President's Letter: High Holidays Will Bring Bittersweet Feelings Dor

THE VOICE OF CONGREGATION DOR HADASH An Affiliate of the Jewish Reconstructionist Federation

Volume 53 Number 4 September-October 2019 // Elul 5779 -- Cheshvan 5780

President’s Letter: High Holidays Will Bring Bittersweet Feelings ------Donna Coufal ------

As summer comes to a close, I begin to think of the coming months, the High Holidays and the year to come, with three parts hope and one part trepidation.

I look forward to hearing the beautiful voice of our new friend, Cantor Julie Newman, and the fresh ideas and spiritual guidance of Rabbis Ezra and Shelley and our own wise leaders in the weeks to come. But I am also aware that we are being asked to face losses we have not Dor Hadash Welcomes Rabbi Shelley Goldman as faced before, and when I think of these moments, as for- Interim Spiritual and Organizational Consultant tunate as I feel to be able to give and receive comfort in ------our beloved community, I am also faced with inevitable Sarah Angrist dread. ------

We will attend an unveiling. We will welcome the new year Who is Rabbi Goldman and how did she become our interim consultant? After in a less familiar place with less familiar voices. We will three candidates visited Dor Hadash this summer, Rabbi Shelley Goldman was approach the secular anniversary of our most difficult day the overwhelming choice of most members who attended her events the week- with thoughtfulness and prayer. end of July 12-14, 2019. Funds from the U.S. Department of Justice may help

defray the costs of this appointment since 50% of the position is described as a We have been so busy the past several months. Hiring, congregation consultant following the October 27, 2018 tragedy. The purpose of planning, sometimes scrambling to put things into place. this appointment is to help our congregation develop long term goals and ac- So many in our community have stepped up in so many tions so that we can thrive and get past the changes that have challenged us ways to make our services and celebrations more beauti- this past year. ful and special than ever. Each of us keeping busy, being pulled to make our community and our topsy-turvy world During her visit, Rabbi Goldman shared a potluck dinner with the Search Com- as right as we can. mittee chaired by Nancy Levine, on Friday evening. She then attended the Erev

Shabbat service, co-led the Shabbat morning service with Anne-Marie Nelson, But the coming weeks will be bittersweet. The tekiah attended a Kiddush lunch with congregants, met with Ritual and Executive gedolah, the long shofar call. Remembering the good- Committee members Saturday afternoon, and attended a Saturday evening natured smile of once again, almost, but not quite, holding dinner with several members hosted by Judy Grumet. The grand finale of her the call as long as his dear friend. The memories each of visit was a Torah study session about the two versions of Creation in the Book us treasures but sometimes find intolerable. of Genesis.

As summer ends, I am grateful for the moments to slow The richly programmed weekend showed Rabbi Goldman’s skills as a leader, down and reflect, for the time to explore new ways to teacher, problem-solver and spiritual guide. Her ratings and member comments come together in prayer and song. Havdalah under the on the post-visit survey were outstanding for qualities in Leading Services, Edu- stars in our beautiful Frick Park. The comfort of things that cational Program, Interpersonal Style, and Leadership. stay the same in the face of so many changes.

A surprise feature of the visit was the introduction of Rabbi Goldman’s family But I am also grateful, for now, that summer is not quite members who attended the Shabbat lunch – one-month old baby Micah, teen- over. A few more luxurious swims, walks with friends, and ager Mya, and Kieran, to whom the Rabbi is married. warm evenings with that extra few hours of light. I don’t mind pulling those last weeds, enjoying the small but deli- Rabbi Shelley, as some people call her, was ordained by the Reconstructionist cious yield from my garden. Just not quite ready to be Rabbinical College in 2016, and served as Assistant Rabbi at Congregation called inside. Beth-El Zedek in Indianapolis for the past three years. Before studying for the

rabbinate, she had extensive community organizing experience including work B’shalom, with teens, college students and adults. While in rabbinical school, Rabbi Shel- Donna ley trained in pastoral education and chanting.

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Welcome Cantor Julie Newman (“Rabbi Shelley” continued from Page 1)

------Her work experience includes chaplaincy, interfaith programs, camp Nancy Levine counseling, and religious school teaching. She has received awards for ------promoting spiritual well-being and tikkun olam

When our Lay-Cantor of 34 years, Rabbi Cheryl Klein stepped Starting in mid-October, Rabbi Shelley will begin monthly visits through down, she left some big shoes to fill. In the fall of 2018, the Dor June 2020, typically from Thursday to Monday. She will be meeting with Hadash Board appointed a Cantor Search Committee to accom- congregants, leading services Erev Shabbat and Shabbat morning, and plish the difficult task of finding Rabbi Cheryl’s successor. The working with Board and committee members to assess needs and con- Committee set out to find someone to inspire us with Jewish mel- sider implementing actions to help the congregation thrive. The Board odies and prayers as Cheryl had done for all those years. Lucky will set up a small group of key members to serve as liaison and close for us, we did not have to search long. One person stood out contact with the rabbi. amongst our applicants-Cantor Julie Newman. Watch for email notices of upcoming activities and events. Julie Newman’s voice was already known and loved by many in Dor Hadash and in our Pittsburgh Jewish community. Her first career was in September Events to Honor business and marketing, until she dis- covered her passion for Jewish liturgi- Jerry Rabinowitz cal music. Since that time, she has been singing in our community. She ------has been invited to chant at many local Miri Rabinowitz synagogues, including at Dor Hadash. ------She served as Music Director at Tem- To my Dear Congregation Dor Hadash, ple Ohav Shalom. I wish to express my sincere thankfulness for your prayers, many acts She was ordained at Hebrew College of love, heartfelt expressions of support and overwhelming kindness School of Jewish Music, Boston MA in during these 10 months of sorrow. 2017, though she had already graced our community with her voice for many years before her ordina- Please join my family for two events to honor the memory of our tion. In addition to cantorial ordination, she earned a masters beloved Jerry. degree in Jewish education at Hebrew College. For many of us, a degree is the beginning of our career, for Julie, it was the finish- Saturday, Sept 21, 2019 at 7:30 pm Rodef Shalom ing touch on skills she had been perfecting for years.  Havdalah Service Her music is deeply spiritual. She is the founder of Tiferet. Tiferet’s mission is “to strengthen the inner lives of Jews and  Talk by Dr. Rick Hodes (see below) seekers, promoting balance and growth, through Jewish spiritual practices.” She is one of the spiritual leaders of Chavurat Shirah.  Oneg Chavurat Shirah offers musical, contemplative worship services  Selichot Service every month in the Pittsburgh area.

