THE BULLETIN of Practicing Progresssive Judaism TEMPLE BETH ISRAEL LONGBOAT KEY, FLORIDA Member of the Union of Reform Judaism

A Reform Congregation THE BULLETIN OF Practicing Progresssive Judaism TEMPLE BETH ISRAEL LONGBOAT KEY, FLORIDA Member of the Union of Reform Judaism

March 2006 Vol. XV No. 7

BIW Shabbat

Purim

New Members Shabbat

Jewish Music Month Concert

Rabbi Saperstein Memorial

Passover Dinner

www.tbi-lbk.org The Bulletin of Temple Beth Israel FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK JEWISH MUSIC MONTH CONCERT AND We solicited remembrances from several people regarding Rabbi NEW MEMBER SHABBAT Saperstein and selected this one from Richard Olin for publi- The Friday night Sabbath Service at Temple Beth cation. Rich is a valued member of the Temple and the Bulletin. Israel, March 24th at 8:00 PM will be a “Shabat He’s the “Keeper of the Covers” for the Bulletin, exercising his special talents to conceptualize, illustrate, photograph and do Shira,” a Sabbath of Song. The service will whatever else you can do with a computer. include a special choral concert in honor of These talents are also exercised in producing the Temple’s Web Jewish Music Month. Temple Beth Israel’s choir Pages, which you should definitely try at www.TBI-LBK.org. Want is celebrating 28 years of joyous Jewish music. to see a copy of the Bulletin before it comes in the mail? Try the The choir, initiated and directed for 22 years by Florence Katz is website. now directed by Ann Stephenson-Moe. Katz said, “It brings me With all of the above, I underestimated him. He also has a great happiness that the dedication, enthusiasm and high wonderful way with words and seems to have captured the essence of the Rabbi. Thanks, Rich. standards of the Temple Beth Israel Choir are continuing under the direction of Stephenson-Moe.” The concert will include compositions from great Jewish composers such as Max Bruch, Leonard Bernstein and Max A SAPERSTEIN Janowski. The choir will be accompanied by percussion, violin and classical guitar. The public is welcome. MOMENT…… The evening will also celebrate the induction of new Temple By Richard Olin members into the Temple family. Invitations to the ceremony I particularly enjoyed a have been mailed to new members, some of whom will also receive moment during the time bimah honors. when I volunteered to help Upcoming Special Events Rabbi Saperstein become computer-literate. (Noting revised dates and times) Like so many of us, he was quite apprehensive WHAT? WHEN? WHERE? about being a novice; however, he was BIW SHABBAT Fri. 3/10 @ 8:00 PM Temple suspended between fear and fascination, so (changed from Fri. 3/3) we jumped in together. The fascination soon RABBI SAPERSTEIN Sun. 3/12 @ 10:30 AM Beth overcame the fear, and his curiosity led to Memorial Unveiling Shalom the most wonderful discussion of how Cemetery computers work. As we delved deeper into the definitions and terminology, I finally came RABBI SAPERSTEIN Sun. 3/12 @ 11:30 AM LBK Club Memorial Luncheon (place & date change) Harbourside to the place where I had to say, “You just Dining have to believe me…you have to have faith Room that it’s so!” PURIM His eyes gleamed as we then transitioned Megillah Reading Mon. 3/13 @ 5:00 PM Temple Purim Party (After you’re all groggered out) into a philosophical conversation pertaining to the functionality of faith, and how we need BIW GAME DAY Wed. 3/15 12:30 – 4:00 PM Temple to use tools in life that we sometimes don’t really understand, but just need to believe in. MEN’S CLUB Sun. 3/18 @ 5:00 PM Bay Isles ANNUAL (Time Change) Beach Club The animated conversation we shared that MTG & BBQ 2111 GMD afternoon was so memorable! I really had a chance to experience the scope of his mind JEWISH MUSIC Fri. 3/24 @ 8:00 PM Temple and his wonderful ability to synthesize his MONTH CONCERT/ (Date Change) NEW MEMBER lifelong experiences with very contemporary SHABBAT issues. He set a wonderful example of the value of continued learning in life. TEMPLE ANNUAL Sun. 3/26 @ 3:00 PM Temple MEETING

