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Gayle Pomerantz Senior Rabbi Robert A. Davis Rabbi, D.Min. In This Issue Ethan Bair Rabbi Shabbat Schedule...... 2 New Members...... 14 Joanne Loiben Rabbi/Youth Rabbi Pomerantz...... 3 Fatherland Screening...... 14 Gary A. Glickstein Rabbi Emeritus Lisa V. Segal Cantor Calendar Highlights...... 4-5 Circle of Giving...... 15 Steven Haas Cantor Emeritus School News...... 6 Sacred Parenting...... 16 Tracy Kramer Executive Director Sisterhood...... 7 B’nei Mitzvah...... 17 Mark Baranek Director of Congregational Engagement jLAB...... 8 Shir Chadash...... 17 Margie Zeskind Head of School Adult B’nei Mitzvah...... 9 The Tribe...... 17 Barb Shimansky Director of School for Living Judaism Sunset Havdalah...... 10 Tzedakah...... 18 Katy Boyask Director of Advancement Pet Shabbat...... 10 Recent Deaths...... 19 Jenny Lowhar Director of Marketing/Communications Dalia Katz Director of Supplemental Education Golf Thank You...... 11 Birthdays...... 20 Greg Lawrence Director of Membership/Shalom Baby SholomFest 2020...... 12 Anniversaries...... 21 Adam Trautenberg Director of The Tribe Michael Svayg Director of Operations SHABBAT SCHEDULE OFFICERS tbsmb.org/spiritual-life/shabbat Board of Trustees Shabbat is a taste of paradise. Talmud, Berachot 57a PRESIDENT Jeff Graff Shabbat Evening Services 1st VICE PRESIDENT Stevan Pardo 6:00 pm | Friday VICE PRESIDENTS Our Shabbat evening service will embrace you. Fresh and familiar music will enable you to give voice to your own spirit. Special occasions in the lives of our Jose Benrey Marte Singerman Michael Levinson Myra Spindel congregants, Jewish teachings, sermons from our rabbis, and special music will Suzanne Meltzer Mike Weinberg enhance “Shabbat—our sanctuary in time.” Allan Pekor TREASURER Torah Study on Shabbat Morning Etan Mark 9:30 am | Saturday SECRETARY Start your Saturday with Torah study and a bagel with a shmear of cream cheese. Vanessa Ressler Each Shabbat morning before our Shabbat Morning Minyan (10:30 am), you will BOARD OF TRUSTEES study Parashat HaShavua, the weekly Torah portion. The rabbis will lead a Cyndy Albert Allison Greenfield discussion of ancient commentaries and teachings and reveal the Torah’s Nikki Baron Terry Jove modern and relevant lessons. Julie Basner Bobbi Ossip Michael Berman Michael Pardo Eric Broad Denis Russ Tot Shabbat John Bussel Jonathan Sepsenwol 10:00 am | Saturday Bart Chepenik Robin Straus Furlong Join us Saturday morning at 10:00 am for a wonderful young family Shabbat expe- Lisa Cicero Rachel Unger Heidi Cooper Andrea Wagner rience. This interactive program is geared for families with children up to the age of Glenn Dryfoos Carrie Wiesenfeld five years old. Prayer, music, stories, movement, activities, snacks and much more Barbara Gelber Cheryl Zuckerman Judith Greene will be featured. Following Tot Shabbat, families stay and enjoy time together in our beautiful playground. This is a great way for you to celebrate Shabbat with other PAST PRESIDENTS families with young children. tbsmb.school/programs/family *Alfred B. Rosenstein *Harold B. Vinik *Dr. Max Ellis *Neal O. Amdur *Morris Berrick *Marvin Stonberg Shabbat Morning Minyan *Harry A. Cornblum *Helen Kotler 10:30 am | Saturday *Louis J. Krensky Michael Dribin *Shepard Broad Charles A. Citrin Join us Saturday mornings at 10:30 am in our beautiful chapel or sanctuary. *Leon J. Ell Andrew R. Hirschl Our clergy and members of our congregation help to lead the prayers and read the *Ralph Spero Nancy Ratzan *John Serbin Robert Hertzberg Torah. Kiddush lunch follows. *Judge Harry Shelley Niceley Groff Arthur Greenberg Ronald Albert, Jr. jLAB Family Shabbat *James Albert Peter Russin *Louis Snetman Marjorie Baron Each Saturday morning, jLAB students in grades K-5 and their parents (and other *Jack Fink Jack Karson significant grown-ups) gather together in the chapel from 9:30-10:00 am for a lively *Eli Katzin Karen Rivo Shabbat morning t’filah experience. This is a great opportunity to learn the prayers *James S. Knopke *deceased *Milton Gaynor of our liturgy and connect with the words of our prayer service. All those with children in this age group are welcome to join us! For more information or to RSVP ADVISORY BOARD Harvey Chaplin Hillel Meyers contact Kimberly Hyde at [email protected]. Joel Friedland Irving Miller Gary Gerson Gerald Robins B’nei Mitzvah Service David Kenin Manuel Zaiac Donald Lefton Our b’nei mitzvah services are at 10:00 am and 4:30 pm. These services occur only Youth Education and Julie Basner and when a member of the Temple is celebrating the occasion of becoming bar mitzvah Engagement Committee Cheryl Zuckerman or bat mitzvah. Please see HaKOL or tbsmb.org for the current schedule. Sisterhood Co-Presidents Kim Haber and Phyllis Winston Brotherhood President Josh Laurence Oneg Shabbat BESHTY President Jordana Kinder Join us after Shabbat evening services to be with old friends, meet new friends, listen to music, enjoy coffee, and celebrate the joy of Shabbat. Founding Sr. Rabbi Leon Kronish Auxiliary Rabbi Harry Jolt Live Streaming Cantor Emeritus David Conviser Watch Friday night and Saturday morning Shabbat services on your computer at Executive Director Emeritus Dennis Rice Executive Director Emerita Alice Miller www.tbsmb.org/watch or on YouTube.com/user/tbsmbtube Page 3

