WILSHIRE BOULEVARD TEMPLE BULLETIN Volume 100, Number 11 • November 1, 2013 Celebrating Chanukah Early

t is amazing that it’s November and we are already getting ready Every year at this time we have an opportunity to engage in Ifor Chanukah. This year Chanukah will be further than usual a dialogue about our relationship to the dominant culture and our from Christmas. Being aware of how close or how far Chanukah distinctive “other-ness”—to examine where we draw clear lines, is from Christmas is part of the interesting tension that sometimes where the lines are less clear and what we think about that. When exists for us as Jews. We might be able to avoid sticking out as our children, grandchildren, colleagues and friends ask us about different at other times of the year, but not during the holiday Chanukah and about how and why we are different, this is not a season. This awareness of beingdifferent within a dominant distraction to the celebration but the very essence of the holiday. culture is not a side note to the celebration of Chanukah but is in May this year’s celebration of Chanukah spark conversations fact integral to it. both joyous and challenging, inviting us to wrestle with what it The Maccabean revolt in 166 B.C.E. underscored these means to be both “a part of ” and “separate from.” Happy Chanukah! very issues of assimilation and distinction. And as in all of our Susan Goldberg formative narratives, the issues are more complex than the simplified story of one clearly good side against an obviously bad side. At the time, the dominant influence was Hellenism (a term first coined in the Book of Maccabees). There was much to be appreciated in this culture—art, philosophy, gymnasium, theater—and Jews were greatly immersed in it. The concern about our assimilation boiled over when the Seleucid King Antiochus forbade Jews from worship and all traditional practices. When the Maccabees organized their guerilla warfare, their first targets were other Jews whom they regarded as too Hellenized. Sadly, the valiant Maccabean revolt, which ultimately grew into a fight against foreign oppression, began as a violent internal conflict.

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An Evening with Mitch Albom

Tuesday, November 12 Sunday, November 17 Sunday, November 24 Irmas Campus Irmas Campus Glazer Campus 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. 4:00 p.m. 12:30 p.m. Torah Portion Torah Online: wbtla.org/torahonline Solving our Identity Puzzle Genesis: Jacob’s Life

ur identities, constantly in flux, are a multitude of moving and work, being a Jew, being an American, being individual and Oparts, shifting puzzle pieces. Jewish, American, parent, part of larger communities. We, like Jacob, have to balance and child, learner, professional, artist, realist, dreamer. Sometimes bring our identity pieces into harmony. It’s not always easy. the pieces don’t fit, other times something extraordinary But this month, for the first and last time in generations, happens to bring impossible elements together into one unique, a coincidence of the calendar gives us one beautiful meal in beautiful self. which some of our fragmented elements can coexist peacefully, This year, in a remarkable confluence, the first day of a flavorful symphony bound by tradition and love. Not Chanukah coincides with Thanksgiving. On November 28, Jewish or American, but Jewish AND American. Latkes with Jewish American homes will fill with turkey and brisket, latkes cranberry sauce, sweet potato noodle kugel, challah stuffing, and yams, family, football, dreidels, laughter and love. We’ll pecan rugelach. remember our roots and look to the future, aligning at least This year, the stage is set, as Thanksgiving and Chanukah two parts of our identity puzzles. gift us with a moment of identity harmony. Hold on to the In our November Torah portions we meet the moment. Cherish it. Store it away, so when we feel forced to patriarch Jacob, learn of his trickery and escape, his struggles, choose, we’ll remember our identity puzzle really can create subconscious wrestling, triumphs and growth, his repeated a beautiful picture. Each piece has a purpose, and each is a mistakes and what he learns from them, his apologies beautiful part of us all the time. and his blessings. Jacob’s story is also our story. We Rabbi Rochelle Tulik all strive to play so many roles as we navigate home Religious School Principal

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Bike/Hike Israel to Support Reform March 23-27, 2014

t’s not easy to be a Reform Jew in Israel. The Israel Move- Heights and travel through the beautiful scenery of the Iment for Reform and Progressive Judaism was formed upper and western Galilee, concluding in Zichron Yaakov. to advocate for and raise funds to establish and support All three capture the most picturesque attractions of the area, the small but growing number of Reform and Progressive including visits to natural, historical and religious sites. congregations in Israel. To further this important cause, Riding4Reform Original: five days of challenging my cyclist husband Mickey Rosen and I will lead interested mountain bike riding trails, about 30 miles a day! congregants on a Ride4Reform five-day fundraising program Riding4Reform Light: the tourist bike trail of easy of biking and hiking through the breathtaking scenery of cycling over good conditions or paved paths, about 15 miles northern Israel. Our goal is to help create a more pluralistic, a day. just and equal Israel. Hiking4Reform: for those who love experiencing the Participants raise funds for three key areas: new Reform great outdoors on foot, along Israel’s most beautiful trails, 6 and Progressive communities in geographic regions with to 9 miles a day. little or no representation; outreach to Israel’s immigrant Please join us for this great outdoor adventure! communities, particularly Russian immigrants, to help ease Rabbi Karen L. Fox the transition to their new life; and scholarships for youth to attend Camp Havaya, the only Israeli Reform summer camp. Three parallel nature trips with different degrees For more information or to make a of physical challenge all originate in the northern Golan donation without leaving home, go to www.riding4reform.org