March 2006 2 The Bulletin of Temple Beth Israel was transformed into loaves and loaves and loaves of chalah with sesame seeds and poppy seeds…sufficient to dunk enough From the Rabbi’s Study schnapps so that by the time they finished, no one could tell the I sure hope that you are ready to have a difference between the various toasts that were being offered, good time! I sure hope that you are prepared like “blessed be Mordecai” and “cursed be Haman.” to drink a little “schnaps,” a “schnepsel” in But I digress! I just wanted you to know that even though Yiddish the language God really intended Jews to speak: Yiddish! As a is no longer the language of instruction and international matter of fact, God really intended all peoples diplomacy on account of the fact that Galitzianers corrupted it, to speak Yiddish. Yes, there was a time when we are still going to have a Purim “farg’nigen;” a Megillah Reading all classes at the finest schools in the nation and a Purim dinner to which you should all wear costumes and - Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, were taught B.Y.O.B. so that we can celebrate as befits proper Jewish girls exclusively in Yiddish: mathematics, chemistry, and boys and you should be well, and a gesundt af’n dein pippick! Latin, Greek, and English literature. It is said Happy Purim…see you then. that Shakespeare’s mother tongue was actually Yiddish. His sonnets were originally written in Rabbi Michael B. Eisenstat Yiddish (translated by Samuel Johnson) as were several of his plays: most notably, Hamlet and Julius Caesar. But I digress! I was speaking (actually, I was writing) about having a good time, a “farg’nigen.” A “farg’nigen” comes from the Greek, but was then translated into Latin but was ultimately expressed in God’s holy tongue – also known as “loshen kodesh,” translated into the Latin and back to Greek and then, ultimately into Henglish whence it became “mama loshen.” But I digress! We were talking about a “farg’nigen.” Speaking WORSHIP SERVICES about farg’nigens, I’ll tell you about one of the earliest recorded Shabbat Services in Englishsprach. It occurs in the Book of Esther of the Hebrew Friday Night at 8:00 PM Bible. The Bible was written in Hebrew because Moses had not Saturday Services at 10:00 AM yet learned Yiddish. Actually, he could speak Yiddish, but he had not yet learned to write Yiddish. And he was not the only one. If BIW Shabbat you go to the Book of Daniel, it is even worse…not even Hebrew, Friday, March 10 let alone Yiddish. It is mostly in Aramaic! But I digress! I was speaking about a really great farg’nigen. New Nenbers Shabbat and Two such events are carefully documented in the Book of Esther. Jewish Music Month Concert They are called “farg’nigens,” and everyone came and had a really Friday, March 24 good time. They ate a little herring, they mopped up the sour cream and onions with a little chalah - but the chalah ran out Rabbi Michael Eisenstat conducts all Holiday, and so they had to use “hamantaschen” which really were not Friday Night and Saturday Shabbat Services very good for mopping up the onions and sour cream, especially when it began to get watery from the herring. But I digress! The really good part of the “farg’nigen” was when they started on the schnapps. Of course, being Jewish, they didn’t want to drink too much…you know, it’s a schande…” so what they did was to go for the chalah, again, so they could “dunk” instead of drink. Dunking isn’t as “gauche” as drinking. But they realized that all the chalah was gone – which if you recall is why they started dunking with the hamantaschen in the Monday, March 13 at 12:30 p.m. sour cream as I mentioned, earlier. But just at that moment, a The Lunch With The Rabbi series take place the second miracle occurred: the chalah that was sufficient for only the Monday of each month at 12:30 PM, herring and sour cream (and not enough to finish it) suddenly Reservations are necessary even if you are a subscriber. 3 March 2006 The Bulletin of Temple Beth Israel BETH ISRAEL WOMEN Shalom: It seems that it was September yesterday and we were THE CIRCUS IS COMING! preparing our year, and now it is March with most of it gone. This month we are hosting “Sisterhood Shabbat” on March 10th. THE CIRCUS IS COMING! There will be lovely music, a wonderful service and an old Well, not exactly! However, Dolly Jacobs, famous fashioned Oneg Shabbat where baked goods come from our aerialist and co-producer of Circus Sarasota will be kitchens and not the grocery. Remember speaking at the temple on those most tasteful days!! Please call me Monday, March 27, at noon. Her if you bring us something “lovin’ from your presence is being sponsored by oven.” Beth Israel Women, but an We have our game day this month on Wednesday, March 15, invitation is extended to all to hosted by Sheila Zinder and her committee and hope that you come, hear and see what the will attend. circus is about. Ms. Jacobs will And most special this month is a lunch with Dolly Jacobs. I’m use a slide show to give an inside certain you know her from the Sarasota Circus, and she is a look into the workings of the legend herself in circus history. She will speak and include a circus. The cost is $8 for lunch (sandwiches, dessert slide show, and for this occasion, we wish to invite all the men and coffee). Fill out the coupon in the Bulletin and and women to attend. Information is included in the Bulletin. “join the circus.” On a personal note, were it not for the circus I would not exist, so this is a special event for me. Our Nominating Committee chaired by Anita Devine is at work, and she is looking to find many of the newer members who Purim Party would like to serve on the Board. Please contact Anita if you Monday, March 13 desire to be an active member of the Board. 6:00 PM I look forward to see you at any or all of the above events of Reserve your seat Beth Israel Women. Send in the coupon Leah Barker, President The BIW Judaica Shop is preparing for Passover Even though the First Seder night isn’t until April 12, the gift shop is displaying all our merchandise for your Passover needs. Seder plates are a must and a large variety of nice quality plates are on display now. Many have matching Elijah cups and for the feminists in the family, Miriam cups are available. Matzah covers and afikomen bags add to a festive table, If your grandchildren are joining you, a bag of the ten plagues at their places will be visual guide and entertaining too. There is nothing like a locust at the table to enhance the holiday. Our paperback Passover Haggadah is easy to read for you and your guests A limited selection of Passover candy is available in the gift shop so return the mail in coupon included in this bulletin along with your check to reserve your candy or visit our shop at your earliest convenience.

