DOCSLIB.ORG

MAKING OUR HALLEL COMPLETE Lssue 80/Chanukah 5777

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
MAKING OUR HALLEL COMPLETE Lssue 80/Chanukah 5777 MAKING OUR HALLEL COMPLETE lssue 80/Chanukah 5777 10 20 34 To light Oil for The Price in delight today of a Secret Free IVF: Guarantee Not Included 60 Services 24 Hour Referral Helpline • ATIME Publications • Book & Audio Libraries • Committee for Halacha & Technology • Family Builder Program • Phone Support Groups • Insurance Advocacy & Support • Medical Referrals & Research • Menorah Adoption Project • National Medical Conferences • Online Support Network • Peer support • Pregnancy-Loss Support Program/ Extreme Grief Services • Refuah Network • Seminars/Educational Events Main Office: • Shabbos Near the Hospital • Support Groups • Website • Weekend Retreats 1310 48th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11219 • Kol Chaya Hotline/718-298-2646 Phone (718) 686-8912 • Fax (718) 686-8927 • Project Chava/718-475-1415 Helpline (718) 437-7110 Hashgacha (718) 686-8912 ext. 280 Board of Trustees E-mail: [email protected] Mr. Avrumie Ausch • Mr. Moshe Blum • Mr. Yechiel Eisenstadt • Mr. Avrum Grunhut • Rabbi Naftuli Weiss England: Midwest: 107 Dunsmure Rd.• Suite 2 E-mail:[email protected] Board of Directors London N16 5HT Mr. Naftali Einhorn • Mr. Benyamin Feit • Mr. Shabsi Fuchs Phone: 44-208-800-2153 Chicago: • Rabbi Aron Grossman • Mr. Avi Hager • Mr. David Jacobowitz • Mr. Alter Katz Fax: 44-208-211-1773 E-mail:[email protected] • Rabbi Dovid Lefkowitz • Rabbi Sendy Ornstein • Mr. Moshe Dov Stern E-Mail: [email protected] • Rabbi Aron Twersky • Rabbi Benyamin Weiser • Mr. Shmuel Zafir Florida: Israel: 305-260-6377 Medical Advisory Board Phone:0527187188 [email protected] • Heather Appelbaum, M.D. • Natan Bar-Chama, M.D. • Samuel Bender, M.D. E-Mail: [email protected] • Alan Berkeley, M.D. • Jessica Brown, M.D. • Jerome Check, M.D. • Owen Davis, M.D. Mid-Atlantic Region: • Dan Goldschlag, M.D. • Marc Goldstein, M.D. • Victor Grazi, M.D. • Jamie Grifo, M.D. Belgium: (410) 394-7074 • Lawrence Grunfeld, M.D. • Joshua Hurwitz, M.D. • Peter McGovern, M.D. • Nachum Phone: +323 500 1075 E-Mail: [email protected] Katlowitz, M.D. • Joshua U. Klein, M.D. • Zalmen Levine, M.D. • Harry J. Lieman, M.D. • E-mail: [email protected] Baltimore • Washington David Lobel, M.D. • Prof. Bruno Lunenfeld, M.D. • Darius Paduch, M.D. • Steven Palter, Website: www.atime.be Virginia • Delaware M.D. • Andrei Rebarber, M.D. • Victor Rosenberg, MD • Zev Rosenwaks, M.D. • Eli Rybak, M.D. • Daniel Salzman, M.D. • Jonathan Schiff, M.D. • Peter Schlegel, M.D. • Geoffrey Founder and CEO/Rabbi Shaul Rosen Sher, M.D. • Sherman Silber, M.D. • Michael Silverstein, M.D. • Richard Scott, Jr. M.D. • President/Mr. Moshe Fischer Glen L. Schattman, M.D. • Aaron Weinreb, M.D.• Zev Williams, M.D. Rabbinical Director/Rabbi Chaim Aron Unger Director of Medical Affairs/Rabbi Mordechai Koenig Support Services Advisory Board Director of Member Services/Mrs. Brany Rosen Program Director/Mrs. Sara Barris, Ph.D. Event Coordinator/Mrs. Miriam Fishoff Director of Services for Pregnancy loss/Mrs. Yehudis Grunwald Loss Packet Distribution Director/Mrs. Leah Buxbaum Mr. Meir Bertram Mrs. Myriam Kalchstein Mrs. Feige Singer Mrs. Rivky Bertram Mrs. Shoshana Korasik Mrs. Dassy Stern Loss Phone Support Coordinator/Mrs. Esther Moeller