MARCH 2020 / ADAR–NISAN 5780 BULLETIN But here’s where the story A STORY OF AND gets even a bit more HUMAN EVOLUTION interesting. The philtrum in humans is vestigial; it serves Rabbi Cotzin Burg, no biological function. In Alexander Grass Rabbinic Chair other mammals, though, the philtrum is an essential There’s a midrashic teaching he had witnessed and component of the animal’s (Tanchuma 3) that everything he knew. Why sense of smell. In other “…every soul, from Adam does the child cry out upon word this etiological tale, to the end of the world, leaving his mother’s womb? this lovely myth about why was formed during the six Because the place wherein we have an indentation days of creation, and that he had been at rest and at under our noses and all of them were present ease was irretrievable and what Carl Jung called the in the and because of the condition “collective unconscious,” is at the time of the giving of the world into which he actually a story of human of the Torah.” Each soul is must enter.” evolution. We had, and placed in the womb to be A second version of the story then indeed lost, the born at a particular time to (Bavli 30b) has capacity to smell like dogs a particular family. While not striking the child with or other mammals who use the fetus is in the womb, a candle but tapping the their olfactory senses to the Lailah teaches baby’s lips with her fingers, interface with the world. the child everything there “causing him to forget the Humans, though, are is to know about the world, entire Torah.” This accounts inclined to eyesight over a candle lit above its head, for the indentation under smell. In this way, the two illuminating “one end of the our noses and above our midrashim become one: world to the other.” lips. That feature, called the a candle is extinguished, One version of the story says philtrum, is the fingerprint plunging the child into the child resists entering of an angel, a reminder of darkness, compelling it the world, preferring the all that we’ve forgotten to seek a new light at the womb to the world beyond. and all that we must end of the birth canal. But For the baby to emerge, the reclaim from the recesses there’s also a reminder angel strikes him with the of our consciousness. we are evolving beings, candle that was burning Learning, in this paradigm, bearers of vestigial features at his head. “Upon going is reconditioning, recovery that remind us of all that out,” says the midrash, “the not of muscle memory but we’ve lost and must regain. infant forgot everything of the memory muscle. Passover Schedule of Services and Seder hosting info top of page 6 In this Issue: In every Issue: 3 Preparing For Pesah 5780 1 Message from the Rabbi 5 Celebrate Purim at Beth Am! 9 Open Doors Annual Fund Campaign @BethAmBaltimore 10 Addiction & Overdose in the Community BethAmBaltimore.org

