AFFILIATED WITH THE UNITED SYNAGOGUE OF CONSERVATIVE JUDAISM March, 2019 Adar I/Adar II 5779

Har Zion Herald West Suburban Non-Holiday Worship Services Children’s Services Candle Lighting Times Temple Har Zion Friday 6:30 PM Saturday, March 9 March 1 5:23 PM Junior Congregation, 10:30 AM March 8 5:32 PM 1040 North Harlem Ave. Saturday 10:00 AM River Forest, IL 60305 Sunday 9:30 AM Tot Shabbat,11 AM March 15 6:40 PM Saturday, March 23 March 22 6:48 PM 708.366.9000 PHONE Monday & Thursday 7:30 AM Junior Congregation, 10:30 AM March 29 6:55 PM 708.366.9006 FAX Tuesday, Wed & Friday 7:45 AM www.wsthz.org Email: [email protected] Save the Date!

RABBI WSTHZ Early Childhood Education ZERO WASTE SHABBAT: Saturday, March 30 Adir Glick and Koven Religious School 10 AM. Volunteers are needed to guide attendees during kiddush and to help RABBI EMERITUS See also the calendars on pages 4 and 5. clean up. Contact Cindy Klein-Banai at Dr. Victor A. Mirelman KRS SPRING BREAK: Sunday March 24, through Sunday, March 31. Ulpan [email protected] if you’d like CANTOR resumes on Monday, April 1. to help. Stewart Figa ECE SPRING BREAK, EXCEPT FOR EXTENDED DAY: 35th Annual Har Zion Kallah PRINCIPAL Monday–Friday, March 25–29. Friday, March 22, to Sunday, March 24 David Schwartz Stars in the Sky Concert: Small Har Zion Purim Celebrations Forest Band Perlstein Resort and Conference Center, EARLY CHILDHOOD Purim begins Wednesday night, March 20, Lake Delton, Wisconsin EDUCATION ADMINISTRATOR Saturday, April 6, 8 PM but our celebrations begin with the KRS We welcome everyone, from tots Lorrie Applebey Small Forest Band’s roots stretch out Purim Carnival on Sunday, March 17 at from the beautiful Door County pen- to seniors, to the 35th annual Har TEMPLE ADMINISTRATION 11 AM; and there is more! See page 5. insula in Wisconsin. The songwriting Zion Kallah weekend retreat. We will Edward Simon team of Jeanne Kuhns and Marybeth learn, pray, socialize, play, and eat Special Programs in March: together. There will be kids’ and teens’ MEMBERSHIP OUTREACH Mattson sing original tunes and ob- The rabbi’s article on page 2 has more programming—and gaga!—all weekend. Position Open scure covers with bassman Patrick on the first two programs, which begin in The weekend includes candle lighting, PRESIDENT March and will be ongoing. Palmer. They recorded their first album Dream at Studio 330 in Sturgeon Bay, Shabbat services, games and sports, Laurel Saltzman SHABBAT ACROSS AMERICA—AND CONTINUING AS workshops, discussion sessions, and six SHABBAT ACROSS HAR ZION: Friday, Wisconsin, and released it in July, 2015. VICE PRESIDENT OF Visit smallforestmusic.com/music/ for excellent meals. And, as always, music and BUILDING & ADMINISTRATION March 1, is “Shabbat Across America,” a taste of their music. song. We are also continuing our traditions Cindy Klein-Banai a program for temple members to host/ of Ultimate Frisbee and a Saturday evening be hosted for Shabbat dinners at each For advance tickets, go to: www. VICE PRESIDENT OF wsthz.org/event/stars-in-the-sky- talent show and ice cream social! EDUCATION & YOUTH other’s homes. At Har Zion, we will acoustic-concert.html Please register at: www.wsthz. Joseph Gartner continue this program as “Shabbat org/form/kallah-2019.html Across Har Zion.” VICE PRESIDENT OF by March 11. If the cost of Kallah is a FUNDRAISING A NEW SONG AT HAR ZION: On the 2nd Friday of each month, challenge, please contact Eddie Simon at [email protected] or JuliAnn Geldner beginning on March 8, “A New Song” will bring us a musical Rabbi Glick at [email protected], who have access to scholarship worship service, led by the cantor, the rabbi, composer funds through the Janice Patterson Kallah Scholarship Fund. VICE PRESIDENT OF Jonathan Miller of Chicago a cappella, and Har Zion members MEMBERSHIP Early Childhood Education Camp Zion Gerry Clemons Rachel Farr and David Oromaner. SHABBAT MEAL AND LECTURE ON HINDUISM: After services on Friday, Camp Zion, which begins on June 4, is a safe and fun environment VICE PRESIDENTS OF where campers can learn, grow, and make friends. The “Theme PROGRAMMING March 8, we will gather for a communal Shabbat meal and a of the Week” complements our regular camp activities and Jay Michaels lecture on Hinduism from Swami Ishatmananda, senior monk and spiritual leader of the Vivekananda Vedanta Society of weekly field trips. For more, visit:www.wsthz.org/preschool/ Peter Norlander Chicago, probably the city’s most prominent Hindu group. campzion2019 TREASURER Ed Schmitt SECRETARY Haftarot Readers Jill Demsey Shabbat, March 2 Shabbat Shekalim Parashat Vayakhel Phyllis Rubin GABBAI Shabbat, March 9 Parashat Pekudei Noah Oxer Ed Sachs Shabbat, March 16 Shabbat Zachor Parashat Vayikra Laurel Saltzman BOARD OF DIRECTORS Shabbat, March 23 Parashat Tzav Cantor Stewart Figa On page 2 Shabbat, March 30 Shabbat Shmini Parashat Parah Robert Chapman LETTER FROM THE RABBI

A New Song for Har Zion

y Dear Friends, Shabbat Across Har Zion Shabbat Dinners Three thousand years ago, the The traditional Friday night Shabbat experience is not author of the psalms, traditionally only about coming to synagogue. It also happens in our held to be King David, wrote beautiful homes and around our Shabbat tables. “ ‘A New Song’ words to introduce several of his There is a Hasidic story about a man who visits his psalms: “Sing a New Song to the rebbe one Friday night. He has the most delicious food and ‘Shabbat Lord.”M The author was perhaps introducing a new that he has ever tasted. He asks the rebbe for the Across Har Zion’ melody to be recited in the ancient temple in recipes. During the following week, when he makes the Jerusalem. But the words are usually interpreted same dishes again, they do not taste the same. He turns are warming my metaphorically. They teach us that within us all is a to his rebbe; what was the secret ingredient? The heart as I write new song of praise to offer to the Divine and to the rebbe answers; the secret ingredient was “Shabbat!” world. Every day, if we search within, we can find a new Food can really taste better on Friday