Mrs. Joy Ehrman Mrs. Vivienne Moskowitz Mrs. Rachel Tuchman Director of Chevra Kadisha Services/Mrs. Zahava Goldenberg Mrs. Rivka Feit Mrs. Chaya Ostreicher Mrs. Rachel Welfeld Staff Advisor/Mrs. Blimy Steinberg Mrs. Hindy Dahari Mrs. Brany Rosen Mrs. Ruchy Rosenfeld Shabbos Near the Hospital Program Coordinators Dr. Neal Goldberg Mrs. Sara Selengut Mrs. Chaya Kar, Mrs. Vivienne Moskowitz Director of Volunteers/Mrs. Perry Eckstein Helpline Director of Community Affairs/Mr. Alter Katz • Helpline Director/Rabbi Mordechai Koenig • Mrs. Shaindy Blau •Mrs. Goldie Blum Medical Consultant/Mrs. Vivienne Moskowitz •Mrs. Reizy Eigner • Mrs. Shani Feit•Mrs. Simi Hersko •Mrs. Mindy Lowy•Mrs. Nechumie Lipson • Mrs. Elky Miller• Mrs. Shoshana Mohadeb •Mrs. Vivienne Moskowitz •Mrs. Kim Rothstein Office Manager/Mrs. Ruchy Follman • Mrs. Faigy Schneid• Mrs. Esty Unsdorfer •Mrs. Rivky Wertzberger Event Coordinator/Mrs. Miriam Fishoff Insurance Advocacy/Mrs. Zissy Neustadt Pregnancy Loss Helpline Mailing Coordinator/Mrs. Gitty Green • Mrs. Devorie Berger •Mrs. Mindy Blumenfeld •Mrs. Hindy Dahari •Mrs. Zahava Goldenberg Library Coordinator/Mrs. Shaindy Blau •Mrs. Beila Hersko • Mrs. Peri Ekstein • Mrs. Rivky Rausman •Mrs. Chaya Yitty Rottenberg Graphic Design/Mrs. Shiffy Litchfield/Mr. Chanoch Glick •Mrs. Sarah Selengut • Mrs. Leah Sprei •Mrs. Chana Rivky Weinberger Meals with Heart Coordinator/Mrs. Leah Buxbaum Shasathon Committee/Mr. Mordechai Trieger/Yoel Wexler A TIME Medical Supervision (Hashgacha) Dream Tea Coordinator/Mrs. Rochie Cynamon Dean/Rabbi Herschel Ausch • Director/Rabbi Mordechai Koenig R TIME Director/Mrs. Chumie Becker Associate Director/Rabbi Yosef Moshe Heilpern Kol Chaya/ Mr. and Mrs. Yoel and Mindy Lowy/Mrs. Leah Schwinder Coordinators/Mrs. Henny Frankel/Mrs. Sury Schwartz A TIME welcomes your signed letters, articles and poems. All Shabbos Near the Hospital suggestions, comments and constructive criticisms are welcome. All Mrs. Chaya Kar/ Mrs. Vivienne Moskowitz submissions become the property of A TIME and may be edited for Mrs. Malky Grunberger • Mrs. Reizy Eigner • Mrs. Sury Friedman• Mrs. Zissy Muller length and clarity. Articles and letters published in A TIME express the views of the individual writers and may not necessarily represent the Magazine & Publications views of A TIME. Please address all correspondence to: Editor in Chief/Mrs. Devoiry Goralnik Editors/Mrs. Adina Lebovic • Mrs. Talia Klammer • Mrs. Faigy Mozes A TIME 1310 48th Street, Suite 406, Brooklyn, NY 11219 Managing Editor/Mrs. Mindy Lowy or email: [email protected] Contributing Editor/Mrs. Sury Karmel Yiddish Editor/Mr. Yoel Z. Lowy A TIME, a non-profit organization that supports and educates those Graphic Design/Mrs. Rivky Herzog • ClickItDesign.com in the Jewish community experiencing infertility, publishes this newsletter 4 times annually (April, June, September, and December). A TIME does not assume responsibility for the kashruth or reliability ATIME would like to thank of any product or establishment advertised in its pages. We reserve HealthTrak "Healthtrak Distributing" DISTRIBUTING, LLC the right to reject any advertising for any reason. We shall not be held for being the generous liable for non-publication of any submitted advertisements. 525 Route 70, Suite A5 sponsor of this Shaarei SHAAREI TIKVAH/ CHANUKAH 5777 CHANUKAH TIKVAH/ SHAAREI Lakewood, NJ 08701 Tikvah magazine. Ellie732.994.5552 Rotberg We wish you much success. Office: A TIME, 1310 48th Street, Suite 406, Brooklyn, NY 11219. VICE PRESIDENT 2 525 Route 70, Suite A5 / Lakewood, NJ 08701 P: 732.994.5552 / F: 732.994.5553 E: [email protected] Table of Contents Editorial Letter from the Editor 4 Mailbox 6 Timeline 8 26 Chizuk To Light in Delight 10 Humor Free IVF 56 A Light in the Dark 14 The Five Friends 58 Message of Hope 16 Fertility Patient 62 Oil for Today 18 Tomorrow 20 Going in Circles 21 Playlist Just One Baby 64 Struggle to Freedom 22 In Ihr Chevron 65 Stop Waiting for Happiness 24 Chizuk from P r e g n a n c y Lo s s S u p p o r t Within Something Borrowed 66 Not Alone 26 What Nobody Tells You 72 Dear IF 30 The Price of a Secret 32 The Waiting Train 35 Yiddish What a Beautiful Mess 36 Riding the Waves 38 Section 84-102 Chanukah Miracle 40 24 Support Pick Your Battles: 44 Waze 46 52 Medical Testosterone Supplements 48 PCOS or HA 50 Natural Isn't Better 52 91 A TIME was founded in memory of: Five Myths 54 CHANUKAH TIKVAH/ SHAAREI 5777 ר׳ ירמי׳ ב״ר אהרן ע״ה • ר׳ מרדכי ע״ה ב״ר אפרים רוזן נ״י 3 Letter from the Editor How are you, dear reader? On Chanukah, we recite Hallel When we recite the complete Dearin its entirety. Readers, Hallel, we are blessing Hashem, If you are reading this magazine, not only for the happy, joyous then chances are that your life has And then there are times, such occasions but also for our some challenges at the moment; as Rosh Chodesh and the latter hardships, struggles, pains and you are encountering some days of Pesach, when we skip over difficulties. and ”לא לנו“ bumps on the road, trying to find the chapters of How do we refer to the This is no easy feat, Reb Mottel ”.אהבתי“ your way on unchartered terrain and attempting to conquer the incomplete Hallel? We refer to this Slonimer points out. He compares struggles, disappointments and as “Chatzi Hallel—half Hallel.” the two pesukim found in Hallel כוס pain. and notes that whereas is all in ישועות אשא ובשם ה' אקרא One doesn’t have to be a ends צרה ויגון אמצא ,And yet, had the above question mathematical genius to calculate one pasuk been addressed directly to you, that we are, in fact, saying way one pasuk, and the next pasuk It is .ובשם ה' אקרא you would have probably more than half of Hallel on those starts with answered with, “Baruch Hashem.” days. Why don’t we refer to it as natural to thank Hashem when 85% Hallel? Why is it considered the good times are flowing; “Baruch Hashem, we’re to be “half Hallel?” managing.” however, it takes tremendous This question can be answered avoda to praise Hashem while “Baruch Hashem, we’re with our abovementioned suffering. experiencing such Siyata obligation. Dishmaya.” Not only do we have the opportunity for a complete Hallel כוס ישועות אשא ובשםThe pasuk which alludes to blessing during the eight recitations of ה’ אקרא …And even Hashem for the goodness He Hallel over Chanuka, but endless “Baruch Hashem, we’re going times throughout the day. Every ,מה אשוב through a rough time.” grants us is found in which is never omitted when day. We can bless Hashem for all of צרה ויגון, In doing so, in blessing Hashem reciting Hallel.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Barbara Mandigo Kelly Peace Poetry Contest Winners
