WILSHIRE BOULEVARD TEMPLE BULLETIN Volume 99, Number 8 • August 1, 2012 My Most Profound Jewish Moment

hat makes a profound Jewish moment? Were it not for my experiences at Camp Hess Kramer WWorking at camp I remember many discussions about and Gindling Hilltop Camp, I might not have recognized God; and I remember discussions with friends in college that moment as a Jewish moment. comparing religious values and traditions. I was never sure Camp defined my identity as a Jew. Judaism was infused about my own personal belief in God, however. Not until I into the deep connective moments I shared with other was teaching middle school. people. Celebrating together, singing together, impacting I was on a bus with my middle school students. It was others lives and having their lives impact mine. That my last year working with them, but they didn’t know that. moment at Yosemite brought it all together. That was the We were on a weeklong trip to northern California, and on epiphany. It was not an accident that it happened on a bus our way to Yosemite. I was sleep deprived, as were the other with children around chattering, similar to camp. It was a chaperones. It was an El Niño winter so we were expecting parallel experience I would not have recognized the same way to see some falls that had not had water in many years. The had I not participated in song sessions, lit Shabbat candles, kids were noisy and excited as we came around the bend and experienced Havdalah or closed my days for 17 summers by saw the magnificent valley of Yosemite—El Capitan jutting saying the sh’ma. My communal Jewish experiences informed out majestically in the foreground, and half dome in the that one personal, profound moment. background. With the blue sky, and rainbows formed by Rebecca Nudel the sun shining on the falls just perfectly, I no longer heard Longtime Temple staff member and congregant the kids chatter in the background. What I beheld literally took my breath away. In that moment, time stopped. In that moment I knew, there was no question, there was something out there—call it God or nature or the universe. This was no accident. This article is the first in the series “My Most Profound Jewish Moment”

Save these dates BREAKING BREAD Teen Programming Outdoor AND BREAKING BARRIERS Info Session A Muslim-Jewish Iftar Break Fast ShabbatShabbat Joy • Shabbat Services Peace • Shabbat Light Fridays, till August 24 Thursday, August 9 Wednesday, August 29 Irmas Campus Westside JCC Irmas Campus 6:00 p.m. 7:00 p.m. 7:30 p.m. Torah Portion Torah Online: www.wbtla.org Great Expectations V’Etchanan (Deuteronomy 3:23-7:11)

arshat V’Etchanan tells the story of Moses as he begs one perfect job, partner, home or overflowing bank account. last time for God to let him enter the Holy Land (Moses After God tells Moses he already has more than enough, he wasP forbidden from entering the land of Israel as punishment commands him to ascend the top of a cliff, raise his eyes in all for disobeying God earlier in the Torah). After Moses’ plea, directions and take in everything that surrounds him. Then God responds: “rav lach.” Like so many Hebrew phrases, this Moses can see that he has already arrived, it’s just different term can be defined in two ways—either “it is too much for than he had envisioned. Summer allows us moments to stop you” or “there is so much for you.” Rabbi Shefa Gold believes and take stock of our lives. Before our busy schedules pick up God is telling Moses he has so much already. How often do again, take some time to look around and notice the Promised we need the same reminder? We already have enough; our Land that already surrounds you. blessings are in front of us and around us, but we are unable Rabbi Lindy Davidson to see them because of our narrow vision. It’s easy to be blind to the gifts in our lives when we have a preconceived idea of what our success must look like. Maybe it’s the

Plugged In Share With Us

his month, we are beginning a series of Bulletin Tcover stories on the topic “My most profound Jewish moment.” We are interested in learning more about our staff, clergy and congregants’ personal Jewish experiences. This includes yours. Do you have a story to share? Was there a pivotal moment in your life where Judaism became a defining part of your being? Please email us your story— we’d love to share it on our website or maybe even in the Bulletin. All ages and members welcome. Be sure to read this month’s cover story written by longtime congregant, camper, teacher and staff member Becca Nudel, where she describes her most profound Jewish moment.

