SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2018 The Congregation Ahavas Achim THE COMMUNITY SYNAGOGUE OF Rabbi Amy Loewenthal THE MONADNOCK REGION. Bulletin From the Rabbi's Desk (continued on page 2) Dear Extended CAA Community, Although you will be receiving this Bulletin September/October around Labor Day, I am writing this short note Sept. 1 Selichot 7:30 PM about two weeks after the late July death of my Sept. 5 Board of Directors Meeting 7:00 PM mother, Ellen Platt Loewenthal, may her memo- Sept. 7 Traditional Shabbat Service 7:00 PM ry be for a blessing. Sept. 9 Erev Rosh Hashanah Service 6:45 PM Sept. 10 Rosh Hashanah Day I Service 9:00 AM Thank you all for your warmth and caring, Children’s Service 10:00 AM which you have expressed in so many ways. Tashlich 1:30 PM I appreciate your kind words, spoken and writ- Sept. 11 Rosh Hashanah Day II 9:00 AM ten; your presence at shiva minyanim; and the Service meals of consolation we received. I appreciate Sept. 14 Kavanah Shabbat Service 7:00 PM the donations to CAA you have made in my Sept. 15 Cathedral of the Pines 10:00 AM mother’s memory. Service w/Lunch by RSVP Sept. 18 Kol Nidre Service 6:30 PM With High Holy Days and the beginning of Sept. 19 Yom Kippur Service 9:00 AM Religious School coming up very soon, there Children’s Service 10:00 AM is much to do. At times, working and planning create a structure I welcome. At other times, I Havdalah 7:34 PM am not operating at my usual capacity. I appre- Sept. 21 Shir Shabbat Service 7:00 PM ciate your patience as I journey through the Sept. 28 Sukkah Party/Lulav 5:00 PM mourning process. Potluck & Singing in Sukkah 5:30 PM Sept. 30 Hoshana Rabbah Holiday 10:45 AM I am grateful for the wonder- Service ful CAA volunteer teams Yizkor Service 12:00 PM who are helping to make Babi Yar Film at KSC 3:00 PM sure High Holy Days and Oct. 1 Simchat Torah Service 6:30 PM Religious School will be up Oct. 5 Shabbat Service/Ava 7:00 PM and running smoothly. Rosenzweig-Davidovits With deep appreciation, Oct. 6 Shabbat Torah Service/ 9:30 AM Bat Mitzvah of Ava Rosenzweig- Rabbi Loewenthal Rabbi Loewenthal Davidovitz Oct. 7 JFNH Annual Meeting/Shem 4:00 PM TovAwards - Manchester UPCOMING EVENTS Oct. 10 Board of Directors Meeting 7:00 PM Bat Mitzvah of Ava Rosenzweig- Oct. 12 Traditional Shabbat Service 7:00 PM Davidovitz ...... 5 Oct. 13 YMCA Fall Foliage 5K- 10:00AM Outdoor Shabbat High Holy Days ...... 6 Oct. 14 NEC Lecture – Risa Keene 3:00 PM Babi Yar Film at KSC ...... 7 Oct. 19 Short Shabbat Service 7:00 PM Nathan E. Cohen Lecture – Risa Keene Oct. 20 CAA Movie Night – “X-Men” 7:00 PM ...... 8 Oct. 25 CAA Book Club 7:00 PM See inside for details. Oct. 26 Kavana Shabbat Service 7:00 PM

1 A Letter from the President One of the ways we can each pitch in is by responding in a timely manner to the invoices I am writing this on the day after the Kosher-Q. that were recently sent to you. Your financial Thank you for coming out to support a very support sustains our activities of Torah (life- successful community and fundraising event. long learning), Avodah (spiritual growth), Our deepest gratitude to Malcolm Katz, Jerry G’milut Chasadim (acts of lovingkindness) and Kaufman, Gary Shapiro, David Kochman, Kehilah (community building). Watching the Paul Bieber, Harry Reisig, Dan Fox, Gerry synagogue grow and thrive is the benefit you Eichner, Mike Kapiloff, Marty Reisig, Barry receive. This is not a fee-for-service model; it’s Fox, Roye Ginsberg, William Medvidovsky, one where we all pitch in to help the whole Joe Mirzoeff, Alex Kapiloff, Daniella Yitzchak, community. Rabbi Loewenthal, Sandy Kochman, Wendy Platt, Selena Katz, and whoever else I forgot. We recognize that giving to CAA is not a While the threat of rain drove us inside, noth- business transaction, but an act of tzedakah ing could dampen our spirits as we ate, par- within a sacred relationship. We all need to be ticipated in the annual raffle and schmoozed invested in the health of the synagogue for it to together. survive and thrive. We are now in the month of Elul when “Jewish It will take all of us working together to secure tradition invites us to turn inward. We dedicate CAA’s future. Please join with us in giving this time to preparing ourselves for the holi- an amount to CAA that is meaningful to your days so that we can experience them as fully as family. possible. During Elul we are asked to look into My husband, Dan Fox, my ourselves. We think about who we are and who daughter Toni Goldberg, and we want to be. Whose forgiveness do we need I all wish you a Shana Tova! in order for us to enter a new year with a clean May you have a good and slate?...Perhaps most important, during Elul, sweet year. we can support each other through the process of requesting and offering forgiveness with full L’shalom. and open hearts.” (Ritualwell.org) Ronnie Brown, President [email protected] Ronnie Brown It takes many people to make sure that the High Holy Days are a meaningful experience for everyone. Rabbi Loewenthal provides Mak'hela Open Rehearsal spiritual guidance and insightful leadership. Mak'hela, the Jewish Chorus of Western Lainee Ginsberg and Laura Broad enhance our Massachusetts, announces the launch of our worship with beautiful music. Risa Keene has 16th season, starting with our annual Open communicated with most of our congregants Rehearsal on Tuesday, September 4th. Join us about High Holy Day honors. Andrea Levin as we welcome new members and reunite with has an interest in the poetical interpretations returning singers. Mak'hela members come of the binding of Isaac and will be giving the from a variety of musical backgrounds. Some D’var Torah on the second day of Rosh ha are experienced singers and music readers; Shanah. Arthur Cohen, Lainee Ginsberg and others learn by rote and simply love to sing! Lester Cohen will be chanting Haftorah. Jerry Auditions are quick and extremely painless. Kaufman, Roye Ginsberg, David Butler, Scott If you think you might be interested in join- Rodolitz, Selena and Malcolm Katz and Paul ing, feel free to contact our Membership and Elaine Bieber all contribute to the High Coordinator, Bonnie Mikesh (bpmikesh@ Holy Day experience. comcast.net), or our conductor, Elaine "Lainee" Thank you for your continued support of Broad Ginsberg ([email protected]). Congregation Ahavas Achim. We all need to Mak'hela rehearses on Tuesday nights from work together to make sure that CAA thrives 7:15-9:00 p.m. at the Lander-Grinspoon and meets the needs of our diverse congrega- Academy, 257 Prospect Street in Northampton. tion throughout the year.

2 We perform a variety of music, from toe-tap- In order to vote – you must be a registered ping arrangements of Yiddish tunes, to con- voter! templative melodies from the Jewish liturgy, How do you vote if the election takes place on to more serious concert music (by composers a religious holiday (such as Rosh ha Shanah)? such as Bernstein, Mendelssohn, and Verdi) and Under New Hampshire law, you may vote via everything in between. absentee ballot for a number of reasons, includ- New singers are always welcome. We hope to ing observance of a religious commitment. see you at the Open Rehearsal on September Obtaining an absentee ballot is easy. Contact 4th! your town clerk. Be sure to do this early enough to ensure that you will be able to vote your bal- Exercise Your Right to Vote! lot and have it received back at the town clerk’s office by election day! A Note from the Jewish Federation of New Hampshire Jews have been instrumental as leaders since the birth of our country. In an 1808 letter to This year, New Hampshire’s primary election President Thomas Jefferson, his predecessor will take place on September 11. That is Rosh John Adams said, "I will insist that the Hebrews Hashanah. have done more to civilize man than any other As there are primary contests involving the nation." It is important that we exercise our Governorship and the State’s two Congressional right to choose, and to maintain our status as districts, you may want to plan ahead to ensure leaders in the civilized world. that you have the ability to vote in this primary, as well as in the upcoming general election in November.

