Rome'News and Upcoming Events

26-27 Adar II, 5771 • April 1-2, 2011Parsha Tazriah Shabbat Candles: 7:02pm

In the CommunityShomer Love: Help volunteer to prepare our sacred space Friday and Saturday's by volunteering to be a Shomer. Sign up is now beginning for volunteer help at Romemu's upcoming Passover Seder. Email shomerim@romemu.org for more information. Volunteer to Leyn: Interested in reading Torah during a Saturday service. Contact torahreading@romemu.orgConnect-to-Care Job Fair 2011:As part of the Romemu Circles. Connect-to-Care is committed to helping those during job transition and loss, under the UJA Federation C2C is hosting a job fair at the JCC in Manhattan, Wednesday, April 6, 10:00am-2:00pm.

Refuah ShlemahWe would like to wish a speedy recovery and blessings of healing upon Sally Staver Sirka bat Gittel, Blanche and Jack Frank, Frank Palmer, Mortan Tankus,Phillip Jones, and newborn baby of parents Anna & Lenny Gusel.

Mazal Tov to Romemu MembersRuthie Herzlinger is making Aliyah. Rabbi Neal Kaunfer is holding Jewish Prayer Dance, Saturday, April 2 at 8:30pm in the lobby of the JCC. jewishprayermovements.com.

Shabbat Services West End Presbyterian Church165 W 105th Street

Please refrain from using your mobile devices within the sanctuary, whether texting or merely checking the time. Please consider the time we are together worshipping to be beyond the reach of time and other mundane matters and worthy of our undivided attention.

April 1/2 Shabbat Services

Friday: 7:00pm Shabbat Services led by Rabbi David Ingber with Shir Yaakov Feinstein-Feit

Saturday:8:30am: ShabbatAsana Yoga Practice 9:30am:!Meditation10:00am: Shabbat Services led by Rabbi David Ingber with Shir Yaakov Feinstein-Feit

Special Holiday ServicesTuesday, April 1910:00am: Pesach Yom Tov Wednesday, April 2010:00am: Pesach

To sponsor Shabbat flowers or a kiddush, please contact: info@romemu.org

Classes with Rabbi Ingber

Kabbalah Cafe'Tuesdays, 7:00pmApril 5 class will begin at 7:30pmPlease RSVP for address and directions info@romemu.org

Book CircleWednesday, April 27, 7:30-9:00pmThe focus for this meeting will be on Arthur Green's Seek My Face, which can be purchased online at Amazon or Abe Books. To RSVP or to host a meeting at your home please contact: bookcircle@romemu.org

As we know, music is the soul of the Romemu experience.

So, it is with great joy that we announce the launching of a new and exciting fund: the Romemu Community Music Fund. Conceived of and generously seeded by members Dr. Shari Melamed Kaplan and Dr. Steve Kaplan, the naming of this fund represents our commitment and focus on community in all its rich diversity and multiple voices.

We are kicking o" the fund as we celebrate Romemu's fifth birthday this weekend with a special request to join the Kaplans and give generously to our new music fund. Please consider honoring someone special or marking a life cycle event, perhaps a memorial of a family member or yahrzeit, or as a happy birthday wish for Romemu as we turn five.

Visit romemu.org/music/, listen to our

music and make a contribution today. We look forward to more joyous singing and dancing with you as we celebrate our fifth miraculous year and for many more joyous years to come.

We would like to thank Barbara Block, Ron Cohen, Jane Graver, Rebecca Wedel, Felice Winograd, as well as an Anonymous donor for contributing generously to this fund.

In musical gratittude.

Sacred Quilt SquareOn behalf of Romemu, Leona Strassberg Steiner invites you to create a sacred space on a gold square of fabric, located at the back of the sanctuary.

This fabric square will be sewn together to create a huge Romemu quilt. Please leave an inch all around for sewing the squares together at the end of the project. Return your Romemu Sacred Quilt Squares by mailing them to 308 West 92nd Street, Suite 5B, New York, NY 10025.

