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This year has presented the most uncertain and difficult of times. As we welcome in the new year, we are reminded, now more than ever, of our commitment to be here for those who have found themselves in challenging circumstances and of our deepest gratitude to those whose generosity has inspired and impacted our community.
Looking to the future, whether caring for people in need in times of crisis, or nurturing and sustaining Jewish identity for future generations, we know that together, we will fill the year with hope, meaning and purpose. May this new year bring you peace, good health and blessings. As always, the Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas is Here For You. Here For Good. Shanah Tovah! Happy New Year! September 24, 2020 | 3 Leynor foreshadowed his life’s legacy in his lyrics
‘Every little thing Neal (Linda). you do adds up’ “The Talmud teaches us that if you save a life, you save the world,” By Deb Silverthorn said Neal. “Through his character, Rabbi Jeffrey Leynor, longtime empathy and deeds, our brother rabbi at Congregation Beth Torah saved so many.” and more recently at Beth El Binah, Brenna recalls being protective died on Sept. 16 at age 67. of her baby brother from the Descended from a long line moment he came home from the of rabbis, Leynor took a different hospital. “In many ways he was path before committing to the mine and he always will be and I rabbinate, as a singer and acoustic was lucky to be his sister.” guitarist in a rock ‘n’ roll band. After one year as a pre-med Plano Police and Fire Auxiliary Chaplain “Every little thing you do adds student at Hiram College in Ohio, and Dallas Police Department Victim up,” he wrote and sang on his where Leynor began studies to Chaplain Rabbi Leynor, the forces’ only Jewish clergy, served the greater album “Pebble in the Pond.” And become a doctor, he reconnected community for nearly three decades. indeed, every little thing he did with Jimmy Brown and other high “Jeffrey was a great listener and a very added up, according to the many school friends and The Stanky compassionate man. We had lots of laughs family members and friends he left Brown Group was born. With and many serious talks,” said Plano Police and Fire Chaplain Robert Matthews. behind. Leynor singing and on acoustic Rabbi Leynor leaves two guitar, the rock and roll band made the decision to part ways children, Keri and Perry, from recorded three Billboard-charting professionally, while remaining his first marriage to Barbara, and albums and toured the country friends, Leynor, who, according son Austin Clar, whom he gained opening for headliners including to his family, hailed from a long by marrying his beloved Karen, of The Eagles, Jefferson Starship, line of rabbis dating back to Rabbi Photos: Courtesy Leynor Family Before his ordination, Jeff Leynor (center) was found playing guitar, singing and blessed memory. The Beach Boys and The Doobie Israel ben Eliezer, the Baal Shem performing as a member of The Stanky Brown Group. “You may be all I need to “My dad told us every single day Brothers. help me see everything that I can be,” they sang, words for Leynor’s children to how much he loved us and how Once the band members see LEYNOR, p.26 reflect on the man who was their father. much he believed in us,” said Perry. “He was our biggest supporter and it wasn’t just ‘Dad talk.’ His very Wishing you a Happy New Year! best qualities were how he always listened, and how he was always there.” Keri, now a teacher, recalls her father visiting her own class NCJW Greater Dallas Section when she was a child during Beth Torah’s Torah Time. She recalls wishes members of the Dallas him putting his hand on her head, and her dad, she says, always had Jewish community a year of health, the words to help others through happines and peace life, and through grief. COMMERCIAL • INDUSTRIAL • INSTITUTIONAL “He showed the world to us TACL A370C through a different lens,” she said. “He had no filter, and he was raw Family Owned Since 1974 100%, always letting you know 214-631-1010 www.kahnmechanical.com ncjwdallas.org exactly how he felt. No matter what race, or religion … no matter who a person was, he was there in the moments he was needed.” That philosophy of presence resonated throughout his career, L’Shanah Tovah and especially in recent months as the pandemic disrupted familiar and comforting patterns of from our family to yours... community. “Judaism is a ‘we’ religion, not a ‘me’ religion, and despite this ~ The Beck Family & pandemic, we must find ways to be together to pray and to learn, our family of companies to celebrate, to comfort and to mourn,” Rabbi Leynor told the Texas Jewish Post just three months www.utb.com • (972) 239-7000 ago.“We are social creatures, and we need one another.” Member FDIC Born in Newark, New Jersey, March 19, 1953, Leynor grew up in South Orange as the third child of Evelyn, a social worker, and Phillip, a doctor, both of blessed memory, and the brother of Brenna and 4 | September 24, 2020 Educators launch an online resource
Parenting Rewired my own clients who needed to exhale,” she said. “I was doing By Deb Silverthorn online webinars, sharing the Three moms and longtime mindfulness and meditation I educators have pooled their was using for myself, and with the expertise via social media to help overwhelming response I realized Jimmy Wisch parents and adults of all ages to this was something for the masses. Publisher & Editor | 1947-2002 navigate relationships during the “Jordana and Dorit are my dear pandemic and beyond. friends, and they are the perfect Rene Wisch Jordana Bernstein, Dorit partners because they’re incredible Publisher & Editor | 1947-2010 Schonbrunn and Kim Zoller, educators and parents themselves founders of Parenting Rewired, who have so much to share,” she PUBLISHER & EDITOR are dedicated to helping the continued. “They show up and Sharon Wisch-Ray greater Dallas community with genuinely want to help make [email protected] online information and support the connections and construct for better family life. At 8:30 p.m. building blocks for generations to VP SALES & CIRCULATION Wednesday, Sept. 30, Parenting come.” Susan Wisch Photo: Courtesy Parenting Rewired Rewired will return to Facebook There have been thousands of “Helping parents is our passion and we’re helping to grow and nurture [email protected] Live. views of some of their posts, which emotionally healthy people,” Jordana Bernstein (bottom) said of her Parenting “It’s about learning to approach have included behaving around Rewired partners Kim Zoller (top left) and Dorit Schonbrunn. “We want to share VP SALES & MARKETING situations with calm, rather than family while in quarantine, this to as many parents, family members, educators and members of the greater Amy Doty community as possible so we can all become mindful together.” fight or flight,” said Bernstein, the caution that children are always [email protected] early childhood director at Akiba listening, academic support Providing a data-driven approach self-recognition I wouldn’t have Yavneh Academy. “Helping parents and even a road trip to deliver to support the parenting journey, thought a child was capable of.” PAGE DESIGNER is our passion and we’re helping Bernstein’s son to college. the course speaks to every stage While it is called Parenting Chad Austin to grow and nurture emotionally The threesome have eight of parenting and discusses why Rewired, much of the [email protected] healthy people and we want to children among them, now young mindfulness is critical and how programming and advice is geared share this to as many parents, adults, who have helped to build to make it part of daily life. The to any relationship and can be AD REPRESENTATIVES family members, educators and the template, the exercises and course provides continuously applied to personal, business and Nancy Sadicarios members of the greater community the ongoing practice of what they updated resources, articles and social relationships. [email protected] as possible so we can all become teach. activities, an on-demand video “For all of us it’s about taking Judy Wisch mindful together.” “Right now, we’re all living in a library, expert interviews and the traumatic events in our lives In mid-June, Bernstein, traumatic time, making parenting resources. and how to model resilience and COPY EDITORS/PROOFREADERS Schonbrunn and Zoller, longtime all the more difficult,” said “What works for one child handle our unpleasant feelings Phyllis LaVietes, Susan Wisch friends who respect one another’s Schonbrunn, the early childhood doesn’t always work for the other, while focusing on what we can professional expertise, brought pedagogical coordinator at Akiba but I have learned so many tools, so control, which is working to change COLUMNISTS/CONTRIBUTORS their skills and wisdom to the Yavneh Academy. “We’re coming many ideas, and this program has ourselves,” said Schonbrunn. “No Rabbi Yerachmiel Fried, Harriet P. Gross, public forums of Facebook, together as a community to learn literally changed life for me and my matter how old our children are, Rabbi Dan Lewin, Laura Seymour, Deb Instagram and the web in the form to breathe, to understand no one is daughters. It’s changing the brain they need to be able to look in our Silverthorn, Jerry Kasten, Rabbi Benjamin of live events and almost-daily — that no one has to be — perfect, and changing the mindset,” said eyes and see that we can handle any Sternman and Rabbi Yogi Robkin posts, most of which are free. and we can all learn from our participant Jami Nelson. “I learned situation, and that they can too.” Zoller, founder of ID360, which perfectly imperfect mistakes.” how to approach a situation and For more information join the MULTI-MEDIA INTERN provides professional coaching In August, Parenting Rewired that how I do that is something Parenting Rewired Facebook page, Hannah Simon and training, said she was looking offered a three-part live-session that will help them forever. 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Excitement, cheers and announced in a later edition of applause. These sounds are not the Texas Jewish Post. the norm at a typical Jewish The Sylvan T. Baer Foundation nonprofit’s annual meeting. was established in 1965 by Mr. But then again, the Dallas Baer in honor of his parents, Jewish Community Foundation Jacob and Helen Baer, to assist (DJCF) is no ordinary Jewish needy and deserving Jews in nonprofit. The most significant the Dallas community. Bank of distinction is that the DJCF America, N.A., serves as trustee does not fundraise nor solicit. of this charitable foundation Can another nonprofit in and the DJCF has been the hired town say that? The Foundation consultant for the bank since administers numerous scholarships, inception. The Foundation is endowments and donor-advised currently valued at $3.5 million funds on behalf of fundholders. and distributes annually 5% of Additionally, the Foundation the market value. No one could concentrates on managing have anticipated the wonderful other nonprofits’ funds so those legacy Mr. Baer created, and now Board Chairman Andy Dropkin, bottom, nonprofits can concentrate on each year the entire community will pass the gavel to Lisa Newman, top the important services they comes together in suspense as center, at the Nov. 4 event. provide. the grants are announced. It’s a Beyond the typical “gavel” wonderful example of the value for the behind-the-scenes work items of an annual meeting, the of endowment funds, one that they do that only each agency’s DJCF adheres to the philosophy the DJCF is proud to share. investment committee realizes. that the real success lies in the The DJCF Annual Meeting Being a virtual meeting people who donate time and also honors the many has its advantages. All those resources because, for them, the fundholders who give purpose that that sign up for this free whole is better than its parts. to the Foundation’s mission. community event will be mailed This year’s Nov. 4 Virtual Annual These fundholders allow the “celebration kits” that include Meeting will serve as a reminder Foundation and its partners ways to celebrate, thank and that #ThereIsGoodHappening to fulfill their purposes. And honor those in the spotlight. in our community. The speaking of partners, 20 of the Given how unique the last few awarding of the Sylvan T. Baer nonprofits who call on DJCF to months have been, this year’s Foundation grants is always full manage their investment assets Annual Meeting promises to of excitement as the agencies will have their Unsung Heroes be even more extraordinary, that night will only know they honored. Now we all know a lot as it will showcase not only are recipients; only there, about heroes lately, and these are the great work the DJCF has surrounded by their supporters, staff and volunteers that work accomplished but the great will they find out the amount. behind the scenes ensuring their work done behind the scenes by As many as 14 agencies who work nonprofits are successful. Lastly, staff and volunteers of so many directly with Jewish individuals the leadership of the foundation, different nonprofits. The media will have the potential to share both new and outgoing, will also sponsor for this milestone event $175,000 in grant awards that be feted for their achievements. is the Texas Jewish Post. For night. The agency names that They are truly the backbone of more information, visit www. will receive grants will be so many agency success stories DJCF.org or call 214-615-9351. FEDERATION NEWS September 24, 2020 | 7 JFGD’s young adult division to restructure programming
YAD taking But also, it’s more by meeting casually in to get the word the different elements that innovative important to get the social events, they might out on its new we feel like the community approach early career demographic want to do something programming. brings to the table,” YAD involved through low-cost, different, like attend “We really Chair Michelle Berger By Leah Vann low-commitment events volunteering events or want to start said. “We just want to Keeping millennials first, like a “Newish and leadership development looking at the big measure our impact and GenZers involved Jewish” happy hour rather groups. picture, and not within the community. in their local Jewish than a long guest speaker In addition, YAD is just the dollars And then we’ll do that communities is becoming Austin Pecora or donation-based event. hoping to expand its Brett Steiger but really paying Michelle Berger through expanding our more challenging as they Once they feel engaged social media presence attention to all metrics.” enter their professional lives. During an online Town Hall on Wednesday, Sept. 2, new leaders of the Young Adult Division (YAD) of the Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas proposed a plan for restructuring its program to increase involvement and encourage retention. One of the most notable changes will be redefining groups within YAD. Rather than using age, YAD will define members by their demographic life stages: early career, established career, young and married couples and young families. About 7% of YAD constituents are in the early career category and 34% are in the established career category while young married couples and young families make up 29% and 30% respectively. “It’s important to notice that our early career demographic is low,” Austin Pecora, YAD gift chair, said. “And that’s likely because our early career demographic is more likely to give their time and participate in events, rather than commit financially with a big gift.” These demographics have different needs when it comes to programming, and financially are contributing at different levels. Something common with most categories, though, is that they want to see that their money goes to something tangible, rather than a blanket donation to the Federation itself. “Millennials are going to say, ‘The Federation raises millions of dollars. They’re not going to miss my $18. I’ll just go to Starbucks or go get a drink; I’ll give it to another charity that I saw pop up that looks interesting,’” YAD Vice Chair Brett Steiger said. Seeing where the money is going makes young adults more willing to donate. “They can say, ‘Oh wow, that $18 can help feed a family at Jewish Family Service. It can help with counseling or emergency relief if a tornado hits us again,’” Steiger said. “It makes them feel like $18 is not just going to a pot of money that no one knows, that they’ll never really understand or see again.” 8 | September 24, 2020 AROUND THE TOWN JFS Senior Program keeps dishing up smiles
Indefatigable staff little nosh and coffee. Once a of their ability. Once a week, the Wins ‘Hometown week, the seniors played bingo seniors get a hot meal from a local Heroes Award’ and blackjack. They also loved restaurant delivered to their door. Rummikub. Other activities The restaurant differs each week. By Hannah Simon included chair exercises and The seniors have enjoyed meals The Jewish Family Services watching movies. Sometimes, they from Boston Market, Joe’s Pizza, Senior Program, directed by Hedy had special programs that ranged Cracker Barrel, Chicken Express, Collins, has made adjustments from concerts to magic shows. Jason’s Deli, among others with since the pandemic has started. Twice a week someone came to which Collins has negotiated the Collins has been the director give them chair massages. A dairy best deal. Every other Monday, the of the JFS Senior Program for 13 lunch was served every day. On seniors receive shelf-stable food years. She was hired by Dr. Carole Fridays, they celebrated Shabbat (packs of tuna fi sh, cans of rice Rogers, director of JFS. Collins is with candle lighting, wine and and beans) from the Fort Worth supported by two dedicated staff challah. Frequently, Beth-El Rabbi nonprofi t Sixty and Better. Collins members: Marge Van Giesen, who Brian Zimmerman came and sang delivers those items to make sure has been with the senior program with them. the seniors have food during the for the last year, and Nurjanti Occasionally, the seniors took week. On alternate Tuesdays, she (Miau Ling) Tjahjadi, who has fi eld trips out in the community. brings a snack of fresh produce been the bus driver and assistant Once a week, they went to the and a treat. for the last 18 years. Fun fact about grocery store. Once a month, they This month, the seniors Marge: She has been involved went shopping at TJ Maxx or Ross. received a new bus. The JFS ladies with Jewish life in Fort Worth for Collins went to the food bank turned the new bus into an ice so long that she taught my father every month and picked up food. cream truck for the seniors and (Robert Simon) in Sunday School The food was divided among the drove around Tarrant County at Beth-El Congregation during seniors. The food selection ranged to show the seniors the new
the 1975-1976 school year. Miau from canned fruit, to fresh fruit, bus and pass out ice cream. For Photo: Courtesy JFS Ling has been in the United States dried nuts or grapes, sometimes Rosh Hashanah, all the seniors Kim Factor, Miau Ling, Debbie Goldsmith, Hedy Collins, Marge Van Giesen and for over 25 years. frozen chicken, or whatever the received a bag with apples, Carole Rogers. Before the pandemic, Miau food bank had at that time. honey, honeycake, challah and Ling would pick up the seniors Since the pandemic began, the fi rst offi cial newsletter of of their lives. I cannot wait to see award given by the Fort Worth at their respective homes and the seniors cannot go to Beth- Jewish Family Services, created everyone in person and give hugs.” Star-Telegram and by Lockheed take them to Beth-El. The seniors El. However, that does not stop by JFS committee member, Yael The seniors’ favorite parts of Martin. The winners receive arrived at 10 a.m. and stayed until Collins and her team from Sasley. Last week, Kim Factor the program are winning prizes $1,000. 1 p.m. They started out with a serving the seniors to the best and Carole Rogers rode the bus and socializing with their friends. Rogers nominated the Senior with Collins and her team. Factor The JFS Senior Program has 42 Program staff because, “They Rent what youy need from blew the shofar at all the stops seniors on its roster. Some are put their own lives on the line to for the seniors. The seniors also Americans, but others come from serve the community. Marge and get biweekly phone calls, and a abroad. In addition to English, Hedy are in a group of people who new poem every week written by some of the seniors speak Russian, can contract COVID-19 easily, EQUIPMENT COMPANY, INC. Marge Van Giesen. The seniors Italian and Spanish as their but they wanted to make sure enjoy receiving mail, phone calls primary language. The program the community’s members were and at least two deliveries a week. is open to Jewish and non-Jewish taken care of. The level of service We have EVERYTHING you’ll need When asked about her favorite seniors 60 years old and above. to the community warranted to make your next event special. thing to do, Collins answered, This amazing program was recognition.” Carole also said, “Playing bingo. I am the caller. nominated for Hometown “My philosophy has always been, Call or visit our showrooms at 220 University Dr. (817) 332-5258 I also like being the mother and Heroes by Carole Rogers, and when you build a team it is like the daughter. I love being a part won! Hometown Heroes is an putting together a jigsaw puzzle. All the pieces are different but if TTaylorsRental_041708_2X2.inddaylorsRental_041708_2X2.indd 1 44/4/08/4/08 12:29:4212:29:42 PPMM you put them together the right Best Wishes for a Happy New Year! way, they make a picture. If you put different staff together the right way it makes the perfect Serving the Jewish community team.” Carole also mentioned a quote by with dignity, compassion Frank Ocean, “Work hard in silence and let your success be the noise.” and friendship. The JFS Senior Program is an integral part of the Jewish community in Tarrant County. It has served this community for more than 30 years. The Senior Program celebrates all Jewish and secular holidays, such as Halloween and Thanksgiving. Collins throws a big Hanukkah party every year with latkes; E.C. “TREY” HARPER III B’nai B’rith sponsors a Passover Seder that any senior can attend. 1500 8th Ave., Fort Worth, Texas 76104 • (817) 924-4233 During the pandemic, the services [email protected] • robertsonmuellerharper.com the program provides are more important than ever. HIGH HOLIDAYS September 24, 2020 | 9 Area clergy share High Holiday messages
Editor’s note: The TJP is thrilled and nothing lives forever. Every deed counts. Everything For the help we can Overcoming the theft with the overwhelming response of But amidst overwhelming forces you do matters. give, there is tzedakah, of time together our local clergy to our request for their of nature and humankind, And we never know what act or justice. High Holiday messages. Here is the we still write our own Book of word Together, let us write a By Michael Cohen balance of submissions. Commentary Life, will leave an impression or tip beautiful Book of Life COVID-19 closures continues through p.17. and our actions are the words in the scale. for the Holy One to create different faces it, So, if not now, then when? read. of hardship in our and the stages of our lives are the For the things that we can change, community. We strive with chapters, there is teshuvah, realignment, Sheri Allen is beginning her 11th Rabbi Michael faithfulness to be there, as and nothing goes unrecorded, For the things we cannot change, year as cantor of Congregation Cohen best we can, through the ever. there is tefi lah, prayer, Beth Shalom. loving care of The Legacy’s
Cantor Sheri Allen
Each day is sacred, every action counts
By Sheri Allen This year, I am struck by the relevancy and power of the Unetana Tokef prayer, which outlines the possible fates that may or may not await us in the new year. COVID-19 has taken the lives of more than 200,000 people in this country alone. And I’m sure not one of them would’ve imagined that they would succumb to a disease that, just a year ago, none of us had ever even heard of. This pandemic has changed our lives, and how we live them, forever. It’s also, hopefully, led us to a greater appreciation of blessings that we often take for granted, and reminded ourselves of how fragile, how sacred, each day is. Just the simple act of breathing comfortably is a reason to give thanks. My days in isolation have been transformative in other ways. I, along with the rest of the world, have witnessed shocking acts of inhumanity and injustice. And I’ve had to admit and own my own complicity by not actively speaking out against them. Until now. This is where teshuvah comes in. Acknowledging our missteps, our missed opportunities to help those who have been calling out for support, we can now choose a different path. We can take action to help make life more equitable, just, and safe for every human being. We can all help to “avert the severe decree” for each other. The Legacy Willow Bend The Legacy at Home The Legacy Midtown Park And in this beautiful reframing Plano’s Only Life Care Community Care Wherever You Call Home Continuing Care Rental Community of the Unetana Tokef, Rabbi Joseph Meszler refl ects on what (972) 468-6208 (972) 244-7700 (214) 379-6700 that might look like. On Rosh Hashanah it is written, on Yom Kippur it is sealed: That this year people will live and die, some more gently than others 10 | September 24, 2020 HIGH HOLIDAYS staff. A number of spouses have herself, nor drinking enough caregivers, without whom loved and Sweet New Year wish to “God, you are slow to anger and faced separation from life partners fl uids. When she was hospitalized, ones would miss even FaceTime everyone. It has been a remarkable quick to forgive. You do not wish because of a needed change in complications quickly took her contact. six months for all of us, with no the death of sinners but You seek level of care. It raises barriers to from us all. Even a “heart of wisdom,” such end in sight. Countless numbers that they should turn from their the life to which they’ve always Perhaps the cruelest hardships as we seek in Psalm 90, suffers with of people have been infected and ways and live.” Our God is not been accustomed. Not everyone befall our most vulnerable — the knowledge that a loved one is some of our relatives and friends a vengeful God, as many would can use FaceTime to mitigate this suffering the cognitive decline of distressed. May God inspire us in have succumbed to the disease. believe, but a compassionate God. distancing, without helping hands. dementia that leaves them lonely the new year of 5781 to fi nd ways The Unetana Tokef prayer Why else would we pray at Neilah But how does one cope with the and, in their confusion, fearful. we can keep faith with our families, takes on a greater meaning this that the Gates of Righteousness concern for the well-being of your Despite efforts of caregivers to visit and communicate enough love year, especially when we pray, (and life) remain open so we can spouse with whom you’ve gone and check on them, and facilitate through our Legacy staff. “On Rosh Hashanah it is written, enter? through everything, when contact FaceTime visits, it’s potentially on Yom Kippur it is sealed: Who As Harold Kushner wrote in is limited? devastating that their children Michael Cohen, rabbi and ACPE certifi ed shall perish by fi re and who by his landmark book, “When Bad Adult children kept from their can’t visit in our health center. educator, is director of Rabbinical Services and plague.” Things Happen to Good People,” parents’ side, sometimes struggle, The psalmist identifi es (Psalm Pastoral Care at The Legacy Senior Communi- Much has been written about God created us, gave us the ability when they’ve previously shared a 30) that “When connection with ties in Plano. this litany of life and death. Is to choose, and then stepped back presence each has depended upon. God is obscured, a moment it God who decrees our destiny to watch what choices we made. The theft of time together during becomes unbearably eternal.” How or is it us? I’m thinking of those A choice was made not to tell what may be the last portion of a cruel to see dementia that robs who called the disease a hoax, the American people about the parent’s life, is heartbreaking. us of our courage, compounded contracted it and then died. They seriousness of this plague and our A very independent resident by the restrictions we must had control over whether to wash lives, our destinies, our families didn’t want to worry her kids, observe for COVID-19, pose such their hands or not. It wasn’t God have forever been altered. because visits were scarce, and obstruction! “But to attune to the who settled the “who shall live May we all come to realize mediated through a Plexiglas presence of the Divine is to be fully and who shall die” decree. It was as we recite the Unetana Tokef screen. She kept from them and alive.” So much of that attunement Cantor Don Croll those who chose not to take care. prayer this year that we control staff that she wasn’t quite feeling comes inJay the heartfelt Crystal efforts of our The prayer ends with the our destiny. We control our destiny statement, “but repentance, L’shanah Tovah uM’tukah prayer and charity temper Tikateivu. May you have a good By Don Croll TM judgment’s severe decree.” The and sweet 5781. 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each other. We can be better with that preceding creation was “tohu administration, staff, parents and harshness of the decree.” Reading how we feel about each other. We va’vohu,” confusion and chaos. students who have grown closer this closely, it’s clear that the decree can put others fi rst. We can “think Why was this detail included? and stronger through this all. itself is still present. What changes about someone else” and through It is such an important detail Together we have learned this vital is only our subjective experience that we can pray that He will send because it is God’s way of letting lesson from Rosh Hashanah and of enduring the decree. It becomes us a shanah tovah, a good new year! us all know that everything in his the epic of creation. Together we tolerable. world is more naturally disordered see that we can fi nd some order in While it is powerful every year, Aryeh Feigenbaum is the rabbi of Congrega- and chaotic, and that it takes this new world, and that this new I encounter renewed resonance Rabbi Aryeh Feigenbaum tion Ohr HaTorah. deliberate action and planning — year will be one of great growth, within the timeless truth of this We can be better with how we it takes us — to place order upon challenge and sweet successes. phrase. Our very different High treat one another our worlds. This can be hard and From our AYA family to yours Holidays this year have brought fi lled with challenge as we try — we wish you all a happy, healthy, into focus all that is out of our By Aryeh Feigenbaum mightily to wrestle the world from and sweet New Year! control. We can’t make COVID-19 Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel, the a place of uncertainty, anxiety and simply disappear. It’s the decree we head of the famous Mir Yeshiva, chaos, into a system of harmony, Rabbi Yaakov Green is the Akiba Yavneh Acad- must live with. Yet, we have great was asked, “What should I think knowledge and coordination. emy head of school. power to shift our experience. about during the shofar blowing?” Our new year will be one of Firstly, we can repent, which Without pausing he answered, challenge and one of effort as is to say, we can refl ect upon our “Think about someone else.” We we collectively work as a broad lives and our actions, identify our Rabbi Yaakov Green have been through a year like no community to fi nd order in the errors, re-orient our behaviors to other in our lifetime. We have Finding order in a new world: chaos of uncertainty. At Akiba refl ect our values, and heal our been introduced to new terms: embracing a new year of Yavneh we have spent months relationships. In a world of social social distancing, isolation, growth, challenge and success working together with so many distancing, this can tangibly bring quarantine. The way we fi ght the organizations and individuals us closer with God and with each spread of COVID-19 is separation. By Yaakov Green throughout our great community Rabbi Mordechai Harris other. Separation means that some Beginnings are never easy — to ensure the safety of students Prayer is our opportunity to people are alone. Some are hurting that’s by design. This week we and staff. Equally important — we A High Holiday recipe for nurture hope through our faith. fi nancially; some, emotionally. celebrate the start of creation, and work to ensure that we can provide resilience Viktor Frankl’s “Man’s Search for Think about someone else. Think the coronation of the King of Kings. superior general and Judaic studies Meaning” documents well the about how you can help them. An important question should be education and social-emotional By Mordechai Harris impact of hope and purpose during Think about those you don’t asked of the opening verses of our education to our wonderful The climax of Unetana Tokef, even the most traumatic of times. get along with and how you can Torah which describe these very students at all grade levels, here on hauntingly chanted by the Our traditional liturgy serves also change that. Hashem is sending fi rst moments of creation — why our campus. congregation on Rosh Hashanah as a mantra of mission, anchoring us a message this year. He has tell us what existed before creation, These efforts of creating new and Yom Kippur, reads “U’teshuva, us amidst a chaotic world and shaken up the world. Perhaps the why not just start with the fi rst systems, new expectations and u’tefi lah, u’tzedaka ma’avirin et giving cause for resilience. message He is sending us is, we Big-Bang moments? Instead, the new realities are monumental and ro’ah hagezeirah” — “Repentance, Finally, charity has the can be better with how we treat Torah directly tells its audience I am fi lled with gratitude to our prayer, and charity remove (the) capability to shift our entire
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By Andrew M. Paley As we wish each other a Shanah Tovah, a good year, that will hopefully unfold for us, never could we have imagined how much we needed shalom in our world, than we have seen over the past nine months. The pandemic has left illness and devastation in its wake, disrupting lifecycle events, schools, and our ability to be present for others in the way it is so needed. The partisan divides in our country seem worse than before; civic unrest has spread throughout the country. The word “normal” is now really hard to define. This time is hard to define. And yet, I remain ever hopeful and energized by what I have witnessed in and among these difficult times: acts of courage, bravery, love, kindness and caring in more ways than I can count. 14 | September 24, 2020 REMEMBERING RBG From camp ‘rabbi’ to pursuing justice: How Judaism animated Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s life
By Ben Sales of a world free of prejudice. She to Washington, as the kids had in prison, and Ginsburg’s appeals (JTA) — In its obituary republished the essay in her 2016 grown up. court declined his appeal of of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, The book “My Own Words.” that sentence. (Pollard was Guardian wrote that the late “We must never forget the She visited Israel in the 1970s for released in 2015 after 30 Jewish Supreme Court Justice horrors which our brethren were a conference on Jewish law — and years in prison.) “abandoned her religion.” subjected to in Bergen-Belsen kept going back. That couldn’t be more wrong. and other Nazi concentration In her confi rmation While Ginsburg, who died camps,” she wrote. “There can As an attorney, while arguing a hearings, she spoke Friday, Sept. 18, at age 87 after 27 be a happy world and there will series of landmark women’s rights about how her Jewish years on the high court’s bench, be once again, when men create cases before the Supreme Court in heritage impacted her was not known for her ritual a strong bond towards one the ’70s, Ginsburg also “actively views on civil rights. observance, she spoke frequently another, a bond unbreakable by participated” in the American Jewish about how Jewish values inspired a studied prejudice or a passing Congress’ Commission on Law Appearing before her, and she was active in circumstance.” and Social Action. Also during that the Senate in 1993, Jewish causes and with Jewish decade, she attended a conference Ginsburg said her organizations. She was disillusioned with Jewish in Israel discussing the position of ancestors “had the As Ginsburg would note in observance at age 17 when women women under secular and halachic foresight to leave the speeches, she was the only justice weren’t counted in a prayer laws in Israel and America. old country when Jewish with a mezuzah affi xed to her quorum at her mother’s shiva. For decades after that trip, ancestry and faith meant offi ce door. A poster on the wall Ginsburg continued to travel to the exposure to pogroms and read “Tzedek, tzedek tirdof,” the Presaging her pioneering work country and comment on its legal denigration of one’s human Hebrew injunction from the Torah for women’s rights, Ginsburg system. In 2000, she was honored worth.” During questioning, meaning “Justice, justice shall you would relate that she stopped along with other American and she spoke about how country pursue.” She also once wore that feeling connected to Jewish ritual Israeli Jewish feminists at the clubs would bar admission to Jews line woven into one of her jabots, at 17 because of the absence of a Knesset. Five years later she was and said, “One couldn’t help but be or collars worn on her Supreme minyan at her mother’s shiva, as part of a group that advised Israel sensitive to discrimination, being a Court robes. women were not counted. Even not to adopt an American-style Jew in America during World War “I am a judge born, raised, and though there was “a house full of constitution because it would give II.” She presided over a proud of being a Jew,” she wrote in women,” she said in a 2008 speech the country’s judges less freedom. In a later speech at Brandeis mock trial of Shylock from an essay for the American Jewish at Washington, D.C.’s Sixth & I At an event on that subject, she University, she said that Louis ‘The Merchant of Venice.’ Committee in 1996. “The demand Synagogue, no prayer was held said, “I admire Israel and I admire Brandeis, the fi rst Jewish Supreme for justice runs through the because 10 men were not present. Aharon Barak,” Israel’s former Court Justice (and the school’s Alongside a staging of the entirety of the Jewish tradition. I chief justice. namesake), inspired her legal work Shakespeare production, Ginsburg hope, in my years on the bench of In her college dorm, she felt More recently, in 2017, she on behalf of civil rights and civil presided over a mock appeal of the the Supreme Court of the United discriminated against when all received a lifetime achievement liberties. guilty verdict given to Shylock, States, I will have the strength and the Jewish women were placed award from the Genesis Prize the play’s main character and an courage to remain constant in the on the same fl oor. Foundation in Israel. She was She stayed involved in Holocaust infamous antisemitic stereotype. service of that demand.” supposed to receive the Genesis remembrance. The event was held to celebrate She would sometimes say, In her freshman dormitory Prize itself, known as the “Jewish the 500th anniversary of Venice’s “What is the difference between a at Cornell University (from Nobel,” but declined because she Ginsburg, perhaps making her historical Jewish Ghetto. bookkeeper in New York’s garment which Ginsburg graduated in feared that the $1 million cash 13-year-old self proud, was active Ginsburg’s courtroom, unlike district and a Supreme Court 1954), Ginsburg discovered that prize could violate ethics laws. with the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Shakespeare’s, found in Shylock’s Justice? Just one generation.” she and the other women in her Museum as a Supreme Court favor. Here’s a timeline of the most corridor were all Jewish. She told a When a soldier wanted to wear a Justice. In 1993, months after she Jewish moments and motifs in the documentary she felt that they were kippah in the military, Ginsburg joined the court, she presented the Her granddaughter called her life of RBG, from her childhood placed together “so we wouldn’t stood up for him in court. museum’s Medal of Remembrance ‘Bubbie.’ to recent years. contaminate” other students. to Emilie Schindler, widow of In 1984, S. Simcha Goldman, Oskar Schindler, whose story of In recent years, Ginsburg was As a teenager, she acted as her She and her husband sent their a Jewish soldier, fought in court rescuing Jews during the Holocaust known as the “Notorious RBG” camp’s “junior rabbi” and wrote kids to Hebrew school. against a military policy that had recently been told in the fi lm and was idolized by legions of an essay about the importance of banned him from wearing a “Schindler’s List.” liberal Americans — among them remembering the Holocaust. Speaking to the Jewish yarmulke on duty. Ginsburg’s In 2004, she gave a speech many Jews. But her granddaughter, Telegraphic Agency in 1993, when appeals court declined to hear his at the museum on Holocaust Clara Spera, gave a more personal Ginsburg, born in Brooklyn Ginsburg was nominated (and case, but Ginsburg dissented from Remembrance Day on the role of perspective on the Supreme Court in 1933 and raised in the Jewish confi rmed) for the Supreme Court, that decision. the law in preventing atrocity. Justice in a 2018 essay: neighborhood of Midwood, grew up her husband, Martin Ginsburg, “A military commander has “In striving to drain dry the “You may know her as in an observant home and attended described the family as “not wildly now declared intolerable the waters of prejudice and oppression, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, or the East Midwood Jewish Center, observant,” though he said they yarmulka Dr. Goldman has worn we must rely on measures of our affectionately as the Notorious a Conservative synagogue. In the went to a traditional Passover without incident throughout own creation — upon the wisdom RBG, but to me she’s Bubbie,” summers she would attend Camp Seder with relatives. Later in life, his several years of military of our laws and the decency of our Spera, herself a lawyer, wrote in Che-Ne-Wah in the Adirondacks, in 2015, Ginsburg co-authored a service,” she wrote. “At the least, institutions, upon our reasoning Glamour. “Bubbie with whom where she was unoffi cially called feminist reinterpretation of the the declaration suggests ‘callous minds and our feeling hearts,” she I spend most High Holy Days. her camp’s “junior rabbi” and Passover story with Rabbi Lauren indifference’ to Dr. Goldman’s said. “And as a constant spark to Bubbie who took me to see ‘The would lead Shabbat prayers. Holtzblatt. religious faith.” carry on, upon our vivid memories Book of Mormon,’ where we both Barely a year after the The Ginsburgs sent their kids She also played a role in the of the evils we wish to banish from laughed until we cried. Bubbie Holocaust ended, a teenage to Hebrew school when they lived Jonathan Pollard case in which our world. In our long struggle for who loves going to the movies. Ginsburg wrote an essay in her in the New York area, but Martin Pollard, an American Jewish defense a more just world, our memories Bubbie at whom I get a kick out of synagogue bulletin titled “One Ginsburg told JTA that they didn’t offi cial, was convicted of spying for are among our most powerful poking fun. Just a Bubbie like any People” about the importance join a synagogue when they moved Israel. Pollard was sentenced to life resources.” other.” REMEMBERING RBG September 24, 2020 | 15
From the TJP Archive Ruth Bader Ginsburg appeared in the pages of the TJP many times over the years. Here are two items.
TJP Vol. 26, No. 7 • Feb. 17, 1972 TJP Vol 47, No. 31 • Aug. 5, 1993 TJP Publisher and Editor Jimmy Wisch writes about Ginsburg’s confi rmation to the Supreme Court in his front- page column “Jess Jawin.” Justice Ginsburg challenged the status quo
The Jewish people have always to work in the garment to extend the 14th Goodyear. She didn’t know it until that anyone could understand. been loud. district, despite her fi erce Amendment’s promise of the very end of her career, when an And because Justice Ginsburg We’re a religion that allows for — intellectual appetite, because equal protection to women. anonymous coworker tipped her was arguing for the sake of Heaven, and in fact, prioritizes — argument she was a woman. Celia’s As I write this in 2020, off — but when she fi led a lawsuit, she didn’t stop there. She addressed and dissent. family considered her and because I was born the courts said it was too late to do Congress directly, calling on the The sages write about it in Pirkei brother more worthy of a decades after Justice anything. According to the law, legislative branch to amend pay Avot: “Every argument that is for the higher education. Ginsburg’s work began, complaints about equal pay needed discrimination statutes. She spoke sake of Heaven is destined to endure.” Celia insisted that Ruth GUEST it’s almost impossible for to be brought within 180 days of with fervor and determination. Jewish people are encouraged be given every opportunity me to fully understand the alleged illegal conduct. But Ms. And she won. to complain. We’re supposed to that Celia herself had been COLUMN how different my world Ledbetter couldn’t have made her Two years later, President Barack disagree. We’re meant to challenge denied. She taught Ruth to is because she was in it. complaint within that time. She had Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter By Jordan those in power, even when those in speak up for herself, as a As a law student, and as no idea it was happening. Fair Pay Act, amending the law just Rudner power are our friends. woman and as a Jew, even a woman who has never The Supreme Court ruled against as Justice Ginsburg had suggested. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg when that meant making doubted that I deserve a Ms. Ledbetter. In a 5-4 decision, split It was the fi rst law he signed as understood the responsibility of trouble. place at the table, I owe her more than down predictable lines, the men said president. challenging the status quo better When Celia died on the day of I can say. that the law was the law, and Ms. One of the most infl uential briefs than anyone. And although she was Ruth’s high school graduation, Ruth Her philosophy, as she explained Ledbetter’s 180 days had passed. She that Justice Ginsburg ever wrote, soft-spoken, her writing was always was not allowed to join the minyan, in the 1996 case U.S. v. Virginia, did not have an available remedy, a comprehensive explanation of loud. Her legacy is resounding. and was told she could not recite was simple: that all people should despite the 11 years of discrimination the pernicious nature of gender As an advocate and as a judge, the Mourner’s Kaddish, because she have “equal opportunity to aspire, she had endured. discrimination, became known she frequently embodied the best was a woman. Ruth never forgot achieve, participate in and contribute Tradition dictates that when a as a “grandmother brief” because principles of our shared heritage. that moment. Her relationship with to society, based on their individual Supreme Court Justice disagrees generations of lawyers drew on In victory, and more frequently religion was complex. But her anger, talents and capacities” — without about a majority decision, she can its research for their own work to in dissent, she knew how to make and her grief, served to strengthen being limited by the circumstances write a dissent, explaining the nature combat gender discrimination in the arguments that were destined to the conviction that became her life’s of their birth, their gender, their race, of her objection. Typically, such law. endure. work: to combat discrimination in or anything else. Simple, yes. And dissents are only made in writing: In the most literal sense of the Joan Ruth Bader was born on the law, and to overturn society’s revolutionary. Justices don’t often read dissents phrase, Justice Ginsburg’s work has March 15, 1933, to a family that had rigid and binary understanding of Justice Ginsburg drew on the aloud. already been passed l’dor vador — immigrated to America in response what women, and men, should be best that Judaism has to offer in But Justice Ginsburg rarely from generation to generation. Her to antisemitism in Europe. From allowed to do. 2007, when she issued her dissent put much stock in traditions, and arguments, for the sake of Heaven, an early age, she understood that As an advocate and as a judge, in Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire, a case nothing about her life’s work was endure. Her memory is a blessing. different forms of discrimination had Justice Ginsburg revolutionized about the legal rights that women typical. From behind the Supreme Her legacy is a call to action. limited the opportunities afforded to the way courts treat laws that have when they want to bring claims Court’s wooden bench, she issued a It’s our turn to dissent now. both her parents. Her father, Nathan, discriminate based on gender. Her of wage discrimination. scathing dissent. She pointed out that had been refused entry to most of the efforts as the fi rst-ever head of the Lilly Ledbetter, who worked at the majority had completely ignored Jordan Rudner is a Dallas native whose life schools in Odessa, Ukraine, because ACLU Women’s Rights Project Goodyear Tire for 11 years, had been the reality of wage discrimination, trajectory was shaped by Jewish mothers and he was Jewish. almost single-handedly convinced paid signifi cantly less than her male and explained the injustices they were grandmothers. She is a second-year student at Her mother, Celia, was put the overwhelmingly male judiciary counterparts for her entire tenure at perpetuating, using plain language Stanford Law School.
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after those two elements conspire us hope, something which so many the meaning behind the famous RABBIS and form tornadoes and decimate of us find in short supply today. words of Rebbe Nachman from continued from p.13 our city? People are dying from When the Dodgers get eliminated, I Breslev: disease, there is injustice in the immediately start to count the days “The whole entire world is one it. We just become survivors in turn. streets, nobody is willing to listen to until pitchers and catchers report. narrow bridge.” Our Jewish values tie us to the past one another, we seem to be living the We entered 5780 having no idea In these special days where in order to ground us for the future. Unetana Tokef prayer, and I want to of the blessings and curses that lay the whole world is going through The High Holidays bring us not Rabbi Matt Rutta talk about BASEBALL? in store, but we need to have hope. great trials and uncertainty, and only a time for repentance but also Sports unite, bring camaraderie, In the words of Mets great (and working tirelessly to find a solution a time of remembrance. We best In the big inning: celebrating pride, inspiration and relief. The namesake for our cocker spaniel), to this worldwide problem that has honor our beloved dead by finding the anniversary of Creation Olympics would have brought the Tug McGraw, “Ya gotta believe!” affected every aspect of our lives opportunities to continue and with a baseball mindset world together to rise temporarily May 5781 be a year of blessings (and — be it financially, emotionally, extend the good work they did, by above global squabbles and engage hopefully a Dodgers championship)! or whatnot — it is our job to get giving tzedakah to the causes they By Matt Rutta in fierce but friendly competition off this crazy marathon of life and espoused, by helping in the search I started writing my Yom Kippur to show us at our best. When we are Rabbi Matt Rutta, M.A.Ed. is a Jewish educator in remember that there is a One and for cures for illnesses that carried sermon hours after last Yom Kippur not at our best, athletes can use their Dallas. Only who is running this epic them away, and by sustaining the ended. The Dodgers were eliminated platform to show us that we have a show. synagogues and federations and again, giving me a Sisyphean sense long way to go, from Jackie Robinson And that is the Creator of the communal organizations which they of futility. Then we learned that the breaking the color barrier to teams World. labored to maintain. teams that beat them in 2017 and refusing to play in protest of racism. We cannot forget for one second Best wishes for a happy and 2018 cheated to win and weren’t I’ve always looked up to Sandy that we have a Father up in heaven. healthy new year, a year of peace and punished! Another great message: Koufax for sitting out the World Just as a good father wants the best prosperity, a year of health and well- Why do cheating, evil people prosper Series game that began on Yom for his children, so too of course being, a year of family and friends, a while the good and innocent suffer? Kippur (it helped that he pitched Rabbi Ronen Shimon our Father in Heaven wants the year of living well! Many blessings. My sermon on theodicy was not to and won three more games, the best for us. be as the curses of 5780 unfolded. championship and MVP). One of ‘One narrow bridge’ In order for our Father to Seymour Rossel is a rabbi and author of “Bible How do we begin to pray for wind the milestone events of my life took protect and guard us, we must be Dreams” and “The Essential Jewish Stories.” and rain on Shemini Atzeret, hours place at MetLife Stadium on Jan. 1, By Ronen Shimon close to Him today even more than when I finished the entire Talmud Hello dear friends, any other day. among almost 100,000 people. Year 5780 was indeed a unique How can we do that? Most importantly, sports bring year. We were definitely able to feel We must learn Torah tirelessly with more effort than ever before Refram Ed and follow the mitzvot. We must chesed Education Beckloff Pediatric Behavioral Center do with one another. BPBC And remember the second part of the words of Rebbe Nachman of Tutoring and Academic Coaching A counseling and educational center Breslev: Homework Help, Mentoring, focused on helping kids, “The whole entire world is Consultation and Parent Support teens and families one narrow bridge, and the most important part is not to be afraid Where kids become kids…again! at all.” L’Shanah Tovah! Not to be afraid, because our 17210 Campbell Road, Suite 200, Dallas, TX 75252 (972) 250 1700 Father loves each and every one of www.DrBeckloff.com us. I want to wish us all a year full of goodness, health, happiness, .love and world peace גמר חתימה טובה
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and spiritual bonds are Photo: Courtesy Miriam Goldfeder enduring. “In just a few hours in your town I saw many colors and stripes of its people helping, caring and giving so much of themselves to friends they knew and to total strangers,” said a visitor to Dallas, who made a 1,200-mile plus trip to pick up kosher foods, shared between the Moadim L’Simcha project and Dallas’ Jewish community. “I’m speechless. It’s beautiful how many came to help unload, organize and distribute, said a grateful recipient from out of town.” 720 W. Lookout Drive, Richardson near the crossroads of Kosher provisions make Central Expressway and Bush Turnpike 972-234-1542 cross-country trek for holidays www.congregationbethtorah.org By Deb Silverthorn A group that includes DATA rabbis, community rabbis and volunteers from Mesorah High School for Girls and Torah Day School of Dallas has helped pre- serve the sweet and savory aromas of the Jewish holiday season. These Dallas representatives, working with Moadim L’Simcha of Lakewood, New Jersey, are helping tables to be set holiday- ready through last Sunday’s de- livery of more than 1,300 boxes of food worth more than $150,000. Photo: Courtesy Rabbi Bentzi Epstein “It’s not a religious thing, not “It’s not a religious thing, not a kosher thing. Any Jew in Dallas who needs help — we want to support,” said Rabbi Bentzi Epstein. “We’re happy to help those a kosher thing. Any Jew in Dal- across our community, whether affiliated or not.” las who needs help, we want to support,” said Rabbi Bentzi Ep- In addition to supporting in- Sunday. “I’m speechless. It’s stein, who led the fundraising for dividuals, Jewish Family Service beautiful how many came to help defraying for many the cost of was able to enhance its offerings unload, organize and distribute.” kosher meat, produce and more, through the Food Pantry by add- The grateful recipient said providing for some who can’t af- ing items to its Kosher Corner. his family of seven would have ford to pay at all and covering With more than double the num- been lost for protein, at the very costs of shipping. “We’re happy to ber of families who keep kosher least, without Dallas’ invitation help those across our community, requesting support in the past six to share in their order. A couple whether affiliated or not. months, being able to provide hol- of his children are home from Although it is too late to place iday foods was only made possible their yeshivas, creating extra food orders, for more information through this program. needs for the family, and the costs about receiving support from this The program reached far and of meat in his city are prohibitive. Moadim L’Simcha order, contact wide. One man arrived in Dallas Much appreciated, too, was Rabbi Bentzi Epstein at bentzi@ early Sunday, Sept. 13, having the hands-on support by Chaim flash.net. left his home in another state just and Miriam Goldfeder and For the last three years, Dal- after Havdalah Saturday night. their Kosher Palate team, who las’ community has placed orders The 1,200-plus-mile round-trip distributed the groceries from with Moadim L’Simcha before visit, with a short nap between behind their North Dallas store. Passover and the High Holidays, runs, was possible because of the The owners and their employees cutting the cost of most items adrenalin that inspired him. helped unload the trailer, sort to less than 50%. The organiza- “I’m sure I’m tired but I have a orders and more. tion brokers foods at a much- beautiful smile on my face as I’m “It’s always important to help discounted price, passing that on on the road again,” said the man, those in need and something to residents in more than a dozen who requested anonymity. “In we do whenever we can,” said cities around the country, includ- just a few hours in your town, I Miriam. Chaim was described ing Dallas. saw many colors and stripes of its as a tzaddik by the out-of-town Rabbi Epstein says without people helping, caring and giving visitor who was handed a gift of a Dallas’ tzedakah-minded resi- so much of themselves to friends package of ready-to-eat meals for dents, holidays, Shabbat and year- they knew and to total strangers,” his trip home. “My husband says, round dinners for many would said the Dallas visitor, who was ‘Hashem knows my bank account, look much different. on his way home by midday that and He helps us to help others.’” JEWISH FOODIE September 24, 2020 | 19 Recipes to round out your Break-Fast menu
Candied Salmon Cream Cheese the cooled salmon into small pieces. substitute for flour in any recipe, • 1 cup (8 ounces) sour cream butter with the remaining 1 cup sugar Add cream cheese and mix together • 1½ teaspoons baking powder until light and fluffy. Add the eggs, By Daniela Moreira and for the most part, you’d never until completely combined. know the difference. • 1 teaspoon baking soda vanilla and sour cream and beat again. (Nosher via JTA) — This cream • 1 tablespoon instant espresso Add the remaining 2 cups gluten-free cheese is the star of the Amar’e Gluten-Free Chocolate Chip I say “for the most part” because I’ve found the greatest flour blend, baking powder, baking bagel (named for basketball player Coffee Cake Directions soda, instant espresso, and a pinch of success when using these flours in Amar’e Stoudemire) at Call Your salt and beat again. By Sheri Silver sturdier baked goods — cookies, 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees; line a Mother deli in Washington, D.C. 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A generous sugar, ¾ cup gluten-free flour blend, modern take on traditional flavors the cocoa powder and a pinch of salt. spatula to spread evenly. Top with and trying to make gluten-free addition of sour cream provides and would make a great addition to Stir with a fork, breaking up any large the streusel and sprinkle with the goods from scratch was equally incredible moistness and you remaining chocolate chips. any brunch table. frustrating since there was little clumps, and spread out onto a baking can never go wrong adding in sheet. Set aside. 6. Bake cake for 45 minutes or information out there to instruct chocolate chips. Instant espresso Ingredients: 3. Combine ¼ cup granulated sugar until a cake tester tests clean. Cool the home baker. puts the “coffee” in this cake, and • 4 ounces cream cheese (your and the cinnamon in a small bowl; set completely in the pan on a wire rack. favorite brand) But today it is quite a the chocolate streusel topping aside. 