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happened. After zigzagging across that bridge, Sharansky made aliyah and continued to advocate for Soviet Jewry. He was the driving force behind the historic rally in December 1987 that brought 250,000 marchers to Washington, D.C., pressuring Soviet President Gorbachev to ease Wherever We emigration restrictions. For his struggle to promote human rights, he was awarded the Congressional Gold Stand, We Medal and the Presidential Medal of Stand with Freedom. Seeing Sharansky at AIPAC reminded Park Avenue Synagogue Israel me that the work we do as activists for Bulletin the State of Israel is sacred work. That VOLUME 70 · NO. 7 we can come together in our nation’s MAY 2018 capital and lobby our elected officials ne of the most moving on behalf of Israel is one of the great אייר–סיון · IYYAR/SIVAN 5778 moments at this year’s AIPAC blessings of living when we do. But Policy Conference was when let us remember, as inspiring as it is From the Rabbi...... 2 O Natan Sharansky walked onto the to stand with 18,000 members of the This Month at PAS...... 3 stage with his daughter for a ten- Schedule of Religious Services & pro-Israel community, what really Shabbat at PAS...... 4 minute conversation. I immediately matters is what we do the day after. Shavuot 5778 at PAS...... 5 thought about Sharansky’s book Fear Will we continue to fight on behalf of From the Officers...... 6 No Evil, detailing his experience the Jewish state, even though it seems Transition at PAS...... 8 in a Soviet prison for nine years – Synagogue Family...... 9 at times that the world is against us, From the Educational Team...... 11 Sharansky as refusenik, what he or even when the people of Israel don’t Adult Classes...... 12 symbolized, what the movement to live up to our highest aspirations? PAS Library...... 12 free Soviet Jewry meant. Sharansky’s Young Family Education...... 13 release was one of the great liberation I don’t have the answers, and I don’t PASECC...... 14 movements of this century. In his Congregational School (CS) ...... 14 know where this story ends. But I will Postcard from Camp...... 15 email that week, Eric Goldstein tell you what I do have: stamina. And Youth/RJNHS...... 15 recounted Sharansky’s first moments I encourage you to have the same. College Connections...... 17 of freedom. Freed in a prisoner If you are traveling to Israel with us 20s & 30s...... 17 exchange, he crossed the infamous Contributions...... 17 in December, great. If not, then you Caring Network ...... 22 Glienicke Bridge (the "Bridge of will join us next time. Until then, we Shapiro Audio Archive...... 22 Spies") from East Germany to West have many “Focus on Israel” pro- Calendar...... 23 Berlin. The Soviets told him to walk grams in the next six months to help A Look Ahead...... Back cover straight ahead; he zigzagged. A final you to deepen your connection to the act of defiance. A first act of freedom. Jewish state. But you’ve got to show up. Take a lesson from Sharansky. What an amazing moment. A peak Today is today. It is important. It is moment. We know these kinds of sacred. It is special. But we have work moments. Moments of freedom. to do when it comes to closing the Moments of liberation. Moments of gap between what Israel is and what redemption. Our tradition, our stories, it ought to be as a Jewish democratic are filled with them. The question I state. Remember, what really matters always have is, what happens next? is tomorrow. Tomorrow, let us show What happens the day after? In many up and be counted, and remember ways, that is the most significant that wherever we stand, we stand with day. In Sharansky’s case, he could Israel. have said, “You know what, I’ve been through a lot. I am going retire and enjoy the good life.” Would anyone have blamed him? But we know what

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Seminary Shabbat with JTS Chancellor PAS Annual Meeting Arnold Eisen Tue | May 15 | 6:00 pm Sat | May 5 Hear the Chairman’s “State of the Congregation” • 9:45 am | Sanctuary Service | The Religious address. Elect the new slate of Officers and Board Significance of Israel members. Thank volunteers. Remember congregants • 12:30 pm | Post-Kiddush Learning | What Rabbis who have passed on and acknowledge new babies. Need to Know, What Rabbinical Schools Need to Be in the know about the latest at PAS! Teach, in conversation with Rabbi Witkovsky

Reading Jewish Lives Honoring and Blessing Cantor Lissek Rabbi Akiva: Sage of the Talmud by Barry Erev Shavuot | Sat | May 19 Holtz • 7:00 pm |Festive Musical Evening Service • Book Discussion • 8:30 pm | Kiddush with Cheesecake and Words of Fri | May 4 | 8:00 am | Rabbi Witkovsky (in place of Torah Talmud Torah class) • 9:00 pm | 20s/30s Late Tikkun Leil Shavuot • Author Event with Dr. Barry Holtz Tue | May 8 | 7:00 pm

Please visit pasyn.org/calendar for up-to-date information and additional details on all PAS programming.

www.pasyn.org 212–369–2600 May 2018 Iyyar/Sivan 5778 3 COMMUNITY CELEBRATION

Please join us for an unforgettable evening celebrating our community at the final event before the transformation of our 87th Street building.

Honor the Past PAS

Embrace Gala the Present

Celebrate the Future

Thursday, May 3, 2018 — 6:30 pm

PARK AVENUE SYNAGOGUE, 50 EAST 87TH STREET

DIETARY LAWS OBSERVED FESTIVE ATTIRE

For tickets, journal ads, and underwriting opportunities, please visit www.pasyn.org/gala2018, email [email protected], or call the Development Office at 212-369-2600, x148.

4 Park Avenue Synagogue Bulletin FROM THE OFFICERS PAUL CORWIN, PRESIDENT

to make Shabbat at PAS a full day of whether or not they are members. worship and programming offering With What Matters, we are stepping multiple points of entry to our up to the role of a sacred community members. We now have services in helping members of all ages address that appeal to all demographics and advance care planning, so that when interests, ranging from our dynamic the end of life happens, it can hap- How Have We Kabbalat Shabbat to Tot Tefillah for pen on our terms. We are facing and families with young children, Ramah addressing the reality that many of Minyan for millennials, Havurah for our members are interfaith families Done? those who want to participate in a or children of interfaith relationships lay-run service, Congregational School whom we want to welcome into our services, and healing services, as well community. ayor Ed Koch famously used as our engaging musical Sanctuary to walk the City asking, services. Our Shabbat programming ✓ So, how have we M “How am I doin’?” As my offers musical interludes, dinners for fellow officers and I approach the end members of all ages, learning sessions, done? of our five-year term, we are asking, the annual Leiman Maisel Family “How have we done?” At the start of Shabbaton, afternoon teen/parent We have made major strides to our term, Art Penn said that we would discussions with Rabbi Cosgrove, create the kind of community that focus on three areas: space, services, singing and Havdalah at Hazzan’s Rabbi Cosgrove challenges us to be: and strengthening our community. We Tisch with Cantor Schwartz, and more. a shining light in the Conservative have made significant progress in all We have been leaders in livestreaming movement, a model for the synagogue three. services and podcasting sermons of the 21st century, a community that and lectures; almost 400 people now others look to for leadership of the ✓ Space experience the joy and beauty of our “best that a synagogue can be.” Shabbat services by livestream each Five years ago, we lacked High week! ✓ Todah rabbah Holiday seating for almost 600 of our members, and our year- ✓ Community Thank you to our world-class clergy, round programs were bursting our our exemplary staff, and my fellow building at the seams. Now, with While our community was already officers for being partners in shap- the addition of our Fifth Avenue strong five years ago, we have much ing a community that touches our service, there is seating for all at a growth of which to be proud. Our heads and our hearts and provides service that the participants love. Caring Network helps people who love and support for its members. After two years, our High Holiday are facing health challenges or are in Thank you to each of you for showing Family Service has become a PAS mourning and also assists with joyous up to create this remarkable commu- tradition. To accommodate year-round transitions like welcoming new babies. nity. And thank you for giving me the programming, we have expanded to Our catalog of adult learning oppor- opportunity to serve in this meaning- a PAS Campus with our magnificent tunities is best in class. Our Arms – ful endeavor. In Pirkei Avot, Rabbi Eli M. Black Lifelong Learning Men’s Club, Women’s Network and Tarfon said, “It is not incumbent upon Center on 89th Street. When the Young Couples Group – enable our you to finish the task, but neither are refurbishment of our 87th Street members to connect with each other. you free to desist from it.” Of course, building is completed, we will have In the past year, over 200 members there is more to do. PAS will be even entirely modern offices, classrooms, have travelled with PAS to destina- better in the years to come. But I say prayer spaces, and kiddush spaces that tions from Eastern Europe to the US with confidence and pride that this will offer flexibility for meetings and South, with over 470 signed up for group of officers finishes our term community encounters. our Israel trip next December. We feeling great about how we have done. are committed to full inclusion of our ✓ Services members who have physical or mental challenges or learning differences. We Working with the clergy, we examined are welcoming young adults from 23 our Shabbat services and took steps to 35 who are part of our community

www.pasyn.org 212–369–2600 May 2018 Iyyar/Sivan 5778 5 Shabbat at PAS Every 7th day. 52 weeks a year. Since Creation. Schedule of Religious Services Locations For more information, see p. 8.

