ANNOUNCEMENTS

Welcome to Shabbat Shekalim, Parshat Mishpatim Mazal tov to the Deitcher family on the Bat Mitzvah of Ayla Deitcher, celebrated this Shabbat. May she go from strength to strength!

Celebrating the Bat Mitzvah of Ayla Deitcher Mazal tov to Daphne Blinn on her upcoming wedding to Rabbi Achiya Delouya and at Anshe Sholom B’nai lsrael Congregation relocation to Montreal. May the couple merit to build a home loyal to the traditions of . Amen! February 13 – 14, 2015 25 Shevat 5775 540 West Melrose Street (773) 248-9200 Mazal tov to Nikki Feldt and Tye Harris on their wedding, to be celebrated this weekend. May Chicago, Illinois 60657 www.asbi.org the couple merit to build a home loyal to the traditions of Israel. Amen!

Mazal tov to Tova & Hillel Nadler on the birth and naming of their daughter, Shoshana Blima. If Kiddush this week is sponsored by the Deitcher family in honor of Ayla’s Bat Mitzvah. you would like to help with meals, please visit TakeThemAMeal.com (Last Name: Nadler, Password: babygirl). May the young girl grow to acquire Torah, Chuppah, and good deeds. Amen! SCHEDULE FOR SHABBAT Mazal tov to Rachelli & Michael Soffer on the bris and naming of their son, Amiel Noam Soffer. Friday, February 13 If you would like to help with meals, please visit TakeThemAMeal.com (Last Name: Soffer, Light Candles 5:03 PM Password: 5237). May the young boy grow to acquire Torah, Chuppah, and good deeds. Amen!

Mincha & Kabbalat Shabbat 5:05 PM The February Birthday/Anniversary Kiddush is on February 28. Sponsorship is a great way to

Saturday, February 14 honor your friends and loved ones. If you would like to contribute (recommended Hashkama Minyan 8:00 AM donation of $36 or more), please visit asbi.org/payment.php, select “Birthday/Anniversary Kiddush" from the drop-down menu, and leave your message for the bulletin in the notes box. Shacharit with D’var Torah by Ayla Deitcher 9:00 AM Youth Tefillah Groups (see inside for details) 10:30 AM Stay updated on the status of the Eruv at twitter.com/lakefronteruv or call 773-248-9200, ext. 14, which also gives service times for the upcoming week. Daf Yomi and Parsha Discussion with Dr. Leonard Kranzler 12:30 PM If you would like to set up an appointment with Rabbi Wolkenfeld, please email [email protected] Hebrew Story Time (for children 4 and under) 4:00 PM to arrange a time. If there is something urgent that you need to discuss with him, please call his Mincha followed by Shalosh Seudot 4:50 PM cell phone at 917-621-5678. Shabbat ends, Havdallah at shul 6:04 PM

ANSHE SHOLOM TRIBUTES Latest time to recite Sh’ma: February 14, 9:26 AM Aliyah Jacques Gorlin Daily Services: February 15 – 20 Warren Rosen

Shacharit: In Honor Sunday 8:30 AM Peggy & Art Cottrell in honor of Jonathan Cottrell’s Siyum HaShas and in Monday & Rosh Chodesh (Thursday & Friday) 6:45 AM appreciation of the shul’s hospitality Tuesday & Wednesday 7:00 AM Mazal tov to Julia & Don Aaronson for all the good things, from Peggy & Sid Kaz

