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March 4 - 11, 2016 25 Adar I - 1 Adar II 5776 Shabbat Parashat Vayakhel Shabbat Shekalim Shabbat Mevarchim
Shabbat Tefilla Times
Shabbat Candle Lighting 5:47 pm (Plag 4:53 pm)
Shacharit 7:00 am, 8:00 am, 8:45 am, 9:15 am
Shabbat Ends: 6:45 pm
Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat 5:50 pm Youth-Led Ruach Minyan (Beit Midrash) 5:50 pm (Sanctuary)
Women's Tefilla Group 4:00 pm
Candle Lighting Next Shabbat: 5:54 pm (Plag 4:58 pm)
Shabbat Mincha 5:35 pm (Sanctuary)
Shabbat Speakers and Shiurim Hashkama: Ted Rosenbaum 8:00 am: Stephen Blank 8:45 am: Rabbi Weinberg
Mechy Frankel's Gemara Shiur: 9:00 am Review of this week's Daf Yomi: 10:30 am
David Eisenman's Gemara Shiur: 6:00 pm Between Mincha/Maariv Richard Dine
Women's Tefilla Group: Laura Warshawsky Youth Minyan: Ariella Wolf
From the Rabbi Candy Throwing Celebratory moments in life are few and far between and we must do all we can to maximize our ability to rejoice in them. In an effort to foster a warm and supportive environment for KMS smachot I have decided to allow the throwing of candy in shul. I do so with great hesitancy. I am concerned for the dignity and decorum of our tefila which is not only important from a religious perspective, but also a core value of KMS. I ask you to please help me in making this a successful and positive experience by working hard to flow smoothly and quickly from the candy throwing right back to a quiet, non-talking, decorous state so that we can move forward expediently with the tefila.
The following are the parameters for throwing candy that we will be trying out starting this Shabbat. Candy must be purchased by the family and checked in to the office during the week. Candy should be passed out in as quietly as possible. Only soft candy may be thrown. Candy will be thrown during the singing of “Siman Tov” which takes place after the special Simcha MiSheberach recited by the rabbi (this will enable equal candy throwing opportunities for bat mitzvah girls and bar mitzvah boys). I will say the MiSheberach and begin the singing, at which point candy may be thrown. When the singing ends we will wait for everybody to be quiet before proceeding with the service. To make sure our tefila keeps its momentum and that we end in a timely fashion, I ask you to return to your seats, quiet down as quickly as possible, and help me to reintroduce a more serious tone for the rest of tefila. I hope we can make this a festive and enjoyable feature of KMS that will only enhance our spirit and not detract. Thanks so much for your cooperation. Rabbi Weinberg
26th Annual KMS Gala **Deadline for placing an ad is March 10** Please join the Kemp Mill Synagogue in celebrating its 26th Annual Gala on Sunday, March 27, 2016. We will be honoring Golda and Marty Jacobs; Community Service Awardees Adina and Ari Goldberg; and Youth Honorees: Asher Fink, Shuli Klein, Kira Loshin, Arianna Stone and Yakira Zimand. Buffet dinner begins at 6:00 pm, at Kemp Mill Synagogue. Triple and Double Chai members are entitled to two seats at the dinner, and either one Gold Page or two full-page ads in the journal, but must register to attend. Kindly respond before March 14. Please click here to make your reservation and place your journal ad. If you are unable to attend, please consider placing an ad in the dinner journal.
Mazal Tov Mazal Tov to Arielle, Aton, and Judah Teitelbaum on the occasion of Judah becoming a Bar Mitzvah. Mazal tov to siblings Mia and Eli; grandparents Miriam Morsel Nathan and Harvey Nathan and Sandi and Isi Teitelbaum; aunts and uncles Ephi, Yael, Mosh, Tamar, David, Nora, Yedidiah, and Adena; and cousins Zoe, Jordan, Jonah, Gabriel, Noah, Sophia, Adam, Koby, Gabriel, and Selah. Mazal Tov to Michael and Marianna Horn on the birth of grandson, Asher Boaz, born to Daniel and Dalit Horn in Brookline, Massachusetts. Mazal Tov to Sabine and Chaim Himmelfarb and Julie and Yakov Schorr on the Bar Mitzvah in Jerusalem of their grandson, Gavri Schorr, son of Yonit and Raphi Schorr.
