4-5 Nisan, 5771 • April 8-9, 2011 Parsha Metzorah Shabbat Candles: 7:09pm
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
April 8/9 Shabbat Services
forward to more joyous singing and dancing with you as we celebrate our fifth miraculous year and for many more joyous years to come.
Friday: 5:30pm Sha'Baby with Shoshana Jedwab and Eric Davis So, it is with great joy that we announce the 7:00pm Shabbat Services led by launching of a new and exciting fund: the We would like to thank Barbara Block, Ron Cohen, Shir Yaakov Feinstein-Feit Romemu Community Music Fund. Jane Graver, Rebecca Wedel, Felice Winograd, 9:00pm Chametz Potluck Shabbat Dinner Conceived of and generously seeded by members Dr. Shari Melamed Kaplan and Dr. as well as an Anonymous donor for contributing generously to this fund. Saturday: Steve Kaplan, the naming of this fund 8:30am: ShabbatAsana Yoga Practice represents our commitment and focus on In musical gratittude. 9:30am: Meditation community in all its rich diversity and 10:00am: Shabbat Services led by multiple voices. Shir Yaakov Feinstein-Feit Sacred Quilt Square We are kicking off the fund as we celebrate On behalf of Romemu, Leona Strassberg Steiner Romemu's fifth birthday this weekend with a invites you to create a sacred space on a gold square To sponsor Shabbat flowers or a kiddush, please contact: info@romemu.org special request to join the Kaplans and give of fabric, located at the back of the sanctuary. generously to our new music fund. Please consider honoring someone special or marking This fabric square will be sewn together to create a Special Holiday Services a life cycle event, perhaps a memorial of a huge Romemu quilt. Please leave an inch all around Tuesday, April 19 & Wednesday, April 20 8:30am: ShabbatAsana Yoga Practice family member or yahrzeit, or as a happy for sewing the squares together at the end of the birthday wish for Romemu as we turn five. project. Return your Romemu Sacred Quilt Squares 9:30am: Meditation by mailing them to 308 West 92nd Street, Suite 5B, 10:00am: Pesach Services led by Rabbi David Ingber with Visit romemu.org/music/, listen to our New York, NY 10025. Shir Yaakov Feinstein-Feit experience.
In the Community
Shomer Love: Help volunteer to prepare our
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 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
Refuah Shlemah
We would like to wish a speedy recovery and blessings of healing upon Sally Staver, Blanche and Jack Frank, Frank Palmer, Mortan Tankus, Phillip Jones, and newborn baby of parents Anna & Lenny Gusel.
Mazal Tov to Romemu Members
Lara Lauchheimer, who frequently helps with Sha'baby, has opened her own yoga studio on 114th and Frederick Douglass Blvd. She is also a finalist in a grant to help support her studio. Help Lara win by texting land to 244326. Ruthie Herzlinger is making Aliyah.
Monday, April 25 & Tuesday, April 26 8:30am: ShabbatAsana Yoga Practice 9:30am: Meditation 10:00am: Pesach Services led by Rabbi David Ingber with Shir Yaakov Feinstein-Feit Classes with Rabbi Ingber Kabbalah Cafe'
Tuesdays, 7:00pm Class will resume May 3 Please RSVP for address and directions info@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: 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
Jane Graver jane@romemu.org Director of Operations
Jade Netanya Ullmann jade@romemu.org
Dir. of Development, Membership and Outreach
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 to this free event; donations are welcome at the door. RSVP is required, the deadline to register is Thursday, April 14: lmdiaz@sfxavier.org or info@faithhousemanhattan.org
Thirteenth Annual UWS Communal Observance of Yom HaShoah Carlebach Shul, 305 West 79th JCC, 334 Amsterdam Ave. Sun & Mon, May 1-2, 10:00pm-6:00pm Gather with us for this annual vigil to remember the lives lost during the Holocaust and to reinforce our commitment to Jewish history and the future of the Jewish people. Bring names of family or friends to read or witness through listening to the reading. Romemu will be reading at the Carlebach Shul at 5:30am. For more information please visit: jccmanhattan.org
Living Deeply with a Sacred Text Sunday, May 1, 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
Cassie Peña cassie@romemu.org Administration
Jenn Krueger jenn@romemu.org Rabbinical Research Intern
Dedicate a Siddur Today For a small donation of $18 you can dedicate a Siddur. Call the Romemu Office for more information: cassie@romemu.org
Rome' Red Tent Monday, May 9, 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, May 13, 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 & May Tue 4/12 Sun 4/17 Tue 4/19 Tue 4/19 Wed 4/27 Sun 5/1 Sun 5/1 Tue 5/3
No Kabbalah Cafe Interfaith Passover Seder Holistic Seder at the JCC No Kabbalah Cafe Book Circle Meeting Living Deeply with a Sacred Text Yom HaShoah Kabbalah Cafe resumes