Join Rabbi Wolkenfeld and the minyanaires for Daf Yomi, the synchronized study of Mazal tov and yom huledet sameach to Gary Phillips, from Peggy & Sid Kaz one Talmudic page each day, every weekday morning after Shacharit. Rabbi David Wolkenfeld in honor of Tzvi Robinson, the Hospitality Committee, and numerous hosts, for going above and beyond the call of duty to enable last Shabbat’s Mincha: Hillel Shabbaton and this Shabbat’s Yavneh Shabbaton Sunday through Thursday 5:10 PM Donations received after February 11 will be listed in next week's bulletin. Friday 5:15 PM Many thanks for these generous donations. Readings for Shabbat Parshat Mishpatim If you would like to host ASBI’s Rabbinic Intern Avishai Gebler for a Shabbat Torah: Maftir: Haftorah: meal or provide overnight hospitality, please contact Rabbi Wolkenfeld at Exodus 21:1-24:18 Exodus 30:11-16 II Kings 11:17-12:17 Hertz: Pages 306-322 Hertz: Pages 352-353 Hertz: Pages 992-995 [email protected]. Kaplan: Pages 356-378 Kaplan: Page 440 Kaplan: Pages 1270-1272 Avishai will be visiting ASBI again on February 27-28, March 18-21, and April 24-25, Stone: Pages 416-442 Stone: Page 484 Stone: Pages 1213-11214 with additional dates TBD. JPS Commentators: JPS Commentators: Siddur: Pages 267-269 Pages 168-213 Pages 267-268 Connect with ASBI on Facebook! “Like” ASBI’s Facebook page at Facebook.com/asbichicago. Did you join the ASBI family in the past six months? Beit Midrash Wednesdays Then let us welcome you into our homes as part of the Join us every week for open learning, dinner, and an accessible and thought- New Member Shabbat Dinner on February 27. For more provoking . The cost for dinner is $5; pre-registration is required. details, email Danielle Gershon at [email protected]. Register at asbi.org prior to 11:00 AM on the day of the class. Dinner walk-ins will be accommodated as possible at $10 per person.

Young Professionals Tu Bishvat Shabbat “Beit Midrash Wednesdays on Tuesdays” co-sponsored with JNFuture with Professor Malka Simkovich Open Learning at 7:00 PM; Dinner at 7:30 PM; Shiur at 8:00 PM Friday, February 20 Tuesday, February 17 Jewish Life in the First Century

Professor Malka Simkovich is a visiting instructor of Jewish Studies at Catholic Theological

Union. She is a doctoral candidate at Brandeis University studying Second Temple Judaism, early Rabbinic literature, and early Christian literature. She earned an MA degree in Come celebrate the birthday of the trees with an extra festive Shabbat from Harvard University and a BA in Bible Studies and Music Theory from Stern College of meal. Dinner will be enhanced with an assortment of the seven species as University. She is currently working on a dissertation regarding universalist Jewish literature that emerged from Egypt under the Roman Empire while working as an editorial well as the fruit of the vine (wine). assistant for the Harvard Theological Review.

5:15 PM Kabbalat Shabbat “Stories in the Talmud: Art, Law, and Culture” 6:30 PM Dinner with Rabbi Dr. Daniel Rosenberg Open Learning and Dinner at 7:30 PM; Shiur at 8:00 PM Followed by an Oneg Tuesday, March 3

$15 per person. Please RSVP and pay at asbi.org by Monday, February 16. Part I: Art

Please note: a limited number of seats may be available after February 16, but Wednesday, March 18 register early because the price increases to $18 on Wednesday, February 18. Part II: Law Wednesday, March 25 If you have any special dietary restrictions, please email [email protected] by Part III: Culture

Monday, February 16. This three-part class will explore a sometimes less-studied part of Talmudic literature.

Registration is required to attend. Stories in the Babylonian Talmud serve multiple functions in helping us to understand the ways The ASBI Young Professionals Committee organizes Shabbat dinners & social events for adults in their 20's & 30's. that our sages in Bavel thought. They were skilled storytellers who used narratives to express and define legal thought, and in doing so, rooted their teaching in real day-to-day life.

Rabbi Dr. Daniel Rosenberg, a longtime member of the ASBI community, was ordained by the Jewish Theological Seminary in 2001 and recently completed a dissertation at New York Hebrew Story Time University on the “untold stories” of the Babylonian Talmud. He spends summers as a resident This Shabbat & Next Shabbat, 4:00 PM, at ASBI storyteller at Camp Ramah Darom.