    The Gathering by Ana Reisens Adult Category, First Place In the movie we sleep fearlessly on open planes because we cannot imagine any danger more tragic than those that have already passed. For weeks we have been arriving over the earth’s broken skin, over mountains and rivers, shaking the aching flagpoles from our shoulders. Now all the priests and imams and rabbis and shamans are gathered beside the others, teachers, brothers and kings and they’re sharing recipes and cooking sweet stories over fires. Suddenly we hear a voice calling from the sky or within – or is it a radio? – and it sings of quilts and white lilies as if wool and petals were engines. It’s a lullaby, a prayer we all understand, familiar like the scent of a lover’s skin. And as we listen we remember our grandmothers’ hands, the knitted strength of staying, how silence rises like warmth from a woven blanket. And slowly the lines begin to disappear from our skin and our memories spin until we’ve forgotten the I of our own histories and everyone is holy, everyone is laughing, weeping, singing, It’s over, come over, come in. And this is it, the story, an allegory, our movie – the ending and a beginning. The producer doesn’t want to take the risk. No one will watch it, he says, but we say, Just wait. All the while a familiar song plays on the radio and somewhere in a desert far away a soldier in a tank stops as if he’s forgotten the way.
    [Show full text]
  • Table of Contents
    Table of Contents From the Editors 3 From the President 3 From the Executive Director 5 The Sound Issue “Overtures” Music, the “Jew” of Jewish Studies: Updated Readers’ Digest 6 Edwin Seroussi To Hear the World through Jewish Ears 9 Judah M. Cohen “The Sound of Music” The Birth and Demise of Vocal Communities 12 Ruth HaCohen Brass Bands, Jewish Youth, and the Sonorities of a Global Perspective 14 Maureen Jackson How to Get out of Here: Sounding Silence in the Jewish Cabaretesque 20 Philip V. Bohlman Listening Contrapuntally; or What Happened When I Went Bach to the Archives 22 Amy Lynn Wlodarski The Trouble with Jewish Musical Genres: The Orquesta Kef in the Americas 26 Lillian M. Wohl Singing a New Song 28 Joshua Jacobson “Sounds of a Nation” When Josef (Tal) Laughed; Notes on Musical (Mis)representations 34 Assaf Shelleg From “Ha-tikvah” to KISS; or, The Sounds of a Jewish Nation 36 Miryam Segal An Issue in Hebrew Poetic Rhythm: A Cognitive-Structuralist Approach 38 Reuven Tsur Words, Melodies, Hands, and Feet: Musical Sounds of a Kerala Jewish Women’s Dance 42 Barbara C. Johnson Sound and Imagined Border Transgressions in Israel-Palestine 44 Michael Figueroa The Siren’s Song: Sound, Conflict, and the Politics of Public Space in Tel Aviv 46 Abigail Wood “Surround Sound” Sensory History, Deep Listening, and Field Recording 50 Kim Haines-Eitzen Remembering Sound 52 Alanna E. Cooper Some Things I Heard at the Yeshiva 54 Jonathan Boyarin The Questionnaire What are ways that you find most useful to incorporate sound, images, or other nontextual media into your Jewish Studies classrooms? 56 Read AJS Perspectives Online at perspectives.ajsnet.org AJS Perspectives: The Magazine of President Please direct correspondence to: the Association for Jewish Studies Pamela Nadell Association for Jewish Studies From the Editors perspectives.ajsnet.org American University Center for Jewish History 15 West 16th Street Dear Colleagues, Vice President / Program New York, NY 10011 Editors Sounds surround us.
