HAR SINAI TEMPLE BULLETIN

FOUNDED 1857 TevetJ ShevatJAdar I Vol. CXXXIX No.6 January/February 1997

RABBI SANFORD SEI.!IZERTo BE OuR ScHOIAR­

IN-REsIDENCE, JANUARY24TH - 26IH Friday, January 3rd, at 8:00 pm Service &&The Emerging Reform Jew of the 21st Century" Saturday, January 4th, at 9:30 am Torahand Tots Service andProgram We are delighted to welcome to our responsible for the Commission on community Rabbi Sanford Seltzer as Religious Living's Summer Kallot, Friday, January 10th, at 8:00 pm Shabbat Service this year's Scholar-In-Residence. Our unique opportunities for Jewish with Scholar-In- Residence theme for this year's weekend, always study, spiritual renewal and personal Joel Grishaver a highlight of our Temple year, is "The growth in a retreat atmosphere. He "Shema Is For Real" Emerging Jew Of The 21st Century." serves as well as Director of the Babynaming Jennifer Cook Congregation Beth Chaim is co­ Committee on the Jewish Family, the Saturday, January 11th, at 10:30 am sponsoring with us our exciting Joint Commission on Religious Living Bat Mitzvah weekend. of the Union and the Central Lauren Sarah Meshkov Conference of American Rabbis, the Our weekend begins on Friday night Daughter of Task Force on Youth Suicide Dr. and Mrs. Steven Meshkov with a "mostly adult" Shabbat Dinner. Prevention, the Committee on Chaired by Jan Kind, Rose Movitch, Friday, January17th, at 8:00 pm HIV/AID S and the Committee on and Eunice Levie, reservations may Shabbat Service Drug and Alcohol Abuse. He was the be made by calling the Temple office. first director of the UAHC-CCAR Friday, January 24th, at 8:00 pm The cost is $10/person. Members of Scholar-In-Residence Weekend Commission on Aging which, under Congregation Beth Chaim will join us Shabbat Service his guidance, published a quarterly for Shabbat Services at which Rabbi with Rabbi Sandy Seltzer newsletter dealing with the needs of Seltzer will speak on "What Reform "What Reform Jews Will Practice and older adults, entitled Aging Concerns. Believe In The 21st Ce ntury" Jews Will Practice and Believe In The 21st Century." His publicatic:ms include Jews and Saturday, January 25th, at 10:30 am Non-Jews Falling in Love, Jews and Bat Mitzvah On Saturday evening at 7:30, we'll Non-Jews Getting Married, and When Adena Erin Kemper meet at Beth Chaim for and Daughter of There Is No Alternative: A Guide for dessert. Rabbi Seltzer's second Dr. and Mrs. Christopher Kemper Jewish Couples Contempl ating address will be on "The Changing Divorce, and is coauthor of Leaders of Friday, January 31st, at 8:00 pm Face Of the American Jewish Family: Reform : A Study of Jewish Shabbat Service It's Implications For The Synagogue." With Rabbi's "ReportFrom Israel" Identity, Religious Practices and On Sunday morning, Rabbi Seltzer Beliefs and Marriage Patterns. He Saturday, February 1st, at 9:30 am will meet with our Confirmation has contributed articles and reviews andTots Service and Program classes and parents. He will speak on to many magazines and journals. "Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'N Roll: Raising Friday, February 7th, at 7:30 pm Most recently he has co-authored a A Jewish Teenager For The 21st Composer-In-Residence Weekend new study of ritual practices in Kabbalot PanimlScout'Folk Centruy." A brunch at Beth Chaim Reform congregations. Shabbat Service will feature Rabbi Seltzer's final with Julie Silver program, "Will Our Grandchildren Be We acknowledge the generous support Led by the 3rd Grade Jewish." of the family of the late Charles Levy January and February and all those who contribute to our Birthday Blessings Rabbi Sanford Seltzer is the Director Scholar-In-Residence and Adult of Research of the Union of American Friday, February 14th, at 8:00 pm Program and Learning Funds for Teaching Shabbat Service Hebrew Congregations. He is A making this weekend possible. Saturday, February15th, at 10:30 am Bat Mitzvah Emily Bedrick Daughter of Donald Bedrick IMPORTANT REMINDER THE HAR SINAI TEMPLE Friday, February 21st, at 8:00 pm 140th ANNIVERSARY If you need to reach someone at Shabbat Service CELEBRATION Temple at a time when the Temple Saturday, February 22nd, at 10:30 building is occupied but no one is am MEMBERSHIP DIRECTORY Bat Mitzvah "in the office" to answer the Perri Sarah Lawrie Campaign Is Now Underway! telephone, please try Har Sinai's Daughter of John and Randi Lawrie portable telephone number, 609- Please support it generously! 647-2215. is also the number . Friday, February 28th, at 8:00 pm This Reform Solidarity Shabbat Service to call to reach Ann Kanarek at at Har Sinai Temple Mid-week Hebrew School. Rabbi Elliot Strom will preach THEit;JANuARY ;EEBRUARY .AND ..

