E-mail Problem

The URJ system that hosts our web site is currently having problems sending e-mail to some ISPs. It isn't clear how widespread the problem is, but it affects Comcast for certain. The URJ technical staff is working on the problem.

What does this mean? It means that if you send e-mail to any of the committee chairs or officers, it might never arrive. I suggest that you copy the Temple office on your e-mails until further notice.

My apologies for this inconvenience.

A Note from the Webmaster

I would like your feedback about features and improvements that you'd like to see here on our web site. Please join our discussion board and use the "Feedback to the Management" forum to post and discuss your ideas.

Thanks.

Note: Starting on Friday, January 6, Friday evening services will be on a new schedule:

• On the first three Fridays of the month, the service will start at 6:00 p.m.
• On the fourth Friday of the month, the service will start at 7:30 p.m.
• If there is a fifth Friday (March and June), the service will start at 7:30 p.m.

This schedule will be evaluated after six months.

Quick Notes

• There will be a Tot Shabbat on February 4 at 9:30 a.m.
• The Adult Education committee is sponsoring an Interface Dinner at the Islamic Society of Greater Hartford. The dinner will be on February 26.
• The Social Action Committee is organizing a blood drive for May 20. They need at least 60 volunteers signed up by the February 10. Please contact Sarah Maltese at (860) 995-5496 or by e-mail.
• The Membership Committee needs your opinion about a Temple Seder. Please check the details on page 10 of the February bulletin.
• Are you about to be entering a significant transitional stage in your life? Perhaps you are turning 50, or anticipating retirement. Maybe you're newly married or a new parent. Celebrate these milestones in your life and become a Chai Mitzvah, a program of Jewish learning for adults that takes place every 18 years past Bar or Bat Mitzvah. If you are in your Odyssey Years (26-33), Jubilee Years (46-52), Encore Years(64-70) or Legacy Years (80 plus), Chai Mitzvah could be for you!
• If you are interested in joining an Adult Bar/Bat Mitzvah class, there's one forming now. Go to the Adult Education Committee's web page for more information about this and other opportunities to deepen your involvement with Judaism.
• The Sisterhood is pleased to announce that yet a third Rosh Hodesh group is being formed. Please contact the Sisterhood for more information.
• The "Turkey and a 20" drive for Foodshare brought in 27 turkeys and $1190. Thanks to the Social Action Committee for their hard work, and to all of you for your generosity.
• The Samuel Leonard Joseph Memorial Fund dinner raised over $8,000.
• Our High Holy Day Food Drive brought in $9,270 and 1567 pounds of food. More details are on the Social Action Committee web page.
• The Social Action Committee is organizing volunteers to provide transportation to and from Temple events for those who cannot drive themselves. Please see the Social Action Committee's web page for more information.
• The Adult Choir rehearsals have been changed from Mondays to Tuesdays.
• The Welcome Back Shabbat was an enormous success. You can a slideshow of the event by clicking here.
• The Religious School Committee has a Religious School Parent Education series. See the Education Committee's web page for more information.
• Our Judaica Shop has an elegant but reasonably priced line of tallit sets for men, women, boys, and girls.
• The Temple is selling the 2012 Taste of Dining & Activity Book. Call the office to purchase yours.
• Did you know that Temple Sinai has a lending library? It's located in the multi-purpose room off the main lobby, and has a large assortment of Judaism-related fiction and non-fiction, including reference books. The library has a special "Grandma's Shelf," intended for grandparents or anyone who might have a young child visiting. We have a nice assortment of read-aloud books of Jewish interest.
• We've added a complete roster of the Temple Board.
• Photos from 2010's Mitzvah Day are now on the web site.
• The Temple has a project to create personalized Torah binders (sashes, or wimples). You can put a name on a wimple for a donation of $18. If you can embroider, please volunteer your skills. See the flier in the October 2008 Bulletin, or call Joyce in the Temple office.
• The Union for Reform Judaism has created a URJ blog site at rj.org.
• Photos from the Temple's 50^th anniversary celebration are on the website.

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Opportunities to Give Back

Volunteer:

• Volunteer to provide rides to and from Temple events for those who cannot drive themselves
• Help with the Library book plating project.
• Our Religious School is looking for volunteers to join a Religious School Committee. For more information, see the Education page.
• The Caring Community Committee is always looking for volunteers to help our fellow congregants. Please fill out the form in the Bulletin.
• Join the Knitzvah project, make baby hats and blankets, helmet liners for American and Israeli soldiers, and simple squares to be made into blankets. You can see pictures of Knitzvah in action at the Connecticut Children's Medical Center NICU. Who can resist pictures of babies?
• We are in urgent need of a photo editor to supply pictures for our website.
• All of our committees would welcome new members.

Contribute:

• The Temple is collecting items for Veteran's Comfort Bags. We're looking for toiletries, makeup, decks of cards, small games, socks, and small games.
• The Temple is collecting non-perishable food items for the Newington food bank. Donations can be left in the blue collection bin in the lobby.
• The Temple is also collecting unneeded eyeglasses for Lions Club International.
• The Library is setting up a collection of children's books, and would love to have donations of Jewish-themed books for young children.

Share with the Temple Sinai Community:

• We have added open discussion forums (a bulletin board system, or BBS) to our web site. These forums are there so that members of the Temple Sinai community can share their thoughts on issues of interest to them. These forums will only succeed if you participate. Each forum can have hundreds of topics, and we'll happily add any other forums that you suggest. Please join your fellow members here.
  
  For your own protection, you will have to register before you can use the forums:
  
  
  • Click on the Discussion Forums link in the menu on the left (or here).
  • You'll be brought over to the login screen for the BBS.
  • Look for the word "Register", and click on that.
  • You'll be presented with two buttons: click the one that applies. This is a little bit of legalese to assure us that you are either old enough to use the board, or have your guardian's permission.
  • Accept the terms of use.
  • Fill in the form on the next screen. It should be pretty self-explanatory.
  • Check your e-mail for a confirmation e-mail. This is to prevent people from registering strangers.
  • The confirmation e-mail will have instructions for completing your registration.
  • Once you're completed the registration process, you'll be able to read and post to any of the forums.
  • There's one other point you need to keep in mind: Your first three messages will be inspected before they show up in the forums. This is one last line of defense against spammers, and gives us time to check your information before your posts start showing up.

  Once you have registered, you can change your profile to add as much, or as little, information about yourself as you want. You can also allow, or not allow, people to send you e-mail and private messages through the system (without revealing your real e-mail address).

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