Sacred Connections Rabbi Gayle Pomerantz

A few summers ago, our then 15 year old child, Noah, Every night before I go to sleep went to the jungles of Guatemala to volunteer at a wildlife I say out loud sanctuary. Five days after he arrived, I got a call at night. Three things that I’m grateful for, “Noah is quite ill,” the organizer of his program told me. All the significant, insignificant “We’re taking him to the emergency room. But try not to Extraordinary, ordinary stuff of my life. worry.” “Don’t worry?!” I said. “I’m a Jewish mother, of It’s a small practice and humble, course I’m going to worry!” A few hours later there was And yet, I find I sleep better another call. “Noah has Dengue Fever”, we were told, Holding what lightens and softens my life “you might want to look it up on the CDC website.” After Ever so briefly at the end of the day. a lot more worrying, upheaval and travel, about 36 hours Sunlight, and blueberries, later, Noah arrived home. At that moment, seeing him Good dogs and wool socks, walk through customs at the Miami airport, a bit dishev- A fine rain, eled but all in one piece, I was flooded with relief and gratitude. He was going to be okay. A good friend, Fresh basil and wild phlox, There’s this curious phenomenon, that when everything My father’s good health, is going well and according to plan we get lulled into a My daughter’s new job, sense of complacency, and begin to take things for grant- The song that always makes me cry, ed. But then we get that frightening call, or diagnosis, Always at the same part, or near miss, and suddenly we have a sense of just how No matter how many times I hear it. lucky, just how blessed we truly are. Decent coffee at the airport, And your quiet breathing, Judaism tries to prod us into a daily and ongoing sense The stories you told me, of gratitude in our lives, through a value called “hakarat The frost patterns on the windows, hatov – literally, “recognizing the good.” Even the name, Judaism, comes from the name of Jacob’s son, Judah English horns and banjos, or Yehuda, whose name means thanksgiving. The first Wood Thrush and June bugs, prayer we’re instructed to say in the morning is “Modeh The smooth glassy calm of the morning pond, Ani” – Thank you, for the fact that I’m still breathing and An old coat, alive to greet another day. A new poem, My library card, Some people have grateful, positive dispositions – they And that my car keeps running live with the sense that they have far more than they Despite all the miles. deserve. They seem thankful practically all the time. Yet And after three things, others are natural kvetches, and have to work hard to cul- More often than not, tivate the ability to recognize the good in life. Let’s face I get on a roll and I just keep on going, it, most of us don’t say thank you nearly enough. I keep naming and listing, This month we celebrate the holiday of Thanksgiving, Until I lie grinning, an opportunity for us to take stock of our many gifts and Blankets pulled up to my chin, blessings, from the farmers who plant our healthy food, Awash with wonder to the loving hands that care for our children and elderly At the sweetness of it all. parents, to our teachers, friends and family. I am deeply touched by the Quaker songwriter, Carrie May these words inspire each of us to find gratitude at Newcomer’s poem, Three Gratitudes. the end of each day, and to share our thanks with others, most especially at this season of Thanksgiving.

Rabbi Gayle Pomerantz HAKOL NOVEMBER 2019 Page 4 November CALENDAR 2019 NOVEMBER 1-7 Friday, November 1 5:30 pm Pet Shabbat 5:30 pm BESHTY NYC Heritage Trip 6:00 pm Shabbat Evening Service 7:00 pm Oneg Shabbat Saturday, November 2 9:30 am Torah Study 9:30 am jLab 10:00 am Tot Shabbat 10:00 am Jaden Rishty Bar Mitzvah 10:30 am Shabbat Minyan Service 12:00 pm Kiddush Lunch Monday, November 4 Teachers Professional (No Class)

Tuesday, November 5 9:00 pm PTO Meeting 6:00 pm Youth Committee Meeting 7:00-8:30 pm SJN - Reproductive Rights event 7:00 pm Melton Class 7:00 pm Kavanah Meditation

Wednesday, November 6 9:25 am Yoga as a Jewish Spiritual Practice FRIDAYS 7:30 pm Justice League 7:30 pm Braman Fellowship 6:00-7:00 pm Friday, November 8 HaTikva Kallah Shabbat Evening Service 5:30 pm Shabbat Shaboom 6:00 pm Shabbat Evening Service 6:15 pm Shabbat Shaboom Dinner 7:00 pm Oneg Shabbat FRIDAYS 7:00-8:00 pm Oneg Shabbat NOVEMBER 8-14 SATURDAYS Saturday, November 9 HaTikva Kallah 9:30-10:30 am 9:30 am Torah Study 9:30 am Shalom Baby Torah Study 10:00 am Tot Shabbat 10:30 am Shabbat Minyan Service 12:00 pm Kiddush Lunch SATURDAYS Sunday, November 10 HaTikva Kallah 10:00-11:00 am Monday, November 11 Veteran’s Day Tot Shabbat Offices Open/School closed HaTikva Kallah Offices Open/School closed 10:00 am Emmet Berman Bar Mitzvah SATURDAYS Tuesday, November 12 7:00 pm New Israel Fund Program/Speaker 10:30 am-12:00 pm 7:00 pm Melton Class 7:00 pm Kavanah Meditation Shabbat Minyan Services Wednesday, November 13 8:30 am Youth Campaign Meeting 9:00 am PTO Bazaar 9:25 am Yoga as a Jewish Spiritual Practice SATURDAYS 7:00 pm Sisterhood Leadership Team Meetings 12:00-1:00 pm Kiddush Lunch Page 5

NOVEMBER 15-21

Friday, November 15 6:00 pm Camp Shabbat 6:00 pm Dan Nichols @ Shabbat Services 7:00 pm Oneg Shabbat

Saturday, November 16 9:30 am Torah Study 9:30 am jLab Camp 10:00 am Tot Shabbat Dan Nichols Musical Scholar in Residence 10:30 am Dan Nichols @ Shabbat Minyan Service 12:00 pm Kiddush Lunch 5:30 pm Generations Sunset Havdalah with Dan Nichols

Monday, November 18 7:00 pm Glass Fusing / 4 Week Workshop 7:00 pm Movie “Back to the Fatherland”

Tuesday, November 19 5:30 pm Sisterhood Mezuzah Making Workshop 6:30 pm SholomFest 2020 Host Committee Mtg. 7:00 pm Melton Class 7:00 pm Kavanah Meditation

Wednesday, November 20 9:25 am Yoga as a Jewish Spiritual Practice 6:00 pm Board of Directors Meeting Family Retreat NOVEMBER 22-30

Friday, November 22 6:00 pm Shabbat Evening Service Temple Beth Sholom Retreat 7:00 pm Oneg Shabbat for Families with Young Children Saturday, November 23 9:30 am jLab 9:30 am Torah Study Club Med 9:30 am Grade 6 Family B’nei Mitzvah Program Sandpiper Bay, Port St. Lucie 10:00 am Tot Shabbat 10:30 am Shabbat Minyan Service 12:00 pm Kiddush Lunch January 10-12, 2019 Friday - Sunday Monday, November 25 7:00 pm jLab - Confirmation For member families with 7:00 pm Glass Fusing / 4 week workshop children toddlers – 2nd grade. Older siblings and Tuesday, November 26 7:00 pm Kavanah Meditation grandparents welcome. Wednesday, November 27 TBS/IS Everyone Loves Turkey 9:25 am Yoga as a Jewish Spiritual Practice Led by Rabbi Ethan Bair Thursday, November 28 Thanksgiving - Building closed and Greg Lawrence

Weekend Includes: Friday, November 29 Building closed until • Indoor & Outdoor Club Med Amenities Shabbat Services • Shabbat Dinner 6:00 pm Terezin speaker - • Shabbat Morning Experience Shabbat Evening Service • Havdalah 7:00 pm Oneg Shabbat • Community Building • All meals and drinks Included Saturday, November 30 9:30 am jLab 9:30 am Torah Study To reserve your spot and for more 10:00 am Tot Shabbat information, contact [email protected] 10:30 am Shabbat Minyan Service 12:00 pm Kiddush Lunch HAKOL NOVEMBER 2019 Page 6

