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B’nai Mitzvah January/February 2012 No. 3 page 2 Tevet - Adar 5772 Supported by the Sala Kryszek Memorial Publication Fund

From the Pulpit Annual Giving Cantor’s Notes page 3 The Occupaion As I write this aricle, the Occupy movement that has spread around the globe is sill marching through the streets. However, by As I write this aricle, I wish Service Times the ime this Chronicle reaches your cofee table I could say that this year’s Annual page 4 or smartphone, I will be curious to see what Giving Campaign was a complete strength is let of the naional/internaional success. But, as of December 1st we protest when the snow arrives. Revoluion were sill $12,000 away from our goal in the air is exciing (depending of course on of raising $150,000. However, let’s Aucion 2012 which side you are on) though I was extremely disturbed when recently focus on the posiives. We have had I caught footage of many protesters in New York shouing “Occupy Wall 82 new donors (on top of the 100 page 5 Street, Not Palesine!” I was quickly reminded how easy it can be for we had last year). We successfully many to confuse progressive, intellectually honest and raional ideas maxed out our generous matches with Ani-Semiism/Zionism…they are not the same. Most of us believe provided by 4 families. And, those Tikkun Olam passionately in religious and cultural pluralism (the many valid but who have given for 2 years increased diferent approaches to truth) and our movement within Judaism prides their gits by 18.8%. In three years, page 6-7 itself on being intellectually honest and raional. That is why I ind it so we have moved from a mishmash tragic that so oten the worst form of ani-Semiism comes clothed in of campaigns into one focused academic and intellectual speech, disguised as just one more true voice campaign that is raising twice the Membership in the muliplicity of true voices. I think all of us could use a reminder, amount of criical funds. What we especially those of us who pride ourselves on advocaing for the civil do maters - this Campaign touches page 8 rights of all people, to consider once again the power of our speech. all congregants – both the donor and Many have taught me to separate the pulpit from poliics, yet I the recipients of those gits. What we know that Israel is not just another naion in the world; the poliics are do maters – but someimes we get Groups not just another naion’s realm of poliics. The wars are not just another busy, we get distracted and we forget country’s wars, the struggles are not just the struggles of another that tzedakah needs to – no should page 9 far away place. The fate of all of us, Am Israel, the people of Israel… be – incorporated in everything we cannot be separated from Medinat Israel, the naion of Israel…it is our do. As we know, tzedakah normally homeland. It is the only place that opened its doors fully to our parents is translated as jusice. But I like Youth and grandparents leaving the concentraion camps. It is the stage for how Rabbi Greenstein translates it the exciing and progressive drama of the modern Jewish future. It is – balance. We balance the scales page 10-11 one of the only places that recently granted ciizenship to hundreds of between those that are able to give Muslim refugees leeing genocide in Darfur. It is our place, our home, and those that, at this ime, don’t and Congregaion Neveh Shalom stands with and supports Israel. have such means. Someday the scales Israel is not perfect, no naion is, and I do not agree blindly with could be reversed. As a giver, our Adult Ed. each and every policy of her government. However, I cringe when I family wants the comfort of knowing page 11 hear or read language such as “Free Palesine,” “End the Occupaion,” that our congregaion is there TODAY “Occupy Wall Street, Not Palesine.” My stomach turns when I pass and TOMMORROW to support my by a book cover or hear someone, especially someone Jewish, refer family should we need it someday. to the situaion as “Apartheid.” To our credit, we as a people are Every git will make a Eastside extremely self-criical; the outspoken voices of all sides check and diference...we need you Today, page 12 balance the “Jewish voice” that rings out to the world. But this please. So join us by making a git can be both a blessing and a curse. These confused sayings are to help your CNS community stay decepive and dishonest for many factual and historical reasons strong! but most importantly they are misleading because they ignore Member News the signiicance of what they connote (these slogans against Jason H. Kaufman page 13-14 Israel are irresponsible comparisons…but they are sure good 2011-12 Annual Giving Chair coninued on page 3

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Aaron Welter S N L January 7

Purimspiel Mazel Tov to Aaron David Welter, son of Ingrid Siegman and Michael Welter, brother of Joshua & Elana Welter; grandson to Nancy & Dennis Siegman, Jean Wednesday Bennet, and Fred Welter; and nephew of Tara Seigman, Drew Seigman, and night, David Welter. Aaron is a 7th grader at Whiford Middle School and enjoys soccer, March 7. day-spa, video games and playing the saxophone. Check out his bar mitzvah web page at htps://sites.google.com/site/welterbarmitzvah.

Jessica Schwartz January 20

Mazel Tov to Jessica Dori Schwartz, daughter of Linda Schwartz, sister of Jackson and granddaughter of the late Abe and Florence Schwartz (z”l) and grandmother Jill. Jessica is a 7th grader at Lake Oswego Junior High. She is strong in mind and body with reserve and a pensive manner. She envelopes the white light that surrounds her. I (her mother) am in awe, and Jackson has setled close under her wing. P l e a s e mark your calendars Eugene Munblit and plan January 28 to be with Mazel Tov to Eugene Munblit, son of Irina & Roman Munblit, brother to Polina, us for this and grandson to the late Nuhim and Polina Munblit z”l and the late Arkady and Riveka Vainrub z”l. Eugene is a 7th grader at Jackson Middle School and enjoys fantastic playing piano, basketball, taekwondo, bowling, video games and hanging out with show! friends.

Alden Davis March 3

If you’d like to help Mazel Tov to Alden Eli Davis, son of Diane & Barry Davis, brother to Talia, with our producion Neville, Eitan and Rayna, and grandson to Deborah & Stephen Davis and both onstage or of, please contact Suzanne & Stephen Blucher. Alden has a dog & two cats. He is a 7th grader me at dbletstein@ at Beaumont Middle School and was a student at Portland Jewish Academy nevehshalom.org for his elementary years. Alden plays tenor sax in his school’s advanced Ambassador Jazz Band. He enjoys playing football, hiking, skiing, reading, listening to and playing music, and hanging out with his friends. One of Alden’s greatest joys is also spending part of his summer at Camp Ramah in Ojai, CA. page 2 Chronicle No. 3 January/Febrary 5772 Notes From the Cantor coninued from page 1 at drawing atenion). We should know beter. Ater all, as Jews “LIVE FROM SHUSHAN: and especially as progressive Jews, we hold sacred the idea that IT’S WEDNESDAY NIGHT!” words cannot be interpreted in a vacuum. Words spoken and I have generally writen or co-writen original writen have to be interpreted for their tremendous depth of Purimspiels since I began working as a cantor in 2007. meaning and suggesion. Oten in past experiences, I have chosen the theme We know that words are deined by both a dicionary of the show, usually a Broadway musical or a certain and history. So when I hear “Free Palesine!” I cannot also help genre of popular music that served as the foundaion but hear “Free Tibet!” though there is dissonance between the for the parodies. Last year, along with the choir, we co- passive peace taught by the Dali Lama and the tools of terror wrote a disco-themed show called Shushan Night Fever taught in Gaza. China’s oppression is a far cry from Israel’s and turned Birnbach Hall into a discotheque! aspiraion to live with peaceful neighbors. And shouts of “End I wanted to try something diferent this year. I was seeking an The Occupaion” sound like cries against imperial empires. A opportunity to be involved with the High School kids on Wednesday popular phrase during the 19th century was that the sun never night this year, so I ofered a Musical Theatre elecive focusing on Purim. set on the Briish Empire because it occupied so many lands. Iniially, I had a theme in mind (Motown), thinking that it would be great Around the clock, from all diferent ime zones, there was always to expose the kids to a style of music they were less familiar with, but one Briish controlled land with the sun at high noon. The sun they vetoed it! It turns out that the students who opted for this class are sets every night on the naion of Israel, a country the size of wriing the enire show based on a theme they chose—Saturday Night New Jersey, that seems to be geing smaller and smaller. And to Live! My co-teacher, Jonathan Morgan, and I, alongside the students, equate Israel and apartheid, aside from touching on the nerves are creaing the parodies of popular SNL sketches to tell the story of of so many Jewish families and insituions who gave everything Purim. We have a number of creaive teens who are talented writers, to help end apartheid, would be to equate Yasser Arafat with comedians, singers and dancers who are bringing this show to life. We Nelson Mandela. Yet, the only thing they have in common is the are set up in a classroom which models the actual staf-wriing table at Nobel Peace Prize. SNL in 30 Rockefeller Plaza, and there is a lot of energy buzzing around What yearning for a place or a naion or a person to our room each week! be “Free” really means is more than one’s ability to shape their Jonathan and I have been learning a lot from this experience own desiny, to walk about life with a self determinaion that is with our teens and are having a lot of fun in the process. It has been uninhibited. Freedom is more than the luxury to act and speak an important reminder that we need to hear the voices of our kids; what we want, when we want, and with whom we want. The they have a lot to say about the world and they do so in ariculate and essence of freedom and the right of every human being and creaive ways. We feel blessed to help further their Jewish educaion naion is the ability to embrace life – not to be killed or be forced post-B’nai Mitzvah in a way that excites them. There are a number of to kill another. The Palesinian leadership has this freedom if other wonderful elecives being taught on Wednesday night this year only they would accept it…they have farms to culivate, schools that have energized our kids, our teachers and our enire Tichon (High to build, businesses and government to grow and no one will School) program at Neveh Shalom. terrify them. In fact Israel has in the past and will coninue to Our SNL Purimspiel will take place on Wednesday night, March pour resources and funds to nurture their growth. In the words 7. Please mark your calendars and plan to be with us for this fantasic of Rabbi Jonathon Sacks, known for his devoion to social jusice, show! I would enjoy having some adults in our community make cameo “The Palesinian future will begin the minute Hamas stops iring appearances as well! If you’d like to help with our producion both rockets on innocent Israelis.” Their freedom begins the second onstage or of, please contact me at [email protected]. Just they choose to embrace it. But Israel is sill not free; she cannot a heads up—you may have to audiion for the kids! simply move out of the so called “occupied” lands and live in Happy Purim! peace. Cantor B During a press conference ater the Six Day War of 1967, when Israel’s neighbors waged war against the existence of a Jewish homeland, the world’s third female prime minister told the world, “When peace comes we will perhaps in ime be Friday, Jan. 13 able to forgive the Arabs for killing our sons, but it will be harder for us to forgive them for having forced us to kill their sons.” That Special 7:30pm service ime war ended and Golda Meir spoke long ago but we are sill not free. Her words sill ring true and in a way we are sill ighing that If you were here November 11, you were rocked! Join Cantor war, we are sill ighing to exist and be free. We long for a Free Bletstein, Ed Kraus, and Klezmocracy for a high-energy Israel. And we coninue to mouth the words of another naion’s Shabbat service with instruments that will rock your soul! anthem from so far away because it is not just another naion, Stay aterwards and schmooze at our signature Neveh Shalom her anthem is our prayer: Od lo avdah ikvatenu…the hope is not cookie oneg. lost…Ha-ikvah bat sh’not alpayim…the hope of two thousand years…Li-h’yot am hofshi b’artzenu …to be a Free people in our Dates for 2012: own homeland. We hope and pray and speak for a Free Israel, January 13 Free from being killed, Free from being forced to kill. March 16 Ufros Aleinu Sukkat Shlomecha, May 11 Rabbi Bradley Greenstein

