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December 2, 2013
By bethmordecai
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DAY 520: The Magic of Hanukkah…and Ducks!

Dear Hevreh,   Yesterday, our community celebrated the Festival of Lights in style with latkes, doughnuts, lighting of candles...and magic! A fun and engaging magician, the Great Scott, made us laugh and left us amazed with his sleights of hand and knowledge of the magical arts. The show was not only entertaining, but got me thinking about how magic relates to our relationship with God.    How can we sense God's presence in our lives? If the Bible is our guide, then the clearest way for God to appear in our lives is through the performance of "magic" -- miracles like splitting a sea or getting water from a rock. These events, which cannot be explained by reason, have ingrained in us the sense that when[...]

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November 13, 2013
By bethmordecai
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DAY 501: A Request on Behalf of My Shul That’s About More Than Just Raising Money

DAY 501: A Request on Behalf of My Shul That's About More Than Just Raising Money                                           For today's entry, I want to share with you a letter I crafted to family and friends to ask for their support in buying a duck for a rubber duck race (see below). While it was important to describe the event, I felt it was also important to share with them why this event is so meaningful to me. I don't expect that everyone will agree with my motivations, but by hearing my personal story I hope that people will understand that this[...]

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November 12, 2013
By bethmordecai
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Get ready for the Rubber Duck Race!

Make sure you adopt your duck for our Rubber Duck Race fundraiser with the YMCA on Sunday December 8th! Go to www.perthamboyduckrace.com to purchase your duck!   IMPORTANT UPDATE! (12/5/13) Due to inclement weather predicted on the day of the race, we are splitting the Rubber Duck Race into a Race at the YMCA at 3 pm and a Raffle (of the ducks who "won" the race) to determine prizes at PERTH AMBOY CITY HALL at approximately 5:30 pm (the end of the Holiday Parade and Tree Lighting Ceremony).    For a detailed description of the day's events, see the schedule below:   Schedule for the Duck Race 8 am - 2:30 pm -- Volunteers selling ducks at the YMCA (If you would like to help volunteer,[...]

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Wanna Buy a Duck?

Enjoy this fun video about buying a duck!   // Post by Congregation Beth Mordecai.

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November 6, 2013
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DAY 494: The Keif (or “Fun”) of Rubber Ducks

Dear Hevreh, Last night, many of you received an email from our esteemed Executive Director Elliot Rubin about selling ducks for our Rubber Duck Race fundraiser on December 8th. (In case you did not receive the email, you can read it here). The focus of that email was on the importance of selling ducks as a mitzvah, as a command, in which we recognize our obligation to raise valuable tz'dakkah for our community and the greater Perth Amboy community. While that sense of mitzvah is extremely important, I want to focus in this journal entry on another way to look at this campaign we're undertaking over the next 33 days. This process should be keif, or FUN!, because c'mon...we're selling rubber ducks!   I don't know about you but[...]

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August 15, 2013
By bethmordecai
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DAY 411: This is what community is all about…

Dear Hevreh, This is what community is all about... After a wildly successful Shabbat by the Sea this past Friday night, we still managed to make a minyan the next day on Saturday, something that would have been very unlikely not so long ago. This is what community is all about... Last night 16 people got together at the schul for a weekday evening service so a member could say Kaddish on the day of her father's actual yahrtzeit. Through phone calls made by Sherry Weber and the Caring Committee, and through our other outreach efforts especially through Facebook, we showed how our community can come together at a moment's notice. This is what community is all about... Earlier in the day a handful of volunteers[...]

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August 13, 2013
By bethmordecai
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DAY 409: Making Meaning

Dear Hevreh, Wow, what an incredible Shabbat. The music, the dancing, the spirit, the views by the bay, the delicious food...everything about Shabbat by the Sea this past Friday was amazing! With nearly 60 people at our unique service and over 40 people at our community dinner, it was a highlight event for our Jewish Home for the Soul. Check out this link for some pre-Shabbat pictures from Shabbat by the Sea! Yet the moment that really did it for me, the moment in which I knew we really hit on something, the moment in which I knew what we did was "soulful," was when Alan Siegel mentioned to me that "it wasn't just fun, it was also meaningful." That comment, more than[...]

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