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 will also have special activities for the kids to enjoy. There is no hate that will not die, focusing charge for this event, but donations are gratefully accepted. on its current, virulent incarnations on both the political right and left. It's time to register for the 2020-2021 For information & to RSVP visit templesolel.net school year at Temple Solel ECC! Save $200 if you register by March 15! Visit www.templesolelecc.com for more information or to schedule a tour, contact Leslie Scheck at [email protected] Hineynu presents Do You Own Your Stuff…..Or Does Your Stuff Own You?? Thursday, March 17 at 7:00pm Do you have rooms that you aren’t living in filled with stuff you Temple Solel’s Dog-Human Playgroup don’t use? Are you overwhelmed by the task of downsizing your belongings? Join us for a presentation on purging and organizing Wednesday, March 4 at 8:30am to make your life a bit easier! Presented by Jami Shapiro, owner Encinitas Dog Park of Silver Linings Transitions and Bryan Devor, Senior Real Bring your furry friends and join us for a playful morning of Estate Specialist with Pacific Sotheby’s International Realty. chit chat (for humans) and good chasing (for dogs)! For information & to RSVP visit templesolel.net PURIM FUN! THE BIBLE IN ONE HAND, Friday, March 6 THE NEWSPAPER IN THE OTHER: 6:00pm Conversations of the Day with Rabbi Berk Join Rabbi Berk and Cantor Tiep for a creative Wednesday, March 18 Megillah experience - Wednesday, April 22 traditional chanting and interpretive storytelling! A night of fun surprises & delightful celebration for everyone. 12:00pm - 1:30pm Come in costume or come as you are. Be part of the conversation! Bring your friends, partners, grandparents, parents, and children, Bring a dairy lunch and a beverage. an open door for all to enjoy! Rsvp to templesolel.net to save you a seat. 3 Seacrest Shabbat Sisterhood Quarterly Book Club Friday, March 20 at 6:30pm Tuesday, April 14 at 7:00pm Shabbat evening services shared with our Seacrest Jewish Washing the Dead community - prayer and poetry, by Michelle Brafman. melody and harmony. Brafman’s tale of three generations of Please meet us at Seacrest on this night. Bring your friends and women shows that woundedness—damage loved ones, or meet a new friend and loved one. to mind and soul—can travel down the A sweet Shabbat experience for us all. generations, and that so can kindness, courage and, ultimately, self-healing. . . . [Washing the Dead] succeeds in showing how family history has a way of sneaking up on us from the depths of the past, shaping the present in ways both familiar and unexpected.” —Haaretz For information & to RSVP visit templesolel.net Earth Day Shabbat Service Friday, April 17 at 6:00pm Join us for an experiential Shabbat service produced by an inter- generational team of Solel members. Enjoy the prayers and music as we gather the sparks toward a brighter, hopeful tomorrow. All children, adults, and teens are welcome! Brotherhood Brunch Sunday, April 19 at 9:15am Join us for conversations and bagels in the Beit Midrash. Please consider joining Brotherhood for $36 per year. Your Brotherhood dues helps to offset the breakfasts and purchase gifts for our B’nai Mitzvah students. Havdalah Nights 55+ presents the movie Dough College Student Care Package Party With speaker, Professor Lawrence Baron Wednesday, April 1 Saturday, April 25 at 7:00pm 6:15pm Making matzah crack (toffee) Havdalah led by Cantor William Tiep 7:00pm Making care packages Fruit & Desserts $5 per person Do you have a child or grandchild in college? For more information visit templesolel.net Meet and mingle with other congregants who have children in college and join us as we put together care packages to send in the mail. For more information and to RSVP, visit templesolel.net
