NEW TEMPLE SINAI TO OFFER HIGH HOLY DAY SERVICES — We have just learned that Temple Sinai, a group of Reform Jews, has been offering Shabbat services at Colonial Church Chapel located at 71st Street and Mission Road, at 7:30 p.m. every Friday. Services are open to the entire community. Rabbi Paul Silbersher leads the service, which includes music, readings and inspiring offerings from the entire congregation.
The brand new congregation is also planning to hold High Holy Day services. The entire community is welcome and no tickets are required, but reservations are requested. Erev Rosh Hashanah services will be at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 16; Rosh Hashanah services will be the following day from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.; Erev Yom Kippur services will be from 7:30 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 25; Yom Kippur services will be the following day from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and then concluding services will take place from 5 to 6 p.m.
For more information regarding Temple Sinai or to make High Holy Day service reservations, call Larry Gelb at 816-942-4954 or email . Information is also available on the website, www.TempleSinaiKC.org.
HIGH HOLIDAY SERVICE SCHEDULE — The service schedule for the local congregations is published in The Chronicle’s special Rosh Hashanah magazine. It was mailed separately to subscriber’s homes and should arrive any day now.
SOLDIERS WELCOME — Jewish War Veterans, Mo-Kan Post 605 has contacted chaplains at Fort Leavenworth to invite Jewish soldiers to Kansas City to join in High Holiday services. Rabbi Scott White was first to offer the facilities of Congregation Ohev Sholom to the active duty personnel and other synagogues and temples have been contacted by the Post’s Outreach Committee if additional accommodations are needed. Any family that would like to invite a soldier to a holiday lunch or dinner can contact the Outreach Committee at 913-642-7067.
5773 CALENDAR AVAILABLE — The Torah Learning Center has produced a beautiful Judaic calendar and Rabbi Simcha Morgenstern tells me “we are happy to mail it free of charge to anyone interested.” The calendar includes upcoming holidays, educational messages, Shabbat and holiday candle-lighting times and features photos of synagogues from around world. To request your free calendar call 913-890-3811 or visit www.kcjewishcalendar.com.
EMANUEL AX TO PERFORM — One of the world’s best known classical pianists, Emanuel Ax, will be in Kansas City next week to kick off the 48th season of the Harriman-Jewell Series. The pianist has played for the Harriman-Jewell Series 11 times, most recently in October 2010 for a benefit recital in memory of the Series’ late founder, Richard Harriman. Ax captured public attention in 1974 when he won the first Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Competition in Tel Aviv. In 1975 he won the Michaels Award of Young Concert Artists followed four years later by the coveted Avery Fisher Prize. The Washington Post music critic declared that “Ax is an extremely satisfying pianist; he is at home in a wide variety of music and his pianism is always thoughtful, lyrical, lustrous.” His planned program Includes Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas No. 2 in A Major and No. 8 in C Minor “Pathétique,” and Schubert’s Sonata in B-flat Major.
He will appear Saturday, Sept. 22, at the Folly Theater. Tickets are available by calling 816-415-5025 or visiting jhseries.org.