Please join us for Hebrew Story Time with Lital Rosenberg on Shabbat “Dilemmas of Jewish Power” afternoon. We will read children’s books in Hebrew together, while working with Rabbi David Wolkenfeld on some of our Hebrew words. Feel free to bring any Hebrew-language book SHIUR ONLY (no dinner) at 6:30 PM you would like to share with the group. All kids age 4 and under are invited May 6 with their parents. Non-Jews in a Jewish State May 13 ASBI Winter Playroom Open Hours Just and Unjust Wars The ASBI playroom is available for kids to use with their parents & caregivers. May 20 When: Mondays & Thursdays, 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM Battlefield Ethics and Torture (Not available on select dates when the shul office is closed) Introduction to Jewish Life & Practice Israel Movie Night Tuesday, February 24, 6:00 - 7:00 PM

Monday, February 16, 7:00 PM Join Rabbi Wolkenfeld for this ongoing class on the fundamentals of Jewish in the ASBI Social Hall life and practice, for those interested in conversion to Judaism and open to “The Great Dictator” (1940) all in the community. For the next several sessions, we will be learning about keeping Kosher. 125 minutes Beneath the Helmet: From High School to the Home Front Wednesday, February 18, 7:30 PM In his controversial masterpiece “The Great Dictator,” Charlie Chaplin at Anshe Emet Synagogue, 3751 North Broadway offers both a cutting caricature of Adolf Hitler and a sly tweaking of his We are excited to invite you to the upcoming community screening of own comic persona. Chaplin, in his first pure talkie, brings his sublime U's new film. We will be joined by the star of the film, First Lt. Eden physicality to two roles: the cruel yet clownish “Tomainian” dictator Adler, and co-producer David Coleman. and the kindly Jewish barber who is mistaken for him. Featuring Jack “Beneath the Helmet” has premiered to sold-out audiences in New York, L.A., Oakie and Paulette Goddard in stellar supporting turns, “The Great Chicago, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, and other major cities across the U.S., been Dictator,” boldly going after the fascist leader before the U.S.’s official featured in more than 50 news and radio outlets, and accepted into 15 Film Festivals nationwide. The movie follows the dramatic transformation of five entry into World War II, is an audacious amalgam of politics and young Israeli high school graduates who left the comfort of their homes and slapstick that culminates in Chaplin’s famously impassioned speech. families to become the defenders of a nation and a people.

Pop, popcorn, and chips will be served. You can purchase tickets and view the trailer at beneathhelmet.com/Chicago. Sponsored by the Israel Committee. Space is limited, and all guests must RSVP, so get your tickets soon!

AIPAC Policy Conference

Join Rabbi Wolkenfeld, other members of ASBI, and thousands of participants from across the United States at the 2015 AIPAC Policy Conference in Washington, D.C., March 1-3. Thanks to an anonymous donor, ASBI is able to offer $500 travel subsidies for ten first-time conference attendees. The AIPAC Policy Conference is the largest gathering of the pro- Hassidic Dimensions in the Post-Modern World Israel movement in the United States and has been called “three of the most with Rabbi Dr. Julian Ungar important days affecting Israel’s future.” If you are interested in obtaining a Sundays at 7:00 PM travel subsidy, please email [email protected]. If you have any questions, contact Rabbi Wolkenfeld. We will be examining our reading practices by looking at the Sacred Text in a multi- layered way. By seeing the biases we bring to the text, we begin to see its mirroring effect and learn to read ourselves in the text. We will discover the mythic strata is less than THREE WEEKS away! embedded deep in the text and in our psyches, and the way the text can help us make

ASBI’s Purim program will include a Community Mishloach sense of our lives as well as our personal suffering and grief. We will forge a new Manot gift to all members as well as a raffle and auction. Past approach that resists the pietistic-moralistic approach but also a purely scholastic- auction and raffle items have included sports and music tickets, corporate suites, archeological reduction. Finally, by being open to radical readers like the Hassidic airline tickets, and jewelry. If you are able to provide an exciting gift or know someone masters before us, we will rely on them for a new trajectory that makes for exciting else who can, please contact Ross Weisman at [email protected]. study. Anshe Sholom B’nai Israel Annual Mishloach Manot Fundraising Program

Annual Mishloach Manot Fundraising Program 5775 Please return this form by Monday, March 2, at 10:00 AM.

