March 2020 TEMPLE SINAI Adar/Nisan 5780 No. 12 BULLETIN

1 Shabbat Services - March 2020 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • FRIDAY, MARCH 6 6:15 p.m. Shabbat Evening Service with the Band & the celebration of our March Anniversaries and Birthdays SATURDAY, MARCH 7 9:00 a.m. Torah Study 10:15 a.m. Shabbat Morning Service Torah Portion: T’tzaveh: Exodus 27:20 – 30:10 MONDAY, MARCH 9 5:30 p.m. Purim Dinner 6:15 p.m. Purim Service & Megillah Reading FRIDAY, MARCH 13 6:15 p.m. Shabbat Evening Service with Tulane’s NJBeats We are looking forward to welcoming NJ Beats who will be sharing with us their upbeat fun a cappella music. NJBeats is Tulane’s only Jewish A Cappella Group. Founded in 2014 to fill the void of Jewish music on campus, NJBeats has successfully blossomed and spread music throughout Tulane University and New Orleans. Last year, NJBeats reached a new landmark when they recorded their first Studio Album, titled 118, after their rehearsal room. Their repertoire includes classic Jewish Prayers, Israeli Pop, and music written by Jewish artists. With a diverse setlist, they aim to appeal both to the Tulane community as well the Jewish Community and have performed at a variety of synagogues around Louisiana, as well as on-campus events. If you wish to learn more about this talented group of college students, please visit https://njbeatstulane.wixsite. com/njbeats/music SATURDAY, MARCH 14 9:00 a.m. Torah Study 10:15 a.m. Shabbat Morning Service & the Bat Mitzvah of Eden Rung Torah Portion: Ki Tisa: Exodus 30:11 – 34:35 FRIDAY, MARCH 20 5:15 p.m. Early Shabbat Evening Service @ Temple Sinai 6:45 p.m. Reform Shabbat Evening Service @ Gates of Prayer SATURDAY, MARCH 21 There will be no Torah Study or Services @ Temple Sinai 9:30 a.m. Reform Shabbat Morning Service @ Gates of Prayer FRIDAY, MARCH 27 6:15 p.m. Shabbat Evening Service SATURDAY, MARCH 28 9:00 a.m. Torah Study 10:15 a.m. Shabbat Morning Service & the Bat Mitzvah of Lillie Dodd 2 Torah Portion: Vayikra: Leviticus 1:1 – 5:26 Rabbi’s Message Looking Backwards & Ahead

Rabbi Daniel M. Sherman you – Congregation Temple Sinai for participating in our Installation Shabbat and for granting me this honor of By the time we read this month’s bulletin, serving as your rabbi. Installation Shabbat will be several weeks behind us. I could go on, but there is much to be excited about However, I want to take some space here to express my in the month of March… true appreciation and gratitude for a wonderful • ROARING 20’S GALA: I am so excited about this weekend. I am so happy that my parents were able year’s Gala, and I look forward to seeing everyone on to join Morgan, Shai, Janna and myself for this Saturday, March 7. I know that it will be a fantastic time very memorable Shabbat in the life of our family as we celebrate Temple Sinai’s 150 years of history. Thank and in the life of our congregation. A quick recap you to our chairperson, Janie Glade, and Gala Committee of all that happened. We began with a beautiful for all of their hard work in planning the Temple’s biggest Shabbat dinner on Friday evening – it was elegant and event of the year. relaxed and a wonderful way to welcome Shabbat. • PURIM: I cannot wait to celebrate Purim this year. It was truly a very special Shabbat evening service. I want We will begin the festivities with a special morning of to thank Cantor Colman who planned and led the service programs and fun with Chavurah@Sinai on Sunday, with me. It felt great to be in our amazing sanctuary with March 8. And we will continue with a special observance so many people. I will long remember the Cantor passing on Monday evening, March 9. Join us for dinner and our Torah Scroll from Rabbi Cohn to me, as I officially services, which will include the reading of the Megillah took my place in the prestigious line of rabbis who have and a whole lot of fun. You won’t want to miss it! served Temple Sinai with distinction. I was honored to • ADULT EDUCATION: I am beginning my second have my father, Rabbi Charles Sherman, speak and deliver series of Adult Education classes this month – “Preparing an important message as we take this step together as a for Pesach: How to Get Even More Out of Passover.” We congregation. Rabbi Cohn added his perspective and will meet on Wednesday evenings in the library at 6:30 p.m. a sense of our Temple’s history as we kicked off our on March 11, 18, 25, and April 1. The class is for everyone: celebration of 150 years of Temple Sinai. I want to thank from those who have observed Passover their entire lives, Dr. Marcus St. Julien and our choir for the beautiful to those who might be celebrating our springtime festival music. I want to thank our Temple President, Tracey for the very first time. Dodd, for her heartfelt message and for the beautiful • LIMMUD NEW ORLEANS: I am excited that challah tray that we are now using each week at our Limmud New Orleans returns this year on the weekend Oneg Shabbat. I am grateful to our neighboring of March 20-22, 2020. It looks like an amazing lineup congregations, Touro Synagogue and Congregation of classes and experiences for everyone. I am glad that Gates of Prayer, for joining us for worship and Temple Sinai has the opportunity to participate and to celebration. I was especially honored to have their join together with the entire Jewish community of clergy and staff in attendance – it was so nice to Greater New Orleans. Shabbat Services will begin at have Rabbi Gerber and Rabbi Bauman join us on the Gates of Prayer at 6:45 p.m. on Friday, March 20. Please bimah for our closing benediction. A lovely Oneg note that we will have a short early service at Temple Sinai Shabbat reception followed, giving us the opportunity at 5:15 p.m. that evening. We want to encourage everyone to greet everyone and to be together with our Temple to take part in the community-wide services happening family. at Gates of Prayer. In that spirit, we will not be holding We began Saturday with Torah Study, followed Torah Study and Services here at Temple on the morning by a special Shabbat Morning Service, which included the of Saturday, March 21. Instead, we will be joining in the naming ceremony for Ezra Tucker, son of Melanie Sheen services at Gates of Prayer beginning at 9:30 a.m. After and David Tucker. Afterwards we joined together for a services, there are many classes and workshops to choose delicious kiddush lunch, made even more special by the from. All of the offerings on Sunday, March 22 will be held homemade desserts. at the Uptown JCC. There are so many thanks I would like to express. Thank you, first and foremost, to our two chairs: Tamie I want to remind everyone that March 11, 2020 is the Bressler and Judy Gainsburgh. You both put in so much deadline to vote in the World Zionist Congress Elections. time, effort, and love into making the entire Shabbat I hope that everyone has gone to ARZA.org to “Vote so special for me and my family, and for our entire Reform.” It is crucial that we have as many votes as congregation. I cannot thank you enough. I want possible from the American Reform Jewish community. I to thank all of our volunteers who helped with am excited that we will celebrate with both planning, set-up, and clean-up. Thank you to all of the Rung and Dodd families as their daughters become our sponsors who helped to make the entire weekend B’not Mitzvah this month: Eden Rung on March open to everyone. Thank you to all of our bakers (I tried 14 and Lillie Dodd on March 28. Mazal Tov! my best to sample everything) for adding their sweet And don’t forget to RSVP for our 2nd Night touch. Thank you to all of the behind-the-scenes work of Congregational Passover Seder! our Temple staff. And most importantly, I want to thank 3 President’s Message

