January News and Holiday wishes to you

Wishing all of you

Shabbat Shalom

A Very Happy Chanukah

and a Wonderful New Year!

In this January Newsletter you'll find

~ Registration for Shabbat Services~

~ Registration for upcoming classes ~

~ Video & photos from Chanukah Live! ~

~ Important Save the Dates ~

and more...

See below...

Don't delay registering for the classes and events you plan to attend in January and save the dates for February and March events!

Shabbat at Shir Ami

January Services

On January 11th we will have a Saturday morning Shabbat Service. 10 AM - 12 noon

Come join us for the one morning Shabbat we have on the calendar for the year and see if you want more! In past years, those who participated in the morning Shabbat Service really enjoyed it. The service will be led by Cantor Jill Abramson and the kiddush will be hosted by Jenny, Rick and Zaac Lake. Please register today if you plan to attend.

January 24th Friday night Shabbat Service: 7:30 - 9:30 PM

We hope you will join us for another lovely Shabbat at FPC. The oneg will be hosted by Wendy and Larry Nadel in memory of Wendy's mom's yartzeit. Cantor Abramson will lead the service.

Living & Learning Classes

January schedule

Learn to Read & Chant Basic Shabbat Prayers

Monday January 6th 7:00pm - 8:30

Want to participate in services but feel like you don't know the words or tunes well enough? Whatever your level of comfort or experience, this one-shot session is open to all.

No Hebrew reading experience necessary.

We will learn to pronounce, understand and chant a few basic prayers: the candle blessing, the blessing over bread and the blessing over the wine (the longer version). We'll also go over the Kaddish --the prayer said for those in mourning or marking a yahrtzeit-- the anniversary of the death of a loved one.

Recordings will be shared with class participants and will also be posted to web site you can continue to practice, review and have future access to these prayers.

Women's Rosh Chodesh

Study Group

Monday January 24th, 7 - 8:30 PM

(read Chapters 3 & 4)

Join us for the next women's monthly gathering, led by Cantor Abramson, during which we'll continue to explore The Faith Club and be challenged to understand the "other" more deeply as we investigate being Jewish while affirming the faith of others.

tea/coffee and dessert will be available

Regsiter for Women's Rosh Chodesh January 24th class

MORE ON UPCOMING PROGRAMS

Including the next Essential Jewish Conversation Class on Feb 10th, which will focus on Power in Medieval Commentaries

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Seating is limited so don't delay!

Chanukah Live was so much fun!

Enjoy these photos and

watching this video recap

that really captures

the music, food, people, Pop Up Choir, Latka dancers and Barry's dreidel song!

Thank you to

Cantor Abramson

the Musicians & Choir,

all of the cooks

and every volunteer!

And THANK YOU to everyone who contributed with gifts or funds to the Shir Ami Holiday Gift Drive for Abilis. On Monday, Susan helped Laura from Abilis, load the gifts into her car so she could deliver them to the very happy group home recipients who don't have families to spend Chanukah or Christmas with them. They really appreciated receiving our gifts again this year!

A Message from the Co-Presidents

We hope you all have had a wonderful holiday week and we wish everyone a Happy New Year and an inspiring 2020!

What a joy it was to celebrate Chanukah with so many of you! The energy and enthusiasm at Shir Ami is feeling very contagious in a great way! We continue to have new people interested in joining our community and we certainly keep demonstrating over and over how good we are at integrating new members into our Shir Ami family.

We know that 2020 will be a terrific year for Shir Ami and we hope that you all will join us regularly for the services, events, and classes that we are offering. For more information or to see our Calendar of events, please visit our website often and look around. We are continually updating the site and the calendar on the homepage has all of the upcoming events with links to register. www.congregationshirami.org

As a reminder our next board meeting will be January 13th at 7:30 PM. If you are not yet one of the regular attendees but would like to be, email us to request the location info [email protected] .

Wishing all of you a very happy, healthy, peaceful 2020!

Jenny Lake and Susan Nisinzweig