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The Center of Our Jewish Lives WestchesterWestchester Jewish Jewish Center Center ThePalmer & Rockland REVIEW Avenues • Mamaroneck, NY 10543 • 914/698-2960 (T) • 914/698-3610 (F) • www.wjcenter.org NOVEMBER 2016 – VOLUME 75, NUMBER 3 – CHESHVAN 5777 NovemberJeffrey T. 2016 Segelman Highlights 1 Triple T: Torah Talmud TuesdayRABBI Begins – 9:45am COMMEMORATE KRISTALLNACHT 2 Shema Yisrael Project – 7:45pm Holocaust Learning Center Marks Kristallnacht with a 3 Pop-upLoren Rabbi @ Monosov Stan’z Café – 9:30am Home on the Sound: Let’s Start a Conversation – 8pm Month of Special Films th ASSISTANT RABBI 6 5 Grade Parent B’nei Mitzvah Meeting – 10am DAN BERKOWITZ & RUTH OBERNBREIT, HOLOCAUST LEARNING CENTER Renewal Service – 7pm 7 IsraeliEthan Dancing - Goldberg7:30pm 8 Triple T: Torah Talmud TuesdayCANTOR – 9:45am Kristallnacht, the “night of broken glass” was the night between November 9th and 9 Hanukkah Mosaic Art Program – 7pm 10th, 1938 when almost every synagogue in Austria and Germany was either burned 10 Kristallnacht HLC & Israeli Movie Night: “The Debt” – 7:45pm Susan Lurie or smashed and thus destroyed. This date is an acknowledgment of the moment when 11 Veteran’s Day EXECUTIVE/ Schools & Office DIR. Closed it became understood to all that a war against the Jews had begun in earnest and was Rhythm & Ruach / Author Night – 7:30pm sanctioned by the State. 13 Religious School Open House – 10am 14 Lunch & Learn in thePat Gallery Tinto - 12pm Jewish communities were to pay for the damages incurred. ECC COMMUNICATIONSParent Teacher Conference & – 6pm It is of great historical importance for us to recognize this date as it is a reminder IsraeliMARKETING Dancing – 7:30pm DIRECTOR 15 ECC Closed / ECC Parent Teacher Conference – 8am that cruel attitudes and discriminating laws (which a populace believes can be reversed Triple T: Torah AlezaTalmud Tuesday Kulp – 9:45am with regime change) indeed became overarching reality leading to the Shoah. How to Kristallnacht EDUCATIONProgram Film Series DIR. Part I – 8pm pay attention to this day? By learning about history and understanding the narrative of 17 Sisterhood Opening Event – 7pm how such an abomination took place on the world stage. 19 SimpleSabrina & Soulful – 10:15am Landau 20 MitzvahEARLY Day CHILDHOOD & Brotherhood Blood DIR. Drive – 9am The Holocaust Learning Committee endeavors to do just that, and in paying hom- 4th Grade Parent B’nei Mitzvah Meeting – 10am age to Kristallnacht this year, sponsors the following film series: 21 Israeli Dancing – 7:30pm 7Irvingth Grade Parents Koslowe Cocktail Party, z”l Place & Time TBD 22 Triple T: TorahRABBI Talmud EMERITUS Tuesday – 9:45am 23 No Religious School Thursday, November 10, 2016 24 Thanksgiving Day 24-25 SchoolsMax & FriedmanOffice Closed z”l 27 No ReligiousRITUAL School DIR. EMERITUS HLC will co-sponsor with the Israel Committee, 28 Israeli Dancing – 7:30pm 29 Triple T: Torah Talmud Tuesday – 9:45am the showing of the movie, “The Debt,” a 2007 Israeli drama-thriller directed by Assaf Bernstein and starring Kristallnacht Program Film Series Part II – 8pm Youth & TeenGail Programs Marcus Gila Almagor, Yuriy Chepurnov, and Oleg Drach, about 6 K-2nd Wake Up with PRESIDENTWaffles - 9am three retired Mossad agents confronted by a challenge PJ Library Lunch – 12pm from their past. PJ LibraryJeffrey Sammy the Lavine Spider First Mitzvah Show – 12:30pm EXECUTIVE VP 12 Teen Schmooze - 10am 14 Teen LeadershipSeth Council Schafler Meeting – 6pm 15 Teen KristallnachtADMINISTRATIVE Program – 6pm VP 20 2nd Grade Family Program - 10am TeenLaurence Mentorship Program Thaler – 5pm 21 Teen Leadership Council Meeting – 6pm The commemoration of 28 Teen LeadershipFINANCIAL Council Meeting VP – 6pm Kristallnacht will continue with a CONTENTSHarold Treiber three–part film series presented From the Clergy ..............................................................VICE PRESIDENT 2 President’s Column ......................................................... 3 by scholar of Jewish history Shabbat and MartinHoliday Service Marcus Times ............................. 3 and the cinema, Dr. Eric Goldman.* B’Nei Mitzvahs ................................................................VICE PRESIDENT 4 Religious School/Adult Education ................................ 5 Hendel Library .......................................................... 6, 19 Adult Program: Early ChildhoodVictor Center/PJ Badner Library/Youth ................. 7 Westchester Cantors’VICE Concert PRESIDENT ....................................... 8 • Nov. 15, 8pm B’Nei Mitzvah Committee .............................................. 8 Part I: 1944-1990 Project Ezra Luncheon/World Jewry Committee ....... 