March 2020

worships and celebrates our Jewish culture. Just looking at Azalea Miranda dance to the music of Tracey Dodd the band shabbat with her grandfather is a magical reminder of how important it is that our children It was just a few weeks ago that we were and grandchildren grow up and participate in installing our Senior Rabbi, which was an worship with us, no matter their age. While we incredible event and the start of the celebration do have books for younger children to occupy of the 150 years of all that is Congregation Temple them during services, especially if the Rabbi’s Sinai. There are so very many people to thank for sermon is not particularly “edgy,” we have asked that wonderful weekend, from Tamie Bressler and our Director of Education, Avital Kadosh, to work Judy Gainsburgh to our Emeritus Rabbi, Ed Cohn. to provide additional components that will The installation was made more special because make even our youngest of members more our Rabbi’s father, Rabbi Charles Sherman, comfortable at services, such as a special installed him and inspired us with such an Shabbat basket for our younger kids. Our eloquent sermon. However, I must admit Rabbi loves birthday blessings, as well as that my favorite part of the installation the blessings for young children, and even weekend was Shabbat morning services in appreciates periodic commentary from our the Chapel. It is not simply that I enjoy Shabbat young toddlers during his sermon. While our morning services and all that Bill Hess and the Temple Toddlers programs are always enjoyed by Worship and Ritual Committee have done our younger crowd, and we will continue planning to support the service, but on this occasion, it was exciting activities around Shabbat, we look also the beautiful baby naming of Ezra Tucker. forward to seeing our member’s babies, toddlers, Not only was Ezra surrounded by his family and preschoolers, tweens, teens and young adults incredible grandparents, but there were a number at all services. So bring all of your family to of young children in the Chapel enjoying them- Shabbat services for the music, the worship, the selves and the service. community, and don’t forget to stay for the tasty Out of the corner of my eye, I could see Leo challah. Cohen “chilling” with his Dad on the floor of the chapel, so completely at home and content with himself. Bouncing directly in front of me was the daughter of one of the friends of the Tucker family and she was grinning and content with her snacks B’Shalom, and the service. There were a number of other Tracey children present, enjoying the music and coming [email protected] and going from the Chapel. Simply put, it provided a sense of joy with the celebration, and it reaffirms how important it is for us to bring our kids (of all ages) to services. While I do enjoy quiet prayer, seeing so many smiling and happy kids reminds me of the importance of teaching our children that they are part of a community that sings, reflects,

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5 Director’s Message March 2020