Weekday Tefilla Times March 4 - 11 Halachic times for this week
Earliest tallit and tefillin: 5:43 am Latest Kriat Shema: 9:21 am Earliest Mincha: 12:49 pm A full listing of zmanim is available at kmsynagogue.org ~Sunday: Shacharit: 8:00 am (Sanctuary), 9:00 am (Youth-Led, Sanctuary) Mincha/Maariv: 5:50 pm ~Monday: Shacharit: 6:45 am Mincha/Maariv: 5:50 pm, Maariv only: 9:00 pm ~Tuesday: Shacharit: 7:00 am Mincha/Maariv: 5:50 pm, Maariv only: 9:00 pm ~Wednesday: Shacharit: 7:00 am Mincha/Maariv: 5:50 pm, Maariv only: 9:00 pm ~Thursday: Rosh Chodesh Adar II Shacharit: 6:30 am Mincha/Maariv: 5:50 pm, Maariv only: 9:00 pm ~Friday: Rosh Chodesh Adar II Shacharit: 6:30 am
Educational Programming March 6 - 11 Want to hear Rabbi Weinberg's daily Divrei Mitzva and Divrei Halacha? Go to http://www.spreaker.com/show/kms-daily-divrei-halacha-and-mitzva AND at http://www.spreaker.com/show/daily-divrei-halacha to listen in. Want to subscribe? Android owners can download the spreaker app (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spreaker.android ). iPhone owners can go to the podcast app (purple microphone), search for "KMS divrei" and find the two podcasts for subscription. Sunday: ~7:30 pm: Rabbi Yitzhak Grossman's weekly class explores a theme associated with the coming week's parshah, at KMS ~8:30 pm: Nechama Porat, "Building a G-D fearing, moral society," based on the text of Baba Batra, Chapter 1, Classroom C at KMS Monday: ~10:45 am Laura Goldman, Sefer Bereishit, at the Mayberg home ~8:00 pm: Dina Haramati, Stories of Agnon, at the Haramati home Tuesday: ~8:00 pm: Rabbi Amnon Haramati, Torah and Commentaries, Ancient and Modern, at KMS Wednesday: ~8:00 pm: Rabbi Amnon Haramati, Prophets and Biblical Poetics, taught in Hebrew, at KMS (Classroom C) ~8:00 pm Rabbi Weinberg, Halacha in-Depth, at KMS (Classroom F) Thursday: ~1:00 pm: Erica Brown, Women’s Shiur on Sefer Devarim, at the Soltz home
Kiddush ~Hashkama Minyan Kiddush is provided by KMS. ~8:00 am Minyan Kiddush is sponsored by Stephen Blank and Barbara Trainin Blank and Richard and Sarah Dine in commemoration of the yahrzeit of Minnie Blank, z''l and by Vic Jacobson in commemoration of the
yahrzeit of his father, Edward Jacobson, z''l. ~8:45 am Minyan Kiddush is sponsored by Sandi and Isi Teitelbaum and Miriam Morsel Nathan and Harvey Nathan in honor of the Bar Mitzvah of their grandson, Judah Teitelbaum, and by Miriam and Achi Guggenheim in commemoration of the first yahrzeit of David Zibbell,z''l. ~Youth Minyan Kiddush is provided by KMS. Kiddush Duty, This Shabbat: Schreiber; Next Shabbat: Elikan/Goldstein Security Duty, This Shabbat: Dine; Next Shabbat: Trombka/Dalin
This Weekend Starting this Shabbat! March 5: Sharon Freundel will teach a class on Shir Shel Yom one hour before Mincha on Shabbat for 5 weeks (March 5, 12, 19 and April 2, 9) March 5: 7:30 pm, Last Parent-Child Learning of the year with pizza and prizes. We invite you for a special program with lots of fun and prizes at KMS. Learning will take place 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm in the Youth Beit Midrash. To sponsor the last evening of Family Learning contact Ari Pinchot, [email protected].
