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The Scribe – September 2012 TEMPLE BETH EL OF MANHATTAN BEACH 111 West End Avenue - Brooklyn, New York 11235 Tel: 718-891-3500 – Fax: 718-891-6659 EmailEmail: [email protected] Volume 112 Issue 8 September 2012 Elul 5772 – Tishrei 5773 TTHHEE SSCCRRIIBBEE 5773 The High Holy Days 2012 Schedule of Services Selichot Saturday evening, September 10:00pm 8th Rosh Hashanah Sunday evening, September 16 th 6:15pm Monday morning, September 17 th 9:30am Monday afternoon, September Tashlikh 6:15pm 17 th Monday evening, September 17 th 7:00pm Tuesday morning, September 18 th 9:30am Yom Kippur Tuesday evening, September 25 th Kol Nidre 6:15pm Wednesday morning, September Yom Kippur 9:30am 26 th (Yizkor) Wednesday, evening, September Mincha- 4:30pm 26 th Neilah Children are invited to line-up for Hadvalah Procession at 7:00pm TheHighHolyDaysServiceswillbeheldintheMain Sanctuary ExceptforTashlikh TempleCommittees Temple Beth El of Manhattan Ritual: Myron Griffel Membership: Dolores Measer Beach Auditing: Fundraising School: Robert Levine Cemetary: Harvey Lerner Affiliate of United Synagogue of America Miriam Eberman Secretary Harriette Katz Finance: Elayne Kramer Rabbi: Claudio J. Kupchik President: Dr, Miles Kahan Building: Jerome Fox The Scribe: Donna Ahsanov Should you like to contact a committee member, Chairman: Leonard Finkel Sisterhood: Muriel Ellenberg please call the Temple office at 718-891-3500. Plan ahead to join us for the Plots f or Sale Board of Trustees Meeting: Choice of plots may be purchased by Temple Thursday , September 27 th members at Your presence is important! New Montefiore Cemetery, (watch your mail for any changes) Mount Lebanon Cemetery, Join us for Shabbat Services on: New Mount Carmel Cemetery Friday evenings at 8:00pm – followed by Oneg Saturday mornings at 9:30am – followed by Kiddush Prices are competitively lowlowlow ... Call Temple Office for more information. ShabbatCandleLighting CARDS FOR SALE ♦ ♦ September 7 th 6:58 PM MazalTov RefuahShlemah Condolence th $5 each September 14 6:46 PM Artisticallycustomdesignedforour September 21 st 6:34 PM Sisterhood th September 28 6:22 PM Call Shirley Strauss 718.676.7339 Each card will be written out and mailed for you. Checks are to be made payable to Sisterhood of Temple Beth El. Advertise in the SCRIBE ! Advertise in the SCRIBE ! Our publication is circulated all over Our publication is circulated all over New York City to hundreds of New York City to hundreds of households! Call the Temple office households! Call the Temple office for more details! Call us at: 718-891-3500 for more details! Call us at: 718-891-3500 PRESIDENT BARACK H. OBAMA VICE PRESIDENT JOSEPH BIDEN The White House - 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW - Washington, DC 20500 Eisenhower Executive Office Building – Washington US 20501 Tel. 202-456-1414 - Fax 202-456-2461 - [email protected] Tel: 202-456-9000 – [email protected] SECRETARY OF STATE HILLARY CLINTON CONGRESSMAN BOB TURNER Rabbi's Article It is hard to believe that summer is over and the High Holidays are almost here. So much has happened in the last few months here at Temple Beth El that I would like to share with you. We are now in the 21 st century! We have a website: www.TempleBethElMB.org Please visit our website, which is a work in progress, to find out more about our congregation, our activities, the Shabbat Torah portion and candlelighting time and much more. Please do share with us any ideas or suggestions in order to improve it. We thank all who have already visited it and given us their input. Attendance to our lively services continues to increase, and we still have the pleasure to enjoy enhanced Kiddushim after services that invite people to linger and enjoy the company of friends. Please come and join us if you have not been to our regular services lately. I am confident that you will be very pleasantly surprised and, of course, welcomed very warmly. We face a serious challenge, and we need your help in dealing with it. The demographic nature of our neighborhood is changing, and because of that we have very few young families moving into the area. We currently do not have member families with children of age to enter the Aleph class of our Jewish Enrichment Program (a.k.a. Hebrew School).We need to get an influx of new students into our Hebrew School in order to insure its viability and our future. We have launched an enrollment campaign, using an attractive flyer, offering free enrollment to any new students, with no membership requirement, and topping it off with two free seats for the High Holidays for the student's family. Please help us make this offer widely known in the community. Tell your friends and neighbors, and even better call the office and ask for copies of the flyer to put