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Friday, January 10th at 2:00 pm February 7th - 9th She has released three albums, Friday, February 21st at 2:00 pm Composer-In-Residence Weekend "Together," "From Strength to Strength," Shabbat Service at Carteret Arms with JULIE SILVER and "WalkWith Me." Residents of the Carteret Arms, 333 A graduate of Clark University, Julie West State Street, are invited to join grew up outside of Boston, and now resides the Rabbi and Cantor for the monthly in Santa Monica, California where she Erev Shabbat Service and Oneg for an serves as cantorial Soloist at Sha'arei Am, hour of fellowship, worship and The Santa Monica Synagogue. discussion. The group will meet in A special thanks to the Pearl Englander January at the apartment of Fedora Fund of the Har Sinai Temple Endowment Rosen and in February at an Fund for helping to support this special apartment to be announced; members program. and non-members are invited to attend. Also on Friday, February7th at 7:30pm Shabbat Services at GreenwoodHouse Hagigat HaSefer Join Rabbi and Cantor every Friday Scout Shabbat Service from 10:30 to 11:00 AM at Greenwood Ledby our 3rd Graders House for a Shabbat Service with the January and February Birthday residents. This brief service is Blessings meaningful to the residents, many of Our Family Service in February will be whom are still members of our led by our 3rd Graders. They will be congregation. They enjoy even a brief honored in a special service, "Hagigat visit with other members of our HaSefer," as we celebrate with them their congregation. having completed learning the Hebrew Alphabet,and present themwith their own Wednesday, January 15th at 8:00 pm copies of Gates of Prayer. At this Family Wednesday, February 12th at 8:00 pm Service, we will also honor all of our Home Study Group children who participate in scouting. Ifyou Reform Judaism, Zionism and Nationally known singer,song writer and are a member of a Boy or Girl Scout Troop IsrQ£1 is the theme for this years's Home composer Julie Silverwill be ourComposer-in or Cub Scouts or Brownies, please call the Study Group. Our Home Study Group Residence,February 7th-9th. Julie Silver is a Religious School office. generally meets on the second new rising star in contemporary Jewish Wednesday evening of each month. New music. She will lead us in Shabbat worship Friday, February 28th at 8:00 pm participants are always welcome. The on Friday night,accompanied by the students Reform Solidarity Shabbat January meeting will take place at the in our Religious School who have been Bar Sinai Temple home of Rosamond and Seymour Selzer learning her mu sic. Julie will also perform a Once a year, the four Reform in Trenton (609-882-2545). The February communityconcert on Sunday February9. Congregations serving our community,Har meeting will be held at the home of Julie writesboth liturgical-based mu sic as Sinai Temple, Beth Chaim Congregation of Bobbie and Art Frank, also in Trenton well as new American Jewish ballads. Her Princeton Junction, Shir Ami of Newtown, style is diverse... soulful and spiritual, (609-882-4882). Please call the hosts to and Temple Shalom of Levittown, join for a RSVP or for directions, if needed. uplifting and charming, or sweet, fun and combined service of Reform Solidarity. We endearing. Her music is easy to sing, easy to are pleased to be the host congregation this remember and, most important, touches E.T.: Rabbi 's Early Group year. The rabbis, cantors,and choirsof each people with its beauty and simplicity. Julie Meetings of E.T., a weekly congregation will participate in this service. has come to be recognized asone of the best discussion of the weekly , Rabbi Elliot Strom, the spiritual leader of composers of new Jewish liturgical music. will be suspended during the winter Shir Ami , will deliver the sermon. Please Her music is a direct reflection of who she months. Those interested will be join us for this joyous service of unity and is ... a young woman eager to express her informed in this column when classes celebration. Judaismin an artistic and profoundly unique will be resuming. way.

Do You Know About The Home Hospitality Needed Kutz Camp Elderhostel Programs? We are looking for volunteers to open Spend 6 days at the beautiful UAHC Camp Kutz in Warwick, New York (right their homes to the visiting members of on the New Jersey border) exploring new worlds with interesting, stimulating the West Point Jewish Chapel Choir people like you. Enjoy a superb curriculum of Jewish studies, diverse evening over Saturday night,April 26th, before entertainmentand activities, seasonal trips in the countryside, AND THE their concert here at Har Sinai on the FOOD! Elderhostel is open to people aged 55 and over. Three Elderhostel morning of the 27th. If you and your Weeks are scheduled for Spring 1997. Further infonnation will be coming with family are interested in hosting one or the next Renaissance mailing. You may also obtain a brochure by phoning the more West Point cadets, please call the Temple office. Rabbi at Temple.

2 RELIGIOUS SCHOOL NEWS

------by Ann Kanarek ------

Jewish tradition regards the first day of Tishrei as the New Year of the world for humankind, and Tu B', the fifteenth day of Shevat, on January 23, as the New Year for the trees. Tu B'Shevat is a minor festival that has major ecological impact. It is our "Earth Day" or "Eco"liday, where we bond with nature by planting trees, eating a variety of fruits and connect with God's creations.

During this time of the year, we have an opportunity to help our children understand the interrelatedness and interdependence of all living things. And, as parents and teachers we have an obligation to help our children rediscover and explore what our tradition says about the environment. Although Tu B'Shevat is a once a year holiday, we are blessed with the Mitzvah of observing an "Earth Day" every week with Shabbat. Here are just a few suggestions for some of the many ways we can make this observance meaningful.

MAKE SHABBAT A "BUY NOTHING" DAY. Some environmental groups have promoted the idea of a "buy nothing" day once a year as a way of raising our consciousness about the profound connection between human consumption and our ecological crisis. We can begin training ourselves and our kids to not spend any money on Shabbat, not just because the Torah says so, but also because every dollar represents a part of our natural resources that has been converted into an economic resource. By not spending that dollar we are doing a little something to save our environment.

MAKE SHABBAT A NATURE APPRECIATION DAY. In the Shabbat evening , Shabbat is identifIed as a "remembrance of the work of Creation." There's nature all around us to learn about. Ponds and creeks are especially attractive to young kids. Why not go to a park or take a nature hike and play and learn together?

LET SHABBAT TEACH US ABOUT THE NATURAL CYCLES OF LIGHT AND DARKNESS. If we observe Shabbat in its proper time, we can't help but learn about what is called "Organic Time." Shabbat begins when the light first begins to wane and ends when three stars are visible in the sky. We might experience these natural cycles in an even more profound way if we limit our use of artillcial light during Shabbat. What if we only kept the lights on in the room that we gathered in together. We could let Shabbat and the experience of night teach us how to be closer to each other, closer to the natural world, and closer to our own true selves.

Despite the trappings of modernity that now adorn our lives, we Jews are still, at core, a "down to earth" people, and every Jewish ritual, holiday, or life cycle event has embedded within it teachings about how to live in harmony with the rest of life on earth. Religious School Reminders:

Friday, January 10, 8:00PM Special Family Service with Scholar in Residence: Joel Grishaver. Sunday, January 12, 9:30AM Special Teen Workshop with the "GRIS," (Joel Grishaver) at Adath Israel Congregation, Lawrenceville, NJ. Saturday, February 1, 9:30AM-I0:45AM TNT: Torah and Tots Club. Sunday, February 2, 11:00AM Second Grade PACT Progaram. Friday, February 7, 7:30 PM Third grade "Hagigat HaSefer" Service and Scout Shabbat with musical artist, Julie Silver. Sunday, February 9, 7:00PM Chai High School. No Religious School:

Monday, January 20: Martin Luther King Birthday. Sunday, February 16, Monday, February 17, Tuesday, February 18: President's Weekend.

CONFIRMATION CLASS TRIP TO THE Winter Snow Closings?

CONCORD HOTEL WBCB 1490FM Our 9th and 10th graders, joined by the 9th and 10th grade classes of Beth Chaim, and accompanied by the Rabbi will travel to the Catskills WHWH from January 17th to 19th for a fabulous weekend at the Concord Hotel 1350 AM for their Confirmation Class Retreat. In addition to enjoying all of the amenities and activities the Concord offers, the classes will celebrate WPST together Shabbat, and explore a variety of issues related to Jewish 97.5FM identity and continuity. The cost for the weekend, including transportation is $200. Some scholarship funds are available; please and CHECK the contact the Rabbi for the details. Temple answeringmachine.

3 WHAT ARE YOUR Gifts Of Appreciated Assets To Har CHILDREN/GRANDCmLDREN Sinai Temple DOING THIS SUMMER? Did you know that Har Sinai Temple can accept gifts Everyone agrees! A summer of experiential Jewish of publicly traded stock or mutual funds. You can pay living and doing can provide a lifetime of Jewish your dues, building fund, or make donations to the memories. There are many outstanding Jewish summer Temple or Endowment Fund. This donation may programs. Our Reform Movement sponsors some of the provide a double tax benefit for the donor. best. Scholarships and financial assistance are If you itemize deductions on Schedule A of your available. All requests are strictly confidential. Please federal tax return, you may deduct cash gifts to Har call the rabbi for more information. He will also be Sinai Temple as a charitable contribution. If you donate happy to provide you with applications and more appreciated publicly traded assets to Har Sinai, you can information about all of these programs. deduct the full amount of the appreciated value (less the Camp Harlam is our Region's summer camp. Temple's selling commission) as a charitable Located in the Pocanos, Camp Harlam offers a full range contribution. Because you are donating the appreciated of traditional summer camp activities: from horseback asset to the temple and the Temple is selling it, you do riding to swimming, all sorts of sports, drama, arts and not pay capital gains tax on the appreciation. crafts, music, and an all new wilderness course. All of For example, let's assume that you are in the 28% this in a Reform Jewish atmosphere. Four and Eight marginal tax bracket and have 100 shares ofXYZ stock or week sessions are available, but space is filling up fast. mutual fund that you bought for $10 per share which is worth $20.50 per share today. Let's assume that you Camp Harlam Open House want to make a gift of $2,000 to the Temple. If you sell Friday Evening, January 10th the shares yourself, you'll be subject to a capital gain tax of $270.20 (including a small brokerage commission). If you then make a cash donation of $2,000 to the Temple, During and After Services With you can claim an itemized deduction of $2,000 on your tax Guest, Harlam Director Arie Gluck, return. This will reduce your federal taxes by $560. Come and bring all your "c amp" However, this tax savings is reduced by the capital gain questions. tax on the stock, so your net federal tax savings is only $289.80. If you donate the appreciated stock to Har Sinai NFTY, our Movemen t's Youth Organization, and let the Temple sell it, then you owe no capital gains sponsors outstanding summer programs in Israel tax on the appreciation. This means that you are for High School age people from across North America. receiving $2,000 of deduction benefit for an asset that you Tens who join in NFTY's program in Israel enjoy a purchased for $1,000 and you can deduct the full $560. summer of wonderful fun, friendship and adventure as . The actual tax benefit to you is affected by your they explore the sights of Ancient and Modern Israel, marginal tax bracket, brokerage commissions, Much more than a tour, a NFTY summer experience in Alternative Minimum Tax, and limits on charitable Israel is full of exciting challenges, personal contributions. In all cases, you should consult your tax accomplishment, meaningful memories and adviser to determine how gifting appreciated assets will unforgettable Jewish identity building. benefit you. Kutz Camp, the Leadership Academy of NFTY is This is a painless way for you to promote God's work set in the mountains of New York in a unique, teen at Har Sinai by making a meaningful gift without only college campus style environment. It is the reducing your cash reserves. This is especially useful ideal place for teenagers to play and work together today when the US stock market is extremely strong with Reform Jewish youth from across the world. As future leaders campers are treated as adults, choosing and many of us have seen our investments grow nicely their own program and developing leadership over the last few years. potential in their areas of interest. If you would like to contribute to Har Sinai Temple in NFTY's Urban Mi tzvah Corps Program is this way, call the Temple office. located just around the corner- at Rutgers University in New Brunswick. In this intensive social justice Medical Tuition Scholarship Loans program, 26 high school students and 3 adult advisors live together on the Rutgers University The Dr. Joseph M. Blum Trust has funds to lend campus. Participants spend their days volunteering Jewish students from the Trenton area who are in need with the handicapped, underprivileged and elderly. of help to pay their tuition at medical school. Preference Each participant volunteers at two different service will be given to those students who have a parent who is agencies during the summer. Evenings are devoted to a member of the Jewish War Veterans of Trenton. No a range of social activities as well as to guest speakers interest is charged on the loans until ten (10) years after and educational programs on topics such as AIDS, the recipient commences the practice of medicine, unless black-Jewish relations, gay and lesbian issues. A the loan recipient leaves school before graduation. highlight of the program is the political action seminar Interested students should contact Edward S. Kahn, at the Religious Action Center in Washington, DC. Esq., at his law office, 609-895-1190.

4 JANUARY DONATIONS 1997

TEMPLE MEMORIAL FUND Rednor COMPLETE RECOVERY: Maxene YETTA BROWN: Mrs. J. Gilbert GEORGE REIN: Evelyn Gerofsky & Saul Feinberg Sholin DORA WIDDER: Gilbert S. Gold SAMUEL WERTHEIM'S 96TH DINKEY DEITZ: Dr. Joseph & CAPTAIN DONALD SHEFF: Sheff BIRTHDAY: Ruth & Stanley Helene R. Deitz Family Kaplan FAY FARRAR: Maxene & Saul GRACE WERTHEIM: Ruth & Feinberg Stanley Kaplan RABBI'SFUND JUDITH ROME GLASSMAN: Mrs. In Honor Of: In Memory Of: Hy Lavinthal LAUREN BLUMBERG'S DR A WILLIAM BLUMBERG: FRIEDA KATZ: Rhoda & Richard BECOMING A BAT MITZVAH: Judith & Carl Blumberg Brenner, Milton M. Katz Nancy & Barry Frost, Evelyn & HERMINE GROEGER: Lorie LENA LEWIS: Rhoda & Richard Theodore Roberts Groeger Brenner DR. NORMAN & ROSLYN E�L KAUFMAN:Carol & ROSE LEVY: Edith & Gus Gellens COOPERSMITH'S BIRTH OF Buddy Magod ROSE LUBOFF: Lynda & Steven GRANDDAUGHTER: Dr. Joseph & MERVIN KRENTZMAN: Geraldine Meshkov Helene Deitz & Stanley Shatz DR. JOSEPH MELNICK: Sheila & MICHAEL FElT'S SPECIAL JULIUS M. ROSENTHAL: Lorie R. Paul Davidow BIRTHDAY: Ruth & Steven Harris Groeger DR. HAROLD B. MOSES: Sylvia DIANE GEROFSKY ELECTED AS MOLLIE SCHECTER: Sandy & Greenwald MERCER COUNTY SURROGATE: Mark Itkowitz GEORGE REIN: Harriet & Evelyn Gerofsky In Honor Of: Sherman Gould, Maxene & Saul CANTOR MARSHALL GLATZER'S ROSE DASHOWS SPEEDY & Feinberg 70TH BIRTHDAY: Lila & Morton COMPLETE RECOVERY: Susan CAROL STERNBERG Rosenthal Dashow E. Baker ROTHSTEIN: Lois & Gerald CANTOR & MRS. MARSHALL BIRTH OF OUR GRANDSON, Sternberg GLATZER'S 45TH HARRISON DANIEL FEINER: DINAH SHATZ: Ruth & Marvin ANNIVERSARY: Dr. Joseph & Nancy & Philip Kauff Chamlin Helene Deitz, Lila & Morton RITA & DAVID KUGSTEIN'S J. GILBERT SHOLIN: Mrs. J. Rosenthal 50TH ANNIVERSARY: Nanette & Gilbert Sholin JEAN &MORTON GOLDSTEIN'S Stanley Haberman 50TH ANNIVERSARY: Gladys & ENGAGEMENT OF DR NOAH TEMPLEFUND Albert Berkelhammer, Nancy & KAUFFTO ROBIN FORRESTER: In Memory Of: Barry Frost, Janis Kind, Bernice & Meryl & Philip Kauff BERNARD ARONISS: Ethel A. Eugene Kline, Lolie Wiener BIRTH OF ALEC MICHAEL Black HARRIET & SHERMAN GOULD'S LOPATA:Nanette & Stanley HARRY O. COHEN: Nancy & 50TH ANNIVERSARY: Gladys & Haberman Barry Frost Albert Berkelhammer IN APPRECIATION: Phyllis, FAY FARRAR: Dorothy Glogoff MY FAMILY FOR GOOD HEALTH Dennis & Jill Malinger DINKEY FRIEDMAN: BitT& Jerry & HAPPINESS: Claire & Lawrence OUR DAUGHTER, SARA E. Montana Heinbach SACH'S CONVERSION: Joann & WILLIAM FREY: Beatrice & Sam DOROTHY KLINE'S GRANDSON James Sachs Frey BECOMING A BAR MITZVAH: SARAH GELLENS: Mr. & Mrs. Maxene & Saul Feinberg CANTOR'S FUND JAMES KLINE'S SPECIAL Gus Gellens In Memory Of: BIRTHDAY: Bernice & Eugene OUR DEAR DEPARTED: Barbara FAY FARRAR: Judy & Jack Seelig Kline & David Goldberg CHARLES GREENBERG: Phyllis RUTH & JAMES KLINE'S GlST ALBERT GOLD: Gilbert S. Gold & Michael Selesnick BIRTHDAY: Bernice & Eugene LENA GOLD: Gilbert S. Gold REBA GREENBERG: Phyllis & Kline CHERYL GORSKI'S Michael Selsnick DR. JOSEPH KLINE'S SPECIAL GRANDMOTHER:' Nancy & Barry GEORGE REIN: Judy & Jack BIRTHDAY: Bernice & Eugene Frost Seelig Kline RUTH GREENFIELD: Gertrude & WALTER ROSENBERG: Judy & BIRTH OF ALEC MICHAEL Morris Greenfield Jack Seelig LOPATA: Vivian & Seymour DAISY KASHDEN: Judy & Ronald LOUIS DAVID STARK: Natalie & Cohen, Bernice & Eugene Kline, Sussman Arnel Stark Lolie Wiener MERVIN KRENTZMAN: Nancy & ABE WEINBERG: Martin CAROL MAGOD'S SPEEDY & Barry Frost, Sandy & Mark Weinberg COMPLETE RECOVERY: Joanne Itkowitz SAMUEL WIENER: Natalie & & Joel Namm OUR BELOVED SON, RICHARD Arnel Stark M. REDNOR: Beverly & Barry IRVIN MILLNER'S SPEEDY & JANUARY DONATIONS 1997, cont.

