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Voices-2017-Fall.Pdf VA QUARTERLYoices MAGAZINE from PENINSULA TEMPLE SHOLOM MusicThe heartbeat of PTS. סתיו תשע״ח fall 2017 Your generosity strengthens our PTS community. We invite you to honor Cantor Barry Reich and help secure the future of Peninsula Temple Sholom סתיו תשע״ח with your contribution to our new L’dor Vador Fund. fall 2017 All donations are appreciated and welcome in various forms: cash, stock, matching funds, and legacy commitments. CONTENTS Initial funds will be used to retire our mortgage — and we are almost there. Subsequent donations will secure the future of PTS. For more information, please contact Betsy Rosen, Philanthropy Chair, [email protected] or (650) 315-2014, or 5 FROM THE CHIEF COMMUNITY OFFICER Karen Wisialowski Karen Wisialowski, Chief Community Officer, [email protected] or (650) 697-2266. Donations can be mailed to PTS or made securely on our website, sholom.org/give. 6 FROM THE PRESIDENT Lauren Schlezinger 7 WE ASKED FAVORITE MUSICIAN? 8 THE POWER OF MUSIC Rabbi Dan Feder 10 THOUGHTS ON MUSIC 11 MUSIC & EDUCATION Rabbi Molly Plotnik & Allison Steckley 12 COVER STORY Michael Battat 21 WHERE WORDS LEAVE OFF Nathaniel Bergson-Michelson & Heidi Schell 22 WE ASKED FAVORITE MUSIC? 24 LIFELONG LEARNING FALL 2017 PENINSULA TEMPLE SHOLOM 1655 Sebastian Drive | Burlingame, CA 94010 sholom.org 650-697-2266 Board of Trustees, 2017–18 Lauren Schlezinger President [email protected] Heidi Schell Nathaniel Bergson-Michelson 1st Vice-President 2nd Vice-President Scott Haber Adam Steinberger 3rd Vice-President Treasurer TO A FOR April Glatt WELCOME NEW FORUM BIG IDEAS Immediate Past President Julie Feuchtwang Andy Oliff Jenna Fisher Gene Podkaminer e are delighted to bring the year. See inside pages for adult KAREN WISIALOWSKI, Jon Herstein Betsy Rosen you this first issue of Voices: A learning opportunities. a long-time member and past Marilyn Hollinger Arlene Rosenberg Quarterly magazine from Peninsula Tem- president of Peninsula Temple In our winter edition of Voices, Ware Kuschner Sharon Silverman Sholom, joined the staff in ple Sholom. In each edition you’ll find 2015 as the congregation’s first Jeff Lerner Yash Snider we will explore tikkun olam. articles from clergy, staff, lay leaders, Chief Community Officer. She Matt Mandel Lois Fried Future magazine themes will and community is passionate about family, Jewish Sholom Women President include Jew- experts on a partic- community, and social justice. ish values, youth, ular topic, serving In each edition sacred aging, and Karen is a former investment banker Clergy as an opportunity to turned mom turned community Daniel Feder Lisa Delson you’ll find articles more. If you’d like engage with import- volunteer turned Jewish community Rabbi Rabbi to help us create one ant ideas and issues from clergy, staff, professional. Just prior to joining PTS, [email protected] [email protected] of those issues, or if she served as Peninsula Region Director with the depth lay leaders, and Molly Plotnik Barry Reich there’s another topic of the Jewish Community Relations and gravitas they Rabbi / Director of Education Cantor community experts you’d like to see Council. deserve. [email protected] [email protected] on a particular explored in these Originally from Detroit, Karen came to This issue focuses on pages, please let me San Francisco via the East Coast. She ז״ל Gerald Raiskin Founding Rabbi music, including an topic, serving as an know. loves the outdoors, especially hiking and biking, and plays bridge as much as article on synagogue opportunity to engage As a reminder, our possible. Karen holds an undergraduate music by Michael Bulletin continues degree from the University of Michigan Staff Battat with Cantor with important ideas and an MBA from Harvard Business to be published Karen Wisialowski Barry Reich. Surely, School. and issues with the monthly, and Chief Community Officer there’s hardly a more [email protected] depth and gravitas focuses on timely Karen and her husband Bill have two appropriate way to grown children. information, Allison Steckley Daniel Bernstein begin this year of they deserve. including events, Director of Early Childhood Education Director of Youth Engagement celebrating Cantor worship services, [email protected] [email protected] Barry than by also celebrating Jewish b’nai mitzvah, and relevant monthly Shari Carruthers Mariano Sanchez music. Controller Facilities Supervisor listings. Our hope is that as a short [email protected] [email protected] In addition, you’ll find articles that publication, it is easily scanned by explore the spirituality of Jewish most congregants. And, congregants Kim Gotthardt Christina Myhre Preschool Administrative Assistant Education & Special Projects Assistant music and about how music helps us us can continue to depend on the weekly [email protected] [email protected] learn. In fact, Voices kicks