ANNOUNCEMENTS Welcome to Shabbat Zachor, Parshat Tetzaveh at Anshe Sholom B’nai lsrael Congregation Mazal tov to Tamima Wyszkowski & Jacob Hartz on the bris and naming of their son, Boaz Max Hartz. If you would like to help with meals, please visit February 27 – 28, 2015 9 Adar 5775 540 West Melrose Street (773) 248-9200 TakeThemAMeal.com (Last Name: Hartz, Password: babyboy). May the young boy Chicago, Illinois 60657 www.asbi.org grow to acquire Torah, Chuppah, and good deeds. Amen!

Mazal tov to Alan & Susan Hepker on the birth of their granddaughter on Monday, Kiddush this week is co-sponsored by the Lopatin Hospitality Fund. February 23. May the young girl grow to acquire Torah, Chuppah, and good deeds. Amen!

Neighbors Program: Are you an ASBI vet looking to show someone new the ropes? Welcome to our newest member, Eliana Biel, who has joined our ASBI community. Are you new to the area and looking for some friendly faces? Sign up to be a neighbor as part of our program to welcome members of the Young Professional community to SCHEDULE FOR SHABBAT Lakeview. To sign up, email Jeremie Lappe at [email protected].

Friday, February 27 Stay updated on the status of the Eruv at twitter.com/lakefronteruv or call 773-248- Light Candles 5:20 PM 9200, ext. 14, which also gives service times for the upcoming week.

Mincha & Kabbalat Shabbat 5:20 PM If you would like to set up an appointment with Rabbi Wolkenfeld, please email

Saturday, February 28 [email protected] to arrange a time. If there is something urgent that you need to discuss with him, please call his cell phone at 917-621-5678. Shacharit with sermon by Avishai Gebler 9:00 AM Youth Tefillah Groups (see inside for details) 10:30 AM Mincha followed by Shalosh Seudot 5:10 PM ANSHE SHOLOM TRIBUTES

Shabbat ends, Havdallah at shul 6:21 PM In Honor Toby Heizler in honor of the ASBI office staff Latest time to recite Sh’ma: February 28, 9:15 AM Mary Otts in honor of Rabbi Wolkenfeld Reuven Robinson in honor of Rabbi Wolkenfeld for his kind assistance to his daughter, Shayna Leah Robinson There will be an extra reading of Zachor this Shabbat both before Kiddush and before Mincha. Refuah Sheleimah

Denise & Stuart Sprague for Lee Davimes Daily Services: March 1 – 6

Shacharit: Yahrzeit Sunday 8:30 AM Cheryl Gold in memory of her mother, Dorothy Gold, a”h

Monday & Wednesday (Erev ) 6:45 AM Toby Heizler in memory of her aunt, Dorothy Gold, a”h

Tuesday & Friday 7:00 AM Donations received after February 25 will be listed in next week's bulletin. Thursday (Purim) 6:35 AM Many thanks for these generous donations.

Join Rabbi Wolkenfeld and the minyanaires for Daf Yomi, the synchronized study of ASBI Winter Playroom Open Hours one Talmudic page each day, every weekday morning after Shacharit.

Mincha: The ASBI playroom is available for kids to use with their parents & caregivers. Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday & Friday 5:30 PM When: Mondays & Thursdays, 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM (Not available on select dates when the shul office is closed) Wednesday 5:15 PM If you would like to host ASBI’s Rabbinic Intern Avishai Gebler for a Shabbat Readings for Shabbat Zachor, Parshat Tetzaveh meal or provide overnight hospitality, please contact Rabbi Wolkenfeld at Torah: Maftir: Haftorah: [email protected]. Exodus 27:20-30:10 Deuteronomy 25:17-19 I Samuel 15:1-34 Hertz: Pages 339-349 Hertz: Pages 856-857 Hertz: Pages 995-998 Avishai will be visiting ASBI again on March 18-21, and April 24-25, with Kaplan: Pages 414-438 Kaplan: Pages 988-989 Kaplan: Pages 1274-1278 additional dates TBD. Stone: Pages 464-482 Stone: Page 1066 Stone: Pages 1214-1216

