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Dunfein Havurah Goes Back to School in This Issue January 2017 5777 Dunfein Havurah Goes Back to School In This Issue: Among a variety of ritual, recreational, and social activities, every year the Congregation Beth David Dunfein Havurah also schedules a community service From the project. Its members have volunteered, for example, at the Second Harvest Food Rabbi Bank, Habitat for Humanity, and the Faith in Action Rotating Shelter. Page 3 This year during Thanksgiving week, Dunfein targeted the Resource Area for Teaching (RAFT) for participation. Founded in 1994, RAFT's mission is to help teachers use hands-on President’s education to Perspective inspire in Page 5 their students the joy and discovery of January learning. Calendar RAFT's Pages 16 & 17 Activity Kits, Idea Sheets, and low-cost teaching supplies enrich and improve the education of over 850,000 young people each year. January The organization converts commonly found or discarded materials from the Birthdays business community into low cost student Activity Kits, all built with the help of Page 26 thousands of volunteers. And that’s the role that January the eager Anniversaries members of Page 26 the Dunfein Havurah 100% club played on November Pages 27 - 28 21 at the Sunnyvale RAFT Volunteer contributions Center. Pages 29 - 30 For more information on RAFT, including how you, too, can help, Visit www.RAFT.net 1 Main Office 408-257-3333 [email protected] Did you know the D’var is available online? Help us save resources and money. Stop receiving a hard copy Rabbis of D’var. Email [email protected]. Philip R. Ohriner Senior Rabbi 408-366-9104 [email protected] Leslie Alexander Rabbi of Community Engagement and Outreach 408-366-9105 [email protected] Daniel J. Pressman Rabbi Emeritus [email protected] Staff Sarah Hanuka Director of Lifelong Learning 408-366-9116 [email protected] Tanya Lorien Director of Operations 408-366-9107 [email protected] Barbara Biran Director of Ritual 408-366-9106 [email protected] Monica Hernandez Member Account Associate 408-366-9108 [email protected] Jillian Cosgrave Front Office Associate 408-366-9110 [email protected] Lynn Crocker Mkt & Comm Associate 408-366-9102 [email protected] Andrea Ammerman Admin. Rabbi Alexander & Sarah Hanuka 408-366-9101 [email protected] Jewish Experience for Teens (JET) [email protected] 2 From the Rabbi By Leslie Alexander I want to write from the heart. To serve as a Rabbi of Community Engagement and Outreach at CBD is to have an awesome view of the flow of life. It is sometimes uplifting, sometimes elating, sometimes wrenching, but always, always hopeful. In a given day, I might meet new prospective members or talk to or visit people who are ill and help them with arrangements to receive meals or other things they need from Chevrat Chesed. I see so many members who are busy cooking for other members, spending time with them at difficult interludes, planning social action events that feed or clothe others whom they have never met, that it fills my heart. A few weeks ago Threads of Tradition was here sewing Tachrichim (shrouds) in which to clothe members as they are laid to rest. My father is wrapped in this lovingly created garment as are so many others. Some of you, I meet at meetings such as the new women’s group, A Place for Women, Men’s Club or Program Committee. You join together in community and yes, fun, to create experiences that are creative, enjoyable and bring us all together in celebration and appreciation for the blessings that we have. Right now, A Place for Women is working on several exciting events including Succulent Shvat where attendees will create their own succulent gardens while sipping tequila and enjoying cactus-based treats at Marlene Burak’s home (see page 13); a Japanese Tea Ceremony at Hakone Gardens guided by Wendy Glasser (details to come), and a White Elephant sale during the Shushan County Fair (see page 18). Many women have experienced Ladies Who Lunch or Dames Who Dine and met new people and/or have enhanced relationships (see page 13). The Men’s Club gets together for bocce ball, coffee and schmoozing, Beer with the Boys and soon a Superbowl party here at the synagogue on February 5th at 2:30pm. This event is for all CBD men, women and supervised children. Guest are welcome (see page 8). The Program Committee has been going strong since its inception, planning events that we all have loved, from CBD @ Homes, BBQ and Barchu, ZipCode Potluck, and Jewish Time Travel. Upcoming is the newly revamped Purim Carnival on March 12th. Called the Shushan County Fair, it will feature exhibits and