Ohef Sholom Temple's Monthly News Publication THE TEMPLEEstablished 1844 • VolumeP 61, OIssue 5 • FebruaryST 2021

A PANDEMIC IN PERSIA! See page 8 for details In this Issue: Worship...... 2 Clergy Corner...... 3 Presidential Address...... 4 WORSHIPTORAH PORTIONS Announcements...... 5 Sisterhood...... 6 Men's Club...... 7 Quilting Group...... 7 FEBRUARY Purim...... 8 February 4 | 22 Shevat February 18 | 6 Adar February 26 | 14 Adar Education...... 9 - 4:00 pm Torah Study - 4:00 pm Purim Parashat Purim Temple Programming.... 10 February 6 | 24 Shevat February 20 | 8 Adar Exodus 17:8 - 17:16 We of Ohef Sholom...... 11 Torah Study - 9:00 am Shabbat Zachor February 27 | 15 Adar Donations...... 13 Parashat Yitro Torah Study - 9:00 am Parashat Tetzaveh Exodus 18:1 - 20:23 Parashat Terumah Exodus 27:20 - 30:10 Yahrzeits...... 14 Haftarah: Isaiah 6:1 - 7:6; Exodus 25:1 - 27:19 Haftarah: Ezekiel Calendar & Birthdays..... 15 9:5 - 9:6 maf: Deuteronomy 43:10 - 43:27 pOST Bulletin Board...... 16 25:17 - 25:19 February 11 | 29 Shevat Haftarah: I Samuel February 28 | 16 Adar Torah Study - 4:00 pm 15:2 - 15:34 Parashat Shushan Purim Exodus 17:8 - 17:16 February 13 | 1 Adar February 25 | 13 Adar Shabbat Shekalim Erev Purim (on Rosh Chodesh) Torah Study - 4:00 pm Torah Study - 9:00 am Parashat Ta'anit Esther Parashat Mishpatim Exodus 32:11 - 34:10 Exodus 21:1 - 24:18 Numbers 28:9 - 28:15 530 Raleigh Avenue maf: Exodus 30:11 - 30:16 Norfolk, VA 23507 Haftarah: II Kings 12:1 - 12:17 757.625.4295 (F) 757.625.3762 ohefsholom.org

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EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE BOARD OF DIRECTORS PAST PRESIDENTS HONORARY DIRECTORS LEADERSHIP StaFf President: Carol Brum Minette Cooper Tom Bachman & Terri Denison Budman, Matthew Fine Karen Fine Terri Budman CLERGY [email protected] Tammi Foer Kim Simon Fink Allan Donn Senior Rabbi Engagement and Vice President: Andrew Fox Linda Fox-Jarvis Morris Fine Rosalin Mandelberg Programming Associate John Cooper David Hirschler, II Robert C. Goodman, Jr. Sandra Forte-Nickenig [email protected] Nina Kruger Secretary: David Kushner Steven Kayer Jay M. Friedman [email protected] Barbara U. Dudley Robert Levinson Edward G. Kaufman Leslie Friedman Cantor Treasurer: Mike Jaffe Amy Metzger Dr. Howard Kesser Mark Friedman Office Manager Jennifer Rueben Member-at-Large: Alyson Morrissey Edward A. Kramer Mark Hecht Shelley Stephens [email protected] Charlie Nusbaum Dr. Bert Newfield Cathi M. Laderberg Andrew C. Kline [email protected] Engagement Committee Chair: Sharon Nusbaum Charles S. Nusbaum Steve Kocen Rabbi Emeritus Clergy Assistant Marsha Moody Ethan Ostroff William L. Nusbaum Jay Legum Lawrence A. Forman Education Committee Chair: Dr. Abbey Pachter Dr. Robert M. Rubin Dr. Rachelle Luna [email protected] Elizabeth Vincent [email protected] Barb Gelb Nicole Rosenblum Henry M. Schwan Robin Mancoll Worship Committee Chair: Paula Russel Linda Spindel Dr. David Metzger STAFF Controller Margaret Sawyer Joashua Schulman Alan D. Stein Alyssa Muhlendorf Executive Director Anna Rivera Frank Scott Alex Pincus Linda Peck Finance & Development [email protected] [email protected] Committee Chair: Leslie Shroyer Dr. Meredith Rose Neal Schulwolf Tom Snyder June Saks Graphic & Web Design Music Director Immediate Past President: Lawrence Steingold Miriam Seeherman Linette Bond Charles Woodward Karen Fine Valeria Williamson The Honorable Louis Sherman [email protected] [email protected] Louis D. Snyder

Director of Religious School Archivist Kitty Wolf, RJE Amanda Brooks, MSc, CA Sisterhood President OSTY Advisors [email protected] [email protected] Gail W. Bachman Robyn & Paul Weiner Follow Us! Men's Club President OSTY President ohef.s.temple Tom Bachman Leia Morrissey 2 THE TEMPLE POST ohef_sholom_temple Clergy Corner WITH CANTOR JEN

A Pandemic in Persia! Pandemic in Persia A plague in the land A The shelves are all empty All gatherings are banned We can’t come together It isn’t ideal But no pandemic will stop us From holding our spiel!

Queen Esther is ready Contact Clergy To plan Haman’s doom Rabbi Roz & Cantor Jen But we won’t be in Kaufman… [email protected] We’ll do it on Zoom [email protected] So bring your best costume And a matching background And come to the best Virtual Purim around! There’s no need for pants And you won’t have to drive It’ll be at 6:30 On 2/25 We’ll cheer for Good Mordy And Haman, we’ll boo And we’ll celebrate Esther For saving the !

