Welcome to HaGadol, Parshat Metzora ANNOUNCEMENTS at Anshe Sholom B’nai lsrael Congregation Mazal tov to Jillian & Gabi Gliksberg on the bris and naming of their son, Nadav Samuel Gliksberg. May this child's life be filled with the insights of , the warm and supportive April 15 – 16, 2016 / 8 Nisan 5776 love of family and community, and the blessing of good deeds. Amen! Thank you to our April Birthday/Anniversary Kiddush co-sponsors: Mazal tov to Ariana & Adam Hotz on the of Solomon Hotz. Thank you to David Wollenberg and an anonymous donor for sponsoring drinks for this Amy Elfenbaum, Scott Kramer & Ava in honor of Eli's 5th birthday month’s Young Professionals Dinner! Nathan & Irene Sandalow in honor of Nathan's birthday ASBI Coffee & Tea Bar: Thank you to the Treister Family for sponsoring our new ASBI The Hepker family in honor of Alan’s birthday Coffee Bar for the month of April. If you are interested in sponsoring for an upcoming Peggy Kaz in honor of the birthdays of Sid Kaz, Jacob Handleman & Alan Hepker month, email [email protected]. We are proud to offer coffee from Asado Coffee Co. Jim, Zev, Isaac & Aaron wish Debbie Schwartz a very happy birthday, and many Stay updated on the status of the Eruv at twitter.com/lakefronteruv. more! We love you! To set up an appointment with Wolkenfeld, please email [email protected]. If there is something urgent that you need to discuss with him, please call his cell phone at SCHEDULE FOR SHABBAT 917-621-5678. Friday, April 15 Adam R. Straus Memorial Mikvah: To make an appointment, please email Light Candles 7:15 PM [email protected] at least 48 hours in advance. Mincha, Kabbalat Shabbat & Ma’ariv 7:20 PM

Young Professionals Dinner (by reservation only) 8:30 PM ANSHE SHOLOM TRIBUTES

Saturday, April 16 Shacharit 9:00 AM David Abrams Alan Hepker Youth Tefillah Groups (see inside for details) 10:30 AM Shabbat HaGadol Shiur with Rabbi Wolkenfeld 12:15 PM In Honor The Mogil Family in honor of Naora Dekalo Measuring Mitzvot: The Controversy on Shiurim and Our Divided Souls Mincha followed by Shalosh Seudot 7:05 PM In Memory The Passman Family, in fond memory of Dale Nathan a"h, David's cousin Shabbat ends, Havdalah at shul 8:16 PM Yahrzeit Alan Hepker in memory of his mother, Naomi Rachel Hepker, a”h Repeat Evening Sh’ma: April 15, after 8:15 PM Donations received after April 13 will be listed in next week's bulletin. Latest time to recite Morning Sh’ma: April 16, 9:29 AM Many thanks for these generous donations.

Daily Services: April 17 – 22 This Shabbat, we are pleased to welcome Eli Yoggev, Yeshivat Shacharit: Chovevei Torah Rabbinic Intern, to ASBI. Eli will give Divrei Torah at Sunday 8:30 AM Friday night services and Shalosh Seudot. Monday, Thursday & Friday 6:45 AM Tuesday & Wednesday 7:00 AM

Join Rabbi Wolkenfeld and the minyanaires for Daf Yomi, the synchronized study KOREN MACHZORIM IN 5777 of one Talmudic page each day, every weekday morning after Shacharit. We are excited to bring the Koren machzor to ASBI for the High

