May 2018 | Iyar/Sivan 5778 | Vol. 44 No. 8
ISRAEL@70 Hope for a Two-State Solution? Celebrate Power Women’s Breakfast Sing Hatikvah with DFW Cantors with Temple! Shopping the Shuk COVER STORY, pp. 8-9
CONFIRMATION SERVICE p. 13 p. 3 CLERGY MESSAGE Leonard Bernstein
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his is the year of the command, thinking it was a diversionary military maneuver, Leonard Bernstein because “who would take time out in war to listen to a Centennial—we will mark Mozart concerto?” the 100th anniversary of That was Bernstein, bringing the transcendent power of hisT birth on August 25. Like a lot of music to tired troops in desert sands, insisting on the gift of people my age (and older), I feel a special creativity in every moment. Bernstein once defined a great connection to Bernstein. For me, it was not so much through performance: the Young People’s Concerts or his television appearances, but “If I don’t become Brahms or Tchaikovsky or Stravinsky the result of his longstanding relationship with Tanglewood, when I’m conducting their works, then it won’t be a great the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and performance… the only way I know that I’ve done a really the place where I first learned to love music during the good performance is when I’m making the piece up as I go Berkshire summers of my childhood. Bernstein was brilliant, along… as if I have the feeling that I’m inventing it for the balletic, glamorous and deeply human. He was larger than very first time.” life, and not always admirably. My parents were both big That strikes me as a pretty good description of this gift we Bernstein fans. In addition to his passion as a conductor, his call Reform Judaism too. Judaism, Torah and the teachings gifts as a composer, and his talent as a teacher, the fact that of our sages are our core composition, and it is our job to Bernstein was a nice Jewish boy from Boston didn’t hurt. approach this ancient wisdom with the same sense of discovery Bernstein grew up at Mishkan Tefila, the first Conservative and creativity that Bernstein brought to a performance of congregation in Boston, where he was deeply influenced by Brahms. Our charge is to stay true to the original, while at the Professor Solomon Gregory Braslavsky, the congregation’s same time animating it with our own understanding and drive. music director and organist, and like Bernstein’s parents, a That is why Jeremiah shows up not only in a Bernstein Ukrainian immigrant. One of Bernstein’s first compositions composition, but with us at every social justice rally. That is was a setting of Psalm 148 that he wrote for his home how Isaiah’s “Kadosh, kadosh, kadosh” is present not only on congregation when he was 17, and the influence of Jewish the pages of the siddur, but every time we sense the holy in our music on Bernstein has been widely observed: not just in pieces lives. When we are at our best, we neither replicate nor replace like “Jeremiah” or “Kaddish,” or in his use of Hebrew and the original, we discover it anew: with integrity and invention, Aramaic texts, but in recognizable Jewish themes throughout and new vistas of meaning in our hearts and our world. his compositions. (And don’t forget that Bernstein and his Even now, the master teacher teaches us. Happy one creative partners originally conceived of “West Side Story” as hundredth birthday, Maestro. “East Side Story,” a musical about a forbidden relationship between a Jewish boy and a Catholic girl on the Lower East Side.) Bernstein was also passionate in his love for Israel. He first conducted there in 1946, with what was then called the Palestine Symphony Orchestra, and he flew to Israel to conduct whenever the country was in crisis. Author Rodney Greenberg tells this story: In 1948, after the IDF had captured Beersheba, Bernstein rounded up 35 players to drive through the desert in an armored car and perform a concert for the troops the following afternoon, in what was an archaeological dig. Perched on rocks and crevices, this extraordinary band accompanied Bernstein at the piano in Mozart and Beethoven, with “Rhapsody in Blue” as an encore. Egyptian scout planes reported the sight to their Cairo
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IN THIS ISSUE HOLIDAYS & PRAYER PAGE Shavuot 3 Shabbat and Festival Services 7 Soul Singing 7 Yom HaAtzmaut 8 FOR FAMILIES PAGE ECEC Shuk 8 Sababa 12 Grades 3-6 Shabbat 12 Tot Shabbat 13 SATURDAY, MAY 19 FOR 20s AND 30s PAGE Atid Late Night Shabbat 6 9am | Chever Torah Taught by Rabbi Klotz EMPTY NESTERS PLUS PAGE 10:30am | Stern Chapel The Well: A Caregiver’s Day Out 5 The Conversation Project 5 with Rabbi Myriam Klotz, Rabbi Klotz will participate as a leader g2g dinner theater 5 with Temple clergy in the Shabbat 50+ service and dinner 12 Director of the Spirituality morning service. Initiative for Hebrew Union COMMUNITY PAGE 7pm | Shavuot Tikkun College-Jewish Institute of Religion Our Community 4 When you stand at Sinai, will you Caregivers Support Group 5 Adult B’nai Mitzvah Info 7 understand, stand by, stand up, stand People 14 still? This will be an interactive evening Stories of the Heart Concert 15 FRIDAY, MAY 18 of music, movement, prayer and learning Cinema Emanu-El 15 10am | Yoga Class | Stern Chapel with Rabbi Klotz. The night will end with WRJ AND BROTHERHOOD PAGE the Sinai Scoop—ice cream for all! Stretch your mind, body and spirit with Brotherhood Monthly Meeting 6 Rabbi Klotz and your friends. Yogis of WRJ Events 6 all levels are welcome. Please bring your own mat. SUNDAY, MAY 20 SOCIAL JUSTICE PAGE 10:30am| Shavuot Festival Service with Austin Street Shelter 5 6:15pm | Stern Chapel Summer Volunteer Opportunity 5 Yizkor | Stern Chapel Rabbi Klotz will co-lead the Shabbat Register for one or all three events: ADULT LEARNING PAGE evening service. participate.tedallas.org/shavuot Torah and Talmud 7 7:45pm | Ta’am 8500 dinner Israel Book Club 8 Temple Book Club 12 PHILANTHROPY This weekend is made possible by the Dolores and Walter Neustadt Lecture Series. Contributions 10-12
Temple clergy and volunteers visit members in Confidential financial assistance is available the hospital and in rehab facilities. We’d love to for most Temple events, tuition and dues. hear if a friend or family member needs a visit.
