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DOUBLE ISSUE Bulletin March/April 2018 אדר–ניסן–אייר FROM THE RABBI RABBI ETHAN H. WITKOVSKY

pull us outside of our normal lives to feel and learn something new about ourselves and the world around us.

The holidays of this season explicitly create “as if” worlds. Purim asks us to imagine ourselves as something or someone else. We put on a costume and, in encountering the world as if As if . . . we were someone else, we find out about aspects of ourselves that are buried below the surface. On Pesah, Park Avenue Synagogue s much as our tradition is we are commanded to feel “as if we grounded in history and came out of Egypt ourselves.” As we Bulletin focused on the present consider what it might have been like VOLUME 70 · NO. 6 A MARCH/APRIL 2018 moment, it also challenges us to to be a slave and to escape, we hope to imagine “what if?’ gain renewed awareness of suffering אדר–ניסן–אייר · ADAR/NISAN/IYYAR 5778 and gratitude for our freedom. We In one of her comments in The are commanded time and time again From the Rabbi...... 2 New American Haggadah, Rebecca to be kind to the stranger for we were Focus on Israel...... 3 Schedule of Religious Services & Newberger Goldstein tells us: strangers in the land of Egypt. Our Shabbat at PAS...... 4 time spent in the world of “as if” will Purim 5778 at PAS...... 5 Haggadah means narration, and hopefully grow our empathy for others Pesah 5778 at PAS...... 5 tonight’s celebration insists on the and lead us to care for the oppressed. Gala 2018...... 7 Synagogue Family...... 8 moral seriousness of the stories Transition at PAS...... 10 that we tell about ourselves. Here at PAS we are about to enter Adult Classes & Events...... 11 Stories are easily dismissible as our own experience of “as if,” as we Gallery, Rothschild Library, distractions, the make-believe we leave our offices, classrooms, and Shapiro Audio Archive...... 14 craved as children, losing ourselves meeting rooms at 87th and Madison Youth Education & Events...... 15 Young Family Education...... 15 in the sweet enchantment of “as if.” (but not the Sanctuary) to inhabit PASECC...... 16 “As if” belongs to the imagination, temporary quarters on 90th Street. Congregational School (CS) ...... 16 that wild terrain governed by no (See p. 10.) The move at the end of Postcard from Camp...... 17 obvious rules. April asks us not only to imagine but Youth/RJNHS...... 17 also to experience our community in College Connections...... 18 20s & 30s...... 19 I have always loved this idea that a different space. As our community Contributions...... 19 stories bring us into a world of wears the “costume” of the temporary Caring Network ...... 21 “as if,” where we imagine what it building, we will reveal hidden Calendars...... 22 would be like to be something or aspects of PAS and discover unknown A Look Ahead...... Back cover somewhere else. Recently there have potential. As at Pesah, we will Cover: Painting by Hayim Ron from The been interesting studies on the role experience a glimmer of what it is like Passover Haggadah: Legends and Customs that reading fiction plays in creating to be displaced, and hopefully this (Ben Shemen, Israel: Modan Publishing the capacity for empathy. The same small taste will help us find empathy House, 1987). Used by permission of the question can be applied to our for others. I look forward to entering editor, Rabbi Menachem Hacohen. holidays and rituals. this “as if” world together.

In their book Ritual and Its Consequences, four professors suggest that the point of most rituals is to stimulate the “as if,” to foster the ability to imagine a different world. Shabbat invites us to imagine a world without work. In such a world what would we do? How would we spend our time? On Sukkot I imagine what it would be like if I lived in a sukkah and not in a weatherproof apartment. The “as if” worlds created by our rituals

2 Park Avenue Synagogue Bulletin Focus on Israel

Shabbat Speaker Series: Francine Klagsbrun • Lioness: Golda Meir and the Nation of Israel National Jewish Book Award Everett Family Foundation Book of the Year · Fri | Mar 23 | 7:30 pm | Shabbat Dinner | $ RSVP · Sat | Mar 24 | 9:00 am | Window on Israel

Yom Haatzma’ut • Israel at 70 Mon–Sun | Apr 16–22 | Weeklong celebration! Watch pasyn.org and email for additional information.

In partnership with AIPAC, on the occasion of Yom HaZikaron • An Evening with Yossi Klein Halevi The Price of Powerlessness, The Price of Power Tue | Apr 17 | 7:00 pm RSVP Yossi Klein Halevi is an American-born Israeli author and journalist who is active in Middle East reconciliation work.

Three Jewish Movements, Three Famed Cantors, One Voice • Cosponsored by PAS, Temple Emanu-El and The Jewish Center Wed | Apr 18 | 8:00 pm | at Temple Emanu-El, 1 E 65th St To celebrate the unifying occasion of Israel’s 70th birthday, three of NYC’s best- loved cantors will perform together in a historic concert. Featuring Cantor Azi Schwartz, Cantor Chaim Dovid Berson of The Jewish Center, and Cantor Mo Glazman of Temple Emanu-El. $ RSVP

The Other as a Mirror • Fri | Apr 20 | 9:15 am | Rachel Korazim RSVP

Window on Israel • Sat | Apr 21 | 9:00 am | Rabbi Zuckerman

Broadway Excursion: The Band’s Visit • Sun | Apr 22 | 3:00 pm | The Ethel Barrymore Theatre (243 W 47th St) $ RSVP

There is much to love about Israel, a country that is constantly changing as vigorously as it honors its storied past. Did you know? Israel has more museums per capita than any other country in the world!

www.pasyn.org 212–369–2600 March/April 2018 Adar/Nisan/Iyyar 5778 3 Shabbat at PAS Every 7th day. 52 weeks a year. Since Creation. Schedule of Religious Services • Shabbat programming takes place at 87th Street unless indicated otherwise. • For Young Family Education (YFE) programs, see p. 15. • For Congregational School (CS) Shabbat programs, see p. 16. • For Youth and Teens, see p. 17. • Visit pasyn.org for all worship information.

From Friday evening through Saturday RAMAH MINYAN | MAR 2, APR 13 evening, Shabbat at PAS includes lively A spirit-filled service for any and all young adults, followed by communal worship in the Sanctuary, drinks, snacks, and oneg Shabbat. alternative services, parashah study, HAVURAH | MAR 10, APR 14 music, dinners, and other programs to A lay-led, child-friendly, intimate, and informal Torah reading, refresh your spirit. See below what is discussion, and musaf service open to individuals and families of happening each Shabbat. Look throughout all ages. People of all skill levels are encouraged to participate. Contact Rabbi Witkovsky at [email protected] or x123. the Bulletin to find Shabbat programming in each department, and check pasyn.org/ PAS YOUTH CHOIR | EVERY SHABBAT THAT CS IS IN SESSION shabbat and the “This Week at PAS” email | 10:00 am for each week’s programs. MILESTONE MEMBERSHIP RECOGNITION | MAR 23 DAILY MINYAN Honoring members who have joined PAS since May 2017, 5-year Shaharit Monday–Friday at 7:15 am. March 30 and April 2–5 members, and 25-year members. Milestone members will receive (Erev Pesah and the intermediate days of Pesah) at 7:00 am. personal invitations. Everyone is invited to come say mazal tov! Sundays at 9:00 am. Minha/Ma’ariv Sunday–Thursday at 5:45 pm. Shabbat and festival minha 20 minutes after the end of morning ALL ARE WELCOME | ALWAYS services. PAS is an inclusive community. Please note that listening devices are available for use at the sanctuary entrance. To discuss KABBALAT SHABBAT AND SANCTUARY SHABBAT MORNING any accommodations you might need to make your visits and SERVICE | EVERY SHABBAT EXCEPT WHEN A FESTIVAL FALLS involvement more comfortable, please contact Rachel Benichak, ON SHABBAT Membership Manager, at [email protected] or x195. Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove, Rabbi Neil Zuckerman, and Rabbi Ethan Witkovsky preach and conduct the service together with Cantor Azi Schwartz, Cantor Shira Lissek, and Cantor Rachel Brook, with Music Director Colin Fowler and the Synagogue Ensemble: Elisa Singer Strom, soprano; Yonah Gershator, alto; Alex Guerrero, tenor; Tim Krol, bass; Gil Smuskowitz, double bass; Mike Cohen, woodwinds; Ronen Itzik, percussion. Cantor Eric Wasser is our ritual director and Torah reader.

