KOL AMI

Jewish Center & Federation High Holy Day services of the Twin Tiers Services at Congregation Kol Ami for conclude on Tuesday, Congregation Kol Ami October 1, at 9:15 a.m. Jewish Community School The services for Shuvah, the Sabbath of Return, will be Friday, October 4, at 7:30 p.m., and Saturday, October 5, at 10:00 a.m. and S’lichot will be Saturday, October 5, at 7:30 p.m. Kever Avot, a memorial ser- October 2019 vice, will take place on Sunday, October 6, at 10:00 a.m. in the CKA ceme- tery, using the Franklin Street entrance. In this issue: Services for are Tuesday, October 8, at 7:30 p.m.; Wednesday, JCF Donations 2 October 9, at 9:15 a.m. with Yizkor no earlier than 12:00 noon; and Wednes- day, October 9, at 4:15 p.m. Eliana Light Residency Events 4 Basic-to-Basics Class 4 Eliana Light returns for Birthdays 4 Service Schedule 5 Eliana Light returns to Elmira as our artist/educator-in-residence for the be- ginning of Sukkot! She’ll be with us October 13–15, from Erev Sukkot Torah/ & Candle Lighting 7 through the second day. On Sunday, the 13th, events Celebrate Simchat Torah 7 will begin at 4:00 p.m. with Sukkot activities for all ages, Sukkah decorating at 5:00, and music with Mazal Tov 7 Eliana at 5:15. CKA Donations 8 Congregation Kol Ami will offer a Sukkot dinner at 6:00 p.m. Dinner (menu on page 4) is $12 for Yahrzeits 9 adults, $6 for children ages 5–12, and free for chil- Adult Education 9 dren under age 5. Reservations are required—please reserve online at https://bit.ly/2mvUvOp or call Knitzvah to resume 9 (607) 734-8122. The Sukkot evening service will fol- low dinner at about 7:30 p.m. On Monday, the 14th, Eliana will be the cantorial soloist for the morning service at 9:30 a.m. A soup and salad lunch will follow, after which Eliana will teach on “Sukkat Shlomecha—A Sukkah of Peace.” Lunch reservations aren’t required. Monday evening, the Jewish Center & Federation will host a public program at 7:00 p.m. on Faith and the Environment in which Eliana’s music and teaching will alternate with spiritual ap- proaches to environmental action, to be presented by Malachi Doane, Kathy Dubel, Svetlana Short, and Maggid Paul Solyn. A dinner at 6:00 p.m. precedes the program. The menu is on page 4. The dinner is free, but reservations are required and may be made online at https://bit.ly/2kUTFur or call (607) 734-8122. All three meals will be kosher and vegan/vegetarian with gluten-free op- tions. On Tuesday, the 15th, Eliana will lead a discussion on “Oh my G!D! in our everyday lives” at a brown-bag lunch in the sukkah at 12:00 noon. Please bring your own lunch (no pork or shellfish, please) and dress for the weather. Eliana Light’s residency is made possible by donations from JCF members and a grant from the Baker Memorial Fund of the Community Foundation of Elmira–Corning and the Finger Lakes. Jewish Center and Federation

