November 5, 2006
AT
PARDES LEVAVOT
- Thank
You!
- Events This Week
- Community Council
Meeting
- Chanting and
Meditation
- Shabbat
Morning Service and Torah Study
- Community Meeting
- Events Coming Up
- Thanksgiving basket
packing
- Chanukah party
- Bar/Bat
Mitzvah celebrations!
- Getting Involved
- Building and Grounds
Areas Needing Attention
- Thanksgiving Baskets
For Community Infant Program (CIP) Families
- Host an Oneg
- From the Shepherd of
the Hills Bulletin
- Tikkun Olam: Repairing The
World
- Tell McDonald's to
ensure fair wages and working conditions for farm workers!
- Righteous work for
these Awesome Days
- Flatirons Habitat for
Humanity
PARDES
CALENDAR
SPECIAL MEMBER NEEDS/OFFERINGS
- Chanukah Donation
Request
AROUND TOWN AND BEYOND
- At the Boulder JCC and
Around Town... week of 11/05/06 - 11/11/06
- Stepping Stones,
November 2006
- Jewish Family Service,
October 2006
- Center For Judaic
Studies, November 2006
- Conscious Learning
Community, October 2006
- Am HaZikaron Institute
PRAYERS
AT PARDES LEVAVOT
Thank
You!
Thank you to Vicki Penna and
Evelyn Masoner for hosting our oneg!
Events
This Week
Community Council Meeting
Tuesday, November 7, 6pm
Chanting and Meditation
Wednesday, November 8,
7-9pm
www.pardeslevavot.org/announcements/chant.html
Kabbalat Shabbat Service
Friday, November 10, 7-9pm
Vayera
Community Meeting
Sunday, November 12, 3-5pm
We would like
to invite all members to attend our community meeting. Please mark your
calendars for: November 12, 2006 from 3-5 PM at the shul. This is your
opportunity to offer input and support for our growing community. We
want to know what programs you want or need and how we can improve
those programs that are currently offered. It is important for you to
know the financial status of Pardes Levavot, to review the budget, and
to discuss ways to achieve financial stability. Finally, a small and
youthful organization should be able to look at how it governs itself
and to consider the best possible means to achieve it's desired goals.
This meeting will be taking place one month before our election process
for new council members. Now is the time to consider any improvements
to our organization's structure and functioning.
Please feel free to come for tea, sweets and socializing from 2-3 PM
prior to the meeting!
We look forward to a fruitful meeting,
all the blessings,
Rabbis Nadya and Victor Gross
Events
Coming Up
Thanksgiving Basket
packing
On Sunday, November 19 we
will gather with members of Shepherd of the Hill to pack 125
Thanksgiving baskets for donation to families who otherwise would not
have a Thanksgiving meal. Please join us.
Chanukah Party
Save the date for our
Chanukah party on Friday, December 15, 2006. We will have dinner, a
family-oriented Shabbat service, and a big party. More information to
come.
Bar/Bat
Mitzvah celebrations!
Anna Yulsman Bat Mitzvah - Saturday, January 13 (MLK weekend)
Getting
Involved
Building and Grounds
Areas Needing Attention
If you have any expertise in
any of these areas and would like to perform any of the repairs or
would like to volunteer to assist, please contact Wendall Borchert at wendallborchert@comcast.net
or 303-530-0188.
- Front Doors: The sweep
is missing from one of the doors and the lower edge is starting to
delaminate. Both doors need to be refinished. We might want to
consider installing brass kick plates to the bottom of each.
- Air Conditioning: The
A/C units for the sanctuary both need attention. One of the units is
leaking and needs to be repaired and recharged. The compressor is bad
in the other unit and the entire unit needs to be replaced.
- Exhaust Fans For The
Sanctuary: The concrete pads for the exhaust fans have settled. The
fans have been supported on temporary blocks but the pads need to be
repaired or replaced and new flexible couplings installed on the
ductwork.
- Fascia At South Side Of
Gym: Woodpeckers have destroyed some of the fascia on the south side of
the gym. Need to repair, replace or cover the fascia and repaint it.