2 Tikkun Olam A Flood of Biblical Proportions

ast month we began our annual homes destroyed and another 18,000 Lcycle of Torah reading with the damaged, many beyond repair. story of Creation, followed by the well- In the wake of the flooding, the known tale of Noah and the flood. We Temple’s Disaster Response Team made rarely read the biblical story of the flood up of Temple member volunteers, as fact, but for nearly a million people deployed to Colorado to help in what in Colorado, rain in amounts of biblical was dubbed Operation Muddy Waters. proportion has been all too real. From left: Rabbi Shapiro, Cory Wenter, Gary Jones, Working with NECHAMA, our Suzanna Adler, Mare Smooke, Brian Milder, Jeremy Wolf, Seventeen inches of rain Dan Hoeft, Steve Matloff, Adam Silverstein, Mark McGilvery disaster response partner, our team pummeled Boulder County, Colorado, emptied flooded homes and tore out the second week of September, half of it in a single day, doubling damaged drywall, insulation and flooring to help rebuilding the record set nearly 100 years ago. This massive deluge combined begin as quickly as possible. with light winds at high altitudes Most important, we showed those most affected that focused in one area created a perfect they are not alone. “You came all the way from ?” an and deadly storm. The toll was elderly man asked with tears in his eyes. “Wow! We thought daunting: flood waters covering a everyone forgot about us.” massive 200-mile stretch affecting 17 Rabbi M. Beaumont Shapiro counties at an estimated cost of $2 billion; eight confirmed deaths; 1,500 More photos at wbtla.org/coloradophotos Adult Opportunities

A Boy Avenger and the Holocaust

n October 26, 1938, Hitler’s Gestapo began arresting and responded en masse. On November 9th, thousands of Jews were Odeporting all Polish Jews residing in Germany. Among the beaten and murdered, 265 synagogues were destroyed, 7,500 estimated 12,000 brutally removed from their homes and herded Jewish businesses were looted, and 30,000 Jews were sent to into boxcars was the family of seventeen-year-old Herschel concentration camps. This was the beginning of the Holocaust Grynszpan, a German Jewish refugee living in Paris. and a foretelling of what was to come. Herschel received a desperate postcard from his sister On Friday evening, November 15, as part of our Salon describing the torment of his family, who had been dumped Shabbat series, author Jonathan Kirsch will speak about his on the street with nowhere to turn. Distraught and enraged, new book, The Short Strange Life of Herschel Grynszpan: A Boy Herschel purchased a revolver and a box of bullets, and on Avenger, a Nazi Diplomat and a Murder in Paris. He will share November 8th walked into the German Embassy and shot Third his insights on the case of Herschel Grynszpan and explore Secretary Ernst vom Rath five times. Arrested but unrepentant, the moral dimensions of one of the first expressions of Jewish he made the following statement: “Being a Jew is not a crime. I resistance to the Nazis. have a right to live. And the Jewish people have a right to exist Please join us for a fascinating evening, followed by a on this Earth.” Parisian Oneg Shabbat. Herschel’s desperate act gave Hitler the excuse to launch Susan Nanus, Director of Adult Programs a massive, murderous pogrom against the Jews of Germany in what became known as Kristalnacht. He exhorted the German people to “rise in bloody vengeance against the Jews,” and they A Literary Shabbat with Jonathan Kirsch November 15, 6:00 p.m., Irmas Campus Brawerman Elementary School

Kesher: Making a Connection with Our Friends From Israel

rade 6 Brawerman Elementary School pupils hosted 18 Gstudents from our partner school, the David Yellin School in Tel Aviv, on a whirlwind tour. We enjoyed a night in Malibu at our glorious camps, visited the “Jews in the Mosaic” exhibit at the Autry Museum, and learned about art and the history of Wilshire Boulevard Temple. Our school’s program allows us to build a kesher (connection) with our extended Jewish family in Israel. Students and teachers from Tel Aviv found their Jewish souls touched and enlivened through t’filot at camp and in

sukkot on our campuses and backyards all over the city. Grade 6 Students and the Israeli Delegation at Camp Hess Kramer The Jewish pride and knowledge demonstrated by our Grade 6 students was inspirational. As we continue to sing “HaTikvah” in our classrooms, t’filot and assemblies, we will think of our new friends from the David Yellin School in Tel Aviv and look forward to our grade 6 students being hosted by them in Israel this spring. We have made a beautiful connection.

