Palm Beach Synagogue

2016–2017 | 5777 Program Calendar Directory Welcome to Palm Beach Synagogue Rabbi Moshe Scheiner Founding Rabbi [email protected] From the Rabbi 561-838-9002, ext. 2 Dear Friends, Michael Scharf Welcome to the Palm Beach Synagogue’s President new combined Calendar and Program Guide. [email protected] It’s a perfect marriage between quantity and quality. While a calendar 561-838-9002, ext. 4 marks the days of our lives, our Synagogue Program Guide offers opportunities to make the most of each and every day. Dinie Scheiner The word “ZMAN” in Hebrew means both Time and Invitation. Hebrew School Director Every moment of life is not only a gift, but an invitation from G-d to [email protected] join Him in creating something meaningful and lasting in our lives 561-838-9002, ext. 5 and the lives of our family. A calendar marks time, but our program guide is the invitation to fill our time with prayer, learning, kindness Amy L. Szoke and friendship. The Palm Beach Synagogue Program Guide Calendar Synagogue Administrator and its plethora of programs and activities for all ages and stages, [email protected] n January 1994, a small group of dedicated people started will enable you in the New Year to not only count time, but make 561-838-9002, ext. 4 holding traditional Shabbat services at Temple Emanuel in Palm your time count. Beach. This gathering was transformed into a community with So as we embark on the Hebrew calendar year 5777, we are Sarah Dworcan the arrival of Rabbi Moshe and Rebbetzin Dinie Scheiner. Based delighted and excited about our vast list of opportunities for learning, Youth Director I growth and community. We are grateful for our dedicated and [email protected] on the philosophy of outreach and inclusiveness, the Scheiners were passionate in their desire to “make a difference.” From its wonderful membership and our exceptional Synagogue leadership 561-838-9002, ext. 6 humble beginnings, Palm Beach Synagogue has blossomed into and staff. It is thanks to all of you that Palm Beach Synagogue is such a flourishing center of Jewish life and activity that prides itself a spiritual and magical place. Rabbi Yosef Rice on being a place of warm welcome for Jews from all walks of life Dinie and I wish each and every one of you a Shanah Tovah Youth/Teen Director and all levels of Jewish observance, while maintaining its abiding Umetukah, a sweet and good New Year filled with love, joy and [email protected] adherence to traditional Jewish law and observance of mitzvot. bountiful blessings. 561-838-9002, ext. 6 With its inviting spirit, the Synagogue is a place where people are committed to the love and support of our fellow Jews, religious Sincerely yours, Rabbi Yossi Dworcan traditions, the community at large, and the State of Israel. Today Young Jewish Professionals Director PBS, housed in a beautifully renovated edifice in the heart of [email protected] Palm Beach, two blocks north of the Breakers Hotel, offers unique Rabbi Moshe E. Scheiner 561-838-9002, ext. 7 programs in Jewish education and communal life, numerous youth activities, holiday services and celebrations, daily morning and afternoon/evening minyanim and weekly Shabbat services. From the President Service Times I hope you like and find our new Calendar/ Program Guide useful. We hope that it will foster Shacharit meaningful attendance and participation at our Synagogue’s plethora Monday-Friday 8:00 AM of classes, lectures, social activities, and daily minyanim. I know of Shabbat 9:00 AM no other synagogue that offers Palm Beach Synagogue’s array of Sunday 8:15 AM opportunities to enhance and elevate one’s Jewish life experience, at every age level, beginning at toddler and extending to ripe old ages. Mincha/Ma’ariv Our Synagogue is led by a Rabbi and Rebbitzen who are very special, and you, our members, are also very special, and you fully deserve Fall / Winter what the Synagogue offers. ENJOY! Sunday–Thursday 5:30 PM Friday 5:15 PM Shabbat 5:15 PM Late Spring / Summer Michael Scharf, President Sunday–Thursday 6:30 PM Adult Education

Living with the Times: Tanya Defining Your Role in Life: A Five Family Chavurah Our Weekly Torah Commandments Wednesdays, 7:30 PM Part Series with Rabbi Josh Broide A Chavurah is a circle of friends who gather Shabbat: Class begins one hour before Written by Rabbi Schneur Zalman, the Oct 26, Nov 2, Nov 16, Dec 7, Dec 21 to learn about and observe our Jewish traditions. Come join Rabbi Scheiner in the Mincha founder of Chabad, Tanya is the central Who are you? What are your values? What intimate setting of a congregant’s home The weekly portion to-do list explores the text of Chabad Chassidism. Its stated aim is are your ambitions? What is unique about as he elucidates and discusses topics practical application of the commandments to show a path to realizing one’s potential you? Defining your role in life requires pertaining to Jewish family life. The host contained in the weekly Parsha. This and purpose by developing a deeper some thinking about your personality and provides the lovely atmosphere and the intimate class enjoys an environment of relationship with G-d. The Tanya compacts your values. What is important to you? Rabbi provides the nourishment for our learning and socializing. Following Mincha, four millennia of Jewish wisdom to answer Are you impressed by the same things brains and souls. These evenings are for everyone is welcome to join and enjoy the great personal and existential questions that impress others? If your desires and adults only. Seudah Shlishit. of life. It seeks to achieve a change in ambitions are similar to those of most the way Jews perceive themselves and members of the society around you, have revolutionize the way we think about G-d, you thought about your values consciously Positive Parenting Roundtables Seudah Shlishit the human soul and the world. and chosen them for yourself? These classes will address these timeless issues Sundays 9:45–11 AM Shabbat after Mincha with depth and clarity. Based on the Dec 11, Jan 15, Feb 12, Mar 5 Seudah Shlishit (Shabbat’s third Ladies’ Living Room Learning— teachings of Rabbi Dr. Akiva Tatz. This four-part series offers workshops for meal) often has additional inspiring A Weekly Torah Class for Women parents of young children and teens. These commentaries from Rabbi Moshe Scheiner discussions will guide the adults in ways or a guest speaker. We conclude with Timeless Wisdom and Relevant Tools Lunch and Learn to cope with challenges that their children Ma’ariv and Havdalah services. The for Contemporary Life. In Loving Memory of Michael Leone face, and will help them deepen connections Talmud teaches that the unique spiritual Wednesdays, 10:30 AM at the home of to each other. By placing effective tools and dimensions of this meal assure that one Rebbetzin Dinie Scheiner Last Wednesday of every month strategies into action this series will teach who fulfills this obligation to eat the third from 12–1 PM Pirkei Avot, a transmission of rich ethics and ways to foster responsibility and resiliency meal merits favorable judgment in the fundamental principles, is unique in that it Our Lunch and Learn classes focus on in children of all ages. world to come. is the only tractate of the Mishnah dealing Jewish law and ethics and how to apply solely with ethical and moral principles. them to contemporary issues. Lunch This class will go beyond the classic text to and drinks are available for $10. Lunch Tuesday Torah Topics explore the relationship between the beliefs reservations need to be made by Monday. of our sages and modern psychology. These sessions are held at the: Tuesdays, 12:15 PM Please join us and explore this ethical Law Office of Richard Zaretsky Enjoy an energizing discussion while guide of character refinement that will lead 1615 Forum Place, Suite 3A analyzing the weekly Torah portion. We us to positive relationships and a more West Palm Beach will explore insights into the relevance of meaningful life. the stories and commandments of our daily lives. Women’s Programs

Shabbat Women’s Tea First Fridays Challah Group Join the women of the congregation for It’s our 4th year of experimenting an afternoon of socializing and take a look with unique, creative and delectable into the feminine side of the weekly Torah challah recipes! portion. Connect and relate to the Torah in Women are invited to join Rebbetzin Dinie a way only women can, and learn relevant Scheiner the first Friday of every month to lessons to live by as women of the 21st learn the art of baking challah, experiment century. Graciously hosted by women with creative recipes and experience the within walking distance of the Synagogue. beauty of this special mitzvah for women. Featuring new recipes, shapes and techniques every month. Jewish Women’s Renaissance Women’s Chodesh Group Generously sponsored by Sheryl Davidoff, Project Momentum Free* Trip to Rosh Chodesh, the celebration of the Sara Klompus, Stacey Lampert, Sandy Smith Israel! beginning of the Jewish month, is an Sunday, July 16–Tuesday, July 25, 2017 especially meaningful day for Jewish women and has blossomed into a Since 2009 over 7,300 women from 21 celebration of women and femininity. Community Israel Trip with Dinie Countries and 6 Continents have joined this incredible trip. Join Rebbetzin Dinie Women are cordially invited to join our and Rabbi Moshe Scheiner Rosh Chodesh Group events to celebrate Scheiner and Sarah Dworcan, together the new month, holidays and our lives as Tuesday, July 4–Thursday, July 13 with hundreds of women from around the Jewish women. Discover Israel like you’ve never globe for a trip of a lifetime! This highly experienced it! subsidized trip is free (*excluding airfare, $75 tip fee, $49 application fee and a $360 Explore the land of our heritage, the land Women’s Tehillim Group full refundable deposit upon returning from that has been in our prayers for millennia, the trip). Primarily for women with children Shabbat Mevorchim on an Israel adventure of a lifetime! under 18 years of age. JWRP covers all (the Shabbat we bless the new month) Whether you have visited Israel before land costs: hotels, transportation, tours, or are a first timer, this tour is a colorful The power of Psalms ascends to the classes, programs and most meals. composition of the best of Israel. You heaven like no other form of prayer. As the will visit spectacular sites, experience a Our Mission: Empowering women to Tzemach Tzedek, the third Chabad Rebbe, variety of cultural encounters and cuisines, change the world through Jewish values said, “If one only knew the power of the and see popular and off-the-beaten-track that transform ourselves, our families and verses of Tehillim and their effect in the places, all of which will make this tour our communities. Inspire a Mom, inspire highest heavens, one would recite them an unforgettable experience. Meet with the world! constantly.” Please join the women of dignitaries and personalities to gain insight PBS as we collectively complete the entire into life in Israel, and take some time to get Tehillim on Shabbat Mevarchim. May our to know its citizens by volunteering. prayers help all those in need of blessings for health and happiness. Hebrew/English recitations. Teens are welcome to join! Youth/Teens

Mommy and Me PBS Kids’ Club Bubby Buddies Family Minyan The First Tuesday of the Month PBS Kids’ Club is our unique, innovative The children of Palm Beach Synagogue The Second Shabbat of the Month Jumpstart your child’s lifelong love of and totally exciting programing for the Palm meet before Holidays to share gifts and 10 AM–12 PM Judaism! Meet other parents at the Beach Synagogue Youth. The dedicated perform songs for the residents at Tradition This exciting minyan is designed for children Cool Beans Play Cafe in a relaxed and counselors and instructors ensure the of the Palm Beaches, an assisted living and parents to enjoy Shabbat morning comfortable environment. Your child will PBS Kids’ Club is action-packed and fun, facility. Parents are invited to join their services together in an interactive and engage in a wide range of activities and hosting a wide array of exciting social children and share in this special mitzvah. engaging service with Rabbi Yosef Rice. sensory discoveries through play, music and events, volunteer opportunities and Shabbat All ages welcome! Raffles for amazing prizes, fun games, movement. Enter the parent-kid haven and and Holiday programs. Your children will Tradition of the Palm Beaches delicious snacks, special kid-friendly lunch be prepared to sing, clap, laugh, snack, play experience the camaraderie and warmth 4920 Loring Drive, West Palm Beach and family bonding and fun! The kids and and most importantly-enjoy! of new friendships and appreciate new their parents look forward the whole month meaning in the celebration of our festivals to our Family Minyan! and volunteerism. PBS Youth Shabbat and Hebrew School $18 PBS Kids’ Club Membership or Holiday Groups $5 per program Birthday Club Sundays 9:30–12:30 PM 10 AM–12 PM A Special Home Visit from PBS Youth The Palm Beach Synagogue Hebrew School This structured, fun-filled program is sure Directors is a dynamic after-school program for Jewish PBS Kids’ Social Action Club to give your child a fabulous Shabbat education. It enjoys a well-earned reputation experience. Through innovative games and A Jewish birthday has special significance. Through performing acts of service in our as a trend-setter in a creative and hands-on our sing-along mini-service, Shabbat truly It is the day on the Jewish Calendar that G-d community, this Club instills in our children Jewish educational program and Hebrew comes alive for kids at PBS. The program decided the world cannot exist without you! both an appreciation for the blessings in their language instruction for children in pre-K includes: Torah tales, prayer, edible crafts, To celebrate this special day, the day of your own lives and the important values of Ahavat through Grade 7. PBS is especially proud Parsha games and exciting prizes! The Jewish birthday, PBS Youth Directors will Yisrael (love of one’s fellow) and Chesed (acts of its dynamic staff and the inclusiveness children’s song performance is truly one of visit your home with a special birthday kit of loving kindness). The PBS Social Action of our student body, with children from the highlights of the the adult service! just for you to enjoy with your family. It will various private and public schools of varying Club seeks out volunteer opportunities that be a birthday bash like no other! backgrounds and affiliations. Our innovative bring into the children’s sphere of influence Mini Minyan: Ages 3-5 (younger children curriculum features the popular Aleph Champ people they may not ordinarily meet--people welcome when accompanied by a parent) Hebrew Reading Program.bThe students who are lonelier and less fortunate than Junior Congregation: Ages 6-12 Birthday Shabbat themselves. By bringing a smile to these Teens and Torah: Ages 13+ learn Judaic studies and history, mitzvot, The Last Shabbat of the Month holidays, contemporary issues and gain a peoples’ faces and uplifting their spirits, the love for Israel—all through the prism of fine kids in turn will feel special and fulfilled, Join us with your family and friends at our arts, games, music and creativity. knowing the positive impact they are having spectacular Birthday Club Shabbat when we on others. gather to celebrate all the Hebrew birthdays of the past month! Special party table at the Kiddush, fun birthday games, delicious birthday cake and so much more! Tweens/Teens

