June / July 2013 Sivan / Tammuz / Av 5773
The newsletter of Beth El Synagogue
Y Durham’s first synagogue Y
FROM OUR RABBI: the Rabbinical Assembly in a 1982 teshuvah (legal responsum) by Questions that are Blessings Rabbi and Professor Joel Roth of the Jewish Theological Seminary,
Some questions are blessings. A parent approaches and says, and also by Rabbi David Lincoln who actually spoke at Beth El last “My child really wants to read Torah – can she?” What more can September when he was visiting here for a wedding! (You can read a rabbi ask for? What more can a community hope for from its the tehuvas here: http://bit.ly/teshuvot and http://bit.ly/halakhah ). children? But the child is not yet the age of bar/bat mitzvah--what You may be surprised to learn that there is plenty of precedent in to do? This question is not theoretical – someone asked it a few the Jewish tradition for a minor reading Torah – the Mishnah months ago. In turn, I asked myself, “How do we find a way (Megilah 4:6) allows it, and from this source flows a long line of respond ‘Amen’ to the child’s blessing?” In the paragraphs below, legal precedent allowing a minor who can understand the signifi- I am going to give the answer, but I also want to share not only how cance of the honor of reading from the Torah to do so. But this the answer to this particular question was found, but my hopes raises another, more subtle question: Is such a practice wise for our for how such questions can be answered. Not every question will community? In the last meeting of our Ritual Committee, several follow this process, but I hope describing it can illustrate some important issues came to the fore. of our community’s values and the way we might think through First, it is important for the "flow" of an already full Saturday Jewish life. morning service to be preserved; children who might read more I think the first answer to such a question should be to slowly, thus lengthening the service, could impose a tircha d’tzibur acknowledge the beauty of the request! To celebrate with the – a burden upon the larger community. Others raised the question parent that their daughter is being raised in such a home where of whether allowing children to read Torah earlier might create a Jewish life is not a burden to be done with as soon as possible, but sense of “negative competition”: some children might feel pressure where there is a thirst to learn Torah…In today’s world, that child’s to read at a younger and younger age while those who did not do so petition is a blessing, and creating a home from which that question might feel less capable because they "only" read Torah as a bar/bat bubbled forth is no small feat! After the celebration ☺, the hard mitzvah - clearly a feeling and message we want to avoid. And yet work begins. in our deliberations a common consensus emerged: how can we say When I think about such inquiries, I do not try to answer “no” to a child in our community who wants to read Torah, even if them alone; I lean upon the wisdom not only of our tradition, at a young age? but of the Conservative movement by looking to see if this In the end, the committee trusted me not only to figure out question has been addressed by the Committee on Jewish Law a decision, but also to communicate with our community about and Standards (CJLS) – a committee of the Rabbinical Assembly what was decided – another important part of the process. After (the organization of Conservative rabbis) that sets halakhic (Jewish the Ritual Committee meeting, I sought out others with whom I legal) policy for Rabbincal Assembly rabbis (of which I’m one) could think creatively, and here is what I have decided: As we and for the Conservative movement as a whole. (To learn more (Continued on page 17) about the CJLS, click here - http://bit.ly/lawcjls ). As the mara d’atra – the local halakhic authority for the Beth El community – the final decisions about what to do here ultimately rest with me, Inside this issue: not a committee in New York. That is not only traditional but also Committee Contacts…………………………...….....2 wise because it is only by being in a community that one can aptly Gabbaim Schedule…………………………………....2 apply and interpret halakhah (Jewish law). Halakhah does not exist From Our President…………………………………..3 in a vacuum; it emerges from the dynamic relationship between the From Our EYD……………………………………...... 3 Jewish tradition and the Jewish people who came before, who live Naches…………………………………………...…….4 Social Action…………………………………………..6 now, and who will carry the Torah forth into the future. And yet, Sisterhood News……………………………..…….….7 even though such decisions rest with me, I also do not believe that April Contributions……….…...…..………...…...... 9 I should make such decisions alone. I value not only the wisdom Yahrzeit Reminders……….……...... ….….…10-11 of our tradition but also the guidance of our community which, in Yizkor Booklet Form………………………………...12 ritual matters, is invested with the Ritual Committee, a group of Letter from Valhalla………...………...... ……...... 16 people who love and care for the ritual life of Beth El and who June Calendar…...….…………..…...…..…….…...20 serve as an important sounding board of things to think about, and July Calendar…...….………….………...…….….....21 individuals who ultimately will carry forth our religious observance. August Calendar…...….……….………..…….….....22 In the case of a minor reading from the sefer Torah, our Community Connections………………………..….23 question had indeed been discussed – though many years ago – by 1 Bulletin Deadline August Bulletin: The Beth El Bulletin is the newsletter Monday, July 1 of Beth El Congregation. We appreciate any feedback and input. Non-members may Please submit items to request to join our mailing list for a $25 yearly [email protected] contribution to help cover printing & mailing costs. Bulletins are also archived online three months at a time. The online version has Do you have news to share with your some contact information omitted for the Beth El Community? privacy of our members. Graduation? Award received? Birth of a child or grandchild? Rabbi Rabbi Daniel Greyber President Barak Richman Send notices to [email protected] First Vice President Rachel Galanter and we’ll let everyone know by posting it in the bulletin. Second Vice President Noah Pickus Interim Exec. Director Ivy Wingate Education & Youth Director Elisabeth Albert Admin. Assistant Miriam Cohen Franzen If you are not receiving Beth El’s weekly e-mail Publicity Assistant Krisha Miller Rabbi Emeritus Rabbi Steve Sager announcements and would like to, Bulletin Advertising Manager Gladys Siegel please contact Miriam at
[email protected] YAHRZEITS: To arrange a yahrzeit minyan, please call and ask her to add you to our listserve. the synagogue office (919-682-1238) at least one month in advance. To receive notification of a yahrzeit or to list a yahrzeit in the bulletin, call the synagogue office (682-1238).
DO YOU HAVE AN ITEM FOR BETH EL BULLETIN? Gabbai Rotation All items for the bulletin MUST be submitted by e-mail to Krisha Miller at [email protected]. Please contact if you'd like to The FINAL DEADLINE for items for the upcoming request an aliyah or help lead services. bulletin is the 1st workday of the preceding month. Please do not call on Shabbat. THANK YOU. 6/01 Sh’lach Lekha Diane Markoff COMMITTEE CONTACTS: Finance Maxine Stern 6/08 Korah/RH Tammuz Roger Perilstein
Lifelong Learning Sheva Zucker 6/15 Hukkat Anne Derby
Membership Andrea Ginsberg 6/22 Balak Frank Fischer
Orthodox Kehillah Sheldon Hayer 6/29 Pinchas Shula Bernard Ritual Laura Lieber
Social Action Debbie Goldstein 7/6 Mattot-Masay Jon Wahl Va’ad haChinuch Eric Lipp Community of Caring Rhoda Silver
CHEVRA KADISHA (BURIAL SOCIETY) The Gabbaim schedule is also available online at: Contact David Klapper www.betheldurham.org/rituallife/gabbirotation.html The schedule for July - December should be posted by mid-June.
2 June / July 2013 / Beth El Bulletin FROM OUR PRESIDENT: The point is that when our sisters and brothers gather together for a common purpose, the gathering achieves so On Sisters and Brothers much more than the purposes for which we gather. I again congratulate the Sisterhood for all that they have achieved Forgive what’s becoming a habit, but I’d like to quote from and for all that they are. And I personally thank the emerging our Strategic Plan: Brotherhood for striving to achieve much of the same.
