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Temple's Passover Second Seder Dinner Women of the Wall Temple’s Passover Second Seder Dinner Some stories get better with and various desserts. A each retelling, and the story of vegetarian option will be the Jews’ Exodus from Egypt— available for those who request Th as told during the Passover it in advance. The dinner will Seder is no different! Come and be provided by Christopher’s April 2016 hear the story again while Restaurant. No chametz will be Vol. 52, No. 7 enjoying dinner with your fellow served, and no chametz may be Temple Israelites. Saturday, April 23 carried into the building during Passover. Dinner will also e Rabbi Bogosian will lead the 6:00 p.m. include wine or juice, and Seder in the Great Hall on in The Great Hall congregants may bring wine of Saturday, April 23, beginning their own. at 6:00 p.m. and concluding at about 8:00 p.m. Any profits from the Seder will provide Cost of the Seder is $30 for adults, $15 for Temp scholarships to help Temple’s younger children ages 4-10, and free for children age members attend summer camp at Goldman three and under. Seating is limited; Union Camp Institute in Zionsville, IN. reservations are required and must be paid by Thursday, April 14. Members’ paid This year’s Seder menu will include matzo ball reservations will be given first priority. Please soup, gefilte fish, roasted chicken, vegetable RSVP online at www.tidayton.org or call medley, mashed potatoes, a mixed green salad Temple at 496-0050. Women of The Wall On Wednesday, April 13, at Prior to becoming the Executive 7:00 p.m. at Temple Israel, Women Director of Women of the of the Wall Executive Director, Wall in 2008, Lesley Sachs Lesley Sachs, will present thoughts had a long and successful career in l and opinions about the recent the area of women’s rights and Knesset decision to establish an religious freedom in Israel. Lesley e egalitarian and pluralistic section at was one of the founding members the Western Wall. What was of “Isha L’isha – Haifa’s Feminist gained through this momentous Center.” Lesley volunteered at the decision and what was conceded? Where does Rape Crisis Center and served for ten years on T the organization and its supporters go from the board of the Jerusalem Women's Shelter. here? After five years as spokesperson and Director of a The Women of the Wall has been fighting for Public Relations at the Israel Women’s equality for over 25 years. A group of Jewish Network, Lesley was promoted to Executive women from around the world, they strive to Director of the organization. She then served bl achieve the right for women, to wear prayer as Executive Director of the Israel Religious shawls, pray and read from the Torah Action Center (IRAC); next as Vice President of collectively and out loud at the Western Wall in the World Union for Progressive Judaism Jerusalem. In many circumstances, Jewish (WUPJ) and was the founding director of sanctity is still accessible and available solely by "Project Kesher Israel," an organization which et and for men. Women and girls do not always empowers Russian-speaking immigrant women. have the opportunity to take active, leadership Join us as we delve into a continuing hot topic in roles in Jewish spiritual life. Women of the Wall Israel, and bring your questions for Lesley. Light strives to change this by providing a model of refreshments will be served following the involvement and leadership for women of all presentation. Attendees will also have an ages on all levels of Jewish prayer and opportunity to purchase Women of the Wall Temple Israel celebration. tallitot. 130 Riverside Drive Dayton, OH 45405 937-496-0050 www.tidayton.org 2 A Message From… Temple Israel Rabbi Ilene Bogosian 130 Riverside Drive Interim Senior Rabbi Dayton, OH 45405-4968 phone 937-496-0050 fax 888-777-0490 www.tidayton.org OFFICE HOURS This is a season of multiple collective aspects of Passover. Mon-Thurs: 8 a.m.-5 p.m. transformations. The sun is getting Here’s my understanding of the text Fri: 8 a.m.