Tuesday, October 27
7:00pm
Class with Sam S.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/5284619173
Mystical insights on the Torah from a Hassidic perspective, by the renowned rebbe, storyteller, and kabbalist of Uman, Rabbi Nachman of Bretzlav.
If you have ever wondered about Hassidic thought, or heard about the ecstatic, intense spiritual worlds of the Baal Shem Tov and the Maggids, come participate in a discussion and reading of selections from the grandson of the founder of the Hassidic movement.
Friday, October 30
8:30am
Weekly Parsha with Sam S.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/5284619173
6:00pm
Kabbalat Shabbat with Kobi Gil
We are ready to try an in-person Kabbalat service...there will be no Zoom Friday service this week.
Outside
Social distancing
Masks
Please bring your own challah and wine, as we cannot share food.
WIll provide more details in a reminder email in a few days :)
***Note about next week: Ellyn will be on vacation and unreachable. The JCM phone will be checked daily for messages and the newsletter will be sent. If you need anything from us, please leave a voicemail, and your call be returned quickly.
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"Two years later, Tree of Life shooting survivors are making the victims' memories a blessing...
Audrey Glickman is drawing on the words of a friend who “always said that everything in life takes two years to heal.”
Ms. Glickman — a survivor of the Oct. 27, 2018, attack at the Tree of Life / Or L’Simcha synagogue, which claimed the lives of 11 worshipers from three congregations — knows it’s not as simple as turning a page on a calendar.
“Some of us, as a collective, are still healing,” said Ms. Glickman, a Tree of Life member. “We had different levels of injury to begin with. But I’m ready to move on, to carry this forward and make it positive.”
When Jews say of the departed, “may their memory be for a blessing,” she said, the word “for” is crucial — moving from memory to future action.
“The people we lost have a legacy,” she said. “It’s on us now to continue to not only build ourselves but build on the legacy that was left to us.”"
Read the rest of the article here.
JCM joins in the mourning and remembering of the lives of those who were murdered at Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburg on October 27, 2018...two years ago today.
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We are member-supported Judaism
On my commute to and from Kula this week, I have been listening to NPR, who is doing their fundraising drive.
Always one to "borrow" fabulous wording...
I say, we are member-supported Judaism.
Unlike other Jewish communites on Maui and around the country, we are sustained only by our members.
We hope that egalitarian (we are the ONLY place on Maui a girl/woman can be called to the Torah), pluralistic (for all Jews, accepted not just tolerated), and welcoming (we truly are happy to have all Jews together, no matter how they connect spiritually or culturally) Judaism on Maui is important to you.
We are the only one.
For all of us and our children and grandchildren... please keep JCM on Maui, we need this Jewish option.
Join as a member, make a donation, become a sustaining Chai Life- $18/mo donor... we appreciate all donations for our sustainability on Maui.
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Bar & Bat Mitzvah Program
JCM has always been an egalitarian synagogue. Girls have always been welcomed to read from the Torah, any time...
Did you know we're the ONLY place on Maui where girls can be called to the Torah?
This is important.
Our girls are equal and included in all aspects of the lifecycle event...this is crucial for both our boys (who we are raising to be good citizens) and our girls. We are proud to include any boy/girl/nonbinary person who wants to enjoy this rite of passage.
Our new program, run by Sandra Razieli, will likely begin in November.
This is more than a "teaching" class...this program will help truly prepare our children for their personal journey into Jewish adulthood in our kehillah (community).
Please let me know at admin@mauijews.org if your child will be having a Bar/Bat Mitzvah in the next year or so...we will reach out with the details as soon as they are final.
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Chanukah
December 10-18
We will be selling menorahs, candles, gelt, dreidles, decorations, etc. starting November 18... There will be details in future emails :)
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