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INSIDE THIS ISSUE Page 2 Twins Experience B’nai Mitzvah in Israel Page 3 A Taste of Hartman with Rachel Korazim Page 5 Author Karen Trieger at TBE Page 5 Project Zug Page 8 Hanukkah How-To NOVEMBER - DECEMBER 2019/HESHVAN - KISLEV - TEVET 5780 Shabbat Dinner Adult Hanukkah Party Friday, November 22 at 7:15 pm Saturday, December 14 at 6:15 pm Please join us for a festive and delicious Shabbat dinner Come and get in the mood for the holiday! The event will start at 6:15 on Friday, November 22 at 7:15 pm, following Kabbalat pm with appetizers, followed by dinner at 6:45 pm. The menu includes: Shabbat services at 6:00 pm. Rabbi Katz and Cantor Martin roasted chicken, potato latkes and applesauce, green beans, field greens Levson will be leading the service. If you are unable to with poached pears, and dessert. BYOB (kosher only). The cost of the join us for dinner, feel free to Just Show Up for the service. dinner is $18.50 per person. The dinner will be provided by Catering by Meital, At 8:00 pm, we will watch the film “Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas.” and the menu includes: mixed greens with roasted sweet The movie tells the story of a group of Jewish songwriters, including Irving potatoes, mandarin oranges, dried cranberries, and an Berlin,Mel Torme, Jay Livingston, Ray Evans, and Johnny Marks, who wrote orange-champagne vinaigrette; sautéed chicken with the soundtrack to the world’s most musical holiday. It’s an amazing look at bell peppers, zucchini and olives in a white wine sauce, the 20th century North American immigrant experience and the extraordi- wild rice with onion, dried apricots, celery and carrots, nary outburst of musical energy from the children of those immigrants. sautéed green beans, and apple crisp. A vegetarian R.S.V.P. to Marie at [email protected] or call 737-0170 by December 2. option is available—please be sure to request it when making your reservation. The cost is $18 per person ages 18 & over; no charge for children ages 17 and under. R.S.V.P. by calling the Daniel Gordis temple office at 733-4149 by November 15. There will be open seating; tables of 8 may be reserved (please provide names of all 8 people with your reservation). Guests are to Speak at TBE encouraged to bring a bottle of kosher wine to share with their table. We regret that we will be unable to Tuesday, November 19 at 7:30 pm accommodate walk-ins. We hope to see you there! Dr. Daniel Gordis will be visiting the Lower Valley to talk about his newest book, We Stand Divided:The Rift Between American Jews and SKLC Annual Israel. Relations between the American Jewish community and Israel are at an all-time nadir. Since Israel’s founding seventy years ago, particularly as Shabbaton memory of the Holocaust and of Israel’s early vulnerability has receded, the divide has grown only wider. Most explanations pin the blame on Shabbat, December 7 Israel’s handling of its conflict with the Palestinians, Israel’s attitude from 2:00-6:00 pm toward non-Orthodox Judaism, and Israel’s dismissive attitude toward American Jews in general. In short, the cause for the rupture is not what Israel is; it’s what Israel does. This will be a Shabbat afternoon at TBE that you won’t These explanations tell only half the story. We Stand Divided examines want to miss! 75,000 Legos will be delivered and we will build the world’s largest menorah. CONTINUED ON PAGE 6 CONTINUED ON PAGE 7 Temple Beth El Founded 1913. In 2008 merged with Congregation B’nai Jacob (founded 1891). Devoted to seeking God, doing Mitzvot, studying Torah, and creating Community. 1 The deadline for the January/February issue is Friday, November 15. Please email all articles or photos to communications@tbespringfield.org. shy of Sydney and Jake’s 13th birthday). Prior to the event, a dozen relatives and friends accompanied the Romes on an 8-day tour of Rome Family’s Twins northern Israel, including Tiberias and the Golan Heights as well as Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Jane said their choice of Da’at Travel Educational Experience Their Tours turned out to be perfect. “They planned the entire itinerary down to the last detail and incorporated many activities geared to B’nai Mitzvah in Israel the kids – like riding tornado boats on the Sea of Galilee! Our ‘tour Sue Kline educator,’ Mark Rogoff, was fantastic.” Among highlights, Sydney and Jake said that they were moved by When Jane and Gary Rome started to think about the Bar and Bat a jeep ride in the Golan Heights where they learned about the 1967 Mitzvah of twins Sydney and Jake, Jane knew she wanted them to have Six-Day War and saw firsthand how very close the enemy was an experience that would bring out the best in both youngsters and positioned. “The sheer fact of the geography shocked us all,” said accommodate their different learning styles. The family had never Jane. “The threat wasn’t coming