ASHUELOT CONCERTS PERFORMING AT CAA Sunday, September 2nd at 4:00 pm

Mozart, Turina & Brahms Piano Quartets Mozart Piano Quartet in E-flat, K.493 Turina Piano Quartet in A minor, Op.67 Brahms Piano Quartet No.3 in C minor, Op.60

Samara Piano Quartet Louisa Stonehill - Violin Marcia Cassidy - Viola Paul Cohen - Cello Nicholas Burns - Piano Ticket information at: www.ashuelotconcerts.org

3 September/October Special Happenings Congregation Saturday, September 1 at 7:30 pm Ahavas Achim Selichot Service at CAA Prepare your soul for the upcoming High THE COMMUNITY SYNAGOGUE OF Holidays by attending our Selichot service on THE MONADNOCK REGION. the Saturday night before Rosh Hashanah. Rabbi Amy Loewenthal Selichot are penitential prayers and this beauti- BOARD OF DIRECTORS 2018-2019 ful and moving service will set the ambience for a heartfelt High Holiday season, a chance Officers: to take stock and move towards our best President Ronnie Brown 240-304-7803 selves. Vice-President Jerry Kaufman 363-4481 Members of the Brattleboro Area Jewish Treasurer David Kochman 903-0357 Community will come to Keene for a moving Financial Secretary In Process and musical joint service. Rabbi Loewenthal, Recording Secretary Cantor Kate Judd, and Lainee Ginsberg will Andrea Levin 520-3645 introduce the moods and melodies of the Corresponding Secretary Yamim Noraim. Please join us for this very spe- Selena Katz 352-1644 cial night. Immediate Past President David Kochman 903-0357 Sunday, September 9 Trustees: A fall family event is being planned. Watch Serving until 2019 David Butler 588-8073 for the weekly CAA e-mail for details, or con- Wendy Platt 363-8230 tact Marni Silverstein: marni.silverstein@gmail. Vivian Prunier 802-387-5875 com or 357-7443. Serving until 2020 Jennifer Cohen 357-9982 Saturday, September 15 at 10:00 am Marni Silverstein 357-7443 Pam Weinrieb 209-7786 Shabbat Service at Cathedral of the Pines Serving until 2021 Scott Friedman 646-287-6765 (RSVP for lunch) Janet Furcht 439-7147 What better place to have services on the Sarah Vogel 863-7839 Youth Shabbat after Rosh Hashanah (when we cel- Representative Yelena Rodolitz 903-1121 ebrate Creation) than the beautiful Cathedral of the Pines in Rindge, NH? Once a year the Bulletin Editor: Cathedral of the Pines offers an opportunity Barbara Green (585-9059) for a Jewish service. Our prayer service will [email protected] Co-Editor have a few variations reflecting this unique Sandy Kochman day, Shabbat Shuvah, the Shabbat which falls [email protected] between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. We’ll read from the Torah scroll donated by Printing and mailing of the Bulletin generously provided by C&S Wholesale Grocers, Inc. Barbara Green’s family. We’ll give thanks for the abundant beauty of the world around us. ADVERTISE! Please plan on being part of this special ser- Would you like to advertise your business in our vice. newsletter? A business card would be a nice way to let our community know that you are Evelyne Perks and Joel Cohen are graciously out there and inform them about what you are inviting us to their home for lunch in Rindge doing. Advertising rates are $18 (chai=life=18) after services. Please RSVP by Sept. 12 to an issue, or $90 a year (six issues). Please call [email protected], or 899-6665. the synagogue (352-6747) or mail your card to Congregation Ahavas Achim at 84 Hastings Avenue. Patronize our advertisers!

