CONGREGATION EMANU-EL OF THE CITY OF volume 89 | number 5 may/June 2017

Services The New Day Fellowship Daily SunSet ServiceS A Creative Bridge-Building Endeavor Sunday —Thursday at 5:30 PM • Marvin and Elisabeth Cassell Temple Emanu-El’s Religious School Tefilah Community House, curriculum asks students to grapple with big- One East 65th Street picture questions about prayer. Recently, we asked the central question of monotheism: What’s so Shabbat ServiceS Friday Evening great about having only one God? Theologians Organ Recital at 5:45 PM and philosophers have wrestled with this question Service begins at 6:00 PM throughout the ages, but perhaps an 8-year-old

• Fifth Avenue Sanctuary said it best. “If I had a different god than my allison tick brill friend, we could get in a fight about whose god Assistant Rabbi Saturday Morning was better,” one of our enthusiastic Third Grade Torah Study at 9:15 AM students explained. “But since we have one God, we’re all connected.” • 6th Floor Lounge, One East 65th Street Our student’s comments are a profound reminder during these dark Organ Recital at 10:15 AM days of rising intolerance and anti-Semitism that we are part of one Service Begins at 10:30 AM • Fifth Avenue Sanctuary human family. After bomb threats to Jewish institutions, cemetery desecrations and a swell of hate crimes, Jonathan Greenblatt, the Shabbat and holiday services National Director of the Anti-Defamation League, wrote in November: now may be seen live: “The American Jewish community has not seen this level of anti- www.emanuelnyc.org/broadcast. Semitism in mainstream public and political discourse since the 1930s.”

For the hearing impaireD Bigots who used to spew hate only when wearing a hood or mask now A hearing loop is installed in feel emboldened to spread rancor in full view. And we aren’t the only the Fifth Avenue Sanctuary and the targets. Just as anti-Semitic activities have spiked, hate crimes against Beth-El Chapel—switch aid to T-coil. the Muslim community have soared. These phenomena are linked Headsets or neck loops also are available. closely, both rooted in fear of the other.

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I am proud to share here that a new endeavor at and study how museums teach about religion by Temple Emanu-El aims to respond to these trends. examining the Children’s Museum of ’s In April, we co-launched the “New Day Fellowship,” exhibition on Muslim culture. a program for millennial Jews and Muslims, created in partnership with Muslim scholar and educator To create a peer group, all fellows are under the age Dr. Hussein Rashid, Rabbi Benjamin Spratt of of 40. At the end of the fellowship, the cohort will Congregation Rodeph Sholom and Rabbi Joshua create their own project that responds to shared Stanton of Congregation B’nai Jeshurun in Short Hills, concerns. Three members of Temple Emanu-El are New Jersey. The fellowship equips and supports New Day fellows, and their commitment to building participants to “stand up to the Pharaohs of our age.” bridges benefits our entire congregation. Course sessions utilize Moses as a model, because both Judaism and Islam regard Moses as a prophet “Don’t stand idly by the blood of your neighbor,” and mensch. Participants will explore how Moses the Bible instructs. Our tradition charges us to be inspired and led the people while also learning skills “upstanders”—people who stand up and speak out necessary for moral leadership today. against intolerance and hatred. It’s difficult to truly consider the festering bigotry we have seen in our The fellowship seeks to generate fresh and dynamic country, but we cannot anesthetize ourselves to conversations and uses the arts to structure learning. this pain. We need to fully examine these wounds Participants will tour artistic portrayals of Moses at the to fuel our ability to stand up and speak out. Metropolitan Museum of Art and study scripture at houses of worship. They will learn active listening “Since we have one God, we’re all connected,” techniques from community-organizing experts our Religious School student taught us. and practice hearing nuance in classical music. May we live out this truth. Participants will work with a dramatist to convey ~ Rabbi Allison Tick Brill their interfaith learning through performance art

Volume 89, Issue #5 is a publication of Congregation Emanu-El CONTENTS of the City of New York.

