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April 2017 – Vol. 43, No. 07 • telephone: 603-883-8184 • e-mail: [email protected] • www.tbanashua.org

Passover (Pesach) Begins On Monday April 10 Community Seder Is On Tuesday April 11

See Inside For Passover Service Times, Matzah Brei Brunch, Chametz Contract, Seder Match And Passover Kashrut Guide

April 2017 Vol. 43 No. 07 Temple Beth Abraham Nisan / Iyyar 5777 Seder: You Know More Than You Realize! Feeling at home Think about it: Across even our through a study book composed with Jewish ritual. relatively small Jewish community in by the sages of nearly two thousand Having access to New Hampshire, there are probably years ago, with commentaries woven studying Torah and a few hundred Seders in people’s in over the centuries. Perhaps as the other Jewish texts. homes. They are led by people who leader you explain some things, or an- Finding joy through know a lot of Hebrew, some Hebrew, swer questions, or get people talking. the rhythms of Jew- Rabbi Spira-Savett or none at all. They are led by people Congratulations – you’re like a rabbi! ish life. Being capable and empowered who are comfortable at Shabbat And so many other things go into as a Jew who can bring our teachings services, or who are not. They are a Seder. Traditional foods, includ- and traditions to bear on life today. led by people with all different kinds ing ones prescribed by ritual and This is what Jewish leaders and of theological beliefs. law. Leading a service. Engaging a educators are after in our work. None – well, maybe a dozen or two tradition – reading the Haggadah, Maybe you think that the previ- at the most – come to rabbis to get deciding how to edit it, adding a ous paragraph describes only a trained in how to lead a Seder. Maybe twist. An intergenerational gather- small number of Jews, and maybe it’s a tradition you watched someone ing. Recitations and songs in the you don’t number yourself among else carry out and you’ve picked up. Hebrew language. them. But I bet you are, or you’re Perhaps last year or this year, you just And of course, at the core, a world- closer than you think. If you can decided to jump in, buy some Hag- changing story with a message about put on a Passover Seder, as a leader gadot, and start. Jewish history and purpose, human or host, then you are there, or well Without any special training, think freedom, dignity, possibility, and hope. on the way. of what you do! You guide people (Continued on the following page …) One Enormous Cookout Back in the day, Lord thy God giveth thee; but at the could perform the sacrifice and have when the month of place which the Lord thy God shall the feast. “And thou shalt roast and Nissan (Aviv) rolled choose to cause His name to dwell eat it in the place which the Lord around it was time in (i.e. the Temple in Jerusalem), thy God shall choose; and thou shalt for the great cook- there thou shalt sacrifice the Passover turn in the morning, and go unto out in Jerusalem. As offering at even, at the going down thy tents.” Eat up everyone. Nothing President it is said, Leviticus Michael Harris of the sun.” should remain. “And there shall be 23:5, “In the first So, is it quite clear? On the tenth no leaven seen with thee in all thy month, on the fourteenth day of the day of the month you should go borders seven days; neither shall any month at dusk, is the Lord’s Passover. out and choose your unblemished of the flesh, which thou sacrificest And on the fifteenth day of the same sacrificial lamb, gather your cookout the first day at even, remain all night month is the feast of unleavened supplies and your clan and trek on until morning.” bread unto the Lord; seven days ye up to Jerusalem. Back in the day, you Okay now, imagine the scene. We shall eat unleavened bread.” see, it might take us two or three days have all trekked on up to Jerusalem, This was a communal cookout. from our town or village to make our three or four days, us, our neighbors You couldn’t do it at home the way way up to Jerusalem. When we got people from the next town over, the we do it today. No, as it says in there, we had to set up tent and get town after that and so on from all Deuteronomy 16:5, “Thou mayest ready for the great cookout so that over the land. Animals everywhere, not sacrifice the Passover offering when came the setting of the sun on doing what they do. Children run- within any of thy gates, which the the fourteenth day of the month we (Continued on the following page …) 3 Seder: continued… You have the capacity to pull this This year as always, I hope you find I’m of course happy to teach you off. There’s what you know and have something profound in our annual more, about Pesach and about the learned and absorbed; there’s the gathering to examine and reenact the Seder. But I hope you will see at your Haggadah; and there are all kinds Exodus. Our world is always in need own Seder that you are already the of resources in people and online. of the transformations that no one Jew who is poised to carry all facets And what you create, as the Seder before had ever thought possible. of our tradition, to lead others, and host or leader, is far more layered The Exodus reminds us that any to make Judaism sing in old ways and than if you just said, “Hey, come on people, no matter how degraded new ones in our world. Not just on over for dinner and let’s talk about or disregarded, can become indis- Passover, not just at your table, but human freedom.” pensable. That the most frozen and throughout the year and everywhere The Seder is a microcosm of Ju- oppressive reality can be shattered Jews gather and learn and act. daism. If you can host or lead a by hope and faith and action. That A zissen Pesach – Have a sweet Seder, you have all the ingredients we as Jews have a special role as the Pesach, for being a modern Jew who draws people who brought this story into Rabbi Jon from our rich tradition and takes the world, and hold ourselves and on the challenge and responsibility others to living by its implications. of making it speak to your life and our world today. One Enormous Cookout continued… ning around and playing. Teenagers a count of the number of sacrifices. stroyed. We no longer go up to meeting friends from other towns. The historian, whom we call Jose- Jerusalem for the Pesah sacrifice. We -go to the shop. We no longer get to בן מתתיהו Big excitement. Our tents all set up, phus but whose name was Yosef ben Matityahu, actually gether in our tents like a huge tailgate, יוסף the preparation of the festive foods commences. We sacrifice our lamb, recorded the count of the number party on the hills of Jerusalem. We roast it and have a great feast. Us, of sacrifices as 256,500, which, at have adopted the Greek custom. We our neighbors and people from all ten people per sacrifice would mean have a Passover Seder in our homes, over – some we know and some one enormous cookout. E. P. Sand- we have the Haggadah. We tell the from distant parts. ers in ‘Judaism: Practice and Belief story. We sing and drink wine. We It was forbidden to perform this 63 BCE - 66 CE’ (p. 126) contends have intellectual discussions. Some sacrifice and feast alone. It is said that the Josephus number is exagger- say we no longer do animal sacrifices that at least ten people, but often ated. Using various means, Sanders (because those were only done in the more, would participate in the feast estimates the actual number of at- Temple), but somehow the animals for one sacrificial animal. But how tendees to be 300,000 to 500,000. are still killed, we still roast them big was this giant communal cook- Even if Josephus is off by a factor and have a feast. out. In the time of the Romans, the of five or ten as Sanders thinks, it But back in the day, what a cookout! emperor Nero asked for a census. is still an enormous cookout. All these people come to Jerusalem, all May you have a happy and a kosher Now, since it was a commandment Pesah. for everyone to go up to Jerusalem, these tents. Roman soldiers milling חג שמח וכשר .it was thought that a way to estimate about. Quite some event שלום וברכה -the population would be to perform Of course, the Temple was de Michael Harris

