FALL 2018 2 West 70th Street , NY 10023 1. From the ’s Desk FROM THE RABBI’S DESK 2. A Message from Our Parnas THREE PERSPECTIVES 4. Announcements Rabbi Dr. Meir Y. Soloveichik 12. Holidays ON IMMORTALITY Then we have John Adams. Adams composed 15. Citizenship to Rabbi Dr. Meir Y. Soloveichik nothing for himself, and instead wrote an Descendants of Sephardic inscription for his family burial ground, which Portuguese Jews he placed at the tomb of his ancestor: “This stone,” he wrote, “and several others have been 18. Special Events As the High Holy Days CONTENTS placed in this yard by a great, great grandson approach, with its liturgical from a veneration of the piety, humility, 21. Around Shearith reminders of mortality, we simplicity, prudence, frugality, industry and ponder three epitaphs 22. Judaic Education perseverance of his ancestors in hopes of composed by the American recommending an affirmation of their virtues 24. Youth at Shearith Israel founders. to their posterity.” Adams, writes David 26. Women at Shearith Israel At the age of 22, Benjamin Franklin composed the McCullough, “had chosen to say nothing of his following witty proposal for his gravestone: The own attainments, but rather to place himself 28. From the Sisterhood Body of B. Franklin, Printer; Like the Cover of an old as part of a continuum, and to evoke those 29. Hesed Book, Its contents torn out, And stript of its Lettering qualities of character that he had been raised on and Gilding, Lies here, Food for Worms. But the Work and that he had strived for so long to uphold.” 30. Retrospective: Beth shall not be wholly lost, For it will, as he believed, The Jewish tradition of placing stones on the Olam Cemetary Civil War appear once more, In a new & more perfect Edition, gravestones of those we love can be understood Memorial Corrected and amended By the Author. In other words, in a similar sense: it reflects our commitment to Franklin suggested that immortality is to be found build on the sacrifices of those who have come 33. Culinary Corner in the afterlife, in the immortality of the soul, and before, to perpetuate the spiritual and moral ON THE COVER: 34. Services the ultimate resurrection. This, of course, is a central values of the past to our posterity, and commit Silver wine cups by Paul Revere Jewish belief, found throughout our prayers and texts. ourselves to the continuity of our family, and of 40. Help Make It All Happen made for Moses Michael Hays, and the Jewish people. 1792. Hays was a member of Meanwhile, Thomas Jefferson prepared these 42. Board and Staff Shearith Israel, serving as Parnas in words for his grave in Monticello: Here Was Buried With the approach of the High Holy Days, we 1767, before moving to Newport THOMAS JEFFERSON Author of the Declaration of ponder the messages of these founders, and 44. Stay Connected and later to Boston. He was also a Independence, Of the Statute of Virginia for Religious the lessons of Jewish tradition. As we utter the friend and business partner to Paul Freedom, And Father of the University of Virginia. In sacred words of the liturgy, and ponder our Revere, and his only known Jewish eschewing any mention of the presidency, Jefferson mortality and our eternity, may we commit patron. Today these cups are part of is suggesting that our legacy is not in the power we ourselves to a year of spiritual improvement, of the private collection belonging to wield, but in how we impact and inspire others. actions that will inspire and be remembered by Mr. Roy Zuckerberg, one of Shearith This, too, is a profoundly Jewish idea, found others, and of Jewish continuity. Israel’s honorary trustees. first and foremost in Judaism’s focus on zikaron, memory, and its emphasis that we live on in the Photo credit: David Schlegel way that we are remembered. 1 A MESSAGE FROM OUR PARNAS OUR YEAR OF YEARS IS ABOUT TO BEGIN Louis M. Solomon

23 FOUNDERS | 3 ENDURING PRINCIPLES | 1 UNIQUE REMNANT OF ISRAEL 2019, or 5779-5780 in the and confidently pass along a strong Jewish calendar, will mark 365 and dynamic Shearith Israel to our years (or one full “year of years”) children, grandchildren, and many members, the old-timers, the newcomers, and of organized Jewish presence generations to come. The Crucial Factor of 100% Participation our future members. in America. It’s an important The key to the success of the Year of Years milestone as each day will How is the Year of Years Campaign is 100% participation. Why is that so Campaign Organized? We have been thinking deeply about our symbolize one year in the life of the congregation. priorities and needs—financial, pastoral, important? The first 23 Jews to land in New Amsterdam As previously announced, we have retained spiritual, educational, social. We are in the midst Conventional wisdom says that most of the funds formed our Congregation, Shearith Israel, truly talented consultants who have been guiding us in of preparing thoughtful and compelling written will be raised by relatively few of our Congregants the Remnant of Israel. To honor their courage this Campaign. They have spoken to many of you materials. The campaign has several purposes. and that the last amounts will take most of the and faithfulness, both to their religion and to the already. And as eager as we are to spread the word, Conceived as a broad-based campaign, it will time to raise. So, you might ask, why bother spirit of America, we are celebrating American share my excitement, and all of you involved, secure our financial stability and allow us to putting all that time and effort into that relatively Jewry’s first completed Year of Years. these professionals have been encouraging us to have a balanced budget going forward. It will small portion of the proceeds? The answer is, in proceed in a systematic way, and so we are. also help us to restore critical functions and We are marking our first Year of Years with our view, compelling: Because irrespective of your member services and undertake some important engaging activities organized by our congregants We’re still in what our consultants call our financial circumstances, each and every member capital improvements. and with stimulating talks and major lectures by relatively quiet phase, working to secure several matters –deeply matters–and each one of you our rabbi. We are also reaching out to members more major anchor gifts before going out more How Can You Play Your Crucial Role in must be a stakeholder in our beloved Synagogue. new and old to reconnect. And we are using this broadly. We continue to make significant strides, Making the Campaign Successful? auspicious moment to secure Shearith Israel’s but for the Campaign to be successful, each Gone are the days when a small group of super- You will soon be approached more directly future and the next 365 years of contributions to and every one of you will need to hear about it wealthy members can be relied on to keep things regarding your participation in this essential American Jewish life. personally—and participate in it personally. afloat, let alone in the style and manner we all campaign. Whom will you hear from? To seem to expect and demand. Those giants are What is the Year of Years Campaign? How is the Campaign Proceeding? move this initiative forward, we have formed no longer with us. And, frankly, that culture a Year of Years committee, a wonderful group has become passé and is rightly viewed as TheYear of Years Campaign is our first major What has been going on behind the scenes? A lot. of congregants that represents a diverse cross- unsustainable as we enter our second “year of fundraising campaign in nearly two decades. We section of our Congregation. They have years.” We must live within our means, and we are raising funds for multiple purposes – ongoing Several of you, representing the many cohorts of responded to our calls for involvement and help must ALL participate in order to ensure that programming, our historic obligations (such as our community, have been interviewed by our in this major endeavor. We will soon be listing our means allow us to worship, learn, and grow our sacred cemeteries and extensive archives), consultants. They have learned a tremendous the committee in our emails on the subject. If meaningfully together. and our commitment to spiritual growth. We amount about your wishes, needs, and yes, your you would like to join in this effort, we would are pursuing this major fundraising campaign complaints and disappointments. That’s good. welcome your participation. The success of this so that following the example of the first 23 We need to know it all, if we are going to evolve major endeavor requires the efforts of many. Jews, and many that followed, we can proudly in a direction that meets the needs of all of our 2 3 CONGRATULATIONS Ruth and Irwin Shapiro on the marriage of their Dr. Nicole Schreiber Agus, upon being honored grandson, Jacob Shapiro, son of Monica and at Nishmat’s 28th Anniversary Gala Dinner. Mazal Tob to: Sandy Shapiro, to Deena Drazin, daughter of Sari and Shlomo Drazin of Montreal. Zachary Edinger, for speaking at the Daisy and Dr. Albert Braverman upon their College Jewish Studies Program Awards granddaughter, Rachel Swenson, becoming a Bat Andrea and Reverend Philip Sherman on the Ceremony about Shearith Israel’s historic Mitzvah. birth of a granddaughter, born to Reuven and cemeteries and Civil War veterans. Mollie Sherman. Joey Doft, upon becoming a Bar Mitzvah. Matea Frieber, Grade 5 at Park East Day School, Congratulations to his parents, Suzanne and Jacob Pinhas Tanhum (Pintan) Soloveichik upon upon reaching the finals of Hidon HaTanakh. Doft, and grandparents, Arlene and Avrom Doft. becoming a Bar Mitzvah. Congratulations to his parents, Rabbi Meir and Layaliza Soloveichik. Rabbi Sjimon den Hollander, upon receiving Rabbi Soloveichik officiates at the Malka and Zachary Edinger, on the birth of a baby semikha from Rabbi Eliyahu Ben Haim. wedding of Danny Nathan and girl, Navah Manda Edinger. Congratulations to the Jordana Stonehill upon becoming a Bat Mitzvah. Melissa Rutman. grandparents, Rose and Henry Edinger. Congratulations to her parents, Robyn Price Joshua Mendes, on delivering presentations about Stonehill and David Stonehill. Spanish and Portuguese history in Newton, MA, Vivien and Leon Eisenmann, upon their grandson, and at the Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Aharon Lauber, becoming a Bar Mitzvah. Boston. Halana and Alan Greenberg on the birth of a SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENTS Gail Propp, for being honored at Keren Or’s granddaughter, Maytal Dara, born to their children Hazakim U’berukhim: Women’s Division Gala Spring Luncheon. Raquel and Judah Sosnick. In All of our readers in this year’s Women’s Megillat Scott Shay, on the publication of his book, Good Faith Florie and Benson Jerusalmi on the birth of a Esther Reading, with a special thank you to Mrs. , an accessible examination of the ANNOUNCEMENTS grandson, Adin, to their daughter, Julia Jerusalmi Lisa Rohde for coordinating it. enduring rationality of faith in modern times. For and Ben Henig. information on our upcoming community dinner Our Teen Girls’ Shir HaShirim Readers: Laelah featuring Scott Shay in conversation with Rabbi Ellen and Robert Kapito and Laurie and Eli Bryk on Aaron, Yaara Kaplan, Julia Levi, Olalla Levi, Lia Soloveichik, see page 20. the birth of a granddaughter, Lily Beatrice (“Dvasha Solomon, and Gabriella Yohananoff, with a Sarah” in Hebrew), to their children Alyssa and special thank you to Rabbi Ira Rohde for teaching Aaron Kapito. and coordinating. GRADUATES: Eli Aaron, son of Penny Liebman Aaron and Mark Paola and Richard Kulp, upon their grandson, Ryan Our Girls’ Book of Ruth Readers: Susan A., Lily M. Aaron, upon graduating from Kindergarten at Cameron Kulp, becoming a Bar Mitzvah. Cohen, Matea Frieber, Cherish Greenberg, Honor Alexander Robertson School. He will attend 1st Greenberg, Yaara Kaplan, Shayna Kaye, Shirin Kaye, Dr. Daniel Nathan on his marriage to Melissa Grade at Abraham Joshua Heschel School. Rutman. Congratulations to his parents, Dr. Rebecca Cecilia Roberts, Daniella Roberts, Jenna Roberts, Chaplan and David Nathan, and to his grandmother, Neta Wiznia, and Zahava Wiznia, with a special Maxine Ainetchi, daughter of Harriet and Isaac NEW MEMBERS Ruth Nathan. thank you to Mrs. Lisa Rohde for coordinating it Ainetchi, upon graduating with a Bachelor of and to Hazzan Rabbi Ira Rohde for teaching. Arts from Smith College. We welcome the following Hallie Pomerantz on becoming a Bat Mitzvah. individuals to the Congratulations to her parents, Yvette and Steven All of our Tisha B’Ab readers: Mark Aaron, Jack Charlie Bieler, son of Rushie and Phil Bieler, Shearith Israel Family: Pomerantz, and her grandparents, Yvonne Cohen Daar, Zachary Edinger, Naftali Robert Friedman, upon graduating from PS 87. He will attend and Carol and Emil Pomerantz. Sjimon Den Hollander, Adam Jackson, Jeffrey middle school at The Computer School. Ruth and Philip Bieler Mosseri, Avery Neumark, Hillel Neumark, Judy and Joel Schreiber on the engagement of Stephen Neuwirth, Rabbi Ira Rohde, Rene Joseph Bijou, son of Aura Bijou-Plotkin, upon Aura Bijou-Plotkin their grandson, Jordan Schreiber, to Kyra Libin of Samson, Richard Schulz, Rev. Philip Sherman, graduating from Heschel High School. He will Woodmere, NY. Louis M. Solomon, Rabbi Meir Soloveichik, and attend Goucher College. Daniel Weiner Boaz Alvares Vega. 4 5 Daniel Dellal, son of Susan and William Reuben Frieber, son of Laury Frieber, upon Daniel Nathan, son of Rebecca Chaplan and Lior Toledo, niece of Avi Toledo, upon Dellal, upon graduating from Swarthmore graduating from Park East Day School David Nathan, upon graduating with an MD graduating from Eliezer Ben-Yehuda High — continued — — continued College with a degree in biology. He will be Elementary School. He will attend Park East from Albert Einstein College of Medicine. School. She is joining the Israeli Defense Forces. working in the Columbia Presbyterian stem Day School Middle School. cell research lab. Estee Nemetz-Nacson, daughter of Rabbi Joshua Vorchheimer, son of Rachel and Dr. Samuel Friedman, son of Zoya and Naftali Steven Nemetz, upon graduating from David Vorchheimer, upon graduating from David Dellal, son of Susan and William Dellal, Friedman, upon his graduation from Osgoode Hall Law School. Abraham Joshua Heschel School. He will upon graduating from M.I.T. with a degree Kindergarten at Park East Day School. He attend SAR High School. in Mechanical Engineering. He will attend will attend Park East Day School Elementary Elisheva Nemetz, daughter of Rabbi Steven the Yale Graduate program in biomedical School. Nemetz, upon graduating from Yeshiva Shearith Israel Toddler Program engineering. University. She will attend Harvard Medical Graduates: Sara Goldstein, daughter of Victoria School. Alexander Freilich, son of Helen and Elliot Bengualid and Gabriel Goldstein, upon Felix Brooke, Max Howard, Gabriel Jackson, Freilich, upon graduating from Ramaz Middle graduating from SAR High School. Sara Hillel D. Neumark, son of Susan and Avery Leo Kestenbaum, Emmanuelle Klatt, Judy School. plans on spending next year in Israel studying Neumark, upon graduating from New York Levine, Olivia Shoten, Abe Sherizen, Serena at Migdal Oz. University School of Law with a JD degree. Vago, and Ryder Zoldan Rachel Freilich, daughter of Stephanie and Ellie Neustein, daughter of Robin Chemers Jonathan Freilich, upon graduating from Caroline Guenoun, daughter of Maggie Graduation Kiddush: Ramaz Middle School. She will attend Ramaz and Andre Guenoun, upon graduating with Neustein and Shimmin Neustein, upon Upper School. a Bachelor of Science in Economics from graduating from Wellesley College. Sponsors: The Wharton School of The University of Ruth Malkah Rohde, daughter of Mrs. Lisa Carol and Arthur Goldberg, in honor of Eli Naomi Freilich, daughter of Stephanie Pennsylvania. She has accepted the position and Rabbi Ira Rohde, upon graduating from Aaron and Jonathan Freilich, upon graduating of Leadership Development Associate with

