Making it Real, Not Rote: Temple Or Olam Community Seder

We’ll be engaging in plenty of new interactive exercises that will help us tell our story, understand it in our own terms, and learn how and why it can tell us how to be the kind of community and the kinds of menschy people we long to be.

Join us for a family-friendly seder that promises to be thought-provoking, fun, and a true learning experience.

All members were issued an evite and a link to the SignUpGenius for Seder preparation and buffet offerings. We are also thrilled to have quite a few guests joining us.

Several members have RSVP’ed to attend but did not note what food they want to bring. Please check the link below and tell us what delicious Passover dish you want to share. We are preparing to feed 45 people, 8 of which are children.
http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0b48aba928a1f49-orolam

Sunday, April 5, 5:00 pm
Piedmont Unitarian Universalist Church
9704 Mallard Creek Rd, Charlotte

Yom Hashoah 2015 

In recent years, European newspapers have reported a significant rise in acts of violence against Jews. In January and February of 2015 alone, Jews have been beaten, graves have been defaced and overturned in Jewish cemeteries, and Jews attending synagogue or going shopping have been murdered. Polls across the continent demonstrate a rise in antisemitism.

Some suggest that this phenomenon is linked to tensions in the Middle East, Israel’s settlement policies, treatment of Arab citizens, and control over Palestinian territories.

Is frustration over Israel’s position and politics actually linked to the rise in antisemitism elsewhere in the world? Is Anti-Zionism simply antisemitism in disguise?

This year, Temple Or Olam will mark Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, with a program that seeks to explore these difficult questions. Participants will be learning and studying together in small groups and sharing their conclusions in and with community.

Wednesday, April 15, 7:30 pm
Piedmont Unitarian Universalist Church
9704 Mallard Creek Rd, Charlotte

Thanks to All for Helping us Do the Crowd-Sourcing…

Our ability to confidently pay our obligations, including the rabbi’s contract, rental agreements at Advent Lutheran and PUUC, and the like, comes from all of you who are paying your dues as you pledged to do. Thank you so much! The last email invoice for the year will be coming your way next week if you still owe dues for 2014-15.

Annual Meeting – Food, Fun (Really!) and a Request: Please Put it on Your Calendar!

What will we raffle off this year?  What will we feed you?

And most important, how will be ensure that we have fun while…electing officers, approve the budget and rabbi’s contract?  Stay tuned, we’ll let you know…

Sunday, June 7
5:00 pm
Piedmont Unitarian Universalist Church
9704 Mallard Creek Rd, Charlotte