Weekly Message from the Board President

The Sukkah is built!  Thank you to Jason and Phyllis Bloomberg and Courtney and Noah Make for taking time out of their Sunday to build the Sukkah for us.  Sukkot services will be this Friday as part of our normal Shabbat service.  We’ll start the evening with a meal in the Sukkah (weather permitting). We’ll move indoors if the weather doesn’t cooperate. The dinner will start at 6 PM, and we’ll be shaking the lulav and etrog as part of the service.  If you’ve never done that – please come.  It’s meaningful.

The services will be in person and on Zoom.  Remember, we change the Zoom links frequently, so contact the Synagogue office if you want to attend via Zoom.  On Fridays we send out an email with the link, and we’ll add you to that mailing list.

Here’s a photo of our builders and the Sukkah behind them.

Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah are next week. They are frequently celebrated together.  We will not be holding services for those holidays this year.  We have in the past, when we have had a Rabbi serving our community and probably will again in the future.  By the way, the High Holy Day Journal was printed before the decision to pass on those services was made, so the Journal is inaccurate. Simchat Torah is always fun.  We dance with the Torah, sing songs and more.  So this year’s cancellation is a very temporary situation.

We have a note from Jason Bloomberg about the upcoming holidays:

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How about starting off the new year by doing something nice?  It would be a mitzvah, and this one is pretty easy.  A couple of weeks ago we mentioned that Dorothy Feldman, the matriarch of Mt. Sinai Congregation, is turning 100 years old this month.  Dorothy moved to Arkansas about two years ago to be closer to the her daughter.  We’re suggesting letting Dorothy know that we are still thinking of her, by sending her a birthday card.  Her birthday is October 20.  Please send the cards care of her daughter….  Dorothy is a lifelong member of Mt. Sinai and her influence is seen everywhere, from the efforts made to keep the Synagogue kitchen kosher to the creation and growth of the Synagogue library and a lot more.

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Please send your cards to her daughter – Miriam Ross, at 1212 Carter Avenue, Berryville, AR 72616-5014.  The Synagogue means a lot to Dorothy.  This would be a great way to show her how much we are thinking of her and care for her.

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Give some thought to serving on the Mt. Sinai Board of Directors.  We’ll be electing three new board members at the annual congregation meeting on December 7.  The incumbents – Phyllis Bloomberg, Georgia Young, and Noam Mantaka, are all running again, but there’s no reason you can’t run, too.  The only requirement to serve on the Board is that you have been a member of the congregation (and paying dues) for at least a year.

And by the way, mark your calendars for the Annual Congregation meeting.  It will be Sunday morning, December 7.  Sisterhood usually prepares a fantastic brunch, after which we get down to business.

Here’s our Yiddish Phrase of the Week:

Az der roshe kukt in vaser, peygern di fish.
When a sinner looks in water, the fish die.

 Shalom,

Dave Lerner
President
Mt. Sinai Board of Directors

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October Birthdays

2              Sue Carlass

6             Judith Clark

9              Miriam Evelyn Mollman

20           Dorothy Feldman

23           Ilaine Brown

24           Jaimee Sodosky

24           Rochel Mendelsohn

25          Stephanie Ehrlich

28           Jeff Weinstein

29           Elsie Reid

31           Namaste Reid