It’s Shalom Dinner Time!  Let’s meet this Wednesday, February 25 at 6:30 PM at the Durbar Nepalese and Indian Restaurant.  It’s in the Cheyenne Plaza at 3515 East Lincolnway. It’s been a year since we ate at Durbar, and the food is very good.  For those new to our community, we all go out to dinner together about once a month.  Everyone pays their own way and the agenda is just to enjoy each other’s company.

If you come on Wednesday, you may meet Rabbi Eitan Krul.  He is coming to Cheyenne this weekend as a Scholar in Residence, and he is also a candidate for our religious leader position.  Rabbi Krul is from Israel and will be flying from Israel to Cheyenne.  He said it is possible that his flights could be affected by the winter weather in the northeast, but he won’t know specifics for a couple of days.

Rabbi Krul is due to arrive in Cheyenne on Wednesday and we have invited him to the Shalom Dinner.  By the way, his most recent pulpit was in Houston, Texas.

Rabbi Krul will be leading services Friday night and Saturday morning.  He will teach an adult education class at the Synagogue and on Zoom Saturday afternoon at 5:30, followed by a Havdalah service.

Join us for the Rabbi’s services and class and then let us know what you think.

We also want to mention that Rabbi Craig Rosenstein, another candidate for the religious leader position, will be coming to Cheyenne for his own Scholar in Residence weekend on March 13 and 14^th. 

Purim is coming up.  It’s Monday, March 2^nd.  We’ll be holding our usual Purim party, listening to the Megillah, the story of Mordecai, Esther, and he who shall not be named.  Noam will do the reading.  Then it will be time to munch on hamantaschen and party on.  Sisterhood is busy making hamantaschen in a variety of flavors, and we can tell you from experience that they are really, really tasty.  Sisterhood is also preparing Purim bags for the congregation and will be asking for donations to support their efforts.

Plans are in the works for a new Hebrew class at Mt. Sinai.  The Education Committee has been working with Matani Ravenna, who created and taught the class in the past.  We’ll have details on the class as soon as they are ready.

Passover is just a few weeks after Purim.  The Mt. Sinai Seder will be Wednesday, April 1.  Invitations will be going out in the mail soon.  The menu and prices will be the same as last year.  You’ll have a choice of entrees, plus matzoh ball soup, gefilte fish, matzah, and dessert.

Passover is one of our favorite holidays and we always get a very good crowd at the Synagogue for the Seder.  Watch for your invitation.

It’s the last chance to pick up some free books from the Synagogue library.  We’ll be donating whatever’s left to the Delta Kappa Gamma book sale, which opens at the Frontier Mall the weekend of March 7^th.  Please contact the Synagogue office to see the books and pick some up.

Here’s our Yiddish Phrase of the Week:

Er shrayt vi di yidene in bod.
He’s yelling like the woman in the bath.