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Bulletin 5776 May/JunePAGE 2016 1 BETH ISRAEL JUDEANissan/Iyar/Sivan BULLETIN 5776 BETH ISRAEL JUDEA BULLETIN BETH ISRAEL JUDEA BULLETIN PAGE 2 WELCOME TO BIJ BIJ Board of Trustees In This Issue: Officers Board of Trustees........................................ 3 Nancy Greenberg ............................... Co-President Deborah Schweizer ............................ Co-President From the Rabbi’s Study ............................... 4 Joshua Goodman .......... Immediate Past President Shabbat ........................................................ 5 Trustees Holidays ........................................................ 6 Deborah Bouck Debra Braun Ian Brown John Fuchs-Chesney Adult Education .......................................... 7 Lori Ganz Johanna Gendelman Our Tree of Life .......................................... 8 Aimee Golant Barbara Hammel Gail Harden Matthew Lefkowitz Sisterhood—The Women of BIJ ............ 10 Lynne Rappaport Reeva Safford Spotlight / Tikkun Olam ......................... 11 Sisterhood Representative B3 Youth & Family Education ................ 12 Michele Siegel Events ......................................................... 13 Community ................................................. 14 BIJ Staff Donations / Volunteers ............................ 15 Danny Gottlieb .................................................... Rabbi [email protected] / ext 22 Ricki Weintraub…………..Interim Cantorial Soloist [email protected] The BIJ Bulletin Rebecca Goodman .................. Director of Education The BIJ Bulletin is published in January, March, May, July, [email protected] / 415.625.3613 September and November each year by Congregation Beth Israel Sara Heckelman ................. Synagogue Administrator Judea volunteers. Original articles and reviews are appreciated, [email protected] / ext 25 but we cannot guarantee publication. Submit ideas by email to: [email protected] in simple Microsoft Word format or in the body Neil Bronstein ......................... Security/Maintenance of your email. Deadline for the upcoming July/August is Friday, June 3. If you would like to help with bulletin Contact BIJ production, please contact Deborah at: 625 Brotherhood Way, San Francisco, CA 94132 [email protected] 415-586-8833 | www.bij.org | [email protected] 2016 © Congregation Beth Israel Judea All rights reserved. BIJ Community App Mission Statement Stay in touch with your BIJ Community with our Congregation Beth Israel Judea is a center for progressive, FREE app, available to BIJ members in both the egalitarian Judaism located in southwest San Francisco. Our Apple App and Google Play Store. Find it by multigenerational, participatory community welcomes all Jews and interfaith families along with their partners and friends. We searching: “congregation beth israel judea” in either value celebrations of the spirit, Jewish culture, our children’s store. education, and life-long learning, music, social justice and Tikkun Olam. Office Hours CLOSED Mondays Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday: 10 AM to 5 PM Friday: 10 AM to 3 PM PAGE 3 BETH ISRAEL JUDEA BULLETIN BOARD OF TRUSTEES From the Co -Presidents by Nancy Greenberg & Deborah Schweizer It is hard to believe that a full year has passed since we were holiday celebrations and privileged enough to be selected to serve as BIJ’s Co- worship, and life cycle events Presidents. The time has really flown by. Our term began such as b’nai mitzvot, funerals with great sadness, with the sudden passing of our beloved and weddings) that are so Cantorial Soloist David Morgenstern and our first “official meaningful to our community. act” to notify the members of our community of this There is more work to be done heartbreaking news. Despite our grief, we came together as as the desire of our community a community and during the months that followed we to engage in acts of spirituality, experienced the start of good things that strengthen us and education and world healing is ongoing. We will again be that we believe would make our dear David proud. asking each of you to consider giving us some of your time At our Annual Meeting last year, we announced that the and energy to help with a specific project or join a team of Board of Trustees was working on a Community interest to you. Our volunteer participants and lay leaders Participation Plan aimed at dividing leadership will tell you that lending a hand to a project or team is not responsibilities among more lay leaders and engaging more just about working, but it is an opportunity to learn about members of our community in the essential functions of the each other, make friends and have a good time while synagogue. The first step in implementing the plan was to performing a good deed, or mitzvah. obtain input