• Kabbalat Shabbat Sanctuary • Hashkamah Minyan PAS@89th • Shaharit and Parashat HaShavua PAS@89th • Shabbat morning services Sanctuary • Shabbat Minha Sanctuary • Kiddush PAS@90th

• For Young Family Education (YFE) programs, see p. 13. • For Congregational School (CS) Shabbat programs, see p. 14. • For Youth and Teens, see p. 16. • Visit pasyn.org for all worship information.

From Friday evening through Saturday SHAHARIT & PARASHAT HASHAVUA | EVERY SHABBAT evening, Shabbat at PAS includes lively P’sukei d’Zimrah and Shaharit, a light Kiddush, and an engaging communal worship in the Sanctuary, study of the morning’s Torah portion, ending in time to join the alternative services, parashah study, community in the Sanctuary for the Torah service. When there is a Havurah, this service merges with that one. music, dinners, and other programs to refresh your spirit. See below what is RAMAH MINYAN | MAY 4 happening each Shabbat. Look throughout A spirit-filled service for any and all young adults, followed by drinks, the Bulletin to find Shabbat programming snacks, and oneg Shabbat. in each department, and check pasyn.org/ PAS YOUTH CHOIR | EVERY SHABBAT THAT CS IS IN SESSION | shabbat and the “This Week at PAS” email 10:00 am for each week’s programs. ALL ARE WELCOME | ALWAYS DAILY MINYAN PAS is an inclusive community. Please note that listening devices Shaharit Monday–Friday at 7:15 am. Sundays and May 28 are available for use at the sanctuary entrance. To discuss any (Memorial Day) at 9:00 am. Minha/Ma’ariv Sunday–Thursday at accommodations you might need to make your visits and involvement 5:45 pm. Shabbat and festival minha immediately after the end of more comfortable, please contact Rachel (Benichak) Zorbaron, morning services. Membership Manager, at [email protected] or x195.

KABBALAT SHABBAT AND SANCTUARY SHABBAT MORNING SERVICE | EVERY SHABBAT Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove is on sabbatical. Rabbi Neil Zuckerman and Rabbi Ethan Witkovsky preach and conduct the service together with Cantor Azi Schwartz, Cantor Shira Lissek, and Cantor Rachel Brook, with Music Director Colin Fowler and the Synagogue Ensemble: Elisa Singer Strom, soprano; Yonah Gershator, alto; Alex Guerrero, tenor; Tim Krol, bass; Gil Smuskowitz, double bass; Mike Cohen, woodwinds; Ronen Itzik, percussion. Cantor Eric Wasser is our ritual director and Torah reader.

HASHKAMAH (EARLY RISERS) MINYAN | EVERY SHABBAT AND FESTIVAL A service with repetition of the Amidah and annual cycle Torah reading, all in Hebrew, at a pace that is comfortable for experienced daveners, and a Kiddush afterwards.

Can’t make it to the synagogue? Park Avenue Synagogue services are livestreamed. Visit pasyn.org/webcast.

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Friday, May 4 • 19 Iyyar Tuesday, May 15 • 1 Sivan Friday, May 25 • 11 Sivan 6:15 pm | Kabbalat Shabbat Rosh Hodesh 6:15 pm | Kabbalat Shabbat 7:15 pm | Ramah Minyan 7:15 am | Morning minyan with Hallel, Torah reading, and musaf Saturday, May 26 • 12 Sivan Saturday, May 5 • 20 Iyyar Naso Friday, May 18 • 4 Sivan Emor 7:30 am | Hashkamah Minyan 7:30 am | Hashkamah Minyan 5:00 pm | CS Zimriyah and Kabbalat 9:00 am | Shaharit & Parashat 9:00 am | Shaharit & Parashat Shabbat HaShavua HaShavua 6:15 pm | Kabbalat Shabbat 9:45 am | Sanctuary service with Bat 9:45 am | Sanctuary service with Mitzvah of Sara Shakarchy Seminary Shabbat & Bat Mitzvah of Immediately after services | Minha Alexa Schwartz Saturday, May 19 • 5 Sivan 10:00 am | CS Shabbat Experience, Gr B’midbar 3–6 7:30 am | Hashkamah Minyan 11:00 am | CS Family Shabbat 9:00 am | Shaharit & Parashat Experience, K–2 HaShavua Immediately after services | Minha 9:45 am | Sanctuary service with 12:30 pm | Post-Kiddush Learning Bat Mitzvah of Brynn Heller and Bat 5:00 pm | Minha and Bat Mitzvah of Mitzvah of Alexa Rubinstein Eunice Wasserman-Lom Immediately after services | Minha 7:00 pm | Festive Musical Evening Service Friday, May 11 • 26 Iyyar 8:30 pm | Kiddush and Celebration 6:15 pm | Kabbalat Shabbat with Cantor Shira Lissek 9:00 pm | 20s & 30s Late Night Tikkun Saturday, May 12 • 27 Iyyar B’har/B’hukkotai Sunday, May 20 • 6 Sivan 7:30 am | Hashkamah Minyan 9:00 am | Shaharit & Parashat Shavuot, Day 1 HaShavua 7:30 am | Hashkamah Minyan 9:00 am | Window on Israel with 9:45 am | Festival Morning service Anshel Pfeffer (p. 12) 5:45 pm | Festival minha and ma’ariv 9:45 am | Sanctuary service with Bar Mitzvah of Oliver Teitelbaum and Bar Mitzvah of Hank Zakarin Monday, May 21 • 7 Sivan 10:00 am | CS Family Shabbat Shavuot, Day 2 Experience, Gr 3–6 7:30 am | Hashkamah Minyan 11:15 am | Tot Tefillah (p. 13) 9:45 am | Festival Morning service Immediately after services | Minha with Yizkor 4:00 pm | Rabbi’s Teen/Parent 10:00 am | YFE Shavuot service Shabbat Study (p. 13) 5:00 pm | Minha with Bar Mitzvah of 10:45 am | Children’s service hosted Jacob Thompson by the Day School Community 5:45 pm | Evening minyan

Sunday, May 13 • 28 Iyyar Yom Yerushalayim 9:00 am | Morning minyan will include Hallel and other festive addi- tions.

7www.pasyn.org Park Avenue Synagogue 212–369–2600 Bulletin May 2018 Iyyar/Sivan 5778 7 TRANSITION AT PAS THE TRANSITION TASKFORCE AND THE CATERING TASKFORCE

Shabbat at PAS and Kiddush

ast month, PAS staff offices moved to our temporary space at 4 East 90th Street. By next month, all schools and programs at 87th Street will have moved to the Eli M. Black Lifelong Learning Center or to 90th Street. As we move to L different locations, Shabbat at PAS continues to provide a weekly haven of worship, learning, music, and friendship. Here’s where we’ll be for Shabbat worship and Kiddush this month, over the summer, and in the fall.

May 4–Jun 16 Jun 22–Sep 1 Beginning Sep 8

Kabbalat Shabbat on Friday Kabbalat Shabbat will take place at Kabbalat Shabbat will return to the evenings at 6:15 pm will take place at 90th Street. Sanctuary. 87th Street. Shabbat morning services will Hashkamah Minyan and Shaharit On Saturday mornings, the 7:30 am move offsite to the Ramaz School and Parashat HaShavua will meet Hashkamah Minyan and 9:00 am at 60 East 78th St. Meanwhile, the at the Eli M. Black Lifelong Learning Shaharit and Parashat HaShavua Sanctuary will be prepared for worship Center. will meet at the Eli M. Black Lifelong in the fall. Bathrooms and a coatroom Learning Center. will be constructed so that the Shabbat morning services will be Sanctuary remains a comfortable place in the Sanctuary. Shabbat morning services at 9:45 to celebrate Shabbat and holidays. am will remain in the Sanctuary. Shabbat Minha will be in the Shabbat Minha and Kiddush will Sanctuary. Shabbat Minha will take place in the be in the same location. Sanctuary. Kiddush will return to 90th Street, with a variety of caterers auditioning Kiddush will take place in the gym for an opportunity to serve our space on the ground floor of 90th community in the fully renovated 87th Street through June 16. Kiddush is an Street building beginning in fall 2019. opportunity for congregants to come There will be volunteers to accompany together informally and as such helps anyone who needs assistance for to build community. We hope that the walk from the Sanctuary, and with the advent of warm weather, all “Kiddush-to-Go” for those who cannot will welcome the stroll to 90th Street make their way to 90th Street. as a further opportunity to catch up with old friends and meet new ones. There will be volunteers to accompany congregants requiring assistance on the walk over. In addition, a small “Kiddush-to-Go” will be provided for congregants who find it too difficult to make their way to 90th Street.

Please visit pasyn.org/transition for all matters related to the transition, including a form to sign up for Kiddush-to-Go.