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By Daniela Appel 6. Requires that you do Lerner, author of “Why Won’t You for actions can cancel out the excuse. Do not let the word ‘but’ your best to avoid a repeat In the days between Rosh Apologize?” outlines nine essential intended apology. “Confess come out of your mouth,” he performance. Hashanah and Yom Kippur, “ingredients” of a true apology. without excuse,” says Everett L. continues. Jews worldwide shift their Worthington Jr, a psychologist Apologies only go so far if 2. Keeps the focus on your focus to teshuvah, repenting for 1. Does not include the word “but.” who studies forgiveness at Virginia behavior repeats or becomes a actions and not on the other wrongdoings. It can be difficult Commonwealth University. “Be pattern. Often, a person needs to person’s response. to know how to communicate an Following an “I’m sorry” with specific about what you’re sorry see a concerted effort to change apology effectively. Dr. Harriett the word “but” and justifications for. Do not offer any kind of “One must first recognize in order to forgive. “Offer an and admit to the wrongdoing. apology that gets across the idea This is the first step,” suggests that you’re sorry, and that you Rabbi Dr. Leo Jung in a summary don’t want to do it again. Be of Maimonides’ approach to sincere and articulate,” offers teshuvah. “One must feel badly Worthington. about the wrongdoing. It is not 7. Should not serve to silence. enough to say you are sorry; you must feel it. We are not meant to As difficult as it may be to linger in this state of sorrow, but remember, an apology should aim we must go there in order to effect to help the hurt person feel more real change.” All we can control is heard. While apologizing may ourselves. All we can do in a hard have the added bonus of helping to situation is own up to our own clarify your intentions, try to keep Please join actions. We cannot make someone explanations of your behavior to CO-CHAIRS else apologize or change. 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By Dr. Tzvi Dwolatzky you should cut down on the daily Take it easy before and during (My Jewish Learning via JTA) amount of coffee and caffeinated the fast — There is a marked difference beverages. Also, take it easy with between the intended feeling of being salty foods. Keep away from alcohol On the day before the fast, refrain uncomfortable with not eating or because it stimulates the loss of body from strenuous physical exercise. drinking for 25 hours and actually water. The use of artificial sweeteners Don’t run around too much doing becoming ill as a result of not getting should also be kept to a minimum. chores — spoil yourself and take enough liquids and nutrients. it easy. Keep out of the hot sun and Yom Kippur not only requires Drink a lot of liquids, but don’t spend the day in cool surroundings emotional preparation, but physical overdo it as much as possible. This is certainly as well. A person can take several true on the day of the fast as well. important steps before the holiday It is very important to be well in order to achieve the best physical hydrated before the fast. For at least Have a light meal before the fast condition possible to perform better two days before the fast, make sure on Yom Kippur, which this year to drink adequate amounts of fluids. When sitting down to the meal falls on the evening of Sept. 27 and Remember that the healthiest thing before the fast, a light meal is continues until dark on Sept. 28. to drink is water. Keep a bottle of preferable. Eating extra amounts
Photo: Reuben Davidsohn Here are seven tips to prepare you water with you and note how much of food does not help to keep you Congregation Shearith Israel Rabbi Ari Sunshine and Baal Tekiah Cary Rudberg for an easy fast: you drink — about half a gallon is going for 25 hours. Rather, eat small at the noon shofar service at the synagogue’s Douglas campus. The service was generally sufficient. But don’t overdo amounts of carbohydrates (bread, repeated at 3 p.m. and 4 p.m. Ask your physician if your health it. Drinking too much can wash out potato, rice, pasta), some protein allows you to fast essential salts from your body. (fish, chicken) and fruit (grapes and watermelon). Keep spices and salt to Many chronic medical conditions, Eat regular meals before the fast a minimum. such as high blood pressure, heart The break-fast meal disease or arthritis, do not usually It is important to get your body prevent you from fasting as long into a routine before the fast. Make Well, you managed the fast very as your condition is stable. This is sure to eat regular meals on the well; now it is time to eat. Go slowly! usually the case for pregnant and days before the fast. And don’t skip Eat some carbs and drink some fluids. nursing mothers as well. Clearly an breakfast, which is probably the acute illness accompanied by fever, most important meal of the day. This article was printed with permission from vomiting or diarrhea will prevent you Keep away from very rich and spicy Rambam HealthCare Campus, a 1,000-bed from fasting. Before going any further, foods. And eat in moderation. academic hospital in Haifa, Israel. Photo: Sharon Wisch-Ray you should check with your doctor Congregation Shearith Israel Shearith Israel Rabbi Shira Wallach and whether your health allows you to fast. is among the many Conservative Rabbi Adam Roffman and Baal Tekiah Dale Weiss led three shofar services at the synagogues across the country that Levine Academy parking lot, allowing Prepare early came up with innovative ways to Shearith members to fulfill the mitzvah of fulfill the mitzvah of hearing the hearing the shofar on Rosh Hashanah. At least a week before the fast, shofar. On the second day of Rosh Hashanah, Shearith held six shofar blowing services: three in the parking lot of its Douglas campus and three in the Levine Academy parking lot. There, congregants were able to hear the shofar service in drive-in fashion while maintaining social distance. During the pandemic itself, the Conservative movement has adopted some new rabbinic decisions, called teshuvot, to adapt Jewish practice to a socially distanced world. In March, the Conservative movement’s Committee on Jewish Laws and Standards ruled that services requiring a minyan, or a quorum of 10 adults, could be held over video conferencing in a moment of crisis. In May, the committee ruled that video conferencing could be used for Shabbat and holiday services when electronic devices would generally not be used. Conservative rabbis and congregants even worked with Zoom to make sure streaming would be possible without requiring the violation of other prohibitions.
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Some- teshuvah was on the first Yom how, the name “Day of Atonement” never connected with Kippur, when God taught Moses me; is that correct or is there some other meaning? to recite before Him 13 attributes Ginsburg Thanks, and a happy new year, of Divine mercy (Exodus 34:6-7). Melanie S. The final attribute of mercy is ve- Dear Melanie, nakei, which means God not only The name Yom Kippur is based on the verse (Leviti- ASK THE atones for the sins, but actually and Leynor cus 23:27), “…but on the 10th day of the seventh month cleanses us from our sins through it is the day of kippurim unto you…” The translation RABBI the teshuvah process. Teshuvah What are your thoughts as we sanctuary when “Day of Atonement” is not incorrect, as “atonement” in and Yom Kippur are not just ways By Rabbi enter this strangest of all new years? he made his last English means “making amends” or reparations for a to be forgiven; they are oppor- Yerachmiel Mine are full of memories: from “appeal” to the wrongdoing. This translation is, however, not entirely tunities to transcend forgiveness D. Fried the past, and from now, the present, congregation: It precise, as you have felt. The literal meaning of “kip- and “come clean” of the wrong- which will quickly enough become was at the end of a purim” is “cleansing,” as the root kaper means “to doings. our newest past. minor holiday, he cleanse.” It means that on Yom Kippur, not only can The Kabbalists explain this concept in the follow- Sadly, this new year begins with was visibly hur- we make amends for our misdeeds, we can actually ing way. The internal self, the soul, is the essence of our two losses. I will not describe them rying through become cleansed and purified from them as if we had eternal existence. The soul itself is pure and free of sin. with adjectives such as “devastating”; IN MY the service, and never performed them. When one performs a wrongdoing, at that moment he if you already knew them — person- MIND’S I he finally said: This is a profound understanding of the concept of or she is mainly connected with the external, physical ally, or just “knew of” them by reputa- “Please excuse teshuvah, which is the primary mitzvah we perform on existence. This, in a sense, is an act of pulling away from tion — you will already know the im- By Harriet me for leaving so Yom Kippur. Teshuvah is usually translated as “repen- the soul, the “real self,” and connecting with a surreal, mense voids they have left in our lives. P. Gross quickly. My wife tance,” but the literal meaning is actually “return.” It transient existence. We all knew of Ruth Bader Gins- is having brain entails the return back to one’s original, pristine state The more one succumbs to temptation, the more the burg, nationally famed, and well so. surgery…” and he rushed away. Karen of being as we were before performing a wrongdoing. soul becomes covered and hidden under layer upon lay- Not everyone here in our geographi- Leynor did not survive, but her spirit This is learned from the 13 attributes of God’s mercy er of physicality. If one identifies with those negative ac- cal area personally knew Rabbi Jef- has lived on since in Beth Torah’s an- which were revealed on the first Yom Kippur in history. tions and feels that it is the “real me” performing them, frey Leynor, but those who did are nual All-Congregants Mitzvah Day, After the episode of the golden calf, the Jews were dealt then one is identifying with the external self, forgetting in deep mourning, and those who named in her memory. a death sentence. But they overturned that sentence didn’t — I feel sorry for you, because Jeffrey Leynor was not asked to through an intense period of teshuvah for 40 days and see FRIED, p.26 you never got to know how much you leave that shul; it was his choice, after have missed… his wife’s death, not to have any pul- To do justice to RBG would take pit position with its concentration on more than all the media have already membership needs, but to be a free- Interesting shofar facts invested in well-deserved post-mor- roaming rabbi in service of the entire tem tributes to her. And even though community — Jewish and otherwise. many on the extreme Right immedi- One of his first regular tasks was to Dear Families, strument still in use. ately started making suggestions on accompany police when there was any The month of Elul (which was last month) precedes • Shofars are often manipulated how soon President Trump would be emergency call, in case spiritual as- Rosh Hashanah each year. During that month of reflec- with heat: A typical ram’s shofar is naming his replacement choice, there sistance might be needed at the scene tion as we prepare, we are told to hear the shofar each day not shaped exactly as it was while were some moving tributes from that or soon afterward. And he always as a wake-up to get ready. I have often said it is also a time it grew on the ram’s head. Part of quarter, including unabashed praise reached out to interfaith couples con- for the shofar blower (baal toke’ah) to practice, which is the shofar-making process involves in a widely-distributed post from the sidering marriage with a special ke- important no matter what instrument you play. I am re- heating the shofar to the point that minded often that we are the People of the Book or really it becomes pliable, at which point group calling itself “Proud Patriots.” tubah he wrote for them, its elements SHALOM (I take a parenthetical break here speaking to the inherent goodness in the People of the Books, but we are also the “people of the the tip is straightened out to make sages, rabbis, Jewish educators, teachers, philosophers, FROM THE for easier gripping and blowing. to offer, along with my own tears, a both their faiths, whatever they might SHABBAT LADY devout hope that our current politi- be. Finally, he might be best remem- etc.” Judaism has been kept alive through interpretation In addition, the shofar is often cal season will end even more quickly bered for his ongoing service to resi- upon interpretation. We continue to search for deeper By Laura sanded down and polished with than it’s scheduled to, taking with it dents of The Legacy, their staff mem- meaning that resonates with us or maybe just shine a Seymour decorative notches carved onto its the average 250 posts in my inbox, bers, and their own families. new light or give a different bit of information. spine. and the equal number in my junk This past week, as I watched clouds What does this have to do with the shofar? I’ve been • The shofar is played on the right: We read that Satan box, at all times these days, mostly parting in our skies, I could picture reading and reading and found some things I had not stands at the right side to accuse a person before God. from warring parties; I cannot seem them opening, welcoming these two heard before and loved the info enough to share. Here Among other things, the piercing blasts of the shofar to cut the number down although I very special new residents to their for- is what I learned about from a post from Chabad.org by serve to “confuse” Satan. It is thus ideal that the shofar try, often three or more times a day…) ever heavenly homes. I relived calling Menachem Posner — sometimes there is learning in the blower should position the shofar to the right side of his Now, about Rabbi Leynor: He be- upon Rabbi Leynor once, long ago, to details (this is for all who love the TV show “How It’s mouth. came the spiritual leader of Congrega- help me solve a very thorny personal Made”)! What does this have to do with being Jewish? We tion Beth Torah in 1989, and I claim problem, and over much coffee at a • A shofar is the horn of an animal: Many animals keep learning, searching, sharing and more to deepen pride in being a member of the com- “neutral” Starbucks, he provided me have horns, made of keratin, which can be hollowed out our connection and this beginning of the new year is a mittee that searched and found him. with all I needed to fully confront by removing the bone and tissue found inside. When the perfect time to commit to new learning. I am excited to His first days on that pulpit were at this and eventually overcome my di- tips of the horns are either removed or drilled through, a be teaching a new course in our Melton program. It is time of the year, and his first urging lemma. And I also prayed that Ruth sound can be produced. With the exception of the horn called “Members of the Tribe” and is a six-lesson course was that we should obtain one of the Bader Ginsburg might look down of a bovine (which is known as keren), or antlers (which beginning in October. It is a great Zoom learning oppor- Holocaust Memorial Torahs then be- with a smile and her own prayer for are not true horns), the horns of all kosher animals are tunity. If you are interested, reach out to me. For now, ing distributed widely to synagogues my niece Diane, an attorney whose considered kosher. learn all you can about the holidays to enhance your ex- and other appropriate institutions. nomination for a judgeship in New • It may be the longest continuously played instru- perience at this unique time. And this was accomplished as soon as York’s Eastern Federal District is cur- ment: From the Biblical era until today, shofar has been Laura Seymour is director of camping services at the Aaron Family Jewish possible. I was also in the synagogue rently awaiting confirmation! blown regularly, very possibly making it the oldest in- Community Center. In their words . . . September 24, 2020 | 25 EDITORIAL Jewish War Veterans Ruth Bader Ginsburg, celebrate 125 years a woman for the ages of service, good works In honor of the recent family. Last Friday, on Erev Rosh where she was victorious The most noteworthy Jewish War Veterans of Neil Goldman. Born St. Hashanah, the remarkable in multiple cases attacking Supreme Court opinion the U.S.A.’s 125th Annual Louis, Missouri. Enlisted and redoubtable Justice Ruth gender-based discrimination, she authored was the majority Convention and the in Army Air Force, aviation Bader Ginsburg slipped into ultimately convincing an all- opinion that she wrote in the 1996 National Ladies Auxiliary cadet July 1942. Trainer/ eternity. As a lawyer, she was a male High Court to apply discrimination case arising from the of the JWVA’s 92nd Operator Instructor of trailblazing crusader for equal the 14th Amendment’s equal Virginia Military Institute’s male- National Convention (via Celestial Navigation. Dallas rights for both men and women. protection clause to sex-based only enrollment policy. In United Zoom), and all the good HISTORICAL Post 256 and JWV National As a jurist, she embodied the discrimination. She headed the States v. Virginia, V.M.I. argued works these groups do PERSPECTIVE Commander. noblest traditions of judging Women’s Rights Project at the that its “adversative” curriculum for all veterans, today’s Roland Greenwald. — applying her scintillating American Civil Liberties Union for educating young men to become column features and By Jerry Kasten Born Dec. 10, 1925. Army. intellect on a case-by-case basis (ACLU), carefully crafting the officers through a rigorous physical honors the “old-timers” Helped guard top 10 Nazi to reach the right result as an legal strategy that transformed training program was inappropriate with details taken from their war criminals during Nuremberg Associate Justice of the United the rights of men and women for young women. Virginia set up centennial biographies. trials. Assigned to Military Attaché States Supreme Court. from a cobweb of federal laws a separate military college to train Bob Alpert. Born July 19, 1932, in Mexico, then Germany and finally How remarkable it is that that differentiated between men young women. Justice Ginsburg, Boston, Massachusetts. Enlisted U.S. Vietnam. Retired in 1972 as Sergeant Justice Ginsburg’s life on earth and women, based on gender, to writing for a 7-to-1 majority, found Navy, 1952, Electronics Mate on USS Major. ended in the early hours of Rosh a more equal playing field. Virginia’s alternative constitutionally Hornet, Two Far East cruises. Settled Shirley Fleshin Greenwald. Grew Hashanah. Jewish tradition Like the late Justice deficient. in Dallas. Commander of JWV Post up in Cleveland, Ohio. Captain, teaches that those who die on Thurgood Marshall, who “Any different treatment,” 256. U.S. Army Nurse Corps. Captain, Rosh Hashanah are among the designed the strategy of the she wrote, must not “create Rudy Baum. Born April 11, Beach Army Hospital, Fort Walters, “tzaddikim,” the most righteous National Association for the or perpetuate the legal, social 1915, Frankfurt, Germany. Arrived Texas. Met Roland at Memorial Day and virtuous amongst us. Advancement of Colored People and economic inferiority of in U.S.A. 1936, drafted in 1941, services at cemetery. Eighty-seven at the time of (NAACP) by successfully women.” graduated Military Intelligence Harry Kabler. Born Boston, her death, she had survived arguing civil rights cases in Her 56-year marriage to School as foreign language July 8, 1921. Enlisted in Army Air multiple bouts of cancer. She federal courts of appeals and Martin Ginsburg, one of propaganda officer. Awarded Force/USAF; served in New Guinea, succumbed to complications of the Supreme Court, as a lawyer, America’s most accomplished Bronze Star, getting German the Philippines, Okinawa as a metastatic pancreatic cancer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg carefully tax lawyers and a beloved soldiers to surrender during battle, bombardier. Lieutenant Colonel, explained a statement from the sifted through cases to find Georgetown University law using loudspeaker on jeep. Helped USAFR, Ret. Past Commander of Supreme Court. those that provided the best professor, was an almost 60- gather up German civilians to view Dallas Post 256. Though secular in her opportunity for advancing year romance that began when Buchenwald’s ghastly remains, Hillel (Hy) Perlstein. Born observance of Judaism, Ruth her cause. She was a masterful the two met as undergraduates as ordered by General Patton. Dallas, May 14, 1919. Inducted Bader Ginsburg was forthright writer and advocate, who spoke at Cornell. Martin Ginsburg After war ended, he served in U.S. into Army February 1943, trading about the critical importance of with carefully chosen words, died of cancer in 2010. Their Military Government as Captain, plumbing tools for machine gun Judaism to her. designed to cut to the core of a match was beshert, as Jewish Information Control Officer, for until wounded in ETO (European “I am a judge, born, raised case. tradition teaches — they were Marburg, Germany. Theater of Operations), March 14, and proud of being a Jew. In 1980, President Jimmy perfect complements of each Harvey J. Bloom. Born 1945. Returned to States, January The demand for justice, for Carter appointed Ruth Bader other. Minneapolis, Minnesota. Graduated 1946. Hy joined Sol Wald as The peace, for enlightenment, runs Ginsburg to the District of From her humble origins University of Minnesota, D.D.S. Craftsmen of Dallas Post 256. through the entirety of Jewish Columbia Circuit Court of in Brooklyn, she scaled the degree. Captain, U.S. Navy, 1939- Stanley Shulkin. Born Sioux history and Jewish traditions. I Appeals. heights of the law to its highest 42. In a beach ditch, during Battle of City, Iowa, Aug. 20, 1921. U.S. Army hope that in all the years I have As a jurist, she carefully pinnacle. She had experienced New Britain, he removed abscessed Air Corps Link Trainer Instructor, the good fortune to continue nurtured collegial relationships the inability to get a job with a tooth of a U.S. Marine machine- Colorado Springs. Instructed serving on the bench of the with her judicial peers, whether law firm after graduating first gunner so that he could do his job pilots of P-38s, B-17s, B-24s and Supreme Court of the United they agreed with her or not, in her law school class because without further pain. Dr. Bloom B-29s, heading for South Pacific. States, I will have the strength to create a positive climate law firms simply did not hire practiced dentistry in Dallas and Dallas Post 256 Commander, and courage to remain steadfast where ideas could be debated, women. She became a law was extremely active in providing campaign chairman for successful in service of that demand,” exchanged and opposed in an professor at Rutgers University, leadership in local, state and national election of Neil Goldman, National she wrote in a statement to the atmosphere of collegiality. and later became the first charitable and professional groups. Commander. American Jewish Committee. Her closest friendship was tenured woman law professor He was JWV Post 256 Commander, Jordan Uttal. Born New York She had been asked to provide a with the late Justice Antonin at Columbia University’s 1985-87. City, July 30, 1915. Air Corps statement “on how my heritage Scalia, an arch-conservative Law School. Her novel legal Roy Elsner. Born Cicero, Officers Candidate School, as a Jew and my occupation as a jurist, with whom she served