Email us your most profound Jewish moment at [email protected]

2 Tikkun Olam Save A Life

ou can save a life in the span of a single day, this clinic Yone day. Far beyond brings help and hope to thousands. the walls of Cedars-Sinai Join our Wilshire Boulevard and UCLA, beyond the Temple Team at this year’s Care care and comfort of our Harbor Clinic. Whether you’re a physicians’ offices lie the nearly three million people in Los healthcare professional or not, we Angeles who lack access to healthcare. On September 30th we need you! In addition to medical will make a difference—we will save lives. and dental professionals, there Again this fall, nearly 10,000 of the most needy in our city are hundreds of volunteer opportunities to get everyone and will descend on the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena for the anyone involved, and to make a huge difference. Sign up, be Care Harbor Free Health Clinic. This year, Wilshire Boulevard a part of the Wilshire Boulevard Temple Care Harbor Team, Temple is teaming up with Care Harbor to save lives. and save a life. The Care Harbor Clinic Rabbi M. Beaumont Shapiro provides free care on a massive scale—everything from dental fillings, cleanings and extractions to eye exams and prescription glasses; medical exams and procedures to Sign up by contacting Denise Magilnick at immunizations and screenings. In [email protected] or (424) 208-8930 Temple Campus Irmas Campus

Adult Opportunities Art, Music, Movies, Books

ow important is Jewish culture to our identity as The good news? More cultural programs are coming HJews? In a recent study, researchers discovered that to Wilshire Boulevard Temple this fall and winter. From participation in Jewish culture is more wide-spread than any lectures from the UCLA Nazarian Institute of Israel Studies other form of participation in Jewish life in the U.S. to an international Jewish film series; a world famous master For example, over 90% of Jews in the Bay Area attend Jewish storyteller and klezmer concert to a music of Leonard some form of Jewish cultural activity, with film, music and Cohen Shabbat service; a book club, classes and much lectures ranking highest on the list. In addition, a majority more. Please check our upcoming Experience Brochure for of them expressed interest in attending more Jewish cultural more information. There are many ways to be Jewish. Find programs—specifically, film, art exhibits and theater. something that speaks to you. Besides the 92nd Street Y in New York City which offers Susan Nanus dozens of Jewish cultural programs, did you know that there Director of Adult Programs are World Jewish Music Festivals in Atlanta, Detroit and San Francisco? A Jewish Kultur Festival in Boca Raton, Florida? There is a Jewish Art Fest in Washington State, Jewish film festivals and klezmer festivals all over the country, as well as several Jewish orchestras, one of which recently played at the Visit our website, www.wbtla.org Kennedy Center. for upcoming events Brawerman Elementary School Brawerman Sports Day–Olympians All

he colors, the banners, the anticipation, the excitement—it Twas all there as Brawerman Elementary School East and West students became Olympians for Sports Day 2012. Students from all grade levels united into Teams Haifa, Tel Aviv or Jerusalem and proudly marched to Gold Field in their brightly colored shirts to invoke this year’s words to compete by: honesty, poise, trust. Sports Day Chairs Mark Berman, Steve Green, Chareen Kossoff, Stacy Lifton and Patty Tarica led an incredible group of parent volunteers in carrying out the meticulous planning that went into this beloved Brawerman tradition. Events ranging from the Falafel Run (races on scooter boards in the gym), to the soccer relays, to the new Inflatable Race were fun-filled and fantastic. As students gathered in the Marcia Israel Chapel/Auditorium for an inspirational message from Coach Barry Schapira and closing ceremonies, more than one student proclaimed, “This is the best Sports Day yet!”

Religious School Meet the Super Lemonade Brothers

everal months ago, there for many years. Sean wanted to be sure that children like SSean Botansky, Religious School his friend Dylan would have new and entertaining things to do 3rd grader, stopped into my office and while they were bravely working at getting better. asked: “Can my friend Dylan and I On Big Sunday, Sean and Dylan were irresistible, running have a lemonade stand at Big Sunday?” around in their yellow capes and singing their anti-cancer Sean knew that our school played a song (Watch here: wbtla.org/enews/anchors/RS_bigsunday. large role in planning with the Temple’s mov). They helped to raise many hundreds of dollars, which we Tikkun Olam Committee for L.A.’s Big combined with funds from 1st and 2nd grade tzedakah from Sunday activities. He maturely laid out Ronit Ben-Shoham’s classes. We were able to purchase and his idea—if he could sponsor a lemonade stand, he would get deliver a carload of beautiful, challenging and fun toys and books his mom, Dr. Jody Trager, his dad, Bruce, his sister, Avery (also in time to help Dylan recover from his most recent surgery. one of our Ozrim), and newly Bar Mitzvah brother, Ezra, to Sean’s actions reinforced many of the Jewish values his class help him. They would gather the supplies and make the delicious learned this year—wisdom, courage, compassion, faith, saving drinks. Meanwhile he and Dylan could go around the campus a life, caring for the ill and helping a neighbor. But to hear Sean ‘selling’ the idea that all the day’s volunteers could perform a tell it, it was simply the right thing to do! double mitzvah, by raising money for toys for the Children’s Vinny Green Hospital Oncology Center! Sean knows a lot about the Center, Grades K-6 Administrator his close friend since preschool has been undergoing treatment

