We would like to invite all men affiliated with Temple Beth Sholom to join us for an open breakfast and meeting.  The breakfast will be held September 14 at 9:30am in the Social Hall.  A quick meeting will follow at 11:00am.  Brotherhood members are encouraged to come.  Non-Members are welcome.

Sisterhood

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October was a very busy month for Sisterhood. We set up the bema with beautiful fall fruits, vegetables and flowers and gave out candy to all of the children who attended the Simchat Torah service. Over 50 women attended the wine and cheese party that we held with the sisterhood of Temple Beth El. Larry Laraia, of Laraia's Cheese Shop in Nanuet, provided us with a fun and informative evening. We also supported the American Cancer Society's Breast Cancer Walk at Woodbury Commons. We wish to thank Shari Alinkofsky for organizing this event and everyone who generously gave their time and/or donations. We'd also like to thank Brotherhood for donating the proceeds of their CD sale to this worthy cause.

On November 14th we will be having a special paid-up membership brunch. We hope to see many of our sisterhood members attend.

We would like to thank Shari Alikofsky, Leah Moldavan, Sally Winter, Risa Stern, Elaine Getz, Lauren Schimko, and Nancy Hoffman president of TBE sisterhood, who helped make all of these events possible.
Sisterhood is involved in many aspects of our Temple. We try to work along with other committees and help with many of the wonderful programs that take place.

Upcoming events:

The Sisterhood Campership Fund provides money to help send a temple child to camp who might otherwise not be able to do so. The Rabbi is given the money and he is the only one who knows the identity of the family. Our Seeds to the Future Fund, which provides scholarship money for a Temple child to attend religious school, is handled in the same confidential manner. Please remember these funds when you are giving donations.

The Judaica shop can provide you with lots of ideas for gift giving for all occasions. Call Leah @ 634-1338 for assistance.

In Sisterhood
Phyllis & Marion

SISTERHOOD HAPPENINGS

November 10th at 7:30 will be our next Sisterhood meeting. We welcome any one who wishes to attend.

December 6th & 8th Sisterhood will be holding a Chanukah Boutique. Candles, menorahs and many great gift items will be available.

PLEASE RSVP FOR ALL PROGRAMS

Judaica Shop: Need a Confirmation gift? Give a Hebrew name bracelet. See the sample bracelet in the Judaica showcase. Order forms available in the Temple lobby or call Leah. Don’t forget the Judaica Shop for your Passover needs. If you don’t see it in the showcase call Leah Moldovan @ 634-1338.

Support Sisterhood by participating in one or more of these events.

Jewish Education Scholarship

The Sisterhood of Temple Beth Sholom has created and is sponsoring a new directed fund to assist students in the Congregation who are actively pursuing a Jewish education. "The Seeds for the Future Fund" will award scholarships that will be based on dedication to learning, commitment to our Congregation and the Jewish community, and financial need. The Sisterhood welcomes all donations during this economically challenging time when the "growing" of Jewish young people is more important than ever.

If you are Fifty-ish, we would love to have you as a member of the TBS Chai Society.  We are a dynamic group and you can add to our collective energy and spirit.

INVITES YOU TO JOIN US FOR A
FUN-FILLED EVENING OF
“MILITARY BRIDGE”
INCLUDING REFRESHMENTS, DESSERTS AND PRIZES

PREVIOUS BRIDGE EXPERIENCE IS NOT NEEDED ‘CAUSE
THIS ISN’T REALLY “BRIDGE”!
  COME ONE-COME ALL-BRING FRIENDS
WHEN:     SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 2010
WHERE:   TEMPLE SOCIAL HALL
TIME:       7:30 PM

COST:       $17.00 per person for members
$22.00 per person for non-members
RSVP:  BY February 20, 2010
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Name:____________________________________________
Phone Number:____________  Can bring a bridge table _____
Make checks payable to “TBS-Chai Society” and mail to:
Elaine Kaplan, 4 York Drive, New City, NY 10956.  For more information or if you have questions, call Bob or Elaine Kaplan @ 638-0809. 

More information will be available via the Lamp and flyers that are located in the Temple lobby. For more information or questions, call Elaine Kaplan 638-0809 or Brenda Rutstein 638-9023.