Liz Yager March in New Orleans is always a wonderful time of the year. It’s not too hot or too cold and no hurricanes on the horizon. We can breathe easy and enjoy the Spring air. March at Temple Sinai is busy with the Roaring Twenties Gala (Have you bought your tickets yet?), Purim and two B’nai Mitzvah in addition to the regular educational and worship programming. Lots to celebrate and experience. And before you know it, April brings Passover Seders with the Young Adult Seder on April 8th, our Annual Second Seder on April 9th, and the LGBTQ Interfaith Community Seder on April 13th. Mark your calendars and be prepared to once again celebrate the Passover Story. As I was preparing for the Roaring Twenties 150th Birthday Gala, I have had the privilege of interviewing the past presidents and listening to their stories. We have been so fortunate to have had these dedicated and passionate members lead Temple Sinai through some challenging and exciting times. I have also been going through old photos and memorabilia with Cantor Colman and Cliff Kern as they share with me the back stories of each picture. As a result, I have learned so much about our history and impact. Many members have called Sinai “My Temple” or “My Home.” Many are proud of the leadership role Temple Sinai has taken to help the New Orleans community through feeding the needy, building homes, advocating for justice and providing scholarships. It is my hope that all of our congregants feel welcomed and grow to regard Temple Sinai as “Their Home” a home where they can be assured to have a safe, warm, inviting, enlightening, stimulating, educational and nourishing place to all.

Happy 150th Birthday!! Mazel Tov!

-Liz

6 Brotherhood Sisterhood It’s a great time to be part of the Now that the Mardi Gras Season is behind us and Brotherhood at Temple Sinai. Over the past month we look forward to spring, let us hear from you. Please join we had lunch with Cantor Colman at Saba. The spots us as we support and encourage each other by marking your were completely filled, and everyone had a good time calendar for these upcoming events: and enjoyed the great food. We have and will continue to help with several efforts to assist the Robert L. Kohlmann Senior Outreach Luncheon community with voting related logistics, and we will be and Program: “Popular American Songs” - April 1 (Noon) Pesah serving breakfast on Easter morning at Grace at Matzah Ball Roll - April 5 (10 a.m.) Sisterhood Meetings – March the Greenlight.If you are interested in participating, 15 and April 12 (10 a.m.) Annual Attic Sale – August 16, 17 & 19 please contact us at Brotherhood. Please REMEMBER to bring your attic sale donations to Our next meeting will be on March 2nd at Temple Sinai during business hours. 7:00 at Temple Sinai. We are taking advantage of our If you’d like additional information on joining Sisterhood, resident oenophile from Wine Spectator, Mitch please contact Sharon ([email protected]) or Verdie Frank, and will be conducting a wine tasting after the ([email protected]). meeting is completed for anyone who may be interested. Please RSVP if you would like to Sharon and Verdie attend this meeting.

Finally, we are gearing up for Brotherhood Arza Bingo on May 16th at 5:00 pm. We expect to have lots of prizes, lots of food, and lots of fun. This is a great Kimat Todah, Almost Time to Say Thanks event for kids who can have a turn with the Temple’s fancy bingo machine. Look out for our mailers on As I write this I am packing to go to Israel as one of your the event. We hope everyone will join us for this elected representatives to the World Zionist Congress and great event. Jewish Agency for Israel Board of Governors meetings. I have held this position for many years and it is due directly to -Keith Kornman the votes American Reform Jews have cast in past Zionist Congress elections. So, I hope you have already voted in this year’s elections and if not, please put this bulletin down right now and send your smartphone to www.arza.org and vote. It is quick, easy, costs $7.50 to administer the elections and your individual vote has larger, telling consequences. The good news is that all the fuss and noise the 15 slates have been making in competing for votes has significantly increased voter participation. That is excellent. I hope the biggest increase is from our Reform community. Why is this column titled as it is? Because if you HAVE VOTED, todah rabah, thank you very much. But, if you HAVE NOT YET VOTED, there is still time, until mid March, to get your vote in. That is the kimat part. It is Hebrew for “almost” as the time to vote has ALMOST past. Thank you for your support in the past and I look forward to welcoming a new and larger ARZA contingent to the Congress in October. -Bill Hess [email protected]

7 Our Community & Beyond

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The Jewish Endowment Foundation of Louisiana is pleased to announce that the Goldring Family Foundation is funding the Jewish Summer Camp Experience Incentive Grant program for its 22nd year. The Goldring Family Foundation, noted for its philanthropy in our Jewish community as well as in our larger community, has made a generous commitment to continue to underwrite this program for 2020. Through this program, we haved helped send 1,519 children to camp since 1999. In funding this program, Bill Goldring stated, “These camp grants are an investment in a Jewish future for each child sent. The Jewish summer camping experience has been determined to be one of the most positive forces in both current and later Jewish identification. We are delighted to be able to provide our foundation’s support for this important program.” This incentive grant provides up to $1,500 for a Jewish child to attend a Jewish not-for-profit sleep-away summer camp for the very first time. There are no need-based requirements. Every Jewish child in Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, and the Florida Panhandle who has never attended a not-for-profit Jewish sleep-way summer camp is eligible. The application is available online at www.jefno.org or you may contact Debbie Berins at 504.524.4559 or [email protected] 8 9 Purim Event Monday, March 9, 2020 5:30 PM: Purim Dinner 6:15pm: Purim Service & Megillah Reading

Purim is our most fun holiday of the year! Join us on Purim Eve as celebrate this festive time. We will begin with a lite dinner in the auditorium at 5:30pm. At 6:15pm we will parade into the chapel for our special Purim Service. We will celebrate Purim with special songs and, of course, the reading of the Megillah – the Scroll of Esther. We will hand out groggers (or bring your own noise-makers) to drown out the name of evil Haman! Join us as we cheer on Esther and Mordechai and celebrate the survival of our Jewish people.

