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Nisan/Iyar 5779 MT. ZION CONGREGATION, Sioux Falls, South Dakota May 2019 From the Congregation President... SEE ARTWORK AT: https://www.israel21c.org/10-talented- israeli-artists-making-their-mark-on-the-worlds-canvas/ Dr. Mark Oppenheimer 10 talented Israeli artists making their mark on the world’s canvas Painters, sculptors, fi ber and street artists add splashes of Israeli creativity to museums, public and private spaces in countries large and small. Think of the icons of modern Israeli art, and maybe Menashe Kadishman’s simple A graduate of New York’s Pratt Institute, Goldman works in multiple media sheep paintings or Yaacov Agam’s colorful kinetic will come to mind. including performance art. His creations have been exhibited at museums such But there are many other contemporary visual artists from making their as the , Museum of Islamic Art, Ein Harod Museum, Philadelphia mark internationally. Here are just a few, new and veteran, to watch on the world Museum of Jewish Art and the Vienna Jewish Museum. canvas. In the fall of 2018, Goldman was one of fi ve international artists – the others were YOSEF “JOJO” OHAYON Andi Arnovitz (see below), Lynne Avadenka, Meydad Eliyahu and Leora Wise — chosen for a three-week Venice art residency on climate change through a Jewish Born in Casablanca in 1958, Jojo became a farmer in Israel while pursuing art as lens. Goldman now is fi nishing a three-stage installation in an old Jew- a hobby. Eventually he began incorporating farming equipment and techniques ish cemetery in Kaluszyn, Poland. into his artwork, leading to unusual artistic methods including water pressure to manipulate metal into artwork and furniture. HILLA BEN ARI In his paintings, Jojo uses bottles with a tiny hole cut from the end to distribute This kibbutz-raised visual artist with a degree from Bezalel Academy of Art and the colors in uniform patterns across large canvases, creating signature pieces that Design in uses video, sculpture and other media to depict the female portray women, fl owers and other forms of nature. form as a medium to explore identity, sexuality, and the relationship between men and women. Jojo Ohayon using a bottle technique to create an abstract painting. Photo: cour- tesy Ben Ari’s work has been displayed in Barcelona, Beijing, Berlin, Bonn, Brussels, Bucharest, Bulgaria, Los Angeles, Milan, New York, Paris, Rome, Tokyo, Van- Jojo’s oeuvre includes murals, abstract paintings, metal chairs and wall sculp- couver and other global cities and at many Israeli museums and galleries. She has tures, vases and mosaic sculptures. His pieces are exhibited in galleries and received awards at arts festivals in Madrid and Tokyo. owned by buyers in Israel, the United States, Europe, Australia and China. Through the Visiting Israeli Artists Program, Ben Ari is teaching at the University Jojo opened his fi rst gallery 10 years ago in , followed by a New York of Florida Gainesville during the 2019 spring semester. A special exhibition of City gallery and a website that sells his works with free worldwide shipping. He her work debuted at the university’s Gary R. Libby Gallery in the Fine Arts on also has a studio and showroom at the Dead Sea. March 25. KEN GOLDMAN BROKEN FINGAZ In September 2006, kibbutz-based conceptual artist-sculptor Ken Goldman’s Israel’s most successful street-art crew – four men who don’t reveal their real soft, colorful Kabbala dolls were an instant hit at the annual toy audition at FAO names — got started in Haifa and branched out across the globe with commis- Schwarz in New York City. Since then, Goldman’s clever, provocative and eclec- sions ranging from pop-art murals to 3D installations to album covers and U2 tic works of Judaica have been exhibited, installed and sold widely. music videos. “Goldman’s work is an exuberant, idiosyncratic celebration of Jewish practice,” Paris, London, Bratislava, Las Vegas, Bremen, Chengdu, Los Angeles, Milan, wrote Ben Schachter in his 2017 book, Image, Action, and Idea in Contemporary Jewish Art, which devotes a chapter to Goldman and features “With Without” on its cover, an image of Goldman himself “wearing” a kippah of his own hair. President’s column - continued on page 2

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September 13th, 14th and 15th 2019 are the dates that we will celebrate 100 YEARS of Mt. Zion Congregation’s “life”. Specifi c plans will be outlined in the near future, but for now, please mark your calendars and share the dates with Mt. Zion’s friends and families from near and far, past and present. All will be welcome! Thank you!!!