from President Marcus Kantz

Happy and Healthy New Year to One Also, not much need to tell you to protect ourselves, our institutions and All. about JJ, except to remind you that and, essentially, our way of life, A new year, a new season, new we always need more volunteers on while still maintaining the solemni- opportunities, new challenges, new both Sunday and Monday. Please see if ty and celebration of the High Holy activities, new chances to make a you can carve out some time to Days. difference in our lives, our families, help. And, as always, the JJ Team The JCF is working with the CKA our friendships, our organizations, needs your donations for the sale. Board and our Security Team our community, and even in the Donations will be accepted starting to determine increased security world. For this article, at least, I’ll on Tuesday October 15, and the sale measures. My reason for bringing it leave your lives, your families and will be held on November 10 and 11. up here is because no matter what your friendships to you, with my As for the November -together the details turn out to be, we are go- hopes that you’ll succeed in making with our friends from the Mosque. I ing to need your understanding, co- the differences you want to make. believe that our two collections of operation, and maybe some assis- But here, I would like to talk a bit people who have so much in com- tance as well. For example, it may about the bigger picture. Let’s start mon should get to know each other take just a little longer than in the with the Congregation, JCF and Sis- better. Eating and schmoozing and past to enter for terhood, the three overlapping or- maybe playing some games togeth- services. ganizations that pretty much organ- er. We know that these are tactics The one thing that I can say for ize and implement everything that that work well with us , and the sure is that we are going to need happens in the Twin Tiers Jewish Imam assures me that they work more “Greeters” for each and every community. They’re made up of well with Muslims as well. Please High Holy Days service. We need people like you and me whose only watch for the info, cook up a delica- people to welcome with open arms real goal is supporting each other cy, and join us at 2:00 p.m. on No- all who come to pray and to cele- and their community, keeping it vember 3 at CKA. More details will brate with us. Please, call the CKA vital, lively, responsive to the needs follow as they are developed. office at 607-732-7410 if you can find and wants of the community, and And that leaves the High Holy it in your heart to help us in this maintaining financial sustainability. Days, my real reason for writing this very important way. We will be So, what’s new with them this fall? Happy New Year note in the first providing detailed instructions and • The High Holy Days (or as place. The High Holy Days , of training for Greeters as we get closer and I have taken to calling them, course, are the high point of our to the High Holy Days the HiHos), Jewish annual cycle, a time for re- We are a Congregation, and a Fed- • Eliana Light festivities for Sukkot, membering the past, thinking about eration, and a Sisterhood. We are a the weekend after Yom Kippur our past and future behavior, and Family. Worshiping and celebrating • The Jazzy Junque sale (JJ) and looking forward to the future, usual- and working and welcoming and • The second annual get-together ly with renewed optimism and playing and schmoozing and eating with our brothers and sisters from hope. As I type this on 9/11, though, as a family. We will embrace each the Islamic Association of the Fin- I am unavoidably swirled into the other, we will be with each other, as ger Lakes (IAFL). maelstrom of anxiety about being we always have. I wish you all a There’s no need for me to tell you Jewish these days and the need for peaceful and meaningful new year, about Eliana. You all know she’s us individually and as a community with your families, your friends, and great. You’ll get info in emails and to come to grips with that and take all of us together. And I say, Shalom. flyers. whatever steps we deem appropriate

JCF Donations JCF Membership Tivon Meir Bronze Magen David Member Phyllis Shore Gregory S. Rubin Mark Banach Jody Zacher Susan & Jeff Cadel Gold Magen David Linda & Harvey Chernosky Benefactor Marcia & James Weber Beth & Lee Herbst Terri Dobbs Sara Holtzman Richard Gerard Community Kitchen Eva & John Kadar Geoffrey S. Rubin Steven Etkind Malvina Kushnir John A. Travers

2 Kol Ami from Executive Director Paul Solyn

When we talk about spirituality, we Instead of turning back toward up medical appointments. (If you often seem to mean what psycholo- the front immediately at the end of could consider doing this on re- gists call “peak experiences.” the verse, try visualizing a bride pro- quest, even for someone you might You know: the kind of experience ceeding slowly down the aisle while not yet know, please tell us.) that leaves you overcome with awe the chorus is sung. Turn slowly as Most important: when you do any and wonder. she walks along and see if it enhanc- of these things, remember that it’s “Peak” in this sense doesn’t really es your experience of Shabbat. not just nice, or good for your refer to mountaintops, but common Or try to abstain from gossip health. It’s a Jewish action, a mitz- descriptions of peak experiences whenever the opportunity arises. vah. often seem to involve mountains. (This is harder than it sounds.) Re- A former Archbishop of Canter- For example, reciting the morning member as you do so that gossip is bury, William Temple, is quoted as prayer Modeh ani at the top of a worse than just “not very nice”: it’s saying, “It is a mistake to suppose mountain precisely at dawn. lashon hara, evil speech, which is pro- that God is only, or even chiefly, That could be deeply moving. Or hibited by the Torah. concerned with religion.” Temple is it might not be—that’s unpredicta- You might try choosing food con- of historical interest for another rea- ble. In any case, it requires getting sciously. Maybe you’re not interest- son: in 1942, he and Rabbi J.H. Hertz oneself up to the top of the moun- ed in keeping kosher, but would founded the British Council of tain in time for sunrise. “Biblical ” make sense for Christians and Jews, and through- Such experiences are necessarily you? That means avoiding just pork, out World War II he exhorted the rare, and we can’t count on produc- shellfish, and intentional combina- Allies to intervene against the ing one on demand. So I’d like to tions of meat and milk. slaughter of Jews in Europe. talk here about ordinary spirituality, Or perhaps “eco-kashrut” has It must have been a radical step the experiences that available with- some appeal: choosing locally for the chief cleric of the Church of out extreme effort. grown food when you can, looking England to say that God might not Let’s start with one that’s availa- for natural products, or increasing be very concerned with religion. ble every Friday evening. When we the plant-based portion of your diet. After all, he was in the religion busi- sing “L’cha Dodi” early in the ser- What about visiting a sick person? ness, so to speak. vice, we turn toward the entrance This is an important mitzvah for all It is, however, a very Jewish idea. for the last verse in order to wel- Jews, not just . In particular, Our tradition holds that how well, or come Shabbat, which is seen meta- find out whether someone recently how much, you pray is of much less phorically as a bride arriving to wed home from the hospital needs help importance than how you live. the entire Jewish people. with shopping or getting to follow- Jazzy Junque 2019 By now you are well on your way to a “decluttered” house. NOT YOU? Why not get started? Save your good stuff for Jazzy Junque. Don’t have your own garage sale – too much work! Join us, many hands make light work, and you’ll have fun seeing your friends and making new ones.