ANNOUNCEMENTS UMass-Amherst with a B.S. in Environmental from Ramaz Upper School. She will attend Mondelez Global LLC, North America Science with a certificate in Sustainable Maggie and Andre Guenoun, in honor of Midreshet Lindenbaum in Israel followed by Region. Caroline Guenoun Harvard University. Business from the Isenberg School of Management. Amital Kaplan, son of Yael Cycowicz and Yael Cycowicz and Matthew Kaplan, in Matea Frieber, daughter of Laury Frieber, Matthew Kaplan, upon graduating from Joe Scheiner, upon graduating from NYU with honor of Amital Kaplan upon graduating from Park East Day School Ramaz Upper School. He will attend Johns a Masters in Real Estate Finance. Elementary School. She will attend Park East Hopkins University. Maud and Neal Kozodoy, in honor of Mirah Day School Middle School. Talia Esther Schulder, daughter of Drs. Lu Kozodoy Jordan Katz, son of Vicki and Sam Katz, and Michael Schulder, upon graduating upon graduating from the University of The Levi Family, in honor of Julia Levi with a Bachelor of Arts from Johns Hopkins Michigan’s Ross School of Business. University. She was awarded the Stephen Dixon Drs. Lu and Michael Schulder, in honor of Mirah Kozodoy, daughter of Maud and Neal Literary Prize in Writing Seminars, and will Talia Esther Schulder Kozodoy, upon graduating from The Brearley continue with freelance writing. School. She will attend the Carnegie Mellon Co-Sponsors: Richard Strauss, son of Hadassah Levinson, School of Drama Design and Production. upon his graduation from SUNY Albany with Penny Liebman Aaron and Mark M. Aaron, Julia Levi, daughter of Amanda Schachter and a B.A. in Political Science. He will be applying in honor of Eli Aaron to Master’s programs. Alex Levi, upon graduating from Ramaz High Rushie and Phil Bieler, in honor of Charlie School. She will attend the Hartman Hevruta Scarlett Toledo, daughter of Avi Toledo, upon Bieler Gap Year Program, followed by Yale University. graduating with a Bachelor of the Arts in Education from Tel-Hai College. She will teach Susan and William Dellal, in honor of David Hadassah Levinson, upon her graduation and Daniel Dellal from with an M.A. in high school in Israel this coming year. Modern Jewish History. She will be applying to PhD programs in Modern Jewish History. 6 7 Stephanie and Jonathan Freilich, in honor CONDOLENCES IN APPRECIATION Benjamin Motola of Rachel and Naomi Freilich — continued — — continued We extend sincere condolences to: Class Sponsors: Francine Alfandary and Laurent Nahon, in Laury Frieber, in honor of Reuben and memory of Philippe Nahon (Shmuel Ben Matea Frieber Philip Bieler, on the passing of his father, Jeffrey Berger, for sponsoring a Shabbat Eliezer). Edward Bieler. Afternoon Class, in memory of Betty Berger, Zoya and Naftali Friedman, in honor of Breinah Leah b. Moshe Aaron, wife of Joseph, Andrew Sole, in memory of Sheila R. Sole. Samuel Friedman David H. Solis-Cohen, III, on the passing of and mother of Marc, Jeffrey, Scott, and Keith his wife, Carole Baker. Condolences to his Berger. Kiddush Fund Sponsors: The Bengualid-Goldstein Family, in honor children, Hannah, Emma, and Benjamin of Sara Goldstein Solis-Cohen. Cindy Trop and Stuart Ellman, for sponsoring Anonymous, in memory of Benjamin and a Shabbat Afternoon Class, in memory Cindy’s Caryl Bateman, Irma Cardozo, Eva Haberman, Hadassah Levinson, in honor of hers and Isaac Corre, on the passing of his mother, father, Melekh b. Zion. Deborah Neumark, and past Parnas, Dennis Richard Strauss’s graduations Nita Corre. Freilich. Sarita and Ben Greszes, for sponsoring a Cheryl and David Morgan Andre Guenoun, on the passing of his father, Tuesday Evening Class, in honor of Doina and Dr. Lawrence Bryskin, in memory Salomon Guenoun. Sara and Morris Greszes and in memory of of Doina’s mother, Hermina Levi, on the Mrs. Lisa and Rabbi Ira Rohde, in honor of Rifca and Hersh Rosenberg. occasion of her nahala, and in honor of Rabbi Ruth Malkah Rohde Nathan Lindenbaum, on the passing of his Meir Soloveichik. father, Marcel Lindenbaum. Suzanne Morad, for sponsoring a Shabbat Joe Scheiner, in honor of his graduation Afternoon Class, in memory of Manijeh Morad. Malka and Zachary Edinger, in honor of the Avi Toledo, in honor of Scarlett and Lior Marina Tatistcheff-Schindler, on the passing birth of their daughter, Navah Manda Edinger. of her mother, Florence Tatistcheff Scott Shay, for sponsoring the 2018 summer Toledo semester of Rabbi Soloveichik’s Shabbat Rose and Henry Edinger, in honor of the birth ANNOUNCEMENTS Rachel and Dr. David Vorchheimer, in Joel Schreiber, on the passing of his brother, Afternoon Class, in memory of his father, of their granddaughter, Navah Manda Edinger. Simeon Schreiber. Gutman b. Shmuel u’Nesiya. honor of Joshua Vorchheimer Faith Fogelman, in memory of her parents, Joshua Sauberman, on the passing of his Karen and Roy Simon, for sponsoring a Miriam and Theodore Watkin. grandmother, Doris Sauberman. Tuesday Evening Talmud Class. IN MEMORIAM Joleen and Mitch Julis, in memory of Maurice Aviva Sussman, on the passing of her sister, Raphael Julis. We mourn the loss of our members: Dr. Judith S. B. Guedalia. Codolences to the Minyan Breakfast Sponsors and Guedalia, Bendheim, and Salomon families. Supporters: The Sisterhood, in memory of Mona Carole Sara Baker (Solis-Cohen) Harriet and Isaac Ainetchi, in memory of Oppenheim and other descendants of our Robert Tam, on the passing of his mother, Isaac’s parents, Jacob and Marcelle. founding families. Helen Laniado Ginette Tam. The family of Robert I. Shapiro, in honor of his Marcel Lindenbaum Harriet and Isaac Ainetchi, in memory of Isaac’s mother, Marcelle, on the occasion of her 10th nahala. firstnahala . Dr. Naomi Rodstein (Pool), daughter of our The Beispel family, in memory of Regine late minister, David and Tamar de Sola Pool Etty and Jacob Bousso, in memory of David Franco. Florence Tatistcheff Bousso. Daniel Cohen, in honor of Hallie Pomerantz’s Bequests Bat Mitzvah. Please consider including Shearith Israel Sabra and Simon Gerson in your estate planning. To learn how, or for more information, please speak with Elizabeth Edelman and Henry Lipschutz our Executive Director, Barbara Reiss. 8 9 Donations for Sifrei Torah Repair: Shabbat HaGadol Derasha: Dr. Leonard Groopman

