Download - TEC Times, May 2016
May 2016 / 5776
TEC Times A monthly calendar for the
Temple Etz Chaim community
Clean out your closet and help us raise funds!
We are collecting:
Clothing
Shoes
Accessories
Books
Linens
Household Items*
* Small items only.
No furniture.
Items collected help fund:
Bring your items to our Donation Drive event:
For questions, please contact:
TEMPLE ETZ CHAIM
MAY 1, 2016 9-11:30am
Religious school @ Medway High School
88 Summer St., Medway
OR
Temple Building
900 Washington St., Franklin
Jill Simms
THIS SUNDAY!
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Welcome to a new century at Temple Etz Chaim!
We are switching over to Mishkan Hanefesh for our High Holiday prayer book. This is an exciting change for our congregation. It is gender inclusive and modern. Be the first to help us purchase the books that will help keep our worship relevant to our lives. For a $54.00 donation, we will attach a bookplate in both volumes, in honor or in memory of a person or event of your choosing. See our online donation form to memorialize or honor someone in the new books. The deadline to purchase book plates for this year is July 22nd.
Upcoming Events
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Savers Fundraiser Sunday, May 1st Clean out your closet and help us raise Funds! Items collect-ed help fund Temple Etz
Chaim! We are collecting: clothing, shoes, accessories, books, linens, and small household items. Furniture NOT INCLUDED. See front page for details. Questions? Contact Jill Simms.
Sisterhood Mah Jongg Sunday, May 15 2:00 pm at Temple Building
The 2016 cards are in! Let’s play mah jongg. Bring your quarters and 2016 Mah Jongg card and a nosh. Interested? Don’t have a card? Contact Margot Rivelis.
Religious School Open House For new families interested in our community Sunday, May 1 10:00 - 11:00 am Medway High School 88 Summer Street, Medway
Join us for a fun filled morning to experience our Religious School program. Take a tour of our school Visit our classrooms Enjoy coffee or tea with TEC Religious School parents
and members of Synagogue Life and Membership Meet the Rabbi Chat with the Director of Education and much more!!! RSVP to let us know you are coming or for any questions call the Temple office at 508-528-5337 or email Hana Ber-man.
Teacher Appreciation Sunday, May 15 9:00 - 10:00 am Medway High School Auditorium 88 Summer Street, Medway Parents, please join us to say thank you to
our teachers who volunteer their time and talents for our children. The students will show their appreciation in song and special presentations.
Temple Spring Cleanup 2016 Sunday, May 15 10:00 am - 2:00 pm at Temple Building It is time for spring cleaning at the Tem-ple and everyone is invited.
Time to pick up, rake up and spruce up the Temple grounds from a hard winter of downed tree branches and plowed up parking. Come for an hour or the day. Refresh-ments will be available -- all we need is you and your rakes, shovels, saws and pruners. Also we are asking donations of Ornamental Grasses to line the driveways and walkways. Buy one or divide and dig from your home. Those can be dropped off at the Temple any time this spring. Rain date will be 05/22. For more information contact Jim Buja.
Yom HasHoah Servoce Wednesday, May 4 7:00 pm at Temple Etz Chaim Please join us for a service for Yom HasHoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) as we come together as a community to recall the 6 million
of our people and all the others who perished in the Shoah.
Tiny Tots Playgroup May 8 10:00 - 11:30 am at Medway High School 88 Summer St., Medway
Tiny tots is designed to help families with children birth through preschool make Jewish connections. Our gather-ings are casual, our connections become strong. For more information, please contact Dawn Doucette-Kaplan.
Morning Torah Study Saturday, May 7, 21, 28 8:30 am at the Temple Building
Join the Rabbi for our weekly text study. No Hebrew need-ed. We’ll study text in English. Come when you can or come every Saturday. The door is open to open your mind!
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Upcoming Events
Annual Meeting Wednesday, May 25 7:00 pm at Temple Building
All temple members are requested to attend. Come vote on the new Board of Directors and approve the 2016-2017
budget. Get involved… it’s your Temple!
Havdalah Service and Israel Celebration Social
Saturday, May 21 7:00 -11:00 pm at Temple Building
Gather to participate in a beautiful Havdalah service and party to cele-brate Israel. Participants asked to bring Israeli food and artifacts to share. Questions? Email Membership.
