CHANUKAH ISSUE KEHILATH JESHURUN BULLETIN

Volume LXXV, Number 2 December 1, 2005 29 Cheshvan 5766

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KJ ANNUAL DINNER to benefit Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun This Saturday Night, December 3 8:00 pm Photo courtesy of Israel Bonds Call 212-423-5866 Morris and Ida Newman December 10, 2005 or e-mail [email protected] Educational Center for last-minute reservations Special Guest Speaker 60 East 78th Street, New Y ork City EYTAN SCHWARTZ DINNER CO-CHAIRS Barbara & Ben Klapper Randy & Mitch Krevat Lizzy & Josh Trump Eytan Schwartz is the winner of Israel’s top reality show, “The SAMUEL S. SILVERSTEIN SHABBAT SCHOLAR Ambassador,” in which thirteen men and women competed for the right to JANUARY 13-14, 2006 represent Israel abroad with the NYC- Our Scholar based advocacy group Israel At Heart. DR. MARC B. SHAPIRO His victory was viewed in one of the Weinberg Chair in Judaic Studies highest rated shows in Israeli TV history. at the University of Scranton The entire congregational community is encouraged to attend. January 13th - Friday Evening Dinner: “RABBI JEHIEL JACOB WEINBERG AND THE CHALLENGE OF HALAKHAH AND MODERNITY” SERMONS FRIDAY EVENING SHABBAT DINNER January 14th - Saturday Morning: Members Non-Members “THE LIMITS OF ORTHODOX THEOLOGY: J Adults: $35 $40 ACASE STUDY” A JEWISH RESPONSE Juniors (ages 12-18): $30 $35 TO SUFFERING Children (ages 2-11): $18 $30 RABBI HASKEL LOOKSTEIN (see Page 6) The last scholar to receive a Ph.D. from World and Modern Orthodoxy: The Life and - Dr. Isadore Twersky z”l, Marc B. Shapiro Works of Rabbi Jehiel Jacob Weinberg, holds the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Chair 1884-1966 and The Limits of Orthodox ALIENS AND US in Judaic Studies at the University of Theology: Maimonides' Thirteen Principles RABBI MEIR SOLOVEICHIK Scranton, Pennsylvania. A graduate of Reappraised, both of which were National (see Page 8) Brandeis and Harvard universities, Dr. Jewish Book Award Finalists. We are Shapiro is the author of Between the Yeshiva honored to host this fine young scholar. Page 2 KEHILATH JESHURUN BULLETIN

Kesher presents... WELCOME Kehilath Jeshurun warmly welcomes the following new Uncle Moishy members who have joined the Congregation between the printing In Concert! of the last Bulletin, September 12, and this Bulletin, which went to Date: Sunday, December 18 press on November 21: Time: 11:00 am Abigail and Benjamin Archibald p Jacqueline and Anthony Bennett Location: Heyman Auditorium Matthew Bryskin Michael Cohen For Tickets, Contact 212-987-3306 or [email protected] Joshua Fruchter Bruriah and Joey Grover More Upcoming Great Kesher Events: Liat and Dr. Eric Heller Manfred Joseph Melavah Malka with Rabbi Avrumi Shayna Greenwald Kahn n and his Magical Keyboard - February 4 and Theodore Kahn Melissa Kushner Interactive Cooking Workshop - February 18 and Jeremy Kaplan Spring Concert - March 12 q Rina and Zachary Kestenbaum Carol and Roberto Krutiansky Lee and Murray Kushner MEN’S CLUB SUNDAY SUPPER LECTURE Jessica and Dr. David Lefkowitz CO-SPONSORED BY THE DAVID S. WYMAN INSTITUTE FOR HOLOCAUST STUDIES Jonathan Miller Amy and Daniel Nissanoff featuring Michael Smirloch Hannah Zimet PROF. LAUREL LEFF corcorangroup AUTHOR real estate

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NATHAN AND VIVIAN FINK OPERATION L’HITRAOT XV MEMORIAL LECTURE PASSOVER 2006 MISSION TO ISRAEL - APRIL 10-21 RAV HERSHEL For the past 5 years, members of lectures from some of the country's SCHACHTER the Kehilath Jeshurun community have movers and shakers. This year's followed the tradition of their itinerary is still being planned, but it "SHEDDING LIGHT ancestors by making a "pilgrimage" to promises to be an equally exciting ON CHANUKAH" Israel for Passover. experience. This year's pilgrimage is Rabbi Lookstein will once again Wednesday, December 21 scheduled to depart on Monday, April be leading a gala Seder at the Inbal, a 8:00 PM 10, 2006 and return on April 21, 2006. hotel which is known for its top notch Rav Hershel Schachter As in the past, the group will stay at cuisine. Also included in the package is one of the foremost Jerusalem's famed Inbal Hotel, located are all the Chag and Shabbat meals, as halakhic decisors of the in the heart of Jerusalem, within well as two exciting days of special Modern Orthodox walking distance of the Old City as touring. community. His annual well as the New City's bustling Ariel Tours will be handling all mini-course at KJ is a downtown shopping areas. the details and arrangements for the valuable resource and In past years, KJ Missions have trip. Registration is not yet open. Keep we are honored to host been to some profoundly exciting checking www.arieltours.com/kj for him in our community. places, including the Begin Museum, more information as it becomes PURIM LECTURE: MARCH 1 Neot Kedumim, Afrikef Monkey Park, available. Keep in mind that each year the Palmach Museum, Yad V'Shem, this trip sells out quickly. Last year’s www.YVstudio.com Ein Gedi and various army bases. trip was completely booked within Participants have also had the three days of registration opening. If Fine Decorative Painting opportunity to work on various chesed you would like your name added to the Trompe l’Oeil, Venetian Plaster, projects. KJ Missions have also had notification list, please send an email Faux Finishes, Gilding the pleasure of hearing insightful now to [email protected] Quality Classical & KJ ROLLS OUT THE "RED CARPET" Contemporary Murals WITH A NEW SHABBAT HOSPITALITY INITIATIVE Over 15 years of excellent local As anyone who frequents KJ's there are people at shul who request residential & commercial references services knows, the Rabbi invites at hosting. 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While many 10% Discount leaders from Yeshiva University staying hospitality minded members of the to KJ Members in the neighborhood. Such a warm and community have graciously provided 15% OFF WINE BY THE CASE welcoming atmosphere is indeed a KJ weekly meals and lodging in the past, FREE DELIVERY hallmark. we are trying to broaden the list of hosts This year, under the leadership of to keep pace with the dramatic increase KJ SYNAGOGUE MEMBERSHIP: volunteer Hospitality Coordinator in college aged Youth Department staff. Joshua Trump, the synagogue is Therefore, if you are amenable to “BEAPART attempting to formalize this community serving as a "stand-by" host for one or OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE” service by asking 1-2 families per more meals this year, and/or you can Contact Leonard Silverman Shabbat/Yom Tov meal to agree in provide sleeping accommodations for 212-774-5680 advance to serve as pre-scheduled the occasional guest, please contact [email protected] "stand-by" meal hosts in the event that [email protected] or 212-774-5655. Page 4 KEHILATH JESHURUN BULLETIN CHANUKAH BEGINS SUNDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 25 Chanukah celebrates the miracles of Temple, we apply the same rules to both: possible. We start with our own family but the spiritual and military victories of the the candles and their flames become holy we often place the Menorah in the window Maccabees against the Hellenist tyrants and as such cannot be used for any other to proclaim our belief to others. that imposed anti-religious rule and purpose. With the exception of the Moreover, we publicize the miracle by desecrated the Holy Temple in 165 BCE. Shamash, we cannot read by their lights or singing the complete Hallel in the The 25th of Kislev was the day the use them to light another candle. morning service and by adding Al Ha- Maccabees entered the Temple following Time for Lighting Nisim in our daily Shemona Esrei and in the battle and wanted to restart the Holy Candles must be lit after nightfall Birkat ha-Mazon. Service that had ceased under the foreign (about 40 minutes after sunset) and last for Material Pleasures rule. The Maccabees found only one day’s at least a half-hour. On Friday afternoon, In addition to the spiritual nature of the supply of oil that they could use to Chanukah candles should be lit before holiday, we have added, in later times, the rededicate the Menorah. Yet that tiny flask Shabbat candles, and should be of a type physical pleasures of special foods (latkes, lasted until they were able to create new, that will last over an hour (this leads to jelly donuts), gift-giving (never a bad pure oil – a delay of eight days. many adopting the custom of using olive- idea, especially Jewish books), and parties The victory established Jewish oil based lamps). On Saturday night, the (that serve as a means for fellowship and religious and political sovereignty in Israel candles are lit after Havdalah. for publicizing the miracle). during the second Temple times. This Candle Arrangement Chanukah is a time when we should miracle of Jewish independence had not The candles are set from the right side renew our commitment and devotion to been seen since the destruction of the First of the Menorah as the candle lighter faces God. The brave Maccabees who risked Temple and the assassination of the then it. The Menorah should be placed in an their lives for religious freedom should governor, Gedalyah. area where it will not need to be moved serve as a model for us to celebrate those Primarily, we celebrate Chanukah with after being lit. Safety is also a major freedoms and our joy in service spiritual expressions: (1) lighting candles concern, so please do not leave the home to God. in commemoration of the miracle of the with the candles unattended. rededication of the Temple, (2) singing Lighting the Candles The Gift of Candles Hallel in praise of God’s deliverance from The lights are lit from left to right – Through the courtesy of the our enemies, and (3) adding Al Ha-Nisim starting with the newest candle first. We Kehilath Jeshurun Benevolent Fund, in our prayers of thanksgiving in begin by lighting the shamash, then we Chanukah candles have been sent to recognition of both aspects of the miracle say the blessings: (1) ner shel Chanukah, every recipient of the KJ Bulletin. of Chanukah. We also have physical (2) she-asa nisim, and on the first night we The proceeds of the Fund are used pleasures and celebrations by having (4) add (3) sheheche’yanu. Once the blessings for deserving individuals who might not special foods, (5) gift giving, and even (6) are said, we light the first candle and begin otherwise come to the attention of parties. singing the songs “Hanerot Hallalu” – public charity. The Candles which explains the reasons for the Those who receive candles are The prevailing custom is for each ceremony – and “Maoz Tzur” which urged to contribute to the KJ member of the family to light his or her describes all the salvations wrought by Benevolent Fund by sending a check to own menorah which will have as many God for the Jewish People. the synagogue office. candles as that night of the holiday plus the Publicizing the Miracle May you and your family have a shamash. Since the Chanukah candles are We light the Menorah so we can Happy Chanukah! to commemorate the Menorah of the publicize the miracle to as many people as

