From Rabbi Jessica Barolsky Congregational Picnic, Sunday
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HONORING TRADITIONS ENGAGING FAMILIES SUPPORTING COMMUNITIES Volume 92, No. 4 • October 2019 • Tishri/Heshvan 5780 Congregational Picnic, Sunday, September 8 From Rabbi This year’s congregational picnic was a fantastic success! Over 160 people of all Jessica ages attended, including members, prospective members and their wonderful fami - Barolsky lies. There were games, a bounce house, tie-dyeing, BBQ, and so much more. Teachers, Rabbi Barolsky, Cantor Barash and our new Director of Lifelong Learning, As we enter the Susan Cosden, were on hand to greet one and all. Many thanks to all of the many month of October, volunteers and our professional staff who helped bring this wonderful event off. We Yom Kippur is on our are already looking forward to next year’s picnic! minds, as we prepare to gather and atone. Hopefully, we have done the hard work of apologizing to one another for the things we did that we wish we hadn’t— or the things we didn’t do and wish we had. When we come together, we turn toward God, apologizing to God for deeds, words, actions, and inactions between ourselves and the Divine. It is an intense day of prayer and fasting. But it is not the holiday that dominates the upcoming month. Instead, that holiday is Sukkot, the seven-day (or eight-day, depending on your background) harvest festival, the holiday of booths. Sukkot begins this year, on Sunday, October 13, in the evening, but our congregational cele - bration starts the night before. On Saturday night, October 12, we will be having a sukkah decorating party (with thanks to Temple Brotherhood for din - ner and flexibility when the staff asked to take a one-year Sukkahmobile hia - tus). We will still have the opportunity to create the LONGEST PAPER CHAIN EVER, and this year, we will hang it in our congregational sukkah. We will have dinner, do crafts, make the chain, mark Havdalah, and have a late-night surprise afterwards, for those who stay to the end. We will welcome the holi - day on Sunday evening with a bring- your-own dinner in the sukkah (or in Surlow Hall, depending on the weather and your personal hardiness), and then a festival service, and then we continue Top left photo: Social Action Committee and Ozrim at work making bologna with services on Monday morning. sandwiches. Top right: Audrey Berman. Middle left: Chalk drawings by Michael Taibleson’s twin grandchildren Max and Alice. Middle right: Saralee Taibleson and Continued on page 2 Michael Taibleson who designed the T-shirts with Todd Richheimer. Some of these opportunities will be high - Rabbi Barolsky, From Our lighted in the Volunteer Corner, which continued from page 1 President you can find in your weekly Emanu- Email. Our auxiliaries, Women of Emanu- If you haven’t seen the lulav-shaking that We are once again in El and Temple Brotherhood, strengthen goes on at a Sukkot morning service, the midst of the High our congregation in many ways and can come join us! Holy Days. As we always make use of extra hands. Our cler - spend time with fami - gy would be thrilled to have you partici - Sukkot, where we dwell in imperma - ly and friends, we may pate in a service, sing in the choir, or play nent booths, reminds us of our fragility, find some brief respite in the band. If you would like to direct of the blessings of sturdy and safe places from the cares of our daily routines. We your energy into tikkun olam, repair of to live—and also that not everyone in can turn away from the chaos and con - the world, our Social Action committee our world enjoys these blessings. This flict of the news, and turn off the noise has many ways to strengthen the wider year, we consider those who leave their of social media. Our focus turns inward, community while working with your fel - homes behind in order to find a better as we consider our actions of the past low congregants. home. On Tuesday evening, October year, and how we might improve in the 15, at 7:00 pm, during Sukkot, we will year to come. You can also strengthen our Jewish com - join together to share our own immigra - munity by supporting the High Holy tion stories. Many of us have a family On Yom Kippur we will ask of ourselves Day Appeal. This is an important sup - story of our own parents, grandparents, if we have done enough to give back to plement to funds we receive through great-grandparents or ourselves, seeking the community, to support Jews in need, annual commitments, and many find a more stable, more sturdy, safer place to carry on our traditions, and to make that gifts made at this time of year are to call home than the walls of the time for Jewish learning, worship and especially meaningful. sukkah that surround