NARAYEVER NEWS NOVEMBER, DECEMBER 2015 HESHVAN, KISLEV, TEVET 5776 NARAYEVER NEWS PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

Dear Friends, ◆ The lowest median age for the Jewish community is I hope you had a fulfilling High Holy Days with family and found in the Downtown Core (south of Bloor St; Don friends. It's hard to believe that already we are now Valley Parkway to Dufferin St.) at 33.2 years. looking forward to Chanukah! ◆ The lowest relative proportions of Jewish children For this report I thought I would draw your attention to can be found in Finch / Steeles and the Downtown Core. 2011 National Household Survey Analysis: The Jewish ◆ High Park / Junction has a preponderance of young Community Toronto which can be found at Jewish families. http://www.jewishdatabank.org/Studies/ ◆ Regarding the economically productive details.cfm?StudyID=743. The report is age group of 25-44 years of age, by far the based on the most recent census of 2011 highest percentage is found in the and contains much interesting information Downtown Core (53.1%). relevant to the Narayever. It is published by the UJA of Greater Toronto and the Jewish In summary, there are increasing numbers Federations of Canada – UIA. As the report of Jews moving downtown, especially states, “The 2011 National Household those in the employed 25-44 age group. Survey data will help leadership make This growth is great news for the Narayever, critical decisions and respond to the needs as it offers us an opportunity to keep our of community members in an informed and strategic membership numbers at a healthy level. While we want way.” to appeal to all ages, we need to especially consider programs that would be of interest to the 25-44 age Some key findings: group. There is an opportunity for ◆ In 2011, the population of Jewish Community of focused outreach in the High Toronto was 188,715. Park/Junction area. ◆ Jews comprised 3.4% of the total Toronto population. On a more sobering note, the UJA in another report, Setting the Stage for ◆ The Greater Toronto Area currently has the largest concentration of Jews in the country, with almost half of UJA Federation's Next Strategic Plan, the national Jewish population living here. notes that the number of Jews living below the poverty line increased by ◆ The rate of growth of the community slowed between 4,500 between 2001 and 2011. This 2001 and 2011. marks a 2% increase in Jewish poverty in Toronto. ◆ The Downtown Jewish Community (south of St. Clair The UJA is looking at ways to “marshal new resources Ave.; Victoria Park Ave to the Humber River) numbers and strategies to reverse this fundamental indicator of 24,705 Jews, comprising 13.1% of the total Jewish the health of Jewish Toronto.” population. The Narayever is an active member of the Downtown ◆ While the overall growth rate of the Jewish Jewish Community Council, with Micky Fraterman, community has slowed down, the Downtown Jewish Chair of our Wider Community Committee, in the lead. Community has been increasing steadily since 1971, This forum provides us with one opportunity to look at with continuing momentum for population growth. As ways, with our partners, to address Jewish poverty. of 2011, however, the Downtown still had the lowest Jewish population density of any of the three Liz Bohnen, President, Narayever Board of Governors neighbouring Toronto regions. [email protected]

2 NOVEMBER, DECEMBER 2015 HESHVAN, KISLEV, TEVET 5776 NARAYEVER NEWS RABBI’S MESSAGE

Dear Friends, an extraordinary leap forward in Catholic-Jewish On Rosh Hashanah, I spoke about the 50th anniversary of relations, and has been transformational in the position Sandy Koufax's decision not to pitch in the World Series of the Jews in the western world ever since. on Yom Kippur, and also about the 50th anniversary of Because of the issues facing our society at the moment, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel's march with Rev. Martin much of the ecumenical focus and energy has turned to Luther King from Selma to Montgomery. I noted that the necessity for and challenges of dialogue with the both of these events were examples of Jewish courage Muslim community. But this anniversary is an from which we can still learn all these decades later. 1965 opportunity for us to remember the ground-breaking was certainly a banner year in many nature of Nostra Aetate, to honour the respects. Another extraordinary event courage of those who broke with their own which took place that year was the issuance tradition to correct a historic injustice, and to of the Vatican encyclical entitled Nostra consider what it challenges us to do in our Aetate, as part of the Second Vatican own time to take interfaith understanding Council called by Pope John XXIII. and cooperation to the next level. In this document, the Catholic Church The poet Denise Levertov wrote, officially decries anti-Semitism: “True, the Jewish authorities and those who followed We have only begun to know their lead pressed for the death of Christ; the power that is in us if we would join still, what happened in His passion cannot our solitudes in the communion of struggle. be charged against all the Jews, without distinction, then So much is unfolding that must alive, nor against the Jews of today. The Jews should not complete its gesture, be presented as rejected or accursed by God, as if this so much is in bud. followed from the Holy Scriptures. All should see to it, then, that in catechetical work or in the preaching of the Weighed down as we are by much of what we read in the word of God they do not teach anything that does not news, it is sometimes hard to remember that quite a few conform to the truth of the Gospel and the spirit of Christ. good things are indeed “in bud” in our world. Diverse Furthermore, in her rejection of every persecution groups in society are cooperating in unprecedented against any man, the Church, mindful of the patrimony ways, for example on behalf of refugees, First Nations she shares with the Jews and moved not by political issues, and around environmental activism. A heightened reasons but by the Gospel's spiritual love, decries hatred, sense of concern for “the other” is a positive trend that persecutions, displays of anti-Semitism, directed against must be nurtured, both out of a motivation simply to help Jews at any time and by anyone.” those in need, and out of a realization that the suffering of others will inevitably have an impact on ourselves in Fifty years later, many of us may take it for granted that this very interconnected world. this view of the Jews, and of anti-Semitism, is the official position of the Roman Catholic Church. But after the Fifty years after Vatican II, in a world filled with so many centuries of religious persecution which preceded this ongoing and complex challenges, when forces of hatred statement, its significance should not be minimized. and intolerance consistent with the pre-Vatican II Church, Does this mean that the scourge of anti-Semitism has are still quite active in many places, we can only pray that been eradicated? No. Does this mean that there are no through our “communion of struggle” with others of like more issues between the Church and the Jews? Of course mind, some of those hopeful buds will indeed blossom. not. Would it have been better if the statement had been issued 30 years prior? Absolutely.

But the fact that rejection of the Jews based on the Rabbi Ed Elkin charge of deicide was no longer official church policy was [email protected]

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FUNDRAISING COMMITTEE YOM KIPPUR FOOD DRIVE

Rosh Hashanah Appeal: This year we collected 1008 lbs. from the shul and Todah Rabah! 1690 lb. from the MNjcc totaling 2698 lbs. of Your generosity at the Rosh Hashanah Appeal, food collected for the Daily Bread Food Bank! which specifically raises additional funds for the Thank you to everyone who gave us a friendly shul's ongoing operations, is very much reminder from the pulpit and to all of you for your appreciated! donations. They are so very much needed and appreciated. Yasher Koach!!! Thank you to everyone, members as well as non- members at the MNjcc and the Shul, who pledged FYI, last year we collected 1875 lbs. - plus cheques funds to assist the shul to keep our membership totalling $251.00. 1345 lbs. was donated from fees and High Holy Day ticket prices as low as MNjcc service participants and 530 lbs. was possible, and to offer an enhanced level of donated by members who attended services at programming and support for both adults and our shul. youth. In past years, we have collected large amounts of If you were not able to make a donation on Rosh food as well: Hashanah, you can still do so by calling the 2007 - 2700 lbs. shul office or by going online at any time at 2008 - 3000 lbs. www.canadahelps.org and searching for First 2009 - 2350 lbs. Narayever. You can designate that your donation be assigned to the Rosh Hashanah Appeal Fund. 2010 - 2546 lbs. 2011 - 2566 lbs. Lili Little and Lucille Narun Co-chairs, Fundraising Committee 2012 - 2100 lbs. [email protected] 2013 - 2275 lbs. 2014 - 1875 lbs. 2015 - 2698 lbs. Next year let’s beat our record and share more than 3000 lbs. of food!