4 Early Childhood Centers City of David

t the Early Childhood Centers, continued learning for our language, with no speaking allowed, to Aeducators translates into a richer, better education for our enhance our non-oral communication children. That is why for 12 days beginning July 22, we’re taking skills. We will sensitize our teachers 20 of our teachers to Israel on an educator trip, thanks to the to students and people with special generous support of Liz Goldhirsh-Yellin, in honor of her mother needs, and discover the power of our Wendy J. Goldhirsh. Our group will accompany our Israeli Scholar dormant senses. in Residence, Dr. Naama Zoran, on a visit to two Reggio Emilia Modern Israeli history will schools in Tel Aviv; we will study and dialogue with Dr. Zoran, be our focus as we visit the Israeli sharing our ideas and best practices. Museum at the Yitzhak Rabin Center The trip continues to Kibbutz Messilot, where we meet with in Tel Aviv. We’ll travel to Jerusalem Tzila Gavish, who ingeniously developed the concept of turning and worship at the Kotel, visit the Tower of David Museum, climb a junkyard into a play space. We will also stay on another, modern to the top of the Masada and swim in the Dead Sea. We’ll explore kibbutz, where we will learn its lifestyle ideology with the guidance the excavations in the ancient city of David, which are funded in of a second-generation kibbutz member—truly 21st century Israel. large part by the Goldhirsh-Yellin Foundation. We’ll visit a Druze Back in Tel Aviv we visit two essential exhibits at the Israel village in the Carmel Mountains, behold the ruins of Caesarea and Children’s Museum just outside the city in Holon. At the first, have a dialogue on peaceful coexistence in Haifa with members of Dialogue in the Dark, we will be led through the pitch black dark by the Arab community. a blind person, altering our perception of what it means to be blind. Our educators will then take these experiences home and At the second, An Invitation to Silence, we will learn Israeli sign into our classrooms.

Camps

The Red Jacket...

ew camp traditions are as important or memorable as when Year after Fnew senior staff members receive their “red jacket.” year, at camp When a senior staff member is presented with his/her events, alumni red jacket, inside the pocket is a letter from his/her parent, proudly wear their acknowledging this milestone in their child’s life. The red red jackets. They jacket doesn’t just represent the number of years spent at not only cherish camp; it signifies becoming part of the camp staff as a senior the item itself, but counselor, being responsible for campers and younger staff what it represents, members; belonging to the larger Camp Community and 60 what it meant to them when they received it and what it years of history and traditions. Perhaps it’s best described by still means to them today, as an alum of Wilshire Boulevard Emily Reinstein when she received her red jacket earlier this Temple Camps. summer: “It felt so surreal to receive my red jacket. Over the past Cheri Lauterbach 8 years, I have seen my counselors who I looked up to so much Camp Alumni & Development Director wear their jackets around camp. Being able to earn and wear my own was very meaningful and emotional. To be surrounded by camp friends as well as my very first CHK counselor who helped As part of the 60th Anniversary Celebration’s me fall in love with camp, made the ceremony even more special for me. Giving back to a place that has given me so much is the oral history project, alumni and staff spoke most rewarding job and honor I could be a part of.” about receiving their red jackets. Visit www.vimeo.com/42870016

5 Developments Once In A Lifetime

Board Trustee Scott Edelman looks up in awe at the Temple oculus

Members of the Temple’s Board of Trustees and Temple staff on the resized bimah

Congregants Debbi Kessler, Beverly and Chet Firestein, Joyce Powell, Connie Austin with Rabbi Steve Leder

Left: Congregant Anita Hirsh gets a close-up of the Western Lunette; Congregant Candice Koral marvels at the Right: Congregant Ron Fields touches the Sh’ma oculus, just a few feet above

6 Developments continued

ot since the Temple was built in 1929 has anyone been We invite you to personally share in this extraordinary Nclose enough to the Temple oculus to touch the Sh’ma, experience. If you would like to tour the renovation happening or stood level with the Creation Lunette, to behold each now in the Main Sanctuary, please let us know. Work and access meticulous detail. Today, temporary scaffolding reaches to the to the dome and lunettes will continue through September. very top of the magnificent coffered plaster ceiling, where each section is being vacuumed, repaired, painted and regilded. The Do not miss this once in a lifetime opportunity! process has allowed not only our reconstruction crew to touch the inner dome, but congregants as well. It’s a once in a lifetime experience available to all congregants. When the work is done, the scaffolding will be gone, and we will all once again marvel at To sign up for a tour, call the Development Office the oculus from 100 feet below. today at (213) 835-2165

Upcoming Events

outdoor shabbat services WILSHIRE BOULEVARD TEMPLE presents teen programming info session Fridays, August 3, 10, 17, 24 Outdoor Wednesday, August 29 ShabbatFriday Nights from June 22-August Services 24 Irmas Campus @ 6:00 p.m.