Nadine Breuer, Rabbi Elissa Ben-Naim, Grade 6 students and the Israeli Grade 6 Students and the Israeli Delegation Delegates studied the murals in celebrating in the Irmas Campus sukkah the newly renovated Sanctuary

Religious School

New Hebrew Prayer Program

ome great changes are afoot in the Religious School’s Hebrew Group 3 comprises students who can read and focus on prayer Sprayer program. In order to better teach Hebrew so that mastery and the six goals listed below. it links and resonates with developing prayer skills, we have Grade 7 Students work toward the following six prayer goals: revitalized our approach to how students are introduced to the 1. Learn how to read the prayer. language. Here’s how it works: 2. Be able to chant the prayer. Grade 2 Students are introduced to Hebrew letters and taught to 3. Recognize key words and their meaning (highlighted in recognize them. Hebrew and English in the new siddur we’ve created for Grade 3–7 families). Grade 3 Students learn to actually read Hebrew, identifying the 4. Understand the meaning of the prayer. letters and vowels as well as the combinations that form words. 5. Demonstrate the choreography of the prayer. Grades 4 – 6 Students receive a Hebrew diagnostic test and, 6. Be able to know just by hearing a prayer where that prayer based on results, are then placed in one of three multi-grade-level belongs in the service. Hebrew groups with students at their level. Our program is designed to be fluid so that students can move from group to group as they learn. Our goal is to enable every Group 1 focuses on letters and vowels, for students who need to student to understand and appreciate not only the words, but the learn to read. spirit and beauty of prayer as well, for the rest of their lives. Group 2 serves students who read haltingly or need more practice Rabbi Bruce Raff, Head of Religious School reading certain letters or vowels.

4 Glazer and Mann Early Childhood Centers

Our Parent Association in Person

oday, when the internet is partnership. We work together to connect home and school in an Tthe gathering place for most atmosphere of trust and mutual respect. Our parent association is people, the parents of Glazer and a very important way of underscoring that connection, and it fills Mann Early Childhood Centers us with great pride and gratitude. still gather together in person— face-to-face—to initiate the new school year. We are delighted to report that we had an amazing turnout at both campuses for our first parent association meeting, where we experienced an old- fashioned sense of community, more like a quilting bee than a blog. Each year our many accomplished parents (and some grandparents) participate in 40 different committees, working together to enrich our program with Jewish family celebrations, the book fair, a speaker series, our gala, tikkun olam, holiday boutique, afternoon at the pier and much more. They work tirelessly and enthusiastically to lend their artistic talents and We are currently accepting applications for Nursery professional expertise to every event and mitzvah project. School. Children born before August 31, 2013 are We recognize that parents are a child’s first teachers, and so eligible to start in fall 2014. Visit us online to schedule we value the parent-teacher-student relationship and nurture this a tour or download an application: wbtla.org/ecc or call (424) 208-8900.

Camps

Growing and Giving at Camp

ven late in the growing season Camp Hess Kramer’s edible engaging campers in conversations about food, farming and, Egardens are lush with spinach, kale and lettuce, with one last crucially, food waste. melon ripening in the field. The produce picked until the first Like any good organic gardener, Kosoff has built a unique camp summer session will be donated to Food Share, Ventura compost bin, with succulents sprouting from wood-pallet walls, County’s food bank, but come June, campers will again enjoy as a home for rinds and scraps. “Once we introduced it, campers greens, tomatoes, corn and other favorites grown right there. wanted to compost everything,” Kosoff notes. The garden, a grand experiment for camp and staff begun Then, after they visited Food Share, campers organized in October 2012, provides more than mere sustenance. Under a program connecting social justice, Judaism and food, as they the guidance of former camper and counselor Sara Kosoff, considered the Jewish law to offer the corners of your fields to whose background in food systems education has prepared her people in need. When they were told of another Jewish law to to develop a full-fledged garden program, campers (along with give 10 percent of your income to charity, the campers, moved by the nonprofit organization Amir and donations from local the spirit of the discussion, decided to swap those numbers--to landscaper and camp alum Greg Epstein), have built 14 beds at harvest and donate as much as they could and save 10 percent for Hess Kramer and four more at Gindling Hilltop. themselves. “Cool and empowering,” Kosoff affirms. Campers, who enjoy the fruits of their harvests at lunch, Zan Romanoff can also work the gardens as an afternoon activity orchug ; (Condensed from the Jewish Journal, Sept. 24, 2013) meanwhile, Kosoff rotates through the lunchroom daily,

5 Glazer Campus Progress Report Sanctuary Dedication Photo Album

n Sunday, morning, September 29, Temple families Ocelebrated the consecration of our newest students (left), we installed our newly completed Torah and filled the Sanctuary with joyful Jewish rock. That evening, the Sanctuary overflowed with beautiful choral music and the good will of more than 1700 Temple members, friends and neighbors in a truly memorable celebration. The complete family photo album is at www.WilshireBlvdTempleAM.photoherald.com; the evening album is at www.WilshireBlvdTemplePM.photoherald.com. You can purchase the photos on the website.

Morning consecration of new students Howard Kaplan, Brenda Levin and Bill Ehrlich

Linda and Steve Brown, Gillian Gurney and Alyce and Phil de Toledo Temple President Barry Edwards, and past presidents Cantor Don Gurney Rich Pachulski, Julie Miller, Bruce Karatz, Mark Siegel

Bruce and Lilly Karatz with Lorin Michaels with parents, Dana Pachulski, Nadine and Steve Breuer Rabbi Steve Leder Ron and Carol Goldman