BARTON’S To: Beth Israel Women Gift Shop, 567 Bay Isles Road, Longboat Key, FL 34228 KOSHER FOR PASSOVER I want to order the following Barton’s Kosher for Passover Candy: ______Seder Mints @ $11. = _____ CANDY ______Almond Kisses @ $16 = ______Almond Bark @ $11 = ______Chocolate Covered Macaroons @ $11 = _____

Name ______Total = ______

March 2006 4 The Bulletin of Temple Beth Israel Miniversity Of Judaism Wrap-Up Men’s Club The Miniversity of Judaism is wrapping up the semester with Baila MEN’S CLUB EVENTS Miller’s Art, Architecture and Glass program titled “The Jewish March seems to have rolled around very Connection in Modern Fine Art.” She will discuss the lives and quickly, and we are planning our Annual works of Diego Rivera, Louis Kahn, and Dale Chihuly, all of Jewish Meeting and Barbecue. It will take place descent. Her program will take place on Thursdays at 2 PM on Sunday, March 19 at 5 PM at the Bay on March 2, 9, and 16. Isles Beach Club, located at 2111 Gulf of The Torah Commentary program will end with discussion of Mexico Drive. Cost is $10 per person; the “The Book of Ruth” by Rabbi Peter Kasdan, on Monday, March 6 menu includes hot dogs, hamburgers, at 12:30 PM. chicken, salads, dessert and soft drinks. During the month, as usual, we will have the Night at the Movies Save the Date at 7:30 PM, on March 9; and Lunch with the Rabbi on Monday, Passover Dinner at Longboat Key Club March 13. Wednesday, April 12 Our March Board meeting on Monday, March 6, will consist of a business meeting at 2:00 PM followed by a presentation by Thomas O. Hecht at 2:30 on “The Future of the Middle East” for all interested club members. Dr. Hecht has had a distinguished TEMPLE LIBRARY DONATES BOOKS TO USO career of service to both Israel and Canada. Through the efforts of Jacob Pollack, service men and women in Mark your calendar for the First far-off places will be receiving used and unsold paperback and Annual Bloodmobile scheduled for hard cover books donated to the USO by Wednesday, April 4, from 2 to 4 PM. the Banyan Bay Club and Temple Beth Israel The last event for the Men’s Club for Librarian Miriam Miller. the 2005-2006 season is the Israel Pollack arranged for a total of five boxes Independence Day Breakfast on of books from the Temple and eleven from Sunday, May 7. the Banyan Bay Club to be sent to the Jacksonville, Florida Naval Fill out the coupon in the Bulletin to make your reservation for Air Station, where the boxes were promptly placed aboard Navy the Barbecue. ships and are now at military bases throughout the world. Shalom, Howard Sabin, President

et The Games Begin . . . On Wednesday, March 15th BIW will be hosting a Game Day fromL 12:30 until 4:00 p.m. open to Temple members and non-members alike. We will be playing Mah Jongg, Bridge and Canasta. Come with your own “foursome” or come and meet new friends. Admission will be $10.00 for games, door prizes and a light lunch. Call Sheila Zinder 383-7788 or Judy Goldstein 387-0776 for more information.

Send this form and payment to: Sheila Zinder, 434 L’Ambiance Drive, Apt. K-605, Longboat Key, Florida 34228. Game Day tickets are $10.00 per person to be made payable to Beth Israel Women. My “Foursome” will include (send payment for all included) 1.______2.______3.______4.______We will be playing ______ I would like to be placed at a table playing ______Name ______Tel#______