3 — Worship Calendar KEEP US INFORMED 4 — Annual Meeting of the Congregation Help us serve you better by keeping us informed of changes in your life. Contact the Membership Office at 5 — Lifelong Learning 10th Anniversary 212-507-9514 or [email protected]. 6 — Interfaith Ambassadors Editor and Graphic Design Managing Editor 8 — Nursery School Summer Camp Evan Brown Kathryn Roberts 9 — Lifelong Learning Calendar Director of Communications Webmaster/Editor

11 — Religious School Registration 15 — Community Calendar ON THE COVER 17 — Project Prom Wrap-up This edition’s cover photo 18 — Life-Cycle Events highlights the ornate metalwork 19 — Volunteering Calendar of the eternal light (ner tamid) in the Fifth Avenue Sanctuary, 19 — Music Calendar set against the Meière mosaics and carved marble that frames the ark. 2 WORSHIPat TEMPLE EMANU-EL

Shir Chadash (“a New Song”) we bring together beautiful music, contemporary poetry Friday, May 5 • 7:00 PM • Beth-El Chapel and prose readings, and traditional Reform liturgy for a This periodic service features a contemporary liturgy transformative Kabbalat Shabbat experience. Services are interspersed with Chasidic tales and other teachings. The free. We also offer a quick nosh with drinks before the music, led by vocalist Hadar Orshalimy and instrumentalists, service and a delicious Oneg reception afterward. is informal and participatory. All are welcome to attend. For more information, log on to www.saviv.org.

Shabbat Service honoring Shavuot Services and Confirmation the department of lifelong learning Tuesday, May 30 • 6:00 PM and Wednesday, May 31 • Friday, May 19 • 6:00 PM • Fifth Avenue Sanctuary 10:30 AM • Fifth Avenue Sanctuary All temple members are invited to join us in celebrating From the Hebrew word for “weeks,” Shavuot is a reference our Department of Lifelong Learning’s 10th anniversary. to the seven weeks it took for the Jews to travel from Egypt The service will be followed by a Shabbat dinner for to the foot of Mount Sinai and the declaration of the 50th day Nursery School, Religious School, Teen and Alumni families, as a holy convocation (Leviticus 23:21). It is customary on and a dessert reception for our Religious School With Shavuot to read the section of the Torah that defines the Honors participants. Payment is required for dinner; Ten Commandments, which Moses received at Mount Sinai. early-bird deadline ends May 15: Shavuot also is the second of the three agricultural festivals. www.emanuelnyc.org/FamilyDinner. On May 30, we will celebrate with our high school students Saviv Shabbat as they confirm Torah’s place in their identity during Shavuot Friday, May 19 and Friday, June 9 • 7:00 PM • services. (Learn more on page 10.) The May 31 service is a One East 65th Street Yizkor service, one of four times during the year when we Saviv is a group for young Jewish professionals in their mourn together and recite the memorial prayers in 20s and 30s…singles and couples…to meet, mingle, come remembrance of those whom we have loved and lost. together in prayer, learn and celebrate life. Once a month, All are welcome.

Weekly Torah STudy

The last scheduled session of our Torah study group for the 2016-2017 program year will be Saturday, May 20. Many thanks to Rabbinic Intern Tarlan Rabizadeh for guiding us in discussion this year! Torah study will resume regularly on September 9. All are welcome to attend.

3 TEMPLE EMANU-EL Young Families Annual MEETING of the Information and registration links for our new Fall Parent/Child Programs are now online! CONGREGATION Sessions for New Parents, Parents with Toddlers, and our new Twos Group! Sign up at: emanuelnyc.org/parenting

The annual meeting of the members of Congregation Emanu-El of the City of New York will be held in Greenwald Hall, Marvin and Elisabeth Cassell Community House, One East 65th Street, , at 6:00 Update Your Membership Account this Summer PM on Thursday, May 18.

As we continue to engage members in new and meaningful ways, it is Please note: Information important that your membership account be complete and accurate. In the about the annual meeting coming weeks, the Membership Office will send all temple members a copy will be mailed separately of the personal and professional information that you have shared with us in to temple members and the past and which is stored in your account. We hope you will review the will include details on information and make any necessary changes. (Perhaps your family has membership dues and grown, you have a new job or you set up a new email address?) seating information for We also hope to learn more about you and your connection to Emanu-El, and the 2017-2018 fiscal year. we will invite you to share your interests and the ways in which you already Additional information will connect with the temple, or hope to in the future, so that we can continue to be sent in July. serve you to the best of our ability. If you have any questions, then please call Jessica Ingram, Director of Member Services, at 212-507-9514.

