The Congregation Mishkan Israel More than a place. We’re a community.

March 2019 Series 103 Number 6

MEGILLAH READING & PURIM SPIEL March 2019 March WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20 • 7:00 PM 2019 March TODAH RABAH SHABBAT WELCOME TEAM Thank you to our greeters: January MEMBERSHIP CORNER 4 Richard & Marie Shaw 11 Joel & Sue Jacobson WELCOME TO NEW MEMBERS 18 Ivey Cooley, Alan Sturtz, Karen Kimball & The Congregation extends a warm welcome to Caroline Kimball new members: Michael Schaffer & Tricia Napor, 25 Michael Dimenstein & Hedda Rubenstein Martha Simpson 26 Karen Kimball February ONEG SHABBAT & PULPIT 1 Michael Dimenstein & Hedda Rubenstein 8 Chuck & Judy Naden FLOWERS 15 Cliff & True Wolff IN OUR SYNAGOGUE One of the nicest ways to 22 Karen Kimball honor a special occasion is For more information about our Team of greeters, contact to sponsor an Oneg Shabbat co-chairs Karen Kimball at [email protected] and/or pulpit flowers for services. or Richard Shaw at [email protected]. Congregation Mishkan Israel is grateful to the following Oneg Shabbat/Flower Sponsors: March 9 – Oneg is given in celebration of Tyler DeRosa becoming a bar mitzvah with love from MARCH BIRTHDAY Mom & Dad. BLESSINGS March 30 – Flowers and Oneg are given in Celebrate your birthday at celebration of Daya Baum becoming a bat Family Service. March birthdays mitzvah will be celebrated at the Erev Purim To arrange for your sponsorship, contact Sarah at Service on Wednesday, March 20. If (203) 288-3877 or [email protected]. your child will be attending services in their birthday month, please call Tamara at 203-288-3877. CMI IS GOING GREEN We at CMI decided that this is a great time to follow our passion to leave a “green” thumbprint as a congregation. We have considered our role in the massive use of paper that we generate yearly and find this PROTOCOL FOR MI SHEBERACH (HEALING is a perfect time to “Go Green” . We have implemented our “paperless” monthly bulletin PRAYER) LIST as part of a series of eco-friendly initiatives To add or delete a name to our Mi Sheberach (healing here at CMI. Please go to https://cmi.wufoo. prayer) list that is read at services please call Rabbi’s com/forms/miwucmp0trirl5/ to let us know if office at (203) 288-3877. You must have permission you wish to discontinue receiving the printed from the individual to have their name read in public. version of the monthly bulletin via mail or call (There is always the Hebrew option as well.) Names the office at 203-288-3877. We will continue to will remain on the list for one month unless renewed mail a paper copy of the bulletin to your home or requested to be deleted. If you join us for services if you do not opt-out. you can add a name that evening by signing in with the greeter prior to the beginning of services. Thank you.

2 www.cmihamden.org • (203) 288-3877 A MESSAGE FROM THE Over the next several months, Cantor Giglio, and I will explore every page of the new machzor and RABBI decide what readings we think will be most impactful Rabbi Brian P. Immerman for our community with guidance from the ritual committee. We will provide opportunities in the For many Jews around the late spring and summer to study our prayer book world and certainly for the CMI together and even use it during Shabbat worship community, the High Holy Days so that it feels familiar next Rosh Hashanah and for remain one of the most sacred many years to come. times of the year. A time in which we come together to celebrate, reflect, sing, eat, and pray. I am still filled with nachus LEADERSHIP from all of the joy and spirituality that I felt from my first High Holy Days at CMI. For the past fifty years, our community has used the Gates of Repentance as our guide during services, which was itself a replacement for the Union Prayer Book. This fall when we welcome the year 5780, at the recommendation of the ritual committee and board, we will begin using a new Machzor (a High Holy Day prayer book) called Mishkan HaNefesh. Mishkan HaNefesh reflects many trends in our movement and world, just as Gates of Repentance and the Union

