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Memorial Service at B’nai Abraham Memorial Park Sunday, September 16, 12:00 PM
Erev Yom Kippur: Tuesday, September 18
7:30 PM Kol Nidre Service in the Ross Sanctuary
Yom Kippur: Wednesday, September 19 Selichot, Saturday, September 1 10:00 AM Service in the Ross Sanctuary 9:00 PM Service & Reception 10:00 AM Fourth and Fifth Grades— Family Service in Erev Rosh HaShanah: Sunday, September 9 the Brody Youth Lounge By Reservation Only 8:00 PM Service in the Ross Sanctuary 11:30 AM Infants through Third Grade— Family Service in the Brody Youth Lounge By Reservation Only Rosh HaShanah: Monday, September 10 1:00 PM Meditation period 10:00 AM Service in the Ross Sanctuary 2:30 PM Healing Service 10:00 AM Fourth and Fifth Grade— Family Service in the 3:30 PM Minchah Brody Youth Lounge By Reservation Only 4:30 PM approx. Yizkor (followed by Neilah, Maariv, 11:30 AM Infants through Third Grade— Family Service in Havdalah) the Brody Youth Lounge By Reservation Only 1:00 PM Tashlich Sukkot Monday, September 24 10:00 AM Sukkot Service Second Day Rosh HaShanah: Tuesday, September 11 10:00 AM Service in the Ross Sanctuary Monday, October 1 10:00 AM Sh’mini Atzeret/Yizkor Service Child Care provided for 3 years through Third Grade 7:00 PM Simchat Torah/Hakafot Service By Reservation Only
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LIFE CYCLE EVENTS
As of July 18, 2018 MAZEL TOV Caren & Herb Ford, granddaughter, Hannah Kay Ford, becoming a Bat Mitzvah
Debbie & Glenn Turtletaub, on the marriage of their daughter Jessica Turtletaub to Lee Pepper
Caren Ford, on being elected as the incoming Board Chair of the JCC MetroWest Ellen & Peter Klein, on their son, Steven beginning a two‐year term at President of the Mi leman JCC, Port‐ land OR and his wife, Gail, Director of Philanthropy at the Oregon Jewish Community Founda on
Deborah Prinz & Larry Neher, on the birth of granddaughter, Willow Selena Chase Brandi & Arthur Podnos, on the birth of granddaughter, Sloane Harper Podnos
Roz & Michel Fink, on their 50th wedding anniversary
CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING OF Michael Krentcil mother, Harriet Krentcil Andrew Nydick father, Barry Nydick Bruce Fischberg father, Maurice Joseph Fischberg Suzy Allen mother Judith Seitzman Temple Member, Linda Ross
NEW FAMILIES Jay & Gale Freireich Marsha & Marc Buchwald
2 TBA ANNUAL GIVING PARTNERS IN LEADERSHIP 2018‐2019
We are excited to report that last year’s Annual Giving—Partners in Leadership program was a huge success. Temple B’nai Abraham is strong, both financially and socially, and we have you, the members, to thank for reaching our goal.
Pledges payments are due by February 28, 2019.
Your support of Temple B’nai Abraham is of great value, and it is our goal to make it rewarding as well. Listed below are the various levels of giving. Tzedakah is part of the Jewish way of life. We thank you in advance for your par cipa on in TBA’s Annual Giving program. Let’s ALL support Temple B’nai Abraham together and be Partners in Leadership!
