PURIM ISSUE

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Volume LVII Number 5 Feburary 23, 1990 28 Shevat 5750

RABBI MARK DRATCH APPROVED BY BOARD OF KJ TO WELCOME SOVIET TRUSTEES AS NEW ASSOCIATE RABBI AT KJ EMIGRES AT DINNER, MARCH 9 We are very happy to announce that Rabbi Mark Dratch, a graduate Yeshiva of University, We have recently learned that sixty Soviet has been approved by the Board of Trustees for presentation to the Annual Meeting of the Jewish emigres are now living at the 92nd Congregation as an Associate Rabbi of Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun for the year beginning Street Y. They have been studying English and July 1, 1990. At the Annual Meeting we will an to express our gratitude also have opportunity we would like to welcome them into the New and affection for Rabbis Steven Cohen and Michael Gartenberg who will be completing two year York Jewish community. assistantsnips here at KJ in June of this year. As this Bulletin goes to press, leaders of the Rabbi Dratch has served as an Assistant Rabbi at Congregation Agudath Sholom in Stamford, Couples Club, Sisterhood, Men's Club and Connecticut and as Rabbi at the Boca Raton Synagogue, and most recently, as Rabbi of Congregation Social Action Committee are working together Beth Israel in Schenectady. He received his s'micha from the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological to formulate a program of activities involving Seminary of Yeshiva University in 1982. our membership with them. The kickoff will Born in Philadelphia and educated at Yeshiva from which he was graduated with a B. A. Magna be a Friday evening Shabbat dinner on March Cum Laude and a Master of Science in Jewish Education, Rabbi Dratch has had a very successful 9. At that time, we will invite a number of them career for the past seven and a half years in leading and teaching the congregations which he to be our guests for the evening and we will has served. He has become known in the three communities as a warm and enthusiastic Rabbi, simultaneously welcome the reservations of a caring and devoted person, and a very fine scholar. He has published articles in the Journal members of the congregation who wish to of and Contemporary Society, Judaism, Hapardes and Gesher. His specialty is studying participate as hosts. Further details will come and lecturing on halakhic subjects which touch on contemporary legal and moral problems. to you by mail. Rabbi Dratch is married to the former Sara Lamm. They are the parents of a baby daughter. We look forward to welcoming Rabbi and Mrs. Dratch to the community and we are confident U.N. HUMAN RIGHTS that their association with our congregation will be mutually beneficial. Rabbi Dratch officiated at servioes in our congregation last month. There will be an opportunity DELEGATE AT SEUDAH to meet him once again at the Annual Meeting on Tuesday, May 8. SHLISHIT MARCH 17

We are pleased to announce that our new member, Mr. Jeffrey Busch has accepted an Couples Club Forum invitation to the Men's Club sponsored Seudah ADOPTING A POSITIVE ATTITUDE TOWARD ADOPTION Shlishit on Saturday afternoon, March 17, following Mincha services. Tuesday, March 20, 8:00 PM Mr. Busch was recently appointed by On Tuesday evening, March 20, the Kehilath Jeshurun Couples Club will proudly sponsor an President George Bush a United States delegate enlightening forum on the religious, psychological, social and practical aspects of adoption. to the United Nations Commission on Human Recognizing the enormous rise in infertility in the Jewish community (approximately one out Rights for the Conference that was held in of every five Jewish couples) and the experience of many families here at KJ, the Couples Club Geneva beginning earlier this month. The leadership believes it is time to address adoption as a positive Jewish alternative to childlessness. Conference is of enormous importance to Participants in this forum will be Rabbi Haskel Lookstein, Jerilyn Kronen, Ph.D. and Robert Soviet . We are looking to see what results Leifert. might have been achieved at this Conference Rabbi Lookstein will discuss the Jewish attitude toward adoption as well as explore the process in behalf of Carmela Rais who spoke at our and problems in conversions. The Rabbi has become increasingly involved in the conversion, congregation on Shabbat morning, February bris and counseling of many KJ congregants and their newly adopted infants. Dr. Kronen, a 10, as well as Vladimir Dashevsky, among psychologist and faculty member of RESOLVE, will speak to the psychological issues, including others. the fears and fantasies of adopting a child. Robert Leifert, Executive Director of KJ and a member We have no doubt that this will be a most Page Two KEHILATH JESHURUN BULLETIN