Prayer Book did in their time. As we join with Reform a h

congregations around the country in adopting this s new prayer book, I am again reminded of Rav Kook’s o d teaching, “hayashan nitchadesh v’chadash nitkadesh”, ’

the old will become new and the new will become holy. K CELEBRATING OUR We will have many opportunities to explore what is h

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Mishkan HaNefesh continues to celebrate our rich e

history as a Jewish people. The prayers themselves K are the standard High Holy Day prayers and most of the melodies that make us feel at home at CMI during the High Holy Days will remain the same. Mishkan HaNefesh includes readings from Gates of Repentence and the Union Prayer Book that still speak to us as they have for the past five decades. Our community has already been using a service compiled IS SOMEONE IN THE HOSPITAL? from Mishkan HaNefesh on Yom Kippur afternoon. As Jews, we draw on our past as we embrace the future. Area hospitals are not permitted to notify us While we embrace our new Machzor, in addition to the when a congregant has been admitted. If you familiar we will find new occasions to create holiness know of a congregant who is in the hospital and as a community. Similar to our Shabbat Prayerbook, would appreciate a call or visit, please contact Mishkan T’filah, Mishkan HaNefesh adapts the two- Rabbi Immerman’s office at (203) 288-3877 or page layout, and therefore includes many more [email protected] options for alternative readings alongside more faithful translations of the prayers. In addition, Mishkan HaNefesh includes transliterations for all Hebrew PAY ONLINE! prayers allowing those with limited Hebrew reading Did you know you can pay CMI directly from CMI’s ability to participate fully in worship. As our community website or weekly e-news? The convenience adopts this new machzor, we also adopt many new is amazing! You can pay your Dues, Religious ways to engage with the rich history of our High Holy School, Nursery School, Make a donation, and Day prayers. special events. Go to: http://cmihamden.org/ who-we-are/giving/.

www.cmihamden.org • (203) 288-3877 3 CANTOR’S NOTES PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE Cantor Arthur Giglio Sarah B. Greenblatt I am crazed with excitement While it’s only March and to announce that two of my we’re all looking forward to most talented colleagues the warmth of spring and and friends will be our guest summer, our leaders have artists for this year’s Cantor’s been planning for the 2019- Concert on Saturday Evening, 2020 calendar year now – LEADERSHIP April 27th. They are Cantors Magda Fishman especially the 5780 High Holy Days, which begin and Randy Herman. More dynamic performers this year on September 30th. in the world of Jewish music today would be difficult to find. Having them together One of the key priorities our current Board has performing for us will be nothing short of approved is to adopt the new Reform High Holy amazing! This has definitely kicked our Cantor’s Day prayer books, Mishkan HaNefesh – a set Concert Fundraiser up a giant notch and that is of two books one each for Rosh Hashanah and why you must save this date. You will be doing Yom Kippur. The Gates of Repentance High Holy yourself an incredible disservice if you do not Day Prayer Book was first published 50 years come. ago. How our world and Reform Movement has changed in these 50 years! Mishkan HaNefesh Here is some background on these talented provides us with familiar prayer and reflection Chazzanim to wet your whistle and get you as options and current perspectives on our rich excited as I am to have them come to CMI. High Holy Day traditions. The books also provide Cantor Magda Fishman is a singer-musician transliteration in English for those who may not (Jazz Trumpet and piano), who has built a large read Hebrew. and loving following among a wide spectrum We know using new High Holy Day prayer books of audiences. She is a truly unique performer represents a change that may be hard for some, combining her unique blend of traditional and especially in the midst of the many changes our contemporary styles. Her repertoire includes Congregation has faced this year. Yet, I urge Israeli songs, jazz, liturgical masterpieces, that we be open to exploring the meaningful musical theater and her own compositions. prayers and lessons these new prayer books Magda served in the Israeli Army Orchestra offer us. I hope as well that you will attend the as a vocal soloist and trumpet player. She has strategic learning opportunities the Rabbi and performed extensively in Israel, Europe, and Cantor will host this spring and summer for throughout the United States and Canada. congregants to become familiar with Mishkan She came to the United States as part of the HaNefesh – in small group study discussions Tel-Aviv Broadway Musical Theater Project and during Shabbat services. Be sure to look and is the recipient of the prestigious America- for announcements in our weekly e-blasts and Israel Cultural Foundation scholarship. She monthly bulletins. has performed at the Kennedy Center, the National Gallery of Canada, the First Night Our goal is to have 900 sets of the Mishkan Festival in Boston, the 92nd Street Y Festival, HaNefesh for congregants to use during the the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Baked 5780 High Holy Days. Reaching this goal Potato Jazz Club in Los Angeles, the New Jersey provides us with a meaningful opportunity to Performing Arts Center, the Walter Reade engage all CMI members in dedicating one or Theater, Town Hall, Prague State Opera, and more sets in honor of family, friends or a special most recently at AIPAC, the Apollo Theater, the simcha, or in memory of loved ones. The cost per set is $54. While members are always welcome continued on page 11... continued on page 11...

