Act now... Make a difference... Every dollar counts! Join the many B’nai Amoona families who are already helping to secure "Our Future…ATIDEYNU - עתידנו" - for generations to come.
Contact Andy Oberman at askoberman@gmail.com or (314) 603-0010 and make your pledge to help sustain our Kehillah.
Celebrate The High Holy Days at B'nai Amoona -
All Are Welcome, No Tickets Required
Recommended Reading For Yom Kippur Discussion
In preparation for Yom Kippur, Rabbi Rose recommends reading Beyond Survival: How Judaism Can Thrive in the 21st Century by Rabbi Terry Bookman.
Please contact Amy Maupin to purchase at 314-576-9990 x131 or amy@bnaiamoona.com . The cost is $22 - cash or checks made payable to the Rabbi's Discretionary Fund.
Torah Fund 5780
Our Sisterhood Torah Fund Campaign has begun. This year’s Torah Fund theme is Chesed which means “kindness” in Hebrew. Once again Torah Fund will be a silent campaign. Let’s all ensure our legacy for future generations of Conservative Jews while continuing to build a world of Chesed (kindness).
There are many ways to make a donation. For information please contact co-chairs:
Only a few sets remain - each set is $255. Please contact Amy Maupin at 314-576-9990 x131 or email Amy@bnaiamoona.com if you are interested in purchasing one. Please make checks payable to B'nai Amoona.
Adult Education Update
For a full list of our Fall/Winter Adult Education classes and programs, please click HERE.
Pre-Register your Pre K-12th Grader for Activities & Programming
We are asking ALL families with children in PreK - 12th grade to complete the form below. Please fill out the form, regardless of whether you are registering your child(ren) for the Meyer Kranzberg Learning Center (MKLC).
To ensure accuracy, you will need to be logged in to complete this form. Your username is your email on file. If you are unsure of your email on file or need help logging in, please contact Tanya at tanya@bnaiamoona.com .
Atid Amoona (Grades 3-5): Mark your calendars for October 6! We will enjoy our social action program, "Yes, We CAN!" This program will take place at B'nai Amoona from 11:30 am - 4:00 pm and include a Kosher pizza lunch... Don't forget to bring a canned food item - we will use them during the program AND we will donate them to the Harvey Kornblum Food Pantry afterwards.
Kadima (Grades 6-7) & Chalutzim (Grade 8): Kadima Kinnus is just one month away! October 25 - 27, don't miss your chance to hang out with your EMTZA family in Ogden, IA. You can register by clicking HERE. BAUSY (Grades 9-12): Our USY'ers enjoyed a rivetting discussion and learning session about the recent Israeli Elections. Reminder - there is no weekly Wednesday program next week, but we are excited to see everyone here for Rosh Hashanah Services!
MKLC
MKLC classes will resume on Sunday, October 20 - but we hope to see you at our High Holy Day Services and Programs!
Please email liessa@bnaiamoona.com with any questions!
College Connect
We want to connect with our college students via Facebook, Skype, and special packages to help them keep their Jewish identity away from home. Please share your student(s’) information with us (even if it hasn’t changed) so we know where they are and can update our lists for goodies throughout the year.
Click HERE to fill out our online form or email the information to Jeanne Gaska at jeanne@bnaiamoona.com
A special thank you to the Rabbi Bernard Lipnick Foundation for the Conservative Movement for sponsoring this initiative!
Linda Rotskoff Early Childhood Center
Todah Rabbah to Rabbi Rose for Blowing the Shofar for our LRECC classes this week! We hope that you all have a very happy new year and we are excited to see everyone at Rosh Hashanah Services!
-Mark Your Calendars-
JUMP FOR THE LRECC ANNUAL FUNDRAISER Sunday, November 10
Interested in helping toorganize our fundraiser? Interested in being a sponsorfor our fundraiser? Interested in attendingour fundraiser? Contact Anita@bnaiamoona.com today!
Social Action
Please be generous this year for Operation Isaiah, our drive to benefit the Harvey Kornblum Jewish Food Pantry. Everyone will receive a paper bag that has instructions after Rosh Hashanah services. Please return your bag on Kol Nidre and Yom Kippur filled with nonperishable foods and paper goods.
On Sunday, October 13, we will sort the contents beginning at 1:00 pm in the Banquet Hall area. Presorting allows the food pantry to distribute our donations in a few days - feel free to bring donations on this day as well
The food pantry needs our donations now more than ever!
Thank you in advance! For more information contact Laura Goldmeier, social action committee GoldDJLR@aol.com 314-997-1253.
B’nai Amoona Social Action Commitee is sponsoring the Annual Clothing and Accessories Drive will be October 12-26, 2019. Please bring men’s and women’s clothing (on hangers), shoes, men’s dress shirts and all accessories, “suitable for job interviews” to Shul. Please hang your clothing donations & place other items on the clothes rack in the Gallery Coat Room near the Receptionist Desk.
Tax exemption forms will be available. For further information, please contact Rosalie Franklin at 314-991-9032.
Sisterhood
We invite you to be a part of Sisterhood! 2019 - 2020 Membership sign-up is LIVE and online.
Come be a part of the group!
Click HERE to join online OR you may mail in your membership payment OR call the B'nai Amoona office.
Sisterhood Brunch to Thank You for Joining Raising Charitable Children Whether you are a mother, grandmother, aunt or friend, we all strive to feel part of a greater purpose and community. We are excited to welcome internationally known speaker, author, and consultant Carol Weisman, discussing her practical advice & inspirational humor about how to mix philanthropy and fun.
Raising Charitable Children has been featured in The New York Times, Parade Magazine, Parents Magazine, and was the cover story of Scholastic Parent and Child.