us. Please join us mitzvot. Our congregation provides in welcoming these guests to our con - many opportunities for self-improve - L’shana tova! Michael Levin gregational home, and in sharing our ment in these areas. own stories of impermanence, transi - tion, and shelter. G’mar chatimah tovah, may we all be From Our inet, Jean Lauterbach on french horn, sealed for blessing in the Book of Life . Barb Levin on alto sax, Michael Levin on Cantor oboe, Morrie Rudberg on trumpet, Eitan Rabbi Jessica Barolsky Silver on electric bass, Laura Straus on [email protected] Come hear our flute, Michael Taibleson on trumpet, and Pam Treisman on English horn. Cantor CEEBJ Band… Barash will be conducting the band, and at services on Dan Dance has arranged some beautiful Friday, October compositions of your favorite prayers 25 at 7:30 pm! and melodies. Hope to see you there! Debra and I hope you are having a Our CEEBJ Band will be performing spir - wonderful Rosh Hashanah and wish you ited songs at our Friday evening worship a meaningful Yom Kippur, Sukkot and service on October 25 at 7:30 pm! Simhat Torah! Come and hear our band featuring Dan Dance on piano, Andrea Goetzinger on L’Shalom, tuba, Gary Kavalar on alto sax and clar - Cantor David Barash Polishing our silver before the High Holy Days Our CEEBJ Band www.ceebj.org 2 Follow CEEBJ on Facebook October Worship Schedule Taxi service available for anyone needing transportation on all High Holy Day services. Childcare will also be available at all High Holy Day Services. To reserve a place, please call the synagogue office at (414) 228-7545. Tuesday, October 1 Wednesday, October 9 honoring our new students will precede Rosh Hashanah Morning Service Yom Kippur Morning Service 9:30 am the service at 5:45 pm. The cost is $13.50 9:30 am Children’s High Holy Day Experience per member adults and $9.50 for kids 4- Torah Portion: Genesis 22:1-19 9:30 am 12. Kids 3 and under are free. Non- Prophetic Reading: Jeremiah 31:2-20 Yom Kippur Study Sessions 12:30 – 2:30 members please add $1 more. For more Yom Kippur Family Service 1:30 pm information on the dinner and/or to Friday, October 4 Afternoon and Yizkor Services 3:00 pm make reservations, contact Tiffani in the Shabbat Shuvah Service/ Ne’ilah 5:15 pm Lifelong Learning Office by Wednesday, Early Shabbat Worship 6:15 pm Havdalah and a light break-the-fast October 16. will follow the services. Saturday, October 5 Monday, October 21 Shabbat Morning Study Minyan Friday, October 11 Atzeret – Simhat Torah Morning 9:00 am Shabbat Eve Service 7:30 pm Service with Yizkor 10:30 am Torah Portion: Vayelekh, Childcare will be provided. Followed by a catered festival lunch in Deuteronomy 31:1-30 the Sukkah. This event is free for the Prophetic Reading: Hosea 14:2-10; Saturday, October 12 entire family but to help us plan, please Micah 7:18-20; Joel 2:15-27 Shabbat Morning Study Minyan 9:00 am make your reservations online at Torah Portion: Ha’azinu, ceebj.org or call the synagoue office Tuesday, October 8 Deuteronomy 32:1-52 at (414) 228-7545 by Wednesday, Kol Nidre 7:30 pm Prophetic Reading: II Samuel 22:1-51 October 16. NOTE NEW TIME Sunday, October 13 Friday, October 25 Sukkot Eve Service 7:00 pm Shabbat Eve Service 7:30 pm Birthday blessings for all those celebrat - Our CEEBJ Band will play. ing birthdays in the month of October Childcare will be provided. A bring-your-own dinner will precede Sukkah the service at 6:00 pm in the Sukkah. Saturday, October 26 Decorating Bonanza Shabbat Morning Study Minyan 9:00 am Monday, October 14 Shabbat Morning Service 10:30 am Saturday, October 12, Sukkot Morning Service 10:30 am Jack Allan Graskamp will be called to 6:00 - 8:30 pm Followed by a catered festival lunch in the Torah as a Bar Mitzvah. the Sukkah.This event is free for the Torah Portion: Bereshit, Genesis 1:1-6:8 Dinner - Crafting entire family but to help us plan, please Prophetic Reading: Isaiah 42:5-43:10 Creating the make your reservations online at LONGEST PAPER CHAIN YET ceebj.org or call the synagoue office at Friday, November 1 Havdalah (414) 228-7545 by Thursday, October 10. Kabbalat Shabbat Service/ Special surprise Torah Portion: Leviticus 23:32-44 Early Shabbat Worship 6:15 pm Prophetic Reading: Zechariah 14:1-21 This event is free for the Saturday, November 2 Friday, October 18 entire family but to help us plan, Shabbat Morning Study Minyan 9:00 am Kabbalat Shabbat Service/ please make your reservations Boker Tov Totpalooza 9:30 am Early Shabbat Worship 6:15 pm online at ceebj.org or This is a service in song and dance for families call the synagoue office Saturday, October 19 at (414) 228-7545 with young children Shabbat Morning Study Minyan 9:00 am with special musical by Thursday, Shabbat Morning Service 10:30 am October 10 .