Contact: Meredith Pryzant, [email protected]
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OUR COMMUNITY BECOMING B’NAI MITZVAH
Ella Mae Frydman Baye and Reese Popek Roman Sky Solis Emma and Jack Yurich May 26 May 26 May 5 May 12 Daughter of Regina and Sons of Sara and Bill Popek Son of Robbin and Michael Solis Children of Joanne & Joe Yurich Aaron Frydman Shelton School (Baye) Parish Episcopal School Greenhill School Ann and Nate Levine Academy Dealey Montessori Tikkun Olam: Team Captain, Tikkun Olam: Raised more than Tikkun Olam: Assisting and Vanguard and International Walk for MS $20,000 for Karing 4 Kliptown, mentoring with Sting Soccer Academy (Reese) a project to purchase shes and Academy Tikkun Olam: Crystal Creek soccer balls for children in at Preston Hollow Soweto, South Africa
BABY NAMINGS WEDDINGS IN MEMORIAM Lincoln Joel McCoy Lisa Kanarek and Gilbert Bruneman Nick Liuzza Son of Liz and Colin McCoy Perry Kessler Husband of Merle Bruneman Father of Suzanne McCoskey Father of Carol Dochen, Steve Reese Margaret Swerdlow Marvin Schulman Bruneman, Keith Bruneman, Daughter of Rachel and Father of Jill Chapin Bret Bruneman and Matthew Swerdlow CONVERSIONS Jill Fischer Charles Sugerman Ethan George Triay Father of Dr. Robert Sugerman Allison Zeitlow Regina Edwards Son of Ashley and Jorge Triay Sister of Ananias Edwards Sarah Sturman Wife of Milton Sturman Abner Gladstone Mother of Aaron Sturman and Father of Richard Gladstone Tamara Volk NEW & RETURNING MEMBERS and Karen Gladstone Eleanor Trachtenberg Jeanne Isaacson Jeff Cohen & Jordan Johnston Morris Landau & Rebecca Mother of Michael Wife of Seymour “Ronnie” Trachtenberg Ananias Edwards Wright Isaacson Drew & Bek Levey Mother of Alan Isaacson and Andrew Unterberg David, Jennifer & Gaia Eitches Nancy Isaacson-Tobin Husband of Alana Unterberg Julia & Mark Little Father of Beckett, Dillon and Patricia Gottschalk Dr. Robert Kramer Landon Unterberg Liza Tsurkan Husband of Joan Kramer Ashley, Peter & Emma Herbst Son of Dr. Mark and Maddy Father of Lisa Kramer Morgan, Unterberg Joe White Jessica Kramer, Megan Kramer Alina Johnson & Ben, Miles & Brother of Dr. Jennifer and Robin Kramer Oliver Leffler Unterberg, Craig Unterberg Brother of Jane Kramer and and Dr. Stephen Unterberg Sheila Kaplan Fred Kramer
Shabbat of Appreciation for Our Community FRIDAY, JUNE 8 | 6:15pm | STERN CHAPEL Whether you’re a learner, baker, event planner, hospital visitor, Shabbat regular or a giver to Temple in many different ways, please let Temple clergy and staff show our appreciation. Come as you are to this casual Shabbat and celebrate with us! Join us for a Ta’am 8500 dinner after services, catered by Back Country BBQ. SHABBAT AND DINNER Register: participate.tedallas.org/taam8500 Cost: $5 per person, or $18 for a family of four or more.
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The Marvelous Mitzvah Opportunity Kick off your summer by doing an extra-special mitzvah with the Temple community.
On Saturday, June 2, Temple volunteers will be serving a hot dinner to 400 people at Austin Street Center. Volunteers are needed to shop, cook, deliver and serve. Preparations will take place at Temple on June 1, before Shabbat, and then the food will be delivered, reheated in the shelter’s kitchen, and served on June 2. Summer Volunteers
Three teams of volunteers, about 20-25, are needed. Needed Shopping Team: May 31, great for families The Vickery Meadow Summer Reading Academy Cooking Team: June 1, before Shabbat, great for families will be held from July 11-August 2, and about two Delivery and Serving Team: Evening of June 2, adults only. dozen volunteers are needed to help with tutoring Great for Sh’ma groups, a social justice date night, and for anyone who wants to help make our city a better place. of refugee students. Classes take place with 10 students, two adult leaders, two youth leaders and two assistant Register: participate.tedallas.org/ascvolunteer youth leaders each. If you’re a teen, it’s a great way to Contact: Debbie Fuqua, [email protected] earn community service hours and make a huge difference in the lives of our neighbors.