-3 p.m. higher in the sky, but tomorrow it this year: The collective – in our STAFF might be chilly again. We’re not case the community that is our Rabbi Ilene Bogosian exactly in winter heating season any congregation – cannot be healthy if Interim Senior Rabbi more when the temperatures soar in those who come to its table are ext. 230 / [email protected] the daytime sun, but we also can’t enslaved. Neither can we create Rabbi Karen Bodney-Halasz call this springtime yet. In some kedushah – holiness – if each of us is places this is known as mud season. concerned only with a private Epstein Family Educator agenda. The sacred connections ext. 226 / [email protected] Another transformation that comes among us require each of us to Suzanne Shaw every year at this time is the one we release enslavements to assumptions Executive Director observe during Passover. Along the about each other. Only then are we ext. 222 / [email protected] road to freedom we had to pass free to engage in the task of growing Courtney Cummings through some mud – on the floor of as individuals and as a kehillah Music and Program Director the parted Red Sea. Can you imagine kedoshah – a holy congregation. ext. 224 / [email protected] the mess? But on the other side, all Those who have gone forth from of the former slaves were free. Marsha Pfeiffer their own Egypts are able to stand at Religious School Coordinator The Hagaddah teaches us that “in the door of our synagogue to ext. 221 / [email protected] each generation, every individual welcome everyone, those they agree Ellen Finke-McCarthy should feel as though he or she had with, those they have thought of as Facility rental and event planning; actually been redeemed from adversaries and those who are Tablet; yahrzeits; funerals; burials Mitzrayim, as it is said: ‘You shall tell different. ext. 225 / [email protected] your children on that day, saying, It is Soon Temple Israel will be entering a Annette Stogdill because of what Adonai did for me new season of its communal life. Reception; when I went free out of We have been through a few winter RSVP’s; donations Mitzrayim.’ (Exodus 13:8). For the ext. 223 / [email protected] seasons on the way to this change. Holy One redeemed not only our At times it has been muddy and Donald Bush ancestors; He redeemed us with messy. But there can be no new Child Care them.” spring growth without that mud. 937-271-0543 This is a remarkable statement. Our This month each of you will be liturgy and our history are not sitting down at a seder table to LEADERSHIP written in the first person singular. re-experience and celebrate Bart Weprin, President We always speak of what we did, freedom. As a community, I hope [email protected] what we were commanded to do, you will all be standing at the door 937-433-1959 and so on. How is it that the this spring welcoming each other Carol Finley, Vice President transformation from slavery to and the future you will build in [email protected] freedom is presented as the agenda partnership Rabbi Karen Bodney- 937-974-7418 of each individual? And if so why do Halasz. Rick Goldberg, Treasurer we sit down in groups at the seder [email protected] table to experience our liberation? 937-648-7451 Carol Graff, Secretary Each year I respond differently to the [email protected] tension between the individual and 937-426-8558 From the Rabbi Soup Supper There’s only one thing better than a hearty soup dinner on an early spring’s evening—sharing it with friends at the 3 start of Shabbat. On Friday, April 8, services begin at 6:00 p.m. and the soup-and-salad supper begins afterwards. Do you have a favorite soup recipe? Bring a pot to share (no pork or shellfish please!) and you’ll get in FREE—and yours might be judged best in the taste-off! The cost is $5 for adults, $3 for children ages 4-12 and free for younger children. Attendees who don’t bring soup should bring a salad or dessert to share (enough to feed 10 hungry people): last names starting with A – M please bring salad; N – Z please bring dessert. For information or to RSVP, call Temple at 496-0050. Tot Shabbat Ryterband Lecture Series Concludes Bring your little ones for an informal, Lectures this month will conclude the Dorothee and Louis Ryterband Brunch musical and active Shabbat service on Series’ 59th year at Temple Israel. Brunches begin at 9:45 a.m. The cost is Friday, April 15 at 6:00 p.m. The $7/week or free for new Temple members. approximately 20 minute service will be followed by a craft project and a potluck dinner. You’ll be out in time April 10 May 1 to get young ones to bed or to Rabbi Jan Marshall Weiss attend the 7:30 p.m. service. RSVP Katzew Dayton Jewish to Molly Blumer at Hebrew Union Observer [email protected]. College Earth Day Recycling Event Dinner And a Movie at the JCC Film Fest The Greening the Synagogue, Greening the World Committee is Join your Temple Israel friends on Tuesday, April 12 at 5:30 p.m. at the hosting a Pre-Passover Cleaning and Dublin Pub for dinner, then head over to The Neon for the screening of Earth Day Recycling Event.
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