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e-mail: [email protected] website: http://www.cbi18.org RELIGIOUS SCHOOL CALENDAR & EVENTS LISTED CBI Endowment with the Community Scholar Program Presents: A Weekend with Professor Stephen Berk Friday, January 28 at 6:00 PM: Saturday, January 29 at 9:30 AM: Vol. XIX, No. 3 Service, Dinner and Lecture: Shabbat Service, Lunch and Lecture: Tevet~Shevat~Adar I “1948 – A Year of Decision” for , “Obama, Netanyahu and ”~ January~February 2011 a liberation; for Arabs, a Catastrophe” Two world leaders, two world views; to understand the current Middle East, these differences result in increased one must understand the events of this year. tensions between the two countries. $30/Adult, $15/Child (3-12 yrs.) for all meals and lectures; $5 discount/person for reservations received by January 14; No charge to CBI 5771 Endowment Fund Annual Benefactors Please contact the CBI office for Reservations

Please Join us for Shabbat Shira: A Sabbath of Song January 14 and 15 Friday Night, January 14: Please join Tilchin, Carl Cedar and Friends along with: Shir Appeal, the Jewish Acapella Group from Tufts University followed by Dinner and Music ~ call the office to make dinner reservations ~ $15/adult; $10/students Saturday Morning, January 15: Special Shaharit Service featuring K’vod Wieder leading CBI’s first “Neshama” with special guests, Shir Appeal No RSVP required Join us for Luncheon followed by an inspirational musical performance!

It’ll be here sooner SAVE Your Move Back than you think! THE into Your Groove! Want to help plan our next Yom DATE! Zumba Gold Dance/Movement Class Ha'Atzma'ut celebration? CBI’s Annual for Seniors, People with Mobility Join us and be part of Gala Challenges and for those who want to take The Magic of Israel April 3 the “Couch” out of Potato! Every Wednesday beginning January 12 See page 14 Interested? 10:00 – 10:45 AM Call the CBI Office! - 714-730-9693 for details Brought to you by Rebeca Gilad and Zumba Gold

CBI Presents the Roz Baim Distinguished Artists Series: The Four Jewish Tenors are coming to CBI! Also Featuring Cantor Herschel Fox and the Chris Hardin Orchestra! Saturday, March 12 at 8:00 PM Sponsored and Underwritten by See flyer inside this edition for details! The Roslyn and Joseph Baim Family Foundation SAVE THE DATE! Call the CBI Office for reservations! Barbara and Joseph Baim Reserved and unreserved seating, dessert reception with the Tenors and program name recognition available. The page 1 and intuitive awareness. It offers a prelude to my daily , which link ’s Message me to community, express longing, Cantor’s Notes and prompt gratitude. Rabbi Elie Spitz Cantor Marcia Tilchin During my years here I have   also studied guided imagery with two remarkable teachers, Collette Aboulker Muscat of and Marielle Fuller of Laguna Beach. I met each of these artists of the imagination when they were in their mid-eighties. Each continued to work with clients until weeks before their respective deaths at the age of ninety-three. Through the years, I have used visualization in my synagogue "Nurturing Soul" teaching, but now is the opportunity Entering Jewish – to share and guide in a more focused n January, I will guide Is there an easy way in? way. students inwardly in order to I Please join me at 7:30 PM on each t is one of the hottest topics nurture our souls. We will utilize the of the Wednesday evenings during in seminary halls, synagogue traditional technologies of meditation, January in the Family Life Center. A I visualization, and sacred text. board rooms and religious training When the says “God institutions. Answers fly: More music, breathed into Adam’s nostrils the less , in the woods, on yoga Nurturing Soul: mats. These are just a few of the breath of life” (Genesis 2:7) the Meditation, Visualization suggested antidotes to a challenge (such as the Targum) noted and Sacred Text that breath and soul were the same that is symptomatic of a much larger word. To possess a soul from God A class with Rabbi Elie Spitz crisis in American Jewish life – the fact means to have a capacity for creation every Wednesday night that only a fraction of self-identified and self-reflection. seeks in January are connected to to cultivate that quality of neshmat or pray on a regular hayim, “the soul of life.” January 5, 12, 19 and 26th basis. Our very sophisticated prayer In the Jewish mystical tradition, Rabbi Spitz is an accomplished structure evolved over many centu- soul is imbedded in : student of both the Jewish ries following the destruction of the assiyah, yetzirah, beriah and atzilut. mystical tradition Second Temple and it is a stunning These “worlds” correspond to the and the wisdom teachings of achievement - artistically, spiritually physical/doing; emotional/feeling; world faith communities. and psychologically. One could not mental/thinking; and spiritual/intuiting. and should not expect to grasp even Recognizing how these facets of life He has personally engaged in a fraction of what the (prayer- operate within us offers both greater daily meditation for almost book) has to offer as a beginner. It balance and a more open heart. 20 years is a drama with dialogue that unfolds My own fascination with the inner life emerged at an early age. In part Come join us in January! elegantly, layer upon layer, and is it was prompted by my mom’s nightly never quite the same from one day dinner descriptions of the customers Celebratory Shabbat to the next because we, one of the in her wig stores. In college I majored with parties in this dynamic conversation, are ever changing. Accepting and in psychology, which deepened my Dale Schatz! awareness that we are shaped by embracing this truth is the first step unconscious drives, the past, and towards a more fulfilling prayer life. habit. My religious studies offered January 8 and Compelling music helps as a texts that described relationship with February 5, tool towards engagement and has the Divine and sacred deeds that 2011 been sought after for centuries. The transcended our own needs. Over 9:45 AM pipe organ and elaborate choral twenty years ago, I invited Rabbi Family Life arrangements of yester-year were Jonathan Omerman to CBI to train a invited into places of worship for Center handful of rabbis in . much the same reason that guitars, Ever since, I have meditated as drums and synthesizers are sought part of my morning routine, offering Come Join Us! enhanced calm, focused attention, cont. on page 9 page 2 The Shofar Congregation B’nai Israel proudly presents The Roz Baim Distinguished Artists Series 4BUVSEBZ .BSDI  QN 5IF+FXJTI5FOPST -JWFJO$PODFSU