9 Susan Miller • Nov. 29, 8pm Dr. Goldman above left on TMT Teens ..............................................................................VICE PRESIDENT 10 Long Time Members Honored at WJC ...................... 11 Part II: 1990 – Present Social Action .................................................................. 12 MitzvahN. Gabriel Day ................................................................... Tolchinsky 13 *Dr. Eric Goldman, adjunct professor of cinema at Yeshiva University and the author TREASURER Brotherhood/WJC Participation Card ....................... 14 of The American Jewish Story through Cinema, co-hosted, “The Projected Image: The Sisterhood ................................................................ 15, 18 Funds ..............................................................................Marc Strongin 16 Jewish Experience on Film,” featured on the Turner Classic Movies Television Network. Renewal Service ............................................................ASST. TREASURER 17 Archives/Rhythm and Ruach ...................................... 19 Synagogue Family/Interfaith Book Groop ................ 20 continued on next page Simple & Soulful/IsraeliYale Movie Zoland Night ........................ 20 FINANCIAL SEC’Y The deadline for content submission for December is November 6th @ [email protected] Cheryl Brause ASST. FINANCIAL SEC’Y Mark Berger RECORDING SEC’Y Abbe Kellner-Kutno ASST. RECORDING SEC’Y Sandra Rosenbaum CORRESPONDING SEC’Y Jeffrey Taffet ASST. CORRESPONDING SEC’Y Sarene Shanus CHAIR OF THE BOARD Beverly Cannold Dan Cannold z”l RELIGIOUS SCHOOL 2 The Review www.wjcenter.org From the Clergy The Review RABBI JEFFREY SEGELMAN Published Monthly by Westchester Jewish Center Mamaroneck, NY 10543 (914) 698-2960 What To Do In Cheshvan Time series. In addition to our traditional Except July and August daily and Shabbat services, all three of our Editor: Pat Tinto The Hebrew month that corresponds contemporary services - Simple and Soul- ful, Rhythm and Ruach and the Renewal Rabbi ..........................................JEFFREY T. SEGELMAN to November this year is called Chesh- Assistant Rabbi........................................... ADIR YOLKUT van. Sometimes it is called Mar-Chesh- Service - will take place in November. The Cantor ................................................ETHAN GOLDBERG Israel Movie night takes place - this month Rabbi Emeritus .......................DR. IRVING KOSLOWE z’’l van. “Mar” in Hebrew means “bitter,” Ritual Director Emeritus ..................MAX FRIEDMAN z’’l and it refers to the fact that it is the only as a commemoration of Kristallnacht. Executive Director .......................................SUSAN LURIE Sammy Spider will make a special ap- Educ. Dir. & Cong. Program Coord ......... ALEZA R. KULP month in which there are no Jewish hol- Early Childhood Director ................... SABRINA LANDAU idays or celebrations. Unfortunately, in pearance for our youngest children thanks Communications & Marketing Director ...........PAT TINTO to PJ Library. Our annual Mitzvah Day of- Librarian ...............................................ARLENE RATZABI the 20th century, one commemoration did Teen Engagement Director ..........SHOSHI ROSENBAUM fers varied opportunities to help those in Building Superintendent ...............JOSE LUIS FONSECA find its way into Cheshvan. It was Kristall- nacht. That, of course, made it even more need. The community Diversity Breakfast OFFICERS bitter. (sponsored by the American Jewish Com- President ...............................................JEFFREY LAVINE mittee) creates one of the most powerful Executive Vice President .................... SETH SCHAFLER Yet we can (and should) view Chesh- Financial Vice President ................LAURENCE THALER van’s lack of holidays not as bitter, but as interfaith experiences in our area. Treasurer ............................................HAROLD TREIBER And of course, there is Thanksgiv- Asst. Treasurer ....................................MARC STRONGIN an opportunity. In the aftermath of Rosh Financial Secretary ..................................YALE ZOLAND Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot, Shemi- ing. The fact that the Holidays came so Asst. Financial Secretary .................. NANCY SHERMAN late this year may allow much of the beau- Administration .............................. EVE EDELMAN RUSS ni Atzeret and Simchat Torah, we need a Adult Programming ............................ JEFFREY TAFFET rest. But more importantly, we need some tiful spirit of gratitude to infuse our Thanks- Children & Families ............................. SETH SCHAFLER giving with greater meaning. Communications & Member Relations SUSAN MILLER time, some space, to think about how we Development ...............................................IAN