SECOND NIGHT PASSOVER SEDER Open Forum Discussion Thursdsay, April 9 at 5:00pm Kashrut at Temple Solel: Past, Present, and Future With Sunday, April 26 at 9:15am Rabbi Berk & Cantor Tiep Join the Board, Clergy, Staff, and Members of Temple Solel to discuss our policies and protocols for A night of story and song, conversation and celebration. Kashrut in our kitchens. Questions, conversations, An ancient tradition with a modern twist! and perspectives all welcome as we look into In the mood for a wonderful, stunning evening basking possible changes around how we make ethical and in Pesach beauty? Come to our table, and be a part of religious decisions around food and food service this glorious night. For more information and to RSVP in our synagogue community. Please join us for please visit templesolel.net this important discussion at the trailhead of a new 4 chapter in our communal lives. 5 BRADY BAYARD March 7, 2020 Son of Johnny and Beth Bayard B’nai Mitzvah Attends: San Diego Jewish Academy MAZEL TOV TO OUR My B’nai Mitzvah is meaningful to me because: I understand that my Bar Mitzvah is a significant part of B’NAI MITZVAH STUDENTS the circle of Jewish Life and it is now my time to fulfill the mitzvah of becoming a Jewish man. Mitzvah Project: Solel Serves
SHANE GLESINGER March 7, 2020 Son of April and Jeff Glesinger Attends: Tucson Hebrew Academy JORDAN THOMAS My B’nai Mitzvah is meaningful to me because: It is April 18, 2020 a long standing tradition in Judaism and since Judaism is Daughter of Mark and Tali Thomas a big part of my life, becoming bar mitzvah is also; like my brother, my uncle, and my grandpa did before me. Mitzvah Project: Cleaning local parks in Tucson
DELILAH SONNENSHEIN March 14, 2020 SAMUEL WEINBERG Daughter of Jonah and Shana Sonnenshein April 25, 2020 Attends: Oak Crest Middle School Son of Seth and Patti Weinberg My B’nai Mitzvah is meaningful to me because: it Attends: Oak Crest Middle School represents my growing up, and has helped me to become more involved in my Jewish community. In addition, I have Bar Mitzvah Highlight: It gave me the opportunity enjoyed learning about the Jewish laws and teachings. I to be a bigger part of the Jewish community, I enjoyed feel more connected to my religion and enjoyed studying attending more services and learning Hebrew. Mitzvah Hebrew. Mitzvah Project: I ran a Books and Blankets Project: Helping animals at Rancho Coastal Human drive for the Community Resource Center and worked at Society and beach clean ups. the annual CRC Holiday Basket Program. I also volunteered at the Carlsbad Library Summer Reading Program.
KAYLA OSBORN March 21, 2020 Daughter of Shana Osborn and the late Richard Osborn, CAMP may his memory be a blessing Attends: Oak Crest Middle School SIMCHA My B’nai Mitzvah is meaningful to me because: I CREATE LIFE TIME MEMORIES want to practice Judaism when I’m older and I want to be 10% multi-session / multi-sibling discount until May 28 a Jewish woman. I want to truly and ceremoniously speak $50 credit for every new camper referral to G-d through prayer. $100 first time family discount Mitzvah Project: I want to give to others through my writing, so I am writing a children’s book.