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The Shofar page 3 living a good life into very simple and a very early age and must continue basic terms. This rabbi’s name was throughout one’s lifetime. Religious School Hillel and this is what he said: “That At Mercaz Limmud and Mercaz Alan Rusonik, which is hateful to you, do not do Hadracha, our goal is to provide the Director, Lifelong Learning to your neighbor. That is the whole “commentary” to Hillel’s wisdom. Dan Koblin and Francine Wenhardt, ; the rest is commentary. Go and We do this in many ways, such as VPs study it.” through studying a curriculum filled As I examined these two with Jewish values and through philosophies carefully, I realized that living and practicing these values. there was a fundamental difference These values are taught by wonderful between the two; Fulghum says: teachers who are dedicated to their “Take any one of those items and profession and to Jewish living. extrapolate it into sophisticated adult At Mercaz Limmud and Mercaz terms and apply it to your family life Hadracha, our goal is to provide the or your work or your government or foundation for Jewish living and for the your world and it holds true and clear life long pursuit of Torah knowledge. and firm.” Hillel says: “Go and study We provide the place for our young All I Really Need to Know… it.” Jewish tradition does not say just people to come and study the “live it,” but also, “study it.” There is am sure that many of you commentary associated with living an emphasis on values education, are familiar with a number a meaningful life. The commentary I and that education does not begin one bestseller from several years Lox Boxis Fundraiserongoing and there for is always a lot and end in Kindergarten; it begins at ago by Robert Fulghum called All Superto Bowl study. SundayLet’s get started now! A I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon The Parent Teacher Organization (PTO) of Mercaz Thoughts on Common Things. Limmud (JewishLox Learning Box CenterFundraiser) of Congregation for B’nai He writes, “Most of what I really Israel will hold aSuper Lox Box fundraiser Bowl Sundayfor pick up or need to know about how to live and delivery on Super Bowl Sunday, February 6, 2011. The Parent Teacher Organization (PTO) of Mercaz what to do and how to be I learned Each Lox Box is $25 for pick up or $30 for delivery. Boxes will be delivered to in Kindergarten. Wisdom was not Limmud (Jewish Learning Center) of Congregation B’nai the Tustin and Irvine neighborhoodsIsrael will only. hold a Lox Box fundraiser for pick up or at the top of the graduate-school Boxes will include six bagels,delivery 8 ounces on of Super lox, an Bowl 8-ounce Sunday, package February of cream 6, 2011 . mountain, but there in the sandpile at cheese,Each Lox onion, Box tomato is $25 for and pick pastries. up or $30 for delivery. Boxes will be delivered to Sunday School. These are the things the Tustin and Irvine neighborhoods only. I learned…” and then he proceeds PTO members will assemble the Lox Boxes early that morning to ensure that to list some very basic principles of theBoxes items will are include fresh and six thatbagels, you 8 will ounces receive of lox, your an delivery 8-ounce in package time for ofbreakfast cream orcheese, your Super onion, Bowl tomato party. and Pick pastries. up or Delivery between 9 am to 12:30 pm. life which are part of the rules one would find in a typical Kindergarten AnyPTO questions? members Contactwill assemble the Mercaz the Lox Limmud Boxes officeearly thatat 714-730-5161 morning to ensure or email that classroom, such as share everything, [email protected] items are. fresh and that you will receive your delivery in time for breakfast play fair, don’t hit people, say you’re or your Super Bowl party. Pick up or Delivery between 9 am to 12:30 pm. To place an order, please return this form to the Mercaz Limmud office by sorry when you hurt somebody, etc. Sunday,Any questions? January 30 Contact or fax the the form Mercaz to CBI Limmud @ (714) office 730- at5434. 714-730-5161 or email I recently thought about [email protected]. Name: ______Phone number: ______Fulghum’s credo and realized that To place an order, please return this form to the Mercaz Limmud office by the Jewish tradition already had it’s NumberSunday, of JanuaryLox Boxes 30 requested: or fax the ______form to CBI Total@ (714) amount 730- 5434.due: $______own Robert Fulghum 2000 years ChooseName: Form ______of Payment: Check payable____ Phone to CBI__ number: Charge ______my credit card on file__ ago. This rabbi was asked to teach NoNumber thank you, of Lox but Boxes here isrequested: my donation: ______Total amount due: $______the entire Torah to an apostate while standing on one foot. This rabbi, as Choose Form of Payment: Check payable to CBI__ Charge my credit card on file__ Please check: Pick Up ___ Delivery ___ Fulghum would try to do 2000 years No thank you, but here is my donation: ______later, tried to summarize his recipe for Address (for delivery only):______Please check: Pick Up ___ Delivery ___ Thank you for your support!

THE SHOFAR is published bi-monthly by Congregation Address (for delivery only):______Susan Don, Lox Box Chair B’nai Israel, 2111 Bryan Ave., Tustin, CA 92782. Deadline for articles is the 8th of the month. Paula Greenberger, PTOThank Chair you for your support!

Marissa Waldman & Dan Koblin, Co-Chairs, Education Committee Editor: Susan Don, Lox Box Chair Jean Kravitz e-mail: [email protected] AlanPaula Rusonik, Greenberger, Director, PTO Lifelong Chair Learning Marissa Waldman & Dan Koblin, Co-Chairs, Education Committee Call the B’nai Israel In-The-Family Hotline (714) 730-9693 - whenever there’s a major event in your life. Alan Rusonik, Director, Lifelong Learning page 4 The Shofar PLEASE NOTE THESE IMPORTANT DATES FOR USY MERCAZ LIMMUD AND MERCAZ HADRACHA (formerly Religious School and Hebrew High) Seudah January: Sunday, January 2: No School; Winter Break Sh’lishit Tuesday, January 4: School Back in Session Sunday, January 9: School in Session Plus 7th Grade Family Education and Sunday January 16: No School: Martin Luther King Day Tuesday, January 18: School Back in Session Learning Sunday January 23: School in Session Plus Tu B’Shevat Havayot Sunday, January 30: School in Session plus on’t miss Seudah Sh’lishit JEWGLE; also 6 Grade Support Your Fellow D with Rabbinic Intern Adam Family Education Greenwald. We will meet on Saturday Congregants in Need evening, February 26 at 5:00 PM in February: by Donating to the the Social Hall. These are monthly Tuesday, February 1: School in Session Seudah Sh’lishit (Third Meal) and Sunday, February 6: School in Session, CBI Membership Learning Program. We will meet once Plus 1st Grade Alef Bet Support Fund a month on Shabbat afternoon to Ceremony and PTO learn together while sharing a light Lox Box Fundraiser Hard Economic times have made it difficult for many meal and USY-style Havdallah. Friday, February 11: 4th Grade Family congregants to pay for All teens are welcome—come Shabbat Service, membership. Our Membership share your insights with us! Dinner and Program Support Fund helps with that. THERE IS NO COST Sunday, February 13: School in Session Donations can be made by TO ATTEND A Plus 6th Grade Family Education Program Sunday, February 20: No School: contacting the CBI Office. Experiential Prayer & President’s Weekend Perform the of Tuesday, February 22: School Back in Session Text Study giving to others in Sunday, February 27: School in Session their time of need. plus JEWGLE and Come Learn with It’s an investment that will 7th Grade Family Adam Greenwald Education pay off again and again! 10:30 AM in the Bet February 26 "Generous Hearts" On Shabbat Shekalim we think about all the gifts that we have to contribute to the world.

