Our Temple garden has been harvested multiple times and we are now getting ready to prepare the site for the Fall plantings. Chuck Riffenberg, our Flagler student, and Bill Hamilton from Southern Horticulture, and I will be meeting to consider re-leveling the site for better esthetics and functionality, which will include a low cost drip irrigation system for greater efficiency. Our site will be prepared to better accommodate the future remembrance wall with a stronger, more level soil base. We will send a note out to all our Temple family inviting your participation in replanting the Garden. Joan Guglielmo and I will coordinate with our Hebrew school children to have them participate in the Garden planting and occasional maintenance.
High Holy Days Food Donations
We will again be collecting non-perishable food donations for our annual food drive to help those in need. The collection period is between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Last year, our congregants op
ened their hearts and pantries to help the St. John’s Food Bank of the Salvation Army, generously contributing 693 pounds of collected food. During Rosh Hashanah services, please pick up several of the Publix bags and take them with you. Due to our lack of storage space, please bring your filled bags on Yom Kippur. Let’s see if we can beat last year’s contribution level!
Interfaith Unity and Peace Festival – October 9th
On Saturday, October 9, 2010, Temple Bet Yam will participate in an Interfaith Unity and Peace Festival, which will be held at the Saint Augustine Beach Pier near the pavilion. Our Temple Bet Yam choir will be participating with other religious organization choirs to sing several songs together as a community chorus. The event supports activities relating to promoting greater community unity and peace initiatives. This event will start at 6:30 PM and we encourage all of our Temple family to attend this great event and support our Rabbi Mark and choir.Please bring your friends.
Ways and Means
Carol Gladstone and Shirley Rudnick
If you haven't bought your ENTERTAINMENT BOOK yet, you are missing out on BIG savings. It's packed full of coupons for restaurants, theater, retail stores, car rentals, fast food and more. It's only $25 and will pay for itself after one or two purchases. And it's valid until November 2011. Entertainment Books also make great holiday gifts. Remember, the more books we sell, the higher the profit margin for the Temple! If you would like one or more, just e-mail me.
Remember to put the CARD PARTY at Panama Hatties on your calendar. It's Wednesday, October 20th at 10 a.m. and tickets are $25.00. Great food – Great Fun – Great Prizes.Barbara Stafford will have tickets and details available soon.
When the Choir CD is ready, we'll announce the release date. At present I'm holding advanced reservations for about 80 people on a first run of 100 CD's. If you are not among that group but would like to have one or more, just e-mail me at grambini1@comcast.net.
We have been offered an opportunity to have a table, free of charge, at the St. Johns Flea Market two days a month (weekend). Andi Marx and I scoped out the Flea Market and because of the heavy foot traffic,we are willing to give it a try. If you have unwanted items of theknick-knack, book, CD, DVD and jewelry variety, please pack them in a box and save it for our test venture, which will be after the High Holidays. No clothing or linens please. If we feel that it is worthwhile venture, we'll solicit more items. If we opt not to continue, all items will be donated to Goodwill or Betty Griffin.
CALLING ALL DANCERS:In order to determine the feasibility of a really exciting event, please read over the question below and e-mail your response back to me.No phone calls, and no further questions please. Sendonly “Yes” responses. This does not commit you – I'm just testing the waters.
QUESTION: If you have chutzpa and like to dance, would you consider performing a dance routine with a professional dancer at a future TBY event? Five lessons/choreography would be provided to you free of charge and those would begin in October. More lessons will be needed to make sure each dance routine is perfected. These will be the provided to each dancer at the discounted rate of $45 per session.All dance styles are open.
That's it. As soon as I get responses I'll know whether we can proceed to the planning stage and then all details will be revealed.
More news after the High Holidays.
Carol
TREES FOR ISRAEL
– We are enjoying huge success with our Trees for Israel . Every tree purchased is not only recognition of some significant event in your life or in the life of someone close to you but is also a Mitzvah for Israel and contributes to our Temple fundraising effort. Please use this very important program as a memorial to a friend or loved one or in celebration of a happy occasion for someone dear to you.