Sunday, November 3, 2019 10:00 am – Noon Congregation B’nai Amoona RSVP by October 16, 2019 Reservations are required. Please reply online at bnaiamoona.com/sisterhood or by emailing jeanne@bnaiamoona.com. Complimentary with paid 2020 Sisterhood Membership Dues.
Please help brighten a child’s holiday by kindly bringing a new, unopened child’s game or toy to the brunch. Todah Rabbah!
Book Club B'nai Amoona's Sisterhood has a Book Club that we share with Kol Rinah's Sisterhood. Meetings are on the 4th Thursday of each month at the St. Louis County Library Headquarters on Lindbergh Blvd (across from Plaza Frontenac) from 10:00 - 11:30 am. New members are always welcome! You do not need to attend every month, just come when you can, nor is it required that you have read (or finished reading) the book selection for the month!
Oct 24 - The Only Woman in the Room: A Novel by Marie Benedict
For more information on the Book Group or author events, please call Enid Weisberg-Frank at 314-576-2864.
Israel Updates: Elections, Peace Plan and What's Next? An Evening with David Makovsky
Thursday, September 26, 7:00 pm at B'nai Amoona
The Jewish Community Relations Council, through the sponsorship of Dr. Carl and Lynn Lyss in memory of Paul and Bluma Lyss and Dr. Stanley B. Lyss, present an evening with David Makovsky. The event is in collaboration with the Center for Jewish Learning and B'nai Amoona.
David Makovsky is the Ziegler distinguished fellow at The Washington Institute and director of the Project on Arab-Israel Relations. He is also an adjunct professor in Middle East studies at Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). In 2013-2014, he worked in the Office of the U.S. Secretary of State, serving as a senior advisor to the Special Envoy for Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations.
Join us for this timely discussion a week after the scheduled Israeli elections and the release of Makovsky's new book with Dennis Ross Be Strong and of Good Courage: How Israel's Most Important Leaders Shaped Its Destiny.
The event is free of charge, but registration is requested. Contact Info: jcrcstl@jcrcstl.org
A Message From Arnold P. Eisen, Chancellor and President of JTS
As I personally prepare for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur this year, and consider the special meaning of the 2019 High Holiday season for the extended JTS family, I cannot help but reflect on the state of the new-and-renewed campus rising just outside my office window. What does it mean to have the completion of a major project in sight, but know you have a way to go before the goal is reached? How do we reckon with the realization that when the work is finally done, other work—the real work—begins and continues...click HERE to read more...
In our BA Community
WE MOURN THE PASSING OF...
Rita Carol Balk, nee Chanen; daughter of the late Jeanne and Harry Chanen; daughter-in-law of the late Eva and Jack Balk; loving wife of Edward Balk; mother of Rabbi Hanan (Barbara) Balk, Mitchell (the late Sheila) Balk, Lynnsie Balk Kantor, Carla (Dr. Michael) Rhodes; mother-in-law to Dr. David Kantor; loving grandmother of Aviva (Aryeh) Needle, Eliana (Spencer) Moore, Shoshana Balk, Sharona Balk, Leora (Shmuel) Lesher, Rabbi Willie (Estee) Balk , Dena (Judd) Cohen, Nava Kantor, Eitan Kantor, Noam Kantor, Eva Rhodes, Neeli (Eli) Portal, Aliza Rhodes and great-grandmother of 11; brother of Philip (the late Audrey) Chanen; sister-in-law of Noma (the late Arthur) Simon.
In the Jewish Community
2019 Interfaith Partnership Annual Dinner at the Wool Ballroom at Saint Louis University - October 29, 2019, doors open at 6:00 pm. Online ticket sales are now open so don't delay reserving your seat at the table! Click HERE to purchase your tickets to St. Louis' largest interfaith gathering. Come and enjoy an evening of socializing with your neighbors from the region's diverse religious communities. After enjoying appetizing hors d'oeuvres and mingling, we will sit down and share a meal together. Complimentary childcare will be available.
Additional Volunteer Opportunities at Covenant Place Next week, the last of 102 senior residents will move into the new Covenant Place II! We are still in need of volunteers to help pack and unpack the residents along their move. We have added additional volunteer time slots -- both weekdays and weekends, mornings and afternoons. We have also added a volunteer opportunity to help residents hang artwork in their new homes. We are in the final stretch; thank you for helping us make it to the finish line!
How to navigate the site: 1. Under the Volunteering box, click on “Opportunities-Help Wanted.” 2. Sign into the system with your phone number. Click on “add yourself” to input your name and contact information, if you are not already in the system. 3. Click on the month that you want to volunteer to find available dates, times, and roles.
Calling All Writers, Illustrators & Thinkers
www.thenewjewishthinker.org is a developing ezine looking for volunteers to write, illustrate, and share ideals. This online publication has a Jewish theme in its expression. Contact Berta Hyken, the volunteer coordinator at hyken.bb@gmail.com if you are interested in joining The New Jewish Thinker.
Seeking Community Gatekeepers
Jewish Family & Children’s Service is seeking “community connectors” to serve as Gatekeepers for vulnerable seniors. A Gatekeeper helps keep an eye out for relatives, neighbors, or friends who may be struggling with the challenges of aging. The JF&CS team will reach out to and work with these identified seniors one-on-one to develop a plan that helps them maintain independence, confidence, and a sense of connection to the local community. If you are interested in learning more about how you can serve as a gatekeeper, or if know of someone who could benefit from senior support, please reach out to Ken Schwartz at 314-812-9320 or kschwartz@jfcs-stl.org .
Good News from Israel
Check out this website for great things happening in Isael!