HASHKAMAH (EARLY RISERS) MINYAN | EVERY SHABBAT AND FESTIVAL A service with repetition of the Amidah and annual cycle Torah reading, all in Hebrew, at a pace that is comfortable for experienced daveners, and a Kiddush afterwards.

SHAHARIT & PARASHAT HASHAVUA | EVERY SHABBAT P’sukei d’Zimrah and Shaharit, a light Kiddush, and an engaging study of the morning’s Torah portion, ending in time to join the community in the Sanctuary for the Torah service. When there is a Havurah, this service merges with that one.

Can’t make it to the synagogue? Park Avenue Synagogue services are livestreamed. Visit pasyn.org/webcast.

4 Park Avenue Synagogue Bulletin אדר–ניסן–אייר · March-April

Thursday, March 1 • 14 Adar Saturday, March 10 • 23 Adar Saturday, March 24 • 8 Nisan Purim Va-yak·hel/P’kudei/Shabbat Parah Tzav/Shabbat HaGadol 7:15 am | Morning service with 7:30 am | Hashkamah Minyan 7:30 am | Hashkamah Minyan Megillah and Torah reading 9:00 am | Shaharit & Parashat 9:00 am | Shaharit & Parashat 12:00 pm | Purim Se’udah (p. 12) HaShavua HaShavua 9:00 am | Havurah 9:00 am | Window on Israel with 9:45 am | Sanctuary service with Francine Klagsbrun Friday, March 2 • 15 Adar Bar Mitzvah of Miller Harris and Bat 9:45 am | Sanctuary service with Bat Mitzvah of Erica Semaya Mitzvah of Anna Gamburd Shushan Purim 10:00 am | CS Shabbat Experience, Immediately after services | Minha 6:15 pm | Kabbalat Shabbat Gr 3–6 5:00 pm | Minha with Bar Mitzvah of 7:15 pm | Ramah Minyan Immediately after services | Minha Maxwell Bieber 12:30 pm | Reading Jewish Lives Discussion with Rabbi Zuckerman: Saturday, March 3 • 16 Adar Yitzhak Rabin: Soldier, Leader, Pesah 5778 at PAS Ki Tissa Statesman Friday, March 30 • 14 Nisan 7:30 am | Hashkamah Minyan Erev Pesah, Fast of the Firstborn 9:00 am | Shaharit & Parashat 7:00 am | Morning minyan and HaShavua Friday, March 16 • 29 Adar Siyyum | Last opportunity to sell 9:45 am | Sanctuary service with Bar 6:15 pm | Kabbalat Shabbat Hametz. Mitzvah of Noah Grinberg (See pasyn.org/pesahresources.) 10:00 am | CS Shabbat Experience, 10:53 am | Latest time to eat hametz Gr 3–6 Saturday, March 17 • 1 Nisan 6:15 pm | Festival Evening Service 11:00 am | CS Family Shabbat 7:00 pm | Community Seder with Experience, K–2 Va-yikra/Rosh Hodesh/Shabbat Rabbi Zuckerman and Cantor Lissek 20 mins after services | Minha HaHodesh (Register on pasyn.org by March 23.) 4:00 pm | Rabbi’s Teen/Parent 7:30 am | Hashkamah Minyan Shabbat Study 9:00 am | Shaharit & Parashat 5:30 pm | Day School Community HaShavua Saturday, March 31 • 15 Nisan Havdalah 9:45 am | Sanctuary service 11:15 am | YFE Tot Tefillah Pesah, 1st day 20 minutes after services | Minha 7:30 am | Hashkamah Minyan Sunday, March 4 • 17 Adar 8:45 am | Parashat HaShavua 9:15 am | Shabbat & Festival Morning 11:00 am | YFE Purim Service (p. 15) Friday, March 23 • 7 Nisan Service with Tal, the prayer for dew 20 mins after services | Minha 6:15 pm | Kabbalat Shabbat Honoring 5:00 pm | YFE Seder with Rabbi Friday, March 9 • 22 Adar PAS Milestone Membership Witkovsky and Cantor Brook (p. 15) Anniversaries 5:00 pm | Kabbalat Shabbat for 6:30 pm | Festival Evening Service 7:30 pm | Shabbat Dinner with Families with Young Children (p. 15) 7:00 pm | Community Seder with Francine Klagsbrun (p. 3) 6:15 pm | Kabbalat Shabbat Rabbi Witkovsky and Cantor Schwartz (Register on pasyn.org by March 23.)

For Passover resources, including the sale of hametz and Passover Pesah 101 donations to the Welfare Fund, visit pasyn.org/pesahresources.

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אדר–ניסן–אייר · March-April

Sunday, April 1 • 16 Nisan Friday, April 13 • 28 Nisan Thursday, April 19 • 4 Iyyar Pesah, 2nd day 6:15 pm | Rock Kabbalat Shabbat & Yom HaAtzma’ut 7:30 am | Hashkamah Minyan Teen Appreciation Shabbat (p. 17) 7:15 am | Morning minyan will include 9:15 am | Festival Morning Service 7:15 pm | Ramah Minyan Hallel, Torah reading, and Haftarah. 20 mins after services | Minha 7:30 pm | Teen Family Shabbat When 5 Iyyar – Yom HaAtzma’ut 5:45 pm | Evening minyan Dinner (p. 17) – falls on Friday, the celebration is moved forward one day so that festivities do not interfere with the Monday, April 2 – Wednesday, April 4 Saturday, April 14 • 29 Nisan start of Shabbat. 17–20 Nisan Sh’mini Hol ha-moed Pesah 7:30 am | Hashkamah Minyan Friday, April 20 • 5 Iyyar 7:00 am | Morning minyan with 9:00 am | Shaharit & Parashat Hallel, Torah reading, and Musaf HaShavua 5:00 pm | YFE Kabbalat Shabbat and 5:45 pm | Evening minyan 9:45 am | Sanctuary service with Bat Dinner Mitzvah of Dylan Gorman 5:00 pm | CS Dalet (Gr 4) Siddur 10:00 am | CS Shabbat Experience, Ceremony Thursday, April 5 • 20 Nisan Gr 3–6 6:15 pm | Kabbalat Shabbat Pesah, 6th day 11:00 am | CS Family Shabbat 7:00 am | Morning minyan with Experience, K–2 Hallel, Torah reading, and Musaf 11:15 am | Tot Tefillah Saturday, April 21 • 6 Iyyar Immediately after services | Minha 5:45 pm | Minha and Festival Evening Tazri·a/M’tzora 4:00 pm | Rabbi’s Teen/Parent Service 7:30 am | Hashkamah Minyan Shabbat Study 9:00 am | Shaharit & Parashat Friday, April 6 • 21 Nisan HaShavua 9:00 am | Window on Israel with Pesah, 7th day Sunday, April 15 • 30 Nisan 7:30 am | Hashkamah Minyan Rabbi Zuckerman 9:15 am | Festival Morning Service Rosh Hodesh 9:45 am | Sanctuary service 20 mins after services | Minha 9:00 am | Morning minyan with 10:00 am | CS Shabbat Experience, 6:15 pm | Festival Evening Service Hallel, Torah reading, and Musaf Gr 3–6 10:00 am | Sanctuary service with Bar 20 mins after services | Minha Mitzvah of Alexander Goldin 5:00 pm | Minha with Bar Mitzvah of Saturday, April 7 • 22 Nisan Nico Davidson

Pesah, 8th day Monday, April 16 • 1 Iyyar 7:30 am | Hashkamah Minyan Friday, April 27 • 12 Iyyar 8:45 am | Parashat HaShavua Rosh Hodesh 9:15 am | Shabbat & Festival Morning 7:15 am | Morning minyan with Hallel, 6:15 pm | Kabbalat Shabbat Service with Yizkor Torah reading, and Musaf 20 mins after services | Minha 8:37 pm | Pesah ends. OK to eat Saturday, April 28 • 13 Iyyar Wednesday, April 18 • 3 Iyyar hametz. Aharei Mot/K’doshim Yom HaZikaron 7:30 am | Hashkamah Minyan 7:15 am | Morning minyan will include 9:00 am | Shaharit & Parashat Thursday, April 12 • 27 Nisan memorial prayers. HaShavua Yom HaShoah 9:45 am | Sanctuary service with Bar 7:15 am | Morning minyan will include Mitzvah of Zachary Ludwig memorial prayers. 10:00 am | CS Shabbat Experience, Gr 3–6 Immediately after services | Minha

6 Park Avenue Synagogue Bulletin COMMUNITY CELEBRATION

Please join us for an unforgettable evening celebrating our community at the final event before the transformation of our 87th Street building.

