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AFFILIATED WITH THE UNITED SYNAGOGUE OF CONSERVATIVE JUDAISM July, 2021 Tammuz/Av, 5781

Har Zion Herald Temple Har Zion Worship Schedule (all on Zoom) STREAMING OF HAR ZION SERVICES Candle Lighting Times 1040 North Harlem Ave. July 2 8:12 PM River Forest, IL 60305 Friday Evening 6:30 PM Saturday morning services are streamed on Saturday (In-person & streamed) 10:00 AM July 9 8:10 PM 708.366.9000 PHONE Har Zion Facebook and YouTube (no password), July 16 8:06 PM 708.366.9006 FAX Monday–Friday Morning 8:00 AM and Zoom (ask the office for the password); Sunday Morning 9:30 AM July 23 8:01 PM www.harzion.org the daily minyan and Friday night services are July 30 7:54 PM Email: [email protected] only on Zoom. More on the calendar, page 9. Facebook: www.facebook.com/WSTHZ YouTube: www.bit.ly/HarZionYouTube Changes to Covid Restrictions for In-Person Services!*

THE SOLOMON FAMILY With Illinois being in Stage 5, we have further Brief In-Person Kiddush: RABBINIC CHAIR relaxed the Covid protocols for attending services. Adir Glick ✡ We are now holding a brief in-person kiddush RABBI EMERITUS For in-person Service attendance: after the service for the people attending the Dr. Victor A. Mirelman service, where we say the blessings over and THE GOLDSTINE FAMILY We no longer require: share wine and bread. CANTORIAL CHAIR ✡ Temperature checks, and Stewart Figa We look forward to seeing more people attending ✡ Health screening form. DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION in-person going forward!!! David Schwartz If you are fully vaccinated: What’s coming up during the summer? THE GURALNICK FAMILY ✡ We no longer require masks. PRESCHOOL CHAIR There isn’t much scheduled as of now, but there are Lorrie Applebey If you are not fully vaccinated: programs and classes in the works. Email the office TEMPLE ADMINISTRATION (see back cover), check out the temple website Charles Shapera ✡ We ask that you wear a mask while in the www.wsthz.org, and follow the temple’s email COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND building. (This is on the honor system.) OUTREACH announcements to find out what is coming up. Position Open In-person seating will be more flexible: Don’t do email or the web? Give the temple PRESIDENT ✡ You may sit in social groups as long as office a call and ask what is coming up. We can put JuliAnn Geldner everyone in the group is comfortable. you on the list for important notifications. We VICE PRESIDENT OF would love to hear from you. BUILDING & ADMINISTRATION Do you want to maintain social distancing? Jay Michaels ✡ Seating for those desiring to maintain social What about during the week? VICE PRESIDENT OF EDUCATION & YOUTH distancing is available in the 2nd and 3rd All previous Covid procedures are in effect for the Michael Weinstein rows of the pews. temple building during the week for the preschool: VICE PRESIDENT OF temperature checks, symptom forms, and mask FUNDRAISING Online Registration wearing are required, and we ask that you make an Open We still ask that you register online for in-person VICE PRESIDENT OF appointment to come into the building. MEMBERSHIP AND OF attendance. We are continuing the use of Zoom/ PRESCHOOL EDUCATION Facebook/YouTube (center, above) for those who * We must continue to be extra cautious with Amy Guralnick are not able, or can not comfortably, come to the our Covid restrictions in the temple building VICE PRESIDENT OF building. Our Gabbai is still remote to coordinate at other times to protect our preschool PROGRAMMING between the sanctuary and those praying online. children. (We strictly follow DCFS protocols Peter Norlander He needs to know who is “in the room.” for the preschool.) TREASURER Ed Schmitt SECRETARY Haftarot Readers Shirley Lieb July 3 Pinchas Hai Solomon GABBAI July 10 Matot-Masei David Schwartz Ed Sachs July 17 Devarim Moselle Brotman BOARD OF DIRECTORS July 24 Vaetchanan Phyllis Rubin On page 2 July 31 Eikev George Srajer LETTER FROM THE RABBI

A New Beginning

ear Friends, One element of solidifying this work and securing As the pandemic (God willing) enters our future is to grow our congregation. Over many its final stages and the world returns to decades, our membership has shrunk due to “[W]e need all “normal,” it is as though we are walking demographic patterns in western Chicagoland, which of you to be into the sun after spending a long winter was once a major center of Jewish life, due to broader inside. patterns in this country regarding the popularity of ambassadors to DWe are able to travel to see beloved family institutional religion, and also due to trends in the sing our praises members and friends. We can congregate and enjoy Conservative movement. the simple pleasures of life, such as dining out, that But our membership has stabilized and even risen to your friends we used to take for granted. in recent years. Now is the time to surge ahead. and the wider This is a moment for all of us to count our This means that we need all of you to be blessings, to re-enter life with a new direction, and ambassadors to sing our praises to your friends and community...” with the wisdom acquired through the past year and the wider community. Do not hesitate to recommend a half. us to others, and if you do, please let myself, our For our synagogue, it is also a period to walk into membership committee, or our executive director the sunlight and to take stock of all that we have Charles Shapera, know about the contacts you have made. learned. We are presently working on a new website that In many ways, the pandemic has helped us push will be the fresh face of our congregation. It will be a forward with plans that have been years in the modern, dynamic, and welcoming portal that making: from acquiring new audio-visual equipment features beautiful graphics of our windows and all the to broadcast to the wider community, to hosting varied facets of our synagogue. exciting lectures and classes, to new modes of The new Har Zion grows out of the old Har Zion. worship, and to innovative community building It is a warm multi-generational community with a programs. focus on Jewish arts and culture, and a deep HAR ZION HOURS We are excited to move forward with confidence commitment to Jewish education, spirituality, and as a community positioned to thrive in the 21st tikkun olam. It is an open minded congregation that OFFICE STAFF AVAILABLE: century. We hope that you too are excited about our is welcoming to all different types of Jewish families. 9 AM–5 PM, Monday– future. We are also striving to be at the Thursday, forefront of innovative approaches to 9 AM–2 PM Friday programming, worship, study, and good Har Zion deeds. Board We are excited to continue to grow Members together with all of you. Sincerely, Elizabeth Berman Jackson Cone Jill Dempsey Stacey Flint RABBI ADIR GLICK Suzanne Fournier [email protected] Courtenay Harris-Black Ted Lawrence Haran Rashes Sarah Ruman Ed Sachs Carol Solomon Larry Stark In time of need please notify the Temple Office at Eugene Stopeck 708.366.9000 After hours, call Rabbi Glick at Frank Vozak Sue May Wilde 310.227.9954, or Cantor Figa at 312.391.5299, or Michael Zmora leave a message at the temple.

06/30/21 — Page 2 Contact the office for our online program password. THE CANTOR’S VOICE gathering of international Yiddish music performers. DANIEL KAHN: Detroit-born, Berlin-based, troubadour, YidStock songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and translator whose music mixes Yiddish, English, klezmer, and 2021 punk-folk. His groups include The Painted Bird, Brothers Nazaroff, Semer Ensemble, and The The 9th annual Yidstock: Festival of New Yiddish Unternationale. He works regularly as a theater Music will go on this year on Sunday, July 11, come artist and was featured in Carnegie Hall’s 2019 “The 9th rain or shine! Of course, the weather is irrelevant program “From Shtetl to Stage: A Celebration of because the 9th annual Yidstock Festival (which Yiddish Music and Culture.” annual would have been the 10th annual Yidstock Festival Kahn’s video of a Yiddish rendition of Leonard Yidstock: had not last year’s event been canceled due to the Cohen’s “Hallelujah” a few years back went viral Covid-19 pandemic) will be a streaming, recorded, with well over 2 million hits: Festival of New 75 minute video. The annual summer music festival https://youtu.be/XH1fERC_504 [Click to watch Yiddish Music presented by The Yiddish Book Center of Amherst, this video; the translation of the translation (given as Massachusetts, which facetiously takes its name from English subtitles) will help you understand the true will go on rain Woodstock, the seismic 1960s rock and roll music meaning of the song. It is masterful.] or shine on event, presents the biggest stars of the Yiddish and CANTOR SARAH MYERSON, who is working to bridge Jewish Sunday, July Klezmer music world. spiritual music and Yiddish culture. Liturgical This year’s Yidstock follows a theme by presenting Director at Kane Street Synagogue in Brooklyn, 11....” a broad and eclectic repertoire of social justice songs, she also writes and performs new compositions, for including labor anthems, protest songs, humanitarian example with Jewish spiritual music duo odes, songs of struggle, and songs based in Yiddish Shekedina, and freelances as a musician and poetry and Jewish scripture. It will take advantage of speaker. some of the virtues of this sort of video format, SIR FRANK LONDON, a trumpeter and composer, a founder of including presenting a diverse roster of artists from all Grammy Award–winning group Klezmatics, a over the globe, including Berlin, the Netherlands, the leader of the Austro-Hungarian supergroup Glass UK, and the US. House Orchestra, and who has performed with Among the artists on the bill are: many other groups and artists—he is heard on over Ghetto Songs MICHAEL WINOGRAD: Brooklyn-based clarinetist who plays 500 albums. His latest recording is . internationally with his band The Honorable LORIN SKLAMBERG, who is also a founding member of the Mentshn, and is the artistic director of Klezmatics and a teacher of Yiddish song from São KlezKanada, North America’s largest annual Paulo to St. Petersburg. His newest recording is 150 Voices, with Polina Shepherd and choirs in the UK and US. He is the sound archivist for the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in NYC, for whom he also co-curates of the Ruth Rubin Legacy website. NOT TO MENTION MY ONE-TIME CO-STAR IN YIDDISH THEATRE, ELEANOR REISSA, who lives a life in the theater as a director, actor, singer, and writer. On Broadway, Eleanor, who is fluent in English and Yiddish, acted in Paula Vogel’s Indecent, and was honored with a Tony nomination for directing Those Were the Days. For more information and to reserve your ticket, go to: https://www. yiddishbookcenter.org/yidstock Have a freylekhe un gezunt summer!

CANTOR STEWART FIGA [email protected] Contact the office for our online program password. 06/30/21 — Page 3 EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER NEWS ENJOYING THE OUTDOORS Summer at the Center

Har Zion Early Childhood Center kicked off summer by welcoming new and returning families to our amazing community. We value kehillah (community) and are lucky to have grandparents volunteering to read wonderful stories. During camp, the children and their families get to know the clergy (especially the Rabbi!), who joins us on Friday to celebrate Shabbat. Har Zion Early Childhood Center is the community that feels like family! Is there something you can’t wait to do this summer?

LORRIE APPLEBEY; [email protected] WWW.HARZION.ORG/PRESCHOOL.HTML

RABBI GLICK (who is a preschool parent himself), READING A STORY

TEMPLE HAR ZION EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION GRADUATING CLASS OF 2021 GIFT TO THE TEMPLE (right)

The preschool graduating class of 2021 is thrilled to gift the synagogue with a beautiful and quite large Celebration Maple tree. In conjunction with the Adamah committee’s efforts to create a more green community we were able to purchase an exceptional maple tree that will provide shade and beauty to the preschool playground. If you are interested in supporting the care of this tree or interested in how we can further green our building please reach out to the Adamah committee. We hope you enjoy this wonderful gift which reflects our Jewish values to take care of the earth and plant more trees.

