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2016 Interfaith Thanksgiving Service Sunday, November 20—3:00 PM November—December 2016 המרכז היהודי ד'פורסט הילס Heshvan -Kislev-5777 Vol. LXX No. 2 THE FOREST HILLS JEWISH CENTER Join the Forest Hills community for the 2016 Interfaith Thanksgiving Service Sunday, November 20—3:00 PM Our Lady of Mercy (69th Ave/ Kessel Street) Be there with the entire Forest Hills community to lift our voices as one in Thanksgiving prayer and song! Refreshments following the service. Sponsored by the Forest Hills Interfaith Dialogue Our year started off with a renewed energy and spirit. The excitement continues as the weather gets colder. Cinematek Forest Hills Presents FHJC Annual Shabbaton-December 16-17 See Pages 8-10 for Program and Registration FHJC is proud to announce that along with eight other institutions in the New York area, we have been chosen to participate in an LGBTQ Inclusion Project convened by Keshet and the Jewish Education Project. Watch for upcoming programs and events. December 17, 2016 FROM THE RABBI’S STUDY Rabbi Gerald C. Skolnik Post-Holidays, Finally. Jackie Mason’s life that occupied our minds and souls of daily life, of family, workplace and com- routine aside, during the High Holiday season? Do we munity, if we spent all day contemplating about the Jewish really want to jettison that awareness so the unknown and unknowable paths that holidays always being early or late but quickly? Do we really want to lose those our lives and those of our loved ones never on time, I think it’s safe to say that rose-colored lenses that enable us to see might take. But as I’ve said so many times, this year, the holidays were really late. I how very precarious all that we hold dear that is precisely why our tradition obliges can’t recall the last time that all of Sep- really is? us to make one hundred blessings every tember passed before we even hit Rosh day… to remind us that without the I would suggest that holding on to the Hashanah. And as I write this article, in countless blessings that we tend to take awareness of how fragile our blessings are mid-October, it’s still Sukkot! The weather for granted, our “post-holiday” life would is the essential responsibility of every spir- has been vacillating between Indian sum- be unsustainable. itual person, and certainly of every tradi- mer and the chill winds of autumn, and no tionally sensitive Jew. We forget that un- So, enjoy the return to “normalcy.” It is pattern as yet seems firmly set. derlying reality at our own risk, and if we something that we all craved in October, But you are reading this article long after I let it go completely, we essentially forfeit and I suspect that more than a few of us wrote it, and I certainly hope that, by the our ability to discern the blessings large will discover the truth behind the old time you received this edition of The Mes- and small that surround us on a daily ba- maxim to “be careful what you ask for; sage, it’s clear to all concerned that fall sis. That is the great danger of this time of you may get it.” We’ll occasionally miss has indeed come, and the holidays are year, that in our desire to move beyond the rarified air of Tishrei, but life as we actually over. It’s time to get on with the the overwhelming existential overlay of know it is lived in the other eleven business of living our lives in real time, the holiday season, we might be too quick months. Our job is to live it well. with some semblance of continuity from to let it go completely, and thereby lose beginning of week to end. the insight that we might have gained when we were in synagogue what Ah, but therein lies the rub. We all crave a seemed like every day. return to the routines that inform our Rabbi Gerald C. Skolnik lives, and provide us with a sense of bal- We can’t live in “High Holiday mode” all ance and normalcy. But what happens to year, nor should we. It wouldn’t be possi- that special awareness of the fragility of ble to handle the myriad responsibilities The Message USPS 340-300 The Forest Hills Jewish Center, 106- 06 Queens Boulevard, Forest Hills, NY 11375-4248. 718-263- Cemetery 7000, Fax: 718-520-4369. Website: http://www.fhjc.org. Affiliat- Clean-Up ed with the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism. Pub- lished bi-monthly September-June. Subscription: $25 per year Event (included in membership dues.) Periodicals postage paid at the Post Office in Flushing, NY. POSTMASTER: Send address changes Sunday, to The Forest Hills Jewish Center. 