This coming Shabbat, November 12th, Kiddush is being sponsored by the Rubin family in honor of our new members. Thank you and welcome!
Shabbat November 19 we will be honoring our October and November Birthday/Anniversary celebrants. If you would like to sponsor Kiddush please send an email kiddush@kolsasson.org. Sponsorship is $25.
Kiddush this week is sponsored by the Minkus-Lieberman and Weinberg families to thank our outgoing and incoming leadership teams for all their hard work and commitment to Kol Sasson:
Sarah Friedman Outgoing Secretary & Incoming Children’s Programming Coordinator
Chaya Gordon-Burstyn Friday Night Services Coordinator
David Lieberman Incoming Financial Secretary
Avi Janssen Webmaster
Sippi Janssen Kiddush Coordinator
Rochelle Katz Outgoing Ritual VP
Steve Katz Outgoing Financial Secretary
Debri Klein Outgoing Children’s Programming Coordinator & Incoming Ritual VP
Carolyn Reinglass Bar & Bat Mitzvah Coordinator
Arthur Rosenson Gabbai
Lynda Rosenson Treasurer
Bob Rubin Membership VP
Jane Shapiro Education VP & Gabbai
Shaina Sugar Incoming Secretary
Elise Swatez Kiddush Team
Sarah Weinberg Gabbai
Kol Sasson would also like to thank our outgoing president Rebecca Minkus-Lieberman and our incoming president Daniel Weinberg for their guidance and dedication.
We will be meeting for maariv and Eicha this coming Monday evening, August 8, at 8:00 p.m. at the Katz’s house, 9315 Central Park. If the weather cooperates, we will be meeting in the backyard, so please come straight to the backyard. Kol Sasson will provide books with Eicha, but please:
Rabbi Josh Feigelson, who is spending the summer in Israel with his family, posted the following entry in his blog earlier this week.
http://joshfeigelson.wordpress.com/2011/07/11/the-greater-point-about-shira-hadasha/
In writing about his experiences davening at both Yakar and Shira Hadasha in Jerusalem, he illuminates the avoda kedosha that we at Kol Sasson are undertaking each Shabbat: to allow everyone’s voices – men’s, women’s, and children’s – to emerge, deepen, and strengthen. And in those powerful moments of focused and harmonious communal tefillah – and they occur more frequently all the time – we can be reminded of the importance of our work, both for ourselves, for our families, and for the larger community, where we stand as a vital example of what it means to create an inclusive, halachic kahal.
Please mark your calendars and plan to join us for beautiful Kabbalat Shabbat davening:
Friday, July 8th – 6:30 p.m.
6:45 – Mincha/ Kabbalat Shabbat/ Maariv
Email president@kolsasson.org for location or any questions.
Please join the Kol Sasson community for our Tikkun Leyl Shavuot:
Erev Shavuot – Tuesday, June 7th
9:30 p.m. – 11:30 p.m.
Gordon-Burstyn home
We will be exploring the concept of holiness / kedusha from 4 different perspectives. Four of our members will be presenting provocative texts on this theme and facilitating discussion:
Jane Shapiro will present a text from Martin Buber on the holiness of the land and bikkurim
Allan Burstyn will present a text on the holiness of tefillah and kriyat Shema
Marc Swatez will present a text on the holiness of community from a sociological framework
Rebecca Minkus-Lieberman will present a text from Franz Rosenzweig on the holiness of language
We hope that you will be able to join us for what promises to be a night of interesting study and discussion.
Attendees are welcome to bring a store-bought, hechshered dessert to share while we study.