BRING FOOD DONATIONS WHERE HAVE ALL THE FLOWERS GONE? FOR THE POOR AND KJ Dedicates Shabbat Zachor to Homeless HUNGRY ON PURIM ON MARCH 9 SaturdayNight and Sunday, March 10 and 11 by Dr. Barry Libin If you come for Megillah reading Saturday Shabbat Zachor is a time when Jews consciousness in our community. evening, March 10, after Shabbat, or if you throughout the world remember the ruthless It is too easy to look the other way, avoid come for services and Megillah reading Sun¬ attacks that Amalek so viciously carried out the sight of reality, and put on rose-colored day morning, March 11, or if you come to the against the weak and defenseless Israelites. The glasses. On Shabbat Zachor we must not avoid children's Purim carnival late morning or if you Shabbat before Purim recounts how Haman, the issue. We must show our children that we come to the KJ Purim Seudah Sunday after¬ a descendant of Amalek, planned to destroy are concerned with the condition of human noon . . . please bring a food contribution to the Jewish people. suffering and take action to correct it. the aid hungry, the poor and the homeless in Shabbat Zachor describes the inhumanity And so, on this Shabbat, Zachor, as a sym¬ ■n our community. of man and serves as a constant reminder that bol of our love for humanity. THE SOCIAL EACH MAN, WOMAN AND CHILD IS s every generation of the Jewish people must ACTION COMMITTEE ASKS YOU TO REQUESTED TO BRING AT LEAST ONE declare that cruelty and hatred must be DONATE THE MONEY YOU WOULD s SEALED (NEVER BEEN OPENED) abolished. HAVE SPENT FOR YOUR SHABBAT c CANNED OR PACKAGED FOOD ITEM. AND ir This year on Shabbat Zachor, Friday, March FLOWERS GIVE THAT MONEY Large bins will be placed in the entrance lob¬ THROUGH THE KJ BENEVOLENT FUND \ 9, every member of Kehilath Jeshurun will I by of the Synagogue so that people may have an opportunity to confront one further FOR A SPECIAL EFFORT TO AID THE HOMELESS. i deposit what they have brought on their way suffering that plagues our society now - Should you chose to buy flowers into the building. homelessness! anyway, the Committee suggests an equal mat¬ The bins will be there Saturday evening and It is estimated that within ching gift to the fund. All gifts will be given all day Sunday. there are up to 35,000 single homeless adults, to help feed the poor through various organiza¬ Please help us help those in need as was done with about twenty-five percent of them men¬ tions throughout the city. so successfully on Kol Nidre night. tally ill. This article is not an attempt to analyze And if your children ask, 'Where have all the problem of the homeless, nor offer com¬ the flowers gone?" - please tell them! FROM BEIRUT TO JERUSALEM prehensive solutions. Rather, it is to raise NEXT AM HASEFER ei Si SUNDAY, MARCH 25 PURIM NIGHT FESTIVITIES The third in this year's series of Am HaSefer i Book Discussion Club meetings will be held After the Megillah i Sunday evening, March 25, at 8:00. At that t time the group will fliscuss Thomas Friedman's PURIM PIZZA PARTY From Beirut to Jerusalem. Pizza, Hamantaschen, Soda, Ice Cream The discussion, to be led by Cindy April will $5 take place at the April's home, 40 East 88 Street, per person between Park and Madison Avenues. then The book is a gripping and thought provok¬ ing account in which Friedman describes with GAME SHOW NIGHT intense vividness what it is like to live in a city Jeopardy, Wheel of Fortune, Hollywood Squares gone mad, like Beirut. He protrays the PLO and the Intifada in stark, realistic terms, $5 per person describing the extremism, politics of fun¬ Tickets may be purchased through the synagogue office so damentalism and terrorism. The review of this you won't need to have money that night after Shabbat. important work is sure to arouse the passions FOR ADULTS AND CHILDREN ALIKE. of all who participate. It is timely and up to date. Please call Chani in the Synagogue of¬ fice to indicate you will be attending. All THE KJ YOUTH DEPARTMENT members of the congregational family are in¬ vited to participate. The book is available at PRESENTS ITS Classics by Doina in the Synagogue lobby. ANNUAL PURIM CARNIVAL KEHILATH JESHURUN For Grades Kindergarten - 8 BULLETIN Published Monthly except Sunday, March 11 July and August $15.00 of membership dues of Purim Day Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun following the reading of the Megillah covers subscription cost. - 125 East 85th Street from 11:30 2:30 New York, New York 10028 Phone—427-1000 EXT. 264, 265 Admission is $1.00 and includes two tickets USPS #292-0600 Second Class Postage paid at Tickets are $.25 each, five for $1.00 New York, New York POSTMASTER: Send address changes to: *Prizes *Games *Fun for all* Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun 125 East 85th Street All New York, New York 10028 members, families and friends are welcome to join us for this happy occasion. KEHILATH JESHURUN BULLETIN Page Three

FINAL SCHACHTER LECTURE JESUS AND THE JEWS Wednesday, March 7 DR. LOUIS FELDMAN TO GIVE SIX LECTURE SERIES 1 The final lecture in Rabbi Hershel Schachter's series on "Focus on Mitzvot" will By popular demand, we are happy to announce that Dr. Louis Feldman has accepted our invitation to return for six more lectures at be held on Wednesday, March 7, at 8:00 PM. KJ. Professor Feldman was so enthusiastically received The topic will be; TZEDAKAH AND during the fall lecture series and participants requested that we not wait until next fall to have him PIDYON SHEVUYIM! - CHARITY AND again. Dr. Feldman agreed to present six lectures on the topic: JESUS AND THE JEWS. THE REDEMPTION OF CAPTIVES. The series will run on Monday evenings from February 26 through April 2, at 8:40 PM, Many of us in this congregation participated following Rabbi Jonathan Sacks' Parshat HaShavua shiur. The schedule will be: in j ust such a mitzvah when we gave tzedakah through Operation Moses in order to rescue • February 26: "Who Was Jesus?" Ethiopian Jews a few years ago. Similarly, most Jewish sources - Josephus, the Talmud and "Toledoth Yeshu'—for his life of us have given funds to aid Soviet Jews, Jews li Arab lands and, perhaps, non-Jews in other • March 5: "A Jewish Reading of the Gospels" s rations as well. Rabbi Schachter will be Jesus's birth, education, preaching and miracles s eaking to this topic and it will be this c .gregation's final opportunity to hear him • March 12: "How Jewish Was Jesus?" ir his series this year. As each lecture has been What did Jesus really believe about ethics and ritual \ tually filled to capacity, and sometimes I ond, we urge you to arrive early. The cost • March 19: 'Who Killed Jesus?" i 5.00 per person. Can we reconstruct his trial?