    [Show full text]
  • Stories from the Heart of Australia, the Stories of Its People
    O UR GIFT TO Y O U Stories from the PENNING THE P ANDEMIC EDIT ED B Y J OHANNA S K I NNE R & JANE C O NNO L LY Inner Cover picture – Liz Crispie Inner Cover design – Danielle Long Foreword – Johanna Skinner and Jane Connolly Self-Isolation – Margaret Clifford Foreword Late in 2019 news reports of a highly virulent virus were emerging from China. No one could imagine then what would follow. As a general practitioner working at a busy Brisbane surgery, I really did not think that it would affect us that much. How wrong I was. Within months, the World Health Organisation had named the virus COVID 19 and a pandemic was declared. Life as we knew it was changed, perhaps forever. I was fortunate to be part of a practice that had put protocols in place should the worst happen, but even so, I felt overwhelmed by the impact on the patients that I was in contact with daily. They poured their hearts out with stories of resilience, heartache and lives changed irrevocably. I contacted my friend Jane, an experienced editor and writer, about my idea to collect these tales into an anthology. In less than five minutes, she responded enthusiastically and became its senior editor, bringing her years of experience and sharp eye to detail to the anthology. Together, we spent many weekends over pots of tea and Jane’s warm scones reading the overwhelming number of stories and poems that the public entrusted to us. Our greatest regret was that we couldn’t accommodate every piece we received.
    [Show full text]
  • Manchester Page 37
    Friday November 16, 2007 JEWISH TELEGRAPH 37 We have a real musical treat for readers at www.jewishtelegraph.com — first up we are giving away the triple DVD Don’t Forget The Motorcity, absolutely crammed with all the greatest Motown hits and then we have compilation albums Love — The Collection and Clubmix Classics ONLY ONLINE Joshua’s makes London bow PEOPLE VIOLINIST Joshua Bell will attracted the attention of cousins, growing up we would PICTURE: TIMOTHY WHITE perform at Cadogan Hall in Josef Gingold, one of the best- have musicals, we would get London on Sunday. known violin teachers in together around the holidays The Grammy Award winner America. Under his tutelage, and everyone played an has recorded more than 39 Bell’s career really took off. instrument.” albums and was named Bell, whose mother is Billboard magazine’s Jewish, said: “We weren’t Bell is also planning to Classical Artist of the Year in strongly religious Jews, but premiere a concerto written 2004. there was a strong cultural for him by the 15-year-old Bell, 39, was raised on a feeling of being Jewish.” Jewish prodigy Jay Greenberg farm in Indiana. All Bell’s heroes were at Carnegie Hall, New York. He started his musical Jewish violinists including Bell has already recorded a career at the age of four when Gingold, Jascha Heifetz, Fritz CD of Greenberg’s Fifth he stretched elastic bands Kreisler and Yehudi Menuhin. Symphony, written when the across his chest of drawers He added: “I feel very close composer was 12. and played melodies.
    [Show full text]
  • By Aaron Jay Kernis
    Louisiana State University LSU Digital Commons LSU Doctoral Dissertations Graduate School 2016 “A Voice, A Messenger” by Aaron Jay Kernis: A Performer's Guide and Historical Analysis Pagean Marie DiSalvio Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations Part of the Music Commons Recommended Citation DiSalvio, Pagean Marie, "“A Voice, A Messenger” by Aaron Jay Kernis: A Performer's Guide and Historical Analysis" (2016). LSU Doctoral Dissertations. 3434. https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations/3434 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate School at LSU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in LSU Doctoral Dissertations by an authorized graduate school editor of LSU Digital Commons. For more information, please [email protected]. “A VOICE, A MESSENGER” BY AARON JAY KERNIS: A PERFORMER’S GUIDE AND HISTORICAL ANALYSIS A Written Document Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Musical Arts in The School of Music by Pagean Marie DiSalvio B.M., Rowan University, 2011 M.M., Illinois State University, 2013 May 2016 For my husband, Nicholas DiSalvio ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to thank my committee, Dr. Joseph Skillen, Prof. Kristin Sosnowsky, and Dr. Brij Mohan, for their patience and guidance in completing this document. I would especially like to thank Dr. Brian Shaw for keeping me focused in the “present time” for the past three years. Thank you to those who gave me their time and allowed me to interview them for this project: Dr.