06/30/21 — Page 4 Contact the office for our online program password. instance, Haym Solomon helped secure financing for FROM THE EDUCATION DIRECTOR’S DESK the Revolution. There is a statue of him in Chicago, on Upper Wacker between Wabash and State Street. Giving Haym Solomon is also the reason there’s a Jewish star on the dollar bill (above the eagle’s head on the back Judaism a Vote of the bill). Decision-making, even when guided by Jewish “Our lives are fashioned by our choices. First we make values, is not always easy. My last day of student- our choices. Then our choices make us.”—Anne Frank teaching was on the first day of Passover. I set everything up so I could show up and teach without As a history major at WashU, I learned that history is breaking any of the rules for a festival. Then my class not inevitable—it is made up of choices that surprised me with a party, including a cake. They had individuals make, working off the best information gone out of their way to make sure that it was even available to them at the time. How do individuals kosher. It was a very pretty cake, and very make these decisions? A number of factors play a role; chametzadik. Within seconds, I had to decide—do I for those acquainted with them, Jewish values are eat the cake? On the one hand, it was Passover. On among the things that could weigh in. the other hand, there is a Rabbinic interpretation of Let’s consider an example of this. At the time of the Sixth Commandment (“Do not murder”) as “Do the American Revolution, there were somewhere not embarrass,” and keeping Passover did not make between 1,000 and 2,500 Jews in the American the Ten Commandments. So, I ate the cake. There’s a colonies. Like their fellow colonists, they had to Yiddish saying that if you’re going to eat pig you figure out which side to take in the conflict, and like might as well enjoy it, so I definitely enjoyed my one their fellow colonists, many of them were indeed slice of cake. conflicted. At Har Zion, we want to show how Judaism is In addition to the personal considerations, there relevant and adds meaning to one’s life. In the Koven were also competing Jewish values. The values that Religious School, we do this through talking about would lead one to be a Tory included: Dibbuk Jewish values, such as the value of Shmirat HaLashon (Loyalty), Dina d’Malchuta Dina (The Law of the (Guarding One’s Speech) around Yom Kippur, and Land is the Law), and Mitpalel biShloma shel Malchut Lo Ta’amod Al Dam Rei’echa (Don’t Be a Bystander) (Pray for the Welfare of the Government). The values around Purim. We also have classes for adults, such as that would lead one to be a Patriot included: Cheirut the Monday classes on Pirkei Avot, where we look at (Freedom), B’Tzelem Elohim (Equality), and Tzedek how the wisdom of the ancient rabbis is applicable to Tzedek Tirdof (Justice). According to the historian our lives today. Jonathan Sarna, most Colonial Jews eventually sided As we continue to make choices, I hope you will with the Patriots. Many of them fought and died for consider letting Judaism have a vote! the Patriots, and some contributed in other ways. For

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APAC: DAVID SCHWARTZ; [email protected] Right, APAC youth after WWW.HARZION.ORG/EDUCATION/RELIGIOUS-SCHOOL planting flowers and veggies. Below: The word gets around, and a River Forest resident SOCIAL ACTION AND ADAMAH/GREEN COMMITTEES has been donating baby items to APAC. This was a truck and Reaching Across Austin: trunk load! PLASTIC BENCH UPDATE: Watch for the announcement in late summer on presenting our first recycled plastic bag bench to APAC. MENTORING NEW GARDENERS: In addition to our Adamah Garden at the temple, we are working to plant a native garden for the APAC homes on Parkside that will be good for the environment and provide sustenance for bees, birds, and butterflies. We also have a tree donated by Alana Norlander for the APAC front yards and another potential one from Adrianne Colborg. We are starting to do the plantings, which will continue throughout the summer as we get our plants. If you can, volunteer to help guide the Austin youth in learning how to

