2610 Pioneer Avenue
Cheyenne, Wyoming 82001
(307) 634 - 3052
[email protected]

 

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Shabbat Services

Please join us for Shabbat services every Friday evening at 7 PM.  Shabbat Services are also held on select Saturdays at 10 AM.  Friday night and scheduled Saturday morning services are announced on our website, Facebook page, and our weekly newsletter. Our services are in person and online through Zoom.  At the conclusion of services, enjoy our Oneg Shabbat.

Shabbat Services are led by lay leaders and visiting Rabbis.  Mt. Sinai is currently conducting a search for a new Rabbi.

Coming Up

Tuesday, February 3 – 12 noon – Torah Tuesday led by Jason Bloomberg. Bring your lunch, learn, and discuss.
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Friday, February 6 – 7 PM – Erev Shabbat service in person and via Zoom. We’ll open the Zoom meeting at 6:30 so people can chat. Services begin at 7:00. Please email [email protected] to receive the Zoom link.
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Sunday, February 8 – 3 PM – Israeli Dancing will be on break.
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Monday, February 9 – 5:30 PM – Bibles and Beer in person at Uncle Charlie’s and via Zoom. Jason Bloomberg is the moderator. Please email [email protected] if you want to be added to the list of those sent the Zoom link each week.
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Tuesday, February 10 – 12 noon – Torah Tuesday led by Jason Bloomberg. Bring your lunch, learn, and discuss.
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Friday, February 13 – 7 PM – Scholar in Residence Weekend!  Erev Shabbat service led by Rabbi Evette Lutman, in person and via Zoom. We’ll open the Zoom meeting at 6:30 so people can chat. Services begin at 7:00. Please email [email protected] to receive the Zoom link.
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Saturday, January 14 – 10 AM – Shabbat morning service led by Rabbi Evette Lutman, in person and via Zoom.  We’ll open the Zoom meeting at 9:30 so people can chat. Services begin at 10. Please email [email protected] to receive the Zoom link.  Lunch to follow services.
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Saturday, January 14 – 4:30 PM – Adult Education Class (topic TBA) with Rabbi Lutman.
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Saturday, January 14 – 5:30 PM – Havdalah service with Rabbi Evette Lutman.  Possible additional program TBA.
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Sunday, February 15 – 12 noon – Sisterhood meeting.
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Sunday, February 15 – 3 PM – Israeli Dancing will be on break.
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Monday, February 16 – 5:30 PM – Bibles and Beer in person at Uncle Charlie’s and via Zoom. Jason Bloomberg is the moderator. Please email [email protected] if you want to be added to the list of those sent the Zoom link each week.
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Tuesday, February 17 – 12 noon – Torah Tuesday led by Jeff Weinstein. Bring your lunch, learn, and discuss.
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SAVE THE DATE!
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Our next Hadassah book group read will be the newly-released “Heart of a Stranger” by Angela Buchdahl.  We will meet in person on Sunday, February 22nd at 4:00 p.m. at Wendy Berelson’s residence.  If you cannot make it in person here is the Zoom link: https://uwyo.zoom.us/j/97577056507
 

Amazon writes: “Angela Buchdahl was born in Seoul, the daughter of a Korean Buddhist mother and Jewish American father. Profoundly spiritual from a young age, by sixteen she felt the first stirrings to become a rabbi. Despite the naysayers and periods of self-doubt—Would a mixed-race woman ever be seen as authentically Jewish or chosen to lead a congregation?—she stayed the course, which took her first to Yale, then to rabbinical school, and finally to the pulpit one of the largest, most influential congregations in the world.

 

Today, Angela Buchdahl inspires Jews and non-Jews alike with her invigorating, joyful approach to worship and her belief in the power of faith, gratitude, and responsibility for one another, regardless of religion. She does not shy away from difficult topics, from racism within the Jewish community and the sexism she confronted when she aspired to the top job to rising antisemitism today. Buchdahl teaches how these challenges, which can make one feel like a stranger, can ultimately be the source of our greatest empathy and strength.

 

Angela Buchdahl has gone from outsider to officiant, from feeling estranged to feeling embraced—and she’s emerged with a deep conviction that we are all bound to a larger whole and mission. She has written a book that is both memoir and spiritual guide for everyday living, which is exactly what so many of us crave right now.”

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SOCIAL ACTION NEWS
Equality Day – Friday, Feb. 13, Wyoming State Capitol.  A day to show lawmakers the real people behind the policies.  Community rally on the Capitol steps at noon.  Morning and afternoon opportunities to visit the Wyoming House and Senate.  Connection with LGBTQ+ people and allies from across the state.
 
 
 
 
 
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And there’s another!  The Ritual and Liturgy Committee is working on bringing in a Scholar in Residence for February.  The committee has been arranging for guest religious leaders about once a month.  It gives the congregation some variety and a chance to see how different people will lead services.

Next up is Rabbi Evette Lutman.  She is not a candidate for our Religious Leader position, but she is coming to Cheyenne for a Scholar in Residence weekend.  Rabbi Lutman will be here the weekend of February 13.  She will lead services Friday night and Saturday morning.  She will teach an adult education class Saturday afternoon and then celebrate Havdalah to end Shabbat.

Rabbi Lutman served as a Rabbi in Denver and most recently New Mexico, so she’s not a stranger to the weather in the west.

Saul Kaye, a Rabbinical Student and musician, led services a couple of weeks ago during the Kugel Cookoff weekend.  He finished his stay with us by performing a concert in the Social Hall.  It was very well received.  You can watch it here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rRSursjSrs&list=RD6rRSursjSrs&start_radio=1

We are going to get more Scholars in Residence.  The search committee interviewed candidates yesterday and has decided to invite them out to Cheyenne to meet the congregation.  The specific details (dates, etc.) are still being worked out.  They’ll follow the same program – services Friday night and Saturday morning, a class Saturday afternoon, and then a Havdalah service.  We’ll invite the candidates to join us for an early dinner on Friday afternoon before services.  It will be run like a Shalom dinner, at a local restaurant with everyone paying their own way.  There will also be a luncheon at the Synagogue after Saturday morning services, thanks to Sisterhood.  So you’ll have several opportunities to meet the candidates when they come to Cheyenne.

We have a note from Phyllis Bloomberg about the Synagogue Library:

The Synagogue’s Judaica Library is doing some house cleaning, and you get to bring home some books!   There is no charge for the books, but donations are gratefully accepted to help maintain and update the library.  Books are located in the Social Hall, next to the remaining boxes of See’s candy (those are not free!).” 

Need a new desk for your home or office?  We have several and we are giving them away for free.  Just come to the Synagogue and get one (or all of them).  We need to make room, so we are giving these desks away.

And we’ll make another pitch for the remaining boxes of See’s Candy.  Valentine’s Day is coming up (hint, hint).  You can see what we have left in our order form on our website – https://www.mtsinaicheyenne.org/sees-candy-order-form

Here’s our Yiddish Phrase of the Week:

A hunt vos bilt bayst nit.
A barking dog doesn’t bite. 

Shalom,

Dave Lerner
President
Mt. Sinai Board of Directors

 

 

 

 

February Birthdays

3              Courtney Schlisserman

12          Susan Mervis

15           Sherri Means

              Steve Weinstein

14           Rayette Reece

19           Jonathan Savelle

23           Liam Linn

23           Dovi Mendelsohn

27          Judy Brown

29           Ian Fromme

29           Emily Price

 

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