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See Page 5 for Details Volume 81 Issue 3 October 2020 Tishrei/Cheshvan 5781 tbsmb.org See page 5 for details. Details begin on page 14 HAKOL OCTOBER 2020 Page 3 Gayle Pomerantz Senior Rabbi Robert A. Davis Rabbi, D.Min. In This Issue Ethan Bair Rabbi Joanne Loiben Rabbi/Youth Shabbat Schedule ............................. 2 High Holy Days Honors.................... 11 Lisa V. Segal Cantor Rabbi Pomerantz ................................ 3 High Holy Day Thank Yous ............. 11 Gary A. Glickstein Rabbi Emeritus President’s Message ......................... 4 B’nei Mitzvah ........................................ 13 Sacred Connections Steven Haas Cantor Emeritus Jeff Graff Executive Director Above and Beyond Appeal ............. 5 Tzedakah ............................................... 16 Margie Zeskind Head of School Social Justice ....................................... 6 Birthdays ................................................ 18 Rabbi Gayle Pomerantz Mark Baranek Director of Congregational Engagement BESHTY .................................................. 7 Anniversaries ...................................... 19 Katy Boyask Director of Advancement Sisterhood ............................................. 7 Interview ................................................ 20 Dalia Katz Director of Supplemental Education Greg Lawrence Director of Membership jLAB ......................................................... 8 TBS Connect Bulletin Bd ................. 26 Jenny Lowhar Director of Marketing and Communications Simchat Torah,Sukkot ...................... 9 Barb Shimansky Director of School for Living Judaism Recent Deaths ..................................... 10 RADICAL UNCERTAINTY Michael Svayg Director of Operations Adam Trautenberg Director of The Tribe VIRTUAL SHABBAT SCHEDULE In this month of October, we celebrate two holidays with Yet our tradition teaches us not to despair of uncertainty, but OFFICERS tbsmb.org/spiritual-life/shabbat joy as part of their name: Sukkot, which is known as Zeman rather to live with it, live through it and celebrate life despite Board of Trustees Shabbat is a taste of paradise. Talmud, Berachot 57a Simchateinu–the Season of Rejoicing, and Simchat Torah, the risks of it all caving in. As it is written in Ecclesiastes, PRESIDENT Stevan Pardo Rejoicing in the Torah. After the somber Days of Awe, these which is read on Sukkot: “For the only good a person can Shabbat Evening Services holidays command us to get outside, commune with nature have under the sun is to eat and drink and enjoy oneself.” VICE PRESIDENTS 6:00 pm | Friday Julie Basner Vanessa Ressler (Sukkot) and dance mightily with the Torah (Simchat Torah). The road ahead is filled with hazard and risk. We cannot Jose Benrey Marte Singerman Our Shabbat evening service will embrace you. Fresh and familiar music will Michael Levinson Myra Spindel enable you to give voice to your own spirit. Special occasions in the lives of our know what tomorrow will bring. But Sukkot reminds us (as Suzanne Meltzer Mike Weinberg congregants, Jewish teachings, sermons from our rabbis, and special music will This year, we are grappling with how to rejoice in the time of if we needed a reminder this year!) that even as we sit under Allan Pekor enhance “Shabbat—our sanctuary in time.” Covid-19. In truth, Sukkot has always represented a model an open sky, vulnerable and small, we must eat, drink and TREASURER for how to rejoice in a time of uncertainty. On Sukkot, we Etan Mark rejoice for the gift of each breath, tasty food, verdant nature, Torah Study on Shabbat Morning commemorate the forty years our ancestors wandered in the 9:30 am | Saturday loving friends and vibrant community. SECRETARY desert, sleeping in impromptu huts, huts which wind could Bobbi Ossip Start your Saturday with Torah study and a bagel with a shmear of cream cheese. blow down and through which rain could pour. While these We invite you to rejoice with us at the Season of Rejoicing in BOARD OF TRUST- Each Shabbat morning before our Shabbat Morning Minyan (10:30 am), you will Cyndy Albert Larry Hurwitz study Parashat HaShavua, the weekly Torah portion. The rabbis will lead a long months of Covid feel like an eternity, our ancestors any number of ways. Sign up to enjoy a “physically distant” Nikki Baron Diane Katzen discussion of ancient commentaries and teachings and reveal the Torah’s endured forty years of not knowing what tomorrow would meal in our Temple Sukkah or build a sukkah of your own Jerri Bassuk Amy Ostroff Michael Berman Michael Pardo modern and relevant lessons. hold! They confronted rain and hunger, cold and desert and take part in our Sukkah building contest (see page 9). Eric Broad Denis Russ conditions, and yet despite these hardships, the holiday Join in our Torah-tini pre-neg on Simchat Torah or our Bart Chepenik Jonathan Sepsenwol Tot Shabbat Tamas Doffek Robin Straus Furlong which commemorates their painstaking journey is still Zoom-hat Torah dance party. Despite all the curve balls Glenn Dryfoos Rachel Unger 10:00 am | Saturday Barbara Gelber Andrea Wagner