CELEBRATE WITH JOY AT OUR COMMUNITY SEDER
An Evening of Sephardi Delights

Second night of Passover, Thursday, April 9, 2009 – 6:00 p.m.
Congregation Beth Sholom Social Hall
1455 Elm Street, Napa, CA 94559
Rabbi Oren Postrel will officiate.

The Seder meal will be coordinated by Debra Heaphy, Jim Heaphy and Sue Barush.  The Sephardi menu will be Kosher for Passover.  The menu will include Roast Turkey Breast with Orange-Apricot-Raisin sauce or a Vegetable stuffed Portabella Mushroom with Orange-Apricot-Raisin sauce, Matzo Ball Soup, Cold Poached Salmon with Red Pepper Sauce and an assortment of Sephardi Charoset.

DEADLINE FOR RESERVATIONS: WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 2009

Reserve your space at the Seder by returning this form with payment to:
Congregation Beth Sholom, 1455 Elm Street, Napa, CA 94559

Make checks to Congregation Beth Sholom

For information, call (707) 253-7305 or check our website at www.cbsnapa.org

When my wife and I first moved to Napa in the 90’s we quickly discovered that the Valley was inhabited with Jews of all sorts. There was not really an interest on our part to get involved with Congregation Beth Sholom (CBS) at the time even thought Rabbi White was someone I grew up with since he was the uncle of my best friend in High School. Rabbi White even grew up in the same youth movement as I did (Young Judaea) and much of his service was familiar to me in style and conten,t yet because of our age and our focus, (career and each other) we were not out searching for spirituality. Overtime marriage and children became the impetus for our searching out spirituality – Rabbi White married us and our first born (a boy) had his Pidyon Haben at CBS.

Still there was a part of me that was not keen to be a part of an institutional Judaism. I had basically grown up in the “Conservative System” and felt like it had stripped much of what it could have offered up in the form of spirituality. My wife and I were looking for something else – something that was created and run by the participants. There were other like minded Jews in Napa, those that felt like CBS was not the place for them or that they needed some supplement to what CBS had to offer. The model we used was simple – we met once a month at each other’s homes for Friday Night services and a potlock and whomever was the hosting the service lead it (with everyone chipping in as best we could). Continue reading →

A Tibetan Buddhist Rinpoche (Precious Teacher) connected to the Vajrayana teachings (Red Hat Buddhist) and a great spiritual master of Tantric Buddhism will give blessings and teachings on a rare visit to the US.

Transforming Negative Emotions
2 – 4 pm
Ubuntu Restaurant & Yoga Studio
1140 Main Street, Napa 94559

Forgiveness – The Key to Resiliency
7 – 9 pm
Congregation Beth Sholom
1455 Elm Street, Napa 9455

Sponsored by Janna Waldinger & Lowell Downey
Call to reserve space (707) 257-1166 or email: artclarity@aol.com

Download the PDF of the Event here.

Come celebrate the 2nd Anniversary of Jesse Barush’s Bar Mitzvah

With Roy, Sue, Jesse and Ben on Saturday, June 7 at 9:30 A.M. Traditional Minyan at CBS. Potluck (dairy) Kiddush lunch will follow the service. Everyone is welcome.

Just a note that Congregation Beth Sholom has a new website up at http://www.cbsnapa.org. Thanks to Natalie Woodard for the great job on the site.

Setting up this website came to me in a wave of inspiration the other day. There are no websites that focus on the conversation of Jewish Life in the Napa Valley, yet we are “here”, and we are important contributing members to the greater Napa Valley Community. I am hoping that people will come to this site to get information about what’s happening that is “Jewish” in the Napa Valley as well as a resource and a place to discuss topics that are of interest to those of us living here.

Enjoy!