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www.cmihamden.org • (203) 288-3877 5 Youth In Memory of 2018-2019 CHAI APPEAL Elaine Blumenthal ELSIE STROMFELD ______It is with immense gratitude that we acknowledge SPECIAL FUNDS: those families who as of this publication have Herbert N. Brockman Rabbinic Endowment Fund responded to the menu of additional giving In Memory of Jacqueline Gold ROBERT GOLD opportunities with a commitment above their Jacqueline Gold RUTH SWIRSKY standard dues and to the holiday appeal. ______Our Pacesetters: Rabbi Immerman’s Discretionary Fund In Appreciation of David & Ruthann Beckerman Ben & Melissa Glaser RABBI IMMERMAN naming Michael Dimenstein & Hedda Rubenstein DONATIONS Margolit v’Alon Matthew & Marianna Rothbard RABBI IMMERMAN Sarah B. Greenblatt In Honor of Judith Hahn** Ingrid Chorches JAXON ROSEMAN’s Bar Mitzvah James Horwitz & Sandra Allison* Linda Prosco RON & ANNE CARBONE In Memory of Ruth Koizim Michael Dimenstein & HYMAN BENJAMIN DIMENSTEIN Joan Lakin Hedda Rubenstein Sandra Milles** Michael & Erika Forte LEE PERLMAN Marlene & Neil Greenberg ELEANOR JACOBS Ben Ledbetter & Deborah Freedman* John & Frances Gordon ISRAEL (BABE) GORDON Lance Sauerteig Karen Kimball BERNARD SCHNEIDER, MD Joel & Lucinda Kramer ALLEN COHEN Larry Schaefer & Lina Lawall Joel & Lucinda Kramer ANN JENNES Louis Scheps Joel & Lucinda Kramer SAMUEL KRAMER Mark & Judith Sklarz Joel & Lucinda Kramer DR. HARRY SAGANSKY Joel & Lucinda Kramer ANDY SAGE Jeffrey & Clarky Sonnenfeld Joan Lipin CHARLES LIPIN Corey Stone & Sue McDonald Howard & Bobbi Lurie HYMAN LURIE Andrew Wingate & Tanya Bilchik Daniel Moore & Karen Orzack-Moore DR. BURNESS MOORE Karen Orzack-Moore & Daniel Moore HARRY WEXLER *Double Chai Nancy & Marc Olins SAMUEL SIMONS Joel & Lorraine Roseman MORRIS ROSEMAN **Torah Circle Ellyn Ross & Cindy Lazaroff & Families ALAN MASSEY Ellyn Ross & Cindy Lazaroff & Families HINDA MASSEY Additional Gifts: Rita Rubin BABETTE EPSTEIN Baracha: David & Allison Cohen, Andrew & Eileen Rita Rubin HERMAN ERSTEIN Eder Kavod: Batja Astrachan, Stuart & Hedy Bush, Rita Rubin GERALD GOOD Rita Rubin WALLACE RUBIN Floyd & Letty Caplan, Matthew & Michele Cohen, Ben Solnit MARTHA SOLNIT Jack & Harriet Fast, Adam Hittelman & Michelle Bert & Martha Weisbart BURNESS MOORE Serlin, Alvin K. Klevorick & Susan E. Bender, Meir & Barbara Kryger, Susan Oberstein, Jim & Cis Serling, Rabbi Howard Sommer & Dr. Linda Waldman Shalom: Betsy Barnston, David & Julie PROTOCOL FOR MI SHEBERACH Chevan, John & Frances Gordon, Lawrence & (HEALING PRAYER) LIST Roberta Harris, Herbert & Arlyne Hershenson, Marc Wallman & Cynthia Carr, Jimmy Shure, Bert To add or delete a name to our Mi & Martha Weisbart Simcha: Astmann Family, Sheberach (healing prayer) list that is read Alice Baxter, Irwin Braverman, Robert & Tamara at services please call Rabbi’s office at (203) Epstein, Bernice Giskin, Saul & Sonya Goldberg, 288-3877. You must have permission from Allan Hillman & Penny Marcus, John & Susan the individual to have their name read in Hoffmann, Robert Homer, Joan Lipin, Sanford public. (There is always the Hebrew option & Carol Schreiber, Gennadiy Sorochan, Barbara as well.) Names will remain on the list for Wareck, Marian Wexler, Richard & Marcia Witten one month unless renewed or requested Other: Jay & Carol Charkow, Len & Betsy Grauer, to be deleted. If you join us for services you Neil & Marlene Greenberg, Joel & Lucinda Kramer, can add a name that evening by signing in Howard & Bobbi Lurie, Shirley Pripstein & Joanne with the greeter prior to the beginning of Tepp, Norman Rashba, Dr. Jeffrey Smith & Edith services. Rotkopf, Rabbi Steve & Caryl Steinberg

