Flowering TreeOur Spring Open House is this Sunday, and we hope you will invite your friends family, neighbors, acquaintances, and their kids to visit and get to know the TEMV community! Please also join us Friday night for a special Learner’s Minyan with Rabbi Robin!

Shabbat Services

Friday, ​May 5, 7:30 p.m.

Parashat Acharei Mot – K’doshim

Learner’s Minyan: Our service will feature informal teaching about liturgy and traditions. Feel free to bring your questions about any aspect of prayer texts, traditions or practices and Rabbi Sparr will endeavor to answer them as we journey through the service together.

Board Host: ​Dana Rudolph
​Oneg Hosts: Frank and Leslie Baskin

Volunteer to Host an Oneg

Visit the signup page to choose your date or email oneg@temv.org with your preferred dates. ​We ask all members to sign up to host twice. It’s one simple way to help the community!

The complete Service schedule for the year is here, along with our full calendar of events.

Rabbi Sparr Office Hours

Rabbi Sparr will be available for office hours Thursday afternoon and by appointment. Kindly contact her to do so.

Religious School

April 30, 10 a.m.

​​​School resumes.

May 7 is Bring a Friend to School Day during our Open House. (See below.) Current religious school students are encouraged to bring a friend to school this day.

Spring Open House

S​unday, May 7, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m.

Invite your friends family, neighbors, acquaintances, and their kids to visit and get to know the TEMV community. Visiting kids are encouraged to sit in on Religious School classes, which will be in session.

All current members are encouraged to come, mingle with guests, talk about our community, and show them around.

Ritual Committee Meeting

Wednesday, May 3, 7 p.m.

All are welcome.

Adult Education

S​unday, May 7, 2:00-3:30 p.m.

Our fourth and final class of Taste of Mussar.

2016-17 and 2017-18 Pledges

Have you fulfilled your pledge for 2016-17? H​ave you sent in your 2017-18 pledge form? Our fiscal year ends April 30th.

Mail your pledges to TEMV, 101 W. Forest St., Lowell, MA, 01851, Attn: Treasurer, or use our Donation Page to give online. ​

Bulletin Editor Needed

We’re looking for a volunteer or volunteers to take over production of th​e quarterly​ bulletin. Contact Phebe, Michelle, or Dana if interested or if you have any questions about what is involved (publicity@temv.org). ​

Upcoming

Lunch Assembly

Sunday, May 21, 10 a.m.

The next and last lunch assembly for this year. We will need:

  • Lots of granola bars
    Bottles of water
    We can always use PB and jelly.

Please let Frank know of your donations and leave anytime in the kitchen.

Lowell Spinners Game

Sunday, June 25, 5:05 p.m.

$6 per ticket

Join TEMV friends and family for a baseball game at LaLecheur Park for a Lowell Spinners baseball game. Contact Phebe for tickets.

Ongoing

Food and Toiletry Collections

There are boxes in the lobby waiting to be filled with your generous donations.  All donations go to local charities. Thank you!

TEMV Yoga

Gentle yoga: Monday, 8:30am;  RSVP required by Sunday at 12 noon. On holidays this class meets at 9 am.

Attendance at this class has been low recently. If you wish to attend yoga on Monday morning, please contact Cornelia at yogainfo@temv.org preferably by Sunday afternoon. If at least three people say they are coming she will let you know. Please leave your phone number—preferably a cell phone number—in your email.

Yoga: Wednesday, 6:30pm

Please bring a mat. $7 for the teacher and a $3 donation to the temple.

For more information email yogainfo@temv.org 

Mah Jong

Tuesdays, 6pm and Thursdays, 1pm

Join the Mah Jong email list to keep updated about cancellations by emailing  mahjongg-join@temv.org.

​​​If you are interested in learning and / or playing the game but these times don’t work for you, ​email mahjong@temv.org and just maybe we can work something out.

Do you have something to add to this email blast or the temple’s bulletin? Send it to phebe@temv.org.

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