T EMPLE E MANU-EL Bulletin Volume 77, Number 27 March 4, 2005

U PCOMING E VENTS Tuesday, March 15 6:30 p.m. Thursday, March 10 6 p.m. MEET American Jewish Reform Sisterhoods of Manhattan: Sacred Space: A Journey of Spirit The Memory of the All are welcome to this viewing of A Journey of THE AUTHOR Lower East Side Spirit, Ann Coppel’s award-winning documentary about Debbie Friedman and her contribution to asia R. Diner is the Paul and Jewish music. Dinner and wine will be served H Sylvia Steinberg Professor of before the film. Both Ms. Coppel and American Jewish History at New York Ms. Friedman will join us afterward for questions. University, with a joint appointment in the This event will be held at Congregation department of history and the Skirball Rodeph Sholom, 7 West 83rd Street. Cost is Department of $25 per person. RSVP to the Women’s Auxiliary Hebrew and Judaic at (212) 744-1400, ext. 235. Studies. She also is director of the Friday, March 11 6:30 p.m. Goldstein Goren Seventh Grade Sabbath Dinner Center for American Seventh grade Religious School students are Jewish History. invited to dinner in the private dining room of In 1998, Ms. Diner Palm Too, 840 Second Avenue. RSVP to was invited to Posner at (212) 744-1400, ext. 202. become a fellow in the American Academy for S ABBATH S ERVICES Jewish Research. She was welcomed as a member of the Society of American Historians in 2004. Friday evening, March 11 A specialist in immigration and ethnic Main Sanctuary history, Ms. Diner is the author of Organ Recital—5 p.m. numerous published books, including Sabbath Eve Service—5:15 p.m. Lower East Side Memories: WQXR Radio (96.3 FM) and Internet The Jewish Place in America. (www.wqxr.com) broadcasts—5:30 p.m. Free and open to the public, this Saturday morning, March 12 program is part of a lecture series Women’s Auxiliary Lounge sponsored by the Ivan M. Stettenheim Torah Study—9:15 a.m. Library and the Herbert and Eileen Main Sanctuary Bernard Museum of Judaica in honor Service—10:30 a.m of the 350th anniversary of in Torah Portion—Pekude America. On the day of the event, Readings—Exodus 38:21-40:38 please enter at the Marvin and I Kings 7:51-8:21 Elisabeth Cassell Community House, Rabbi Nadia E. Gold preaching One East 65th Street. U PCOMING E VENTS SKIRBALL Alternative CORNER Seudah Shlishit: The Final Sabbath Meal Saturday, March 12 1 p.m. RUTH CALDERON Temple Emanu-El Youth Groups: Saturday, March 12 5 PM Purim and Mishloach Manot Saturday, April 9 5 PM All Youth Group members are invited to participate in the mitzvah of making mishloach raditionally, Jews spend the final manot for the Jewish elderly. Tmoments of the Sabbath partaking Lunch will be served. in a seudah shlishit—literally, the third RSVP to Rabbi Gold at meal. Seudah shlishit is a time for song, (212) 744-1400, ext. 244. study and contemplation as one week ends and another begins. Explore the Sunday, March 13 10 a.m. theme of “Closeness” and its inverse, Young Families: Purim Celebration “Longing.” Through music, study and Don’t miss out on the fun of food, experience this traditional Jewish Purim! Families will be treated event in an altogether new way. to a special performance by Magic Al. We also will have Preregistration is required for this event; holiday foods and an art project. no onsite registration will be allowed. Costumes are not required but Call (212) 507-9580 or log on to definitely encouraged! www.adultjewishlearning.org. RSVP to (212) 744-1400, ext. 242.

P ULPIT F LOWERS

Pulpit flowers at Sabbath worship services this weekend are the generous donation of our congregants: B’NEI M ITZVAH Marjorie R. and Lawrence Bukzin in loving memory of The following students of our Pauline and Harry Millman Religious School will become B’nei Mitzvah this weekend: The Harteveldt Family in loving memory of Stephen Yale Todres, son of Lucile S. Harteveldt Susan and Michael Todres Hal, Mary, Craig and Emily Weiss, daughter of Nicole Randelman Barbara Asch and Jonathan Weiss in loving memory of Roslyn Randelman Alexander Ross Witkoff, son of Lauren and Steven Witkoff Lee and Roger L. Strong and Family in loving memory of his father, We are grateful for their sponsorship of Leon W. Strong Friday evening’s Oneg Shabbat.

