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Sunday, March 3 Wednesday, April 3 8:45am – Sisterhood Hamentashen Baking 7:00pm – Adult Choir 9:00am – Jewish Learning Program Thursday, April 4 These events are just those already 9:30am – Stitch n’Kvetch NFTY-OV Spring Kallah scheduled by this issue’s print Tuesday, March 5 Friday, April 5 deadline. Please remember to check 7:00pm – Needle Night at Morningside NFTY-OV Spring Kallah the calendar at www.ihcindy.org, Wednesday, March 6 Saturday, April 6 read your Weekly E-news, and check 9:30am – Torah Talk NFTY-OV Spring Kallah Facebook for our most up-to-date 6:00pm – Social Justice Committee meeting Sunday, April 7 listings. If you have an event that 6:30pm – Brotherhood Meeting NFTY-OV Spring Kallah needs to be listed on the calendar, 6:30pm – Derech Torah 9:30am – Adult Ed: ABCs of Being Jewish please contact [email protected]. 7:00pm – Adult Choir 2:30pm – LAF/Beth Elders Jewish 7:00pm – Chai Mitzvah Broadway Concert 7:00pm – Klezmer Rehearsal Tuesday, April 9 Sunday, March 10 12:00pm – Jewish Book Club 8:45am – Sisterhood Hamentashen Baking 6:00pm – Women’s Seder 9:00am – Jewish Learning Program Wednesday, April 10 9:30am – Stitch n’Kvetch 9:30am – Torah Talk 10:30am – Derech Torah 6:30pm – Adult Ed: Taste of Judaism 11:00am – Small Chai Event 6:30pm – Derech Torah Tuesday, March 12 6:30pm – Sisterhood Board Meeting 12:00pm – Jewish Book Club 7:00pm – Adult Choir Wednesday, March 13 Thursday, April 11 9:30am – Torah Talk 5:00pm – Adamah Meeting 6:00pm – LAF Dine Around 5:30pm – Executive Committee Meeting 6:30pm – Brotherhood Sunday, April 14 6:30pm – Derech Torah 9:00am – Jewish Learning Program 6:30pm – Sisterhood Board Meeting 9:30am – Adult Ed: ABCs of Being Jewish 7:00pm – Adult Choir 9:30am – Stitch n’Kvetch 7:00pm – Klezmer Rehearsal 10:30am – Derech Torah Thursday, March 14 11:00am – Small Chai Event ECC Grandparent’s Day 12:45pm – Rishonim Event 5:00pm – Adamah Meeting Wednesday, April 17 5:30pm – Executive Committee Meeting ECC Seder Lunch Sunday, March 17 9:30am – Torah Talk 10:00am – Purim Megillah Reading 6:30pm – Adult Ed: Taste of Judaism 11:00am – IFTY Purim Carnival & 6:30pm – Derech Torah Brotherhood Luncheon 7:00pm – Adult Choir Wednesday, March 20 Thursday, April 18 9:30am – Torah Talk 6:00pm – IHC Board Meeting 7:00pm – Adult Choir Saturday, April 20 Thursday, March 21 6:00pm – Second Night Seder 6:00pm – IHC Board Meeting Tuesday, April 23 Friday, March 22 6:00pm – Foundation Board Meeting 5:30pm – LAF & Silver Linings Tour Wednesday, April 24 Sunday, March 24 9:30am – Torah Talk 9:30am – Adult Ed: ABCs of Being Jewish 6:30pm – Adult Ed: Taste of Judaism Wednesday, March 27 7:00pm – Adult Choir 7:00pm – Adult Choir Friday, April 26 Friday, March 29 7:15pm – LAF End of Passover Dinner 6:15pm – Sisterhood Shabbat Program with Indy Chai Sunday, March 31 Sunday, April 28 9:30am – Adult Ed: ABCs of Being Jewish 9:00am – Jewish Learning Program Tuesday, April 2 9:30am – Stitch n’Kvetch 7:00pm – Needle Night at Morningside 12:30pm – JIFTY Board Meeting

2 IHC KULANU • MARCH/APRIL 2019 www.ihcindy.org MARCH AND APRIL WORSHIP SCHEDULE Shabbat – Vayak’heil Ex. 35:1-38:20 Saturday, March 30, 2019 Rabbi Krichiver returns from his Friday, March 1, 2019 8:30am ...... Shabbat Morning Warmup much deserved Sabbatical. 5:30pm ...... Remembrance Service 9:00am ...... Tanakh Study 6:15pm...... Traditional Shabbat 10:30am ...... Shabbat Worship Join us for a special Nefesh Oneg Shabbat Following Service Shabbat – Tazria Lev. 6:1-8:36 Shabbat on March 15 to hear Saturday, March 2, 2019 Friday, April 5, 2019 about his experience. 8:30am ...... Shabbat Morning Warmup 5:30pm ...... Remembrance Service 9:00am ...... Tanakh Study 6:15pm ...... Traditional Shabbat 9:30am ...... Shabbat Playdate Oneg Shabbat Following Service 10:30am...... Shabbat Worship Saturday, April 6, 2019 Shabbat – P’kudei Ex. 38:21-40-30 8:30am...... Shabbat Morning Warmup Friday, March 8, 2019 9:00am ...... Tanakh Study 5:30pm ...... Remembrance Service 10:30am...... Shabbat Worship TELL & KVELL 5:45pm ...... Early Oneg Shabbat Shabbat – M’tzora Lev. 14:1-15:33 Congrats and Condolences 6:15pm ...... Traditional Shabbat Friday, April 12, 2019 Saturday, March 9, 2019 We note with sorrow 5:30pm...... Remembrance Service 8:30am ...... Shabbat Morning Warmup the deaths of: 6:15...... Mispacha Mean Family 9:00am ...... Tanakh Study 6:15pm...... Nefesh Shabbat Shabbat Guy Miller, brother of Sari (Rick) 10:30am ...... Shabbat Worship 6:15...... Z’man Kodesh Ohrn; uncle of Hannah, Madeleine, Shabbat – Vayikra Lev. 1:1-5:26 Oneg Shabbat Following Service Matthew, and Zachary Friday, March 15, 2019 Saturday, April 13, 2019 Naoom Haimson, father of Barbara 5:30pm ...... Remembrance Service 8:30am...... Shabbat Morning Warmup (Elliot) Feltman; grandfather of 6:15pm ...... Nefesh Shabbat 9:00am ...... Tanakh Study Daniel Feltman and Rachel Lamson 6:15pm ...... Z’man Kodesh 10:30am...... Shabbat Worship Oneg Shabbat Following Service Joseph Moheban, husband of Shabbat – Yom Rishon Shel Pesach Ex. Saturday, March 16, 2019 Carolyn; father of Greg (Marty) 12:37-42,13 8:30am ...... Shabbat Morning Warmup Moheban Friday, April 19, 2019 9:00am ...... Tanakh Study First Night of Pesach- No Service Barbara “Bobbi” Ann Rosenbaum, 10:30am ...... Shabbat Worship Saturday, April 20, 2019 widow of Steve Rosenbaum; mother Shabbat – Tzav Lev. 6:1-8:36 8:30am...... Shabbat Morning Warmup of Darlene (Ray) Slaby Friday, March 22, 2019 9:00am ...... Tanakh Study Joan Atlass 5:30pm ...... Remembrance Service 10:30am...... Shabbat Worship 5:30...... Tot Shabbat *As of January 26 6:15pm...... Traditional Shabbat Shabbat – Acharei Mot I Lev. 26:1-17:16 Oneg Shabbat Following Service Friday, April 26, 2019 Saturday, March 23, 2019 5:30pm ...... Remembrance Service 8:30am ...... Shabbat Morning Warmup 6:15pm ...... Traditional Shabbat 9:00am ...... Tanakh Study Oneg Shabbat Following Services MAZEL TOV! 10:30am ...... Shabbat Worship Saturday, April 27, 2019 Bar Mitzvah Sam Rubin 8:30am...... Shabbat Morning Warmup We announce with joy this 9:00am ...... Tanakh Study Bar/Bat Mitzvot ... Shabbat – Sh’mini Parah Lev. 9:1-11:47 10:30am...... Shabbat Worship Friday, March 29, 2019 Sam Rubin will be 5:30pm ...... Remembrance Service called to the Torah on 6:15pm ...... Sisterhood Shabbat March 23, 2019. He Oneg Shabbat Following Service is the son of Kirsten and Adam Rubin and the brother to Alex SHABBAT BABYSITTING and Owen. Sam is Did you know that babysitting is available at no cost to you on Friday nights during a seventh grader at our Shabbat services? The one exception is for Nefesh Shabbat (the third Friday of Clay Middle School. He enjoys playing the month) when we offer Z’man Kodesh for your children. Z’man Kodesh offers guitar, sax, tennis, and traveling, hanging a craft or other programming for the children. We offer these options so you can out with friends, and going to overnight experience Shabbat while your kids are cared for by one of our experienced ECC camp. Sam LOVES his dogs, Hoosier and staff members. Rosalita. Please check your child/children, ages 1-6, in at room 109 before the service and gather them prior to the Oneg Shabbat.

