Purim Is Coming!
March 2006 | Adar-Nissan 5766
Temple Rodef Shalom Bulletin
PURIM IS COMING! March Shabbatot & Other Services Save these Dates for fun filled Purim activities! Shabbat Terumaah – March 3 & 4 Exodus 25:1 – 27:19 Friday, March 3 ■■ Sunday, March 12 — Family Megillah Reading and 6:30 pm Bo’i Shabbat Service Purim Carnival 8:15 pm Erev Shabbat Service 11:00 a.m. Purimschpiel-Come join the fun featuring your Saturday, March 4 very creative TRS Clergy and Staff 9:00 am Torah Study 11:30 a.m. Purim Carnival 9:00 am Tot Activity 11:30 a.m. -1:00 p.m. 10:30 am Shabbat Morning Service Pick up of all pre-ordered Hamentaschen B’nai Mitzvah of Nathan Roberson & Mitchell Whittington ■■ Monday, March 13 6:30 p.m. Adults Only Purim Cocktail Party No Mincha Service Older Family Friendly Purim Party Aliyah & Haskalah Purim Party Shabbat Tetzaveh – March 10 & 11 7:00 p.m. Megillah Reading Exodus 27:20 – 30:10 7:30 p.m. “The Megillah Zone” Friday, March 10 6:30 pm Erev Shabbat Service for Younger Families Additional Performances of The Megillah Zone 8:15 pm Erev Shabbat Service Saturday, March 18 at 7:30 pm Saturday, March11 Sunday, March 19 at 2:15 pm 9:00 am Torah Study Reservations are not required but are extremely helpful for planning 10:30 am Shabbat Morning Service purposes. Please log on to www.templerodefshalom.org to RSVP. B’not Mitzvah of Maya Kavaler & Mattie Shepard ■■ Saturday, March 18 Thursday, March 16 6:30 p.m. Jr. TRSTY Purim Pary 6:45 pm Service of Strength, Comfort & Healing
Shabbat Ki Tissa - March 17 & 18 Exodus 30:11– 34:35 Friday, March 17 DESSERT ORDERS ARE ON-LINE THIS YEAR! 6:30 pm Erev Shabbat Service 8:15 pm Erev Shabbat Rocks Service Choose from a yummy assortment of Hamentaschen for Saturday, March 18 Purim & Kosher for Passover-style desserts for Pesach. 9:00 am Torah Study Log on to www.templerodefshalom.org 9:00 am Tot Shabbat Service 10:30 am Shabbat Morning Service B’nai Mitzvah of Nathan Borak & Ethan Gaba 10:30 am Parallel Shabbat Morning Minyan
SAVE THE DATE…Saturday, May 13, 2006, The Bellagio Shabbat Vayahel-Pekudei March 24 & 25 Exodus 35:1 –40:38 Ball! Come try your luck at our blackjack tables, enter the poker Friday, March 24 tournament or just enjoy good food and drinks while honoring 6:30 pm Erev Shabbat Service for Older Families 8:15 pm Erev Shabbat Service with Czech Ambassador Karen Simpson, sending her into retirement knowing how much we Saturday, March 25 all appreciate her work at TRS Nursery School. 9:00 am Torah Study 10:30 am Shabbat Morning Service B’nai Mitzvah of Paxton Jablin & Haley Slone SERVICE SCHEDULE For descriptions, please view our Temple website at www.templerodefshalom.org FIRST SHABBAT OF THE MONTH • Friday 6:30 pm – Bo’i Shabbat • Friday 8:15 pm – Shabbat Evening Worship • Saturday 9:00 am – Tot Shabbat Activity • Saturday 10:30 am – Shabbat Morning Worship • Saturday 5:00 pm – Shabbat Afternoon Mincha Worship SECOND SHABBAT OF THE MONTH • Friday 6:30 pm – Younger Family Shabbat Worship (K-3) • Friday 8:15 pm – Shabbat Evening Worship • Saturday 10:30 am – Shabbat Morning Worship THIRD SHABBAT OF THE MONTH • Friday 6:30 pm – Early Erev Shabbat Service • Friday 8:15 pm – Shabbat Evening Worship • Saturday 9:00 am – Tot Shabbat Service • Saturday 10:30 am – Shabbat Morning Worship Table of Contents • Saturday 10:30 am – Parallel Shabbat Morning Minyan 18 ARZA-Bridge to Israel FOURTH SHABBAT OF THE MONTH 08 Adult Education • Friday 6:30 pm – Older Family Shabbat Worship (Grade 3- and up) 11 B’nai Mitzvah • Friday 8:15 pm – Shabbat Evening Worship 30 Calendar • Saturday 10:30am – Shabbat Morning Worship 03 Clergy Our Onegs for early services will preceed the 22 Donations service. There will be Israeli Dancing immediately following the young family and older family 20 Library services. 07 Membership 15 Men’s Club SCHEDULE FOR TOTS! 06 Music/Cultural Please join us for our TOT SHABBAT events! The first Saturday of each month will include: a 09 Outreach craft and Sing-A-Long or story with Libby Chisholm 10 Religious School Location: Multipurpose Room Time: 9 AM The third Saturday of each month will include: a 17 Scrapbook Shabbat Service and Sing-a-long with clergy 14 Sisterhood 12 TRSTY & Jr. TRSTY 2 From the Clergy
Israel Trip Recap Please join Rabbi Henry Weiner
he youth trip to Israel in for Two Special Havdalah Programs December was a wonder- Each program will conclude with Havdalah and a T ful success. As many of you know, ten light nosh. For planning purposes, please RSVP members of our youth group traveled to Israel — at www.templerodefshalom.org we were also joined by a group of high school stu- dents from Temple Rodeph Shalom in Philadelphia and their rabbi. Our exciting adventures will be Saturday, March 25 4:00 pm — “Praying Without Words” We will explore meditation as both the oldest and the newest technique for recounted for years to come. At a recent reunion I achieving peace, beauty, trust in our ability to appreciate love, happiness and joy. asked our students to share a memory or two of their Together we will experience a journey affirming Abraham's response to God experience. One student wrote something so power- "Hineni", Here I Am. ful I think that you all would enjoy it. David Steiger, an 11th grade student and son of Saturday, April 22 4:00 pm — “Freedom is not Free... Passover: Laurie and John Steiger, wrote: After Freedom What?” The Israelites going to the unknown at Sinai might have asked: what now? We “Of all the beautiful and astonishing places we are commanded in the Haggadah, our story of liberation, to retell the story toured on our trip to Israel, I would have to say the throughout the generations. How is this message relevant to us today? How and one I enjoyed the most was visiting the Wailing why did God select Moses, an eighty year old man, with a speech impediment, Wall. It was a very spiritual and life-changing expe- married to a non Hebrew and not mentioned even once in the entire Haggadah? rience for me. When I went up and touched the wall it was like I was talking to God in a new light. The Wall made me feel as if God put everyone else's prayers on hold and focused on mine. It was Adopt a New Orleans like a direct connection to the greatest force imagi- nable. I put my hand on the holy wall and prayed. Family for Second Night Seder Words cannot express what I felt. During that exact magine, a long table covered with white moment I felt more Jewish than I ever felt in my tablecloth, goblets with sweet red wine entire life, more Jewish then at any Temple service Iin front of every gold-trimmed plate, or even at my Bar Mitzvah. At the Wailing Wall I felt Matza plate in the center and [from both a solid connection to God. I will remember and sides] the holiday candles. The Haggadah is embrace that the rest of my entire life.” ready, opened the first page. If you would like to hear any more about the Who would you invite for dinner? Mom trip, please be in touch. I would be happy to share and Dad, your best friend from college, your more, as I am sure all of the participants of the trip children and their children…. would like to as well. Congregation Gates of Prayer in New Orleans offers an annual Second Seder. Congregants come to celebrate the holiday as a community; some because they do A special thank you to all those who contributed not want to cook, some because they have no space in their homes for all their as part of our “mitzvah mission.”We took over three guests, some because they do not have family to share the holiday with, some very large pieces of luggage filled with many, many because they have no other way to commemorate Pesach. This year, more mem- donations that will be used in Israel by bers find themselves without a house to host a Seder or without funds to finance hundreds of people. It was especially meaningful to a Seder. Gates of Prayer, true to its tradition, will offer a Second Seder celebration be able to share our congregation's generosity with in the synagogue so all its members can have that long white table. This year the those in need. Thank you to all who made it possible temple needs help providing this service to all its members whether they can afford and enhanced the name and reputation of Temple it or not. Rodef Shalom. Here is an alternative to inviting all of Gate of Prayer members to your Seder! You can adopt a family for $120, or adopt one member for $35. Your table will be L'hitra'ot —See you soon! as long as the distance from here to New Orleans without having to buy a new Rabbi Marcus Burstein tablecloth! To donate, please log onto www.templerodefshalom.org.
