Rodef Sholom: A Reform Jewish Congregation in Marin County, California

Saturday, May 26, 9:00 pm, Congregation Kol Shofar
On Shavuot, the Israelites received the Torah on Mount Sinai. Come celebrate and learn with us! Join Congregation Kol Shofar and the Osher Marin JCC as we rejoice together. See up close the new Contemporary Jewish Museum Torah freshly scribed by Julie Seltzer as it makes its tour through the community.

Cantor David Margules will lead us in Havdallah, followed by learning sessions led by Rabbi Michael Lezak and Rabbi Chai Levy. Dairy treats will be provided.

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If you love Israel, but are not sure how to support her, we have arranged for three of the largest Israel advocacy organizations, AIPAC, J Street and the New Israel Fund, to come and present on three different Friday nights.   We have asked each organization to provide us with a speaker who can tell us not only why Israel's well-being is important to us, but why we should support their specific advocacy group. The Shabbat services on these evenings will not have a sermon; instead the speaker will talk directly after the formal end to the service (to allow more time for each speaker to field questions and let people who have come to say Kaddish choose whether or not to stay). 

Here are the correct dates:

• Friday, May 18, 6:15 pm Shabbat Services:   AIPAC (America Israeli Public Affairs Committee)
• Friday, May 25, 6:15 pm Shabbat Services: J Street
• Friday, June 1, 6:15 pm Shabbat Services: NIF (New Israel Fund)

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Friday, May 11, 6:15 pm Shabbat services: Siyyum/confirmation/graduation for our 10th, 11th and 12th graders!  The whole congregation is invited to come and celebrate our teens, and 10th, 11th, and 12th grade families are invited to dinner after services. Look for an invitation in the mail.

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This report from congregant David Horton:

[Congregant] Shelley Brown called me to let me know about the MLK Garden needing to put up a greenhouse. So I got in touch with some of my New Orleans friends and we spent the day there helping them put it together. It was a fun day and the project went smooth. What I’ve learned most about being a part of the Jewish community is it’s our job to make the world a better place and to give back and this was another way to do that. As I get older I think this is actually what makes this world spin.

And here’s what the community garden’s director had to say:

Dear Amazing Greenhouse Team, 

I cannot thank you enough for the great work you did yesterday to make our greenhouse a reality. David and I had been shaking our heads since I first presented this project to him about how it was definitely NOT a DIY project for the unskilled, regardless of what their website said.

Your 8-hour marathon (on the hottest day of the year!) showed that we were correct. We will be eternally grateful for your investment of time, skill and energy. This greenhouse will be used by students and the community to grow food that will make a difference in their lifelong health. You definitely planted a seed yesterday that will bear many fruits. 

Bless you and your families this Earth Day weekend. I hope to meet each and every one of you in the near future to thank you in person.

Best,
Marika Bergsund, Director
GrowingGreat Marin City/Sausalito 

Finally, congregant Richard Waxman, founder and president of Lift-Levantate, donated the greenhouses that our team installed! What a great collaboration all the way around! To learn more about Richard’s work with Lift-Levantate, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting youth and family wellness in low-income communities, visit their website at http://www.liftforteens.org/.

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Singers from Marin Oratorio will be performing excerpts from Franz Josef Haydn’s The Creation.  More details to follow in our weekly email!

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