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Or Olam in the Loop – Our Weekly Bulletin on All Things TOO

Posted by webmaster on April 16, 2014   |   Comments Off on Or Olam in the Loop – Our Weekly Bulletin on All Things TOO

LoopCongregational Passover Seder Just Days Away – Please Volunteer to Help Set-up or Clean-up

Our Passover Seder is April 19 at Piedmont Unitarian Universalist Church; we’ll celebrate with song and skits, and with great food!  We’ll need some help, though, setting up the sanctuary and cleaning up after our celebration — please let Charlotte Miller, our Temple Administrator know if you can help at:

templeadmin@or-olam.org

Thanks for your support!

Relay For Life on April 26th

Register to join us and/or make a donation to our community effort at the following link.  Our team name is “Erev Rav.”  Please help our volunteers raise money to fight cancer — we’d like to see that disease eradicated in our lifetimes.

https://secure.acsevents.org/site/UserLogin;jsessionid=8F4031C5DF81693C34A4F6A5325E714F.app365a?NEXTURL=http%3A%2F%2Fmain.acsevents.org%2Fsite%2FTRC%3Ffr_id%3D61011

Or Olam in the Loop – Our Weekly Bulletin on All Things TOO

Posted by webmaster on April 8, 2014   |   Comments Off on Or Olam in the Loop – Our Weekly Bulletin on All Things TOO

LoopCommunity Seder Features Great Food, Great Joy, and a Whole Lot of Deliverance

Please don’t forget to respond to our evite for our Passover Seder on April 19 at Piedmont Unitarian Universalist Church; we’ll celebrate with song and skits, and great food!

In our seder, we will name the things we want to take with us into freedom, and walk PUUC’s beautiful sanctuary prepared to celebrate new beginnings and rededicate ourselves to creating the freedom we all long for.

All monies realized over the cost of the seder will be used  to support the education of TOO children and ongoing advanced training for TOO’s Religious School teachers.

$36 adults, $18 students, $12 children over 5

Or Olam in the Loop – Our Weekly Bulletin on All Things TOO

Posted by webmaster on March 27, 2014   |   Comments Off on Or Olam in the Loop – Our Weekly Bulletin on All Things TOO

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Congregational Trip To Charlotte This Weekend!

Don’t forget the IMAX movie, “Jerusalem,” at Discovery Place this Saturday at 3:30.  Notify Arlene if you want to go!  afilkoff@gmail.com.

Or Olam in the Loop – Our Weekly Bulletin on All Things TOO

Posted by webmaster on February 24, 2014   |   Comments Off on Or Olam in the Loop – Our Weekly Bulletin on All Things TOO

LoopArthur leaves for his next adventure!

Our congregation’s partriarch, Arthur Kingberg, will be moving to Raleigh on March 7.  We will gather for a final farewell at his favorite restaurant for brunch this Sunday, March 2, at 1:00.  Everyone should have received an evite with RSVP on Sunday so that we can notify the restaurant.  If you did not, please RSVP to templeadmin@or-olam.org.

Brunch with Arthur
Sunday, March, 2, 1:00 pm
Restaurant Forty Six
http://www.restaurantfortysix.com/

ISJL Weekend on Saturday and Sunday

This is our last gathering with Elaine for the year.  Teachers and the Board of Directors have scheduled times for planning.  Everyone is then encouraged to gather for havdalah, a potluck supper, and game of all sorts.

Saturday, March 1 at McGill
3-4:30 pm         Planning for next year and religious school teacher training.  You will be contacted
5-6 pm               Board of Directors meeting with Elaine
6:15-9:00 pm   Havdalah, potluck dinner, and game night.  Elaine is bringing new stuff!

Sunday, March 2 at Advent Lutheran
Religious school with Elaine

Or Olam in the Loop – Our Weekly Bulletin on All Things TOO

Posted by webmaster on January 28, 2014   |   Comments Off on Or Olam in the Loop – Our Weekly Bulletin on All Things TOO

LoopDinner, Dancing & Dessert

12-Day Countdown!

We are approaching a full house, so get your tickets ready!

Our auction and raffle prizes total over $11,000 in value and include Southwest Airlines tickets, Disney World passes, skydiving for two, amethyst jewelry and much, much more!  We can promise: This will be an unforgettable night.

We also need volunteers to manage the auction tables and clean up.  Give Arlene or Cheryl a shout if you can devote some hours to our anniversary celebration.  We want EVERYBODY to be involved and in attendance.

Cheryl  cg@greenwalds.net

Arlene afilkoff@gmail.com

 

 

Or Olam in the Loop: Our Weekly Bulletin on Everything TOO

Posted by Rabbi Thiede on October 16, 2013   |   Comments Off on Or Olam in the Loop: Our Weekly Bulletin on Everything TOO

LoopBar Mitzvah This Shabbat

Help us support our youngsters at this special time by making every effort to attend.  Please reply to your evite that came on October 4 if you have not already done so.