• March 26: "Proof Texts Offered by Jews For Jesus" KJ TO AGAIN HOST What are the Jewish answers? TURN FRIDAY NIGHT INTO SFLABBOS" •April 2: "Famous Jews Look At Jesus" The views of Maimonides, Spinoza, Emden, Buber and Rosenzweig Friday, March 2 ehilath Jeshurun proudly will join twenty- The cost for the series is $25.00 for the six lectures or $5.00 at the door each time. The entire e it other synagogues across the United community is invited to attend. S tes in this year's TURN FRIDAY NIGHT II C> SHABBOS. This event is part of a i fied national campaign to introduce ANNUAL SYNAGOGUE i affiliated Jews to Judaism through a t litional Sabbath experience, Friday Dinner and Saturday Lunch he program includes a Friday evening 5-6, 1990 inners Service, a traditional Friday evening April mer designed for the non-affiliated the Shabbat before (no cooking for you) luding traditional Shabbat food, lanations and singing. It will take on place 'The Haggadah Through History - History Through The Haggadah" Jay evening, March 2. This is a very special opportunity to bring se people to the synagogue where they can Rabbi Jeffrey Woolf ;nly explore Jewish tradition perhaps for Executive Chairman of the Orthodox Roundtable first time in their lives. It provides an nosphere for non-affiliated Jews to Adults: $40 Deadline: March 30 perience a traditional Sabbath in a warm, Children: $25 Space permitting endly and informative way. KJ is proud to host such an event. Members Sponsored by The Kehilath Jeshurun Sisterhood the congregation who have neighbors, Martine Fox and Barbara Zimet nds, family members or business associates Co-Chairpeople 10 might gain from or enjoy such an Child Care Provided During the Presentations perience are invited to have them register, e cost is $15.00 per person. For further Page Four KEHILATH JESHURUN BULLETIN

AN EXTRA BOX, PASSOVER RELIEF - WE NEED YOUR GIFT NOW AN EXTRA The first order of CAN, priorities in preparing for There are additional causes which are Passover is Maot AN EXTRA JAR, Chitim, Passover Relief. It helped generously by our appeal. They include is our AN EXTRA BOTTLE way of saying that our personal joy on among others: the festival is incomplete if we do not share •Gifts to needy individuals in our March 12 - April 2 what we have with others who are less community. Many Jewish people in New York City this fortunate. •The New York Board of Rabbis Passover Passover will not be eating at a Seder overflow¬ Who gives to Passover Relief 7 According to Fund for Jewish patients in hospitals and in¬ ing with traditional food. Rather, the they will be Shulchan Aruch (The Code of Jewish Law) mates in prisons. sitting at a table empty of both food and there are only two types of people as far as •Many organizations and institutions who perhaps family. They will celebrate the holi¬ Passover relief is concerned: donors and reci¬ our seek help and depend on our assistance day of freedom as best they can with food pro¬ pients! If you are not a recipient you must be in this season and throughout the vided for year. them by such organizations as Pro¬ a donor. Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun does not ject Ezra. The Kehilath Jeshurun Passover Relief Ap¬ conduct appeals for all of these causes. Your Beginning with Purim, KJ will be collecting peal serves first and foremost this communal one gift at Passover time represents your gift kosher food for Passover right up until Mon¬ mitzvah. Last year the readers of the Bulletin to a variety of recipients. Please be as generous day, April 2 - a week before Passover. We ask contributed more than $35,000. It was a most as possible and please send in your contribu¬ that when you make your own shopping list gratifying response to a call for charitable tion now when it will do the most good. for Passover, please include additional items funds. But, we need even more this year. Our best wishes to you for a happy and for the poor and hungry of our people. A A large part of our funds go to the Joint kosher Passover. Please make your checks special wagon for kosher for Passover food will Passover Appeal, which last year helped payable to KJ Benevolent Fund. be in the lower lobby. Please keep filling it up. 16,134 individuals and 8,229 families, many OU PASSOVER of whom were sick and elderly. FOOD DIRECTORY There is a special directory published by the A MEMBER OF OUR CONGREGATION RESPONDS Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of TO A TV EXAMPLE OF ANTI-ISRAEL America which contains a complete listing of INCITEMENT those food products they certify as kosher for We reprint below a letter submitted to our Political Affairs Committee and sent by our Gab- Passover. It will be mailed to all members bai, Irwin B. Robins, in response to something he saw on TV. This is the kind of response which directly by the OU through the efforts of the we should all make under similar circumstances. The media has to be reminded of our feelings KJ Benevolent Fund. Additional will be and copies sensitized to its misrepresentation in stories which affect Israel and the Jewish people. available in our office. We encourage recipients to respond to the fund's Passover Appeal. January 26, 1990 General Manager SHMURAH MATZOS WPIX AVAILABLE AT KJ 220 East 42 Street New York, NY 10017 Once again, Shotzer hand made shmurah matzos will be available by advance order on¬ Dear Sir: ly at Kehilath Jeshurun this year. I wish to The Shotzer hand matzos are under con¬ protest the way in which a news story was handled on last evening's 10 O'Clock News. stant rabbinical supervision from the wheat The story concerned an Israeli businessman who allegedly had connections with the Colombian cutting until the packaging of the matzos. They drug cartel and who was found murdered in Miami. are renowned world wide for being well baked and tasty. This, of course, is news which you are entitled to report. The Shotzer matzos are particularly fresh, The problem was with the graphic which was shown noted for crispness, rolled very thin, and well during the report of the story, namely an Israeli flag with bullets through it. baked and not burned. They have an extremely low water content. Surely, there is no reason to believe that the dead businessman represented the Israeli Government The congregation is pleased to be able to or the people of Israel in whatever he may have done. Yet, by showing the Israeli flag during the bring this service to our community. The mat¬ story, you give the impression that there was some governmental connection with either the dead zos come in one pound packages and are $12 man or, worse still, the drug cartel. per pound. They may be picked up at the If the dead man had been a synagogue during the Kasher-In on Thursday Catholic, would you have shown a graphic of a cross riddled with bullets? If he had been evening, April 5 between 7:00-9:00 PM. English, would you hve depicted a Union Jack during the story? I think All orders that the answer is must be pre-paid and ordered by clearly no. Why, then did your people show the Israeli flag? It was done either Friday, March 30. Checks should be made deliberately to incite anti-Israel or anti-Semitic (if there is a difference) sentiments on the part of your viewers or was payable to the KJ Special Projects Fund. it done recklessly without regard to these consequences. In either case, it was indefensible.

