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Beth El Congregation April 2021 Akron, Ohio Nisan • Iyar 5781 BULLETIN OF BETH EL CONGREGATION APRIL 2021 AKRON, OHIO NISAN • IYAR 5781 Table of Contents All Israel are Responsible Rabbi’s Message ....................1 President’s Message ..............1 “All Israel are responsible for one another.” Bulletin Delivery ......................1 This statement, taken from the Talmud, is Lunch & Learn.........................1 scrolled on the beautiful Caring Team cards Synagogue Directory ..............2 printed by the Saferstein Caring Fund. In Memoriam ...........................2 In March I concluded teaching an eight-week Sisterhood ...............................2 adult ed course on the writings and teaching of Tree of Life ..............................2 Rabbi Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacksz”l. In one class we Beth El in Your Will .................2 read: “Love, friendship and influence are things Schedule of Services ..............2 Elyssa Austerklein Candle Lighting, Havdalah ......2 that only exist by virtue of sharing. I call these Yahrzeits .................................3 covenantal goods - goods such that, the more I share, the more I have. In Calendar .................................3 the short term at least, wealth and power are zero-sum games. If I win, you Leaving Egypt – for Real ........4 lose. If you win, I lose. Covenantal goods are non-zero-sum Rabbi → page 4 Leagrams ................................5 Education Program .................6 Tikkun Leil Shavuot ...............6 Still Reaching Out – Musical Renaissance ..............7 Adjusting Venue Passover Schedule .................8 Adult Ed: Jewish Labyrinth .....8 At the Beth El Board of Director’s meeting in Mimouna Celebration ..............8 February we discussed the Bulletin of Beth El Remember the Holocaust .......9 Congregation. That is the formal title of the Israel Festival ..........................9 written newsletter the entire membership Contributions ........................ 10 receives through the mail every month. Even Three Yoms ......................... 11 more specifically the discussion centered on Color Bulletin on the Web .... 12 Sharon Merklin the format of the Bulletin and the way it is Musical Journeys ................. 12 President distributed. This monthly publication is the main form of communication for our synagogue. It is the way we let everyone know what is going on with all our events, programs, and holiday celebrations. From the President → page 11 NOTICE: Bulletin Delivery • As Beth El moves forward, the Board of Directors Please Join Us at Noon has approved sending Beth El’s Bulletin digitally in the next few months. No date has been determined. The digital newsletter will save Beth El money, save the Tuesday, April 13 environment, and will be sent via e-mail that you could choose to print in your home. - Virtual Meeting - If you still want a version to be mailed to you, let Jen know by calling her at 330- Please enjoy your lunch 864-2105 x 118 to leave a message or e-mail [email protected] to let in your home or office. us know how you want to receive the Bulletin. Check your e-mail to log in. Page 2 BULLETIN OF BETH EL CONGREGATION In Memoriam SCHEDULE Beth El Congregation notes with sorrow OF SERVICES the passing of Beth El Congregation Dr. Leon Wyant Husband of Elaine; APRIL 2021 750 White Pond Drive father of Mark, Neil, and Lori; grandfather of Akron, OH 44320 NISAN/IYAR Matthew, Andrew, Samara, and Benjamin www.bethelakron.com 5781 Office: (330) 864-2105 [email protected] Affiliated with Morning Taste of Torah Minyan The United Synagogue of Monday,April 19, 7 PM Sunday 8:45 AM Conservative Judaism Beth El - WOMEN’S LEAGUE FOR L’chaim Cooking Club Wednesday & CONSERVATIVE The Jewish Theological JUDAISM Monday,April 26, 6 PM Seminary of America Friday Rabbi Elyssa Austerklein I hope this is finding everyone well and those 7:30 AM [email protected] eligible now are getting vaccinated. If you are having Hazzan Matthew Austerklein [email protected] difficulty getting scheduled, please let me know. We Shabbat Stephen Grundfast have people who can help. If you know anyone, our Rabbi Emeritus sunshine committee can reach out. Please contact Stephen Stein Services Hazzan Emeritus Sandy Schneider. Saturday 10 AM Sharon Merklin You should have received a Leagram letter (a President Beth El [email protected] form is on page 5). Please return it as soon as possible. Stacey Simonton This is a Sisterhood fundraiser and we need your President Elect Gregg Manes support. Vice President Shalom, David Stock Treasurer Andrea Rabinovitz Susan Osherow & Debra Shifrin Candle Lighting Co-Secretaries April 2 ....... 7:34 PM Julie Katz Don’t Director of Education Tree of Life April 9 ....... 7:42 PM Jenifer Jeney Forget April 16 ..... 7:49 PM Manager of Synagogue Services April 23 ..... 7:57 PM [email protected] Our magnificent Tree of Life was Beth El in April 30 ..... 