6 Continued on Page 11 Upcoming Events For a full calendar of events please visit www.wbtla.org/events

WINE, WOMEN AND COMEDY AN EVENING WITH MITCH ALBOM The She-BREWS—Eight Fabulous Female Comics Sunday, November 17 4:00 p.m. Saturday, November 2 7:30 p.m. Mitch Albom has carved out a special In honor of Rosh Hodesh, a holiday dedicated to place among contemporary authors women, bring your girlfriends, mothers, sisters, with such beloved New York Times daughters to an evening of hilarious, poignant, risque bestsellers as Tuesdays with Morrie, For comedy with eight of LA’s funniest Jewish comediennes. One More Day and The Five People You (Guys welcome too!) Watch their videos online. Meet in Heaven. $18 (includes wine, cheese and dessert buffet) His much-anticipated novel, The First Phil Wallace, [email protected], (424) 208-8932 Phone Call from Heaven, tells the story of www.wbtla.org/winewomencomedy a small Midwestern town whose residents begin to get phone calls from the departed. It is part mystery, part love story and an allegory about the power of belief. HAVDALAH HAPPENINGS Phil Wallace, [email protected], (424) 208-8932 Saturday, November 9 7:30 p.m. Purchase tickets at www.livetalksla.org Join Rabbi Susan Goldberg, the Moshav Band $5 discount for all Temple members when you use and artists William Deutsch and Jonas Becker the code WILSHIRETEMPLE as we sweetly bid goodbye to Shabbat and create new week of possibility. Art making, music, food, drinks and a beautiful time. AGING WISELY: KEEP YOUR EYES OPEN $10 Tuesday, November 19 7:00 p.m. Nan Brostoff, [email protected], (213) 835-2121 Worried about the effects of aging on your vision? If www.wbtla.org/havdalahhappenings so, you will want to hear Dr. Phan present the latest on eye health as well as the most common causes of low HOLIDAY BOUTIQUE vision: age-related macular degeneration, glaucoma, cataracts and diabetic retinopathy. Get an introduction Tuesday, November 12 8:30 a.m. to low-vision rehabilitation and how low-vision aids and Join us for a fabulous day filled with shopping, devices can help in your daily living. socializing, a delicious catered lunch and0 1 0 2 Phil Wallace, [email protected], (424) 208-8932 a world class bake sale. A percentage of www.wbtla.org each sale goes to support the programs and scholarship funds of our elementary and nursery schools. Complimentary valet parking. THE BIG GIVE Felisa Felsenthal, [email protected], (424) 208-8900 Sunday, November 24 12:30 p.m. www.wbtla.org/holidayboutique As we gather together with our families to celebrate Thanksgiving, we cannot A LITERARY SHABBAT WITH GUEST AUTHOR forget the thousands of Angelenos who are hungry and homeless. Once again, we JONATHAN KIRSCH will assemble and deliver 1,000 complete Friday, November 15 5:30 p.m. (challah bar and Thanksgiving dinners to feed 4,000 of book signing); 6:00 p.m. (service) our city’s most needy families. Last year’s Lawyer, author and professor event was unforgettable; don’t miss this Jonathan Kirsch joins us to discuss his opportunity to infuse your Thanksgiving new book, The Short, Strange Life of with some added meaning. Herschel Grynszpan: A Boy Avenger, a Nazi Denise Magilnick, [email protected], (424) 208-8930 Diplomat and a Murder in Paris. www.wbtla.org/biggive On the 75th anniversary of Kristallnacht, Kirsch deconstructs the moral dimensions of one of the most enigmatic cases of World War II. Followed by a special Parisian Oneg Shabbat. Phil Wallace, [email protected], (424) 208-8932 www.wbtla.org

GLAZER CAMPUS IRMAS CAMPUS OPCC SANTA MONICA CALL/EMAIL REGISTRATION REQUIRED ONLINE REGISTRATION REQUIRED CONTACT FOR MORE INFORMATION FREE OF CHARGE 7 Kol Rinnah WILSHIRE BOULEVARD TEMPLE 2013 Torah Study and Service Combined CALENDAR OF EVENTS Helicopters...Book Fair W November Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 Shabba Dabba Torah Study and Kaddish for Yahrzeit For more information, including time and location, on all Soul Sounds Shabbat of the events in this calendar, visit www.wbtla.org/events Tribute to Debbie Shabbat Shacharit Friedman Wine, Women and Religious School Retreat Comedy (November 1 - 3) 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Food Pantries Law and Order: How the A Morning Cup with Torah and Lunch with Torah Study and Kaddish Mishnah Helps Solve the Rabbi Goldberg Rabbi Leder - Century City for Yahrzeit Care Harbor Health Crime Clinic Engaging Israel Women's Bible Study Tot Shabbat Spousal Bereavement with Rabbi Fox Support Group Pregnancy Support Shabbat Shacharit Kabbalat Shabbat Israeli Dancing Havdalah Happenings 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Food Pantries Holiday Boutique Israeli Dancing Nefesh: Torah Study and Kaddish Food for the Soul for Yahrzeit Spousal2 0Bereavement10 Support Group A Literary Shabbat with Tot Shabbat Jonathan Kirsch Shabbat Shacharit

17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Food Pantries Law and Order: How the Israeli Dancing Women's Bible Study Torah Study and Kaddish Mishnah Helps Solve the with Rabbi Fox for Yahrzeit An Evening with Crime Mitch Albom Kabbalat Shabbat Shabbat Shacharit Aging Wisely Spousal Bereavement