Kathryn Polson Ferguson

4 NOVEMBER, DECEMBER 2015 HESHVAN, KISLEV, TEVET 5776 NARAYEVER NEWS Thank you! To all the people who helped with this year's High Holy Days

Another year's High Holy Days are complete, and once again it could not have been accomplished without the efforts of dozens and dozens of people. We are very grateful to everyone who helped out (and apologies to anyone we missed from this list!): The Narayever expresses its appreciation to Kivi Shapiro, our High Holy Day coordinator, for whom no detail was too small to ensure smooth running and meaningful services both at the MNjcc and at the shul locations. Todah Rabah, Kivi

SERVICE LEADERS Lili Little Rachel Melzer Mindy Avrich-Skapinker TICKETS, POSTERS, Rabbi Ed Elkin Lucille Narun Sarah Colman Patricia Patchet-Golubev WEBSITE, AND OTHER Rabbi David Weiss Micky Fraterman Teddy Bercovici Peter Gold ADVERTISING Rabbi Aviva Richman Miriam Diamond Benjy Cohen Rabbi Joseph Ben David Morley Beiser YOUTH PROGRAM LEADERS FOOD PROVIDERS Bernie Feder Ali Aber Peter Gold Alex Barkin Dawn Berney David Weyman Andy Gann Sue Weinstein Alice Ackerman Evelyn Schaefer Jane Rimmer Annette Gruno Antigone Fogel Joel Edelson Susan Starkman Antigone Fogel USHERS Avi Fogel Lesley Simpson Ariella Eben-Ezra Ben Carniol Alan Feder Benjamin Beiles Phyllis Berck Marsha Frydenberg Ben Geva Albert Kerzner Candice Barkin Rachel Zilberg Benjy Cohen Alex Barkin Chloe Macklin Rishona Moshinsky QUIET HELPERS Brenda Enchin Alison Cohen Desana Rose Shaun Singer Jill Magen Cyril Press Andrea Most Dov Beck-Levine Sherry Glazier Julia Gluck Elaine Gold Brenlee Robinson Eden Gladstone Martin The Barkin Family Josh Soref Elisha Denburg Brenna Singer Eliana Train The Singer/Weinstein Family Miriam Diamond Ellen Friedland Danny Gold Hannah Feldman Jacob Daum David Barkin Max Ackerman PEOPLE WHO HELPED SET ORGANIZERS Jennifer Paton-Smith David Waymen Natan Aber-Krusner UP AT THE MNJCC Rabbi Elkin Jordan Wosnick Elaine Peritz Rachel Brooks Beth Komito-Gottlieb Rabbi Weiss Joseph Weissgold Frances Enchin Sam Brooks Bonnie Pascal Andy Simor Joshua Engel-Yan Francine Dick Sarah Macklin David Weyman Beth Komito-Gottlieb Lawrence Cherney Gillian Singer Shira Rubinoff Donna Altamonte Ellen Friedland Lili Little Harvey Starkman Tali Elkin Eduard Bercovici Julie Tepperman Marc Grushcow Issie Lyon Tiferet Nashman Galia Shaked Kathryn Polson-Ferguson Medina Robbins Jackie Silverberg Harvey Roff Lili Little Mendl Malkin Janet Horowitz HALL MONITORS Jill Magen Lucille Narun Michal Er-el Jill Magen David Barkin Josh Soref Morley Beiser Miriam Diamond Joan Judge Jim Davis Julie Tepperman Peter Gold Neil Naft Josh Soref Mischa Levine Kalil Robinson Reuven Shlozberg Nora Gold Kathryn Polson Ferguson Rochelle Barkin Larry Fox Sue Weinstein Peter Gold Laila Lipetz Roz Train Lauren Trossman Rebecca Colman Leisa Hirtz Simon Houpt Leisa Hirtz OFFICE STAFF AND HELPERS Ricki Grushcow Lesley Sevitt Suzanne Keppler Leslie Carlin Marsha Frydenberg Robert Rothman Max Dublin Liad Rozenberg Ariella Eben-Ezra Sharna Searle Micky Fraterman CHOIR MEMBERS Liz Bohnen Rishona Moshinsky Sharone Bar-David Naomi Gold Galia Shaked Lucille Narun Bonnie Pascal Sue Weinstein Natalie Fingerhut Rabbi David Weiss Luz Dalila Grey Benjy Cohen Tanhum Yoreh Olga Palmateer Alan Ackerman Micky Fraterman Brenlee Robinson Tirzah Meacham Peter Sevitt Antigone Fogel Ophir Barr Lili Little Trudy Shecter Phyllis Berck Bill Davidovitz Rabbi Elkin Micky Fraterman Tzemach Yoreh Randee Pavalow Bonnie Pascal Raphaela Bercovici Rhona Phillips Ron Kanter Clarrie Feinstein Rishona Moshinsky Sue Weinstein SPEAKERS Roy Wise Dan Gordon Shayne Robinson Rabbi Elkin Shaun Singer David Cheater Stephen Baird PAGE TURNERS Rabbi Weiss Sue Weinstein Ella Gladstone Martin Yael Schacter Cathy Mallove Rabbi Richman Susan Starkman Frumie Diamond Constantin Socalski Harry Schachter Howard Spring PEOPLE WHO HELPED TEAR Josh Soref Liz Bohnen CONCURRENT Jesse Gordon DOWN AT THE MNJCC + others! Pippa Fenstein PROGRAMMING LEADERS Lala Loon Almost everyone who was Sarah Zelcer Alon Nashman Laraine Naft present at the MNjcc at the DAVENERS Sarah Margles Leslie Carlin end of services on the All of you! Everyone! PLEDGE COLLECTORS Mischa Levine Lili Little second day of Rosh Benjy Cohen Lindsay Naft Hashanah helped to stack vent is a big deal. David Barkin YOUTH SERVICE LEADERS Max Ackerman books, remove seat covers, This e Congratulations and David Weyman Candice Barkin Mendl Malkin and generally tidy things up. o everyone Joel Edelson Michael Noble Micky Fraterman That was incredibly helpful. Toda Rabah t for being part of it! NOVEMBER, DECEMBER 2015 HESHVAN, KISLEV, TEVET 5776 5 NARAYEVER NEWS SHUL MATTERS

OUR WONDERFUL SUKKAH MAZEL TOV TO... Thanks to the impressive artistic and construction talent in our community, we Sharone Bar David on the publication were able to enjoy time spent in our of her book, Trust Your Canary: Every beautifully decorated Sukkah. Our Sukkah Leader’s Guide to Taming Workplace withstood the wind and rain, too! Thanks to Incivility. all who joined us in celebration. Nora Gold, whose novel Fields of Exile won the 2015 Canadian Jewish Literary Award.