The word “synagogue” is derived from — Barak Richman the Greek word that means “assembly,” and throughout history synagogues have been houses of assembly as much as they have been houses of worship. The FROM OUR EDUCATION & YOUTH DIRECTOR: social foundation underlying Beth El’s vitality is the human connections among Shalom from Brooklyn! our community members. Over the last few weeks I have been welcomed with emails Nothing epitomizes the spirit and foundation of this idea from so many members of the Beth El community. I can’t tell more than our remarkable Sisterhood. you how wonderful it feels to be welcomed with open arms. It I’ve long marveled at the Sisterhood – its energy, organiza- is fantastic to experience such a warm reception before I have tion, generosity, and spirit. They have harnessed a widespread even moved to Durham. I can't wait to tap into the eagerness commitment to Beth El into a well-organized, vigorous enter- and dedication of the community in person! I feel eager to prise that both does great things for our community and does move down to Durham and settle in at Beth El starting mid- much to build our community. June. During the summer months, I hope that many of you Some of the Sisterhood’s highlights from this year include: will stop by, introduce yourselves and share your stories Remarkable fundraising and philanthropic activity – the with me. I look forward to hearing what you love about this Sisterhood organized hamentaschen sales, a 5k run/ program. What are your favorite elements of the year? What walk, and the Chanukah Bazaar to raise funds for the are your suggestions about how to continue to grow this already Eric Pas Camp Scholarship and for financial aid to wonderful education and youth program? To get the introduc- Talmud Torah students. tions started, let me tell you a bit more about myself. Though Extraordinary volunteer work to Beth El’s buildings – the I was actually born in North Carolina, I grew up mostly in St. Sisterhood is revitalizing our Gift Shop and helping Louis, Missouri and am a big St. Louis Cardinals fan. I’ve renew our kitchens, making Beth El more hospitable attended day school, public school, Sunday School and to congregants, visitors, and community members Hebrew High. I was active in Kadima and USY, taught in seeking to celebrate lifecycle events. various Hebrew Schools, and worked in my synagogue’s day Creative programming and community building – the ca mp for 7 years. I have a B. A. in Jewish history from the Sisterhood helped organize Israel Awareness Week, Jewish Theological Seminary as well as a B. A. in Anthropology sponsored a lunch for JFS’s Chaverim program, and from Columbia University. During my 8 years as the Director sponsored movie and book groups throughout the of Family Education at the Park Slope Jewish Center in Brook- year. lyn, I completed a fellowship in the Leadership Institute for As impressive as this list is, I’m confident I’m missing Congregational School Educators. After 13 years in the hustle something important. I do know that the Sisterhood and its and bustle of New York City, I am looking forward to the burgeoning members deserve enormous praise and thanks for change of pace that southern living has to offer. their ongoing work. I look forward to seeing y'all soon and all of the wonderful The Sisterhood has set an extraordinarily high standard, things we will accomplish together! but the emerging Men of Beth El (alternatively called the “MOB” and the “MOBE”) are off to a remarkably good start in Elisabeth Albert matching the Sisterhood’s energy and achievements. I attended Education and Youth Director the MOB(E)’s inaugural event on Sunday, April 20th, and I could relate to the glowing experiences being reported out of the Sisterhood. Our breakfast gathered together approximately sixty men of varying generations, professional interests, and geographic histories, and yet there was a compelling sense of commonality, of real brotherhood. We all have come to Durham & Chapel Hill through different paths, have made this area our home, and care about Jewish life here. As informal and good natured the setting was, the gathering also had a centralizing and heartfelt conviction.
3 Healing Yoga Gentle Movement, Meditation, Relaxation
Please welcome our newest member: 10:00–11:00am in the Freedman Center • June 1 • October 12 Leah Austin • July 20 • November 16 • August 10 • December 14 • September 21
Who Should Come? • Anyone who is looking for healthy ways to relieve the physical and mental stresses of illness – yours or that of a family member • Those who are grieving • Those with and without yoga experience (mats/props are available for your use) Benefits of Healing Yoga: • Helps the recovery process; addresses fatigue, soreness, Ò to Roger Kaplan on receiving a 2013 National stiffness, anxiety, and depression; deals with balance, bone Advising Award (for Outstanding Advising loss, immunity, and flexibility; brings peace of mind. in a Primary Advisor Role) from The National Academic Advising Association! For additional information about the class, contact Margie Satinsky, RYT, 919 383-5998 or [email protected]
Ò to Janine, Kirk, Graham & Jack Beeson on the birth Participants should wear comfortable clothing. of their son & brother, Michael, on April 16, 2013! After the class, all are welcome to join the Beth El worship service and /or Kiddush lunch.
Ò to Carrie, David, Olivia & Ian Goldman on the With generous support, Beth El has raised the funds to purchase birth of their son & brother, Max, on April 18, yoga mats, straps, foam blocks, blankets, bolsters, and eye bags. 2013! These props help participants feel comfortable as they sit, move, and meditate. Please join us, or if you know someone who might Ò to Edy Parker and Sheila Tayrose on the birth of benefit from healing yoga, consider coming as a buddy. their granddaughter, Blair Elise, born on April 14, 2013! The proud parents are Michelle Parker Tayrose & Greg Tayrose along with big sister Hallie Jane. June 1, 2013
Ò to David & Sue Klapper on the birth of their Join us as we celebrate our grandson, Ethan Miles, born on May 1, 2013! The proud parents are Ashley and Alan Pressman, High School Seniors along with big brother Maxwell Owen. at Shabbat services and a special Ò Mazel tov to Seth Grossman and Lauren Aboulafia kiddush lunch hosted by their parents on their wedding in Denver, CO on May 26, in honor of graduation! 2013. Seth is the son of Lynne Grossman and Will Grossman, of blessed memory.
Take me out Weekly Mishnah Study to the ballgame -- again! June 2, 2013 Saturday Mornings at 8:45am in the Freedman Center Feel free to attend at anytime! Join Rabbis Sager and The Synagogue Life Committee has gathered a group to Greyber for coffee and discussions on text from the attend a Bulls game on Sunday, June 2, at 5:05 to see them Mishnah. People new to Mishnah study are especially play against the Scranton-Wilkes Barre Yankees farm club. welcome. Please note that class will be suspended this Contact Richard Cramer ([email protected] summer June 22-August 10 (will resume on August 17.) or 919-929-6608) if you reserved tickets & have not yet received them. Please remember to reimburse him directly.
4 June / July 2013 / Beth El Bulletin The Community of Caring You are invited is here for YOU! to join Anyone who is in need of a meal due to illness, surgery, grief or other special circumstances. the Resnick Family
We are here for YOU! Saturday, July 6, 2013 Anyone who needs a ride to/from a doctor's appointment, Shabbat Matot-Masei to the hospital or nursing home so you can visit a friend or loved one. as We are here for YOU! Michael & Jacqueline Anyone who would like a friendly visitor celebrate their to see you at home or in the facility where you live. 50th wedding anniversary We are here for YOU! Anyone who would like to be a part of this wonderful during services & a kiddush luncheon to follow. organization by participating in any of the above.
Please call or email Rhoda Silver at: 919-688-0077 / [email protected] Tisha b’Av Eicha (the book of Lamentations) will be read. Israeli Cooking Lesson Monday, July 15 The Synagogue Life Committee sponsored a very 8:30pm services in both successful Israeli Cooking Demonstration and Brunch the Main Sanctuary and the Orthodox Kehillah. on May 5. About 25 people learned how to prepare typical Israeli dishes, including burekas (phyllo dough pastries with Tuesday, July 16 a variety of fillings), tahini, and several salads. Of course, 7:15am services in the Orthodox Kehillah. the highlight of the morning was sampling the results! Everyone is welcome. The session was led by Perri Shalom-Liberty, an Israeli- born member of Beth El, who shared some of her favorite recipes. Participants included Beth El members of all ages, from students to retirees, and all had a wonderful time asking questions, cooking, eating, and socializing.