Merle H. Kalishman Chair: TBA Annual Giving—Partners in Leadership Commi ee Julie Silbermann, Chair, Development Commi ee
As of July 18, 2018
President’s Circle 1853 Society Mitzvah Circle Joyce & Bruce Freeman Charles M. Greef & Shawn Lech Suzanne & Saul Berkowitz Arlene & Richard Bookbinder Bonnie & Keith Gurland Susan & Alan Hammer Nancy & Ken Bernstein Steve Delman Susan Stark & Peter Jackowitz Sherry & Robert Lieb Joni & Alan Cohen Barbara Drench Valerie & Robert Katz Leslie & Jay Mayesh Susan & Bruce Greene Fran & Mitch Handman Barbara & Warren Klein Sandi & Mark Rosenbaum Merle & Mar n Kalishman Jayne & James Jacoby Karen & David Klugman Sara‐Ann & Robert Sanders Eileen & Jeffrey Klein Cindy & Shawn Klein Antoine e & Michael Koenig Trudy & Fred Slater Julie & Gregg Klein Arlene & Dan Kollin Rabbi’s Circle Helene & David Mintz Bobbi & Barry Kolton Torah Circle Jaryn & Ronnie Bloom Ruth Ross Jessica & Jay Kooper Deborah & Sco Berger Nancy & Richard Dinar Adrienne & Stan Schwartz Richard Kosson Bernice & Kenneth Garbade Randi & Greg Jeddis Elaine & Stanley Shapiro Esther Laufman Ellen & David Hyman Patricia & Frank Kolodny Lynn & Bruce Schonbraun Ilena & Paul Lieberman Marcy & Mark Schwartz Harriet & Marvin Kirschner Staci & Glen Weiss Debbie & Wayne Locke Ethel & Bob Singer Robin & Jeffrey Kollin Marjorie Yonteff Dr. Ronald Meyers Ellen & Barry Wagenberg Judy & Eric Perlmu er Marjie & Sco Zucker Karen & Steven Rockoff Marian & David Rocker Renee & Edward Rosenthal Ginny & Jeff Roth Circle of Friends Enid & Fred Rothman Bunny & Stephen Schwartz Phyllis & Barry Becker Geri & Milt Schaeffer Helen Farber Luba & Mark Schonwe er Sharon & Larry Feinsod Allison & Jonathan Wasserstein Anne e & Herb Feldman Phyllis Weingarten Marsha & Steven Fiske Barbara G. Weisenfeld Naomi Zeitel
3 HIGH HOLY DAYS 5779
TICKETS PARKING Tickets will be mailed the week of Parking loca ons and informa on will be August 27 to members in good standing. provided with your High Holy Day Tickets. Please note: All children through age 29 will be issued ckets automa cally and mailed with Membership ckets. HANDICAPPED DRIVERS
Good standing‐ Dues and Building Fund paid in full by Handicapped parking is for handicapped August 31. Members with approved payment drivers only. arrangements must be current with their schedule. Pre‐registra on is required. Please Special arrangements may be made in confidence by calling Gail Milchman, Execu ve Director at the Temple contact the temple office at office, 973‐994‐2290 extension 215. [email protected] or 973‐994‐2290. All cars must display a state issued Guest Tickets: are available for rela ves for a dona on of $136 handicapped permit. per cket for all High Holy Day services and will be mailed with membership ckets. If you require guest ckets*, please Reserved handicapped parking spaces will complete the enclosed form or online @ www.tbanj.org by August 15. be released by 10:30 AM.
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YIZKOR BOOK USHERING Ushers assist in making services meaningful and One of our many tradi ons is to publish, in conjunc on with our pleasant for everyone. The first day of Rosh Yom Kippur Yizkor Service, a booklet honoring the memory of our HaShanah, Kol Nidre and Yom Kippur morning deceased loved ones. require a large team of ushers. We encourage you Names in the booklet are not automa cally carried forward from to give of your me and volunteer to usher at one year to year. To place the names of your loved ones in the 2018 of these services. edi on, please complete and return the enclosed form no later than August 15 or online @ www.tbanj.org. Contact Debbie Meron at [email protected] or online at www.tbanj.org.
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Nameplates designate the reserved seats. Bags will be distributed on Rosh HaShanah. All other seats are available on a non‐reserved basis. Dona ons may be delivered any me between Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur HANDICAPPED SEATING Please contact the Temple Office to reserve a seat.
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5 CLERGY BLOG
How One of America’s Great Rabbis Handled Chris an An semi sm Ar cle from Jewish Currents by Rabbi Clifford Kulwin, June 20, 2018
One July evening in 1944, Rabbi Joachim Prinz gave a lecture at Camp Berkeley, a large Army training installa on near Abilene, Texas. Although we cannot know the circumstances that brought Prinz, a Holocaust refugee, to Texas, a recently discovered ex‐ change of le ers about his visit reveals a Jewish civil rights icon directly engaging American an semi sm.
Joachim Prinz , second from the le , speaking with Dr. Confron ng Jew‐hatred was already a theme of Prinz’s Mar n Luther King, Jr., in 1963. Photo from The Ameri‐ life. Prussian‐born and ordained in 1926 by the Jewish can Jewish Historical Society Theological Seminary in Breslau, Prinz assumed a pres gious pulpit in Berlin. He acquired a reputa on as The following *correspondence, (on pages 7‐9), a rive ng sermonizer who a racted hundreds of wor‐ was found in the home of a recently‐deceased shipers to every service. lifelong Temple B’nai Abraham congregant.