TBSIS News temple beth sholom

INNOVATIVE Margie Zeskind SCHOOL Head of School

Dear Families, of Reggio Emilia after WWII was to truly We want our listen to the children and learn from The ageless saying, “Children their actions, their theories and their are our future,” is of course so children to feel directions. Malaguzzi and the children true. However, I prefer to see this empowered to make have collaboratively built the Reggio as, “It is our responsibility to give a difference... Approach to living and learning which our children experiences that is taking the social-constructivist theory will support their development to education to higher and higher levels of dispositions that are necessary to grow a better of quality and practice. We have embraced this future!” approach and look daily to our children to influence our thinking, planning and decision making. We Within our Temple Beth Sholom Innovative School, give our children ample time and space to try- we take this challenge seriously. We intentionally out their learning in a safe place where we view work to create learning and growing experiences misunderstandings as vital components of the designed to develop our children’s capacity-for learning process. We pay attention to our children’s and their propensity-towards purposely seeking conversations, reflect daily on their play and plan meaning and acting with intention. Daily, starting from our reflections and documentation of these within our youngest groups, we collaborate learning encounters. We want our children to as educators to design our environments and feel empowered to make a difference and to have intentionally plan for opportunities for our children opportunities to make changes, as their viewpoints, to look closely at their immediate world (which of needs, actions, and questions, are all woven into course is their classroom and school communities!) the curriculum. Our goal is to keep them focused to explore the complexities within these spaces and to build constructive life-long habits of being and experiences and to find opportunity to make productive community members who take care of constructive changes. We are not only teaching our world. our children how to think but we are supporting our children as they begin to understand that they Our world is in deep need of repair. Join me— are thinking to learn. It is common for schools to together we have the power to grow the next teach about thinking routines and protocols for generation of healers! unpacking ideas and processes. It is less common for schools to not leave out the most important learning component which is to actually give ample time and provide space and materials for B’Shalom! connecting, extending, challenging and giving time for developing mindsets and sensitivities around these patterns of thought. It is at this mindful level, when sensitivities and inclinations are present, that we can see greater opportunity for action, change, Margie Zeskind and growth.

As many of you know, our school’s practices and Please note date change! approaches are inspired by the late Loris Malaguzzi Q&A with Margie Zeskind and Stacy Penson in Reggio Emilia, Italy. Malaguzzi fully believed that November 5 the only way to rebuild the devastated municipality 9:15 am HAKOL NOVEMBER 2019 Page 7

Co-Presidents Kim Haber & Phyllis Winston Mezuzah Join Us! Making Great Opportunities to Create and Learn, as well as share more Tuesday, important and fun times together. November 19

6 pm - Wine & Nosh 6:30 pm - Mezuzah Making This happened!

$36 per person and $18 for an extra mezuzah

This members-only event is being led by our very own Grace Sherman. She will assist us in making beautiful, one-of-a-kind masterpieces that we can use as Chanukah gifts or hang in our homes. RSVP - tbsmb.org/sisters Civil Liberties and Public Women of the Wall Policy Reproductive Wednesday, December 4, at 7:00 Rights Discussion pm By Susan Countryman Featuring Lesley Sachs the former Executive Director of Women of Tuesday, November 5 the Wall - a multi-denominational 7 pm - Nosh and Chat organization that fosters equal 7:15 - 8:30 pm - Presentation and opportunities for women to have Discussion access to the Western Wall in a fashion that includes singing, Sponsored by the Social Justice reading aloud from the Torah and Network, Sisterhood, Brotherhood wearing religious garments.

No RSVP necessary. Sponsored by Sisterhood, Brotherhood, the Israel Committee and NCJW. No RSVP necessary.

Photos, right, top: After an exhilarating speech, the Sisterhood Board is ready to enjoy Leonard Pitts, Jr’s latest book. Middle: Leonard Pitts, Jr. - An inspiring speech to over 150 Sisters (and a few Brothers). Bottom: Rick Hirsh, Managing Editor of the Miami Herald, Leonard Pitts, Jr. featured speaker, Robin Landers, Jim Segal and Cantor Lisa Segal

Temple Beth Sholom tbsmb.org/sisters Miami Beach Page 8

Barb Shimansky Director of School for Living Judaism

“I think the best avenue to spiritual elevation in life is singing of teenagers could be observed engaging in a Dan Nichols in nature, and at camp you can do this.” – Dr. Wendy Mogel concert with the same fervor they would for any modern pop star. His compositions are heartfelt and have the ability to My camp closed. The URJ Kutz Camp, the incubator for truly connect you to prayer. Perhaps unsurprisingly, many Jewish teen leadership in the Reform Movement for over of Dan’s pieces that have been most widely adopted into five decades, ceased operations at the end of summer 2019. congregational worship were written at Kutz and other URJ In addition to the seven weeks I spent there as a camper in camps – right where Dan could experience spiritual elevation 1993, I also spent two summers on staff during my college by singing in nature, and pass that feeling along to the rest of years, and as a Jewish educator, I served as a faculty member us. for six years. My attachments to Kutz run deep, not the least of which are the significant relationships I have developed I hope you will join me for Camp Shabbat on Friday, over the past 26 years because of my connections to that November 15 at 6:00 pm, where Dan Nichols will be our place. musical artist for the evening (and at other points during the weekend, including during jLAB T’filah the following In August, I attended the last alumni event to ever be held morning). We will hear from current and past URJ campers at camp. There were many shared stories and memories; a about their experiences, and have a fun dinner and camp ton of laughter and more than a few tears. One of the most fair after services. The highlight of the evening should be significant pieces of the weekend was the music. the service itself, one in which you can truly experience the essence of a camp worship experience. Personally, I cannot The Friday evening Shabbat service was filled with wait. While the gates to my physical camp may have closed, throwback melodies that, in many cases, I had not heard or its spirit will live on, in large part through the power of Jewish sung in 15 to 20 years. It all came flooding back – not just music. I am looking forward to the sense of spiritual elevation the words and the tunes, but memories of singing those very – if not in nature, then in our very own chapel. Please plan to same melodies right there in the Teyatron, connecting my attend so you can experience it, too! past to my present. There was Shabbat Shira in the Chadar Ochel (dining hall), the highlight of which was always “Sabbath Prayer” from Fiddler on the Roof. It was moments like Saturday afternoon, when suddenly it seemed like everyone had disappeared… only to discover that just about the entire group of alumni had converged on and near a Faculty Row porch for a sing-a-long. The guitars were out, jLAB Middle School Sukkot Experience playing both Jewish and secular songs that comprised the on the beach soundtrack of Kutz.

