SHABBAT BABY-SITTING ... is provided as a service to the congregation by generous donations made by Congregants. There is funding through --- BABY SITTING MONEY IS NEEDED! The cost to sponsor a weekend is $15.00 HEBREW SCHOOL ... is asking for box tops from General Mills Cereals. Yoplait Yoghurt and Betty Crocker snacks and drop them off at the Office. It is a fund raiser for the school. TOT SHABBAT ... Once again, after a summer hiatus, Temple Sinai is offering a special Shabbat morning service for youngsters aged 3 to 6 and their parents. Each first and third Shabbat morning in the month, Lisa Kulak will lead a morning service especially for our youngsters, filled with songs and stories, while parents look on quietly or take the opportunity to join the adult congregation for services. Each Tot Shabbat service will start at 10:45 a.m. and will take place in the classroom next to the girls’ lavatory. This is a wonderful opportunity to introduce our young children to the Shabbat morning service.

ONGOING EVENTS & NON CALENDAR ENTRIES
SELIHOT	The High Holy Day period is introduced with the recitation of Selihot prayers at 10:00 p.m. on Saturday night, August 31. A social hour beginning at 8:30 p.m. will precede the service. Make plans to join in this most moving and special service.	Saturday Night, August 31
HIGH HOLIDAY CHOIR	Our new cantor, Cantor Lyle Rockler, would love to have a small choir help him to conduct High Holiday services next month. If you can read music well and would be willing to spend a fair amount of time rehearsing with him this month, please contact him at the synagogue.	ONGOING
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ORANGE COUNTY	Announces that scholarships for study at Hebrew Day Schools are available. Contact Rabbi Schwab.	ONGOING
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE	THE JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE WIDOWED SUPPORT GROUP: For Men & Women, meets monthly at the Galleria at Crystal Run, Middletown, Community Room A. Dates vary due to Holidays, etc. Please call the JFS to be put on our mailing list for notices, and to check the dates. The number is 341-1173 Ext. 10 ---ONGOING Sundays at 1:00 pm	ONGOING
	REMINDER! JFS donation vehicle program is continuous. We pick up within 48 hours. Call 845-341-1173 or visit http://www.donationvehicleprogram.com
	Our friendly visitors are here to help you! Shopping, pick up or deliver items. Please call Agita Goldberg at 845-361-3967 for arrangements.
INTERFAITH FRIENDLY VISITORS PROGRAM AND TEMPLE SINAI	Serve our neighbors, the elderly, and those with disabilities. We need someone: 1.) To visit a woman in the Middletown area for one hour a week. 2.) To drive a congregant to Shabbos service once a month. IFVP offers a training & orientation program. If you can help please contact us: A.) Agita Goldberg: 361-3967 B.) Temple Sinai: 343 1861 FUND RAISER: Sign up for the Times Herald Record for $9.99 per month for three months. The temple gets $15 for each paid subscription. Coupons are in the literature rack by the office
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DATED EVENTS

REDNER'S MARKET... will donate 1% of all register tape totals to Temple Sinai. Please save your tapes and drop them at the office on in the specially marked envelopes on the bulletin boards. SHOPRITE AND PRICE CHOPPER AND SUPER STOP & SHOP Gift Certificates... are for sale through Temple Sinai. Use them as you would cash and the Temple earns 5% of your purchase.This is an ongoing fund-raiser that helps to support our various programs. For more information contact Gwen Lerman, Lori Rothman or the office. PENNIES TO DOLLARS ... Temple Sinai's latest ongoing fund-raiser. Bring your filled penny rolls into the Temple Office and help us change pennies into dollars. DONATE YOUR CAR TO JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ... At last! Your car, motorcycle, boat, or other motorized vehicle can be donated to Jewish Family Service. Free pick up in 24 hours. Help a family in crises and receive a generous tax deduction. Call 341-1173 INTERFAITH FRIENDLY VISITORS PROGRAM AND TEMPLE SINAI ... FUND RAISER: Sign up for the Times Herald Record for $9.99 per month for three months. The temple gets $15 for each paid subscription. Coupons are in the literature rack by the office. THE HEBREW SCHOOL... is asking to save box tops from General Mills Cereals, Yoplait Yoghurt, and Betty Crocker Snacks and drop them off at the office. It is a fund raiser for the School.