Mincha, followed by Ma’ariv: Holidays in 5777. The machzor is one of the clearest articulations of Sunday through Thursday 7:20 PM Jewish belief and one of the most powerful tools for Jewish spiritual Friday 7:25 PM life. The Koren machzor, with a translation and commentary by Readings for Shabbat HaGadol, Parshat Metzora Rabbi Dr. Lord Jonathan Sacks, enables English-speaking worshippers to connect in new ways to one of 's oldest books. The editorial Torah: Haftorah: Leviticus 14:1-15:33 Malachi 3:4-24 choices of the Koren Publishing House make this machzor uniquely suited for a Religious Zionist and Modern Orthodox congregation. Hertz: Page 470 Hertz: Page 1005 Kaplan: Page 568 Kaplan: Page 1288 We invite you to honor your friends and loved ones and to support the spiritual life Stone: Page 620 Stone: Page 1220 of the shul by dedicating one or more machzorim sets, or making a donation. To JPS Commentators: Page 100 learn more and participate, visitasbi.org/machzor -5777.html. 540 West Melrose Street, Chicago, IL 60657 • (773) 248-9200 • www.asbi.org SALE OF HAMETZ FORM PESACH 5776 SCHEDULE Please return this form by 10:00 AM on Thursday, April 21. Forms can be emailed to [email protected], faxed to 773-248-5001, mailed to 540 W. Melrose St., dropped off at the shul office, or handed to Rabbi Wolkenfeld.

You can fill out this form online instead by visiting asbi.org/hametz, and Friday, April 22, Erev Pesach logging into your asbi.org account. Shacharit & Siyum, followed by Hametz breakfast snack 6:45 AM Stop eating Hametz 10:09 AM POWER OF ATTORNEY Burn Hametz by 11:29 AM I, the undersigned, fully empower and permit Rabbi David Wolkenfeld to act in my Light Candles 7:22 PM place and stead and in my behalf to sell all hametz possessed by me knowingly or un- Mincha & Ma’ariv 7:25 PM knowingly, as defined by Torah and Rabbinic law, and to lease all places in which First Cup after 8:23 PM hametz owned by me may be found, especially at:

Address(es) ______Saturday, April 23, 1st Day of Pesach Shacharit 9:00 AM ______Shiur with David Fain 6:25 PM

The hametz I possess includes the following: Mincha & Ma’ariv 7:10 PM Light candles & begin preparations for 2nd day Yom Tov after 8:23 PM Type of hametz (groceries, liquor, Exact location (kitchen, pantry, living Approximate etc.) room closet, garage, etc.) Value $ 1 Sunday, April 24, 2nd Day of Pesach Shacharit 9:00 AM Mincha 7:30 PM 2 Ma’ariv and Havdallah 8:24 PM

Thursday, April 28, Erev Yom Tov 3 Light Candles 7:29 PM Mincha & Ma’ariv 7:30 PM

4 Friday, April 29, 7th Day of Pesach Shacharit 9:00 AM 5 Light candles before 7:30 PM Mincha & Ma’ariv 7:35 PM

6 Saturday, April 30, 8th Day of Pesach Shacharit 9:00 AM

Yizkor not before 10:00 AM Date______Signed______Shiur with Sarah Robinson 6:35 PM Mincha, followed by Seudat Mashiach, Ma’ariv & Havdalah 7:20 PM Printed Name______Conclusion of Pesach 8:31 PM Please wait one hour before accessing Hametz sold through ASBI.

If enclosing a donation, please select how you would like your donation to be applied: Ice Cream Happy Hour 8:45 PM

General Operating Fund Complimentary Ice Cream at Windy City Sweets (3308 N. Broadway)

Rabbi’s Discretionary Fund

Torah Fund (Poverty Relief & Jewish Education) PASSOVER 5776 at ASBI PASSOVER 5776 at ASBI Calling All Hametz! Hametz Burning Cleaning your house for Pesach? Anshe Sholom wants your We will have a hametz burning in the shul parking hametz! We will be collecting hametz until Tuesday, April 19, to lot following Shacharit on Friday, April 22. Only be donated to the Lakeview Pantry. Please drop off your small, symbolic quantities of hametz should be unopened food items in the box in the ASBI lobby. burned, and no plastic or aluminum may be thrown into the fire. The full declaration of hametz nullification is recited on Friday morning. This is said while burning hametz, or it can be said at home by those who do not make it to burning. This declaration as well is printed in every Haggadah and can be found in the Koren and Artscroll siddurim.