Even before Hitler’s rise, Prinz warned Jews of the The writer, a Chris an chaplain, has no love for growing peril of Na onal Socialism. As his predic ons Nazism, affirming his desire to “help our soldiers became even more extreme than he envisioned, his defeat this barbarism and wipe it off the face of rhetoric ratcheted up. He pleaded with Germany’s Jews the earth.” At the same me, he blames the Jews to leave before it was too late; the Gestapo arrested for their own predicament, asking Prinz, “Is it not Prinz on mul ple occasions, and he fled the country in true that the Jews took advantage of an impover‐ 1937, mere hours before the arrest that would have ished Germany a er World War I and bought sealed his fate. everything they could put hands on?”
A er arriving in America he began traveling the Prinz replied at length, showing the chaplain country, telling Jews what was happening in Germany. respect (“I know that…you and I are convinced In 1939, he became the rabbi of Temple B’nai Abraham that only a serious treatment of the subject will in Newark. Just like in Berlin, his sermons a racted help.”) even as he challenged him at every turn. standing room‐only crowds. The chaplain, no doubt, was not convinced. But the erudi on and though ulness of Prinz’s Within a couple of decades, the newly American response remind us why he was one of the great rabbi would become famous for his early leadership in rabbis of the 20th century. the civil rights movement, drawing parallels in America with what he had witnessed in Europe. He a racted *A note: The le ers have been reproduced as na onal a en on for his brief, but extraordinary faithfully as possible, which means there are some speech at the 1963 March on Washington. grammar mistakes, misspellings and inconsistencies throughout the text. But in 1944, in Texas, Prinz was not well‐known. While Temple B’nai Abraham was not a small congrega on, its Correspondence begins on next page finances were shaky: Prinz may have been on a lecture tour for his own benefit, or perhaps represen ng a Jew‐ ish organiza on, or even on behalf of the United States government, seeking to remind the troops of the importance of defea ng Germany.
6 CLERGY BLOG REPRINT OF LETTER FROM CHAPLAIN ROCKAMP
Copy of letter dated July 18, 1944 from Chaplain Rockamp them. I am a Chaplain because I want to help our soldiers defeat this barbarism and wipe it off the earth. In this, I realize I may have to give my own life. Nevertheless, I am all the while con‐ scious that the Jew is constantly accumula ng the wrath of his fellow‐man by what I men oned at the beginning of this para‐ graph. I feel you would do much good if in your lectures you world impart this to them.
3. Now to say one of the hardest of all things to say. I may be wrong but before you dismiss it I'm sure you will weigh it carefully. I have felt for a long me that this is a prevailing prac ce of your people: to take advantage of the fruits of Chris anity and grease their own purses with it. Let me explain. A new country comes into being, or a new city or community. Chris an principles saturate the Cons tu on and formulate much of the founda ons of this new en ty. These Chris an principles Hq. A.S.F.T.C. teach us to live tand le live and, gran ng they are effec ve, they Camp Berkeley, Texas set our minds on higher things than mammon. Very well, into this July 18, 1944 new group comes your inevitable, eagle‐eyed Jew. His mind isn't
much troubled by the high standards of Jesus Christ. His one aim Dear Dr. appears to be to get right into the center and help himself to the Hearing your lecture in Camp Berkeley last evening set me to pie. And invariably he succeeds and to him the pie is very good, thinking. I asked publicly a few ques ons, re the future of your people indeed. should Russia prevail in Europe, re the Bri sh Mandate over Pales ne
and the strength of the Na onal Reich church. But there are a few Now, Dr. Prinz, it will not do for you to reply that I'm ma ers I did not wish to ask about in public, since they are not compli‐ wrong in this and that there is nothing to it. I assure you I am mentary in their implica ons. I feel, however, that I should convey them speaking the minds of many when I say this. I have traveled in 31 to you in private and take this opportunity to do so. states of our Union and lived 12 years in Canada and there trav‐