— continued — — continued Anonymous Debbie and David Sable, in memory of The Shearith Israel League Debbie’s father, Ambassador Yehuda Avner, on Massoud Arabian the occasion of his third nahala. Lloyd Zuckerberg Elisheva and Dan Friedman Shabuot Public Lecture Sponsors: Kiddush in Honor of Our Teen Girl Morton Landowne Nicole and Raanan Agus Readers of Shir HaShirim: Anonymous Ruth and Lawrence Kobrin The Solomon Family The Epstein and Jackson Families Fabiola and Ronen Korin Lynette and Jonathan Tulkoff Ivy and Marvin Schildkraut Jane Shiff and Alan Lubarr, in memory of Jane’s Rabbi Soloveichik’s Tisha B’ab Lecture mother, Annette Renick (Chana bat Moshe Kathleen and Alan Shamoon Sponsor: Yaakov v’Sara). Stuart Ellman and Cindy Trop, in memory The Solomon Family HerringFest: The Purim Edition: of Cindy’s mother, Yehudit Bat Avraham Anonymous HaCohen, on her nahala. Daniela Weiss and Avi Yohananoff

Anonymous Shearith Israel/Jewish Center Pulpit Kiddush in Honor of our Girls Reading the Book of Ruth: Josh Eisen Swap Kiddush Luncheon Sponsors:

ANNOUNCEMENTS Karen and Jack Daar Sponsors: Sharon and Michael Goldberg Jennifer Ash and Seth Haberman Joy Saleh and Bruce Roberts Halana and Alan Greenberg The Kalfus Family Supporters: Debbie and David Sable The Sherizen Family Yael Cycowicz and Matthew Kaplan Andrea Raab Sherman and Rev. Philip L Sherman The Solomon Family The Wiznia Family Kiddush Fund Contributors: Contributors: The Solomon Family Kiddush in Honor of Visiting Scholar, Anonymous Ruth and Leonard Wisse Laura Arnold Leibman: Nicole and David Cohen The Aufzien Family Karen and Jack Daar Annual Purim Breakfast: Faith Fogelman Gail Silberman The Haberman Family Liliane Marks, in honor of her first reading Laury, Reuben, and Matea Frieber of the megillah. Karen and Roy Simon Scotch and Arak Sponsors: Janine Soleymani and Bruce Greenberg and Family Dr. Harry Engel Arthur Tenenholtz, in memory of his father, Beth Olam Cemetery Civil War Benjamin Tenenholtz. Memorial Sponsors: Rev. Philip Sherman Susan’s Family Joel Tenenholtz, in memory of his father, Anonymous, in memory of two Jewish Rabbi Meir Y. Soloveichik Benjamin Tenenholtz. veterans of WWII

10 11 SUCCOT MEALS IN THE SUCCAH For Shearith Israel members and their guests who wish to eat self-catered meals LULABD AN ETROG ORDERS in the Elias Room Succah, we offer timed seatings on yom tob following kiddush, Orders due before midnight, Sunday, and on hol hamoed. Registration is required for all meals and we charge $12 September 16 per person per meal to help defray costs. You bring the food (strictly kosher, of course) and we supply tablecloths, disposables, and basic beverages. Space is To purchase your lulab and etrog sets through the highly limited, so register early. Synagogue, visit shearithisrael.org/lulab. Payment HOLIDAYS must be made at time of order and before the We will accommodate members and immediate family on a first-come-first-serve deadline. (We cannot bill these charges to your basis. Non-member guests will be accommodated closer to the date subject to account.) For questions contact Zachary Edinger at availability. To register, go to shearithisrael.org/meals-succah-5779. [email protected]. HOSHAANA RABBA MISHMARA SISTERHOOD SUCCAH DECORATION Saturday Night, September 29 | 9:00 pm Thursday, September 20 | 3:00 pm - 9:00 pm Rabbi Meir Soloveichik HIGH HOLIDAYS Friday, September 21 | 8:00 am - 12:00 pm Join us in this annual Shearith Israel tradition as we bid Sunday, September 23 | 9:00 am - 1:00 pm farewell to Succot and prepare for Simhat Torah with SHABBAT TESHUBA celebratory food and study in our stunning Elias Room DERASHA Our unique open-air Elias Room Succah is considered one of the most beautiful in the world. Succah, featuring a by Rabbi Soloveichik. Shabbat, September 15 Decorated lavishly and lovingly by the Shearith Rabbi Meir Soloveichik Israel Sisterhood, who sponsors Succot kiddushim The entire community is served on vintage Shearith Israel branded Tiffany SIMHAT TORAH welcome to hear Rabbi Limoges china and elegant silver for all congregants Soloveichik give his Shabbat to enjoy. Teens and adults, women and men, are WOMEN’S HAKAFOT Teshuba Derasha. To co-sponsor invited to help decorate in preparation for the Monday night, October 1 | 7:00 pm | Little Synagogue the Kiddush following the Succot Festival. To participate in this fun mitzvah, derasha, go to shearithisrael.org/ contact Mrs. Lisa Rohde at [email protected] On the evening of Simhat Torah, a parallel Hakafot ceremony shabbat-teshuba2018. or Aimee Margolis at [email protected] or is held for women. This joyous Shearith Israel tradition began sign up at shearithisrael.org/sisterhood-succah- in 1991 and has been held annually ever since. decorating-5779. HIGH HOLIDAY Financial contributions to the Sisterhood’s Succah PROGRAMMING FOR Fund are also welcome to help defray the costs of SIMHAT TORAH DINNER AND CHILDREN decorating and maintaining the succah. To make a ICE CREAM PARTY Rosh Hashana, Kippur, and contribution to the Sisterhood Succah Fund, please Monday night, October 1 Succot either send a check made out to “Sisterhood of Following Simhat Torah hakafot in the sanctuaries, we will host a light the Spanish & Portuguese Synagogue” indicating dinner. Pre-registration is required; details to follow. During youth groups, children “succah fund” in the memo, or make a donation will participate in special holiday online at shearithisrael.org/sisterhood-succah- During and after dinner, all the young (and young at heart) are invited activities. For more information, decorating-5779. to enjoy our annual ice cream party. As usual, volunteer teen scoopers see page 24. are needed. No registration necessary to enjoy the ice cream party! Sponsored—again—by the Haberman and Lustig families.

12 13 THANKSGIVING CITIZENSHIP TO — continued — — continued THANKSGIVING DAY CELEBRATIONS DESCENDANTS OF SEPHARDIC Thursday, November 22 PORTUGUESE JEWS Morning Services | 7:45 am | Main Sanctuary Parade Viewing | 9:30 am | Portico | For Children Only! Socializing for Adults and Youth | 9:30 am | Elias Room Manuela Bairos, Pack-a-Thon | 9:30 am | Registration required former Portuguese Consul General of New York HOLIDAYS In 1789, Shearith Israel responded to George Washington’s call for a day of national thanksgiving with a special service. Today, we observe Thanksgiving with the addition of Psalms during Shahrit and the omission of tahanunim and a Thanksgiving- By the Decree-Law no. 30-A/2015, on February 27th themed lecture by Rabbi Soloveichik. We invite the children of 2015, Portugal allows the descendents of Sephardic Jews of the congregation for parade viewing on the CPW Portico and Portuguese origin expelled by the Inquisition to claim their hot chocolate for all right to return by acquiring the Portuguese nationality, and in the Elias Room. encourages their integration into the national community with all its rights and obligations. The preamble of this law includes a brief historic background where it is acknowledged the very old presence of Jewish communities in the Iberian Peninsula, even before the establishment of the Christian Iberian Kingdoms, namely in the new Kingdom of Portugal founded in the 12th century, and many centuries before they were subject to prosecution by the Inquisition.

WHO CAN REQUEST THE PORTUGUESE NATIONALITY? FOURTH ANNUAL The Portuguese Government may grant the Portuguese nationality by naturalization to THANKSGIVING PACK-A-THON the descendants of Sephardic Portuguese Jews upon the confirmation of their links to Thursday, November 22 | 9:30 am | Levy Auditorium Sephardic communities of Portuguese origin, namely, surnames, family speaking language In what has become yet another wonderful annual Shearith and direct or indirect descent. Israel tradition, following Rabbi Soloveichik’s special Thanksgiving address, registered volunteers will pack meals to Applicants also need to meet the following criteria: be distributed to hungry New Yorkers. We are joined again in • Being above the age of majority (18 years old) or emancipated under Portuguese law; this endeavor by our local faith community partners: The Jewish Center, Church of Latter-Day Saints, and West End Collegiate • Not having been convicted, with a sentence transited in rem judicatum, for a crime Church. If you’d like to join this planning committee and help ensure the success of this important activity, please contact liable to a prison sentence of three years or more, in accordance with Portuguese law. Sarah Meira Rosenberg at [email protected]. WHICH DOCUMENTS ARE REQUIRED? • Application Form, which must be filled out in Portuguese. The signature on the application form must made in the presence of and certified by the consular authorities.