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Long Island Westchester New Jersey Please call 212-717-8400 Wednesday, December 28th at 8:00 PM for reservations. 1623 Second Avenue New York, NY 10028 KEHILATH JESHURUN BULLETIN Page 5 KJ Provides Relief to Hurricane Katrina Victims The following article is based on a piece by Eva Jacob Barkoff that appeared in The Times-Picayune on Sept. 18, 2005: “From New York, a Jewish Congregation Comes to Aid of Katrina's Victims” When news hit New York of the people, we did all that we could.” Hurricane Katrina catastrophe in Below are some of the New Orleans, volunteers of letters our community received Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun and from Katrina victims who The Ramaz School quickly benefited from the effort: mobilized to provide relief to the Dear Friends: victims of the disaster. On Sunday, Thank you for all the things September 18, an 18-wheeler truck you sent to Houston Chabad for delivered thousands of donations of Katrina Victims. We need all the toiletries, clothes, pillows, linens and help we can get to get back to toys, as well as religious items for normal living. We are trying to the upcoming High Holy Day get our house rebuilt as it was services. The truck made its way to totally destroyed by flood & Houston, where the gifts were wind. Thanks again. Fondly, distributed to thousands of people The children of KJ-Ramaz helped load the Katrina Relief Truck Diana and Josh Gorlin who evacuated New Orleans and were donated items to Houston.” L’Shana Tovah. Thank you so much dislocated to Texas. Stacy Scheinberg and “I literally made one phone call to a for thinking of my family and the many Mitch Krevat spearheaded the relief effort local company, Moishe's Moving others here in Houston from New Orleans. with many other KJ members. “We Systems,” Scheinberg said. “And as soon Your kindness is well appreciated and literally put this together in less than a as I said what we were planning to do, the means so much during these difficult times. week,” Stacy said. “Everyone affected by owner of the company told me they would It is organizations and people like you who the hurricane has been on my mind for donate the truck, the gas and the time of have truly made a difference in our lives. days. I knew I wanted to and needed to do the drivers to make the delivery.” The Thank you again. Jodi, Raul, Selah, Maya something to help. So I went to Rabbi kindness and generosity of the 1,100 & Gavriel Ziguelbom Lookstein, explained what we wanted to families of Kehilath Jeshurun, as well as do, and he said to do whatever you can. that of residents of the Upper East Side, Dear Kehillas Jeshurun: as a Katrina made the drive “a huge success,” evacuee with a family, your chesed was Krevat said. “So many people beyond our expectations! As someone who helped to make this possible,” lost a home, dealing with financial stresses Krevat said. “And the more we (which we, thank God, never dealt with talked about it, the more people before), your assistance came as a gift wanted to help. Everyone, young from Hashem (and His helpers). May and old, performed a mitzvah, a Hashem keep all of you in kind. How good deed.” wonderful the feeling to know that people “The tragedy of this storm has thought of us during such a shocking time. The KJ-Ramaz Katrina Relief Truck brought out so much good in I pray no one ever again experiences this people,” Scheinberg said. “This is a horror & fear. Thank God we have our You have the support of the synagogue.” good example of when people work lives, but the ordeal cannot be explained “As I began to think about the High together we can all make a difference.” unless you see it with your own eyes. After Holy Days, I could not help but think about The donated items were sent to a six weeks I returned....speechless. Thank the Jewish people from the area who had to warehouse facility in the Houston area and you, thank you! E. Guttman-Schreiber leave their homes because of Hurricane were distributed among the Katrina,” Krevat added. “And I am sure participating partners in the many left without some of the traditional project: Chabad, Feed the Children, Jewish items used during and for the High Second Baptist Church, Star of Holy Days.” Scheinberg and Krevat Hope Shelters and the Robert M. worked side by side, contacting members Beren Hebrew Academy of of the congregation, family and friends for Houston. Also distributed were donations of not only religious items for $1,000 in debit cards to Wal-Mart the High Holy Days but items for anyone and Target. “From the beginning, in need who had been affected by the Stacy and I knew that we would not hurricane. “From the beginning, we want to look back and wish we had wanted to expand the circle of all people in done something to help,” Krevat need to include Jews and non-Jews,” said. “And we both now know, KJ volunteers Mitch Krevat, Stacy Scheinberg Krevat said. “Next was how to get the that with the help of so many and Rabbi Haskel Lookstein Page 6 KEHILATH JESHURUN BULLETIN A JEWISH RESPONSE TO SUFFERING - Part II - Rabbi Haskel Lookstein - The following sermon was delivered by Rabbi Haskel Lookstein on Rosh Hashanah 2005/5766. It was inspired by Rav Joseph Dov Soloveitchik's volume “Out Of The Whirlwind.” Part I had been based on the Rav’s essay “A Halakhic Approach to Suffering,” found in that same volume, and was delivered by Rabbi Lookstein on Rosh Hashanah 2001/5762. Both sermons are available on the KJ website’s archive section. There is a well-known aphorism that who understood God's thinking,- yode'a beautiful words. This letter stands at the Jews like to quote as one year passes into da'at elyon - and that was Bilaam, the top of his most inspiring and instructive the next: “Tichleh shana v'kilelotecha; rasha. And the Talmud (Berakhot 7a) messages. tachel shana u'virchoteha,” which had an unkind reaction to his arrogance: There are two principles enunciated means: “Let the old year with its curses hashta, da'at b'hemto lo yada; da'at here in the Rav's approach to suffering end and the new year with its blessings elyon mi havi yada? “Behold! He didn't and tragedy: begin.” To which everyone in this shul even understand his donkey's thinking - 1. No one has a right to explain today will surely answer: “Amen!” so he understood the thinking of the God's ways. We do not understand We have certainly suffered our share Divine?” creation or destruction. God's ways are of tragedies this year: untimely deaths; The Rav, of blessed memory, inscrutable, just as God Himself is sudden onset of illness; the sadness felt countered this dangerous, delusional unfathomable. Job thought he could watching the deterioration in some of thinking elegantly in a 1965 letter understand God's ways - and he was our elderly; painful family traumas, summarizing a lecture of his. It is found rebuked for that. The Psalmist knew including - especially - separation and in the introduction to “Out Of The better (59:4): Ki hiney orvu l'nafshi “For divorce. All of these so-called “normal” Whirlwind.” He wrote: behold my soul was ambushed - yaguru tragedies in our personal lives have been “The gist of my discourse was that alai azim - powerful forces surrounded compounded by the global and Judaism did not approach the problem of me - lo fishi v'lo chatati, Ha-Shem - communal suffering which we have evil under the speculative-metaphysical God; it was not because of my sins or my seen: the Tsunami in Southeast Asia; aspect. For such an inquiry would be a mistakes.” Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita futile undertaking. As long as the human 2. So if the response is not to ask along the Gulf Coast; and, for Jews, the mind is unable to embrace creation in its “why,” what should be the response? uprooting of thousands of Jews from entirety and to gain an insight into the The Rav answers: Not “why” but “what their homes in Gaza and the Northern very essence and purposiveness of being now?” “What should I do?” “How West Bank. Whatever one's political as such, it would not succeed in its should I respond?” view, except for the Leon Wieseltiers attempt to resolve the dilemma of evil. And the answer is twofold: among us, the specter of Jews being The latter is interwoven into the very A. Fight suffering and tragedy with expelled from their homes was a human fabric of reality and cannot be every weapon we possess. We discussed tragedy of immense proportions. understood outside its total ontological this response on Rosh Hashanah 2001, How are we to respond to such configuration. Job was in error because one year after the outbreak of the personal and communal tragedy? One he tried to grasp the nature of evil. Intifada and ten days after 9/11. It was response, publicly proclaimed by some Therefore, Judaism has recommended also following the summer during which well-known rabbis and not so well- that the metaphysical inquiry be my sister - aleha ha-shalom - was losing known ministers, is to point a finger at replaced by the halakhic ethical gesture. her battle with cancer. Fight evil with all the victims. Katrina, said one Man should not ask: Why evil? He the weapons available, said the Rav, outstanding rabbinic leader, was should rather raise the question: What whether that evil is human evil or illness. America's punishment for supporting am I supposed to do if confronted with As my great-grandfather, the RaMaZ, Israel's withdrawal from Gaza; and its evil; how should I behave vis-a-vis evil? used to say: “When you get sick you victims suffered because they don't The latter is a powerful challenge to man should say a lot of Tehilim - and find a study Torah. Others - Jews and and it is the duty of man to meet this good doctor!” - that is: use all the Christians - saw the wrath of God being challenge boldly and courageously. weapons available. vented on New Orleans for what many Suffering, in the opinion of Judaism, B. But the experience of suffering believe to be its decadent lifestyle. must not be purposeless, wasted. Out of requires an additional response besides The Talmud in Brachot 5a does, in suffering must emerge the ethical norm, fighting. Suffering, says the Rav, must fact, urge us to do teshuva when the call for repentance, for self- not be purposeless; wasted. It must be suffering strikes, but it does not assume elevation. Judaism wants to convert the redeemed by feeling and action. Listen that such teshuva explains God's ways. passional frustrating experience into an to his words (Out of the Whirlwind, pp. In all of the Torah there was only one integrating, cleansing and redeeming 202-3): “Grief must not enhance one's religious personality who described factor.” self-regard and self-care and render him himself - rather pretentiously - as one The Rav spoke and wrote many completely oblivious to the suffering of KEHILATH JESHURUN BULLETIN Page 7 others. The grieving person must also This heroic response to suffering is KJ FOOD PANTRY be disturbed by the pain sustained by his also reflected in a remarkable comment fellow man. He should share the other's of Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, of blessed REALLY DELIVERS burden, even though he seems memory. My friend, Dr. Ike Hershopf, There is an enormous problem completely preoccupied with his once brought his aunt - a Holocaust facing the New York Jewish community agonizing private burden.” survivor - to see Rav Feinstein. So today: HUNGER. According to a recent Now, this is not a natural reaction. overwhelmed was she by this great study by UJA-Federation of New York Much more natural are the words Talmid Chacham that she approached and Metropolitan Council on Jewish spoken to the Rav by a young widow him and hugged and kissed him. Ike, Poverty, nearly one-third of New York's who was grieving for her husband and somewhat mortified by his aunt's rather Jewish population is hungry. who attended the funeral of her best unusual demonstration of affection for a Approximately 51,000 hungry Jews are friend's husband who was killed in an scholar-saint, apologized to Rav children. Imagine a nearly sell-out crowd accident. She said: “Rabbi, I wish I Feinstein, saying: “My aunt is not at Yankee Stadium, each seat occupied by could feel sorry for her. I know she religious so she doesn't know.” Rav a hungry Jewish child here in New York. loved her husband dearly. But I cannot. Feinstein responded: “Your aunt has Last year, KJ's response to this enormous She is not better than I am. I sustained numbers on her arm; she is holier than problem was the launching of the KJ this dreadful loss and survived. Why I.” Rav Feinstein, like the Rav, no Food Pantry. can't she?” stranger to suffering himself, was Now in its second operating season, This natural self-absorption must be sensitive to the suffering of this the Congregation's volunteer-driven confronted and transcended, says the Holocaust survivor and considered her Food Pantry is proving that the world Rav. Our suffering should make us tragic experience to have been indeed rests upon Chesed. Every Monday evening, clients come to the more sensitive to the suffering of others, redemptive. synagogue doors to receive packages not less. This sometimes requires a To sum up our thoughts on a proper overflowing with an assortment of heroic effort but it is one which Judaism response to tragedy, let me quote a nutritious premium foods. To experience requires of us. And many make that younger colleague of mine, Rabbi the joy that comes from such elemental effort, hard as it may seem. Chaim Steinmetz of Montreal: human contact is to experience the For example: a young man, who “Tragedy,” he said, “should not lead us fulfillment of the verse in Ashrei: "God became a quadriplegic when hit by a to point our finger, but rather to open our opens His hand to provide sustenance for wave on the eve of his 21st birthday, hand.” all." established a foundation to help cure If we can avoid pointing fingers at Led by Sisterhood Co-President spinal cord injuries and help support God or mankind, if we can fight the Stacy Scheinberg, a dedicated team of emotionally those who are struck by challenges of tragedy with all available Ramaz Upper School students pre- them. Or, a young woman who suffered weapons, and if our suffering sensitizes package bags to insure that every client from breast cancer established us to open our hands to help and to receives his or her full complement of Sharsheret, an organization to give empathize with others who suffer, then provisions. Each bag is individualized to support to Jewish women who are we can pray and hope that the old year the client's dietary needs and preferences. grappling with this disease. In each and its curses will indeed have ended A cart with baskets of fresh produce and case, suffering led not to self-absorption and a new year and its blessings will fresh, delicious donated Orwasher's but rather to greater personal and social truly begin. bread is there for the clients' choosing. sensitivity. To our volunteers, the clients are gracious and grateful, and not a few linger to share SHABBAT AT KJ their life stories. One client, a child SUPER SUNDAY KESHER survivor of the Holocaust who hid in the DECEMBER 11 YOUNG PEOPLE’S MINYAN forests for years to escape the Nazis, Falk Auditorium - 9:15 AM relayed how he came to America and Special Shiur & Breakfast Dec. 10, Jan. 7, Feb. 25, March 11 eventually became a concert pianist with Rabbi David Flatto playing at the world's greatest Following 8:30 AM Services HASHKAMA MINYAN Max. J. Etra Chapel - 7:15 AM performance halls, producing a yellowed Community Blood Drive Dec. 3 & 17, Jan. 7 & 21, program guide from Carnegie Hall with 9 AM - 3:30 PM Feb. 4 & 25, March 11 his picture on it. There are other personal Tefillin Mezzuzah Check stories, too many in fact to share in print, WOMEN’S TEFILAH GROUP but the common thread linking them all is 9 AM -1 PM Max J. Etra Chapel - 9:15 AM Sisterhood Chanukah Boutique their current need for community Feb. 4, March 18 support. That, and much more, is 10 AM - 4 PM TOT SHABBAT provided by the KJ Food Pantry. To “Happy Meals” 11 - 12 PM Third Floor Dining Hall volunteer, please call Stacy Scheinberg at “Hello Yellow” 12:30 - 2 PM Dec. 16, Jan. 13, Feb. 10, March 10 212-410-9195. Page 8 KEHILATH JESHURUN BULLETIN

