HONORING TRADITIONS ENGAGING FAMILIES SUPPORTING COMMUNITIES

Volume 92, No. 11 • May 2020 • Iyyar/Sivan 5780

SONG From Rabbi SERVICE YEAR OF THE CANTOR Marc SIMCHA CELEBRATING 18 YEARS WITH CANTOR BARASH Berkson Salute to Song & Spirit Presents Six13, Sunday, September 13, 7:00 pm As I write these words, I cannot help but think n Honor Cantor Barash Be a Sponsor about all of our losses with New and Increased Sponsorship Gifts Matched up to $18,000 these last weeks. Those of us who have lost loved ones, perhaps to the coronavirus. Those of us who have lost Celebrating You can honor loved ones but could not share with others Cantor Barash’s Cantor Barash at their grief at the cemetery, in the synagogue, 18 years at our Year of the at home. For we have also lost the oppor - CEEBJ, the 2020 Cantor’s most tunity to say goodbye in person and then to Salute to Song important event hug, to hold, to huddle around a mourner and Spirit pres - by becoming a and, with them, to honor the deceased. ents Six13, an sponsor of the Yes, I know, we have learned to do so virtu - award-winning Salute to Song ally—and are still doing so. And think of Jewish a cappel - and Spirit. everything else we have lost. Yes, on the la group, now screen, we can see and hear and speak. But rescheduled Sponsorship will we cannot touch and smell and taste; we to Sunday, support the event can hold a heart in some way, but we can - September 13, itself, along with not hold a hand. And I know that between 7:00 pm at CEEBJ. music at CEEBJ my anger at a federal government that truly led by Cantor Barash throughout the Six13 is an award winning, six-man a cap - refuses to lead and bring us together at this year and more. pella vocal band that brings an unprece - time, my fear of illness and my fear of what dented style and energy to Jewish music. else this virus might be infecting, and my For this very special Year of the Cantor, Their Jewish and Jewish holiday-themed frustration at what little I seem to be capable your new or increased level sponsorship music videos made them Youtube stars. of doing, I, too, feel immense loss. will be matched dollar-for-dollar up to a Now you can see them at CEEBJ. The total of $18,000. The match will be pro - Thanks to our Executive Director, Andrew group has eight award-winning albums vided through the generosity of our Year Appel, and his wife, Susan Hersh, and his and is an international phenomenon of the Cantor Co-chairs Andrea and daughter, Julia, and to the technical wiz - online, where their videos have been Richard Konz. ardry of Bob Brazner and to the knowledge viewed over 15 million times. of our Cantor and Director of Lifelong Learning and to the work of our staff, we converted very quickly to a virtual opera - Sponsorship Level Tickets Tribute Book tion. While we had been streaming our Executive Producer, $10,000 Up to 12 premium seats 7.5" x 10" full page ad services for a long time, we, your rabbi and Producer, $5,000 Up to 10 premium seats 7.5" x 4.75" full page ad Cantor, had to learn to adjust to streaming Director, $2,500 Up to 8 premium seats 3.5" x 4.75" half page ad from the sanctuary without a live congrega - Composer, $1,000 Up to 6 preferred seats 3.5" x 2.125" quarter page ad tion. I had never told a story without an audience, if you will. Then we had to fig - Maestro, $500 Up to 4 preferred seats Name listing only ure out how to stream a service not from Star, $250 Up to 2 preferred seats Name listing only the sanctuary but from our homes and coordinate the entire service without the Tickets are now on sale and seats are limited. For more information, real presence of another human being. see CEEBJ.org/Salute or leave a message at CEEBJ at (414) 228-7545. Continued on page 3 encing, and never thought they would who cannot be comforted at a service or From Our have a need for this type of technology. at the graveside, and, heartbreakingly, must sit shiva in isolation. President Thank you also to my fellow officers and trustees, for reaching out to our congregants I so appreciate the many new forms of In these unprecedent - by phone and providing critical leadership Jewish learning for all ages, thanks to our ed times, among the as our synagogue navigates uncharted terrific teachers and so enthusiastically many lessons for us is waters. I could not serve as your president led by Susan Cosden. If you have not yet the importance of without these leaders at my (virtual) side. found something new and interesting at gratitude. Like all of our online learning site B’Shevteha you, I am so apprecia - We all know that Ardyth, Toni, Tiffani, B’vayteha - As You Sit in Your House tive of the fact that we have a strong M’Johno, Rick, Cheryl, Bob, Michael and (from the V’ahavta prayer) it is because congregational community, providing Claudia keep things running smoothly at you have not yet checked it out. spiritual, emotional and social support, CEEBJ and keep our building safe and even as we are necessarily physically secure. I want to thank all of them for learn - A special thank you goes to our separated from each other. ing how to do their jobs in a completely Executive Director Andrew Appel. new and different way. They continue to The disruptions to normal congregation - It is important to remember and thank “keep the lights on” even if it is the light of a al life have been never ending and cas - the many individuals who are truly step - screen and they will make sure our beauti - cading, and he has not only figured out ping up in this time of crisis and without ful building is ready for us when we return. how to do his own job without a whom CEEBJ could not continue to be roadmap, but enabled the rest of the here for each of us and our families. The measures necessary to protect our staff and our volunteers to do theirs also. lives during this pandemic have upended First, I would like to thank the many vol - the way we Jews pray and mark life-cycle