What to bring to a Dairy Potluck

It's a Dairy Potluck!
What do I bring?

Many times, when we host a potluck, our members get stuck on what they should bring and the quickest answer is always a salad. But while a potluck of one main dish and 20 salads will be good, it lacks variety. So we decided to make a list of viable options! Typically, the main dish for a dairy potluck is some kind of pasta or lasagna.

What you could bring:
Traditional House Salad
Ceasar Salad
Pasta Salad
Fruit
Fruit Salad
Caprese Salad
Cucumber Salad
Asian Noodle Salad
Green Beans
Corn
Corn Souffle
Peas
Carrots
Brussel Sprouts
Roasted potatoes
Roasted veggies
Steamed veggies
Sweet potato casserole
Squash casserole
Dinner rolls
Italian Bread (any bread)

If it's not lasagna, but something else (like fish), here are some other ideas that work:
Rice
Coleslaw
Potato Salad
Beans

Dessert Ideas: 
Brownies
Cake
Cookies
Ice Cream
Sorbet
Gelato
Chocolates
Fruit Salad
Pie


Have suggestions to add to our list?? Leave us a comment and we will update it!

Thanks!

High Holy Days 5774/2013

High Holy Days are fast approaching!! This year, they start on August 31. Be prepared! Below is our HHD Schedule.

Click the photo to download the PDF.

Buy a Rosh Hashanah Greeting for the Messenger!

L’Shana Tova Greeting
Order by Friday, Aug. 2

If you are like most of us here in the office at Micah, you are in a whirlwind of summer activities. School and High Holy Days are a far off thought.... However, High Holy Days are coming early this year!! They will begin at the end of August!

This year we are once again offering the opportunity for you to send Rosh Hashana greetings in the Messenger. Last year it was a hit (you can see the examples here)!

Think of this greeting space as you would the ads you purchased in the back of your yearbook!

Cost / Size Options

Option 1
1) Business Card Size: $36
Design + Choose one of the four “any size” greeting

Option 2 & 3
2) Quarter page: $72
3) Half page : $144
1 image + choose any one of the greetings

*Pick your size/cost option and then choose one greeting*

Greeting Choices

Options 1 - 3

1)     L’Shana Tova Tikatevu

2)     Wishing You a Sweet New Year

3)     Have a Happy New Year

4)     Happy Rosh Hashanah

5)     Happy New Year from the [insert name] Family

Options 2 & 3 Only
(for quarter or half pages)

1.     May the sounds of the Shofar welcome in a new year of health and happiness

2.     Best wishes to you and your family at Rosh Hashanah

All greetings can include either your family’s last name or each name of your family (up to 10 names total)

For Businesses:

Choose a size: business card, quarter page, or half page

Choose a greeting: 5 options available for the business card size; and 7 options available or the quarter and half page sizes

Your greeting can be “from” your business and you can include the web address.

 
Ready to order your ad?? Call us at the office at 615-377-9799 or email office@congregationmicah.org. Don’t forget to have your credit card handy or mail a check (your payment = your greeting).

Rabbis Rice: In Memorial

As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable." -Albert Einstein

     Throughout history, a common anti-Semitic method of provocation has been to accuse Jews of being unpatriotic. This was often expressed in the accusation that Jews were unwilling to join their country's military. Yet it was in 1654 when one of the original twenty-three Jewish settlers in New Amsterdam, Asher Levy, demanded and secured for himself and fellow Jews the right to stand guard at the stockade. From Colonial time to the present, Jews have played an important role in the defense of the United States of America. On July 31, 1776, Frances Salvador, a plantation owner from South Carolina, was the first Jew killed in the Revolutionary War.

     What concerned Jewish veterans then, and throughout America's history, concerns Jewish veterans today. Jews must still defend themselves against those who continue to declare that Jews have not served in the U.S. Armed Forces. Thousands of Jews have died in combat for our country and thousands more have been wounded. Jews have been awarded combat medals for performing their duty in time of war, and a study of Jewish participation in the military during World War II clearly indicates Jews served in the Armed Forces beyond their numerical proportion to the general population, receiving more than 52,000 awards, including the coveted Congressional Medal of Honor. Jews participated in the Korean War, Vietnam War, and the Persian Gulf War, and continue to serve in today's conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.

     Any way you look at it, thousands of Jewish men and women have unselfishly and valiantly given of themselves in fighting for and defending our country. And so we, as Jews, can stand tall and proud of our accomplishments as veterans of past service and as current participants in our country's Armed Forces, participating fully in this weekend's activities which honor ALL of those who have paid the greatest price in defending our liberties.

Tzofim Caravan - Coming to Micah June 7!

 

Food Trucks at 7 p.m.

Retro Sno

Smokin Thighs

Your Dish is Our Command

Gay Pride Shabbat

Rabbis Rice: Yom Yerushalayim

     "This morning, the Israel Defense Forces liberated Jerusalem. We have united Jerusalem, the divided capital of Israel. We have returned to the holiest of our holy places, never to part from it again. To our Arab neighbors we extend, also at this hour, our hand in peace. And to our Christian and Muslim fellow citizens, we solemnly promise full religious freedom and rights. We did not come to Jerusalem for the sake of other peoples' holy places, and not to interfere with the adherents of other faiths, but in order to safeguard its entirety, and to live there together with others, in unity."

- Israeli General Moshe Dayan

     Yesterday marked an important day in the history of the modern State of Israel. It was the 46^th time that the country celebrated Yom Yerushalayim or Jerusalem Day, which marks the reunification of Judaism's most sacred city. Between 1948 - 1967, Jews were barred from entering the Old City of Jerusalem and praying at the Western Wall. Under Jordanian control, the local Arab population provided no religious freedom and permitted Jews no access. The UN did not condemn them, and the world again remained silent, while we Jews remained unable to visit our holy places.

     In 1967, facing war with Syria and Egypt, Israel sent a message to Jordan: " Stay out of this war. We don't want to fight you....we will not attack!" Jordan sent a clear message back by choosing to fight, and subsequently attacking Israel. Like the Egyptians and the Syrians, the Jordanians fell in a matter of a few days. What was known as the West Bank of the Jordan river, was conquered. Jews were once again allowed to touch the sacred stones of the Wall. But Israel did not do what the Arabs prior had done. Though they found our holy places desecrated, Israel protected the Arabs. Centuries old Jewish grave stones were turned into bathrooms, smashed and crumbled, and so Israel rebuilt them. Israelis reunited Jerusalem, while also granting Arabs access to their holy places.

     Today, Israel's capital is anything but united. One of the oldest cities in the world, it is a diverse municipality that is home to over 800,000 people. Sacred to Jews for roughly 3,000 years, the 2000 Statistical Yearbook of Jerusalem lists 1204 synagogues, 158 churches, and 73 mosques within the city. Yet despite efforts to maintain peaceful religious coexistence, some sites have been a continuous source of friction and controversy. This is in part due to the fact that Jerusalem is a city of overwhelming emotions. It is a city that promises a religious and spiritual experience every time you visit. And it is the city in which we first met. Have you met her? Have you put your hands on her sacred stones? Consider a journey to our homeland in the next year or two, to experience her for yourself!