Third Annual Interfaith Passover Seder with Faith House &St. Francis Xavier Church55 West 15th StreetSunday, April 17, 6:30pm

Romemu is partnering with Faith House and St. Francis Xavier Church to host the 3rd Annual Interfaith Seder. The Passover Seder is a ritualized meal commemorating the Exodus. It was also the setting of Jesus' Last Supper. The Seder is a remarkable way of learning about the Jewish roots of Christianity. People of all faiths and no faith at all are welcomed. RSVP is required: lmdiaz@sfxavier.org or info@faithhousemanhattan.org

Living Deeply with a Sacred TextSunday, April 3, 6:00pm

This Rome-chevra is an opportunity to make a year long commitment to living deeply with a sacred line of text. This group meets once a month to share the journey of this relationship and learn together not only how to live with a text, but also the deeper teachings. For more information: livingdeeply@romemu.org

Free Night of Learning withRabbi David Ingber at Mechon Hadar's 90@190Monday, April 4, 7:30pm

Rabbi David Ingber is teaching one more session at Mechon Hadar's open beit midrash, 90@190, located at West End Synagogue, 190 Amsterdam Avenue at 69th Street. Get ready for Passover with the teaching "Peh-Sach Seder: The Other Great Talking Cure." Learn with Rabbi Ingber or join one of the other great teachers. For more information: mechonhadar.org/90at190

Dedicate a Siddur Today

For a small donation of $18 you can dedicate a Siddur in loving memory of a family members, or in celebration of a happy occassion. This is a loving way to honor a person or event in your life. Call the Romemu O!ce for more information: cassie@romemu.org

Contact Romemu:Hours: Mon-Thur 10-5pm, Fri 10-2pm308 W. 92nd Street, Ste. 5B212.580.4294, info@romemu.org

Rabbi David Ingber rabbi@romemu.org Founder & Spiritual Director

Shir Yaakov Feinstein-Feit shir@romemu.orgCreative & Musical Director

Jane Graver jane@romemu.orgDirector of Operations

Jade Netanya Ullmann jade@romemu.orgDir. of Development, Membership and Outreach

Cassie Peña cassie@romemu.orgAdministration

Jenn Krueger jenn@romemu.orgRabbinical Research Intern

Rome' Red TentMonday, April 4, 7:00pm

Calling all women, girls, grandmothers, aunties, sisters, mothers and daughters -- come join the Rome’Red Tent, Romemu’s group for all female-identified friends and members of Romemu. Spend time in a safe and sacred space where we will explore what it means to be Jewish and female-identified in the 21st century. Bring something yummy to eat, an object for the altar and wear red! For more information: redtent@romemu.org

Sha' baby ShabbatFriday, April 8, 5:30pm

Join Romemu for this musical and fun Shabbat program for children 0 to 2 yrs old. Please come with at least one caregiver. This will be an engaging Shabbat for babies and their families. For more information: minis@romemu.org

Social Justice Committee MeetingSunday, April 10Please join us for the first Social Justice Committee meeting, Sunday, April 10! During this meeting we will be exploring social justice as it relates to our faith and how it can inform social action.

Topic for discussion: Tikkun Olam is an important principle within the Jewish faith. What does this mean and how can we connect it to our every day lives? How is this very fundamental tenant connected to the larger picture of social justice and community organizing?

Join us as we begin the process of exploring how our Jewish values can inform collective action to a"ect change within our community and beyond. For questions, location and time please RSVP with Brooke Dumain at bdumain@gmail.com

Upcoming in AprilSun 4/3 Living Deeply with a Sacred TextMon 4/4 Rome'Red TentMon 4/4 90@190Tue 4/5 Kabbalah Cafe' begins at 7:30pmFri 4/8 Sha'Baby & PotluckTue 4/12 No Kabbalah CafeSun 4/17 Interfaith Passover SederTue 4/19 Holistic Seder at the JCCTue 4/19 No Kabbalah Cafe

Featured Event:

2nd Night Holistic Passover Seder with MakomJewish Community Center Manhattan, 334 AmsterdamTuesday, April 19, 6:30pmJoin Romemu's Rabbi David Ingber and Makom, The Center for Meditation and Spirituality, for our 2nd Night Passover Seder. Celebrate as we make our way through the 15 stages of the freedom meal (Seder), singing and telling the story of our own release from the bonds of slavery. The meal will be a meat meal, strictly kosher for Passover. Vegetarian options available.

Registration: $75 for Romemu and JCC members, $85 non-members, $35 for persons under 12. Call: 646-505-5708