March 2020 Bulletin 1 BETH AM BOARD OF TRUSTEES Preparing for Pesah 5780 | Rabbi Daniel Cotzin Burg RABBI STANDING COMMITTEES Daniel Cotzin Burg Continuing Ed Chair Aaron Zelinsky Goals of Preparation Alexander Grass Rabbinic Chair Continuing Ed Co-Chair Robert Lieberman Among other things, keeping kosher for OFFICERS Finance Chair Bob Wittenstein Finance Co-Chair Phil Symonds Pesah means that by 10:57 am we have President Jonathan M. Fishman Kiddush Chair Desireé Robinson eaten our last hametz and that by 12:03 1st Vice President Adina Amith Membership Chair Karen Sugar 2nd Vice President Sally Scott pm on April 8, we have no hametz in our Religious Services Chair Jodi Segal Secretary Bonnie Guralnick possession, in any space we control. We Social Action Chair Evan Serpick For detailed information on shopping, Treasurer Bob Wittenstein do this by: Social Action Co-Chair Natalie Spicyn food items and kashrut, cooking for the TRUSTEES THROUGH 2020 Youth Education Co-Chairs Brenda Serpick holiday, etc., please visit: 1. Cleaning our homes of all hametz. James Jacobs Karen G. Sugar S. Winter Arthur Shulman Brian Whippo https://www.rabbinicalassembly.org/ 2. Donating, throwing out or burning all AD HOC COMMITTEES Here you will find the Rabbinical hametz which would not keep until TRUSTEES THROUGH 2021 Annual Fund Chair Becky Eisen Assembly’s comprehensive Pesah Guide after Pesah. Annual Fund Co-Chair Lisa Akchin Carol Berkower Jodi Segal which is true to Conservative Jewish Adam Kutcher Ariel Winter Balto. Jewish Council Rep. Joanne Gold 3. Moving all remaining hametz in our Building Task Force Chair Ed Hord practice and current for the year 5780. homes out of sight until after the TRUSTEES THROUGH 2022 Building Task Force Co-Chair Jonathan M. Fishman In addition, we will include this link holiday. Heather Ashbury Anne Moss Congregant to Congregant Joyce Keating electronically in our e-newsletter several 4. Making the declaration which nullifies Steve Koenigsberg Ben Kelley Development Chair Lainy LeBow-Sachs weeks prior to the festival. Our office staff Development Co-Chair Cy Smith any minute amount of hametz which PAST PRESIDENTS AND LIFE MEMBERS is happy to supply a hard copy of the RA In, For and Of, Inc. Chair Jackie Oldham we could not find or extract. Past President Lisa Akchin Res. Hill Improvement Council Don Akchin Guide upon request. Past President Julie Gottlieb USY Representative Isabel Lunken 5. Selling hametz which will keep until Past President Scott Zeger Please note the beautiful introduction after Pesah. A form for selling hametz Past President Cy Smith from my teacher Rabbi Elliot Dorff who Honorary Life Member Lainy LeBow-Sachs is included in this Bulletin. It must be writes: in the office before Tuesday, April 7. BETH AM OFFICE “Passover is really important - a central Office Hours Tuesday – Thursday 9am – 4pm | Friday 9am – 3pm feature of what it means to live a The Particulars Ph 410-523-2446 | F 410-624.7124 Jewish life. Its very meaning, though, is B’dikat Hametz - [email protected] | bethambaltimore.org completely undermined if the dietary The search for hametz. After sunset on rules of Passover lead people to treat Tuesday April 7, after the house has been Daniel Cotzin Burg Becky Roberg each other with disrespect…. made kosher for Pesah, one member of Alexander Grass Rabbinic Chair Executive Assistant to Rabbi Burg We fervently hope that they will the household places an agreed-upon 410.826.6589 (direct office number) 443.334.8854 instead function as they are supposed number (usually 10) pieces of bread in 443.202.0912 (cell, urgent matters only) [email protected] to - namely, to serve as graphic various rooms. A candle is lit, the lights office ext. 1114 OFFICE STAFF EXTENSIONS: are turned off, and the following blessing [email protected] reminders throughout the holiday Jamie Aaron, Program Coordinator, ext. 1130 of the critical lessons of Passover, of is made: Rabbi Kelley Gludt Devora Cohen, Administrative Staff, the need to free ourselves and the Director of Congregational Learning ext. 1111 world around us of all the physical, 520.248.9541 (cell) Dana Livingston Snyder, Marketing intellectual, emotional,and communal office ext. 1115 Communications Coordinator, ext. 1116 straits that limit us and others in living Barukh ata Ad-nai Elohaynu, melekh [email protected] Norm Weinstein, Accounting, ext. 1117 a life befitting of people created in the haolam, asher kidshanu b’mitzvotav David I. Rothenberg image of God.” v’tzivanu al bi’ur hametz Executive Director Rachel Weitzner, Annual Fund and Capital Campaign Coordinator, ext. 1120 Praised are you, Eternal our God, Ruler office ext. 1121 It is in this spirit I hope we will engage in of the Universe, who has made us holy [email protected] NEED TRANSPORTATION ASSISTANCE? the mitzvot of preparing ourselves for through your commandments and Abby Woloff Contact Joyce Keating at this ancient and relevant Jewish festival. commanded us to burn hametz. Hag kasher v’sameah! Ba’alat Tefilah (prayer leader) [email protected] or 410.358.5477 (continued on page 4) 2 Beth Am Synagogue March 2020 Bulletin 3 Preparing for Pesah 5780 | Rabbi Daniel Cotzin Burg (continued from page 3) After the blessing, the search is preferably On Wednesday morning, April 8, all done in silence. The pieces of hametz are hametz is burned. The burning is pushed onto a paper plate, frequently completed this year by 12:03 pm. The Bitul with a feather and a wooden spoon. After Hametz declaration is made as follows: all the pieces are collected, they are put in a paper bag to be burned on Wednesday morning. The following Bitul Hametz declaration is recited:

Said in Aramaic: kol hamira vahamiya d’ika vir’shuti dahazitay u’d’la hazitay, dahamitay u’d’la hamitay, d’viartay u’d’la Said in Aramaic: kol hamira vahamiya

biartay, libateil v’lehevay hefker k’afra COSTUME! IN COME d’ika vir’shuti d’la hamitay u’d’la vi’artay d’ara. u’d’la yadana lay libateil v’lehevay hefker k’afra d’ara. Or English: May all leaven in my possession, whether or not I have seen Or English: May all leaven in my ENJOY UNLIMITED GAMES, FACE PAINTING, MITZVAHPALOOZA AND MORE! it, removed it, or burned it, be hereby possession of which I am unaware - which nullified and ownerless as the dust of the $5/child (age 2-10) should have been burned or removed - be Skip the line and pre-purchase your family’s tickets >>> earth. hereby nullified and ownerless as the dust https://bethamsynagogue.shulcloud.com/form/PurimIsAwesome of the earth. (Passover Schedule of Services and Seder hosting info top of page 6) Questions? [email protected] FAST OF THE FIRSTBORN It is customary for firstborn Jews (usually males but females may take the obligation on as well) to fast on Erev Pesah out of gratitude to God for sparing firstborn Jewish lives and as a gesture of sympathy for the firstborn of Egypt. Since the celebration of a joyous mitzvah takes precedence over a personal fast, it has been the custom to perform a joyous mitzvah which necessitates a feast, such as concluding a text. The siyyum bekhorim will be held after morning Minyan on Wednesday, April 8 and a suitable breakfast will be provided. Purim 5780 SALE OF HAMETZ A donation to the Rabbi’s Discretionary Fund for the sale of hametz is appreciated. This form is Monday, March 9 due by April 7, 2020 at the latest. at Beth Am Scan/email to: Devora Cohen, [email protected] Mail to: Beth Am Interim Office, 2701 N. Charles St, Suite 402, Baltimore, MD 21217 Come in Costume! Purim Spiel, Purim Spiel, Who’s gonna sit through the whole ordeal? I hereby authorize Rabbi Daniel Burg or his designee to effect the sale of any and all hametz that I may have in my possession, in my home, at my place of business, or any other property 5:30 – Bring your own dairy Our Purim Players have been practicing

that I own or control, as of 12:03 pm on Wednesday, April 8, 2020. or fish dinner tirelessly on ourWRONG spiel, “THE SPIEL THAT

______GOES .” Below is any address, (other than home), 6:30 – service w megillah reading Signature Date which is in my control and contains hametz: You’ll laugh until your sides ache! ______Followed by shpiel (Don’t say we didn’t warn you!) Printed Name ______Questions? Special thanks to Carol Berkower for Questions? [email protected] Your hametz is available to you at 9:27 pm on Thursday, April 16, an hour after Pesah concludes. [email protected] coordinating the spiel! Donate online: https://bethamsynagogue.shulcloud.com/payment.php 4 Beth Am Synagogue March 2020 Bulletin 5 PASSOVER SCHEDULE Wednesday, April 8 FRIDAY NIGHTS MONTHLY | 5:45 PM 7:00 am - Siyyum B’chorim (Fast of the Firstborn) minyan followed It’s that time of year to begin by seudat mitzvah GRANDPARENTS, matching people to seders, and AUNTS, UNCLES, Thursday, April 9 - 1st Day Passover likewise, seders to people! 9:30 am - Services with Tal * SPECIAL FRIENDS, Beth Am member Robin Katcoff continues Friday, April 10 - 2nd Day Passover her tradition of coordinating Passover AND GROWN-UPS 9:30 am - Services * seders for Beth Amers and their guests. WELCOME! Saturday, April 11 - Shabbat Hol HaMoed Please fill out this simple survey to assess 9:30 am - Services * your Passover seder needs by April 3, the Friday before Passover. Wednesday, April 15 - 7th Day Passover Click link for survey: 9:30 am - Services * https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/8MKBJRC Thursday, April 16 - 8th Day Passover 9:30 am - Services with Yizkor * PASSOVER RESOURCES Detailed information on shopping, Dairy Kiddush each day is Kosher food items and kashrut, cooking for the * TOT SHABBAT SERVICES FOLLOWED BY DINNER, RSVP REQUIRED: for Pesah. Please do not bring food holiday, etc. can be found here: into our facility! https://www.rabbinicalassembly.org/ HTTPS://BETHAMSYNAGOGUE.SHULCLOUD.COM/EVENT/SHABBAT-IS-AWESOME3.HTML