Torah aT a GlaNCe

The following are weekly readings for May B’midbar (Read Saturday, May 27) and June 2017. Read synopses of the Torah Numbers 1:1-4:20 portions at emanuelnyc.org/torahataglance. View our clergy preaching schedule at Naso (Read Saturday, June 3) www.emanuelnyc.org/preaching. Numbers 4:21-7:89

Acharei Mot/K’doshim (Read Saturday, May 6) B’haalot’cha (Read Saturday, June 10) Leviticus 16:1-20:27 Numbers 8:1-12:16

Emor (Read Saturday, May 13) Sh’lach L’cha (Read Saturday, June 17) Leviticus 21:1-24:23 Numbers 13:1-15:41

B’har/B’chukotai (Read Saturday, May 20) Korach (Read Saturday, June 24) Leviticus 25:1-26:2 / 26:3-27:34 Numbers 16:1-18:32

4 All temple members are invited to join us for a Shabbat worship service where we will honor Director Saul Kaiserman and the Department of Lifelong Learning on its 10th anniversary on… Fr!Da%, mY &9 6:0 Pm Fi Th AvNu Sa"Ct$Ar%

The service will be followed by a Shabbat dinner for Nursery School, Religious School, Teen and Alumni families, and a dessert reception for our Religious School With Honors participants. Payment is required for dinner; early-bird deadline ends May 15.

Re Is#Er At: www.emanuelnyc.org/familydinner

5 Interfaith Ambassadors By Halle Friedman, Ninth Grade

nder the auspices of Temple Emanu-El and the For the first of several programs scheduled throughout UAbyssinian Baptist Church, a select group of the course of the year, the elite teen leadership group teenagers of two different faiths convened on assembled at Escape the Room, a popular party venue. November 11, 2016. Reverend Itang Young and The teens were locked in a room and provided with a Temple Emanu-El’s Program Director of Youth sequence of clues and activities to locate the key to the Learning and Education Missy Bell established the exit. Miraculously, virtual strangers relinquished any Interfaith Ambassadors program as a way of fostering preconceived notions about each other in order work as peer empathy between teens of the Jewish and a coherent unit. This activity required problem-solving Christian faiths. and logical reasoning skills, in the context of a

6 The teens made intuitive and insightful contributions to services, reminding the congregation that despite the

breadth of identities in the The Reverend Dr. Calvin O. Butts, Pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church, and Rabbi Joshua M. Davidson—from the 2015 Sabbath Worship Service Commemorating the Life community, “We are all and Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. children of God.” team-building initiative. As such, these assets could was a recurring theme throughout the conversation, not be applied effectively without collaboration and as it took place three days after the general communication. The teens became so absorbed in the election. activity that any background differences became irrelevant, and they forged instant, profound In January, the ambassadors gathered again as connections with each other. Temple Emanu-El teens joined the Abyssinian congregation to commemorate the life of Dr. Martin Following the introductory activity, members of the Luther King Jr. The teen leadership group listened Abyssinian Baptist Church eagerly integrated with the intently as their keynote speaker delivered a Temple Emanu-El congregation during Shabbat rousing, eloquent speech on the legacy of Dr. King Kodesh services. Awaiting the opening prayers, the and his pivotal role in the American Civil Rights church members read the Hebrew transliterations in movement. the prayer book, inquiring about the significance of the Hebrew letters. The teens made intuitive and insightful Throughout the Interfaith Ambassadors programs, it contributions to services, reminding the congregation became evident that the coexistence of all ethnic that despite the breadth of identities in the community, groups is optimal, but it cannot be perpetuated “We are all children of God.” This sentiment about without initiatives for engaging dialogue and coexistence and tolerance was heartening to the interaction. In our society, various ethnic groups and community, particularly in the wake of the divisive populations have the propensity for viewing other presidential election. groups through a personalized, ethnocentric lens. These distorted perceptions are a result of a lack of After the service, the group of teens reconvened over knowledge of or the reluctance to enlighten dinner. As the group was composed predominantly of ourselves about other groups and cultures. As such, women, conversations about gender roles emanated it is imperative to first initiate these dialogues, as in from the topics of religion, race and intersecting the Interfaith Ambassadors Program, to cultivate identities. The Abyssinian Baptist Church members tolerance, empathy admired the number of women clergy at Temple and knowledge. Emanu-El. As members of the Jewish faith, it is incumbent As one of the Church members marveled at the upon us as teenagers to continue initiating these prominent role of women in the temple community, dialogues and translate these discussions into both different gender dynamics of the church and temple academic and social environments. emerged. The current political situation in the county

7 NURSERY SCHOOL SUMMER CAMP

Are you looking for a great camp experience for your preschooler? SuMMer GrouP 2017 sessions are as follows: Temple Emanu-El’s program provides: 1. June 6 through June 22 (3 weeks) • Groups led by experienced Temple Emanu-El 2. June 26 through July 20 (4 weeks) Nursery School teachers 3. June 6 through July 20 (7 weeks) • Exciting activities within the structure of a preschool classroom Hours are 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM, Monday through Thursday. • Two large, sunny outdoor play spaces where children can enjoy Children must be 2 years, 9 months by June 30, 2017, to enroll. wading pools, bubble tables and sprinklers Weekly music and yoga instruction • If you wish to enroll your child, please email Air-conditioned rooms that provide a bright, welcoming • [email protected], and we will email you an application. environment for campers Any additional questions? Please call 212-507-9531.

