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A Wonderful Week in June! Thursday, June 13 at 7:00 P.M VOLUME 124 NUMBER 10 JUNE 2019 ShalomTHE BULLETIN OF REFORM CONGREGATION KENESETH ISRAEL & THE MEYERS LIBRARY A Wonderful Week in June! Thursday, June 13 at 7:00 p.m. • Special Presentation, Annual Meeting & Vote “Before Mrs. Maisel: Six Jewish Women Comedians” by Rabbi Lance J. Sussman, Ph.D. with Joan Myerson Shrager Fanny Brice • Jean Carroll • Joan Rivers • Madeline Kahn • Gilda Radner • Fran Dresher Friday, June 14 • Installation of New Officers and Boards 6:15 p.m. Shabbat Dinner (RSVP ONLY)* 8:00 p.m. Shabbat Service Saturday, June 15 at 10:30 a.m. • Shabbat Morning Service with Special Guest Speaker “The 3 Bs of Jewish Sports: Boxing, Baseball, and Basketball” by KI Member Dr. Paul Finkelman, President of Gratz College *For dinner RSVP information, see P. 5! From KI Leadership Reflections on Three Years as President President’s As I reflect upon my three years as KI’s Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, planned Message President, I am amazed at the changes and growth and led by our amazing teenaged students. we have experienced as a congregation. Celebrating Our Hazak Initiative is providing over $2.5 KI’s 170-year history as a progressive congregation million for building renovations, programming, and in 2017 was an apt reminder. Renewed interest in funding for the Lance J. Sussman Rabbinic Chair exploring our Archives helped us understand and (see story on P. 9). Thanks to Hazak and earlier appreciate our roots, which inspire us to keep donations, the Chapel is now more welcoming and evolving. Each year’s Heritage Shabbat and Spring adaptable, with flexible seating, streaming, and a Celebration, especially this year’s tribute to Rabbi projection system. Three new preschool classrooms Sussman’s 18 years at KI, have kept us focused on and security doors were added to the second floor, our KI family and what we can do together. and a new infant playground will be installed as our Evonne J. Kruger, KI has been transformed into a premier preschool continues to thrive. Much-needed new President social action synagogue by a legion of dedicated windows will update the street side of our building. clergy, staff, volunteers and lay leadership. Our Religious Practices Committee spear- Our Lowell School and HaMotzi dinners are headed the congregation’s adoption of a new High expanding as we gain new volunteers and donations. Holy Day prayer book and the inclusion of more Cook for a Friend, the Federation Hanukkah HHD congregant honors. Our choirs continue to Dinner and special programs round add beautiful depth to our services. out our social action agenda. The “None of the Programs offered by Adult Social Justice Policy Task Force was programmatic Education, the Museum, Music Arts, established to inform KI’s social growth and changes Women of KI and Brotherhood, action efforts. We sent two are augmented by Library book enthusiastic delegations to the KI experienced over the reviews, movies, and author events, Religious Action Center’s (RAC) last three years would plus KIGreenfaith sustainability, Consultation on Conscience, Inclusion, and Senior Moments and have hosted election debates, have happened without committee programs. This incredible congressional updates, and our dedicated leaders, array of programming keeps KI the speakers. Our Tzedek Center clergy, staff, volunteers place to be for adult learning in reinforces giving as the front Eastern Montgomery County. line of social action. and participants.” In governance, it bears repeating I see change in other areas too. that I have the “Philadelphia Our Union for Reform Judaism (URJ) ties are Orchestra of governance” in my Officers, Board of strong, and URJ President Rick Jacobs shared our Directors and Board of Trustees. Both the Social 170th celebration. Twenty congregants attended Justice Policy Task Force and Inclusion Committees, the 2018 Biennial in Boston. Rabbi Sussman is along with the Religious Practices Committee, a valuable resource for our rabbinical colleges Directors and Trustees, were involved in the and the Central Conference of American Rabbis adoption of our KI inclusion insignia welcoming (CCAR). Our youth are active in KIFTY, our members of the LGBTQ+ community into our regional WINSTY, and the North American building, our programs, and congregational life. Federation of Temple Youth (NFTY). The governance committee continues to focus on JQuest B’Yachad is exploring new areas for leadership development so that our leaders will be collaboration through grants and programs. Our prepared for the future. teens annually attend the RAC’s L’Taken Social None of the programmatic growth and changes Justice Seminar and this year, we added a moving, KI experienced over the last three years would have educational Civil Rights student trip that we hope happened without our dedicated leaders, clergy, to continue. A