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The Scroll JANUARY 2015 TEVET / SHEVAT 5775 Please Join Us On Vol. XXVV • No. 5 Friday Night, January 16, 2015 Temple Beth Torah As We Install Our New Sha'aray Tzedek 5700 N.W. 94 Ave. Tamarac, FL 33321 Temple Officers and Board of Directors 954.721.7660 • www.TBTST.org and Our Men's Club and Sisterhood Service Schedule Officers and their Board of Directors Minyan Services Monday - Friday Friday Night Shabbat Services - 6:30 p.m. 7:45 am & 6:00 pm Sunday 8:30 am & 5:00 pm President - Nancy Small Check Calendar for Saturday Executive Vice President - Amir Watynski evening times Vice President Youth Activities - Valerie Mercado Shabbat Services Friday Evening - 6:30 pm Vice President Membership - Jody Glass Saturday Morning - 9:00 am Treasurer - Alan Paley Orthodox Services Recording Secretary - Jacqui Montag Monday and Thursday Minyan Financial Secretary - Stewart Klawsky 7:45 am Communications Secretary - Cheryl Temkin Shabbat and Yom Tov Minyan 9:00 am Immediate Past President - Jeffrey Eisensmith There are no Orthodox evening Min- yans. Those wishing to attend evening Minyans are welcome at the egalitarian Sisterhood President - Ellen Feldman combined service in the Chapel, daily at 6:00 pm. Friday evening Mincha/Maariv Men's Club President - Dr. Barry Kanarek services begin at 6:30 pm. DUELING PIANOS JOIN US IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING SERVICES FOR A SPECIAL SHABBAT FEBRUARY 28TH DINNER HONORING OUR NEW OFFICERS AND SAVE THE DATE BOARD MEMBERS Reservation form inside JANUARY 2015 TEMPLE BETH TORAH SHA'ARAY TZEDEK TEVET / SHEVAT 5775 Shabbat Services RABBI'S MESSAGE By Rabbi Michael Gold Saturday Morning - 9:00 am Dear Friends, January 3 We are a Conservative synagogue and one of the pillars Vayechi of Conservative Judaism is a commitment to the dietary laws January 10 of Judaism. As a Conservative synagogue we must maintain Shemot a kosher kitchen. A Conservative rabbi or cantor must make January 17 a personal commitment to observe these laws, following the Vaera standards laid down by the Committee of Law and Standards. January 24 Individuals may choose whether or not to observe these laws and at what level. Bo Some Conservative Jews keep strictly kosher. Some keep kosher homes but are January 31 loose about what they eat on the outside. Some give up the most blatantly non- Beshalach kosher items like pork. And some ignore the laws altogether. But I encourage our Torah Discussion/ members to explore these laws and what they mean in this age of “appetites gone wild.” Bible & Bagels Judaism is about holiness. We take the basic animal drives and try to Immediately following Services elevate them. One of the most basic drives is our desire for food. The dietary Daily Minyan and laws give us the Jewish way to control the drive for food and elevate it in the Fresh Brewed Coffee service of God. Only limited animals may be eaten, and even these must be Become a Minyanaire killed in the proper way. Meat and milk are not eaten together. Meat repre- Do the Mitzvah of assisting sents death; milk represents life. In Judaism we strictly separate death and life. your friends and family as they Every meal becomes a chance to think about what we are eating and how we can say Kaddish. Wake up and serve God with our appetites. Meals become a Jewish occasion. smell the coffee at TBTST We do have rules in our synagogue. Only certain caterers are allowed to cook in our kitchen; these caterers are under proper kosher supervision. Unlike Monday - Friday at 7:45 am many synagogues, we do permit groups such as sisterhood and men’s club to cook followed by coffee and in our kitchen. But again, all the food is prepared under either my supervision or a shmear Brief Mincha at 6:00 pm that of my staff. No food may be cooked in a private home, even a kosher home, Sunday - 8:30am and 5:00pm and served in the synagogue. Saturday evening – check We allow people to bring in a dairy lunch for their private consumption. This calendar allows our pre-school teachers, our office staff, and the children in our pre-school Join our Greeters to eat during the day. A meat meal can only be brought in under our supervision. Outside the synagogue we have taken a more liberal stance. We will allow Corps synagogue organizations to provide a dairy meal in a non-kosher place. So for Consider volunteering example, we allow our USY to eat pizza if they go to Disney (other Conservative to be a Greeter. We need warm and friendly synagogues do not) or we will allow our golf tournament to serve a dairy brunch members of our at a country