JPS Commentators: Pages 240-266 Connect with ASBI on Facebook! “Like” ASBI’s Facebook page at Facebook.com/asbichicago. PURIM 5775 SCHEDULE “The Epilogue of Purim”

Sunday, March 1 Shabbat Learning Dinner at Milt’s BBQ

Improv Workshop for 7th-12th graders with Rabbi David Wolkenfeld 1:00-3:00 PM in the sanctuary Friday, March 6, 7:30 PM Join visiting improv actor Etan Bednarsh as he conducts an improv 3411 N. Broadway workshop, centered around Purim themes. Participants will learn the basic tenets of the art of improv and will have the opportunity to perform for each other. Please RSVP to [email protected].

Chocolate Making Workshop with Windy City Sweets For 1st-6th graders 1:30-3:30 PM in the Social Hall Windy City Sweets is coming to ASBI to teach us how to make delicious chocolate treats! Please RSVP to [email protected].

Enjoy a casual and delicious dinner at Milt’s and contemplate two dramatically Wednesday, March 4 Ta’anit Esther different spiritual and religious responses to Purim that are hidden in plain sight in the itself. Fast Begins 5:09 AM Shacharit 6:45 AM Sign up before noon on Monday, March 2, to receive an early-bird discount! Tot & Gan Purim 5:00 PM—5:45 PM Members: $18; Non-Members: $22 Mincha 5:15 PM The price increases to $25 for members & $30 for non-members after the early-bird rate expires. Fast Ends 6:17 PM Costume Parade 6:20 PM Please register and pay at asbi.org by Tuesday, March 3.

Ma’ariv & Megillah Reading (Main Sanctuary) 6:30 PM Please note that all children age 2 and up are billed at the adult price. If you require a vegetarian Ma’ariv & Pin-Drop Megillah Reading (Social Hall) 6:30 PM meal, please request one in the notes section when you register. Auction & Shpiel After Megillah Readings, approximately 7:30 PM Walk-ins will not be allowed. Ice Cream Happy Hour at Windy City Sweets 9:30 PM This dinner is subsidized by the Lopatin Hospitality Fund. Late Megillah Reading at Milt’s 9:45 PM Followed by Appetizers & Cash Bar at Milt’s 10:15 PM

Thursday, March 5 Mishloach Manot Packing Party Shacharit 6:35 AM Please join our annual Mishloach Manot packing party! All are Followed by bagels & cream cheese welcome. Free pizza for volunteers. Women’s Megillah Reading 7:30 AM Afternoon Megillah Reading Time TBA Sunday, March 1 Tot & Gan Purim Purim Costume Parade 7:00 PM in the ASBI Social Hall Wednesday, March 4, 5:00 PM Wednesday, March 4, 6:20 PM

4th Annual ASBI Cholent Cook-Off

If you thought this winter was over, think again. There is a major system

forming known as a cholent vortex. It will arrive on March 14 and leave behind a wake of destruction on your digestive systems. Bring your children, Kindergarten age and younger, to ASBI for a Tot & Gan Purim All children large and small are invited to Everyone is welcome to attend as tasters after Kiddush. For those celebration to help kick off the holiday! We join in this year’s Purim parade. Participants who would like to offer their own interpretation on this will sing Purim songs, tell the Purim story, will march around the sanctuary, weaving centuries-old Jewish staple and partake in the 4th Annual act out Megillat Esther, followed by a their way to walk across the bimah where ASBI Cholent Cook-Off, please contact Tzvi Robinson special Tot & Gan Costume Parade and all will get to see their costumes. We will ([email protected]) or Aaron Zivic ([email protected]). other surprises! start lining up at 6:15 PM. Beit Midrash Wednesdays Join us every week for an accessible and thought-provoking . The cost for dinner is $5; pre-registration is required. Register for dinner at asbi.org prior to 11:00 AM on the day of the class. Dinner walk-ins will be accommodated as possible at $10 per person.