In Honor Of: RUTH MACOVSKY: Ruth & Allen LmRARYFUND MICHAEL FElT'S BIRTHDAY: Levine In Memory Of: Warren, Karen & Pfeni Flicker GEORGE REIN: Jean & Morton ABEL E. ALLEN: Rita & Eli Allen CANTOR MARSHALL GLATZER'S Goldstein FRIEDA ALLEN: Rita & Eli Allen 70TH BIRTHDAY: Rose & John In Honor Of: BRIAN DISCOUNT BECOMING A Scott ROBERT H. BLOOM JEAN & MORTON GOLDSTEIN'S BAR MITZVAH: Jean & Morton SCHOLARSHIPFUND Goldstein 50TH ANNIVERSARY: Madeline & In Memory Of: Milton Klempert JEAN &MORTON GOLDSTEIN'S ANNA FARBER: Alyce & Harold IN APPRECIATION: Phyllis, 50TH ANNIVERSARY: Ruth & Allen Levine, Laura & Jim Reiser Farber Dennis & Jill Malinger In Honor Of: RACHEL REDNOR BECOMING A HARRIET & SHERMAN GOULD'S GAIL & RICHARD FEINSTEIN'S BAT MITZVAH: Judy & Jack 50TH ANNIVERSARY: Laura & 25TH ANNIVERSARY: Naomi & Seelig Jim Reiser, Lolie Wiener NANETTE HABERMAN'S Phillip Griffin PRAYERBOOKFUND SPEEDY & COMPLETE ANDREA GLOGOFF'S RECOVERY: Lolie Wiener GRADUATION FROM COLLEGE: In Memory Of: Deborah Bard SYLVIA T. BASH: Susan & Paul PROGRAM THE ENGAGEMENT OF Shalita ADULT & LEARNINGFUND DOROTHY GLOGOFF'S MORRIS DAVIDOW: Evelyn D. In Memory Of: GRANDSON, MARK GLOGOFF: Minschwaner Deborah Bard MOTHER & GRANDMOTHER, BELOVED HUSBAND; JEAN FAGELMAN: Harriet & CORNELIUS: Fay Kaplan RELIGIOUS SCHOOL In Honor Of: . Sherman Gould PROGRAM FUND JESSE FAGELMAN: Harriet & BIRTH OF ALEC MICHAEL Sherman Gould LOPATA: Laura & Jim Reiser In Memory Of: -BELOVED FATHER & MOLLIE SCHECTER: Simon, Lisa, GRANDFATHER, HARRY A. MUSIC FUND Elizabeth, Pamela & Emily GARB: Jane Garb Thomas In Honor Of: Kimmelman In Honor Of: MABEL GARFINKEL: Rita & Sy NORMA & FRED BYER'S 55TH LAUREN BLUMBERG Rosenthal ANNIVERSARY: Maxene & Saul BECOMING A BAT MITZVAH: ROSE GOLDBERG: Hon. Bernard Feinberg Joan Kamens & Bobbi Lupkin "By & Barbara I. Goldberg CANTOR MARSHALL & ANN Invitation Only" SADIE GOLDSTEIN: Jean & GLATZER'S 45TH JILL MALINGER BECOMING A Morton Goldstein ANNIVERSARY: Dorothy GlogofT BAT MITZVAH: Joan Kamens & ALEXANDER C. GOULD: Harriet CANTOR MARSHALL GLATZER'S Bobbi Lupkin "By Invitation Only" & Sherman Gould 70TH BIRTHDAY: Sylvia Aronis, JOSHUA MANDELL BECOMING MEYER H. KOHN: Jean & Morton Maxene & Saul Feinberg, Lolie A BAR MITZVAH: Joan Kamens & Goldstein Wiener Bobbi Lupkin "By Invitation Only" MERVIN B. KRENTZMAN: Becky, CANTOR MARSHALL & ANN Arnie, Michael, and Emily GALTZER'S 45TH YOUTH SCHOLARSHIP Goldstein ANNIVERSARY: Maxene & Saul ROSE LUBOFF: Dr. & Mrs. Arnold Feinberg, Lolie Wiener FUND Goldstein, Karin & Daniel Surkin JEAN &MORTON GOLDSTEIN'S In Memory Of: SADIE SHALITA: Susan & Paul 50TH ANNIVERSARY: Maxene & IDA FREEDMAN: Linda & Arthur Shalita Saul Feinberg, Dorothy GlogofT Finkle In Honor Of: HARRIET & SHERMAN GOULD'S In Honor Of: HARRIET & SHERMAN GOULD'S 50TH ANNIVERSARY: Dorothy OUR SON, ANDREWS 50TH ANNIVERSARY: Jean & GlogofT ADMISSION TO PRATICE LAW Morton Goldstein IN NEW YORK & NEW JERSEY: CHILDREN'S LIBRARY Linda & Arthur Finkle SCHOLAR-IN-RESIDENCE BOOKFUND CANTOR MARSHALL & ANN FUND In Memory Of: GLATZER'S 45TH In Memory Of: MOLLIE SCHECTER: Jill & Ariel ANNIVERSARY: Linda & Arthur FAY FARRAR: Jean & Morton Schwartz & Adena & Abby Finkle Goldstein CANTOR MARSHALL GLATZER'S CHARLES LEVY: The Family Of 70TH BIRTHDAY: Linda & Arthur The Late Charles Levy Finkle .'

JANUARY DONATIONS 1997, cont.