Honor the Past PAS

Embrace Gala the Present

Celebrate the Future

Thursday, May 3, 2018 — 6:30 pm

PARK AVENUE SYNAGOGUE, 50 EAST 87TH STREET

DIETARY LAWS OBSERVED FESTIVE ATTIRE

For tickets, journal ads, and underwriting opportunities, please visit www.pasyn.org/gala2018, email [email protected], or call the Development Office at 212-369-2600, x148.

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BNEI MITZVAH בני מצוה

Noah Grinberg Dylan Gorman March 3 | Ki Tissa April 14 | Sh’mini Son of Lisa & Alexander Grinberg Daughter of Jamie & Jason Gorman

Miller Harris Alexander Goldin March 10 | Va-yak∙hel/P’kudei April 15 | Rosh Hodesh Son of Heidi & Lance Harris Son of Daniela & Daniel Goldin

Erica Semaya Nico Davidson March 10 | Va-yak∙hel/P’kudei April 21, minha | Aharei Mot/K’doshim Daughter of Lesa & Robert Semaya Son of Lucia & Ralph Davidson

Anna Gamburd Zachary Ludwig March 24 | Tzav April 28 | Aharei Mot/K’doshim Daughter of Antonella Puca and Son of Rochelle & David Ludwig Alexander Gamburd

Maxwell Bieber March 24, minha | Sh’mini Son of Tammy Bieber, z”l Grandson of Betty & Donald Bieber

WELCOME NEW MEMBERS ברוכים הבאים

Vivian & Gordon Baltuch Louise Levy Libbie & Scott Wolkowitz

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MAZAL TOV מזל טוב CONDOLENCES המקום ינחם

Linda Grad on the loss of her sister, Claire W. Miller Francine Klagsbrun on her book, Lioness: Golda Meir and the Nation of Israel, being awarded the Herbert Peress on the loss of his brother, National Jewish Book Award as the Everett Family Maurice Peress Foundation Book of the Year (See p. 3)

Jane & Stanley Kreinik on the loss of his sister, Geoffrey Colvin on becoming chair of the board of Phyllis Kreinik Plaza Jewish Community Chapel

Emily & Michael Grad on the loss of his mother, Leah Volynsky & Greg Livshitz on their marriage Betty Grad Indiana Guzman Acevedo & Luis Natera on their Samuel Cooper, on the loss of his sister, marriage Marion Cooper Daryl Drabinsky & Daniel Nussen on the birth of Ricky Bloom and Jeanne & Jeffrey Bloom on the loss a son, Easton Gray Nussen of their husband and father, Lowell Bloom Shira & Brian Liebman, on the birth of a son, Morton Langhaus and Kathy & Arthur Langhaus on Ezra Nathan Liebman, and to grandparents Maris & the loss of their wife and mother, Shirley Langhaus Andrew Rosenberg

Anna & Matthew Bloom on the loss of her father, Sandra Weiss on the birth of a grandson, Ethan Julian Jadow Benjamin Cohen, and to his parents, Rabbi Baht Weiss and Todd Cohen Jennifer Sheridan & Jesse Cohen on the loss of his father, Saul Cohen Rachel Mattes Greenberg & Duncan Greenberg, on the birth of a son, Arthur Paul Greenberg Bambi & Roger Felberbaum on the loss of his mother, Audrey Felberbaum Nicole & Ariya Waxman on the birth of a son, Ryan Mordecai Waxman, and to older sister Chloe Evelyn Semaya and Lesa & Robert Semaya on the loss of their husband and father, Sam Semaya Noa & Cantor Azi Schwartz on the birth of a daughter, Tamar Ella Schwartz, and to older siblings Eleanor Frommer and Jackie & Daniel Frommer on Yonatan, Daniel, and Emmy the loss of their husband and father, Herbert Frommer Liliane & Abe Yurkofsky on the birth of a great- Lilly Bloch, Jean Bloch Rosensaft & Menachem granddaughter, Isabel Ruth Yurkofsky Rosensaft, and Gloria & Yoram Golan on the loss of their husband and father, Sam Bloch

Rebecca Fisher & Murray Markowitz on the loss of her mother, Frances Fischer

Susan & Marc Winthrop on the loss of his father, Harvey Bernard Winthrop

www.pasyn.org 212–369–2600 March/April 2018 Adar/Nisan/Iyyar 5778 9 FROM THE SYNAGOGUE OFFICE BERYL CHERNOV, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR & LIZ OFFENBACH, ASSOCIATE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR PAS@

Transition at PAS

top by 50 E. 87th Street, and you will notice a great deal of S activity in addition to our robust programmatic and worship offerings. We are preparing to move to our temporary space at 4 E. 90th Street, located around the block behind our new Eli M. Black Lifelong Learning Center. There are cardboard boxes stacked in the offices and large trash and recycling bins in the hallways. We are sorting materials and cleaning out our offices, closets, and corridors – a once-in-a-generation housecleaning!

In late April, staff offices will relocate locations of all services and programs. to our temporary space. Programs You can find updates about the and worship, except for Shabbat and transition at pasyn.org/transition, holiday services in the Sanctuary, where we will answer frequently asked will move to the Eli M. Black Lifelong questions about the move and our Learning Center and our temporary temporary space. space. (The PASECC will move to the temporary space after the academic We encourage you to visit our year ends in late May.) While our temporary space beginning in May. space will be different, the clergy Karen Harris and Robert Martin, and staff, worship and programs our receptionists, will be there to will remain the same. We will begin greet you. We and the PAS staff are our days with morning minyan and available to answer your questions. conclude them with educational You can reach us at our current phone programs, committee meetings, and numbers and email addresses, which music rehearsals. will remain the same!

Event locations will be announced in our weekly This Week at PAS email and Shabbat Shalom handout. Our website, pasyn.org, also indicates

10 Park Avenue Synagogue Bulletin Adult Classes & Events Classes Classes meet weekly unless otherwise indicated. To register for classes, go to pasyn.org/classes and click on the appropriate link. For assistance and further information, call Leah Volynsky at x159.

SUNDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY

www.pasyn.org 212–369–2600 March/April 2018 Adar/Nisan/Iyyar 5778 11 March & April atThis PAS Month atRSVP = AdvancePAS registration required. RSVP$ = There = Advance is a cost registration for the event. required. $ = There is a cost for the event.

Purim Se’udah | “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” Thu | Mar 1 | 12:00–1:00 pm | Purim fun for grown-ups. Celebrate with a light meal, silly songs, ridiculous rhymes, and Purim Torah from the Pasyner Rebbe. RSVP

Focus on Israel Pesah 5778 Evening Book Discussion Reading Jewish Lives Women’s Seder Group Yitzhak Rabin: Soldier, Leader, Using Our Voices: The Power of Mon | 8:00 pm | Pat Davidson Statesman, by Itamar Rabinovich Storytelling | Cosponsored by Illustration: “Freedom” by Footsteps member. Used by permission of the artist. • Mar 5 | If All the Seas Were Ink: • Tue | Mar 6 | 11:30 am | Book Adult Learning and the Women’s A Memoir by Ilana Kurshan Discussion | Rabbi Zuckerman Network | Mon | Mar 12 • Apr 23 | Waking Lions by Ayelet • Sat | Mar 10 | 12:30 pm | Book • 6:00 pm Cocktails and Gundar-Goshen Discussion | Rabbi Zuckerman Schmoozing • Thu | Mar 15 | 7:00 pm | Author • 6:30 pm Seder | Led by Cantor Event | Itamar Rabinovich Lissek PAS Community Conversation: RSVP for author event Retelling the Passover story gives The Changing Nature of Jewish us strength and perspective and Identity in the 21st Century Visit pasyn.org/jewishlives for more information and to purchase books. links us to each other. So too, when Master Class | Thu | Mar 8 | 7:00 Itamar Rabinovich is president of we tell our own stories, we release pm | Rabbi Zuckerman The Israel Institute (Washington, ourselves from narrow places and RSVP DC, and Tel Aviv); Global bond with others. Come hear the Distinguished Professor, NYU; inspiring stories of the women of and Non-Resident Distinguished Footsteps, an organization which Fellow, Brookings Institution. provides social and emotional A former president of Tel Aviv support, educational and career University, he was Rabin’s guidance, and access to resources ambassador in Washington and for people who wish to leave the chief negotiator with Syria. ultra-Orthodox community. $ RSVP

Men’s Club Yom HaShoah Candle Boxing Tue | Mar 13 | 6:00 pm

Please visit pasyn.org/calendar for up-to-date information and additional details on all PAS programming.

