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NOVEMBER 2016 ! TISHREI/CHESHVAN 5777 RABBI DAVID LAZAR hear one of the best cabaret performers around. Linda ˜ From Our President’s Desk Lavin and her arranger/accompanist, Billy Stritch, will be Gary Miller performing at the Annenberg Theater. This program was put together by Carol Fragen to offer our community some additional high quality entertainment and a chance to Fellow congregants, further support Temple Isaiah. You may remember Linda There are many exciting events from her TV series Alice where she demonstrated her coming up in the next six weeks, and I superb comedic talent. Now we have an opportunity to hear hope you will take advantage of as her in a very different medium. Linda’s highly regarded as many as possible. We have two a cabaret performer, and all the reviews of her shows have fascinating lectures during November. been extraordinarily positive. It’s a great opportunity for a We have a rummage sale on fabulous evening and to support Temple Isaiah. Order your November 20th. On the 27th is Jews Do tickets by going to the Annenberg theater website or call the Blues, celebrating Rabbi Lazar’s their box office (see ad). installation as our Rabbi. But I really Shalom, want to turn your attention to two weeks further down the line, to December 10th, when we will have the opportunity to

Dear Members and Friends of Temple Isaiah, We will be honoring Rabbi David Lazar on November 27, 2016, at 4 PM. At this event, called "Jews Do the Blues", Rabbi Lazar will be officially welcomed to Palm Springs by Mayor Robert Moon. There will be a jazz musical performance featuring Deanna Bogart and Musical Friends. Rabbi Lazar will be an important part of the musical performance too! I hope you will be able to attend the event. While there is no fee for attending, we will have a high-quality program book as part of the event and as a way to pay tribute to Rabbi Lazar. There are several ways to advertise or list your name: Full Price Temple Member (non-members) (10% discount) ! Premium placement Full-page color ad: (8 ½" H X 5 ½" W) $1,800 $1,620 ! Full-page ad Black & White (8 ½" H X 5 ½" W): $500 $450 ! Half page ad Black & White (4¼H x 5½” W) $300 $270 ! List name in Members & Friends Tribute Page: $50 $45

COMPLETE AND RETURN TO TEMPLE ISAIAH/JCC OF PALM SPRINGS If you would like to place an ad to honor 332 West Alejo Road, Palm Springs, CA 92262 (760) 325-2281 and congratulate Rabbi David Lazar, or have or email to IRA HELF at [email protected] your name listed on the Tribute page, please complete the form to the right, then scan & email it to me at [email protected] or JEWS DO THE BLUES PROGRAM BOOK print out and mail to the Temple, to my Ad Size: (please check choice) attention. ___ Full page Color: ___ $1800 non-m ember ___ $1620 member We must receive the insertion order ___ Full page Black/White ___ $500 non-member ___ $450 member and the ad artwork no later than ___ Half page Black/White ___ $300 non-member ___ $270 member November 10, 2016. ___ Name listing in Tribute page ___ $50 non-member ___$45 member No artwork is required for the name NAME: ______listing in the Tribute Page. Artwork for full-page and half-page ads should be Organization: ______sent in digital format as a pdf or jpeg file. Address ______Please let us know if you need to use City______State______Zip______other formats. Phone:______Email______I hope to see you at the wonderful th concert on the 27 . BILLING: __check enclosed __bill me __Charged credit card, below: Yours truly, Credit card #______Ira Helf Name on card______Expiration date______Sec urity code______Ira Helf Signature______Vice President

