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26-27 Adar II, 5771 • April 1-2, 2011 Parsha Tazriah Shabbat Candles: 7:02pm

Rome'News and Upcoming Events Shabbat Services West End Presbyterian Church 165 W 105th Street Please refrain from using your mobile devices within the sanctuary, whether texting or merely checking the time.

Please consider the time we are together worshipping to be beyond the reach of time and other mundane matters and worthy of our undivided attention.

As we know, music is the soul of the Romemu music and make a contribution today. We look experience.

So, it is with great joy that we announce the launching of a new and exciting fund: the Romemu Community Music Fund.

Conceived of and generously seeded by members Dr. Shari Melamed Kaplan and Dr. Steve Kaplan, the naming of this fund represents our commitment and focus on community in all its rich diversity and multiple voices.

We are kicking off the fund as we celebrate Romemu's fifth birthday this weekend with a special request to join the Kaplans and give generously to our new music fund. Please consider honoring someone special or marking a life cycle event, perhaps a memorial of a family member or yahrzeit, or as a happy birthday wish for Romemu as we turn five.

Visit romemu.org/music/, listen to our

forward to more joyous singing and dancing with you as we celebrate our fifth miraculous year and for many more joyous years to come.

sacred space Friday and Saturday's by volunteering to be a Shomer. Sign up is now beginning for volunteer help at Romemu's upcoming Passover Seder. Email shomerim@romemu.org for more information.

Volunteer to Leyn: Interested in reading Torah during a Saturday service. Contact torahreading@romemu.org Connect-to-Care Job Fair 2011:As part of the Romemu Circles. Connect-to-Care is committed to helping those during job transition and loss, under the UJA Federation C2C is hosting a job fair at the JCC in Manhattan, Wednesday, April 6, 10:00am-2:00pm.

Friday: 7:00pm Shabbat Services led by Rabbi David Ingber with Shir Yaakov Feinstein-Feit

We would like to thank Barbara Block, Ron Cohen, Jane Graver, Rebecca Wedel, Felice Winograd, Saturday: as well as an Anonymous donor for contributing 8:30am: ShabbatAsana Yoga Practice generously to this fund.

9:30am:Â Meditation 10:00am: Shabbat Services led by In musical gratittude.

Rabbi David Ingber with Shir Yaakov Feinstein-Feit

Sacred Quilt Square

On behalf of Romemu, Leona Strassberg Steiner Special Holiday Services invites you to create a sacred space on a gold square Tuesday, April 19 of fabric, located at the back of the sanctuary.

10:00am: Pesach Yom Tov Wednesday, April 20 This fabric square will be sewn together to create a 10:00am: Pesach huge Romemu quilt. Please leave an inch all around for sewing the squares together at the end of the To sponsor Shabbat flowers or a kiddush, project. Return your Romemu Sacred Quilt Squares please contact: info@romemu.org by mailing them to 308 West 92nd Street, Suite 5B, Classes with Rabbi Ingber New York, NY 10025.

In the Community Shomer Love: Help volunteer to prepare our

April 1/2 Shabbat Services

Kabbalah Cafe'

Refuah Shlemah

We would like to wish a speedy recovery and blessings of healing upon Sally Staver Sirka bat Gittel, Blanche and Jack Frank, Frank Palmer, Mortan Tankus,Phillip Jones, and newborn baby of parents Anna & Lenny Gusel.

Mazal Tov to Romemu Members

Ruthie Herzlinger is making Aliyah. Rabbi Neal Kaunfer is holding Jewish Prayer Dance, Saturday, April 2 at 8:30pm in the lobby of the JCC. jewishprayermovements.com.

Tuesdays, 7:00pm April 5 class will begin at 7:30pm Please RSVP for address and directions info@romemu.org

Book Circle

Wednesday, April 27, 7:30-9:00pm The focus for this meeting will be on Arthur Green's Seek My Face, which can be purchased online at Amazon or Abe Books.

To RSVP or to host a meeting at your home please contact: bookcircle@romemu.org

Featured Event:

2nd Night Holistic Passover Seder with Makom Jewish Community Center Manhattan, 334 Amsterdam Tuesday, April 19, 6:30pm

Join Romemu's Rabbi David Ingber and Makom, The Center for Meditation and Spirituality, for our 2nd Night Passover Seder. Celebrate as we make our way through the 15 stages of the freedom meal (Seder), singing and telling the story of our own release from the bonds of slavery. The meal will be a meat meal, strictly kosher for Passover. Vegetarian options available.