Save these Dates! The recipes are available on our website: www.betheldurham.org/docs/Israeli_salads-n-burekas.pdf Friday, August 16 — Shul @ the Pool (JCC)!
Sunday, August 25 — Family Fun Day @ Beth El! This was so much fun, we'd like to do something similar again! If you are interested in sharing any of your favorite recipes in a future cooking event, please contact [email protected]. Interested in reading the Haftarah or Torah during an upcoming Shabbat service?
Congregants who do this regularly/semi-regularly/ Beth El Art Gallery every-once-in-awhile are greatly appreciated! Even if
If you are interested in exhibiting your art work at Beth El you've never chanted a Haftarah, if it's been a long please contact Susan Rosefielde [email protected] time, or you have thought it would be a meaningful Professionals, students and hobby artists are welcome. way to commemorate an occasion, you like the sound of the trope, or you would just like to learn this as a new skill, please contact Randi Smith .
Find Beth El event & program information If you would like to read a Torah portion, please at: contact Jeff Derby. www.betheldurham.org/calendar/index.html 5
Social Action in Action
The Social Action Committee is looking forward to gearing up activities at Beth El this next year. We realize that our membership already participates in so many wonderful programs on their own. We would like to collect an inventory of these activities so that we may better support your efforts. We'd also like to plan new social action activities to enhance what we currently do. Please help us gather this information by sending us a note detailing the social action activities in which you are currently engaged regardless of whether it is or is not associated with Beth El. This will help us form an inventory of members' interests and embark on stepping-up our social justice actions.
Please contact Debbie Goldstein or Jacki Resnick with your responses &/or questions.
Food & Toiletry Drives
Thank you to everyone who participated in our hunger relief efforts over the past programming year!
Through Laura Quigley's Yom Kippur-Pesach challenge, we donated 1804 pounds to local agencies & individuals!
Our "Collect for the Omer" honoring Laura's efforts far exceeded our goal of 10 pounds per day of the omer by bringing in 786 pounds of food!
In addition, we collected $791 for Jewish Family Services to help with their hunger relief efforts, and at Purim you gave almost $1000 that we passed along to Urban Ministries of Durham & the Interfaith Council in Chapel Hill. The tzedakah you give during weekday minyanim has been used to give out almost $800 in food cards to those who come to our doors seeking help. Team Beth El raised over $6000 for the Durham & Chapel Hill/Carrboro Crop Hunger Walks!
Remember: our food drive & toiletry drives are ongoing year-round!
"A double-mitzvah": Link your HT VIC card to our school and earn money for the Talmud Torah while helping others in need. VIC cards need to be re-linked each school year & can be linked to more than one school. You may do so online at www.harristeeter.com/default.aspx?pageId=172 or the next time you're at Harris Teeter, simply tell your cashier that you want Beth El's account number, 5883, linked to your Harris Teeter VIC card.
Together we CAN help end hunger!
Examples of appreciated items (Please remember that items need to be non-perishable and in non-glass containers.): Peanut butter (plastic jars) Macaroni and cheese Canned tuna, chicken or salmon Popcorn Beans, peas & lentils (canned or dry in bags) Raisins or other dried fruit Canned pastas, soups & vegetables (low sodium) Granola Bars Canned fruits (preferably packed in 100% juice Pudding Cups Rice Animal/Graham Crackers Oatmeal or other hot & cold cereals Trail Mix 100% fruit juice pouches or juice boxes 6 June / July 2013 / Beth El Bulletin Sisterhood News Our 5774 Sisterhood board consists of: One of the main objectives of Sisterhood is to improve President - Lois Price the Beth El Community. As I look back at all of Sisterhood's Vice President - Laura Flicker accomplishments this past fiscal year I can say with great Recording Secretary - Mary Joan Mandel pride that we have outstandingly reached that goal. This past Treasurer - *Merle Schwartz year Sisterhood has raised, donated, and distributed over Parliamentarian - Meg Anderson, $8400 to support Beth El and our Jewish community. Sister- Programming Co-Chair - *Susan Kudler, hood donated $3000 to the Talmud Torah which fully funded Programming Co-Chair - *Galia Goodman, their tuition scholarship needs, $2500 to the Eric Pas Jewish Corresponding Secretary - *Caryn Rossi, Camp Scholarship Fund, $2000 has been raised for our Fundraising Chair - Sheryl Weiss, kitchen initiative, $600 was donated to support the Israel Membership Chair - Jennifer Resnick, Awareness Week, and we helped fund several other joint Members at Large : programs with Judea Reform and Jewish Family Services. Rhoda Silver (also Gift Shop Chair) Your membership and support of our various programs, like Judith Siegel the 5K, Chanukah Bazaar, and Kitchen Shower & Chick *Michaela Davidai Flick Movie Night helped us support our synagogue and our community - Thank you! * = new board members
One of Sisterhood's goals was to move the gift shop Another improvement we are proud of, although had out of the front office and back into the lobby. Beth El little to do with, is the organization of the Men of Beth El members that were here long before I moved to Durham (MOBE). Maybe they saw all the fun we have been having? told of a thriving gift shop which not only offered beautiful Congrats fella's. We can't wait to join with you on a program Judaica and necessary ritual items but was also a social hub or two and make Beth El the best congregation in the triangle. of synagogue life. Back then this successful gift shop was located in the lobby. Well friends, the Sisterhood Gift Shop B'Shalom, is back in the lobby again. Huge thank you's to Rhoda and Ivy Lois for this accomplishment! We are so excited for you to see our new "old" location and all the beautiful Judaica we have to Sisterhood Gift Shop sell. Come on by and take a look at this lovely improvement
and don't forget to shop at your Sisterhood Gift Shop when you need a B'nai Mitzvah or shabbat gift, card, or yahrzeit candle.
A new initiative that you'll be hearing more about is our Torah Fund Campaign, a project of the Women's League for Conservative Judaism. No, it does not have anything to do Check out all our new merchandise: yadiam, mezzuzot, with buying or repairing torahs ;) Mary Joan will be heading jewelry, tallitot, candles, & more! this effort which helps fund scholarships for, and ensure the continuing development of, the educational programs of the Currently open during office hours, select special events, Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, the Ziegler & by appointment.
School of Rabbinic Studies in Los Angeles, the Schechter If you are interested in shopping outside of office hours, Institute of Jewish Studies in Israel, and the Seminario in helping staff the Gift Shop or with shop related projects, Rabínico Latinoamericano in Buenos Aires. The Torah please contact [email protected]. Fund Campaign Benefits students at all four institutions. Sisterhood will be selling cards which, if desired, we can include your personal message and mail for you. Sisterhood Kitchen Initiative
Please see the lobby display which provides updates on This coming year we are welcoming in new board our Kitchen Initiative. We hope you consider making a members and saying goodbye to other board members monetary donation. We will all benefit from the success that were a huge part of our current success. We are of this initiative. It is important to keep up our momentum grateful to have had Sheila Goldstein, Alexis Poss and Lisa through the summer so everything is in place before the Springer serve on our board. They brought fun, hard work High Holidays. A pledge form is available on page 8. and valuable insight to us during their time on the Sisterhood board. Thank you!
