Newsletter — 24 February 2009 / 30 Shevat 5769
This Week at Kol Halev …
Torah Study, Tuesday, February 24th, Noon, CKH Office.
Kabbalat Shabbat, Friday, February 27th, 7:30 pm, ECP Multi-purpose Room.
Join us for our regular Friday night Shabbat Service.
Co-op (Hebrew only), Sunday, March 1st, 9:30 am, CKH Office.
… Next Week at Kol Halev …
Torah Study, Tuesday, March 3rd, Noon, CKH Office.
South Austin Kabbalat Shabbat, Friday, March 6thth, 7:30 pm, Casa de Luz auditorium, 1701 Toomey Rd.
Come enjoy: Service — Music — Oneg Shabbat — Discussion. Please join us as we continue out-reach to South Austin. (Click this link for a map.)
Chevrat Shlosha Devarim (CSD), Saturday, March 7th, 10:00 am, CAA Multi-purpose Room (upstairs).
Join us as young and old alike help lead this warm and intimate service. Many of our B’nai Mitzvah students (past & present) lead prayers and chant Torah. Please contact Sherry Blum if you would like a part in the service. A kiddish luncheon follows the service. If you would like to help sponsor the luncheons, send your tax-deductible contributions to the CKH office (with a note designating if for this purpose).
Co-op (full schedule), Sunday, March 8th, 9:30 am, CKH Office.
Board of Directors Meeting, Sunday, March 8th, 1:00 pm, CKH Office.
Purim Celebration and Potluck, Monday, March 9th, 6:00 pm, JCAA Community Hall.
CKH’s Purim Celebration will be Monday, March 9th in the Community Hall, beginning at 6:00 pm with a Potluck. Service follows at 7:00 pm. If anyone feels moved to organize the potluck, please let the office know. In the interim, please follow the following arrangement, last names beginning with:
| A – G: | Side dishes |
| H – N: | Salads |
| O – Z: | Entrees |
Please call Anne Matthews at the CKH office before noon, Friday, March 6th and let her know what you plan to bring. 512-419-0945.
The congregation will provide challah, grape juice, wine and dessert—Hamantaschen. Many fun activities are planned for the whole family. Don’t miss it! Balloons! Groggers! Masks! Haman Pinata! Haman stickers you can stomp or pop!
Purim spiel by Joshua Hoffman in the style of “Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?”
Schalachmanot opportunities with One Family Fund and the Women’s Storybook Project
… Upcoming Bar Mitzvah …
The Halbreich family requests the pleasure of your company when
Sholem Abraham Baruch Halbreich
is called to the Torah as a Bar Mitzvah
with Congregation Kol Halev at
The Dell Jewish Community Center of Austin
7300 Hart Lane, Austin, TX 78731
Saturday, March 28th, 2009
The service will begin at 10:00 AM
With Kiddush luncheon to follow
Please r.s.v.p. with the number in your party
by March 1, 2009
via phone, 512-891-9396
or e-mail to, <Lindahalbreich@aol.com>.
… Two Sopranos …
Sunday, April 5th, 7:00 pm
A benefit concert for Congregation Kol Halev at the JCAA’s Community Hall. Pop and Jazz vocalist Dr. Judy Alpert, Cantorial Soloist Amy O’Desky, and Pianist Shawn Ellison will treat you to performances of songs from “The American Song Book.” These include favorite standards from Jewish composers, George Gershwin, Irving Berlin, and Rodgers and Hammerstein, among others. Coffee and desert will follow. Tickets can be purchased at door before the concert: $11 general admission, $9 JCAA members, seniors & students. Information & reservations: <admin@kolhalev.org> or 419-0945.
We need a couple of volunteers to sit at the ticket table and sell tickets and CD’s about an hour before the concert starts, and a few minutes after it’s over (for CD sales). Judy Alpert is donating proceeds from her CD (“A Single Violet”) sales to CKH.
We would appreciate anyone who may be able to help out with video-taping the concert.
… Mazel Tov …
| Happy Birthday | ||
| Scott Berman | Thursday, February 26th | |
| Leida Bonner | Friday, February 27th | 15th birthday |
| Rosemary Bunnage Mersky | Friday, February 27th | |
| Andy Blum | Saturday, February 28th | |
| Jessica Jordan | Saturday, February 28th | |
| Dana Bartholomew | Sunday, March 1st | |
| Jane Leseten | Tuesday, March 3rd |
… In Remembrance …
| Adrienne Marks Dattner | Thursday, February 26th / Adar 2, 5769 | Mother of Stuart Dattner |
| Frieda Rosenstock | Saturday, February 28th / Adar 4, 5769 | Grandmother of Robin Rosenstock |
| Bertha Kohansov (Bluma bat Arya Leib) | Sunday, March 1st / Adar 5, 5769 | Mother of Karen Glina |
| Rose Mendelson Mersky | Sunday, March 1st / Adar 5, 5769 | Mother-in-law of Rosemary Bunnage Mersky |
In the Community
Come and join Austin’s newest Jewish singing group led by Amy Adler and Matt O’Desky!!