This Purim celebration is for all ages, from young to not-as-young-as-we-once-were! Everyone is encouraged to come in masks and costumes and get ready for a great time at Temple.

Chag Purim Sameach – Happy Purim! LGBTQ+LGBTQ+ Purim Event I am so thrilled to invite you to the latest installment in Temple Sinai’s Year of LGBTQ+ Jewish Holiday Celebrations! This year for the fabulous chag of Purim, LGBTQ+ Jews from Sinai and beyond will come together on March 8th at 6:30 p.m. at Temple Sinai for a multifaceted event designed to provide both Chevruta and Mesibah – study and a party. We begin with a discussion on women’s agency and consent in the Megillat Esther led by Prof. Jason Gaines of Tulane University, after which we’ll do what we Jews do best: eat, drink, and schmooze! Help yourself to snacks and drinks as we sit down to watch the classic piece of 90’s gay Jewish cinema, The Birdcage. It’s sure to be as loud as any grogger and as sweet as chocolate hamantaschen. Dressing up is encouraged, espe- cially since there may just be a prize for whoever brings the most creative costume. Stay tuned for more details! -Rachel Chamness [email protected]

10 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Friday, March 20 5:30pm Registration 6:45p.m. Shabbat Candlelighting 7:00p.m. • Conservative Shabbat Kabbalat Service • Orthodox Shabbat Kabbalat Service • Reconstructionist Kabbalat Shabbat Service • Reform Kabbalat Shabbat Service • 8:15p.m. Shabbat Dinner 9:30p.m. Sunday, March 22 Shabbat Tisch TBA Saturday, March 21 Conflict Resolution 9:00a.m. 9:00a.m. • Conservative Shabbat Morning Service • Orthodox Shabbat Morning Service • • Jewish Visual Artists from Chagall to Agam to Rothko • Death, Mourning, and 9:30a.m. Processing: A Conversation • Let’s Make Streudel Together • Mah Jongg with Reform Shabbat Morning Service Renee Zack • The Lubavitcher Rebbe’s Response to the Shoah • Jewish Civil 10:00a.m. Rights Advocates in Mississippi • Receiving the Whole Torah – Even the Parts We Reconstructionist Shabbat Morning Meditation Wish Weren’t There • Introduction to Sage-ing (Part 1 of 2) • Mikvah: A Magical 10:30a.m. Gift • A Cup of Fun: Adding Joy to your Holiday Traditions (Shabbat Version) 10:15a.m. 11:45a.m. Notes from the Press Box • Joy Comes in the Mourning • Pesach in Poetry • From Shabbat Lunch for Everyone the “St. Louis” Incident to the Present Day • Israel is Real • Kids + Worms = Fun 12:45p.m. • Is Paul Dead? • Reproductive Health and Rights in the US and Abroad: How • Duty to Live or Right to Die? The Ethics of Medical Aid in Dying • Left, Right, Jewish Women Have Made a Difference and What We Can Do to Take Action and Center: Anti-Semitism and Hate in the World Around Us • The Chesed • Changing the World - One Simple Act at a Time • Prayers & Playlists: What Challenge (Ages 7+) • Torah, Tent-pegs, and Time - Teachings of Community Do You Stand For? • Beyond the Music — Chanting the Torah • Introduction to and Inclusion • Sam Zemurray: The Fish That Ate the Whale • •The Map to Sage-ing (Part 2 of 2) • Mensch-hood: How taking charge of the younger kids at camp and at school gets 11:30a.m. you ready for your future • The Power of Memory: How Telling the Story of the • Game Over! Tracking and Confronting the Proliferation of Hate in Online Haggadah Shapes Jewish Power • Spaces • Making the Most of Mitzvah Day: Planning and Executing Successful 2:00p.m. Family Service Days • Jewish Graphic Narrative: Conflict, Hybridity, Connectivity • Hollywood through the Lens of Three Female Austrian Jewish Exile • Matzah Cover Art For Passover • Jewish Global Diversity (Ages 5+) • A Brief Scriptwriters • The World I Want For My Kid(s) • How to talk to Your Neighbor: History of Contemporary Jewish A Cappella • The Torah Case for Reparations Building Bridges Across the Israel/Palestine Political Divide • Gefilte Fish Tank • • NOLA Jewish Women • Praying with Your Feet • Wish you were okay • The Niggunim: Together in Melody • Creating an Ethics Code for Your Congregation: Torah is So Great - Even the Angels Want It! • The Power of the Circle • Why, How and When to Use It? • Knowing the Soul of the Stranger -- The 12:30p.m. Human Face of Immigration • CHOPPED...and Jewish Community • Angels Lunch and Demons • Infertility: Ancient Curse, Modern Blessings • Bikur Cholim and 1:30p.m. Nichum Aveilim: How to Visit the Sick and Comfort the Mourner • • Moses and Monotheism: What did Freud think of Judaism? • Jewish 3:15p.m. Perspectives on Organ Transplantation • Making Liturgy More Accessible: A • Graphic Reform, Comic Subversion: Comics and Social Values in Postwar Workshop from a Radical Shabbat • Circle ‘RoundHoly Ink and Climate Change America • The Hidden Benefits of Cheap Labor: How jobs for Jewish teens at • From Biblical Apocalypse to US Foreign Policy in Jerusalem • A Rediscovery of summer camps and similar settings can foster personal growth • The Shema in the Life and