4 Services and Community Passover Service Schedule BULLETIN PUBLISHED MONTHLY April Service Monday, April 10 ELEVEN TIMES A YEAR VOL. 43, NO. 07 Schedule Siyyum for First Born 7:30 AM BY TEMPLE BETH ABRAHAM Services are held every Friday Tuesday, April 11 4 RAYMOND STREET NASHUA, NH 03064-2317 evening at 8:00 PM (unless otherwise 9:30 AM noted), Saturday at 9:30 AM and (603) 883-8184 Wednesday, April 12 FAX (603) 594-8983 Monday –Thursday at 7:30 PM. Religious School 883-9844 9:30 AM & 8:15 PM regular website: http://www.tbanashua.org/ SPECIAL EVENT SERVICES evening minyan March 31 & April 1 Rabbi...... Jonathan Spira-Savett Sunday, April 16 President ...... Michael Harris Elsa Vig Bat Mitzvah 7:30 PM Secretary...... Alan Green April 1 Treasurer...... Barry Sack Monday, April 17 Office Manager/ Jr. Congregation & Tot Shabbat 9:30 AM and 8:15 PM Bookkeeper & Editor...... Judy Goldstein with Music Together Assistant Secretary & Tuesday, April 18 Associate Ed...... Diane Toth April 15 9:30 AM w/Yizkor and Director of Education Jr. Congregation & Tot Shabbat & Family Engagement.....Noreen Leibson 8:00 PM Yizkor and then School Secretary...... Janice Lariviere with Music Together Maariv/end of chag BOARD OF DIRECTORS April 21 & 22 Yami Baker...... Jeff Masors Talya Rezaoui Bat Mitzvah Lisa Bonneau ...... David Sacks Leon Goldstein...... Sharon Weiss April 28 & 29 Honoring Our Wendy Kolopsky...... Gabrielle Zeira Ethan Ebersman Bar Mitzvah Veterans Rebecca Green - Sisterhood Representative Oneg, Kiddush and Flower Affiliated with United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism Sponsors SHABBAT SERVICES March 16 & 17 NOVEMBER 11, 2017 Flowers sponsored by Murray Deutsch in memory of his beloved Temple Beth Abraham and the sister, Eva Blatt Lifelong Learning Committee are March 31 & April 1 honored to celebrate the members of School Calender Ellen and Harry Vig in honor of our congregation who have served our their daughter, Elsa’s Bat Mitzvah country, Israel, or any other country, 1 & 15 Jr. Congregation April 21 & 22 in uniform. 10-11 No school 17-18 No school The Rezaoui family in honor of If you have served or are currently 23-30 Spring Break Talya’s Bat Mitzvah serving in the military, or if members April 28 & 29 of your family have served in the Bruce & Melissa Ebersman in past, please contact Laura Horowitz honor of son, Ethan’s Bar Mitzvah APRIL ‘17 (459-3636; email: laurahorowitz@ S M T W Th F S yahoo.com) or Judy Goldstein at JC Community News the synagogue. We will send you a 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Best Wishes to: form to fill out with details of your 9 XX 12 13 14 JC • Arlene Shapiro on her 90th (their service). 16 XX 19 20 21 22 Birthday! We hope the congregation will join XXXXXXX X • Sandie & Seth Leonard on the us as we honor our veterans during engagement of daughter, Anat Shabbat services on Saturday, No- to Zach Wookey vember 11, as well as at a luncheon following services. Thank you to all To all those people in our community our veterans and their families for who are ill we wish you a complete & their service. speedy recovery.