IMPORTANT DATES: First day to drop off your clean, working, nice things: Tuesday, Oct. 15 Last day to drop off your really good stuff: Wednesday, Nov. 6 Sale dates: Sunday, Nov. 10, and Monday, Nov.11 We will need many volunteers during our very short preparation period—under 4 weeks! Please plan your appointments, etc. for before or after the sale if you can. For more information, to volunteer before or at the sale, or to ask for help with furni‐ ture and large donations, call Tina at (607) 734‐8122, or Anita at (607) 562‐3178. Thanks for all your help with this important fund raiser!

October 2019 3 October 13–15: First Days of Sukkot Artist Residency with Eliana Light

Sunday, October 13 4:00 PM Sukkot Fun for All Ages 5:15 PM Sukkot Songfest with Eliana 6:00 PM Sukkot Dinner (Reservations required by October 7) Menu: Vegan chili, macaroni and cheese, cornbread, roasted vegetables, salad. Adults $12, children ages 5–12 $6. Dinner reservations at https://bit.ly/2mvUvOp 7:30 PM Sukkot Evening Service

Monday, October 14 9:30 AM Sukkot Morning Service 12:00 Sukkot Lunch & Learn with Eliana Menu: Carrot soup, bread and spreads, salad, fruit. “Sukkat Shlomecha—A Sukkah of Peace” 6:00 PM Dinner (Reservations required by October 8) Menu: chickpea and tahini casserole, broccoli with olive oil and lemon, watermelon and cucumber salad, cheese with crackers, dessert. Dinner reservations at https://bit.ly/2kUTFur 7:00 PM Interfaith Program: Faith and the Environment

The above meals will be kosher. Gluten-free options will be available.

October 15 12:00 Brown-Bag Lunch & Discussion with Eliana “Oh my G!D! Prayer in our everyday lives” Weather permitting, lunch will be in the sukkah—please dress accordingly.

These programs are made possible by donations from JCF members and a grant from the Baker Memorial Fund of the Community Foundation of Elmira–Corning and the Finger Lakes.

Back-to-Basics Birthdays class begins David Kartzman Michael Halperin Eliana Steinitz Dylan Douenias Thinking about embracing Juda- Arlene Rosenberg Margo Golos ism? Never went to Hebrew School? Maybe you did go to Hebrew School Joe Gaieski Abigail Gifeisman but don't remember much? This Edwin L. Berman Sue Braunstein new adult education class may be Denise Kartzman Lee Kosow for you! Rabbi Oren Steinitz Carol Braunstein Join Rabbi Oren Steinitz and Michael Lares Jerry Stemerman Maggid Paul Solyn for “: Lindsay Novack Lea Champion Back to Basics” on Sunday morn- Priscilla Weinstein ings at 10:30 a.m. in the library, Lloyd Peffer after the adult Hebrew class. The John Goldman Office hours first session is Sunday, October 27, Robert Cohen Congregation Kol Ami: Monday– continuing on November 3, 17, and Thursday, 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., 24, and on dates to be announced. Nayda Gifeisman Leon Horwitz Friday 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. There will be a total of 18 sessions, Jewish Center and Federation: Neila Goldwyn continuing into early spring. No Monday–Friday, 8:30 a.m. to specific background is required or Lisa Goldberg 2:30 p.m., and by appointment. assumed—only the desire to learn.