We can’t wait to see you for A Pandemic in Persia: A Virtual Purimspiel! Bring your family, grab a hamantaschen, pour a drink, and get ready for the craziest Zoom Purimspiel Hampton Roads has ever seen!

Chag Purim Sameach,

Rabbi Roz and Cantor Jen

JANUARY 2021 3 Presidential Address

Mutual Support is a Necessity uring the first reasoning, it’s our job, our responsibility to care for several weeks of our Temple. We can’t depend on Ohef Sholom, he D January, I found would suggest, if it can’t depend on us. myself watching more national news We all have a role in supporting our Temple, and programs than those roles vary throughout our membership. For usual. Like most some, it is volunteering expertise and time, for Americans, I found others it is contributing funds beyond dues. For what was taking some it might be paying dues, and for still others, it place in Washington, could be attending services, classes, and events. All D.C. surreal forms of support are important and appreciated. Terri Denison Budman and frightening, President compelling me to For whatever role you assume in taking care of [email protected] flip through the and supporting our Ohef Sholom Temple, thank channels for updates. you. Ohef Sholom needs us all, and during these As I write, our particularly difficult times, we all need our Ohef nation’s capitol is in lockdown – streets are closed, Sholom. fences and barricades surround the mall and our L’Shalom, national monuments, and National Guardsmen are stationed throughout the city. America’s most iconic buildings where tourists flock and the business of our government occur, are off-limits. Concern for our nation’s capitol – physically and metaphorically – continues. Terri Denison Budman What does the nation’s news have to do with Ohef Sholom? A lot, according to Timothy Snyder, an American author, professor of history at Yale University, and historian who specializes in the history of Central and Eastern Europe and the Holocaust. I watched an interview with him just a few days before the Inauguration. He said, and I’m paraphrasing here, that we can’t just depend on our institutions to take care of us. We have to take care of and support them. If we want a local newspaper to alert us to the important news of our area and to monitor our cities’ governments, for example, we should read it, subscribe, and if appropriate, advertise. As Snyder listed other examples of institutions to be cared for on his way to his primary point, our democracy, my first thought was of Ohef Sholom. If we want our congregation to be available when we want it, we must support and nurture it along the way – not just when our personal circumstances require or desire its services. According to Snyder’s

4 THE TEMPLE POST JEWISH LIFE FEBRUARY Announcements Condolences Mazel Tov to Erin and Jody Balaban on the birth of Ohef Sholom offers heartfelt condolences to the following their daughter, Blair Paige Balaban, December 7, members & friends: 2020, weighing 6 lbs, 5 oz and meauring 19 inches Judy Freedman on the To family and friends on long. loss of her husband and the loss of Caitlyn Hall. Rachael Trussell (Brett) Terri Denison Budman Mazel Tov to Celia and Jay Friedman on the birth on the loss of her father, of their grandson, , on (Steve) on the loss of Aden Samuel Rotenberg Martin M. "Marty" December 31, 2020. The proud parents are her mother, Madeline Kari and Freedman. Mitchell Rotenberg of Playa Del Rey, California. and Deni Budman Excited Great-Grandmother is Ethel Goldman of To family and friends on the loss of their Virginia Beach and Lori and Fred Rotenberg of on the loss of William grandmother, Helen LaCanada, CA. Frieder. Lesser Koltun. Sally Adler on the loss June Goldman on the Mazel Tov to Lawrence Steingold who will be of her husband, loss of her husband, presented with the Virginia Center for Inclusive Theodore "Ted" Adler. Joseph Goldman. Communities' Humanitarian Award. The virtual dinner will be held on March 18, 2021 at 6:30 pm. Linda Cole on the loss Vivian Forman on the Call the office for ticket information. of her dear friend, loss of her brother, Deborah Orzack. Dr. Charles Fish. Nancy Wall (Alvin)on the loss of her aunt, Judith Eichelbaum.

FEBRUARY IS Jewish Disability Advocacy Month! Join the Jewish Federations of North America for a month of education, solidarity-building and empowerment in support of peoples with disabilities. This year's JDAM will focus on advocacy to fight for laws, policies and norms to ensure that individuals with disabilities can live, work and prosper in a more just, inclusive and accessible society. It all begins on Wednesday, February 3 at 7 pm ET with special To register or find out more details, please go to: guest and world-renowned Israeli-American violinist, https://www.jewishtogether.org/jdam Itzhak Perlman.

JANUARY 2021 5 JEWISH LIFE FEBRUARY Sisterhood hef Sholom Temple Sisterhood is wonderful!! Even during this pandemic with all of its challenges, Sisterhood has managed to continue a variety of O activities. We have supported Temple programs, Religious School activities, and Caring Committee projects. We have also participated in helping ForKids families. As a Sisterhood, we have had Zoom meetings, a Challah baking demonstration, Gail W. Bachman and a virtual Yoga class. In January, we had a Zen Doodle Sisterhood President [email protected] Workshop and in February we're holding a special Book Club, with the author in attendance from Cork, Ireland. See Our mission, as stated on the website: more information about the Book Club in the ad below. “OST Sisterhood is a community of welcoming women from all walks of life who meet for spiritual, educational, With Purim at the end of this month, we are still having our and social growth through . Our diverse members are all ages and come from varying backgrounds, allowing annual Hamantashen Sale for the congregation. Look for us to join together to serve the needs of our congregation the order form in this Bulletin, or order online at and community, while cultivating life-long friendships." ohefsholom.org/sisterhood/ by February 18, 2021. So, YES, our Sisterhood is wonderful! We will continue to thrive, even through this unique and sometimes difficult time. Join us! As our Sisterhood Board continues monthly meetings exploring ways to support each other, our Temple and the community, we welcome your thoughts and ideas so please contact me, through email, text or phone. Yours in Sisterhood, Gail Bachman 757-646-2281 [email protected]

Order online today at ohefsholom.org/sisterhood or send in the order form found in this Bulletin!

All orders can be picked up at Temple on February 25 from 1:00 - 4:00 pm. To make alternate pick-up arrangements, call Temple at 757-625-4295. 610 THE TEMPLE POST Men's Club hese monthly articles are getting harder and I’m hoping everybody harder to write since we are not able to have stays safe so we can T physical contact with each other. We still have gather together again our monthly Zoom meetings which seem to be the for our monthly pizza new norm for most of us. Despite these limitations, dinner meetings. In the we have managed to participate in several Temple meantime, be sure to Tom Bachman projects. mark your calendar for Men's Club President [email protected] our next Zoom meeting on February 3 at 7 o’clock. Sincerely, Become A

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NEXT MEETING: Wednesday, February 3 at 7:00 pm

TZEDAKAH QUILTING GROUP hef Sholom Temple's To learn more ur hands by o for y ade ou Quilting Group about the m O was able to donate their Tzedakah quilts successfully to Virginia Quilting Supportive Housing (VSH). Group, or Sharon Nusbaum picked up for more Tzedakah Quilt Group 10 beautiful quilts from Ohef information, Ohef Sholom Temple, Norfolk,Va Sholom Temple and delivered contact ohefsholom.org them to VSH last month. VSH Marsha plans to hold a raffle for five Moody at of the quilts to vamoody1@ go to current verizon.net residents or call the and then the Temple office remaining five at 757-625- will be given to 4295. new residents one by one as they enter the program.

JANUARY 2021 117 PURIM A PANDEMIC IN PERSIA! Celebrating Purim with Ohef Sholom in 2021 February 25 | 6:30 pm Purimshpiel 2021 Hear Ye! Hear Ye! If you haven't already joined the kingdom-wide Zoom meeting, by royal decree, King Achashveirosh requests the presence of every Persian in the land to Zoom in for A Pandemic In Persia! A Virtual Zoom Shpiel, happening February 25 at 6:30 pm! From your bed, sofa, floor, car (no shpieling and driving!), treehouse, etc., all may enjoy this year's virtual rendition of Esther's story. #AloneTogetherInPersia Stay glued to your email screens for more information and to receive the Zoom link for this year's Purimshpiel! For more information, call Are YOU on the kingdom-wide the Temple at 757-625-4295 or email [email protected]. Zoom meeting with King A yet? The Shpiel is coming!

Be sure to keep February 26 | 12 pm the card found in this Bulletin for The Whole Megillah with Jay Lazier Sit down for lunch and tune in to hear Purimshpiel! the full Megillah read on Purim with Ohef Sholom's very own Jay Lazier! Groggers and megillot optional!

To join in the Zoom reading with Jay, RSVP to [email protected] for the link. BOO! Pre-Order Sale YAY! Place An Order By: February 18 (Haman) (Hamantashen) Annual Sisterhood Fundraiser: Hamantashen Bake Sale Support Sisterhood's annual fundraiser and order your favorite flavor of hamantashen today, just in time for Purim! Sugar-free flavors also available! Pick-up will be on February 25 from 1:00 - 4:00 pm at Temple. To make alternate pick- up arrangements, please call the Temple at 757-625-4295.

Orders can be placed online at ohefsholom.org/sisterhood or by filling out the form included in this bulletin.

8 THE TEMPLE POST Education Religious School Update Virtual Purim Celebration with The Bible Players Ohef Sholom Temple's Religious School will be hosting The Bible Players for a Virtual Purim Celebration during its session on Sunday, February 21, 2021! After the performance, there will be Fun, Games, and Prizes for the students!

For more information, please contact Kitty Wolf at 757-625-4295 or [email protected].

Upcoming DATEs

FEB. 7 FEB. 21 9:00 am 9:00 am Hebrew Hebrew 10:30 am 10:30 am Religious School Religious School Wiggles & Giggles Purim Celebration

FEB. 14 FEB. 28 Ohef Sholom Temple Religious School Presents NO 9:00 am A Purim Comedy Show by The Bible Players RELIGIOUS Hebrew SCHOOL 10:30 am SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21 Religious School AT 10:00 AM DURING OST'S RELIGIOUS SCHOOL

BOO! (Haman)

Specifically for young families and children, birth through four years,Wiggles & Giggles introduces young children to their Jewish World. For more info call 757-625-4295 or contact Kitty Wolf at [email protected] or Allena Anglen at [email protected]. Zoom Meeting ID: 874 1020 5578 | Passcode: 469923 JANUARY 2021 9 PROGRAMMING FEBRUARY

UPCOMING TEMPLE PROGRAMMING FEBRUARY February 17 | 7 pm Anti-Racism Course with Rabbi Roz Racism, White Privilege and How to be an Anti-Racist: An Ohef Sholom Temple Exploration of Ourselves Join Rabbi Roz in her continuing discussion and course on anti-racism. In the next class, we will cover The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin.

To join this course offering, RSVP to [email protected] or call 757-625-4295.

February 20 & March 20 | 7 - 9 pm Havdalah Hootenanny with Jeanne & Bob Zentz On the third Saturday of the month from 7-9 pm, join Jeanne and Bob Zentz on Zoom for a "Zing-along." Bring your own song, request a song, read a poem, tell a story, play an instrument, share some pictures, or just enjoy whatever you like! Everyone takes a turn and participates as they wish, in the style of good ol' community singing and sharing. All ages and all folks are welcome! Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86705155820

February 21 | 4 pm Hamantashen Cooking with Phil and Tal Learn to bake hamantashen with Phil Sifen and Tal Feldman-Sifen! This tagteam husband and wife cooking duo is excited to share their recipes for hamantashen and to teach you their trade secrets in the kitchen, while preparing for everyone's favorite Jewish holiday!

To join in the culinary fun, RSVP to reserve your spot by emailing [email protected].

February 22 | 10:30 am - 1 pm Soup Kitchen Our Soup Kitchen offers so much to guests and volunteers alike, yet we need volunteers to continue these good deeds every month. Spend a few hours helping to feed and provide basic clothing and toiletry items to 75-80 very appreciative folks in need. All COVID-19 precautions will be followed. Are you available to fulfill this mitzvah?

If so, please contact Dorianne Villani at 757-617-8624 or [email protected]. 10 THE TEMPLE POST IN THE FEBRUARY We Of Ohef Sholom SPOTLIGHT SPOTLIGHTING THE ARCHIVES: A Thank You to Alice Titus, Our Retiring Archivist hundred years from today, when the COVID-19 of the Archives Sub- pandemic is part of history, members of Ohef Committee, the A Sholom Temple -- and the rest of the world -- support of OST’s staff, will know how this congregation suffered, adjusted, and the assistance of and responded to the greatest life-threatening a team of volunteers.” emergency in a century. And they will have the keepers and contributors to the OST archives to It is a responsibility thank for it. she has now passed to Amanda Brooks, who has come to OST from “We are documenting the experience of the the Slover Library’s Sargeant Memorial Room, the pandemic,” explains Alice Titus, who has retired repository of Norfolk history. Amanda’s archival after four years as the Temple’s archivist. “By training and experience make her uniquely preserving documents, photographs, and videos qualified for the job, and her special interests in from the pandemic years,” she says, “people will genealogy and local history will stand her in good know how congregants and clergy celebrated stead in continuing to preserve the history of this holidays and life cycle events, students continued congregation. their religious education, and the congregation continued its outreach to those less fortunate,” despite the restrictions imposed by virtual technology, social-distancing, and face mask requirements.

COVID-19 Archive graphic Alice Titus building a clothesline timeline of Ohef Sholom history with students. Collecting, preserving, and showcasing the From designing an interactive program for the thousands of items in OST’s archives has been Alice’s religious school and writing articles for OST and the labor of love. From bringing in a nationally known Southern Jewish Historical Society, to answering expert to make preservation recommendations congregants’ questions and providing background to spearheading a move to a more stable and and photographs for events like the congregation’s accessible environment for the most vulnerable 175th anniversary, Alice has worked to make items, Alice has striven to preserve the history of this the archives relevant to the current needs of the congregation and the Tidewater Jewish community congregation and the larger Tidewater Jewish and to communicate that history to congregants, community. educators, and researchers. “And it couldn’t have been done,” she insists,” without the leadership (Continued on next page)

JANUARY 2021 11 We Of Ohef Sholom (CONTINUED)

(Continued from page 11) According to Ed Kramer, former co-chair of the which tells the Archives Sub-Committee, “When Alice came to story of the our Ohef Sholom family several years ago, she was SS Quanza tasked with a seemingly insurmountable job: make passengers, archives relevant to our congregation. Not only did who had been she do that with the utmost aplomb, she oversaw turned away by the transformation of our archives.” Frequent the U.S. and archives volunteer Gail Bachman calls her “hard- were being sent working, knowledgeable, and relentless when back to war-torn working on a project.” “As our archivist,” she says, Europe. With “Alice has displayed boundless energy and is truly the help and an asset to our congregation. I’m also very honored cooperation to call her a friend.” Archives volunteer Karen of OST’s Men’s Margolius Plotnick remembers a quote from David Club, she was McCullough that “history is who we are and why we then able to are the way we are.” She credits Alice with “reviving bring the film Join us in wishing a heartfelt and enlivening our Temple history, showing how its to Ohef Sholom "Thank you!" to our own preservation is relevant today.” for a program Alice Titus for her tireless that also dedication to the OST archives! Ohef Sholom has been a part of Tidewater for featured a panel over 175 years. OST’s archives preserves the discussion, documents, correspondence, photographs, and with among recordings that chronicle that history. The records others, the of the congregation form the core of the collection. filmmaker and But there is so much more. The documents and a congregant correspondence of some of the congregation’s who was an leading families, a rare prayer book with a eyewitness to fascinating history, and an almost 150-year-old the events. diary shed light on the congregation’s early history. More recent history is documented in the papers “Unlike of a former rabbi, the historical records of Temple libraries,” Sinai, and an Oral History Collection that includes Alice explains, interviews with more than 45 congregational leaders. “archives are the repositories That history has been and still is being enriched of resources by the involvement of OST members and clergy that are in the events of the day. In the past it was events unique. It is our Please give a warm Ohef like the Civil Rights Movement, the rescue of responsibility Sholom welcome to our new Holocaust refugees on the SS Quanza in 1940; to preserve archivist, Amanda Brooks! and the repair and resupplying of Exodus 1947, a them and make [email protected] ship that famously attempted to bring Holocaust them available survivors to Palestine. Today it is the plight of to researchers, current immigrants, and the well-being of those less now and in the fortunate. future. American is often ignored or distorted,” she reminds us. “If we don’t tell our One of Alice's proudest efforts was providing story, who will?” material for the documentary Nobody Wants Us,

Bruce Ebert Contributor, Journalist and OST Member

12 THE TEMPLE POST (CONTINUED) Donations *denotes gifts of $25 or more We appreciate the thoughtfulness of those who support OST by remembering and honoring their friends and loved ones through their generous contributions. Please have your donations submitted to the Temple before the beginning of each month.