12 Park Avenue Synagogue Bulletin Pesah 5778 Pesah 5778 Tikkun Olam Grocery Packing DOROT Passover Package Men’s Club at New York Common Pantry Delivery Project Ezra Food Delivery Wed | Apr 25 | 9:00 am–12:00 pm Sun | Mar 18 | 10:00 am | Sutton Sun | Mar 25 | 9:30 am RSVP Place Synagogue RSVP Pesah 5778 / Open to all Passover Melton Wed | Apr 4 | 9:30 am | Rabbi Zuckerman RSVP

Men’s Club Torah on Tap Tue | Apr 10 | 7:30 pm

Yom HaShoah PAS Community Conversation: Pesah 5778 Commemoration 5778 The Changing Nature of Jewish Passover Learning | On the Wed | Apr 11 | 6:00 pm | Cantor Identity in the 21st Century Dual Identity of Judaism’s Lissek Thu | Apr 26 | 7:00 pm | Rabbi Festival of Freedom The PAS community will Adina Lewittes Tue | Mar 20 | 7:00 pm | Dr. Elana remember and honor victims and What We Talk About When We Stein Hain, Director of Leadership survivors of the Holocaust through Talk About Intermarriage Education, Shalom Hartman stories, music, and prayer. RSVP Institute of North America Rabbi Adina Lewittes is the RSVP Project Prom Boutique Setup founder of Sha’ar Communities, a & Shop network of gateways into Jewish Cosponsored by PAS, Temple life that promotes an innovative Pesah 5778 Emanu-El & Central Synagogue approach to Jewish engagement Men’s Club Pesah Wine & Mon–Fri | Apr 16–20 and identity-building in northern Matzah Sale New Jersey and beyond. She RSVP Tue | Mar 20 | 8:00 pm speaks and writes frequently on topics relating to the changing landscape of Jewish identity and on Jewish leadership.

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Annual PAS Zayin Class Exhibition Mar 12–Apr 6 Opening | Tue | Mar 13 | 5:30 pm

n this year’s seventh grade photography elective, students have explored their Jewish I identity. They have made photographs that explore Jewish values and concepts such as prayer, holidays, and nature, and they have taken portraits and candid images of speakers who shared stories of discovering and developing their own identities. As the Zayin learners prepare to turn thirteen and celebrate their Bnei Mitzvah, they are taking their first independent steps in the Jewish journey their parents have set them on.

The entire class collaborated on how best to photograph PAS Housekeeping Supervisor Stephany Rodriguez, who immigrated to the US from the Dominican Republic.

Rothschild Library

Librarian Hours Our temporary home at 90th Street includes a lovely library space Mon–Thu | 10:00 am–6:30 pm where the Park Avenue Synagogue Library will reopen after the Fri | by appointment move. To keep materials accessible to the Congregational School For more information, contact Marga Hirsch. during the spring holidays, much of our children’s collection will be housed at the Eli M. Black Lifelong Learning Center during the last weeks of the school year. Visit pasyn.org/rothschildlibrary to locate library items, and come to the library or to PAS@89th to check them out.

RITA AND GEORGE M. SHAPIRO Relive PAS history at pasyn.org/shapiroaudioarchive and on Audio Archive the Park Avenue Podcast. Jump to the full database to hear sermons, lectures, concerts, and special events recorded in the Sanctuary from 1954 to 2004.

14 Park Avenue Synagogue Bulletin Youth Education & Events For additional information about all youth events, please visit pasyn.org. RSVP = Advance registration required. $ = There is a cost for the event.

Young Family Education

For latest information, sign up to receive Young Family Education email. Visit pasyn.org and click on Email Sign up. Questions? Contact Jamie Diamond, Director, at [email protected] or x140. To register for any YFE program, go to pasyn.org/yfe; under Upcoming Events, click on the event.

BABY & TODDLER CLASSES SHABBAT HOLIDAYS

Choose from a variety of • Kabbalat Shabbat and • Purim at PAS for classes for babies, toddlers, Dinner for Families Families with Young and young children. Bring with Young Children Children your friends and meet new | Fri | Mar 9, Apr 20 | Sun | Mar 4 ones! For the full list of Service 5:00 pm, Dinner 11:00 am | YFE Purim spring semester classes, and approx. 5:30–6:30 pm | Service | Wear your to register, visit pasyn.org Rabbi Ethan Witkovsky and costumes! and click on Young Family Josh Rosenberg | At dinner, 11:30 am | Quiet Purim Education. activities and musical Carnival Camp entertainment. 12:00 pm | Purim Carnival $ RSVP | Buy tickets online and Keshet PARENTING CLASSES don’t wait in line! & • Tot Tefillah: Young Family Shabbat • Spring into Passover Taste • Second Time Parents Morning Services | Sat Sun | Mar 18 | 10:30–11:30 Of Camp Group | Mar 17, Apr 14 | 11:15 am | Families with children Tue | Mar 6, 13, 20, 27 | am–12:00 pm ages 3–5 | Ellen Alt Keshet 10:00 am Join our artist-in-residence Summer 2017 RSVP • Shirat Shabbat | Fri | for a family Passover art Mar 23; Apr 13 | 9:10 am workshop and create items Jun 25–Aug 3 | For toddlers 3 and under to use at your Seder. with an adult CAMP • Passover Seder for For ages 2.3–5 years Families with Young Mon–Fri Children 9:00 am–1:00 Sat | Mar 31 | 5:00–6:30 or 3:00 pm pm Families with children TASTE newborn to Pre-K are For ages 18–27 months invited to join Rabbi Tue, Wed & Thu Witkovsky and Cantor 9:00–11:30 am Brook for a Pesah celebration of freedom. Registration is open. $ RSVP Visit pasyn.org to sign up, and look forward to summer days of games, art, songs, and sports!

Kids’ Shabbat Book Basket Look for the book basket just outside the Sanctuary with Jewish books for children of all ages to look at while sitting quietly in their seats in the synagogue. Please return the books to the basket after services so that others may read them next week.

March/April 2018 Adar/Nisan/Iyyar 5778 15 www.pasyn.org 212–369–2600 March/April 2018 Adar/Nisan/Iyyar 5778 15 Youth Education & Events For additional information about all youth events, please visit pasyn.org.

PASECC Congregational School

For more information, If you have any questions about the Congregational School, please contact the school office at 212-369- contact Pamela Schwartz, 4900, x131. For up-to-date information about school events, please rely on the weekly newsletter. Director, at pschwartz@ pasyn.org or x150.

Please visit pasyn.org/calendar for up-to-date information and additional details on all PAS programming.

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PAS Youth & RJNHS

For more information and to register for any event, see the Teen or Youth email, visit pasyn.org/youth-rjnhs, or contact Hallie Chandler, Director of Youth Programming and Engagement, at [email protected] or x147.

