Don't miss this creative opportunity

Please join Temple Sinai women of all ages in planning and participating in
the annual Women of Temple Sinai (WTS) sisterhood Sabbath. The WTS Shabbat
will take place on May 14. Come to learn how to you can participate and
help make this Sabbath a special, spiritual, bonding and rewarding
experience for all women of Temple Sinai.

We welcome all interested participants. Participation can include creating
your own reading for the service, reading a poem/song/excerpt for a
book...anything that speaks to you. We also welcome those who want to help
with logistics, oneg, program development.... any and all welcome!

We will have our first planning meeting on Thursday, January 28 at 7:00pm in
the Temple Sinai Merritt campus multi-purpose room. Everyone welcome! For
questions please call Marilyn Friedman at 510-834-7115 or Robin Flagg at
510-331-3075

A Jewish Response to Elder Abuse and Neglect

Beth Am Women is sponsoring an important program concerning the elders in our community and the individuals who care for and about them. This important discussion is open to the local community, and we want especially to invite our fellow sisterhoods and their congregations. The panel will be moderated by Linda C. Kramer, JD, MBA, RN and the speakers will include our own Rabbi Janet Marder, Judge Mary Ann Grilli of the Santa Clara County Probate Court, Lettie Ordone of the Santa Clara County Adult Protective Services, Donald Moody of the Santa Clara County Public Guardian/Conservator’s Office and Kimberly Conners of the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office.

You can also check out the resolution  that Women of Reform Judaism  unanimously passed  on elder abuse at the recent Assembly in Toronto, 

(http://www.womenofreformjudaism.org/programming/resolutions-statements/elder-abuse-2009 )

The Jewish Response to Elder Abuse and Neglect

Shedding Light on a Critical Community Issue

Tuesday, March 2, 7 p.m.

Congregation Beth Am in the Beit Kehillah

26790 Arastradero Road

Los Altos Hills, CA  94022

Directions:  http://www.betham.org/directions.html

For information, contact Linda C. Kramer, (650) 941-8600.

Join the Women's Seder - Save March 22nd!

Calling all Cooks 

The Women of Temple Sinai will be collaborating this year with Women of Temple Israel of Alameda on a Women’s Seder. It will be held in  6 o'clock PM at the Temple Israel Social Hall on March 22nd.   Please note that this event will not  be a  potluck but rather WTS will be joining  with women from Temple Israel to cook a Sephardic or Modern Israeli meal.  

We are looking for cooks (capacity 10 cooks at a time) on either:

March 20 - afternoon 

March 21 - until 1:30

March 22 - day of event, times to be determined.

 The cost of this event is  $18 a person, which  covers all food, wine, decorations and clergy gifts and stipends.  Cantor Pam Sawyer will conduct the seder and the haggadah will be based on the one that WTI created last year but some parts of WTS’s Women’s Haggadah will be included. 

 To volunteer to help with:

Planning, shopping, decorating, set up/clean up, or being a table captains! Maggie Lazar – 655-4260 mpaul@berkeley.edu

Cooking Peggy Martin – 667-0333 peggymarti@aol.com