club. We ask that all official synagogue organizations including our congregation to greet sisterhood, men’s club, youth group, and various other organizations and chavurot our members, guests to respect these rules. and potential members. Through observing these rules, we participate in a Jewish tradition with Being a Greeter is fun and roots in the Torah. As you participate in our synagogue, may you enjoy delicious rewarding! Greeters are needed for kosher food. Shabbat Services on Friday nights, Saturday mornings Shalom, and for Holidays. Rabbi Michael Gold Please call Stew Klawsky 954-547-1928 or email [email protected] 2 JANUARY 2015 TEMPLE BETH TORAH SHA'ARAY TZEDEK TEVET / SHEVAT 5775 CANTOR'S MESSAGE “b’sever panim yafot “ By Cantor Jonathan Angress The above quote ends the second- to-last tractate in the order “Broadway is a very special place, filled with very special of Nezikin (damages) in the Talmud. The tractate is more often people; people who can sing and dance often at the same known as Pirkei Avot, literally, time. They are a different people, a multi-talented people, the Chapters of our Fathers. a people who need people, and who are in many ways the Interestingly, in Modern Hebrew luckiest people in the world. In any great adventure if you it is a common expression used to don’t want to lose, victory depends upon the people that you denote “with open arms.” choose. So listen everybody closely to this news. You won’t Our president and board have succeed on Broadway, if you don’t have any…Jews!” been discussing the concept of This infamous and hilarious monologue comes from the “with open arms,” not in a Toraic Broadway show, Spamalot, which is the musical staged version of the hit film, concept but with the idea of becoming a more welcoming and Monty Python and the Holy Grail. While the plot of this show centers on a very engaging Congregation. non-Jewish theme, King Arthur’s search for the Holy Grail, this one monologue Every committee of our and song speaks to an aspect of Broadway history that rings true: Broadway is as congregation is open to the Jewish as gefilte fish. Almost each and every well-known Broadway composer concept. We need volunteers and and lyricist had a bubbie and zaydie and some of them even had their first musical we need you to think about how experiences in shul. In fact, Irving Berlin’s father was a cantor in Russia and upon you can help. moving to the United States, both Berlin and George Gershwin were child stars in We have several active committees Boris Thomashevsky’s Yiddish theatre productions. who do much of the planning that make membership in TBTST so It is quite obvious that many famous Broadway show tunes have musical and valuable to so many. Everyone rhythmic parallels to the melodies heard on a regular basis in shul. The most fa- is looking for people to step mous example comes from George Gershwin’s show, Porgy and Bess, where the forward and share their expertise, song “It Ain’t Necessarily So” shares a similar melodic structure to the chant of the opinions and time to make those Torah blessings during an aliyah at the Torah. Similarly, the opening of the song efforts successful. “42nd Street” from the show, 42nd Street sounds awfully a lot like High Holiday Of course, the Men’s Club and chanting. And in more recent times, the 1985 musical, Les Miserables, features a the Sisterhood are obvious places musical motif throughout the show that sounds a lot like the original chanting of for you to help support activities that benefit TBTST. The Men’s the Haggadah. Club motto – doing good while You will be able to hear all of these examples and much more very soon. I am having fun – really belongs to all very pleased to invite the TBTST congregation to a very special concert event, of them. A Jewish Night on Broadway!, featuring Lauren Molina on Sunday March 22 at In the Scroll, you often read 7pm. Lauren is a friend of mine from New York City whose Broadway credits about the Tikkun Olam/Mitzvah include the 2005 revival of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and committee. Committed hands are being an original cast member of Rock of Ages. Lauren is also an accomplished always welcome. The membership opera singer, songwriter, cellist, and acting coach having performed in all of these committee has a number of projects that would help you feel capacities throughout the country. Ticket prices will range from $18 to $100 and more engaged while welcoming will go on sale in January. Please look out for our flyer with ticket and sponsorship others. information in this month’s edition of The Scroll.