Shalom!  It’s a great greeting, and it’s also the name of our regular dinners for our Mt. Sinai family.  Our next Shalom Dinner is this Wednesday, May 13, at L’Osteria Mondello Italian Restaurant, which is on Stillwater Avenue off of Dell Range.  Our reservation is for 6:30 PM.

Our Shalom Dinners are always fun.  We get together and enjoy each other’s company while we enjoy a nice dinner.  Come join us!

Shavuot is coming up.  Rabbi Delcau is getting an early start on his work with us by organizing and leading services for the holiday.  Shavuot commemorates our receiving the Torah and the Ten Commandments at Mt. Sinai.

The holiday begins Thursday, May 21.  Rabbi Delcau will lead services that evening, including a Torah study.  He says the service will last about an hour.

We’ll have our regular services Friday night, May 22.  Rabbi Delcau says his sermon will be about Shavuot.

Rabbi Delcau will also lead services Saturday morning, May 23.  There will be an Aliyah for the Ten Commandments and a Yizkor service, followed by a dairy Kiddush luncheon.

Time is running out to get our sponsorships in for the Yiddish Food Festival.  The Festival is coming up on Sunday, June 7.  We print the names of the sponsors on large signs that are posted around the social hall during the Festival.  We have to get the names to the printer soon, so they have time to print up the signs.  Sponsorships are $250, and in light of our issues with the roof of the Synagogue, we can sure use the help.

Remember the snow last week?  When it melted, it caused two leaks in the Synagogue.  We quickly put buckets under the leaks, so there’s no water damage inside the building.  We also called Inman Roofing, which sent employees to the building right away.  Work on replacing the Synagogue roof has not started yet, but it was good for them to see where the leaks are.

We also notified our insurance company, and we’ll see if anything comes from that.  Replacing the roof is a major expense.  We got bids from three local roofing companies and awarded the bid to Inman Roofing.  Their bid was for $252,000.

Special thanks to Courtney Schlisserman and Gayle Wagner for organizing and leading our Women’s Shabbat service last week.  Rabbi Delcau played guitar for the service.  It was very well attended – roughly 20 people in the Synagogue and another 15 or so on Zoom.

Cooking is underway for the Yiddish Food Festival.  It takes place Thursday afternoons and Sunday mornings.  Check with the Synagogue office – they know what is being prepared on a given day.  We can always use more volunteers… and not just use… we need them!  So please come and lend a hand, or both hands.

Here’s our Yiddish Phrase of the Week:

Mir veln shisn tsvey hozn mit eyn shos.
We’ll hit two rabbits with one shot.