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Carlebach Shabbat

Enjoy the wonderful melodies composed by

 Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach

Presented by Cantor Jonathan Schultz

At our Kabbalat Shabbat Services at 6:00 pm on

January 27th

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Congregational Engagement

This year, our congregation participated in its first Engagement Appeal on the High Holidays.  In addition to our standard requests for funds to support CBI and Israel , we solicited you for your time and energy – we invited you to become more involved and active at CBI and to engage with your congregation, Judaism and God.

The results were fantastic!

Rabbi Luski’s sermon on the first day of Rosh Hashanah encouraged your engagement; his speech was inspiring and motivating, and so many of you responded.  You indicated a desire to help the synagogue by volunteering in the office, serving on a committee or with Sisterhood or Men’s Club.  You would like to be called to the Torah for an aliyah or to present a reading.  You would like to attend a learner’s prayer service and explore Jewish meditation. 

The Engagement Committee has reached out to each individual who responded to our Appeal and is now in the process of planning programming to meet the needs expressed by the respondents.  In the coming months we will be scheduling services and classes for learning about prayer, mediation, and other approaches to God and our sacred traditions.  We will be working with those who would like to learn how to chant Torah and Haftarah portions, and assigning aliyot and readings to those who are prepared to present at this time.  We will be coordinating with other branches of the synagogue and our board to offer committee and volunteer assignments.

Now is the perfect time for you to become involved.  Pick up an engagement card in the office and turn down some tabs if you haven’t already done so.  Join the Engagement Committee and help plan the future for CBI.  Call me at 

381- 4900, ext. 205 for more ideas or to make your own suggestions.  We need you to make CBI even more dynamic and engaging.  Come Be Involved!

The Engagement Cards offers these opportunities:

-- Help in the CBI office

-- Help with Got Shabbat? dinners

-- Join Sisterhood/Men’s Club

-- Serve on a CBI committee

-- Teach an Adult Studies class

-- Attend a learner’s service

-- Learn to chant Torah

-- Learn to chant Haftarah

-- Present a Torah reading

-- Present a Haftarah reading

-- Receive an aliyah

-- Learn Jewish meditation

Liz Sembler

Coordinator of Congregational Engagement

Jewish Federation of Pinellas & Pasco Counties             

Covenant Fund Application

Follow these 3 Easy Steps

1.  Fill out the Federation’s Covenant Fund one-page application.

2. Go to www.factstuitionaid.com to submit your financial information.  Enter 33773 in the zip code search to find    our account:  JFEDPPC.

a. Find your camp

b. Fill out the online FACTS application

c. Pay the $25 FACTS non-refundable application fee

d. Submit 2010 tax return, essays and letters to FACTS

3.  If you are in grades 9-12 please call the Federation office to set up your interview to be held on February 9, 2012 (530-3223).

DEADLINE IS JANUARY 27, 2012.

Hi. My name is Robert Carroll and I am studying hard for my Bar Mitzvah. For my project I am trying to raise money for Operation Smile. This is an organization that helps bring smiles to those all over the world who are born with facial and lip deformities. Please take a look at their website, https://secure.operationsmile.org and if you feel that this is a worthy cause, please make a donation. You can find my web page by looking for Ways to Give on the home page. Go down to One Smile Page and find the box that says Find a One Smile Page. Click on that link and then put my name, Robert Carroll, in the search box. Click find a fund. Right now my name is on the first page of the website. To get to the last step, click on donate now which is on the right side of the web page.

 If you prefer to make a donation without using the internet, please make a check to Operation Smile and mail it to my mom: Sherrie Carroll 545 Pinellas Bayway S Unit 403 Tierra Verde, Fl 33715.

Thank you very much for helping me achieve my goal.

Sincerely,

Robert Carroll

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Another 5% will go to United Synagogue to support congregational Israel programs.

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Founded in 1923, Congregation B'nai Israel is a traditional Conservative egalitarian congregation. We have evolved from a nucleus of twelve families to 400 family units spanning at least four generations. We invite you to browse our Web site and see the wonderful things we offer for both members and non-members alike for Pinellas County's Jewish Community.

THANK YOU TO OUR  VOLUNTEERS 

Thank you to the following volunteers who assisted with the office work and special mailings over the past months:

Sally Swale, Murray & Myrna Rubin,

Esta Blaxberg, Kitty Jacobs and Helen Kahan.

Our apologies to anyone we have inadvertently omitted.