What When Interested? Hawaiian Shirt Shabbat Picnic Dinner Friday July 17 at 6:15 pm Register See Bulletin for Information Sisterhood Rummage Sale Drop-Off Days July 13 & July 14 See Bulletin for Information Sisterhood Rummage Sale July 15 (9-5) & July 16 (9 - noon) See Bulletin for Information A Mid Summer Night's Havdallah Sat. July 25 at 7:30 pm See Bulletin for Information

We will be implementing many exciting changes in the Religous School next year. Read about the changes below. If you've misfiled your registration materials, you can download or print them from here.

Tikkun Olam A “whole school” “Tzedakah/Tikkun”/Community service/Social Action curriculum where each grade will concentrate on specific developmentally appropriate values. New programming from L.I.F.T. Leadership Institute For Teens and Teens for Tikkun (social action group). Every class will have at least two outings: one that is tzedakkah/social action related and one for religious/cultural education. Family Programs A new “family-education plan” including parent education programs. Bar and Bat Mitzvah Family Programming for 4th-7th grades. T.O.R.A.H.: the “Trans-generational Oral Recording and History Project”.

Art and Cultural Learning Machon (4th-7th grade) program will add “Chugim”, 25 minute mini-classes based on fun cultural activities, the arts, involving the arts and other areas of interest designed to build community. We’ve hired an art specialist to consult and help teachers with more involved projects. Kindergarten through third grade will have periodic visits from the “Parsha Puppet Players” a new-bibliodrama group consisting of older students. And More... Shabbat dinners with special programming for Religious School classes. A monthly school newsletter and periodic classroom pdates via email. Youth group calendar of events put out at the beginning of the year.

Shabbat allows us time to relax with friends and family, to rejoice with our community, to reflect on the past week, and refresh ourselves for the one to come. This year, we are committed to “Embracing Shabbat,” with new service times, new forms of service, and our new Shabbat siddur, Mishkan T'filah. Shabbat Service Time Changes: Summer Shabbat Services begin July 3 through August 21 at 7 pm in the Birnkrant Garden All First Friday Shabbat services will now begin at 7:00 pm.

Mishkan T'filah On Friday January 23, we began using the new Reform prayerbook, Mishkan Tefillah, as our regular Shabbat siddur. Dedicate a copy of Mishkan T'filah in honor or memory of family or friends.

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See pictures from:

• 2008 Welcome Back Picnic
• Music, Magic and Memories ... Honoring Rabbi Klein's more than 10 years at Temple
• Hawaiian Shirt Shabbat

• The Summer Bulletin is now up in COLOR: Read in Flash (recommended) or Acrobat
• Read Rabbi Klein's Messages
  • "Lessons for Today, Learned from Yesterday" (Anniversary Shabbat)
  • " Thanksgiving and Theology "
  • " Things that Go Bump in the Night " (Halloween)
  • " Life, Death and Salvation: Beyond My Yom Kippur Message "
  • 2008 Holiday Messages
• Read about our new Website
• See what's on TE TV
• You can now Register and Pay for Events online
• You can now Make Donations online
• Have you been to Volunteer Central ?
• We welcome our New Cantor Darcie Sharlein
• We welcome our New Education Director Geoffrey Berdy