Many of us face financial uncertainty and unteers who are reaching out to our events. Thank you to Rabbi Berkson and the synagogue is not immune from the congregants, providing a friendly voice Cantor Barash for their strength and cre - disrupted economy. Thank you to those during intense isolation or making a gro - ativity as they have guided us in praying congregants who have been able to sup - cery or pharmacy run. And a special and making Seder together while physi - port our congregation and its members thanks to Bob Brazner and Susan Hersh, cally apart. They are leading our B’nai at this time of need. who are not only keeping our own tech - Mitzvah families through a simcha in a way unimaginable when dates were set I look forward to the day I am again able nology up and running, but also provid - to see you in person and in good health. ing tech support to our congregants who four years ago. And they are finding ways are new to streaming and video confer - of supporting the mourners among us Michael Levin Pesach Seder Thanks Susie and James Martin, Alan and Carol And, of course, our thanks to all those Pohl, Steven and Karen Port, Rosalie Rellin, who participated in the seder — those of Our deepest thanks to so many people Lawrence Sandler, Neville and Adrienne you who were asked to before the seder who made our Congregational Seder so Sender, Michael and Sylvia Winter, Margo began, those of you who joined in dur - wonderful beginning with Amy Ferrante- Zimmermann, and Clarice Zucker. ing the course of the seder, and every - Gollwitzer and Hannah Sattler for so To all of them, our thanks. one who shared the seder with all of us. quickly enabling us to move our seder meals from our congregational setting to a virtual setting. They were assisted by the We Saw You At... following staff and members who enabled The Congregational Family Seder, Thursday, April 9 curbside pickup at the synagogue: Andrew Appel, Lois Brazner, M’Johno Foster, Reenie Kavalar, Cheryl Otto, and Debbie Schuette. And so many additional meals were underwritten by the following members: Linda and Daniel Bader, Jennifer Bergman and Shawn McMahon, Deborah and Aaron Bernstein, Sherry and David Blumberg, Susan Borkon, DeWitt and Jacqueline Clinton, Fredric and Barbara Dichter, Susan Forray, Robert Jacobs, Bruce and Diane Keyes, Richard and Andrea Konz, Benjamin Levin and Laura Straus, Michael and Barbara Levin, Marina Maller,

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Rabbi Berkson, continued from page 1 May Worship My kitchen table has become my bimah and All services are online streaming on our website, on Facebook live, and through Zoom. my amud and my lectern and my office and You can watch services online at http://ceebj.org/watch or join on your phone, my place to gather together through Zoom. PC or Mac via Zoom. See Emanu-email for the appropriate Zoom information. And then it struck me during Pesach when my kitchen table was set for the seder which, Join in and participate with us live on CEEBJ’s Facebook page: facebook.com/CEEBJ . while I sat alone, we shared with, we figure, several hundred people either streaming or Friday, May 1 Friday, May 22 watching on Facebook life or joining in 6:15 pm: Kabbalat Shabbat Service, 6:15 pm Kabbalat Shabbat Service/ through Zoom. It was a wonderful experi - Early Shabbat Worship Early Shabbat Worship ence to share with so many of you and yet, Saturday, May 2 Saturday, May 23 what was more striking, was the fact that, after 9:00 am Shabbat Morning Study Minyan the seder was over and everyone was unmut - 9:00 am Shabbat Morning Study Minyan Torah Portion: Ahare Mot-Kedoshim, Torah Portion: Bemidbar, Numbers 1:1-4:20 ed, people just stayed on the screen to see Prophetic Reading: Hosea 2:1-22 each other’s faces and to try to talk. The Leviticus 16:1-20:27 Prophetic Reading: Amos 9:7-15 9:30 am Boker Tov Totpalooza cacophony of voices—and not silence— 7:30 pm Havdalah Together brought true comfort and joy. It seemed one 7:30 pm Havdalah Together Thursday, May 28 way out of the narrows. And then, through Friday, May 8 7:30 pm Shavuot Eve Service to be fol - Rabbis Michael Zedek and Reni Dickman, 6:15 pm Kabbalat Shabbat Service/ lowed by a virtual Tikkun Leil Shavuot I received these words from a Rev. Cecilia Early Shabbat Worship/April and May Kingman, a Unitarian Universalist minister in Birthday Blessings Friday, May 29 Seattle who has been dealing with the coron - 10:30 am Shavuot Morning Service avirus longer than we have here. She wrote: Saturday, May 9 with Yizkor “Just when you figure out how to do so many 9:00 am Shabbat Morning Study Minyan Torah Reading: Exodus 19:1-20:23 things to replicate “church” as we know it Torah Portion: Emor, Leviticus 21:1-24:23 Prophetic Reading: Ezekiel 1:1-28; 3:12 online, you will realize that what people need Prophetic Reading: Ezekiel 44:15-31 The Book of Ruth is read. most of all is straight up pastoral care, and 7:30 pm Havdalah Together 6:15 pm Kabbalat Shabbat Service/ time to connect with one another. Not pro - Early Shabbat Worship gramming. And definitely not perfection.” Tuesday, May 12 And then she continued, “I’m realizing quickly 7:00 pm Lag B’omer Together Saturday, May 30 that our people don’t need us to deliver the Friday, May 15 9:00 am Shabbat Morning Study Minyan things we used to deliver every week… but 6:15 pm Kabbalat Shabbat Service/ Torah Reading: Naso I, Numbers 4:21-5:31 perhaps the simplest of things. They don’t Early Shabbat Worship Prophetic Reading: Judges 13:2-25 need programs—they need to see each other’s 7:30 pm Havdalah Together faces. They don’t need polished preaching— Saturday, May 16 Friday, June 5 they need to hear that they are not alone.” 