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ORZ 510 Jan/Feb News, 18.3 A Traditional, Egalitarian, and Participatory Conservative Synagogue CELEBRATING 25 YEARS IYAR I/SIVAN/TAMMUZ 5774 NEWSLETTER/VOLUME 26:5 MAY/JUNE 2014 Shavuot Panel Discussion “Let Your Imagination Run Wild: How Imagination, Creativity, OZ HIGHLIGHTS and Breaking Boundaries Keep Us Going Forward” May–June 2014 TIKKUN LEYL SHAVUOT, TUESDAY NIGHT, JUNE 3 Torah Learning Coalition Ma’ariv begins at 8:20 p.m., followed by panel and dairy feast The Pirke Avot Dialogues THURSDAYS, VARIOUS LOCATIONS May 8, and May 22, 7:30 p.m. ome hear fellow Congregants share how creativity and imagination shape May 1, May 15, and May 29, 1:00 p.m. discuss the impact of imagina- their thinking and work in their respective See page 5 for details. tion and creativity on Judaism, realms. As the boundaries between disci- art, and technology. Speakers plines blur and change, how do scholars, Adult Education Course will be Rabbi Paulette Posner, artists, and technologists think about with Marc Ashley C THOUGH HE MAYTARRY: director of Jewish Education at the 92nd where and how to break with tradition and Street Y; Dan Labovitz, a securities indus- where to build bridges between disciplines? MESSIANISM IN JEWISH THOUGHT try consultant and intaglio artist, whose How can openness to new ideas and Sundays, May 4, 18, 25, and June 1, 10:00 a.m. work has been shown in New York, San rethinking old orthodoxies move us forward, See page 3 for details. Francisco, and Prague; Suzanne Spector, Jewishly and generally? But also, how far is technology editor at The New York Times too far? When should we tame our imagina- OZ Stroller Shabbat and a lawyer; and Rabbi Melinda Zalma, a tions, and when should we let them run for Families with Young Children chaplain in the Reserve Component of the wild? Join us for an insightful exploration LUNCH, SCHMOOZE, AND PLAY U.S. Navy with a master’s in Midrash. into the world of creativity! Saturday, May 17, around noon In keeping with the revelatory nature of Dairy treats, traditional on Shavuot, See page 10 for details. the holiday, we will ask our panelists to will follow the panel discussion. Lag B’Omer CHARLIE SPIELHOLZ with Rabbi Bolton LEARNING AND L’CHAIM Saturday, May 17, 9:00 p.m. See page 4 for details. OZ Israel Trip Group Travel with Rabbi Bolton INFORMATIONAL MEETING See page 13 for details. Hevruta: Talmud Seminar with Rabbi Dr. Mordechai Schwartz INFORMATIONAL MEETING Tuesday, May 20, 7:30 p.m. See page 7 for details. MARCH WITH US IN THE CELEBRATE ISRAEL PARADE, SUNDAY, JUNE 1. The theme, “50 Silver Lights Gala Ways to Celebrate Israel,” will highlight Israel’s achievements. For OZ marchers, assembly Celebrating 25 Years location and step-off time will be announced by email. To sign up and reserve your parade MUSIC BY THE ANDY STATMAN BAND The Pierre, Wednesday, November 12 T-shirt, contact Ilana Burgess at 212-452-2310, extension 15, or [email protected]. See page 5 for details. For observers, the parade will be held along Fifth Avenue, from 57th to 74th Street, beginning at 11:00 a.m. Additional Celebrate Israel programs are listed on page 5. 1 CONGREGATION OR ZARUA MAY/JUNE 2014 President’s Message by Diane Okrent his is my lively and upbeat. Adults, teens, and chil- A CONSERVATIVE SYNAGOGUE 18th and dren are engaged, involved, and learning. FOUNDED 1989 concluding Rabbi Bolton has inspired new educational newsletter opportunities for all. He initiated, and has 127 East 82nd Street column as helped expand, the East Side Torah New York, NY 10028 T president of Congrega- Learning Coalition. Now comprising 11 phone: 212-452-2310 fax: 212-452-2103 tion Or Zarua. It has congregations—two Orthodox, five www.orzarua.org been an honor and a Conservative, and four Reform—the East SCOTT N. BOLTON, Rabbi privilege to lead this wonderful community Side TLC is, once again, offering Pirke Avot DR. HARLAN J. WECHSLER, Rabbi Emeritus for the past three years. As I said at last classes between Pesah and Shavuot. DIANE OKRENT, President year’s Annual Meeting, I want to thank the These will continue on Thursdays through HENRY GLANTERNIK, Treasurer founders of Or Zarua for their foresight in May 29. Check the calendar for times HELENE SANTO, Executive Director setting term limits so that no individual and locations. ILANA BURGESS, Youth Education Director can hold an office for more than three CHARLES SPIELHOLZ, Newsletter Editor years in succession. It has proven healthy abbi Bolton often engaged for the individuals and for the organization. members of the community as We have seen many changes at the he has reached out in times of OZ Committee Chairs synagogue since 2011. I was elected joy and sadness. Many mem- soon