Temple B’nai Abraham

Social Action Committee Minutes, 4/22/12

- Happy earth day!

- The group discussed options for handling concerns over cuts in service to CATA. Louise will investigate and come back with specific information about what it is that the Social Action Committee can do.

- The vegetable garden will be constructed. The sixth grade class is doing this as a mitzvah project. On Community Learning Day, May 6, there will be a dedication. It will be incorporated into the 6th grade religious school class on Mitzvah.

This past Sunday the TBA 6th grade students along with some parent volunteers and Ruth Helman completed phase 1 of our prep for the new garden. Volunteers worked from 12:30 until nearly 4:30 digging up the grass.The 6th grade has taken this vegetable garden on as a class mitzvah project. We are all looking forward to planting and dedicating our new garden this Sunday during Community Learning Day. 

There is still plenty to do before Sunday to get the garden ready for planting. We especially need older students and adults to help turn the soil and lay the compost. Please call 978-927-3211 ext 14 or email Deb at deb.vozella@tbabeverly.org if you are interested helping in the garden.

Counting of the Omer Cereal Collection 

As we do each year, we are collecting cereal boxes to represent our “omer,” or measurement of the first fruit of the barley harvest.

Please bring in a box or two of your favorite cereal for this year’s omer.

There is something for everyone this weekend at TBA.

• Family Shabbat Service led by Rabbi Adler and accompanied by Marcy Yellin, Friday night at 7:00 PM
• Shabbat morning Service and club shabbat (grades 5 & 6 are encouraged to attend), Saturday morning 9:00
• Tot Shabbat service with Miriam Blue, Saturday morning at 10:00 AM
• Breakfast with guest speaker, political analyst Michael Goldman, Sunday morning at 9:45
• Spring planting and clean up in the TBA Garden from Sunday noon-2PM
• Community Garden set up- help prepare for our TBA Community vegetable garden Sunday 1:00-4:00

I hope to see you all sometime this weekend.

There is a Family Shabbat Service this Friday, April 27, at 7:00.  Marcy Yellin will be here.  I hope to see you then!

It is with great sadness that we announce the death of our member Michael Ossoff. Funeral services will  be held at Stanetsky-Hymanson Memorial Chapel, 10 Vinnin Street, Salem, MA at 11:00 AM on Friday, April 27, 2012. Following burial at Maple Hill Cemetery in Peabody, a Memorial Observance will be held at the home of Joseph and Alice Ossoff, 7 Gary Avenue, Beverly, MA. A Memorial Observance will also be held on Saturday evening.

The congregation offers it’s condolences to  his children Martha Ossoff Blaxall and Robert Ossoff and his siblings Joseph Ossoff, Melvin Ossoff, Jenny Cox and Rebecca Zimmerman.

May they be counted among the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem.