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AUGUST 2020 Av/Elul 5780 VOLUME 77 NUMBER 11 STAY CONNECTED facebook.com/groups/BnaiIsraelCong/ www.bnaiisraelcong.org UPCOMING Our Shabbat Summer Speaker Series UPCOMING Continues. See page 9. UPDATES FROM OUR EDUCATION DEPARTMENTS First Day of B’nai Israel Schilit Nursery School Despite changes and a Tuesday, September 8 For updates, see page 10. new reality, the education Watch your mail for the of our children remains First Days of Talmud Torah Fall Program Guide a top priority. Sunday, September 18 to be mailed by the for Grades K–6 Tuesday, September 15 for end of August. Noar B'Yachad Grades 7–12 REGISTRATION For updates, see page 11. Inside IS OPEN! For updates from our B’nai Mitzvah ........................................................ 2 Youth Department, Rabbi's Message ................................................. 3 see page 12. Notes from Cantor Perlman ........................... 4 HINEINI Campaign ............................................ 4 Leadership Message .......................................... 5 High Holiday Information ............................... 6 Lessans Adult Learning Institute ................. 8 HIGH HOLIDAY Summer Speakers .............................................. 9 Early Childhood ................................................. 10 Update from our 2020/5781 Youth & Education ............................................. 11 Youth Events ....................................................... 12 Roadmap to Reopening INFORMATION AND Blumberg-Zalis Family Library .....................13 SCHEDULE Social Action ...................................................... 13 Task Force News with Netta ............................................... 14 We’re preparing a meaningful holiday Men's Club .......................................................... 16 See page 5 for Refugee & Immigration Aid ......................... 16 Scott Hodes' article. experience that we look forward to Sisterhood ........................................................... 17 sharing with you and your loved ones. Honey From the Heart .....................................17 Mazal Tovim ....................................................... 18 Learn more on page 6. Notes on Hayman Chapel ............................. 19 Donations ........................................................... 20 Members in Mourning ................................... 23 B’NAI MITZVAH devn ipa Benjamin Adam Kish Nolyn Brooke Ziman Julian Asher Goldberg August 15 | 9:00 AM August 29 | 9:00 AM September 5 | 9:00 AM Benjamin Kish, son of Sara Nolyn Ziman, daughter Julian Goldberg, son of and Udi Kish, grandson of Lesley and Dr. Andrew Victoria and Jonathan of Vivien and Dr. Lester Ziman, granddaughter Goldberg, grandson Marion, and Tamar and Eli of Marilyn and Rony of Leslye and Ernest Kish, is a rising seventh- Werthamer, and Susan and Schlesinger, and Shirley grade student at North Alan Ziman, is a rising seventh-grade student (z”l) and Harry Goldberg Bethesda Middle School. For his mitzvah at Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School. For (z”l), is a rising seventh-grade student at project, Benjamin is hosting a virtual meal as her mitzvah project, Nolyn will participate in Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School. For his part of A Wider Circle’s 30 Days of Dinners the Twinning Project through Yad Vashem mitzvah project, Julian is raising money for in June. This educational experience will to honor a person who was not able to have Rainforest Trust and Ocean Conservancy, also be a fundraiser with two matching gift a bat mitzvah. She will also be working organizations working to preserve and opportunities to benefit A Wider Circle. with Greyhound Welfare to support their protect critical ecosystems. He is also He has also volunteered there many times efforts to rescue Greyhounds, particularly as volunteering with the Little Falls Watershed donating money and items, and sorting and Greyhound racing tracks are closing faster Alliance to clear trash and invasive plants organizing donations for future shoppers. than planned due to COVID-19. from the watershed. Benjamin also helped to run his family's Thanksgiving drive which brought in over $15,000 to A Wider Circle. Eytan Idan Edelman Nehemiah Isaiah August 30 | 9:30 AM Driskill Eytan Edelman, son of September 5 | 12:30 PM Jeremy Matthew Aylin and Scott Edelman, Nehemiah Driskill, son Silberglied grandson of Norma Wilbur of Lisbeth and Brian August 29 | 9:00 AM and Daniel Edelman (z”l), Driskill, grandson of Lucia Jeremy Silberglied, son of and Eva and Izak Roditi and Al Coronel, Lisbeth Gail Ravnitzky Silberglied (z”l), is a rising eighth- Balladares, and Vance and and Steve Silberglied, grade student at Charles E. Smith Jewish Winnie