ALIENS AND US: A SERMON ON PARSHAT BEREISHIT The following sermon was delivered by Rabbi Meir Soloveichik on October 29th, Shabbat Bereishit 2005/5766. Aliens! Aliens are a constant and Astronomer Jaques Laskar writes: “We civilizations, that nation is perfectly consistent draw at the box office. From owe our present climate stability to an positioned, against the odds, to have a the warm and wizened ET: the exceptional event: the presence of the critical moral impact on humanity. “I Extraterrestrial, to the cold and logical moon.” “Without an extra large moon will insist,” John Adams once wrote, Mr. Spock, to the warmongering and orbiting at the right distance from us,” “that the Hebrews have done more to world-destroying villains of War of the Hereen reports, “scientists predict that civilize men than any other Worlds, Americans are intrigued by the Earth would be subject to a runaway nation…[Even] if I were an notion of alien life living and lurking in greenhouse effect, as on Venus, or a atheist…who believe that all is ordered the cosmos. And though there is nothing permanent ice age, as Mars would by chance, I should believe that chance sinful per se about a belief in aliens, I experience if it had more water.” had ordered the Jews to…preserve and believe that the widespread interest in “Worse,” he concludes, “most propagate to all mankind the doctrine of extraterrestrials indicates something astronomers now think that the presence a supreme, intelligent, wise, almighty alarming about the state of American of the Earth's Moon is the result of a sovereign of the universe, which I beliefs. freak accident, perhaps a one-in-a- believe to be the great essential principle You see, for centuries, the church, as million shot, when a smaller planet hit of all morality, and consequently all well as Jewish Aristotelians such as the forming Earth with a glancing blow civilization.” Maimonides, assumed that the sun that allowed the mantles of each planet Atem monin lo ve-ein umot ha-olam revolved around the earth, and that our to combine and end up in orbit around monin lo, says the Midrash Rabbah; planet was the center of the universe. It the Earth.” Israel will calculate its years by the was a cosmology that dovetailed nicely A quite pedestrian clump of rock moon while other nations will select the with theology: given that humanity was and mineral, orbiting in precisely the sun. Not a superficial statement created by God Himself, then it was only right part of space, at a precise position comparing calendrical devices, but right that humanity occupy center stage between the sun and the earth, ensures rather, a metaphor. Throughout the ages, in the cosmic drama. But then the conditions key to the existence of the sages are implying, Israel has been Copernican solar-centric model of the humanity. “A one-in-a-million shot.” moonlike in its relation to other nations. solar system was pressed and adopted. To the skeptical secularist, to the We have for centuries revolved around Evidence of evolution having been astonished atheist, it's all a cosmic other peoples, never free to choose our discovered, many came to believe that coincidence. But maybe, just maybe, own trajectory. In fact, by all logic we mankind not only evolved, but evolved there is a Divinely ordained destiny for should have been extinct long ago. And on its own without any input from some the sentient beings on this planet. yet, we have not only survived; we have imaginary Creator; that sentient beings Perhaps there is a God who wanted us to critically impacted and shaped the nature sprang out of nowhere, from exist; perhaps there is a God who wanted and destiny of the human race. A one-in- serendipitous happenstance, in at least us to survive, to flourish, to prosper. a-million shot. To the skeptical one small corner of the universe. To When God communicated the laws secularist, to the astonished anti-Semite, such a worldview, the question presents of Shabbat Hagadol, almost 3,500 years it's all a cultural coincidence. But itself: if human beings can emerge onto ago, He turned Moshe toward the moon, maybe, just maybe, there is a Divinely the stage of the universe out of oblivion and ordained Nisan the first month of the ordained destiny for the Jews on this by sheer luck, in one random sector of Jewish lunar calendar. The Jewish planet. Perhaps there is a God who cold and lonely space, why shouldn't nation, our sages cryptically remarked, wanted us to exist; and to exist for a sentient beings evolve in like fashion is like unto the moon. And perhaps sacred purpose. elsewhere? science sheds new light on this aeons- In an age in which judgmentalism is However, Fred Hereen, a Christian old riddle, on this tradition. A miniscule frowned upon, and all cultures are science journalist writing in the religion moon, so vanishingly small when placed on pedestals of equal stature, journal First Things, reports that some compared to other celestial bodies, to the God's statement on the eve of the scientists eager for alien contact are planets of our solar system, to the suns Exodus appears profoundly politically beginning to admit that the odds of other and galaxies, is positioned, against the incorrect: Ve-he-yitem li segual mi-kol inhabitable planets existing are close to odds, in a manner crucial to the survival ha-amim, God thunders, you will be for nil, that planets with earthlike conditions of the human race. Likewise the Jewish me an elite, a chosen nation. You have are rare. It appears that one of the people, a miniscule nation, exceedingly been selected for an influential role in features that makes our celestial body seemingly insignificant when compared the divine drama that, given your small lifeworthy is the specific size and to other peoples and nations swirling in size, is stupefying: to communicate the precise position of the Earth's moon. the solar system of societies and monotheistic message to humanity, and KEHILATH JESHURUN BULLETIN Page 9 to amass an intellectual heritage even in of God's plan here on earth. The late added one ingredient that Tolkien, Wells, centuries when most men and women Shlomo Carlebach once commented on Harry Potter's Joanna Rowling, and even were illiterate, and that continues to visiting American universities: “When Stephen Spielberg, with all his special blossom today despite our sheer someone comes over to me and tells me effects, could never add: this story is numbers. “Arise fair sun,” Shakespeare he's a Protestant, I know he's a true. Moreover: it is the truth that makes wrote, “and kill the envious moon, who Protestant. When somebody tells me this story special, a truth that is is already sick and pale with grief that he's a Catholic, I know he's a Catholic. vindicated by the story's endless sequels. thou, her maid, art far more fair than When someone tells me that he's just a For if Israel was never chosen, if Israel she.” But the moon that is Israel has human being - I know he's a Jew.” As was not ordained with a divine destiny nothing to be envious of; for it proudly scientists deem humanity unworthy of millennia ago, how are we to explain its exudes a radiance disproportionate to its divine attention, and search space for a extraordinary impact and intellectual size. more spectacular species, so do too achievement? “To examine the Mishna, Now I must tell you that not all Jews many Jews deem our small nation Gemara, Cabbala, Zohar, and the wear this history with pride, and that the unworthy of divine chosenness, and Talmud,” Adams wrote to Jefferson in widespread interest in extraterrestrials is proclaim themselves citizens of the solar amazement, “would require the life of also instructive in seeking to understand system of civilizations, rejecting the Methusalah.” If our children are to grow the sorry state of American Jewry. Fred option of associating with the minor not only as “human beings,” but as Jews Hereen reports that he once asked moon that is the nation Israel. As as well, it is amazement at this Stephen Hawking why he is so sure that Hawking failed to be amazed at the sheer achievement that must be constantly alien life must exist, and he responded marvel that is man, many Jews lack the cultivated: of the moon that is the nation that “The human race is so sheer wonder at the odds-defying Israel, that began its orbit in Egypt, that insignificant…I find it difficult to achievement that is their heritage. careened through the universe of history, believe the whole universe is a necessary This Shabbat, we begin the Bible and that impacted upon humanity in an precondition for our existence.” Alas, so again. And this book has all the odds-defying and inexplicable fashion. many American Jews today feel, in like elements of a fantasy and science-fiction The continuation of our tale, the moral fashion, that they as Jews are not story: heroes and villains, a chosen impact of our people on eternity, significant, that their heritage is too people with a miraculous destiny, and, in depends upon our own performance. narrow, too parched, too irrelevant, too the endtimes, good's ultimate triumph anachronistic, too limited to be the focus over evil. Yet the author of this saga had J SPONSORED BY THE KJ MEN’S CLUB FOR THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY...