The music of Jewish summer camp became the music of Reform Judaism. Debbie Friedman’s compositions were introduced at camp, and later seeped into the fabric of our congregations. It now seems inconceivable to think of a Reform worship setting without these melodies. There were other Jewish composers to follow, primarily in the same style of folk-singer-songwriter that emerged from the early decades of Reform Jewish camping. And then there was a shift in the early 2000’s, spearheaded by a talented musician named Dan Nichols.

My faculty years at Kutz are deeply embedded with connections to Dan and his music. I had the fortune of being there multiple times when he was a visiting artist and/or part of the faculty. Dan’s musicality led to an evolution of Jewish music in camps and beyond, one in which hundreds Page 9

The Journey to There is no jLAB on the following Adult B’nei Mitzvah dates in November: Taught by Cantor Lisa Segal Monday, November 4 (Miami-Dade school holiday) Saturday, November 9 (jLAB Faculty Professional For adults who never had a bar/bat mitzvah Development day) as a teen, Cantor Lisa Segal will lead you Monday, November 11 (Veterans Day) through this journey. Class instruction will Wednesday, November 27 (Thanksgiving Break) include life-long skills including “Hebrew Saturday, November 30 (Thanksgiving Break) from Scratch”liturgy, history and holidays. Home assignments and projects are part of the preparation. Camp Shabbat! Friday, November 15 The class will participate in a group mitzvah 6:00 pm Service project and will be encouraged to attend followed by complimentary dinner and camp fair Shabbat morning minyan services in order to feel part of our community. The course of Meet representatives from our URJ camps and pick study will commence January 2020 and will up some great camp swag! culminate in a group b’nei mitzvah service in the Fall. Join us when our 4th and 5th grade jLAB students Class day and time will be determined at a help lead us in prayer during Shabbat services. future date.

6th Grade Family Pre-B’nei Mitzvah Shabbaton Course fee is $118 - includes textbook, Saturday, November 23 materials and Kiddush luncheon. 9:30-11:30 am • Start the morning with us in jLAB T’filah Please contact [email protected] if you are interested. • Participate in an exploration of what B’nei Mitzvah means to your family

•Create your very own yad to use during the Bar/ Bat Mitzvah service in a workshop led by artist Grace Sherman!

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Friday evening, November 1, 2019 enerations 5:30 pm in the Palm Plaza Temple Beth Sholom In commemoration with Parshat Noach, bring your favorite g pet for a Shabbat service and blessings for our animals. Pet and Human Friendly! Sunset Havdalah Oneg Shabbat to follow Generations recognizes and honors Temple Beth Sholom congregants with membership anniversaries of 25+, 50+ and 75+ years.

Saturday, November 16, 2019 5:30 to 7:30 pm Temple Beth Sholom

Join Rabbi Gayle Pomerantz and guest artist Dan Nichols for an interactive Havdalah program and light refreshments as we celebrate our past, present and future with the temple and each other.

Members who were affiliated with Temple Beth Sholom prior to 1995 are invited to register for this event.

Event Chairs: Diane and Bruce Katzen

Host Committee: Joanne and Daniel Aronson Nikki and Richard Baron John Bussel and Laura Alonso Gallo Moni and Jeffrey Cohen Lori and Michael Dribin Jill and Robert Hertzberg Debbie and Andrew Hirschl Judy and Donald Lefton Lori Mishkin Tamara and Daniel Nixon Brenda and Andrew Nullman Bobbi Ann Ossip Adrienne and Stevan Pardo Nancy and Kenneth Ratzan Denis Russ Gina and Richard Russ Robin Straus Furlong

There is no cover charge. RSVP is kindly requested by November 8. For more information or to register, contact Katy Boyask Director of Advancement at [email protected] or 786.406.1375. There will be no solicitation at this event.

Workplace Matching Gifts: Many companies offer matching-gift programs and can increase the impact of your donation to Temple Beth Sholom. Your company or your significant other’s job may offer a match. Contact: Katy Boyask, director of advancement at [email protected] or 786.406.1375. Visit our Give page at tbsmb.org/give. Page 11

Thank You To Our Sponsors*

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CLOSEST TO THE PIN SPONSOR CLOSEST TO THE LINE SPONSOR BEVERAGE CART SPONSORS The Hertzberg Family The Dryfoos Family

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FRIENDS OF THE PRACTICE RANGE Airstron, Inc. Melinda and Michael Berman Ami and Jack Glottmann Family Paradyme Fire & Security Chris and Michael Weinberg and Family

TEE SPONSORS Baumann Cosmetic & Research Institute Ana and Neisen Kasdin Barbara and Allan Pekor Betty & Craig Berko Elizabeth and Raul Mateu Quality Chemical Caketory, Inc. Miami Beach Orthodontics | Dr. Evan Rubensteen Rogers Behavioral Health Gozlan Electric, LLC Fran Levey and Alice Miller Stephanie and Michael Rosen Leslie and Jeff Graff Bobbi Ann Ossip Gina and Richard Russ Debbie and Andrew Hirschl Pardo Jackson Gainsburg PL Sound Planning Distributors Kathy and Larry Hurwitz Team Ressler

IN-KIND DONORS 007 Pools • ADAPT • The Betsy Hotel South Beach • Bradford Portraits • Carpaccio • Chainwork Physio Glenmorangie | Southern Wine and Spirits • Jose Hernández • InSource, Inc. • Miami Beach JCC • Miami HEAT • Palm Restaurant Pearl Beneﬁts Group • Red, the Steakhouse • Sazon Cuban Cuisine • Temple Beth Sholom • Tribeca Medaesthetics • Chris and Michael Weinberg HAKOL NOVEMBER 2019 Page 12 SHOLOMFEST2020 February 1 • 7:00 pm Join us for a magical, fun-filled night featuring music, delicious food, an open bar and carnival-themed games! SholomFest2020 will bring together the entire Temple Beth Sholom community: our school, jLAB and the temple, alumni and friends ages 21+. The Youth Campaign seeks to renovate our outdoor spaces and playgrounds, which includes enhanced security features and urgent conservation of our seawall, and replenish our scholarship funds for school, summer camp and Israel experiences for children of all ages. sponsorship opportunities* Headline Sponsor: Head of School $10,000 • Eight (8) tickets to the event • Headline Sponsor status with prominent logo/family name included on: • Event sponsor signage • Rotating sponsor loop on large screen • Logo/family name on registration table • Prominent logo/family recognition as Headline Sponsor on all promotional materials pre- and post-event in print and online, including the website, digital display in the TBS Welcome Center, and in HaKOL** • Half page ad in HaKOL for 12 months $1,440 – the value of eight tickets – is not tax-deductible

Premier Sponsor: Principal $5,000 • Four (4) tickets to the event • Premier Sponsor status with logo/family name included on: • Event sponsor signage • Rotating sponsor loop on large screen • Logo/family name recognition as Premier Sponsor on all promotional materials pre- and post-event in print and online, including the website, digital display in the TBS Welcome Center and in HaKOL • Quarter page ad in HaKOL for six months $720 – the value of four tickets – is not tax-deductible

