For the Blessings of Spring Flowers - Dayenu

Even though Passover is over, it isn’t too late to count your blessings and to help KSS.

 

 

Dear Kehillath Shalom Synagogue Members and Friends,

 

The Board hopes you and your family had a peaceful and meaningful Passover. Just as the Haggadah reminds us to say Dayenu (“That would have been enough for us”) for all the blessings that the Israelites received that helped bring them out of bondage in Egypt and into freedom in the Land of Milk and Honey, it is also a good time to recognize how blessed we are here in 2013.

 

Today, we are asking that you support Kehillath Shalom Synagogue by making a financial contribution to our Dayenu Fundraiser.

 

Let us remember the many blessings in our lives and realize how much more we have than would have been enough for us. Please count your blessings and consider making a donation of $2 for each one.

 

Blessings:

I have a safe and permanent place to live. Dayenu!

I have enough to eat. Dayenu!

I have clothes to keep me cool and to keep me warm. Dayenu!

I have a spouse/partner who supports me. Dayenu!

I have _____ children and grandchildren. Dayenu!

I have _____ siblings. Dayenu!

I have _____ parents, in-laws, grandparents and great grandparents. Dayenu!

I have _____ nieces and nephews. Dayenu!

I have _____ pets. Dayenu!

I have _____ bathrooms in my home. Dayenu!

I have _____ televisions in my home. Dayenu!

I have _____ cars. Dayenu!

I have _____ computers, tablets and cellphones. Dayenu!

I have _____ years of KSS supporting me by providing a place to worship, a place to gather with other Jews and a place to promote spiritual peace and growth. Dayenu!

 

Total number of blessings _____ x $2 = _____

 

Please make your check payable to Kehillath Shalom Synagogue and mail it to the office at 58 Goose Hill Road, Cold Spring Harbor, NY  11724. You can also make a donation via credit card if you call the office at 631-367-4589.

 

For next year and many more years after that at KSS,

 

Scott Ash (Fundraising Committee, Chairperson)

Open House for Kehillath Shalom Synagogue

Come celebrate Shavout with us at the Kehillath Shalom Synagogue Open House featuring Heather Forest!

 
Date: May 11th
Time: Services begin at 10am
Place:  Kehillath Shalom Synagogue
58 Goose Hill Rd. in Cold Spring Harbor, NY

To learn more about Shavuot click here.

Services Led by our post Bar and Bat Mitzvah Students

Just a reminder that Saturday's Torah studies and services (April 27th) will be led (without parental input) by our own post Bar and Bat Mitzvah students, Daniel and Morgan.

Said parental units are very proud and hope very much that the community will come out in force to support the efforts of these two young adults who are making such and effort to practice Reconstuctionism - participatory Judiasm.

As always, Torah study begins at 10am and Services at 11am.

Shabbat Shalom!

A Special Open House Celebration of Shavuot -May 11

 

Heather Forest will be helping us celebrate Shavuot on May 11th!

We will be hosting an Open House - free to the public with services at 10am led by our congregants and Hebrew School students followed by Tales of Giving and Receiving at 10:30 with Kehillath Shalom Friend, the talented Heather Forest.  Light nosh will follow.

Come meet (and celebrate) with the wonderful folks (if I do say so myself) of Kehillath Shalom Synagogue.

 

All are welcome!

Willie Wonka - the Amazing Chocolatier

A Note from our producer, Deborah Globus:


Dear me - what have I gotten myself into?

Producers aren't supposed to be IN the show?  Producers aren't supposed to have to *gasp* memorize lines.

But then, neither are Hebrew School directors or parents.  And all of them will be in this year's production of Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory presented by The Kehillath Shalom Kids Players.

Want to come watch us make fools of ourselves have fun on stage with our kids?!?  Get your tickets today by contacting Carolyn Mufson at (631) 470-3551 or email her at CarolynMufson at yahoo.com

An Afternoon in Celebration of the Arts

ARTS SALON

An Afternoon in Celebration of the Arts

Sunday, April 28, 2013

New time: 3:30 - 5:30p.m.

Join Kehillath Shalom Synagogue

for an engaging afternoon of member-led

Performances, Arts, Food & Community

no judging, no sale – only pure enjoyment

• NO ADMISSION CHARGE •

Share KSS’s passion for and interest in the Arts with children in the community.

Bring in donations of art supplies for the Huntington Head Start’s

pre-school and pre-k programs.

Kehillath Shalom Synagogue

58 Goose Hill Road • Cold Spring Harbor

631-367-4589

The Rabbi's Thoughts Following Events in Boston

BOSTON AND PRAYER

Alexander Solzhenitsyn has remarked: “Where once violence was the last resort, alas, today it is the
first resort.” Once again a major city of our nation has been rocked by violence. Senseless death and
bloodshed have become all commonplace in our world. Patriots’ Day in Boston was meant to mark the battles of Lexington and Concord. Sadly, the struggle for safety and freedom never is concluded.

