P age 8
March 2014
S H E M A T O U R P R O J E C T F O L L OW -U P
Please Join the Social Action Committee in supporting
The Shema Tour Tzadakah Project
Our annual Shema tour this year took us to The Cornerstone Foundation in Rockville, which includes a soup kitchen, clothing bank, shelter and community center
and the UCONN Hillel Center in Storrs. We listened and learned much from both
groups and then decided on the following Shema tour project.
DID YOU
KNOW: The
Temple does not have
recyclable pickup
services. If you are
working in the
kitchen, please take
any empty bottles,
cans, or containers
home with you to
dispose of in your
own recyclable
containers.
For the next 10 months, from April 2014 to January 2015, we will be serving dinner
at 6:15 p.m. on the first Sunday of each month to the 21 residents of the Cornerstone
Shelter. We are forming 10 teams, one for each month, to plan and prepare,
transport and serve a meal and then clean up afterwards for each of these 10 dates.
We hope to make this a joint effort by involving Hillel students and as many individuals, committees and groups at TBH as possible.
WE NEED YOU! Many hands make light work – the more we have, the merrier!
“Be the change you wish to see in the world”. – Mahatma Gandhi
To be a part of this project, contact Ann Hughes (860-306-7910) or Mike Brezel
(860-416-8975) or contact the Social Action Committee. The next planning meeting
will be on Sunday, March 9, 12:10 - 1:40 in Room 5A.
MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE NEWS
The Membership Committee, in conjunction with the Religious School Committee, is
sponsoring a Pizza Lunch and Ice Cream Sundae Social on Sunday, May 18, 2014 at
12:00. We honor Students, Teachers, and Parents.
Barb Klein
[email protected]
TBH B O O K C L U B
Thanks so much to Nan for hosting and facilitating our Book Club in February. We
had a wonderful discussion on Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet. Nan had
questions, interview with the author, and reviews. We surely know how to get on
tangents, and spoke on many topics from Schmaltz, spaghetti sauce with ketchup,
immigrating to this country. Thank you, Nan. We had a really enjoyable evening.
In March, we will discuss The Love Song of A. Jerome Minkoff, by Joseph Epstein. This is Edie's pick. We will meet at her house on Tuesday, March 11 at 7:00.
"The somewhat Prufrockian Dr. Jerome Minkoff has lost his wife to Lou Gehrig's
disease and at a fundraiser for ALS meets a rich and glamorous widow in a similar
situation. Will this affair work?" This is one of the stories in which Epstein deals
humorously and with much flair with the question of life in the later years.
(He wrote Fabulous Small Jews which we read for our Book Club.)
Barb Klein
[email protected]