nights. from the deep song. I have always found it to be an inspiring and Conversation too. For millennia, Friday nights have been freeze of the liberating thought. when Jewish families have gathered to enjoy quality and A New Song—Shir Chadash sacred time with their families and friends. March 1st is polar vortex in We would like to bring a new song across Har Zion. designated as “Shabbat Across America,” a date to host late January.” On the second Friday evening of every month, and to be hosted for Shabbat meals. For us, this will be provided that there are no scheduling conflicts with the beginning of “Shabbat Across Har Zion,” an holidays, we will be singing “A New Song,” a different ongoing program to help facilitate holy, lively, and kind of worship and service, led by the cantor, myself, delicious Friday night dinners for our members in each composer Jonathan Miller (founding director of other’s homes. All that you have to do is let us know if Chicago a cappella), and Rachel Farr and David you want to host or be hosted. We will help match our Oromaner (members of Har Zion). members to dinners and even throw in challot and a We have chosen a unique and uplifting repertoire of dessert. I will send a conversation starter every time. soulful music for A New Song. We will provide Please keep posted as we send out more information transliterations so that everybody can participate. about future dates for the Shabbat Across Har Zion. Families and children are welcome to the service and to A New Song and Shabbat Across Har Zion are participate and run (and dance) through the pews. For warming my heart as I write from the deep freeze of the the youngest, we will have babysitting available. The polar vortex in late January. goal of Shir Chadash is to create a new worship B’ Simchah—With Joy, Har Zion experience that is participatory, inspiring, and uplifting. Board We will soon send out a recording of the service so Members that you can familiarize yourself with the music. We look forward to seeing you at A New Song on RABBI ADIR GLICK Phyllis Baren the second Friday of each month. [email protected] Michael Bass Norma Berlin Har Zion Adult Education March Erev Shabbat Programs Courtenay Harris Black Moselle Brotman GUIDED JEWISH MEDITATION WITH RABBI GLICK: Sundays, See above for more on the first two programs new to John Donlon 9–9:30 AM. Friday evenings that are beginning this March. Ted Lawrence JOURNEY INTO TANAKH TORAH STUDY WITH RABBI GLICK: Thursdays, SHABBAT ACROSS HAR ZION: A ongoing program that begins on March 1, through which we will have the opportunity Yakira Levi 10 AM. to share Shabbat evening dinners in each other’s Shirley Lieb A WORLD OF YIDDISH WITH CANTOR FIGA: Monday, March 18, 7 PM. homes, facilitated by the temple. Haran Rashes No knowledge of Yiddish is required. A NEW SONG FOR HAR ZION: A musical Shabbat service on the George Srajer SHABBAT AFTERNOON TALMUD STUDY: An informal study group; second Friday of each month, led by the cantor, the for details, contact Jerry Bloom at [email protected]. Sara Stern rabbi, Jonathan Miller of Chicago a cappella, and Mike Weinstein And Renew Daily with the Shohet Daily Minyan members Rachel Farr and David Oromaner. Sue May Wilde Sunday through Friday, Hebrew reader or not, jeans or COMMUNAL MEAL & LECTURE ON HINDUISM.: After services on Barb Yong jacket, help us fill the minyan! Regardless of who you March 8, we will gather for a meal and a lecture on Mary Zavett are, please fulfill the mitzvah of participating in Hinduism from Swami Ishatmananda, spiritual leader Michael Zmora minyan…and stay for a decent nosh and good company. of the Vivekananda Vedanta Society of Chicago. 2 THE CANTOR’S VOICE PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE Israeli TV: The Whole In Defense of World is Watching Change

Thanks to the explosion of digital video streaming In mid-December of last year, with two weeks notice, services, Israeli TV shows are now readily available to my yoga studio closed. I was angry and hurt. It was my the world. I have found in my conversations with many yoga home for almost five years, and I had put a lot of congregants that we are totally hooked on the effort into that place, looking for a studio with the right outstanding TV programs that are coming out of Israel. vibe, the right classes, excellent teachers, and then Like so many other endeavors, such as medicine, getting to know like-minded practitioners there. And “Change is a technology, agriculture, and defense, Israel proves to be a there is no other yoga studio in my part of town, or pain and a bold and innovative leader in television and the motion anywhere in and around this area, that will allow me to picture arts as well. The Israeli TV and Film Industry clock in, sitting on my yoga mat, ready to go, six disruption, …. has become a focal point of cultural and economic minutes after getting in my car! But you know exchange internationally. Israeli television has definitely And, because of a foot injury, I had not been able to come a long way in a short time, considering that it did do my nearly daily three mile walk in over a month. what? It’s good not exist until 50 years ago. Color TV was not even Yoga was the one thing I could still do. I was pissed that to get totally available until 1983, when there only was one Israeli TV my carefully crafted exercise routine was going down channel! I personally remember that, in the year that I the drain. Change is a pain and a disruption, especially up-ended once spent in Israel after college, a big TV event was a gray at an age when life becomes even more of a routine. in a while! ” shadowy rerun of Dallas with Hebrew subtitles! But you know what? It’s good to get totally Nowadays, streaming services such as Netflix, up-ended once in a while! You are reminded that you Amazon Prime, and Hulu collaborate with Israeli are alive and vibrant. It allows for re-evaluation of what production companies to develop and distribute you’ve been doing, and allows room to do new things shows, and giants such as HBO, Showtime, Fox, and you’ve been thinking about. “I have always done it this Turner continue to create shows adapted from original way” is not always a healthy motto. Israeli series. Probably the most buzzed about TV We are working on some changes here at Har Zion, show in Israeli history is Fauda (the Arabic word for too. We want to work on what some would call the “chaos”). Fauda is a tense and realistic, two-sided perceived difficulties of Conservative Judaism by series about an undercover Israeli Defense Force unit offering programs new and old, such as the Hebrew operating in the Palestinian territories. Even many Crash Course, minyan training, demystifying the Palestinians love this series too, because it takes them service, the I Am a Davener Program, and more. seriously and treats them with grudging respect. I also We are using a new siddur on Friday nights, Siddur loved Srugim (a knitted kippot), which is an utterly Lev Shalom. It offers virtually every Hebrew prayer in charming and engaging series, sort of like a religious transliteration. This siddur has been very well received Friends set in Jerusalem. and we are working on transitioning to use it on But my favorite Israeli series so far has been Shtisel, Saturday morning as well. We also have a small which I just finished binge watching on Netflix. Shtisel committee that has been re-evaluating our Friday night is an authentic, artistically directed, human drama services—hence Friday night programs such as A New about a Haredi family (black hats and payot) living their Song and Shabbat Across Har Zion; see the rabbi’s insular lives in the religious neighborhoods of article on page 2—and Saturday services. Jerusalem. The high production values and excellent The Building Committee has been working on ways acting bring to mind The Sopranos, but of an entirely to spruce up and refurbish our front entrance foyer to reverse ethical world. Primarily a drama around a father really draw you in, as well as talking about ideas to do and a son, Shtisel also has large doses of situational wit the same for our sanctuary. HAR ZION OFFICE and humor; and, something else I especially enjoyed, it The Membership Committee is working on HOURS has a considerable amount of dialogue—in Yiddish! wonderful outreach plans to do Pop-up Shabbatot, one Where else are you going to find that? These shows are in the city and one in the western suburbs. MONDAY–THURSDAY: highly entertaining and informative, and though they We want to remind you that Har Zion is alive and 8:30 AM to 5 PM are uniquely Israeli and Jewish, they project much vibrant! You, too, have put effort into being here and WEDNESDAYS WHEN KRS larger universal themes that touch us all. we want to always be here for you. IS IN SESSION: 8:30 AM–6:45 PM FRIDAY: 8:30 AM to 2 PM SUNDAYS WHEN KRS IS IN LAUREL SALTZMAN CANTOR STEWART FIGA SESSION: [email protected] 8:30 AM–12:30 PM [email protected] 3 EARLY CHILDHOOD NEWS FROM THE PRINCIPAL’S DESK Shabbat at Har The Mitzvot of Zion Preschool Purim The highlight of the Har Zion Preschool school year is Kol Yisrael aravim zeh lazeh—All Jews are our annual Preschool Family Shabbat. The children responsible for each other —Talmud, Shevuot 39a are delighted to show off their learning and creativity to What if there were no hamantashen this Purim? EARLY CHILDHOOD their families. For the families, it is a lovely time to relax Unimaginable, right? Yet for many Jews in the CALENDAR over a child friendly dinner prepared for them and be Chicagoland area, this will be a reality this year. When with friends, old and new! you have to choose between spending your money on to the cantor for sharing his (תודה רבה) Todah Rabah TOT SHABBAT: Saturday, food or rent, hamantashen are an unaffordable luxury. joy and passion at our Family Shabbat; you can tell the March 9, 11 AM When you have to choose between spending your children love the cantor as much as he loves teaching FAMILY DROP OFF/PARENT money on electricity or medicine, hamantashen are an them! We missed the vacationing rabbi. unaffordable luxury. CAFE: Friday, March 15, We at the Har Zion preschool are very fortunate to 8:30 AM There are many customs for Purim—dressing in be part of our incredible community, where so many costumes, shaking a grogger when Haman’s name is PRESCHOOL PURIM were able to volunteer to help before, during, and after CELEBRATION: Thursday, read, eating hamantashen—but only four mitzvot the event. It was wonderful to welcome new temple (commandments). They are the following: March 21, 10:30 AM members and thrilling to have so many new families. I PRESCHOOL CLOSED FOR want to SHOUT out a huge thank you to all of our • Hearing the Megillah read, SPRING BREAK: Monday, amazing teachers who cooked, shopped, served, • Eating a festive meal, March 25 through Friday, comforted, and, of course, taught! It was a very long • Sending Mishloach Manot (gifts of food to friends), March 29; Extended Day but inspiring day! • And giving Matanot LeEvyonim (gifts to the poor). Remains Open As part of their study of Shabbat, the children hear Matanot LeEvyonim may be the least known of these PRESCHOOL CAMP ZION the Creation story and how G-d created the day of rest, four, but it is arguably the most important. According to BEGINS: June 3 and they are asked what would happen if they could Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon, better known as Rambam: create the world. It is with great pleasure that I share When a person eats and drinks in celebration of a with you the 2019 “Creation Story Through the Mind holiday, he is obligated to feed converts, orphans, of a Child” in the box below. widows, and others who are destitute and poor. In Shabbat is a time to pause and reflect on all that has contrast, a person who locks the gates of his been accomplished during the preceding week. It’s courtyard and eats and drinks with his children surprising though, how hard it is to take a break and and his wife, without feeding the poor and the find some space to breathe embittered, is not indulging in rejoicing associated in today’s busy world. with a mitzvah, but rather the rejoicing of his