eled in all the provinces from Nova Sco a to Bri sh Columbia. I 1. You spoke empha cally of the necessity of the Jew regain‐ have tried to keep my eyes open. I am seeking to give you the ing his dignity and living on a dignified plane with men of other na onal‐ hard, sad discoveries I myself have made. I say to you sincerely i es. To that I would say—agreed. But I hasten to make an observa on. I and with concern that in our Country there are many who have have discerned me and again that the Jew cares very li le about digni‐ lost all sympathy for the Jew for the reasons I have given. May ty, if he can, by losing it, make a dime. It is common knowledge, and God open your eyes to see dthis an keep from you the decep on men o en speak of it, that the Jew will be living in rags and slummy that your people have nothing to fear here. If you have not read circumstances just to gain more and more of the "yellow dust". Hence "Under Cover" it will pay you to do so. he becomes wealthy, to be sure, but at too great cost in the es ma on
of other na onali es. It would therefore be most appropriate to tell My one hope for your people is the Chris aniza on of your fellow‐na onals to get away from their devo on to mammon and them. Un l that happens, I fear they will always turn their genius strive for higher things. I might add that whenever I speak to anyone in into channels for material gain, blinded to anything higher and the Army or in Civilian community, there is perfect agreement on this powerless to obtain the higher. Their material gain will in turn score—the Jew grovels ll his Bank Roll is fat and then by the economies become their bi erness and cause of their persecu on. of Capitalism takes advantage of his fellow‐men. The result is an accu‐
mula on of wrath that ends in his suffering. I have honestly said what I felt I should say. I cordially
await your. reply 2. You spoke of the obliga on on the part of the post‐war
world to restore proper es lost by the Jews in Europe. I'm afraid you hit Sincerely yours, the wrong note there, sir. Is it not true that the Jews took advantage of Signed‐‐Chaplain A. Rockamp an impoverished Germany a er rWorld Wa I and bought every thing
they could put hands on? The judgment of myself and others here is that
this is a type of robbery and stolen goods need not be returned when ______recaptured.
I realize I am touching a sore spot, but to hide it is wrong. It is Go to page 8 to read Dr. Prinz’s reply the characteris c of your people to watch with eagle‐eye the disaster of mankind and then capitalize on the wreckage. But strangely enough, they are blind to the disasters that they eventually always bring upon themselves in so doing. I truly sympathize with your people in all their sufferings. I hate intensely the cruelty which has been meted out to
7 CLERGY BLOG REPRINT OF RESPONSE FROM DR.PRINZ
Copy of letter dated September 14, 1944 from Dr. Prinz
September 14, 1944
Chaplain A. Rochamp, 0‐524310 Hq. A.S.F.T.C. Camp Berkeley, Texas
Dear Chaplain:
It is only now that I returned to my desk that I saw your le er of July 18th. You will, I hope, forgive me for answering so belatedly. I read your le er most carefully and you may rest assured that I appreciate your kindness in wri ng to me, and the fact that you expressed your sincere wishes to discuss these ma ers openly and frankly. I gather, from some of your remarks, how keenly you feel about it and that it is your inten on to call my a en don, an that of other Jewish leaders, to these facts. I want you to know that I believe you when you say that the le er expressed your honest opinion and that it is for the sake of truth, religion and be er rela ons between the various groups that you felt prompted to write to me.
With this in mind and in the same spirit, I am wri ng to you. I know that neither you nor I wish to indulge in vague generali es, and that both you and I are convinced that only a serious treatment of the ques on can help.
Let me make a general remark at the outset. Unfortunately, neither Judaism nor Chris anity were very successful. In spite of the teachings of Moses and Jesus, we have not been able to penetrate into the hearts of the people. Neither the Commandments of Mount Sinai nor the Sermon on the Mount have been fulfilled. Both Chris anity and Judaism are in the midst of a great struggle for the conquest of the human hearts. We Jews are only a small people, and we have not reached the high status of other na ons who are responsibly par cipa ng in the government of poli cal and na onal affairs in the world. The vast majority of those people are Chris ans. But apparently they are only Chris ans by name, because if they were true to their faith, there would be neither war nor persecu on nor so much misery in the world of today. If you look at the events from the termina on of the first world war ll today, you would think that the world was governed by pagans who were out for conquest, domina on and exploita on, rather than the fulfillment of the old testamentarian "Thou Shalt Love Thy Neighbor as Thyself", or the new testamentarian, "Thou Shalt Love Thine Enemy".
