March 24-31, 2017 26 Adar-4 Nisan 5777 Mevarchim/Parashat Hachodesh/ Vayakhel-Pekudei

Candle Lighting: 7:06 p.m. SHABBAT SCHEDULE UPCOMING EVENTS THIS SHABBAT IS OUR ANNUAL SHABBAT Tuesday, March 28, 8:00 pm: KMS Rosh Chodesh Series for Nisan, Bring- Shabbat Candle Lighting 7:06 pm (Plag 6:07 pm) ing Seder To Your Life with Tanya Klein of Precision Organizing. Held at the Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat 6:30 pm (Sanctuary); 6:30pm (Ruach—BM) home of Beth Schoen, 24 Yeatman Court. Wine, cheese and mocktails will *See last page for information about new times be served. Click here for more details.

Shacharit 7:00 am, 8:00 am, 8:45 am; 9:15 am (Youth) Tuesday, March 28, 8:00 pm: Join KMS and Limmud Torah MD for

WTG 5:00 pm Rav Menachem Leibtag’s Pre-Pesach shiur, MAGID—A Story For Adults, or a Story For Children? Behind the Text You Thought You Understood. Shabbat Mincha 6:45pm Shabbat, April 1: KMS is proud to host ’s 36th annual KMCB Shabbat Ends 8:05 pm Shabbaton where 50 high school future leaders will gather for high-level SHABBAT SPEAKERS AND SHIURIM training for leadership positions. Rabbi Shaul Feldman, the Director of Bnei Akiva, will be our guest scholar at the 8:45 am Minyan. 7:00 am Ed Tolchin 8:45 am SIR Rabbi Zimmerman 8:00 am Steve Blank Youth Shabbat, April 8: Calling all baseball fans!!!! KMS will host its annual Opening Day Kiddush. Please view the sponsor form here. 9:00 am Mechy Frankel's Gemara Shiur 10:30 am Review of this week's Daf Yomi PESACH 5777 AT KMS 4:45 pm WTG Miriam Bloom Rabbi Weinberg has created an extremely helpful Pesach Guide. It is 5:45 pm Shiur by SIR Rabbi Zimmerman (see below for topic) available by clicking here. It is also available on the shul website. Between Mincha and Maariv: Printed copies will be in the KMS Lobby. with shiur by SIR Rabbi Zimmerman MAOT CHITIM: There is an ancient custom to give charity before Pesach David Eisenman’s Gemara Shiur to see that all Jews have their holiday needs taken care of. As opposed to KIDDUSH SPONSORSHIP Matanot Le’evyonim, which can easily be taken care of on the day of 7:00 am: KMS 8:00 am: KMS Youth: KMS Purim, Maot Chittim are needed well in advance of Pesach to allow for

8:45 am: Scholar-In-Residence, see sponsors on Page 2 proper distribution of funds. Please donate on the KMS website (here) or get your check made out to “KMS Tzedaka Fund” to the office KIDDUSH DUTY ASAP. Money must be received no later than Monday April 3 in order to be properly distributed. Pesach can be an expensive time; for those This Week: Warshawsky Next Week: Friedman in need, R. Weinberg will have scrip cards available. Please see him if you are in need of assistance. ISRAEL SHABBAT SCHOLAR-IN-RESIDENCE Be inspired by our program featuring scholar-in-residence, Rabbi Pre-Pesach Food Drive: Bring your unopened and non-perishable cans Binyamin Zimmerman, Chief Educator of the Zomet Institute of Halacha and boxes to KMS before April 4. Chametz welcome! and Technology. Enjoy a tasty Israeli treat at Kiddush. Visit the photo Wednesday, March 29, 8:00pm: R’ Weinberg’s pre-Pesach shiur at KMS. exhibit of our “KMS Family in Israel.” Shabbat, April 8: KMS Pre-Pesach luncheon, click here to register. Shabbat Schedule for Rabbi Zimmerman: Shabbat, April 8: Rabbi Weinberg’s Shabbat HaGadol Drasha. • Following musaf of the 8:45 am minyan: Running a Jewish State in Monday, April 10: Siyyum by Rabbi Weinberg followed by breakfast. the 21st Century: From Dreams to Reality Monday, April 10: Communal biur chametz (chametz burning) at KMS. • 5:45 pm, one hour before Mincha: Shabbat Elevators, Metal Detec- tors, Computers and More-- Medical and Security Needs in Israel—The ~~——————~ Zomet Mission in the Sanctuary. The OU Pesach Guide can be found here, or in the KMS Lobby.