Maccabeats Shabbaton Shabbat March 25 - 26. The singing group Maccabeats will be at KMS! There will be a Friday night dinner open to all youth, reservation information coming next week. There will also be a special seudah shlishit, maariv, and Havdalah open to the community.
Coming Soon ~March 12: “No. 17 is Anonymous.” at 8:30 pm, The KMS Israel Committee presents the screening of an award-winning Israeli documentary. The film is a real-life “CSI” mystery with a uniquely Israeli twist. Follow the filmmakers as they try to put a name to an unidentified terrorism victim after the police gave up on the case. For more information contact Ina Lerman. This event is sponsored by Adam Bashein and is free to the community. ~Sunday March 13: "Achilla, Tefillah v' Ahava/ Eat Pray Love: A Morning Devoted to Women's Health", 9:00 am - 11:30 am, KMS and Bikur Cholim of Greater Washington present an event for women at KMS. 9:00 am - 9:40 am: Achilla: Janet Litwack, Registered Dietician, will discuss "Eat Well For Good Health: shifting the paradigm from restrictive fad dieting toward enjoyable real food.” 9:50 am - 10:30 am: Ahava: Rivka Sidorsky, Therapist, will discuss "Talking about Intimacy in Marriage" 10:40 am -11:20 am: Tefillah: Bracha Rutner, Yoetzet Halacha, will discuss "Mikvah as a Spiritual Experience" Coffee and snacks will be provided and babysitting will be available. Advance reservation for babysitting is required by Wednesday March 9. Please email Shuli Tropp at [email protected] with the ages of the children that will need babysitting. ~March 19: Annual Spring Training Baseball Kiddush. Please contact Joel Tabin at 301-593-2423 or [email protected] if you are interested in being a sponsor. Don't forget to wear your favorite team cap to the kiddush. ~March 20: Purim Extravaganza, 10:30 am - 12:30 pm, Join the YISE and KMS youth departments for a community-wide Purim celebration at YISE. $6 per person (2 and up), $20 family max. ~Purim is coming and one of the main mitzvot of the holiday is matanot l’evyonim (gifts to the poor). Please
donate to the KMS Tzedakah Fund and we will arrange for distributions of matanot l’evyonim to the poor of Israel and our community on Purim to fulfill the mitzvah. Please send your checks to the shul office made out to the KMS Tzedakah Fund with a notation that it is for Purim or donate online through the KMS Tzedakah Fund click here. If you have any questions, please contact Karen or Jeff Wasserstein ([email protected]; [email protected]). ~April 3: Book signing with Rabbi Bieler. An opportunity to have Rabbi Bieler sign his new book "The Great Principle of the Torah: Examining Seven Talmudic Claims to the Defining Principles of Judaism" and to buy it at a reduced price! ~April 30: Rabbi Elchanan Adler, Special Guest Lecturer, the Eva, Morris and Jack Rubin Professor of Rabbinics and Rosh Yeshuva at RIETS/YU. Rabbi Adler will give two shiurim (topics TBA) on the afternoon of the last day of Pesach.
General Kiddush Fund A contribution was made to the General Kiddush Fund by Michael and Marianna Horn in celebration of the birth of their grandson, Asher Boaz.
Opportunities to Get Involved and Help High Holidays are seven months away but the Ritual Committee is planning now. We are looking for volunteers in all areas: Davening, Gabbaim, Blowing Shofar, Divrei Torah and more. If you are interested, please email VP Ritual Michael Belgrade at [email protected]. The KMS Tzedaka Fund helps people in need in the greater Kemp Mill Community. Donations to the Tzedaka Fund would help us meet these requests. Please give generously to the KMS Tzedaka Fund by sending your tax-deductible donation to the KMS office. Checks should be made payable to the KMS Tzedaka Fund. If you are in need of financial assistance, please contact Karen and Jeff Wasserstein ([email protected], [email protected]) Yad Yehuda (formerly Yehuda Mond Foundation) provides assistance to more than 200 individuals in the region through a Tomchei Shabbos program and assists several dozen more families through the Capital Kosher Pantry. Go to http://www.tomcheishabbosgw.org and http://www.capitalkosherpantry.org for more information. If you need assistance or know someone who could use Tomchei Shabbos, please call Rabbi Moshe Arzouan at 301-905-2937. For the Food Gemach, please call Shani Leiman at 240-274-7652.