˜ it for— I don’t know, we’ll just call it ‘theatrical From the Rabbi’s Study effect.’ He would look up at the ceiling, raise his Rabbi David Lazar eyes, and sort of have a dialogue with, if you will, or speak directly to, the Absolute…” Come gather around people Soon after, with the help of the family’s African- Wherever you roam American maid, he began visiting some of the blues clubs And admit that the waters on the southern side of town. It was there that he Around you have grown eventually got a chance to jam with some of the greatest And accept it that soon blues legends like Muddy Waters. Bloomfield later You'll be drenched to the bone remembered: And if your breath to you is worth saving “I would go down there thinking I was really some Then you better start swimming hot stuff, you know, ’cause I had some fast fingers or you'll sink like a stone and I had plenty of licks, but I didn’t have no soul For the times they are a-changin’ or nothing. All I had was that speed and some brash Jewboy confidence.” These words were an important part of the soundtrack Indeed, it was a bit strange that this upper middle class for many of us growing up in the ‘60s. They validated our Jewish kid was getting involved in this form of music that feelings that not all was well with our world and gave us was so intrinsic to the African-American experience. Yet hope that things could, and indeed would, change. he did, and he got really good at it. Al Kooper, who So it was with great joy that many of us received the collaborated with both Bloomfield and Dylan once news that Bob Dylan will be receiving this year’s Nobel reminisced: Prize for literature next month in Stockholm. We all have our favorite Dylan songs. One of mine is Michael used to say, 'It's a natural. Black people Gotta Serve Somebody: suffer externally in this country. Jewish people suffer internally. The suffering's the mutual You may be an ambassador to England or France fulcrum for the blues.” You may like to gamble, you might like to dance You may be the heavyweight champion of the world Whether or not you agree with this way of looking at You may be a socialite with a long string of pearls our two peoples’ historical narratives, it can not be denied But you're gonna have to serve somebody, yes that the blues have played a central role in so much of the Indeed you're gonna have to serve somebody music we all listen to today. Well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord We are blessed here in the Coachella Valley with our But you're gonna have to serve somebody own Jewish blues virtuoso, Deanna Bogart. You might have seen her holding court at Woody’s over the last For me, this is a song about each of us being part of a couple of years on Experimental Wednesdays or have greater picture, a larger plan. So often we delude ourselves listened to one of her many albums. While she plays a into thinking that we by ourselves, or even our relationships wide range of music, the blues – in so many varied and with others, exist in a vacuum. Whatever decisions we wonderful forms – are at the heart of her work. think we’re making, says Dylan, will in one way or another And so with great pleasure we look forward to hosting support all sorts of things going on around us. It is that, I Deanna, together with some of the most talented local believe, which we should constantly strive to keep in mind musicians: Chuck Alvarez, Rabbi Andrew Bentley, Bob in all that we do. Gross, Bob Hamilton and Jeff Olson at the Jews Do the A Nobel Prize for Bob Dylan? Well indeed, the times Blues concert in honor of my official installation (by Mayor they are a changin’… Robert Moon) as Rabbi of Temple Isaiah. We promise a One of the musicians who played with Dylan in the 60’s wide range of music – not just the blues – and some of my was a young Jewish guy named Mike Bloomfield. He later own commentary on each of the songs through which I went on to become one of the best known blues guitarists hope to share my vision of the future for us as a in the United States though his life – like too many talented community. musicians of the late 20th century – ended in tragedy. A I know that for many of you the question still remains: newly revised edition of Michael Bloomfield: The Rise and A blues concert in lieu of a proper rabbinic installation, Fall of an American Guitar Hero, by Ed Ward and Billy complete with long speeches, pomp and a gala dinner? Gibbons just came out last month. In it, we read that at an My answer is: You bet! For indeed, “the times they are a early age on the North side of Chicago, Bloomfield found a changin’!” way to express a deep sense of spiritualism at his bar Looking forward to seeing everyone here at the mitzvah ceremony. This is how his father Allen Bloomfield Temple on November 27 at 4:00! later recalled: “It’s like his first performance, if you will,” Allen said. “He