contests, demonstrations, a petting zoo, expanded inflatable rides and new games in addition to White elephant and book sale. Our events focus on fun for all ages and stages of life, where we can truly get to know each other inter-generationally and appreciate who we are and what we bring to the synagogue experience. Having fun together is also what we are about! Last March in Washington D.C more than 20 of you attended the AIPAC policy conference. We went to sessions together, met up for photos, informal snacks, schmoozing and a special lunch. This year the policy conference is on March 26-28. Bring the CBD spirit east and feel the multigenerational connection, as several members come with their teen and young adult children. Some of you I meet when I come to say hello at a Hazak event or attend one of the new daytime adult offerings. Hazak organizes fun and educational events for older adult members and now Iris Bendahan is working tirelessly to make more offerings available such as mini courses, speakers, Israel discussion and more. Some of you I meet everyday at a synagogue minyan. You attend because you want to pray, because you want to support others as they say kaddish, because you believe that having a minyan is crucial. Those who attend know that now it is a small “hevrah,” friendship group, of folks who look forward to seeing each other at the end of the day or on Sunday morning and miss each other when absent. Now I ask you, where do you meet up with Beth David? Interested in Adult Education? Join one of the ongoing adult ed classes and be sure to attend the Scholar-in-Residence weekend from January 27-29th with Rabbi Naomi Levy (see page 23). Looking for a Religious School and/or Teen Education Program? We have top notch programs designed to foster Jewish identity and values in fun and engaging ways. Are you a young adult looking to connect? Join us for Tequila, Tacos and Talmud or a Night In Italy (see page 10). Where do you meet up with Beth David? Could there be a new way for you to experience the daily life and energy here? We want you, we need you, you matter!!!! If you want a new way to connect, call me and I will have coffee/tea with you and discuss what you might love. Rabbi Leslie Alexander 3 Please share our joy as our son, Eliot is called to the Torah as a Bar Mitzvah. Saturday, January 7, 2017 We invite you to join us for Kiddush lunch following the service. Irina and Gene Tenberg 4 President’s perspective By dan skilken At the December 13th annual meeting, the Beth David board of directors offered a detailed review of our progress and synagogue health. There was some great news, some amazing progress, and some congregational concerns aired. In the last few years we’ve transformed Beth David. Certainly our new building has changed how we look, and how we can operate. We now have the most exciting synagogue facility in the Bay Area that inspires spiritual feelings and allows us to be the best synagogue we can be. But the real transformation for Beth David over the last three years has been in our membership. We tried three times in the past fifteen years to remodel the building, and each time we couldn’t raise the money or commitment to do it. In the last two years, we raised $7.9 million for this construction project. You, our membership, believe in our future enough to invest in creating a new building that serves our needs. This renewed commitment to Beth David’s future is a clear indication of the impact our synagogue makes on our community and our congregation’s desire to see this Kehillah thrive for generations to come. This investment is already delivering dividends – our membership numbers now total 1344 people in 515 families. We grew a net increase of 22 membership units this year, the largest annual increase since 1993. In addition, our resignations are down because people are finding new ways to connect and participate at CBD. Over the last few years, we have invested in our school, education programs, and in membership programs that help our members find a more meaningful connection to our synagogue life. This investment meant dipping into our financial reserves to reverse a ten-year slide in our membership numbers. We had to change that trend or Beth David would have eventually shrunk to numbers that could not sustain the synagogue. This investment is the major reason behind the deficit budget numbers that the board has approved. We received a lot of congregational concerns following the annual meeting that Beth David cannot sustain a deficit budget like this, and still have a solid financial future.
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