Sunday, March 1st, 6:00 pm, Room #229 of the Education Building at the JCAA
This group is about singing for fun and for performances at community Jewish events.
If you enjoy singing in a group and you want to experience the pleasure of a variety of classic and contemporary Jewish music as well as some secular music, you are invited to come for auditions on March 1st, 6:00 pm in room #229 of the Education Building at the Dell Jewish Community Center (7300 Hart Lane). Please be prepared to sing a short unaccompanied excerpt from a favorite piece.
We will meet every Sunday evening from 6 – 8 pm (regular attendance is important!). There will be a small monthly fee of $25 – $40. For questions you can contact Amy at <aodesky@ercot.com> or Andrea Blum at <ablum@prismnet.com> or 512-444-9469.
NCJW’s Speaker Luncheon with Kathy Miller of the Texas Freedom Network
Tuesday, March 3rd, 11:30 to 1:00 pm, Mirabelle Restaurant.
Join National Council of Jewish Women, Austin ’s most progressive Jewish women’s organization on March 3rd at Mirabelle Restaurant from 11:30 to 1:00pm. Kathy Miller-President of Texas Freedom Network (www.tfn.org), will speak on the findings of their pending statewide report on sexuality education in Texas schools, as well as the State Board of Education battles over science curriculum and TFN’s legislative agenda. Open to the community. Cost $20, all inclusive. RSVP to <jackienirenberg@gmail.com>. Visit www.ncjwaustin.org.
Community Service Opportunity
CKH member Margaret O’Sullivan writes: Paladin Community Mental Health Center is a partial hospitalization program in Austin. We have many wonderful clients who would be most deeply appreciative for any donated clothes, particularly larger sizes for women and any sizes for men. They do not have to be in great condition as our clients will appreciate anything as they cannot afford to buy even used clothes in most cases. Also, if any Kol Halev members would like to volunteer to become a one-to- one mentor/friend with a client of Paladin please let Margaret O’Sullivan know at margo1216@austin.rr.com or 345-8287. An hour or two every week or two weeks (not at our center as we have classes the entire time they are with us) would be so meaningful to one of our clients and it is a particularly gratifying experience.
Austin Area Interreligious Ministries CROP Hunger Walk
Saturday, March 7th, at 9:30 am and Sunday, March 8th at 2:30 pm
Roy Guerrero Colorado River Park (off East Riverside Drive, near the ACC Riverside campus).
Hunger Walk is an annual nationwide event sponsored locally by Austin Area Interreligious Ministries (AAIM). In 2008, walkers representing some 110 faith communities and other organizations in Austin raised almost $140,000. Twenty-five percent of the funds raised stay in Austin to support food needs in local agencies including: AAIM for Refugees, Capital Area Food Bank of Texas, Foundation for the Homeless, Casa Marianella, Refugee Services of Texas, and Urban Roots, in addition to local food pantries. The rest go to more than 80 countries to alleviate hunger worldwide. The Walk itself is about one mile long, along a nature trail, and strollers and dogs on leashes are welcome.
Local faith and civic groups of all kinds are invited to create WALK teams. The Walk raises money through individual walkers’ pledge forms. There is not a minimum required for participation. You do not have to walk to raise money, and you do not have to raise money to walk. Organizing your team and fund raising can be done online through the organization that sponsors the Walk nationally, Church World Service: www.cropwalkonline.org.
Contact Amy Greenspan for materials and questions? Call her at 453-8119. Or contact CKH administrator, Anne Matthews at <admin@kolhalev.org> or 419-0945.
Save the Date: BagelFest ‘09
| What: | BagelFest ‘09 |
| Includes: | Adult 5K/Middle School 5K/1K HEB Kids’ Run |
| When: | Sunday, March 8th – 8:00am |
| To Participate: | Register NOW at www.bagelfest5k.com |
THREE Steps to get BagelFest ‘09 off and running and WIN Great PRIZES:
- Register your entire family for the race! Register online at www.bagelfest5k.com.