4 Friday, September 28 at 5:00 pm Sukkah Party An Invitation Join us for fun, food and song in the Sukkah. Shalom, Starting at 5:00 pm, we’ll have an opportunity to My name is Ava wave the lulav and etrog, the earthy symbols of Rosenzweig- the harvest. At 5:30 pm there will be a potluck Davidovits. I am meal (dairy, vegetarian) followed by singing in currently 12 and the sukkah. There will be an opportunity to say I will be turning kaddish, for those in mourning or observing a 13 in September. yahrzeit. I would love it if the congregation Saturday, October 13 at 10:00 am at Ahavas Achim would join me at my bat YMCA Fall Foliage 5K - Outdoor Shabbat mitzvah services on October 6th and then Join the Rabbi and fellow CAA runners and join us for a light Oneg Shabbat lunch. walkers for the 6th Annual Fall Foliage 5K. Part I love to ride horses, especially at my horse road and part trail, this unique, off-the-beaten- camp - Roads End Farm. I also love spend- path Fall Foliage 5K travels through both the ing time with my friends and family no mat- suburban and wooded Keene landscape. Pre- ter what we are doing. I am so grateful that registration and course map available: http:// Rabbi Loewenthal has devoted her time with keeneymca.org/events/fall-foliage-5k/ helping me learn how to chant the Torah and understand what it means to become a Bat Weekly Torah Study – Open to All Mitzvah. I hope all of you can make it! Join us on Sundays when Religious School is in session, from 12:30-2:00 pm, as we read and ~Ava discuss the parasha of the week, the weekly portion of Torah that is read by Jews the world over. Each Sunday we look ahead to the com- ing Shabbat reading. After brief framing com- translating some of the liturgy, and throw in a ments, we read – in English or in Hebrew little Modern Hebrew grammar, as appropri- followed by English translation – the text, ate. We use textbook, prayer book, and video to stopping to look at commentary and discuss make for an interactive and multi-faceted ses- issues raised. There’s a core group who usu- sion. It’s fun and it will make your shul experi- ally comes, and drop-ins are always welcome. ence more meaningful and enjoyable when you No previous experience with Torah study is know what the words mean. required. Light refreshments are served. Prayer Book Hebrew is open to anyone who In September and October, Weekly Torah Study knows all the Hebrew letters and can decode, will be held on: 9/2, 9/16, 9/23, 10/21, 10/28. albeit slowly, with vowels. If you need to learn Alef Bet, that can be arranged at a dif- ferent time. Contact Education Director Dale Adult Hebrew Classes Resume Rosenberg at eddirector.ahavas.achim@gmail. com for more information. Or just show up on Do you feel daunted by Hebrew prayers? Do Sunday afternoons. you find yourself reading transliteration? Or are you saying the prayers by rote, but not In September and October, Prayer Book Hebrew understanding the meaning? We have a class Class will be held on: 9/2, 9/16, 9/23, 10/21, for you! 10/28. On Sundays when religious school is in session, Prayer Book Hebrew Class meets from 2:30 to 3:30 pm. We review vocabulary and grammar from Hebrew prayers, practice reading and

5 HIGH HOLY DAYS 5779 – 2018 SCHEDULE OF SERVICES SELICHOT Saturday, September 1 At CAA in Keene 7:30 PM ROSH HA SHANAH Erev Rosh ha Shanah Sunday, September 9 Evening Service 6:45 PM Day One: Monday, September 10 Morning Service 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM Children’s Service 10:00 AM Torah service 11:00 AM (approximately) Tashlich at 1:30 PM at Black Brook (0.7 mile from CAA) Possible lunch at hosts’ homes* Day Two: Tuesday, September 11 Morning Service 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM Torah service 11:00 AM (approximately) YOM KIPPUR Kol Nidre: Tuesday, September 18 Evening service 6:30 PM Yom Kippur: Wednesday, September 19 Morning Service 9:00 AM Children’s Service 10:00 AM Torah Service 11:00 AM (approximately) Yizkor (Memorial Service) 1:30 PM Discussion/Chanting/Meditation sessions 2:45 to 4:45 PM Mincha Service with Haftarah Jonah 5:00 PM Ne’ilah begins 6:30 PM Havdallah begins 7:34 PM Communal "break the fast" vegetarian potluck follows *Hosts/Guests contact Office Manager [email protected] by September 4.

6 The Nathan E. Cohen Lecture Series Presents Babi Yar 75th Anniversary Film and Presentation Sunday, September 30 at 3:00 PM Admission is free – All are welcome Putnam Theater, Keene State College