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The Shofar page 5 December 10, HOWHappy THE CDC CELEBRATED CHANUKKAH2010

The children had so much fun preparing for & celebrating Hanukkah. They made latkes, sufganiot, and decorated Hanukkah cookies. They created beautiful gifts and cards for their families. The children played dreidel, counted candles and read Hanukkah stories. Cantor Tilchin joined us at our Hanukkah celebration. She talked with the children about the miracle of Hanukkah, the flame of the candles, and the victory of the . Thank you to all the parents who helped participate and who joined their children for lunch. It has been an incredible celebration this year. page 6 The Shofar march on we urge you to come to an event and you will feel comfortable, Youth News safe and happy; you will make friends, Social Action form bonds and have some very "wow" Barbara Sherman - Youth Director Joyce Walter & Judith Lipshutz, moments of your own to cherish. More Annie Shugarman and VPs Marcy Shapiro, VPs than ever adults are needed now as well. Our annual Carnival is any thanks to Muriel Ullman fast approaching (March 20) and M for leading the Social Action we need booth sponsors, parent Committee into so many worthwhile volunteers and everyone to attend and successful events. and bring some friends. This is our We will miss Nancy Neudorf’s annual fundraiser and our chance to gentle touch in taking care of all who do something extra special for the needed comfort. We look forward to Congregation to enjoy. So whether Marcia Margolis’s capable handling the days are hot in December or cold of this very important job. in August, there are "wow" moments Thanks to Marla Nathan for all and bonds that form that will hold her work in getting our blood drives t was a bright hot sunny up in any weather. There is always organized. I summer Sunday in the middle something wonderful going on for all I look forward to working with of December. We had a Machar / ages: Little Shul for ages infant to Judith Lipshutz and continuing the Kadima event and I remarked to the Pre-K. Machar K-3, Kadima 4-6, USY work of this great committee. kids that it reminded me of Camp 7-12 and anyone out of high school We have several things lined up Bnai in so many ways. I was who wants to be a part of the SIT for the coming year including our surrounded by familiar faces at CBI on program and of course, adult help! 2nd Sunday of each month Dinners a warm day, laughing and having fun. And last but not least, keep an eye at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church to help This is a very comfortable physical out for our music video: I look forward others less fortunate. The November and emotional place for both the to sharing it with you so you too can dinner was a great success and kids and myself. We share so many see what "wow" looks like! A December was under the guidance adventures together it just feels right. of our wonderful Men’s Club with Ron I even smiled as my granddaughter ATTENTION! Horn getting it all together. January 11th we look forward to the Mercaz Reagan touched the black frame HURRY UP of the glass doors as she headed Limmud taking charge. outside and pulled her hand away. It AND SIGN UP! For Chai Society our January 21 was hot. So many of us have done Get your application dinner will feature a speaker from the that very same thing. All I could think in for USY Kinnus! Alzheimer’s Association on a very was, "Reagan, welcome to camp". current topic. Don’t forget Rebeca In addition we had our teens and February 18 – 20, 2011 Gilad’s senior movement class college students as Madrachim / in beautiful La Jolla! starting Jan. 12 at 10 AM at CBI. Counselors, another great comfortable The Theme is Many thanks to all who participated fit. We were filming a music video and “Under the Sea-nnus” in our many activities to help each one be successful! A it was going fantastically, of course and is designed to emphasize the song chosen was Dynamite, a Water Conservation It isn’t just for big kids anymore! camp favorite. What made me want and Preservation to share this day was because it is Join us for LITTLE SHUL the perfect example of the bonds Awesome programs and fun with that are formed. From peers to role friends! What could be better? A program designed to prepare your little one for the “big” shul! models the connections are strong Please Contact Barbara Sherman For children ages infant thru Pre -K and the comfort level reflects this. if interested This is a classic example of what we stand for, a caring, safe and loving Sunday, January 9 environment for all ages to experience and February 6 Judaism and life. We know these kids Check out our 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM so well ~ from what they’re allergies in the Beit Midrash are to how to make them smile. We new web page can talk from silly to serious with them www.cbi18.org $10/Family covers materials for hours. So as the days and events and a snack

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TIRED OF COMBING THROUGH It's all about Ritual STORES THAT HAVE ONLY MITZVAH Phyllis Abrams and A SCANT COLLECTION Bonnie Widerman, VPs OF JEWISH CARDS? MOMS very Shabbat morning, shortly Look No More! What are we? after the recitation of the Musaf A club for Jewish mothers of all E Sisterhood Torah Fund gift cards , congregants join together to ages. We welcome all Jewish chant Ein K'Eloheinu, a hymn of praise are available for purchase~ mothers in the community. Birth of a baby, whose origin dates as far back as the What do we do? 9th century. This prayer is especially Special occasion, A lot! Activities, guest speakers, familiar to our congregation's b'nai Thank you, mitzvot who frequently act as prayer Condolences… play dates, field trips and much, leaders during the Musaf service. And much more! much more! What is probably less familiar to us When and where do is that in the Ashkenazi rites, which $4/each or 6 for $20! Checks made payable to we meet? our synagogue observes, this hymn Every Friday morning ~ is exclusively recited on Shabbat and CBI Sisterhood. 10:00-11:00 AM at CBI. Festivals. In traditional Sephardic Contact the CBI office if interested. rites, however, the prayer is chanted Join us at 9:30 AM every day. One of the reasons for the children’s Shabbat Service. why Ashkenazi congregations limit CANS? BOTTLES? Childcare is available for children the recitation of Ein K'Eloheinu to 3 years and under during moms’ Shabbat and Festivals is as follows: Leave them for USY! 10:00 AM social hour. Our tradition teaches us to recite We’ll take your cans and plastic Interested? 100 blessings a day. On a normal water or soda bottles and recycle Email [email protected] weekday, 54 of those blessings them! Just leave them in the marked Note: Sometimes meeting dates are derived from the Amidah, a containers left in the Social Hall, and times will change~ stay prayer composed of 18 separate Courtyard and USY Lounge! posted in future editions! blessings which is traditionally recited three times a day. However, on Shabbat and Festivals, the Amidah is composed of only seven blessings; therefore, the individual is left with Schedule of Services for February a deficit of 33 blessings. In order to Friday, February 4 : Ezekiel 43:10 - 27 make up for those missing blessings, 5:30 PM Family Service and Dinner Friday, February 18 Ein K'Eloheinu was incorporated into 6:00 PM Service 6:00 PM Service the prayer service. According to our Saturday, February 5 8:00 PM Service Sages, the 20 specific references Bar Mitzvah of Simon Drakeford Saturday, February 19 to God in Ein K'Eloheinu represent Birkat Hahodesh 1 Adar I Bat Mitzvah of Jenna Norban individual blessings. Further, the 9:30 AM Service 9:30 AM Service prayer was composed in the form of an , in that the first letter PARASHAT: PARASHAT: of each verse spells out the word Torah: Exodus 25:1 – 25:40 Torah: Exodus 30:11 – 31:17 . The last three verses of the : Numbers 28:9 - 15 Haftarah: I Kings 18:1 - 39 hymn start with the words baruch Haftarah: Isaiah 66:1 – 24:66:23 and atah, the two words used in Friday, February 25 the traditional blessing formula. Friday, February 11 6:00 PM Service We make up for the remaining 13 6:00 PM Anniversary Service Saturday, February 26 blessings in the following manner: six 6:00 PM 4th grade Service and Dinner 9:30 AM Service blessings are recited during Seudah Saturday, February 12 PARASHAT: Shlishit (washing hands, ha-motzi, and the four blessings in Birkat ha- 9:30 AM Service Torah: Exodus 35:1 – 37:16 Mazon) and seven more in the Musaf PARASHAT: TETZAVEH Haftarah: I Kings 7:40 - 50 Amidah. A Torah: Exodus 27:20 – 28:30 page 8 The Shofar cantor, cont. from page 2 one does. I emphatically encourage everyone to own a copy and bring it the listeners to actually participate in with them to synagogue on Shabbat Sisterhood Says... the act of worship. A passive kahal and holidays as a guide, a prayer- (congregation) is missing the point. Michelle Ginsburg & aid and just fun reading on a worthy And what about personal prayer? Roberta Abramson subject. In the same way that one Jews are mandated to pray three might appreciate a quality production times a day – morning (shaharit) BI’s Sisterhood wishes to remind of a Shakespearian work even if they afternoon (minha) and night (ma’ariv). you of these very important have not studied the play in advance C There is not always a synagogue to events: because of the fine acting, the lovely attend and most of us cannot bring sets and costumes or the creative the band or the rabbi into our homes Sisterhood Shabbat direction, one can absolutely feel at to inspire us and announce pages Saturday, January 22 at 9:30 AM. home in a traditional prayer service on a regular basis. I believe help is Please join us on Saturday, January without a clue as what’s really going at hand… 22nd for Sisterhood Shabbat. This on between the pages. But the vast I was introduced to a book is an opportunity for the women of majority of potential worshippers recently that I am enthusiastically Sisterhood to lead the entire service. need something more. Rabbi Comins recommending to everyone I know That means that we need the women finds personal joy and satisfaction who is longing to find greater of CBI to participate, read Torah and in a traditional service, but knows meaning and purpose in Jewish show your support. Please contact that it is an acquired taste. Bottom prayer: Making Prayer Real by Michelle Ginsburg or the CBI office line: The point of is Rabbi Mike Comins. I just finished if you are interested. not and has never been to be on the a three-session seminar with him on “right” page. The question must be Sisterhood celebrates this very subject and he has helped to reframed: “What is the right page in Shevat: open my eyes and heart to new ways the siddur for me right now?” Rabbi Thursday, February 3 at 7:30 PM of religious expression. The book Comins offers some helpful tools in the Family Life Center deals with challenges of prayer in to, over time, find that page all by Come hear Lisa Kogan speak on her general and authentic Jewish prayer ourselves. book, With Strength and Splendor: in particular. Comins is a big fan of Check out: Jewish Women as Agents of Change. meditation and chant as a way into www.MakingPrayerReal.com Celebrate the new month amongst and he guided us through and see you in shul! A friends as we learn about how Jewish some exercises in class that were women of North America of the past powerful. His writing is fluid and two centuries have effected change, clear. In Part II, entitled “Beginning to Next disassembling old gender roles, Pray”, he has a section called “Advice shattered boundaries and expanded for Beginners” and another called options for future generations. Please “Cultivating a Personal Prayer Voice”. 8:00 PM contact the CBI office if you are Part IV, “Embracing Traditional Jewish interested in joining us. Prayer”, is compelling because Friday it deals head-on with issues like Entertainment Book 2011 overcoming the Hebrew barrier and Fundraiser provides concrete steps towards night Our Sisterhood Bookshop is sold out accessing the spirituality of the of the Entertainment Books. To order siddur regardless of your command Service books go to Entertainment.com and of Hebrew. Part V walks the reader use our Group ID: 115918. through how to build a personal January 21, 2011 Don’t forget to order your prayer practice using the tools that Hamantashan today. Complete the come most naturally to them as form due to CBI office by February individuals. Shabbat 28. See form on page 18. There have been many books written on Jewish prayer but, as with Greeters Thank you all for your continued any skill or discipline, you don’t learn Wanted support of Sisterhood! by reading, you learn by doing. Until "All Call" for Making Prayer Real was released in Shabbat Greeters. 2010, I was hard-pressed to identify Check our website at Contact Joyce Walter, a book on the subject that I believe http://www.cbi18.org meets people where they are. This through the CBI office.

