Temple Shalom events open to the community

By Jeanette Fischer, Temple Shalom Director of Communications

Registration is required for all of the events and programs below.

Celebrate Purim at Temple Shalom

Kick off the celebration with our Wicked, Wicked Purim Shpiel on Sunday, March 2 at 10:30 a.m.! Bring a box of mac and cheese to use as a grogger — after the shpiel, we'll donate them to the food pantry.

Then, keep the fun going at Purim Palooza, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.!

• Food trucks

• Beer garden

• Kid zone

• Music and entertainment

• Purim carnival games

Please call the Temple Shalom YESh (Religious School) office at 239-455-2233 for more information.

Megillah Reading & Purim Food Drive

Let’s read the book of Esther and celebrate Purim together on Friday, March 14 at 10 a.m. We will be collecting nonperishable food items for the Harry Chapin Food Bank.

Artist-in-Residence

Join us March 21-22 for this special program with Cantor Benjie Ellen Schiller:

• Friday, March 21, 7:30 p.m. Shabbat evening services

• Saturday, March 22, noon Kiddush lunch (Registration required)

• Saturday, March 22, 7:30 p.m. concert (Registration required)

Cantor Schiller serves as the Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman Professor of Liturgy, Worship and Ritual and Professor of Cantorial Arts at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion’s Debbie Friedman School of Sacred Music.

Artist-in-Residence weekend is generously underwritten by the Dr. Paula Brody and Merrill Hassenfeld Artist-in-Residence Fund.

Please call the Temple Shalom office at 239-455-3030 or to go tinyurl.com/ TS-Cantorschiller for more information or to register for the Kiddush lunch and/ or concert.