Please join us for a very special Nathan E. anti-Semitism. The composer Shostakovich Cohen Lecture Series presentation. CAA was so inspired by this poem that he based a members Joel Cohen and Evelyne Perks choral symphony on it. have provided us with an extraordinarily The film includes a moving recitation of the moving film of a Babi Yar commemoration poem (in English translation) and an aston- held in Melbourne, Australia to mark the ishingly beautiful and heartfelt performance 75th anniversary of the Babi Yar massacres. of Shostakovich’s Babi Yar by the Zelman Babi Yar, in modern Ukraine, was the site Memorial Symphony Orchestra, featuring the of one of the largest and most vile mass brilliant Bass-Baritone Adrian Tamburini. Dr. murders during the Holocaust. Nazi spe- Henry Knight, Director of the Cohen Center cial forces and Ukrainian collaborators for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, will offer savagely murdered approximately 100,000 framing comments and personal memories of people – including almost the entire Jewish Yevtushenko. This is an afternoon not to be population of Kiev and areas around the missed! city – in September 1941. The program will be held at the Putnam After the war, several Jewish groups Theater in Keene State’s Redfern Arts Center, pushed for a memorial at Babi Yar, but the in order to provide a cinematic experience Soviet government refused. The massacre superior to what is available at CAA. Plan to would have been a little known tragedy if attend this unique event. not for Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko, The Nathan E. Cohen Memorial Lecture series was who risked angering his government by founded by Dr. Arthur Cohen as an ongoing trib- writing what came to be his most famous ute to his father’s memory. It provides programs poem: Babi Yar. In the poem he both open to the general public at no charge. laments the murders and calls for an end to

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7 The Nathan E. Cohen Lecture Series Presents You Can’t Always Get What You Want: Lessons I Learned in Lesotho Speaker: Risa Keene Sunday, October 14 at 3:00 PM Admission is free – All are welcome Congregation Ahavas Achim

After living, working and raising their three Recounting stories and showing pictures, daughters in the Monadnock Region, CAA Risa will help us find out about this beauti- members Risa Keene and her husband ful culture, country, and people. She’ll tell Doug left their jobs and home in Sullivan us about some of her experiences on her NH to spend two years living in Lesotho, two-year journey. Come to find out how she in southern Africa. A small country that didn’t get what she wanted but she found is completely surrounded by South Africa, – as the song says – that she got what she Lesotho is a place of unbelievable beauty needed. Don’t miss this very personal, very and significant challenges. informative program. By allowing herself to experience new situ- After the presentation, there will be refresh- ations including a new language, new job, ments and a chance for conversation. new friends, and not closing herself off The Nathan E. Cohen Memorial Lecture series to the opportunities that presented them- was founded by Dr. Arthur Cohen as an ongoing selves, Risa learned many lessons about life, tribute to his father’s memory. It provides pro- herself and what is truly important. grams open to the general public at no charge.

Shem Tov Award to be Presented awards are presented to members of syna- gogues and other affiliated organizations in to the Kochmans New Hampshire for outstanding leadership and voluntary service to the community. David and Sandy Kochman are long standing members of Congregation Ahavas Achim. David is cur- rently serving as both Treasurer and Immediate Past President on our Board and Sandy is the Co-editor of the Bulletin. David was raised in South Windsor, Connecticut. His parents were Holocaust sur- vivors from Germany. He graduated from the University of Connecticut with a BS in Accounting and received a MBA in Finance Congregation Ahavas Achim and the Jewish from Grand Valley State University. He Federation of New Hampshire will be honoring was a member of Temple Adath Yeshurun David and Sandy Kochman with a 2018 Shem in Manchester until he moved to Richmond, Tov (Good Name) Award at the Federation NH in 1987, and immediately joined CAA. In Annual Meeting on October 7th at 4:00 pm at Richmond, David was active as a Selectman, Temple Adath Yeshurun in Manchester. The Planning Board member and Youth Soccer and

8 Simchas for September/October Birthdays Alyse Bettinger...... September 1 Noel Spear...... October 17 Elizabeth Halper...... September 3 Sarah Vogel...... October 17 Ava Davidovits...... September 7 Chelsea Weinrieb...... October 18 Sharon Johnson...... September 7 Pam Weinrieb...... October 20 Deborah Kaufman...... September 13 Nancy Stone...... October 23 Amy Loewenthal...... September 13 Julia Brush...... October 25 Dale Rosenberg...... September 16 Alex Levin...... October 25 Ian Aldrich...... September 19 Doran Rosenberg...... October 25 Dawn Pieper...... September 19 Ryan Platt...... October 28 Andrea Levin...... September 23 Daniel Fox...... October 30 Joseph Beam...... September 24 Judy Rubin...... October 30 Jay Kahn...... September 24 Anniversaries Elyse Komitzsky...... September 27 Rabbi Amy Loewenthal & ...... September 1 Evelyne Perks...... October 2 Dale Rosenberg Michael New...... October 5 Gary & Jane Shapiro...... October 10 Kendra Lilian Rosenberg...... October 6 Christopher & ...... October 12 SarahWendy Berman...... October 9 Melanie McDonald Susan Cater...... October 10 Craig & Catherine Oskow...... October 19 Greg Blair...... October 13