no Please reserve lbs. of shmurah mat¬ Unfortunately, there is almost way in which you can apologize on the program without mak¬ ing the situation even worse. I that it is zos at $12 per pound. Make checks payable Nevertheless, think only proper that those people in the news to the K] Special Projects Fund. department responsible for this boost to bigotry be sharply reprimanded. I am sending a copy of this letter to the Anti-Defamation Name League with a request that they monitor your programs in the future. Address Very truly yours,

Irwin B. Robins Phone cc: Mr. Abraham Foxman (day)_ (evening) Anti-Defamation League KEHILATH JESHURUN BULLETIN Page Five

TWO RAMAZ SENIORS KJ TO MARK BAR MITZVAH ANNIVERSARY ARE SEMI-FINALISTS IN WESTINGHOUSE OF BIKUR CHOLIM SCIENCE TALENT SEARCH Chevra Kadisha Also To Be Honored We are very proud to announce that two Saturday, March 3 Ramaz seniors have joined the long list of We are proud that the Bikur Cholim The members of the men's and women's in Ramaz honorees the Westinghouse Science Society of Kehilath Jeshurun has celebrated Chevra Kadisha work quietly and without Talent Search. Deborah Sabban has been its Bar Mitzvah year of service to the Upper recognition. They respond immediately to the honored for her study of "A Probe for a New East Side hospital community. call to come as soon as it is given and aid our I Established Subpopulation Within Staffed and run entirely by volunteers, community in its moments of greatest need. Neuroblastoma Cell Lines." Jonathan Tan- they have conducted Shabbat morning services Both the members of the Bikur Cholim nenhauser, son of Michael Tannenhauser, a every week for thirteen years at the Memorial- Society and the Chevra Kadisha dislike public member of our congregation, has been Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and have praise. Yet, they accept it with the hope that onored for his study on "Electroporation: brought the warmth and sunshine of their others will be inspired by their example. They j Jew Transformation Technique to smiles into lives which have been darkened by look constantly for new volunteers to help ■Jkalophiles." Michael did his work in the illness. them in their efforts. We salute them on Shab¬ fount Sinai Medical School Biochemistry They have attended with great care to the bat, March 3, and invite the participants and iboratory the supervision Dr. Terry under of needs of families and friends who have come their families to a special for them ulwich, Dean of Biochemistry at Mount to our community in difficult times. They have following services. Simultaneously, we en¬ nai. fortified these families with hope, and when courage others to join them in these crucial Deborah and Jonathan are among 303 Semi- necessary, have offered them comfort and mitzvot. WE THANK THE FOLLOWING: I lalists from around the country who have consolation. s ent long days and hours in preparing their r learch projects. The results are a tribute to Lillian Adami Eleanor Friedman Isaac Pollak t sir intelligence, assiduousness and commit- Lenore Alpert Harvey Geisler Sue Robins Giselle Green Martin Rochlin r snt to the study of science. Harvey Arfa George Baumgarten Meyer Gross George Rohr We wish a mazel tov to the two students, Drs. Adam and Paula Bender Nancee Haft Herman Rosen the entire Ramaz School faculty and, par- Dr. Celia Blumenthal Berger Bernice Hornblass Eugene Roshwalb ularly, to Zahava Slonim, the Chairman of Albert and Brenda Bernstein Hon. Jerome Hornblass Judy Rubinstein e Science-Department in the Rabbi Joseph Regina Bisk John Kelley Elysee and Myron Rumeld Lookstein Upper School. Dr. Mortimer and Jean Blumenthal Jerry Kirsch Ellen Scheinfeld Mark Brecker Rosalie and Harry Kleinhaus Rita Schiffren FOR PASSOVER - Benjamin and Fran Brown John Kosecoff Louella Merin Schochat BE AN INVITOR OR Larry and Doina Bryskin Robert Kurzweil Annette Schwartz Tova Bulow Marcia Kramer Fred Seidel BE AN INVITEE Dr. Charles Cohen David Levy Thelma and Lawrence Steinberg Reuben Davis Frieda Lieberman Steven Stern The Torah tells us that at the first seder on Robert Ellenberg Rochelle and Eugene Major Judy Tanz e night of the exodus from Egypt, families Linda Ende Mordie Mann Doris Travis ere urged to "share a lamb" with each other Rachel Blumenthal Epstein Mitchell Mansour Burton Usdan - that or small families single individuals Abe Esses Hilary Markowitz Judy and Philip Wilner ould be able to enjoy a seder with either other Bernard Feuerstein Naomi Max Rita Woldenberg nail families or large ones. In these days, that Martine Fox Jonathan Messeloff Michael Wolff •ea increases in importance. Sheila Freilich Aliette Olivar Dr. Fred and Leila Zuckerman Two Requests We, therefore, will again organize a home COUNT YOURSELF IN FOR ISRAEL 1990 "der program in our community. We ask that ISRAEL 1990 invites 11 those planning to have a seder in their you to celebrate Israel Independence Day, where it counts, in Israel, with ">mes on the first night, Monday, April 9 2,000 other New Yorkers. id/or on the second night, Tuesday, April 10 From April 26 to May 4, New York is going to Israel. We want you to be a part of it. Make let us know now that they are ready to ac- history in a unique show of support by the largest mission ever to visit Israel from one city. Have the immodate a specific number of members of experience of a lifetime with a group of KJ and Ramaz families. Led by Rabbi Haskel and \e community who would like to enjoy a Audrey Lookstein. ome seder. Among the highlights of the trip:

At the same time we invite single individuals * Be greeted by Mayor Teddy Kollek nd small families who will be home for Pesach * Kabbalat Shabbat at the Kotel o let us know that they would appreciate an * Memorial service at Latrun-a key battle site in the War of Independence rvitation. * Plant a New York forest of 2,000 trees Please call us to make our role easier and * Descend Massada by torchlight and see a spectacular sound and light show et us know of * your availability to either at¬ Bedouin feast in the desert tend a to seder or make one in which you would * March 2,000 strong through the streets of Jerusalem ike others to join (427-1000). * Farewell banquet with Prime Minister Shamir

SOVIET EMIGRES AT Y Participants will also have the opportunity to talk intimately with Israelis in their homes in Jerusalem, on a Kibbutz and on an army base. There will be breakfast with Cabinet Ministers There are also 60 Soviet Jewish and a romantic cruise on Lake Tiberias. Also take part in a service at Yad Vashem, the memorial emigres living at the 92nd Street Y to the 6 million Jews who died whom we would also like to accom¬ during the Holocaust. Make a statement of modate at sedarim in KJ homes. solidarity with the people of Israel. The cost is $1,600 per person plus a minimum contribution of $500 to Invitations should be for two or more UJA-Federation. For further information about the together. Contact Rabbi Cohen. KJ contingent, call Rabbi Lookstein at the Synagogue of¬ fice, 427-1000. \

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HONOR ROLL OF BLOOD DONORS KJ TO HOST NEW This AL-ANON year's Blood Drive was the most successful we have ever held. 150 people came to GROUP donate, many of whom were first time donors, including seventeen Ramaz seniors. Waiting time Beginning on Thursday, March 8, Kehilath was short and donations were quick and painless. Jeshurun will host a weekly meeting of Special thanks go to those who led the effort, Phyllis Kukin, Rhea Landau, Dr. Simon Al-Anon. Rosenberg, Dr. Deborah Lipner, Fran Gerber, Pamela Rechtschaffen and Carolyn Rosenberg. Al-Anon is a support group for family and friends who have a We now thank ALL THOSE WHO CHOSE TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE: drinking problem or for those whose lives have been affected by the disease of alcoholism. Barry Apfelbaum Robert Grauman Howard Levine Hugh Pollack A small Caroline Arfa Jessica Gribetz David Lincoln Isaac Pollak group will meet in a room in the Blair Axel Victor Grazi Judith Lipton Ruth Rabbani synagogue from 8:00-9:00 P.M. The meetings Maya Barak Lynette Gruenhut Audrey Lookstein Hannah Ranells are conducted on a first name only basis. David George Baumgarten Gruenstein Haskel Lookstein Wendy Rindner Members of the congregation and com¬ Gadi Nicholas Benyehuda Gura Edward Lukashok Irwin Robins munity and others you may know who would Albert Bernstein Gura David Malach Susan Raymond Robins find this helpful are invited to come. All one Allan Bisk Charles Guttman Jacqueline Marcus Phyllis Rosen has to do is "show up". Harvey Blech Alisa Hecht Jeffrey Marcus Richard Rosen Kehilath Jeshurun also hosts two separate Rachel Blinken Joyce Hedaya Avi Margalit Jeffrey Rosenbaum Alcoholics Anonymous groups, one on Mon¬ Barry Blutig Joyce Hirsch Mared Markowitz Carolyn Rosenberg Alan day evenings and one on Wednesday evenings Brennglass Elliot Hornblass Mitchell Mansour Michael Rosenberg Robert throughout the year from 6:30-7:30 PM. Briefel Naomi Ickovitz Nora Mazar Sheryl Rosenberg Members of the Benjamin Brown Bernard Jereski Rivka Mazar Jane Rosenbloom community who would find either of these Lawrence Bryskin Gilbert Kahn Esther Messeloff Thomas Rosenthal groups helpful are also invited to come on either Jane Ciner David Kaplan Jonathan Messeloff Eugene Roshwalb of those evenings. Rebecca Davis Janice Kestenbaum Sara Messeloff Steven Rudolph Reuben Davis Harry Kleinhaus Daniel Messing Elisabeth Salzhauer Meir Ukeles Leah Debora Barry Kluger Elise Meyer Lucy Schmeidler Burt Usdan Arthur Degen Judy Kluger Joan Meyers Sara Schmeidler Jonathan Wagner Susan Degen Gloria Kobrin Rebecca Meyers Jonah Schein Jonathan Waitman Malka Dreisinger Richard Kobrin Jared Minkoff Yoav Schwartz Adele Wasser Annette Eichenbaum Hildy Koegel Inger Mirsky Sanford Seplow Judith Weil Abe Esses Agnes Kolevzon Mayer Moskowitz Ruth Shapiro Elliot Weiss Nitza Etra Michael Koppel Yoram Nachimovsky Samuel Shapiro Sandra Welkes Emanuel Federbush Phyllis Kukin Edward Nadel Daniel Silverman Debra Goldman Wohl Pearl Fisk Stephen Kule Chaim Ophir Leonard Silverman Randy Wohl Susan Frankel Leon Landau Deborah Parnass Louis Smigel Harvey Wolinsky Robert Friedman Rhea Landau David Perlman Leonard Solinsky Pamela Wolinsky Alan Fuchs Jacob Lebwohl henna Perlman Michael Tannenhauser Joachim Yahalom Nancy Gallin Jaclyn I^eifert Helen Pincus Talya Toledano Jay Zimmern Richard Gallin Asher l^evitsky "Barbara Plasse Doris Travis Bernard Zweig Martin Goldman John Lieberman Robert Podell Meira Tugendhaft Jennifer Zwiebel