Registration: $75 for Romemu and JCC members, $85 non-members, $35 for persons under 12. Call: 646-505-5708 Contact Romemu:

Third Annual Interfaith Passover Seder with Faith House & St. Francis Xavier Church 55 West 15th Street Sunday, April 17, 6:30pm Romemu is partnering with Faith House and St. Francis Xavier Church to host the 3rd Annual Interfaith Seder. The Passover Seder is a ritualized meal commemorating the Exodus. It was also the setting of Jesus' Last Supper. The Seder is a remarkable way of learning about the Jewish roots of Christianity. People of all faiths and no faith at all are welcomed.

RSVP is required: lmdiaz@sfxavier.org or info@faithhousemanhattan.org

Living Deeply with a Sacred Text Sunday, April 3, 6:00pm This Rome-chevra is an opportunity to make a year long commitment to living deeply with a sacred line of text. This group meets once a month to share the journey of this relationship and learn together not only how to live with a text, but also the deeper teachings. For more information: livingdeeply@romemu.org

Free Night of Learning with Rabbi David Ingber at Mechon Hadar's 90@190 Monday, April 4, 7:30pm

Jane Graver jane@romemu.org

Rabbi David Ingber is teaching one more session at Mechon Hadar's open beit midrash, 90@190, located at West End Synagogue, 190 Amsterdam Avenue at 69th Street. Get ready for Passover with the teaching "Peh-Sach Seder: The Other Great Talking Cure." Learn with Rabbi Ingber or join one of the other great teachers. For more information: mechonhadar.org/ 90at190

Jade Netanya Ullmann jade@romemu.org

Dedicate a Siddur Today

Hours: Mon-Thur 10-5pm, Fri 10-2pm 308 W. 92nd Street, Ste. 5B 212.580.4294, info@romemu.org Rabbi David Ingber rabbi@romemu.org Founder & Spiritual Director

Shir Yaakov Feinstein-Feit shir@romemu.org Creative & Musical Director

Director of Operations

Dir. of Development, Membership and Outreach

Cassie Peña cassie@romemu.org Administration

Jenn Krueger jenn@romemu.org Rabbinical Research Intern

For a small donation of $18 you can dedicate a Siddur in loving memory of a family members, or in celebration of a happy occassion. This is a loving way to honor a person or event in your life. Call the Romemu Office for more information: cassie@romemu.org

Rome' Red Tent Monday, April 4, 7:00pm Calling all women, girls, grandmothers, aunties, sisters, mothers and daughters -come join the Rome’Red Tent, Romemu’s group for all female-identified friends and members of Romemu. Spend time in a safe and sacred space where we will explore what it means to be Jewish and female-identified in the 21st century. Bring something yummy to eat, an object for the altar and wear red!

For more information: redtent@romemu.org

Sha' baby Shabbat Friday, April 8, 5:30pm Join Romemu for this musical and fun Shabbat program for children 0 to 2 yrs old.

Please come with at least one caregiver. This will be an engaging Shabbat for babies and their families. For more information: minis@romemu.org

Social Justice Committee Meeting Sunday, April 10 Please join us for the first Social Justice Committee meeting, Sunday, April 10!

During this meeting we will be exploring social justice as it relates to our faith and how it can inform social action.

Topic for discussion: Tikkun Olam is an important principle within the Jewish faith.

What does this mean and how can we connect it to our every day lives? How is this very fundamental tenant connected to the larger picture of social justice and community organizing?

Join us as we begin the process of exploring how our Jewish values can inform collective action to affect change within our community and beyond. For questions, location and time please RSVP with Brooke Dumain at bdumain@gmail.com

Upcoming in April Sun 4/3 Mon 4/4 Mon 4/4 Tue 4/5 Fri 4/8 Tue 4/12 Sun 4/17 Tue 4/19 Tue 4/19

Living Deeply with a Sacred Text Rome'Red Tent 90@190 Kabbalah Cafe' begins at 7:30pm Sha'Baby & Potluck No Kabbalah Cafe Interfaith Passover Seder Holistic Seder at the JCC No Kabbalah Cafe