4 Kol Ami כל עמי–Congregation Kol Ami

from Cheryl Miller

L’Shannah Tovah! I expect that you donating $3,000 to the cost (which tickets less than last year. It is our will receive this issue of the Kol Ami was just under $6,000). We ap- hope that we can reach out to our sometime between Rosh Hashanah proved the painting of the ceilings in community to join and support us and Yom Kippur. Hopefully you will the Sadinsky meeting room and the the way they do for the annual Food have had an opportunity to attend at hallway outside of the library where Festival. Thank you to Ron Friedman least a couple of the many services there are stains from leaking water. for all of the hard work that you put planned for 2019/5780 High Holy Hale Roofing cleaned out the drains into this event year after year! I Days. Our Ritual Committee works on our roof and will inspect regular- would also like to thank all of the with Rabbi Steinitz to prepare for ly to hopefully prevent any further volunteers who worked so hard on the various services that allow us to leaks. the Summer BBQ, which was well- observe, worship, and actively par- We anticipate voting on the budg- attended and a lot of fun. We sold ticipate with our fellow congregants. et at the October 23 meeting and out of chicken and saw plenty of We will be using our new High Holy will offer a Budget Session shortly smiles as people enjoyed the chick- Day machzorim, which were pur- thereafter for congregants who wish en dinners and yummy baked goods chased over the summer. (The to ask questions. We reviewed the prepared and sold by members of machzor is a prayer book used by financial statements from CKArt and our Sisterhood. Kids enjoyed mak- Jews on the High Holy Days.) The the Summer BBQ. CKArt was a won- ing slime and getting their faces books are available for purchase or derful event that blended elements painted and we had happy winners for dedication in memory of a loved of the previous years’ events with an of the various raffles. one or special occasion. The cost is Art Show and Auction. While the I always welcome your thoughts, $54.00 and the books are available event did not bring in the revenue concerns, ideas, or questions. My in the CKA office. that was projected in last year’s cell phone number is 607-331-7475 The Board is happy to report that budget, the committee met post- or you can email me at cmil- we finally have a new booster for event to reflect and plan for next [email protected]. our dishwasher in the upstairs year’s event. Our biggest challenge is kitchen. Thank you to Sisterhood for to increase ticket sales, as we sold 65

Shabbat Services except as noted below Shabbat Evening Service 7:30 PM Shabbat Morning Service 8:30 AM with breakfast Shabbat Morning Service 9:30 AM with

Noteworthy Upcoming Religious Observances Tuesday, October 1 Monday, October 14 Rosh Hashanah Morning Service 9:15 AM Sukkot Morning Service 9:30 AM Lunch & Learn with Eliana Light 12:00 PM Friday, October 4 Shabbat Shuvah Evening Service 7:30 PM Sunday, October 20 Simchat Torah Celebration 6:00 PM Saturday, October 5 Shabbat Shuvah Morning Service 10:00 AM Monday, October 21 Havdalah and S’lichot 7:30 PM Atzeret/Simchat Torah Service 9:30 AM Yizkor Sunday, October 6 Kever Avot Memorial Service 10:00 AM Friday, October 26 at Franklin Street Cemetery Music Shabbat 7:30 PM

Sunday, October 13 Saturday, October 27 Sukkot Activities & Music with Eliana Light 4:00 PM Shabbat Morning Service 9:30 AM Sukkot Dinner 6:00 PM Rebecca Gifeisman, Bat Mitzvah Family Sukkot Service 7:30 PM