14 15 this exact amount in EUROS can also be CONCLUSION made online through the Central Registry Shortly after my arrival as Consul General of Office website. Portugal in New York, in February 2015, the Please note that no proficiency of the Portuguese Parliament enacted this “right of return” Portuguese language is required. law by which dozens of individuals of Portuguese Sephardic Jews living in New York have applied WHERE MUST THE APPLICATION to Portuguese citizenship at this Consulate. BE DELIVERED? Modern Portugal, with its complex history and its multilayered identity, aspires to building its future The Application Form, completed with the on the diversity that made the richness of its most (https://www.portaldascomunidades.mne.pt/ required documents, may be submitted in person reassuring moments and achievements as a nation. images/GADG/Requerimento_judeu_sefardita_ or by mail at the Conservatória dos Registos In this context, recovering the lost connection Art.6.pdf) has resided previously, which must be Centrais (Central Registry Office). If residing with its industrious and dynamic Portuguese authenticated with the apostille or by the in a foreign country, the application may be The following information will be required: full Jewish community has a deep meaning, not only Portuguese Consulate. For the USA, the submitted at the Portuguese consular services of name; place and date of birth; parents; civil to redress history but also to bring back to the Federal (FBI) criminal record is required. the area of residence. The applicant can also grant status; profession; nationality; the place of the nation a missing part of its identity. The law on a power of attorney to a representative to submit current residence and the one where it has the “right of return” is a welcoming gesture that • The translation into Portuguese of the the application. Naturalization is granted by lived previously; passport, ID, or Permission has served the purpose well, and the Synagogues in above-mentioned criminal records certified decision of the Minister of Justice. The decision of Residence (number, expiry dates and issuing Lisbon and Porto, along with 27 municipalities in by the Portuguese Consulate of the country is given directly to the applicants or to their legal authorities); evidence of the applicant’s family Portugal, have been crucial partners in rebuilding of origin of the document in question. representatives. If denied, the interested party will history of connection to a Sephardic Community the Jewish Heritage all over the country. be notified on the reasons, having a period of 20 of Portuguese origin. • Certificate from a Jewish communitywith collective religious person status (Synagogues days to further elaborate on the request. On my departure from New York, I would like to • Birth certificate, certified with the apostille of Lisbon or Oporto), under Portuguese Law, take this opportunity to bid farewell to all those Important links in Portugal: or by the Portuguese Consulate of the that certifies the tradition of belonging to a who have come to the Consulate searching for the country of origin of the document in Sephardic community of Portuguese origin. Portal das Comunidades Portuguesas: https:// acknowledgment of their Portuguese Sephardic question, in countries which have not signed In the absence of the certificate mentioned www.portaldascomunidades.mne.pt/pt/ roots and with whom it was a pleasure to share the the apostille convention. above, and, in order to demonstrate direct heritage and emotional bond with Portugal. Instituto Registos e Notariado: http://www.irn. ancestry or belonging to a Sephardic • Copy of passport certified by the Portuguese mj.pt/IRN/sections/irn/a_registral/registos- My last word goes to Shearith Israel, the Spanish community of Portuguese origin, other Consulate. centrais/docs-da-nacionalidade/aquisicao/n/ and Portuguese Synagogue in New York, in means of evidence are admitted (vide nº5 of aquisicao-da8318/ particular to Rabbi Dr. Meir Soloveichik and • The translation into Portuguese of the Article 24 – A). to its Executive Director, Barbara Reiss, for above-mentioned birth certificate certified Jewish Community of Oporto: https:// • In addition to the consular fees required the warm welcome on my frequent visits to by the Portuguese Consulate of the country pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinagoga_Kadoorie for the certification of documents needed the Synagogue, and to congratulate the entire of origin of the document in question. to complete the application, a payment of Jewish Community of Lisbon: http://www. community, on the 365th anniversary of the • Certificate of criminal record issued by 250.00 € (EUROS) must be made upon cilisboa.org/ establishment of the first Jewish Congregation the competent authority in the country of submitting the application by money order in America, for the extraordinary journey started the nationality of the applicant or of the or bank check in euros to the Central Rede de Judiarias de Portugal: http://www. in 1654 and the accomplishments of the Jewish country or countries in which the applicant Registry Office in Portugal. Payment of redejudiariasportugal.com/index.php/en/ Community in America. 16 17 VISITING SCHOLAR IN THE FILM SCREENING: HEADING SUCCAH: DAVID MOSTER HOME: THE TALE OF TEAM ISRAEL Sponsored by The Shearith Israel Wednesday, October 10 League Following Evening Services Wednesday, September 26 A stirring story of sports, patriotism, and personal Following Evening Services growth, Heading Home charts the underdog journey of Israel’s national baseball team as they Rabbi David Moster, one of the foremost compete for the first time in the World Baseball etrog experts, explores the etrog’s most Classic. Their lineup included several Jewish pressing mysteries, including: How did the American Major League players, most with a etrog make its way from China to Israel by tenuous relationship to Judaism, never mind the Second Temple period, ca. 400 BCE? having ever set foot in Israel. Their odyssey takes How and why did the etrog become the them from the Holy Land, where they are greeted of Leviticus as heroes, to Seoul, where they must debunk (פרי עץ הדר) ”choice tree-fruit“ HEBRA HASED VA’AMET’S ANNUAL 23:40? What does the archaeological their has-been/wannabe reputations. With their PRE-HIGH HOLIDAY COMMUNAL evidence from the “paradise” garden at Mensch on the Bench mascot by their side, the BETH OLAM CEMETERY TRIP (& TOUR) Ramat Rahel say about the history of team laughs, cries, and does much soul-searching, SPECIAL EVENTS SPECIAL Sunday, August 26 the etrog? Why does the etrog appear so discovering the pride of representing Israel on the Departing from Synagogue at 9:00 am prominently in Jewish art from the Roman world stage. and Byzantine periods? 10 am at Beth Olam Cemetery Stay tuned for registration and tickets. 2 Cypress Hills Street, Ridgewood David Z. Moster, PhD and Rabbi, is the (Queens) New York founder and director of the Institute of Biblical Culture (www.BiblicalCulture.org) PTTS SHABBATON & YOUNG Join us for our annual visit to Beth Olam Cemetery and the author of Etrog: How a Chinese COUPLES AND FAMILIES Visiting Scholar, Rabbi David Moster, PhD where members can visit the graves of loved ones Fruit Became a Jewish Symbol. He received LUNCHEON before the High Holidays and participate in a his PhD in Hebrew Bible from Bar-Ilan Shabbat, November 3 memorial service in the Calvert Vaux-designed University, his MA in Ancient Israel from “metaher house.” A highlight of the visit is an NYU, and an MA, and MS, and Semikha Junior Congregation with a Torah Reading illuminating tour given by our sexton, Zachariah from Yeshiva University. David currently begins at 10:30 am Edinger. Register at shearithisrael.org/beth-olam- lives in Yonkers, NY with his wife and cemetery-trip. two children. Luncheon begins after Morning Services Young families will form meaningful bonds at HATANIM LUNCHEON this first-ever PTTS Shabbaton. Students from MAJOR LECTURE: THE AKEDAH IN our Polonies Talmud Torah Hebrew School will ART AND JEWISH THOUGHT Shabbat Bereshit, October 6 be preparing in class for this big day when they Following Morning Services Co-sponsored by the Straus Center for Torah are invited to take center stage in our Junior and Western Thought On Shabbat Bereshit, our community Congregation on Shabbat morning, with a Young Couples and Families Luncheon to follow. Get to Wednesday, September 5 | Rabbi Meir Soloveichik and friends come together to honor our Hatanim with an elegant luncheon and know our younger community members and their Prepare yourself spiritually and intellectually for the celebration. This year’s Hatan Torah is families, and cheer them on as they carry on our upcoming High Holidays. Join us for another of our beloved Sexton, Zachary Edinger, and unique Shearith Israel traditions. Rabbi Soloveichik’s incredible talks, this time on the Hatan Bereshit is Marc Wiznia. Registration Luncheon registration details coming soon. topic, “The Akedah in Art and Jewish Thought.” and sponsorship information to follow. 18 19 — continued — — continued

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AROUND SHEARITH ISRAEL C SCOTT SHAY IN CONVERSATION SPECIAL SCREENING: WHEN WITH RABBI MEIR SOLOVEICHIK THE SMOKE CLEARS A Community Dinner Saturday Night, November 10 | 6:30 pm Friday Night, November 9 Join us the night before Veterans Day to Religion can be both inspiring and distressing. watch this thematically apropos documentary SPECIAL EVENTS SPECIAL And many critiques of it are simultaneously from U, When the Smoke Clears: compelling and dubious. In his new book, In A Story of Brotherhood, Resilience and Hope. Good Faith: Questioning Religion and Atheism, It tells the true stories of young Israeli author and Shearith Israel member, Scott Shay soldiers, Gil, Ofer, and Elad, whose injuries examines atheist arguments with a refreshing leave them fighting for the strength to live. D modern eye in this comprehensive look at our Making breakthroughs and finding meaning most fundamental questions about faith and by reaching out to those in need, they reason. Enjoy an elegant Shabbat dinner and hear discover that what didn’t kill them really did Scott in conversation with Rabbi Soloveichik as make them stronger. they discuss these age-old questions. A. Past visiting scholar, Registration and tickets coming soon. Laura Leibman, delivering Scott A. Shay has had a successful business a lecture on Western career spanning Wall Street, private equity, Sephardic Country Houses venture capital, and banking. He co-founded MONTHLY SYNAGOGUE TOURS ABOVE: Signature Bank of New York and has served as Tours of Shearith Israel provide a unique B. Participants at “Passover its Chairman since its formation. He has been opportunity for visitors and tourists to Shearith Israel hosted a visit by the Speaker of the Austrian and the American a provocative commentator on many financial learn more about America’s first Jewish Parliament, Wolfgang Sobotka and his delegation and Consul Imagination” hear issues, including among others, how the banking Congregation—Shearith Israel—and view system should best function to help society, General, Dr. Helmut Boeck and Deputy Consul General, Dr. Harold Holzer present ritual objects dating back to the Colonial Georg Woutsas. Several of the guests attended our evening the backstory of the the implications of a cashless world, and tax period. We are pleased to lead guests through services, after which Rabbi Soloveichik presented the history of Spielberg’s biopic, Lincoln reform. Scott called for the re-imposition of our beautiful space with enlightening facts Glass-Steagall and breaking up the big banks about our proud history and unique traditions. our congregation and led them on a tour of a Synagogue. Also at a TEDx talk at the NY Stock Exchange in representing Shearith Israel was Parnas, Louis Solomon, Honorary C. New elector, Raanan Individuals and groups are welcome to attend Agus, signs the Shearith 2012. Throughout his life, he has been a student a free guided tour once a month led by a Trustee, Avery Neumark, and Executive Director, Barbara Reiss. of religion and how religion ought to apply to Israel Constitution member of our clergy or a trained docent. We enjoyed a lively and candid discussion, and as Jewish the world outside of the synagogue, church, There is a suggested donation of $5 per person, goodwill ambassadors, we hope these Austrian politicians D. Three generations of or mosque. In addition to authoring articles although any amount is appreciated. Tours Kapitos enjoying the relating to the Jewish community, Scott has also generally last 45 minutes. Go to shearithisrael. (and the Austrian press which accompanied them) bring back written the best-selling title, Getting Our Groove org/tours for more information. positive messages about their encounter with us and the Jewish tribute to Hatan Bereshit, Back: How to Energize American Jewry. community in America more broadly. grandpa, Rob Kapito 20 21 SAADIAH GAON’S BOOK OF BELIEFS FEASTSD AN FASTS: THE FESTIVALS IN JEWISH AND OPINIONS THOUGHT Sundays | 8:45 am | Rabbi Sjimon den Hollander A Class for Women The Book of Beliefs and Opinions (completed 933 CE) Tuesdays | 9:00 am | Rabbi Meir Soloveichik was the first systematic presentation and philosophic foundation of the dogmas of Judaism. Women meet on Tuesday mornings to examine anew the rituals of the Jewish holiday or fast that is approaching, challenge our assumptions, Rabbi Sjimon den Hollander was born in the Netherlands. and emerge with a deeper understanding of the rituals that we have been He received his Master’s degree in Arabic and Islamology performing our entire lives. Breakfast is served. Sponsorship opportunities from the University of Leiden. After subsequently earning are available. To find out more, go to shearithisrael.org/sponsoraclass. a Bachelor’s degree in education, he taught Comparative Religion at Ichthus Teachers’ College in Rotterdam. Sjimon teaches Jewish literature at Hunter College and FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS: THE MAKING AND does research on Islam’s perception of Judaism within the MEANING OF SHABBAT literature of Quran commentaries. He recently received his rabbinic ordination from Rabbi Eliyahu Ben Haim. Begins Friday, October 19 Fridays | Following Evening Services | Rabbi Meir Soloveichik OPEN BET MIDRASH During the chillier months, when shabbat starts early and the Most Weeknights (Monday-Thursday) evenings loom long, congregants are invited to stay around for a 5:15 until Evening Services bit after Friday evening services for an inspiring shiur delivered by JUDAIC EDUCATION JUDAIC Rabbi Soloveichik. There is no better way to transition from the On most weeknights, men and women, adults and youth, workweek to the aura of Shabbat than experiencing our magnificent are invited to learn with university-level and rabbinical Kabbalat Shabbat service followed by Friday Night Lights. The MONDAY & TUESDAY students from Yeshiva University in the Elias Room at our 2018-2019 season is sponsored by the Julis family. To sponsor an LEARNING “Open Bet Midrash.” Learn your way: join a habruta, hear individual session, go to shearithisrael.org/sponsoraclass. a short debar torah, or simply pick a sefer off the shelf. Take With Rabbi Soloveichik advantage of this unique opportunity, and don’t hesitate to On select Mondays and Tuesdays contact Z. Edinger at [email protected] with 7:00 pm any questions. THE MISUNDERSTOOD MASTERPIECE: A NEW APPROACH TO PIRKEI ABOT Rabbi Soloveichik will deliver Participants are welcome to stay for evening services and Shabbat Afternoon, Year-Round | One Hour Before Minhah major lectures on select Mondays help strengthen our minyan. Rabbi Meir Soloveichik and Tuesdays, with Mondays devoted to history, and Tuesdays Pirkei Abot is often understood as a mere series of unrelated ethical focused on Judaic/Torah/Talmud TUESDAY MORNING MINYAN adages. In fact, each brief and frequently cited maxim in Pirkei Abot content. Dates will be announced BREAKFAST AND SHIUR actually hints at the extraordinary, and unique, life story and worldview in advance, so keep an eye for Tuesdays | Following Morning Services of its rabbinic source. What’s more, the chapters of Abot are joined in a announcements in our emails, on structure that tells the story of the transmission of the Oral Law. We will our website, and on our Facebook The loyal members of our morning minyan know the see how studying the history of the rabbinic figures cited lends an entirely page. If you’re not already on the pleasure of camaraderie and learning that is especially new understanding to these statements, and how Abot represents the Rabbi’s email distribution, sign up enjoyed every Tuesday morning. All worshippers are diverse response of the to an age of crisis and transition that was, in at shearithisrael.org/join-our- welcome to enjoy breakfast and a short shiur by Rabbi many ways, not unlike our own. Sponsorship opportunities are available. shearithisrael.org/sponsoraclass email-lists. shearithisrael.org/education Soloveichik or another member of our ministerial team. To find out more, go to .

