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Bulletin November 1, 2012 NOVEMBER 2012 CHESHVAN/KISLEV 5773 Temple Emanu-El WHERE YOU BELONG VOL. 55, NO. 3 14450 West Ten Mile Rd . Oak Park, MI 48237 • 248.967.4020 . www.emanuel-mich.org Worship and Sabbath Schedules Temple Emanu-El Bulletin Friday, November 2 7:00 pm First Friday Family service Intergenerational Shabbat Marriage Blessing: Josh Frank & Mallory Mast Shabbat, November 3 10:30 am Kevin Traute Bar Mitzvah Friday, November 9 8:00 pm Erev Shabbat Worship Shabbat, November 10 10:30 am Shabbat Worship in Rosen Foyer Friday, November 16 8:00 pm Erev Shabbat Worship Shabbat, November 17 10:30 am Shabbat Worship in Rosen Foyer Please join us for Friday, November 23 6:00 pm Pre-Service Oneg Shabbat 6:30 pm Kabbalat Shabbat Worship Inter-Generational Shabbat Shabbat, November 24 NOVEMBER 2, 2012 10:30 am Shabbat Worship Services at 7:00 PM in Rosen Foyer Dinner preceding service 6:00 PM Friday, November 30 8:00 pm Erev Shabbat Worship adults $10 • Children 3 and under eat free • over 3 $6.50 Conversion: Michael Peterson Pasta/vegetarian option Shabbat, December 1 RSVP by November 1, 2012 to Temple Office 10:30 am Shabbat Worship in Rosen Foyer This Election’s Over. What’s Next? with Jack Lessenberry and Nolan Finley Temple Sunday, Nov. 11 -- 9:30 a.m. Emanu-El Where You Belong! Join us for a dynamic discussion of Michigan’s (and the nation’s) future with Jack Lessenberry, longtime columnist, Wayne State We are a family of families, keeping alive journalism professor and Public Radio commentator; and Nolan our cherished traditions Finley, Editorial Page Editor of The Detroit News. Finley directs by joyfully sharing Jewish learning, the expression of the newspaper's editorial position on various spiritual celebrations, and a commitment national and local issues, and also writes a column in the Sunday to social justice. newspaper. We will meet in the Rosen Foyer. Bagels and Coffee will be served. This event is open to the public. O U R T E M P L E F A M I L Y T R E E NOVEMBER ANNIVERSARIES! WELCOME TO TEMPLE EMANU-EL! Marshall and Karen Weingarden Harold and Kelly Ann Onickel The Congregation welcomes the following new members Kenneth and Harriet Rich Franklin and Lois Greenberg who have joined our Temple family (through 9/5/2012): Alan and Joyce Kaczander Robert and Joan Rosen Drew Macaulay and Josh Lutz Allen and Jodi Quail Alan and Mara Rosenthal and their daughter Iris (ECC) of HW. Matt and Sharon Abramsky Daniel and Elayne Steinhardt We look forward to your involvement in services Howard and Ruth Sherman Stuart and Barbara Trager and at our many events and activities. Arthur and Claire Kretchmer YOM HULEDET SAMEIACH NOVEMBER Birthdays - Temple Children YARTZEITS Reggie Rosenthal Sylvia Berger Tatiana Cripps Lily Gross Jacob Herskovitz Mallory Gonte Oct. 28-Nov. 3 *Pauline Mandell *Donald Thal Nov. 25-Dec. 1 Kevin Traute Sydney Newman Jessica Gross *Herman Band *Sidney B. Mann *Erwin R. Wile *Edith Bloomgarden *Ralph Benach Jules Meklir *Joseph Cohn Jacqui Lempert Owen Pittman Chayse Lempert *Harry Bennett Anne Menken Nov. 18-25 Ida Damraur Dax Schoof Kate Shulman Louis Kravchenko *Jennie Berkower *Dorothy Modell Joseph Baker Bernard Fowler Reed Stocki Nicholas Shulman Noah Cooper Sol Braiker *Betty Nedelman Mary Bieman *Havis Frank Kate Cohen David Jeremy