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Jewish Cultural Festival Is Just Weeks Away! What do a petting zoo, 5k run/walk, and falafel have in common? They are all at Temple Israel’s Jewish Cultural Festival! SUNDAY, JUNE 7 from 11:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m. Th Save the date, tell your friends, and get involved! May 2015 Want to help? We need YOU! Vol. 51, No. 8 Are you a baking whiz? Our fabulous bakery will sell homemade treats. Help bake on April 26 and May 3 and 10. Contact Amy Margolin at [email protected]. Is networking a passion? Stop by Temple to pick up posters to hang at your favorite e city hot spots – libraries, salons, coffee shops, groceries – and help get the word out. Greeters inside the building will welcome guests and answer questions about our congregation and facility. Contact Marsha Pfeiffer at [email protected]. Love kids? Our children’s activities will focus on Israel and include an Israeli-themed Temp petting zoo. Spend some time with our youngest guests! Contact Dena Mason-Zied at [email protected]. Are you a beer connoisseur? Help pour the variety of beers from Schmaltz Brewing. Contact Scott Miller at [email protected] Feeling lucky? Sell (and buy) raffle tickets. Prizes include a $500 gift card to Morris Home Furnishings, $500 cash, a gold necklace from Weber Jewelers, 2 Huffy bicycles, gift cards to our restaurant and food partners, and more! Tickets are available in the Temple office or you can buy your tickets online at www.tidayton.org/festival. Contact Shirlee Gilbert at [email protected]. Want to support our 5k runners and walkers? We need volunteers to help with registration, hand out water and more - let’s make the Inaugural Oy Vey 5k a success! Contact Connie Bank at [email protected]. see pg. 7 for exciting news about the FESTIVAL! l e SHOW YOUR SUPPORT! We encourage you to attend the Festival to see, hear, touch, and taste all that we have to offer the community. Bring your friends and family, too! We also hope you’ll consider becoming a patron of the Festival. Remember, this is the major fundraiser for Temple! T Make your donation online at www.tidayton.org/festival or call the office for more information – 937-496-0050. a FOR INDIVIDUALS FOR BUSINESSES Friend ($50) Supporter ($360) Your name listed in Temple publications Business name listed in Temple publications and on Festival signage bl Sponsor ($100) Underwriter ($700) Benefit listed above Benefit listed above AND recognition on Festival signage AND your business name on Festival or 5k race t-shirts Partner ($1500) Patron ($250) Benefits listed above et Benefits listed above AND business logo on back of festival or 5k race t-shirts AND recognition from the Festival stage A sampling of cookies baked for the festival Presenting Partner ($2500) Ambassador ($500) Benefits listed above Benefits listed above AND secondary listing in Temple publications and on festival signage with recognition in your own category Recognition in limited PR materials to the public, when possible Gold Ambassador ($1000) Presenting Partner Plus ($3600) Temple Israel Benefits listed above Benefits listed above AND prominent listing in Temple publications and on festival signage 130 Riverside Drive AND a commemorative t-shirt and sampling of cookies Dayton, OH 45405 937-496-0050 www.tidayton.org 2 A Message From… Temple Israel Rabbi David M. Sofian 130 Riverside Drive Dayton, OH 45405-4968 phone 937-496-0050 fax 888-777-0490 www.tidayton.org Teaching has always been at the experience. Our adult students here OFFICE HOURS center of everything I do as a Rabbi. understand this and are committed Mon-Thurs: 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Because I love teaching children, the to enriching their personal Jewish Fri: 8 a.m.-3 p.m. teaching I do as part of every experience by demanding content- STAFF religious school service is a joy. filled education. Indeed, that is Rabbi David Sofian th Teaching budding adults in our 9 inspiring. I have learned so much Senior Rabbi th and 10 grade Confirmation class is because I’ve had to in order to teach ext. 230 / [email protected] not only fun but often inspiring. How them. The number of adults here so? Every Confirmand must pass a who are interested in serious Jewish Rabbi Karen Bodney-Halasz test before s/he can be confirmed. It learning is one of the truly great Epstein Family Educator is a fairly comprehensive exam, things about Temple Israel. ext. 226 / [email protected] mostly made up of essay questions, Here is a partial list of adult Jewish Suzanne Shaw and 70% is a passing grade. Also, I learning opportunities at Temple am not an easy grader. This means Executive Director Israel: the Brotherhood Brunch, our Membership statements; that I not only can measure their interfaith Lunch and Learn programs, payments/invoices; donations