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NEWS FOR THE WEEK OF MAY 13, 2015
COMMUNITY
Lifecycle Announcement

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We are saddened by the passing of David Milke, step-father of Seth Frankel.

 

Hamakom y'nachem - may David's family receive strength and comfort from the blessing of his memory.

 

  
Lifecycle Announcement

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We are saddened by the passing of Cynthia Hammond Touchstone, aunt of Chris Goodman.

 

Hamakom y'nachem - may Cynthia's family receive strength and comfort from the blessing of her memory.

 

  
Lifecycle Announcement

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We are saddened by the passing of Donald Klein, brother of Bunny Henderson. 

 

Hamakom y'nachem - may Donald's family receive strength and comfort from the blessing of his memory.

 

  
Annual Meeting

Thursday, May 14

6:30pm Refreshments and Socializing

7:00pm Meeting Begins

North Building 

 

Please join us for the Annual Meeting on May 14th at 6:30pm.  In order to properly conduct the business of the congregation, we need our members' attendance. Those who have stepped forward to lead the congregation through service on the Board of Trustees need to be formally elected.  Please honor their commitment to you by attending the meeting.  In addition, you will hear reports and have an opportunity to ask questions about all aspects of the community we build and grow together.  If you cannot attend in person, please return your ballot by mail or in person prior to the meeting.

 

At 6:30pm, please join us in the Social Hall for refreshments and an opportunity to see projects done by each school grade.  The Annual Meeting will begin in our Sanctuary at 7:00pm. RSVP helpful, but not required. CLICK HERE to RSVP for the Annual Meeting. 

  
Join us! 
June 26th Shabbat Service and Special Oneg to say goodbye to Rabbi Glickman

The Board of Trustees is pleased to share this message from Rabbi Glickman:

I am delighted to announce that, on July 1, I will become the interim rabbi of Beth Shalom Synagogue in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. My delight, of course, is tinged with a good dose of sadness. Leaving Har HaShem and the many friends I've made here will surely be difficult, but I'll take comfort in the fact that after a terrific year here in Boulder, I will leave you in Rabbi Greene's very wise and able hands.

Also, it's important to remember that we still have a month-and-a-half together. I know you'll join me in making these final weeks of my Har HaShem rabbinate really great. Let's continue to relish our congregation's many strengths; let's continue to look ahead with eager anticipation; and let's continue working together to make Har HaShem the sacred community we know it to be.

And if you ever find yourself down in bayou country next year, please let me know that you're coming. I'll be waiting for you with open arms, kosher Cajun knishes, and a great big "Shalom Y'all" hug!

With very best wishes,

Rabbi Mark Glickman

 

  
Membership Photo Directory Coming Soon!

In celebration of our 50th anniversary, Har HaShem will be producing a membership directory with color photographs of our members. Bettinger Photography of Denver along with our member Jeff Hersh of KMH Photography will produce the photographs. Digital equipment allows you to view your photographs immediately following your session to select your most flattering pose.  By being photographed you will also receive a FREE professional 5 X 7 photo and the option to purchase other professionally posed and prepared photos at discounted prices. You may also bring any well behaved family pet. There is no obligation to make any purchase.

 

Photography will be done at Har HaShem on June and July dates.  Please make your appointments quickly by CLICKING HERE  to have the best choice of day and time. Select either June or July on the far right of the appointment page, then select one of the highlighted dates, then select a time.  You will then be prompted for your name and contact information - please complete it all fully.  Plan on wearing solid colors in medium and dark tones, with long sleeves, and avoid bold prints and stripes.  

 

You also have the option to be photographed at Bettinger Photography's exclusive indoor and outdoor studios located on University Blvd near The University of Denver.  Contact them directly at 303 400-6023.  You may also be photographed by KMH Photography by calling Jeff Hersh at 720 935-9480.

 

Additional details will follow as to how you can advertise your business, list teenagers who are available for babysitting and other services, and a number of other features. But FIRST, we hope you will make your appointment to be photographed!

  
Father's Day Rockies Game with Women of Har HaShem

Sunday, June 21; 2:10pm first pitch

EVERYONE is welcome to join Women of Har HaShem.  

BRING YOUR FRIENDS, NEIGHBORS, or EXTENDED FAMILY!