5 March 2006 The Bulletin of Temple Beth Israel WHY SHE MARRIED HIM. Myriam Chapman. A love story LIBRARY recreating the author’s grandmother’s world: a young Russian Jewish woman living in Paris at the turn of the 20th century after GIVE READERS MORE OF WHAT THEY WANT………….. fleeing from the bloody pograms in a town in the Ukraine— READERS LOVE TO READ MORE BOOKS BY THEIR FAVORITE should she marry the man who is courting her? AUTHORS --- DO WE HAVE THE BOOKS YOU WANT TO THE WONDER SPOT. Melissa Bank. A wickedly insightful tender READ?????? look at a young woman’s forays into love, work and friendship— Our latest acquisitions are: a combination of devilishly self-deprecating humor, seriousness FATHERS AND DAUGHTERS. Benjamin Markovits. Four complicated and wisdom. lives depicted in four seasons wrestling with various crises in THE WORLD TO COME. Dara Horn. Mystery, romance, folklore, father-daughter relationships—and at the same time their own theology,history and scripture—a spellbinding modern tale. The hopes and aspirations. author weaves the poignant stories of lives past, lives present FROM THE ENDS OF THE EARTH. Morley Howard Sachar. After and lives to come- a splendid tale of storytelling itself. Israel’s rebirth in 1948, people radically different from the founding Miriam Miller, Librarian Zionists poured into Israel. These immigrants from Moslem lands found the Western-oriented secular Israeli society a difficult THE CHOICE OF A LIBRARY READER adjustment. Their personal accounts provided insights into THE ORIENTALIST by Tom Reiss modern Jewish history. Gift of Ruth Lerner. This intriguing and fascinating book reads FROM THE LOWER EAST SIDE TO HOLLYWOOD. Paul Buhle. A as part geography, part history and part comprehensive documentation of the Jewish influence on the detective story. Tom Reiss, an American development of American popular culture from the rich legacy journalist, worked for four years, through of Yiddish. It is full of humor and new revelations into the power interviews, long lost letters and papers, to of popular art. In memory of Seymour Miller. Gift of Mr. & Mrs. trace the life and times of a prolific Jewish Earle Miller. writer Lev Nussimbaum (aka Kurbin Said and INSIDE ANNE FRANK’S HOUSE. Menno Metselaar, ed. A testament Essad Bey). to the faith and humanity which lives on as Anne Frank’s legacy. Lev Nussimbaum was born to untold wealth in the oil-rich city Readers can make the same journey as visitors to Anne’s house. of Baku, Azberaijan in 1905, just before the overthrow of the In each of the rooms hang excerpts from her diary, providing an Czar in Russia, and the onslaught of the Bolshevik revolution. A impression of what happened there during the hiding period. Russian émigré, first east to Constantinople, and then west to Gift of Libby Adelman in honor of special birthday of Miriam Paris and finally to Berlin, Lev embraced Islam in his late high Miller and 60th anniversary of Miriam & Seymour Miller. school days and then started to pass himself off as Essad Bey or MANDRAKES FROM THE HOLY LAND. Aharon Megged. A wry and Kurbin Said. He also started to wear the garb associated with riveting tapestry of Palestine in the early 1900’s. Muslims of that time. SOMEONE NOT REALLY HER MOTHER. Harriet Scott Chessman. A In following his life the reader learns a great deal about the contemporary American family in Connecticut. Three generations Russian revolution, the Weimar Republic and the German of women confronting the intricacies of memory, home and revolution which led to the success of the Nazi party in Germany. motherhood. During his years in Berlin, Lev published a prodigious number of STREISAND: HER LIFE. James Spada. After interviewing more than articles, stories, biographies (the Czar and Stalin among them), 200 of Barbara Streisand’s family, friends and and his most famous novel, ”Ali and Nino” using the name Kubin colleagues, this is a very revealing biography. Said. Gift of Bernice Feinstein. Briefly married to a Jewish American heiress and spending some THE PASSIONS OF THE MATRIARCHS. Shere time in the United States, he made the mistake of going back to Aranoff Tuchman. Unique retelling of the Germany, where, as a former Jew, he was no longer permitted to Matriarchs from Genesis. Gift of Rhoda & Leon Cooper in honor publish anything. Lev died a pauper at the age of fortyfour. At of Audrey Lucow’s Special Birthday. the time of his death he was living under house arrest in Positano, UP FROM ORCHARD STREET. Eleanor Widmer. A memorable Italy. immigrant family of three generations living together in a crowded There are many questions that remain unanswered, but to me, tenemant flat—funny, poignant, anguishing, excellent-bursting the book was a real “page turner”. with love. Lillian Dickler Bloch

March 2006 6 The Bulletin of Temple Beth Israel HIGHLIGHTS OF THE FEBRUARY TBI NOMINATING COMMITTEE REPORT BOARD MEETING President: Charles Ackerman ♦ Gala chairperson, Audrey Lucow reported that the Vice Presidents: Morton J. Bloch; Dr. Sheldon Paley; Robert Chalphin Gala produced $50,000-plus between the Patrons, Treasurer: Paul Grodner the Ball and the Auction. Attendance at the Ball was Financial Secretary: Audrey Lucow 178, which was somewhat lower than last year’s. Recording Secretary: Bernard White ♦ Nominating Committee chairperson Leon Cooper Corresponding Secretary: Joseph Miller presented the Committee’s recommendations for Board of Trustees for One Year: Irwin Tober, Dr. Reginald Officers and Trustees for FY 2006-2007, taking office Barton, Ira H. Peterman, 6/1/2006. Approved by the Board for presentation Leon Cooper, Arnold E. Fein, Howard Markus. to the congregation at the Annual Meeting on 3/ Board of Trustees for Two Years: Leah Barker, Ruth K. Engman, Martin L. Fine, David J. Gorton, Elaine Weill, Myron Ash 26/06. Board of Trustees for Three Years: Earl Gordon, Alice ♦ Administration Committee chairperson Ira Peterman Taich, William H. Sandy, Ralph Einstein, reported that a replacement for Eileen Eagan, who Joyce R. Paley, Marcia Frank had resigned, has not been found. Advertising will be expanded. ♦ Motion by Leah Barker, BIW President, to establish a PURIM AND PASSOVER DINNERS flower fund for High Holiday flowers to replace existing Both holidays will be celebrated with dinners, a rather modest individual sponsorships passed. She also briefed on repast following the reading of the Megillah at 5 PM on Monday March 13. Entertainment is being planned. The charge will be $15 status of project to improve kitchen facilities. per person, with children 12 and under ♦ Having expressed a desire to employ an administrator at $8. If you plan to attend, please for the Temple, the Board directed the President to use the coupon on the coupon page establish a search committee of 5-10 persons to find and a check, of course. Passover will be celebrated at the a suitable candidate to be recommended to the Board Longboat Key Club on Wednesday, for consideration. April 12, and is OPEN TO BOTH TEMPLE MEMBERS AND MEMBERS OF THE LONGBOAT KEY COMMUNITY. Cost will be $55 per person, children 12 and under at half-price; infants at no POST-ISRAEL ELECTION DISCUSSION charge. Please complete the attached AT TEMPLE BETH ISRAEL 7:30 PM coupon listing persons with whom you would like to sit. We also suggest you MARCH 29, 2006 list those persons on the back of your Presenters: Professor Mark Rosenblum, check made out to Temple Beth Israel. Founder and Policy Director for Peace Now and Ziad Asali, M.D., founder of the American Task Force on Palestine and President of the American-Arab Anti- Discrimination Committee. IN MEMORIUM Admission is free. Reservations are Miriam Benjamin required. Please RSVP to Tracy Iscove at the Jewish Federation, Ralph Nadler 941-371-4546, Ext. 105 or via E-mail to [email protected].