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BNEI MITZVAH בני מצוה

Jacob Thompson Alexa Schwartz May 12, minha | B’midbar May 5 | Emor Son of Kim Thompson and Michael Daughter of Carolyn & Mark Schwartz William Thompson

Eunice Wasserman-Lom May 5, minha | B’har/B’hukkotai Brynn Heller Daughter of Terry Wasserman and Dan May 19 | B’midbar Wasserman Daughter of Lisa & Gordon Heller Stepdaughter of Andrew Lom

Oliver Teitelbaum Alexa Rubinstein May 12 | B’har/B’hukkotai May 19 | B’midbar Son of Rory & Bruce Teitelbaum Daughter of Suzette & Andres Rubinstein

Sara Shakarchy Hank Zakarin May 26 | Naso May 12 | B’har/B’hukkotai Daughter of Susan & Jacob Shakarchy Son of Amy & Larry Zakarin

To make a celebratory donation to PAS, please visit pasyn.org/giving or contact Sam Hopkins at [email protected] or 212-369-4900, x101.

WELCOME NEW MEMBERS ברוכים הבאים

Susan & Steven Glaser Alexandra & Douglas Miskin Alexa & Or Shortan Daria Vikina & George Tetz Hallie & Mitchell Ulman Abby & Daniel Ziluca

9 www.pasyn.org 212–369–2600 May 2018 Iyyar/Sivan 5778 9 SYNAGOGUE FAMILY

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MAZAL TOV מזל טוב CONDOLENCES המקום ינחם

Liza Shabetayev & Garrett Smith on the loss of her Stephanie Behringer-Massera & Daniele father, Mikhail Shabetayev Massera on the birth of a daughter, Noa Massera

Sally Rocker & Christopher Paci on the loss of her Ruth & Randy Abend on the birth of a son, Leo father, Daniel Rocker Isaac Abend, and to big sister Mischa Abend

Marshall Gluck on the loss of his mother-in-law, Anna Alison & Steven Darling on the birth of a son, Ari Rubin, and to his children, Abbe Gluck & Meier Feder, Eric Darling, and to big brother George Darling and Elizabeth Burrows & Simon Gluck Marissa & Jacob Sutker on the birth of a daughter, Marla Backer on the loss of her mother, Jodee Kasten Brady Willow Sutker, and to grandparents Diane & Craig Solomon Beth Lobel and Judith Lobel on the loss of their mother, Mae Linder Lobel Barbara & Jay Lerman on the birth of a grandson, Joseph Henry Lerman, and to his parents, Diana & Judith & Morton Grosz on the loss of his brother, Mark Lerman Bernard Grosz Nikki & Daniel Shatz on the birth of a son, Aidan Carolyn Spector on the loss of her mother, Roslyn Micah Shatz, and to big sister Kaya Spector Caren & Arturo Constantiner on the birth of a Park Avenue Synagogue mourns the loss of Florence granddaughter, Maple Lavine, and to her parents, Edelstein Melissa & Adam Lavine

Rabbi Isidoro Aizenberg on the loss of his wife, Edna Erika & Adam Gehrie, on the birth of a son, Aizenberg Theodore Jacob Guthrie, and to older sisters Elizabeth and Charlotte. Judy & Mark Goodman on the loss of her mother, Joyce Marilyn Cohen

To make a celebratory or memorial donation to PAS, please visit pasyn.org/giving or contact Sam Hopkins at [email protected] or 212-369-4900, x101.

10 www.pasyn.orgPark Avenue Synagogue 212–369–2600 Bulletin May 2018 Iyyar/Sivan 5778 10 FROM THE EDUCATIONAL TEAM

Mah Hadash/ What’s New in Education at PAS

rom the opening of the Eli M. Black Lifelong Learning Center F last October to the new format of the Congregational School Zimriyah this month, every educational department at PAS has introduced innovations this year. Here are some of the highlights.

Early Childhood Center Congregational School (CS) 51 learners participated in three (PASECC) On our first-ever Special This year’s new initiatives drew programs, including our 12th grade Visitors Day, each student invited enthusiastic responses from children seminar with Rabbi Cosgrove and up to four people over the age of 18 and parents alike. After our fourth distinguished guests. with whom they wanted to share their grade Milestone Moment, one student ECC experience and daily life. On two could not wait to use her own Siddur Adult Learning This year PAS was separate days we welcomed some 150 Lev Shalem and another was in a the flagship institution that launched guests, including grandparents, aunts, rush to head home to hang his new “Reading Jewish Lives” to illuminate uncles, neighbors, and close family mezuzah. The hallways of the Eli M. the range and depth of the Jewish friends. We sang and rejoiced during Black Lifelong Learning Center echo experience from antiquity to the a Rainbow Time in the sanctuary, and with Hebrew learning as a result of present, using books from The Jewish then the children gave their guests our new Hebrew curriculum. After Lives Series of biographies published tours of their classrooms and the visiting the Tenement Museum, our by Yale University Press and the entire school. We are delighted with 6th graders have a new perspective on Leon D. Black Foundation. We have how this event extended the PASECC American Jewish history. On May 18, read four of these biographies as a community and we hope to do it every we will culminate the school year with community – from Rabbi Akiva to year. a CS Kabbalat Shabbat service led by Steven Spielberg – engaging in small the children, demonstrating the arc of group discussions, and enjoying live Young Family Education (YFE) learning from Gan (K) through Zayin presentations by the authors that were YFE added programs on weekdays and (Grade 7). also livestreamed to communities Shabbat, in the synagogue and away. across the country. One congregant Innovations included a family-friendly Youth Department & RJHNS said, “Socializing with PAS members private tour of the Jewish Museum, Our teens appreciate that they were who I don't ordinarily see, and hearing redesign of some of our baby classes, a the first congregants ever to have a other points of view has been a great Pre-Shabbat Play Space where families class in the new Eli M. Black Lifelong part of this initiative.” to socialize before joining the main Learning Center. Even in the age of congregation for Kabbalat Shabbat, iPads and Nooks, they are becoming As we close this school year, we are and a second time (or more) parenting people of the book. Their passion for already looking to new horizons for we group which has provided both learning is evidenced in the dramatic believe that something new awaits us socializing and learning for repeat increase in enrollment in our high tomorrow. parents. school classes for teens. This year

www.pasyn.org 212–369–2600 May 2018 Iyyar/Sivan 5778 11 Adult Classes & Events Classes Classes meet weekly unless otherwise indicated. To register for classes, go to pasyn.org/classes and click on the appropriate link. For assistance and further information, call Leah Volynsky at x159.

SUNDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY

Focus on Israel • Melton: Year 2 | 9:15 • Talmud Torah | 8:00 • iEngage: Israel’s am | Rabbi Zuckerman am | Rabbi Witkovsky Milestones and Their and Rabbi Bill Plevan Meanings | A Shalom • Women in the Bible | Hartman Institute Lecture • Bereshit II – The May 4 | 9:15 am | Debbie and Study Series | May Story of the First Cosgrove 6 | 10:00 am | Rabbi Jewish Family | Rachel $ RSVP Zuckerman Wasserman Scholars Curriculum of Melton | May 3, 10 | 9:15 am | SATURDAY TUESDAY Rabbi Savenor • Shaharit & Parashat • Contemporary • The Modern Jewish HaShavua | 9:00 am Jewish Thought | 11:30 Experience: Text & am | Rabbi Zuckerman Context | May 3, 10 | 9:15 • Post-Kiddush am | Dr. David Kaufman Learning with Chancellor Arnold WEDNESDAY • Foundations of Eisen | May 5 | 12:30 pm Library Jewish Family Living | • Rushing to Rashi | Melton Parenting Course | • Window on Israel 8:00 am | Cantor Wasser May 3, 10, 17, 31 | 9:20 am | May 12 | 9:00 am | | Debbie Cosgrove Anshel Pfeffer, Bibi: at PAS Focus on Israel The Turbulent Times of • Israeli Literature as • Library Lunch & Benjamin Netanyahu a Window to Israeli Our temporary home Learn Society | May 2, 9, 16, 23 at 90th Street includes · May 3 | 12:00 pm | Jamie | 6:15 pm | Rabbi Shmuel ANY DAY, ANY TIME a lovely library space Diamond Afek where the PAS Library · May 17 | • Study Circles | Study will reopen at the end of 12:00 pm | Circles go round and • The New York Jewish June. Until then, much of Jan-Niklas round all year long. It’s Experience: History, our children’s collection Kemper, always a good time to join Culture, Community | is being housed with the DOROT’s one of these small learn- May 2, 9, 16 | 6:30 pm | Congregational School at Action ing groups or create your Dr. David Kaufman the Eli M. Black Lifelong Reconciliation Service for own. Everyone who has Learning Center. Visit Peace (ARSP) Intern participated even once will • Pathways: An pasyn.org/paslibrary · No class on May 24, 31 be invited to a Study Circle Introduction to to locate children’s celebration in June! Visit Judaism | May 2, 9, books, and come to the Focus on Israel pasyn.org/studycircles for 16 | 6:45 pm | Rabbi Congregational School • Insights from Israel | more information. Zuckerman and Shayna office to check them out. May 10 | 12:00 pm | Rabbi Golkow, Rabbinical Intern Michael Graetz (via Skype For more information, contact from Israel) Marga Hirsch at mhirsch@pasyn. • Melton: Year 1 | 7:00 org or x127. pm | Rabbi Witkovsky and Rabbi Shmuel Afek

12 Park Avenue Synagogue Bulletin Registration is open. Visit pasyn.org to sign up, and look forward to summer days of games, art, songs, and sports!