As Chris anity was not successful in molding the characters of an educated, enlightened and therefore most influen al people in the governments of the world, sso wa it quite unsuccessful in making the average man and woman good Chris ans. The papers are full of stories that tell the gigan c failures of the Chris an mission. There is so much robbery, murder, the and betrayal of the principles of religion, so much greed and lust for money. The great Chris an leaders whom I know are u erly desparate and are at a loss to know what to do about it.
If Chris anity was unsuccessful, so were we. There are a great many Jews among us who have never understood what Judaism means. They follow the example of their Chris an fellow ci zens who violate the Chris an laws and do just the same. There are a great many greedy, money ‐minded people among us. Some of them, as immigrants of the first genera on would be likely to do, have li le interest in things other than that of earning their livelihood; and I know of a great many people who in doing so have fallen in love with money‐making and have become despicable people with no interest for their own religion nor concern for their fellow men.
You will readily see that this is not a Jewish problem. You would, I know, be jus fied in accusing me of an insincere, unreligious a tude if I would generalize and say that all Chris ans are murderers, robbers and thieves because we find many among them. It would never occur to me to accuse the Catholic religion or the Catholic people in terms of generaliza ons because Hitler and Mussolini are Catholics or some of the South American dictators are regular church goers. It would also not occur to me to charge all of the Chris an people and the Protestant reli‐ gion with the responsibility for the many transgressors of the Protestant faith. I accept these transgressors as individual cases and I never think for a moment that they are viola ng the laws of decency because they are Protestants.
That which is true of my a tude toward the thousandss of crime and viola ons commi ed by Chris an people, must be true of your a tude toward viola ons by Jewish people. You cannot possibly have met the whole of the Jewish people. I was arrested in Germany by orders of the Secret Police. I have seen hundreds of people, all of them Chris ans, beat and torture innocent persons. I would not for a moment have thought that these were Chris ans. I knew then and I know now, that although these people may call themselves Chris ans, they do not de‐ serve that I should iden fy them with Chris anity. I pray for you that you have the strength and religious for tude to do what your great Mas‐ ter did when he spoke of forgiving them for "they know not what they do". I hope that God will restore to you that faith which you seem to have lost. Whenever you see Jews viola ng the rules of decency, or whenever you observe Chris ans doing so, I hope you will pray that God may help them to see the light, and you may not resort to the a tude of an uneducated layman who would easily and lightly condemn not only them, but the whole people of which they happen to be members.
I know all of Canada as you do. I have spoken in all the nine provinces of the country, and I have met the bulk of Canadian Jewry. I have also traveled in forty‐two of the states of our Union and I have had an opportunity to meet a great many of our people. I cannot say that they are not reflec ng, in their business pursuits and their lives, the a tudes of the average man in the various communi. es There are good and bad people among them. I have met, par cularly in Canada to which you refer, Jewish men and women who had worked in the early days of
8 REPRINT OF RESPONSE FROM DR.PRINZ CLERGY BLOG pioneering in the Canadian West, building the railroads and clearing the forests. I can tell you that among Canadian Jewry there are a great many who command the greatest respect in the various communi es and I will never forget the day when in the City of O owa the chimes in the tower of the Parliament played Jewish melodies because of the birthday of a Jewish woman, revered by thousands of people as the moth‐ er of the community—Jews and Gen les alike. I do not say that in the City of O owa there were not bad Jews. I do not say that in the City of O owa there were not bad Chris ans. I say that in O owa and in a thousand other communi es all over the world, there is enough work for both you and me to be done among my people and among yours.