from members of our community regarding As we reach the end of the first year of our term as your Co- what got them engaged with BIJ; what wishes they had for Presidents, we are proud of and grateful for all that has been BIJ; and in what ways they wished to be involved. We accomplished because of the faith, commitment, and obtained this input by conducting a series of Community generosity of all of you - our community members. Our Gatherings in members’ homes in the Summer and Fall. heartfelt thank you! We look forward to the year ahead With the information received, we formally embarked on knowing there is more work to do…but optimistic and implementation of the plan by (1) forming teams and enthusiastic because we know you are on our team! selecting Team Leaders to oversee the four main areas of the synagogue: Spiritual Practice, Education, Community Nancy Jane and Deborah Outreach and Development, and Community Operations; (2) recruiting volunteers to serve on the teams; and (3) setting priorities for tasks the teams would work on and OY YEA!! OY YEA!! complete over the succeeding six months. The response to the Community Participation Plan has been heartwarming and exciting. From a governance perspective, BIJ ANNUAL MEETING we have made great strides in shifting the work that was Sunday, May 1 at 10:00 am being done by three over-burdened people (Rabbi, Board President and Synagogue Administrator) to teams of lay Come One, Come All!! leaders working in collaboration with the Co-Presidents, Rabbi and Synagogue Administrator to see that the essential functions of the community are attended to: from hiring *Consultant Extraordinaire Jenni Mangel will contractors to repair the roof to making sure we continue to be our Guest Speaker offer the high quality religious, spiritual, educational and *Learn About Our Progress Implementing our social programs that are so important to us all. We have Community Participation Plan better defined the volunteer opportunities and successfully increased the involvement of non-Board members in making *VOTE! Elect New Board of Trustee Members sure we are able to produce the many programs, events and *Meet the Team Leaders rituals (including Shabbat services, Torah Study, Friday Night Feast, Shabbat in the ‘Hood, Shabbat Shelanu, Sacred *Hear about the State of the Synagogue Hebrew Chant and Drum, Adult Learning Opportunities, Light refreshments and plenty of opportunity to Lunch and Learn, Adult Hebrew, Rosh Chodesh, Mussar schmooze will be provided. Training, Tikkun Olam projects, B3, teen programming, BETH ISRAEL JUDEA BULLETIN PAGE 4 FROM THE RABBI’S STUDY The Leo Baeck College - Celebrating 60 Years By Rabbi Danny Gottlieb The Leo Baeck College – Celebrating 2 ‘P’s in a Pod 60 Years This past month saw the celebration of Purim and Pesach , and I This year marks the 60th year of the Leo want to take a moment to thank all of the volunteers and members Baeck College in London, England, and of the BIJ staff who came together to make the celebration of the 60th anniversary of the yahrzeit of these 2 P’s a memorable one. Rabbi Dr. Leo Baeck, the great leader and Our Purim spiel and megillah reading was another testament to the teacher of European Jewry during and power and the success of our Southside Jewish Collaborative. after the Holocaust, after whom the More than 150 members of our congregations gathered together to College was named. The Leo Baeck share a meal and be entertained by our rabbis, cantors and College is where I did my rabbinic studies, educators, who appeared in various guises as the story of Purim and this year also marks the 36th anniversary of my ordination. was transported to Neverland, and then all were regaled by the Studying at the Leo Baeck College was a wonderful experience for reading of the Megillah with appropriate song and merriment. me, living and studying in England for four years, from 1976-1980. Only a few weeks later, we marked Pesach with two seders, a There was a great sense of community, the College was like an Feminist Seder (for women and men), led by Ricki Weintraub, and extended family, and it was a place of prayer and learning, personal our annual Community Seder. and spiritual growth, a place to discover Judaism and encounter And while Pesach celebrations are more serious than Purim God - all of the things that I hope are possible for us here at BIJ as celebrations, there is a connection between them. There is no well. mention of God in the Megillah. There is no mention of Moses in The College was founded in 1956 as the successor to the the Seder. We are delivered from Pharaoh as we are delivered from Hochshule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums in Berlin, with a Ahasuerus and Haman. Reluctant leaders, Moses and Esther, both mandate to
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