3 From the Clergy HELP CHILDREN AT Visiting New Orleans HADASSAH HOSPITAL by Cantor Michael Shochet IN JERUSALEM could not believe it. I didn’t even know how to capture it with my camera. What we have seen on the news abbi Schwartzman will be joined by 35 does not illustrate the severity and the enormity of the members of the Temple on an adult trip I destruction left behind in the wake of hurricane Katrina. to Israel this month. The group has been R Even traveling to New Orleans to see it for myself does not in touch with the representatives of Hadassah allow me to describe it fully. It’s unbelievable. Hospital and they have requested items for their new children's wing. The last weekend of January, my son Jake and I flew to You can help Israeli children in need by buying a small soft animal or New Orleans where I participated in a benefit concert at soft doll. (New items only please.) Drop them off in the clergy suite the Reform congregation that was most severely damaged before March 12. Many thanks! due to flooding. The Jewish folk group, Beignet Yisrael, of which I was a part for a number of years, reunited to per- A Special Thank You to Michelle Sandler form for the New Orleans Jewish community. It was a free After successfully leading our youth groups concert, designed to bring some uplifting moments to a for over five years, Michelle Sandler has decided population down in the dumps. At the concert, I presented to spend more time at home with her husband the remainder of the donations to area clergy that you all Mark and their children Hannah, Noah, and have made to my discretionary fund. They will be giving Leah. We will greatly miss Michelle's seemingly out the money to people in the Jewish community who boundless energy, organizational mastery, request it. unending enthusiasm and catchy joy for life. The concert was wonderful. The synagogue, still in the Michelle built up our program over the last years through her throws of a massive renovation from the hurricane dam- dedication, attention to detail and connection with our youth and age, was a reminder of the work left to be done. The carpet parents alike. She nurtured our children for years as they grew and in the sanctuary, had just been installed two days before the our youth program has flourished under her guidance. concert. The painting, wallpapering, even preparing the Not only did Michelle have an unforgettable impact on the lives new drywall was still on the “to do list.” It didn’t matter. of those who participated in TRSTY, our Temple Rodef Shalom Continued on Page 5 Temple Youth, but she greatly influenced many other Jewish high school students in the NFTY Mid-Atlantic region. Michelle also took an active role in the local McLean Youth of Faith initiative, gathering high school students from different religious denomina- Workshop for Caregivers of tions around the area to perform social justice activities. Michelle Aging Parents and Spouses recently helped to reinvigorate our own Post-Confirmation pro- Sunday, March 26 • 11:45 am gram and implemented an entirely new way of engaging our If you are concerned about an older parent or family member, please come join us on Sunday March 26 from 11:45am to 1:15pm as we Haskalah students in grades 8-12 with the Teen Mitzvah Corps. discuss how to best help those we care about while taking care of I have had the pleasure of working with Michelle very closely ourselves. Depending on people's interests, we will discuss chang- during her tenure as our youth director. Our weekly meetings ing family roles, housing options, transportation and managing were an enjoyable chance to spend time together, catch up on the stress. The group will be lead by Larry Uman LMFT of Jewish Social exciting activities of our students and plan meaningful events for Services. He has many years experience counseling families and helping them with a wide range of problems. He can be reached at our youth. I will miss our regular contact but I am comforted to [email protected] or 703/204-9100 Ext. 15. know that she and Mark will continue to be members who con- tribute to our congregation in other ways. Rabbi Hillel of Talmudic times taught: Taking Care of Ourselves as If I am not for myself, who will be for me? We Care For Others And if I am only for myself, what am I? Sunday, April 23 • 9 am And if not now, when? If you are caring for or concerned about your family member who For the last years, Michelle has given tirelessly to the members has a serious or chronic illness,please join Larry Uman LMFT of of our congregation. Now she must take care of herself and her Jewish Social Services for a presentation and discussion on the chal- family. If not now, when? lenges of being a caregiver. Often overlooked, caregivers can them- selves become ill or stressed out by the demands and worries of tak- Please join me in wishing Michelle all the joy she deserves. Our ing care of others. Larry Uman is the synagogue liaison to Rodef congregation will honor her in a public way sometime in the near Shalom. He is a marriage and family therapist with a specialty in future; please look for more information to follow in upcoming stress management and family counseling. for questions, he can be bulletins. reached at [email protected] or 703/204-9100 ext. 15. We wish Michelle, Mark, and their family much happiness, Rabbi Marcus Burstein 4
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Continued from Page 4 What mattered was the spirit in the room. Their spirit; our spirit. In the congregation were folks who lost everything that they had built up in their lifetimes. In the congregation were friends whose businesses, medical practices, firms, were either closed down or have been unable to get back up to speed because of the diminished population. In the congregation Houses still sit in the middle of the road were people who were spared the wrath of Katrina and are among those in the community who are now helping others on its exterior all down the block, mostly 6 to 9 feet above the get back on their feet. Missing were those who still have not ground. And the eerie orange markings of the rescuers are come back to New Orelans. We sang together. Some cried. seen on almost every house in New Orleans. A notation for Some laughed at the light moments. We exchanged hugs and other rescuers to know that a house had been checked and was handshakes and told them how much people up north cared empty, or not. about them and thought about them. They already knew it. Downtown New Orleans, the French Quarter and some of They wanted to tell us how much our prayers and blessings the other suburbs across the Mississippi river had less damage. helped them through the difficult days. There is life there though no tourists, which means businesses Members of the Sisterhood of Temple Sinai, my former are not making money. But there is hope. If you can, go there. congregation, told me how much their congregation benefited See it for yourself. Spend money. from our own TRS Sisterhood who sent down a huge amount Our congregation and others like us have stepped up to of Chanukah gifts. At the congregational Chanukah dinner, the help people in need. The need however, still exists. Continue Temple Sinai Sisterhood gave them out to all who came, in an making your donations. Continue offering your prayers. It will incredible “feel good” moment. be a long, long time before New Orleans completely recovers, My discretionary fund has helped individuals buy new if it ever does. But there is a spirit that always exists in New clothes, appliances, groceries. The only kosher deli owner, who Orleans. I always said what I liked about New Orleans was that couldn’t thank us enough for the donations we sent to help they always found a reason to have a celebration. It’s harder him, still is separated from his family. They don’t have a home now to find that, but the spirit is slowly coming back amid the to come back to yet. Many people, including the cantor of my gloom. They are resilient and they will rebuild. But they still former congregation, are living in trailers provided by FEMA. need help. We can strengthen them through our blessings, our But the most difficult part of the trip was yet to come. The donations and our visits. And let’s hope that the local, state and day after the concert I toured the sections of the city that were federal governments continue to strengthen the levees as the hit hardest. Block after block, neighborhood after neighbor- 2006 hurricane season is only 3 months away. hood, I could not find signs of life. Houses gutted, businesses L’shalom, closed. It didn’t matter if you were rich or poor, houses in every Cantor Michael Shochet subdivision were affected. In many of the areas where my former congregants lived, houses like you would see in Arlington, Falls Church or McLean, are now empty lots. The houses literally washed away. House after house is flooded or damaged beyond repair. Along the streets are piles of furniture, appliances, clothes, a lifetime of possessions. The mud along some streets is above the cars in the driveways. I went to the site of one of the levees that broke. Where I stood, three houses used to stand. Now it is three empty lots. Mud blocks demolished homes Across the street you see a roof of one house in someone else’s backyard, a car upside down on top of another neighbor’s car, empty concrete slabs. In the poorest section of New Orleans it looked like two bombs (Katrina and Rita) had hit. No signs of life. Streets still impassable because someone’s house is in the middle of it. And everywhere you look you see the telltale signs of the flood: a water line left behind where the waters settled and remained for the weeks before the water was pumped out. Every house in all of these neighborhoods has that water line
Inside a former congregant’s home
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KOLEINU REHEARSALS: LEND ME A TENOR (OR A No rehearsals or services in March BASS, ALTO OR SOPRANO)
SHABBAT ROCKS: • I like to sing in the shower. • I’d like to meet some terrific people at TRS. • Tuesday, March 7: 7:30 pm • I want a reserved seat at Shabbat services. • Thursday, March 16: 7:30 pm • I’d like my children to see me participating more actively in • Sing, Friday, March 17: 8:15 pm TRS activities. • I’d enjoy munching Bettye Anna Louick’s fabulous brownies after rehearsals. KOL MACHAR: • I’d like to do something that lifts my life beyond my cubicle or • March 5 9:30-10:30 AM carpool. • March 19 10:35-11:35 AM If you answered “true” for two or more of these statements, you • March 25 7:00-9:45 PM (with dinner) should consider joining Koleinu, the adult choir at TRS. It’s an • March 31 7:30 PM Warm-up; 8:15 pm Service, enjoyable, stress-free way to learn the music we sing at TRS Sermon in Song under the splendid musical direction of Cantor Shochet and Frank Conlon. Practices are typically twice a month on Tuesday nights at 7:30 p.m., with “gigs” at Friday night Shabbat services once a month and special events a couple of times a year. We welcome new members, and we’ll gladly arrange for you to learn the repertoire at a learning workshop for new members. If you have questions, please get in touch with any of the following Koleinu members: Barbara Sarshik at [email protected] or 703/448-7453; Bettye Anna Louick at [email protected] or 703/573-4204; or Renee Andrews at [email protected] or 703/533-0345. Save the Dates for This Year’s PURIMSCHPIEL THE MEGILLAH ZONE
Based on theme songs from TV shows of the 50's 60's and 70's Friday, March 17 • 8:15 pm PERFORMANCE DATES: Cantor Shochet begins his sabbatical on MARCH 13, 18 & 19, 2006 March 21 through July. Don't Miss This Hilarious Performance Please contact the Clergy office featuring your TRS friends, family, for all Clergy & Cantorial needs. clergy and staff!
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Membership Chairs: Membership Tamar Abrams • 703/526-0090 • [email protected] Mike Rankin • 703/536-5698 • [email protected]
TRS Renaissance – Upcoming Events Wine and Cheese Renaissance B’oi Shabbat Dinner, Friday, March, 7 pm Dinner will be hosted by Welcome Anne and Alan Gorenstein of Vienna and co-hosted by Jeanne Ormsby. Reservations are Friday March 10 • 7:45 PM now closed. lease join us in the Karen Akers Concert at Wolf Trap – Saturday, March 4. All Renaissance tickets are Plibrary the second sold. Shabbat of every month from 7:45 PM to 8:10 PM for wine, Renaissance Book Club – Sunday, March 5, 10:30 AM at the home of Florence cheese, and schmoozing. This is a time and Charles Kittiver. The book to be discussed is After the Apple: Women in the when our newest members can meet Bible:Timeless Stories of Love, Lust, and Longing by Naomi Harris Rosenblatt. (available those of us who have been around for a in paperback) Contact Florence at [email protected] or call 703-938-8746 if you would while and begin to feel a part of the like to attend. TRS family. Usually we go in to servic- es together at 8:15, which is a lot more Dining Out Together –Sunday, March 19, 6:30 PM at the Essential Grille in fun than sitting alone! The Wine and Tysons. For reservations email Ros Cohen. Her email is [email protected] or call Cheese Welcome is not a private party. Mort and Ros at 703-503-9189. Everyone is welcome!
Chaverim- Single Parent Families Renaissance provides social activities for TRS members in their 50’s and 60’s. To learn more Calling all Esthers & Mordecais. details about TRS Renaissance events, check the Renaissance email letter. To add your name Please join us for the always fun-filled to the email list, or to volunteer to help to coordinate an event please contact Tibor or Barbara Family Megillah Reading and Purim Schonfeld at [email protected] or call 703-242-7560. Carnival! It’s on Sunday, March 25 at 10:30. We’ll sit together for the Reading (always wonderful with the clergy), eat hamentaschen and enjoy the Carnival! Please RSVP to Debbi Koplen at djko- FAMILY GAME NIGHT [email protected]. Chaverim means friends! Please make new Join other TRS families for Family Game Night—a great night friends with our wonderful group! Come to our fun, meaningful events! For more infor- of fun on Saturday, March 25, 7-9 PM. It’s an old-fash- mation, please contact Laurie Solomon at 703/532-3847. ioned ice cream social and bingo night. $5 per person lets you Keshet-Keshet is make your own ice cream sundaes, gets you lots of games of Temple Rodef Shalom’s gay and lesbian affinity group. bingo and fabulous prizes. Make plans to be there and RSVP Please contact our new coordinator Bruce Laird on our website at www.templerodefshalom.org so that we can E-mail [email protected] or 703/732-7376 for more information. plan accordingly. Of course, walk-ins are wel- Many thannks to Michael Sebastiani for his Leadership over the past year. come. It’s a great event sponsored by the Vatikim-(A social group for our senior TRS Membership Committee. members ages 70+) Stimulating activities includ- ing lunch gatherings, guest speakers, holiday For more information, meals, trips to the theatre and museums provide contact Tamar Abrams at wonderful day time opportunities for our seniors. Transportation is provided for all of our 703/526-0090. Vatikim offsite events.