 

Tickets $20 each. Overlooking field on 3rd base side and after a few innings, IN THE SHADE!

They will be distributed on a 1st ordered, 1st seating choice arrangements.

The tickets are in Section L345 Rows 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5.

 

To place an order or for more information, please contact Alise Jackson at 720-839-4544 or [email protected].                    

  
Keitanat Har HaShem Day Camp Registration is Open

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Start your summer break with Congregation Har HaShem's camp for kids entering 1st-5th grades led by Co-Directors Caroline Saliman and Leah Boonin
Each week is filled with ruach, games, swimming, challah baking, crafts, field trips, music, mitzvah projects and more! Field trips have included Coors Field, hiking, boating on Lake Estes, the Denver Aquarium, the zoo, and lots of swimming pools.
The regular day camp week runs Monday through Friday 9 AM to 3 PM. You can join us for one week, or for all five. The summer session ends with a one-night overnight that is open to everyone who attends one or more sessions. Click here for session dates and costs and to register for camp.
  
Registration for Tuv Ha'Aretz, Boulder's Interfaith Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) 2015 Season is Open

vegetables Tuv Ha'Aretz, Boulder's interfaith CSA (community supported agriculture) is an organization Har HaShem has actively supported for years. You can sign up for regular or large weekly (23 weeks) or biweekly (12 weeks) shares of delicious, local, organic produce from our partner Red Wagon Organic Farm. Fruit, egg, mushroom, and coffee shares are also available. Tuv Ha'Aretz members can pick up on Tuesdays at Congregation Nevei Kodesh (1925 Glenwood Dr.) or on Thursdays at Unitarian Universalist Church of Boulder (UUCB) (5001 Pennsylvania Ave.)  When you register, please make the connection between faith and food by selecting a Tuv Ha'Aretz share.  To sign up simply go to http://redwagonorganicfarm.com/csa/.

 

This year Red Wagon Organic Farm has thought a lot about Shmita, the biblical "release" of land and debts to community members (Exodus 23:10-12, Leviticus 25:2-7, Deuteronomy 15:1-3 and 15:7-10).* Inspired by the faith community's support through Tuv Ha'Aretz, Red Wagon has created a Farm Worker Support Fund to contribute to the quality of life for the workers who help produce the delicious food that we eat.  Tuv Ha'Aretz is donating $1,000 (a portion of past Tuv Ha'Aretz membership donations) to this fund. As you sign up for your CSA share, please consider making a contribution to this fund to support the farm workers who grow your food.  You may also donate to this fund even if you do not sign up for a CSA Share.  For information about Tuv Ha'Aretz, please contact [email protected].

  
Desserts for the Homeless

Because Memorial Day is on Shavuot this year, we will not host a Memorial Day picnic for our homeless neighbors. Another group, Boulder Food Rescue, is taking up the work, but they can use our help with wonderful finger-food desserts, as we have done in the past. And the desserts can have dairy ingredients!!! So please, whip up some cookies, brownies, and bars before Monday, May 25, and contact Sara-Jane Cohen, [email protected], to arrange pickup or delivery before the holiday. Please DO NOT bring the food to Har HaShem! Thanks for continuing to support our important work with the homeless community.

  
Boulder Jewish Festival
Volunteers Needed!

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The Boulder Jewish Festival will be on Sunday, June 7th from 11am-5pm. As usual, Har HaShem will have a booth. We are looking for people engaged in all areas of our congregational life to volunteer to staff the booth for 1.5 hour shifts. Volunteers will be provided with talking points and materials to hand out. You can chat with people about all of the reasons you LOVE being a member of Har HaShem. CLICK HERE to sign up for a shift. Please contact Lisa Webber at [email protected] if you would have any questions. 

  
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LEARNING

Snipers, Searchers, and Sages: A Rabbi's Adventures in Jewish America led by Rabbi Glickman

Saturday, May 16; 7:00-9:00pm
Havdalah, Refreshments, and Program
Har HaShem North Building
No Cost. Click here to register.

