So…What are You doing Christmas day?
Join our TSS family for a fun afternoon at the movies, and then Chinese dinner!
Look, you’re gonna do it anyway, so you might as well do it with your TSS friends. It will be a blast!
Afternoon at the AMC Movies at Tilghman Square in Allentown
Dinner around 6:00 PM at the Chinese Buffet at Dorneyville.
Times will be discussed later for movies.
Please respond to Marlene Plotnick at mar4136@aol.com or call 610-3980559 before Dec.19.
For some, Thanksgiving is a favorite among all of the holidays. Great friends, lots of good food and family remind us of the many blessings we have. Much like Sukkot, Thanksgiving centers on a bountiful harvest. Some even say that Thanksgiving was modeled after the Jewish holiday of Sukkot. In any event, its tradition to gather ones family together to give thanks plays well among all Americans no matter what their faith.
We at TSS have much to be thankful for. Temple Shirat Shalom is thriving with over 80 families. Our members are caring and committed to the ideal of tikkun olam, beginning with the respect we have for each other and the neighborhoods in which we live. Our children are kind, loved and loving. And our Board and Clergy are mindful of their mission.
Some would say we are truly blessed.
TSS T-shirts Available Now!
We have had a very positive response to the TSS T-Shirts that were distributed to the TSS Religious School students! Several students and parents have requested an extra shirt, so now you can order them.
For youth sizes: TSS Logo on the front, MIT (Mensch in Training) on the back.
Youth sizes – Youth Small, Youth Medium, Youth Large
For adult sizes: TSS logo on the front, and the back is blank – (we figure you are already a mensch!).
Adult sizes – Adult Small, Adult Medium, Adult Large, Adult X-Large, Adult XX-Large
For religious school students – first shirt is FREE!
For all others (youth and adult) – cost is $15.
RSVP to Donna Iorio (donnaiorio@aol.com) by December 20th with your order.
A Pigeon and A Boy by Meir Shalev
From the internationally acclaimed Israeli writer Meir Shalev comes a mesmerizing novel of two love stories, separated by half a century but connected by one enchanting act of devotion.
During the 1948 War of Independence — a time when pigeons are still used to deliver battlefield messages — a gifted young pigeon handler is mortally wounded. In the moments before his death, he dispatches one last pigeon. The bird is carrying his extraordinary gift to the girl he has loved since adolescence. Intertwined with this story is the contemporary tale of Yair Mendelsohn, who has his own legacy from the 1948 war. Yair is a tour guide specializing in bird-watching trips who, in middle age, falls in love again with a childhood girlfriend. His growing passion for her, along with a gift from his mother on her deathbed, becomes the key to a life he thought no longer possible.
Unforgettable in both its particulars and its sweep, A Pigeon and A Boy is a tale of lovers then and now — of how deeply we love, of what home is, and why we, like pigeons trained to fly in one direction only, must eventually return to it. In a voice that is at once playful, wise, and altogether beguiling, Meir Shalev tells a story as universal as war and as intimate as a winged declaration of love.
Location: at the home of Margie Hertz (1433 Bedford Court, Allentown)
Date: Tuesday, January 22nd
Time: 7:15 PM
RSVP to Marcia Berkow or Margie Hertz
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