A typical Summer Group day includes an arts-and-crafts project, Spaces are limited, and enrollment is on a first-come, music and movement, free play in the classroom and lots of first-served basis. Your child does not need to be a outdoor time. Campers bring their own lunches. student in our Nursery School to enroll.

8 LIFELONG LEARNING

Fifth Grade Trip to eldridge rosé on the rooftop Street Wednesday, May 10 • 6:30 PM to Sunday, May 7 • 9:00 AM to 8:00 PM • One East 65th Street 12:00 PM • Departure from For Religious School and Teen 10 East 66th Street parents…Come celebrate the Fifth Grade Religious School end of the school year with rosé, families are invited to join our beer and other refreshments. Lifelong Learning staff for a unique See old friends and make new ones. experience about Jewish immigration to America when RSVP to Missy Bell ([email protected]). we visit eldridge Street Synagogue, a breath-taking National Historic Landmark located on New York City’s Lower East Side. The synagogue opened its doors at department of lifelong learning 12 Eldridge Street on September 4, 1887, just in time for 10th anniversary Celebration the Jewish High Holidays. Hundreds of newly arrived Friday, May 19 • 6:00 PM • immigrants from Russia and Poland gathered here to pray, Fifth Avenue Sanctuary socialize and build a community. It was the first time in All Religious School families are America that Jews of Eastern Europe had built a invited to join us first for Sabbath synagogue from the ground up. services where we will honor the Department of Lifelong Learning as Participation in this event is FREE, but parents must it celebrates 10 years of innovation complete our online permission slip. Log on to and community. The service will be led by www.emanuelnyc.org/rs-eldridgestreet. QueSTioNS? Cantor Mo Glazman and Lifelong Learning Director Contact Jackie Schreiber at 212-507-9534 or Saul Kaiserman and will feature the Emanu-El Choir, [email protected]. organ and a three-piece band. After the service, Nursery School, Religious School, Teen and Alumni families are invited to a family dinner, where we will honor religious School open house Missy Bell, our departing director of Youth Learning and Sunday, May 7 • 9:30 AM to Education, as she takes the next exciting step in her 12:00 PM and career. The evening will conclude with a dessert Monday, May 8 • 4:00 PM to reception for our Religious School With Honors 6:00 PM • 10 East 66th Street participants. Payment is required for dinner; Discover what makes Temple early-bird deadline ends May 15. Emanu-El’s Religious School a Register at www.emanuelnyc.org/FamilyDinner. great place for families to learn and grow. Temple member families and nonmembers are invited to join us for a session of our end-of-year assemblies innovative and dynamic weekly program for children in Sunday, May 21 • 11:00 AM Pre-k through Third Grade, and experience the and Monday, May 22 • 5:00 PM • liveliness and warmth of our Religious School first hand. 10 East 66th Street While prospective students visit the classroom, parents During the final days of will have the opportunity to meet with Saul Kaiserman, Religious School, parents are our director of Lifelong Learning, to learn more about invited to join with their children our school curriculum and programs. Please let us as we come together for one last time know on which day you plan to attend. to celebrate the achievements of our students. RSVP to www.emanuelnyc.org/rs-openhouse.

9 Save the date! traveling alongside the Israelites in a journey from Berkshire Bus Tour — Egypt to Mount Sinai and from childhood to adolescence. Sunday, July 9 They will stand before our congregation, ready to accept Families are invited to join the responsibilities of Jewish adulthood. They will lead us for a summer day in the those in attendance in study and worship, teaching Berkshires full of food, fun and about their chosen issue for the year: Responding to friends. We will visit two amazing Addiction. Our 2016-2017 confirmands are Jarett Union for summer Goldstein, Brandon Hetu and Ethan Hetu. Congratulations camps (Eisner and Crane Lake) and learn how a summer to all! The service will be followed by a festive oneg. can last a lifetime. Stay tuned for more information!