Hametz burning will end promptly at 11:29 AM. The fire will Ice Cream Happy Hour be extinguished at this time, so please leave enough time to Saturday, April 30, 8:45 - 9:45 PM burn your hametz prior to 11:29 AM. At Windy City Sweets 3308 N. Broadway Please note that there will be no parking available in the lot after Shacharit until

Enjoy complimentary ice cream for ASBI hametz burning has ended. members following the end of Pesach! Annual ASBI Pre-Pesach Boilathons

Sale of Hametz Form Sunday, April 17, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM To complete a Sale of Hametz form, you can log into your asbi.org account Wednesday, April 20, 5:30 - 7:20 PM and fill out the form at asbi.org/hametz. You will not be able to access the form online unless you are logged in. Paper forms are also available in the ASBI wants everyone to have a festive Passover experience, lobby and in this bulletin. All forms must be submitted prior to 10:00 AM on and we’ve got lots of options to help you get there! Thursday, April 21.  Thinking about hosting a seder? We are here to help! If you decide to host, Rabbi & Sara Wolkenfeld are happy to offer advice, Pesach Tefillah Groups and ASBI will be providing a bottle of wine to every host seder!

 Experienced seder host? If you know that you will be hosting a

seder, please consider offering even just one space at your meal. Pesach Day 1 and Day 2: Email [email protected] to let Sara know that you’d like No Gan, Yeladeinu, Na’areinu, or TODE. There some guests! will be babysitting and Tot Shabbat.  Ready to be hosted? If you would like to be hosted for a Seder, Pesach Day 7, 10:30-11:30: please email Sara at [email protected]. Tot Shabbat & Gan meet as usual. Yeladeinu, Na’areinu, and TODE will participate in Top Chef Charoset in the

Recommended Chocolate and Candy for Pesach JCC Upper Gym: Learn about charoset from around the world, Thank you to Windy City Sweets (3308 N. Broadway) for donating the delicious then compete in teams to make your own! chocolate-covered pretzels for ASBI’s Mishloach Manot, and for subsidizing our Ice Pesach Day 8, 10:30-11:30: Cream Happy Hours. In addition to making sure that all your Tot Shabbat & Gan meet as usual. Yeladeinu, Na’areinu, and chocolate and candies for Passover have reliable supervision, please TODE will participate in a Chocolate Seder in the JCC Upper Gym. consider helping our friends at Windy City Sweets, who have an array of Kosher for Passover sweets. ASBI FAMILIES UPCOMING EVENTS Yeladeinu & Na’areinu Family Learning Pre-Pesach Readcycling Book Swap With Israeli Shaliach Yisrael Tsadok Sunday, April 17, 9:30 AM This Shabbat, April 16, 4:00 PM

at the Gorlins’ (1254 W. Henderson St. #2F)

Join us this Sunday at ASBI’s first-ever Book Swap! Bring your tickets if you donated books, but all are welcome and you can still “purchase” books without tickets.

Snacks will be provided.

Imahot and avot, sons and daughters, are invited to learn about the Bring your little one to hear stories read by the Storybook wisdom of our ancestors—Pirkei Avot. Mom from 10:00 - 10:30 AM. Kindergartners through 5th graders and their families are invited to spend Shabbat afternoon together for communal learning led by our Shelichim. All leftover books will be donated to the JCC or the Lakeview Pantry. Snacks will be provided. Israel Movie Night: “The House on Chelouche Street” (1973) Hebrew Story Time Monday, April 18, 7:30 PM This Shabbat, April 16, 4:00 PM at ASBI 110 minutes Please join us for Hebrew Story Time in the Social Hall with Lital Rosenberg. We will read children's books in Hebrew together, while working on some of our Hebrew words. Feel free to bring any Hebrew- language book you would like to share with the group. All kids age 4 and under are invited with their parents.