22 23 HIGH HOLIDAY JUNIOR BOOK GROUP PTTS BRUNCH & LEARNS WITH RABBI SOLOVEICHIK PROGRAMMING For ages 11-13 FOR CHILDREN Three Shabbat Afternoons | In Private Homes For 5th – 8th Graders and Their Parents For everyone’s safety, children should Exact Dates To Be Announced be either in a youth program or in the ROSH HASHANA, Sundays, 10:30 am – 12:00 pm The Sisterhood introduced Junior Book Group Sanctuary accompanied by a parent. KIPPUR, AND SUCCOT December 2 | February 3 | March 10 Children should not be anywhere While the adults of the earlier this year, as a Shabbat afternoon activity where kids can read books and talk about them PTTS middle school students and all in the synagogue unattended. We congregation are enjoying the appreciate your understanding. beautiful tefillaof the High with their peers in lively discussions, in the PTTS parents enjoy special time with the Holidays in the sanctuary, comfort of a private home near the Synagogue. rabbi. On several Sundays over the course we have wonderful, fun, and After the success of the initial meeting, Junior of the year, 5th-8th grade students and all educational learning activities Book Group will be continuing with three PTTS parents start the day together with as well as youth-led tefilla for upcoming dates and books. Stay tuned for morning services after which they will the children. Ages 0-4 have details, and if you have any questions or book proceed to a topical “Brunch and Learn” babysitting, holiday storytelling recommendations, feel free to submit them at with Rabbi Soloveichik. These sessions are shearithisrael.org/book-group and songs. Children 5-12 will . held on Sunday mornings during regularly YOUTH ON SHABBAT play fun educational games lead scheduled PTTS time. by our engaging leaders. Past TOT SHABBAT holiday activities have included HEBREW SCHOOL: POLONIES 10:00 am – 11:45 am | ages 0 – 4 a shofar blowing exercise and a TALMUD TORAH SCHOOL (PTTS) WEEKDAY TODDLER sheheheyanu party. PROGRAM Our little ones enjoy Tot Shabbat all year round, led by Begins October 7, 2018 our beloved teachers, Liz and Shanade. Independent All ages meet Sundays, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm September 5, 2018-June 5, 2019 play, snacks, and circle-time with songs will entertain THANKSGIVING DAY Mondays and Wednesdays | 9:30 am – the toddlers while parents are in services. Thanks to PARADE Elementary school-aged children also meet 11:30 am the efforts of our young families and their supporters, Thursdays, 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm our tots have now been enjoying our new Fidanque Thursday, November 22 For children ages 16-34 months. Parent Youth Room, with new furniture and equipment and For students 3 – 16 years of age 9:30 am or caregiver attendance required. more toys than ever. Parents: please note that children CSI Kids, this special Our Hebrew School provides students with under the age of 2 must be accompanied by an adult. Shearith Israel’s popular Toddler Program Furthermore, children will only be released to their opportunity is just for you! a substantive Jewish education in a positive is held twice a week for children aged Come watch the Thanksgiving and engaging environment. Students develop parent or other pre-authorized adult. Please cooperate 16-34 months with an adult caregiver. The with these important policies for the safety of your Day Parade from our Portico ISRAEL SHEARITH AT YOUTH skills (reading, writing, and program focuses on learning colors and children and everyone else. accompanied by hot chocolate comprehension), learn the major portions of the shapes, creating arts and crafts, singing and snacks in the Elias Room! Tanakh, Jewish holiday rituals, Jewish history, and songs, exploring Jewish holidays, music It is a view and experience that how Jewish ideas inform our values in modern and more. For more information, go to is not to be beat! times. To learn more and enroll your child today, shearithisrael.org/toddlerprogram. YOUTH GROUPS AND JR. CONGREGATION go to shearithisrael.org/hebrewschool. September – June | 10:00 am until end of services Children ages 5 – 12 gather in the Elias Room for fun activities connected to the parasha of the week and other Jewish themes. Then at 10:30 am, the children come together for Junior Congregation, a lively, participatory Don’t forget to sign up for our service in the Little Synagogue. For a list of parts your weekly youth email updates! child may lead in Jr. Congregation, contact Mrs. Lisa Scan this code for details. Rohde at [email protected]. 24 25 SISTERHOOD SUCCAH YOETZET DECORATING Shearith Israel is a co-sponsor of the Thursday, September 20 | 3:00 pm - 9:00 pm Yoetzet Halakha Initiative. If you have any questions Friday, September 21 | 8:00 am - 12:00 pm regarding Taharat Hamishpaha (Family Purity), Sunday, September 23 | 9:00 am - 1:00 pm laws of Niddah, please contact our Yoetzet Halakha, Shiffy Friedman, in confidence at nycyoetzet@ The Sisterhood’s decoration of the Congregation’s gmail.com. renowned Elias Room Succah has made it one of the most beautiful in . Teens Shiffy Friedman has been serving as a Yoetzet Sisterhood representatives (from and adults, women and men, are invited to help Halacha in Manhattan since 2017. She graduated right to left): Carla Solomon decorate in preparation for the Succot Festival. from Nishmat’s Miriam Glaubach Center’s For more information, see page 12. U.S. Yoatzot Halakha Fellows Program in 2015. Schein, Aimee Margolis, Mrs. Lisa Shiffy Friedman Rohde, and Roey Bender She has been counseling women in the area of women’s health and halakha, both through her WOMEN’S HAKAFOT role as Yoetzet Halakha in Westchester County Monday night, October 1 | 7:00 pm and through teaching brides and couples before Little Synagogue marriage. Shiffy has taught at SAR Academy and currently teaches at Ma’ayanot Yeshiva High On the evening of Simhat Torah, a parallel School. She received her B.A. in Judaic Studies Hakafot ceremony is held for women. This joyous from Stern College and a dual M.A. in Education Shearith Israel tradition began in 1991 and has and Jewish Studies from New York University. been held annually ever since. Prior to that, she spent a year studying in Israel at the Stella K. Abraham Beit Midrash for Women in Migdal Oz. She and her husband, Rabbi Noam Friedman, live with their two children, Avital and WOMEN’S SHABBAT SERVICES Layaliza Soloveichik On select Shabbatot, including: Adir, in Morningside Heights, where they serve as the OU-JLIC couple at Columbia/Barnard Hillel. They look forward to getting to know members of Women’s Service in celebration of Barbara the broader Manhattan community. Sasson becoming a Bat Mitzvah Shabbat, October 13 | Starting with Nishmat 9 am | Little Synagogue ONE-ON-ONE TOUR OF THE UWS MIKVAH Communications Associate and By and for women, these services are an Taharat Programs Coordinator, opportunity for women to lead prayer, read from If you are interested in learning more about Hamishpaha Sarah Meira Rosenberg, helping the Torah and perform the rituals associated with , the Laws of Family Purity, please

WOMEN WOMEN SHEARITH AT ISRAEL layaliza@gmail. decorate the Succah the day’s services. We welcome the opportunity contact Layaliza Soloveichik at com to celebrate momentous occasions—such as a for a private tour of the facilities at the local Mikvah girl becoming a Bat Mitzvah or a bride before UWS . To maximize confidentiality, these her wedding—in the context of our service. To one-on-one tours will take place at times when the Mikvah participate and for more information, contact is closed to the public. Tours of other local mikvaot Mrs. Lisa Rohde at [email protected]. For are also possible. Women only. dates of meetings, sign up for our email list on our website.

26 27 FROM THE SISTERHOOD NEW HUPPAH DONATED IN MEMORY OF REV. ABRAHAM AND MRS. IRMA LOPES CARDOZO HESED Carla Schein, Sisterhood President