Jacques Kornberg, on the publication of his book The Pope's Dilemma: Pius XII Faces Atrocities and Genocide in the Second World War.

Alison Pick, whose memoir Between Gods won the 2015 Canadian Jewish Literary Award.

Dianne Saxe, on her new role as Commissioner for the Environment for the Province of Ontario. Liad and Ophir, our wonderful ShinShinim, enjoying their first Sukkot in Canada. Shelly Weiss and Todd Greenbloom on the marriage of their daughter N A R AY E V E R N E W S Jenna Greenbloom to Josh Glickman. NOVEMBER, DECEMBER 2015 HESHVAN, KISLEV, TEVET 5776 Roy and Linda Wise, on the marriage

Editing Team: Marcia Beck, Rabbi Elkin and Marsha Frydenberg of their daughter Leora Wise and Shaul Ellenbogn.

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SOCIAL ACTION 2015 will mark the eighth year since the founding of Human Rights Shabbat. The First Narayever has COMMITTEE REPORT participated in this initiative in the past and this year will be no exception. A concept developed by T'ruah and September's Days of Awe are behind us. We now Rabbis for Human Rights North America, Human Rights confront the task of translating into action the soul- Shabbat aims to educate Jewish communities about the searching we did and the resolutions we made during intersection of Jewish values and universal human that period. rights. In 2014, nearly 200 communities throughout First, some continuing business. Your generous pledges North America and Israel--including congregations, to the Yom Kippur Appeal totaled more than $60,000 this Hillels, hospitals, and chavurot--participated. Plans are year and that's wonderful. Heartfelt thanks to Pippa still under development but the SAC is very pleased that Feinstein and Sarah Zelcer for their eloquent Kol Nidrei Mary Jo Leddy, professor of theology at the University of messages about why we make this Appeal. Toronto will honor us by taking part in this year's Human Rights Shabbat. Pledges aren't the same as money in the bank. You will soon receive the invoices for your pledges, and we Mary Jo Leddy received entreat you to respond to these promptly. Applications a PhD from the University from worthy organizations in Israel and in Toronto have of Toronto with a thesis already started to roll in. By the end of January, the Social entitled: “The Event of Action Committee will have reviewed them and will then the Holocaust and the make recommendations to the board about which should Philosophical Reflections be funded. This abbreviated time line is necessary in of Hannah Arendt.” She order to help ensure that the organizations selected will has authored more than have the information in time to plan their next fiscal year. a half dozen books on human rights and interfaith issues, By the way, if anyone still wishes to make a pledge, it's including “Say to the Darkness We Beg to Differ" (finalist not too late. Please contact the shul office either by City of Toronto Book Award), “At the Border Called Hope: telephone or email. Where Refugees are Neighbours (finalist for the Trillium Award), “Radical Gratitude,” and "The Other Face of God: Refugees are once again troubling the world's When the Stranger Calls Us Home.” Well known as a conscience. Truth to tell, more than a decade ago, the lecturer, community activist and founder of Romero United Nations estimated that there were 20 million House for refugees, Mary Jo has received honorary refugees and displaced persons in the world. The figure doctorates from several universities as well as the didn't budge for a long time. But recent events in the Human Relations Award of the Canadian Council of Middle East and the Horn of Africa have swelled those Christians and Jews (1987), the Ontario Citizenship numbers. The stories of deprivation and suffering are Award (1993), and the Order of Canada (1996). overwhelming; the images of dead children too much to bear. To look away is, however, immoral. Who knows this alendars better than we Jews? In response, a Social Action e to mark your c Be sur AT Committee sub-group on the Syrian Refugee Crisis, HUMAN RIGHTS SHABB jointly chaired by Pippa Feinstein and Sarah Zelcer, has December 12 2015. been meeting to develop a recommended course of action for our shul. More about that in the very near Morley Beiser, Social Action Chair [email protected] future.

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ADULT EDUCATION LIBERATION, All programs are in the shul TH AFTERMATH and REBIR aust Education Week 35th Annual Holoc ISLAM AND JUDAISM November 2-9, 2015 Interactions in Scripture, Ritual and History LIFE AFTER HIDING with Dr. Liyakat Takim A special Holocaust Education Week Sunday, Nov. 1 from 11:00 am – 1:00 pm post-Kiddush program with Dr. Jennifer Marlowe This lecture will explore several dimensions of the Saturday, Nov. 7 from 1:30 pm – 2:45 pm relationship between Judaism and Islam. It will discuss hh their respective scriptures, rituals and the history of How do the specific experiences of living in hiding and their interaction. The lecture will also examine how the hiding a person affect the relationship for both a two religious traditions can interact and engage in rescuer and charge? What happens when liberation contemporary times. again changes the nature of this relationship? This kkk Professor Liyakat Takim is the lecture seeks to explore these questions by looking at Sharjah Chair in Global Islam at case studies of Polish Jewish children who were McMaster University. A native of protected by the Polish Catholic maids and nannies Zanzibar, Tanzania, he is the that worked for their families prior to the outbreak of author of two books and one the war and Holocaust. With the aid of memoirs, hundred scholarly works, and has testimonies, and archival documents, this lecture will presented at more than eighty academic conferences, argue that the clandestine activity of hiding a former on diverse topics like reformation in the Islamic world, Jewish charge, and the act of participating in this the treatment of women in Islamic law, Islam in conspiracy, often brought the child and prewar America, dialogue in post-911 America, war and peace caregiver closer, while at the same time changing the in the Islamic tradition, among other topics. Professor nature of their relationship. Takim is currently working on his third book, Ijtihad and Reformation in Islam, teaches courses on Islam Dr. Jennifer Marlow is assistant comparative religions and is actively engaged in Professor of European History at Bethel dialogue with different faith communities. University. She holds a Ph.D. in East jj Central European History from Light refreshments provided after the program. Michigan State University and held the Robert Savitt Visiting Fellow Fund Fellowship at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies. She presented at Yad Vashem and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and is the author of an academic chapter included in an upcoming Yad Vashem anthology.

