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Nahalat Shalom e-mails out weekly updates on the happenings at the synagogue.
To receive the weekly updates, send an e-mail to the synagogue at info@nahalatShalom.org and ask to be added to the weekly e-mail list.
3/29/06 New Nahalat Shalom Email Addresses. Please note our new email addresses: For Rabbi Brin, rabbi@nahalatshalom.org. For Guida (and all future email newsletter submissions, please): administrator@nahalatshalom.org. For general questions and information: info@nahalatshalom.org. We will be closing our earthlink account this week, so PLEASE submit all future email correspondence to above addresses. When submitting email newsletter information, help this editor by please writing up your blurb in bold Ariel 10. Thank you.
Desert Sage May-June Newsletter Deadline is Monday, April 3rd, 5pm. Please email all articles, Mah Nish Mah announcements, and other items, to mazur@swcp.com.
THIS WEEK’S SHABBAT SERVICE SCHEDULE:
Friday Morning Torah Study Group This Week, Friday, 11:30 am-1 pm in the NS Administrative Office Conference Room. This Friday, 3/31: Ezekiel Chapters 43-48; Friday, 4/7: Hosea, Chapters 1-7; Friday, 4/14: Hosea, Chapters 8-14.
Call Shad for details at 262-0027.
Nahalat Shalom Art Gallery News. Art opening this Friday, March 31st, before and after service, starts at 5 pm. Artist Charl Agiza, Art Responding Against Invasion of Iraq. For more information, contact Michael Godey at lifetree@lobo.net.
Brief Kabbalat Shabbat Services, Friday, March 31st at 6:30 pm, followed by a lecture/discussion and pot luck dinner at 7 pm. "Tales from the Mamma Loshen: the Place of Yiddish in Our Culture, History and Stories," presented by Ruth Imber.
Torah Discussion, Saturday, April 1st at 11 am, followed by a potluck lunch at noon. **We would like to provide childcare. HOWEVER, you must let us know by THURSDAY, March 30th,
that you are bringing your children and how old they are. Call 343-8227.
NEXT WEEK’S SHABBAT SERVICE SCHEDULE:
Freylekhe Shabbes, Friday, April 7th, led by Beth Cohen. Services at 6:30 pm, followed by a potluck dinner at 7 pm, followed by dancing.
Meditation Shabbat, Saturday, April 8th, led by Robin Berman. Services at 10 am, followed by a kiddush.
Introduction to Jewish Prayer: Poetry of the Siddur Adult Education class. FREE INTRODUCTORY CLASS THIS WEEK!
Saturday, April 8th. Taught by NS member, Lia Rosen, Hebrew scholar and teacher for over 22 years. In the NS Sanctuary from 3:30-5:30 pm. Please pre-register by calling 343-8227, ext. 1 NOW, so we know how many people to expect!
Course fees for the 5 classes (remember first class is free!) are $55 for Nahalat Shalom members, $65 for non-members.
Havdalah Program: "Freedom, Activism, and Pesach," moderated by Mark Rudd. Saturday, April 8th. With a keynote by Dan Berger, co-editor of "Letters from Young Activists," and an all-star "jury" of elders.
Potluck at 7 pm, with program following dinner.
OTHER NAHALAT SHALOM ANNOUNCEMENTS: NS Art Gallery Needs a Patron. Looking for someone to donate 500 feet or so of ceramic tiles or $500.00 for tile for art gallery.
Exploring Jewish Prayer: Poetry of the Siddur—Free Intro Class to be Offered. Classes will begin Saturday, April 8th (first class FREE—come check it out!) This free introductory session will begin at 3:30 pm with an overview and discussion of this course. Students will meet weekly on Shabbat afternoons, 3:30- 5:30pm in the Nahalat Shalom sanctuary. Course will meet for five meetings, April 15, 22, 29, May 6 and 13, and include an overview of the sculpture/form of the prayerbook, and various versions for all movements will be explored. Knowledge of Hebrew will enhance understanding of the original text, but we will build bridges to the meaning and our own spirituality as our studies develop. Another goal of the course will be the development of prayer leading skills and understanding. Please pre-register by calling 343-8227, ext. 1 NOW, so we know how many people to expect! Course fees for the 5 classes (remember first class is free!) are $55 for Nahalat Shalom members, $65 for non-members.
