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Simchat Torah Celebration: (Dancing) Monday, October 8 - 7:00 Pm Simchat Torah: Tuesday, October 9 - 9:00 Am October 2012 Volume 26 - Number 10 Tishrei - Heshvan 5773 Services: Sunday, September 30 - 6:00 pm (in the Sukkah) Monday, October 1 - 9:00 am Tuesday, October 2 - 9:00 am Shemini Atzeret: Monday, October 8 - 9:00 am (Yizkor) Simchat Torah Celebration: (Dancing) Monday, October 8 - 7:00 pm Simchat Torah: Tuesday, October 9 - 9:00 am From Our President: Staff From Our Rabbi: Rabbi ............................ Joshua Neely By Arlene van de Rijn Education Director ..............Debra Kira By Rabbi Joshua Neely Youth Director .............. Michael Weiss Office Admin ... John-Patrick Alexander Bookkeeper ....................... Lee Getsee It is time to begin again. It is time to roll the This was the first year I have gone through Executive Committee Torah scroll back to the beginning. The cycle of read- the High Holidays as president of a synagogue. The ing is never complete. In our congregation, it is our work involved to get everything ready is amazing, President ................ Arlene van de Rijn custom to read one third of the weekly Parashah on and I would like to thank our volunteers at this time. 1st Vice Pres................... Eric Hoffman Shabbat morning. This means it takes us three years to VP Membership/Men’s Club Pres. ....... read through every chapter, every verse, and every Bob Kaplan was (and always is) such an inte- word of Torah as a community. This communal reading gral part of the service. Kudos to Bob. ....................................... Mark Kluger is a sacred communal responsibility. One that many Terri Fine was another indispensable service VP Education ................ Susan Morgan people help make happen. We have many volunteer leader. readers, some who read only once a year and others Comptroller .................. Roz Weinstein Valerie Kahn headed up our phenomenal choir. who read every week. We have a rota of gabbaim to This group of ladies practiced for weeks. Secretary .......................... Elliott Davis make sure the readings are correct and the aliyot run Sisterhood President ....... Valerie Kahn smoothly. We read, we reflect, we discuss. Robin Katzman chaired the “honors” commit- tee. How could we have done it without her? Past President .............. Richard Crane We also learn and discuss a much smaller slice of Torah each week in our Wednesday lunch and Bernie Kahn, chair of our ritual committee, learn. We look at a few paragraphs in depth through the made certain everything ran smoothly and that Trustees lenses of our classic commentators and our modern there was someone to fill in any gaps. times. Ed Calish—well, he’s my hero. I’ve never seen Harvey Arnowitz Modernity even helps us connect by letting him work so hard with security, parking, sound Ed Calish us broadcast the class live on YouTube, where it is also system, lighting. He even emptied the trash cans David Danziger archived. It will be many years before this style of in the bathrooms. Jo Ann Farb study leads us through every verse of Torah and we Terri Fine will never exhaust all it has to teach us. Phyllis (Kamenoff, of course) made sure the Sandy Gillman But I wish to remind our community of the flowers on the bima were beautiful as always. Joe Ihns true starting point for Torah – personal reading. Our And she and her Sisterhood team provided us with Fabienne Kaplan Sages teach that each individual has an obligation to a fabulous break-the-fast. Michelle McCormack read the Parashah, start to finish, twice in Hebrew and In the synagogue’s kitchen, Judi, Carol and Laurence Morrell once in translation. The Hebrew may be beyond reach Natasha Chisdes polished all the silver. Judi kept Robin Reilly for many at the moment, but there are many good trans- saying, “It’s so hot in here.” No one realized one Harry Rein, Emeritus lations available. Through our Facebook page, we post Mollie Savage of the ovens was on! weekly links to the JPS translation. Everett Fox and Leigh Schwartz Harvey Arnowitz made sure the rugs were Robert Alter have also published very good translations Geanne Share cleaned and the sidewalks were pressure washed. of Torah. There are even good English translations of Daniel Wise Men’s Club under the leadership of Mark Klu- Rashi’s commentary to help unravel some of the more difficult passages; it adds depth to the seemingly sim- ger planted flowers inside the courtyard and out- Standing Committee ple ones too. side by the parking lot. Mulch was spread on the Why read alone when we will eventually read outside flower beds. Chairs it all together? The passage that will speak to you and Daniel Wise drew the plans for the new shelv- your needs this week may not be read out loud in the ing inside the ark and made sure it was ready in Adult Education ........ Laurence Morrell sanctuary on Shabbat. Why read alone when you’ve time for the holidays. Thank you Sisterhood for Budget & Finance ......... Roz Weinstein read or heard it all before? The words will sound differ- footing the bill. Building & Grounds ...Harvey Arnowitz ent and will hold a unique message for you that will Education - School........ Susan Morgan Penelope Neely volunteered in the office and Endowment.................... Eric Hoffman only come this week. Why read alone when it can be so helped get all the holiday materials completed. hard to understand and, sometimes, a little dull? Every Ma’asim Tovim ................................... Eric Hoffman provided our greeters. year, we invest billions of dollars in scientific research Marketing ..................... Geanne Share Joe Ihns for researching what we need for a Membership .................... Mark Kluger into things that are hard to understand and, sometimes, new sukkah. Ritual............................... Bernie Kahn a little dull. Ways & Means ................. Elliott Davis We do it, because we know both the en- Youth ..................... Amanda Hoffman deavor and its results will yield discoveries that can I know I have inadvertently left someone’s name off improve our lives. We read Torah for the same reasons. the list. Please forgive me. But to everyone who Unlike science which requires years of training and pitched in and made beautiful holiday experiences often expensive equipment, Torah requires only con- come true, thank you from the bottom of my heart. centration, attention to detail and a belief that a per- It really does take a village. sonal discovery is on the page in front of you. But it will lie undiscovered and unrevealed without your help. [email protected] Arlene van de Rijn Office Hours: Tuesday-Friday, Sunday [email protected] Please call or e-mail for an appointment. 2 From Our Education Director: From Our Youth Director: By Debra Ruth Kira By Michael Weiss Shalom, This year we have wonderful teachers on our Shalom Temple Israel, faculty. Brett Weiss is returning this year as our Second & Third Grade teacher. Mitchell Himmel joins the faculty as Around this time each year people seem to set their “Jewish the Sixth & Seventh Grade teacher. Sharon Pinhas returns tone” as I like to call it for the upcoming year. Now that after a one year hiatus as our Pre-Kindergarten, the High Holidays have passed, the infamous question of Kindergarten & First Grade teacher. Fanny Sernik returns our continuation of coming to temple pops up every now as our veteran teacher of Temple Israel’s Religious School and then. I know all of us wonder why we don’t come as to teach Fourth & Fifth Grade. often as we would like and we promise ourselves that this Shalom Parents and Students! My name is Moreh year we are going to try to show up as often as possible. It Brett Weiss, I am currently the teacher for the Second & is the common Rosh Hashanah Resolution. Third Grade students at Temple Israel. This is my second year teaching at Temple Israel, and I am excited to once Since people make such a big deal of New Year Resolu- again instill good Jewish values in my students and to show tions, I always wondered why the Jewish people rarely talk them how they can enjoy being Jewish, as well as promote about our resolutions for the upcoming year. It is the Jew- critical thinking and accurate and meaningful Hebrew ish New Year right? I think it would be appropriate! reading within the Jewish community. Outside of Temple Maybe this year we finally show up more to temple or Israel, I am a student in the College of Education at UCF. I maybe we have an aliyah or maybe we give that donation am majoring in Exceptional Education and will be that you have been meaning to give for the past few years graduating in May 2013. I am highly interested in the field but never got around to it. Whatever your resolution might of educational technology. I'm excited and looking forward be, we would love to see it here at Temple Israel. to a great year at Temple Israel! My name is Moreh Mitchell Himmel and I am Speaking of the New Year, we have started strong in the from Boca Raton, Florida. This year I am teaching Sixth & youth department. We’ve had our share of programs so far Seventh Grade at Temple Israel. I am currently a junior at and only more to come. We want to see all of our young- the University of Central Florida getting my bachelors sters out at our events and we want to let people know what degree in Chemistry Education with hopes of becoming a Temple Israel is doing! Tell all of your friends about Tem- high school chemistry teacher. I am very excited for this ple Israel’s Youth Department and spread the word! upcoming year.
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