I was par cularly interested in what you said about the German Jewry. I spoke, as you yourself recalled, about the res tu on of property in Europe. This is not my inven on. It is part of the plan of the United Na ons and it is being translated into reality in all the liberated countries. The German government, as you know, has confiscated much property, among which there is property of the Catholic and Protestant Church. It has been agreed upon by the United Na ons that such proper es are to be restored to their former owners. You made the point that inso‐ far as the Jews are concerned, it need not be restored to the people who owned it because "the Jews took advantage of an impoverished Germany a er World War One, and bought everything they could put their hands on. The judgment of myself and others here is that this is a type of robbery, and stolen goods need not be returned when recaptured." I am sure that you would not make such an alarming and accusing statement if you did not have it on very trustworthy authority. You are not accusing a group ofd five hundre thousand to have stolen whatever they possess. I am quite certain that you made it your business to read the laws of the German Nazi Government which were published in 1933 and later reiterated and for fied in 1938. In these laws you can read that Jewish property, that of the Jewish community and also that of private people can be confiscated in a great many ways. Factories, for instance, were expropriated by the so‐called process of Aryanisa on; others were taken away by some other so‐called legal procedures. It may interest you to know that German Jewry has lived in Germany for over sixteen hundred years; the oldest tombstone can be found in the City of Trier in the Rhineland. It is dated 312. My own ancestors se led in Germany around the year 1500, probably in the City of Ausburg in southern Germany. rAs fa as I know my people were merchants and farmers. We have inherited property for many genera ons. Jewish Synagogues existed that were built hundreds of years ago. I, myself, preached in a Synagogue in the city of Worms which was built in the year 1034. This Synagogue, together with all other Jewish buildings and private property, were confiscated. Nobody in the world who has any knowledge whatsoever, would claim that it was ever forcibly taken away from the Germans and that a res tu on would be unjust and unfair. I am sure that if you think this over and try to get objec ve, trustworthy material from any of the libraries in this country, you will realize that you have done a great wrong to allege that the Jews of Germany stole their property and that it would be unfair to restore it to them. What is true of the German Jew is also true of those of North Africa, in France, in Austria, in Poland and other countries. What would become of society and mankind, what of religion and jus ce if we would make such a statement of yours without knowing with great certainty that what we say is absolutely true and based upon facts. You preface your remark by saying that it is a "sore spot" and that you hope I will not be insulted by what you say. I assure you I am not. I am earnestly and sincerely troubled by the thought that a man of your high standings—a Chaplain in the Army of the United States—and moreover, a Minister of a Chris‐ an Church, should not have tried to inform himself first, before accusing a people; a whole people; the people of the bible; a people that has produced the great things which nourish Judaism and Chris anity alike.
Now that I am at the end of my le er, I am reading yours again, because I believe that you are in need of help. I am not talking to you as any official person but as a minister would talk to a fellow minister of his. I believe your sincerity and eagerness to help. I remember your face very well as you stood up to ask me some ques ons. It was the face of a man who is seeking truth. I am so profoundly concerned about the fact that you permi ed yourself to be deceived by either biased propaganda of reports, or by your own thinking which did not consult the facts and figures, but above all, the religious and human implica ons of your asser ons. For, I am sure, your solu on—the conversion of the Jews to Chris anity—is not a very good one. Chris anity will have to do a great deal to chris anize their own people. I have traveled in a great many camps and I have spoken to many of the Protestants' Chaplains. You know yourself that the par cipa on of Protestant soldiers in the services is alarmingly small, and since you are honest with yourself, you know that it would be good for the world if the Chris an Ministers would see to it that their lost sheep are recaptured and that the Jewish Rabbis would endeavor to make those of our people who are gone astray, follow‐ ers of the great and sacred precepts of Judaism. The Old Testament with its Ten Commandments and its great social laws, are sufficient guide for my people.
While I was dicta ng this le er, I was called by a member of my Congrega on, the mother of a boy who par cipated as a gunner in the bombing of Germany. She informed me that he was killed in ac on. He was nineteen years old. He was one of many thousands of Jewish boys who are serving their country. It was a bit sad for me to think that there should be so much bi erness about our people that we could not recognise the fact that we live together and live for each other. That we must strive to become one large community regardless of race or creed, because so many of our boys, Chris ans and Jews alike, are laying down their lives because they hoped for just this. It would be tragic indeed if they would have died in vain and if false informa on and propaganda, spread by the enemies of this country who are also the ene‐ mies of our two great religions, would succeed in convincing even the educated among us, to misjudge and to forget principles of fairness, jus ce and piety.