following Sanctuary Shabbat Services We need YOUR participation to make it a success! Whatever your practice might be at home, we would love for you to share your culinary creativity! Mar. 13 | Apr. 17 • Each main dish should serve about 20 people (12 x 18 pan or larger) May 8 | June 5 • The items must be brought to the synagogue in new, disposable, foil pans • All ingredients must be dairy or parve (containing no animal meat products) • NO peanut or peanut related ingredients; pine nuts and walnuts are OK • Served room temperature preferred; if your dish needs to be heated, please bring to Beth Am by 10:30 am  CLICK TO SIGN-UP  https://tinyurl.com/MarchPotluck2020 HTTPS://BETHAMSYNAGOGUE.SHULCLOUD.COM/EVENT/KLEI-KODESH3.HTML 6 Beth Am Synagogue March 2020 Bulletin 7 Purim’s Call: Become a Member of the Step Up, Stand Up Deborah & Efrem Potts Legacy Society In the month of Adar we celebrate Purim and extol Queen Esther, commending her virtues, recreating her in art, and paying Include Beth Am in your estate planning, by making a bequest or other homage in costume. But looking closely planned gift. You can combine your financial planning with philanthropy and at the Purim story it becomes clear: as a make a lasting investment in the future of our congregation. hero, Esther is at best hesitant. Unlike other WAYS TO GIVE Biblical champions who naturally rise to the occasion when needed, Esther must be Bequests in a will or trust cajoled and pressed. Beneficiary designations in a retirement fund [e.g., IRA, 401(k), 403(b)] To some, watching Esther avoid a clear call Beneficiary designation in a life insurance policy or outright gift of life insurance to action to protect her people is frustrating, but to others, who also take their time to be I HEREBY EXPRESS MY INTENTION TO INCLUDE BETH AM IN MY ESTATE PLANS: spurred to action, she is wholly sympathetic, and all the more remarkable for overcoming [ ] I have, or intend, to include a bequest for Beth Am in my estate plans. her hesitation. [ ] My intention is to leave Beth Am $______(optional) Not all of us are out-in-front, jump-right- [ ] I have made other plans for a legacy gift–different than, or in people, but that does nothing to lessen in addition to, what is in my will. our contribution to the cause. Big or small, early or late, quiet or loud, all in or hanging PLEASE PRINT: back—it’s the stepping up that matters. When you step up as a contributor to the NAME Open Doors Annual Fund at any level, you stand up for Beth Am’s values of keeping the synagogue’s doors open to all regardless EMAIL PHONE of means and welcoming use of Beth Am Amount facilities by neighborhood partners. ADDRESS Pledged This year’s goal for the Open Doors Annual to Fund is $375,000, and we are just over the CITY, STATE, ZIP Date: halfway mark. Our thanks to all who have $212,504 contributed so far! We encourage those SIGNATURE of you still considering to please join the majority of congregants who support the SCAN AND SEND COMPLETED FORM TO [email protected] annual fund campaign. OR MAIL FORM TO POTTS LEGACY SOCIETY, BETH AM SYNAGOGUE, Becky Eisen & Lisa Akchin, INTERIM OFFICE, 2701 N. CHARLES ST., SUITE 402, BALTIMORE, MD 21218 Open Doors Annual Fund Co-Chairs QUESTIONS: CONTACT JIM JACOBS AT 410.727.4433 OR [email protected] OR DAVID SCHER AT 443.257.9104 OR [email protected] Donate online: https://bethamsynagogue.shulcloud.com/payment.php 8 Beth Am Synagogue March 2020 Bulletin 9 SUNDAY, MARCH 15 | 10AM at Beth Am Neighborhood Engagement & The Strategic Planning task forces. The Task Beth Am member Social Justice Task Force process at Beth Am Force Guide Templates took another major step were reviewed. They Ambassador Alfred H. Moses YOUR VOICE MATTERS! forward on Thursday, included a Situation will talk about his book, The Beth Am Strategic Planning January 16, 2020. The six Task Forces Analysis (background information), Vision, “Bucharest Diary”, Committee’s data shows that gathered for the kick-off orientation Strategic Objectives and the expected and his time serving as Neighborhood Engagement/Social meeting and breakout sessions where work products for each group. Justice is a top priority for Beth Am’ers. US Ambassador to Romania they began connecting and discussing key There are 57 congregants and four Beth We need your voice to help the Beth areas of focus for the coming months. The Am staff leaders involved in these task Am Strategic Planning Committee topics and themes were reflective of the forces and each group is comprised of develop a long-range vision, goals, and concerns Beth Am congregants identified a wide range of members from new and actions for the congregation’s activities through the survey, the annual meeting in this important area. veteran members to people in their 20’s feedback sessions and through interviews through their 80’s. The groups were asked 1) What are you currently doing with major interest groups including the to be bold and focus on strategy rather (volunteer or professional) in the areas Board of Trustees. than tactics. Over the next three months of Neighborhood Engagement and/or Aimée Close of United Synagogue of the groups will meet multiple times and Social Justice? Conservative Judaism, and Paula Singer put together a report to be presented 2) Where is your work taking place? led the orientation. Steve Koenigsberg to the full group, as well as the Strategic Click to complete online: gave an overview of the data sets and Planning Committee, the Executive https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/J5799JV how they can be best utilized by the Committee and the Board.