- Ask your friends, neighbors and work associates to come out and run with us – this is truly a fun way to get hearts pumping for a great cause! They can also register online at www.bagelfest5k.com. Have them refer to you on the registration and win GREAT PRIZES for getting people to come out and run with us!
- Sign-up ONE (or more) TEAMS and SPONSORS from the Austin Community.
Announcing “Military Salute”, A MUSICAL SALUTE TO THE TROOPS
March 22nd, from 2:00 – 4:00 pm, in the Community Hall at the Dell Jewish Community Campus
Austin Post 757 of the Jewish War Veterans announces its first ever variety show in support of all veterans and Jewish active duty service members on March 22, 2009 at 2:00pm in the Community Hall of the Dell Jewish Community Center. The show will feature local professional and amateur singers, dancers, chorale groups, a comedian and musical ensembles. Performances include Abby November, creator of “The Comedy Angels as Mistress of Ceremonies. The show opens with a presentation by the Jewish Family Services senior singers The Dell Tones, under the direction of Cantor Marie Betcher, accompanied by Greta Gutman as they sing Patriot songs.
The show also features some of Austin ’s top talent. The Judy Lee Dancers will tap their way into your hearts. Marshall Sack will accompany Rabbi Cookie Olshein and Sue Bilich as they sing some of the great standards and show tunes. The Tim Curry Trio will captivate you as you listen to him sing his renditions of Gospel, jazz and soul. With Tim is Will Dunlap on guitar and Jorge De Armas on percussions. Donna Menthol, acclaimed vocal performer, will rock you with her sultry voice, “she can do it all with grace and ease”, says James Polk, Grammy-nominated Jazz musician, accompanying Donna on piano.
Refreshments will be served before the performance and during intermission.
Tickets are $25 for Sponsors (includes up- front reserved seating and 2 tickets), General Admission $12 at the door ($10 in advance), $8 for seniors and students and free to active duty military with an ID. For reservations contact Michael Baum at 342-8924, <baumsmt@earthlink.net>. Your can mail your checks made out to “Austin Post 757 JWV” to Michael Baum, 7601 Valley Dale Dr, Austin, TX 78731.
Profits from this variety show will be used solely to support our many charitable activities to support veterans and active duty Jewish service members and the goals and objectives of the local and national JWV organization.
JCRC Legislative Conference
March 22–24, 2009
This incredible event is at the Sheraton Austin and the State Capitol. The Jewish Community Relations Council of the JCAA and the Texas Coalition of Jewish Community Relations Councils welcomes participation in the 2009 Texas Jewish Communities Statewide Legislative Conference, March 22-24, 2009. The Conference brings together policy makers, opinion leaders, and members from Jewish communities across Texas to talk about the current legislative and public policy issues that matter most to us.
The program includes sessions on Poverty, Immigration, Environment and Climate Change, and Healthcare. We will also hear from Speaker Joe Straus and the Governor and Lt. Governor. The conference wraps up with opportunities to meet with our representatives.
The Jewish Community Relations Council serves an important role as the liaison to the Jewish and general communities relating to social action and public policy, health and human services, the First Amendment and church-state, education, civil liberties, hate crimes and anti-Semitism, and Israel and international issues. Register Online. For more information, contact Lisa Goodgame at (512) 735-8012 or email <lisa.goodgame@shalomaustin.org>.
The Inaugural JCAA Men’s Night Out Event
Wednesday, April 1st,
6:30 pm Cocktails
7:30 pm BBQ Dinner & Program
Dell Jewish Community Campus, 7300 Hart Ln..
Featuring Bret Stephens, Wall Street Journal global affairs columnist & former Editor-in-chief of the Jerusalem Post.
Presenting Aaron Freeman, NPR’s All Things Considered commentator and Second City stand-up comedian & evening emcee.
Honoring Ky Terrell, JCAA Director of Security
For more information and to reserve your seat for the barbecue and beer dinner, call (512) 795-9937 ext. 12 or email Alison Cassorla. (Dietary laws observed.)
$40 per person, plus a minimum commitment of $180 per person to the 2009 Austin United Jewish Community Campaign payable throughout 2009.
Do you have an announcement? Good news? Community service opportunity? Please send submissions for inclusion in the Congregation newsletter to by 10:00pm Monday (next deadline is March 02, 2009).
Have you missed a recent issue of the CKH Newsletter? If so, you can always find back issues at kolhalev.org/about/newsletter/.
Congregation Kol Halev is located at:
3415 Greystone Drive, Suite 307,
Austin, Texas 78731
(512) 419-0945
