HIGH HOLY DAY ISSUE (Schedule on Pages 6-7) KEHILATH JESHURUN BULLETIN Volume LXXX, Number 1 September 3, 2010 24 Elul 5770 THE POWER OF SPEECH: A Thought for Rosh Hashanah and Beyond RABBI HASKEL LOOKSTEIN he following thoughts are gleaned at the rock which warranted such a drastic the rock and bring forth water but who from a D’var Torah I presented at punishment? What could they have done instead struck the rock and brought forth TKJ on Shabbat, June 18th. It that was so egregious as to elicit from God the water, was a relatively minor apparently struck a particularly sensitive a declaration, saying: “because you did not infraction. In fact, Moses had years ago chord with many listeners who asked me to believe in me and sanctify me in the eyes brought forth water from a rock by striking edit my remarks and send them out on-line. of the children of Israel, therefore you will it, according to God’s command. Why did Upon reflection, I thought it might be a not merit to bring this community to the this act bring down upon them the wrath of good message for Rosh Hashanah and land which I have given them.” the Almighty? As many of you are aware beyond. On the surface, the sin of Moses and the question is not new and many answers What was the sin of Moshe and Aaron Aaron, who were commanded to speak to have been suggested, none of them fully continued on Page 2

SAMUEL S. SILVERSTEIN SHABBAT SCHOLAR PREPARE YOURSELF FOR NOVEMBER 5-6 THE HIGH HOLY DAYS Yossi Klein Halevi is a contributing editor and Israel SELICHOT SERVICES correspondent of the New Republic. He has been a regular Saturday, September 4 at 10:00 PM contributor on Israeli affairs to the Los Angeles Times, and a Preceded by a Collation at 9:15 PM contributor to the New York Times and the Washington Post. THIRD ANNUAL He is author of At the Entrance to the Garden of Eden: A TESHUVAH LECTURE Jew’s Search for God with Christians and Muslims in the Holy IN MEMORY OF Land. He is also author of Memoirs of a Jewish Extremist, the FLORENCE FISHEL COHEN story of his teenage attraction to Rabbi Meir Kahane and his subsequent break with Jewish militancy. The 1983 documentary “Teshuvah for Unsuccessful film “Kaddish,” directed by Steve Brand and named by the Our Guest Scholar Friendships” Village Voice as one of the ten best films of the year, focuses on YOSSI KLEIN HALEVI RABBI SAUL BERMAN Halevi’s relationship with his father, a Holocaust survivor. Tuesday, September 14 at 7:30 pm He is now a fellow at the Hartman Institute, and is writing a book about the Israeli (see page 3) paratroopers who reunited Jerusalem in 1967. He has been active in Mid-East reconciliation SHABBAT SHUVA DRASHA efforts, serving as chairman of Open House, an Arab-Jewish educational project in the working-class town of Ramle. He was a founder and board member of the now-defunct Israeli- RABBI MEIR SOLOVEICHIK Palestinian Media Forum, which brought together Israeli and Palestinian journalists. “Jonah, Prince of Whales” Born and raised in New York, he moved to Israel in 1982. He lives in Jerusalem with his Saturday, September 11 wife, Sarah, a geneticist, and their three children. at the conclusion of 9:00 AM services November 5th- Following Friday Evening Dinner Timely Torah “A Jewish Strategy Toward Islam” HOLIDAY WORKSHOPS November 6th- Following 9:00 AM Shabbat Morning Services “The Emergence of Israel’s Centrist Majority” with Seudah Shlishit: Relationship of the Israeli Government to the Centrist Majority RABBI YITZ MOTECHIN FRIDAY EVENING SHABBAT DINNER PRICING ROSH HASHANAH the to of Members: Non-Members: Wednesday, September 1 invited Adults $35 $40 YOM KIPPUR members are All Junior (age 12-18) $30 $35 Monday, September 13 lectures,gratis. Children (age 2-11) $18 $30 SUKKOT WORKSHOP community the attend Call 212-774-5600 for more information Monday, September 20 All classes begin at 7:00 PM - CHATANIM SELECTED See Page 5 - Page 2 KEHILATH JESHURUN BULLETIN continued from page 1 A ROSH HASHANAH THOUGHT adequate. There is a very insightful, when it is bad there is nothing worse. In The Book of Proverbs tells us “death homiletical answer offered by the late fact, when we use speech well, nothing can and life are in the hand of the tongue.” The Rabbi Menachem Sacks, an illustrious make more of a human impact. Talmud, commenting on that verse, talmid chacham and Jewish fundraiser Conversely, when we use speech badly, (Arakhin, 15) asks the obvious question: from Chicago, in his book, Menachem nothing can make us more inhuman. “does the tongue have a hand? Rather the Tzion. He suggests that the purpose of the Aaron, the High Priest, is described by verse teaches us that just as a hand can kill, entire experience at that moment in the the Talmud as somebody who used speech so can the tongue. If one desires life, it can desert was to impress upon the children of to bring people together. When two people come through one’s tongue; if death, that Israel the blessing of speech and the power were at logger heads with each other and too can come from the tongue. of speech. It is true that Moshe had once would have nothing to do with one Language can be so uplifting. A drawn water from a rock by striking it; but another, Aaron would go to each of them sincere compliment, a loving word, an this time, the command was not and say the same thing: “your friend is so expression of consolation, an encouraging specifically to strike but rather to speak to anxious to make up with you. He is so comment - all can bring people together the rock and the emphasis was on what can sorry for the animosity that exists between and leave them uplifted. On the other result from a human being’s speech. the two of you.” The result of this kind of hand, language can cause irreparable harm. Rabbi Sacks goes on to point out the speech was to restore a relationship which When we snap at somebody because of our fundamental importance of human speech. had been severed because each felt that the own impatience or insecurity we never The power of speech is unique to other one was contrite and wanted to make know the harm we may cause. So often we humanity. When God created the first up. wish we could take words back that we human being, the verse states: “And He On the other hand, the same Aaron was spoke without thinking. Our Sages say in breathed into his nostrils the soul of life, capable of speaking degradingly with his Derech Eretz Zuta: “Weigh your words and the human being became a nefesh sister Miriam about the relationship before your mouth utters them.” What a chaya, a living being. On the words nefesh between their brother Moshe and wife beautiful, simple truth! How often do we chaya, the Targum Onkelos translates: Tziporrah, a speech that could only hurt say to ourselves: “The words came out of And the human being became a speaking Moshe to the core and which was punished my mouth before I had a chance to think!” spirit (ruach memalela). The Talmud in instantly by God. One kind of speech was Unfortunately, the damage was done and Nidda, 31, states that “God placed in the glorious and healing, another kind was nothing could bring those words back. human being, spirit, soul and the power of leprous and hurtful. Even Moshe was Better to “weigh your words before speech.” The power of speech is, capable of two opposing kinds of speech. uttering them from your mouth.” therefore, what defines our humanity. The On the one hand Moshe speaks about “love Sometimes, when we utter words we way in which we use speech determines thy neighbor as thyself,” and on the other, wished we hadn’t we not only have hurt how we are human and how we relate to he addressed the children of Israel in a another person, we have hurt ourselves. each other. demeaning manner by saying “listen here We feel guilty, disappointed and angry at The Zohar tells us that when one’s you rebels.” The reaction of God to the ourselves for our lack of control. Rabbi tongue is good there is nothing better; but second kind of speech was punishing. Joseph Telushkin, in a marvelous book

RABBI MEIR SOLOVEICHIK TO DELIVER WELCOME SHABBAT SHUVA DRASHA Kehilath Jeshurun warmly welcomes “Jonah, Prince of Whales” the following new members who joined Robins the Congregation between the printing of Saturday, September 11 at the conclusion of 9:00 AM services

