May/June/July The Beth Centerite 2018

Upcoming Programs & Events

In this Issue... 10th Annual Lag B’Omer BBQ 5:45pm Thursday, May 3 Pg. 2 ~ Rabbi’s Column Come enjoy freshly grilled hot dogs and hamburgers, plus live music by Mideast Salsa.

Pg. 3 ~ President’s Column FREE!!! No reservations necessary. Thanks to the BIC Board of Directors for sponsoring this annual party. Pg. 4 ~ Executive Director’s Column Kibud Limudim ~ Saturday morning, May 12 Pg. 5 ~ Education Director’s Celebrate our community of learners during Shabbat morning services and with a Column special afterwards. Pg. 6 ~ Meet Your We will congratulate our students reaching milestones in their Leadership Jewish education -- those completing 2nd, 5th and 7th grades -- as well as participants in our adult education programs. Pg. 8 ~ Youth Program We will also honor our madrichim (Shabbat morning assistants). Update Come pay tribute to the teachers and students in all of these programs.

Pg. 10 ~ Social Action News ****************************************************** Tikkun Leil ~ Saturday night, May 19 Pg. 12 ~ Volunteer Recognition Join area rabbis and other teachers from across Madison's Jewish community for a traditional Tikkun Leil Shavuot - an evening of Pg. 13 ~ Simchas & Announcements learning, beginning at 7:00pm and continuing well past midnight. This year's theme is Revelation. Pg. 13 ~ Condolences ****************************************************** Pg. 14-18 ~ Memorial & Summer Shabbat Potlucks in Hoyt Park Tribute Gifts Mark your calendars and welcome Shabbat with your Beth Israel Center friends in the Pg. 18 ~ Calendars great outdoors on these Fridays this summer: June 15, July 20, August 10 Would you like to be on our email list and receive the Rabbi Betsy Forester will be in town for all three summer potlucks. Help welcome her weekly announcements? to our community. Email Cheri at [email protected]. Services begin at 5:45pm and all are welcome to stay for dinner. Bring friends and kosher-dairy food or drink to share. Paper plates and plastic cutlery provided. Hoyt ~~~ Park is on Regent Street, about 1 mile west of West High School.

1406 Mound Street Madison, WI 53711 Farewell Kiddush for Reb Sami

(608) 256-7763 Rabbi Sami Barth’s last Shabbat at Beth Israel Center in his role as interim rabbi will be Saturday, June 23. In honor of all we have celebrated and learned together this year, www.bethisraelcenter.org please join us in shul and stay for a special Kiddush. Services begin at 9:30am. Anyone able and inclined to do so is welcome to make financial contributions toward this Kiddush, which will be sponsored by the community in R’ Sami’s honor. Simply contact the office and let us know what you’d like to do.

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Thoughts from the Rabbi… Celebrate Torah and Shavuot Beth Israel Center In the kiddush, and in all the traditional formula used for calling the Hatan/Kallat services of Shavuot, we speak of “chag Torah for the special aliyah that Samuel Barth haShavuot hazeh, z’man mattan concludes the reading of the Torah on Interim Rabbi (through June 30) Torateinu” (This Festival of Shavuot, . This curious musical [email protected] season of the giving of our Torah). There midrash connecting Shavuot and Simhat Betsy Forester Rabbi (beginning July 1) is a subtle yet Torah invites us to celebrate Torah in [email protected] subversive Revelation and recitation. As we chant in Elissa Pollack element to this Akdamut, “even if the sky were Executive Director description of parchment and the oceans filled with [email protected] the day: the ink ... the story of God’s glory would not Beth Copelovitch Education Director parallels for be complete ... and yet we rejoice that [email protected] Pesah and God blessed us and Revealed to us the

Deborah Hoffman Sukkot speak of Torah.” Program & Youth Director the “season of A famous Midrash teaches that the [email protected] our liberation” entire community of Israel overslept on Cheri Keen and the “season the morning of the Revelation at Sinai - Administrative Assistant [email protected] of our rejoicing,” and so the custom arose of staying awake

each of which can reasonably be derived ALL NIGHT, so as not to miss the ...... from biblical sources; however, there is following morning, and was greatly 2017-2018 no biblical source that associates Shavuot developed in medieval Kabbalistic Officers and Committee Chairs with the giving of the Torah at Sinai. In circles as the Tikkun Leil Shavuot. Let Matthew Banks the Torah, Shavuot is called chag us welcome together with the wider President haKatsir in association with the harvest. Madison Jewish community the [email protected] There are substantial midrashic efforts anniversary of Revelation, with an Jordan Loeb to fix the date of the Revelation at Sinai at evening (and maybe, just maybe an Immediate Past President precisely 49 days after the Exodus—that is, entire night) of study, reflection, poetry, Rick Ezell on Shavuot. music, song, and meditation on the President-Elect Following the destruction of the theme of Revelation, starting Saturday, Jennie Edes-Pierotti Temple, Shavuot presented the greatest May 19 at 7:00. Vice President-Education challenge of the Three Pilgrimage I look forward to sharing the Don Miner Vice President-Finance Festivals (regalim). Pesah would retain a experience with our friends from sister universal significance, with the seder Madison congregations, from Hillel and Steve Goldstein Vice President-House growing to become one of the most Federation. What better occasion to beloved and universally observed of gather the communities together than the Emily Desai Vice President-Membership Jewish rituals. The sukkah similarly can anniversary of Sinai, when the entire be built anywhere in the world, but the Jewish people gathered, with hopes and Mark Copelovitch Vice President-Ritual harvest offerings associated with dreams, at the foot of the mountain and Shavuot could not be perpetuated heard the ineffable and eternal voice of Nadav Shelef Secretary without the Temple. So the the Divine …. “reconstruction” or reinvention of Sylvia Grunes ****** Shavuot as a celebration of Revelation Women’s League Rep A natural part of the interim role is to must be seen as an act of inspired genius Sally Jones, Judy Pierotti transfer rabbinic leadership to the newly by our Rabbis many centuries ago. Our Social Action Cte. Co-Chairs appointed rabbi of the shul. I greatly look tradition has guided the focus of the day Jeff Mandell forward to hearing of the growth and away from the harvest, and over a period Personnel Committee Chair success of this community with Rabbi of centuries, has built Shavuot into a Ziva Wear Betsy Forester. celebration of Torah. Youth Committee Chair ...... The musical leitmotif for Shavuot is

Next Centerite Deadline: the melody used for chanting a complex July 9, 2018 Aramaic poem, Akdamut. Interestingly, Rabbi Sami Barth this same melody is used for the special [email protected]

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President’s Column

Traditions Old and New

Beth Israel Center has long balanced touch another kahal with his warmth and Weekday Minyan tradition with innovation. We are wisdom. We have been truly blessed to To assure a weekday egalitarian, and read the entire parshah have Reb Sami as our teacher, mentor, minyan, contact the each week. Participation in our services pastor and friend this year. We will miss office, (608) 256-7763 and rituals are open to all regardless of him, and wish him gender identity or sexual orientation, and all and only good we have (an absolutely beautiful) mikveh. things in his new 1406 Mound St.