Music of the Great Song-Writer Harold Rome: Broadway’s “Noel ASL • Instant A Cappella! • Intersections of Justice • Papa Don’t Preach: Father- Coward with a Social Conscience” • New Voices in Civil Rights: Treating Drug Daughter Relationship Fails in the Hebrew Bible • Yoga For The Jewish Spirit • Addiction as a Disability and Empowering the Formerly Incarcerated • Tell ‘em 4:30p.m. Like your Zaidy -or- Classic Jewish Jokes and How to Tell Them the Way Your • Israel Zangwill’s The Melting Pot: The Play that Tried to Change History • Bubby Likes • Bruriah, Golda and Me: Making Sense of Feminism, Orthodoxy, Vulnerable Populations and the Criminal Justice System • Secular Yiddishkayt in and Power in 2020 • the American South • Death and Mourning Practices • This Month is For You: 2:45p.m. Human Initiative In Setting the Calendar • Living Our Values: Finding Time for • Eli’s Story: A Twentieth-Century Jewish Life • Are You Possibly A Service and Acts of Chesed in Busy Family Lives • And You Shall Be a Blessing • Reconstructionist? • Working with Water Colors to Expand Ritual • How (Inherited) Trauma and the Jewish Sexual Tradition (Part 1 of 2) • TBD Soldiers Do Children Survive? Maurice Sendak’s Holocaust “Memory” and Fantasy • Speak • Meshuganah Mambo 2.0 • Niggun Circle • Economic Justice: A Jewish Call 5:45p.m. to Action •”Which is the True Religion?: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in • Philip Roth 101: Jews, Sex and America • (Inherited) Trauma and the Jewish Lessing’s Nathan the Wise” • Where Does Our Jewishness Live In Our Bodies? A Sexual Tradition (Part 2 of 2) • Dating in the 2000’s - A Conversation with Alice Movement Based Workshop • and Lonnie • Jewish Objects Hiding in Plain Sight: Challah • Jewish Farming 4:00p.m. Then and Now • Jews Resisting White Nationalism Today: How We Got Here • Jewish Pride Through Sports: the History and the Success of the Maccabi and What We Can Do Now • Who Are These People? What Jews Don’t Know Movement and Jewish Presence in the Olympics • Pretty Pretty Pretty Funny • About Christian Zionists, and Vice Versa • Portraits of Female Leadership; the The (Pizza) Delicious Matzah Pizza Party! • Israeli Dancing • Our Soldiers Speak Exodus of Egypt through Women’s Voices • Seudah Shlishit: The Third Shabbat TBD • The History of the Jews of Lithuania and Vilna Goan through the Music Meal • of Composer Erwin Schulhoff • Current Barriers to Housing Justice Around the 7:15p.m. Country • Southern Jewish History on One Foot • Building an Animated Jewish Havdallah and Melavah Malkah Future: A Case Study from Four Rabbis’ Trip to Paradise • Living with Gratitude • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •11 Upcoming B’nai Mitzvah EDEN RUNG Eden is the daughter of Kevin and Dr. Ariane Rung, the sister of Jason Rung and is in 7th grade at Ecole Bilingue de la Nouvelle-Orléans. She is really excited to celebrate becoming a bat mitzvah with her family and friends, and to welcome her out of town family to New Orleans. She is also also really passionate about the environment. Did you know that it takes 10-100 years for a plastic grocery bag to biodegrade? And that the average American family uses 1500 grocery bags a year? And that these bags cannot be recycled through the city’s curbside recycling program? For her mitzvah project, Eden is collecting plastic bags to bring to a recycling center, where they will be sent to turn into things like fences, playground equipment, and backyard decking. Please bring your unwanted #2 and #4 plastic bags to Temple Sinai where you can find a collection box in the lobby. Thank you for recycling! LILLIE DODD Lillie is the daughter of Michael & Tracey Dodd, sister of Clay & Owen and is in 7th grade at Newman. She loves to travel and play with her dog, Teddy.

12 Cantor’s Message Music & more

One cannot help but take a moment to reflect that this month of March 2020 we are honoring Cantor Joel Colman 150 years of Temple Sinai. That length of time only becomes more real when we realize that our country was only 94 years old in 1870 and that we had congregants at that time whose parents were alive during the Revolutionary War. While I have been at Temple Sinai since 1999, that only accounts for 14% of the 150 years of Temple Sinai. I myself grew up in Detroit and my only connection with the city of New Orleans was when Tom Dempsey of some team called the Saints, hit that 63 yard field goal to beat my Detroit Lions. Well by now, having lived in New Orleans longer than my hometown, I certainly feel a strong connection to our community and synagogue. It is an honor to be a part of our history at Temple Sinai and I look forward to celebrating 150 years at our upcoming Gala on March 7. While this year’s Gala might not have an Indian motorcycle parked in the lobby (well I suppose I could, but it would not fit in with this year’s theme), I am sure our celebration will be most memorable.

