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Congregation Kol Halev Newsletter,
May 23, 2006 / 25 Iyar 5766

Memorial Day Shabbat Cook-out, Friday, May 26th, starting at 5:30 pm.
Come kick off Memorial Day weekend with a CKH Shabbat cook-out! We'll gather for dinner at 5:30 pm at the JCC Pavilion. Around 6:30 pm, we'll move to the CKH sanctuary (JCAA ECP Multi-purpose room). CKH will provide the hot dogs, hamburgers, and buns. The JCAA Explorers will provide the cooks. Bring a pareve or fleischig side-dish. Please RSVP to Cindy at 419-0945 or administrator@kolhalev.org to help us buy the right number of hamburgers and hot dogs.

Shabbat at Kerrville, Saturday, May 27th & Saturday, June 3rd, 10:00 am.
For the 15th year, Rabbi Kerry Baker and Cantor Robbi Sherwin bring their contemporary, spiritual style to Shabbat at the Kerrville Folk Festival. This year, celebrate Shavuot with special guests Peter Yarrow, Freebo, and Billy Jonas, among others. If you wish to come to services, in this beautiful Hill Country setting, you can attend for free. Please contact Rabbi Kerry Baker <rabbiurgent@kolhalev.org> for details.

Torah Study, Tuesday, May 30th, Noon, Rabbi's office, 3415 Greystone, Suite 307.

Tikkun Leyl Shavuot
Thursday, June 1st

Gather at Congregation Agudas Achim for study, sustenance, and camaraderie as we celebrate Shavuot, the Festival of Weeks, and receiving the Torah at Mt. Sinai. This year, Congregations Agudas Achim, Beth Shalom, Beth Israel, and Kol Halev and Hillel will learn together to make this a community event.

6:00 - 6:30 pm	Mincha service
6:30 - 7:30 pm	Potluck Dairy
7:30 - 8:30 pm	Round Table Discussion with Clergy -- "The Future of Judaism in the 21st Century ... Texas and Beyond"
8:30 - 8:50 pm	Twilight service
9:00 - Midnight	Study sessions with Rabbis Freedman, Baker, Sternman, and Komerofsky and Hazzan Blumofe.

Shavu'ot Continues
Friday, June 2nd, 6:30 pm

Our congregation will celebrate Shavu’ot on Friday, June 2nd, 6:30 pm at one of our inimitable Folk Celebrations. Cantor Sherwin’s music, a story and discussion with Rabbi Baker, and the beautiful prayers and readings, including the Ten Commandments from the Torah, will make this Shabbat a special night to remember. Please join your fellow CKHers in a beautiful and moving prayer experience.

CKH Office for Sub-lease

Do you need an office? Do you know someone who does? CKH is offering space within our suite for sub-lease. The lease is $350.00 per month; 1 year contract; A/C separate from the remaining space. Please contact Cindy Tarsi (512) 419-0945 or <ckhadmin@gmail.com> to view the space.

Chesed Committee

The Caring Committee is being reborn as the Chesed (Loving kindness) Committee. And you are all drafted!

The Chesed Committee exists to ensure that every Kol Halev family is supported in times of need. Meals, babysitting, transportation, shopping assistance, feeding pets, and mowing lawns are a few of the services the Committee arranges. We are instituting a Mi Shebeirach list to be sent to Rabbi Baker before services each week. We are also gearing up to acknowledge various milestones in congregants’ lives, such as the birth of a child, graduation, and marriage.

Your job is to let the committee chair know of opportunities to lend a hand or make a call. Illness, death, a request to mention a name for the Mi Shebeirach prayer, as well as milestone events should be communicated. And when the request for help appears in your e-mail in box, please consider volunteering some time to help out. It’s a small thing that can make a huge impact.

In order to accomplish these goals, a few volunteers are needed for administrative tasks, such as maintaining the Mi Shebeirach list, sending out cards, calling congregants who may need our help, and arranging for that help to be delivered. These volunteers will form the core of the committee.

