VOLUME 125 NUMBER 2 OCTOBER 2019

ShalomTHE BULLETIN OF REFORM CONGREGATION KENESETH ISRAEL & THE MEYERS LIBRARY Our Season of Rejoicing From KI Leadership Why Bimah Honors on the High Holy Days? President’s Tekiah! Teruah! Tekiah! The High Holy Days communal and embrace the rich liturgical voices of Message are here and with them the beginning of our “new” the Jewish past with the aspirations of our people year. 5780 has arrived! today. Everyone who participates in our services During the High Holy Days, many in our either by taking part as an honoree or as a commu- congregation are called up for Holy Day Honors. nity participant can be moved by the experiences As varied as our members are, so are these groups, offered in this innovative set of prayer books. from HaMotzi Volunteers, to Greenfaith committee For the last three years, I have read one of the members, to those who have made extraordinary opening poems. I feel great pride that I am called donations to our beloved and to those upon to use my voice to set the pace for others who donate lots and lots of volunteer time to our to follow. I take a deep breath as I stand before synagogue. In our new prayer books, Mishkan the congregation and think the Days of Awe are Janice Hanefesh, beyond the traditional prayers we are beginning and here I am on the Bimah. Everyone Schwartz-Donahue, so familiar with, there are many opportunities is quiet, I look out and begin to read, a prayer President for poems and prayers to be read by congregants. inspired by a hymn for the New Year by I find it interesting that our Rabbi and Cantor select David Einhorn who served as a KI Rabbi from congregants who fit perfectly, almost seamlessly 1881–1886. “This Autumn Night the shades of into their parts, and each year I anticipate seeing darkness in the sky are signs of earth’s turning, who has been chosen to read a particular portion. the fleeting ways of nature…” In that brief moment Past presidents read prayers for the Congregation, I can feel the darkness descending and I am acutely other leaders head the Hakafah Procession, KIFTY aware of the gentle turning of the seasons, just as members read from the Torah, Social Justice I know I am meant to be at this place at this time. advocates read messages filled with calls for advocacy, I am embraced by my KI community. I am filled someone reads a poem called Judaism Street, another with gratitude for the turning of the seasons. about Israel. There are poems about dignity and When Rabbi and Cantor invite you up for Bimah power, God as our Rock and Protector, blessings honors, when they thank you for being a truly over the works of our hands, and blessings for peace. integral part of our KI community, remember As diverse as we are as a congregation the prayers the High Holy Days are a time for reflection, and poetry of Mishkan Hanefesh, give everyone an introspection, prayer, and re-connection. Be opportunity for unique self-expression. This new mindful and join us in this spiritual experience! Machzor was written to bridge the personal and the Shanah Tovah.

2 OCTOBER 2019 From the Bimah Overharvesting The first month of the Jewish year is filled as we want. We cringe at the “waste” of national Rabbi’s with holidays including Sukkot, the seven-day parks, which could be sold and exploited for wealth Message Biblical harvest festival. During Sukkot, we build and not just held as an heirloom. I imagine Teddy our symbolic harvest huts (“Sukkot”) and wave the Roosevelt would not be very happy with our endless lulav, all as ways of demonstrating our gratitude pursuit of consumption at the beginning of the for all that sustains us. My guess is that just about 21st century. every culture has some kind of harvest festival I am not against wealth or pleasure. I am for the and that gratitude is a universal human concept. prudent protection of resources, natural and fiscal. Indeed, saying “thank you” is one of the very first I am not against enjoyment but I am for charity and things we feel compelled to teach our children believing in the common good. As Lloyd and Hardin when they are very young. taught, we cannot overstock the “Commons” with The opposite of harvesting and giving thanks ever-larger herds with the single goal of increasing Rabbi Lance J. is “overharvesting” (or over-exploitation). It is an our own herd without some realization that the Sussman, Ph.D. idea that goes back as far as Aristotle and was given “Commons” is finite and needs to be shared modern expression by a 19th century English proportionately. economist, William Forster Lloyd, and later, an To me, the idea of overharvesting does not American ecologist, Garrett Hardin, who wrote mitigate accumulating riches. Instead, it stands as the seminal piece on overharvesting, “The Tragedy a caution again lack of planning, failing to see the big of the Commons” in Science magazine in 1968. picture, ignoring the common good, of refusing to Judaism anticipated overharvesting by instituting give back or working to help others succeed. To that just practices as peah, “corner,” that is, leaving the end, Sukkot has a powerful moral message. First, be corners of the field un-harvested for the benefit grateful for what we have. Second, share from what of the poor. we have with others less fortunate than ourselves. Overharvesting is an important idea for our Third, plan together for the benefit of all. time in which we often expect so much for ourselves These are big ideas. At the macro level, they are in terms of material culture, wealth, and pleasure. easy to state. At the micro level of life, they are hard For too many, there seems to be a belief that all to apply. However, it is important to have ideals our resources are endless and can be continually and ideas. So this year, even as we give thanks for exploited for our benefit and pleasure. Restraint, the harvest, let us think about the perils of over- saving, deferred enjoyment, simplicity, and modest harvesting as well and what we can do individually living are increasingly distant concepts and values. and collectively to preserve the Commons for the We are entitled, so it seems, to everything all the time good of all. without limit. We can take as much from the earth Shabbat Shalom and happy holidays to all.

Torah Blessings With Rabbi Sussman. Special celebration of the 80th anniversary of coming to the US. From left to right, Rabbi Sussman, Hilde Goldstein, Eve Mennies, Renate Elgart, and Ilsa Cowan.

SUPPORT KI! Call 215.887.8700 or visit www.kenesethisrael.org. Thank you! SHALOM KI 3 From the Bimah Gift of Life Cantor’s As we celebrate the holiday of Sukkot, we family who lost a loved one, twenty-three years ago, Message reflect on the abundance of the harvest. We reflect he received the gift of life. They both will share their on what we may have in excess that we can give, story of the Gift of Life. especially to those in need. This Sukkot, could We are trying to find a match for a kidney we think about the gifts that we have been given donation for our congregant, Elliot Eisman, who is within our own body that could possibly benefit in desperate need of a kidney; his kidney function and give the gift of continued life? Could we share is currently at 1%. Elliot is an active member of KI; an organ such as a kidney, or could we give a bone you may also know him as Lynore Eisman’s husband. marrow, or a stem cell donation? The “gift of Lynore is the president of our Sisterhood (Women continued life” is deep-seated within our tradition of KI), very active in HaMotzi Dinners, and in our as the Talmud teaches us that one who “saves the KI Mitzvah Garden. Her husband is always by her Cantor life of one human being saves the entire world.” side. Elliot, whose motto is “Be Positive,” is a good Amy E. Levy (Babylonian Talmud: Sanhedrin 37a.) father, son, friend, and co-worker who is in need of a In principle, Judaism supports and encourages kidney from someone who has B or O blood type. organ, eye, and tissue donation in order to save lives. He is in Stage 5 kidney failure and doing dialysis When we consider organ, eye, and tissue donation, each night. The Eisman’s have two wonderful we are considering tithing of ourselves, setting aside sons, two lovely, daughters-in-law, and they are what might be “extra” in the right candidate. unbelievably happy to be new grandparents to On Friday, October 11 at 8:00 p.m., we will grandson, Irving Ansel Zinner Eisman. hold our “Gift of Life Shabbat.”Special musical As we move into our harvest season, let us guest, my father-in-law, George, who recently remember to be thankful for the abundance in our celebrated a pseudo-Bar Mitzvah, will join us. lives. Let’s consider our own blood, tissues, and For 13 years, George has been living as a kidney organs as a way of setting aside life for someone transplant recipient. An old high school friend, who is in need. This is modern-day holiness and Patti, donated the kidney when he was in dire wholeness. We look forward to seeing you on need to survive. Friday, October 11. Dr. Arnold Meshkov, who is a kidney donation recipient, through the remarkable generosity of a