5 Education and Programming Elsa Vig Talya Rezaoui Bat highly engaged in her Girl Scout troop since being a Daisy in Kindergarten. Bat Mizvah Mitzvah She works on badges, helping the “Hi, my name is It is with great Merrimack community and adores Elsa Vig, and I am pleasure we in- overnight Camp Farnsworth where a 7th grader at Mar- vite the Temple she hopes to have more experiences shall Middle School Beth Abraham towards being a horse-riding counselor in North Billerica, community to in the coming years. Please enjoy a MA. I have 2 broth- join our friends selection of Kosher Girl Scout cookies ers, Benjamin (15) and family as we at her Kiddush. and Daniel (11), 2 celebrate Talya cats, 1 guinea pig, being called to the April 22 is also Earth Day and Talya’s and lots of fish. I like theatre, animals, Torah as a bat mitzvah on April 22. Torah portion - Shemini - talks about singing, and dancing. My Bat Mitzvah Talya has a younger brother, Zachariah, the laws of kashrut animals. So very is April 1 and my Torah portion is Vayi- a younger sister Moriah and goes to fitting as the animals we respectfully kra, which is about how to properly school at Merrimack Middle School. eat (and not eat) come from the earth’s sacrifice an animal to God. When I She has been a student of TBA since land, air, and sea…. Her mitzvah proj- grow up, I plan to be a veterinarian, she was in Gan Katan – that’s 8+ years ect revolves around helping to create so that I can help animals instead of of learning! Talya is also an active mem- a garden space and beautifying the sacrificing them.” ber of NH Chabad and has LOVED Chabad’s NEW Manchester location. going to Gan Izzy summer day camp. She has brainstormed design ideas, Ethan Ebersman This will be her 9th summer where types of plants, and will be leading she has more recently been a beloved children’s garden activities as part of her Bar Mitzvah counselor’s aide to the little kids who Bat Mitzvah weekend. Please come see Hi, My Name continue to find friendships in our ever the Chabad Center sometime at one is Ethan Solo- so small, but amazing Southern NH of their many events and celebrations. mon Ebers- Jewish community. Finally, Talya is Thank you, from the Rezaoui Family. man and my Bar Mitzvah is on April 29 at Annual Fundraising Campaign Temple Beth Underway Abraham. The Temple Beth Abraham’s annual in both buildings, as well as the Torah portion fundraising appeal is in full swing. need for partial roof replacement, I will present is Tazria-Metzora, The letter which you recently re- replacement of our HVAC system, which according to the Talmud has ceived pointed out that there are and repairs to the school building’s to do with gossip and the impact of two concerns with the greatest need: entrance. our speech on others. support for our religious school and Last year, our fundraising drive In my freetime I enjoy playing bas- funding for capital expenses. You raised $46,000. We are hoping to ketball, soccer, and baseball. I also have seen the color flyer pointing meet or exceed that amount this play the trombone and participate out the impact that our school has year. Contributions of any amount in Boy Scouts. My favorite subject had on former students who are now will help. If you have not yet done in school is Science. Additionally, I leaders in Jewish education. And in so, you can donate using either the have a strong interest in American our letter, we also noted large capi- form which was sent in our letter, history. I live and attend school in tal expenses which have exceeded or through the website. Please help Dunstable, Massachusetts. Cur- our budgeted amounts: repairs to us to maintain TBA as a vital and rently I am in seventh grade. I look the walk-in refrigerator, concrete vibrant force in our community. forward to celebrating with the walkways, and air conditioners community,friends, extended fam- ily, and parents, Melissa and Bruce Ebersman, and my brother Aaron. 6 Education and Programming From Purim to Pesach, a Jewish Journey I love this time of the Jewish year. We And how about our Purim shpiel? of Freedom, we taste the bitterness of are just coming out of the ado of Purim Kudos to senior USY for organizing the maror and the sweetness of the and our sights turn toward Pesach. Did not only the shpiel but also Haman’s charoset, we feel what it was like to be you know that Haunted House. Deena Feldman freed from slavery, and we smell the The Butcherie took the music from Hamilton and enticing aroma of the chicken soup as in Brookline has wrote a clever parody of the Purim the scent fills the house. already turned story for all to enjoy. Three cheers to Judaism asks more of us than coming their kitchen or actors, Deena, Naomi Goodman, to synagogue to pray. This is vitally over for Pesach? Jonah Savage, Ari Friedman, Rebekah important but it’s not enough. As Jews I called this week Savage, Jodi Watterson and Sarinah we exercise our Jewish muscles through (March 14) to Spira-Savett. Also I want to share my action. We go beyond learning about order the dinner Director of Education deepest gratitude to our teachers and Tzdekah. We collect Tzedakah and for the Hai class and Family Engagement volunteers who were on the scene and Noreen Leibson choose a particular cause to support. and was told no behind the scenes. I want to note the We learn from the teaching of the rice pilaf. While that might not mean work of the Education and Family Torah and then find a way to make much to you, it means that our starch Engagement committee for their com- it personal and contemporary. Just as will be coming from mostly potatoes. mitment to making the Mishloach the wicked child asks, “what does this We eat a lot of potatoes on Pesach. Manot the best ever. Every member have to do with me?” we need to be Anyway, I am getting ahead of myself. I of our congregation received a basket. able to answer that question when our want to share some stories from Purim. This is part of the mitzvah. children ask what Jewish education and Purim is a somewhat farcical holiday. Our first Pesach event will happen be- practice mean for them. The Haggadah The Talmud states that we are to drink fore you read this. I am referring to the presents this question, as coming from on Purim