• 6:45 pm: Mincha Please take advantage of our Pre-Pesach Classes to keep you informed • 7:05: Seuda Shlishit: A Case Study: Wheelchairs & Sensor-Operated and help you enter the spirit of the chag. Click here to see the flyer. Access Control in the Social Hall. • The “KMS Family in Israel Photo Exhibit” will be set up in the lobby Mechirat Chametz forms are available here. There are copies in Rabbi throughout Shabbat. Weinberg’s Pesach Guide, in the KMS Lobby, and on the KMS website.

MAZAL TOV KMS is proud to host this year’s joint KMS/YISE Communal Chametz Burning on Erev Pesach. Please click here for more information. Mazal tov to Marsha & Yitz Kasdan on the birth of a grandson to their children Shana and Hirschel Wohl and to brothers Reuven and Shalom, On the eighth day of Pesach in the afternoon KMS will host a Scholar in grandparents Miriam and Michael Wohl, great grandparents Chavie and Residence, Rabbi Elchanan Adler. Please click here for details.

Yuda Kohn, and the entire family. Full listing of davening times and halachic times over Pesach click here Mazal tov to Diane & Marc Engelhart on the birth of a grandson in Hou- ston, TX. Mazal tov to parents Dana & Benji Engelhart and big brother WEEKDAY TEFILLA TIMES March 26-31 Yedidyah. Sunday: Shacharit: 8:00am, 9:00am (Youth); M/M: 7:10pm

Mazal tov to Monique & Jess Sadick on the birth of a baby boy. Mazal tov Monday: Shacharit: 6:45 am; M/M: 7:10 pm to big sisters Gabriella and Orly. Tuesday Rosh Chodesh: Shacharit: 6:30 am; M/M: 7:10 pm Mazal tov to the KMS runners of the Jerusalem Marathon: Ayelet Berko- witz, Arianna Stone, Nechumah Getz, Eliana Werbel, Max Elikan, Tani Wednesday: Shacharit: 7:00 am; M/M: 7:10 pm

Makovsky, Danielle Zukerman, Josh Kotz, Aliza Goldschlag, Ellie Guber- Thursday: Shacharit: 6:45 am; M/M: 7:10 pm man, Judah Guggenheim, Menachem Porat and Daniel Fleisher. -1- Friday: Shacharit: 7:00 am; Candle Lighting: 7:13 pm Earliest Tallit & Tefillin: 6:10 am Latest Kriat Shema: 10:04 am Earliest Mincha 1:45 pm

WEEKLY EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING YOUTH NEWS

EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM 5777 Shabbat, March 25 10:20-11:05 am: Parent-Child Davening Group: in Please check out our Education Program Brochure which can be found the Beit Midrash. Please contact Lisi Levisohn if you would like to help. on our website, here, or in the shul lobby. Sunday Shabbat March 31-April 1: KMS will be hosting students from the Ramaz 7:15 pm: Rabbi Yitzhak Grossman’s Parashah Explorations class. choir and the Bnei Akiva leadership Shabbaton. Please welcome them 8:30 pm: Nechama Porat's Talmud class on "Inviting God to our meals.” and join us for a very ruachdik-Ruach minyan, Friday night. All are wel- Shiur based on Talmud Bavli Masechet Brachot, Chapter 7. come.