7 “Tzedaka is equal in importance to all other commandments combined” — Talmud
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q Best Wishes q Happy Anniversary q Other Mail To: Sandy Berman, Corresponding Secretary 1004 Watts Street Durham NC 27701 Please apply my contribution to: _____ General Fund _____ Orthodox Kehilla _____ Building Maintenance Fund _____ Gilbert Katz Scholarship Fund _____ Eric Pas Jewish Camp Scholarship Fund _____ Cemetery Fund _____ Landscape Fund _____ Elaine Perilstein Memorial Fund _____ Chevra Kadisha (burial society) _____ Sandra Lazarus Youth Activity Fund _____ Prayer Book Fund _____ Education & Youth Director's _____ Library Fund _____ Rabbi’s Discretionary Fund (please write a Discretionary Fund _____ LifeLong Learning Fund separate check for this fund) _____ Sam & Jeannette Fink Programming Fund _____ Mitzvah Fund _____ Earl and Gladys Siegel Endowment Fund _____ Synagogue Art Fund
Beth El Sisterhood Kitchen Initiative Pledge Form
Stocking and maintaining the kitchen is critical for weekly Kiddushim as well as other religious and social functions held at Beth El. Please help improve the kitchen by making a financial contribution to Sisterhood. The funds we collect will purchase professional quality knives, bowls, utensils, service ware, shelving, signage, minor servicing of equipment, and more.
This fundraiser will last through the year 5773, but we hope pledges can be filled soon to facilitate our early purchase of important kitchen items. Please make checks payable to Beth El Sisterhood and write “Kitchen Initiative” in the memo section. Thank you.
Yes, I want to support kitchen improvements and can pledge… $54 ______$72 ______$90 ______$180 ______Other amount $______Your Name E-mail Telephone
______Address (if not in Beth El Directory)
I am interested in volunteering in the kitchen to implement improvements.
8 June / July 2013 / Beth El Bulletin April Contributions Beth El Congregation gratefully acknowledges all contributions. Please send donations & dedications to Sandy Berman, our corresponding secretary, at the Beth El address. Donations may be made via check, cash, stock transfer, or Paypal. A full list of funds, donation forms & the direct Paypal link are available on our website’s development page & through the office. When making a donation to the Rabbi's Discretionary Fund, please write a separate check payable directly to that fund.
2012-2013 Annual Fund Donations received by Orthodox Kehillah May 31 will be listed in the August Bulletin. George and Sue Fishman in memory of George's father, Louis Fishman
Eric Pas Jewish Camp Scholarship Fund Rabbi's Discretionary Fund Caryn Rossi in appreciation of Michele Pas Randi & Scott Smith in honor of Ethan Franzen's Michaela Davidai in honor of Corey Gradin Bar Mitzvah Michele Pas in honor of Ethan Franzen's Bar Valerie and Jerry Schreiber in gratitude to Barak Mitzvah Richman for the help he offered their son, Lawrence Michele Pas and Barry Poss in honor of Ed Horwitz Balleisen being part of the MacArthur award winning Jonathan & Elissa Grabow in appreciation of Rabbi Tobin Project Greyber officiating at Elissa's sister's funeral Michele Pas in memory of Martin Poleski's mother David & Peg Grossman in appreciation of Rabbi Michele Pas wishing Leora Gardner a speedy Greyber officiating at Will Grossman's unveiling recovery Hillel & Charlotte Koren in appreciation of Hillel's Michele Pas in honor of Erica and Rob Gringle's recent aliyah new grandson Mike & Jacki Resnick in honor of Rabbi Greyber's Michele Pas in honor of Laura Quigley for all she father's 90th birthday has done for Beth El Caryn Rossi in appreciation of Rabbi Greyber's Michele Pas and Barry Poss in memory of Will generosity Grossman Caryn Rossi in memory of Deborah Tobias Murphy and in appreciation of Rabbi Greyber General Fund Hal Sandick and Barbra Roberman in honor of The Halevs in honor of Bob & Laura Gutman's Ethan Franzen's Bar Mitzvah 50th anniversary, Mazel tov! The Mandels in appreciation of their Purim treat Sheldon Hayer in honor of the Gutman's 50th Don and Sheila Goldstein in appreciation of the sale wedding anniversary of their chametz Sol and Sheila Levine in memory of their mothers, Augusta Korkin and Reba Levine Sandra Lazarus Youth Activity Fund Nancy Bernstein and Terry Seelinger in honor of Annette Kronmiller in honor of Russell Springer's the Bat Mitzvah of Mariana Rocha-Goldberg Bar Mitzvah Anonymous in honor of Laura Quigley and Ivy Wingate
Alan and Maxine Stern in memory of Jack Myln,
Eric Myln's father Brian and Brenda Ginsberg in memory of Martin You can celebrate a simcha, honor a loved one, Poleski's mother, Teresa Poleski or send “get well” wishes by contributing to Beth El funds. Brian and Brenda Ginsberg in honor of Jimmie Haynes, wishing him a speedy recovery You may donate via our secure PayPal link or by check using the printable form online or above. www.betheldurham.org/development Mitzvah Fund Your gift is tax deductible to the extent allowed by law. Lynne Kohn in memory of Roni Cohen Liberman's father Todah Rabah! Thank You!
9 Yahrzeit Reminders
Sivan June Tammuz June 23 Milton Goldstein 1 9 Rachel Geller 17 23 Howard Jaffe 1 9 Shlomo Geller 17 23 Tirtza Leiss 1 9 Mary Kirshner 17 23 Eunice Loewinsohn 1 9 Mandel Silverman 17 23 Daniel Miller 1 10 Janet Alpern 18 23 Amanda Stang 1 10 Yetta Greenberg 18 24 Leonard Becker 2 10 Annie Landsberger 18 24 Mollie Fridovich 2 11 Albert M. Fleishman 19 24 Phyllis Lehon 2 11 Ann Geller 19 25 Theodore Brody 3 11 Max Parker 19 26 Mary Y. Berman 4 11 Dave Satlof 19 26 Esther Markman Enzer 4 13 Martin Landau 21 27 Marian Freedman 5 13 Louis S. Stadiem 21 27 Dennis Hart 5 13 Clara Swartz 21 27 Herman Wagner 5 13 Eva M. Woods 21 28 Lottie Frohman 6 14 Lucy Evans 22 29 Julius Concors 7 14 Jorge Gadlli 22 29 Isaac Evans 7 15 Norman Kirshner 23 29 Minnie S. Freedman 7 15 Nathan Ornoff 23
29 Reba Levine 7 16 Julius J. Bienstock 24 30 Libby Isaacs 8 Traditionally, we light a 19 Rose Krebs 27 Tammuz June memorial candle 20 Sidonie Hauser 28 1 Sarah Z. Bane 9 on the evening before 20 Raquel Levy 28 1 Zevel Berman 9 the anniversary of a 20 Ray Rosenstein Lewin 28 1 Joshua Berry 9 20 Juliet Schwartz 28 1 Eva Gadlli 9 loved one's death. 21 Sidney Stern 29 1 Robin Perlo Berry 9 22 Ralph Arnold 30 1 Abram Primakoff 9 22 Shayna Belenko 30 1 Herman Scherr 9 22 Steven Hershenow 30 1 Akiba Sitron 9 22 Myer B. Marcus 30 2 Mitchell Bergman 10 22 Peter Stein 30 2 Samuel Cooper 10 Tammuz July 2 Mollie Gabin 10 23 Bertha Agid 1 2 Rivka Rachel Ginton 10 23 Willie Massey 1 2 Dalia Weinisman 10 24 Morris Eisenberg 2 3 Jon Michael Gitelson 11 24 Irma Fischer 2 3 Hannah Lakin 11 24 Peter Alan Stahl 2 4 Pearl Fisher Alexander 12 25 Nathan Eisenberg 3 4 William Cassell 12 25 Adele Gold Mark 3 4 Eva Sarah Goodman 12 25 Gerri Pomerantz 3 4 Sheila Krolik 12 26 Grant Anderson 4 5 Gertrude Fishman 13 26 Woodrow Kaufer 4 5 Rhoda Goldman 13 26 Paula Rapp 4 5 Ida Grossman 13 26 Emanuel Spitzer 4 5 Charles Z. Kadis 13 27 Fanny Gonias 5 5 Ruth Slavin 13 28 Harry Seidman 6 6 Donald Benjamin Hackel 14 28 Jack Silver 6 6 Mildred Marcus 14 29 Philip Cohen 7 8 Neil Felmus 16 29 Shel Feldman 7 8 Sofie Lillienfeld Spatz 16 8 Elizabeth Gay Thurston 16