Patt Evelyn Brook *Merle Garfield Rebecca Feber Sophie Hart Matthew Segall *Phyllis Ann Colburn Blanche Pittman Harry Burke *Elsie Gelman Henry Petts Renee Hertz David Leibowitz *Dorothy Band Cooper- *Elizabeth (Betty) Prady Anna Cooper *Celia Glinter Ava Quail Simon Kaufmann man *Sadie Sachs Sylvia Cooperman Sarah Goldfire Bert Ellstein *Walter Schmier Hyman *Joseph Goodman George Fisher Edith Seckel Ruth Davis *Alexander Gothelf *Jennie Glass Murray Sobolov *Blanche Engelberg Alan Greenberg IN MEMORIAM *James Alan Goodman *Louis Sorkin Ida Ettenson Mitchell Gubkin Max Guyer Gloria Stacey Irma Elfond Fennell *Otto Hyman Albert Kaploe, father of *Samuel Jospey Bertha Cole Stillman Edward Girson Lottie James Mark (Linda) Kaploe, September 18, 2012 Simon Indianer *Brenda Vinton *Samuel Goldberg *Charles E. Joseph *Morris Kaplan Harold Weiskopf Phillip Goldstein *Max Kalik Clara Silber, grandmother of *Marshall Klaper Etta York Lillian Ellen Gordon *Daniel Kellerman Eric (Miranda) Samson, September 21, 2012 Joseph Lash *David H. Zeff *Herman Grand Goldie King *Irvin Levine (LaVine) *Ethel Green Sol Kleiman *Frank M. Marcosky Nov. 11-17 *Mae J. Grossman *Rachel Chertoff Levine Harry Michelson *Hyman Abrams *Florence Heller Nancy McLernon MAZEL TOV James Neely Nathan Barbas Sheryl Kahn Harold “Hal” Miller *Dustin Alexander Margaret Casey Phyllis Kolko Yakov Mochulsky To Rachel and Aaron Schwartz on the birth of their daughter, Nowinski Peter Castronova *Jean Ann Layne Geri Oliva Pearl Liora Schwartz, on September 25 Donald Nurenberg *Harry Colburn *David Lichtenstein Leo Oliva Grandparents are Elizabeth Zerwekh and Jay Zerwekh and *Rose Rosen Leonard Edelman *Nathan Lurie *Jack W. Parr Great-Grandmother, Beatrice Weinstein *Aaron Rosenbaum Abraham Ettenson Charles Mandell *Becky Portnoy *Dr. Adolph Schmier *Dr. Paul Feldman Rick Melamed Sidney Sacks To Lauren Meklir and Steve Crummel who were married *Charles Schulman Jeanette Fershtman *Bernard Meyers *Helen Schwartz September 30, 2012 *Dora Schwartz Sandra Freedman *Fannie Newhouse *Sarah Shapiro To Huntington Woods, named one of America’s Bluma Schwarzberg *Shirley S. Friedman Murray Novick *Anna Smith 10 Best Suburbs by Coldwell Banker Marcy Anne Siegel *Evelyn Fynke *Daniel E. Patt Ann Wallach Karen Stiefel *Samuel Goldberg *Dr. Bernard Plotkin Sylvia Zeff Michelle Sturman Leonard Horton Max Reder *Lucille Walker Frances Kaczander Fara Riche *Simon Monroe Werner Fanny Katzman *Aaron Rosenbaum HELP WANTED - USHERS *Albert J. Woolf Rose Klaper *Benjamin Rosenthal Sender Klaper *Abbie Rothnagel PRE-REQUISITES: Nov. 4-10 *Mary Frances Klein *Irving Sacks • A friendly face, with Stanley Chmura Na’ama Kroch Charles Salicoff Tillye Dershowitz *Abraham Krosnick *David M. Sidder a warm smile. *Frances Driker Rhoda Lachar Jan Sidorski • No prior experience necessary. *Albert Eisenberg Walter August Lage Sam Silberman Charlotte Engelson *Mabel Levy Herman Silver *A light will be lit on our *Philip P. Fealk *Marilyn Sasan Matenky Meyer Silverman Memorial Board. If you wish to • Flexible shifts (Friday evening or memorialize your loved ones in Saturday morning); Once a month or *Harold N. Finney *Saul Modell Frank Singer *Sarah Fisher A. Morris Nisenson *Gertrude Smaltz a special way, consider purchas- on an occasional basis. Gertrude Freeman *Fannie Potashnik *Helen Swidler