page 3 Chronicle No. 3 January/Febrary 5772 ORA Shalom Services Religious Services for Shabbat Downstairs Minyan ORA Shalom *Kabbalat Shabbat, Every Friday: 6:15pm 2nd & 4th Saturdays: 9:00am (Jan. 14* & 28, Feb. 11 & 25*) 2nd Fridays each *Shabbat Morning Service, Every Saturday: *combined minyan 9:00am Downstairs Minyan is a lay-led Shabbat service month Shabbat child care available beginning at followed by a light Kiddush and lively singing of z’mirot. 9:30am by advance reservaion only. Please If you are interested in leading a part of the service ORA Shalom is a call 503.246.8831x100 by noon on the or reading Torah please contact Eddy Shuldman at Shabbat for the preceding Wednesday to reserve space. [email protected]. senses. Every few months a new Friday Evening Services with special themes: KEVA with Rabbi Greenstein: 3rd Saturdays, 10:00-11:45am (Jan. 21, Feb. 18) set of arists will First Fridays with Ilene Safyan Join us as we study, sing, meditate and engage deeply create a fresh 1st Fridays, 6:15pm (Jan. 6, Feb. 3) in prayer together. KEVA is for adults and kids of every display of art to age, no experience necessary. Bring your friends! ORA Shalom – A Shabbat for the Senses be showcased. KEVA...a litle ime for your soul. For more informaion 2nd Fridays (Jan. 13 with PDX Live at 7:30pm, If you see or to get involved please contact Rabbi Brad at Feb. 10 at 6:15pm) something you [email protected] like, you can ORA Shalom is our newest Friday night service on the 2nd Shabbat of each month, combined with our contact the arist Rose Schnitzer Manor, “Darchei Noam” service main service. The evening will be enhanced with 3rd Saturdays, 10:00am (Jan. 21, Feb. 18) ater Shabbat special music and/or art and will enliven the senses On the 3rd Shabbat of each month Neveh Shalom and make as we enter into the Shabbat experience together. A volunteers from Downstairs Minyan lead Shabbat arrangements light oneg will be served immediately ater Kiddush. services for seniors at the Robison Home Chapel, to purchase Arists from ORA: Northwest Jewish Arists will be escoring residents to the Chapel and conducing the art! Arists present to answer quesions as you view their latest services at 10am.Please contact Carol Stampfer at exhibit. Come sip wine and appreciate the creaivity will donate a [email protected] percentage of of our local Jewish arists. For more informaion their sales to about ORA, check out htp://www.northwestjewisharists.blogspot.com Shabbat Morning for Families and Children: the synagogue. Tot Shabbat (ages 0-5 years old) Chik-Chak Service 1st & 3rd Saturdays: 10:00am (Jan. 7 & 21, Feb. 4 & Come meet the 3rd Fridays, 6:15pm (Jan. 20, Feb. 17) 18) arists January A tradiional, lay-led service featuring Carlebach Tot Shabbat is a warm, age-appropriate Saturday 13 immediately tunes followed by delicious, volunteer-catered morning service designed to introduce our youngest ater Friday dinner. Reservaions required for dinner ($12/adult, members to Shabbat morning worship. This interacive, night services! $6/child, $36 max/family). Contact Mel Berwin at engaging 45-minute Shabbat service includes prayers, On January 13, 503.246.8831 or [email protected] for more music, songs and story ime followed by a light Kiddush lunch. services begin informaion. at 7:30pm due NOTE: on 3rd Fridays when there is no Bar/Bat Mitzvah, the main service is combined with ChikChak in one Kehillat Noar – Youth Congregaion (Grades 1-5) to PDX Live! A service. 3rd Saturdays, October-May: 10:00-11:15am (Jan. 21, new exhibit will Feb. 18) open on February Hinenu Erev Shabbat Service Kehilat Noar is a “next-step-up” program from Tot 10, at our regular 4th Fridays, 6:45pm (Jan. 27, Feb. 24) Shabbat for 1st-5th graders and families. Join Gershon 6:15pm Erev For Jews in their 20’s and 30’s who are post- Liberman for this brief, lively, skill-building Shabbat Shabbat Service. college and pre-kids. This alternaive service is morning experience, and stay for kiddush lunch with followed by a potluck Shabbat dinner at a local friends. For more informaion contact Mel Berwin, ORA is a local Jewish home. Please visit our Facebook page (just [email protected] arists guild ofering search for “Hinenu”). For more informaion, to various membership RSVP, or to get on our email list, contact Noah opportuniies to Barish, [email protected]. THIS IS NOT Candle lighting established as well as YOUR BUBBE’S JUDAISM!!!! emerging arists. Go to 6 Jan 4:25 10 Feb 5:12 www.northwestjewishartists.org ElEanor FischEr Dial-in sErvicE 13 Jan 4:33 17 Feb 5:22 for more informaion. if you are unable to attend Shabbat Services 20 Jan 4:42 24 Feb 5:32 dial in to hear them. Check out our blog at Shabbat Morning Services with 27 Jan 4:52 2 Mar 5:42 http://northwestjewishartists.blogspot.com. call 503.246.8832 special themes: 3 Feb 5:02 Downstairs Minyan page  Chronicle No. 3 January/Febrary 5772 Events Experince the joy of Shabbat! 1st & 3rd Saturdays of each month - 10:15 AM - Zidell Chapel New Babies Shabbat Dead Sea Saturday, February 18, 2012 Spa Day T O T If you or your adult child has 2012 had a baby in the past year, Sunday, January 8, please join us to celebrate and welcome your new arrival! All are invited 10am-6pm SHABBAT to arrive in ime for Torah service at 10am. Staford Bouique Vitality Center, Parents, grandparents and siblings will be Lake Oswego honored with a group Aliyah to the Torah. Please mark your calendars and A fun and engaging services for A special Kiddush will follow services. join us for a warm and wonderful families with babies, toddlers, and Those interested in reading Torah to event of luxurious spa treatments young children up to age 5 commemorate this special occasion please for you and your friends beneiing contact [email protected]. -Join our skilled early childhood educators, Kochavim, Notz’tzim, and Machon Levia, Amy, and their good friend Shabbos Come schmooze with your future Hebrew Mouse for Neveh Shalom’s liveliest Shabbat Ivrit Hebrew Immersion Programs at service. school classmates! This special Shabbat is open to ALL new babies in the Portland Neveh Shalom. Treat yourself, treat -Enjoy singing, dancing, scarf waving, parachutes, Jewish Community! Contact kwilkins@ your loved ones. Details to follow... story telling and more! ! nevehshalom.org or 503.246.8831 to For more info, contact Caroline, -Stay for a yummy kiddush lunch and become a make sure your baby is included. [email protected]. part of our welcoming community of young families.

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SAVE THE DATE Mah Jongg Tournament Sunday, March 18, 11am-4pm Auction News Aucion 2012 – The Greatest Shul on Earth! Dear Fellow Neveh members- We are so excited with how the upcoming aucion is shaping up! Do yourself and your congregaion a favor and join us on Sunday, March 4 as we present “The Greatest Shul on Earth!” Invitaions will be out soon so watch your mail. Our spectacular team of volunteers are juggling myriad details to bring you a not-to-be- missed evening where you’ll be wined, dined and enter- tained as you ind items and experiences to bid on that you just can’t live without. And all this while you are in the company of great friends joining together to do good things for our Congregaional home. OY! We would be lost without your support, so »» COME ONE, COME ALL «« RSVP right away. You don’t even have to wait for your to the paper invite to arrive. Just call the Neveh oice at Neveh Shalom 503.246.8831 and say “Count us in!” Also, we sill have 2012 Auction plenty of room for your paricipaion as a sponsor (this is SUCH a big help!) and your aucion donaions to round th out the fabulous inds that our team has been accumu- March 4 at 5PM laing for you. Be creaive! Both our personal window ...... cleaner and carpet cleaner are donaing packages to An evening of delightful finds clean one lucky birder’s whole house JUST BECAUSE WE & enchanting delicacies ASKED! Who can YOU ask?? Thanks ahead for your support. We’ll see you under the “big tablets!” Fondly, Felicia & Todd Rosenthal Your 2012 Aucion Chairs

page 5 Chronicle No. 3 January/Febrary 5772 Shomrei Tikkun Olam Teva An Ofer You Shouldn’t Refuse…. Monthly Our Social Acion/Tikkun Olam commitee is looking for a few good people to help lead our collecive eforts! Help oversee our Tikkun Olam aciviies and envision new ones Mitzvah for the future. Get an overview of some of our ongoing aciviies at htp://www.nevehshalom.org/our-community/social-acion. Crew The minimal commitment is atending three or four evening meeings over the year. Beyond 3rd Sundays that there is the opportunity to be involved in your choice of eforts. New projects are generated in various ways. Occasionally, a person of convicion comes to us with a cause 9:45 am that weighs heavy on their hearts. When they express a willingness to take on leadership for the project, our commitee gets behind them to explore the idea and help them move forward. Jan.15 One such idea we are working on is creaing a support network for our congregants in need during these diicult imes when government and charity resources are drying up. We put out the call through Feb. 19 the Chronicle and our weekly eBlast. Four individuals responded. They will meet to explore the concept of matching needs with skilled individuals who are willing to donate their ime. For instance, doctors providing Join us as we medical assistance, atorneys assising on legal issues, volunteers helping to repair or maintain homes, the list is remove invasive endless. plants (ivy, If you are interested in taking part in the Tikkun Olam commitee feel free to give me a call at 503.454.0610 blackberry, etc.) or email me at [email protected]. and restore the Steve Sirkin, Tikkun Olam Commitee Chair natural habitat of the lovely creekside Notes from Shomrei Teva area along the Tu b’Shvat prayers for Jews to say when confronted with nature, synagogue. to remind us that the world is a git of creaion for us to Tu b’Shvat will begin this year experience with awe and respect. R. Shimon Bar Yochai Make it a on February 7. Once a minor holiday, said three things are of equal importance: earth, humans, double mitzvah it has grown into the environmental and rain; underscoring the balance of life. by going first holiday for the Jewish people. Why These short statements come from an aricle to Morning celebrate it, and why, as Jews, at Canfei Nesharim, one of many worldwide Jewish Minyan. Bring a should we be especially concerned environmental groups (htp://canfeinesharim.org/index.php). small digging/ about our earth? The full aricle is now on the Neveh Shalom website at weeding tool Tu b’Shvat is the holiday that most recognizes our www.nevehshalom.org/flyers/jewish_earthday.pdf. (trowel, small moral and ethical obligaions to protect the earth. I encourage you to read it and relect on it. And shovel, etc.), Bereshit 2:15 teaches that the world was created on the holiday, take a walk, read, or plant a tree. Make and work as and we are obligated “to work and to protect” it. ime this year to honor Tu b’Shvat and a long Jewish long as you The Shulchan Aruch says one must return anything tradiion of caring for the earth. want. borrowed in at least as valuable a condiion as it was. Dress for the So we are to leave a planet for our descendants that Chag sameach, weather. It’s is as healthy as the one we inherited. Jordan Epstein surprisingly The Mishnaic and Talmudic rabbis wrote many Chair, Shomrei Teva enjoyable work and a good CNS Darfur/Congo Committee & Never Again Coalition schmooze with warm camaraderie. CNS Darfur/Congo Commitee and Never Again stand with us to support the people sufering there. You’ll like it and Coaliion We are always looking for new members to join our you’ll feel good Mondays, 7:00pm (January 9, February 6) commitee, whether you can atend once and awhile or when you see how Join us Monday evenings at Neveh are interested in playing a larger role. Help us to fulill beautiful our site is Shalom and take a stand against genocide. the promise the world made following the Holocaust becoming. Meet in Neveh Shalom is proud to be a central - “Never Again!” the wooded area off part of the Never Again Coaliion. We are For more informaion, please visit our website our lower parking lot. dedicated to raising awareness about at www.neveragaincoaliion.org and join us on Facebook the genocide in Darfur and the ongoing to take part in the latest acions to combat genocide - Questions: Jordan violence in the Congo. Through educaion, htp://www.facebook.com/NeverAgainCoaliion. Epstein, 503.245.6580, advocacy and tzedakah we strive to help Contact Sarah Greenstein or Lauren Fortgang at [email protected] the people in Darfur and the Congo [email protected]. and encourage our elected leaders to

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Donate your Car to Neveh Shalom Safeway Shopper Thank You to our recent donor: Doug Brotz You can receive a tax write-of by donaing your unused or unwanted Card Registration vehicle, running or not. Call JoAnn in the Neveh Shalom Oice for more info: 503.293.7309, or [email protected]. Help Neveh Shalom by grocery shopping. Go to www.escrip.com and click on “1-Sign Up”. Select Neveh Shalom as your charity of choice, Group ID # 163941303. DO IT TODAY! Don’t know your Safeway card number? THINK GREEN Call them at 1.877.SAFEWAY.