Jewish knowledge but also my Torah study every Shabbat morning, ext. 222 / [email protected] effectiveness as their teacher. I feel Tanakh word by word on Religious great about the results from this Courtney Cummings School Sunday mornings, Talmud year’s tests. That is inspiring because Music and Program Director study on Wednesdays, Adult Bar/Bat it means a new generation of Jewish ext. 224 / [email protected] Mitzvah classes (with post-ceremony adults has been willing to work hard graduate classes), the Day of Ellen Finke-McCarthy at forming a solid foundation in Learning program developed by Facility rental and event planning; Jewish knowledge. They have met Rabbi Bodney-Halasz, and the Tablet; yahrzeits; funerals; burials the challenge I put before them education programs of the Festival. ext. 225 / [email protected] admirably. A new link in the chain of This doesn’t even include the Mini- Annette Stogdill Jewish life is being forged. I University classes that we once Reception encourage you to attend this year’s offered, or the Introduction to ext. 223 / [email protected] Confirmation/Shavuot service Sunday Judaism classes I teach sponsored by May 24. You’ll be able to see for Donald Bush the Dayton Synagogue Forum, or the yourselves how inspiring these kids Child Care Introduction to Judaism classes I are. 937-271-0543 teach at UD’s Lifelong Learning However, what really gets my juices Institute. If you want to stretch LEADERSHIP going is teaching adults. Even though yourself as an adult Jew, Temple much of contemporary American Israel is the place. A congregational Lisa Pierce, President [email protected] Jewish life is focused on children and Rabbi couldn’t ask for more. 937-463-4930 their experience of Judaism, I have Thank you all for giving me these always maintained that Judaism in its Bart Weprin, Vice President opportunities to teach the heritage fullness is for adults. Getting the [email protected] of our ancestors in a way that depth and breadth of Judaism 937-433-1959 hopefully is meaningful for today. requires adult maturity and Rick Goldberg, Treasurer [email protected] 937-648-7451 Carol Graff, Secretary [email protected] 937-426-8558 From the Rabbi 3 Rabbi Karen N. Bodney-Halasz Jerome Epstein Family Director of Education "Our feet are standing within thy gates, O Jerusalem" - study with rabbis David Sofian, Joshua Ginsberg, and Psalm 122 Karen Bodney-Halasz and explore songs about Jerusalem with Cantor Andrea Raizen. The staffs of In recognition of Yom Yerushalayim, Jerusalem Day, Temple both Temple Israel's and Beth Abraham's religious Israel and Beth Abraham Synagogue are collaborating to schools are planning a number of creative learning bring you an exciting weekend of study and celebration. opportunities for children and families, including arts Rabbi Jonathan Greenberg, former Temple Israel rabbinic and crafts, stories, Hebrew prayers, and more. intern from 2004 to 2006, will serve as A delicious Kosher Israeli lunch will be served by our scholar-in-residence for the Bernstein's Fine Catering, for $10 per adult and $8 for weekend. Rabbi Greenberg currently children ages 4-12. However, reservations must be serves as a Senior Fellow at the Haym received by Wednesday, May 6. Following lunch, this Salomon Center and is a recognized educational and fun-filled day will culminate in expert on U.S. foreign policy, especially Jerusalem Jeopardy for children and families, and Rabbi as it relates to the Middle East. He is a Greenberg's examination of Jerusalem in messianic former Vice President of the Illinois thought for adults. Policy Institute, and the former Midwest Political Director at the Our Yom Yerushalayim weekend will provide us with American Israel Public Affairs Rabbi Greenberg a great opportunity to reconnect with Rabbi Committee (AIPAC). Rabbi Greenberg Greenberg, learn about Jerusalem from an expert in was ordained in 2006 at Hebrew Union College-Jewish the field, study with clergy representing a variety of Institute of Religion. perspectives, and enjoy conversations over lunch with members of the greater community. We will have three opportunities to hear from Rabbi Greenberg during his visit. On Friday night, May 15, at You may register online for Sunday's events through Temple Israel, he will speak about the Green Line and the the Temple office, TIDBits, Chailights, and the Temple historic significance of the 1967 borders. On Saturday website. Be sure to pay attention to TIDBits for a morning, May 16, Rabbi Greenberg will speak at Beth final schedule of Sunday's activities. Abraham about issues of occupation and settlements vis-à- All learning sessions are free and open to the public. vis international law. He will speak again at Temple Israel at For additional information please contact Rabbi noon on Sunday, May 17, as part of our Israel Day of Bodney-Halasz.