9:00 am Shabbat Morning Study Minyan 6:15 pm Kabbalat Shabbat Service/ 10:30 am Shabbat Morning Service Early Shabbat Worship The Biblical text commands us to count off Declan Alexander Winterfield will be seven weeks from the day on which we bring called to the Torah as a Bar Mitzvah Saturday, June 6 the sheaf of wave offering, the day after the Torah Portion: Behar – Behukotai, 9:00 am Shabbat Morning Study Minyan Sabbath. The weeks must be complete, in fact, Leviticus 25:1-27:34 Torah Portion: Naso II, Numbers 4:21-7:89 we must count until the day after the seventh Prophetic Reading: Jeremiah 16:19-17:14 Prophetic Reading: Judges 13:2-25 week, fifty days--then we shall bring an offering 7:30 pm Havdalah Together 7:30 pm Havdalah Together of new grain to the Eternal. We are command - ed to count the omer, or sheaf of barley, every day for this fifty-day period stretching from As you may remember, both the Song of Some of you may have seen or may still Pesach to Shavuot. That fifty-day period binds Songs and the song of the sea are read take a look at the readings Susan Cosden the festival of Pesach to this festival of Shavuot as Pesach concludes. And the Jewish shares with us each day of the counting and teaches us that freedom is incomplete mystics chose themes based on the of the omer on our Facebook page. without responsibility. Freed on Pesach, we sefirot, the different emanations of God Among the words I shared were these received the Torah at Sinai on Shavuot. Thus, reflected in human beings, for each of from Rabbi Moshe Codovero, the as Shavuot approaches, we publicly mark our these weeks and days leading up to Ramak, who was one of the 16th century calendars if you will. We count down (or per - Shavuot. And their theme for these first mystics in Tzefat. In his work Tomer haps even better, count up) the days to this day. days, as I write this-- hese d/love or lov - Devorah, he wrote, “this is the essence, At each evening service we offer a blessing ingkindness. As Rabbi Michael Strassfeld this is the principle: one should make followed by the count, indicating to all that puts it, such reminds us to treasure the life stream forth to all.” so we have reached so many weeks and various loves of our lives, those present, days in the count of the omer. those lost, and, most of all, those that Continued on page 10 Continued in next column endure. www.ceebj.org 3 Follow CEEBJ on Facebook artist-in-residence weekend with Beth Hamon Claudia, and Bob. We also want to thank the Director of and our Simhat Torah program celebrating the rest of the CEEBJ staff that help make the Lifelong sweetness of both living and learning Torah. school and synagogue run well and enjoy all the tasty meals: Ardyth Majewski, Cheryl Otto, Thank you to all of our incredible teachers: Learning Rick Fox, Toni Quartana, and Debra Schuette. Becca O’Connor, Beth Rapaport, Anastasia This is certainly not the Esther, Jennifer Saber, Sherry Malmon, Sherry Susan Cosden, RJE May we expected when Miller, Tamara Miller, Rachel Macagon, and the calendar was Dr. David Leichter. As Abraham Joshua Sixth Grade planned last spring nor Heschel said, “What we need more than Motza'ei Shabbat the May I envisioned anything else is not textbooks but text peo - when I started with all of you in July virtually ple. It is the personality of the teacher which Saturday, May 2, 7:30 pm and in person in August. Yet, there is so much is the text that the pupils read; the text they We look forward to ending Shabbat with our we will still do virtually together this month will never forget.” Thank you for being text sixth grade families online. Then together we and each month until we gather again in per - people, for connecting with our students, will build relationships and explore what it son. Our B’Shevteha B’Vayteha, As You Dwell and sharing your love of Judaism with them. means to become B’nai Mitzvah at CEEBJ. in Your House, living and learning Judaism Thank you to our madrichim who were both programs have a variety of offerings this an amazing help in the classrooms and the month. Our new offerings will be found in school and the best role models for our B’Shevteha B’vayteha this month’s Ha-Kol, such as our Lag b’Omer younger children. We are so grateful to Julia S’mores Night and our Leil Tikun Shavuot. As You Sit in Your House. Appel, Yonatan Buchnik, Charles Burns, Jem Tefillah continues Other programs continue, such as our Emir, Leila Emir, Jack Graskamp, Joshua Women’s Torah Study, Rosh Hodesh, Sex in Sunday, May 3 and 10, 9:30 Hootkin, Eve Janavitz, Benjamin Levin, for third – seventh grade and 11:00 the Bible lunch and learn class, and Elianna Michael, Chaim Robinson, Sydney GooseChase missions for kindergarten – for kindergarten – second grade Saber, Ethan Schupper, Eli Semler, Samuel Wednesdays, May 6 and 13 at 4:30 pm twelfth grade. While some of our programs Taxman, Isabel Wertz, and Mya Zollicoffer. will come to a close on May 17 as we wrap Sunday, May 17, 9:30 am for all Thank you to our Lifelong Learning up the official religious school year with a Goose Chase game special ceremony that we hope all of our Committee members: Jody Lansing, Sherry Malmon, Becca O’Connor, Kevin Magana, continues through May 29 . kindergarten – ninth graders and their par - Are you signed up yet? ents will attend at 9:30 am. Beth Rapaport, Rachel Macagon, Eve Joan Zucker, Jennifer Winterfield, Joyce Gutzke, New missions added each week As we say goodbye to the official religious Lois Brazner, Nadine Zuckerman, Robert Everyone who participates will be hon - school year and celebrate the beginning of Jacobs, Laura Strauss, and Mijal Tohi. It has ored and top players will win a prize. summer living and learning opportunities, I been incredible partnering with all of you to want to take this moment to thank everyone further our youth educational programs. Women’s Torah Study who helped make this school year meaning - ful. First and foremost, I want to thank the stu - Special thank you to four CEEBJ leaders Tuesday’s, May 5, 12, & 26, dents in all of our classes from the youngest who have participated with me as my at 10:00 am in