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Adult Education Chairs: Adult Education Joni Silverlieb • [email protected] • 703/237-6283 See additional Adult Education Program information: Claire Reiss • [email protected] • 703/533-1137 Basic Jewish Rituals & Adult Hebrew Classes on page 9.
March 5, 12, 19 & 26 March 26 • 4 -6 p.m. Modern Jewish Philosophy viva Kempner, producer of “The Series With Dr. Ron Katwan Partisans of Vilna” will attend a Each Sunday in March, from 9 to 10:30 a.m., TRS A member Dr. Ron Katwan will discuss a different screening and discussion of the film at TRS. Jewish philosopher. The course will cover Martin Kempner is the award-winning producer/ Buber, Franz Rosenzweig, Abraham Joshua Heschel, director of several films, including The Life and Emmanuel Levinas. Dr. Katwan grew up in Berlin. He left and Times of Hank Greenberg and Partisans of Vilna. In her Germany first to work in a Kibbutz and then to study for his BA in philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He obtained a movies Ms. Kempner investigates non-stereotypical images of Ph.D. in philosophy from Yale University. After teaching at Yale for two Jews in history and focuses on the untold stories of Jewish years he went to Stanford Law School to get a J.D. Ron and his family heroes. “The Partisans of Vilna” tells the story of Jewish resist- moved to the Washington, DC area in 2001. Following a two-year stint at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, Ron is now an attorney at the Federal ance fighters who staged an offensive against the Nazi army in Election Commission. Ron is married to Joanna Spiro, who is com- the Polish city of Vilna. pleting her training as a clinical psychologist. Their 7-year-old son, Adam, attends Religious School at TRS. National Tour of Czech Exhibits Premiers at Temple Rodef Shalom April 20 April 2 A unique set of exhibits entitled “Disappeared Neighbors” and “Child Victims of the Holocaust” will be on display at Temple 11:45 a.m. Rodef Shalom from April 20 through May 4. Dr. Jacques Berlinerblau Twelve panels, prepared by students from the Czech Republic, capture the lives and fates of Czech Jews affected by the Holocaust. will discuss philo-Semitism. They offer touching evidence of a once flourishing Czech Jewish verybody knows what anti-Semitism is, but what is community. The young, predominately Christian students pain- Emeant by its opposite? Dr. Berlinerblau will discuss stakingly traced, collected and researched the remnants of docu- what philo-Semitism means by looking at the experience of ments, photographs and memories about the vanished Jewish Jews across sociological time and space. By looking at the families who once lived in their towns and attended their schools. ancient world, 17th-century England and the modern Seven additional panels commemorate the Child Victims of the United States, we attempt to identify the basic components Holocaust. of philo-Semitism- a critique which casts doubt on the The panels have been translated into English and feature integrity of those gentiles who claim to admire Jews and photographs and documenets of the subjects. These exhibits were Judaism. Dr. Berlinerblau is the inaugural Visiting Professor previously featured in the Czech Parliament and received high of Jewish Civilization at Georgetown University and praise from Vaclav Havel, former President of the Czech Republic. Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Hofstra They are on loan from the Jewish Museum of Prague for a one year University. He received his first doctorate in Ancient Near period for a national tour of the US. The exhibits will open with a Chamagne Reception co-hosted by Eastern Languages and Literatures from New York the Czech Embassy at 7:00 pm on Thursday, April 20. All TRS mem- University in 1991. A second doctorate in theoretical sociol- bers and invited guests are welcome to attend. The exhibits will then ogy was conferred upon him in 1999 by the New School for open to the public on the following dates/times with an on-site docent Social Research. Professor Berlinerblau was hired by Hofstra present to give brief overviews and answer questions: Friday, April 21 University in 1997 where he remains an associate professor from 10 am-2 pm, Monday-Thursdays from 10 am-4 pm and 6 pm- and director of Judaic Studies. His published work has 8 pm. Fridays, 10 am-2 pm, Sundays 2-5 pm appeared in scholarly and popular fora including Journal for The exhibits will be on display during Shabbat but there will the Study of the Old Testament, Biblical Interpretation, not be a docent present. These exhibits are free and open to the Semeia, History of Religions, Hebrew Studies, Encyclopedia public. A limited number of private tours of the exhibits can be Judaica and The Nation. His third book, “The Secular Bible: arranged for small groups. Why Nonbelievers Must Take Religion Seriously” has just For additional information or to set up a tour, please been released by Cambridge University Press. contact Anita Thornton, Program Director at [email protected] or 703/532-2217 ext 301.
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Adult Education SPRING ADULT HEBREW CLASSES FORMING NOW Adult Hebrew Classes are forming now! Each class is 10 sessions BASIC JEWISH RITUALS Instructor: Na'ava Feder TUESDAY, MARCH 14 Cost: $75.00 TRS Members $125.00 Non-Members 7:30 p.m. A minimum of 10 participants required for each class. Please go to our website at www.templerodefshalom.org to register. lease join us to learn about P Shabbat home rituals including Beginning Hebrew Advanced Hebrew candle lighting, Kiddush, Motzi, (no prior knowledge necessary) This is Intro to Prayerbook Hebrew. blessing of the children, Havdallah Basic Hebrew Reading Skills Requiredl and other rituals you can perform at home. We will guide you through Tuesdays 7:30-9:00 pm Wednesdays 7:30-9:00 pm the rituals and give you a detailed April 18 April 26 Aprio 25 May 3 pamphlet and CD to help you at May 2 May 10 home. The class is on Tuesday May 9 May 17 evening March 14 at 7:30 pm. May 23 May 24 Please RSVP at the TRS website at May 30 May 31 www.templerodefshalom.org so that June 6 June 7 we may plan accordingly. Walk-ins June 13 June 14 June 20 June 21 are always welcome." June 27 June 28
Outreach
SPRING SHABBAT DINNER March 24 Sponsored by the TRS Outreach Committee
Meet and get to know other TRS congregants over the warmth of a shared Shabbat dinner in a member’s home. Join a group of three or four families, couples, or individuals for a potluck Shabbat dinner. The Outreach Committee will match up groups for a Shabbat dinner on March 24. Dinner hosts will provide beverages, challah, and an appetizer. Guests will bring the rest – main course, salad/vegetable, and dessert. All Temple members are invited to participate – families, couples, and singles, from Renaissance to Chaverim. You choose whether to be a host or guest and whether to participate one or both months. If you have questions, please call Lisa at 703/757-0872 or e-mail her at [email protected]
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Religious School From the Educator ast year in the Religious School we piloted a new program, learning. Moreover, Jewish Education is not just about the kids. LParallel Education for Parents (PEP), where parents can Adult learning is all the rage (have you checked the Adult participate in a Torah L’shma (learning for the sake of learning) Education calendar here at TRS? WOW!). I love hearing par- session on a topic that matches the curriculum in their child’s ents say to their kids “you go to your class, I am going to mine”. class. This year, with a grant received from the Jewish What a wonderful, meaningful way to show (not just tell) your Federation of Greater Washington’s Innitiatives in kids that Judaism is an important part of the busy life of your Congregational Education, we are bringing back the program family. for parents. We are delighted to welcome Rabbi Henry Weiner I hope you will join me in welcoming Rabbi Weiner to our as the scholar leading the discussions. Rabbi Weiner is new to TRS family. I am excited to learn with him and I hope that you the Greater Washington Area but not to the rabbinate nor to will come and enjoy the experience as well! teaching. Jewish Education has reached new heights. Classroom learning is not just about textbooks and test. In fact, it is exact- L’shalom ly not text books and tests. It’s about exploration and hands on Dina Backer
MARK YOUR CALENDARS PARALLEL EDUCATION Sunday, March 5 Aliyah (Grade 7) trip to Ellis Island FOR PARENTS Friday, March 10 Younger Family Shabbat Worship (K-3) 6:30 pm MARCH 19 Sunday, March 12 Megillah Reading and Purim Carnival 11am Grade 4 Jeremiah: A Prophet of Doom or a Messenger NO regular RS classes of Hope? David, King of Israel: A Man of War? A Visionary for a Glorious Future? Monday, March 13 Aliyah, Haskalah Purim Celebration 6:30 pm Early session 8:40-9:30 am Late session 11:25-12:15 pm Tuesday, March 14 NO regular Aliyah and Haskalah classes Grade 2 Moses: A Man of Faith, A Man of Action. Magregot classes meet as scheduled. Early session 9:40-10:30 am Friday, March 24 Older family Shabbat Worship Late session 12:25-1:15 pm (Grade 3-6) 6:30 pm Grade 5 sings
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March 4 • Nathan Roberson March 18 • Ethan Gaba Nathan is the son of Gary and Cynthia Roberson. Ethan is the son of Amy Beckman and Steven Gaba. He is a seventh grade student at Longfellow Middle He is a seventh grade student at Longfellow Middle School. Nathan plays guitar and drums in a group School where he enjoys being in the French called the “Radioactive Wookies”. He also enjoys Immersion program. Ethan has many interests espe- team sports like soccer and football. His favorite cially playing team sports including baseball, basket- activities this school year are having fun with family ball, and soccer. He played on the McLean Little and friends and snow boarding at Park City and Whistler. League All Star team for three years running, winning the District Nathan’s favorite hobbies are video games and playing the drums. Championships for two of those years. He is also a certified scuba diver. Ethan also enjoys traveling, listening to music, socializing March 4 • Mitchell Whittington and playing with his pet dog Mitzi. For his Mitzvah project Ethan Mitchell is the son of William and Audrey combined his interest in athletics and his desire to help others by Whittington. He is in the 7th grade at Swanson volunteering with the Adapted Aquatics program for Fairfax Middle School. Mitchell has one brother and one County’s Department of Parks and Recreation. sister, both also students at TRS. In his free time he especially enjoys drawing animals and takes week- March 25 • Paxton Jablin end drawing courses. He is also involved with his Paxton is the son of the late Dr. Fredric Jablin. He, his Latin class and just came back from a Latin conference in two sisters, and two cousins reside with his aunt and Richmond. Mitchell also enjoys snow boarding, and video games. uncle, Michael and Elizabeth Jablin. Paxton is in the After Mitchell finishes his Bar Mitzvah he is going to begin study- 8th grade at Cooper Middle School in McLean, ing Japanese. Virginia, where he participates in a number of honors classes. He plays in the MYS Soccer League and March 11 • Maya Kavaler enjoys skate boarding, playing with his paint ball gun and riding Maya is the daughter of Howard and the late Prabhi his go-cart. Paxton’s hobbies include wood working, biking, and Kavaler. She is a 7th grader at the Maret School in playing games on his computer. At the present time he is unsure Washington, D.C. Maya very much enjoys the what his career choice will be. company of her friends, reading historical fiction, playing the piano and tennis, and caring for animals, March 25 • Haley Slone especially her two cocker spaniels. Haley is the daughter of Peter and Kelly Slone. She is lucky to become a Bat Mitzvah on her birthday. March 11 • Mattie Shepard Haley is in the 7th grade at Cooper Middle School. Mattie is the daughter of Julian Shepard and Jo Ellen She enjoys swimming on two swim teams, snow ski- Cartmell. She is a seventh grade student at ing and snow boarding. Her family finds it difficult Longfellow Middle School in McLean where she was to keep up with her on the slopes. She likes to spend recognized for outstanding citizenship and leader- time playing with and teaching young children. Haley is very ship in December. She is a music and animal lover. passionate about helping others that are in need. For her Bat She has three dogs, a bearded dragon lizard, two Mitzvah project she organized an event with friends where they put crested-geckos, a hamster and a mouse. She plays piano and together and donated special backpacks full of clothing, toiletries, electric guitar, composes her own songs and enjoys art. She plays shoes, books and stuffed animals to benefit abused children stay- basketball and tennis. Her community service included spending ing at Safe Shores, an organization located in Washington, D.C. time with Alzheimer patients at a Sunrise Nursing Home, assisting with flu shot administration at Greenspring Village, and baking cookies with the residents of another senior living community. March 18 • Nathan Borak Nathan Borak is the son of Martin and Leslie Borak. Nathan is a seventh grader at Thoreau Middle School. He enjoys playing sports, video games, and telling jokes. Nathan plays on a travel soccer team. When he grows up, he has often threatened to become a comedian. Some of us think he may actu- ally be able to do it!