From the Sept. 18 film screening of SOSUA: Haven in the Caribbean. Right to left: Sylvain Kanfou, Mrs. Denise Kanfou Men’s Club Sukkah Supper speaker Hon. Tevi Troy (Ramaz (Sylvain's mother), Dominican Republic Ambassador Enriquillo Del ‘85), Deputy Asst. to the President for Domestic Policy, with Rosario and Mrs. Rosario, Harriet Taub (filmmaker of Sosua), KJ Rabbi Haskel Lookstein and KJ Men’s Club volunteers. member Ernest Apfelbaum (who lived in Sosua during the Holocaust) and Dr. Mark Meirowitz, President, KJ Men’s Club

Hon. Tevi Troy’s lecture was entitled “From Levy to Rubin: 350 Years of the Jewish Presence in America.”

UPCOMING MEN’S CLUB FILM SCREENING “THE LAST JEWS OF BAGHDAD” with the filmmakers Carole Basri and Adriana Davis Sunday, January 29 at 6:30 PM Page 10 KJ BEGINNERS SCORE HIGH DURING HIGH HOLY DAYS

On the first day of Rosh Hashanah, the KJ Beginners Program held its 15th consecutive High Holy Day service. More than 600 men and women experienced this most unique service; fully Orthodox and unabridged on the one hand, but distinguished on the other hand by explanations galore, spontaneous singing and dancing, abundant Q & A opportunities, and the fact that no knowledge of Hebrew is necessary. Led by KJ Member George Rohr, Chazan Ruby Davis, and KJ Outreach Director Rabbi Elie Weinstock, the service is a marvelous testament to this congregation's commitment to the broader Jewish world. The following D'var Torah was delivered at the service by Alexander Popivker, a proud member of the KJ Beginners community who, along with his wife, Anna Angert, recently joined the Congregation. In fact, close to 1/3 of all new KJ Members now hail from the ranks of our Beginners Program. To connect with Rabbi Weinstock, call 212-774-5636: Our Sages refer to Rosh Hashanah as Yom time to clear away what's clouding our Jews who observed the Sabbath and mitzvot HaDin - the Day of Judgment. We are told vision. In this sense the power of Teshuvah and kept a kosher home. that on this day the Heavenly Court reviews is the highest form of free will. Yet we don't At the end of the 1920s, Hebrew became the progress of each and every individual often stop and think about how remarkable the only language officially outlawed in the over the past year. The Sages compare us to the gift of being able to change our priorities, Soviet Union. Jewish religious education sheep passing before their shepherd one by our way of seeing the world, our way of was impossible. Yiddish secular schools saw one in a single-file line. There is nothing to being in this world, really is. I often feel that their numbers steadily decline and by the end hide behind and no one else to blame - we the word “repentance” makes a lot of us of the 1930's they completely disappeared. stand on our personal merits alone, to be uncomfortable because it has a connotation Jews were officially classified as a judged not based upon what we of beating our breasts and groveling, saying nationality but the authorities strongly accomplished or transgressed yesterday, or “I'm no good. It's all my fault.” But that's discouraged the observance of religious upon tomorrow's triumphs and failures, but not what Teshuvah is about at all. It is rituals and practices. As a result, many rather based upon who we are at the moment actually the opposite of that. It invites each Soviet Jews of later generations were of inspection. of us to say, “Yes, I've done things wrong, as unfamiliar with Jewish holidays and with We find evidence in support of the everybody does. But that's not the essential such fundamental rites of passage as brit importance of this moment - the NOW - in me. The real me is capable of returning to milah and bar mitzvah. When Jews applied today's Torah reading. On Rosh Hashanah, God, of being good and strong and brave. to the Soviet government for exit visas to we read in the Torah that God gave Sarah a This is the time of the year when I take stock emigrate, their applications were refused and son, Yitzchak. When Sarah saw Yishmael, of the good deeds that I am capable of doing they became Refuseniks, under suspicion and Avraham and Hagar's son, “playing” with her and remind myself that I possess inner surveillance from the secret police force, the Yitzchak, she told Avraham that he must resources for renewal and growth.” KGB. Soviet Jews faced loss of jobs, arrest, drive Yishmael from their home. What were The Almighty is judging us today whether and even torture if they expressed interest in the games that Yishmael was “playing?” or not we realize it or acknowledge it. For Israel, studied Hebrew, or tried to live openly According to the Midrash, he was many years I was unaware of the profound as observant Jews. But as always they could committing the cardinal sins of idolatry, significance of Rosh Hashanah and the Ten find humor even in these dire circumstances: adultery, and murder. Yishmael was Days of Awe. I was born and raised in the A Soviet dissident is found studying pretending to play with Yitzchak, but in Soviet Union at a time when spiritual health Jewish materials and is taken by the KGB. actuality was attempting to shoot Yitzchak was an archaic concept incompatible with the His interrogation goes as follows: with arrows in order to become Avraham's Communist-style “social progressiveness.” KGB: Why were you studying Hebrew? sole son and heir. Notwithstanding After the Revolution of 1917, The Jew: I hope one day to leave here and go to Israel Yishmael's terrible character, when Hagar Bolshevik doctrine, as formulated by Lenin KGB (yelling): WELL YOU WON'T!! YOU'RE GOING TO DIE!! WE'RE GOING TO KILL and Yishmael were expelled to the desert and and Stalin, denied the existence of a national YOU!!! ran out of water, Yishmael repents. He Jewish identity. Lenin declared national Jew: Well, then I will need the holy language to regretted what he had done. And an angel of Jewish culture “the slogan of the rabbis and converse with the angels God came to Hagar and said, “Fear not, for the bourgeois, the slogan of our enemies.” KGB (beside himself): YOU'RE NOT GOING TO God has heard the voice of the child, as he is According to Stalin, the Jews were a HEAVEN!!! YOU'RE GOING TO HELL!!! Jew (relieved): Oh, very well then, I am already NOW.” As he is NOW -- not the murderer nationality on paper only; Zionism was a fluent in Russian! that he was. As he is NOW -- not the father reactionary bourgeois movement, and So, it's not surprising that by the age of 24, of descendants who will murder thousands of Yiddish merely a jargon. when I immigrated to the United States, I had Jews in centuries to come. Yishmael repents Civil War broke out after the Bolshevik experienced no Jewish Life Cycle events. and God judges him as he is NOW, and Revolution and turned Ukraine, where 60 But I was born a Jew and Jewish I would spares his life. percent of Russian Jews lived - including my stay. It had shaped my entire view of The process of repentance and spiritual ancestors - into a battlefield. By the time the existence, my memories and slang, my housecleaning is called Teshuvah. Imagine a Civil War ended, about 2,000 pogroms had humor, my values, my tastes, my pride, my windowpane, which hasn't been washed in a left an estimated 100,000 Jews dead and ambitions, my standards. I even shared with year. It's dusty; it's dirty. Maybe it's more than half a million homeless. Among my parents a sense of 'Jewbilation' - the pride muddied. Though the sun may be shining the victims were my great-grandfather and of finding out that our favorite celebrity was outside that window, light won't penetrate great-grandmother: Abram and Malka Jewish. Being born into a Jewish family had until the glass has been made clear. Each of Kramer. A relative later told my orphaned made a profound impact; that's how I related us is a windowpane, and though God is grandmother (who was less than one year old to life. My Judaism, however rudimentary at shining, we can't see that until we take the at the time) that her parents were religious the time, had always given me a sense of KEHILATH JESHURUN BULLETIN Page 11 connectedness with my people. Or as HaBen for our son. I wish for all of you Michael Medved put it: “Jewishness … during these High Holy Days to experience UPCOMING attaches us to our fellow Jews around the the sense of spiritual and emotional renewal AM HASEFER EVENTS world, guaranteeing membership in a large, that Anna and I have experienced since we contentious, frequently quarreling, always became members of the congregation a year- “G.I. JEWS: emotional, extended family.” and-a-half ago. If there is a renaissance of HOW WORLD WAR II But to go from emotional to spiritual I Modern Orthodoxy in America - here is its CHANGED A GENERATION” needed an extra push and it came in 1996 center and its inspiration! WITH THE AUTHOR when I visited Israel for the first time, prayed Last year during High Holy Days George at the Western Wall and donned Tefilin. Rohr insisted that every person in this hall DEBORAH DASH MOORE Only then did I fully awake to the enormous make a resolution to improve his or her level SUNDAY, DEC. 4 AT 8:00 PM richness of Jewish religious learning. Upon of religious observance and learning in at at the home of my return from Israel I promptly added to least one aspect of life. Two weeks ago, Sherry and Neil Cohen my Jewishness (added by subtracting if you Rabbi Weinstock challenged the audience to “WHO SHE WAS: will), and at the tender young age of 29 persuade one friend to join a holiday minyan bravely underwent brit milah. Interest in at KJ or at another shul. Why were they MY SEARCH FOR MY MOTHER'S LIFE” religious learning gave me an extra sense of talking about just one resolution or one WITH THE AUTHOR purpose. Early last year Anna and I were instance of positive influence? On the one SAMUEL FREEDMAN wed in the Holy Land, and at the end of the hand, one mitzvah is easier to manage and SUNDAY, JANUARY 8, AT 8:00 PM year we were blessed with our first-born son, follow though and we all should walk before at the home of Arthur. we run. But often one mitzvah is all one Sandy and Dr. Bob April When I look at my life now I feel that needs to be closer to Hashem. For the being Jewish has been far more than an Talmud says: yesh koneh olamo bisha achat “LIVING AYEAR WITH KADDISH: accident of birth; it has been the way my - that sometimes a person can win eternal AMEMOIR” family stood firm in life's raging storm. bliss... with one single action. Our survival WITH THE AUTHOR Russian anthropologist Mikhail Chlenov as a people for thousands of years was based ARI GOLDMAN declared: “Judaism is a tool of resistance.” It on what we affirmed, believed in, and were SUNDAY, FEB. 12 AT 8:00 PM is how we Jews seek to distinguish wisdom committed to. By taking advantage of KJ's and truth from folly and falsehood. No other Educational Programs and electing to learn at the home of people's story parallels the survival of our and grow spiritually, one mitzvah at a time, Janie and Dr. Robert Schwalbe Jewish faith and family. And now in my you can make a profound impact on your life family, as it represents its people, after the and touch the lives of people around you. repressions, expulsion, pogroms, alienation, Searching for God in our lives is like Cards a la carte and assimilation three generations later it looking out the windows of a tower that Where the world unfolds came down to my wife and me re-kindling stretches infinitely high into the heavens. the lights of Shabbos and re-igniting the The view is different from different Original Stationery light of Jewish life in our home. From the landings; we see more of God the higher we featuring photographs from Asia, Australia, tragedy of my great-grandparents' murder it climb because what changes, as we work to the Caribbean, Europe and the US