Monday Friday Night, March 31, 9:00-11:00 pm: There will be a special Oneg for 10:45 am-12:00 pm: Laura Goldman’s class on Sefer Bereishit at the KMS teens and the Ramaz students at the home of Orlee and Joey Turitz. Mayberg home (411 Hermleigh Road). 8:00 - 9:00 pm: Erica Brown’s class at the home of Laila Soltz. Shabbat, April 1: There will be a special musical Seudah Shlishit for KMS 8:00 - 9:00 pm: Dina Haramati’s class, Stories of Agnon, at the Haramati teens and the Ramaz students at KMS. If interested in helping please con- home. tact Elissa Stieglitz at [email protected]. ~~~ Tuesday Chol Hamoed Pesach: 9 am Youth Minyan is looking for people who want 8:00 pm: Rabbi Amnon Haramati’s Torah and Commentaries class at to be involved over Pesach as gabbaim, lainers and chazanim! If you are KMS. interested, hurry up and contact Yoni Albert or Aryeh.

Wednesday Ramaz Choir Hosting: If you are interested in hosting a member of the 9:40 - 10:40 am: Esther Dziadek’s Siddur class at KMS. ON HIATUS choir for sleeping or meals over the weekend of March 31-April 1, please UNTIL AFTER PESACH contact Miriam Posner, [email protected]. 8:00 pm: Rabbi Amnon Haramati’s Prophecy and Biblical Poetics class in Hebrew, at KMS. Israeli Cooking Program (Grades 6-8): NEXT MEETING AFTER PESACH. 8:00 pm: Rabbi Weinberg’s In-Depth Study of the Laws of Kashrut at Every other Thursday evening—cooking, competitions and prizes. To sign KMS. ON HIATUS UNTIL AFTER PESACH. up please email [email protected]. Thursday 10:00 am: Rabbi Weinberg’s class on Sefer Melachim Alef (Kings I) at Grade 2-5 Hebrew Hangout at KMS, Mondays, 4:30-5:30 pm: For more

information contact [email protected]. KMS. ON HAITUS UNTIL AFTER PESACH RABBI’S MULTIMEDIA LEARNING Youth Kiddush Teams: Once a month the Youth Minyan Kiddush will Every morning Rabbi Weinberg discusses a mitzva from the Sefer have a different Israeli theme. To sponsor or help organize contact Aryeh HaChinuch. Every afternoon, he gives a brief review of some halachot, and Yahav, [email protected].

often tied to the season. To hear Rabbi Weinberg's brief and informative Youth Board!!! The new youth board is in the making, with many posi- Divrei Mitzva and Divrei Halacha from the daily minyanim, go to http:// tions for High Schoolers and Middle Schoolers. Please fill out the Google www.spreaker.com/show/kms-daily-divrei-halacha-and-mitzva and form if you are interested in taking responsibility in our youth community. http://www.spreaker.com/show/daily-divrei-halacha. Please contact Aryeh or Yahav if you are interested. Also, to subscribe to Rabbi Weinberg’s new weekly Parsha mini-shiur visit his YOUTUBE page here (https://www.youtube.com/user/ KMS Youth Facebook Page: Don’t forget to join and stay updated about rabbibrahm) and subscribe. upcoming events, see pictures, and stay connected https://m.facebook.com/groups/1585055188465013. ISRAEL SCHOLAR-IN-RESIDENCE SPONSORS FROM THE YOUTH DEPARTMENT-Space For Babies KMS extends a special thanks to all of the Israel SIR Shabbat sponsors: KMS has a new play space for babies and their parents in the entrance Erica & Barry Kolatch in honor of the 40th anniversary of Barry’s bar of the Social Hall. We hope this provides a comfortable space for babies Mitzvah. and toddlers too young for groups. Parent supervision is required. Im- Barbara & David Goldschlag in appreciation of the Shabbat elevator in portant rules to note are to stay within the boundaries and away from the David’s parents’ building in NYC. Kiddush set up. Following these rules is essential in allowing this to work. Barbara & Mel Ciment in honor of the courageous and righteous soldiers of the IDF. SAVE THE DATE Leah & Aaron Cypess in memory of Morris & Florence Messinger. KMS invites you to save the date for our 27th Annual Gala Dinner on Mindy Herzfeld & David Eisenman in honor of Leo Rozmaryn, for his men- June 11, 2017, 17 Sivan 5777. Our honorees this year are Sabine and torship of our son Rami. Chaim Himmelfarb, Anita and Mel Plotinsky, and Jaclyn and Gadi Tobie & Pesy Hollander in honor of Eve Hollander’s 65th birthday, cele- Rozmaryn. Youth honorees are Daniella Bloch, Eli Eisenman, Noa Fer- brating many years of Torah u’Madah. ziger, Zachary Goldberg, Rebecca Kardon, Yona Levitt, Aliza Mintz, Alia Barbara & Gary Isen in honor of their parents-Adele & Milton Isen and Turitz, and Ariella Wolf. Invitations to follow. Henry & Elsie Berger. Judy & Sheldon Klein in memory of Sheldon’s cousin, Sharon Berger, a”h. FROM THE SECURITY COMMITTEE Ina & Larry Lerman in memory of Larry’s father, Harold Lerman. Varda & David Makovsky in honor of the KMS Community. KMS urgently needs additional volunteers to serve as shomrim/ Jeanne & Jonathan Rosenberg in honor of blending science and halacha. watchpersons on Shabbat and holidays. Both men and women are wel- Esther & Jackie Rozmaryn in honor of our granddaughter Liat’s bat come to volunteer; please contact KMS Security Coordinator Mike Eisenstadt. mitzvah. -2-

UPCOMING YOETZET HALACHA VISITS KMS @ AIPAC POLICY CONFERENCE Upcoming visits from Yoetzet Halacha Bracha Rutner: KMS is proud to be represented at this year’s AIPAC Policy Conference

-April 29 -August 12 taking place this week by Rabbi and Elana Weinberg along with about 50 -June 17 -October 28 of its members! KMS wishes are participants a meaningful experience with the hope that we continue to see the prospering of a strong US- GLOBAL GOOD DEEDS DAY Israel Alliance. Please speak to members about their experiences at the Policy Conference. Thanks to Larry Lerman for all his hard work as our Join KMS, YISE, BHA, and OSTT, along with Montgomery County Parks “team leader.” Department for a parks clean up on Sunday, April 2, from 11:00 am-1:00 pm. Meet at the entrance to Sligo Creek Park by the parking lot near YOM HA’ATZMAUT Shalom’s (Kemp Mill Shopping Center). Bags, gloves, and t-shirts will be distributed. Upper School students can receive community service Tuesday, May 2, 6:45 am: Special Yom Ha’atzmaut Festive Minyan with hours. Great for all ages! Please sign up here, but note that drop-ins are Hallel, singing, and coffee and refreshments to follow! welcome. For more information please contact Miriam Friedman, [email protected]. Tuesday, May 2, 5:00-7:00 pm: Yom Ha’atzmaut BBQ and Festivities at the home of Rabbi and Elana Weinberg. More details to come. KMS NEEDS MORE CHUMASHIM

We are launching a campaign to purchase more Chumashim. If you are celebrating a simcha, wish to honor a friend or family member, memori- UPCOMING SEUDAH SHLISHIT DATES alize a loved one, or just care about KMS, please go online to https:// www.kmsynagogue.org/donate-a-book-to-the-kms-library.html and Upcoming Seudah Shlishit on the following dates: dedicate a Chumash. If you wish to donate a large number of Chumashim • May 6— KMS is sponsoring this Seudah Shlishit (Parshat (we need a large number!) feel free to reach out to Saul Newman at de- Achrei Mote/Kiddoshim) to thank all the members of KMS [email protected]. A Chumash costs $54. who assist in organizing and helping with Shivas. If you would like to co-sponsor this event contact the office. Please

mark your calendar now for this important event. LOST AND FOUND If you are interested in sponsoring a Community Seudah Shlishit please Please pick up your lost items from our overflowing Lost and Found , contact Beth Lichy ([email protected]) or Ted Rosenbaum located on the shelf above the last coat rack. On April 3rd we will be ([email protected]). donating all unclaimed items. ANNOUNCEMENTS ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM THE GABBAIM •Kel Malei Rachamin will be said this Shabbat, March 25th for all yahrzeits through the next five weeks, through 2 Iyar. •KMS is looking for volunteers to join the Friday night (URGENT) or Shabbat 8:45 Minyan Gabbai rotations. If you can assist, please contact Lowell Abrams ([email protected]) or Chaim Himmelfarb ([email protected]). •The 8:45 Shabbat Minyan is looking for a few good men to join the Pesukei D’Zimrah rotation. The only requirement is to arrive on time and lead the davening approximately once every 6-8 weeks. For more information please contact Robert Liberman ([email protected]).

