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Sharon Katzman's Appearing on Lifetime Channel's
The Balancing Act | |
See our member Sharon Katzman on The Balancing Act airing
J une 1st on Lifetime channel at 7 AM!
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Shabbat and Holiday
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May 20: 7:30 PM Shabbat Evening Service - Book Discussion
May 27: Memorial Day Weekend Shabbat Evening Service/Program - Time TBD
June 3: 7:30 PM Shabbat Evening Service
June 10: 7:30 PM Shabbat Evening Service |
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IHN's Box City - June 4 | | |
Or Chadash has been invited to participate in the first annual BOX CITY, sponsored by the Interfaith Hospitality Network. It is a special night under the stars to raise funds and awareness for homelessness. The event kicks off on Saturday, June 4th, 2011, at 6:00 pm at a field at Hunterdon Central High School . Everyone is encouraged to solicit multiple sponsor pledges for a total of at least $100 for their "rent" at BOX CITY. Participants will spend the night in a cardboard box- or in a sleeping bag, lawn chair or other insufficient "housing" to draw attention to the lack of affordable housing in Hunterdon County and the necessary work of IHN which assists families and inviduals who are temporarily displaced.
This event is perfect for youth groups, students, service groups, school groups, individuals and friends and anyone who would like to learn how to make a difference in the lives of those less fortunate. This event will be held rain or shine. For more information www.ihnhunterdon.org |
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| Rabbi's Message | | |
This past weekend we celebrated with our Confirmation Class as they shared with us their thoughts on their evolving Jewish identities. Reading and chanting the Ten Commandments from the Torah and leading our community in Shabbat worship, they demonstrated the skills they have acquired during their formal religious education. But most significant was listening to their own words as they described the transformative experiences they have had as students in our Religious School. Betsy Zalaznick spoke to them - and to the families present at Confirmation - about the different kinds of approaches we each take as we confront challenges.
Click here to read her words as they speak not only to 10th Graders and their parents, but to each of us who embraces what Rabbi Alvin Fine articulated in his poem "Birth is a Beginning". He reminds us that life is a journey.
And indeed it is when lived to its fullest.
Shalom,
Rabbi Joseph M. Forman |
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Nemesis Book Discussion - Friday, May 20 at 7:30 PM | |  In the "stifling heat of equatorial Newark," a terrifying epidemic is raging, threatening the children of the New Jersey city with maiming, paralysis, lifelong disability, and even death. This is the startling theme of Philip Roth's wrenching new book: a wartime polio epidemic in the summer of 1944 and the effect it has on a closely knit, family-oriented Newark community and its children.
At the center of Nemesis is a vigorous, dutiful twenty-three-year-old playground director, Bucky Cantor, a javelin thrower and weightlifter, who is devoted to his charges and disappointed with himself because his weak eyes have excluded him from serving in the war alongside his contemporaries. Focusing on Cantor's dilemmas as polio begins to ravage his playground-and on the everyday realities he faces-Roth leads us through every inch of emotion such a pestilence can breed: the fear, the panic, the anger, the bewilderment, the suffering, and the pain.
Moving between the smoldering, malodorous streets of besieged Newark and Indian Hill, a pristine children's summer camp high in the Poconos-whose "mountain air was purified of all contaminants"-Roth depicts a decent, energetic man with the best intentions struggling in his own private war against the epidemic. Roth is tenderly exact at every point about Cantor's passage into personal disaster, and no less exact about the condition of childhood.
Through this story runs the dark questions that haunt all four of Roth's late short novels, Everyman, Indignation, The Humbling, and now Nemesis: What kind of accidental choices fatally shape a life? How does the individual withstand the onslaught of circumstance? Join Rabbi Forman for a discussion of this compelling book on Friday May 20 at 7:30 PM. |
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Confirmation - May 13, 2011 | | |
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Confirmands' thoughts on their Jewish identity.
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Mitzvah Day Thank You | | |
Pictured above are some of the Or Chadash Mitzvah Day participants that started their day at the synagogue for breakfast, songs and a Mitzvah Day blessing. Throughout the greater Hunterdon County community, on Sunday, more than 180 Or Chadash members joined together to "repair the world." We hope that you will enjoy seeing the photos that capture just some of the activities of this very rewarding day at Or Chadash and our community as we performed g'milut chasadim, acts of loving kindness by: planting our organic garden, constructing plush bears to donate to children in shelters, tidying up our property by mulching had weeding, knitting a blanket for the LINUS project, baking chocolate chip cookie for the Sandhill Boys home, putting together our new gas grill, affixing labels in our prayer books, making pb&j sandwiches for the Samaritan Homeless Interim Program (SHIP), cleaning up the trails, making napkin rings, place mats and decorative bags for the clients of Meals on Wheels, crating butterflies for the Holocaust Museum of Houston's 2013 exhibition, cleaning out the cages at Common Sense for Animals and walking the dogs, entertaining the residents of Rolling Hills Care Center in song, providing needy supplies to the clients of the Flemington Food Pantry and donating blood.
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Thank You to Estelle Breines | | |
Thank you, Estelle, for the book reading, signing and discussion of your book "Brooklyn Roots: A Tale of Pickles and Egg Cream". |
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