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YAHRZEIT OF SUZY’S PARENTS, SARA AND EMANUEL GOLDBERGER Photo Yael Harari and Ari Benson Orley and David Benisty ISRAEL ACTION Russie and Jeffrey Berger Check out Artzeinu Cheryl and Fred Halpern The Weekly Israel News Update Andrew Kluger Eric Kluger http://artzeinu.org Samantha and Lee Podolsky edited by fellow KJ members Joshua Glatt, Jonathan Hornblass, Bonnie and Ira Postel Dan Ottensosser and Erica Schwartz Rachel and Shlomo Roth This site provides easy access to numerous news sources and Elizabeth and Daniel Strauss videos, and is well organized by general topic. Elaine and James Wolfenson KEHILATH JESHURUN BULLETIN Page 3 RABBI SAUL BERMAN TO DELIVER Rabbi Haskel Lookstein: The Power of Speech THIRD ANNUAL TESHUVAH LECTURE entitled “The Ten Commandments of interrupted, “you really don’t have to give Character,” points this out by reference to me your whole presentation; I’m not IN MEMORY OF an experience with which we are all interested in buying your product but I do FLORENCE FISHEL COHEN familiar. The phone rings during dinner; hope you have greater success with “Teshuvah for Unsuccessful it’s a telemarketer who times the call for others.” Telushkin adds that the woman Friendships” when we are most likely to be home. We thanked him and he hung up and then he pick up the phone and, if we are like most noted something very interesting. “Not people, we snap at the person, or worse, only was my being polite obviously slam the receiver down. A friend of Rabbi pleasanter for the person making the calls, Telushkin’s, Charles Mizrahi, told him but I myself felt better. Almost invariably, that “after years of reacting to such callers, when I had received such calls in the past he had undergone a change of heart. He I would announce, ‘I’m not interested,’ asked himself one day, ‘who are the and more or less slammed down the people who are making these calls?’ and phone, but instead of feeling satisfied with concluded that most of them are probably myself, I would then be irritated, Florence Fishel Cohen, z”l either single mothers badly in need of complaining to whoever was with me e are pleased to announce that the money or people who take on a second job about how obnoxious these calls were. Wthird annual Florence Fishel to bring in urgently needed cash.” This time, after I hung up the phone, I felt Cohen Teshuvah Lecture will be given He resolved, therefore, to change his no such annoyance. Instead, I felt good this year by Rabbi Saul Berman on response. So the next time a call came to because I had been kind. I also felt a Tuesday evening, September 14, at him he told the woman on the other end, “I measure of compassion for the person who 7:30. The naming of the lecture in don’t think I’m interested in what you are has to inflict herself on others by making memory of Florence was made possible selling, but I wish you success. Now I these calls.” by a generous commitment from the hope you will excuse me, but I’m eating In truth, “death and life are in the Nathan and Louise Goldsmith my dinner.” The telemarketer was taken hands of the tongue.” And that death and Foundation. The Directors of the aback and confided that in all the weeks life are not only others’; the death and life Foundation knew Florence personally that she had been doing this work, Charles may be ours as well. because all of its meetings are held in was the first person who responded to her Rabbi Lookstein’s office. They in a courteous manner. For this, she appreciated the special kind of devotion expressed much gratitude even though she L’shana Tovah tikateivu v’techateimu. and love that Florence demonstrated didn’t make a sale. toward the Rabbi, the congregation, Telushkin was very moved by his Ramaz and the Nathan and Louise May we all be inscribed friend; and so shortly thereafter when his Goldsmith Foundation Board Members. for a good year of life. phone rang and it was a telemarketer, he They felt it would be appropriate to listened for a few seconds and then memorialize her at KJ in this special way. We are proud that the annual KJ GUEST SPEAKERS Teshuvah Lecture continues to be a memorial to Florence, who gave forty years of her professional life to the SHABBAT MORNING OCTOBER 9 KJ/Ramaz family. We invite everyone MICHAEL MILLER to attend Rabbi Berman’s meaningful lecture. EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT DEDICATE JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL Members of the Congregation and others are invited to honor a friend or SHABBAT MORNING NOVEMBER 27 relative, celebrate a milestone event or memorialize a loved one by AMBASSADOR YEHUDA AVNER dedicating Chumashim or Siddurim. CHUMASHIM - $45 each AUTHOR OF SIDDURIM - $25 each THE PRIME MINISTERS Contact the Synagogue office at 212-774-5600 Page 4 KEHILATH JESHURUN BULLETIN

JEWISH IDEAS AND THE FUTURE OF MODERN ORTHODOXY: A SHABBAT MORNING SERIES SHABBAT AT KJ BY RABBI MEIR SOLOVEICHIK Join us for a year-long series exploring such questions as: How have Jewish ideas changed the world? How does Judaism differ from other faiths and worldviews in its LEARNERS SERVICE approach to God, history and human nature? And how should the answers to these questions affect the way we live our lives today as Orthodox Jews? WITH GEORGE ROHR Bereishit, Oct. 2: Margaret Thatcher and Lord Jakobovits: The Story of a Weekly at 9:30 AM Philosophical Friendship Third Floor Dining Hall Lech Lecha, Oct. 16: Yiddish: A Eulogy Vayera, Oct. 23: The Archeology and Eternity of Jerusalem NTERMEDIATE ERVICE Vayetse, Nov. 13: Thou Shalt Lie: Yaakov’s Deception and Day School Education I S Vayishlach, Nov. 20: Adams vs. Jefferson on Judaism: A Thanksgiving Lecture WITH RABBI ELIE Vayigash, Dec. 11: What if Shylock had Gone to Bet Din? The Merchant of Venice EINSTOCK Revisited W Vayechi, Dec. 18: The Return of the King: Should Israel be a Monarchy? Weekly at 9:30 AM Bo, January 8: The Golden Age of Modern Orthodoxy Riklis Social Hall Beshalach, Jan. 15: What is Faith? Tetzave, Feb. 12: Jews and Mormons in America Ki Tisa, Feb. 19: Paganism, Yesteryear and Today HASHKAMA MINYAN Pekude, March 5: Is There a Mistake in the Jewish Calendar? 7:15 AM Shemini, March 26: Locusts, Giraffes, and the Meaning of Kashrut Max. J. Etra Chapel Tazria/Hachodesh, April 2: Can a Jew be a Vegetarian? Metzorah, April 9: The KJ Korban Pesach Mission: Are Sacrifices Possible Today? Sept. 4, Oct. 2, 16 & 30, Emor, May 7: What is Religious Zionism? Nov. 13 & 20, Dec. 4 & 18 Behar, May 14: What is Orthodoxy? Naso, June 4: What Christian Theology has Taught Me About Judaism KESHER YOUNG PEOPLE’S MINYAN ROSE AND DR. CHARLES LANGER 9:15 AM LUNCH & LEARN PROGRAM Oct. 16 & 30, Nov. 20, The Rose and Dr. Charles Langer Lunch and Learn Program for seniors, hosted by Dec. 18 Donna Silverman, commences once again this fall. The free program for seniors is made possible by an endowment created by the Buchwald, Edelsburg and Stern families. Lunch & Learn 2010-2011 Schedule WOMEN’S TEFILLAH GROUP The program takes place at 12:00 PM in the Riklis Social Hall 9:15 AM 2010 February 9 Dr. Gilbert N. Kahn Max J. Etra Chapel October 13 Israel Max February 16 Rabbi Elie Weinstock Oct. 1 October 20 TBD February 23 Gilah Kletenik October 27 Rabbi Elie Weinstock March 2 Robert Sugarman OT HABBAT November 3 Israel Max March 9 Israel Max T S November 10 Gilah Kletenik March 16 Rabbi Elie Weinstock WITH RABBI ELIE November 17 Robert Sugarman March 23 Hon. Jerome Hornblass EINSTOCK November 24 Dr. Gilbert N. Kahn March 30 Israel Max W December 1 Rabbi Elie Weinstock April 6 Rabbi Meir Soloveichik AND EFFY BRAUN December 8 Janie Schwalbe April 13 Dr. Gilbert N. Kahn Riklis Social Hall December 15 Dr. Gilbert N. Kahn April 20 Pesach Break December 22 Surie Sugarman April 27 Pesach Break 10:30 a.m. December 29 Winter Break May 4 Self Help Holocaust Group Oct. 9, Nov. 6, Dec. 4, Jan. 22, 2011 May 11 Dr. Gilbert N. Kahn Mar. 5, Apr. 2, May 21 January 5 Hon. Jerome Hornblass May 18 Gilah Kletenik January 12 Rabbi Elie Weinstock May 25 Surie Sugarman January 19 Rabbi Meir Soloveichik June 1 Rabbi Meir Soloveichik January 26 Dr. Gilbert N. Kahn June 8 Janie Schwalbe February 2 Kim Schneiderman June 15 Rabbi Elie Weinstock KEHILATH JESHURUN BULLETIN Page 5 DR. HENRY KRESSEL, LAURENCE GRAFSTEIN, AND JJ HORNBLASS CHOSEN FOR TORAH HONORS ON SHEMINI ATZERET AND SIMCHAT TORAH

The Officers of the Congregation are very pleased to announce that Dr. Henry Kressel, Laurence Grafstein, and JJ Hornblass will be honored as chatanim for the celebration of the completion of the Torah on Simchat Torah. Their installation will take place before the Musaf service on Shemini Atzeret on Thursday, September 30th.