7 March 2006 The Bulletin of Temple Beth Israel ONEG SHABBAT Celebrate or HARLEQUIN BALL GALA commemorate a special event in your lives. Call the Temple Office to reserve your Oneg Shabbat. Temple Beth Israel in their budget Onegs may be shared. expected $45,000 to be raised by the Onegs and Flowers In March yearly gala. Audrey Lucow, who with Jewel Ash and Pearl Kushner co-chaired the event said, Friday, March 3 “We have always in the past raised more than the Membership Committee Dinner. budgeted amount, and this year I am happy to announce Oneg Available. that we netted $50,023.56, including $5,000 from the successful Flowers sponsored by Florence Katz In Memory of her husband, Chinese and Silent Auctions.” Dr. Louis Katz and her father, Benjamin Weisblat. Special thanks to those who donated to the Wish List. None Friday, March 10 of this could have been accomplished without the help of the BIW Shabbat. Gala Committee. Oneg sponsored by Jewel and Myron Ash In Memory Of their Audrey Lucow, Jewel Ash and Pearl Kushner daughter, Jayne Ash. Flowers sponsored by Shirley and Arnold Fein In Honor of their 50th Wedding Anniversary. Friday, March 17 Oneg Available. Flowers sponsored by Jerome Bernstein In Memory Of Barbara Welcome New Members Bernstein. Friday, March 24 Lawrence Jacobs & New Members Shabbat, Oneg sponsored byMembership Connie Mederos-Jacobs Committee. 6005 13th Avenue East Flowers sponsored by Membership Committee. Bradenton, FL 34208 Friday, March 31 749-5897 Oneg sponsored by Chavurah Groups I and II. Flowers sponsored by Audrey and Milton Lucow In Honor Of Gloria & Barnett Bakal their 59th Wedding Anniversary. 2110 Harbourside Drive, #555 Longboat Key, FL 34228 Directory Changes 387-0123 Charles & Betty Ackerman From Chicago, Illinois 1474 Landings Circle Sarasota, FL 34231 Janice & Ernest Ellison Tel: 922-5203 2525 Gulf of Mexico Drive Email: [email protected] Longboat Key, FL 34228 383-7079 Jerome Bernstein from Jackson, New Jersey 1301 N. Tamiami Trail, #808 Sarasota, FL 34236 Tel: 365-1942 Alice & Leonard Berkowitz 565 Sanctuary Drive, #405 Nellie Markovitz Longboat Key, FL 34228 New email: [email protected] from Indianapolis, Indiana

Marge Tick Jason Dayan New email: [email protected] 4970 Gulf of Mexico Drive V-21 Longboat Key, FL 34228 Lois & Dr. Jerome C. Rosenthal 383-7715 from Morristown, NJ New email: [email protected]

