The Star September 2021 • Volume 44, Number 2
Contents Lulav & Etrog Flyer ...... 12 Annual Food Drive Flyer ...... 11 New ELC Director ...... 4 Calendar ...... 14, 15 People of Chelm Want to Know, Answers ... 6 COVID-19 Related Funeral Expenses People of Chelm Want to Know, QuesEons 4 Assistance ...... 8 Rabbi’s Page ...... 5 DonaEon Acknowledgements ...... 7-9 Schedule of Services ...... 3 Family Night Under the Stars Flyer ...... 2 Sukkot and Simchat Torah Flyer ...... 13 Has the Pandemic Go\en You Down? ...... 6 The ELC is Hiring ...... 5 How to Reach Us ...... 4 Time Off for the High Holidays: Jewish Burial Customs with Your Rights & ObligaEons ...... 3 Hal Miller-Jacobs ...... 6 Yousef Bashir Flyer ...... 10
Congrega(on Beth Elohim Michael Rothbaum, Rabbi 133 Prospect Street Sarra Spierer, Cantor Acton, MA 01720 Beth R. Goldstein, RJE, Director of EducaEon
Wendy Damsky, Director, Early Learning Center
Shoshana Zuckerman, Administrator
Lewis Mintz, Rabbi Emeritus Congregation Beth Elohim THE STAR September 2021
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- 2 - September 2021 THE STAR Congregation Beth Elohim Schedule of Services September 1, 2 4:00 PM Mincha Service (Wednesday, Thursday) Friday, September 3 6:30 PM Shabbat Service Saturday, September 4 9:30 AM Shacharit Service Saturday, September 4 10:45 AM Torah Study Monday, September 6 7:30 PM Erev Rosh Hashana Service Tuesday, September 7 9:00 AM Rosh Hashanah Service Tuesday, September 7 3:00 PM Tashlich Wednesday, September 8 9:00 AM Rosh Hashanah Service Thursday, September 9 4:00 PM Mincha Service Friday, September 10 6:30 PM Shabbat Power Hour Service Saturday, September 11 9:30 AM Shacharit Service Saturday, September 11 10:45 AM Torah Study Sunday, September 12 8:30 AM Shacharit Service Tuesday, September 14 4:00 PM Mincha Service Wednesday, September 15 7:00 PM Yom Kippur Kol Nidre Service Thursday, September 16 9:00 AM Yom Kippur Morning Service Thursday, September 16 3:30 PM Guest Speaker, Mincha/Martyrology, & Discussion Thursday, September 16 5:45 PM Yizkor and Ne'ilah Service Friday, September 17 6:30 PM Shabbat Power Hour Service Saturday, September 18 9:30 AM Shacharit Service Saturday, September 18 10:45 AM Torah Study Monday, September 20 5:30 PM Erev Sukkot Service and Pot Luck Tuesday, September 21 9:30 AM Sukkot Service September 21, 22, 23 4:00 PM Mincha Service (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday) Friday, September 24 6:30 PM Sukkot Shabbat Service Saturday, September 25 9:30 AM Shacharit Service Saturday, September 25 10:45 AM Torah Study Monday, September 27 5:30 PM Simchat Torah Celebration Tuesday, September 28 9:30 AM Shemini Atzeret Service w/Yizkor September 28, 29, 30 4:00 PM Mincha Service (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday) Time Off for the High Holidays: However, students and employees seeking accommodations have obligations, too. For instance, Your Rights & Obliga(ons ADL advises older students and parents or guardians Members of the Jewish community face the of younger children to inform teachers or professors possibility of conflicts between their observance of about holiday absences as early as possible. Students Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur and school or work and parents should also ask for any important duties. This is important whether you are connecting information or material that will be provided during in person or via online platforms. the days or classes missed. As a long-time religious freedom advocate in the To inform and empower us, visit https://tinyurl.com/ U.S., ADL believes that Jews should not have to n8yushc for ADL’s School & Workplace choose between observing the High Holidays and Accommodations for the Jewish High Holidays: Know their school or work obligations. Your Rights and Obligations page.
