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Our Klei Kodesh and Senior Staff members of Congregation B’nai Amoona affirm a woman’s right to reproductive freedom. In doing so, we condemn the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. Please join us for these important events that will aid us in processing, grieving, and acting.

TONIGHT:
Access Missouri's Zoom Event
This Sunday, June 26 at 7:00 pm
On Zoom
Co-hosted by B'nai Amoona, Shaare Emeth, and JCRC

Together with Dana Sandweiss (co-founder of Access MO) and Susan Appleton (Planned Parenthood STL Region and Guttmacher Institute boards), we will talk about the impact in MO and the trigger ban that was just activated making MO the first state post Dobbs to ban abortions.

Online registration is required:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/

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Saturday Evening Services with Roe Havdalah
Saturday Evening, July 2 at 7:30 pm
In Person in our Guller Chapel, Facebook Live and BA Livestream

Our Klei Kodesh will lead us in Minchah and Ma'ariv Services and end with a special Roe Havdalah using text and blessings provided by the National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW). We will take this opportunity as a "space for your community to mourn, to sing, to pray, to connect, to unite, to separate from what we knew to what we know. We hope this allows you to make space for all who are already impacted, and now will be, by this decision."

Israel Mitzvot Opportunities

We also wish to share with you a letter from Rabbi Carnie Shalom Rose before he departs once again for Israel. As Jews, we always must take action and perform acts of Tikkun Olam. During this challenging and uncertain time, Rabbi invites you to perform two unique Mitzvot.

Yedidim/Yedidot - beloved B’nai Amoona friends - Shalom!
 
I will once again be visiting Eretz Israel from June 29 - July 15 and will happily be collecting Shaliach Mitzvah Gelt & Kvitelach for the Kotel until Tuesday Afternoon, June 28. You are welcomed and encouraged to participate in these two unique and powerful Jewish customs associated with such Pilgrimages.  
 
Minhag (custom #1) Shaliach Mitzvah Gelt: There is a tradition to give money, in any denomination, to those traveling to Eretz Yisrael who then become emissaries of kindness, providing sustenance to our brothers and sisters in Israel who are in need of Tzedakah. If you would like me to serve as your emissary, please drop your cash donations off in my office in an envelope marked "Shaliach Mitzvah Gelt". I always make a visit to the Kotel - the Western Wall - a top priority upon my arrival in Israel. I would be delighted to share your generosity with those who wait patiently by the Wall knowing Jews from around the world yearn to support one another. Our Tradition also indicates that “emissaries of kindness are protected from harm”; so your kindness will also secure my safe return. Todah Rabbah!
 
Minhag (custom #2) Kvitelach for the Kotel: A Kvitel is a small, handwritten note with your name on it and, generally speaking, includes the name of your mother (as is the prevailing procedure for Prayers for Healing). It is my responsibility to deliver these secret thoughts (which I do not read) to the Kotel and pray on behalf of our community/congregation. I already have several such notes and I would be happy to collect even more such missives. These Kvitelach should include whatever is in your heart, and please feel free to petition God for whatever it is that you most deeply desire or require. Again, please place your notes in an envelope and indicate that a "Kvitel for the Kotel" is enclosed.

I look forward to seeing you before we depart. If for any reason we do not have a chance to connect, I bless each of you with health, happiness and peace. And dear friends, I ask in return that you join me as we pray for the Peace of Jerusalem and our beloved Homeland...
 
With deepest affection and appreciation,

Rabbi Carnie Shalom Rose, Senior Rabbinic Chair