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YOUTH PAGE jr. trsty Contact JR TRSTY Youth Director Michelle Sandler at 703/448-3532 or [email protected] with questions. Visit www.templerodefshalom.org LEADERSHIP to register for events or to download a calendar for the year. GROUP Learn how to be a bet- 8TH GRADERS! ter leader! Meet other The last NFTY event of the year is open to 8th graders. 7th and 8th graders! This is a great introduction to NFTY and will be an event you won’t want to Have fun hanging out miss! Get an application online today at www.nfty.org/mar. with friends! Join us from 12:00–1:30 pm on Sunday, March 19 Calling all Teens! Remember when you were a child and had fun with all the games at the Lunch will be served. Purim Carnival? This carnival is a success because of all the teens that help. We need you Please RSVP at Sunday, March 12! Volunteer just a few hours of your time and put a smile on the face of a http://jrleadersmarch06. TRS child. Sign up online to help at http://teenmitzvahcorpspurim06.mollyguard.com. mollyguard.com
OUR MARCH EVENT IS A PURIM PARTY SATURDAY, MARCH 18 • 6:30 – 10:00 PM Games! DJ! Great food! All Purim Style! Open to all teens in the Northern Virginia Area! RSVP online at http://jrtrstypurim06.mollyguard.com TRSTY 56 Contact TRSTY 56 Advisor Shelli Hutchinson [email protected] at 703/862-7220 with any questions. TRSTY 56 Hip Hop Show at the Imagination Stage Sunday, March 19, 2006 Meet at 1:45 in the Religious School Lobby This should be a fun show filled with great music and dancing. $18 (includes pizza lunch, a ticket and the bus) RSVP by March 12, 2006 •CHAPERONES NEEDED•
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TRSTY is the Youth Group for Grades 9-12 . Contact Michelle Sandler with any questions TRSTY at 703/448-3532 or [email protected].
Night on the Town The LAST NFTY event Saturday, March 25 From 6-11:30 pm of the year is Spring Kallah April 6-9. Bring a friend Get an application We’re going to Alexandria this year! Plus, as always, a secret location for online at Havdallah! www.nfty.org/mar today! RSVP online to http://trstynighton- thetown06.mollyguard.com
Teen Shabbat is at TRS this month! Don’t miss this teen creat- ed, teen led service in the Multi-Purpose Room on Friday, March 10. Teens from all over the area will join us from 7 – 9:30 pm. Please bring a dish to share for dinner that will be served before the service. RSVP online to http://teenshabbatmarch06.mollyguard.com
Calling all Teens! Attention Remember when you were a child and had fun with all 11th & 12th graders! the games at the Purim Carnival? This carnival is a Don’t miss our next Post Confirmation meeting success because of all the teens that help. We need on Sunday, March 19 from 1:30 – 3:00 pm. you Sunday, March 12! Volunteer just a few hours of Catch up with old friends. Talk about some- your time and put a smile on the face of a TRS child. thing meaningful! RSVP at http://postcon- Sign up online to help at march06.mollyguard.com http://teenmitzvahcorpspurim06.mollyguard.com
Mark your calendars NOW for our April event Saturday, April 1 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm It’s a night of Color Wars Games! Contests! Sports! Bring a friend! We’re inviting all teens to join us! Don’t miss this! RSVP online at http://trstycolorwars.mollyguard.com $5 includes the pizza dinner, build your own sundae, and activities. TRSTYites join us after everyone leaves for a “TRSTY only” movie night until 11:30 pm. 13
Sisterhood Co-Presidents: Sisterhood Joan Ossakow • [email protected] • 703/690-2789 Joan Neiman • [email protected] • 703/241-2729
Lecture Series: Sisterhood Presidents’ Corner “Hidden Children of the Holocaust” To meet the needs of all Sisterhood Members, the month of March provides an opportunity to meet at two events scheduled On Sunday March 19 at 9:00 am the Sisterhood will host the during weekend hours. The Sisterhood Bake Sale will take place at second of their Sunday Lecture series at the Temple, a panel discus- the Temple on Sunday, March 5. This is a wonderful and relaxing sion “Hidden Children of the Holocaust.” This moving, interactive way for the women of Sisterhood to get together in a relaxed discussion will feature temple members Janine Bland and Rachelle atmosphere with the aroma of home baked treats. Experienced Bennett as well as other individuals from the Holocaust Museum’s Challah Bakers Julie Krachman and Toni Sandler will be holding Speakers Bureau who lived through this trying time due to secret their annual Challah Bake on Friday, March 3, at the Temple. Later in the month, on March 25, the Havdalah dinner will be identities, the kindness of others and often sheer luck. held at the home of Evan and Lisa Katzman in the Chantilly/Fair Refreshments will be served. Lakes area. Let’s bid farewell to Shabbat and look towards the new week together, over a wonderful catered dinner. As always, Regularly Scheduled Events: Sisterhood recommends the Rosh Chodesh celebration of women and the new moon (March 2). BOOK GROUP: The March meeting will take place on March We look forward to seeing you at these get-togethers, as well as 8 at 10:00 am. The selection will be Look at Me, by Anita Brookner. the many other wonderful events which will take place this month. The hostess is Lynnie Weinstein, 1014 Shipman Lane, McLean, B’Shalom Virginia. Please call her at 703 821-3215 if you can come or have Joan Neiman and Joan Ossakow, questions. Sisterhood Co-Presidents MUSEUM TRIP: The next museum trip will be on Friday, March 17 at 10:30 am. The group will go to the DADA exhibit at TRS Jewelry Appraisal Day the National Gallery of Art. This is the most comprehensive museum exhibition of Dada art ever mounted in the United States. Dada Thursday, March 23, 2006 raucously challenged accepted traditions and changed the face of Call 1-800/851-7888 for your appointment art-making forever. Artists include Arp, Ernst, Man Ray and Duchamp. Please meet at the East Building information desk. The closest metro stop is L’Enfant Plaza. Please contact Judy Yavner at et TRS Sisterhood help you to protect your [email protected] or 703 527-0947 if you are interested or valuables. Make an appointment by calling would like additional information. LAnne D. Gorenstein at 703 938-6516 for directions to her home where the Sisterhood’s Annual Havdalah Dinner: appraisals will be held, or for additional Saturday, March 25 at 7:00 pm information. All adult TRS congregants are invited to experience the warmth of Praisers, an independent appraiser, will quickly and privately Havdalah at the home of Evan and Lisa Katzman in Chantilly/Fair appraise your jewelry and other precious items. You will imme- Lakes on Saturday, March 25, from 7:00 until 9:00 pm. The evening diately receive a printed appraisal including a picture. Cost is will feature a catered dinner and a Havdalah ceremony led by Rabbi modest and you receive a deduction for the part of the fee Marcus Burstein. The cost is $25.00 per person. Please send check contributed to Sisterhood. to: Lisa Katzman, 13610 Bare Island Drive, Chantilly, Va. 20151 by March 13. Call Lisa at 703 802-2170 if you have any questions. Sisterhood Shabbat RSVP early, as this event is limited by space constraints. The annual Sisterhood Shabbat will take place on April 21. Our guest speaker will be Ellen Fira Kempner Sucherman, a member of the Touro Synagogue in New Orleans. She will speak about her family’s experiences as evacuees from Hurricane Katrina. There Sisterhood Treasures will be a dinner at 6:30 pm, prior to the service. Look for information about signing up for the dinner in the April Bulletin. Regular Hours: Tuesdays and Wednesdays 11:00 am until 12:30 pm and 5:30 pm until 7:30 pm. Sundays 8:30 am until 1:30 pm. Bake Sale The annual Sisterhood Bake Sale will be held in the Religious Appointments: Toni Sandler 703/734-9533, Susan Lerner 703/ School lobby between 8:30 am and 1:00 pm on Sunday, March 5. 241-1055 Eleanor Linde 703/821-3767 Please come and buy our delicious wares!! Anyone interested in donating baked goods should contact Ronnie Schulman You are invited to visit all the New Seder and Matza Plates which 703/448-8174 or [email protected] or Mona Milberg have just arrived!!! 703/533-8851 or [email protected]. See you there!! 14
Men’s Club Archive Heritage Moments From The Temple Archives Men’s Club Chairs: 1985 Temple Rodef Shalom developed an outreach program Ric Cooper • [email protected] which was designed to help families affected by interfaith mar- Al Krachman • [email protected] riages deal with the social, religious and educational problems they encountered. Our history has shown a steady increase in the PURIM number of interfaith marriages. Purim is coming! It’s not too soon to get involved in planning, set- 1962 6% Percent of marriages with one non-Jewish spouse ting up and running the Purim carnival. We need hawkers, barkers, 1967 11% carnies and sharpies. Call Sideshow Ric or Al the Big Man to get 1972 11% involved. We also need bakers. The Purim Cake Walk and Cake 1977 13.4 % Decoration Contest are carnival favorites. Plan early, bake often, 1982 17.7% and support the carnival! 1987 24.5% 2005 40% 1994 An ad-hoc committee was established as part of the interfaith Please welcome Jose Morales committee to review issues related to the role of the non-Jew. Membership, governance and ritual were the concerns that were Gabriel Mercado, our Building being studied. Manager of many years, has left TRS 2005 Outreach and Sisterhood committees have worked together to establish a 'holiday hotline'—designed to answer questions for to join his family renovation busi- anyone who would like information regarding what foods to serve ness. We are very fortunate to have during Passover and other holidays as well as what rituals to observe. an able replacement, Jose Morales, The help-line is staffed with volunteers. This is especially helpful to members who are new to Judaism. here with us at TRS. Jose has worked for PMM, our building management company, for 10 years in vari- Compiled By Marge Kestenbaum ous capacities, including three years at Temple Beth Archives Committee Ami, a similarly sized Reform congregation in RETIRED FROM GOVERNMENT AND Rockville, MD. Jose has jumped right in to support all LOOKING FOR SOMETHING COOL TO DO? of the busy activities here, along with taking excellent care of our building. He is very pleased to be back in PART-TIME or FULL-TIME a warm, friendly synagogue community. Jose lives in and advisors Gaithersburg, MD with his wife Elia and his four We are a Federal business development agency for children, Moises, Karina, Dina & Jonathan. Please small innovative companies with neat ideas for help us give Jose a warm welcome to TRS. technology products and services. We support US companies, and soon, Israeli companies.
