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                                 Calendar of Events: Summer 2008:

Services:

Saturday July 12 9:30 AM Rabbi - Led Shabbat Morning Services
Friday     July 18 7:15 PM Rabbi - Led Shabbat Evening Services

Watch Your Bulletins For Upcoming Fun Summer Activities


                         
                           
The children having a great time and making lifelong friends.
Our teachers are wonderful. They make it so much fun to learn
about our Jewish heritage. 

Please come and join us for Services. Bring your friends, children, relatives.


                      


                 Israel Independence Day


                                                         


       Israel Independence Day is celebrated annually, according to the Hebrew calendar, on 5 Iyar, the anniversary of the establishment of the State of Israel. This year it will be celebrated on Tuesday, April 27. Independence Day   is preceded by remembering those who gave their lives for Israel. They sacrificed for the achievement of the country's independence and its continued existence.

    On Yom Hazikaron, Remembrance Day, which will begin on Sunday evening, April 25, the entire nation remembers its debt and expresses eternal gratitude to its sons and daughters who gave their lives for Israel. It is a day of collective and personal anguish mingled with awe and honor for the fallen.

  • Number of soldiers and security personnel who have fallen since the War of Independence 20,297
    Total number fallen (including the pre-State period)
    This number includes disabled IDF veterans who later died from their wounds and non-IDF personnel who fell in the line of duty.
    21,782
    Number of soldiers killed since Remembrance Day last year 185

     

  •     The famous photo of David Ben-Gurion declaring Independence for The State of Israel.
    The picture above him was Theodore Herzl, the founder of Modern Zionism.

  •     This holiday celebrates the greatest miracle ever, the establishment of the State of Israel. Israel has been the focus of Jewish life, for more than 5,000 years.

        T
    he population of Israel has reached 6,780,000 - more than an eight-fold increase since the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, when the population numbered 806,000. Three million people have immigrated to Israel since 1948, more than one million of them since 1990; 21,000 immigrated in the past year. The Jewish population of Israel stands at almost 5.5 million (39% of world Jewry); the non-Jewish population is approximately 1.3 million (82% of them Muslims, 9% Christians and 9% Druze).

        A wave of Jewish immigration beginning in 1989, predominantly from the countries of the former U.S.S.R.,  brought nearly a million new citizens to Israel. These new immigrants, many of them highly educated, now constitute about 13% of Israel's 6.7 million inhabitants. Their successful absorption into Israeli society and its labor force forms a remarkable chapter in Israeli history. The skills brought by the new immigrants gave the Israeli economy a strong upward push in the 1990’s.  Israel is a global leader in the high-tech and medical sectors.



  •     Human worth does not lie in riches or power, but in character of goodness....
        If people would only begin to develop this goodness....
        Give of yourself....You can always give something, even if it is only kindness....
        No one has ever become poor from giving.
        -Anne Frank, T
    he Diary of Anne Frank


     
     











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