The month of March is going to be book-ended by two marvelous music events. First off, on Sunday evening March 1, the New Orleans Opera and Temple Sinai will present a concert titled, Music to Lift the Spirit: American Opera and Song. Singing in this concert will be soprano Betsy Uschkrat and tenor Tyler Smith. The program begins at 7:00 p.m. and admission is $10. Then at the end of month on Sunday afternoon at 2:00 p.m., the New Orleans Symphony Chorus, along with the choirs of Dillard University and UNO, plus a 21 piece orchestra will present the oratorio, The Creation by Haydn. Ticket prices are $25 at the door and for more information please visit symphonychorus.org. I will be singing in both programs, and I hope you will take advantage of the opportunity to hear some top-notch music in our beautiful and acoustically vibrant sanctuary. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

13 The Installation of Rabbi Daniel Sherman

What a wonderful and meaningful Installation Shabbat that we shared together as a congregation on January 24-25, 2020. We accomplished two purposes: We officially welcomed Rabbi Daniel Sherman and his family to Temple Sinai, as we marked the beginning of the celebration of 150 years of Temple Sinai history. From dinner on Friday evening to lunch following morning services, it was a truly special Shabbat. On behalf of the entire congregation we want to thank everyone who helped to make this weekend happen and all who participated. A special thank you goes to our chairpeople, Tamie Bressler and Judy Gainsburgh, for all of their hard work and efforts. Thank you to all of our volunteers, our bakers, and our sponsors – Installation Shabbat would not have been possible without your help. We also want to thank both Touro Synagogue and Congregation Gates of Prayer for being here with us for this memorable Shabbat, as well as the many other leaders and members of the greater Jewish and interfaith communities. Todah Rabbah – many thanks – to Max Cohen, our official photographer for the weekend.

14 15 16 17 ANNUAL GIFT DRIVE TEMPLE FUND ctd. TEMPLE SINAI FOUNDATION In Honor of the Latter Family In Memory of Ida Kohlmeyer In Memory of Sandy Heller Valerie & Lee H. Schlesinger Jane & Henry Lowentritt Jennifer & Jack Benjamin, Jr. In Memory of Adrian Kornman Judy Gainsburgh BIMAH FLOWER FUND Caroline & Bob Brickman John & Amy Gainsburgh-Haspel In Memory of Jan Corenswet Susan & Philip Frank, Jr. In Memory of Adrian Kornman Avery & Jay Corenswet Esta M. Kamplain Jennifer & Jack Benjamin, Jr. In Memory of Moysh Haddad Beverly Katz Prissy Sutton Marcy & Ron Nevins TEMPLE SINAI WORSHIP In Memory of Isabel Weil Kohlmeyer Dr. Sanford Pailet FUND Marie & Robert Wolf Michael Rubenstein In Memory of Sandy Heller In Memory of Moise S. Steeg, Sr. Cathy & Charles Kahn Pamela Schwartz Pamela & Robert Steeg David S. Willenzik In Memory of Alice Weiss UNDERWRITING SIMCHA In Memory of Dr. Ike Muslow PLAQUES Rachel Chamness & Silas Eames Marie & Robert Wolf Julie Fink & Nicole Moody Hope & James Meyer In Memory of Samuel Singer In Honor of Rabbi Sherman’s In Memory of Dora Finger Yuspeh Caroline & Bob Brickman Kimbery Kottwitz, Susan Kottwitz & Installation In Memory of Alice Weiss Tracey & Mike Dodd Gerald Strug Andrea Bier In Memory of Janet Selig Wolf Juliana Casale Zadek Siobhan Ramos Marie & Robert Wolf Judge Miriam G. Waltzer RABBI EMERITUS FUND In Wishing Dorlene Alaynick Good In Honor of Rabbi Cohn Health & Happiness Dr. Marc Behar & Jeff Sbisa Arlene & Charles Corby

SOCIAL JUSTICE FUND In Memory of Eli Murov Luz Molina In Memory of Adrian Kornman Gerald Strug

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In Honor of the Naming of Ezra

Zev Tucker

Beth Lavin

In Honor of Rabbi Sherman’s

Installation

Carlos Adame

Dr. Diane K. Africk

Mr. & Mrs. William L. Kohlmann

Letty & Richard Rosenfeld

In Memory of Sandy Heller

Mac & Ellen Simmons Ball

Sherry Frohlich

Jane N. Kohlmann

Isabelle & Eric Mayer

Stephanie & Fred Meyers

Murray Pitts & Harry J. Blumenthal, Jr.

Audrey Richoux

Jane & William Rippner

Marie Spicuzza & Kort Gustafson

Jon B. Strauss

Henry K. Threefoot

Marie & Robert Wolf 18 TEMPLE SINAI FOUNDATION In Memory of Sandy Heller Jennifer & Jack Benjamin, Jr. Judy Gainsburgh John & Amy Gainsburgh-Haspel In Memory of Adrian Kornman Jennifer & Jack Benjamin, Jr.

