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thethe SCRIBESCRIBEBY TEMPLE BETH AM MUSICAL PURIM SHABBAT CARNIVAL (page 16) SERVICE CELEBRATING RABBI BRETT PTO GALA (page 5) (page 17) February 2020 • Shevat-Adar 5780 Published Monthly • Volume 5, Issue 6 CONTENTS __________________ The Future Through Reflection ......................................................................3 Celebrate Shabbat at Temple Beth Am ..........................................................4 Musical Shabbat Service Celebrating Rabbi Brett ........................................5 Activities for All ...............................................................................................6 EXECUTIVE BOARD OF DIRECTORS Have a Tu B’shevat Seder .................................................................................7 President: Bruce Cohen [email protected] Sisterhood Scoop .............................................................................................8 Vice President: Steve Misshula Men’s Club Happenings/Presentation with Guest Speaker .........................9 [email protected] Youth Group News .........................................................................................10 Vice President: Lindsay Hirsch [email protected] HaMakom Happenings/Mitzvah of the Month ..........................................11 Secretary: Liz Levine Adult Education Classes ................................................................................12 [email protected] Mystery Progressive Dinner/A Message from The One School PTO ......13 Treasurer: Orin Shakerdge The One School Family Fun Fair ..................................................................14 [email protected] Fiesta Shabbat .................................................................................................15 BOARD OF DIRECTORS Purim Carnival ...............................................................................................16 Jason Rogers Jackie Halderman PTO Annual Gala ..........................................................................................17 Bob Hochman Marc Siegel Mark Golzbein Jody Minde Mishloach Manot ...........................................................................................18 Harvey White Peter Sandquist Mishpacha Family Center News...................................................................19 Michael Walder Myles Cooley Mazel Tov!/Security Update .........................................................................20 MEN’S CLUB REPRESENTATIVE Social Action ..................................................................................................21 Mel Wolfe Book Club .......................................................................................................22 February Calendar .........................................................................................31 SISTERHOOD REPRESENTATIVE Debbie Baseman Early Shabbat Service w/Movie & Speaker Bonnie Rich ...........Back Cover PAST PRESIDENTS TEMPLE BETH AM PROFESSIONALS Jeanne Tarsches Arnie Weinstein John Alexander Bob Miller Rabbi Alon Levkovitz Alvin Schlossberg Tom Ross Rabbi Brett Tancer Myrna Abramowitz Brud Tarsches Cantorial Soloist Marcy Morris Jody Minde Stephen Lewis Executive Director: Danna Cohen Bruce Cohen* Michael Deakter* Director of Education Finance and Administration: Carol Sleeper Hal Baseman* Education Director: Alissa Frankel Beth Eisenman Mark Slifkin Youth Engagement Director and Program Assistant: Elana Beame Len Green Carol Carswell Early Childhood Director: Patty McCaulley Jerry Silvers Young Family Program Coordinator: Paula Deakter *served 2 terms Mishpacha/Family Center Coordinator: Yael Luski Lawrence Manager of Design and Communications: Carolyn Tierney TEMPLE BETH AM Staff Accountant: Meredith Goodman 2250 CENTRAL BLVD, JUPITER, FL 33458 Executive Administrative Assistant: Margot Hauser Assistant Scribe Editors: Margot Hauser & Debbie Baseman www.TempleBethAm.com Facilities Supervisor: Alex DeLeon 561.747.1109 Senior Maintenance: Alfredo Montes [email protected] Maintenance: Richard Remick Office Hours: Mon–Fri, 9:00am–5:00pm 2 www.TempleBethAm.com • 561.747.1109 __________ THE FUTURE THROUGH REFLECTION by Rabbi Alon Levkovitz It is with the same clarity of the With all of my incredibly talented future that I also look at the past. In and capable colleagues at the helm, June, my family and I will celebrate Temple Beth Am’s future seems 14 years since we came to Temple brighter than ever. When I signed Beth Am. I am very proud of a lot my latest contract with the board of the things that we accomplished that will keep me as your rabbi together: lowering the mortgage, long into the future, we agreed that moving to a voluntary dues system now will be a good