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HOD Galil - Monthly Update.
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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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CONCERT - Sunday September 15th @ 2:00 pm
Location: Seven Acres - 7200 N Braeswood
Musical Memories with Holly and Glennie!
Join Holly V and Glennie Scott as they perform a musical showcase of show tunes, swing, Jewish music and singalongs.
Holly V has been the featured entertainer at several New York venues as well as some of the finest establishments in Houston, including the Ritz Carlton Hotel, Post Oak Grill and Tony’s. She has also performed on many stages in theatres such as the Hobby Center, Miller Outdoor Theatre, and Ovations.
Glennie Scott, a Houston-based entertainer, has performed nationally in San Francisco, Chicago, Philadelphia, Plantation Key, and internationally in Sweden and Norway. She began playing piano and studying just prior to her 4th birthday. She has acted as musical director for several theater productions, including an original show entitled “Winners,” created in Houston by Charles Strouse (of “Annie” fame) for Theater on Wheels. She presently teaches voice and piano to private students.
Regular Registration – $18.00 (7 Acres residents - free)
HOD members can register online via our website.
HOD Concert Poster 2019 HOLLY at 7 Acres LR.pdf
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Mgmt. Meeting: Thursday Sept. 12th @ 7:30 pm - location tbd
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September LODGE MEETING - Thursday Sep. 19th @ 7:30 pm
Location: Note Back at the Merfish - 9000 Rice
This will be a formal meeting (JACKET & TIE) with
initiation & Installation of the new Board.
HOD International President and a few other Int'l members will be attending.
Table Lodge will follow with Kosher Dinner or nice snacks & ice cream around 8:30/8:45 pm. Spouse/Girlfriend welcome (please include in your RSVP).
Attend and get to know all of your brethren !!!
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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
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President's Column:
Brethren - Welcome to my last column as your President. I want to say that it’s been an honor to try and help move the work of this worthy assemblage forward, and though I won’t be President, I expect to continue to be as involved as the new board will let me!!
I also want to apologize for a lack of an August newsletter. We had issues with the Brother of the Month column (which is also missing from this month’s) and I failed to produce a column, but I want to be clear it was through no fault of our faithful scribe, Bro Mark K.
My first bit of business is to announce a new effort that we are formally launching with the election of this board. We are beginning the process of starting a new lodge in the Houston area, with a working title of HOD Southwest . Though it will be 12 to 18 months before the new lodge is consecrated and it’s lodge meetings start, here is what we have determined so far: We are targeting the southwest side of Houston with the new lodge, with the actual location to be somewhere between Fondren Southwest and Sugarland. Bros Steven Meyer will be the first President, and Ivor Segall the VP. Ray Sass will be the MC and Isaac Johary, the Inner Guard. The process of forming a new lodge is both exciting and daunting. We need to recruit many new members: we don’t want the new lodge to gut the existing one. For the first year or two, many of us will need to attend both lodge meetings while we build the new, and maintain the old. I hope you all are as excited as I am to extend the reach of the Order!
I also want to remind everyone of our Houston Jewish Gravestone Project. Though you’ve seen announcements in our newsletter, you should be starting to see them in the wider Jewish press and shul bulletins. Our hope is to make a big push for recognition and fundraising around the High Holidays. We are asking each and everyone of you to talk up the project and become fundraisers. This is not a cheap project - there are over 300 graves to be marked, and it will cost over $250 per grave to get it done. If you need more details, you can go to www.hodgalil.org and read, or for others to donate.
I want to thank you all again for your confidence in me, and with Rosh Hashanah fast approaching, I wish you Anyada Buena, Tizku leshanim rabot (“A good New Year, and may you merit many more”, in Ladino and Hebrew).
Fraternally,
Bro Marc P
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Last Lodge Meeting Summary
This can be reviewed online
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Recent Events
This can be reviewed online in our previous newsletters:
8-15-2019: Table lodge with speaker, Manual Ramirez, of the Houston Police Department, talking about the Opioid Epidemic. Officer Ramirez is assigned to the Major Drug Squad of the DEA.
