Weekly Message from the Board President

The big news this week is that Rabbi Joe Black will be leading Shabbat services this Friday.  Rabbi Black just retired after serving as the Senior Rabbi at Temple Emanuel, the largest Synagogue in Denver.  Before that, he was the Rabbi for Congregation Albert in Albuquerque, New Mexico.  Rabbi Black is familiar with our Congregation.  He performed a fundraising concert for us in the large sanctuary of our Synagogue several years ago.

Rabbi Black has also agreed to lead our High Holy Day services and may come other times during the year.  We’re going to begin Friday night with a dinner in Rabbi Black’s honor.  It will be our Shabbat Dinner and our Shalom Dinner.  The Dinner will start at 6 PM in the Synagogue.  Then we’ll move into either the small Sanctuary or the large one, depending on how many people come for services.

The services will also be on Zoom.  The Zoom call will begin at 6:30. Here’s the Zoom info: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84687533228.  Meeting ID: 846 8753 3228.

The Board of Directors meets this week, and security is at the top of the agenda.  Mt. Sinai recently won a grant of close to $200,000 for very specific security needs, and the Board will review how the money must be spent.  New doors along the alley next to the Synagogue is one example.

Our heartfelt condolences to the family of Toma Nisbet.  We sent out a notice yesterday when we learned of her passing.  She was the widow of the late Marv Wolf, and also a loving mother and grandmother.  After Marv’s passing, she stayed involved in the Synagogue and participated in many activities.  She also had a lot of very good friends in our congregation and the community.  We will miss her. There will be a celebration of life for her in about a month, but we have not been told about a public funeral.

We have some new Hebrew speakers in the community.  Matani Ravenna’s Modern Hebrew class just wrapped up last week.  It was very well received, and we’ll be asking Matani to teach it again.  Matani does more than go over vowels and verbs.  He recommends movies, tv shows, books and other resources so that his students can get fully immersed in the Hebrew language.

Our search committee has been meeting regularly.  Yesterday, they reviewed the applicants we have received so far, and some of those applicants are very impressive.  The committee still needs to meet one more time before scheduling interviews, and Cheyenne Frontier Days is forcing the committee to briefly pause its work.  Some members of the committee volunteer or are otherwise involved in CFD.  But we are moving forward, and the response to our job ads has been very good.

Here’s our Yiddish Phrase of the Week:

Az men zetst a feygele in shtaygele arayn, veys men nit tsi lakht es tsi veynt es.
When you put a bird in a cage, you don’t know whether it’s laughing or crying. 

Shalom,

Dave Lerner
President
Mt. Sinai Board of Directors

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July Birthdays

6              Martha Silver

12           Dave Lerner

15           Andrea Moldo

15           Ryder Lucero

16           Georgia Young

20           Freyja McLoud 

20           Cara Johnson

21           Emily Altman

25           Samuel Altman

22           Susan Feldman

27           Matani Ravenna