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---,~ Sliarey'ICfilooIsmeJ SEPTEMBER, 2004/ELUL-TISHRI, 5764-5765 SHABBAT SERVICE S'LICHOT Friday, September 10 7:30 P.M. Saturday, September 11 The Congregation Honors Light Supper New Members, Members of 36 + Years, sponsored by Brotherhood The Board of Officers and Trustees, 6:30 p.m. and B'nai Mitzvah of the Year Past. Program and Service to follow Please join us for a her program of folktales, Shabbat service alive with &. Days," congregant Ellen music, warm with friends ~~ lead listeners on a and family, serene and ~ ~ soulful journey toward peaceful in worship and ~~~ the quiet tha~ heralds the prayer. ~ season of the HIgh Holy Days .. Her storytelling has been J called 'innovative and spirited,' 'vivid and enduring.' Ellen says: Storytelling is a wondrous partner ship between a teller, a story and an audience. Each time I tell a story, it is different. The story becomes HIGH HOLY DAYS newly drawn by those who are listening. I watch the audience. I see a wink of recognition, a faint smile, a . INFORMATION quick intake of breath - each an awakened memory. These tokens, freely given, inform me about the inner landscapes we are traveling and color the story as it is See Page 7 - News and updates being told. about High Holy Day worship Join her and the stories of our people.. ..... INSIDE NEWS Rabbi Cohen Page 3 Preschool Page 10 Conversations Pages 4-5 B'nai Mitzvah Page 15 Adult B'nai Mitzvah Page 8 Mitzvah News Page 16 Religious School Page 9 Tiibutes Page 21 Sisterhood's L'shana Tovah Greetings Pages 11 -14 ~~ Page 2 Temple Sharey Tefilo-Israel Bulletin Schedule of Services S~.1sraeI Friday. september 3 Thursday. september 16 Clergy Rabbi Daniel M. Cohen, D.Min. Ki Tavo, Deuteronomy 26-29.8 Rosh Hashnah Service,8:30 A.M. Rabbi Ellie Lynn Miller Shabbat Service, 7:30 P.M. Children's Program, 8:30 A.M. Rabbi Harvey S. Goldman, D.Min., D.O., Ruth Bass Sanctuary Building Rosh Hashanah Service 11 :15 A.M. Rabbi Emeritus Tot Service, 2: 15 P.M. Rabbi Herbert Weiner, Rabbi Emeritus saturday. september 4 Intergenerational Service, 2:15 P.M. Cantor Theodore Aronson Joan Finn, Cantorial Soloist Minyan Service, 9:00 A.M. Gross Chapel Lay Leadership B'nai Mitzvah of Carmel Gordon, Friday. septem ber 17 Amold Budin, President Claire Goldman and Matthew Bond, Haazinu, Deuteronomy 32 Barbara Stoller, VP 10:15 A.M. Shabbat Shuvah Service, 7:30 P.M. Ed Schwarz, VP Ruth Bass Sanctuary Building Richard Flaum, VP Friday. september 10 Hope Pomerantz, VP Nancy Fogel, VP Nitzavim, Deuteronomy 29.9-30 saturday. september 18 Joel Scharf, Treasurer Shabl?at Service, 7:30 P.M. Minyan Service, 9:00 A.M. Gross Chapel Judy Epstein, Financial Secretary Ruth Bass Sanctuary Building Jesse Bayer, Financial Secretary Friday. september 24 Marge Solomon, Corr. Secretary saturday. september 11 Kol Nidre Ann Merin, Recording Secretary B'nai Mitzvah of HarryTarre, Kol Nidre Service, 6:45 P.M. Executive Director Leslie Sporn Danielle Seltzer and Alexander Coleman, Kol Nidre Service, 9:15 P.M. School Directors 10:15 A.M. Elizabeth Best, R.J.E., Religious School S'lichot Supper, Program and Service saturday. September 25 Carol Paster, Preschool 6:30P.M. Yom Kippur Service, 8:30 A.M. Program Director Children'S Program, 8:30 P.M. Tracy Horwitz SUnday. september 12 Yom Kippur Service 11 :15 A.M. Bulletin Sunny Seglin Memorial Service atTSTI Cemetery, Meditation Service, 1: 30 P.M. 11:00 A.M. Tot Service, 2:15 P.M. The Bulletin Vol. 10 No.8 Intergenerational Service, 2:15 P.M. The Bulletin is published wednesday. september 15 Afternoon ServicelYizkor/Neilah, 3:30 P.N eleven times year1y. Rosh Hashanah Service, 6:45 P.M. MEMBER CONGREGATION UNION FOR REFORM JUDAISM Teen Service, 6:45 P.M. Thursday. september 30 Sukkot Service, 10:30 A.M. Rosh Hashanah Service, 9:15 P.M. Contact us at [email protected] Visit our website at www.tsti.org CANDLE LIGHTING TIMES SEPTEMBER 3 7:06 P.M. SEPTEMBER 17 6:42P.M. nn , , SEPTEMBER 10 6:54 P.M. SEPTEMBER 24 6:31P.M. U M1. Allln the ~amil8 ~zel 'Tov to Susan Witkin, whose daughter, Susan and Alan Wovsaniker on the Keren, received her Ph.D. in marriage of their daughter, Erica, to molecular biology. Jason Theobold. Susan and Elliot Katz on the Mimi and Joe Paperman on the marriage of their daughter, engagement of their son, Ken Berman Jennifer, to John Koutsouftikis. to Cecile Alduy. Todd Leavitt and Stephen Majors on the adoption of their baby daughter, Claudia Marie Leavitt-Majors. From the Rabbi's Study Dear Friends, When I was growing up, the right to vote we have been able to a basic obligation of every citizen. I whole family would gather to allow our values to shape our