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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. clergy who continue to nourish our souls and elevate our lives with sacred experiences during this hard to make it a beautiful moment in time for all of us. unprecedented time. At this period of uncertainty, we are immeasurably blessed by their leadership As soon as it is safe we will return to in person and constancy. And here we are at the beginning of Sukkot and services and we will get to pray together. In the commemorating the many years that the Jews meantime, please continue to support Temple We learned during our Erev Rosh HaShanah service that teshuvah means not only repentance, but also to answer or respond. And so, we must ask: How will we respond to this urgent time for Temple Beth wandered in the desert in search of the Promised land. through participating in all of the diverse and Sholom and the world? As we search for a moment in time when we engaging virtual programming. can safely return to our sacred home at Temple Beth As congregants, we are meeting this moment by literally going above and beyond to ensure the fiscal Sholom, I am reminded of how important being Yes, this is a moment in time like no other that we stability and continuity of our spiritual home. We are deeply thankful to our fellow congregants who able to pray together means to all of us. I cannot will ever remember. We are blessed to have our have already responded to this call to action with immediacy and great generosity. wait to walk into our sanctuary with friends and Temple Beth Sholom family and friends to share family to celebrate a simcha, to open the ark, carry this moment with. As we celebrate Sukkot, may We invite you to please join our TBS community’s collective response by participating in our the torah, read torah from the bimah and sing you and your families continue to be blessed with Above and Beyond Appeal in a way that is meaningful to you. Together we will meet this challenge together albeit socially distanced. good health and happiness in this New Year! and secure a vibrant future for many generations to come.

For the past five months, I have walked into a quiet Warmest regards, With Gratitude, and empty Temple without children. What an exciting moment in time to experience our recent reopening of our foundation and elementary school a few weeks ago. We have implemented stringent health protocols to maintain a safe school environment for our children. Stevan J. Pardo Suzanne Melter and Nancy Ratzan TBS President Co-Chairs, Above and Beyond Appeal So many of you have already responded so generously to our “Above and Beyond” Campaign. I am greatly Contact: Director of Advancement Katy Boyask at [email protected] | 786.406.1375 appreciative of your financial support. This is a

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Rabbi Ethan Bair Co-Presidents SAVEWhat THEis BESHTY? DATES The Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism Reform Jewish congregations are best situated Kim Haber & Phyllis Winston forBESHTY Jr., Mini stands & Micro for BESHTY Beth Sholom Fall programming Temple Youth times: and is our Hello Sisters, in Washington, D.C. is the social justice arm of the as change agents. RAC-FL is the newest synagogue youth group. BESHTY allows temple youth Reform movement. The Reform movement has state-wide chapter. From now until the election, Jr.to BESHTYconnect (6th-8thwith one Grade) another through fun, engaging, and Hard to believe our first year as been at the vanguard of Prophetic legislation we are focused on getting our friends and Co-Presidents is behind us. We hope Octobermeaningful 6 @ 5:00activities pm on while Zoom exploring their Jewish identity. and leadership for equal rights since the 1960s. neighbors to sign-up to vote-by-mail and get out December 1 @ 5:00 pm on Zoom you had as much fun as we did in all the vote as we seek to become a 100% Voting our different activities. Let the new Famously, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Congregation. And we are phone-banking with the MiniWhat BESHTY kind (3rd-5th of activities Grade) do youth participate year begin. Now that the High Holy Days Voting Rights Act of 1965 were signed or drafted Services for 5781 are complete we want New FL Majority Education Fund to reach voters in Octoberin BESHTY? 13 @ 5:00 pm on Zoom at their historic building in D.C. Today, our to say...thank you to our fantastic Clergy Black and Brown communities. Please join us for our DecemberBESHTY ranges 8 @ 5:00 from pm activities on Zoom that are in the synagogue generation is taking up the renewed call for and Staff for giving us beautiful and Civic Engagement Mitzvah Day on Sunday, October 4 to local field trips and distance travel programs. The youth Let’s hear from the racial justice in America. Micro BESHTY (K- 2nd Grade) meaningful services and a wonderful and for phone-banking throughout the month! group board is instrumental in planning these programs October 20 @ 5:00 pm on Zoom teensway to be themselves: together and safely apart. The murders of George Floyd and Breonna And please fill out a commitment to join our campaign based on the community’s requests and suggestions. December 15 @ 5:00 pm on Zoom It’s a whole new beginning for another