IHC KULANU • MARCH/APRIL 2019 www.ihcindy.org 3 PURIM IS MARCH 20-21, WITH IHC’S COMMUNITY CELEBRATION ON MARCH 17. JUST IN CASE YOU FORGOT, HERE IS WHAT PURIM IS ALL ABOUT: Purim is celebrated with a public reading—usually in the synagogue—of the Book of Esther (M'gillat Esther), which tells the story of the holiday. Under the rule of King Ahashverosh, Haman, the king's prime minister, plots to exterminate all of the Jews of Persia. His plan is foiled by Queen Esther and her cousin Mordechai, who ultimately saves the Jews of Persia from destruction. The reading of the m'gillah typically is a rowdy affair, punctuated by booing and noise-making when Haman's name is read aloud. Purim is an unusual holiday in many respects. First, Esther is the only biblical book in which God is not mentioned. Second, Purim, like Hanukkah, traditionally is viewed as a minor festival, but is elevated to a major holiday as a result of the Jewish historical experience. Over the centuries, Haman became the embodiment of every anti-Semite in every land where Jews were oppressed. The significance of Purim lies not so much in how it began, but in what it has become: a thankful and joyous affirmation of Jewish survival against all odds. In the Book of Esther, we read that Purim is a time for "feasting and merrymaking," as well as for "sending gifts to one another and presents to the poor" (Esther 9:22). In addition to reading the M'gillah (Book of Esther), celebrants dress in costumes, have festive parties, perform "Purim-spiels," silly theatrical adaptations of the story of the M'gillah, send baskets of food (mishloach manot) to friends, and give gifts to the poor (matanot l'evyonim). Here are some fun ways to celebrate Purim: Eat Hamentaschen: (Yiddish for Haman's pockets) These treats are three-cornered pastries filled with poppy seeds (mohn in Yiddish), fruit preserves, chocolate, or other ingredients that are traditionally eaten on Purim. In Israel during the weeks leading up to Purim, the aroma of freshly baked hamentaschen can be smelled on every block. Their triangular shape is thought to be be reminiscent of Haman's hat or ears. Give Gifts of Food: Mishloach manot are gifts of food that friends (and prospective new friends!) exchange on Purim. Often presented in baskets, most mishloach manot include hamentaschen. Matanot l'evyonim (gifts to the poor) are gifts given at this season to those in need so that they, too, can celebrate Purim with a special meal. Many families have committed to participating in this important social justice aspect of the holiday. Dress in Costume: As part of the carnival-like atmosphere of Purim, many children and adults wear costumes. Some attribute this tradition to the fact that Esther initially “masked” her Jewish identity. Now a vibrant and widely practiced custom, some choose to dress as characters from the Purim story, while others select Jewish heroes from throughout history. Hear the Reading of the M'gillah (scroll): Also known as the "Book of Esther." According to the Talmud, "The study of Torah is interrupted for the reading of the M'gillah." Maimonides, a 12th century sage and rabbi, teaches, "The reading of the M'gillah certainly supersedes all other mitzvot." A number of customs are associated with the reading. Haman, the enemy of the Jews in this story, is associated with all those who have tried to destroy the Jewish people throughout history. Therefore, we make loud noises—verbally or with noisemakers—at every mention of Haman’s name in order to drown it out. Derived from the Polish word meaning “rattle,” a grogger is the noisemaker used to drown out the name of Haman during the reading of the M'gillah. Beginning in the 13th century, Jews throughout Europe sounded the grogger as a part of their Purim celebrations. A Purimspiel (pronounced shpeel, rhymes with "reel") is a humorous skit presented on Purim. Most parody the story of the Book of Esther, but it also is common for participants to take the opportunity to poke some gentle fun at themselves and their idiosyncrasies. Special thanks to reformjudaism.org for this article.

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4 IHC KULANU • MARCH/APRIL 2019 www.ihcindy.org CLERGY CORNER

Rabbi Scott Fox; [email protected]

I don’t actually think that it happened that way. I don’t. I know that historians would hear that and point out all of the details in the text. I’m sure that scholars would say that usually when the text talks about real people in history, real rulers and figures, that it’s very likely that it’s drawing on real events. Before we had social media feeds, documentaries and scholarly books, the way we told time and what happened in the past was in this way. When a major event took place, we would tell it as a story. The Megillah, the story of Esther, reads like a historical account of real events. But I still don’t think it happened that way. Every year we come together to retell the story. Ahasuerus throws a big party and asks the Queen to come in and dance naked in front of his friends. She, a proto-feminist (!), does not want to and so refuses. Ahasuerus divorces her and holds a beauty contest for another queen. Esther is picked. Meanwhile, Haman (boo), is insulted by Esther’s uncle Mordecai and plans to commit genocide, killing all of the Jews in Ahasuerus’ quite extensive empire. Esther reverses this plan and Haman and his entire family are killed instead. Even just in this retelling I had to take out details, rearrange the words in the scroll and adapt them for modern language and today’s readership. How could it possibly be that this story has stayed the same after thousands of years? All the more so, how could this story have been recorded in a way that captured it exactly? Things change. That’s part of the power of the story. It’s not meant to be the same every year. Each year we come together and we do read from the scroll, share the same words that have been read for generations, but then we take those words and embellish them. We are a people of stories, we love to tell them, hear them, and then reimagine and tell them again. There is a funny commandment that surrounds Purim. The mitzvah states that we should hear the story of Esther every year. It’s peculiar that it would say hear, and not just read it. There’s a reason for that. To hear the story you have to be with someone else, you have to hear someone else tell the story, and any time one person is trying to explain something to another they reach out a little bit. They maybe add a detail that wasn’t there last time, make a joke just for the listener, and by the time they’re finished the story is not quite the same as it was last year. I can’t wait to hear the story this year (a la the Beatles!) told a little differently, just for you and me, and not quite the way it actually happened. Chag Purim Sameach!