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CONTINUE TO LEARN ON SHABBAT MORNINGS: Parashat Hashavuah beginning January 12, 10:00 – 10:45 AM: Put the Move back in your ~ Study the week’s Torah portion from 8:30 AM – 9:20 AM every Saturday groove! Exercise to “Oldies” music, have fun, make friends ~ for seniors before services. Then join us for How to Read Hebrew Scripture with a and those with mobility challenges as well as those who wish to take the Modern Lens after services from 1:15 PM – 2:15 PM in the Bet Midrash. “couch” out of potato! Wear comfortable shoes, please! Brought to you Come join us! by Rebeca Gilad and Zumba Gold.

DON’T FORGET SUNDAY MORNING MINYAN: 9:10 AM – 10:00 AM SISTERHOOD’S BOOK CLUB: Thursday, January 13 at 7:30 PM. in the Bet Midrash. We are discussing Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi. Book club for February: February 10 at 7:30 PM: Skeleton at the Feast by Chris IT’S SCRABBLE MONDAY: Monday, January 3 and February 7 at Bohjalian. Come and lend your insights to our discussion! 7:00 PM in the Bet Midrash. Please bring your own scrabble set. Scrabble FYI: MEN ARE INVITED TO JOIN BOOKCLUB, TOO! sessions will continue the 1st Monday of every month. SHABBAT SHIRA, A SABBATH SONG: January 14 – 15: Friday, January ISRAELI DANCING AT CBI: Israeli dancing continues on every 14 at 6:00 PM: Join Cantor Tilchin, Carl Cedar, and the Shir Appeal, the Tuesday, 6:30 – 9:00 PM for all levels. We will meet in the Social Hall~ Acapella Choir from Tufts University in an evening of worship, followed wear comfortable shoes! Children 7 – 12 years old must be accompanied by dinner and music! RSVP to the CBI office by January 12. by a dancing parent. Cost is free. Saturday, January 15: 9:15 – 10: 45 AM: Special Shaharit Service led by K’vod Weider introducing CBI’s first Neshama (soul) Minyan ~ a high CLASS WITH RABBI ELIE SPITZ~ NURTURING SOUL: MEDITATION, energy, traditional service with Carlebach, Hassidic, old and new melodies VISUALIZATION AND SACRED TEXT: Wednesday Nights in January: interspersed with reflections on entering prayer. Followed by kiddush lunch January 5, 12, 19, and 26th: 7:30 – 8:45 PM. Join Rabbi Spitz as he and a performance by Shir Appeal. Come join us! uses the spiritual technology of the Jewish tradition and world faiths to facilitate spiritual experience and learning! THE HIKING GROUP IS HIKING PETER’S CANYON (BACK ENTRANCE): Sunday, January 16 at 9:00 AM. This is approximately two hours in SISTERHOOD’S ONGOING MAH JONGG is every Wednesday night duration. There are two trails: a beginner trail and a moderate trail. The at 7:00 PM. A $5 donation is optional and payable to Sisterhood. Please moderate trail is about six miles and a 500 ft. elevation gain. There is no bring your own mah jongg set. RSVP to the CBI office so we know how noticeable elevation gain for the beginner trail. Please come 10 minutes many to set up for. early to allow for parking and to stretch your muscles. Address: 26981 Peters Canyon Rd., Tustin, 29782. Please note: the occurrence of FAMILY SHABBAT SERVICE AND DINNER: Friday, January 7 and rain would cancel this hike. Further details provided in the flyers in the February 4 at 5:30 PM. For families with children ages 10 and under. synagogue kiosks. Services begin at 5:30 PM and are immediately followed by dinner. RSVP to CBI by Wednesday, January 5 for the January 7 dinner and CHAI SOCIETY SENIOR SHABBAT DINNER: Friday, January 21: Wednesday, February 2 for the February 4 dinner. $10 per member/$15 6:00 PM services in the Sanctuary, followed by dinner and lecture in Social per non-member, 12 years of age and over; $5 per child member/$7 per Hall: “Know the 10 Signs of Alzheimer’s”. $15/person. RSVP to the CBI child non-member 2-11 years old. Children under 2 are free. Come join Office by Tuesday, January 18. us in prayer, song, and stories led by Cantor Tilchin! ADDITIONAL MUSICAL SHABBAT SERVICE: The third Friday of every A MORNING OF CELEBRATORY SHABBAT WORSHIP WITH DALE month at 8:00 PM: January 21 and February 18: Come join Cantor SCHATZ: Saturday, January 8 and February 5 at 9:45 AM in the Family Tilchin, Carl Cedar, and friends as they celebrate an additional Kabbalat Life Center. Come join us!. Shabbat and Ma’ariv Service the third Friday of every month! A dessert Oneg precedes the service. IT’S LITTLE SHUL: Sunday, January 9 and February 6 from 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM in the Bet Midrash: Bring your little ones, ages birth thru SISTERHOOD SHABBAT: Saturday, January 22 at 9:30 AM. Come Pre-K for a fun, hands-on learning experience! Together we explore the celebrate Shabbat in a service led by CBI’s Sisterhood! holidays of the Jewish calendar, getting your little one ready for his/her future attendance in “big shul.” $10/family covers materials and a snack. CBI 5771 ENDOWMENT FUND PRESENTS: SHABBATON WITH Contact the CBI office if you are interested. PROFESSOR STEPHEN BERK: January 28-29, 2011:January 28 at 6:00 PM: Shabbat Service Dinner and Lecture: “1948 – A Year of Decision”; SUNDAY SUPPER, AN INTERFAITH EFFORT (and perfect Mitzvah Saturday, January 29 at 9:30 AM: Shabbat Service, Lunch and Lecture: Project too!): Sunday, January 9 and February 13 at 4:00 PM. We will “Obama, Netanyahu, and Israel.” Professor Stephen Berk is Professor of need people to prepare, serve and clean up dinner for needy individuals History at Union College in New York. He has authored numerous articles and families at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 1221 Wass St., Tustin. on Russian policy in the Middle East and often consults for various media Two hour time slots available. RSVP to CBI office by January 6 and/or venues, as well as has consulted for the Wiesenthal Holocaust Center in February 10, respectively. LA. Professor Berk received the prestigious Holocaust Memorial Award in 1996.$30/Adult, $15/child (3 – 12 years) for all meals and lectures; $5/ ZUMBA GOLD SENIOR DANCE/MOVEMENT CLASS: Every Wednesday, person discount for reservations received by January 14. page 10 The Shofar HAPPENINGS AND POINTS OF INTEREST @ CBI, cont.