Our prayers go out to the victims and their families, to all who have been touched by this evil action. 

At the same time we celebrate the selfless compassion of the bystanders and responders who rushed into the fray to help.

After 2011, after Columbine, after Newtown, and after Boston we realize that the enemy is not this
or that religion, this or that community: the real enemy is the hatred. How do we battle hatred?

It’s everyone’s responsibility. What the world needs is a unified religious voice preaching loudly and
constantly for tolerance, peace and compassion. All faiths, without exception, need to proclaim the
simple truth that all people are created in the image of God, each and every life is of infinite worth.

To quote the Talmud and the Koran: “To destroy one life is as if one destroyed an entire world. To save one life is as if one saved an entire world.”

And so we pray the words of the Bratslaver Rebbe,

May we see the day when war and bloodshed cease
when a great peace will embrace the whole world
Then nation shall not threaten nation
and humankind will not again know war.
For all who live on earth shall realize
we have not come into being to hate or destroy
We have come into being
to praise, to labor and to love.
Compassionate God, bless all the leaders of all nations
with the power of compassion.
Fulfill the promise conveyed in Scripture:
"I will bring peace to the land,
and you shall lie down and no one shall terrify you.
I will rid the land of vicious beasts
and it shall not be ravaged by war."
Let love and justice flow like a mighty stream.
Let peace fill the earth as the waters fill the sea.
And let us say: Amen

In prayer,
Rabbi Arthur L. Schwartz

Safety and Security in our Houses of Worship

Safety and Security in our

Houses of Worship

A significant and timely Friday Night Forum

Do you belong to a house of worship in our area? If so, DO NOT MISS this forum. What are the realities in our area? How can we best protect ourselves from violence before it happens?

This panel of experts will discuss the troubling real issue of safety and security in our faith communities.

• Inspector Edward Brady – Commanding Officer, Suffolk County Second Precinct

• Frank Petrone, Supervisor – Town of Huntington

• William R. ("Doc") Spencer, M.D. – Legislator, 18th

District, Suffolk County

 

• Lisa Jamison, LMSW – Division Director for Family Services, Family Service League

Friday, May 3, 2013

Forum is at 8:15 p.m.

Please join us for Friday night services at 7:30 p.m.

 

Kehillath Shalom Synagogue

58 Goose Hill Road, Cold Spring Harbor, NY

Sponsored by the Kehillath Shalom Social Action Committee.

Open to the entire concerned community.

All are welcome!

Reminder: no services Friday and special forum Saturday

Just a reminder:  There will be no Friday Night Services this week.

Saturday Morning services will include...

Forum: She is Beautiful, Share your Feelings about Israel's Beauty

When:  Sat, April 20, 12pm – 1pm

Description:  You are welcome to bring a photo, artifact, or anything that represents your personal feeelings about Israel

 

 

Art Salon, An Afternoon in celebration of the Arts

Art Salon

An Afternoon in celebration of the Arts

 

Sunday, April 28th, 2013

 

Sharing our artistic talents with the community.

Congregationsal Meeting Wednesday

Important Reminder:

Congregational Meeting Tonight
Wednesday, April 17th, 2013
7:30pm

Kehillath Shalom's Kids Production: Willie Wonka!

 

Come and support the KehillathShalom Kids Players with tickets to this year's performance!

 

Contact Carolyn Mufson at 631-470-3551

 

And if you'd like to go the extra step and put an add in the playbill please call Deborah Globus at 631-935-2777 for prices and options.

Kehillath Shalom Trip to Philidelphia

Did you know that Kehillath Shalom Synagogue has a mysterious secret benefactor that sponsors a bus trip once a year in order for us to bond and learn about new places in that special way you can only do when traveling with people?

 

This year's trip was to Philidelphia where we visited Beth Shalom Synagogue - the only shul designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright; Mikva Israel - the onldest congregation (though not the oldest building) in the United States; and the National Museum of American Jewish History.

 

Below are pictures of some of the things we saw on our wonderful trip!

 

The floor plan of Beth Shalom is based on the Rabbi's hands

The Bimah at Beth Shalom.  Kadosh - meant to be said three times is done in three levels.

 The vaulted ceilings sweep up from behind the bimah - the building itself is meant to evoke Mt. Sinai, with elements of the tents of Jacob and the sands of the desert.

 the chandalier of G_d's light divided into color so that it may be beheld.

 The ark at Mikva Israel and their Torahs (minus the finials made by Meyer Myerson [who was the friend of Paul Revere] because they were recently valued at 7.2 million dollars...)

 

a chair as old as Mikva Israel, established in 1740 (36 years before the Revolution - double chi!  Very lucky for the Patriots!)