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IHC KULANU • MARCH/APRIL 2019 www.ihcindy.org 5 PASSOVER IS APRIL 19-27 While it may seem overwhelming, it’s not bad if you plan in advance. Here is a helpful check-list to help you get ready: 1. Cleaning Perhaps you can prepare some questions about the Passover Before Passover, the house needs to be cleaned so that all story to ask the children during the seder. chametz (leavened products) are removed. Our Adamah Is there something you can do to make the seder this year Initiative has advice to “greenify” your home while doing especially memorable, like having a theme, assigning parts or Passover and Spring Cleaning on page 10. coming in costume? Don’t forget, our Sisterhood Gift Shop 2. Shopping is fully stocked with everything you need for Passover, Then it's time to run to the store to get all those specialty including hostess gifts, if you are a guest at someone else’s Passover foods and products. So many kosher for Passover table. cakes, cookies, and cereals. One can almost last the whole 7. Preparing the Passover Plate week without missing chametz too much. At the same time, It is important to prepare the six symbolic items - zeroa, these specialty Passover products tend to be expensive and beitza, karpas, maror, chazeret, charoset—which should go on fattening. If you want to keep your money with you and extra the seder plate. Look for modern day items and try them out! pounds off you, buy extra fruits and vegetables to eat during Passover. 8. Setting the Passover Table The following is needed to set the table for the Passover To minimize return trips to the store, make a careful shopping Seder: list. What will you be serving for the seder? What dishes do you plan to make during the week? Once you have your seder • Festive tablecloth and napkins and weekly meals planned, try to create a shopping list that • Kosher for Passover dishes, flatware, water glasses, enables you to do all your Passover shopping in one stop. and wine glasses 3. Cooking • Small dishes of salt water for dipping Now that the house is stocked, it is time to start to cook for the • Enough bottles of wine and grape juice for each person Seder. Better put aside at least 2 days to cook for the Seder, to have four cups as many of the dishes are not ones you do every day and you • A special wine cup reserved for Elijah may be lacking some of the accessories with which you usually • A plate with 3 pieces of matzah on it and a cover over it cook. While cooking, be careful to keep the remaining chametz • Seder plate you have in the house in a separate area. • Haggadot 4. Selling the Chametz We are commanded to have no chametz in our possession Each place setting should include a plate, flatware, a water during Passover. Do we have to burn the closed bag of glass, a wine glass, and a Haggadah. Soup bowls can be kept schnitzel in the freezer? No. Our rabbis have made it possible in the kitchen and used to serve the soup. The salt water for us to sell this chametz to a non-Jew prior to the holiday. If dishes and wine or grape juice bottles should be spread out this is not part of your tradition, think of donating unopened on the table so everyone can reach them. An empty wine items. Better yet, purchase Passover items and bring them glass should be placed in the middle of the table for Elijah. A to the Women’s Seder or deliver them directly to Jewish newer tradition is to add a Miriam’s Cup to the table. Family Services. 9. Shabbat 5. Searching for Chametz Please note that this year, the first night of Passover falls Finally, it is the night before Passover, and it is time to gather on Shabbat. It is one of the only times during the year that your family in your sparkling clean home for Bidikat Chametz. we do not have a Shabbat service scheduled, so you may enjoy your first night seder. 6. Planning the Seder It is a good idea to put some time and thought into the kind 10. Pesach Kasher! of seder service you want. Or you may not want to do all the Make your seder a memorable and enjoyable experience for work, so consider joining IHC for our Second Night Seder the whole family. (see next page.) If you are hosting: what Haggadah will you be using? Will there be children at the seder? Perhaps they can make place cards to put on the table so everyone will know where they will be sitting? Or they can make pictures Special Thanks to Lisa Katz. "10 Easy Steps for Easy of the Passover story to hang in the dining room. During the Passover Prep." ThoughtCo, Dec. 6, 2018. You can also visit seder itself, make sure there are opportunities for the children reformjudaism.org for more ideas, recipes to participate. Did the little ones practice singing the Four and learning for Passover. Questions? Did the older ones learn something about Passover at school which they can share with everyone at the table?

6 IHC KULANU • MARCH/APRIL 2019 www.ihcindy.org IHC’S PASSOVER HAPPENINGS IT’S PASSOVER SEDER MATCH TIME! We here at IHC pride ourselves on helping to connect Jews and the people they love to the community and to one another. And since our people are well-known for their matchmaking prowess, we proudly bring you our version, which of course is Kosher for Passover! Hosting a Seder? Looking to be hosted? Let us know and we'll try to make a match! Visit www.ihcindy.org to sign up or contact Patti Freeman Dorson at [email protected].

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Evelyn Pockrass, Librarian; [email protected] Early in January, we were able to plan an abbreviated version of the annual Religious School-Temple Library reading incentive program. How exciting it has been to offer IHC students a chance to participate in IHC Readers-We’re The Incredibles! The program runs through April 14, 2019 so children have time to join us for all the fun of reading Jewish books and gaining Jewish knowledge. This year, you just have to read two books to earn a prize. That should allow more opportunity to participate even though the time duration of the program is a few weeks shorter than usual. There are three pickup dates to select prizes: March 17 (day of the Purim celebration), April 28 and May 5, 2019. Refer to the flier for details or talk to Evelyn with your questions and comments. WHAT’S NEW Purim and Passover are two holidays that occur within a few weeks of each other but their origins are different and, certainly, their foods are different. In perusing some of the books in Temple Library’s collection of more than 150 cookbooks, there are always new recipes and ideas to discover. Look, for example, at The Essential Cookbook of Jewish Festival Cooking; 200 Seasonal Holiday Recipes and Their Traditions, by Phyllis and Miriyam Glazer, American-born sisters. When they wrote this cookbook, Phyllis had been living in Israel for years and Miriyam was in California. The Glazers have produced recipes from family and friends along with foods found in different parts of the world, most notably the Middle East. If you are searching for Purim delights other than hamentaschen (and the ones prepared by Temple Sisterhood are delicious!), you may want to think “out-of-the-box” for the holiday. Think Mishloah Manot (or what I grew up referring to as Shalach Manos, the small, mainly food holiday gifts) and prepare “makagigi” usually made with honey, nuts, sugar, and butter or lemon juice. For generations, these specialties have been favorites among the Jewish population in Poland. Looking for something new and interesting for Passover? If you have the time and are creative, the Glazer sisters offer a recipe for Moses in the Basket, dates stuffed with homemade marzipan. The marzipan is used to make the head and body of the little Moshe and the date is the basket. For more traditional cooking and baking, prepare pecan meringue cookies, thumbprint seeded rolls, Yemenite haroset, Spring vegetable kugel, harime (fish), or “The Perfect Knaidlach”. Enjoy exploring the many happy moments of Jewish culinary traditions and feel free to borrow one or more of our diverse Jewish cookbooks. When you return cookbooks be certain to let us know how your cooking adventure turned out! Most of all, celebrate with joy the fascinating customs and food during this transition period of seasons and holidays. Always remember that you are welcome to come to the Temple Library. Read, browse, borrow!

