It’s any excuse for a party.  Why?  Because we like spending time with you. You’re fun! So let’s have a party to celebrate Chametz. Yes, Chametz means bread (well, leavened products, really).  We’ve gone without Chametz as part of Passover, so we’re throwing a party because we can eat leavened products again.  Any excuse, right?  Our favorite form of Chametz comes in pizza and beer… so we’ll be serving pizza and beer (and soft drinks) this Sunday, April 12, at 5 PM at the Synagogue.

Please feel free to bring a pizza from your favorite pizza place.  We’ll also be bringing pizza.  We ask that it not have any meat on it (sorry, no pepperoni), since the meat and the cheese on the pizza make it not kosher.  So join us Sunday at 5 for a pizza, beer, and soft drink party at the Synagogue.

Now that Passover is behind us, we’ll be working on cooking for the Yiddish Food Festival, and we’ll definitely appreciate any help you can provide.  Jeff Weinstein is handling the cooking schedule.  Please contact the Synagogue office at [email protected] or (307) 634-3052.

Our Mt. Sinai Seder was well attended as usual.  We had a good crowd, and everyone enjoyed the service and the food.  Our thanks to Jeff Weinstein for doing a great job leading the service, and to special guest Rabbi Mitch Delcau of Loveland, Colorado who led some of the prayers.  You can catch a rerun of the service on our YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhp4mjWyEjk

Our friends to the south of us at Beth Israel in Greeley are holding a special Holocaust observance on Sunday and through next week.  Here’s a note from them about it:

This year’s Observances begin with the Interfaith Memorial Service at Beth Israel on April 12th at 7:00 pm. Rabbi Sara Gilbert will be officiating and several ministers from area churches will be participating.  In addition, music will be provided by some talented musicians. The events continue until the 19th of April when we will host the Klez Dispensers with their lively and meaningful renditions of Klezmer music.

We have some wonderful films depicting varied aspects of the Holocaust and also some lectures that you should find thought provoking.

We hope you will join us in commemorating these horrific events by paying tribute to those who died, those who survived, and by teaching us all how to respect each other so that it doesn’t happen again.

You can see the program for the observances here: https://www.holocaust-memorial-observances.org/brochure/HMO-Program-2026.pdf

Plans are in the works for another Women’s Shabbat service.  It will take place on Friday, May 8.  If you would like to participate by reading a prayer, lighting candles or in another way, please let Gayle Wagner or Courtney Schlisserman know.  The easiest way is to send an email to [email protected] and we’ll forward the email to them.

Here’s our Yiddish Phrase of the Week:

Er makht fun a flig a helfand.
He’s making an elephant out of a fly.