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Scholar-in-Residence Weekend Kicks-Off WRT at 60 Celebration

Westchester Reform
Temple (WRT) will celebrate it’s 60th anniversary with three
weekends welcoming both the congregation’s members and the greater Scarsdale
community – A weekend of prayer and learning (February 28 – March 2), a family
Purim and birthday celebration (March 16), and a festive gala (March 22).


The festivities
begin on Friday, February 28 at 7:45 pm with a Celebratory Community Service
featuring remarks by WRT’s Rabbi
Emeritus Richard Jacobs, president
of the Union for Reform Judaism, the congregational arm of the Reform
Jewish Movement in North America, as well as reflections

and reminiscences of Rabbi David Stern, Senior Rabbi of Temple Emanuel in

Dallas, TX, and Dr. Elsie Stern, Professor of Bible at the Reconstructionist

Rabbinical College in Wyncote, PA.   Rabbi Stern and Dr. Stern are two of

the children of Rabbi Jack Stern, WRT's spiritual leader from 1962 to

1991. 
Music for the service includes an uplifting musical retrospective with

liturgical favorites, a special musical composition by WRT’s beloved pianist

and conductor, Pete Malinverni, and an intergenerational chorale.


Rabbi Stern and Dr. Stern
will remain with the congregation for a weekend of learning as part of WRT’s
annual Scholar-in-Residence program.   Saturday, March 1 at 10:30 am, they will lead
a joint program entitled, “21st Century Judaism: The views from Dallas and Philadelphia,”
and on Sunday morning, at 9:30 am, Dr. Stern will conclude the weekend with a
talk entitled, “Forbidden Fruit or Fallen Angels?: Ancient Jewish Perspectives
on Free Will and Evil.”  This weekend is
funded in part by Morgan and Marjorie Miller.

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The celebration
will continue the morning of Sunday, March 16, with a Family Purim
Celebration and WRT’s 60th Birthday Party. 
The program will begin at 10:00
am with a Megillah Reading, Purim Spiel and Costume Parade in the sanctuary, followed at 11:00 am by a Carnival
and Celebration including the return of “LEGO-Man,” Stephen W. Schwartz AIA, Architect, who
will help participants construct
WRT’s giant LEGO Birthday Cake!  Tickets

are $18 in advance per child ($20 at the door); Adults are Free.  Tickets will be available online at
http://bit.ly/1nzp4XG.

The series of celebrations will conclude on Saturday, March 22 at 7:00

pm when WRT will celebrate 60 years with the music of the 60s.   “Peace-Love-Party” will feature a live
concert by the Eturnity Band, including Motown, Rock n’Roll and a choreographed
show that will get everyone on their feet! 
Tickets and e-journal dedications are being accepted online at www.wrtemple.org.  Proceeds from the evening support the
congregation.

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Westchester Reform Temple is
located at 255 Mamaroneck Road in Scarsdale, NY.  For directions or more information, please
call the temple office at 914-723-7727, email to office@wrtemple.org, or
visit www.wrtemple.org.
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