6:00 p.m. Join our clergy in welcoming Shabbat 7:30 p.m. with music and song as the sun sets and stars begin to shimmer. More Info: Nancy Daum Introducing - Shabbat Under the Stars [email protected] Come meet the new Head of the Religious School Rabbi Bruce A Summer of Outdoor Shabbat Services Raff and new Teen Programs Director Herschel Bleefeld, and Leave the week behind and welcome Shabbat with music and hear about their innovative and exciting vision for Wilshire song as the sun sets and the stars begin to shimmer. Followed Boulevard Temple teen programming in the 2012-13 year. by a special outdoor Oneg Shabbat. Israel, leadership, friendship; there are many new programs and opportunities for grades 8-12! Please RSVP by August 27. Nancy Daum, [email protected] Herschel Bleefeld, [email protected], (424) 208-8906 www.wbtla.org/events/item/488/worship_events www.wbtla.org/events/item/490/youth_events

Breaking Bread & Breaking Barriers: annual congregational meeting A Muslim-Jewish Iftar Break Fast Thursday, August 9 Friday, September 7 Westside JCC, 7:00 p.m. 6:00 p.m. Join together with members of the Jewish and Muslim Join us for our congregational meeting as we thank our community for a Muslim-Jewish celebration of the Islamic outgoing trustees and elect new members to fill open spaces holy month of Ramadan. on our Temple’s Board. The annual meeting will be followed by Soul Sounds Shabbat. Denise Magilnick, [email protected], (424) 208-8930 www.wbtla.org/events/item/313/events www.wbtla.org/events/item/489/events

Temple Campus Irmas Campus Registration Required Contact For More Information Information Available Online Free of Charge

For a full calendar of events and services, please visit www.wbtla.org/events 7 Kol Rinnah

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5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Food Pantries Spousal Bereavement Israeli Dancing Breaking Bread and Kabbalat Shabbat Torah Study Support Group Pregnancy and Infant Loss Breaking Barriers: A Shacharit Shabbat Support Group Muslim-Jewish Iftar Break Fast

12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Food Pantries Spousal Bereavement Israeli Dancing Kabbalat Shabbat Torah Study Support Group Shacharit Shabbat

19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Food Pantries Spousal Bereavement Israeli Dancing Kabbalat Shabbat Torah Study Support Group Shacharit Shabbat

26 27 28 29 30 31 Food Pantries Spousal Bereavement Teen Programming Info Kabbalat Shabbat Support Group Session Israeli Dancing

Temple Campus Irmas Campus For more information, including time and location, on all OPCC Annenberg Access Center, Santa Monica of the events in this calendar, visit www.wbtla.org Service time different than usual - please check online Tributes

