Remember: bring your favorite your favorite lunch food to share.
5:00 p.m. Healing Service
Mount Zion’s Annual March Against Hunger Food Drive Starts This Weekend
You Can Be a Superhero in the Fight Against Hunger!
MONEY goes four times as far as food donations. Please make checks payable to the Mitzvah Food Shelf and mail to Mount Zion Temple. We will also be accepting checks, cash and coins at the Food Drive table in the lobby.
If you prefer to give food, the most needed items are:
• Flour, sugar, cooking oil
• Canned meats and peanut butter
• Rice (Basmati, long-grained, Jasmine, Kokuho)
• Dried beans, peas, and lentils (all varieties)
• Canned or dried fruit
• Breakfast food & baby cereal
All of our contributions will benefit the Neighborhood House Food Shelf and will receive a partial match from Minnesota FoodShare and the Feinstein Foundation.
On March 19, we will be honoring all temple volunteers who have given their time to help the Neighborhood House Food Shelf during the past year.
The Dead Sea Scrolls and the History of Judaism and Christianity (March 9, Temple of Aaron)
Group Visit to See the Scrolls: On the evening of Thursday, March 18 at 7:00 p.m. join for a group visit to see the Scrolls exhibit at a discounted rate: $22 and $18 for ages 4 – 12 and 60 and over. Tickets must be reserved and purchased through the St Paul JCC no later than Friday, March 12. These tickets are non-refundable and can only be used to visit the Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit on Thursday, March 18 at 7 pm. See more information here.
Shabbat morning services to learn more about Jewish prayer
Through April, most Shabbat morning services (Saturday 10 a.m.) will not include the celebration of a child becoming Bar/Bat Mitzvah. During these more intimate worship gatherings, we have an opportunity for more informal gathering, vibrant signing and open discussion. Our clergy will lead some of these services from Mishkan T’filah. We are grateful for our lay shlichei tzibur, trained prayer leaders who will lead many services from Mount Zion’s siddur/prayer book.
The topics that our rabbis will teach:
March 6: Liturgy Insights: Getting to the Bottom of Mishkan T’filah
(the text below the line on each page)
April 10: Liturgy Insights: The History and Meaning of the Service Structure
Sunday, March 7, 10:00 – 11:30 a.m. in Johnson Social Hall
Hello to all who have attended the Jewish Parenting Group and those who have wanted to but have yet to find the time. We have a couple of exciting events planned in March and April and hope you will be able to join us.
Come share your experiences and learn from others at the Mount Zion Jewish Parenting Group on Sunday, March 7 for parents of children 0-18 years of age. We'll have friendly and informal conversations about parenting from a Jewish perspective.
March 7 topic: Death and Dying. How to talk to your children about this important topic with insight from Mitch Wittenberg, clinical psychologist for the Jewish Family Service of St. Paul, and Jewish context provided by Amy Gavel of Mount Zion.
This month's group will meet in Johnson Social Hall from 10:00-11:30. Please make sure to check the signs around Temple for the location in case it changes.
Jewish Parenting will generally meet the first or second Sunday of the month (depending on religious school calendar) from 10-11:30 a.m.
Childcare is provided in the education wing for $10 per child.
*April 11 Topic: Rabbi Spilker to guest facilitate a discussion about the Shoah and how/when to talk to children about our history.
May 2, 2010 Topic: Jewish Parenting Group wrap up for the year and topic TBD
*NOTE: Date change from March 7 to April 11 for Rabbi Spilker's guest discussion and change in topic to coincide with other congregational events in observance of the day.
Please join us for experiencing Jewish spirituality through poetry! We will be sharing poems that speak to us about life and spirituality.
Participants are encouraged (but not required) to bring poetry that has some meaning for us as women in Judaism. We encourage all women of Mount Zion to join us.
Next group gathering: April 18th - A Jewish Perspective of Self Care.
Seeking information about the Women's Spirituality Group? Please contact Julie Dean at juldean@fastmail.fm
Meet at Services (7:30) then at the home of Valerie and Eric Gross
Hors d’oeuvres, drinks, and conversation will be provided. This is a great opportunity to get to know the other parents from Tot Shabbat. RSVP Valerie at 651-493-4426 or valerie.gross@comcast.net
Thursday, March 18, 7:00 p.m.
Ages 4-12, $18.00, Ages 13-59, $22.00, 60 and over, $18.00
An exhibit of the Dead Sea Scrolls opens at The Science Museum of Minnesota on March 12. This is a rare opportunity to be able to see this unique treasure of significance not only to Judaism, but also to other faith traditions including Christianity. The Dead Sea Scrolls comprise a collection of around 900 documents discovered in 11 caves in the Judean Desert of Israel beginning in 1947. These documents have been rightly regarded as revolutionizing scholarly understanding of the composition and transmission of the Hebrew Bible, Jewish history and belief in the late Second Temple period (third century BCE - first century CE) and the background of later rabbinic Judaism and Christianity. In addition to being one of only a few museums in the United States to host the scrolls and related artifacts from the Israel Antiquities Authority, the Science Museum also announced that it will be the first museum to display three sets of five scrolls each during the run of the exhibition, for a grand total of 15.
Sponsored by Mount Zion Temple, Beth Jacob, Temple of Aaron and the St. Paul JCC. Tickets [discounted for this event] must be reserved and purchased through the St. Paul JCC no later than Friday, March 12. These tickets are not refundable after March 12 and can only be used to visit the Dead Sea Scrolls on the date listed.
Register online at www.stpauljcc.org, at the St. Paul JCC front desk, or call 651-698-0751.
For transportation to and from the Museum from the JCC, contact Beth Gendler at 651-255-4736.
Our St. Paul shlicha, Alisa Warshavsky, will help us prepare Passover fare with an Israeli touch. We’ll make chicken schnitzel, special salad, and more. Bring the kids (8 yrs and above) to this fun-for-the-whole family event! Please sign up by Thursday, March 25 by emailing Pam Leeds-Ragborg pamleeds@charter.net or Peggy Kipp pkipp56@comcast.net