Champion $3,600 • Two (2) tickets to the event • Logo/family name on all promotional materials pre- and post-event in print and online, including HaKOL • Logo/family name included on: • Event sponsor signage • Rotating sponsor loop on large screen • Business card ad in HaKOL for three months $360 – the value of two tickets – is not tax-deductible Register online at tbsmb.org/sholomfest2020 Page 13

Ambassador $2,500 • Two (2) tickets to the event • Logo/family name included on: SHOLOMFEST2020 • Event sponsor signage • Rotating sponsor loop on large screen • Recognition post-event in print and online, including HaKOL February 1 • 7:00 pm $360 – the value of two tickets – is not tax-deductible

Scholar $1,000 • Logo/family name included on: • Event sponsor signage • Rotating sponsor loop on large screen • Recognition post-event in print and online, including HaKOL This package does not include event tickets. Other donations

Sponsor a Teacher $150 • Recognition post-event in HaKOL Communal fundraising to help subsidize the cost of temple and school teachers to attend the event

#SupportOurYouth Campaign Option to make a donation: Scholarships Playgrounds/Outdoor Spaces tickets

Tickets: General (per person) $180 (not tax-deductible) Tickets: TBSIS Parents ( per person) $150 (not tax-deductible)

* Subject to sponsor confirming participation prior to digital/print deadlines. ** HaKOL is the Temple Beth Sholom printed newsletter, with a monthly audience of over 1,200 families Headline Sponsor: Head of School Donna and Arnold Blaustein Premier Sponsors: Principal Jill and Robert Hertzberg and Family | Adrienne and Stevan Pardo

Welcome New Members Wendi Adelson and Family Maylen Dominguez & Philip Arlen and Family Steven Athea and Family Jessica & Jonathan Blue and Family Martha Borsky Elizabeth Stoner & David Cowburn and Family r Amy & Mike Dannheim Temple Beth Sholom is incredibly proud to Jessica & Brian Distelburger and Family screen the new powerful documentary Catherine & David Filler and Family Back to the Fatherland . Alan Ginsberg and Family Rachel Cohen & Brian Harris and Family Monday, November 18 • 7:00 p.m. Dara & Adam Jaffe and Family Featuring a Q and A with the film’s Co-directors. Deborah Kaufman Cost is $10 Tammy & Steven Klein and Family Aviva & Robert Lansburgh, and Family Life in Israel is stressful. However, this is not the only reason why young people turn their back on the “holy Jo-Ann Sykes & Joel Leabman land.” As secular, liberal Jews they are tired of being Wendy & Howard Lerman and Family ignored as a minority without a voice in Israel’s society. Karla Frech & Matthew Levinson and Family Gil and Kat, both filmmakers, struck up a friendship Thea & Robert Mitzman and Family during their time at college in New York City ten years Allison & Brett Peltzman and Family ago. Gil comes from Israel, Kat from Austria. Their families’ history is strikingly different. Gil is the granddaughter of Daniela Stepensky & Alain Revah and Family a Holocaust survivor, Kat one of a Nazi officer. This is the Issy Gonzalez & Daniel Rosenberg and Family framework within which we met three Israeli grandchil- Holly & Aaron Rosenthal and Family dren and their respective grandparents: The two filmmak- David Ross & Jeffrey Hecht ers visit Gil’s grandfather Yochanan. Gil toys with the idea Tracy & Gregory Skaler and Family of moving to Berlin. She is afraid of Yochanan’s reaction. Christina & Alain Toto At the age of 15 his parents made him leave Germany in order to be safe in Israel. He never saw them again. As to Ashley Abess & Matthew Vander Werff and Family this day Yochanan harbors a deep distrust of Germany Linda & Christopher Walker and Family and considers Germans to be unteachable anti-Semites. He reacts to Gil’s plan with only one short sentence: “No, never!” Yochanan’s response and the exodus of many young secular Israelis to Germany and Austria prompt Gil and Kat to embark on a journey: To find other grandchildren of Holocaust survivors who have moved to Germany and Austria.

The two filmmakers want to explore how the grandparents reacted to their grandchildren’s decision. Eventually they find Dan and Guy. The two young men have already made the very same decision Gil still struggles with. They took the leap to live in Germany and Austria. Dan, a young sculptor, moved to Berlin a few years ago. His beloved grandmother Lea can’t understand his decision nor can she condone it. Dan decides to ask the 91 years old woman to take a trip to Vienna with him, to the city of her childhood. He hopes to get some answers to questions that have troubled him. Suddenly long standing problems seem to dissolve effortlessly. Who would have thought that Lea’s return to the places, where she had experienced so much pain, would facilitate reconciliation between the generations? Page 15 Circle of Giving 2019-2020* We gratefully recognize our members who give $4,000 or more through their Annual Commitment to Temple Beth Sholom. Pillar Sustainer Carolyn West and Evan Marks Beatrice and Jeffrey Altman Judy and Kevin Abrams Ron Mayer Irma and Norma Braman Cynthia Albert and Ronald Albert, Jr. Toba Meiselman Leila and David Centner Isabelle Amdur Jill and Mark Meland Roberta and Harvey Chaplin Rosalie Arkin Suzanne and Brad Meltzer Arlene and Wayne Chaplin Nikki and Richard Baron Judith and Hillel Meyers Edie Laquer Marisue and Jonathan Beloff Thea and Robert Mitzman Christina Beltran and Jeffrey Miller Melinda and Michael Berman Sara and Andrew Moriber Marte and Paul Singerman Jennifer and Jeffrey Bernstein Selma and Jeff Newman Iris and Michael Smith Deborah and Neil Bienstock Sharlane and Kenneth Packar Marsha and Brian Bilzin Adrienne and Stevan Pardo Benefactor Michele and Andrew Burger Barbara and Allan Pekor Donna and Arnold Blaustein Laura Alonso Gallo and John Bussel Diane Person Kristina and Mark Bryn Amanda Perwin and Seth Cassel Nancy and Kenneth Ratzan Eloah and Mark Fisher Margaret and Steven Chaneles Shelly and Aubrey Reiter Niety and Gary Gerson Karen and Paul Chaplin Vanessa and Gary Ressler Jill and Robert Hertzberg Myra Spindel and Bart Chepenik Karen and Marc Rivo Jo Ann and Mark Hildebrandt Deborah and Charles Citrin Jane Robinson Terry and Fred Jove Carol Karp and Jonathan Cohen Stephanie and Michael Rosen Arden and Jack Karson Sandra and Kenneth Cohen Michelle and Jason Rubell Judy and Donald Lefton Zena and Jeffrey Dickstein Judith and Michael Samuels Andi and Peter Russin Lori and Michael Dribin Sheree Savar Marsha Soffer Adriana and Glenn Dryfoos Rosanne and Benjamin Shore Jane and Robert Toll Andrea and Aaron Edelstein Holly Wallack Siegel and David Siegel Debra and Jeff Wechsler Lisa and Neil Fairman Norman Siegel Deborah Rosenberg and Paul Feinsilver Elaine Silverstein Guardian Susan and Marshal Folstein Wendy and David Smith Sari and Arthur Agatston Linda and Frederic Friedman Amy and Richard Stokes Barbara and Kip Amazon Jill and Harold Gaffin Bonnie Sockel-Stone and Elliot Stone Tracy and Alisa Bahl Stacey and Jared Galbut Rachel and Marc Umlas Julie and Jeffrey Bercow Lenore Gaynor Beverly and Stephen Unger Marsha Berg Gladys and Martin Gelb Yvonne Wagner Gina and Howard Berlin Joan Silverstein and Daniel Gelber Stacey and Jonathan Wald Marie-France and & Paul Bloch Wendi and Alax Gittler Nancy and Alex Warshofsky Anita Broad Dalia Glottmann Christine and Michael Weinberg Caron and Neil Dubrow Susan and Robert Goldstein Lawrence Weinstein Alison and Michael Fryd Dale and Charles Gratz Nikki and Randy Weisburd Melina and Eugene Goldstein Shelley Niceley Groff and Jon Groff Deede and Mark Weithorn Laura and Eric Gould Margaret and Mark Halpern Carrie Wiesenfeld Terri and Jeffrey Krasnoff Debbie and Andrew Hirschl Pamela and Howard Wolfson Anna and Herb Liverman Judith and Jonathan Hyde Cheryl and Steven Zuckerman Kimberly and Eric Mendelson Elisa and Richard Jackson Joel Meyerson Lola Jacobson For more information on Jana and Roger Miller Julie and Jeffrey Kane Circle of Giving, visit: Stuart Miller Ian Kaplan tbsmb.org/give/circle-of-giving Melissa and Robert Netkin Ana and Neisen Kasdin or contact Katy Boyask Jill Braufman & Daniel Nir Diane and Bruce Katzen at [email protected] or 786.406.1375. Joan and Gerald Robins Andrea and William Kirsh Gina and Richard Russ Tracy Kramer Elissa and Bruce Simberg Sandra Lansing Marsha Satuloff and Richard Streim Judith and Stanley Levick Rosalyn and Charles Stuzin George Lindemann *as of 9.13.19 Beth and Stewart Wald Ashleigh and Alec Lindenauer Denise and Alan Weisberg Pamela and Peter Luria Susan and Richard Zinn Elizabeth Camargo and Jose Lutzky HAKOL NOVEMBER 2019 Page 16 Sacred Hope is my middle name Parentingwith Rabbi Gayle Pomerantz November 6 | 9:00 am Clergy Conference Room