Fourth Grade Family Giving Circle This year, the Department of Lifelong Learning piloted a Family Giving Circle with our Fourth Grade families. Five families participated in this program, meeting four times over the winter and spring to learn Teen Trips registration together about tzedakah and philanthropy. The families chose to focus on underprivileged youth as their area of need and Twenty-one Emanu-El teens had a blast on our three explored different NYC organizations working to teen trips in 2017—our Eighth Grade Trip to New Orleans, help this population. Thanks to a matching gift our Ninth Grade Civil Rights Trip to Georgia and Alabama, from Temple Emanu-El’s Philanthropic Fund, the and our High School Volunteer Weekend in Memphis, Family Giving Circle will donate $3,600 to the Tennessee. Registration now is open for next year’s trips! organization they find most worthy of funding. Log on to www.emanuelnyc.org/familygivingcircle eighth Grade Trip to New orleans— after May 10 to see what organization they chose. January 12-15, 2018. Eighth graders from Emanu-El, If you are a Religious School family interested in Temple Israel and Temple Shaaray Tefila will travel joining a Family Giving Circle next year, then contact together to help rebuild the city of New Orleans and Jackie Schreiber, Program Director of Faculty and explore the delicious food and unique culture of the city. Family Engagement, at 212-507-9534 or [email protected]. Ninth Grade Civil rights Trip—February 8-11, 2018. Ninth graders from Emanu-El, Temple Israel and Temple Shaaray Tefila will travel together to cities in Alabama and Georgia to learn about this crucial period in American TWEENS & TEENS history and the involvement of the Jewish community.

Confirmation/eve of Shavuot Services high School Trip to Barcelona, Spain— Tuesday, May 30 • 6:00 PM • February 15-20, 2018. High school students from Fifth Avenue Sanctuary Emanu-El, Temple Shaaray Tefila and Stephen Wise Free All are invited to join in Synagogue will travel together to Barcelona to learn celebrating with our high about Jewish history and Spain, meet with Spanish school students as they Reform Jewish teenagers, and enjoy the delicious food confirm Torah’s place in their and unique architecture of the city. identity during Eve of Shavuot services. Throughout the year, our Reserve your space and make a deposit (or pay in full) Confirmation students have been at www.emanuelnyc.org/teentrips.

10 REGISTRATION IS OPEN!

Our vibrant and caring Religious School community is a fun way for children and their families to learn, celebrate and worship together. At our school, which meets one day a week, Jewish learning is always meaningful, relevant and empowering.

We are delighted to speak with you and to answer your questions. Please contact Associate Director of Lifelong Learning Rachel Brumberg at 212-507-9526 or [email protected]. Registration forms are available on our website at www.emanuelnyc.org/RSforms or through the school office.

The first sessions of school for 2017-2018 are as follows: • Sunday, September 10 Pre-Kindergarten – Seventh Grade • Monday, September 11 Pre-Kindergarten – Seventh Grade

For registration information about our teen programs, contact Missy Bell, director of Youth Learning and Engagement, at 212-507-9529 or [email protected].

Please note that you must be a member of Congregation Emanu-El to enroll your child in the Religious School. QueSTioNS? Contact Jessica Ingram, director of Member Services, at 212-507-9514 or [email protected].

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TEMPLE EMANU-EL: clergy, officers and Staff

CLERGY

Joshua M. Davidson, Senior Rabbi Amy B. Ehrlich, Rabbi Allison Tick Brill, Assistant Rabbi Mo Glazman, Senior Cantor Dr. Ronald B. Sobel, Senior Rabbi Emeritus Dr. David M. Posner, Senior Rabbi Emeritus Lori A. Corrsin, Cantor Emerita Shira Gluck, Rabbinic Intern Tarlan Rabizadeh, Rabbinic Intern and the award Richard Newman, Cantorial Intern Goes to… OFFICERS

Congratulations to Ivan M. John H. Streicker, President Andrew F. Moses, Vice President Stettenheim Librarian Marjorie Gregg M. Rechler, Vice President Shuster, recently appointed to Brian Pessin, Treasurer the Sydney Taylor Book Award Dena Kleiman, Secretary Committee—a prestigious honor awarded by the Association of STAFF Jewish Libraries. The Sydney Taylor Book Award is Administration and Planning given to outstanding children and teen books each Cara L. Glickman, Vice President, Administration and Planning year that recognize Jewish values and Judaic literature. Mark H. Heutlinger, Administrator The award started in 1968, is named for the author Evan Brown, Director of Communications of the classic “All-of-a-kind” family books. Jessica Ingram, Director, Member Services Anton Shkreli, Director of Facilities