arguments ultimately changed Illinois. Joined Marines at 17, tried Dec.29, 1941, to Harvard Business judge fit together.” on both the D.C. Circuit Court the way that men and women parachuting out of plane once but School. Commissioned as Second Though tiny in stature — and Supreme Court. They live in America. “didn’t like it.” Trained as a cook, Lieutenant (Statistical Control she was barely 5 feet tall and shared a love of humor, dining Let us give thanks for the cooking utensils set aside to land Officer), later assigned as Division weighed about 100 pounds and opera. Despite intense wondrous life of Justice Ruth and man a rifle on Iwo Jima. Lying Photo Officer with rank of Major. — she was a giant in the law, differences expressed on cases, Bader Ginsburg, who opened on beach, ships’ horns blasting, he Met British future wife, Joyce, in recalling Shakespeare’s line their cherished friendship is an the gates of equal opportunity turned to see American flag raised England. Recipient of Bronze Star, from “A Midsummer Night’s example of the law working at for millions of Americans, and on Mount Suribachi, 1 mile away. Croix de Guerre, EAME with six Dream” — “Though she be but its most sublime level — keen whose memory and legacy burn Wounded twice (upper arm and Campaign Stars, American Defense, little, she is fierce!” intellects colliding over matters brightly as a beacon of hope for back of head), earning two Purple Good Conduct, and World War II Justice Ginsburg’s fierceness of principle that did not mar all. Hearts, Roy settled in Odessa, Texas, Victory Medals. Co-founder of 2nd represented a staunch dedication a friendship that included after five-months of hospital repairs. Air Division Association. Member, to the pursuit of justice. She celebrating New Year’s Eves This editorial was published in the Sept. 24 He first worked for, then managed, Dallas JWV Post 256. was a leading advocate in the with their spouses for many Jewish Herald Voice and is reprinted with eventually owned his own station. United States Supreme Court, years. permission. Retired to Dallas to be closer to see KASTEN, p.27 26 | September 24, 2020 FRIED LEYNOR continued from p.24 continued from p.3 the soul. When one performs teshu- Tov, followed the family line to vah, he returns to the real, pristine serve community by becoming a self, the soul. He proclaims, “I’m not rabbi. the one who performed those mis- He graduated from Rutgers deeds, it was another” (Maimonides, University, and then the Jewish Code, Laws of Teshuvah, Ch. 2). Theological Seminary, before Teshuvah is the power to leave the making Congregation Beth external self behind as someone else, Torah in Richardson his first and to begin anew, with a refreshed pulpit in 1989, a position he held and rejuvenated connection to the for 16 years. There he formed real self, the internal, spiritual soul, relationships and presided over which is the kernel of our existence. the lifecycle events of a generation. This concept was unmasked “It was an honor to be loved through the revelation of God’s 13 by him as his children but we’ve attributes of mercy (Exodus 34:6- seen from more than 1,000 notes 7). The greatest mercy of all, which and calls, what we probably is the final attribute of the 13, is the already knew, that he’d made his ability to become totally cleansed of way into the hearts and souls of any wrongdoing. This is the amazing so many,” said Austin. “He really, power of Yom Kippur, the “Day of really mattered to so many.” Cleansing.” In 2005, Rabbi Leynor Maimonides explains that three el- became the first full-time rabbi ements are necessary for teshuvah on at Congregation Beth El Binah Photo: Courtesy Leynor Family “My dad told us every single day how much he loved us and how much he believed in us,” said Perry Leynor, far right with Yom Kippur and throughout the year: in Dallas, where, for five years, (from left) Austin Clar, Rabbi Jeffrey and Keri Leynor. “He was our biggest supporter and it wasn’t ‘just Dad talk.’ His very • Firstly, a recognition of wrong- he brought his spirit, music and best qualities were how he always listened, and how he was always there.” doing and feeling of remorse for the sense of humor to the bimah. specific sin. “Rabbi Leynor excelled at the community, many for the • Secondly, a solid, wholehearted one-to-one counseling and Aaron Family Jewish Community resolve with full integrity never to helped so many people through Center. He assisted more than return to that wrongdoing or path difficult situations,” said Diane 500 individuals through the again. Litke, Beth El Binah’s former conversion process. • Lastly, to confess the misdeed president and current board In addition to his pulpit before the Al-mighty and pray to member. “He helped build our duties, he served the greater Him to have the strength never to re- membership, brought music to community for nearly three turn to that negative behavior again. the forefront of our prayers and decades in chaplain roles, May you and all the readers enjoy really rejuvenated the connection including the Plano police and a meaningful Yom Kippur with the between us all.” fire auxiliary departments and teshuvah that will bring you into a The go-to rabbi who officiated as the Dallas Police Department year of growth, joy, prosperity and at the marriages of many LGBTQ victim chaplain. A member of nachas, with peace in Israel and for and interfaith couples, Rabbi the International Conference Jews everywhere they may be. Leynor taught classes throughout of Police Chaplains, he was a pastoral care specialist, suicide intervention trainer, REAL ESTATE AUCTION post-traumatic stress disorder debriefer and bereavement counselor. Industrial Site Sells Without Reserve! “Jeffrey was a great listener and a very compassionate Photo: Courtesy Diane Litke Public Inspections 11-2pm Fri Sept 25 & Oct 9 man. We had lots of laughs “He showed the world to us through a different lens,” Keri Leynor said of her and many serious talks,” said father, Rabbi Jeffrey Leynor. “He had no filter, and he was raw 100%, always PAMPA, TX letting you know exactly how he felt. No matter what race, or religion … no Plano Police and Fire Chaplain • 8590 County Road matter who a person was, he was there in the moments he was needed.” Robert Matthews. “I worked 12 1/2 with Rabbi Leynor for 29 years, Cohen, director of rabbinical not only remember them in our Industrial site containing I shared a Seder at his home and services and programs at The minds, but take charitable action 5 Structures with a total participated in Purim services Legacy Senior Communities. in their honor, that we will of 37,532+/- sf on 41.66 too. We shared our lives and he “I’m truly sorry to have lost tangibly do something to make Acres. shared some of the best of himself a great colleague and our the world a better place to honor with citizens who needed him in community, a dear friend.” them,” said Austin. Auctions: 10am, Thur most difficult times.” Rabbi Leynor was remembered “His last text to me reads ‘it Oct 22 on site or bid Also serving as chaplain at at funeral services on Friday, will be, as it should.’ With the live from anywhere at The Legacy at Home during the Sept. 18, led by Congregation kriya, the tearing of our garments auctionnetwork.com past six months, Rabbi Leynor Beth Torah’s Rabbi Elana Zelony or black ribbon, we say ‘dayan ha had made Zoom his friend, and his children. His sons joined emet,’ the ‘true judge.’ While we turning his on-site visits into Anthony Harris, Justin Isbell, may feel the loss to be unjust, Also Auctioning Properties in Brownfield, Odessa & virtual ones, always present for Plano Public Safety Officer unfair, premature, not supposed Sonora - see website for patients and their families. 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Steven Barry Goldberg Austin, she enjoyed the sisterhood being room mom, to the Bowie there are local Jewish veterans, all of as a member and then president Elementary board, to Parkhill KASTEN whom deserve our respect. FORT WORTH — Steven of the Delta Phi Epsilon sorority. Junior High president, to helping continued from p.25 The JWV was formed in 1896 in Barry Goldberg, 74, passed away She showed her Longhorn spirit at the Richardson ISD level response to bigoted charges that Jews Monday, Sept. 14, 2020. while painting the store windows (refl ections chair; book fair; These JWV members of the had not served in the armed forces Born in Atlanta, Georgia, on of the “drag” as a member (and council president) and all the Dallas Chapter 256 are indeed during the Civil War. There are April 12, 1946, Steve was the son eventual board member) of Texas way to the Texas state board heroes. There are numerous others. chapters all over the United States. of Abe and Rose Cohen Goldberg. Spirits. This is also where she met (vice president of membership; The few mentioned here represent The Dallas Chapter has been cited He graduated from Henry Grady her loving husband of 28 years, fi eld service representative). For all of us. At any monthly meeting for outstanding service. High in 1964 before attending and Joey Kaner. Upon graduation, her hard work, she received a graduating from the University of she remained in the area to life membership and a special Georgia. teach third grade in Roundrock “wonder woman” award. Anyone Steve served in the United at Voight Elementary while her wishing to honor Marni, please States Air Force for 16 years. After fi ancé completed his degree. join a local PTA or the Richardson retiring from the Air Force, he On July 5, 1992, Marni and PTA. worked for the IRS in Fort Worth Joey Kaner began their lives She loved playing mah jongg, for over 25 years. together by signing the ketubah Rummikub, scrapbooking, and He cheered for the University at Ahavath Shalom in Fort Worth being with all of her friends from How to submit an obituary of Georgia football team and the with Rabbi Sidney Zimelman many walks of life. She and her The TJP publishes obituaries of 300 words or fewer free of charge for Atlanta Falcons and loved to tease offi ciating. Marni’s grandfather, husband liked taking strolls at the community. Obituaries of more than 300 words incur a nominal the Dallas Cowboy fans. David Berkowitz, was honored to the Dallas Zoo, Six Flags (and fee. Obituaries must be submitted by a family member or funeral home. Steve is survived by his brother, give the seven wedding blessings. any other amusement park To submit an obituary, email the information to sharon@tjpnews. Ron Goldberg of Madison, At the hotel wedding reception, they would visit). They had an com or fi ll out the form online at tjpnews.com. Alabama; his sisters, Gloria Miss America surprised the opportunity to travel with the For more information, call the offi ce at 972-458-7283. Goldberg of Clayton, Georgia, and newlyweds with a visit to Dallas Cowboys to Tokyo. Marcia Goldberg of Silver Spring, congratulate them. Then, off to a Marni was diagnosed with Maryland; and nieces, Amanda honeymoon in Las Vegas. breast cancer in 2018. Upon Goldberg Coleman, her husband, As they started their lives in learning she was a carrier of the Granite • Marble • bronze Paul, and their son, Price, and Dallas, Marni began as a third BRCA cancer gene mutation Melisa Goldberg Lesley and her grade (and later fourth grade) (and the fi rst known to have it 8921 C.F. HAWN FREEWAY, son, Joey. teacher in McKinney at Burks in the family), she contacted DALLAS, TEXAS 75217 A graveside service was held Elementary. The students and many family members (including (214) 398-4459 Thursday, Sept. 17, in the Beth-El faculty loved and respected her, newly located family members Fax: (214) 398-6672
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