To Women of Reform Judaism, for underwriting the purchase of all food to be cooked and delivered. Contact: Debbie Fuqua, [email protected]
Caregivers Support Group “Prelude to a Kiss” First Tuesday of the Month Dinner & Theater During The Well 10:30-11:30am Sunday, June 10
Open to the community Pocket Sandwich Theater May 1 | June 5 | 10:30am-2:30pm and not limited to 5400 E. Mockingbird Lane caregivers with A fun, activity-filled day on the first Tuesday of the month attendees at The Well. Play at 7pm: $12 for those with early stage Alzheimers or other dementias Doors open at 5:30pm Facilitated by Rejuvenating break for caregivers Jewish Family Service, RSVP online: registration participate.tedallas.org/ Advance registration is required by contacting g2gpocketsandwichtheater Becky Slakman, [email protected] not required.
Contact: RSVP by phone: Meredith Pryzant, Lauren Kahn, This program is endorsed by the Alzheimer’s Association and funded by Women of Reform Judaism. [email protected] 214.706.0000, ext. 146
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BROTHERHOOD Monthly Meeting and Dinner Wednesday, May 2 “The Talk” 6:15pm Dinner, Linz Hall That Can Change Your Life
RSVP: calendar.tebrotherhood.org or How do you want to live at the end of your life? Make plans [email protected] to participate in this important series about sharing your hopes, dreams and wants with those you love.
Contact: Karen Hoffman, [email protected] WRJ EVENTS Session 4: Let’s Get Legal
Thursday, May 10 | 7-9pm | Linz Hall Dinner and Installation of Officers Navigating the legal implications Thursday, May 10, 5:30-7pm, Pollman Hall Cost: $10 of end-of-life desires, with Lori Leu, RSVP: tesisterhood.org or drop off a check at Judaic elder law attorney, and Dr. Robert Treasures before the event. Fine of Baylor Scott & White Health Mahjong Meet-Up RSVP: participate.tedallas.org/theconversationproject Wednesday, May 16, 6-8pm, Room 133-135 A project of Sukkat Shalom, Temple’s safe space for tough topics, in All skill levels are welcome. Please bring your own partnership with Women of Reform Judaism and Congregation Beth Torah. card and mahjong set. Cost: $5 for snacks RSVP: Celia Saunders, [email protected], or text at 214.502.1902 Daughters of Abraham Thursday, May 17, 7-8:30pm, MAS Islamic Center, 1515 Blake Drive, Richardson Join this interfaith group that seeks to enhance understanding of the spiritual and cultural similarities and differences among the Jewish, Christian and Muslim communities. This month’s topic is “Divorce and Singleness.” Contact: Leah Beth Kolni, [email protected], Help and Healing 214.801.7463 Grief Support
Temple Emanu-El provides space for an ongoing Friday, May 18 grief support group that is open to the community. 6:15pm service The group meets twice monthly from 11:30am-1pm Stern Chapel on the second and fourth Tuesday of each month Dinner with Atid: in Zilbermann Chapel. Newcomers to the group are 7:30pm, Linz Hall LATE NIGHT encouraged to join on the second Tuesday, when a Contact: therapist from Jewish Family Service attends. SHABBAT Alexandra Horn [email protected] For more information, contact Meredith Pryzant, Director of Member Support, [email protected]. Register: participate.tedallas.org/latenightshabbat
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Emor B’midbar Leviticus 21:1-24:23 Numbers 1:1-4:20 Soul Friday, May 4 Friday, May 18 6pm, Pollman Hall 6pm, Pollman Hall Tot Shabbat Sababa Singing Rabbi Amy Ross Hallie Weiner, Cantorial Intern
6:15pm, Olan Sanctuary 6:15pm, Stern Chapel A Meditative Experience Fifty-Plus Celebration Rabbi David Stern Rabbi Debra Robbins Cantor Vicky Glikin Led by Cantors Vicky Glikin and Leslie Niren Rabbi David Stern Cantor Leslie Niren May 22, 7:30-8:30pm, Stern Chapel Cantor Vicky Glikin Rabbi Myriam Klotz, Visiting Cantor Leslie Niren Scholar Explore your connection to God through music, breath, meditation and community. Leave with an Saturday, May 5 Saturday, May 19 enriched soul and an expanded heart. 