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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.
HOD Galil at Aishel House - Sunday 7-14-2019.
Pictured above - some of the members Spouses who also took part in this Mitzvah
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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 was open to ALL HOD members, family & friends.
Everyone should attend one of these seminars.
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 to those who RSVP'ed in advance
For those who want to learn more: https://alerrt.org/page/CivilianResponse
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New members in the last 3 months:
Adam Jacob, Michael Lemeshev, Gadi Pour, David Fishman, Earl Wainstein, Meir Mandel and welcome back to Bro. Clive Shkedy!
Pictured below: Brothers who are Brothers. Immediate Past President Bro. Paul Wainstein and new Brother Earl Wainstein who was initiated in July.
Proposed members approved : Gary Jaffe, Cecil Chait, Lou Diamond & Reuven Linzer
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HOD International recognition - Wor.Bro. Lawrence Barris
Vice President elect for 2020
Wor.Bro. Lawrence has been elected to serve as the VP for HOD Int'l - North America. He is due to be installed at the HOD Int'l bi-annual conference in Johannesburg SA, to be held from March 5 - 8, 2020. This is a 2 year term.
Thereafter, he might be asked to become the President of HOD Int'l - North America. If this happens, he will be installed at the HOD Int'l bi-annual conference to be held in London in 2022.
(Add pix of him donating blood)
 
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Good Work of the Lodge
7-2019: HOD Galil generously stepped in to help Ronald McDonald house when they ran out of healthy snacks.
Pictured above: Past President Paul Wainstein, volunteers Ingrid Wainstein & Margie Esse.
Bro. Dovid G. with Alexander Ross Z"L - HOD made a minyan to make sure he had a proper Jewish burial. He did not have any living family. His father was the famous photographer of the Lodz Ghetto.
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 - * PRESS RELEASE below:
The lodge is embarking on an impressive mitzvah project.
www.hodgalil.org
HOD Galil - PRESS RELEASE
Houston,Texas
Monday 7/29/2019
 
Houston Gravestone Project
Lodge Galil of the Hebrew Order of David International (HOD) is coordinating a Community-Wide Mitzvah project to place a permanent marker on all Jewish graves that do not have them. All congregations with cemeteries in Houston are involved.
We will have an unveiling of the first few markers in conjunction with Rabbis from each community with cemeteries, to launch the program and help get the word out. This is scheduled to take place Sunday October 6, 2019 between Rosh Hashanah & Yom Kippur. Exact times and locations to be advised closer to the date.
HOD Brothers Ivor Segall and Alan Lipman originated and are coordinating this project for Lodge Galil. Gaitz Memorials is lending gracious assistance with purchasing, and engraving and Ramirez Cemetery Services is placing the markers. We are starting with burials that occurred many years ago, with those whom the cemetery has lost track of who is buried there, or who we know have no family.
Lodge Galil is looking for interested parties to help fund this project. We do not have the funds to see this project to completion. If interested in helping with this project or discussing further, please do not hesitate to contact GravestoneProject@hodgalil.org, or donate directly at www.hodgalil.org/GravestoneProject .
The Hebrew Order of David is a Jewish fraternal organization supporting its members, and serving the community, applying Jewish ideals and values while providing its members the opportunity for personal development. It is over 100 years old.
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* UPDATE :
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.
Initial laying of first markers will take place on 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 as of 19 Sept.
Joe Blog - President
Shim Brookman - Vice-President
A. Marc Passy - Past President
Steve Plumb - Treasurer
Eric Bishop - Secretary
Ed Tietel - Preceptor
Mark Katzenellenbogen - Scribe
Marc Passy - Registrar
Andrew Toubin - Inner Guard
MC - Ray Sass
Lawrence Barris - Trustee
Paul Wainstein - Trustee
Alan Lipman - Trustee
Nat Levy - Permanent Trustee
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Working name for new Lodge is "Southwest"
President - Steven Meyer
V.P. - Ivor Segall
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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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