I should be very happy, dear Chaplain, to hear from you. You will be among those for whom I will pray during the High Holy days which are now approaching. We will remember those millions of Jews who were innocently slain, not because they commi ed crimes but because they were members of a people that has been o en crucified and seldom understood. With warm regards and personal wishes, I am,
Fraternally yours,
Dr. Joachim Prinz
JP:AKD 9 TBA CONGREGATIONAL LEARNING
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10 GENEROUS GIFTS FROM THOUGHTFUL PEOPLE
All lis ngs as of July 18, 2018 CLERGY DISCRETIONARY FUND In memory of Barry Nydick In memory of his father, Charles In honor of the birth of Willow Selena ONE FAMILY FUND Greene Chase In honor of Michael Epstein’s special Steven Greene In honor of the birth of Drew Robert birthday In memory of her husband, Lawrence Silbermann Melba Axelrod Burger Ellen & Peter Klein In apprecia on of Rabbi Faith Joy Linda Burger Dantowitz In honor of their daughter, Jamie’s PRAYERBOOK FUND Marsha Krajcman Buchwald & Mishpacha naming In memory of Maurice Joseph Fischberg In honor of the 50th wedding anniversary Julie and Will Mellman Ruth & Richard Luciani of Roz & Mike Fink In memory of Bruce Fischberg’s father, Marcia & Lonnie Tabatchnick Maurice Joseph Fischberg Karyn Klein Leslie & Stuart Reiser Be y Ende In honor of the marriage of Hayley Miller The Jeddis Family to Sanchez Hughley Sandra Markman In memory of Barry Nydick Honi & Ben Wasserman In memory of Linda Ross, mother of In memory of Roy Roberts In honor of the 40th wedding anniversary Jennifer and David Ross Debbie & Ted Pearlman of Fran & Mitchell Handman Be y Ende
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11 GENEROUS GIFTS FROM THOUGHTFUL PEOPLE YAHRZEIT FUND It is a traditional duty of Jews to recite Kaddish for a deceased parent, child, spouse, or sibling (daily during the first year, annually thereafter on the anniversary of death). We thank those who have contributed to the Yahrzeit Fund in memory of their loved ones. May their memories forever be for a blessing…
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Friday, August 3 Friday, August 17 6:30 PM Shabbat Service, outdoors on the pa o in 6:30 PM Shabbat Service, outdoors on the pa o the Denburg Garden, weather permi ng in the Denburg Garden, weather permi ng
Saturday, August 4 Saturday, August 18 9:00 AM Parashat HaShavuah: Ekev 9:00 AM Parashat HaShavuah: Sho im 10:00 AM Shabbat Morning Service 10:00 AM Shabbat Morning Services
Friday, August 10 Friday , August 25 6:30 PM Shabbat Service, outdoors on the pa o in 6:30 PM Shabbat Service, outdoors on the pa o the Denburg Garden, weather permi ng in the Denburg Garden, weather permi ng
Saturday, August 11 Saturday, August 26 9:00 AM Parashat HaShavuah: Re’eh 9:00 AM Parashat HaShavuah: Ki Tetze 10:00 AM Shabbat Morning Service 10:00 AM Shabbat Morning Service
Friday , August 31 6:30 PM Shabbat Service
Saturday, September 1 Selichot 9:00 AM Parashat HaShavuah: Ki Tavo 10:00 AM Shabbat Morning Service Isabella Farron daughter of Kirsten & Jonathan Farron will be called to the Torah as a Bat Mitzvah. Ella Shapiro daughter of Lori & Joshua Shapiro will be called to the Torah as a Bat Mitzvah.
9:00 PM Selichot Service & Recep on
Bruce H. Greene, D.O., President
Jeffrey Klein, Vice President Jeffrey Kollin, Vice President Sco Loventhal, Vice President Kenneth Starr, Vice President Stacey Rosenberg, Secretary Isabella Fiske, Asst. Secretary Carey Gertler, Treasurer Craig Kantor, Assist. Treasurer 300 East Northfield Road Livingston, New Jersey 07039 Julie A. Silbermann, Immediate Past President mailing address: PO Box 46, Livingston, NJ 07039
Jakob B. Halpern, Counsel www.tbanj.org
Clifford M. Kulwin, Rabbi Temple 973.994.2290 Fax: 973.994.1838 Faith Joy Dantowitz, Rabbi The Early School 973.994.7016 Fax: 973.994.7999 Jessica Epstein , Cantor Jewish Learning 973.994.3950 Fax: 973.994.7999 Lee Coppersmith, Cantor Emeritus Program (K‐12) Gail Milchman, Execu ve Director Debbie Aronson Ziering, Director of Early Childhood Educa on August 2018 Melissa G. Weiner, Director of Jewish Learning The Temple B’nai Abraham Bulle n is published monthly. Tina Greenberg, Communica ons Coordinator Online at www.tbanj.org
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