STAFF IN THE NEWS In January, we said our goodbyes to several of our longtime staff members: Lenore Lucero and Ben Addoquaye from our maintenance department, Susan Fox from our finance department and Lea Coleman, our Youth Director. We want to thank all of them for their many years of service. Meet our new staff members: Sarah MacDougall Kendra Steele joined our Connie Dowell joined has joined IHC as our staff in late October 2018 IHC’s maintenance new Communications as a temp and has held team. She is originally Coordinator. Sarah various administrative from Killeen, Texas and has a background positions throughout is from a military family. in graphic design, the years. She was a Connie grew up in San creating anything from limousine chauffeur for Antonio, Texas. She has logos to wedding invitations. 22 years and chauffeured lived in Indianapolis for She’s excited to jump in with both feet! for many Corporate VIP's and celebrities, the last 20 years. In her spare time, Sarah enjoys playing known locally and worldwide. Kendra Connie had her own business doing Ultimate Frisbee, checking out different was also an Entertainment Freelance residential cleaning for about 7 escape rooms, playing board games, Writer and Photographer for five local years. She also aided friends with and traveling. Sarah can be reached entertainment publications, serving as an some commercial cleaning. She is the at [email protected]. Associate Editor/Partner for one of them. mother of a 15 year old son and two Kendra is a native of Indianapolis and daughters who are 13 and 8. Connie graduated from Pike High School, has one considers herself crafty, creating flower daughter and one granddaughter. She arrangements and fashion designs. enjoys walking her dog, a 14 year old long haired Chihuahua, and spending time with her granddaughter.

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Marilyn Smith, Chair, [email protected] Rabbi Karen Bender explains, “The Seder is bittersweet, not only because we remember the bitterness of Egypt, but because there are still slaves and people who are oppressed. Passover is about every individual’s right to move from suffering and oppression to a place of safety and freedom.” Annually, Passover asks: what does our freedom compel us to do? We are mandated not only to recall our journey to freedom but also to look beyond ourselves with empathy and support for those who are unable to live the lives they want and deserve. Since 1994, IHC has opened its doors several weeks a year to work with Family Promise (formerly Interfaith Hospitality Network) by providing shelter and meals for families who are homeless. Each hosting week, IHC volunteers assemble temporary bedrooms in our religious school classrooms, prepare and serve meals to our guests, help with homework, plan evening activities, spend the night at Temple as overnight hosts, drive guests to and from the Family Promise day center in downtown Indianapolis, as well as clean up and do linens after our hosting week is complete. Our IHC volunteers provide invaluable fellowship and encouragement to the families. Our volunteers offer a friendly smile, a warm welcome and understanding. At Family Promise’s Day Center, families receive compassionate care from a case manager who walks alongside them during a time of incredible stress. Family Promise’s staff helps keep children in school and helps families address the barriers they face as they work to overcome the crisis brought about by homelessness. In the spirit of Passover, which should last all year, please help IHC continue to host homeless families by volunteering and providing financial support. Plan to volunteer when IHC hosts from June 9 to June 22 and December 1 to December 7. Contribute by sending a check to IHC and writing “for Family Promise” in the note. You can also use the “Donate” button on the IHC homepage and select “Interfaith Hospitality Project” as your designation. A $36 contribution buys breakfast and lunch for one guest while at IHC for a week. Any amount is welcome and appreciated. As the Haggadah reminds us, we and our ancestors have experienced life’s bitter moments; many of us are now fortunate to know freedom. Let us join together to help others on their journey to freedom.

A MESSAGE FROM OUR SOCIAL JUSTICE COMMITTEE: ADVOCACY ALERT Hate crimes are on the rise in our state and across the nation. Indiana is one of just five states without a hate crimes law in place. Hate crimes laws allow judges to enact stricter sentences for criminals that target victims based on characteristics such as race, ethnicity, religion, national origin, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, and disability. Indiana’s lack of a hate crimes law sends an unwelcoming message to the people who live here and the businesses and talent who are considering making the Hoosier State their home. There is momentum at the Statehouse and among Indiana residents to pass the nation’s best and most inclusive hate crimes law. Now is the time to get it done. Please visit Indiana Forward to learn more about how you can support a hate crimes bill in Indiana: https://www.indianaforward.org. Indiana Forward is a broad and bipartisan statewide campaign that includes major state employers, faith groups, nonprofits, third-party organizations, the Indy Chamber, trade groups, colleges and universities, and more.

IHC KULANU • MARCH/APRIL 2019 www.ihcindy.org 9 SMALL GROUPS: ADAMAH INITIATIVE

Dori Chandler; [email protected]

SPRING DETOX! For many of us, springtime and Passover give us a reason to organize, sort, and clean out our homes. All the symbolic and literal chametz cluttering our minds, hearts, garages, kitchens, and basements purged! The Adamah Initiative thought some of you purgers might want to know where you can take your household toxins like paint, household cleaners, fluorescent light tubes, herbicides, etc. (A full list can be found at https://www.indy.gov/activity/hazardous-waste-dropoff-sites.) The city will properly dispose of them free of charge, and offers several Indianapolis locations and times that we are listing for you right here: First Saturday of each month, 9am–2pm CITIZEN SCIENCE IS AS EASY Traders Point Collection Facility AS … GATHERING DUST!? 7550 N. Lafayette Rd. Thank you to all who came to our Second Saturday of each month, 9am–2pm special Tu B’Shevat “Tu B’Shabbat” Perry Township Government Center service on January 18th. It was such 4925 S. Shelby St. a treat to have the founding director Third Saturday of each month, 9am–2pm of the Center for Urban Health and professor of earth sciences in the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department Training School of Science at IUPUI, Gabriel Facility (located near Superior Court 13) Filipelli, speak about air quality 9049 E. 10th St. and its relationship to trees. He Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9am–11am mentioned some of his current research on indoor air quality, West Street Collection Facility asserting that "It's important to our 1725 West Street, Bldg. 1 health, and especially the health of If Carmel is closer to you, there is a Tox-Drop there too: children, to see if there are things in 901 N. Range Line Road the indoor environment that are of Carmel, IN 46032 concern." Open Tuesday–Friday: 8am–5pm Many of you asked how to participate Saturday: 9am–Noon in this important branch of citizen science, so we did a little digging, and discovered that anyone willing to share their household dust can have it analyzed for free at IUPUI. All you have to do is send a quick e-mail to the Center of Urban Health at IUPUI ([email protected]) that says you are interested in participating in the “DustSafe project at IUPUI.” You get to fill out a short survey and vacuum your home according to the instructions they send and then put that household detritus into a resealable gallon-size plastic bag to send their way. Filippelli and his team of IUPUI students will analyze each sample and email you a report with detailed information about what was found in all that dust. They will even include helpful suggestions to mitigate any health risk associated with contaminants found therein.

10 IHC KULANU • MARCH/APRIL 2019 www.ihcindy.org SMALL GROUPS

Welcome to LAF—Life After Fifty—IHC’s social program for the “more mature” members of the congregation, age 50+. Our goal is to provide you—whether single, married, divorced or widowed—an opportunity to connect with other congregants by building on existing friendships and encouraging new ones. For more information, contact Marcia Goldstein, LAF Coordinator: [email protected]. UPCOMING LAF EVENTS • “Dine Around” Dinner, Wednesday, March 13, 6:00 pm, O’Charley’s, Glendale Celebrate π Day a day early with free pie Wednesday at O’Charley’s. • Welcome “Silver Linings” friends from St. Elizabeth Seton Catholic Church at Shabbat services, Friday, March 22 Join us for services and then visit with our Seton friends following services. LAF will be sponsoring the Oneg Shabbat that evening. • “A Tribute to Jewish Broadway” Joint program with Beth Elders & Youngers, Sunday, April 7, 2:00 pm, IHC See see the invitation on page 13 for details. • End of Passover dinner and program with Indy Chai, Friday, April 27 after services Our first joint event was so successful, we’re going to party again! • Slow Mass part 2, St. Elizabeth Seton Catholic Church, Friday, May 3, 1:00 pm Join us for a continuation of a wonderful educational experience as Fr. Ted Rothrock explains the origins and purposes of each element of the Catholic mass. We’ll begin with a reception at 1:00, followed by the program. This event is part of an ongoing dialogue between LAF and the “Silver Linings” senior group at Seton.