After our beloved president sides as was Abraham’s tent CARING CONNECTION Irma Miriam Lopes representing hospitality, so Caring Connection, our Congregation’s Cardozo z”l died in 2016, too was the Cardozo home the Sisterhood looked for a hesed network, trains community members MEALS FOR MOURNERS AND NEW open to anyone to share a as sensitive volunteers, enabling them to meaningful way to honor meal and their company. PARENTS her memory and that of proactively help others through times of need, one of Judaism’s greatest mitzvot. This vital Shearith Israel’s Caring Connection provides meals her beloved husband, In her book, “As I Lived for members and their families after the birth of Shearith Israel’s long-time It,” Irma Cardozo wrote assistance greatly aids the individual, and also strengthens and unifies our community, a child, and the Hebra Hased Va’Amet provides cherished Hazan, Reverend about her wedding, “The mourners and their family with their shiba meals. Abraham Lopes Cardozo choirmaster at the time of enhancing our sense of responsibility for one z”l. We knew that as our wedding was Mr. Bress. another. This group of volunteers responds If you would like to sponsor a meal, we offer several modest individuals who His wife was very fond to a variety of situations, both in times of options and easy ways for you to do so. Simply go loved Shearith Israel they would want anything of Bram and knowing Bram had no parents, difficulty, such as illness or mourning, and to sshearithisrael.org/hesed-meals and select the dedicated in their memory to be something that she presented him with a beautiful new tallit. times of joy, such as the exciting and often meal type you would like to sponsor. The family the Congregation needed and something that Together with the Sisterhood ladies, she also overwhelming challenges accompanying the will be notified of your generous gesture. Please be would be used over a period of many, many years. made a new huppah in honor of our wedding.” arrival of a new baby. assured that our Caring Connection and Hebra Once again the Sisterhood has taken the Our volunteers coordinate meals to those in volunteers are in touch with the affected families We learned that the huppah currently in use in opportunity to provide a beautiful new huppah and will ensure that their specific needs (quantities, the Large Synagogue needed replacement, and we need; arrange visits and phone calls to the for our Congregation, this one made of silk elderly, homebound, and recuperating; and dietary restrictions, etc.) will be considered. Any decided that a new huppah would be a beautiful damask, with a silk and cotton fringe and ruched surplus sponsorships will be used to ensure that all and fitting tribute to the Cardozos who were even provide transport or wheelchair assistance velvet for the poles. to those who wish to attend synagogue services of our members are provided meals in their times married at Shearith Israel in March of 1951. of need. A dedication has been sewn into the inside or events. They exemplified the best a married couple huppah of the . It reads: To honor the lives of If you know someone who might need If you would prefer to cook and deliver your own could be. They complemented each other in Hazan Abraham Lopes Cardozo, Z”L and Irma assistance in any form, or would like to get home-cooked meals, or place food orders on your temperament and supported each other’s work Lopes Cardozo Z”L, married at Congregation own rather than participate in this fund, please and interests. And, as part of the blessings recited involved as a volunteer yourself, please email Shearith Israel March 11, 1951, Presented by [email protected]. contact Layaliza Soloveichik at [email protected] under the huppah at every wedding says, kol the Sisterhood of the Spanish and Portuguese beforehand. Layaliza is our congregation’s volunteer sasson v’kol simha, kol hattan v’kol kallah, the Synagogue, 2017.” If Caring Connection lacks the expertise or coordinator for meals for new parents, and she voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of resources to provide appropriate assistance, makes every effort to ensure that the family’s huppah the bridegroom and the voice of the bride,” they May this represent their first home for we will do our best to direct people to other preferences and requests are accommodated and had beautiful voices and made beautiful music many couples as they start their married lives congregational and communal organizations. that duplication of efforts are avoided. together. And just as a huppah is open on all four together in our beautiful sanctuary. 28 29 RETROSPECTIVE: COHEN, DAVID MENDES (1826-1891) — HART, DAVID D. (1819-1888) - Commander Entered the service as a 2d Lt, USMC, August of the NY City Light Guard, Captain, Company 19, 1855 > 1st Lt. 1861 > Captain, July 26, A of the 71st NY State Militia in 1861. Severely BETH OLAM CEMETERY 1861 > Major, Dec. 5, 1867. Instrumental in wounded at the first battle of Bull Run. Prior to CIVIL WAR MEMORIAL quelling the Empire (Spinola) Brigade riots in the War he was a member of the Knickerbocker East NY, 1862. Served on the Ariel (captured by Club, one of the founding institutions of game of Zachary Edinger CSS Alabama) & USS Lancaster where he foiled Baseball. a Confederate plot to commandeer the Salvador. JOACHIMSEN, PHILLIP (1817-1890) - Lt. DREYFOUS, EMANUEL (1834-1902) - Col. 59th NY Volunteer Infantry. Prior to the Private > 1st Sergeant; (9th Regiment NYSM) Civil War, he was a US Attorney and prosecuted 83rd NY Infantry, Co. C, 27 May 1861 – 18 the first capital conviction for slave trading in On Sunday, April 22, about 45 people gathered September 1862. Engaged in battles at Harper’s the US. A staunch abolitionist, he resigned his at Shearith Israel’s cemetery, on Cypress Hills Ferry, Cedar Mountain, and Thoroughfare Gap. duties to protest the Kansas-Nebraska Act. At Street in Queens, for a special event honoring After the war served as Clerk, NYC Police the outbreak of the Civil War, he organized the veterans of the Civil War. The event began with Dept.; Member of the GAR & NYC Old Guard “Union Guard,” which became the 59th New a ceremony at the grave of Col. Myer Asch. Asch Veterans Battalion. A great-grandson of Haym York Volunteer Regiment, and was appointed was a distinguished officer during the Civil War Salomon. Visited with Reverend Lyons the day Colonel. The regiment was ordered to the front serving as Adjutant to General John Pope and before he mustered in to his unit. and was stationed at Fort Monroe. While there, Assistant Adjutant to General Kautz. he was appointed as United States Paymaster. FRIEDMAN, MAX (1826—1900) - Major Subsequently he was ordered to New Orleans Myer Asch’s history was brought to life by Mr. of a regiment in Pennsylvania Militia prior to under the command of General B. F. Butler. Bruce Form, a living historian who portrays the Civil War; Colonel of 65th Regiment (5th While on duty he fell from his horse, was Colonel Asch at Civil War reenactment events Pennsylvania Cavalry, “Cameron’s Dragoons”) severely injured, and honorably discharged. throughout the country. Mr. Form’s request to veterans from our congregation. Many members 1861. Wounded at the Battle of Vienna, March Governor Fenton, of the State of New York, in locate Myer Asch’s grave and install a special of Shearith Israel fought in the Civil War, some 1862. Later re-commissioned to organize other acknowledging his eminent services, appointed marker from the Grand Army of the Republic with very distinguished service records. Short Cavalry Regiments in Pennsylvania. He was him Brevet Brigadier General. (GAR) Meade Post #1 was the main impetus for biographies of just a few of these veterans are special Inspector of the Revenue Department the planning and scheduling of this event. We reproduced on the following pages. (1867-1868); President of the Veteran Corps of He later became a judge of the Marine Court of would like to thank him for all of his efforts. Cameron Dragoons. New York City. A prominent member of Shearith We also stopped at the graves of several notables Israel, he was involved in many charitable Presentations were also given by Professor belonging to Temple Shaaray Tefila and organizations including the Hebrew Benevolent Anthony Waskie, representing the G.A.R. and Congregation Bnai Jeshurun, our partners at Beth Society, The Home for Infirm and Indigent the General Meade Society, and from Judge John Olam Cemetery. The tour concluded at the grave Hebrews, (now The New Jewish Home), and the Jorgenson, a civil war historian and author. The of Abraham Cohn, a hero of The Wilderness and Hebrew Orphan Asylum. In 1879 he founded the event featured the participation of a color guard other battles, who was awarded the Congressional Hebrew Sheltering / Guardian Society for Children. from the Veteran Corps of the Artillery of the Medal of Honor. We were honored to have In 1940 these last two organizations merged State of New York, Civil War re-enactors in several of his descendants in attendance. and became known as the Jewish Child Care uniform and period dress, and members of the Research for this event was done by Zachary Association, which still exists today. Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War. We Edinger with the help of Adrienne Usher of MOSES, ISAAC (1819-1889) - Captain, thank them for helping create a particularly the Shapell Manuscript Collection. For more special atmosphere. Adjutant General of the 3rd Army Corps of information about the veterans’ biographies the Army of the Potomac, commanded by Gen. After the ceremony, Shearith Israel’s sexton, included here, or any of the other Civil War Heintzelman; participated in the battles of the Zachary Edinger, led a tour of the cemetery, veterans buried in our cemetery, please contact Peninsular Campaign, and at Glendale, VA > stopping to decorate the graves of Civil War Zachary Edinger at [email protected].

30 31 Infinitely resourceful and not Ingredients: Brevetted to Lt. Col for “Gallant and Meritorious one to waste a good fruit, Vivien 12 etrogim Services.” Subsequently served with General Banks. shares this post-Sukkot recipe. 1 cup of sugar to every cup of fruit An early practitioner of military ballooning to gather intelligence on troop strength and position. ½ cup lemon juice 3 tablespoons cognac MOSES, ISRAEL (1821-1870) - Lt. Col, Surgeon, 72nd NY Volunteers. Enlisted in 1846 during Instructions the Mexican-American War. Appointed Assistant surgeon of the U.S. Army in 1847, served with Clean etrogim and soak in water the Army of Occupation at Vera Cruz and Toluca, overnight. Mexico, and at Fort Crawford, Fort Leavenworth, in Oregon, Washington Territory and Texas until Peel etrogim and soak again his resignation in 1855. He was hired as the first overnight in fresh water. Surgeon at Jews’ Hospital (now Mount Sinai Cut into small cubes removing Hospital). Resigned in 1861 to join the Union pits, etc. Army. In June 1861, he was appointed Lt. Col. of the 72nd NY Volunteer Infantry. In October 1862, Soak a third night in fresh water. he was appointed Surgeon, US Volunteers Army of the Potomac. Accompanied General G. Granger to Add the sugar, lemon juice and water to cover in saucepan. Bring the West. Brevetted Lt. Col. of the US Volunteers to boil. in 1865 for “faithful and meritorious services during the war.” Cook on simmer for at least 4 hours until tender to fork. NIETO, DAVID HAIM (1842-1891) - Enlisted CORNER CULINARY as “David Smith” April 26, 1861, Private, Co. G, Store in well-sealed jars. They can 10th NY Volunteer Infantry, mustered out May 6, last 6 months. 1863. Reenlisted as “Daniel Sanderson”, Pvt., Co. I, Serve as a relish with meat. 28th MA Infantry (the “Irish Brigade”), machinist; Etrog Preserves mustered in 8/11/1863; wounded 5/5/1864 at Wilderness, Va. Amazingly, Nieto twice enlisted by Vivien Eisenmann using an alias! He did so because he was a minor under guardianship and didn’t want his mother in England to find out that he had enlisted and become Vivien Eisenmann was born in London, and is of Russian alarmed. He was from a distinguished rabbinic descent. She attended the University of London, where family in London and later served Shearith Israel as she studied European and English History. She is married Assistant Hazzan from 1878-1886. He was a very to Muk Eisenmann, who hails from Basel, . active member of the G.A.R., Post 152. A colorful They have two children—Marc, who resides in Florida, character, Dr. Pool writes of him: “There was no and Esther, who lives in New York—and are the proud doubt as to his fine vocal gifts, his masterly reading of all services, and his gentlemanly bearing within grandparents of nine grandchildren: Tzvi, Shmuel, Yaakov, If you would like to submit a recipe the congregation. But when he took off his white tie, Adina, Binyomin, Yehuda, and Aviva in Florida, and for a future bulletin, send it to Tikva his social bearing was not always in accord with the Aharon and Chany in New York. Vivien has been active Ostrega at [email protected]. standards the congregation expected of a minister of in the Travel Industry for almost forty years, and she and In addition to the recipe, please include religion.” He resigned as Hazzan in 1886 and was Muk have been involved with Shearith Israel for over 20 a short back-story describing the origins succeeded by his brother, Abraham Haim Nieto. years, officially joining in 2003. of the dish and why it is special to you.

