Torah Fund
Torah Fund
The Congregation currently has three Torah scrolls in our possession.
Scroll #1:
This is a small, lightweight scroll. We have been told that this scroll is pasul (ritually unusable). This scroll is estimated as being around 280 years old. While we can use it for display purposes, it can no longer be used for worshipping purposes. It is not possible to repair this scroll. It is still being decided if this scroll will be replaced. If it is to be replaced, the cost would be around $35,000 to $50,000.
Scroll #2:
This is a medium-sized scroll. It is unknown who donated this scroll to the Congregation. The scroll is estimated as being 110-130 years old. This scroll is in need of repair and estimated as being around $2,000.
Scroll #3:
This is a Holocaust scroll. It is estimated as being 150-160 years old. This scroll is also in need of repairs, which are estimated at being around $2,500. The scroll is Czech Memorial Scroll #402 from the Pincus Synagogue. For more information on the Memorial Scrolls, please visit the Memorial Scroll Trust website.
It is essential that our Congregation have Torah scrolls that are in a condition suitable for worshipping. Due to the high cost of the repairs and/or replacement, a special fund has been set up to accomplish this task.
If you would like to help contribute to the fund for our Congregation, please complete the form below. Any amount contributed will be helpful.
Thank you,
The Board of Congregation Ner Shalom
Sat, April 27 2024
19 Nisan 5784
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Sunday ,
AprApril 28 , 2024
Sunday, Apr 28th 9:30a to 12:00p
Hebrew and Judaics for grades K-7th -
Thursday ,
MayMay 2 , 2024
Thursday, May 2nd 10:30a to 11:30a
Our next book is A multigenerational family saga about the long-lasting reverberations of one tragic summer by "a wonderful talent [who] should be read widely" (Edward P. Jones). We will meet on May 2nd at 10:30 am via Zoom to discuss As Close to Us As Breathing by Elizabeth Poliner. In 1948, a small stretch of the Woodmont, Connecticut shoreline, affectionately named "Bagel Beach," has long been a summer destination for Jewish families. Here sisters Ada, Vivie, and Bec assemble at their beloved family cottage, with children in tow and weekend-only husbands who arrive each Friday in time for the Sabbath meal. During the weekdays, freedom reigns. Ada, the family beauty, relaxes and grows more playful, unimpeded by her rule-driven, religious husband. Vivie, once terribly wronged by her sister, is now the family diplomat and an increasingly inventive chef. Unmarried Bec finds herself forced to choose between the family-centric life she's always known and a passion-filled life with the married man with whom she's had a secret years-long affair. But when a terrible accident occurs on the sisters' watch, a summer of hope and self-discovery transforms into a lifetime of atonement and loss for members of this close-knit clan. Seen through the eyes of Molly, who was twelve years old when she witnessed the accident, this is the story of a tragedy and its aftermath, of expanding lives painfully collapsed. Can Molly, decades after the event, draw from her aunt Bec's hard-won wisdom and free herself from the burden that destroyed so many others? -
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MayMay 4 , 2024
Shabbat, May 4th 10:00a to 11:00a
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MayMay 5 , 2024
Sunday, May 5th 9:30a to 12:00p
Hebrew and Judaics for grades K-7th -
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MayMay 10 , 2024
Friday, May 10th 7:30p to 8:30p
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Friday, May 17th 7:30p to 8:30p
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MayMay 24 , 2024
Friday, May 24th 5:30p to 6:00p
Our families with children 5 and under are invited to join us for a short Shabbat program, with singing, a story, and of course Challah and Grape Juice! -
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MayMay 24 , 2024
Friday, May 24th 7:00p to 8:00p
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MayMay 25 , 2024
Shabbat, May 25th 4:00p to 8:00p
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MayMay 29 , 2024
Wednesday, May 29th 12:00p to 1:30p
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