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A Word from President’s Rav Blumberg Message WHAT MAKES NEW YEAR, FRESH START THESE HIGH Dear Friends, HOLIDAYS We say many things automatically, like “Thank You” or DIFFERENT “Excuse me.” At this time of year, as the of Elul FROM ALL is about to begin, we start to think about the end of Elul OTHER HIGH and the fresh start of a new year. We often wish others “Happy New Year” automatically, but this year, that’s HOLIDAYS? kind of complicated. How can we be hopeful about 5781 By now we all know that the when we will begin it, deep in the throes of a pandemic Rav Sam Blumberg High Holidays at Temple Beth Carol Hanover and its domino effect throughout our lives? Maybe we Am will look dramatically differ- have kids who are learning from home, or we are working ent from High Holidays of years past. In order to keep our from home, or maybe we have been furloughed or lost jobs. Most of us hesitate community safe, all services will be held virtually this year, about going anywhere — to the supermarket, out to dinner, to the dentist. We which means that kibitzing in the parking lot or before and watch the numbers of the sick and the dead spread across our TV screens and we after services won’t be a possibility this year, nor will we be debate their meaning. And let’s not even think about the economy! continued on page 3 continued on page 5 tebeam / September 2020 / 2

PLEASE NOTE: ALL SERVICES WILL BE ON LINE. TBA congregants will be directed to a Zoom link. Guests of TBA will register for a separate link by emailing [email protected]

FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 4, 2020 – 16 ELUL 5780 FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 11, 2020 – 23 ELUL 5780 EVENING SERVICE...... 7:15 PM SHABBAT EVENING SERVICE...... 7:15 PM SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 5, 2020 – 16 ELUL 5780 August/September Anniversary Blessing Weekly Portion KI TAVO Deuteronomy 26:1-29:8 SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 12, 2020 – 23 ELUL 5780 Isaiah 60:1-22 Weekly Portion /VAYEILECH SHABBAT MORNING MINYAN SERVICE...... 9:00 AM Deuteronomy 29:9-31:30 Lay-led Haftarah Isaiah 61:10-63:9 SHABBAT ...... 8:30 AM SHABBAT MORNING MINYAN SERVICE...... 9:30 AM B mple eth A Te m HIGH HOLIDAYS 2020 / 5781 5781  Hom for  Hih Holidays COMMUNITY SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 12, 2020 – 24 ELUL 5780 MONDAY SEPTEMBER 28, 2020 – 10 TISHRI 5781 Congregation Beth El, Congregation B’nai Torah, YOM KIPPUR MORNING SERVICE...... 10:00 AM Temple Beth Am and Temple Shir Tikva join together for YOM KIPPUR CHILDREN’S SERVICE...... 2:15 PM this special Zoom service. A unique link will be provided RABBI SPLANSKY’S YOM KIPPUR in advance. STUDY SESSION...... 2:15 PM PROGRAM AND SERVICE...... 7:30 PM “The Jewish Response to Feeling Vulnerabilities during COVID” EREV /SHABBAT YOM KIPPUR AFTERNOON, YIZKOR AND FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 18, 2020 – 1 TISHRI 5781 NEILAH SERVICE**...... 4:15 PM ROSH HASHANAH/SHABBAT ** Prerecorded healing service will be available EVENING SERVICE...... 7:30 PM for viewing by TBA members at any time. INFORMAL BREAK-FAST ZOOM HANGOUT ROSH HASHANAH WITH TBA MEMBERS...... 6:30 PM SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 19, 2020 – 1 TISHRI 5781 ROSH HASHANAH MORNING SERVICE...... 10:00 AM FRIDAY OCTOBER 2, 2020 – 15 TISHRI 5781 ROSH HASHANAH CHILDREN’S SERVICE ...... 2:30 PM EREV SUKKOT (& SHABBAT) SERVICE...... 6:30 PM Tashlich Ceremony will be prerecorded and available for all and will include an instructional guide SATURDAY OCTOBER 3, 2020 – 15 TISHRI 5781 SECOND DAY SUKKOT MORNING SERVICE...... 10:00 AM ROSH HASHANAH SHAKE AND SCHMOOZE IN THE SUKKAH...... 12:00 PM SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 20, 2020 – 2 TISHRI 5781 SECOND DAY ROSH HASHANAH SERVICE ...... 10:00 AM FRIDAY OCTOBER 9, 2020 – 22 TISHRI 5781 Lay-led with clergy presence SIMCHAT TORAH (SHABBAT) SERVICE...... 6:30 PM KOL NIDRE SATURDAY OCTOBER 10, 2020 – 22 TISHRI 5781 SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 27, 2020 – 10 TISHRI 5781 , SIMCHAT TORAH KOL NIDRE SERVICE...... 8:00 PM AND YIZKOR SERVICE...... 9:30 AM 3 / September 2020 / tebeam