ing a memorial plaque to be displayed in our Anne Jospey • No reasonable offers refused. Rhoda Friedman William Rattner *Ethel Bocolor Tushman Sanctuary. Each year, on the an- Samuel Galea Nathan Sahn *Samuel Tushman Join our corps of Kabbalat Panim niversary of their death, it will be *Marilyn Price Gonte *Sandra L. Samuels *Julian Unger lit as a remembrance. Contact (welcoming faces).Contact us today. *Bernard Gordon Grace Shapiro *Becky Warfel the Temple office at 248-967- *Barbara Herman Edward Sorkin Alfred Weiner Barbara Levitt: [email protected] 4020 to make arrangements Eli Kaplan Sol Sorkin *Louis Weinstein for this eternal memory of your Bob Levitt: [email protected] George Kayes *Martin Spiegel *Anna Zelickson loved one. *Eva Lerman Joseph Steingold *Charlotte Levitan *Ben Sucher -2- TEMPLE EMANU-EL BULLETIN • NOVEMBER 2012 • CHESHVAN/KISLEV 5773 T H E R A B B I ’ S C O R N E R With the baseball season over, some league’s first Jewish coaches were Arnold “Red” Auerbach of of us have nothing to watch until the Washington Capitols and owner-coach Eddie Gottlieb of April. And though I’m only a marginal the Philadelphia Warriors. Both Auerbach and Gottlieb were professional basketball fan, I do ap- elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame, as was Dolph Schayes preciate its place in American Jewish of the Syracus Nationals, the only Jewish player selected history. among the top 50 all-time NBA players. In the first game in National Bas- In 1946 Ralph Kaplowitz signed a deal for $6,500 for the sea- ketball Association history, the New son, less than today’s average player makes for a single game. York Knickerbockers put four Jews All the players had to work at other jobs during the off-season. Rabbi Joseph P. Klein on the court for the opening tip-off For many of the players, a year or two of such insecurity and carried six Jews on their roster. encouraged them to find more stable careers. Hertzberg left to In that initial game, played on November 1, 1946, the Knicks become a successful stockbroker, while Rosenstein became won a thriller over the Toronto Huskies by the score of 68-66. a technical sales consultant in the plastics industry. Ossie Leo “Ace” Gottlieb led the Knicks in scoring with 14 points. Schectman retired in 1947 to enter the garment industry. Sidney “Sonny” Hertzberg captained the team. Oscar “Ossie” Money aside, it wasn’t easy to be a Jewish player when play- Schechtman scored on the first shot of the game - thus becom- ing outside New York. Kaplowitz recalled that when he played ing the first man in the history of the NBA to score a point. on the road, raucous non-Jewish fans would yell at the Knick Ralph Kaplowitz was the fourth Jew in the Knick’s start- players, “Abe, throw it to Abe!” Militzok said, “Playing in ing five, while Nat Militzok and Hank Rosenstein played as Pittsburgh and we came out on the floor, I heard them singing: reserves. “East Side, West Side, here come the Jews from New York!” When the league was founded, teams tended to sign players Concerned that the predominance of Jews on the Knicks who had roots in their communities. The Boston franchise, might hurt at the box office, the Knick’s management decided appealing to a city dominated by Irish immigrants and their to change the team’s composition.
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