October 10, 2020 • 22 Tishri 5781

Shemini Atzeret

Mazel Tov to proud parents, Marsha and Brian Nagorsky, on the Sunday Bar Mitzvah of their son, Sam Nagorsky. October 10, 2020 • 22 Tishri 5781

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Shabbat Shalom and Welcome! We welcome you to Anshe Emet and hope that you enjoy our worship service. If you are a visitor, please introduce yourself so we may welcome you and wish you Shabbat Shalom. Everyone is invited to join our community for lunch following services.

Click here to see all of our services, events and open Mission Statement times for the community during and Simchat . Anshe Emet Synagogue seeks to encourage involvement and create a special sense of belonging. We are committed to meeting the religious, educational, social, and cultural Simchat Torah Honorees needs of our members within the framework of the Conservative Movement. In keeping with the teachings of and the spirit of Klal Yisrael, we recognize our responsibility to Erev Simchat Torah • Saturday, October 10 serve the Jewish community, the wider community and the Hatan Torah • Harold Hirshman state of . Kallat • Laurie Chaiten Bachur & Bachurat HaTorah • Josh Lazar and Rebecca Gross Michael S. Siegel • Senior Rabbi, Norman Asher Rabbinic Chair Alberto Mizrahi • Hazzan Emeritus, Arnold H. Kaplan M.D. Cantorial Chair Morning of Simchat Torah • Sunday, October 11 David Russo • Rabbi Hatan Torah • Yehoshua ben Avraham D’ror Chankin–Gould • Rabbi Kallat Bereshit • Cheryl Krugel Lee Elizabeth Berke • Interim Hazzan Naomi Weiss-Weil • Ritual Director Art Friedson • President Transliteration of the Prayer for the State of Israel: Boni Fine • Executive Director Avinu sheh-bashamayim, tsur Yisrael v’goalo, bareikh et m’dinat Yisrael reishit ts’michat g’ulateinu. Hagein aleha b’evrat chasdekha ufros aleha Established 1873 sukat sh’lomekha, ushlach or’kha va’amit’kha l’rasheha sareha v’yoatseha, Affiliated with United Synagogue of v’tak’neim b’eitsa tovah mil’fanekha. Chazeik et y’dei m’ginei eretz kodsheinu, v’hanchileim Eloheinu y’shua, va’ateret nitsachon t’at’reim. V’natata shalom 3751 North Broadway • Chicago, Illinois 60613-4104 ba’arets v’simchat olam l’yosh’veha, v’nomar: Amen. AnsheEmet.org • 773.281.1423 Yahrzeits We remember those of our Anshe Emet family who are no longer with us and whose Yahrzeits we observe this week. May their memory be for a blessing.

Janet Adelson Allan Levy Ida Altman Esther Levy Raphael Bagno Kate Levy Rebecca Becker Roberta Lewis Isaak Bekker James H. Lipsey Clara Bernstein Bernard Malkov Bernice Birch Isadore Marshall Gregory J. Bruscato Isadore Miller Bernard Chapman Rita Miller Gail Chasson Marian Morris Fannie Chud Eva Malkov Passman Tikkun Chicago Fall Trimester Registration Now OPEN! Sol Cohn Fannie Pellar Classes Start Sunday, October 18th Harvey Copeland Jack Pritikin Alexander Cutler John Rissman Hyman Elman Shabtai Rodin Click here to register Dorothy Ettelson Michael Rome Fannie Evans Charles Rothman The first 10 students registered will receive a Tikkun Richard Ferziger Solomon W. Rubloff Chicago Swag care package! Anna Fox Norman Sabesin Maurice Fraiberg Rachel Salomon Rabbi Sam Fraint Esther Schnair Eydia Frandlih Ethel Schwartz Joyce Galinsky Harris Siegel Luis Gandica Ida Simon Bessie Goldstein John Simon Belle Goldstone Burton Soboroff Alvin Grauer Hyman Stepen Registering to vote has never Harry Greenberg Barbara Stepen been easier or more convenient. Esther Handelsman David Stern You can register online, in person Frieda Harris Harold Sterne or by mail here. Gertrude Herron Rebecca E. Susman Seymour Hozore William Taback Want to avoid crowded polling places on Election Day? Click Conrad Jacobson Emanuel (Bud) Tarrson here for more information. Herman J. Korey Fay Jean Toubus Louis P. Korey Judah Vitkin Dr. Arthur M. Krause Anna Wallach Click here to Learn About Illinois' New Vote By Mail Law. David Landau Anna Willens Louis A. Lavin Ray Zager 2020 CENSUS: Be sure to take the 2020 Census here. Esther Leader Volko Zaika Berdye Levin Life Cycle • Support HaZaK • Torah Readings