WE ENCOURAGE YOU TO BORROW A MACHZOR FOR THE HIGH HOLIDAY SERVICES This year’s High Holiday services will be very different for the TBA community as they will be held online. TBA members can borrow the 2-volume machzor for the High Holidays, Mishkan HaNefesh, from the temple. Please go to the Worship/High Holidays section of the TBA website, click on the Prayerbooks Button to reserve your books. OTHER OPTIONS FOR ACCESSING HIGH HOLIDAY 1. FLIPBOOK You can use the flipbook found on the CCAR website at https://www.ccarpress.org/. You will be able to follow the pages as announced by Rav Blumberg and Cantor Wolff. To access the flipbook: Once on the web page, scroll down until you see the pictures of the books (Gold for Rosh Hashanah and Silver for Yom Kippur). The link can be found at the end of the sentence, CLICK COVER TO OPEN FLIPBOOK next to the appropriate book. 2. PURCHASE A SET OF PRAYERBOOKS You can purchase a set from CCAR Press for $44 at this link: https://www.ccarpress.org/shopping_product_detail.asp?pid=50288%20%5Ct%20_blank

PLEASE NOTE: All of these options are explained in greater detail on the TBA website. Please go to the TBA website and click on the Prayerbooks Button in the Worship/High Holidays section. ZOOM HELP Consider yourself a Zoom whiz, or do you need some help logging on? We want to make sure everyone in our community can stay connected while we conduct services and events virtually. So, we would like to pair up congregants who are “Zoom Whizzes” (of all ages) with those who could use a little help to log on. If you can offer or are in need of help with getting on to Zoom, contact Rav Blumberg at [email protected] or call the temple office so we can start matching our congregants.

A Word from Rav Blumberg continued from front page able to embrace or shake hands with Beth Am members, extended family, and the home for this year’s High Holidays, different TBA friends to wish them a Happy Jewish community at large this year. though they may be, to evoke those same New Year. If you’ve joined us for any of our online feelings? So, what about these High Holidays will Shabbat services this summer, you know that Jewish tradition teaches us that there is be the same as all other High Holidays? The despite the physical distance, we are able to no substitute for community. I look forward short answer is: a lot! Though our services join and engage with our warm and vibrant to the day when we can join again in person, will not be in person, they will be live and community, welcoming Shabbat with song, in our sanctuary, to celebrate and to pray will contain many of the same tunes, prayers, prayer, and connection. We are fortunate to together. Until then, I am grateful for the and traditions of past years. Cantor Wolff have a robust lineup of services, learning op- bonds (technological and otherwise) that and I have been hard at work to ensure that portunities, and events this High Holiday sea- keep us together during this time, and look our services will be connective, meaningful, son so that we can continue to stay connected forward to a deeply rejuvenating, spiritual, and familiar, while also being mindful that to our community. and purpose-filled High Holiday season with the virtual format will by its nature alter this I invite you to think about past experi- our Temple Beth Am community. year’s High Holiday experience. Holding ences during the High Holidays: what has L’Shanah Tovah – to a year of health, our services online means that we can reach brought you peace, joy, and connection as you happiness, and peace, a wider audience, and we look forward to stepped into another New Year? What will – Rav Blumberg having our doors wide open to our Temple you need to do to prepare yourself and your tebeam / September 2020 / 4 A Note from Cantor David Wolff TBA RELIGIOUS SCHOOL UPDATES