Baseball Coach. He played for many years David has been either Synagogue President, in the Greater Keene Men’s Softball League. Past President or Treasurer since 2009. He He worked as an Assistant Vice President of also serves on the Board of Rise for Baby and Premium Audit at Liberty Mutual. Family, the Knights Chess Club, and the Cohen Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. He Sandy is originally from Hatfield, is a high school soccer referee and volunteers at Massachusetts. She was raised Catholic but the Cheshire County House of Corrections and converted to Judaism in 2006. Sandy gradu- the 100 Nights Shelter. ated from the University of Massachusetts with a Bachelor of General Studies Degree in Law, Sandy served on the CAA Board for three Society and Family Conflict and works as a years and has been Co-editor of the Synagogue Paralegal. Bulletin since 2009. Sandy is a member of 100+ Women Who Care and enjoys watercolor paint- David and Sandy currently live in Swanzey. ing. They have three adult daughters and two granddaughters between them.

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9 Cohen Center for Holocaust and Genocide Freedman is a professor of journalism at Columbia University and he writes this book Studies Presents: with a journalist’s eye and style. He makes his Holocaust Memorial Lecture points with individual stories of Jewish commu- nities and the strife they encountered: alumni with Debórah Dwork of a Jewish secular summer camp in New York Americans to the Rescue who feel threatened by religiously observant during the Nazi Years Jews; divisions over how to perform conver- Keene State College sions in Denver, Colorado; dissension in an independent minyan in California over gender Mabel Brown Room, Lloyd P. Young egalitarianism; a bombing of a Conservative Student Center synagogue in Florida stemming from the con- Wednesday, September 26, 2018, 7:00 PM gregation inviting then Israel Prime Minister, This year’s speaker is Shimon Peres, to speak. Freedman’s in-depth Debórah Dwork, an interviews with people on all sides of these American historian, controversies go way beyond the headlines and the Rose Professor of seriously consider what has changed and is Holocaust History and changing in American Jewry. Founding Director of The book is an easy read. Written in a breezy, the Strassler Center journalistic style, it nonetheless raises deep for Holocaust and questions about the status and the future of Genocide Studies at Clark American Jewry. We’ll talk about the issues and University. see if we agree with Freedman’s theories about Her talk, Americans to the Rescue during the how strong these rifts are and how they came Nazi Years, will introduce us to intrepid about. And we’ll watch excerpts from a lecture Americans who traveled to points around the Freedman gave recently on “Jew vs. Jew: 15 globe to offer relief and to rescue victims of years later.” Nazi Germany and its allies. She will discuss We’ll be discussing the book on Thursday, what these Americans accomplished and how October 25 at 7:00 p.m. Light refreshments will they managed these feats. be served. This lecture is free and open to the public. The CAA Library has several copies of the book (and can get more, if needed). Next time you’re What's New with the CAA Book Club in shul, take a copy and leave your name on the “Jew vs. Jew”: The Autumn Book Club Meeting sign out sheet. October 25th at 7:00 pm No, we’re not going to duke it out at CAA. We’ll be reading and discussing Samuel G. Freedman’s book: Jew vs Jew: the Struggle for the Soul of American Jewry. When this book came out 15 years ago, it was an instant bestseller. Its author proposes the idea that, in the latter part of the Twentieth Century, a once mostly united American Jewish Community devel- oped deep and lasting rifts making it hard to function as a community at all.

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Congregation Achim Ahavas yar i S h ho D e c S h o r 4:00 pm JFNH Annual Meeting Awards & Shem Tov Yeshurun, Adath Temple Manchester School 9:30 am Religious Memorial 3:00 pm NEC Lecture Keene Risa School 9:30 am Religious School 9:30 am Religious

