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P.O. Box 142481, Fayetteville, GA 30214 Office: 678-817-7162 Email: admin@bnai-israel.

May 2017 CELEBRATING THE FIRST EDITION OF OUR NEW FORMAT Have you been missing The Bulletin?

congregational Yahrzeits and donations, and a detailed monthly calendar.

able to plan ahead with a complete monthly calendar.

To find out more details about any events listed on our calendars, you can look on our website or read our Eblast, or,

1 P.O. Box , Fayetteville, GA Office: Website: CBI CONNECTIONS Catching up and planning ahead! May 2017 CELEBRATING THE FIRST EDITION OF OUR NEW FORMAT Have you been missing The Bulletin? It s been on hiatus, due to time and publishing issues. But now we are back with a newer, sleeker newsletter, which we are calling CBI CONNECTIONS. Every month, we will publish details of an important event or activity on the front page, a listing of Coming Events, congregational Yahrzeits and donations, and a detailed monthly calendar. In these few pages, you will find the basic information you need to catch up on important events at CBI as well as be able to plan ahead with a complete monthly calendar. In addition, there may be room for a few special pages, revolving around congregants and students. To find out more details about any events listed on our calendars, you can look on our website or read our Eblast, or, as always, you can call our office at and ask for details. CONGREGATION B NAI ISRAEL ANNUAL MEETING SUNDAY, MAY 21, :00AM ALL ARE WELCOME AND ENCOURAGED TO ATTEND LET YOUR VOICE BE HEARD! ~ FINANCIAL UPDATE ~ OFFICER/BOARD REPORTS ~ ~ TRUSTEE ELECTIONS ~ REFRESHMENTS BEFORE, DURING AND AFTER PLEASE JOIN US AS WE WRAP UP ANOTHER FABULOUS YEAR AND PLAN FOR A NEW ONE! LOOK INSIDE FOR A PRINTABLE BALLOT, IN CASE YOU CANNOT ATTEND THE MEETING.

COMING EVENTS Don t miss any of these amazing CBI events! Check your E-Blast, the CBI website, or call the Office (678-817-7162) for more details!

2 COMING EVENTS Don t miss any of these amazing CBI events! Check your E-Blast, the CBI website, or call the Office ( ) for more details! April 30 Religious School (Hebrew High and Torah Tots) 10:00AM April 30 Yom HaShoah at CBI 1:30PM Guest Speaker: Bishop Julian Gordy Reception following the service May 3 10:30AM May 5 Shabbat Service (led by Glenn Kersey) 7:30PM May 7 Religious School (Hebrew High) 10:00AM May 9 Board Meeting 7:00PM May 10 10:30AM May 12 Shabbat Service (led ) 7:30PM May 13 Torah Study 10:00AM May 13 Brotherhood Activity TBA May 14 No Religious School - MOTHER S DAY May 16 Adult Education led 6:30PM Jewish Art and Architecture May 17 10:30AM May 17 Last Day of Wednesday Hebrew School 5:45PM May 19 Family Shabbat Service led Deli Night/Meat Dinner Shabbat Service 6:30PM 7:30PM May 21 Last Day of Religious School - Fun Day 10:00AM (Hebrew High and Torah Tots) May 21 Annual Meeting 10:00AM May 24 10:30AM May 26 Shabbat Service led 7:30PM May 31 10:30AM June 2 Shabbat Service led 7:30PM

If you cannot attend the meeting and/or you would like to vote by ballot, please follow the instructions below to cast your vote: CBI ANNUAL MEETING BALLOT May 21, 2017 SLATE OF TRUSTEES RECOMMENDED

front of the candidate(s) you wish to elect 3) Place the ballot in an envelope and seal it 4) On the outside of the envelope, write your name and address and sign your name 5) Return to CBI by mail

3 If you cannot attend the meeting and/or you would like to vote by ballot, please follow the instructions below to cast your vote: CBI ANNUAL MEETING BALLOT May 21, 2017 SLATE OF TRUSTEES RECOMMENDED FOR ELECTION BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES Abby Brunks - Trustee Mike Edison - Trustee Vicki Leopold -Trustee DIRECTIONS: 1) Print, photocopy, or cut out this ballot 2) Place a check ( ) in the box in front of the candidate(s) you wish to elect 3) Place the ballot in an envelope and seal it 4) On the outside of the envelope, write your name and address and sign your name 5) Return to CBI by mail or in person: By mail - place the sealed envelope in an outer envelope and send to: Secretary, Congregation B nai Israel, P.O. Box , Fayetteville, GA In person - place the sealed envelope in the CBI Lobby White Box or give to Angie Ellis, Administrator Sunday, April 30, Iyar :30pm at Congregation B nai Israel in cooperation with Christ Our Shepherd Lutheran Church Holocaust Remembrance Day A Service of Remembrance WE GATHER AS A COMMUNITY TO REMEMBER AND REFLECT ALL ARE WELCOME PLEASE JOIN US RECEPTION FOLLOWING SERVICE