MOLLIE AND GEORGE CARING COMMITTEE MEN'S CLUB *Gail & Tom Bachman *Jane & Lenny Frieden RADIN ARCHIVES FUND - SOUP In Memory of: DR. JEROME PERLMAN *Gary Gardner FUND KITCHEN MARTY FREEDMAN *Gail & Tom Bachman Sara Jo & Joel Rubin In Memory of: In Honor of: *Nancy & Charlie Nusbaum GERALD PRIBUTSKY BOB LIVERMAN ANN NUSBAUM NORMAN MANDELBERG SISTERHOOD *Carol & David Hirschler Karen Plotnick *Nancy & Charlie Nusbaum *Carol & Lou Sherman In Memory of: Brenda & Sheal Lisner JUDY PETOCK & Family With Appreciation: ROSALIND & STANLEY *Jodi & Jay Klebanoff Ruth & Edward Legum *Cynthia & Stuart Katz Sandi & Jack Levi SCHEIMBERG & Family DR. JEROME PERLMAN NANCY & CHARLIE *Joyce Scheimberg Arlene & Neal Rogol *Ruth & Edward Legum NUSBAUM RABBI ROSALIN With Appreciation: BEN SARB PANSY PERLMAN *Cynthia & Stuart Katz MANDELBERG’S *Amy Milligan Marsha & Marty Moody *Ruth & Edward Legum SHARON, BILL & LEIGH DISCRETIONARY JESSIE SCHNITZER NUSBAUM FUND SISTERHOOD - Marsha & Marty Moody CANTOR *Cynthia & Stuart Katz In Memory of: CASSEROLES FORKIDS Speedy Recovery to: JENNIFER RUEBEN'S In Memory of: THEODORE “TED” ADLER In Honor of the ROSE ROSENBACH DISCRETIONARY NAOMI HECHT Carole Bernstein Wedding of: *Jane & Lenny Frieden FUND Betty Hecht DEBORAH ANN GOLDEN BENJAMIN LEVI With Appreciation: In Memory of: REGINA S. KATZ Connie & Gerald Golden & KAITLYN BENNETT Elayne Axel MARTY FREEDMAN *Charlie Nusbaum GRAYSON GOODOVE Sandi, Jack & Kari Levi *Diane & Peter Brunk Sandy & Marty Mendelsohn & Beth Curtiss & Family *Lisa & Neal Schulwolf In Memory of: *Nancy & Jody Eyler NAOMI HECHT SUSAN KATZ REGINA S. KATZ ALVIN MARGOLIUS Sally & Steve Kocen *Alfred Schulwolf *Margie Rashti *Susan & Alan Nordlinger Sandi, Jack & Kari Levi *Blanche B. Nusbaum Speedy Recovery to: *Dorianne & Dan Villani SUSAN KATZ Jennifer StJohn CANTOR JEN RUEBEN NORMAN MANDELBERG *Carol & Lou Sherman SISTERHOOD - Harriet & Gerry Bloom *Helene & Alan Frost NORMAN MANDELBERG FLORAL FUND CHUCK WOODWARD Debbie & Larry Kurtz GERALD PRIBUTSKY Dianne Epplein In Memory of: MUSIC FUND Sue Ellen & Seymour Teach Betty Hecht *Marsha & Lewis Hirschler SYLVAN FINESTONE In Honor of the 65th With Appreciation: With Appreciation: Debbie & Larry Kurtz Evelyn Munden Wedding Anniversary of: CANTOR JEN RUEBEN *Shannon & Tarace White *Judy & Robert Rubin ARNOLD RUBIN RUTH & JOE GOLDBERG *Debbie Higgins & Family Sue Ellen & Seymour Teach *Judy & Robert Rubin Harriet & Gerry Bloom KITTY WOLF DR. JEROME PERLMAN In Memory of: *Debbie Higgins BEATRICE L. BERLIN *Susan Molofsky Todres TEMPLE FUND EVELYN ADELMAN ELDERLY NEEDS FUND *Buzzy Schulwolf In Memory of: *Gerald Adelman CARING COMMITTEE In Honor of: GERALD PRIBUTSKY THEODORE “TED” ADLER THEODORE “TED” ADLER FUND CAROL ROSENBLATT Dianne Epplein *Randy & Irving Pike *Martha & Robert In Memory of: *Jennifer Kerpelman The Sachs Family WILLIAM P. COHEN Goodman EVELYN ADELMAN & Joe Pittman *Buzzy Schulwolf *Dana Cohen JOSEPH & ESTHER FISH *Connie & David Adelman In Memory of: *Phyllis White *Michael Cohen Vivian Forman MARTY FREEDMAN ERWIN S. BERLIN With Appreciation: ANN FELDMAN DR. JEROME PERLMAN Betty Sacks *Carol Rosenblatt RABBI ROSALIN Marsha & Marty Moody *Marsha & Marty Moody *Pam & Dan Snyder LEWIS BERLIN MANDELBERG MARTY FREEDMAN GERALD PRIBUTSKY NAOMI HECHT *Carol Rosenblatt *Dawn & Jack Kaye *Jen & Neal Katz *Martha & Robert *Sue Ellen PAULINE Y. BERLIN *Benjamin Levi Brenda & Sheal Lisner Goodman & Seymour Teach *Carol Rosenblatt *Diane & Ken Muhlendorf PHYLLIS RAPOPORT Betty Sacks CARSON MORRISSETTE DR. CYNTHIA HALPERN Sally & Ted Adler GALUMBECK OHEF SHOLOM *Becky & Reid Rapoport LOUIS H. DR. JEROME PERLMAN *Carol Rosenblatt & Family FOUNDATION NAOMI HECHT & ANNE K. FRIEDMAN *Heather & Jeffrey Cohen BERNICE B. KOLISH UNERSTRICTED FUND Brenda & Sheal Lisner TREASURER'S FUND GERALD PRIBUTSKY *Carol Rosenblatt In Memory of: JACK J. LETERMAN In Memory of: *Shirley Schulwolf Hainer & HOWARD A. ROSENBLATT MARTY FREEDMAN *Jane & Lenny Frieden DR. CYNTHIA Ralph Rabinowitz *Carol Rosenblatt *Marsha & Marty Moody NORMAN MANDELBERG GALUMBECK Sue Ellen & Seymour Teach DR. JEROME PERLMAN *Jane & Lenny Frieden Celia & Jay Friedman With Appreciation: LOVE THY NEIGHBOR *Elaine Katz Edlin *Carol & David Hirschler Ethel Goldman CANTOR JEN RUEBEN In Honor of: Wishing a Happy 2021: Betty Sacks DR. JEROME PERLMAN *Diane & Ken Muhlendorf THELMA STEINGOLD *Suzanne & Marshall CHARLES MOODY Celia & Jay Friedman *Dorianne & Dan Villani Feldman Marsha & Marty Moody Ethel Goldman CARING COMMITTEE With Appreciation: MARTIN LUTHER MOODY FUND - NEST *Karen & Adam Longwater GAIL WASSERMAN Marsha & Marty Moody With Appreciation: *Christina Verderosa BACHMAN DR. JEROME PERLMAN *Carol & Robert Laibstain & C.F. Scott EDUCATIONAL FUND Susie & Jill Cohen In Memory of: *Charlotte Corey MARTY FREEDMAN Harriett & Harvey Eluto