We need both hourly part-time and full-time consultants who are conversant in the mission and workings of at least one Federal Civilian or Renting Dishes through Sisterhood Defense agency and have a strong understanding of procurement policy. Look for a photo of our beautiful place settings in the Judaica Shop Window!! We're also developing an Advisory Board of government, industry, and legislative experts. Sisterhood has lovely dishes, glassware, and flatware available to rent if you are having a Simcha celebration in the Temple’s Please contact Mike Fox,TRS member, for more Social Hall. Contact Sue Hale 703 560-7712 or Vicki Nelson information. All inquires are welcome. 703 255-1312 so that they can work directly with your caterer. (703) 749-1290 or [email protected] Sisterhood’s prices are well below those of rental companies, and your money will help the Temple and other worthy char- ities supported by Sisterhood. SYNAPTIC SOURCE Connecting Small Business with Government 15
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Choice of chicken, beef brisket, or vegetarin. Please register for the Passover Seder at www.templerodefshalom.org:
TRS Member Adults: $45 TRS Non-Member Adults: $55 Children 6-12: $25 Pre-school Children 5 & under: $6
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ARZA Co-Chairs: ARZA-Bridge to Israel Russ Bikoff • 703/790-0671 • [email protected] Norma S. Tucker • 301/897-5124 • [email protected]
THANK YOU Food: To all those who voted in the recent World Zionist Organization (WZO) election, your ARZA-Bridge to Israel Committee thanks • Koshermart 184 Rollins Avenue, Rockville, 301-468-4840; 4860 you. We will report the outcomes of the election in the TRS April Boiling Brook Pkwy., Rockville, 301-468-0400 Both Koshermart Newsletter. locations offer an extended line of Israeli products, wines, and a To all those who joined or renewed their ARZA Membership. variety of kosher gourmet products from around the world. The We now have 72 TRS/ARZA family and individual memberships. Rollins Avenue location also features the Jewish Gift Shop. It has You can join at anytime. Send $36 to the Temple Office, note always been a goal of both businesses to support Israeli based ven- the funds are for ARZA dues, include your full name, address, dors and to bring a "touch of Israel" to our Washington metro phone numbers, and e-mail (if you have one),and we will forward neighborhoods! your information to ARZA’s national offices so that you can receive current and important news about ARZA’s work around the world. • Shalom Strictly Kosher Meats and Delicatessen, 2307 University Blvd West, Wheaton, 301-946-6500 MAZEL TOV To Rabbi Marcus Burstein, our former staff liaison to the ARZA- • Shaul's Kosher Place 1319 Lamberton Drive, Silver Spring, Bridge to Israel Committee, on his upcoming marriage to Eric Larson. 301-593-1800 ISRAEL SHABBAT Additional Resources: TRS will celebrate Yom Ha’atzmaut, Israel Independence Day, on Friday, May 12 at the 8:15pm Erev Shabbat service. The full pro- • The Israeli Partnership gram will appear in the next Newsletter. You can count on an This website is the realization of a concept developed by the evening highlighting Israel’s culture and achievements. As in past Economic Department at the Embassy of Israel in Washington, years, our celebration will include Israeli music and foods. DC. The website was launched in order to effectively assist Israeli businesses by including links to various Israeli companies that SHOP ISRAEL IN TOWN market their products abroad. Friends of Israel in the United States and around the world will have an opportunity to participate in an Gifts: operation aimed at strengthening the Israeli economy.
• A Touch of Israel, JCCGW, 6125 Montrose Rd., Rockville, 301- • BuyIsraelGoods.org 770-5200 A consumer guide for the retail purchase of Israeli products, devel- oped by the America-Israel Chamber of Commerce in Chicago. • Abe's Jewish Book & Gift Store/Jewish Book Store of Use this site to identify Israeli products likely to be available in Greater Washington 11250 Georgia Avenue, Wheaton, 301-942- retail stores in your market area, and the stores that carry them in 2237 "If it's Jewish, we have it" says the owner of this Judaica & stock. book shop, whose store features Judaica from Israel. • Maryland/Israel Development Center • Abramson Family Foundation Judaica Gift and A non-profit organization promoting trade, joint ventures and Bookstore DCJCC, 1529 16th St., N.W., 202-777-3216 investment between Maryland and Israeli businesses and research institutions. Their website features resources on where to purchase • Gift Shop JCCNV, 8900 Little River Turnpike, Fairfax, 703-323- Israeli products in Maryland. 0880 x22 "We have everything from Israel" says one of the partners of this boutique at the JCC of Northern Virginia. • Virginia Israel Advisory Board The Virginia Israel Advisory Board's (VIAB) mission is to serve as • Israeli Accents 4838 Boiling Brook Parkway, Rockville, 301- the bridge for Israeli companies who want to establish and/or 231-7999 or 800-420-9610 (next to the Koshermart) expand their business in the USA and locate in Virginia. We do this by opening doors using the right contacts and providing the best • Lisbon's Hebrew Books & Gifts 2305 University Blvd., Silver support to help grow their U.S. business. Spring, 301-933-1900 (next to Shalom's) Lisbon's has "everything for Chanukah" and many of their products are from Israel.
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Connecting with Our Temple Family
e all know that belonging to were assigned to the front door to tell were able to meet and interview longtime Temple Rodef Shalom should Temple members without children singing members and to flesh out the history of the W mean more than just being able in the concert to stand in line number two. founding families. We have served on com- to attend High Holy Day services. But how It was a very popular event and it soon mittees and attended Saturday morning can each of us truly belong to Rodef became obvious that no one standing in Torah study. We have joined car pools and Shalom? Where can we begin? One way is line two would be seated. I personally attended Family Nights. We enjoy attend- to see how others have done it. To that end, turned away the family sponsoring the ing Shabbat services and have graduated each month, our Bulletin will feature a event. Mortified, I wrote a complaint letter from Tot Shabbat to Family Shabbat to member of the Temple who has recently to the clergy. I received a nice note of reply Adult Shabbat services. It is a delight to sit found a way to truly belong here. As they and an invitation to join the Cultural among friends and family and seek some share their stories with us, perhaps each of Committee. I am now co-chairman of the spirituality and peace from hectic modern us will be inspired to find our own ways to Cultural Committee and you may address life. But it has been most memorable sim- belong to our sacred community in the your complaints to me directly. ply to meet the individuals who make up fullest sense of the word. (Admit it . . . now you’re seriously consid- this Temple family. This is a wonderful This month we feature the Rabinovitz ering canceling the spring vacation to place full of interesting and talented peo- family of Annandale — Dennis, Maureen, Florida and sending Bubbie Jet Blue tick- ple. It just starts with saying “hello.” Sam, and Jane. ets to come see the MEGILLAH ZONE.) (OK. Just mark your calendar right now and you won’t have to risk explaining to (and we feature absolutely no subliminal We always read the Temple bulletin, and your children why you missed this year’s suggestions about this month’s hilarious about five years ago I saw an ad announc- Megillah. The performances are March Megillah Purim Shpiel . . . the MEGILLAH ing the formation of a group to explore 13th, 18th, and 19th. ) ZONE ) performing the first Temple “Megillah Is there anything else you would like to According to Broadway.” A roomful of add? What first brought you to the Temple? Temple crazies showed up and soon One of our first memories of “shopping” became great friends in developing the Did I mention that you shouldn’t miss for a Temple is attending Shabbat services show. We mixed young with old, longtime this year’s Megillah? The MEGILLAH and coming to appreciate the inspiring, members with newbies, singers with ZONE uses TV shows from the 1950’s, 60’s, spiritual words of Rabbis Berkowits and stinkers. But most of all, we had fun, we and 70’s to retell the tale of the Jews’ tri- Schwartzman. On another visit we attend- made friends and we brought shtick to the umph over evil. Come cheer Esther and ed a reading of the Megillah and watched congregation. This Megillah cast and crew Mordechai. Come BOO Haman. But most- Rabbi Schwartzman doing a headstand on became mishbucha and we are still close. ly just come and enjoy the Purim holiday the Bimah. We looked at each other smil- with your family and friends. We’d love to ing, nodded, and said, “This is the Temple What has been your most memorable entertain you. for us.” experience at the Temple? We have been lucky to experience Temple “But no one wants to read about me” is (Don’t miss the Megillah performance life in many areas. The kids attended almost everyone’s first reaction to being fea- this month. Sure, you’re busy, who isn’t? ) Sunday school and became Bar and Bat tured in this series. That first reaction Mitzvah here. Jane has been active in Shir inevitably leads to a feature story that is What drew you in closer? Harmony and now in Kol Machar. We engaging, funny, touching or instructive – Complaining . . . Jane was singing with Shir helped research the history of the Temple and sometimes all of the above. Please tell us Harmony and we volunteered to work as and designed a keepsake booklet for the your story. Call Barbara Sarshik at (703) ushers at the Craig Taubman concert. We rededication of the Temple in 2001. We 448-7453 or e-mail her at [email protected].
