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CELEBRATING OUR 142ND YEAR OF SERVICE KEHILATH JESHURUN BULLETIN Volume LXXXII, Number 4 June 21, 2013 13 Tammuz 5773 REFLECTIONS ON THE 141ST ANNUAL SYNAGOGUE MEETING: POST-NUPTIAL GET AGREEMENTS SIGNED BY MANY he highlight of this year’s April 24th an article by writer and educator Erica the KJ website (www.ckj.org). It can then meeting was the signing of Post Brown that appeared in the December 7, be brought to the KJ office where it can be TNuptial Get Agreements by scores 2012, issue of The Jewish Week, entitled signed and witnessed. of happily married congregants. This “What to Wear to the Post-Nup,” in which In addition to this important focus of emerging practice of already-happily she addresses the need for ALL Jewish the Annual Meeting, attendees were part of married couples entering into post-nuptial couples to be able to seek legal protection a room full of celebrating anniversarians, get agreements serves to provide the wife within civil confines. The signing of the committed lay leaders, new members, with the same kinds of protections that pre- post-nuptial get agreement is one means of families of recently departed shul members nuptial agreements give couples marrying bringing attention to the Agunah crisis, and whose loved ones were memorialized, and today. This is a positive development for hopefully prevent any more women from supporters of all ages, all acknowledging all those who married before the Agunah finding themselves trapped in a marriage the central relevance of a congregation that crisis gave rise to the de rigueur pre- with no way out. just began its 142nd year. nuptial agreement. Couples who did not sign the post-nup Rabbi Lookstein spoke passionately that night and are interested in doing so, (continued on page 6 -7) about the need for such a document, citing can download the one-page document on 106 SENIORS ARE GRADUATED FROM THE JOSEPH H. LOOKSTEIN UPPER SCHOOL OF RAMAZ 60 TO SPEND NEXT YEAR IN ISRAEL SENIORS AND LOWER CLASSMEN WIN MANY ACADEMIC HONORS Once again it has been an amazing year for the students in Ramaz! Here are some of the impressive results: Many seniors will be spending next year in Israel at the following Torah institutions and programs: Aish Machal Midreshet Ein Hanatziv Midreshet Yeud Tafnit Bnei Akiva Yeshivat Netiv Aryeh Beyond Midreshet haRova Migdal Oz Yeshivat Ashreinu Yeshivat Orayta Bezalel Art School Midreshet Lindenbaum Nativ Yeshivat Eretz HaTzvi Israel Experience at BIU Midreshet Moriah Nishmat Yeshivat Har Etzion (Gush) Kivunim Midreshet Torah vChesed Sherut Leumi Maaleh Gilboa The seniors also earned a wonderful record of college acceptances. Our students had impressive admissions numbers in: Babson College Drexel University Northeastern University University of Maryland Bar-Ilan University Emory University Oberlin College University of Miami Berklee College of Music FIT Pomona College University of Michigan Boston University George Washington University Princeton University University of Pennsylvania Brandeis University Harvard University Rutgers University University of Rochester Carnegie Mellon University IDC Herzliya Stern College for Women University of Wisconsin Clark University Jewish Theological Seminary Suffolk University Yeshiva University Columbia University Johns Hopkins University SUNY - Albany, Binghamton Yale University Cornell University MIT Tulane University CUNY - Baruch, Queens, Muhlenberg College Vassar College Macaulay Honors - Hunter New York University Washington University, St. Louis (continued on pages 10-12) Page 2 KEHILATH JESHURUN BULLETIN NEW MEMBERS Forty-six new households joined the Congregation this past year and were officially inducted and welcomed at the 141st Annual Meeting by Morris Massel, Secretary of the Congregation: Nicole and Tzvi Ausubel Rebecca and Reuben Grabel Hilary and Barry Ness Victoria and Davy Barthes Laura and Leonard Grossman Jaclyn and Gonen Paradis Anne-Sophie and Johann Barthes Ruthie and Jonathan Hecht Jenevieve Pereira Line and Warren Barthes Dana and Matthew Hiltzik Liat and Peter Reisman Jessica Rackman and Robert Drs. Ruth and Adam Jacobi Lisa Goldman and Joshua Reiss Bernstein Henriette and Joseph Jemal Carol and Alan Schechter Anna and Elliott Blake Judith Fischman Johnson Robin Rothman and Dr. Lanny Vanessa and Raymond Chalme Deborah Weinswig and Schwartzfarb Susan Hecht and David Cohen Maxwell Kahn Sharon and Jeffrey Shammah Virginie Illouz and Mark Cohen Michele and Steven Kamali Michelle and Paul Shaviv Lauren and Noah Doyle Claire and Stuart Koshner Deborah and Mark