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A night out

Last night, our synagogue had an evening at The Jewish Museum of Maryland. The current exhibit there is called Entertaining America:
Jews, Movies and Broadcasting. They also offered tours of the Lloyd Street Synagogue which is the oldest synagogue in Maryland.

I have to say the night turned out a lot better than I thought it would. They are trying to increase the friendliness and overall excitement about the synagogue and there are many new programs being started. Last night was great. There were about 150 people there (out of about 600 members). The musuem is really cool and the exhibit was neat. They decorated the place really nicely and they had a great food buffet: mushroom barley and/or potato soup, grilled veggie, refried bean, or tuna wraps, veggie and fruit platters, fancy cakes from NY, locally made cookies, petit' fours, brownies, rugaluch, and my personal favorite- an ice cream sunday bar. Someone from Peabody played piano throughout the night and the ambiance was great. I have to say, for once, our shul pulled off something really classy. It is ironic because many "cooler than thou" people thought the event would be lame and didn't go (are we in high school?!?), it is a shame because they would have thought the event was right up their ally. Oh well, no loss for me.

One thing I liked was that everyone was wearing name tags. I would say the majority of the people there new each other or knew who people were, but not everyone has spoken and/or introduced themselves to the other people. It was nice that you didn't have to waste the energy to make necessary introductions or play the ackward game when you totally know who someone is but for your ego's sake act like you don't because they don't know you and you make some lame excuse up for introducing yourself ("you look soo familiar, how do I know you?" you know full well you went to camp with that person in 8th grade and you beat her at tether ball every chance you got...).

Funny part of the night was when they were picking the winners of the door prizes. My mother and sister donated something from their business for one of the prizes. As they were picking the winner, I muttered under my breath ,"I better not have won that." Wouldn't you know it, I didn't win it, but Greg did. Luckily,he relinquished his prize and saved some face.

All in all, a great evening out. I am glad I went. Way to go Shomrei!

Posted by peninah at January 11, 2004 08:48 AM