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Library RELIGION JUVENILE • Lillian R. Klein. From Deborah To Esther: Sexual Politics In the • Malka Drucker. Grandma’s Latkes Hebrew Bible…This book was the subject of a presentation in • Elsa Okon Rael. When Zaydeh Danced On Eldridge Street Adult Limud. Klein assumes male authorship of the Hebrew Bible. • Norma Simon. The Story of Hanukkah Of particular interest is what her female characters say about the men who wrote them into the stories. YOUNG ADULT • Sherwin B. Nuland. Maimonides. A skilled author “reveals the • Eve Bunting. One Candle…a generational tale of the Holocaust wisdom and spirit of the remarkable rabbi, physician and philoso- passed along to honor the hope of Hanukkah pher” • Mikki Machlin. My Name Is Not Gussie • Naomi Harris Rosenblatt. After the Apple: Women In the Bible…an effective blend of history, psychology and storytelling • Ron Wolfson. Hanukkah: the Family Guide To Spiritual CD Celebration…an especially good book to share with the • Thomas Beveridge. “Yizkor Requiem” (American Classics) family…includes storytelling, recipes, ritual and theology I am generally in the library Monday, Wednesday and Thursday mornings and can be reached at x402, at home at (202)363-6172 or HEBREW STUDIES at [email protected]. • Asher Tarmon. Hebrew Verb Tables. Revised and Extended… Located on book truck at left of Librarian’s desk Martha Hill Librarian OF INTEREST • Hasia R. Diner and Beryl Lieff Benderly. Her Works Praise Her: a History of Jewish Women From Colonial Times To the Present…a chronicle of 15 generations of Jewish women who contributed as “earners, organizers and entrepreneurs” Spiritual and Secular Color: • Abraham H. Foxman. Never Again? The Threat of the New Anti- Woven, Felted, Crocheted Semitism…the author focuses on current threats to Jews in the The Wearable Artwork of Roz Houseknecht U.S. and abroad February 15- March 19 • David Goldstein. Jewish Legends Meet the Artist: Sunday, March 5 10:30 A.M.-1:00 PM • Amy Ostrower. Nana Lena’s Kitchen: a Memoir in Recipes… recipes, photographs, commentary from a Southern Jewish Roz Houseknecht has been weaving since 1975. Her work has kitchen…“charm and wisdom, served with love” evolved to include wearable art, Judaica, hand felted accessories, • Amos Oz. A Tale of Love and Darkness…a journey through the hand-dyed yarn and jewelry. The woven and felted surfaces adolescence of Amos Oz…“a magical self portrait of an engrossing emphasize color and structure with the use of her hand-dyed family saga” yarns and fleece. • Leah Rabin. Rabin: Our Life, His Legacy…a personal memoir of Roz works with individuals to design custom tallitot (prayer Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin by his widow shawls) and clothing. Her tallitot have been shown throughout • Rachel Simmons. Odd Girl Out: the Hidden Culture of Aggression the United States and Canada. Roz’s wearable works of art have In Girls…Rachel Simmons is one of “Jewish Woman’s” 10 women been showcased in fashion shows at regional and national con- to watch in 5766…“required reading for young girls and their ferences. She exhibits her work locally at the Potomac Craftsmen mothers”-Boston Globe Gallery at the Torpedo Factory Art Center in Alexandria, Virginia. As a member of ArtSites, Roz has shown her fiber art at annual shows throughout the metropolitan area and many ADULT FICTION Jewish Community Centers and synagogues along the East • Jonathan Rosen. Joy Comes in the Morning…“ a rare and vibrant Coast. portrait of a contemporary rabbi who is reform, female and complex” • Isaac Bashevis Singer. The Slave
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Caring Committee Chair: Caring Committee Lisa Kaplan Gordon • 703/241-7807 • [email protected] View the latest Caring Committee information on our Temple Website, www.templerodefshalom.org.
ince Jews are commanded to perform g’milut chasadim — TRS Shalom Baby deeds of loving kindness — every Temple member auto- TRS Shalom Baby provides support for matically is a member of the Caring Committee which Temple members celebrating the arrival of a helps members deal with the difficult transitions and crises new baby. At this joyous, but sometimes that life presents. Caring Committee services are described stressful time, volunteers lend a hand. They below. If you want to volunteer — and we hope all Temple members offer experience, a set of arms to hold the baby Swill participate — call the subcommittee coordinator. If you know of while Mom takes a shower, meal assistance, referrals for other Jewish someone in need — and we all need help from time to time — call the resources and an introduction to the many family services and programs that contact number. The Temple must assign some services; others can be TRS offers. arranged through the coordinator. If you’ve recently had a baby or would like to volunteer, call coordinator Nancy Chajet: 703/761-1234, or e-mail [email protected]. Bereavement Support for Widows and It’s hard to know what to do when someone dies. Our Bereavement Widowers — Next Step Committee helps Temple members sort through the process of burying a Next Step supports Temple members who have recently lost a spouse by family member by providing funeral and cemetery resources and support. providing resources and a group that can help a widow or widower work If you need bereavement support, call Anne Duncan, clergy secretary: through their grief and move on. If you need support, call coordinator 703/532-2217. If you want to be a bereavement volunteer, call coordinator Debbie Massey: 703/264-0297, or e-mail [email protected]. Stu Weiss: 703/522-2524, or e-mail [email protected]. Breast Cancer Network Visiting the Sick (Bikkur Cholim) The network provides support and resources for breast cancer patients Torah commands us to visit the sick. When a Temple member returns from and survivors. We meet monthly for a casual dinner and conversation. the hospital, it is our tradition to pay a visit, deliver a challah and determine If you need support, please call Anita Thornton, Program Director: if other help is needed. 703/532-2217 ext. 301 or e-mail [email protected]. If you have returned from the hospital, call Anne Duncan, clergy secretary: 703/532-2217. If you want to volunteer to pay a visit, call coor- dinator Michael Raizen: 703/841-5421, or e-mail [email protected]. SUPPORT OUR TRS BREAST CANCER SUPPORT NETWORK AT THE 2006 Meals AVON WALK FOR BREAST CANCER When a Temple member faces a crisis, cooking is often the last thing on their mind. The Meals Committee helps by cooking and delivering meals he Temple Rodef Shalom Breast as often and for as long as needed. Cancer Support Network is proud to announce our If you need a meal, call Anne Duncan, clergy secretary: 703/532-2217. T involvement in the upcoming If you want to volunteer to cook a meal, call coordinator Ronnie O’Connor: 2006 Avon Walk for Breast 703/642-0289, or e-mail [email protected]. Cancer. This 40 mile walk will take place on April 29-30 through JSSA IS HERE TO HELP the streets of Washington, DC, Thanks to the continuing partnership between Temple Rodef Shalom and Maryland and Northern Virginia. It the Jewish Social Service Agency (JSSA), we have available to us a licensed is an event designed to increase aware- professional counselor. The counselor is available as a consultant and can ness of breast cancer and raise the necessary provide support and referrals to congregants in need as a result of emo- funds for early detection and treatment. Won't you please consider joining our team and becoming a part of this very tional, social, or physical challenges. Fees for the inital service through TRS exciting event? If you would like to walk with us, or would are covered by TRS. JSSA supports individuals, couples, and families like to know how you can support us, please call Jody through mental health counseling, services for children and adolescents, Wager at 703/237-7264. older adult services, career programs and adoption assistance. Please contact Larry Uman, LCSW at can be found at 703/204-9100 X15.