    [Show full text]
  • Karaoke Mietsystem Songlist
    Karaoke Mietsystem Songlist Ein Karaokesystem der Firma Showtronic Solutions AG in Zusammenarbeit mit Karafun. Karaoke-Katalog Update vom: 13/10/2020 Singen Sie online auf www.karafun.de Gesamter Katalog TOP 50 Shallow - A Star is Born Take Me Home, Country Roads - John Denver Skandal im Sperrbezirk - Spider Murphy Gang Griechischer Wein - Udo Jürgens Verdammt, Ich Lieb' Dich - Matthias Reim Dancing Queen - ABBA Dance Monkey - Tones and I Breaking Free - High School Musical In The Ghetto - Elvis Presley Angels - Robbie Williams Hulapalu - Andreas Gabalier Someone Like You - Adele 99 Luftballons - Nena Tage wie diese - Die Toten Hosen Ring of Fire - Johnny Cash Lemon Tree - Fool's Garden Ohne Dich (schlaf' ich heut' nacht nicht ein) - You Are the Reason - Calum Scott Perfect - Ed Sheeran Münchener Freiheit Stand by Me - Ben E. King Im Wagen Vor Mir - Henry Valentino And Uschi Let It Go - Idina Menzel Can You Feel The Love Tonight - The Lion King Atemlos durch die Nacht - Helene Fischer Roller - Apache 207 Someone You Loved - Lewis Capaldi I Want It That Way - Backstreet Boys Über Sieben Brücken Musst Du Gehn - Peter Maffay Summer Of '69 - Bryan Adams Cordula grün - Die Draufgänger Tequila - The Champs ...Baby One More Time - Britney Spears All of Me - John Legend Barbie Girl - Aqua Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol My Way - Frank Sinatra Hallelujah - Alexandra Burke Aber Bitte Mit Sahne - Udo Jürgens Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen Wannabe - Spice Girls Schrei nach Liebe - Die Ärzte Can't Help Falling In Love - Elvis Presley Country Roads - Hermes House Band Westerland - Die Ärzte Warum hast du nicht nein gesagt - Roland Kaiser Ich war noch niemals in New York - Ich War Noch Marmor, Stein Und Eisen Bricht - Drafi Deutscher Zombie - The Cranberries Niemals In New York Ich wollte nie erwachsen sein (Nessajas Lied) - Don't Stop Believing - Journey EXPLICIT Kann Texte enthalten, die nicht für Kinder und Jugendliche geeignet sind.
    [Show full text]
  • “From the Borscht Belt to the Great White Way” – Jewish Comedy Topic
    March 17-23, 2017 Published by the Jewish Federation of Greater Binghamton Volume XLVI, Number 11 BINGHAMTON, NEW YORK “From the Borscht Belt to the Great White Way” – Jewish comedy topic for next BD luncheon By Paula Rubin In his talk, Cali will explore several intelligence, culture and/or a defense mech- Fordham University, Cali taught Latin Philip Cali will speak on Saturday, March aspects of comedy and Jews, including anism play a role. While explaining these for 19 years in addition to being a public 25, on Jews and comedy “From the Borscht why there are so many Jewish comedians. questions and other related entertainment school administrator for 13 years. He has Belt to the Great White Way.” His talk will According to organizers of the program, topics, Cali will share one-liners from also taught 19 courses for Lyceum. follow the free luncheon after Shabbat ser- 80 percent of all comedians at the end of Jewish comedy. For more information on how to sponsor vices at Beth David Synagogue, 39 Riverside the 20th century were Jews. The program A graduate with an M.A. in library all or part of a luncheon or how to make a Dr., Binghamton. The entire community has will discuss what draw show business has science from SUNY Geneseo and a B.A. donation to the Beth David Shabbat Lun- been invited to all of the events. for Jews, and how factors such as history, in major classics, Latin and Greek from cheon Fund, call the synagogue at 722-1793. Intersisterhood program to be held on April 5 The annual Intersisterhood program will will be served.
