Passover Seder Volunteers Needed

April 3, 2025 by • ,

Passover Seder

Looking for volunteers to assist with our

Passover Seder to make this a special event.

We need help:

Boiling eggs for the Seder Plates

Setting up the tables

Creating Seder Plates

Preparing food for serving

Serving food

Cleaning up

If you would like to be a volunteer, please let us know by contacting: lorrainemixter@aol.com

Or text or call: 863-409-8509

Annual Meeting — Sun Apr 27, 2:00 pm

April 3, 2025 by •

Dear Temple Beth Shalom Congregants:

 

The Temple Beth Shalom Board members are pleased to welcome you to another year with our congregation and invite you to participate in our Annual Meeting and installation of new Board Trustees and Officers.

 

Please join us at the synagogue for the meeting and refreshments or via the Zoom link (contact us for it) on Sunday, April 27 at 2:00 pm to hear annual reports from our 2024-2025 President, Vice President, Treasurer, Secretary, and Committee Chairs. At this Annual Meeting we will review the year’s activities and announce the 2025-2026 Board Trustees and Officers.  

 

Thank you, exiting Board members: Bert Devorsetz and Sandi Grinker, thank you both for your many years of dedication in these meetings. We hope to continue to see you!  

 

Welcome Diana Kramer, Bobby Baum and Jeffrey Goldblatt to the Board, you are most welcome! We are so glad for our continuing Board members: Joseph Rodriguez in the role of President, Uriah Rose as Vice President, Margo Fleisher for continuing the work of Secretary; Lorraine Mixter as Past President, Lee Martinez as Treasurer and Arlene Greenberg as Trustees. We are glad you continue to serve.

 

Please see and review the attached Annual Meeting Minutes from 2024. Also find below a list of the 2025–2026 Temple Beth Shalom Congregation Officers and Trustees. 

 

Thank you for choosing to be a member of Temple Beth Shalom, and we look forward to the coming year’s journey with you.

 

With Warmest Regards,

 

Temple Beth Shalom Executive Board

 

2025-2026 Board Officers and Trustees

Officers:

President:                       Joseph Rodriguez

Vice President:               Uriah Rose

Secretary:                       Margo Fleisher

Treasurer:                       Lee Ann Martinez

Past President:               Lorraine Mixter

 

Trustees:

Meryl Crews

Diana Kramer

Arlene Greenberg

Beverly Lerner

Bobby Baum

Jeffrey Goldblatt

Community Passover Seder — Sun Apr 13, 6:00 pm

April 3, 2025 by • ,

Passover Seder

Sunday, April 13th, 2025

In-person and on Zoom 6pm

Main Dish, Ritual Foods, Wine, Grape Juice, Water, Dessert

$20 for members $25 for non-members

Children 13 & under $18, & 5 years & under, Free.

Your check must be received by April 2nd

4 CUPS
4 QUESTIONS
4,000 YEARS

R.S.V.P. by April 2nd to: lorrainemixter@aol.com

Or text or call: 863-409-8509

Temple Beth Shalom
1029 Bradbury Road, Winter Haven Florida
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 313, Winter Haven Florida 33882-0313 Phone: 863-292-0722 (messages only)

Torah Study — Sat Mar 15, 10:00 am

March 13, 2025 by •

Dear Temple Beth Shalom Members and Friends, Torah Study will occur as scheduled this Saturday, March 15 at 10:00 am.  The session is a hybrid one, with Rabbi Herzfeld and students on Zoom (contact us for the link), and anyone venturing out to the building to attend is rewarded with a lovely breakfast nosh!  I hope you find it illuminating as we do, that these events in the Torah were written down thousands of years ago, but give us guidance for how to think and decide in the times we have!  Treat yourself right, come on down and participate.

Shabbat Service/Purim Celebration — Fri Mar 14, 7:30 pm

March 13, 2025 by •

Dear Temple Beth Shalom Members and Friends, we invite you to celebrate another Purim holiday as well as Shabbat with us this Friday, March 14 at 7:30 pm.  The evening will begin with a traditional, brief Shabbat service officiated by our mild-mannered and dignified Rabbi Herzfeld.  

 
As is Rabbi Herzfeld’s tradition at Purim, after the service he will excuse himself to give the bimah to his exclusively selected guest to lead us in reading Megillat Esther.  It is once again a mystery as to who he has invited this time, but they are sure to be colorful and energetic, and we are counting on you to welcome them.  
 
Zoom will not be available for this service, but it has to be experienced in person!  We need you there to make some noise, preferably in costume!  Children are especially welcome.  Expect to enjoy some fun and hamantaschen.