ROSH CHODESH SHEVAT WITH SISTERHOOD: Thursday, Febru- CBI 5771 ENDOWMENT FUND PRESENTS: EXPLORE THE RELATION- ary 3 at 7:30 PM in the Family Life Center: Come hear special guest SHIP BETWEEN ISLAM AND JUDAISM: Sunday, February 27. Two speaker and author, Lisa Kogan speak on her book, With Strength & Workshops will be available: Splendor: Jewish Women as Agents of Change. Rosh Chodesh has Rabbi Reuven Firestone: 2:00 – 5:00 PM: Rabbi Firestone is Professor of traditionally been celebrated by women; come join your CBI sisters in Jewish and Islamic studies, HUC-JIR/LA and Senior Fellow for the Center this time-honored event! of Religion and Civic Culture at USC. $18/person. A Conversation with Rabbi Spitz, Rabbi Firestone and Imam Muzam- THE HIKING GROUP IS HIKING HICKS CANYON IN IRVINE: Sunday, mil Saddiqi: 7:30 PM: Muzammil Saddiqi is Imam at the Islamic Society February 20 at 9:00 AM. This 4-mile hike offers a paved path and dirt of Orange County. He is a prominent American Muslim, Islamic scholar trail that runs parallel to it. It is practically flat all the way. We’ll meet in and theologian. $10/Person. front of Albertson’s at 3931 Irvine Blvd. in Irvine, 92602 and then walk $25/both programs. Please RSVP to the CBI office by February 14. around the block to pick up the trail near Hicks Canyon Park. We will walk up to Portola Hwy. and then back to Albertson’s. This is a dog-friendly hike that takes approximately two hours to complete. Please arrive 10 SAVE THE DATE! minutes early to allow for parking and introductions. Please note: occur- rence of rain would cancel this hike. Directions and details available in CDC FUNDRAISER: “Come to the Animal Faire”! Sunday, March 6, 2011. synagogue kiosks. Details in the next edition!

EXPERIENTIAL PRAYER AND TEXT STUDY WITH ADAM GREENWALD: THE ROZ BAIM DISTINGUISHED ARTISTS SERIES IN CONJUNCTION Saturday morning, February 26 at 10:30 AM: “Generous Hearts”: On WITH THE ROSLYN AND JOSEPH BAIM FAMILY FOUNDATION: The Shabbat Shekalim we think about all the gifts that we have to contribute Jewish Tenors Live in Concert with special guest Cantor Herschel Fox and to the world. Join us for a discussion of generosity, giftedness, and the the Chris Hardin Orchestra. Saturday, March 12 at 8:00 PM. See flyer in power of the human spirit. Come join us in the Bet Midrash! this edition for more details!

TEEN SEUDAH SH’LISHIT AND LEARNING WITH RABBINIC INTERN, CBI’s ANNUAL GALA: Sunday, April 3, 2011. More details to come! ADAM GREENWALD: Saturday, February 26 at 5:00 PM in the Social Hall. These amazing afternoons of discussion are free. A light meal is GET READY TO ORDER MISHLOACH MANOT: Orders due into the provided and followed by a USY-style . Share with us your pearls Mercaz Limmud Office by March 4 or call the Mercaz Limmud office at of wisdom; give us your perspective that only a teenager can have. Let (714) 730 – 5161. Baskets ready for pick-up at CBI on March 19 and 20. us learn from you! Make your order list now!

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page 12 The Shofar Congregation B'nai Israel Endowment Shabbaton With the Community Scholar Program One-Month Scholar Professor Stephen Berk

January 28-29, 2011

$30/Adult, $15/Child (3-12 yrs) for all meals and lectures $5 discount/person for reservations received by Jan. 14 No charge to CBI 5771 Endowment Fund Annual Benefactors

Friday, January 28 at 6:00 PM: Shabbat Service, Dinner and Lecture “1948 - A Year of Decision” For Jews this was a year of liberation; for the Arabs this was the “Nakhba,” a catastrophe. There can be no understanding of the contemporary Middle East unless one factors in the events of this crucial year.

Saturday, January 29 at 9:30 AM: Shabbat Service, Lunch and Lecture “ Obama, Netanyahu and Israel” At a difficult time in the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict the Prime Minster of Israel and the President of the United States see the world very differently. The consequence is increasing tension between the two countries.

Prof. Stephen Berk is Professor of History at Union College in New York, former Chair of the Department of History, Director of the Program in Russian European Studies and Faculty Advisor to the Jewish Student Organization. Berk, who is considered an absolutely superb lecturer and teacher (two college guidebooks mention him as the best teacher at Union College) is the author of many articles on Russian policy in the Middle East and is frequently consulted by newspaper reporters and by television and radio stations. He has been a consultant to the Wiesenthal Holocaust Center in LA, has lectured on the Holocaust throughout the US and Canada, and in 1996 received the prestigious Holocaust Memorial Award from the Holocaust Survivors and Friends Education Center.