10:30am, Wasserman Gan 10:30am, Stern Chapel T’filah Outdoor Chapel Rabbi Kimberly Herzog Cohen RSVP: participate.tedallas.org/soulsinging Rabbi Daniel Utley Cantor Vicky Glikin Cantor Leslie Niren Cantor Leslie Niren Shabbat Nosh Rabbi Myriam Klotz following service Shavuot 10:30am, Stern Chapel Exodus 19:1-8; 20:1-14 TORAH and TALMUD Rabbi David Stern 7pm, Stern Chapel Cantor Vicky Glikin Shavuot Tikkun Leil Chever Torah Bat Mitzvah: Charlotte Rabbi Debra Robbins Shabbat mornings (Charley) Garrett Rabbi Myrian Klotz 9am | Linz Hall Temple clergy, Rabbi Sheldon 4:30pm, Olan Sanctuary Zimmerman and lay leaders Rabbi Kimberly Herzog Cohen Sunday, May 20 10:30am, Stern Chapel Cantor Vicky Glikin Talmud with Rabbi David Stern Bar Mitzvah: Roman Solis Shavuot Festival Service with Yizkor May 2, 9, 23, 30 | 7:30-8:30am | Linz Hall Rabbi Kimberly Herzog Cohen Start your Wednesdays in this learning session focused on – Cantor Leslie Niren the Talmud and its relevance today. B’har–Bchukotai Leviticus 25:1-26:2 Talmud on Sunday Mornings Naso May 6 | 10am-12pm | Room 131 Friday, May 11 Numbers 4:21-7:89 6:15pm, Stern Chapel This lay-led study group explores the tractate Sanhedrin. Rabbi Daniel Utley Friday, May 25 Contact: Mel Klein, [email protected], 214.394.1817 Rabbi Debra Robbins 6:15pm, Stern Chapel Cantor Leslie Niren Rabbi Kimberly Herzog Cohen Torah from the Beginning Rabbi David Stern May 6 | 10-11:30am | Room 130 Saturday, May 12 Cantor Leslie Niren 10:30am, Lefkowitz Chapel This participatory, interactive class focuses on the Torah Rabbi Kimberly Herzog Cohen and its relevance in our lives. No prior knowledge or Cantor Vicky Glikin Saturday, May 26 preparation is necessary. 10:30am, Stern Chapel 10:30am, Stern Chapel Contact: Michael Selz, [email protected] Rabbi Debra Robbins Rabbi Debra Robbins Cantor Leslie Niren Randy Pearlman, Cantorial B’nai Mitzvah: Emma and Soloist Jack Yurich Adult B’nai Mitzvah 4:30pm, Stern Chapel Rabbi David Stern 7pm, Stern Chapel Information Session Confirmation Cantor Leslie Niren Bat Mitzvah: Ella Frydman Becoming a bar or bat mitzvah as an adult is a rewarding Rabbi David Stern and life-changing experience. Learn more about how you Rabbi Debra Robbins Rabbi Kimberly Herzog Cohen can take charge of your adult learning and Jewish growth. Rabbi Daniel Utley Thursday, May 3 | 7pm | Room 134 Rabbi Amy Ross Cantor Vicky Glikin Register: participate.tedallas.org/bnaimitzvahinfosession Cantor Leslie Niren Contact: Rachel Tucker, [email protected]
MAY 2018 • The Window 7 ISRAEL@70 Time for Cake and Candles! Israel is celebrating a big birthday this year—70 well lived years. Whether your celebrations started on the Hebrew date in April or if you are extending the celebration through May, one thing’s for sure, there’s no shortage of ways to acknowledge this milestone. Be sure to don some blue and white and sing “Hatikvah” in the shower. Better yet, take a trip, watch a movie, eat some hummus. Happiest of days to you, Israel.
SHOP: MAY 4 SING! MAY 6 ECEC Shuk Temple Cantors Vicky Glikin and Leslie Niren will lend their beautiful voices to those of other area cantors and 8:30am-1pm, ECEC Entrance congregational choirs at the Annual DFW Cantorial Concert, Who doesn’t love an excuse “A Celebration of the 70th Birthday of Israel.” to shop? The Early Childhood Education Center holds its 7pm, Kaplan Auditorium Israeli-style market featuring local Shearith Israel, 9401 Douglas Ave. honey, artisan wares, farm fresh produce, baked goods from Tickets: $12 in advance, $15 at the door; seniors and Empire Bakery, merchandise students $10, $12 at the door. from Judaic Treasures, and more. Online: shearith.org Contact: Sandi Burt, [email protected] READ: MAY 5 Nurture your love of reading and Israel with the monthly Israel Book Club sponsored by Brotherhood and led by Robert Epstein. “Striking Back: The 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre and Israel’s Deadly Response,” by Aaron J. Klein (Archives, following the Shabbat morning service)
DIG IT: MAY 6 Temple will be participating in the Israel Independence Day community celebration at the Aaron Family JCC, 12-4pm. We will be sponsoring the archaeological dig, so come and hunt for us! The event also features a petting zoo, bounce house, gaga pit, Israeli dancing and a special ISRAEL@70 exhibit.