https://tinyurl.com/March22WomensSeder Contact: [email protected] Contact: [email protected] 10 Beth Am Synagogue March 2020 Bulletin 11 MARCH 2020 ADAR–NISAN 5780 SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Havdallah Sleepover 9:30 am Lab Abby leads davening 10:00 am BBM 5:45 pm Shabbat is 8:45 am Torah Study 10:30 am IFO Book Club 4:15 pm Lab Awesome! followed 9:30 am Sanctuary 12:15 pm Purim Spiel by dinner, (RSVP Services rehearsal required for dinner, 11:00 am Youth Services 2:00 pm Knitting Group see page 7) 11:30 am Teen Torah Talks 12:30 pm Potluck Kiddush

8 9 Erev Purim 10 Purim 11 12 13 14 Havdallah Sleepover 10:00 am Purim Carnival 11:00 am 7th & 8th grade Abby leads davening Advocacy Club 5:30 pm BYO dairy dinner 6:00 pm Klei Kodesh 4:15 pm Lab followed by dinner, 8:45 am Torah Study 12:15 pm Purim Spiel 6:30 pm Megillah reading rehearsal followed by Purim Spiel (RSVP required for 9:30 am Kesher Shabbat 1:30 pm Beth Am Teen dinner, see page 7) 11:00 am Youth Services Connection, 8th-12th grades (location tbd)

15 16 17 18 19 20 21 9:30 am Lab 10:00 am BBM 12:00 pm Lunch & Learn 4:15 pm Lab: Abby leads davening 10:00 am Book Talk with at 2501 Eutaw Place 8:45 am Torah Study Ambassador Moses 7:00 pm Social Action 9:30 am Kesher Shabbat Program: “Addiction & 11:00 am Youth Services Overdose” at Mt. Lebanon Baptist Church

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9:30 am Lab 10:00 am SAC Book 8:45 am Torah Study 10:00 am BBM Give away at Dorothy I 9:30 am Kesher Shabbat 10:30 am IFO Book Club Height Elementary 11:00 am Youth Services 5:00 pm Second Annual Women’s Seder

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9:30 am Lab 4/3: Shabbat is Awesome! 7:00 pm BBM Meeting 10:00 am BBM 4/4: Sanctuary Service & Potluck Kiddush 4/8–16: Pesah 4/17: Klei Kodesh 4/21: Yom HaShoah

12 Beth Am Synagogue March 2020 Bulletin 13 FOR BETH AM’ERS IN GRADES 6 –12 One of the most important keys to MAR 7 APR 4 MAY 2 accessing Jewish liturgy and feeling like a full-fledged participant in our Join Molly Kaye for a “teens only” Are you hungry for knowledge? community is feeling comfortable with discussion in the Gallery at 11am. This year’s topic is Hebrew. Topics range from Great Jewish Stories! If you have the skills to help an adult what makes Star Trek Jewish, learner master the alef-bet, improve to Tuesday, March 17 Hebrew decoding, or appreciate Parshat Hashavua (weekly Torah portion) 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm the layers in the siddur, your fellow at Beth Am Synagogue congregants need your help! 2501 Eutaw Place We would like to institute a peer-to- peer mentoring program for Hebrew. Bring a dairy or parve lunch You will work with one person at a time, and set your own schedule. Rabbis Daniel and Kelley will Info/questions: Contact Jamie Interested? Please contact Rabbi Kelley [email protected] alternate as facilitators Contact: [email protected] at [email protected]