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4 OCTOBER 2019 Worship

October Worship Schedule

Friday, October 4 Saturday, October 12 Erev Simchat Torah Shabbat Shuvah ~ Deuteronomy 31:1 9:00 a.m. Torah Study Sunday, October 20 8:00 p.m. Shabbat Evening Service 10:30 a.m. Shabbat Morning Service 5:00 p.m. Dinner for Consecration Saturday, October 5 Sunday, October 13 Students 9:00 a.m. Torah Study Sukkot 5:30 p.m. Erev Simchat Torah 10:30 a.m. Shabbat Morning Service We Were Strangers Too Service Erev Yom Kippur 5:00 p.m. Dinner, Sukkah Blessing, Monday, October 21 Tuesday, October 8 & Learning with KI Social 10:30 a.m. Shemini Atzeret/Yizkor 6:00 p.m. Kol Nidre for the Soul Justice Committee Service & Luncheon, 8:00 p.m. Kol Nidre Service Monday, October 14 BY RSVP ONLY Yom Kippur 1st Day of Sukkot Friday, October 25 Wednesday, October 9 10:30 a.m. Sukkot Morning Service, Shabbat B’reishit ~ Genesis 1:1 9:00 a.m. Tot Service, ages up to 5 Followed by Kiddush 8:00 p.m. Shabbat Evening Service (Chapel) Friday, October 18 Post-Service Presentation: 10:00 a.m. Morning Service 4th intermediate Day of Sukkot ~ Rabbi Lance J. Sussman, 10:30 a.m. Kid’s Program, 2nd – 5th Exodus 33:12 Ph.D. with TJM, “Walk Softly Grades (Family Lounge) 5:45 p.m. Snacks in the Sukkah and Carry a Big Shtick: Teddy 12:30 p.m. Study Session (Chapel) 6:30 p.m. Family Shabbat Service, Roosevelt, Rabbi Joseph 2:00 p.m. Family Service, ages 5 to 12 led by 6th grade Krauskopf and the American Jewish Community” 3:30 p.m. Afternoon & Memorial Saturday, October 19 Services 9:00 a.m. Torah Study Saturday, October 26 5:10 p.m. Ne’ilah Service 10:30 a.m. Shabbat Morning Service 9:00 a.m. Torah Study Friday, October 11 2:00 p.m. Rydal Park Shabbat 10:30 a.m. Shabbat Morning Service Shabbat Haazinu ~ Deuteronomy 32:1 Bar Mitzvah of Cole Edward 8:00 p.m. Gift of Life Shabbat Toczydlowski Evening Service

Friday, November 1 at 8:00 p.m. Rabbi Kenneth A. Kanter serves Assistant Rabbi at Congregation Ohabai Shabbat Service, guest speaker, as Interfaith and Special Projects Sholom, in Nashville, TN, as Jewish Coordinator at HUC-JIR/. Chaplain and Adjunct Professor at Rabbi Ken Kanter, sermon: He previously served as Associate Vanderbilt University. “A Century Ahead of His Time? Dean and Director of the Rabbinical Kanter is a popular lecturer and The Radical ” Program at the Cincinnati campus. author of books, journals and articles In 2005, Rabbi Kanter concluded focusing on the Jewish contribution to 13 years as Founding Rabbi of American popular music from the Congregation Micah of Nashville, TN. 1840s to the 1940s. His first book, Born in Chicago, IL, Rabbi Kanter The on Tin Pan Alley, was published received his B.A. in Jewish and in 1982. He contributed to several American History from Harvard journals in the field of Jewish history University in 1974, his M.A.H.L. and religion. Kanter’s second book to from HUC-JIR in 1978, was ordained which he contributed, Jewish-American in 1980, and was awarded an honorary History and Culture, was published Doctor of Divinity from HUC-JIR in in 1992. His third encyclopedia, May, 2005. The Encyclopedia of Jewish American Rabbi Kanter served for ten years Popular Culture, was published in 2009. as Rabbi of Chattanooga’s Mizpah Kanter was married to the late Congregation. Previously he served as Wendy Koplow Kanter.

SUPPORT KI! Call 215.887.8700 or visit www.kenesethisrael.org. Thank you! SHALOM KI 5 Youth and Education The Meaning Behind the High Holy Days JQuest This past year I was asked to Tisha B’Av reminds us of the brokenness in our world because of B’Yachad expand my role of Rabbi–Educator senseless hatred. While it commemorates the destruction of the at KI by working with the Social temple, it is the hatred and loss, destruction and desolation that are Justice Committee. This work has prominent. I then turn inward as we prepare for Rosh Hashanah been deeply meaningful to me, as I and Yom Kippur. We know the High Holy Days demand a look have had the opportunity to get to inside and a look around, how did we fail to act? How will we know or reconnect with members of do better? our congregation and to do a deep This month we also celebrate Sukkot and Simchat Torah. dive into areas of injustice in our Sukkot reminds us of so many things, the fragility of life, the local and global community. blessings of harvest and abundance and the season of rejoicing. In our JQuest program, we Simchat Torah demands that we turn again to study, to know there Rabbi Stacy often talk about the “why” behind is always more to learn. No matter how you choose to observe Eskovitz Rigler, celebrating the holidays. While we Jewish ritual, there is something to be said for a tradition that asks Director of know that their observance is a so regularly to stop and reflect on who you are, what you care Religious commandment, and we understand about, and what you are contributing to help repair the world. Education their place in the cycle of the year, a If you are interested in getting more involved in our Social modern approach also leaves us Justice Committee, to learn about and/or advocate for areas of wanting more. For me the holidays injustice in our community, I hope you will reach out to me, or are specific times of the year to reflect on acts oftikkun olam, or to our chair Arlene Holtz. Together we can make a difference, it repairing our world. As I write this, nearly six weeks before it is a matter of reminding ourselves who we are, and what we are will go to print, we just finished the observance of Tisha B’Av. capable of achieving.

A Time for Reflection and a Change for the Better Preschool September flew by with the Ahead of us is Yom Kippur, a time for reflection and a change News autumn breeze and falling leaves for the better; however, in the preschool it is an opportunity and we find ourselves in October, for us to teach both by example and in real time experience. looking forward to many cool, crisp Learning to help, share, give without expectation, and treat and colorful days. New friends others with kindness and respect is our top priority. and families that have joined the In early childhood there is an expectation to say “sorry” to our preschool are already feeling like friends when we hurt them, whether we want to or not or if we do they are home here at KI. not even understand what we are sorry for. We are working within As teachers and staff returned the preschool, through training and teamwork, to transition to a from their summer break they new kind of social learning and emotional intelligence utilizing the brought with them news from ‘Conscious Discipline’ program developed by Dr. Becky Bailey. Liz Z. Sussman, the wider community about the In this first year, teachers are being trained to grow and learn M.Ed., Director of reputation of our preschool. We conscious emotional responses and behaviors for themselves. It Early Childhood thought that we had worked to is a learning curve that involves a completely new perspective on Education build a creative, musical, welcoming, self-regulation, responsibility and wishing others well. We hope peaceful, and diverse environment to begin to integrate the program into our classrooms next year. for children to grow in and for This month we look forward to hosting our ‘Back to School parents to find a supportive community. While this is all true, Night’ and our community Tot Shabbat in the Sukkah, which is it turns out that we have also slowly perpetuated a standing for one of the highlights of our year. Next month is our all school being an inclusive establishment that welcomes children of all Thanks-giving feast. We cannot believe it has rolled around so needs and abilities. Isn’t it wonderful how a natural inclination quickly, but are grateful that we will all be together to enjoy it. to do what is right can become a testimonial to the world for A hearty Shanah Tovah to everyone, and we hope that something that you stand for? We are so proud to share this hearing our voices in the preschool and all that we have to share with you. brings you happiness in 5780. May this year be a blessing to you, your families and all of your friends! 6 OCTOBER 2019 Lifelong Learning KI and Teddy Roosevelt: What’s the Connection?