“Stories in the Talmud: Art, Law, and Culture” with Rabbi Dr. Daniel Rosenberg Open Learning and Dinner at 7:30 PM; Shiur at 8:00 PM

Tuesday, March 3

Part I: Art Wednesday, March 18

Part II: Law Wednesday, March 25 Part III: Culture

This three-part class will explore a sometimes less-studied part of Talmudic literature. Stories in the Babylonian Talmud serve multiple functions in helping us to understand the ways that our sages in Bavel thought. They were skilled storytellers who used narratives to express and define legal thought, and in doing so, rooted their teaching in real day-to-day life.

Rabbi Dr. Daniel Rosenberg, a longtime member of the ASBI community, was ordained by the Jewish Theological Seminary in 2001 and recently completed a dissertation at New York University on the “untold stories” of the Babylonian Talmud. He spends summers as a resident

storyteller at Camp Ramah Darom.

“Dilemmas of Jewish Power” To register, visit asbi.org. with Rabbi David Wolkenfeld SHIUR ONLY (no dinner) at 6:30 PM

May 6

Non-Jews in a Jewish State May 13 Just and Unjust Wars May 20 Battlefield Ethics and Torture Participate in ASBI’s Purim Raffle & Auction for the chance to win exciting prizes! Hassidic Dimensions in the Post-Modern World

Items to be won include: with Rabbi Dr. Julian Ungar Sundays, March 8, 15, 22 & 29, at 7:00 PM Fine jewelry One night stay at Hotel Lincoln We will be examining our reading practices by looking at the Sacred Text in a multi- 2 month LPAC membership layered way. By seeing the biases we bring to the text, we begin to see its mirroring Bears tickets effect and learn to read ourselves in the text. We will discover the mythic strata embedded deep in the text and in our psyches, and the way the text can help us make White Sox tickets sense of our lives as well as our personal suffering and grief. We will forge a new Gift Certificates to area Kosher Restaurants approach that resists the pietistic-moralistic approach but also a purely scholastic- and more! archeological reduction. Finally, by being open to radical readers like the Hassidic

Buy raffle tickets now at asbi.org, or purchase tickets on Wednesday, March 4, at shul. masters before us, we will rely on them for a new trajectory that makes for exciting study. Anshe Sholom B’nai Annual Mishloach Manot Fundraising Program

Annual Mishloach Manot Fundraising Program 5775 Please return this form by Monday, March 2, at 10:00 AM.

With Purim around the corner beginning on Wednesday night, March 4, Thank you for your support! we are pleased to invite you to participate in the annual Mishloach Manot To fill out the form and make your payment online Fundraiser. Part of the mitzvah of observing Purim is to give gifts of food called instead, visit asbi.org/purim . Mishloach Manot. Each Purim, Anshe Sholom offers members the chance to fulfill the mitzvah of Mishloach Manot with the entire congregation by donating Congregant Name(s), as to appear on the Donors’ List to the Mishloach Manot Fundraiser. With a contribution, your name is ______included on a special list given to each member with his or her Anshe Sholom Phone number Mishloach Manot package filled with wonderful sweet and savory treats. The proceeds from the program are used to help support the shul and additional ______programming throughout the year. Please select a category below and enter the amount you would like to donate.