BOOK CLUB

Our winter read is Robin DiAngelo’s bestseller, “White Fragility”. The custom of sponsoring a Kiddush is a As a community we delight in each 10:30 am to 12:30 pm, Sundays bi-monthly at Beth wonderful way to share your joy and at other’s simchas, and would be honored if Am, and discuss one chapter at a time. the same time support Beth Am. you share yours with us. March 1 – Chapter 5: “The Good/Bad Binary” You can honor a person, remember a For more info, Please contact David March 22 – Chapter 6: “Anti-Blackness” loved one, or celebrate a simcha. Your Rothenberg, 410-523-2446 x1121 or sponsorship will appear in the Shabbat [email protected] Any and all perspectives are invited and encouraged to join the conversation, Program that week and in the following including those who disagree with the author! We like to keep things lively! month’s Bulletin. About: The IFO Book Club is a forum for Beth Am members who are interested in Thank You to our recent sponsors: learning more about the realities of racism, and challenging themselves through Rachel & Jonathan Micah-Jones, in honor of their son, Leo Micah-Jones, personal examination (t’shuva). becoming a Bar Mitzvah Please contact [email protected] with any questions.

14 Beth Am Synagogue March 2020 Bulletin 15 BETH AM MOURNS Stanley Greenspoon, father of David Greenspoon, on January 24, 2020 Fred Barron, husband of Mabel Barron, on February 6, 2020 There is a significant shortage of poll Alvin Daniel Fisher, father of Marilyn Fisher, on February 6, 2020 workers for the primary election on April 28, as well as the general election, Marcia Grossfeld Abrams, mother of Sheila LeMel, on February 9, 2020 November 3, 2020. Pearlman, husband of Paula Singer, on February 18, 2020 Anyone interested in volunteering Abraham Yaker, father of Martin Yaker, on February 24, 2020 should call the Board of Elections at 410- 396-5580. Calling is better than going BETH AM CELEBRATES on-line at this point. There is one (1) two hour training at UB which 70+ BIRTHDAYS is given regularly. Board of Elections will provide all the MARCH 2020 details. 9 - Franklin Rodbell 17 - Cynthia Brower 24 - John Singer 9 - David Fishman 17 - Norman Weinstein 24 - Stuart Schoenfeld 9 - Michael Weiss 20 - Henry Beller 26 - Joan Laurie Glassner 10 - Jeffrey Lauren 21 - Bobbi Antonazzi 27 - Nancy Kohn Rabin 11 - Richard Bloom 22 - Stuart Fine 27 - Mara Dwin 12 - Lois Macht 22 - Harold Dwin 29 - Liliane Katz 13 - Suzanne Lapides 23 - Robert Hillman 29 - Alain Joffe [email protected] 14 - Rodney Klein 23 - Stanley Rodbell 29 - Ronald Shapiro 14 - Lynda Mermell 24 - David Goldstein 30 - Kalman Hettleman 16 - Avraham Amith 24 - David Shulman 31 - Gladys Arak Freedman

Be a Dorothy I Height 50+ ANNIVERSARIES Elementary School MARCH 2020 BOOKWORM! 29 - JoAnn Fruchtman & Jack Fruchtman, Jr. Wednesday, March 25 Join our loyal group of Beth Am’er PRE-PLANNING BOOKWORMS and volunteer to read to Beth Am has made special arrangements Dorothy I Height kindergartners once with two area synagogues for our a month. We meet at 9:45 am and read members for plots in their cemeteries. from 10:00 am to approx. 11:00 am. For Beth Am members who Arlington Cemetery of Chizuk Amuno Interested? require assistance: We have a limited number of available Please contact graves in the Beth Am section at Arlington Joyce Keating, • Rides to shul and events Cemetery. Should you wish to purchase 410-358-5477 or • Rides to doctor’s appointments these graves, you will be charged the Oheb Shalom- Berryman’s Lane [email protected] • One-dish meals for the ill Chizuk Amuno member price. Plots are available at ground level. • Occasional errands Jewish and non-Jewish individuals CONTACT: (spouses or relatives of a member) in partnership Marsha Yoffe, Cemetery Director can be buried in this cemetery. with JVC Please contact Joyce Keating Chizuk Amuno Congregation [email protected] 410.486.6400 Ext. 309 CONTACT: Apr 22 | May 27 410-358-5477 [email protected] Debra Mogul at 410.358.0105 16 Beth Am Synagogue March 2020 Bulletin 17 (continued)

