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Bring Your Own Wine & Cheese Night!!!
Looking forward to this fun social event for the 30s-45ish crowd at Temple! Contact Dana Dickson at dydickson27@gmail.com with questions!
Support for Tree of Life Synagogue
Temple Friends,
Our hearts are heavy with sadness and shock as we mourn the victims of the mass shooting that occurred during Shabbat services at the Tree of Life Synagogue yesterday. As a way of offering some comfort and support to this Jewish community, we are asking our Temple members to send messages of comfort and/or to make donations to the victims’ families (https://www.gofundme.com/tree-of-life-synagogue-shooting), the Tree of Life Synagogue (https://www.tolols.org/), or HIAS (the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, a nonprofit humanitarian aid organization that provides assistance to refugees supported by the Tree of Life Synagogue, https://www.hias.org/).
Please send messages of comfort to rhjelmaas@gmail.com by November 1st. You may also bring cards and messages to Family Shabbat on November 2nd. Jill and Rachele will package the messages and send them along with a care basket to the Tree of Life Synagogue.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Rachele Hjelmaas, Social Action Vision Leader
Jill Musin, Caring Committee Team
Meals from the Heartland Food Packaging
Meals from the Heartland is a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization made up of volunteers from businesses, schools, churches, and community organizations that package meals for delivery to malnourished people in Iowa, across the United States, and around the world. Our Temple Social Action group is looking for 7-10 volunteers to participate as a team in food packaging on Thursday, September 27 (6-8 pm) at this organization’s West Des Moines food packaging center, located at 357 Lincoln Street, West Des Moines. If interested, please contact Rachele at rhjelmaas@gmail.com or 515-419-5388 no later than September 25.
Habitat for Humanity Rock the Block Interfaith Event
Congregations and faith communities have been invited to join GDM Habitat’s 2018 InterFaith Rock the Block event. This interfaith community event will focus on repairs, maintenance, weatherization, beautification, safety, and accessibility projects at owner-occupied homes of qualified residents of the King-Irving and Mondamin Presidential neighborhoods in Des Moines.
We need Temple volunteers!! Shifts are available from 8am-4pm or 8am-noon October Wednesday 10 through Saturday, October 13. Volunteer for one shift or as many shifts as you can! Experience is appreciated but not necessary; Habitat teaches unskilled volunteers!! A special note: Rabbi Kaufman will be leading the opening prayer for this event on October 10. If you can help, please contact Rachele at at rhjelmaas@gmail.com or 515-419-5388 no later than October 1 for sign-up information.
Rabbi Kaufman’s Taste of Judaism Class Schedule
Taste of Judaism is an opportunity to learn about the basics of Judaism. We will briefly discuss the different kinds of Judaism, how Jews pray, life cycle events in the Jewish tradition and Jewish holidays. The last day of class, we will look at the holiday of Chanukah in detail. Whether you are just beginning to learn or want a refresher, we hope you will join us.
Oct 4 — Streams of Judaism in Perspective
Oct 11 — Jewish Textual Traditions
Oct 18 — Worship and Prayer
Oct 25 — Holidays
Nov 8 — Life Cycles
Nov 15 — Chanukah
All classes are 7:00-8:30 pm You need not be interested in conversion to attend the sessions.