Join us Saturday morning at 10:00 am for a wonderful young family Shabbat expe- known as the Season of Rejoicing! that have come at us this year, all the losses and disappoint- Judith Greene Cheryl Zuckerman rience. This interactive program is geared for families with children up to the age of ments, we Jews are determined to rejoice. We must live with Allison Greenfield five years old. Prayer, music, stories, movement, activities, snacks and much more On Passover we remember the miracle of the splitting of the unpredictability, but we do not have to be afraid. We are PAST PRESIDENTS will be featured. Following Tot Shabbat, families stay and enjoy time together in our Sea of Reeds and our ancestors’ redemption. On Shavuot we on this journey together. Let us remember our ancestors’ beautiful playground. This is a great way for you to celebrate Shabbat with other *Alfred B. Rosenstein *Harold B. Vinik celebrate the miracle of receiving the Torah from God. What courage, faith, and determination to move forward in the *Dr. Max Ellis *Neal O. Amdur families with young children. tbsmb.school/programs/family *Morris Berrick *Marvin Stonberg then, might we say is the miracle of Sukkot? Perhaps it is vast desert. May this bring us hope and resilience in the *Harry A. Cornblum *Helen Kotler that a group of ragtag former slaves did not give up and did *Louis J. Krensky Michael Dribin Shabbat Morning Minyan face of the radical uncertainty of our lives today. *Shepard Broad Charles A. Citrin 10:30 am | Saturday not turn back despite the hardships of the journey and the *Leon J. Ell Andrew R. Hirschl Join us Saturday mornings at 10:30 am in our beautiful chapel or sanctuary. *Ralph Spero Nancy Ratzan radical uncertainty they endured. From them we learn that *John Serbin Robert Hertzberg Our clergy and members of our congregation help to lead the prayers and read the faith is not certainty, it is the courage to live with uncertainty. *Judge Harry Shelley Niceley Groff Torah. Kiddush lunch follows. Arthur Greenberg Ronald Albert, Jr. Sukkot illustrates the fragility of life, the unexpected crises, *James Albert Peter Russin the twists and turns of everyday life, and yet the ability to *Louis Snetman Marjorie Baron jLAB Family Shabbat Rabbi Gayle Pomerantz *Jack Fink Jack Karson Each Saturday morning, jLAB students in grades K-5 and their parents (and other endure and thrive nonetheless. *Eli Katzin Karen Rivo *James S. Knopke Jeff Graff significant grown-ups) gather together in the chapel from 9:30-10:00 am for a lively *Milton Gaynor *deceased Shabbat morning t’filah experience. This is a great opportunity to learn the prayers Thirty years ago, when I was a brand-new rabbi at Temple ADVISORY BOARD of our liturgy and connect with the words of our prayer service. All those with Emanu-El in San Francisco, I was teaching a seventh grade Harvey Chaplin Hillel Meyers children in this age group are welcome to join us! For more information or to RSVP Hebrew class, celebrating one of my student’s birthdays, Joel Friedland Irving Miller contact Kimberly Hyde at [email protected]. Gary Gerson Gerald Robins when the earth began to shake beneath our feet. It was SAVE THE DATE David Kenin Manuel Zaiac a magnitude 6.9 earthquake, known as the Loma Prieta Donald Lefton B’nei Mitzvah Service Our b’nei mitzvah services are at 10:00 am and 4:30 pm. These services occur only earthquake, which rocked our world and destroyed the Bay Sunday, October 18, 10:30 am Youth Education and Julie Basner and when a member of the Temple is celebrating the occasion of becoming bar mitzvah Bridge. In just a few seconds, our lives changed. Three Engagement Committee Cheryl Zuckerman or bat mitzvah. Please see HaKOL or tbsmb.org for the current schedule. months into our new chapter in San Francisco, we became Richard Sharpstein Memorial Sisterhood Co-Presidents Kim Haber and Phyllis Winston homeless, our beautiful apartment in the Marina district hav- Live Streaming Brotherhood President Josh Laurence ing been destroyed by the earthquake. It happened during Annual Gathering BESHTY President Chloe Wiesenfeld Watch Friday night and Saturday morning Shabbat services on your computer at the holiday of Sukkot, driving home for us just how much Founding Sr. Rabbi Leon Kronish www.tbsmb.org/watch or on YouTube.com/user/tbsmbtube Via Zoom Auxiliary Rabbi Harry Jolt our lives are planted on the thin veneer of assumptions and Cantor Emeritus David Conviser Visit TBSMB.ORG plans, without regard for how a gust of wind, a stray germ, or Executive Director Emeritus Dennis Rice the earth shifting could bring it all crashing down. Executive Director Emerita Alice Miller for viewing platforms HAKOL OCTOBER 2020 Page 4 HAKOL OCTOBER 2020 Page 5 President’s Message Stevan Pardo President A Moment in Time Wow! What an incredible High Holy Days experience. moment in time to acknowledge how lucky we are As we reflect on the exquisite High Holy Day services we shared last month, we are grateful to our Thank you to all of our clergy and staff who worked so to have such a supportive congregation.
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