September / October 2019 Elul / Tishrei / Cheshvan 5779 Issue 5 Of
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
September / October 2019 Elul / Tishrei / Cheshvan 5779 A PUBLICATION OF BETH HILLEL BNAI EMUNAH Issue 5 of 6 12 Reserved Seats in Our Sanctuary for "To let (their) experience be forgotten is a betrayal the High Holy Days and to remember is a tribute. Memory is a guardian The Yamim Noraim (Days of Awe) and a spur: it enables us to carry out our past with us serve as a series of rituals through which in order to share our souls and our future.” we enter the process of teshuvah, which It is the memory of their loss that can and should we most often translate to inspire us to seek a holier and kinder world. We know “repentance." But, this that hatred in this country grows evermore violent, word, teshuvah, echoes a much greater concept in brazen, and vigilant, which is why filling our our tradition; namely, it speaks to our process of sanctuary with prayer, song, and love is so very personal and spiritual reflection and the change we essential. To link ourselves to one another, to those seek each year in an effort to evolve into an ever who came before, and those who will come after in better version ourselves. Rabbi Jonathan Sacks offers elevated moments of connectivity can truly influence an interesting translation of the word teshuvah - the way in which we encounter the world. he proposes that we can also understand this time of This Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur can be our year and process as a “homecoming.” personal homecoming, but the ultimate truth of our That is to say we can only come to evolve, reflect, Jewish practice is that our liturgical language and and change when we return to the very core of who practice are one of community. Each admittance of we are. For many of us, the High Holidays are a time mistakes and each hope for redemption we find in our when we do just that, we return. We return to our High Holiday prayer books uses the language of “us.” familial homes and our childhood synagogues. We Our traditional words maintain that “we” each made return to the melodies and words of the Days of Awe missteps, “we” seek peace, “we” can do better. we heard while standing next to our grandparents. As is our effort each year, we will once again strive as We return to the prayer shawl we received at our a community to unify the souls of those present with bar/bat mitzvah. We return to same moving feeling those who are missing. We know that It is an eternal of hearing the sound of the Shofar on Rosh Hashanah, challenge to make the intangible tangible. Perhaps, our or the same feeling of hunger we felt on Yom Kippur. twelve reserved seats will serve as a sign to our BHBE It is that sense of returning and reentering that offers community and the greater community that we will us the opportunity to rededicate ourselves, looking forever remember and represent those no longer here toward a new year. to share our souls and our future. This year there are twelve individuals who will not L'Shana Tova u’Metukah be returning home for the High Holy Days. There are May this new year be one of sweetness and life in twelve cherished Jewish souls who were stripped pursuit of a holier, kinder, and more loving world. from this world less than a year ago. Eleven from B’Shalom, Rabbi Crane Tree of Life – Or L'Simcha Congregation in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and one from Chabad of Poway syna- Rabbi Crane.………………………………..page 1 gogue in Poway, California. Each one torn from their All in the Family …………………………….page 2 family members, their home synagogues, and our Amer- B’nai Mitzvah ….……………………………page 3 ican Jewish community. President……………..……………..……….page 4 In recognition of their absence, we at BHBE will be Cantor Roytman and Academy…………...page 5 reserving twelve evenly distributed seats in our Library…………... …………………………..page 6 expansive sanctuary for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Ways and Means and Men’s Club…………page 7 Kippur. We do so as an act of memory not morbidity. Social Action………………..…...