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From Justice to Mercy to Love END OF LIFE CARE Solomon's Wisdom and Women's Intuition from a Jewish Perspective with Prof. Sara Horowitz with Michael Gordon Sunday, Nov.15 from 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm Sunday, Nov. 29 from 11:00 am – 1:00 pm

In thinking about how Jewish feminism has There comes a time when life ends for all of us. reconfigured Jewish life, we think not only about how Modern medicine offers many complex and the door of the men's club has been opened to all. wonderful treatments but cannot avert death. Gender inclusivity has the potential to reshape the Modern medicine can however alter the way we die, way we read traditional Jewish texts, and the way we both for good and for less than good. What does think of such things as justice, community, and family. Judaism offer us when it comes to the end of life, and To illustrate this, we will reread a famous biblical story what do new laws relating to how we might die in about King Solomon's wisdom through the lens of Canada say to those of us who wish to abide by our gender. Jewish heritage? Sara R. Horowitz is a Professor of Comparative Literature and Humanities at the Director of the Michael Gordon, MD, MSc, FRCPC, Israel and Golda Koschitzky born in Brooklyn New York, studied Centre for Jewish Studies at York. at Brooklyn College in New York and She is the author and editor of the University of St. Andrews several books about Holocaust Medical School in Scotland. His literature, including Voicing the Void: Muteness and training took him to Aberdeen, Boston, Montreal, Memory in Holocaust Fiction, which received the Israel and Toronto. Michael is currently Medical Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Book, and the Program Director of Palliative Care and Co-Director forthcoming H. G. Adler: Life, Literature, Legacy of Medical Ethics, and previously VP Medicine and (edited with Julia Creet and Amira Dan). Her current Head of Geriatrics, at Baycrest Geriatric Health Care work focuses on gender and Jewish memory. In System. Michael is a Professor of Medicine at the addition, she is founding co-editor of the journal University of Toronto. KEREM: A Journal of Creative Explorations in Judaism. hh h Light refreshments provided after the program. Light refreshments will be served following the talk. This program is being offered as part of the Global Day of Jewish Learning (www.globalday.org). Reuven Shlozberg, Adult Education Chair [email protected]

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CELEBRATIONS UPDATE Mexican and a Movie CHANUKAH PARTY HEYMISHE CHANUKAH Saturday, December 12, 2015, at Kensington Gardens Starting with Havdalah at 5:30 pm Join us to help create a warm, heymishe Chanukah celebration at Kensington Gardens Nursing Home - 25 Brunswick Ave. We will meet in the All Purpose Room on the main floor on Thursday, Dec. 10 at 6:30 pm for songs, lights and sufganiyot. Everyone is welcome to share in this mitzvah this Chanukah!

Please put the following dates into your calendar for Kensington Gardens services and programs:

November 14 and 28 at 11:00 am December 10 - 6:30 pm, Dec. 19 at 11:00 am

The First Narayever will host its annual all-ages For more information: Chanukah Party. In keeping with last year's successful [email protected] “Chinese and a Movie” theme, this year Rachel will prepare Mexican fare. Entertaining movies will follow; one for the children downstairs and another for the adults in the sanctuary. Yes, there will be popcorn, We warmly welcome to our community traditional sufganiyot and an opportunity to enjoy the these New Members hot chocolate of Israel, Sachlav. Rabbi Julia Appel & Aaron Wenner and So come in from the frosty December air and join their children Briyah & Elijah the Narayever community as we joyously light the Mosha Buhler menorahs, sing Chanukah songs, spin the dreidels and listen to the Chanukah story in the warmth and glowing Tamar Flanders and her children Ezra and Oren light of our Chanukiot. David Moyal All are welcome. Please bring your own personal chanukiah for lighting along with your favourite Anne Rennert Sternthal & dreidel. Please RSVP to Leisa. Neil Sternthal and their children Maya and Isabel Leisa Hirtz Joel Yan Celebrations Chair [email protected]

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BAR/BAT MITZVAH COMMITTEE YOUTH COMMITTEE

If you have a child who will be celebrating a bat or bar Youth programs this year were off to a fabulous start with mitzvah in 2018 and you haven't yet booked a date, our teen-led High Holy Day services. Some children were please call the office as soon as possible. Many dates heard to remark, “Why can't regular Shabbat programs be have already been taken and it is important for the this good?” The answer is… they can! They are! We've got Narayever to know how many bar and bat mitzvahs are the B'yachad service downstairs and the “One-room shul- house” upstairs, led by some of the same creative and fun on the horizon. leaders as the High Holy Days.

The newest class of “BBM” students - those who will Simchat Torah saw a new programming initiative for become bat/bar mitzvah in 2016 – first met in September families with young children. The earlier start time and kid- and are now hard at work with our Youth Leader, Beth friendly dinner enabled families who would normally not Komito-Gottlieb. Her twice-monthly classes, supported attend evening services to celebrate with the Narayever community. Adults and children alike were fascinated with by the ShinShinim, are a vital part of the children's BBM Rabbi Ed's tour of the Torah “unscrolled” - the calligraphy, preparations. BBM classes offer solid academic formatting, and parchment all inspired questions and education, an emphasis on mitzvot, and the opportunity wonder. for students to form lasting bonds with each other Looking forward, we will be planning more programs in the through group activities such as this month's Kabbalat early evening in the hopes of giving families with young Shabbat BBM Family dinner. children more opportunities to connect with the Narayever community. If you would like to help guide the BBM program by being a member of the BBM Committee, please send me a note Our “Nosh and Nurture” program, a morning program for at [email protected]. We are always looking for parents with babies, is yet another way for parents to stay enthusiastic new committee members who recognize connected to the shul during one of the most demanding phases of parenthood. the important role that a bat/bar mitzvah can play in the life of a young Jewish adult. Finally, our youth committee is getting underway. The first meeting took place on October 28, but new members Simon Houpt, Bar/Bat Mitzvah Chair are always welcome to join. If you are interested, please [email protected] email Sara. Sara Borer, Youth Chair [email protected]

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ISRAEL COMMITTEE ShinShinim Ophir and Liad’s Our Committee is very excited to start a new season with our new pair of ShinShinim, Liad and Ophir. We all have been working hard to bring Israeli life and culture to the Narayever community through our ISRAELI programming. CINEMA Our committee is very happy to announce that we will be presenting a four-part Israeli cinema series. This SERIES event is especially fun as we all get to lay back and enjoy a film in our beautiful sanctuary followed by an Save these dates for our ShinShinim's series exploring enlightening discussion about the film and its meaning Israeli mediums of documentary, television, film and over some warm drinks and snacks downstairs. animation. We also have fun and interactive Conversational TUESDAYS: November 10, 2015, January 26, Hebrew sessions planned – they will be taking place at February 23 and March 29, 2016 Aroma near Yonge and Eglinton. This is a fun way to learn Hebrew and people of all speaking levels are All programs will begin at 6:45 pm. Screenings to be welcome from beginners to advanced. followed by interactive dialogue with our ShinShinim. Watch Narayever Net and Shabbat announcements from We look forward to seeing you all at these free events the bimah for full details. throughout the year. For more information feel free to contact: Eitan Shvartsman, Israel Chair Liad and Ophir at [email protected] or [email protected] Beth at [email protected]

KIVI

Our beloved Ritual Chair and High Holy Day Coordinator Kivi Shapiro is moving to Ottawa Conversational Hebrew with his family in December. with our ShinShinim Kivi has been an extraordinarily hardworking and dedicated shul leader for several years. SUNDAYS at 6:30 pm at AROMA (Yonge and Eglinton) Please join us at Shabbat Services on Nov. 21 as we expresses our appreciation to Kivi, and November 29, 2015, January 10, wish him, Lisa, Levi, and Lila farewell. February 7 and March 13, 2016