highlight of my tenure was “Taking staff, volunteers and participants. I thank each and Action: One Year Later”, an inspirational service in every one of you. It has been my honor to serve you. memory of students killed during the Marjorie 2 JUNE 2019 From the Bimah An Unsung Hero: Rep. Emanuel Celler (D), the Holocaust and American Immigration Law, 1924–1965 Rabbi’s Message Representative Emanuel Celler (1888-1981) was the the Holy See could help with rescue longest serving Congressman from New York. During his first efforts. Celler actively supported the term in the House, Celler was present when Congress legislated anti-Nazi demonstrations held at the “National Origins” system, a highly restrictive formula using Madison Square Garden and national origin, race, and ancestry as the basis for immigration elsewhere. to the U.S. The goal was to keep America an Anglo-Saxon Six months after Pearl Harbor country. Celler spent the next 40 years seeking to overturn and the American entrance into the Johnson Acts, and finally did in 1965 as a co-sponsor of World War II, at the May 1942 the Hart-Celler Act. New York Biltmore Conference, A Democratic Liberal, Celler’s indefatigable work rescuing collective American Jewish leader- Jews during the Holocaust then helping them settle in the U.S. ship agreed to prioritize their efforts Rabbi Lance J. Sussman, Ph.D. after World War II is largely unknown. Indeed, of all American as follows: 1. Win the war; 2. Pursue elected officials during the Shoah and its aftermath, Celler Jewish statehood in Palestine; and stands out as the most determined rescuer of Jews and others. 3. Rescue survivors. Celler strongly In an age of increasingly divisive immigration politics, his story disagreed and refused to downgrade must be told and his humanitarian efforts recognized as stellar, his rescue efforts. He was particularly if not unique. incensed by another New York Jewish Congressman, Sol Bloom, Emanuel “Manny” Celler was born in Brooklyn, NY, on who fought against “rescue” at the April 1943 Bermuda May 6, 1888. His father, Henry, made whiskey Conference. Celler called the Conference a in the basement of his childhood row home. “blooming fiasco” and publically criticized Celler had three Jewish grandparents; his FDR’s lack of interest in rescue until the mother’s father was Catholic. He did not President’s death in office. attend synagogue but was raised as a cultural In late 1944, Celler called for the resigna- Jew. At age eight, his father took him to hear tion of Assistant Secretary of State Breckenridge William Jennings Bryan speak and it changed Long, who obstructed the settlement of Jews his life. Later, he attended Boys High School, in America during the final years of the war. Columbia and Columbia Law. Although vocal and steadfast in his rescue During World War I, Celler became a efforts, the New York Congressman enjoyed Zionist after reading Herzl. Later recruited little success during the actual war years, by the Democratic Party to run in his home although he supported the establishment of district, he ran on an anti-Prohibition platform the War Refugee Board. With the war and and was elected in 1923. Known for his humor, mass killing of Jews ended, Celler focused on Celler once remarked that to be a successful the resettlement of survivors; in this, he was Congressman “one must have the friendliness of a child, the more successful, but only over time with dogged persistence. enthusiasm of a teenager, the assurance of a college boy, the After the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, diplomacy of a wayward husband, the curiosity of a cat and the Celler helped amend American immigration law. Already in good humor of an idiot.” He never really warmed to the culture 1946, “The Luce-Celler Act,” the first crack in the dam, allowed of the Hill in Washington, D.C. 100 Phillipinos and others to come to the U.S. In 1949, Celler At the Evian Conference of July 1938, Celler began to became Chair of the powerful House Judiciary Committee, engage in the politics of rescue. Initially content to fulfill a position he held for 11 terms until 1973. He had an ally in existing quotas, this changed for Celler after Kristallnacht President Truman, who vetoed efforts to reinforce the Johnson that November. He supported the failed Wagner-Rogers Act Acts of the 1920s, but was overruled by Congress. Led by Celler, to allow 20,000 German Jewish children under age 14 to come Displaces Persons (DPs) were increasingly admitted to the U.S. to the U.S. He then unsuccessfully lobbied President Roosevelt despite occasional Congressional opposition, and by the time to challenge the British blockade of the Palestine coast. He also the Hart-Celler Act was adopted in 1965, approximately lobbied for full diplomatic relations with the Vatican, hoping (See Rabbi Sussman on P. 4) SUPPORT KI! Call 215.887.8700 or visit www.kenesethisrael.org.
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