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December 2016 1 Kislev - 2 Tevet 5777 Photo Gallery - page 18 Cole’s Bar Mitzvah Redux - page 35 Gloria on Chanukah - page 44 Keys Jewish Community Center P.O. Box 1332 • Tavernier, FL 33070 • 305-852-5235 • keysjewishcenter.com Chai-Lights December 2016 1 December 2016 1 Kislev – 2 Tevet Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1 2 3 Steve Hartz & Steve Steinbock Laurie Blum & Gary Margolis, Steve Hartz 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Joyce Peckman Rabbi Sisterhood & Gloria Avner Agler Meeting Jim Williams, Service 10 a.m. Barbara & 10 a.m. Richard Knowles 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 KJCC Board Bernie Ginsberg Meeting 10 a.m. Sam Weis 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Homeless George Swartz & Chanukah Service Yardena Kamely First Night noon Candles Settler’s Beth Hayden Park 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 First Day Beth Hayden of Chanukah Chanukah Dinner 5:30 Linda Pollack 2 Chai-Lights December 2016 2016 - 2017 KJCC Officers and Board President’s Message President Sam Vinicur Sam Vinicur here are times when I Vice Presidents wish I owned a crystal blasé and Gloria Avner – Susan Gordon – Steve Hartz T ball. I don’t mean some per- dulled we’d Treasurer fectly formed glass objet all become if no day ever of- Linda Pollack that sits on a shelf and occa- fered a surprise. Then there’s Recording Secretary sionally delights my eye with the single emotion – hope – Arthur Itkin its useless though miracu- that undergirds both religion Corresponding Secretary lous roundness. (And col- and romance, major staples of Joyce Peckman lects dust, which I suppose human existence. The motivat- Financial Secretary has its own date with destiny ing (and civilizing) power of Mitch Harvey and has to go somewhere.) hope would disappear for those Directors I’m talking about one that who already know for certain Ken Atlas • Marc Bloom really works. You know, like what happens next. Dave Feder • Linda Kaplan Michael Kaufman • Skip Rose the one Margaret Hamilton Okay (sigh), a functioning Medina Roy • Gene Silverman had where she could watch crystal ball isn’t such a great Sisterhood Dorothy and Toto walking idea. But high season is about Erica Lieberman-Garrett toward her along the Yellow to begin at KJCC. I need no Adult Education Brick Road. And upon which magic powers to predict that Yardena Kamely she rubbed her impossibly you’re going to love what we Librarian bony fingers while cackling, have planned. There will be lots Medina Roy with equal parts malevolence of films. One will dramatize the th Historian and conviction, “I’ll get you, famed 13 century Judaism/ Mary Lee Singer my pretty!” (Not to flack or Christianity disputation in Spain led by Nachmanides. (He won, Resident Scholar play witch’s advocate for the Rabbi Richard Agler, DD wrong side here, but you’ll so he was allowed to live. No Past Presidents remember that when Doro- pressure.) Rabbi Agler has Joel S. Cohen thy’s house came down in agreed to lead a post-film dis- Robert Faeges Munchkinland it did, after cussion. The main event of the Ronald Horn Lester Nieman all, land squarely upon and season, our big fundraiser, will Irving Stein quite thoroughly kill her sis- be a live music concert, but this Myron Rubin Bea Graham ter. A little empathy here, time it’s a two-fer. We’ll once George Swartz people.) again be presenting the amaz- Susan Horn Who among us wouldn’t ing Dave Feder. But another Jim Boruszak Joel Pollack love to know what’s to hap- renowned KJCC member will Jeff Schocket pen before it does? The ben- join Dave on stage: Sam Weis is Steve Steinbock Alan Beth efits seem endless. (Lottery an internationally acclaimed 12- Stuart Sax numbers. Used cars. First string guitarist, singer and Bernard Ginsberg dates.) On the other hand, composer. We’ll present guest Production philosophers and thinkers speakers and other special Lisa Richardson Rutherford (killjoys and reality-mongers events. And our annual dinner CHAI-LIGHTS is the all) have long warned against celebrating our advertisers. monthly publication of the Keys Jewish Community Center attempting to know the fu- And outings, some educational, P.O. Box 1332, Tavernier, Florida ture. Foreknowledge would some strictly social, via our [email protected] utterly spoil the pleasures of Activities Committee. unraveling complex book or The wonder of KJCC is about movie plots. Imagine how to be on full display. Buckle up. Chai-Lights December 2016 3 Oneg Sponsors for December 2016 Nosh December 2nd - Laurie Blum and Gary Margolis in honor of their anniversary. Also Steve Hartz to celebrate wife Jan’s birthday. Shabbat Morning with Rabbi Agler December 9th - Jim Williams; Barbara and Rich- On December 10th, nearly the darkest day of ard Knowles in remembrance of lost loved the year, we will join