The work of a rabbi involves much more than leading services and officiating at life-cycle events...and in Rabbi Mark Glickman's case, it tends to involve a lot more!  Are you interested in hearing how a Jewish leader such as Rabbi Glickman could find himself in the Alaskan tundra officiating at the funeral of a Jewish Eskimo? Or how he could find himself testifying in the trial of a world-famous mass murderer? Or teaching Torah to Benedictine monks at a mountaintop monastery in the Canadian Rockies? Or having a clandestine meeting and a latte with a Jordanian imam in Washington State? If you're interested in hearing these and other true tales of rabbinic adventure, then come to this session and hear them from our very own interim rabbi.
  

Ziknei Lunch and Learn

Thursday, May 21; noon

BrownBagLunch Sara-Jane Cohen, a long-time Har HaShem member who volunteers in countless ways for the congregation, will be the guest speaker at Ziknei's brown bag lunch at noon Thursday, May 21, at Har HaShem. She will talk about her recent trip to Cuba. Ziknei Har HaShem hosts speakers and programs at monthly brown bag lunches at noon on the third Thursday of each month. Bring your own vegetarian, dairy lunch. Har HaShem provides drinks and desserts. 

  

Visiting Scholar Rabbi Arik Ascherman

Friday-Saturday, May 22-23
North Building Sanctuary

Rabbi Arik Ascherman, director of Rabbis for Human Rights (in Israel), will speak at Shabbat services on May 22. CLICK HERE for more information about his organization. The title of his talk is "The Power of Standing up for Right: Parashat BaMidbar, Shavuot and Human Rights in Israel." He will also lead Torah Study on Saturday, May 23 at 9am. Rabbi Ascherman's visit is sponsored, in large part, by Har HaShem's Israel Programming Fund.
Beginning in 1995 Rabbi Ascherman served as co-director of Rabbis For Human Rights, serving as executive director from 1998-2010. He currently is President and Senior Rabbi. Rabbi Ascherman is internationally recognized as a leading advocate for human rights and social justice as a religious, Jewish and Zionist obligation, and has several times stood trial for acts of civil disobedience. He has received numerous awards and recognitions for his human rights work, as has Rabbis For Human Rights. 
  

Community Wide Shavuot Program
All Night Learning Event!

Saturday-Sunday, May 23-24
North Building

7:30pm Seudah Shlishit (with Niggunim!) -�- Third Meal Catered by Falafel King (Rabbis Sarah Bracha Gershuny and Hannah Laner) *Please RSVP to [email protected] by May 14th for the Third Meal.
9:00pm Ma'ariv (Orthodox & Egalitarian Minyanim)
9:20pm Candlelighting & Kiddush
10:00pm Haver Panel: Perspectives on B'tselem Elohim
10:45pm D'var Torah by Rabbi Arik Ascherman: B'tselem Elohim and the Honorable Treatment of the Stranger in Our Midst
Midnight Inspirational/Mystical Stories from the Zohar (Rabbi Tirzah Firestone)
Midnight Megillat Ruth: The Torah's Response to Sexual Exploitation (Rabbi Moshe Silver)
12:45am Guided Meditation/Hitbodedut
1:15am Masechet Atzmaut: What Would the Talmud Say about Human Rights? (Rabbi Arik Ascherman)
1:15am Why Rabbis Used to Hate Books (Rabbi Mark Glickman)
2:00-2:15am Ice Cream Break
2:15am 50 Gates and 70 Faces - What is the Torah, Anyway? (Rabbi Ami Silver)
3:15am "Ecstatic Tisch": Late Night Niggun Session (Rabbis Sarah Bracha Gershuny and Ami Silver)
4:15am Hevruta Learning/Beit Midrash
5:00am Shacharit (Egalitarian Minyan)
  

Introduction to Meditation Workshop

Sunday, May 31 from 1:00-3:00pm
South Building

The workshop will begin with a presentation exploring and addressing why meditation is helpful, what is Jewish about meditation, and how to meditate. Meditation instruction will be offered and participants will practice different meditations. Participants will leave with resources to take home. This workshop is open to experienced and beginning meditators.
CLICK HERE to register. Registration is required as space is limited.

