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TES Weekly
November 5 - 12, 2013    

Rabbi's Message

11/5/13  - 2 Kislev 5774  

 

Super Sunday

This past Sunday, we had the trifecta at TES of a full Shul School day, a Hanukah gift sale, and a new member brunch (for good measure the teen group also went out and chopped and stacked wood for the Jackson County Fuel Committee in the late afternoon). 
 
Many thanks to Michael Schames, Laura Bloom and the membership committee - we had a host of new members, old members, and prospective members who filled the Oneg room (and finished the lox!). It was a great testament to where we are right now as a community to hear everyone's stories as we went around the room and to experience the connections and re-connections. We are experiencing not just growth, but I think good, sustainable growth. We're building something that is real.

Thanks to Ellen Falkner and all who worked and helped during the gift shop sale. And thanks to Chazzan Bella and our Shul School teachers. There is something unmistakably alive and dynamic in the program this year, and I think it is that spirit that I felt not just with the kids and their learning, but in the whole building on Sunday. "Judaism" isn't an abstract phenomenon, but a living tradition.

Let's keep it going. 

L'shalom,





Rabbi Joshua Boettiger
Upcoming Services
Shabbat at Home, November 8
(no service at TES as this weekend Rabbi will be taking our teens to the Teen Shabbaton in Corvallis)
This Week at TES
Jewelry Class
Wednesday, November 6, 7:00 pm
The Torah of Reconciliation with Rabbi Lewis
Thursday, November 7 (see details below)
Finding Your True Voice

Every Tuesday afternoon from 1:45 - 2:45 pm
Torah Study
Torah study every Tuesday at 6:30 pm
Meditation
Every Wednesday at 8:00 am in the TES library
(please note no meditation this Weds., Nov. 6)
Embodied Yoga
Yoga at 9:00 am every Wednesday. 
Announcements
Hanukah Gift Items for Sale
If you missed last Sunday's sale, not to worry! Hanukah items are still available in the TES lobby during office hours, Tuesday - Friday, 10:00 am to 4:00pm and during evening events and services. Cash and checks preferred. Hanukah is early this year but there's still time throughout the month to stock up on wrapping paper, candles, tableware, dreidels, books, gifts, gelt (special sale price on gelt: $12/box of 24 bags) and much more!

Jewelry Class
Join us Wednesday, November 6 at 7:00 PM for another evening of fun and chatter and creativity. Bring a friend or two or three!

This month we will concentrate on more wire wrapping. We've had so many requests for instructions, that we are devoting the whole evening to this project.

All proceeds will benefit Temple Emek Shalom.  
Cost per evening:
   $10 TES members
   $15 non-members

Last minute drop-ins are welcome. 

Georgia, Lola and Nancy

Talented TES artists featured monthly
Many of you have noticed that the showcase to the right of the office window has changed format. TES artists are now being featured monthly, with items for sale.  Perfect for gifts, or for yourselves, items may be purchased through the office. A portion of all sales goes to the Temple. Bobbie Shultz's colorful pieces are now on display. Bobbie is a multi-media painter.

Temple Members Featured in Oregon Jewish Life Magazine

Check out the wonderful article about Judy and Johan Visser, longtime Temple members, in the current issue of Oregon Jewish Life magazine. A copy is posted on the Temple bulletin board, or you can download the October issue at: http://www.ojlife.com.
 
New donation page at the TES website
You can easily and quickly make donations to all funds, to remember and honor family, friends and loved ones. Visit the donation page and see the possibilities. Click here

Adult Education
The Torah of Reconciliation
with Rabbi Sheldon Lewis 
Thursday, November 7,  12:00 - 1:00 pm
The Torah of Reconciliation is the result of Rabbi Lewis' personal, passionate search for wisdom on peacemaking recorded in Jewish tradition. Beginning after the grief surrounding 9/11, he was determined to locate the pathway described in Jewish texts towards reconciliation. Join Rabbi Lewis for a special adult education program here at the Temple Emek Shalom library from 12-1pm on Thursday, November 7th. For more information, see http://www.torahofreconciliation.com.  
Social Action Opportunities
*Volunteers Urgently Needed for Winter Shelter

 

Dear Friends,

Your participation is urgently requested as hosts for the WInter Homeless Shelter this year. The shelter is all that stands between many homeless people and disaster in the cold Winter months. The shelter is essential, and is one of a network of three Ashland shelters which now run during the cold season. It is co-sponsored by the City of Ashland and two Church organizations: the Unitarian Fellowship and Temple Emek Shalom. Our part of the bargain is to provide  'overnight hosts'  on Thursday nights, beginning in mid-November. Hosts stay overnight and perform normal duties associated with operating a shelter which is open from early evening to early morning hours. Hosts perform in teams. Facility is located on Winburn Way in Pioneer Hall, behind Lithia Park and the Shakespeare Festival. Please consider volunteering for this very important work for our community. Thank you for your time.

Rabbi Joshua Boettiger, Pat O'Scannell, Evi Strauss and members of the Social Justice Action Committee

*Community Service Project in Uganda

Hello, TES members!
This is Carmen Liberatore here. You may have seen me around. I'm the Teen Representative on the Board, and I used to help out at Sunday School. I was asked to keep this short, so I'll cut to the chase: I have the chance to go on a community service trip to northern Uganda in June 2014, to help at a boarding school for underprivileged children. We'll be building water tanks to catch rainfall, break ground on the secondary school, and play with the kids, many of whom are orphans.
I'm really excited about this trip. I feel that I need to get out of America and get away from electronics and pop culture. I want to take off my blinders. I want to submerge myself in a culture that is worlds away from my own. I want to get out in this incredible world that we live in. I want to eat interesting food, talk to interesting people, get my hands dirty, work hard to make something useful, and help people make a better life for themselves. I want to come back and see my home, my country, and my city differently.

This is where you come in. The travel is expensive, and I need your help. I would so gratefully accept donations of any size to help me on my way. The total cost of the trip is $3,800. My goal is to raise roughly half of it ($1,800) by the end of December. 
You can contact me at [email protected] or by snail-mail: PO Box 214 Eagle Point, OR 97524
!תודה רבה
Todah raba!

*Transforming the Wounds in the Cultural-Soul Nations of Jews and Germans
Friday evening, Sat. and Sun., Nov. 8-10

Jackson Wellsprings

Cost before Oct. 15: $150, after Oct. 15: $175

We invite the German and Jewish participants of this workshop to go beyond guilt and atonement. We shall facilitate Germans and Jews to focus on the soul qualities and acknowledge the shadows aspects of their respective culture/nation.

 

Led by Soleil Lithman, MA, and Wolfgang J. Schmidt-Reinecke, MA, of Ashland OR. 
For more information:  
[email protected] 

or www.soulofnations.com

Sponsor
Allen G. Drescher, PC
Attorney at Law
21 S 2nd Street
Ashland, OR 97520
(541) 482-4935
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Friday, Nov. 8    

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