enry Kressel, a Trustee of our arry Grafstein and his wife, ur Chatan Maftir is Jonathan (“JJ”) congregation, is a world renowned Rebecca, have been members of the Hornblass, a cherished synagogue Hscientist, engineer, corporate Lcongregation for fourteen years. OTrustee and Ramaz alumnus (‘87), manager, industry leader, author and Sabbath after Sabbath he can be found, whose sterling neshama reflects our investor. A senior partner at Warburg Pincus arriving early, in the last row of the Main community’s values. LLC, a global private equity firm, where he Synagogue, davening quiety and modestly An entrepreneur by profession, JJ oversees investments in high-tech even while his supportive acts toward KJ makes time to regularly learn Torah. In companies, Dr. Kressel was previously Vice and Ramaz speak loudly and clearly. addition to attending Rabbi Soloveichik’s President at RCA, responsible for research Since his arrival at KJ he has become more weekly Saturday afternoon Talmud shiur, JJ and development of electronic devices. A and more involved in the religious life of also avidly participated in the weekday world-recognized expert in electronics, he our congregation and in its varied services Midtown Manhattan shiur, and when his holds 31 U.S. patents and has led pioneering to the community. company moved downtown, the powerful research on lasers, transistors, solar cells and Larry is head of the North American student-rebbe relationship inspired JJ and other devices. A prolific author, he has co- advisory business of the investment bank others to form the Downtown Manhattan written four books and published over 120 Rothschild, Inc. He is a member of the shiur for KJ Wall Streeters. technical and scientific papers along with Wall Street executive committee of UJA, A true lover of Zion, JJ serves as the lecturing extensively in the U.S. and co-chairman of the Harvard Class of 1982, principal editor of our community’s weekly overseas. and a member of the US Board of Balliol Israel news digest, Artzeinu, which, After graduating Yeshiva College with a College (Oxford University). He and published in a dozen other congregations, degree in Physics, Dr. Kressel received an Rebecca are involved in numerous provides readers with easy access to MS in Applied Physics from Harvard, an philanthropic and Jewish communal initiatives fostering grass roots Zionist MBA from the Wharton School of the activities. They have been very generous activism. Firmly believing that emotionally University of Pennsylvania, and a Ph.D. in supporters of KJ and Ramaz. Their three connecting with Israel must give rise to Material Science from the same university. sons, Daniel, Edward and Isaac, are meaningful acts of support, he backs up this It is a source of great pride to our graduates of the Ramaz Lower School and belief with action, JJ also serves as KJ’s congregation that by honoring Henry we currently attend Horace Mann. representative on the Jewish Community honor Yeshiva University as he is the In 2009, Larry led a group of investors Relation Council’s Israel Action Chairman of the Board of Trustees of YU, to purchase The New Republic, one of Committee and participates in Midpac. the mother institution of Modern America’s leading publications and JJ is respected by all for his communal Orthodoxy. opinion websites and a very strong volunteerism, be it responding at all times Here at KJ, he and his wife of 54 years, defender of Israel. He did this because of of day and night to the call to perform a Bertha, are regular worshipers on Shabbat his love for Israel and the Jewish people tahara on the recently deceased, or and Yom Tov. They are very proud of their and not because it was a personally responding to the needs of the less children and grandchildren. Their son, beneficial investment. On the contrary, fortunate. JJ is our “go-to” guy when Aron, is married to Lois with three children this was an act of self sacrifice and something important needs to get done. in the Heschel School, and their daughter, statesmanship and a great service to JJ’s source of inspiration is, of course, Kim, is married to Zeev Ephrat with four America and to Israel. his euphoric and tireless wife, Chani, and children all living in Israel. Their grandson, We are proud to bestow upon Larry their three lovely children, Aliza (13), Ava Yonatan, is presently serving in the and his family the honor of beginning the (10) and Jonah (6), all of whom attend paratroopers. reading of the Torah on Simchat Torah. It Ramaz. The family has much reason to feel It is a distinct privilege for us to accord is symbolic of his own personal growth in pride in JJ. May he continue to bless us to him the honor of serving as our Chatan Torah and his commitment to KJ, to with his activism and benevolent spirit for Torah on Simchat Torah. Ramaz, to Israel and to the Jewish people. years to come. We invite the entire congregation to rejoice with them and with us on Shemini Atzeret and on Simchat Torah, night and day, as we celebrate the three families whose love of, and commitment to, Torah merit our honor and tribute. Page 6 KEHILATH JESHURUN BULLETIN SCHEDULE OF HIGH HOLY DAYS ROSH HASHANAH SUKKOT Wednesday, September 8, Rosh Hashanah Eve Wednesday, September 22, Sukkot Eve Selichot Service (Z’chor Brit) ...... 6:30 AM Morning Services ...... 6:50 AM An Eruv Tavshilin should be prepared An Eruv Tavshilin should be prepared Candle Lighting ...... 6:35 PM Candle Lighting ...... 6:59 PM Evening Services ...... 6:50 PM Evening Services ...... 6:45 PM Thursday, September 23, Sukkot I Thursday, September 9, Rosh Hashanah I Morning Services ...... 9:00 AM Morning Services ...... 8:00 AM Evening Services ...... 6:45 PM Beginners Services ...... 8:00 AM Candle Lighting ...... After 7:28 PM Friday, September 24, Sukkot II Tashlich ...... 5:30 PM Morning Services ...... 9:00 AM Evening Services ...... 7:05 PM Evening Services ...... 6:45 PM Candle Lighting ...... After 7:52 PM Shabbat Candle Lighting ...... 6:32 PM Friday, September 10, Rosh Hashanah II Morning Services ...... 8:00 AM SHABBAT CHOL HAMOED SUKKOT Beginners Service ...... 8:00 AM Morning Services ...... 8:45 AM Combined Learners and Intermediate Services . . . .9:30 AM Evening Services ...... 6:45 PM Evening Services ...... 6:25 PM Shabbat Candle Lighting ...... 6:55 PM Conclusion of Shabbat ...... 7:24 PM

SHABBAT SHUVA DAILY SERVICES - CHOL HAMOED SUKKOT Saturday, September 11 Sunday--Tuesday, September 26-28 Sunday Morning ...... 8:30 AM Morning Services ...... 9:00 AM Monday Morning ...... 6:50 AM Shabbat Shuva Discourse by Rabbi Meir Soloveichik Tuesday Morning ...... 6:50 AM Combined Learners and Intermediate Services . . . .9:30 AM Sunday-Tuesday Evenings ...... 6:40 PM Evening Services ...... 6:50 PM Shabbat ends ...... 7:49 PM CONCLUDING FESTIVAL DAYS Wednesday, September 29, Hoshanah Rabbah TSOM (FAST OF) GEDALIAH Morning Services ...... 6:30 AM Sunday, September 12 An Eruv Tavshilin should be prepared Candle Lighting ...... 6:23 PM Fast begins ...... 5:21 AM Evening Services ...... 6:35 PM Morning Services ...... 8:00 AM Thursday, September 30, Shemini Atzeret Evening Services ...... 6:45 PM Morning Services ...... 9:00 AM Fast ends ...... 7:45 PM Mincha followed by Ma’ariv and Simchat Torah Hakafot ...... 6:35 PM DAILY SERVICES: Candle Lighting ...... After 7:15 PM Monday-Thursday, September 13-16 Friday, October 1, Simchat Torah Monday Morning ...... 6:45 AM Morning Services ...... 9:00 AM Women’s Tefilah Group ...... 9:15 AM Tuesday Morning ...... 7:00 AM Evening Services ...... 6:35 PM Wednesday Morning ...... 7:00 AM Shabbat Candle Lighting ...... 6:20 PM Thursday Morning ...... 6:45 AM Mon.-Thurs. Evenings ...... 6:45 PM CHILDREN’S SERVICES SCHEDULE YOM KIPPUR ROSH HASHANAH I AND II ...... 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM Friday, September 17, Yom Kippur Eve Junior Congregations (1st through 6th Grades) Morning Services ...... 7:10 AM Nursery - Kindergarten (Ages 3-6) Mincha Services ...... 2:30 PM Candle Lighting ...... 6:44 PM YOM KIPPUR KOL NIDRE NIGHT ...... 6:35 PM Kol Nidre ...... 6:35 PM Junior Congregations (1st through 6th Grades only) Beginners Kol Nidre ...... 6:20 PM Saturday, September 18, Yom Kippur Day YOM KIPPUR DAY ...... 10:30 AM - 1:30 PM All Services ...... 9:00 AM Junior Congregations (1st through 6th Grades) Fast ends ...... 7:36 PM Nursery - Kindergarten (Ages 3-6) MEN: THIS KOL NIDRE NIGHT AND YOM KIPPUR DAY DRESS UP BY WEARING A WHITE KITEL You may obtain one at a moderate price at Judaica Classics By Doina right off the synagogue lobby, 212-722-4271. KEHILATH JESHURUN BULLETIN Page 7 HIGH HOLY DAY SEASON HIGHLIGHTS The Month of Elul • Sounding of the Shofar each morning after Shacharit YOM KIPPUR • Recitation of the entire Book of Psalms at KJ • Avoidance of food, drink, washing, lotions and oils, and • Selichot Services Saturday Night, September 4, 10:00 PM marital relations in the Main Synagogue, preceded at 9:15 PM by a collation • Refraining from wearing leather shoes (wear a pair of non- in the Heyman Auditorium leather footwear) • Men are strongly encouraged to wear a white kitel • Selichot Services each morning beginning Monday, • Candlelighting available prior to 6:35 PM in the Synagogue September 6, a half hour before morning services. House and Gottesman lobbies before Kol Nidre on Friday, ROSH HASHANAH September 17. • Beginning of God’s judgment SUKKOT • Sounding of the Shofar around 10:00 AM on Thursday, • All meals with bread or mezonot should be eaten in a Sukkah. September 9 and Friday, September 10. (Those ill at home or hospital should contact Rabbi Meir Soloveichik for • Lulav and Etrog will be used beginning on Thursday, special arrangements.) September 23, but are not used on Shabbat. Rituals to Remember • Lighting of candles and Shehecheyanu You may purchase a Lulav and Israeli Etrog through KJ by • Rosh Hashanah Kiddush contacting Rabbi Elie Weinstock in the synagogue office. • Washing of hands and motzi over two round challahs (Reservation forms have been sent to all members under separate and dipping the pieces in honey (continued through cover.) Hoshanah Rabbah) First Night • Rosh Hashanah greeting upon leaving shul: Sukkah Meals in the KJ Sukkah Wednesday, September 22 – Dinner uc,f, vcuy vbak Thursday, September 23 – Lunch and Dinner “May you be inscribed for a Good Year.” Friday, September 24 – Lunch and Dinner • Dipping of apple into honey with blessing over fruit and Saturday, September 25– Lunch “May it be Thy will to grant us a good and sweet year.” (Reservation forms have been sent to members under separate cover.) ubh,uct hektu ubhekt v lhbpkn iumr hvh Deadline, space permitting, is Sunday, September 19 veu,nu vcuy vba ubhkg asj,a First Day Members: Adults $35 Juniors* $30 Children** $18 • Tashlich - Thursday, September 9, 5:30 PM, at Central Park’s Non-Members: Adults $40 Juniors* $35 Children** $30 “Turtle Pond” just south of the Great Lawn near 85th St., or *Ages 12-18 ** Ages 2-11 at Carl Schurz Park at the East River and 86th St. You must reserve space for a non-catered meal in the Sukkah as well. Second Night • Wearing a new garment. Keep in mind when reciting Shehecheyanu at Kiddush. Hoshanah Rabbah • Eating a new fruit not yet eaten this season and saying the • Wednesday morning, September 29 at 6:30 AM blessing over fruit • Close of the penitential season • High Holy Day melodies. Seven circuits around the shul Tsom Gedaliah (Fast of Gedaliah) with Lulav and Etrog and beating of the Aravot • Sunday, September 12 • President’s breakfast sponsored by Miriam and Eric 10 Days of Repentance Feldstein. (Rosh Hashanah - Yom Kippur) Shemini Atzeret • Accept new, improved behavior and responsibility • Yizkor recited in relating to God and one another • Chatanim presented to the congregation. Simchat Torah THE MIKVAH I Evening – Thursday, September 30 ON THE EVE OF YOM KIPPUR • BRING CHILDREN AT 6:15 PM Nursery through 2nd Grade – Riklis Social Hall Every year on the eve of Yom Kippur, there is a custom for men to immerse in the mikvah in preparation for this holy day. 3rd-6th Grades - Max J. Etra Chapel One does not have to be a holy person to participate in this Teens – Main Synagogue activity. On the contrary, for those of us who are just trying to be • Hakafot Unlimited – Singing and dancing celebration in the observant Jews, it is an added inspiration and preparation for a Heyman Auditorium following services. A light meal and great day of introspection. Torah discourses will conclude the evening. All are invited! Our practice at KJ is that we observe this custom as a group II Simchat Torah Day - Friday, October 1 before the morning service. All MEN are invited to assemble at • Youth groups after the Kol Hannarim aliyah the mikvah, 419 East 77th Street (between First and York • Hakafot with singing and dancing Avenues) at 6:30 AM on Friday, September 17. Everyone will • Chatanim called to the Torah have the opportunity to immerse and then we will return to KJ • Women’s Tefilah Group meets in Chapel at 9:15 AM for Shacharit services. • Memorable performance by For more information please call Rabbi Meir Soloveichik at Chazan Mayer Davis and the “Shul Tones” the synagogue office (212-774-5630). • Buffet kiddush following services Page 8 KEHILATH JESHURUN BULLETIN