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FRIDAY NOVEMBER 20, 2015 Join us for a fun, family friendly evening of great company, great food & great programs at the shul

Call the office at 416.927.0546 to book your spot, space is limited! Cost: $65 max. per family l $20 adult (13+) $15 child (6-13) l Kids 5 & under - Free

Members of the Board of Governors 2015 - 2016

President Governance Liz Bohnen [email protected] Barry Pervin [email protected] nnnnnb nnnnnb Vice President Hesed Barry Pervin [email protected] Sarah Margles [email protected] nnnnnb nnnnnb Secretary High Holy Days Roz Train [email protected] Kivi Shapiro [email protected] nnnnnb nnnnnb Treasurer Israel David Weyman [email protected] Eitan Shvartsman [email protected] nnnnnb nnnnnb Past-President Membership & Shul Community Harry Schachter [email protected] David Barkin [email protected] nnnnnb nnnnnb Adult Education Ritual Reuven Shlozberg [email protected] Kivi Shapiro [email protected] nnnnnb nnnnnb Bar/Bat Mitzvah Social Action Simon Houpt [email protected] Morton Beiser [email protected] nnnnnb nnnnnb Building Wider Community Gary Lichtblau [email protected] Micky Fraterman [email protected] nnnnnb nnnnnb Celebrations Youth Leisa Hirtz [email protected] Sara Borer [email protected] nnnnnb Communications STAFF Susan Starkman [email protected] nnnnnb nnnnnb Rabbi Edward Elkin [email protected] Food nnnnnb Sue Weinstein [email protected] Administration nnnnn Marsha Frydenberg [email protected] Fundraising Ariella Eben-Ezra [email protected] Lili Little & Lucille Narun [email protected]

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Many members generously supported our MEMBERSHIP and SHUL COMMUNITY Membership Subsidy Fund when renewing their memberships. Please continue to support this fund It was certainly a busy couple of months for throughout the year. Membership. It was thrilling to welcome many new One of the responsibilities of this committee is to members to our community in advance of the yamim regularly evaluate membership categories. Our shul tovim; we hope that many High Holy Day ticket buyers offers a Young Adult Membership (with full will avail themselves of the opportunity to apply membership privileges) to non-students under 30 at a their ticket purchases to the cost of a membership. We cost of $300. This category was introduced two years will be continuing our tradition of formally welcoming ago to fill a perceived need in our community. We are new members at a special havdallah service to be soliciting feedback from members who fall into this held at Rabbi Ed's and Linda's home in January. Our category as well as parents of children in this age group. shul is actively seeking new members and everyone is Your thoughts and suggestions will help us evaluate this urged to play their part in this venture. Please category. encourage your friends and relatives to come out one Shabbat and give us a try. I would like to take this opportunity to thank Marsha, Ariella, and the entire office staff for all their efforts in processing membership renewals. Also, thanks to Alexa Sulzenko for again coordinating the High Holy Day meal matching program; Mary Lou Smith for organizing the November Community Shabbat Dinner; and Francine Dick for continuing to spearhead our Social Program Committee. At the Narayever our philosophy is that no member David Barkin should ever be turned away as a result of their inability Membership Chair to pay the full dues. I spoke with a number of members [email protected] over the past few months who found themselves in difficult financial situations. I am pleased to report Our Condolences to... that in every instance we were able to work out payment arrangements that allowed these members to continue as part of our shul community. These Tamara Brooks, on the passing arrangements were made with an emphasis on of her mother Shirley Brooks confidentiality, compassion, dignity and respect. It is Anna Greenblatt, on the passing difficult to ask for help and it is a mitzvah for us to of her mother Beatrice Roness provide it. Unfortunately, we do not know how many members find themselves unable to pay the full dues Miriam Schlanger, on the passing and instead of seeking help simply leave the shul. I of her daughter Liba Berry would encourage anyone in this situation to contact me or the Rabbi.

14 NOVEMBER, DECEMBER 2015 HESHVAN, KISLEV, TEVET 5776 NARAYEVER NEWS DONATIONS The shul gratefully acknowledges the following donations made to our various funds from mid-September to mid-November. We apologize in advance for any errors or omissions. Please inform the shul office so that a correction can be made. If you would like to make a donation to one of our funds, please call the shul office at 416.927.0546 We also accept donations via CanadaHelps, www.canadahelps.org and click on Narayever.

AUGUST 15, 2015 Membership Subsidy Fund jjhhhh Kiddush: The Shul. Cindy Cross, in memory of Leslie Cross; Trudy Shecter, in Donations to the kiddush fund were made by Hélène and honour of Karen Fainman; and Elaine Gold, in memory of her parents Libbie and Lee Gold. Sheldon Silverman, in honour of the yahrzeit of Sheldon's jjhhhh mother Ruth Silverman; and Harvey Roff, in memory of Ronnie ShinShinim Fund Goldstein. Francine Dick, in honour of Eretz Israel. jjhhhh OTHER DONATIONS INCLUDE jjhhhh AUGUST 29, 2015 Membership Subsidy Fund jjhhhh Louis Kalikow, in memory of Irving Kalikow; Rebecca Colman Kiddush: The Shul. and Adam Liederman, in memory of Irwin Fisher; Alana Johns A donation to the kiddush fund was made by Fay Siahou, wishing Refua Shlema to Orly bat Flora and Avraham. and Bezalel Elan Dresher, in memory of Sara and Isidore jjhhhh Dresher; Nancy Singer and Lawrence Fox, in memory of Eve OTHER DONATIONS INCLUDE Risen; The Edith and Bernard Ennis Foundation, in memory of jjhhhh Edith Ennis, Paula Segal, Laura Weintraub and Martha Segal. Celebrations In support of shul members: Elana Segal and Phillip Maerov; In honour of Miriam Schlanger: Brenda and Jerry Enchin; Jennifer and Alan Hoffmann; Lucille and Mickey Narun; and Elaine and Peter Gold; and David and Rhonda Schlanger. jjhhhh Miriam D. Diamond. Membership Subsidy Fund jjhhhh ShinShinim Fund Cathy Mallove and Martin Geffen, in memory of Rosalind and Difat Jakubovicz and Avi Schonbach, in honour of Julia Gluck Harvey Mallove and Heime Geffen; Esther and Benjamin and Ted Overton's special anniversary and in honour of Miriam Geva, in memory of Rae Gold and in memory of Peter Gold's Schlanger; Sharon Abron Drache, in honour of Miriam Schlanger mother on her first yahrzeit. and in honour of Florence Hertzman's 90th birthday. In support of shul members: Keren and Shalom Camenietzki; Ilona Hayeems and Malka Hayeems; Brenda and AUGUST 22, 2015 Jerry Enchin; and Martin Koyle. jjhhhh jjhhhh Kiddush Sponsor: Tammy Simon and Andrew Posluns, in honour Rabbi's Discretionary Fund of their son Jake's Bar Mitzvah. Esther and Benjamin Geva, in support of the Rabbi's work. jjhhhh Donations to the kiddush fund were made by Anita Shir-Jacob SEPTEMBER 5, 2015 and Cyril Press, in honour of the yahrzeit of Anita's mother Ada jjhhhh Katzman; Francine Dick, thanking the Narayever Congregation Kiddush Sponsor: The Shul. for their love and support; and Isabel and Mendl Malkin, in Donations to the kiddush fund were made by Zipporah honour of Miriam Schlanger. Dunsky, in honour of the yahrzeit of her brother Menachem jjhhhh Dunsky; and Arnold Schonberg, in honour of the yahrzeit of OTHER DONATIONS INCLUDE his brother Rolf James Schonberg. jjhhhh jhhhh Building Fund OTHER DONATIONS INCLUDE Sharon Weintraub, in honour of the yahrzeit of her father Jacob jjhhhh Weintraub. Hesed Fund jjhhhh Edye Jacobson and Irv Brown. Celebrations Fund jjhhhh In honour of Miriam Schlanger: Rachel Melzer, Shayne Membership Subsidy Fund Robinson, Kalil and Nava; Peikang Dai; Keren and Shalom Leore Davids and Rob Schwartz, in honour of the publication Camenietzki; Sylvia Solomon; Liz Bohnen; Lisa Rosen, Kivi of Sharone Bar-David's book, “Trust Your Canary: Every Shapiro, Levi and Lila; Rose Portnoy, Sheila and Darryl Bloom; Leader's Guide to Taming Workplace Incivility”; and Lili Little Helen and Marty Risen; Rhona Phillips and Ben Carniol; Micky and Mitchel Smith, wishing Anne and John Bohnen mazel tov Fraterman; Mona and Jacques Kornberg; Fay Siahou; and Goldie on the wedding of their son Jordan to Rebecca Rubin. Schlanger. In support of shul members: Phyllis Adler, Alia Rosenstock and Donna and Cliff Orwin.