until “we can’t tell between Matzah Bakery on March 23. We will the wicked or rebellious child but this cursed is Haman from blessed is Mor- welcome Rabbi Krinsky from Chabad is how we learn, by asking questions. dechai”. But even with all the craziness, of NH to our shul, and our children It is our responsibility as the adults in there is a lot to learn from the story. will enjoy making matzah in his special our children’s lives to teach them how Themegillah (scroll of Esther) contains portable oven. It’s fun and interesting Judaism is relevant to their lives. many secrets and also revelations. Es- to hear the timer go off as from start Throughout the Torah we are told to ther hides her identity from the King to finish the whole process of making teach our children dor l’dor, from gen- while Mordechai reveals himself as a the matzah must be completed in 18 eration to generation. It is our stories Jew when he refuses to bow down to minutes. Our Sunday school students and our understanding of Justice that Haman. Esther’s name itself means will participate in a Pesach crafts buffet. sustains us. Judaism in one form or an- hidden or secret. She goes undercover We have invited our Yedidim friends to other goes back more than 5000 years. only to reveal herself at the end at a join us to make ritual objects for their Given all the injustice that has befallen time when she and her people will be Seders. On April 6, our weekday stu- us, it is a miracle that we continue to put to death. Esther is a true hero. She dents will have their share of hands-on thrive. As Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul puts her life at risk to save her people. learning about Pesach with a moveable and Mary sang, “Don’t let the lights go Ultimately, good rises above evil. Like feast of foods and ritual objects. out! It’s lasted for so many years. Don’t let many times in our tradition, we tell As you can see, Jewish holidays are the lights go out! Let it shine through our the story. In Purim we read the megil- more than prayers and coming to the hope and our tears.” lah and typically perform a shpiel, an shul. So much happens in the home and May you continue to feel the blessings interpretative expansion of the original requires one to “do” something. The story. Many of our children and adults that light our way through the joys and Pesach Seder is an excellent example challenges of life. came in costume. Take a look at the of “doing” the holiday. We retell the photos to get a glimpse of what was story with props. We use all of our Hag Pesach Sameach going on. senses – we see the beauty of the Pesach Noreen table, we hear the telling of the story 7 Education and Programming SOUTHERN NH Book Reading at Barnes & Noble Noah Beit-Aharon, who publishes as N.S. Dolkart and is married to JEWISH MEN’S former member Becky Dolkart, will be reading from CLUB his novel Among the Fallen at the Nashua Barnes & The SNHJMC has a number of Noble on Sunday, April 23 at 1 PM. great programs coming up in the Among the Fallen is the second book in his Jewish epic next few months. Please keep an fantasy series The Godserfs. The first book, Silent Hall, eye on our website, www.snhjmc. revolves around the adventures of five refugees who org or our Facebook page for up must find themselves new lives and purpose without to date events and information a homeland. In the course of their travels they meet on our breakfasts and programs! the manipulative wizard Psander and begin a quest to free an ancient In March, we put on our annual prophet and awaken his god. Silent Hall has won praise from reviewers SNHJMC Children’s Breakfast and fellow authors for being “very nearly a perfect fantasy novel.” featuring Mr. Vinny and his very engaging and funny puppet show! Among the Fallen explores the ramifications of the It was extremely well attended and heroes’ apparent success at the end of Silent Hall, when everyone had a blast! followers of the newly-active god are emboldened to take back the land that was once theirs. The resulting April 2 Breakfast: It’s that time regional war pits friends against friends and hardliners already, annual meeting and elec- against those who yearn for peace. tions for the upcoming SNHJMC Breakfast year. We will be discussing All members and friends are invited to the reading the past year and events as well as and Q&A on Sunday, April 23 at 1 PM, at the some exciting changes on the hori- Barnes & Noble located at 235 Daniel Webster Highway, Nashua. zon for the SNHJMC! If you are a member, or if you are interested in learning more about what the club BABKA Book Club April 5 has going on (OR if you just want a fantastic breakfast)- we hope you BABKA, the friend, book, public speaker, and can make it! Two of the items on the Temple Beth campaigner against hate of any sort. agenda will be Elections and Affili- Abraham book This is a personal account that ation with Temple Beth Abraham. discussion chronicles love, persecution, tri- group, will meet The breakfast will start at 9:30 umph, adversity, turmoil, peace, AM at Temple Beth Abraham. on Wednesday, affairs, partings, collaborations, April 5, follow- Our famous bagels, lox, whitefish betrayals, births, and deaths. It is a veggies, eggs, potatoes and more ing the 7:30 PM history lesson told with much humor, minyan. breakfast will be served! Cost is insight, incisiveness, and empathy. $8 for members and $12 for non- This month the group will discuss Everyone is invited to join the members and membership can be the book Holocaust to Healing: Closing BABKA discussion. paid at the door. You can’t get a the Circle by Kati Preston. NOTE: Kati Preston will be the top quality breakfast for this price This book is the candid, no-holds- presenter at the 2017 Yom HaShoah anywhere in town! While RSVP’s are barred autobiography of Kati Pres- Remembrance Day program on not required, they are strongly sug- ton. She is a Holocaust and cancer Monday, April 24, 7:00 PM. This gested and are appreciated. Please survivor, wife, mother, grandmother, event is co-sponsored by Temple let us know if you can make it at mentor, fashion designer, model, Beth Abraham and Rivier Univer- [email protected]. journalist, entrepreneur, impresario, sity. Details elsewhere in bulletin.