Temple Tots to our eleventh and twelfth sacred partners studying together and graders who joined us for Jewish BioEthics. working together in a program run by the Taught by Dr. Sherry Blumberg. For the Thank you for your enthusiasm as we jour - Union of Reform Judaism about sacred Zoom link, please contact the weekly neyed together first in person and then partners in education: Sherry Malmon, Jody Emanu-email. online exploring Sacred Dialogues in both Lansing, Audrie Berman, and Tamara Miller. Hebrew and English with others, with our - Thank you to Brotherhood and WE who sup - Sex in the Bible selves, with Jews around the world and port the school and its programs in so many throughout history, with texts, with holidays, ways. Thank you to the Board of Trustees and Thursdays, May 7, 14, & 21, and with God. Together we explored how the Executive Committee who cherish our 12:30 – 2:00 pm each of us is created in the image of God youth, our educational programs, and the and yet unique in the world and how we future of CEEBJ and Judaism. Thank you for Taught by Susan Cosden, RJE. can use what makes us unique to make a dif - leading us through this most unusual time. Bring your computer to the dining room ference in the world. Thank you for bringing table with your lunch and we will study your authentic selves into our classrooms Finally, thank you to our incredible CEEBJ cler - remotely together. Together we will and learning with us as we learned from you. gy and staff. Our students have been so explore some love stories, some stories blessed to learn from Cantor Barash, Rabbi Thank you to all of the religious school par - that might better be explained as #MeToo, Barolsky, and Rabbi Berkson. We are blessed and others that are in between. We will ents, who trusted us to be in sacred partner - to feel safe thanks to M’Johno Foster heading ship with all of you in helping to raise men - even examine the role of God in these our security programs. Our school runs stories. Please note, even if you have not schen. Thank you also for schlepping your smoothly thanks to Tiffani Zahradnick, Jean children, for getting them online these last two attended the sessions that took place in Lauterbach, and Andrew Appel. Our school is April, you are still invited to join us for plus months, and for joining them for our clean, safe, and healthy thanks to Michael, multi-generational programs including our one, two, or all three of these sessions. www.ceebj.org 4 Follow CEEBJ on Facebook Storyteller Parent Appreciation Night The Voice of Our Youth Marilyn Price Saturday, May 16, 7:30 pm Bat or Bar Mitzvah preparation is some - Sunday, May 10, Saturday, May 16 at 7:30 pm will be both our thing that every 12-year-old Jewish kid has 10:00 am Havdallah together and a celebration of Parent to go through. This is part of our Jewish Appreciation Night. We want to honor and journey, an honor and responsibility. So, I The entire CEEBJ family is celebrate all of you who are parents during this was very excited to start preparing for my invited to join us on Zoom time of Covid-19. You are all doing an amazing Bat Mitzvah, especially because I knew that as Marilyn Price will be our storyteller job either working from home or working I would be working with Cantor Barash. this year in memory of Dianne Siegel. onsite at an essential job or looking for a job Our first meeting took place right after Together we will be introduced to some while overseeing or homeschooling your chil - Hanukkah. My parents and I met with wonderful stories, we will create our own dren, while raising your children as Jews and Cantor Barash and Susan Cosden to go art pieces based on some of these stories, menschen, while trying to keep Shalom Bayit over the Bat Mitzvah preparation process. It and we will celebrate the benefits of grati - while sheltering at home. You are all rockstars. was good to learn that our synagogue pro - tude and prayers. Immediately prior to our So, join us Saturday, May 16 with your favorite vides a lot of support and encouragement storytelling experience, we will have snacks, desserts, drinks and perhaps one or to all of the kids my age that are preparing tefillah (services) for our kindergarten – two of your favorite dance songs. seventh graders. The rest of the CEEBJ for one of the biggest events of their lives. family are welcome to join us for the morning service as well. Last Day of Religious School After that first meeting, Cantor Barash and I met the following week and started my & Virtual Mitzvah Day Torah reading preparation. We discussed Join us for Lag b’Omer Sunday, May 17, 9:30 am my parasha, its meaning and how to get ready for the big event. I have to be hon - Together, Tuesday, May 12 , Kindergarten – ninth graders and their est, I was a bit nervous because I didn’t 7:00 – 8:00 pm parents. Please join us for our closing day know if I would be able to chant my festivities as we celebrate ending the offi - Torah parasha well. But Cantor Barash Lag b’Omer is a minor, festive holiday that cial academic year and welcome in a assured me that, with some practice, I falls on the 33rd day of the seven-week summer of learning and living Judaism. would be able to do very well. He period known as the omer, that runs from Sunday, May 17 at 9:30 am for the entire explained to me that each week he would the second day of Pesach until Shavuot. CEEBJ community. give me a new section from my Torah par - (The numerical value of the Hebrew letter For more information on sha and we would practice step by step. lamed is 30, and the value of gimel is three; Virtual Mitzvah Day , After a couple of sessions with the Cantor, lamed and gimel together are pronounced please see the back cover. I started to feel more comfortable. “lahg.”) This holiday gives us a break from the semi-mourning restrictions (no parties And then, as you all know, something or events with music, no weddings, no hair - Boker