4 The Miracle of the Matzah Ball Soup: A Frozen Tale For any of you that missed our Community Passover Seder this year, we had a great time. Even more impressive was the delicious and amazing matzah ball soup that our beloved congregant, Marge Gersten, made for us. Her recipe was incredible, and Marge really worked her fingers to the bone to get it all done. I was shocked when she agreed to do it in the first place. Marge devised a careful plan and methodically got to work, first making gallons and gallons of soup over three weekends and then moving to the matzah balls over the remaining weeks. She was still making more matzah balls the day before the Seder! Since I signed on to help store the soup and the matzah balls in my empty freezer, it became a fun and wonderful ritual to go to Marge s house each time she had a batch at the ready. She often tried to enlighten me on the fine art of soup-making, but it was truly a lost cause. Off the soup would go to my freezer. By the time I had about 10 big plastic containers in there, I started to realize just what a responsibility I had taken on. You see, the liquid really expanded as it froze, so the containers no longer had flat bottoms or tops once frozen, which meant they did not want to sit on top of each other in the freezer very well. I had to remove some of the shelving to fit everything in, but the containers were very unsteady in there. Still, things were going well and the soup froze hard in no time. Next came the matzah balls of them. These were not tidbit size matzah balls. Nope, these were glorious, large, fluffy matzah balls. I would come pick up the matzah balls that she had painstakingly frozen into single layers in freezer bags. On top of the frozen soup containers that were puffing out and rolling around in the freezer, I now added bags and bags of matzah balls. Marge gave me precise instructions on how to thaw everything out. Sadly, not precise enough for me. Even though I moved them from freezer to refrigerator 2 days before the Seder as instructed, the soup was still solidly frozen on Seder morning. I even dropped and cracked one of the squirmy containers in the process. So out they came to sit on my kitchen counters -- the first visible sign that my bad luck in culinary arts would continue to haunt me. I hoped that by noon, all would be thawed. Of course, it was not to be. I could shake the containers and see some liquid soup, but the centers were still hard blocks of ice. I naively reasoned that once I got them to CBI, I could pour the icy centers out into the pot and heat them up and all would be perfect. Yes, a good plan, except the ice centers were larger in diameter than the lip of the jars. So it was a mad dash to chisel the icy soup into chunks in order to get it out of the containers or to melt the soup with hot water baths. The plastic bags of frozen matzah balls, which had been sitting on my kitchen floor on beach towels, were also still a bit frozen. My biggest fear was that my husband Gene Burden would come stomping into the kitchen unaware and accidentally crush them on his way to the microwave. It was a stressful time at the Burden household. When Marge arrived at CBI to help out, she took one look at me and the predicament we were in and only slightly raised an eyebrow, which led me to believe she was seriously considering ways to murder me without getting caught. But nonetheless, she jumped in to assist Angie Ellis, who had taken over the process of the big thaw. I made my respectful escape by rushing home to get some things for the Seder, leaving Marge and Angie alone to fight the frozen wonderland in the CBI kitchen. Somehow, a miracle occurred that can best be explained by the fact that I removed the offending item -- me -- from the kitchen. These stalwart women persisted, and we were rewarded with the most delicious soup and matzah balls we have had at our Community Seder. I am so appreciative to Marge and Angie, who took my frozen mistakes and made wonderful matzah ball soup of them. And lest you think there was no fitting payback for the stress I caused them, I must tell you that this soupy story was not quite over after Seder. I had taken a large container of soup home and stored it on a tall shelf in the door of my refrigerator. After eating only one meal of the soup, I somehow knocked the shelf loose, whereby the whole container dropped to my floor and broke. Liquid spilled everywhere and we were flooded with matzah ball soup. So, the moral of the story is this: if you want good matzah ball soup, keep all your burdens out of the kitchen. Thanks, Marge and Angie and all the Seder Committee folks! We could not have had such a great Seder without you.

