Greetings Havurah Members,
Please join us on Monday, February 24th, for our Quarterly Membership Meeting at 6:30 pm in the Morris/Nelson/Penn rooms at Independence Center. Following the meeting, Havurah’s First Gentleman, Brian Blonder, will host “What’s so Funny?” a team challenge testing your knowledge of Jewish stand-up comics.
I am sending my newsletter a little early for a crucial reason: to remind you that if you have not paid your 2025 dues by February 28th, you will automatically be removed from our email list on March 1st. Please don’t let your Havurah membership lapse! Dues are still only $15 per person. You must be current on your dues to attend Havurah events at the member price. To the 312 of you who have already renewed, thank you!
Speaking of events, you don’t want to miss our Purim celebration on Sunday, March 16th, at 6:30 pm! The highlight of the evening will be a performance by renowned Comedian Rabbi Bob Alper. His fresh, contemporary, and totally "unorthodox" style has delighted audiences for over 34 years, from Hollywood's IMPROV to The Montreal Comedy Festival. His unique brand of intelligent, 100% clean humor appeals to people of all faiths (so bring your friends). Bob's a special favorite on the clean comedy channel of Sirius/XM radio, and he's appeared on Showtime, CNN, and Good Morning America. The deadline to RSVP is Friday, March 7th. We will have dessert, a costume contest, and collect non-perishable food for the Jewish Family Service Food Pantry. To see all the details, click HERE. The event takes place in the Morris/Nelson/Penn rooms at Independence Center. The Chicago Club also has their party that night in the Anthem Center Ballroom. I encourage people to carpool if possible. There are approximately 325 spaces in the lot, and two large clubs have events that evening. Before we learned of this, both clubs had already booked their entertainment, so neither could change the date.
TO VOLUNTEER AT OUR PURIM EVENT, CONTACT OUR VOLUNTEER COORDINATORS, LENORE DELMAN AND MARILYN LERNER BY CLICKING HERE. We need volunteers for setup at 4:30 (snacks provided), sign-in, and cleanup.
We are pleased to announce a very special Seder on Saturday, April 12th, the first night of Passover. Our Seder will be led by Havurah’s own Rabbi Danny Gottlieb and Cantorial Soloist Ricki Weintraub. Masterpiece Cuisine will cater a family-style meal complete with all the traditional favorites. For this event, we must insist people limit their seating requests to tables of 8. As a family-style meal, tables of 9 or 10 would be uncomfortably crowded and spoil your experience. We will email the invitation to the membership on February 27th.
Our next Leadership Team meeting is at 1:00 p.m. on Monday, March 3rd, in the Greene Room at Anthem Center. The agenda is HERE.
Save the date:
Jewish Happenings around town...
Sam Glaser in Concert at Midbar Kodesh Temple
Sunday, March 2nd at 10:30 am
To see the flyer and buy tickets, go to:
https://midbarkodeshtemple.shulcloud.com/form/spring-concert-2025SUNDAY.html
Yardena Schwartz, "Haunting Echoes: Arab-Jewish Conflict in the Holy Land, from the 1929 Riots to October 7th and Beyond"
UNLV Greenspun Hall on Wednesday, March 5th, 3:30-4:30
Yardena Schwartz is an award-winning journalist and Emmy-nominated Producer based in Israel from 2013-2023.
Reserve your seat here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeQPr59WblfapkS1Wedp0VWDEZwWfm_87Qzyi1-uHa4kfKVQw/viewform
Did you know there is a Jewish Newspaper in the Las Vegas Area? You can access issues of Las Vegas Israelite here: https://lvisraelite.com/
If you have questions, concerns, or ideas, please email me at debbieblonder@icloud.com or call me at (703) 624-0897.
Warmest regards,
Debbie
Havurah, or friendship group, at Sun City Anthem, Henderson, Nevada, was formed in 2002 as a means for Jewish residents and others, new to the community or established, to meet, socialize and ease the transition from their prior locations. We often tell new members to think of us as their “new family.” This is achieved by organizing a variety of social, cultural, educational and recreational events throughout the year.
The SCA Havurah welcomes all SCA residents to join and participate in its activities.
All members and prospective members please watch this film about our club by Anthem's top videographer, Ary Mirochnik.
1) Click on login, then FORGOT MY PASSWORD. (If you share an email account with your spouse/partner, you each must set up your own login using your SCA ID #, not your e-mail address; your password setup links will still be sent to your email).
2) Go to your email inbox and find the email just sent from the Havurah Club. There will be a link for you to click on that will bring you back to the website set up a password.
3) Set up your password of choice and click SAVE.
Don’t worry if you forget your password. You can repeat this process any time you forget.
You will receive an email confirmation that you are enrolled, and a reminder 24 hours prior.
Need to cancel something you enrolled for? No problem. Log in, go to that event, and click on DROP. You will receive an email that you dropped.
If you have any trouble with the website, contact Debbie Blonder for assistance at debbieblonder@icloud.com.
HERE is a link to the presentation by Havurah members Ary and Anna Mirochnik at our November 3 General Meeting.
The Mirochniks told their story of living conditions in Kiev; being Jewish in that part of the world years after World War II; their difficult journey to the U.S. and their accomplishments as U.S. citizens.