12 SUNDAY Saturday Night at the Movies: How does our personal experience of anti-Sem- itism or other prejudice influence our responses the CAA Movie Club to current events? What is the effect of having X-Men the only obviously Jewish character be the vil- lain of the movie? We’ll talk about these and October 20 at 7:00 pm other issues after seeing the film. This fall, we’ll be watching a comic book movie that changed how moviegoers look at comic Saturday Night at the Movies is free to CAA books. In 2001’s X-Men, viewers saw things members. We ask that non-members contribute they’d never seen in superhero movies before. $5 per person to defray the cost of refreshments From the opening scene of Jewish prisoners and movie rental. being herded into Auschwitz, it was clear that this was not a movie about “Truth, Justice, and the American Way.” Highlights of August 8, 2018 X-Men – in both their Marvel comic book and CAA Board Meeting movie incarnations – are “mutants.” In the 2018 - 2019 Proposed Budget. CAA treasurer Marvel universe, that means they are a sub- David Kochman presented the 2018 - 2019 pro- group of humanity who are persecuted by posed budget for CAA. He projects that CAA the non-mutant population. Charles Xavier will break even, and he stated that the overall (Professor X) runs a school for mutant youth finances of the synagogue are good. Funding as well as a paramilitary organization he calls allotments for Torah scroll repair and adult the X-Men. In the deft hands of director Bryan education have been increased. The proposed Singer (of “The Usual Suspects”), this outland- budget was passed unanimously. ish concept is made to feel very real. Opportunities for Community Members in The main conflict in X-Men is between Eric their 20s - 30s. There are opportunities for Lehnsherr (aka Magneto) and Professor X. young Jewish adults in their 20s - 30s to more Lehnsherr, a Holocaust survivor, sees what’s deeply engage with Judaism by going to Israel happening to mutants as history repeating for five months. There is also financial assis- itself. He calls for resistance and war on the tance available for people in that age range to non-mutant population before the mutants are attend the Reconstructing Judaism Convention destroyed. The Professor, born to wealth and in November. People who are interested in privilege, thinks that non-mutant society can either of these opportunities should contact come to accept that there’s a population among Ronnie Brown. them who are different. Friends in their youth, Magneto and Professor X become sworn ene- mies as their divergent views of the mutant issue lead them to very different paths in life. X-Men has an all-star cast, including Ian McKellen as Magneto, Patrick Stewart as Professor Xavier, Hugh Jackman as Logan/ Wolverine, Halle Berry as Ororo/Storm, and Anna Paquin as Rogue. We’ll start with popcorn and other refresh- ments, have brief framing comments and then see the film. We’ll follow with a discussion, focusing on the Jewish aspects and analogues. To what extent can the mutants represent minorities in contemporary America, includ- ing Jews? Are Magneto’s and Professor X’s responses to oppression the only options?

13 Yahrzeits for September/October Cycle of Life Date Yahrzeit Jewish Friday before Our condolences to: Observed Date Yahrzeit Rabbi Loewenthal and Dale 8/31 Helene Popover Kaufman 20 Elul 8/31 Rosenberg on the death of the rabbi's mother, Ellen Louise Platt 9/2 Dorothy Kapiloff 22 Elul 8/31 Loewenthal on July 28th. 9/4 Steven Cohen 24 Elul 8/31 Deborah and Jerry Kaufman, and 9/4 David Green 24 Elul 8/31 the Lloyd and Kaufman fami- lies. Nancy Lloyd of Sebastopol, 9/11 Nathan Bieber 2 Tishrei 9/7 California passed away unexpect- 9/12 Roselyn Reisig 3 Tishrei 9/7 edly in August. Nancy is the sis- ter of Deborah Kaufman. 9/13 Charlotte Kapiloff 4 Tishrei 9/7 Mazel Tov to: 9/18 Abraham Komitzsky 9 Tishrei 9/14 Colin Kremer and Rachel Prunier 9/19 Siegfried Garbuny 10 Tishrei 9/14 on the birth of their daughter, 9/19 Robert Leinau 10 Tishrei 9/14 Aerin Tamar Kremer Prunier, on April 29, 2018. Aerin is the 9/23 Samuel Wolf Tenofsky 14 Tishrei 9/21 granddaughter of Vivian and Tom 9/25 Nathan E. Cohen 16 Tishrei 9/21 Prunier. 9/27 Karl Kochman 18 Tishrei 9/21 Jan and Rick Cohen joyfully announce the marriage of their 9/28 Rose Malin 19 Tishrei 9/28 daughter, Jill, to Robert Reichner. 9/29 Harris Shapiro 20 Tishrei 9/28 The couple married on July 7, 2018, in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, 10/3 Philip Fox 24 Tishrei 9/28 and will live in Seattle. 10/6 Edith Moses 27 Tishrei 10/5 Rick and Jan Cohen on the birth 10/7 Jerome Bieber 28 Tishrei 10/5 of their grandson Isaac Martin Kanter on May 29, 2018. Isaac is 10/8 Hart Rosenberg 29 Tishrei 10/5 the son of Rachel Cohen Kanter 10/9 Milton Rosell 30 Tishrei 10/5 and Dan Kanter, and great-grand- son of Lester and Norma Cohen 10/11 Elise Garbuny 2 Cheshvan 10/5 Mitch and Riki Greenwald on 10/19 Fay Schuman 10 Cheshvan 10/19 the birth of their granddaugh- 10/21 Harry Cooper 12 Cheshvan 10/19 ter, Hazel Rose Bilotta, who was born on June 3, 2018. Hazel is the 10/23 Carol Tendler 14 Cheshvan 10/19 daughter of Jeff and Jill Bilotta. 10/26 Kelila Schuman 17 Heshvan 10/26 Melanie and Christopher 10/28 Sidelle Dreier 19 Heshvan 10/26 McDonald on the birth of their daughter Josephine Brianne 10/28 Jack Moses 19 Heshvan 10/26 McDonald on July 6, 2018. 10/29 Morris Nirenberg 20 Heshvan 10/26 Donations Yahrzeits are listed according to the Hebrew date, so the English date will vary from year to year. Kaddish may be recited on the Shabbat General Fund nearest the date of remembrance. Please notify the synagogue office Diane Shamas – in honor of at 352-6747 if you find an error, or would like to have the name of a Randy Carmel’s birthday loved one included in the future.

