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AFFILIATED WITH THE UNITED SYNAGOGUE OF CONSERVATIVE JUDAISM March, 2021 Adar/Nisan, 5781 Har Zion Herald Temple Har Zion Worship Schedule (all on Zoom) HAR ZION SERVICES Candle Lighting Times 1040 North Harlem Ave. March 5 5:28 PM Friday Evening 6:30 PM Saturday morning services are streamed on River Forest, IL 60305 March 12 5:36 PM Saturday 10:00 AM Har Zion Facebook and YouTube (no password), 708.366.9000 PHONE Monday–Friday Morning 8:00 AM March 19 6:44 PM 708.366.9006 FAX and Zoom (ask the office for the password); the Sunday Morning 9:30 AM March 26 6:52 PM www.harzion.org daily minyan and Friday night services are only March 27 7:53 PM Email: [email protected] on Zoom. More on the calendar on page 10. March 28 7:54 PM Facebook: www.facebook.com/WSTHZ YouTube: www.bit.ly/HarZionYouTube SAVE THE DATE AND OTHER THINGS: CLOSINGS, SPECIAL EVENTS, PROGRAMING THE SOLOMON FAMILY RABBINIC CHAIR Young Families, Preschool and KRS Events IRIS KRASNOW: Oak Park native and bestselling author Iris Krasnow returns to Temple Har Zion on Adir Glick ADULT TRIVIA NIGHT EARLY CHILDHOOD FUNDRAISER: Fun online trivia Sunday, March 7, at 10:30 AM, to talk about her RABBI EMERITUS game; play in teams with people in your own Dr. Victor A. Mirelman books on relationships. Registration and details at: home, or with other people. Details and http://bit.ly/THZ7March2021 THE GOLDSTINE FAMILY registration at http://bit.ly/THZ13March2021 CANTORIAL CHAIR JACQUELINE SAPER: Author Jacqueline Saper on her award- MUSICAL TOT SHABBAT: Stewart Figa winning book, From Miniskirt to Hijab. Sunday, ¤S aturday, March 6, 9:30–10 AM DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION March 14,10:30 AM. Registration and details at: LANGUAGE, LITERACY, AND COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT: David Schwartz For the Needs http://bit.ly/THZ14March2021 of Children Ages Newborn to Adolescent. Debra THE GURALNICK FAMILY A CONVERSATION WITH CONSUL GENERAL OF ISRAEL TO THE MIDWEST, AVIV PRESCHOOL CHAIR Landay, MBA, MEd. Submit questions and Lorrie Applebey http://bit.ly/LLCLanday ESRA : Tursday, March 18, 7:30 PM. register at http://bit.ly/THZ18March2021 TEMPLE ADMINISTRATION ¤T uesday, March 2, 8 PM Charles Shapera PROGRAMS FOR YOUNG FAMILIES: HAR ZION TEMPLE TALKS: A new Jewniversity program. On COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND ¤ Ta’am Shel Shabbat/Taste of Shabbat; Friday, select Sundays at 3:30 PM, we will present a series of OUTREACH March 19, 5:30–6 PM talks with distinguished members of our congregation Position Open EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION CLOSED FOR PASSOVER: March 29 sharing about their life’s work/experiences. PRESIDENT through April 2 Zoom ID#: 884 1406 9962 JuliAnn Geldner ¤ Sunday, March 7, 3:30 PM: Neuroscientist KRS CLOSED FOR PASSOVER: Sunday, March 28, Wednesday, VICE PRESIDENT OF Jackson Cone BUILDING & ADMINISTRATION March 31, and Sunday, April 4 ¤ Sunday, March 21, 3:30 PM: Attorney Scott Jay Michaels Frankel VICE PRESIDENT OF Jewish Journeys/Special Programs/ EDUCATION & YOUTH Jewniversity 2.0 Subject: Freedom Social Action National Refugee Shabat Michael Weinstein INTRO TO JUDAISM 2020-21: Are you new to Judaism? Been a A joint program with Temple Har Zion, Oak Park VICE PRESIDENT OF FUNDRAISING Jew for many years? If you are interested in how Temple, and The Secular Jewish Community and Open Judaism can add meaning and beauty to your life, School; Friday, March 12, 6:30 PM. Use the regular VICE PRESIDENT OF Intro to Judaism is for you! Har Zion Friday evening Zoom ID. See page 7 MEMBERSHIP AND OF ¤S unday, March 14, 10:30–11:30 AM PRESCHOOL EDUCATION for more Amy Guralnick ¤S unday, March 21, 10:30–11:30 AM VICE PRESIDENT OF PROGRAMMING Anniversary of B’nai Mitzvah Peter Norlander TREASURER Ed Schmitt Haftarot Readers SECRETARY March 6 Ki Tisa Reese Brotman Shirley Lieb March 13 Vayakhel-Pekudei Ronen Elam (Bar Mitzvah) GABBAI March 20 Vayikra Alana Slade Ed Sachs March 27 Tzav Marc Stopeck BOARD OF DIRECTORS March 28 Pesach 1 Hai Solomon Reese Brotman Alana Slade On page 2 March 29 Pesach 2 Paul Burnstein March 6 March 20 LETTER FROM THE RABBI One Year Since the Beginning of the Pandemic ear Friends, We all have stories, thoughts, hardships and perhaps—some silver linings. Some of us have This month, we will mark one year experienced traumatic losses. We will never be the “...we are since the beginning of the pandemic. same again. organizing a ✡ I remember our last board I have found it both challenging and rewarding to one year Covid meeting in person (March 11, 2020), when instead of beginning the meeting reimagine