June 2016 / 5776

TEC Times A monthly calendar for the

Temple Etz Chaim community

Thursday, June 30th through Monday, Juy 4th Each year our Temple has a booth on the Franklin Town Commons during the July 4th celebration. This year we will be selling Soft Pretzels, Arnold Palmer’s and raffle tickets for our Lottery Ticket board. This can’t happen WITH-OUT YOU! Please go to Sign-Up-Genius and sign up for a time slot or two. It’s a great way to support TEC and get our name into the community.

Each time slot we have 3 shifts available. Go to Sign-Up-Genius to see which are still empty.

July 4th On The Franklin Commons

7/3/16 (Sun) 12:30 pm - 3:00 pm 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm 7/4/16 (Mon) 10:00 am - 1:00 pm 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

6/30/16 (Thur) 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm 7/1/16 (Fri) 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm 3:00 pm - 5:30 pm 5:30 pm - 8:00 pm 7/2/16 (Sat) 11:30 am - 2:00 pm 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm 8:00 pm - 11:00 pm

Booth Sign Up

Welcome to a new century at Temple Etz Chaim!

We are switching over to Mishkan Hanefesh for our High Holiday prayer book. This is an exciting change for our congregation. It is gender inclusive and modern. Be the first to help us purchase the books that will help keep our worship relevant to our lives. For a $54.00 donation, we will attach a bookplate in both volumes, in honor or in memory of a person or event of your choosing. See our online donation form to memorialize or honor someone in the new books. The deadline to purchase book plates for this year is July 22nd.

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online donation form

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Confirmation Service Sunday, June 12 7:00 - 9:00 pm Franklin Federated Church 171 Main St., Franklin Join us as our 10th grader Confirma-

tion students have a chance to lead services and be called to

the Torah. This is an uplifting service that marks the anni-

versary of the giving of the 10 commandments to Moses

and the Israelites at Mt. Sinai and celebrates the end of the

grain harvest in Israel. As the Jewish people made a cove-

nant with God on this day, so too, our young adults reaf-

firm their commitment to their Jewish heritage. Please join

us for this special service and to honor the Confirmation

students. As a community we send a hearty mazel tov to

the following confirmation students: Frederick Beckmann,

Benjamin Cohn, Jenna Goodman and Abigail Pfeffer.

Sisterhood High Tea Sunday, June 26 1:00 - 3:00 pm Sisterhood Members: $25.00 Guests: $30.00 Proctor Mansion Inn 36 Common St., Wrentham

Join us for a traditional English High Tea. Come hear about our accomplishments this past year. Vote on the new Sisterhood Board for 2016-2017. RSVP by June 17, please contact Margot Rivelis

Tikkun Leil Shavuot A Study Session

For The Holiday of Shavuot

Saturday, June 11 (6 Sivan) 8:00 - 10:00 pm at Temple Building For centuries, Jews have spent the evening of the holiday of Shavuot engaged in study. This has prepared us for the festival that marks the receiving of the Torah at Mount Sinai. Join us at Temple Etz Chaim on June 11, Erev Shavuot, for our first Tikkun Leil Shavuot, where we will be learning about the Ten Com-mandments from The Ten Commandments. We will see the way that this classic film acts as a Midrash, an interpretation, of the Biblical text. It is traditional on Shavuot to eat dairy foods, so please join us for bagels, blintzes, and Bible. RSVP to Rabbi Alpert: rabbi.alpert@temple-etzchaim.org (508) 528-5337

Upcoming Events

Shavuot Walk & Study Sunday, June 12 11:00 am DelCarte Conservation Area Pleasant Street, Franklin

The festivals of Sukkot, Passover, and Shavuot are called shalosh regalim, usually translated as the “Three Pilgrimage Festivals.” But literally, it just means, the three walking times. In ancient days, our people would walk to Jerusalem in pilgrimages to make sacrifices on these festivals. We don’t do that anymore, but we can learn from them by tak-ing time to walk and think on these days. So, we are having walking days on each of these festivals. Join us for a con-templative walk and study.

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Temple Cookbook Temple Cookbook... Needs your help! We are creating a cookbook that will be available for purchase for the Winter holiday season this year. To do this, we need your recipes. Imagine helping to build your new favorite cookbook and

helping the Temple at the same time. Send your favorite recipes to Jayme Solomon-Zissu.

Amazon Smile Temple Etz Chaim is registered as an AmazonSmile charitable organization. AmazonSmile is a simple and automatic way for you to support TEC every time you shop, at no cost to you. When you shop at smile.amazon.com, you’ll find the exact same low

prices, vast selection and convenient shopping experience as Am-azon.com, with the added bonus that Amazon will donate a por-tion of the purchase price to TEC. It's simple to do. When shop-ping on Amazon, go to smile.amazon.com and choose "Temple Etz Chaim" (of Franklin, MA) as your charitable organization. That's it! Whenever you shop, remember to do with a smile.

