The Treasurer’s Two Cents
It has been wonderful to see many of you as you renew your membership for 2020 – 2021. To date, 48 of you have renewed, we are still waiting for about 24 more of you. As you know, we need all of you to keep an active, fulfilling Jewish community, which is available to all […]
Saturday Morning Service
Saturday ServiceMay 20 at 10AM LIVE and ZOOMFacilitated by Rabbi Phil To join us on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4217418546?pwd=a1dLZ1plWGt2RnhFU2ZUUG8wUXVhdz09 Personal Meeting ID: 421 741 8546Personal Room Passcode: 9VUQ5q
David’s Corner – September 28, 2020
Sukkot 2020 Even before this year’s pandemic, Lakeside attendance for Sukkot has been light. Some of this is understandable. By the end of Yom Kippur, the High Holidays have left many of us in an enervated state. Too much shul already! But it is a little sad. The commandment to sit in your sukkah and […]
Reset, Renew, and Prepare for 5782
Dear Members and Friends of the Lake Chapala Jewish Congregation: This year, as the High Holy Days approach and we prepare to celebrate the start of 5782, we know we will be unable to physically gather. This is sad and disappointing. We rely on these important Jewish holidays to reset, renew and prepare for the […]
High Holy Days Services
Your Board of Directors continue to put your health and safety as priority in this global pandemic. Therefore, we will be offering short HHD services led by David Rosett. In addition to our own offerings, LCJC is providing links to four outstanding synagogues, Reconstructionist, Reform and Conservative, which will be having more extensive services. Services […]
LJCJ Book Club
THERE’S NOTHING LIKE A GOOD MURDER TO WARM UP A COLD AUTUMN NIGHT. JOIN US FOR A HAIR-RAISING DISCUSSION ON ZOOM WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1 AT 2:00 PM. To join us on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4217418546?pwd=a1dLZ1plWGt2RnhFU2ZUUG8wUXVhdz09 Personal Meeting ID: 421 741 8546Personal Room Passcode: 9VUQ5q
David’s Corner – September 14, 2020
Rosh Hashana 1st and 2nd Days: Genesis 22:1-24 Seven months ago we felt we were in great shape. Synagogue was a place we looked forward to being and all we had to do was show up. Then the unexpected happened. A pandemic reared its ugly head and we lost our bearings. Synagogue? It has […]
David’s Corner – September 7, 2020
Nitzavim-Va-Lech (Deuteronomy 29:9-31:30) HaShem works in mysterious ways… Remember how in Ki Tavo, the last parasha, HaShem appeared to hit the Israelites with tough love? By this I mean, if the Israelites did not obey all of HaShem’s commandments they would be destroyed by plague and disease and would be scattered to the ends of […]
David’s Corner – El Shofar September
Ki Tavo (Deuteronomy 26:1 – 29:8) As we are now well into the month Elul, our thoughts turn to our own lives, and how we have fallen short. The parasha of Shoftim has been one we have turned to in lifting our expectations to do better, to be more just. And we have not always […]
David’s Corner – August 24, 2020
Ki Tetsay. (Deutoronomy 21:10 – 25:19) The parasha ends with the troublesome warning about Amalek. The Israelites are to destroy the Amalekites for a surprise attack that killed off the stragglers, the hungry and and the tired, during the march from Egypt. Initially, this would seem straightforward enough. Amalek has acted in an unethical way […]