Taylor this summer, following a long history of at www.tbsmb.org/govotemiami “I love the BESHTY program because it has Sisterhood year too. It has been unique police brutality against Black people in this allowed me to stay connected to both Judaism As Bridget Floyd, sister of Georg Floyd said at this ToWho register can for join these BESHTY? events, email Rabbi Loiben at andand the delightful Jewish community seeing as so I have many grown of you on country, has sparked a sustained protest movement year’s March on Washington, “My brother cannot be [email protected] youth at Temple Beth or Seth Sholom! Cohen at [email protected] throughoutscreen. You high haveschool! been I have sincea part been of many for social change. More than a quarter-million a voice today. We have to be the voice. We have to be introduceddifferent to programsa wonderful groupand ofmeetings Jewish via people showed up in D.C. in the midst of the teenagers,zoom. while learning extremely valuable the change.” Our generation’s racial justice movement What age groups are eligible for BESHTY? leadership skills. I can not wait to see how my pandemic on the 57th anniversary of March on is in full force. It’s up to us to be the change. Our BESHTY programs are divided by age groups that connectionPlease refer to my to Jewish the videoFaith continues on our to home Washington to demand an end to racist police grow and mature throughout my future!” cover all school-aged youth. page to see your faces and if you were brutality. It is imperative that as a Jewish Shana tova, - Joey Umlas, Miami Beach Senior High panim face School,unable Senior to join us then we look forward community, we show solidarity for reforms for fair Micro BESHTY: Kindergarten- 2nd Grade to you joining us this coming year. policing. To that end, a new interfaith group of el to Mini BESHTY: 2nd Gradepanim - 5thface Grade diverse clergy I am part of is advocating for an “BESHTYSpeaking has ofgiven joining...remember me a safe environment to and Rabbi Bair Junior BESHTY: 6th Grade - 8th Grade independent police oversight commission in ago place online where at I can www.tbsmb.org/sisters be myself. I have made life Senior BESHTY: 9th Grade - 12th Grade long friends through Beshty and TBS which Miami-Dade. PACT is also working on this issue. and become a Sisterhood member if Iyou will be haven’t forever grateful done for.so Therealready. is never Don’t a In addition, in September, Temple Beth Sholom dull moment with the fellow Beshty members, forget, we not only support having fun joined a campaign of the American Jewish Is BESHTY stillPanim happening El Panim despite - the Rabbi Loiben, and Seth, which keeps all of us together but our purpose and goals Committee for #BlackJewishUnity to support pandemic? coming back!” - Chloe Wiesenfeld, Ransom Virtual Small Discussion Groups Evergladesare supporting School, TempleSenior Beth Sholom. legislation to protect both of our communities OF COURSE! Can’t stop won’t stop. We have plenty Stay connected during this time of physical isolation–Consider Your Sisterhood Membership is from hate crimes. (According to the FBI’s statistics, of virtual activities planned for each age group for the important and helpful. joining a Panim el Panim small group which will meet virtually. “BESHTY makes me feel like part of a family at Jews are the most targeted by religiously-motivated Panimwhole el Panim school means year, asface well to face,as a varietycurrently of viain person technology! social TempleWe have Beth many Sholom. new With programsthe activities thatlined hate crimes, while African-Americans are most distanced activities on deck when it’s safe to do so. are planned, I get to spend time with my friends targeted by racially-motivated crimes in this andup helpand out will the begin community soon at withthe same Painting time.” Not ready for a regular commitment? With A Twist. (details to follow on our country). To learn more and write to your elected JoinHow a one-off can group someone for service get viewing involved and discussion in BESHTY? - Liam Berko, Miami Beach Senior High School,website Junior and Temple Talk Weekly e-blast). officials in support of the NO HATE Act by signing experiences.Contact Rabbi Loiben: [email protected] or your name, visit: https://actnow.ajc.org Join Us October 4 for Seth Cohen: [email protected] Looking forward to seeing you on Please contact Greg Lawrence at 786.364.4413 for interest, details, “Iscreen like BESHTY real because soon. I am able to go on fun Over the past many years, state chapters of the Civic Engagement MItzvah Day! and to be placed in a group. trips with my friends and also know that I am Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism have A full listing of open groups can be found on our website: learningHugs, more about being Jewish while on the been organized in seven strategic states where www.tbsmb.org/panimelpanim trip.“ - Josh Tobin, Miami Beach Senior High School,Kim Haber Junior and Phyllis Winston HAKOL OCTOBER 2020 Page 8 Page 9

Sukkot is October 2 and Barb Shimansky, RJE since we’re having Director of School for Living Judaism “Sukkot at Home”... Have You Always Wanted My Consecration ceremony fell on Simchat Torah I am so excited to continue this tradition with our to Own a Sukkah?