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Coming Events and Programming Brought to You by the Lifelong Learning Committee

NH Jewish Film Festival, March 23 to April 2, sponsored by the Jewish Federation of NH

The Ethical Life, Sunday, April 2, 10:00 AM Topic: Can I buy things made in sweat shops? The Criminal Justice System – Honoring Tradition, Championing Reform JTS Livestream event, Tuesday, April 4, 7:30 PM Manhattan DA Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., shares new approaches to criminal justice reform. Livestream: www.jtsa.edu/live BABKA meeting, Wednesday, April 5, 8:00 pm “Holocaust to Healing: Closing the Circle” by Kati Preston. Details elsewhere in bulletin. Shabbat Lunch and Learn, Saturday, April 15 Join us for lunch following morning services. Topic: Meet the Congregation – Lawyers.

Yom HaShoah Remembrance, Monday, April 24, 7:00 PM at Dion Center, Rivier University Speaker: Kati Preston, Holocaust Survivor. Details elsewhere in bulletin. Till We Have Built Jerusalem: Architects of a New City, Sunday, April 30, 10:00 AM Speaker: Adina Hoffman (formerly of Peterborough, NH). Details elsewhere in bulletin.

Ongoing: Torah Study with Rabbi Jon - Thursdays from 10:30 AM to Noon. Come once or many times. Rabbijon.net and @TBARav Teachings on the weekly Torah reading and current events through a Jewish lens, podcasts, and music. Rabbi Jon’s high holy day sermons are posted.

Save the Date! BABKA meeting, Wednesday, May 3, 8:00 PM - “Visible City” by Tovah Mirvis. The Ethical Life, Sunday, May 7, 10:00 AM - Topic: End of life dilemmas. Mighty Be Our Powers: Standing Together to Confront Tyranny JTS Livestream event, Wednesday, May 10, 7:30 PM A talk by Leymah Gbowee, winner of the Nobel Prize for her work leading a women’s peace movement in Liberia. The annual John Paul II Lecture on Interfaith Understanding. Livestream: www.jtsa.edu/live

Shabbat Lunch and Learn, Saturday, May 13 Join us for lunch and learning following morning services. Shalom Israel-Yom Yerushalayim Festival, Sunday, May 21, 9:30 AM Come join us for the annual Jason Schenker Walkathon followed by the Festival. Food, games, music, and more!

Have Ideas? Want to Help? Join Our Committee! Contact Jeff Masors at [email protected] or Rabbi Jon at [email protected]. Contribute to the Elizabeth Fischer Memorial Fund to support TBA’s ongoing scholarly and cultural special programming. Consider sponsoring a specific speaker/event or the food for an event. Contact the office or Rabbi Jon.

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March 12 Kiddie Karnival April 2 Make your own familiy seder plate, chocolate covered matzah afikoman bag May 7- benson’s family picnic June 4 - Odiorne state park

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SAVE THE DATE! May 7- Benson’s family picnic June 4 - Odiorne state park

10 Fundraising Thank You for Your Support of the Mishlo’ah Manot Fundraiser On behalf of the Charles & Darlene Drutman Sasha Nizhnikov Religious School and Leigh Eichel & Judy Delude Daniel & Jessica Palmer the School Commit- Martin & Ann Fabian Sheryl Rich-Kern tee, we would like to Samuel & Olga Fain Marilyn Rosen thank all those who Robert & Marsha Feder Michael Rosenblum & Stephanie participated in this year’s Mishlo’ah Nancy Ferman Wolf-Rosenblum Manot fundraiser. We exceeded our David Fox Craig & Maryellen Rothenberg goal this year, and this money will go Ben & Eileen Freedman Larry & Robin Rubin towards many of the terrific programs Henrietta Freedman Barry & Debra Sack that are run by the Religious School. Gary & Mara Friedman David & Vera Sacks Paul & Rosalind Sandler There are always many hands that Leslie & Fern Getto Chris & Alyse Savage make a fundraiser successful, from Bill & Jane Goodman Howard & Susan Schiff those creating the baskets, those as- Donald & Carol Gorelick Mr. Enrique & Dr. Sharon Sernik sembling several hundred baskets, the Rochelle Goren Richard Shapiro drivers who delivered all those baskets, Alan & Becky Green Lewis & Debrah Snapper the one who created the routes and all Ira Grollman Rabbi Jon & Laurie Spira-Savett of the people behind the scenes that Daniel Guttman & Lisa Ferrisi- and Family made it happen. This is our largest fun- Guttman Abner Taub & Liliane Sznycer draiser of the year and we couldn’t have Michael & Ruth Harris Linda Trapasso been as successful as we were without Jenifer Hollander & Jackie Burke Robert & Gina Vega the contributions from many places. Stanley Juda Ralph & Nancy Keyslay Ellen Vig I would like to acknowledge the fol- Marc & Wendy Kolopsky Terence & Beth Watterson lowing people for their contribution Bruce Labitt & Elinor Schwartz Jeffrey & Sharon Weiss to our success: Elliot & Bette Lasky Heather Winer Bill Barry & Helen Honorow Matthew & Stephanie Lee Noreen Leibson & Mitch Wolper Ilene & Ed Boroda Shirley Lelchuk Eitan & Gabriele Zeira Buzz & Elaine Brody Mark & Cheryl Liebling So thank you again and if you Tamara Bryant Carlos & Joy Mainemer weren’t able to be involved this time, Andrea Buchin Jeffrey & Karen Masors there’s always next year! Nancy Cantor Paul Moverman Chris & Tammy Devine

PURIM 5777 2017 11 Community Keter Shem Tov Award ‘Crown of a Good Name’ For that special person that you have noticed working tirelessly around the synagogue. Every year we ask our congregants which active member of the synagogue stands out as working tirelessly and devoting time and effort to improve the life of our synagogue and community. This prestigious acknowledgement is not given out every year and is only given out once in a members lifetime. The nominee must be an active member in good standing with a long list of accomplishments, and not currently a member of the Board of Directors or an employee of the synagogue.