JANUARY 2021 13 Yahrzeits FEBRUARY *denotes memorial plaque

Jan 31 - Feb 6 Doreen Pogson* Gerald Lacey Edward Hainer Rose Cooper Bertha Chenman Annie Bachman William Reshefsky Otto Landsberg Dr. Irene Harris Goldberg* Ruth Crites Harry Bernstein Fannie Brill Sadie J. Leavitt Marvin Henry Isaac Goodman Robert Engel* Marie Cardet Saunders* Max Lederman Samuel Kaufman* Jeffrey H. Daniel Fisher Stanley Cohen Jack Schechter* Alvin Legum* Helen B. Kleisdorf Goodove* Paula Jason Flax Bella Cohen Mildred L. Frances Lidman Sarah Kluger Marian Carl Ben Cohen Sherrick* Mattie R. Sidney Krakower Gutterman* Bertha Gold Ron Danziger* Betty Siegel Margolius* Ben H. Kruger* Judith B. Hill* Lewis Goldstein Nonye Davidson* Nettie Levy Smiley Mildred Newfield* Harry Levin* Bettie Jacobs Pearl Nemo Ida Diamonstein Benjamin Sobel* Mary M. Novitch* Fannye Marks Jennie Jacobson* Goodman* Maxine Ebert Samuel Solomon Margaret Perry Leona K. Meyer Anuradha Datyner Bessie B. Isaac Faulkner* Benjamin Spigel* Moody Hilda Moos Kerner Goodman* Anne G. Fever Elizabeth S. Stanley Walter Ellis Nordin* Martha Kimnach Roy Haas Grace Schepper Thompson* Potts William S. Charlotte Kline Caroline Halpern Firing Cornelia Martin Quate Roberts* Albert Koplen Louis Heller Honore Shill Fox Wachsman* Henry Ricewasser David Rosenberg L. David Legum Dorothy Kahan* Abraham Frumkin Friederike Louis B. Saks Alvin S. Janice Legum Hannah Kahn Isaac Giat Wachsman* Edgar Salins* Rosenberg* Irma Leva Lena Kaiser Albert Goldman* Stanley Sarita Sachs Matthew Levy Rose L. Kanter* Fannie Goldstein* Feb 7 - 13 Scheimberg Arnold Salasky Beatrice S. Maltz Abraham D. Dave Goldstein* Samuel Adler David Schrager Alfred Salsbury Sarah Lou Kerpelman Ruth Cohen Leslie Berger* Helen Snyder Nan Sarb Margulies Bernice B. Kolish* Goldstein* Essie F. Berman* Simmons* Bert Schloss* George Moss Dr. Roland Koslick Gertrude C.F. Bernatz Murray Sokoloff Leopold Schulwolf Geoffrey H. Herbert (Pete) Goldstein Marino A. Bertini Marion Sheba Mary C. Schwartz Myers* Kramer Solomon L. Samuel Solomon Sally A. Silberman* Milton L. Nemo* Gustav Krauss* Goodman* Blumenthal Gentil Denise Somekh William P. Josephine K. Dena Katz Joseph Brown* Steinbrecher David Elliot Nordlinger* Levy* Greenhood Israel Brown* Menachem Stern Stromberg Nelson Posner* Elsie L. Levy* Alfred A. Bertram A. Gisela Waldman* Hannah Sussman* Fannie H. Preddy Morris A. Levy Greenhood Bunting* Bernard Louis Louis Switzer Frances Rader Samuel Marx* Mollie Hecht Lawrence Cash Wasserman* Ruth Unger Hannah Reisfield Mary Esther Albert Heller* Edith Chanin* Alvin Wishneff Cecelia Weinstein Henry Rephan Mermelstein Lee J. Hofheimer* Sarah Cohen Rosie Bell Wyland* Rae M. Whitlock* Thomas Rew Esther Davis Daniel Hofheimer* Cooper Morris Sydelle Winnick Lawrence Roesen Pincus* Betty Kaplan Beverly Crockford Zimmerman Dr. Irwin S. Sacks Jerry Powders David Kapper Minnie B. Crockin Feb 21 - 27 Sallie F. Sacks* Louis Rabinowitz Howard N. Ann East Feb 14 - 20 Marianne A. Bern Cecelia B. Saks Goldye K. Rafal Kauffman Evelyn C. Evelyn Adelman Michael Albert Dr. Stanley George Reiss James Philip Eisenberg Irwin Berger Seymour Allen Salasky* Mollie S. Robbins* Keasey Kathleen Franz Phyllis Berman Alvin Baum Dave Schlitz* Violet Asher J.D. Kline* Bessie K. Kaplan Marie Behr* Rose Schuster Sartorius* Irvin Kocen Goldback* Hattie Beskin Lillian D. Eleanor Shaw Benjamin Estelle Koltun Herbert Leroy