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Year of the Cantor 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, www.ceebj.org 2 Follow CEEBJ on Facebook 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 .
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