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HOD Galil - Monthly Update.
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Happy 4th July to ALL
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Table Of Contents
Upcoming Calendar
President's Column
Last Lodge Meeting Summary
Recent Events
New Members
Featured Brother
Good Work of the Lodge
HOD Galil of Houston Officers
List of all lodges worldwide with contact information for USA Lodges
Upcoming Calendar
All the exciting details can be found at www.hodgalil.org/events
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Mgmt. Meeting: Thursday July 11th @ 7:30 pm at Bro. Marc Passy's home
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SUNDAY - July 14th @ 10:30 am * at Aishel House
1955 University Blvd. Houston, TX 77030
- "Food for Friends Volunteer Program"
Volunteer groups pick a day at Aishel House to prepare a kosher vegetarian menu of a fresh lunch or dinner (e.g. a vegetarian soup, bread and a baked dessert). The program runs approximately, 2.5 hours.
This volunteer program is geared for volunteers ages 13 years and older. The ideal group size is 10 volunteers and 16 people maximum.
Food for Friends is a tangible way to bring comfort and joy to patients and their families. HOD Galil looks forward to participating and including our group in this unique mitzvah!
This is a great family opportunity so when you register on the HOD website please let us know how many besides you will be participating. ALSO, please register ASAP. We might have to limit or close registration. If our group receives a large number of volunteers we will try to work in smaller groups while others socialize on site.
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July LODGE MEETING - Thursday July 18th @ 7:30 pm
Note summer location - MAIN ER JCC at 5601 S. Braeswood
This will be an formal meeting with guest speaker so it will be followed by drinks and snacks. Please come and get to know all of your brethren!!
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SUNDAY - July 28th @ 1:30 pm
* ACTIVE event / situation - presentation classroom training (FREE)
with guest speaker - James Preston (Sergeant - Training Division) Harris County Constable's Office Pct. 5
This event is open to ALL HOD members, family and friends.
Everyone should attend
It is not pro open carry or against - it is to help YOU know what to do if you find yourself in an active event/situation. How to react and what to do to help yourself and those around you. It might help save your life or that of a loved one or the life of a stranger.
FREE if you RSVP in advance
For those in a rush to learn more: https://alerrt.org/page/CivilianResponse
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Tuesday August 6th @ 7:30 pm * Potential New Member Coffee Meeting
Location at Bro Marc Passy's house, 4419 Woodvalley Dr.
RSVP online and if you have names &/or details of potential members please send also them to Bro. Steve L at premieragentmagazine@gmail.com
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Future Events
Target shooting practice: on a Sunday - (Postponed but will be SOON).
If interested please e-mail to express your interest, number of people joining you, day/date/time preferred.
Type Target shooting practice in the subject line - e-mail mark@kjis.com
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Fishing, boating/sailing and/or socializing at a Marina: on a Sunday - SOON.
HOD Galil is wondering which of our members have boats, what kind of boats and where located.
The idea is to arrange some kind of social gathering near the Greater Houston area for our members one Sunday this year. Fishing, sailing and/or meeting for a social gathering on or near a boat or marina. Bay fishing is easier but offshore is also an option for the hardy fisherman (3am to 10 pm). If you have a boat available please mention that with the Marina name when you reply.
Please reply directly to Bro. Mark K. via e-mail ( mark@kjis.com ) with the subject line: BOAT
If you already replied earlier this year then there is no need to reply again unless you have more to add.
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Sunday October 6, 2019 between Rosh Hashanah & Yom Kippur. Scroll down to read about the Gravestone Project
President's Column:
Happy Independence Day!! That day we celebrate throwing off the yoke of our British oppressors!
But more on that later. Recently, I was in Chicago for the wedding of a friend’s daughter. We lived in Chicago about 15 years ago, and have been fortunate enough to stay in touch with many of our friends there. It was a wonderful, whirlwind trip - we were in Chicago for less than 24 hours. The bride and groom were glowing and happy as all brides and grooms should be. But as I reflect on those that I have stayed in touch with from our time there, I realized two themes that ran through all of our relationships, especially the close ones - we all had kids about the same age, and we had all attended the same synagogue. In other words, we are all from a very specific subset of the same social milieu.
And that is where HOD gives us a gift that is different. By bringing us together in a fraternity of Jewish men bound by service, we get a chance to meet and befriend those from completely different parts of the community. I can personally count many of you whom I might never have met, much less gone to a cookout with, or baked muffins with, had it not been for the bonds of our fraternity. HOD is more than just a set of activities. It is a set of men who are, by their very membership in the organization, guaranteed to share many of the same values, and this forms the basis of true friendship.
But seriously, this month’s column is peripherally related to the themes of July 4th (and not just through cookouts). Independence Day is a day to celebrate the freedom we enjoy. So too, should we celebrate the freedom and opportunity HOD gives us to meet and befriend Jews we might never have otherwise.
Fraternally,
Bro Marc P
Last Lodge Meeting Summary
This can be reviewed online
Recent Events
This can be reviewed online in our previous newsletters:
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New members in the last 3 months:
Adam Jacob, Michael Lemeshev and Gadi Pour
Proposed members approved : David Fishman
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Featured Brother * Bro. Joshua Sanchez
A Great Dad, Spouse, Brother, Son & Friend Who Always Demonstrates Integrity, and a Strong Moral Fiber.