- 3 - Congregation Beth Elohim THE STAR September 2021 Reviving the column devoted to •Did you conduct your affairs honestly? questions about Jewish history called •Did you work at having children? The People of Chelm Want to Know… 2. Here are four quotes, each from a different Biblical This column was revived in The Star two years ago prophet. Can you match the quote with one of these after a decade of dormancy. Each month there are prophets – Amos, Isaiah, Jeremiah, or Micah? Amos now two fairly difficult questions, and you should be is the original prophet, the archetype of the fire-and- congratulated for trying to wrestle with them. If you brimstone preacher. He lived in northern kingdom of do not know an answer, you will find it elsewhere in Israel in the middle of eighth century BCE. Isaiah this issue of The Star. Please share your new came to prominence a little later in the southern knowledge with your neighbors, fellow congregants, kingdom of Judah. He is the most quoted and most and especially the people of Chelm. In Jewish lyrical of all the prophets. Unlike Isaiah, his city-bred folklore, the people of Chelm were famed for coming contemporary, Micah lived in the country and was up with bizarre and usually incorrect answers to even especially concerned with the sufferings of the the simplest questions. common people and peasants, who were often exploited by the rich. Jeremiah lived about a century 1. The High Holidays are a special time for after Isaiah, during the time when Jerusalem was reassessment and reflection. It is a time for besieged and destroyed by the Babylonians in questioning and judging our behavior and the 589-586 BCE. direction of our lives. The scholars who assembled And what does Adonai require of you, the Babylonian Talmud gave these issues much But to do justice, love mercy, thought. In one tractate, they even provided the four And walk humbly with your God. questions that each of us is to be asked when we go before the heavenly court for judgment. Please Let justice well up as waters, arrange these questions below in their original order And righteousness as a mighty stream. in the Talmud, an order which provides some idea of Watch, I shall bring them back the relative importance the sages assigned to each. From the land of the north; The four questions are: And gather them in from the ends of the earth. •Did you set aside regular time for Torah study? Holy, holy, holy is the Adonai of Hosts. •Did you look forward to the world’s The whole earth is full of God’s glory. redemption?
Yiddish & Contemporary Israeli Music: New ELC Director WERS, 88.9 FM, broadcasts Chagigah, My name is Wendy Damsky and I have the Sunday mornings 8:00–11:00. privilege of being the new director of the Early How to Reach Us Learning Center at CBE. Having been involved with Jewish Education for over thirty years as a Telephone preschool teacher, director, Hebrew school teacher, The congregation office telephone number is JCC class facilitator, family education chair, and 978-263-3061. Dial these extensions for: Jewish mom it is so wonderful to be part of such a Rabbi Rothbaum 12 welcoming and collaborative staff. Cantor Spierer 15 Beth Goldstein 14 The ELC is a diverse community which gives us the Wendy Damsky & ELC 13 opportunity to share Jewish values with families Shoshana Zuckerman 11 from all around the world. We focus on our Lori Lafayette 17 similarities and the fact that Jewish values are indeed human values which we want to foster in Web Site all of the children we teach. Our congregation web site, www.bethelohim.org, includes the online edition of The Star as well as a Wishing everyone a happy and healthy new year, variety of other information including a bookstore l'shana tova. link (Amazon.com) and a donation form. - 4 - September 2021 THE STAR Congregation Beth Elohim Rabbi’s Page they weren’t yet allowed by law to vote, the women who worked the switchboard connected a country, Rabbi Mike literally linking it together. In a year when erev Rosh 978-263-3061 / [email protected] HaShanah falls on Labor Day, we are reminded of the The month of September debt we owe to women workers, and laborers of all carries a weight in our genders. consciousness. It marks students’ dreaded “back- In addition, as we approach Rosh HaShanah, it’s to-school season.” Labor fitting for us to recall that Emma was successful, in Day weekend, in large part, because of her soothing demeanor. The last September, is the months have been ones of anxiety and uncertainty. We unofficial end of summer. take the time to recall moments when we’ve been And for us, of course, it’s short with people, letting our own angst affect how we the month when our new treat the people we love the most. These days provide year begins. an opportunity to right those wrongs, and to show ourselves some compassion as we continue to navigate There’s an obscure commemoration on the first day of the difficulties of live under COVID. September, a “holiday” called Emma M. Nutt Day. It’s named in honor of Emma Nutt (no surprise), who Finally, it’s moving to consider how much became the first woman telephone operator on thoughtfulness and care Emma put into her job, such September 1, 1878. that she knew so many phone numbers by heart. Rosh haShanah is sometimes called Yom haZikaron, “Day of For those of us who remember telephone operators, or Remembrance.” We imagine God recalling our deeds at least the snort-laughing Lily Tomlin character, over the past year. While that might be unnerving— Ernestine, we might have imagined that operators how many of us would want to recall everything we were always women. But indeed, Emma was the first, did last year?—on some level it can be comforting. right here in Massachusetts, hired by Boston After all, it’s nice to be remembered! Telephone Dispatch Company. The first telephone operators had been boys who, according to a PBS Perhaps that’s a directive we can take from Emma Nutt documentary on the subject, “earned a reputation for into the new year. We’ve suffered through so much being rude and abusive to each other as well as to the alienation and isolation over the last year and a half. customers,” exhibiting both a lack of patience and a How many people in our lives are longing for propensity to cursing and pranks. recognition and acknowledgement, to know that they matter in somebody else’s life? (What a blessing to know that our boys here at CBE are nicer than nineteenth century phone operators.) In memory of Emma Nutt, may we call to mind those people in our lives who could use some love, Customers noticed the difference immediately. Emma, acknowledgment, and encouragement. May we and the women hired along with her, had a soothing remember to send them that message of affection as presence for anxious callers trying to get connected on we approach the new year, making the time this Rosh the new technology. They patiently helped bridge the haShanah, in the words of the old phone company gap across the miles. Emma’s knowledge, in particular, slogan, to “reach out and touch someone.” ✡ was unsurpassed. According to legend, after decades on the job, Emma could remember every number in the telephone directory of the New England Telephone The ELC is Hiring Company. The Early Learning Center (ELC), the play-based/ In addition to September, we’re also entering the child-centered preschool at CBE, is hiring dedicated Jewish month of Tishrei, the first month of the year full and part-time teachers to join our community. 5782. It strikes me that Emma Nutt’s example provides EEC certification is preferred, but not required to several lessons we can take into the new Jewish year, start. The ELC values diversity in all of its forms. We this time of reflection and renewal. encourage any interested candidates to reach out for more information, please email the ELC Director, First, we should remember with gratitude the labor Wendy Damsky, at [email protected]. that Emma and her sister workers offered this country in the infancy of the Telecommunication Era. Though
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Answers for the people of Chelm 2. The prophets are a limitless source of memorable and any other curious souls. quotations, like these four: 1. “Jewish Wisdom,” another of Rabbi Joseph And what does Adonai require of you, Telushkin’s wonderful works on Judaism, opens with But to do justice, love mercy, an explanation of the four probing questions from And walk humbly with your God. the Talmud’s tractate Shabbat. These are the four —Micah 6:8 that are to be asked each of us when we go before the heavenly court for judgment. The first and most Let justice well up as waters, important question is, “Did you conduct your affairs And righteousness as a mighty stream. honestly?” The Talmud clearly asserts the primacy of —Amos 5:24 ethics and fairness here. In another passage, it is Watch, I shall bring them back written, “If one is honest in business dealings and From the land of the north; people esteem him, it is accounted to him as though And gather them in from the ends of the earth. he had fulfilled the whole Torah.” Given the —Jeremiah 31:8 importance of learning, the second question to be Holy, holy, holy is the Adonai of Hosts. asked should be no surprise, “Did you set aside The whole earth is full of God’s glory. regular time for Torah study?” Next is, “Did you work —Isaiah 6:3 at having children?” And finally, “Did you look forward to the world’s redemption?”
Jewish Burial Customs with Has the Pandemic Hal Miller-Jacobs Go[en You Down? Sunday, October 17, 9:30-11:00 The pandemic has heightened the need for mental health support. If you are Reciting Kaddish and Yizkor for a departed experiencing symptoms of anxiety, loved one is a basic Jewish custom most depression, or isolation, you are not alone. are familiar with. Yet many are not A major challenge can be to finding the familiar with the loving custom of how we services that will meet your needs. Rabbi care for the departed in preparation for Mike and Cantor Sarra are trained in what many believe is the afterlife. The pastoral care, please feel free to reach out process of taharah, ritual washing of the to them for support. There are also other deceased is done by a caring cadre of resources available to meet your needs. individuals. United Way offers a phone service (211) Hall Miller-Jacobs, that can help you identify appropriate formerly of Acton, mental health services. There is also a now resides in website, mass211.org, which provides an Lexington. He is a extensive listing of services. Other useful cofounder of the mental health directories include: Community Hevra • www.Namicentralmiddlesex.org Kadisha of Greater and Boston. • www.Interface.williamjames.edu.
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The congregation thanks our members, their relatives and friends, and the larger community for donations recently received…
Amy Naparstek Israel Scholarship Fund Paul and Jen Friedman in memory of Rosalie Alan Berko and Peggy Flaherty Berko in memory of Harris, mother of Chips Naparstek Rosalie Harris Paul Linet in memory of Chips Naparstek and David and Gena Manalan in memory of Rosalie Andrea Harris's mother Harris, mother of Chips Naparstek and Alan and Ellen Krueger in memory of Chips grandmother of Amy Naparstek Naparstek's mother, Rosalie Harris, and in memory George and Carolee Schaffer in memory of Rosalie of Susan Wachter's father, Harry Rosenfeld Harris, mother of Chips Malcolm and Ina Burdine in memory of Rosalie Stephen and Joan Gluck in memory of Rosalie Harris Harris and Amy Ken and Jessie Klein in memory of Rosalie Harris George and Lauren Morton in memory of Rosalie Marilyn Hayes in memory of Rosalie Harris, mother Harris of Chips Naparstek, Andy Harris, and Bill Harris, Andrew Berenson, Emily Steinmann and Amy and grandmother of the late Amy Naparstek, with Cohen in memory of Rosalie Harris, beloved love mother of Chips and David Naparstek. May her Bryan and Lori Siegal in memory of Chips memory be a blessing in your lives forever and may Naparstek's beloved mother, Rosalie Harris, and in we all live by her example, dedicating our lives to memory of Susan Wachter's beloved father, Harry our communities and families. Sending you all love Rosenfeld and a big hug during this hard time. Larry and Rita Grossman in memory of Rosalie Bob and Lisa Thorn in memory of Rosalie Harris, a Harris, mother of Chips Naparstek dear friend and neighbor for many years Ellen and Steve Parker in memory of Rosalie Harris Andrew Child and Susan Cohn-Child in memory of Rosalie Harris Les and Judy Kramer in memory of Rosalie Harris, Chips Naparstek's mother Robert and Deena Ferrara in memory of Chips Naparstek's mother, Rosalie Harris Matthew Liebman and Amy Michelson in memory of Chips's mom, Rosalie Harris Anne Swainbank Brooks in loving memory of our classmate's mother, Rosalie Harris Marvin and Karen Gould in memory of Rosalie Harris Carol Tabak in memory of Rosalie Harris Beth Schrager and Jeffery Handler in memory of Deb Thornton Hull in loving memory of our Rosalie Harris, mother of Chips Naparstek classmate's mother, Rosalie Harris Alan and Arlene Weiss in memory of Rosalie Harris, Martha Robinson Rhodes in loving memory of our mother of Chips Naparstek classmate's mother, Rosalie Harris David and Amy Leers in memory of Rosalie Harris Paul Linet in memory of Susan Wachter's father
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Dona(ons
The congregation thanks our members, their relatives and friends, and the larger community for donations recently received…
Choir Fund General Fund George and Carolee Schaffer in memory of Harry Lauren Solomon in memory of Sue Wachter's dear Rosenfeld, father of Susan Wachter father Harry Rosenfeld. May his memory be a blessing. Robert and Deena Ferrara in memory of Sue Wachter's father, Harry Rosenfeld Sue Wood in memory of Susan Wachter's father, Harry Rosenfeld Don Hoban and Marcy Epstein-Hoban in honor of Julie and Robert McCall's 60th birthdays Michelle and Chris Siegert in memory of Burton Kahn, father of Julie McCall. May his memory be Malcolm and Ina Burdine in memory of Harry for a blessing. Rosenfeld, father of Sue Wachter Alan and Arlene Weiss in memory of Burton Kahn, Larry and Rita Grossman in memory of Harry father of Julie McCall Rosenfeld, dear father of Sue Wachter Alan and Arlene Weiss in memory of the yahrzeit of Les and Judy Kramer in memory of Harry Arlene Weiss's mother, Selma Nathanson, and in Rosenfeld, father of Sue Wachter memory of the yahrzeit of Arlene's Weiss's father, Beth Schrager and Jeffery Handler in memory of Jerome Nathanson Harry Rosenfeld, father of Sue Wachter, Amy Robert and Kathie Becker in memory of Burton Kaufman, and Stefanie Rosenfeld Kahn Alan and Arlene Weiss in memory of Harry Jonathan and Wendy Linden in memory of Burton Rosenfeld, father of Sue Wachter Kahn, father of Julie McCall, father-in-law of Alan and Arlene Weiss in memory of Iris Gross, Robert McCall, and grandfather to Adam, Joshua sister of Judy Kramer and Ethan
COVID-19 Related Funeral Expenses Assistance Under the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2021, and the you want to American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, the Federal buy a book — Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is providing financial assistance for COVID-19 related funeral expenses incurred after January 20, 2020. When you shop using Amazon Smile, Amazon will donate 0.5% Go to https://www.fema.gov/disaster/ coronavirus/economic/funeral-assistance for information about applying for this assistance.