The Chesed Committee provides support for members in need (health, family problems, disabilities that prevent people from attending shul, etc.). If you or anyone you know might be in need of help, or would like to volunteer to assist others, please contact Sabine Himmelfarb, the Chesed coordinator on duty for March, 301649-1559 or [email protected].
Refua Shleima Nechama Yenta bat Raizal, Yehoshua Dan ben Naomi, Bayla Tova bat Rivka, Rachel Blimah bat Freydel, Levi Yitzchock ben Rachel HaCohen, Baruch Yosef ben Riffel, Menucha bat Aharon, Chaim ben Rachel, Tova Necha bas Rifka Sipa, Yehoshua Gavriel ben Bracha, Mordechai Ozer Yoseph ben Chaia Rochel, Sarah bat Chana, Chana Kayla bas Shoshana Ruchel, Adina bat Sarah, Tzvia Hinda bat Chaya Gittel, Belah Tova bat Rivka. Please keep these names in mind during recitation of the misheberach for cholim.
Please email the office at [email protected] if you would like to add names to this list.
Community Connection The KMS Community Connection is online! Visit www.kmsynagogue.org/community to keep up with events and community programs. To submit a Community Connection item, please visit: http://www.kmsynagogue.org/submit-a-community-connection.html March 6: 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm, Berman Upper School Girls’ Choir Performance also featuring the Lower and Middle School Girls’ choirs. Sylvia S. Ely Auditorium, Harry A. Epstein Campus, 13300 Arctic Avenue, Rockville. Admission: $5 for students, $7 for adults. Join us after the performance for a dairy reception. Performance is for women and girls only
March 4 - 11, 2016 25 Adar I - 1 Adar II 5776 Shabbat Parashat Vayakhel Shabbat Shekalim Shabbat Mevarchim
Shabbat Tefilla Times
Shabbat Candle Lighting 5:47 pm (Plag 4:53 pm)
Shacharit 7:00 am, 8:00 am, 8:45 am, 9:15 am
Shabbat Ends: 6:45 pm
Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat 5:50 pm Youth-Led Ruach Minyan (Beit Midrash) 5:50 pm (Sanctuary)
Women's Tefilla Group 4:00 pm
Candle Lighting Next Shabbat: 5:54 pm (Plag 4:58 pm)
Shabbat Mincha 5:35 pm (Sanctuary)
Shabbat Speakers and Shiurim Hashkama: Ted Rosenbaum 8:00 am: Stephen Blank 8:45 am: Rabbi Weinberg
Mechy Frankel's Gemara Shiur: 9:00 am Review of this week's Daf Yomi: 10:30 am
David Eisenman's Gemara Shiur: 6:00 pm Between Mincha/Maariv Richard Dine
Women's Tefilla Group: Laura Warshawsky Youth Minyan: Ariella Wolf
From the Rabbi Candy Throwing Celebratory moments in life are few and far between and we must do all we can to maximize our ability to rejoice in them. In an effort to foster a warm and supportive environment for KMS smachot I have decided to allow the throwing of candy in shul. I do so with great hesitancy. I am concerned for the dignity and decorum of our tefila which is not only important from a religious perspective, but also a core value of KMS. I ask you to please help me in making this a successful and positive experience by working hard to flow smoothly and quickly from the candy throwing right back to a quiet, non-talking, decorous state so that we can move forward expediently with the tefila.
