Friday, May 28, 17 Sivan 6:00 PM Please join Ellen Allard for a virtual "From Our Home to Yours" Kabbalat Shabbat Service.
Saturday, May 29 18 Sivan 9:30 AM Please join Cantor Ellen Band for a virtual "From Our Home to Yours" Kabbalat Shabbat Service.
If you have a simcha, please share it with us and receive a special blessing from Rabbi Plumb during an upcoming Shabbat service. Sponsor a Kiddush by virtually inviting us to your home as you lead the community in KIddush and HaMotzi prayers. (we will provide challah and grape juice!) Please contect Rosalie Reszelbach, Janet Stein Calm or Toni Spitzer to arrange.
Please click here for the link to the new Conservative prayerbook, Siddur Lev Shalem: Shabbat Shaharit Siddur Lev Shalem The prayers will be the same as in our usual blue siddur, so feel free to use that instead if you wish.
Please click here for the link to the page numbers for Shabbat morning prayers in Sim Shalom (Blue) and in Lev Shalem Page Numbers for Shabbat Morning
We Remember: This week's upcoming Yahrzeit Observances
Shloshim Arlene Kendell Goodstein Zona Hoffman
Saturday Eva Alpert James "Jimmy" Kurland Noach Bresler Louis Ober Sarah Wizansky Israel Halper
Sunday Alan Smith Harvey Kagan Charles Reszelbach Beatrice Schlager
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday Sara Rosenthal
Thursday Min Harran Charles Diamond
Friday Philip Katz Samuel Tichnor Chaim Davidi Samuel Krentzman Albert Frager Joseph Fleischer
From Our Rabbi: A Teaching
Dear Congregation Mishkan Tefila Community,
We have spent the last 14 months living a time unlike any other, navigating the challenges of a global pandemic that affected every facet of our lives. Our spiritual home and how we operate in it were certainly impacted greatly. Through the efforts of many people, CMT and the 384 Campus rose to the occasion, responding to the threat and protecting the health and safety of our community in ways most of us would not have anticipated needing.
Shortly after the recognition of the pandemic, the 384 Campus partners came together in an unprecedented way to create an incident leadership structure that has been able to marshal our collective resources and unify our community response and decision making. With the input of our Medical Advisory Group, the 384 Campus Incident Command Team developed new policies and practices and then revised them as appropriate, striving to strike a balance between the need for continued Jewish communal life and community connection in Greater Boston and the need to ensure the health and safety of our people. We are happy to report that thus far we have had no COVID-19 outbreaks associated with the 384 Campus.
Now, in no small part due to the extensive vaccination effort in Massachusetts and with the Commonwealth slated to expand its reopening plans in coming days, it is time to reevaluate this structure and how we can transition back to a typical operating scheme on the campus. Thankfully, we have concluded that it is now safe for the Incident Command Team to stand down. They have made recommendations about the next phase for re-entry. These recommendations will be discussed at our upcoming CMT Re-entry Task Force meeting. We will be updating the CMT community as soon as possible.
We appreciate your continued support and patience as we navigate these rapid changes. If you have questions or feedback to inform our re-entry process, please send them to president@Mishkantefila.org .
With best wishes for continued health,
Caryl Goodman, President CMT Rabbi Marcia Plumb
Congregation Mishkan Tefila 384 Harvard St. Brookline, MA 02446