8:04 PM Robynne McKee created to record the happy events Administrative Assistant in the lives of Beth El members Your Will [email protected] and their families. A birth, a Laurel Gress Baalat Koreh wedding, a bar/bat mitzvah, a [email protected] confirmation, an anniversary – all Leonard Rose are among the milestones that can Editor be remembered on the leaves of For Vol. LXXVI No. 6 Havdalah The Bulletin is published monthly by the Tree of Life. The cost of a leaf information, call Beth El Congregation is $125. You may use three or four April 3 ....... 8:35 PM 750 White Pond Dr., Akron, Ohio 44320 lines with up to 23 letters per line. Marsha April 10 ..... 8:51 PM (USPS 052-100) April 17 ..... 8:58 PM Postmaster: Send address changes to To order, call Friedman Bulletin of Beth El Congregation, Endowment Chair April 24 ..... 9:06 PM 750 White Pond Dr., Akron, Ohio 44320 Sherri Leubitz Periodicals postage paid at Akron, Ohio. 330-867-0364 330-603-1890 This is the newest leaf on Beth El’s Tree of Life Happy 70th Birthdays BULLETIN OF BETH EL CONGREGATION Page 3 April 1-2 Theresia Lowy Betty Milton Arnold Glick Amy Dworkin Sylvia May YAHRZEITS Isaac Morris Dorothy Green Bessie Haberman Joshua Daniel Moss Ada Raipstein Gerald Gruber Mayme Jacobs Mollie Nyman Sam Rapport Morris Gutterman Theodore Kahan Shirley Perlman Mary Federhar Frank Stein Doris Rossen Isaac Joseph Harary Stan May Edward R. Platt Rose Feldman Inge Steinberger Mark Rotbard Aaron Hendler Lena Narotsky Martin Polsky Sallie Fishman Rose Recht Weinberg Edmund Rothschild Morris Katz Morris Rosenfield David Recht Sarah Gilman Joseph Weiss Louis Schneider Reuben Katz Frances Ryb-Jacobson Mark Samuel Reuben Ida Goldstein Vivian Witt David Schnur Sarah Katz Herman Weisberg Carl Saferstein Nathan Gourse Isadore Stein Julis Jermyohu Kern Lola Salzman Anna Heisler April 17-23 Hyman Teichman Eva Levine April 3-9 David Shafer Bertha Iczkovitz Aaron H. Alpern Molly Vigder William Mendel Nicki Aster Eli Snyder David Katz Goldie R. Alpern Sadie Welsh Ida Merkin Michael Cohen Pearl Judith Steinberger Nathan Katz Henry Ashrey Allison Willen Eugene Meyer Philip Dienoff Sam Swerdlin Louis Krasnoff Ethel Braunstein Abraham Woloveck Jennifer Moss Laura Lee Garfinkel Shirley Wagan Evelyn Pryweller Maurer Robert Clar Ben Zwelling Doris Nemeroff Sylvia Glick Kenneth Weintraub Hyman Max Mirman Sidney Effross Melissa Nusbaum Eric Goldsmith Harvey Winer Sam Myers Bernat Federhar April 24-30 Louis Raipstein Rhoda Gordon Morris Zetzer Ruth Nelson Max Garson Minnie Berenson Tema Rivkees Karen Greenlick Landon Zuckerman Herman Reiss Ruth Gottlieb Betty Berid Herman Rudolf Leonard Groden Raphael Rothkin Jean Gross Peshe Bershon Allan Sandel Joseph Haber April 10-16 David M. Savage Anne Hoffman Harold Cohen May Schechter Meyer Jacobs Harry Berloff Gershon Schwartz Selma Korsun Mollye Cohen Rolinda Schneiderman Sylvia Katz Abe Cohen Oscar Sheff Paul Lewis Rae Cohen Gertrude Shapiro Jack Kutnick Ida Cohen Anna Snyder Rebecca Lockshin Alex Davidson Lois Shifrin Pearl Leubitz Sarah Corman Abe J. Sokol Zelda May Bernard Friedman David Welsh Pearl G. Liberman Harry Crigger Doris Sokol Morris Mendelson Daisy Giller Morris Widlus Rose Lowy Fred Dennis Olga Glass Jeanette Willdman Please inform the office of Yahrzeit omissions or corrections. Nisan 5781 April 2021 Iyar 5781 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Let Us Know 1 19 Nisan 2 20 Nisan 3 21 Nisan Our clergy are eager to talk to congregants in the hospital but can’t if they don't know. If you or Passover Chanting someone you know is in the hospital or sick at and Meditation 10 AM home, and would appreciate a pastoral phone call, please let us know. Pesach Pesach 7th Day of Pesach 4 22 Nisan 5 23 Nisan 6 24 Nisan 7 25 Nisan 8 26 Nisan 9 27 Nisan 10 28 Nisan Passover Service and Hebrew School 4 PM JCBA Yom HaShoah Shimini Yizkor 9:30 AM Mimouna Celebration Shabbat Mevarchim 1 PM 8th Day of Pesach Yom HaShoah Pesach 11 29 Nisan 12 30 Nisan 13 1 Iyar 14 2 Iyar 15 3 Iyar 16 4 Iyar 17 5 Iyar Pesach Lunch & Learn 12 Noon Hazzan’s JTS Super Hero Shabbat Tazria-Metzora Hebrew School 4 PM Library Lecture 7:30 Board Meeting 7 PM Rosh Chodesh Rosh Chodesh Yom Hazikaron Yom Ha'Atzmaut 18 6 Iyar 19 7 Iyar 20 8 Iyar 21 9 Iyar 22 10 Iyar 23 11 Iyar 24 12 Iyar Taste of Torah 7 PM Hebrew School 4 PM Acherei Mot-Kedoshim Lay-led Shabbat 10 AM on Zoom 25 13 Iyar 26 14 Iyar 27 15 Iyar 28 16 Iyar 29 17 Iyar 30 18 Iyar Services (unless otherwise noted) Italian L’Chaim Cooking Club Hebrew School 4 PM Sunday 8:45 AM Jewish Music Series 6 PM Wednesday 7:30 AM 2 PM Friday 7:30 AM Lag B’Omer Saturday 10:00 AM Page 4 BULLETIN OF BETH EL CONGREGATION Rabbi from page 1 games, meaning, if I win, you also win. … Covenantal goods are the arenas of co-operation. Covenantal goods exist wherever human relationships are structured … around collective belonging and shared responsibility, around, in other words, the principle of ‘All Israel are responsible for one another.’” What are we doing as a congregation to enact this principle? In this sense of cooperation that Rabbi Sacks is speaking of there is no hierarchy and distinction between people attached to the community - we are ALL responsible for one another and should all be shown care and love.
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