This award-winning feature from one of Israel's leading directors presents a vivid picture of family and community during a period of political oppression Matzah Baking Factory! and national struggle for independence. In 1947, after the death of her Sunday, April 17 husband, Clara (Gila Almagor) and her Egyptian family settle into a crowded one-room apartment in Tel Aviv, Israel. Her son, Sami (Ophir Shalhin), is 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM at ASBI bright and has a fondness for reading, but is so upset over his mother working as a maid that he drops out of school to find factory work and help support Chabad will be coming to Anshe Sholom to help us the family. He soon finds himself swept up in a strike and embraces his newfound role as an activist, even though it could mean arrest by bake matzah during our Sunday boilathon. British police.

$5 per child. Pizza will be served, along with pop, popcorn, and chips. Sponsored by the Israel Committee. LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES SAVE THE DATE "The Use of Archetypal Psychology in Interpreting Sacred Texts” with Rabbi Dr. Julian Ungar

Sunday, April 17, 7:45 PM Rabbi Dr. Julian Ungar is an interventional neurologist who trained in the U.K. with a prior degree in music from the Royal Academy. He earned his M.A. from the Harvard Divinity School and a Ph.D. in Ancient Near Eastern studies from Brandeis University. His projects include such topics as Pain and Spirituality, Chassidism and Post Modernity, as well as a reconstruction of the musical notation of Psalms.

BEIT WEDNESDAYS Join us on Wednesdays at 8:00 PM for an accessible and thought-provoking shiur. Snacks will be provided.

“Introduction to the Great Torah Scholars” with Rabbi Wolkenfeld

May 18: Nechama Leibowitz

“Halakhot of Lakeview” with Rabbi Wolkenfeld

June 1: Elevators on Shabbat June 8: Sports on Shabbat June 15: Common Conundrums, Part II

Introduction to Jewish Life & Practice Tuesday, May 3, 6:45 - 7:45 PM

Join Rabbi Wolkenfeld for this ongoing class on the fundamentals of Jewish life and practice, for those interested in conversion to Judaism and open to all in the community. New participants are always welcome. For the next several sessions, the focus will be on kashrut.

Host ASBI’s Interns and Shelichim! Get to know these visiting members of our community by hosting them for a Shabbat meal or providing overnight hospitality.

If you can host Yeshiva University Intern Sarah Robinson on one of the following dates, please email [email protected]: April 28-30 & June 12-13.

If you can host Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinic Intern Eli Yoggev on one of the following dates, please email [email protected]: May 6-7 & June 3-4.

If you can host Israeli Shelichim Tammy & Yisrael Tsadok and their daughters on one of the following dates, please email [email protected]: May 13-14 & June 10-11. Please review the following chart and let the office know if you would like either to read Torah or to sponsor or co-sponsor a Kiddush or Shalosh Seudot. We’ll be happy to help with the arrangements.

