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The Charlotte Jewish News - October 2012 - Page 9 Temple Kol Tikvah Awarded Grant from Union for Reform Judaism URJ Incubator Grant Will Provide Seed Funding for Teen Projects Lake Norman, NC - Temple Kol Tikvah is pleased to announee that they have been awarded a grant to fund teen programs to engage high sehoolers, empower them with a sense of ownership for the eongregation, and eontinue their learning beyond their Bar or Bat Mitzvah. The program will have three broad eomponents: * Team Building/Leadership: Partieipants will take part in retreats, eharity work, and eongre- gational leadership aetivities to develop and eultivate leadership skills. * Miero-Grant Empowerment: Small teams of teens will apply for miero-grants of $500-$ 1500 to work with younger ehildren and deepen their ties to the larger Jewish eommunity. * Learning: Teens will partiei- pate in weekly elasses direeted by the Temple’s Rabbi, using the high sehool eurrieulum from the Institute of Southern Jewish Life (ISJL). “This grant gives us the resourees we need to keep young sters aetive in our eommunity after they eomplete their Bar or Bat Mitzvah. Often high sehool students are drawn to non-reli gious aetivities, espeeially after all of the hard work that they have put in to beeome a Bar or Bat Mitzvah,” noted Slade Goldstein, Temple Kol Tikvah’s eo-president. “With this grant, we will be able to provide programming that engages, edueates, and eultivates future leaders that will benefit our eongregation and the eommunity at large,” added Len Sadek, eo- president. Temple Kol Tikvah is one of 20 Reform eongregations in North Ameriea seleeted to reeeive an Ineubator Grant from the Union for Reform Judaism (URJ). There were nearly 165 applieants for the Ineubator Grants, whieh provide seed funding for innovative new projeets designed to aetively engage more people in Reform synagogue life by stimulating ere- ative thinking in three main areas: ereating a eulture that supports and eneourages eonversion; reten tion and engagement of post b’nei mitzvah teens and their families; and engagement in synagogue life (ineluding reeruitment of potential members, integration of reeent members, and retention of eurrent members). “We are thrilled to offer these grants to member eongregations for the seeond year,” said URJ’s President Rabbi Riek Jaeobs. “We saw how mueh the grant proeess inspired ereativity last year and were impressed with the results of eaeh of the award-winning initia tives. Together, we are developing and learning innovative ways to engage people in Reform Jewish life.” « Sukkot Hospitality: Dinner, a Movie, and Tzedakah Sukkot is the ultimate holiday of hospitality and Havurat Tikvah members and friends plan to eele- brate it in style at 6:30 PM on Saturday, Oetober 6. We’ll gather at the Offerdahl family sukkah to share a holiday pot-luek dinner (kosher, dairy, parve ... no peanuts, please) along with some traditional lulav and etrog shak ing. We’ll follow our meal with a showing - under the stars - of “Ushpizin,” the ultimate Sukkot movie. “Ushpizin” (in English, “Sukkot Guests”) follows the life of ultra-orthodox Jew Moshe and his wife Mali. Onee seeular Jews, the two find themselves totally broke as Sukkot approaehes. An unexpeeted windfall, along with a visit from some less-than-savory friends from Moshe’s past, make this eharming movie perfeet for holiday viewing. Also perfeet for the holiday season is the opportunity to extend warm hospitality to those outside our immediate eommunity. In this ease, we’ll use our Sukkot gather ing as a ehanee to support Urban Ministries as they prepare to help those in need during the winter months. The “warmth” of our hos pitality will eome in the form of soeks.. .men’s, women’s, and ehil dren. Bring a pair (or more!) and join us for this evening of festivi ties. For more information see our eontaet information below. You ean also eontaet us to find out more about this month’s teen group aetivities (“Mitzvahs in Aetion”), volunteer opportunities with the Dilworth Soup Kitehen (you ean find the soup kitehen’s faeebook page at http://www.faee- book.eom/group.php?gid=771341 94660 ), and the work of Projeet Linus (where blankets are made to help seriously ill, traumatized, or needy ehildren). Flavurat Tikvah is an affiliate of the Jewish Reeonstruetionist Federation, providing a eomfort- able, family atmosphere where all Jews ean feel weleome. For those who are interested, we invite you to visit, get to know us, and to beeome part of our eongregation of nearly 50 households. For more information about Flavurat Tikvah or any of our The Gift of Time Flow one generation ean affeet all that eome after it is a theme that runs through the veins of Temple Kol Ami. Our members are eontinually seeking out ways to affeet the lives of those that eome after them. This ean be seen very elearly in the relationships that two of our eongregants have ereated with the students of Ivybrook Aeademy, one of the only non-ehureh based half-day presehool program in Fort Mill, SC. Both Gail Danberg and Sawn Lowe have taken on prominent roles at Ivybrook. Gail has taken on the identity of Nana Gail. The ehildren light up as Nana Gail beeomes the eenter of Ivybrook’s Author Studies program and reads to all of the ehildren. As the ehil dren leave the library you ean hear the exeitement in their voiees as they have just be in the presenee of this magnetie woman who shares her energy and knowledge with them every week. This past year another one of our members served as “Artist in Residenee” for Ivybrook. Sawn Lowe worked in Ivybrook’s art studio and assisted the ehildren in understanding the eomplex works of many prolifie artists. Sawn’s art expertise and passion for teaehing enabled these young students to streteh beyond the traditional eon- eept of presehool art and ereate pieees that would make even the most experieneed artists jealous. By taking time out of their days to invest in the edueation and growth of Fort Mill’s youngest residents these Temple Kol Ami members define what it means to Some of Sawn Lowe’s artistic endeavors. live life with purpose and selfless ness. This is just one small exam ple of the differenees Temple Kol Ami members are making in the Fort Mill eommunity. As our eon gregation eontinues to grow so will it’s affeet on the greater Fort Mill eommunity. ^ God in the Box On Oetober 20, Temple Kol Ami will present God in the Box. This doeumentary by Nathan Lang asks two questions: What does God mean to you and what does God look like to you? These two basie questions explore the mystery and eontroversy behind God’s relationship with Amerieans in the 21 st eentury. The God in the Box filmmakers traveled aeross Ameriea setting up the “Box” on ieonie street eomers and diverse loeations. Onee set up they invited people to step inside and share what they see in their mind’s eye, and if possible, draw what God looks like to them. A remarkable eolleetion of seholars, religious leaders and a mythologist help examine the material and put it into a histori- eal and relevant eontext. The surprises and revelations about our eurrent interpretations of God eome to light, as small glimpses inside the minds of others helps illuminate a mueh bigger pieture. Please join us as we will learn together what God looks like and means to many Amerieans in the 21st eentury. God in the Box will be presented on Oetober 20, 7 PM at Unity Presbyterian Chureh, 303 Tom Flail Street, Fort Mill, SC. m J Admission is free, eontaet us to reserve your spaee now. For more information about the film you ean visit http://godinthebox.eom. To eontaet Temple Kol Ami, eall 803-701-0149 or email yorksyna- gogue@gmail.eom. ^ aetivities go to our website www.havurattikvah.org or eontaet new member ehair, Brian Feinglass through e-mail (mem- bership@havurattikvah.org) or by phone at (980) 225-5330). 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