after Rabbi Wechsler announced his Rbers have shared with me how ADMINISTRATION Sara Stone retirement. Then, less than a month later, he has brought them comfort and conso- ADULT EDUCATION Laura Resnikoff we learned that we could not use the lation at a time of illness or loss. And AESTHETICS Aaron Shelden Ramaz Upper School for our High Holy Day many have shared how happy they have services in 2011 as we had for the previ- been sharing their simchas with him. ART GALLERY Bobbi Coller ous 19 years. Three weeks after that, Many have remarked at how quickly he BOOK DISCUSSION Reed Schneider while the Board was meeting to vote on became “our rabbi.” BUILDING Alan Ilberman the decision to hold services at the New Transition continued this past year CEMETERY Aliza Kaplan York Academy of Medicine, we learned as we hired our new executive director, Mort Schwartz that Kehilath Jeshurun was on fire. So Helene Santo. Helene has brought DEVELOPMENT Andrew Plevin my presidency started with something of renewed energy and organization to our EDUCATION David Bergman a bang! staff. She has tackled many of the chal- AND YOUTH Dara Shapiro The focus of my first year was the lenges of the community and our maturing HESED Richard Stadin rabbinic search and the activities sur- building with grace and resourcefulness. Susan Lorin rounding the search. Two years ago, I As I leave office, I thank you, the HEVRA KADISHA Roberta Hufnagel presided at the Annual Meeting during members, for your encouragement and Gerry Solomon which we voted to hire Rabbi Bolton. support. I appreciate the time, creativity, ISRAEL Aliza Kaplan During my second year as president and resources so many of you bring to OZ. we concentrated on the rabbinic transition I want to give special thanks to the com- LIBRARY Barry Feldman —helping Rabbi Bolton adjust to Or Zarua mittee chairs and their members, the MARKETING AND Dara Shapiro and helping Or Zarua adjust to Rabbi Executive Committee, and the Board of COMMUNICATIONS Aaron Shelden Bolton. From my perspective, the transi- Trustees for all their hard work to make MINYAN Sheldon Adler tion has been a tremendous success. this a vibrant, thriving organization. I am ORAL HISTORY Mimi Alperin Rabbi Bolton has brought new energy to particularly grateful to have had the oppor- PUBLIC RELATIONS Aaron Shelden all aspects of Or Zarua. He has created a tunity to work with both Rabbi Wechsler READERS Marc Ashley wonderful vibe in the shul—and buzz out- and Rabbi Bolton to enhance what Or AND LEADERS J ay Palmer side the Congregation. His enthusiasm is Zarua offers its members and the larger WEBMASTER Jay Palmer contagious. His warm embrace and ability Jewish community. If you are interested in serving on a synagogue to engage members of all ages are recog- With all good wishes, committee, please contact the office for the nized and much appreciated. Services are Diane committee chair’s email address. 2 WWW.ORZARUA.ORG MAY/JUNE 2014 Or Zarua Book Discussions MY PROMISED LAND: THE TRIUMPH AND TRAGEDY OF ISRAEL, BY ARI SHAVIT led by Aliza Kaplan, Sunday, May 4, 7:30 p.m. lease join us for saw that the future Israel’s nuclear program in the 1960s, in our next Or Zarua of his people was the only interview he ever gave; the reli- book discussion there; the idealistic gious Zionists who started the settler on Sunday, May 4, young farmer who movement in the 1970s; the dot-com Pat 7:30 p.m. in bought land from entrepreneurs and young men and women Or Zarua’s library, when Aliza his Arab neighbor, behind Tel Aviv’s booming club scene; and Kaplan will lead a discus- in the 1920s, to today’s architects of Israel’s foreign policy sion of My Promised Land: grow the Jaffa to counter Iran’s nuclear threat. The Triumph and Tragedy of oranges that would As it examines the complexities and Israel, by Ari Shavit, aw Ne support a thriving contradictions of the Israeli condition, My York Times bestseller and economy; the Promised Land asks difficult but important winner of the National Book visionary youth questions: Why did Israel come to be? Award. group leader who, How did it come to be? Can Israel sur- The book is an authori- in the 1940s, vive? Culminating with an analysis of the tative and deeply personal transformed issues and threats that Israel is currently narrative history of the State Masada from the facing, My Promised Land uses the defin- of Israel by one of the most neglected ruins of ing events of the past to shed new light influential journalists writing an extremist sect on the present. about the Middle East today. into a powerful “Israel is not a proposition, it is a Ari Shavit draws on interviews, historical symbol for Zionism; a young man who was country.
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