Barukh Dayan Ha-emet “Blessed is the Judge of Truth”
Beth El congregation extends condolences to
Y Rebecca Rohde on the death of her brother, Daniel Parker Y Annette Kronmiller on the death of her mother, Marilyn Lubar
May the Ever Present One comfort them among the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem
10 June / July 2013 / Beth El Bulletin Yahrzeit Reminders
Av July Elul August 1 Gustave Abramson 8 1 Harriett Borman 7 1 Meyer Alpern 8 1 Philip Joffe 7 1 Leslie Becker 8 2 Monty Ginsberg 8 1 Pollie Bergen 8 2 Nitzan Tzidkiyahu 8 1 Max Simon 8 3 Marcia Kudler 9 2 Leon Dworsky 9 3 Solomon Rosenberg 9 3 Louis Glaser 10 3 Ida Snyderman 9 3 Sammy Gold 10 3 Ida (Chaika Candeub) Snyderman 9 3 Samuel Kirshner 10 4 Shirley Neuman 10 3 Mary Elizabeth Lazo-Wasem 10 5 Pearl Ackerman 11 4 Avraham Joshua ben Avraham Joshua 11 5 Harry Brown 11 4 Phyllis Back 11 5 Eve Feldman 11 4 Mamie Davidow 11 5 Frank Malin 11 4 Sarah Dinah Markman 11 5 Pearl Siegel 11 4 Paul Pearlmutter 11 6 Lucille Kux Anderson 12 6 Hans Hauser 13 6 Shirley Kresses 12 6 Morris Katz 13 6 Rebekah Resnick 12 6 Arthur Mordant 13 6 Florence Satinsky 12 6 Percy Silver 13 7 Margot Katz 13 7 Dinah LaPook 14 8 Freda Abramowitz 14 7 Maurice Levine 14 8 Ruth Berman 14 9 Philip Duff 16 9 Walter Japert Broadwell 15 9 Clarice Goodman 16 10 Nathan E. Siegel 16 10 Catherine Epstein 17 11 Seymour Kirschenfeld 17 10 Celia Moneta 17 11 Meyer Yakov Liberman 17 10 Julienne Winner 17 11 Sadie Sitron 17 11 Barry Dick 18 12 Judith Evans 18 12 Max Halperin 19 12 Esther Gordon 18 13 Leib Avrum 20 12 Bernard Katz 18 13 Jeannette Becker 20 12 Isaac H. Parkey IV 18 13 Louis Cohen 20 12 Morton Plesser 18 13 Ruth Frank 20 13 Robert Breitzer 19 13 Harry B. Mulowitz 20 13 Ethel Bridges Carrington 19 13 Isaac Ornoff 20 13 David Engel 19 15 Harold Schiff 22 13 Ida N. Fisher 19 15 Miriam Selvansky 22 13 Ruth Seligman Malin 19 16 Samuel Berman 23 13 Melvin Shimm 19 16 Ya'akov Frider 23 15 Abraham Fischer 21 16 Howard Weissman 23 15 Martin Fischer 21 17 Ida Cohen 24 15 Selma Fischer 21 17 Barbara Pitkin Zaleon Guthmann 24 15 Arthur Gross 21 17 Alice Hart 24 15 Emma Hirsch 21 17 Edgar Present 24 15 Karl Hirsch 21 17 Lottie Strauss 24 15 Edward J. Murphy 21 18 Esther Krugman 25 15 Nettie Shapiro 21 18 Dora Stein Levine 25 16 Shirley Convissor 22 18 Maurice Rapport 25 18 Carol Bernard Hart 24 18 Sy Sandick 25 18 Adele Kaplan 24 18 Edward Strauss 25 18 William King Keyserling 24 19 Grace Gladstein 26 20 Lee Ray Bergman 26 19 Albert Kodack 26 20 Esther Kaplan 26 19 Sara Sitron 26 20 Hazel Rosenthal 26 20 Hyman Geller 27 21 Yissachar Dov Abosch 27 21 Benjamin Brill, Jr. 28 21 Jeanne Dinsmore Dreifus 27 21 Beatrice Pudolsky 28 21 Eugene Friedman 27 22 James Airoldi 29 21 Sondra Gevarter 27 23 Ida Hockfield 30 21 Malvina Markman 27 24 Dorothy Massey 31 22 Anne Levinsohn 28 Av August 22 Julius Weinstein 28 26 Ruth Diamond Berman 2 23 Goodman Cohen 29 26 Bennett Frankel 2 24 Nora Barth 30 27 Anita Rubin 3 24 Carrie Gladstein 30 27 Ralph Schonberg 3 24 Norma Lovins 30 28 Ira Nathan Wagner 4 24 Leon Slavin 30 29 Dorothy Cassell 5 25 Jill Goldstein LaFrance 31 25 Arthur Rapp 31 25 Debra Fink Windsor 31 11 BETH EL SYNAGOGUE
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Dear: Beth El Members and Friends From: Yetta Brandt and Michelle Shrott Date: May 2013 Re: YOM KIPPUR MEMORIAL BOOKLET
Dear Friends,
We are writing to you now about the Memorial Booklet, which is being prepared for use during the Yizkor Service on Yom Kippur. The purpose of the Memorial Booklet is to aid us in keeping the names of the departed ever before us as a symbol of reverent and undying love. Because the Yizkor prayer specifically makes reference to a pledge to charity to perpetuate the memory and ideals of our beloved departed, the Beth El Board of Directors has ruled that any charitable offering shall be wholly voluntary in keeping with the sacred spirit of the occasion. Therefore, we do not have a schedule of mandatory fees to honor the memory of your loved ones, but each person may respond with a contribution in accord with his or her own inner prompting. If you wish to have the name(s) of your beloved departed listed in this special booklet, please complete the form below and mail it with your check to: Beth El Synagogue (Attn: Memorial Booklet) 1004 Watts Street, Durham, NC 27701.
Checks should be made payable to Beth El with "Memorial Booklet" noted in the memo line.
Please print information: Remembered by:
In Memory of:
If the names to be inscribed in the Memorial Booklet are the same as last year, you may write SAME.
NAMES MUST BE RECEIVED BY JULY 15 FOR OUR PRINTING SCHEDULE.
Thank you, Yetta Brandt and Michelle Shrott
12 June / July 2013 / Beth El Bulletin Sacred Rest: A Time Sensitive Matter Thursday, May 30, 7pm, Durham Main Library
In today’s culture, we often think of rest as a reward, but in many religious and spiritual traditions, rest and the notion of Sabbath is a practice. What does it mean to approach rest from a place of JOIN Rabbi Sager and Sicha for the last spring installment of sacredness? Join the community conversation with Frank Stasio; B’almah—our conversation between ancient sources on loss and Rabbi Steve Sager, Rabbi Emeritus of Beth El Synagogue; the lived experience of loss—May 29 at Beth Meyer (Raleigh) at Claudia Horwitz, Founding Director of Stone Circles at The 7:30pm. Candle and Soul. "The Lord's candle is the human soul," Stone House; and Usha Rajagopalan, former Hindu Chaplain at says Proverbs. "The soul is attached to the body as a flame to its Duke University. Sponsored by Durham Library Foundation, wick," another tradition says. Join a conversation about the candle Main Library, 300 N. Roxboro St. For more information call that burns in the place where we gather to honor loss, making the 919-560-0268 or visit durhamcountylibrary.org powerful and fragile connection between soul and body: http:// bit.ly/candlesoul This will be our last program until next fall. Lerner’s Annual 5k Race/Walk Stay tuned for new topics!
