Summer Drive

to benefit Downtown Daily Bread

Collection ends

Friday, June 18th

Chisuk Emuna's Strength Through Action Team (STAT) is teaming up with Goodwin Memorial Baptist Church to collect items to benefit people served by Downtown Daily Bread.

More than half of what we collected from our Spring Drive was given out to people in need within the first 24 hours of dropping it off (see Mark Glick & Bonita Moore of Goodwin Memorial Baptist Church making the delivery at right). 

Please help us again! Items needed include:Items needed include:

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• Backpacks (student style with wide, sturdy straps)

• New men's underwear (L & XL)

• Tide laundry detergent & Tide Pods

• Men's t-shirts and shorts, all sizes

• Sleeping bags

• Men's sneakers and/or sandals (men's sizes 9-12)

• Ladies sneakers and/or sandals (ladies sizes 7-9)

Please drop items off at the shul during office hours by Friday, June 18th.

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If you wish to make a contribution in lieu of donating items, please make check payable to Chisuk Emuna Congregation, and note “Summer Drive” in the memo, or donate online and designate “Summer Drive".

Gesher Adult Education

Open to all adult learners.

Mishna Ta'anit:

Facing a World in Crisis

Wednesdays

11:00am - 12:15pm

May 5 - June 9

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The Coronavirus pandemic is, for many of us, the largest global crisis of our lifetimes. We may feel alone in our experience, but there were other crises before this, in other generations and other eras, where people felt that the world was on a tipping point between life and death, existence and destruction.

In Mishna Ta’anit the rabbis discuss the proper protocols for the community in a time of drought, when a lack of rainfall presented a crisis of potential famine. Join Rabbis Muroff and Capptauber to study this book of the Mishna and glean the wisdom it has for our own time of crisis.

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RSVP to Patty Brown at to receive source sheets.

CE CHATS has had an amazing run of events this past year with over 50 Sunday mornings spent together learning from one another. Ideas and topics that ranged from discussions about synagogue architecture in the United States, personal family stories from many of our congregants, learning how background animation is created, what life is like for the Jewish community in Dubai, and life as an Emergency Room Physician, as well as gardening, Jewish text-based embroidery and the role of tsunamis in Israeli geography! 

A complete list of our talks is here, and Judith is happy to send you the video on request.

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We are looking for more ideas for the fall, so if you have thoughts on what you may want to see presented, please send them to judith.hodara@gmail.com!

Saturday, June 26th, 9:30 am

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The new Beyn Gavrah for the sanctuary is finished and in use! Revealed in time for Yael Hodara’s bat mitzvah, the beautiful needlepointed beyn gavrah was designed by Susan Leviton and expertly crafted by Deb Chernicoff, Natalie Damrauer, Maggie Grotzinger, Cory Schneider and Charlotte Spector. The beyn gavrah is used during the Torah service to cover the Torah when it is not being read.

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RSVP to attend the in person service by calling the office at 717-232-4851 or email info@chisukemuna.org by Friday, June 25th at noon.