Contact the office for our online program password. 06/30/21 — Page 5 tend a garden. Call Phyllis. NELSON MANDELA EXHIBIT AT THE ILLINOIS HOLOCAUST MUSEUM, JUNE 29, 4PM: FALL BOOK DISCUSSION Please join us for a docent-led tour of this exhibit. The Light of Days: The APAC will join us. Contact Carol Flank to Untold Story of Women participate and thank her for arranging this. Resistance Fighters in Plastic Collection Hitler’s Ghettos, by Judy Batalion BOTTLE CAPS AND LIDS: Continue to save your bottle caps and lids 7" or less. Social Action will be discussing Book Discussion for All alternative ways our community can recycle bottle Ages, 10 years and older caps. In 1943 at age 18, Renia Kulkielka smuggled weapons, cash, fake IDs, and people, in and out of PLASTIC BAGS: Har Zion has finished our community’s Warsaw. Eventually captured and tortured, she third plastic challenge, collecting 500 lbs. of plastic believed she would soon be sent to Auschwitz. Yet in in four weeks! The next challenge will be carried 2008 at age 83, Renia danced at her granddaughter’s forward by Unity Temple. Keep bringing your bags wedding in Tel Aviv. to Har Zion and we will take them over for Unity’s Renia Kulkielka is just one of the many girls and young women whose stories Judy Batalion shares in collection. The 1st bench is going to APAC. The The Light of Days; The Untold Story of Women 2nd bench, to a public location in Oak Park. The Resistance Fighters in Hitler’s Ghettos. 3rd bench will go to Oak Park Temple’s Young Readers Edition Community Garden. (We have to wait 6 months The author of The Light of Days, Ms. Batalion, to start a collection for a bench for Har Zion.) strongly believes that readers of all ages should know Please, please don’t include crunchy, stiff plastic! the story of the ghetto girls. For that reason the book is That goes in the trash. available in a Young Reader’s Edition, which is recommended for children aged 10 and older. We More.... suggest that the younger participants read that edition. WHAT WE ARE READING: Phyllis is reading an older (2012) but Do you have a child 10 years old or older? Please invite still very relevant book, From Beirut to Jerusalem, by them to read the Young Reader’s Edition and then Thomas Friedman. This is a hugely important read, join (with you?) in the discussion. We are hoping that a some of our younger people also read the book explaining the different factions in the Arab and the and offer their perspectives. These women’s stories are Israeli worlds and why the Middle East is such a inspirational. never-endingly fraught region. CHICAGO JEWISH COALITION FOR REFUGEES: Anyone interested in HONEY FOR THE HIGH HOLY DAYS current refugee issues and actions, contact Phyllis. Dear Friends, CJCR is tasked with disseminating information to As hard as it is to believe, the Jewish community so that we can be informed the High Holidays are just and take actions to “welcome the stranger.” around the corner. As they say, “the holidays are early this Adamah/Green Committee year!” (Erev Rosh Hashanah is September 6 this year.) ADAMAH GARDEN: The garden is on its way! Katie Moody, We once again partnering preschool parent, has volunteered to develop the with ORT America, “a global preschool beds. Yay, Katie! All are welcome to help. education network driven by High schoolers, want to offer one day/week to Jewish values,” selling 8 ounce jars of Honey from the water (and weed, if needed)? Heart, which you can have sent directly to family, friends, and business associates as Rosh Hashanah COMMUNITY SOLAR: Don’t forget to sign up for this painless greetings. A card signed with your name wishing service that is good for the environment. Find them Shana Tova will be included. information on this in the December and January/ This program will raise money to support three charities in Israel: Kfar Silver Youth Village, February Heralds. YOUniversity, and The Future Steps Project; and one For more information, please call or email Phyllis local charity: Housing Forward. For more information or to request an order form, Rubin, 708.848.6168, [email protected]. 06/30/21 — Page 6 Contact the office for our online program password. contact Carol Steinfeld, [email protected], or the community helps us all understand the fight for temple office, [email protected], or you can place equality and sheds light on the leadership of the trans your order at: https://honeyfromtheheart.org/HZI/ women of color. Although it might not have made it Let us be the first to wish you a L’shanah tova into your US history textbooks, there is a lot of rich tikatevu. May you be inscribed and sealed in the LGBTQ+ history that weaves a narrative that Book of Life for a good year. everyone who rides a float or cheers at a parade Carol Steinfeld and Carol Flank should know. HAPPY PS. The cost is $13 per jar. There is no charge for It was not easy being LGBTQ+ in the 1960s and preceding decades. Coming out as gay, lesbian, ANNIVERSARY! shipping for orders placed before July 7; after that shipping is $5.50 each jar. Orders placed through bisexual, or transgender often led to people being JULY 1: kicked out of their homes, ostracized by their family Ignacio & Iris Palomares August 6 will be delivered by Rosh Hashanah; you can place an order through the beginning of the holidays. and friends, and losing their jobs. In New York City, JULY 2: it was illegal for people to solicit others of the same Ronald Friedman & Clara Rubinstein sex or engage in gay behavior, including holding JCFS CORNER hands, kissing, or dancing with someone of the same JULY 4: George & Donna Srajer sex. Additionally, cross-dressing was illegal, meaning The History of Pride: that you could be arrested for dressing in clothes for Suzanne Fournier & Chris Martin Compton’s, Stonewall, people of the opposite sex. Because their public behavior was extremely policed, many people in the JULY 7: and Trans Women of Charles Gradle & Cindy Color LGBTQ+ community considered gay bars and clubs Kirshman-Gradle to be the “safest” places where they could be President Biden proclaimed June as Lesbian, Gay, themselves. However, the police frequently raided JULY 11: Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Pride Month. “I Robert & Mimi Miller these establishments and arrested anyone engaging in call upon the people of the United States to recognize those illegal behaviors. In the late-1960s, LGBTQ+ JULY 15: Gary & Barbara the achievements of the LGBTQ+ community, to people, especially transgender activists of color, Belenke celebrate the great diversity of the American people, fought back against the discrimination they were Daniel Edelman & Fran and to wave their flags of pride high. Pride is both a facing. This started the biggest LGBTQ+ movement Kravitz jubilant communal celebration of visibility and a in history. Here are some prominent events that Richard & Susan personal celebration of self-worth and dignity. This started the movement towards LGBTQ+ equality: Schneider Pride Month, we recognize the valuable contributions JULY 17: of LGBTQ+ individuals across America, and we The Stonewall Uprising: Marc Stopeck & Janel reaffirm our commitment to standing in solidarity The Stonewall Inn, a gay club in New York City, was Dennen with LGBTQ+ Americans in their ongoing struggle JULY 18: known to welcome all LGBTQ+ people, including against discrimination and injustice.” drag queens and runaway and homeless LGBTQ+ David & Shirley Lieb The current movement towards LGBTQ+ equality JULY 20: youth. In the early morning of June 28, 1969, the grew out of two events in the mid-to-late 1960s: the police raided the Stonewall Inn and arrested 13 people. Michael & Sarah Ruman Compton’s Cafeteria Riots (1966) and the Stonewall JULY 27: Those arrested included employees of the club as well Uprising (June, 1969). “Remembering the truths of as people who were cross-dressing. While all of this Adam & Suzanne West the Stonewall Uprising and the Compton’s Cafeteria JULY 31: was happening, the patrons who were kicked out of Riots will help that fight. Both of these events were the bar gathered outside of the bar to protest the Larry Stark & Mimi riots led by trans women of color, two essential facts arrests of people in the LGBTQ+ community. When Alschuler about these events that are often forgotten.” Neither an officer used his baton to hit Stormé DeLarverie in was peaceful; both were touched off by police the head, the rioting began. Within minutes, hundreds harassment of trans women of color. Trans women of of people gathered outside of the bar, throwing bricks, color are still subject to extraordinary violence and bottles, and rocks at the club and police officers, and “have been ostracized from the LGBTQ+ community.” set the Stonewall Inn on fire. Rioting and protests The History of Pride Part 1: Events that continued over the next six days. These events, soon to PLEASE READ THIS! be known as the Stonewall Riots, gave a voice to Made An Impact (Stonewall and Compton) LGBTQ+ people and began a movement that many Even if you think you know people consider to be the catalyst for LGBTQ+ of Compton’s and Stonewall, The month of June is recognized around the globe as liberation. In late-June of 1970, cities around the please read the article a time to celebrate LGBTQ+ individuals. Every year, beginning to the right from there are rainbow-filled parades, festivals, and country held the first Pride Parades to commemorate the JCFS Chicago Response fundraisers all over the world not only to celebrate the impact that the Stonewall Riots had on the nation. for Teens blog: “The History the progress that has been made, but also to raise Because the Stonewall Riots began in June, June has of Pride Part 1: Events That awareness of the change still necessary to achieve true been declared Pride Month and is celebrated around Made An Impact,” https:// equality. However, the LGBTQ+ community is as the world. www.jcfs.org/response/ blog/history-pride-part1 wide and varied as the ever-growing acronym. Compton’s Cafeteria Riot: Learning about the history of the struggles and In August of 1966, three years before the Stonewall It will help you understand milestones of the different parts of the queer the Pride Movement. Uprising, a groundbreaking riot in the name of trans Contact the office for our online program password. 06/30/21 — Page 7 rights broke out in Gene Compton’s Cafeteria. Compton’s was a 24-hour cafeteria in San Francisco that was frequented by trans Pulpit Flowers women, drag queens, and gay hustlers. The employees of Compton’s regularly called the police at night, wanting to clear July 3 the place out of LGBTQ+ people. When the police raided Lance & Janet Bolonik, Pirhia Compton’s, they harassed and arrested trans women and drag in memory of her friend, queens for “female impersonation.” One early morning in August Lender of 1966 (the exact date is unknown), when a police officer Robert & Rosemary Goldstine, in memory of his brother- grabbed a drag queen in Compton’s, she threw a cup of coffee in his face. In that moment, the other drag queens and trans women in-law, Ralph A. Feinstein present started rioting. They flipped tables, threw cutlery and Michael & Rosena Kruley, in memory of his mother, sugar shakers, and hit police officers with their purses. People outside of Compton’s fought back as police tried arresting them, Madeline Kruley destroyed a cop car, and set a newsstand on fire. This event July 10 became known as the Compton’s Cafeteria Riot and was “the first known instance of collective militant queer resistance to police Lance & Janet Bolonik, in memory of her sister, Aylin harassment in United States history,” according to Susan Stryker, Schlussel historian and director of the documentary Screaming Queens. The Compton’s Cafeteria Riot represents the first movement for Edward Sachs & Judith Grobe Sachs, in memory of her transgender rights in San Francisco, and shone light on the father, Arthur H. Grobe discrimination that trans women and drag queens regularly faced. Remembering the truths of the Stonewall Uprising and the Cynthia Kotlicky & Wendy O’Connell, in memory of her Compton’s Cafeteria Riots will help that fight. Both of these husband, Franklin Kotlicky events were riots led by trans women of color, two essential facts Doriss Lakin, in memory of her mother, Helen Frances about these events that are often forgotten. The Stonewall Uprising was not a peaceful protest, it was angry, violent riots to Lakin protest the police harassment that the LGBTQ+ community was July 17 facing. The 2015 film Stonewall misrepresents history by whitewashing the riots. The film features white gay men as the Cynthia Kotlicky & Wendy O’Connell, in memory of leaders of the riots, when it was actually trans women of color. It Mary Margolis is essential that we remember the truths of these events because their mother-in-law/grandmother, trans women of color deserve credit for the strides the US has Kotlicky made towards equality. They have faced a disproportionate amount of violence and have been ostracized from the LGBTQ+ July 24 community, so we cannot perpetuate their erasure from history. Phyllis Baren, in memory of her husband, Sheldon Baren In Part 2 of this blog, you will learn about the true leaders of the LGBTQ+ fight for equality. Steven & Betsy Blumenthal, in memory of his father, Above article reprinted from JCFS Chicago Response for Teens blog: Harold Blumenthal “The History of Pride Part 1: Events That Made An Impact,” https:// Jeffrey & Allison Goldberg, in memory of his father, www.jcfs.org/response/blog/history-pride-part1 Milton Goldberg For information on all of the counseling and support programs and services available at JCFS Chicago, email Elizabeth Ury, Larry Stark & Mimi Alschuler, in memory of his mother, [email protected]. Alice Stark July 31 SUBURBAN THURSDAY AFTERNOON RETIREES Edward Sachs & Judith Grobe Sachs, in memory of her Thursdays, 1–3 PM: Dorothy Petrosky At the time of this publication, we can’t announce any aunt, speakers for the month of July. As you know, we don’t always Steven & Carol Steinfeld, in memory of her father, have presentations, but we do almost always meet on Thursday William Karp afternoons, even without presenters. Even when we don’t have presenters, we do offer lively conversation. So come on Thursday Frank Vozak & Terrie Rymer, in memory of his mother, if you can! Margarita Vozak Contact the temple office for more information on the STAR Jeanette Wayne, in memory of her husband, Stephen A. programming for this month or if you need the STAR Zoom contact information. Wayne Jack & Sheila Weinberg, in memory of his mother, Marjorie Gottlieb Weinberg 06/30/21 — Page 8 Contact the office for our online program password. Todah Rabah Simcha Tree Commemorate special life events—a birthday or anniversary; birth of a Honor your family simcha with a child, grandchild, great grandchild; graduation; retirement; and so donation to the WSTHZ Simcha Tree. on—with a contribution to Temple Har Zion. Such a gift is a Your gift of a leaf will create a lasting meaningful way to honor any simcha. Donations can be directed to reminder of the occasion: wedding, any of these funds. Your generosity will help our congregation birth, bar/bat mitzvah, a birthday, or a maintain its fine programs, and will also affirm the importance of Judaism and Jewish ideals in your family’s life. thank you for a job well done.