June 2, 2013 at 7am. Register now for SICHA SHABBATON IN THE All ages welcome! MOUNTAINS—August 8-11, 2013 at Wildacres in the mountains Visit www.lernerschool.org for more information and to register. of western NC. Information and online registration can be found Discover the Lerner School! here: http://tinyurl.com/Shabbaton2013. See page 15 for Accepting applications for the 2013-2014 school year, Preschool information on the 66th annual Wildacres B’nai B’rith Institute through Grade 5. To schedule a tour or for more information, of Judaism at Wildacres Aug. 12-15
please contact us at [email protected] Sicha, Hebrew for "conversation," is an organization that promotes or (919) 286-5517. the vital ongoing dialogue between classical Jewish texts and modern life. Essays engaging modern and classical texts in conver- sations can be found on our website: www.sichaconversation.org.
Come hear THE MAGNOLIA KLEZMER BAND!
Bring a blanket or chair, picnic, or buy food. Dance, shake, or listen. All shows are free.
Musicians from both Magnolia Klezmer and Watts Street bands will play at the Jewish Food Festival on Sunday, June 2nd (12-2pm) at the JCC, Cornwallis Rd., Durham, NC
July 21st, 6-8pm, Southern Village on the Green, 620 Market St., Chapel Hill, NC www.southernvillage.com/movies-music.htm
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Jewish Food Festival
The Levin JCC will host its 1st Annual Jewish Food Festival We Were Strangers, Too. June 2, 12-5pm! An afternoon of Jewish cuisine, music, and June 9, 2013, 1:30-3:30pm, Levin JCC community! Indoor and outdoor food booths will feature a variety “Love the stranger as you love yourselves, because you were of Jewish delicacies, including kosher BBQ brisket sandwiches & strangers once in the land of Egypt.” (Lev. 19:34) chopped liver, black & white cookies, chocolate egg creams & so much more. The stage will feature live music by members of the Please join us for a Jewish community program to learn about Magnolia Klezmer and Watts Street bands, and DJ sets by Brian the current debate over comprehensive immigration reform and McGuire of McSound Productions. Entry to the festival is free. discuss Jewish perspectives on the topic. Speakers include Food tickets will be available for purchase starting May 27 at the Melanie Nezer, Director for Policy & Advocacy of the Hebrew JCC Welcome Center. Please help community members in need Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS), Rabbi John Friedman, Judea by bringing canned goods or cash donations for JFS. Additionally, Reform Congregation, Legal and policy experts and immigrant we need volunteers for the event and would appreciate your help! advocates. Discussion to follow. Co-sponsored by the Durham- Chapel Hill Jewish Federation's Community Relations Council, Sign up here: Food Preparation Jobs (5/27-6/2) Social Action Committees of Beth El, Judea Reform Congregation, www.signupgenius.com/go/9040E4AAEAD2F4-june and Kehillah Synagogue, and Carolina Jews for Justice. For more information: Day of The Event Jobs (6/2): Jack Holtzman 919-490-4609 [email protected] www.signupgenius.com/go/9040E4AAEAD2F4-june1 13 The Temple of the High Country Synagogue Sonatas June 15, 2013, 8:00pm
Jewish Sparks is a public access television program which is On June 15th at 8pm, The Temple of the High Country is hosting broadcast in Raleigh, Chapel Hill and Durham, NC. This program a fundraising concert called the Synagogue Sonatas to celebrate presents videos of major Jewish educational and artistic events the first anniversary of The Temple of the High Country! together with interviews and recordings of Jewish scholars and
important Jewish leaders. Our goal is to promote a better under- World renowned violinist Gil Morgenstern and Flutist Akal Dev standing of key Jewish concepts and issues within both the Jewish Sharone will be playing in the cozy atmosphere of our temple. and non-Jewish communities. The Temple of the High Country is located at 1043 King Street Recent program topics have been: performances of the in Boone. Their mailing address is PO Box 2895 Boone, NC Triangle Jewish Chorale, State of North Carolina Holocaust 28607. Commemoration, A Holocaust Survior's Daughter Searches for
Family, an interview with Rabbi Greyber, the What’s Not To Like Tickets are $40 and the proceeds benefit the synagogue. Yiddish Songfest, & much more. For more information please call 828-266-9777 or email: [email protected] The Jewish Sparks 30 minute weekly broadcast schedule To buy tickets, mail a check to the PO Box listed above along with is listed in the table below: the address where you would like your ticket(s) sent. Chapel Peoples Time Warner Cable Tues. 9:00PM Hill (CH) Channel Channel 8 Durham Durham Time Warner Cable Jews and Durham in Transition Tues. 7:30PM Community (DR) Channel 18 Sunday, June 16, 2:30-4:30p.m. Media Main Durham Library Wed. 7:00PM Raleigh Join us for a panel discussion on the history of Jews in Durham & Thurs. RTN Cable Channel 10 (RTN) with historians Leonard Rogoff and Karin Shapiro along with 8:00 PM Lynne Grossman and Robert Rosenstein, both of whose families have lived in Durham for many generations. The latest program schedule is on the Jewish Sparks Website: www.jewishsparks.net. Karin's exhibit, "Beth El Synagogue – the first 125 years" will be on exhibit at the library from June 14 to July 15. Jewish Sparks maintains a large archive of program material. If you miss a live broadcast, or do not have Cable, you can watch Durham County Library, 300 North Roxboro Street the programs on the internet site (www.jewishsparks.net.) The website also provides an excellent source of educational material, which includes early lectures from the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies. Howerton Bryan Additional information is available from the website, or email the Jewish Sparks producer, Sheldon Becker, at either Funeral Home [email protected] or [email protected]. Serving the Hebrew Community Since 1874 Detours near Beth El Through September
The section of West Main Street that runs along Duke’s East Campus between Buchanan Boulevard and Swift Ave./Broad St. is closed throughout the summer for a state bridge replacement project.
