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Service this Friday was to include a soup and salad and Sisterhood Installation, but because of the weather we are moving that to next Friday, January 26 at 6:00 pm. This Friday will be a Kabbalat Shabbat at 6:00 pm.
Wednesday, January 17th:
Rabbi’s Brown Bag Lunch and Hebrew School are canceled due to inclement weather. Thank you and enjoy the snow!
WARSAW, Poland (JTA) — A Polish Olympian is raising money for the construction of a monument dedicated to Jews from a village in southern Poland.
Dariusz Popiela, the Polish champion in the canoe/kayak slalom and the silver medalist at the European Championships, both last year, is working to commemorate the Jews of Krościenko.
Popiela, who participated in the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, and a group of friends have spearheaded a project to restore the memory of “the forgotten neighbors” as part of the Shtetl of Tzanz project of the Nomina Rosae Foundation.
Last year, he said, he accidentally found himself near the Jewish cemetery in Krościenko, which was devastated during World War II and remains in poor condition.
“Why?” Popiela asked on the crowdfunding site Pomagam, where he is raising money for a monument to the Jews of the town. “Probably multiple reasons are responsible, but the fact is that there are many people in Krościenko who are trying to change this state of things and have already taken some effort to save this only sign of the late citizens’ existence.”
Research has made it possible to collect a list of the Jews murdered in the village between the second half of 1939 and August 1942, when the last Jews left there. Part of Popiela’s project includes a monument erected at the Jewish cemetery in the shape of cracked gravestone featuring the names of those victims. He and his friends also plan to build a new fence around the cemetery; the current one is rusted and falling apart.
Popiela wrote that the shape of the memorial is essential since almost no original gravestones have survived. He said there are only two that have been replaced on their foundations, and the rest were used by the Nazis to make floors and foundations.
The group has collected nearly 25 percent of the $3,000 needed to complete the project, according to his crowdfunding page. Popiela wrote that the project is a “private and spontaneous action.”
“Every penny, every cent will be spent to renovate this place,” he wrote. “Each, even the smallest donation will be a valuable contribution to our project. Let’s show the world together that it can and must be done!”
2018 Board of Directors
Sandy Gordin, President
David Lyon, Vice President
Jon Lewson, Financial Secretary
David Blumenfeld, Treasurer
Tina Lyon, Corresponding Secretary
Susan Abelkop, Recording Secretary
Rex Russell, 2 Year Trustee
Stan Hyman, 2 Year Trustee
Ira Greenfield, Member-at-Large
Bob Britanisky, Member-at-Large
Andrew Green, Member-at-Large
Lisa Frye, Member-at-Large
Mauro Wilk, Member-at-Large
Elaine Hyman, Sisterhood Representative
Jack Schoer, Past President
Staff
Jan Stribling, Administrative Assistant
Committee Chairs
Care*part of Sisterhood
Sandy Smiley: sandysmiley@bellsouth.net; Nancy Rosenberg: nancyjojo@att.net
Chevra Kadisha
Dot Frank: dotfrank29@gmail.com; Rex Russell rex@jbrusa.com
Education
Stefanie Keen, Chair:Stefanie_keen@yahoo.com
Lisa Frye & Karen Fuller, Principals: lisafrye02@gmail.com
Endowment
Hank Steinberg: hanksteinberg@gmail.com
Annual Pledge
Robert Lyon: rlyon@sspc.biz
Fundraising Events
Open
Grounds Beautification
David Lyon: davidlyon@bellsouth.net
Liaison
Susan Abelkop:susan@bafox.com
Librarian
Open
Maintenance
Stanley Hyman: shy2845@hotmail.com
Membership
Sandy Gordin: jackandjill1931@gmail.com
Gifts/Memorials/Aesthetics
Susan Price: sprice3100@charter.net; Tina Lyon: tinalyon@bellsouth.net
NFTY
Open
Personnel
Susan Abelkop:susan@bafox.com
Programming
Open
Ritual
Mark Packer: markpacker1@charter.net
Webmaster
Sharon Packer: sharonpacker@mac.com
We have an empty food barrel that needs filling. Please bring 1 nonperishable item when you visit the temple for donation. There are many in our community who need our help.
1 New Year’s Day
3 NO Hebrew School
5 Kabbalat Shabbat
6 Saturday Service/Board Installation
7 NO Sunday School
10 Breakfast Schmooze
10 Hebrew School
12 7:30 Service
13 Saturday Service
14 Sunday School Field Trip
17 Rabbi’s Brown Bag Lunch
17 Hebrew School
19 Soup & Salad
20 Saturday Service
20 Movie Night
21 Sunday School
21 Temple Board Meeting
24 Hebrew School
26 Kabbalat Shabbat
27 Saturday Service
28 Sunday School
28 Sisterhood Board Meeting
31 Tu BiShvat
31 4:00 Seder
31 Hebrew School
We hope everyone ushers in a Happy New Year and is looking forward to the year ahead. We will not have a meeting during the month of January, but will have one on Wednesday, February 21 at 10:30 am. You are welcome to pack a lunch and stay for the Rabbi’s Brown Bag Lunch at noon that day.
Looking ahead on Saturday, March 3, Hadassah will be sponsoring the tisch following morning services. We will be organizing that during our February meeting, so we hope you will attend if possible.
See you around the Temple.
Nancy Rosenberg
Hope everyone is keeping warm with this cold weather!
It has been a quiet time for Sisterhood while everyone recovers from the bake sale along with enjoying the holidays.
Sisterhood will be sponsoring the Tisch on February 3. There will be a Sisterhood Board meeting on January 28 at 12:00 noon in the Sunday School.
Watch the next newsletter for information regarding a general meeting in March.
Happy New Year to everyone!
Cheryl August
Concert in Daniel Recital Hall at Converse College
Featuring the Music of Jewish Composer, Ernst Bloch
Sunday, January 14, 3:00 pm