PURIM MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY FOR THE LAYMAN A Special Service Of Our Purim Medical Department

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B'NAI MITZVAH

MARK CREIZMAN MIRIAM FRIED

Mazel tov to Mr. and Mrs. Michael Fried on Mazel tov to Mr. and Mrs. Larry Creizman LISA FRANKEL the Bat Mitzvah of their n the Bar Mitzvah of their son, daughter, Miriam, Mark, which Mazel tov to Mr. and Mrs. Peter Frankel on take which will take place on Sunday, March 25, vill place on Saturday, March 17, in the the Bat Mitzvah of their daughter, Lisa, which in Ramaz lain Synagogue. Mark will read the weekly the Upper School. She will deliver will take place on Sunday, March 18, in the ortion of Ki Tisa and the Haftorah. a Dvar Torah on the different angles of the Main Synagogue. She will deliver a Dvar Mark is a student in the seventh personality of the prophet Miriam, following grade of Torah on Parshat HaChodesh. a Mincha service. e Rabbi Joseph H. Lookstein Upper School Lisa is a student in the sixth grade of the Ramaz. Miriam is a student in the sixth grade of the Ramaz Ix>wer School. Ramaz Lower School. Soviet Twin Lisa has chosen to share her Bat Mitzvah observance with Yana Borisovna Teplistkaya, a Soviet Jewish girl who is otherwise unable to have such a ceremony. We, therefore, also extend a mazel tov to her parents, Galina and Boris Teplistkaya and her sister, Liza of Moscow. May they soon have the opportunity to share s'machot with the Frankel family and, indeed all of us, in freedom.

SINGLE PARENTS AARON TUGENDHAFT INVITED TO F.I.N.D. ALEXANDRA USDAN Mazel tov to Mr. and Mrs. Gerard F.I.N.D., Families In New Directions will Mazel tov to our Trustee and Mrs. Burton gendhaft on the Bar Mitzvah of their son, hold its next meeting on Tuesday evening, Usdan, on the Bat Mitzvah of their daughter, aron, which will take place on Saturday, March 6, at 7:30 PM. Alexandra, which will take place on Saturday arch 3, in the Main Synagogue. Aaron will The group is intended for single parents in evening, March 31, in the Main Synagogue. ad the weekly portion of Terumah and the Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun and/or Similar good wishes to the proud grandfather, aftorah. Ramaz School who, through separation, Mr. Ira Usdan. She will make a siyum on is a in Aaron student the seventh of or the death of a grade divorce spouse find Mesechet Pesachim as well as deliver a Dvar le Rabbi Joseph H. Lookstein Upper School themselves in a new family situation. The Torah on the concept Ramaz. of Freedom. meeting will be held in the home of one of the Alexandra is a student in the sixth grade of members. the Ramaz Lower School. JESSICA WARD For further information and location, call Mazel tov to Mr. and Mrs. Sanford Ward Robert Leifert in the Synagogue office, .n the Bat Mitzvah of their daughter, Jessica, 427-1000. hich took place on Saturday, January 13, in le Hewlett East Rockaway Jewish Center, imilar good wishes to the proud randmother, our Honorary Trustee, Mrs. inore Ward. Jessica read from Vayechi and elivered a Dvar Torah. Jessica is a student in the seventh grade of /oremos le Woodmere Middle School. i GLATT KOSHER CATERERS INC.