The following are the parameters for throwing candy that we will be trying out starting this Shabbat. Candy must be purchased by the family and checked in to the office during the week. Candy should be passed out in as quietly as possible. Only soft candy may be thrown. Candy will be thrown during the singing of “Siman Tov” which takes place after the special Simcha MiSheberach recited by the rabbi (this will enable equal candy throwing opportunities for bat mitzvah girls and bar mitzvah boys). I will say the MiSheberach and begin the singing, at which point candy may be thrown. When the singing ends we will wait for everybody to be quiet before proceeding with the service. To make sure our tefila keeps its momentum and that we end in a timely fashion, I ask you to return to your seats, quiet down as quickly as possible, and help me to reintroduce a more serious tone for the rest of tefila. I hope we can make this a festive and enjoyable feature of KMS that will only enhance our spirit and not detract. Thanks so much for your cooperation. Rabbi Weinberg
26th Annual KMS Gala **Deadline for placing an ad is March 10** Please join the Kemp Mill Synagogue in celebrating its 26th Annual Gala on Sunday, March 27, 2016. We will be honoring Golda and Marty Jacobs; Community Service Awardees Adina and Ari Goldberg; and Youth Honorees: Asher Fink, Shuli Klein, Kira Loshin, Arianna Stone and Yakira Zimand. Buffet dinner begins at 6:00 pm, at Kemp Mill Synagogue. Triple and Double Chai members are entitled to two seats at the dinner, and either one Gold Page or two full-page ads in the journal, but must register to attend. Kindly respond before March 14. Please click here to make your reservation and place your journal ad. If you are unable to attend, please consider placing an ad in the dinner journal.
Mazal Tov Mazal Tov to Arielle, Aton, and Judah Teitelbaum on the occasion of Judah becoming a Bar Mitzvah. Mazal tov to siblings Mia and Eli; grandparents Miriam Morsel Nathan and Harvey Nathan and Sandi and Isi Teitelbaum; aunts and uncles Ephi, Yael, Mosh, Tamar, David, Nora, Yedidiah, and Adena; and cousins Zoe, Jordan, Jonah, Gabriel, Noah, Sophia, Adam, Koby, Gabriel, and Selah. Mazal Tov to Michael and Marianna Horn on the birth of grandson, Asher Boaz, born to Daniel and Dalit Horn in Brookline, Massachusetts. Mazal Tov to Sabine and Chaim Himmelfarb and Julie and Yakov Schorr on the Bar Mitzvah in Jerusalem of their grandson, Gavri Schorr, son of Yonit and Raphi Schorr.
Weekday Tefilla Times March 4 - 11 Halachic times for this week
Earliest tallit and tefillin: 5:43 am Latest Kriat Shema: 9:21 am Earliest Mincha: 12:49 pm A full listing of zmanim is available at kmsynagogue.org ~Sunday: Shacharit: 8:00 am (Sanctuary), 9:00 am (Youth-Led, Sanctuary) Mincha/Maariv: 5:50 pm ~Monday: Shacharit: 6:45 am Mincha/Maariv: 5:50 pm, Maariv only: 9:00 pm ~Tuesday: Shacharit: 7:00 am Mincha/Maariv: 5:50 pm, Maariv only: 9:00 pm ~Wednesday: Shacharit: 7:00 am Mincha/Maariv: 5:50 pm, Maariv only: 9:00 pm ~Thursday: Rosh Chodesh Adar II Shacharit: 6:30 am Mincha/Maariv: 5:50 pm, Maariv only: 9:00 pm ~Friday: Rosh Chodesh Adar II Shacharit: 6:30 am
Educational Programming March 6 - 11 Want to hear Rabbi Weinberg's daily Divrei Mitzva and Divrei Halacha? Go to http://www.spreaker.com/show/kms-daily-divrei-halacha-and-mitzva AND at http://www.spreaker.com/show/daily-divrei-halacha to listen in. Want to subscribe? Android owners can download the spreaker app (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spreaker.android ). iPhone owners can go to the podcast app (purple microphone), search for "KMS divrei" and find the two podcasts for subscription. Sunday: ~7:30 pm: Rabbi Yitzhak Grossman's weekly class explores a theme associated with the coming week's parshah, at KMS ~8:30 pm: Nechama Porat, "Building a G-D fearing, moral society," based on the text of Baba Batra, Chapter 1, Classroom C at KMS Monday: ~10:45 am Laura Goldman, Sefer Bereishit, at the Mayberg home ~8:00 pm: Dina Haramati, Stories of Agnon, at the Haramati home Tuesday: ~8:00 pm: Rabbi Amnon Haramati, Torah and Commentaries, Ancient and Modern, at KMS Wednesday: ~8:00 pm: Rabbi Amnon Haramati, Prophets and Biblical Poetics, taught in Hebrew, at KMS (Classroom C) ~8:00 pm Rabbi Weinberg, Halacha in-Depth, at KMS (Classroom F) Thursday: ~1:00 pm: Erica Brown, Women’s Shiur on Sefer Devarim, at the Soltz home