8 March 2006 The Bulletin of Temple Beth Israel Herman Green Bertha Judd March 31, 2006 Yahrzeits Jeanette Golden Julia K. Fineshriber Betty Aronsohn Albert Daytz Jennie Lewis Freida Leibowitz March 3, 2006 Ethel Stern Sol G. Lipschutz Eunice Barker Dora Rosenthal Jayne Ash Dorothy Paskow Manuel Gudelsky Kate Ronson William Libman Bertha Cohen Muriel Rubens Bernie Kartoz Olga Plaut Ben Shlesman Steven Lutkoff Sophie Karaim Berger Ann Auster Elias Winer Rabbi Morris Rose Rebecca Berman Alice Rayner Max Zinder Sophia Brody Herman Levine Cecilia Eisner Frances Solomon Julius Dresner Abraham Grodner Harriette Levine Eva Shenkan Jacob Fleischman Max Horowitz Sara Singer Clare Siegel Esther D. Gaffin Helen Green Alice B. Cohen Raymond Brown Ann Radlo Jerome Blumberg Jennie Massik Samuel Heller Abbott Roberts Ida C. Neurman Bess D. Fedder Joseph Bernstein Mollie Weiner Tillly Froman Richard Kommel Beatrice Kaye Walter Shader Raymond Schoenbaum Herman Fishman Esther G. Cohn Alex Taub March 17, 2006 Jay Schechter Esther G. Cohn Fanny Weisman Lena Bornstein Charles Rose Max Stern Jerome Wenk Marc Rauch Barbara Bernstein Albert Schuraytz Marvin Seife Carl Salomon Ann Troob Louis Lucow Dora Gross Ansel Eva C. Cohodas Esther Spielberg Joseph Levin Jacob Kaplan Max Eison Harry S. Herman Sophie Kittredge Jules H. Sabin Molly Hershfield Gerald Schreiber Rose Gross Natalie Golub Seymour Fried Alice Brickman Elias Langs Edith Cohen Meyer R. Millner Edna Weiss Henry Orne TEMPLE BETH ISRAEL STAFF Harry Rosenfeld Bernard Rudolph MICHAEL B. EISENSTAT, Rabbi Bertha Saulson Rabbis Emeriti Edward A. Klein Marvin Feinstein SANFORD E. SAPERSTEIN (z”l) Betty Krantz Stanley Saulson ALBERT SHULMAN (z”l), PHILIP FRANKEL (z”l) Richard M. Kaye Ethel Simons BULLETIN STAFF Bluma Kerner Ethel Simons Bernard White, Editor William Ehrlich Pearl Yaseen Gloria Sabin, Associate Editor Hyman Frankel William Mersky Fran Adelman, Editorial Asst/ Writer Rose Miller Minnie Sischy Richard Olin, Layout & Design/ Photographer Vera Rosen Spodick Irwin Yanowitz Louis Massik Max Ostermann Shirley Fein, Features Writer Rose M. Rubenstein Judy Goldstein, BIW/Features Writer March 10, 2006 Frances Miller Doris White, Writer Sylvia Baer Herbert V. Cohen Irv Eison, Editor Emeritus Meyer Cohen Ben Brodsky Joyce Paley, Editor Emeritus David Dinner David Mendelow Ed Shapiro, Editor Emeritus Sylvia W. Baer Murray Ronson TEMPLE ADMINISTRATION Fanny Levites Gertrude Becker Milton Lucow, President Frances Melitzer George Rosen Morton Bloch, Vice President Harry Nitzberg Jerome I. Oxman Bernard White, Vice President Isadore Cutler Beatrice Jacobs Fein Charles Ackerman, Vice President Max Rosin Ben Scheinberg Paul P. Grodner, Treasurer Mary Stark Benjamin Scheinberg Alice Taich, Financial Secretary Arline Schwartz Myron Ash, Recording Secretary Anna Seife March 24, 2006 Stanley Adelman, Corresponding Secretary Marvin Silver Max Isermann Ed Shapiro, Endowment Benjamin Clement Jacob Berkowitz Leah Barker, President BIW Eva Wilkof Rabbi Louis Epstein Howard Sabin, President, Men’s Club Henry Young Estelle Levite Maye Lavinson, President, WOOO Molly Moosman Rolf Joseph Feilchenfeld Jane Moran, Assistant to the Treasurer Natalie Wald Dickler David C. Green Mary Moccia, Office Secretary Lewis Topkis Simon Grossman David Aura, House Maintenance