Youth Education & Events For additional information about all youth events, please visit pasyn.org. RSVP = Advance registration required. $ = There is a cost for the event.

Young Family Education

For latest information, sign up to receive Young Family Education email. Visit pasyn.org and click on Email Sign up. Questions? Contact Jamie Diamond, Director, at [email protected] or x140. To register for any YFE program, go to pasyn.org/yfe; under Upcoming Events, click on the event.

BABY & TODDLER CLASSES SHABBAT HOLIDAYS

Registration will open next month • Tot Tefillah: Young Family • Shavuot Service and Ice Cream for our exciting fall classes for babies, Shabbat Morning Services | Sat | Party | Mon | May 21 | 10:00 am | toddlers, and young children. Bring May 12 | 11:15 am–12:00 pm | Cantor Josh Rosenberg your friends and meet new ones! For Rachel Brook a full list of classes offered beginning in September, and to register, visit • Shirat Shabbat | Fri | May 18 | pasyn.org/yfe. 9:10 am | For toddlers 3 and under with an adult • Baby Brigade Friday | May 11 | 11:00 am RSVP

CAMP Camp Keshet For ages 2.3–5 years & Mon–Fri 9:00 am–1:00 Taste of Camp Keshet or 3:00 pm Summer 2018 Jun 25–Aug 3 TASTE For ages 18–27 months Tue, Wed & Thu 9:00–11:30 am

Registration is open. Visit pasyn.org to sign up, and look forward to summer days of games, art, songs, and sports!

Kids’ Shabbat Book Basket Look for the baskets just outside the Sanctuary and in the balcony with Jewish books for children of all ages to look at while sitting quietly in their seats in the synagogue. Please return the books after services so that others may read them next week.

13 www.pasyn.org 212–369–2600 May 2018 Iyyar/Sivan 5778 13 Youth Education & Events For additional information about all youth events, please visit pasyn.org.

PASECC Congregational School

For more information, contact Pamela Schwartz, Director, If you have any questions about the Congregational School, please at [email protected] or x150. contact the school office at 212-369-4900, x131. For up-to-date information about school events, please rely on the weekly newsletter.

• Lag BaOmer Wed | May 2 | All Day | The • Rainbow Time children will participate in Wed | May 9 | 10:00 am | non-competitive field day Favorite Songs Review CS Schedule type activities. Mon | May 14 | 10:00 am | Shavuot • PASECC Applications Shabbat Experience Shabbat Experience for the 2019- • Celebration of Program | Gimel, Dalet, Program for Families

2020 School Year Learning Hey, Vav (3–6) | Sat | May | Gimel, Dalet, Hey, Vav Information Session Fri | May 18 | 9:00–9:30 5 | 10:00 am–12:00 pm | (3–6) | Sat | May 12 | 10:00 Fri | May 4 | 9:30 am am PAS@Liederkranz am–12:00 pm | PAS@ Children born on or before The entire school will Liederkranz June 30, 2017, are eligible celebrate the year of for our program in fall learning and mark the end Shabbat Experience 2019. You do not have to of the school year. Program for Families | Last week of classes and attend the information Alef, Bet, Gimel (K–2) | Sat | tutoring | Mon–Thu | May session in order to apply. • Last Day of School May 5 | 11:00 am–12:00 pm 14–17 If you want to receive an Fri. | May 25 | Noon | PAS@89th application, please call Dismissal the office at 212-369- Zimriyah | All grades | 2600, x150 to add your PAS Youth Choir | Sat | Fri | May 18 | 5:15 pm | name to the application May 5 | 10:00–10:30 am | PAS@87th list. Members of PAS For more information, please are eligible to receive an contact Josh Rosenberg, application on August 1, [email protected] 2018, and nonmembers, on September 4, 2018. To RSVP for the information session, Trip to the Tenement email [email protected] or call Museum | Vav (Gr 6) | Sun the office. | May 6 | 10:00 am

Please visit pasyn.org/calendar for up-to-date information and additional details on all PAS programming.

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We've Got Ruach, PAS Youth & RJNHS

How ’Bout You? For more information and to register for any event, see the Teen or Youth email, visit pasyn.org/youth-rjnhs, or contact Hallie Chandler, Director of Youth Programming and his summer, Ramah is proud to introduce a Engagement, at [email protected] or x147. premiere sports academy (RSA), where kids will T cultivate their athletic potential and deepen their connection to Judaism and Israel. RSA offers state-of- the-art facilities, dorm living. and kosher dining in a wooded corner of the campus of Fairfield University in Connecticut. Elite sports instruction is offered in basketball, soccer, tennis, and swimming. An array of electives, such as yoga or dance, further promotes fun and fitness.

Through a program interwoven with Jewish values and Hebrew language, RSA helps kids grow as dedicated athletes, empathetic leaders, and inspired Jews. Shabbat will be particularly meaningful as campers enjoy festive meals, music, informal games, and rest from rigorous training in the sports they love.

If you have a passionate young athlete pursuing excellence on and off the field and have any questions about RSA or other Jewish camps, please contact Jewish Camping Committee chair Lynne Bermont Shalom and L’hitraot from at [email protected] or Hallie Chandler, Director of Youth Programming and Engagement, at Hallie! [email protected]. s we come to the end of the school year, I am saying farewell to the Park Avenue Synagogue A community. I have decided to take next year to finish my masters degree at the Jewish Theological Seminary before my husband and I leave New York City. While I will miss the joys of being at PAS, I am excited to discover and develop my own passion for Judaism in ways that will ignite my ability to educate and motivate hundreds of Jewish youth and teens in the future. Teens at PAS have inspired me, and I know I need to build my content-based knowledge to continue inspiring teens like them. I hope that as I stay in touch throughout the coming years, I will see the teen and youth departments here continue to flourish. In the coming year I will be nearby – on the West Side! – and available for support both programmatically and for any of our youth or teens who needs someone to talk to and learn from. Please keep in touch; my email is [email protected]. In the meantime, find a time to stop by to say goodbye! Shalom and B’hatzlacha!

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PAS Youth & RJNHS

3RD–5TH/6TH–8TH GRADERS

Grades 3–8 Grades 3–8 Getting Ready for Summer! | Fri | May 11 | 5:00 pm | End-of-Year Party for 7th and 8th graders | Wed | Wear your camp shirts and come for pre-Shabbat activi- May 16 | 6:00 pm | Celebrate the end of the year and hear ties. Stay for Kabbalat Shabbat in the Sanctuary afterward about all the exciting programs for next year! Join us at as we say Shalom and L’hitraot! Pauline Zablow’s home for dinner and games!