6 www.cmihamden.org • (203) 288-3877 NURSERY SCHOOL NEWS YOUTH GROUP NEWS Susan Witten Nason Alex Forte Early Childhood Director Spring is finally upon us

January and February were (hopefully), and with it comes NEWS snowy, then not, frigid, then not- MITYOR’s favorite holiday, ah, the weather of New England. Purim! With Purim comes the Purim Carnival and we are As Mark Twain said, “ “If you very excited about this year’s don’t like the weather in New event with NEW games, NEW themes, and MORE!

England now, just wait a few minutes.” YOUTH We hope you’ll come and join us for FUN, FOOD, We enjoyed another friend filled, food filled Pot Luck and maybe even some FRIGHTS! in February, and look forward to another one soon. Our first event of the month will be our Breakfast March has us busy, and excited, preparing for Purim. Before School on Sunday, March 10th @ 9:00 We will be baking, (hamantashen), singing songs, in the Brotherhood Coffee Shop. All teens are (Chag Purim), making noise, (graggers), and other invited to have a nosh with us, courtesy of fun Purim festivities. MITYOR! It’s a fun time to hang out and grab Don’t miss the Purim Family Service/ Purim Spiel on some food. Leading up to the Carnival, we need Wednesday, March 20th, at 7:00 p.m. folks to help us put the whole thing together SCHOOL & on Saturday, March 16th @ 1:00 in the Large Our March Tzedakah project will be collecting for Social Hall. Power drills and hammers are always Friends of The New Haven Animal Shelter. The helpful, and sugary snacks will be on hand to New Haven Animal Shelter is the second largest keep us going as long as we need! On Sunday, municipal animal shelter in the State of Connecticut, March 17th, we will need ALL HANDS ON DECK with over 65 dog runs, attracting over 3,200 visitors to run the Purim Carnival, including Game Hosts, annually. The Animal Shelter takes in about 1,400 Costume Judges, Haunted Hallway Players, and dogs and cats each year. Through its partnership Runners. Finally, we will be holding a Social with the Humane Commission, Friends of the New Action Day on Sunday, March 31st. We’ll be Haven Animal Shelter, and the North Shore Animal putting together care packages, brainstorming League, the Animal Shelter has sponsored several collections options, and making crafts for people adoption events throughout the year. Adoptions are in need. Come and help us help others! If you are also conducted at the shelter. interested in any of these events, please contact Needed Supplies: Alex Forte at [email protected]. Dog toys (Especially strong, tough chew toys like Kongs, Nylabones, knotted ropes, or balls), towels and blankets (any size), shampoo for dogs/puppies, grooming supplies, dog bandanas, dog and cat MARCH B’NAI MITZVAH treats, cat toys, cat litter-clay (non-scoop-able only please), greenies’ pill pockets Thank you as always for your generous contributions Tyler DeRosa to our Tzedakh projects. March 9, 2019 Son of Paul & Brooke DeRosa