24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Food Pantries Coffee with Carol Coffee with Carol Israeli Dancing Kabbalat Shabbat Torah Study and The Big Give Spousal Bereavement Kaddish for Yahrzeit Support Group Shabbat Shacharit Chanukah Chanukah Thanksgiving Chanukah Chanukah

Glazer Campus Irmas Campus OPCC Annenberg Access Center, Santa Monica Service time different than usual - please check online Tributes

RABBI EDGAR F. MAGNIN FUND Eddie Michaels by Michael Farhat Parents, Max and Irma D’ull by Ann Labe-Givon AL GOODMAN MEMORIAL Hyman Kosman Productions Eddie Michaels by Audrey Gronsky Elsie Fogelman by Betty Cohen CAMPERSHIP FUND Eddie Michaels by Marg Helgenberger Fred Furst and Ruth Furst by Lotte Seelman In Honor Of: Eddie Michaels by Larry Mueller William L. Glick by Joyce and Bob Wolf In Loving Memory Of: Gideon Hertz’s Bar Mitzvah by Beth and Davida Lettiere by Rhoda Goodman George Abrams Eddie Michaels by Barbara Boone Max Hartfield by Marian Brown and Family Eddie Michaels by Jill I. Franklin Max Hartfield by Lucille Epstein and Family SILLS CAMPERSHIP FUND In Loving Memory Of: Eddie Michaels by Patrice and Charlie Katz Max Hartfield by Gertrude Kline All my loved ones by Pauline Greenstein and Family Beloved family, Warner Hirsch, Selma and In Honor Of: Gordon Bodek by Janna Harris Eddie Michaels by Alison and Jacob Becker, Max and Helen Hirsch by Robin Sill’s Special Birthday by Susan Bryman Robert Borun by Dorothy Straus Abraham Rosenberg Jane Hirsch In Loving Memory Of: William Citron by Cecile Bartman Eddie Michaels by Mr. and Mrs. Jack Rubin Evelyn K. Kramer by Flo and Mayo Stark Thelma Sills by Robin and Robert Sills Meyer Cohen by Earle Cohen Eddie Michaels by Lauren and Marcus Labe by Ann Labe-Givon Cullen Thomason Rose Sills by Robin and Robert Sills Anne Cohn, Harriet Levi and Lois Ruder Lillian Lynn by Leanore and Donald Motley by Lonnie Israel Eddie Michaels by Diego Klattenhoff Lillian Lynn and Howard Lynn by Constance KEHILLAH COMMUNITY CAMP Suzanne Corets by Beth Corets Eddie Michaels by The Dula Family Burg and Family Richard Epstein by Burton Epstein Eddie Michaels by Tracy and Jeffrey Dlott Helaine Melvin by Stuart Melvin FUND Ben F. Evans by Joanie Reisman Eddie Michaels by Megan McGowan Eddie Michaels by Lori & Simon Furie In Honor Of: Jordon Feldman by Morgan and Eddie Michaels by Jennifer Blair Richard B. Motley by Mr. & Mrs. Donald Motley Rabbi David Eshel by Shelley and Adam Feldman Eddie Michaels by Lara, Ariana, Bianca and Irma Phillips by Shirley Phillips Michael Eisner Elsie Fogelman by Mr. and Mrs. John Fogelman Charlie Kaplan Alexander H. Rosenbaum by Jeffrey Graubart Rabbi David Eshel by Toby and Sam Berkow Anna Fox by Helen MacKinnon Eddie Michaels by Louise Litwack Joe Myer Shapiro by Marian Brown Denise and Judd Magilnick’s son recent marriage by Stephanie and David Eshel Beatrice Gerry by Janice and Arthur Gerry Eddie Michaels by Ginger Brown Shellie Sigal’s father by Linda Brown Leon Ginsberg by Adam and Morgan Feldman Eddie Michaels by Danson/Steenburgen Trust Benjy and Julie Rosen’s upcoming marriage Irwin Goodman by Sharyn and Walter Gertz by Stephenie and David Eshel Ruth Gitlin by Noel Applebaum Irene Pressman by Ellen and Burt Pressman and Rob Kositchek Ruth Gitlin by Malcolm Orland TIKKUN OLAM SOCIAL ACTION In Loving Memory Of: Sybil Glickman by Harriet Finebaum CLERGY FUND FUND Dianne Barraco by The Cramer Family Joni Gordon, Mac Gordon and Elizabeth Mr. & Mrs. Steven Broidy Todd Rosenberg Morgan by Monte Gordon ESTHER AND MARK SCHULMAN In Loving Memory Of: Cole Grosflam by Nancy Senter In Honor Of: CAMPERSHIP FUND Louise Baer and Tom Bosley by Amy and Betty Hadden by Michele and Larry Lynch Rabbi Karen Fox by Gloria Diamond and Mr. & Mrs. Leonard Dick Stu Miller Matt Baer Robert Haiman by Shirley Haiman Rabbi Karen Fox by Betsy and Neil Roberts Gordon Bodek by Marnie Bodek and Ed Moss Morris Harris by Rita and Albert Harris Fox, Eshel and Shapiro by Susan Scott E. Sraberg by Karen and Brad Sraberg FOOD PANTRIES Erna Heller by Lawrence Heller and Steve Grad Phyllis B. Tabach by Julius Tabach Sunday, November 3, 2013 Rose E. Janken by Leonie and Glen Janken Rabbi Susan Goldberg by Susan and