Mount Sinai Jewish Center of Washington Heights

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• Please Join Us Sunday June 10th at the Annual Mt. Sinai Journal Dinner This Year Honoring: Yosef and Regine Galanti, Craig and Alison Cohen, Shuli Berger, and Eric Heine.  This year we are raising money that will go directly towards funding our much needed reconstruction of the foundation.  Please help us in being able to complete this vital project by donating generously today.  RSVP and get your ads in today! www.mtsinaishul.com/journal

• Sign up for our email list; choose which alerts you wish to receive.

• Want to run an event at Mt Sinai? Fill out the Event Request Form here!  The officers will respond to your proposal as soon as possible.  Questions? Contact Yehudis at VP@mtsinaishul.com.

• Join our official facebook group!

• Salute To Israel Parade on Sunday, June 3rd- Please join Mt. Sinai Jewish Center as we march in this year's Salute To Israel Parade! We are now taking orders for parade shirts. Everyone who marches with the Mt. Sinai delegation must wear our designated matching shirt. Orders are due by 11:59 PM on Tuesday, May 15th. T-shirt design and order form can be viewed at : http://bit.ly/msjcparade2012

  • Assembly for the parade will be at 1:30pm on 55th Street between 5th and Madison Avenue ,  stepping off at 2:15pm.
  • Sponsorships are available help defray the costs of marching in the Parade.
  • Questions? Please contact Reina Potaznik at events@mtsinaishul.com Subject: “Israel Day Parade”, or call the shul office at 212-568-1900. 

•  Shabbat, May 18th -19th: Atara Eis our Yoetzet Halacha - will be joining us for Shabbat.
  All women are welcome to join us for the following shiurim on Shabbat afternoon:

  • The Multiple Views of Multiplying: Family Planning in Halacha  (6 pm, Beit Midrash) - Learn about the range of opinions regarding the permissibility of family planning and permissible contraceptive methods.
  • Infertility and the Jewish Couple (Following mincha, ~8 pm, Beit Midrash) - Our biological urge to reproduce, compounded by our religious obligation, can make infertility a painful experience. Whether experiencing infertility yourself, or watching others experience it, this class will equip you with an understanding of the Halakhic backbone on the latest reproductive technology.
  • For more information, or to sponsor, please contact Regine at familylife@mtsinaishul.com
• Join our sister shul, Washington Heights Congregation -AKA The Bridge Shul - for its annual Yom Yerushalayim Luncheon on Shabbat, May 19, at noon. Catering by Golan Heights. Our guest speaker will be Rabbi Avraham Priel, of the Midrash Yosef Shalom Foundation, a New York-based outreach organization.  Rabbi Priel will be speaking about Jerusalem from its inception, through its 1967 reunification, to the present day. See Facebook event page (http://www.facebook.com/events/376278615747186/) for cost and reservation details. Reservations by Wednesday, 5/16

• LAYL SHAVUOT - Sponsor learning in honor a family member, friend or departed loved one. Mt. Sinai is accepting sponsorhips for the learning on the night of Saturday, May 26, 2012. For the cost of $36 an unlimited number of those you wish to honor or dedicate will be listed in our Tikun Layl Shavuot Journal. Sign up today!
• Join the shul for our first ever Yom Tov BBQ! Only $15 for members! The BBQ will be Second day Yom tov Lunch (Monday May 28th) Sign up now! (Deadline is this Wednesday 12PM!)

• Being a Shul member has never been better! Mt Sinai is now an affiliate of Zipcar. Shul Members can register for Zipcar for just $25 and get discounts on hourly and daily rates. Use Promo Code QARPMKEA for $25 of free driving! Contact Zipcar for more info: www.mtsinaishul.com/zipcar  or 866-494-7227

• If you have shaimos to give to a geniza, bring a donation to the shul office with the shaimos after sorting your papers/ritual items according to our shaimos guidelines

• The results of our pulse survey report are out: click here to see what we learned.

• The Family Life Committee plans programs to meet the religious and social needs of couples, families, and children in the Mount Sinai community.  Please help us plan Family Life programming that best serves you by filling out this short survey: 

• Need a meaningful way to spend some time on Shabbat afternoon? Fort Tryon nursing home residents would love to get to know you! Sign up here for remainder of  January and February. For more information contact Rachel Waldman: chessed@mtsinaishul.com 

• Looking for a chavruta? Sign up here:  http://www.mtsinaishul.com/content/chavrusa

• See the results our renovation survey!

• Check out our sister-shul Washington Heights Congregation.