Tov Totpalooza unexpected and unfortunate happened… cuts) that are customarily in place for some the coronavirus pandemic. It has affected Jewish communities during the omer. Saturday, May 23, all our lives. For me, it also affected my 9:30-10:00 am Bat Mitzvah preparation. Face-to-face Lag b’Omer commemorates a variety of histori - meetings were canceled, but the Cantor Join us virtually for a 30 cal events, including the end of a plague that continued to support me by conducting minute musical Shabbat killed many students of Rabbi Akiva (c. 50-135 virtual meetings every week. Now he experience for pre-school - C.E.), the yahrzeit of 2nd-century mystical FaceTimes me, listens to my chanting, ers and their families. scholar Shimon bar Yochai, and a Jewish mili - records the next section, and shares his tary victory over Roman forces in 66 C.E. In comments with me. I enjoy our virtual remembrance of these events, some people Rosh Hodesh sessions because it makes me feel con - celebrate with picnics and bonfires. Many cou - nected to our synagogue and I feel sup - ples in Israel choose to get married on Lag Saturday, May 23, 7:30 pm port and encouragement from him. b’Omer, and many people also choose to wait Please join Susan Cosden, WE, and Lifelong until that day to get a haircut or beard trim. Learning as we welcome in the new moon In our life, we all have to deal with challenges, We will not be celebrating with haircuts, and the new month of Sivan. All humans who and it is up to us to find a way to overcome though you can always choose to give yourself identify as female and are at least 18-years-old them. I feel lucky that I have such great sup - one. Rather, we invite everyone to gather or are invited to attend. This event is free. port from Cantor Barash and I want to thank purchase, if you can, chocolate, graham crack - him for making my Bat Mitzvah learning and We will begin by attending havdalah together ers and marshmallows so we can make real preparation experience so wonderful, despite with the clergy and any members of CEEBJ s’mores virtually together. We will tell stories and the challenges that we are facing right now. and the larger community who choose to sing songs. Feel free to take your laptop outside attend. Then we will stay on Zoom afterwards and sit around a firepit if you have one. Thank you. to celebrate our holiday and explore Ruth’s Julianna Franklin The Zoom link will be sent in a future email. Journey: transitions and transformations. www.ceebj.org 5 Follow CEEBJ on Facebook Women of Brotherhood All in the Family Emanu-El From Our President Congratulations to... From Our The Chinooks Family Declan Alexander President Outing is coming on Winterfield , who will be Sunday, July 19. The called to the Torah as a Bar I am certain that every - game starts at 5:05 pm; Mitzvah on Saturday, May one is staying at home plan to bring your family 16, at 10:30 am. He is the and being safe. This is and friends for what son of Chad and Jennifer such a strange time for all of us. I don’t per - promises to be a good time. (See back cover Winterfield, brother of sonally recall the Spanish Flu crisis in 1918, for more information). Rowan Winterfield; and grandson of but I am sure many of you had heard stories The Brewers Family Sports Outing is com - Harvey and Jo-Ann Winterfield, Danielle of it growing up. I saw a picture In the New Kurtz, James Warrender and Grandmas of York Times of famous artists painting them - ing on Tuesday, August 25. The game with the Minnesota Twins, starts at 7:10 pm. To the heart: Andrea Fithian and Terry Drake. selves after the Spanish Flu pandemic. It reserve your seats for either game, please use He also has a big, lovable bullmastiff reminded me of how scared people were the free online registration at this time. You named Tonka. Declan is in the 7th grade at then and now we are faced with this again. will be notified at a later date when payment the Lake Shore Middle School. He is on Sometimes this situation can make people will be required. At that time you can decide the football and volleyballs teams. obsessed with watching every TV to Opt-In or Opt-Out regarding making pay - Declan’s hobbies are music, specifically ment and attending the games. Any ques - announcement and newscast available. classic rock and 90's alternative rock, Legos tions, please call Allen Lavine at (414) 378- and video games. His Mitzvah project is You must do what you must do to stay 0284. (See back cover for more information). sane. Just be careful because people are textile recycling and food pantry drive. going crazy from being in lock down! The Brotherhood Nominating Committee is Steve (the late Jill) hard at work preparing the fiscal year of 2020- Actually I've just been talking about this Sandler on the birth of his with the microwave and toaster while 2021 with an Officers and Directors slate. The slate and next year's budget will have been sent granddaughter, Charlotte drinking coffee and we all agreed that Heart Sandler, on Friday, things are getting bad. I didn't mention to the current members by the time you receive this article. The election of new Officers April 3, in New Albany, anything to the washing machine as she Ohio. Charlotte was 6 puts a different spin on everything. and Directors will occur at the Annual Meeting on June18 at 6:30 pm. pounds, 14 ounces, and Certainly not to the fridge as he is acting was 19 and 1/2 inches long and wel - cold and distant. In the end the iron Due to the Governor's extension of the Safer at comed by her brother, Miles, and her sis - straightened me out as she said everything Home Order, the Parent-Child Philip ter Emilia (Emi). Charlotte’s parents are Zuckerman Award Shabbat scheduled for will be fine, no situation is too pressing. Todd and Arica Sandler and her maternal Friday, May 8, at 7:00 pm has been postponed. The vacuum was very unsympathetic... told grandparents are Jerry and