KJ WELCOMES BACK AN OLD FRIEND - AND WELCOMES TWO NEW FRIENDS

Rabbi Yitz Motechin Tzipporen Yoely Tamar Taitelbaum We are very excited about the return Coming to us from Bet El, Tamar, who makes her home in of Rabbi Yitz Motechin to KJ. Rabbi Tzipporen recently graduated from the Petach Tikvah, graduated from Bar Ilan Yitz served as our outreach director School of Industrial Engineering and University with a degree in law and from 1994-2000. During his tenure, our Management at the Technion. She spent recently completed an internship in the beginners program experienced her National Service working with Tel Aviv District Attorney’s office She dramatic success. He has been involved disabled children in a special education completed her National Service as an in outreach and adult education for over kindergarten in Petach Tikvah. She instructor in Ulpanat Bnei Akiva Beer sixteen years. gained considerable experience Sheva High School where she was We look forward to enjoying Rabbi working with fourth through twelfth responsible for social and academic Yitz’s inspiring, humorous and grade children as a coordinator of Bnei programming. stimulating teaching style. He will be Akiva programming. She also trained As a project coordinator in the focusing on several areas including the teen-aged youth to become Bnei Akiva Ezra Youth Movement, Tamar had the origins of Jewish law, Jewish counselors. Tzipporen’s professional opportunity to develop programs for philosophy, prayer, Mishnah and experience includes administrative Ethiopian children ages 6-12 and their Talmud. management and working with school counselors. She also has experience We welcome Rabbi Yitz back home! administrators and youth movement working with special needs children at We are certain his presence will bolster managers in her city. Kav l’Chaim, a camp which serves our strong line-up of KJ Beginners Tzipporen has had an opportunity children with cancer, cerebral palsy, classes. to serve as a volunteer at an Absorption muscular dystrophy and other Center for new immigrants from conditions. KJ SYNAGOGUE MEMBERSHIP: Ethiopia where her responsibilities BE A PART OF THE JEWISH included creating and implementing PEOPLE educational activities with Jewish and Zionistic themes, as well as THREE MODERN MIKVAHS Contact KJ Executive Director coordinating informal interaction and Leonard Silverman games with the children. are located in our community at: at 212-774-5680 or [email protected] 419 East 77th Street (between 1st and York Avenues) NEW CLASSES FROM RABBI YITZ MOTECHIN Telephone: 212-359-2020 Fundamental Jewish Texts Becoming a Scholar: Talmud and Wednesdays at 7:00 pm starting October 13 Jewish Law Made Easy 5 East 62nd Street Generously sponsored by Andrew Siegel Wednesdays at 8:00 pm starting October 13 in loving memory of his parents Generously sponsored by Andrew Siegel in loving (just off 5th Avenue) Aaron ben Yisrael and Mariam bat Shmuel. memory of his grandparents Shmuel and Bertha Telephone: 212 753 6058 This intermediate level course is a text- Halpert & Yisrael and Fannie Siegel. based exploration of the foundations of This class will be divided into two parts. and The first half will focus on topics in Jewish knowledge. It will include study 234 West 74th Street Jewish law from key original sources to of the Mishnah - the cornerstone of (between Broadway and Jewish law, an exposition of specific practical application. In the second half, prayers by delving inside the Siddur, and Masechet Megillah will be studied with West End Avenue) an in-depth study of Mesilat Yesharim, the goal of completing the tractate. This Telephone: 212-579-2011 Rabbi Luzzatto’s “Path of the Just” - one class will utilize a methodology that of the most important texts in Jewish makes Talmud more accessible by thought. focusing on structure and syntax. KEHILATH JESHURUN BULLETIN Page 9 SUPERSOL KOSHER SUPERMARKETS

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Phone: 305-323-4708 The KJ Singles Network [email protected] J is currently in the process of organizing Shabbat dinners, cultural events, and other activities for Jewish singles. Unmarried men and women in their 40s Kthrough 70s are invited to get involved in creating a vibrant singles community. Get involved! Copy Editor Learn about events for singles in their 40s and 50s by contacting Harriet Edleson and Proofreader at 212-348-0428. Singles in their 60s and 70s should contact Sharon Garfunkel at 917-670-7814. Manuscripts Newsletters Academic Projects vcua, Diane Hodges vkhp, 212-722-0856 [email protected] vesmu Page 10 KEHILATH JESHURUN BULLETIN A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE KJ BIKUR CHOLIM

arly in 1976, the late Dr. Albert Bikur Cholim and bring a sense of Jewish hospital scene, our group decided to visit Hornblass, brother of our member community to the hospital patients. only on Shabbat (because patients were too EHon. Jerome Hornblass and uncle of In addition to the KJ volunteers, we ill to attend a service) and to hold services our Chatan Maftir JJ Hornblass, were fortunate enough to have the for the two days of Rosh Hashanah, approached the administration of Volunteer Department of the hospital accompanied by Shofar blowing at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering to request assign a wonderful volunteer, Lillian service as well as at the bedside upon permission for the Bikur Cholim project of Adami, to our group. She advised us in so request. Services are also held on Yom KJ to establish a Jewish presence for the many ways including how to approach a Kippur, Sukkot, Passover and Shavuot. At Jewish patients in the hospital. A member hospital patient and how to escort a patient Purim, the Megillah is read. of the family who was hospitalized at the by wheel chair or stretcher to and from the At the present time, four volunteers time observed the visitation to -- and service. She also prepared the conference visit the hospital on Thursday and two religious services for-- the Catholic and room in which the service was held, with volunteers visit on Friday in order to Protestant patients, but that there were no the prayer books, taleisim, kippot, a small perform the mitzvah of Bikur Cholim in similar services for the Jewish patients. ark and Torah, and other items necessary to the traditional way, and to invite patients On Shabbat Bereishit, an appeal from perform the service. who will be in the hospital on Shabbat to the pulpit was made by Rabbi Haskel By the late 1970s, our group was also have a Shabbat visit. Two volunteers then Lookstein for volunteers to form a Bikur providing electric candelabras for patient visit on Shabbat. Cholim Society whose purpose would be use at the bedside so those women who We are very appreciative of all of our to implement the hospital project. Dr. wished to light Shabbat candles could do original volunteers, including Brenda Hornblass, along with Tova Bulow, so; electric menorahs for nursing stations Bernstein and Rita Woldenberg, who have Rosalie and Harry Kleinhaus, Sue Robins, and the lobby at Chanukah time; grape maintained the Memorial Sloan-Kettering and his brother Jerome, organized the two juice and cakes so we could recite Kiddush project since its inception. We are also major components for the project. Rosalie at the service or at the bedside; and home grateful to all the new volunteers who are and Harry were charged with organizing hospitality for the families of observant now helping to maintain the Bikur Cholim and calling a “team” of five volunteers patients who wanted to be near patients for project today. In all the thirty-four years, each week including a person to lead the Shabbat or Yom Tov, but who lived too far our group has never once missed a Shabbat service who would appear at the hospital to from the hospital. Thanks to our initiative, or holiday service, despite heat, rain, snow invite and escort patients to an abbreviated the Hospital Chaplaincy has assumed the and wind -- even in terrible weather. Shabbat service. Kiddush was recited at responsibility for all of these services Today, our volunteer group has slowly the service. Those patients who were too except for hospitality, which is now dwindled through attrition from the high ill to attend a service, had Kiddush and provided by another Bikur Cholim population of 50 to only 25. If you have appropriate prayers recited at their organization. ever entertained the idea of joining the KJ bedside. Dr. Albert Hornblass organized We cooperated with the Volunteer Bikur Cholim, there is no time like the the appropriate prayers to be recited at the Department staff and with the Chaplain’s present to contact its current coordinator, service. During the first years at the Office, and eventually the Chaplain’s Hon. Jerome Hornblass at 917-806-7595 hospital, there were as many as fifty office provided us with the list of Jewish to come on board. volunteers who gave up their Saturday patients in the hospital each week. morning to participate in the mitzvah of As ambulatory care became part of the

Out of the Mouths of Babes: An Anonymously Asked Question Left in the KJ Office

an you please settle a disagreement I am having with my parents? Do they have to dress in a certain way when they come to pick me up at school? I say that they should respect the rules of the school and that my dad Cshould wear his kippah and my mom shouldn’t wear shorts or her gym clothes. It makes me feel uncomfortable when my teachers see my parents like that. I don’t always wear my kippah when I’m not in school, but I wear it when I am here because that is one of the rules about going to Ramaz. Are the rules only for kids when they are in school? A Confused Student

Dear Confused, You ask a very good question. Both Ramaz and KJ embrace diversity. That means we are supportive of the many different kinds of Jews out there. Your fellow classmates are a microcosm of the different kinds of Jews in society at large: some may be more observant and some may be less observant. However, regardless of the way Judaism is practiced at home, there is a certain compliance to halakhah we would expect from people who come into the shul and school buildings. The way one dresses in our buildings should reflect the values of the Torah learning that goes on in our buildings. That is why there is a dress code for our students and why visitors should respect house rules. Men should wear kippot when in the building and women should dress modestly. As you will come to understand as you grow older, children pick up not just their parents’ verbal cues: they learn from their behavior, also. “Do as I say, not as I do” is not necessarily a sound educational policy. KEHILATH JESHURUN BULLETIN Page 11 NAVIGATING LIFE’S INEVITABLE TRANSITIONS Kim Schneiderman, LCSW hange is the one constant in life. disengage us from the contexts in which positive by societal standards - like getting And yet, more often that not, we we have known ourselves,” he wrote. married, having a child, or getting Care surprised and unprepared when “They break up the old cue system that promoted - can be extremely stressful as it comes. Throughout our childhood, we served to reinforce our roles and pattern those affected become attuned to an are groomed for progressive levels of our behavior.” unfamiliar landscape. security. Many of us are taught that if we Within the rubric of “endings,” he Although no one can escape life’s study hard, earn good grades, and do good identified five fundamental tasks that inevitable transitions, people’s coping deeds, we will build the solid foundation needed to be accomplished before one styles vary depending on a variety of necessary for a stable family and career. could successfully move forward. They are factors from biology to their family of That’s why so many people are beset disengagement (separation from the origin. Talking to a trusted friend or mental by difficult feelings ranging from familiar), dismantling (letting go of what is health professional can be helpful if you or queasiness to profound grief when the no longer needed), disenchantment someone you know shows signs of comfort of their familiar world is shaken. (discovering that certain things no longer depression and anxiety. Reflecting on Recognizable patterns may no longer make sense), disidentification Bridges’ framework, however, may help be trusted, while the unknown spreads out (reevaluating one’s identity) and demystify transitions so they don’t seem forebodingly like a vast abyss. disorientation (a vague sense of losing quite so scary or overwhelming. Shana And while the Jewish tradition is touch with one’s reality). Tova! replete with rituals that help us embrace, Once the ending stage has ended, celebrate, and honor transition as part of people progress to an uncomfortable but the natural lifecycle, the inherent growth-filled neutral zone which Bridges symbolism in such rituals are often hard to describes as “an empty in-between time translate into a tangible framework that when…everything feels as though it’s up can help us navigate losing a job, getting for grabs and you don’t quite know who divorced, adjusting to widowhood, and you are or how you’re supposed to other major upheavals. behave.” Swiss-born psychologist Elisabeth Feeling as if they are neither here nor Kübler-Ross, M.D. famously mapped out there, most people are eager to either rush five discrete stages of loss (an integral through or skip the neutral zone. However, element of change as we relinquish one when they do this, they are bypassing known reality for another) as a non-linear important insights and gifts which put progression through denial, sadness, anger, them at risk of making poor decisions. bargaining (“woulda, coulda, shoulda”) Bridges explains that, not unlike Shabbat, and acceptance. “only by returning to the formlessness of But my favorite framework was written primal energy can renewal take place. We by a little-known English professor whose need it just the way an apple tree needs the last name is synonymous with change - cold of winter.” Kim Schneiderman, LCSW, is a William Bridges. In his 1980s important To complete the paradox, the final synagogue-based social work consultant at and groundbreaking book “Transitions,” stage of transition is beginnings, which he Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun. An Bridges breaks down the cycle of change describes as a “faint intimation of employee of the Jewish Board of Children into three discrete stages: 1. endings; 2. the something different, a new theme in the and Family Services, Ms. Schneiderman’s neutral zone; and 3. beginnings. music, a strange fragrance on the breeze.” position is made possible by a grant from Although seemingly paradoxical, Although some people may feel UJA Federation of New York. She Bridges held that all transitions begin with invigorated by beginnings, often it takes maintains office hours at KJ from 10 a.m. an ending. “Divorces, deaths, job changes, time to become adjusted to a new identity to 6 p.m. on Tuesdays and can be reached moves, illnesses, and many lesser events or situation. Even a beginning considered at 212-774-5620 or [email protected]. Experienced Professional Genealogist The Bridal & Gift Registry at David Baruch Inc. Find people. Estate Work. 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RABBI ELIE WEINSTOCK FALL LEARNING TO TAKE ON ROLE WITH NJOP AT KJ J Associate Rabbi Elie Weinstock has assumed the role of Special Advisor to Crash Course in Basic Judaism KNational Jewish Outreach Program (NJOP) with Rabbi Elie Weinstock Director, Rabbi Ephraim Buchwald. Rabbi Weinstock, who directs KJ’s acclaimed Mondays, October 11 and 18 Beginners Program, will work with the NJOP team to help further enhance the breadth, 7:00 p.m. scope and effectiveness of their programming. “NJOP looks forward to using Rabbi Weinstock’s talents and skills to move our organization to the next level. We look Crash Course in Hebrew Reading forward to working together with him,” commented Rabbi Buchwald, who founded with Sara Rosen NJOP in 1987. Over the past quarter century, NJOP has touched over 1.1 million North Wednesdays starting October 13 American Jews through programs like the Crash Courses in Basic Judaism, Hebrew 6:30 p.m. Reading, and Jewish History as well at its revolutionary Shabbat Across America - which draws over 400 participants each year at KJ, in addition to tens of thousands nationwide. NJOP’s relationship with KJ goes back more than 20 years. Rabbi Haskel THuRSDAY NIGHT Lookstein noted that NJOP is “the organization which started the most ambitious LEARNING outreach program in America. Our own Beginners Service was an outgrowth of NJOP’s with Rabbi Yossi Weiser work and especially the personal attention given to us by Rabbi Buchwald.” We wish Living Judaism: Rabbi Weinstock and NJOP well in their efforts to inspire the broader Jewish The Covenant of Abraham community. October 14, 21, 28, November 4 The Secret of Jewish Survival November 11, 18, December 2, 9, 16 FILMS BROuGHT TO YOu BY THE KJ MEN’S CLuB 7:00 p.m.

October 17 (two films) Studies in the Weekly Portion Jubanos, with filmmaker Milos Silber 8:00 p.m. Cuba is known for its revolutionary leaders, communism, cigars and 50’s cars. However, religion does not define this small island. To find out about other learning opportunities Told here is the humbling story of the 1,500 Jews at KJ, please call 212-774-5678. who remained in the country despite the difficulties. New Homes Told here for the first time is the fascinating story of Nilopolis, PERMANENT MEMORIAL a suburb of Rio de Janeiro, where a fertile community was built by OPPORTuNITY FOR Jews from Eastern Europe in the early decades of the 20th century. DEPARTED LOVED ONES

November 21 On the walls of the Main Synagogue are mounted seven tablets bearing Schmattes - From Rags to Riches with filmmaker Marc Levin memorial plaques, representing a In the last 40 years the percentage of American clothing made in permanent and dignified memorial to America has plummeted from 95 to 5. This film takes us through a loved ones. At KJ, now in its 139th year, cultural history of the last century through the prism of we keep the lights lit on either side of the “schmatta,”the Yiddish term for rags, as it explores plaque each year during the full month of the Yahrzeit and also when we recite what was once the economic heart of New York. Yizkor on Yom Kippur, Shemini Atzeret, Pesach and Shavuot. The cost of a plaque is $1,000. MORNING CLASSES AT KJ beginning mid-October Mondays: Women's Torah Class with Rabbi Meir Soloveichik To purchase, please contact Tuesdays: Parsha for Parents with Rabbi Elie Weinstock Leonard Silverman Wednesdays: Women's Parashat Hashavuah with Rabbi Haskel Lookstein at 212-774-8050 Thursdays: Prophetic Women with Dr. Shera Aranoff Tuchman or [email protected] For more information, please call 212-774-5600 KEHILATH JESHURUN BULLETIN Page 13

UPCOMING A HIGH HOLY DAY SERVICE KJ BEGINNERS EVENTS FOR THE NOVICE WORSHIPER l Rosh Hashanah Dinner Introducing a Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur Service “New Year’s Eve Bash” for adults with little or no background in Judaism: Wednesday, September 8 following 6:45 pm Services K Prayers and Rituals Explained Rosh Hashanah morning services will K Biblical Insights be held on Thursday, September 9th $36 per person and Friday, September 10th at 8:00 AM. K Historical Overviews Kol Nidre services will be held at 6:20 For reservations please contact K Great Kiddush PM on Friday night, September 17th, 212-774-5678 or [email protected] K Congregational Readings followed by Yom Kippur services at and Singing 9:00 AM the next morning. Sukkah Dinner Under the Stars K Over 100 Shofar Blasts b K Questions and Answers For Information Call: featuring special guest Services will be conducted at 212-774-5678 Rabbi Ephraim Buchwald Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun’s Gottesman Center Join us for a meal in the Sukkah! 114 East 85th Street There will be delicious food and joyous (between Park & Lexington Avenues) singing as we celebrate Tickets only $60 the holiday of Sukkot together. Co-sponsored by the JEWISH LEARNING INSTITUTE AT KJ National Jewish Outreach Program With Rabbi Elie Weinstock Tuesday, September 28 Medicine and Morals at 7:00 pm With the increasing role of healthcare in our lives, most of FRIDAY NIGHT LIVE! us will have to face a tough medical decision at some Feeding the body and soul point or another. In Medicine and Morals, learn how Jewish tradition can help you resolve today’s great fg medical issues, and how your faith can guide you to make better medical decisions. Join Rabbi Elie Weinstock and KJ Beginners Chazan Shilo Kramer for an $79 per class; $135 per couple. inspiring Carlebach-style Friday night Try the first class for free! service. The experience continues with No one is turned away for lack of funds Six Monday nights beginning October 25 a festive Shabbat dinner, singing and at 7:30 PM dancing, words of Torah and the joy of JLI is a creative presentation of traditional Judaism in a new and old friends all around. highly professional, innovative, academically rigorous Call 212-774-5678; please reserve by the preceding Tuesday KJ FOOD PANTRY October 22 with Rabbi Mark Wildes The KJ Food Pantry provides kosher food weekly to New York’s hungry. Clients are referred to us through the synagogue and local service agencies. Each week December 3 clients come to KJ to receive food staples tailored to their diets, as well as a with Rabbi Binny Friedman selection of fresh fruits and vegetables. Ramaz students pack the bags and staff the booth in the lobby of KJ, and Ramaz/KJ members also deliver packages to those who are homebound. For further information or to volunteer, please contact Stacy Scheinberg at [email protected]. Page 14 KEHILATH JESHURUN BULLETIN