And so it is with our more recently position next year. Sunday mornings established traditions as well. We celebrate As we prepare to 8:15am what we’ve done in the past, while finding bid a heartfelt ways to innovate and keep our observances farewell to Reb Monday & Thursday and practices fresh and exciting. Sami, we look The ancient holiday of Lag B’Omer, forward to mornings marking the day slightly more than continuing some of 7:00am halfway between Pesach and Shavuot, has the myriad deep roots in Jewish mysticism, and is traditions that he Sunday thru Thursday traditionally celebrated outdoors as a has helped establish evenings community, where we enjoy each other’s in our community over the past year. 5:30pm company around a fire and find joy in the Though we will be sad when Reb Sami miracles of the natural world. This will be departs, we are thrilled to welcome Rabbi our tenth year marking the occasion as a Betsy Forester to our community to help us ______congregation with our Lag B’Omer picnic continue our old traditions and establish on Thursday 3 May, grilling burgers and new ones as well. Rabbi Forester is moving hot dogs at the shul in spirited and to Madison in June, and will officially start Office Hours Monday - Thursday spiritual revelry. Rabbi Joshua Ben- on 1 July, but she has already been working 9am to 5pm Gideon established this particular BIC with elected leadership and staff to ensure a tradition, so come join us in carrying on smooth transition this summer so that our Friday his legacy in new and exciting ways. community continues to thrive, nurturing 9am to Noon

A little more than two weeks later, on our deep roots and new growth for the Saturday 19 May, we’ll honor another future. (608) 256-7763 tradition with roots in Jewish mysticism Part of our approach to laying a strong [email protected] when we gather for our Tikkun Leil foundation for our future with Rabbi Shavuot. This year will mark nine years Forester is a plan to invite each member of ______since Rabbi Rebecca Ben-Gideon the congregation to spend time with her FINDING YOUR WAY AT expanded our tradition of studying late over a meal, bike ride, study session, ice BETH ISRAEL CENTER: into the night on Erev Shavuot to include cream outing, or other small-group scholars from around the community. gathering. Please watch for your invitation On Shabbat mornings and This year, Reb Sami will take us well in the coming year. If you would like to host for other programs in the beyond midnight as we seek a deeper a meal or organize an outing, please contact main sanctuary or social understanding of Revelation. We are Elissa Pollack via email (elissa@bethisrael- hall, enter from either excited this year to partner with center.org) or phone (608-256-7763), as she Mound Street or the parking lot. Congregation Shaarei Shamayim, Temple will be working with a small committee to Beth El, Jewish Federation of Madison arrange and schedule these gatherings and to Sunday through Friday—for and UW Hillel; the evening will be ensure that each member receives an Talmud Torah, weekday anchored by a joint teaching and invitation. As we get to know each other, we minyan, committee presentation from Reb Sami, Rabbi Laurie look forward to building traditions together meetings, visits to the Zimmerman and Rabbi Jonathan Biatch. as a community. office, etc.—please enter from the parking lot. It seems like only yesterday that we were welcoming Reb Sami to Madison and the BIC community, yet nearly a year has Matt Banks passed and soon he will be moving on to [email protected]

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From the Executive Director’s Desk My First Trip to Israel

As many of you know, I traveled to Israel Taking that pause, saying that blessing -- A LITTLE WISH LIST for the first time in February. I went with those acts may have enhanced what made NAASE, the North American the moment feel special. But there was If you ever find yourself Association of something else there, and I can’t tell you wondering if there’s a Synagogue what it was. little something you can Executives. Our What I can describe is my new do for Beth Israel Center association name in appreciation for the influence of North while you’re out running Hebrew means “we American Jews on Israel. errands, feel free to pick will do,” as in Our opening speaker, Yizar Hess, the up any quantity of the na’aseh v’nishma, director of the Masorti Movement, cited following: we will do and we statistics about the growth of liberal  boxes of facial tissue will understand. Judaism in Israel. He described the  pods for our Keurig As a group, we’re frustrations of Masorti and Reform Jews coffee/tea machine doers. We organize things, we make sure who want to marry or have their  1-oz plastic shot cups they happen. On time, on budget. Many conversions recognized or their wine of us don’t generally take a lot of time to granted a hecksher. He said a lot of Then bring your donation reflect. Or just let things be special interesting things, but what really struck me to Beth Israel Center because they’re special. was his comparison of his own bar mitzvah whenever the office is Leading up to the trip, people who (a boring, rote affair) to what he saw and open. had been to Israel before and learned I felt on his first Shabbat in America, as a was going for the first time were really young shaliach. He went to a Conservative excited for me. Their excitement seemed shul in Phoenix, where there was a bat We are also in need of unique to a first trip to Israel. My sendoff mitzvah, and he saw and felt a joy, a family some larger items: mishaberach, with R’ Sami’s signature connection, a truly spiritual moment that flourish, enhanced my sense that I would was completely foreign to him.  Water dispensers experience something new and special. Later in the week, we heard from  Coffee makers Our conference began in . Devora Greenberg, who also works for  Glass platters Upon arrival, I appreciated the view of the Masorti Movement and also  Outdoor furniture the Mediterranean from my hotel room. I discovered a kind of Judaism she didn’t If you would like to put on sandals and walked to Old Jaffa. I know existed when she came to America purchase one or more of noticed the sound of the waves mingled after her army service and spent time at these items for Beth Israel with traffic in this modern, coastal city. It Camp Ramah. Center, please contact was interesting, but not surprising. Our wrap-up speaker, Rabba Chaya Elissa Pollack via email We visited the Agam Museum in Rowan Baker, an Israeli born rabbi, told (elissa@bethisraelcenter. Rishon LeTsiyon, the indoor playground stories of the Masorti shul she’s been org) or phone (608-256- 7763) for details. in , designed so that children can leading for 10 years. It was founded 40 be in a bomb shelter within 15 seconds; years ago by Americans who made Every contribution helps and the home of Tsameret Zamir, a aliyah and wanted to create in Israel what our synagogue! ceramic artist in Netiv HaAsara they left in America. (near Gaza). We participated in her All three found something in North ongoing peace-themed art project on the America that they are now working hard, border wall. These tour stops were and against some fundamental, even meaningful and interesting. Perhaps even fundamentalist obstacles, to cultivate in a little surprising. Israel. That’s something I can understand On day three, we drove to Jerusalem. better having been there. Even in the dark, arriving in Jerusalem Thank you for making my first trip to had a gravitas to it that I did not expect to Israel possible. feel. Our bus stopped at an overlook, and we piled out. We could see the Dome of the Rock and other landmarks. We had a Elissa Pollack group lechayim and said Shehechyanu. [email protected]

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From the Education Director’s Desk Israel From Another Angle