5743. I have vague memories of wearing some dress Temple Beth Sholom Consecration class of 5781. Celebrate the holiday of Sukkot in your own comfortable that I am sure I loved at the time but would probably Although Consecration will look entirely different sukkah, designed especially for our warm South Florida now cringe to see in pictures. (I imagine there are this year – our students will not be getting dressed climate. The Sukkot are very easy to assemble, extremely pictures that exist from this day, buried deep in a photo in clothing that will embarrass them decades later, durable and have mesh windows all around the sukkah album in my parents’ basement.) My first grade class and there will be no clomping up the bimah steps to to maximize the airflow so you stay comfortable! Check was called to the bimah, and we clomped up the steps recite the Shema – we will still have the opportunity out their website at www.sukkahsales.com or call/text/ Friday night, October 9 as only a group of first graders can do. We sang the to mark this exciting milestone in their lives as they whatsapp 305.521.9525. Shema as we had been taught in class. And then we begin this phase of their Jewish education with the 5:30 pm Pre-neg: Make your Questions? Contact Mark Baranek at: [email protected] were each handed our own miniature Torah scroll. TBS community. And while little else will be “normal,” Torah-tinis! 6:00–6:45 pm Shabbat, Simchat Torah Holding these prized possessions, we clomped back we will still distribute miniature Torah scrolls to each SPEND TIME IN THE TEMPLE BETH SHOLOM SUKKAH and Consecration down the steps to sit in our designated section in the of our Consecrants. I hope they each find the Torah Please contact Mark Baranek at [email protected] and Joyful Celebration wooden pews of the sanctuary. to be full of treasure still to be discovered – including reserve your time beginning Friday, October 2. the portions they will read in a few years as they Space will be limited. Hope to see you there. 6:45 – 7:15 pm “Zoomhat Torah” At the age of six, I obviously had no idea how involved each become b’nei mitzvah. It is said that the Torah Dance Party in Jewish life I would later become, let alone making should be “sweet as honey on our tongues.” May the SUKKAH DESIGN CONTEST a career of being a Jewish educator. Yet part of my newest learners to our jLAB/TBSIS community find the How creative are you when it comes to building Get your Simchat Torah groove on with this soul must have recognized the beauty of that gift of sweetness in this moment and look back fondly on a Sukkah? Do you need any ideas? dance party for all ages We will have a few architects and designers from Torah. I did not necessarily display it, though I always this experience – hopefully with their mini Torah scroll TBS judging your Sukkot with the winner receiving knew right where it was in a drawer in my bedroom, somewhere nearby. Simchat Torah goodie bags for kids of all a Home Depot Gift Certificate! and I checked on it occasionally throughout the years ages for pick-up at TBS on Friday from to make sure it was still safe. After my Bat Mitzvah, I 2:00–5:00 pm (contact Feel free to reach out to Mark Baranek at [email protected] for details) did what is perhaps the most nerdy Jewish kid thing [email protected] with any questions. ever and I rolled my mini Torah scroll to Lech Lecha, Saturday, October 10 the portion I read when I was first called to the Torah Here are a few