Family Service and Pot Luck Dinner
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Friday, February 1, 2013, 6:30 pm
Please join us as we celebrate our Family Shabbat Service where we will hear our youth choir, B'nai Shir sing followed by a pot luck dinner and an oneg Shabbat.
Bring a main course, side dish, salad, dessert or drinks, then dine in style with your family and GRS friends!
This service will be hosted by Rabbi Andy & Sue Sklarz. Call the GRS office for address and directions, 203-629-0018.
If you would like to bring a dish, please contact Louise Salzer at salzerhouse@aol.com.
(February Birthdays will be given a special blessing)
Celebrate Tu b’Shevat
On Thursday, January 24, The Greenwich Historical Society,
Vanderbilt Education Center Presents…
The Science of History: Lecture on Tree Rings and the History They Reveal
In celebration of the Jewish New Year for trees, Tu'BShevat, Dr. Pederson will lecture on how ancient trees and timbers from human structures are used to broaden our understanding of history. From the rise and fall of the Mongol Empire to the construction of buildings and boats locally and globally, trees are the environmental historians, which reveal events long faded from human memory and historical documents; including how the tree ring cores taken from the Bush-Holley house reveal its construction history.
Sponsored by The Greenwich Historical Society, The Greenwich Tree Conservancy, The Bruce Museum, and Greenwich Reform Synagogue.
Thursday, January 24, 2013 (snow date: January 29)
Doors open at 6:30pm; lecture begins at 7:00 pm.
Admission is FREE, but reservations are suggested. Please call 203-869-6899 x10
Location:
39 Strickland Road
Cos Cob, CT
On Friday, January 25, at 6:30 pm
Join us for a Tu b'Shevat Seder…
Join us on Tu b'Shevat, celebrating the rebirth of spring with a special family-friendly seder/dinner. Together, we will welcome Shabbat, while enjoying the bounty of the earth, with an Israeli-style dinner and special fruits native to Israel.
Rabbi Sklarz and Cantor Lipton will include the Mi Shebeirach and Kaddish.
Location:
First Congregational Church (downstairs in the Daniel Center)
108 Sound Beach Avenue
Old Greenwich, CT
Sukkot Shabbat Service, Friday, October 5th, 6:30pm
Please join Rabbi Sklarz and Cantor Lipton for a Sukkot Family Shabbat Service on Friday, October 5th at 6:30 pm, featuring B'nai Shir, (Kindegarten through 5th Grade Choir), followed by an Oneg Shabbat generously sponsored by the Ritual Committee.
Those with October birthdays will be called to the bimah for a special Birthday Blessing. Children under the age of 13 whose Birthday is in October will also receive a gift in honor of their birthday.
We would love it if you would sponsor an Oneg Shabbat—perhaps in honor of a birthday, anniversary, a special event, or just a celebration of Shabbat. Just call the temple office (203-629-0018) to select a convenient date, and send us a check for $108. No muss, no fuss, it is as easy as that.
2nd & 3rd Grade Family Shabbat
Please join us as our 2nd and 3rd graders help lead our Erev Shabbat Family Service, followed by an Oneg Shabbat generously sponsored by the 2nd & 3rd grade parents and the Horowitz Family, in honor of Tate becoming a Bat Mitvah.
Shavuot/Confirmation Shabbat Service
Please join Rabbi Sklarz and Cantor Lipton in supporting the Confirmation Class at the Shavuot/Confirmation Shabbat Service on June 1 at 6:30pm. This will be a very meaningful service with a special Shavuot dairy Oneg Shabbat.
We will also hear the beautify voices of our B'nai Shir choir.
Family Shabbat & Pot-Luck Dinner
As this is the first Shabbat of the month, we would like to invite you to a Family Shabbat Service, followed by a pot-luck dinner and an Oneg Shabbat generously sponsored by Linda & Ken Wiltsek in honor of the babynaming of their granddaughter, Ellie Jacquelyn Stroum, "Chanah Leah Chaia".
If you would like to stay for dinner, please RSVP to Louise Salzer at salzerhouse@aol.com.
April and May birthdays will be called to the bimah for a special blessing, and B'nai Shir will be singing.
Yom Ha’Atzma’ut at GRS!
Friday, April 27th at 6:30 pm
Yom HaShoah Shabbat Service
Please join Rabbi Sklarz and Cantor Lipton for a special Shabbat Service commemorating Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day).Girl Scout Recognition Shabbat
In honor of the 100th Anniversary of the Girl Scouts and as part of the Girl Scout Sabbath Celebration Weekend, GRS will be recognizing this wonderful organization this Friday, March 16 at 6:30pm at our Choir Shabbat Service.
Girl Scouts have an opportunity to attend their place of worship and be recognized as a Girl Scout. This is also an opportunity for girls to explore other faiths. Celebrating Girl Scout Sabbath gives a Girl Scout opportunities to 1) thank places of worship for their contributions to the community of Girl Scouting, and 2) share how today's girls are discovering their personal paths to leadership through Girl Scouting.
This service is open to Girl Scouts and non-Girl Scouts of all denominations. Participation patches will be available to purchase for $2/each.
The service will be followed by an Oneg Shabbat, generously sponsored by Robin Edelston in honor of Girl Scout Shabbat.
March anniversaries will be given a special blessing and a champagne toast.