Help Us Be There For You HaZaK • Mondays at 1pm Synagogue is a place where you want to feel at home, nourished, nurtured and spiritually fulfilled; a place where your soul, heart and head are touched. It is a HaZaK is an Anshe Emet daytime program for mature adults with active minds. Co-taught by our clergy and other community educators, this year HaZaK is place where you and your children feel a sense of relevance. It is a place where focusing on Jewish Ethics with the Melton curriculum “Ethics of Jewish Living.” you are safe, where you are stimulated, and where you will find a welcoming Generously funded by Beatrice Mayer, z”l. community. MONDAY, OCTOBER 12 • RABBI CHANKIN-GOULD As part of this commitment, the clergy at Anshe Emet are here to help with Visit ansheemet.org/livestream to join | Meeting ID: 663 098 957 Simchas and crises in your or your family’s life. If you know someone who needs Contact Cantor Liz Berke for Zoom password to speak with a member of our clergy, or if you want to add a name to the Mi and more information at [email protected] Sheberach list, please contact Antoinette (Toni) Nuñez at 773-868-5120 or anunez@ ansheemet.org. Names will be kept on the Mi Sheberach list for two weeks only unless otherwise specified.

Condolences It is with deep regret to inform you of the recent passing of Harriet Evnin, nee Bank, age 67. Beloved mother of Josh (Karen) Evnin and Tami Evnin. Proud grandmother of Asher, Max and Noa. Dear sister of Monica Epstein and Fran Fink. The Anshe Emet community extends its deepest condolences to Josh, Karen, Asher and the entire Evnin family at this difficult time. May you all be comforted among the mourners in Zion and Jerusalem. Amen.

TORAH READING PAGE NUMBERS IN ETZ HAYIM DEUTERONOMY Chapters 14-29 On-Line Bereavement Group 1st : p. 1074, 14:22-14:29 Supporting our community in times 2nd Aliyah: p. 1076, 15:1-15:18 of loss. 3rd Aliyah: p. 1080, 15:19-15:23 October 26 • 7:30pm • Anshe Emet 4th Aliyah: p. 1081, 16:1-16:3 th Please join us, every fourth Monday of the 5 Aliyah: p. 1082, 16:4-16:8 month, for our online support group for 6th Aliyah: p. 1083, 16:9-16:12 adults who have experienced the death th of a loved one within the past two years. 7 Aliyah: p. 1084, 16:13-16:17

Meeting ID: 170 885 666 | Contact Tamar : p. 936, Bamidbar 29:35-30:1 Brooks for Zoom Password: [email protected] : p. 1263, I Kings 8:54-8:66 WHAT’S HAPPENING AT ANSHE EMET?

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THE PEN & THE YAD PODCAST FEATURING RABBI MICHAEL SIEGEL & JONATHAN EIG

Special Sukkot Episode: How Do You Measure Joy? : One More Day

Listen at: Ansheemet.org/podcasts SISTERHOOD'S WINE, WOMEN & WALKING WITH GOD SERIES WITH ANITA SILVERT WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14 AT 7PM Explore Jewish texts of Resilience, Reproach and Transition. Resilience – what keeps us strong, and helps TAFFY APPLES FOR ANSHE EMET'S KIDS! us move forward after crises? Are we changed? Do we SUNDAY, OCTOBER 11 at 12:30PM-1:30PM bounce back, or move forward? Kids in 1st to 8th grade are invited to stop by Anshe Click here to learn more and register. Emet on Simchat Torah to make a delicious taffy This program will continue on Wednesday, October apple! There is no cost for this treat, but registration is 21 and 28 at 7pm. required. There will be a maximum of 25 people during each 15 minute time slot. Click here to register

Please contact Max Handelman with questions: [email protected] EXPLORING A FORGOTTEN WORLD: A SOCIAL HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL JEWRY AS REVEALED IN THE CAIRO GENIZAH WITH RABBI SIEGEL BEGINS MONDAY, OCTOBER 19 AT 7PM SISTERHOOD PRESENTS: DO YOU KNOW G-D IS AN Melton School of Adult Jewish Learning ORGANIZER? This ancient-era version of reality TV gives you a TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13 AT 7:15PM front-row seat to the drama, gossip, legal transactions, and other daily intrigues – straight from the Middle Do you know G-d is an organizer, creating the world Ages. This course brings to life an exotic era in Jewish in six days out of chaos? Then on the seventh day, G-d history, revealing the inner thoughts of real-life rested. We’ll be taking a look at texts about the mean- characters exploring the daily interactions and ing of Shabbat and some suggestions for organizing behaviors of Jewish men, women and families living Shabbat in the time of COVID. We’ll cover what it along the Mediterranean more than 1,000 years ago. means to prepare, the specialness of Shabbat, being a All of this has been uncovered through the discovery of a collection of worn-out host even virtually, and time. With Elesheva Soloff and scraps, text fragments, and documents from ancient times. Join us for a journey Dr. Shira Fischer. of intrigue and adventure! Join Rabbi Michael Siegel as he leads this 10-Part Click here to join | Meeting ID: 820 6730 8742 series online, via Zoom. Click here to register