EFFY BRAUN, KJ’S NEW YOUTH DIRECTOR: HIS ENTHUSIASM IS CONTAGIOUS

Dear KJ Youth Department Parents, Your children may tune out the hymns of the Cantor/You may not be able to tune out the children’s banter/You’ll all be pleased to hear/The KJ Youth Program is once again near/Another great year begins this fall/We’re all looking forward to having a ball! Rosh Hashanah marks the beginning of the New Year 5771. A new staff marks the beginning of the 5771 KJ youth program. The month of Elul is a time of transition when we think about the past year with gratitude for our accomplishments and pray that the year ahead brings new success. On behalf of KJ, I would like to thank Eytan Zadoff for his superb service these past four years as the KJ Youth Department Director. Eytan’s commitment and talent were key ingredients to our dynamic, enriching program, and we wish him well in his pursuit of a teaching career in academia. As the KJ Youth Department begins a new and exciting year, I am delighted to introduce myself as the new KJ Youth Department Director. My name is Effy Braun, and I have been engaged in the exhilarating field of education for over four years. As a graduate of Yeshiva University, my career in education commenced as the Advisor/Office Manager of the Y.U. Jewish Studies Department. My immersion in education continued as the Assistant Director of Student Activities at Magen David, the Syrian community’s premier Modern Orthodox High School with more than 620 students, and I am returning as the Director of Student Activities at the Ramaz Middle School. I am thrilled to be a part of the professional KJ staff and I am looking forward to building upon the Youth Department’s past accomplishments and overseeing a year of new programs and electrifying events. Assisting me will be a cadre of veteran and talented staff including experienced post college, college-aged, and high school youth leaders who share my passion for Jewish education. In addition, our religious Zionist Bnei Akiva program will continue to thrive under the new leadership of the talented team of Tamar Taitelbaum and Tzipporen Yoely. This year’s KJ Youth program features a fun-filled array of new and familiar events geared to harness the enthusiasm and interest of children from Nursery through 7th grade. Our line-up includes a rooftop barbecue, Super Bowl party, Purim carnival, hockey, basketball and softball sports leagues, Oneg Shabbat dinners, Shabbat Morning groups, Saturday night Mishnah learning and ice cream jamborees with Rabbi Soloveichik, Saturday night open gym, Shabbatons, and more! The key ingredient to our successful Youth Department is your children, and together we will have a sensational year! 5771 YOUTH DEPARTMENT FALL SCHEDULE For Information Sept. 4 Shabbat Morning Groups Begin Nov. 12 Tot Shabbat Family Dinner Sept. 11 Bnei Akiva Snif Begins Nov. 13 Fall Youth Shabbaton about the weekly status Oct. 10 KJHL Commences Nov. 14 KJHL Oct. 10 Season Opening Rooftop Nov. 16 Parent Forum of the Manhattan Eruv Bar-B-Q Bash Nov. 20 Family Mishnayot Learning Oct. 17 KJHL with Rabbi Meir Soloveichik Call the ERUV HOTLINE Oct. 24 KJHL for grades 2-4 Oct. 31 KJHL Nov. 21 KJHL/ Closing Party 212-874-6100, ext. 452 Nov. 7 KJHL Dec. 5 KJBL Commences Nov. 6 Tot Shabbat (Recorded Message) KEHILATH JESHURUN BULLETIN Page 15

or the past History, the BNEI MITZVAH PROGRAM 12 years, Holocaust, he KJ Bnei Mitzvah program is a FKJ has been and the State unique opportunity for parents and the address for of Israel for Tchildren to explore, in creative and unaffiliated older interactive ways, the challenges and families looking participants. opportunities of reaching Bar and Bat for a Jewish Students Mitzvah. education for from second The Bat Mitzvah program led by Rachel their children. The Jewish Youth through sixth grade are paired with a Kraus, follows a curriculum developed by Connection (JYC) is the Sunday Big Brother/Sister for individualized MaTaN, the world-renowned Jerusalem morning Hebrew school founded by KJ Hebrew study, and there is a special academy for women’s Torah scholarship, members Susan and Scott Shay thirteen track for students preparing for Bar or which focuses on Jewish female role models years ago with the goal of providing a Bat Mitzvah. from the Matriarchs to Nehama Leibowitz. substantive and meaningful Jewish “JYC has been great for our kids,” The Bar Mitzvah program, led by Rabbi education to unaffiliated families. They enthused one parent. “They actually Elie Weinstock, developed specifically for nurtured JYC with a single-minded remind us to take them to Hebrew KJ, explores the Jewish sources on daily devotion for a decade and saw the school and are excited to go to school living and ritual practice in a way which is school grow from just a few students to on a Sunday. It is incredible!” hands-on, exciting and meaningful. almost ninety during this past academic The new school year begins on Through text study, projects and year. Over a dozen JYC students have September 12th at 9:30 a.m. All are interactive learning, each parent/child moved on to Jewish Day Schools or welcome to sample JYC’s start-of-the- “chavruta” will connect with these Jewish High Schools - a tribute to the caring, year sessions and programs. Enrollment sources and become partners on the spiritual dedication and support of Susan and is open to all, and no synagogue journey of what it means to be a Jewish adult Scott. affiliation or Jewish background is today. Three years ago, the Shays decided required to participate in JYC. No one is For more information, please contact to turn the management of JYC over to turned away due to lack of funds. Rabbi Elie Weinstock at 212-774-5636 or at KJ. Rabbi Elie Weinstock now oversees JYC is located at Congregation [email protected] JYC with the help of Scott, Susan, and Kehilath Jeshurun, 125 East 85th Street, the dedicated JYC staff. between Lexington and Park. For more JYC’s curriculum includes Bible, information or questions, please contact Jewish history, customs, and holidays. Tzivia Kramer, JYC’s director, at KJ COLLEGE CONNECTION Students participate in small classes, [email protected] or 212-794-1592, or see NEEDS YOUR CHILD’S INFO and there are also modules on Jewish www.jyc.info e are once again collecting the TO JOIN THE KJ ONLINE COMMUNITY, SEND AN dormitory addresses of the E-MAIL WITH YOUR FIRST AND LAST NAME TO: [email protected] Wchildren of KJ members who BE SURE TO VISIT KJ’S WEBSITE WWW.CKJ.ORG are studying at a college or graduate school away from home. The KJ College Connection sends complimentary gift packages during from Chug Ivri Chanukah and Purim, containing candies, Club Edification October 30 Chanukiot, Mishloach Manot and other Soon and holiday-related items. This program Men’s Israel Max: “Meir Shalev, the Joy of Hebrew” benefits KJ Members whose children are Coming KJ the currently out-of-town students. EnjoymentSymposium: “Turkey and Israel: The program is a wonderful reminder your What are the Prospects for the Future?” to our families’ students that they are for Moderator: Dr. Mark Meirowitz thought of and wished a Chag Sameach. November 4 If your child is studying away from home at a college or university in the United States, please update their mailing Kiddush Discussions information (even if you think we already Author and Israel-Iranian Relations expert Meir Javendanfar, Oct. 2 have it) by e-mailing [email protected] with Author and ex-CIA Agent John Kiriakou, October 16 each student’s name and exact dormitory mailing address or campus package delivery address. Page 16 KEHILATH JESHURUN BULLETIN

WHY YOU SHOULD SUPPORT THE KJ SISTERHOOD or over a century American Jewish KJ members receive a welcome package, the Israeli Defense Forces, Magen David women have banded together to courtesy of the Sisterhood. Funds the Adom, Project Ezra, Sharsheret, UJA, and Fform sisterhoods, according to Sisterhood raises contribute to KJ Haitain Earthquake Relief Effort, among Felicia D. Herman, Executive Director of programs and activities, such as the many others. Natan and author of American Synagogue communal Sukkah and Bar/Bat Mitzvah Sisterhoods: Jewish Women Serving gifts. In addition, the Sisterhood funds any The events we have planned for 2010- Congregation, Denomination, American unsponsored Shabbat kiddushim. 2011 include: and World Jewry. To bring women in the community Free Breast Cancer Workshop (a joint “Sisterhoods,” Herman writes, “serve together, the Sisterhood offers diverse event with Kesher) - November 8 as philanthropic organizations, pursuing a programming from visits to museums and Museum Event - November 10, community-oriented vision of uplift of the themed boutiques to free educational Edward Hopper event at the Whitney poor; they have provided innumerable seminars and cooking classes. The annual Museum services to their own congregations, raised Spring Luncheon and Boutique is the Pre-Chanukah Boutique-November 21 much-needed funds, maintained religious Sisterhood’s largest fundraiser. Funds Evening Cooking Classes -- November schools, fostered congregational unity, and raised through our programming are used 29th; March 30 sponsored educational programs for adult to support social action projects that Sotheby’s Judaica and Israeli Art women and men. Sisterhoods offered benefit families and individuals in our Exhibition -- December 13 Jewish women a place to gather as women community and around the world, either Pre-Pesach Boutique - April 10 and as Jews, to socialize with each other, directly or through the KJ Benevolent Annual Sisterhood Luncheon - Spring and to strengthen the bonds that connect Fund. For example, the Sisterhood hosted Would you like to chair one of our events or get them. Even the word “sisterhood” an Indian-themed cooking class and some involved in the Sisterhood? Then please contact one indicates a certain type of relationship that of the proceeds went to support the of the following officers: members have always striven for among Mumbai Chabad House that was attacked Elisa Septee Lunzer, Co-President themselves: a closeness, a sisterliness, a by terrorists not long ago. Another ...... [email protected] familiar, familial feeling.” beneficiary is a Ramaz student. Each year Marissa Katz, Co-President ...... [email protected] This is all certainly true of the the Sisterhood supports a Ramaz Bonnie Silvera, Co-President Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun scholarship, enabling a student to attend ...... [email protected] Sisterhood which is committed to good Ramaz from kindergarten through high Michelle Spielfogel, Vice President works and improving the lives of people. school. The Sisterhood also provides ...... [email protected] Abby Doft, Treasurer The Sisterhood does this in many ways, support to the Jacques & Hanna Schwalbe ...... [email protected] sometimes publicly and sometimes quietly. Mikvah. Michele Jaspan, Social Secretary Members of the Sisterhood prepare a local The organizations we have supported ...... [email protected] Katia Raab, Electronic Secretary shiva home and arrange for the first meal charitably in the past include: the ...... [email protected] to be delivered to those in mourning. New Community of Sderot, Dorot, Hatzolah,