Isaac Epstein by Laura Ullman-Epstein Claudine V. Keith by Dr. & Mrs. Arthur Keith Steve Grad Underwritten by: Sarah Klein and Henry Rapaport by Helen Rabbi Steven Leder by Jeanne Gerson AUDREY AND SYDNEY IRMAS Lori and Simon Furie and Samuel Klein Rabbi Steve Leder for a speedy recovery by CAMPUS Barbara Karrol Elsa L. Kunin by Mr. & Mrs. Stanford Rubin Jean Rosenbaum-Katz Thank you to those individuals and families Ray Kurtz by Malcolm Orland Our Aliyot on Yom Kippur by Joanie and In Loving Memory Of: who have chosen either to underwrite Harold Leventhal by Gayle Leventhal Lou Reisman Sydney Irmas and Pauline Menein by Irmas Charitable Foundation ($1,000) or sponsor ($500) a week of food. Ratner by Mildred Ratner High Holidays under the new dome by Schroder Family If you are interested in joining this effort, Lillian Mereny by Carol Krasne and Eric Fine ANNE AND NATHAN SPILBERG Albert Miller by The Rosenblood Family In Loving Memory Of: please contact Rabbi M. Beaumont Shapiro ANNUAL LECTURE ON JEWISH at (424) 208-8930 or email David Nitka by Laurette Nitka Jordon Feldman by Bette and Abbie Feldman LIFE Himon Galpert by Jerry Gotlieb [email protected]. Saul Orland by Malcolm Orland Charles Rose by Dione and William Fenning My sister in law, Lisl Nathan by In Loving Memory Of: Mitzvah go’reret mitzvah—doing a mitzvah leads Anneliese Nathan Sophia Ratner and Louis Sallet by Alfred Levin by Brandon Levin to doing more. Mildred Ratner Evelyn Tuch by Marilyn Brown Jay Slotkin by Bradley Mindlin Martin H. Weil by Janice Weil ANAT BEN-ISHAI SCHOLARSHIP Thank you to Canter’s Deli, Brooklyn Bagel, Marjorie Slotkin by Bradley Mindlin FUND Noah’s Bagel Larchmont, and Western Bagel SISTERHOOD PULPIT FLOWER Florence Solomon by Peg Pashkow In Loving Memory Of: West L.A., for their weekly donation of bread to FUND Brandon Tartikoff by Lilly Tartikoff Sybil Glickman by Elizabeth Finebaum our Food Pantries. Harold S. Victor by Jonathan Victor In Loving Memory Of: Edwin Weinrot by Melanie and Daniel Weinrot Lorraine Weintraub by Jill and Paul Schulman MUSIC PUBLICATION FUND Great-grandmother, Irma Weisskopf by In Honor Of: Maskit and Gary Schiller ANN AND SAM BERNSTEIN Cantor Don Gurney by Susan and Steve Grad Irma Weisskopf by Frank and Liesa Schiller CHILDREN’S LIBRARY Cantor Don Gurney by Randi and WILSHIRE BOULEVARD TEMPLE In Loving Memory Of: Warren Grant Pearl Borinstein by Joan and Cantor Don Gurney by The Rosman Family REDEVELOPMENT FUND Melanie Borinstein Steven Orlikoff Ruth Hoffenberg by Walter and Sharyn Gertz WILSHIRE BOULEVARD TEMPLE Todd Rosenberg CAMPS Roberta and Saul Romoff FOOD PANTRIES FUND In Loving Memory Of: Frederick Weisman Foundation Elaine and Cary Fox My grandmother, Henrietta “Danny” Blumer In Honor Of: Betty Hoffenberg by Lisa Agay TIKKUN Don Gurney by Julie Platt Jeanne Gerson OLAM Rabbi Steve Leder for a speedy recovery by Barbara Karrol RABBI ALFRED WOLF CAMP REPAIRING THE WORLD Marjorie Blatt In Honor Of: FUND WILSHIRE BOULEVARD TEMPLE Rabbi Steve Leder for a speedy recovery by Jonathan Rothstein-Fisch Susan and Steve Grad Our 20th Wedding Anniversary by Amy and Matt Baer Rabbi Steven Leder by Marlene White Lenard In Honor Of: Rabbi Beau Shapiro by Betsey and Larry Greene’s 70th Birthday by Claire and Rabbi Shapiro and Cantor Gurney by George Goodwin Nancy Cotton and John Given Don Marks Estelle Wachs by Michael Wachs In Loving Memory Of: The beautiful services given by the Rabbis and In Loving Memory Of: Esther Altabet by Eli and Rochelle Ginsburg Cantors by Ann Labe GIvon and Bernd Givon Marietta Bach by Susan, Ken and Danielle Korman Rose Fischer by Joseph and Edith Fischer In Loving Memory Of: Lillian Gelfond by Mr. & Mrs. Gordon Gelfond Max Grey by Lonnie Levi Rae Arons by Helen Sherwin Beverly Gersh by Mr. & Mrs. Edward Brown Annabelle and Robert Kositchek by Dear brother in law, Stanley Brown by Harriet Kornblum by Dolph Kornblum Ellen and Burt Pressman and Rob Kositchek Lucille Epstein and Family Blossom Morris by Jared B. Morris M.D. Eddie Michaels by Carol and Ronald Goldman Stanley Brown by Marian Brown and Family Eddie Michaels by Charles Monday Beloved mother, Becky Zigman by Ruth Stanley Brown by Gertrude Kline and Samuel Mayerson

