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A Season of Hope The Centre Call germantown jewish centre www.germantownjewishcentre.org Volume 24, Issue No. 6 TAMUZ 5776 JULY 2016 A Season of Hope underworld for six months of the year, re- that the ancient rabbis are offering us. turning to the world of life for the other In T’kufat Tammuz, we are asked to six months, just as the agricultural year look at the dying world around us and cycles between growth and decay, death see the seed of new life. We are called and rebirth. This story was so well- upon to look at the anger, pain, out- known that it even appears in the He- rage, and division in the eyes of our fel- By Rabbi Adam Zeff brew Bible in the book of Ezekiel, in low citizens and to see the possibility which God shows Ezekiel a vision of for love, comfort, and peace in reach- he ancient rabbis call this summer women sitting at the gates of the Temple, ing out to each other. Tseason T’kufat Tammuz – the time mourning the death of Tammuz at the The ancient rabbis, living amidst the of Tamuz, the period after the summer onset of summer (Ezekiel 8:14). ruins of Jewish life 2,000 years ago, solstice that in modern Hebrew is In the Jewish calendar, we are enter- certainly had every reason to despair, known as kayitz. It may seem a little ing into a season of misfortune and yet they put forward a message of odd that the ancients use the term mourning, culminating in Tish’ah b’Av, hope. May we hear that message and T’kufat Tammuz, since it is rooted in the ninth day of the month of Av, the take it to heart in this very difficult time. the pagan story of the Babylonian god month after Tammuz, on which we Tammuz, but I think their use of this mourn the destruction of the Temples and Program Highlights name holds an important lesson for us other tragedies in the history of the Jew- about this season and about the current ish people. As we enter into that season, July 8 moment that we are living through in the rabbis invoke the story of Tammuz to Shabbat Storytime at the Big Blue Marble this country. remind us that recognizing misfortune July 13 Tammuz was the Sumerian god of and entering into mourning are not the Hazak Book Group food and vegetation, worshipped same as giving in to despair. The trajec- July 15 widely in Babylon and other parts of tory of this season parallels that of the Kol Zimrah the ancient Near East. After the sum- story of Tammuz: death and mourning July 20 mer solstice, which heralded the begin- followed by rebirth and new life. As the Frozen River: Hazak Film & Discussion ning of the hottest season of the year, ancients famously taught, while Tish’ah July 22 in which vegetation died, it was com- b’Av is the lowest point on the Jewish Tot Shabbat mon to hold a six-day “funeral” for calendar, it is also the day on which the August 5 Tammuz, whose power was clearly seed of redemption will be planted, sym- Shabbat Storytime at the Big Blue Marble waning as the summer heat took hold. bolized by the birth of the Messiah August 7 For this reason, the month of summer (Jerusalem Talmud Berachot 2:4). If we Red Cross Blood Drive became known as Tammuz in the only raise our voices in mourning and August 10 Babylonian calendar that was adopted never make the turn toward renewal and Hazak Book Group by the Jewish people when they lived hope, we have failed to grasp the true August 13 in exile in Babylon. lesson of this season. Erev Tish’ah b’Av Program, One story about Tammuz held that In our current American moment, we Service & Eicha are in grave danger of falling into despair. he followed his wife, Inana (in some August 19 texts known as Ishtar), into the under- We see death and destruction, fear and Tot Shabbat world to secure her release after she division all around us. It is hard to see August 24 had ventured there. In the end, Tam- the way forward. It is difficult to hear a Opera Under the Stars muz was consigned to remain in the message of hope. Yet that is the teaching germantown jewish centre • 400 west ellet street • Philadelphia, Pa 19119 • tel 215.844.1507 • fax 215.844.8309 tamUZ 5776 • jULY 2016 President’s Message By Chip Becker, GJC President am writing College and Yale Law School. I then had mentary on the transience of political Ithis letter to the good fortune to serve as a law clerk power, the insignificance of human en- you as one of to a federal judge in Boston. That’s deavor when measured against the my first acts as where I met one Marta Taylor, an ab- vastness of time, and the power of art GJC’s new solutely spectacular person who remains to outlast the other legacies of power. president. For the love of my life. Marta was finishing The poem is also a powerful reminder me this is a humble moment. This syn- medical school at the time and begin- that no institution is guaranteed agogue is one of the great institutions ning her training as an Ear Nose and longevity or success. in Northwest Philadelphia, religious or Throat doctor. GIC has thrived for nearly 80 years otherwise. Its presidents are among Marta and I were married, had our due to the willpower, generosity, and the most accomplished, committed, first child, and lived for five years in dedication of its remarkable member- and engaged people I’ve ever encoun- North Carolina while she underwent res- ship and staff. I hope that the syna- tered. I feel honored to have the op- idency training at the University of North gogue will be equally strong 80 years portunity to serve this community and Carolina in Chapel Hill. When her resi- from now – that my kids, and their to tackle the challenge of keeping the dency finished, somehow I persuaded kids, should have the same opportu- community strong. her to move to Philadelphia. We moved nity to be enveloped and grow within By this point I feel kinship with lots into a home in Chestnut Hill in Decem- a community so completely dedicated of people who are part of the GJC com- ber 2003. A few years later, we moved to the principles of kindness, decency, munity. But – not surprisingly, given to a home on Allens Lane, and happily generosity, and inclusion. That work is that GJC has over 1,500 people within we’ve been here ever since. I practice not for the future. It is for today, as we its membership – there are more than law at a firm in Center City. Marta re- strive to keep the synagogue finan- a few of you I don’t really know. So mains a specialist in otolaryngology with cially sound, and to enhance the com- allow me to introduce myself. an office in Chestnut Hill. Some of you munities that comprise GJC as a I grew up in the Northwood Section are probably her patients. whole. I look forward to this work as of Philadelphia. For those of you who We have been GJC members since al- GJC’s new president! I look forward to don’t intimately know Philadelphia’s most the day we moved to Philadelphia. working with all of you to keep the neighborhoods, Northwood is in the Our three children – Isaac, Jacob, and synagogue vibrant. lower northeast section of the City. It Naomi – attended pre-school at the Early Thank you for all for reposing your lies between Frankford and the Roo- Childhood Program. They have attended trust in me. I will do my best to be a sevelt Boulevard, below Oxford Circle or are attending the religious school. careful steward of this place we value and above Feltonville. It was decid- Isaac recently had his bar mitzvah, and love. Happy summer! edly not a Jewish part of the City, but which was an incredible moment for our through my parents I was fortunate to family. Many of our friends are part of be part of a wonderful Jewish commu- the GJC community. Over the years, the nity at Congregation Keneseth Israel in synagogue and the people who make it Germantown Jewish Centre Elkins Park. GJC is in every way my hum have become inextricably woven Jewish home, but I am always happy to into the fabric of our life. It is difficult to would like to extend visit KI, where my sister and mother imagine our life in Philadelphia without thanks and gratitude to the still belong. GJC and its people. For us, as it is the I attended a local public school in case for many of you, GJC is not simply Wolfe Family Foundation Northwood through sixth grade. I then a Jewish home, but a framework within for generously attended and graduated high school which our life unfolds. from Germantown Friends School. You all know Percy Bysshe Shelley’s supporting and making (For SEPTA nerds, I took the K or J bus famous poem “Ozymandias,” in which our programming possible. across town, and amazingly was able the speaker recalls having met a traveler to take both buses home from the GFS who tells about the ruins of a statute in playing fields.) I attended Williams his native country. The poem is a com- 2 www.germantownjewishcentre.org The Centre Call germantown jewish centre In celeBrATIon… Shabbat and Marcy & Dan Bacine, on the birth of their granddaughter, Hazel Floria Holiday chai-lites Bacine, born on June 7, daughter of Alyse & Matthew Bacine (May 2016 – June 2016) Aryeh & Reena Friedman, on the July 15 marriage of their daughter, Shira, to Glen Romonosky • Kol Zimrah Tamar Jacobson, on the marriage of her son, Gilan Barkan, to Yuliya Pachos July 22 Avriel Kalman, son of David Zvi & Yael Kalman, on his Upsherin • Tot Shabbat Carol & Marty Kaplan, on their 61st wedding anniversary Diane Ajl & Neil Kitrosser, on the marriage of their son, August 13 Jeffrey Ajl Kitrosser, to Lauren Aliyah Berger • Erev Tish’ah b’Av Program, Service & Eicha Jim & Sandy Meyer, on their 50th wedding anniversary Jim & Sandy Meyer, on the birth of their
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