With Purim around the corner beginning on Wednesday night, March 4, Thank you for your support! we are pleased to invite you to participate in the annual Mishloach Manot To fill out the form and make your payment online Fundraiser. Part of the mitzvah of observing Purim is to give gifts of food called instead, visit asbi.org/purim . Mishloach Manot. Each Purim, Anshe Sholom offers members the chance to fulfill the mitzvah of Mishloach Manot with the entire congregation by donating Congregant Name(s), as to appear on the Donors’ List to the Mishloach Manot Fundraiser. With a contribution, your name is ______included on a special list given to each member with his or her Anshe Sholom Phone number Mishloach Manot package filled with wonderful sweet and savory treats. The proceeds from the program are used to help support the shul and additional ______programming throughout the year. Please select a category below and enter the amount you would like to donate.

If you cannot give at the suggested giving levels, we still very much appreciate Hamentashen ($136 - $249, 5 free raffle tickets) your participation. However, we hope that you can help us fulfill this mitzvah $ ______at the suggested levels, so that we can also include in your donation our own Shpiel ($250 - $499, 10 free raffle tickets) synagogue’s donation to The Ark and Leket Israel—Israel's National Food $ ______Bank. For the second year, ASBI is partnering with Jerusalem's Yeshivat Eretz HaTzvi to help deliver a hearty and festive Purim meal to an entire IDF base. The Whole Megillah ($500 - $999, 20 free raffle tickets)

Each donation at the recommended levels will include sponsorship of Purim $ ______meals (burgers, fries, drinks) for IDF soldiers, hand-delivered by students and Half the Kingdom ($1,000 - $1,799, 50 free raffle tickets) faculty of Yeshivat Eretz HaTzvi. The more we each give, the more we can $ ______support these important organizations! The Whole Kingdom ($1,800 and up, 100 free raffle tickets) The Five Levels of Recommended Giving are: $ ______

Hamentashen: $136. A donation will be made to The Ark, Leket Israel, and Other (Please fill in amount) the Eretz HaTzvi Purim program, and you will receive 5 free raffle $ ______tickets. To purchase raffle tickets, please select the number of tickets you would like below. Shpiel: $250. A donation will be made to The Ark, Leket Israel, and the Eretz HaTzvi Purim program, and you will receive 10 free raffle tickets. Raffle Tickets ($5 each, 5 for $20, 15 for $50)

The Whole Megillah: $500. A donation will be made to The Ark, Leket # of tickets ______$ ______Israel, and the Eretz HaTzvi Purim program, and you will receive 20 free Please enclose a check for your donation or pay using a credit card by raffle tickets. completing the form below. Half the Kingdom: $1,000. A donation will be made to The Ark, Leket Israel, Please Circle: Visa MasterCard American Express Discover and the Eretz HaTzvi Purim program, and you will receive 50 free raffle tickets. Cardholder’s Name (Please Print): ______

The Whole Kingdom: $1,800. A donation will be made to The Ark, Leket Billing Address: ______Israel, and the Eretz HaTzvi Purim program, and you will receive 100 free Credit Card Number: ______Exp Date: ______raffle tickets. Security Code: ______Cardholder’s signature: ______Your financial support of Anshe Sholom is critical to keep the shul running throughout the year. Programs such as our children’s Purim programming, Megillah readings, and Please return this form to the shul office, mail directly to the even our Purim Shpiel are made possible with your help. We thank you in advance shul, or fax completed form to 773-248-5001.

for your participation in this important fundraising program. Anshe Sholom B’nai Israel 540 West Melrose Street Chicago, IL 60657 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

February 21 Terumah Rabbi David Wolkenfeld February 28 Bday/Anniversary Taken Taken Tetzaveh; Parshat Zachor [email protected]

March 7 Avishai Gebler Ki Tisa Rabbinic Intern

Celebrate your own, your child’s, or a loved one’s birthday/anniversary/milestone by OFFICERS – 2014-2015 / 5775-5776 President – Rabbi Paul Saiger sponsoring or co-sponsoring a Kiddush or Shalosh Seudot. • One Shabbat each month will be our Birthday/Anniversary Kiddush, to celebrate birthdays/anniversaries/ Immediate Past President – David Harris milestones in that month. President-Elect – Jeremy Treister • You may co-sponsor a Kiddush by contributing a smaller amount. Vice President - Ways and Means – Ross Weisman Small Kiddush Meal $720 Light Kiddush Lunch $1080 Hearty Kiddush Lunch $1440 Shalosh Seudot $118 Vice President - House – Jeremy Treister 1 main course 2 main courses 3 main courses assorted salads Vice President - Membership – Danielle Gershon assorted salads assorted salads assorted salads assorted baked goods Vice President - Ritual – Dr. Ira Halper Vice President - Education – Evelyn Behar assorted baked goods assorted baked goods assorted baked goods Vice President - Financial – Asher Zarkowsky