SMALL GROUP CONTACTS JEWISH BOOK CLUB With a congregation our size, sometimes it can feel a bit large. That is why we are forming Small Groups to help you make connections and foster friendships with people with similar interests. Here is just a sampling of our current Small Groups Tuesday, March 12, 2019 and their primary contacts. BUTTON MAN by Andrew Gross Adamah (Earth)...... Dori Chandler...... [email protected] Caring Community...... Norm Sider...... [email protected] IHC Community Choir...... Cantor Aviva Marer...... [email protected] LOOKING AHEAD IHC Softball Team...... Rick Goldstein...... [email protected] Tuesday, April 9, 2019 IndyChai (20s & 30s)...... Denis Kurmanov...... [email protected] PROMISED LAND by Martin Fletcher Jewish Book Club...... Evelyn Pockrass...... [email protected] LAF (Life After Fifty)...... Marcia Goldstein...... [email protected] Tuesday, May 14, 2019 Lilith Salon...... Stacey MacArthur...... [email protected] THE IMMORTALISTS by Chloe Benjamin Mitzvah Stitchers...... Nicole Keller...... [email protected] News & Nosh...... Donna Segal...... [email protected] 65th Street Klezmorim...... Shawn Goodman...... [email protected] Meetings are at 12 noon at IHC in Social Justice...... Marilyn Smith...... [email protected] Room 206. Read the book. Bring your lunch. Join the group for a lively Torah Talk...... Sharon Baldwin...... [email protected] discussion. Questions? Contact Evelyn Tanakh Study...... Brandon Hale...... [email protected] Pockrass, Librarian 255-6647, x217, Read more about these groups at www.ihcindy.org under the Connect tab. If you [email protected]. would like to start a new small group, please contact Rabbi Scott Fox.

KNOW SOMEONE IN NEED OF CARE? PLEASE LET US KNOW! Our Clergy Team and Caring Community are here to support our IHC Family in times of need. If you know someone who is facing an illness or surgery or may be going through a tough time, please let us know so we can reach out to them. Even if you think we already know, we may not. You would be surprised how many times people don’t let us know that something is going on and then their feelings get hurt that no one reached out to them. Help us become a better caring community by letting us know when you or someone you know may need care. Contact our clergy assistant, Brandon Hale at 317-255-6647 x210 or [email protected]. Please spread the word. If you would like to help care for our community and serve on the committee, please contact Norm Sider at [email protected].

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Karen Rossen, IHC Sisterhood President; [email protected] DEAR SISTERHOOD MEMBERS, SISTERHOOD CALENDAR We are so pleased with your response to our decision to extend March 2019 Sisterhood membership to all women of IHC. So much of what 1...... Read Across America we do for IHC comes from your generous support and we are looking forward to a great year of Sisterhood. 4...... Lilith Salon 3...... Hamentashen baking If you are wondering where you might join in Sisterhood, there 3...... Hamentashen orders due are lots of different types of opportunities. Women's Seder is one of our most popular events. If you are not up for such a big 6...... Torah Talk crowd or just want to exchange ideas, check out a Lilith Salon. 10...... Hamentashen baking We dine around and discuss articles from Lilith magazine. Maybe 13...... Torah Talk you would like to learn about the business of Sisterhood and 13...... Sisterhood Board Meeting attend a short program? Attend our Spring General Membership 17...... Hamentashen Pick-up Meeting on May 8 (see the save the date below). It will be a sweet 19...... Greenbriar Backpack packing event with cake and champagne to celebrate our new inclusive 20...... Torah Talk membership model. I'm looking forward to seeing you soon, 29...... Sisterhood Shabbat Karen Rossen April 2019 IHC Temple Sisterhood President, 2016 -2019 9...... Women’s Seder 10...... Torah Talk 10...... Sisterhood Board Meeting 17...... Torah Talk 24...... Torah Talk

12 IHC KULANU • MARCH/APRIL 2019 www.ihcindy.org BROTHERHOOD

Neal Ginsberg, Brotherhood President; [email protected] MEN OF IHC, For those who have joined Brotherhood in 2019, we thank you. Your support helps Brotherhood continue the many activities we sponsor at IHC. Brotherhood has started 2019 strong by cooking for our youngest at Tot Shabbat on January 25, followed by our annual Chicken ‘n Noodles Take Away on Super Bowl Sunday on February 3. Speaking of Super Bowl Sunday, as Brotherhood aims not only to support service projects, but also to foster friendships amongst the male congregants of IHC, we held our annual member Super Bowl Party on that day. This year’s event was graciously hosted by Dr. Robert and Beverly Baker, and a great time was had by all. A big thank you to the Bakers for their hospitality. We turn our sights to spring events as we start to plan our Purim lunch, special celebrations for Cantor’s installation, as well as potentially another social outing, stay tuned! If you have not yet joined, it is never too late. Please see our webpage at www.ihcindy.org. Click on the Connect tab and scroll down to find us. For more information or any questions, email us at [email protected]. IHC Brotherhood

PLAN TO JOIN US FOR THESE UPCOMING EVENTS:

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Matt Hastings, Interim Religious School Administrator; [email protected] RELIGIOUS SCHOOL AND DERECH TORAH Dates to Remember DERECH TORAH CREDITS RELIGIOUS SCHOOL • Derech Torah credits are to be complete by April 15 for this MARCH school year. Anyone needing Sunday, March 3: Religious School & Derech Torah Classes assistance, contact Debbi at Grade 6 Wimple Project 2, Grade 7 Trip to Candles [email protected] Holocaust Memorial • Earn Tikkun Olam and worship Sunday March 10: Religious School & Derech Torah Classes credit assisting Debbi with Time Changes; clocks spring ahead! services at Park Regency on 6th Grade Wedding, Small Chai Friday, April 13. Contact Debbi at [email protected] if you want Sunday, March 17: Purim Celebration*: Megillah Reading, Lunch to help. sponsored by Brotherhood, and IFTY Carnival; Derech Torah • Earn Kehilah credit by attending March 24 & 31: No Religious School or Derech Torah / Spring Break the Confirmation service on APRIL June 8, 5:30pm Sunday, April 7: No Religious School or Derech Torah - Spring Break • Still need credit for volunteering Sunday, April 14: Religious School & Derech Torah Classes resume as a Greeter? Contact Barbara Chapman at 317-255-6647 or Sunday, April 21: No Religious School - Pesach [email protected] to sign up. Sunday, April 28: Religious School Small Chai Sunday, May 6: Last day of Religious School JOIN OUR TEACHING STAFF RS Awards Do you have a passion for a specific DERECH TORAH Judaic topic and feel you could share that Wednesday Classes, March 6, 13, April 10, 17 with an 8th or 9th grader? Debbi Kasper Sunday Classes, March 3, 10, 17*, April 14 is currently looking for new topics and teachers for the 2019-2020 Derech Torah *See the Purimspiel Information on page 4. This counts toward attendance Program. Please join our Derech Torah for the Jewish Learning and Derech Torah Programs. staff and enjoy working with our youth in the process. If you are interested, please email [email protected].

EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER

[email protected]

EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER ENROLLMENT IHC’S EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER IS NOW IHC’s Early Childhood Center is committed to giving toddlers REGISTERING FOR SUMMER CAMP 2019 through kindergartners varied and rich opportunities Registration has begun for the 2019 summer camp. For more for growth and development. We believe in providing an information about the curriculum or to schedule a tour, atmosphere of love, learning and play, which is greatly get in touch with Taryn with Taryn Fartouh, ECC Director, enhanced by our Jewish values. We also have a dedicated [email protected], or call 317-254-2186. Contact the Early commitment to diversity among our ECC families and our Childhood Center today to secure your spot! staff. Registration has begun for the 2019/2020 school year. If you are interested in finding out more about the curriculum or would like to schedule a tour, contact Taryn Fartouh at 317-254-2186.

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Barbara Chapman; [email protected] YOUTH GROUP UPDATE Through the end of the school year, Matt Hastings will be working with Small Chai (Grades K-2) and Rishonim (Grades 3-5). He can be contacted at [email protected] or by calling 317-255-6647 x213. Similarly, Cantor Aviva Marer will be working with JIFTY, our youth group for Grades 6-8. She can be contacted at [email protected] or by calling 317-255-6647 x208. Rabbi Scott Fox will be working with IFTY, our high school youth group. He can be contacted at [email protected] or by calling 317-255-6647 x210. We have even more good news to share! IHC was recently named one of only 15 partner congregations for the URJ CLASP (Camp Leader and Synagogue Professional) program. Starting this Fall, we expect to have a new Youth Coordinator working at IHC as a Fellow in the CLASP program, a cutting edge program focused on our youth groups and integration with GUCI and the URJ camps. We are truly excited for the rest of the school year, and look forward to engaging with your children! If you have any questions, or would like to get involved, please don’t hesitate to reach out.

IHC KULANU • MARCH/APRIL 2019 www.ihcindy.org 15 SPOTLIGHT ON GIVING Last month, we debuted our new feature to put a spotlight on some of our generous donors, both to thank them for their generosity, and to inspire us all to think about giving to IHC. Here is our next edition:

HONORING CONNIE AND STANLEY BRAUN Most everyone who has been a long-time IHC member will know these names. Connie and Stanley were passionate about Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation. After settling in to Indianapolis, they chose IHC as their spiritual home in 1965 and quickly became immersed! Connie spent a lot of time volunteering at IHC. She served as Sisterhood President from 1977-79 and as our second woman to serve as President of the IHC Board of Directors from 1984-86. Connie also served as President of the IHC Foundation from 2005-2007. Instilling Jewish values and education were important to Stanley and Connie; not just to their three children, Steve, Mark and Lory and their five grandchildren, Rachel, Max, Jack, Matthew and Danielle, but to all. In honor of their parents, Connie and Stanley started the Braunstein/Belle Education Fund at IHC, which is still going strong today. And because ensuring the future of IHC was important, Connie took the lead to work with others to establish the Legacy Society Planned Giving Campaign, which was launched as part of IHC’s 150th Anniversary in 2006. Of course, the Brauns were one of the first families to join the Legacy Society. Connie’s beautiful life ended on November 5, 2013. Stanley, his son Mark (of blessed memory) and grandson Jack took great solace in attending Shabbat services and receiving comfort and care from IHC after Connie’s death. Stanley now resides near his son Steve and his wife Jackie in Raleigh, North Carolina. Daughter Lory and her husband, Allen, are there often to support Stanley. Last year, we received a call from Lory informing us of her parents’ legacy plan with a large bequest for IHC. She asked if we would prefer to receive the money now, instead of as an afterlife gift. Of course, we gratefully accepted. Part of the bequest has already been deposited in to the Foundation’s account with the second installment coming this year. Lory and Steve are working with Dan Silien, our Executive Director, on how their parents’ contributions will be memorialized. In Lory’s words, her parents gave them gold… a lifelong love of Judaism. They passed that on to their grandchildren by bringing them to Indianapolis each summer to attend camp at the JCC and GUCI so they too would feel connected to their Judaism and could learn the importance of community. The Brauns gave IHC gold too, by their giving their love, passion and leadership to our sacred community for all those years and for understanding the importance of ensuring a future for IHC by creating their legacy through planned giving. Thank you Connie and Stanley!

No gift is too small (or dare we say, too large). If you would like to honor or remember someone or just show your appreciation for what we are trying to do for our community, please consider a special gift to IHC. We’d love to talk to you about what is important to you and help you make your desire to give happen! Please contact our Executive Director, Dan Silien at 317-255-6647 or at [email protected].

In addition to making a specialized gift, here are some other ways to give at IHC: • Host an Oneg Shabbat. We rely on the generosity of our members to host these important weekly gatherings that help us celebrate Shabbat and engage with each other. Visit the SignUpGenius section at www.ihcindy.org or contact our clergy assistant, Brandon Hale to sign up. • Make a donation to our general operating funds or any of our named funds. You can use the envelope included in your mailed Kulanu or donate online by clicking on the blue Donate Now button at www.ihcindy.org. See the next page(s) for our current contributors. • Join the Rabbi’s Circle of Giving, a multi-year special giving plan. Contact Rabbi Krichiver to learn more about what he is trying to accomplish at [email protected]. • Create your legacy and include IHC in your estate plans. If you would like to have a conversation or if you have already included us and we don’t know about it, please contact Executive Director, Dan Silien. We’d love to talk to you!

16 IHC KULANU • MARCH/APRIL 2019 www.ihcindy.org TEMPLE DONATIONS YOUTH PROJECTS FUNDS Memory of Ernestine “Erni” Honor of Batya Kogan SPITZBERG/BASSLER/ARNOLD Greenberger Dworkin Feeney Rhonda Berns YOUTH FUND Diane & Neil Greene Honor of Mickey and Janie Maurer’s Honor of Marcia and Marv Goldstein SOCIAL JUSTICE 50th Wedding Anniversary Nathaniel Forsythe GLEANERS FOOD BANK To Fight Hunger Laura & Dennis Carafiol Honor of Isabel, Zoey and Hunter Krier Ginat Mirowski Daniel Spitzberg Charles Dewitt Memory of Frances Coraz Memory of Shirley Schall Memory of Eva Heffron and Raymond Tobi Weinstein Laura & Dennis Carafiol Heffron SHELLEY SHANE SOCIAL ACTION MAX STRASHUN TEMPLE TOTS Joy & Irv Rheins Memory of Ellen Joyce Honor of Cynthia Yosha-Snyder Memory of Sidney Jacobs Dodie Stein Franklin I. Miroff Jan Jacobs Memory of Louis Steele IHC FOUNDATION FUNDS TEMPLE GENERAL FUNDS Board and Staff of IHC FOUNDATION GENERAL FUND TEMPLE GENERAL FUND Memory of Homer Cox Memory of Guy Miller Aaron Spiegel Board and Staff of IHC Joan & Nathan Miller Memory of Louis Steele SPECIAL PROJECTS FUND KOL HAMACHANEH “A CALL Bennie & Al Silver Honor of Marsha Millikan TO JEWISH CAMPING” Memory of Ernestine “Erni” Feeney Marcy Pattinger Honor of Janie and Mickey Maurer’s Helen Goldstein YAHRZEIT MEMORIAL & CEMETERY 50th Wedding Anniversary Memory of Beatrice Wise Zellers FUND Linda & Louis Cantor Wendell Zellers Memory of Sylvia Heisler and Sanford Honor of Jon Pactor’s Special Birthday Goldshine Linda & Louis Cantor Eunice Goldshine