off our “Year Schmooze, Facebook, and sholom. of Learning through Music” and we org for up-to-date information on the Beverly Rochelle Jason Salisbury Membership Services Administrative & Database Assistant hope that you will join us throughout many goings-on at PTS. [email protected] [email protected] Cris Perry Alan Zeichick Clergy Executive Assistant Webmaster [email protected] [email protected] Joshua Mason-Barkin, rje Voices Editor & Web Developer [email protected] VOICES 5 סתיו תשע״ח fall 2017 We asked… WHO’S YOUR FAVORITE JEWISH MUSICIAN? My mom, Doris Haber, taught pre- school at our synagogue for decades. She taught scores of children all the Jewish prayers and songs, and even inspired some to become pro- fessional Jewish song THROUGH leaders. At every Jew- ish holiday, my home & MY JOURNEY MOZART MIDDOT growing up was filled with song, which is a I love t age 45 my lifelong dream Learning the three movements is LAUREN SCHLEZINGER tradition we contin- both Dan rd is the 33 president of Peninsula ue to this day. Nichols and Elana סַ בְ נ לָ ּו ת) was being rolled into our living an epic test of patience Temple Sholom. room — a “new-to-us” console piano. savlanut). There are days when SCOTT HABER Jagoda because their music, like Finally I would become the pianist my fingers feel like they belong She coins herself ‘The Accidental Second Vice President folk, is so accessible. It sounds progressive yet I fantasized about for years. In my to another brain’s body. President’ having joined PTS in sophisticated, like Dave Matthews or James Taylor. 2006 as a preschool mom with no dreams, I channeled Mozart to create Frustration percolates in my core ambition of synagogue leadership. It is uplifting, catchy, and beautiful. beautiful music. Effortlessly I played like coffee brewing in the urn. That’s Yet, as her twin daughters grew, so did ALLISON STECKLEY all my kids’ favorite songs by ear, and my chance to practice equanimity her connection to the PTS community Director of Early Childhood Education .menuchat ha’nefesh). The and the role she wanted to play מְנּו חַ ת נ הַ ֶ פֶ ׁש) I accompanied family and friends in joyful sing-alongs. good news is that — after eight Lauren grew up in Sudbury, months — the sonata is sounding Massachusetts in a lay-led Reform Alas, as is true with any new endeavor, congregation. She started her journey pretty darn good. the reality of learning to play piano is west to attend Northwestern much different. And while I always The harder news to accept is that University, where she graduated with a When Noah Aronson visited PTS, I was BA with honors in economics. Lauren knew my study would require kindergartners master it in a has worked as a consultant all her moved by his personal connection to the practice, technique, and fraction of the time. professional life, guiding organizations music. It was uplifting, fun, and fresh. learning music theory, I was Acknowledging my of all shapes and sizes in leadership, KAREN WISIALOWSKI surprised by the internal achievement with modesty customer service, and employee Chief Community Officer benefits. struggle that followed. is an expression of humility avanah). Lauren lives in Burlingame with her עֲ נָ וָ ה) Simply put, studying piano tests my character. charming husband Eric, angelic teen age Although some sessions at daughters Kyra and Lainey, and Merlin Recently, I learned about mid- the piano are easier than the Bedlington Terrier. In addition to tickling the ivories, she enjoys working dot, Jewish virtues said to be others, I always feel profound out, yoga, and studying Spanish. hakarot ha’tov). I הַכָ רַ תהַ ט ֹו ב) the foundation for a meaningful gratitude life. Immediately, I recognized the am grateful to be fulfilling my lifelong opportunity to pursue these virtues as dream and for a family who fills our part of my weekly practice of Mozart’s home with beautiful music using our Piano Sonata № 15. piano every day. Debbie Friedman exuded such passion in her music. A prayer was not just a prayer when she sang it. She could get everyone in the congregation feeling her music. I can also hear her touch of jazz… just enough to soothe a troubled soul. LOIS FRIED President, Sholom Women few weeks ago, I spent a I felt this experience move me for the in fact encoded in our bodies and RABBI DANIEL J. FEDER blessed sunny day in the first time as an eighteen-year-old coun- brains,” the author explains. “The joined Peninsula Temple Sholom San Joaquin Delta waterski- selor at Camp Swig, where the Shabbat fact that music seems to trigger in 2006 as the second senior rabbi in the synagogue’s history. ing. This is one of my favorite things to evening traditions enabled me to feel emotions in a way that noth- do, and I’ve been skiing with my family my religion’s power in a whole new ing else does suggests to many Before coming to PTS, since I was a little boy.
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