Beskin* Blumenthal* Lola Sherman Schulwolf David Krakower Goldstein* Louis Blumberg* Dr. Mitchell Lee Selig Siegel* Max Schwan* Dora Liebman Robert C. Isabel G. Brenner Corey* Samuel Snyder* Nate Seeherman Kruger* Goodman* Bernice J. Brill* Raymond Crites Ida Spensky Aaron Seldes Billie Kinzer Myer Lu Heidi Bullard Joan Dalis Israel Steingold* Harry Shneyer Kruger Goodman* A. Sylvester Bert Eisenberg* Joan Tavss Nathan Simon Natalie G. Lawrence Crockin* Richard L. Lawrence D. Van Rae B. Stein Levinson Goodman Renee David Emanuel Collom Mary Teck Julius B. Levinson* William Grant Howard Davidson Fanny Epstein* Lawrence Waldemar Dr. Bernard Selma Haber Dr. Samuel Diener Max Familier Vancollum* Theodorson Lidman Robert G. Maurice Richard Finkelstein Jeanette Weadon Helen Waldman* Joseph Liebman Hofheimer, Sr. Finkelstein Rabbi Judah Fish Ida T. Weisel* Frances S. Elise L. Margolius* Robert Hudome Ralph Friedman Leon Flax Lee E. Whitlock* Wasserman* Charles L. Marks Leonard Hurwitz Lillian Frumkin Annis Forman* Maurice B. Jerome H. Jack W. June B. K. Robert Glazier Morris Friedberg* Winnick Weinstein Meyerson* Johnson Reba Goldner Ruth R. Garnher* Ruby Zaba Maurice Bernard Dr. Donald A. Joseph M. Kaplan Elizabeth P. Robert "Bob" Wolf Myers Louis Kawalick* Goldstein* Gelb Feb 28 - Mar 6 Lawrence S. Barbara S. Helen Baydush Leon Goode Harold Geringer Lottie Bernstein Wolpin Newfield* Kehayas* Maurice Goode Chuck Giles Fannie Blachman* Libby Crockin Toby Pearl Rozlyn Klar Martin "Skip" Bernard H. Glaser Fannie S. Bloom Zeno* Henry Pike Nate Korman Goode Stanley Glaser Sheldon Blum Lynn Kushner Herbert J. Green Harold Glave Blossom Buller

14 THE TEMPLE POST *denotes memorial plaque Calendar&BIrthdays

FEBRUARY Events VIA ZOOM (UNLESS OTHERWISE INDICATED) MonDAY SUnDAY Monday 1 Jewish Disabilities 7 9:00 am 15 Presidents' Day To add an event to the Temple calendar, Advocacy Month Hebrew School 5:00 pm please email [email protected]. Black History 10:30 am Budget Meeting Month Religious School 10:30 am Tuesday Tuesday Wiggles & Giggles 16 5:00 pm Sunday Friday 2 9:00 pm 2:00 pm F& D Committee 21 9:00 am 26 Purim D'Bar Torah Sisterhood Book Meeting Hebrew School 12:00 pm Club featuring 9:00 pm 10:30 am The Whole Wednesday author Jean D'Bar Torah Religious School Megillah with 3 6:00 pm Grainger Purim Carnival & Jay Lazier Men's Club Wednesday Vendor Fair 6:30 pm Meeting WEDNEsday 17 7:00 pm 4:00 pm Shabbat Services* 10 12:00 pm Anti-Racism Class Hamantashen followed by Oneg Thursday Homeless Task with Rabbi Roz Cooking with 4 4:00 pm Force Phil & Tal SATURDAY Torah Study Thursday 27 9:00 am 5:00 pm Thursday 18 4:00 pm Monday Torah Study Executive 11 4:00 pm Torah Study 22 9:30 am 10:30 am Committee Torah Study 7:00 pm Soup Kitchen Shabbat Services* Meeting Board Meeting 5:30 pm Friday Thursday Family Havdalah Friday 12 6:30 pm Friday 25 Erev Purim 5 6:30 pm Shabbat Services* 19 6:30 pm 1:00 - 4:00 pm Sunday Shabbat Services* followed by Oneg Shabbat Services* Hamantashen 28 9:00 am followed by Oneg* followed by Oneg Pick-Up Hebrew School SATURDAY 4:00 pm 10:30 am SATURDAY 13 9:00 am SATURDAY Torah Study Religious School 6 9:00 am Torah Study 20 9:00 am 5:00 pm Torah Study 10:30 am Torah Study Purimshpiel 10:30 am Shabbat Services* 10:30 am Shabbat Services* Shabbat Services* Sunday 7:00 pm *denotes live stream event 14 Valentine's Day Havdalah Hootenanny with Jeanne & Bob Zentz

