TOO’s New Year, New Forms, New Ideas

We spent a good part of this summer taking stock of who we are and who we want to become: Results are in.  Our new membership forms are available.  Links below!

http://www.or-olam.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/New_membership_form_2015-2016-.pdf
http://www.or-olam.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Covenant_2015.pdf

Back to the Sources: Torah Care Before The Days of Awe

Our rabbi is always taking an opportunity to show us features of our Torah — up close and personal.  Now, Rabbi Barbara wants to teach us how to care for a Torah scroll.  We will take time as a community to unroll our beautiful Torah, and learn how to clean a handwritten scroll.  While we brush the surface clean, we’ll have the opportunity to revisit the Torah’s special features — including the beautiful crowns congregational members themselves placed in and around the Song at the Sea when we dedicated our new Torah!

Take advantage of this honor and help us prepare our Torah for High Holy Days (more on that, below….). 

Date: August 30
Time: 3-4:30 pm
Location: McGill Baptist Church, 5300 Poplar Tent Road, Concord

S’lichot at the Lake – September 5, 2015

Schedule
4:30 pm: Arrive for mingling and greeting
5:00 pm: Selichot service and meditation
6:00 pm: Pot Luck *
Please bring your own cooler/ food storage.
7:00 pm: Boat ride and enjoyment of the lake environment
8:00 pm: Havdalah
8:30 pm: Conclusion of the evening – announcements for HHD

*Please RSVP by 8/30/15 to Marilyn Atlas, marilynaf@aol.com for location and also tell her what food you are going to share.

Brothers and Sisters in Kenya

A flamingo field at Lake Nakuru

Moshe Alhandro Mwangi is part of a tiny community of Jews in Kenya.  The community, Nakuru Molo, is nine years old, and consists of some twenty adults and children.  The community is in need of Jewish ritual items, books, and especially, children’s books.  We have been asked for our help!

Our rabbi has a package of all such items she is putting together for Moshe’s community; tuition from the High Holy Day class is being used to send that package to Africa.

If anyone has books or ritual items they would like to add to that package, please let Rabbi Barbara know at Rabbi.Thiede@or-olam.org.  She will be sending this package next Monday, August 31, so you may want to bring anything you have to add to our Torah care clinic on Sunday, August 30.