Kiddush ~Hashkama Minyan Kiddush is provided by KMS. ~8:00 am Minyan Kiddush is sponsored by Stephen Blank and Barbara Trainin Blank and Richard and Sarah Dine in commemoration of the yahrzeit of Minnie Blank, z''l and by Vic Jacobson in commemoration of the
yahrzeit of his father, Edward Jacobson, z''l. ~8:45 am Minyan Kiddush is sponsored by Sandi and Isi Teitelbaum and Miriam Morsel Nathan and Harvey Nathan in honor of the Bar Mitzvah of their grandson, Judah Teitelbaum, and by Miriam and Achi Guggenheim in commemoration of the first yahrzeit of David Zibbell,z''l. ~Youth Minyan Kiddush is provided by KMS. Kiddush Duty, This Shabbat: Schreiber; Next Shabbat: Elikan/Goldstein Security Duty, This Shabbat: Dine; Next Shabbat: Trombka/Dalin
This Weekend Starting this Shabbat! March 5: Sharon Freundel will teach a class on Shir Shel Yom one hour before Mincha on Shabbat for 5 weeks (March 5, 12, 19 and April 2, 9) March 5: 7:30 pm, Last Parent-Child Learning of the year with pizza and prizes. We invite you for a special program with lots of fun and prizes at KMS. Learning will take place 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm in the Youth Beit Midrash. To sponsor the last evening of Family Learning contact Ari Pinchot, [email protected].
Maccabeats Shabbaton Shabbat March 25 - 26. The singing group Maccabeats will be at KMS! There will be a Friday night dinner open to all youth, reservation information coming next week. There will also be a special seudah shlishit, maariv, and Havdalah open to the community.
Coming Soon ~March 12: “No. 17 is Anonymous.” at 8:30 pm, The KMS Israel Committee presents the screening of an award-winning Israeli documentary. The film is a real-life “CSI” mystery with a uniquely Israeli twist. Follow the filmmakers as they try to put a name to an unidentified terrorism victim after the police gave up on the case. For more information contact Ina Lerman. This event is sponsored by Adam Bashein and is free to the community. ~Sunday March 13: "Achilla, Tefillah v' Ahava/ Eat Pray Love: A Morning Devoted to Women's Health", 9:00 am - 11:30 am, KMS and Bikur Cholim of Greater Washington present an event for women at KMS. 9:00 am - 9:40 am: Achilla: Janet Litwack, Registered Dietician, will discuss "Eat Well For Good Health: shifting the paradigm from restrictive fad dieting toward enjoyable real food.” 9:50 am - 10:30 am: Ahava: Rivka Sidorsky, Therapist, will discuss "Talking about Intimacy in Marriage" 10:40 am -11:20 am: Tefillah: Bracha Rutner, Yoetzet Halacha, will discuss "Mikvah as a Spiritual Experience" Coffee and snacks will be provided and babysitting will be available. Advance reservation for babysitting is required by Wednesday March 9. Please email Shuli Tropp at [email protected] with the ages of the children that will need babysitting. ~March 19: Annual Spring Training Baseball Kiddush. Please contact Joel Tabin at 301-593-2423 or [email protected] if you are interested in being a sponsor. Don't forget to wear your favorite team cap to the kiddush. ~March 20: Purim Extravaganza, 10:30 am - 12:30 pm, Join the YISE and KMS youth departments for a community-wide Purim celebration at YISE. $6 per person (2 and up), $20 family max. ~Purim is coming and one of the main mitzvot of the holiday is matanot l’evyonim (gifts to the poor). Please
donate to the KMS Tzedakah Fund and we will arrange for distributions of matanot l’evyonim to the poor of Israel and our community on Purim to fulfill the mitzvah. Please send your checks to the shul office made out to the KMS Tzedakah Fund with a notation that it is for Purim or donate online through the KMS Tzedakah Fund click here. If you have any questions, please contact Karen or Jeff Wasserstein ([email protected]; [email protected]). ~April 3: Book signing with Rabbi Bieler. An opportunity to have Rabbi Bieler sign his new book "The Great Principle of the Torah: Examining Seven Talmudic Claims to the Defining Principles of Judaism" and to buy it at a reduced price! ~April 30: Rabbi Elchanan Adler, Special Guest Lecturer, the Eva, Morris and Jack Rubin Professor of Rabbinics and Rosh Yeshuva at RIETS/YU. Rabbi Adler will give two shiurim (topics TBA) on the afternoon of the last day of Pesach.
