The Jackson Kol
The Jackson Hole Jewish Community
Monthly Newsletter
May
1, 2015
12 Lyyar,
5775
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Shavuot
Delicious
Dairy Dinner
Saturday,
May 23
6:30 p.m. at the JHJC
Join friends and members of the JHJC in this special family-friendly Shavuot dinner. Catered dairy vegetarian main course. Please bring a dairy (no meat) side dish. Brief Havdalah service prior to dinner.
We will need some volunteers to make or bring blintzes and cheesecake, please email HERE if interested.
Limited seating! Reservations required. Please email
HERE for reservations.
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Followed by an Israeli Shuk Oneg!
Friday, May 8
6:30 p.m. @ the JHJC
610 W. Broadway in the Centennial Building.
See details below
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| Ben Schuller greets WWII liberator Alan Moskin at the JHJC Holocaust Remembrance Day event in April. |
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Get involved in
Jackson Hole's Oldest Jewish Congregation.
Support the JHJC and
all the incredible things we do!
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Keeping up with Uncle Moishe
By Al Zuckerman
I had my usual telephone "visit" with Uncle Moishe this week. I was telling him that Charlene and I were re-organizing the garage this spring and came across some old photo albums that my parents had kept, one of which had pictures of their parents. So I asked Uncle Moishe about his mother, Dora, who was in one of the pictures. He told me how she worked hard to keep a kosher home and how gentle a woman she was and also how very smart she was, too. Unc told me that one time she went to the kosher butcher shop just around the corner from where they lived on Fox St. in the Bronx. She asked the butcher, Mr. Horowitz, for a chicken that she was going to make for Shabbos dinner. Then Mr. Horowitz had only one scrawny chicken left and put it on the scale. Three pounds, he tells Dora. "Ach, that's too small", she says and asks him if he has anything bigger. So he pretends to rummage around and puts the same chicken back on the scale not knowing that Unc's mother had leaned over the butcher block counter and saw all this. With his thumb on the scale he announces that this one weighs three and a half pounds. Dora, says to him, "Goot, Mr. Horowitz, I'll take them both."
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Upcoming Events in May
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 Sat. May 2, 8 p.m., Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lazare presents information on the Jerusalem Film Workshop, the Maale Film School in Jerusalem and will screen his short film "Revival" about a 60-year-old Israeli religious couple who face turmoil after the wife rejoins her former punk band for a reunion tour. Free. Refreshments available. JHJC @ 610 W. Broadway in the Centennial Bldg.
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 Tuesday, May 5, 5:30 p.m., Spring Mitzvah Day JHJC Adopt-a-Highway Clean-up. Our portion of the highway is on Teton Village Road, just north of the Aspens. Meet at on the north side of the Lake Creek Bridge on the Teton Village Rd. and we'll begin with a brief safety meeting. Orange vests, trash bags and gloves will be provided. But you might want to bring warm gloves as well. We'll clean from mile post 4 to mile post 5, both sides of the road. Children must be accompanied by adults.
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Friday, May 8, 6:30 p.m., Bet Sefer Shabbat and graduation. Also meet the JHJC Tikun Olam college scholarship winner Marisol Hernandez.
The students of Bet Sefer invite you to their annual Bet Sefer Shabbat. Our students will lead us in song and prayer with Judd and then welcome you to join them as they transport you to a market in Jerusalem for an Israeli shuk style oneg. There will be music, fresh food, Turkish coffee and lots of chaverim. Don't bring your shekels because it's Shabbat!
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Saturday, May 23, 6 p.m. Shavuot Dairy Community Dinner at the JHJC. Featuring chazzan Judd Grossman and featuring local dairy items. Brief havdalah service first. Dairy main course will be catered please bring a dairy friendly side dish to share. If you would like to volunteer to bring or make blintzes or cheesecake please email us. Limited seating, reservations required please email HERE to save a spot.
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Jackson Hole Jewish Community Awards the inaugural Tikun Olam College Scholarship
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JHJC Board President Al Zuckerman awards
JH Community School senior Marisol Hernandez the JHJC Tikun Olam College Scholarship.
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Every year the Teton County School District holds a scholarship night where various organizations and individuals provide monetary scholarships to students that will be going on to college after graduating in June. This spring the JHJC Board of Directors decided to provide its first annual Tikun Olam scholarship award on behalf of the Jackson Hole Jewish Community to a deserving Teton County student. A committee was formed to review the 23 applications we received. Being faithful to the meaning of the phrase Tikun Olam the committee felt the recipient of this award should reflect those qualities that strive to heal or repair the world through good works and deeds in order to make the world a better place to live.
