News items about United Hebrew Congregation Terre Haute.
UHC will participate in the Arts Illiana TableScapes annual fundraiser, running Friday, March 13 through Saturday, March 14, at Indiana State University’s Sycamore Banquet Center.
Temple board member Debra Israel designed a Tu B’Shevat-themed table, celebrating the “New Year for Trees”.
People in crisis should take precedence over narrow points of law or politics. But too often, compassion for human beings created in God’s image is left out of legal or geopolitical solutions.
I have become increasingly alarmed concerning the humanitarian crisis at America’s southern border. My husband Steve and I are firm believers in putting our beliefs into action.
On July 4, we were in Florida and made the three-hour drive to Homestead to find the federal detention center and protest on behalf of the migrant children held inside.
Student Rabbi Remy Liverman will officiate High Holidays services in the sanctuary at United Hebrew Congregation for the New Year 5780, beginning with Erev Rosh Hashanah services at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 29.
Yana Weinstein will return for a third consecutive year to serve as UHC soloist for Erev Rosh Hashanah and Kol Nidre.
Safely settled in 1941 with her father and sister in the U.S., 16-year-old Louise Sommers wrote, “The day after my seventh birthday, my mother suddenly died. Since then, things have never been the same.
“It seems that with my mother’s death, a chain of misfortune started. Hitler came to power and my uncle was beaten up, put into prison by the Nazis and later fled to France….Terrible things happened in Germany.”
Louise’s daughter Nancy Sommers found Louise’s youthful autobiography a few years ago and shared this excerpt as guest speaker for “Creating Light From Darkness and Optimism out of Tragedy”, the third annual Yom HaShoah event May 5 at UHC to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day.