Our Chronicle is available as a downloadable PDF for viewing on the screen or your computer. Sign up for the online version by sending an Our next Blood Food Barrel email to [email protected]. Please let us know if you would Drive is Sunday, like to forego your paper version to save trees. May 13. We are in urgent need of a few volunteers to Cooking for Outside-In help run it! Do you Neveh Shalom has a Sunday, January 8, 11-2pm have a passion for food barrel beneiing Neighborhood House and the Sunday, February 5, 11-2pm doing good and are interested in taking Sunshine Pantry. Bring in your Join us in the CNS kitchen if you would like to help cook for on this very manage- non-perishable food items to Outside-In. On January 8 and February 5, will be will making bean able and rewarding the barrel located in the foyer dishes, which take a litle extra ime. We will start washing and soaking project? Contact outside Zidell Chapel. the beans around 9am, but the main cooking won’t start unil around Jennifer at 503 293- Thank you for 11am. 7313. Thank you! your generosity! On Sunday, November 20, CNS members met in the Neveh Shalom kitchen to prepare Hearty Black Bean Soup and salad for 60. The menu for Sunday, December 4 was Tuna Noodle Casserole and salad. The food 143 Hygiene Kits

was delivered to Outside-In, a homeless shelter for teens in downtown Thanks to seven wonderful Sisterhood Portland. volunteers and the generosity of many Congregaion Watch the CNS eBlast or contact Cathy Blair at cathyblair55@ Neveh Shalom members, we were able to put together yahoo.com if you would like to be informed of future dates. and deliver 143 Hygiene Kits on November 13. Once we have more toothbrushes and tampons, we will be able to put together MANY, MANY more kits. Neveh Knits and Crochets Because Portland is 3,000 shelter beds short Neveh Knits and Crochets is an each night, there is a 10-week wait to get into a shelter. intergenerational group that evolved out of last While waiing for a shelter bed, the homeless can take year’s Mitzvah Day. To date we have donated nine showers at the Transiion Projects facility at 650 NW blanket sets to Legacy Emanuel’s Neonatal Intensive Irving Street. Care Unit, and eight helmet liners to soldiers in We are coninuing to collect hygiene kit items, Afghanistan. Group members are also working on so save those unopened hotel shampoos, condiioners, hats and scarves for Outside In, a local shelter for and loions. The cheapest places to pick up travel size homeless teens. deodorant are WalMart, Target and Fred Meyer. Full The group ranges from beginners to very size deodorants are available for about the same price skilled. Some members create items on their own, others produce 12-inch squares that at the Dollar Store and Big Lots. Ask your denist for are stitched together to make a full blanket. Leah Rubin, who assembles many of the a case of toothpaste for the homeless. Pickup 4-6 blankets, says, “Neveh Knits connects those who love to create through knitting with a toothbrushes at the Dollar stores for $1. Pick up bulk mitzvah project. It’s very satisfying to complete and send off baby blankets and hats to packs of razors on sale. If you ind tampons at a good new babies in the Legacy Emanuel’s Neonatal Unit.” price, think of the homeless! At least two of our congregants have been recipients of baby blankets through Good job, all of you, for making life sweeter and the Legacy program. “As someone whose daughter was the beneficiary of beautifully more just in Portland. knit hats and booties at the Legacy Emanuel NICU I’d love to come help,” writes Tamar Wyte-Lake. Cathy Blair Neveh Knits--And Crochets meets the third Sunday of each month from 10-noon. [email protected] For more information, please contact Deborah Freedberg, [email protected]. page 7 Chronicle No. 3 January/Febrary 5772 Manage Your CNS Member Services Membership CNS CONNECTIONS: the Member Services Committee Account ONLINE! Ours is a religion based on tradiion. But welcoming new members and making So much in fact, that there’s even a song them feel “at home” isn’t the commitee’s only role. built around the idea. At Neveh Shalom we Our collecive culture as shul means that we all should have our own tradiions, too. Last month, take the ime to help new members feel “at home” CNS Connecions coninued our tradiion of too. Someimes it’s just a simple gesture to “Come, Manage Your CNS a communal Chanukah celebraion but with sit with me!” at a service or social event. Someimes Membership Account some new and exciing twists added to it. We it’s an invitaion to one’s home. It could even be as ONLINE! hope you had the opportunity to atend and if simple as a walk-up introducion. New members are Congregaion Neveh you did that you had the Chanukah of your life! the lifeblood of the shul and a steady inlux of new Shalom is now open This month, our commitee coninues another members is what keeps us going and growing. While for business on long-standing tradiion at Neveh Shalom, the we recognize that members someimes resign for a the web. All CNS annual “New Member Brunch.” It’s an event variety of reasons, our goal is to make sure that “I did members should that I personally look forward to each year as a not feel welcome, involved, or connected” is not one have received a commitee member. This will be my third. It’s of them. Throughout the coming year, our commitee leter of explana- a special brunch where our new members are will coninue our commitment to connecing members ion with your the guests of honor as we “oicially” welcome with members and implemening new programs and login name and them. Our commitee members are present as ideas to enhance the member experience. We hope password. are representaives from clergy, staf and the you’ll share in our enthusiasm. Board. It is a morning illed with lots of food, lots of David Meltzer, Co-Chair To access your schmoozing, and lots of warmth. This year’s event CNS Connecions – The Member Services Commitee account go to will be on Sunday, January 22. If you joined us in www.nevehsha- 2011, you can expect your invitaion shortly. lom.org and click Member Login The Gloria Bacharach in the top right corner. When you Judaica Shop at Congregation Neveh Shalom login the irst ime you can change your password. If you lost your login informaion, call the oice at 503.246.8831. Winter is here for a while, and it’s a great ime to stay indoors and spend quality ime with your family. We have many beauiful items to brighten your home during this Uilizing this dark and stormy season and have expanded our inventory feature allows you in the Judaica Shop, combining the contemporary with the to update your tradiional to appeal to the varied tastes of our customers. contact informaion, Chronicle pay your member- Come on in and see the new items we’ve brought in, ship online, add or including a full line of Desert Kippot, Shabbat candlesicks Submissions and challah boards by Doris Glass and Lily Art, an expanded change child informa- line of Yair Emanuel products and much more. We have ion, view yahrzeit also added a line of colorful hand-made, free market kippot informaion, view your and tallitot from Mayaworks of Guatemala. account and pay any Share your life-cycles ad, events, and outstanding amounts, As always, we are volunteer stafed and are in need of accomplishments with your congregaion. make donaions to addiional hands to expand shop hours. Please contact Please email submissions to me if you’re interested in donaing some of your ime, various funds online and [email protected] whether it’s for a couple of hours a month, or once a have acknowledgement week. Since our hours change frequently, give us a call cards sent out, register to make sure that we’re open when you’d like to shop. Issue Deadline and pay for synagogue If you ind that you can’t make it in during our regular Mar/Apr Fri, Feb. 3 programs and events. hours, feel free to email me to set up a ime for a May/Jun Fri, Apr. 6 personal shopping visit. Currently you can register Jul/Aug Fri, Jun. 1 B’Shalom- for the Aucion on March 4! Tina Smith, Judaica Shop Director The Chronicle is printed every other month. Please read our weekly e-blast and check the CNS website for regular updates. All informaion is fully secure. [email protected]

page  Chronicle No. 3 January/Febrary 5772 Sisterhood Greeings Sisters! please RSVP to Cathy Blair at [email protected]. We have some exciing events coming up! • Mah Jongg Tournament! Our annual fun-illed brunch and • The Ketubah will be our point of focus in January! tournament will be held on Sunday, March 18, 11am– 4pm at the back of Meet in Room 102, on Thursday, January 5, at 7pm, to discuss the sanctuary. Please sign up by illing out and returning the lier in this “The Marriage Arist” by Andrew Winer. Chronicle before March 9. For quesions call Judi Goodman at 503.531.7205 • On Thursday, January 12, at 7pm, we will gather in or Sarah Coblens at 503.466.2256. Room 102 again for “Exploring the Ketubah as Art and as a • Judaism 5G, The Upgrade will be the theme of our Regional Document” with Rabbi Isaak. Conference from April 29-May 2 in Walnut Creek, CA. We will have a • Sisterhood and Men’s Club will co-host “Current Issues Facing workshop on how to integrate technology into Sisterhood with maximum Israel” with Amos Meron, the Israel Shaliach for Portland. Join us on results, a Jewish meditaion workshop, great speakers, and many other Sunday, January 22, at 9:40am in the Zidell Chapel for breakfast and a very exciing aciviies. interesing program. There is so much that we can share together as women. I hope to • On Sunday, February 12, join us in the CNS Board Room from see all of you very, very soon! Noon-3pm for a Luncheon Workshop with Marilyn Berkowitz, from Naional Women’s League, enitled “How to Build a Stronger Sisterhood.” Please B’ Shalom, RSVP to Cathy Blair at [email protected] to let her know you will be Cathy Blair atending. Sisterhood President • Don’t miss “DINNER and Sephardic Passover Stories with Sarah [email protected] Greenstein” on Sunday, March 11, from 6-8pm. Ater dinner, Sarah will 503.675.1328 share the Sephardic Passover tradiions of her family. If you plan to atend, Men’s Club During the month of October the Men’s Club, The upcoming Men’s Club speakers: under the leadership of Gary Larof, constructed the • January 22: Bob Horenstein, Community Relaions / Allocaions Sukkah which was enjoyed by one and all. Many thanks Director, Jewish Federaion of Portland need to be given to the following individuals who • February 26: Eric & Stacy Stevens, Personal trainers & nutriionists contributed to the construcion and the take-down of Please keep us in mind if you need volunteers to assist you in the Sukkah: Bob Zucker, Mike Titelbaum, Gary Tenner, an upcoming Neveh Shalom funcion. Please get in touch with Gabe Mike Rogson, Jonathan Levy, Bruce Stern, David Markiz, Club President ([email protected]), or Peter Wigmore, Ushman, Sam Gotlieb, Bob Weiner, Steve Sirkin, David Honigstock, & Club Secretary ([email protected]), and we will forward your Gabe Markiz. request to our club members. Addiionally, Simon Goldstein spoke to the Men’s Club We hope the recent Chanukah season created many joyous concerning cyber-security during October, and in November Alice family memories for you and your loved ones! Bushpresented steps of how we can best become prepared for Gabe Markiz Peter Wigmore emergencies. Club President Club Secretary

