Weekly Message from the Board President

Food, glorious food.  If it seems like we’re always focused on food at the Synagogue… it’s because we are.  We have two food-related events coming up.

Coming up first, the first Shalom Dinner of 2025.  It will take place a week from Wednesday, on January 22, at 6:30 P.M.  Let’s all meet at the Office Restaurant on Pershing Blvd.  We’ll eat, we’ll talk, we’ll shmooze, and we’ll have a good time.

Then on Sunday, January 26, we’ll be holding our annual Kugel Cookoff and a free concert at the same time.  It all starts at 1 PM, when the City Creek Band takes the stage in the Mt. Sinai Social Hall.  The City Creek Band is headed by Daniel Hillshafer, who was a member of our congregation until he moved away.  The City Creek Band offered a performance as part of a charity auction for CASA of Laramie County.  Dr. Jason and Phyllis Bloomberg won the auction and donated the performance to the Synagogue.

Here’s a clip of the band:

https://www.facebook.com/100063640473690/videos/6932695276855132

The plan is for the band to perform for an hour.  Then our Kugel bakers will bring out their creations, and we’ll sit down to eat, and vote on the best.  The winner gets bragging rights for the next year as the best Kugel baker at Mt. Sinai (and maybe the world).  Then the band will perform a second set to finish off the afternoon.  It will be a fun event, and it’s coming up on the 26^th.

Rick Padilla has been hard at work preparing a grant application to FEMA to improve security at the Synagogue.  He got numerous bids for various projects, including improving the doors, locks, and cameras, and paying for security for the next year.  The grant request, for $200,000, was submitted last week.  Keep your fingers crossed – we hope we get it!  There are other grant opportunities coming up and we’ll be going for those if we don’t get this one.

Rabbi Halfon will be focusing his service on the late Debbie Friedman on Friday, January 24.  Friedman wrote music to a lot of Jewish prayers.  Perhaps her most famous was the tune we use for the Mi Shebeirach.  Rabbi Halfon will be singing a lot of her melodies during the service.

Last week, we presented some Jewish Mother jokes sent to us by Denise Bendori.  Here’s a second set:

1. What did the Jewish Mother ATM say to her customer?
2. You never write, you never call and you only visit me when you need money.

1. What are the two most important things a Jewish Mother needs to know about sex and marriage?
2. Who is having sex? And why aren’t they married already?

1. What is a genius?
2. An average student with a Jewish Mother.

1. Who asked the princess seven times to get married?
2. Her Jewish Mother.

Shalom,

Dave Lerner
President
Mt. Sinai Board of Directors

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January Birthdays

1              Chanie Mendelsohn

2              Jacob Westover

5              William Lucero

11           Stephanie White

12           Laurie Lerner

15           Steve Lerner

16           Zalman Mendelsohn

22           Thomas Silliman

25           Donna Pepper

26           Jacob Means

26           David Young

27           Erin Brown

28           Leo Wolfson

29           Howard Rodack