By Rita Rosen Poley Please join us Friday, TJMuseum is grateful to the The Smithsonian Institution– October 25, 2019, following who created original art Archives of American Art: when Rabbi Lance J. work, loaned us objects from personal Papers of Edith Emerson, the artist Sussman, Ph.D. will collections or allowed us to reproduce who created the speak, in a post-service materials from important public and Memorial Window including the presentation, in cele- private collections: contract between Violet Oakley and bration of the Temple Judea Museum’s The KI Archives the synagogue. (Oakley passed the current exhibition, “…Service in Every 1. Three books of sermons (with original commission on to Emerson.) Cause Which Seemed Right and manuscripts) delivered in 1919 by The Woodmere Art Museum, Good.” The title of Rabbi Sussman’s talk Rabbi Joseph Krauskopf after the is “Walk Softly and Carry a Big Shtick: death of Theodore Roosevelt. Edith Emerson’s full size cartoon drawing Teddy Roosevelt, Rabbi Joseph 2. A circa 1919 postcard with image of for the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Krauskopf and the American Jewish the completed memorial window. Window. (1919) (reproduced to scale) Community.” This exhibition comm- 3. The original hand written manuscript Private Collectors: emorates the 100th anniversary of the for remarks delivered by Rabbi Joseph death of President Theodore Roosevelt 1. Robyn Miller’s Theodore Roosevelt Krauskopf at the November 1919 Memorial glass bottle with original and the 100th anniversary of KI’s consecration of the memorial window. Theodore Roosevelt Memorial window. box Wheaton Industries, circa 1950s The exhibition title, which refers to The Theodore Roosevelt Digital 2. Flora Becker’s collection of Theodore Theodore Roosevelt, is drawn from 1919 Library–Dickinson State University Roosevelt Political Campaign Pins writings by the artist, Edith Emerson. Various photographs and illustrations 3. Mel Richter’s WWI Posters She was working on the commission from regarding the Spanish-American War. (1898) 4. A photograph loaned by Cynthia Keneseth Israel to create the stained glass The Athenaeum of Philadelphia Blackwood of a Theodore Roosevelt window that would serve as the memorial Photograph of the D’Ascenzo Studios, display window at the her to the late President who had recently Philadelphia, circa 1912. D’Ascenzo was great-grandfather’s pharmacy passed away. Originally installed at the the fabricator of the Theodore Roosevelt Original Art Work: synagogue’s Broad and Columbia Memorial Window. Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick building, the glass was one of four (Gouache) Artist: Mordechai Rosenstein important windows that were moved Teddy’s Bear (Charcoal and pastel) to the synagogue’s new building in Artist: Marlene D’Orazio Adler Elkins Park in the late 1950s. Paper Doll Collection (Theodore Roosevelt, This exhibition is much more than Rabbi Joseph Krauskopf, Edith Emerson, words; this past year has been somewhat the Prophet Elijah) (Paper and board) of a scavenger hunt to find the visual Artist: Arlene Gale Milgram objects that we needed to tell its story. From This Point Forward, Let’s Make The following will give you an idea of Only Beige Bears (Acrylic on Tyvek) where the hunt took us, beyond our Artist: Cheryl Harper own collection and certain eBay finds. Out of the Whirlwind (Monotype) Artist: Linda Nesvisky The Teddy Bear Has Something to Say (Found objects and gouache on handmade paper) Artist: Marlene D’Orazio Adler Ted and Joe’s Wonderful Adventure (Digital print on canvas, painted and RIGHT: From This Point Forward, collaged) Artist: Joan Shrager Let’s Make Only Beige Bears SUPPORT KI! Call 215.887.8700 or visit www.kenesethisrael.org. Thank you! SHALOM KI 7 Lifelong Learning

From the Meyers Library By Ellen Tilman, Director of Library Services The High Holidays mark a new beginning. Each year we in the Berlin Philharmonic, and herself a prodigy. Ada’s welcome the new year with apples and honey. We come together talent enabled her to move to Bologna during World War II. as a community to ask God for forgiveness on Yom Kippur. How is she connected to the conflicting land deeds of the We finish reading the Torah and immediately begin to read it Italian villa? again on Simchat Torah. If you would like to learn more about Bring a bag lunch at 12:30 p.m. The discussion will begin these holidays check out the titles in the Library collection. at 1:00 p.m. Save the following dates for other Adult Book Author Visit Discussions: January 14; and March 31. All book selections are available in the Meyers Library and on the library Kindles. Rabbi Simeon Maslin will read from and share his new book, God for Grownups: A Jewish Perspective, on Sunday Jewish Film Series morning, November 17 at 10:00 a.m. Amazon describes the The Meyers Library sponsors a Jewish Film series. In order book as: “No one, no matter how brilliant, saintly or charismatic, to best meet the needs of participants, we have both an evening ever has or ever will prove the existence — or non-existence — and afternoon screening of each film. On Tuesday, November of God. If the infinite God posited by Judaism since ancient 12, we will see the film, “The Other Son” (2012). times does, in fact, exist, then that God is by definition beyond In this French film, an Israeli and a Palestinian boy were human comprehension.” This book asks God questions: born during a missile attack at the same hospital in Haifa. They What can we know of God and what does God require of us? were switched by mistake. When the Israeli, at age 18, is about Books will be available for purchase at the program. to enter the army, routine blood tests reveal that something is One Book One Jewish Community Program not right. The story reflects many of the issues of the Israeli/ Palestinian conflict. Both fathers are reluctant to accept the by Alice Hoffman is this year’s The World That We Knew situation while the mothers are more open to the possibility selection. Come to the citywide Kickoff Conversation with the of becoming close with their biological children. As the boys author on Sunday, November 17 at 2:00 p.m., at Gratz College, become friends, their families have to re-evaluate their beliefs. 7695 Old York Road, Elkins Park. Please save the following dates: December 10; March 24; The story begins in 1941 Berlin. Hanni must send her and May 19. Performances will be at 1:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. daughter away to save her from the Nazi regime. She finds a These films are free for KI members and we ask for a voluntary renowned rabbi, but it’s his daughter, Ettie, who offers hope contribution from non-members. when she creates a golem, who is sworn to protect Lea. They travel to Paris; to a convent in western France known Become a Book Reviewer for its silver roses; to a school in a mountaintop village where In this issue we are including a recommended “Good Reads,” three thousand Jews were saved. The bestselling author of The Train to Crystal City (see page 9). We need volunteers to The Dovekeepers and The Marriage of Opposites, Hoffman write these book recommendations! Have you read a Jewish takes us on a journey of loss and resistance, where all roads book that you recommend others read? Would you like to lead past the Angel of Death and love is never ending. see your name in print? Contact Ellen about becoming a Adult Book Discussion Group Book Reviewer for our “Good Reads” Column. The Meyers Library is a wonderful resource, with a huge The Meyers Library hosts a very popular Adult Book selection of books for your reading and research, a comfortable Discussion Group. This is a moderated book discussion and environment, and good coffee! Join the friendly volunteers not a book review. Participants are expected to share their who keep our library up to date! insights, reactions, and comments with others who have also If you would like to receive information on new acquisitions, read the book. On Tuesday, November 19 at 1:00 p.m., library events, and updates, please send your email address to we will discuss by Ronald Balson. The Girl From Berlin [email protected] and ask to be added to the Library An old friend calls a lawyer/detective team for help. email list. His aunt is being evicted from her home in Tuscany by a The Meyers Library is a wireless computer zone. Bring your powerful corporation, even though she has a set of deeds. laptop or explore the latest book arrivals in your KI home. Their only clue is a handwritten manuscript from Ada Make the KI Library your home away from home. Baumgarten. She was the daughter of the first-chair violinist (See Library Hours on P. 9)

