Weekly Message from the Board President

It’s another very busy weekend at Mt. Sinai.  Rabbi Jack Shlachter will be coming to Cheyenne to serve as our Scholar in Residence on Friday and Saturday.  And the annual congregation meeting (which starts with a brunch at 10 AM) is on Sunday. 

Rabbi Shlachter will lead services Friday night, and again Saturday morning.  Saturday afternoon, he will teach a class called “From Adam to Atom: How Science and Religion Interact in the Mind of a Physicist/Rabbi.”  Rabbi Shlachter should have an interesting perspective… he is also a physicist who spent much of his career at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.  That’s the lab where the Manhattan Project developed the first atomic bomb during World War II.  It is still a very active facility, focused on the nation’s nuclear stockpile and conducting research.

Rabbi Shlachter also worked at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York, which is another national nuclear research facility.  Here’s more about him:  https://www.physicsrabbi.com/

His class is scheduled for 4 PM on Saturday, followed by a light meal and then a Havdalah service.  The Rabbi’s services and class will also be available on Zoom.  Send an email to [email protected] or [email protected] if you would like to be added to the mailing list to receive the Zoom links every week.  The Zoom links change frequently for security reasons.  We send out a mailing on Fridays with the links for that weekend’s services.

Did you miss Cantor Adina’s services and class a couple of weeks ago, and want to watch them now?  We recorded the Zoom broadcasts and added them to our YouTube channel, or you can just click here. 

Here’s her Friday night service:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfQ6IEWCEI0

Saturday morning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiyrF6ZLXNY

Saturday afternoon class: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR7s0E_ly40

As we mentioned earlier, Sunday is our annual Congregation meeting.  It begins at 10 AM with a brunch.  Then the meeting itself starts at 11 and will run about an hour.  We’re going to review the budget, elect new members of the Board of Directors, and review the activities of the past year.  This is a great opportunity to find out more about what happens at Mt. Sinai, including what goes on behind the scenes.  And you can take part by running for the Board of Directors.  We take nominations from the floor during the meeting.  You can nominate yourself or someone else.  The only requirement is that our nominees will have been a member in good standing for at least a year.

The Intermountain Jewish News frequently covers activities at Mt. Sinai.  They just published an obituary for Dorothy Feldman, who passed away at the age of 100 a few weeks ago.  You can read it here: https://www.ijn.com/obituary-dorothy-feldman/

Remember, the See’s Candy Sale is underway!  You can order from our website or come to the Synagogue on Sunday to shop in person and pick up your orders.  The sale will run every Sunday until Christmas.

We’ve stolen one more Yiddish Phrase about thieves for our Yiddish Phrase of the Week:

Az a ganef hot nit vos tsu ganvenen, ganvet er fun eyn keshene in der tsveyter.
If a thief has nothing to steal, he steals from one pocket to another.       

Shalom,

Dave Lerner
President
Mt. Sinai Board of Directors

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