with Rabbi Richard Agler, ones: may their memories be a blessing. our KJCC Resident Scholar, for a morning of December 16th - Sam Weis to honor Renee’s enlightenment. If you have been to any of his birthday. other services, from High Holidays to Bar Mitz- December 23rd - Zap’s birthday vah to previous Saturday morning Torah learning December 30th - Channukah Dinner sponsored services, you know what a worthwhile way this is by Linda Pollack. to spend a Shabbat morning. You also know that he starts precisely at 10:00 a.m. Come early. You Coming: "18 Strings and Attitude!" will be engaged by Rabbi Agler's warm, informal Get ready for a unique combination concert at teaching style and won't want to miss a moment. KJCC. David Feder, our favorite Hillbilly Flamen- There will be a kiddush afterwards. co artist, who transcends the explicable and makes crowds happy, will be playing 6 of those st Mourning Keys Homeless on Dec. 21 strings with lots of that attitude. Sam Weis, new- It has become a KJCC tradition, begun years ish KJCC member and soon-to-be co-president ago by Carol and Steve Steinbock, to join in hon- of Sisterhood, is a nationally known, well- oring the homeless who have died each year in respected 12-string guitar artist. Uncategorizable, the Florida Keys. Rev. Pam Feeser has once again fluid and complex, she performs compelling origi- asked KJCC to participate in this National Me- nal soundscapes and songs you'll want to hear morial Day for the Homeless. Fittingly, the cere- sung again. Yes, that makes a total of 18 strings. mony takes place on the darkest day of the year Both performers share great patter and stories. – the Winter Solstice, and in a park near the It will be a peak experience evening. ocean where homeless people congregate. Come Circle Wednesday, February 22nd, on your to Settler's Park in Tavernier, Oceanside, MM calendars now; you will be the first to know 91.8, adjacent to the Sunshine Market. The ser- when tickets go on sale ($25). Our artists not vice starts at noon. We may help by reading only have professional chops; they have legions names, lighting candles, saying prayers and/or of serious fans. Before we open ticket sales to blessing each person who has left us. They had the public, we will give our members an exclusive sad stories and many were veterans. We will be heads-up for limited ticket sales. Contact Linda their family mourners and say kaddish for them. Kaplan, event chairperson, for information on becoming an "Angel" with two levels of oppor- tunity for concert sponsorship. Meditation Garden Brick IN LOVING MEMORY OF RONALD HORN, 1932–2016, Meditation Garden Brick KJCC FOUNDER IN MEMORY OF LES REITMAN, DEVOTED TO FAMILY, WHO OPENED OUR EYES FRIENDS ANDFAITH. ABOUT THE KEYS. FOREVER LOVED AND MISSED. GOD BLESS. By Susan Horn & Dot Brooking By Marshall Kaplan & Family 4 Chai-Lights December 2016 December Birthdays 26th...........................................................Steven Smith 1st .............................................................Paul Hudson 27th..........................................................Steve Kasinof 2nd ......................................Joseph Burke Grossman 28th.....................................................Elaine Schulberg 2nd......................................................Marshall A. Field 28th......................................................Kayla Silverman 3rd ............................................................Rick McNew 28th........................................................Emily Sherman 3rd............................................................Jackie LePree 28th...............................................................Ira Krieger 3rd .............................................................Ashley Berk 28th.......................................................Michael Klimpl 3rd..........................................................Cammie Berk 29th................................................................Joan Stark 4th...............................................................Judith Klein 30th.............................................................Ellen Bloom 4th................................................................Jodi Yeager 31st...........................................................Michele Riley 4th...................................................................Jan Hartz 31st.................................................................Bob Pratt 5th.................................................................Geri Smith 5th...............................................................Joseph Beth Meditation Garden Brick 5th..................................................................Stuart Sax 6th.........................................................Leslie Boruszak . IN MEMORY OF MY DEAR FRIEND 6th...........................................................Haley