Shukovsky Honey and Samuel Dushey Rebecca and Aryeh Levin Rachel and Rodrigo Slelatt Perah and David Dwek Miriam and Aaron Levine Sarah Weltman Shani and Adam Epstein Jennifer Bernell-Majzner and Rebecca and David Wichs Raquel and Abraham Feldman Marc Majzner Molly Winkler Shirley and Adam Friedman Naomi and Noah Moss Victoria Szenes and Matthew Audrey and Mark Goldstein Charles Muhlbauer Zimmerman Design/Photo: Howard Katz ISRAEL ACTION KJ FOOD PANTRY Check out “Artzeinu” The KJ Food Pantry provides kosher food weekly to New The Weekly Israel News Update York’s hungry. Clients are referred to us through the synagogue and local service agencies. Each week clients come to KJ to receive food staples tailored to their diets, as http://artzeinu.org well as a selection of fresh fruits and vegetables. Ramaz students pack the bags and staff the booth in the lobby of KJ, edited by fellow KJ members and Ramaz/KJ members also deliver packages to those who Aliza Hornblass are homebound. Jonathan Hornblass, Erica Schwartz For further information or to volunteer, please contact Stacy Founder: Deena Shiff Scheinberg at [email protected]. This site provides easy access KJ Service Directory to numerous news sources and Foremost Caterers............................................... 201-664-2465 videos, and is well organized Gladys Baruch, China and Silver........................ 212-719-2884 by general topic. 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KEHILATH JESHURUN BULLETIN Page 3 SHIVAH ASSAR B’TAMMUZ, TISHA B’AV AND THE THREE WEEKS JUNE 25 – JULY 16 uring the summer months, we (meraglim) returned to the Jews in the and drink wine (except on Shabbat), to go mourn the destruction of both desert with a negative report about the Land swimming, to bathe for pleasure, or to do DTemples in Jerusalem, which took of Israel. In addition, it was on this day that any laundry or dry cleaning that is not place on the ninth of Av, and the events that the city of Betar was destroyed and tens of absolutely necessary. The Talmud writes led to their destruction. We fast on the thousands of Jews were killed, and the that when the month of Av begins, our mood seventeenth day of the month of Tammuz, wicked Turnus Rufus plowed the site of the should reflect our mourning for the Shivah Assar B’Tammuz, because, Temple and its surroundings. Tradition destruction of the Temples. On Tisha B’Av according to tradition, it was on that day asserts that the expulsion of the Jews from itself, besides fasting, we are prohibited that the enemy penetrated the walls of England in 1290 and the expulsion from from washing our bodies, wearing leather Jerusalem prior to the destruction of the Spain in 1492 also took place on Tisha shoes, anointing ourselves and having Second Temple. The Talmud, however, B’Av. marital relations. It is forbidden, as well, to writes that these were not the only tragedies Our mourning for the destroyed study Torah on this day excepting the that befell the Jewish people on this day. Temples and for the other calamities which sections of the prophets and the Talmud that On the seventeenth of Tammuz four more occurred on these days extends beyond the discuss the destruction. We do not wear tragedies occurred: the first tablets fasts themselves. The period between these tefillin until Mincha and the custom is to sit containing the Ten Commandments were two fasts, traditionally called The Three on low chairs as mourners do until midday. broken by Moses after the sin of the Golden Weeks, includes several practices of Our observance of mourning also forbids us Calf; the daily sacrifice was suspended mourning. During these three weeks we do from greeting friends on Tisha B’Av. during the time of the First Temple; the not get our hair cut, attend weddings or We mourn the Temples that were wicked Apostumos burned the Torah; and involve ourselves in large joyous destroyed over nineteen hundred years ago, an idol was erected in the Temple. gatherings. During the nine days which and we pray that we will be worthy to see Additional tragedies also befell the begin on the first of Av, July 8, and continue God rebuild the Temple in Jewish people on the ninth day of the month until midday on the tenth day of Av, July 17, our lifetime. of Av – Tisha B’Av. On this day, the spies we are additionally forbidden to eat meat KJ BEGINNERS TISHA B’AV 2013 SHABBAT SERVICE Every Saturday 9:30 AM Monday Night, July 15th, Erev Tisha B’Av ~ Fast Begins at 8:26 p.m. Add some soul to your Shabbat. Plenty of learning and explanation! Lots of singing and questions and ~ Mincha, Maariv & Eicha at 8:20 p.m.