OPPORTUNITIES TO GET INVOLVED •KMS is creating a team of kitchen experts who can serve as mashgichim for KMS events. In this role you would check in foods for proper hechsherim and/or supervise in the kitchen while KMS teams are working. Rabbi Weinberg will provide all training. Currently this is a task that needs to be filled on approximately a monthly basis. Please let Emily know at [email protected] if you would like to join the team. •In addition to its food assistance initiatives, Yad Yehuda of Greater Washington provides a wide range of emergency relief programs to our brethren throughout the Greater Washington area. For those who require and qualify, such assistance may be provided to avoid eviction or the cut off of utilities, to obtain interest-free loans, or to receive a dignified burial. Yad Yehuda’s wide range of services support hundreds of individuals and families, and are essential to our communal safety net. To learn more and to donate, please go to http://www.yadyehuda.org/financial-assistance.html. •The Franco Foundation. Please help with your tax deductible donation to the Franco Foundation, c/o Allan Franco, 613 Bromley Street or through PayPal at [email protected]. •The KMS Tzedaka Fund helps people in need in the greater Kemp Mill Community. Donations to the Tzedaka Fund would help us meet these requests. Please give generously to the KMS Tzedaka Fund by sending your tax-deductible donation to the KMS office. Checks should be made payable to the KMS Tzedaka Fund. If you are in need of financial assistance, please contact Rabbi Weinberg - [email protected]. •KMS has joined the Adopt-a-Road program by adopting Glenallen Road. Check out the sign near Kemp Mill/Glenallen and Glenallen/Randolph Roads. Contact Adam Bashein to join in the monthly beautification efforts! [email protected].

REFUA SHLEIMA Gedalya Chaim ben Vita, Shalom ben Inbar, Nechama Yenta bat Raizel, Moshe Ze’ev ben Gitel, Sara bat Riva, Shoshana Tzippora bat Eidel, Tzvi Gershon ben David, Yehoshua Dan ben Naomi Please keep these names in mind during recitation of the misheberach for cholim. Please email the office at [email protected] if you would like to add -3-

GETTING TO KNOW YOU

In an effort to promote the warm community feeling we strive for here at KMS, we introduce you to two KMS members each week. We hope you enjoy meeting your fellow members and will use these brief bios as a catalyst to introduce yourself to others at KMS. LIZ AND NATHAN DIAMENT VERA AND BERNARD EHRLICH Liz & Nathan Diament Vera and Bernard Ehrlich were both born in Czechoslo- celebrated Shabbat in vakia but brought up in opposite ends of the world, she in Kemp Mill the weekend Australia and he in England. They met in Jerusalem of their engagement (in where they married. They came to the US in 1961 first 1994) and thought they living in NY and then came to the Washington area in might return. Indeed 1966 for Bernard to do his residency training at George they did, 5 years later Washington. Initially they lived in Summit Hill then in with Amalia and Amitai. 1971 they left for Israel for two years and on their return Amalia is now a junior at to the US in 1973 they moved to Kemp Mill to the house Stern College. Amitai is on Clintwood in which they now still live. They have 2 studying this year in daughters Shoshana and Judy and one son Daniel who all went to the Hebrew Academy and Gush Etzion. Kemp Mill natives are Ezra, a 9th grader at the Yeshiva High school. Their children now live in New Jersey and New York but fortunately Berman (who has strong opinions about kiddush at KMS) they now have three grandchildren living in this area. Two grandsons are at the University of and Josh, a Berman 6th grader (who has strong opinions Maryland in College Park and their oldest granddaughter who is married and mother to their about the news of the day). The children work hard to great grandson, lives in DC. Vera worked for many years as a librarian at C.E.Smith Jewish maintain their British heritage - favouring Cadbury's over day school and then as a volunteer librarian at the JCC library in Rockville. She loves going to Hershey's, tea over coffee and chips over fries. Liz works lectures, the theater, museums and playing bridge. Bernard practiced ophthalmology in Lau- at the National Gallery of Art as an educator and has rel, Maryland until last year when he retired and they both now hope to be free to spend more proudly led KMS tours there. She has chaired the KMS time in Jerusalem where they have a second home. dinner and is a leader of the Mikvah Emunah Society. Over the years they have been involved in various community activities such as the Holocaust Nathan works for a Jewish organization and is pleased committee, Hebrew Academy, Soviet Jewry, setting up an eye clinic in Laniado Hospital in that KMS is a safe space for him on Shabbat. All the Israel and are now planning to donate a Sefer Torah to the IDF. Diaments love Kemp Mill - theGETTING friends, the TOvalues, KNOW the THEThey bothEXECUTIVE are very appreciative COMMITTEE of living so AND close toBOARD a Shul with such an open and wide spec- seriousness of purpose mixed with good humour. trum of members which also has the good fortune to be headed by a scholarly as well as warm, family oriented rabbi.

