2610 Pioneer Avenue
Cheyenne, Wyoming 82001
(307) 634 - 3052
[email protected]
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Photos Courtesy of Louis Davidson, Synagogues360.org
Shabbat Services
Please join us for Shabbat services every Friday evening at 7 PM. Shabbat Services are also held on select Saturdays at 10 AM. Friday night and scheduled Saturday morning services are announced on our website, Facebook page, and our weekly newsletter. Our services are in person and online through Zoom. At the conclusion of services, enjoy our Oneg Shabbat.
Shabbat Services are led by Rabbi Moshe Halfon and lay leaders.
Coming Up
Tuesday, May 13 –7 to 8:30 PM – Hebrew for Beginners. Class #4 of 12 classes. In person and via Zoom, https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87048954137. Meeting ID: 870 4895 4137.Thursday, May 15 – 12 noon to 1 PM – Torah Thursday.
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Friday, May 16 – 7 PM – Erev Shabbat service, led by Rabbi Halfon, in person and via Zoom. We’ll open the Zoom meeting at 6:30 so people can chat. Services begin at 7:00. Zoom info: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84687533228. Meeting ID: 846 8753 3228
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Sunday, May 18 – 3 to 4:30 PM – Israeli Dancing.
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Monday, May 19 – 5:30 PM – Bibles and Beer in person at Uncle Charlie’s and via Zoom. Jason Bloomberg is the moderator. Please email [email protected] if you want to be added to the list of those sent the Zoom link each week.
Tuesday, May 20 –7 to 8:30 PM – Hebrew for Beginners. Class #5 of 12 classes. In person and via Zoom, https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87048954137. Meeting ID: 870 4895 4137.Wednesday, May 21 – 6:30 PM – Board Meeting via Zoom.Thursday, May 22 – 12 noon to 1 PM – Torah Thursday.
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Friday, May 23 – 7 PM – Erev Shabbat service in person and via Zoom. We’ll open the Zoom meeting at 6:30 so people can chat. Services begin at 7:00. Zoom info: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84687533228. Meeting ID: 846 8753 3228
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Sunday, May 25 – 3 to 4:30 PM – Israeli Dancing.
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Monday, May 26 – 5:30 PM – Bibles and Beer in person at Uncle Charlie’s and via Zoom. Jason Bloomberg is the moderator. Please email [email protected] if you want to be added to the list of those sent the Zoom link each week.
SAVE THE DATE
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We have chosen for our next Hadassah Book Group read Francine Klagsbrun’s Henrietta Szold Hadassah and the Zionist Dream. We will meet in person and via Zoom on Sunday, June 22nd at 4:00 p.m. at Wendy Berelson’s residence. Henrietta Szold (1860–1945) is renowned as the founder of Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America, which quickly became one of the most successful of all Zionist groups. In her work with Hadassah, Szold used a combined ethical and pragmatic approach aimed at improving the lives of both Jews and Arabs. She later moved to Mandate Palestine to help shape education, health, and social services there. The pinnacle of her career came in her seventies, when she took on the task of directing the Youth Aliyah program, which rescued thousands of young people from the Nazis and resettled them in Palestine.
Weekly Message from the Board President
We are getting close! We’re just about two weeks away from the Yiddish Food Festival. It’s our biggest fundraiser of the year, and we’ll be welcoming hundreds of people from throughout the region to the Synagogue.
Our advertising promoting the Festival is due to start very soon. You will see billboards around Cheyenne with our ad on them, and signs along major roads in four city parks. Traders will also be carrying large ads about the Festival. Last year, close to 800 people came to the Synagogue in about a four hour period.
Our cooks and bakers are hard at work. They have been firing up the Synagogue ovens on Wednesday evenings and Sunday mornings. The week before the Festival, they will be in the Synagogue every day cooking like crazy.
It all comes to fruition on Sunday, June 1. We’ll gather early, about 9 AM, and make sure that all of the tables and booths are set, and the food is ready to go. Our band, the Klez Dispensers, will arrive and set up on the stage.
Then at 11 AM, Jason Bloomberg will walk out of the front doors of the Synagogue. Based on past history, there will be a line of people waiting to get in. He will sound the Shofar, waking up the neighborhood and announcing the official start of the Yiddish Food Festival. We’ll then open the doors and welcome everyone.
The Yiddish Food Festival is a true community event in at least two ways. First, because we welcome the community from around the region to our Synagogue home, and second, because the entire Mt. Sinai community jumps in to help. We need every volunteer we can find, and the Mt. Sinai community responds. We get to see people we haven’t seen in a while and it is always wonderful to reconnect.
The Yiddish Food Festival is a lot of work, but it’s worth it. It’s worth it for the friends you see and the new ones you make. And the fact that it raises a little bit of money for the Synagogue doesn’t hurt, either.
If it sounds like we’re excited, it’s because we are. Looking forward to seeing you at the Festival!
Here’s our Yiddish Phrase of the Week:
Vos a ventke far fish iz khnife far mlokhim.
What a fishing rod is to fish, flattery is to kings.
Shalom,
Dave Lerner
President
Mt. Sinai Board of Directors
Donations to Israel
If you would like to send money to Israel, here are some options:
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From Temple Emanuel: JEWISHcolorado donors have stepped forward to offer a dollar-for-dollar match up to $200,000 for donations to the Israel Emergency Fund. All emergency dollars will go to support efforts on the ground in Israel, aiding victims of terror, addressing trauma issues, and assisting with emergency medical and infrastructure needs. The match was launched by Barry and Gay Curtiss-Lusher from a shelter in a Tel Aviv Hotel and JEWISHcolorado Board Chair Ben Lusher and his wife Nicole.
May Birthdays
1 Jeremy Bay
3 Nachi Mendelsohn
5 Zoey Brown
8 Tyler Sterling
13 Micah Young
19 Abby Rowswell
Benjamin Vavra
15 Doreen Glotzer
21 Stuart Wolf
22 Laura Silliman