goes beyond the call of duty of just reciting the Haftorah, which is the part you have to memorize. .... Michael added certain dramatics to Please take a minute to help our “Rummage ˜From the Executive Director Sale in Memory of Dottie Fields” Committee by looking around and see what kinds of things Doug Morton you can donate to the Temple for the sale on Sunday morning November 20 being held in our Dear Friends, parking lot here at the Temple. There is more What a great ‘yontif’ this has been! The information in this Chai Lights, and you can also Rabbi’s sermons were current, pertinent contact Ron Martinez at 323-251-5250. and compelling. The music was incredible! Attendance was great. The break-fast was During November we will finally officially delicious and everyone there enjoyed being welcome our wonderful spiritual leader, able to end the holiday at a meal together. Rabbi David Lazar. Instead of a typical installation, we will be honoring him with a As always, there were so many who Jews Do the Blues Concert on Sunday, worked so very hard to make the services November 27th. Rabbi will be officially run smoothly. I want to take a minute and thank everyone welcomed to our community by Palm who participated. (Somehow I know I’ll miss someone and Springs Mayor, Robert Moon. Details of for that, my heartfelt apologies in advance!). the event are on the cover and page 2 of Thank you to Harold Clumeck, Richard Jeffrey, Irwin this Chai Lights, There will be no entry fee. Sacks, Chris Spellman, Gary Stone, Jake Wright, Gil Instead we will have a high-quality program book as part of Gold, Spencer Howard, Ron Martinez, Soo Borson, Roni the event and, as a way to pay tribute to Rabbi Lazar, there Spetalnick, Kerry Turner, Peter Gordon, Alan Moss, Polly will be several ways to advertise or list your name. Details and Avi Showalter, Lyle Sachs, Shoshana Barer, Brenda are on page 2 and on our website, templeisaiahps.com or just call the office at 760-325-2281. Castano, Bob Fey, Shelley Miller-Mantell and Ira Helf, You made members and guests feel welcome, helped people We have a member of the board who is find seats, helped keep the foyer quiet during services and working so hard to make our fundraiser an helped to make walking into our Temple a pleasant incredible success this year. Carol Fragen, experience. Thank you to all who helped pass out herbs on behalf of the entire congregation, THANK during Havdallah, making it an even nicer start to 5777. YOU! On December 10 we will have a Sandie Ovesen, you were here helping to greet and solve concert with Linda Lavin and Billy Stritch at problems and make our guests feel welcome. Christopher the Annenberg Theatre at the Palm Springs Greene and Larea Pettersen, yes, you are staff members, Art Museum. but you both went above and beyond. Thank you! And, of While my favorite performance of Linda course, all of us that received an aliyah, had a reading or Lavin was her guest appearance on the new series “Mom,” played a part in the service know that we are so thankful for many of you know her from her movies, television shows Miriam Bent. It is thanks to Miriam that we know when to be and Broadway musicals. If you aren’t familiar with her, take prepared, what we need to do and generally help to make our a minute and look her up. She is awesome. Honestly, the congregants look together and polished. Thank You ALL! 30 minutes on the sitcom “Mom” is the most hilarious 30 I want to remind you that if for some reason you forgot to minutes I’ve ever spent watching television (and I watch complete your Kol Nidre pledge card you can still do it online, lots!). Did you know that Billy Stritch has also performed as call the office, or fill out the card that we will send you in the the pianist for Liza Minelli (amongst many other things). mail. Thanks to all of you we expect a higher goal that we’ve Let’s support Carol Fragen’s hard work, support the hit in a long time and this will certainly help us tighten the gap Temple and treat yourself to a marvelous evening by in our budget. attending! Purchase your tickets by going online to Annenbergtheatre.org or by calling 760-325-4490. I look We have two very interesting lectures forward to seeing you all there! coming up in November. On Sunday, November 6 at 4:00 pm, here at the Temple, Shalom, we will have Dr. Ted Merwin, Author of Douglas “Pastrami On Rye” speak about “Homeland for the Jewish Soul: the History of the Jewish Deli in America”. And there will be a chance to sample some pastrami after the lecture! Ayelet Tsabari, Author of “The Best Place on Earth” will speak about “Stories about Mizrahi Jews in Israel: Children, Soldiers & Bohemian Lovers” at the UC Riverside/Palm Desert Campus auditorium on Sunday, November 20 at 4:00 P.M. These should both be great lectures and I hope you’ll come support our lecture series and meet a few people afterwards.