9 March 2006 The Bulletin of Temple Beth Israel 14 Dr. Paul Massik 29 Mr. Sylvan Kaplan HAPPY BIRTHDAY! 14 Mr. Jay B. Rudolph 29 Mr. Ira H. Peterman 15 Dr. David Goldberg 29 Mrs. Susan Schaen 1 Mrs. Laeh Grant 15 Mr. Howard Gordon 31 Mrs. Shirley Cohen 1 Mrs. Connie Mederos-Jacobs 15 Mrs. Barbara Karafin 31 Mrs. Lois Fishman 2 Mrs. Letty Browdy 15 Mrs. Marjorie M. Sandy 31 Dr. Elmer Kadison 5 Mrs. Hilda Abrahams 16 Mr. Lester Ageloff 31 Mrs. Helen R. Sherman 5 Mrs. Francine Blum 16 Mrs. Priscilla Furst 31 Mrs. Joyce H. Toppel 5 Mr. Gershom Cohn 16 Mrs. Sally Shapiro 6 Ms. Esther Smidof 18 Mrs. Regene Jo Aberson 7 Mrs. Renate Kirshenbaum 18 Dr. Marvin Bacaner HAPPY ANNIVERSARY! 7 Mrs. Judith P. Markstein 20 Mr. Richard Blumenthal 8 Dr. Reginald R. Barton 20 Dr. Curtis Hecht 5 Mr. & Mrs. Edwin Biron 8 Mrs. Libby Flaschner 20 Dr. Bernard Levine 11 Mr. & Mrs. Arnold Fein 8 Dr. Ira J. Singer 20 Dr. O. David Solomon 11 Mr. & Mrs. Irving Kushner 8 Mrs. Phyllis Steingard 21 Mr. David Brenner 12 Dr. & Mrs. David Goldberg 9 Mrs. Lenore Berke 22 Mrs. Constance Ellison 14 Dr. & Mrs. Jerome E. Abrahams 9 Mrs. Sybil Dryer 22 Mr. Joseph Miller 16 Mr. & Mrs. Eugene Levine 9 Mr. Bernard Finkelman 22 Mrs. Myrna Pearlman 18 Dr. & Mrs. Doran Stark 9 Mrs. Eve Kommel 22 Mr. Norman G. Samet 19 Mr. & Mrs. Sol Steingard 10 Mrs. Dorothy Jacobson 23 Mrs. Sylvia Cohodas 20 Mr. & Mrs. David Klegar 12 Mrs. Bernice Feinstein 23 Mrs. Esther Siegel 28 Mr. & Mrs. Harry Kartoz 12 Mrs. Vivian Ross 25 Mr. Robert Baer 30 Mr. & Mrs. Jerome Goldstein 13 Mrs. Bluma Boardman 27 Mrs. Helene Seeberg 30 Mr. & Mrs. Milton Lucow 13 Mr. Alvin Lemack 27 Mr. Sigmund Walder WE ARE GRATEFUL --- To the following for their contributions to the Congregation GENERAL FUND ALICE & FRED TAICH – HAPPINESS IN NEW FLOWER FUND IN APPRECIATION: HOME, by Eileen Dunn Berger, Audrey & IN MEMORY OF: LOIS & BOB AUERBACH’S HOSPITALITY, by Milton Lucow, by Lillian & Mort Bloch HELEN LUBIN, by Evelyn Edwards Paula & Arnold Spitalny, Carol & Arthur Brock IN MEMORY OF: HOSPITALITY FUND ALICE & FRED TAICH, by Lillian & Mort SYLVIA COHN, by Stanford Glass & Family, SPEEDY RECOVERY: Bloch Phil & Michael of Michael’s On East, Zita IRVING KUSHNER, by Leonie & Dr. Norman IN HONOR OF: & Milford Desenberg, Audrey & Bob Singer, Goldfarb JEROME BERSTEIN – BEST WIHES IN YOUR NEW Sophia & Thomas Danson, Jr., Pam, Walt, HOME, by Lillian & Mort Bloch Kate & Drew Ferris, Judith & Herb Gofman, LIBRARY BOOK FUND MARDY COHEN’S BIRTHDAY, by Selma & Jerry Libby Adelman, Mildred Stein IN HONOR OF: Rosenberg DANIEL FRISS, by Eileen Dunn Berger JOSEPH ELLISON’S MILESTONE BIRTHDAY, by RABBI EISENSTAT’S BLESSING, by Lillian & MRS. ANNE GILBERT, by Cheli & Bob Diamant Beverly & Ira Peterman Isadore Alpert DR. MILTON GIPSTEIN, by Mr. & Mrs. D.R. IRVING O. LEVINE, by Doris Libman MORRIS & SHIRLEY MERSKY’S SPECIAL Douglass, Jr., Mr. & Mrs. Charles Fontaine, IN MEMORY OF: WEDDING ANNIVERSARY, by Audrey & Myra & Richard Gipstein SEYMOUR MILLER, by Beverly & Ira Peterman Milton Lucow DR. LOUIS KRESHTOOL, by Harry David Zutz, MAX ODLIN’S 95TH BIRTHDAY, by Nicky Gary Foltz of Northern Trust, Mildred Stein CHOIR FUND Bogoff HARVEY ADAM PEARLMAN, by Myrna Pearlman IN HONOR OF: AUDREY REGEN – BEST WIHES IN YOUR NEW TEDDE & ELMER KADISON, by Ruth & Eric HOME, by Lillian & Mort Bloch SPEEDY RECOVERY: Orne BETTY SCHIFF & DAUGHTER, by Lillian & RUTH DANIEL, by June & Arthur Stern IN MEMORY OF: Isadore Alpert BERNARD ISAACS, by June & Arthur Stern SYLVIA COHN, by Ruth & Eric Orne, Florence MR. & MRS. M. SMITH’S 50TH WEDDING IRVING KUSHNER, by Rosalyn & Harry Simon, Katz ANNIVERSARY, by Mrs. Esther Lipman and Pearl & Sidney Kreiman, Eileen Dunn Berger JOSEPH MENNEN, by Ruth & Eric Orne the Grads