Please send an email ([email protected] with Keter Shem Tov Committee in the subject line) or write a note (Temple Beth Abraham, 4 Raymond Street, Nashua, NH 03064-2317, Attn: Keter Shem Tov Committee) with the name of your nominee and your rationale for choosing that person. This must include the nominee’s accomplishments and contributions (not financial) to both Temple Beth Abraham and the community at large.

The award will be presented at Temple Beth Abraham at services (date to be determined). The awardee will also be honored at the Jewish Federation of New Hampshire’s annual meeting in June. To be considered nominations must be submitted to the committee no later than April 30. MATZAH BREI BRUNCH

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17 Opinions Something to Think About Just about the time go to shul much, but we spent a paper from the kosher bakery. My this column appears great deal of time going from one grandmother made ingberlach and in your inbox or relative’s home to another. my bubbe made carrot candy. These, mailbox, Buzz and In preparation for the holiday, my along with fruit compote, completed I will be on our way mother took us to South Pearl Street the dessert options. There were no home. We’ll stop in cake mixes, no flourless chocolate Elaine Brody in Albany where a special Pesach California to have foods store opened for a few weeks tortes, or mousse. It was a simpler a couple of days with long time before the holiday near the kosher time. friends, Lanie and Jay Keystone, and butchery. We children had to be on Over the last few years, I have will arrive at home on March 30… our best behavior or we were certain tried to streamline my Pesach food just in time to get ready for Pesach. to hear the proprietor say to our purchases. I buy matzo, potato The Pesach observances of my mother, ”Missus, tell your children starch, matzo meal, and farfel. For childhood were filled with family to keep their hands off the food.” No the rest, I try to stick with fresh and food. My earliest Seder recol- free samples were allowed. His goods fruits and vegetables, fish, and lection is sitting at my maternal were displayed in big barrels. Nuts meat. I make mom’s sponge cake grandparents’ dining room table on of every description, dried fruits, and fruit compote. I also confess a bench made from a board placed candy (my favorites were the little to buying chocolate covered jellies over three chairs to make seating for hard raspberry candies with soft cen- and marshmallows, fruit slices, five. One great grandmother, two ters), pickles, and the usual Pesach and Barton’s chocolate almonds. grandparents, two parents, aunts, necessities of matzo, potato starch, I think we eat more candy during uncles, and cousins all feasting on meal, and farfel were so tempting. the week of Pesach than all of the a meal prepared in a tiny galley My mother made her famous rest of the year! I have tried to make kitchen and a back porch. We didn’t sponge cake and bought almond carrot candy and ingberlach but macaroons stuck to brown baking both just seem to finish in either a sweet, gingery, soupy mess or molar endangering rocks. As you prepare for this holiday celebrating our liberation from bondage, think about keeping it simple. Share memories of past celebrations with your children and grand children and friends. You might try some of the recipes you remember from your youth…even if they don’t turn out quite the way you remember them. Early appointments available for It is, as always, just something to Bar/Bat-Mitzvah’s or Weddings. think about. Chag Sameach from Offering Color, Cutting, Styling, Keritan our home to yours. Smoothing Treatments, Facials, Face & Body Waxing and Eye Brow L’hitraot, Threading. Bring this ad to receive 10% off any Elaine service.

18 Education and Programming

Yom HaShoah Observance at Rivier University

Monday, April 24 at 7:00 PM Dion Center Reception Room on Clement Street, Nashua

Featured Speaker: Kati Preston, Holocaust Survivor

NASHUA, NH - Temple Beth Abraham, in collaboration with Rivier University, welcomes activist and author Kati Preston, to this year’s Yom HaShoah event. Preston was born in 1939 in Nagyvarad, Romania, at the start of the Second World War, to a Hungarian Catholic mother and a Jewish father. While a Christian peasant girl hid her in a hay barn, the Nazis exterminated all 28 members of her Jewish family. Preston grew up in Hungary and Romania under communism, and then later immigrated to Israel. She studied in Paris, became a journalist and fashion designer in Israel, worked in fashion in New York, Lisbon, Milan and London where she ran her own large successful fashion business. In her 70s, Preston wrote a book about her life, “Holocaust to Healing: Closing the Circle,” which is available in the Temple Beth Abraham Sisterhood gift shop. She is also working on a book for middle schools. Preston began speaking to schools and community groups because she says it’s important to not forget history. “I not only speak for the dead,” says Preston, “but through my life story, I hope to teach toler- ance and acceptance. Young people are living in an exceptional time these days. They are more informed, more open, and they are willing to listen, accept and embrace tolerance.” Preston will share her stories of persecution and survival on Monday, April 24, at 7:00 PM. at Rivier University’s Dion Center on 16 Clement Street in Nashua. The program is free and open to the public. No RSVPs are necessary. Temple Beth Abraham’s Zimria Choir will perform with an interfaith choir at the observance. A question-and-answer session and a candle-lighting ceremony memorializing the victims of the Holocaust will follow the presentation. For more information, contact Sheryl Rich-Kern at 603-881-7264, or email her at [email protected].

19 Education and Programming Adina Hoffman Till We Have Built Jerusalem Sunday, April 30 10:00 AM Temple Beth Abraham

Please join us for brunch and a talk by award-winning essayist and biographer Adina Hoffman about her new book, Till We have Built Jerusalem: Architects of a New City.