8 The Window • MAY 2018 POWER UP: MAY 15 JOURNEY OF A LIFETIME Breakfast with Tali Tzour Avner, Chief Dec. 22-Jan. 2 Israel Emissary, Jewish National Fund Travel to Israel with your Temple community. Limited spaces are still available! Led by 8-9:30am, Pollman Hall Rabbis Amy Ross and Daniel Utley. Presented by Jewish National Fund, Itinerary Temple Emanu-El and Women of arzaworld.com, Temple-Emanu-El-of-Dallas-2018 Reform Judaism Contact and register Karen Hoffman, [email protected] Register: participate.tedallas.org/ womens-israel-event-may-2018
Celebrate Israel’s 70th by learning about the powerful women who helped build Israel. Tali Tzour Avner, an executive with JNF, will share her family’s inspiring Zionist story. Contact: Jane Larkin, [email protected]
DISCUSS: MAY 16 Is There Hope for a Two-State Solution? A Conversation with Jeremy Ben-Ami and Ilan Goldenberg
7:30pm, Stern Chapel Presented by Temple Emanu-El and J Street HEAR OUR Register: participate.tedallas.org/ israelprogram
Don’t miss the insights of Jeremy Ben-Ami, President of J Street, and Ilan Goldenberg, From weddings to b’nai mitzvah ceremonies to Senior Fellow and Director of the Middle falling in love with the land, congregants share East Security program at the Center for a their stories on the magic and wonder of Israel. New American Security, as they discuss national security both for Israel and the U.S. tedallas.org/community/israel Moderated by Lee Cullum
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GIFTS OF MEMORY, HONOR AND GRATITUDE Tributes for Sustaining Temple
Our Congregation Memory of Earl Morchower Memory of Ida Feldman Memory of Ron Fiedelman By Diane Siegel By Paula & Norm Feldman By Sharon Rosen By Amy & David Leifer By Connie Rudick Dora Aronson Helping Memory of Ron Fiedelman Hands Fund Memory of Regina Perkins By Jerome & Joan Skibell Memory of Robert Kramer Distributions by Rabbi David By Jan & Tom Timmons By Dawn & Todd Aaron Memory of Lawrence Fine Stern to individuals in need of By Sally & Robert Rosen Memory of Judy Rome By Kathy Fine financial assistance, particularly By Barbara & Donald Zale By Richard Rome in dire situations Memory of Irving Goidl Memory of Yetta Levin Memory of Kenneth Schiller By Adrian Goldberg Memory of Ceil (Cecile) Echt By Richard Levin By Betty Chaiken By Dorothy & Lew Weinstein Memory of Evelyn Goldstein By Jan & Tom Timmons Memory of Annie Margules By Barbara Miller Birthday of Bootsie Golden By Stanley Dayton Memory of Sarah Sturman By Lynn & Bob Behrendt Memory of Jack Miller By Milton Sturman Memory of Sondie Rosenthal By Roslyn Polakoff By Rita Morgan Memory of Eleanor Trachtenberg Clergy Good Works Fund Memory of Frances Michaelson By Rosie Stromberg Memory of Andrew Unterberg Distributions to charitable Okon By Sharon & Ken Goldberg organizations, individuals in Memory of Andrew Unterberg By Susan & Kenneth Chazanow By Joy & Ronald Mankoff need or community causes by By Ruth Andres Memory of Andrew Unterberg By Bobbi & Richard Massman Temple’s clergy By Marcia Grossfeld By Nina Cortell & Bob Fine By Dot Heller Contribution Memory of Ellene Breinin By Jean & Bob Weinfeld By Dot Heller By Bette & Gary Morchower By Estelle Saplicki By Ellen & Lee Salzberger Appreciation of Peggy Papert Speedy Recovery of Helaine Ray Memory of Martin P. Brown By Rosie Stromberg By Ann Rosenzweig & By Blanche Weinberger By Marcie & Michael Brown By Jan & Tom Timmons Linda Sheff Memory of Gilbert Bruneman Memory of David Whiting Appreciation of Barbara Temple Emanu-El By Carol Dochen By Dot Heller Solomon By Dot Heller Cemetery Endowment Fund By Julie & Michael Lowenberg By Ann Rosenzweig & Distribution from the Temple’s By Rosie Stromberg Linda Sheff Memory of Harry Zopolsky foundation supporting the Memory of Robert Leon Cohn By The Zopolsky & Gabriele maintenance and improvement By Michael Levy Families WRJ/Sisterhood of Temple of the cemetery grounds Memory of Ron Fiedelman Anniversary of Ellen & Lee Emanu-El Memory of Robert Kramer Support of Women of Reform By Syl Benenson Salzberger By Lois Wolf By Marilyn Fiedelman Judaism By Joan & Paul Salzberger Memory of Andrew Unterberg By Ruthanne & Ronald Field Memory of Rae Adams Birthday of Gerald Strug By Jack & Louise Bell By Nao & Barry Hirschfeld, Jr. By Miriam Cohen By Lynn & Bob Behrendt By Sam & Paulette Bell Woodfin By Elena & Hayden Hirschfeld By Rachel Newburn By Arlene & Barry Hirschfeld By Aaron & Catherine Bell Contribution By Laurie Shwiff Woodfin By Diane Siegel By Jack Kasten By Sarah Yarrin & Jack Repp By Amy & David Leifer By Jim Parrish By Jim & Carla Strauss