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Sizzlin' Through the Summer At Voice of the People OGV KUE TEMPLE BETH AM AFFILIATED WITH THE UNITED SYNAGOGUE OF CONSERVATIVE JUDAISM • VOL 16, NO. 8 • Tamuz/Av 5776 • August 2016 FROM THE PRESIDENT he summer months are a special time Tat Temple Beth Am, and it is a wonderful Sizzlin' Through the time to begin a season of leadership. Summer is an opportunity for transition – loosening of regular formalities, and a bit of Summer at TBA experimentation while laying foundations for the coming year. t’s summer! That means exciting Shabbat Tefilot have included a Friday evening Iopportunities for communal prayer Sovev service in the park, Shir Hadash & BAIT Tefillah and learning. Here are a couple of collaborations in the ballroom, and a relaxed summer highlights we wanted you to know “vibe” all around. Then by mid-July – the energy shifts about that will be taking place at further with many of our youth at Camp Ramah in Temple Beth Am in the coming month. Ojai and Colorado, and other Jewish summer adventures. I hope you will join us for Kabbalat Shabbat under the stars on August 19, when we welcome everyone back Shir Hadash and BAIT Tefillah will combine for most of August (except from their summer experiences, and our space and August 6). Shabbat morning services take place in the ballroom. Beginning at hearts are filled anew with the enthusiasm our young 9:30 a.m. (note special time!), these services will have a full p’sukei d’zimrah, a people bring back to us. This summer cycle has a rhythm full Torah reading, and an interactive Torah study. of calm and joy that blesses our multi-generational Shabbat Sovev Friday Night services will continue throughout the summer community. Indeed, what a beautiful blessing! on August 12 and 26. Neshama Minyan will meet on all other Friday nights. I am excited to present the newly adopted mission We look forward to welcoming lay leaders to offer d’rashot at several Friday statement for Temple Beth Am. Much work has been night services. done over years to revise the mission statement, which OTHER DATES TO NOTE has been considered somewhat “clunky”, into something Friday Night August 19 - A special Shabbat Under the Stars - Friday night concise that captures the spirit of our community. More services on the Pilch Rooftop to welcome back those who were away (and their than one mission statement committee has tried to families!) at Jewish summer camp and Israel programs this summer. Everyone accomplish this task, each committee inching closer is welcome! Dinner will follow, with lots of ruach! Make your reservations at to something that resonates. The Board spent time in www.tbala.org/communityshabbat workshops distilling the essence of Temple Beth Am, identifying and consolidating the key characteristics SHABBAT MORNING PROGRAMS that describe our community. Then a mission statement August 13 - Our next Hama’alot (10:30 a.m.) team convened to craft this new statement. Having been August 20 - Hama’alot workshop involved in this process I can honestly say that I didn’t Stay tuned to our weekly Shabbat e-mails for updates know how hard it was to get it right – until we went a about particular dates, times, and locations. few rounds! Many thanks to Mike Cohn, who lead this We can’t wait to see you around TBA during this season team and the committee: Tom Fields-Meyer, Gabriela Litov, of meaningful prayer, learning and community. Ben Reder, Linda Salem, Marnie Stiglitz and myself. The Board enthusiastically and unanimously adopted this new mission statement: “Temple Beth Am celebrates traditional and innovative Judaism and inspires lifelong learning in a warm embracing, It’s that time again... community.” You will start to see our mission statement appearing MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL! everywhere. It is exciting to roll-it-out. As we have By now you should have received your begun to share it, we have found that it makes people membership packet in the mail. Return smile and nod. Perfect! your forms by August 30 to secure your On a personal note, it is an honor and a privilege to High Holiday Tickets! begin my term as President of Temple Beth Am. I am excited for the possibilities of all we can build and ways we can grow and strengthen our community together. I look Contact Membership Coordinator Ariana Shane with any questions: continued on page 8 [email protected] or ext. 223 Kol HaRav By Rabbi Adam Kligfeld lahu akhbar. In certain moments those words strike fear in hearts, Aauguring an imminent act of terror in the name of radical Islam. But when I heard them intoned in Adelson Hall at TBA a few weeks ago, they were nourishing, hopeful, pious and representing an elusive bridge TEMPLE BETH AM straddling a chasm one could not be faulted for considering unbridgeable. The circumstances were unique and wonderful. Through a contact I 1039 S. La Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90035 made via the Hartman Institute’s MLI (Muslim Leadership Initiative) 310.652.7354 • 310.652.2384 (fax) we organized a gathering with members of the local Pacifica Institute, a community To reach an operator, of largely Turkish Muslims whose leader, Atilla Kahveci, is a graduate of MLI. They dial 310.652.7353 would join members of TBA for a Friday night experience, linking Shabbat services and dinner with an Iftar, the traditional meal eaten by Muslims to conclude each of 29 or 30 SCHOOL PHONE LINE consecutive daylight fasts that are observed during Ramadan. 