Daya Baum March 30, 2019 Daughter of Eric Baum & Danielle Antin-Ozerkis

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SATURDAY L’Taken Washington D.C. Washington L’Taken 10:30 a.m. Morning Service 10:30 a.m. Morning Service the celebrating Mitzvah Bat of Baum Daya 9:15 a.m. Torah Study Torah 9:15 a.m. Program 9:15 a.m. Torah Study Torah a.m. 9:15 Service Morning a.m. 10:30 the celebrating of Mitzvah Bar DeRosa Tyler 6:30 p.m. Havdallah Family Family Havdallah p.m. 6:30 9:15 a.m. Torah Study Torah 9:15 a.m. Shabbat Tot 10:30 a.m. 9:15 a.m. Torah Study Torah a.m. 9:15 Service Morning a.m. 10:30 30 23 16 2 9 9:15 a.m. Torah Study Torah a.m. 9:15 Service Morning a.m. 10:30 FRIDAY L’Taken Washington D.C. Washington L’Taken Oneg Early 5:30 p.m. Service Evening 6:00 p.m. Oneg Early 5:30 p.m. Service Evening 6:00 p.m. 5:30 p.m. Early Oneg Early p.m. 5:30 Service Evening p.m. 6:00 Closed MINS Oneg Early p.m. 5:30 Service Evening p.m. 6:00 MARCH CALENDAR 5:30 p.m. Early Oneg Early 5:30 p.m. Shabbat Tot 5:30 p.m. Service Evening 6:00 p.m. 29 22 15 1 8

SEPTEMBER YAHRZEITS Class Class THURSDAY 7:00 p.m. iEngage iEngage p.m. 7:00 28 21 14 7 7:00 p.m. iEngage iEngage p.m. 7:00

Judaism to Intermediate Hebrew Board Executive Meeting Meeting Board Hebrew Hebrew

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9:30 a.m. Religious School Program Education 9:30 a.m. Parent Ideas Old of Interpretations New Judaism: 10:45 a.m. is Delicious12:00 noon Life 12:00 noon CMI High

9:00 a.m. Brotherhood Coffee Shop Coffee 9:00 a.m. Brotherhood 9:30 a.m. R eligious School Hands 10:00 a.m. Chevra 10:45 a.m. Judai sm: New of Old Ideas Interpretations Shop Coffee 9:00 a.m. Brotherhood 9:30 a.m. Religious School Program Tot 9:30 a.m. Carnival 10:00 a.m. Purim 10:45 a.m. Judaism: New of Old Ideas Interpretations Group Youth 12:00 noon 4th/5th Grade 24

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MORE NEWS TO USE We have several e-newsletters to keep our strive to recruit new board members to share their congregational family informed of upcoming ideas and energy with us as we to continue in our events, recent passings and school events. If supportive role here at CMI. If you are interested in you’re not currently receiving our e-newsletters serving on the BMW Board, please email Ken Seltzer you can get on the distribution list. at [email protected]. CMI is on Facebook. Click the icon on our website As part of our work in supporting CMI, I am pleased or go to http://www.facebook.com/cmihamden. to share with members that we have been able You’ll want to “like” us. to offer some financial support to CMI’s religious CMI Religious School is on Facebook. Go to https:// school to refurbish some of the classrooms. We www.facebook.com/cmireligiousschool and “like” are excited to collaborate with Rabbi Immerman us. We would like to keep you up-to-date with all and Principal Michelle Goldstein in making CMI an Religious School events. inviting place for our children to learn and grow. Thank you for your continued support of the BMW and we look forward to seeing you on April 6! Shalom, Ken Seltzer President, CMI Brotherhood of Men and Women