ADULT EDUCATION FUND support in the development of present and future leaders Carol Koenig: In memory of Betsy ANNABEL, BERNARD AND OREN CARMI ABRAHAM FUND: PRAYER BOOK FUND: For the purchase of prayer books Blumenthal’s mother, Elaine Cohen Enabling children from families with financial need to Vafa & Liz Shayani, mazel tov to Brown; and In celebration of Vladimir receive a Jewish education grandparents Hilarie Lieb & Morris Tsesis and his special birthday! BUILDING FUND: Maintaining & improving the building Goldman on the birth of Rori GoldMarche David Kuhaneck, in memory of Jack Joss CANTOR’S MUSIC FUND: Provides musical programming Vladimir Tsesis, in celebration of the birth Marlene Mann: In memory of Betsy of Hilarie Lieb & Morris Goldman’s CHILDREN’S SHABBAT Blumenthal’s mother, Elaine Cohen granddaughter, Rori GoldMarche Brown; and Mazel tov to Hilarie Lieb & : Supports Friday Vladimir Tsesis, in honor of Michael Bass FAY STOPECK SHABBAT MUSICAL FUND Morris Goldman on the birth of their night musical services leading the Morning Minyan service Vladimir Tsesis, in honor of the Sunday granddaughter, Rori GoldMarche PRESCHOOL FUND davening of Michael Bass Alan Peres & Rya Ben-Shir, mazel tov to Morris & Beverly Applebaum, in celebration Steve and Betsy Blumenthal on the of Hilarie Lieb & Morris Goldman’s FLOWER FUND marriage of Ari Blumenthal and Alyssa granddaughter, Rori GoldMarche Stewart & Jolaine Orlin, in memory of Mendoza Jolaine’s mother, Elaine Mann Ingrid Brown, mazel tov to Hilarie Lieb and Morris Goldman on the birth of Judy & Ed Sachs, in memory of Elaine Barry & Jean Schub, in memory of her Cohen Brown grandmother, Pearl Cohn granddaughter, Rori GoldMarche Edward & Linda Schmitt, in memory of Eric Mitchell & Joan Weiss, in memory of his RABBI ROBIN DAMSKY ADAMAH FUND Fogel’s brother father, George Weiss RABBI VICTOR A MIRELMAN EDUCATION FUND: Supports early education, religious school, & adult education Barry Shanoff: In memory of his brother, GROPPER WINDOW PROJECT FUND: Supports the Michael Shanoff; In memory of his restoration of the Gropper Windows Vladimir Tsesis, in honor of Rabbi Victor A. Mirelman’s leading role at Har Zion father, Paul Shanoff; and In memory of GROWTH & DEVELOPMENT FUND: To support the long- his mother, Audrey Shanoff term stability and viability of the congregation RABBI’S DISCRETIONARY FUND: Supports a variety of charities and special activities at the rabbi’s discretion Robert & Joyce Silverman: Mazel tov GURALNICK PLAYLOT FUND Arlyne Druckman, in honor of Rabbi Adir to Karyn & Nelson Weisman on their JACK JOSS MEMORIAL FUND: For the expansion and Glick new home; and In memory of Betsy maintenance of the Catherine and Jack Joss Tot Lot Barry & Linda Newman, in memory of Blumenthal’s mother, Elaine Brown JANICE PATTERSON KALLAH SCHOLARSHIP FUND: Betsy Blumenthal’s mother, Elaine Nancy Skowronski & Janice Wierzba, in Supports Kallah expenses and helps families attend Cohen Brown memory of Errol Zavett JEWISH JOURNEYS FUND: Supports learning and spiritual SENIOR ACTIVITY FUND Michael & Renee Slade: Mazel tov to development in the community, including programs, ritual items and Jewish learning stipends SOCIAL ACTION FUND Hannah Grandsard on becoming Bat Carol Flank, in memory of Elaine Cohen Mitzvah!: Mazel tov to Leah Grandsard on TEMPLE FUND: Supports all temple programs Brown, mother of Betsy Blumenthal Ian Elfenbaum & Susan Adler, in honor of becoming Bat Mitzvah!; and Mazel tov to Freddrika & Bonnie Kammer, in Rabbi Glick Ruth Brown on becoming Bat Mitzvah! appreciation of Jewniversity’s offerings CBIZ, Inc., in memory of Errol Zavett Vladimir Tsesis: In honor of Charles being open to all Paul & Fran Ellstein, in memory of Fran’s Shapera, a most outstanding Vladimir Tsesis, in honor of Rivkah Fallert father, Sacha Dell administrator!; and In honor of Sheila for leading Morning Minyan services Sheila Essig, in celebration of Vladimir Essig and her most amazing dedication KIDDUSH & BREAKFAST FUND: Provides for Shabbat & Tsesis’ extraordinary 80th birthday to Har Zion festival Kiddushim, and weekday minyan breakfast Suzanne Fournier & Chris Martin: In Mitchell & Joan Weiss, in memory of his KOVEN RELIGIOUS SCHOOL FUND: Provides equipment, memory of Jeanne Fournier; and Mazel father, George Weiss programs & scholarships for the Koven Religious School tov to grandparents Hilarie Lieb & Morris Hedy Zussman, in memory of her mother, LIBRARY FUND: Supports both temple libraries Goldman on the birth of Rori GoldMarche Bertha Zussman Ken and Kim Heiferman, mazel tov to Hilarie LIEB FAMILY SUKKAH FUND: For the Lieb Family Sukkah Lieb & Morris Goldman on the birth of TZEDAKAH FUND: Supports a variety of charities MALCOLM GETHNER USY SCHOLARSHIP FUND: Funds for their granddaughter, Rori GoldMarche USY SCHOLARSHIP FUND our youth to attend regional events & retreats David & Bonnie Klass, in memory of Errol YONG FAMILY CAMP FUND: Provides partial scholarships PAUL WOLFMAN LAY LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT FUND: To Zavett for members’ children to attend Jewish camps Contact the office for our online program password. 06/30/21 — Page 9 July 2021 Tammuz/Av 5781 VIRTUAL ZOOM PROGRAM ZOOM MEETING ID If not attending the Shabbat Morning services in person, you can join Shohet Morning Minyan, M-F, 8 AM; Sun. 9:30 AM ID# 799 405 500 online, three ways: Friday Evening Kabbalat Shabbat Service, 6:30 PM ID# 818 0357 8025 • On Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/242651284, with the usual Har Shabbat Morning Service, Sat, 10 AM Details to the left. Zion Zoom password • To the temple’s Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/ Psalms w/ Rabbi Glick, Thursdays, 10 AM ID# 990 415 095 WSTHZ/ (no password) Jewish Meditation w/ Rabbi Glick, Sundays, 9 AM, ID# 489 884 312 • To YouTube: https://bit.ly/HarZionYouTube (no password) resuming in August The rest of the regular services/programs are streamed only, and Jewniversity w/David Schwartz, Mondays, 8 PM ID# 940 4734 9261 only on Zoom; ID#s to the right. Recordings of holiday and Saturday Shabbat services and some special programs are available on the More programs are in the works! temple’s Facebook page and YouTube channel. (See above for links.) There isn’t much scheduled as of now, but there are programs and Ask the temple office for the Zoom password if you need it. classes in the works. Email the office (see back cover), check out the temple website www.wsthz.org, and follow the temple’s email announcements to find out what is coming up.