Contribution Birthday of Marla Bane By David & Harrianne By Ellen Lasser & Tommy Kaye By Barbara Stone Rabbi Gerald J. Klein Wallenstein Honor of Rabbi Debra Robbins Appreciation of Meaders Memorial Cemetery Fund Memory of Edith Fleitman By Debra & Barry Rothschild Ozarow Beautification and By Marla H. Bane & Michael By Celia Saunders & WRJ improvements of the Temple Birth of Gavin Lark Steinberg Emanu-El Cemetery Benson By Judy & Robb Steinberg Memory of Abner Gladstone Our Temple and Memory of Brother of By Family of Abner Gladstone Cemetery Pearl Chait Anne and Sam Kesner Caring By Joan & Malcolm Shwarts Memory of Daniel S. Greif Congregation Fund Rose Marion and Lee H. Berg By Ira & Linda Bernstein Assistance for Temple members Memory of Lester P. Lorch through all phases of life Building Fund By Betty & Jay Lorch Memory of Robert Kramer including hospitalization, elder Upkeep and maintenance of By Ira & Linda Bernstein care, military service, mental our historic building By Dot Heller health challenges and grief Memory of Rae Adams By Fred Shapiro By Blanche Weinberger Memory of Rae Adams Memory of Marvin Labovitz By Natalie Potter Memory of Gilbert Bruneman By Joan & Jerome Skibell By Barbara & Donald Zale Memory of Gilbert Bruneman Memory of Sylvia B. Mandel By Susan & Kenneth Chazanow By Judy & Don Cohn
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Rabbi Gerald J. Klein Temple Emanu-El Rabbi Levi A. Olan Memory of Kayce Goldberg Garden Fund Endowment Fund Lecture Fund By Judith Roffman Maintenance of the Distribution from the Temple’s Support of the Rabbi Levi A. Memory of Robert Kramer Klein Garden foundation supporting Temple’s Olan Lectures By Sarah Yarrin & Jack Repp support Memory of Jeanne Isaacson Birthday of Morton Prager Memory of Jean Nussbaum By Sarah Yarrin & Jack Repp Memory of Robert Kramer By Max Edward & Marilyn Schwartz By Suzi & Jack Greenman Tonkon By Cindy & Armond Schwartz Memory of BJ Stone By Bobbi & Richard Massman By Joyce & Alan Goldberg Memory of Andrew Unterberg Social Justice By OriAnn & Judson Phillips Alex F. Weisberg Memory of Charles Sugerman By Suellen & A. J. Rosmarin By Lindsay, Jeff & Brett Steinberg Hunger Relief Projects By Micall & Darryn Sandler, Library Fund Collection of funds for hunger Aly & Brandon Phillips, Purchases of Judaic books, Memory of Sol Woloshin relief throughout the year, Claire & Kace Phillips publications and By Randi & Mike Smerud especially during High Holy By Cindy & Armond Schwartz entertainment media Days and Passover Appreciation of Rabbi Memory of Salomon Levy Music and Prayer Memory of Jeanette Abrams David Stern By Carol Levy Music Fund By Miriam Vernon By Cindy & Armond Schwartz Memory of Edith H. Levy Enhancement of Temple music Memory of Ellene Breinin By Carol Levy programs By Syl Benenson Social Justice Fund for Memory of Andrew Unterberg Bar Mitzvah of Adam Memory of Rosaline Goldstein Youth Education By Arlene Leibs Leybovich-Glikin By Ellen & H. M. Sidweber Support of worthwhile By Sam & Hank Utay educational causes for Memory of Mae Guckenheimer youth in need Rabbi Sheldon Zimmerman Appreciation of Bootsie Golden By Miriam Vernon Building Endowment Fund By Joan Loeb Memory of Jeanne Isaacson Support for maintenance of Memory of Max Kaplan By Joyce & Joe Rosenfield Honor of Carol Brin & the 65th Temple’s building By Fran & Jeffrey Toubin Anniversary of the Choir Memory of Shaoul Israel Appreciation of Sheldon By Hannah & Carl Beren Memory of Hyman Levine By Nancy & Solomon Israel By Harriet Levine Zimmerman By Nancy Peiser Krieger Memory of Andrew Unterberg By Miriam Cohen Memory of Eleanor Trachtenberg Memory of Anabel Solomon By Debbie & Marc Andres Speedy Recovery of By Gail & Don Roache By Harriet Levine Barbara Rabin By Jan & Tom Timmons Memory of BJ Stone Youth and Early By Dot Heller Memory of Julian Banks By Debra & Barry Rothschild Childhood Education By Irene Jacobs Appreciation of Elise Mikus General By Ettie & Melvin Weinberg Early Childhood Education Memory of Ron Fiedelman Center (ECEC) Fund By Marsha Levine Temple Emanu-El Appreciation of Sue Weiner Support of ECEC programs General Fund Honor of Marriage Samantha & By Ettie & Melvin Weinberg Memory of Farra J. Bloom Support of Temple’s general Jamie Asch By Jacque & Freddy Roberts programs and events By Sam Utay The Jill Stone Tikkun Memory of Gilbert Bruneman Memory of Ron Fiedelman Memory of Eleanor Trachtenberg Olam Fund By Lynn & Jay Staub By Sheila & Richard Lerer By Sarah Yarrin & Jack Repp Support of Temple’s social By Barbara & Gene Sanger justice programs including Memory of Mike