October 2019 5 from Rabbi Oren Steinitz

Shanah Tovah! ket Yom Kippur!” he said; “fast for world. As for me, I was a child, Reflecting on the High Holidays, twenty-five hours! Beat yourself on around four years of age, dressed and their central place in American the chest!” And yet – both meta- in my holiday clothes, and one of Jewish life, Rabbi Arthur Green phorically and literally – tickets are my relatives brought me into the writes that in a conversation he had getting sold out! Large synagogues synagogue, to sit with my father with his friend Rabbi Larry Kushner, have “overflow services,” as even and grandfather. The house of they noticed an interesting phenom- their enormous sanctuaries cannot prayer was full of men wrapped in enon. Jewish religious life, Green contain all the people who pay hefty prayer shawls adorned with silver, writes, is regulated by two cycles – sums to sit – mostly stand, actually – all dressed in white, holding “that of the sacred year, and that of for three to six hours on Yom Kippur books in their hands; many can- the human life span.” The yearly morning, reciting complex liturgy in dles were set in long cases filled cycle, as we know, is largely ignored a foreign language, confessing end- with sand, and a magnificent light by most American Jews. If you show less lists of sins that they (hopefully) and pleasant aromas emanated up at a Sukkot or morning did not commit! How is this possi- from them. An old man was service, for instance, you will likely ble? Simchat Torah is certainly more standing, hunched over the pul- be greeted very enthusiastically by joyous, and Purim is most certainly pit, and sweet, pleasant sounds the six or seven people sitting in the more fun. What is the secret to the come out from under his shawl. I small sanctuary, impatiently hoping appeal of Rosh HaShannah and Yom am standing at the synagogue’s for a Minyan. Ask most congregants Kippur? window, trembling and enchanted about the last time they celebrated Rabbi Green offers an interesting by the pleasant voices, the silver Lag Ba’omer or Tu BiShvat, and you explanation. The Days of Awe, he adornments, the beautiful lights will likely be faced with a blank says, “do not quite belong exclusive- and the smell of honey emanating stare. Channukah’s only real saving ly to the yearly cycle. They partake from the wax candles. It appears grace is its proximity to Christmas of the life cycle as well, and this is to me that the ground I tread on , (and, of course, the appeal of deep- their secret.” Rosh HaShannah and and the streets I walked in, and fried foods). Yom Kippur are our annual chance the entire world were nothing but On the other hand, as Rabbi Green to face our own mortality. We gather a corridor leading to this house. I observes, just show up slightly late here, young and old, skeptics along was too young to be familiar with on a Saturday morning when a Bat with fervent believers, and repeat such abstract concepts, and did or Bar Mitzvah is held, and you will the special additions to the liturgy not know the word “sanctity,” but probably have to circle the parking again and again: “remember us for I have no doubt that at that time I lot a couple of times before finding life […] inscribe us in the Book of felt the sanctity of the space, the an available spot. Many – or even Life.” Even those of us that don’t sanctity of the day and the sancti- most – Jews still wish to celebrate necessarily believe in the power of ty of the people standing in the their children’s births and coming of prayer, stand here and offer their House of the Lord, praying and age in a synagogue, or at least by hopes that the following year will singing. Even though I have never having a Jewish ceremony. Many bring “blessings, peace, and a good encountered anything like it be- are interested in having a rabbi offi- livelihood.” You do not have to be a fore, I could not imagine that it ciate at their wedding, even if their great believer to be moved by lines will ever cease to exist. I stood partner is not Jewish, and a surpris- such “cast us not off in old age, as there, watching the sanctuary and ing number of Jews insist on a tradi- our strength fails, do not abandon the people standing in it, and tional Jewish burial. Despite the fact us!” You do not have to be all that could not tell the difference be- that synagogue membership is at its religious to stand here and be grate- tween one man and another, as all time low, mountaintop B’nai ful for the chance to stand here yet they all appeared to be one cohe- Mitzvah celebrations and Central another year, and hope to be able to sive unit. My heart was overfilled Park Jewish weddings are more pop- do the same thing again next year. with joy and love for this house, ular than ever. Let’s just draw the But I don’t think that this is all and these people, and this music. line at a rollercoaster or do it your- there is to it. In his introduction to Slowly, the music stopped, and self Bris, please…. his seminal High Holidays antholo- only a faint humming sound con- What does not seem to fit this gy, Nobel laureate in literature S.Y. tinued until it stopped as well. My trend at all is the fact that our syna- Agnon wrote a vivid description of soul was suddenly pained, and I gogues are packed on the High Holi- his first Yom Kippur memory, that broke out in tears. My father and days. Quite curiously, if you ask me, he experienced in his childhood grandfather became upset, and “three-day-Jews” choose to show up synagogue when he was four years the rest of the congregation stood to the longest, most complicated ser- old: near us, trying to calm me down, vices of the entire year. John Stewart but I kept on crying. People asked once joked that Channukah is the The skies were pure, the land was each other who made the child most popular Jewish holiday be- quiet, and all the streets were cry, and no one could answer. So cause it is marketable. “Try and mar- clean. A new wind fluttered in the what made me cry? At that time,

6 Kol Ami that one cohesive unit broke describe what he was looking for – come very painfully aware of the down. Some of the people took off that elusive feeling of sanctity that losses our community experienced their prayer shawls, and some be- he experienced when he was a in the last several years. Many of the gan conversing with one another. young boy. That subtle moment of pillars of our congregation, the very Those same people that my loved pure beauty, that tells us that we are ones who helped create those spe- clung to suddenly changed their indeed getting a chance for a new cial moments of sanctity, are no faces, and the face of the house, beginning. Some of us know what longer with us. If we come here, ex- and the face of the day. That is they are looking for – maybe the pecting others to create the magic what broke my heart and made synagogue experience of their child- for us, we may remain unsatisfied. — עלינו לשבח me break down and cry. hood, or maybe something they ex- Every service ends with Many years passed, and I am still perienced up on a mountaintop or it is upon us to praise. Not upon the bewildered. Every single Day of by a picturesque stream. Others rabbi, not upon the choir. Us. Every Atonement, when I see the People have more difficulty pinning that single one of us. We cannot rely on of Israel change their faces from feeling down. Whatever it is that we others to make miraculous mo- the sacred to the profane, my soul are seeking, many of us come here ments on our behalf. becomes pained as it did on that expecting that this void will be filled In the words of Reb Zalman very day. by other people – like the old men Schachter-Shalomi, “the only way to wrapped in prayer shawls adorned get it together, is together.” When we come to synagogue on the with silver in Agnon’s story. So let’s create some magic. High Holidays, we are all looking for When we gather here for Rosh Shannah Tovah. something. Agnon could beautifully HaShannah and Yom Kippur we be- Celebrate Simchat Torah at CKA Mazal Tov Join in music and dancing with the time to do it! If you have done all of To Cynthia and John Massey Torah scrolls, aliyot for everyone those hundreds of times – come do on the marriage of their daughter, present (including children), and it again! This jubilant festival is a Becca Massey, to Alex George on apples when Congregation Kol Ami wonderful ending to the holiday September 7. celebrates Simchat Torah on Sunday, season. October 20, at 6:00 p.m. The morning service for Shemini All information for the November issue If you never had an aliyah, never Atzeret and Simchat Torah, includ- of the Kol Ami must be submitted to held a Torah scroll, or never saw the ing Yizkor, will be on Monday, Octo- one of the organizational offices by Oc- text from up close – this is a great ber 21, at 9:30 a.m. tober 10. Please be sure that all dates are on the JCF calendar.

