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News & Information from Temple Solel Pathfinder MARCH/APRIL 2020 ADAR/NISSAN 5780 SUNDAY, MARCH 8 l 11AM - 1:30PM Visit www.templesolel.net for all the details! Temple Directory March Worship Schedule Rabbi Alexis Berk Leslie Scheck Friday, March 6 Senior Rabbi Director of Early Childhood 6:00pm | Erev Shabbat Services with Bimah Beats, [email protected] Education Birthday Blessings & Purim Fun Celebration for a Creative Megillah Experience [email protected] Cantor William Tiep Saturday, March 7 Cantor Mayra Lopez 8:15am | Torah Study led by Rabbi Alexis Berk [email protected] ECC Office Assistant 10:00am | Shabbat Service with B’nai Mitzvah of Brady Bayard [email protected] son of Johnny and Beth Bayard, and Shane Glesinger, son of April and Jeff Glesinger. Rabbi David Frank Jose Melgoza Rabbi Emeritus Friday, March 13 [email protected] Facilities Supervisor 6:00pm | Erev Shabbat Services with Healing Tapestries Rocio Montelongo Shiri Haines Saturday, March 14 Office Manager & Clergy 9:00am | Kids’ Kiddush- Purim, PJ’s, and Pancakes Synagogue Director Administrator 10:00am | Shabbat Service with Bat Mitzvah of Delilah [email protected] [email protected] Sonnenshein, daughter of Jonah and Shana Sonnenshein Friday, March 20 Judy Bricker Enid Stechel Temple Administrator & 6:30pm | Erev Shabbat Services at Seacrest Village Retirement ECC Office Manager Communities, Encinitas Programming Director [email protected] 7:00pm | Teen Shabbat Jam [email protected] Analis Ledesma Saturday, March 21 Ellen Fox Front Office Administrative 8:30am | Torah Study led by Ellen Fox School Director 10:00am | Shabbat Service with Bat Mitzvah of Kayla Osborn Assistant daughter of Shana Osborn [email protected] [email protected] Friday, March 27 Craig Parks Toby Williams 6:00pm | Erev Shabbat Services – Prayer Lab and Shabbat Youth Director AV Tech Unplugged Band [email protected] [email protected] Saturday, March 28 No Shabbat Morning Service Temple Solel of North San Diego County, Inc. 5:00pm | Temple Solel Sparklight Cabaret Gala 3575 Manchester Avenue, Cardiff by the Sea, California 92007 April Worship Schedule Office Phone ........................................................................ 760.436.0654 Office Fax .............................................................................. 760.436.2748 Friday, April 3 Early Childhood Center ................................................... 760.944.1285 6:00pm | Erev Shabbat Services Early Childhood Fax .......................................................... 760.436.2748 Saturday, April 4 Temple Solel is a Reform congregation dedicated to promoting 8:30am | Torah Study Jewish community and continuity through study, prayer and acts Friday, April 10 of justice and loving kindness. 6:00pm | Erev Shabbat Services with Healing Tapestries and Cantor Natalie Young Shulcloud Member Portal 7:00pm | Teen Shabbat Jam For all Temple Solel Online Payments and Registrations: Visit Saturday, April 11 https://templesolel.shulcloud.com/ and remember you must No Shabbat Morning Service log into the online portal, located in the upper right corner of Friday, April 17 the home page screen for all forms to appear. If you need help 6:00pm | Erev Shabbat Services or have questions, please email [email protected]. Saturday, April 18 Temple Solel Pathfinder 10:00am | Shabbat Service with Bat Mitzvah of Jordan Thomas, daughter of Mark and Tali Thomas We welcome story ideas and event photos from temple members. Published bi-monthly. Please send submissions by April 7, 2020 for Friday, April 24 the May/June Newsletter to Rocio Montelongo at rmontelongo@ 6:00pm | Erev Shabbat Services with - Prayer Lab and Shabbat Unplugged Band templesolel.net. Saturday, April 25 Temple Solel is committed to creating an inclusive and welcoming 10:00am | Shabbat Service with Bar Mitzvah of Samuel environment for all our members and their families. If we can Weinberg, son of Seth and Patti Weinberg provide accommodations that would support your access or 7:00pm | Havdalah Nights Presents: Movie Dough and Speaker, enjoyment of any event, please contact Rocio Montelongo, Professor Lawrence Baron [email protected]. 1 Message from President Joanne Roberts 18 under 18 Award Having just returned from the Scheidt seminar – a special 3-day It is with great pride and excitement that three of Temple intensive educational course for temple presidents from reform synagogues around the country sponsored by the URJ, I could Solel’s very own teens are part of the first ever 18 under 18. not wait to share some valuable lessons learned. 