JUDAICA SHOP-The Judaica Shop is available for all our congregants’ convenience. Please support it. We make every effort to stock items that will help make shopping for special gifts, especially Judaica, easier for you. Special orders can be filled upon request. We have access to excellent catalogs at very competitive prices. See Toby Weintraub during the Onegs or call her with any special request.
Social Committee
Splinters from the Board
Any member of the congregation who desires to do so may attend Board meetings. They are held the first Tuesday of each month, beginning at 6:30 p.m. Anyone who wants a copy of the minutes should contact Marcia Rector at mlr51034@bellsouth.net.
CONTRIBUTIONS
The custom of making offerings/donations as an expression of prayer traces back to Biblical times and has always been a practice of congregations. A donation can be defined as an act of prayer in which the participant extends himself or herself beyond the act of uttering words. It exceeds mere vocal expression and indicates that an act of personal sacrifice has been performed by the donor. The amount of an offering is less important than the deed. A small offering made by a person of limited income is as noble in nature as a larger one given by a person of wealth.
THE WORLD IS SUSTAINED BY THREE THINGS: BY TORAH, BY WORSHIP AND BY TZEDAKAH.
Ritual
Jennie Vick
Thank you to everyone who sent in your High Holy Day Volunteer and Book of Remembrance forms by the requested August 10th deadline. Your promptness really made preparing for these services much easier.If you did not volunteer to participate in the services and still wish to do so, please give me a call as soon as possible.Also, I sent out the following email recently explaining what we intend to do if we have not heard from people who have been listed in the Book in past years.The email said:“If you did NOT return your form for the Remembrance Book, we have left the names that were previously listed in past books.”Please let me know immediately if you want to make any changes. Of course, it is never too late to send donations. Wow, so here we are… On your mark, get set, go.
See you all at the services.
Selichot:
Saturday evening, Sept. 4th
Educational program: 8:00 pm
Refreshments
Candlelight Service: 10:30 pm (approximately)
Erev Rosh HaShanah:Wednesday, September 8th at 7:30 pm
Rosh HaShanah Day:Thursday, September 9th
Children's Service: 9:30 am
Morning Service: 10:15
Tashlich at Treaty Park
Kol Nidre / Erev Yom Kippur:Friday, September 17th at 7:30 pm
Yom Kippur Day:Saturday, September 18th
Morning Service: 10:15 am
Children’s Service: 1:00 pm
Discussion with the Rabbi: 2:15 pm
Afternoon Service: 3:15 pm
Yizkor: 4:30 pm (approximately)
Neilah
Havdalah
Break-the-fast
We wish all of you a Healthy and Happy New Year.
Board of Trustees
Board of Trustees 2010-2011
President
Joe Marx
Vice-President
Phyllis Keiser
Treasurer
Dinah McNamara
Financial Secretary
Terre Wallach
Corresponding Secretary
Ronnie Botnick
Recording Secretary
Marcia Rector
Sisterhood
Bobbi Carman/Andrea Marx
Men's Club
Harvey Hoffman
Ritual
Jennie Vick
Newsletter
Bev Darkatsh
Ways and Means
Carol Gladstone Shirley Rudnick
Publicity
Jen Sherman
ReligiousSchool
Debbie Brousseau
Lifelong Jewish Learning
Vacant
Membership
Barbara Rogove
Social Action
Art Rogove
Building & Grounds
Dave Sherman
Non-Voting Members
Rabbi
Mark. N. Goldman
ReligiousSchool Director
Gail Zucker
Parliamentarian
Margie Heilweil
Past Presidents
Marty Cohen
1994-1995
Kal Lee
1995-1996
Carol Gladstone
1996-1997
Phyllis Greenfield
1997-1999
Joan Guglielmo
1999-2001
Barbara Stafford
2001-2003
Marty Cohen
2003-2005
Meri McCarthy
2005-2007
Joan Guglielmo
2007-2009
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