June/July 2013 - Anshe Emet Synagogue

Youth/Family ProgrammingThanks for a great year!This has been an exciting year for ouryouth community, and there are somany people to thank for all of thetime and energy that they have put into our programming.From RabbiDavid RussoYouth Programmingdrusso@AnsheEmet.orgLet me begin with Heidi Zimmerman.Two years ago, when there was avacancy in the Youth Director position,Heidi stepped in to temporarily runyouth programming while she was bothworking and in graduate school. Shestayed on to run the Shachar-Machar(K-5th grade) programming for the pasttwo years. Heidi has brought her energyand sensitivity to every event that shehas planned for the past two and ahalf years. Lauren Vandersluis has, forthe past two years, been running ourKadima (6th-8th) programming. Laurenis incredibly creative and fun, and has particularly brought her love ofcooking and food to so many elements of the programming that shehas planned for the past two years.Both Lauren and Heidi are moving on professionally from AnsheEmet, but we still hope to see them around. Lauren and Heidi,thank you so much for your incredible work in building our youthcommunity, we deeply appreciate everything that you’ve done forus. Steven Philp, our extraordinary USY advisor, will be stayingon this coming year to continue working with and guiding ourteenagers.To Heidi, Lauren, and Steven: thank you so much for caring aboutevery child and teenager who walked into the halls of Anshe Emet.We are excited to welcome, beginning this summer, Shelli Adermanas our Shachar/Machar and Kadima advisor! Shelli is hilarious,incredibly organized, and fun to be around. We are really lookingforward to her taking on the already great base that we have for ouryouth programming.Thanks to the entire SHMUSY board for your incredible dedicationto our youth community. And thank you to the unbelievable parentvolunteers, and specifically Samantha DeKoven, for supportingeverything that we do.Lastly, I’d like to thank Karen Martin, who arranges so many logisticsfor our youth programming. Karen works incredibly hard to makeeverything run as smoothly as possible, and she always does it with asmile. Thanks Karen for everything that you do!Thank you everyone for a great year! Please be in touch with methroughout the summer, and I can’t wait to see you over the next fewweeks or months through the summer!Anshe EmetYoung FamiliesJune/July HappeningsMaxine Segal Handelman, Young Families CoordinatorAnshe Emet has lots happening for families with children 8 andyounger!• The Anshe Emet Young Families Friday Night Kabbalat Shabbatservice and dinner will be June 7, 2013 at 5:45 p.m. In addition toour long-standing Young Families Service, we also hold a servicefor older siblings (children in first grade and above) that will runconcurrently to our Young Families service. BOTH services beginat 5:45 p.m. and are followed directly by ONE community dinner.Please follow this link, http://conta.cc/17U6khV, to register yourfamily for dinner by Tuesday, May 28. Please note: There will be noservice and dinner in July, due to the July 4th holiday weekend.• Shalom Shabbat, the well-loved service for children 4 and under andtheir parents, meets every Shabbat this month at 10:00 a.m. (eventhe 5th Shabbat). Shachar, for children in grades K-2, meets on thesecond and fourth Shabbat of every month at 11:00 a.m. If your childis interested in reading a Torah excerpt in Hebrew or English, pleasecontact Max at sigal@aol.com. June dates are the 8th and the 22nd.July dates are the 13th and 27th. Shachar Tefillah Yoga, with RabbiHeather Altman, will meet the first and third Shabbat of the month,at 11:00 a.m. June dates are the 1st and 15th. July dates are 6th and20th. Dress in comfortable clothes.• Five Shabbatot in the month of June means ... Shabbatapalooza!Please join us on Shabbat, June 29 at 11:00 a.m. for a rockin’ greattime. Kids K-6th grade and their adults are invited to read Torah.Please contact Debby Lewis dlewis@ansheemet.org foryour assignment.Don’t miss anything! Join our list serv by e-mailingAEYF-subscribe@yahoogroups.com to get the latest wordon what’s happening for your family.Anshe Emet Programming is generously supported byThe Arthur and Perle Malkin Center for Jewish LifeFunded bySustaining FundContributionsHere’s your special two-sidedJune-July pull-out calendar!10June-July 2013 / Sivan-Tammuz-Av 5773www.AnsheEmet.org