If you cannot give at the suggested giving levels, we still very much appreciate Hamentashen ($136 - $249, 5 free raffle tickets) your participation. However, we hope that you can help us fulfill this mitzvah $ ______at the suggested levels, so that we can also include in your donation our own Shpiel ($250 - $499, 10 free raffle tickets) synagogue’s donation to The Ark and Leket Israel—Israel's National Food $ ______Bank. For the second year, ASBI is partnering with 's Yeshivat Eretz HaTzvi to help deliver a hearty and festive Purim meal to an entire IDF base. The Whole Megillah ($500 - $999, 20 free raffle tickets)

Each donation at the recommended levels will include sponsorship of Purim $ ______meals (burgers, fries, drinks) for IDF soldiers, hand-delivered by students and Half the Kingdom ($1,000 - $1,799, 50 free raffle tickets) faculty of Yeshivat Eretz HaTzvi. The more we each give, the more we can $ ______support these important organizations! The Whole Kingdom ($1,800 and up, 100 free raffle tickets) The Five Levels of Recommended Giving are: $ ______

Hamentashen: $136. A donation will be made to The Ark, Leket Israel, and Other (Please fill in amount) the Eretz HaTzvi Purim program, and you will receive 5 free raffle $ ______tickets. To purchase raffle tickets, please select the number of tickets you would like below. Shpiel: $250. A donation will be made to The Ark, Leket Israel, and the Eretz HaTzvi Purim program, and you will receive 10 free raffle tickets. Raffle Tickets ($5 each, 5 for $20, 15 for $50)

The Whole Megillah: $500. A donation will be made to The Ark, Leket # of tickets ______$ ______Israel, and the Eretz HaTzvi Purim program, and you will receive 20 free Please enclose a check for your donation or pay using a credit card by raffle tickets. completing the form below. Half the Kingdom: $1,000. A donation will be made to The Ark, Leket Israel, Please Circle: Visa MasterCard American Express Discover and the Eretz HaTzvi Purim program, and you will receive 50 free raffle tickets. Cardholder’s Name (Please Print): ______

The Whole Kingdom: $1,800. A donation will be made to The Ark, Leket Billing Address: ______Israel, and the Eretz HaTzvi Purim program, and you will receive 100 free Credit Card Number: ______Exp Date: ______raffle tickets. Security Code: ______Cardholder’s signature: ______Your financial support of Anshe Sholom is critical to keep the shul running throughout the year. Programs such as our children’s Purim programming, Megillah readings, and Please return this form to the shul office, mail directly to the even our Purim Shpiel are made possible with your help. We thank you in advance shul, or fax completed form to 773-248-5001.

for your participation in this important fundraising program. Anshe Sholom B’nai Israel 540 West Melrose Street Chicago, IL 60657 Please review the following chart and let the office know if you would like either to read Torah or to sponsor or co-sponsor a Kiddush or Shalosh Seudot. We’ll be happy to help with the arrangements.

DATE KIDDUSH SHALOSH SEUDOT TORAH PORTION HAFTORAH

March 7 Ki Tisa Rabbi David Wolkenfeld March 14 Taken Taken Vayakhel-Pekudei [email protected]

March 21 Taken Taken Avishai Gebler Vayikra Rabbinic Intern

Celebrate your own, your child’s, or a loved one’s birthday/anniversary/milestone by OFFICERS – 2014-2015 / 5775-5776 President – Rabbi Paul Saiger sponsoring or co-sponsoring a Kiddush or Shalosh Seudot. • One Shabbat each month will be our Birthday/Anniversary Kiddush, to celebrate birthdays/anniversaries/ Immediate Past President – David Harris milestones in that month. President-Elect – Jeremy Treister • You may co-sponsor a Kiddush by contributing a smaller amount. Vice President - Ways and Means – Ross Weisman Small Kiddush Meal $720 Light Kiddush Lunch $1080 Hearty Kiddush Lunch $1440 Shalosh Seudot $118 Vice President - House – Jeremy Treister 1 main course 2 main courses 3 main courses assorted salads Vice President - Membership – Danielle Gershon assorted salads assorted salads assorted salads assorted baked goods Vice President - Ritual – Dr. Ira Halper Vice President - Education – Evelyn Behar assorted baked goods assorted baked goods assorted baked goods Vice President - Financial – Asher Zarkowsky