106-06 Queens Boulevard, Forest Hills, NY 11375-4248. Editorial Board: Karen L. Stein November 13 (Editor), Gerald C. Skolnik (Rabbi), Henry Rosenblum (Hazzan), Volunteers from FHJC Deborah Gregor (Executive Director), Susan Rosenbaum and synagogues around (Director, Early Childhood Education), Lynn Lancaster (Director the tri-state area will be helping maintain the grounds at historic Silver of Congregational Education), Laurie Worthman (Office Manag- Lake Cemetery, operated by The Hebrew Free Burial Society. Since the er). Officers: Jack Gostl (President), Helaine Fox (Vice President), 1880s, the Society has provided low-cost and free burials, and this year Felicia Leeman (Vice President), Richard Chase (Vice President), they helped with the burial needs for more than 350 indigent Jewish fami- Pauline Raphael (Vice President), Judy Zipkowitz (Treasurer), lies. Randi Zwick-Marks (Secretary). Arms: Men’s Club, Warren Wankoff (President), Minyan Club, Betty Korb (President), Sister- Our participation in this community-wide event ensures continued digni- hood, Judy Gostl (President). Opinions expressed in The Mes- ty. Our teams of volunteers will be leaving from FHJC at 9:00 AM and re- sage are the authors’ and do not necessarily represent those of turning at approximately 1:00 PM. Sign up at [email protected]. Please the Forest Hills Jewish Center, its officers and Board, or the indicate whether you need a ride or can provide transportation. Editorial Board. 2 NOTES FROM THE HAZZAN UPCOMING EVENTS NOVEMBER EVENTS Hazzan Henry R. Rosenblum November 13 Cemetery Clean-Up Yesterday the Cantor Grosz, the love of music and November 15 Healing Service room was elec- Jewish music in particular is what unit- tric! Upon en- ed us all. There could be no greater November 18 Teen Shabbat Dinner tering the Rabbi tribute to Cantor Grosz than to have a Ben Zion Bokser sanctuary filled with people who came November 19 Men’s Club Presents Jukebox Sanctuary peo- there for beautiful music, camaraderie, November 20 Interfaith Service ple heard the sound of Cantor Grosz’s and to support the Jewish Theological voice enveloping us via the sound sys- Seminary. The fact that you all helped DECEMBER EVENTS tem of the sanctuary. In a surrealistic establish a scholarship in Cantor Grosz’s way it seemed as though he was still memory at the H.L. Miller Cantorial December 4 Torah Fund Brunch there with all of us, and in reality, he School of JTS, is a great tribute to the December 11 PJ Library Book Fair was. Jerry Klibanoff welcomed every- members of this wonderful congrega- one to this most unique gathering and tion. Yesterday was a day for sharing Rabbi Skolnik spoke beautifully and our love for Cantor Grosz, for Jewish December 14 Major Donors Reception eloquently about all that Cantor Grosz music and for the entire Grosz family. It December 16-17 Shabbaton meant to the Forest Hills Jewish Center. was a special afternoon, and one that He related how people used to refer to will remain in our minds and hearts for December 17 Cinamatek FHJC Presents Dough this as Rabbi Bokser’s shul but that in a long time to come. truth it was also Cantor Grosz's shul. December 27 Lights and Latkes! I wish to express my personal thanks to And that was the feeling that we all had all the members of the music com- yesterday: that we were all present in mittee who worked so hard to make Cantor Erno Grosz’s shul. this afternoon a rousing success and to Of the five performers yesterday, Can- Pauline Raphael and Candice Koerner Kol Nidre Update 2016 tor Fredda Mendelson, Cantor Jack for the elegant Artists and Sponsors’ Mendelson, Canter Sol Zim and I all reception. Finally, I want to give a Dear Forest Hills Jewish Center Members, knew Cantor Grosz for many years. Our hearty Yishar Koach to Barbara and The High Holiday Days are now over. We hope fifth artist, Cantor Shayna Postman did Jerry Klibanoff and Matt Beizer whose you found a sense of family and community by not know him personally but as a grad- tireless efforts made the establishment being part of our congregation. From the uate of the cantorial school represents of the Cantor Erno Grosz Memorial inspiration words of Rabbi Skolnik to the the finest in the cantorate today the Scholarship a reality. May we all be beautiful Rosh Hashanah & Kol Nidre prayers same way that Cantor Grosz represent- privileged to see future generations of chanted by Hazzan Rosenblum. ed the finest of the cantorate in a Jews singing the songs of our people different time. We sang the music that together with Cantors devoted to the In that spirit, we are urging you to help ensure he loved: cantorial recitatives, Yiddish service of K’lal Yisrael. the Forest Hills Jewish Center is able to favorites, Hebrew art songs and favor- continue serving the needs of our community.
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