Weekly Torah/Haftarah Portions & Candle Lighting October 4–5 October 11–12 October 18–19 October 25–26 6:26 PM 6:14 PM 6:03 PM 5:53 PM Vayelech Ha’azinu Chol ha-Moed Sukkot Bereshit Torah Deut. 31:1–30 Torah Deut. 32:1–52 Torah Ex. 33:12–34:26; Torah Gen. 1:1–6:8 Pr. Hosea 14:2–10; Pr. 2 Samuel 22:1–51 Num. 20:26–31 Pr. Isaiah 42:5–43:10 Micah 7:18–20 Pr. Ezek. 38:18–39:16 CKA Book Club

Join us for our 2019–2020 Book Club! Each month we will discuss a new book. We meet in the Jerome & Etkind Library on the second Wednesday of each month at noon.

October 16: Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love by Dani Shapiro

November 20: Haven by Ruth Gruber

December 11: Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan

Borrow these from the CKA library, ask for them at the public library, or purchase them, and join us. Don’t forget to bring your lunch!

October 2019 7 CKA Donations Flowers for the Bimah Goldberg for all their help baking In honor of Irv Appel’s special October 4: In memory of parents, for the wedding of Becca Massey birthday by Andra Frank Sydell & Sam Stern & Ida & Sam & Alex George, by Cynthia & John In memory of Edith & Harold Rabinowitz by Alex and Marilyn Massey Lubin by the Roger’s Family Rabinowitz In memory of Sidney Hoffman by October 18: In memory of Carole Hoffman Rabbi’s Discretionary Fund Manford D. Rosenbloom & In memory of Beatrice Shapero by In memory of Mildred Schreiber by Michael M Komer by Judy Komer Carole Hoffman Leonard Schreiber October 25: In memory of Scott In memory of Ralph Moritz by the In memory of Margaret Schreiber Rosenheck, Adeline & Manny Donner Family by Leonard Schreiber Rosenheck by Kathy Rosenheck & In In memory of Harold In memory of Ernest & Gertrude Family Stemerman by Myra & Jerry Rosenwald by Leonard Schreiber October 26: In honor of Rebecca Stemerman & Family In memory of Gary Stecker by Her- Gifeisman’s Bat Mitzvah In appreciation of kindness shown mine & Larry Shapiro visiting CKA services by Isabel In honor of Anita Adelsberg’s General Fund Margolin receiving the “Pillar of the Com- In appreciation to Suzanne Hes- Josef Stein Endowment Fund munity” award by Hermine & Larry selson, Marcia Lenhardt and Lisa In honor of the marriage of Shapiro Goldberg for all their help in the daughter, Becca Massey, to Alex baking for Becca Massey and Alex George by Cynthia & John Massey Religious School Endowment Fund George’s wedding, by Cynthia & In memory of M Scott Rosenheck John Massey Lillian Simckes Education Fund by Kathy & Jeff Rosenheck In honor of Myra & Jerry In memory of Hyman Steinmetz by Stemerman’s 60th wedding anni- Jerome & Natalie Steinmetz Sidney Hersh Building Fund versary by Andra Frank In honor of Irv Appel’s special In memory of Edith Lubin by Myra Marvin & Shirley Rubin birthday by Lee & Anita Adelsberg & Jerry Stemerman & Family Scholarship Fund In memory of Betsy Krause by In memory of Richard Frank by Myra & Jerry Stemerman & Family Andrew Carmen & Jeanette Quinn In appreciation to Suzanne & Family Hesselson, Marcia Lenhardt & Lisa

SHABBAT SHUVAH The Shabbat between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur Shabbat Service Friday, October 4 7:30 PM Shabbat Service Saturday, October 5 10:00 AM Havdalah and S’lichot Saturday, October 5 7:30 PM ******************* KEVER AVOT— CEMETERY SERVICE Join us to remember your beloved ones at our Cemetery. Meet at the Franklin Street Entrance Memorial Service Sunday, October 6 10:00 AM ******************* YOM KIPPUR SERVICES Evening Service Tuesday, October 8 7:30 PM Morning Service Wednesday, October 9 9:15 AM Yizkor Service Wednesday, October 9 no earlier than 12:00 Noon Afternoon Service Wednesday, October 9 4:15 PM Break the Fast Wednesday, October 9 6:51 PM Community Break the Fast sponsored by our Sisterhood.