Confirmation Service Sunday, June 12 7:00 - 9:00 pm Franklin Federated Church 171 Main St., Franklin Join us as our 10th grader Confirma-
tion students have a chance to lead services and be called to
the Torah. This is an uplifting service that marks the anni-
versary of the giving of the 10 commandments to Moses
and the Israelites at Mt. Sinai and celebrates the end of the
grain harvest in Israel. As the Jewish people made a cove-
nant with God on this day, so too, our young adults reaf-
firm their commitment to their Jewish heritage. Please join
us for this special service and to honor the Confirmation
students. As a community we send a hearty mazel tov to
the following confirmation students: Frederick Beckmann,
Benjamin Cohn, Jenna Goodman and Abigail Pfeffer.
Sisterhood High Tea Sunday, June 26 1:00 - 3:00 pm Sisterhood Members: $25.00 Guests: $30.00 Proctor Mansion Inn 36 Common St., Wrentham
Join us for a traditional English High Tea. Come hear about our accomplishments this past year. Vote on the new Sisterhood Board for 2016-2017. RSVP by June 17, please contact Margot Rivelis
Mandarin Dinner Fundraiser Wednesday, May 18 5:00 - 9:00 pm Mandarin Milford 196 East Main St, Milford (across from Stop & Shop)
Eat, Drink and Raise Money! Come for dinner and drinks all while supporting Temple Etz Chaim No coupon necessary! All sales that night will go to Temple Etz Chaim! Mandarin Milford will donate 20% of your check (including all drinks) to Temple Etz Chaim. Be sure to mention to your server you’re from TEC.
Tikkun Leil Shavuot Saturday, June 11 (6 Sivan) 8:00 pm at Temple Building
Please join us for our inaugural Tikkun Leil Shavuot. Traditionally, Jews come together to study texts throughout the night of Shavuot, the holiday that marks the giving of the Torah. It is also a holiday where we eat dairy foods. We won’t study throughout the night, but we will have a Shavu-ot service, do some nighttime study and nosh on dairy des-serts. Please join us.
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Temple Cookbook Temple Cookbook... Needs your help! We are creating a cookbook that will be availa-ble for purchase for the Winter holiday season next year. To do this, we need your recipes.
Imagine helping to build your new favorite cookbook and helping the Temple at the same time. Send your favorite recipes to Jayme Solomon-Zissu.
Erev Shabbat Service Schedule Friday, May 6 at 7:00 pm at TEC Family Shabbat Service
Friday, May 13 at 7:30 pm at TEC Erev Shabbat Service
Friday, May 20 at 6:30 pm at TEC Tot Shabbat Service
Friday, May 20 at 7:30 pm at TEC Erev Shabbat Service
Saturday, May 21 at 10:00 am at FUSF Shabbat Service and Matthew Elpus Bar Mitzvah
Saturday, May 21 at 7:00 pm at TEC Adult Havdalah Service and Social
Friday, May 27 at 7:30 pm at TEC Erev Shabbat Service
TEC: Temple Etz Chaim, 900 Washington St., Franklin FUSF: First Universalist Society of Franklin, 262 Chestnut St., Franklin
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you. When you shop at smile.amazon.com, you’ll find the exact same low prices, vast selection and convenient shop-ping experience as Amazon.com, with the added bonus that Amazon will donate a portion of the purchase price to TEC. It's simple to do. When shopping on Amazon, go to smile.amazon.com and choose "Temple Etz Chaim" (of Franklin, MA) as your charitable organization. That's it! Whenever you shop, remember to do with a smile.
Ink/Toner Cartridge Recycling Don’t throw away those empty ink and toner cartridges. Drop them off in the bin at temple or at religious school and let us recycle them. We earn $ for each recycled cartridge.
B’Nei Mitzvah B’Nei Mitzvah Shabbat Service 10:00 am First Universalist Society of Franklin 262 Chestnut St., Franklin
Saturday, May 21: Matthew Elpus becomes Bar Mitzvah Saturday, June 18: Joshua Rocha becomes Bar Mitzvah
The congregation is invited to worship as our B’Nei Mitz-vah students are called to the Torah as Bar/Bat Mitzvah. Please join the families for Kiddush following the service.
