:00 a.m. Explore a variety topics that affect and influence all aspects of Jewish life.

Details... Hide Details... Feed the Hungry Sunday, Apr 25, 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. For more information contact Kevin Gladish at 773-435-1536 or Kevin@sholomchicago.org.

Details... Hide Details... Monday Meal Mitzvah Program Monday, Apr 26, 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. To volunteer, contact Kevin Gladish at 773-435-1536 or kevin@sholomchicago.org. **The Monday Meal is self- supporting and always looking for volunteers and sponsors.

Details... Hide Details... Study Group Wednesday, Apr 28, 10:00 a.m. Explore a variety topics that affect and influence all aspects of Jewish life.

Details... Hide Details... Israel Solidarity Day Pre-Walk with Israel Rally & Pizza Party Wednesday, Apr 28, 5:30 p.m. Attention Families with Children and Teens! Do you love Israel and pizza? on Wednesday, April 28, 5:30 p.m. in Bettie Port Hall we will have a "pre-walk" rally for Israel. Kids will be paired with a Temple Sholom little/big brother or sister with whom they will personalize their walk t-shirt. Those in attendance will have a chance to sign the Temple Sholom banner and, while eating pizza and having fun, we will make our plan to meet up at the Walk on May 2.

Details... Hide Details... Israel Solidarity Day with Walk With Israel Sunday, May 2, 9:30 a.m. Our Temple Sholom community will participate in the annual city Walk With Israel.

More... Less... Each year the Brotherhood stages a dinner keynoted by a notable speaker, mounts a professional dinner-roundtable, runs sports and family events and undertakes service projects to benefit both the congregation and the larger community.

For more information about Temple Sholom’s Brotherhood, email Kevin Gladish at kevin@sholomchicago.org or Rabbi Taron Tachman at rabbitachman@sholomchicago.org, or call 773-435-1536.

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