RABBI EDGAR F. MAGNIN FUND ANN AND SAM BERNSTEIN CHILDREN’S RABBI ALFRED WOLF CAMP FUND In Honor Of: LIBRARY In Honor Of: Matthew C. Shanus’s Bar Mitzvah by Judith and Richard Smooke In Loving Memory Of: Rabbi Karen Fox and Mickey Rosen’s Anniversary Brawerman Sports Day–Olympians All by Linda and Mike Roberts Lydia Rubin by Suzanne Rubin and Family In Loving Memory Of: Dan Wolf becoming chair of the camp committee Alvin Applebaum by Noel and Diane Applebaum Ruth Wengrod-De Roo by Karen, Ken, Ian and Molly Cinnamon by Linda and Mike Roberts Jim Bayer by Shelley and Rick Bayer FOOD PANTRIES FUND In Loving Memory Of: Edgar Berliner by Tracy and F. Ron Smith Eshel Class 2012 Birdie Blackman by Gloria Diamond Gussie Borun by Dorothy Straus Jeanne Gerson Harold Brandt by Lee and Gordon Gelfond Sandra Cohen by Irving Cohen Isaac Shaw by Dr. & Mrs. Robert Shaw Dorothy Feinberg by Sandra and William Kates In Honor Of: Henya Freiberg By Patti and Dan Stein Cantor Caro for officiating at the Bar Mitzvah of Adam Rich by Lara and John Rich CHARLES BENDIT CAMPERSHIP FUND Celia Goldklang by Ellen Bidner Cantor Don Gurney for officiating at the Bar Mitzvah of Adam Rich Charlotte Hirsch by Mr. & Mrs. Donald Hirsch In Loving Memory Of: by Lara and John Rich Olga Breuer by Nadine and Steve Breuer Charlotte Hirsch by Dana, Nathan, Megan and Jessica Lipman Rabbi Leder for officiating at the Bar Mitzvah of Adam Rich Beloved mother, Dora Hoffman by Rachael Hoffman by Lara and John Rich KEHILLAH COMMUNITY CAMP FUND Samuel Hoffman by Toibe and Jack Knight Mr. and Mrs. Scott Myers’s 10th Anniversary by Marian Brown Hilda Kaplan by Blaire and Aaron Kaplan Jessica and Michael Newman’s Wedding by Jane Hirsch In Loving Memory Of: George Kellman by Barnet Kellman Joan Pansky for a speedy recovery by Ellen Pansky Dear father, Samuel Goren by Tuchman and Weismann Families Leslie Kline and Margaret Kline by Ruth and George Furst Mary Jannol by Joan and Mel Adler In Loving Memory Of: Edward Lee Kozberg by Martin Kozberg Mary Jannol by Wilshire Boulevard Temple Camp Committee Sarah Blakeman by Mary Dubrow Dear father, Hans Kuh by Anneliese Nathan Barbara J. Hornichter by The Rosin Family WILSHIRE BOULEVARD TEMPLE CAMPS 60TH Hyman Langsam by Diana Elkins Morris Levy by Shirley Haiman Brett Lawrence by Blaire and Aaron Kaplan ANNIVERSARY ENDOWED CAMPERSHIP Jerry Markle by Ellen Pansky Murray Lehman by Ellen Bidner FUND Morris Motley by Mr. & Mrs. Donald Motley David Mindlin by Bradley Mindlin My son, Eric P. Nass by Gloria Young In Honor Of: Stanley Mosk by Sandra and Richard Mosk Teri S. Hertz by Mark H. Smith & Diane Shader Smith Ralph L. Rosenbluth by Susan and Roy Rosenbluth Carol S. Newirth by Charles and Susan Newirth Lydia Rubin by Cousin, Ann Rubin Marvin Paymer by David Paymer and Liz Georges Pauline Stark by Dr. & Mrs. Mayo Stark Rose S. Pullman by Lorin Pullman Allen H. Rabin by Bruce W. Rabin PRAYER BOOK DEDICATION FUND FOOD PANTRIES Charlotte C. Rabin by Bruce W. Rabin Madeline Rosen by Burton, Bret and Joanna Rosen In Loving Memory Of: Sunday, August 12, 2012 Molly Fligelman by Mona Brandler Underwritten by Al Savad by Judy and Allan Africk Lydia Rubin by Cousin, Ann Rubin Banky La Rocque Foundation Katie Schecter by Morrie Dickman TIKKUN OLAM Hope P. Schultz by Irving Cohen Thank you to those individuals and families REPAIRING THE WORLD RABBI HARVEY J. FIELDS EDUCATIONAL who have chosen either to underwrite ($1,000) WILSHIRE BOULEVARD TEMPLE Norman Sklar by Arnold Sklar SCHOLARSHIP FUND Cecilia Sonnenberg by Susan and Barnett Bergman or sponsor ($500) a week of food. If you are Gideon Stein by Patti and Dan Stein In Loving Memory Of: interested in joining this effort, please contact Bruce Berman at (213) 388-2401 or [email protected]. Bobbi Stern by Louis A. Stern, Jr. Barbara J. Hornichter by Karen and Charles Rosin Charles Stein by Lori and Daniel Stein Sonia Stoller by Leah Barshap and Family Mitzvah go’reret mitzvah — Ernest Warsaw by Arthur and Janice Gerry ANAT BEN-ISHAI SCHOLARSHIP FUND doing a mitzvah leads to doing more. Frank Webb by Cathy and Mark Louchheim Louis J. Weger by Alvin and Deana Rosenthal In Loving Memory Of: Thank you to Canter’s Deli, Brooklyn Bagel, Noah’s Bagel Larchmont, Marjorie Green by G. Richard Green & Candice Koral Alex Weisskopf, MD by Drs. Maskit and Gary Schiller and Western Bagel West L.A., for their weekly donation of bread to Nettie L. Wolf by Bennett Wolf our Food Pantries. Susanne Wolf by Bennett Wolf MUSIC PUBLICATION FUND In Honor Of: WILSHIRE BOULEVARD TEMPLE Cantor Gurney and Avi Cohen on the occasion of our son, Adrien Thein-Sandler’s bar mitzvah by Sharon Sandler and REDEVELOPMENT FUND William Thein Carin and Scott Farkas In Loving Memory Of: In Honor Of: Stewart Grossberg’s brother, Ted by Gloria and Stacey Young Arthur Gardner’s 102nd Birthday by The Gardner Family Paul Maier by Maggie, Gary and Emma Maier In Loving Memory Of: Calman Menzer by Diana Menzer Rudy Diamond by Gloria Diamond Sheldon Gollin by Barbara Gollin MEREDITH FISHMAN MEMORIAL FUND Burton H. Kaplan by Edith Fischer In Loving Memory Of: Peter MacKinnon by Helen MacKinnon Isador Pastor by Susan and Richard Fishman Alan Moskowitz by The Moskowitz Family Anita Rabinovitch by Sherri and Arnold Nelson BIKUR CHOLIM FUND Leon Sherman by Muriel and Neil Sherman In Honor Of: Martin Small by Robin Small Levy and Michael Levy Rabbi Karen Fox by Janet Dreisen Rappaport Goldie Tyfield by Jerry Schwartz & Ruth Stoch AARON JOSHUA SIMMONS MEMORIAL FUND CLERGY FUND Dave Green In Honor Of: Rabbi Karen Fox by The Rosin, Hornichter, Mol, Bagiou and WILSHIRE BOULEVARD TEMPLE CAMPS Muchin Families In Honor Of: Rabbi Steven Z. Leder by The Rosin, Hornichter, Mol, Bagiou and Muchin Families David Lauterbach’s graduation from High School by Susan, Marty and Michael Jannol Rabbi Steven Z. Leder by Anna Silver Julie Mayerson Brown for her commitment to the camps Rabbi Steven Z. Leder on the occasion of our son, Adrien Thein- by Zan and Linda Agay Calhoun Sandler’s bar mitzvah by Sharon Sandler and William Thein Matthew Mayerson for his commitment to the camps My 75th Birthday by Mike Price by Zan and Linda Agay Calhoun In Loving Memory Of: In Loving Memory Of: Bernard Brown, Jr. by Marilyn Brown Dear grandfather, Milton “Papa” Blumer by Lisa Agay Sheila Grace White Miller by Marlene White Lenard Samuel Goren by Lisa and Robert Orlansky Samuel Goren by Betty and Ross Winn SISTERHOOD PULPIT FLOWER FUND In Loving Memory Of: STEVE BREUER CONFERENCE CENTER Minna Ehrenberg by Susan and Ed Isenberg & Family In Loving Memory Of: Charles Stein by Stein Family Olga Breuer by Jared, Sydnee, Jordan and Samantha Breuer