If you are making a Bar or Bat Mitzvah at KJ between September 2011 and June 2012, please contact Riva Alper in the synagogue office at 212-774-5670 to reserve specific rooms for your services, celebratory meals/kiddushim, and other functions. If your child attends Ramaz and you are a member of KJ planning a Bar/Bat Mitzvah, Riva Alper must be notified directly of your plans. Reserving a date with Ramaz does not imply that it is reserved at KJ.

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KESHER AT KJ: CONNECTING YOUNG MEMBERS AND FAMILIES esher is the organization at KJ that New mothers in the community also have offers an array of programs and the opportunity to connect with one KESHER EVENTS Kevents for individuals, couples another and hear interesting insights from and families who are in the twenties, various child specialists at our New Halakhic Family Outing thirties and forties, or who have young Mother’s Breakfasts, twice a year. September 19 children. As its name suggests, Kesher’s Kesher is also committed to reaching main goal is to create a “connection” out to new members of the synagogue. To Shemini Atzeret Lunch among this group of KJ members in order that end, we host a Friday Night Dessert September 30 to provide a warm and welcoming entry Oneg in October for new members to into the larger KJ community and connect with one another, long-time New Members’ Dinner/Dessert contribute to the social, educational and synagogue members and with our October 29 family needs of this important group in the congregational rabbis. KJ family. This year, we are partnering with the New Mother’s Breakfast One of the most popular Kesher KJ Sisterhood on November’s “Breast November 9 programs is the Young People’s Minyan Cancer: Newest Findings in Genetics & (YPM), led by the dedicated gabbaim Detection” symposium, and we and know Tot Shabbat Dinner Evan Farber, Marc Dworkin and David this will be an important forum for the November 12 Chubak. At YPM, Kesher members can women in our community to learn together daven as a group, enjoy a delicious hot about this important topic. Shlock Rock Concert kiddush together, and most importantly Kesher programming is made December 5 get to know each other in an intimate shul possible and successful due to the hard environment. A new Shabbat morning work of dedicated and committed Kesher Tot Shabbat Dinner highlight is our monthly Tot Shabbats led volunteers. This year Kesher welcomes a January 7 by Rabbi Elie Weinstock and Youth new co-President, Linda Esses, who joins Director Effy Braun, which provides an returning co-Presidents Rina Kestenbaum Kesher Social Evening opportunity for our youngest members to and Ariel Weiner, Treasurers Jill Brickman January 29 have a kid-friendly environment to and Yael Simpson and new Secretary experience Shabbat with songs, friends, Gabriella Fridman. Kesher’s Executive Tot Shabbat Dinner and of course Shabbat treats. Board, together with the growing number February 11 Kesher offers social events over the of active Kesher board members, hope to course of the year, such as our Shemini serve the needs of our Kesher community. Atzeret Luncheon, New Mother’s We bid farewell to past co-President CPR Training Breakfasts, Spring Luncheon and extraordinaire, Bonnie Silvera, and thank March 7, 8 Saturday Night Social. her for her years of hard work and We also have many child-oriented leadership. We wish her much luck in her New Mother’s Breakfast events including our yearly Family new role as KJ Sisterhood co-President. March 27 Halachik Outing, Chanukah Shlock Rock Most importantly, Kesher is Concert and Friday night Tot Shabbat determined to continually respond to the Spring Luncheon Dinners. We also offer various learning needs of its members and keeping them May 14 opportunities throughout the year involved in both the Kesher and KJ including Adult/Child/Infant CPR and communities. Kesher maintains an email various halachot classes. newsletter which gives members an up-to- SATURDAY MORNING TOT SHABBAT Kesher makes new mothers a real date way of staying informed of Kesher priority. Kesher provides a Shabbat events. To learn more about Kesher, to get OCTOBER 9 dinner to the parents of every new baby more involved, or to simply subscribe to NOVEMBER 6 born into the KJ family. This initiative is the Kesher email, please feel free to email NOVEMBER 12 aimed at making the first Shabbat home us at [email protected]. Also, please join the DECEMBER 4 with the new baby as easy as possible. In KJ Kesher Facebook group to learn about JANUARY 7 addition, Meals for New Moms (led by upcoming events, connect with friends, MARCH 5 Nicole Meyer and Stephanie Katz) and see pictures from past events. APRIL 2 ensures that new moms also receive three We look forward to another great year MAY 21 additional weekday meals for the family. at Kesher and hope you will join us! Page 18 KEHILATH JESHURUN BULLETIN

WITHIN OUR FAMILY BNEI MITZVAH BIRTHS Mazal Tov to: Sara Rubenstein and Yariv Ben-Ari upon the birth of their first child and daughter, Eliana. Orley and David Benisty upon the birth of their second child and first son, Zach Aaron Yael Harari and Ari Benson upon the birth of their second child and son, Raymond. Mazal Tov as well to the proud KJ Grandparents, Ilana and Daniel Benson. GABRIEL LOW GABRIEL ZIMBLER Rachel and Barry Cooper upon the Mazal Tov to Lisa and Nathan Low upon the Mazal Tov to Deborah and Dr. Marc Bar Mitzvah of their son, Gabriel, on Shabbat birth of a grandson, Ancel Lucas, born Zimbler upon the Bar Mitzvah of their son, Chol Hamoed Sukkot, September 25, at the Gabriel, which will take place on October 2 to their children Lindsay and Brian Mt. Zion Hotel in Jerusalem. Gabriel is in the at Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun. Gabriel Cooper. eighth grade at the Ramaz Middle School. will read Parashat Bereishit and deliver a Wilma and Stephen Kule upon the Dvar Torah on a related topic. Gabriel is in birth of a grandchild, a son born to their the seventh grade at the Ramaz Middle children Leslie and Michael Kule. School. Monique and Andrew Rechtschaffen upon the birth of their third child and second daughter, Olivia Lindsey. Mazal Tov as well to KJ grandparents Pamela and Rabbi Manfred Rechtschaffen and Perla and Dr. Julio Messer. Rachelle and Hon. Norman Ryp, upon the birth of their twin grandchildren, Shlomo Tzvi and Shana Gitel, born to their children Devora and Jacob Ryp. Miriam and Jack Simony, upon the birth of their second child and son, BENJAMIN COHEN ISAAC MORGAN GRAFSTEIN David Ethan. Mazal Tov to Michael and Dana Cohen upon Mazal Tov to Rebecca and Larry Grafstein Elizabeth and Daniel Strauss upon the Bar Mitzvah of their son, Benjamin, which on the forthcoming Bar Mitzvah of their the birth of their first child, a son, Jacob will take place on Shabbat morning, October 9 son, Isaac, which will take place on October Zachary. at Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun. He will 16th at Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun. read Parashat Noach and its Haftarah, as well Isaac will read Parashat Lech Lecha and the May these children grow up in the as deliver a Dvar Torah on a relevant topic. Haftarah, and will deliver a Dvar Torah. finest tradition of Torah, chupah, and Benjamin is an eighth grade student at SAR. Isaac is entering the 8th grade at Horace maasim tovim. Mazal Tov to proud KJ grandparents Lillian Mann and is a proud alumnus of the Ramaz and Elliott Eisman. Lower School. ENGAGEMENTS Mazal Tov to: Adam Teitcher, son of Carrie and Dr. David Ortner, son of Susie and Alvin Brenda and Albert Bernstein upon the Jerrold Teitcher of Oceanside. Ortner of Highland Park, Illinois. engagement of their granddaughter, Paula and Leonard Solinsky upon the May their weddings take place in Brittany, daughter of Elysee and Myron engagement of their son, Neil, to Rebecca happiness and blessing. Rumeld,, to Jon Cogan, son of Irene and Kane, daughter of Pearl and Paul Kane of Hersh Cogan, of Scarsdale. Westport, CT. MARRIAGES Steven Czik upon his engagement to L.J. Spaet and Caryn Goldstein upon Mazal tov to: Allison Dubuisson. their upcoming marriage. L.J. is the son of Shirley and Neal Boyarsky upon the Rachel and Barry Cooper upon the Dr. Margery Kalb and Mr. Jonathan Spaet, marriage of their son Joshua, to Debra engagement of their daughter, Sara, to and Caryn is the daughter of Ms. Leslie Farber, daughter of Vivian and Jorge Richard Oberman, son of Ellen and Steve Janis and Mr. Allan Goldstein of Farber of Naponset. Oberman of Oyster Bay, Long Island. Huntington, Long Island. Drs. Marilyn and Leonard Feingold Miriam and Eric Feldstein, upon the Barbara and Jerry Weiss, upon the upon the marriage of their daughter, engagement of their daughter, Jenny, to engagement of their daughter, Laura, to Mychal, to Dr. Elliot Grodstein, son of KEHILATH JESHURUN BULLETIN Page 19 WITHIN OUR FAMILY In Memorium Adele and Dr. Gerald Grodstein of Haworth, New Jersey. CLAIRE ROSENBLUTH Judy and Barry Kluger upon the Claire Rosenbluth was one of the longest term members of our congregation. The November 7 marriage of their son Eric, wife of the beloved J. William Rosenbluth and the mother of our member, Larry to Katie Weinberger daughter of Lynn Rosenbluth, she was a member for well over sixty years. She was part of the Kaplan Weinberger and the late Kenneth family whose roots in KJ go back to the l930s. Weinberger of Akron, Ohio. For all of her married life and until age took its toll, she occupied her seat in the Sandy and Dr. Norman Magid upon Ladies Balcony on all festivals, sitting next to her daughter, Susan, and looking down the marriage in Jerusalem of their son, on the Kaplan bench, filled with the men of the family, the first row on the right side Gabi, to Ariella Eisenberg, daughter of of the Men’s section. With her flaming red hair, she stood out as a worshiper and as Malka and Dr. Steven Eisenberg of a constant presence at all Sisterhood functions. She loved a party and a luncheon and Woodmere. she never missed supporting the congregation financially and the Sisterhood and its projects. MILESTONES She had a great smile and a fabulous attitude toward life. She accepted people as Susanna Leigh-Abelson upon they were and she adored her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren with becoming an American citizen. uncompromising love. We at KJ loved her and will miss her.

