Shabbat-by-the-Sea and Pot-Luck Dinner

September 11, 2017
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Shabbat-by-the-Sea and Pot-Luck Dinner

Fri Sept 15 “Shabbat-by-the-Sea”

6:30 pm candle-lighting at the shul.

7:00 – 8:15 pm services at the gazebo.

8:30 pm dinner back at the shul. POT-LUCK dairy/vegetarian dinner. Please let us know on our Facebook page what you will be bringing to the pot-luck or contact Rabbi Metz at rabbi.sarametz@gmail.com.

 

Sat Sept 16 Breakfast minyan

9am bagels;

9:30-10:30 davening led by Marc.

Short learning in lieu of Torah service.

High Holidays

• Wed Sep 20 Erev Rosh Hashanah services at 5:45pm.
• Thu Sep 21 Traditional Rosh Hashanah morning service at 9:30am; Tashlikh follows. “Tot Shanah” children’s program runs concurrently from 11am to noon. (See the High Holidays page for more information on Tot Shanah and Tot Kippur.)

NOTE: Tickets are required for Rosh Hashanah 1st-day morning service and for Kol Nidre. Contact Elliot in the office 732-442-1373.

• Fri Sep 22 A unique 2-hour traditional 2nd-day morning service at 10am
• No Fri evening services Sep 22
• Sat Sep 23 Shabbat Tshuva
• Sun Sep 24 Annual cemetery service at Beth Mordecai Cemetery at 10am. (Note: You can honor your loved ones with this service even if they are not resting at our cemetery. Come experience a moving outdoor service and help make a minyan.)
• Fri Sep 29 Kol Nidre 6:15pm SHARP. (Tickets required; see above)
• Sat Sep 30 Yom Kippur
­  − 9:15am Morning Service
­­  − 11:45am Yizkor
− 4:45pm Minkhah
− 6pm Neilah
“Tot Kippur” children’s program runs concurrently from 11am to noon.

Save the Dates

• Sun Oct 1 Sukkah building and decoration. 2pm.
• Fri Oct 6 Shortened Shabbat services at 6:30pm, plus a POT-LUCK dairy/vegetarian meal in the sukkah. This is a Beth Mordecai congregation event. (And we have invited our friends from St. Peter’s Episcopal Church.)
• Sun Oct 8 Open Sukkah at the Metz home. 1-3pm.
• Thurs morning Oct 12 Sh’mini Atzeret and Yizkor. Short service (one hour) starting at 8:30 am.
• Thurs evening Oct 12 Simchat Torah. Enjoy ice cream sundaes and Israeli dancing. Festivities begin at 7:00 pm.
• Sun Oct 22 Mah Jongg at Beth Mordecai. An afternoon of friends, food and Mah Jongg, 2-4pm. $5 per person. RSVP to Anita (krentara@americanstandard.com)

Additional Announcements

Our High Holiday cantor this year (5778) is Anna Chapman. She has an MS in Arts Education and is currently a cantorial student at JTS. Rabbi Metz and Cantor Chapman are working to bring us a High Holiday program with all of the warmth, spirituality, and vitality you have come to expect from Congregation Beth Mordecai.

On the subject of music, Rabbi Metz has been (ever-so-gently) introducing some new tunes. Here’s a link to a lovely Oseh Shalom on YouTube that the rabbi has been singing on Saturdays.

We will be collecting food for a local food pantry again this year. Please drop off non-perishable packaged KOSHER food items. The bins for drop-offs will be set up from Rosh Hashanah through Sukkot.

Rabbi Metz will be participating in the JCC’s “Senior Lunch in the Sukkah” Tues, Oct 10. Click here for info from the JCC.

Don’t forget to use the Amazon Smile program when you visit amazon.com. The synagogue gets a donation when you purchase. It’s free. Click for details.

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