General Kiddush Fund A contribution was made to the General Kiddush Fund by Michael and Marianna Horn in celebration of the birth of their grandson, Asher Boaz.
Opportunities to Get Involved and Help High Holidays are seven months away but the Ritual Committee is planning now. We are looking for volunteers in all areas: Davening, Gabbaim, Blowing Shofar, Divrei Torah and more. If you are interested, please email VP Ritual Michael Belgrade at [email protected]. The KMS Tzedaka Fund helps people in need in the greater Kemp Mill Community. Donations to the Tzedaka Fund would help us meet these requests. Please give generously to the KMS Tzedaka Fund by sending your tax-deductible donation to the KMS office. Checks should be made payable to the KMS Tzedaka Fund. If you are in need of financial assistance, please contact Karen and Jeff Wasserstein ([email protected], [email protected]) Yad Yehuda (formerly Yehuda Mond Foundation) provides assistance to more than 200 individuals in the region through a Tomchei Shabbos program and assists several dozen more families through the Capital Kosher Pantry. Go to http://www.tomcheishabbosgw.org and http://www.capitalkosherpantry.org for more information. If you need assistance or know someone who could use Tomchei Shabbos, please call Rabbi Moshe Arzouan at 301-905-2937. For the Food Gemach, please call Shani Leiman at 240-274-7652.
The Chesed Committee provides support for members in need (health, family problems, disabilities that prevent people from attending shul, etc.). If you or anyone you know might be in need of help, or would like to volunteer to assist others, please contact Sabine Himmelfarb, the Chesed coordinator on duty for March, 301649-1559 or [email protected].
Refua Shleima Nechama Yenta bat Raizal, Yehoshua Dan ben Naomi, Bayla Tova bat Rivka, Rachel Blimah bat Freydel, Levi Yitzchock ben Rachel HaCohen, Baruch Yosef ben Riffel, Menucha bat Aharon, Chaim ben Rachel, Tova Necha bas Rifka Sipa, Yehoshua Gavriel ben Bracha, Mordechai Ozer Yoseph ben Chaia Rochel, Sarah bat Chana, Chana Kayla bas Shoshana Ruchel, Adina bat Sarah, Tzvia Hinda bat Chaya Gittel, Belah Tova bat Rivka. Please keep these names in mind during recitation of the misheberach for cholim.
Please email the office at [email protected] if you would like to add names to this list.
Community Connection The KMS Community Connection is online! Visit www.kmsynagogue.org/community to keep up with events and community programs. To submit a Community Connection item, please visit: http://www.kmsynagogue.org/submit-a-community-connection.html March 6: 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm, Berman Upper School Girls’ Choir Performance also featuring the Lower and Middle School Girls’ choirs. Sylvia S. Ely Auditorium, Harry A. Epstein Campus, 13300 Arctic Avenue, Rockville. Admission: $5 for students, $7 for adults. Join us after the performance for a dairy reception. Performance is for women and girls only