FEBRUARY BIRTHDAYs

February 1 February 6 February 13 February 17 February 23 February 27 Marshall Feldman Tammie Weitzman Darren Dorfman Nicole Gamboa- Diane Bloom Andrew Aftel Jeffrey Fox Gerald Einhorn Smith McCabe Noah Green February 8 Linda Metzger Janet Green Arlene Rephan Allison Whiteman Kim Glaser Blanche Spilka February 28 Steve Hirsch February 14 February 18 February 24 Stephen Goldstein February 2 Michael Salasky David Kaufman Amy Goodove Ashley Adler Paul Hirschbiel Bonnie Laibstain Chris Kraus Cathy Hallissy Robert Levinson Joel Lefkowitz February 9 Susan Pincus Burt Rubin Karen Ledsky Byron Harrell Dorothy Salomonsky Gayle Legum Katharine Waitzer Andrea Kirby Robin Schoner Susan Scholsohn February 10 February 15 Angela Klar February 3 Gene Albert Mike Lloyd February 25 February 29 Diane Brunk Mike Rosenberg February 19 Lindsey Aftel Bob Rubin Owen Johnson David Darrow Nancy Lazaron Erle Latimer Gene Ross Jodie Frieden Caroline Snyder Michael Nusbaum Charles Greenhood February 4 Holly Puritz Lynn King Michele Goldberg Eric Sherman February 16 February 20 Alan Nordlinger Linda Spindel Meril Amdursky Kathryn Morton Allan Zeno February 11 Emilyrae Helfen Judith Gutterman Jennifer Priest February 26 February 5 Mark Kerner Steve Halpern Kari Pincus February 22 Robert Bensink MaryAnne Katz Judy Rosenberg Barbara Fine Carol Laibstain February 12 Jenny Sterns Sandi Advocat Sam Steingold Jerry Minskoff Jan Weintraub Debbie Higgins JANUARY 2021 15 Non-Profit Org. US Postage 530 Raleigh Avenue, Norfolk, VA 23507 (P) 757•625•4295 (F) 757•625•3762 PAID www.ohefsholom.org Norfolk, VA Permit No. 230 Rosalin Mandelberg, Senior Rabbi Jennifer Rueben, Cantor Lawrence A. Forman, Rabbi Emeritus

The post Bulletin Board

Nominating Committee Information for Members Dear OST Congregants, Committee. Due to the small number of Board positions available, we may be unable to invite As the Chairperson of the Nominating Committee all who apply to serve as a Board member this of the Board of Directors, I am writing to invite year, but please do not let that deter you from YOU, our valued OST members, to apply to serve expressing interest. In addition, please consider our congregation as a Board of Director of Ohef serving on a Temple Committee or Group. Sholom Temple. Whether you come often to the Temple or just come once or twice a year, this is This is a great way to "get your feet wet" in an opportunity to serve Ohef Sholom Temple in engaging in Temple life in a more meaningful new and meaningful ways! way and can be a stepping stone to moving into a leadership role. There are many choices for Our OST Board members are advocates and involvement at OST! ambassadors both within the Temple and in the outside community. They are not only expected We hope this process creates the opportunity to attend monthly Board meetings (third Thursday for more of our members to get involved with evening of the month), but to agree to serve on Ohef Sholom Temple's leadership. OST is a $1.4 at least two Temple committees, support Temple million organization that requires leadership and fundraisers, and attend services and other Temple skills to function and fulfill our mission of being events on a frequent basis. The current openings a welcoming House of Worship and Sacred for the Board of Directors will commence in May Community. We cannot do this without our of 2021 at the Annual Meeting and will continue devoted volunteers and lay leaders. for a 3-year term. Please feel free to email me or Terri Budman, If you have the desire to serve OST, I encourage Temple President, at [email protected] you to apply for a Temple Board Director position with any questions or comments. on or before February 15, 2021. Please email me for a questionnaire form. All Board Director Charlie Nusbaum applicants' names will be kept confidential by 2021 Nominating Committee Chair the Nominating Committee and the Executive [email protected] OSTY/JOSTY

Pre-Order Sale $9.00 per dozen Orders can be sent to Ohef Sholom Temple, 530 Raleigh Ave, Norfolk, Virginia 23507 or ordered online at www.ohefsholom.org/sisterhood Pre-Order Deadline: February 18, 2021

Name: Contact Number:

Flavors: (specify # of dozens for each choice) Regular Flavors: Sugar-Free Flavors:

Strawberry Raspberry SF Raspberry

Cherry Apricot SF Apricot

Prune Chocolate

Poppy Assorted Dozen Assorted: 2 Strawberry, 2 Cherry, 2 Raspberry, 2 Apricot, 2 Chocolate, 1 Prune, 1 Poppy

Total # x $9.00 = $

Orders can be picked up at Ohef Sholom Temple on Thursday, February 25, 2021 between 1:00 pm and 4:00 pm. To make alternate pick-up arrangements, call the Temple at 757-625-4295. Nope, NOT a fan!

What a schmegegge!

Hiss!

SOMEone needs to go back to mensch training! (Haman) presents Long live the Queen!

Girl power!

Go Mordechai!

(Esther)

Such a maven, February 25 | 6:30 pm that one!