ACCESSIBILITY FUND GENERAL FUND SOCIAL ACTION FUND SOCIAL ACTION FUND (continued) Winifred & Neal Borden Lynn Sassin & Nathan Braverman Lisa & Don Akchin Roslyn & Nelson Hyman In Memory Of Abe Silberg In Memory Of Benjamin Sassin In Memory Of Christine Fletcher, sister In Honor Of, Brian & Sue Sullam Family of Patricia Berman Edward Strauss Melissa & Jonathan Cordish Hillary & Jim Jacobs In Honor Of Bonnie Stainman and family In Memory Of Phyllis Wohlmuth Lisa & Don Akchin In Memory Of Bettina Jenney In Memory Of, Bettina Jenney, Laurie & Larry Weiss Robin & Jason Katcoff ADULT EDUCATION FUND mother of Sally Scott In Memory Of Christine Fletcher In Memory Of Stanley Greenspoon Betty & Daniel Chemers Alsop Family Foundation Edward & Cheri Levin In Memory Of Martin K. Miller KIDDUSH FUND In Honor Of Rheda Becker In Memory Of Bettina Jenney, ANNUAL FUND Ricky & Eric Fine Jane Brand mother of Sally Scott In Memory Of David Fine In Memory Of Dick Neustadt Melissa Gerr Jo-Ann Orlinsky In Memory Of David Gerr Jacquelyn & Ivan Fried Betty & Daniel Chemers In Memory Of Henry Mayer In Memory Of Howard Mandel, father In Memory Of Hildreth Miller Jane & Evan Lincove of Bruce Mandel Jo-Ann Orlinsky In Memory Of Arnold Lincove Jacqueline & Mark Donowitz In Memory Of Shari Mayer Jacquelyn & Ivan Fried In Memory Of Ruth & Walter Marx BUILDING/RITUAL ENHANCE FUND In Memory Of, Jackie Glassgold, mother Joyce Shemer Keating Ricky & Eric Fine In Memory Of Christine Fletcher Michelle & Jerry Levine of Jill Levin In Memory Of Eugene Scherl In Memory Of Albert Levine Robin & Jason Katcoff Joan & Edward Sills Gail & Jonathan Fishman In Memory Of Max Harry Sills Judith Hozore In Memory Of The Yahrzeit of Walter In Memory Of, Bettina Jenney, In Memory Of Ethel Schupper and Joyce Blumberg, Edith Plesset, Joan & Edward Sills mother of Sally Scott and Debbie Katcoff In Memory Of Lilian Green Jerome Paulson Harriet & Herbert Goldman In Honor Of David R. Paulson Miriam Tillman LOUIS & ETTA KAPLAN EDUC. FUND In Memory Of Lena Cohen Goldman In Memory Of Bettina Jenney, mother CANTOR’S DISCRETIONARY FUND Karin Batterton Roslyn & Nelson Hyman of Sally Scott, mother-in-law of Jimmy In Memory Of, Bettina Jenney, Carol & Jerry Doctrow In Memory Of Phyllis Wohlmuth Potash, and grandmother of Josh and Sally Scott’s mother Jacob Potash In appreciation of Cantor Ira Greenstein Roslyn & Nelson Hyman on the occasion of his retirement PRAYER BOOK FUND In Honor Of Lubow’s Birth of Grandson FLORAL FUND Diana & Benjamin Rosenberg In Memory Of Albert J. Rosenberg Joan Laurie & Arnold Glassner THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT! In Memory Of Louis Jacobson Make checks payable to: RABBI’S DISCRETIONARY FUND Jill & Aaron Levin BETH AM In Memory Of Bette Levin Jill & Aaron Levin In appreciation of Rabbi Burg’s P.O. BOX 418 J. Wynn Rousuck & Alan Fink kindness during shiva for Jill’s MONTVALE, NJ 07645 In Memory Of Irene W. Rousuck mother, Jackie Glassgold Please indicate on the memo line of your check to what your payment or GARDEN FUND Cindy Paradies & Larry Moscow contribution should be applied or include a note. In Memory Of, Donald Brown Jacqueline & Andrew Kreinik If your contact info has changed (address, email or phone number) please In Memory Of Christine Fletcher Eleanor & David Goldstein let us know so we can update our records. In Memory Of Allan B. Shenker Jo-Ann Orlinsky Fran Kanterman Questions? Contact the Front Office at 410-523-2446 or In Memory Of Celia Mayer In Memory Of Donald Brown [email protected]