Please call the shul office for details at 773-248-9200 or email [email protected]. Recording Secretary – Ruth Lipman Dedication Opportunities BOARD OF DIRECTORS – 2014-2015 / 5775-5776 Honor your loved ones with a dedication plaque or book plate. Dr. Stuart Sprague - Chair Iris Gafni-Kane Jacques Aaron Preis New Siddur/ Small Large Stone Memorial Julia Aaronson Ashlyn Gorlin Tzvi Robinson Chumash Tree of Life Leaf Tree of Life Leaf Tree of Life Plaque Beverly Agdern Toby Heizler Rabbi Daniel Rosenberg $54 $180 $360 $1,080 $680 Elyce Bader Ira King Linda Saiger Linda Cohen Michael Leib Margalit Segal Herbert Eiseman Adam Levine Rabbi Melvin Shapiro Youth Tefillah Groups Aaron Feigelson Norman Levitz Alan Skidelsky Steve Feiger Jennifer Loeb Adam Smoler Tot Shabbat (children 3 and under with a parent) Eytan Fox Michael Newberger Andrew Weprin 10:45 AM in the ASBI Social Hall with Tamar Cytryn Paul Freund Scott Newberger Gan Shabbat (JK & K) ASBI COMMITTEES AND CHAIRS 10:45 AM in JCC Room 206 with Rachel Podell Chesed: Joelle Shabat Mikvah: Ruth Lipman Yeladeinu (1st -2nd grade) Education: Evelyn Behar Ritual: Dr. Ira Halper Family: Jennifer Loeb Security: Peggy Kaz 10:30 AM in JCC Room 204 with Roxie Zeller Hospitality: JP Bader & Deena Davis Young Professionals: Beverly Agdern, Na’areinu (3rd-5th grade) Israel: Herbert Eiseman Amy Beth Green & Tzvi Robinson

10:30 AM in the JCC Gym with Stefanie Groner Gabbai: Dr. Josh Ehrlich Gabbaiyot: Dr. Chai Wilensky & Judith Wolf Tefillah Off the Deep End (6th -7th grade) Office Staff: Steve Miller ([email protected]) and Hayley Leventhal ([email protected]) 10:30 AM in the Beit Midrash with Andrea Katz

Babysitting Services (For children ages 1 through 7) Adam R. Straus Memorial Mikvah: (773) 935-1689 [email protected] with Mollie Diedrich Dedications and Donations

9:30 AM until Kiddush in the ASBI Playroom Anshe Sholom B’nai Israel Congregation is indebted to Judge Abraham Lincoln Marovitz, a”h, for his generosity to the synagogue and to the Marovitz Scholarship Fund. Kiddush until 12:30 PM in JCC Room 204 The George Kranzler Library of Judaic Classics is donated in loving memory of Mr. George Kranzler by Group leaders and babysitter are subject to change. the Kranzler and Saltzman families.

The Learning Center was dedicated on 29 Av 5761 in memory of Rose and Dr. Abe Aaronson who inspired us in learning and charity. Security—If you see something, say something. We acknowledge and thank the following funds for helping us celebrate our community's simchas: Alan Hepker: (847) 980-5630 the Frances “Freidl” Goodman Berger, a"h, Fund which presents menorahs to each newborn child; the William and Frances Goodman Mezuzah Fund which provides a mezuzah for newlyweds; and the Rachel, Gabrielle, and Wren Berger Bat and Bar Mitzvah Fund which presents a Kiddush cup to Prayer for the United States and Its Government each Bat and Bar Mitzvah. based on "deSola Pool Siddur" There is a sense of wholeness and artistic integrity in our sanctuary, thanks to our beautiful stained- God on high, bless this our country, the United States of America, and all who dwell therein. Bless the glass windows on the east wall, dedicated in memory of Bernard Preis, a”h.

constituted officers of government of this land. Set into their hearts the spirit of wisdom and understanding to The windows on the south wall are dedicated in memory of George Friedman, a”h.

uphold peace and freedom. The Louis A. Lerner Institute of Torah Texts sponsors all the Torah text classes at ASBI.