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ADRIEN MANZINI THEIN-SANDLER JACK YVES BAUM August 4, 2012 August 18, 2012 Adrien is the son of Sharon Sandler and William Thein; Jack is the son of Patricia and Jeffrey Baum; the the grandson of Leon and Norma Sandler; the late grandson of Diane Baum and the late Jack Louis Baum; Carol and John Thein; Bette Ferber. Yvette Rodary and the late Jean Rodary. Family Welcomer: Anya Nthabene Thein-Sandler, sister. Family Welcomers: Noah Jean-Louis and Tikkun Olam Project: Adrien volunteered for many Axel Joseph Baum organizations: for Tree People in their invasive plant Tikkun Olam Project: Jack has been volunteering for eradication program; for Heal the Bay, a non-profit environmental group Wilshire Boulevard Temple Food Pantry for three years. Jack continues to be part that works to restore the Santa Monica Bay; for FOOD FORWARD, a local of a group of committed Temple members who personally prepare and hand out grassroots group reconnecting our food system to create and make change in groceries to our local residents who need a hand. urban hunger, food waste and food justice. Adrien also helped at the Santa Monica Food Pantry and participated in “Kickin’Cancer SK Walk/Run in Brentwood, raising awareness and funds for cancer research. NATHAN J. ANSELL August 25, 2012 ISABELLA GRETA COHEN Nathan is the son of Debra and Benjamin Ansell; the grandson of Marjorie and George Ansell; Judy August 11, 2012 Wolkovitch and the late Julian Wolkovitch. Isabella is the daughter of Constanza Cohen and Marc Tikkun Olam Project: Nathan volunteered at SOVA, a David Cohen; the granddaughter of Esther Cohen non-profit organization to help underprivileged people Folinsky, Robert Folinsky; Maria Correa; the late Abe be self –sufficient by giving food and basic services. Cohen; the late Raul Alba. Family Welcomer: Paulina Cohen Tikkun Olam Project: Isabella collected and donated clothing, kitchen supplies and necessities to Good Shepherd Shelter for Battered Women and Children, serving Los Angeles with therapy, education and support. This shelter provides a safe environment and gives these women and children a second chance at happiness. Temple Campus Irmas Campus

Special Announcement Our Archives, Your Archives

ur Temple • Memorabilia from the Temple’s trip to Israel in OArchivist, 1992 with Rabbi Harvey Fields and important, Nan Goodman, is interesting journals, letters and pictures accounting working with museum past Temple trips to Israel. exhibition design • Old photos, especially pre-1950’s, both of firm Cinnabar to the Temple and the Camps with appropriate install a new historical identification and any stories.

