WEEKLY Insider Welcome to the updated Weekly Insider! We value your feedback and welcome any suggestions to enhance our offering. FEBRUARY 19TH 2024 ISSUE
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RENOVATION UPDATE We can’t wait to be in our new space. In anticipation of reopening, we wanted to provide an update to the staff about when to expect Barker Street to reopen. At this time, the anticipated reopen date has been moved to mid-spring. Keep an eye out for future update in the Insider!
Stay Tuned for the JEDI Survey
Next week, please be on the lookout for the survey from the JEDI Planning Committee. The survey is designed to make JFS a more inclusive place. Your feedback is very important!
WHAT IS PURIM KATAN?
By: Rabbi Yonina Foster, Jewish Community Engagement Specialist Purim Katan, or “Small Lots,” —the day marked for the death of the Jews in 5th Century BCE Persia —begins this year the evening of Friday, February 23rd, the 14th day in the Hebrew month Adar I. The days of a lunar calendar are shorter than a solar year and every two or three years we add a leap year to maintain our holidays in the correct season. From historic times an entire month was added at the end of our calendar year to make the adjustment. Thus we have Adar I and II. Since we want every opportunity to perform a mitzvah, actions of justice like feeding the poor and helping the needy, we acknowledge small Purim in Adar I. We will celebrate the actual holiday in Adar II, this year beginning, Saturday evening March 23rd, closer to Passover, our Spring holiday of redemption from Egypt. Those interested in JEDI may find this holiday of Purim particularly interesting. The Purim story is one of justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion. The Jews were marked for death because of Mordechai, a Jewish man who served the King. He was unwilling to bow down to an evil man, Haman. His cousin, the Queen, went before the King at great risk, with great courage, to reveal her Jewish identity and save her people.