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10 www.cmihamden.org • (203) 288-3877 CANTOR’S NOTES continued... attendance and CMI needs your support so Israeli Embassy in Washington, Central Park take out your pens and mark the date on your Summerstage and countless other venues calendars. Better yet, call the office or go on large and small. She was featured at the line at our website and purchase tickets for annual American-Israel Culture Foundation yourself, friends and family. Gala, at Jazz at the Lincoln Center, Rose Theater and a frequent performer/soloist for President’s Message continued... Folksbiene (the National Yiddish Theater). to purchase their own High Holy Day prayer Cantor Fishman is a graduate of the Jewish books, we hope that all families will consider Theological Seminary’s H.L Miller Cantorial dedicating one or even many sets to assist us School, a member of the CA/Cantors assembly in reaching our congregational goal. Please do and Cantor at Temple Beth El in Stamford CT. not hesitate to contact me with any questions Cantor Randy Herman attended the about this important campaign. With deep University of Michigan, majoring in theater appreciation, I thank you in advance. and psychology. After working as a musician CONGREGATION MISHKAN ISRAEL in Paris and as an actor on the East Coast, Book Discussion Group Cantor Herman eventually settled in

Chicago where he co-founded the critically The Weight of ink LEADERSHIP CONTINUED By acclaimed Theater Oobleck, an avant-garde Rachel Kadish theater troupe. As a pianist and singer, he "A page-turner. Kadish moves back and forth in time with great has performed throughout the U.S. and skill. She knows how to generate suspense – and sympathy for her large cast of characters...packed with fascinating details...The Weight of abroad, and has worked extensively as a Ink belongs to its women...Kadish’s most impressive achievement, it studio musician. Cantor Herman studied seems to me, lies in getting readers to think that maybe, just maybe, a woman like Esther could have existed in the Jewish diaspora circa in Jerusalem at the Conservative Yeshiva 1660.“ —Jerusalem Post and sang in the Great Synagogue choir. He Anyone interested is welcome. received cantorial investiture and a Masters Bring your lunch; coffee and tea are provided. of Sacred Music from the Jewish Theological Seminary in 2008, and has been a featured guest cantor in many synagogues throughout the U.S. and abroad. For the last decade, Cantor Herman has served full time at Bet Torah in Mt. Kisco, NY, considered one of the most vibrant Conservative shuls in the nation. He is featured on several Spirit Series CDs produced by the Cantors Assembly and the USCJ, and has recently completed a CD CMI•785 Ridge Road Hamden, CT 06517•203-288-3877•www.cmihamden.org of original Jewish and secular songs, entitled Moving Through Time. His wife Nicole gave LIBRARY NEWS birth to their beautiful baby girl Kaya, in 2018. Randy is the Cantor at Bet Torah Synagogue New American Judaism in Mt. Kisco, NY. by Jack Wertheimer Magda and Randy are not newbies. They are Antisemitism here and now seasoned performers at the top of their game by Deborah Lipstadt and remember, this is not just a fundraiser, Dear Zealots it is a testament of our support for Mishkan by Amos Oz Israel and our brilliant new Rabbi Brian Trouble in the tribe Immerman. The Cantor’s Concert needs your by Dov Waxman www.cmihamden.org • (203) 288-3877 11 CMI LIVESTREAMS SERVICES SOCIAL ACTION NEWS While we always look forward to sharing the With great joy JCARR welcomed our newest family sabbaths and holy days together, we are pleased to Hamden on January 29. They are an Iraqi to announce we now livestream services so that husband and wife, ages 75 and 65. JCARR looks members and friends who are unable to attend forward to getting to know them and introducing in person due to health or distance can still enjoy them to our community. The five synagogues that services and the holidays. Regular services are make up JCARR have now settled four families available for viewing on your computer or mobile in the last two years. Not only have the families device. Simply go to http://cmihamden.org/ found new homes, but the volunteers have formed worship/livestream/. Copies of past services are new friendships among themselves. We are all available under the Archived Videos tab. If you do indeed fortunate. take advantage of this service, please let us know Financial donations are greatly needed to sustain of your experience. At the same time, we look the work of JCARR as we hope to welcome more forward to seeing you in person again, soon. families this year. JCARR is now a program under The initiation of livestreaming was made possible the umbrella of the Jewish Federation and you in part by a grant from the Jewish Home Building can send checks payable to The Jewish Federation Fund Corporation. with JCARR in the memo line. You can specify ADVERTISING SUPPORT whether your donation is designated for Families or Professional (staff) support. Mail checks to The Jewish Federation, 360 Amity Road, Woodbridge, TO OUR READERS 06525; Attention: Amy Holz: Development If you use a service from one of our advertisers, For more information or if you are interesting please inform them that you are doing so because in volunteering, please contact: Sue Millen you saw their ad in the Bulletin. If you would like to [email protected] or 203-288-9797 place an ad in the Bulletin, Contact Sarah at (203) 288-3877