PAGE 1 President’s column - continued from page 1 Berlin, Krakow, Rio de Janeiro, Seattle, Portland, Dusseldorf, San Francisco, Amsterdam, Mexico City… there’s hardly a major city (and some remote ones, like Phu Quoc Island in Vietnam) these four guys haven’t DONATIONS livened up with their splashy graphics. (March 10 - April 9, 2019) ANDI ARNOVITZ Jerusalem-based conceptual artist Andi Arnovitz uses installations, prints, artist books and sculpture to explore Please send all Temple contributions to: issues of infertility, divorce, domestic violence, gender, politics and religion, and the Israeli-Palestinian con- PO Box 756, Sioux Falls, SD 57101 fl ict. Her work has been exhibited across the world (including France, Spain, England, Poland, Canada, China, GENERAL FUND Finland, Germany, Lithuania and the United States) and is in public and private collections including the US Library of Congress, The Smithsonian, the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life in California, and Yale In memory of MaDonna Hicks University in Connecticut. with sympathy to Steve, Deb “My goal is to seduce the viewer visually, to lure them into a closer examination of the work and then to con- front them with a problem or issue, and cause them to re-examine their views, engage with a specifi c subject and Elana Hicks from Marilyn & and increase their awareness of a problem,” Arnovitz tells ISRAEL21c. Dave Aronson; Mark & Matilda This spring, her works are showing in the Sichuan Museum of Fine Art in China, the Jewish Museum of Ber- lin, Susquehanna Art Museum in Pennsylvania, and Yale. In the summer and fall of 2019, Arnovitz will exhibit Oppenheimer at the HUC Museum in Manhattan and Stadhaus Museum in Germany as well as Israeli locations. FATMA SHANAN DERY In memory of Hilde and Lou Tel Aviv-based Fatma Shanan Dery’s large-scale oil paintings suggest fl uid defi nitions of gender, national and ethnic identities through scenes of people (including herself) from circles of her life — especially from Julis, Wolf from the Walter S Mander the Israeli Druze village where she was born and raised. Traditional Druze rugs placed in unexpected locations Foundation, Chuck Wolf, Susan Wolf fi gure prominently in her work. Winner of a 2016 prize for fi gurative-realist art given by the Tel Aviv Museum, Shanan Dery has done artist and Family residencies in New York, California and at the Artport program in Tel Aviv. Her works are included in the col- lections of the Israel Museum and Ilana Goor Museum in Israel and in private collections in Israel and abroad. Shanan Dery’s 2019 calendar includes a solo exhibition in Berlin, and group exhibitions in New York, Cyprus, In memory of Walter Mander from Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. the Walter S Mander Foundation, ARIELA WERTHEIMER Chuck Wolf, Susan Wolf and Family Ariela Wertheimer, an Israeli philanthropist listed in Forbes’ 2018 “The World’s Richest People,” has been painting professionally since 1997. In 2017 and 2018, Wertheimer displayed at the annual Art Biennale in Venice with Tel Aviv’s Farkash Gallery, To the Congregation from Dave & and in November 2018 opened her own studio in Jaff a. Wertheimer made her US debut in 2018 at Scope Miami Beach and her Asian debut at Singapore Art Week in Marilyn Aronson January 2019. She will be featured at the 2019 Artexpo in New York City, April 4-7, and then Art Biennale in Venice this May. Toward the Passover Seder from Jan Ariela Wertheimer’s “Ropes and Ties” was shown at Scope Miami in 2018. Photo: courtesy At Scope, she exhibited the Jaff a Port-inspired “Ropes and Ties: The Freedom to Let Go,” which symbolizes Forstein the physical and conscious/emotional ropes that are intertwined in the world. “The strings made from plant fi bers which have created a twine into a rope … have accompanied humankind from the beginning. The ropes allow, the ropes restrict, the ropes connect with other ropes and a continuity is To the Congregation in appreciation created,” she explains. of its support of the MultiFaith PIERRE KLEINHOUSE st Award-winning illustrator and designer Pierre Kleinhouse has a Tel Aviv studio, where he does artworks for Service on March 31 from Marilyn exhibitions and commercial clients. He also gives talks and illustration workshops around the world. & Dave Aronson Pierre Kleinhouse’s “Bear & Welder” was done for the Museum of Communism in Czech Republic. Photo: courtesy The Bezalel Academy of Art and Design graduate has built up an impressive clientele including Stella Artois, A Note from the UPS, BBC Focus, HarperCollins, Rolling Stone magazine, Harvard Business Review, Museum of Commu- nism in Czech Republic, Moog Audio, Virgin Mobile, Krispy Kreme and Oxford University Press. Treasurer DAVID GERSTEIN Gerstein’s pop-art paintings and sculptures speak in a universal language of playfulness, humor and optimism. True to his “art for everyone” motto, his works range in price from $100 to $1.5 million, and are sold in his Tel Dear Mount Zion Temple Members Aviv gallery, in design shops and online. and Friends, Gerstein’s cows and fl owers, butterfl ies and birds, cyclists and fi sh, pedestrians and dancers are installed in permanent and temporary spaces and sold through dealers in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, I have tried to issue receipts for dues Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Japan, Korea, Russian Federation, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, and donations in timely fashion Sweden, England and the United States. In January 2016, Gerstein presented Pope Francis with a wall sculpture depicting in bright colors the phrase throughout the year as they are from Psalms, “The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want,” in Hebrew and Spanish. received. If you need a duplicate This year, Gerstein did a special exhibition in Sydney, Australia for the benefi t of Make A Wish Israel, and inaugurated a new sculpture at the entrance of a new museum of contemporary art in Taiwan. In April he’ll copy of a receipt, please contact me have a solo show in Vienna. in writing via e-mail or regular mail. SYLVIA FEINSTEIN Please try to include an approximate Buenos Aires native Sylvia Feinstein makes tapestries at her gallery in Modi’in based on biblical themes, using an ancient technique to convey the drama of the scene and its characters in a contemporary abstract artwork. date and amount of your payment Her series of tapestries on Leviticus, on doves and on women in the Bible, among others, have been displayed with the request. in private and public spaces worldwide including Montevideo, Buenos Aires, Houston, Toronto and Antwerp; and many places in Jerusalem including the Bible Lands Museum, Yad Vashem and the Jerusalem Interna- tional Convention Center. Thank you! Feinstein is part of the “Save the Reef” international fi ber art project that will tour internationally for fi ve years starting in September 2019 to raise global awareness of dangers facing coral-reef ecosystems. The works she is creating for this project will hang at the Center for the Arts in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, the Matilda Oppenheimer, Treasurer gateway to the Grand Teton National Park, and at the Jackson Lake Lodge at the entrance to Yellowstone National Park, for a month leading up to the Jackson Hole WILD Film Festival and Conservation Summit in [email protected] September. PAGE 2 LAY LEADERS Do a Mitzvah! Oneg Shabbat Hosts Most Friday afternoons (3:30 pm Needed: Please Volunteer NEEDED! - approx 5:30 pm), volunteers are Volunteers for Onegs are needed to assist with Faith Temple needed. Please let me know if Contact Ritual Chair, Church’s food distribution at the you are willing to help out. I Sioux Empire Fairgrounds. On the prefer email David Aronson, at 605- THIRD Friday of every month…. 957-5223 to volunteer anyone interested in helping with the ([email protected]) Food Giveaway is invited to meet but my cell is 281-773-5458. to lead services. in the Mt. Zion Temple parking lot Thank you so much, at 2:30 pm to carpool over to the Cathy Ezrailson Fairgrounds. Please note that you Visiting Groups to the Temple are welcome to help with the Food Hosts for Student Our congregation is served by a Giveaway on any Friday that it is held Student Rabbi who is available and you are free to drive over on your Rabbi Sam a limited number of weekends own even on these third Fridays. But from September through May. We for those interested in driving over Schauvaney’s encourage your scheduling your together, this option is being off ered. Friday Friday evening worship services visit only when the Student Rabbi and Saturday is in residence. For Friday evening TIDINGS DEADLINE: visits and/or in cases where other MAY 10th meals are needed. scheduling arrangements are needed, please call or email the President of Remember to submit articles Please contact Marty the congregation who will assist you appropriate for the SUMMER Davidsohn at with scheduling. (June, July, August) 2019 Tidings. [email protected] To submit articles, email them or 254-8434 and reserve to: [email protected] your favorite date.