To be sure, Rabbi Cheryl Klein, can’t be replaced, nor can any- Sunday, Sept 22, 2019 at 11:00 am one fill her shoes. Instead, Dor Hadash looks forward to a “New Homewood Cemetery – Dor Hadash section Generation”. We anticipate building on the strong foundation of Unveiling of Jerry’s Headstone our sacred vision with Cantor Julie. We look to grow and learn in new ways. We look to join our traditions with Julie’s traditions and  Lunch (details to follow) feel inspired, energized and renewed. We look to fall in love with Jewish music all over again. For planning, it would be helpful if you would let Jean know if you plan to attend one or both of these events. Welcome Cantor Julie Newman! Please email: Jean at [email protected] As Chair of The Cantor Search Committee, I would like to thank the hard work of the members of the committee, Sarah Angrist, With Love & Gratitude Ann Begler, Arnold Freeman, Laurie Heller-Tarr, Lisa Levinson Miri Rabinowitz and Esther Teverosky.

October 27 Memorial Website

A Website has been set up to inform you of plans for the one year commemoration honoring the lives lost on October 27 2018:

https://pittsburghoct27.org/

Kol September—October 2019 Page 3 Looking forward to a New School Year Dr. Rick Hodes Honors ------Jerry Rabinowitz Karen Morris, Religious School Principal ------Happy end of summer. I have just returned from a special trip to Israel where my family joined together. My son participated in the Onward Israel Federation Internship in Tel Aviv, our youngest daughter spent a month traveling with Young Judaea, and our oldest daughter who just graduated from University of Maryland spent a week with us as well! This was a unique bonding time for my family, an opportunity for my husband to reunite with Israel after 30 years, and a time to connect with friends, relatives, and also explore some new places in Israel.

I hope to have the opportunity to share stories and experiences from my trip with you during the ------school year. One of the many Mary Korytkowski meaningful parts of the trip was ------our visit to the promenade in Givat In April 2012, members of the Dor Hadash Social Action Com- Ram, Karmiel. This is the location mittee hosted a potluck dinner and fundraising event to support of the memorial for the October the work of Dr. Richard Hodes, a physician who has been 27th victims. It overlooks beautiful working with a greatly underserved population in Ethiopia for mountains, and is in a quiet neigh- over 30 years through the Jewish Joint Distribution Committee borhood. It is a peaceful and lovely (JDC). This event followed a presentation at a Friday evening place. It also felt somewhat surreal DH service earlier that year by a young Ethiopian man, Addisu, to stand at this place and read the names of members of our congrega- whose life was transformed by his meeting with Dr. Hodes tions. I can not imagine that any of them would have even imagined that many years earlier. Addisu related the story of his brother’s such a place would exist. I’m so grateful to our Karmiel friends who care inability to receive medical attention for a life threatening heart so deeply and feel connected to our Pittsburgh community. defect before he encountered Dr. Hodes in Addis Ababa. This

story created great interest in the Dor Hadash Community, with I am looking forward to this year as several members traveling to Ethiopia to meet with Dr. Hodes principal of Dor Hadash Religious and learn directly of the care he provides to patients with no School. Jewish education is my other access to health care. passion, and I feel enriched daily when working with children and community member influenced by the work of Dr. Hodes who other educators. I’m currently work- lent support to his work through the JDC in Ethiopia. Similar to ing on putting together our teaching the selflessness demonstrated by Dr. Hodes, Dr. Rabinowitz staff, and aides for the school year. was a caring, dedicated and compassionate physician and I encourage all school families to person who was loved and respected by his patients, family complete registration. Please reach and friends. While we grieve his loss, we also celebrate and out to friends who may be interest- honor the work that he did in the Pittsburgh community. ed in joining our school and DH community. From what I have seen so At the invitation of Miri Rabinovitz, Dr. Richard Hodes will be far, the small nature of our school creates a special family atmosphere. one of the people who will honor Dr. Rabinowitz by attending Our “formal” learning takes places once a week on Wednesday after- and speaking at his Havdalah Service on September 21, noons from 4:30 - 6:30 PM. Students have enrichment, preparation and 2019. Hebrew practice that they do with their families during the week. Our learning community has many opportunities for learning outside of our Dr Hodes was instrumental in ensuring the safe immigration of Wednesday sessions, and participation in Shabbat services as well. Jewish people to Israel during Operation Solomon in 1991, the historic airlift of over 14,000 Ethiopians to Israel in 48 I look forward to updating you in the hours. As a result of his work with people suffering from heart coming months about our teachers, stu- disease, diseases of the spine, and cancer, he was celebrated dents, and classes. I want to thank all of as a CNN Hero in 2007 following a nomination by one of his the board members I have been in touch adopted Ethiopian sons. Dr. Hodes was honored as ABC’s with so far who are helping me learn the Person of the Week in 2010. His work is the subject the book ways of Dor Hadash. Everyone has “This is a Soul: The Mission of Rick Hodes” by Marilyn Berger, been so welcoming. It is exciting to join and two documentaries “Making the Crooked Straight” and such an active and engaged community. “Zemene” which won multiple awards at film festivals through- During the year, I hope to connect our out the United States. school to the many different activities (Continued on Next Page ) taking place within the larger congregation of Dor Hadash.

Please feel free to be in touch with me anytime via email to learn more about our school. [email protected]

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Dor Hadash Celebrates Bat Mitzvah of Nisha Mankoff-Dey The willingness of Dr. Hodes to travel from Addis Ababa for ------this service is a tribute to the life of Dr. Jerry Rabinowitz Ruth Drescher and another expression of healing to the Dor Hadash com------munity following the events of October 27, 2018. Anyone with an interest in supporting his work in Ethiopia can do so Saturday, August 10, 2019 was a memorable day for Dor Hadash, and it by going to the following link: https://rickhodes.org/ and was memorable for a very beautiful occasion: Elena Nisha Armida Mankoff- clicking on the Donate Now button on the upper left hand Dey read from the Torah in celebration of becoming a Bat Mitzvah. Every side of the website. Once you get to the donation page, Bar and Bat Mitzvah is memorable not only for the young people who are there is a check box where you can indicate whether you making this passage, but for their community and for the Jewish people as are making a donation in honor of Jerry Rabinowitz. a whole If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Mary Here's the story: Elena Nisha Armi- Korytkowski at [email protected]. da Mankoff-Dey and her family had been members of Dor Hadash for two years, and Nisha was enrolled and studying in our Religious Rabbi Doris Dyen School. Then two years ago the Nominated for Award family moved to Seattle. About a year ago, Nisha’s mother contacted Our own Rabbi Doris Dyen has been nominated for the Hal and said that Nisha wanted to Federation’s Sonia And Aaron Levinson Community Rela- have a Bat Mitzvah, that she want- tions Award. Below is a description of the award: ed to study with him, and that the family wanted to hold it at Dor “The objectives of this Award are to give community recog- Hadash. With the approval of the (Left to right) Anind Dey, Jennifer Mankoff, nition to the importance of Jewish women and men carrying Nisha Mankoff-Dey, Luis Hernandez, Kavi out a significant citizenship role in harmony with the Jewish Ritual Committee, Hal and Nisha Dey, and Santosh Dey began working together via Skype ideals of social justice and concern for our fellow man, to eight months ago, learning the Torah portion and the Shabbat morning recognize those who have demonstrated leadership ability prayers, as well as covering much of the 7th-grade Religious School curric- in promoting improved inter-group relations and the elimi- ulum. Twenty-five of Nisha’s family and friends came to witness Nisha's big nation of prejudice and bigotry in our society, and to recog- day, and they came from near and far to be there for her. nize active participation in the advancement of the goals and objectives of the Community Relations Council of the Nisha excitedly chose to do an alternative Haftarah. She is an accom- Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh.” plished violist and between chanting the haftarah blessings, she played the second movement of Ernest Bloch’s "Suite Hebraica,” accompanied on the We wish Doris all the best in being in the running for this piano by her music teacher before she moved. The music was very much in prestigious award! the tone and spirit of the portion’s haftarah. This was the first musical

‘alternative haftarah’ we have had at Dor Hadash.

Nisha said: “"It was so good to come back home to Dor Hadash to have my Bat Mitzvah and the celebration with people I really care about. I want to thank everyone at Dor Hadash and my family for being so supportive, with special thanks to Hal for mentoring me over Skype these past two years”

From all of Dor Hadash, we wish you, Nisha, the best in your exploration of Judaism, and we extend our heartfelt congratulations

Sam T. threw the opening pitch to Hal Grinberg to represent Dor Hadash at Jewish Heritage Night at PNC Park

On August 24, approximately 100 bikers gathered from across the US and Canada, to eagerly provide support and comfort to the Pittsburgh chapter of the Jewish Motorcycle Association, aka “The Mazel Tuffs”, and our community. While prior years rides have raised money for local holocaust centers, this ride was deemed the “Ride of Reflection” and was designed to draw attention the reality of antisemitism in the US and abroad today. Proceeds were split between the three congregations affected by Oct 27 and the first responders .

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The thought of taking a couple of mementos never crossed Mr. Lansky's The following article was originally published in The Wall mind. Perhaps because of what he had been doing the previous 10 years, Street Journal in March 1992. he had other ideas about the fate of at least one of those Linotypes.

In 1979, Mr. Lansky took a leave of absence from graduate studies in The Last Yiddish Linotype in America Yiddish literature at McGill University to try to save a fraction of the Yid- dish books that were being destroyed each year as their owners died or By Stanley W. Angrist, moved to nursing homes. Holyoke, Mass. -- In English the headline on this story reads "The Last In order to do that he created the National Yiddish Book Center in Am- Yiddish Linotype in America." The type to produce it was set on ma- herst, Mass., near where he had attended college. A panel of experts he chine No. 23,211, built in 1918. (See the Yiddish headline -- WSJ March assembled, all knowledgeable in Yiddish literature, estimated that there 5, 1992). were, perhaps, 70,000 volumes extant in North America. Mr. Lansky col- lected that number in the first eight months, and now, 12 years later, has The story of this ancient Linotype tells a lot, in miniature, about the Yid- saved well over a million volumes. And more books arrive every day at dish language and its remarkable survival. the center's warehouse here. Yiddish was the "mameh loshen," or mother tongue, to millions of Jews So Mr. Lansky knew how to get to New York, Montreal or even Atlantic in Eastern Europe for centuries. It is a fusion of German, Hebrew and City, N.J., in a hurry when someone would call him with a tip on a load of Slavic languages written in Hebrew characters. Like Hebrew, Yiddish books about to be thrown out. But rescuing an intact Linotype clearly reads from right to left. Until recently the Yiddish language was thought presented a greater challenge. "There was never any doubt in my mind by many to be in the process of disappearing. that we should save an entire machine," he explains. His reason was sim- ple: "What better way than the jangling and clanging of a vintage Yiddish Machine No. 23,211 was in continuous service from the year it was built machine to make Jewish immigrant history come alive?" He pauses and in Brooklyn until 1991 at the Forverts, the Jewish Daily Forward, at one adds, "The Jewish world has too many static exhibits." time the largest Yiddish newspaper in the world with a circulation during World War I of about 200,000. Machine No. 23,211, along with eight But as he stood in the basement on East 33rd Street surveying these once other machines, was used to set the type for the Forward in the paper's firebreathing monsters (well, almost firebreathing, considering the pot of building on East Broadway in Manhattan, and then on East 33rd Street molten lead) it was not immediately apparent how he could move one to when the paper moved uptown in 1974. western Massachusetts. Maybe it was luck (or divine intervention), but Mr. Lansky soon had the assistance of the man known as the best hotmetal Today, the machine has found a new home in this New England town, machinist in New York City. In three days Paul Nash broke down the which until recently wasn't known as a center for Yiddish. Improbably, Linotype into about 1,000 pieces while Mr. Lansky and Mr. Zagorin here it sits on the fourth floor of a rehabilitated warehouse in a decaying trucked them to Holyoke each night. neighborhood -- still spitting out lines of Yiddish type every day, just as While Mr. Nash was taking apart No. 23,211 the other eight machines thousands of Linotypes used to do all over the world in dozens and doz- were being destroyed. "If you wrote a novel you could not describe the ens of languages. death of a culture any better than those three guys with stocking caps on Until Ottmar Mergenthaler began manufacturing Linotype machines in their heads and crowbars and sledgehammers in their hands," explains Mr. 1884, the type used to print anything was set by hand, letter by letter, just Lansky. He says not only was it sad but it also was "scary, with shards of as Gutenberg had done 500 years before. Mergenthaler's new machine metal flying everywhere." probably was a bigger step in printing technology than the recent applica- After the parts for No. 23,211 were spread on the warehouse floor here, tion of computers to printing. His invention allowed an operator at the "like dinosaur bones," reports Mr. Lansky, it dawned on him that Mr. keyboard of a 3,000-pound clattering mass of pulleys, gears, power trans- Nash had neither numbered them nor did he have an assembly drawing for mission belts, cams and, to top it all off, a pot of molten lead, to set type- the machine. But when the machinist arrived he explained to Mr. Lansky one solid line at a time, typing as fast as possible. that since he knew what the machine was supposed to do it was just a Publishers, especially those who needed lots of words set into type in a question of putting it together to make it do it. It took him only three days hurry, such as those who printed newspapers, found in the Linotype an to bring No. 23,211 to life again. answer to their dreams: A single operator sitting in front of Mergenthal- The machine sits amid shelf after shelf of Yiddish books, about 750,000 at er's machine became equivalent, in terms of output, to a whole room of any one time, going through the process of being cataloged by the center. skilled compositors setting type by hand. Most of these books eventually will find their way to the major universi- ties of the world, where more than 50 substantial programs in the Yiddish Of course, technology doesn't stop. The nine Yiddish Linotypes; a ma- language are now offered as young people seek to learn about their roots. chine for setting headlines; a blast furnace; trim saws; six weighty cabi- nets of lead, brass and wood hand type; and tons of other equipment have Mr. Lansky says the machine couldn't be located in a more propitious all been replaced at the Forward by a single Macintosh computer. spot. He points out that since the Forward in its day was the primary pub- lisher, mostly in serial form, of the leading Yiddish writers, "without a That No. 23,211 has not been melted down as scrap, the fate of its eight doubt many of those writers had their work set in type on this very ma- sisters, is due to the unflagging determination of Aaron Lansky, president chine. That means the machine is surrounded by its progeny." of the National Yiddish Book Center, and his colleague Neil Zagorin. The greatest satisfaction that the Linotype has evoked is from older visi- In January 1991, Mr. Lansky received a call from Harold Ostroff, the tors, many of whom are Holocaust survivors. "They see the machine and Forward's general manager, telling him that the paper needed the room in the hundreds of thousands of Yiddish books and they don't believe it. the basement where the Linotypes had been operating because the Eng- They thought Hitler had destroyed this world," says Mr. Lansky, adding lish-language version of the paper was growing. Because the machines that many of these visitors break into tears. are huge, they originally had been brought into the basement through a According to Mr. Lansky, the Linotype represents hopefulness -- it shows hole knocked into the floor of the building. Mr. Ostroff, knowing what a that things can come back to life. "It's a typographical "golem" {an autom- job it was to get the machines into the building, assumed that Mr. Lansky aton frequently depicted in Yiddish literature}. It can change the way Jews would be content with removing a keyboard and perhaps a nameplate think about their history." from one of the Linotypes.

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Dor Hadash Reb Ezra Weinberg Returns to Dor Welcomes Refugees Hadash to Lead High Holiday Services Sunday, Sept 15, 3-4:30 Cohen Chapel, Rodef Shalom Many Dor Hadashers met Reb Ezra this past summer. He His volunteer efforts Include his will be back for Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur to conduct service, since 2007, as a Board services and help usher in the Jewish year of 5780. member of the Habonim Dror Foun- The Dor Hadash Social Action Com- dation in New York that hosts chil- mittee invites members to learn about dren in summer camps centered on the experiences of refugees who are programs about Israel. He was ac- living in Pittsburgh and the local efforts tive with the Hazon Environmental to assist them. We will be hearing Bike Ride in Israel and New York from Leslie Aizenman, Director, Refu- for 11 years and served as the Co- gee and Immigrant Services, Jewish Chair for the 2011 ride. Family and Community Services, Ben- edict Killang, Program Manager, Immi- Reb Ezra’s time with the Dor grants and Internationals Advisory Initi- Hadash community will not be his ative at Allegheny County Department first service for the High Holidays. of Human Services, who leads county He was the Shaliach Tzibur for High efforts to integrate immigrants and Holidays at Congregation Kol refugees, and Celestin Mpagaze, a Tzedek in Philadelphia from 2006- refugee from the Congo, a growing 2018, and was a planner and leader Pittsburgh community. for both Shabbat and High Holiday

What are the experiences of services at Congregation Mishkan refugees arriving in Pittsburgh? Ha’am in Hastings, NY.

How are JFCS and Allegheny County The cross-generational aspects of DHS helping refugees integrate into Reb Ezra ’s work, his ability to find our community? unity among differences, his life- Reb Ezra received rabbinical ordination from the Recon- How can Dor Hadash members help? long integration of song and music, structionist Rabbinical College in 2009. His earlier education and his knowledge of Reconstruc- What are recent changes in US policy includes a Master of Arts in 2003 in Intercultural Manage- tionist teachings and rituals will en- that affect the lives of refugees and ment and Conflict Transformation from the School for Inter- rich Dor Hadash and help us bring how can we best advocate for policies national Training located in Brattleboro, Vermont. That de- in the New Year. that reflect our values and traditions? gree built on his undergraduate education at Hampshire Please join us for this important meet- College where he received a Bachelor of Arts in Peace and ing. Conflict Studies in1999. A significant thread in Rabbi Wein- berg’s life has been a focus on intergenerational program- Cemetery Plots

ming, peacemaking and intercultural peace-building. He has

integrated davening as a central spiritual component of Dor Hadash has acquired an area Social Action Committee these efforts. of 66 plots in Homewood Cemetery, Seeks Donations for Texas in addition to the original 140 which HIAS Chapter Throughout his career, Reb Ezra has been involved in were purchased by individual con- many aspects of Jewish life. For more than a decade his gregants. The new section of plots main focus has been on work both as the Davening Coordi- The Social Action Committee will is a short walk from the original site. nator and the Retreat Ritual Coordinator for the Isabella be seeking donations during the High We purchased the new plots at the Freedman Jewish Retreat Center in Falls Village, Connecti- Holidays for a partner of HIAS in El rate of $1880.00 each. That price cut. Paso Texas. The organization, Las will be the same for congregants. I

Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center, am available to answer questions Youth education has been a fundamental part of Reb Ezra’s provides legal assistance to immigrant you may have concerning this. It is professional life, and music has been integral to much of his crime victims, those with deportation a delicate issue, but more easily work. He plays guitar and ukulele, incorporating music into orders, asylum seekers and also gen- handled before the time of need. his work with children at the Washington Heights eral immigration legal assistance. HI- YM&YWHA. He has been affiliated with the Eden Village AS funds two members of their legal Pam Weiss Camp in Putnam Valley, NY where he implemented Shab- team and reports that they are support- [email protected] bat and other Jewish programming for 300 campers. At ing the survivors of the Walmart shoot- 412-363-4137 (evenings at home) Congregation B’nai Jeshurun in NYC, he was advisor to the ing with immigration legal services. 20s and 30s group, and also served as a teacher. He has Look for email information about how been a long-standing part-time faculty member at Fairleigh to contribute soon. This will be a Dickinson University, teaching courses such as “One God: meaningful way during the High Holi- Three Paths”, and “Person, Gender and Sexuality in the days that we can respond to a commu- Three Traditions.” nity experiencing a tragedy we know so well, and support a HIAS partner in life saving work with vulnerable people at the Texas border. Look for upcoming details for how to contribute.

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The Dor Hadash Family Says Thank You! The Dor Hadashers joyously gathered at the Frick Environmental Center on September 7 to show our profound appreciation of Hal Grinberg's many contributions to our congregation. Hal is retiring from some (though certainly not all!) of the positions he has held at Dor Hadash. While he is now officially retired as the Religious School principal, Hal will still be our Adult Hebrew mentor and leader of the Book Group. The retirement party was beautiful, loving and full of speeches and gifts of appreciation. A deep sense of gratitude for Hal's caring and soothing manner in all regards permeated the wonderful setting. Lots of great food for this potluck and some funny stories were shared by a very large group in attendance. The evening concluded with an outdoor Havdallah service which merely was the icing on an evening full of cake!

Note from the Committee Chair On Saturday, September 7th, congregants of Dor Hadash came together at the Frick Na- ture Center to celebrate Hal Grinberg, not only on his retirement as principal of our Hebrew school, but in recognition of his ongoing contributions to the vitality and richness of our congregational life. We drank, ate, heard speeches, and capped the evening with Havdalah service under a beautiful evening sky. During the event, I was recognized and thanked for my role as chair of the organizing committee. As we all know, such successful events result from the work of many hands and hearts and I feel it amiss not to identify members of the committee. This was an awesome group to work with. We met twice; then each member took ownership of independently ac- complishing tasks. The evening came together without a hitch. Members of the committee are: Dana Acker- man, Debra Bogen, Ann Davis, Lou Fineberg, Kimberly Latta, Donna Lenkner, Tina Lon- don, and Janey Zeilinger. Thank you, all! Additionally, thanks to Jim Lenkner and Jean Hartz who handled sending invitations, revisions to the invitation, tracking rsvp’s, respond- ing to my numerous requests for updated information and send to congregational e-mails on short notice. They had my back. Thanks also to Jim Silver who fielded too numerous requests for budgetary information. Thank you, Mark Rubenstein, for being Master of Ceremony, for maintaining an ever- changing list of speakers and for keeping the evening’s events on track. Last, but not least, a big thank you to everyone who pitched in to help with set-up and clean-up. Magically, the classrooms were converted into an organized social hall where we celebrated the evening. L’Shalom, Jean Clickner

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Announcements Membership Renewal

Bar Mitzvah of Norman Ruder Dear Congregants, We invite you to renew your commitment to Congregation Dor Hadash Jeff Ruder and Erin Pierce invite everyone in the congregation to by submitting your dues. In the near future, you will receive an email, the Bar Mitzvah of their son, Norman Ruder, on September 21 at with a link, to update your volunteer and personal information online. 9:30 am. An oneg will follow the service The Congregation has voted to retain the annual membership contribu-

tion at $500 per adult, and the Religious School tuition at $675 per stu- dent (There are additional charges the Bnai Mitzvah year). This is ADULT EDUCATION PROGRAM: made possible, in part, by generous donations that members have Funerals & Shiva made to the “Chai Fund”. If you are able to stretch beyond the basic dues, please do so. If you cannot afford membership dues please talk to us! The Dor Hadash Adult Education Committee in collaboration with the Hesed and Ritual Committees are encouraging members to This year, we are enriching our services with the hiring of Julie New- attend two programs about the practices surrounding death, buri- man, Rabbi Shelley Goldman and Karen Morris. This is a year of al, and mourning in Jewish tradition. These sessions address the change and experimentation. We have hired these three interim lead- pressing need to expand the number of Dor Hadash members ers—a cantor, a consulting rabbi and a principal, who will help us iden- capable of leading services at the homes of those in mourning, tify what leadership styles and programming best suit our congregation and to recruit members willing to learn how to conduct a funeral. and help us move our vibrant congregation forward in innovative ways. Although we may be supplemented by government funding for the con- The two sessions will be taught by Rabbi Doris Dyen and Dan sultation portion of our rabbinical support, bringing new people in is ex- Leger. Both sessions will be held at Congregation Rodef Shalom pensive and requires generosity on all our parts. in the Falk Library. Please note, there is an additional security assessment of $50 per adult

or 10% of your total dues. The payment is a direct contribution to Rodef On Sunday, September 8 at 10:00 a.m., we will present an over- Shalom’s building security costs, which include the officers that greet us view of the ritual process that needs to be managed when a at the door when we enter the building. death occurs. Then, working from the special Reconstructionist siddur, “Prayers for a House of Mourning,” we will discuss meth- We look forward to another year together and appreciate your timely ods for conducting a “shiva minyan” response.

On Sunday, September 15 at 1:00 p.m., we will focus on the Please return your dues payment as soon as possible to: practical details and resources involved in facilitating and leading Congregation Dor Hadash a funeral service. 4905 Fifth Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213. Dor Hadash has always taken pride in its member-led approach to life events – part of our unique identity in the Jewish communi- Sincerest wishes, ty. Much of the meaningfulness of this approach comes from the commitment required of members to learn how to make it hap- Donna Coufal, President pen! Janey Zeilinger, Membership Committee Chair

For more information contact: [email protected]

Membership Report – August 2019

Submitted by Janey Zeilinger

Membership renewal will be done differently this year:

 We will send our membership letter with an invoice to every member toward the end of August.

 At a later date, we’ll send an email to members with a link to complete our volunteer forms electronically.

 We are asking members to pay their dues by check since credit cards cost DH 3% of the transaction amount

 I will send an email to the congregation the week of August 12th letting them know about getting the new renewal process

So far, we’ve had two new member inquiries

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Services High Holy Days Services – 5780

Rosh Hashanah Services will be held at the Friday, Sept. 13-15 JCC – Kaufmann building Weekend with Rabbi Deborah Waxman, head of Reconstructing Judaism and Seth Cohen, Board President, RJ Please enter from Darlington Road

Friday, Sept 13 Erev Rosh Hashanah: 7:30 pm Erev Shabbat with Rabbi Deborah and Seth Cohen Chapel Sunday, September 29, 8:00 pm Levinson Hall Service Leader: Lou Fineberg Saturday, Sept 14 Speaker: Jo Recht 9:00 am Torah Study, ALC1 10:00 am Shabbat Morning Service, Rabbi Deborah with Cantor Julie Rosh Hashanah – Day 1 Newman Monday, September 30, 9:30 am Levinson Hall Parashat Ki Teitzei Service Leader: Bruce Herschlag Torah Portion: Deuteronomy 21:10 - 25:19 Speaker: Kathy Blee

Haftarah: Isaiah 54:1 - 54:10 Family Service - 10:30 - noon in the Dance Studio (3rd floor) Service Leader: Anna Coufal with Gil Debenedetti rd Cohen Chapel/ lunch in Falk Library Tot Service - 10:45 - 11:45 am in the Family Place (3 floor) Service Leader: Karen Morris 1-3:00 pm DISCUSSION on where Reconstructing Judaism is going. Cohen Chapel Tashlich - immediately following services at Chatham Pond

Sunday, Sept 15 Rosh Hashanah – Day 2 1:00 pm ADULT EDUCATION PROGRAM Tuesday, October 1, 9:30 am Levinson Hall Part II– Practical details and resources involved in facilitating and Service Leader: Mark Rubenstein leading a funeral service. Discussion Leader: Reb Ezra Weinberg With Dan Leger and Rabbi Doris Dyen, ALC1 Yom Kippur Services will be held at the JCC – Robinson Saturday, Sept 21 building 9:30 am Norman Ruder’s Bar Mitzvah Levy Hall Entrance on Darlington Road

Service leader: Wendy Kobee with Cantor Julie Newman Kol Nidre Parashat Ki Tavo Tuesday, October 8, 6:30 pm sharp Katz Auditorium Torah Portion: Deuteronomy 26:1 - 29:8 Service Leader: Barbara Baumann Speaker: Dan Leger

Haftarah: Isaiah 60:1 - 60:22 Yom Kippur Wednesday, October 9, 9:30 am Katz Auditorium

Saturday, Sept 21 Honoring Jerry Shachrit 7:30 pm Havdalah, talk by Dr. Rick Hodes in Jerry’s honor, and Selichot Service Leaders: Paul Needle & Judy Yanowitz Service Levy Hall Parking may be an issue Family Service, 10:30 – noon In the Fishbowl (basement level) Sunday, Sept 22, Service Leader: Daniel Mosse 11:00 am Jerry’s Unveiling Homewood Cemetery RSVP for luncheon following the service to: [email protected] Tot Service - 10:45 - 11:45 am Basement level classroom Service Leader: Karen Morris

Yom Kippur Teen Discussion group, 10:30 – noon Basement level classroom Post-B’nai Mitzvah Teens Note: Yizkor Service (immediately follows Shachrit) Parking near the JCC is limited. There will be a small number of Katz Auditorium handicapped parking spaces available exclusively for those in great Service Leaders: Judy Grumet & Janey Zeilinger need on Darlington Road. Otherwise, please park in the nearby neighborhoods and walk to the Darlington Road entrances. Musaf Service (immediately follows Yizkor) Katz Auditorium Flowers for the bima are being provided by our hosts, The Center for Service Leader: Lisa Levinson Loving Kindness. We thank them and the entire JCC for helping to make our services meaningful and beautiful. Mincha/Neila Services, 5:00 pm Katz Auditorium Service Leader: Ray Engel

Break-the-Fast immediately following services in the Fishbowl (basement level)

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Rabbi Shelley Goldman Weekend JCC-sponsored Holiday Afternoon Programs

Saturday, Oct 5 9:00 am Torah Study ALC1 All Dor Hadash members are invited to join with others from the 10:00 am Shabbat Shuvah community at these JCC-sponsored holiday afternoon programs: Parashat Vayeilech Torah Portion: Deuteronomy 31:1 - 31:30 Rosh Hashanah, Monday, September 30 Haftarah: Isaiah 55:6 - 56:8 3:00 – 4:30 pm High Holidays of Hope at the JCC: Sanctuary “Rosh Hashanah Upstanders”

Sunday, Oct 6 A community program with guided conversations 11:00 am Annual Cemetery visit (led by Dan Leger): Walk to the different graves of our deceased members and learn Yom Kippur, Wednesday, October 9 about their lives. 3:00 – 4:30 pm High Holidays of Hope at the JCC: Homewood Cemetery “Yom Kippur: Forgiveness and Repentance” A community program with guided conversations Saturday, Oct 12 10:00 am Torah Study ALC1 Parashat Ha'Azinu Torah Portion: Deuteronomy 32:1 - 32:52 Haftarah: II Samuel 22:1 - 22:51

Sunday, Oct 13 7:00 pm Erev Sukkot Service With Cantor Julie Newman Yahrzeits September 2019 Cohen Chapel

Wednesday, Oct. 16 Hebrew Name English Date This Year 6:00 pm Potluck dinner in the Sukkah Date (Falk library if inclement weather) Berger, Judy Zweig 8/7/2013 1 Elul 9/1/2019

Saturday, Oct 19 Grodin, Elizabeth 9/5/2005 1 Elul 9/1/2019 9:30 am Yizkor and Torah Study Service ALC1 Recht, Henry 8/14/1988 1 Elul 9/1/2019 (intentionally not on the last day of Sukkot) Sukkot Shabbat Chol ha-Moed Delano, Stephen M 8/14/2010 4 Elul 9/4/2019 Torah Portion: Exodus 33:12-34:26 Woltschock, Phyllis 8/30/2014 4 Elul 9/4/2019 Haftarah: Ezekiel 38:18-39 Roth, Saul 9/3/1935 5 Elul 9/5/2019 Sunday, Oct 20 Feinstein, David 9/10/2005 6 Elul 9/6/2019 7:00 pm Erev Simchat Torah Herschlag, Cecile 9/1/1995 6 Elul 9/6/2019 With Cantor Julie Newman Cohen Chapel Colker, Dorothy 9/9/1989 9 Elul 9/9/2019 Shulman, Alexander 8/18/1983 9 Elul 9/9/2019 Saturday, Oct 26 9:00 Torah Study ALC1 Colker, Dorothy 9/9/1989 9 Elul 9/9/2019 10am Shabbat Morning Services Littman, Judy 8/29/2009 9 Elul 9/9/2019 Service leaders: Dan Leger and Rabbi Yitz Husband- Hankin Grinberg, Allen 9/2/1998 11 Elul 9/11/2019 Parashat Bereshit Steger, Sheila 9/12/2000 12 Elul 9/12/2019 Torah Portion: Genesis 1:1 - 6:8 Haftarah: Isaiah 42:5 - 43:10 Begler, Ethel 9/13/1970 12 Elul 9/12/2019 Levy Hall Chelemer, Jenny 9/10/1984 13 Elul 9/13/2019 Bartholomew, Mathew 9/4/1998 13 Elul 9/13/2019 Sunday, Oct 27 - Commemoration Events (Watch for Congregation emails.) Fertman, Irving 9/12/1973 15 Elul 9/15/2019 Balsom, Melvin 9/11/2014 16 Elul 9/16/2019 Saroff, Sadie 9/15/1981 16 Elul 9/16/2019 Schlesinger, Janet 9/3/2004 17 Elul 9/17/2019 McKibben, Harry 9/11/1968 18 Elul 9/18/2019 Schutzman, Mildred 9/4/2004 18 Elul 9/18/2019 continued on next page