Gruber Memory of Jeanne Isaacson Aline C. Rutland Prayer initiatives, advocacy, projects By Jackie & Steve Waldman and lectures By Sheila & Richard Lerer Book Fund Memory of Robert Kramer Memory of Robert Kramer Purchases of prayer books Memory of Helaine Slakman By Jackie & Steve Waldman By Becky & Norman Slakman By Sheila & Richard Lerer Memory of Ron Fiedelman Memory of Raymond Lumry By Josh Lerer By Lottye & Bobby Lyle Memory of Andrew Unterberg By Lynn & Jay Staub By Kevin Lerer By Beverly Levy Memory of Fanny Graff Memory of Kenneth Schiller Memory of Libby Lipp By Lottye & Bobby Lyle By Lynn & Jay Staub By Gaylyn & Howard Lipp Priscilla R. Stern Memorial Memory of Charles Schlang Memory of Harold Lipp Adult Programs Literacy Fund By Dana & Gail Lawrence By Gaylyn & Howard Lipp Support of literacy projects Katherine F. Baum Adult in the general and Jewish Memory of Andrew Unterberg Memory of Sarah Sturman communities By Judy & Gerald Schneider By Charlotte Webberman Education Fund Support for adult education Memory of Leslie Belaire Memory of Andrew Windman Memory of Andrew Unterberg programs By Sarah Yarrin & Jack Repp By Lori & Bret Gerard By Sheila & Richard Lerer Memory of Gilbert Bruneman By Josh Lerer Memory of Adele Fein Appreciation of Rabbi Kimberly By Lori & Bret Gerard By Kevin Lerer By Ellen Jackofsky Herzog Cohen By Joyce & Les Norton By Frada & Alan Sandler Memory of Michael Cherry Memory of Marian M. Goldberg By Kesselman Family Birthday of Rick Rosenberg By Julie & Michael Lowenberg Appreciation of Cantor By Ettie & Melvin Weinberg Leslie Niren By Joyce & Les Norton
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Appreciation of Rabbi Daniel Utley By Joyce & Les Norton Birthday of Gerald Strug By Judy & Gerald Schneider Speedy Recovery of Francine Stiffel By Jackie & Steve Waldman FRIDAY, MAY 4
Gina Rosenfield Levy Greene Union Prayer Book Service Family Camp Scholarship Fund Financial assistance to families 6:15pm, Olan Sanctuary, followed by a seated for Greene Family Camp dinner in Tobian Auditorium. This will be the only Memory of Jeanne Isaacson By Elaine Betcher congregational service this evening. Memory of Sara Plotkin By Allen & Diane Plotkin Cost: $25 for adults, $15 for kids and free for Bar Mitzvah of Samuel Larkin honorees who will receive an invitation by mail By Sam & Hank Utay Temple will honor those married for 50+years Martin and Charlotte Weiss RSVP online: participate.tedallas.org/50pluscelebration Religious School Fund Scholarships for YL+E fees, and those who have been books and additional expenses members for 50+years RSVP by phone: Lauren Kahn 214.706.0000, ext. 146 Memory of Idarene Glick By Olga & Robert Strauss Contribution By Estelle Saplicki Youth Scholarship Fund Financial assistance to families for participation in youth programs Friday, May 11 Memory of Donald Shaffer By Gail Nusinow 6pm | Pollman Hall Memory of Andrew Unterberg By Kim & Jeff Chapman HOSTS By Gail Nusinow Rikki and Jeffrey Bassman Conversion of Julianna Briscoe Allison and Jarrod Bassman By Robin Kosberg & Mark Washofsky A service for families in 3-6 grades (and siblings too!), followed by schmoozing, dinner and activities.
TEMPLE RSVP: participate.tedallas.org/3-6shabbatmay BOOK CLUB
Monday, June 4 K-2 SHABBAT 2pm | Ackerman Conference Room Friday, May 18 “The Bridge 6pm | Pollman Hall Ladies,” by Betsy Lerner A rockin’ service for families with K-2nd grade children and their siblings! Contact: Expect great music, dinner, and social justice projects! Becky Slakman, bslakman@ Register: participate.org/sababamay18 Folio Light tedallas.org FAMILY 12 The Window • MAY 2018 FRIDAYS A COOL WAY TO START YOUR SHABBAT! YOUTH ratulat ong ions C to our MAZEL TOV Graduating Seniors! TO OUR CONFIRMANDS
Blessed shall you be in your comings and blessed shall you be in your goings. Deuteronomy 28:6
Baruch atah b’voecha uvaruch atah b’tzetecha
Mazel Tov! CONFIRMATION SERVICE From your Temple Emanu-El Family Saturday, May 12, 2018 | 27 Iyar 5778
7pm | Stern Chapel
CONFIRMATION CLASS OF 5778 | 2018
Addison Baum Haley Nicole Lieberman Noah Scott Franklin William Morgan Lockhart Liam Gilligan Olivia Louise Metz Francis Oliver Henry Eve Lauren Miller Jack Edward Herz Alexis Sophia Rabin Morgan Elizabeth Hurst Emma Sage Roseman Sophia Rose Hurst Will Steinhart Friday, May 4
Max Karp Adam Gabriel Tobin 6pm | Pollman Hall Megan Claire Kerstine Blaire Madison Wartell Celebrate Cinco de Mayo Sophie Eva Kim Carson Wasserman Maya Dylan Lewins tedallas.org/prayer/tot-shabbat
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MAH NISHMAH What’s Up?