I am so excited to be the director of the lower the synagogue. If families are unable to pick up books, books will be school of the Temple Beth Am religious delivered. Physical Hebrew materials will help remote Hebrew learning school! The school year is here; the first day resemble in-person Hebrew learning; students will have materials in of TBA religious school is Sunday, September hand, and will be looking at their teacher, just as they would during 13! To ensure the safety of our community, in-person teaching. we will begin the year with remote learning The Temple Beth Am religious school team is so excited to begin on Zoom. We will reevaluate our ability to the journey of Jewish education this year with our students and fami- begin in-person instruction at the end of lies! So much in our world is different, new, and challenging. Despite October, and hope to begin some in-person Cantor David Wolff, the many changes to our lives, Jewish education at Temple Beth Am Lower School Education Director instruction in early November. continues. We are committed to engaging, fun, rich Jewish education at While we can’t be physically together Temple Beth Am, whether via remote or in-person learning. with our young students, we can still engage, learn, and enjoy Jew- ish life together! With age-appropriate, engaging, remote learning, RegistrationZERO Fee students will be able to create meaningful relationships with their peers, their teachers, and their clergy. School-wide assemblies on Zoom will TEMPLE BETH AM RELIGIOUS SCHOOL connect students and families with TBA clergy. The use of extended Zoom features, like breakout rooms, spot-lighting, and screen-sharing, LEARN. GROW. HAVE FUN! Always bustling with activity… will allow our students to build a community of learners, and to get to our religious school is an exciting mix of know one another. Brief, fun weekly home activities, sent from teachers Jewish activities & experiences. to families, will ensure that Jewish education continues, even when we are not on the computer. Jewish education in our lower school will feature two different educational models: a flipped classroom, and a spiral curriculum. In a flipped classroom model, students and families have the opportunity to engage with Judaism throughout the week; your home is part of our classroom! Fun, brief activities will allow students and families to keep learning, even when off-screen. Students can then bring their A STARBURST OF READING ENTHUSIASM! experiences and thoughts to remote learning on Zoom, and share those Enjoying all that our library offers, grade 3 students checked out great books experiences with their peers. and decorated stars for the bulletin board project. Our spiral curriculum features several essential Jewish topics, that each classroom will learn about, in different, age-appropriate ways. For example, every year, in every classroom, students will learn about the Experienced and caring faculty • Inclusiveness • Family education • Parent engagement events Diversity Family • Shabbat experiences • Community building • Music • Library wonder of Shabbat. Our curriculum spirals back to Shabbat every year, K-1 tuition includes so that students’ understanding and appreciation of Shabbat is deep- COMPLEMENTARY TEMPLE MEMBERSHIP for those new to TBA ened and solidified over the course of their religious school education. Contact our Lower School Education Director, Cantor David Wolff Hebrew instruction during remote learning will also continue. JOIN US. 508.872.8312 or [email protected] Temple Beth Am // A Warm and Vibrant Reform Jewish Community Families will be invited to pick up Hebrew books/materials from