Middle School Programming The William Langfan Teens for Israel NEW PROGRAM NEW PROGRAM This year we are combining the Bar and Bat Advocacy Training Program Mentor Leadership Initiative March of the Living Mitzvah club and Emtza NCSY social events The mission of this Program is to educate A program for selected teenagers to teach April 19–May 3 into one incredible, comprehensive club for students in Grades 10–12 about current political and instill the traits, skills and values This year, PBS teens will be joining the March middle school aged children. Each program developments in the Middle East and the image that are common to successful leaders in of the Living trip, a two week international, will have an exciting social aspect from Emtza of Israel in the world arena, thereby equipping business,education and government. The educational program bringing Jewish juniors NCSY and an educational aspect focusing on students to respond to the dissemination program unites around a vision for a tolerant, and seniors from all over the world to Poland this important stage in the middle schooler’s of inaccurate information and anti-Israel free and open exchange of ideas that will on Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Memorial life. This year of programming provides life- propaganda on college campuses and in the lead to moral and social progress in society. Day). They will march from Auschwitz to lessons for its participants long after their Bar media. Participants will meet periodically in The program will introduce a curriculum Birkenau, the largest concentration camp or Bat Mitzvah has been formally celebrated! seminars to enrich their knowledge of the divided into workshops, once a month over complex built during World War II, and then region and its historical development. The seven months, each workshop encompassing to Israel to observe Yom HaZikaron (Israel program will include presentations by local and one of the seven essential skills of successful Memorial Day), and Yom Ha’Atzmaut, (Israel Eugene & Ethel Joffe Maimonides regional politicians, Israeli government officials leadership. Every workshop will have a guest Independence Day). Leadership Institute and experts in the field of public relations. speaker from the South Florida business or Among the goals of the March of the Living Sundays 9:30 AM–12:30 PM Select students will participate in the AIPAC political community who will discuss his or policy conference in Washington, D.C. is for participants to learn the lessons of the Designed for young adults in the Palm Beach her personal experience as it relates to the Holocaust and to lead the Jewish people into community, Grades 8–12, to study and skill to be explored in the workshop. the future vowing “Never Again!” explore religious, spiritual and ethical Jewish Each subgroup of teens will be assigned a values. This tuition free program allows the mentor who has demonstrated successful students to be awarded merit compensation leadership in his or her selected field and Project Connect has received training in the curriculum. In for their studies. More than an academic Since its inception, Project Connect has the subgroups, the mentor will augment exercise, the experience contributes been a successful and meaningful program the discussion of the monthly topic through profoundly to the students’ identity for our dear participants and our dedicated exploration of real life challenges faced by as Jews. teen volunteers. Therefore, this year Project the mentor and explore with the subgroup in Connect is expanding to nursing homes, greater depth the lesson of the month. hospitals and homeless shelters. The positive Each mentor will remain with the subgroup impact of Project Connect is not only throughout the seven monthly sessions and experienced by the recipients but by the be available to the participants between each teen volunteers as well. Project Connect’s session to continue the dialogue if requested main program is to ‘connect’ special needs by the participant. children with teen volunteers from across Generously sponsored by Lawrence Sosnow Palm Beach County. At each event, participants actively engage and gain from a variety of stimulating activities, while enjoying the warm company of their teen friend. Together special friendships are built that will last a lifetime. Generous donations made by Sara & Leonard Aronson, Wendy & Harvey Bird, Petra & Stephen Levin, Sandy & Rick Smith Book Club Shabbat/Holiday Hospitality Join our Book Club to engage in dynamic Shabbat at the Palm Beach Synagogue is an discussions relating to character experience! If you are in town for Shabbat development, plot twists, author intent and or a Holiday, feel free to call the Synagogue thematic relevancy in a quiet social setting. regarding meals and arrangements with local Share your thoughts on books you’ve hotels that offer our members and guests read and spend some time with friends on special rates. Shabbat afternoon. The Breakers Hotel Co-Chairs Carol Rasowsky and Nancy Steinfeld 1 South County Road Palm Beach, 561-655-6611 The Palm Beach Hotel CHESED 235 Sunrise Avenue Pre-Shabbat Party at Tradition and Krav Maga “Those Who Provide for the Needs of the Palm Beach, 561-655-4580 Quantum House First developed by the Israeli army back in the Community – May the Holy One, Blessed Be Bradley Park Hotel 1940s, Krav Maga is a form of self-defense that He, Give Them Their Reward.” First and Third Friday of the Month at 3 PM 280 Sunset Avenue is widely practiced today all over the world. –Shabbat Service Prayer Palm Beach, 561-832-7050 What better way to begin your weekend than The physical training is great exercise and it’s a by joining Rabbi Yosef as he brings the joy of great stress reliever as well! 8 weeks of intense, PBS Bikur Cholim volunteers are dedicated Shabbat to the children at Quantum House physical fun. to serving our community with hospital and (a home for families whose children are home visitations, sunshine calls, Shabbat- receiving treatment in Palm Beach County for in-a-Box deliveries and meals. They contact a serious medical condition) and the resident B’nei Mitzvah Program and lend supportive assistance to those seniors at The Tradition of the Palm Beaches who are homebound and/or recuperating. The youth of PBS enjoy the unique privilege (an assisted living facility)! This new and If you would like to participate in these of studying with Rabbi Moshe Scheiner exciting program, a part of Project Connect, mitzvah opportunities, please join with us privately, starting one year prior to their Bar will be so meaningful to both the volunteers by contacting our Biker Cholim Chairperson, or Bat Mitzvah. As part of the preparation for and seniors. Nancy Steinfeld 561-748-1976 or the this special event, Rabbi Scheiner mentors Synagogue office. them in Jewish ethics and obligations, the Shabbat Around the World applicable Parshah and Haftorah portions, Ethics of our Fathers, special topics selected Experience Shabbat in a global way! Each by the child and the ritual notes for chanting Shabbat dinner takes us to another country the Torah and Haftorah portions. and culture. Meet the locals by experiencing their traditions and savor the different cuisines. No matter where the Shabbat takes Jewish Film Festival us, we always have an abundance of lively songs, moving and thought-provoking words This festival will feature outstanding films of Torah, and fun socializing with friends! with Jewish content. There is no charge and all are welcome. Popcorn will be served. Generously funded by Sara & Leonard Coffee on Clematis for Teens Aronson, Sara Klompus, Sandy & Rick Smith Thursdays at 7:00 PM Kick back on a Thursday night with your Teen Rabbi for coffee, conversation and some words of inspiration. You will find yourself looking forward to these get togethers all week. All teens welcome! 22nd 25th AT 11 AM AT 7:30–9:30 PM High Holiday A New Year— Extravaganza A New You Get in the Holiday spirit and become a High Holiday pro in The Magic of Flow: the most fun and creative ways! Overcoming Obstacles to Become the Best Version of You Create an exquisite Rosh Hashanah apple honey dish for your family!

with Guest Speaker: Danna Pycher, NLP, CHt, CPLC

21st & 29th Pre-High Holiday Two-Part Lecture AT 9:30 AM PBS11th Hebrew School and Series Maimonides Leadership Institute 5777 begin! Two evenings of “Reflection and Re-JEW-venation” with Rabbi Moshe Scheiner, Palm Beach Synagogue and Rabbi Efrem Goldberg, Boca Raton Synagogue

Av–Elul 5776 September 2016

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Shabbat Youth Group Re’eh Rosh Chodesh Elul Candle lighting 7:19 PM Shabbat Ends 8:26 PM 1 Elul 4 2 Elul 5 3 Elul 6 4 Elul 7 5 Elul 8 6 Elul 9 7 Elul 10

Happy Birthday Stacey Lampert Shabbat Youth Group Yahrzeit Hinda Chazanow Shoftim Rosh Chodesh Elul Labor Day Yahrzeit Louis Bizar Candle lighting 7:12 PM Shabbat Ends 8:19 PM 8 Elul 11 9 Elul 12 10 Elul 13 11 Elul 14 12 Elul 15 13 Elul 16 14 Elul 17

9/11 Memorial Tribute First Day of Hebrew School & Shabbat Youth Group Maimonides Happy Birthday Moriel Weiner Ki Teitzei March of the Living Recruitment Candle lighting 7:04 PM Shabbat Ends 8:11 PM

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Shabbat Youth Group Selichot Service Book Club Happy Birthday Yahrzeit Eleanor Goodman Rabbi Yosef Rice Shabbat Party with Teens Ki Tavo Hebrew School & Maimonides Coffee on Clematis for Teens at Traditions Leil Selichot Teen BBQ Yahrzeit Maxine Half Pre-High Holiday Lecture Series Women’s Chodesh Group Candle lighting 6:56 PM Shabbat Ends 8:03 PM 22 Elul 25 23 Elul 26 24 Elul 27 25 Elul 28 26 Elul 29 27 Elul 30

Pre-High Holiday Lecture Series Guest Speaker Hebrew School & Maimonides Happy Birthday Rabbi Efrem Goldberg High Holiday Extravaganza Michael Silverman Yahrzeit Moshe Dubinsky Coffee on Clematis for Teens Candle lighting 6:48 PM

561.838.9002 plambeachsynagogue.org Welcome New Youth/Teen Palm Beach Synagogue 9/11 March of the Living Directors Sarah Dworcan Memorial Tribute Information Session and Yosef Rice! Sunday, Sept 11 • 12:30 PM Sunday, Sept 11 • 11:30 AM Shabbat, Sept 10 Join us as we remember the victims of 9/11 Guest speaker, Sam Ron, a 92 year old survivor of the Cracow Ghetto and Join us in welcoming our and honor our Palm Beach first responders. Plaszow, and a hero of the Bricha youth/teen director dream Help deliver fresh coffee and cake to the and Israel War of Independence team, Sarah and Yosef to firefighters and police officers who protect, will join a March of the Living our community. Introduce your defend and secure our community daily. Student Alumnus to introduce children and teens and find out the 2017 March of the Living trip what’s in store for them at PBS to the Maimonides Leadership in 5777! Teen Kickoff BBQ! Institute teens. Sunday, Sept 18 • 7 PM Dates of trip: April 19-May 3, 2017 First Day of Hebrew School and Eugene & Ethel Joffe Maimonides Leadership Institute Sunday, Sept 11 • 9:30 AM–12:30 PM Two outstanding educational programs for youth and teens. Women’s Chodesh Group A New Year — A New You

Thursday, Sept 22 • 7:30–9:30 PM As we approach the New Year, join us for an exciting, stimulating and thought-provoking evening with author and motivational speaker, It’s going to be an Epic Year for PBS Teens! Danna Pycher. Create an exquisite ceramic Come for a fully stacked BBQ and meet apple honey dish for your family to enjoy your awesome Teen Rabbi, Yosef Rice. on Rosh Hashanah. Find out what’s in store for you and your Graciously hosted by Meryl Avni friends this coming year! Fantastic stuff, by the way, that you won’t want to miss. This Fee: $25 per person. kickoff event is a great chance to reconnect with old friends and to make new ones. Guest Speaker Danna Pycher is an international motivational speaker, hypnotherapist, and *$18 Annual Membership to join The Teen Club. author. She specializes in trauma and disease and the correlation between the two. She works with Receive a sweatshirt and other fun mementos! people all over the world to shift their consciousness and teaches how peeling away our layers can bring us to ultimate healing. Through her speaking she is known to connect with her audience in an intimate way leaving a lasting effect. She has been featured as a TEDx speaker, in Brides Magazine, multiple news venues, and more. Danna is the author of 3rd Generation and Beyond. Generously sponsored by Meryl & Dr. Freddy Avni, Sharon & Neil Efron

More September Programs Pre-High Holiday Two-Part Lecture Series Two evenings of “Reflection and Re-JEW-venation”

Wednesday, Sept 21 • 7:30 PM / Thursday, Sept 29 • 7:30 PM

Rabbi Moshe Scheiner Rabbi Efrem Goldberg Palm Beach Synagogue Boca Raton Synagogue “The Other Side of Sin: “What You Need to Know to Become How to Make the Most of Our Mistakes” the Best Version of Yourself”

Wine and cheese reception to follow both lectures.

Rabbi Efrem Goldberg is the Senior Rabbi of the Boca Raton Synagogue. In addition, he serves as Co-Chair of the Orthodox Rabbinical Board’s Va’ad Ha’Kasrut, as Director of the Rabbinical Council of America’s South Florida Regional Bet Din for Conversion and as Posek of the Boca Raton Mikvah. In 2014, Rabbi Goldberg was presented the Pillar of the Community and Israel Award by Friends of the IDF.

Book Club

Shabbat, Sept 24 • 1:30 PM Henna House Author: Nomi Eve High Holiday Adela Damari’s parents’ Carnival for Kids! health is failing. They desperately seek a Shabbat, Sept 25 • 11:00 AM future husband for their young daughter who is Apple dipped in honey? The sound of the in danger of becoming shofar? The High Holidays is when it all adopted by the local happens! Become a High Holiday Pro in a Muslim community fun and creative way! We will totally get of Yemen. Publishers Weekly called it “A you into the High Holiday spirit! touching coming-of-age story.” 9th FROM 12:30–3:30 PM Mitzvah Day Fair

Join PBS for an exciting and inspiring day of Mitzvah opportunities for all ages during these High Holy Days. On Mitzvah Day our community will undertake a range of volunteer projects for those in need in our local community as well as those abroad which AT 7 PM will create deeper bonds within our communities and supporting 24 th charities. Featuring special musical entertainment, fun activities for Simchat Torah High Holidays kids and refreshments! Dance Party

PBS is the place to be on Simchat 5777 AT 5:00 PM Start the New Year on a high note and join 9th Torah! Join us for lively and spirited Hakafot, scrumptious hot Holiday our community for inspiring and meaningful Dinner, Kids’ Candyland Wonderland High Holiday Services with Rabbi Moshe An Evening of Song and and Teen Mocktail Bar! Scheiner, Cantor Tzvi Grinhaim and the Bat Kol Choir. Interactive and exciting Youth and Teen Services. Delicious Spirit Cantorial Concert community holiday meals. Transliterated and Linear Enjoy stirring and uplifting melodies from Prayer Books. Cantors Tzvi Grinhaim, Boaz Davidoff and The Bat Kol Choir and inspiring messages from Rabbi Scheiner in preparation for the 16 th–23 rd holiest day of the year. Celebrate the joyous holiday of Sukkot at PBS!

Join us as we celebrate the mitzvot of sitting in the Sukkah and shaking the Lulav and Etrog. Enjoy inspiring services and sermons, joyous holiday meals in the PBS Sukkah, a Family Super Sukkah Hop, the PBS Kids’ Sukkah Contest and Sushi in the Sukkah for Teens!

Elul 5776–Tishrei 5777 October 2016

SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 28 Elul 1

Shabbat Youth Group Women’s Tehillim Group Yahrzeit Hattie Bizar Nitzavim Shabbat Ends 7:55 PM 29 Elul 2 1 Tishrei 3 2 Tishrei 4 3 Tishrei 5 4 Tishrei 6 5 Tishrei 7 6 Tishrei 8

Holiday Youth Group Tashlich on the Beach Yahrzeit Helen Legman Holiday Youth Group Fast Of Gedaliah Pre-Shabbat Party at Quantum Shabbat Youth Group Erev Rosh Hashanah Rosh Hashanah 5777 Rosh Hahanah ll Fast begins 6:02 am House with Teens Vayeilech Candle lighting 6:46 PM Candle lighting 7:53 PM Yom Tov ends 7:52 PM Fast ends 7:25 PM Coffee on Clematis for Teens Candle lighting 6:40 PM Shabbat Ends 7:47 PM 7 Tishrei 9 8 Tishrei 10 9 Tishrei 11 10 Tishrei 12 11 Tishrei 13 12 Tishrei 14 13 Tishrei 15

Holiday Youth Group Yahrzeit Sarah Ogulnick Holiday Youth Group Yizkor Hebrew School & Maimonides Fast begins 6:37 PM Break-the-Fast Dinner Shabbat Youth Group Mitzvah Day Fair Kol Nidre Yom Kippur Ha’Azinu Cantorial Concert Candle lighting 6:36 PM Fast ends 7:43 PM Coffee on Clematis for Teens Candle lighting 6:33 PM Shabbat Ends 7:40 PM

14 Tishrei 16 15 Tishrei 17 16 Tishrei 18 17 Tishrei 19 18 Tishrei 20 19 Tishrei 21 20 Tishrei 22

Hebrew School & Maimonides Sukkah Contest Pre-Shabbat Party PBS Kids’ Social Action Club Yahrzeit Sarah Kaplan at Tradition with Teens Shabbat Youth Group Eruv Sukkot Sukkot l Sukkot ll Teen Sushi in the Sukkah Sukkot V (CH”M) Sukkot VI (CH”M) Candle lighting 6:31PM Candle lighting 7:39 pm Yom Tov ends 7:38 PM Sukkot lll (CH”M) Sukkot lV (CH”M) Candle lighting 6:27 PM Shabbat Ends 7:34 PM 21 Tishrei 23 22 Tishrei 24 23 Tishrei 25 24 Tishrei 26 25 Tishrei 27 26 Tishrei 28 27 Tishrei 29 Hebrew School & Maimonides Simcha Torah Dance Party Family Super Sukkah Hop Candyland for Kids Annual Sukkot Party Teen Mocktail Bar Sukkoth Vll (Hoshana Raba) Yizkor Candle lighting 6:25 PM Shmini Atzeret Shabbat Youth Group Candle lighting 7:32 PM Birthday Club for Kids 28 Tishrei 30 Adult Education with Women’s Tehillim Group Hebrew School & Maimonides 29 Tishrei 31 Simchat Torah Rabbi Josh Broide Yahrzeit Charles Rasowsky Bereshit Project Connect Holiday Ends 7:32 PM Isru Chag Project Connect Teen Training Candle lighting 6:21 PM Shabbat Ends 7:28 PM

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Holiday Service Meet the Cantor Times and Meals Cantor Tzvi Grinhaim is endowed with a lyrical, powerful and flexible tenor voice which he started developing at age 14 ROSH HASHANAH with the best chazanut instructors. He now Sunday, October 2 serves as Chazan in the Tel Aviv Central Evening Services 7:00 PM Synagogue. With a blend of traditional and original Jewish tunes, Cantor Tzvi Holiday Dinner* Grinhaim, accompanied by the Bat Kol Choir, will create a special atmosphere Monday, October 3 PBS YOUTH for the High Holidays. Morning Services 8:30 AM HOLIDAY SERVICE Youth Groups 9:00 AM AND PROGRAM Sermon and Shofar Blowing 11:00 AM Experience the Holidays through Holiday Lunch* exciting and interactive songs, stories, Mincha 5:00 PM games and delicious healthy snacks. Tashlich Service on the Beach 5:30 PM Children will be fully supervised and Ma’ariv Services 7:00 PM appropriate activities are planned for Holiday Dinner* each age group. Lunch will be served.

Tuesday, October 4 SHMINI ATZERET Morning Services 8:30 AM Sunday, October 23 Youth Groups 9:00 AM Sermon and Shofar Blowing 11:00 AM Evening Services 6:30 AM Holiday Lunch* Holiday Meal* Mincha/Ma’ariv Services 6:45 PM SUKKOT Havdalah 7:48 PM Monday, October 24 Sunday, October 16 Shacharit 9:00 AM Evening Services 6:45 PM Youth Groups 10:00 AM YOM KIPPUR Holiday Dinner* Yizkor 11:00 AM Tuesday, October 11 Kiddush Luncheon in the Sukkah Pre-Fast Dinner 4:00 - 6:30 PM* Monday, October 17 Simchat Torah Services 6:30 PM Mincha Service 4:30 PM Shacharit 9:00 AM Followed by Simchat Torah Dance Party Kol Nidrei 6:45 PM Youth Groups 10:00 AM and Community Celebration Bat Kol Choir Youth Groups 6:45 PM Kiddush in the Sukkah SIMCHAT TORAH Bat Kol Choir performs choral Mincha/Ma’ariv Services 6:30 PM arrangements of traditional and original Wednesday, October 12 Holiday Dinner* Tuesday, October 25 Jewish tunes with four voices. They are Shacharit 9:00 AM Shacharit 9:00 AM led by Rabbi Dudi Leibovich, a singer/ Youth Groups 10:00 AM Tuesday, October 18 Youth Groups 9:30 AM musician who conducts children’s and Yizkor 11:00 AM Shacharit 9:00 AM Hakaftot 10:00 AM adult’s professional choirs. Last year, the choir accompanied Chazzan Tzvi Grinhaim Mincha / Ne’ilah 5:30 PM Youth Groups 10:00 AM Kiddush 12:00 PM for the High Holiday services in the Youth Program 5:30 PM Kiddush in the Sukkah international synagogue, Beit El in Tel Aviv. Fast Ends 7:43 PM Mincha/Ma’ariv Services 6:30 PM *Please join us for these festive community Complimentary Break the Fast Dinner Holiday Dinner* holiday meals. Reservations required.

More October Programs Tashlich on the Beach Sukkot Teen Mocktail Bar Monday, Oct 3 • 6:15 PM October 16–October 23 Monday, Oct 24 Join Palm Beach Synagogue for our annual Get ready to party! This is the dance-a-thon Tashlich on the Beach service at Seminole of all dance-a-thons as we celebrate the Avenue and North Ocean Boulevard. Annual Model Sukkah Contest annual completion of the reading of the Entries accepted Sunday, October 9 Special Children’s Beach Party! Torah. Enjoy unique drinks prepared by our through Sunday, October 16! awesome mixologists as we celebrate the Design and create your very own Sukkah Torah and dance the night away! model to be displayed at the synagogue An Evening of Song and Spirit and win AWESOME prizes! Friends and Pre-Yom Kippur Concert and Kol Nidrei siblings are welcome to create their Sukkah Appeal Kickoff model together. Dimensions not to exceed Community Simchat 12” x 18”. Winners announced Erev Sukkot, Sunday, October 16 via email! Torah Dance Party Project Connect Sunday, Oct 9 • 5:00 PM Teen Volunteer Training Enjoy stirring and uplifting melodies from Monday, Oct 24 • 6:30 PM Cantors Tzvi Grinhaim, Boaz Davidoff and Sushi in The Sukkah for Teens Thursday, October 20 • 8:00 PM PBS is the place to be on Simchat Torah! Thursday, Oct 27 • 7 PM The Bat Kol Choir and inspiring messages Join us for lively and spirited Hakafot, Join us for an awesome teen event under The Teen Training is an orientation program from Rabbi Scheiner in preparation for the and enjoy a night you won’t remember the stars and palm leaves of the PBS Sukkah. that teaches our volunteers how to holiest day of the year. Cocktail reception. celebrating the joy of this special holiday Chill out with friends while you learn from interact with children who have special Graciously hosted by Eileen Berman & Jay Bauer with other very “happy” people! a professional chef how to make the most needs. Volunteers will learn about delicious sushi. This is an all-you-can-eat Generously sponsored by Osnat Mendelson and various disabilities, appropriate conduct sushi buffet. Who’s up for the challenge? Dr. Jose Martinez. when volunteering, the importance of PBS Kids’ Social Action Club giving back to the community and the huge Kickoff Event! Edible Sukkah in the Sukkah impact they can make on others. Sukkah Decorating at JCFS Shabbat, October 22 • 10:00 AM–12:00 PM Defining Your Role in Life Design and create your very own delicious A Five-Part Series with Rabbi Josh Broide Sunday, Oct 16 • 1–2 PM edible Sukkah. Ages 5–12 Wednesday, Oct 26 • 7 PM Join us as we volunteer at the Jewish Children’s Family Services Home to Family Super Sukkah Hop Free Will—The Real You Sunday, October 23 • 10:00 AM–1:00 PM decorate their Sukkah together with the The most important thing to grasp about Get your sneakers and sunglasses on as residents. Bring creativity and ingenuity being human is the fact that you have free we hop from Sukkah to Sukkah on Palm to this very special sukkah. We will work choice. You make the decisions. You are Beach! Experience a variety of activities hand-in-hand with the residents, bringing responsible. We shall attempt to show and surprises in Sukkahs around town, their special warmth and good spirits to that the secular world is not so sure about enjoy delicious snacks and do the Lulav this pre-holiday event. This promises to be this, but as a Jew, you have to know that shake! Final stop will be at Bradley Park for a sukkah like no other! everything significant in life depends on this a BBQ lunch in a “Sukkah in the Park” as idea. Let us explore the concept of free will we celebrate Hoshanah Rabah - the last day and understand why it is essential in coming Project Connect Colors of Sukkot. to grips with who you really are. What are Connection the components of human free will and what are its limits? Sunday, Oct 30 • 1:30–3:30 PM Rabbi Josh Broide is the Uptown Art Director of Engagement for PBS Kids’ Simchat 510 Evernia St, West Palm Beach the Jewish Federation of During this exciting two-part series, Torah in Candyland South Palm Beach, as well children with special needs and our teen as the Outreach Rabbi at the volunteers will learn all about the color Monday, Oct 24 Boca Raton Synagogue. In 2015, wheel, color mixing and painting! This The Jewish Daily Forward listed him as one awesome hands-on art instruction provides Taste the sweetness of the Torah the most inspiring American Rabbis. He everything you need to have a great time with delectable mouth-watering candies also received the National Jewish Outreach with your teen friend and create your and treats while you dance the night away! Program’s Leslie Nelkin Special Service masterpiece. Award for his commitment to outreach. Featuring the Academy Award- Palm Beach Synagogue is a proud AT 7 PM partner of the Shabbat Project! 9 th nominated film: Defiance. Guest 11th & 12th Join us as an estimated one million speaker, Aron Bell (Bielski), the people worldwide participate in Kristallnacht: youngest and only surviving this extraordinary initiative. Bielski brother of the Bielski Partisan fame. LET’S KEEP IT TOGETHER! An Evening of Challah Bake • Cocktail Reception Pre-Shabbat Musical Service for Remembrance Families • Scrumptious Shabbat Dinner • Comprehensive Shabbat programs for all ages!

Daniel Pipes 13th AT 7:00 PM The Middle East in Upheaval: Interpreting Guest Speaker and Predicting

Scholars-in-Residence 11th–12th 18th–19th 25th–26th Joel Mowbray Mark (Mordechai) Yoram Ettinger Wednesdays Halawa “How Israel sparked an “US Policy in the Middle East” AT 10:30 AM–12:00 PM incredible and most “My Journey from Kuwaiti Generously sponsored by improbable Jewish Arab to Jerusalemite Jew” Bonnie & Steven Stern Journey” Ladies’ Living Room “Election Aftermath: What lies ahead for Learning begins! the world—and the Middle East in Pirkei Avot: Timeless Wisdom and Relevant Tools for Contemporary Life

Tishrei–Cheshvan 5777 November 2016

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Book Club Pre-Shabbat Party at Quantum Shabbat Youth Group Adult Education Series House with Teens Noach Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan with Rabbi Broide Coffee on Clematis for Teens Candle lighting 6:16 PM Shabbat Ends 7:24 PM 5 Cheshvan 6 6 Cheshvan 7 7 Cheshvan 8 8 Cheshvan 9 9 Cheshvan 10 10 Cheshvan 11 11 Cheshvan 12

First Fridays Challah Group The Shabbat Project Hebrew School & Maimonides Scholar-in-Residence Scholar-in-Residence Dad and Teen Morning Joel Mowbray Joel Mowbray Breakfast The Shabbat Project Family Minyan Project Connect Mommy and Me Kristallnacht Yahrzeit Rose Aronson Women’s Shabbat Tea Guest Speaker Itamar Marcus Tuesday Torah Topics Film Festival Candle lighting 5:13 PM Lech-Lech Standard Time Begins Election Day Guest Speaker Aron Bell Coffee on Clematis for Teens Veterans Day Shabbat Ends 6:20 PM 12 Cheshvan 13 13 Cheshvan 14 14 Cheshvan 15 15 Cheshvan 16 16 Cheshvan 17 17 Cheshvan 18 18 Cheshvan 19

Scholar-in-Residence Scholar-in-Residence Hebrew School Showcase & Happy Birthday Ben Lampert Mark Halawa Mark Halawa Maimonides Ladies’ Living Room Learning Pre-Shabbat Party at Traditions Shabbat Youth Group Hebrew School Orientation Tuesday Torah Topics Adult Education Series Coffee on Clematis for Teens with Teens Vayera Guest Speaker Daniel Pipes Teen Mentor Program with Rabbi Broide Family Chavurah Candle lighting 5:10 PM Shabbat Ends 6:18 PM

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Scholar-in-Residence Yoram Ettinger Yahrzeit Bella Sternlieb Shabbat Youth Group Birthday Club for Kids Hebrew School & Maimonides Scholar-in-Residence Women’s Tehillim Circle Kids Club Ladies’ Living Room Learning Thanksgiving Dinner Yoram Ettinger Chayei Sara Middle School Program Tuesday Torah Topics Tanya Class Thanksgiving Candle lighting 5:09 PM Shabbat Ends 6:16 PM 26 Cheshvan 27 27 Cheshvan 28 28 Cheshvan 29 29 Cheshvan 30 Diplomate American Board of Internal Medicine 3199 LAKE WORTH RD. Fellow, Royal College of Physicians (Canada) SUITE B2 LAKE WORTH, FL 33461 Happy Birthday ERIC J. WEINER, M.D., F.R.C.P. (C) BY APPOINTMENT Yehudah Tzvi Scheiner Internal Medicine and Homeopathy TEL: (561) 964-3440 Lunch & Learn FAX: (561) 641-1754 Ladies’ Living Room Learning Tuesday Torah Topics Tanya Class

561.838.9002 plambeachsynagogue.org Happiness Dad and Teen Morning

Wednesday, Nov 2 Sunday, Nov 6 • 9:30 AM A Five-Part Series with Tefillin and Breakfast: Teens and their Dads Rabbi Josh Broide are invited for a buffet breakfast on this Happiness. It is probably the focus and special Sunday morning after the men goal of most societies on earth. In popular share in the beautiful mitzvah of praying culture of the West, happiness is the with their tefillin. ultimate achievement. People long to be happy. What is the Jewish view on this subject? Are we meant to be happy? Is happiness a Jewish goal? What is the path that leads Project Connect to happiness Colors Connection in a world of Scholar-in-Residence: ordeals? Sunday, Nov 6 • 1:30–3:30 PM Kristallnacht Joel Mowbray Uptown Art Commemoration 510 Evernia St, West Palm Beach Nov 11–Nov 12 During this second of an exciting two-part Wednesday, Nov 9 • 7 PM series, children with special needs and our How Israel sparked an incredible and most teen volunteers will learn all about the color Featuring the award-winning film, Defiance improbable Jewish Journey which depicts the heroic and true-life saga wheel, color mixing and painting! This Election Aftermath: What lies ahead for the of the Jewish partisans. These people— hands-on art instruction provides everything world—and the Middle East in particular needed to have a great time with a teen known as the Bielski Brigade—valiantly Joel Mowbray is a friend and create an art masterpiece. fought the Nazis and were the largest group of armed rescuers of Jews in Poland and syndicated columnist Book Club Belarus during the Shoah. and is best known for Aron Bell (Arczyk his State Department Shabbat, Nov 4 • 1:30 PM Guest Speaker: Itamar Marcus Bielski), is the exposés. He was the first journalist in Jaffa Beach youngest and only America to review Author: Fedora Horowitz Sunday, Nov 6 • 7 PM surviving brother of fifteen of the visa Fedora Horowitz, living the famous Bielski Itamar is an Israeli Partisans. Mr. Bell application forms of among Arabs and Jews political activist the 9/11 terrorists in Israel, wrote this novel witnessed the murder researcher and the of his parents at the and discover that as seen through the eyes founder and director all of them should of a Jewish girl. It is hands of the Germans of Palestinian Media and joined his have been denied. This led to the end of a love story set within Watch which Visa Express in Saudi Arabia and the firing the volatile context of brothers in the forest monitors and to run the largest of the Assistant Secretary of State for the founding of the analyzes the Consular Affairs. He is also a guest speaker State of Israel and the armed rescue of Jews by Jews during Palestinian Authority WWII. on many nationally syndicated radio concomitant rise of Palestine longing for a through its mass programs. homeland. media, social media, Generously sponsored by Bonnie & Steven Stern and most importantly, children’s schoolbooks. He is a featured source for the documentary Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against the West. More November Programs The Shabbat Project Weekend Hebrew School Parent Scholar-in-Residence: Showcase Mark (Mordechai) Halawa When the sun dips below the horizon on Friday, Nov. 11, join the Palm Beach Sunday, Nov 13 • 10 AM–11 AM Nov 18–Nov 19 Synagogue and an estimated one million people worldwide who will participate in an Hebrew School parents are invited to Mark (Mordechai) extraordinary initiative—The Shabbat Project! learn about our innovative curriculum, the Halawa was born in Join us for a Shabbat and enjoy a myriad of exciting programs and meet our dedicated Kuwait, raised as a events celebrating the gift of Shabbat! teachers and fellow parents. Coffee and light Muslim and taught breakfast will be served. that Jews were the source of evil. However, there was a Friday, Nov 11 secret in his family— Guest Speaker: Daniel Pipes one that led him to Challah Baking for Women, 10 AM–12 PM his Jewish roots Cocktail Reception for Adults, 4 PM Sunday, Nov 13 • 7 PM while studying at a Pre-Shabbat Musical Celebration for university in Canada. Community Daniel Pipes is an American historian, writer, Families, 4:15 PM political commentator and pro-Israel lobbyist. Thanksgiving Dinner Candle Lighting, 5:12 PM He is the president of the Middle East Forum, Services, 5:20 PM a think tank that works to define and promote Thursday, Nov 24 • 6 PM Shabbat Dinner, 6:30 PM Kids’ Club Mad Science Series American interests in the Middle East. The Hebrew term for gratitude is Hakarat Sunday, Nov 20 & 27 • 1 PM Hatov “recognizing the good”. Join us for Shabbat, Nov 12 Grades 3–7 a delicious buffet Thanksgiving Dinner to Defining Your Role in Life celebrate and thank G-d for the freedoms Services, 9 AM Do you ever wonder about the science that we enjoy in America. Reservations A Five-Part Series with Rabbi Josh Broide Youth Groups, 10 AM behind movies’ special effects or the latest required. Rabbi’s Sermon, 10:45 AM kids’ gadgets? Grab your goggles and lab Kiddush Luncheon, 12 PM Wednesday, Nov 16 coats and join this out-of-this world series! Generously sponsored by an Anonymous Donor Ladies’ Shabbat Tea with Rebbetzin Getting High, Staying High Enjoy hands-on science activities, watch Dinie Scheiner, 2 PM spectacular demonstrations, participate Men’s Farbreingen with Rabbi Scheiner, 2 PM Why do good times never last? Why are in fun inquiry-based discussions and take Scholar-in-Residence: Children’s Shabbat Party at the Dworcans, things so good when they are fresh but home awesome experiments! Yoram Ettinger 2 PM always become stale? Why is the beginning Teen Scene with Yosef, 2 PM of a relationship so exciting but the later Musical Havdalah, 6:20 PM stages often so dull? Why do we feel things Nov 25–Nov 26 Havdalah Interactive Workshop for so sharply at first but become so easily Ambassador (ret.) Families, 6:30–8 PM bored? There is a deep secret here and Yoram Ettinger is understanding it can change your life. an insider on the Don’t live within walking distance topics of U.S.-Israel of the shul? No problem. Spend Shabbat relations, Mideast on Palm Beach Island! politics and overseas PACKAGE INCLUDES: Family Chavurah investments in Israel. • 2 night’s occupancy at the landmark He is a frequent speaker at AIPAC Breakers Hotel Thursday, Nov 17 • 7 PM • Friday night dinner conferences and is • Breakfast basket, Shabbat Kiddush and Join fellow parents to discuss subjects Middle School Casino Night published regularly in Third Meal related to Jewish life and learning in a Kickoff Event! his popular blog, The • Friday Cocktail Reception family-friendly setting. Ettinger Report. • Pre-Shabbat Musical Celebration Sunday, Nov 20 • 5 PM • Comprehensive Shabbat programs for all ages Ka-Ching! This kickoff event is a great • Havdalah Workshop chance to reconnect with old friends and to make new ones. Compete in exciting casino- style activities and the top winners will win Call the office for more information. fabulous prizes! Buy-in is $10 and all money will go to a selected charity of YOUR choice! We hope everyone joins and wins! Scholars-in-Residence 31st Mazel Tov Mendel Scheiner on becoming a Bar Mitzvah! Chanukah