    [Show full text]
  • At Moishe House, Millennials Build Community and Strengthen Jewish Identity by Michael Wittner in Oakland, and Decided to Host JOURNAL STAFF a Shabbat Dinner
    DECEMBER 5, 2019 – 7 KISLEV 5780 JEWISHVOL 44, NO 8 JOURNALJEWISHJOURNAL.ORG At Moishe House, millennials build community and strengthen Jewish identity By Michael Wittner in Oakland, and decided to host JOURNAL STAFF a Shabbat dinner. When 72 peo- ple showed up, Cygielman real- Simona Gilman has a busy ized there was a genuine need few weeks coming up. In addi- for Jewish programming and tion to hosting a chicken soup- community for young adults too making night, she and her room- old for high school youth groups mates will supervise volunteers and university Hillels, but too cooking for the homeless. Then a young to start families and join seminar on mental health, then synagogues. Shabbat at the Seaport, then a Cygielman decided he wanted book group. The list goes on. to fill this void by creating a net- But this is nothing new work of houses just like his own, for Gilman, 26, who grew up and Moishe House was born. in Newton. In fact, she and The model of residence-based three other friends – Chelsea programming worked well, and Rapaport, Mariah Kretch, led to astonishing growth: 13 and Ben Suster – organize a years later, there are over 100 different event each week in Moishe Houses in 26 countries their roles as residents of the with over 300 residents. Greater Cambridge branch of Moishe Boston, with its unusually high House, an international organi- concentration of young adults, zation aimed at building com- is one of the fastest-growing munity for young Jewish adults. Moishe House members making challah at a nursing home.
    [Show full text]
  • CSI Students Crack Lane Murder Case
    February 2009 Lane Technical Prep High School Volume 41/Issue3/ Page 1 CSI students crack Lane murder case case.ʼ After interviewing the police N HE EART By Weslyn Strawder & officers, investigators then identi- I T H Shanae Joseph fied the crime. They identified and F HE documented the points of entry and O T On Friday, Jan. 30, Sally Burton, exit of the criminal. an accountant of Murtonʼs Print Investigators took photographs of Shop, was found dead; murdered the scene from different angles, and ARRIOR by a shot from a shotgun. The main then a crime scene technician com- W suspect was her boyfriend, Eric pleted a rough sketch of the scene to Charles Babcock. demonstrate the layout of the crime. Working together, the students of The rough sketch also identified the News Laneʼs Forensic Science and Law exact position of the deceased vic- classes solved the homicide. tim and provided evidence for how BeBoBa Fortunately, the crime never the crime was committed. really happened; it was only a sce- Finally, investigators processed all Electives Fair nario written by Mrs. Sebestyen for evidence by placing it in evidence Laneʼs fifth annual Crime Scene bags with appropriate initialing and FanFiction Investigation (CSI) Day. documentation. This was the first year students According to students involved actually worked to solve a case. in the CSI program, it was a fun Wing Stop “I wrote a scenario with three pos- experience. sible endings,” said Sebestyen. “I got to meet people from Confl ict in Gaza “Obviously I wanted one person to all areas of crime scene investiga- look guilty.
    [Show full text]
  • When the Music Starts, the Young Men in the Seeach Sod Choir Are No Longer Mentally Challenged Adults Trying to Navigate a Confusing World Around Them
    Singing Their Hearts Out WHEN THE MUSIC STARTS, THE YOUNG MEN IN THE SEEACH SOD CHOIR ARE NO LONGER MENTALLY CHALLENGED ADULTS TRYING TO NAVIGATE A CONFUSING WORLD AROUND THEM. MICROPHONES IN HAND, THEIR VOICES EMERGE FROM A DEEP PLACE IN THEIR SOUL WHERE BARRIERS NO LONGER EXIST BY Meir Wolfson PHOTOS Matis Goldberg, Yinon Fuchs 46 MISHPACHA 27 Av 5772 | August 15, 2012 MISHPACHA 47 Singing Their Hearts Out The Key To TheirSouls Did Reb Shlomo Carlebach envision this moving rendition of his “Tov L’hodos LaShem” when he wrote his classic melody to those words so many years ago? If you were sitting at the Siyum HaShas in Jerusalem’s Binyanei Hauma on Sunday, August 5, you might have been one of those who burst into spontaneous clapping and rose to dance to the electrified beat. Among flashing cameras and stage lights, the excited ten-man Pirchei Seeach choir opened their act in perfect sync, and then gave way to the clear, sweet voice of their star soloist, “Avremel,” whose powerful notes and perfect harmony transfixed the crowd. At that point, you might have taken a second look at the stage to remind yourself who Avremel is. Avremel is a severely autistic young man in his 20s, so uncommunicative that he cannot respond to any verbal instructions — even from his beloved choir leader, the indefatigable Chaim Sofer. One of the only windows into Avremel’s soul — and those of his fellow choir members — is music. Seeach Sod in Jerusalem cares for 650 children and young adults with disabilities that range from slight emotional difficulties to severe autism and Down syndrome, mainstream- ing them and letting them shine in their own way.