IHC KULANU • MARCH/APRIL 2019 www.ihcindy.org 17 YAHRZEIT These we remember…MARCH/APRIL 2019

3/1/1973 Emanuel Arffa 3/7/2013 Bert Roth 3/13/1984 Sillik Polayes 3/19/2016 Serene Wittles 3/25/1983 Harry Kushnarov 3/1/2016 Barbara Bailie 3/8/1986 Mildred Blumberg 3/13/1985 Robert Sklan 3/20/1946 Meyer Efroymson 3/25/1998 Alan Lieberman 3/1/1984 Pearl Blum 3/8/1985 Jeffrey Cowan 3/13/2015 Annette Wides 3/20/1908 Frieda Eichenberg 3/25/2001 Barry Ressler 3/1/1949 Eva Borinstein 3/8/1997 Jacqueline Kirsh 3/14/2003 Warren Ackerman 3/20/2016 Ronald Glanzman 3/25/2008 Ellyn Signer 3/1/1924 Babette Breisacher 3/8/1919 Lena Koby 3/14/1965 Melvin Atlass 3/20/2008 Adolf Kerber 3/25/1980 Abe Winter 3/1/2009 Jacqueline Efroymson 3/8/1986 Leah Kroot 3/14/2013 Vera Card 3/20/2012 Alvin Lerman 3/25/2014 Jeffrey Yolles 3/1/2002 Norma Funkhouser 3/8/1999 Rick McCann 3/14/1975 Evelyn Claymon 3/20/1976 Lazar Levy 3/26/1990 Molly Cohen 3/1/1968 Sadie Halpern 3/8/1954 Nathaniel Provisor 3/14/1980 Dena Cohen 3/20/2000 Robert McCann 3/26/2017 David Epstein 3/1/1975 Helen Kaplan 3/8/2007 Irene Schwartz 3/14/1986 Gordon Cohn 3/20/2017 Shirley Morgan 3/26/1996 Rose Goldberg 3/1/1996 Irving Kleinman 3/9/2006 Elyse Adams 3/14/1974 Raymond Heffron 3/20/1955 Max Schwartz 3/26/1978 Helen Himelstein 3/1/2006 Amelia Lewis 3/9/1983 Abraham Cohen 3/14/1993 Jenny Kenis 3/20/1948 Ida Stiefler 3/26/1949 Dora Loganofsky 3/1/1958 Dave Miller 3/9/1980 Morris Kay 3/14/1975 Rudolph Klapper 3/20/1981 Louis Stillerman 3/26/1990 Michel Mirowski 3/1/2009 Leon Oancea 3/9/1937 Julius Michael 3/14/2006 Adeline Pactor 3/20/2016 Emanuel Ungar 3/26/2006 Aaron Rabb 3/1/1992 Herbert Schiller 3/9/2010 Fay Micon 3/14/1996 Lila Perlstein 3/20/1999 Aaron Wilkes 3/26/1981 Max Seidman 3/1/1985 Ann Simon 3/9/2001 Ida Oakley 3/14/1956 Rose Shankman 3/20/2016 George Wise 3/26/1974 Ida Weinstock 3/1/1972 Sidney Weisberger 3/9/1978 Edwin Roger 3/14/2010 Lillian Yolles 3/21/1975 Leon Fisch 3/26/2017 Marjorie Wolman 3/1/1984 Morton Wolman 3/9/1999 Meyer Staff 3/15/1961 Rachel Domont 3/21/1959 Abe Grossman 3/26/1977 Betty Yosha 3/2/2013 James Ackerman 3/9/1997 Endre Stern 3/15/2015 Nancy Feldman 3/21/1985 Sadie Mann 3/27/1975 Adel Bank 3/2/1991 Menne Fruehman 3/9/1972 Hannah Usherenko 3/15/1940 David Hamburger 3/21/1987 Sol Shmookler 3/27/1988 Al Braun 3/2/1930 Sigmund Guggenheim 3/10/1998 Esther Belle 3/15/2009 Rose Herman 3/21/1957 George Ungar 3/27/1948 Harry Glanzman 3/2/2006 Robert Healey 3/10/2003 Lisa Boyer 3/15/2009 Ruth Moss 3/22/1982 Samuel Apter 3/27/2012 Francis Hackett 3/2/2012 Fred Sanders 3/10/2000 Rose Csillag 3/15/1938 Rosa Rosenberg 3/22/1969 Sol Basan 3/27/1982 Hannah Julian 3/2/1986 Lewis Schwartz 3/10/1967 David Dansker 3/15/2014 Dorothy Schulman 3/22/2004 Jeanne Booth 3/27/1996 Florence Kouts 3/2/1979 Norman Vogel 3/10/1998 Annabelle Miller 3/15/1942 Wilhelm Stern 3/22/2001 Inez Herz 3/27/1956 Abe Levenstein 3/3/2004 Jerry Aronstam 3/10/1980 Louis Rumple 3/15/1990 Leaya Yampolskeye 3/22/1993 Elsie Karsch 3/27/1980 Edward Pearlman 3/3/2000 Sylvia Block 3/10/1975 Sylvia Spiegal 3/16/2006 Rose Ancel 3/22/1968 Joseph Klein 3/27/1997 Robert Pickrell 3/3/2014 Pauline Broock 3/10/1978 Gerald Tasch 3/16/2012 Louis Arkush 3/22/1995 Zelma Mintz 3/27/1979 Evelyn Sabetay 3/3/1984 Gettie Cohen 3/10/2015 Oscar Tavel 3/16/1995 Herbert Backer 3/22/1989 Shirley Mossler 3/27/2003 Sherman Weinstein 3/3/1990 Sondra Fogle 3/11/1993 Nathan Bartfield 3/16/2006 Grace Christensen 3/22/2003 Philip Perlstein 3/28/1992 Robert Benjamin 3/3/1974 Lex Haimson 3/11/2018 Donald Brightman 3/16/2001 Marvin Gold 3/22/1996 Benjamin Provisor 3/28/1952 Rudolph Domont 3/3/1948 Mary Hurwitz 3/11/1994 Donald Craig 3/16/1994 Lillian Kubersky 3/22/1977 Rudolph Selig 3/28/2009 Fryderyka Oesterreicher 3/3/1969 Belle Jaffe 3/11/1961 Miriam Gellman 3/16/1983 Myer Lazarus 3/22/2007 Anita Silver 3/28/1976 Ethel Rappaport 3/3/1958 Eugene Loeb 3/11/2010 Georgene Glazer 3/16/2005 Ruth Lieberman 3/23/2007 Albert Alliss 3/28/1983 Harry Stoner 3/3/1991 Herbert Lowenstein 3/11/2005 Grace Hellman 3/16/1978 William Medias 3/23/2015 John Borinstein 3/29/1997 Harry Eisenstein 3/3/1976 Samuel Rose 3/11/1984 Morris Karmen 3/16/2007 Walton Sicanoff 3/23/1964 Hattie Breman 3/29/2000 Mary Fink 3/4/1981 Freda Dumes 3/11/1966 Jeanette May 3/17/2009 Charles Breeden 3/23/2007 Jerry Epstein 3/29/2004 Morris Goodman 3/5/1975 Harriet Asher 3/11/2018 Ronald Popp 3/17/2003 Millie Cohen 3/23/1999 Lawrence Feldman 3/29/1976 Nathan Kort 3/5/1971 Charles Feibleman 3/11/1967 Irvin Spasser 3/17/1996 Helen Goldman 3/23/1943 Jeanette Fisch 3/29/2002 Pearl Refkin 3/5/2000 Cele Goldstein 3/11/1988 Sanford Wieder 3/17/2018 Dean Gossett 3/23/1943 Ruth Fisch 3/29/2010 Louis Rothchild 3/5/1995 Robert Klein 3/12/2008 Rebecca Batt 3/17/1923 Harry Olshewitz 3/23/2012 Marilyn Glick 3/29/1918 Eva Selig 3/5/1916 Joseph Kramer 3/12/1994 Philip Fichman 3/17/1968 Ben Ratner 3/23/2018 Joan Kahn 3/29/1963 Max Strashun 3/5/1999 Nathan Lipkin 3/12/1987 Faye Josephson 3/17/1982 Thelma Sands 3/23/2018 Charles Millsap 3/29/1990 Jeanne Stuckgold 3/5/1977 Anna Nelson 3/12/1982 Max Lorber 3/17/1977 Marion Shaw 3/23/1990 Charles Poppe 3/30/1999 Florence Cooper 3/5/2007 Henry Stein 3/12/1997 Seymour Monat 3/17/2011 Burton Signer 3/23/1979 Mae Smith 3/30/1979 Frances Edenberg 3/6/1987 Anne Drevno 3/12/2018 Beverly Peale 3/17/1983 Julian Weil 3/24/1992 Frances Abels 3/30/2004 Arnold Feinberg 3/6/2003 Abraham Kubersky 3/12/2013 Allan Segal 3/18/1952 Rose Ancel 3/24/2001 Earl Bradford 3/30/1989 Robert Finn 3/6/2010 Herman Logan 3/12/2009 Ida Skwire 3/18/1945 Morton Gellman 3/24/1986 Esther Eisenberg 3/30/1994 Harold Kaplan 3/6/1950 Benjamin Popp 3/12/2017 Rosa Suriel 3/18/1988 Lillian Goldstein 3/24/1920 Jacob Feuerlicht 3/30/2001 Marilyn Karsch 3/6/1991 Ida Stine 3/12/1953 Adolph Teixler 3/18/1992 Max Litt 3/24/2002 Annette Kalishman 3/30/2000 Edith Kopfstein 3/6/1996 Adele Weil 3/12/2009 Esther Tobin 3/18/2013 Jacqueline Phillips 3/24/1968 Rose Levinsohn 3/30/1974 Louis Leitz 3/7/1993 William Borman 3/13/1986 Mary Berry 3/18/1983 Louis Trockman 3/24/1971 Phyllis Singer 3/30/1987 Eli Lieberman 3/7/2010 Irene Breisacher 3/13/1998 Harris Block 3/18/1946 Anna Wolf 3/24/2018 David Smith 3/30/1980 Tekla Wolf 3/7/2018 Irving Freeman 3/13/1993 Harry Brodey 3/18/2008 Martin Yale 3/25/1987 Bayne Benjamin 3/31/1992 John Adams 3/7/2013 Luther Gaskin 3/13/1988 Maybelle Cohen 3/19/1987 Sarah Eskenazi 3/25/1993 Dorothy Gorshel 3/31/2017 Allan Arkush 3/7/2010 Samuel Geller 3/13/2011 Ann Frisch 3/19/1982 Bessie Leopold 3/25/1989 Jeanette Greenberger 3/31/1953 Morris Arnow 3/7/1977 Ludwig Katz 3/13/2015 Marcia Klapper 3/19/2012 Marilyn Roger 3/25/1999 Nadine Haury (Continued on page 19) 3/7/1985 David Lurie 3/13/2014 Libby Penn 3/19/1996 Stanley Shapiro 3/25/1997 Marge Jacobs

