Jewish Film Fest comes to Greenfield
The Pioneer Valley Jewish Film Festival (nearly) kicks off this year with a first-ever showing in Greenfield on Saturday March 13 at the Garden Cinema. It's a first for this Festival and your attendance this Saturday night at Greenfield Cinema may help put Greenfield on the Jewish cultural map for this sort of thing, so please make a showing if you can. The film is "A Matter of Size" (2009) and starts at 7:30 PM with a pre-show reception at 7:00.
Community Envisioning Mtg, March 14
Come join us, 10am-12 in the Social Hall, for the second part of our Community Envisioning Meeting. We would love to see as much of the community as possible there! [Attendence at the first part is *not* a prerequisite of participating in this one.]
Traditional Friday service, March 26
Community Second Seder, March 30Please join us for a delicious meal and spiritually uplifting experience in the Temple Israel Social Hall lead by Reb Efraim. All are welcome: members, non-members, extended family, out-of-town guests, students, and interested non-Jews who wish to experience the joy of this central Jewish event. The meal will be strictly Kosher for Passover created by chef, Eric Nusbaum, with assistance from the Passover Seder Committee.
Talmud Study to beginBecause of the popularity of our weekly Torah study class we are beginning a bi-weekly Talmud study class to start this Thursday morning at 10:00 Am. Jewish tradition holds that the Talmud is the "oral Torah" and contains conversations, discussions, stories and interpretations of laws that are not fully unpacked in the Torah. Bring your coffee, maybe a little muffin and off we go. We will begin this class by putting on tefillin. No knowledge of Talmud, Aramaic or Hebrew is required. Temple Israel's centennial in the newsCheck out the Greenfield Recorder's coverage of Temple Israel's centennial here.
Letter to the CommunityDear Friends,
Puxsatawney Phil has seen his shadow and from this quaint American custom we are told to get ready to face 6 more weeks of winter. In the Jewish calendar we have just celebrated TuB’shvat which lets us know that the sap in the trees is beginning to move and that Spring cannot be to far behind. This year at Temple Israel we celebrated TuB’shvat twice, once for the adults, and once for our family education program.
TI on FacebookTemple Israel is now on Facebook. Try this link or search Facebook for "Temple Israel Greenfield" is one way to find the group.
Once you become a fan, you will be able to participate in Temple Israel's newest web presence! |