Young Shabbat Dinner / Catch your Hilton seat!

Uptown… 

• Thursday, lunch and learn 12-1:15 pm. Yom Kippur: Atonement – Scott Free?!!
• Thursday, Basic Mitzvot: The Mystical side to love your fellow. 8-9pm
• YOUNG PROFESSIONALS, SINGLES & COUPLES DINNER - Shabbos Parshas Ki Savo: Friday, Aug. 31: Services at 7:30 pm; Candle Lighting at 7:28pm. Shabbat Dinner for Young Adults! Please RSVP!  
• Saturday, Sept. 1: Morning Services at 10 am followed by Kiddush Mincha Services & class in Ethics of our Fathers (Chapter 3) at 7:30 pm; Havdala & Shabbat Ends at 8:21 pm
• Limited Space – First come, first served! - Rosh Hashanah & Yom Kippur Services at the beautiful Hilton Post Oak Hotel! RSVP now – deadline Aug. 31.
• Uptown Sukkah – the only on San Felipe! Services, dinners and the works. At Uptown Wed-Sat.; Sept 26-29 – exact schedule to be posted!
• Mommy & Me dates for fall have been set to Six Wednesdays Oct. 17-Nov. 21. 3mos.-2yrs. Join us!

In other news…. 

• The Sasson & Douek families joined us for a wonderful Shabbos in Uptown. Lovely Shabbos, with lovely company….
• La Jolla, CA is a beautiful place. It was nice to have a forced getaway to attend a wedding of a community member.
• Torah Day School has begun this week. Chanie is filling a new position as the Curriculum Coordinator for the Early Childhood Center. Many great developments are underway! (Including their new website: www.tdshouston.org)
• The 325,000 calendars that we edited are now available at the checkout or newspaper stands at any Randalls or Safeway, Vons, Pavilions, Dominick's, Eastern, Genuardi's, Tom Thumb, and Synagogues & congregations throughout CA, AZ, CO, DC, MD, NJ, NV, OR, PA, TX, VA and WA. Pick one up, and tell your friends to check out the pic and article of the Uptown Shul in the back cover!
• Once again, Rabbi Faitel Lewin, a sofer from Brooklyn, N.Y., will be available to check mezuzos and tefillin from midday Sunday, Sept. 16, through 4 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 18. In order to accommodate all those who need items checked, please add comment here, as well as the number of mezuzos and pairs of tefillin to be checked. According to halacha, mezuzos and tefillin should be checked twice every seven years. Some have the custom to inspect them annually.

See you Shabbos! 

Rabbi Chaim