Laureen Knast me to just suck it up, but the fan was more Due to the continued closing of the Temple of Youngstown, Ohio. Charlotte was optimistic and hoped it would all soon Building through the end of May, Mitzvah Day , named in memory of her great-grand - blow over! The toilet looked a bit flushed the Hopkins Street Cemetery Clean-Up mother, Charlotte Schulman, and great- when I asked its opinion and didn’t say Program, and Brotherhood's Religious School grandfather, Henry Knast. anything but the door knob told me to get Closing Luncheon will not occur this year. a grip. The front door said I was Our member Naomi (Nomi) Arbit on the 😬 The Supper Club committee met and have unhinged and so the curtains told me to... birth of her great-granddaughter, Maya decided to postpone the Supper Club Dinner yes, you guessed it 😝... pull myself scheduled for July 14, at 5:30 pm. Edina Mahoney. Maya was born on April together. I hope this made you smile! 😁 3 and joins her big brother Solomon Lev Due to COVID-19 virus protocols, it has been Mahoney. Maya and Solomon's parents, The Women of Emanu-El will be meeting necessary to cancel the Brotherhood meetings , Spencer and Carmiel, are in Mexico City, in May by Zoom. We will be reviewing for the past two months. We are currently mak - where Spencer is a diplomat for the our budget and putting together the new ing plans to hold our monthly Brotherhood United Kingdom and Carmiel is a non- budget beginning on July 1. I will send the meetings virtually. The first Zoom Meeting will resident fellow at the Atlantic Council (a link out to the membership and invite you be the Annual Meeting on June 18, at 6:30 pm. Washington based thinktank. Carmiel is I look forward to having everyone join us. to join us and be a part of this process. the daughter of Bruce and Tanya Arbit Thank you for your interest in WE and On behalf of Brotherhood, I wish to express my and Nomi's granddaughter. know that we are here for you. sincere appreciation for all the hard work, extra effort and tireless commitment of the clergy and Joining by Zoom I want to thank everyone for their kind staff in maintaining the congregation's services words and support of my family when during these unique and challenge times. We To join us at services and programs by my mother passed away. may be apart, but we are never alon e. Zoom, please refer to your weekly Emanu-email, or login to ceebj.org/email . Dan Wilkinson Ruth Treisman For security purposes, you must be [email protected] [email protected] logged in to access Zoom passwords. www.ceebj.org 6 Follow CEEBJ on Facebook I have also participated in discussions about in learning more about their town and From Our Jewish actors in the silent movies and Jews country. Once again, this site is loaded with Editor who escaped to China prior to World War old photographs of family members and II. It has been quite an education. their celebrations. Sadly, there are many Discover the Jewish stories of the tragedies of the Holocaust, Another group is called “Tracing the especially the stories told by survivors of Community on Tribe,” where the members trade infor - Facebook the camps, many who were children. The mation on their relatives who were either good news is I linked up with a cousin I In recent months I have lost or dispersed during the Holocaust. discovered three very did not know I had from the Lithuanian Several members assist in the translation branch of the Silverstein family. interesting Jewish oriented of immigration, birth and travel docu - Facebook groups. Each is unique in its content ments. Other times, tombstone inscrip - All three of these sites offer us a living history and discussion topics. On one site I have tions are translated from Hebrew or of our people. Rather than surfing on the learned about groups of Jews who lived in Yiddish for those of us who are not liter - Internet, I have elected to participate in these India in the nineteenth century, called Bene ate in those languages. I have seen indi - discussions and learn more about our peo - Israel, whose progeny now reside in England viduals discover distant relatives and bet - ple. I invite you to preview these and other and America. The black and white photos ter understand their genealogy. sites related to Jewish life and experience posted on “Old Jewish Photographs of the the joy of learning more about our people. World Pre-1965” of their wedding ceremonies The last group that caught my eye and now and family gatherings are quite fascinating. I is part of my daily Facebook interactions, is If you have any questions or wish to have posted my own family pictures and con - “Jewish Ancestry in Poland.” Since my share your online experiences, feel free nected with people from my old Brooklyn father’s family immigrated to the United to contact me at [email protected] . neighborhood, who lived on the same block. States from Lublin, Poland, I was interested Cary Silverstein Rabbi Dudley Weinberg Library These are troubling times, times when of the most important of these connec - The second story comes from Jewish we feel unmoored, frightened, helpless. tions has been through stories. folklore. Our library owns several So much is out of our control and we charming versions of it. search for certainty in an alarmingly I was hooked the first time I shared a tradi - “A poor man approaches his rabbi in desper - uncertain world. Times when we turn to tional folk tale with a class of wide-eyed ate need of advice. He shares a one-room the tried and true – to our family, to our first-graders. I appreciated the charm in cottage with his wife and their seven children. friends and ultimately, for many, to our these stories as much as the children did, He has no peace all day long, with the chil - religion – to help us maintain our footing but often there was meaning beyond the dren quarreling and his wife scolding and the and keep us from despair. charm. It