STEPHANIE MANN ALEX LABBOK: Irma Labbok & Herbert Levin, Dorothy Zorn MEMORIAL FUND GEORGE REIN: Rosamond & BIRTH OF ALEC MICHAEL In Memory Of: Seymour Selzer LOPATA: Charlotte & Herbert JERRY BERKELHAMMER'S HARRY SHIFFMAN: Irma Labbok Levin FATHER: Dorothy Zorn DENA STRULETZ: Howard LOLIE WIENER'S BIRTHDAY: HARRY O. COHEN: Inez & Mike Greenberg Dorothy Zorn Of: Freedman In Honor FAY FARRAR: Ellin & Stuart IN APPRECIATION: Dorothy SISTERHOOD GRATEFULLY Hirsch, Sandy & Mark Itkowitz, Glogoff ACKNOWLEDGES: Becky & Jim Levy, JoAnn & James JEAN & MORTON GOLDSTEIN'S 50TH ANNIVERSARY: Irma Sachs, Susan, Rick, Shara & JOY AND SORROWFUND Matthew Wilson Labbok In Memory Of: HARRIET & SHERMAN GOULD'S MERVIN KRENTZMAN: Judy & MOTHER, BERTHA RESSLER: 50TH ANNIVERSARY: Irma Lowell Mann Daisy Garfunkel ROSE LUBOFF: Laura & Jim Labbok AARON KIMBALL BECOMING A Reiser mVING ROSS MEMORIAL BAR MITZVAH: Diane & Steven L In Honor Of: FUND Bullard, Mr. & Mrs. Michael Fox, LEE BRODY'S MARRIAGE TO In Memory of: SHARON RYAVE: Ellin & Stuart Mr. & Mrs. Jerome Ginsberg, Mr. ALBERT GOLD: Helen & Arthur Hirsch & Mrs. Sheldon Goldberg, Dr. & Gold GAIL & RICHARD FEINSTEIN'S Mrs. Michael Leffak, Maria & Jay LENA GOLD: Helen & Arthur Gold 25TH ANNIVERSARY: Ellin & Mirsky, Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Passis, SON-IN-LAW, LOREN G. Stuart Hirsch Mr. & Mrs. Saul Radow, Mr. & LAVINE: Evelyn S. Weinstein CAROL MAGOD'S SPEEDY & Mrs. Allan Rosser, Mr. & Mrs. BROTHER, MARTIN SEGAL: COMPLETE RECOVERY: Lynn & Sorrel Scop, Mr. & Mrs. Jack Soltis, Evelyn S. Weinstein Bill Newman Diana & Mark Stidham, Mina & BELOVED HUSBAND, LEON JERRY MILLER'S BIRTH OF Ronald White WEINSTEIN: Evelyn S. Weinstein NEW GRANDSON: Judy & Lowell MARK SCHENKEL BECOMING A Mann BAR MITZVAH IN ISRAEL: Susan SPECIAL NEEDS FUND ZACH NOBLE BECOMING A BAR & Henry Rose MITZVAH: Judy & Lowell Mann In Memory 0(: ENDOWMENTFUND RUTH REISER: Becky & Jim Levy BERNARD ARONISS: Ann & Herb RENEE'S BELOVED PARENTS: In Honor Of: Blume Renee & Saul Wolfson BARRY FROST: Simon & Demeter, GOLDIE ARONISS: Ann & Herb Pa. Blume SOCIAL ACTIONFUND CANTOR MARSHALL & ANN In Honor Of: INME MORY OF: GLATZER'S 45TH OUR SON, LEE'S MARRIAGE TO FAY FARRAR: Irma Labbok, ANNIVERSARY: Charlotte & SHARON RYAVE: Lucille & Ed Brody Rosamond & Seymour Selzer Herbert Levin, Dorothy Zorn IDA FLEISHER: Jill & Ariel JEAN & MORTON GOLDSTEIN'S KEITH & STACY HOROWITZ'S Schwartz 50TH ANNIVERSARY: Charlotte MARRIAGE: Ann & Herbert Blume FATHER, EDWIN E. GRAD: & Herbert Levin, Dorothy Zorn ADELE & EDWARD SPIRO'S 50TH Florence Londoner HARRIET& SHERMAN GOULD'S ANNIVERSARY: Helen M. FAIGA HIRSCH: Irma Labbok 50TH ANNIVERSARY: Charlotte Friedman

THE 1 st ANNUAL SUPERBOWL PARTY Sunday, January 26th Beginning at 5:30 PM COST: $12.50/person Har Sinai Social Hall For more information, Call Co-chair JEFF PASSIS at 609-882-4917. SOCIAL ACTION COMMITTEE SISTERHOOD NEWS AND VIEWS ------by Steve Cickay ______------by Mary Kirsch ______

New Visions, a non-profit agency which provides SISTERHOOD THANKS educational, recreational, and cultural activities for Chanukah Dinner Chairpeople Judy Millner, Trenton inner-city youth, ages 5-17, is looking for Ariel PerelDl.uter, Ann KiDl.ball and Barbara both student and adult volunteers. People are Weiner and their committee for their usual superb needed to assist and tutor children from 3:45 to 4:30 job of running the successful as ever dinner on PM, Monday through Thursday, in such subjects as Friday, December 6th. math, reading and computers. Also needed are people who can do enrichment activities such as ThelDl.a FeldDJ.aD and Ann GrossDl.an, who music lessons or foreign language instruction on bought for, stocked and sold a wide variety of Friday afternoons. Please call me or the Temple Chanukah supplies, decorations, gifts, and books for office if you are interested in helping. the Chanukah Judaica Shop this year. Last year we gave a party in our social hall on a Sunday afternoon for the small children who live in Upcom.ing the one-room motels on the Route One corridor. It was so much fun for not only the small children but Don't miss the next event planned for the Har Sinai for the many volunteers who helped organize and Gourmet Club when it goes to Lahiere's of participate in this event. Please call me if you are Princeton in late January. Look for your flyer soon! interested in helping us do this again for the children this March or April. Entertainm.ent 1997 Is Here! RENAISSANCE The 1997 Entertainment Books are now available in the Temple. Remember that through your ------by Jan Kind ______Entertainment Book Membership, you can receive great discounts at restaurants, hotels, travel, and On Sunday, December 15th, 180 smiling faces entertainment events. We are selling the cheered as Art Frank and the Ambassadors of Philadelphia East (at $35) and Central Jersey Dixieland thrilled the crowded Social Hall. Feasting editions (each of them is $40) of this publication. on sumptuous hoagies, the audience clapped their For more information, contact Chairperson hands and tapped their feet as they fIlled not only Charlotte Levin at 215-493-0544 or the Temple their stomachs but were overwhelmingly satisfied office. with the Masters of Dixieland Jazz. Congratulations to Art and to Bobbie Frank who so PASSOVER ONE-TIME-ONLY capably coordinated the evening. SCRIP SALE CAMPAIGN Mark Your Calendars: ------by Renee Wolfson ------Sunday, April 27th True to my word, I will not mention food this time. Matinee Performance After food, our favorite subject of conversation "SISTERS ROSENSWEIG" is? ..... you guessed it... MONEY! We would like to by Wendi Wasserstein budget $5,000 for this fund raiser. That means we A Theatre Guild of New Jersey Performance need to sell AT LEAST $100,000 worth of Scrip. Yardley Community Center Now get back here! I did not mean to scare you. It Chairperson: Ann Grossman is not that hard. This is the easiest fundraiser we have. We all eat and if we all support the program Sunday, May 18th we can far exceed our budgeted amount. Bus Trip To Brandywine Museum We need ALL our Temple families to purchase Lurich at the Lenape Inn Scrip. Supermarkets participating in our program And On To Winterthur House & Gardens are Acme, Giant, McCaffrey's and Shop 'N Bag. The Chairperson: Nora Erlichman Scrip comes in $10 denominations.