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Donations TRS GENERAL FUND Associate Rabbi’s Discretionary Fund • Bea Daniel in loving memory of my brother, David Fink • Donna & Bruce Hoffman in appreciation of the Rabbi’s • R. F. Rosenbaum in memory of Harry Rosenbaum wonderful skills in preparing Nick to become a bar mitzvah • Dennis & Debra Brooks in honor of the bar mitzvah of and for the very meaningful sermon of the service Nathan Roberson • Stephen Altheim and Ruth Reichman in memory of Uncle • Shirley & Ray Galant in memory of Shirley’s parents, Bertha Morris Choleff who passed away at the age of 100 & Samuel Gable, and Ray’s parents, Sarah & Abraham Galant • Jeffrey & Alison Rosenberg • Doina Chiacu & Ronald Kampeas in memory of Rachel • Susan Pederson & Paul Bernstein with thanks for leading the Kampeas youth group trip to Israel • Belle & Morton Flax in memory of our parents, Hyman • Rosalie Pallo in loving memory of my father, Jacob Miller Sisman and Estelle Flax • The Carney-Cohen family in appreciation for guiding • Herman Levy in loving memory of my mother, Selma Levy Marshall in his writing and thinking in preparing him for his • Michelle & Robert Cohen in loving memory of Sam Cohen bar mitzvah • Judy & Len Melamud in honor of the birth of Zoe Ann Levy, granddaughter of Sharon & Moe Levy EDUCATION FUNDS
CLERGY FUNDS Religious School Fund • Charlotte & Henry Magid in honor of the 6th birthday of Senior Rabbi’s Discretionary Fund our grandson, Jonathan D’Ari •Marcus & Rachel Simon with thanks to Rabbi Schwartzman •Susan & Michael Kappel in memory of Howard I. Kruger, for Zachary’s beautiful bris service father of Stuart Kruger • Leonard Fischer in loving memory of Herman & Bertha Fischer Nursery School Fund • Donna & Bruce Hoffman in appreciation of the Rabbi’s •Richard & Lois Meyer in memory of Dorothy Friedman, excellent guidance and good humor as Nick prepared his bar mother of Debbie Danaceau mitzvah sermon • Lois & Art Levin in memory of Ann Katz, mother of Gail • Soop & Jan Saferstein in loving memory of Soop’s dad, Abe Dezube and in honor of Rabbi Schwartzman being named Saferstein, and his aunt, Miriam Shaw one of Jewish Women International’s “10 Jewish Women to • Geri, Jack, Shayna & David Maskell in memory of Daniel Watch” Hoober • Carol & David Gichner in memory of Dorothy Friedman, • Jeffrey & Alison Rosenberg mother of Debbie Danaceau • The Carney-Cohen family in appreciation of your warmth, • Jane Malawer in loving memory of my mother, Bess Dreyer good humor and great patience as you prepared our family for Marshall’s bar mitzvah Israel Quest Fund • Win Greenwald in loving memory of Ward Edwards • Sandy & Arnie Dashefsky in honor of the brit bat of our • The Bernstein family in loving memory of Shirley Bernstein granddaughter, Elizabeth Julia, and in appreciation of your officiation at the ceremony Library Fund • Jen & Kayleigh Schall in memory of Homer Gene Vernon, Sr., Cantor’s Discretionary Fund beloved grandfather • Donna & Bruce Hoffman in appreciation of the Cantor’s • Susan Malka in loving memory of my father and mother, positive attitude and consistent encouragement which Morris D. and Esther and Ornstein Gelfand ensured success as Nick became a bar mitzvah and for the • Happy Cohen in loving memory of my father, Joseph beautiful service Rosenbaum • Jeffrey & Alison Rosenberg • Gayle & Jonathan Kosarin in appreciation of Student Cantor TIKKUN OLAM FUNDS Robin’s presentation on Jewish Music – “Know Before Temple Tzedakah Fund Whom You Stand” at the Para-Rabbinic Winter Kallah • Samuel Schulman in loving memory of my wife, Stephanie Hurricane Fund Schulman, and my father, Phillip Schulman •Michael & Frances Saltzman
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Donations • Mort & Ros Cohen in loving memory of Leo Cohen, Mort’s RITUAL AND WORSHIP FUNDS father • Lauren & Bruce Gluckman in honor of Tanya and Jasmine Prayer Book Fund Weiss • Frank Berkowitz & Cirrelda Cooper • Robin Hill Matthewman • Adam Falkoff in loving memory of my grandfather, Morris Marty Kestenbaum Comfort Fund Tusher • Carol & Gene Davidson in memory of Pauline & Roland Sisterhood Galley • Alma Rosenbaum in memory of Eve Harvey, David Schwartz • Betty Anna & Sid Louick in memory of Eve Harvey and Dorothy Friedman and in honor of Ellen Blalock’s installation as a member of the URJ Board of Trustees Social Action Fund • Stephen & Terry Gold in memory of David Shrager, father of BUILDING AND GROUNDS FUNDS Debbie Shrager Accessibility Fund • The Bernstein family in loving memory of Josephine Pederson • The Baer/Such-Baer family in loving memory of Fred J. Such • Eva Marie Carney in honor of Janet Cohen • Bettye Anna Louick in honor of Sid Louick, a world-class Jacknow Meditation and Tribute Garden husband, father, grandfather and best friend • Marian & Dan Goldberg in loving memory of David Schwartz, son of Iris Shamaskin, and brother of Alyse & TRS Fund for the Community Donna and in honor of Armand Weiss, for his many endeavors • Debbie & Henry Danaceau and seeing him, once again, in good health • Phyllis & Robert Berman • Julie & Mark Groff in memory of Esther Solomon • Jeanne Ormsby • Betty Anna & Sid Louick in honor of the birth of Zoe Levy, •Karen Hendrixson granddaughter of Sharon & Moe Levy and daughter of Sarah •Michael & Stacy Lewis & Mitchell Levy • Evelyn & Eugene Fox • Kendra & James Mendelsohn Judy Berkowits Memorial Fund • Harvey & Leni Bronstein • Gayle & Jonathan Kosarin in appreciation for Rabbi • Debbie & Terry Korth Berkowits’ presentation on the Prophet Amos at the Para- •Andy Pike & Barb Sarshik Rabbinic Fellows Winter Kallah • Joel & Ann Moskowitz • Marge Kestenbaum in honor of Seth Ruben Lifland, son of Judy Seiff Special Project Fund Julie & Ken and grandson of Ilene and John Pachter • Douglas & Joan Dodge •Richard & Roslyn Dreydoppel in honor of Esther Gleicher’s, • Bruce & Donna Hoffman in appreciation of Carin Lomax 90th birthday who assured the success of our Bar Mitzvah party by her •Marge Kestenbaum in honor of Esther Gleicher – a special professionalism, attention to detail and caring birthday and a special lady • Jane Mullen & family in memory of my beloved sister, Laura • Chuck & Anita Thornton with love & in honor of Esther Davidson Bradley Gleicher’s 90th birthday • Rabbi Amy Schwartzman & Kevin Moss ENDOWMENT FUNDS PROGRAMMING AND CULTURAL FUNDS TRS Endowment General Fund Adult Education Fund • Phyllis Newman in memory of David Schwartz, son of Iris • Stephen & Sheila Gell Shamaskin
Youth Activities Fund Jennifer Blalock Memorial Fund • Ron Levy in memory of my father, F. Robert Levy • Myra & Mort Roney in honor of the birth of Zoe Ann Levy, granddaughter of Sharon & Moe Levy Music and Volunteer Choir Fund • Jim, Karen, Lindsay and Dana Whitman in loving memory of Doris Whitman
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Donations NEW MEMBERS • Neely & Jonathan Agin on the birth of Alexis Gina Agin. She also joins her grandparents, Tibor & Barbara Schonfeld; her • Ed Creskoff—703/534-3947 aunt & uncle, Dan & Lisa Schonfeld; and cousins, Zachary & Rebecca Fenneman Jeremy Schonfeld as part of the TRS family 4931 N. 36th Street Arlington, VA 22207 CONDOLENCES TO Jacob Creskoff 04/06/2000 Asher Creskoff 06/03/2003 • Ilene Banker on the death of her father, Morris Brookstein • Lawrence MacDonald on the death of his grandmother, • Samantha & John Foti—703/533-7384 Irene MacDonald 2105 N. Illinois Street • Michael Gelb on the death of his mother, Miriam Gelb Arlington, VA 22205 • Joan Silverlieb on the death of her aunt, Anna Mintz J. J. Foti 08/25/2004 • Alan Pettingill on the death of his father, Stuart Pettingill • Stuart Kruger on the death of his father, Howard Kruger • Seth & Beth Grae—703/847-2487 • Justin Bennet on the death of his mother, Ruth Bennet 1249 Beverly Road • Ron Cohen on the death of his mother, Belle Cohen McLean, VA 22101 Danielle Grae 05/22/1998 Michael Grae 03/23/2001 Thank you to all the generous Silent
• Charles Konigsberg—703/893-0658 Auction donors who provided great Merrill Spiegel merchandise, trips, goods and services 1406 Colleen Lane for the Sock Hop. McLean, VA 22101 • Margery & Gerson Sher Eddie Konigsberg 02/13/2004 • Himelfarb Family • Audrey Kramer—703/243-8384 • Sam & Susan Simon 1327 N. Lynnbrook Drive • Janine Bland Arlington, VA 22201 Pia Kramer 04/05/2000 • Lisa Ostroff • Laurie Goldberg •Sarita Levine—703/941-1181 • Ann Dominick 7122 Woodland Drive Springfield, VA 22151 • J. Gilbert’s Restaurant • Chantel’s Cakes & Pastries • Larry & Bonnie Rosenthal—703/534-4045 • Rabbi Amy Schwartzman & Kevin Moss 6107 N 29th Street Arlington, VA 22207 • Michael & Linda Goldberg Jack Rosenthal 07/14/2004 • Rabbi Marcus Burstein MAZEL TOV TO • Nancy Kane • Cantor Michael Shochet • Amy & Arthur Kales on the birth of their 4th grandchild, Noah Benjamin Kales • Beth Stroul • Moe & Sharon Levy on the birth of their granddaughter, Zoe • Georgette Klinger Salon Ann Levy, daughter of Mitchell & Sarah Levy • Jody Wager • Jessie Gross on her acceptance by Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion. She will begin her rabbinic • Brenda Schrier training with a year in Jerusalem. • Sandi Croan • William & Lucas Frischling & Jennifer Canty on the birth of • Sunset Tree Amelia Sophia Frischling • Michael, Kirsten, Clara & Anna Nachmanoff on the birth of • Marilyn Hahn Charlotte Nachmanoff • Rabbi Marcus Burstein & Eric Larson on their engagement