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“Finding WHY is a process of discovery, PURPOSES OF JEWISH LIVING not invention.” –Simon Sinek Together we will embark upon a journey Rabbi Laila Haas of discovery through inquiry as we Temple Beth Sholom explore Judaism’s biggest questions and how they impact the way we Miami Beach understand ourselves and engage with the world around us. Questions such as: Tuesdays Who or what is God? Why do we call 7:00 – 8:30PM ourselves the Chosen People? What role does identity play in Judaism? Are October 29 – January 14 miracles an act of God? Why do people Tuition: $225 suffer? And other questions which organically emerge through challenging *$35 book fee discourse and digging! This course will *A Core Curriculum from the Melton School provide a rich context to engage with To Register & Learn More: Jewish texts as a foundation for intentionally designing meaning and Visit www.caje-miami.org/adults purpose in our lives. Email [email protected] Call 305-576-4030 x128 Page 17 B’nei Mitzvah NOVEMBER 2019

Jaden Rishty will be called to the Torah as a Bar Mitzvah on November 2, 2019. He is the son of Tracey Hagen Rishty and Bruce Heath Rishty. His grandparents are Myra and Joseph Rishty, Barbara and Jerry Hagen and his great-grandparents are Frieda and Harry Grossman, Frieda and Ellard Conn, Dora and Max Goldhagen. Part of his mitzvah will center around helping the homeless in Miami.

Emmet Abram Berman will be called to the Torah as a Bar Mitzvah on November 11, 2019. He is the son of Audra and Neal Berman and brother of Shea and Caleb Berman. His grandparents are Rick and Fran Knee; Jerome and Kathy Berman; Jocelyn Berman. As part pf his mitzvah Emmet is volunteering for Craig’s Pantry (For more information, go to www.craigspantry.com).

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Shir Chadash is graciously sponsored by Blaustein Family Friday November 15 6:00 pm Camp ShabbatJewish followed byMusic a campstyle finger-foodSeries family friendly Oneg Shabbat featuring Dan Nichols leading music Saturday November 16 9:30 am - Dan Nichols will lead jLab Tefillah in the Chapel 10:30 am - Dan Nichols will lead our Minyan service

Saturday Mark Baranek November 16 Contact [email protected] 5:30 pm 305.538.7231 ext. 375 Generations “Sunset Havdalah” with Rabbi Gayle Pomerantz and guest artist Dan Nichols See page 10 for complete details. Save the Date: February 28 Elana Arian

An Artist-In-Residence Weekend sponsored by the Blaustein Family Featuring Camp Shabbat Dan Nichols with Dan Nichols November 15 & 16 Generations Sunset Camp Shabbat Havdalah Saturday, Nov. 16th tbsmb.org/shirchadash at 5:30 pm HAKOLHAKOL NOVEMBER SEPTEMBER 2019 2019 PagePage 1822

November TZEDAKAHSeptember2019 We Thank You For Your Generous Contributions 2019 BROAD BUSSEL INNOVATIVE OSSIP MEMORIAL FUND Richard Sharpstein EDUCATIONALBLAUSTEIN SCHOLARSHIP FUND In Honorby Dr. Of Bobbi Ann Ossip In Memoryby Alice Of Miller & Fran Levey InENRICHMENT Memory Of FUND Bobbi by Ossip’s Susan Birthday& Richard Zinn Geneby Howard Christine and Douglas Hartman Barry Meiselman byby Vanessa Ellen & Jon & Gary Channing Ressler byby Bari Malka and & RichardJorge Mordujovich Schanerman by Ann Bussel & Family Seymourby Arden Gelber & Jack Karson In Memory Of SANDRA MORDUJOVICH Sam Wolff by Joan Silverstein & Mayor Daniel SINGERMAN FAMILY FUND ONEGGelber SHABBAT FUND MEMORIAL FUND DAVID by Fran M. DUBROWGordon MEMORIAL In Memory Of Peter Wagner In Honor Of FUND In Honor Of Caryl Rose Unger InGENERAL Memory FUND Of Doris by Olesky’s Dr. Bobbi 100th Ann birthday Ossip Marte & Paul Singerman’s Anniversary Steven Lee Marco by Malka & Jorge Mordujovich Barry Meiselman by Doris Olesky by Rachel Pollack Singerman by Lisa Marco In Honor Of In Memoryby Debbie Of Robbins & Scott Robbins Nava Regev’s U.S. Citizenship Dr. Morton Robinson RABBI GARY GLICKSTEIN’S YAHRZEITby Louise S. Bauer GENERAL by R. Judith FUND Ratzan In Honor Of YOUTHCantor Lisa SCHOLARSHIP Segal FUND Saraby Sztylerman Marisa T. 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Judy Pine Rachel Pollock Singerman Temple Beth Sholom and the Israel Committee welcomes Norma Rosenfeld Daniel Sokatch, CEO of the New Israel Fund Denis Russ Joan Silverstein and Daniel Gelber Marte and Paul Singerman Tuesday, November 12 Denise and Alan Weisberg Anonymous 2 7:00 p.m.