TEMPLE SINAI WORSHIP FUND In Memory of Sandy Heller Cathy & Charles Kahn

UNDERWRITING SIMCHA PLAQUES Hope & James Meyer In Honor of Rabbi Sherman’s Installation Tracey & Mike Dodd

19 MARCH 1-7 Michel Caplan Norma Okin Greenberg Irene B. Davis Selma Cohn Meyers Jeannette Meyer Simon Fanny Wolfson Morris Strug Hartwig Moss Adler, M.D. Walter C. Tuman Betty Weil Barnett Fanny Claire Kahn Grossman Evenchick Jack Fein Marguerite Dreyfus Grossman Hazel F. Marks Joel Kern Handelman Sarah Wolf Markson Odette Grossman Haspel Bertha Lichtentag Mayer Mildred Bauer Myers Sherman F. Raphael Emma B. Schornstein Maurice E. Simon Emily Ann Stein Benjamin Max Lowy Edna G. Eisemann Alexander Lowy Russell George Feran Rosa Kern Lowy D. H. Hirsberg Edna Horowitz Smith Rose Stein Levy Ruth New Wolf Joyce Lutz Frank

MARCH 8-14 Sara Lazard Hirsch Samuel L. Flom Edward Sidney Hyman Evelyn M. Kallins Robert Michael Kierr Melville Sternberg Joseph Hugo Epstein Leah Pulitzer Antin Jos. S. Loeb Clara Lee Aronson Miriam Ury Okun Matilda Baar Philip Platt June Beverly Cohen Leon Rich Wilfred Mohr Kullman Sylvia Tobias Rich Norman Mansfield Aline Lowenberg Rothschild Bernie Wilenzick Harold Julius Aronson Kenneth Alan Kirschman Arthur L. Barnett J. Simpson Mathis Jules Lazard Cahn

MARCH 15-21 Fannie Lazarus F. Baum Abraham Finkelstein Nathan Ferber Joseph Levy Fisher Jac Levy Gus Levy Stanford J. Levy Herman Michel Kate Latter Lorning Lorraine Wormser Rosenfeld George Edwin Marcuse Philip L. Frank, Sr. Jennie W. Shear Leo Horowitz Maxine Wilenzick Elliott Abramson Jacobs Hettie G. Dinkelspiel Joseph Mendel Levkowicz Florence Weil Karno John Bannon Thorpe Bruno Meyer Allen Busch Koltun Nathan Bograd, M.D. Louis Anthony Rose Gabe W. Bowsky Betty Greif Zivitz Edna Levy Kauffmann Tillie Haas Beekman Charles Wasserman Florence B. Isaacson Bloch Johnice Hirsch Weinstein Baker Abraham B. Kupperman

20 MARCH 22-31 Esther Rubins Braun Alice Levy Hiller Bernice Rae Schwartz Brill Effie Aronson Lehman Tillie Hausmann Levy Viola Loewengardt Helena Sina Janet Mayer Charles Kaufman Kahn Melvil B. Myers Isidore Bograd Lucile Felsenthal Shlenker Jimmy Heymann C. Herman Weinberg Fanny Aron Loeb Kreider Harry Harris Donald Jesse Rosenfeld Charles Newman Kahn Henry S. Jacobs Dan J. Feitel Jules C. Lazard Celia Feinberg Harris Josephine Mayer Theophile Hirsch Margaret R. Moustier Leah Goldman Karp Rachel G. Watsky David L. Slone Laz Aron Veron Shnaider Bernstein Marie D. Sloss Hart Max Heller Ruth Schornstein Kern Beulah Levy Ledner Louis Rosenbaum, Jr. Eda Block Mayer Morris Barton Herbert A. Metzger Louis S. Fazende Henry Weiss

The Departed Whom We Now Remember - may their memory be for a blessing!

Sandy Peilen Heller, mother of Milly Denegre, and Barbara, grandmother of Isabelle Meyers, Edward Denegre, Mathilde Denegre, and Tobias Heller, and wife of the late Edward Heller.

Alice Miller Jacobs Weiss, wife of Marc Weiss.

Leslie Young Kastl, wife of Dr. Peter Kastl.

J.M. “Jimmy” Fried Jr., husband of Mollie and father of Edwin, Rabbi Lucy Dinner (Jeff) and James 21 (Carli). MAZEL TOVS & SHOUTOUTS

Verdie Richburg was on the selection committee that granted the Loving Cup to Bob Merrick for this year.

Jeffrey Goldring has recently started a term as the President of the Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation, which owns the Jazz Fest, and invests the proceeds into many, many community arts and cultural organizationS.

