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Steps For Tzedakah 2008 will be held on May 18. Please join us for a walk to the reservoir, music and Lag B’omer picnic. Come have fun and help to support our twin synagogue in Israel, Tzur Hadassah. Registration forms are available here, and at the office.
Details on Steps for Tzedakah are available here.
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Our Yachad group is meeting at the Lafayette Reservoir for an afternoon of hiking, boating, relaxing, and picnicking on May 18. Bring a picnic item to share, at 2:00 pm to our reserved picnic site right across from the Children’s Playground area.
Well, not the mountain. Our mountain.
Castle Rock Recreation Area
Sunday, June 8th at 6:00 PM
Just as the Israelites stood at Mt. Sinai to receive the Torah, we too will join together at the foot of Mt. Diablo for an interactive, intergenerational Shavuot celebration and picnic dinner.
Steps For Tzedakah 2008 will be held on May 18. Please join us for a walk to the reservoir, music and Lag B’omer picnic. Come have fun and help to support our twin synagogue in Israel, Tzur Hadassah. Registration forms are available on the temple website and at the office.
The Women’s Retreat is on May 16-17, 2008. At this time the retreat is full, but we are happy to add your name to the waiting list. Please contact Nina Jones. 925-283-8512 Ext. 314
The group will have its first meeting in May. If you wish to attend please call and leave message for Rabbi Shanks with Nina @283-8575.
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Two new features have been added to the Temple Isaiah website, RSS feeds and resources from the Union for Reform Judaism.
RSS feeds allow you to subscribe to receive updates to various Temple Isaiah website pages automatically. If you’re new to RSS feeds (RSS stands for “Really Simple Syndication,” by the way), you can learn more by watching this video. If you use the browsers Firefox, Safari, Opera or Internet Explorer 7, you can subscribe to feeds directly from within the browser. Alternatively, you can set up accounts online with free tools like Google Reader or NewsGator Online. There is also software available for subscribing to RSS feeds.
RSS feeds are currently available for Temple news, the Shabbat Shalom column, Anshei Isaiah and Women of Isaiah. You’ll find the feeds on each page, identified by the icon at the left.
You can find a variety of resources from the Union of Reform Judaism on the Worship, Bar/Bat MItzvah, News, Library, Temple Life, Israel and Tikkun Olam pages. These links are housed in the right-hand sidebar and clearly identified by a URJ-related label. The content includes everything from World Jewish News to Bar and Bat Mitzvah resources.
Temple Isaiah is pleased to announce the addition of a photo gallery to the Temple Isaiah website. Photos are organized into albums, making it easy to see images of events and activities around our synagogue.
Currently, two albums are available, one from September’s Mitzvah Day 2007 and one containing images from our Gan Ilan preschool. More photos will be added shortly.
A special thanks to Michael Fox for contributing his excellent photographs to the gallery.
To visit the photo gallery, just click the “Gallery” link in the website’s main navigation bar.