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ADULT EDUCATION FUND Erin Richards Frankel & Jon Frankel, in Barbara Weinstein & Lou Bernstein, in honor of Ariella Frankel’s Bat Mitzvah. honor of Julie Walpert & Rabbi Charles Amy & Howard Friedner, in honor of the College Connections Savenor, on the Bar Mitzvah of their son birth of Tamar Ella Schwartz. Joseph. Simon Gluck. Ellen Heller, in memory of Robert Emily & Michael Grad, in honor of the Whether at home or away, Krieger. birth of Tamar Ella Schwartz. college students remain part Ellen & Lawrence Heller, in memory of Dena & Mark Hirsch, in honor of the birth of the PAS family. To stay in Dorothy Krieger of Tamar Ella Schwartz. touch, we send care Cynthia Pfeffer, wishing congratulations Loren, Casey, Raya, and Harris Akiva packages for holidays and to Julie Walpert & Rabbi Charles Savenor Klein, in honor of Dr. Noa & Cantor Azi occasional updates and insights from PAS clergy in honor of Joseph Savenor’s Bar Mitzvah. Schwartz on the birth of their daughter, and educators. Please Tamar Ella Schwartz. register or update your BIKUR CHOLIM FUND Dora Kooby, in honor of the birth of student’s information at Barbara Weinstein & Lou Bernstein, in Tamar Ella Schwartz. pasyn.org/college connections honor of their 35th wedding anniversary. The Kurtzberg Family, in honor of the whenever it changes. For Barbara Weinstein & Lou Bernstein, in birth of Tamar Ella Schwartz. more information, contact loving memory of Sam Bloch, father of The Kurtzberg Family, in honor of the Bar Rabbi Witkovsky at Jean Bloch Rosensaft. Mitzvah of Jed Cosgrove. [email protected] or x123. Barbara Weinstein & Lou Bernstein, in Naomi Grabel & Neil Kutner, in honor of honor of the full recovery of Shereen the birth of Tamar Ella Schwartz. Rutman. Joan Leiman, in honor of Dr. Noa & Barbara Weinstein & Lou Bernstein, in Cantor Azi Schwartz on the birth of their honor of the Bar Mitzvah of Jed Cosgrove. daughter, Tamar Ella Schwartz. Harriet & Herbert Feiwel, in memory of Phyllis & Bernard Leventhal, in honor of 20s and 30s at PAS Herbert Frommer. the birth of Tamar Ella Schwartz. Erika Landau-Fraenkel & David Fraenkel, Phyllis Leventhal, in loving memory of in honor of Batya & Mark Ludman. her father, Leo Braun. Events are open to all PAS Shirley Levy, in memory of Herbert Rita & Nathan Moser, in honor of the young adults and their friends; they need not be Frommer. aufruf of Michelle Moser and Jacob Karas. members. For information, Jane Revasch, in memory of David Melanie Franco Nussdorf. visit pasyn.org/20s30s, or Revasch. Tricia & Jason Pantzer, in honor of the contact Rabbi Witkovsky at Ruth B. Rothseid, in memory of her birth of Tamar Ella Schwartz. [email protected] or beloved father, Dr. Albert Rothseid. Lite Sabin and family, with gratitude. x123. Noa Shaashua. CANTOR AZI SCHWARTZ DISCRETIONARY Barbara Julius & Marc Silberberg. • Ramah Minyan | Fri | FUND Jacqueline Simmon, in memory of Goldie May 4 | 7:15 pm Anonymous. Greif. Phyllis Barber, in honor of the birth of Diane & Craig Solomon, in honor of Dr. • Late Night Tikkun Leil Tamar Ella Schwartz. Noa & Cantor Azi Schwartz on the birth of Shavuot Barbara Weinstein & Lou Bernstein, in their daughter, Tamar Ella Schwartz. Sat | May 19 | 9:00 pm honor of Dr. Noa & Cantor Azi Schwartz Debbie & Richard Wilpon, in honor of Dr. on the birth and Simhat Bat of their Noa & Cantor Azi Schwartz on the birth of daughter, Tamar Ella. their daughter, Tamar Ella Schwartz. Constance & Bernard Breslin, in honor Kirk Zachary. of Dr. Noa & Cantor Azi Schwartz on Dale & Rafael Zaklad, in honor of Cantor the birth of their daughter, Tamar Ella Azi Schwartz. Schwartz. Shira & Lee Bressler, in honor of the birth CANTOR SHIRA LISSEK DISCRETIONARY of Tamar Ella Schwartz. FUND Sandra Serebin & Mort Cohen, in honor James Goldman, in memory of Hyman of the birth of Tamar Ella Schwartz. Gilbert. Kari & Benjamin Cohen, in honor of Sarahbeth Grossman, in memory of Dustin Cohen’s bris. Marilyn Grossman. Elinor & Gustave Eisemann. Sarahbeth Grossman, in memory of Harriet & Herbert Feiwel, in honor of the Samuel Lipofsky. birth of Tamar Ella Schwartz. Sarahbeth Grossman, in memory of Ida Donna & Yale Fergang, in honor of their Louise Stackler. daughters’ Bnot Mitzvah. Sarahbeth Grossman, in memory of Jill & Mark Fishman, in honor of Dr. Noa Benjamin Livingston. & Cantor Azi Schwartz on the birth of Sarahbeth Grossman, in memory of David their daughter, Tamar Ella Schwartz. Grossman.

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ECC FUND Stefanie, James, and Benjamin Rothman, Ronnie & David Parker, in honor of their Dena & Mark Hirsch, wishing Shereen in honor of the Bar Mitzvah of Joseph wedding anniversary. Rutman a full and speedy recovery. Savenor, son of Julie Walpert & Rabbi Charles Savenor. RABBI ELLIOT J. COSGROVE FOOD PANTRY FUND Ruth B. Rothseid, in memory of Herbert DISCRETIONARY FUND Anonymous (2). Frommer, husband of Eleanor Frommer. Anonymous. Susan Joy & Harris Amster, in honor of Joan & Sylvan Schefler, in memory of Dorothy & Joseph Bamberger, wishing their anniversary. Herbert Frommer. mazel tov to the entire Cosgrove family. Susan Amster, in memory of Ezra J. Joan & Sylvan Schefler, in memory of Phyllis Barber, in honor of the Bar Denerstein. Sam Bloch. Mitzvah of Jed Cosgrove. Harris Amster, in memory of Anna Rosalyn Tauber Scheidlinger, in honor of Kari & Benjamin Cohen, in honor of the Amster. Rachel Brous. brit milah of their son, Dustin Cohen. Meryl Wiener & Barry Bryer, in memory Roxana & Bob Tetenbaum, in honor of the Elinor & Gustave Eisemann. of Herbert Frommer. Bar Mitzvah of Jed Cosgrove. Donna & Yale Fergang, in honor of their Barbara Delgado, in memory of Morris daughters’ Bnot Miztvah. Brownstein. INCLUSION FUND Lynn & Allen Fishman, in honor of the Michael Delgado, in memory of Jean Suzanne & James Aisenberg, in honor of Bar Mitzvah of Jed Cosgrove. Pedolsky. Noah Grinberg and his family on his Bar Lori Fodale, in memory of Martin Michael Delgado, in honor of his birthday. Mitzvah. Fainblatt. Hilary Ronner & Ronald Feiman, in honor Sheri & Jimmy Rosenfeld, in honor of the Erin Richards Frankel & Jon Frankel, in of the Bar Mitzvah of Jed Cosgrove and Bar Mitzvah of Joseph Savenor. honor of Ariella Frankel’s Bat Mitzvah. the birthday of Debbie Cosgrove. Dana & David Shani, in honor of Noah Danielle & Michael Goldstein. Amy & Howard Friedner, in honor of the Grinberg on his Bar Mitzvah. Rachel Mattes Greenberg & Duncan Bar Mitzvah of Jed Cosgrove. Greenberg, in gratitude for Rabbi Gail Furman, in memory of Alvin Gorin. JEWISH CAMPING FUND Cosgrove officiating the bris of their son, Emma Hayward & Matthew Gold, in Heidi & Rob Silverstone, in honor of the Arthur Greenberg. memory of Herbert Frommer. Bar Mitzvah of Joseph Savenor. Efraim Grinberg, in memory of Bernard Iris Goodgold, in memory of her beloved Heidi & Rob Silverstone, in honor of the Fishman. father, Dr. Murray Goodgold, 22 Bar Mitzvah of Zach Atlas. Erica & Philip Hermann, in honor of Jerry heartbreaking years. Lascher becoming a Bar Mitzvah. The Gromis and Zinn Miller Families, in LIBRARY FUND Stanley Kreinik, in memory of Phyllis memory of Peter Fischer. Anonymous. Kreinik. Karen Harris, in honor of Dr. Elisa Port. Liliane & Abraham Yurkofsky, in honor Phyllis Levinberg & Brian Kushner, in Jane & Stanley Kreinik, in honor of the of the birth of their great granddaughter, memory of Sylvia Levinberg. Bar Mitzvah of Jed Cosgrove. Isabel Ruth Yurkofsky. Phyllis Levinberg & Brian Kushner, in Jane & Stanley Kreinik, in honor of the memory of Irving Levinberg. birth of Liliane & Abraham Yurkofsky’s MUSIC FUND Phyllis Levinberg & Brian Kushner, in great granddaughter. Barbara Weinstein & Lou Bernstein, in honor of their anniversary. Jane & Stanley Kreinik, in memory of honor of the birth and Brit Milah of Elias Joan Leiman, in honor of the Bar Mitzvah Jeanette Berman. Brook-Holman. of Jed Cosgrove. Dorothy Lang, in memory of her beloved Sandra Serebin, in honor of Mort Cohen’s Phyllis & Bernard Leventhal, in honor of brother, Murray Kleiman. birthday. the Bar Mitzvah of Jed Cosgrove. Dorothy Lang, in memory of her beloved Marilyn B. Friedman, in honor of the Bar Daryl Drabinsky & Daniel Nussen. husband, Joseph Lang. Mitzvah of Jed Cosgrove. Cynthia Pfeffer, wishing congratulations Lisa, Sam, Zachary, and Noah Lehr, in Marilyn B. Friedman, in honor of the to Debbie & Rabbi Eilliot Cosgrove in honor of the Bnei Mitzvah of Avi and Nate birth of Liliane & Abraham Yurkofsky’s honor of Jed Cosgrove’s Bar Mitzvah. Rosen. great granddaughter. Sheri & Jimmy Rosenfeld, in honor of the Ruth Levenson, in memory of Herbert Lite Sabin and family, with gratitude to Bar Mitzvah of Noah Grinberg. Frommer. Colin Fowler. Lite Sabin and family, with gratitude. Jean Miller, in memory of Peter Fischer. Robin Sherman & Arthur Klausner, in Mindy & Sam Schwartz, in memory of Sharon Oberman, in honor of her memory of Arnold Sabin. Lowell Bloom. birthday. Beth & Mitchell Silber, in honor of Rabbi Stephanie Panes, in memory of Jack PRAYER BOOK FUND Elliot J. Cosgrove. Panes. Arthur Ainsberg, in memory of his Barbara Julius & Marc Silberberg. Hilary Ronner, in memory of Gladys parents, Zelda & William Ainsberg Tammy & Steven Weinfeld, in honor of Ronner. Jonathan Cohen. the Bar Mitzvah of Jed Cosgrove. Ronnie & David Parker, in memory of his Pauline & Milt Zablow, in memory of Sam father, Herman Parker. Bloch, father of Jean Bloch Rosensaft.