MARCH BIRTHDAYS

Dillon Entrekin Rachel Garrity Aaron Steeg Brooklyn Sherman Hope Meyer Niki Kleinberger Bruce Aronson Alan Weinstein Lynn Wasserman Grady Stewart Michael Berg Lillian Funke Maevey Bartkus Kelley Brenner Harry Blumenthal Joan Oppenheim Sue Barton Matthew Rufo Adam D’Angelo Missy Taranto Lorynne Cahn Chase Hoffman Sofia Giarrusso Arthur Tuman Alan Gordon Toby Pick Stephen Loeb Judy Haspel Lisa Heller Sandra Pulitzer Joshua Rubenstein Eli Ackerman Audrey Hess-Miranda Jo Ann Rosenfeld Ariel Sackett Susan Adler David Wurtzel Lynn Skelding Leo Singer Morris Kahn Matthew Glodowski Sidney Abusch Jonathan Fisher Philip Hoffman Keith Kornman Michael Dodd Gary Zoller Harold Victor Lisa Moses Rebecca Dykshorn Victoria Chandler Robert Bories Rebekah Dyer Aaron Friedman George Denegre, Jr. Janie Rippner Asher Emerson Harry Gilbert Max Koeppel Lexie Gottsegen Janice Meer Julia Guidroz Sam Levkowicz J. Dianne Manning Rachel Templeman Leigh Isaacson Avery Corenswet Mark Mayer Harrel Zivitz Leann Moses Robyn Kessler Bibi Oestreicher Steven Adjmi Rebecca Fisher Marjorie Simon Eden Rung Jennifer Benjamin Carla Fishman Pam Friedler Sara Siegel Stephen Bernstein Hazel Garrity Ellen Manshel Eric Kraar Geoffrey Hudleston Joshua Lowentritt Michael Ostrow Jordan Ostrow John Karlin Jules Puschett Athens Aschaffenburg Blakely Rippner Rose Rich Malissa Brooks Rebecca Vorisek Marla Bernstein Blake Gottesman Arnold Medbery,III Marley Aamodt Janet Kleinberger Margaret Roos Elise Merlin Charles Custer Zachary Lowentritt Richard Sackett Catherine Cahn Lynette Fried Ben Stern Jane Glade Kenneth Gordon Edwin Fried Gerald Wasserman Derek Ybarra Victor Koock Bennett Sherman

MARCH ANNIVERSARIES

Thomas & Lauren Altman Eric & Shari Dusansky David Kunian & Rene Bigelow Eric & Karol Aschaffenburg Elizabeth Ellent & Derek Ybarra Adolph & Carolyn Levy Eric & Michelle Becker Ruth Ettinger & Ronald Hardey Ellis & Elizabeth Murov Walda & Sydney Besthoff, III Julie Fink & Nicole Moody Harvey & Betty Schwartzberg Michael Bodo & Janice Meer Alan & Diane Franco Steven Seebol & Elizabeth Kahn Casey & Sophie Burka Mitch & Catherine Frank Alon & Emily Shaya Michael & Rhonda Chernekoff Jeffrey & Julie Hoffman Iosif & Lubov Shlyubsky Max & Ellen Cohen Barbara & Harris Hyman, III Robert & Pamela Steeg Joshua & Giselli Danzig Keith & Evelyn Katz Martha & Walter Weil, III Mildred & George Denegre, Jr. Hirsh Katzen & Melissa Marshall Leonce & Jeanne Dolhonde Ann & Chris Kientz 22 MARCH 2020

S M T W T F S 9:00 AM Torah 1 2 3 4 5 6 Study 7 7:00 PM New 4 PM Hebrew School 7:00 PM 6:15 PM Shabbat 10:15 AM Shabbat Orleans Opera - Worship & Ritual Evening Service Morning Service Opera Americana 7 PM Refuge Committee with the band & 6:30 PM Gala with Cantor Colman Recovery & Meeting Celebration of Patron Party Women’s AA Anniversaries and 7:30 PM Temple Birthdays Sinai 150th 8 PM AA (All Celebration Gala Genders)

8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Erev Purim Purim Day 4 PM Hebrew School 5:45 PM Temple 9:00 AM Torah 5:30 PM Purim Toddlers Shabbat Study 9:00 AM C@S* Dinner 6:30 PM Adult Purim Celebration Education Class 6:15 PM Shabbat 10:15 AM Shabbat 6:15 PM Purim Evening Service Morning Services & 11:00 AM NJBeats Service & Megillah 7 PM Refuge the Bat Mitzvah of for C@S Purim Day Reading Recovery & Eden Rung Women’s AA 6:30 PM LGBTQ Purim Event 8 PM AA (All Genders) 15 16 17 18 19 20 21

9:00 AM C@S* 7:15 PM General 4 PM Hebrew School 5:15 PM Early 9:30 AM Reform Board Meeting Shabbat Evening Shabbat Morning 10:00 AM 6:30 PM Adult Service @ Temple Service @ Gates of Sisterhood Meeting Education Class Sinai Prayer 6:45 PM Reform 7 PM Refuge Shabbat Evening Recovery & Service @ Gates of Women’s AA Prayer

8 PM AA (All Genders) 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 4 PM Hebrew School 6:15 PM Shabbat 9:00 AM Torah 9:00 AM C@S* Evening Service Study 6:30 PM Adult Education Class 10:15 AM Shabbat Morning Service 7 PM Refuge and the Bat Recovery & Mitzvah of Lillie Women’s AA Dodd

8 PM AA (All Genders) 29 30 31

9:00 AM C@S*

2:00 PM Symphony Chorus Concert with Cantor Colman

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Tracey Dodd, Temple Sinai President [email protected]

Daniel M. Sherman, Rabbi [email protected]

Joel M. Colman, M.S.M., Cantor [email protected]

Edward Paul Cohn D.D., D.Min, Rabbi Emeritus [email protected]

Liz Yager, Executive Director [email protected]

Avital Kadosh, Director of Education [email protected]

Rachel Chamness, Administrative Specialist [email protected]

Shea McCoy, Communications Coordinator [email protected]

Herbert Barton, Executive Director Emeritus

Keith Kornman, Brotherhood President [email protected]

Verdie Richburg, Sisterhood Co-President [email protected]

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