Chanukah: 8 Party Nights Annual Palm Beach of Lights! Community Chanukah DEC 24TH–JAN 1ST MONDAY, DEC 26TH Lighting up Palm Beach 5:30–8:30 PM 3rd 10th Bradley Park Yael Lerman Mazar Ofir Fisher PBS Chanukah on Ice StandWithUs Director Vice President of the OR Movement SATURDAY, DEC 24TH Jewish Heritage Night Annual Skating Party! of Legal Affairs “Fulfilling Ben-Gurion’s Dream of TUESDAY, DEC 27TH Skate with your PBS Family Developing the Negev” with Miami Heat at at Palm Beach Ice Works! Ice American Airlines Arena Menorah lighting, rink games The biggest Chanukah party for kids and teens, great music! and menorah lighting in Bring friends, dinner served, South Florida! 4th AT 7:00 PM all are welcome! Project Connect Guest Speaker Chanukah Concert AIPAC Ambassador WEDNESDAY, DEC 28TH Brad Gordon Light up a child’s holiday Director of Policy and Government and join us for a special Affairs once-in-a-lifetime concert and celebration! Featuring Dr. Laz and the “Sensations,” a unique non-verbal group of special individuals each with his/her special ability. 16th-17th 24th Chanukah Bubby Buddies SUNDAY, DEC 25TH • 5:30–7 PM Rav David Stav Morton Klein Tradition of the Palm Beaches. Chief Rabbi of the City National President of the Zionist Bring the joy of Chanukah to our of Shoham & Chairman Organization of America beloved Bubbies and Zaidies! of Tzohar Organization

Kislev – Tevet 5777 December 2016

SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 1 Kislev 1 2 Kislev 2 3 Kislev 3 Scholar-in-Residence EMTZA NCSY Shabbaton Yael Lerman Mazar from at BRS StandWithUs First Fridays Challah Group EMTZA NCSY Shabbaton Pre-Shabbat Party at Quantum at BRS House with Teens Shabbat Youth Group Happy Birthday Yoseph Scheiner Shabbat dinner with Guest Women’s Tea Coffee on Clematis for Teens speaker Sarit Catz from CAMERA Toldot Rosh Chodesh Kislev Candle lighting 5:09 PM Shabbat Ends 6:16 PM 4 Kislev 4 5 Kislev 5 6 Kislev 6 7 Kislev 7 8 Kislev 8 9 Kislev 9 10 Kislev 10

EMTZA NCSY Shabbaton at BRS Scholar-in-Residence Ofir Fisher Hebrew School & Maimonides Happy Birthday Yahrzeit Moshe Rubinsztejn Family Minyan Kids Club Elisabeth Rossen Ladies’ Living Room Learning Kids Club Girls Sleepover AIPAC Guest Speaker Community Israel Trip Mommy and Me Adult Education Series with Vayetzei Ambassador Brad Gordon Informational Meeting Tuesday Torah Topics Rabbi Broide Coffee on Clematis for Teens Candle lighting 5:10 PM Shabbat Ends 6:18 PM 11 Kislev 11 12 Kislev 12 13 Kislev 13 14 Kislev 14 15 Kislev 15 16 Kislev 16 17 Kislev 17

Kids Club Girls Sleepover Hebrew School & Maimonides Positive Parenting Roundtables Pre-Shabbat Party at Traditions Scholar-in-Residence Yahrzeit Miriam Happy Birthday Hindy Scheiner with Teens Rav David Stav Milgrom Neufeld Yahrzeit Selig Neufeld Scholar-in-Residence Shabbat Youth Group Yahrzeit Paul Legman Tuesday Torah Topics Ladies’ Living Room Learning Rav David Stav Vayishlach Yahrzeit Eva Renee Ross Yahrzeit Samson Regenbaum Teen Mentor Program Tanya Class Coffee on Clematis for Teens Candle lighting 5:12 PM Shabbat Ends 6:20 PM

18 Kislev 18 19 Kislev 19 20 Kislev 20 21 Kislev 21 22 Kislev 22 23 Kislev 23 24 Kislev 24 Scholar-in-Residence Morton Klein Shabbat Youth Group Birthday Club for Kids Scholar-in-Residence Rav David Stav Women’s Tehillim Group PBS Chanukah on Ice Hebrew School & Maimonides Ladies’ Living Room Learning Coffee on Clematis for Teens Chanukah Extravaganza Yahrzeit M. Stephen Ingber Vayeshev Adult Education Series with Shabbat Ends 6:24 PM Yahrzeit Arthur Kaplan Tuesday Torah Topics Rabbi Broide Yahrzeit Barbara Wolk Candle lighting 5:15 PM Chanukah: 1st Candle 25 Kislev 25 26 Kislev 26 27 Kislev 27 28 Kislev 28 29 Kislev 29 1 Tevet 30 2 Tevet 31

Happy Birthday Mendel Scheiner Bar Mitzvah Lunch & Learn Mendel Scheiner Shabbat Youth Group Project Connect Chanukah Rosh Chodesh Tevet Chanukah: 8th Candle Bubby Buddies Chanukah in Bradley Park Jewish Heritage Night Concert Chanukah: 7th Candle Miketz Chanukah: 2nd Candle Chanukah: 3rd Candle Chanukah: 4th Candle Chanukah: 5th Candle Chanukah: 6th Candle Candle lighting 5:20 PM Shabbat Ends 6:24 PM

561.838.9002 plambeachsynagogue.org Chanukah Toy Drive Scholar-in-Residence: Defining Your Role in Life Positive Parenting Roundtables Yael Lerman Mazar A Five-Part Series with Rabbi Josh Broide Dec 1–Dec 16 Sunday, Dec 11 • 9:45 AM Bring a smile to a child’s face this Dec 3 Wednesday, Dec 7 • 7 PM Children and Technology: The Effects of Chanukah! Donate new (unwrapped) toys. Yael Lerman Mazar is the Director of Legal Faith Technology and Social Media, Setting PBS Kids’ Club will collect and distribute Limits, Parameters and Taking Control Affairs for StandWithUs. Ms. Mazar was a What is the Jewish idea of faith? If a non- the toys to needy Jewish children in South lawyer for the Anti-Defamation League and Jew asked you what faith means to us, could Dr. Arielle Burdo is a Licensed Clinical Florida before Chanukah. litigated at Boies, Schiller and Flexner. you explain it? What exactly is emunah, that Psychologist working for Alpert Jewish fundamental Jewish value which is usually Family & Children’s Service in West Palm translated as “faith”? Beach, Palm Beach Gardens and Lake Worth. First Friday’s Challah Group Guest Speaker: Bradley Gordon

Friday, Dec 2 • 10 AM Sunday, Dec 4 • 7 PM Scholar-in-Residence: Rosemary Thyme Whole Wheat Challah Ambassador Bradley Gordon is AIPAC’s Ofir Fisher Director of Policy and Government Affairs, previously its Legislative Director. From Shabbat, Dec 10 Shabbat Dinner with Guest 1993 to 1995, he was Staff Director of the Ofir Fisher, the son of music artist Dudu Speaker: Sarit Catz International Operations Subcommittee Fisher, is co-founder of the OR Movement and of the House Foreign Affairs Committee V.P. and head of the resource development where he oversaw the operations of the Friday, Dec 2 • After Service department. The OR Movement together Department of State, the Agency for with the JNF have established many new Sarit Catz CAMERA’S Letter-Writing International Development, the Arms communities in Southern Israel which have Director, monitors, writes and teaches how Control and Disarmament Agency and the brought life and growth back to the Negev. to identify Israel media bias. Ms.Catz won U.S. Information Agency. three Writers’ Guild of America awards, and numerous awards for short films she has written and produced. Community Israel Trip Girls’ Slumber Party Informational Meeting Scholar-in-Residence: Middle School Shabbaton Monday, Dec 5 • 7 PM Rabbi David Stav Join us to learn more about the itinerary, Dec 2–Dec 3 pricing and details of this fabulous tour. This Dec 16–Dec 17 Join NCSY EMTZA for an unforgettable trip is open to all in the community! Shabbaton weekend at the Boca Raton Rabbi David Stav is the Rabbi of the town of Synagogue. A jam-packed weekend with great Shoham. He teaches at Bar-Ilan University, food, programs and energy. A special focus on and is the spokesman for Rashei Yeshivot “mixers” means you get to meet other Jewish Hesder across Israel. Rabbi Stav holds a middle schoolers your age, and hopefully, Dec 10–11 • 7 PM smicha for dayanut and was recently named make friendships that will last a lifetime! Wear your favorite pajamas and fuzzy Co-Chancellor of Ohr Torah Stone. slippers to the best slumber party ever! Enjoy an evening of manicures, massages, cool games, pizza, movies, midnight snacks and laughter with your friends! We will try to squeeze in some sleep too!

More December Programs Chanukah Extravaganza Chanukah Bubby Buddies

Sunday, Dec 18 • 11 AM Sunday, Dec 25 • 3–4:30 PM A Chanukah celebration with all the bells Tradition of the Palm Beaches and whistles! Meet Judah the Maccabee, The community is invited to join as we produce your very own pure olive oil and bring the joy and light of Chanukah to craft a beautiful wooden Chanukiah to our Bubbies and Zaidies at Tradition! The take home. Energize with potato latkes celebration will include unique Chanukah and donuts for the get-down-on-the-floor crafts, delicious treats, a delightful dreidel spin off! presentation from our PBS Youth and a melodious menorah lighting! Project Connect Defining Your Role in Life Chanukah Storytime Annual Palm Beach Chanukah Concert A Five-Part Series with Rabbi Josh Broide Community Chanukah Dec TBD • 10:30 AM Celebration Wednesday, Dec 28 • 4:30–7:30 PM Wednesday, Dec 21 • 7 PM 0-4 years old Join us for an evening of joy, music, and Ordeals The Four Arts Children’s Library Monday, Dec 26 • 5:30–8:30 PM friendship with Project Connect, featuring It is a basic Torah idea that a major part 2 Four Arts Plaza Dr. Laz and the “Sensations”. Dr. Laz is a Light up the 3rd night of Chanukah at our talented musician and expert in the field of the purpose of life is to stand strong in Join us at The Four Arts Library for an annual Chanukah celebration in Bradley ordeals. Now an obvious question arises: intimate Chanukah Storytime where kids of special education. The “Sensations” is Park! Festivities and Entertainment for all a unique, non-verbal group of individuals Why would Hashem test us if He knew and parents can hear endearing, childhood ages. beforehand what the outcome would be? If favorite Chanukah tales. Create an exciting each with his/her own special ability. you can pass the test Chanukah arts and crafts project to take easily, where is the home. Pack a lunch for your child for a real achievement? picnic at the Four Arts Gardens after the Mazel Tov Menachem If it’s impossible story hour. to pass, why Mendel Scheiner would Hashem on becoming a Bar Mitzvah test us in the Palm Beach Synagogue first place? Chanukah on Ice Shabbat, Dec 31 Menachem Mendel Scholar-in- Saturday. Dec 24 • 7 PM Scheiner is the son of Rabbi Moshe and Residence: Palm Beach Ice Works Dinie Scheiner. 1590 North Florida Mango Road He attends Torah Morton Klein West Palm Beach (656-4046) Academy and is in Cost: $15 for adults; $10 for children. Price Teen Jewish Heritage Night the 7th grade. Mendel Dec 24 includes skates, dinner, and our very own enjoys volunteering at Hebrew School and private skating rink. RSVP by calling the with Miami Heat Morton A. Klein is National President of the Project Connect. He also likes to assist with Synagogue office, 561-838-9002, ext. 4 Zionist Organization of America, the oldest the Shabbat youth groups. Mendel enjoys pro-Israel group in the United States. He Generously sponsored by Sandy & Rick Smith Tuesday, Dec 27 playing sports and reading. is a member of the Executive Committee American Airlines Arena Proud grandparents: Rabbi Meier and of AIPAC and is widely regarded as one of Hundreds of teens from across South Dvorah Chazanow & Rabbi Mordechai and the leading Jewish activists in America. Florida will be heating up the night with Rivka Scheiner His successful campaigns related to Jewish Heritage Night at Miami Heat anti-Israel bias were the subject of thirty Arena for an historic event! Pregame, feature stories both here and in Israel. In halftime and postgame festivities are all recognition of his efforts, Mr. Klein has accompanied by kosher arena food. received numerous awards and honors. 15th FROM 6–9 PM An Evening of Culinary Delights Cookbook Launch Party!

Featuring a Kosher Iron Chef Competition with two Palm Beach restaurant chefs

6th-7th 29th Guest 15th–16th Father and Son Camping Trip Annual Mega Challah Cantor Grab your hiking boots and sleeping bag for an unforgettable Bake for Kids Zev Müller outdoor experience!

Children and families are invited to our Second Annual Mega Challah Bake for Kids. Mix, knead and bake your own delicious Challah!

Scholars-in- 6th–7th 20th–21st Michael Doran Rabbi Steven Weil Residence Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute in Senior Managing Director of Washington, DC specializing in Middle the Orthodox Union East security issues and defense policy.