gut. Sometimes we need a force —Mishneh Torah, Laws of Holidays 6:18 bigger than us to just make it happen…we are grateful At the Koven Religious School we will be exploring for our preschool family! this Purim commandment with the help of Rebecca Warmly, Lorrie Fletcher. Rebecca is a talented Jewish educator who works for The Ark, an organization that helps Jews in The Har Zion Preschool Weekly Shabbat Celebration the Chicagoland area with food, prescriptions, and free One of my favorite parts of the preschool week is celebrating medical, dental, and legal care. You can learn more Shabbat as a school. We gather on the bima to sing songs, light about their work at www.arkchicago.org. If you are in candles, bless the wine and challah, hear a story from the Rabbi, LORRIE APPLEBEY need of their help, you can receive confidential and sometimes celebrate a Shabbat Star. Smelling the challah the [email protected] WWW.WSTHZ.ORG/PRESCHOOL.HTML assistance at 773.973.1000. And if you are not, please children bake is almost as delicious as hearing them sing. consider including them in your Purim celebration. To paraphrase Emma Lazarus (the Jew who wrote the poem at the base of the Statue of Liberty), “None of us “Creation Story Through the Mind of a Child” are properly celebrating Purim until all of us are If I could have created the world … properly celebrating Purim.” On the first day, I would create myself and pants to keep me warm. From all of us at the Koven Religious School, On the second day, I would create Daddies, to give me food. Happy Purim! On the third day, I would create family, because we love them. On the four day, I would create people, so I can have friends. On the fifth day, I would create unicorns, because everyone loves them. On the sixth day, I would create me, because I like me! On the seventh day, I would have art and Shabbat for my family. DAVID SCHWARTZ; [email protected] WWW.WSTHZ.ORG/EDUCATION/RELIGIOUS-SCHOOL 4 High Holiday and other food related needs. WSUSY Notes • Adamah, promoting environmentally sustainable In the spirit of Purim, WSUSY will be going to the practices. Ronald McDonald House to bake cookies for families • Jewish Family and Child Services, JCFS, supplying who are waiting for loved ones to receive medical backpacks of school supplies for kids. treatment at Loyola University Medical Center. All • Migrant children, donating supplies for Maryville teens in grades 8–12 are invited to join us—for details Academy in Des Plaines. contact David Schwartz at [email protected]. • Jewish United Fund, serving dinner at Uptown Cafe. • Community of Congregations Holiday Gift Giving Har Zion Purim Celebrations Program. KOVEN RELIGIOUS • High Holiday and Pesach food drives for The ARK. SCHOOL CALENDAR PURIM CARNIVAL: Sunday, March 17, 11 AM. Games! Prizes! • Collecting food for OPRF Food Bank. Food! Balloons! Raffles! Costume Parade! • Sponsoring Red Cross Blood Drives. MARCH 3, SUNDAY, All proceeds from the Purim Carnival benefit the • Housing Forward Lunch and Dinner Programs. 9:30 AM: KRS, Hebrew Koven Religious School; it is the Koven Religious • Globally raising funds for and awareness of High, Grades 8–9 School’s primary fund raiser. Come have a great time IsraAID’s mission. MARCH 9, SATURDAY: and help fund our school! Some of these causes are seasonal and you will hear 10:30 AM: Junior The KRS Hebrew High students work at the Purim about them once or twice a year. Others are ongoing Congregation carnival, but additional volunteers are needed! Please and will continually welcome your attention and 11 AM: Tot Shabbat email temple administrator Eddie Simon at esimon@ donations. For more information on these and other MARCH 10, SUNDAY, wsthz.org if you can help. programs, explore the “Community” item on the 9:30 AM: KRS, Hebrew wsthz.org web pages, or contact me. High, Grades 10–12 MEGILLAH READING: Wednesday evening, March 20, If you have a passion or action not on this list, we MARCH 17, SUNDAY: beginning at 6 PM. Come for dinner, followed want to learn about it. If your passion is on the list, or if Regular KRS classes, Maariv service, and then the Megillah reading, jokes, you have other ideas, please call or email me at Phyllis. then the Purim Carnival and hamantashen. Experience the Megillah in grand [email protected] or 708.848.6168, or the temple at 11 AM style—a full reading of the Megillah enhanced by a office at [email protected] or 708.366.9000. MARCH 23, SATURDAY, full screen animated video, featuring English and Please join us! 10:30 AM: Junior Hebrew text side by side. (We will pause after Phyllis Rubin Congregation Chapter 3 for anyone who needs to leave early.) SUNDAY MARCH 24, THRU Everyone is encouraged to wear a costume! Volunteer at the Temple SUNDAY, MARCH 31: PRESCHOOL PURIM CELEBRATION: Thursday, March 21, 10:30 AM. Volunteers are also needed to serve the temple—to KRS Spring Break; classes serve on committees, to act as an usher, to sponsor and/ resume with Monday Ulpan on April 1 or prepare kiddush, to plan a temple fundraiser, and SOCIAL ACTION AT HAR ZION more! Want to help? Contact the temple office. FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 5: 1st/2nd grade Shabbat Hello, everyone. I have cautiously agreed to lead the Good Deeds Day Service and Dinner Social Action Committee; cautiously because I will Sunday, April 7, 2019, 9:30 AM–12 Noon SATURDAY, APRIL 6: never measure up to Carol Flank! You are invited to join our Koven Religious School Kindergarten Shabbat Har Zion has a rich Social Action Program, created Morning Service from the many passions of our congregation to repair students in their participation in Good Deeds Day, an international day of service, www.good-deeds-day.org. SATURDAY, APRIL 13: the world. We not only participate in Tikkun Olam 10 AM, 6th/7th grade locally, but in national and global causes as well. Below Good Deeds Day is dedicated to demonstrating that Shabbat Morning Service is a list of causes we have been supporting: everyone can make difference in their community. You 11 AM Tot Shabbat • B’nai mitzvah and religious school projects. will be