In mid-February you gave me the we visited the development town of opportunity to recharge my batteries at Yerucham and were hosted in the home th Gifts for First-Time the 66 annual Jewish Educators of one of the residents. The women of Assembly conference in Israel. Israel Yerucham have Overnight Campers presented a unique tableau from which to turned their cooking gain a better understanding of what skills into a unique If you are sending a child Israelis face in their everyday lives, the catering business, to Jewish overnight camp for the first time this remarkable accomplishments and hosting visitors in summer, let us know! We technological achievements of the their homes, sharing have a small gift for them modern state and a look back at history – their culture and to take to camp. all presented through the lens of how we telling their personal can take the experience home with us and stories.  present an honest picture of the modern Friday we state while imbuing a love of Israel. headed to Jerusalem for Shabbat. First Yom Rishon We spent our first four days in Be’er we stopped at Israel’s 9/11 memorial in Sheva, the capital of the . the forest just outside of Jerusalem. Israel Calling all families with Highlights for me were a scene-setting is the only country in the world that has a preschoolers! Come to lecture by author Professor Gil Troy, a lot memorial listing all of the names of those Yom Rishon and enjoy of rain (in the desert!), and a visit to who perished. We shared stories of interactive family “Abraham’s Well”. Our 3rd day was people we knew and then recited kaddish learning on a different hosted by the Jewish National Fund and for all. Jewish theme each time. Meet other families we visited some of the incredible projects There is nothing like Shabbat in with preschool-age that JNF has undertaken in the south. First Jerusalem. I went with one of our groups children. was the Indoor Children’s Playground in to Kabbalat Shabbat at Shira Hadasha, Sderot. This remarkable play space allows then to our hotel for dinner, where we Yom Rishon is a theme- children to be children with easy and hosted David Breakstone, the Deputy based program, direct access to safe bomb shelters within Director of the Jewish Agency for Israel. including art, the building. The afternoon took us to David spoke after dinner about the movement, music, stories, and projects as Aleh Negev, a remarkable rehabilitation challenges of religious pluralism in well as further learning village that draws visitors from around Israel, particularly as it relates to the non- on the subject for the world to learn from their model. Next Orthodox branches. On Shabbat morning parents and other adults stop was Wadi Atir in the Bedouin I walked to the Kotel, visiting the who accompany the Village of Hura in which we saw a egalitarian Robinson’s Arch area for the children. It is family sustainable farm that is based on ecology, first time, which moved me greatly. education at its finest. technology and sustainable energy. Final After lunch, I enjoyed a walking tour of Our last Yom Rishon stop was the Be’er Sheva River Park, our neighborhood, learning the gathering of 5778 is currently under construction. Here we fascinating stories of some the historical May 6, 10:00-11:15am. honored our colleague who died just homes and their residents. before our trip with an emotional tree Our annual conference provides an Bring friends! planting ceremony. Day four began with opportunity for professional growth, Rosh Chodesh services at the Masorti exploration of new trends and ideas and synagogue in Be’er Sheva. From there we acquisition of concrete programs and Members may attend continued to the Ramon Crater for a materials to bring home. Our travels in Yom Rishon for free. breathtaking view. After lunch we toured Israel, in particular, re-invigorated us and Others pay $5/child, or the Ramon Visitor’s Center, which has sent us home with renewed passion and $10/family been dedicated to and tells the story of enthusiasm to share experiences with our Ilan Ramon, the Israeli astronaut who communities. died on the space shuttle Columbia. This experience was quite different from 27 years ago, and was a terrific addition to Beth Cohn Copelovitch the natural beauty of the area. For dinner [email protected]

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Meet Your Leadership

CHEVER LE CHEVER Beth Israel Center’s Board of Directors sets policies consistent with our Mission and Members of the BIC Vision and assures that our committees and professional staff work in concert with Chever le Chever (friend those policies. The Board is also responsible for our budget and fiscal well-being. You to friend) group visit should know whose hands your synagogue is in, so we are introducing a few Board individuals who find it members in this and future issues of the Centerite. difficult or impossible to attend services or other synagogue programs. Josh Minkoff, Member-At-Large Visits by members of the When did you join the congregation and why? My wife, Kaylee, Chever le Chever group and I officially joined in June 2016, after a period of learning and are intended to be social studying together in preparation for Kaylee’s Beit Din. However, I in nature, to extend the am a fourth generation Madison Minkoff; and my family has been warmth of our community members of Beth Israel since its inception. Beth Israel feels like beyond the walls of Beth Israel Center. home, and Baruch HaShem it will be for many years!

If you or someone you Tell us a little bit about yourself…your family, work, and connections know would like a friendly to Beth Israel Center. Kaylee and I currently live on Monona Bay and visit from a member of we recently bought a house in the Hill Farms neighborhood. We will be moving as soon as the Chever le Chever we complete our remodeling! As we are each the youngest of four siblings from Madison group, please contact West High families, we are constantly surrounded by our ever-expanding family. We Rabbi Sami Barth at (608) 256-7763 or via email, especially enjoy spending time with our niece and five nephews, and we are spoiled as rabbi@ starting this summer all but one sibling will live in Madison. I enjoy playing team sports, bethisraelcenter.org. particularly basketball, softball, and football. I’ve been expanding my interests to include volleyball, golf and tennis. Fortunately, Kaylee shares my enthusiasm for team sports and we play on several co-ed teams together, including the Matzoh Balls, organized by Jewish KINDNESS GROUP Federation of Madison. After earning my undergrad and master’s degrees in accounting and finance from In times of simcha and in the University of Minnesota in the Twin Cities, I came back home to Madison in 2014 times of sorrow, a meal to complete my Certified Public Accountant license before jumping into our family from a friend can be a business, General Beverage. As a staff accountant for GB, I have been learning, great help. The loving kindness group of Beth working, calculating, and eating lunch with my dad for about two and half years. I am Israel Center is made up surrounded by family at work — my father, three brothers, (Ben, Michael and Ari) and of people who volunteer two cousins (Sasha and Dan). Growing up in Madison at Beth Israel Center, I’ve to make meals for experienced synagogue life from a variety of perspectives. I attended Talmud Torah, congregants in times of became a Bar Mitzvah with Deb Hoffman as my expert tutor, and attended Midrasha need. Hebrew High School. Almost every High Holiday and regular Shabbat service I’ve ever attended has been at Beth Israel Center. I also studied at the Hebrew University in Email kindness@bethisrael center.org to be put on Jerusalem for a semester in college, and I travel to Israel annually. I spent summers at the list of volunteers or Camp Shalom and at Habonim Camp Tavor in Three Rivers, Michigan. I feel deeply contact the office to find connected to Jewish community at home and across the world. out more about the More recently, I was honored to serve on the Rabbi Search Committee. I met group. impressive congregants, learned how the synagogue functions, and listened as our members shared what is most important to them in selecting a Rabbi. This process If you or someone you clarified who we are as a synagogue community and what our congregational values know could benefit from some home-delivered are. It was a great learning experience for me, and I am happy that so many in our meals, please do not congregation were so involved with the process. hesitate to ask. Many people want to help, and When asked to join the Board of Directors… I was honored and a bit surprised. Surely needs are typically filled the Board would prefer someone with more life and professional experience to help with surprising speed. make decisions about our congregation’s direction. However, I realized maybe I could add value to our Board. As a younger, lifelong member who has spent most of my life in Madison, I bring valuable perspective to the table. I recognized that I don’t need to

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have all of the answers already in order to serve. I can be involved and engaged and do my best to help make Beth Israel a better place. If the Board was asking me to serve, I felt a responsibility to step up and accept the offer – Hineini! BOARD of DIRECTORS What do you hope to accomplish as a Board member? I look forward to meeting new people and developing meaningful relationships within our congregation. I expect to OFFICERS (2016-18) learn and grow spiritually as an adult and new family at Beth Israel. I want to be part of welcoming new young families and to represent a younger voice. Being on the Board is Matt Banks a great opportunity for me to learn more about how important decisions are made. I want President Beth Israel Center to continue being a warm and welcoming Jewish communal home in Jordan Loeb Madison. I hope my participation on the Board helps contribute to this ideal. Immediate Past President Rick Ezell Name one thing that may surprise people about you. I refused to eat eggs until the age of President-Elect Nadav Shelef 18. I am sensitive to certain smells, so when an egg was cracked in my house, I would leave. Secretary Mark Copelovitch Ziva Wear, Youth Committee Chair VP-Ritual When did you join the congregation and why? I was born into the Don Miner congregation. My grandfather, William Frank, was one of the VP-Finance founding members of Beth Israel and marched with the Torah scrolls Jennie Edes-Pierotti from Agudas Achim or Adas Jeshurun (my grandmother went to one VP-Education Emily Desai and my grandfather went to the other) to Beth Israel in 1949. VP-Membership Steve Goldstein Tell us a little bit about yourself…your family, work, and VP-House connections to Beth Israel Center. My husband, Jim, and I live on West Lawn Avenue, three houses from the one my father's sister and brother-in-law DIRECTORS (Francis and Frank Mann) lived in for 50 years. My parents, Lois and Al Frank, are also members of Beth Israel and live at Capital Lakes retirement community. We have two (2015-2018) Trudy Barash sons, Peter and Daniel, who attended Talmud Torah and Midrasha. Peter lives in San Michael Heifetz Diego with our new daughter-in-law, Nicole, and Daniel lives in Chicago. I am an Laurie Nagus engineering project manager at Orascoptic where we design medical grade loupes and Rich Wolman lights for dental professionals. I enjoy traveling, knitting, golfing and attending APT plays. At BIC, I enjoy both Friday night and Saturday morning Shabbat services (2016-2019) because I like the singing and community feeling. I also enjoy coordinating the Supper Marsha Cohen Joel Ehrlich Quiz, which is a wonderful community party and fundraiser that gets more popular Sylvia Grunes every year. Along with Jim Wear, David Baum and Ruth Litovsky, I have brought the Sally Jones Supper Quiz to Beth Israel seven times. Also, I was on the board as a member at large in Social Action Co-Chair 2005-06, and I was the chair of the personnel committee from 2006 to 2009. I also Juliet Page volunteer in the kitchen regularly. Judy Pierotti Social Action Co-Chair What exemplifies the ethos or values of Beth Israel Center for you? I think that the Marc Shovers Regina Vidaver kindness list and the warmth that pours from the congregation in difficult times really exemplifies our best selves. It is often nearly impossible to get on the schedule to provide (2017-2020) a meal for a congregant in need because people sign up to help so incredibly quickly. Livia Asher Investments Cte Chair When asked to join the Board of Directors, why did you say yes again? After taking a Jeff Mandell break from being a Board member, I felt ready to get off the sidelines to help make Personnel Cte Chair decisions and set policy again. Josh Minkoff Ziva Wear Youth Cte Chair What do you hope to accomplish as a Board member? I want to continue building a community where strangers feel welcomed when they walk into Beth Israel. I want the members of Beth Israel to feel the warmth and the best parts of our Jewish family.

Name one thing that may surprise people about you. I lived in France during my 20s and had my first son, Peter, in a Swiss hospital.

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By Word of Mouse

Deborah Hoffman, Program & Youth Director, [email protected]

Dedicated MOUSY volunteers served up a multiple course dinner at the Supper Quiz on Saturday night, January 13. Appreciation to mice extraordinaire: Ellie Becker, Maya Becker, Mia Kurzer, Debbie Rudin, Eliya Syvertsen, Miriam Syvertsen, and Moira Wilson. 

On Saturday night, February 17, MOUSY and Kadima got together for our High Schoolers! joint Movie Night—two youth groups, one movie, infinite fun! Sixteen teenagers got into the “Shavuah tov” groove with Havdalah, watched the most recent “Beauty and Observe Shabbat! the Beast” film, and enjoyed a late night of mixing, mingling, and hanging out while Take Standardized noshing on salty and sweet snacks. Tests on Sunday MOUSY hopes you enjoyed your copy of “Esther’s Story”, from the

MOUSY Purim Book Sale. We always appreciate your generous support! Study hard and feel great because, by taking the test on a MOUSY wishes to thank all of our Beth Israel Center members who Sunday, you increase contributed to our second annual Hametz Food Drive from Sunday, March 11 your Shabbat through Sunday, March 29. We delivered all of your leavened foods to the Goodman observance and help East Side Community Center. Kol HaKavod! to guarantee that this option is available for MOUSY gathered for a special Israeli Cooking with Israeli Shlichim, Jewish students in the Shlomit and Tal, on Saturday night March 10 at the home of Moira and Rhiannon future! Wilson. After Havdalah, eleven chefs made shakshuka and bread from scratch, played “Kahoot”, a digital Q&A game about Israeli foods using their phones, and Spring 2018 SAT Dates: ended the night eating their culinary creations. (Photo below.) Rav todot to the May 6 Nagus/Wilson family. June 3

SAT registration info: 866-756-7346.

Spring 2018 ACT Date: June 10

ACT Registration info: 319-337-1270.

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B’tayavon to Lily Matthews-Needelman, Jack Austin, Tal Sheffer, Moira Wilson, Rowan Cody, Rhiannon Wilson, Maya Becker, Ellie Becker, Shlomit Ezer, Debbie Rudin, Amelia Newman, and Micah Copelovitch. 8

MOUSY is proud that Debbie Rudin and Mia Kurzer represented our Madison USY chapter at the CHUSY Region Kinnus Convention in April in Palatine, Illinois, UPCOMING along with Jewish high MOUSY EVENTS Rowan Cody, Sophie Hadley, Maya Desai, Rhiannon Wilson, schoolers from around the Ellie Becker, Moira Wilson, Maya Becker, Mia Kurzer, Leila Chicago and Wisconsin Sunday, May 6 Loeb, and Miriam Syvertsen get warm and fuzzy with 21 area. We look forward to MOUSY Nominations/ fleece blankets at MOUSY’s annual social action event. hearing about their Fleece blankets were donated to Emerson Elementary School Elections Shabbaton experience. and The Road Home.  ***KADIMA***KADIMA***KADIMA***

Just as the ice was melting outside, a handful of Kadimaniks went inside on Saturday night, March 3, to find ice as they balanced or zoomed around the UW Shell indoor rink for some slippery fun. Everyone then trekked back to BIC to hang out in MOUSY wishes to the youth lounge with snacks, hot cocoa, and a competitive game of Jewish Edition: thank all of our Beth Apples to Apples. Good times were had by all at our Kadima On Ice event. Israel Center On Sunday afternoon, April 15, teenagers played bowling, billiards, and virtu- members who al basketball in The Sett Recreation at Union South for the Kadima Play Date. contributed to our second annual pre- Pesach Hametz Food Drive. We delivered all of your leavened foods to the Goodman East Side Community Center. Kol HaKavod!

Micah Copelovitch, Lily Matthews-Needelman, Ezra Matthews-Needelman, Caleb Ellenberg, and Ari Blehert making strikes, spares, and gutter balls with friends at Union South.

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Yahrzeits Social Action Updates 16 Iyar / May 1 Louis Friedman Interfaith Outreach: A Unique Passover Seder

By Sally Jones, Social Action Committee Co-Chair 17 Iyar / May 2 On Sunday, March 25, Rabbi Barth and members of BIC joined with Reverend Miriam "Mickey" Pressman Everett Mitchell and members of his Christ The Solid Rock Church for an Moshe Stein abbreviated seder at the church, one designed to introduce its mostly African-

American members to our 18 Iyar / May 3 reliving of the Jewish freedom Levi DeLevie story, so strongly linked to their Hiram Mendow own traditions of struggle,

survival and yearning for 19 Iyar / May 4 freedom. Oscar Rapkin This model seder grew out of a Harry Shapiro personal link between the two Ida Sweet congregations. Leanne Puglielli

is both a longtime, active member 20 Iyar / May 5 of CTSRC and a friend of Betty Orman-Joseph longtime, active BIC member

Judy Pierotti. Having heard Rev. 21 Iyar / May 6 Mitchell repeatedly stress the Mary Richman story of the Hebrews’ bondage in William Shovers Egypt, and having attended a seder hosted by Judy, Leanne encouraged Rev.

Mitchell to enrich his church’s identification with the Jewish past by showing its 22 Iyar / May 7 members the Jewish tradition of recalling that past. Once Leanne and Rev. Mitchell Joy Kurzer requested BIC’s help, Judy and Rabbi Barth quickly agreed; much planning, Charles Lipstein recruiting and cooking followed, to produce the March 25 event. Sam Paley CTSRC members greeted their BIC visitors with a very engaging combination of Sam Sinykin enthusiasm, gratitude and good humor (even though by the time we arrived they had Evelyn Sweet already—this being a Sunday--spent many hours in church). Rabbi Barth led the

seder, beginning with an assurance that the Passover seder invites energetic 23 Iyar / May 8 participation rather than dignified order, so that questions and side discussions can Sheldon Bernstein go on at any time. And they did! BIC members sat dispersed among the church Harry Gerson members and we found ourselves explaining, elaborating, answering questions, Fruma Mintz offering our own stories, laughing and enjoying with our curious and receptive Bessie Paskin neighbors. Haroset, I believe, scored a hit with just about everyone from the church. Dave Sweet , not so much. The high point of the evening (to my mind, at least) came

with the singing of Go Down, Moses, with 25 Iyar / May 10 the lead taken by Mary Henderson of Roslyn Hoffert CTSRC and the choruses sung by all of us Jacob Schmidman together. Joseph Schwartz For making this event happen, thanks Rachel Schwartz go to Rabbi Barth, to Leanne Puglielli and Herman Sweet to Judy Pierotti and her team: Livia Asher,

Hannah Bernard-Donals, Andrea Dearlove, 26 Iyar / May 11 Leslie Fields, Sally Jones, Judith Kornblatt, Fannie Borsuk Jeff Lindholm, Bilha Mirkin, Kris Anna Katz Rasmussen, Russ Shafer-Landau, Sue Rose Schwartz Shafer-Landau, Bob Skloot, Merle Henry Slater Sternberg, and Jerry Sternberg. Gordon Sweet More photos and a video of Go Down,

Moses are on our Facebook page and (Continued on page 11) website.

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27 Iyar / May 12 Mae Azen Serve Food at the Men’s Shelter Robert Donals Beth Israel Center members have been serving meals at the Emergency Shelter for Men in downtown Madison for more than ten years. Beth Israel Center is responsible for 28 Iyar / May 13 serving dinner on the second Sunday each month and breakfast the next morning. The Paul Fram shelter is at Grace Episcopal Church, at 116 West Washington Ave. If you can offer an Isidor Frankel occasional Sunday evening or Monday morning, please contact Corliss Karasov at Alfred Regenstein [email protected] or 831-6521. At press time, there were many open slots! Robert Thomadsen Tena Wasserstrom Meals on Wheels BIC volunteers deliver lunchtime meals and have for many years. Our schedule 29 Iyar / May 14 recently changed, so new volunteers are needed. Please call Larry Bensky (238-2569) Rose Druch to schedule a ride-a-long or for more information. Daniel Hill Frieda Weinstein Refugee Resettlement Efforts Beth Israel Center volunteers are among those supporting the refugee resettlement 1 Sivan / May 15 program spearheaded by Jewish Social Services of Madison. We have recently formed Sophie Figler a Community Action Refugee Arrival (CARA) team who are have been trained to help William Schuckit settle a family when one arrives. Watch for opportunities to join or support the team. Emanuel Simon Beth Israel Center is also a drop-off site for donated supplies. Needed items are listed Solomon Swack online; you’ll find an updated link on our website. Please contact Judy Pierotti to volunteer or for more information by emailing [email protected]. 2 Sivan / May 16 Steven Kopelberg Abraham Peturs Book Dedications Hilda Pover Meyer Sweet Ralph Weisbard The next time you’re looking for a way to honor a special person, couple, family

or occasion, or memorialize a loved one, consider dedicating a prayerbook! 3 Sivan / May 17

Laura L. Gladstein Complete and return this form to the office or email [email protected] Sol Jacobson with all of the requested information. Kurt Jasen BETH ISRAEL CENTER BOOK DEDICATION FORM Samuel Moskowsky Hyman Mullin I would like to dedicate (write in the number of books): Meril Stein Rosa Sweet _____ Weekday Siddur/Siddurim — minimum donation $36 per book Anne Sweet Henry Yaskal _____ Etz Chayim Chumash/Chumashim — minimum donation $72 per book 4 Sivan / May 18 _____ Mahzor Lev Shalem (High Holiday prayerbooks) — minimum donation $54 W. Feldman per book Korshak For each dedicated book, please provide the following: Sarah Kress

In (circle one) honor / memory of:______5 Sivan / May 19 Baileh Paley ______Alex Seltzer

Dedicated by:______(Continued on page 12)

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Yahrzeits Volunteer Appreciation 6 Sivan / May 20 Israel Barkin Shabbat Kiddush Krew: Donna Anderson, Livia Asher, David Baum, Naomi Chesler, Linda Cohn Esther Criscuola deLaix, Ron Dolin, Hannah Bernard-Donals, Yonah Drazen, Doris Etta Lakritz Dubielzig, Joshua Gabai, Louise Goldstein, Patricia Green-Sotos, Fran Greenman, Sylvia Shirley Magness Grunes, Roz Gusinow, Jen Hadley, Cynthia Hirsch, Elise Hohol, Raimund Huber, Bobbie Jennie Sinaiko & Steve Jellinek, Kathi Johnson Rock, Erica Kesin Richmond, Steve Kessler, Kazu Jeannette Switzky Kitano, Lorna Kniaz, Clara Lazimy, Jessie Loeb, Jeff & Sara Mandell, Laurel Mark, Sarah

& Zach Masa-Myers, Kara McCarty, Adam & Aphra Mednick, Kathy Miner, Bilha 7 Sivan / May 21 Mirkin, Laurie Nagus, Janis Noonan, Marina Orio, Judy Pierotti, Tziporah Quick, Michael Evelyn Jellinek Rock, Kevin Shelley, Ross Shenker, Dan Sidney, Bob Skloot, Merle Sternberg, Bruce

Thomadsen, Regina Vidaver, Phyllis Wainger, Ziva Wear, Paul Wilson, Max Zimon 8 Sivan / May 22 Shirley Blank Shabbat Greeters: Bennett Berson, Judith Burstyn, Marsha Cohen, Ankur Desai, George Deutsch Emily Desai, Cher Diamond, Ron Diamond, Yonah Drazen, Bob Factor, Anna Lloyd Frank Heifetz, Cynthia Hirsch, David Hoffert, Jordy Loeb, Laurie Nagus, Janis Noonan, Abraham Nosofsky Mike Pressman, Barry Rich, Fran Schrag, Sally Schrag, Jim Wear Ronald Rosen Community Purim Carnival Carnies: Ellie Becker, Maya Becker, Kazu Kitano, Bess Stein Lorna Kniaz, Mia Kurzer, Debbie Rudin, Ben Weismer, Moira Wilson, Rhiannon Wilson 9 Sivan / May 23 Purim Dinner Crew: David Balkansky, Cher Diamond, Ron Diamond, Josh Gabai, Harry Altshuler Josh Garoon, Adam Mednick, Don and Kathy Miner, Mike Pressman, Jerry Sternberg Mae Borisy Wait, Wait…The Whole Megillah Purim Spiel Players: Ron Diamond, Josh Gabai, Asher Lazimy Jen Hadley, Herb Lewis, Bob Skloot, Bruce Thomadsen, Rabbi Paula Winnig

10 Sivan / May 24 Kolot Kehilla: Adrienne Borisy-Gross, Roz Gusinow, Kazu Kitano, Renata Laxova, Sam Chudacoff Barry Rich, Sally Schrag, Fran Schrag Max Goldstein -Cooking Crew: Emily Desai, Laurie Nagus, Kris Rasmussen, Ziva Wear Frances Rossman Laundry Angels: Donna Anderson, Livia Asher, Hannah Bernard-Donals, Becky and Samuel Wander Bennett Berson, Emily Desai, Leslie Fields, Ashley Gordon, Patricia Green-Sotos, Dave Weinstein Cynthia Hirsch, Erica Kesin Richmond, Kazu Kitano, Jeff Lindholm, Laurel Mark, Kara McCarty, Laurie Nagus, Kris Rasmussen, Kevin Shelley, Karen Shevet Dinah, 11 Sivan / May 25 Anna Syvertsen Abraham Barash Shabbat Morning Madrichot: Gaby Baum, Mirra Blehert, Leila Loeb, Amira Morris Cohen Claire Navin Pierotti, Lily Matthews-Needelman, Josephine Sidney, Rhiannon Wilson MOUSY Shabbat Schmooze Host Family: Ziva and Jim Wear 12 Sivan / May 26 Emil Barth COMING SOON: Hakarot Hatov Nathan Frank Paula Gash The BIC Board of Directors recently approved a proposal from our Membership Nancy Gelman Committee to implement an ongoing volunteer recognition program, Hakarot Hatov. Sylvia Kadushin This Hebrew phrase means recognizing the good. Initial plans include honoring and thanking members who serve in both 13 Sivan / May 27 extraordinary and the most routine of ways. The recognition will take place on Nessie Goldberg Shabbat mornings a few times each year. The honoree’s contributions will be acknowledged briefly during services and with a modest celebratory addition to the 14 Sivan / May 28 day’s Kiddush lunch. Donations in honor of the individuals being recognized and Mary Galanter their contributions to our shul are of course welcome, but this is first and foremost Harry Kay about showing gratitude. Eli Mullin William Rosenblum Please contact Membership Committee Chair Emily Desai with questions. She can Al Wechsler be reached at [email protected].

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Yahrzeits Simchas & Announcements 15 Sivan / May 29 Herman Black  Livia Asher on the birth of her granddaughter, Mira Gabrielle, and to Mira’s Fannie Mack parents, Joshua and Sarina Asher Julius Miller  David and Aleeza Hoffert on the birth of their son, Corben “Cory” Bartell Hoffert Hiam Orman  Samantha Katch and Jason Geneman on the birth of their daughter, Sophie, and Steve Rader to Sophie’s grandparents Carol and Harry Katch and her aunts Ally, Brenna and Claire Swartz Mackenzie Sasha Temkin  Peter Wear, son of Jim and Ziva Wear and grandson of Al and Lois Frank, on his Herman Temkin marriage to Nicole Brimmer, daughter of Margott Thorne and Allen Brimmer Ellen Weiss Zitkin (z”l) 16 Sivan / May 30 Sophie Cohen Condolences to the families of... Rudolph Rich Julius Ruskin

 Ronald Hoffmaster, father of Cheri (Gary) Keen 17 Sivan / May 31  Natalie Borenstein, mother of Steven (Sandy) Borenstein and Neil (Sue) Ben Blachman Borenstein, grandmother of Daniel, Allie, Jacob and Ben Bernard Mandell  Harvey Johnson, father of Kathi (Michael) Johnson Rock Jacob Mintz  Jean Goldman, mother of Irwin (Leora Saposnik) Goldman, grandmother of Eliav David Remis and Aviv Goldman Arthur Yaskal  Jerry Kaplan, brother of Leonard (Martha) Kaplan, uncle of Jonathan and Sarah Kaplan 18 Sivan / June 1  Regina Jacob, mother of Gail Jacob (Henry Steinberger) and Max Jacob, Haskell Friedman grandmother of Sophie Steinberger David Ottenstein

19 Sivan / June 2 Shabbat Kiddush Israel Segal

A Time for Togetherness 20 Sivan / June 3 The Beth Israel Center Shabbat kiddush serves an important purpose in the life of our Florence Alexander community. It is a special time and place to come together to celebrate Shabbat with Gail Busha our kehilla (sacred community) and to actively embody the mitzvah of hachnasat Helen Machlis orchim (welcoming guests). Frank Marion Harriet "Honey" Rutchick If you’d like to join the kiddush crew and be part of this vital – and fun! – Beth Israel William Sweet Center tradition, email [email protected] or call (608) 256-7763 for information. We’re also happy to discuss sponsorship opportunities. 21 Sivan / June 4 Pesach Bebczuk Appreciation for recent and upcoming Kiddush sponsorships: Herb Kliebard Gerald Kurzer March 10 - Ariel Kaufman, Michael Kissick, and Benji, and Daniel Kaufman, Juliette Hyman Lerner Mapp, and Luca on the first yahrzeit of Judith Zukerman Kaufman

March 17 – Children of Anna Heifetz in her honor 22 Sivan / June 5 April 14 - Aleeza and David Hoffert on the occasion of their son’s brit milah Rose Picus May 12 – Talmud Torah in honor of Kibud Limudim, the celebration of our Sarah Scher Yehuda Temkin community of learners

May 19 – Graduates Kiddush on the graduation of our high school seniors June 2 – Shira and Danny Goldman on the occasion of their son Kol becoming a Bar Mitzvah (Continued on page 14)

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Yahrzeits Memorial & Tribute Gifts 23 Sivan / June 6 Harry Gevirman Memorial and tribute gifts may be made at any time to Beth Israel Center’s general Anna Schwam fund or any of the funds listed on the following pages. Many of our named funds

support particular aspects of our program. To donate, send us a check, call the office 24 Sivan / June 7 (608-256-7763) with a credit card number, or go to www.bethisraelcenter.org and Howard Eisenberg click on the Donate icon. Maurice Pekarsky Below and on the following pages is a record of the memorial and tribute gifts

made to these funds between mid-January and mid-April. 25 Sivan / June 8 Alex Cohen 

Harry Figler Abraham Barash Handicap Services Fund Lubey Mintz in memory of Pearl Rutel Henry Weiss from Alan Weinberg & Claire Weiss Ida Schuckit Jeannette Frank from the families of Jerome Frank and Cornellia Dixon Louis Schwartz Arnold Luterman from Fred & Esther Brauer Dora Schwartz from Richard Schwartz 26 Sivan / June 9 Eva Lassen Art Fund in memory of 27 Sivan / June 10 Paul Schrag and Leontine Friedman from Francis & Sally Schrag Esther Bloomfield Ruth Hill from Ghita Bessman Yetta Sinagub Bernard Kaplan from Michael Kaplan & Beverly Richey Frieda Stein Ben Minkoff Fund 28 Sivan / June 11 in memory of Bessie Perlman Jacob Popkewitz from Thomas Popkewitz & Lea Aschkenase Riva Polyakova Monroe Segal Beth Israel Fund for the Future John E. Wear in memory of Blanche Schwartzstein from Alan & Laurie Schwartzstein 29 Sivan / June 12 Natalie Borenstein from Bonnie Stein Kammer, Doris Hoffman, Robert Factor Binyamin Fine & Kris Rasmussen and Merilyn Kupferberg Eugene Greenberg Harold Blank from Judith Blank Sol Lieberman Betty Silverman Building Maintenance Fund Dorothy Saposnik Smith in honor of Anna Heifetz, Cory Hoffert and the marriage of Peter Wear and Nicole 30 Sivan / June 13 Brimmer from Bruce Thomadsen & Louise Goldstein Barbara Bernstein in memory of Dientia DeLevie Molly Challov Goldstein, Jane England, Regina Jacob, Jerry Kaplan, Jean Fannie Perlman Goldman and Louis Battalen from Bruce Thomadsen & Louise Goldstein