ideas to get your creative “juices” flowing. at the age of 13. This mini Torah scroll has survived www.smartcitiesdive.com/ex/sustainablecitiescollective/ modern-sukkah-design-competitions-reimagine- 9:30 am Simchat Torah study the many moves I have made as an adult, and at some ancient-shelters/1004526/ 10:30 am Shabbat, Simchat Torah point along the way, it earned a place of distinction in and Yizkor Service our home, and continues to be displayed among other Jewish ritual objects on a shelf of our credenza, which Reminder: There is The Festive Holiday of Sukkot is just around the corner! one sees immediately upon entering our house. (Some Here’s Your chance to have your own Lulav and Etrog for Sukkot! day, when we can invite guests over again, you are no jLAB on Saturday, welcome to come over and see this for yourself!) Lulav and Etrog will be at the temple for pick-up on October 2. Each of my children received a miniature Torah scroll October 24 while our Checks may be made payable to TBS. upon their own respective Consecration ceremonies, too. They each have also kept their scrolls inside their faculty participates in a Name: ______boxes, preserving them and keeping them protected. Or perhaps it is just that they have forgotten about professional development Phone Number: ______Email: ______the presence of the scrolls in their drawers. # of Lulav and Etrog Sets ______($40.00 per set) Amount Enclosed: ______Regardless, it is a nice, sweet tradition that has Shabbaton. been passed down L’dor v’Dor, from generation to Please contact Director of Congregational Engagement Mark Baranek with any questions at generation, in our family. [email protected] or call 305.538.7231. HAKOL OCTOBER 2020 Page 10 Page 11

Their HIGH HOLY DAYS Memory is a Blessing Alan Caves, Music Director TBS Sholom Rockers Torah Chanters: Zichrono Livracha. Children’s Choir Bart Chepenik & Myra Spindel “For everything there is a season.” Vocalists: Vanessa Ressler - Director Jeff Graff Kohelet 3:1. Vanessa Ressler Jules Alhadeff Shelley & Jon Groff Jennifer Benrey Hailey & Olivia Chemtov Gail Harris Oleva Benrey Shelby Newhouse, uncle of Rabbi Gary Lily & Jacob Palmer Etan Mark Matt Bial (Joanie) Glickstein. Orli, Micah & Nili Ressler Bobbi Ossip Liv Chepenik5781 Emet Sheldon Karen & Marc Rivo Dorothy Mildred Edwards, mother of Vanessa Cohen Adrian & Marlyn Spiegel Lily Whitehead Judy (Roberto) Schaechter. Mason Duboff Hannah Umlas Jean Wodnicki Please join us (virtually) for these Karyn Frank Tony Hart, father of Wendy Hart (Ronald Adult Education Opportunities Tori Greene Musicians: Shofar Blowers: Schrager); grandfather of Emma and Max. Emily Groff Marshal Folstein - flute Micahel Conway beginning in October Helena Kristol Josh Laurence - percussion Dana Grodin Sara Eidelman, great-aunt of Gabi Lieberman Aaron Merritt - cellist Chaim LieberPerson Mark Baranek. Social Justice: The Heart of Judaism in Theory Noah Wolfe Jenni Person Post B’nei Mitzvah Participants: Quentin Sandler, father of Sherry (Arthur) and Practice (Melton Curriculum) Bobbi Ossip Adam Snitzer Carson Goodman Zimand, Gary (Shellie) Sandler and Iz Perlman Jonathan Tamen Allegra Steen Gail Reiss; grandfather of Stacey (David) Tuesdays, Lunch and Learn, Micah Ressler Artie Unger Emily Wrubel Schweiger, Scott (Shari) Coltune, Steven 12 noon -1:00 pm, October 20, 27; Orli Ressler