Tevet–Sh’vat 5777 January 2017

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First Fridays Challah Scholar-in-Residence Scholar-in-Residence Michael Doran Michael Doran Mommy and Me AIPAC Shabbat AIPAC Shabbat Tuesday Torah Topics Happy Birthday Rabbi Moshe Guest Cantor Zev Muller Guest Cantor Zev Muller United States Holocaust Scheiner Pre-Shabbat Party at Quantum Shabbat Youth Group Memorial Museum Ladies’ Living Room Learning Yahrzeit Henry Stern House with Teens Vayigash Chanukah Yahrzeit Samuel B. Goldberg Documentary Tanya Class Coffee on Clematis for Teens Candle lighting 5:24 PM Shabbat Ends 6:16 PM 10 Tevet 8 11 Tevet 9 12 Tevet 10 13 Tevet 11 14 Tevet 12 15 Tevet 13 16 Tevet 14

Hebrew School & Maimonides Scholar-in-Residence Scholar-in-Residence Yahrzeit Maurice Klickstein Rabbi Avi Weiss Rabbi Avi Weiss Fast Of Tevet 10 Yahrzeit Gertrude Rasowsky Shabbat Around the Family Minyan Fast Begins 5:53 AM Ladies’ Living Room Learning World for Teens Vayechi Fast Ends 6:10 PM Tuesday Torah Topics Tanya Class Coffee on Clematis for Teens Candle lighting 5:30 PM Shabbat Ends 6:39 PM 17 Tevet 15 18 Tevet 16 19 Tevet 17 20 Tevet 18 21 Tevet 19 22 Tevet 20 23 Tevet 21

Scholar-in-Residence Scholar-in-Residence Rabbi Steven Weil Rabbi Steven Weil Pre-Shabbat Party at Traditions Women’s Tehillim Group An Evening of Culinary Delights with Teens Women’s Tea Hebrew School & Maimonides Yahrzeit Uziel Chazanow Yahrzeit Rivka Dubinsky Shabbat Youth Group Positive Parenting Roundtables Tuesday Torah Topics Ladies’ Living Room Learning Coffee on Clematis for Teens Yahrzeit Bertram Sternlieb Shemot Father Son Camping Trip Father Son Camping Trip Teen Mentor Program Tanya Class Family Chavurah Candle lighting 6:33 PM Shabbat Ends 6:44 PM

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Scholar-in-Residence Slovie Wolff Scholar-in-Residence Birthday Club for Kids Ladies’ Living Room Learning Slovie Wolff Yahrzeit Benjamin Legman Lunch and Learn International Holocaust Shabbat Youth Group Hebrew School & Maimonides Tanya Class Coffee on Clematis for Teens Remembrance Day Vaera Middle School Program Tuesday Torah Topics Yahrzeit Elise Neumann – Ingber Film Festival Candle lighting 5:41 PM Shabbat Ends 6:50 PM 2 Sh’vat 29 3 Sh’vat 30 4 Sh’vat 31

Shana Tova and thanks to the Palm Beach Synagogue and Rabbi Scheiner for your continued support of Ariel University. Join us in February for a Shabbat weekend dedicated to the discovery and Happy Birthday renewal of indigenous Israeli wines, with Dr. Elyashiv Drori, who leads a Hebrew School & Maimonides Rabbi Yossi Dworcan world-class team of researchers in discovering and revitalizing the roots of Mega Challah Bake For Kids Yahrzeit Harry Pshoter Tuesday Torah Topics Israel's ancient biblical wine industry.

561.838.9002 plambeachsynagogue.org United States Holocaust Guest Cantor: Zev Müller Memorial Museum presents Jan 6–Jan 7 Claude Lanzmann: Cantor Zev Müller is Spectres of the Shoah well regarded in the cantorial world. He Tuesday, Jan 3 • 7 PM recited the Kel Moleh Thirty years after the release of the prayer at the UN documentary Shoah, filmmaker Claude General Assembly in Lanzmann discusses the personal and commemoration of the professional difficulties he encountered Holocaust. In addition during the more than 12 years it took to to being a cantor, he create the work. Lanzmann also discusses lectures on Gemara his relationships with Simone de Beauvoir and Halachic topics. and Jean-Paul Sartre, and his teenage years spent fighting in the French Resistance during World War II.

First Fridays Challah Group Friday, Jan 6 • 10:30 AM Father and Son Camping Trip

Jan 15–Jan 16 Caramelized Onion Challah Quiet Waters Park 401 S Powerline Rd, Deerfield Beach Scholar-in-Residence: Roughing it in the great outdoors is always Michael Doran a great experience, but when fathers and sons do it together, it’s truly epic! Grab your Jan 6–Jan 7 hiking boots and sleeping bag because Michael Doran is we’ll be sleeping under the stars for this a Senior Fellow at event. And a campfire’s not a campfire the Hudson Institute without s’mores, so count on us to provide in Washington, DC plenty. This promises to be a memorable specializing in Middle night for ALL the boys! East security issues. Before coming to Hudson, he was a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institute. He has taught at New York University, Princeton University and the University of Central Florida. Mr. Doran is now completing a book about President Eisenhower and the Middle East.

More January Programs Positive Parenting Roundtables Middle School Chopped and Sunday, Jan 15 • 9:45 AM Jewpardy Game Night!

Sunday, Jan 22 • 1–3 PM Healthy Body, Healthy Mind Who Will be Chopped? Learn how to educate Combining two TV originals into our own your child nutritionally spin-off, teams will compete in preparing and gain long-term delicious meals using an identical ingredient tools to foster healthy list. At different intervals during the evening, food choices for the entire the teams will need to answer a Jewpardy family. question to avoid being hit with a cooking Dr. Jerry Ziffer is a Licensed Acupuncture disadvantage (that uninvited mystery Physician, IBNFC Certified Nutrition Coach, ingredient). After three elimination rounds, and an ACE Certified Weight Management the winning team will be revealed! Coach. He has been in the health education field for 40 years and has a specialization in nutrition based on stabilized blood sugar. An Evening of Culinary Delights Scholar-in-Residence: Sunday, Jan 15 • 6–9 PM Rabbi Steven Weil Kosher Iron Chef Competition between two Palm Beach Island Chefs. Enjoy sips, Jan 20–Jan 21 treats and tasters from the cookbook and Mega Challah Bake for Kids Rabbi Steven Weil purchase a copy or three. Sunday, Jan 29 • 12–2 PM is Senior Managing Director of the Children and families are invited to our Second Annual Orthodox Union Mega Challah Bake for Kids! Each child will receive an apron, (OU), the umbrella Film Festival chef’s hat and all the ingredients to make and braid his/her very own Challah! Marvel organization for Honoring International Holocaust as the beauty of Shabbat and the mitzvah of Challah come alive through exciting hundreds of Orthodox Remembrance Day entertainment and activities! As our inaugural Mega Challah Bake proved, this synagogues in the is an event you don’t want to miss! US and Canada. He Thursday, Jan 26 • 7 PM is involved with The Hungarian Holocaust drama Son of community and Saul tells the tragic story of Saul Auslander, synagogue services, a Jewish Auschwitz inmate forced to work outreach, youth in the Sonderkommando, burning the programs through NCSY, education, bodies of murdered fellow prisoners. The political action and advocacy for persons story is loosely based on real testimonies with disabilities. of Sonderkommando members. Auslander, played by New York City-based Hungarian poet Géza Röhrig, is gradually driven mad after being ordered to cremate the corpse of a boy he believes to be his son. Directed by László Nemes, the film has won critical acclaim from wall to wall and numerous awards, including the Golden Globe for Family Chavurah Best Foreign Language Film. Thursday, Jan 19 • 7 PM 9th 10th 10th–11th Palm Beach Shabbat Ariel University Synagogue Tu B’Shvat Shabbaton From Tzfat to Palm Beach Danny Dayan, Israeli Consul General and Yehuda Danon, MD, 4th Annual Gala Dinner President of Ariel University Rabbi Shlomo Riskin Celebrate Shabbat and Tu B’Shvat Chief Rabbi of Efrat, Israel Join PBS to celebrate another incredible with Tzfat Kabbalah Co-Directors year and support our wonderful Synagogue! Rabbi Eyal & Natalie Riess Scholars-in- Residence 26th AT 10:30 AM 18th Annual Spa for the Soul Mazel Tov Benjamin Women’s Luncheon Abramowitz

Stimulate your mind, warm your heart, on becoming a Bar Mitzvah! ignite your soul… Enjoy an energizing morning of inspiration and celebration. 25th 24th–25th Mazel Tov Nitsana Darshan-Leitner Samuel Israeli attorney and human rights activist McCoy on becoming a Bar Mitzvah!

Sh’vat–Adar 5777 February 2017

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Scholar-in-Residence Rabbi Shlomo Riskin Yahrzeit Selma Lynn First Fridays Challah Group PBS Youth Group Ladies’ Living Room Learning Pre-Shabbat Party at Quantum Book Club Tanya Class Coffee on Clematis for Teens House with Teens Bo Isru Chag Yahrzeit Ida Pshoter Candle lighting 5:46 PM Shabbat Ends 6:55 PM 9 Sh’vat 5 10 Sh’vat 6 11 Sh’vat 7 12 Sh’vat 8 13 Sh’vat 9 14 Sh’vat 10 15 Sh’vat 11

Scholars-in-Residence Rabbi Eyal and Natalie Riess Scholars-in-Residence Rabbi Ariel University Shabbat Eyal and Natalie Riess Family Minyan Yahrzeit Albert Lynn Yahrzeit William Kaplan Ariel University Shabbat Shabbat Tea Hebrew School & Maimonides Mommy and Me Shabbat Tu B’Shevat Tu B’Shevat Project Connect Tuesday Torah Topics Ladies’ Living Room Learning Annual Gala Dinner Seder dinner Beshalach Middle School Program Teen Mentor Program Tanya Class Yahrzeit Gerald Gnoyke Candle lighting 5:51 PM Shabbat Ends 7:00 PM 16 Sh’vat 12 17 Sh’vat 13 18 Sh’vat 14 19 Sh’vat 15 20 Sh’vat 16 21 Sh’vat 17 22 Sh’vat 18

Hebrew School & Maimonides Positive Parenting Roundtables Shabbat Youth Group Maimonides Mother and Bar Mitzvah Benjamin Teen Breakfast Happy Anniversary Stacey & Yahrzeit Gerald Lynn Pre-Shabbat Party at Traditions Abramowitz Parent Workshop Michael Lampert Ladies’ Living Room Learning with Teens Yitro Project Connect Tuesday Torah Topics Tanya Class Coffee on Clematis for Teens Candle lighting 5:56 PM Shabbat Ends 7:05 PM

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CTeen Shabbaton Hebrew School & Maimonides Spa for the Soul Middle School Program Yahrzeit Maurice Leon Sanua Rosh Chodesh Adar Rosh Chodesh Adar Tuesday Torah Topics

561.838.9002 plambeachsynagogue.org First Fridays Challah Group Book Club Shabbat Tu B’Shvat Friday, Feb 3 • 10:30 AM Shabbat, Feb 4 • 1:30 PM From Tzfat to Palm Beach

Date Walnut Silan Challah Sacred Trash - The Lost and Found Friday, Feb 10 • After Service World of the Cairo Geniza Celebrate Shabbat and Tu B’Shevat with a Authors: Peter Cole, Adina Hoffman seder led by International Tzfat Kabbalah This book tells the Center Directors, Rabbi Eyal and Natalie remarkable story of Riess from our community’s Tzachar the Cairo Geniza—a Region Partnership City in Israel. synagogue repository for worn-out texts that Rabbi Eyal Riess was found to contain Palm Beach Synagogue is the Director of the most vital cache of Annual Gala Dinner the International Jewish manuscripts ever Tzfat Kabbalah discovered. Thursday, Feb 9 Center which was Please generously support the Synagogue founded in the by attending, purchasing journal ads and/or city of Tzfat in purchasing raffle tickets! The Gala is the main 2007 by the Jewish Project Connect funding-raising event for the Synagogue and Federation of Palm supports many of the ongoing programs, Beach County. The Special Steps classes, lectures, scholars-in-residence, films, Center hosts tens of thousands of visitors yearly from around the world for a variety holiday parties and guest speakers. Sundays, Feb 5 & 12 • 1–2 PM of educational programs, seminars, retreats Music and dance bring people together, and lectures, based on authentic Kabbalah Scholar-in-Residence: and this series will be no different! Join us and Jewish spirituality. Rabbi Riess Rabbi Shlomo Riskin as volunteers lift the arms of our special has taught Kabbalah for more than two needs participants and dance arm in decades in Israel and around the world. Shabbat, Feb 4 arm. Learn the latest choreography from professional teachers and dance to the hip Nathalie Levy Riess, is Rabbi Shlomo Riskin and lively rhythms. an acclaimed beauty was not from a and transformational religiously observant coach for women family. When he and couples, master went to Yeshiva of lecturer, and creator of Brooklyn, he was the daily inspirational influenced to adopt a blog Agua Fresca Para el more religious life. He Alma. Nathalie is the director of became the founding the “Center for women empowerment” in Rabbi of Lincoln the holy city of Tzfat, hosting yearly about Square Synagogue 2,000 people with workshops, seminars, in New York City and and one-on-one sessions in English, was also a leader of Spanish and Hebrew. the movement to allow free and unfettered emigration for Soviet Jews in the 60s and 70s. Rabbi Riskin became the first Rabbi of Efrat in 1983, a position he holds today.

More February Programs Ariel University Shabbaton Maimonides Mom and Teen Mazel Tov Shabbat, Feb 10–11 Morning Samuel McCoy on becoming a Bar Mitzvah Danny Dayan is the Consul General of Sunday, Feb 12 • 10 AM Israel in New York who represents Israel On Tu B’shvat, we celebrate and honor all Shabbat, Feb 18 to communities throughout New York, the sustenance we derive from trees. To Samuel Aaron McCoy New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio and show our gratitude, moms and teens will is the son of Stacey Delaware. He is a regular commentator in get together for breakfast and assemble & Aaron McCoy. the international press and is frequently their own Tu B’Shvat fruit arrangements. He attends Franklin called upon to participate in public debates Academy and is in and panels at major conferences and the 8th grade. Samuel universities. From 2007–2013, Amb. Dayan has been part of the PBS was Chairman of the Council of Jewish Mazel Tov Hebrew School for four years. He was Communities in Judea and Samaria and Benjamin Abramowitz a member of the PBS Boy Scouts and advocated on behalf of its 400,000 citizens. on becoming a Bar Mitzvah attended Bar Mitzvah Club. He loves playing Yehuda Danon, M.D. is the President of video games, playing baseball and paintball. Shabbat, Feb 18 Ariel University and, through the generosity Proud grandparents: Sherry Rosenblatt Annual Spa for the Soul of the Adelson Family Foundation, is Benjamin Abramowitz Sampieri, obm, & Peter Sampieri and Women’s Luncheon leading the development of its Regional is the son of Andrea & Loraine & Orrin Snitkin Medical Center and Campus. He founded Michael Abramowitz. Sunday, Feb 26 • 10:30 AM the Schneider Children’s Hospital which is He attends The the first specific children’s hospital in Israel. Conservatory School Enjoy an energizing morning of inspiration Dr. Danon also established and is Chairman and is in the 7th grade. Scholar-in-Residence: and celebration. of the Ministry of Health’s National Council Benjamin attends the Palm Nitsana Darshan-Leitner Featuring Keynote speaker, Ruchi Koval, for Children’s Health and Pediatrics. Beach Synagogue Hebrew founder of the Jewish Experience, School and spends all special Holidays at Shabbat, Feb 24–25 author, blogger, motivational speaker and PBS. He enjoys reading, video games, and Nitsana Darshan-Leitner is an Israeli parenting coach. Shabbat Tea playing cello. attorney and human rights activist. She has Honoring Pearl Ginsburg with the “Woman Proud grandparents: Elissa & Saul, obm, Shabbat, Feb 11 • 2 PM brought numerous of Distinction Aishet Chayil Award” Terry, and Enid Sealander, obm, and legal actions on behalf Invitation and details to follow. The Community is invited to a Shabbat tea Stephan Abramowitz, obm of terror victims with Rabbi Eyal and Natalie Riess of the against terrorist International Tzfat Kabbalah Center at the groups, their leaders home of Dinie and Rabbi Scheiner. CTeen International Shabbaton and financial patrons. In 2014, she was Feb 24–Feb 26 named one of the 50 Positive Parenting Roundtables most influential Jews New York City by The Jerusalem Post. Sunday, Feb 12 • 9:45 AM The International CTeen Shabbaton is an annual weekend retreat for Jewish teens Feeling Safer in a Scary World: from around the world. For the past nine How to Protect our Children from years, thousands of teens have forged Middle School Breaking the News Media Coverage new friendships while experiencing a Bread, Breaking Barriers Dr. Iris Kiner is a Licensed Clinical meaningful Shabbat, all in one of the most Psychologist working for Alpert Jewish exciting cities in the world- New York City. Sunday, Feb 26 • 10:30 AM Family & Children’s Service in West Palm Prepare for an unforgettable weekend of Bring your friends for an incredible Beach and Palm Beach Gardens. excitement, friendship and memories, as experience as we prepare and serve lunch well as a weekend of inspiration, Jewish to the 70 homeless men and women pride and unity. staying at the local homeless shelter, the Senator Philip D. Lewis Center. This program not only nourishes the guests, who are seeking to change their lives, but also educates our middle schoolers and creates awareness about homeless issues in our community. 4th 17th-18th Scholar-in-Residence Mazel Tov Guest Cantor Evan Sikes on becoming a Bar Mitzvah! Gideon Y. Zelermyer Chazzan of Congregation Sha’ar Hashamayim, Montreal, Canada. 3rd–4th Dr. Mordechai Kedar Israeli scholar of Arabic literature and a lecturer at Bar-Ilan University.