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 27 28 29 30 July 1 July 2 July 3 Fast of Tammuz 8 AM Shohet 8 AM Shohet 8 AM Shohet 8 AM Shohet Morning 8 AM Shohet Morning Shabbat Mevarchim 9 AM Meditation Morning Minyan Morning Minyan Morning Minyan Minyan Minyan Pinchas 9:30 AM Minyan 8 PM Jewniversity 4 PM Illinois 10 AM Psalms 6:30 PM Kabbalat 10 AM Service with David Schwartz Holocaust Museum 1 PM STAR Shabbat Hai Solomon Nelson Mandela Exhibition; contact Carol Flank for details 9:15 PM Havdalah 8:12 PM 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Independence Day 8 AM Shohet 8 AM Shohet 8 AM Shohet 8 AM Shohet Morning 8 AM Shohet Morning Rosh Chodesh Av Morning Minyan Minyan Minyan 9:30 AM Minyan Morning Minyan Morning Minyan Matot –Masei 10 AM Psalms 6:30 PM Kabbalat 10 AM Service 1 PM STAR Shabbat David Schwartz

9:13 PM Havdalah 8:10 PM 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 9 AM Meditation 8 AM Shohet 8 AM Shohet 8 AM Shohet 8 AM Shohet Morning 8 AM Shohet Morning Shabbat Hazon 9:30 AM Minyan Morning Minyan Morning Minyan Morning Minyan Minyan Minyan Devarim 8 PM Jewniversity 10 AM Psalms 6:30 PM Kabbalat 10 AM Service with David Schwartz 1 PM STAR Shabbat Moselle Brotman

(Havdalah delayed 8:06 PM until tomorrow.) 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Fast of Tisha B’Av 8 AM Shohet 8 AM Shohet 8 AM Shohet 8 AM Shohet Minyan 8 AM Shohet Morning Tu B’Av Morning Minyan Minyan 9:30 AM Minyan Morning Minyan Morning Minyan 10 AM Psalms Shabbat Nachamu 8 PM Jewniversity 1 PM STAR 6:30 PM Kabbalat Vaetchanan Shabbat with David Schwartz 10 AM Service Phyllis Rubin

9:08 PM Havdalah 8:01 PM 9:03 PM Havdalah 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 9:30 AM Minyan 8 AM Shohet 8 AM Shohet 8 AM Shohet 8 AM Shohet Morning 8 AM Shohet Morning Eikev Morning Minyan Morning Minyan Morning Minyan Minyan Minyan 10 AM Service 8 PM Jewniversity 10 AM Psalms 6:30 PM Kabbalat George Srajer with David Schwartz 1 PM STAR Shabbat

