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AAC April 2019 Bulletin LowRes
AAC April 2019 Bulletin LowRes
AAC April 2019 Bulletin LowRes
THIS SPACE IS
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
GOOD DEEDS DAY AT AAC RELIGIOUS SCHOOL
SUNDAY, APRIL 7
Help us make this a memorable experience for students. Activities will include: creating a
banner to welcome friends and visitors to AAC; making signs for their homes to welcome visitors
in a variety of languages; learning about refugee stories from around the world through our "wax
museum," featuring live "wax actors" (volunteers) telling their stories; painting rocks to be left
in nature for others to brighten their day.
Sign up to volunteer at http://bit.ly/rs-good-deeds.
Join us for Men’s Club Shabbat on As I write this, freshly fallen snow adorns the naked trees against a
Saturday, April 6 at 9:30 a.m. when men monochromatic landscape. But by the time you read this, mere weeks later, those
of all ages will proudly participate in the trees may well be sporting plump pink petals. Spring in all its color and rebirth also
service. Tobias Dienstfrey has been brings you a trip to the theater and a Shavuot party in a private home.
working hard to make this a special MARCH RETROSPECTIVE
occasion for Men’s Club and the רשיי חוכto co-chairs Arden Levy and Mackenzie Silverman for orchestrating an
Congregation. unforgettable Purim Carnival. Thank you also to Hannah Kraushaar who rounded up
Our next bagels and lox brunch will dozens and dozens of workers in her role as Volunteer Coordinator. Look for a
be on May 5 at 10:00 a.m. when Gary Retrospective of Sisterhood’s signature annual event in the May Bulletin.
Sarnoff, sports historian, will recount SPRING EVENTS
the history of baseball in Washington, Sisterhood Goes to the Theatre to See Grand Hotel
DC. Gary has authored The Wrecking Sunday, April 28 | 7:00 p.m.
Crew of ’33: The Washington Senators’ Signature Theater, Shirlington
Last Pennant and The First Yankees $70.00 per person – discounted group rate
Dynasty: Babe Ruth, Miller Huggins It is 1928 and Berlin is at the center of a razzle-dazzle world between two wars.
and the Bronx Bombers of the 1920s. At the bustling Grand Hotel a series of eclectic guests and staff including a fading
He has contributed numerous articles ballerina, a destitute baron, a wannabe-starlet typist, and an ailing bookkeeper all
for the Society of American Baseball collide in a non-stop musical toast to the high life.
Research and has a special interest in the Sisterhood is selling a limited number of tickets. This is always a splendid night
Negro Leagues. out on the town with your sisters and significant others. Shirlington’s main avenue
The Men’s Club Israel Pilgrimage is lined with eateries of every flavor, mere doorsteps from the theater. Parking is
Scholarship Program has provided 105 down the block and FREE!
scholarships over the past 32 years to Send an email to Gloria Canter gloriacanter@comcast.net to request your tickets.
teens of the Congregation for Israel The May 5 Trip to Molon Lave Vineyards in Warrenton is postponed because of
experiences. If you have a teen who is the community wide Yom HaShoah commemoration that evening. The winery
interested in a peer trip to Israel, the excursion will be rescheduled for fall or spring 2020 when the flora is the most
Israel Pilgrimage Fact Sheet for 2019 arresting.
can found on the Men’s Club page of the
AAC web site. Please contact Mike Mother’s Day Wildflower Hike
Scheinberg at mike@schuschein.com or Sunday, May 12 | 8:30 a.m. AAC departure; return around 8:30 p.m.
me if you have any specific questions. Breakfast at Before & After, a quaint coffee shop in Sperryville. The forest floor
is sprinkled with pink and white flowers all up and down select trails, at full bloom
We would greatly appreciate your that weekend. Dinner at rustic Big Meadows Lodge off scenic Skyline Drive. Cost:
support by sending in your membership $5 to your driver. Dinner tab paid individually. Men, please join us too! Children
dues if you have not already done so for 12-18 welcome but must be accompanied by an adult. Carpools requested. RSVP on
5779. Our nominal dues are $36, but Eventbrite, coming to your inbox soon.
please consider donating “Chai’er” Trip Leader: Judith Fogel judith.fogel.007@gmail.com / 703-801-8088.
amounts, such as $54, $72, $90, or $108.