will come full circle when little Arthur - their ascend that tower, is us. Engaging with BY AWARD-WINNING JOURNALIST great-great-grandson - enters Ramaz nursery Torah is another way of looking out those HARRIET EDLESON school in a couple of years. windows and seeing God. Yes, it takes Anna introduced me to Kehilath Jeshurun work. It takes focus, and life is full of Cards a la carte are sold at fine New York stores or contact two years ago, and since then nowhere do we distractions and it's easy to get wrapped up [email protected] feel more at home and religiously stimulated in our daily lives, to become cloudy, like that TEL. 212-348-0428 to observe and learn, especially in KJ's window that hasn't been washed for a long 455 East 86th Street, Ste. 21D New York, NY 10028 Educational Programs. From the first time. But what matters today is that we look Shabbat dinner at Rabbi Weinstock's home at where we are going, re-align our to the Shabbat Beginners Service and later directions and actions, and not just passively the Intermediate Service to workshops and enter the New Year, but proactively SUPERSOL classes to the recreational activities, KJ transform it as well. KOSHER SUPERMARKETS embraced us and made us feel part of a May your year be full of clear windows broad, diverse Jewish community. KJ and insights. And may you be blessed with 526 AMSTERDAM AVENUE Beginners welcomes people from all walks the willingness to seek Hashem wherever NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10024 of Jewish life and greats them with a you go, knowing that what you're looking TEL. 212-875-1731 FAX. 212-875-1031 remarkable team of leaders who volunteer for is right there, waiting to be found. I hope ONE STOP SHOP their hearts to help us grow: Rabbi Elie you have a new year drenched in learning KOSHER SUPERMARKET! Weinstock, George Rohr, Dr. Steven and growth. I wish you a shana tova oo- FULL SERVICE CATERING Rudolph, Professor Alan Rechtschaffen and meh-too-kah - a good and sweet new year, FRESH SUSHI EVERYDAY. Shilo Kramer to name just a few. Rabbi and may we all be inscribed in the Book of DELIVERY TO ALL NYC & NJ Weinstock truly has become my family Life and Blessing. GLATT KOSHER UNDER SUPERVISION spiritual doctor, having performed Pidyon OF THE VAAD OF RIVERDALE. HaBen - Redemption of the Firstborn - for me, and Brit Milah service and Pidyon J Page 12 KEHILATH JESHURUN BULLETIN BNAI MITZVAH

MAX KHAGHAN MATTHEW JACOB JAVITT GABRIELLE MICHAL JAVITT Mazal Tov to Charlene and David Mazal Tov to Drs. Marcia and Jonathan Mazal Tov to Drs. Marcia and Jonathan Khaghan on the Bar Mitzvah of their son, Max, Javitt on the Bar Mitzvah of their son Matthew, Javitt on the Bat Mitzvah of their daughter, which took place on November 12 at the Jewish which took place first in Yemin Moshe on Gabrielle Michal, at Congregation Ohev Center of Atlantic Beach where Max read Shemini Atzeret/Simchat Torah, where he Shalom in Washington, DC. The celebration Parshat Lech-Lecha. Mazal Tov as well to the leyned Parshat Bereishit, and then in took place over December 2-3 with a Shabbaton proud grandparents, Sarah and Martin Goldman. Congregation Ohev Shalom in Washington, DC. featuring Rabbi Shlomo Riskin of Efrat and a Max is a student in the seventh grade at the Mazal Tov as well to Matthew’s grandparents, women's Torah reading. Mazal Tov as well to Rodeph Sholom School. Suzanne and Dr. Norman Javitt. Gabrielle’s grandparents, Suzanne and Dr. Matthew is a student at Berman Hebrew Norman Javitt. Academy in Silver Springs. Gabrielle is a student at Berman Hebrew Academy in Silver Springs.