2nd Annual Teen RABBI JUDAH NADICH Appreciation Shabbat! HIGH SCHOOL (8TH–12TH Fri | Apr 13 GRADERS) • 3:45 pm | Food Pantry • 6:15 pm | Kabbalat Let’s Learn Shabbat celebrating PAS Teens Registration is open for • 7:30 pm | Family Dinner 2018/2019 classes! See honoring teens the monthly teen email or • 8:30 pm | Dessert Buffet pasyn.org. and teen game night Celebrate the collaboration Rabbi’s Teen/Parent The Jewish Way to Broadway and efforts of our PAS Shabbat Study | Sat Teens and their families | 4:00 pm | Post-Bnei this year. All teen families Mitzvah learners and their tarring on Broadway this year are several Ramah are invited and seniors will parents meet to study, alumni who attribute their artistic success to their be honored. schmooze, snack, and have S Jewish camping experience. Sharone Sayegh, $ RSVP Shabbat fun! now originating the role of Anna in “The Band’s Visit,” •Mar 3 | Rabbi Cosgrove’s went to Ramah California, as did Ben Platt, who home won the Tony Award for “Dear Evan Hansen.” Ethan 3RD–5TH/6TH–8TH • Apr 14 | Rabbi Slater (Ramah New England) is starring as Spongebob GRADERS Witkovsky’s home Squarepants and Caissie Levy (Ramah Canada) will play Elsa in “Frozen” this spring. Grades 3–5 Grades 10–11 Purim Carnival Scholars Circle | Tue | Ramah’s warm and supportive atmosphere helps Sun | Mar 4 | 12:00 pm | Mar 6, Apr 10 | 6:00 pm | campers take risks and develop confidence, especially Grades 3–5 must attend Rabbi Witkovsky since Ramah musicals are performed in Hebrew. with an adult | Buy tickets Campers are also inspired since these summers are online and don't wait in Grades 8–9 suffused with music, from spirited renditions of Birkat line. 22 Weeks & 22 Topics Ha-mazon to lively onegs and Havdalah by the lake. | Wed | Mar 7, 14, 28 Grades 6–8 (Passover program), Apr This spring, children at PAS can experience this Purim Carnival 11, 18, 25 | 6:00 pm | Rabbi artistic energy through the Ramah Performance Volunteering Witkovsky, Hallie Chandler, Academy, a joint initiative of PAS and Ramah Day Sun | Mar 4 | 9:00 am– and Pauline Zablow Camp in Nyack. Free weekly sessions help children 2:00 pm | Help put on the Note: No RJNHS on March 21 and expand their creativity and confidence through acting, carnival. April 4 singing, dancing, and improvisation. If you have any RSVP at pasyn.org questions regarding this program or Jewish camping, Grade 12, monthly class please contact Jewish Camping Committee chair Grades 6–8 12th Grade Seminar | Lynne Bermont at [email protected] or Shabbat Schmooze Wed | 7:00 pm Hallie Chandler, Director of Youth Programming and Sat | Apr 14 | 12:30–2:00 • Mar 7 | Floyd Abrams Engagement, at [email protected]. pm | Join for Kiddush and • Apr 19 | Dr. Richard games – bring your own or Haass play ours! RSVP

www.pasyn.org 212–369–2600 March/April 2018 Adar/Nisan/Iyyar 5778 17 Youth Education & Events For additional information about all youth events, please visit pasyn.org.

PAS Youth & RJNHS

PAS Rock Band | Thu | Mar 8, 15, Apr 12, 19, 26 | 6:00 pm | Pianist and drummer needed for 2018/2019! Please contact Josh Rosenberg at [email protected] or x134 if you or anyone you know is looking to be a part of an amazing band!

College Connections

Whether at home or away, college students remain part of the PAS family. To stay in touch, we send care packages for holidays and occasional updates and insights from PAS clergy and educators. Please register or update your student’s information at pasyn.org/college connections whenever it changes. For more information, contact Rabbi Witkovsky at [email protected] or x123.

Please visit pasyn.org/calendar for up-to-date information and additional details on all PAS programming.

18 Park Avenue Synagogue Bulletin Contributions December 22, 2017 – January 24, 2018

ADULT EDUCATION FUND Susan Edelstein, in memory of Jakob Judy Dragutsky, in memory of Jacqueline Zylberberg. Fish, beloved sister of Frances Tompkins. Hilary Ronner, in honor of her birthday. 20s and 30s at PAS The Morgan Family, in memory of Sylvia Hilary Ronner & Ronald Feiman, in honor Rosenberg. of their anniversary. The Morgan Family, in memory of Joseph Michael Oberman, in memory of Gertrude Events are open to all PAS Silberberg. Oberman. young adults and their Maris & Andrew Rosenberg. friends; they need not be Ruth B. Rothseid, in memory of her members. For information, BIKUR CHOLIM FUND visit pasyn.org/20s30s, or Ruth Levenson, in memory of her dear beloved mother, Bernice B. Rothseid. contact Rabbi Witkovsky at husband, Ralph Levenson. Nan & Howard Rubin, in honor of Willow [email protected] or Phyllis & Sy Marchand, in memory of Becker’s Bat Mitzvah. x123. Morton Davis. Rosalyn Tauber Scheidlinger, in honor of Rita & Nathan Moser, in memory of Sylvia Cantor Rachel Brook. • Ramah Minyan | Fri | Rosenberg. Rosalyn Tauber Scheidlinger, in honor of Mar 2, Apr 13 | 7:15 pm Rita & Nathan Moser, in memory of Julia Brous. Joseph Silberberg. Leonard Weintraub. The PAS Officers, in honor of Craig • Purim Party! | Wed | Demarest and Thomas Walther. Feb 28 | 7:00–10:00 pm MUSIC FUND Ruth B. Rothseid, in memory of Arnold Barbara Weinstein & Louis Bernstein, in | The Parlour, 250 W 86 Sabin, beloved husband of Lite Sabin. memory of Joseph Silberberg, father of | Join the PAS 20s & 30s Marc Silberberg. along with Reshet Ramah, CANTOR AZI SCHWARTZ DISCRETIONARY Katherina Grunfeld, in memory of Arnold USY Alumni, and other FUND Sabin. groups across town for a Dena & Mark Hirsch. Janet & Doron Krakow, in memory of Megillah reading followed Joan Leiman, in honor of the birth of Arnold Sabin. by an open bar. Elias Brook-Holman, son of Cantor Ruth Levenson, in memory of Arnold Rachel Brook & Matt Holman, and Sabin. RSVP to [email protected] brother of Lila. Ann Lyons, in honor of the birth of Elias Bernard Leventhal, in honor of his Brook-Holman. • Hands-on Hesed: birthday. Frances Tompkins, in memory of Arnold Packages for People Phyllis & Bernard Leventhal, in honor of Sabin. in Need | Thu | Mar 8 | the birth of Elias Brook-Holman, son of 7:30–9:00 pm | Meet at Cantor Rachel Brook & Matt Holman, and PRAYER BOOK FUND PAS to prepare packages of brother of Lila. Erica & David Friedman, in honor of the essentials for clients of The Phyllis & Bernard Leventhal, in honor of birth of Elias Nelson Brook-Holman. Jewish Board. and gratitude for their anniversary. RSVP to [email protected] Michael Simmon, in honor of his RABBI ELLIOT J. COSGROVE birthday. DISCRETIONARY FUND • Jews in Business Anonymous. Schmooze | Apr | Date CANTOR SHIRA LISSEK DISCRETIONARY Beth Aviv & David Angerman. Stephanie, Elliot and Spencer Berk, and time TBA | Join FUND James Goldman, in memory of Shirley in honor of the birth of their son and students of the Wharton Joselow. brother, Dylan Joshua Berk. Business School Jewish James Goldman, in memory of Bertram Ivy & David Cohen. Students Group for an Schwartz. Erica & Philip Hermann, in honor of evening of networking and Sarahbeth Grossman, in memory of Ariella Frankel becoming a Bat Mitzvah. a little Torah. Meyer Grossman. Dena & Mark Hirsch. Gary Israel. ECC FUND Sheri & Jimmy Rosenfeld, in memory of Yelena & Kurt Feuerman. Joseph Silberberg. Mr. & Mrs. William Rothman, in honor of FOOD PANTRY FUND their first grandchild, Rose Ella Podell. Anonymous. Joyce Varvatos, in memory of Jakob Arlene & Andy Brafman, in honor of Zylberberg. Constance Breslin on her special birthday. Susan Wiener Krevat, in memory of Toni Ceisler, in loving memory of her Edward Wiener. mother, Ruth Natelson Pollack. Anne & Paul Corwin, in honor of Dorit & Michael Corwin. Anne & Paul Corwin, in memory of Sylvia Rosenberg, mother of Linda Daitz.