nation, therefore urge you to make sure that celebrate my grandpa Alex's birthday protect our interests as a community you and every adult in your house at my grandparents' lake house in and defend the rights of all Ameri hold are registered to vote. If your upstate New York on July 4 (or a day cans regardless child or grandchild will be close to it). Although he claimed it of race, religion, out of town or out of the was, I always suspected that July 4 or economic country on Election Day was not grandpa's actual birthday. status. make sure that they have Rather, I suspected that he chose the requested, completed, and 4th as his birthday as a way to cel Yet if mailed an absentee ballot. ebrate his pride at being a citizen of recent patterns For more information check the United States of America and to continue, close out this link to the Religious give thanks for the remarkable to one million Action Center of Reform freedom and acceptance he found Jewish Ameri Judaism- http:// here after jumping ship in New York cans who are www.rac.org/pubs/ harbor in 1919. Throughout his life, he eligible to vote will not do so this vote04.html recognized that this country, founded November. What was unthinkable just on the ideal of freedom and equality, a generation ago is increasingly the This year we celebrate the 350th gave us, as a Jewish community, norm as so many of us opt out of the anniversary of Jews in America. For remarkable opportunities. How tragic electoral process. If we learned the past three and a half centuries, in that two generations after he first set anything from the 2000 election this environment of remarkable foot on the shores of our great nation debacle, in which George Bush won opportunity, we have created the so many of us take our freedom for the state of Florida and the presi most successful and educated Jewish granted! dency by just 537 votes, it is that each community in the history of our vote does, indeed, matter. people. It is our responsibility to For the past 80 years, we exercise the rights we have found Americans Jews have voted in Perhaps most sadly, a dispro here and to help shape the future of remarkable numbers. Historically, in portionate number of those Jews our great nation. fact about 90% of all eligible Jews who will not vote are of college age. actually voted in presidential elec During this, the first presidential tions. This, in itself, is an amazing election for which they are eligible to display of how much we have always vote, they will forfeit their right to valued being part of the fabric of this help shape the future of our nation, great nation. Through exercising our and, in doing so, they will fail to fulfill '~ page4 Temple Sharey Tefilo-Israel Bulletin • As we move ahead to the holidays of renewal and the brisk breezes of autumn, Conversations ... begins its 9th season with an exciting schedule of programs and speakers covering a wide range of relevant issues. At the very .Ieast, the 2004 presidential election prom ises to be an electrifying experience for all voting Americans. Our inaugural speaker for the 2004-2005 "Conversations . .. n season promises to be nothing less. Joe Klein presents provocative and probing analysis of events in Washington, DC and abroad. Klein, now a senior writer for TIME, has a weekly column "In the Arena" that covers national and international affairs, is a regular contribu tor to CNN and is a frequent guest on Meet the Press and The Chris Matthews Show. As a speaker, Joe Klein "makes you laugh and think at the Joe Klein same time. His incisive commentary and quick wit combine to Political Journalist, Author provide a real insight into national affairs while making our and TIME Magazine Columnist political leaders come alive for the audience." INSIDE ELECTION 2004 Sunday, October 3 at 7:30 PM Take advantage of the opportunity to hear Joe Klein Tickets $20. interpret the politics of this presidential year. Join in the Call to reserve tickets 973-763-4116 "Conversations . .. " . Marcia Freedman Michael Sachs Brit Tzedek v'Shalom - Jewish Alliance for The American Israel Public Affairs Committee Justice and Peace (AI PAC} Sunday, October 24 7:30 PM Sunday, November 7 7:30 PM Marcia Freedman is the president of Brit Tzedek AI PAC , the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, v'Shalom, the Jewish Alliance for Justice and Peace, is the only American organization whose principal a national organization of American Jews who are mission is to lobby the US government for legislation deeply committed to Israel's well being through the that strengthens the relationship between the United achievement of a negotiated settlement to the States and Israel.