Ink/Toner Cartridge Recycling Don’t throw away those empty ink and toner car-tridges. Drop them off in the bin at temple or at religious school and let us recycle them. We earn $ for each recycled cartridge.

If you’d like to make a donation in memory or honor of

somebody or just to support us, please go to our online

form.

General Fund

In honor of Bryan Bierman and Emily’s engagement by The

Bushey Family

Donations How About Leading A Shabbat Service?

We are inviting members of the TEC community to lead a Friday night service this July or August 2016 (*see dates below). This is an exciting opportunity for you, an individual member, or team of members, to get your creative juices flowing and tailor a meaning-ful and moving service with your own personal touches. Hebrew knowledge and an excellent singing voice NOT essential. Howev-er, you must be Bar/Bat Mitzvah. An outline and guidance from Rabbi Alpert is available as is the musical assistance of a member of the TEC choir. If interested, please respond to RAC. We look forward to hearing from you! Available dates: July 1, 8, 15, 22, 29. August 5, 12

Erev Shabbat Service Schedule Friday, June 3 at 7:30 pm at TEC Erev Shabbat Service

Friday, June 10 at 7:30 pm at TEC Erev Shabbat Service

Friday, June 17 at 7:30 pm at TEC Erev Shabbat Service and Board Installation

Saturday, June 18 at 10:00 am at FUSF Shabbat Service and Joshua Rocha Bar Mitzvah

Friday, June 24 at 7:30 pm at TEC Erev Shabbat Service Honoring Seniors & Campers

TEC: Temple Etz Chaim, 900 Washington St., Franklin FUSF: First Universalist Society of Franklin, 262 Chestnut St., Franklin

B’Nei Mitzvah 10:00 am First Universalist Society of Franklin 262 Chestnut St., Franklin

Saturday, June 18: Joshua Rocha becomes Bar Mitzvah

The congregation is invited to worship as our B’Nei Mitzvah stu-dents are called to the Torah as Bar/Bat Mitzvah. Please join the families for Kiddush following the service.

School registration forms are on the Website

or send Hana Berman your Gmail account

and you can do the registration online.

Deposits are as follows:

June 1 - July 15: Deposit $400 per child

July 16 - August 15: Deposit $450 per child

Late Registration after August 15:

Deposit $450 plus $50 late fee per child

There is no registration the week before School starts.

We are in need of a few teachers for

next school year:

Sundays 9:00 -1 1:30 am

Kitah Gan: preK-K

Kitah Zayin: 7th grade

Hebrew on Wed from 4:00—5:30 pm

co-teacher to work with Hana in grades 4-6

Wanted: Teachers for Religious School Religious School Registration

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Savers Fundraiser: We raised over $350.00

TEC Photo Album

Tot Shabbat Passover Seder

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TEC Photo Album

Yom Sports

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Yom Sports

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by Cindy Heilweil

Update from Knitzvah

by Sue Cass

by Miriam Goodman

by Grace Kooper

by Emily Harvey

With circular, straight and double-pointed needles flying, Knitzvah members have been busy all year with a wide variety of personal projects. The group “Knit Along” challenged everyone with a pattern for a teddy bear, using a special multicolored yarn that creates Fair Isle patterns. Several people accepted the challenge with outstanding results. Other projects included hats, scarves, fingerless mitts, baby garments, blankets and sweaters. Since pictures speak much louder than words, here are some samples of our output.

Keep in mind that the beginning of warm weather does not need to signal the end of knitting. Small projects are a great way to while away hours at the beach. There are many patterns for spring accessories and light-weight sweaters. The yarn stores are now carrying lots of linen and cotton yarns which will be just right for the warmer months.

Our group will continue to meet through the summer, on Sundays, at the temple building. The dates will be posted on the temple calendar. As always, we welcome any interested knitters regardless of skill level. Prior knitting experience is not re-quired; we will provide instruction. No RSVP is necessary. New knitters need no materials; we have yarn and needles to share – all you need to bring is you! Contact Sue Cass for questions.

Academy Class: Gift Basket for Project Just Because

Academy Class: Learning to Bake Challah

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TEC Photo Album

Kitah Vav making Chocolate Pops for Teacher Appreciation and Mother’s Day

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Havdalah and Israel Social

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Rabbi Alpert

Hana Berman: Director of Education

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FROGY leads T’Fillah at Religious School

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