8 OCTOBER 2019 In Our Community

KI Music Arts Announces its 21st Season Opening Concert

By Ellen & Bob Bildersee, Chairs, KI Music Arts Committee The KI Music Arts Committee will present and Mr. Newman, . Beethoven’s its opening concert of the Community Family String Quartet in A, Opus 18, Concerts Series 21st season at KI on Saturday No. 5 follows, with Mr. DePue, evening, October 26. Originally curated by pianist Ms. Ninomiya, Mr. Chen, and Natalie Zhu for this past summer’s Kingston Mr. Newman. The lyrical Brahms Chamber Music Festival, this spectacular concert Piano Trio in B Major, Op. 8 rounds was a complete sellout at the University of out the program, with Ms. Zhu, Rhode Island’s 600-seat performing arts venue. Ms. Ninomiya, and Mr. Newman. The concert features five of the same multiple Frankly, the entire audience award-winning, world-class artists whose superb seemed to share in the experience musicianship, artistry, intensity, beauty of sound, of our being “blown away” by this and technical brilliance we experienced in Rhode concert: the beauty of the music, the Island, performing the glorious music of Barber, perfect balance of the pieces to the Beethoven, and Brahms. This October 26 concert integrity of the program, and the sublime artistry of is not to be missed! the musicians. Please join us for this truly memorable The artists are violinists Ayano Ninomiya and concert on Saturday, October 26 at KI. There will be Zachary DePue, violist Che-Hung Chen, cellist an optional dinner offered at 6:00 p.m. The concert Clancy Newman, and pianist Natalie Zhu. The will begin at 7:30 p.m.; there will be one intermission. program begins with Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Ticket information will be available on the website Strings, Original Version, with Ms. Ninomiya, at www.kenesethisrael.org and through the mail. 1st violin; Mr. DePue, 2nd violin; Mr. Chen, ;

Library Hours Good Reads: The library is open on Tuesday The Train to Crystal City — FDR’s Secret Prisoner Exchange and Wednesday from 9:30 a.m. to Program and America’s Only Family Internment Camp 3:30 p.m.; Thursday from 10:00 a.m. During World War II by Jan Jarboe Russell to 1:00 p.m. during the Academic Did you know that the Government had a year; and until 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday prisoner exchange program with Germany and Japan during whenever JQuest B’Yachad is in World War II? Hundreds of prisoners from Crystal City session. We are also open on Sunday Enemy Detention Facility in Texas, managed by the mornings from 9:30 to 12 noon Immigration and Naturalization Service, were exchanged for when there is a program in the diplomats, businessmen, soldiers, physicians, and missionaries behind enemy building. Book carts with the latest lines. This book reveals facts that you will not see in typical history books. in contemporary fiction are brought It tells the story of internment through the daily lives of a German and a to the Oneg Shabbat on Friday Japanese family and what happened to them as they were sent back to their evening. All books may be borrowed native countries. for two weeks at no charge. In addition, the reader follows the journeys of Jewish families released To reserve a book, please call from the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp as part of this exchange program. 215.887.8700, x122 or email: This nonfiction book reads like a novel, exploring lives of families while [email protected]. educating about the laws and practices between 1942 and 1948. Everyone, especially our Jewish community, should be aware of this time in our country’s history. I highly recommend this book. Reviewed by Laurie Myers

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Women of KI Upcoming Events By Lynore Eisman, President, Women of KI Join with us and become a part of “the nurturing soul of our KI Community.” Wishing you and your family and friends a Happy, Healthy New Year! Lilith Salon Organ Donation Seminar Paint Night Sunday, October 13 at 100 p.m. Sunday, November 10, Thursday, November 13 at 6:30 p.m. Join us! We will use Lilith Magazine, 10:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m. You don’t have to be an artist to be able a feminist Jewish publication, to provide Come, join us for an informative program to paint a masterpiece! We bring the art topics to get our conversations started. on organ donation, and meet Rabbi studio to you. There will be dessert, coffee, RSVP to Paulette Sterman-Soroko at Josh Sturm, Director of Outreach for and tea. BYOB. RSVP by November 3. 215.287.1073 or [email protected]. Renewal.org. Rabbi Sturm will explain $40/person, after November 3 fee is $45. WKI Board Meeting how “Renewal saves lives by helping Your check to Women of KI is your facilitate kidney transplants for those reservation. Send to KI, 8339 Old York Sunday, November 3 at 10:00 a.m. suffering with chronic kidney disease. Road, Elkins Park, PA 19027, All are welcome! Following the We provide guidance and support to Attn: Mindi Glachman. Join us for meeting, we will make breakfast help patients and their families navigate this artistic, fun learning experience. bags. Bring breakfast bag items, all the medical challenges of coping with such as individual packets of oatmeal, HaMotzi Dinners Upcoming Dates their condition. Our services are free of raisins, breakfast bars, applesauce, Sundays, October 27, November 24, charge to anyone in need.” My husband, December 29 juice boxes, and crackers. Elliot Eisman, is in end-stage kidney All who are in need are invited. failure and in need of a kidney. I hope Dinners are on Sundays at 5:00 p.m. that you will come and learn about Contact Sue Fried at 215.327.8065 or this process, and share the information Join with us and become a part [email protected] or Paulette with others. Do a mitzvah by becoming of “the nurturing soul of our Sterman-Soroko at 215.287.1073 or a living kidney donor! RSVP to KI Community.” [email protected]. Lynore Eisman at 215.676.1812 or [email protected].

HaMotzi Dinner Update: Healing the World One Meal at a Time

By Sue Fried ([email protected]) & Paulette Sterman-Soroko ([email protected]),

HaMotzi Dinner Chairs The fall HaMotzi Community Dinners for the food- 2. Make a donation to the KI Sharing is Caring Fund. insecure got off to a great start with many new volunteers, the 3. Donate supermarket scrip. 6th grade Mitzvoteinu students, and their families. These 4. Drop off non-perishables items. students will help with all aspects of the dinners for this school 5. Encourage JQuest students to purchase food for the year affording them the opportunity to see how giving back to pantry on Sunday mornings during JQuest B’Yachad. the community is such an integral part of Judaism. The guests (Thank you Sharon Rhodes and family.) are delighted to have our young people at the dinners. 6. Prepare food at home. (Recipes provided.) There are many opportunities to support these dinners: 7. Volunteer at a dinner. 1. Sponsor an entire meal for $800. (A wonderful way to celebrate a simcha, honor someone, or remember Thank you for your support of this KI Social Action initiative. a loved one.)

10 OCTOBER 2019 In Our Community

Migration from the Northern Triangle

By Dr. Arlene B. Holtz, Chair, KI Social Justice Policy Committee Immigration has been a major Low levels of economic growth susceptible to focus of our committee. As Jews, we and an inadequate supply of jobs also irregular rainfall. understand leaving one’s country to increase emigration. Northern Triangle Since 2014, El Niño seek a safer, better life, but if we lobby countries along with Haiti and Venezuela and La Niña cycles legislators on immigration policy, we are the poorest in the Western Hemisphere. and climate-change-induced drought should know the conditions that are Furthermore, especially in Guatemala, have caused severe crop failures, resulting spurring Central Americans to leave with the largest increase in would-be in unprecedented food insecurity for their countries, especially the three migrants to the US, the government’s up to 30% of the region’s population countries in the so-called Northern treatment of indigenous people through and increasing unemployment among Triangle: El Salvador, Honduras, land policies contributes to their poverty. migrants from rural areas where they and Guatemala. A third force motivating migrants had been engaged in agricultural work. These countries are menaced is the impact of weak governance The complexity of these root causes by corruption, drug trafficking, and structures, including failing judicial deserves a considered, well-calibrated gang violence, including forced gang institutions, and limited social services. response. As we advocate on behalf of recruitment and extortion by organized Corruption among government migrants, we should at a minimum urge crime groups. The largest gangs have officials is rampant, and law our representatives to demand that our links to drug cartels supplying illicit drugs enforcement is inadequate. government promote humane policies in for U.S. consumption. Women and Climate change is a fourth factor our name; and that the signs of pending children are most vulnerable to violence exacerbating the crisis. The Northern climate disasters not be ignored. and can easily become targets of rape, Triangle coincides with the Central kidnapping, torture, and murder. American Dry Corridor, which is

KIGreenfaith Tip Use less gasoline. Cars are the number one source of greenhouse gases in the US and cause massive smog pollution. Carpool, take the train or bus, walk, or bike when you can. Small We Were Strangers Too changes like driving slower and Erev Sukkot keeping your tires inflated can make a difference. Buying a new Sunday October 13, 2019 car? Take an electric vehicle (EV) 5:00 PM for a test drive. Get in touch with Dinner, Sukkot Blessings, Sharing Immigration Stories, KIGreenfaith (wacomisar@gmail. & Study of Current Immigration Policies with com) who can connect you with the KI Social Justice Committee. local EV owners. Over the lifetime of the car, an EV is like driving a car that gets 68 mpg. If an EV isn’t for you, opt for the most Salmon and Rice Dinner available for $15 p/p if pre-ordered by October 7 by fuel-efficient model possible. contacting [email protected] or bring your own dinner.