Community Passover Seder — Sun Apr 13, 6:00 pm

March 11, 2025 by • , ,

Passover Seder

Sunday, April 13th, 2025

In-person and on Zoom (contact for link) at 6pm

Main Dish, Ritual Foods, Wine, Grape Juice, Water, Dessert

$20 for members $25 for non-members

Children 13 & under $18, & 5 years & under, Free.

Your check must be received by April 2nd

4 CUPS
4 QUESTIONS
4,000 YEARS

R.S.V.P. by April 2nd to: lorrainemixter@aol.com

Or text or call: 863-409-8509

Temple Beth Shalom
1029 Bradbury Road, Winter Haven Florida
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 313, Winter Haven Florida 33882-0313 Phone: 863-292-0722 (messages only)

Dinner with the Rabbi — Fri Mar 14, 5:30 pm

March 10, 2025 by • ,

Dinner with the Rabbi

Enjoy a meal with Rabbi Herzfeld, take the opportunity to chat with the Host and the Rabbi

March 14th at 5:30 pm

Host: Lorraine Mixter

Thai Haven

309 W Central Ave, Winter Haven, FL 33880

R.S.V.P. by March 12th to:  lorrainemixter@aol.com

Or text or call: 863-409-8509

Lorraine and the Rabbi look forward to dining with you.

Lakeridge Winery Outing — Sun Mar 23

March 10, 2025 by • ,

Brotherhood/Sisterhood Outing

Join us. Temple Beth Shalom Brotherhood/Sisterhood March 23rd, 2025

Lakeridge Winery

Carpools leave from Temple Beth Shalom @ 11:00 am.

Carpooling suggested as parking is limited.

Live Entertainment, Food Court & Wine Bar

Dennie and the Jets are the entertainment on Sunday.

No need to eat before you come to enjoy the afternoon, simple food options are available to purchase, however, no outside food is allowed.

At the outdoor wine bar the full line of Lakeridge wines is offered, imported and domestic beers, and when available seasonal drinks like mulled wine, wine slushies, and sangria.

Enjoy a complimentary winery tour and wine tasting, where you can taste a selection of wines.

ID Requirements for Tastings

US citizens: state issued drivers license, military ID, or state ID card.

No outside food, beverages or coolers allowed. 

Be sure to bring your lawn chairs! Seating is limited if you plan to sit and eat and drink.

Wine prices are by the glass, starting at $6 a glass (soda & water are available).

For more information, please contact Beverly Lerner: 863-294-6042 (home) Bevlerner@aol.com

March Chai Lites

March 1, 2025 by • ,

Shabbat Shalom Temple Beth Shalom Members and Friends!  We are grateful once again for our President and Editor, Lorraine Mixter, and all of our content contributors for preparing our lovely newsletter and keeping us informed about the events in our community.  Here is the March Chai Lites with up-to-date information about the upcoming Spring holidays and festivals, and our activities.

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Baruch Dayan haEmet: Adrianne Sundheim

February 25, 2025 by •

Dear Temple Beth Shalom Congregation, we learned last night of the recent passing of Mrs. Adrianne Sundheim, a cherished member of our congregation and wife of Rabbi Frank Sundheim, who served our synagogue 12 years ago or so.  You might remember Adrianne was a dedicated teacher for decades and a potter, and we still enjoy the use of the kiddush cup she made at our Shabbat services.  She was a dear friend of our Rabbi Herzfeld, and he will be one of the rabbis acting in her funeral.  There will be a memorial service for her at Schaarai Zedek on Friday, February 28 at 11:30 am.  May her memory be for a blessing.

 
The young child asked, “Where is Grandma?”
And the adults gasped
Not knowing what to say
Certainly not in the earth
Buried, covered over with soil and small rocks
Certainly not in the heavens
Distant, far off, a fantasy of the imagination.
Much closer than earth, much closer than heaven
Grandma, dear child, is within us all.
In our memories of her kindness and goodness
Memories that are not faint echoes but resonate in us each day
Grandma is in our tenderness with each other, in our loyalty to family
For friends, in our love of our people.
Nothing noble dies with death.
Warm embraces, wise counsel do not
Evaporate into the air.
Grandma is not “where” but “when”
Whenever we gather together to celebrate festivals
Whenever we offer help to the poor, the homeless, the sick
Whenever we defend the innocent
Raise our voice against injustice
Grandma’s influence is present.
Grandma stood for ideas and ideals
Grandma stood for care and concern and comfort of the other. What she stood for we now stand for.
Even as we rise for the Kaddish
In her memory,
In her honor
For her immortality.
Rabbi Harold Schulweis
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