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August 1, 2007
Dear members and friends of TUJ,
What an exciting and challenging year it's been!
- Four bar mitzvahs and a baby naming
- A march on Washington
- Four Saturday lunch programs, each feeding over 150
- A Heschel-King service that was filled to capacity
- Torah Studies
- Meaningful Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur services
- Festive Chanukah dinner
- Joyous Passover seder
- High-spirited Purim pageant
- Israeli-style Tu B'shevat seder
- Welcoming Park Avenue Christian Church's new ministry
- An increase to two Friday night Shabbat services per month
- A new partnership with the Union for Reform Judaism
We can all be proud to be members of New York's most unique congregation
– a community of friends of all cultural and religious backgrounds,
joining together to heal the world.
Our plans for next year are just as exciting. Our goals are to
return the synagogue to sound financial footing, expand our partnership
with the Park Avenue Christian Church, and provide more programs
that bind us together in prayer, action, and fellowship.
With your renewed membership, and financial support, we can
do it.
This year's appeal asks for your generosity in three ways:
1. Membership.
Your renewed membership keeps our doors open, allowing TUJ to continue
to be a diverse, welcoming, activist congregation.
Member Eric Guy has written that "the world is a better place
when people who are very different can bridge the things that separate
them and come together in friendship."
The world needs communities like TUJ, and we need you.
2. High Holy Days Music.
We have created a separate fund to highlight the importance of
music at our High Holy Days services. Music is the heart of our
worship experience, transcending language and creating sacred space.
With your support, we will continue to offer our congregants, potential
new members, and the public beautiful services with our professional
music director, cantoral soloist, accompanist, and choir singers.
3. Jewish New Year Cards.
This new program raises both funds and awareness of TUJ in the
community. Most of us are members because someone reached out to
us. By sending TUJ cards – with High Holy Days schedule enclosed
– to our relatives, friends, and neighbors, we will be "paying
forward" the mitzvah.
Please join me in keeping TUJ secure and vital. Your commitment
and dollars make it possible.
Peace,
Bonnie Fox
Bonnie Fox
President
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