Weekly Message from the Board President

Ready for some big decisions?  Your decision will be whether to attend the Shalom Dinner on Thursday.  We’ll be meeting at Napoli’s Italian Restaurant at 19^th and Central for our regular Shalom Dinner.  Our reservation is at 6:30. If you come, you’ll be able to hear about the big decisions made by the Board of Directors the night before, on Wednesday.

The Board is going to be discussing our next Religious Leader.  The Search Committee has made an interesting recommendation… that we hire Rabbi Arthur Stern as our Rabbi and create a new position of Mt. Sinai Cantor for Adina Ackerman. The decision is up to the Board of Directors.  They could decide to follow the recommendation, adopt only part of it, or reject it and send the Search Committee back to the drawing board.

There’s bound to be a lively and in-depth discussion.  You are welcome to attend and hear for yourself (and give your opinions).  The Board meeting will be on Zoom.  Please send an email to the Synagogue office at [email protected] if you would like the link.

Board members usually come to the Shalom Dinner, so if you join us, you’ll be able to find out the Board’s decision.  And of course we’ll have it in next week’s newsletter.

The Board will also be appointing a Budget Committee to work on next year’s budget.  If you would like to herp us, please send an email to the Synagogue office.  The Budget Committee will meet several times, but their work is done when the Board adopts a new budget at its November meeting.  So this isn’t a long term commitment.  It will give you a detailed look at the Synagogue’s finances… including how we get money and what we spend it on.

You’re also going to have another choice to make, but this one is pretty easy.  Our High Holy Day Calendars are coming out.  They are provided to us from Schrader’s Funeral Home and we are very grateful for the help.  However, this year, Shana Goldberg from the Intermountain Jewish News made us an offer we couldn’t resist.  She said the IJN’s calendars were printed at the Wyoming Tribune Eagle and offered us a box.  We said yes (Thank you, Intermountain Jewish News!).  The IJN Calendars are in the Synagogue.  They are beautiful.  So your decision will be which one to take home, or whether to take home both.

Rosh Hashanah starts Monday evening, September 22.  Our services will be led by Rabbi Joe Black, the recently retired Rabbi of Temple Emanuel in Denver.  There’s no decision to  make here… we already know his service is going to be wonderful.  He’ll be leading us through the High Holy Days.

Here’s our Yiddish Phrase of the Week:

A gutn mentshn vet di shenk nit kalye makhn, a shlekhtn vet der beys-hamedresh nit farrikhtn.
A tavern can’t corrupt a good man, and a synagogue can’t reform a bad one.   

 Shalom,

Dave Lerner
President
Mt. Sinai Board of Directors

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September Birthdays

3              Cathy Berdan

5              Liz Wolf

9             Pewaubek Reid

10           Noah Make
10           Shira Michael
10          Craig Michael

11           Michael Sherman

12          Lou Brownstein

13          Navit Reid

16         Laurie Richmond
16         Dan Shadakofsky

19        Rich Nolan
20        David Lucero