Finance Steven Jones, Vice President, Finance

Development and Philanthropy Robyn W. Cimbol, Senior Director, Development and Philanthropy Wendy Glick, Assistant Director, Development

young Families Religious School/Lifelong Learning Saul Kaiserman, Director, Lifelong Learning Rachel Brumberg, Associate Director, Lifelong Learning - Missy Bell, Director, Youth Learning and Engagement Year End Rooftop Party Jackie Schreiber, Program Director, Faculty and Family Engagement Sunday, May 21 • 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM • The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center 10 East 66th Street Dr. Gady Levy, Executive Director, The Streicker Center Warren Klein, Curator, Herbert & Eileen Bernard Museum of Judaica Young Families ends its program year with an annual Erika Resnick, Program Director, The Streicker Center rooftop party. If the weather is nice, then we’ll play in the pools. Bring sunscreen, bathing suits, towels, Nursery School Ellen Davis, Director, Nursery School hats and a change of clothes. If it rains, the party Susanne Fischer, Assistant to the Director moves inside to Blumenthal Hall. (Please note: This event is for preschool/Nursery School children.) Funerals RSVP to [email protected]. Charles S. Salomon, Funeral Director

14 COMMUNITY

WoMeN’S auXiliary The charge for this event is $35 for Women’s Auxiliary For questions about Women’s Auxiliary events, and Men’s Club members, $45 for all other temple call 212-744-1400, ext. 235, or send an email to members and guests. Reservations must be received [email protected]. To become a member, by May 8. Register online at www.emanuelnyc.org/ log on to www.emanuelnyc.org/womaux. wa-springmeeting.

Book discussion Group with MeN’S CluB rabbi davidson For questions about Men’s Club events, Wednesday, May 8 • 11:00 AM • call 212-744-1400, ext. 250, or send an email to One East 65th Street [email protected]. To become a member, Rabbi Joshua Davidson will lead log on to www.emanuelnyc.org/mensclub. our discussion of My Jewish Year: 18 Holidays, One annual Meeting and Presentation of Wondering Jew by Abigail Pogrebin. the Samuel Sacks achievement award All temple members are invited to attend. Coffee and cake Thursday, May 25 • 6:00 PM • One East 65th Street will be served. The Men’s Club cordially invites all temple members and their guests to attend its annual meeting, which includes the election of officers and presentation of the Samuel annual Spring Meeting Sacks Achievement Award, which was started in 1977 to and luncheon recognize members of the congregation for their service Thursday, May 11 • 12:00 PM • and support of the temple. This year’s recipients are One East 65th Street Marlene yokel and Mark Willner. All temple members and their guests are invited to this annual A temple member for nearly 20 event, which includes the election years, Marlene is a regular of Women’s Auxiliary board members volunteer at Ronald McDonald and officers. This year’s special guest is House dinners organized by the Bill Goldstein, host of the TV segment “Bill’s Books” Women’s Auxiliary and with the on NBC’s Weekend Today in New York. Sunday Lunch Program, for which she serves as a captain and In addition to reviewing books and interviewing authors, committee member. She is a Mr. Goldstein serves as curator of public programs at member of the Tikkun Olam marlene yokel Roosevelt House, the Public Policy Institute of Hunter Committee and a co-chair of the “Helping Hands” College, located in the former townhouse of Franklin and program organized by our Emanu-El Cares Committee. Eleanor Roosevelt, on East 65th Street. He also is the She also serves on the Women’s Auxiliary board of founding editor of the “Books” section of The New York directors as recording secretary, chairperson of the Times website. Mr. Goldstein received a doctorate in nominating committee and chair of the Art Center for English from City University of New York Graduate Center Seniors at Emanu-El. For several years, Marlene was a in 2010. His forthcoming book, The World Broke in Two: member of the steering committee of Reform Jewish Voice T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster, D. H. Lawrence and Virginia of New York State, an advocate for social justice through Woolf and the Year that Changed Literature, will be public policy that embodies the principles of the Reform published by Henry Holt in May 2017. Jewish Movement.

