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The Charlotte Jewish News - March 2014 - Page 16 Purim Weekend at Temple Beth El Friday - Sunday, March 14-16 Celebrate Purim at Temple Beth El at several dazzling events surrounding the legendary holiday of Purim. The fun begins Friday, Mareh 14 with Community Shah- bat Worship and Star Trek Spiel. On Saturday, Mareh 15 from 7-11 PM, put on a eostume if you want (no jeans) and join family and friends for Mordeehai’s Masquer ade, a masked ball extravaganza. Refreshments inelude heavy hors d’oeuvres with beer, wine and speeialty drinks being served. Danee the evening away to DJ musie in your most extravagant disguise. There will be live and silent auetions throughout the evening. On Sunday, Mareh 16 at 3:30 PM, we will finish our Purim weekend with the Megillah read ing. Purim eommands us to bring family and friends together to party and eelebrate. Spend the weekend with us at Temple Beth El. Tieket priees for Mordeehai’s Masquerade are $65 eaeh or $50 for TBE families with kids under age 12. RSVP by Mareh 7 at WWW. beth-el.eom/masquerade or 704-749-3070. « Major Trent Player Presents Temple Beth El with Special Gift It was on Veteran’s Day 2012 that we offered Major Trent Player a blessing on the Beth El bimah before he was deployed to Afghanistan for a year. This was his seeond deployment. We thank God that he arrived home safely and that he survived a brush with an lED that exploded underneath his vehiele. As we were praying TEMPLE BETH EL Major Player s gift. Arthur Tirsun Teachers Appreciation and Education Shabbat March 8,11 AM Shabbat Serv ice in the Temple Beth El Blu- menthal Sanctuary Join us for a speeial Shabbat serviee as we eelebrate our reli gious and eommunity edueators. This beautiful serviee will feature the voiees and musie of our tal- IP TEMPLE BETH EL ented Temple Beth El Religious Sehool stu dents and teens. We are thrilled to show- ease and share their talents at this Shab bat serviee as we honor and thank our dedieated edueators. Students are eneour- aged to invite their seeular teaehers to at tend and be ineluded as we show our appreeiation.^ for him and for peaee in our world on this past Rosh Flashanah, he was aeting on our behalf in Afghanistan. Fie flew an Ameriean flag in honor of Temple Beth El over the head quarters of the Seeond Marine Expeditionary Foree. Then, he brought the gift of that Ameri ean flag and a plaque from the United States Marine Corps to our eongregation. This gift will serve as a eonstant re minder of our gratitude to all our soldiers who have, who are, and who will in the future serve our eountry. We are indebted to him and his family for the saerifiees Welcome Home Trent Player WeVe Missed You! The Trent family. they have made. Weleome home, Trent. ^ P TEMPLE BETHEL Jazz Shabbat Late at Eight Worship Experience March 7-8PM Join the TBE eommunity for a Jazz Shabbat worship experienee led by the elergy and our out standing jazz pianist. Bill Ward. This Late at Eight Worship Expe rienee will be filled to the brim with Jewish jazz just for Shabbat. Unwind from the week with great musie, spiritual teaehing, mean ingful eommunity, and refresh ments. You are weleome to bring a bottle of wine to share with your table. While the liturgy for Jazz Late at Eight will be ereative and flexible, there will be an opportu nity to say both Mi Shebeiraeh and Kaddish.^ 1 H TEMPLE BETH EL Temple Or Olam Celebrates Ten Years in Cabarrus County Who would have thought that a meeting of two Jews in Charlotte would turn into a eongregation in Coneord - the first ever, in faet, in the eounty’s history? When Barbara Thiede met Brian Cutler in spring 2003, both of them began to dream that there might ae- tually be a minyan who eould gather periodieally where they lived, in Cabarrus County. Could they find enough Jews to eelebrate the holi days with, to share knowledge and build Jewish eommunity in a very Christian part of the world? Barbara was already writing a eolumn enti tled “On Common Ground” for the Observer, a perfeet venue for finding out. On Mareh 23, 2003, Barbara’s eolumn in the Cabarrus Neighbors was entitled “Are you a fish out of water? Let me know.” And they did. That year, Cabarrus County’s first Jewish eongregation formed — Flavurat Olam. Some of the founding members from that year are still members of Temple Or Olam today. Flas it been an easy ten years? Certainly not; no startup venture is. Flas it been a labor of love all around? Absolutely. That small group of Cabarrus Jews were dedi eated to gathering Jewish and inter faith families, to give them a spiritual home. They were going to ereate Jewish eommunity where there had been none. They were going to give their ehildren the gift of their her itage. They were going to live out their love of all that Judaism has to offer: learning, meaningful ritual, the praetiee of investing eaeh day with a sense of the saered. They wanted serviees that re- fleeted the loveliness of blessings and prayers that eould be experi- eneed by everyone, whatever their previous experienee. They wanted eelebrations and holidays that pulsed with the eommunity’s joy. 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