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3/31/1975 Walter Blumenthal 4/6/2009 Chester Solomon 4/13/1957 Bertha Goldberg 4/18/2012 Nathan Gotthelf 4/26/1997 Abe Berman 3/31/1932 Greta Cahn 4/6/1964 Bella Stein 4/13/2009 Chester Leiser 4/18/1969 Milton Greenwald 4/26/1953 Jack Falk 3/31/1983 Delmas Cromer 4/6/2010 Irene Stein 4/13/1991 Arthur Perlstein 4/18/2002 Norman Lencheck 4/26/1975 Maurice Gordon 3/31/1966 Joseph Fox 4/6/1968 Rose Vigran 4/13/2011 Herbert Sim 4/18/1990 Manuel Leve 4/26/1976 Pauline Meyers 3/31/2003 Elaine Halberstadt 4/6/1981 William Wentico 4/14/2016 Doris Cooperman 4/18/1940 Emil Mantel 4/27/1988 Edward Baker 3/31/1992 Dolly Herman 4/7/1995 Benjamin Edenberg 4/14/2003 Trudy Danenberg 4/18/2011 Gary Seleman 4/27/2012 Jacqueline Butterman 3/31/2001 Edward Karsch 4/7/1965 William Epstein 4/14/1987 Jack Efroymson, Jr. 4/18/1987 Jerome Slutzky 4/27/1978 Bert Goldberg 3/31/1999 Henry Marks 4/7/2015 Helen Fichman 4/14/1964 Abe Epstein 4/18/1963 Morris Stavitsky 4/27/1998 Phyllis Heller 3/31/1933 Anna Medias 4/7/1975 Fred Layton 4/14/2018 Randee Gelbert 4/18/2002 Jozef Vorsovsky 4/27/1988 Charlotta Katona 3/31/1974 Marilyn Roth 4/7/2000 Peggy Lipton 4/14/1974 Rose Mollin 4/19/1973 Ida Arffa 4/27/1961 David Lebin 3/31/1981 Louis Talesnick 4/7/2000 Marijane Popp 4/14/2006 Dolores Newman 4/19/1997 Herbert Aronson 4/27/2012 Betti Lurie 4/1/2016 Harry Cooler, Jr 4/7/1999 Dora Shapiro 4/14/2016 Grace Raunick 4/19/2007 Gabriel Cohen 4/27/2012 Morris Oscherwitz 4/1/1995 Gladys Garelick 4/8/2014 Corinne Bernstein 4/14/2002 Samuel Sax 4/19/2003 William Foster 4/27/1994 Ruth Shott 4/1/1994 Richard Honig 4/8/2010 Arvel Cox 4/14/2013 Helen Siegel 4/19/1991 Clara Joseph 4/27/2015 Freda Winski 4/1/1987 Sid Izsak 4/8/2014 Thomas Dakich Sr. 4/14/1993 Helen Spridgeon 4/19/1959 Nathan Levinson 4/28/1985 Sam Abels 4/1/2012 Frances Julian 4/8/1982 Louis Fuldauer 4/14/2011 Jack Stern 4/19/1982 Dora Litt 4/28/2016 Meyer Bronicki 4/1/1997 Betty Lockman 4/8/1992 Robin Fuldauer 4/14/1991 Helen Stevens 4/19/2017 Joe 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