Skirball Excursion Register Sunday, June 7 For camp information, contact TODAY! Camp Director, Craig Parks 760.436.0654, x275 or www.templesolel.net [email protected] Visit 2 Amazing Exhibits at the Skirball Cultural Center in Click on For camp registration, contact 2020 Camp Simcha Los Angeles! I'll Have What She's Having and Star Trek: Camp Admissions, Alexis Libraty 760.436.0654, x266 or [email protected] Exploring New Worlds. Travel by motor coach to the Skirball Cultural Center and then The Hineynu Committee urgently needs your stop on the way home at Katella Deli. I’ll have What She’s help. We provide meals for Temple members Having, explores the history of the deli and how American Jews who have had a recent illness, surgery or imported tradition and built community through the experience injury. An effort would be made to contact a of food and Star Trek: Exploring New Worlds will showcase volunteer who lives within close proximity to Star Trek’s impact on culture, art and technology through more the congregant in need. Please contact Laura than 100 rare artifacts, set pieces and props. Dolloff at 774-313-9455 or [email protected] for more Visit templesolel.net for more information. 6 information or to become a “Meal Mitzvah” volunteer. 7 Contributions WE GRATEFULLY ACKNOWLEDGE THE FOLLOWING CONTRIBUTIONS FOR NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2019 If your name was inadvertently left off our contribution list, please contact Judy Bricker, [email protected] so we can correct for our next issue. OUR CLERGY OUR PROGRAMS OUR YOUTH l Rabbi Berk’s Discretionary Fund l Adult Education l Campership Fund l Cantor Tiep’s Discretionary Fund l Charlotte Ida Tubis Memorial Scholar in Residence l Camp Simcha Scholarship Fund l Rabbi Frank’s Discretionary Fund l Hineynu (assistance to Temple Members in need) l Early Childhood Center l OUR TEMPLE Interfaith Shelter l Hartman Leadership Program l Library - Aaron Price Children’s Fund l General Fund l Rabbi Bohm Israel Scholarship Fund l Library - Alpert Mendelson Fund l Shir Chadash Music Fund (assistance to teens traveling to Israel) l Social Action Fund l Tree of Life Leaf l Religious and Hebrew School l Solel Serves Fund (small-$250; Large-$300) l Youth Fund l Stars & Stripes Fund l Yahrzeit Plaque l Matthew Hose Youth Scholarship l ($450 member; $650 non-members) Thanksgiving Baskets Fund
OUR CLERGY OUR PROGRAMS Rabbi Berk’s Discretionary Fund Aaron Price Children’s Library Fund Robert & Allison Price Norm & Marcia Abelson, in memory of Roger Alperin l Gaye Alperin, in memory of Roger Alperin l Suzanne Bates, in gratitude of Rabbi Adult Education Berk l Frances & Judy Caminer l Martin & Barbara Gluck l Randall & Cheryl Kerber l Gary & Ileese Schneir, in memory of Eric Glatter Belinda Harris l Peter & Sharon Korn l Rusian & Nelly Kraus, in memory Alpert Mendelson Library Fund l of Yakov & Etya Kras Jay & Gabrielle Kunin, in honor of Rabbi Ralph David Alpert Dalin Michael Latz l Dr. Stuart Rubenstein, in honor of the bris of Ethan Alexander l Fred & Kathy Scott, in memory of Sara Papo & Elisha Papo V Charlotte Ida Tubis Memorial Scholar in Residence Fred & Kathy Scott, in honor of Rabbi Berk l Mark & Linda Sonnenshein, Randall & Belinda Harris in memory of Barry & Barbara Zimbler l Scott & Natalie Taylor, in honor Hineynu l of Ava Taylor’s Bat Mitzvah Susan Gail Thomas, in memory of Evelyn l Prince Art & Eileen Ferber, in honor of Jayne & Gary Marx 24th Anniversary Thomas Marchisa & Dr. Jennifer Grodberg, in memory of Haskell Grodberg l Cantor Tiep’s Discretionary Fund Arthur & Ruby-Ann Rudnick
