Each of the 12 Adat Shalom Villages has its own listserve. You may send an email to your own Village’s list-serve and to other Villages’ list-serves. If you know your village's e-mail address, you just need to change the number in the email address to match the village number of the village you wish to send email to. If you are wondering what geographic area corresponds to a specific Village number, you can get a general idea from the list of Villages on the Adat Shalom website. Just go to “the Villages” homepage.
Perhaps your email address has changed or you are a new member whose address hasn’t been added to your Village’s list-serve. To remedy that, please contact your Village captain or one of the Villages coordinators, John Kahn, Stan Newman, and Linda Kacser. One of them can update your Village’s list-serve to include your email address.
The Villages’ captains for this year are posted on “the Villages” homepage.
The Montgomery County Villages can be confusing. But, no sweat! Just contact the Adat Shalom office.
The Village initiative was launched to help sustain the camaraderie that Adat Shalom members have valued since our congregation’s formation 18 years ago. Village captains participate in welcoming and integrating new members and help the Life Cycle Committee in coordinating neighborly support to nearby members in need, whether due to illness or a life-cycle event. In short, the Villages were created to promote a general sense of neighborliness that can only strengthen the sense of community in our congregation-at-large. We hope that all members, new and veteran, will come to know their Village number, their Village captain(s) and, most importantly, their neighbors within Adat Shalom. From sharing rides to shul, to borrowing a snow-blower, to providing a meal to a nearby Adat Shalomer who’s temporarily incapacitated — the Villages system has a myriad of ways in which it can work, and each of you is warmly welcomed to help make it work, not only for yourself, but also for your neighbors within Adat Shalom.
John Kahn, Stan Newman, and Linda Kacser, Villages Coordinators