- Fire Exit From Lower
Level: One of the steps on the lower level emergency fire exit has
rotted. Needs to be replaced. This is one of the railroad ties in
large window well at the south side of the shul.
- Hole in Soffet:
Woodpeckers have punched a hole in the soffet on the west side of the
sanctuary.
- Roof Leak Over The
Nursery: There is a roof leak when we have periods of heavy rain. This
is leaking through the ceiling into the nursery.
Thanksgiving Baskets For
Community Infant Program (CIP) Families
Our goal is to provide 125
baskets filled with the ingredients for a Thanksgiving dinner. We will
be collecting food every Sunday. Each week we will ask you to bring
different food items (or a cash donation if you prefer). The baskets
will be assembled on Sunday, November 19, and they will be picked up by
caseworkers the next day. Items needed: green beans, peas, corn; potato
buds and gravy mix;
soup mix, beans/rice for leftovers; stuffing, powdered milk, canned
meat or fish, canned yams, cranberries; aluminum baking pans for
turkeys.
Host an Oneg
We have plenty of openings
for people to host an Oneg Shabbat or a Kiddush. Interested? Write info@pardeslevavot.org.
From the Shepherd of the
Hills Bulletin
Upcoming event – mark your calendars: we will have a FALL CLEAN UP DAY
ON SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18 9:00 a.m. TO NOON. We are fortunate to have
the assistance of members of Boy Scout Troop 377.
Meanwhile, CIP CLIENTS ALWAYS HAVE A SERIOUS NEED FOR DIAPERS. You can
bring them to the church where case workers will pick them up.
Tikkun Olam: Repairing The
World
Tell McDonald's to Ensure
Fair Wages and Working Conditions for Farm Workers!
"You shall not abuse a
needy and destitute laborer.. but you must pay him his wages on the
same day, for he is needy and urgently depends on it." (Deuteronomy
24:14-15)
Tomato pickers for Florida-based tomato companies earn 40-50 cents for
every 32-lb bucket of tomatoes they pick, a rate that has not risen
significantly since 1978. A worker must pick 2 TONS of tomatoes to
earn $50 in one day. Farm workers often work 10-12 hour days with no
overtime pay, no right to organize, no sick days or other benefits.
There is hope for change. In March of 2005, the CIW and Taco Bell
reached an historic agreement to directly increase farm worker wages
and enforce a code of conduct for human rights in Taco Bell's tomato
supply chain. Since then, the CIW has asked McDonald's to take similar
steps in its own tomato supply chain. Instead of doing so, McDonald's
has responded with public relations schemes that do not make meaningful
change in the fields.
Take action- YOU can encourage McDonald's to do the right thing!
www.pardeslevavot.org/announcements/mcd-tomato.html
Righteous work for these
Awesome Days
I am writing to urge you to
participate in our new Phone Home campaign! It's a campaign to
mobilize fair-minded people everywhere in the fight against the
anti-LGBT constitutional amendments that will be on the November ballot
in eight states: Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, South Carolina, South
Dakota, Tennessee, Virginia and Wisconsin. If you come from or know
anyone in any of these states - and surely you do - then you can take
action today.
Just go to the campaign Web site, www.PhoneHome2006.org, where
you'll find all the tools you need to quickly and easily contact your
relatives, friends, classmates and former co-workers in these states
and tell them you need them to do the right thing on November 7. You
can also donate to the state campaigns through this site.
Your LGBT community members back home need all the help they can get so
take action today. Please also forward this message to everyone you
know. There's no time to waste.
Thanks for doing your part to stand up to bigotry and intolerance.
Sincerely,
Matt Foreman
Executive Director
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, Inc.
Flatirons Habitat for
Humanity
There will be orientations
for new families next week on Nov. 9 at Atonement Lutheran Church of
Boulder at 6:30 pm and Nov. 11 at Broomfield United Methodist Church at
10 am. Please pass this on to your congregation so that we can reach
all those in need of affordable housing. Contact Laura Webermeier with
any questions at 303-447-3787 x29.