able to select from a variety of projects including writing cards for ill children, making granola bars for a SUNDAY, APRIL 21, THRU • Maot Chitim, assisting needy members of the Greater SATURDAY, APRIL 28: Chicagoland Jewish community with Passover and local homeless shelter, and creating and distributing Pesach Vacation inspirational stones. Not available on April 7? Consider donating $5 or more to IsraAID’s medical unit in Lesbos, Greece, in honor of Good Deeds Day. Good Deeds Day was founded in Israel in 2007. Participation has steadily grown since that first Good Deeds Day twelve years ago. In 2018, three and a half million volunteers around the world came together to help their communities in big and small ways. Locally 1,200 volunteers participated in 37 JUF sponsored service projects throughout the Chicago area (see juf.org Red Cross Blood Drive for photos from last year’s events). Do you have a Good Deeds Day project idea? The Social Action Committee’s Contact the temple office or [email protected] to February Red Cross Blood Drive share your ideas and/or enthusiasm! was a success! 5 BUILDING COMMITTEE EARN MONEY FOR THE TEMPLE! Accessibility News AMAZON: Do your Amazon shopping at smile.amazon. Here at West Suburban Temple Har Zion, we have a com and Amazon will donate 0.5% of your purchase HAPPY diverse population with diverse needs. We want to price to the temple. Be sure to select WEST SUBURBAN ANNIVERSARY! assure everyone is comfortable and able to participate TEMPLE as your charity. in our services. We already have some accommodations GOODSEARCH.COM: Go to www.goodsearch.com for your MARCH 3: in place, such as large print siddurim and hearing Wayne & Judith Meyer devices. We will be making further changes to make web browsing, shopping, travel, and so on, and you MARCH 11: receiving honors easier for those who cannot navigate will earn $$$s for Har Zion. Adam & Kelly Oxer the stairs to the bima. TEMPLE TRIBUTES: The next time you need a greeting card for MARCH 14: If you need special accessibility accommodations, any occasion, call or stop by the temple office to Joseph & Laura Gartner please contact the temple office at least one week in arrange for a temple tribute. You decide how much to MARCH 28: advance. The number is 708.366.9000. Vafa & Elizabeth Shayani Yours in service, Sara Stern donate in their honor or memory, and they will receive a card notifying them of your generous donation. HAR ZION ADAMAH COMMITTEE SHOP IN THE PHYLLIS BAREN GIFT SHOP: Need a gift—even for yourself? Consider the Phyllis Baren Gift Shop— One Earth Film Festival (OEFF) stop by the shop, call the temple office, or send an The 2019 One Earth Film Festival (OEFF) includes: email. If the gift shop doesn’t already have what you • 67 transformative film events throughout need, chances are they can order it for you. Chicagoland; most are free. There are many other ways you can donate; these are • Thoughtful and moving films suitable for the whole just a few suggestions. If you have any other ideas, family, for ages 3 to 93. • Engaging films that appeal to young adults 18–24+. please share your ideas with JuliAnn Geldner, the • Five after hours events and three Festival parties, temple’s VP for Fundraising. She would also love to perfect for date nights and nights out with friends. know whether you are taking these suggestions to It’s a Girl! • 19 filmmaker and film subject live and video heart. Please email her at [email protected]. Mazel Tov to Marshall and appearances. Judy Kupchan on the recent The festival began on February 20, but the Opening STAR Thursday Afternoon Retirees birth of their granddaugh- Night festivities are on March 1, and the earlier films ter, Frankie Jaye Kupchan, have repeat showings during March. See the schedule Thursdays, 1–3 PM, Har Zion to Frankie’s parents, Noey and buy tickets online at: www.oneearthfilmfest.org/ and Shuli Kupchan, and to Like spring blooms unfolding beneath the earth, films-by-date her big sisters, Eloise and STAR programming for March is unfolding. Enjoy the Buy your tickets today! Lucy. fun of being surprised. Find out what’s finalized by Marshall and Judy were in OEFF in Oak Park/River Forest joining us! Los Angeles for the birth The Oak Park/River Forest faith community is hosting and the naming, and are In the Works now back home in Israel. two great films during the Fest: They can be reached at PARIS TO PITTSBURGH: Sunday, March 3, 1:30–3 PM • Discussions on genealogy and anti-Semitism, [email protected]. St. Giles Catholic Parish • Fire Safety and West Suburban Consolidated 1045 Columbian Ave, Oak Park, IL 60302 Dispatch, • Village of Oak Park Sustainability Director, and www.oneearthfilmfest.org/films-az-2019/paris-to- pittsburgh • Movies. TAWAI: A VOICE FROM THE FOREST: Sunday, March 3, 4–7 PM Speakers, films, and discussions are all a part of STAR’s Unity Temple, 875 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60301 programming. And come every Thursday for the www.oneearthfilmfest.org/films-az-2019/tawai-a- schmoozing. voice-from-the-forest Come for one or all of these benefits. Stay for the joy of it all. Smiles guaranteed every week. We hope you’ll Adamah Committee Volunteers Needed! let us share those with you! Spring is coming, and sustainability is always Your passions and expertise interest others, too. important! Please contact Cindy Klein-Banai at Please share them as we continue planning our program. [email protected] if you’d like to help with this year’s temple garden and/or serve on the Adamah If you have any questions or would like to offer ideas, Committee. please email Sandra Sokol at sandrasokol@sbcglobal. And thank you for your care for the Earth! net or Hene Waterbury at [email protected]. 