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KI Adult Education Update

By Caryl Levin What a year we have been having! Each lecture has been so interesting and educational. Our community of learners and friends is growing. Please be sure to give me your email so I can send you reminders of upcoming programs and summaries of them. This is what is on tap for October: Thursday, Oct. 10, 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 23, 7:30 p.m.–9:00 p.m. “Art and Appetite” with Deena Gerson “Masterpieces of Jewish Literature: The Spiritual World What is our obsession with depicting our food? Is it a still life of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel” with Rabbi Lance J. or is it a meal? Sometimes an apple is more than a piece of Sussman, Ph.D. fruit. When did we stop eating with our hands and turn a Thursday, Oct. 24, 11:30 a.m. meal into a place to show class, manners, and etiquette? “John Marshall” with Stan Siegel From primitive man until today, let us study the history of Stan Siegel will discuss John Marshall’s political background food in art. Do not come hungry! Deena has been an art as a Federalist and his impact on our judicial system. Stan is historian for over 40 years. a graduate of CCNY and Columbia graduate school and is Thursday, Oct. 17, 11:30 a.m. a former professor at Temple University. “The Butler Wore Gucci” with Tom Gardner Monday, Oct. 28, 10:30 a.m. Tom Gardner will tell his story of what might be considered “Scandalous” with Dr. Phyllis Gotkin an American Downton Abbey c. 1969. The story begins “Scandalous” is a presentation that discusses the change in when he was 19 and took a summer job as a houseman morality on three continents over 1,100 years. Pictures of for Mrs. Robert R. Young at her Newport, RI mansion. works of art are shown to illustrate these changes. Some were He also worked for Mrs. Marjorie Merriweather Post at not accepted then, and are now; some were accepted then, her Palm Beach winter home, Mar-A-Lago. He will tell but are not accepted today; some have never changed. Phyllis of his experiences in five WASP and five Jewish households. Gotkin graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and Thomas Gardner has been a major antiques dealer in both received her Ph.D. in 1986. New York City and Paris for 43 years.

Kickoff Event and Book Signing with Alice Hoffman at Gratz College On Sunday, November 17 at 2:00 p.m., Gratz College Tickets & Reservations will host author Alice Hoffman for a kickoff event and $10 in advance (recommended); $15 at the door book signing. Her new book, The World That We Knew, Students 18 and under are FREE (please reserve was be released on September 24, 2019. in advance). Tickets can be purchased online at About The World That We Knew www.gratz.edu. In Berlin, at the time when the world changed, Hanni You can purchase the book at the “One Kohn knows she must send her twelve-year-old daughter Book” Official Bookseller: Open Book Bookstore, away to save her from the Nazi regime. She finds her way 7900 High School Road, Elkins Park, PA 19027 or go. to a renowned rabbi, but it’s his daughter, Ettie, who offers openbookphilly.com/OneBook. You can also purchase it at hope of salvation when she creates a mystical Jewish creature, Gratz College. Mention promo code “ONEBOOK” to receive a rare and unusual golem, who is sworn to protect Lea. Once the discounted rate of $25.00 (including tax). Ask about a bulk Ava is brought to life, she and Lea and Ettie become eternally discount for book club and member synagogue sales. entwined, their paths fated to cross, their fortunes linked. About Alice Hoffman Schedule Alice Hoffman is the author of more than thirty works of 1:15 p.m.: Doors Open/Book Sales fiction, includingThe World That We Knew, The Rules of Magic, 2:00 p.m.: Interview and Q&A with Alice Hoffman The Marriage of Opposites, Practical Magic, The Red Garden, the 3:00 p.m.: Book signing Oprah’s Book Club selection Here on Earth, The Museum of Extraordinary Things, and The Dovekeepers. She lives near Boston. 12 OCTOBER 2019 Life Cycles Mazal Tov to our Bar Mitzvah Student My name is Cole Edward Toczydlowski, my Bar Mitzvah is October 26, 2019. For my Mitzvah Project, I played chess with senior citizens at the Elkins Park House. I also volunteered at Kitty Cottage Adoption Center in Norristown. I attend Cedarbrook Middle school. My hobbies include video games, drums, and reading, and I enjoy playing tennis. My parents are Dear KI Congregants, Karen Pokras and John Toczydlowski. It is time to register for the 2019 URJ Biennial! Join with me and thousands of Jews from across North America to learn, pray, share ideas, dance Mazal Tov to the following congregants on their and sing, hear from inspiring speakers and the Special Simchas… leaders of our Movement. Births Rabbi Sussman has been invited to the Biennial as a guest speaker, and Cantor Levy will be Hadley Grey Rubin, daughter of Carly and Joe Rubin, granddaughter of our members Anne and John Solis Cohen, great-granddaughter joining us to collaborate with other Cantors of our member Barbara Batt, great-niece of our members Joan and from around the country. Ray Abrams Janice Reed Gordon Offit, son of Amanda Gordon Offit and Ben Offit, KI Congregational President great-grandson of our member Ricki Gordon Questions? Contact Janice: Kyle Anthony Skowronski, son of Regan and Keith Skowronski, [email protected] great-grandson of our member Sandra Kramer INFORMATION: Maddilyn Diana Patlakh, daughter of Alexa Allen and Mike Patlakh, Where: McCormick Place is the largest granddaughter of our members Phyllis and Steven Allen Convention Center in North America. Weddings It consists of four interconnected buildings Marriage of Cori Samantha Duco and Ryan Sweeney. and one indoor arena sited near the shore Cori is the granddaughter of our member Fredlyn Brown. of Lake , about 2 miles south of downtown Chicago, . Marriage of Sarah Cooperson and Chris Barba. Sarah is the daughter of our members Robyn Miller and Les Cooperson. A Marriott and a Hyatt are both connected to the Convention Center via indoor skywalks. We mark with sorrow the passing of . . . Marriott Marquis Chicago: $179 plus 17.4% tax Bertha Zeller, aunt of our member Liz (Lance) Sussman, great-aunt Hyatt Regency McCormick Place: $179 plus of our members Judah Sussman, Micah Sussman, Benjamin (Kelly) 17.4% tax Sussman, Josh (Sheri) Sussman and Chana Sussman Early Bird Registration is open Jerry Freimark, father of our member Linda (Bob Doyle) Freimark until October 16, 2019 Rose “Ronnie” Baer, mother of our member Arlene (Elliot) Stone Cost for Biennial Registration: $835. Irwin “Sonny” Belitsky, father of our member Larry Belitsky *Delegation Member $775. $935 after October 16, 2019 Nadalee Farber, mother of our member Joel (Kimberly) Farber *We need between 12 and 17 delegates from KI to Joan Handelman Sadoff, our member get the Delegation Rate which includes perks such Morton A. Langsfeld III (Mickey), our member, husband of our as reserved seating in plenary sessions. member Judith Langsfeld, father of our member Mark (Karen) Langsfeld, brother-in-law to our members Jane and Leonard Korman, REGISTRATION: uncle to our member Cathy (Larry) Altman Go to URJbiennial.org for more information. Transportation arrangements to Chicago are independent of Registration.