is that meaning I think of now and how it serves to make sense of the present. constant clanking of pots and pans. Stroking Rabbi Berkson and Cantor Barash, along his beard, the rabbi thought for a second and with the entire CEEBJ staff, have been Two stories especially “spoke” to me during asked the man if he had any chickens. When there for all of us in ways that we couldn’t Passover and I want to share the essence of the man answered “yes,” the rabbi instructed have imagined a few months ago. They them with you. The first one is from midrash, him to bring the chickens into the house. have used their collective knowledge and a body of work the rabbis used to explain or The man came back to the rabbi the next day, instincts on how best to reach out to “fill in” biblical text. King Solomon wanted to more distraught than ever, complaining about congregants through personal and elec - humble a boastful minister and devised an the clucking and the flying feathers. The rabbi tronic contact, bringing Judaism to us in impossible task for him to complete. In six just smiled and ordered the man to bring his unique (now familiar) ways. months, the minister was to find a magical two cows inside. The man was puzzled, but ring that would make a happy man sad and a he complied, only to return and complain I am one of those congregants who would sad man happy. The minister searched every - once again about the smell and the dwin - have been alone, because of social dis - where with no luck. The day before the dling space in his little home. Now the rabbi tancing, for the Passover seders. I was deadline, in a final act of desperation, he told him to add his goats to the shrinking dreading the experience, but at the last approached a humble, young jeweler whose house. Beside himself with frustration, not to minute I set a holiday table for one, com - grandfather sat nearby. When the old man mention the din he and his family were plete with wine, and participated via my heard the minister’s request, he whispered enduring, the man visited the rabbi early the lap top in the synagogue’s second seder. It into his grandson’s ear and the jeweler next day. Only this time, the rabbi’s advice felt good to be a part of the ritual and I dis - immediately went to work engraving a plain was different: return all the animals to the covered how much I needed that feeling. gold band. The next day the king was barn. That night the man sighed with pleasure shocked to find that the minister had brought at the cleanliness and quiet of his little house I realized how deep my emotional, cul - him the magic ring that would make a and he never complained to his rabbi again.” tural and spiritual roots in Judaism are happy man sad and a sad man happy. and how I rely on them. Over millennia We will get through these troubled times Jews have understood the needs our tra - What was the magic? The magic was in together. ditions fill, binding us together and heal - the words inscribed on the ring: “this too ing us when we are in pain. For me one shall pass.” Paula Fine , librarian@ ceebj.org www.ceebj.org 7 Follow CEEBJ on Facebook IN MEMORY OF FOOD BANK FUND DONOR Tributes Alvin R. 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Names of family members are memorialized with a plaque and are read on future Yahrzeit dates at Shabbat services in perpetuity, regardless of membership. For more information, contact Toni at the synagogue office at (414) 228-7545 or go online at ceebj.org . Memorial Plaque Yahrzeits May 1 Fay Fedderly Earl "Skip" Matras Louis Silverman Sadye Ettenheim George W. Patek Norman S. Abrahams Marvin Glasspiegel Faye Matras Lillian R. Spracker Gertrude R. Goldberger Alfred Peck David Ashley Ruth P. Goodsitt Doris E. Mayer Louis S. Stern Fred Gruen Jeanette Polacheck Louis Behr Fannie Shutkin Roger W.L. McConnell Ruth E. Stillman Harry L. Heller Edward Portnoff Sara Schwenger Berdie Grossman David Newlander Leonard R. Weiner Abram J. Hertz Lila Schwid Marla Schneiderman Robert L. Hersh Nathan Paschen Charlotte Wick Maxine Klein Herz E. Gertrude Simons Berman Allan A. Hindin Julia Pentler Peck Miriam J. Wolfe Augusta Keller Audrey Sondel Lewis Kahn Bloom Rabbi Samuel Bertha W. Pereles Paul Zitron Walter L. Kohn Birdie Herz Sondel Anne W. Broude Hirshberg Rose Perlson Gertrude M. Kohne Sam M. Stein Betty Carlsruh Max L. Karl Donald M. Ross May 8 Isadore Laikin David Stern Buzz Cody Jeffrey Kasch Abraham Segall Jack N. Abraham Ernest W. Lane May Suran Olga Donath Eder Ida Kulakow Lois Shumow Edith Arnstein Howard Laufman Joan Tetel-Hanks David P. Becker Herman Levitz Rabbi Dudley Weinberg In Memoriam Emilie Goetz Berkwich Rebecca Krasno Levy Sam Wilets Marilyn Cohen Ilaine Lieberman We acknowledge with sorrow the passing of: Kenneth H. Cooper Estelle Blumenfeld May 29 Suzanne B. Dorf Father of Jada Miller and Aaron Hannah S. Feld Meyers Maurice J. Ansfield Wife of Stan Dorf (Missy) Fiul Joseph Fielkow Gerald H. Nickoll Fred Bamberger Mother of Robert (Stefanie) Dorf, Jon Grandfather of Zachary and Herman H. Glass Philip Leonard Padden Noah Bihvid (Melissa) Dorf and Andy (Katie Samantha Miller Dora Goetz Pearl Cohen Patek Stella Karger Bitker Lazenby) Dorf Husband of Sharon Bernstein Sister-in-law of Phyllis (the late Ada Gronik Elinore R. Pollay Michael Bykovsky Sheldon) Dorf David M. Sweetwood Jack Gronik Ann Barbara Rice Helen Caplin Aunt of Barbara and Michael Levin Step-father of Karen (Joe) Kleiman Lillian Goldmann Hersh Abe Rubenstein Esther B. Chaimson Grandmother of Steven, Scott, Evan, Father of Robin (Roger) Feldman, Jennifer Sweetwood and Julie David Holland Alvin E. Rumack David Cohn Allison and Justin Dorf Sophie Dornblatt Preceded in death by her parents, Sweetwood Darwin Huxley Dennis Scholl Malvin and Iola Bernhardt, and in- Husband of Dorothy Sweetwood Dora Isaacson Goldie Singer Sarah Fefer laws, Sol and Eva Dorf Grandfather of Carly and Ben Eugene Kerns Rabbi Saul