Gail Klein, Chapter President

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Our potluck dinners have been a HUGE success. Everyone who comes says they are The Temple is on Facebook and has a website! great and it’s reallly wonderful to get together and share a Shabbat meal. The next Shabbat potluck dinner is May 3rd at 6:00 pm. Save June 7th for the one after this month’s. We hope to see even more of our community there. Just bring a dish and join us.

This dinner is open to all families of the congregation. This dinner will occur every fi rst Friday of the month whether the Student Rabbi is in town or not. The dinner will conclude before services. Attendees are not required to go to services following the dinner but are certainly welcome to do so. Check it out and Please put this on your calendar and join us. “Like” us today!! For more information, contact Stephen NOTICE: Rosenthal at [email protected] STUDENT RABBI Beginning in May, there or call the Temple at 338-5454. SCHAUVANEY’S will be only 2 regularly 2019 SCHEDULE scheduled services each Lay Leaders for Shabbat month for the months May Services Needed May 10-12 through August – on the Please note that we are in need of leaders for Friday night Shabbat June 7-9 fi rst and third Fridays. Services when there is no Student However, there will also be Rabbi in town. There are several Remember birthdays, community members who are happy a service on the 2nd Friday to assist you with preparing and/or anniversaries, yahrzeits, of May, May 10 with the leading the services. memorials. Student Rabbi present. Prayers/readings/songs may be led Please send your She will also be present on in English or Hebrew at the service leader’s prerogative. We are in donations to: Friday, June 7. There will the process of setting a schedule Mt. Zion Temple be a Bar Mitzvah service for service leaders for this winter. Please contact Dave Aronson, Ritual PO Box 756 on July 13 for Ethan Eller. Committee Chair, to volunteer at [email protected] or leave him a Sioux Falls, SD 57101 message at 605-957-5223. PAGE 4 Travel with Hadassah When you tour Israel with Hadassah, it’s not just a mission. It’s a powerful cultural, emotional, and spiritual adventure.