The book unfolds as an excavation, and is a gripping and intimate journey into the lives of three very different architects who helped shape modern Jerusalem. A beautifully written rumination on memory and forgetting, place and displacement, the book uncovers multiple layers of one great city’s buried history as it asks what it means, in Jerusalem and everywhere, to be foreign and to belong.

The Los Angeles Times has called Till We Have Built Jerusalem a “brave and often beautiful book,” and Haaretz describes it as “a passionate, lyrical defense of a Jerusalem that could still be.”

Adina Hoffman is also the author, with Peter Cole, of Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza, which was awarded the American Library Association’s prize for the Jewish Book of the Year. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Hoffman was named one of the inaugural (2013) winners of the Windham Campbell Prize for Literature. She lives in Jerusalem and New Haven.

To read more about the book: http://us.macmillan.com/tillwehavebuiltjerusalem/adinahoffman

Brunch at 10:00 AM Speaker at 10:30 AM Please RSVP by Monday, April 24, to [email protected] or 603-883-8184. • A Package From Home We will be collecting donations for A Package From Home (www.apackagefromhome.org) for Israeli soldiers. Please bring travel size toiletries: Deodorant (non-aerosol), Toothpaste, Tooth brushes, Soap, Shampoo, Sun screen, Medicated foot powder, and Lip balm. A collection basket will be available. This event is free and open to all. Co-sponsored by the Lifelong Learning Committee and Temple Beth Abraham Sisterhood.

Temple Beth Abraham, 4 Raymond St, Nashua, NH 03064 – 603-883-8184 http://www.tbanashua.org – [email protected]

20 Fundraising

ALL AGES ZIMRIA EVENT ADVANCE TICKETS CHORAL (tba.nashua.org)

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The Once-in-28-Years Mitzvah

When the sun returns to the same position, at the same time of the week, that it occupied at the time of its creation, we recite a special blessing: Birkat Hachamah, Blessing of the Sun.

This mitzvah was last performed on April 8, 2009. Its next occurrence will be, God willing, April 8, 2037.

Birkat Hachamah is a special blessing made on the “an- niversary” of the Sun’s apparent motion from the Earth. It is a rare and special blessing as it is made only once every 28 years and one normally only has two or so chances in a lifetime to perform. On this day, we set aside time to appreciate the gift of the Sun and all life that comes from its energy. Tradition states that the confluence of these dates, this particular ar- rangement of the cosmos, has happened only twice before: first, when the Israelites emerged from the bondage of Egypt to become a People; and second, when they were saved from the evils of persecution under Haman. The blessing is “Blessed are you, Eternal our God, Source of the Universe, who does the works of creation.” Since Talmudical times, this simple blessing has grown into a more complex liturgical order. The earliest printed order of blessing for Birkat Hachamah comes from the Sephardic world, published in Leghorn (Livorno), Italy, in a prayer book entitled Tefilah zakah, compiled by Rabbi Abraham Isaac Castello (Castilho) in 1789. The Library of Hebrew Union College, in their rare book col- lections, possesses an attractive hand-colored illustrated pamphlet of this liturgy. Images of the pamphlet are at this web site. To learn how the date is calculated, refer to Wikipedia and the Berachot Site. A less detailed description is at MyJewishLearning. Chabad.org has an overview page that includes a short Sun video and additional pages, such as Multimedia articles and Study and insights. Some ways to observe are at MyJewishLearning. See supplementary prayers at ritualwell. And a music video by Rabbi Shawn Zevit is at YouTube. Though this blessing is once every 28 years, I would prefer to think of blessings for all God’s creations as being part of every day. As spring is here, I am thankful to end the winter and receive the Sun’s warmth.

