Events and Programs
Books and Bagels
December 4: Rabbi Garten will review “Burnt Books: Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav and Franz Kafka by Roger Kamenetz
Books are available through the Ottawa
Public Library and the Greenberg Families
Library at the JCC. The Malca Pass
Library and the Temple Israel Library also
carry some of these titles. For more information
please contact
Shayla Mindell at
booksnbagels@templeisraelottawa.ca. Everyone is invited to enjoy a complimentary breakfast beginning at 9:30 am, followed by a presentation and discussion at 10:00am. Pre-registration is
not required, nor is it necessary to have read the
book to enjoy the session. There is no charge
but a voluntary donation to cover the cost of
breakfast is appreciated.
Pot Luck Suppers and the Caring Committee
The next Havdalah Pot Luck Dinner at Temple will be December 3rd at 6:00 pm. Israeli dancing with Phil Kretzmar. Flyer with more info.
The Caring Committee continues to take names of people who would also like to attend and, or, host one of the neighbourhood pot lucks we began organizing last spring. So please let the Caring Committee know if you would like to host and, or, attend a neighbourhood pot luck at a fellow Temple members home. People are of course welcome to go to neighbourhood pot lucks as well as the ones held at Temple. If you are a family with children who would like to have a pot luck with other families with children the Caring Committee can help connect you with other families. We have been the catalyst for two family based pot lucks already.
We hope to continue all these projects this fall and are looking forward to developing some new ones. If you have any ideas which will help us reach our goal of developing and encouraging a warm inclusive atmosphere at Temple please contact us.
Friday Night Shabbat Dinner Services are held the second Friday of the month and this is another opportunity to connect with others. You bring your own dinner and Temple supplies the challah, grape juice, wine, tea and coffee. The Kabbalat Service begins at 6:15 and the dinner follows.
Be sure to read page 5 of the latest bulletin for more information!
Annette Werk
Speakers at Temple Israel
ARZA Canada is pleased to bring to Temple Israel, Rabbi Benjie (Jehiel Benjamin) Gruber Monday evening December 5 at 7:00 pm “Rosa Parks in the Promised Land: Human Rights and Religious Pluralism in 21st century Israel”.
Chanukah Freedom Lecture at Temple Israel
Sunday December 18 at 7:00 pm
Guest speaker: Lawrence Greenspon
"Trading Rights for the Promise of Security".
Lawrence Greenspon is a human rights lawyer with the law firm Greenspon, Brown in Ottawa.
He is a graduate of Ottawa University Law School and a member of it's Honour Society. He is a certified specialist in criminal and civil litigation doing criminal defence work and representing the little guy against governments, institutions and corporations. He is the Past President of the Defence Counsel of Ottawa, past Chair of Reach (Resource Education Advocacy Committee for the Handicapped), The Snowsuit Fund, The Multicultural Centre of Ottawa and CAYFO (Child and Youth Friendly Ottawa) and the Jewish Community Centre. He is the Chair of the United Way Community Services Cabinet and a member of the Board and Executive. He is a CAYFO Champion.
He has twice received the Golden Apple Award (the Ottawa Food Bank), the Gordon Henderson Award (Carleton County Law Association) the Advocate's Society Award of Justice, the Quality of Life Award from St. Joe's Women's Centre and the Community Builder of The Year Award.