2017 SPOTLIGHT ON CBI YOUTH GROUP OUR SENIORS Our three senior members, Sydney, Sophia, and Camille, have shared many exciting experiences as part of the CBI Youth

From their work at CBI to their learning opportunities with NFTY, these three young women have made us proud by their dedication to their studies, their volunteerism,

SOPHIA CHARYTON Graduating Senior at Whitewater High School Accomplishments: Will be attending Kennesaw State University - Major: Advanced Sciences Soccer Varsity - 3

President - 1 year CAMILLE FARALDI Graduating Senior at Macintosh High School Accomplishments: Will be attending College of Coastal Georgia - Major: Nursing National

5 2017 SPOTLIGHT ON CBI YOUTH GROUP OUR SENIORS Our three senior members, Sydney, Sophia, and Camille, have shared many exciting experiences as part of the CBI Youth Group/Teens. From their work at CBI to their learning opportunities with NFTY, these three young women have made us proud by their dedication to their studies, their volunteerism, and their interest in teaching and modeling Judaism to the next generation. SOPHIA CHARYTON Graduating Senior at Whitewater High School Accomplishments: Will be attending Kennesaw State University - Major: Advanced Sciences Soccer Varsity - 3 years, co-captain First chair band member, 7 years in top band NHS, NTHS, NSHS, Beta club, HOSA and DECA BIFTY Youth Group President - 2 years BIFTY Social Action Vice President - 1 year CAMILLE FARALDI Graduating Senior at Macintosh High School Accomplishments: Will be attending College of Coastal Georgia - Major: Nursing National Honor Society for English and Spanish Orchestra - 4 years CBI Religious School Teacher s Aide - 2 years CBI Religious School Teacher - 3 years SYDNEY FELDMAN Graduating Senior at East Coweta High School Accomplishments: Will be attending Aardvark Israel Immersion Gap Year Program in Tel Aviv Graduating with High Honors BIFTY Youth Group Communication Vice President - 1 year BIFTY Youth Group Social Action Vice President - 1 year

DONATIONS (Donations listed here are from January 1, 2017 to April 17, 2017) In Memory of My Father Elaine McGee In Memory of Mildred Jaye Honey Aiken In Memory of My Husband Joseph R.

Fund Art & Jamie Ross Tie One On John & Sandy DeMuth Ralph & Angie Ellis Fly Chai Mike & Debbie Edison May 5, 2017 Yahrzeits James D.

6 DONATIONS (Donations listed here are from January 1, 2017 to April 17, 2017) In Memory of My Father Elaine McGee In Memory of Mildred Jaye Honey Aiken In Memory of My Husband Joseph R. McGee Elaine McGee In Memory of Michael Lee Polinsky Len Polinsky In Memory of Deborah Ross Art & Jamie Ross In Memory of Dean Burden Steven and Andrea Feinstein Marge Gersten Barbara Kaplan Building Fund Art & Jamie Ross Tie One On John & Sandy DeMuth Ralph & Angie Ellis Fly Chai Mike & Debbie Edison May 5, 2017 Yahrzeits James D. Fitzgerald Ruth Newman May 12, 2017 Max Gersten (Marge Gersten s father-in-law) Rebecca Shepps (Ray Levine s grandmother) Sydney Spielberg (Fern Goldstein s father) Kathryn Threlkeld (Jim Bradford s sister-in-law) May 19, 2017 Bernardo Charyton (Hector Charyton s father) Katie Kersey (Glenn Kersey s mother) Richard Millstone May 26, 2017 Ralph Coffin (Cheryl Rich s father) Irene Pavloff (Beverly Tyler s mother) Naomi Siegel General Fund Glenn & Peg Kersey

7 May Congregation B nai Israel Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat RS - 10:00am TT - 11:00am Yom HaShoah - 1:30pm at CBI Yom Hazikaron Yom HaAtzmaut Hebrew School 5:45pm by Glenn Kersey 7 HHS - 9:00am RS - 10:00am 8 9 Board Meeting 7:00pm Torah Study 10:00am Hebrew School 5:45pm Brotherhood Activity TBA No Religious School Mother s Day Adult Education 6:30pm Family Shabbat Deli Night (Meat) Jewish Art and Architecture Hebrew School 5:45pm Last Day Dinner: 6:30pm Service:, led 21 HHS - 9:00am RS/TT - 10:00am Last Day - Fun Day Annual Meeting 10:00am Memorial Day Shavuot

8 June Congregation B nai Israel Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Family Shabbat BBQ Night (Meat) Dinner: 6:30pm Service:, led 10 Brotherhood Activity TBA Board Meeting 7:00pm Father s Day ISJL Conference - Jackson, MS ISJL Conference - Jackson, MS ISJL Conference - Jackson, MS

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