CA'ILRINC I OR TLAII'LCS. IIOTLLS, noxtr.s THEODORE MORDECAI MOALLEM AM)) ACIITS JAY DANZIG Mazel tov to Drs. Anita and Sha Moallem on the Bar Mitzvah of their son, Teddy, this Composer DAIRY CATERING AVAILABLE past summer in Israel. He was first called to the Former Ramaz Music Director 201-664-2465 Torah at Kibbutz Yavneh. He repeated his Bar Under supervision ol tho Rabbinical Council Mitzvah at the Western Wall in Jerusalem. On PIANO AND ACCORDIAN "of Borgon County Saturday, November 11, he celebrated in a INSTRUCTION Mashglach TMIDI synagogue in Glen Cove, NY, where he read Parshat Lech-Lecha. In For Children and Adults keeping with the spirit of "mitzvah", Teddy donated a portion of his gifts to two charities, Mazon and Tain-Yad. 251 West 97th Street Teddy is a student in the eighth grade of the (212) 662-5818 Rabbi Joseph H. Lookstein Upper School of Ramaz. Page Eight KEHILATH JESHURUN BULLETIN

CHARLOTTE LEBOVICS TO WITHIN OUR FAMILY LEAVE ON ALIYAH

We are thrilled to announce that Charlotte BIRTHS Lebovics, who has been a member of our Mazel tov to Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Feder on congregation for well over a quarter of a the birth of a great-grandson, Daniel Zachary, 3n HUmoriam century, will be leaving in late March for born to their grandchildren, Dr. and Mrs. permanent residence in Israel. As an olah Julian Nussbaum of Southfield, Michigan. Samuel Greenberg chadasha she will be joining her daughter, Mazel tov to Annette and Stan Schwartz on We mourn the passing of a stalwart son Naomi, a Ramaz graduate, and her son-in-law the birth of their first grandchild, a boy, born of Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun. For Rabbi Michael Graetz in Omer, a suburb of to their children Nir and Stephanie Fried many years he and his late wife were very Beersheba. Granot of Ramat Gan, Israel. active in the community and Mrs. Lebovics has divided her time between May these children grow up in the finest in the running of a camp for Jewish residence in Israel and in the United States for tradition tovim. of Torah, chupah and maasim children. the past few years. Now, she will make her ENGAGEMENTS Sam Greenberg was a jovial, warm Jew permanent place in the Holy Land. who was Mazel tov to Mr. and Mrs. Martin Rochlin proud of his heritage and very We wish her a tzetchem l'shalom and a very on the engagement of their son, Joshua, to supportive of important and worthy warm l'hitraot. Her address in Israel will be Robin Askowitz, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jewish causes, including Congregation 2 Hayarkon, Gnai Omer, 84965. Her telephone Kehilath Marty Askowitz of New Rochelle. Jeshurun. number there will be 057-46053. We extend our sincere condolences to Mazel tov to our member Dr. Carol J. Weiss, his children Norman, Harold and Helen, YESHIVAT HAR ETZION a Ramaz graduate on her engagement to and to all the members of the bereaved Martin Koshakow of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. DINNER TO HONOR family. May these weddings take place with MARILYN AND LEON MOED happiness and blessing. Joseph Hostyk We are proud to announce that the annual of Yeshivat Har Etzion WEDDING For over 35 years he and his dear wife, dinner will honor Mazel tov to Mrs. Hadassah Markson on Mildred, have been cherished members Marilyn and Leon Moed for their the marriage of her daughter Dina to Andrew of this congregation and contributing extraordinary devotion to the Yeshiva. The Seidman. partners in the Ramaz family. He was Moeds have been involved in the support of CONDOLENCES especially proud of his sons Aaron and this institution headed by Rabbi Yehuda David, both of whom are graduates of Amital and Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein since Our condolences to Peter Frankel on the loss Ramaz and one of whom, David, made their son, Sam, studied at the Yeshiva after his of his father, Bernard Frankel. aliyah several years ago. graduation from high school. May the mourners be comforted among all Joseph Hostyk occupied a seat in front The dinner will be held at the New York those who mourn for Zion and Jerusalem. of the bima Shabbat after Shabbat until Hilton on Monday, March 19. We urge PROFESSIONAL ADVANCEMENT recently when he became deeply involved members of the congregation to attend this in the Congratulations to our member, Mrs. weH-being of Congregation Ohav dinner in support of one of the finest religious Shalom on the West to Roanna Shorofsky, upon her appointment as Side, closer his educational institutions in Israel, led by two home. He loved to daven in shul. The Principal of the Abraham Joshua Heschel of the greatest rabbinic leaders in the State of smile on his face reflected a soul that was School on the West Side. Mrs. Shorofsky is Israel. The cost per person is $200. at currently the Director of the Pre-School peace with God and at one with God's Your attendance at this dinner will be a very creatures. Department of the 92nd Street Y. We wish her important source of encouragement to the His many friends as well as this well in this new and very important Yeshiva and also will indicate your congregation mourn his passing and responsibility for the Jewish community of participation in the deserved honor which is extend heartfelt condolences to his wife, New York. being paid to two people who are devoting so his children and to all the members of the much of their lives to the enhancement of this COMMUNAL HONORS bereaved family. important center of Torah learning. We are very proud to announce that on Wednesday, March 7, the Metropolitan Women's Campaign of UJA-Federation will GALIL hold a special brunch at which the guests of THIS PASSOVER honor will be our members Hannah Low and DISCOVER RESTAURANT her daughters, Claire Deutsch, Shelley PARADISE IN GLATT KOSHER CUISINE Kaufman, Carol Low and Debby Doppelt. 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teven Cohen . Assistant Rabbi

lichael D. . Assistant Rabbi Gartenberg . ELEGANT INVITATIONS vvrum Davis Cantor

srael D. Rosenberg . . Ritual Director Wedding, Bat-Bar Mitzvahs Robert Executive Director J. Leifert Hebrew-English/also Calligraphy Officers of the Congregation 'tanley Gurewitsch President Commercial & Designer Stationery David Levy Vice-President IRIS LEVITSKY ENTERPRISES Fred Disfenfeld Second Vice-President DISCOUNTS Dr. Gilbert N. Kahn . . Secretary Frederic H. Baumgarten Treasurer 353 East 83rd Street, N.Y.C. Stephen J. Kule Financial Secretary 628-2380 Dede Alpert Pres. Sisterhood