HAMETZ TIMES Hametz may be eaten until 11:00 a.m. Wednesday, April 16. Hametz should be burned before 12:00 noon. Do not resume eating hametz until 9:00 p.m. Thursday night, April 24. SEARCHING FOR THE HAMETZ There is an old and delightful custom that requires us on the night before Pesah to search through the house looking for crumbs of hametz, making sure that no leavened materials will accidentally show up in our homes during the "Holiday of Unleavened Bread". The search is traditionally made with a candle, a feather and a wooden spoon, plus a paper bag, which are used to locate (the candle - traditionally the electric lights are turned off for the search), scoop up (the feather and the spoon), and collect (the bag) any pieces or crumbs of bread found anywhere in the home. To make sure that the blessing said just before the search ("…ah-sher kid-shah-nu b'mitz-vo-tahv v'tzee-vah-nu ahl bee-ur hah-metz") is not said in vain, bread is actually placed around the house (out in the open, not hidden - we wouldn't want a piece of bread overlooked in a drawer the night before Pesah!) waiting to be found. In some homes the children scatter the pieces of hametz and the parents look for them; in other homes it is the parents who place the bread in their places and the children who do the looking. In either case, the search itself is fun for both parents and children, and the collected hametz is burned the next morning, symbolically indicating the destruction of all hametz from the home in time for Pesah. If you have never had the joy of doing bedikat hametz, the search for hametz, this year is the year to get started. The search for hametz this year takes place on Tuesday night, April 15. For any help you might require, contact Rabbi Schwab. SIYYUM HA-BECHORIM In gratitude to G-d for sparing the lives of our first born when the tenth plague hit the Egyptians, it has become customary for all first born males to fast on the day before the first Seder. However, it has also become customary for the rabbi of the congregation to complete his study of a significant amount of learning on the morning before the Seder, an action that calls for a party and a feast. Since anyone who attends such a siyyum - a completion party - must partake of the feast, all first borns who attend the siyyum make themselves exempt from the fast. Siyyum ha-Bechorim will take place on Wednesday morning, April 16, at morning services, which begin at 6:30 a.m. Immediately upon the conclusion of the morning service Rabbi Schwab will hold the annual siyyum for the benefit of all bechorim (first borns), including himself. All first borns are welcome to attend and thereby release themselves from their obligation to fast on that day. SALE OF HAMETZ Jewish law prescribes that a Jew must not possess leavened foods (hametz) during the holiday. To rid oneself of all prohibited food before Pesah, one must burn, give away, or sell all such foods by the middle of the morning before the first Seder. Because of the complexities of our economy, Jewish law developed the tradition of eliminating possession of the hametz in the community by authorizing the rabbi to sell everyone's hametz on the morning before the first Seder. You may sell your hametz by signing the Bill of Sale that Rabbi Schwab has at any time you can catch him - after minyan, during weekday religious school, after a meeting, or whenever - or simply by sending in the following note. At the same time you can fulfill the mitzvah of providing for the Ma'ot Hittim Passover fund for the poor through a small donation. Please get this power of attorney note to the synagogue office no later than MONDAY, APRIL 14, 2003. I (we) _____________________________________ hereby authorize Rabbi Joel Schwab of Middletown, NY to dispose of all hametz that may be in my (our) possession, wherever it might be, whether at home, in a place of business, or elsewhere, in accordance with the requirements in the general authorization contract which members of Temple Sinai have given to the Rabbi. Please list types of hametz and approximate value, and place(s) where the hametz will be stored during Pesah. Address:____________________________________________________________________ Types of hametz:_____________________________________________________________ Places of storage:_____________________________________________________________ Signature:___________________________________________________________________ LET ONE WHO IS HUNGRY ENTER AND EAT We begin our Passover Seders with the words, "Let all who are hungry enter and eat." Again this year, MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger asks you to give meaning and life to those ancient words by letting one who is hungry enter and eat. A gift to MAZON of chai ($18), or whatever you would spend to invite one extra person to your Seder, will bring food, help and hope to poor and hungry people in our own country, in Israel and around the world. As we celebrate our freedom during Passover, we must remember those millions still enslaved by hunger and poverty. In a world with more than enough food to feed everyone, we can work toward a day when everyone has enough food. Through MAZON, you can fulfill our ancient Jewish tradition of feeding the hungry. Send your contributions to: MAZON 1990 S. Bundy Drive, Suite 260 Los Angeles, CA 90025-5232

75 Highland Avenue, Middletown, NY 10940 (914) 343-1861 (Voice) (914) 343-4568 (Rabbi's Study) (914) 343-1915 (Fax) Rabbi Joel Schwab Cantor Lyle Rockler