Sandler, Amy Sandler, Dana (Austin) November 3, 20, 17, 24 Karen Rivo Thank you to Chris & Carla Sloan & 2C Media for their generous support of our High Sandler McMahon, Kristen (Atzmon) Lorraine Steen Holy Day Services and to Morey Moss for the beautiful bima flowers . Sakuri, Jamie (Gregg) Fishman, Fee: $136 / student. Registration includes a course and Shawn (Danielle) Reiss; book to be sent to your home. See page 15 for more and twelve great-grandchildren. information. We’d like to take this opportunity Judith Greenfield, sister of Pandemic Parenting with Rabbi Pomerantz to thank the following committee members Stephen Zaron. Wednesday mornings, 9:00 am, whose names were inadvertently left October 28; December 9; January 20; off the printed list in the September issue. Ira Sandler, father of Shelby (Ari) Kempler; February 24; April 14. grandfather of Chloe, Asher, and Jordyn; Vocalists & Musicians husband of Phyllis Sandler. RSVP: [email protected] Israel Committee COVID Task Force Building Committee Victor Citarella, father of Sofia (Darren) Bruck; Grandfather of Viola, Ruby, What does the Reform movement say about • Karen Rivo • Allan Pekor • Michael Pardo • Carl Linder • Etan Mark • Lee Feinberg Kora and Marlon ______? with Rabbi Loiben • Marc Rivo • Michael Weinberg • Randy Weisburd Sara Snyder, grandmother of Nikki (Randy) Monday afternoons, 12 noon -1:00 pm, • Miriam Steinberg • Julie Basner • Jose Benrey • Richard Zinn • Vanessa Ressler • Nikki Baron Weisburd; great-grandmother of Hilary and November 2, 9, 16, 23, 30; December 6. • Neil Dubrow • Nancy Ratzan • Gary Rosenberg Ryan • Dan Nir • Kenny Ratzan • Gary Ressler RSVP: [email protected] • Rachel Curtis • Marte Singerman • Steve Chaneles • Yael Steinhart • Robert Hertzberg • Carlo Pirari A full list of our offerings • Goldie LieberPerson • Stevan Pardo can be found on our website: Golden Members • Bruce & Diane Katzen tbsmb.org/education/adult-study/ • Stevan & Adrienne Pardo

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A virtual bulletin board for Sabrina Dryfoos will be called to the Torah as a Minchah Bat Mitzvah on October 3, members of Temple Beth Sholom 2020. She is the daughter of Adriana and Glenn Dryfoos and the sister of Louis Dryfoos. Her grandparents are Flor and Jaime Lozano and Charles and Sondraz”l Dryfoos. As part of her mitzvot, Sabrina was involved with Purr-fact Paw-looza, a community event that she organized with two friends to raise awareness and raise money in tbsmb.miami support of pet adoptions. Share resources, referrals and ideas for our community. Vanessa Levy will be called to the Torah as a Minchah Bat Mitzvah on October 17, 2020. She is the daughter of Nicole Rekant and Joshua Levy and sister to Alexandra Levy. Her grandparents are Susan and Kenneth Rekant and Roberta and Robert Levy. As part of her Mitzvah, Vanessa will be serving meals to homeless at Miami Mission.

Ellie Stokes will be called to the Torah as a Minyan Bat Mitzvah on October 24, 2020. She is the daughter of Amy and Richard Stokes and sister of Spencer Stokes. Her grandparents are Lenore and Robert Safinski and Elaine and Norman Stokes. As part of her mitzvot, Ellie will be promoting awareness and raising funds to support research of BRCA (a genetic condition closely tied to the development of breast, ovarian and other cancers) @bake4brca.

Sydney Gould will be called to the Torah as a Minchah Bat Mitzvah on October 24, 2020 She is the daughter of Adina and Justin Gould and sister of Aston Gould. Her grandparents are Merle and Frank Setren and Roberta Gould and the late Ronald Gould.