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PAGE 6 YAHRZEITS All Yahrzeits that are observed Sunday through Saturday are read the Friday of that same week. If a Yahrzeit is not listed or you need information concerning Yahrzeits, please call Jan Forstein at 332-3354. A Yahrzeit card and Mt. Zion Congregation envelope will be sent to you to notify you of upcoming Yahrzeits. (If you do not receive your notifi cation, please contact Jan.) Also included with the notifi cation card is a donor envelope if you wish to make a donation to the Temple in ANNUAL MEETING memory of your loved one. and ELECTION OF OFFICERS May 3rd May 24th Lote Rosenbaum Pecheny Henry Bailin Elsa Oppenheimer Erna Broder and Simon Bleichfeld Huldah Bailin Mathilda Schroetter Bleichfeld Lauren Forstein Billie Lewis May 10th BOARD OF DIRECTORS Etta Margulies May 31st Beatrice Rosenberg Elsie Shapiro Monday, June 17th Anna Horwitz Louis Luskey Louis A Horwitz John Agrant Sam Robinson Uryon Davidsohn 7:00 pm Enid Gail Magidson Margaret Harris June 7th Bernie Eirenberg Mark David Kohn Marvin Davis Carolyn Bochnik Temple Social Hall Marvin Bailin

May 17th All members are encouraged to attend Edna Hiatt Louis R. “Duke” Horwitz Richard L. Storm Offi cers and Board of Directors will be elected! Hans Jacoby William Shapiro Annual reports will be given! Albert Haney 2019 - 2020 budget to be presented! Arthur Greenbaum Mt. Zion Congregation - May 2019 SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 1 2 3 (Nisan 29) 8:13 pm 4 10 am Torah Study A reminder that proper attire should Yom HaShoah 6:00 pm Shabbat Family Potluck be worn when participating in 7:30 pm Shabbat Service services at Mt. Zion Temple. Your Acharei Mot, Lev. 16:1-18:30 cooperation with this matter is Haftarah: Ezekiel 22:1-19 greatly appreciated. Food Giveaway: 3:30 - 5 pm 5 6 7 8 9 10 (Iyar 6) 8:21 pm 11 Rosh Chodesh Iyar Yom HaZikaron 7:30 pm: Shabbat Service 10 am Torah Study ST. RABBI SCHAUVANEY K’doshim, Lev. 16:1-20:27 7 pm Adult Ed with Student Haftarah: Amos 9:7-15 Rabbi Schauvaney Stuart Jacobs Bday, Sharon & Martin Eller TIDINGS DEADLINE Mitch Bernstein Bday Anniv Gretchen Hegna Bday Food Giveaway: 3:30 - 5 pm

12 13 14 15 16 17 (Iyar 13) 8:29 pm 18 7:30 pm: Shabbat Service 10 am Torah Study SAVE THE DATE: Emor, Lev. 21:1-24:23 2019 Annual Mee ng: Monday, June 17th @ 7:00 pm Haftarah: Ezekiel 44:15-31 Annual commi ee 2018-19 reports; 2019-20 elec on of board members & offi cers; vote on 2019-20 budget Larry & Anita Bierman Food Giveaway: 3:30 - 5 pm Anniv, Sara Crosby Bday

19 20 21 22 23 24 (Iyar 20) 8:36 pm 25 10 am Torah Study Temple Board Mtg Lag B'Omer NO Shabbat Service 11:00 am B’hari, Lev. 25:1-26:2 Social Hall Haftarah: Jeremiah 32:6-27

Food Giveaway: 3:30 - 5 pm Jen & Chris Dreiske, Sara & Daniel Stephanie Wood Bday Matilda Oppenheimer Bday Crosby Anniv Jill Storm Bday 26 27 28 29 30 31 (Iyar 27) 8:42 pm June 1 NO Shabbat Service 10 am Torah Study B’chukotai, Lev. 26:3-27:34 Haftarah: Jeremiah 16:19-17:14

Food Giveaway: 3:30 - 5 pm Cindy & Stuart Jacobs Leonard & JoLea Gutnik Dawn Gutnik Bday Jaina Greene Bday Anniv Anniv Shabbat times provided by .org/ShabbatTimes