Learn, Lead, Serve: Friday, Mar. 12

Carol Brauner, the director of international development at the Leo Baeck Education Center in Haifa, Israel, will be our guest speaker at our Hava Nashir Shabbat service on Friday, March 12, 7:30 PM.

Her topic is "Learn, Lead, Serve," which is Leo Baeck's new motto. Carol will discuss the Education Center's work in creating new paradigms for both Reform Judaism in Israel and for Israeli society in general, as well as the school's commitment to the goal of inclusion — bringing every sector of the population into the mainstream of Israel through education and outreach.

Sholom Women online auction is now open!

The Sholom Women Western Shindig's online auction is now declared OPEN!

From now until Mar. 5 at 9 AM, the auction is open for bidding on many wonderful auction items from dinners out and fun family events to spa services and some dandy unique experiences. Just for registering you get a $10 coupon to the Starr*Stevens Judaica Shop! Keep checking in — more items are being added daily — so bid early and often!! Good luck!

http://www.biddingforgood.com/pts/pts-3

May 8 - Volunteer Day at Project Open Hand

On May 8, 2010, PTS members will have the opportunity to volunteer at Project Open Hand in San Francisco. POH was started over twenty five years ago to feed HIV patients. It has evolved into an organization that now prepares over 2,600 meals per day, 365 days a year for people with medical challenges who are not able to prepare nutritious meals for themselves. Project Open Hand also serves food at Senior Centers throughout San Francisco. Volunteers will be working in the kitchen preparing food or in the grocery center filling orders to be picked up or delivered to clients. The morning will conclude with a complimentary lunch in the volunteer cafeteria. Participants must be at least 15 years old.

If you would like to volunteer or get additional information, please contact Marty Rosenberg through the PTS temple office.

Women of the Wall

How is it possible that in the year 2010 we are seeing women arrested in Israel for wearing a tallit and kippah?

What has happened to the freedom to practise our religion?

We need to stand behind our Israeli counterparts and not allow a minority in Israel to dictate religious practise.

Please go to www.sholom.org for more information on Women of the Wall.

Helmet liners of kindness!

Please join the Blankets of Kindness team in knitting helmet liners for the U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq.

We are investigating the possibility of also sending them to Israeli soldiers in the Golan Heights.

Click here to see the knitting pattern!

Read the new PTS policy on Interfaith weddings

Rabbi Feder has announced a new Interfaith wedding policy for Peninsula Temple Sholom. You can read all about it in a letter sent to each member family, and also on an article on the PTS website. (That same article is also in the Temple's January Bulletin.)

Please read Rabbi Feder's article, "Interfaith Weddings: A New Perspective," where he shares the thoughtful journey he has taken to determine this new policy. Feel free to leave comments on the new PTS Blog or on our Facebook page.

Read the new PTS Strategic Plan

The PTS Strategic Plan 2009/5770 was unanimously accepted by the Board of Trustees on Dec. 16, 2009.

We invite all PTS members to download and read the Strategic Plan, and help us implement it in the months and years ahead. Click here to visit the Strategic Plan executive summary, and access the complete document, from the "For Members" section of PTS website.