Contact the CBI Office for Reservations by January 14 Phone: (714) 730-9693 Email: [email protected] Address: 2111 Bryan, Tustin, CA 92782

Shabbaton with Professor Stephen Berk, Jan. 28-29, 2011 Name ______Phone (____) ____-_____ Email: ______Friday Dinner: ___ Adults, ___ Children. Saturday Luncheon: ___ Adults, ___Children. Total $______Check enclosed ___Visa ___Mastercard Card Number ______-______-______-______Exp. Date _____/_____ Signature of cardholder ______

The Shofar page 13 In the B’nai Israel Family . . . Todah Raba to Thalie Timsit’s family for sponsoring the Kiddish in honor of her Bat Mitzvah Bat Mitzvah of Madison Mehrdad January 8, 2011 (6 Shevat) Madison is a student at El Rancho Charter School. Her hobbies are dance, volleyball, and playing the piano. For her mitzvah project, Madison is volunteering at the Yorba Regional Animal Hospital. Madison looks forward to celebrating this simcha with family, friends and the entire CBI community. Mazal Tov! A

Bar Mitzvah of Simon Drakeford February 5, 2011 (1 Adar I) Simon is a 7th grader at TVT. His favorite hobbies are fencing, playing the violin, wakeboarding and waterskiing. For his mitzvah project, Simon is coordinating a fencing tournament fundraiser for the Make a Wish Foundation. This tournament will take place in the spring of 2011 at the South Coast Fencing Center. Simon has a younger brother Max and looks forward to celebrating this simcha with all of his friends and family. Mazal Tov! A

Bat Mitzvah of Jenna Norban February 19 (15 Adar I) ! My name is Jenna Rae Norban, and I am currently a seventh grade student at Rancho Santa Margarita Intermediate School. In addition to my school studies I enjoy soccer, dance, and playing musical instruments. For my Mitzvah project I have been volunteering as a peer tutor and teacher's aid at the "Us Too Center", an after school program for children with developmental delays and disabilities. My experience there has been very rewarding and I plan to continue my volunteer work after my Bat Mitzvah. My family and I are looking forward to celebrating this special occasion with friends and family from north to south and east to west. Mazal Tov. A

Caring for an Aging Relative Comfort Committee Do you have concerns about your aging relative’s changing abili- ties, health, finances, living arrangements and other life changes? We want to be Do you want to know what resources are available to you and your aging relative? there for you.

If you or a CBI friend have experienced a Jewish Family Service Can Help recent loss, are preparing for surgery, are . In home assessments . Friendly visitors or phone pals homebound, recovering from an illness, or . Care planning . Individual and family counseling . Monitoring the care plan . Support groups expecting a baby, we seek to offer care. . Securing other resources . Crisis intervention and advocacy Please contact our office (714) 730-9693 or the Cantor and our comfort committee Jewish Family Service of Orange County will contact you. Our comfort committee is 250 E. Baker Street, Ste. G, Costa Mesa, CA 92626 expanding. Please consider letting us know (714) 445-4950 Fax: (714) 445-4960 if you would like to participate. page 14 The Shofar home, my daughter pulled out her also participating in TALIT and have cell phone and called my husband. become involved in USY; Hannah is Membership Moments "Dad, can we join?" she asked. on the chapter and regional boards. Mike Mymon and Throughout our first year of Our family hobbies include hiking, Daveen Meyers,VPs membership, we have found every snow skiing, and scuba diving. One of encounter with the synagogue and our best family vacations was visiting ne of the great things about CBI its members to be similarly warm Israel two years ago which ranged O is the large number of volunteers and enriching. Whether it was from hiking in the Golan, touring the involved in various activities designed trying Israeli dancing, going on a Old City of Jerusalem, and scuba to benefit our congregants and hike, helping at the Purim Carnival, diving in Eilat. our community. It is clear to most participating in the USY teen and I had the pleasure of getting that CBI would not function as parent Shabbat Clubs, or attending to know Batia Swed when she was we know it without volunteers. To services, we met friendly members kind enough to help me with one of this end, we hope to see as many and shared religious beliefs. Due my teaching credential classes. I members as possible get involved. to Jewish affiliations over the years, saw what a great job she and Mike The membership team is we were also pleasantly surprised Mymon did as membership co-chairs. delighted with the addition of a new to find we already knew a number of I know I have a lot to learn as a volunteer, assuming the position of members. Every week when I read the relative newcomer, but I look forward a Membership co-VP. We chose weekly emailed announcements, I am to contributing to the synagogue as to introduce Daveen Meyers in impressed with how much CBI has to a board member.” a form of a new program called, offer. Simply put, with a superb clergy We believe each of us has a CBI “My CBI Story”. To get this project and wide range of activities, there's Story to tell and we think it would be started, we bring to you Daveen’s something to involve everyone. We wonderful to share those stories on CBI Story, so “Kick back” and enjoy. have been very happy to feel a part the pages of The Shofar. Please take “One morning in the summer of the congregation. a few moments to write/call one of us of 2009, I picked my daughter up So, it is this great experience and share your CBI Story. from her high school cross-country that inspired me to say "yes" when We welcome the following practice. "Mom, the whole time we I was asked if I would help with members to our CBI community: were running, the girls talked about membership. I hope to help current Gillian Gauer and Brian Bentow how much fun they have at Bible Camp. and new members feel the same as Leonard Dauer I'm left out," my daughter reported our family does. Carol and Doron Lean and family A with frustration. While we had been Having said all that, let me tell affiliated with another congregation, you a little about my family and me. her comment demonstrated that it I'm a Southern California native Sisterhood’s wasn't meeting our needs, and it with an undergraduate degree ignited a family search for a new from UCLA and an MBA from USC. Book Club synagogue. We wanted a place that After twenty years in marketing, would be spiritually fulfilling and including a decade heading the academically stimulating. But most global marketing for a foodservice Stones from the River of all, we looked for a warm and supplies manufacturer, and weary of byUrsula Hegi welcoming congregation, especially my extensive travel schedule, I retired Thursday, January 13 a place where our kids would bond two years ago and recently completed at 7:30 PM with other teens. I was fortunate to a teaching credential for middle/ be able to turn to one of my friends, high school math. I am currently a Cheryl , and she encouraged substitute teacher for Orange and us to talk to Barbara Sherman, Santa Ana Unified School Districts. CBI's incredible Youth Director, and My husband Mark and I met at a to visit Camp B'nai Ruach at CBI. Jewish Federation event and have Following her recommendation, been married for 18 years. He is I brought my two hesitant teenagers the President of Glendale Memorial to the camp. Within Hospital and Regional Director also minutes, they were both overseeing California Hospital and Skeleton at the Feast encircled by outreached Medical Center in Los Angeles. Our by Chris Bohjalian h a n d s a n d k i d s 16 year old daughter, Hannah, and Thursday, February 10 voluntarily introducing our 15 year old son, Andy, attend at 7:30 PM themselves. As I drove Villa Park High School. Both are