310.652.2002 The first awkward/bonding moment came at 8:11 PM. That was the precise moment School Fax: 310.360.0850 when my friend Kamal, whom I met in Jerusalem last summer, said that we must interrupt [email protected] our icebreakers in order for him to begin the Call to Prayer. He felt sheepish that the timing www.tbala.org was so specific, wondering if we would understand such ritual persnickety-ness. I set him Temple Beth Am celebrates at ease when I told him that one of the few ritual snafus for which I could possibly lose my job was if I were to blow the shofar that ends the fast of Yom Kippur even one minute late. traditional and innovative Judaism In other words, Kamal, we get it, and the religious obsession with the ticking clock. and inspires lifelong learning in a At 8:11 on the dot, Kamal began to pray. Our guests had spread prayer rugs on the warm, embracing community. floor. Kamal cupped his hands to his face, artfully amplifying his sonorous voice as he sang Alahu Akhbar, echoing the sounds of the muezzin whose calls to prayer you may Susan Hetsroni, President have heard emanating from mosques around the world, particularly in visits to Israel. Rabbi Adam Kligfeld, Senior Rabbi The words, tunes and language were foreign, and yet familiar. Though I am a Jew through and through, I felt personally called to prayer, called to pray. Rabbi Ari Lucas, Associate Rabbi After the initial burst of liturgy, we paused so that our guests could formally end Rabbi Hillary Chorny, Cantor their fast. Dates were distributed, as their sweet endorphin-rushing first bite are the Sheryl Goldman, Executive Director traditional morsels with which Ramadan fasts usually end. Then our guests returned to the prayer rugs for the evening service, maghreb, a word Rabbi Yechiel Hoffman, EdD which evokes the Hebrew ma’ariv since the two words are cousins, both emerging from Director of Youth Learning & Engagement ancient semitic words for sunset. When prayers concluded, we went through the full Dr. Erica Rothblum, Head of School complement of Friday night blessings and rituals, and then shared a Shabbat/Iftar meal Rabbi Joel E. Rembaum, Emeritus together. Our “dessert” was a joint teaching from our two religious traditions. First, Rabbi Lucas shared wonderful rabbinic texts on the character of Moses, and then one of Rabbi Harry Silverstein, Emeritus our guests brought texts from the Koran and commentaries, linking Moses with some of Rabbi Jacob Pressman z”l, Emeritus the dominant themes of Ramadan. This remarkable night ended rather unremarkably, with new friends sharing KOL HA’AM handshakes and hugs, and promising to “keep in touch.” Copy Editor Ellen L. Jacobs No major geopolitical breakthroughs were achieved. We did not mention Israel, Graphic Designer Jeff Baughman Palestine or BDS. We stayed in the realm of the shared and the mutually evocative rather than digging into sensitive terrain. We were hosting Muslims who themselves considered ISIS to be radical and dangerous perversions of Islam whose reign of terror Kol Ha’am (USPS 008-599) is published monthly deserves only opprobrium and ultimately defeat. But our tradition reminds us that except June/July & November/December redemption takes place in stages, with each one deserving of a dayenu, an awareness by Temple Beth Am, of its unlikely, and thus miraculous, status. And in this era of cynicism, earned and un- 1039 South La Cienega Blvd., earned fear, religious extremism, communal silo-ism, and, yes, of enormous work that Los Angeles, CA 90035-2507 still must be done in order for tolerant and open-hearted (and, some might say, truly traditional) Islam to eclipse or at least outlast fundamentalist and hateful expressions Annual Membership Dues of Islam, one step is no small accomplishment. In the words of my colleague Atilla, and include $5.00 subscription echoing the rabbinic teaching exhorting us not to desist from the task even if we are Periodicals Postage Paid at Los Angeles, California not sure we can complete it, that night we turned a wall into a table.
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