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Yasher koach to Hayim Herring, Rafi Geretz, Bob Karasov, Aaron Baumgarten, and Jeff Bernstein for reading Eicha so beautifully Monday night, and to Beth Kissileff, Rob Portnoe, Bob Karasov, and Allan Baumgarten for their insightful comments on the Kinot Tuesday morning.  Thanks for all you did to enhance Tisha B'Av for the congregation.

Our upcoming dinner dates to prepare and serve dinner for the residents of St. Stephen's Homeless Shelter are August 30, November 29, and December 27 (Mondays all).  Please hold one or more of those dates for this very important function!

The ritual committee feels that we need another 10 sets of machzorim for the Yomim Noraim.  This is a great dedication opportunity!  A requested donation of $54 covers each set, and an inscribed bookplate will adorn each volume.

Mazal tov to David Hein and Andrea Shuback on their engagement!  May their wedding take place b'sha'a tova!
David and Andrea met at Darchei Noam.  Come to Darchei Noam and meet your beshert!

Please remember that during the summer kids don't get meals at school, so please make sure you bring donations for STEP.  You can leave them in the box at the shul, and they will be taken to STEP.

We would like to thank Judy Marcus for her wonderful work as dvar Torah coordinator, and are pleased to announce that David Potter will now be filling that position.  If you have a parsha you'd like to give a dvar Torah on, please call David at 952-920-8080.  If David calls you, remember that the answer is "yes".  Yasher koach, Judy!

Although Rabbi Ozarowski was not able to be in town for our showing of Trembling Before G-D, he sent this statement which Hanna read before the film.

NCSY Highlights: It's not too late to sign up for a NCSY summer program. Visit www.ncsysummer.org to view all the options. Scholarships available! >>> For sponsorship opportunities or more info regarding any NCSY activities contact Tzvi Kupfer, 952-239-0642, kupfert@ncsy.org

The 2010 Kiddush Sponsorship List is now available for reservations!  If you know of a birthday, graduation, other simcha or (l'havdil) a yahrtzeit that you will want to commemorate in 2010 by sponsoring a kiddush, please notify Judy Shapiro (jerelandjudy@comcast.net, not verbally on Shabbat!).

Max Donath would like to thank all the people who helped with the Rabbi Seth Farber scholar-in-residence weekend: Judy Shapiro, Judy Snitzer, Bruce Stough, Wendy Khabie, Rachel Glotter, Paulette Donath, Ed Rapoport, Robert Portnoe, Hanna Bloomfield, Ron & Shira Krebs, Howard Israelson, and Bob Kusnetz.  Rabbi Farber's lectures were enlightening and made us all aware of the many Halachic issues and concerns facing the contemporary Orthodox community.  Many questions were raised but there was insufficient time to address them all.  Rabbi Ozarowski wishes to emphasize that although these issues are of more immediate concern in Israel and are less pressing here, if any Darchei Noam members wish to discuss these further on an individual basis, Rabbi Ozarowski is available and can be contacted directly.

Do you like kiddush potables that are more potent than SLPH2O?  You may remember that the board decided a while back not to use the kiddush fund for alcohol; private donations were to be used, instead.  Well, that fund is running low and needs replenishment.  Please make donations to Darchei Noam and indicate that they're for the beverage fund.

 

Copies of Darchei Noam Program Flyers are saved in Learning Page under Program Archives

 

Darchei Noam's webmaster (Ed Rapoport) is collecting electronic copies of divrei Torah given at Darchei Noam to create a web archive of them on our website.  Please send your dvar Torah to ed.rapoport@gmail.com

The Ritual Committee is soliciting volunteers to train to become mashgiachs to supervise congregational meals and special kiddushes.  Rob Portnoe has agreed to provide this training, which will probably take about four hours.  Any interested congregants should contact him at his home phone number, 952-926-3680, for further details.