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September - October, 2006: Temple Chai celebrates the High Hold Days. Pictures from Yom Kippur Service.
May
16th, 2006: Japan Christian Friends of Israel perform at the Josephine
Street Theater.
May 12-13th, 2006:
Rabbi Hillel Katzir was our Guest Rabbi for a special weekend of
prayer and study.
March 3, 2006:
UTSA Hillel and Temple Chai celebrated
Shabbat Across America at Friday Evening Services which was
followed by a dinner hosted by UTSA Hillel.
February 24, 2006:
Temple Chai celebrated its First Anniversary with a service and
dinner. Over one hundred people attended services and many
stayed for the dinner following the service.
Photo page.
February 11, 2006:
Consuelo
Luz was our guest at the morning services. We were pleased
to have her presence and hear her lovely voice. Consuelo Luz
was Temple Beth-El's Artist-in-Residence for Shabbat Shirah and made
arrangements for her to be at our Shabbat morning service.
December 16, 2005:
Temple Chai held its first Chanukah Service and Dinner. Services were
followed by a Latke Dinner and the production of the "Chanukah
Guest." The "Chanukah Guest" was produced by Linda Kaufman and
featured Bobi Stern, George Stern and Visvikis. Michael
Stern provided musical accompaniment and Warren Zwick assisted with
sound effects. Click for
Photo Page.
November 18, 2005:
Ali Haider and Shalom Dichter from
Sikkuy (Association for the Advancement of Civic
Equality in Israel) spoke at shabbat services about the work and
importance of Sikkuy. Sikkuy is a non-partisan organization
that develops and implements projects to advance civic equality in
Israel.
November 4, 2005:
Cantor David Silverstein was installed as the Spiritual Leader of
Temple Chai. See article
for more details.
September and October
2005: Temple Chai celebrated its first High Holy Days.
Pictures of Selichot and Rosh Hashanah
Eve show the joyous Congregation.
Pictures from Yom Kippur services.
Pictures from Simchat Torah.
At Simchat Torah it was announced that Temple Chai now has a Torah
scroll of its own, thanks to an anonymous donor.
September 10, 2005:
Temple Chai celebrated its first Bar Mitzvah. Max Weaver, son
of Kathy Weaver and Don Weaver,
celebrated his Bar Mitzvah.
September 4, 2005:
Temple Chai volunteers work at the SA
Food Bank to assist relief efforts for Hurricane Katrina.
August 26, 2005:
Eliezer Rivlin, national staff member of American Friends of Magen
David, spoke at shabbat services.
Mel Cohen, President of Temple Chai announced that Porter Loring III
made a very generous gift to the Temple.
July 29, 2005:
Over 100 people attended services which was followed by the first
Shabbat Dinner held by Temple Chai at the Jewish Campus. The
beautiful new ark was dedicated. We give thanks to the many
families who have supported us with special gifts of prayer books,
religious school books, computers and the ark.
July 1, 2005:
Temple Chai conducted its first regular Shabbat service under the
leadership of Cantor David Silverstein at the Campus. At this
service the torah scroll on loan from
Congregation Beth El Binah of Dallas
was lovingly used.
Golden Manor Jewish Home
for the Aged was warmly thanked for their tremendous help in getting
Temple Chai started by allowing us the use of their chapel.
June 21, 2005:
The Board of Directors and Officers were elected at the annual
meeting. At that meeting Cantor David Silverstein was elected
Spiritual Leader for Temple Chai.
June 10, 2005: Mel Cohen, President of Temple Chai,
announced that arrangements have been made to secure a Torah scroll.
Congregation Beth El
Binah of Dallas Texas has generously offered to loan us a scroll
until we can obtain one of our own. We offer our sincere
thanks and appreciation to Congregation Beth El Binah. The
Torah scroll should arrive in time for our first service at the Jewish
Campus on July 1st at 6:30 PM. At that service Cantor David
Silverstein will assume his position as Spiritual Leader of Temple
Chai.
April 22, 2005:
Cantor David Silverstein lead services for Shabbat Hagadol. It
was Temple Chai's first service that was totally clergy conducted.
It was announced at this service that Cantor Silverstein would
become Temple Chai's spiritual leader on July 1, 2005.
March 10, 2005: The State
of Texas Articles of Incorporation and Federal ID number have been
received.
March 1, 2005: The monthly board meeting was held.
It was reported that the State of Texas incorporation documents were
complete and federal ID number procurement and 501(C)3 status are
pending. The application from the Union of Reform Judaism was
received and a committee was formed to complete it. The
By-Laws were approved.
February 25, 2005: Temple Chai conducted its
first worship service. The service was lead by Marcia Goren Weser.
The service began with Doris Toubin lighting and blessing the
shabbath candles, Elliot Weser gave the d'var torah, Norman Cohn and
George Stern chanted the Torah blessings and Jimmy Toubin lead the
Congregation with the blessing over the wine. Linda Kaufman
provided musical accompaniment and performed an original piece
titled Tapestry.
After the service the
Congregation sang the motzi and shared hallah together.
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