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Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

Rosh Hashanah 1 Day II 2 3 4 5 NO JQuest B’Yachad 11:30 a.m. Adult Ed. Program 9:30 a.m. Preschool Tot Shabbat 9:00 a.m. Torah Study NO Quest Noar 7:00 p.m. Mah Jongg Service 10:30 a.m. Shabbat Morning 8:15 p.m. Adult Rehearsal 8:00 p.m. Shabbat Shuvah Service Evening Service 6 7 8 Erev Yom Kippur 9 Yom Kippur 10 11 12 9:15 a.m. JQuest B’Yachad 10:30 a.m. Adult Ed. Program NO JQuest B’Yachad 9:00 a.m. Tot Service (preschool- 11:30 a.m. Adult Ed. Program 9:30 a.m. Preschool Tot Shabbat 9:00 a.m. Torah Study 12:00 p.m. Club KIFTY Welcome NO Quest Noar age families) 7:00 p.m. Social Justice Service 10:30 a.m. Shabbat Morning Service Back Party 6:00 p.m. Kol Nidre for the Soul 10:00 a.m. Morning Service Committee Meeting 6:00 p.m. Tot Shabbat Sukkot 8:00 p.m. Kol Nidre Service 10:30 a.m. Kid’s Yom Kippur Prog. 7:00 p.m. Mah Jongg Service (2nd–5th Grades) 8:00 p.m. Shabbat Evening 12:30 p.m. Study Session Service 2:00 p.m. Family Service (elementary-age families) 3:30 p.m. Afternoon & Memorial Services 5:10 p.m. Ne’ilah Service

13 Erev Sukkot 14 Sukkot, Day I 15 16 17 18 19 9:15 a.m. JQuest B’Yachad 10:30 a.m. Sukkot Morning 4:30 p.m. JQuest B’Yachad 7:00 p.m. Inclusion Committee 11:30 a.m. Adult Ed. Program 9:30 a.m. Preschool Tot Shabbat 9:00 a.m. Torah Study 1:00 p.m. Lilith (out of building) Service Followed 6:15 p.m. Quest Noar Meeting 7:00 p.m. Board of Directors Service 10:30 a.m. Shabbat Morning 5:00 p.m. In the Sukkah ~ by Kiddush 7:30 p.m. Adult Choir Rehearsal Meeting 5:45 p.m. Snacks in the Sukkah Service Dinner, Blessings & 7:45 p.m. KIFTY Meeting 7:00 p.m. Mah Jongg 6:30 p.m. Family Shabbat 2:00 p.m. Rydal Park Shabbat Learning with KI Social Service, led by Justice Comm., 6th Grade “We Were Strangers Too” 20 21 Simchat Torah 22 23 24 25 26 9:15 a.m. JQuest B’Yachad 10:30 a.m. Shemini Atzeret/Yizkor 4:30 p.m. JQuest B’Yachad 6:30 p.m. Preschool Back to 11:30 a.m. Adult Ed. Program 9:30 a.m. Preschool Tot Shabbat 9:00 a.m. Torah Study 9:30 a.m. Mah Jongg Service & Luncheon 6:15 p.m. Quest Noar School Night 7:00 p.m. Board of Trustee Service 10:30 a.m. Shabbat Morning (RSVP only) Erev Simchat Torah 7:00 p.m. Inclusion Committee 7:30 p.m. Masterpieces of Jewish Meeting 8:00 p.m. Shabbat Evening Service 5:00 p.m. Dinner for Grief Support Literature with Rabbi 7:00 p.m. Mah Jongg Service — Special 6:00 p.m. KIFTY Dinner & Event Consecration Students Program: “Ripples Lance J. Sussman, Ph.D.: Sermon by Rabbi 6:00 p.m. KI Music Arts Dinner 5:30 p.m. Erev Simchat Torah of Loss” “The Spiritual World Lance J. Sussman, Ph.D.: of Rabbi Abraham “Teddy Roosevelt and 7:30 p.m. Music Arts Opening Service & Consecration 7:30 p.m. Adult Choir Rehearsal Concert of New Students Joshua Heschel” the Jews” 27 28 29 30 31 9:15 a.m. JQuest B’Yachad 10:30 a.m. Adult Ed. Program 4:30 p.m. JQuest B’Yachad 1:00 p.m. Israel Committee — 7:00 p.m. Mah Jongg 5:00 p.m. HaMotzi Dinner 6:15 p.m. Quest Noar Movie 7:30 p.m. Adult Choir Rehearsal November 2019 Calendar

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 Keneseth Israel Phone Directory 9:30 a.m. Preschool Tot Shabbat 9:00 a.m. Torah Study Administrative Office...... 215.885.8700 Preschool...... 215.885.2425 Service 10:30 a.m. Shabbat Morning Rabbinic Office...... 215.887.8702 Museum...... 215.887.2027 8:00 p.m. I.M. Wise Shabbat Service Evening Service JQuest B’Yachad...... 215.884.4364 Gift Shop...... 215.884.4364 Guest Speaker: Rabbi Fax...... 215.887.1070 Ken Kanter, “Roots of ” 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 9:15 a.m. JQuest B’Yachad 10:30 a.m. Adult Ed. Program Preschool Closed 7:30 p.m. Religious Practices 11:30 a.m. TJM Program 9:30 a.m. Preschool Tot Shabbat 9:00 a.m. Torah Study 4:30 p.m. JQuest B’Yachad Committee Meeting 7:00 p.m. Mah Jongg 6:00 p.m. Tot Shabbat Service 10:30 a.m. Shabbat Morning Service 6:15 p.m. Quest Noar 8:00 p.m. KDHS Shabbat 7:30 p.m. Adult Choir Rehearsal Evening Service with 7:45 p.m. KIFTY Meeting Keystone State Boychoir 10 11 Veterans Day 12 13 14 15 16 9:15 a.m. JQuest B’Yachad 1:00 p.m. Library Jewish Film 6:30 p.m. W of KI Paint Night 11:30 a.m. Adult Ed. Program 9:30 a.m. Preschool Tot Shabbat 9:00 a.m. Torah Study 10:30 a.m. Organ Donation Series 7:00 p.m. Board of Directors Service 10:30 a.m. Shabbat Morning Awareness Program 4:30 p.m. JQuest B’Yachad Meeting 6:30 p.m. Family Shabbat Service 6:15 p.m. Quest Noar 7:00 p.m. Mah Jongg Service 2:00 p.m. Rydal Park Shabbat 7:00 p.m. Library Jewish Film 7:30 p.m. Dinner & Program Series 7:30 p.m. Adult Choir Rehearsal 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 9:15 a.m. JQuest B’Yachad 10:30 a.m. Adult Ed. Program 12:30 p.m. Library Book 1:00 p.m. Israel Committee — 7:00 p.m. Mah Jongg 9:30 a.m. Preschool Tot Shabbat 9:00 a.m. Torah Study 9:30 a.m. Mah Jongg Discussion Movie Service 10:30 a.m. Shabbat Morning 10:00 a.m. Library Program with 4:30 p.m. JQuest B’Yachad 7:00 p.m. Inclusion Committee 8:00 p.m. Shabbat Evening Service Rabbi Maslin 6:15 p.m. Quest Noar Meeting Service — Rabbi 11:00 pam. W of KI Meeting 7:00 p.m. Social Justice Lance J. Sussman, Ph.D.: “Morocco Trip” 12:30 p.m. Music Program Lunch, Committee Meeting followed by 2:00 p.m. 7:30 p.m. Adult Choir Rehearsal Music Program — Dali Quartet by RSVP ONLY 24 25 26 27 28 Thanksgiving 29 30 9:15 a.m. NO JQuest B’Yachad 10:30 a.m. Adult Ed. Program NO JQuest B’Yachad Preschool and Offices Closed Preschool and Offices Closed 9:00 a.m. Torah Study 11:00 a.m. Brotherhood NO Quest Noar 6:30 p.m. Shabbat Evening 10:30 a.m. Shabbat Morning Fall Brunch 7:30 p.m. Adult Choir Rehearsal Service Service 5:00 p.m. HaMotzi Dinner Contributions All listings indicate donor first, followed by the honor or memorial.