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Yahrzeits October 2019 Contributions Hebrew Name English Date This Year Chai Fund Date Howard Aizenstein and Barbara Baumann Delano, Hubert 9/12/1999 2 Tishri 10/1/2019 Debra Bogen Kalson, Sally 9/26/2014 2 Tishri 10/1/2019 Bernard Goldstein & Russellyn Carruth Elias, Kenny 9/18/2012 2 Tishri 10/1/2019 Kalson, William R. 9/17/1977 5 Tishri 10/4/2019 Sarah Cohen Ann and Martin Davis Bryant, Davita Colker 9/20/2004 5 Tishri 10/4/2019 Barrett, Ellen 9/23/2009 5 Tishri 10/4/2019 Ruth and Seymour Drescher Gross, Albert 9/21/1993 6 Tishri 10/5/2019 Ed Feinstein and Pamela Ewing Schoenwald, Richard 9/30/1995 6 Tishri 10/5/2019 Fran Fall Jaron, Samuel 9/24/2001 7 Tishri 10/6/2019 Yetta & Arnold Freedman Reder, Gutza 10/2/1976 8 Tishri 10/7/2019 Abigail Horn Schwager, Erwin 10/5/1992 8 Tishri 10/7/2019 Hal Rubinstein and Rachel Hovne Kotovsky, Dorothy 10/5/2003 9 Tishri 10/8/2019 Theodore Stern Saroff, Morris 10/5/1965 9 Tishri 10/8/2019 Arlene Weiner Engel, Myra 9/15/2002 9 Tishri 10/8/2019 Eve Wider Goldstein, Harry 10/10/1978 9 Tishri 10/8/2019 Stearns, Frances 9/20/1991 12 Tishri 10/11/2019 High Holiday Donation Rosenberg, Herbert 9/25/2007 13 Tishri 10/12/2019 Latta, Joan 10/2/1990 13 Tishri 10/12/2019 John Ryan Levinson, Lee Ann 10/16/2016 14 Tishri 10/13/2019 Levy, Hyman 9/27/1996 14 Tishri 10/13/2019 Sampson, Frances 9/19/1994 14 Tishri 10/13/2019 Towne, Harold 10/11/1984 15 Tishri 10/14/2019 Langa, Evelyn 9/28/2007 16 Tishri 10/15/2019 Ackerman, Evelyn Kohn 10/12/2003 16 Tishri 10/15/2019 Root, Marguerite Fleenor 10/12/2006 20 Tishri 10/19/2019 Yahrzeits September 2019 Elbaum, Libby 10/14/2014 20 Tishri 10/19/2019 Elbaum, Nathan 10/2/1988 21 Tishri 10/20/2019 Continued from page 10 Cohen, Herky Mort 10/11/2017 21 Tishri 10/20/2019 Hebrew Elbaum, Nathan 10/2/1988 21 Tishri 10/20/2019 Name English Date This Year Date Weintraub, Clara M. 9/30/1972 22 Tishri 10/21/2019 Kraftowitz, Fred 8/29/2010 19 Elul 9/19/2019 Waters, Wayne 10/14/1968 22 Tishri 10/21/2019 Kravitz, Janet Oppenheim 8/27/2013 21 Elul 9/21/2019 Grumet, Nathan 9/28/1994 23 Tishri 10/22/2019 Seiner, Harry 9/1/1953 21 Elul 9/21/2019 Gordon, Irving 10/6/1996 23 Tishri 10/22/2019 Cohen, Jeffrey H. 9/25/2016 22 Elul 9/22/2019 Cherry, Anna 10/11/1974 25 Tishri 10/24/2019 Rosenfeld, Idel 9/6/1996 22 Elul 9/22/2019 Jacobson, Max 10/6/1950 25 Tishri 10/24/2019 Stern Sr., Richard 8/28/2013 22 Elul 9/22/2019 Flicop, Sarah 10/17/1979 26 Tishri 10/25/2019 Siff, Bruce 9/2/2018 22 Elul 9/22/2019 Mattes, Freda 10/14/1982 27 Tishri 10/26/2019 Mason, Lillian 9/8/1993 22 Elul 9/22/2019 Mattes, Israel 10/25/1935 28 Tishri 10/27/2019 Chelemer, Benjamin 9/20/1965 23 Elul 9/23/2019 Shonberg, Molly 10/6/1983 29 Tishri 10/28/2019 Cosson, Harry 9/10/1985 24 Elul 9/24/2019 Jonas, Rhoda 10/14/1985 29 Tishri 10/28/2019 Jetter, Edna Watson 9/27/1970 26 Elul 9/26/2019 Rubenstein, Mildred 10/4/2013 30 Tishri 10/29/2019 Friedman, Sarah 9/9/1969 26 Elul 9/26/2019 Dolinka, Milton 10/31/1997 30 Tishri 10/29/2019 Hollander, Barbara 9/13/1993 27 Elul 9/27/2019 Mizel, Mariam 10/24/1987 1 Heshvan 10/30/2019 Drescher, Eva Rita 9/9/1999 28 Elul 9/28/2019 Hineck, David 10/20/1963 2 Heshvan 10/31/2019 Oliker, Max 10/1/2016 28 Elul 9/28/2019 Needle, William 10/18/2004 3 Heshvan 11/1/2019 Gumerman, Ruth 10/1/1997 29 Elul 9/29/2019 Koepsel, Robert 10/16/1996 3 Heshvan 11/1/2019

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Special Thanks to “Celebration of Cheryl” Committee

A special thanks to the Committee who did such a wonderful job planning and carrying out the "Celebration of Cheryl" Service and Party. On the committee were Norma Altman, Nancy Merenstein, Anna Coufal, Marsha Stern, Melissa Jones, Laura Horowitz, Roz Sherman and Judy Grumet.

Thank you all for creating such a poignant and memorable event.

Contributors to the event for Rabbi Klein

Stanley & Shirley Angrist Harry & Lisa Levinson Norma Artman Laura Lupovitz Betty B. Barlow Jerome Mattes Anne Begler Joel & Nancy Merenstein Dalia Belinkoff Daniel Mosse Ellen Burne & Paul Needle Edward & Anne-Marie Nelson Jean Binstock Rosa Lynn Pinkus Kathleen Blee & Pam Goldman Brian & Jennifer Primack Debra Bogen & Brian Lashko Deborah Prise William M. Braslawsce Rebecca Rebecca Meyer Eric & Emily Braslawsce Jond & Lisa Budd Jo Recht Geoffrey Clauss & Helene Weinraub Lynne Reder Jean Clickner & Jon Pushinsky Arnold Reichbaum Alan & Lynne Colker Daniel & Lauren Resnick Robert & Donna Coufal Deane & Doris Root / Dyen Ann & Marty Davis Steve & Judi Rosen Seymour & Ruth Drescher James Rosenberg David Eckhardt & Xiaolin Zang Judith Rothstein Paula Engel Mark Rubenstein Arnold & Eva Engler Allan Sampson Fran Fall Ed Feinstein & Pamela Ewing Joan Saroff Carl Fertman & Barbara Murock Gary & Joni Schwager MaisFreedman & Douglas Kramer Allen & Linda Selig Bernard D. Goldstein & Russellyn S. Carruth Jon & Libba Spiegel Judy Grumet Marsha Stern Norton Gusky Richard & Lauren Stern Stephen Hankin & Janice Kelly Ellen Surloff Bruce Herschlag & Mary Korytkowski Deba & Gary Tabas Elissa Hirsh Joel & Tova Tarr Harry Hocheiser & Judith Yanowitz Rita Tauberg Barry Judd Rich Weinberg Dana Kellerman & Chip Myers Arlene Weiner David Klahr & Pamela Weiss Kenneth & Avis Kotovsky Elias and Randi Weinstein Robert Kraftowitz & Janice Gordon Jill Weiss & Emma Hance Lynne Lehrer Roy Werner & Reid Andrews James & Donna Lenkner Toby Yanowitz