from across the ocean. It was right been to Israel – and as Jane, the researcher of the family, reviewed here, across a border we could see. We’ll never forget it” various options, the idea of having the B’nai Soon the focus became the B’nai Mitzvah Mitvah in Jerusalem piqued Gary’s interest for which the family had prepared well as well. Most important, Sydney and Jake ahead. Hiring a rabbi was one task they’d really liked the plan. tackled together. “Da’at provided resumes The next step was easy – making of available clergy, which we and the arrangements at Temple Beth El for them children read carefully, narrowing the list to to learn the Torah portion they would read three and then to one. Like everything else, on August 8. Both Sydney and Jake felt they the process worked very smoothly.” They “lucked out,” finding in Reverend David were able to secure the rabbinical services Aminia an “awesome” teacher with whom of their first choice, a warm and effusive both formed a special bond. “Our Jake woman who visited the family at the King might not be the most enthusiastic Hebrew David Hotel, where we were staying, made School student,” said Jane, “but we never an effort to get to know the children, and once heard him complain about going to ‘clicked’ with Sydney and Jake.” Since the Reverend Aminia!” B’nai Mitzvah would be attended by a small Their journey to Israel would involve group of family and close friends, the rabbi much more than the day of the B’nai gave everyone an appropriate role for the Mitzvah, which scheduled on Thursday, hour-long service. August 8 at the Western Wall (just one day CONTINUED ON PAGE 14 PLEASE NOTE: beginning November 2, Shabbat afternoon services will be held at 5:00 pm. _____________________________ _____________________________ _____________________________ _____________________________ Weekday Mornings Shabbat Worship Rosh Hodesh Kislev Christmas Monday through Friday ........................ 7:00 am Erev Shabbat ....................................... 6:00 pm Thursday & Friday, November 28 & 29 Wednesday, December 25 (office closed) Sunday ................................................ 8:30 am Shabbat morning ................................ 9:30 am Morning Service ................................... 6:45 am Morning Service .................................. 8:30 am _____________________________ Shabbat afternoon .............................. 5:00 pm _____________________________ _____________________________ Weekday Evenings _____________________________ Thanksgiving New Year’s Day Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Veterans Day Thursday, November 28 (office closed) Wednesday, January 1 (office closed) Wednesday & Thursday ...................... 5:45 pm* Monday, November 11 (office closed) Morning Service ................................. 8:30 am Morning Service .................................. 8:30 am Morning Service .................................. 8:30 am No Evening Service _____________________________ *On Sunday, November 10, minyan will be held Friday, November 29 (office closed) at 6:00 pm, following Dave-A-Palooza Morning Service .................................. 8:30 am 2 Rachel Korazim Returns to Our Community on November 3 A TASTE OF HARTMAN Shabbat afternoon, November 2 from 4:30 - 6:15 pm at Rabbi Katz’s home Rabbi Amy Wallk Katz Come for a nosh, a taste of Hartman with Rachel Korazim and Havdalah. Rachel Korazim, a charismatic and entertaining Hebrew literature teacher, will lead us The leaves have fallen and there are no in an exploration of The Other as a Mirror. Together we will study Israeli literary works of Jewish holidays...It must be November! both Jews and Arabs. We shall explore images of Arabs in Jewish Israeli literature. We will But wait...As I look more closely, I realize then juxtapose them with Arab Israeli literary works. that there is indeed a Jewish holiday this Besides learning a little more about Israeli literature, we will discuss what it might be month. It wears secular clothes, involves like for lay members of our community to travel to Israel and study together at the Shalom no extra synagogue services, and is Hartman Institute Community Leadership Program . We hope you will consider joining a celebrated by people of multiple religions diverse group of learners as they meet in Israel to engage in thought-provoking and inspiring and backgrounds, so it’s easy to miss its classes. The Jerusalem-based week-long seminar includes text study, small group seminars, Jewish character. The holiday, of course, encounters with public figures, field trips and cultural experiences. is Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving: The American Sukkot. It’s an astounding, exciting and inspiring week. Plus living in the German Colony in Granted, on Thanksgiving we generally Jerusalem...what could be better. I recommend it with 5 stars!” Susan Goldman eat indoors and not in a sukkah.