Passover Box From Torah Mates!

Every year, we get a "box of goodies" from Torah Mates-Oorah! Seeing this video below shows how hard volunteers work to make our Passover just a bit happier!
 

Another WONDERFUL Shabbat Service From Temple Israel Long Beach, California 4-15-16

Another WONDERFUL Shabbat service from Temple Israel in Long Beach 4-15-16! It's great our family can "be there" from Colorado! (This is the temple my father's family helped found in Long Beach's early days.)

In memory, my Uncle Bobby's name is said near the end of this service. (He passed away two ago.)

Ruach Shabbat From Temple Israel Long Beach 4-8-16

Enjoy this wonderful Shabbat service and music from Friday evening 4-8-16 from Temple Israel in Long Beach California! Bill Shafton led such a beautiful service and I've replayed it from Colorado about 3 or 4 times!


 

Purim Spiel 3-26-16 From Temple Israel Long Beach, California

I love how technology took our family to California from Colorado to watch this live on Saturday, March 26, 2016! It was a clever musical play with talented performers and I recognized some of the people in the performance which made it more fun than ever!

 

Shabbat Hanefesh - From Temple Israel in Long Beach, California 3-25-16

Our family is snowed in this Shabbat in Colorado, so it was wonderful to be able to see this wonderful meditative Shabbat service live tonight from Temple Israel in Long Beach, California. I felt I was there! Cantor Sara Hass is wonderful!

Shunning

verb (used with object), shunned, shunning.

1.

to keep away from (a place, person, object, etc.), from motives ofdislike, caution, etc.; take pains to avoid.

Recently I watched part of a movie on Netflix that talked about shunning in the Amish community.  

It got me thinking about certain people from my past who I feel might avoid contact with me.  It also makes me think how my entire family was shunned from The Colorado Springs Conservatory.  No matter how much I try to forget and move on, there is a bit of an "ache" there just knowing we are not welcome in the lives of certain people who we once considered close friends and almost family.

The thing is, we don't have much in common anymore...just memories...

Ruach Shabbat - Temple Israel Long Beach, California 3-11-16

Even though I'm not in California, I was able to enjoy this wonderful Shabbat service!