March 2006 10 The Bulletin of Temple Beth Israel DANIEL FRISS, by Florence Katz ROSE BESOIN EDWARD KLEIN SPEEDY RECOVERY: Jay Rudolph Enid Friedman EDWARD BILOON LISA KLEIN RUTH ENGMAN, by Barbara & Dr. Irvin Marion Kreshtool Edward Brickman Blumfield SELMA BLACK RICHARD KOMMEL RABBI DISCRETIONARY FUND Marvin Black Eve Kommel IN APPRECIATION: IRVING BLOCH ELIAS LANGS RABBI EISENSTAT, by Milton Richter Morton Bloch Nancy Eisenstat IN HONOR OF: ALICE BRICKMAN JEANNE LERMAN Edward Brickman Albert Lerman IN APPRECIATION OF RABBI MICHAEL EISENSTAT, WILLIAM BRIEFER HARRIETTE LEVINE Joyce Rosenthal & Joseph Barker Gloria Bergman Lester Levine IN MEMORY OF: DELLA BRODSKY HERMAN LEVINE ROSE BESOIN, by Jay Rudolph Reeva Shoengood Dr. Bernard Levine DAVID RAYNES, by Libby Adelman ALICE B. COHEN WILLARD LEWIN SPEEDY RECOVERY: Ralph Cohen Elaine Lewin BENJAMIN COHEN BESSIE LIPSCHUTZ RUTH WEXLER, by Jane Moran Dr. Joseph R. Stone Stanton Lipschutz ELLEN J. CUMMINS ELEANOR I. MASKELL VISITOR DONATIONS Margaret Nadler Mrs. Sheridan Libby IN APPRECIATION: ISADORE CUTLER MARGOT MANASSE Robert P. Bergstein, Mrs. Emil Hess, Joan & Sandra Cutler Cohen Arnold Manasse Martin Horowitz, Carole M. Shaw, Stuart ELIZABETH DICKLER IRMA F. MARKSTEIN Lillian Bloch Donald Markstein Sinai, Arline & Julian Good, Mr. & Ms. Aaron MILDRED EDELSON MOLLY MOOSEMAN H. Brenner, Adele Black, Sandra & Gordon Joseph Barker Sylvia Roberts Bratter, Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Kaplansky, JOE ETKIN DAVID MOUCKLEY Francine & Harold Manekin, Harry Hutzler, Zena Baum Eunice Mouckley Ruth M Luber BESS D. FEDDER HARVEY PEARLMAN Joel Fedder Myrna Pearlman IN MEMORY OF: FREIDA FRANKEL DAVID RAYNES SARA KRASNE AND ANNA FREEDMAN, by Mr. & Dr. Jack Frankel Libby Adelman Mrs. Friedman HYMAN FRANKEL ETTA ROSE MAURICE PROLMAN, by Lois Barson Dr. Jack Frankel Rabbi Herbert Rose MAX FRANKEL CARL ROSEN ENDOWMENT FUNDS Dr. Jack Frankel Marion Levine ANNA GOLDBERG PAUL ROSENFELD ENDOWMENT FUND FOR ALL OCCASIONS Dr. David Goldberg Joseph Barker IN HONOR OF: BELLE GOLDBLATT FANNIE IROL ROSIN EDITH & JAY RUDOLPH’S SPECIAL WEDDING Muriel Judd Claire Sischy ANNIVERSARY, by Ivy & Bob Besdin HELEN GREEN GRACE SABEL Fred Green Marion Lipschutz DORIS & WILLIAM LIBMAN MEMORIAL MUSIC PAULINE GREENBAUM MAX SALENGER Eva G. Seigel Betty Salenger FUND NORMA M. GREENBERG BEN SCHEINBERG IN HONOR OF: DORIS LIBMAN’S GOOD Mrs. Sheridan Libby Marcia Green HEALTH, by Eileen Dunn Berger MARTHA GREENBERG RAYMOND SCHOENBAUM Miriam Greenberg Betty Schoenbaum YAHRZEIT OF:REMEMBERED BY: ABRAHAM GRODNER MARY STARK ISAAC ALPERT Paul Grodner Dr. Doran Stark Isadore Alpert DANIEL GRODNER EMANUEL STEINBERG DORA GROSS ANSEL Paul Grodner Selma H. Horowitz Judith Markstein ROSE GROSS ALEX TAUB HERMAN ANSEL Robert Nelson Melvin Taub Judith Markstein LEONARD HALINGER SYLVIA TAUB JAYNE ASH Carol Halinger Henry Taub Myron & Jewel Ash RICHARD M. KAYE ROSE TRUPIN SYLVIA W. BAER Susan Johnson Nancy Levine Carol Camiener ISIDORE KIRSHENBAUM EDNA WEISS ISRAEL BECKER Renate Kirshenbaum Barbara Blumfield Rosalyn Gass ERICH WOLFF Anita Wolff 11 March 2006 TEMPLE NON-PROFIT ORG. BETH ISRAEL U.S. POSTAGE 567 Bay Isles Road PAID MANASOTA, FL Longboat Key, FL 34228 PERMIT # 1037 Tel: 941-383-3428 USE THESE FORMS TO PLACE AN ORDER AND MAKE RESERVATIONS FOR ITEMS AND EVENTS APPEARING IN THIS MONTH’S BULLETIN

LUNCH WITH To: Temple Beth Israel Men’s Club, 567 Bay Isles Road, Longboat Key, FL 34228 Yes, Please save me a seat at Lunch with the Rabbi (reservations are required). THE RABBI I am a subscriber. Here is my check for $7.00 for Lunch with the Rabbi. Sign me up for Men’s Club Membership for $40.00. MONDAY, MARCH 13 12:30 P.M. Name______Tel #______PURIM PARTY To: Temple Beth Israel , 567 Bay Isles Road, Longboat Key, FL 34228 Yes, I plan to attend the Purim Party on Monday, March 13.

Please reserve _____ seats at $15 per person, children 12 and under $8.00. Enclosed is my check for $______. MONDAY, MARCH 13 6:00 P.M. Name ______Tel#______

MEN’S CLUB To: Temple Beth Israel Men’s Club, 567 Bay Isles Road, Longboat Key, FL 34228 BARBEQUE Yes, I will attend the Men’s Club Barbeque on Sunday, March 19, Please reserve _____ seats at $10.00 per person. Enclosed is my check for $______.

SUNDAY, MARCH 19 Name ______Tel# ______

5:00 P.M.

CIRCUS SPEAKER To: Temple Beth Israel Women, 567 Bay Isles Road, Longboat Key, FL 34228 Yes, I will attend the BIW Speaker’s Program on Monday, March 27 at !2: 00 PM

Please reserve ___ seats which includes sandwiches, dessert and coffee at $8.00 per person. Enclosed is my check for $______.

Name ______Tel# ______MONDAY, MARCH 27

12:00 P.M. PASSOVER DINNER To: Temple Beth Israel, 567 Bay Isles Road, Longboat Key, FL 34228 Yes, I will attend the Passover Dinner at the Longboat Key Club on Wednesday, April 12.

Please reserve ___ seats at $55 per person, children 12 and under at half-price; infants at no charge. Enclosed is my check payable to Temple Beth Israel for $______. Name ______Tel# ______Persons with whom you would like to sit______WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12 ______6:00 P.M.