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Spirit
March 7 - March 20, 2015
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Sun Lakes Jewish Congregation meets second Friday At 7:30 p.m. on the second Friday of each month, the Sun Lakes Jewish Congregation, an established reform congregation, meets at the Sun Lakes Chapel. The service provides a great opportunity to meet new people, connect with Judaism and learn. Members of the congregation connect with new attendees, who are invited to be introduced at the service. Oneg Shabbats, which provides the opportunity to meet new members, ask questions and learn more about the congregation, are held immediately after the service at Sun Lakes Country Club. Everyone is invited to attend. SLIC will hold its annual Passover Seder at the Sun Lakes Country Club on Saturday, April 4. The event provides an opportunity to share Passover with friends and family
without having to cook. The cost is $40 per adult; $12 per child 4 to 12 years old and free for children 3 and younger. Rabbi Irwin Weiner will conduct the Seder. Everyone is welcome. Food will be catered by Heidi’s Events and Catering. The Passover holiday is also called Spring Festival because it coincides with the start of the Israeli harvest season, celebrating spring and rebirth. Passover festivities are meant to evoke empathy for past suffering and encourage observers to strengthen Jewish culture and community. Passover is observed on the 15th of Nissan on the Jewish lunar calendar, which usually occurs in April on the Gregorian calendar. The holiday stems from the religious story of the 10 plagues, in which God forced the Egyptian pharaoh to release the enslaved Jews by causing a series of
catastrophic events. For the final plague, God took the lives of the firstborn child in every family, including the Pharaoh’s son. However, the Angel of Death “passed over” the homes of the Jews, sparing their children from the deadly plague. The holiday starts with a dinner ceremony, known as a Seder, and lasts eight days in Israel and seven days worldwide. Observers abstain from work at the beginning and end of Passover and temporarily remove all leavened bread from their diets, replacing it with an unleavened bread known as matzah. This important tradition honors the exiled Jews, who fled their homes so hastily that they could not allow their bread to rise properly.
Sisterhood to discuss lifestyle topics Alternative treatments have gained acceptance as MDs have embraced and integrated approach to healing. Dr. Martha Grout, the medical director of the Arizona Center for Advanced Medicine practice in Scottsdale, and nutritionist Shelley Heinley will speak about how to age well, to have a healthy life and how alternative healing methods
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work with traditional western medicine to give patients the best treatment of both worlds. The program will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday, March 18, in the Chapel House at Sun Lakes. Heinley has an MS in natural health and graduated with her MSNH specializing in nutrition. Grout has 25
years of emergency room experience and is the author of “An Alphabet of Good Health in a Sick World.” Copies of her book will be available. As always, donations from Toys from the Heart are welcome. Send them to Phyllis, at 3495 E. Country Down Dr., Chandler, AZ, 85249.