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1. Please come and support a special Interfaith Program for Haiti
   Sunday, March 14th, 4pm.  Hosted by the Bridgeport Islamic Community Center
   John Cox Student Center Social Room at the University of Bridgeport, 224 University Avenue (Parking is right next to the center).
   Tickets are $50 and available from Olga Shibtini at olgashibtini@yahoo.com or 203-543-9267.

   The program will feature presentations from The Red Cross, American Jewish World Service, and Islamic Relief, music and dinner.  All proceeds will be divided equally between the three agencies, with an opportunity to make an additional donation to the agency of your choice.

   This wonderful opportunity, initiated by our Islamic partners from our Fairfield County Tent of Abraham program, is the result of the relationships we have created between our communities.  Rabbi Gurevitz will be attending with her Jewish-Christian-Muslim interfaith dialogue class from Merkaz.  Please join her as we bring our communities of faith together to focus on the longer-term needs of the people of Haiti.

2. Symbols of Our Time: The Third Annual Women’s Seder
   Thursday, March 18 at 7:30 p.m. Please bring or make an object that symbolizes freedom for you, however you choose to interpret it (e.g. personal freedom, freedom in our society, or freedom as an abstract expression.)  Please also bring a favorite Passover dessert to share at the Seder.

   This Seder will be suitable for ages 10 through 100! Bring your friends, daughters, granddaughters, mothers and grandmothers. We will gather to share our symbols of Freedom, to tell our own stories, and to celebrate and explore new Passover rituals in a meaningful and entertaining way. Led by Rabbis Rachel Gurevitz and Suri Krieger.
   RSVP to lynn@congregationbnaiisrael.org by March 15.  This event is free, with a tzedakah collection during the Seder, to be chosen by 6th and 7th graders who are helping in preparation for their bat mitzvah.

3. Join us for Scholar-In-Residence David Nelson, Friday and Saturday, March 19 and 20! Click here.

4. Please note that Understanding Judaism, originally scheduled for March 21st, is cancelled.  The next in the UJ series will be April 25th on the topic of Angels in Jewish tradition.
5. Religious School Parents' Social is Saturday, March 27 at the Beach Cafe! Click here!

6. Print Journalism in the New Decade:
   The News isn’t all that Bad!!
   Sunday Morning Speaker Series Presented by The B’nai Israel Brotherhood. Jay Lauf, publisher of The Atlantic Monthly magazine, will join us on Sunday, March 28th at 9:45 a.m. Click here!

7. Can you Sing? Can you Dance?Can you Ham it up (in a kosher style)? Planning is underway for a Bible and Broadway Cabaret Evening in celebration of Rabbi James Prosnit’s 20th anniversary at B’nai Israel. Contact Randye Kaye – if you’re interested in performing. Contact Amy Rich – if you’re interested in working behind the scenes . And if you just want to be in the audience – Mark your calendar for the evening of Saturday May 15!
8. Save the date!B’nai Israel’s Second Annual Tag Sale is Sunday, June 6, 2010 Don’t bag it…We’ll tag it! Start saving your items now.  We are looking for the following items:  household goods, clothes, bikes, sporting goods, baby items, books, estate items, jewelry, small furniture. If you have any questions, please contact  Norci Kochman or Linda Bernstein. 
9. Be a part of our Engaging Israel Task Force! Click here for more information.
10. Israeli artist and Palestinean artist Mira Awad sing Israel's entry to the 2009 Eurovision song competion "There Must Be Another Way." Click here to see the music video and an interview with them from Dutch Television.
11. Keep your college students connected to B'nai Israel by sending us their addresses...click here!
12. Cemetery plots available at our Monroe Cemetery. Many B’nai Israel members have found it comfortable and convenient to purchase burial plots on a pre-need basis. For information regarding the purchase of single or multiple grave plots please get in touch with Mark Shangold at 203-374-8562. A few plots remain to be sold in the Fairfield B'nai Israel Cemetery and are reserved for Temple members exclusively.  However, the plots in our Monroe location are open to non-members and interfaith families.
13. Hospital Information It has come to our attention that we are not getting accurate information from local hospitals when our congregants or family members are admitted to their facility.  We are particularly concerned when we are asked why our clergy has not made a visit to a particular hospital. Our inquiries always show that the person’s name has been listed under another synagogue and that is the reason we are not made aware of the hospitalization. We are, once again, asking for your help.  If you, a family member, neighbor or friend who belongs to B’nai Israel is admitted to any hospital, please take a minute and call the Temple office with that information.  We would rather have a dozen calls than to not be aware of someone’s hospitalization.
14. Radio “Outreach” On Friday Nights Do you miss attending Shabbat services because you are homebound?  If so, you can now listen to our Friday night services on special radio receivers which are available to you on loan from the Temple. Contact Cantor Blum.
15. College is expensive. B'nai Israel can help! Click here to learn more about the Fields/Nussenfeld Scholarship Fund.
16. Get weekly B'nai Israel news in your e-mail in-box. Subscribe to Reaching Out@Congregation B'nai Israel! Click here!
17. Are you moving out of town? Let us help you connect with a synagogue in your new community. Click here.