Frances & Judy Caminer l Martin & Barbara Gluck l Stanley & Pamela Interfaith Shelter Herskovitz l Inez Kaufman l Jay & Gabrielle Kunin, in memory of Dr. Kent & Judy Bricker, in honor of the Wexler l Berkowitz, Miller, Hirschberg l Kalman & Roberta Kunin l Kenneth & Paula Marks l Scott & Natalie Zilberman & Levan Families l Michael & Carolyn Felzer Taylor, in honor of Ava Taylor’s Bat Mitzvah l Havurah Halavah l Lawrence Fritz & Stephanie Kogan l Stephen & Susan OUR TEMPLE Kagan l Peter & Sharon Korn l Kenneth & Paula Marks l Stars & Stripes General Fund Committee Solel Serves Peter Delmonte & Katherine Blumberg l Jeffrey Doerner & Dr. Dana Chortkoff, in honor of Russell & Debbi Davis l Jim & Marti Eisenberg Wesley & Beckie Rankin, in honor of the Joanne, Stuart & Rachel Roberts l Steve & Ellen Fox l Isaac Fuhrman, in honor of Jessica Fuhrman & l Susan Gail Thomas, in memory of Nathan Prince Hershel Sakulsky l Dr. Edward Goold l Brian, Jake & Luke Grana, Thanksgiving Basket Fund in memory of Carey Grana l Harvey & Jessica Harris, in honor of l Elizabeth Payumo l Randall & Belinda Harris l Jeni Harris Hirschorn l Peter & Sharon Korn Hershel & Jessica Sakulsky Linda Hirshberg l Peter & Sharon Korn l Jason & Wendy Oxenhorn l OUR YOUTH Margo Reeves, in memory of Roger Alperin l Adam & Maisie Rubin, Campership Fund in memory of Mona Raskin l Dr. Stuart & Joanne Roberts, in memory David & Ginger Levy of Mona Raskin l Dr. Stuart & Joanne Roberts, in honor of the birth of Shai Rubin l Anastasia Rollins, in memory of Mona Raskin l Stan & Jane Early Childhood Center Schatt l Jerome & Deborah Smith, in appreciation to Temple Solel Leo, Claire, & Robert Adenbaum Foundation l Jack & Jill Johnson l Mark Eileen Tilt Silver & Katherine Michaud-Silver l Tal & Danielle Zemer Building Fund Religious and Hebrew School Arthur & Deborah Cravets, in memory of Bessie Olan Martin & Barbara Gluck l Dr. William & Sue Ann Scheck l Fred & Kathy Scott, in memory of Annie Cavallaro Shir Chadash Music Fund - Dr. Glen Brodowsky & Jon Segal l Dr. Steven & Karen Feitelberg l James & Carrie Greenstein l David & Dobra Stanley Canter Jewish Experience Scholarship Fund Kramer l Steven & Alexis Larky, in memory of Mona Raskin l Fred & Stanley Canter Kathy Scott, in honor of Cantor Tiep and the Beatles Shabbat Service Youth Fund l Marty Stern & Marcia Kern, in appreciation of Beatles Shabbat l Suzanne Bates, in memory of Matthew Hose l Ken Biblowitz & Michele Alexander & Lenore Wilkas l Allen & Melinda Wynar Gorcey, in honor of Craig Parks l David & Leslie Shepard Matthew Hose Youth Fund Tony Sanchez, in memory of Matthew Hose 8 9
TEMPLE SOLEL Joanne Roberts 3575 Manchester Avenue NON PROFIT ORG. PRESIDENT Cardiff by the Sea, CA 92007 U.S. POSTAGE Mindi Frankel P A I D Melissa Hirsch ENCINITAS, CA Steven Lasensky PERMIT NO. 147 VICE PRESIDENTS Shana Hoolihan SECRETARY Barry Raskin TREASURER Dawn Grossman PAST PRESIDENT Current Resident or Ellen Bramson Debby Buchholz Ian Fasack Brian Geffen Doug Komen Alexis Larky Adam Rubin Gary Woods TRUSTEES
Music Series Alexis Berk SENIOR RABBI William Tiep CANTOR David Frank RABBI EMERITUS Kathy Robbins FOUNDING CANTOR Shiri Haines April 10 Shabbat Evening Service SYNAGOGUE DIRECTOR With Cantor Natalie Young & Cantor Tiep Judy Bricker Featuring Music from her new album Soul Spark TEMPLE ADMINISTRATOR/PROGRAMMING April 26 Solel Sings Disney Ellen Fox Register to audition with one of your favorite Disney pieces, try outs are SCHOOL DIRECTOR March 22 & 25. Register at [email protected] or Craig Parks YOUTH DIRECTOR [email protected] Leslie Scheck May 31 Unique blend of Class and Schmaltz DIRECTOR OF EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION With Cantor Tiep & Special Guest Bring Canned goods for the hand up food pantry & Jewish Family Service Visit templesolel.net to find out more.