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We hope everyone's New Year has gotten off to a great start.  Connection, relationship, community, and spirituality are all important elements to staying happy and healthy.  You can find all these things at TBO!  Keep an eye on what is happening and join in or reach out to the office if you have ideas on new programs or classes.  We make things happen at TBO!
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Online Services and Programming

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We hope you will join us for services on Zoom, but if you prefer you can join us on YouTube 
and you can access an online prayer book if needed.   
If you know of anyone who cannot join by computer or TV and would like to call in, please let us know in the office.

Friday Night Oneg, Friday, January 8th, 8:15 PM, will immediately follow services on Zoom. The Oneg is not available on YouTube, but you can join the Oneg by using the services Zoom link above. 

 

Most Shabbats we meet 9:00 –10:00 AM.  Register to join us on Zoom.

 

Hebrew with Cantor, Thursdays, 1:00 PM.  Join us each week!

Join our intimate group to study Hebrew at an accessible pace and to analyze concepts of the language.  We warmly welcome new learners.  New members study with current members to help accelerate their learning and to become part of our community. Please let Cantor Galit know you are coming. “I love love love learning Hebrew!  Prayers are more expansive, poetic and theologically open in Hebrew than in English.”--Class member
Participate via Zoom.

 

As the risk in Morris County has risen to code Red, there is no entry to the Temple Building except for staff and pre-school students. If you need to pick up or drop off something at TBO, please contact the office to make arrangements.  Please do not come to the Temple building if you are sick or if you or a member of your household is under quarantine.

To help stem the tide of this virus, please consider downloading the COVID Alert NJ app onto your smartphone (free from both Apple and Google app stores).  It provides anonymous, automatic contact tracing so that if someone you have been near contracts COVID, you are contacted and know to self isolate.  We can all help slow the spread of COVID if we download this app today!

Finally, the state of NJ has opened a Vaccination Registry.  You can sign up now after answering some questions that will determine where you fall in the order of priority.  

Thank you in advance for your cooperation!

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Lifelong Learning at TBO Fall 5781
Take exciting new steps on your journey of Jewish learning

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Our Melton (Interactive Jewish Study) Classes
start up again tonight!!!
Registration is about to close, last chance to sign up
 

This class is about to close to new registrants.  Last chance to Join Rabbi for “Social Justice: The Heart of Judaism.”  Social justice is a response to suffering and indignity in our lives and the world that is different from a service response. This course draws from text and history to explore how social justice work goes beyond addressing immediate needs. It looks at structural causes of injustice.  Want to get a taste first?  Recordings of the first two classes are at https://youtu.be/Xq3suGi3hVg and https://youtu.be/rPP6tAUzkec. Like what you see?  Register by the class tonight, January 7, 2021.  After that, the class will be closed to new members. Course fee $220. Scholarships are available.   Join Rabbi, Cantor, and David Iskovitz starting January 10th for “Foundations of Jewish Family Living."  This course provides parents of all ages a small group opportunity to delve deeply into Jewish values and to learn how to share these values with their children of all ages. Appropriate for families where one or both parents are Jewish. Generously supported by the endowment of the Joel and Helen Jacobs Religious School.  “A warm space to reflect on and develop Jewish beliefs, morals, and practices and to bring those to my personal and parenting life.” – TBO member   To register for either course and to learn more, contact Mary Fernandez (fernandezmaryf@gmail.com)

TBO Spirituality Workshop
Explore your spiritual journeys in a thoughtful, supportive environment

TBO Spirituality Workshop is a lay-led exploration and discussion of our personal experiences of spirituality in an inclusive and accepting environment. 

                                                                 

TBO Spirituality Workshops are being conducted on Zoom the first Monday of each month at 7:00pm. All are welcome to join, participate, and lead! For more information or to volunteer to lead a session, please email tbospirituality@gmail.com 

All programs will be on-line via Zoom.  Friendly tech support provided before and during programs.  Your Zoom links will be sent to you upon registration. If you know of someone who wants to join a session of TBO Spirituality Workshop and wants to call in because they do not use the internet,  please contact the office so we can contact them and give them a phone number to call instead.  Please register today!

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Social Action/Volunteer Opportunities/
Social Activities

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WEDNESDAY, January 13, 2021 @ 1:00 Zoom Meeting
Dan Cassino
Associate Professor of Political Science
Fairleigh Dickinson University

We dropped off 100 breakfast bags at this week at nourish.NJ to support their mission of reducing hunger and food insecurity in our community. Todah Rabah / Thank You to our volunteers who purchased, prepared, and donated the breakfast bags this month!
Want to help? Join us on the first Wednesday of every month! Message us on Facebook or contact the TBO office to get connected to this project. Or, if you would like to volunteer for nourish.NJ with TBO, please contact Nadine Milberg.

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Other Temple-Wide Information

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You can help the Temple while you shop online. Simply shop at smile.amazon.com/ch/22-6077572 or with AmazonSmile ON in the Amazon Shopping app, designate Temple B'nai Or as the group you are proud to support,  and AmazonSmile donates to Temple B'nai Or.  
 

Coping with quarantine restrictions and also taking care of your basic needs and your families is a challenge in itself during this pandemic.  Many families, regardless of their feelings about Amazon, are relying on their home delivery services, as shopping is so limited and often unsafe for many of us.  Every time you order from AmazonSmile (same thing as Amazon but through their philanthropic site), they will donate a portion of your order to TBO. There is no additional cost to you.  However, if we all sign up, it will add up to a nice pooled donation from all of us to our Temple. Simply remember to designate TBO as your charity of choice! Log into smile.amazon.com and select "Temple B'nai Or of Morristown."  Thank you, and stay healthy and safe!