Next Ki M'tzion Torah Study is Monday, April 10th, 7:30 pm, in the NS Administrative Office Conference Room. Facilitated by Lakme Batya Elior. Anyone is welcome. For more information, call 343-8227, ext.1.
Congregation Nahalat Shalom's Community Seder, Sunday, April 16th, 5-8pm. Passover Seder led by Nahalat Shalom's heder students, Rabbi Deborah Brin, cantorial soloist Beth Cohen and the 20-piece intergenerational Nahalat Shalom Community Klezmer band. The Seder is happening Sunday, April 16, 2006, at 3606 Rio Grande Boulevard NW. Bring to the Potluck: Bring only kosher for passover foods (no wheat, spelt, flour, pasta, orzo, couscous, etc...) and vegetarian and Kosher dairy foods for meal - rice and beans OK for Sephardic. Also, bring seder plates and seder plate items: parsley, greens, horseradish, bitter herbs, maror, roated egg/shankbone- or beet(veggie), orange(feminist), wine/grape juice and Matzohs. Free and open to the public. For general information, call 343-8227, ext. 1.
JCC Singles To Have Table at Nahalat Shalom’s Community Seder. There will be a table reserved for the JCC Singles at Nahalat Shalom’s Community Seder. Single Jews and their families are invited to join the JCC Singles at the Nahalat Shalom Potluck Vegan and Kosher for Passover Seder, from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. on Sunday, April 16, 2006, at 3606 Rio Grande Boulevard NW. Bring enough vegan or Kosher Dairy food for 6 – 8 people and your own wine (grape juice), Seder plate items, and Seder prayerbook. For JCC Singles information, phone Donna at 255-8350 or email Steve at: SteveEps2@aol.com.
Next Rosh Hodesh Potluck Dinner, Monday, April 24th. Dinner will be at Shad Goldstein’s home. Call 262-0027 for details.
Rabbi Michael Lerner will be speaking at an interfaith gathering in Albuquerque at 2:00 PM Sunday afternoon April 2, 2006. This will be at the auditorium of the Continuing Education Building, University and Indian School Road. He will be speaking about the ideas in his latest book, The Left Hand of God: Taking Back Our Country from the Religious Right. He believes there is a real spiritual hunger of many Americans, but what the Religious Right has offered does not satisfy. They may understand God’s right hand, which represents power and domination. A better vision for the spiritual/political transformation of American society is God’s left hand, which represents compassion and caring. For more information, contact Varda Brahms at 247-2245 or vardab@cybermesa.com or Sam Washburn at 323-6162 or at swashbur@nmia.com.
ALEPH Announcements:
Celebrate the Divine Femine at Elat Chayyim, ALEPH's sister retreat center. Special deal for your (Wo)minyan! Organize an ALEPH Group of 10 members who register together and take 10% off each registration OR get one additional registration for FREE! Sisters of The Red Tent: The Tribe of Dinah Gathers, Elat Chayyim Spiritual Retreat Center, August 14-20, 2006: Together we will visit the stories of our matriarchs, study and experience our relationship with mother earth, the sacred seasons, the Divine Feminine, embodied prayer, healing, and ritual from a Jewish and feminist perspective. Featuring week-long courses offered by Marcia Falk: Prayer as Poetry, Poetry as Prayer. Lynn Gottlieb: A Pageant of Biblical Mothers. Rabbi Melissa Weintraub: Priestess Peacemaking. Latifa Berry Kropf: Embodied Prayer. Rabbi Sarah Leya: Sanctified Sexuality in 21st Century Jewish Ritual. Yofiyah: Kol Ishah--Claim Your Voice. Rabbi Jill Hammer and Holly Taya Shere: Initiating KOHENET: a two-year Hebrew Priestess Institute, see www.kohenet.org. Sisters of the Earth weekend. If you can’t come for the whole week, treat yourself to a healing, renewing, and empowering weekend. We will weave together song, dance, and prayer and raise ourselves to be messengers of peace, connection, and healing in the world. Experience the holiness of Shabbat rituals from Mikveh through Havdallah in Women’s space. For more information, go to: www.jewishretreatcenter.com/retreats/womens_week. |