Asher Levitsky . . . Pres. Men's Club by appointment only Roberta Baumgarten Pres. Couples Club Dr. Rosalind Levine Pres. Couples Club Past Presidents A MODERN MIKVAH Benjamin Brown Samuel Eisenstat Nathan Salzman Office Staff is located in Our Community at j Florence Cohen Chani Wolk Michelle Zagoury 232-4 W. 78th St. (east of Broadway) . Hattie Murphy . .. . Bookkeeper

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SHUSHAN RIOTS FOR DEMOCRACY AND FREEDOM

o Purim - Saturday Evening, March 10 - Sunday Morning, March 11 ~ £ rr ft KJ will once again be the site of a spectacular dining room. The menu will include pizza, Purim celebration for people of all ages. We hamantaschen, soda and ice cream $&> w-.S Cn ^ >1 particularly honor our children as special sandwiches. The cost is $5.00 per person. For n- O 2. 3 u np < 3-^3. Cn 3* C mc 6) guests on this holiday. those who will be ~ 1 J leaving their homes on <2 o- S3 : 3 O Mincha services will begin at 5:50 PM. We Shabbat, and therefore not carrying money ^ ° 2. 5" ! will 3 r-f 3 pause for a few minutes as we listen to a Saturday evening, we ask that you send checks 3* HT 3- O ft shiur to be presented by Rabbi Eli Rubin .This in advance for tickets for this. Send your 3 SC 7T will allow people who live some distance from checks and reservations marked "Purim Pizza S £ O o the Synagogue an opportunity to ride to KJ p Party." *1 3g in order to be present for the reading of the Came Show Night s Megilah. Shabbat concludes at 6:33 PM. and 3 3 in For the entire congregation there will be a < ft we will n begin Ma'ariv at 6:50 PM and the Game Show ^ O Night including such programs 1—^ reading of the Megilah at 7:00 PM. as S* r™1 Jeopardy, Wheel of Fortune, and n C Young men of the and students o m congregation Hollywood Squares. The stars of the evening Cri* in the Rabbi 3 Joseph H. Lookstein Upper School will be children in the 1st through 8th grades. 00 > of Ramaz will lead the Ma'ariv service and read We look forward to a wonderful turnout of X the Megilah. adults and children. The tickets are $5.00 per pa Children from nursery age through grade person and also may be purchased in advance 3 m 6 should asemble at the synagogue between through the Synagogue Office. Address £ > 6:30 and 6:45 PM. Those of nursery age requests to "Game Show Night." a through grade 1 should meet in the Etra Chapel Sunday Morning m on the lobby level. Those in grades 2 through pa Another Purim service on £ Si 3- g g 3 6 gala will be held O ►—] 3 OfT should meet in the gym, w 3 on one level down from 3 EP Sunday morning for men and women, young 3- Z. o- 2- 55* the lower lobby. Teenage youth leaders will p and ^-- c Sr old, beginning at 9:00 AM. in the Main e 3 ^g ft5 3*2 pcP be in charge of the children that evening under 2 (i 00 _p Synagogue. Services and the reading of the 3 2 ti ai 3 28 r the our ft) £L 3 3 leadership of Youth Director, Kenneth D- Megilah will again be conducted by students 3 a> S" =r Rochlin. Q- 3* 2. o VO from Ramaz. BJ ER zr The children will be escorted to special We ask that both adults and children come o sections reserved for them in the Main directly to the Main Synagogue and that Synagogue. They will, of course, be provided children sit together with their parents. with Purim graggers and a bag of sweets to During the reading of the Megilah we invite enhance their enjoyment of this great festival. the children to special sections of the Parents are asked to join the regular service synagogue and provide them, onoe with in the Main Synagogue until the conclusion, again, graggers. The congregation will then be the at which time they may pick up their children guests of Vice President David at the location listed above. Levy for a collation of hamantaschen, milk, WOULD YOU LIKE TO Pizza Party juice and coffee following the Sunday morning service. The Annual Purim Pizza Party will be held KNOW HEBREW IN TIME following the Megilah reading in the 3rd floor FOR PASSOVER? The next crash course in Hebrew reading PURIM will begin here at Kehilath Jeshurun this SEUDAH, SUNDAY, MARCH 11 Tuesday evening, February 27, at 7:30 PM. The As we go to press, very few places remain for the second annual KJ Purim Seudah sponsored program which is co-sponsored by the National by the Men's Club, Sisterhood and the Couples Club. Jewish Outreach Program will teach The will Hebrew reading in time for this year's Passover Seudah be held in the Kamber Auditorium of the Synagogue House. The Seudah Sedarim. Our own Rabbi Michael is one of Gartenberg ||^nji!vJJfcplBhe festival and it promises tofeT^f t® WBffcg highlights will be the instructor and the course is offered of the coqgy;^fony y^r, Bwjybegin at 5:00 PM and inc^deJtAaiJmeM. free of of the charge. Members congregation are invited to reserve seats for the dinner. Reservations are For further information, call Rabbi $20.00 per adult and $13.00 per child. They can be made by returning a check with the coupon Gartenberg at the Synagogue office or simply below. NO PHONE RESERVATIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED. RESERVATIONS MUST BE come on Tuesday evening ready to begin ACCOMPANIED BY FULL PAYMENT. learning.