If you’d like to make a donation in memory or honor
of somebody or just to support us, please go to our
online form.
General Fund In memory of John Hagerty by MaryAnn Oppenheimer & Michael Fishbein
In memory of John Hagerty by Linda Sue & Richard Sohn
In memory of John Hagerty, dear father, father-in-law & grandfa-ther to the Alpert/ Hagerty family by the Venooker Family Torah Fund In memory of John Hagerty with sympathy by Sandi & Mark Cutler Religious Fund Mazel Tov to Jared Heather on becoming a Bar Mitzvah by Hana Berman Rabbi's Mitzvah Fund In memory of John Hagerty, father of Eileen Hagerty with deep-est sympathy by Aunt Dorothy & Uncle Bob
In memory of John Hagerty, father of Eileen Hagerty. may his memory be a blessing. by Margot & Michael Rivelis Building Fund In loving memory of John Hagerty by Susan & David Hirshfield
Donations
School is open every date listed, unless otherwise noted.
Religious School
Grades Pre K-7 Sunday- 9:00–11:30 am
Hebrew School
Grades 3-6
Wednesday- 4:00–5:30 pm
Academy (A); Confirmation (C); Post
Confirmation (PC) - Grades 8-12
Tuesday- 6:30-8:30 pm
3/6
3/13
3/20
3/27–No School
4/3
4/10
4/17–No School (Spring Break)
4/24 – No School (Passover)
5/1
5/8
5/15
5/22 – Last day of School
3/2
3/9
3/16
3/23
3/30
4/6
4/13
4/20– No School (Spring Break)
4/27– No School (Passover)
5/4
5/11
5/18– Last day of School
3/1 – A/C
3/8 – A/C/PC
3/15 – A/C
3/22 - A/C
3/29– A/C
4/5– A/C/PC
4/12 – A/C
4/19 – No School (Spring Break)
4/26 – No School (Passover)
5/3 – A/C (7th
grade)
5/10– A/C/PC
5/17– A/C – Last day of School
Please join us to honor our Confirmation Students Sunday, June 12, 2016 Confirmation Service
@ 7:00pm at Franklin Federated Church
Each month, there is a special “Family Shabbat” service designed specifically for families with children in our Reli-gious School. This gives us an opportunity to come together as a community to celebrate Shabbat. They will fea-ture friendly singing, age-appropriate readings, and birthday blessings. During some of these Family Shabbat Ser-
vices, specific classes will participate in leading some of the prayers.
We hope that your family will join us for all of these Family Shabbat Services, as they promise to be won-derful celebrations in our community. We would appreciate each family to bring a sweet for Oneg fol-lowing the services.
Please join us to honor our Confirmation Students Sunday, June 12, 2016 Confirmation Service @ 7:00 pm at Franklin Federated Church
This service will honor our Confirmation students (10th graders) who elected to continue their Jewish education beyond religious school. They will help lead the Confirmation service. During the service, the students confirm
their sense of Jewish identity and their place in the Jewish community.
Date Help Rabbi lead services Time/ Location
Class Dinner
Bring Oneg or Lunch
Friday, April 15, 2016 Kitah Aleph-Bet (1st & 2nd)
7:00pm @ FFC 1st/2nd ALL grades Oneg
Friday, May 6, 2016 Kitah Gimmel (3rd) 7:00pm @ TEC 3rd ALL grades Oneg
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Pour Richard’s Passover Wine Tasting
Rabbi Alpert picking the
50/50 Raffle winner at our
wine tasting event
TEC Photo Album
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Junior Youth Group Kick Off Pool Party
Rabbi Alpert with Dean College Students during our 2nd Night Passover Community Seder
Sisterhood Soup, Salad & Soul Serenity House Collection
TEC Photo Album
Women’s Community
Passover Seder
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Rabbi Alpert
Hana Berman: Director of Education
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Kitah Aleph-Bet Snow Challenge
Climbing Mt. Sinai Jewish Snowman
Snow Menorah
TEC Photo Album
Zentagles by Academy and Confirmation Students