Please contact Diane Graves if you are interested in any of these tasks, or would like more information about the committee. And please tell us of illnesses, losses, or milestone events. Kol Halev is your extended family.

Diane Graves
Chesed Committee Chair
795-9150 / 796-8315
dsgraves@austin.rr.com

Mazel Tov

Happy Birthday:
Jeffrey Martin	Wednesday, May 24th	18th birthday
Robin Rosenstock	Wednesday, May 24th
Alice Dawson	Friday, May 26th
Natalie Becker	Sunday, May 28th	11th birthday
Melora Lou Turner	Sunday, May 28th
James Ochoa	Tuesday, May 30th
Happy Anniversary :
Lonny Gorban & Debra Israel	Wednesday, May 24th	14th anniversary
Linda Aronovsky & Mike Cox	Saturday, May 27th	16th anniversary
Michael & Bonnie Martin	Saturday, May 27th	22nd anniversary
Karen & Dennis Gault	Sunday, May 28th	18th anniversary
Bill & Sabrina Streusand	Sunday, May 28th	11th anniversary

In Remembrance of

Milton Angrist (Mordechai Lipman)	Wednesday, May 24th / Iyar 26, 5766	Maternal Grandfather of Beth Fagin Payan
Jacob Miller (Yacov ben Moshe)	Wednesday, May 24th / Iyar 26, 5766	Father of Susan Pintchovski
Doug McBride	Thursday, May 25th / Iyar 27, 5766	Friend of Dennis & Dell Passovoy
Jeanne Hazel Henderson	Friday, May 26th / Iyar 28, 5766	Mother of David Henderson
Gertrude Simon	Friday, May 26th / Iyar 28, 5766	Grandmother of Robin Rosenstock
Alfred Barash (Avram)	Saturday, May 27th / Iyar 29, 5766	Father of Cathy Waks

Thank You!
For your generous donations

In Memory of Shoshana Weintraub
Marilyn & Michael Sher
James Bryce
Gwen & Larry Pulvirent

In the Community

Camp Shalom at the JCAA!
Haven't signed the kids up for camp yet? Consider sending them to Camp Shalom at the JCAA! Camp Shalom 2006 is under the direction of Amy O'Desky. Feel free to email her at amy.odesky@jcaaonline.org with any questions.

K-5: Camp Shalom is a home-away-from-home for kids in grade school, middle school, and high school. Trained, experienced counselors lead campers through Arts & Crafts, Music, Israeli Culture, swimming, field games, and more!

Tweens: Middle school aged children will gather to enjoy daily field trips, and one week per session, join with JCC Tweens from all over Texas to spend a week in Houston, Austin, or San Antonio. What better way to spend a summer than traversing the hill country, building friendships, and mastering social skills all under the clever guise of having fun!

Hadassah Invites Community to End-of -Year Celebration.
The community is invited to a meeting of the Austin Chapter of Hadassah on Wednesday, May 31st 7 pm at the JCAA. We will install the newly elected Officers of the Chapter and Aviv (Group) Board of Directors. The Austin Chapter will present the annual National Leadership Award to Beth Rogalski for her tireless work in the Training Wheels Program over the past several years. Rachel O'Brien will give an update on the Hadassah College Jerusalem. Debbie Friedman will present an update on the Hadassah program Curriculum Watch, which should be of particular interest to parents of school age children.

On Sunday, June 11th at 10 am, Chapter Co-Presidents Sandi Balarsky and Cecile Zelinsky have scheduled a transition board meeting for the new Austin Chapter and Groups, Kadima and Aviv with Chapter Adviser Debby Rice acting as facilitator.

Please contact Ruth Deitch at 340-0403 with any questions about either of these scheduled meetings.

We cannot print what we do not know about, e.g., if your child (or grandchild, etc.) is graduating this spring. Please send submissions for inclusion into the Congregation newsletter to newsletter@kolhalev.org by 10:00pm Monday (next deadline is May 29, 2006). My goal is to send the newsletter every Tuesday.

Congregation Kol Halev is located at:
3415 Greystone Drive, Suite 307,
Austin, Texas 78731

(512) 419-0945

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