The Cemeteries of Congregation Emanu-El Charles S. Salomon The Universal Funeral Chapel Salem Fields and Beth-El A limited number of above-ground crypts are available in 1076 Madison Avenue (212) 753-5300 our community mausoleum. For information, please call Our service is available in the Temple, home, or our Chapel. Dr. Mark W. Weisstuch at the Temple Office, (212) 744-1400. Emanu-El Families (part 1) By Bettijane Eisenpreis American Jewish history texts usually speak of the “three waves” of Jew- ish immigration to the —Spanish-Portuguese, German and Eastern European. No institution is more closely associated with that sec- ond wave than Congregation Emanu-El of the City of New York. In honor of the 350th anniversary of Jewish life in the United States, we have cho- sen to profile prominent families from our Temple history. We begin with the Morgenthaus, a family representative of the traditions of both liberal thought and public service. (Note: Much of the historical information in this article is based on Mostly Morgenthaus: A Family History by Henry Morgenthau III; Ticknor & Fields, New York, 1991.) ike many German Jewish families who 10, Henry thrived in his adopted country, came to the United States in the mid- graduating from Columbia University Law L19th century, the Morgenthau family School at 21 and immediately gaining admis- traces its origins to the southern German sion to the New York State Bar Association. region of . Family patriarch Lazarus In 1882, he married Josephine Sykes. They Morgenthau spent much of his youth in became the parents of four children: Helen, Krumbach, Bavaria, later Alma, Henry Jr. and Ruth. moving his family to Mann- A successful lawyer with heim in the grand-duchy of a thriving real-estate busi- Baden. In 1866, the Mor- ness, Henry was deter- genthaus immigrated to mined to devote the bulk . of his time to public serv- Although raised in the ice. He was the founding Orthodox tradition, Laza- president of Rabbi Stephen rus became interested in Wise’s Free Synagogue and the new Reform movement also maintained a member- while still in Germany. In ship in Temple Emanu-El New York, he joined Re- for much of his lifetime. form Congregation Adas But, Henry was more inter- Jeshurun, whose rabbi was ested in putting the ethical Dr. David Einhorn, the and moral principles of author of the predecessor Judaism into practice than of the Union Prayer Book. in following formal reli- [The UPB is still used at gious observance. Temple Emanu-El.] Dr. Ein- The crowning achieve- horn remained with Adas ment, and greatest chal- Jeshurun when it merged lenge, of Morgenthau’s ca- with another congregation reer was his appointment to become Temple Beth-El, as U.S. Ambassador to Tur- which later merged with Lazarus Morgenthau key by President Woodrow Emanu-El. Lazarus was ac- Wilson in 1913, serving in tive in many philanthropic and community that capacity until 1916. In 1915, the Turks enterprises, establishing the family tradition embarked on their massacre of the Arme- of public service. nians, the first documented genocide in modern history before the Nazi Holocaust. The First Before the genocide ended, an estimated 1.5 Henry Morgenthau million Armenians were wiped out through Henry (Heinrich) Morgenthau was born in murder, deportation, starvation and disease. 1856 in , the ninth of fourteen children. Immigrating with his family at age Continued on next page E MANU-EL F AMILIES ( CONTINUED)

With little support from his own government In a phone interview, Henry Morgenthau and none from the rest of the world, III picks up the story. “The Armenian govern- Morgenthau nonetheless did everything in ment had erected a national monument to his power to speak out against the slaughter their genocide victims with satellite memori- and to marshal whatever aid he could from als honoring righteous non-Armenians,” he private sources. says. “On April 24, 1999, the national day of Senior Rabbi Emeritus Ronald B. Sobel remembrance, I was present in Yerevan, Ar- remembers a ceremony in January 1999 at menia, along with my sons, Ben (Henry IV) Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Westchester and Kramer, when that earth from my grand- County, N.Y., at which earth was taken from father’s grave was placed in a satellite monu- the grave of the late Ambassador Henry ment. It was, to put it mildly, an incredibly Morgenthau to be placed in a monument in moving experience.” Armenia. Attending were Ambassador Mor- genthau’s grandchildren (Manhattan District Attorney and long-time Emanu-El Trustee Bettijane Eisenpreis is a free-lance writer based , Henry Morgenthau III in New York City. She has been a Temple mem- and Dr. Joan Morgenthau Hirschhorn), as ber for more than 40 years. well as the Armenian Representative to the United Nations and the Patriarch of the Ar- Lazarus Morgenthau photo courtesy of Henry menian Orthodox Church in America. Morgenthau III.

TEMPLE EMANU-EL BULLETIN Dr. David M. Posner Dr. Mark W. Weisstuch Senior Rabbi Dr. Ronald B. Sobel Administrative Vice President Rabbi Amy B. Ehrlich Senior Rabbi Emeritus Mark H. Heutlinger Associate Rabbi Robert A. Bernhard Administrator Rabbi Nadia E. Gold President Robyn W. Cimbol Assistant Rabbi Rabbi Leon A. Morris Director of Development Lori Corrsin Director of the Skirball Center Henry Fruhauf Cantor for Adult Jewish Learning Administrator Emeritus

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