More at: http://today.duke.edu/2013/04/mainstreetclosed
Jewish Meditation at the Levin JCC
1st and 3rd Sunday of each month. 10:45am-12:00pm No charge & no experience needed to attend. Long standing meditation group. Always open to new participants. Sometimes a participant leads a guided meditation; other times it is a silent 919-682-5464 practice. Levin JCC, 1937 W. Cornwallis Road, Durham. 1005 West Main Street, Durham, NC 27701 Phone: 919-354-4936, [email protected]
14 June / July 2013 / Beth El Bulletin Join Ramah Darom for fun and inspiring programs and retreats year-round for all ages! B’nai B’rith Institute of Judaism at Wildacres Little Switzerland, NC
Visit www.ramahdarom.org/programs The 66th Annual Wildacres B’nai B’rith Institute of Judaism for registration & more information on these will be August 12 - 15, 2013 in North Carolina's Little Switzer- & other programs year-round. land, aptly named for its spectacular beauty. A $10 per person discount applies to payments received by June 15. Full kosher meals, two bedded rooms with private bath, live Blue Ridge Mt. music, hiking, card table games and three outstanding speakers Summer Family Camp are included in the cost: $360.per person, double occupancy, add June 26-30 & July 24-28 $140. for single occupancy. Summer Family Camp is the perfect opportunity for families with children ages 3-10 to experience Ramah Darom. Three outstanding speakers will cover a variety Separate activities for adults and children paired with of Jewish topics: family bonding time make this the perfect vacation. Eli Groner, Israel’s Minister to the US for Economic Affairs, Washington DC, was born in the US, Eli emigrated to Israel with Clergy & Educator Kallah his family as a teenager. He holds a BA in Political Science from July 1-4 Bar-Ilan University and an MBA from New York University. Rabbis, Hazzanim, educators and youth directors are invited His topics include: • Israel Confidential • Israel at the UN: the to join us for a few days of Jewish living and learning at Ramah Challenges Facing Israel Today • The Secret Sauce for a Start-Up Darom. Bring the magic of Ramah Darom back to your Nation community. Joel Hoffman has lectured on translation, Hebrew, and Torah at Brandeis and at Hebrew Union College. He writes a bi-weekly Camp Yofi column for the Jerusalem Post. Joel is a National Jewish Book August 7-11 Award winner, and the author of And God Said: How Bad Trans- Camp Yofi is a nationally-acclaimed program for Jewish families lations Conceal the Bible’s Original Meaning. His topics include: with children with autism. Single parents, grandparents and • On the Bible’s Cutting Room Floor • The Bible Doesn’t Say siblings are all invited to be a part of this life-changing experience. That • 3,000 Years of Jewish Continuity through 3,000 Years of Hebrew Jewish Women's Getaway
Jeffrey Morton, professor of Political Science at Florida Atlantic October 20-22 University, Boca Raton, Florida, is a designated Master Teacher, Grab your mom, daughter and best friends and join us for a the 2004 University Researcher of the Year, and the 2012 College memorable week of girl time! No cleaning, no working - our Distinguished Teacher of the Year. Jeffrey teaches international chef and staff will take care of you as you relax and participate law, diplomacy and American foreign policy. His topics include: in fun and inspiring programs. Take advantage of Early Bird • Iranian Nuclear Threat • The Role of International Law in Registration before August 5 and pay last year's rates! American Foreign Policy • Confronting Terrorism
Checks for $360.per person, double occupancy (add $140. for Winter Break Family Camp single occupancy) should be made payable to B'nai B'rith Institute December 27-January 1 Enjoy relaxation, recreation and an array of classes while children for Judaism and mailed to Sandra Apple, 4200 Stratton Village participate in fun and engaging camp activities. What could be Lane, Wilmington, NC 28409. Remember to deduct $10 per better than s'mores under the stars with your kids? person when payment is received by June 15. Take advantage of Early Bird Registration before October 10 For information about needs based scholarships contact Karen and pay last year's rates! Shectman, (919) 533-8032
For more information contact Bill Carr at [email protected] or (919) 781-4207 or go to www.wildacres.org for on line registration.
Spend a week in the mountains! Community Events are listed on our website at: See page 13 for registration information for the Sicha Shabbaton www.betheldurham.org/calendar/announcements.html in the Mountains at Wildacres the previous weekend, August 8-11.
15 Letter from Valhalla asking the Port Authority of New York to set aside a room in the Two Museums and a Minyan – I main concourse of Grand Central Station which could not be used by a commercial venture or the railroad and solely be used The Macy Foundation, a large charitable foundation, recently the purpose of a fifteen minute minyan five days per week. That made a website available which shows where the graduates of proposal was a non-starter; and I certainly wasn't going to bump any U.S. medical school are now practicing. I had known that, a research laboratory out of their space for a minyan. After historically, about 10% of the students in the School of Medicine negotiations with interested students and faculty we agreed of New York Medical College were Floridians but I was a bit upon a classroom that was not being used mid-day that could surprised to see that we had over 1000 living graduates in be used for the minyan without disrupting the teaching uses of Dade and Broward Counties in southern Florida. This created the room. a marvelous excuses for Sharon and I to head to Florida for Second, we had to pick a time. I proposed mincha at a series of meetings with the alumni to raise money for the 12:30pm. That was rejected out-of-hand by the Rabbi. It turns College. out that there are lengthy Rabbinic rulings on the definition of We did a function in Boca Raton and two in Miami Beach. morning, afternoon, and evening for the purpose of davening The kosher caterer in Boca was appalling: the hot dogs, latkes, the three services of the day. He pulled up a website that calcu- and chicken were cold. Since, however, I raised some serious lates the earliest time you can daven mincha anytime on the money I was prepared to forgive and forget. The Miami Beach planet Earth. The software assesses the latitude and longitude kosher caterer was much better. of a location and calculates how late in the morning you can While we were in Miami Beach we headed over to see daven shacarit, how early you can daven mincha, and how early the Jewish Museum of Florida located at 301 Washington and late you can daven ma'ariv. I learned that, on our campus, Street. The museum is housed in the two buildings of a former mincha cannot be davened any earlier than 12:39pm and 51 synagogue. One building was built in 1928 and the other in seconds...so I announced we would start at 12:40pm. 1936 - both have been restored at considerable expense. (Anti- Third, not surprisingly for a group of Jews, we had a Semitic restrictive covenants prevented the Jewish community theological objection to the minyan even before it began. from building a synagogue in Miami Beach prior to that time. “What," a member of the faculty wanted to know, "was Jews had to travel to Miami for services.) It was very difficult Chancellor Halperin going to do if a woman elected to join the to find a parking place near the museum because there was an minyan?" I quickly reached an agreement with the Senior Rabbi outdoor festival in the nearby Art Deco district, but we eventu- of Touro that he would not endeavor to write any prescriptions ally found one and walked over to the entrance. The museum for radiation therapy and that since I was not a Rav, I wasn't has a permanent exhibit on the history of the Jews of Florida. going to posek (rule) on halacha. The Rabbi, who is an Ortho- There are lots of photographs and artifacts that trace the move- dox Rabbi, ruled that there was no Torah in the classroom ment of Jews to Florida in the 18th century near Pensacola and everyone was welcome to join the minyan and no divider and the subsequent role of the Florida Jewish community in between the sexes was necessary. Furthermore, if anyone joined business, politics, the arts, tourism, law, Zionism, and medicine. the minyan for the purpose of saying kaddish for a loved one, I found the exhibit on anti-Semitism in the tourism industry the davening was to be slowed down to allow this individual, particularly interesting; there were disturbing artifacts of the man or woman, to fully participate by saying kaddish with the era when many hotels would not accept Jewish customers. On group. (I like this guy. He's the same one who said my ruling on display were postcards a hotel guest would mail home lauding same sex spousal equivalents living in married student housing the beauty of the hotel and specifying that the hotel had "a was Jewishly sound.) restricted gentile clientele." The minyan was successfully launched and for the first The center of the museum was occupied by a temporary few days had no trouble with attendance. By day four, however, exhibit on how the game of Mah Jong came to America and the an insufficient number of people showed up. What was to be strong and persistent association of American Jewish women done? I hustled down to the College cafeteria and dragooned with the game and its governing organizations. Generations of a first year medical student to make the minyan. The Chief of Jewish children were lulled to sleep by the sound of clicking the Campus Police was watching the proceedings and said to tiles and the phrases "one Bam, two Flower" coming from the me, somewhat quietly, "You know, I am Jewish. I don't know their mother's regular group of "Mah Jong ladies" in the living anything about Judaism but maybe I can help?" room. "You don't need to know anything," I responded, "you just After we got back to the College I found myself assigned need to stand there. Get up to classroom 309 and you've made the problem of launching a College minyan. The search comm- the minyan." ittee, when I got hired, had not told me that this was part of the Next issue I'll tell you all about my visit to another Chancellor's job description but I decided that "minyans-R-us" museum: the brand new Museum of American Jewish History was open for business. in Philadelphia. First, we had to decide where the minyan would take place. Until then, The senior Rabbi at Touro asked for a dedicated room, not used Regards from Valhalla, for any other purpose, located near the central crossroads of the Edward Halperin main campus building near the cafeteria in the basic science building. In academics, this would be roughly equivalent to