BSTYG

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For questions about membership and our activities please fell free to contact any of the board members or contact me directly: Cary Falber, at caryfal @ optonline.net, cell phone: 914-588-8609

News From Our Social Action Committee

We hope you have all had a wonderful Thanksgiving with friends and family. We are so thankful for all that have helped with this year‟s Thanksgiving Food Drive and truly feel blessed to have had the opportunity to once again work on this project.

The time put into it was so well spent as it was so rewarding to see all those that we helped.
Our efforts this Thanksgiving provided 900 pounds of uncooked foods for the hungry in our community. That added to our High Holiday donations brings our totals to nearly 11,000 pounds.
This mitzvah could not have happened without the help of so many.

Thank you to……..

The Zucker Family for their most generous donation of 50 frozen turkeys.

Jon Bernstein for your expertise in the kitchen, providing recipes and coordinating the cooking for our 12 People to People & Quisqueya families. We were busy in the kitchen prepping additional dishes, as well as making mashed potatoes and then cleaning the dishes. On behalf of Social Action / Outreach, I would like to show our appreciation:

Marilyn Fellows/Sue Dutiger for organizing our Religious School students to participate in the “Mitzvah of Giving”. For enabling them to prepare cooked meals for our 12 families and making beautiful cards and table centerpieces.

To all of our Religious School Teachers and the Aides for helping to make the experience of this mitzvot quite memorable.

Susan Dutiger for sending out our email reminders and making our flyers to decorate the boxes.

Gene Freyer for saving up boxes for us to box up our non-perishable food.

Deborah Rosenberg and Lori Gandelman for organizing with RS class parents to bring in all food supplies needed for cooking 12 meals.

Lori Scott & Nursery School for making beautiful table cloths and cards that were included in with the 12 fully cooked meals.

I thank Nursery School Families for all of their non-perishable food donations.

Lauren Crisp, Riki Kahan, Donna Sobel, Marni Blotner for sorting all the non-perishable into categories so that our 8th & 9th graders could box them up easier.

Rabbi and Cantor for a wonderful Interfaith Service.

Youth Group for providing apples for our pies. Josh Paz, Rachel Rosenberg and Emily Mathios for helping to bake the apple and pumpkin pies that accompanied our 12 cookedmeals.

Cary Falber and the 8th & 9th Graders for helping to box all the non perishables into 50 individual boxed meals for People to People.

All the children who were ambassadors for this program passed out orange ribbons, bags for food collection, made posters and spoke to children in their classrooms.

Susan Marquith, Deborah Rosenberg, Nancy Kenney, Melissa Bernstein, Donna Sobel, Marni Blotner, Karen Topchik, Bob Kurkela, Karen Freidland, Shari Gilden, Lauren Crisp, Adrienne Milich, Nancy Bigman and so many others that were passing by for helping to load up box after box of non perishables to be delivered to People to People.

Adam Mathios for the use of his van to help in delivering all our collected food and cooked meals.

For the families of everyone listed above – without their support, we could not have devoted as much time to making all of this happen.

George for helping out wherever we needed it. For setting up the Social Hall for us to work and cleaning up when we were through.

Marilyn Altman for her never ending support in the office –between emails, phone calls and providing information.

I would also like to thank the following families for cooking the turkeys for our 12 sponsored families: Goldberg, Rutstein, Kaplan, Garcia, L. Silverman, Carbone, D. Kahn, Frydberg, Krutman, Ridge, Bannerman, Levitas, R. Stern and Getz.

I would like to thank everyone else who donated turkeys, food and money to help support this important and worthwhile endeavor

Each member of our board provided support in so many ways. Between your significant monetary donations, your time spent schlepping food and your constant support for this
wonderful event, we truly succeeded in making life just a bit better for some families in need.
Finally, for everyone else who made this happen, it is always difficult to “name” everyone involved and it is more difficult to maintain lists – but your support whether named or not, made a real difference to so many people. We could not have done any of this without the full support of everyone in our congregation and we thank you. On behalf of the families we sponsored, we thank you. Please take a moment and reflect on what you have done and take a great deal of satisfaction in knowing you have truly made a difference to so many people in our community.

There were so many people involved in all of this, an outstanding community reaching out to those in need. You should all feel extremely proud to be a part of this. We know we are.

With heartfelt thanks and appreciation,
B'Shalom
Tobi Mathios & Nancy Kenney on behalf of TBS Social Action/Outreach