YAHRZEIT Carol Halpern...... Leonard A. Halpern DONOR IN MEMORY OF Babe Hernes...... Seymour Hernes Lewis & Elaine Abel...... Dorothy I. Risen Rhoda Hershman...... Edith Blumenthal Marc & Marlene Adler...... Jack Hornstein Lois N. Hitchman...... Anne Hitchman; Wilbur Hitchman Robert Altman...... Judi Altman Morton & Marcia Hoffman...... Charles Epstein Craig & Robin Anforth...... Baruch Gold; Florence Klass Elysa Horwitz...... Milton Horwitz Sylvia Angert...... Jacob Kramer; Edith Miller Frances Israel...... Sophie R. Sussman; Walter Sussman Lynn R. Axelroth...... Florence Axelroth; Joseph Axelroth Edward E. Itzenson...... Albert Fairman; Joseph Shechtman The Barber Family...... Robert “Bob” Hunn Charles Kahn, Jr...... Ruth G. Kahn Brenda Baumholtz...... Martin Baumholtz; Richard Lomberg David Kaplan...... Jerry Freimark Marty Beilin...... Rosa Beilin Sonnie Katz...... Hilda Katz Ruth Bender...... Florence Blumenfeld Gerald King...... Morris Bernhard; Rose F. King The Blask Family...... Harry Blask Bertram Korn, Jr...... Joseph Bergman; Agnes Dienes; Manuel Korn Gwen Blum...... Victoria Schmuckler Marsha Krouk...... Alan Stevens Marlene Bookbinder...... Murray Bookbinder; Robert Hirsh Kleinbart; Suzanne A. Rice David & Ginger Lane...... Arthur Abrams Joan Brantz...... Mildred N. Lehman Elaine Leibowitz...... Harry Leibowitz; Jean Leibowitz David & Helen Braverman...... Krisha Mandel David, Larry & Shelby Leon...... Sarah Leon Arnold & Jeanne Brenman...... Max Brenman Rochelle Levy...... Eva Feldman; Leon Levy Elaine Breslow...... Theodore Gutman Miriam Licence...... Irvin Singer The Breslow Family...... Harry Lande Barbara Gordon Licht...... Samuel Kelman Anne Brown...... Eva Kleinfield; Louis Kleinfield A.J. Lichtenstein...... Luella Kaufmann Jeff & Liz Brown...... Ena Brown James & Miriam Logan...... Victor Schwartz Laurie P. Capin...... Rose Pincus Bonnie Malone...... Ruth Cohen William & Tamara Carlitz...... Betty Carson; Leon Netzman Jacob H. Mandel...... Jerome Mandel Judith Charny...... Janet Hanan; Mae Schreiber David & Sandra Marshall...... Doris N. Goldberg Joel Cherry...... Adriane Cherry Jack & Sheila Marshall...... Evelyn Marshall; Harry Marshall Charles & Deena Cohen...... Bernard E. Cohen Irwin Matusow...... H. Joseph Matusow; Marc Cohen...... Jack Cohen Nathan Silberstein; Harry Silverstein, Martin & Phyllis Cohen...... Rose Gelbstein Cohen Charlene Mayer...... Charles Krkoska Geraldine Cramer & Patricia G. Cramer...... Harold Cramer Carol Stern McMichael...... Horace A. Stern Julia Davis...... Rae S. Kraft Eve Mennies...... Evelyn M. Banks The Endy Family...... Harry Blask Richard & Helen Meyer...... Norma S. Meyer Paula Etkin...... Ethel Urofsky Frances Miglio...... Etta Blask Ellen B. Feldman...... Morris Feldman Bruce & Sandra Muchnick...... Max Rosenberg Stephen & Eileen Feldman...... Leonard Feldman Linda Nesvisky...... Matthew Nesvisky Martin Feldsher...... Harry Feldsher; Al Rodin Wendy Neuhs...... Harry Blask Morris & Donna Fine...... Klaus Berju Charlette & Jerry New...... Elizabeth Grode; Mabel New Dori Fisher...... Elliot Fisher Arlene S.Newman...... Reba A. Solomon Rita Flame...... Kitty Flame Charlotte Noskow...... Bella Schuster Jeffrey & Caren Fogel...... Anna Elizabeth Fogel Donna Ostroff & Carl Capista...... Mitchell J. Ostroff Morton Freedman...... Elsie Heidelberger Renee Parris...... Herman Parris; Silva Parris Allan Furman...... Marilyn Furman Rita Poley...... Herbert Altman; Bernice Horn Richard Gash...... William Gash Steffi Polin...... Bernice Z. Kagel Marlene Glass...... Shirley Kern Shanlee Pollack...... Esther Pollack; Howard Pollack Barry Glickstein...... Marilyn Glickstein Dick & Jill Pomerantz...... Adele Bobrow Pomerantz; Richard David Pomerantz, III Barry & Phyllis Goldberg...... Isadore Newman William & Bernice Printz...... Eleanor M. Printz; Rosa Printz Michael & Jamie Goodman...... Harold A. Goodman; Michael Jaslow Richard Rake...... Nina Rake Ricki Gordon...... Lillian Perlin Paul & Ann Rappoport...... Muriel Littmann Phyllis Greenberg...... Samuel Greenberg; Anna Goldberg Ichelson Chuck & Alice Richman...... Israel Richman Gail Greenspon & Ross Attix...... Samuel Greenspon Isabelle Ripkin...... Martin Jaslow Joan Gross...... Maurice G. Silverman Adele Roda...... Nancy Stein Marcia Gross...... Selma Speizman Linda Rosen...... Naomi Krauss

16 OCTOBER 2019 Contributions All listings indicate donor first, followed by the honor or memorial.

Nan Isen Rosner...... Theodore Isen ADULT EDUCATION FUND Janet Rowland...... Nat Levy DONOR IN MEMORY OF Michael Rozansky & Iris Raylesberg...... David Retik Mike & Caryl Levin...... Joan Sadoff; Terry Zankman Taffy Rubin...... Anna Feldscher DONOR IN HONOR OF Bill & Deborah Rubinsohn...... Golda Roginsky Neysa Adams...... Adult Education at KI Greta Rubinstein & Family...... Loreli Dolgoff Sonnie Katz...... Caryl Levin Barbara Rudnick...... Herbert Altman Mike & Caryl Levin...... Marc Levin Lois K. Rudnick...... Herman Rudnick Anita Madnick...... Caryl Levin Michael Rudnick...... Herman Rudnick Doris & Paul Schor...... 55th Wedding Anniversary of Barbara & Kenneth Forman Ruth Schoenberg...... Leonard Schoenberg Helene Wagman...... Caryl Levin Paul & Doris Schor...... Bella Schuster CANTOR’S PHILANTHROPIC FUND Ross Schriftman...... Bettie Eisner; Harry Eisner; Francis Goldman DONOR IN MEMORY OF William Schur...... Judith Schur Bonnie Klein...... Abraham Klein; Mildred Klein Sam Schutzbank...... Freda Schutzbank DONOR IN HONOR OF Alan & Carol Schwartz...... Lillian T. Monheit Flossy & Bill Clyman...... 50th Wedding Anniversary of Harry & Ruth Boonin Ed & Claire Schweriner...... Edwin Schweriner; Yvette Schweriner Nathaniel & Charlene Mayer...... Hazzan David Tilman Fredda Segal...... Irene S. Levin EDUCATORS PHILANTHROPIC FUND Marlene Sellers...... Abram Sellers DONOR IN HONOR OF Steven Serling...... Joseph Serling Sidney & Frances Schwartz...... Stacy & Peter Rigler Natalie Shamberg...... Claire Shamberg; Manuel Shamberg; Solomon Shamberg Selma Shapiro...... Betty Goldberg; Charles Goldberg GENERAL FUND Marian Sherman...... Sydney Grabell DONOR IN MEMORY OF Charlotte Sichel...... Ben Epstein Philip & Marilyn Blackman...... Paul Naftulin Phyllis Silver...... Bernard Silver Fred Lehman...... James P. Lehmann Carol Helfond Silverman...... Donald D. Helfond Mike & Sylvia Silverman...... Thelma Bayuk Neil & Ellen Sklaroff...... Myra Green; William Green, DONOR IN HONOR OF John & Anne Solis-Cohen...... Beverly Freilick Renate Elgart...... Marlene Glass; Rabbi Sussman Sheldon & Shirley Somerman...... Daniel Messinger; Rose Messinger; Marcia Segal Eve Mennies...... Marlene Glass Marc J. Sonnenfeld...... Rochelle Sonnenfeld David Solis & Reeta Goodman...... 90th Birthday of Adele Roda Skits & Paulette Sterman Soroko...... Manuel Korn; Jeanette Sterman GENERAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND Philip Spergel...... William Spergel DONOR IN MEMORY OF Dean Spiegel...... Mary Ann Lam; Mary Jane Silverman William Schur...... Morton Langsfeld, III Philip & Linda Stein...... Geraldine Levy Stein HAMOTZI FUND Janice Steinberg...... Joseph Steinberg DONOR IN MEMORY OF Debbie Stevens...... Morton Weiss Drew & Jody Brookman...... Alan J. Pogarsky Steven Strauss...... Jean Strauss Janice Carr...... Anna Roth Brenda Teich...... James Barmish Nathaniel & Charlene Mayer...... Charles Krkoska Deborah Thomas...... Marion Thomas Skits & Paulette Sterman Soroko...... Anna Roth Michael & Colette Tomeo...... Judith Tartack DONOR IN HONOR OF Ron & Sue Trichon...... Dorothy Trichon; Alvin Wolf Robert Gelsher...... The Hamotzi Dinners S. Robert & Helene L. Wagman...... Sherri Wagman Philipson JQuest Tzedakah...... The HaMotzi Dinners Linda Waxman...... Lena Korsun Jack & Laurie Myers...... Birth of Irving Ansel Zinner Eisman Dick & Bobbi Weiss...... Samuel J. Richman Ruth Schoenberg...... The HaMotzi Dinners Phyllis Williams...... Irvin Singer Skits & Paulette Sterman Soroko...... Birth of Irving Ansel Zinner Eisman Michael Winheld...... Armand L. Winheld Jerry Zaslow...... Irving Zaslow HIGH HOLY DAY MUSIC FUND Randall Zevin...... George Zevin DONOR IN MEMORY OF Sondra Polish Zukerman...... Hope Demchick Susan Hamberg...... Goldie Block INCLUSION COMMITTEE FUND DONOR IN HONOR OF Women of KI...... Arabella & Anthony Senn