16 June / July 2013 / Beth El Bulletin Check it out! Questions that are Blessings (Continued from the cover) In his blog, Asher Zeiger (son of Mardi & Erroll) offers an interesting perspective of move forward, children will be permitted to read Torah in our a Chapel Hill kid who has made his life Main sanctuary on Shabbat at a minchah (afternoon) service, one of commitment to Israel. Asher lives ideally (but not necessarily) on one of our Shabbat 25 weekends. with his family in Modi'in. Doing so will help us to strengthen those services and also provide a smaller, less pressured, setting for children’s Torah reading. It is critical to say that no child needs to do this; parents should not http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/author/asher-zeiger/ pressure their children to read Torah in this setting at a young age and, as a community, we must guard against creating a negative competitive environment around the learning of Torah and tefillah (prayer). Children at Beth El will continue to learn to read Torah as part of our bar/bat mitzvah process but, if a child does ask to Remember Ziggy Yoediono? start a bit early, the Shabbat minchah service can be a forum in which some children can do this prior to becoming bar/bat mitzvah, He has moved away from our community, provided that they have studied appropriately and demonstrated but wishes to send his greetings to us all an ability to read the Torah correctly. If there is no Shabbat 25 and let everyone know about his recent initiative: weekend when a particular child wants to read, the family is If you've ever wondered what an intellectually humorous blog welcome to convene a minyan of 10 adult Jews (the child may not, by a Chinese Jewish psychiatrist with an MBA who understands of course, count towards the minyan) and the minchah service can neither Chinese nor Hebrew and practices neither psychiatry nor be announced to the community. business looks like, you have far too much time on your hands. The end of the process? In mid-May, I sent an answer to the But you've come to the right place - check out Zig Zigman at one family and to the Ritual Committee, but this bulletin article is a of these sites: critical part too. Why? Not only to let you know the answer to this particular question, but to remind us all – questions are blessings. https://www.facebook.com/ZigZigman May we be blessed as a community with many more! http://www.funnyordie.com/zigzigman
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17 An Open Invitation to a Major Jewish Event
This October in Baltimore, United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism will celebrate its Centennial by hosting The Conversation of the Century – an unprecedented gathering of 21st century Jews and today’s most innovative leaders, teachers, and performers. This event is for anyone looking for personal inspiration and the tools to foster thriving communities in a changing Jewish landscape. October 11-12, there will be a joyous Shabbaton, including five different services, renowned prayer leaders, and learning with outstanding scholars. At the conference October 13-15, congrega- tional leaders can address the major issues involved in building thriving communities: changes in Jewish identity and affiliation, making prayer resonant, building financial sustainability, engaging interfaith families, and more. The program will abound with music and performance by leading artists. You'll leave with concrete ideas and practical strategies for creating a kehilla – a sacred community – of meaning and purpose. It all takes place at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront Hotel. See an up-to-date list of speakers and register at www.uscj100.org. Don’t wait: there are special discounts for people who register early. There are also special discounts for students and young adults.
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22 June / July 2013 / Beth El Bulletin C o m m u n i t y C o n n e c t i o n s
JFS volunteers needed: We need Beth El volunteers at the Chapel Hill
Shabbat Outreach volunteers are needed to lead a short Community Kitchen to cook lunch on the first Wednesday Shabbat service on Fridays for Jewish residents of an assisted of each month from 9:30-12:30. Anyone able to help please living facility in Chapel Hill. contact Gladys Siegel ([email protected])
Friendly Visitors are needed for isolated older adults living in the community. Not appropriate for volunteers who want Servers & Tuna Casseroles Needed for Durham to visit someone with their child. Friendly visitors will Community Café Dinner the fourth Sunday of each spend time with the person as friends do- talking, exploring month! Several casseroles are needed for the Community common interests, or going for a walk. Minimum time Café dinner that is served on the fourth Sunday of each commitment: 2-4 hours per month. month. For your convenience, the recipe is printed below. For more information on these volunteer opportunities, Please deliver the casseroles to Judea Reform before the please contact JFS Social Worker Jenny Schwartz at fourth Sunday of each month during their regular office 919-354-4923 or [email protected] hours. If you are unable to deliver the casserole, please contact Erica Gringle to make alternate arrangements. JFS Gift Card Program: JFS seeks gift cards to shops, This mitzvah is an easy one in which to involve children. movies, restaurants, shows, hair salons. Your gift will be Besides making casseroles, Beth El's commitment is to apreciated by those in need. To make a donation or for more provide servers for the community meal on the fourth information, contact Jenny Schwartz at 919-354-4923 or Sunday of each month (5:45 PM - 7:15 PM). If you are [email protected] interested in participating in this community service project, please contact Erica Rapport Gringle. Pre-teens through adult can serve so this too is great mitzvah to do with your older kids. Tzedakah in Bloom
Tzedakah in Bloom is a project started by the TUNA NOODLE CASSEROLE Jewish Family Service to raise money for local (use a very large rectangular or oval disposable tin) community members in need and food banks. Please note changes for pasta & vegetables —2 lbs. of rotini (other pastas get mushy after being frozen, JFS offers 13 different silk flower arrangements thawed and baked) for use at your simcha. —about 42 ounces of water packed tuna, drained (on the bimah, at a reception or as a centerpiece). —7 cans of cream of mushroom soup (about 70 ounces and New arrangements are added periodically. low sodium, if possible) Each arrangement rents for $150.00. —8 carrots and 8 stalks of celery, diced —Boil the noodles in a large pot of water until al dente or Please call the Federation office at almost done. Drain and place in casserole. 919-489-5335 if you have questions about the project. —Add all other ingredients and mix well.
Photos of the arrangements —No need to cook. Just cover tightly with lots of foil and as well as a reservation form is online at: transport it to the Judea Reform freezer. www.shalomdch.org/blooms.htm. Help our Jewish Elderly: Jewish Family Services To reserve an arrangement, provides a program and lunch for seniors in our community contact Sandy Fangmeier, Project Coordinator: (Chaverim). This is a wonderful opportunity for our elderly 919-489-0433 or [email protected] seniors to get together on a regular basis, spending time together chatting over a good lunch. We are looking for small groups of friends, such as a family or two, a Hebrew school class or a B’nei Mitzvah student to consider preparing Jewish Family Services at the Levin JCC or sponsoring ($100 donation) a lunch in honor or memory 1937 Cornwallis Road, Durham of someone or just for the fun of it, for between 15 - 20 919-354-4936 [email protected] www.levinjcc.org seniors. This is an easy and wonderfully rewarding mitzvah
Contact Jenny Schwartz opportunity. For more information please contact Michele at 919-354-4923 or [email protected] Pas at [email protected] or 919-493-3175. for information on these & other JFS programs. Volunteer as a Guardian ad Litem: Help change the
life of Durham's abused and neglected children. For more Visti the JCC website for dates & details information or to volunteer, contact Stephanie Kelly at on these ongoing events & more: 564-7289 or [email protected]. Sandy Kessler can also give you information on what it is like to be a JFS Mitzvah Corps – Bubbes and Zaydes Guardian ad Litem. Job & Networking Group – Caregiver Support Group Duke Hospice Volunteers Needed: If you or anyone Chronic Connections – Memory Café you know is interested in becoming a hospice volunteer for Chaverim – JFS Clinical Connections Duke Hospice, please contact Carolyn Colsher at 919-620- Women’s & Men’s Groups – BRIDGES Sensational Sundays 3859, ext. 235 or [email protected]. For more information on programs visit www.dhch.duhs.duke.edu. 23 BETH EL SCHEDULE OF SERVICES Friday evening services: Services are held on Friday evenings only in conjunction with other programming or special occasions. See monthly calendars for noted dates and times. Saturday morning services: Services in the Orthodox Kehillah begin at 9:00 a.m. Services in the Main Sanctuary begin at 9:30 a.m. Weekday minyanim in the Main Sanctuary: Sunday minyanim are suspended May 26-Sept.1 and will resume Sept. 8. 8:00 a.m. on Wednesday mornings* (text study may be suspended during the summer months.)
*Please let the office know in advance if you need to say Kaddish, even if a minyan has already been scheduled.
OFFICE HOURS: Monday through Thursday: 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. / Fridays: 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
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