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9 B’nei Mitzvah

CADENCE RAE DAVIS HARRISON RABIN November 2, 2013 November 16, 2013 Cadence is the daughter of Peggy and Stephen Davis; the Harrison is the son of Gary and Donna Rabin. granddaughter of Sheila and Stuart Wien; Stuart Davis; Robert Schmidt and the late Nancy Schmidt. MIA BERMAN Family Welcomers: Hannah Davis, sister; Will Davis, brother. November 16, 2013 Mia is a graduate of Brawerman Elementary School at Tikkun Olam Project: Cadence is working on a project Wilshire Boulevard Temple. with Stuart House in Santa Monica, an internationally recognized model program that serves the special needs of sexually abused children. Mia is the daughter of Lindy Goldberg and Mark Berman; the granddaughter of Evrille and Joel Bortz; June and Merrell Siegel. MATTHEW JESSE FUHRER Tikkun Olam Project: Mia is supporting the Israel Sports November 2, 2013 Center for the Disabled. Along with making articles to raise funds for this Matthew is the son of Cathy and David Fuhrer; the organization, she will be assisting in a children’s wheelchair Ping-Pong and grandson of Linda and James Donnerstag; Frances basketball tournament. Fuhrer and the late Leonard Fuhrer. Family Welcomer: Daniel Fuhrer, brother. NOLAN STEWART GREENSPAN Tikkun Olam Project: Matthew volunteered for the November 23, 2013 Challenger Division of Little League Baseball, which Nolan is the son of Emily and Teddy Greenspan; the enables boys and girls with physical and mental challenges to enjoy playing grandson of Judith and Bruce Newman; Alice Needle; baseball. As a “buddy,” he assisted these children on and off the field. John Greenspan. Family Welcomer: Phoebe Greenspan, sister. ESTHER ROSE GROVER Tikkun Olam Project: Nolan started a Junior Volunteer November 9, 2013 program for middle-school-age students at CoachArt, Esther is the daughter of Laura Diane Grover; the an organization that improves the quality of life for children with life- granddaughter of Martin M. Grover and the late threatening illnesses by providing free lessons in arts and athletics. Nolan Inez Grover. volunteers for the organization at various group and family activities. Tikkun Olam Project: Esther volunteered at the Jewish Home for the Aging in Reseda. On Sundays she sat ISABEL CLAIRE LEVI with residents during afternoon musical programs, both assisting and accompanying them. Esther is also participating in the November 23, 2013 North American Conference on Ethiopian Jewry (NACOEJ)’s twinning Izzy is the daughter of Julie and Sami Levi; the program and has created a Jchoice.org Mitzvah Project page to raise money granddaughter of Korin and Alber Kucuklevi; Rise and for NACOEJ’s school program, which educates Ethiopian Jewish children in Alan Barbakow; Genny and Robert Shain. Israel. She invites you to visit her project page: www.jchoice.org/firestar.htm Family Welcomer: Alberto Levi, brother. Tikkun Olam Project:: Izzy volunteered at the Wilshire JOSEPH MAX KLYMAN Boulevard Temple Food Pantry at OPCC. She assembled November 9, 2013 lunches and distributed them to those in need. Joe is the son of Dena Bloom and Robert Klyman; the grandson of Deanne and Lenny Bloom; Cassandra Klyman and Gabe Zawideh TAYLOR BRYNNE MADWIN November 30, 2013 Family Welcomers: Sophie Bloom, sister; Cal Klyman, Taylor is the daughter of Nancy Madwin and Matt brother. Madwin; the granddaughter of Diane and Steve Tikkun Olam Project: Joe tutored children in reading, Laxineta; Judy Laxineta; Paul Madwin and the late Judy writing and playing Minecraft at Heart of Los Angeles (HOLA), an afterschool Madwin. program for underserved youth. Family Welcomer: Kaitlin Madwin, sister. Tikkun Olam Project: Taylor held a Dance-a-thon and ANI LEE ROSEN raised funds for Ballet for all Kids and Intercity Arts, organizations that November 9, 2013 create opportunities for underprivileged children or those with disabilities to experience dance and the arts. Ani is the daughter of Holly and Eric Rosen; the granddaughter of Betty Lee Rosen and Dr. Howard Rosen; Nancy B. Smith and the late David K. Smith. Tikkun Olam Project: Ani organized a brown-bag collection in her neighborhood to donate pet supplies to the Amanda Foundation, a nonprofit organization that rescues dogs and cats from city shelters and finds families to adopt these pets. She also spends time at the foundation caring for the pets. GLAZER CAMPUS IRMAS CAMPUS