26th–28th 11th AIPAC Policy Conference Annual Purim Party Washington DC

Megillah Reading 7:30 PM Masquerade Party and Dinner 8:30 PM Strengthen, protect and promote the U.S.-Israel relationship

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Scholar-in-Residence Dr. Mordechai Kedar Scholar-in-Residence Pre-Shabbat Party at Quantum Dr. Mordechai Kedar House with Teens Shabbat Youth Group First Fridays Challah Group Bar Mitzvah Evan Sikes Ladies’ Living Room Learning Yahrzeit Jacob Frank Terumah Tanya Class Coffee on Clematis for Teens Candle lighting 6:04 PM Shabbat Ends 7:13 PM 7 Adar 5 8 Adar 6 9 Adar 7 10 Adar 8 11 Adar 9 12 Adar 10 13 Adar 11

Guest Speaker Dr. Charles Jacobs Family Minyan Yahrzeit Samuel A. Osherow Book Club Fast Of Esther Annual Purim Party Hebrew School & Maimonides Mommy and Me Ladies’ Living Room Learning Fast Begins 5:23 AM Happy Birthday Sara Klompus Tetzaveh Positive Parenting Rountables Happy Birthday Malka Scheiner Tuesday Torah Topics Tanya Class Fast Ends 6:50 PM Candle lighting 6:08 PM Shabbat Ends 7:17 PM 14 Adar 12 15 Adar 13 16 Adar 14 17 Adar 15 18 Adar 16 19 Adar 17 20 Adar 18

Megillah Reading Hebrew School Purim Cantor Gideon Zelermyer Trolley Ride Cantor Gideon Zelermyer Shabbat Youth Group Teen Purim Party Bus Ladies’ Living Room Learning Pre-Shabbat Party at Traditions Happy Birthday Philip Stern Purim Tuesday Torah Topics Tanya Class with Teens Ki Tisa Daylight saving time begins Teen Mentor Program Yahrzeit Ruth Regenbaum Coffee on Clematis for Teens Candle lighting 7:12 PM Shabbat Ends 8:20 PM

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AIPAC High School Summit Yahrzeit Bessie Frank Shabbat Youth Group Happy Anniversary Rabbi & Birthday Club for Kids Dinie Scheiner AIPAC High School Summit Women’s Tehillim Group Ladies’ Living Room Learning Coffee on Clematis for Teens Yahrzeit Charles Silverman Vayakhel-Pekudei Yahrzeit Charles Aronson Tuesday Torah Topics Tanya Class Family Chavurah Candle lighting 7:15 PM Shabbat Ends 8:24 PM 28 Adar 26 29 Adar 27 1 Nisan 28 2 Nisan 29 3 Nisan 30 4 Nisan 31

AIPAC High School Summit AIPAC High School Summit AIPAC High School Summit AIPAC Policy Conference Ladies’ Living Room Learning AIPAC Policy Conference AIPAC Policy Conference Yahrzeit Virginia Honan Lunch & Learn Coffee on Clematis for Teens Family Shabbat Dinner Yahrzeit Elli Gnoyke Yahrzeit Shlomo Posner Rosh Chodesh Nisan Tanya Class Guest speaker Dr. David Dalin Candle lighting 7:19 PM

561.838.9002 plambeachsynagogue.org First Fridays Challah Group Autism Speaks Walk with Positive Parenting Roundtables Friday, Mar 3 • 10:30 AM Project Connect Sunday, Mar 5 • 10 AM

Marzipan Almond Challah Sunday, Mar 5 Understanding Power Struggles: Improving Communication with Your Children Meyer Ampitheater Dr. Arielle Burdo is a Licensed Clinical 105 Evernia St, West Palm Beach Scholar-in-Residence: Psychologist working for Alpert Jewish Autism Speaks Walk is an inspirational Family & Children’s Service in West Palm Dr. Mordechai Kedar opportunity to raise much-needed Beach, Palm Beach Gardens and Lake Worth. awareness and funds to help change the Shabbat, Mar 3–4 future for all those who struggle with Dr. Mordechai Kedar autism. Children with special needs, Project is an Israeli scholar Connect volunteers and YAD Hebrew Book Club School will walk together as a team. The of Arabic literature Shabbat, Mar 11 • 1:30 PM and an Assistant event begins and culminates in a fun day Professor at Bar- with a resource fair and an array of exciting All Who Go Do Not Return Ilan University. His activities for the families. Join us at our tent Author: Shulem Deen for delicious snacks and an awesome Photo expertise is in the A moving and revealing area of Israeli/Arab Booth! exploration of ultra- populations. He Orthodox Judaism and drew wide public one man’s loss of faith. attention with his He is now a heretic and al-Jazeera interview fears being discovered during which he and ostracized from the challenged the moderator’s assertion that only world he knows. “you cannot erase Jerusalem from the His life of deception Quran,” by pointing out that Jerusalem is causes him to struggle not mentioned in the Quran. to hold on to those Generously sponsored by Bonnie & Steven Stern he loves the most - his five children. In All Who Go Do Not Return, Deen bravely traces his harrowing loss of faith while offering a look at a highly secretive world. Mazel Tov Evan SIkes on becoming a Bar Mitzvah Shabbat, Mar 4 Annual Purim Party Evan Sikes, son of Shabbat, Mar 11 Eric Sikes and Tara & Scott Blick, is a 7th Arrive incognito and join us for a Masquerade grader at Omni Middle Party and Seudah that you will never forget! School. He learned the You haven’t really experienced Purim until importance of living a you celebrate at Palm Beach Synagogue! Torah and Mitzvah life Generously sponsored at the PBS Hebrew School. by Vanessa & He loves all sports, school and family. Anthony Beyer Proud Grandparents: Ruth & Stu Sikes, B Stephania Bakotic, Marlene Sikes, obm

More March Programs Kids’ Purim Trolley Ride Guest Cantor: AIPAC High School Summit Family Shabbat Dinner Sunday, Mar 12 • 10 AM Gideon Y. Zelermyer Mar 24–28 Friday, Mar 31

Celebrate Purim in style this year! We are Shabbat, Mar 17–18 The AIPAC High School Summit provides Families with children are invited for a going door-to-door delivering Shalach Gideon Y. Zelermyer student leaders with the tools they need to traditional Shabbat meal which combines Manot (food gifts). We’ll canvass Palm is a graduate of the be effective advocates within the political top-notch food, meaningful insights into Beach Island in a stretch limo, fulfilling arena. Participants are exposed to proven Tel Aviv Cantorial the Torah portion and programs and games the mitzvah and spreading the joy of the methods of articulating their commitment Institute. He has for the whole family to enjoy. Expect lots of Purim holiday! to Israel, the importance of engaging officiated on singing too! numerous occasions members of and candidates for Congress, at Shabbat and and ways of effectively making the case for Teen Purim Party Bus Festival services a strong U.S.-Israel relationship. at the Jerusalem Sunday, Mar 12 • 10:30 AM Great Synagogue, and has made frequent appearances as Dress up and jump onto the party bus for AIPAC Policy Conference the soloist with their Choir. Since 2004, an awesome Purim experience. We are Cantor Zelermyer has been the Chazzan going door-to-door delivering Shalach Mar 26–28 at Congregation Sha’ar Hashamayim in Manot (food gifts) and Purim cheer to our Montreal. Join the Palm Beach Synagogue delegation special friends from Project Connect! at AIPAC’s Policy Conference held in Washington, D.C., led by Rabbi Moshe Scheiner. Hear from top leaders whose Family Chavurah decisions shape the future of our world. Come together with thousands of pro- Thursday, Mar 23 • 8 PM Israel activists and congregants from all 50 states. Lobby members of Congress on critical legislation affecting the US- Israel relationship. Let’s put PBS over the top in attendance at this conference in Washington, DC.

Register on-line: www.aipac.org/pc Registration Desk: 202-639-5363

In addition to the AIPAC registration fee, participants are responsible for their own hotel accommodations. Guest Speaker: Dr. David Dalin Thursday, Mar 30, 7 PM

Dr. David Dalin, a widely published scholar of American Jewish history, has taught at several universities. He serves as a member of the Academic Advisory Council of the American Jewish Historical Society and as a member of the Board of Directors of the Palm Beach county region of the American Jewish Committee. Dr. Dalin’s new book, The Jewish Justices of the Supreme Court, from Brandeis to Kagan will be published in March, 2017. 10th–18th Passover at Palm Beach Synagogue 5777

This year celebrate with your Palm Beach Synagogue Family!

22nd Mazel Tov 19th–May 3 Sammy Siemens March of the Living on becoming a Bar Mitzvah! 29th Join Rabbi Moshe Scheiner, Rabbi Yosef Rice and Mazel Tov fellow community members on this once-in-a- lifetime transformative trip to Poland and Israel! Kim Cornell March of the Living itself is a 3-kilometer walk on becoming a Bat Mitzvah! from Auschwitz to Birkenau as a silent tribute to all the victims of the Holocaust.

Nisan–Iyyar 5777 April 2017

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Hebrew School & Maimonides Mommy and Me Pre-Shabbat Party at Quantum Family Minyan Pesach Extravaganza Tuesday Torah Topics Yahrzeit Gertrude Keusch Yahrzeit Bertha Klickstein House with Teens Tzav Middle School Program Teen Mentor Program Tanya Class Coffee on Clematis for Teens Candle lighting 7:22 PM Shabbat Ends 8:31 PM 13 Nisan 9 14 Nisan 10 15 Nisan 11 16 Nisan 12 17 Nisan 13 18 Nisan 14 19 Nisan 15

Passover Seder Ta’anit Bechorot (Fast of the First Born) Passover Seder Shabbat Youth Group Eat chometz 11:13 AM Yahrzeit Bruno Gnoyke Holiday Youth Group Book Club Burn chometz 12:17 PM Holiday Youth Group Passover II Passover IV (CH”M) Passover V (CH”M) Erev Passover Passover I Holiday Ends 8:33 PM Passover III (CH”M) Candle lighting 7:26 PM Shabbat Ends 8:34 PM Search for chometz at 8:05 pm Candle lighting 7:27 PM Candle lighting 8:32 PM Sefirat HaOmer Day 1 Sefirat HaOmer Day 2 Sefirat HaOmer Day 3 Sefirat HaOmer Day 4

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March of the Living Bar Mitzvah Samuel Siemens Shabbat Youth Group Yahrzeit Dr. Robert Wagner March of the Living Women’s Tehillim Group Holiday Youth Group Holiday Youth Group March of the Living Pre-Shabbat Party at Traditions Yahrzeit Nanette Jankelowitz Passover VI (CH”M) Passover VII Passover VIII Ladies’ Living Room Learning with Teens Shmini Shabbat Ends 7:27 PM Candle lighting 8:35 PM Holiday Ends 8:36 PM Tanya Class March of the Living Candle lighting 7:29 PM Shabbat Ends 8:38 PM Sefirat HaOmer Day 5 Sefirat HaOmer Day 6 Sefirat HaOmer Day 7 Sefirat HaOmer Day 8 Sefirat HaOmer Day 9 Sefirat HaOmer Day 10 Sefirat HaOmer Day 11 27 Nisan 23 28 Nisan 24 29 Nisan 25 30 Nisan 26 1 Iyyar 27 2 Iyyar 28 3 Iyyar 29 March of the Living Holocaust Evening of Commemoration Hebrew School & Maimonides Kids in the Kitchen Sefirat HaOmer Day 12 March of the Living Bat Mitzvah Kim Cornell 4 Iyyar 30 March of the Living March of the Living Shabbat Youth Group March of the Living Name Reading Ceremony Ladies’ Living Room Learning March of the Living Birthday Club for Kids Hebrew School & Maimonides Yom HaShoah (Holocaust March of the Living Tanya Class Yahrzeit Jaques Ingber March of the Living Tazria-Metzora Happy Birthday Eli Dworcan Memorial Day) uesday Torah Topics Rosh Chodesh Iyar Rosh Chodesh Iyar Candle lighting 7:33 PM Shabbat Ends 8:41 PM Yahrzeit Ruth Lynn Sefirat HaOmer Day 19 Sefirat HaOmer Day 13 Sefirat HaOmer Day 14 Sefirat HaOmer Day 15 Sefirat HaOmer Day 16 Sefirat HaOmer Day 17 Sefirat HaOmer Day 18

561.838.9002 plambeachsynagogue.org Passover Extravaganza Passover Book Club March of the Living Sunday, Apr 2 • 11 AM Feb 10–Feb 17 Shabbat, Apr 15 • 1:30 PM Apr 19–May 3 There are so many unique, once-a-year A special Passover packet will be mailed Out of the Depths: An Unforgettable WWII This year PBS teens will be joining traditions associated with the Passover with details on times of services, meals, Story of Survival, Courage, and the Sinking the March of the Living trip, a 2-week holiday. The PBS Kids’ Pesach Extravaganza pricing, and special instructions for of the USS Indianapolis international, educational program bringing will get you educated and excited to do Passover observance. All holiday meals Authors: Edgar Harrell and Daid Harrell Jewish juniors and seniors from all over them all! Take part in the Matzah Bakery require advanced registration. the world to Poland on Yom Hashoah, where you actually make your own matzah A WWII Hero’s (Holocaust Memorial Day), to march by hand. And the highlight is definitely the Miraculous Survival at from Auschwitz to Birkenau, the largest student-led Model Seder. We will have all Community Seders Sea July 30, 1945. After concentration camp complex built during Monday, Apr 10 & Tuesday, Apr 11 the Passover delicacies on hand, though transporting uranium World War II, and then to Israel to observe some may think bitter herbs is hardly a for the atomic bomb Yom HaZikaron (Israel Memorial Day), and treat. Work off the food you eat by making Passover Lunches that would soon be Yom Ha’Atzmaut, (Israel Independence Day). Tuesday, Apr 11 & Wednesday, Apr 12 your way through the challenging Ten dropped on Hiroshima, Among the goals of the March of the

Plagues obstacle course. No better way to the USS Indianapolis Living is for these young people to learn celebrate freedom! Passover Shabbat Dinner headed unaccompanied the lessons of the Holocaust and to lead Friday, Apr 14 toward a small island the Jewish people into the future vowing in the South Pacific. At “Never Again!” Kiddush Shabbat Passover 12:14 a.m., she was struck by two Japanese Middle School Scavenger Hunt torpedoes, rolled over, and sank. Marine Luncheon survivor Edgar Harrell vividly describes the Sunday, Apr 2 • 1:30–3:30 PM Shabbat, Apr 15 horrors of being plagued by dehydration,

Middle schoolers from Palm Beach, Boca exposure, saline poisoning, and sharks. Raton and Boynton Beach will meet at The Passover Yom Tov Dinner Boca Town Center Shopping Mall for a Sunday, Apr 16 & Monday, Apr 17 scavenger hunt. Each team will be given several challenges to compete for points. Passover Yom Tov Lunches The team with the most points will be Monday, Apr 17 & Tuesday, Apr 18 declared the winner!