6 Getting Help: The JCFS/Har Zion OPT Community Partnership In Memoriam The Congregation extends its deepest sympathy to the families of: SOCIAL WORKER AT HAR ZION: Har Zion and OPT, in cooperation with JCFS Synagogue Community Zita Ann Holden Partnership, offer social services to community Wife of the late Mel Holden, mother of Barry and Nina Holden, Jill Holden and Ray members. If you are going through any Richmond, and Cheryl and Ric Lange; grandmother of Ian Holden, Sara Holden, struggles, have concerns, or would like to make Rachel Spietz, and Joey Lange; and great grandmother of Jackson and Finley Spietz changes in your life, connect with JCFS Blanche Blumenthal Synagogue Community Partnership Wife of the late Dr. Irving Blumenthal; mother of Marlene and the late Joseph Mann, Coordinator and SCP Liaison, Ben Goldberg, Ingrid and the late Jay Brown, and Dr. Lewis Mann and Ellin Goodman; grandmother for support. You can contact Ben at of: Jennifer, Jason, and Sonny Mann, and Jamie Bender; Bradley, David, and Marc 847.745.5420 or [email protected]. Blumenthal, and Emily Barrett; Leslie Lavin and Michael Alpert; great grandmother of: (For more information on the programs available Trevor, Everett, Margot, Olivia, June, Joshua, Samantha, and Riley Mann; Matthew, through the JCFS Community Partnership Miranda, Brooklyn, and Becksley Alpert; Asher and Tatum Levin, and Avery Barrett. Program, see: www.jcfs.org/blog/synagogue- partnerships-serving-jewish-community- “The memory of the righteous is a blessing” — Proverbs 10:7 where-they-live-learn-work-and-worship) JCFS CHICAGO (FORMERLY JEWISH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES): JCFS Yetta Zisman March 22–23 Chicago is your first and best connection to trusted, innovative care to meet the individual March 8–9 Maurice Amdur needs of each child, teen, adult, and family of all Sylvia Belenke Esther Naomi backgrounds that we serve. JCFS Chicago Sophie Blum Antonow offers over 30 programs at 10 locations and Harry Besser throughout communities across Chicagoland Dora Brodsky Aaron O. Broyde Charles Cohen and beyond. For more information, visit: www. Edith Kitz jcfs.org/our-services: Dina Carasso Minnie Koven Naomi Golinkin JEN (JEWISH EMPLOYMENT NETWORK): JEN can help you plan Yahrzeit Michael Libovsky a career path, tune you up for that important Ethel Joseph Suzanne Mirelman interview, revamp your resume, and teach you March 1–2 Louis Mayer Joss Hyman I. Singer how to network successfully. For information Abe Keeshin Abraham Aginsky Evelyne Ethel call JVS Career Moves at 855.463.6587 or visit Anne Podolsky Irene G. Auster Stillerman their website: jvschicago.org Regina Hanfling Irving Cohn Sydney W. Tauber JVS ENTREPRENEURSHIP CENTER: The Duman Jewel Genarella Schneider Entrepreneurship Center funded by the Duman Rachel Troshinsky Pearl Hoffman Gold Mollie Lewis Simon Family at JVS Chicago (Jewish Vocational Lesser Turner Clara Wollenberg Service) supports aspiring entrepreneurs by Albert Goldman Benjamin Vanderhoek connecting small business owners with Elinor Frances Goose March 15–16 Joseph Wainstalk Barney Greenberg advisors, mentors, training, and interest-free Celia Brodsky Fannie Zakroff loans. Duman Center clients include Sam Greenberg Joseph Zoltan independent clothing stores, coffee roasters, Nathan Hershovitz Leon Frack dog day care facilities, toy developers, jewelry Elsie Horwood Alan Gersten March 29–30 designers, healthcare providers, photographers Ernest Kirschner Isidor Green Bertha Adlerblum and artists. For more information please visit Sarah Kivelevitz Lipton Dorothy Hirsch Hyman Blitz www.jcfs.org/jvs/what-we-do/ Devra Meyers Sadie Hirsh Bertha Bloom entrepreneurship or contact the JVS Chicago Anita Miller Leslie Hurwitz William J. Cermak ACCESS line at 855.INFO.JVS 855.463.6587, Nettie Schultz Bernard S. Kanter Samuel Kaplan or contact Ben Goldberg at 847.745.5420 or Paula Lerner [email protected]. Marcia Shiner Morris Kaufman Irving Silver Ray Nemerovski Joseph Kirshman Do You Need a Ride to Shul? Sarah L. Silverman Barbara Nemerovski George L. Kitz Lena Silverman Harold Rothstein Allen Nemerovski Have you been wanting to attend Friday evening Molly Talney Anne H. Rubenstein Louis I. Shapiro or Shabbat morning services, but need a ride? Rosa VanDam Phylis Schneider Maurice M. Sternberg Volunteers are available to provide transportation Jacques VanDam Morris Schwartz Miriam Tabachnik to and from the shul. Contact the temple office by Samuel Weinberg Hyman Shapiro Morris Tananbaum Wednesday afternoon of the week you want to L.M. Stein attend, and a volunteer will contact you to arrange Bella Cristol Zahn Alex Tessler for your transportation. Sadye Zavett Morris Swidler Bertha Wiesenfelder 7 Todah Rabah Simcha Tree When you celebrate a special life event—a birthday or anniversary; Honor your family simcha with a donation birth of a child, grandchild, great grandchild; graduation; to the WSTHZ Simcha Tree. Your gift of a retirement; etc., you can commemorate these occasions with a leaf will create a lasting reminder of a contribution to West Suburban Temple Har Zion. Such a gift is a joyous occasion: wedding, birth, bar/bat meaningful way to honor any simcha. Donations can be directed to mitzvah, a birthday, or a thank you for a any of the funds described below. Your generosity will not only help job well done. our congregation maintain its fine programs, but it will affirm the importance of Judaism and Jewish ideals in your family’s life.

BUILDING FUND: Maintaining & improving the Vafa & Liz Shayani mazel tov to Marshall & Peter & JuliAnn Geldner: In memory of Marlene building Judy Kupchan’s granddaughter, Frankie Jaye Mann and Ingrid Brown’s mother, Blanche Gloria Rosenbaum mazel tov to Hai Solomon on Kupchan Blumenthal; In memory of her grandfather, his birthday Paul & Judith Wolfman in memory of Marlene Irving Isaacs; In memory of her grandmother, CANTOR HAROLD BRINDELL MEMORIAL FUND: Mann and Ingrid Brown’s mother, Blanche Nettie Isaacs; and In memory of his mother, Memorializes the life and work of our late Hazzan Blumenthal Barbara Geldner CANTOR’S MUSIC FUND: Provides musical PRESCHOOL FUND: Special support for the nursery Irene Goren in memory of Marlene Mann and programming: school Ingrid Brown’s mother, Blanche Blumenthal Morris & Beverly Applebaum in memory of Herbert Golinkin in memory of Herbert Sheldon Gottlieb in memory of his father, Marlene Mann and Ingrid Brown’s mother, Golinkin’s granddaughter, Jennifer