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Dona(ons
The congregation thanks our members, their relatives and friends, and the larger community for donations recently received…
Alex Young Social Ac(on Fund High Holiday Appeal Mara Falk and Alan Feibelman in honor of our son Robert and Deena Ferrara in honor of George and Eric's marriage to Rachael Wnuk Carolee Schaffer
Capital Fund Alan and Arlene Weiss Alan and Arlene Weiss in memory of Kenneth and Na'aseh Social Jus(ce Fund Frances Nathanson Mara Falk and Alan Feibelman in memory of Ralph Chesed Fund S. Feibelman, Alan's father, on the occasion of his Yahrzeit Andrew Child and Susan Cohn-Child in memory of Harry Rosenfeld Rabbi's Discre(onary Fund Alan and Ellen Krueger in memory of Goldenleys Christophe Herpers and Barbara Hirsch Krueger, mother of Allan Krueger, and in memory Martin Segal with thanks for the compassion of of Lee Feinstein, mother of Ellen Krueger, on the Alan Weiss occasion of their yahrzeits Mara Falk and Alan Feibelman in memory of Mara's Yahrzeit Plaque mother, Julienne Anker Falk, on the occasion of her Chips and David Naparstek in memory of Chips's Yahrzeit mother, Rosalie Harris
Joan Snyder Library Fund Yizkor "booklet" Lynne Snyder in memory of Joan Snyder Alan and Arlene Weiss
On the eve of Yom Kippur by Jakub Weinles - 9 - Congregation Beth Elohim THE STAR September 2021
Beth Elohim Brotherhood presents Yousef Bashir The Words of My Father: Sunday, Love and Pain September 12 9:15 a.m. Via Zoom
When he was 11 years old, Yousef Bashir’s home www.bethelohim.org/bashir “To discover my in Gaza was occupied by Israeli soldiers, all while own humanity and to know that my apparent enemies were also human was my father’s most – Yousef Bashir published his memoir, www.bethelohim.org. CONGREGATION BETH ELOHIM 133 PROSPECT STREET ACTON, MA 01720
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CONGREGATION BETH ELOHIM HIGH HOLIDAYS 5782 ANNUAL FOOD DRIVE FOR THE ACTON FOOD PANTRY
Acton Food Pantry serves a critical need in our community by feeding hungry families in our community. Please give generously!
Instructions: Pack your items in bags or boxes and bring to synagogue parking lot on Kol Nidre, Wednesday evening Sept 15th, or Yom Kippur morning, Thursday Sept 16th.
Critical Needs - Please Consider Other Recommended Items for Donating These Items Now! Donation:
boxed shelf stable almond milk Spaghetti sauce baby food (jars or pouches) Canned tomato products cereal Oatmeal cooking oil Nuts canned pastas Dried beans coffee Rice (bagged or boxed) mac & cheese Baking mixes gluten-free bread Canned vegetables Peanut butter & jelly Baby Items Canned fruit Diapers – sizes 3, 4 & 6 Baby wipes
Personal Care Tissues Laundry detergent Women’s pull-up briefs, size S, M, or L
Thank You!
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Sukkot and Simchat Torah Services at CBE
Sukkot Services Monday evening, September 20th at 5:30 PM (First night of Sukkot) Join us for a vegetarian potluck supper, singing, and a Sukkot service at Jai and Henry Thomas’ sukkah in Stow. Take in the beautiful sunset view, and bring instruments! Please RSVP to [email protected] with how many people will be attending and what dish you’d like to share. Jai will send the address and directions to their home in Stow.
Tuesday morning, September 21st at 9:30 AM at CBE Shake your lulav and etrog as we celebrate the first day of Sukkot.
Under the Sukkah: Shabbat-Sukkot Services Friday evening, September 24th at 6:30 PM Saturday morning with Torah study, September 25th at 9:30 Eat, sing and celebrate Shabbat and our awesome hut holiday with blessings and song in the CBE Sukkah.
Simchat Torah Celebration: Dancing with the Torah scrolls! Monday evening, September 27th (Picnic at 5:30PM and Service at 6PM)
Join our community celebration of connection and learning as we begin a new cycle of Torah! Sing and dance the night away with our special guest, klezmer musician Barry Shapiro. Bring dinner and a blanket or chairs, and join us before the service for a picnic on the CBE lawn. This is a fun experience for all ages!
Sh’mini Atzeret/Simchat Torah Services (with Yizkor) Tuesday morning, September 28th at 9:30 A.M. We’ll mark the end of Sukkot and our month-long holiday season with a service for Sh’mini Atzeret and Simchat Torah.
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The congregation calendar is also online at http://www.bethelohim.org/calendar
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September 2021
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