To make a donation, please contact Sam Hopkins at [email protected] or 212-369-4900, x101.

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Pauline & Milt Zablow, in memory of Roxana & Bob Tetenbaum, in memory of Amy & Howard Friedner. Pauline’s mother, Dora Fields. Sam Bloch, beloved father of Jean Bloch Eleanor Frommer. Dale & Rafael Zaklad, in honor of Rabbi Rosensaft. Sarah Gelber. Elliot J. Cosgrove. The Westreich Family. Limor & Eliot Geller. The Gendel Family. RABBI ETHAN H. WITKOVSKY YOM HASHOAH CANDLE PROGRAM Diana & Harrison Goldin. DISCRETIONARY FUND Suzanne & James Aisenberg. Arin Goldman. Anonymous. Lisa & Michael Borodkin. Nancy Goldspink. Ruth & Randy Abend. Susan Cantor. Constance & Leonard Goodman. Susan Schwartz & Howard Muchnick, in Elinor Heller. Lindsey & Joshua Green. appreciation of Rabbi Witkovsky’s work Steven H. Hirth. Karyn Ginsberg-Greenwald & Bruce with their study circle. Martin Levenson. Greenwald. Lite Sabin and family, with gratitude. Carol & Charles Mutterperl. Miriam & David Grossberg. Kirk Zachary. Avivith & William Oppenheim. Katherina Grunfeld. Paul Rich. Michele Green & Steven Gutwillig. RABBI NEIL ZUCKERMAN DISCRETIONARY Ellen & Alain Roizen. Irene & Martin Haber. FUND Lite Sabin. Karen Harris. Anonymous. Amanda & Larry Schwartz. Emily Roberts & Alan Hirschfeld. The Berkowitz Family, in gratitude for The Ursaner Family. Nancy & Joel Hirschtritt. Rabbi Zuckerman’s assistance with Joyce Varvatos. Arlene & Bruce Hochberg. preparing Ryan for his Bar Mitzvah. Abraham Yurkofsky. Alice Hoffman. Elaine Gilde & Richard Green, in memory Susan Smirnoff & Kirk Zachary. Barbara S. & Alan L. Jacobs. of Sam Bloch. Louise & Marvin Kagan. Dena & Mark Hirsch, in honor of the WELFARE FUND Barbara Kahn. aufruf of Michelle Moser and Jake Karas. Anonymous (12). Pame & Alix Karlan. Ellen & Murray Koppelman. Arthur Ainsberg. Phyllis Kaplan-Katz & Bernard Katz. The Millman Family, in memory of Judith Suzanne & James Aisenberg. Dana & Joseph Kekst. Roberts, mother of Erica Friedman. Neva & David Anton. Linda Klempner. Rita & Nathan Moser, in honor of the Lea Avigdor. Ellen & Murray Koppelman. aufruf of Michelle Moser and Jacob Karas. Marcy & Andrew Barkan. Vivienne & Paul Koreto. Lite Sabin and family, with gratitude. Janice & David Barnard. Jane & Stanley Kreinik. Rosalyn Tauber Scheidlinger, in memory Josephine Berger-Nadler. Galit & Scott Kursman. of Shlomo Tauber. Vivian & Daniel Bernstein. The Laiks Family. Beth & Mitchell Silber. Jen & Peter Bernstein. Dorothy Lang. Kirk Zachary. E.J. Borrack. Jennifer & Jonathan Lax. Amy & Robert Bressman. Joan Leiman. SHAPIRO AUDIO ARCHIVES FUND Harriet Brownstein. Joan & Marty Levenson. Lou Bernstein, in honor of his birthday. Bonnie & Charles Charrow. Alison & Alan Levine. Arthur Ainsberg, in memory of Sam Sherry & Joel Cherwin. Marvin Levine. Bloch, father of Jean Bloch Rosensaft. Martha & Jonathan Cohen. Laila Levitas. Joan & David Lefkowitz, in honor of Meri Carol H. Cohen. Beth & Zac Lobel. Schacter Bodoff’s birthday and many Kathy & David Cook. Judy Lobel. years of friendship. Barbara & Samuel Cooper. Miriam London. Joan & David Lefkowitz, in honor of Linda & Ronald Daitz. Sivia Loria. Norman Lapoff and over 40 years of Joanne Davis. Phyllis Lusskin. friendship. Barbara & Michael Delgado. Marjorie Magner. Sally Dwek. Eric Mandel. STEPHANIE LYNN KOSSOFF COLLEGE Susan & David Edelstein. Andrea & Steven Mandelsberg. FUND Susan Erlich. Alana Serota & David Mayman. Mark Schwarz. Phyllis & Bernie Feinberg. Blair & Gifford Meyer. Toni & Richard Feinbloom. Mendelle & Martin Milston. TIKKUN OLAM FUND Harriet & Herb Feiwel. Beth Moses. Barbara Weinstein & Lou Bernstein, in Bambi & Roger Felberbaum. Sue Schwartz & Howard Muchnick. loving memory of Herbert Frommer, Ethel Rubinstein & Elias Feuer. Doris & Henry Murad. husband of Eleanor Frommer. Carol & John Finley. Marlene & Philip Muskin. Estelle Roth. Susan & Martin Fischer. Carol & Charles Mutterperl. Meg Roth, in memory of David M. Stiefel. Lynn & Allen Fishman. Nancy & Barton Nisonson. Jennifer Shaftel, in honor of Lily Fergang Jill & Andrew Frey. Myra Freed & Seth Orlow. and Aliza Fergang on their Bnot Mitzvah. The Friedman Family. Ida & David Parks.

To make a donation, please contact Sam Hopkins at [email protected] or 212-369-4900, x101.

