Men's Club Blog

Good Afternoon Men's Club,

I hope this finds you all well.  I wanted to provide you a quick update on just a few items: Sunday's meeting to be rescheduled, dues update, and Softball update.

Men's Club Meeting this Sunday Rescheduled to Sunday March 18th

It has come to our attention that their will be no Sunday School at Parham this Sunday March 11th, rather the kids will be attending instead at the JCC.  As a result, we have decided to move our meeting back one week to make it more convenient for some of our members to attend the festivities with their kids.  We will reconvene at the Brown Religious School on Parham Rd. at 9:15 am on Sunday March 18th. Hope to see everyone there!!

REMINDER: Men's Club Dues

As a reminder, 2018 Beth El Men's Club Dues ($38 per person) are now available to be paid on Shul Cloud with your Temple Beth El invoice.  As many of you might recall, we changed our process from sending out a mailer with envelope to make this process more convenient for our members to pay their dues.

The process is very simple.  When you log into your Shul Cloud account to pay your 2018 Temple and/or Hebrew School Fees you can opt in to Men's Club by checking the box and indicating in the text box field that you would like $38 of your payment to go towards Men's Club 2018 Dues.  If you would still prefer to pay by check and find that easier, you can send that to the Temple Beth-El office and indicate your $38 payment should go towards your 2018 Men's ClubDues or contact Martin Slutzah, Financial Secretary: Martin4907@gmail.com. Of course, we also will accept any donations of support, as well.

What do your Men's Club Dues go toward you might ask?  We use this money to support many of the initiatives of Men's Club throughout the year.  As we relaunched Men's Club 2.0 this year, we developed our "New" Three Pillar approach to programing to provide something for everyone.  For example, we often use this money to offset the cost of such things as Hebrew School functions for the kids such as our end of the year school picnic (Community Service/Hebrew School Pillar), or give back to Beth El directly by supporting its annual Casino Night Fundraiser, and we sponsor the Men's Club Softball Team (Sports Pillar) along with sponsoring/subsidizing different Men's ClubSocial/Jewish Networking events throughout the year.  

We thank all of you who have joined and shown your support! And we welcome past / prospective members to join us and get involved with our great organization.

Men's Club Softball 

The Beth-El Men's Club Softball Team is back for another exciting season in 2018. As always we will be playing Tuesday evenings, at our home field Short Pump and also some games at the Woodman Road Softball Complex.  Our first game will be Tuesday March 20th.   If you are interested in playing, please reach out to Don Light (adlight@aol.com) or Michael Edelstein, M.D. (FERTDOCTOR@aol.com) for more information (You must be a paid Men's Club Member to participate).  We will have our second practice of the year at Short Pump Elementary this Sunday March 11th at 11:00 AM, weather permitting.  

Upcoming Events:

Men's Club Golf Outing - Spring 2018

Men's Club Poker Night Fundraiser - Spring 2018 

Cantor Search 

Please join the Men's Club as we meet one of the visiting Cantor Prospects, Cantor Shipiro March 7th-10th.  Please refer to the email that went out from the Temple office yesterday with all of the information. Thank you!

Meet Cantorial Candidate Henry Shapiro this weekend! 

Wednesday, March 7

Cantor Shapiro will visit the Religious School students during their regular classes.Parents are invited to Tefilah at 5:45pm in the school chapel.

Friday, March 9

5:15pm Pre-Neg in the Social Hall followed by 6:00pm Shabbat Service (Main Sanctuary)

Saturday, March 10

10:00 am Service (Main Sanctuary) followed by Kiddush lunch
6:00 pm Seudah Shlishit Event: Havdalah and singalong/jam; bring your instrument if you play!  Dairy lasagna dinner included:  Register here.

Sunday, March 11

9:00 am Minyan, Religious School Chapel

Thank you for your Support of Men's Club 2.0!

Best regards, David

David Isenberg, Beth-El Men's Club President | Templebethelmensclub@gmail | (804) 387-1371