SUKKOT & SIMCHAT TORAH

Kiddush in the Sukkah Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

November 2016

1 2 3 4 5 2-3 pm Hebrew 6:30 pm 10 am Shabbat with Ella Ohana Interfaith Services Kabbalat 3-4:15 pm Shabbat ExploraTorah Service

6 4 pm 7 8 9 1:30 pm TIWA 10 11 12 Ted Merwin meeting in lobby 7:30 pm 10 am Shabbat lecture Shabbat Services 2-3 pm Hebrew Services Temple office closed with Ella Ohana Temple office closed 3-4:15 pm ExploraTorah

13 14 15 16 17 18 19 2-3 pm Hebrew 7:30 pm 10 am Shabbat with Ella Ohana Shabbat Services Temple office closed Temple office closed Services 3-4:15 pm ExploraTorah

20 7 am- 2 pm 21 22 23 24 25 26 Rummage sale No classes Thanksgiving 10 am Shabbat in parking lot today Temple office closed Services Temple office closed Temple office closed 4 pm Ayelet 7:30 pm Tsabari Lecture Shabbat at UC Riverside/ Services Palm Desert Campus

27 4 pm 28 29 30 ‘JEWS DO THE BLUES’ 2-3 pm Hebrew Temple office closed with Ella Ohana

3-4:15 pm ExploraTorah

Concert celebrating Rabbi Lazar’s Ted Merwin Ayelet Tsabari Installation November 6 November 20

Candlelighting times: Friday, November 4 Shabbat Noach 5:10 pm Friday, November 11 Shabbat Lech Lecha 4:04 pm Friday, November 18 Shabbat Vayera 4:00 pm Friday, November 25 Shabbat Chaye Sarah 3:57 pm Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

December 2016

1 2 6:30 pm 3 10 am Shabbat Kabbalat services. Shabbat service

4 5 6 7 8 3-5 pm 9 7:30 pm 10 10 am Memory Café Kabbalat Shabbat Temple office closed Temple office closed Shabbat services. service 3-4:15 pm Temple Fundraiser: ExploraTorah 6:30 pm Linda Lavin in Concert

11 4 pm 12 13 14 15 16 7:30 pm 17 10 am Lecture Rabbi 2-3 Learn Kabbalat Shabbat Mark Borovitz Temple office closed Hebrew with Ella Shabbat services. Ohana service 3-4:15 pm ExploraTorah

18 9:30 am 19 20 21 22 23 7:30 pm 24 10 am Kabbalat Shabbat FEAST Temple office closed 2-3 Learn Shabbat services. Hebrew with Ella service Bar Mitzvah of OF Ohana JEWISH 3-4:15 pm Christopher LEARNING ExploraTorah Greene

st Temple office closed 1 nt. Chanukah

25 26 27 28 29 30 7:30 pm 31 10 am Kabbalat Shabbat Temple office closed Temple office closed 2-3 Learn Shabbat services. Hebrew with Ella service Ohana 3-4:15 pm ExploraTorah nd rd th th th 2 nt. Chanukah 3 nt. Chanukah 4 nt. Chanukah 6 nt. Chanukah 7th nt. 8 nt. Chanukah Candlelighting Times

Friday, December 2 Shabbat Toldot 3:56 pm Friday, December 9 Shabbat Vayetze 3:56 pm Friday, December 16 Shabbat Vayislach 3:58 pm Friday, December 23 Shabbat Vayeshev 4:01 pm Friday, December 30 Shabbat Miketz 4:05 pm

Thank you to everyone who participated in our Temple’s Mitzvah Drive over the High Holidays by bringing toiletries and laundry items for Well in the Desert. Brian and Windy of Well in the Desert, pictured here with Rabbi Lazar, picked up 86 bags of items for Well’s clients.

Planning Meeting Wednesday, November 9th in the lobby by the new Gift Shop. RSVP to Shoshana Barer 760-323-8025 Sandie Ovesen in loving memory of her partner, Harry Dean

Kathy Block in loving memory of her husband, Judge Arthur Block

Douglas Morton in loving memory of his grandfather, Carl Sherr In Memory of: Yahrzeit Fund Phyllis Enet, in loving memory of her Kate Hauswirth in loving memory of husband, George Enet Bob & Cheryl Fey and Ron & Carol her husband, Fred Fragen have purchased a leaf in Robin Burg in loving memory of her honor of Gary and Vicki Miller’s Milt Levinson in loving memory of mother, Marian Crane his mother, Anna Levinson wedding Helen Gottschalk in loving memory of Heddy Ferber in loving memory of her mother-in-law, Julie Gerson. Sandie Ovesen purchased a leaf in her husband, Imre Ferber honor of Gary and Vicki Miller’s Kate Hauswirth in loving memory of wedding her sister-in-law, Jenny Ament General Contribution Sandie Ovesen purchased a leaf in Alan and Shelli Solomon in loving In Honor of Gary and Vicki Miller’s honor of Rabbi David Lazar’s first memory of Alan’s mother, Rachel Wedding: Nat & Miriam Bent, Richard year at Temple Isaiah Solomon Jeffery, Bill and Gail Kanter, Norma Lovitz, Doug Morton, Jackie Smason, Sharon Kosbie Moss in loving and Morris and June Sussman memory of her father, Jacob Kosbie Basil Bernstein Mae Cohen in loving memory of her father, Ben Honigman David Feltman Joy Goldstein in loving memory of her sister, Yvette Anderson Douglas Morton in honor of his aliyah on Yom Kippur Del and Sandey Fields in loving memory of their beloved sister, Dottie Fields Phyllis and Marvin Eisenberg in honor of Pearl White’s 100th Birthday Joy Goldstein in loving memory of her son, Andy Alderman Pearl White in honor of Bill and Rita Del and Sandey Fields in loving Claire Thom’s wedding anniversary memory of their niece, Lisa Rhodes Gail Nassi in honor of Cantor Caren Bob and Cheryl Fey in memory of Steven Graff-Radford Taubman Glasser