8 Kol Ami Yahrzeits October Tishrei 14 Rene Rinde 15 26 Ernest Printz 27 1 Donald W. Berry 2 14 Manford Rosenbloom 15 26 Archie Sadinsky 27 1 Kenneth Hamilton 2 15 Sandra Metivier 16 26 Steven H. Semel 27 2 Esther Rachel Barkus 3 15 Sol Sloan 16 26 Anna Slepian 27 2 Arthur Spielberg 3 15 Myer Solomon 16 27 Freda Helman 28 3 Alan Colodny 4 16 Irving Herman 17 28 Esther Glantz 29 3 Hyman Golos 4 16 Charles Holtgrewe 17 29 Anita Kohn 30 4 Harry Ashendorf 5 18 Norma R. Earle 19 29 Rose Dann 30 4 Stuart Luther 5 18 Arthur Kantz 19 29 Rosalyn Wladis 30 5 Hattie Kantz 6 18 Herman Laskow 19 29 Shirley Rubin 30 5 AI Schlussel 6 19 Ruth Birman 20 5 KurtWohl 6 19 Lorie Gerstel 20 October Chesvan 6 Julia David 7 20 Sondra Firestone 21 30 Eleanor (Jerry) Granoff 1 7 Katalin Deri 8 20 Dorothy Sigel 21 30 Gary Schochet 1 7 Doris Spielberg 8 22 Samuel Staver 23 30 Elizabeth W. White 1 8 Chris Alimont 9 23 Molly Horwitz 24 31 Marshall Barrett 2 9 Abraham R. Barcus 10 23 Bernard M. Komer 24 31 Razel Pisetzner 2 9 Sheldon Herman 10 23 Frieda Jacobson 24 9 Marcus Stemerman 10 23 Louis Jacobson 24 Names of Confederate soldiers 10 Samuel Stern 11 24 Ben Solomon 25 buried in Woodlawn National 13 Theodore Rachlin 12 25 Irving Korn 26 Cemetery are included above. 14 Abraham Malinowitz 15 26 Irving Jacobson 27

Adult Education Community Kitchen

Open to the entire community Generous volunteers from Saturdays at 9:00 a.m.: Breakfast and discussion. Attend the brief Shabbat CKA and JCF prepare and morning service at 8:30 and stay for breakfast, or come for breakfast and serve lunch at the Elmira stay for the full Shabbat service at 9:30. Community Kitchen on the Sundays at 10:30 a.m.: Judaism—Back to Basics with Rabbi Oren Steinitz first Thursday of every and Maggid Paul Solyn. October 27, November 3, 17, and 24. No specific month. Our next dates are background is required or assumed—only the desire to learn. October 3 and November 7. Sunday, October 13, at 4:00 p.m.: Sukkot learning with Rabbi Oren Steinitz If you can help, please and others. For all ages. contact Gil Sweet. Cooks, Monday, October 14, at 12:00 noon: Lunch & Learn with Eliana Light after food-preparers, shoppers, the morning service. Topic: “Sukkat Shlomecha—A Sukkah of Peace.” servers... you name it, we

Tuesday, October 15, at 12:00 noon: Brown-bag lunch and discussion with need you! Cash donaons Eliana Light. Topic: “Oh my G!D! Prayer in our everyday lives.” may be made through the JCF. Knitzvah set to resume Hello everyone! Today, the day after fortunate. We have ample yarn at some lap robes for Hospice. Labor Day, I am reminded that Fall the moment, and will concentrate I am so proud of the folks who is on its way. With that said, it is on smaller projects this year, since have dedicated a lot of time, energy Knitzvah time again. last year we created 14 full-sized af- and love into each and every article. Starting in October, we will re- ghans for the beds at the shelter, I'd like to see some new folks join us sume our meeting and work ses- over 40 hats for men, women and in our community outreach to as- sions held the second and fourth children, about 18 scarves, and a few sure that protective clothing is given Thursdays of each month, from 6:00 sweater vests. We also made a few to our homeless friends. to 8:00 p.m. As usual, everyone is crocheted baby toys and some mit- If anyone has questions, please invited and encouraged to create tens. We also expanded our out- feel free to call me at 719-659-2796. cold weather outerwear for the less reach to needy Vets at the VA, and —Sharon DeHaas

October 2019 9 Jewish Community School

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It is hard to believe that the fall holi- for eight weeks, then being present- learning basic Hebrew with days are upon us and we are now a ed with another two choices. Cur- Sophie Marmor, Hebrew teacher, month into the 5780 school year. It rently, students are learning about every other week. The prayers mim- has been a great start, and I am so Jewish comics and anime and about ic those used in services here at CKA excited for what the school year has Jewish-Israeli cooking with Dr. and taught to students in the school. in store. We have begun our older Sharp and Mrs. Rothenberg. A huge thanks to Rabbi Oren who is grade curriculum paths, allowing Our adult Hebrew classes began providing recordings of the prayers students to choose one of two paths on September 22. The small group is to participants. Class News PJ LIBRARY