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Blossom & Walter Peretz. Irena Appel, in honor of her birthday. Suzanne Drachman, in memory of Leo Cynthia Pfeffer. Rachelle Balaban, in honor of her Applebaum. Suzanne & William Plotch. birthday. Suzanne Drachman, in memory of Harvey Laurie & Morris Podolsky. Babette Balis, in memory of Julia Drachman. Sheila Erlich-Pruzansky & Mark Hoexter. Sally Dwek, in memory of Vivienne Pruzansky. Phyllis Barber, in memory of Fred Lee Goldstone. Ruth Rabinowitz. Barber. Sally Dwek, in memory of Ronald Jane Revasch. Hilaire Beck, in memory of Herbert Goldstone. Ellen & Alain Roizen. Frommer. Anita Ehrenberg, in memory of Bernhard Joan & Robert Rosen. Lucy & Robert Becker, in memory of Pukacz. Maris & Andrew Rosenberg. Sam Bloch, beloved father of Jean Bloch Dinah Evan, in memory of Millie Estelle Roth. Rosensaft. Ashkenazi. Ruth B. Rothseid. Helene & Abraham Benyunes, in Uri Evan, in memory of Shulamit Nan & Howard Rubin. appreciation of Jeff Glovsky and online Milstein. Shereen & Howard Rutman. services. Pnina Feinberg, in memory of Herbert Lite Sabin. David Berman, in honor of his birthday. Frommer. Joan & Sylvan Schefler. Marilyn Berman, in memory of Jerome Elizabeth Feiner, in memory of Pearl Susan & Norman Schulman. Solomon. Cooper. Barbara Benerofe & Harvey Schulweis. Marilyn Berman, in memory of Florence Lori Fife, in memory of Leah Berg. Barbi & David Shames. Solomon. Myra Freed, in memory of William Herzl Herbert Shapiro. William Bermont, in memory of Ronni Freed. Barbara Julius & Marc Silberberg. Weksler Bermont. David Freedberg, in memory of Ernest A. Patty & David Silvers. Vivian Bernstein, in memory of Eva Freedberg. Michael Simmon. Glaser. Judy Freilich, in memory of Kurt Laura Simon. Vivian Bernstein, in memory of Marie Silbermann. Karen & Spencer Smul. Holub. Leslie & Bernard Friedman, in honor of Julie & Jordan Solomon. Vivian Bernstein, in honor of her their anniversary. Diane & Craig Solomon. birthday. Erica & David Friedman, in memory of Suzi & Brian Stadler. Mindy Birnbaum, in memory of Stanley Sam Bloch, beloved father of Jean Bloch Leone Straus. Birnbaum. Rosensaft. Hugh Straus. Alan Block, in memory of Elaine Block. Amy Friedner, in memory of George Marissa & Jacob Sutker. E.J. Borrack, in memory of Barbara Kaminow. Roxana & Bob Tetenbaum. Michels. Amy & Howard Friedner, in honor of Marilyn Tobias. Michael Brenner, in honor of his birthday. Cantor Rachel Brook & Matt Holman Nancy & Ray Treiger. Bernard Breslin, in memory of Henriette on the birth of their son, Elias Brook- Roberta & Arnold Ursaner. Breslin. Holman. Lauren & John Veronis. Nancy Bronstein, in memory of Herbert Marilyn Garcy, in memory of Irving Jacqueline Wahl. Katz. Staum. Lois & Marvin Weinberg. H. Paul Burak, in memory of Bette Burak. Clifford Gelb, in memory of Al Gelb. Miki Kagan & Sheldon Werdiger. H. Paul Burak, in memory of George Barbara Gerstel, in memory of Ray Frank. The Wiener Schackner Family. Burak. Ethan Gologor, in memory of Harold The Yufe-Dreyer Family. Ed Cohen, in honor of his birthday. Gologor. Liliane & Abraham Yurkofsky. Robert Cohen, in memory of Philip Sandra & David Gorman. Dale & Rafi Zaklad. Cohen. David Greenbaum, in memory of Hannah Ellen Schwartz Cooley, in memory of Greenbaum. YOUNG FAMILY EDUCATION FUND Leslie Cooley. Norman & Sarah Grill, in memory of Anonymous. Rosalind Cooper, in memory of her father, August Kopp. Max Weiss, and in gratitude to PAS for Mark Hirsch, in memory of Dorothy GENERAL CONTRIBUTIONS livestreaming services. Hirsch. Anonymous (2). Barbara Cooper, in memory of Jacob Alan Hirschfeld, in honor of his birthday. John Abroon, in memory of Hashem Berman. Nancy & Joel Hirschtritt, in memory of Abroon. Camille Crovador. Herbert Frommer. Deanna & Robert Adler, in honor of their Linda Daitz, in memory of William Nancy & Joel Hirschtritt, in memory of anniversary. Rosenberg. Sam Bloch. Robert Adler, in memory of Vivian Adler. Linda Daitz, in memory of Harry Weiner. Steven Hirth, in memory of Ann Hirth. Leslie Agisim, in memory of Blanche Ronald Daitz, in memory of Janet Shelley Holm, in memory of Murry Erlich. Agisim. Birnbaum. Gary Jacob, in memory of Ruth Jacob. Roberta Amon, in memory of Annabelle The Danzig Simon Family, in honor of Alan Jacobs, in memory of Shirley Jacobs. Model. Charlotte Wagner.

To make a donation, please contact Sam Hopkins at [email protected] or 212-369-4900, x101.

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Judith Jadow, in gratitude to Joan & Paul Andy Baumann Lustig & Ivan Lustig, in Linda & Henry Salmon, in honor of their Schreiber. honor of Joseph Savenor becoming a Bar anniversary. Howard Kaplan, in honor of his birthday. Mitzvah. Carol Saper, in memory of Miriam Jeremy Karmel, in honor of the Doug Heidi Mandel, in memory of Samuel Schops. Eisert Family. Freeman. Stacie & David Schapiro, in honor of Jeremy Karmel, in memory of Abraham Rita Matthews, in memory of Rabbi Sol Cantor Rachel Brook & Matt Holman Lipson. Rolnick. on the birth of their son, Elias Brook- Jeremy Karmel, in honor of the Bar Jane Matthews, in memory of William Holman. Mitzvah of Jed Cosgrove. Zheutlin. Stacie & David Schapiro, in honor of Lois & Terry Karnovsky, in loving memory Jane Matthews, in memory of Sandy Debbie & Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove on the of Jacob Lichy. Zheutlin. Bar Mitzvah of their son, Jed. Henry Katz, in memory of Samuel Katz. Robert Miller, in memory of Samuel Stacie & David Schapiro, in honor of Dr. Dana & Joseph Kekst, in honor of their Wachtel. Noa & Cantor Azi Schwartz on the birth of son, Jacob Gershon Kekst, on his first Robert Miller, in memory of Minnie their daughter, Tamar Ella Schwartz. birthday. Miller. Stacie & David Schapiro, in honor of Julie Stephanie Later, in memory of Patricia Sheila Miller, in memory of Anne Baker. Walpert & Rabbi Charles Savenor on the Later Corn. Gloria Milner, in memory of Diana & Max Bar Mitzvah of their son, Joseph. Joan Leiman, in memory of Herbert Pollack. Joan & Sylvan Schefler, in memory of Frommer. Cheryl & Mike Minikes. Susan Lincoln. Leona Leon, in honor of her birthday. Rita Moser, in memory of Jerry Ungar. Joan & Sylvan Schefler, in memory of her Leona Leon, in loving memory of David Rita & Nathan Moser. mother, Adele G. Kanstoren. Benjamin, on his yahrzeit. Felice Muchnick, in memory of Richard The Schultz Family, in loving memory Leona Leon, in loving memory of her Muchnick. of Muriel Kaplan, wife, mother, husband, Alexander Leon. Felice Muchnick, in memory of Rachel grandmother. Allan Lercher, in memory of Isidore Muchnick. Kenneth Schweber, in honor of his Lercher. Sharon Oberman, in memory of Aaron birthday. Jay Lerman, in honor of his birthday. Land. Esther Silver, in memory of Pauline Joan Levenson, in honor of her birthday. Morris Orden, in honor of his birthday. Altfeld. Joan & Marty Levenson, in honor of their Ilisse Perlmutter, in memory of Abraham Heidi Silverstone, in memory of Matty 51st anniversary. Perlmutter. Tavel. Joan & Martin Levenson, in honor of the Suzanne Plotch, in honor of her birthday. Barry Singer, in honor of his birthday. Bar Mitzvah of their grandson, Eadin Laurie Ferber Podolsky & Morris M. Karen & Spencer Smul, in memory of Sam Matthew Block. Podolsky, in honor of their anniversary. Bloch. Martin Levenson, in honor of his Myra & Brian Pollack. Elizabeth Tananbaum, in memory of her birthday. Bobbi Reitzes, in memory of Edes father, Jacob Joseph Belfer. Bernard Leventhal, in memory of Mynne Livingston. Robert Tetenbaum, in honor of his Leventhal. Beth Ring, in memory of H. Raymond birthday. Paul Levine, in honor of his birthday. Ring. Helene Torker, in memory of Marvin Alan Levine, in memory of Harold Levine. Emily Roberts, in memory of Gerald Spielman. Norma & Don Levine, in honor of Efraim Roberts. Nancy Treiger, in memory of Betty Grinberg’s birthday. Ellen Roizen, in honor of her birthday. Rosenfeld. Alan Levine, in memory of Florence Sheri & Jimmy Rosenfeld, in honor of the Nancy Treiger, in memory of Ann Davis. Levine. birth of Tamar Ella Schwartz. Roberta & Arnold Ursaner, in memory of Marian Levitt, in honor of Joseph Mr. & Mrs. Thomas A. Rosin, in memory Phyllis Ursaner. Savenor’s Bar Mitzvah. of Bruce Polozker. Lauren Veronis, in memory of Rae Marian Levitt, in honor of Cantor Rachel Mr. & Mrs. Thomas A. Rosin, in memory Nelson. Brook & Matt Holman on the birth of of Eugene Applebaum. Tammy & Steven Weinfeld, in memory of their son, Elias Brook-Holman. Laura Rubin, in memory of Samuel Sam Semaya. Marian Levitt, in honor of Dr. Noa & Hoffberg. Tammy & Steven Weinfeld, in honor of Cantor Azi Schwartz on the birth of their Howard Rubin, in memory of Martin the birth of Tamar Ella Schwartz. daughter, Tamar Ella Schwartz. Rubin. Tammy & Steven Weinfeld, in memory of Sylvia Liff, in memory of her father, Shereen Rutman, in memory of Cecile Herbert Frommer. Isadore Barchenko. Gertel. Roslyn & Harry Weinrauch, in memory of Judy Lobel, in memory of Seymour Lobel. Howard Rutman, in memory of his Morton Davis. Lynn & Jeffrey Lowin, in honor of Marsha grandmother, Leah Berg. Roslyn & Harry Weinrauch, in memory of & Milton Springut on their anniversary. Jane & Ned Sadaka, in honor of Ellen & Arnold Sabin. Andrea Baumann Lustig & Ivan Lustig, in Efraim Grinberg on their 60th birthdays. Roslyn & Harry Weinrauch, in memory of memory of Sam Bloch. Neil Sadick, in memory of Shirley Herbert Frommer. Thompkins.