page  Chronicle No. 3 January/Febrary 5772 Youth Education ALIYAH for K - 12 Shalom Chaverim! What an exciing on these mornings--I look forward to more! LIBRARY and busy irst semester we have had in our • Our 3rd-6th graders are hard at work on Ivrit (Hebrew) new ALIYAH Jewish Learning Programs! and Teilah (prayer) during Shavua (weekday) programming! A team We have a phenomenal staf of educators of staf and volunteers are evaluaing our teaching eicacy on these CORNER working with our children in K-12 this year, topics, so that we know where we are most successful in our teaching and I want to share some of the highlights and where we need to improve. of our programming from the past several • Thirteen 6th Grade families came together at Camp months: Schechter for the 6th Grade Family Retreat in November, led by 6th • The chugim (elecives) in our K-5 program on Yom Rishon grade teachers Rosana Berdichevsky and Josh Lake. We’re looking (Sundays) have been a great success! Our children are learning forward to the 3rd-5th Grade Retreat (for kids only!) in February, also about Jewish arists and uilizing new techniques to create at Camp Schechter. beauiful creaive works with arist Michelle Katz; exploring the • We have an amazing core of over 20 Teen Madrichim outdoors and Jewish values around nature with youth advisor who assist in our classrooms with the K-6th grades. Many of these Emly Oren; adding kinestheic learning to the mix with Hebrew teens are also paricipaing in our Youth Leadership class in the Tichon yoga instructor Raki Kopernik; and exploring Jewish history (Wednesday night high school) program, led by Deb Freedberg and during the 2nd Temple Period through a role-playing game with Keren Barbash-Benedek. biblical historian Mathew Cuda. These chugim are in addiion • Tichon (Wednesday night high school program) is going to the core curriculum on Sundays of Ivrit (Hebrew), Yahadut strong with over 90 students registered. Core classes include topics (Jewish building blocks), and Mitzvot (an acive mitzvah project on Jewish text, idenity, and history, and elecives include Cantor curriculum). Bletstein’s Musical Theater Workshop (stay tuned for our “Saturday • We are also loving our new ALIYAH Shabbat program. On Night Live!” Take-Of for Erev Purim, led by many of our teens!); Jews the irst weekend of every month, instead of coming on Sundays, in the News with Eric Stone; Youth Leadership with Deb Freedberg & Winter over one hundred kids in Kindergarten through 5th grade have been Keren Barbash-Benedek; and 1,000 Mitzvot with Michelle Caplan. coming together for an upbeat, social Shabbat program with their We look forward to reporing more as we begin Semester 2! Hours for youth cohort. Many parents stay and learn, pray, and enjoy along Mel Berwin with their children. Parents get to connect on real topics relaing to Director of Congregaional Learning the Library: Jewish pracice and spirituality during our parent conversaion ime

Monday, Kochavim & Notz’tzim Kochavim & Notz’tzim • 4:15-4:45pm Tuesday, Hebrew Immersion Programs parent and child Notz’tzim program (then free-play ime in the Thursday We are excited to announce our successful Pre-Kochavim Large Muscle Room for tots ages 0-2.5) program returns in January as an exciing new program alongside • 4:45-5:45pm 8:30am to Notz’tzim! All are welcome to join us for Notz’tzim fun - simu- Pre-Kochavim program 2.5-4 year olds and parents too 1:30pm laing music and Hebrew immersion for children six months and Contact us to register or to sample a free trial up, followed by a special “next-step-up” program for kids ages class! HaMerkaz Program Coordinator Caroline Buchalter, Sunday 8am two-and-a-half to four years and parents who would like to [email protected]. to 12 noon* learn and play too! Wednesday 4pm to Foundation School Foundaion School is happy to welcome Even in the midst of winter’s chill we will begin to look 8:30pm* everyone back to school following our winter toward spring as the Jewish holidays of Shabbat Shira, the birthday *When ALIYAH vacaion. We hope all the families had ime to of the birds, and Tu B’Shvat, the birthday of trees, arrive. Children slow down and enjoy some peaceful moments will make bird feeders, create with feathers and pretend to be birds Jewish Learning while lighing the Chanukah candles together. hatching from eggs. Seeds will be planted, branches studied, and Program is in The month of January will ind the children the importance of trees to our world will be emphasized. Our All- embracing the season of winter. Stories and School Shabbat Program on Friday February 3 will feature songs session songs about sparkly snowlakes whirling and fat snowmen about birds and trees performed by the children in our 3-year-old meling will enrich the curriculum. We will discover how water classrooms. It won’t be long before the irst signs of new spring changes from liquid to solid ice, talk about what animals do leaf-buds will appear and bulbs will push up from the ground around in the winter, and match mitens by color and size. Children Neveh Shalom and we will be watching with the will be reminded that they too need to be prepared for the children! cold weather in winter by dressing warmly when they come Shalom, to school. Jan Skolnik & Kathy Wolfson Watch the weekly eBlast for Shoreshim NEW Arrivals in Shalom from Shoreshim! We’ve Rabbi Greenstein for leading us in Havdalah and teaching us valuable the Library had a great fall and are excited about the lessons about tzedakah. extremely fun winter events for young See our lyer (and e-newsleter) for details about the families. popular Havdalah in Pajamas with Cantor B on January 28. The kids Thank you to everyone who atended love this fun night of song! Be sure to stop by the Winter Family November’s “Raising Your Mensch.” We Fun Fest at the MJCC on January 29, from 3-4:30pm. Neveh Shalom had a wonderful turn out (almost 70 people). The will have a table with an acivity geared to the Shoreshim age child. energy and enthusiasm for learning about tzedakah Watch the website and e-news for details on this and other great and building community was fantasic! We would winter events coming up. also like to thank ALL our wonderful volunteers who I am sad to report that my co-chair Sonya Horowitz and her helped make the evening possible! Special thanks family are moving to the East Coast in January 2012. We will sorely to: Annual Giving Campaign Commitee and Board miss not only her dedicaion to Shoreshim, but all of her family’s Member - Mark Zeitzer; USY Board Members contribuions to the larger Jewish community. Thank you Sonya for Albert and Ellen Kalenscher; Board Member, everything, and we wish you all the best with your move and future. Lee Spector for donaing our delicious dinner Hilary Barthold and Margo Litwin have graciously agreed to join me from his Beaverton Pizzicato; and, of course, as co-chairs. page 0 Chronicle No. 3 January/Febrary 5772 Youth Activities advisor), Emly (Kadima/Jr Kadima advisor) and I are all in our 20’s, creaing a special dynamic in our funcions. We would like to strengthen the bond Small Tot between teens/pre-teens and post-college/pre- marriage young adults. Hopefully this can develop into an eventual big brother/sister program as Playgroup it does in other major Jewish communiies. It seems to me that this new iniiaive in Portland is Babies and Toddlers staring with the conversaions between USYers 1-3 years old and their and my staf (plus Moishe House residents). parents or caregivers- The full Youth Aciviies calendar thru join us for indoor June 2012 is almost inalized and I am very playime each Friday excited for the coming months. Boaz, Emly, and Kadimaniks enjoying themselves during Kinnus at Camp Schechter many other staf members and parent volunteers from 9-10:30am. Free Shalom CNS! These past three months have been working very hard to of charge and open have been a wonderful experience for me and provide our families with Jewish, to all! Bring your own even though I am sill relaively new, the youth fun, educaional, and ikkun olam vegetarian snack. We program is gaining signiicant tracion. Most youth programs. We are also meet in the Foundaion importantly we have awesome numbers of building a full youth commission “yoots” coming out to events because they to guarantee progress and School Large Muscle are seeking a social life from within our Shul. a synthesis between youth Room. Our chapter’s atendance records for the USY aciviies, educaion, and Camp weekend getaways at Camp Schechter have set Schechter. Contact me for any the bar for the enire Paciic Northwest Region quesions, concerns, or just to say shalom! with both high school and middle school! B’Shalom, One thing that’s unique with our youth Jonathan Morgan aciviies program at CNS is that Boaz (USY Youth Director Adult Education Beit Ha Midrash Weekend in Quest *Rabbi Stampfer’s Talmud Class, Tuesdays, 5:00-6:00pm, February 24-26, 2012 Room 111 To all Judaic Studies Enthusiasts,”Weekend in Quest”, a Shabbaton *Rabbi’s Isaak’s Bible Class, Thursdays, 3:30pm, Room 111 sponsored by the Insitute for Judaic Studies and co-sponsored Please call the oice to conirm classes are meeing, 503.246.8831 by Neveh Shalom, is scheduled for February 24, 25 and 26, 2012 in Astoria. This is an opportunity to study with an outstanding scholar, celebrate Shabbat and visit with old and new friends Jewish Philosophy for a weekend. Professor Oren Kosansky, associate professor of This informal study group will meet on a regular basis, with an anthropology at Lewis & Clark College, will speak on the Modern iniial focus on some essays by Emanuel Levinas. Mark Sherman Moroccan Jewish experience. For more details, please refer to the and Merridawn Duckler will be among the facilitators of this group. brochure on the website, htp://www.weekendinquest.org. The If you are interested in paricipaing, contact Mark Sherman at registraion form is a part of the brochure. A new feature this year [email protected]. is the ability to use Paypal to register and pay online. For more informaion please contact Addie Banasky addieban@comcast. Adult Ed: Read and Discuss net, or Mimi Epstein [email protected]. “Jerusalem: A Biography” by Simon Sebag Moniiore Wednesdays, 7-8:15pm beginning Jan. 4 A new tome on Jerusalem. Find it at Costco for $19.99 ($35 retail). Germany/Israel Trip Rabbi Isaak will read and discuss this book with fellow congregants June 27-July 11, 2012 during Wednesday Night School beginning January 4. Paricipants can join with our High School students for dinner at 6pm for a Join Cantor Bletstein on this mission trip with the nominal fee. In the meanime mark your calendars, buy the book, Cantors Assembly! and reserve Wednesday evenings for what Rabbi Isaak hopes will For tentative itinerary & pricing information contact prove fascinaing conversaions. Cantor Bletstein, 503-246.8831 ext. 116,

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A Havurah is an independent group of individuals, couples and/or families who come together to study, socialize, or celebrate - oten in homes, as determined by the Chesed members in each group. A havurah can be an enjoyable way to get to know others in a Community of Care large congregaion. At the beginning of the year you may have illed out a havurah form. If not, it is not too late to paricipate. Here are a few havurot that could form when there are enough people. See one that seems like a good it? E-mail or call to let us know you are interested: [email protected], 503.293.7313.

Hillsboro and the Surrounding Area over a meal. This group open to all 65+ looking to meet Families, Singles, Couples…let’s get together from others. Chesed is the ime to ime to celebrate and get to know each virtue of loving- other. Don’t drive into Portland - hunker down near Ladies’ Wine and Jewish Books kindness. home! Love a good discussion and perhaps a glass of vino? Let’s get a group together to read good lit and compare notes. Havdalah on the Town The Chesed Single? 30’s, 40’s or 50’s? Let’s organize a night once Family Learning Circle Commitee is a every few months to burn down that muli-wicked Are you looking for ways to deepen your celebraions dedicated group candle a notch and then hit the Portland micro- and bring more Jewish rituals to your home as a family? of people who whatever scene…brew, cart, club…you name it! Build conidence in expanding the depth of your obser- support our vance by coming together over Shabbat or holidays with Neveh Shalom Interfaith Families other families looking to do the same. Have kids, or not, and would like to get together with community others for laid-back holidays and relaxed celebra- Vancouver and the Surrounding Area people in need. ions? Let’s connect! Families, Singles, Couples…we will get together from We visit people, ime to ime to enjoy geing to know our neighbors in cook meals, and 65 Plus: Lunch Hour the Vancouver area. No need to cross the bridge - let’s provide rides for Join together for a light lunch every few months get a Washington group going. those in need of in the Neveh Shalom atrium. Connect with others care and healing. Eastside We would love to have you join throughout the enire Eastside. Find out who us and be a part Mizrach: your Neveh Shalom neighbors are and share a of our growing A Neveh Community… casual meal together. We’re also asking everyone team! Neveh Shalom’s Eastside Acion! to bring a can of food to donate to charity.