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Ohel Yaacov • Fred & Lisa Abbey • The Gruen/Silver family in memory of David Shrager • Abingdon Development Company • Jane Gurin and Jim & Eric Asker in memory of Harvey • Scott Abelman & Deborah Shrager in honor of Ethan & Mirochnik, loved so dearly by sister & brother-in-law, Fran & Hannah Ableman Ed Klein, and nieces, Katie & Alison • Ed & Edie Alexander • Sylvia Gurin in loving memory of Harvey Mirochnik, brother • Anonymous in honor of the clergy of Fran Klein • Anonymous • Ida Haughland & Andrew Hemmendinger • Stephen Appell & Marie Danforth • Stephen & Anne Himelfarb • Allie & Ellen Ash in memory of Ellen’s mother, Vita Marx • Jeffrey & Linda Holden • Joseph Auerbach in memory of Ida Auerbach • Bill & Judi Hooker in honor of Austin & Devon Gold and • Steve Barry & Tina Levine Evan & Rachel White • Bob & Ann Barth • Laura & John Huennekens • Bass Architects Chartered • Steven Ivins in memory of Winifred Levey • Marina Beckhard & Alan, Benjamin, Joshua & Daniel • Laura & Erica Jacobs • Luberda in memory of Rudolph D. Bach • Carl & Susan Kalish • Katherine & Charles Brandeis • Doris Katz in memory of Morris Katz • Dan & Judy Burkitt in memory of Edward & Nina Shafer • Jim & Nancy Kessler in memory of Joseph Kessler • Robert & Linda Caine in memory of Esther Caine & Paul • Daniel Klein & Robbyne Jones Caine • Daniel Koffsky • Paul & Charlotte Chandler • Gayle & Jonathan Kosarin in honor of the Religious Practices • Judy & Ed Cincinnati & family in memory of June & Nat Committee Rosenblatt • Roger & Georgie Kronenberg in memory of Sidney & Myrtle •Happy Cohen Kronenberg • Jules & Anne Cohen in memory of David Schwartz • Deborah Leiderman & Virgil Frizzell & family in memory of • George & Phyllis Cohen Andrea & Sally Leiderman and in honor of Herbert •Marc, Amy & Mickey Cohen and Linda Hoffman Leiderman’s 82nd birthday • Mort & Ros Cohen • Jeff Lesher & Amy Bass •Carol & Gene Davidson in honor of Erica & Lindsey •Paul & June Levine in honor of Doris Katz on the occasion Davidson of her birthday • Gail & Robert Dezube in memory of my mother, Anne Katz • Keith & Bari Levingston • Beth Doughty & Donald Weinstein • Fred, Jennifer, Michael & Jessica Levy in memory of Marion • Sydney Duberstein Madison • Fil & Karen Feit • Ronald Levy • Marc & Carol Fink • Martin Lichtenstein • Bea Finkel • Richard & Eleanor Linde • Robert & Lynn Fletcher • Elaine & Burt Litman • Wendy, Herb, Kim & David Bloom in honor of Mr. & Mrs. • Sam & Amy Lowenstein in honor of Jim & Judy Ganulin Bernard Levi and in memory of Ann Katz • Martha Lowenstern • Michael & Jane Fragola • Lawrence MacDonald & Hannah Moore in memory of Irene •Patty Freeman in memory of Howard Wiener MacDonald • Sheila & Steve Gell in memory of Sheil Gell’s father, Ben • Terry Mahn & Gayle Novig Ginsburg, and in memory of Sylvia Maskell, mother of Jack • Charles Mandelbaum Maskell • Benetta Mansfield in memory of Anne Mansfield Meron • Dan Goldberg in honor of Jean S. Roberts • Sheila Margeson in honor of Ellen Glass, Judy Lynn Albert & • Arnold & Dorothy Goldsmith Anita Thornton • Belle F. Goldsmith Trust • Sheila & Walt Margeson in honor of Rochelle Stenn, Reneé • Dave Goldstein in honor of 58 years together with Inez Kische & Aidan Budenstein • Anne & Alan Gorenstein • Geri & Jack Maskell in honor of Shayna & David Maskell •The Greenlee family in honor of Rabbi Burstein for leading • Ellen Meltzer in honor of Muriel Meltzer the teen trip to Israel • Keith, Hannah, Daniel & Lydia Mendelson & Becky Smith in • Gary & Beth Gross honor of Burton & Grace Mendelson • Terry Gross in honor of my mother’s birthday and in honor • Mona Milberg in memory of Michael & Byrdie Steiner of Rabbi Schwartzman for her recognition as one of the 10 • Sandy & Jerry Moore Jewish Women to Watch • Phil, Holley, Jeff & David Morse
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Ohel Yaacov • Morton & Harriet Moss in memory of Francine & Henry • Rabbi Amy Schwartzman in honor of the TRS office staff Moss and Dudley Himoff • Leah Fried Sedwick • Jane Mullen • Hank & Judy Seiff in honor of Esther Gleicher • Marcy & Stu Newberger • Sandra Sellers in honor of our good friends, the • Jeanne Ormsby in memory of my mother, Davie Ormsby Hoffman/Cohen family and the David Lawrence family • Rosalie Pallo • Iris & Robert Shamaskin in loving memory of David • Alison & Jeffrey Pease Schwartz • Lillian & Brenda Pilzer in memory of June Ray • Kenneth & Sindi Sheers • Sid & Ardith Polk • Ileen Shefferman in honor of Matthew & Evan Leibowitz’ • Donald & Susan Poretz excellent school grades • Meg Power & Joel Eisenberg in honor of Anita Thornton for • Sylvia Shenk in memory of Louis Miller her many unseen acts that make our community the “big • Ellen, David, Jason & Robbie Sher tent” for so many • Deana Shulman in memory of my loved ones • Ilene & Jeff Price in honor of Michelle Price & David Price • Joanne & Tom Stefanick in memory of Miriam Gelb, mother • Mike Rankin of Mike Gelb • Michael Raizen • Laurie Steiger in honor of Shirley Freedman • Nancy Reder in honor of the NASDSE staff • The Steinmetz-Corr family in memory of Ann Katz, mother • The Reif family in memory of Julius Katz of Gail Dezube • Thomas & Cynthia Riesenberg • Rabbi Richard Sternberger • Carol Roberts • Alan Savada in memory of Sylvia & William Stevenson, • Steven & Glenda Rogers in honor of Carol Jackson, parents of Will Stevenson Executive Director, Falls Church Housing Corporation • Chuck & Anita Thornton • Myra & Mort Roney in memory of Myra’s brother, Herbert • Thomas Tibor in memory of Tibor Goldstein Wendell • Ron & Kim Schwadron and Debra Walther in memory of • Carol & Phillip Rosen Ethel Eckman • Jeffrey & Alison Rosenberg • Wendy & Rick Weil in memory of Bill Morris • Robert & Linda Rosenfeld • Susan & Lawrence Weinstock • Phil, Jean & Audrey Ross in memory of Bob Ross • Armand & Judy Weiss • Patti, Mark, Malka & Talia Roth in honor of Janna & David • The Wolfe-Greenwood family in memory of Muriel Wolfe Wallerstein for the beautiful ceremony honoring the life and • Elizabeth & Steven Yaffe memory of Rose Roth • Elizabeth York & Arthur Rubin •Patrick & Laurie Rowe in memory of Pauline Kraft and • Ruthe & Izzy Zietz in honor of Valerie Howard Frank Haber • Malinda & Larry Zimmerman in honor of the work of • Tobi Rozen in honor of my siblings, the Reiter family, Temple Rodef Shalom and all the people who gave of their William Zloth, Sue Zloth and Sue Fraley time and generosity • Rob & Leah Rubenstein • George & Pat Zug in memory of George & Alice Zug • Soop & Jan Saferstein in honor of Rabbi Amy Schwartzman being named a “Woman to Watch” by Jewish Women International • Carl & Ellen Salsbury • Mildred Salsbury • Jack & Daisy Samarias • Julie Samuels & Barry Holt • Phoebe Sanderson • Scott Sanderson • Sandra Saydah in loving memory of Irwin & Gertrude Heimer • Phyllis, Dave & Eric Scheinberg in honor of Jacob Factor • The Schiller family • Jean Schiro-Zavela & Vance Zavela • Clarine & Sidney Schmukler in honor of Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Schmukler • Vicki Schulkin & Lee Jones
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5 6 7 Sisterhood Bake Sale 10:00 am Play Group 7:30 pm Shabbat Rocks 9:00 am Adult Ed. Philosophy Class Rehearsal
h 2006 9:30 am Kol Machar Rehearsal 7:30 pm Membership 10:30 am Renaissance Book Club Committee Meeting –oob c 11:45 am Torah Trope Class 11:45 pm Rodef Chochma 1:00 pm Golda’s Balcony –oob RSVP only 7:00 pm Renaissance evening at
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19 20 21 9:00 am Adult Ed Philosophy Class 10:00 am Play Group 6:00 pm Breast Cancer Network 9:00 am Advanced Biblical Hebrew Dinner 9:00 am Rodef Chochma 9:30 am Kol Machar Rehearsal 11:45 am Sisterhood Lecture 11:45 am Beginning Biblical Hebrew 1:30 pm Post Confirmation Discussion Group 3:30 pm Jr. TRSTY Leadership Group 6:30 pm Renaissance D.O.T. –oob 7:30 pm Purim Drama Production
26 27 28 9:00 am Adult Ed Philosophy 10:00 am Play Group 7:30 pm Board Meeting Class 11:45 am Workshop for Caregivers of Aging Parents/Spouses 4:00 pm Adult Ed Screening & Discussion of “Partisans of Vilna” 6:00 pm Renaissance Chinese Dinner
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1 2 3 4 9:30 am Sisterhood Board 4:00 pm Megillah Zone 6:30 pm Bo’i Shabbat Service 9:00 am Torah Study Meeting Rehearsal 7:30 pm Renaissance Round 9:00 am Tot Activity 7:30 pm Rosh Chodesh Robin Shabbat Dinner - 10:30 am Shabbat Morning oob Service 8:15 pm Erev Shabbat Service 5:45 pm Pre-Theatre Reception for Golda’s Balcony (RSVP only)
8 910 111 10:00 am Sisterhood Book Club 9:00 am Torah Study (OOB) 6:30 pm Erev Shabbat Service 10:30 am Shabbat Morning 7:30 pm Intermediate Biblical for Younger Families Service Hebrew 7:00 pm Teen Shabbat 8:00 pm Renaissance Program 7:45 pm Wine & Cheese (OOB) Welcome 8:15 pm Erev Shabbat Service
15 16 17 18 10:00 am Sisterhood Book Group 10:00 am Computer Basics 10:00 am Sisterhood Museum 9:00 am Torah Study –out of bldg. Course Trip –out of bldg. 9:00 am Tot Shabbat Service 6:30 pm Budget Committee 6:45 pm Service of Strength, 6:30 pm Erev Shabbat Adult 10:30 am Shabbat Morning Meeting Comfort & Healing Service Service 7-7:30pm Committee Night 8:15 pm Shabbat Rocks Service 10:30 am Parallel Shabbat 7:30 pm Shabbat Rocks Morning Minyan Rehearsal 6:30 pm Jr. TRSTY Purim Party 7:30 pm Purim Drama Production
22 23 24 25 10:00 am Sisterhood Bridge -out Sisterhood Appraisal Day 6:30 pm Erev Shabbat Service 9:00 am Torah Study of bldg. 10:00 am Computer Basics for Older Families 10:30 am Shabbat Morning 6:30 pm Budget Committee Course 8:15 pm Erev Shabbat Service Service Meeting Guest speaker: 4:00 pm Havdalah Program with 7:00 pm Next Step Ambassador of Czech Rabbi Henry Weiner Republic 7:00 pm Sisterhood Havdalah and Dinner (OOB) 7:00 pm Kol Machar Rehearsal 7:30 pm TRS Family Game Night
29 30 311 7:00 pm Jews for Justice 6:30 pm New Member Dinner Passover Seder 6:30 pm Erev Shabbat Service 7:30 pm Rosh Chodesh 8:15 pm Erev Shabbat Service –Kol Machar sings
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Senior Rabbi Amy M. Schwartzman Cantor Michael A. Shochet Associate Rabbi Marcus L. Burstein, D. Min Founding Rabbi Laszlo Berkowits Student Cantor Rebecca Robins
OFFICERS President Robin Strongin Vice President Marc Cohen Vice President David Lawrence Vice President Joan Levin Vice President Hannah Moore Treasurer Marla Schnall Assistant Treasurer David Fish Financial Secretary Elliot Gruber Recording Secretary Ronnie Schulman Corresponding Secretary Beth Stroul
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