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ShinShinim Fund Sharon Abron Drache, in memory of Dr. Sydney Fogel; and SEPTEMBER 26, 2015 jjhhhh Marjorie and Andy Gann, in honour of Miriam Schlanger. Kiddush Sponsor: Rona Sherebrin and Glenn Rubinoff, in jjhhhh Wider Community Fund honour of ther son Ezra's Bar Mitzvah. jjhhhh Micky Fraterman, in honour of the yahrzeit of her father Justus Donations to the kiddush fund were made by Zipporah Oostra. Dunsky, in honour of the yahrzeit of her father Shimshon Dunsky; Etti Miller, in honour of the yahrzeit of her father SEPTEMBER 12, 2015 Meyer Blitz; Peter and Elaine Gold, in honour of the jjhhhh Kiddush Sponsor: The Shul. yahrzeiten of Peter's parents Ben Gold and Rae Gold; Andrea Donations to the kiddush fund were made by Anita Shir-Jacob Most and Alan Ackerman, in honour of Ezra Rubinoff's Bar and Cyril Press, in honour of the yahrzeit of Anita's father Eli Mitzvah; and Steve Bibla and Ariella Eben-Ezra and family, in Katzman; Rhona Phillips and Ben Carniol, in honour of the honour of Ezra's Bar Mitzvah. jjhhhh yahrzeit of Rhona's mother Aida Babins Phillips; and Maire OTHER DONATIONS INCLUDE Kushner, in honour of the 18th yahrzeit of her father Benjamin jjhhhh Stocker. General Fund jjhhhh Isabella Meltz, in honour of the yahrzeit of her father Jack OTHER DONATIONS INCLUDE Meltz. jjhhhh jjhhhh Celebrations Fund Membership Subsidy Fund In honour of Miriam Schlanger: Lisa Rosen and Kivi Shapiro; and Jim Davis and Anna Korteweg, in support of the community; Keren and Shalom Camenietzki. Lili Little and Mitchel Smith, wishing mazel tov to Dianne Saxe jjhhhh Membership Subsidy Fund for being appointed as the Environmental Commissioner of Ivan, Ruth and Robert Joffe, in honour of Reuben Shlien; Shelly the Province of Ontario; and Lili Little and Mitchel Smith, in Weiss and Todd Greenbloom, in honour of the marriage of their honour of Ezra Rubinoff's Bar Mitzvah. jjhhhh daughter Jenna Greenbloom to Josh Glickman; Erin Pleet, in Ritual Fund memory of Raye Singerman. Lili Little and Mitchel Smith; Dianne Saxe; and Anita Shir-Jacob In support of the community: Wendy Simon; Michelle and Cyril Press. Moldofsky; and Ralph Barcan. jjhhhh Rabbi's Discretionary Fund OCTOBER 3, 2015 jjhhhh Wendy Simon, in memory of her husband Roger Simon. Kiddush Sponsor: The Shul. jjhhhh Torah Fund Donations to the kiddush fund were made by Lesley and Peter Simcha Ben Abraham, in honour of the yahrzeit of his mother Sevitt, in honour of the Narayever community; Ilana Singer, in Chemda Tuchler. honour of the yahrzeit of her father Abraham Singer; Roz Train, in honour of Dianne Saxe's appointment and in honour SEPTEMBER 19, 2015 of Ezra Rubinoff's Bar Mitzvah; Sue Weinstein and Shaun jjhhhh Singer, in memory of Miriam Schlanger's daughter Liba Berry; Kiddush Sponsor: The Shul. Norma Latsonas, in memory of Miriam Schlanger's daughter Donations to the kiddush fund were made by Dawn Berney, in Liba Berry; Beverly Harris, in memory of Miriam Schlanger's honour of the yahrzeit of her mother Carole Berney; Cecile daughter Liba Berry; and Betty and Neil Colt, in honour of the Federbush, in honour of the yahrzeit of her husband Irving yahrzeiten of Betty's mother Rose Kotzer and Neil's mother Feder; Bernard Feder, in honour of the yahrzeit of his father Tillie Colt. Irving Feder; and Isabel and Mendl Malkin, wishing Rabbi Elkin, jjhhhh Linda Lipsky and the entire congregation a shanah tovah. OTHER DONATIONS INCLUDE jjhhhh jjhhhh OTHER DONATIONS INCLUDE Hesed Fund jjhhhh Alison and Joshua Engel-Yan, in memory of Miriam Schlanger's Membership Subsidy Fund daughter Liba Berry. David Myhre and Marian Cohen, in support of the community; jjhhhh June Blair, in memory of Max Strawn; Rebecca and Jason Membership Subsidy Fund Sorokin, in memory of Caroline Ekstein; Janet Horowitz, in Michael Bernstein, in support of the community. jjhhhh honour of Anne Matlow and John Bohnen; and Janet Horowitz, ShinShinim Fund in honour of the yahrzeit of her mother Betty Kirschenbaum. Julia Gluck and Ted Overton, in memory of Miriam Schlanger's daughter Liba Berry. 16 NOVEMBER, DECEMBER 2015 HESHVAN, KISLEV, TEVET 5776 NARAYEVER NEWS DONATIONS