A note from Cantor Wolff about the TBA Music Enrichment Fund I want to gratefully thank all of the generous Once a month we welcome Shabbat (on zoom) withHallelu family, friends donors to the TBA Music Enrichment Fund! I am & community as we incorporate so excited to expand and develop music at TBA. traditional and contemporary music New music, for both our religious school and our with reflective and joyful worship. Hallelu band, requires purchasing new music Next zoom service: scores. Both live music and Zoom-music require October 16, 7:15 PM updating TBA’s sound equipment. I can’t wait to CALL FOR MUSICIANS AND SINGERS! expand our musical offerings at TBA, and I am If interested please email: so grateful for your help in doing so! Cantor Wolff: [email protected] Dean Arvidson: [email protected] 5 / September 2020 / tebeam The Fresh Start of a New Year continued from front page clergy team, Rav Samuel Blumberg and Cantor David Wolff. I am fine So how can it be a happy new year? because our Board members have worked so hard, all summer long, to I spoke at a Board of Trustees meeting on August 13, about how recreate a new and exciting version of Temple Beth Am to match and friends I haven’t seen for a while, will upon greeting me automatically support the enthusiasm of our new clergy. ask “how are you?” Once, instead of automatically replying “fine”, I I am fine because the Torah has not changed. I am fine because I more truthfully replied “How could I be? I am a temple president and still find comfort in the prayers that have not changed. My hope for the it’s my busy time of the year in the midst of a pandemic!” future of the Jewish people burns as brightly as ever. And I believe that Actually, after some thought, I realized that the answer really is yours does, too. We have weathered times even harder than this. “fine” in spite of the daily challenges of being TBA’s president. How So I am fine and l hope you are fine, and that we are all looking can I say that? I am fine because of YOU – my community. forward to a very happy and healthy new year – because we are togeth- I am fine because lots of you are clicking into Zoom services er, in our hearts and on Zoom even if not in our Sanctuary. on Friday nights and for minyanim on Shabbat mornings. I am fine May I be among the first to wish you a very Happy and Healthy because I know that you will, likewise, click on for High Holiday New Year! services that will comfort and uplift you. I am fine because our children L’shana tova, will continue to learn via Zoom classes under the direction of our new – Carol Hanover

“PREPARING OUR Wake up your heart and mind to reflect, prepare, and learn during the month of Elul, when Jewish tradition HEARTS FOR THE encourages us to begin our introspection for the High HIGH HOLIDAYS” Holiday season. Join Rav Blumberg as we explore and with Rav Blumberg discuss Jewish texts and traditions that will help inform and enrich our High Holiday experience this year. August 30 No signup or prior knowledge is necessary and Zoom September 6 links will be sent out as the dates approach. September 13 Questions? Contact Rav Blumberg at 7:45 PM - 8:45 PM [email protected] or call the temple office.

Rav Blumberg and Cantor Wolff are excited to meet everyone. They have provided an extensive list of dates in hopes that you’ll find one that is convenient for you. Even though our Temple is officially Please go to the link below to choose your date, and be closed to all scheduled activities, there sure to click submit when you are done. If possible, our are exceptions — like dropping off clergy has requested that spouses/partners/couples sign up AND plan to be on Zoom individually to participate. food for the food drive or picking up a prayer book. Please be aware that if you ring our doorbell and enter, you SIGN UP HERE: must wear a mask that covers your https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f0a45afad29a5f85-congregational nose and mouth, maintain 6-foot dis- You will receive an email with further instructions and a Zoom link tancing, and be in good health, to your the day before your scheduled Meet & Greet. best knowledge. We are doing this because we care about each other, and Please don’t For more information please contact: delay as slots hope for good health for all. for each date Wendy A. Schwartz, Meet & Greet Coordinator are limited. 508-904-8493 tebeam / September 2020 / 6 SISTERHOOD Highlights

It’s time to RENEW your membership or join Sisterhood for the first time! • Look for the Yellow Membership form in the High Holiday mailing • Bring a friend, renew friendships or meet a new friend. MARK YOU CALENDARS - Our Fall Calendar is full of food and friends • Sisterhood Welcome Back Event – Thursday, September 24, 6:30 PM A Zoom Dinner and Entertainment • Sisterhood Event – Wednesday, October 15, 6:30 PM A Virtual Cooking event • Sisterhood Event for Post-College Students – Sunday, November 22, Time TBD – Planning to be started and led by our recent post college members VOLUNTEERS and your inputs are welcome Tell us what you want from Sisterhood and share your talents with us! Contact Sharon Silverman or Lisa Movitz @ [email protected]