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS EPHRAIM PROPP Congratulations to: In early August, we lost one of the most colorful, interesting and admirable men Erica Cohen, daughter of KJ member in our community. At his funeral, the room was filled to capacity with people who Kathy Herman and step-daughter of had known Ephie Propp in so many ways and for so many years. The common Jonathan Herman, upon her graduation denominator was that every person at that service loved and admired him. from Muhlenberg College in May, After leading a fascinating bachelor life into his sixties, Ephie was blessed to magna cum laude, with a double-major marry Gail Dane Gomberg. For twenty-seven years they had a romance in which in French and Psychology. She has each was a blessing to the other. He was an extraordinary second father to Eric and begun working at Mimeo.com. David Gomberg who learned so much from him and who accepted his role as a model Jarrett Goodman, son of Suzanne for living a religious Jewish life which was open to the world and deeply involved in Goodman, upon being named to the the community. He was blessed to father his and Gail’s daughter, Anna, whose Dean’s List at SUNY Albany upon the student years at Ramaz were such a source of pride to both parents and whose completion of his freshman year. continuing growth as a committed Jewish woman gave them so much nachas. Rebecca Leah Guttman, daughter of Here was a man who loved life, enjoyed the pleasures of life, and combined this Gilda and Charles (z”l) Guttman, and with extraordinary devotion to his family, his religion, his Jewish world and his God. granddaughter of Rachel Waldman, upon In the last weeks of his life, he was practicing to be able to read the Torah for his Bar her graduation from Benjamin N. Mitzvah parsha, Vayechi, translated “And he lived.” How appropriate! Ephie really Cardozo School of Law. epitomized “Vayechi” throughout a long productive, interesting and meaningful life. Rachelle and Hon. Norman Ryp upon We will all remember him with love and appreciation. the graduation of their granddaughter, Elisheva Ryp, with honors, from the NYU Silver School of Social Work with 212-769-4400 a Masters in Social Work. SPONSORSHIPS ARE WELCOME CONDOLENCES TO PLAZA JEWISH To support synagogue programs, we Jacques Farhi, upon the passing of his invite prospective Kiddush & Seudah father, Jean-Pierre Farhi. Shlishit Sponsors to contact Riva Alper Julian Hammond, upon the passing of COMMUNITY CHAPEL in the synagogue office at 212-774-5670 his brother, Paul. or [email protected]. The base cost of a Moshe Ratson, upon the passing of his Andrew Fier, Director cake-and-wine Kiddush sponsorship is brother, Amit Ratson. $350, to which is added the cost of any Amsterdam Avenue extra catered food ordered through Sheira Schacter, upon the passing of Foremost Caterers. Multiple Kiddush her mother, Edith Silverstein. and 91st Street sponsors may, at their discretion and Yvette Seibel, upon the passing of her initiative, agree to share the expense of husband, Monroe Seibel. SERVICES AVAILABLE extra catered food, but every co-sponsor Roberta Sigall, upon the passing of her must pay, separately and individually, father Rabbi Milton Kramer. IN FLORIDA the $350 base fee. Similarly, sponsoring May they be comforted among all Seudah Shlishit costs every co-sponsor those who mourn for Zion and $250. Jerusalem. 1-800-227-3974 Page 20 KEHILATH JESHURUN BULLETIN

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25% DISCOUNT OFF ALL KOSHER WINE SHABBAT SCHEDULE 15% DISCOUNT OFF ALL SINGLE MALTS Friday Saturday TO KJ MEMBERS (Excluding Sale Items) Lighting Evening Afternoon Sabbath Prompt Delivery of Candles Services Services Ends September KEHILATH JESHURUN BULLETIN 3-4 Nitzavim/Vayelech 7:07 PM 6:45 PM 7:00 PM 8:01 PM Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun 10-11 Haazinu 6:55 PM 6:45 PM 6:50 PM 7:49 PM 125 East 85th Street, New York, NY 10028 Shabbat Shuva 212-774-5600 17-18 Yom Kippur 6:44 PM 6:35 PM 7:36 PM 24-25 Chol HaMoed 6:32 PM 6:45 PM 6:25 PM 7:24 PM Synagogue Officials Dr. Haskel Lookstein ...... Rabbi Meir Soloveichik ...... Associate Rabbi October Elimelech Weinstock . . . . .Associate Rabbi 1-2 Bereshit 6:20 PM 6:35 PM 6:10 PM 7:13 PM Alexander Kaye ...... Assistant Rabbi 8-9 Noah 6:08 PM 6:20 PM 6:00 PM 7:01 PM Gilah Kletenik . . . . .Congregational Intern 15-16 Lekh Lekha 5:58 PM 6:10 PM 5:50 PM 6:50 PM Avram Davis ...... Cantor Emeritus 22-23 Vayera 5:47 PM 6:00 PM 5:40 PM 6:41 PM Mayer Davis ...... Cantor 29-30 Chaye Sara 5:38 PM 5:50 PM 5:30 PM 6:33 PM Leonard Silverman . . . .Executive Director Officers of the Congregation November Eric Feldstein ...... President 5-6 Toledot 5:29 PM 5:40 PM 5:20 PM 6:24 PM Surie Sugarman ...... Vice President 12-13 Vayetze 4:22 PM 4:35 PM 4:15 PM 5:18 PM Robert Kurzweil ...... 2nd Vice President 19-20 Vayishlah 4:17 PM 4:30 PM 4:10 PM 5:14 PM Elias Buchwald ...... 3rd Vice President 26-27 Vayeshev 4:13 PM 4:25 PM 4:05 PM 5:10 PM Jacob Doft ...... Secretary Joel Katz ...... Treasurer December David Lobel ...... Assistant Treasurer 3-4 Miketz 4:10 PM 4:25 PM 4:05 PM 5:09 PM Deena Shiff ...... Financial Secretary Jonathan Wagner . . . . .Recording Secretary Past Presidents SCHEDULE OF SERVICES Benjamin Brown Fred Distenfeld Weekday mornings…………..7:30 AM Sunday mornings……………..8:30 AM Chaim Edelstein Mondays and Thursdays……..7:15 AM Rosh Chodesh Weekdays…….7:00 AM Samuel Eisenstat Stanley Gurewitsch Sabbath mornings…………….9:00 AM Affiliate Presidents EVENING SERVICES Elisa Septee Lunzer . . . . .Pres. Sisterhood Marissa Katz ...... Pres. Sisterhood Sept. 1-21 ...... 6:45 PM Oct. 10-14 ...... 6:15 PM Nov. 7-11 ...... 4:35 PM Bonnie Silvera ...... Pres. Sisterhood Sept. 26-28 ...... 6:40 PM Oct. 17-21 ...... 6:05 PM Nov. 14-18 ...... 4.30 PM Dr. Mark Meirowitz . . . . .Pres. Men’s Club Oct. 3-7 ...... 6:25 PM Oct. 24-28 ...... 5:55 PM Nov. 21-Dec. 23 ...... 4:25 PM Linda Esses ...... Pres. Kesher Oct. 31-Nov. 4...... 5:45 PM Rina Kestenbaum ...... Pres. Kesher Ariel Groveman Weiner . . . . .Pres. Kesher Office Staff DATES TO REMEMBER Riva Alper ...... Administrator Wed.-Fri., Sept. 8-10 Friday-Saturday, Sept. 17-18 Friday-Shabbat., Oct. 8-9 Rudy Arjune ...... Superintendent Rosh Hashanah Yom Kippur Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan Effy Braun ...... Youth Director See schedule on Page 6 See schedule on Page 6 Friday Morning Services at 7:00 AM Dina Farhi ...... Executive Assistant Sunday, Sept. 12 Wednesday-Fri., Sept. 22-Oct. 1 November 7-8 Nissania Hazghia . .Outreach Administrator Fast of Gedaliah Sukkot, Hoshanah Rabbah, Rosh Chodesh Kislev Hattie Murphy ...... Comptroller See schedule on Page 6 Shemini Atzeret, Simchat Torah Sunday Morning Services at 8:30 AM Arona Schneider ...... Office Manager See schedule on Page 6 Monday Morning Services at 7:00 AM Kim Schneiderman ...... Social Worker