Be Happy, It's Adar
02/24/2019 05:43:04 PM
Can a team of Maui Jews bake a thousand hamentashen in three hours? That's the goal for the Hamentashen Baking Party on March 3: produce 1000(!) of these yummy traditional Purim filled cookies for our community Purim party. Can we do it? If YOU show up, we can! Click for more information
Leych B'shalom, Beresheet!
02/22/2019 02:47:15 PM
Israel's first lunar landing mission is on its way to the moon! The mission codename is "Beresheet", the first word of the Torah. This word is commonly translated into English as "In the Beginning" but kabbalistically has many deeper layers of meaning.
For more information on the mission, see Space Israel's website.
Leych b'shalom (go in peace), Beresheet!
Family Friday Shabbat
02/18/2019 05:28:33 PM
Come to our first Family Friday Service with Dairy-Vegan Potluck!
Everyone is welcome for an evening of community and fun. Come with kids or if you love the energy of a kids service. All are welcome. It is our goal to have a service everyone can attend, eat dairy-Vegan potluck with the community, and go home for a normal bedtime.
Sam Schnider and Cynthia Lebowitz are putting together an incredible service for our keiki and families with songs, prayers and fun learning!
Our service will start at 5pm, then candle lighting with our Dairy - Vegan Potluck. All Food will be kept outside. We would love your participation to make a dish. Keep Kosher guidelines, no shrimp, no pork, no meat. We will have a labeled Kosher section.
Please RSVP in the comments or to jessicapearl@mac.com and include the ages of the kids that will be coming.
We need to have an idea of what is needed in terms of challah, grape juice and candles so please, please RSVP!
Schedule · Friday, February 22, 2019
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Service - with singing great for all ages - especially kids!
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Candle Lighting then Outside Dairy-Vegan Potluck
7:00 PM - 7:30 PM
End of Meal Prayers
Greta Rosenberg Funeral
02/13/2019 05:28:51 PM
We are sad to announce the passing of
Greta Rosenberg
The community is invited to her funeral service
Sunday, February 17, 2019
1:00 PM Sharp
Valley Isle Memorial Park Cemetery in Haiku
The Jewish section is in the top left corner of the Cemetary
Maui Jews News
02/05/2019 11:19:56 AM
Welcome to the new JCM blog!
This will be a space for us to communicate what is happening in our shul and in our community. The new Board committees and I are working on updating our website- adding content, updating our calendar, and creating this blog among lots of other things.
To kick off this new section of our website, below is my letter from the newsletter from last week.
Our new Board of Directors is off to a busy start. We are setting up committees and having initial meetings to create some structure! Look for information soon on how you can sign up to be part of the exciting future at JCM.
I went just a few days ago to the Zionismus exhibit at the Nisei Veterans Memorial. It was such a moving exhibit, and Judith Elam did an incredible job, and it was wonderful to share our history with our Maui community. I met a non-Jewish family there with whom I had a great conversation , and I don't know why I was surprised that they attended the exhibit and had such interest, but I was surprised. It was a reminder to me that our community has so much to offer and share, not just among ourselves, but with all of Maui. Our celebrations and our sorrows, our history and our future... Our Jewish place on Maui matters. It matters not only for the Jewish people on Maui- it matters that we show our Maui community that we are vibrant, united, and we have much to offer.
Our congregation represents to everyone around us what it means to be Jewish. Let's show a spirit of inclusion, joy, commitment, family, peace, and all the wonderful attributes that we as Jews bring to Maui. Let's all come together to create the shul that will make us proud and will be an example for Jewish communities around the globe. With that, I wish you all a Shabbat Shalom.
Aloha, Ellyn Mortimer