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For more information, contact Adults (13 and older): $40/member; $50/non-member Sue at (203) 288-9797 or Children (4-12): $20/member; $25/non-member [email protected] Children under 4 Free We ask each family to bring a Kosher for Passover dessert

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THE CONGREGATION MISHKAN ISRAEL BULLETIN March 2019 Series 103 #6 Published monthly except July and August THE CONGREGATION MISHKAN ISRAEL 785 Ridge Road Hamden CT 06517 Phone: (203) 288-3877 Fax: (203) 248-2148 http://cmihamden.org Rabbi Brian P. Immerman x236 [email protected] Rabbi Emeritus Herbert N. Brockman, Ph.D. D.D. x243 [email protected] Cantor Arthur Giglio x244 [email protected] Merav Canaan, Temple Administrator x241 [email protected] Michelle Goldstein, Religious School Director x237 [email protected] Alex Forte, Director of Youth Activities [email protected] Susan Witten Nason, Early Childhood Director x245 [email protected] Gary Mitchell, Facilities Manager x231 [email protected] Sarah B. Greenblatt, President [email protected]

MARCH WORSHIP SERVICES & STUDY SHABBAT VAYAKHEL SHABBAT PEKUDEI SHABBAT VAYIKRA Ex. 35:1-38:20 Ex. 38:21-40:38 Lev. 1:1-5:26 Friday, March 1 Friday, March 8 Friday, March 15 5:30 p.m. Early Oneg 5:30 p.m. Early Oneg 5:30 p.m. Early Oneg 5:30 p.m. Tot Shabbat 6:00 p.m. Evening Service 6:00 p.m. Evening Service 6:00 p.m. Eveining Service Saturday, March 9 Saturday, March 16 Saturday, March 2 9:15 a.m. Torah Study 9:15 a.m. Torah Study 9:15 a.m. Torah Study 10:30 a.m. Morning Service celebrating 10:30 a.m. Tot Shabbat the bar mitzvah of Tyler DeRosa 10:30 a.m. Morning Service 6:00 p.m. Havdallah Family Program

EREV PURIM SERVICE SHABBAT TZAV SHABBAT SHEMINI Lev. 6:1-8:36 Lev. 9:1-11:47 Wednesday, March 20 Friday, March 22 Friday, March 29 7:00 p.m. Megillah Reading & 5:30 p.m. Early Oneg 5:30 p.m. Early Oneg Birthday Blessing 6:00 p.m. Evening Service 6:00 p.m. Evening Service

Saturday, March 23 Saturday, March 30 9:15 a.m. Torah Study 9:15 a.m. Torah Study 10:30 a.m. Morning Service 10:30 a.m. Morning Service celebrating the bat mitzvah of Daya Baum

Service times are subject to change. For the most up-to-date information and to hear sample tunes from services, go to http://cmihamden.org/worship.