More April Programs Mazel Tov Samuel Siemens Yom Ha’shoah on becoming a Bar Mitzvah Apr 23–Apr 24 Shabbat, Apr 22 Evening of Commemoration Samuel Walter Siemens Sunday, Apr 23 • 7 PM is the son of Lisa & Rob Siemens. He attends Featured film and speaker. the Donna Klein Jewish Academy and is in the 7th Names Reading Ceremony grade.He regularly attends Monday, Apr 24 Shabbat services and enjoys the PBS holiday events such as Sukkot, 8:00 AM | Commemoration begins with Simchat Torah, and the Chanukah on Ice Shacharit Parties. Samuel’s hobbies are playing 9:00 AM | Names Reading Ceremony of the basketball, baseball, and soccer. names of those who perished (9½ hours of continuous reading) Proud grandparents: Monique & William 6:30 PM | Minch/Ma’ariv Matheson and Carole & Richard Siemens “Reading the names of men, women, Kids in the Kitchen and children killed by the Nazis and their collaborators is a powerful way Sundays, Apr 23 & 30 • 1–3 PM to remember these individuals.” Grades: 3-7 For all our budding chefs and gourmandes, Palm Beach Synagogue encourages all to if you love to eat or get busy in the kitchen, come, listen, and participate in the Names then Kids in the Kitchen Club is for you! Reading Ceremony. Roll up your sleeves and be ready to learn Co-Chaired by Tara Pearl & Berny Rasowsky how to cook, bake and decorate fabulous and delicious foods from our in-house professional baker and cook Jaffa Halfon! Deliciousness guaranteed!

Mazel Tov Kim Cornell on becoming a Bat Mitzvah Shabbat, Apr 29 Kim Elizabeth Cornell is the daughter of Lila and George Cornell. She is in 7th Grade at BAK Middle School of The Arts. Kim has attended the PBS Hebrew School for many years. Her hobbies and school major are singing and Broadway acting. Proud grandparents: Gital & Nissim Galman, obm, and Gloria & George Cornell Jr. 13th AT 12 PM Mother’s Day 23rd AT 7 PM Shabbat Celebration Women’s End of Season Kiddush Join us as we honor all Mothers on this Chodesh Group special Shabbat. Women are invited to an Art, Wine & Cheese tasting at Uptown Art in celebration of Shavuot. Scholar-in- AT 12:30 PM 14th Residence Lag B’Omer Celebrate Lag B’Omer with 30th–June 1 your Palm Beach Synagogue Raizi Chechik family and friends. A frequent and beloved scholar at Palm Beach Synagogue.

30th–June 1 Shavuot

26th–28th Annual Community Dairy Dinner, 10 Commandments, 10 Member Presentations, Gelato Ice Cream and Blitz Family Shabbaton Bar, All-Night-Learning with Community Scholars, Evan’s Cereal Bar and lots more! Back by popular demand! An exciting get-a-way Shabbat experience for families with children.

Iyyar–Sivan 5777 May 2017

SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 5 Iyyar 1 6 Iyyar 2 7 Iyyar 3 8 Iyyar 4 9 Iyyar 5 10 Iyyar 6

March of the Living First Fridays Challah Group Happy Birthday Michael Lampert Mommy and Me March of the Living Pre-Shabbat Party at Quantum Shabbat Youth Group March of the Living Tuesday Torah Topics Ladies’ Living Room Learning House with Teens Arhrei Mot-Kedoshim Yom HaZikaron Yom HaAtzmaut Tanya Class Coffee on Clematis for Teens Candle lighting 7:37 PM Shabbat Ends 8:45 PM Sefirat HaOmer Day 20 Sefirat HaOmer Day 21 Sefirat HaOmer Day 22 Sefirat HaOmer Day 23 Sefirat HaOmer Day 24 Sefirat HaOmer Day 25 11 Iyyar 7 12 Iyyar 8 13 Iyyar 9 14 Iyyar 10 15 Iyyar 11 16 Iyyar 12 17 Iyyar 13

Family Minyan Hebrew School & Maimonides Ladies’ Living Room Learning Shabbat Around the World for End of Season Kiddush Bubby Buddies Tuesday Torah Topics Tanya Class Teens Emor Project Connect Celebration Teen Mentor Program Pesach Sheni Coffee on Clematis for Teens Candle lighting 7:41 PM Shabbat Ends 8:4 PM Sefirat HaOmer Day 26 Sefirat HaOmer Day 27 Sefirat HaOmer Day 28 Sefirat HaOmer Day 29 Sefirat HaOmer Day 30 Sefirat HaOmer Day 31 Sefirat HaOmer Day 32 18 Iyyar 14 19 Iyyar 15 20 Iyyar 16 21 Iyyar 17 22 Iyyar 18 23 Iyyar 19 24 Iyyar 20

Pre-Shabbat Party Traditions with Teens Happy Birthday Dinie Scheiner Hebrew School & Maimonides Happy Birthday Uziel Scheiner Women’s Tehillim Group Lag B’omer Event Tuesday Torah Topics Ladies’ Living Room Learning Project Connect Volunteer Yahrzeit Sidney Ross Behar- Bechukotai Lag B’Omer Middle School Program Tanya Class Appreciation Party Candle lighting 7:44 PM Shabbat Ends 8:53 PM Sefirat HaOmer Day 33 Sefirat HaOmer Day 34 Sefirat HaOmer Day 35 Sefirat HaOmer Day 36 Sefirat HaOmer Day 37 Sefirat HaOmer Day 38 Sefirat HaOmer Day 39

25 Iyyar 21 26 Iyyar 22 27 Iyyar 23 28 Iyyar 24 29 Iyyar 25 1 Sivan 26 2 Sivan 27

Ladies’ Living Room Learning Family Shabbaton Yahrzeit Louis Rubinsztejn Lunch & Learn Happy Birthday Ashley Szoke Family Shabbaton Hebrew School Graduation Tuesday Torah Topics Tanya Class Rosh Chodesh Sivan Bamidbar Maimonides Merit Awards Women’s Chodesh Group Yom Yerushalayim Coffee on Clematis for Teens Candle lighting 7:48 PM Shabbat Ends 8:57 PM Sefirat HaOmer Day 40 Sefirat HaOmer Day 41 Sefirat HaOmer Day 42 Sefirat HaOmer Day 43 Sefirat HaOmer Day 44 Sefirat HaOmer Day 45 Sefirat HaOmer Day 46 3 Sivan 28 4 Sivan 29 5 Sivan 30 6 Sivan 31 MICHAEL A. LAMPERT Board Certified Tax Attorney THE FORUM, SUITE 900 Annual Shavuot Community 1655 PALM BEACH LAKES BLVD. Dinner Reading of the Law Offices of WEST PALM BEACH, FL 33401-2267 Scholar-in-Residence 10 Commandments (561) 689-9407 Raizi Chechik Scholar-in-Residence MICHAEL A. LAMPERT, P.A. FAX: (561) 683-1559 Erev Shavuot Raizi Chechik [email protected] Family Shabbaton Happy Birthday David Lampert Candle lighting 7:50 PM Shavuot I Sefirat HaOmer Day 47 Sefirat HaOmer Day 48 Sefirat HaOmer Day 49 Candle lighting 8:59 PM

561.838.9002 plambeachsynagogue.org Yom HaZikaron Bubby Buddies Lag B’Omer Yom Ha’Atzmaut Sunday, May 7 • 12:30–2:30 PM Sunday, May 14 • 12:30 PM From Commemoration PBS celebrates Lag B’Omer with an outdoor to Celebration family fun day. The whole community May 1–May 2 is invited to participate in water sports, Project Connect Celebration archery, relay races and a delicious Monday, May 1, 8 PM Friday, May 7 • 1:30 PM barbeque.Venue to be announced. Palm Beach Synagogue commemorates Generously sponsored by Steven Strulowitz Yom HaZikaron with a special film from our film festival. Tuesday, May 2, 8 AM Celebrate Yom Ha’Atzmaut with a light Lag B’Omer Mega Teen Event breakfast and a surprise speaker. Sunday, May 14 • 7:30 PM Hundreds of teens across S. Florida will be coming together for an extraordinary Lag B’Omer celebration! Bonfire, roasted marshmallows, delicious barbeque dinner, Downtown at The Gardens fireworks, music and more to create the 11701 Lake Victoria Gardens Best Teen Lag B’omer Party in South Palm Beach Gardens Florida history! Join us as we celebrate another year of friendship and fun with Project Connect. All our wonderful participants will enjoy the merry-go round, Cool Beans Cafe, train ride, pottery, picnic, ice-cream and more. First Fridays Challah Group Everyone will love every minute! Friday, May 5 • 10:30 AM

Lavender Chocolate Challah Mother’s Day End of Season Shabbat Celebration Shabbat, May 13 • 12 PM Join us as we honor the Mothers in our lives. Whether it is Bubbe, Tanta, Nana, Mom, Mum, or Mother, tell her you love her on Mother’s Day. 9 AM: Services 11 AM: Special tributes and prayers for Mother’s Day by Rabbi Moshe Scheiner 12 PM :Kiddush Luncheon

More May Programs Middle School: The Blind Side Maimonides Leadership Tuesday, May 16 • 6–8 PM Institute Merit Awards Through this interactive and educational Presentation program, our middle schoolers will take Sunday, May 21 • 11 AM a guided tour of the synagogue and their surroundings blindfolded. A blind guest- Join us as we honor dozens of teens who speaker from Lighthouse for the Blind will have spent much of their time over the then share “the picture of blindness.” The course of this year studying Torah. Hear program not only inspires an appreciation from the teens about the impact the Eugene for the faculties we are fortunate enough and Ethel Joffe Maimonides Institute has to possess, it also inspires an admiration made on their lives and Jewish identities. for those special people who live strong Special merit award presentations. Lunch despite their handicap. is served.

Project Connect Volunteer Scholar-in-Residence: Appreciation Evening Raizi Chechik Thursday, May 30 • 9 PM Thursday, May 18 • 7 PM Women’s Chodesh Group Shavuot This special event is to show appreciation Ms. Raizi Chechik Thursday, May 23 • 7 PM and support to our terrific devoted Project May 30–June 1 is a Principal at the Connect Teen volunteers. We salute Uptown Art Stella K. Abraham our teens for a year of selflessness and 510 Evernia Street, West Palm Beach High School in Tuesday, May 30 Hewlett, New devotion. Hats off to you all! Create your own unique floral artistic Shavuot Evening York. Ms. Chechik masterpiece for Shavuot and enjoy a social Annual Community Dairy Dinner studied Tanach and art, wine and cheese evening with friends. 10 Dairy Dishes and Desserts. Counseling at the 561- 899-3980. Cost: $25 Hebrew School Graduation 10 Members Present the 10 Michlala Jerusalem Celebration Commandments in 60 Minutes Teachers College and Followed by All-Night-Learning with holds an MA in Medieval Jewish History. As Sunday, May 21 • 11 AM Synagogue Scholars. a veteran educator, Ms. Chechik developed Join us for a graduation performance Scholar-in-Residence Ms. Raizi Chechik. curricular materials for the Sephardic Studies Institute at the City University by the students of the Hebrew School 4th Annual Evan’s Cereal Bar of New York, serves as a mentor for the celebrating another incredible year of fun Enjoy a delicious array of your favorite Principal’s Partnership at YU, and is the Torah learning! Lunch is served. cereals, toppings and milk at Evan’s Cereal recipient of numerous awards and honors. Bar open all night and morning. In memory of Evan Kaufman, obm, beloved son Generously sponsored by Nini Krever and of Maxine Kaufman. Dr. Eric Weiner

Wednesday, May 31 Shavuot Family Shabbaton Reading of the 10 May 26–May 28 Commandments and a super, special sundae Back by popular demand! Families are party for adults and kids. invited to come together for this Shabbat getaway hosted in a beautiful hotel, in Thursday, June 1 keeping with the beauty of Shabbat. There will be awesome programs for Shavuot kids, informative and inspiring classes for parents and plenty of time for families to bond! 9th AT 10:30 AM 1st First Fridays Shavuot 2nd Day Challah Group

Shavuot Services, Yizkor Service and Braids, Shapes and S’mores Challah Youth Groups followed by a special Learn to bake Dinie’s scrumptious challah Shavuot Kiddush Luncheon. recipe, including techniques for shapes & braids. Schools are out—bring the kids!

24th 3rd AT 1:30 PM Mazel Tov Book Club David Erulker on becoming a Bar Mitzvah! David Samuel Erulker is the son of Rena and Joshua Erulker. The Marriage of Opposites David is in the 7th grade at the Arthur I. Meyer Jewish Academy. He enjoys art and playing basketball. Author: Alice Hoffman Proud Grandparents: Jonathan Erulkar, obm & Evelyn Erulkar Set on the island of St. Thomas, and Rachel and Jacob Reuben this is a forbidden love story of Rachel, the woman who gave birth to painter Camille Pissarro, the father of Impressionism. From the New York Times bestselling author of The Dovekeepers and The Museum of Extraordinary Things, this book 13th showcases the beloved Alice Hoffman at the height of her considerable powers. Middle School Busch Gardens

Join Emtza of Southern NCSY on this amazing year-end celebration at Busch Gardens, Tampa Bay which has the most exhilarating world-class roller coasters, live shows and more than 12,000 animals! Enjoy the ultimate theme park experience with your middle school friends and other Jewish middle schoolers from the NCSY Southern region!

Sivan–Tamuz 5777 June 2017

SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 7 Sivan 8 Sivan 9 Sivan “For All Your Office Needs” 1 2 3 Office Supplies Hon Office Furniture Breakroom Supplies Cleaning & Paper Supplies

Book Club 94 Dunbar Road East MORRIS KENER Yizkor Pre-Shabbat Party at Quantum Shabbat Youth Group Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33418 Tel. 561-655-8885 Shavuot II House with Teens Nasso [email protected] Tax. 561-655-6976 Holiday Ends 8:59 PM Candle lighting 7:52 PM Shabbat Ends 9:00 PM 10 Sivan 4 11 Sivan 5 12 Sivan 6 13 Sivan 7 14 Sivan 8 15 Sivan 9 16 Sivan 10

Women’s Tea Shabbat Youth Group First Fridays Challah Group Beha’alotcha Tuesday Torah Topics Tanya Class Candle lighting 7:55 PM Shabbat Ends 9:03 PM 17 Sivan 11 18 Sivan 12 19 Sivan 13 20 Sivan 14 21 Sivan 15 22 Sivan 16 23 Sivan 17

Yahrzeit Idesa Rubinsztejn Shabbat Youth Group Yahrzeit Zeev Rubinsztejn Happy Anniversary Rabbi Yossi Yahrzeit David Frank Middle School Busch Gardens Yahrzeit Shoshanah Rubinsztejn and Sarah Dworcan Sh’lach Tuesday Torah Topics Tanya Class Yahrzeit Robert Honan Candle lighting 7:57 PM Shabbat Ends 9:05 PM

24 Sivan 18 25 Sivan 19 26 Sivan 20 27 Sivan 21 28 Sivan 22 29 Sivan 23 30 Sivan 24

Bar Mitzvah David Erulker Shabbat Youth Group Women’s Tehillim Group Yahrzeit Theodore Rossen Rosh Chodesh Tamuz Yisroel ben Joseph Korach Tuesday Torah Topics Tanya Class Candle lighting 7:59 PM Shabbat Ends 9:07 PM 1 Tamuz 25 2 Tamuz 26 3 Tamuz 27 4 Tamuz 28 5 Tamuz 29 6 Tamuz 30

Rosh Chodesh Tamuz Tuesday Torah Topics Tanya Class Candle lighting 7:59 PM

561.838.9002 plambeachsynagogue.org 4th–13th 16th–25th Palm Beach Synagogue Jewish Women’s Community Israel Trip! Renaissance Discover Israel like you’ve never experienced it with Rabbi and Dinie! Project’s Momentum Trip to Israel!