in people's mailboxes and to post in the bulletin boards of your building or the businesses you patronize. The second paragraph of the “Shema Israel” , perhaps the most beloved and well-known Jewish prayer, reads: “And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children.” (Shema reading, from Devarim 6:5-9) Let us insure the transmission of the words of the Torah to a new generation of children. We need your help in making sure that everyone knows that that is possible here because we are: Temple Beth ElEl, where the family that prays together… sits together! Le Shana Tova Tikatevu May we be inscribed in the book of life! Rabbi Claudio J. Kupchik Within the Family Condolences to the family of the late KAY LIPSON on her passing Birthdays Karen Berliner Thank you Felipe Ortiz, Alfonzo Mun oz, Steve Arthur Cantor Schaeffer, Abe Albenda and Harvey Lerner for fighting the elements and successfully mounting Libby Falcon Stephen Howard the High Holiday sign on the Temple wall near the side entrance of our building. Seymour Jetter William Katz Stanley Marks Felipe Ortiz Irene Piker Ira Rubinsky Mazal tov to Charlotte and Bill Katz on Jack Stetch the birth of their latest Great Grandchild, Robert Stillman Giulana Grace Katz. Anniversaries Deborah and Lawrence Editor’s apologies to Claire Weidman and Pearl Brandman Berger whose photograph Susan and Harvey in the last issue of the Scribe was not Lubowitz identifiable. Irene and Eric Piker Janet and Rubin Schwartz Thank you Rabbi! Through your efforts and perseverance Temple Beth El now has a website www.TempleBethElMB.org – in formation Message from the President After finishing a year as your president, I must thank all that helped to make it a good year for our Temple. Rabbi Kupchik helped bring us together and to move forward. Thanks to Rabbi Kupchik, we now have a website, www.TemplebethelMB.org. Please help us enrich this site. Maureen Lerner and her staff, Donna Ahsanov and Janis Rubinsky, have been extremely helpful. The officers and committee chairs have done their jobs well. Harvey Lerner, my predecessor, has given wonderful guidance. We have increased our attendance at services on Friday night and Saturday morning, and offered wonderful kiddushim and Oneg Shabbath, where social gatherings occurred. We have monthly guest speakers on Friday evenings which have been enlightening to the large audiences that have attended. Most of all, we need both new members and the support of all of our members. We need your ideas and we need your financial support. I am looking forward to greeting you during the High Holiday season. May the year 5773 be a year of good health, happiness, peace, and prosperity to all of you as well as the Temple. L’shana Tova Miles Kahan, M.D. Temple Beth El: where families that pray together … Sit Together! What’s better than one free thing? 2 free things! Register a new participant in our FFFREEFREE Jewish Enrichment Program and get 222 FREE High Holiday seats ! Contact us now! … Space is limited Donations Yahrzeit Donations Temple Donations Rita Levenson in memory of Sophia Cohen In honor of Muriel Ellenberg In honor of Maureen Lerner Roberta Kahan Dolores and Al Measer in memory of Philip Popeil Nina Friend Happy birthday Al Glickman in memory of Robert Friend Dolores and Al Measer Maureen and Harvey Lerner Terry and Jerry Farkash in memory of Esther Goodman Happy birthday Al Measer in memory of Rose Goodman Maureen and Harvey Lerner Muriel Ellenberg Lois Biesky in memory of Stanley Biesky Happy birthday Harvey Lerner Muriel Ellenberg Amy and Alan Ditchek in memory of Eli Ditchek Refuah Shlema Saul Weber David Pernick Nina Friend in memory of Harry Schwartz Rhoda and Bert Eckert Valentine Lezhansky in honor of Rhoda Eckert and son In memory of father Condolences to the Kupchik family Oneg Sponsor Elise Kesner and Robert Levine Maureen and Harvey Lerner Lois Biesky Iris and Steve Howard Maureen and Harvey Lerner Norma Gingold Blanche Strauss Rita Levenson Elayne Kramer Amy and Alan Ditchek Ann Coopersmith Susan and Harvey Lubowitz Lorraine Lester Diane and Jerry Fox Ruth Sommer Claire and Lee Weidman In honor of Noah Howard’s graduation Iris and Steve Howard Norma Gingold Terry and Jerry Farkash Mazal tov to their grandson, Jordan Toshek on his graduation LET US WELCOME THE BBEGINNINGEGINNING OF THE HIGH HOLIDAYS TOTOGETHERGETHER AT SELICHOT Saturday, September 8 th at 8:30 p.m. in the Social Hall Rabbi Claudio Kupchik will greet friends, neighbors, and Temple family. Enjoy refreshments, too. Guest, Rabbi Avi Gopin , will chant the services at 10:00pm Welcome the Days of Awe THE SCRIBE Page 9 ARTICLE Le Shana Tova Tikvatevu! BREAK the FAST with your family and friends and the Temple family and friends on Wednesday, September 26 th at 8 P.M.
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