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Deidre Week 2

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Week 2 Assignments

Interview

Congregation Beth Shalom

Mission Statement:

The Congregation has been established to build and maintain a synagogue – the Jewish people’s Beit HaKnesset, Beit HaMidrash and Beit HaTefilah – as a house of assembly, study and prayer. The objective of the Congregation is to provide opportunities through religious services, educational formats, cultural, social and recreational activities for the Jews of the community.

The Congregation is committed to the principles and values of Conservative Judaism. The synagogue is dedicated to the study of Torah which leads to the observance of the mitzvot; to the principle of Klal Yisrael which focuses the Congregation to reach out to all Jews irrespective of affiliation; to the State of Israel, Eretz Yisrael, which is seen as the historic homeland of the Jewish people; a spiritual resource for Torah learning; the center of a Jew’s liturgical attention; and for the ingathering of Jews – physically and spiritually.

The Congregation seeks to:

Transform the lives of Jews through the observance and teaching of mitzvot;
Refine the moral and ethical behavior of all people by Jewish mentschlichkeit demonstrated by Torah role models and Talmudic descriptions; and
Create a kehillah, a Jewish village, which molds a child and an adult into a responsible citizen of the world.

---What work do volunteers do?

Volunteers help in the office, assist rabbi, run services, board of trustees is all voluntary.

---How is the Temple working to 'go green'?

Dining room replaced styrafoam cups with mugs

Air conditioning turned off at night

Paper is recycled

Computers are turned off everynight. There are only 7 computers in the building and when not in use during the day, they are put in either sleep or hibernate modes.