Renewing, Restoring, Reflecting: Kabbalat Shabbat April 8
Spring has arrived and we are slightly over half a year away from Yom Kippur. This Kabbalat Shabbat service will focus on recalling and renewing our sense of new beginnings. As Yom Kippur offered a time for reflection and rededication, so will we, in this time of springtime renewal, reflect on how we might renew ourselves. We’ll sing, pray, and hear just the right story for this time of our year.
That goal in mind, and recalling the lovely practice of the mystics if Safed, we suggest wearing Shabbat white and arriving with a beautiful dish to share at our oneg! Help us bring Queen Shabbat in with joy! 
Date: April 8
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Location: McGill Baptist Church, 5300 Poplar Tent Road, Concord, NC
Demonstrating the Worth of Each Person
Rabbi Jonathan Freirich of Temple Beth El has put out a call to North Carolina’s Jewish clergy and congregants to join together to oppose House Bill 2. The petition reads, in part:
The Torah teaches that all human beings are created in the image of God and imbued with infinite value. In that spirit, we declare that our state should, under no circumstance, desecrate the holiness and dignity of any citizen.
We, therefore, demand that H.B. 2 be repealed.
If you are interested in signing this petition, you will find the link below:
ShalomFest! In Greenville (yes, that is home to TOO congregants…)
Sherry and Lyle Champion are issuing an invitation to come down to their neck of the woods for ShalomFest on Sunday, April 17th for ShalomFest 2016 in Greenville, S.C. Check out the link below!
