"Only you, you're the only thing I'll see forever

In my eyes, in my words and in everything I do

Nothing else but you ever

And there's nothing for me but gluten

Every sight that I see is leavened!"

We finally get to put aside the bread of affliction and enjoy chametz again. And even better, because we liturgically switched from, "mashiv haruach u'morid hagashem" to "morid hatal" during Passover services last week, the weather has finally turned the corner. Long gone are the chilly, Winter doldrums; bring on the allergy pills!

As you go about your day enjoying the warm weather and maybe performing some Spring cleaning, check out the synagogue calendar. I recall calendaring with the Klei Kodesh a few months back and remarking on how packed the next few months are. Some upcoming highlights on my calendar are the service tomorrow night where we will honor the Kabbalat mitzvah families who celebrated their milestone on Zoom during the pandemi, Shakshuka (the band, not the savory dish!) joining us for a catered Israeli-style dinner on April 28, Violins of Hope on May 5, and our farewell service on May 12 for our longtime conductor Klaus Georg.

Wishing you all a final chag pesach sameach and we hope to see you out and about in the coming weeks!

Shabbat Shalom,

Cantor Rabbi Kyle Cotler

10:30 am

Burlington's "Little Jerusalem" and The Lost Mural, an International Treasure in Vermont with Aaron Goldberg and Jeff Potash

Virtual 

The colorful, folk-art style of mural decoration popular in European synagogue interiors in the 18th and 19th centuries exists in only a handful of places today, including the Chai Adam mural in Burlington, Vermont, painted in 1910 by Ben Zion Black, a Lithuanian immigrant to Vermont. Aaron and Jeff will share their historical research and the journey of the Lost Mural. They will discuss the origins of the Burlington, Vermont Jewish Community, its connections to the Lost Mural, and the efforts to preserve, restore, and educate the public about the lost genre of wooden synagogue art.