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KAHN MUSIC FUND FAY & LEO ROSENAU FUND DONOR IN HONOR OF DONOR IN MEMORY OF Eleanor Sapers,...... 50th Wedding Anniversary of Ruth & Harry Boonin Jerry & Lois Rosenau...... Fay Rosenau KING DAVID HARP SOCIETY SHARING IS CARING FUND DONOR IN HONOR OF DONOR IN MEMORY OF Sallie Olson...... Special Birthdays of Sally & Bill Siegel Jules & Chantal Feinberg...... Jerry Freimark Women of KI...... Arabella & Anthony Senn Joel & Toby Grubman...... Mickey Langsfeld ONEG SHABBAT FUND Sallie Olson...... Jerry Shore; Peter Lewis Tashman DONOR IN HONOR OF DONOR IN HONOR OF Elliot & Lynore Eisman...... Marlene Glass and Shabbat gathering Phil & Ellen Steinberg...... Special Anniversary of Edie & Carl Hanzelik Kenneth & Barbara Forman...... Our 55th Wedding Anniversary 21ST CENTURY FUND Hildegarde Goodstein...... My 80th Anniversary of Arrival to the US DONOR IN MEMORY OF RABBI’S PHILANTHROPIC FUND Marc & Andy Brookman...... Mickey Langsfeld DONOR IN MEMORY OF Eve Mennies...... Mickey Langsfeld Howard & Myrna Asher...... Mickey Langsfeld TYSON BROADCAST FUND DONOR IN HONOR OF DONOR IN MEMORY OF Bill & Flossy Clyman...... Harry & Ruth Boonin’s 50th Anniversary Anita & Murray Madnick...... Marcie Gollis Barbara Cohen...... Rabbi Sussman Vicki & Wayne Rubenstein...... Marcie Gollis Kenneth & Barbara Forman...... Rabbi Sussman Joseph & Beverly Scarpignato & Family...... Marcie Gollis Allan Furman...... Rabbi Sussman Jen & John, Alana & Hamid & Ricci Scarpignato...... Marcie Gollis Brian & Jacqueline Kovach...... 55th Anniversary of Bobbie & Ken Forman DONOR IN HONOR OF Ruth Schoenberg...... Rabbi Sussman Richard Peel...... Streaming Services Jane Zeller, Alice Jacoby & Rita Lally...... Rabbi Lance Sussman Steven & Carol Weller...... Streaming Services BEN & RENEE RICHMAN FUND FOR ELDER CARE WOMEN OF KI FUND DONOR IN HONOR OF DONOR IN HONOR OF Terry & Marjorie Caddy...... Rita Lifson’s Grandson’s Marriage; Morris & Donna Fine...... Birth of Irving Ansel Zinner Eisman 2nd Birthday of Mila Palermo Eve Mennies...... Birth of Irving Ansel Zinner Eisman Chuck & Alice Richman...... 80th birthday of Howard Abroms Lynn Neigut...... Birth of Irving Ansel Zinner Eisman Sondra & Michael Zukerman...... Birth of Irving Ansel Zinner Eisman

Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel 8339 Old York Road, Elkins Park, PA 19027 date: The enclosed contribution is to the ______Fund In Memory of:______In Honor of: ______Please acknowledge to: Name______Address______City ______State______Zip ______Donor’s Name: ______Address ______City ______State______Zip______Please make checks payable to Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel.

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Rabbi Joseph Krauskopf, and the Presorted American Jewish Community” 1st Class US Postage Friday, November 1, 8:00 p.m. 8339 Old York Road Paid Shabbat Service, guest speaker, Elkins Park, PA 19027-1597 Permit #81 Rabbi Ken Kanter, sermon: Address Service Requested: Langhorne, PA “A Century Ahead of His Time? The Radical Isaac Mayer Wise” Sunday, November 17, 10:00 a.m. Meyers Library Author Event — Rabbi Simeon Maslin with his new book, God For Grown-Ups: A Jewish Perspective Sunday, November 17, 12:30 p.m. Music Arts Lunch (by RSVP only) followed by 2:00 p.m. program, “Dali Quartet” please recycle

Summer Visitors from Europe Following the Steps of Rabbi Krauskopf by Jack A. Myers, KI Archivist (email: [email protected]) In late July, I was asked to serve as host for two visitors Prior to their arrival, they indicated their interest in who were coming from Europe to the US to learn more about knowing what Krauskopf may have written about his childhood Rabbi Joseph Krauskopf. Bettina Lande-Tergeist was born in in Ostrow. Though I looked over the hundreds of printed sermons Cleveland, OH, but has lived in Europe for the past 40 years. and lectures in our Archives collection, I could find very little. She traces her family back to the Polish town of Ostrow, where In fact, the rabbi never seemed to refer directly to his past, but her ancestors included the town’s first rabbi as well as the rather he referenced it in broader terms. A biography written builder of the synagogue, which the government restored in fifty years after his death had but three pages on his early life 2011. Her traveling companion, Jaroslaw Biernaczyk, lives in in Europe and America. (Beside copies of the book, we have Ostrow. He has written about its Jewish community and its correspondence with the author who sought similar information.) history. This is the town (previously Prussian Province) from Our guest also wondered if Krauskopf ever returned to Ostrow which Krauskopf, at age fourteen in 1872 left to join his older as a segment of one of his trips to Europe. The diary of the trip brother in America. to St. Petersburg, , makes clear that it was not the case. When the future rabbi arrived in America, he learned His other trips are less documented. that tragically his brother had been murdered a few days earlier. Jaroslaw left for us a copy of his book on theJews of Ostrow, As a fallback, he went to live with a cousin in . in Polish, German, and English, which includes reference to He went on to become a member of Isaac Mayer Wise’s first Joseph Krauskopf. He also gave us his book about the Ostrow class of American Reform . Prior to visiting KI, our synagogue and pictures of it. In a twist of “Jewish Geography,” guests had been in New York and Fall River, MA. The next he was amazed to learn that Tyson Herberger, until recently the day they were to stop at Delaware Valley University in rabbi of that region, had officiated at my son Seth’s wedding in Doylestown, founded by Krauskopf as the National Farm Detroit in 2015. (Tyson, a Michigan native, was a friend of School, before heading to Cleveland. Seth’s at the University of Michigan and coordinated a trip home to coincide with the wedding.)