Led by Rabbi Ruth Gelfarb who has studied at Nepal's Pokhara Buddhist Meditation Center and completed a two year training program at the Institute for Jewish Spirituality under the tutelage of Rabbi Sheila Weinberg. Co-led by Jeff Tatelman who has been a member of Har HaShem for 18 years.  He participated in the Institute for Jewish Spirituality's Tikkun Middot Project, and has been practicing integrating a mindfulness practice with character development for 2 years. 
 PRAYER

Friday Evening Shabbat Services

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Friday, May 15 at 6:00pm
Led by Rabbi Glickman and Cantorial Soloist Holli Berman

This Shabbat, join us as we shift from "Monday through Friday" mode to "Shabbat" mode, leaving you rejuvenated and buzzing with positive Shabbat energy. After the service - please stay for the Oneg in the Social Hall, say "Hi" or meet someone else you don't know yet, and have a little something to remind you of the sweetness of Shabbat!    
  

Saturday Morning Torah Study and Minyan

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Saturday, May 23 at 9:00am
Led by Visiting Scholar Rabbi Arik Ascherman

What a combination! Bagels, cream cheese, coffee and inspiration. Wake up to your Saturday morning with a group discussion of the weekly Torah portion, led by clergy or a visiting scholar. We will weave together traditional Jewish wisdom and insights with a modern angle and walk away spiritually awake with ideas to carry into the week.

 NOTICES

Lifecycle Event Notification

We rely on you to let us know when a member has celebrated a simcha, endured a loss, or is ill. Please call Carol at 303-499-7077, ext. 13, or email [email protected]. It is not guaranteed that we will see it if you post it on Facebook. Thank you!

On the Colorado Jewish Community Calendar

Jews as Black Allies presents Will I Be Silent? Understanding the New Jim Crow, a panel discussion, on Thursday, May 28th from 7:00-9:00pm at Congregation Nevei Kodesh, 1925 Glenwood Ave. in Boulder.

   

Join the Southwest and Rocky Mountain URJ Communities for a Shabbaton on the Santa Fe Trail in Trinidad, Colorado on May 15-16. The Shabbaton will be held at Temple Aaron, the oldest synagogue in continuous use in the western United States. CLICK HERE for more information and to register. 

 

Boulder Jewish Festival 2015

Save the date for the 21st annual Boulder Jewish Festival! Sunday, June 7, 2015 at the Boulder County Courthouse and Pearl Street Mall. Great food, fabulous music, Judaic art, kids activities and community organizations in the largest Jewish event in the West! To volunteer, sponsor, advertise or learn more about the event, visit http://boulderjewishfestival.org.

 

The Annual Jewish Leadville Event is coming up on June 27-28. Join for Shabbat services on Saturday in the historic Leadville Temple Israel and the annual Jewish Cemetery clean up day. Check out www.jewishleadville.org for more information.  

 

The Boulder JCC is hosting several Parenting Groups, including groups for parents of children with special needs, and an adoption group. Click here for more information.

 

Boulder Jewish Family Service is looking for compassionate, sensitive people to establish relationships with older adults. Visits can take place during the week or on weekends. We ask for a commitment of one or two hours a week, for a minimum of six months. Currently, we have people in Boulder, Louisville and Lafayette, who are waiting for such wonderful volunteers! www.jewishfamilyservice.org to complete an online application Ingrid Swords [email protected] 303-415-1025.

Jewish Together - Boulder, a collaboration between 30 Jewish organizations and synagogues in Boulder, including Har HaShem, has just launched two new life cycle compilation guides. One guide is for b'nai mitzvah resources in Boulder including tips on planning an environmentally responsible event, venues and a bit of learning. Our teen resource guide focuses on local opportunities to connect with other Jewish teens, national and international Jewish programs of interest, and information on local camps. If you have a pre-teen or teenager at home, these guides are for you!

 

JEWISHcolorado is pleased to initiate a three-year pilot project to bring PJ Library back to the greater Denver/Boulder community. PJ Library mails free, high-quality Jewish children's literature and music to families across the continent on a monthly basis. There is funding for 1,500 families in the Boulder/Denver area for families with children ages 6 months to 5.5 years, so please register ASAP. A waiting list will be created for additional families.

Visit MazelTot at www.mazeltot.org to sign up for discounts on Jewish programming for families with kids under age 5. Find Congregation Har HaShem listed on the MazelTot organization page for a list of activities you can apply your Mazeltot discounts.
Interested in Joining?
Contact Gary Fifer at [email protected]

Main Office: 303-499-7077