www.pasyn.org 212–369–2600 March/April 2018 Adar/Nisan/Iyyar 5778 19 Contributions December 22, 2017 – January 24, 2018

RABBI ETHAN H. WITKOVSKY Michael Brenner, in memory of Bella Alan Jacobs, in memory of Herbert DISCRETIONARY FUND Brenner. Jacobs. Stephen Rutman. Constance Breslin, in honor of her Stephen Judlowe, in memory of Abram Melissa Rutman. birthday. Judlowe. Susan Spivack. Nancy Bronstein, in memory of Carolyn Stephen Judlowe, in honor of his Samantha Zimerman. Katz. birthday. Harriet Brownstein, in honor of her Henry Katz, in memory of Bessie Katz. RABBI NEIL ZUCKERMAN DISCRETIONARY birthday. Hannah Koslow, in memory of Frieda FUND Linda Daitz, in memory of Yetta Kaplan Luss. Constance & Bernard Breslin. Weiner. Richard Kravitz, in honor of his birthday. Amy & Howard Friedner. Michael Davis, in memory of Herb Davis. Naomi Grabel & Neil Kutner, in honor of Gary Israel. Juliet Diller, in honor of her birthday. the birth of Elias Brook-Holman. Suzanne Drachman, in memory of Mark Dorothy Lang, in memory of Abraham SARAH I. GELMAN MEMORIAL FUND Drachman. Kleiman. Evelyn Gelman, in memory of Lillian Louis Ehrenberg, in memory of Blanche Bennett Leichman, in memory of Irving Goldstein. Ehrenberg. Leichman. Evelyn Gelman & Jack Topal, in honor of Elaine Sollar Eisen, in memory of Dorothy Martin Levenson, in memory of Barney their anniversary. Sollar. Levenson. Phyllis & Bernard Feinberg, in memory of Carolyn & Ronnie Levine, in memory of A. SHAPIRO AUDIO ARCHIVES FUND Alfred Feinberg. Mervyn Mandelbaum. Joan & David Lefkowitz, in honor of Richard Feinbloom, in memory of Alan Levine, in honor of his birthday. the birth of Elias Brook-Holman, son of William Feinbloom. Sylvia Liff, in memory of Zanvel Liff. Cantor Rachel Brook & Matt Holman. Rhetta Felton, in memory of Samuel Judy Lobel, in memory of Solomon Joan & David Lefkowitz, in memory of Berson. Linder. Morton Davis, dear husband of Joanne Alan Fischer, in memory of Irving Fischer. Amy & Mark Lokhin, in memory of Linda Davis. Enid Fisher, in memory of Alexander Reiss Heffner. Joan & David Lefkowitz, in memory of Fisher. Andrea & Ivan Lustig, in memory of Arnold Sabin, dear husband of Lite Sabin. Lynn Fishman, in memory of Zelda Wahl. Joseph Silberberg. Barbara & Joshua Tannenbaum, in honor David Freedberg, in memory of Ann Andrea & Ivan Lustig, in memory of of their anniversary. Freedberg. Sylvia Rosenberg. Amy Friedner, in honor of her birthday. Andrea & Ivan Lustig, in honor of the TIKKUN OLAM FUND Gail Furman, in memory of Deborah birth of Elias Brook-Holman. Edward Brettholz, in memory of Barbara Gorin. Andrea & Ivan Lustig, in memory of Betty Brettholz. Ethel Gardner, in honor of her birthday. Grad. Marlene & Philip Muskin, in memory of Lauren & Martin Geller, in honor of the Ann Lyons, in memory of Gussie Arnold Sabin. Congregational Trip to Israel. Moskowitz. Ruth B. Rothseid, in memory of her David Greenbaum, in memory of Walter Jeannette Mandelbaum, in memory of A. beloved grandparents, Lillian & David Greenbaum. Mervyn Mandelbaum. Braidy. Efraim Grinberg, in memory of Gedalio Robert Miller, in memory of Robert The Yellen Family. Grinberg. Bernbach. Sarahbeth Grossman, in memory of Martin Milston, in memory of Louis WELFARE FUND Robert Grossman. Milston. Herbert Shapiro. Sanford Heffner, in memory of Linda Cheryl & Mike Minikes. Heffner. Alexandra & Greg Mondre, in memory of YOUNG FAMILY EDUCATION FUND Dena & Mark Hirsch, in honor of their A. Mervyn Mandelbaum. Ellen & Joel Goldwasser, in honor of the anniversary. Alexandra & Greg Mondre, in memory of birth of Perry Maurer-Hollaender. Jessica & Adam Hirsch. Joe Weiss. Michelle, Paul and Shay Kaplan, in Arlene & Bruce Hochberg, in honor of Nathan Moser, in honor of his birthday. memory of Grandpa Abraham Fingeroth, their anniversary. Harvey Moser, in memory of Martha a lover of his family and education. Nancy Hodin, in memory of Susan Moser. Jackson. Blossom Peretz, in honor of her birthday. GENERAL CONTRIBUTIONS Alice Hoffman, in honor of her birthday. Myra Pollack, in honor of her birthday. Anonymous (4). Francine Asher Holtzman, in memory of Brian Pollack, in honor of his birthday. Deanna Adler, in honor of her birthday. her mother, Minerva Asher. Ruth Rabinowitz, in memory of Howard Jack Attar, in memory of Arnold Sabin. Francine Asher Holtzman, in memory of Topal Roberts. Lea Avigdor, in honor of her birthday. her father, Robert Asher. Ruth Rabinowitz, in memory of Jean David Barnard, in memory of Ephraim Della Honig, in memory of Ann Rabinowitz. Barnard. Reinkraut. James Robbins, in memory of Barbara Michelle Bernstein. Grad Robbins.

To make a donation, please contact Sam Hopkins at [email protected] or 212-369-4900, x101.

20 Park Avenue Synagogue Bulletin Contributions December 22, 2017 – January 24, 2018

Ellen Roizen, in memory of Sheldon Reby Gulcan Rodbell. Susan & Richard Haass Sheri & Jimmy Rosenfeld, in memory of Roslyn & Robert J. Haber Lowell Bloom. Anita & I. Douglas Harris Robert de Rothschild, in memory of Mary Nicole & Simon Heffner de Rothschild. Della & Lewis Honig Ethel Rubinstein, in honor of her Lara Oboler & Lou Jaffe birthday. Josephine & Jason Kalisman Janet Weisberg-Samuels & Richard Gayle Taubman Kalisman & Michael Samuels, in honor of their anniversary. Kalisman Susan Schwartz, in memory of Michael Philip Kalisman Schwartz. Jennifer & Bryan Kaplan Laura Simon, in memory of Howard Blair & Joshua Klaff Simon. Lara & Avi Kometz Caring Linda Yarden & Chris Smith. Madalyn & Richard Kravitz Vera Wolff Sullivan, in memory of Fritz Phyllis & Bernard Leventhal Wolff. Barton Lilenfield Roxana Tetenbaum, in memory of Joseph Rachel & Brian Lustbader Network Sobie. Allison & Howard Lutnick Nancy Treiger, in memory of Martin Jeannette Mandelbaum The Caring Network seeks Davis. Heller & Jeffrey Moses Jacqueline Wahl, in memory of Juliette Freema & Harris Nagler to nurture individuals and Wahl. Amanda & Ned Offit families at moments of sorrow Stephanie & Ernest Wechsler, in memory Carole & Morton Olshan and joy. As part of our effort of Izydor Wechsler. Joslin & Steven Paradise Michael Zinn, in memory of Andrea Zinn. Ida & David Parks to foster a caring community, Bernard Zuckerman, in honor of his Barbara & Louis Perlmutter the Caring Network provides birthday. Susan & Arnold Putterman support, solace, and hope to The Rosenbaum Family KOL NIDRE APPEAL 5778 Ilana & Avi Rosenbluth congregants and their families December 21, 2017–January 21, 2018 Cindy & Jacob Scheinerman during times of illness, Anonymous (5) Maya & Avner Schlessinger suffering, loss and grief. We Tracy White & Lakshman Achuthan Carolyn & Aaron Shapiro Sara & Howard Altschul Arielle & Philip Sherrill also reach out to families Danielle & Drew Anderman Nathan Silverstein during joyful transitions – Debbie & Glenn August Kimberly & Paul Silverstein birth, adolescence, marriage Anna Gerb & Michael Bederman Stephanie Hamada & Stephen Smith Shirley & Richard Benowitz Robin Kalish & Andrew Spring and beyond. For information Selda & Izzet Bensusan Elizabeth & Michael Steinberg about the Caring Network’s Lori & Ronald Bland Elise Strauss professional support, support Anna & Matt Bloom Ellen & Stephen Thomas Ruth Boody Evelyn Gelman & Jack Topal groups, and educational Edward Brettholz Harold Unger opportunities, please visit Susan & Thomas Brock Sarrae G. Crane & Jonathan Waxman pasyn.org/caringnetwork. Ronda Wist & Frank Chaney Elizabeth Comen & Avi Weitzman Chelsea & Adam Cohen Shelby White Donna Kramer & Ronald Cohen Kathy Gantz & Lary Wolf If you or anyone you know Gila & Paul Daitz could benefit from the Caring Abbe Gluck & Meir Feder Yelena & Kurt Feuerman Network, or if you would Barbara Greystone Fishkin like to volunteer, please Marissa & Adam Forsted contact Rabbi Zuckerman at Rena & Alan Franklin Micki & Robert Friedman [email protected] or Kelly Riggle & Richard Froom x124. Liza & Daniel Ganitsky Marcia & Mark Goldstein Iris Goodgold Leith Greenslade