Gan Yeladim (K) – We are off to a reviewing and learning about each Free books and great start in the new school year! holiday throughout the year. We will Our curriculum focuses on learning be combining discussions, reading music for both the Aleph-Bet and basic He- from texts, stories, crafts, and pro- brew vocabulary words. In our first jects to enhance our studies. Jewish children lesson we learned “bet” and two new We are also introducing an excit- words: imma and abba. We were ing new electives program for your ages 6 months–8 able to put these new words to use children. Dr. Sharp and I will be years in greeting our parents when they joining forces to offer two choices of came to pick us up. The rabbi shared electives every eight weeks. This op- http://www.pjlibrary.org/ a fun story during our music time tion will be available to students in communities/ and also gave us a chance to get grades 4, 7, and 8. For the first eight some of our wiggles out. weeks, Dr. Sharp will teach Jewish elmira–twin–tiers/317 Parents are encouraged to make cooking. It will be a wonderful com- use of the newly organized lending bination of cooking and learning ages 9–12 years library. It’s a great way to supple- about several different foods and ment the books you have at home traditions associated with the Jewish http://www.pjourway.org with some additional reading mate- holidays. rials. Kathy Rosenheck I will be offering a class on Jewish NOW EXPANDED TO creators in the world of cartooning AGE 12 Kitah Bet (2) – Now that summer is and comic books (Superman, Mar- coming to a close, we look forward vel characters, etc.). We will be to the new Jewish year. The Bet class learning about the contributions A project of the Jewish Center will begin the year by celebrating made by Jewish cartoonists and & Federation and the and learning about Rosh Hashanah, how their characters and cartoons Yom Kippur, Sukkot, and Simchat relate to Judaism - past and present. Harold Grinspoon Foundation Torah. September is a busy month Each student will also be creating with so many holidays, planned pro- his/her own comic book/story or jects, and stories. Wishing everyone graphic novel. It promises to be a a good year, Rivka Miran very creative and exciting year! Wishing everyone a healthy and Kit0t Dalet, Zayin, Het (4, 7, 8) – We happy new year! are off to a wonderful start for our Donna Rothenberg school year! In grade 4, we will be

FLOWERS FOR THE BIMAH All information for the October It is our congregation’s long-standing tradition to adorn the bimah issue of the Kol Ami must be sub- with flowers for the Sabbath: mitted to one of the organizational in memory of in honor of in celebration of. offices by September 10. Please be Please call Sue King, evenings 607-734-8468, for cost, information, and to reserve a date. sure that all dates are on the JCF calendar. Thank you.

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Rosh Hashanah Shabbat Shuvah 6 7 8 9 Offices Closed 10 11 12 JCS 9:30 am-12:30 pm CKA CKA CKA 7:30 pm Shabbat CKA 9:30 Adult Hebrew 7:30 pm Yom Kippur /Kol 9:15 am Yom Kippur Morn- Service 8:30 am Shabbat Service Nidre Service ing Service w/Yizkor 9:30 am Shabbat Service CKA 4:15 pm Afternoon Service 10:00 am Memorial Service

at Franklin St. Entrance RSVP Due for 10/13/19 RSVP Due for 10/14/19 Dinner Dinner Yom Kippur 13 14 Offices Closed 15 16 17 18 19 No JCS CKA JCF 12:00 Brown Bag CKA 12:00 pm Book Club CKA CKA 9:30 am Sukkot Morning Lunch w/ Eliana Light 7:30 pm Shabbat Service 8:30 am Shabbat Service JCF/JCS 4:00 pm Sukkot Service 9:30 am Shabbat Service Program with Eliana Light JCF Donations for Jazzy CKA 12:00 Lunch & Learn Junque Open CKA with Eliana Light 6:00 pm Sukkot Dinner and JCF 6:00 Dinner Service 7:00 pm “Faith and the Environment”

Columbus Day Sukkot 20 21 Offices Closed 22 23 24 25 26 JCS 9:30 am-12:30 pm CKA JCF CKA CKA 7:30 pm Music Shab- CKA 10:30 Adult Hebrew 9:30 am Atzeret/Simchat 7:30 pm Board Meeting 6:00 pm Exec. Board bat 9:30 am Shabbat Service Torah Service w/Yizkor 7:00 pm Trustees Meeting Rebecca Gifeisman Bat CKA 6:00 pm Simchat Mitzvah Torah Celebration Atzeret-Simchat Sukkot Torah 27 28 29 30 31 JCS 9:30 am-12:30 pm

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