Isreal Independence Day concert

The Allied Jewish Federation of Colorado is sponsoring a Yom ha'Atzmaut (Israel Independence Day) concert Mon., April 19 at the Soiled Dove Underground, Lowry. The Moshav Band will play at 6:30 pm. Advance tickets are $36 per adult and $20 per child under 12 yrs. For more information, email to: events@ajfcolorado.org

Purim

Purim is this weekend.  Purim is a day of celebration commemorating the day lots were cast to decide to kill all the Jews in Persia and how Esther (Hadassah) put her life on the line to save her people.

It is a day that children dress up like Queen Esther, Mordecai, or Biblical people.  You make Hamantashens (cookies), retell the story of Esther, play games, etc.  When telling the story everyone boo's when Haman's name is mentioned and cheers when Mordecai and Esther's name is mentioned. It is a fun and festive day.


You can get the DVD teaching and book to better understand the Book of Esther and how today there are still "Haman's" in the world and our lives.
http://store.torah.tv/browse.cfm/4,2348.html

Chag Samach

Jonathan Settel Live in Concert for Purim 2010

If you live in or near the Metro Denver Area please come to a free concert. 


Jonathan Settel Live in Concert for Purim 2010
Friday, February 26 - Special Latino/Spanish Concert - 6:00 PM
Saturday, February 27 - Sabbath Service and Concert - 8:00 AM; 9:30 AM

STBM International Center

19697 E. Smoky Hill Rd.
Centennial, CO 80015
Phone: 303-841-4840

1-866-TORAH-TV 1-866-867-2488
http://www.torah.tv/

Never heard of Jonathan, click here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gyk7XOIqvo
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVZ-TO9Q_0k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5xZZBInzh8

Sorry about the delay in updating the Torah portions.  They are finally up.

Happy Chanukah

      Today at sunset Chanukah starts and lasts until Sat. Dec 19th at sunset.  Let us light the first candle and remember what these days commemorate.  The battle to not assimilate, to stand up for God and take back what the enemy has taken.  This happened in the physical during the Maccabee's time, but it happens to all of us in the spiritual all the time. 
     During this Chanukah season, let us pray for Israel and what is happening to the land and people.  Lift up  the IDF soldiers that watch over the country, their modern day Maccabees.
     Also pray for our soldiers in the Middle East.  If you know any by name be it either IDF or US, each night when you light a candle, pray for a soldier.  If you did that every night you would cover 36 soldiers in one week. 
     Chanukah is known as the Festival of Lights.  Yeshua is the Light of the World.  Remember as you use the Shamash (the Servant) Candle to light the rest, that it is by Yeshua's light that our light shines.  Did you ever realize that when the candles are lit, you pay no attention to candle, only the light.  May that be us.  That people don't see us but Yeshua in us.

John 12:35 Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth. 36 While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light. These things spake Jesus, and departed, and did hide himself from them.

     It is written in the Bible as the Feast of Dedication.  Because it was on Chanukah that the Holy Temple was rededicated to the service of the Lord.  Let us rededicate ourselves to the service of the Lord.

John 10:22 And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication, and it was winter. 23 And Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon's porch.

Chinese Jews celebrating Chanukah

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8x1bW_fF7A&feature=related

Current Events

Keep in touch with Israel.  I will post current events in the "Happenings for" section when I hear of them.  It may be an Israeli artist, speaker, exhibit and more, happening in the Metro Denver area or sites to go to.   Stop by, as they change often.