Living and Learning First graders in Y L + E learn from Moses during Passover. We saw, we helped, we conquered Spring. Temple spiced up the Kosher Chili Cook- Off, wandered the “desert” with Moses, conducted a pet project, crushed some grownup arts and crafts and kept on caring.
Brotherhood stirs the pot at the Kosher Chili Cook-off.
Community Movers Eleanor Patel, Ruthie Grossman, Eva Newberger and Zac London help deliver pet food. Learning about irrigation in Israel at YL+E
Yoga Sh’ma Group symbolically depicts the high priest Aaron’s breastplate using crystals and semiprecious stones.
WRJ welcomes first vice presidents Rachel Newburn and Rachel Swerdlow and Amy Rutstein The Well, Temple’s group for caregivers and program for those with Alzheimer’s Jennifer Hoffman. at WRJ’s Rest and Refresh and other dementias, has a successful second session.
14 The Window • MAY 2018 MUSIC AROUND EMANU-EL AND CINEMA EMANU-EL
SAVE THE DATE American Conference of Cantors and Guild of Temple Musicians come to Temple!
Tuesday, June 26 | 7pm | Stern Chapel
Love to hear our cantors sing? Imagine their STORIES OF voices being joined by those of 150 cantors from across the country, plus those of the adult choirs of Temple Emanu-El and Temple Shalom. THE HEART You can be a part of it all when the cantors and choirs come together in an unforgettable concert CONCERT featuring music in a variety of styles. Purchase Tickets: participate.tedallas.org/ACCconcert
$100 Reserved Benefactor $36 Preferred Admission $18 General Admission $10 Student Admission
SAVE THE DATE CINEMA EMANU-EL 2018 Tuesdays, July 10, 17, 24 and 31 7pm | Tobian Auditorium RSVP: participate.tedallas.org/cinema $50 reserved seat for series July 10 Maktub $18 season pass for four-film series July 17 Joe’s Violin & Dreaming $ 5 individual film of a Jewish Christmas July 24 Forever Pure July 31 Remembrance
Spielberg | August 7 | 7pm | Tobian Auditorium No charge; RSVPs requested participate.tedallas.org/cinema
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TEMPLE WRJ BROTHERHOOD PRESIDENT PRESIDENTS PRESIDENT Rachelle Weiss Crane & Zachor y’mot olam, binu sh’not dor-vador Mike Sims Charlie Redden Kay Schachter Shal avicha v’yagedcha, z’kenecha v’yomru lach. MAIN NUMBER...... 214.706.0000 Remember the days of old, Consider the years of Ages Past; CLERGY Ask Your father, he will inform you, Your elders, they will tell you Rabbi David Stern...... 214.706.0015 (Deuteronomy 32:7) Rabbi Debra J. Robbins...... 214.706.0017 This month dawns on the 31st day of the omer, the period Rabbi Kimberly Herzog Cohen...... 214.706.0026 between Passover and Shavuot, through which we journey from Rabbi Daniel Utley...... 214.706.0026 leaving Egypt to accepting the Torah. We exit one storyline Cantor Vicky Glikin...... 214.706.0018 and step into another very big one. As the above passage from Deuteronomy suggests and as we just practiced at our Passover Cantor Leslie Niren...... 214.706.0018 seders, we are commanded to be relentless about storytelling. EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Richard J. Rosenberg, Jr...... Ext. 130 We at Temple are constantly thinking about our congregation’s many stories, both big and little. Individual stories define the DIRECTOR OF CONGREGATIONAL ENGAGEMENT whole, and we’re pretty excited about Temple’s evolving story. Karen Hoffman...... Ext. 159 That’s why you’ll see a new emphasis on storytelling, both in our programming and our messaging. YOUTH LEARNING + ENGAGEMENT Rabbi Amy Ross, Director of Learning and Innovation...... 214.706.0021 Rabbi Jonathan Sacks describes the Jewish DNA of storytelling EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION this way on his website: The great questions—“Who are we, why are we here, what is our task?”—are best answered by telling a Shelly Sender, ...... 214.706.0020 Director story...This is fundamental to understanding why Torah is the WINDOW EDITOR kind of book it is: not a theological treatise or a metaphysical Connie Dufner, Director of Communications...... Ext. 136 system but a series of interlinked stories extended over time, from Abraham and Sarah’s journey from Mesopotamia to Moses’ The Window (USPS #017-824) is published monthly with a combined and the Israelites’ wanderings in the desert. Judaism is less about issue in June/July and August/September by Temple Emanu-El truth as system than about truth as story. And we are part of that Congregation, 8500 Hillcrest Avenue, Dallas, TX 75225-4204. story. That is what it is to be a Jew.” Periodicals Postage Paid at Dallas, Texas. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Temple Emanu-El Window, 8500 Hillcrest Avenue, Dallas, As we conclude the counting of the Omer on Shavuot by learning TX 75225-4204. and praying with Rabbi Myriam Klotz, think about your own story. How do you feel connected—to Torah, to Temple and to SHABBAT SERVICES Page 7 the Jewish people? We’d love to hear about it!