32 33 DAILY SERVICES September 14th-15th Shabbat Teshuba* October 26th-27th Candles (18 min. before sunset) ����������������������5:42 pm Mornings: September 21st-22nd Friday Evening Services ������������������������������������5:45 pm Sundays Shahrit ��������������������������������������������� 8:00 am Candles (18 min. before sunset) ������������������������� 6:37 pm Saturday Morning Services �������������������� 8:15-11:45 am Zemirot ������������������������������������ Sjimon Den Hollander Monday-Friday Shahrit ������������������������������ 7:15 am Friday Evening Services ��������������������������������������� 6:45 pm Saturday Morning Services ������������������������ 8:15-11:45 am Parashat Vayera ������������������������������� Genesis 18:1-22:24 Evenings, Sunday-Thursday: Zemirot ���������������������������������������� Sjimon Den Hollander Haftarah II Kings 4:1-23 ����������������������������������������������� Aug. 29th-Sep. 27th, Minhah & Arbit* ����������6:30 pm Seuda Shelishit & Class ������������������������������������4:35 pm SERVICES Parashat Haazinu ���������������������������Deuteronomy 32:1-52 *Aug. 29th-Sep. 16th Selihot after Arbit Haftarah II Samuel 22:1-51 ������������������Benjamin Nathan Saturday Minhah & Arbit ��������������������������������5:35 pm Oct. 3rd-Oct. 11th, Minhah & Arbit ��������������6:15 pm Seuda Shelishit & Class ��������������������������������������� 5:30 pm Saturday Sunset ������������������������������������������������5:59 pm Oct. 14th-Oct. 18th, Minhah & Arbit ������������6:00 pm Saturday Minhah & Arbit ����������������������������������� 6:30 pm Habdalah ����������������������������������������������������������6:29 pm Oct. 21st-Nov. 1st, Minhah & Arbit ���������������5:45 pm Saturday Sunset ��������������������������������������������������� 6:54 pm Nov 4th-Feb 28th, 2019, Arbit Only ��������������6:30 pm Habdalah ������������������������������������������������������������� 7:27 pm November 2nd-3rd Candles (18 min. before sunset) ����������������������5:33 pm SHABBAT SERVICES September 28th-29th Shabbat Hol HaMoed* Friday Evening Services ������������������������������������5:30 pm August 31st-September 1st October 5th-6th Shabbat Bereshit* Saturday Morning Services �������������������� 8:15-11:45 am Candles (18 min. before sunset) �����������������������7:12 pm Zemirot �����������������������������������������������Adam F. Jackson Parashat Haye Sarah ����������������������� Genesis 23:1-25:18 Friday Evening Services �������������������������������������6:45 pm October 12th-13th Saturday Morning Services ����������������������8:30-11:45 am Haftarah I Kings 1:1-31 ������������������������������������������������� Candles (18 min. before sunset) ������������������������� 6:03 pm Zemirot ���������������������������������������������������������Jacob Daar Seuda Shelishit & Class ������������������������������������4:25 pm Friday Evening Services ��������������������������������������� 6:00 pm Parashat Ki Tabo ��������������������Deuteronomy 26:1-29:8 Saturday Minhah & Arbit ��������������������������������5:25 pm Saturday Morning Services ������������������������ 8:15-11:45 am Haftarah, Isaiah 60:1-22 ��������������������������� Louis Nahon Saturday Sunset ������������������������������������������������5:50 pm Zemirot ������������������������������������������������������������Jacob Daar Bene Mitzvah ��������������Raphael Nahon & Louis Nahon Habdalah ����������������������������������������������������������6:19 pm Parashat Noah �������������������������������������� Genesis 6:9-11:32 Class ������������������������������������������������������������������6:05 pm Haftarah Isaiah 54:1-10 ����������������������������Raphael Sasson Saturday Minhah, Arbit & Selihot ��������������������7:05 pm November 9th-10th Bat Mitzvah ����������������������������������������������� Barbara Sasson Saturday Sunset �������������������������������������������������7:28 pm Candles (18 min. before sunset) ����������������������4:25 pm Seuda Shelishit & Class ��������������������������������������� 4:55 pm Habdalah �����������������������������������������������������������8:05 pm Friday Evening Services ������������������������������������4:30 pm Saturday Minhah & Arbit ����������������������������������� 5:55 pm Saturday Morning Services �������������������� 8:15-11:45 am Saturday Sunset ��������������������������������������������������� 6:19 pm Parallel Women’s Service ����������������������� 9:00-11:45 am September 7th-8th Habdalah ������������������������������������������������������������� 6:50 pm 1860 - 19th St. Consecration Anniversary Zemirot ��������������������������������������������������������Jacob Daar Parashat Toledoth ��������������������������� Genesis 25:19-28:9 Candles (18 min. before sunset) �����������������������7:01 pm October 19th-20th Friday Evening Services �������������������������������������6:45 pm Haftarah Malachi 1:1-2:7 ���������������������� Aaron Nathan Candles (18 min. before sunset) ������������������������� 5:52 pm Saturday Morning Services ����������������������8:15-11:45 am Seuda Shelishit & Class ������������������������������������3:30 pm Friday Evening Services ��������������������������������������� 5:45 pm Zemirot ������������������������������������������������Adam F. Jackson Saturday Minhah & Arbit ��������������������������������4:15 pm Saturday Morning Services ������������������������ 8:15-11:45 am Parashat Nitsabim �����������������Deuteronomy 29:9-30:20 Saturday Sunset ������������������������������������������������4:42 pm Zemirot ���������������������������������������������������Adam F. Jackson Haftarah Isaiah 61:10-63:9 ������������ Akiva R. Haberman Habdalah ����������������������������������������������������������5:11 pm Parashat Lekh-Lekha �������������������������� Genesis 12:1-17:27 Bar Mitzvah ����������������������������� Atticus Naggar Bregman Haftarah Isaiah 40:27-41:16 �������������� Joseph A. Solomon Seuda Shelishit & Class �������������������������������������5:50 pm Seuda Shelishit & Class ��������������������������������������� 4:45 pm Saturday Minhah & Arbit (no Selihot) �������������6:50 pm Saturday Minhah & Arbit ����������������������������������� 5:45 pm Saturday Sunset �������������������������������������������������7:17 pm Saturday Sunset ��������������������������������������������������� 6:09 pm Habdalah �����������������������������������������������������������7:53 pm Habdalah ������������������������������������������������������������� 6:39 pm (*See High Holy Days & Festivals Schedule) — continued — 34 35 November 16th-17th HIGH HOLY DAYS 5779 Rosh HaShanah-New Year (cont’d) -Day of Atonement Candles (18 min. before sunset) ������������������������4:19 pm Rosh HaShanah-New Year 5779 2nd DAY ROSH HASHANAH CONCLUSION PREPARATIONS Friday Evening Services ��������������������������������������4:15 pm Sunday Eve, Sept. 9th-Tuesday, Sept. 11th Tuesday Evening, September 11th Tuesday, September 18th Saturday Morning Services ���������������������� 8:15-11:45 am Tue. Evening Minhah, Arbit & Selihot ����������6:45 pm Special Morning Selihot Service �����������������������6:30 am Zemirot �������������������������������������� Sjimon Den Hollander PREPARATIONS Sunday Morning, September 9th Tuesday Evening Sunset ���������������������������������7:12 pm Morning Shahrit Service ����������������������������������7:15 am Parashat Vayetse �������������������������������� Genesis 28:10-32:3 Tuesday Evening Habdalah ����������������������������7:35 pm Early Afternoon Minhah Service ����������������������1:30 pm Haftarah Hosea 11:7-12:12 ��������������������������������������������� Special Morning Selihot Service ���������������������7:15 am Morning Shahrit Service ��������������������������������8:00 am EVE OF YOM KIPPUR