Driskill, is a rising seventh-grade grandson of Karleen Heller, Day School. For his mitzvah project, Eytan is student at Charles E. Smith Jewish Day Jerry Ravnitzky, and Marilyn and Bob organizing a chapter at his school to support School. For his mitzvah project, Nehemiah Silberglied (z”l), is a rising seventh-grade Lone Soldiers in the Israel Defense Forces is volunteering for The Nature Conservancy student at Tilden Middle School. For his (IDF) with a special emphasis on Lone and raising funds for them. mitzvah project, Jeremy is raising money for Soldiers who are graduates of CESJDS. Sports Plus, and adaptive sports program. Lone Soldiers are foreign volunteers in the When he was younger, Jeremy participated IDF or IDF soldiers from broken homes or Dylan Himelfarb in this program which was instrumental families who opposed their enlistment, and September 6 | 4:00 PM in developing his athletic ability. Jeremy thus lack the normal level of family support Dylan Himelfarb, son of now volunteers with the program; its first in Israel of other soldiers. Debi and Evan Himelfarb, “graduate” to do so. Sports Plus is working grandson of Eileen and to transition to an online format to continue Donald Himelfarb, and serving children with disabilities during the Jordan Silverstein Mindy and Rabbi Edward pandemic. August 30 | 9:30 AM Cohen, is a rising eighth- Jordan Silverstein, son grade student at Tilden Middle School. For of Stacey Cooperman, his mitzvah project, Dylan joined Bowling and Michael Silverstein, Buddies, a program through the Jewish grandson of Patti Silverstein Foundation for Group Homes where he and Eli Silverstein, and provides assistance and companionship for Mavis (z”l) and Abie residents with special needs. They meet Cooperman (z”l), is a rising eighth-grade monthly for an afternoon of bowling. student at Tilden Middle School. 2 AUGUST 2020 people; we cannot act as though one life is more important than another. We are not Welcome to the Newest racists; but we live in a society where racism Members of Our persists. We cannot simply assign blame to police officers or politicians or rioters or B’nai Israel Family “those people” (whoever they might be, but (April 16–July 10) certainly not me). When it comes to creating a better society, we all matter. We have to New Members ... join the national conversation and become part of the solution to a problem that has LESLIE & IRWIN plagued our country for too long. ALTSCHULER I think about that message as it relates to ISAAC BENKIN our congregational community as well. I CHIARA & ANDREW RABBI'S MESSAGE am proud of the lay and professional leaders JAFFE by RABBI MICHAEL SAFRA who work so hard to keep our community open. But we are more than the religious A. CHARLES SHALMAN services and virtual gatherings. At our core, This has been a Very Strange Summer … we are individuals. Each of us confronts the on the heels of a Very Strange Spring. Fall challenges of the moment differently, and Returning Members ... is not looking too promising either. It looks each of us feels the inevitable frustrations at like it will be a while before communal and different times. We need to do everything we individual routines return to “normal.” REBECCA ADLER can to remind ourselves that each individual JENNELYN & DAVID matters. Of course, there are two ways to view all BILKER the disruptions of the past months. We could Over these past months, we have been look at how our lives have been upended, working to reach out to every member of our mourn the loss of life, lament the missed Brukhim habaim! community. It is an imperfect process. Some celebrations and altered vacation plans, The entire seem to be waiting by the phone; others are and fret about the uncertainties that still congregation pleased by the personal contact but aren’t lie ahead. Or we can marvel at how our shares our joy in necessarily expecting it; and, undoubtedly, community has come together to maintain welcoming you into there are names on the various lists that get twice-daily services, youth and adult our B’nai Israel family. missed. programming, schooling, and other essential synagogue functions. We can praise the And that’s when we need to remember tireless efforts of those who are helping us that the calls do not only go one way. In make small strides towards reopening parts addition to proactively reaching out to our of our operation in a safe and responsible Get Social members, we have set a standard for our way. These aren’t the conditions we would staff that all calls and emails be returned in have chosen, but we know this isn’t the first a timely manner. If you call the synagogue With Us time life has thrown a series of curveballs. and receive an automated message, rest assured that the message will be received If there is a Jewish value that permeates