Daniel Sokatch has served as the CEO of the New Israel Fund since 2009. During the past decade of extraordinary challenges, NIF has risen to new Their heights as the great defender of justice, democracy Memory and equality in Israel. Before joining NIF, Daniel served as the Executive is a Director of the Jewish Community Federation Blessing of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties. Prior to his tenure at the Federation, he was founding Executive Director Luba Kirsh, mother of Bill (Andrea) of the Progressive Jewish Alliance (now Bend the Arc). In recognition and Edward (Myriam); grandmother of his leadership, Daniel has been named four times to the Forward of Aaron (Mallory) and Andrew; and newspaper’s “Forward 50,” an annual list of the fifty leading Jewish great-grandmother of Lucy. decision-makers and opinion-shapers. He has contributed articles to leading newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, Caryl Rose Unger; widow of Harold Washington Post, the Forward and Haaretz. Daniel holds an MA from Unger; mother of Wendy Unger the Fletcher School at Tufts University, a JD from Boston College Law (Seth Schapira), Stephen (Beverly) School, and a BA from Brandeis University. He is married, is father to two Unger, Arthur (Laine) Unger, Nancy daughters, and resides in San Francisco. (Howie) Unger-Fink; grandmother of Joshua Unger (Sarah Hart-Unger), As the New Israel Fund marks our 40th anniversary this year, we have Aaron Unger (Sophie Amieva-Unger), many reasons to rejoice and take pride—most of all, in a vibrant civil Rachel Unger (Michael Feldman), Seth society ready to fight for our shared values. This past September, Unger (Alli Jaffin), Samantha (Allen) Israelis went to the polls in their second national election of 2019. And Katz, Sascha Unger, Jamie (Cara) while the election results were inconclusive, the election itself tested Unger-Fink, Nikki (Gregory Carter the boundaries of Israel’s democratic norms. Just as the current U.S Jr.) Unger-Fink and Ali Unger-Fink; administration has demonized immigrants and people of color here at and great-grandmother of Margaux home to shore up its right-wing base, the Israeli right used the same and Maelie Amieva-Unger, Jane and playbook to demonize Israel’s Arab citizens. This election, the very Georgia Unger, Max and Ellie Feldman, right of Israel’s Arab minority citizens to vote – and participate in the Annabel, Cameron and Genevieve democratic process – was under threat. But there are patriotic Israelis Unger, Elsie and Poppy Katz, Emma who struggle tirelessly on behalf of democracy and equality. and Hazel Unger-Fink. As the CEO of the leading organization committed to equality and Nancy Lifter-Wolin, mother of democracy for all Israelis, Daniel Sokatch will share insights from both Samantha Wolin (Jay Pritchett), sister sides of the ocean, as we all contend with questions about how to of Hilary Kates, Susan Sosnow (Arnie), mobilize for change and ensure that in both countries, we have leaders and Aaron Lifter. in place willing to fight for all of us.

Join us to learn more about the fight for democracy and equality in Israel and at home in America.

About NIF: Mazel Tov to Marcelle and Richard The New Israel Fund is the leading organization advancing and May on the birth of their second defending democracy in Israel. Widely credited with building Israeli granddaughter, Chloe May Goldman. progressive civil society, we have provided over $300 million to more Proud parents are Elyse and Jake than 900 organizations since our inception in 1979. Learn more about Goldman. Super excited great grand- NIF on our website at www.nif.org. parents are Joan and Stanley Worton and Joy May. HAKOL NOVEMBER 2019 Page 20

November 1 November 6 Isaac Price November 15 November 19 Joanne Aronson Rachelle Carrié Jordan Schwartz Tate Beckerman Gylian Amdur Eitan Farhy Alexandra Cicero Lior Friedman Amy Dannheim Peggy Mandel Jeffrey Hecht November 11 Wendi Gittler Richard Jackson Leah Papell Annabel Kaplan Julia Bernstein Hayley Goodman Neisen Kasdin Oliver Wechsler Levi Lease Jessica Boyd Natalie Klinger Hannah Kramer Cindy Lieber Aiden Cohen Fernanda Lanes Abigail Warshofsky November 2 Allen London Maximilliano Kruppa Betty Lehman Emmanuela Wolloch Dora Adrabi Geraldine Ossakow Nikki Weisburd Naomi Naman Lisa Austin Judith Schaffer Scott Weisburd Mike Pignataro November 20 Ellie Bacheikov Oliver Zel Jamie Spoont Alexa Altman Carolyn Baumel November 12 Cindy Balan Judith Chestler November 7 Brett Burstein November 16 Anthony Bercow Nicolas Giedzinski Dylan Glottmann John Bussel Alax Gittler Maggie Nahmad Jordan Glick Teo Hofman Stuart Cohen Jared Green James Orlowsky Shelly Orlowsky Mason Lawrence Joseph Cotton Jamie Jerome Eden Rosenthal David Stein Frank Tamen Taylor Feldman Brian Lombardi Jessica Schechter Micah Karson Brynn Lorber Sabrina Schechter November 3 November 8 Scarlet Mizener Sabrina Lubow Gavin Stone Craig Berko Emmet Berman Ella Simon Benjamin Nahum Miriam Bussel Alonso Laila Furrer Ellie Stokes Corey Narson November 21 Caroline Hartley Jennifer Kaplan Lisa Warren Steven Neifeld Micah Bast Elisa Jackson Abby Katz Barry Wax Lenny Papunen Jessica Benitez Olivia Newman Peter Lash Patricia Zacroisky Erika Schiffman Dolores Hirsh Roberto Schaechter Nathan Lerner Gary Twist Michael Padula Juliette Weiniger Vicki Petruzzelli November 13 Judith Jack Rattner Marc Chaneles November 17 Reiter-Cornelissen November 4 Linda Rosenberg Judith Frankel Ethan Cohen Linda Schrank Kaili Akar Eli Sack Miriam Klein-Kassenoff Penelope Heller Diana Winer Mikha Barroukh Jonathan Sepsenwol Rheta Lastinger Matthew Kleinberg Judith Broad Norman Siegel Lauren Louis Lauren Kutner November 22 Harry Florin Zara Vaserstein Aaron Pinto Paul Singerman Sara Broad Issy Gonzalez Norma Ross Jill Weinstein Lucas Gallacher Gillian Haber November 9 Grant Siegel Harriet Lassin Scott Jove Soleil Altman Craig Slass November 18 Joshua Laurence Marian Kane Gavin Basner Jacqueline Bernstein Lily Levinson Robert Mass Brianna Cohen November 14 Kristina Bryn Brielle Mark Sophia Mayrsohn Joshua Cohen Talia Andris Heidi Cooper Andrew Nullman Larry Pimentel Marla Dumas Max Balan Menashe Exelbirt Hannan Rhodes Betty Pollak Max Haber Audra Berman Kim Feinberg Andi Russin Ella Rubell Suzanne Meltzer Arnold Blaustein Daniel Green Harry Tchira Mia Shablakov Barbara Rosenbaum Maryjean Budebo Marcia Green Wynne Vander Werff Sarah Schulman Brett Chetek Andrea Hartley November 23 Hilary Weisburd Yvette Tache Naomi Davis David Kamenetzky Anita Grossman Joseph Tchira Gladys Gelb Hillel Meyers Marilyn Hellman November 5 Kimberly Haber Nathan Naylor Aria Munchick Eugene Frenkel November 10 Emma Kurry Jordan Skalet Gerald Rosen Margaret Halpern Brittany Adler Terri Moret Amy Wax Sierra Rosen Helena Kristol Sofia Aravya Brandon Rotbart Jeri Zaiac Barb Shimansky Kylie Ostroff John Barker Zachary Zimmerman Noah Snitzer Lily Stone Caden Koonin Tracey Stein Valeria Lease Page 21