Spiro Theresa Freudenfeld Sue is survived by her brother-in-law Kleiman; Alexandra, Will and Edmund M. Kohn Betty Steiner Frieda Gellman Jerry (Harriet) Dorf Elizabeth Feldman; and John and Teddy Sweetwood Ida June Lane Edit Vaynberg Betty H. Goldberg Frances Rott Uncle of Steven, Larry and Howard Norman G. Leser Simon C. Weisfeldt Charles L. Goldberg Mother of Ruth (Jonathan) Treisman, Sweetwood Hiram Solomon Lewis Burton C. Zucker Marcus Isaacson Andrea (Thomas Lynn) Solomon, Thomas L. Miller Esther Lubotsky Joseph Keller and Linda Farber (Jim Donnelly) May 22 Grandmother of Michelle (Spencer) Brother of Robert (Nancy) Miller and Beatrice B. Miller Belle Levy Pack, Daniel (Kate) Treisman, Pamela Kitty Glass Goldie Berman Moritz Adashek Henry L. Levy Treisman, Rebecca Treisman, Rachel Longtime partner of Bob Boyett Nonken Schuster Elynor Glick Behr Theodore Levy Solomon, Jaime (Tom) Dickmann, Camilla Peck Louis S. Berkoff Elinor Katz Lieberman Julia Farber, and Jessica (Andrew) Alice Briskin Sholler Cousin of Russell (Merzy) Eisenberg Benjamin Rosenberg Florence Bernhardt Blossom Rosin Zumchak Mother of Raquel (Kevin) Counihan, Great-grandmother of Samuel and Anne Oberman Peter Bootzin Lowenstein Lisa (Larry) Westreich, Danny Briskin, Samuel Elias Eckstein Mathew Pack; and Gregory, Mark and Joseph (Helen) Sholler and Alison Rosenthal Arthur Mark Hannah Zumchak (John) Mund Bernice D. Rothenberg Karl M. Elbinger Edward Ostach Preceded in death by her husband, Grandmother of Noah, Tali and Ari Ida Schlachter Mary Freedman Samuel Pentler Martin “Chuck” Rott Westreich, Abby and Ella Counihan, Sister of Arlene (the late Raymond) Edward Sepper Joan Frances Goldberg Ben Pittelman Amanda and Jonah Briskin, and Bessie D. Greenblatt Zimberg, Betty (Marvin) Adell, and Zachery and Reva Mund Donna Stern Frieda Pollack sister-in-law of Millie (the late Preceded in death by her husbands, Robert Malcolm Stern Loyal D. Grinker Joseph E. Rapkin Morton) Feldman Alan Briskin and Larry Sholler Alvin M. Strnad Fred L. Grombacher Bernice G. Rosenbaum Preceded in death by sisters Margie Isidor Israel (Irving) Siporin and Shirley (Edward) James A. Englander Kurt Wiener Edith Rubinstein Ruzumna; brother Myron (Bluma) Husband of Carole Englander Daniel V. Kesselman Carol G. Sampson Kazdan ;sister-in-law Beatrice (Sam) Father of Caryn (Rick Bollow), Janice May 15 R. Todd Lappin Abraham Schuster Faitler and brother-in-law David (Jeff Katz), Linda (Clive) Mills, and the David Adashek Harry LeVine Martha J. Schwenger (Fern) Rott late Wendy Sarah A. Auspitz Florence Ellis Levine Grandfather of Michael (Jill Bollow), Pauline Shapiro Steven Bernstein Brian (Lisa Bollow), Josh Katz, Justin Sanford B. Baum Shepard Magidson Daniel Joseph Shmitt Brother of Nat (Peggy) Bernstein, Katz, Evan (Jessica) Mills, Adam Mills, Anna Levey Behr Tobin Mayer Mary G. Stein Carol (Sheldon) Glusman and the and Ryan Mills Great-grandfather of Albert Blecker Regina Michels late Joseph (Audrey) Bernstein Esther U. Stern three Sara Eigman Adolph Neuwald Robert Herman Suran May God, the Source of Peace, grant peace to all who mourn and comfort Isadore Eisenberg Joseph Oplatka Ervin J. Youngerman the bereaved among us. Amen. www.ceebj.org 9 Follow CEEBJ on Facebook Rabbi Berkson , Social Action continued from page 3 Thank you to all who have made phone The Salinsky Fund has also supplied take And my contemporary colleague, Rabbi calls and continue to do so as a way to home boxes for Repairers of the Breach David Seidenberg, took these words as reach out and touch (figuratively) our as they can no longer feed their con - the omer count for the eighth day of the congregational family. Thank you to those stituents in their dining room. counting of the omer and added, of you who have delivered Pesach bags We are continuing to collect bicycles for “True might comes from channeling to the needy and those who have deliv - the Sixteenth Street Community Health power to all the beings around you, not ered Seder meals to our congregants. Fair. Please contact Reenie Kavalar for pick from controlling or hoarding power. The community wide Pesach Food up or delivery through the end of May. This is an act of love and compassion. In Distribution provided grape juice, mat - our places of isolation, we may feel like Stay tuned for future plans for putting zoh, gefilte fish, matzoh ball mix and a we are disconnected from life. But as we together the snack packs for Hunger Task chicken to over 400 families. The Salinsky act to protect lives, we are also ‘making Force for children who need food this Program to Feed the Hungry has sup - life stream forth’ and expressing love. It’s summer. plied the funding for the chickens and good to take a moment to remember through a special request this year pota - For Virtual Mitzvah Day information, that-- anytime isolation feels like too toes, onions and eggs for the West Side please see back cover. much of a burden.” Jewish Community. CEEBJ served as the The CEEBJ garden will be planted as soon I do love seeing all of your faces and drop off point for contributions of these as the weather allows. Anyone interested hearing all of your voices as, in isolation, foods from the community. in helping out please contact Reenie. you are making life stream forth. And While the Jewish Community Pantry con - while we are not yet able to hold hands, Next Social Action meetings will be held tinues to operate on a somewhat limited we can surely hold hearts. Know that, to virtually on Sunday, May 17. basis, they are not accepting foods from hold each other’s hearts, we will also be outside so the regular pick up from Reenie Kavalar doing many things differently in the con - Trader Joes is being diverted to Repairers [email protected] gregation in the weeks and months to of the Breach and The Guest House. (414) 659-9662 come. And never hesitate to reach out.

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