Yana Weinstein will serve as guest soloist for High Holy Days; board expands Torah studies

By Terry Fear

The Temple board has arranged for Ms. Yana Weinstein to serve as UHC soloist for Erev Rosh Hashanah and Kol Nidre. Ms. Weinstein teaches at Indiana State University and lives in Bloomington.

Torah Study will begin with Student Rabbi Kylynn on Saturday, October 21. Kylynn and the board met in August and discussed expanding the popular Saturday Torah studies to include a second class.

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Sisterhood dinner continues long tradition with Good Cheer Club for the Blind

By Patty Lewis

Religious school, as always, served a great brunch for Mother’s Day, with the help of Karen, Scott and Scott’s children. If you have never been to one of their brunches, you are missing out.

Karen’s and Gary Harris’s daughter Sarah did a great job on her Bat Mitzvah. Karen has done a wonderful job with her children and set a great example. Gary supports her and the children. They are such a great family.

At its July 12 meeting, Sisterhood held a delicious fried chicken dinner for the Good Cheer Club for the Blind.

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Student Rabbi Kylynn Perdue-Bronson begins term with UHC

By Student Rabbi Kylynn Perdue-Bronson

Greetings!

I am in the rabbinical program at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. I was born in lower Michigan and got my B.A. in Spanish from Northern Michigan University in the Upper Peninsula.

I was active in my college Hillel, where I served as president and participated in community theater. After graduating, I spent a few months as an English teaching assistant in Galicia, Spain.

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