The Shofar page 15 Congregation B 'nai Israel gratefully acknowledges the following donations ~ January/February 2011 GENERAL FUND In celebration of the of her son, Hunter / IN HONOR OF Chayim Shlomo Harry Woodcoff, Master Electrician - Joanna Madenburg - Marilyn & Julian Feldman In celebration of the birth of their grandson, Hunter The wedding of Barbara Adler and Joseph Baim - Sue and Dick Madenburg - Joseph and Marilyn Cahn Thank you Rabbi Spitz for all your help in our time of grief - Stanley Fineman - Anvar and Janet Alfi - Joyce and Steven Bloom In honor of their Chupa celebration Dana Kotkin’s becoming a Bat Mitzvah - Alice and Asher Milgrom - Steve and Melissa Lipman IN MEMORY OF Happy 21st birthday to Segal Lillian Lerner’s Sister, Carolyn “Cookie” Powers - Ruth Abers - Mark, Noreen and Lillian Lerner Thank you to Rose and Hal Kravitz for sharing your Palm Springs home! CANTOR’S DISCRETIONARY FUND -The Mahj Jongg girls-Francine, Beth, Marla and IN HONOR OF Miriam The birth of our great nephew, Harry Portnoy DONATION (London) - Jack Pariser - Jane and Aron Kaye - Bruce and Myra Newman Thank you for the wonderful service at my mothers - Nanci and Jonathan Patchen unveiling SPEEDY RECOVERY - Yetty Kaye Ed Sussman, get well quickly Cantor Tilchin for her guidance and friendship - Ruth Abers - Bruce Comings IN MEMORY OF Cantor Tilchin Sylvia Jacoby, Mother of Leslie White - Jack Pariser - Neila and Andy Bernstein - Mark and Sharon Berman - Sylvia and Leonard Garber - Mark Lerner Ed Klein, father of Robert Klein, father-in-law of Sandy Klein, grandfather of and Adam Klein PAUL KAHN FUND - Pam Kauss and Jim Pasino IN HONOR OF - The Szekel Family Zach Letson becoming a Bar Mitzvah Kurt Lorig - Nate and Barbara Tucker - Sylvia and Leonard Garber IN MEMORY OF Frieda Melcer, mother of Ellen Korn David Miller, Brother of Ruth Kahn, Uncle of Nancy Letson - Carole Miller - The Fainbarg and Chase Families Marion Safier, mother of Joyce Cowan - Mark and Sue Ann Cross - Carole Miller - Nancy and Carl Cedar - Arlene Kaplan - Ruth Kahn Rita Melcer, mother of Ellen Korn - Arlene Kaplan PRESCHOOL FUND Dick Sklar, brother of Bob Sklar IN HONOR OF - Sharon and Mark Berman Thank you very much to Ralph and Sue Stern - Francine and Ron Morrison RABBIS DISCRETIONARY FUND Jonathan and Lisa Heller’s first grandchild Ben Liam IN HONOR OF - Sue Ann and Mark Cross Rabbi Spitz for his guidance and support - Mindy Lauerlevin, Ed, Courtney, Justin and Mariah - Ruth Ettinger and Sheila Siegel Levin Rabbi’s Spitz’s help SPEEDY RECOVERY - Robert and Diane Rivers Our thoughts and prayers are with you for Jonathan’s full Rabbi Spitz and speedy recovery-Refuah Shlema - Jack Pariser - Jeff and Rachel Busch - Mark and Sharon Berman - Diane and Busch In celebration of their grandson’s brit milah - Bonnie and Scott Kirsch cont. on next page page 16 The Shofar DONATIONS, cont. from previous page EDUCATION FUND Father, Isadore Shultz Brother, Jack Allen IN HONOR OF - Harris Shultz - Jerry and Gabrielle Yablonka Batia Swed and her help with the Mother-in-law, Pearl Kelman Mother, Esther Solomon teacher in-service - Ruth Kelman - Gabrielle and Jerry Yablonka - Alan Rusonik Father, Morris Isadore Raskin Brother, Morris Harry Chernicoff - Jerome Raskin - Ruth Kelman TGI SHABBAT Mother, Rose Labovitz Father, Bernard Stauber For sponsoring the TGI Shabbat - Marcia Margolis - Erika Soussan program Uncle, Arthur G. Roth Brother, Harry Snoyman - Cindy and Michael Furst - Carole Miller - Samson Snoyman Father, George Brody Mother, Shirley Mirowitz SOCIAL ACTION FUND - Arlene Kaplan - Howard Mirowitz IN HONOR OF Sister, Susan Elster Father, Hanan Goldmann Mike Mymon and his talk on - Beth and Andy Elster - Dan and Tamar Goldmann Sister-in-law, Sally Steinberg Mother, Hilda Shultz - Marvin Kaplan - Phyllis and Al Steinberg - Harris Shultz The Elster Family Sister, Sylvia Chaskelson Father, Joseph Berger - Miriam and Hayim Ninyo - Marion Snoyman - Aileen Berger Mother, Beatrice Rosenblum Mother, Hasiah Arnon ZEMBROSKY YOUTH IN - Fredda Sussman - Ofra Willner ARTS FUND Mother, Shayna Rosenberg Father, Israel Willner IN HONOR OF - Caron Mellblom-Nishioka - David Willner The Bar Mitzvah of Jake Kahrs Son, Gary Snoyman Sister, Shirley Snofsky - Natalie and Mike Vishny - Samson and Marion Snoyman - Mr. & Mrs. Leonard Garber Mother, Mary Zander Father, Erwin Becker - Bonnie Kirsch YAHRZEIT CONTRIBUTION - Paula Goldberg Father, Irvin Levin Mother, Rose Levin Father, Frank Lerner - Suzanne Levin Herrera - Judith Lipsutz - Mark and Noreen Lerner Brother, Joshua Snoyman Mother, Malvina Cook Mother, Fannie Schapiro - Samson Snoyman - Judy Thurmond - Karen and Allen Lehrich Son-in-law, Robert Libenson Mother, Ester Lampert Father, David Schapiro - Joel and Ingrid Gallin - Seymour Lampert - Karen and Allen Lehrich Brother, Earle Gallin Brother, Yitzhak Arnon Mother, Rachel Gindi - Joel and Ingrid Gallin - Ofra Willner - Joe and Yolande Bati Father, Jacob Abers Stepmother, Stefanie Willner Mother, Khanukyeva Pina M. - Ruth Abers - David Willner - Khanukayev Vladimir K. Sister-in-law, Rachel Mantzur Mother, Frieda Wolf Husband, Iser Kelman - Ahuva Ho - Michael & Jackie Wolf - Ruth Kelman Mother, Lillian Stern Corner Brother, Jeffrey Kohl Please see the CBI - Sheldon Stern - Roberta Abramson Mother, Mary Goodman Father, David Katz website for a complete - John and Sandy Goodman - Agi Gyurik list of Yartzeits Father, Max Vigman Father, Maximilien Gyurik for this month. - Neddy and Seymour Vigman - Stephen Gyurik Mother, Yona Kollin Mother, Marion Wayne - Dalia Taft - Larry Wayne Life Cycle Events Sister, Ester Bussison Berger Father Stephen K. Lieberman in the Shofar - - Ruthie Bernstein - Nancy and Steve Neudorf Sister, Denise Raquel Cooper Father, Ray Morrison engagements, weddings, births - Ingrid and Howard Rosenthal - The Morrison Family e-mail the details to Mother, Minnie Edith Kingston Mother, Lilian Wolk Jean Kravitz, Shofar Editor, - Norman Kingston - Mort and Margaret Wolk Father, Ralph Grant Father, Leslie Klein at [email protected] - Alex Gerstenzang - Joyce and Ralph Gabai Mother, Mary Johanna Dregne Father, Nathan Fleishman - Sharon Gerstenzang - Morrie and Roberta Fleishman Check our website at Mother, Laura Livingston Father, Michael Wainer http://www.cbi18.org - Mimi Goldstein - Morrie and Roberta Fleishman

