COMMITTEES AND CHAVUROT AT KOL SHOFAR    —There's so much going on! _________________________________ WE WANT YOU! Whether you’re a new or returning member, we want you! Come volunteer your time and share your talents as we reach across and beyond the synagogue to make a meaningful difference in the world. Wonderful opportunities are listed to the right, and additional programs will be listed in Kol Shofar’s email announcements and on our Helping Hands Volunteers  page. Volunteering at your shul is A GREAT WAY TO GET INVOLVED! We need your helping hands. To learn more about where we can use volunteers, contact Carole Meyers, and see our Volunteers  page.    BUILDING A COMMUNITY OF CARING Following is a list of some of the ways we at Kol Shofar can get to know each other better. For information about these activities or to let us know your ideas of how we can improve these activities to increase connectedness, contact Hagar Ben-Eliezer at 415.388.1818, ext.111 or programs@kolshofar.org. Participation on synagogue committees or chavurah is a great way to connect and also to help keep our congregation going. If you are interested, contact Karen Hirsch, our board's President for more information board@kolshofar.org. NEW CHAVUROT! Kol Shofar Brotherhood Aaron Parker & Max Perkoff are starting a Kol Shofar Brotherhood – a place for men to gather, talk, connect, have fun, grow, learn, and serve the community. We don't yet know how it will evolve, so please join us in creating it. For those who want to join a men's group but are unsure whether this is for you, please come help us make it into the sort of group you've always wanted but haven't known where to find. We may share stories, insight, experiences, and questions - about our roles and responsibilities in the community as men, husbands, partners, fathers, grandfathers, brothers, and sons; about our relationships with God and Torah; about our personal journeys. We may do mitzvah projects, host father-son and father-daughter events, poker-nights, or baseball games. We'd like to build a community of friends, a group of role models for the boys in our community, a band of brothers. Please contact Aaron Parker to sign up and for more info. Kol Shofar's new Walking Sisterhood (AKA Not Your Mother's Sisterhood) Come to walk with the Women of Kol Shofar and Co-create our new Sisterhood. If you're looking for connection with women who have stories, insight, and questions to share – about our roles as Jewish Women, our roles as Wife, Partner, Mother, Grandmother, Sister, Daughter; about our relationships with God; about our roles and responsibilities in the community; about the Torah; about our personal journeys - come join us. Looking to make some friends and chat a bit longer than the "hellos" we have limited time for at Kiddush? Come join us. Maybe eventually the Sisterhood will play poker together, sell Hamantaschen, volunteer to do a dance routine for the KS Fundraiser, build a Habitat for Humanity House with all our daughters, play baseball with the Brotherhood...bring your ideas and join us. Contact Illana Zauderer Parker through the directory or by calling the office. Baking Chavurah: A Chavurah for Kol Shofar members to engage with one another in discussions while baking cookies and cakes for upcoming Shabbatot My vision is that like-minded folks will get a chance to do a mitzvah for our community by preparing desserts for future kiddushes while enjoying one another's company and engaging one another in impromptu discussions. My experience in the kitchen is such that I can easily envision elevating one another, while we do the mitzvah of helping to feed our extended Kol Shofar family. (Baking and freezing works wonderfully well). Before I set a date to solidify these plans, I would really like to hear from some of Kol Shofar's membership to poll the thoughts and desires of others. This group I envision would be open-ended, always welcoming new participants, having each session's attendance limited only by the kitchen space. If you are interested and have preliminary input, please contact Barbara Schwartz through the directory or by calling the office. BREAST CANCER ANAF The Hebrew word Anaf means "branch." The Kol Shofar Breast Cancer Anaf is a branch on the Tree of Life of our community.... CHAVURAT REFU'AH If you are a health care provider and would like to explore healing, you might be interested in our Chavurat Refu'ah. CHEVRA KADISHA Kol Shofar provides mourners with a variety of services and community support. For more information, plus information on our upcoming training, click here.... COALITION SUNDAY LUNCH Feed those in need in Marin. Give a small amount of your time and serve a hot lunch at Kol Shofar. On the second Sunday of each month, a group of volunteers cooks and distributes a meal. Help out once or every month. Click for more info. GEMILUT CHESED – This committee helps people when they are sick or have other special needs. For more information about assisting with home-delivered meals, bikur cholim,etc, or if you need assistance, read more. GREEN CHAVURAH Kol Shofar’s Green Chavurah is a dedicated and enthusiastic group of individuals, committed to transforming the synagogue into a model of eco-sustainability. HABITAT FOR HUMANITY Join a team from Kol Shofar to help build homes.  KOL LIMUD Email Discussion Group – A Yahoo! Group for Kol Shofar members. Congregants discussing all kinds of subjects online. Contact Steve Schiff, onlinetalk@kolshofar.org. MASA Our Journey Into Our Future – Kol Shofar's Steering Committee for Strategic Planning. For more info... PANIM EL PANIM—COMMUNITY ORGANIZING There are many ways to be involved in our wider community., and work with the Marin Organizing Committee. For information... please see our Panim el Panim page. PARENT ACTIVITIES associated with youth programming and education – contact osholin@kolshofar.org for more information about ways you can get involved as a parent. Also, we have a new CYEC committee –  CHILDHOOD YOUTH EDUCATION COMMITTEE – a great way to deepen your relationshiph with the synagogue, AND your child's education.  PURIM SPIEL PARTICIPATION – We follow Jewish tradition in putting on hilarious plays (usually musicals) on Purim. There are lots of ways for everyone, adults and kids, to participate. We've already started organizing for the 5770 purim Spiel! Contract Tracy Rice, by calling 415.388.1818, ext 101 or emailing trice@kolshofar.org. RITUAL COMMITTEE – A new page to be added soon. SHABBAT SWAP – Looking for a Shabbat meal, or do you have an extra seat at your table? Send a note to Matt Mercurio at KSshabbatswap@yahoo.com. TELLING OUR STORIES – These are gatherings for seniors, with facilitated sharing of personal stories. To learn more, click here. TIKKUN OLAM ACTIVITIES – we have many activities that serve the larger community. It’s a great way to help others, and also to make new friends.