I have done my job explaining ways to use it, who gives it and how it is given. NOW IT IS YOUR WHAT'S NEW WITH THE CHOIR TURN TO BUY IT! Don't forget we get back 5% of --- by Cantor Wisnia and Bailey Saul, Directors --- every dollar of Scrip we sell you while you receive the full 100%. We ask you to consider buying $100, $500, $1000, or more. So you still don't get the News from the newly re-jew-venated choir ....We are picture. If 400 of our Temple families bought $250 listening for voices, experienced or not, professional worth of Scrip, the resulting $100,000 in sales would or amateur, who love to sing and have a good time! net us our $5,000! Please join us as we are now preparing to perform during Reform Solidarity Shabbat on February Please speak to your neighbors, friends and co­ 28th. Help us show off and contribute to the workers to make purchases. This is not limited to fun.... .l earn to sing "parts"... no experience members only. My parting words are that there is necessary. Contact Cantor or Choir Director Bailey "Fun" in "Fund" and you can make "raisin" out of Saul (215-369-0566). "raiser"...... oops, I promised I would not mention FOOD!

5 HSTY REPORTS -- by The Man, The Myth, The Legend, The Secretary, Adam Sgrenci �ofTHEARTSD,FFSTIVAL It was a dark and stonny night. Very dark, very stonny. It � was so dark and stonny, Mike Klein couldn't even fmd his way Upcoming to the bathroom. He tripped over his menorah and was sent, tumbling down the stairs. He hit his head against his mother's '--' and fell into a coma. When he awoke (40 days and 40 nights later), he had a vision. A vision that will change the "SUNDAYS OF WONDERFUL MUSIC" structure of the Har SinaiTemple Youth Group forever. Dates 1b Save Instead of an action-packed year full of thrill and excitement, HSTY will be experiencing something new in 1997. Sunday, March 9th Now, before I let the camel out of the bag, I'll tell you what's "From Broadway To Bourbon Street" going on in the next couple months. In February the Junior Youth Group will bejoining us for our annual Ski Trip. March Pianist Paul Posnak In Concert is still being accounted for. (In other words, everyone at the Sunday, April 6th last board meeting forgot that March was a month of the year.) On April 6th, we will be attending Jewish Day at the New Puccini's Madama Butterfly Jersey Nets game. The reason we are attending this is because Performed by Boheme Opera NJ all Jewish people get a big discount and a gargantuan chunk of pastrami. As for January.. ... Sunday, April 27th We will be trying something new. Believe me when I tell The West Point Jewish Chapel Choir you this. No one in the history of Jewishness has ever done it before. We will be going on a journey. No, we will not be going to the moon, although you might expect something like that coming from Mike Klein (space cadet ...catch by drift?). However, we are traveling to uncharted territory. It's a magical place. A place where the manischewitz flows like Upcoming National Reform Conferences wine. A place where Adam and Eve hung out (before things ARZANational Assembly got serious). My friends, HSTY will be taking a tour. A MYSTERY BUS TOUR. Where we're going nobody knows. April 2 - 6, 1997 - Washington, DC , But I do know this: That must've been some kugel. "The Triumph of Zionism" A Celebration of the Centennial of the Zionist Movement Consultation On Conscience April 6 - 8, 1997 -Washington, DC SPONSORED BY THE RELIGIOUS ACTION CENTER OF REFORM JUDAISM Join thelargest national Jewishconferenc e devoted to creating an effective Jewish response tocontemporary 'issues of social justice. For more informationabout eitherof these excitingconfe rences, or to register, please

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6 � Bulletin Board ;? JANUARV!FEBRUARV Oneg Shabbat Donors TREE OF LIFE B'NoT MITZVAH Shirley and Lawrence Levinson Mazel Tov To ... Lucille and Ed Brody, on the In Honor Of marriage of their son, Lee, to Sharon Bar Mitzvah Ryave on November 10th in Pittsburgh. BRIAN JOSEPH DISCOUNf The couple will reside in Chicago. December 14, 1996 Stuart, Edye & Amy Discount ... Bee Zabludoff, on the birth of her 4th great grandchild, Elijah Nathaniel Zabludoff, on October 20th. Elijah is the Lauren son of Elizabeth and Jeffrey Zabludoff and Meshkov the grandson of Aba and Sidney Zabludoff. ... Dorothy Zorn, on the November 28th birth of her grandson, Alec Michael Lopata, son of Linda and lain Lopata who Our Dear Grandchildren Adena reside in Chicago. MELANIE 4-12-90 Kemper JAIMIE 3-18-93 ...Judi and Saul Lehrhaupt, on their and son Adam's capturing a role as a "Magi" ANDREW ROSENBERG 10-1-95 for the world-famous "David Copperfield Walt and Lee Rosenberg Show" currently appearing on Broadway. Perri Lawrie Special February Birthdays 2- Caryn Pastorella - 3yrs 3- ­ In Memoriam Joshua Garber llyrs Rebecca Feldleit- 13yrs 6- Brooke Shaffer - 6 yrs May we extend our 9 - Amanda Cohn - 12yrs deepest 16 - Marc Biros - 7yrs 17- Adena Schwartz - llyrs sympathy in Evan Sacks- 6yrs remembering 18- Elizabeth Kamens- llyrs 23- Kyle Eingorn- 13yrs Kaitlin Kline - 1 yr Harry O. Cohen 24 - J arad Rosenberg - 9yrs Father of Joan Hensche Leah Ellenbogen - 12yrs 25- Jamie WaIdman - 9yrs 27- Melissa Menno - 8yrs Daisy W. Kashden