General Fund OCTOBER 10, 2015 jjhhhh Anonymous. Kiddush Sponsor: The Shul. jjhhhh Hesed Fund Donations to the kiddush fund were made by Isabel Malkin and Leslie and Harvey Starkman, in memory of Miriam Schlanger's Kathy Levene, in honour of the yahrzeit of their mother Clarise daughter Liba Berry; Medina Robbins and Glen Hoffmann, in Michel; Rachel Melzer and Shayne Robinson, in memory of memory of Miriam Schlanger's daughter Liba Berry; and Miriam Schlanger's daughter Liba Berry; Olga Palmateer, in Anonymous. memory of Miraim Schlanger's daughter Liba Berry; Rhona jjhhhh Phillips and Ben Carniol, in honour of the yahrzeit of Ben's Rabbi's Discretionary Fund mother Greta Cohen; and Norma Latsonas, in memory of Anna Korteweg and James Davis, in honour of Ezra Rubinoff's Bar Tamara Brooks' mother Shirley Brooks. Mitzvah; Isabel and Mendl Malkin. jjhhhh jjhhhh OTHER DONATIONS INCLUDE ShinShinim Fund jjhhhh Difat Jakubovicz and Avi Schonbach, in memory of Miriam Building Fund Schlanger's daughter Liba Berry; and Difat Jakubovicz and Avi Isabel and Mendl Malkin; Lili Little and Mitchel Smith; Fay Schonbach, in honour of Ezra Rubinoff's Bar Mitzvah. Siahou; Elaine and Peter Gold, in memory of Miriam jjhhhh Schlanger's daughter Liba Berry. Social Action Fund jjhhhh Shaya Petroff, in honour of Dianne Saxe for being appointed the Environmental Commissioner of the Province of Ontario.

THE SHUL’S BEAUTIFUL NEW FRONT DOORS The last few years had not been good to our shul's front doors and they had become very weather beaten and shabby. In late September, we finally replaced them with brand new beautiful solid wood doors treated in such a way as to stand up to our severe winters. Thank you to Gary Lichtblau for spearheading this project, and to Miriam Schlanger for making a substantial donation towards our new doors with the proceeds of her challah baking fundraising.

NOVEMBER, DECEMBER 2015 HESHVAN, KISLEV, TEVET 5776 17 NARAYEVER NEWS We acknowledge the following yahrzeit anniversaries which occur during the coming months.

Heshvan 19, 5776 Isaac Kanter father of Ron Kanter Kislev 22, 5776 Rose Weyman mother of David Weyman Heshvan 19, 5776 Stewart Silver husband of Justine Silver Kislev 23, 5776 Irwin Fisher father of Deborah Fisher Heshvan 20, 5776 Israel Harry Fox father of Mark Fox Kislev 24, 5776 David Isaac husband of Barbara Schacter Heshvan 20, 5776 Sally Presement mother of Ricki Grushcow Kislev 24, 5776 Isaac Jacobson father of Edythe Jacobson Heshvan 20, 5776 Maru Fantl Werner mother of Daniel Traub-Werner Kislev 24, 5776 Alex Rothman father of Ben Rothman Heshvan 21, 5776 Arthur Levita father of Ursula Loewenstein Kislev 25, 5776 Molly Weinstein mother of Earl Weinstein Heshvan 21, 5776 Steven Lichtblau father of Gary Lichtblau Kislev 26, 5776 Aryeh Haimovitz husband of Phillis Heshvan 21, 5776 Ernest Jerome Weiss father of Shelly Weiss Willer-Haimovitz Heshvan 22, 5776 Daniel Camenietzki son of Shalom and Kislev 27, 5776 Gail Dublin mother of Max Dublin Keren Camenietzki Kislev 27, 5776 Peter Harris husband of Beverly Harris Heshvan 22, 5776 Julius Landau father of Reva Landau Kislev 28, 5776 George Fineberg father of Sharon Freeman Heshvan 23, 5776 Salmon Isaac James father of Frances Enchin Kislev 29, 5776 Frooma Epstein mother of Aura Kagan Heshvan 23, 5776 Michael Mandel husband of Karen Golden Kislev 29, 5776 Margot James mother of Frances Enchin Heshvan 23, 5776 Jack Starkman father of Harvey Starkman Kislev 29, 5776 Sidney Levinson father of Ronnie Levinson Heshvan 24, 5776 Harry Golden father of Ronald Golden Burbank Heshvan 24, 5776 Harry Silverberg father of Jackie Silverberg Kislev 29, 5776 Alice Nusbaum wife of Mitchell Brown, Heshvan 26, 5776 Rachel Kofsky sister of Lawrence Lofchick sister of Ruth Leneman Heshvan 26, 5776 Chana Levy mother of Baruch Levy Kislev 29, 5776 Connie Robinson mother of Brenlee Robinson Heshvan 26, 5776 Belmore Weinstein father of Sue Weinstein and Shayne Robinson Heshvan 27, 5776 Cela Kuperhause mother of Jacob Kuperhause Kislev 30, 5776 Morris Kamenir father of Sandra Kamenir Heshvan 27, 5776 David Weidman father of Michael Weidman Tevet 1, 5776 Rachel Edelson mother of Joel Edelson Heshvan 28, 5776 Ethelda Weinstein mother of Sue Weinstein Tevet 1, 5776 Willem Evan Murray brother of Michael Murray Heshvan 29, 5776 Marion Meacham mother of Tirzah Meacham Tevet 1, 5776 Dova Beryl Savan mother of Robert Savan Kislev 1, 5776 James Blugerman father of Olga Palmateer Tevet 1, 5776 Sophie Yomstock mother of Estelle Schacter Kislev 1, 5776 Bernard Mass father of Philip Mass Tevet 2, 5776 Bessie Leah Bobrow mother of Karen Bass Kislev 1, 5776 Stewart Saxe husband of Dianne Saxe Tevet 2, 5776 Anne Landau mother of Reva Landau Kislev 2, 5776 Minnie Kamenir mother of Sandra Kamenir Tevet 2, 5776 Albert Joseph Kislev 2, 5776 Israel Lichtshein father of Dan Mendelsohn-Aviv Presement father of Ricki Grushcow Kislev 3, 5776 Clara Klein mother of Jack Klein Tevet 2, 5776 Jack Schoenfeld father of Stuart Schoenfeld Kislev 3, 5776 Donna Schachter wife of Harry Schachter Tevet 3, 5776 Jacob Jacobs father of Helene Jacobs Kislev 4, 5776 Edward Ezra Cohen brother of Ben Carniol Tevet 3, 5776 Frank Schacter brother of Percy Schacter Kislev 4, 5776 Myles Sheldon father of Brenlee Robinson and Tevet 4, 5776 Linda Richman sister of Alan Banack Robinson Shayne Robinson Tevet 5, 5776 Joan Hope sister of Alan Hoffmann Kislev 5, 5776 Sol Feferman father of Irv Feferman and Jack Hoffmann Kislev 5, 5776 Sima Schonberg mother of Arnold Schonberg Tevet 6, 5776 Sandy Halberstam mother of Yosh Halberstam Kislev 6, 5776 Regina Beiser mother of Morton Beiser Tevet 6, 5776 Alex Rubin father of Benjamin Rubin Kislev 6, 5776 Eva Rubenzahl mother of Sam Rubenzahl Tevet 7, 5776 Annette Blugerman mother of Olga Palmateer Kislev 7, 5776 Mina Katz mother of Steve Katz Tevet 7, 5776 Henry (Henach) Kagan father of Manfred Kagan Kislev 8, 5776 Alexander Chernick father of Lili Little Tevet 7, 5776 Anna Kalikow mother of Louis Kalikow Kislev 8, 5776 Irving Feder father of Allan Feder Tevet 7, 5776 Evelyn Mayers mother of Arlene Mayers Kislev 8, 5776 Nechama Schlanger sister of Miriam Schlanger Tevet 8, 5776 Rachel Rice mother of Wallace Rice Kislev 8, 5776 Lillian Starkman mother of Harvey Starkman Tevet 9, 5776 Jeffery Bernard Davis brother of Jim Davis Kislev 9, 5776 Edah Goldstein mother of Evelyn Schaefer Tevet 9, 5776 Morton Norris father of Allen Kaeja Kislev 9, 5776 Sydney Phillips father of Rhona Phillips Tevet 9, 5776 Pinia Title father of Nancy Sternberg Kislev 9, 5776 Burton Weiser father of Kalman Weiser Tevet 10, 5776 Philip Holzberg brother of Ben Mark Holzberg Kislev 10, 5776 Molly Lyon mother of Israel Lyon Tevet 10, 5776 Rose Schoenfeld mother of Stuart Schoenfeld Kislev 10, 5776 Wilfred Yaphe father of Joel Yaphe Tevet 11, 5776 Edith Bernice Schwartz mother of Hart Schwartz Kislev 12, 5776 Jack Goldberg father of Lucille Narun Tevet 12, 5776 Haim Michael Aaron brother of Miriam Schlanger Kislev 14, 5776 Pinchas Chai Sofioff father of Rachel Jacobus Tevet 12, 5776 Sylvia May mother of Denise Altshul Kislev 14, 5776 Goldie Title mother of Nancy Sternberg Tevet 12, 5776 Esther Myers daughter of Louis Myers Kislev 14, 5776 Isaac Yomstock father of Estelle Schacter Tevet 13, 5776 Pearl Propas mother of Lorne Propas Kislev 15, 5776 Devorah Dublin sister of Max Dublin Tevet 14, 5776 Manny Kirschenbaum father of Janet Horowitz Kislev 15, 5776 Stephen Roth husband of Sheila Roth, father of Tevet 16, 5776 Norman Bresko father of Gitta Rice Dara Roth Edney and Ava Roth Tevet 16, 5776 Pearl Brown mother of Irving Brown Kislev 16, 5776 Norbert Loewenstein husband of Ursula Loewenstein Tevet 16, 5776 Imre Joseph Komaromi father of Ann Komaromi Kislev 16, 5776 Albert Peretz father of Smadar Peretz Tevet 17, 5776 Moshe Yoseph Aaron brother of Miriam Schlanger Kislev 17, 5776 Esther Matlow mother of Anne Matlow Bohnen Tevet 17, 5776 Edith Ennis mother of Elizabeth Ennis Kislev 17, 5776 Solomon Nusbaum father of Ruth Leneman Tevet 17, 5776 Molly Lipsky mother of Linda Lipsky Kislev 19, 5776 Arnold Clairman husband of Holli-Ellen Clairman Tevet 17, 5776 Joel Smollett brother of Rebecca Smollett Kislev 19, 5776 Abraham Press father of Cyril Press Tevet 18, 5776 Joseph H. Beiser father of Morton Beiser Kislev 21, 5776 Lila Zuker mother of Elaine Gold Tevet 18, 5776 Sylvia Parker mother of Andrea Parker Simhon Kislev 22, 5776 Isaac Primack father of Faigie Klein Tevet 19, 5776 Julie Goodbaum father of Mark Goodbaum Kislev 22, 5776 Gerald Smith father of Mitchel Smith Tevet 19, 5776 Sydney Sharpe father of Mark Sharpe and Steven Sharpe

