Congregation Kol Halev Newsletter, 
June 17, 2008 / 14 Sivan 5768

This Week at Kol Halev  ....

Torah Study, Tuesday, June 17th, Noon, CKH Office.

[No Shabbat Service on June 20th.]

....  Next Week at Kol Halev  ....

Torah Study, Tuesday, June 24th, Noon, CKH Office.

Kabbalat Shabbat, Friday, June 13th, 7:30 pm, ECP Multi-purpose Room.
Join us for our regular Friday night Shabbat Service.

Bar Mitzvah of Jules Anthony Ochoa, Saturday, June 28th, 10:00 am, JCAA Community Hall.
See next section for RSVP.

....  RSVP Requested  ....

Please join us as our son, Jules Anthony Ochoa, will be called to Torah as a Bar Mitzvah on Saturday, June 28th at 10:00 am during our Shabbat morning service at the JCAA Community Hall.  We would love to have you join us for the Kiddush Luncheon following the service - please RSVP to James or Edie Ochoa at 443-6342 or <james@tlec.info>.

Welcome!
Kathleen Fairweather, new member

Kathleen arrived in Austin on April Fool's Day via Brooklyn, LA, and Arkansas.  She is the new development director at the Open Door Preschool.  She is a documentary filmmaker and journalist, and is launching the very first Jewish Movie Day in Austin www.jewishhomemovieday.com.

Sisterhood

The Congregation Kol Halev Sisterhood supports the Women Cantors Network Conference, June 22-25!  (See the Community section for complete information.)  If you would like to join us by providing baked goods or volunteering your time at Monday night’s dinner, please contact Karen Gault, <kgault@austin.rr.com>, 249-7949.

Bar Mitzvah Project

1,500,000 Innocent Children Perished in the Holocaust.  In an effort to remember them, the Holocaust Museum Houston is collecting 1.5 million handmade butterflies.  The butterflies will eventually comprise a breath-taking exhibition for all to remember.

The Tarsi family has started to discuss the Holocaust and A. J. has decided to adopt the Butterfly Project as one of his Mitzvah Projects.  He is hoping to help collect handmade arts-and-crafts butterflies for the Project, per the following:

    * Butterflies should be no larger than 8 inches by 10 inches.
    * Butterflies may be of any medium the artist chooses, but one-dimensional submissions are preferred.
    * Glitter should not be used.

If you or your family would like to help make and submit butterflies, you can either contact us and we will be happy to arrange to pick them up by June 28 and mail them, or you can mail them directly by June 30 to:

Holocaust Museum Houston
Education Department
5401 Caroline St.
Houston, TX 77004

Please include the following information if you mail them directly:

    * Your name,
    * A. J. Tarsi's Mitzvah Project, Congregation Kol Halev, Austin, TX
    * Your address,
    * Your e-mail address, and
    * The total number of butterflies sent.

Feel free to call (699-7913) or email <jactar@gmail.com> us if you have any questions.

If you'd like to read more about it, see http://www.hmh.org/minisite/butterfly/index.html:

The Tarsi Family

Mazel Tov

In Remembrance

Thank You!
Congregation Kol Halev gratefully acknowledges the following contributions:

Rabbi's Discretionary Fund
In honor of Jules Ochoa's Bar Mitzvah
Edie & James Ochoa

Mitzvah Fund
In Memory of Cynthia Leseten
Jane Leseten

....  In the Community  ....

Florence Melton Adult Mini-School
"As the new year of 5769 begins, want some Drama in your life?"

Join the current Florence Melton Adult Mini-School students on a trip through the drama, intrigue, mystery, intellectual challenges, spirituality, richness, and continuity of Jewish life.  You'll find stories of war and peace, family feuds, battles for revenge and for power, passion, romance, and legal wrangling.  Our ancestors have stories that could rival the best action adventures.  And it's all in the name of our heritage as Jews.  Try the Florence Melton Adult Mini-School.  The Mini-School for Maximum Learning. I t's not rated PG and it's not for kids.

Informational "Taste of Melton" sessions coming up:  Tuesday June 24th, July 22nd, and August 19th, all at 7:00 pm.

Contact Aliza Orent, (512) 735-8030 or email <aliza.orent@shalomaustin.org> for more info or to register.

Seventy-five Women Cantors from Around the World in Free Concert!
Monday evening, June 23rd, 8:00 pm, Congregation Agudas Achim sanctuary,
Contact: Cantor Robbi Sherwin, Conference Chair: <robbisherwin@austin.rr.com>

Come experience the Soaring Sound of Sisters in Sacred Song as the Women Cantors' Network conference attendees present a FREE concert to the Austin Jewish community!  The concert will feature original pieces commissioned by the network, including one by Austin's own Abby Gostein.  The cantors will be followed in concert by the acclaimed folk/rock Jewish band, Sababa!, of which Robbi Sherwin is a member, in an intimate acoustic setting.  Dessert for everyone to follow.

The International Women Cantors' Network (over 300 members around the globe!) proudly welcomes its members to Austin for its 26th annual conference - the first time the conference has been held west of the Mississippi River!  Austin organizers include Conference Chair, Cantor Robbi Sherwin, Abby Gostein and Amy O'Desky.  They have been joined by a trans-Texas committee who have spent 3 years planning an outstanding experience for the WCN.  Special thanks to Congregation Agudas Achim and the JCAA for hosting/housing the conference.

Our tzedakah project is donating our hair to Zichron Menachem (www.zichron.org) an Israeli organization whose Hair-to-Wig program makes wigs for children suffering the affects of cancer - whether Israeli or Arabic.  Unlike Locks of Love, they WILL take hair that is dyed, grey or less than 10" in length - shorter lengths will be sold and proceeds will go to the wig program.  If you can generously donate 6" or more, PLEASE contact Cantor Sherwin: robbisherwin.com or 467-7270.  In addition, if you can donate "trinkets" or baked goods to the hospitality bags to welcome the women cantors, contact Augusta Gelfand, Hospitality Chair:  <augusta@ecpi.com> or Robbi Sherwin.  Help give these women a real Austin welcome!

Do you have an announcement?  Good news?  Community service opportunity?  Please send submissions for inclusion in the Congregation newsletter to <newsletter@kolhalev.org> by 10:00pm, Sunday (next deadline is June 22, 2008).

Have you missed a recent issue of the CKH Newsletter?  If so, you can always find back issues at http://www.kolhalev.org/emailnewsletters/index.html.

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

(512) 419-0945

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Previous Newsletters:

June 10, 2008 / 07 Sivan 5768

June 03, 2008 / 29 Iyar 5768

May 27, 2008 / 22 Iyar 5768

May 20, 2008 / 15 Iyar 5768

May 13, 2008 / 08 Iyar 5768

May 06, 2008 / 01 Iyar 5768

April 29, 2008 / 24 Nisan 5768

April 22, 2008 / 17 Nisan 5768

April 15, 2008 / 10 Nisan 5768

April 08, 2008 / 03 Nisan 5768

April 01, 2008 / 25 Adar-II 5768

March 25, 2008 / 18 Adar-II 5768

March 18, 2008 / 11 Adar-II 5768

March 11, 2008 / 04 Adar-II 5768

March 04, 2008 / 27 Adar-I 5768

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February 19, 2008 / 13 Adar-I 5768

February 12, 2008 / 06 Adar-I 5768

February 05, 2008 / 29 Shevat 5768

January 29, 2008 / 22 Shevat 5768

January 22, 2008 / 15 Shevat 5768

January 15, 2008 / 08 Shevat 5768

January 08, 2008 / 01 Shevat 5768

January 01, 2008 / 23 Tevet 5768

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