Amelia Lazarus will be called to the Torah as a Bat Mitzvah on October 31, 2020. She is the daughter of Melissa and David Lazarus and sister of Aden and Adrian Lazarus. Her grandparents are Ellen and Alan Chesler of Boca Raton, FL and Jerry Lazarus of Denver, CO. HAKOL OCTOBER 2020 Page 14 Page 15 “Nearly half of Americans age 55 and older lack written wills…” *

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always easy for English-speaking (chapter in https://mts.intechopen. underlying unity of identity, but there olim. The establishment of a Reform com/booksprocess/aboutthebook/ are also many areas of disagreement community in my home town of Rosh chapter/197094/book/6950; both with regard to priorities and policy. An Interview with Dr. Anthony Luder Pina provided the ideal solution to our Complicated War Trauma and Care of Things can change very rapidly and from Rosh Pina, our Sister Congregation in Israel wishes and needs. Over the last 9 years, the Wounded eds. Zarka and Lerner, not always predictably. Yet I think it By Karen and Marc Rivo our involvement in the community has available from Amazon) . is important never to lose sight of the enriched and beautified our lives and ball. The fate of the Jewish people A Conversation with Anthony Luder, questions we asked him, and decision to make Aliyah. It has been opened up many avenues for personal Reflecting upon your visit to everywhere is inextricably linked. Founding Member of Rosh Pina Reform his answers. a cardinal achievement for me to betterment and development. Temple Beth Sholom, and Reform One cannot imagine the life of Jews Congregation see my 3 children and their children synagogues in the UK, USA, anywhere in the world without Israel. Why did you and Judith, as a newly in turn to grow up as Israelis, living, What has been your experience as Australia, and Spain, what can Israelis Israel is exciting, bewildering, inspiring, Professor Anthony Luder is a trained pediatrician and a nurse, and developing, serving and working in a physician with the IDF – the Israel learn from World Reform Jewry? beautiful and dynamic, but also Pediatrician and Director of Ziv Medical with a young child and another on Israel with Hebrew as their first tongue Defense Forces? And tell us about infuriating, maddening and sometimes Reform communities throughout the Centre’s Children’s Hospital, and Vice the way, decide to leave England and cultural base, experiencing Jewish your and Ziv Hospital’s involvement disappointing, and many other things world present a mosaic of different Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at and make Aliyah? art, music, literature and all the myriad with Syrian war casualties? as well. But above all it is ours. It is Jewish life, reflecting the wide variety Bar Ilan University Medical School in aspects of being an Israeli Jew. Life incumbent for Jews everywhere Making Aliyah is a very personal of cultures and countries in which Safed, Northern Israel. Anthony and his in Israel has not always been easy As a “oleh hadash” (new immigrant) at to have their own relationship with decision for any diaspora Jew. In my they live. My experiences of contact late wife Judith (Z”L) made Aliyah to or comfortable. Yet, it is these very the age of 30, I was inducted straight Israel and Israelis, and the opposite case, the idea of giving my life the with Reform congregations in the Israel from England in 1983. Anthony challenging experiences that help to into the “miluim”(reserves) in the IDF, is just as true. Mutual tolerance and extra significance of participating countries mentioned have taught me is a loving father of 3 children - Ayelet, fashion one’s personality and approach serving as a military physician. For understanding is crucial. Education in the historic journey of the Jewish that underneath the rich tapestry of Daniel and Ari - and 5 grandchildren. to life. It is no accident that Israel is many years I was called to service for the young to appreciate the roles people to return to our Homeland, Jewish expression with all its different known for its strong social solidarity, for a few weeks per year, performing of Israel and the diaspora is vital. If and to contribute to its redemption, colors and customs, there are deep The Children’s Medical Center at mutual sense of responsibility, duties in the fields of battle trauma, American and Israeli Jews can have independence and justice began basic values which all share. Primary Ziv Hospital is the main hospital for innovative and creative abilities and Field Medicine (including 2 tours that kind of relationship, they will find it when I visited Israel in April 1967 just among these is a fundamental love children in the Upper Galilee, and also above all for its collective courage in Lebanon) and also routine base- immensely rewarding. To a large extent before the June Six-Day war. Israel’s of and commitment to Israel. Of has provided much needed medical and determination. When I see the camp clinic practice. In the last few our futures depend upon it. survival and overwhelming victory in course, love and commitment don’t treatment to Syrians coming into Israel challenges facing the offspring of family years I was “put out to grass” in the that war inspired an entire generation necessarily mean automatic agreement from the Golan Heights during the and friends who remained in England, Recruitment Office, evaluating new Professor Luder with Israel President and changed Zionism for me from an and uncritical acceptance of the Israel Syrian civil war. The credo “each is I am doubly satisfied. recruits. Overall I valued greatly the Reuven Rivlin during a 2018 visit with arcane idea into a mission to be fulfilled. government’s policies and behavior. cared for according to his/her need” sense of comradeship and service senior Ziv Hospital delegation to the During the 70’s and 80’s as I trained to It does mean that Reform Jews are is carefully implemented with great Why was it important for you to join to the nation that miluim service President’s residence to mark 5 years of become a doctor in the UK, Canada and always working for a better, stronger efforts by the medical workers, soldiers a Reform synagogue in Israel? entailed. My links to “Tzahal” (the IDF) the Syrian medical assistance campaign the USA, my activities with Jewish and and safer Israel and specifically for and volunteers of Northern Israel. strengthened and drew closer during Zionist youth movements solidified my more acceptance of non-Orthodox I went to Sunday school (“cheder”) the years 2013-2019 when my hospital Anthony is a founding member of (and after we married, our) intention to Judaism in the Jewish state. Israelis and had my Bar-Mitzvah in a Reform (Ziv Medical Centre in Safed) took a the Rosh Pina Reform Congregation, make Aliyah. Judith’s and my decision can learn from this unswerving synagogue in London, but had little major role in the large campaign to which is Israel’s northernmost Reform to live in Israel was cemented by a dedication shown by their own people interest in religion for most of my life. take in, treat and rehabilitate victims congregation. Rabbi Rick Jacobs, transformative visit we made in 1980 to abroad, remembering that in the US For me, Zionism was the next stage of of the Syrian civil war. The border is President of the North American help and advocate for Refusenik Jews alone the large majority of Jews are Judaism’s evolution. However, while only 19 miles from the hospital and Union of Reform Judaism, visited in the former Soviet Union. non-Orthodox and that most of these I am not a religious believer in the the tragic events in Syria impacted with Professor Luder at Ziv Hospital Jews are from the Reform Movement. traditional sense, I began to realize us in many ways. Many thousands and Rabbi Tlalit Shavit of Rosh Pina’s When you reflect on your decision It hardly needs to be emphasized how that there was a large hole in my of Syrians owe their health and lives Reform Congregation. Anthony to leave England, how has life in our critical the role of Reform Jews is in education and life in that I was ignorant to the expert top-of-the-line medical travels on behalf of the World Union Jewish Homeland, in the land of our the diaspora and the US specifically of much of the heritage, collective and social treatment they received in for Progressive Judaism, most recently Torah, with its Jewish calendar, Hebrew for promoting Israel’s interests in their memory and narrative that defines us Israel during those years. Even though to Australia, and also lectures to language and Israeli culture enriched respective nations. Israelis also need as Jews. I became aware that much of Syria maintains bitter and hostile Shabbat services at Rosh Pina Reform audiences in the US and UK. you and your family? to learn to respond with similar respect the modern secular majority in Israel enmity and a ferociously violent hatred Congregation was in many ways building a Hebrew- and sensitivity for the attitudes of their Professor Luder accompanied Rabbi Not being an observant Jew in the toward Israel to this day, the plight of speaking Middle Eastern country, a fellow Jews outside Israel. This is an Tlalit Shavit of the Rosh Pina Reform Orthodox religious sense, I had great the Syrian people, victims of their own Levantine society that paid cultural area that needs much more work and Congregation to Miami Beach over the doubts whether I could raise my cruel governmental regime, touched lip-service to, but was alienated and attention in my view. January 31, 2020 Shabbat weekend children in England to maintain a the hearts of all Israelis and especially distanced from, its Jewish roots. Much to commemorate with Rabbi Gayle deep Jewish identify, commitment those in the healthcare system. It was a What do you wish for American of the blame for this could be laid at Pomerantz the beginning of a historic and sense of belonging. For me, for privilege to work with these unfortunate Jews to understand about Israel the gates of the politicized, corrupt partnership between our two Reform an individual to live a life dedicated to people and it demonstrated to one and our Israeli Jewish “family”? and cruel ultra-Orthodox monopoly synagogues. During the Shabbat more than simply his or her own private and all the true quality and nature of in Israel. We were also searching for weekend, our congregation had the concerns or interests, is the secret of Israel and its people. The tragic and Israel has a complex relationship with ways to deepen our absorption into opportunity to get to know Anthony true happiness and significance. This complex individual tales of this period the diaspora including the US. It is very Israeli society, something that is not Luder. These were some of the many was a major factor in Judith and my have been collated and published much like a family. There is the deep HAKOL OCTOBER 2020 Page 22 HAKOL OCTOBER 2020 Page 23 He She Invite an out-of- town friend or family member to join us for They services to see who we are!

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