Noshing with the We are working now on connecing hosts and their Keep us in mind neighbors. if you need our Neighbors! Would you like to open your home for a small potluck? Or, caring support. Sunday, January 15, 5:30pm in a home near would you like to be hosted? Either way, it will help us to you! hear from you. Call or email today!

For more Thank you to everyone who has agreed to be We will be connecing hosts and those interested in informaion or if a host! We are sill looking for a few more atending. Call or email today! We need to know how you you are interested host homes… would like to join in. Would you like to open your home for a small potluck? Or, would you like to be hosted? in joining the On Sunday, January 15, Mizrach will Either way, it will help us to hear from you. Chesed Commitee, coordinate “Noshing with the Neighbors!” please contact Rabbi - Small simultaneous potluck dinner If you are interested in atending a “Noshing Bradley Greenstein, paries all over the Eastside. We will invite with the Neighbors” dinner, please contact Ann [email protected], the Mizrach neighbors who live close by, Sanderson at [email protected] or 503.771.3477; or Wendy Kahn, Membership and 503.246.8831. help with the introducions and make sure everyone has a seat at a Development Director, [email protected] table. We are looking for host families or 503.293.7305.

page 2 Chronicle No. 3 January/Febrary 5772 Kvell With Us Mazel Tov to Lois Shenker on the hard- Jonathan Lietz on the engagement of their Carolyn & Larry Gorin and grandson of copy release of her book, A Blessed Dying, daughter, Jody Coughlin, to Mat Greene, Goldie Barde and the late Leonard Barde, following the success of its serializaion son of Steve & Fran Greene of San Diego. z”l) on receiving several honors this year. As online. See more at Jody’s grandmother is Gloria Bacharach. a board ceriied plasic surgeon in Tualain, htp://www.ablesseddying.com Jody & Mat plan to have a December 2012 Aaron was selected by his peers as a Top wedding in San Diego. Doctor in his ield for the 2011 Portland Mazel Tov to Michelle & Loren Koplan on Monthly Top Doctor ediion, received the the birth of their daughter, Elizabeth Sarah, Mazel Tov to Aimee Coughlin Johnson 2011 Paients’ Choice Award (as well as on October 27, 2011. & Aaron Johnson on the birth of their 2008, 2009, and 2010) and was recently irstborn, a son, Amari Ashton Johnson, on voted in US News Magazine as one of the Mazel Tov to Elizabeth Steiner Hayward on 11/11/11, in Portland, OR. Grandparents “Top Doctors 2011.” announcing her candidacy for 2012 Oregon are Elaine Bacharach Coughlin & Jonathan State Senate. Follow her on her Facebook Page, Lietz, great grandmother is Gloria Mazel Tov to Eric Wasserman, son of Joel & htp://www.facebook.com/ESHayward Bacharach. Hilarie Wasserman, on publishing his irst novel, Celluloid Strangers. See more at Mazel Tov to Elaine Bacharach Coughlin & Mazel Tov to Aaron Gorin, MD (son of http://ericwasserman.com/celluloidstrangers.html. Kol-ha-Kavod Every simcha is special. Congratulaions to our many members who are celebraing in September and October. In paricular, mazel tov to the following members who are celebraing special ive year milestones!

MILESTONE BIRTHDAYS IN Paul Gilliam MILESTONE ANNIVERSARIES IN JANUARY Lesley Glasgow JANUARY: Sidney Atlas Diana Golden Larry & Eliane Caplan Glen Coblens Allen Hofman Harold & Jackie Lesch Deborah Freedberg Harvey Keller Ber & Ida Levenshtein Jennifer Director Knudsen Nina Khatayevich Rebecca Shine & Anne Galisky Vladimir Fiks Ida Levenshtein Thelma Gefen Edith Levit Marta Hasson Merrit Linn MILESTONE ANNIVERSARIES IN David Hosenpud Joseph Mandiberg FEBRUARY: Sandra Huppin Robert & Karen Meter Jay & Nancy Drogin Karen Johnson Wendy Miller Louis Feldman & Risa Colton-Feldman Michelle Koplan Naum Miroshnik Andy & Lauren Fortgang Jerry Kryszek Sam Monastyrsky Leonard & Nira Levine Scot Leavit Jonathan Morgan Darryl & Sherryll Mleynek Lauri Levy Jordan & Debbie Plawner Simon & Inga Newman Leonard Lewit Jake Raiton Jack & Barbara Schwartz William Loeb Shari Katz Brian Suher & Barbara Atlas Neil Rolnitzky Steve Rudolph Michael & Barbara Titelbaum Robert Rudolph Jack Schwartz Inna Shabashevich Gail Semler Leonard Springer Chris Shirkof Robert Shlachter Deborah Winer ElcomE EW Eric Stone W n MILESTONE BIRTHDAYS IN Gennady Talal mEmbErs: FEBRUARY Marla Weiner Francine Aboloia Jefrey Yonover Ron Ail Michelle Alberts Teresa Coughlin noah & callie barish Howard David alex Zelkind Amy Elkanich bella Zelkind Brian Garrison page 3 Chronicle No. 3 January/Febrary 5772 To honor ThEir In Memoriam mEmory… We mourn the loss of synagogue members HYMAN BALK AVRAAM HAYAT IDA BRAND CHAD DORA WADDLE-DENICHENKO May their souls be bound in the bonds of eternal life. one of the noblest Jewish traditions is the preservation of the name of a loved one on the Condolences Memorial Board in the Synagogue Our condolences to our members and their families… Sanctuary and the lighting of a memorial light on the anniversary Lee Mopper on the passing of his beloved uncle, of death. This is an eternal We are Samuel Mopper reminder of our dear departed Sue Schwartz on the passing of her beloved mother, one and the love and respect their moving memory evokes. Ida Brand Chad the Arlene Siegel Cogen on the passing of her beloved At Neveh Shalom, we have two Refuah beautiful Memorial Boards, which “ mother, Ada Gutta Kaplan Siegel serve two functions. A large Shelma” Julia Waco on the passing of her beloved father, plaque is placed in the Sanctuary Howard Waco. for the entire year of mourning list to and for every Yahrzeit. Another our Alex Milbert on the passing of his beloved smaller plaque is permanently grandmother, Linda Gratman. maintained in the Memorial weekly Niche. The cost for this set of plaques is $800. Please phone eBlast, Cemetery Headstone Unveilings: Joann bezodis at the Synagogue in order Carol Ginsberg, Sun. Feb. 5, 11:00am Neveh Zedek, ofice, 503.293.7309. to keep 7925 SW Canyon Lane, 97225 our news C l e r g y When a Death occurs V i s i t s relevant if you wish Tahara for your loved one--respectful preparation for burial according to ancient Jewish tradition--you may request it from holman’s Funeral home, To assure that clergy make visits to and up- 503. 232.5131, or the funeral home of your choice. The funeral home will then to-date. notify the Chevra. congregants in the hospital, extended care faciliies and hospices, please contact the oice at Congregaion Refuah Shlema Neveh Shalom, 503.246.8831. In an A speedy recovery to: efort to comply with the new paient privacy laws, healthcare faciliies In this secion, we wish a speedy recovery to those may not release the names of their members who are ill or having surgery. Since the Chronicle paients; it is imperaive that you is published only six imes per year, we are moving the provide the name of the member, “Refuah Shelma” list to our weekly eBlast, in order to keep the facility name, paient’s room our news relevant and up-to-date. number, length of anicipated stay, Remember, the mi-sheberach (the prayer for healing) is your relaionship to the paient and a recited at morning services following the Torah reading. If number where you can be reached if you would like to submit a name for this prayer, you may further informaion is needed. call the oice at 503.246.8831.

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When a death occurs call the synagogue ofice 503.246.8831 so that we may inform rabbi isaak and/or rabbi greenstein and be of assistance. After business hours, on weekends or holidays, contact Fred rothstein at 503.475.2934 or rabbi isaak 503.228.8819 See page 14 for more information. DirEcTory Congregation Neveh Shalom afiliated with USCJ www.nevehshalom.org ofice 503.246.8831 Fax 503.246.7553 email: [email protected] Rabbi Daniel Isaak Hilde Jacob, Librarian 503.246.8831 ext. 115, [email protected] 503.293.7311, [email protected]

Rabbi Bradley Greenstein Wendy Kahn, Membership & Development Director 503.246.8831 ext. 136, [email protected] 503.293.7305, [email protected]

Rabbi Joshua Stampfer Doug Lenhof, President 503.246.8831 ext. 119, [email protected] [email protected]

Cantor Deborah Bletstein Dayle Maizels-Tyrrell, Congregaional Learning Assistant 503.246.8831 ext. 116, [email protected] 503.293.7312, [email protected]

Fred Rothstein, Execuive Director Gabe Markiz, Men’s Club President 503.246.8831 ext. 134, [email protected] [email protected]

Darlene Arntson, Administraive Assistant Julie Marquis, Administraive Assistant 503.246.8831 ext. 135, [email protected] 503.246.8831 ext. 111, [email protected]

Marci Atkins, Clergy Assistant & Events Coordinator James Monaghan, Cemetery Maintenance 503.293.7308, [email protected] 971.207.7307, [email protected]

Mel Berwin, Director, Congregaional Learning Jonathan Morgan, Youth Director 503.293.7306 ext. 128, [email protected] 503.293.7314, [email protected]

JoAnn Bezodis, Communicaions & Cemetery Director Jan Skolnik, Foundaion School Director 503.293.7309, [email protected] 503.293.7307, [email protected]

Cathy Blair, Sisterhood President Debbi Villani-Allen, Administraive Director [email protected] 503.246.8831 ext. 125, [email protected]

Caroline Buchalter, Coordinator for Portland Center for Hebrew Immersion Karen Wilkins, Recepionist 503.246.8831 ext. 312, [email protected] 503.246.8831 ext. 100, [email protected]

Marg Everet, Administraive Assistant Kathy Wolfson, Foundaion School Assistant 503.246.8831 ext. 112, [email protected] 503.293.7307, [email protected]