Photo courtesy of Los Angeles Public Library exhibition in the long If you have any of these items or other memorabilia and Photo Collection glassed display cases in would be willing to share them for a brief period of time, or the Temple Campus. allow us to scan them and return to you, please send to the The theme,Jewish Los Angeles through the Eyes of Wilshire Temple care of Nan Goodman, or email [email protected]. Boulevard Temple, will be explored via archival items from our own treasure chest, and hopefully from yours too. We are specifically requesting the following items from congregants that may possess them: • A vintage red jacket from the early years of Camp Wilshire Boulevard Temple Hess Kramer, the more badges the better. c/o Nan Goodman 3663 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90010

10 High Holy Days 5773 Save These Dates high holy days 5773 PROGRAMMING & SERVICE DATES

S’lichot Service Kol Nidre Service Early Childhood Centers Sukkot Yizkor Saturday, September 8 Tuesday, September 25 Sukkot Celebration (Memorial) Service Thursday, October 4 Monday, October 8 Erev Rosh HaShanah Service Yom Kippur Services Sunday, September 16 Wednesday, September 26 Sukkot Soul Sounds Simchat Day Torah Friday, October 5 Family Celebration Rosh HaShanah Services Religious School Tuesday, October 9 Monday, September 17 Sukkot Celebration Celebrate the Harvest September 30, Brawerman Simchat Day October 3 and 4 at our Food Pantries Second Day Rosh HaShanah Sunday, October 7 Torah Celebration Service Tuesday, October 9 Tuesday, September 18 Reception for Food Pantry & Chaver Volunteers Sophisticated Sukkah Shabbat Shuvah Services Monday, October 1 Sunday, October 7 Saturday, September 22 Brawerman Sukkot Religious School Simchat Day Tashlich at the Beach Celebration Torah Celebrations Saturday, September 22 Tuesday, October 2 October 7, 9 and 10

Temple Family

Welcome to new Temple members… Condolences to… William Comanor…Jeffrey Newbrough…Tara Smith…Jenny and Ronen Maralee Beck and Andy, Erika and Zach Safir; Dennis, Pamela, Brandon Zipkin and their children, Talia, Maya and Eli…Sarah Steinberg and and Dustin Beck on the death of their father and grandfather, Norman S. Jordan Roker… Beck…Sylvia Bialick on the death of her husband, Joseph Bialick…Dena Bloom and Robert Klyman on the death of her grandmother, Florence Congratulations to… Brown and to great grandchildren, Sophie, Cal and Joe….Jennifer, Rafi, Maya and Cy Gordon; Leslie, Andrew and Jacob Gladston on the death of their Jane Rissman and Richard Sondheimer on the recent marriage of their grandmother and great grandmother, Lillian Grosberg…Marty and Susan daughter, Claire Rissman-Sherr to Benjamin Tulis… Jannol on the death of his mother, Mary Jannol…Linda and David Gittelson Congratulations to… on the death of her grandmother, Lee Rocklin and to grandchildren, Phoebe, Preston, Zoe Gittelson and Jay Wahl…Todd Morgan on the death of his Morgan and Adam Feldman on the birth of their daughter, Jordyn Rose mother, Evelyn Sachs Morgan and to granddaughter, Tammy and Richard Feldman and to grandmother, Bette Feldman…Stacey and Barak Lurie on Ratner and great grandchildren, Charlie, Emily and William…Rabbi M. the birth of their son, Alex and to big sister and brother, Sasha and Max and Beaumont and Ashley Shapiro on the death of his grandfather, Herbert grandmother, Sandra Peters and uncle and aunt, Lauren and Tybalt Whitney Shapiro…Rob, Carolyn, Skyler and Tess Jacobs on the death of step father and cousins, Grace and Isabella…Sima and Peter Sherman on the naming of and grandfather, Martin Stolzoff…Shirley Barasch Varon on the death of their baby, Madeline Suzanne Sherman… her daughter, Rochelle Barasch Waisome and to husband, Danny Waisome and to brother, Stephen and Janine Barasch and their children, Ross and NEW Congratulations to… Shawna…Jeff and Amy Straus on the death of his mother, Beverly Prentis Wagner and to granddaughter, Sally…Ian and Eva Weiner and on the death Anne Saltzman on passing her final boards and becoming a board certified of his father and grandfather, Markin Sanford Wiener…Dr. Gary and Maskit Psychologist. Schiller on the death of his cousin, Alex Weisskopf, MD and to cousins, Nicolas Benjamin Garcia, son of Doreen and Sparky Garcia, and grandson Aiden and Adam… of Betty Denitz, on becoming a commissioned Navy Officer in Annapolis, Maryland. And to all immediate and extended family. Henry Gluck on spearheading the new UCLA Health System and David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA community board. Board members will serve as ambassadors for the health system and its mission to heal humankind, one patient at a time.

