BETH EL SISTERHOOD

** CALLING ALL SISTERHOOD MEMBERS:
RETURNING, NEW AND POTENTIAL **

Please join Sisterhood now to Connect, Learn and Contribute.  Your $36 annual dues will help connect you to a vibrant group of interesting, energetic women who also care about creating community at Beth El Synagogue, contributing to its welfare, and learning about our heritage.

Sisterhood would like to call members to put themselves forward for leadership positions in the organization.  If you have interest in learning more about what you can do please contact our Sisterhood president, Lois Price, at loisprice123@gmail.com.  Some positions call for very little time, while others entail a bigger commitment.

Upcoming events:

• 5/11/12  Sisterhood sponsored Erev Shabbat services followed by a Community Oneg
• (date TBD) Tallit making project
• Ongoing: Monthly Walk the Wall

Please make your check payable to Beth El Sisterhood and mail to:

Beth El Synagogue
Attn: Sisterhood
1004 Watts Street
Durham, NC 27701

We look forward to your participation!

Sisterhood Executive Board:
Lois Price, President
Lisa Springer, Vice-President
Sheila Goldstein, Treasurer
Lynne Grossman, Secretary

Thank you to everyone who participated in
Corey's Second Wind 5K!

March 24, 2012-- Rosh Chodesh is an ancient celebration focusing on women. Please join us for this special celebration, while we socialize and learn about this traditional observance. Rosh Chodesh Havdalah to start at 8:30pm in the Beth El Freedman Center followed by "Etty," a play about Etty Hillesum, a woman who perished in Auschwitz.
Adapted and performed by Susan Stein and directed by Austin Pendleton, ETTY is a portrayal of one woman's struggle to sustain humanity in the face of the Nazis' unspeakable brutality. Etty Hillesum hoped to be among the spiritual and intellectual architects of the world that would emerge after the war. She asks us to consider our own responsibility today, in a world where the promise of "never again" has not yet been realized. In Etty's words, "In what sort of fatal mechanism have we become enmeshed? The answer cannot simply be that we are all cowards."

April 29, 2012-- Beth El Reads... back by popular demand! Discussions and activities start at 1:30 pm in the lobby (adults), classroom 7 (3rd-7th graders), and the preschool room (little ones).
The book will be "The Dovekeepers" by Alice Hoffmann. Copies are available in the Beth El Library for borrowing.
Over 5 years spent writing, The Dovekeepers is Alice Hoffman’s most ambitious novel, set in ancient Israel.
In 70 C.E., nine hundred Jews held out for months against armies of Romans on Masada. According to the ancient historian Josephus, two women and five children survived. Based on this event Hoffman tells a tale of four extraordinary women, each of whom has come to Masada by a different path. Yael’s mother died in childbirth, and her father, an expert assassin, never forgave her for that death. Revka, a village baker’s wife, watched the horrifically brutal murder of her daughter by Roman soldiers; she brings to Masada her young grandsons, rendered mute by what they have witnessed. Aziza is a warrior’s daughter, raised as a boy, a fearless rider and an expert marksman who finds passion with a fellow soldier. Shirah, born in Alexandria, is wise in the ways of ancient magic and medicine, a woman with uncanny insight and power.
The lives of these four complex and fiercely independent women intersect in the desperate days of the siege. All are dovekeepers, and all are also keeping secrets—about who they are, where they come from, who fathered them, and whom they love.

May 11, 2012-- Sisterhood will sponsor Erev Shabbat Services and a Community Oneg. 6:00 pm in the Sanctuary and Social Hall.  Please plan to join us for a Friday evening service and delicious baked goods to celebrate the women of our congregation and the leadership of our Sisterhood.  All are welcome.

Tallit Making Workshop - (Date TBD)- A handmade Tallit can be a unique way to connect with Jewish ritual, or a thoughtful gift for someone special. At this hands-on workshop, Mardi Zeiger will guide you through the steps of creating a beautiful and meaningful Tallit.