Upcoming Events

2020: 2021: • Wednesday, September 2nd at 7:15 PM: Zoom Monthly Meeting • Wednesday, January 6th at 7:15PM: Monthly Meeting • Thursday, September 24th: Welcome Back Event. Time and location (location to be determined based on COVID situation at the time) to be determined. • Thursday, January 21st: Sisterhood Social Event. Time and • Wednesday, October 7th at 7:15 PM: Zoom Monthly Meeting location to be determined. • Wednesday, February 3rd at 7:15 PM • Thursday, October 15th: Sisterhood Social Event. Time and location : Monthly Meeting to be determined. (location to be determined based on COVID situation at the time) • Saturday, February 6th • Wednesday, November 4th at 7:15 PM: Zoom Monthly Meeting : Sisterhood and Brotherhood Social Event. Time and location to be determined. • Sunday, November 22nd: Sisterhood Young Adult Social Event. • Sunday, February 28th at 11:00 AM Time and location to be determined. : Sisterhood Sponsored Carnival • Wednesday, December 2nd at 7:15 PM: Monthly Meeting (location • Wednesday, March 3rd at 7:15 PM to be determined based on COVID situation at the time) : Monthly Meeting (location to be determined based on COVID situation at the time) • Sunday, December 13 at 11:00 AM: Sisterhood Sponsored • Wednesday, April 14th 7:15 PM Party for the temple. (Details to be determined based on : Monthly Meeting (location to be COVID situation at the time) determined based on COVID situation at the time) • Thursday, April 29th: • Thursday, December 24: Christmas Dinner prep (Tentative based on YES Fund Event (location to be determined COVID situation at the time) based on COVID situation at the time) • Wednesday, May 5th at 7:15 PM • Friday, December 24: Christmas Dinner Cooking and Delivering : Monthly Meeting (location to (Tentative based on COVID situation at the time) be determined based on COVID situation at the time) • Wednesday, June 2nd at 7:15 PM: Monthly Meeting (location to be determined based on COVID situation at the time) • Thursday, June 17th: Year End Event. Time and location to be determined. 7 / September 2020 / tebeam BROTHERHOOD

Dear TBA Brotherhood Member:

During these uncertain times, the Temple Beth Am (TBA) Brotherhood board is actively working to evaluate the events and or activities for its membership for the upcoming 2020-2021 season. Since we cannot meet in person presently, we are exploring hosting events via ZOOM. We will be sending out a survey over the upcoming weeks to the TBA Brotherhood membership to gauge your interest about ZOOM facilitated events/speakers. Given the COVID-19 pandemic, the TBA Brotherhood board has decided to reduce our membership dues to $45 for persons under 65 and $32.50 for seniors (65+). Please complete the accompanying TBA Brotherhood Membership Application form to show your continued support. As you may know, TBA Brotherhood is and has been a staple for many years at Temple Beth Am. TBA Brotherhood has supported the greater Framingham community, volunteering at events like serving lunch to seniors at Hasting House. Primarily Brotherhood’s centerpiece activity consisted of nine monthly breakfasts September through May that featured all types of informa- tive speakers. It was and will be a way for the TBA Brotherhood to continue and to give back to the greater Framingham and TBA community. After reviewing the survey results from our membership, TBA Brotherhood will notify you of our program events that have been confirmed for 2020/2021 season. In the interim, please do not hesitate to reach out to Bill Karger [email protected] or Steve Schneider at stevescsmg.net with any questions. As always, thank you for your continued support of TBA Brotherhood. Stay safe and healthy.

Respectfully, Bill Karger & Steve Schneider Co-Presidents of Brotherhood, Temple Beth Am YOUTH

Jewish Boston Teens comes to TBA tebeam / September 2020 / 8 SOCIAL JUSTICE It’s Tikkun Olam in action!

We are getting ready to have a second pick up of bags. Thank you to everyone who has been able to assist!