SERVICES Seuda Shelishit & Class ��������������������������������������3:30 pm Fast of Gedaliah Tuesday Evening, September 18th Saturday Minhah & Arbit ����������������������������������4:10 pm EVE OF 1st DAY ROSH HASHANAH Wednesday, September 12th Tuesday Candle Lighting ����������������������before 6:42 pm Saturday Sunset ��������������������������������������������������4:36 pm Sunday Evening, September 9th Fast Begins (Dawn) ����������������������������������������5:10 am Tuesday Evening Kal Nidre Service ������������������6:30 pm Habdalah ������������������������������������������������������������5:04 pm Sunday Evening Candle Lighting ������������������6:57 pm Evening Services (Minhah & Arbit) ���������������6:45 pm Wednesday Morning Sunrise �������������������������6:34 am Begin Fasting �����������������������������before sunset, 7:00 pm Sunday Evening Sunset ����������������������������������7:15 pm Wednesday Morning Shahrit �������������������������7:15 am Sermon & Evening Arbit Service ������������7:00-9:00 pm November 23rd-24th Minhah (with tefillin), Arbit &Selihot ����������6:30 pm 1st DAY ROSH HASHANAH MORNING YOM KIPPUR DAY Candles (18 min. before sunset) ������������������������4:14 pm Wednesday Evening Sunset ����������������������������7:10 pm Wednesday, September 19th Friday Evening Services ��������������������������������������4:15 pm Monday, September 10th End of Fast �����������������������������������������������������7:33 pm Zemirot ������������������������������������������������������������8:30 am Saturday Morning Services ���������������������� 8:15-11:45 am Zemirot ����������������������������������������������������������7:45 am Shahrit ��������������������������������������������������������������9:30 am Zemirot �������������������������������������������������Adam F. Jackson Shahrit ������������������������������������������������������������8:35 am Shabbat Teshubah Torah Service and Offerings ���������������������������11:35 am Parashat Vayishlah ���������������������������� Genesis 32:4-36:43 Special Prayers & Taking Out Torah ��������������9:35 am Sabbath of Penitence Midday Sermon �������������������������������������������� 12:35 pm Haftarah Book of Obadiah ������������������������Elliot Freilich Torah Reading & Haftarah ����������������������������9:50 am Musaf ���������������������������������������������������������������1:00 pm Seuda Shelishit & Class ��������������������������������������3:30 pm Offerings ������������������������������������������������������10:30 am EVE OF SHABBAT TESHUBAH Minhah ������������������������������������������������������������3:25 pm Saturday Minhah & Arbit ����������������������������������4:05 pm `Et Sha`arei Ratzon & Shofar Service �����������10:40 am Friday Evening, September 14th Perpetual Hashcabot & Offerings ��������������������5:15 pm Saturday Sunset ��������������������������������������������������4:32 pm Ashrei and Returning Torah �������������������������11:05 am Candles (18 min. before sunset) ��������������������6:49 pm Sermon before Neilah ��������������������������������������6:00 pm Habdalah ������������������������������������������������������������4:59 pm Musaf �����������������������������������������������������������11:20 am Evening Services (Minhah & Arbit) ���������������6:45 pm Sermon ���������������������������������������������������������12:20 pm Friday Evening Sunset ������������������������������������7:07 pm Neilah ���������������������������������������������������������������6:25 pm Adon `Olam & Conclusion ��������������12:40-12:45 pm SHABBAT TESHUBAH DAY Sunset ���������������������������������������������������������������6:59 pm November 30th-December 1st Shofar, Arbit & Habdalah ��������������������������������7:28 pm Saturday Morning, September 15th Candles (18 min. before sunset) ������������������������4:11 pm EVE OF 2nd DAY ROSH HASHANAH Monday Evening, September 10th Zemirot, led by Jacob Daar ����������������������������8:15 am Friday Evening Services ��������������������������������������4:15 pm Shahrit ����������������������������������������������������������9:00 am FALL FESTIVALS 5779 Saturday Morning Services ���������������������� 8:15-11:45 am Evening Services (Minhah & Arbit) ���������������6:45 pm Torah Service & Offerings ������������������ 9:45-10:50 am Succot Zemirot ����������������������������������������������������������Jacob Daar Monday Evening Sunset ��������������������������������7:14 pm Parashat Vayelekh ��������������������Deuteronomy 31:1-30 Festival of Tabernacles Parashat Vayesheb ����������������������������� Genesis 37:1-40:23 Mon. Evening Candle Lighting �������������after 7:37 pm Haftarah �����������������������������Rabbi Meir Y. Soloveichik Haftarah Amos 2:6-3:8 ����������������������Jacob Z. Neumark 2nd DAY ROSH HASHANAH MORNING Sunday Eve, Sep. 23rd - Sunday, Sep. 30th �����������������������������������Hosea 14:2-10; Micah 7:18-20 Seuda Shelishit & Class ��������������������������������������3:30 pm Tuesday, September 11th Succot: First Two Days (Yom Tob) Musaf, Sermon & Conclusion ���������� 10:50-11:55 am Saturday Minhah & Arbit ����������������������������������4:05 pm Zemirot ����������������������������������������������������������7:45 am Saturday Evening, September 15th EVE OF 1st DAY SUCCOT Saturday Sunset ��������������������������������������������������4:29 pm Shahrit ������������������������������������������������������������8:30 am Seudah Shelishit & Class �������������������������������5:40 pm Sunday Evening, September 23rd Habdalah ������������������������������������������������������������4:56 pm Special Prayers & Taking Out Torah ��������������9:30 am Torah Reading & Haftarah ����������������������������9:45 am Sat. Evening Minhah, Arbit & Selihot �����������6:40 pm Candle Lighting �����������������������������������������������6:33 pm Offerings ������������������������������������������������������10:25 am Saturday Evening Sunset ��������������������������������7:05 pm Evening Services (Minhah & Arbit) �����������������6:30 pm `Et Sha`arei Ratzon & Shofar Service �����������10:30 am Habdalah ��������������������������������������������������������7:40 pm Sunset ���������������������������������������������������������������6:51 pm Ashrei and Returning Torah �������������������������10:55 am Kiddush in Elias Room Succah ������������������������7:30 pm Musaf �����������������������������������������������������������11:10 am Sermon ���������������������������������������������������������12:05 pm Adon `Olam & Conclusion ��������������12:25-12:30 pm — continued — 36 37 Succot: First Two Days (cont’d) Shabbat Hol HaMoed Succot Shemini Hag Atseret Shabbat Bereshit 1st DAY SUCCOT DAYTIME Intermediate Shabbat of Tabernacles Eighth Day Convocation Festival The First Parashah-Shabbat Hatanim Monday Morning, September 24th EVE OF SHABBAT HOL HAMOED EVE OF SHEMINI HAG ATSERET EVE OF SHABBAT BERESHIT Zemirot ��������������������������������������������������������������8:15 am Friday Evening, September 28th Sunday Evening, September 30th Friday Evening, October 5th Shahrit & Hallel �������������������������������������������������9:00 am Candle Lighting ����������������������������������before 6:25 pm Candle Lighting ���������������������������������������������6:22 pm Candles (18 min. before sunset) ����������������������6:14 pm Torah Service ����������������������������������������������������10:00 am Evening Services (Minhah & Arbit) ���������������6:30 pm Evening Services (Minhah & Arbit) ���������������6:15 pm Minhah&Arbit, with Tenu Shebahah ��������������6:15 pm Musaf & Hoshaanot ����������������������������� 10:45-11:30 am Friday Evening Sunset ������������������������������������6:43 pm Sunset �������������������������������������������������������������6:40 pm Friday Evening Sunset ��������������������������������������6:32 pm SERVICES Conclusion & Sermon ��������������������11:30 am-12:00 pm Kiddush in Elias Room Succah ����������������������7:30 pm Kiddush in Elias Room Succah ����������������������7:15 pm SHABBAT BERESHIT DAY Kiddush in Elias Room Succah ����������������������� 12:00 pm SHABBAT HOL HAMOED DAY SHEMINI HAG ATSERET DAY Saturday Morning, October 6th EVE OF 2nd DAY SUCCOT Saturday Morning, September 29th Monday Morning, October 1st Zemirot ������������������������������������������������������������8:15 am Monday Evening, September 24th Zemirot ����������������������������������������������������������8:15 am Zemirot ����������������������������������������������������������8:15 am Shahrit ������������������������������������������������������������9:00 am Evening Services (Minhah & Arbit) �������������������6:30 pm Shahrit & Hallel �������������������������������������������9:00 am Shahrit & Hallel ���������������������������������������������9:00 am Torah Service, Hatanim Honors ����������� 9:45-10:50 am Sunset �����������������������������������������������������������������6:50 pm Torah Service ��������������������������������������������������9:50 am Torah Service ��������������������������������������������������9:50 am Parashah ��������������������������������������������������������� Bereshith Candle Lighting ���������������������������������������� after 7:12 pm Musaf, & Shabbat Hoshaana ������������ 10:45-11:30 am Musaf, Tikkun HaGeshem ��������������� 10:40-11:20 am Genesis 1:1-6:8 Kiddush in Elias Room Succah ��������������������������7:30 pm Conclusion & Sermon ����������������11:30 am-12:00 pm Service Conclusion & Sermon ���������� 11:20-11:45 am Haftarah ������������������������������������������������������������������������� 2nd DAY SUCCOT DAYTIME Kiddush in Elias Room Succah ��������������������12:00 pm Kiddush in Elias Room Succah ��������������������11:50 am Isaiah 42:5-21; 61:10; 62:5 Tuesday Morning, September 25th Saturday Afternoon, September 29th Tikkun HaGeshem is the Sephardic poem added Musaf �������������������������������������������������� 10:50-11:40 am Zemirot ��������������������������������������������������������������8:15 am Saturday Afternoon Minhah & Arbit ������������6:15 pm at the inauguration of Israel’s rainy season, for the SHABBAT BERESHIT CONCLUSION Shahrit & Hallel �������������������������������������������������9:00 am Saturday Evening Sunset ��������������������������������6:42 pm duration of which, until Passover, a request for rain is Saturday Evening, October 6th Torah Service ����������������������������������������������������10:00 am Habdalah, end of Shabbat ������������������������������7:15 pm inserted in the second blessing of the Amidah. Seudah Shelishit & Class ���������������������������������5:05 pm Musaf & Hoshaanot ����������������������������� 10:45-11:30 am Simhat Torah Saturday Afternoon Minhah & Arbit ��������������6:05 pm Conclusion & Sermon ��������������������11:30 am-12:00 pm Hoshaana Rabba, Grand Hosanna Saturday Evening Sunset ����������������������������������6:30 pm End of Reading-Cycle Celebration Kiddush in Elias Room Succah ����������������������� 12:00 pm Seventh Day of Succot (Tabernacles) Habdalah, End of Shabbat �������������������������������7:02 pm Tuesday Evening, September 25th EVE OF HOSHAANA RABBAH EVE OF SIMHAT TORAH Evening Services (Minhah & Arbit) �������������������6:30 pm Saturday Evening, September 29th Monday Evening, October 1st MINOR HOLIDAYS Sunset �����������������������������������������������������������������6:48 pm Mishmarah-Tikkun & Rabbi’s Special Class (Held in Minhah & Arbit, with Tenu Shebaha ������������6:15 pm Labor Day Legal Holiday Habdalah, End of Yom Tob �������������������������������7:10 pm Sunset �������������������������������������������������������������6:38 pm Elias Room Succah) ���������������������������������������9:00 pm Monday, September 3rd Hol HaMoed Succot HOSHAANA RABBAH DAY Candle Lighting �������������������������������������after 6:59 pm Hakafot & Children’s Celebration �����������������7:00 pm Morning Service (Shahrit) ��������������������������������8:00 am Intermediate Days of Tabernacles Sunday Morning, September 30th Women’s Hakafot (Little Synagogue) �������������7:00 pm Zemirot, led by Avery E. Neumark ����������������8:00 am INTERMEDIATE WEEKDAYS Rosh Hodesh Heshvan (Two-Day) Shahrit & Hallel ���������������������������������������������8:30 am SIMHAT TORAH DAY Wednesday, Thursday, & Friday Mornings Monday Evening, October 8th through Torah Service ��������������������������������������������������9:00 am Tuesday Morning, October 2nd September 26th, 27th & 28th: Tue. & Wed., October 9th & 10th Musaf, Hoshaanot, Shofar ������������������ 9:35-10:15 am Zemirot ����������������������������������������������������������8:15 am Shahrit, Musaf, & Hoshaanot ����������������������������7:15 am Service Conclusion ���������������������������� 10:15-10:30 am Shahrit & Hallel ���������������������������������������������9:00 am Breakfast in Succah ��������������������������������������������8:15 am Rosh Hodesh Kislev (Two-Day) Breakfast in Elias Room Succah �������������������10:30 am Torah Service, with Hatanim Honors ������������9:50 am Wednesday & Thursday Evenings Musaf ������������������������������������������������ 10:40-11:25 am Wednesday Eve, November 7th through Thu. & Fri., September 26th & 27th: Service Conclusion & Sermon ����������11:25-12:00 pm November 8th & 9th Minhah & Arbit Services �����������������������������������6:30 pm Tuesday Evening, October 2nd Evening Services (Minhah & Arbit) ���������������6:15 pm Thanksgiving Day (Legal Holiday) Sunset �������������������������������������������������������������6:37 pm Thursday, November 22nd Habdalah, End of Festival ������������������������������6:58 pm Festive Shahrit & Thanksgiving Lecture ����������7:45am

38 39 The generosity of our members and friends RABBI’S DISCRETIONARY FUND BEQUESTS enables us to continue to honor our past, The Rabbi’s Discretionary Fund is a charitable Please consider including Shearith Israel in your strengthen our community and pass on our arm of our congregation. These funds are estate planning. For more information, please speak with our Executive Director, Barbara Reiss. traditions for the next chapter of Jewish designated by our rabbis for members in need and communities in crisis. This past year, our and American history. We have many funds have assisted a number of members VOLUNTEER YOUR TIME AND opportunities to contribute in fulfilling our who have hit hard times as well as important TALENT mission as a synagogue. causes such as the Houston Jewish Community Shearith Israel belongs to its devoted members recovering from flooding, the Food Bank for and our vitality depends on our participation NYC and worthy institutions in Israel. and involvement. Our most successful programs GENERAL DONATIONS and activities are those that are organized General donations honor our past with dignity CLASS AND EVENT with the help of capable volunteers who bring through the preservation of our historic spaces SPONSORSHIPS creativity, good cheer and friends. We have including our main sanctuary and small synagogue, Help us strengthen educational initiatives a variety of committees and societies, such as three historic cemeteries in Lower Manhattan at Shearith Israel by supporting a warm and our Sisterhood and Young Leadership for you and our active cemetery in Cyprus Hills, Queens. inviting atmosphere to learn, debate, and grow to contribute ideas and energy. We also benefit These donations ensure a strong future through together as a community. Sponsor for a class, from the talents and expertise of lay leaders who engaging educational programs with rigorous ritual Monday Night Learning, minyan breakfast, can help us in important projects such as historic and liturgical training for youth including PTTS, Tuesday morning women's class, Tuesday cemetery restoration, archival upgrades, real our Toddler Programs, Junior Congregation, and evening Talmud shiur or Shabbat afternoon estate projects and facilities needs, and so much special opportunities for girls. And perhaps most class. Or, contribute to sponsor an event, such as more. And of course, at our core, we are a caring importantly, general donations uphold and celebrate academic symposiums, lectures, and discussions community and that means that providing our minhag and liturgical traditions through with Jewish scholars from around the world emotional and logistical support to members dedicated clergy members, our sublime choir, and maintain our synagogue as a leader in in times of need cannot depend on our clergy Shabbat, and holiday services. contemporary Jewish dialogue. alone but requires the care and involvement of many whether through our Caring Connection CARING CONNECTION hesed committee or our Hebra. Getting involved KIDDUSH FUND is how you make it happen and how you forge The congregational Kiddush is an opportunity for Financial contributions support efforts in meaningful connections at your synagogue. congregants and visitors to socialize and mingle after proactively providing organized assistance to HELP MAKE IT ALL HAPPEN HELP MAKE services, humbly serving an important congregational members of our community through times of function. Sponsoring a kiddush is a beautiful way to pay need, one of Judaism’s greatest Mitzvot. Caring Giving is easy and feels good too. Visit tribute to a loved one, celebrate a birthday, anniversary, Connection raises the funds needed to defray shearithisrael.org/giving. the costs of all it does, including delivering graduation, a personal accomplishment, or a ritual honor. Thank you for enabling It is also a great way to foster community—facilitating meals to mourners and new parents. Not fellow congregants to catch up with friends, meet new only does this vital assistance greatly aid the the continuation and members and guests, and greet synagogue leaders. individual or family, it also strengthens and strengthening of our unifies our community and enhances our sense congregation’s mission of responsibility for one another. SPONSOR SCOTCH AND ARAK and legacy. In addition to our weekly Kiddush sponsors and contributors we are now also accepting sponsors for the scotch and arak that we make available each week.

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