GABRIEL LEIB MERKIN SAMUEL LASSNER Mazal Tov to Mara and Jamie Lassner on Mazal Tov to Lauren and J. Ezra Merkin ANNA WAGNER the forthcoming Bar Mitzvah of their son on the forthcoming Bar Mitzvah of their son, Mazal Tov to Phyllis and Jonathan Wagner Samuel, which will take place on December 17 Gabriel, which will take place on December 10 on the forthcoming Bat Mitzvah of their at Congregation Orach Chaim. Sam represents at Fifth Avenue Synagogue. He will read daughter, Anna, which will take place on his family’s 5th generation davening at that shul. Parshat Vayetze and its Haftarah, and give a Sunday evening, December 18, at the Ramaz Sam will read Parshat Vayishlach and its Dvar Torah: “Jacob as Abraham’s True Heir: Middle School. Anna will deliver a Dvar Torah Haftarah, and will deliver a Dvar Torah entitled the Birth of the Jewish Home and Nation.” on "Chanah Through Jewish History." “Bikur Cholim: A Chesed That Makes A Gabriel will also speak on Masechet Megillah. Anna is a seventh grader in the Ramaz Difference.” Mazal Tov as well to the proud Gabriel is a student in the seventh grade at Middle School. the Ramaz Middle School. grandparents, Danièle and Capt. Jules Lassner (U.S.M.C., Ret.). Sam is in the seventh grade at the Ramaz Middle School, where he Captains its hockey team.

PHILIP STAIMAN ADAM JOFFE Mazal Tov to Jonathan Staiman and Ruth Mazal Tov to Diane and Ashley Joffe on the Bymel on the forthcoming Bar Mitzvah of their forthcoming Bar Mitzvah of their son, Adam, son, Philip, which will take place on January 14, which will take place on December 29 in in KJ’s Main Sanctuary. Philip will leyn Jerusalem where he will be laying Tefillin at the Parshat Vayechi and its Haftarah, and will Kotel. On December 31, Adam will read deliver a Dvar Torah. Chanukah, Parshat Mikeitz, and Rosh Chodesh Philip is a student in the seventh grade at at Jerusalem’s Beit Knesset Hagadol. the Arthur Meyer Hebrew Academy. Adam is in the seventh grade at the Ramaz Middle School. KEHILATH JESHURUN BULLETIN Page 13

HENRY MEDINE DANIELLE SAKHAI ALEXANDRA LOBEL Mazal Tov to Laura and Mois Medine on Mazal Tov to Victoria and Daryosh Sakhai Mazal Tov to Judy and David Lobel on the the forthcoming Bar Mitzvah of their son, on the forthcoming Bat Mitzvah of their forthcoming Bat Mitzvah of their daughter, Henry, which will take place on December 31. daughter, Danielle, which will take place on Alexandra, which will take place on January 27 He will read Parashat Miketz at the Conegliano January 14 at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in KJ’s Main Sanctuary where she will deliver a Veneto synagogue in Jerusalem. where she will deliver a Dvar Torah. Dvar Torah entitled, “Free Will - A Divine Gift, Henry is a student in the seventh grade at Danielle is a student in the seventh grade at Handle With Care.” Mazal Tov as well to the the Ramaz Middle School. the Ramaz Middle School. proud grandmother, Esther Lobel. Alexandra is a student in the sixth grade at the Ramaz Middle School.

JONATHAN BAUMGARTEN ANDREW ARYEH Mazal Tov to Ellen Baumgarten and Fred Mazal Tov to Nancy and Benjamin Aryeh JOSHUA GEISLER Baumgarten on the forthcoming Bar Mitzvah of on the forthcoming Bar Mitzvah of their son, Mazal Tov to Junko and Dr. Edward their son, Jonathan, which will take place on Andrew, which will take place on February 11 in Geisler on the forthcoming Bar Mitzvah of their February 4 in KJ’s Main Sanctuary where he KJ’s Main Sanctuary, where he will layn son, Joshua, which will take place on February will read Parshat Bo and deliver a Dvar Torah. Parshat Beshalach and its Haftarah, and will 25 in KJ’s Main Sanctuary where he will read Jonathan is a student in the seventh grade deliver a Dvar Torah related to Beshalach. Parshat Mishpatim. at the Westchester Day School. Andrew is a student in the seventh grade at Joshua is a student in the seventh grade at the Ramaz Middle School. the Ramaz Middle School.

RACHEL LERMAN JENNY LERMAN Mazal Tov to Karen and Dr. Bruce Lerman Mazal Tov to Karen and Dr. Bruce Lerman ARIELLE BIRO on the forthcoming Bat Mitzvah of their on the forthcoming Bat Mitzvah of their Mazal Tov to Ety and Eugene Biro on the daughter, Rachel, which will take place on daughter, Jenny, which will take place on Friday forthcoming Bat Mitzvah of their daughter, Friday night, February 24th, in KJ’s Main night, February 24th, in KJ’s Main Sanctuary. Arielle, which will take place on Sunday, March Sanctuary. She will be presenting a Siyum on She will be presenting a Siyum on Tractate Bava 5th. Tractate Bava Metzia with her twin sister, Jenny. Metzia with her twin sister, Rachel. Arielle is a student in the sixth grade at the Rachel is a student in the sixth grade at the Jenny is a student in the sixth grade at Ramaz Middle School. Ramaz Middle School. Manhattan Day School. Page 14 KEHILATH JESHURUN BULLETIN