1 Tamm / June 14 David Temkin Camp Ramah Fund Richard Brauer in honor of Belle Novick Herman Goldstein from Alan & Jean Lettofsky Paul Rock Anna Heifetz birthday from Bonnie Stein Kammer Anna Heifetz Bat Mitzvah from Cheryl Temkin 3 Tamm / June 16 in memory of Belle Epstein Ervin Blake from Cheryl Temkin Selig Iwanter George Shapiro from Rabbi Charles & Mrs. Krayna Feinberg Natalie Borenstein from Rabbi Charles & Mrs. Krayna Feinberg (Continued on page 15) Morris Levin and Dora Levin from Roz Levin David Rosenthal from Si & Billie Hellerstein 14

Yahrzeits Memorial & Tribute Gifts 4 Tamm / June 17 Neil Grossman General Fund Meyer Pover in honor of Helen Rittenhouse The marriage of Peter Wear & Nicole Brimmer from Si & Billie Hellerstein Bernard Schwab Anna Heifetz Bat Mitzvah from Steve & Bobbie Jellinek Robert Smith Bobby Nourani & Elaine Rosenberg from Sarah Rosenberg Brown and Rachel Lyons 6 Tamm / June 19 in memory of Martha Barth Leo & Alice Barth from Rosalie Schindel Mrs. Ben Rubin Natalie Borenstein from Barbara Stein, Bess Borenstein, Norman & Lynda Borenstein, Michael & Kathy Borenstein, Sharon & Steven Einhorn, Bonnie 7 Tamm / June 20 & Rick Rolfs, Gay Goldstein, Marci Briskin and Marie Palis, Sandra Porter Louis Fine and William & Barbara Spitz Sidney Menchel Natalie Borenstein and Harold Borenstein from Phyllis Eisenberg Estelle Bernstein from Bradley Bernstein 9 Tamm / June 22 Phil & Anita Kapell from Cheryl Lerner Joel Epstein Sol Levin from Daniel & Kathy Levin Ben Jacobs Morris Gould and Ida Gould from David & Jamie Baker Melba Katz Ronald Hoffmaster from David & Nancy Resnick Al Mocny Chaim Schwartz from Dorothy Schwartz Frances Myers Sarah Gevirman from Edwin Azen Susan Sinaiko Fanny Kaufman Smith from Herbert Lewis & Francie Saposnik Arthur Mead from Jean Mead 10 Tamm / June 23 Harvey Johnson from Jordan & Jessie Loeb Louis Barkin Joseph Sweet from Judith Shapiro Louis Setlick David Perlman from Kato Perlman Benjamin Weisbrod Ida Figler from Michael Figler and family Judith Zukerman Kaufman on the first anniversary of her death from 11 Tamm / June 24 Howard & Heidi Bregman Sophie Schuster Harry & Esther Sweet from Howard Sweet & James Warren Harvey Johnson from Daniel & Leslie Greenspan 12 Tamm / June 25 Eva Deutschkron from Russ & Ruth Frank Sam Cohn Sedelle Diamond Holman/Weisbard Fund for Adult Jewish Learning Arlyne Eisenberg in honor of Morris Kniaz Bruce Thomadsen's retirement from Phyllis Weisbard Alma Sweet in memory of Bessie Yaskal Natalie Borenstein and Jerry Kaplan from Phyllis Weisbard 13 Tamm / June 26 Jake Heifetz Fund Arthur England in memory of Esther Kaplan Fania Heifetz from Lawrence Heifetz, Lisa Robertson and Steve Heifetz Esther Swartz, Harry Moss and Ida Moskowsky from Samuel Moss 14 Tamm / June 27 Nathan Goldstone Joe Temkin Education Fund Yetta Temkin in memory of William Onheiber and Herman Onheiber from Sam & Maria Onheiber 15 Tamm / June 28 Max Gold Martin & Serene Mazor Kiddush Fund Henry Levine in honor of William Schwartz Anna Heifetz birthday from Moshe & Haya Yuchtman and Yair Mazor & (Continued on page 16) Bilha Mirkin

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Yahrzeits Memorial & Tribute Gifts 16 Tamm / June 29 Helen Haber

Alex Paskin Martin & Serene Mazor Kiddush Fund Genevieve Ruben in honor of

Carol & Harry Katch's new granddaughter and Bruce Thomadsen's retirement, 17 Tamm / June 30 Felice Rudin on election win, the marriage of Peter Wear & Nicole Cecile Ehrman Brimmer, Anna Heifetz birthday and Cory Hoffert from Michael Fay Maydeck Pressman & Marsha Cohen in memory of 18 Tamm / July 1 Judy Balkansky from David Balkansky Seymour Abrahamson Joan Chesler from Daniel Sidney & Naomi Chesler Harry Seeman Caroline Sulman and Blanche Altshuler from David Sulman & Anne Altshuler Sarah Zaichick Louis Landau from Ellie Landau Jean Goldman from Herbert Lewis & Francie Saposnik 19 Tamm / July 2 Natalie Borenstein from Kazu Kitano Amy Azen Regina Jacob, Natalie Bornstein, Jean Goldman, Ronald Hoffmaster and Lawrence Borenstein Harvey Johnson from Michael Pressman & Marsha Cohen Rosa Kammer Howard Temin, Lillian Greenberg, Morris Greenberg and Jennie Eva Samuel Tomarkin Lebowitz from Rayla Temin Rose Frank from Russ & Ruth Frank 20 Tamm / July 3 Shoshana Goodman from Yael Lund Ilse Brauer

Freda Jacobson L'Dor v'Dor Molly Paster in honor of Sam Rosenthal New grandchild of Tom Palay & Diane Gutmann from Harvey Temkin & Barbara Myers Temkin 21 Tamm / July 4 in memory of Max Ruskin Ella Hirschfeld, Natalie Borenstein and Harvey Johnson from Ben & Sherry Vera Terry Hirschfeld Natalie Borenstein from Harvey Temkin & Barbara Myers Temkin 22 Tamm / July 5 Martin Siroky and Helena Siroky from Livia Asher M. Jack Epstein Anne Cooper from Marilyn & Stuart Cooper Alex Kaplan Natalie Borenstein, Harold & Frieda Borenstein from Nicki Milin Millie Kaplan Ann Slavney from Phillip Slavney and Phyllis Eisenberg Norman Parisek Mollie Becker from Phyllis Eisenberg Eva Perlman Jean Goldman from Daniel & Leslie Greenspan Isaac Perlman Sol Levin from Roz Levin Dinah Silverman Jean Goldman, Harvey Johnson and Natalie Borenstein from Si & Billie Hellerstein 23 Tamm / July 6 Harvey Johnson from Sylvia Grunes Norton Gahr Rae Rapkin Matzoh Fund Ruth Schwartz Get Well Leah Kessel from Bruce Thomadsen & Louise Goldstein 24 Tamm / July 7 Hyman Harry Minkoff Mikvah Donations Isadore Victor in memory of Israel Victor Natalie Borenstein from Rayla Temin

Julius Mintz Fund in memory of Hyman Daniels and Lena Daniels from Barbara & Gary Beyer

