Weekly Message from the Board President

It’s a boy!  Sam and Emily Altman welcomed their new baby last Monday.  Mother and child are doing just fine, but we’re a little worried about Sam.  All kidding aside, it’s a wonderful event for the Altmans and our Mt. Sinai family.  The little boy’s name is Warren Solomon Altman.  His Hebrew name is Shlomo, and his bris was held this morning.

Did you get your invitation yet?  We mailed out invitations to the Mt. Sinai Annual Meeting last week, and they have started to show up in mailboxes.  The annual meeting is Sunday, December 7.  We’ll start out at 10 AM with a brunch (thank you, Sisterhood!) and the annual meeting will begin at 11.  We’ll go over the budget and review the activities and events of the past year.  Then we’ll elect new members of the Board of Directors. 

There are three openings, and you can run for the Board yourself.  The only requirements are that you have been a member of Mt. Sinai for at least a year and have paid your dues.  The three incumbents (Phyllis Bloomberg, Georgia Young, and Noam Mantaka) are running again.  Your invitation included a proxy ballot for you to mail in if you can’t come to the meeting in person.

You can write in a name (yours or someone else) on the proxy ballot or come to the meeting and nominate someone (including yourself) from the floor.  We do ask our nominees to speak to the congregation for a few minutes about their goals for Mt. Sinai.  It’s the only campaigning we request but feel free to do more. The proxy ballot must be received by the Friday before the meeting to be counted.  The meeting is December 7, so the ballot must be at the Synagogue by Friday, December 5.

Needs, Inc. is seeing a higher than usual need for the food they provide to the community.  The Mt. Sinai Social Action Committee is launching a food drive to help.  The committee is collecting non-perishable, non-expired foods. Food donations can be dropped off at the Synagogue Sundays, from 3 to 4:30, Tuesday, 11/11 and Thursday, 11/13 between 1:15 PM and 3:45 PM.

Please contact Phyllis or Stephanie to make arrangements for additional drop off times.

The See’s Candy Sale is underway.  The order form is on our website.  Prices did go up last week after the pre-order deadline, but only by a dollar.  It’s still a great deal, and our prices are about the same or lower than you’ll find anywhere else.

We also want to make a pitch for the Mt. Sinai Cookbooks.  They are made up of recipes by people in the congregation, so there are a lot of family favorites, and those can make the best dishes.  You can also find those on the website.

Our next Shalom Dinner is set.  We’ll be meeting at the Spice Zone, 600 West 19^th Street, on Wednesday, November 12 at 6:30 PM.  See you then!

We’re also getting close to the end of the year, and time to think about the taxes you’ll have to pay.  We have two non-profit funds at Mt. Sinai, and donations to both are tax deductible.  Consider sending some of your money to the Mt. Sinai Trust or the Mt. Sinai Endowment instead of to Uncle Sam.  It will save you on taxes, be a mitzvah, and you’ll enjoy the fruits of your donation.  Donations to the Trust and Endowment are carefully invested, and some of the interest is used to pay for various activities and functions of the Synagogue.  The fact that a donation will cut your tax bill is a bonus.

Here’s our Yiddish Phrase of the Week:

A ganef arbet gikher vi a shnayder.
A thief works faster than a tailor.      

Shalom,

Dave Lerner
President
Mt. Sinai Board of Directors

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November Birthdays

3              Jared Miller

4              Julie Breen

7              Ya’el McLoud

11            Alan Wolf

11           Aviv Mantaka

11           Chayale Mendelsohn

19           Dennis Fisher

25           Therese McKinnon

25           Stephanie Ehrlich

26           James Peebles

26           Devorah Leah Mendelsohn

27           Phyllis Bloomberg

27           Nolan Rap

29           Lila Gallensky