Community Volunteer Opportunities: Response to Covid-19

Through Jewish Family Services of Metrowest, the community is working on a network-wide coordinated SOCIAL JUSTICE response for volunteerism. We are all figuring out not only immediate need but COMMITTEE longer-term and forecasting need for volunteers. Many volunteers are needed. Next meeting: Visit https://jfsmw.org/volunteer/ To be announced To volunteer through Temple Beth Am, please email TBA For information about this committee please contact: President, Carol Hanover: [email protected] If you would like to speak to Rav Blumberg in confidence at Sheila Statlender and Lisa Nasch any time, please email him at: [email protected] [email protected] 9 / September 2020 / tebeam LEARN@ TBA Please Join Us As we learn about the exciting and interesting origins and history of future of TBA and the rich history we share with one another and Jewish HaTikva, the Israeli national anthem. This is a fascinating topic to communities everywhere. Join us for 90 minutes on Sunday, October 25th at explore. Roi Aloni, renowned Israeli composer and musician, will share his 11:00 AM! This promises to be an informative and fun time for all of us and expertise on the subject with music, humor and fun! There will be some our families; we look forward to seeing everyone there! additional surprises — and time set aside for questions as well. With excitement, We hope to offer a children’s component to this program, and we are Ellen Felcher and the Fundraising Committee working with Cantor Wolff to develop this. We will provide details on this segment as they become available. We welcome the ideas and creativity of TBA congregants who are interested in joining our event committee. Please contact Ellen Felcher As we grow our TBA membership and our community outreach and at [email protected] for information. connections, we invite and encourage you to be energized by the bright Library News LifeCYCLES IN JOY AUGUST/SEPTEMBER SPECIAL ANNIVERSARIES Date Name Years 8/3/1980 WILLIAM AND SUSAN HABELOW 40 8/7/2005 DAVID AND JULIE FIALKOW 15 8/23/1975 BARRY AND MINDY KATZ 45 8/26/1995 PAUL AND LISA APOSTOL 25 8/26/2000 ALAN AND MEREDITH ROSOFF 20 9/3/1955 EUGENE AND FLORENCE GOLIGER 65 A poem from the book, THIS WONDERFUL DAY, 9/3/2000 MICHAEL AND ILENA WILLIAMS 20 by Ilo Orleans All couples celebrating an August or September wedding RAINBOW anniversary will be blessed at the September 11th service OF PROMISE at 7:15 PM. Please call the temple office if you are planning to attend. “After the rainstorm I saw it on high IN MEMORY The sweep of the rainbow We record with deep sorrow the names of those who have died since our last bulletin. May their memory be for a blessing. That curved in the sky” THE CONGREGATION MOURNS WITH Scott Cohen, on the loss of his cousin, Lewis Cohen Wishing the TBA community, Shanah Tovah! May brighter tomorrows embrace us all. MEMORIAL PLAQUE Paula Hanover, mother of Alain Hanover, February 22, 2020 – 27 5780 Due to Covid 19 there are currently no regular library hours. Liliane Geffen, dear friend of Alain and Please contact the temple office for specific requests. Carol Hanover, January 15, 2020 – 18 5780 Saul R. Slotnick, father of Wendy Schwartz, Marsha Massey, TBA Librarian November 29, 1976 – 8 5737 Daniel Lipson, nephew of Jerry and Ellen Lipson tebeam / September 2020 / 10 Fundraising TBA CARES Your temple is here for you whether in good times or bad. Please let Rav Blumberg know what is going on in @TBA your life. [email protected]

WEBSITE DONATIONS JUST A CLICK AWAY! The TBA website can now accept credit card donations. Please take advantage of this new capability on our website to acknowledge the memory of, or to honor an accomplishment of a friend or a loved one. Go to: www.tempbetham.org

FUNDRAISING DINNERS During the year, there will be fundraising dinners at area restaurants. The temple receives a portion of all the sales. Stay tuned for dates and times.

TREE OF LIFE The TREE OF LIFE mounted on the wall of the of the temple lobby is a favorite way for members to commemorate “simchas” and honor family members and friends. Your gift of leaves ($300) and stones ($1000) will support continuing growth projects in the future. Pledge cards are available in the temple office.

SMILE AMAZON You shop, Amazon donates 0.5% of the price of your eligible Amazon Smile purchases to Temple Beth Am. Amazon Smile is the same Amazon that you know. Support TBA by starting your shopping at smile.amazon.com.

SPONSOR FUTURE ONEGS This is a great opportunity for your family to honor any type of special occasion or kaddish. Sponsorship is a $100 donation. For more information contact Patti Frankel via the TBA Office.

For additional information regarding our fundraising efforts please call the temple office at 508-872-8300. 11 / September 2020 / tebeam

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