The committee that chose this year's recipient was in awe of the accomplishments of all the students that submitted applications. We certainly have an amazing and inspiring group of young people in our community. However, after reviewing all the applications the JHJC's choice for this year's scholarship award in the amount of $1,000 was granted to Marisol Hernandez, based on her good works in the community, her active citizenship and her leadership.
Among her many other good works Ms. Hernandez was president of her school's Philanthrophy Club which benefited the Food Cupboard, Latino Resource Center and the Community Foundation. She traveled to Guatemala to help build houses with Habitat For Humanity. Marisol also volunteers with the Teton Literacy Program, takes part in the Model United Nations initiative and still manages to find time to represent her school on the lacrosse team and the speech and debate team and hold down a part-time job, as well. Marisol has indicated that her future plans include continuing in the spirit of Tikun Olam by pursuing a career as a pediatrician. She plans to attend Bates College in Maine.
You can meet Marisol in person at our May 8 Bet Sefer Shabbat where she will say a few words at the beginning of services.
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2015 Spirit of the Mountain Summer Camp Registration is Underway
Email HERE to receive your registration materials.
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Scenes From April 2015
Check out more of our photos and videos from all the cool events we do on our Facebook page
"Jackson Hole Jews"
Bet Sefer hummus taste off
Annual Community Passover Seder
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| Yep, found the Afikomen! Ka-Ching. |
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Yep, Al found the brisket.
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Carl Levenson chats with Fr. Ron Pogue, interim rector at
St.John's Church, who joins us for matzah ball soup.
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Annual Holocaust Remembrance Day
Speaker: WWII vet and concentration camp liberator Alan Moskin
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Mr. Moskin speaks at the JH Middle School 8th Grade.
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| Mr. Moskin gives a public talk at the TC Library. |
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Mr. Moskin with local VFW members, T.R. Pierce and David Bentlage.
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| Acknowledgements
Mazel Tov!
- Shari Brownfield, Pat Siegel and Laurie Thal - our three JHJC Survey winners. Congrats!
Many Thanks
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Steve Zelikovitz, Shannon Troxler Thal, Amy Aronowitz Baker and Al Zuckerman for being our first Tikun Olam scholarship committee.
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Amy Aronowitz Baker for designing the Tikun Olam scholarship certificate.
- Rose Novak for helping to organize our Passover seder. Thank you!
- Janet and Bill Bellis, Rose Novak, Laurie Thal, Oliver and Karen Pollak and Beryl Weiner and Joyce Craig for setting up our Passover seder.
- To everyone who stayed and helped clean up the Passover seder. Thank you!
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Christine Schuller
for all her hard work in organizing our annual Holocaust Remembrance Day event with Alan Moskin.
- Al Zuckerman and Mike Scher for helping with the Holocaust Remembrance Day event.
Get Well Soon
- Keep David Goldfarb in your thoughts.
- To everyone who has been sick with The Crud, get well soon!
Please send us your Mazel Tovs, Condolences, Kol HaKavods, Get Wells and photos of your
Jewish Pets to: [email protected]
2015 Board of Directors
Al Zuckerman, President
Josh Kleyman, Vice Pres.
Andy King, Treasurer
Amy Aronowitz Baker
Andrea Mazer
Mike Scher
Steve Zelikovitz
Mary Grossman, Exec. Dir.
For more than 40 years, the Jackson Hole Jewish Community has welcomed people of all ages and backgrounds who share a love for Jackson Hole and Judaism. We are independent, unaffiliated and inclusive. All are welcome to Jackson Hole's oldest Jewish congregation, no matter his or her level of Jewish observance.
The Jackson Hole Jewish Community is committed to creating a diverse Jewish presence that unites us, celebrates our faith, and promotes tolerance in the greater Jackson Hole community. We strive to engage all families and individuals in spirituality, education, tzadakah, and the joys of Jewish life.
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Membership to the JHJC
For more than 40 years, the Jackson Hole Jewish Community has welcomed people of all ages and backgrounds who share a love for Jackson Hole and Judaism. We are independent, unaffiliated and inclusive. All are welcome to Jackson Hole's oldest Jewish congregation, no matter his or her level of Jewish observance.
The Jackson Hole Jewish Community is committed to creating a diverse Jewish presence that unites us, celebrates our faith, and promotes tolerance in the greater Jackson Hole community. We strive to engage all families and individuals in spirituality, education, tzadakah, and the joys of Jewish life.
No minimum payment required, pay what you can.
Download application HERE
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עליכם השלום Jackson Hole Jewish Community
Physical Address: 610 W. Broadway in the Centennial Bldg, Jackson, WY 83002
Mailing Address: Box 10667, Jackson, WY 83002
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