Irwin Friedman

On Sunday, February 5th, our third through seventh grade students participated in the World Wide Wrap. Thank you to Ron Rutzky for organizing this for us. Rabbi Caplan, Rabbi Harari and Ron along with members of Am Echad worked with groups of Beit AmiChai students to teach them about Tefillin and how to put it on. Thank you to all who participated and helped make this a wonderful experience!
Thanks also to Quynh Kirschner, Robin Latman, Joel Williams and Tracey Levy for preparing platters for the Tu B’Shevat Seders that our Sunday School classes had.
We had our annual Havdalah service, pasta dinner and dessert auction on Saturday,February 25th at 6:15 p.m. at B’nai Yehuda Beth Sholom. This year our dessert auction will benefit both our own Beit AmiChai school and Leo Baeck school in Haifa Israel.
We hope many of you will join us on Saturday,March 4th as our Hebrew School students lead the Saturday morning service. Services begin at 10:00 a.m. at Temple Anshe Sholom. We will also have the privilege of hearing Rabbi Gary Zola speak that morning.
We will be celebrating Purim at Temple Anshe Sholom on Sunday morning March 12th with the students from both Munster Congregations. We will begin at 10:30 a.m. with a short Megillah reading, Purim shpiel and songs. Everyone is then invited to have food, fun and games in our carnival. We will end our morning at 12:30 p.m

We have some wonderful things happening in the month of February. Beit AmiChai will participate in the World-Wide Wrap on Sunday, February 5th. We participated last year and it was a great experience for our students to learn about tefillin and actually get to put it on. Thank you to Ron Rutzky for coordinating this and including Beit AmiChai.

Friday, February 10th is a Youth/Family Shabbat and it is also Shabbat Shira. Our Youth Choir will help lead us in song to make this a beautiful and joyful Shabbat! Services are at B’nai Yehuda Beth Sholom at 7:00 p.m.

That weekend is also special because it is Tu B’Shevat! Our classes will celebrate with Tu B’Shevat seders on February 12th; it is always a fun time! On that same day, we will also have many of our older students helping to make calls at the JUF phone-a- thon. The kids look forward to doing their part each year and they always do such a great job!

As we are wrapping up the first half of our school year, I want to thank all the people who have been volunteering their time and working so hard for Beit AmiChai.
We just wrapped up a very successful latke sale. It was a success because of all the time and effort the amazing volunteers put into it. Our incredible Chef Sigy Rafalovitz guided the group of volunteers and we all learned a thing or two along the way! Tommie Gbur lent her expertise in putting this whole thing together and did all the shopping! Thank you to the most hard working kitchen team of Deb Feingold, Quynh Kirschner, Gaby Larsen, Robin Latman, Rick Bloomberg, Rabbi Harari, Jack Levitt, Laura Eisenwasser, Gayla and Joel Cahan, and Dan Greenberg. It was a pleasure to work with each and everyone of them! And of course thank you to Congregation Am Echad for allowing us to use their kitchen.
I also want to extend my thanks to Art Moeckler for handling the financial end of this fundraiser.
And a huge thank you needs to go out to the incredible room parents who always come and work so hard for our school’s holiday celebrations. They made a great Chanukah party for our kids! Our great group includes, Sigy Rafalovitz, Deb Feingold, Sarah Goldberg, Quynh Kirschner, Aliza Kaliski and Geoffrey Wool, Gaby Larsen, Elizabeth Waller, Laura Duda, Laura Mizrahi, Stacey Landsly, Robin Latman, Joel Williams and Nancy Mays.
Finally I want to thank our 7th grade Sunday School teacher, Becky Moeckler for once again coordinating, shopping and delivering all the gifts for the Chanukah Mitzvah project. This project couldn’t happen without the all the hard work Becky puts into it!
Mindy Miller