Please call the shul office for details at 773-248-9200 or email [email protected]. Recording Secretary – Ruth Lipman Dedication Opportunities BOARD OF DIRECTORS – 2014-2015 / 5775-5776 Honor your loved ones with a dedication plaque or book plate. Dr. Stuart Sprague - Chair Iris Gafni-Kane Jacques Aaron Preis New Siddur/ Small Large Stone Memorial Julia Aaronson Ashlyn Gorlin Tzvi Robinson Chumash Tree of Life Leaf Tree of Life Leaf Tree of Life Plaque Beverly Agdern Toby Heizler Rabbi Daniel Rosenberg $54 $180 $360 $1,080 $680 Elyce Bader Ira King Linda Saiger Linda Cohen Michael Leib Margalit Segal Herbert Eiseman Adam Levine Rabbi Melvin Shapiro Youth Tefillah Groups Aaron Feigelson Norman Levitz Alan Skidelsky Steve Feiger Jennifer Loeb Adam Smoler Tot Shabbat (children 3 and under with a parent) Eytan Fox Michael Newberger Andrew Weprin 10:45 AM in the ASBI Social Hall with Margalit Segal Paul Freund Scott Newberger Gan Shabbat (JK & K) ASBI COMMITTEES AND CHAIRS 10:45 AM in JCC Room 206 with Ilana Borzak Chesed: Joelle Shabat Mikvah: Ruth Lipman Yeladeinu (1st -2nd grade) Education: Evelyn Behar Ritual: Dr. Ira Halper Family: Jennifer Loeb Security: Peggy Kaz 10:30 AM in JCC Room 204 with Tihela Feit Hospitality: JP Bader & Deena Davis Young Professionals: Beverly Agdern, Na’areinu (3rd-5th grade) Israel: Herbert Eiseman Amy Beth Green & Tzvi Robinson

10:30 AM in the JCC Gym with Jill Schwartz Gabbai: Dr. Josh Ehrlich Gabbaiyot: Dr. Chai Wilensky & Judith Wolf Tefillah Off the Deep End (6th -7th grade) Office Staff: Steve Miller ([email protected]) and Hayley Leventhal ([email protected]) 10:30 AM in the Beit Midrash with Andrea Katz

Babysitting Services (For children ages 1 through 7) Adam R. Straus Memorial Mikvah: (773) 935-1689 [email protected] with Sofia Truzzi Dedications and Donations

9:30 AM until Kiddush in the ASBI Playroom Anshe Sholom B’nai Israel Congregation is indebted to Judge Abraham Lincoln Marovitz, a”h, for his generosity to the synagogue and to the Marovitz Scholarship Fund. Kiddush until 12:30 PM in JCC Room 204 The George Kranzler Library of Judaic Classics is donated in loving memory of Mr. George Kranzler by Group leaders and babysitter are subject to change. the Kranzler and Saltzman families.

The Learning Center was dedicated on 29 Av 5761 in memory of Rose and Dr. Abe Aaronson who inspired us in learning and charity. Security—If you see something, say something. We acknowledge and thank the following funds for helping us celebrate our community's simchas: Alan Hepker: (847) 980-5630 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 the Rachel, Gabrielle, and Wren Berger Bat and Bar Mitzvah Fund which presents a Kiddush cup to Prayer for the United States and Its Government each Bat and Bar Mitzvah. based on "deSola Pool Siddur" There is a sense of wholeness and artistic integrity in our sanctuary, thanks to our beautiful stained- God on high, bless this our country, the United States of America, and all who dwell therein. Bless the glass windows on the east wall, dedicated in memory of Bernard Preis, a”h.

constituted officers of government of this land. Set into their hearts the spirit of wisdom and understanding to The windows on the south wall are dedicated in memory of George Friedman, a”h.

uphold peace and freedom. The Louis A. Lerner Institute of Torah Texts sponsors all the Torah text classes at ASBI.