14 Lois London – in honor of the John & Elizabeth Halper - in memory of birth of Isaac Martin Kanter, Maurice Halper and Sylvia Halper son of Rachel and Dan Kanter Ronnie Brown & Dan Fox Lois London – in honor of the Catherine & Craig Oskow marriage of Jill Cohen and David St. Lifer Robert Reichner Ellen Ostreicher & David Winn - in memory of Sarah Vogel – in memory of Rabbi Loewenthal’s Sybil Dorner, Richard Dorner and Adam Winn mother, Ellen Louise Platt Riki & Mitch Greenwald - in memory of Rita David Butler & Deb Verdery for High Holiday Miller flowers – in memory of Jerry Weinrieb Barbara Green David Roberts & Sue Fischlowitz – in memory Paul & Marion Shapiro of Ellen Louise Platt Lowenthal Laura Broad Debbie Zlotowitz & Rick Greenberg - in memo- ry of Rabbi Loewenthal's mother Pam & Rose Weinrieb Torah Repair Fund David & Rebecca Sayles Ronnie Brown & Dan Fox - in memory of Ellen Rabbi's Discretionary Fund Louise Platt Loewenthal Riki & Mitch Greenwald - in honor of the birth David & Sandy Kochman - in memory of Ellen of their new granddaughter Hazel Rose Bilotta Louise Platt Loewenthal Nathan E. Cohen Memorial Lecture Series Temple Israel, Athol, MA - in memory of Ellen Michael & Patti Schuman – a donation for the Louise Platt Loewenthal High Holidays Roberta & Abe Visser - in memory of Ellen Louise Platt Loewenthal Yizkor Book Fund David & Sandy Kochman David Butler and Deb Verdery - for High Ahavas Achim Office Hours Holiday flowers - in memory of Jerry Weinrieb Tuesday-Friday Robert Gewanter 9:30 am - 2:30 pm David Butler - in memory of the family mem- Contact: 603.352.6747 or bers he has lost [email protected]. Appointments with the Rabbi can be sched- uled by emailing rabbi.ahavas.achim@ Celebrate a Simchah by Purchasing a Leaf on gmail.com Our TREE OF LIFE • Bar and Bat Mitzvahs • Births • Graduations • Anniversaries keenecourtyard.com thelanehotel.com holidayinnexpress.com/keenenh • Special Birthdays • Honors • Best Wishes and Congratulations MAZEL TOV Please contact Daniella at secretary.ahavas. [email protected] or call the synagogue lodging . wedding receptions . Bat/Bar Mitzvahs office at 603-352-6747. $270 per leaf. Contact Michelle Clark : (603) 354-7900 x4924

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