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The Charlotte Jewish News - March 2013 - Page 9 Above:Rabbi Lawrence Hoffman shared his views on the evolu tion of synagogues. Below: Rabbi Murray Ezring (holding book) leads Havdalah before a group discussion with Rabbi Lawrence Hoffman in Jan uary. Hospitality and Chesed: Conversations with Rabbi Steve Sager and Beyond Havurat Tikvah’s year-long ex ploration of hospitality and ehesed (kindness) is in full swing for the month of Mareh. We begin on Mareh 3 with our third visit from Rabbi Steve Sager. Rabbi Sager (Rabbi Emeritus of Beth El Synagogue, Durham) di- reets Sieha, an organization that eneourages eommunities to exam ine elassie Jewish texts as they in form eurrent and future Jewish lives and living. We invite you to join us for this unique opportunity to enjoy our always lively diseus- sions as we relate the historieal Jewish views of hospitality with modern Jewish perspeetives. At- tendanee at our previous sessions isn’t neeessary. Feel free to eon- taet us by e-mail, phone, or through our website (see below) for more information on loeation and time. We also invite you to extend our hospitality and ehesed themes at our Mostly Monthly Minyan. Minyan is generally held on the 2nd Wednesday of eaeh month: this month on Mareh 13. The evening serviee weleomes mourn ers, those with a yahrzeit, and all members who wish to daven, enjoy the warmth of our group, or partake in dessert goodies. When a death oeeurs in a member’s fam ily, we are always willing to sehedule a speeial minyan at the family’s home, one of our usual minyan homes, or another appro priate loeation. Call 704-332-4880 for more information about this month’s gathering. Not surprisingly, hospitality and ehesed are integral to all of our Soeial Aetion efforts - and no more so than those involving Room In The Inn. On Mareh 19, Temple Israel Social Club Thursday, March 14, at 10 AM. A group tour of the Charlotte Aviation Museum loeated at the airport. This interesting exhibit in- eludes the "Miraele on the Hud son" plane, old planes, and the history of aviation. Museum eharge is $7 payable in advanee. Deadline for this diseounted reser vation is Mareh 4. Please send your eheek to: Douglas Mann, 137 N. Canter bury Rd., Charlotte, NC 28211. We will have luneh afterwards. For more information please eall Ruth Goldberg, 704- 366-8903. We invite eouples and singles, affiliated with Charlotte area syn agogues, to join our group. Meet friendly people and enjoy our in teresting programs and trips. For more information please eall Irv ing Bienstoek, 704-542-0094 or Ruth Goldberg, 704-366-8903, eo-presidents. ^ Donating an Old Cell Pbone Can Save a Life # How Healthy is Your Relationship? Do you feel eontrolled by your partner? Do you eonstantly experi- enee insults, humiliation, threatening aets or gestures, bullying? Does your partner eontrol the finanees, isolate you from friends and family, treat you like a servant, make everything your fault? Is there violenee? Up to 25% of all Jewish women, teens, and even some men are eur- rently in abusive situations. Shalom Bayit-NC is working to end domestie abuse in our Jewish eommunity by raising awareness, offering edueation and providing serviees to people suffering at the hands of intimate partners. Call 704- 756-9209. « Havurat Tikvah eontinues its part nership with Avondale Presbyte rian Chureh to provide a warm, safe plaee to sleep and three nour ishing meals to some of Char lotte’s homeless. Other soeial aetion and ehesed aetivities for this month inelude Projeet Linus (where blankets are made to help seriously ill, trauma tized, or needy ehildren - no ex- perienee neeessary), volunteer work at the Dilworth Soup Kitehen (you ean find the soup kitehen’s faeebook page at http://www.faeebook.eom/group.p hp?gid=77134194660 ), and the ongoing projeets of our energetie teen group (Mitzvahs in Aetion). For more information about Havurat Tikvah - as well as infor mation about aetivities and our sehedule of Shabbat, holiday serv iees and other speeial events - go to our website www.havurattik- vah.org or eontaet new member ehair, Brian Feinglass through e- mail (membership@havurattik- vah.org) or by phone at 980- 225-5330). You ean also find Havurat Tikvah and Havurat Teens Charlotte on Faeebook. Havurat Tikvah is an affiliate of the Jewish Reeonstmetionist Movement and provides a eom- fortable, 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. ^ Jewish Reconstructionist Federation Shalom Bayit-NC, in conjunc tion with Safe Alliance’s Victim Assistance, is collecting cell phones for victims - or potential victims - of domestic violence. Old, used, and unwanted cell phones will be reprogrammed to call 911 and used in the event of an emergency. Donating is as simple as dropping the cell phone and battery charger (in a plastic bag or box, if possible) at the re ception desks of the following locations: Levine Jewish Com munity Center, Ohr Hatorah Con gregation, Temple Beth El, Temple Israel, or Jewish Family Services. 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