2610 Pioneer Avenue
Cheyenne, Wyoming 82001
(307) 634 - 3052
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Photos Courtesy of Louis Davidson, Synagogues360.org
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 Rabbi Moshe Halfon and lay leaders.
Coming Up
Tuesday, June 17 –7 to 8:30 PM – Hebrew for Beginners. Class #9 of 12 classes. In person and via Zoom, https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87048954137. Meeting ID: 870 4895 4137.
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Wednesday, June 18 – 6:30 PM – Board Meeting via Zoom.
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Thursday, June 19 – 12 noon to 1 PM – Torah Thursday.
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Thursday, June 19 – 6:30 to 7:30 PM – Zoom Town Hall Meeting to talk about our next Rabbi. Here’s the Zoom info: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88276233428. Meeting ID: 882 7623 3428.
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Friday, June 20 – 6 PM – Shabbat Dinner from Sisterhood in honor of Rabbi Halfon’s service to our community.
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Friday, June 20 – 7 PM – Erev Shabbat service led by Rabbi Halfon, in person and via Zoom. This will be Rabbi Halfon’s last scheduled Friday night service with our congregation, and we want to wish him well. We’ll open the Zoom meeting at 6:30 so people can chat. Services begin at 7:00. Zoom info: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84687533228. Meeting ID: 846 8753 3228
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Sunday, June 22 – 3 to 4:30 PM – Israeli Dancing is on break and will resume in July.
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Sunday, June 22 – 4 to 5 PM – Hadassah Book Group at Wendy Berelson’s residence. We will be discussing Francine Klagsbrun’s Henrietta Szold Hadassah and the Zionist Dream. We will meet in person and via Zoom. Henrietta Szold (1860–1945) is renowned as the founder of Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America, which quickly became one of the most successful of all Zionist groups. In her work with Hadassah, Szold used a combined ethical and pragmatic approach aimed at improving the lives of both Jews and Arabs. She later moved to Mandate Palestine to help shape education, health, and social services there. The pinnacle of her career came in her seventies, when she took on the task of directing the Youth Aliyah program, which rescued thousands of young people from the Nazis and resettled them in Palestine. Please contact Phyllis if you would like to ride with her to Wendy’s house in Laramie. Zoom Meeting – https://uwyo.zoom.us/j/93275871709. Meeting ID: 932 7587 1709
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Monday, June 23 – 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, June 24 –7 to 8:30 PM – Hebrew for Beginners. Class #10 of 12 classes. In person and via Zoom, https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87048954137. Meeting ID: 870 4895 4137.
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Wednesday, June 25 – 6:30 to 7:30 PM – Shalom Dinner at Tres Amigos, 2414 West Lincolnway.
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SAVE THE DATE
Tot Shabbat service on Friday, June 27 at 6:30 to 7 PM. We are hoping to build up some momentum for more children’s programming. Your participation is important!
Weekly Message from the Board President
Mt. Sinai Congregation is about to embark on a very important process – choosing a new Rabbi to serve our community. Rabbi Halfon’s last service with us will be this Friday (more about that in a moment). We intentionally delayed starting the search for a new Rabbi until now, out of respect for Rabbi Halfon.
The process will begin this Thursday at 6:30 PM. We are going to hold a Zoom Town Hall meeting to hear from you about what you would like to see in a new Rabbi. It’s an open ended question… Should we look for someone who is Reform, Conservative, Orthodox, part of Jewish Renewal, Reconstructionist or…? Should it be someone who is single, married, gay, straight, male, or female? Should we require that they live in Cheyenne or is someone who commutes to us okay? How important is it that the Rabbi be able to read directly from the Torah? Should it be a young person just starting out their career, someone approaching retirement, or someone in between? And you will have your own priorities for our new Rabbi.
Members of the Board of Directors will be on hand to hear your thoughts. The meeting begins at 6:30 on Thursday, June 19. Here is the Zoom info: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88276233428. Meeting ID: 882 7623 3428.
We will conclude the meeting by asking for volunteers to serve on the Rabbi Search Committee. The Rabbi Search Committee will draw up a job description and the wording of an ad (we’ll start with what we have used in the past). We’ll advertise the position, and the Rabbi Search Committee will then review the information from the people who apply. The Rabbi Search Committee will present three finalists to the Board of Directors, who will then make the final decision on who we hire as our next Rabbi.
We hope you will consider joining the Rabbi Search Committee. It will be a lot of work, but this is a very important decision for our Synagogue, so we need to take the time to do it right. And we definitely want your input.
As mentioned earlier, Rabbi Halfon’s final service with us will be this Friday, June 20. Sisterhood is preparing a Shabbat Dinner in his honor at the Synagogue. The dinner will start at 6 PM, followed by services at 7. Services will also be available on Zoom. The Zoom call, as usual, will start at 6:30 PM – https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84687533228. Meeting ID: 846 8753 3228. Please come and wish our Rabbi the best in his next chapter.
More scheduling notes – our next Shalom Dinner will be Wednesday, June 25, at the Tres Amigos Mexican Restaurant on West Lincolnway (they also have a restaurant on Dell Range Blvd, but we are at the one on West Lincolnway). Let’s meet at 6:30 PM and all have dinner together.
We have a Tot Shabbat set for Friday, June 27, starting at 6:30 PM in the Synagogue. This is a special short service aimed at the little ones. It will be followed by our regular service at 7.
Also, our Fourth of July picnic is coming up on the Fourth… starting at 11:30. We’ll be grilling up hot dogs and providing soft drinks. Please feel free to bring a side dish or dessert that will go well with a meat meal.
Mt. Sinai Cookbooks are now available online! You can buy them directly from our website. Here’s the link… https://www.mtsinaicheyenne.org/cookbooks.
The cookbooks contain dozens of recipes from current and former members of our congregation, as well as photos and tidbits about our history and community. The cookbooks are $25 and this is a fundraiser for Sisterhood.
Here is our Yiddish Phrase of the Week:
Men antloyft fun regn, bagegnt men hogl.
Run away from rain and you get hail.
Shalom,
Dave Lerner
President
Mt. Sinai Board of Directors
Donations to Israel
If you would like to send money to Israel, here are some options:
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From Temple Emanuel: JEWISHcolorado donors have stepped forward to offer a dollar-for-dollar match up to $200,000 for donations to the Israel Emergency Fund. All emergency dollars will go to support efforts on the ground in Israel, aiding victims of terror, addressing trauma issues, and assisting with emergency medical and infrastructure needs. The match was launched by Barry and Gay Curtiss-Lusher from a shelter in a Tel Aviv Hotel and JEWISHcolorado Board Chair Ben Lusher and his wife Nicole.
June Birthdays
4 Talia Mantaka
5 Noam Mantaka
7 Kathleen Dow
14 Ben Thornell
24 Sherry Snyder
30 Carol Serelson