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15 MEN’S CLUB/Sacks Award institutions…in other words, what is it about these courses continued... that make them “Jewish”? He will share five questions that Mark is the recipient of an award he believes all training of Jewish educators must address. from New York State for “Outstanding Contributions to From Bible to Broadway: Teaching about the Holocaust a Journey Through and Other Violations of Human Jewish Music Rights,” a “Spirit of Anne Frank Tuesday, June 13 • 11:00 AM • Outstanding Educator Award” One East 65th Street and a grant to study how German In this session, Cantor Mo mark Willner schools were teaching the Glazman will talk and sing us Holocaust 50 years after Kristallnacht. He also is the lead through the history of Jewish music. author of the only global history textbook for secondary He will draw from both ancient chant and school in the U.S. that includes a detailed, 45-page history modern melody in a celebration of Jewish music of the Holocaust. In 2000, Mark was named “Outstanding from around the world. Social Studies Supervisor in the United States.” He retired from NYC Public Schools in 2005 and is currently an adjunct lecturer at Brooklyn College. CoMMuNiTy aS FaMily Community as Family (CAF) is a monthly gathering of The charge for this event is $45 for Men’s Club and temple members age 48 and forward who are without Women’s Auxiliary members, $55 for all other temple adult children. Our goal is to create stronger ties within members and guests. Register online at the Emanu-El family and the greater community, as well www.emanuelnyc.org/sacks. as to discover ways of becoming more informed self- advocates on a variety of topics, including finance, health, housing and home care. We serve light refreshments, and CluB 65 there are no commercial endorsements. Our final session Club 65 is a monthly social group and educational of the program year will be Monday, May 22 from program for senior members of the temple, both men 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM. RSVP to Rabbi Amy Ehrlich at and women. Attendees are invited to bring their lunch. [email protected] or 212-507-9603. Participation is free of charge. QUESTIONS? Please note: This program is for Temple emanu-el Call 212-744-1400. members only.

What is Jewish about Jewish education? MoM’S The Word Tuesday, May 9 • 11:00 AM • Wednesday, May 3 • 6:00 PM ~ One East 65th Street Cocktails • 7:00 PM ~ Showtime For the past two years, Temple • One East 65th Street Emanu-El’s Lifelong Learning Written and performed by three Director Saul Kaiserman has been moms—Dana Covey, Amy teaching an introductory course in Mandelbaum and Erika Radin— education to the rabbinical, cantorial and education Mom’s the Word is a cabaret-style students at Hebrew Union College — Jewish Institute of show featuring musical parodies about the challenges of Religion, the Reform Jewish seminary. In developing his motherhood. Together, Covey, Mandelbaum and Radin course, Saul interviewed colleagues at other schools of turn a comic eye on the things that drive us all crazy about Jewish education and examined their syllabi. This research motherhood, like temper tantrums, over-scheduling, has become the foundation of his doctoral dissertation on puberty, clueless spouses and much more...as well as the how rabbinical schools train their students to become joy our children bring us. Tickets are $18 for temple educators. In this session, Saul will focus on what members, $23 for nonmembers (plus processing fees). distinguishes such courses from those at secular Purchase tickets at www.emanuelnyc.org/momstheword.

16 PROJECT PROM 2017 a tikkun olam mitzvah

roject Prom 2017 was an enormous success, and Tru Fragrance. Our Project Prom committee Pexceeding our committee’s is extremely grateful for these vendors and to expectations. This annual event, hosted with our the people who worked so hard in obtaining partners from Central Synagogue and Park these donations. Avenue Synagogue, provides dresses, shoes, handbags, makeup and jewelry to young women, My sincerest thanks to Debbie Halperin, giving them the formal attire to wear to their high Jodi Isman, Dana Covey and Eileen Melniker; school proms or graduation ceremonies. Project Prom would not have been a success without their commitment, devotion and love. My This year, 250 young women visited our two-day thanks, also, to all our volunteers, who helped set event. There were so many smiling faces as our up, assist as stylists and clean up, and who were caring volunteers assisted our guests in trying on so kind and compassionate to our guests. In dresses that made them look and feel so pretty, addition, all of this would not have been possible so radiant and so confident! All the girls shopped without the support of our temple staff; we are so till they dropped and left with a special tote bag grateful for their help. for carrying their merchandise home. Temple Emanu-El also provided snacks and a water It is rewarding to know that we can touch these bottle for the girls before they left. girls lives by helping to make their upcoming proms and graduations a memory they will More than 500 new dresses were donated by cherish. Project Prom is a perfect example of Bari Jay, B. Darlin, Blake & Company, Faviana, how our efforts provide meaningful and fulfilling Jasmine Enterprises, Jovani, Mori Lee, Pride & mitzvot through the Tikkun Olam Committee of Joys/Olivia Matthews, Vera Wang and ZAC Zac Temple Emanu-El, expressing our compassion Posen. Shoes were donated by Beacon’s Closet, and caring for our community through social Crossroads Trading, Qupid and Shoes for action that is intended to make life better for All/SFA, and 100 handbags were donated by others. Steve Madden. We received donations of jewelry from Miriam Haskell, Isaac Mizrahi and the Vetta ~ Susan Kaufman, Tikkun Olam Chair Group. Cosmetics were donated by Beauty editors from Harper’s Bazaar, Seventeen and Project Prom is a part of the Tikkun Olam Program Town & Country magazines, as well as Cosmetic which receives all of its annual program funding Executive Women, Elf Cosmetics, Floss Gloss through donations made by our members to Temple Emanu-El's Philanthropic Fund.