and pivot everything that we do and to D keep in touch with our membership. memorial to be with my regular D’var Torah, I spoke about the held during our pandemic and our preparations as we faced the Covid Memorial Service, Friday, March 19 unknown. As we contemplate this difficult and yes— Friday night ✡ I remember in early March when a congregant unprecedented—year, we are organizing a one year shared the advice of a cousin who worked at the services on Covid memorial to be held during our Friday night NIH in Washington. He had said it was time to services on March 19. We encourage everyone to March 19. ” begin stocking up on essential items. bring a Yahrzeit candle to the Zoom service and light ✡ I remember the last time we went to the it. In anticipation of the service, we are creating a supermarket without a mask and waited in forum for all of you to post thoughts and stories huge lines with overflowing carts. about the last year. At the service itself, we would like ✡ I remember feeling that the danger was like an to invite anyone who has experienced the loss of a approaching wave and nobody knew what to friend or family member due to Covid-19 to be in expect. touch with us so that they can share the name and Remember and Do ✡ I remember the first time I heard of someone I story of their loved one at the service. Not Forget knew who had gotten the virus, and then of the first casualty. It will be an opportunity to come together, to Rabbi Glick's sermon on the events of January 6, None of us could have imagined that we would still mourn together, to sing and to grieve. Hopefully, it 2021, was published in the be in a partial lockdown one year later. will also help us as we contemplate the next stages of book Remember and Do Not this pandemic. Some of the fears, such as the food supply drying Forget: Rabbinic Testimonies I hope that you can join us. of January 6, 2021: A up never materialized. Others were worse, as we have Horrifc Day in American struggled as a nation to contain the pandemic. May the Holy One of Israel comfort and console all of His people, and all of humanity, Amen. History: Yet, we have all learned new habits, spent much bit.ly/rabbinicresponse time balancing the needs for caution and letting our Sincerely, Har Zion regular lives continue as before. One year later, much Board of our new lifestyle has been normalized. Members Whenever we watch a movie and see actors Elizabeth Berman approaching each other, we automatically think, RABBI ADIR GLICK Jackson Cone “They should be wearing a mask!” [email protected] Jill Demsey The world has changed. Stacey Flint Suzanne Fournier Courtenay Harris-Black Kulanu: Help is Needed More Tan Ever! Ted Lawrence Haran Rashes Now is the time to step up to volunteer for Kulanu. additional protection, newspaper sleeves make Sarah Ruman What a mitzvah it will be to help others while we excellent protective gloves when you are delivering. Ed Sachs can’t congregate in large groups and are home from To volunteer for Kulanu, contact Sue May Wilde Carol Solomon school and work! Helping those who are homebound at [email protected] or Shirley Lieb at sdl747@ Larry Stark Eugene Stopeck or sick is something we can do! gmail.com. Frank Vozak To observe the highest precautions, we can pickup If you need —or could use —help, please email or Sue May Wilde and drop off on porches or in lobbies of buildings so call the office or the rabbi (phone 708.366.9000, Michael Zmora we don’t come in direct contact with each other. For [email protected], or [email protected]). 03/03/21 — Page 2 Contact the office for our online program password. THE CANTOR’S VOICE contributors to the world of THEODORE BIKEL Folk music A Singer of d u r i n g i t s heyday of the His People 1950s and 60s. He sang, If I were asked to name my number one hero in the performed and performing arts, I would probably say Theodore recorded in “He will forever Bikel (z"l, 1924–2015), the Broadway musical actor nearly twenty and singer, movie star, TV actor, folksinger, languages and be notable in Yiddishist, and civil rights, peace, and Jewish activist. in fact was Broadway Theodore Bikel will be honored on March 4, in a fluent in six. Zoom program offered by the UCLA Herb Alpert He co-founded musical history School of Music entitled “Remembering Theodore the Newport as the creator Bikel—Actor, Activist, Idealist.” Folk Festival a n d s h a re d of the role of Bikel excelled in so many areas of the performing arts—his career is almost without parallel. Born in stages with such Folk legends as Pete Seeger, Bob Captain von Vienna, Austria, to a Zionist Jewish family, Bikel was Dylan, Judy Collins, Joan Baez, and Peter, Paul and Mary.