time for me to that breaks down the barriers take my first ever sabbatical. At the for participation, renovating the beginning of this coming March, In January I traveled to cold Temple to accommodate our Gali, Ben, Yoni, and I will be taking and windy Broomfield, CO, growing congregation and its many a three months’ study leave in to participate in the beautiful, needs, participating in many social Europe and in Israel. Our adventure emotional, and spiritually uplifting action events, and strengthening the includes traveling to several Ordination Ceremony of my dear relationships with our neighboring countries, with carry-on luggage friend and colleague, Rabbi Brett churches. But what I am proud of only, reading, writing, and visiting Tancer. In the last eight years, many the most is the professional team different Jewish communities. This of you got to know and love “Mr. that we have assembled and helps Passover will be the first time in Brett”, as the preschoolers call him. leads this special place. All of them 23 years that we will sit around the It is an honor to be able to call him are “home grown” talents who Seder table with our family in Israel. “Rabbi” and tell you that Brett’s first love and cherish Judaism and this We will be back in the middle of pulpit will be here with us at Temple special community: Brett came to June, with renewed energy and just Beth Am, where he belongs. us as a part-time Religious School in time to start preparing for the music teacher, and now he is a High Holy Days. At the ceremony, Brett gave a rabbi; Marcy was a congregant who meaningful sermon talking about loved to sing and now she is our See you in June! vision and calling. During the Cantorial Soloist; Danna started New Year, many people have been working at TBA as the Jewish Life wishing each other that their vision Activities Director and now she is a would be 20:20. It is also the case, most effective Executive Director; Brett reminded us, that hindsight Alissa started as a Youth Director is 20:20. If Moses would have been and is now our Education Director. alive today, talking to the burning And of course, I’m delighted that bush, we would have thought him most of the people who have been crazy. But his vision, in hindsight, here before I came— Carol, Margot, is what brought the Israelites out of Debbie, Alfredo, and Paula (in a Egypt and turned us into a nation. different capacity today) are still We need to be able to look at the part of our team. future with clear eyes, but also look back and understand things with perspective and reflection. www.TempleBethAm.com • 561.747.1109 3 CELEBRATE SHABBAT __________________________ at Temple Beth Am Friday, January 31 Friday, February 21 6:15pm 5:30pm Early Shabbat Service Young Families with Movie Screening Fiesta Shabbat and Guest Speaker 6:15pm (see back cover for details) Religious School Family Do you have a birthday in Dinner and Service February? Join us on Shabbat, Friday, February 7 7:00pm Friday, February 14, as you are 7:00pm Shabbat Service with called to the Torah for an aliyah Shabbat Service Torah Reading and and a special birthday blessing. Birthday Blessing Friday, February 14 6:30pm Friday, February 28 Shabbat Social 7:00pm 7:00pm Musical Shabbat Service WELCOME NEW MEMBERS! Shabbat Service with and Brett Tancer’s Jan Kozlow from Jupiter Torah Reading and Ordination Celebration (see page 5 for details) Kenneth & Nancy Kahn Birthday Blessing from West Palm Beach OUR CONDOLENCES Tu B’shevat or the “New Year of the Trees” is Jewish Arbor Day. The Phyllis Frydman and family on the loss holiday is observed on the 15th (tu) of her mother Sharon Robbins of the Hebrew month of Shevat. Wendy Cohn and family on the loss Scholars believe that originally Tu of her sister Donna Liebergall B’shevat was an agricultural festival, marking the emergence of spring. In Rick Stewart and family on the loss the 17th century, Kabbalists created of his mother Roslyn Stewart a ritual for Tu B’shevat that is similar to a Passover seder. David Etzkin and family on the loss Today, many Jews hold a modern version of the Tu B’shevat of his grandmother Judith Kaye seder each year. The holiday also has become a tree-planting William Strauss and family on the loss festival in Israel, in which Israelis and Jews around the world of his father Steven Strauss plant trees in honor or in memory of loved ones and friends. KVELL & TELL Mazel Tov to Leona & Ron Holland CONNECT WITH US! on the birth of their grandson, Jude Mazel Tov to Maureen & Bruce Cohen on the birth of their first grandchild, www.facebook.com/ @TBAJupiter Elijah David Nolan TempleBethAmJupiter #ConnectTBA Mazel Tov to Rabbi Brett Tancer on his rabbinic ordination 4 www.TempleBethAm.com • 561.747.1109 We invite you to join us on Friday,