Sutton Nathan Gottlieb Blanche Blumenthal Alan Peres & Rya Ben-Shir in honor of the birth of Henry & Sally Guralnick in memory of Marlene Morris & Beverly Applebaum in memory of Liv Hannah Feierberg Mann and Ingrid Brown’s mother, Blanche Ruben Harris Cherise Rosen Blumenthal The Harris Family in memory of Ruben Harris RABBI JOSEPH TABACHNIK MEMORIAL FUND Barbara & Michael Horowitz: In memory of Gussie Fishbain; and In memory of Rose CHILDREN’S SHABBAT FUND: Tot’s and Children’s RABBI ROBIN DAMSKY ADAMAH FUND: services Friedman Jennie P. Gonzalez Stanley Horwich: In memory of his mother, Ann GROPPER WINDOW PROJECT FUND: Supports the restoration of the Gropper Windows RABBI VICTOR A MIRELMAN EDUCATION FUND: Supports Horwich; and In memory of his wife, Pearl early education, religious school and adult Horwich GROWTH & DEVELOPMENT FUND: To support the long- education term stability and viability of the congregation Rosalie Knudson & David Aram in memory of RABBI’S DISCRETIONARY FUND: Supports a variety of Ruben Harris JACK JOSS MEMORIAL FUND: For the expansion and charities and special activities at the rabbi’s Carol Koenig in memory of Ruben Harris discretion maintenance of the Catherine and Jack Joss Tot Lot Alan & Shirley Levin in memory of his mother, Richard & Karen Dale in memory of Marlene JANICE PATTERSON KALLAH SCHOLARSHIP FUND: Ida Levin Mann and Ingrid Brown’s mother, Blanche Supports Kallah expenses and helps families attend Marlene & Jennifer Mann in memory of Ruben Blumenthal Frank Vozak & Terrie Rymer: In memory of Harris Marlene Mann and Ingrid Brown’s mother, Richard & Karen Dale in memory of Ruben Harris Herbert Golinkin in memory of Marlene Carol Retzky in memory of Jerry Braun Blanche Blumenthal; and In memory of Debra Richard Rothschild & Judith Crown in memory of Fulscher’s mother, Sandra Sundfor Mann and Ingrid Brown’s mother, Blanche Blumenthal Blanche Blumenthal JEWISH JOURNEYS FUND: Supports learning and The Harris Family in memory of Ruben Harris Marilyn Samuels in memory of Ruben Harris spiritual development in the community, including Marilyn & Harriet Samuels in memory of Ruben programs, ritual items and Jewish learning stipends Barry & Linda Newman in memory of Ruben Harris Harris Paul & Judith Wolfman in honor of Marshall & Barry & Linda Newman in celebration of Phyllis Barbara Schmitt in memory of Marlene Judy Kupchan’s granddaughter, Frankie Jaye Mann and Ingrid Brown’s mother, Blanche Kupchan Rubin’s Special Birthday Francis & Tauba Rosin in memory of Ruben Harris Blumenthal KIDDUSH & BREAKFAST FUND: Provides for Shabbat & Sandra Smith: In memory of Marlene Mann and Robert & Joyce Silverman in memory of Marlene festival Kiddushim, and weekday minyan breakfast Ingrid Brown’s mother, Blanche Blumenthal; In Mann and Ingrid Brown’s mother, Blanche Rachel Poretsky and Matthew Farley in memory memory of Jerry Braun; an In honor of Phyllis Blumenthal of her father, Allan Poretsky Rubin’s special birthday Sandra Sokol in memory of Marlene Mann and Edward Sachs & Judith Grobe Sachs in memory Vladimir Tsesis in appreciation of the kindness of Ingrid Brown’s mother, Blanche Blumenthal of Marlene Mann and Ingrid Brown’s mother, the Goldman/Lieb family Blanche Blumenthal Hai & Carol Solomon: In memory of his mother, Susan & Ben Uchitelle in memory of David Harris’ Monavar Soleimani; and In memory of his KOVEN RELIGIOUS SCHOOL FUND father, Ruben Harris brother, Baruch Solomon LIBRARY FUND: Supports both temple libraries SEFER HAFTARAH PROJECT Harlee Till in memory of Blanche Blumenthal Stuart Weg & Judith Roth in memory of his SENIOR ACTIVITY FUND: Programming for seniors LIEB FAMILY SUKKAH FUND: For the Lieb Family Sukkah mother, Elsie Weg Jack & Joy Siegel in memory of Ruben Harris MALCOLM GETHNER USY SCHOLARSHIP FUND: Funds for Simone Weiss in memory of Ruben Harris our youth to attend regional events & retreats TEMPLE FUND: Supports all temple programs TZEDAKAH FUND: supports a variety of charities OREN CARMI ABRAHAM FUND: Youth programming Ian Elfenbaum & Susan Adler in memory of Ian’s mother, Esther Elfenbaum Allan and Rhoda Bernstein in memory of PAUL WOLFMAN LAY LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT FUND: Frank Bartos in memory of Blanche Blumenthal Marlene Mann and Ingrid Brown’s mother, To support in the development of present and Blanche Blumenthal future leaders Howard & Norma Berlin in memory of Marlene Mann and Ingrid Brown’s mother, Blanche YONG FAMILY CAMP FUND: Provides partial PRAYER BOOK FUND: For the purchase of prayer books Blumenthal scholarships for members’ children to attend Jewish Vafa & Liz Shayani in memory of Marlene Morrie & Carol Fred in memory of Marlene camps Mann and Ingrid Brown’s mother, Blanche Mann and Ingrid Brown’s mother, Blanche James & Barbara Yong in memory of Ruben Blumenthal Blumenthal Harris 8 Pulpit Flowers

March 1–2 Iris Schrey, in memory of her grandmother, Yetta Zisman. Barry & Jean Schub, in memory of her uncle, Irving Cohn. March 8–9 Iris Schrey, in memory of her mother, Anne Podolsky. Not previously listed: December 1: Rifkah Fallert, in memory of her father-in-law, Richard Fallert

December 7–8: Rachel Poretsky & Matthew Farley, in memory of her father, Allan Poretsk In time of need please notify the Temple Office at December 29: Barbara & Michael Horowitz, in memory of her 708.366.9000. After hours, call Rabbi Glick at father, Irving Friedman 310.227.9954, Cantor Figa at 312.335.1768, or leave a January 26: Robert & Shellie Thomas, in memory of her father, message at the temple. Eugene Mild

Har Zion 35th Annual Retreat Perlstein Vacation Center, Lake Delton, WI From tots to seniors, everyone is invited to enjoy the thirty-fifth annual Har Zion Kallah, a Shabbat weekend in a beautiful, peaceful setting at Perlstein Center in Lake Delton, Wisconsin. We will share our thoughts and ideas on matters of interest in our Jewish community, both serious and not so serious. We will learn, pray, play, socialize, and eat together. There will be programming for kids, youth, teen, and adults all weekend! Come for fun, community bonding, topics sessions, lay-led services, socializing, ice cream social, yoga, spiritual environment, bonfire, the talent show, child, teen and youth programming, and even more fun! **Special discount for first time attendees!**

