No hebrew school on Sunday-nothing to do? Come join us at the Renaissance Festival!
We are meeting at noon at the front gates! Please rsvp to jrbrdie@yahoo.com so we’ll know to wait for you.  My cell  # is (916)295-9064. We’re sure to have a merry ole time!
 See you then!
p.s. kids are free at the fair this weekend.

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Enjoy the day off, and we’ll pick up again November 8th.

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Greetings all Temple Or Olam Members!
 
The membership committe is implementing a new program called “Temple Buddies”.  We are going to be setting up new families with existing families to teach them the ropes.
When we get our next new family we are going to start at the top of the directory and continue working our way down [...]

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DavidsonReads is a community wide reading event that our own Lisa Jewel was instrumental in putting together. The book being read and discussed is “The Color of Water” by James McBride.
On Thursday, Reb Barbara is participating in one of the events:
Everything You Wanted to Know about Blacks & Jews
Davidson Town Hall
October 22, 7:00 p.m.
Join [...]

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From Reb Barbara:
I’d like to remind everyone that we are reading Noach this Friday (Noah) and that everyone who wants to wear a rainbow should!
From Jody:
The religious school studied Noah last year and it was one of the students’ favorite Torah stories…maybe because of the visit from Noah, who answered many of their questions. So [...]

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On behalf of the membership committee and Temple Or-Olam we’d like to welcome our newest members:
Francine Walshin
Cynthia and William Rayburn
Jason, Doris and their baby Jacqueline Gordon
Janet Sternbauch
Jessica Waldman
We are happy to have you as part of our congregation and we look forward to seeing you at upcoming services.

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This article, written by Reb Barbara, appeared in the Charlotte Observer Friday, October 16th. To read it on the Observer website, you can go to this link.
I wish I had looked out the window.
But I was busy teaching my students - students who had been studying the long and terrible history of anti-Semitism all semester.
Had [...]

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Sometime over fall break, the UNC-Charlotte Hillel succah was destroyed.
The bamboo coverings were stolen and the frame for the succah was deliberately bent and ruined beyond repair. The large sign decorated with a Star of David and with Hillel’s name (as well as contact emails for interested students) was defaced with a small, but legible [...]

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Rabbi, author and martial artist Niles Elliot Goldstein will speak about his new book “The Challenge of the Soul: A Guide for the Spiritual Warrior” at two area Jewish congregations Oct. 23-24. The presentations are part of the Southern States Jewish Literary Series coordinated by the Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life in Jackson, Mississippi. [...]

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LEARN ABOUT DOMESTIC ABUSE IN OUR JEWISH COMMUNITY ON SUNDAY, NOV 1ST WITH RABBI H. DAVID ROSE OF JEWISH WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: Evening Program: “Learn – Help – Protect: It’s Not Kosher To Do Nothing.” 7:00 PM in Sam Lerner Center for Cultural Arts, Shalom Park, 5007 Providence Rd., Charlotte, 28226. Explore the Jewish response [...]

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