Join hundreds of women from around the globe for a trip of a lifetime! Inspire a Mom, inspire the world!

31st–Aug 1st Tisha B’Av The fast begins Monday night, July 31 at 8:08 PM. We recite Megilat Eicha (Book of 29th AT 1:30 PM Lamentations) at 8:45 PM followed by a Book Club Video Presentation. Underground in Berlin: A Young Woman’s Extraordinary Tale of Survival in the Heart of Nazi Germany Author: Marie Jalowicz Simon Told with unflinching honesty, this story gives an unparalleled glimpse into what it truly means to be human.

Tamuz–Av 5777 July 2017

SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 7 Tamuz 1

Chukat Shabbat Ends 9:07 PM 8 Tamuz 2 9 Tamuz 3 10 Tamuz 4 11 Tamuz 5 12 Tamuz 6 13 Tamuz 7 14 Tamuz 8

Community Israel Trip Happy Birthday Sarah Dworcan Balak Yahrzeit Morris Ogulnick Community Israel Trip Community Israel Trip Community Israel Trip Candle lighting 7:59 PM Shabbat Ends 9:07 PM 15 Tamuz 9 16 Tamuz 10 17 Tamuz 11 18 Tamuz 12 19 Tamuz 13 20 Tamuz 14 21 Tamuz 15

Community Israel Trip Fast Of Tammuz 17 Fast Begins 5:10 AM Pinchas Community Israel Trip Community Israel Trip Fast Ends 8:43 PM Community Israel Trip Community Israel Trip Candle lighting 7:57 PM Shabbat Ends 9:05 PM

22 Tamuz 16 23 Tamuz 17 24 Tamuz 18 25 Tamuz 19 26 Tamuz 20 27 Tamuz 21 28 Tamuz 22

Jewish Women’s Renaissance Project’s Momentum Trip to Jewish Women’s Renaissance Israel! Jewish Women’s Renaissance Jewish Women’s Renaissance Jewish Women’s Renaissance Jewish Women’s Renaissance Jewish Women’s Renaissance Project’s Momentum Trip to Women’s Tehillim Group Project’s Momentum Trip to Project’s Momentum Trip to Project’s Momentum Trip to Project’s Momentum Trip to Project’s Momentum Trip to Israel! Matot-Masei Israel! Israel! Israel! Israel! Israel! Candle lighting 7:55 PM Shabbat Ends 9:02 PM 29 Tamuz 23 1 Av 24 2 Av 25 3 Av 26 4 Av 27 5 Av 28 6 Av 29 Jewish Women’s Renaissance Project’s Momentum Trip to Jewish Women’s Renaissance Israel! Project’s Momentum Trip to Yahrzeit Marilyn Lampert Israel! Rosh Chodesh AV

7 Av 30 8 Av 31 Jewish Women’s Renaissance Fast Begins 8:08 PM Project’s Momentum Trip to Erev Tisha B’Av Israel! Book Club

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1st Tisha B’Av 26th AT 1:30 PM Shacharit • 8:15 AM Video Presentation • 6:00 PM Book Club Mincha/Ma’ariv • 7:45 PM Rashi’s Daughters: Miriam The fast ends at 8:33 PM Author: Maggie Anton There will be a light break-the-fast at the Synagogue The engrossing historical story of Miriam, Generously sponsored by Sandy & Rick Smith Rashi’s daughter, the lively and daring middle child of Salomon ben Isaac, the great Talmudic authority living in eleventh-century Troyes, France. Having no sons, he teaches his daughters the intricacies of Mishnah and Gemara in an era when educating women in Jewish scholarship was unheard of.

Av–Elul 5777 August 2017

SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 9 Av 1 10 Av 2 11 Av 3 12 Av 4 13 Av 5

Fast of the 9th of Av Happy Birthday Devorah Weiner Fast Ends 8:33 PM Vaetchanan Tisha B’Av Yahrzeit Louis Sternlieb Happy Birthday Traci Szoke Candle lighting 7:47 PM Shabbat Ends 8:54 PM 14 Av 6 15 Av 7 16 Av 8 17 Av 9 18 Av 10 19 Av 11 20 Av 12

Eikev Tu B’Av Tuesday Torah Topics Tanya Class Candle lighting 7:41 PM Shabbat Ends 8:48 PM 21 Av 13 22 Av 14 23 Av 15 24 Av 16 25 Av 17 26 Av 18 27 Av 19

Parashat Shoftim Tuesday Torah Topics Tanya Class Candle lighting 7:35 PM Shabbat Ends 8:35 PM

28 Av 20 29 Av 21 30 Av 22 1 Elul 23 2 Elul 24 3 Elul 25 4 Elul 26

Tuesday Torah Topics Tanya Class Book Club Rosh Chodesh Elul Rosh Chodesh Elul Candle lighting 7:28 PM Shabbat Ends 7:34 pm 5 Elul 27 6 Elul 28 7 Elul 29 8 Elul 30 9 Elul 31

Yahrzeit Esther Shirley Yahrzeit Jerry Menchel Yahrzeit Stanley Teitler Goldberg-Goldman Tuesday Torah Topics Tanya Class Yahrzeit Robert Half

561.838.9002 plambeachsynagogue.org 20th–22nd Rosh Hashanah

Seminole Avenue and North Ocean Boulevard AT 6:15 PM 21st Join us for our annual High Holidays Tashlich on the Beach Tashlich on Service. Special Children’s 5778 the Beach Beach Party! Start the New Year on a high note and join the Palm Beach Synagogue community for inspiring and meaningful High Holiday Services with Rabbi Moshe Scheiner. Interactive and exciting Youth and Teen Services. Delicious Community Holiday Meals.

Hebrew School 29th–30th & Maimonides Yom Kippur Begins

Tamuz–Av 5777 September 2017

SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 8 Sivan 1 9 Sivan 2

Ki Teitzei Candle lighting 7:31 PM Shabbat Ends 8:28 PM 10 Sivan 3 11 Sivan 4 12 Sivan 5 13 Sivan 6 14 Sivan 7 15 Sivan 8 16 Sivan 9

Ki Tavo Tuesday Torah Topics Tanya Class Candle lighting 7:13 PM Shabbat Ends 8:20 PM 17 Sivan 10 18 Sivan 11 19 Sivan 12 20 Sivan 13 21 Sivan 14 22 Sivan 15 23 Sivan 16

First Day of Hebrew School Happy Birthday Moriel Weiner and Maimonides Leil Selichot Happy Birthday Nitzavim-Vayeilech Stacey Lampert Tuesday Torah Topics Tanya Class Candle lighting 7:05 PM Shabbat Ends 8:12 PM

24 Sivan 17 25 Sivan 18 26 Sivan 19 27 Sivan 20 28 Sivan 21 29 Sivan 22 30 Sivan 23

Hebrew School and Tashlich on the Beach Maimonides Erev Rosh Hashana Rosh Hashanah 5778 Rosh Hashanah II Ha’Azinu High Holiday Extravaganza Candle lighting 7:00 PM Candle lighting 8:06 PM Candle lighting 6:57 PM Shabbat Ends 8:04 PM 1 Tamuz 24 2 Tamuz 25 3 Tamuz 26 4 Tamuz 27 5 Tamuz 28 6 Tamuz 29 6 Tamuz 30

Yizkor Break-the-Fast Fast Of Gedaliah Kol Nidre Yom Kippur Fast Begins 5:57 AM Candle lighting/Fast Begins Fast Ends/ Yom Tov Ends/ Fast Ends 7:38 PM 6:50 PM Shabbat Ends 8:04 PM

561.838.9002 plambeachsynagogue.org Prayer Book Case Jerome Kaufman Sara & Henry Harary “Those Who Provide for the Needs of the Michelle & Stanley Jacobson Sherry & Michael Katz Maurice Harary Anita Neiman Gloria & Harvey Kaylie Giovana & Abe Haruvi Karen Robinson Jeanne & Joshua Kieval (3) Nechemia Ichilov Rebecca & David Knoll Gayle & Michael Kalisman Community—May the Holy One, Blessed Be He, Amud-Cantor Podium Stacey & Michael Lampert Karen & Robert Keats Jerilyn & Ken Kronen Caron & Sheldon Regenbaum Jeanne & Joshua Kieval -Shabbat Service Prayer Chana & Gary Salins Lynn & Charles Kramer Give Them Their Reward.” Main Entrance Mezuzah Israel Sutton Gabrielle & Sanford, obm Kuvin Lynn Brodsky Dinie & Rabbi Moshe Scheiner Susan & Peter Lande Carol Ann & Herbert Sternlieb Sharon & Jay Lerner Sanctuary Mezuzah Sandy Watts Seth Leventhal Chai Society Building Fund Main Entrance Gallery Steven Strulowitz Esther & Alan Williams Gerda Levy Fiona & Michael Scharf Carol & Steven Winig Kate Levy Palm Beach Synagogue thanks the Honor or memorialize a loved Sanctuary Speaker Podium Paul Levy following donors for sustaining annual one or a family member with Rabbi’s Study Harris S. Fried Sanctuary Seats Helene & David Lieberman membership gifts of $18,000 or more: an everlasting dedication in the Michelle Stein-Shaviv Blanche Bank Lucille Lowenstein, obm Palm Beach Synagogue. Your Administrative Office Brooke & Jay Berger Frederick Lurie Eileen Berman & Jay Bauer legacy will provide for a Jewish Double Main Entrance Windows Rochelle & David Hirsch Ruth & Milton Birnbaum Dee Fried & Marvin Marks Robert M. Beren tomorrow. All gifts will be Eileen Berman Sheryl & Tommy Davidoff Esther Ophir Vanessa & Anthony Beyer recognized on a distinctive Tribute Reception Window Nina Feldman, obm Martin Perlman Carol & David Feinberg Wall. Donations may be paid over Artistic Sanctuary Windows Sandy & Rick Smith Marjorie Fink Orly & Christopher Popik The Heyman Family five years. Bernice & Morton, obm, Linda & Daniel Fortier Mortimer J. Propp Endowment William Langfan Brownstein Kitchen Jim Gawron For Orthodox Jewish Education Fiona & Michael Scharf Building Fund Opportunities Carol & David Feinberg Regina Wang-Baumann. obm Helen Goodfriend, obm Nancy & Stefan Richter Michelle & Paul Shaviv Children’s Resource Charlotte, obm & Sidney Giovana & Abe Haruvi Gail & Sheldon Salzman Classroom (1)...... $50,000 Feuerstein Classrooms Evelyn Henis Carole & Alvin Schragis Minyan Society Security System...... $25,000 Maria & Joel Finkle, obm Jay Bauer Rosemarie & David Kanter Ron Schwartz Palm Beach Synagogue thanks the Talit Rack...... $18,000 Taubman Kalisman Family Giovana & Abe Haruvi Sarah Kaplan Debbie & David Shapiro following donors for sustaining annual Mezuzah (11)...... $1,800 Karen & Robert Keats-Katz The Mortimer J. Propp Jerome S. Kaufman Sandra & Rick Smith membership gifts of $10,000 or more: Seats in the Fiona & Michael Scharf Endowment for Orthodox Jewish Gerda Levy Pamela Stoneman Sanctuary (90)...... $1,000 Angela & Joel Glazer Sylvia Shulman, obm Education Richard Lynn Nini Krever & Eric Weiner Bryan Glazer Judy & Edward, obm Steinberg Phyllis Garner-Rombro & Morris, Shirley & Robert, obm Wyner THANK YOU—Palm Beach Linda Glazer Gayle & Armond Waxman East Façade obm, Rombro Linda & Al Winick Synagogue Thanks Our Generous Shari & Edward Glazer Michelle Stein-Shaviv Michelle Stein-Shaviv Anita & Larry, obm, Stein Sherri Zand Building Benefactors Giovana & Abe Haruvi Michelle Stein-Shaviv Susan & A. Robert Zeff Sondra & David Mack Social Hall Windows Main Entrance Way Doors Nancy & Murray Steinfeld Building JoAnn & Martin Perlman Nina Feldman, obm Michele & Lawrence Beyer Synagogue House Donors Ronnie & Samuel, obm, Heyman Bonnie & Steven Stern Joseph Feldman General Building Donations Howard Amster Photo Artwork in Hallway Fran & Herb Alexander Robert Beren Sanctuary Mechitza Marcy & Bill Forster Moshe Amram, obm Eileen Berman & Jay Bauer Yad Society The Robert M. Beren Foundation Palm Beach Synagogue thanks the Frida Riederman Giovana & Abe Haruvi Howard Amster Peter Bernon following donors for sustaining annual Phyllis Aronson Wilma & Stuart Bernstein Social Hall Porthole Window Above Entrance membership gifts of $5,000 or more: Prayer Preparation Room Tami & Jim Baldinger Bonnie & Donald Dwares Laura & Lee Munder Janet & Ken Schur Nini Krever & Eric Weiner Karen & Ilan Berkner Lori & Joseph Feldman Lainie & Victor Barnett Batzion & William Berman Linda Glazer Ruth & Theodore Baum Library Hand Washing Station Audio Visual Hookup Gloria & Isaac Berman Hana & Allan Green Rochelle & David Hirsch Israel Henry Beren Charitable Barbara T. R. Zimet Bonnie & Donald Dwares Elaine Budning Tamra F. Gould Karen & Robert Keats Trust— Rhoda & David Chase Ronnie Heyman Leelee & Adam Kimmel Robert M. Beren, Trustee Sanctuary Menorahs Torah Table Cover Clara Cohen Rochelle & David Hirsch Robert Kraft Anonymous Joan & Bernard Shapiro William Diamond Darcie Glazer & Joel Kassewitz Petra & Stephen Levin Education Center Nadine Eckstein Robert Kraft Steven Strulowitz Ethel & Adolph Beren, obm Air Conditioning System Page Number Stand Neil Efron William Langfan Ronna & William Tanenbaum Giovana & Abe Haruvi Fiona & Michael Scharf Nancy & Stefan Richter Janie & Robert Fisher Sondra & David Mack Judith & Morry Weiss Nina Feldman, obm Fiona & Michael Scharf Children’s Computerized Library Parochet (Ark Curtain) Mezuzot Lori Gelobter Bonnie & Steven Stern Membership William Langfan The Aryeh Family Meryl & Freddy Avni Lori & Bruce Gendelman The Taubman Foundation $ 18,000 : Chai Society Amy & Larry Bernstein Michelle Ginsberg $ 10,000 : Minyan Society Aron Hakodesh Double Social Hall Washing Tami & Jim Baldinger Pearl Ginsburg $ 5,000 : Yard Society The Aryeh Family Stations Limor & Robert Briskin Jill & Avie Glazer $ 1,400 : Couples/Family Lola, obm, & Alan Weisfeld Shmuel Bar-Or Linda & Malcom, obm Glazer $ 1,000 : Single Sanctuary Foyer Kilmeny & Michael Chernys Anne Gold $ 360 : Single (under 40) The Robert M. Beren Foundation Ner Tamid Sheila & Edward Cohen Renae & Edward Goldberg Charlotte, obm & Sidney Nadine & Herbert, obm, Eckstein Tamra Gould Please contact Amy Szoke, Synagogue Bimah Feuerstein Esta & Milton, obm Goldfine Hana & Allan Green Administrator, if you wish to become a Jan Mitchell, obm Carol & Martin Goldenberg Susan & Evan Goldstein Helen Gross This Program Calendar is member. graciously co-sponsored by First Republic Bank Palm Beach and Lesley and Richard Stone. Palm Beach Synagogue • 120 North County Road, Palm Beach, Florida 33480 • 561 838 9002 • [email protected] • palmbeachsynagogue.org