News You Need to Know
Beginning Thursday, January 20, 2021
THIS WEEK AT THE OJC
Password for all OJC Zoom sessions: 109622020
Join by phone # for all OJC Zoom sessions: 1-929-205-6099
EVENING MINYAN & TEACHING
Sunday - Thursday Evenings at 7:30 PM
Mtng ID: 823 8635 4547 | Password: 109622020
Thursday, January 20
10:30 AM
Topic: Text & Context
Teachers: Rabbi Scheff
Mtng ID: 328 555 140

Friday, January 21
4:00 PM
Topic: Shabbat of Shalom - Kabbalat Shabbat
Teachers: Rabbis and Amichai
Mtng ID: 881 2222 7489

4:41 PM Candle Lighting
The Shabbat Zoom will go live at least five minutes prior so you can join before Shabbat begins.

6:00 PM
Topic: Shabbat Ma'ariv
Teachers: Rabbis
Mtng ID: 857 2719 8839
Saturday, January 22
9:30 AM
Topic: Shabbat Morning Service
Teachers: Rabbis
Zoom:  https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85727198839
Mtng ID: 857 2719 8839

5:45 PM
Topic: Havdalah
Teachers: Rabbis
Mtng ID: 857 8534 4797

Wednesday, January 26
12:30 PM
Topic: Community Matters
Teachers: Rabbi Scheff
Mtng ID: 894 0892 8624

Thursday, January 27
10:30 AM
Topic: Text & Context
Teachers: Rabbi Scheff
Mtng ID: 328 555 140
All OJC Services and Activities Are Virtual Through January 2022
Following the events of last Shabbat in Texas, let's welcome Shabbat together in solidarity and community.

Join us for a special Kabbalat Shabbat service on Zoom at 4:00 PM this Friday.

Zoom information can be found above.
OPPORTUNITIES TO
GIVE BACK TO OJC
For the past two decades, Ronald and Gail Walerstein, along with their son Mark, have almost single-handedly enabled dozens of OJC children to receive a Jewish education.

Thanks to the Walersteins’ establishing—and annually replenishing—the Walerstein Education Fund, families (who otherwise would not be able to afford the cost of a supplementary Jewish education) receive the tuition assistance needed to provide their children a connection to community, along with the necessary foundation for Jewish identity.

We hope the Walersteins’ generosity will inspire you to support this effort to ensure our shared future. Please consider giving to the Walerstein Education Fund today - click below and select the Walerstein Education Fund.
We are so grateful for the prayers, gestures, and loving expressions of support that we each received during our recent bouts with COVID-19. We are well aware of our good fortune that our symptoms were mild and that we had the safety nets of family and community to give us the needed time to recover.

We thank our OJC family for the personal and professional support we received, and for the generous donations made to our discretionary funds. Your selflessness will allow us to help others who are struggling to meet the challenges of these times.

Rabbi Craig Scheff and Rabbi Paula Mack Drill
Leaving No One Behind
A Special Evening in Honor of Jewish Disabilities Awareness,
Acceptance, and Inclusion Month
Monday, January 31, 8:00 PM 

Join Jewish National Fund-USA as we recognize Jewish Disabilities Awareness, Acceptance, and Inclusion Month (JDAAIM) with an inside look at how donors like you ensure people with disabilities and special needs are integrated into all aspects of daily life and tightly woven into the fabric of Israeli culture.

Featuring Marlee Matlin, Academy Award-Winning Actress and New York Times Bestselling Author.
SISTERHOOD
It is almost time for Purim (March 17) and the Sisterhood is here to help! Click on the image above to help us perform the mitzvah of Mishloach Manot.

ORDERS ARE DUE BY FEBRUARY 21.
COVID MIGHT KEEP US AWAY BUT LET'S GET TOGETHER!

Want to talk? Want to listen? What's your best day and time? ojcCares4U is helping to arrange meeting times for OJC members to get together on ZOOM to share in conversation and community.

CARE TO SHARE

Email with your suggestions for a day and time for a ZOOM community hour.
Zoom Link:
Mtng ID: 894 0892 8624
Password: 109622020
KULANU
YOUTH PROGRAMMING
Password: OJCYOUTH
TRAVEL TO ISRAEL

HAZAK Adventures in Israel
December 6- 14, 2022

Click here to see the Itinerary 
and to Register.
COMMUNITY
In commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, join Dr. Robert Williams, Deputy Director for International Affairs at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, for a discussion about how current conspiracy theories and tropes fuel antisemitism domestically and internationally, as well as how and why Holocaust education is one of many ways to combat it.
We can't predict the weather or pandemics- but no matter what, we can learn together- online, in person or both in our hybrid classes. From Israel's kings to Jewish Nobel Prize winners, from saviors of Israel to early Christianity through a Jewish lens- expand your Jewish horizons.
 
Registration deadline: January 26, classes begin February 2
UNSUNG HEROES Virtual Presentation

Join us on Sunday, January 30, 2022 at 11:00 AM We are so proud to honor this year's Unsung Heroes! Meet the people, both volunteers and staff, who have made a difference this year and helped us reach even more families.