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SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY

Shacharit 9 am Chayei Sarah Nosh 'n Nurture Services 9 am Adult Ed. program with Bar/Bat Mitzvah Class 10:30 am 5:15 pm Dr. Takim talk, 11 am Post Kiddush Holocaust Rabbi's Class, Job 4:43 CSA 4 - 7pm Education Program with 7 pm Services 6 pm Dr. Jennifer Marlowe

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Nosh 'n Nurture Shacharit 9 am Bar/Bat Mitzvah Toldot 10:30 am CSA 4 - 7pm Class Shabbat Services 9 am Dinner ShinShinim Film Night Rabbi's Class, Job 4:35 Kensington Gardens, 11am 6:30 pm 7 pm Services 6 pm

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Shacharit 9 am Bar/Bat Mitzvah Class Rabbi's Class, Job Community Vayetzei Shabbat Dinner Adult Ed. program with 5:15 pm 7 pm Services 9 am Kivi Day Sara Horowitz, 7:30pm 4:29 CSA 4 - 7 pm Services 6 pm 15 Kislev 3 16 Kislev 4 17 Kislev 5 18 Kislev 6 19 Kislev 7 20 Kislev 8 21 Kislev 9

Shacharit 9 am Vayishlach Services 9 am Board Meeting, 7 pm 4:25 Kensington Gardens, 11am CSA 4 - 7 pm Services 6 pm

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Shacharit 9 am Bar/Bat Mitzvah Class Adult Ed program with 5:15 pm Michael Gordon, 11 am Hebrew Conversation, 6:30 pm, Aroma

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SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY

Vayeshev CSA 4 - 7pm Services 9 am

4:22 Services 6 pm

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Shacharit 9 am CHANUKAH CHANUKAH CHANUKAH CHANUKAH CHANUKAH Services 9 am Miketz 2nd Candle 3rd Candle 4th Candle 5th Candle 6th Candle Human Rights Shabbat EREV CHANUKAH with Mary Jo Leddy Kensington Gardens Chanukah Party, 5:30 pm 1st Candle Chanukah Party, 6:30 pm 4:22 CSA 4 - 7 pm Services 6 pm CHANUKAH 7th Candle 6 Kislev 24 7 Kislev 25 8 Kislev 26 9 Kislev 27 10 Kislev 28 11 Kislev 29 12 Kislev 30

Shacharit 9 am Vayigash Bar/Bat Mitzvah Class Services 9 am CHANUKAH 5:15 pm 8th Candle 4:24 CSA 4 - 7 pm Services 6 pm Kensington Gardens, 11am 13 Tevet 1 14 Tevet 2 15 Tevet 3 16 Tevet 4 17 Tevet 5 18 Tevet 6 19 Tevet 7

Shacharit 9 am No Kabbalat Vayechi Shabbat Services 9 am Board Meeting, 7 pm Services 4:28

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Shacharit 9 am

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