Please click on the calendar links below to view synagogue events for the month.

Thu., May 10  Card Club  7:30pm

Wed., May 16 Final day of Wednesday School &
                        Ice Cream Social

Thu., May 17  Beth Ahm Board Meeting  7pm

Fri., May 18    Shabbat Dinner  6:30pm,
                        followed by Services, with

                        School Awards & Teacher Recognition  7:30pm
                        (advance reservations needed for dinner)

Thu., May 24  Card Club  7:30pm

Mon., May 28   Yizkor Evening Service  7pm

Ms. Marcus was born in a displaced persons camp in Germany after World War II. When she and her mother, Sidonia, came to Springfield, Mass., they know no one in America. With no other family, except each other, they built a world that revolved around Sidonia's exceptional talent with a needle and thread to create beautiful garments, while Hanna served as her model. The book features sewing metaphors throughout to stitch together the fabric of their lives. It isn't until Sidonia moves to housing for the elderly that Hanna discovers some of her mother's old letters and photographs, hoping to find clues to her paternity, her mother's solitary behavior, and her heritage. Only then, can she begin to unravel hidden secrets from her mother's past. A trip to her mother's Hungarian homeland, together with a phone conversation with her father, provide Hanna with surprising discoveries that revise her view of her life with her mother and replace her conflicting emotions toward her mother with reverence.