Jennifer Greenberg, Program Director 503.246.8831 ext. 139, [email protected] page  Chronicle No. 3 January/Febrary 5772 CONGREGATION NEVEH SHALOM FEBRUARY 2012/5772 - SHEVAT/ADAR SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAYTHURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 8 SHEVAT 9 SHEVAT 10 SHEVAT 11 SHEVAT 7:15am Minyan 7:15am Minyan 7:00am Minyan 1 2 3 4 Adult B’Nai Mitzvah 4:15pm Shavua Lifeline Screening 9am Small Tot Playgroup 9am Shabbat Morning Services 4:15pm Notz’tzim, Pre-Kochavim 10:30am Melton w/R. Stampfer 6:15pm First Friday w/Ilene 9:30am K-5 Aliyah 1st Shabbat & Kochavim 3:30pm Bible Class w/R. Isaak Safyan 9:30am 6th gr Shabbat 6pm Tichon 4:15pm Shavua 10:15am Tot Shabbat 7pm Book Group “Jerusalem” 7pm Executive Commitee Mtg. w/Rabbi Isaak 7pm Jewish Philosophy Group SHABBAT SHIRAH 5:02pm BESHALLACH 12 SHEVAT 13 SHEVAT 14 SHEVAT 15 SHEVAT 16 SHEVAT 17 SHEVAT 18 SHEVAT 9:00am Minyan 7:15am Minyan 7:15am Minyan 7:15am Minyan 7:15am Minyan 7:15am Minyan 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Hannah Sturman Bat Mitzvah 4:15pm Shavua 9am Cooking for Outside In 12:30pm Mah Jongg 4:15pm Shavua 10:30am Melton w/R. Stampfer 9am Small Tot Playgroup 9am Shabbat Morning Services 11am Unveiling for Carol 2pm Melton w/R. Stampfer 5:00pm Talmud w/R. Stampfer 4:15pm Notz’tzim, Pre-Kochavim 3:30pm Bible Class w/R. Isaak 6:15pm Kabbalat Shabbat Serv. 9am Downstairs Minyan Ginsberg at Neveh Zedek 4:15pm Shavua & Kochavim 4:15pm Shavua with ORA Shalom Cemetery 4:15pm Kochavim 6pm Tichon 7pm Book Group “Jerusalem” 7pm Machon Ivrit w/Rabbi Isaak 7pm Darfur Meeting

Tu B’Shevat 5:12pm YITRO 19 SHEVAT 20 SHEVAT 21 SHEVAT 22 SHEVAT 23 SHEVAT 24 SHEVAT 25 SHEVAT 12 9:00am Minyan 13 7:15am Minyan 14 7:15am Minyan 15 7:15am Minyan 16 7:15am Minyan 17 7:15am Minyan 18 9am New Babies Shabbat 8:30AM Pancake Breakfast 12:30pm Mah Jongg 4:15pm Shavua 4:15pm Shavua 10:30am Melton w/R. Stampfer 9am Small Tot Playgroup Services 9am Kol haKehilah-Tu 2pm Melton w/R. Stampfer 5:00pm Talmud w/R. Stampfer 4:15pm Notz’tzim, Pre-Kochavim 3:30pm Bible Class w/R. Isaak 6:15pm Chik Chak Service and B’Shevat 4:15pm Shavua & Kochavim 4:15pm Shavua Dinner by reservation 9:30am 6th gr Shabbat 4:15pm Kochavim 6pm Tichon 7pm Board Mtg. 10am Kehillat Noar 10am KEVA w/ R. Greenstein 12pm Sisterhood Event 7pm Machon Ivrit 7pm Jewish Philosophy Group 10:15am Tot Shabbat SHABBAT SHEKALIM 8:44pm MISHPATIM 26 SHEVAT 27 SHEVAT 28 SHEVAT 29 SHEVAT 30 SHEVAT 1 ADAR 2 ADAR 19 9:00am Minyan 20 7:15am Minyan 21 7:15am Minyan 22 7:15am Minyan 23 7:00am Minyan 24 7:00am Minyan 25 9am Shomrei Teva Creekside 12:30pm Mah Jongg 4:15pm Shavua 4:15pm Shavua 10:30am Melton w/R. Stampfer 9am Small Tot Playgroup 9am Combined Services Renovation 2pm Melton w/R. Stampfer 5:00pm Talmud w/R. Stampfer 4:15pm Notz’tzim, Pre-Kochavim 3:30pm Bible Class w/R. Isaak 6:15pm Men‘s Club Shabbat Serv 10am Neveh Knits & Crochets & Kochavim 4:15pm Shavua 6:45pm Hinenu Shabbat Serv. USY Potluck in the Park and 6pm Tichon 7pm Taste and Travel 3rd-5th Grade Retreat & Kadima Spring Kinnus - of- Miniature Golf (time TBD) 7pm Auction Meeting Weekend In Quest - Astoria NO SCHOOLS 8:46pm PRESIDENTS DAY ROSH CHODESH ROSH CHODESH TERUMAH 3 ADAR 4 ADAR 5 ADAR 6 ADAR 26 9:00am Minyan 27 7:15am Minyan 28 7:15am Minyan 29 7:15am Minyan 9am Yom Rishon 12:30pm Mah Jongg 4:15pm Shavua 4:15pm Shavua (K-2 & 6th only) 2pm Melton w/R. Stampfer 5:00pm Talmud w/R. Stampfer 4:15pm Notz’tzim, Pre-Kochavim 9:30am Men’s Club 4:15pm Shavua & Kochavim 4:15pm Kochavim 6pm Tichon 3rd-5th Grade Retreat & 7pm Machon Ivrit Kadima Spring Kinnus - of-site

Weekend In Quest - Astoria LEAP YEAR DAY CONGREGATION NEVEH SHALOM JANUARY 2012/5772 - TEVET/SHEVAT SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAYTHURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 6 TEVET 7 TEVET 8 TEVET 9 TEVET 10 TEVET 11 TEVET 12 TEVET 9:00am Minyan 900am Minyan 7:15am Minyan 7:15am Minyan 7:15am Minyan 7:15am Minyan 1 2 3 4 5 6 Aaron Welter Bar Mitzvah 7 Aaron Welter Bar Mitzvah 7pm Machon Ivrit 4:15pm Shavua 4:15pm Shavua 10:30am Melton w/R. Stampfer 9am Small Tot Playgroup 9am Shabbat Services 5:00pm Talmud w/R. Stampfer 4:15pm Kochavim 3:30pm Bible Class w/R. Isaak 6:15pm First Friday with Ilene 9:30am K-5th gr. ALIYAH 6pm Tichon 4:15pm Shavua Safyan Shabbat 7pm Book Group “Jerusalem” 7pm Executive Meeting 9:30am 6th gr Shabbat 10:15am Tot Shabbat OFFICE AND w/Rabbi Isaak 7pm Book Review “The 7:30pm Jr. Kadima Sleepover SCHOOLS CLOSED Marriage Artist” FOR THE NEW YEAR 7pm Jewish Philosophy Group 4:25pm Veyechi 13 TEVET 14 TEVET 15 TEVET 16 TEVET 17 TEVET 18 TEVET 19 TEVET 8 9:00am Minyan 9 7:15am Minyan10 7:15am Minyan 11 7:15am Minyan 12 7:15am Minyan 13 7:15am Minyan 14 9am Cooking for Outside In 12:30pm Mah Jongg 4:15pm Shavua 4:15pm Shavua 10:30am Melton w/R. Stampfer 9am Small Tot Playgroup 9am Combined Shabbat Service 2pm ORA Meeting 1pm Weekend In Quest Meeting 5:00pm Talmud w/R. Stampfer 4:15pm Notz’tzim, Pre-Kochavim 3:30pm Bible Class w/R. Isaak 7:30pm PDX Live! Service 5:30pm Kadima (off-site Big USY bowling (time TBD) 2pm Melton w/R. Stampfer 7pm Auction Meeting & Kochavim 4:15pm Shavua & ORA Shalom Al’s) 4:15pm Shavua 6pm Tichon 7pm Sisterhood presents: 4:15pm Kochavim 7pm Book Group “Jerusalem” “Exploring the Ketubah” 7pm Machon Ivrit w/Rabbi Isaak 7pm Darfur Meeting 7pm Annual Giving Meeting 4:33pm Shemot 20 TEVET 21 TEVET 22 TEVET 23 TEVET 24 TEVET 25 TEVET 26 TEVET 9:00am Minyan 7:15am Minyan 7:15am Minyan 7:15am Minyan 7:15am Minyan 7:15am Minyan 15 16 17 18 19 20 Jessica Schwartz Bat Mitzvah 21 Jessica Schwartz Bat Mitzvah 9:45am Creekside Restoration SCHOOLS CLOSED 4:15pm Shavua 4:15pm Shavua 10:30am Melton w/R. Stampfer 9am Small Tot Playgroup 9am Shabbat Services 10am Neveh Knits & Crochets FOR THE HOLIDAY! 5:00pm Talmud w/R. Stampfer 4:15pm Notz’tzim, Pre-Kochavim 3:30pm Bible Class w/R. Isaak 6:15pm Kabbalat Shabbat Serv. 9:30am 6th gr Shabbat 5:30pm Mizrach Noshing with 12:30pm Mah Jongg & Kochavim 4:15pm Shavua 6:15pm Chik Chak Service and 10am Kehillat Noar Neighbors - various eastside 2pm Melton w/R. Stampfer 6pm Tichon 7pm Board Meeting Dinner (by reservation) 10am KEVA w/R. Greenstein locations 7pm Auction Meeting 7pm Jewish Philosophy Group 10:15am Tot Shabbat 7pm Book Group “Jerusalem”

Marin Luther King Day w/Rabbi Isaak 4:42pm Va’era 27 TEVET 28 TEVET 29 TEVET 1 SHEVAT 2 SHEVAT 3 SHEVAT 4 SHEVAT 9:00am Minyan 7:15am Minyan 7:15am Minyan 7:00am Minyan 7:15am Minyan 7:15am Minyan 22 23 24 25 26 27 Eugene Munblit Bar Mitzvah 28 Eugene Munblit Bar Mitzvah 4:15pm Shavua 9am Yom Rishon 12:30pm Mah Jongg 4:15pm Shavua 10:30am Melton w/R. Stampfer 9am Small Tot Playgroup 9am Shabbat Services 4:15pm Notz’tzim, Pre-Kochavim 9:40am Men’s Club 2pm Melton w/R. Stampfer 5:00pm Talmud w/R. Stampfer 10:30am Cemetery Comm Mtg 6:15pm Kabbalat Shabbat Serv. 9am Downstairs Minyan & Kochavim 9:30am New member brunch 4:15pm Shavua 3:30pm Bible Class w/R. Isaak 6:45pm Hinenu Shabbat Serv. 5:30pm Shoreshim Havdalah in (off site) 6pm Tichon 4:15pm Kochavim 4:15pm Shavua Pajamas w/ Cantor Bletstein 7pm “Jerusalem” w/R. Isaak 7pm Machon Ivrit USY Game Night (time TBD)

ROSH CHODESH 4:52pm Bo 5 SHEVAT 6 SHEVAT 7 SHEVAT 29 9:00am Minyan 30 7:15am Minyan 31 7:15am Minyan 9am Yom Rishon 12:30pm Mah Jongg 4:15pm Shavua 2pm Melton w/R. Stampfer 5:00pm Talmud w/R. Stampfer 4:15pm Shavua 4:15pm Kochavim 7pm Machon Ivrit A warm and wonderful event of luxurious spa treatments for you and your friends benefiting Kochavim & Notz’tzim Hebrew Immersion Programs for children and Machon Ivrit Hebrew Institute for adults Sunday, January 8th at the Stafford Boutique Vitality Center in Lake Oswego How it works:

Either on your own or with your friends, transport yourself from cold, wet Portland to a warm relaxing, and invigorating spa experience.

You have two options for registration:

Individual: Book a spot for a relaxing full massage or reflexology treatment, followed by delicious Middle Eastern refreshments. Suggested donation: $80-$100 for 60 minutes. Group: Invite a group of 5-8 friends to join you in a luxurious round of spa treatments. Together you will enjoy yoga, massage, a hot tub soak, and delicious Middle Eastern refreshments. Suggested donation per person: $60-$120 for 90 minutes.