OFFICE INFORMATION FRIDAY NIGHT SUMMER MINYAN SCHEDULE Office Hours are: M-Th, 9am – 3pm, and F, 9am – 12pm. For the next three Shabbatot leading up to Pesach: Mindy Levin, Interim Executive Director, We will have two simultaneous minyanim (Sanctuary and Ruach) as we do [email protected] all year long, only they will be at the fixed time of 6:30pm. (It is not yet late

Rachel Stein, Administrator, [email protected] enough to do a “late minyan” and it is still late enough that those who wish

Emily Friedman,Special Projects Manager, to light candles Friday night and come to shul can attend either of the min- [email protected] yanim, as both occur after plag.) On Shabbat Chol Ha’Moed we will have two minyanim: In an effort to put out a complete Shabbat Sheet the deadline to submit information is Wednesday at 9:00 am. Thank you. • Early at 6:30 pm • Late at 7:30 pm (there will be no Ruach Minyan since we do not say Kab- GETTING TO KNOW THE BOARD balat Shabbat) Starting after Pesach we will move to having three minyanim. 2017 Executive Committee • Alec Stone—President, 2017 Board • Early at 6:30pm (and then moving to 6:45pm as plag gets later). [email protected] Evan Albert, Benny Berkowitz, • Ruach at 7:00pm (and then moving to 7:15pm as plag gets later). This • Saul Newman—First Vice President Lisa Brookman, Sharon Butler, minyan will occur slightly later than the early minyan so that it will al- & Vice President of Development, Nechumah Getz, Tobie Hollander, [email protected] Ira Kosowsky, Yosef Lindell, David ways fall at least 5-10 minutes after plag, enabling anyone who wishes to • Natanya Nobel—Vice President of Lowenstein, Mairav Mintz, Allen light candles and come to shul to do so in an halachically appropriate Administration; Minzer, Ira Rabin, Gadi Rozmaryn, [email protected] manner. Yehudit Shields, David Taragin. • Marcy Wolf—Vice President of Finance, • Late minyan. Rather than having this minyan at a fixed time as we have [email protected] in previous years, we are planning to run a 6 week trial of having the late • Lowell Abrams—Vice President of Ritual, [email protected] minyan bizman (around shkia time: 7:35, 7:45, 7:50, 7:55, 8:05 and 8:10). • Tamar Teitelbaum—Vice President of Kehilla, We are doing this based on feedback from congregants last year, and [email protected] will gauge attendance in order to make a decision about how to go for- • Jennifer Raskas—Vice President Limmud Torah, ward after the initial trial period. [email protected] • Ina Lerman—Vice President of Klal Israel, We look forward to a summer filled with wonderfully inspired davening [email protected] together! • Lisi Levisohn—Vice President of Youth, [email protected] Lowell Abrams and Rabbi Weinberg