By Brother Steve Levine
Josh and his twin brother, Jose, were born and raised in Houston and grew up the youngest of four children. Their mother Carmen worked hard as a Nanny to take care of Joshua, Jose and his older siblings (David & Susanna).
Their mother later married HOD Brother Ralph Greenville. Although Josh wasn’t born Jewish, he converted to Judaism when he was 11 years old. He attended Beren Academy and loved and played sports and was on the basketball team. Of course, you can love something or someone, but, there is never a guarantee that that someone or something is going to love you back (as many of us have learned in our lives) and such was the case for Joshua and sports.
In 1999 he studied at yeshiva in Israel until 2000, when he returned to Yeshiva University in New York where he graduated in 2004 with a degree in Business Finance. Joshua spent three years working in New York City in the real estate valuation business and then moved to Dallas in April 2007. In Dallas, he worked for a real estate appraiser, Duff & Phelps and then moved back to Houston in July 2018. Joshua met his future spouse, Jodi at a function at Intown Chabad in Dallas in 2011 and it was (quite literally) love at first sight!
Josh is one of three partners at National Tax Resource Group in Dallas and helps commercial property owners lower their taxes. Besides managing accounts, he likes training younger staff members on property taxes.
He and Jodi have 2 children (Juliet & Jake) and love to travel with them with Mexico, Las Vegas and Galveston being some of their favorite destinations.
Joshua enjoys the fellowship, camaraderie and mitzvahs that are all part of being a brother in the Hebrew Order of David.
When asked about the legacy that he wants to be known for he replied, “Just to be a great dad, Spouse, Brother, Son & Friend Who Always Demonstrates Integrity and a Strong Moral Fiber”.
All of us who know him would certainly agree that Joshua is all that!
Good Work of the Lodge
The Mitzvah of Helping out at Funerals
Your HOD Galil brethren have been called on numerous occasions to help make a minyan at a funerals over the past few years.
This has truly met one of our pillars of Ahava, Love of our fellow man.
To participate in helping to make a minyan at a funeral, is considered even more of a mitzvah because the act of kindness can never be repaid.
We have also been asked to assist at shiva minyans and even making a minyan at a yorzheit shacharit, mincha or maariv.
Kol Hakavod to those brethren who have been willing to help our fellow Jews in these difficult occasions.
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Gravestone Project - * UPDATE below:
The lodge is embarking on an impressive mitzvah project.
Bro Alan L. and Bro Ivor S. are heading up the start of a large project to get all Jewish Cemeteries to get stones on graves that do not have them. More details to follow soon. These are for burials that occurred many years ago and for one reason or another the deceased either did not have local family or the family themselves might be deceased now.
So far it looks like most of the Rabbis and Shuls are on board and we are now waiting to get an estimate of how many will be needed, which will enable us to firm up a price for markers.
Let all souls rest in peace with markers.
For anyone interested in helping on this project, please do not hesitate to call us.
Bro Alan and Bro Ivor
* UPDATE - 6-5-2019 :
Prices of markers and lists of names have been obtained from the 4 "main" cemeteries. The plan is to have an "unveiling" of ONE marker in conjunction with Rabbis from each community to launch the program and help get the word out.
Target date is Sunday October 6, 2019 between Rosh Hashanah & Yom Kippur.
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Bro Manny M. wants to remind us of this feature to our members.
Always looking to put people to work and places to offer them work.
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Prison Chaplaincy
Bro. Manny M. & Bro. Dovid G. are looking for volunteers to assist. If you are interested please email rabbi@rabbired.com ASAP.
NEW video of what HOD Galil has done during the last year:
Here's where to see the video of our activities through 2018.
https://youtu.be/MGRz1xheEqg
This video was "Premiered" at the wonderful Spouse Appreciation Brunch held on 1-27-2019 at the ERJCC.
HOD Galil of Houston Officers
Albert Passy - President
Shim Brookman - Vice-President
Paul Wainstein - Past President
Joe Blog - Treasurer
Jeff Klein - Secretary
Josh Sanchez - Preceptor
Mark Katzenellenbogen - Scribe
Steve Levine - Registrar
Andrew Toubin - Inner Guard
Lawrence Barris - Trustee
Steve Meyer - Trustee
Alan Lipman - Trustee
Nat Levy Honorary - Trustee
HOD Podcast!!!
A Jewish radio station in South Africa has a weekly radio show/podcast on HOD with a former HOD International Grand President, Stan Klaff . You can listen here:
http://www.chaifm.com/the-hod/
UPDATE: see below as the one saved - (Thursday 31 January 2019) includes Houston WB Lawrence Barris, our founding President !!... :
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Thursday 31 January 2019
6 to 7pm
Why Our Service Organizations Are Dying (and how to fix them)
Michael Brand from Portland, Oregon
Wor Bro Lawrence Barris founder of Lodge Galil in Houston
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ChaiFM is not only Live on Air it has live streaming as well
http://www.chaifm.com/
Recordings of the show will be available on the site and we will distribute regularly
We are also selling Advertising during the show in 30 second slots - reasonable rates - just ask - the revenue is part of a fundraising exercise for the Order
for any queries or suggestions (most welcome)
Wor Bro Stan Klaff
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List of lodges worldwide with some contact information for USA
Atlanta: Lodge Bezalel & Lodge Carmel & Lodge Magen David
Alpharetta, GA - Lodge Shimshon
Boca Raton, FL - Lodge Tamir
Dallas, TX - Lodge Shimon Peres
Houston, TX - Galil
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