10 Glazer Progress Report Continued More Sanctuary Dedication Photos

Ari, Jonathan and Jeremy Silberman, Sybil Fields and Debra Fields

Mayor Eric Garcetti and Erika Glazer, far right; in center, Burt and Jane Bacharach and their daughter Raleigh

Jerry Magnin with sons Randy and Ron and granddaughter Rachel

Sacred Praise Chorale performing ‘Clap Praise’ Muriel Bodek, Janna and Jim Harris, Ed Moss and Marnie Bodek

Temple Family

Welcome to new Temple members… Condolences to… Licia and Paul Boaventura-Delanoe and their children, Giovanna and Isabella Condolences to Deedee Dorskind on the death of her mother, Sue … Leslie Danon and Gregory Dean and their children, Aidan and Bryce … Dworskind … Janis Flax and Bruce Perelman on the death of her father, Monica and Ezquiel Farca and their children, Eduardo, Stefan, Alexis and Harvey Flax … David and Cathy Fuhrer on the death of his father, David Andrew … S. Gail Goldberg … Janine Regal and Ian Liebman and their Fuhrer, and to grandchildren Daniel and Matthew … Annaliese Nathan children, Daniel and Aaron … Jodi and Christopher Lipe and their son, Jaden on the death of her sister-in-law, Lisl Nathan … Aaron and Blair Kaplan on … Rachel and Clinton Lukens and their children, Jonah and Zoe … Sharon the death of his grandmother, Lea Serlin and to great grandchildren Blake, Orion and daughters Lida and Alexa … Stephanie and Sohiel Poursalimi … Daylin and Jaiden … Brian and Kirsten Shirken on the death of his mother, Zoya Preys and Gennady Orlovetsky and their children, Benjamin and Ava. Goldie Shirken, and to grandchildren Ben and Zoe … Shellie Sigal on the death of her father, Erwin Sigal, and to granddaughter Molly Werner … Ron and Linda Slates on the death of his mother, Gerta Slates. And to all immediate and extended family.

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Schedule of Shabbat Worship & Study

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1 Rabbi Eshel, Cantor Gurney SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16 Shabbat Services Shabba Dabba Musical Service and Youth Choir Torah Study and Kaddish for Yahrzeit Bar Mitzvah of Rabbis Leder and Goldberg 6:00 p.m. Genesis Vayishlach 32:4 – 36:43 Nolan Stewart Greenspan and special guests Avi Cohen 9:00 a.m. Rabbi Leder and Cantor Gurney 6:00 p.m. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9 10:30 a.m. Torah Study and Kaddish for Yahrzeit Tot Shabbat Soul Sounds Shabbat - Rabbi Goldberg 9:30 a.m. Bat Mitzvah of Isabel Claire Levi Genesis Vayetze 28:10 – 32:3 Rabbi Shapiro and Tribute to Debbie Friedman Rabbinic Intern Ashley Berns Shabbat Services Cantorial Intern Ettinger Rabbi Eshel, Cantor Gurney and Band 9:00 a.m. 6:00 p.m. Bar Mitzvah of Harrison Rabin 10:30 a.m. Tot Shabbat Rabbi Shapiro and WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27 SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2 Rabbi Eshel 9:30 a.m. Cantorial Intern Ettinger 10:30 a.m. First Chanukah Candle Torah Study and Kaddish for Yahrzeit Shabbat Services FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29 Genesis Toldot 25:19 – 28:9 B’nei Mitzvah of Esther Rose Grover Bat Mitzvah of Mia Berman Rabbi Goldberg and Joseph Max Klyman Rabbi Eshel and Cantor Gurney Shabbat Services 9:00 a.m. Rabbis Leder and Shapiro and 10:30 a.m. Rabbi Fox and Cantorial Intern Ettinger Cantor Gurney 6:00 p.m. Shabbat Services 10:30 a.m. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22 Bat Mitzvah of Cadence Rae Davis Rabbi Shapiro and Cantor Gurney Shabbat Services Rabbi Leder and Cantor Gurney Bat Mitzvah of Ani Lee Rosen 6:00 p.m. Rabbi Goldberg and 10:30 a.m. Rabbi Eshel and Cantorial Intern Ettinger Cantorial Intern Ettinger 10:30 a.m. 6:00 p.m. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 30 Bar Mitzvah of Matthew Jesse Fuhrer Rabbi Eshel and Cantorial Intern Ettinger Torah Study and Kaddish for Yahrzeit FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15 Rabbi Shapiro and Cantor Gurney 10:30 a.m. Genesis Miketz 41:1 – 44:17 Nefesh “Food for the Soul” 6:00 p.m. Rabbi Fox FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8 Musical Service 9:00 a.m. Rabbis Shapiro and Goldberg, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23 Shabbat Services Shabbat Services Cantorial Intern Ettinger and guests Torah Study and Kaddish for Yahrzeit Rabbis Leder and Shapiro and Bat Mitzvah of Taylor Brynne Madwin 6:00 p.m. Genesis Vayeishev 37:1 – 40:23 Cantorial Intern Ettinger Rabbi Fox and Cantorial Intern Ettinger Ashley Berns 6:00 p.m. A Literary Shabbat with 10:30 a.m. 9:00 a.m. Jonathan Kirsch Rabbi Eshel and Cantor Gurney 6:00 p.m.

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