DATE KIDDUSH SHALOSH SEUDOT TORAH PORTION HAFTORAH

April 23 Taken Pesach, Day 1

April 24 Pesach, Day 2 Rabbi David Wolkenfeld [email protected] April 29 Pesach, Day 7 Steve Miller David Schwartz Hayley Leventhal Barbara Pjetrushi Executive Director Director of Family Education & Programming Executive Assistant Custodian Celebrate your own, your child’s, or a loved one’s birthday/anniversary/ [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] milestone by sponsoring or co-sponsoring a Kiddush or Shalosh Seudot. OFFICERS – 2015-2016 / 5776-5777 Kiddush Sponsorship Shalosh Seudot Sponsorship President – Jeremy Treister Immediate Past President – Rabbi Paul Saiger Starting at $950 Starting at $118 Vice President - Ways and Means – Ross Weisman Vice President - House – Margalit Segal You may co-sponsor a Kiddush by contributing a smaller amount. Vice President - Membership – Danielle Gershon Vice President - Ritual – Dr. Ira Halper Many menu and pricing options are available. Please call the shul office for details Vice President - Education – Ahuva Wiesenfeld at 773-248-9200 or email [email protected]. Vice President - Financial – Asher Zarkowsky Recording Secretary – Ruth Lipman Dedication Opportunities BOARD OF DIRECTORS – 2015-2016 / 5776-5777 Honor your loved ones with a dedication plaque or book plate. Dr. Stuart Sprague - Chair Ashlyn Gorlin Ava Madoff New Siddur/ Koren Small Large Stone Memorial Julia Aaronson Seth Greenberg Michael Newberger Chumash Mahzor Set Tree of Life Leaf Tree of Life Leaf Tree of Life Plaque Beverly Agdern David Harris Scott Newberger $54 $100 $180 $360 $1,080 $680 Elyce Bader Toby Heizler Jacques Aaron Preis Linda Cohen Ira King Linda Saiger Herbert Eiseman Michael Leib Rabbi Melvin Shapiro Youth Tefillah Groups Aaron Feigelson Jules Levenson Alan Skidelsky Tot Shabbat (children 3 and under with a parent) Steve Feiger Norman Levitz Adam Smoler 10:45 AM in the Social Hall with Tracey Meyers Eytan Fox Jennifer Loeb Andrew Weprin Gan Shabbat (ages 3-JK) ASBI COMMITTEES AND CHAIRS 10:30 AM in JCC Room 206 with Tara Holden, assisted by Sidonia Ohringer Chesed: Linda Saiger & Sara Wolkenfeld Mikvah: Ruth Lipman Education: Ahuva Wiesenfeld Ritual: Dr. Ira Halper Yeladeinu (K -2nd grade) Family: Jennifer Loeb Security: Peggy Kaz 10:30 AM in JCC Room 204 with Maya Lentz, assisted by Aviva Kaplan Hospitality: David Eisenstein Social Action: Irene Lehrer Sandalow Israel: Herbert Eiseman Young Professionals: Ariana Hotz, Ann Levenson, Na’areinu (3rd -5th grade) Kiddush: Beverly Agdern Ava Madoff & Rachel Schwartz

10:30 AM in the JCC Gym with Yisrael Tsadok Gabbai: Dr. Josh Ehrlich Gabbaiyot: Karli Salinger & Judith Wolf Tefillah Off the Deep End (6th -7th grade) 10:30 AM in the Beit Midrash with Andrea Katz Adam R. Straus Memorial Mikvah: [email protected]

Dedications and Donations Babysitting Services (For children ages 1 through 7) Anshe Sholom B’nai Israel Congregation is indebted to Judge Abraham Lincoln Marovitz, a”h, for his With Mae Haden generosity to the and to the Marovitz Scholarship Fund.

9:30 AM until Kiddush in the ASBI Playroom The George Kranzler Library of Judaic Classics is donated in loving memory of Mr. George Kranzler by the Kranzler and Saltzman families. Kiddush until 12:30 PM in JCC Lower Gym The Learning Center was dedicated on 29 Av 5761 in memory of Rose and Dr. Abe Aaronson who Group leaders and babysitter are subject to change. inspired us in learning and charity.

We acknowledge and thank the following funds for helping us celebrate our community's simchas: Security—If you see something, say something. the Frances “Freidl” Goodman Berger, a"h, Fund which presents menorahs to each newborn child; the William and Frances Goodman Mezuzah Fund which provides a mezuzah for newlyweds; and Alan Hepker: (847) 980-5630 the Rachel, Gabrielle, and Wren Berger Bat and Bar Fund which presents candlestick holders or a Kiddush cup to each Bat and Bar Mitzvah.

Prayer for the United States and Its Government There is a sense of wholeness and artistic integrity in our sanctuary, thanks to our beautiful stained-glass windows on the east wall, dedicated in memory of Bernard Preis, a”h. based on "deSola Pool Siddur" The windows on the south wall are dedicated in memory of George Friedman, a”h.

God on high, bless this our country, the United States of America, and all who dwell therein. Bless the The Louis A. Lerner Institute of Torah Texts sponsors all the Torah text classes at ASBI. constituted officers of government of this land. Set into their hearts the spirit of wisdom and understanding to The Kaufman Women Education & Leadership Endowment in memory of Rita Skydell Kaufman, Judith uphold peace and freedom. Kaufman Hurwich, Dr. Carol Fuchs Kaufman & Belda Kaufman Lindenbaum, a”h.