Ann Lewin in loving memory of her Bill and Gail Kanter in honor of mother, Betty Zuckerman Christopher Greene’s Bar Mitzvah Beatrice Julien in loving memory of her mother, Anna Lomberg Stanley Vitt

Harold Clumeck in loving memory of his mother, Joan Clumeck

Lila Blane in loving memory of her father, Joseph Karo

Shirley Randolph in loving memory of her father, Louis Haas

Shaun Anderson in loving memory of his spouse, Dr. Arnold W. Klein, M.D.

Bill and Gail Kanter in loving memory of Bill’s grandmother, Sarah Davis November 2016 Yahrzeits * Names Inscribed on Memorial Board

Shabbat Services: Friday nights at 7:30 pm (first Friday @ 6:30 pm) & Saturdays at 10:00 am. We will attempt to provide a morning minyan for a yahrzeit if given several days notice.

*Erna Bochner *Herman Frank Betty Kroker *Harry Boscoe *Molly Galant *Sadie Levy *Jack Dembo Cyril Halter Sarah Levy Irene Fink *Anne Hodes *Lillian C. Litke *Jacob Greenberg *Frances Kates Haurice J. Missner Gertrude Jaffe *Sandra Krainess *Sophia Phillips Edith David Jamin *Charles M. Lane *Sarah Priesont Albert Karp *Jules Litke *Betty S. Reissman *Israel Kates *Max Malk *Irwin Rubenstein *Pat Kerzen *Laeh Klein Martin *Munzika Shweid *Nettie E. Klein Anna Roshcovsky Gustav Steinberger *Rose C. Levy *Adolph Rothbardt *Helen Sueker *Max Lulla Roman Ryterband *Rita Sundell *Alan Mayer *Murdie Saltman Jeffrey Thomason *Shirley Pearlman *Jennie Schmulowitz *Freda Valenstein *Hyimen Pitts *Eva Slutzky *George Weill Goldie Rittberg *Sidney Tomach *Jessie Winter *Marvin Robinson *Rose Wein *Leo Wittenbrg *Abram Rozen *Sylvan I. Zeiden *James Alan Wolfson Malka Sandowsky Nathan Wolowitz *Morris B. Saske November 20-26, *Morry Zolonz *Edith Schmalz Listed November 25 & 26 Carl Sherr *Leon M. Bornstein November 27-30, Hannah Shimberg *Charles L. Cohen Listed December 2 & 3 November 1-5, *Esther Silverman *Hannah Felzer Collins *Arthur Appleman Listed November 4 & 5 *Barbara J. Widman *Golda Einstein Milton Hinkis *Meyer Beck Gussie Freedman Eva Kaminsky *Freda Berkinblitt November 13-19, *Perry H. Freeman *Herbert Zeppo Marx *Able Greenberg Listed November 18 & 19 *Harry Freiberg *Benjamin J. Mindess Joseph Herman *Marcia Adass Dr. David Frieman *Bruce J. Pinto *Riska Herman *Morris Baker Leonard Goldstein *Molly Rabinowitz *Mac Isaacs *Solmon Bruson Benjamin Gordon *Jeanne Robinson *Rose Kates *Mollie Buxbaum *Ethel Green *Leib Rosen *Alan Kopelson *Jeffrey Carson *Max Grone RoseAnn Rubenstein *Edith Kopelson Nathan Cohen *Joseph Hain Martin Tax *Isadore Nelson Daniel Cohen *Saul Horowitz *Richard Willencheck *Leslie Nicholson Sid Donenfeld *Eugene Jamin Lucille Paskin *Roy Fey *David Kirshbaum May their memories *Zachary Pitts *Marjorie Foster *Ben Krasnow endure for a blessing. Isaac Rosenberg *Cecile Ross *Charles Rubin *Maurine Sanders Fanny Solovay *Elfreda Tarler *Thelma Tash Julie Thomason

November 6-12; Listed November 11 & 12 *Dora Alpert Frances Blindman