    [Show full text]
  • Children of the Heav'nly King: Religious Expression in the Central
    Seldom has the folklore of a particular re- CHILDREN lar weeknight gospel singings, which may fea­ gion been as exhaustively documented as that ture both local and regional small singing of the central Blue Ridge Mountains. Ex- OF THE groups, tent revival meetings, which travel tending from southwestern Virginia into north- from town to town on a weekly basis, religious western North Carolina, the area has for radio programs, which may consist of years been a fertile hunting ground for the HE A"' T'NLV preaching, singing, a combination of both, most popular and classic forms of American .ft.V , .1 the broadcast of a local service, or the folklore: the Child ballad, the Jack tale, the native KING broadcast of a pre-recorded syndicated program. They American murder ballad, the witch include the way in which a church tale, and the fiddle or banjo tune. INTRODUCTORY is built, the way in which its interi- Films and television programs have or is laid out, and the very location portrayed the region in dozens of of the church in regard to cross- stereotyped treatments of mountain folk, from ESS A ....y roads, hills, and cemetery. And finally, they include "Walton's mountain" in the north to Andy Griffith's .ft. the individual church member talking about his "Mayberry" in the south. FoIklor­ own church's history, interpreting ists and other enthusiasts have church theology, recounting char­ been collecting in the region for acter anecdotes about well-known over fifty years and have amassed preachers, exempla designed to miles of audio tape and film foot­ illustrate good stewardship or even age.
    [Show full text]
  • Transdenominational MA in Jewish Music Program, Preparing
    THIS IS THE INSIDE FRONT COVER EDITOR: Joseph A. Levine ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Richard Berlin EDITORIAL BOARD Rona Black, Shoshana Brown, Geoffrey Goldberg, Charles Heller, Kimberly Komrad, Sheldon Levin, Laurence Loeb, Judy Meyersberg, Ruth Ross, Neil Schwartz, Anita Schubert, Sam Weiss, Yossi Zucker TheJournal of Synagogue Music is published annually by the Cantors As- sembly. It offers articles and music of broad interest to theh azzan and other Jewish professionals. Submissions of any length from 1,000 to 10,000 words will be consid ered. GUIDELINES FOR SUBMITTING MATERIAL All contributions and communications should be sent to the Editor, Dr. Joseph A. Levine—[email protected]—as a Word docu- ment, with a brief biography of the author appended. Musical and/or graphic material should be formatted and inserted within the Word document. Footnotes are used rather than endnotes, and should conform to the fol- lowing style: A - Abraham Idelsohn, Jewish Liturgy (New York: Henry Holt), 1932: 244. B - Samuel Rosenbaum, “Congregational Singing”; Proceedings of the Cantors Assembly Convention (New York: Jewish Theological Seminary), February 22, 1949: 9-11. Layout by Prose & Con Spirito, Inc., Cover design and Printing by Replica. © Copyright 2009 by the Cantors Assembly. ISSN 0449-5128 ii FROM THE EDITOR: The Issue of Niggunim in Worship: Too Much of a Good Thing? ..................................................4 THE NEO-HASIDIC REVIVAL AT 50 Music as a Spiritual Process in the Teachings of Rav Nahman of Bratslav Chani Haran Smith. 8 The Hasidic Niggun: Ethos and Melos of a Folk Liturgy Hanoch Avenary . 48 Carlebach, Neo-Hasidic Music and Liturgical Practice Sam Weiss.
    [Show full text]