Registration for the 2019 West Suburban Temple Har Zion Kallah 2019 Friday, March 22–Sunday, March 24, Perlstein Resort & Conference Center, Lake Delton, Wisconsin

First time adult Kallah attendees are elegible for a substational More information on the temple website: discount. (Limited to the first 20 eligible adults.) www.wsthz.org/form/kallah-2019.html If the cost of Kallah is a challenge, please contact Eddie Simon at [email protected] or Rabbi Glick at [email protected], who Register by Monday, March 11 have access to scholarship funds through the Janice Patterson Kallah Scholarship Fund. 9 Rosh Chodesh Adar II MARCH 7–8 March 2019 KRS Purim Carnival MARCH 17 Fast of Esther, Purim MARCH 20–21 KRS Spring Break MARCH 24–31 Adar I/Adar II 5779 Preschool Spring Break MARCH 25–29

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Feb. 24 Feb. 25 Feb. 26 Feb. 27 Feb. 28 1 2 9 AM Meditation 7:30 AM Shohet 7:45 AM Shohet 7:45 AM Shohet 7:30 AM Shohet 7:45 AM Shohet Vayakhel 9:30 AM Shohet Morning Minyan Morning Minyan Morning Minyan Morning Minyan Morning Minyan Shabbat Shekalim Morning Minyan 4:30–6:30 PM 4:30–6:30 PM 10 AM Journey into 6:30 PM Kabbalat 10 AM 9:30 AM KRS Monday Ulpan KRS the Tanakh Shabbat Service, then Shabbat Service KRS; HH Grades 10–12 1–3 PM STAR “Shabbat Across Har 10:15 AM 7 PM Melton Adult Zion” Intro to Judaism Jewish Learning 5:23 PM 6:28 PM Havdalah 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 9 AM Meditation 7:30 AM Shohet 7:45 AM Shohet 7:45 AM Shohet Rosh Chodesh Rosh Chodesh Pekudei 9:30 AM Shohet Morning Minyan Morning Minyan Morning Minyan Adar II Adar II 10 AM Morning Minyan 4:30–6:30 PM 4:30–6:30 PM 7:30 AM Shohet 7:30 AM Shohet Shabbat Service 9:30 AM KRS Monday Ulpan KRS Morning Minyan Morning Minyan 10:30 AM Junior KRS; HH Grades 8–9 10 AM Journey into 6:30 PM “A New Congregation 10:15 AM the Tanakh Song” Service, 11 AM Tot Shabbat Intro to Judaism 1–3 PM STAR Shabbat Meal, and 7 PM Melton Adult Talk on Hinduism Jewish Learning 5:32 PM 6:36 PM Havdalah 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Daylight Savings 7:30 AM Shohet 7:45 AM Shohet 7:45 AM Shohet 7:30 AM Shohet 7:45 AM Shohet Vayikra Time Begins Morning Minyan Morning Minyan Morning Minyan Morning Minyan Morning Minyan Shabbat Zachor 9:30 AM Minyan 4:30–6:30 PM 4:30–6:30 PM 10 AM Journey into 8:30 AM Family Drop KRS Monday Ulpan KRS the Tanakh off/Parent Cafe 9:30 AM 7:44 PM Havdalah KRS; HH Grades 10–12 7 PM Temple Board 1–3 PM STAR 6:30 PM Kabbalat 10:15 AM Meeting 7 PM Melton Adult Shabbat Service Intro to Judaism Jewish Learning 6:40 PM 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 9:30 AM Shohet 7:30 AM 7:45 AM Fast of Esther Purim Har Zion Kallah Har Zion Kallah Morning Minyan Shohet Morning Shohet Morning Erev Purim 7:30 AM Shohet Shushan Purim Tzav 9:30 AM KRS; Hebrew Minyan Minyan 7:30 AM Morning Minyan 7:45 AM 10 AM High students help 4:30–6:30 PM 7 PM Endowment Shohet Morning 10 AM Journey into Shohet Morning Shabbat Service with Purim Carnival KRS Monday Ulpan Committee Meeting Minyan the Tanakh Minyan 10:30 AM 11 AM–1 PM 7 PM 4:30 PM KRS 10:30 AM Preschool 6:30 PM Kabbalat Junior Congregation KRS Purim Carnival World of Yiddish 6 PM Dinner, Maariv, Purim Celebration Shabbat Service Megillah Reading 1–3 PM STAR 7:52 PM Havdalah 7 PM Melton Learning 6:48 PM 24 25 26 27 28 28 30 Har Zion Kallah 7:30 AM Shohet 7:45 AM Shohet 7:45 AM Shohet 7:30 AM Shohet 7:45 AM Shohet Shmini 9:30 AM Shohet Morning Minyan Morning Minyan Morning Minyan Morning Minyan Morning Minyan Shabbat Parah 1–3 PM STAR 6:30 PM Kabbalat Morning Minyan Preschool Closed; Preschool Closed; Preschool Closed; 10 AM 7 PM Melton Learning Shabbat Service Zero Waste Shabbat No KRS Extended Day Only Extended Day Only Extended Day Only No KRS No KRS Preschool Closed; Preschool Closed; Service Extended Day Only Extended Day Only 6:55 PM 7:59 PM Havdalah 31 April 1 April 2 April 3 April 4 April 5 April 6 9:30 AM Shohet 7:30 AM Shohet 7:45 AM Shohet 7:45 AM Shohet 7:30 AM Shohet 7:45 AM Shohet Rosh Chodesh Nisan Morning Minyan Morning Minyan Morning Minyan Morning Minyan Morning Minyan Morning Minyan Tazria 4:30–6:30 PM 4:30–6:30 PM 1–3 PM STAR 6:30 PM KRS 1st/2nd Shabbat Hachodesh No KRS KRS Monday Ulpan KRS 7 PM Melton Adult Grade Shabbat 10 AM Jewish Learning Service and Shabbat Service Dinner 11 AM KRS Kinder- garten Shabbat 8 PM Stars in the Sky: Small Forest Band 10 7:03 PM 8:07 PM Havdalah ELM FLOOR INC. Hardwood James G. Frazier, D.M.D., M.S. Floor Maintenance COMPREHENSIVE, QUALITY, ORTHODONTIC CARE & Installation Rebecca L. Anderson, Flexible Payment Options • Insurance Accepted [email protected] Au.D., CCC-A 400 Lathrop Ave. | Suite 203 | River Forest, IL 610 S. Maple Ave., Suite 5300 708.366.6595 708-456-0371 708-660-2350 www.frazierorthodontics.com

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Celebrate Purim with Koven Religious School and Har Zion! Sunday, March 17: 11 AM Purim Carnival and Costume Parade Come Sunday, March 17, 11 AM, to the KRS Purim Carnival! Wednesday, March 20: 6 PM Purim Dinner and Maariv 6:30 PM Family Megillah Reading; we will pause after Chapter TheGames! Purim Raffle! Carnival Popcorn! is the Mac KRS’s & Cheese! primary Hamantashen! fundraiser. 3 to allow a graceful exit for those who need to leave early. Please come to support our school! Wear a costume! Need a mask? Volunteers are needed for the Purim Carnival! Cut out and color the one above! Please email Eddie Simon [email protected] if you can help!

The Har Zion Herald is published monthly for the congregation and friends of West Members are welcome to submit content for publication consideration by Suburban Temple Har Zion. Design: Jim Bernard; Layout and Production: Judith Grobe contacting [email protected]. This newsletter is also available for download at Sachs; Printing: Liturgical Publications, Inc. www.wsthz.org.