We welcome your ideas for future Cheesecake and Chat
events as well as your help with Sunday, June 9 | 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
activities. Please contact me at Come celebrate the holiday of Shavuot at the home of Rachel Goldberg, minutes
elliot.parkin@gmail.com or 703-575- from Agudas Achim. Walk over to shul after the party and help make a minyan for
7879 with your particular interests. yuntiff evening services.
Join the Sisterhood Board
Sisterhood is looking for a few good women to fill some vacant board positions.
THANK YOU TO We are always eager to welcome volunteers for both leadership positions and general
ELLEN FINGERMAN AND assistance with our exciting and varied programs. Please don’t hesitate to reach out
NANCY SIEGAL FOR to our co-presidents Lenore Garon (lenore.garon@gmail.com) or Susan
Auerhan@agudasachimpreschool.org) to explore what is of interest to you.
PROOFREADING THIS
MONTH’S BULLETIN.
* A memorial light will be lit in the synagogue for those names marked with an asterisk.
Our next session of "Descendents of Abraham: Muslim-Jewish Conversations" rights, equal opportunity, and special
will focus on the topic of “Food and Fasting.” The event will take place on Sunday, assignments.
April 28 at the Dar Al-Hijrah Islamic Center, 3159 Row Street, Falls Church, from The Perkals moved to Alexandria in
1:00 - 2:30 p.m. 2000 and joined Agudas Achim. He
2019 STEPALIVE! WALKATHON began serving on the Board of Directors
SUNDAY, MAY 5 of the shul in 2003, was elected Senior
Vice President in 2007 and President
Join the Agudas Achim team of walkers at this annual fun event on Sunday,
two years later. They shared several
May 5, to support a tuition assistance program that bridges the gap between what
important life cycle celebrations at the
low income families can pay and what it costs to provide a quality education to stu-
synagogue. Their granddaughter,
dents in ALIVE!’s Child Development Center. Celebrating its fiftieth
Chelsea, moved to D.C. and expressed
anniversary, ALIVE! (ALexandrians In Volved Ecumenically) is a nonprofit orga-
a desire to have an adult Bat Mitzvah.
nization of volunteers from over 40 religious congregations and the community
Chelsea joined the Hazzan’s class and
working together to help those in need in Alexandria. For more information and to
three years later, celebrated her Bat
join the AAC team, please contact AAC’s new ALIVE! Chair Joan Hartman Moore
Mitzvah. “One of my proudest moments
at wordcrafter88@comcast.net.
was reading Torah on that day with
APRIL SOCIAL ACTION COMMITTEE MEETING Chelsea reciting the blessings before
Join the Social Action Committee and build connections with those who care and after my reading,” says Don. They
passionately about the values of Tikkun Olam – repairing the world. We invite you had a bris for Israel, second youngest of
to attend our monthly meeting on Thursday, April 11 at 7:00 p.m. in the AAC Li- their seven grandkids, at the shul and his
brary. We welcome new ideas, new participants and new leaders. Upshearin (first hair cutting) ceremony at
their home when he was three years old.
TORAH TROOP
Since returning to the United States,
CALLING ALL POST-B’NAI MITZVAH TEENS!
the Perkals have continued their travels
You are invited to join an inaugural group of Torah readers. If you read Torah to the Ukraine, Russia, France, Ireland,
after your bar/bat mitzvah 5 times in one year, you will be recognized by the Israel (four times), visiting relatives in
congregational community. Reading 8 (or more) aliyot in one year will garner Australia, touring New Zealand, and
something special. A year will be counted from Simhat Torah - when we begin last year, spending a month in Costa
reading the Torah anew - through Sukkot. Have no Rica. “This Spring we are going to
fear, you will be guided and supported to reach your southeast Asia, visiting Hong Kong,
goal. Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and
To sign up to read an aliyah, contact Margot Carter - Vietnam. We’ve contacted a Rabbi in
margot.carter@hotmail.com. Ho Chi Minh City and will be attending
For additional information contact Rachel Goldberg - Shabbat services when we arrive there.”
rachel@quigberg.com No doubt, they will spend part of their
trip looking for Jewish landmarks
wherever they are.
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Enjoy the Carefree Lifestyle You Deserve! RABBI MICHAEL HENESCH
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