…………..page 8 As Rabbi David Wolpe writes regarding dedicating USY, Youth and Adult Ed…………………..page 9 moments to those who were taken from this world: Sisterhood ……………………………………pages10-20 Donations……………………………………..pages 21-22 Calendar………………………………………pages 23-26 Ads…………………………………………….page 27 2 Mazel Tov to: Erwin Helberg on the marriage of his daughter, Rebecca Sarah Helberg and Samuel Noah Nassau Jaclyn and Darryl Stern on their son Jaden’s graduation from high school Barbara and Alan London on the birth of their grandson, Beau Charles Nightengale Christa and Brian Robinson on their daughter, Adi’s Bat Mitzvah Colleen and Ira Dubin on the marriage of their sons Martin and Rachael Barry and Mitchell and Katie Power Annabelle Jacobson on her birthday Sheila Gideon on her special birthday. Ahouva and Isaac Hasbani on the Bat Mitzvah of their granddaughter, Noa Adelman Pam and Rodrigo Levy on the Bar Mitzvah of their son, Elias Barbara and Tom Ungar on the marriage of their daughter, Megon and Luke Butler Deena and Joseph Rosenfeld on the Bar Mitzvah of their son Benjamin Gwen and Cary Weiner on the birth of their grandson, Joe Snyder Ellen and Joel Feldman on the marriage of their daughter, Rebecca and Robert Schur Morty Schapiro, Northwestern President on being presented with the Maimonides Award at the annual Global Leadership Symposium at Baruch College Paulette and Jeremy Lidskin on their daughter Maya’s Bat Mitzvah. Sheila and Vern Gideon on their 60th Wedding Anniversary Fred Ost and Harriet Robbins-Ost on the Auf Ruf of their daughter, Jessica and Maxwell Abraham Sloan Michele Bresler & Barry Goldberg onthe Bat Mitzvah of their granddaughter, Ronit Goldberg Marcus in the Hague and their grandchildren’s graduations Bev & Howard Reinglass on their 51st Wedding Anniversary Tim Comar on his 50th birthday Vicki and Jeff Hass, Andrea and Jeff Meltzer, Dini and Sam Wengroff and Sharon Yusim on the marriage of their son, nephew and grandson, Avi Hass and Danielle Blustein Ellen and Joel Feldman on the marriage of their daughter, Rebecca and Robert Schur Rabbi Allan Kensky and Adina Kleiman on the birth of their granddaughter, Isadora Naomi Charlotte Glass on the birth of her great granddaughter, Evie Mae Schur Sashie Kraff on the birth of her great granddaughter, Delilah Belle Berk Rochelle and Bernie Dyme on the birth of their grandson, Zev Joseph Michelle and Joel Melnick on the birth of their grandson, Benjamin Charles Shoshanna and Scott Reynolds on the birth of their son, Emmet Gwen and Julian Rosen on the birth of their granddaughter Tim, Rachael and Jerry Comar and Elaine Pearlman on the birth of their granddaughter and niece, Golda Hanson Sashie Kraff on the engagement of her grandson, Noah Kraff to Sophie Fritz Carole and Don Babendir on their 62nd wedding anniversary and on their granddaughter, Aliza and Joseph Roth’s marriage Sharon and Dan Meyer on the marriage of their son Marc and Kerstin Hudon Carole and Michael Dunn on the Bat Mitzvah of their granddaughter, Olivia Anne Dunn Marshal Lyons on the Bar Mitzvah of her grandson, Logan Lyons Condolences to: Pam and Rodrigo Levy on the passing of Pam’s mother, Anita Epstein Andrea Friedman on the passing of her husband, Peter Helen Stopek on the passing of her daughter-in-law, Jane Stopek Fern Steinfeld on the passing of her husband, Manfred Steinfeld The Hammer Family on the passing of Rabbi Reuven Hammer The Berman Family on the passing of our longtime member, Muriel Berman Terri Rothstein on the passing of her husband, Sheldon Gerry Feder, Randi and Rob Feder and Amy and Steven Feder on the passing of Gerry’s husband and Rob and Steven’s father, Howard Feder Paulette Lidskin on the passing of her father, David Sacks Lisa and Arthur Edelstein on the passing of Arthur’s father, Norman Edelstein 3 B’NAI MITZVAH STUDENTS August 31, 2019 - Re’eh Talia Bahar, Daughter of Keri and Phillip Bahar September 21, 2019 - Ki Tavo Elijah Smith and Haily Smith Son and Daughter of Corrine and Marvin Smith September 7, 2019 - Shoftim Jacob Shternberg, Son of Sofia Muller & October 26, 2019 - Bereishit Dmitriy Shternberg Jacob Galantowicz, Son of Esther and David Galantowicz September 14, 2019 - Ki Tavo November 2, 2019 - Noah Mincha Bat Mitzvah Jack Feldman Audrey Marinsky, Daughter of Megan Marinsky Son of Jill and Freddie Feldman 4 P r e s i d e n t — Sanford Goldberg Having initiated our transition In this period of time, when the joys of summer are to a new rabbi and a new ebbing and we begin to anticipate the contemplative executive director, we at BHBE moments of the High Holidays themselves, it is worth are now looking at a period of underscoring the importance of the more practical time culminating in the High matter of the Appeal’s success. We are in a time Holidays, which begin at the when there is great enthusiasm for the newest end of September. For many members of the BHBE team; our Executive and of us, this is a period of great anticipation and General Boards have never been more committed to reflection. To be sure, signs of late summer are still fiscal responsibility, and to ensuring the continued with us: the joyful cries of kids frolicking outdoors, flourishing of our great community; we are deeply the beauty of daylillies and Black-eyed Susans, the fortunate to be in a position to celebrate and reflect bliss of enjoying peaches and plums in season, the with one another during this High Holiday season.