17 LIFE-CYCLE EVENTS

From birth to death, the act of consciously marking the major milestones in one’s life is an important element of both personal and religious development. Similarly important are the rituals associated with these life-cycle events.

The following students of our Bimah flowers at worship services have Religious School will become b’nei mitzvah: been donated by the following congregants:

Saturday, May 6 For the Sabbath of May 5 and 6 Carly Geneen, daughter of Mrs. Burton Kossoff in loving memory of Leslie and Lawrence Geneen Burton and Stephanie Lynn Kossoff

Olivia Mae Kramer, daughter of For the Sabbath of May 12 and 13 Jeffrey and Kathy Kramer Carol, Carl, Alexandra, Robert and Peter Hess in loving memory of mother and grandmother, Saturday, May 13 Frances Aaron Hess Maya Smith, daughter of Magali and Mitchell Smith Linda, Gilbert and Jennifer Snyder in loving memory of Stephanie Lynne Snyder’s birthday Julia Sidorsky, daughter of Hilary Peck Sidorsky and Robert Sidorsky For the Sabbath of May 19 and 20 William Fruhauf in loving memory of my parents, Saturday, May 20 Frankye and Henry Fruhauf, and of my aunt, Jason Titunik, son of Dr. Ira R. Titunik Sara Fruhauf Beekman

Saturday, May 27 For the Sabbath of May 26 and 27 Liliana Greyf, daughter of Susan and David Rahm in loving memory of Jane and Arthur Greyf Susan’s father, Allen H. Berkman

Saturday, June 3 For the Sabbath of June 2 and 3 Ashley Curwin, daughter of Edythe, William and John Heyman in loving memory Roxanne and Gary Curwin of George H. Heyman, Jr.

Jack Maguire, son of Sharon Maguire continued on next page…

Charles S. Salomon The Cemeteries of Congregation Emanu-El THE UNIVERSAL FUNERAL CHAPEL SALEM FIELDS and BETH-EL 1076 Madison Avenue • 212-753-5300 A limited number of above-ground crypts are available in Our service is available in the our community mausoleum. For information, please call temple, home or our chapel. Cara Glickman at the Temple Office, 212-744-1400.

18 LIFE-CYCLE EVENTS/Bimah Flowers continued... MUSIC

Orchestra of St. Luke’s Joseph Lesser in loving memory of Samene Webber Monday, May 8 • 6:30 PM • Lesser and in celebration of the bar mitzvah or our Fifth Avenue Sanctuary grandson John (“Jack”) Webber Maguire After the resounding success of last winter’s concert, the St. Luke’s For the Sabbath of June 9 and 10 Dr. Sandra P. Gluck in loving memory of her aunt, Chamber Ensemble returns to Temple Mildred Hammer Emanu-El, performing works by Mozart (Eine Kleine Nachtmusik) and Mendelssohn (Octet in E-flat Major, For the Sabbath of June 16 and 17 Op. 20). This event is made possible by the generous Mrs. A. Coleman Poll in loving memory of her support of Temple Emanu-El members Robert B. parents, Mildred and Jacques G. Coleman Menschel and Richard Menschel. VIP admission is FREE for temple members; enter at One East 65th Susan and David Rahm in loving memory of Street. Register at www.emanuelnyc.org/st-luke. David’s brother, Carl Michael Rahm

Roger L. Strong and Family in loving memory of his mother, Marguerite G. Strong

For the Sabbath of June 23 and 24 Barbara W. Kummel and Family in loving memory of Eugene H. Kummel

VOLUNTEERING

Stitch’n Time Sunday, June 4 • 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM • One East 65th Street All temple members are invited to participate in our monthly knitting group. Stitch’n Time volunteers knit warm scarves and caps for clients of the Sunday Lunch Program, as well as knitted goods for children and adults in other venues. All skill levels are welcome; instruction is available for those who need assistance. Yarn and patterns are provided, but you must bring your own needles (#8). Light refreshments are served. If you are unable to join us at the temple, then we can arrange for you to be part of the Stitch’n Time team at home. Just let us know! Contact [email protected].

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