To make a donation, please contact Sam Hopkins at [email protected] or 212-369-4900, x101.

www.pasyn.org 212–369–2600 May 2018 Iyyar/Sivan 5778 21 Contributions January 25–March 23, 2018

Janet Weisberg-Samuels, in memory of KOL NIDREI APPEAL 5778 Ronald Kreismann Debra Lynn Greenberg. January 25–March 16, 2018 Melissa Frey & Malcolm Levine Janet Weisberg-Samuels, in honor of her Susan & Stephen Beatus Erica Temel & Max Levine birthday. Alida & Martin Bell Felicia & Sander Levy Sondra Weiss, in memory of Rabbi Aaron Gisele Ben-Dor Susan Matlow J. Weiss. Stephanie & Elliot Berk Jamie & David Mitchell The Yardeni Family, in honor of the Bar Lauren Wagner Boyman Roysi & Volfi Mizrahi Mitzvah of Jed Cosgrove. Debbie & Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove Adriana & Robert Mnuchin Susan Smirnoff & Kirk Zachary, in honor Zina & Jonathan Egol Joan & Paul Schreiber of their anniversary. Jackie & Daniel Frommer Terry & Stephen Shapiro Marlene Zausner, in honor of her Samantha & David Goldring Vera Wolff Sullivan grandson, David Zausner. Rachel Mattes Greenberg & G. Duncan Abigail Solomon & Jason Teuscher Arlyne & Jonathan Zeichner, in honor of Greenberg Barbara & Elliott Wagner their anniversary. Sandra & Stephen Greenberg Miriam & Robert Waldman Ilane Zivitofsky, in memory of Brenda Deborah Schron & Martin Gropper Summer Zimberg Silverman. Sarahbeth Grossman Roberta Zuckerman, in memory of Tillie Susan & Robert Immerman Greebel. Ellen & Alan Kaplinsky Roberta & Bernie Zuckerman, in memory Francine & Samuel Klagsbrun of Mort Klein. Suzanne & James Klein

To make a donation, please contact Sam Hopkins at [email protected] or 212-369-4900, x101.

The Caring Network seeks to nurture individuals and families Caring at moments of sorrow and joy. As part of our effort to foster a caring community, the Caring Network provides support, Network solace, and hope to congregants and their families during times of illness, suffering, loss and grief. We also reach out to families during joyful transitions – birth, adolescence, marriage and beyond. For information about the Caring Network’s professional support, support groups, and educational opportunities, please visit pasyn.org/caringnetwork.

If you or anyone you know could benefit from the Caring Network, or if you would like to volunteer, please contact Rabbi Zuckerman at nzuckerman@ pasyn.org or x124.

Relive PAS history on Park Avenue Podcast and pasyn.org/shapir- Audio Archive oaudioarchive. Jump to the full database to hear sermons, lectures, concerts, and special events recorded in the Sanctuary from 1954 to 2004.

22 Park Avenue Synagogue Bulletin PAS Calendar of Events · May 2018 · Iyyar/Sivan 5778 May Information is subject to change. Confirm at pasyn.org or with the synagogue office. SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 16 Iyyar 17 Iyyar 18 Iyyar 19 Iyyar 20 Iyyar 1 2 Lag BaOmer 3 4 7:37 pm Candles 5 Emor

• Weekday Shaharit Mon–Fri at 7:15 am; Sun at 9:00 am. 9:15 am Melton Year 2 7:30 am Hashkamah • Minha/ma’ariv Sun–Thu at 5:45 pm. 8:00 am Rushing to Rashi 9:15 am Melton Bereshit II 8:00 am Reading Jewish Lives 9:00 am Shaharit & Parashah 4:00 pm Food Pantry & PALs 9:15 am Melton Mod J Exper Book Discussion 9:45 am Sanctuary svce & • Shabbat minha immediately after morning services. 6:00 pm RJNHS 22 Weeks 9:20 am Melton Foundations 9:15 am Women in Bible Seminary Shabbat 6:30 pm Israeli Literature 12:00 pm Library L&L 9:30 am ECC Info Session 10:00 am CS 3–6 Shabbat 6:30 pm NY Jewish Exper 5:00 pm Parkapellas 3:45 pm Food Pantry 11:00 am CS K–2 Fam Shab 11:30 am Contemp J Thought 6:45 pm Pathways 6:00 pm Teen Rock Band 6:15 pm Kabbalat Shabbat Immed after svces, Minha 4:00 pm Teen Tea Tuesdays 7:00 pm Melton Year 1 6:30 pm Gala 2018 7:15 pm Ramah Minyan 12:30 pm Post-Kiddush Lrng

21 Iyyar 22 Iyyar 23 Iyyar 24 Iyyar 25 Iyyar 26 Iyyar 27 Iyyar 6 7 8 9 10 11 7:44 pm Candles 12 B’har B‘hukkotai

7:30 am Hashkamah 8:00 am Rushing to Rashi 9:00 am Shaharit & Parashah 6:00 pm RJNHS 22 Weeks 9:15 am Melton Year 2 9:00 am Window on Israel 10:00 am iEngage 11:30 am Contemp J Thought 6:30 pm Israeli Literature 9:15 am Melton Mod J Exp 9:45 am Sanctuary svce 10:00 am CS Tenement 4:00 pm Teen Tea Tuesdays 6:30 pm NY Jewish Exper 9:20 am Foundations 8:00 am Talmud Torah 10:00 am CS 3–6 Fam Shab Museum Trip 6:00 pm RJNHS Scholars Cir 6:45 pm RJNHS Sr. Seminar 12:00 pm Insights from Israel 11:00 am Baby Brigade 11:15 am Tot Tefillah 10:00 am Day School Cmty 7:15 pm Teen Ldrshp Mtg 6:45 pm Pathways 5:00 pm Parkapellas 5:00 pm Camp Send-off Immed after svces, Minha Tikkun Olam 7:30 pm Barry Holtz 7:00 pm Melton Year 1 6:00 pm Teen Rock Band 6:15 pm Kabbalat Shabbat 4:00 pm Teen/Parent Study

28 Iyyar 29 Iyyar 1 Sivan 2 Sivan 3 Sivan 4 Sivan 5 Sivan 13 Yom Yerushalayim 14 15 Rosh Hodesh 16 17 18 7:51 pm Candles 19 B’midbar 7:30 am Hashkamah 9:00 am Shaharit & Parashah 9:00 am Window on Israel 8:00 am Rushing to Rashi 9:45 am Sanctuary svce 6:00 pm Gr 3–8 Party Immed after services Minha 6:30 pm Israeli Literature 8:00 am Talmud Torah 7:00 pm Festival Eve svce 11:30 am Contemp J Thought 6:30 pm NY Jewish Exper 9:15 am Melton Year 2 9:10 am YFE Shirat Shabbat 8:30 pm Honoring Cantor 4:00 pm Teen Tea Tuesdays 6:45 pm Pathways 9:20 am Melton Foundations 5:15 pm CS Zimriyah Lissek 6:00 pm PAS Annual Meeting 7:00 pm Melton Year 1 5:00 pm Parkapellas 6:15 pm Kabbalat Shabbat 9:00 pm 20s/30s Tikkun

6 Sivan 7 Sivan 8 Sivan 9 Sivan 10 Sivan 11 Sivan 12 Sivan 20 Shavuot, Day 1 21 Shavuot, Day 2 22 23 24 25 7:57 pm Candles 26 Naso

7:30 am Hashkamah 7:30 am Hashkamah 9:45 am Festival Morning svce 7:30 am Hashkamah 9:45 am Festival svce 10:45 am Children’s svce 8:00 am Rushing to Rashi 8:45 am Shaharit & Parashah 5:45 pm Festival minha/ 10:00 am YFE service 6:30 pm Israeli Literature 8:00 am Talmud Torah 9:45 am Sanctuary svce ma’ariv 5:45 pm Evening minyan 11:30 am Contemp J Thought 7:00 pm Melton Year 1 9:15 am Melton Year 2 6:15 pm | Kabbalat Shabbat Immed after svces Minha

13 Sivan 14 Sivan 15 Sivan 16 Sivan 17 Sivan 27 28 Memorial Day 29 30 31

CONTINUE TO COUNT THE OMER UNTIL YOU REACH 49! For brakhot and the daily count, visit pasyn.org/pesahresources. PAS offices closed 8:00 am Rushing to Rashi 9:15 am Melton Year 2 9:00 am Morning minyan 11:30 am Contemp J Thought 7:00 pm Melton Year 1 9:20 am Foundations NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION U.S. POSTAGE PAID New York, NY 50 East 87th Street, New York, NY 10128 Permit No. 8526

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Elliot J. Cosgrove, PhD, Rabbi Neil Zuckerman, Rabbi Ethan H. Witkovsky, Rabbi Azi Schwartz, Cantor Shira Lissek, Cantor Rachel Brook, Cantor David H. Lincoln, Rabbi Emeritus David Lefkowitz, Cantor Emeritus Beryl P. Chernov, Executive Director Liz Offenbach, Associate Executive Director Rabbi Charles Savenor, Director of Congregational Education

A Look Ahead at PAS

Please visit pasyn.org/calendar for up-to-date information and additional details on all PAS programming.