8:56 PM Havdalah 7:54 PM

06/30/21 — Page 10 Contact the office for our online program password. Sam Bell Bess Berry In Memoriam Lola Blei The Congregation extends its deepest sympathy to the families of: Ida D. Bloom Elaine Cohen Brown Reva Broyde Wife of Harold Brown (z”l), mother of longtime congregants Betsy & Steven Blumenthal; grandmother of Leia & Sebastian Stirling, Shoshana & Binyamin Emil Glauber Meyers, Naomi Blumenthal, and Ari & Alyssa Blumenthal; and great-grandmother of Mark Neil Goren Naftali Blumenthal, Ada and Hugh Stirling, and Ronit and Liora Meyers Yahrzeits Arthur H. Grobe Amnon Zmora Phyllis Harris July 2–3 Uncle of Michael Zmora & Megan Dawson; great uncle of Elena and Jacob Zmora; David Holden and brother of Arie and Nurith Zmora Cecelia Abrams Sadye Joss “The memory of the righteous is a blessing” — Proverbs 10:7 Aaron Mayer Herman Kaplan Altschul Franklin Kotlicky Tillie Berman Bessie Nathan Milton Goldberg Edward Gusfield Helen Frances Lakin Nathan Bernstein Jean Pruzan Florence Graff Jacob K. Hanfling Meyer Libman Jack Braverman Rose Riebman Jacob Hirsh Mary J. Harris Isadore Poncher Kveta Eliasek-Dolejsi Yetta Roth Jeanne Kantor Selma Savit Julius Hershovitz Alexander Eulenberg Harold L. Shirley P. Kass Aylin Schlussel Maurice Izenstark Alice Farber Rubenstein Clara Breslove King Israel Schultz Judith Jasculca Ralph A. Feinstein Herbert J. Schiff William L. Lucy Shoua William Karp Fannabell Fixman Ilse Schmitt Kleinfeldt Morris Steinberg Dora Lakin Jeanne Fournier Harry Segall Walter Landau Jennie Turek Abraham R. Gray Alter Sheft Cynthia Jo Lieb Goldie Lamb Anna Warshafsky Marc Hamburger Yetta Shure David Lifschultz Beatrice Levine Morris Warshafsky Abraham Jacobson Bertha Silverstein Ruth Morrison Claire Novak Anna Weinger Goldie Kaplan Tillie Somer Pearl Mottlowitz Irving Nuger Bert T. Winter Manny Kieselstein Bella Somer Carl Orlin Isaac Offner July 16–17 Arthur Koven Gussie Stopeck Philip Rose Dorothy Petrosky Samuel Tananbaum Madeline Kruley David Baren Lucee Schloff Herman Pincus Audree Cohen Gloria Beer Kim Tetzloff Sol H. Siegel Roger William Ryva Wagner Lasser Helen Bezer Harry P. Sinton Sam Weinger Poborsky Pirhia Lender Leo Brener Alice Stark Marilyn Weisman Harry Robbins Louis Markle Benjamin Brodsky Juliius Troshinsky Leon Mirelman Rebecca Weiss Ernest Roth Rose M. Casin Libby Tuven David Porter Thea Solomon Rachael Russman Andrew Ellenbogen Louis Weinberg Alvin Schmeltzer Erwin Gnippe Wijnhausen Rebecca M. Sadove July 30–31 Paul Shanoff Harry Gold Sara Wolke Joseph Schiller Mildred Sidorow Abraham Goldman July 23–24 Luis Blei Audrey Shanoff Natalie Chabner Stephen L. Siegel Max Goldstine Seymour J. Adler Louis Shiffman Martin Silverman Ruth Einhorn Bessie Gutensky Miriam Amitai Abraham Stabiner Beatrice Sokol Sonia Elkins William H. Horwich Shirley Anenberg Esther Bailey Turner Manny Wallen Helen Klein Paul Engel Sheldon Baren Margarita Vozak Hubert Weinstein Mary Margolis Harold Blumenthal Olga Feitler Jean Wagner Benjamin Elie Wilen Kotlicky Miriam Bolotski Pearl Fish Helen Wilens Lena Levine Samuel Enrique Milo Flower Stephen A. Wayne July 9–10 Alex Levy Carniol Gussie Frack Marjorie Gottlieb Max Applebaum Jeanette S. Lewis Walter Cohen Nathan Gethner Weinberg Esther Bandari Sam Liberman Jacob Cohen Nancy Gettes Ruth Lieberman Pinchas Bandari Esther Lucas Sam Finkel Benjamin Goldstein Wolff

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Har Zion

1040 North Harlem Avenue River Forest, IL 60305–1523 www.harzion.org

Temple Staff Directory TELEPHONE: 708.366.9000 FAX: 708.366.9006 WE CAN BE REACHED: Monday through Thursday: 8:30 AM–5:00 PM Friday: 8:30 AM–2:00 PM In case of emergency, please call Rabbi Adir Glick at 310.227.9954. We can also be reached by email: RABBI ADIR GLICK, The Solomon Family Rabbinic Chair – [email protected] RABBI VICTOR A. MIRELMAN, Rabbi Emeritus – [email protected] CANTOR STEWART FIGA, The Goldstine Family Cantorial Chair – [email protected] DAVID SCHWARTZ, Director of Education – [email protected] CHARLES SHAPERA, Executive Director – [email protected] LORRIE APPLEBEY, The Guralnick Family Preschool Chair – [email protected] SHEILA ESSIG, Office Manager – [email protected]

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