100% of your donation benefits our Hebrew Immersion programs for children and adults, providing financial aid to those who would otherwise be unable to participate.

To reserve an individual or group spot, starting any time between 10am and 4pm on Sunday, January 8th, contact Caroline Buchalter at cbuchalter@ nevehshalom.org or 503.246.8831, ext. 312.

Individuals who donate $100 or more - and all group leaders - will be entered into a raffle for a special luxury gift basket!

Be ready to relax and enjoy the warmth and luxury of your Dead Sea Spa experience! Congregation Neveh Shalom 2900 SW Peaceful Lane Portland, OR 97239 503.246.8831 www.nevehshalom.org Havdalah in Pajamas

with Cantor B!

Come in your jammies! (adults too!)

Join your friends for dinner, Havdalah with Cantor Bletstein, fun cras and a milk and cookie story me!

Win prizes for the most fun pajamas!

January 28, 2012 5:30 pm

Birnbach Hall sponsored by Congregaon Neveh Shalom $12 Adults, $7 kids, $42 max per family Shoreshim rsvp by January 23rd Activities and Community for Neveh Shalom Families with Young Children Quesons? E‐mail [email protected]

RSVP by calling Karen at 503 246‐8831 or return this form to the main office with check payable to Congregaon Neveh Shalom We would like to aend Pajamas & Havdalah with Cantor B!

Names of Adults:______

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Congregaon Neveh Shalom‐ 2900 SW Peaceful Lane, Portland, OR 97239        Sunday, March 18, 2012 11:00am Congregation Neveh Shalom $20.00 per person

Please jjoin us for a fun-lled day of Mah Jongg andd friendshipfriendship. ExperiencedExpe and new players are welcome (no teaching). 11:00 am Brunch and explanation of rules 12:00 - 4:00pm Tournament and prizes

RReservations must be made by March 9th Sponsored by Neveh Shalom Sisterhood

For more information please contact: JuJudi Goodman at 503.531.7205 or Sarah Coblens at 503.466.2256

Payment must accompany registration form Please make checks payable to Neveh Shalom Sisterhood No registrations taken after March 9th. Mail to: Congregation Neveh Shalom, 2900 SW Peaceful Ln., Portland, OR 97239 Attn: Sisterhood Mah Jongg

Name(s) Phone

I will be coming for brunch: yes no I can provide a Mah Jongg set card table

21&3$&!5(21 $7$' '!)20   $!"$%6) !1$ 235)!1# 3    !"! % 888!1$7$'4'!)20!23&4'!)20!23& The Congregation gratefully acknowledges the following contributions:

ADULT EDUCATION IN HONOR OF CHARITY FOOD FUND Fritzie Campf FUND Cantor Bletstein with her help GET WELL WISHES FOR Roberta Fields IN MEMORY OF on Mom's funeral Eugene Abrams Charlotte Cohon Ben Barton Sue & Joe Schwartz Family Gloria Bacharach Richard and Roberta Cohon John Barton IN MEMORY OF Rachmiel Frankel Lester Salmenson COOKIE YOELIN Miriam Rogson BERG CAMP FUND Bev & Ian Getreu FLORAL FUND Lillie Kugel IN MEMORY OF Marty and Sharyn IN MEMORY OF Judith Blauer Hy Evans Schneiderman Ida Brand Chad Marion Lefkow Sam Sadis Merritt Yoelin & Bobbie Mylen and Roz Shenker Eva and Lauri Levy CEMETERY FUND Fields Stephen Leopold IN APPRECIATION OF Davita Yoelin Irving and Rhoda Leopold CAMP SOLOMON Bob Ginsberg Amara Norman Rosalie Lesch SCHECHTER FUND Faye Samuels Merritt Yoelin Mitchel and Lynne Cohen GET WELL WISHES FOR IN MEMORY OF Sy and Carol Danish Stan Eastern Louis Albert ELEVATOR FUND Sherry & Norm Eder Francine and Mark Abolofia Mildred Sax GET WELL WISHES FOR Raul and Lidia Krivoy Thelma Geffen Beverly Eastern Molly Bodner Larry & Evie Oxman IN APPRECIATION OF Hy Balk Robert Ginsberg Debbie Plawner Rabbi Stampfer Bea Hochfeld IN MEMORY OF Mylen and Roz Shenker Thelma Geffen Faye Menashe Rosalie Lesch Janis Shleifer-Rosenfeld & IN HONOR OF Herb Hochfeld Robert Ginsberg Erin and Keli Rosenfeld Mark & Francine Abolofia on Ben Bleich Esther Volchok Don and Barbara Stephens the marriage of their son Jo-Ann Bleich Alice Potter Irving Neusihin Bari Isaacson Leslie Bleich and Jack Jack Resnikoff Myra Jackson on your son’s Osborne FELDSTEIN LIBRARY Bernice Resnikoff marriage Ida Brand Chad FUND Mildred Sax Carolyn and Larry Gorin Earl and Dale Oller IN MEMORY OF Judith Blauer Jan & Mel Swire's 60th Morris Eastern Maurice Blum Daniel Steinberg Wedding Anniversary Stanley Eastern Ruth Blum Janis Shleifer-Rosenfeld & Jean & Milt Hasson Sadie Horenstein Mrs. Ida Brand Chad Erin and Keli Rosenfeld Marvin Wolf's Birthday Marvin Lippoff Lidia and Raul Krivoy Denny Weinstein Thelma Geffen Rosalie Goodman Sheldon Jaffee Randi McLenithan IN MEMORY OF Lillie Kugel Doreen Gilliam Al Westerman Ruth Blauer Beverly Eastern James Josephs Sondra Greenberg Joanne Blauer Rosalie Lesch Arnette Springer Harriette Shain Herb Hochfeld Ruth Leveton GENERAL SYNAGOGUE Steven Shain Ginny Jolstad Lillian Weiner FUND Louis Tobin Richard Lindenberger Jack Paige GET WELL WISHES FOR Wendy Tobin Shain Leah Lindenberger Joann Ruden Stan Eastern Irving Neusihin Sam Sadis Yale and Arlene Downes CANTOR MORRIS AIL Lucille Neusihin David and Susan Honigstock Brent Krichevsky MUSIC FUND Jack Resnikoff Kate Freda Shapiro Ron and Taya Meyer IN MEMORY OF Bernice Resnikoff Glenn and Martha Decherd IN APPRECIATION OF Bertha Ail George Rosencrantz Ethel Zeffren Michael & Shava Feinstein Rob & Emily Ail & Sons Arne Rosencrantz Joan Sher Judith Feinstein Janise Rudolph IN HONOR OF CANTOR'S Marilyn Hasson FOUNDATION SCHOOL Mr. & Mrs. Edwin Srennik DISCRETIONARY FUND Khaya Talal FUND Rosalie Goodman IN APPRECIATION OF Gennady, Irina,Annette & GET WELL WISHES FOR Jack Wolinsky Cantor Bletstein Michelle Talal Stan Eastern Rosa Wigmore Arnold Hopfer Samuel Zidell Al and Judy Weingard IN MEMORY OF The Family of Rosalie Lesch Min Zidell IN HONOR OF Samuel Abend Ed and Barbara Steinberg Larry Duckler's Birthday Marilyn Abend Cantor Bletstein in memory of CHARACK KITCHEN Norman and Suzan Wapnick Richard Adashek our mother, Muriel Unkeles FUND IN MEMORY OF Jo Ellen Miller Howard Unkeles & IN MEMORY OF Louis Albert Bertha Ail Marsha Rethers Lillian Sherman Judith Blauer Annette Lakefish Allan Sherman Dr. and Mrs. William Baer's Erna Bacharach mother and grandmother Gloria Bacharach Mylen and Roz Shenker The Congregation gratefully acknowledges the following contributions:

Thelma Beck Philip Greenberg Violet Morrow Rodney Wilber Robin Bacon-Shone Sondra Greenberg Mark Braverman Bonnie Berry & Joseph Bernstein Victor Gregory LaVerne Mundell Kimberly Fleck Dennis Steinberg Chris Feves Michael Mundell Eugenia Yalonetsky Bertha Blauer Riva Gringauz Frances Myerson Ron and Alona Mayslin Henry Blauer Semyon Gringauz Gerald Cogan Lev Yukhayeva Charles Bloomberg Zinaida Gutnik Paula Neuburger Yafa Yukhayeva Shirley Harrison Regina Dubinsky Inge Hamburger Evelyn Zurow Joseph Brandow Victor Gutnik Serafima Osadchaya Rick Zurow Mark Braverman Jacob Hammersley Rimma Diner Esmond Braun Gloria Bacharach Harry Paikin GLADYS & JOSEPH Eden Braun Louis Heckman Susan Abravanel FENDEL CAMP Celia Brounstein Sue Kaplon Rita Pearlmutter IN MEMORY OF Carol Buckle Anita Hillebrandt Jacqueline Constantine Isadore Kaufman Vera Brownstein Dennis Steinberg Daniel Peizner Goldie Oster Helen Runstein Jack Israel Richard and Mary Peizner Reuben Stern Regina Bruss Francine Frisch & Vicki William Perkel Bruce and Sheila Stern Leo Bruss Zidell Robert and Harriet Perkel Jack Ritchie Robert Caplan Rebecca Israel Flora Perkel Bockman Brauna Ritchie Steven Caplan Walter Jaffee Robert Perkel Ida Chad Leonard Judelson Nisl Rabovitser HUNGER RELIEF FUND Jeff and Sandy Axel Deborah Popper Nelly Altotsky IN HONOR OF Sandie & Larry Huppin Shaya Kabatsky Bruce Richman Dr. Larry Duckler The Schaffner Family Isaak Govshiyevich Debra Trevellini Irwin and Renée Holzman Briana Chernichowsky Nettie Kadner Sam Sadis IN MEMORY OF Esther Ketzlach William Kadner Elliot and Sue Axel Alfred Brownstein Sarah Davis Michael Katz Denny and Barbara Shleifer Donna Brownstein Jean Lake Susan Katz Wolf Schauffer Sidney Lakefish Larry Deneault Rita Kaufman Sam Schauffer Rosalie Lesch Joyce Deneault Julian Kaufman Nathan Schwartz Stanford Nudelman Anna Dunis Steven Kaufman Charlotte Schwartz Richard and Marilyne Robert and Harriet Perkel Jerome Kornberg Harriette Shain Lakefish Gustav Falkenstein Ilene Aginsky Bernard Shain Sonia Willer-Neuman Alan Gotlieb Helen Kubin Sima Shames Judith Ahern Al Feves Carl Kubin Reva Vaynberg Michael Feves Selina Lakefish Lev, David & Clara JACOB FREEDMAN Abraham Fleischman Joe Lake Shtivelband SCHOOL FUND Lillian Braverman Rosalie Lesch Rita Shtivelband IN MEMORY OF Lewis Fowler Jeff and Sandy Axel & Family Hilda Siegel Robert Freedman Harold Fowler Ida Lesser Lilly Evans Howard Freedman Harry Friedman Linda Robertson Daniel Steinberg Nelson Friedman Morris Leton Jeff and Sandy Axel JEWS BY CHOICE FUND Louis Gevurtz Leslie Galanti Jennie Stern IN MEMORY OF Burton Gevurtz Sholom Levenshtein Gloria Bacharach Fanny Golden Howard Gilliam Ber Levenshtein Harriet Ruderman Sheri Cordova Paul Gilliam Martha Rapp Leveton Khaya Talal Mary Goldeen Allan and Judy Weingard Faina Talal JUDITH & GARRY KAHN Renee Dubroff Wilma Loeb Gussie Titelbaum CAMP FUND Bernard Goldhammer William Loeb Michael Titelbaum IN APPRECIATION OF Paul Goldhammer Rose Lomsky Olga Uglevcky Dr. Perry Hendin Robert and Harriet Perkel Jerry and Geri Matin Lisa Lurie Garry and Judith Kahn Mike Gotesman Frieda Lurie Jonah Weider Dr. Andrew Zigman Margaret Gotesman Lisa Lurie Rose Weider Garry and Judith Kahn Pincus Gotlieb Israel Mayslin Lillian Weingard IN HONOR OF Alan Gotlieb Ron and Alona Mayslin Allan and Judy Weingard Judith Kahn Happy Birthday! Nicha & Usher Gotlieb & Faye Menashe Albert Weinstock Sarah and Jonathan Glass Children Sam and Brenda Capsouto Elaine Brown Steven, Wendy, Rebecca, & Alan Gotlieb Abram Mikhlin Sue Weisser Michael Kahn Jane Green Ida Mikhlin Steven Caplan Bud and Bernice Gevurtz Ann Miller Ray Wiener Ralph Miller Larry Wiener The Congregation gratefully acknowledges the following contributions:

KIRSHNER MEMORIAL Rosalie Goodman LOUIS ROSENBERG PRAYERBOOK FUND FUND Margaret Gotesman BOOKSHELF FUND IN MEMORY OF IN MEMORY OF Terrie and Bill Hadfield IN MEMORY OF Rita Bernstein Rae Kirshner David and Susan Honigstock A.E. Rosenberg Barbara Bernstein Fant Esther Bodner-Israel Bari Isaacson Toinette Menashe Ida Brand Chad Anita Gold Garry and Judith Kahn Al and Judy Weingard Sue Katz MARK& LEAH RUBIN Aaron Springer LEONARD BARDE Howard & Jennifer Kessel FOUNDATION SCHOOL Leonard Springer CEMETERY Tony and Priscilla Kostiner FUND ENHANCEMENT FUND Rae and Tony LaMarche IN MEMORY OF RABBI GREENSTEIN GET WELL WISHES FOR Jerry and Judy Lesch Rosalie Lesch DISCRETIONARY FUND Mr. Stan Eastern Millard & Wendy Lesch, Francine and Mark Abolofia IN APPRECIATION OF Carolyn and Larry Gorin Andrea Weiss, and Rabbi Greenstein Stan Eastern Meredith Solomon MILT HORENSTEIN Eckstein & Newman Families Goldie Barde Jonathon Lietz and MINYAN FUND Arnold Hopfer IN HONOR OF Elaine Coughlin Lietz IN HONOR OF The Family of Rosalie Lesch Mrs. Judy Barde Birthday Esther & Albert Menashe & John Barton's Aliyah Ed and Barbara Steinberg Carolyn and Larry Gorin Family John Barton Julie Welch Mrs. Judy Barde's Special Sandy and Wendi Menashe Morning Minyan Mark and Mindy Zeitzer Birthday Victor and Toinette Menashe Howard Shapiro IN HONOR OF Goldie Barde Ron and Taya Meyer IN MEMORY OF Mark & Francine Abolofia IN MEMORY OF Samuel and Jo Ellen Miller Marcella Shapiro marriage of their son Leonard Barde Marcy & Ron Morris Howard Shapiro Jackie Constantine’s Birthday Goldie Barde Linda Ostomel Ron & Taya Meyer's Carolyn and Larry Gorin Ella Ostroff MONTROSE VIDEO Anniversary Hy Evans' father Larry & Evie Oxman FUND Sue Sadis good health to you Sue Schwartz’s mother Richard and Mary Peizner IN MEMORY OF in your new home Julie Waco’s father Dan and Janice Pitman Lillian Montrose Borg Norman Wapnick Belated Larry and Carolyn Gorin Irv and Arlene Potter Hy and Myra Jackson Happy Birthday Marvin Lippoff Joy Rabin Dorothy Jackson Suzan Wapnick's Recovery Bari Isaacson Harriet & Milt Ruderman Hy and Myra Jackson Rosalie Goodman Patricia Rufolo Rabbi Greenstein with his LESCH CAMP FUND Barry and Virginia Russell MOSKOWITZ FUND help on Mom's funeral GET WELL WISHES FOR Betsy Russell & Dennis IN HONOR OF Sue & Joe Schwartz Family Mr. Wayne Macktinger Steinman Mark and Francine Abolofia IN MEMORY OF Ben and Jeanette Philan Joel Saxe on Jay and Ruth's Marriage Stanley Brown IN HONOR OF Denny and Barbara Shleifer Marci and Riley Atkins Rick and Sharyl Vagy Mrs. Lee Funes’Birthday Diana and Stephen Sirkin IN MEMORY OF Sam Sadis Ben & Jeanette Philan's Rosh Corinne & Larry Spiegel Sylvia Moskowitz Bill Brenner & Julia Waco's Hashanah Aliyah Bruce and Sheila Stern Felice Moskowitz father Ben and Jeanette Philan Ron, Barbara and Jennifer Daniel Steinberg Rosalie Goodman IN MEMORY OF Subotnick Rick and Sharyl Vagy Daniel Steinberg Bessie Kemp Isaac and Charlotte Tevet Robert Vagy Raul and Lidia Krivoy Millard Lesch Rick and Sharyl Vagy Rick Vagy Rosalie Lesch Norman and Suzan Wapnick RABBI ISAAK Robert and Carolyn Adatto Al and Judy Weingard ONEG SHABBAT DISCRETIONARY FUND Sid and Linda Alpert Bob and Idelle Weinstein DONATION IN APPRECIATION OF Sidney and Regina Atlas Buzz and Diane Wilson IN MEMORY OF Rabbi Daniel Isaak Elliot and Sue Axel Charles Wolf Sadie Feves The Family of Rosalie Lesch Gloria Bacharach Kent and Carol Wong Frieda Tobin Steve Rosenbaum Dan Baker Charlotte Mitchell Rabbi Isaak for the bris & Jack and Melanie Birnbach Esther Menashe PDX LIVE FUND naming of Amari Johnson Darlene Brunson Regina Philan IN MEMORY OF Jonathon Lietz and Elaine Lindsey Culver Benjiman and Jeanette Philan Rosalie Lesch Coughlin Stan and Bev Eastern Daniel Steinberg Sam Sadis Aimee Coughlin Johnson and Steven Friedman & Suzanne Corinne & Larry Spiegel Bob and Mimi Sorkin Aaron Johnson Lubarsky-Friedman Jennie Stern Rabbi Isaak for the honor of Elisa Funes Harold and Jackie Lesch reading Jonah on Yom Kippur Ian and Bev Getreu Rabbi Issak for our honor on Paul and Doreen Gilliam Rosh Hashanah Joe and Judi Goodman Don and Barbara Stephens The Congregation gratefully acknowledges the following contributions:

Rabbi Issak in memory of our SAPERSTEIN CHAPEL STAMPFER TIKUN OLAM mother, Muriel Unkeles FUND DISCRETIONARY FUND IN MEMORY OF Howard Unkeles & Marsha GET WELL WISHES FOR IN APPRECIATION OF Sam Sadis Rethers Ron Meyer Rabbi Stampfer in memory of Tony and Priscilla Kostiner IN HONOR OF Thelma Geffen our mother, Muriel Unkeles Abby Menashe's 50th Shirley Harris Howard Unkeles & Marsha TOINETTE MENASHE Birthday IN HONOR OF Rethers BOOKSHELF FUND Lisa Ragosin Ron & Taya Meyer's 55th IN HONOR OF IN MEMORY OF Allan & Judy Weingard's Wedding Anniversary Dr. Larry Duckler's Birthday Betty Hampton Aliyah Irv and Rhoda Leopold Victor and Toinette Menashe A.E. Rosenberg Allan and Judy Weingard Rabbi Stampfer's Honorary Ruth Blum IN MEMORY OF SHULDMAN KIDDUSH Doctorate Esther Hoffman FUND Debbi & Alan Montrose VAAD SHEL HESED Mel Hoffman IN HONOR OF IN MEMORY OF FUND Morris Mesher Charles Elder's 50th Birthday Herbert Cole IN MEMORY OF Ferne Ross Ella Ostroff Janet Hasson Vera Brownstein Bessie Resnick Jennifer Antick and Eric Donna Brownstein Harvey Checkman Oslund's Anniversary STAMPFER LECTURE Rose Papper Jennifer Antick and Eric FUND Jack and Melanie Birnbach RELIGIOUS SCHOOL Oslund IN HONOR OF Sam Sadis FUND IN MEMORY OF Rabbi & Goldie Stampfer Sy and Carol Danish IN MEMORY OF Jack Cohen Rosalie Goodman Mark Cooper Reena Davis IN MEMORY OF WEINSTEIN CHAPEL Mitch Cooper Lillian Davis Rebecca Zukeov FUND Steven Rogosin Stuart Davis Frieda Tobin IN MEMORY OF Catherine Rogosin Robert Graetz Alfred & Thea Grunbaum Leonard Zola Jeff Edmundson and Eddy STRAUSS YOUTH ACT Ruth Ephraim Barbara and Dan Barde Shuldman FUND Violet Hyman Eddy Shuldman & Jeff and IN MEMORY OF Carolyn Weinstein ROBBIE BALL Art Edmundson Howard Fenton Ruth Liebreich MEMORIAL FUND FOR Olga Guttman Scott and Caroline Fenton Jerry and Jerrie Roth DARFUR Ella Ostroff Rabbi Isidore Kahan Max Weinstein GET WELL WISHES FOR Zalie Lester Naomi Strauss Carolyn and Gary Weinstein Earl Oller Lee Cordova Laura Mills Ron Weinstein Marty and Sharyn Philip Shuldman Sondra Pearlman Stuart Weinstein Schneiderman Eddy Shuldman & Jeff and IN HONOR OF Art Edmundson SYLVIA PEARLMAN WOMEN'S LEAGUE Dr. Lee Cordova MEMBERSHIP FUND SCHOLARSHIP FUND Mel and Elaine Ball SOBLE RENOVATION GET WELL WISHES FOR IN HONOR OF IN MEMORY OF FUND Gary Pearlman Gloria Bacharach on the birth Louis Ball IN MEMORY OF Rosalie Goodman of her first great-grandchild Melvyn Ball Samuel Soble IN HONOR OF Jeanette & Ben Philan Sadie Feves Jerome and Shirley Nudelman Rosalie Goodman's new IN MEMORY OF Roy Oller granddaughter Rosalie Lesch Ruby Solomon SONIA NUDELMAN Gary and Sylvia Pearlman Sidney and Linda Alpert Earl and Dale Oller FLORAL FUND Sharlene Harvey's new Melv and Cathy Berlant Rosalie Lesch IN MEMORY OF granddaughter Sam & Chris Gottlieb Marty and Sharyn Josephine Feuchtbaum Gary and Sylvia Pearlman Helen Menashe Schneiderman Ernest Waxman IN MEMORY OF Gail Halladay Sheldon Maron Sonia Nudelman Rosalie Lesch Sam Sadis Gail Maron Jerome and Shirley Nudelman Samuel Pearlman Mel and Cathy Berlant Louis Tobin Phillip and Sandra Nudelman Gary and Sylvia Pearlman Rhea Weinstein Dale Oller Marla Weiner