18 Beth Am Synagogue March 2020 Bulletin 19 Donation Form on following page, or donate online at bethamsynagogue.shulcloud.com/payment.php Acknowledge the occasion through Beth Am! • ACCESSIBILITY FUND We encourage all congregants to send their contribution requests directly to the office, Used to make the facility accessible to those with impaired physical abilities [email protected], so they can be processed in a timely manner.

• ADULT EDUCATION FUND Donate online at https://bethamsynagogue.shulcloud.com/payment.php Supports educational programs for all adults First & Last Name(s) ______• BUILDING PRESERVATION AND RITUAL ENHANCEMENT FUND Supports the preservation and renovation of the building and the ritual items ______• CANTOR’S DISCRETIONARY FUND Allows the Cantor to support special programs and individuals in need ______

• EDUCATOR’S DISCRETIONARY FUND If your contribution is from a couple or family, please list all names (use additional paper if Allows the Educator to support special programs and individuals in need necessary)

• ETTA & LOUIS L. KAPLAN EDUCATION FUND Phone (______) ______- ______Supports the purchase of furniture, equipment and capital improvements for the Jewish Discovery Lab Address ______• FLORAL FUND Beautifies the bima on Shabbat City/State/Zip ______

• GARDEN FUND Date ______Donation $ ______Beautifies grounds

• GENERAL FUND ($18 minimum requested; please make checks payable to Beth Am) Applied to the operating budget of the congregation In honor/memory/appreciation of ______• I. WILLIAM SCHIMMEL STUDENT SCHOLARSHIP FUND Assists students in their educational pursuits ______

• KIDDUSH FUND Fund ______Used for luncheons following Shabbat and holiday services

• PRAYER BOOK FUND Send Acknowledgment Card To Supports the purchase of prayer books Name ______• RABBI’S DISCRETIONARY FUND Allows the Rabbi to do good works in and for the community Address ______• SOCIAL ACTION FUND ______Supports social action activities in the Reservoir Hill area and the general community ______• YOUTH & TEEN EDUCATION SUPPORT FUND Supports educational programs for all of Beth Am’s youth Please contact David Rothenberg with any questions 410-523-2446 x1121 or [email protected] Donation Form on following page, or donate online at bethamsynagogue.shulcloud.com/payment.php 20 Beth Am Synagogue March 2020 Bulletin 21 You may dedicate a siddur in honor or memory of a loved one, dedication includes a bookplate in the siddur. As long as we have undedicated siddurim, they will be available at the following prices: • Standard Lev Shalem $48 • Large print Lev Shalem $85

Which book(s) you wish to dedicate ______Memorial Plaques are added to the Beth Am Memorial Tablets in the Sanctuary lobby. Please complete this form to place your order. Quantity ______Phone ______Allow at least eight weeks for fabrication of plaque. COST PER PLAQUE: $595 Email ______I would like to order ______plaques $595 each (total) ______

Name(s) of those you wish to honor/memorialize/appreciate Option 1 Order plaque(s)

______in H/M/A ______Your Name in H/M/A ______in H/M/A ______Address (line 1) ______in H/M/A ______Address (line 2)

Send Acknowledgment to ______Phone ______Name ______English Name of the Deceased ______Street Address ______Their relationship to you ______City/State/Zip ______English Date of Death (month, day, year) Hebrew Date of Death (month, day, year)

Please indicate the time of death: ______AM ______PM Note(s) ______Option 2 Reserve plaque(s) ______I would like to pre-order a “Reserved” plaque(s). Quantity ______Your Name ______Address 22 Beth Am Synagogue March 2020 Bulletin 23

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