To make a donation, please contact Sam Hopkins at [email protected] or 212-369-4900, x101. PAS Calendar of Events · March 2018 · Adar/Nisan 5778 March Information is subject to change. Confirm at pasyn.org or with the synagogue office. SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 14 Adar 15 Adar 16 Adar 1 Purim 2 5:30 pm Candles 3 Ki Tissa • Weekday Shaharit Monday–Friday at 7:15 am; Sunday at 9:00 am. • Minha/ma’ariv Sunday–Thursday at 5:45 pm. 7:30 am Hashkamah 9:00 am Shaharit & Parashah • Shabbat minha 20 minutes after the end of morning services. 9:45 am Sanctuary svce 10:00 am CS 3–6 Shabbat 8:00 am Talmud Torah 11:00 am CS K–2 Shabbat 9:15 am Melton Year 2 3:45 pm Food Pantry 20 mins after svces, Minha 9:15 am Melton Bereshit II 6:15 pm Kabbalat Shabbat 4:00 pm Parent/Teen Study 12:00 pm Purim Se’udah 7:15 pm Ramah Minyan 5:30 pm Day Sch Havdalah

17 Adar 18 Adar 19 Adar 20 Adar 21 Adar 22 Adar 23 Adar 5:38 pm Candles Va-yak·hel/P’kudei 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Shabbat Parah 8:00 am Rushing to Rashi 9:15 am Melton Year 2 12:30 pm Israel’s 4 Q 9:15 am Melton Bereshit II 4:00 pm Food Pantry & PALs 9:15 am Melton Mod J Exper 7:30 am Hashkamah 6:00 pm RJNHS 22 Weeks 9:20 am Melton Foundations 9:00 am Shaharit & Parashah 10:00 am YFE Parent Grp 6:15 pm Israeli Literature 12:00 pm Insights from Israel 9:00 am Havurah 6:00 pm Aleph Hebrew 11:30 am Contemp J Thought 6:30 pm NY Jewish Exper 8:00 pm Cmty Conv Class 8:00 am Talmud Torah 9:45 am Sanctuary svce 11:00 am YFE Purim Service 7:00 pm Shulhan Ivrit 4:00 pm Teen Tea Tuesdays 6:45 pm Pathways 5:00 pm Parkapellas 3:45 pm Food Pantry 10:00 am CS 3–6 Shabbat 11:30 am Quiet Purim Carnival 7:30 pm Aleph Plus Hebrew 6:00 pm RJNHS Scholars Cir 7:00 pm Melton Year 1 6:00 pm Teen Rock Band 5:00 pm YFE Kab Shabbat Immed after svces, Minha 12:00 pm Purim Carnival 8:00 pm Bk Discuss Grp 7:15 pm Teen Ldrshp Mtg 7:00 pm RJNHS Sr. Seminar 7:30 pm 20s/30s Hesed 6:15 pm Kabbalat Shabbat 12:30 pm Rdg J Lives

24 Adar 25 Adar 26 Adar 27 Adar 28 Adar 29 Adar 1 Nisan 11 12 13 14 15 Rosh Hodesh 16 6:46 pm Candles 17 Va-yikra

8:00 am Rushing to Rashi 12:30 pm Israel’s 4 Q 10:00 am YFE Parent Grp 4:00 pm Food Pantry & PALs 9:15 am Melton Year 2 11:30 am Contemp J Thought 6:00 pm RJNHS 22 Weeks 9:15 am Melton Mod J Exp 7:30 am Hashkamah 4:00 pm Teen Tea Tuesdays 6:15 pm Israeli Literature 12:00 pm Library L&L 8:00 am Talmud Torah 9:00 am Shaharit & Parashah 10:00 am iEngage 6:00 pm Aleph Hebrew 5:30 pm Zayin Photo Exhib 6:30 pm NY Jewish Exper 5:00 pm Parkapellas 9:15 am Women in Bible 9:45 am Sanctuary svce 10:00 am CS Trip to Tenement 6:00 pm Women’s Seder 5:45 pm Vav BMtz Fam Prog 6:45 pm Pathways 6:00 pm Teen Rock Band 3:45 pm Food Pantry 11:15 am Tot Tefillah Museum 7:30 pm Aleph Plus Hebrew 6:00 pm MC Candle Boxing 7:00 pm Melton Year 1 7:00 pm Itamar Rabinovich 6:15 pm Kabbalat Shabbat 20 mins after svces, Minha

2 Nisan 3 Nisan 4 Nisan 5 Nisan 6 Nisan 7 Nisan 8 Nisan 18 19 20 21 22 23 6:53 pm Candles 24 Tzav

8:00 am Rushing to Rashi 12:30 pm Israel’s 4 Q 8:00 am Talmud Torah 7:30 am Hashkamah 4:00 pm Food Pantry & PALs 9:10 am YFE Shirat Shabbat 9:00 am Shaharit & Parashah 10:00 am DOROT package 10:00 am YFE Parent Grp 6:15 pm Israeli Literature 9:15 am Melton Year 2 3:45 pm Food Pantry 9:00 am Window on Israel delivery 6:00 pm Aleph Hebrew 11:30 am Contemp J Thought 6:30 pm NY Jewish Exper 9:15 am Melton Bereshit II 6:15 pm Kabbalat Shabbat & 9:45 am Shabbat morning 10:30 am YFE Spring into 7:00 pm Parashah & Pizza 7:00 pm Passover Learning 6:45 pm Pathways 9:15 am Melton Mod J Exp Milestone Membership service Passover 7:30 pm Aleph Plus Hebrew 8:00 pm Wine & Matzah Sale 7:00 pm Melton Year 1 9:20 am Melton Foundations 7:30 pm Francine Klagsbrun 20 mins after services Minha

9 Nisan 10 Nisan 11 Nisan 12 Nisan 13 Nisan 14 Nisan 15 Nisan Erev Pesah Pesah, 1st day 25 26 27 28 29 30 7:01 Candles 31