The Shofar page 17 It’s Hamantashen Time! Order Yours Today! CBI Sisterhood is getting ready to bake dozens of delicious Hamantashen. But they’ll disappear fast, so get your order in right away. If you would like to learn the secret recipe, come join us and help with the baking. No previous Hamantashen baking experience required. Baking days are 03/07, 03/08, and 03/09. Call Helene Coulter at 714-730-9693 or [email protected] to volunteer. Hamantashen Order Form Due by Feb. 28, 2011. Orders available for pick-up Sunday, March 20 at the CBI Kitchen from 10:00 am – 1:00 pm

NEW THIS YEAR - Take and Bake Kits Kits will have dough and filling for 1 dozen Hamantashen. Bake them in the comfort of your home. Hamantashen Order Form Please mail or bring completed form and check to CBI office by 2/28/11. Name______Phone #______I would like to order: Parve: Apricot ____dozen baked ____kits Poppy ____dozen baked ____kits Dairy:Chocolate Chip ____dozen ____kits Total Order: ______dozen baked@ $8.00 per dozen ______kits@ $10.00 per kit $______enclosed (Please make checks payable to CBI Sisterhood) I would like to help bake on:Monday 3/07 @ 7-9pm ______Tuesday 3/08 @ 7-9pm ______Wednesday 3/09 @ 9am-12pm______

page 18 The Shofar Der Yidishe Vinkle Mazal Tov and Todah Rabbah to the following families for co- Club Carl Bendroff sponsoring CBI Kiddushes: Ofra and David Willner in honor of their anniversary My baleepteh (beloved) Anvar and Janet Alfi in honor of Janet’s birthday readers. Robyn and Brian Pittluck in honor of the naming of their daughter, Emily My aynfal (insightful) PE anekdot Reese (anecdote) ohnhaltet (continues). Djamshid Farivar in honor of Jaleh’s birthday The kisheftsugevinnen (magic Larry, Valerie and Elizabeth Danzig in honor of Matthew’s birthday to win) gebleet (blossomed) when I Colin nad Joel Wenhardt in honor of Francine’s birthday became the oysvorf (outcast) team Ed Sussman in honor of Fredda’s birthday captain. Steve Alfi in honor of Andrea’s birthday “Hey Carl,” Mr. Klowski yelled. “No Phyllis and Alfred Steinberg in honor of their anniversary tsitern (cowering) in the bleachers. Donna Gilbert in honor of her birthday Vosizmitdir? (What's wrong with Deanna Epstein in honor of David’s birthday you?) You chose to be captain. So Andy and Esther Dosick in honor of their anniversary get down here.” David and Phyllis Iser in honor of Phyllis’ birthday Maynhartzklop (my heart beat) David and Phyllis Iser in honor of their anniversary sounded like a drum roll as I Sylvia Bar in honor of her birthday shlept (trudged) to the koyshbol Meredith, Sophia, and Max Stewart in honor of David’s birthday (basketball) court. Then Mr. Klowski Meredith, Sophia, David and Max Stewart in honor of Isaac’s birthday gave me a wink and a nod like he Batia Swed in honor of her birthday knew my game plan. I wished I had Debbie and Todd Moysychyn in honor of Mason’s birthday one. Debbie and Todd Moysychyn in honor of Hallie’s sweet 16th birthday Three shtark (strong) athletes Francine Wenhardt in honor of the naming of her granddaughter, Lauren volunteered to be the ahndereh Eber (other) captains. They shproong Janet and Anvar Alfi in honor of their anniversary (leaped) down the bleachers and Howard, Ingrid and Keren Rosenthal stared at me as if I were something in honor of Hannah’s birthday When you hear of a lifecycle they’d never seen, like the inside of Howard, Ingrid and Keren Rosenthal in event in our CBI community a bukh (book). honor Howard and Ingrid’s anniversary (whether simcha, illness or a “Carl chooses first,” Mr. Klowski Neddy and Seymour Vigman in honor death), or if you have something said. of Seymour’s birthday which you wish the Cantor to I faced the bleachers. Muscle George Abramson in honor of be aware of, please notify the bound arms and legs tsaplnzikh Roberta’s 70th birthday CBI office. (fidgeted). The once oomdershroken Thalie Timsit's family in honor of Call (714) 730-9693 or (fearless) yungnmitbainer (buff her Bat Mitzvah e-mail [email protected]. boys) contemplated their Keds® and Converses®. I was all-powerful. I could choose any of them. Is it Scrabble MAH JONGG Don’t flatter yourselves, I Monday? thought. Every Wednesday Night Next time: The best team? Until Join us the first Monday of 7:00 – 9:00 PM then, zeigezunt (be well)! A every Month for Scrabble! CBI Social Hall January 3 Drop in~ no and February 7 reservations at 7:00 PM necessary! in the Bet Midrash Bring your friends, Please bring your so you can keep own Scrabble set. hangin’ with them. Welcome 2011

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THE SHOFAR A Monthly Publication Elie Spitz Rabbi Marcia Tilchin Cantor Joel Kuperberg President Sandy Klein Executive Director Alan Rusonik Director, Lifelong Learning Lisa Heller Preschool Director Barbara Sherman Youth Director Affiliated with United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism Dated Material

Schedule of Services for January Friday, January 7 Friday, January 21 5:30 PM Family Service and Dinner 6:00 PM Service Saturdays 6:00 PM Service 8:00 PM Service Saturday, January 8 Saturday, January 22 only Bat Mitzvah of Madison Mehrdad Sisterhood Shabbat • Child Care is available Birkat Hahodesh 9:30 AM Service from 10:00 AM until the 9:30 AM Service PARASHAT: conclusion of services PARASHAT: VAERA Torah: Exodus 18:1 – 20:23 every week. Torah: Exodus 6: 2 – 7:7 Haftarah: :1 – 7:6:9:5 - 6 • Junior Congregation Haftarah: Ezekiel 28:25 – 29:21 for Grades K through Friday, January 28 6 begins at 10:30 AM Friday, January 14 6:00 PM Service upstairs in the Family 6:00 PM Anniversary Service Saturday, January 29 Life Center. Saturday, January 15 Birkat Hahodesh • Pre-schoolers and 9:30 AM Service 9:30 AM Service: parents are invited to PARASHAT: B’SHALAH PARASHAT: join the Torah return Torah: Exodus 13:17 – 15:26 Torah: Exodus 21:1 – 22:3 procession and a Haftarah: Judges 4:4 – 5:31 Haftarah: Jeremiah 34:8 – service that follows 22:33:25 - 26 in Room 105.

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