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For more information, or to register, SIMCHA SPEECHES All sessions will be taught by Rachel please contact Rabbi Elie Weinstock at (Krug) Kraus, a dynamic young educator 212-774-5636 or [email protected] PERSONALIZED SPEECHES FOR ALL OCCASIONS INDIVIDUALIZED STUDY PROGRAMS In Memoriam NORMAN MESKIN BABETTE HIMLER she was able to carry on for so long. BAR/BAT MITZVAH - WEDDING A Ramaz alumna and a very DIVREI TORAH - SIYYUM - LECTURES TEL. 718-261-1639 Babette Kass Himler was a involved parent, Adina brightened up CELL: 201-310-1662 member of this congregation for over the life of everyone who was touched FAX: 718-261-3242 fifty years. She came from a family by her. She had the most beautiful WWW.SIMCHASPEECHES.COM of Kohanim and she was extremely smile, the heartiest laugh and the proud of her relationship with KJ. most giving nature. Above all, she A granddaughter of the late gave incredible love and support to Harry Fischel, she took pride in her her children Eric and Calley, to her Judaism wherever she lived and she husband Howard, and to her friends. retained her close relationships with An iconoclast by nature, she was members of this community. nevertheless very traditional and We will long remember her religious in spirit. She fought for her as a proud Jew. children to receive the best possible Jewish education they could obtain ADINA LEVINE and she went to the greatest lengths to Adina died in the prime of life make sure they received it. after a long and difficult struggle with May the family be comforted the disease which should have taken among all of us who mourn for Zion her life much sooner. It was a and Jerusalem, and may the memory testimony to her zest for living, her of her love of life inspire them optimism and her inner strength that always. KEHILATH JESHURUN BULLETIN Page 15 WITHIN OUR FAMILY BIRTHS their daughter Johanna (Ramaz '98) to Jonathan Jonathan (Yoni) Oppenheim, son of Mr. and Mrs. Mazal Tov to: Flombaum (Ramaz '98), son of Batsheva and Carlos E. Magnus Oppenheim, who received a Dorot Brenda and Steven Arenson on the birth of a son, Flombaum of Riverdale. Mazal Tov as well to the Foundation Fellowship for one-year study and Joseph Michael. Mazal Tov as well to the proud proud grandfather, Mr. Paul Schulder. community service at the Hebrew University in grandmother, Mrs. Lucille Arenson. Audrey and Jesse Rubin on the engagement of Jerusalem. Sarah and Dr. Nathaniel Berman on the birth of a their daughter, Janet (Ramaz 2000), to Jared Mann, Iris Kerin Orbuch, MD, who specializes in daughter, Elisabeth Naomi. son of Caren and Stephen Mann of Jericho, NY. Gynecology and Advanced Laparoscopic Surgery, Daniel Brown and Allison Sugarman, on the birth Naomi Ickovitz and Dr. Steven Rudolph on the upon opening a new office. She has authored several of a son, Jacob Evan. Mazal Tov as well to the proud engagement of their daughter Sara Rudolph (Ramaz textbook chapters in the field. grandparents, Fran & Benjamin Brown, and Surie & '02) to Mitchell Hoberman of Skokie, Illinois. Gail Suchman (Zimmerman) recently joined Robert Sugarman. Alice Smokler on the engagement of her son, Devorsetz Stinziano Gilberti Heintz & Smith as Naomi Winter Cohen on the birth of a grandson, Sandy, to Jennifer Feldman, daughter of Brenda and Managing Attorney of the firm’s NY office. Gail was Nadiv Binyamin, to Dr. Jessica and Richard Langer. Robert Feldman of Hewlett, NY. also appointed Senior Legal Advisor to Columbia Annette and Scott Cooper on the birth of a son, Gerard Tugendhaft, on the engagement of his University’s Urban Design Lab for Sustainable Isaac. Mazal Tov as well to the proud grandparents, daughter, Valerie, to Scott Dorman, son of Jackie and Development. Rachel and Barry Cooper. Jay Dorman of Carmel, Indiana. CONDOLENCES Elyse and David Efron on the birth of a son, Philip May their weddings take place in happiness and Our condolences to: Harrison. Mazal Tov as well to the proud blessing. Robert Blinken, Jr., on the passing of his father, grandparents, Janet and Mark Mittler. MARRIAGES Robert Blinken. Suzanne and Samuel Eisenstat on the birth of a Mazal tov to: Shoshana Bookson on the passing of her father, the grandson, Aryeh Leib Yehoshua, to Jacob and Rivka and Dr. Morris Platt on the marriage of their Hon. Paul P.E. Bookson. Jennifer Eisenstat. daughter, Leora, to Dr. Daniell Mishaan. David Fields on the passing of his father, Albert Linda and Jeff Esses on the birth of a daughter, Rochelle and Michael Ring on the marriage of Fields. Sophia Joy. Mazal Tov as well to the proud their son, David, to Aura Lee Rothman, daughter of Lili Goldberg on the passing of her sister, Gertrude grandparents, Barbara and Abraham Esses. Roslyn and Dr. Stephen Rothman. Slominsky. Yonina and Eric Gomberg on the birth of a son, Susan and Dr. Robert Taub on the marriage of their Jeffrey Klores on the passing of his father, Paul Liam. Mazal Tov as well to the proud grandparents, daughter, Aimée, to Jonathan Bandler, son of Leah Klores. Gail and Ephraim Propp, and the great-grandmother and Michael Bandler of Silver Springs, MD. Ira Krawitz on the passing of his brother, Art Goody Dane. COMMUNAL HONORS Krawitz. Rachel and Danny Heumann on the birth of twin Congratulations to: David Levy on the passing of his brother, Seymour boys, Aaron Phillip and Jacob Elliot. Russell and Ronalee Galbut, who will be honored Levy. Joyce Hirsch and Richard Hirsch on the birth of at Colel Chabad’s International Awards Dinner on Chaim Meller on the passing of his brother, Yisrael twin grandsons, to Daniel (Ramaz '87) and Carolyn December 15, Chaired by Richard Born. Sholom. Hirsch. Sheila Levine, who will be honored as the Woman Sarrah Ottensoser on the passing of her mother, Julie and Reuben Kopel on the birth of a daughter, of the Year at The Annual Hineni Luncheon on Sherry Garber. Hallie Deborah. December 13. Evelyn Rochlin on the passing of her mother, Tzivia and Shilo Kramer on the birth of a son, Ursula Merkin, who will be a Guest of Honor at Goldie Rudoff, also mother-in-law of Judith Rudoff Menachem Yisrael. Mazal Tov as well to the proud the Annual Dinner of Re’uth on December 13. and grandmother of Kenny Rochlin. grandparents, Ziva and Rabbi Avraham Kramer. Sharon and Howard Katz, who were honored with Dr. Harvey Wolinsky on the passing of his mother, Diana and Roger Levitt, on the birth of a grandson, the Bond of Generations Award at the EMUNAH Mary Wolinsky. Zachary Joel, born to their son James, who is married Benefit Dinner. May they be comforted among all those who to Susan Davis of New York. PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS mourn for Zion and Jerusalem. Iris and Dr. Jeffrey Margolin, on the birth of a Congratulations to: grandson, Jakob Aaron, born to Dr. Jonathan and Marcelline Block, daughter of Dr. Jenny Batlay Rachel Margolin of Teaneck, NJ. Block, and a doctoral candidate and instructor at FINAL REMINDER Mr. and Mrs. E. Magnus Oppenheim on the birth Princeton University, who presented at the The unrealistically low price of KJ’s of a grandson, Benjamin, born to Simeon and Dr. International Conference of the American Society for NJ cemetery plots, will increase Elissa Oppenheim. Geolinguistics at Baruch College in October. dramatically effective January 1. Dina and Douglas Propp on the birth of a son, Scot Glasberg, MD, who was recently elected to CURRENT PRICES NEW PRICES Jeremy Seymour. Mazal Tov as well to the proud the Board of Directors of the American Society of Single Grave - $750 Single Grave - $1,250 grandmother Eve Propp. Plastic Surgeons and appointed Chair of its 2 Grave Plot - $1,500 2 Grave Plot - $2,500 Carol and Jesse Schwartz on the birth of a Government Affairs Council. 4 Grave Plot - $2,800 4 Grave Plot - $4,500 grandson, Dylan Isaac, to Tobi (Ramaz '92) and Neil Eric Gomberg for completing the New York City 6 Grave Plot - $4,000 6 Grave Plot - $6,500 Wechsler. Marathon in an impressive 2:59:35. 8 Grave Plot - $5,000 8 Grave Plot - $8,250 Yvette and Jacob Schwerdt on the birth of a Helene and Michael Hartig's son Jonathan (Ramaz 10 Grave Plot - $6,000 10 Grave Plot - $10,000 granddaughter, Maya Giselle, to their children, Dana 2005), upon receiving the Advanced Placement 12 Grave Plot - $7,000 12 Grave Plot - $11,500 (Ramaz '96) and Ilan Rubenstein. Scholar with Honor award for his outstanding The final resting place is a religious Jody and Ari Storch on the birth of a son, Jesse performance on the AP Calculus, Statistics, American sanctuary. When located on the grounds of Solomon. Mazal Tov as well to the proud History and European History exams. an established congregation like KJ, now grandparents, Marilyn and Dr. Harry Spiera. Shlomo Javitt, grandson of Suzanne and Dr. May these children grow up in the finest tradition Norman Javitt and a Ramaz graduate, who was in its 134th year, you have good reason to of Torah, chupah, and maasim tovim. accepted to Hebrew University Medical School. believe that by contracting for maintenance BAR MITZVAH Aryeh Leifert, son of Jackie and Robert Leifert, with the cemetery, your burial plots will be Helen and Norman Halper, on the recent Bar who is serving as the Rabbinic Intern at Beth Sholom maintained with dignity and propriety. Put Mitzvah of their grandson, Aaron Donner, son of Congregation of Potomac, MD, under the mentorship your house in good order by purchasing KJ Ronnie Halper and Marc Donner. of Rabbi Joel Tessler. Aryeh is currently in his final burial plots, filing the paperwork with your ENGAGEMENTS year of semicha at Yeshivat Chovevei Torah. other important records, and never thinking Mazal Tov to: Marc Mukasey, upon becoming a partner at Rudy about the matter again until after 120 years Dr. Julio Messer on the engagement of his son, Giuliani’s law firm, Bracewell and Giuliani. Marc's of joy and blessing. Call 212-774-5653 Marcelo, to Caroline Korsten, daughter of Susan and practice focuses on the defense of white collar now if you are interested in purchasing KJ Dr. Mark Korsten. criminal cases and securites exchange commission plots at the discounted rate. Lynnette and Jerry Gruenhut on the engagement of enforcement matters.

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