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Clergy Rabbi Steven Z. Leder, Pritzker Chair of Senior Rabbinics Rabbi Karen L. Fox, M.F.T. Rabbi Elissa Ben-Naim Rabbi David Eshel Rabbi M. Beaumont Shapiro Rabbi Lindy Davidson Cantor Don Gurney Cantor Susan Caro Rabbi Harvey J. Fields, Ph.D., Emeritus Board of Trustees Richard Pachulski, President Andrew E. Haas, Vice President Teri Hertz, Vice President Alan Epstein, Vice President Rick Powell, Secretary Philip De Toledo, Treasurer Susan Adler Jannol, Alan Berro, Steven Brown, Barry Edwards, Barbara Grushow, Richard Kurtzman, Brian Shirken, Steve Sugerman, Dan Wolf Julie C. Miller, Immediate Past President Scott Edelman, Counsel Honorary Board Members Lionel Bell, Howard M. Bernstein, Audrey Irmas Administration Howard G. Kaplan, Executive Director Carol Bovill, Director, Early Childhood Centers Nadine Bendit Breuer, Head of Elementary School Rabbi Bruce Raff, Director, Center for Learning & Engagement Douglas F. Lynn, Director, Camps & Conference Center Bruce Berman, Chief Development Officer Jessica Accamando, Director of Communications Cheryl Mandel Garland, Membership Services Director The Wilshire Boulevard Temple Bulletin is published monthly by Wilshire Boulevard Temple Printed on recycled paper. www.wbtla.org Please remember to recycle it again! (213) 388-2401

Schedule of Shabbat Worship & Study

Friday, AUGUST 3 Shabbat Service Rabbi Shapiro and Cantor Gurney Bat Mitzvah of Isabella Greta Cohen Patio 6:00 p.m. Shabbat Services Rabbi Shapiro and Cantor Gurney Cantor Caro 10:30 a.m. Saturday, AUGUST 25 6:00 p.m. No Service at Irmas Campus Torah Study Rabbi Leder and Cantor Gurney Deuteronomy Shoftim 16:18–21:9 Patio 6:00 p.m. Friday, AUGUST 17 Avi Cohen 9:00 Saturday, AUGUST 4 Shabbat Services Rabbi Fox and Cantor Caro Shabbat Service Torah Study and Service Combined 6:00 p.m. Bar Mitzvah of Nathan J. Ansell Deuteronomy Va’etchanan 3:23–7:11 Rabbi Leder and Cantor Gurney Cantor Caro Rabbi Leder and Cantor Gurney 10:30 a.m. 9:00 - 10:30 a.m. Patio 6:00 p.m. No Service at Irmas Campus Bar Mitzvah of Adrien Manzini Thein-Sandler Saturday, AUGUST 18 Rabbi Leder and Cantor Gurney Friday, AUGUST 31 10:30 a.m. Torah Study Deuteronomy Re’eh 11:26–16:17 Shabbat Services Friday, AUGUST 10 Avi Cohen Rabbi Eshel and Cantor Caro 9:00 a.m. 6:00 p.m. Shabbat Services Rabbi Shapiro and Cantorial Soloist Rafii Shabbat Service Rabbi Shapiro and Cantor Gurney 6:00 p.m. Bar Mitzvah of Jack Yves Baum 6:00 p.m. Rabbi Fox and Cantor Caro Rabbi Fox and Cantor Gurney 10:30 a.m. Patio 6:00 p.m. No Service at Irmas Campus Saturday, AUGUST 11 Friday, AUGUST 24 Torah Study Deuteronomy Ekev 7:12–11:25 Shabbat Services Avi Cohen Rabbi Leder and Cantor Caro Shabbat Services 9:00 6:00 p.m.

Temple Campus Irmas Campus All Shabbat and worship information can be found online at www.wbtla.org