7:30 am Hashkamah 8:00 am Rushing to Rashi 8:45 am Parashat HaShavua 6:00 pm RJNHS 22 Weeks 9:15 am Sanctuary svce 6:15 pm Israeli Literature 7:00 am Siyyum Bekhorot 20 mins after svces Minha 10:00 am YFE Parent Grp 6:30 pm NY Jewish Exper 10:53 am Stop hametz 5:00 pm YFE Seder 9:30 am MC Project Ezra Food 6:00 pm Aleph Hebrew 11:30 am Contemp J Thought 6:45 pm Pathways 6:15 pm Festival Eve svce 6:30 pm Festival Eve svce Delivery 7:30 pm Aleph Plus Hebrew 4:00 pm Teen Tea Tuesdays 7:00 pm Melton Year 1 9:15 am Melton Year 2 7:00 pm Community Seder 7:00 pm Community Seder PAS Calendar of Events · April 2018 · Nisan/Iyyar 5778 April Information is subject to change. Confirm at pasyn.org or with the synagogue office. SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 16 Nisan 17 Nisan 18 Nisan 19 Nisan 20 Nisan 21 Nisan 22 Nisan Pesah, 2nd day Pesah, 3rd day Pesah, 4th day Pesah, 5th day Pesah, 6th day Pesah, 7th day Pesah, 8th day 1 2 3 4 5 6 7:08 pm Candles 7

7:30 am Hashkamah 7:30 am Hashkamah 7:30 am Hashkamah 8:45 am Parashat HaShavua 9:15 am Sanctuary svce 9:15 am Festival svce 9:15 am Festival svce 20 mins after svces Minha 9:30 am Passover Melton 20 mins after svces Minha 20 mins after svces, Minha 5:45 pm Evening minyan 6:45 pm Pathways 5:45 pm Festival Eve svce 6:15 pm Festival Eve svce 8:37 pm Pesah ends

23 Nisan 24 Nisan 25 Nisan 26 Nisan 27 Nisan 28 Nisan 29 Nisan 8 9 10 11 12 Yom HaShoah 13 7:15 pm Candles 14 Sh’mini

8:00 am Rushing to Rashi 7:30 am Hashkamah 4:00 pm Food Pantry & PALs 9:00 am Shaharit & Parashah 6:00 pm RJNHS 22 Weeks 9:15 am Melton Year 2 8:00 am Talmud Torah 9:45 am Sanctuary svce 6:00 pm Yom HaShoah Comm 9:15 am Melton Bereshit II 9:10 am YFE Shirat Shabbat 10:00 am CS 3–6 Shabbat 11:30 am Contemp J Thought 6:15 pm Israeli Literature 9:15 am Melton Mod J Exp 3:45 pm Food Pantry 11:00 am CS K–2 Shabbat 4:00 pm Teen Tea Tuesdays 6:30 pm NY Jewish Exper 9:20 am Melton Foundations 6:15 pm Rock Kab Shabbat 11:15 am Tot Tefillah 6:00 pm RJNHS Scholars Cir 6:45 pm Pathways 12:00 pm Insights from Israel 7:15 pm Ramah Minyan 20 mins after svces, Minha 6:00 pm Aleph Hebrew 7:15 pm Teen Ldrshp Mtg 7:00 pm Melton Year 1 5:00 pm Parkapellas 7:30 pm Teen Family Dinner 12:30 pm Youth Schmooze 7:30 pm Aleph Plus Hebrew 7:30 pm Torah on Tap 7:00 pm RJNHS Sr. Seminar 6:00 pm Teen Rock Band 8:30 pm Teen Game Night 4:00 pm Teen/Parent Study

30 Nisan 1 Iyyar 2 Iyyar 3 Iyyar 4 Iyyar 5 Iyyar 6 Iyyar Rosh Hodesh Rosh Hodesh Yom HaZikaron Yom HaAtzma’ut 7:23 pm Candles Tazri·a/M’tzora 15 16 17 18 observed 19 observed 20 21

8:00 am Rushing to Rashi 7:30 am Hashkamah 4:00 pm Food Pantry & PALs 9:15 am Melton Year 2 8:00 am Talmud Torah 9:00 am Shaharit & Parashah 6:00 pm RJNHS 22 Weeks 9:15 am Melton Bereshit II 9:15 am Rachel Korazim 9:00 am Window on Israel 9:00 am Proj Prom begins 6:15 pm Israeli Literature 9:15 am Melton Mod J Exp 3:45 pm Food Pantry 9:45 am Shabbat morning 6:00 pm Aleph Hebrew 11:30 am Contemp J Thought 6:30 pm NY Jewish Exper 12:00 pm Lunch & Learn 5:00 pm YFE Kab Shabbat service 7:00 pm Shulhan Ivrit 4:00 pm Teen Tea Tuesdays 7:00 pm Melton Year 1 5:00 pm Parkapellas 5:00 pm CS Dalet Siddur 10:00 am CS 3–6 Shabbat 10:00 am Bar Mitzvah 7:30 pm Aleph Plus Hebrew 7:00 pm Yossi Klein Halevi 8:00 pm Three Cantors 6:00 pm Teen Rock Band 6:15 pm Kabbalat Shabbat 20 mins after services Minha

7 Iyyar 8 Iyyar 9 Iyyar 10 Iyyar 11 Iyyar 12 Iyyar 13 Iyyar 22 23 24 25 26 27 7:30 Candles 28

8:00 am Rushing to Rashi 9:00 am NYCP Grocery Pkg 9:15 am Melton Year 2 4:00 pm Food Pantry & PALs 9:15 am Melton Bereshit II 5:15 pm CS Values Showcase 9:15 am Melton Mod J Exp 7:30 am Hashkamah 6:00 pm RJNHS 22 Weeks 9:20 am Melton Foundations 9:00 am Shaharit & Parashah 6:15 pm Israeli Literature 5:00 pm Parkapellas 9:45 am Sanctuary svce 10:00 am iEngage 6:00 pm Aleph Hebrew 6:30 pm NY Jewish Exper 5:15 pm CS Values Showcase 8:00 am Talmud Torah 10:00 am CS 3–6 Shabbat & CS Trip to Ellis Island 7:15 pm Parashah & Pizza 11:30 am Contemp J Thought 6:45 pm Pathways 6:00 pm Teen Rock Band 3:45 pm Food Pantry Humash Ceremony 3:00 pm The Band’s Visit 7:30 pm Aleph Plus Hebrew 4:00 pm Teen Tea Tuesdays 7:00 pm Melton Year 1 7:00 pm R. Adina Lewittes 6:15 pm Kabbalat Shabbat 20 mins after svces, Minha

14 Iyyar 15 Iyyar 29 Pesah Sheni 30 • Weekday Shaharit Monday–Friday at 7:15 am except April 2–5 at 7:00 am; Sundays at 9:00 am. • Minha/ma’ariv Sunday–Thursday at 5:45 pm. COUNT THE OMER • Shabbat minha 20 minutes after the end of morning services. beginning on the • During the week of Passover, April 2–6, the PASECC, CS, and RJNHS second night of Pesah, March 31. For the are closed, and regular Adult Learning classes will not take place. brakhot and the count for each day, visit 6:00 pm Aleph Hebrew pasyn.org/pesahresources. 7:30 pm Aleph Plus Hebrew NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION U.S. POSTAGE PAID New York, NY 50 East 87th Street, New York, NY 10128 Permit No. 8526

Synagogue Office: 212-369-2600 www.pasyn.org

Elliot J. Cosgrove, PhD, Rabbi Neil Zuckerman, Rabbi Ethan H. Witkovsky, Rabbi Azi Schwartz, Cantor Shira Lissek, Cantor Rachel Brook, Cantor David H. Lincoln, Rabbi Emeritus David Lefkowitz, Cantor Emeritus Beryl P. Chernov, Executive Director Liz Offenbach, Associate Executive Director Rabbi Charles Savenor, Director of Congregational Education

Arthur Penn, Chairman of the Board Paul M. Corwin, President

A Look Ahead at PAS

Seminary Shabbat Sat | May 5 | 9:15 am | Sanctuary Service | Chancellor Arnold Eisen, JTS

Reading Jewish Lives | Author Event and Study Circle Siyyum Dr. Barry Holtz: Rabbi Akiva: Sage of the Talmud Tue | May 8 | 7:00 pm

PAS Annual Meeting Tue | May 15 | 6:00 pm

Erev Shavuot Sat | May 19 8:00 pm | Tikkun Leil Shavuot 9:00 pm | Festival evening service followed by cheesecake 9:45 pm | 20s & 30s Midnight Tikkun Visit pasyn.org/holidays for more Shavuot worship and programs.