Saturday, 10/19, 10:00 am
Radbourne Clubhouse, 3325 Radbourne Blvd,Charlotte NC 28269
Bagel brunch following

Last Call for Beginning Hebrew Classes

This will be the first and last time Rabbi Barbara teaches Hebrew for at least the next three years.  Course components: learning the Aleph Bet, how to read Hebrew, acquiring some basic vocabulary, and understanding the general content of basic Shabbat prayers.  The course meets by conference call on Thursday evenings at 7 p.m.  Please write to Rabbi Barbara at Rabbi.Thiede@or-olam.org by this Sunday, October 20 if you want more details about the class.

All the Area News in the Charlotte Jewish News — For Free!

Feel like you are missing something?  Metro-Charlotte synagogues (including TOO) produce a boatload of great programs, many of which are open to the public.  The best place to find out about meetings, lectures, performances, classes is in the monthly Charlotte Jewish News, which is free of cost.  If you are not receiving the News, shoot an email to amontoni@shalomcharlotte.org.  Or Olam has been publishing a monthly article in CJN for several years.  Don’t be left out!

Or Olam in the Loop: Our Weekly Bulletin on Everything TOO

Posted by webmaster on October 10, 2013   |   Comments Off on Or Olam in the Loop: Our Weekly Bulletin on Everything TOO

 LoopGleaning Opportunity

We have the opportunity to glean tomatoes on Saturday, October 12th, at 8:30 a.m. in Rowan County.  Please let Jean Siers know if you’re interested and she will send you paperwork and directions.

gleanclt@endhunger.org

Please RSVP for our Bar Mitzvah in Red

Don’t forget to respond to the evite for Preston’s bar mitzvah on Saturday the 19th.  The family needs to know how many chairs to set out.  As Preston announced, it will be a beautiful service.  You can be certain that there will be lots of red….

Purim, TOO Style

Posted by webmaster on February 17, 2013   |   Comments Off on Purim, TOO Style

We’ll make groggers and masks, nosh hamentaschen, and hear the whole megillah (while stomping feet and making noise when the dreaded name “Haman” is read, of course).  Then we’ll see who paid attention to the story in  a Family-Feud style game show.

So brush up your Esther, find yourself a costume, and bake some hamentaschen or bring a snack to share. It’s Purim, folks: You must be in costume to be allowed entrance… 🙂

A Thanks Giving Weekend

Posted by Rabbi Thiede on November 16, 2012   |   Comments Off on A Thanks Giving Weekend

Dear Temple Or Olam Congregants and Friends,

What a weekend we have in store!  We’ll begin with tonight’s Kabbalat Shabbat service, where we’ll read from the Weldon Torah for the last time at a regular Shabbat service.  Teens and adults will be chanting tonight.  They will be using a special glass yad gifted to us by Phyllis Herschenfeld, a yad made in Venice, location of Europe’s first Jewish ghetto.

Sunday at 2 p.m. we will be welcoming guests from a number of faith traditions to our program at McGill Baptist Church with nationally known scribe and artist Neil Yerman.

In Deuteronomy 31:19 we read: “So now, write this song for yourselves.” The rabbis concluded from this verse that every Jew is commanded to write a Sefer Torah (Torah Scroll).  At 4 p.m. congregational members will be part of our siyyum, a dedication ceremony for our new Torah.  Part of our celebration will be giving the opportunity to all our congregants to write in our new scroll with Neil — an opportunity not to be missed.

And there’s more cause for thanks: A donor is matching our donations, dollar for dollar to up to $6,000 at Causes.com (see link below) and we are now well past the halfway mark for our goal at the site, which is to raise the moneys needed to purchase the scroll.  As you all know, we have additionally raised money on our own website towards our overall goal.  If you haven’t contributed yet, we ask you to consider doing so at the Causes website in order for us to receive those matching dollars from our generous friend in California! Here’s the link:

http://www.causes.com/actions/1690785

Shabbat Shalom to all — I look forward to a very special thanks-giving weekend with everyone!

Rabbi Barbara

A family-friendly trip for next Rosh Chodesh event

Posted by webmaster on September 24, 2012   |   Comments Off on A family-friendly trip for next Rosh Chodesh event

Our Rosh Chodesh group is planning something a little different for this month’s event – we are heading to a winery!  Shelton Gardens Winery holds a free Harvest Festival every October (sound familiar – Sukkot, anyone?!)  This year it is going to be on October 14th, and we are going to be there.  The festival suits folks of all age groups—even the kids!  There will be bands, dancing, vendor booths, food, and the wine tastings are free (that’s right, free wine).

Cheryl Greenwald and Marilyn Atlas will be offering carpools out of Mooresville and Troutman, and due to distance we encourage others who are interested in attending to carpool as well.

If you have any questions or would like to RSVP for the carpool, please contact Cheryl at 704 528 1432 or email her at cg@greenwalds.net.

We hope to see you and your family there!