Denise Weisberg November 25 November 27 Dylan Quittner Evan Mendelson Vanessa Wigoda Judith Gelber Karli Breslow Zoey Quittner Jill Multack Lauren Kaplan Jake Feldman Olivia Schottenstein Marcel Nobel November 24 Melissa Ressler Terri Krasnoff Yael Steinhart Shai Brian Schultz Robert Baumann Steven Silvers Olivia Leebow Tammy Vaserstein Michael Svayg Jeff Cynamon Tatsiana Yarashevich Samantha Narson Manuel Zaiac Sandi Tibi Jacklyn Hazan Ryan Rosenberg Lisa Kauffman November 26 Emily Torban November 29 November 30 Allan Land Daniel Gelber Isla Bacheikov Kevin Abrams Luciano Andrew Hirschl November 28 Rachel Benmeir Jonah Bernstein Martinez-Goltz Samuel Kane Viola Bruck Lauren Cantor Joseph Bilstein Murray Rubin Siena McManus Robert Cohen Brett Evenson Judith Samuels Jessie Steele Donner Alex Orlofsky Sandra Friedwald Nolan Farhy Lyle Stern Ethan Orlowsky Mazal Kaplan Jared Galbut Christine Weinberg Diego Simon Josie Kenin Zev Ginsberg David Warren Ira Lelchuk Steven Klein

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November 1 November 10 November 16 November 25 Angela & Robert Cohen Sue & Steve Rosenthal Jessica & Javier Benitez Terri Moret & Stephen Lazarus Judith & Stuart Rohatiner Lydia & Alberto Slezynger Jacquelynn & Romai Maurice Ginette & Steven Simon Tamar Roodner & Benjamin Nahum November 17 Lynn & Steven Neifeld Joan & Gerald Robins Shelly & James Orlowsky Kaia Calbeck & Dave Sack November 11 Jane & Steven Siegel Deede & Mark Weithorn November 2 Ada & Zalman Bacheikov Diane & Marc Breslow Brie & Ronnie Issenberg November 18 November 26 Katie & Steven Nullman Hollen & Ryan Rosenberg Carolina & John Blumenthal November 5 Christina & Alan Rosenberg Cathy & John Tighe Terry & Fred Jove Samantha Ruiz Cohen Diana & Gerald Rosen Marisue & Jonathan Beloff & Stuart Cohen Karen & Jonathan Sepsenwol November 27 Susana Riener & David Hurtado November 21 Danielle David & Alexander Galsky Ashleigh & Alec Lindenauer November 12 Julie & Aaron Davis Louise Dogan & Michael Greenbaum Avivit Ashkenazi Pyle & Jason Pyle Christine & Michael Weinberg Andrea & Jonathan Lieberman November 7 Mindi & Jeremy Norkin Elissa & Jonathan Spektor Lana & Michael Bernstein Susie & Ben London November 22 Sandi & Arnaud Tibi Sarah & Robert Borak Brielle & Etan Mark Alison & Todd Feldman Selma & Joshua Laurence Erica & Aaron Nahmad November 28 Jane & Joseph Soybelman November 14 Amy & Barry Wax Cindy & Michael Balan November 23 November 8 Laurie Blach & Brad Kinder Maria & Morey Moss November 29 Branka & Jose Vargas Alison & Michael Fryd Zena & Jeffrey Dickstein Jennifer & Justin Elegant Adrienne & Stevan Pardo Carla & Christopher Sloan November 9 November 24 Andrea Wagner & Seth Alhadeff November 15 Ellie & Elle Reid Rosina & Nolan Farhy Robyn Weisman & Gary Danton Diana & Marco Winer Dana & Julian Kasdin Dana Kulvin & Daniel Dietch Tammy & Steven Klein

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Questions? Contact Mark Baranek [email protected] Page 23 Please join us for an inspirational evening at the The Art of Saving Lives in Israel Event

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Lifesaver Sponsor Hero Sponsors Protector Sponsors HAKOL NOVEMBER 2019 Page 24 Funds in Action Supports engagement opportunities for unaffiliated young HARVEY CHAPLIN Jewish adults The Harvey Chaplin Fund was created to support engagement opportunities FUND for The Tribe, an inclusive community for South Florida’s young Jewish professionals, and others who are not currently affiliated with a synagogue. Through fun and meaningful activities, Temple Beth Sholom provides space to connect, belong and be brought closer to Judaism.

Allows youth with financial need to attend Jewish RABBI ROBERT educational programs Originally from the United Kingdom, Jo Asmundsson (Jose Doreen) A. DAVIS FUND was a long-time member of Temple Beth Sholom who left a legacy in her will to create the Rabbi Robert A. Davis Fund. This Fund was created to benefit youth with financial need at Temple Beth Sholom and offers access to a Jewish education. This includes school programs, summer camp and Israel trips.

Subsidizes our senior congregants who cannot afford EDIE LAQUER membership dues The Edie Laquer Fund at Temple Beth Sholom was created by The Laquer FUND Foundation and plays a key role in subsidizing our senior congregants who are on low or fixed incomes and unable to contribute full dues to our synagogue. This critical Fund helps TBS welcome and serve a large number of seniors.

Funds an annual event to bring food and cheer to the RICHARD homeless Richard Sharpstein was a long-time member of Temple Beth Sholom and SHARPSTEIN he was deeply devoted to caring for homeless individuals. His tragic and untimely death evoked an outpouring of family and friends, which resulted in MEMORIAL FUND this fund. The Richard A. Sharpstein Memorial Fund was established to support an annual event to bring food and cheer to homeless individuals in our community. The first annual event in Richard’s memory was in 2014.

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