18 Under 18 is a media based opportunity to recognize 18 The central theme focused on sacred partnerships between Jewish teens in San Diego, between the ages of 14-18, who clergy, leadership, staff, and congregants. “A sacred partnership have gone above and beyond for our community. They is a commitment to building and nurturing relationships that elevate the work of leadership to a level of holiness. will be featured on the cover of the April issue of L’Chaim Sacred partners recognize each of us as individuals and our Magazine and the San Diego Jewish Journal, as well as, in desire to inspire sacred action in our communities. Sacred the center spread where they will be recognized and their partnerships are built and nurtured through the Jewish values of mutual respect, trust, honesty, listening and communication, great accomplishments will be shared. transparency, confidentiality, flexibility, reflection, empathy, and vulnerability.” Ethan Hirschberg and Fletcher Block were nominated by I ask each of you: Director of Youth Programming Craig Parks. Ethan was l How can we, the pillars of our synagogue, continue to chosen for his outstanding work around autism advocacy create a spiritual home that envelops all those who yearn for community, connection, holiness, and learning? with his blog The Journey Through Autism and Fletcher was chosen for his immense community building skills as l Who is accountable for the work? the President of NFTY SoCal and his work with the San l What is my personal responsibility? Diego Jewish Teen Initiative serving all Jewish teens in San Knowing that my answers could never be as wise, I turned to quotes from those past and present whom we respect and Diego. admire as well as text from the Torah. l “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.” Albert Einstein l A community is too heavy to carry alone. Deuteronomy Rabbah 1:10 “How wonderful it is that nobody needs to wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” Anne Frank l “It is not your responsibility to finish the work of perfecting the world, but neither are you free to desist from it.” Rabbi Tarfon, Pirkei Avot 2:21 l “Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.” Golda Meir l “Two are better than one. Two who toil in Torah are better than each working alone. For if they fall, one will help his companion up. If one partner forgets, the other sets him right and reminds Jason Wexler, a Sunday School him.” Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 Ozer and part of the Hartman Do you see yourself in any of these quotes? My hope is that at least one resonates with you and calls you to action. I am Program is also one of the award inspired and energized by the message. Please join me - we are recipients. He was named one all sacred partners in this journey and there is much to do! of the winners of the 2020 Warmest wishes, Peter Chortek Leadership Joanne Roberts, President Award from the Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego for his leadership and work in raising money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Welcome November and December Society. He’s also active in the New Members Nicholas Barr, Dr. Jennifer Grodman & Thomas Marchisa, San Diego Jewish Teen Initiative and he is very involved Linda Hirschberg, Donna Silberstein with JCompany’s Youth Theatre program (he has a lead (New members who joined in January/February will appear in the next issue.) role in the upcoming production of Matilda in March). 2 Lunchtime Book Club at Temple Solel Wednesday, March 11 at 11:30am Upcoming Events The World to Come by Dara Horn A million-dollar Chagall is stolen from a museum during a singles’ cocktail hour. Sisterhood Hamantashen Baking! The unlikely thief, former child prodigy Tuesday, March 3 at 9:00am Benjamin Ziskind, is convinced that the painting once hung in his parents’ living Join us in the Temple kitchen to bake Hamantashen room. This work of art opens a door for the Religious School’s largest fundraiser- through which we discover his family’s startling history-from an the Purim Carnival! orphanage in Soviet Russia where Chagall taught to suburban For more information and to sign up New Jersey and the jungles of Vietnam. visit templesolel.net RSVP at templesolel.net Purim, PJ’s, and Pancakes Kids’ Kiddush Antisemitism Here and Now A Brown Bag Dinner & Discussion led by Rabbi Berk Tuesday, March 3 at 6:30pm This book is written by Deborah Lipstadt, award-winning author Saturday, March 14 at 9:00am of The Eichmann Trial and at Temple Solel Denial: Holocaust History on Come dressed in your pajamas and enjoy a Purim themed Kids’ Trial gives us a penetrating Kiddush Service and delicious pancakes, fruit, and juice! We and provocative analysis of the