Mother of Audrey Klatzkin Special February Birthdays 7- Sarah Caine Mervin B. Krentzman Joseph Hochman Father of JoAnn Sachs 14 - Irvin Millner 15 - Sheldon Goldberg 21 - Eva Adelberg FannyKohn 25 - Helene Deitz Zichrona L'Vracha Mother of Richard Kohn 28- Lucille Brody NANCY GOULD From The Rose Lubo ff February Anniversaries Buchsbaum/Chanes Family 2- Virginia and Robert Glatzer - 5 yrs Mother of Sandra Itkowitz 11 - Nancy and Ivan Becker - 35 yrs 20- Judy and Jack Seelig - 25 yrs Mollie Goldstein Schecter Mother of Suzanne Niernberg December Pulpit Flowers 6 - Sisterhood 13 - Stuart, Edye, and Amy Oneg Shabbat Sponsors Discount, in honor of their son Barry and Janice Blumberg sponsored and brother, Brian, who became an Oneg Shabbat in honor of their a Bar Mitzvah. daughter, Lauren, becoming a Bat 20 - Barry and Janice Blumberg, With LoveTo OurGranddau ghter Mitzvah. in honor of their daughter, ADENA KEMPER Lauren, who became a Bat Mitzvah. In Celebration Of Amy Discount sponsored the Oneg 27 - Sisterhood Her Bat Mitzvah Day Shabbat in honor of her brother, Brian, January 25, 1997 becoming a Bar Mitzvah. Rita and Robert Block High Holiday Appeal Donors Rhoda and Richard Brenner Barbara and David Goldberg

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Judy Millner, Ariel Perelmuter, Ann Glenn Palsky , chairman , for The parents who helped out at the 6th Kimball, and Barbara Weiner, organizing the volunteers who donated Grade Chanukah Party: Shelley Kasrel, chairpeople, fo r coordinating the always blood at the Temple on December 15th, Nancy Levine, Marsha Miller, and Gail wonderful Sisterhood-sponsored 15th and all those who donated: Lowell Arye, Reiss. Annual Chanukah Family Shabbat Dinner Elizabeth Baker, David Barash, Anne The parents who transported the 9th and on December 6th ....over 150 people turned Bloomenthal, Martin Bloomenthal, 10th Grades to and from their Chanukah out for this traditional Har Sinai festive Jean Burdick, Allan M. Cohen, Wendy Concert at the Greenwood House on occasion... special thanks to Mort Ellenbogen, Randi Feinstein, Joan December 8th: Ted Cader, Bonnie and Goldstein for his superb fine carving Fredericks, Richard Gershenfeld, David Cusack, Lisa Kimmelman, and skills... and to the rest of the committee, Shelly Kasrel, Michael Keats, David Lew Pepperman. Gabe Corens, Aaron Kimball, Ellen Laderman, Randi Lawrie, Amy Steve Cickay, Jane Costigan and Kirsch, Debbie Krivda, Ellie Levine, Dennis Malinger, Larry Mary Kirsch for spending a Sunday Perelmuter, Jerri Rozner, and Ben and Miller, Steve Miller, Judy Millner, morning sorting and packing the many Jessica Weiner ...we also appreciated the Andrew Palsky, Glenn Palsky, Linda sweaters and coats we received fr om our help getting dinner on and clearing the Palsky, Jerrilyn Rozner, Judith annual coat drive in November ...and to the tables fr om many of the attendees. Seelig, Ronald A. Smith. many members who donated those items. Barbara and David Goldberg, fo r Hope Kadesh, SHOVAVIM chair, for Susan Cickay, Ann Kanarek, and the hosting the December meeting of the Home coordinating the group's December 15th members of the Religious School's 7th Grade Study Group. event, Bowling at the Morrisville Lanes. for helping to prepare the food baskets for the Sylvia Lavinthal, for lending her home Our Kindergarten and Second residents of Women space in December. for the December Shabbat Service at the Grade classes, their teachers, Bev Levy, A special Temple member, their fa mily Carteret Arms apartment. Susan Neuman, and Baru Saul, and and fr iends, who so generously donated to Songleader Susan Sacks, for the Thelma Feldman and Ann theSocial Action Fund this Fall. Grossman and all the dedicated beautiful job they did leading the Art and Bobbie Frank, chairpeople for volunteers who helped to make our annual Chanukah Family Service on December the very successful and highly enjoyable Chanukah Judaica Shop run smoothly and 6th. Dixieland Jazz Concert at Temple on the very profitably this Holiday season. Their Our Toranim and students whose evening of December 15th.... Art, for bringing .. staff, which so generously gave their time, talents were richly displayed in the play, together such a wonderful, talented group for included Beth Biros, Beth Brobst, Ruth "Chanukah: Behind The Scenes" presented a memorable evening ...and Bobbie, for Kaplan, Erica and Robin Kemper, during the Family Service on December coordinating the entire event with the help Janice Kline, Meg Levy, Lynda 6th: Josh Azer, David Edelstein, Hank of her committee, Larry and Thelma Meshkov, Linda Palsky, Ruth Smith, Feldman, Adam Levine, Kate Passis, Feldman, Mort Goldstein, Janice Kind, Amy Vandenburgh, Marilyn Jeffrey Sacks, Reuben Saul, Jeffrey Eunice Levie, and Rose Movitch. Weinstein. Schor, Pam Whartenby, and Lindsay Woldoff.

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