There are still tickets and ways to volunteer for the "Crazy for You"
event on Nov. 8 Call Katie Brown at 303-447-3787 x22.
Mark your calendars to attend the Martha Sandford Organ Benefit Concert
and Silent Auction on Nov. 10 at 6 pm at First Presbyterian Church of
Boulder. It will be great night of wonderful musical talent!
PARDES
CALENDAR
November 2006
8, Wednesday - Chant and
Meditation, 7-9pm
10, Friday - Kabbalat Shabbat Service, 7-9pm
11, Saturday - Circle of
Family Education Program, including Havdalah and potluck dinner,
3-6pm
12, Sunday - Tea, sweets and socializing, 2-3pm
12, Sunday - Community
Meeting, 3-5pm
15, Wednesday - Chant and
Meditation, 7-9pm
18, Saturday - Family Shabbat Morning Service and Torah Study
19, Sunday - Thanksgiving basket packing
22, Wednesday - Thanksgiving Service
24, Friday - Thanksgiving! Celebrate Shabbat with Family and Friends!
29, Wednesday - Chant and
Meditation, 7-9pm
SPECIAL MEMBER NEEDS/OFFERINGS
Hanukah Donation Request
Greetings, as many of
you know I am volunteering and working for Hospice Care Center and
Hospice Care and Share Thrift Shop. We at the thrift shop are asking
for you to please consider donating any Hanukkah items to the Hospice
Care and Share Thrift Shop located at 5290 Arapahoe Ave, Boulder, CO.
The phone number is 303-604-5353 and you may ask for me or feel free
to bring them in between 10:00- 5:30 any day but Sunday and tell
someone these are items to be used for the Hanukkah display.
Suggestions of items include the
following:
candles
cards
books
menorahs
dreidles
games
gift wrap
Thank you very much!
Ed Kletzky
AROUND TOWN AND BEYOND
At the Boulder JCC and
Around Town... week of 11/05/06 - 11/11/06
www.pardeslevavot.org/announcements/BJCC-2006_11_04.html
Stepping Stones, November
2006
www.pardeslevavot.org/announcements/stst-2006_11_01.html
Jewish Family Service,
October 2006
www.pardeslevavot.org/announcements/JFS-2006_10_24.html
Center For Judaic
Studies, November 2006
www.pardeslevavot.org/announcements/cjs-2006_11_02.html
Conscious Learning
Community, November 2006
Rabbi Gershon Winkler:
“The Jewel, the Staff, and the Mantle:
Moving Our Lives from Stagnation to Fruition”
Ancient Jewish Wisdom
for…Whatever… November 16-18, 2006.
www.pardeslevavot.org/announcements/clc-2006_10_12.html
Am HaZikaron Institute
Our organization is a
non-profit Israeli institution which purpose is to
stimulate, popularize and support family research among Jewish families
worldwide. Our team includes specialist in several scientific areas
which
are useful in such research - linguists, historians, genealogists and
specialists for information processing.
www.pardeslevavot.org/announcements/amhazikaron.html
PRAYERS
Each newsletter contains
names of people in our community, or friends of our community, who need
prayers for healing, support, et cetera. Please send names in Hebrew
and/or English, with other details as desired, to info@pardesleavavot.org.
Dr. Howard Goldstein
Will Kohler
Lila Greene
Shirley Elaine Garfinkle
Alter Shoresh ben Zion v'Shoshana
HaRav Devorah Rut bat Tamar (Rabbi Deborah Ruth Bronstein)
Rut bat Miriam
Lior
bat Esther Masha
Dov Baer Ben Yehuda ha Kohen v'Devorah
Jonah Miller
David Sapper
Jackie Lewis
John Silverman
Leslie Weidner
Mimi Ito
For information about Pardes Levavot or our events please visit our
website at www.pardeslevavot.org
or write info@pardeslevavot.org.
To contact Rabbis Nadya and Victor Gross write rabbis@pardeslevavot.org.
If you would like to post something on our Pardes Levavot mailing
lists, or if you have questions about our mailings, lists,
communications, etc., contact info@pardeslevavot.org.
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