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April 14 & 15 Bess Gotlieb, grandmother of Rabbi Jonathan Spira-Savett During Friday evening and Saturday morning services, Morton Steinberg, father of Barry Steinberg Memorial prayers will be recited for the following: Sidney Brother, father of Carol Gelman March 31 & April 1 Daniel Sherman, uncle of Steven Haime Louis Kaplan, grandfather of Jodi Adler Pat Berkowitz, aunt of Howard Berke Irving Quart, father of Darlene Drutman Shirley Green, mother of Alan Green Bruce Golub, brother of Larry Golub Keith J. Alexander, former husband of Jennifer Alexander Luba Eisenberg, mother of Elliot Eisenberg Grace Goodman, mother of Debbie Waldman William Schwartz, father of Elinor Schwartz Rachael Ann Karlsberg, sister of Lauren Donovan Edward Krulik, father of Arthur Krulik Bessie Issokson, mother of Carol Levy Gertrude Silverman, mother of Marilyn Greenspan Bella Miriam Cantor, grandmother of Esther Arlan Bernard Paris, father of Rochelle Goren Blanche Gross, mother of Deni Oven Dolores Keller, mother of Marlene Gallant William W. Kadushin, father of Helen Feder Philip Weisman, brother of Robert Weisman Joel Rovick, brother of Phyllis Adams Harry Pastor, father-in-law of Selma Pastor Meyer Slome Abraham Schuster Abraham Landau, father of Esther Rosenzweig Josiah Aronson Rachael Ann Karlsberg Max Kliegman, father of Judy Wolfe Robert Lipkind Joseph Osofsky Blossom Marcus Geffner Marion Aronson Anne Gelber Zelia Sharpe Richard Tanzer Harry Davis Francis Offenberg David Liffman Benjamin Gordon Louis A. Brody Leon S. Marshall April 21 & 22 Leon Robert Mirsky Scott Thomas Nichols William Harris, father of Michael Harris Sidney Rosenblum, father of Michael Rosenblum April 7 & 8 Ruth Price, mother of Howard Price Hyman Tubin, grandfather of Barbara Garnick Saul Goodman, father of Debbie Waldman Beatrice Tubin, mother of Barbara Garnick Lise Bornstein, great aunt of Liliane Sznycer Harry Freeman, father of Daryl Banner Leizor Schnitzer, great uncle of Liliane Sznycer Nancy Goff, mother of Allison Sharpe Ira Green, father of Alan Green John Sharpe, father of Christopher Sharpe Gussie Moskowitz Goldstein, mother of Leon Goldstein Leonard Fox, father of David Fox Bernard Toth, husband of Diane Toth Harry Gelman, father of Haywood Gelman Ben Gotlieb, great-grandfather of Henny Koseterich, aunt of Les Mildenberg Rabbi Jonathan Spira-Savett Minnie Rosen, mother of Marilyn Rosen Lena Weisman, sister of Robert Weisman Sam Gorelick, father of Donald Gorelick Harry Sack, grandfather of Barry Sack Ruth Paris, mother of Rochelle Goren Joel Deifik, brother of David Deifik Waldemar Schaffer, father of Paula Ellis Lillian Lappe, grandmother of Tal Dagan Rachel Freedman, sister-in-law of Henrietta Freedman Ida Cohen Dorothy Gold Joan Treitel, sister of Robert Treitel and Nancy Moore Shirley Lea Weisman Gertrude A. Sandberg Ronnie Goldstein, wife of Leon Goldstein Leah Goodman Louis Folsom Florence Greenspan, mother-in-law of Marilyn Greenspan Dr. Abbott Winograd Harold Cantor, father-in-law of Nancy Cantor Ruth Pelovitz, aunt of Robert Pelovitz Lena Taub, grandmother of Abner Taub Frances Agnes Berzets Hyman Rubenstein

April Yahrzeits continued on next page… 23 Community Yahrzeit Donations April Yahrzeits continued… Laura Kahn for mother, Estelle M. Kahn April 28 & 29 Jeffrey Levine for father, Theodore Levine Maida Sproul, mother of Nancy Cantor Howard Schiff for mother, Rachel Schiff Clarice Schoenberger, mother of Kerry Schneider Ida Stanger for mother, Edith Stanger Tobias Schnitzer, grandfather of Liliane Sznycer Steven Haime for great grandmother, Rebecca Freedman George Hayden, father of Claretta Malin Helen Feder for husband, Norman Feder Ida Kosofsky, mother of David Kosofsky Howard Kessler for mother, Jessie Kessler Judith Gorelick, first wife of Donald Gorelick Jeanne Gerard for father, Jere Lavine David Arthur Goldberg, father of Sandee Goldberg Barbara Garnick for father, Abraham Tubin Frances Banner, mother of Stanley Banner Janet Roth for mother, Ida Lukatsky Howard Katz, brother-in-law of Judy Goldstein Alan Green for grandfather, Max Sobelson Richard Dorner, father of Bruce Dorner Harry Haymes for parents, Ida & Rudolph Hamburger Russell Sproul, father of Nancy Cantor Marlene Gallant for mother, Dolores Keller Jackson Pastor, brother-in-law of Selma Pastor Dotty Silber for father, Hyman Andler Louis Rudnick, grandfather of Janis Silver George Kessler for mother, Jessie Kessler Frances Brody, mother of David Brody Rochelle Goren for father, Bernard Paris Murray B. Alter Etta Tanzer Ruth Harris for parents, Hannah & Yitzhak Weiner Harold Silverstein Morris Weisberg Nancy Keyslay for father, Franklin Alberts Morris Finkel Ann Sunstein Marilyn Greenspan for mother, Gertrude Silverman Elizabeth Fischer Charles Brown Murray Deutsch for sister, Eva Blatt Irvin Harry Nichols Debra Rothberg for mother, Harriet Skorton Marty Rothberg for father, Morris Rothberg Robert Berman for father, Jacob Berman We Gratefully Acknowledge Lionel Arlan for brother, Philip Arlan, & father, Your Contributions Chaim Arlan GENERAL FUND Esther Arlan for grandfather, Samuel Sherman Shari Zedeck for grandparents, Sarah & Harry DONORS IN HONOR OF Tulkoff, grandmother, Sarah Aspis, grandfather, Darlene & Charles Drutman Shira Grossman Bat Mitzvah Alan Ferman in appreciation Israel Lederfajn, and brother-in-law, Mark Zuroff Shirley Lelchuk Arlene Shapiro Steven Zedeck for mother, Sandra Zedeck Harriet & Herb Shanzer Gina Shapiro Harriet Shanzer for mother, Louise Hallet Harriet & Herb Shanzer Sharon & Charlie Goldstein granddaughter Diane Toth for father, Morris Kozak DONORS IN MEMORY OF Howard Price Lillian Kessler Harriet & Herb Shanzer Mary Ann Sheirer RABBI’S DISCRETIONARY FUND Ricki Klopfer in appreciation The Snapper & Pepin families in appreciation Deborah Harari in memory of Walter Mildenberg Joyce & Sharon Kessler in appreciation TREE OF LIFE Stephanie & Mike Rosenblum In Honor of the English birth date of grandson, Yonatan Hacohen MEMORIAL PLAQUE Noreen Leibson and Family In Memory of her father, Mel Leibson

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