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Yahrzeits Memorial & Tribute Gifts 25 Tamm / July 8 Sara Schwartz from Steven Schwartz Ida Bradkofsky Samuel Springberg Rose & Morris Heifetz Welfare Fund in honor of The birth of Steve & Deena Borzak's grandson from Harvey Temkin & 26 Tamm / July 9 Barbara Myers Temkin Dora Moser Anna Heifetz from Karen Shevet Dinah, Howard & Heidi Bregman, Paul & Grace Rasmussen Sherry Minkus and Roz Levin Hyman Schuster in memory of Linda Tetzlaff Joseph, Rebecca and Morris Wyman from Ida Wyman 27 Tamm / July 10 Prayerbook Fund Frumeh Frank in honor of Fannie Stein Kazu Kitano's beautiful Haftarah reading from Howard & Heidi Bregman in memory of 28 Tamm / July 11 Rubin Schwartzstein from Alan & Laurie Schwartzstein Rachel Mullin David Mazur, Marvin Mazursky, Rachel Mazur & Louis Mazursky from Louise Wear Howard & Sally Mazur Frieda Melnik from Sol & Corlie Blumenfeld 29 Tamm / July 12 Helen Rosenblum from Stephen & Phyllis Wainger Elizabeth Berg Seymour Goodman from Yael Lund Sidney Bernstein Celia Labow Holman Sophie Levine Rabbi's Discretionary Fund in memory of Regina Jacob from Bill & Jill Boissonnault 1 Av / July 13 Albert Eisenberg from Leslie Eisenberg Lisa Sklarin Barnet Nathenson, Rose & Herbert Nathenson, Mary Dubrov Nathenson and Sam Cohn from Linda Freeman 2 Av / July 14 Jerome Onheiber from Michael & Patrice Onheiber and Sam & Maria Onheiber Tomi Deutsch Ruth Zitowsky from Robert Zitowsky Tsivia Morgensteren Harry Sweet from Sam & Maria Onheiber 4 Av / July 16 Julius Jacobs A.J. & Celia Rosenberg Library Fund in memory of Myer Nathenson Harvey Johnson from Robert Factor & Kris Rasmussen Harry Rosen Celia Rosenberg from Civia & Irwin Rosenberg and Lyn Rosenberg Beatrice Sweet from Merle & Patricia Sweet 5 Av / July 17 Anna Blumenfeld Shirley Epstein Fund Ed Dubrow in memory of Rose Greenfield Aaron Epstein from Dennis & Nancy Lieder Florence Landes Iver & Molly Karp from Norma Klagos Naomi Rich Walter Novick from Ruth Ann Schumeister Norman Zaichick

Social Action Fund 6 Av / July 18 In honor of Ethel Goldstein Anna Heifetz from Judy Pierotti Fanny Nosofsky Judy Pierotti from Yair Mazor & Bilha Mirkin Helen Ryan in memory of Benjamin Weinstein Jean Goldman from Robert Factor & Kris Rasmussen and Rayla Temin Dan Pierotti from Judy Pierotti George Skloot from Robert & Joann Skloot (Continued on page 18)

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Yahrzeits Memorial & Tribute Gifts 7 Av / July 19 Rachel Hayman Cohen Ethel Lipstein Regina Jacob from Si & Billie Hellerstein Harry Usdansky Talmud Torah Fund Get Well 8 Av / July 20 Ann Altshuler from Bruce Thomadsen & Louise Goldstein Anna Weiss Bentley in honor of Chaim Figler Hoffert baby's brit milah from Karen Shevet Dinah Rashe Nathenson in memory of Phyllis Leventhal from Barry & Irene Mirkin 9 Av / July 21 Jean Goldman from David & Nancy Resnick Anna Altman Jerry Kaplan from Theodore & Irene Knupp Samuel Kessel Susan Knapp Lundquist Adolf & Janet Weinshel Torah Upkeep Fund Emanuel Rosenberg Get Well Ethel Rosenberg Anne Altshuler and Phyllis Borenstein Eisenberg from Bruce Thomadsen & Louise Goldstein 10 Av / July 22 in honor of Phyllis Greenberg Moshe Yuchtman's birthday from Bruce Thomadsen & Louise Goldstein Gerald Schlossberg in memory of Sam Schwartz Adolph & Janet Weinshel from Debbie Alden and Leo & Renee Weinshel Dora Sweet Natalie Borenstein and Harvey Johnson from Bruce Thomadsen & Louise Louie Wein Goldstein Natalie Borenstein from Frances Mann, Herman Goldstein, Howard & Heidi 11 Av / July 23 Bregman and Karen Shevet Dinah Ben Berman Bernard Harris from Sue Harris Maurice Parisek Pearl Shaffer

12 Av / July 24 May 2018 Reva Diamond Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Celia Mullin 1 2 3 4 5 Mary Victor Meditation Lag BaOmer 14 Av / July 26 BBQ Chaya Altschuler Emor Blumeh Dubrov 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 SAT Kibud Limudim Morris Heifetz Yom Rishon Meditation Mini Frederic Lewis Retreat Yiddish Cabaret Behar-Bechukotai Matthias Neuman Smith Board of Directors Isadore Rubin 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Lydia Sananes Lohr Meditation Honor H.S. Grads Z’mirot 15 Av / July 27 Rosh Chodesh Tikkun Leil Shavuot Sivan Bemidbar Gregory Boissonnault 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Julius Cohen Office Closed Torah Study

Solomon Epstein Shavuot I Shavuot II Advanced Text Stanford Goldman Study Harry Hirschfeld Naso 27 28 29 30 31 Ovsey Machlis Office Closed Morris Winer Subversive Prayer

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Yahrzeits June 2018 16 Av / July 28 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Isidore Russ 1 2 Meditation 17 Av / July 29 Kol Goldman Bar Mitzvah Nathan Borenstein

Ann Gusinow Beha’alotecha 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 SAT 18 Av / July 30 Subversive Prayer Shirley Epstein

Shelach 19 Av / July 31 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Subversive Meditation Ralph Musin Prayer Benjamin Rothblatt Kabbalat Shabbat Advanced Text & Potluck Dinner Study Dorothy Zukerman Board of Directors Rosh Chodesh Rosh Chodesh at Hoyt Park Korach 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Subversive  Prayer Special Kiddush Z’mirot Beth Israel Center Chukat maintains a database of 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Yahrzeit observances for

its members. The people listed on the sides of these

Balak pages are those being remembered by people in our community.

If you would like to observe a yahrzeit with a minyan at Beth Israel July 2018 Center, please contact the Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat office so we can notify the community of your need. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Office Closed Yahrzeits are traditionally

observed on the Hebrew Pinchas calendar. Using the 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Gregorian dates, an

observer would say kaddish during the Board of Directors Rosh Chodesh Matot-Masei evening service prior to 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 the Gregorian date and during the morning and

Kabbalat Shabbat Devarim afternoon services on the & Potluck Dinner Shabbat Chazon at Hoyt Park Erev Tisha B’av Gregorian date. 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Please contact the office at

Tisha B’av (608) 256-7763 or office@ Va’etchanan bethisraelcenter.org with Shabbat Nachamu additions or questions. 29 30 31

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May ~ June ~ July Schedule

Date Parshat Candle Lighting Shabbat Services

May 4/5 Emor Candles 7:44p Fridays 5:45pm May 11/12 Behar-Bechukotai Candles 7:52p May 18/19 Bamidbar Candles 7:59p Saturdays May 19 Shavuot Candles 9:08p 9:30am

May 20 Shavuot Candles 9:09p ———— May 25/26 Nasso Candles 8:06p Weekday Services

June 1/2 Beha'alotcha Candles 8:12p Sunday mornings 8:15am June 8/9 Sh'lach Candles 8:17p June 15/16 Korach Candles 8:20p Monday & Thursday June 22/23 Chukat Candles 8:22p mornings June 29/30 Balak Candles 8:22p 7:00am

Sunday - Thursday evenings July 6/7 Pinchas Candles 8:21p 5:30pm July 13/14 Matot-Masei Candles 8:17p ______July 20/21 Devarim Candles 8:12p July 27/28 Vaetchanan Candles 8:05p Please call ahead to ensure a minyan. Other morning services may be organized by request.

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