NEW VOICE • February 2007 • CONGREGATION B’NAI JESHURUN

rabbi’s message

Rabbi Felicia L. Sol

n December 10, while driving on a “tour” of the “affluent” Lakeview Oneighborhood of New Orleans with the Board of Jewish Funds for Justice (I am a new member of the Board), we passed a building with the inscription on its entrance V’asu li mikdash v’shakhanti betokham (Exodus 25:8), Make for Me a sanctuary so I may dwell amongst them. It was the Orthodox Synagogue in the neighborhood with the extraordinary inscription recognizing INSIDE: the power of human hands to build a place so God may dwell amongst us. In 2 addition to the inscription, we saw the water line on the building which was Social Action/Social Justice about 8 feet high. The building was closed. The neighborhood was desolate. Contemplative Practice: There was barely a soul to be found. Nobody was in the neighborhood to build A Source of Support for Wise a sanctuary, nor to build a house, nor to clean up the mess. Lakeview is the and Compassionate Action for “affluent” neighborhood, you can’t even imagine what the Lower Ninth Ward Justice and Healing. looked like—the impoverished neighborhood before the storm, a destroyed ghost town now. 3 Upcoming Limud It is estimated that 230,000 jobs were lost due to Katrina and Rita. 80% of New 5 Announcements Orleans public housing remains closed. 83% of New Orleans public schools were 6 Calendar damaged by Katrina and it is estimated that 95% of the public school population was African American and while much money was given to create 8 Youth and Family Education (continued on page 4) Unmasking Purim Important Dates for February

9 New Members EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR’s message 10 Upcoming Community Activities This month’s article highlights the recent BJ Family Trip to Israel and is written by Kerrith Solomon, Family Life Educator. Donations d yavo shalom aleinu—salaam—aleinu v’al kol ha olam—salaam. 12 Contacts O Peace will come upon us and on everyone.

There could not have been more fitting words to serve as the motivation behind the BJ Family Trip to Israel this past December. Based on the success of the Family bus on last year’s 180th anniversary trip, we decided to provide the opportunity for more families to join us on the ground in Israel, and they signed up in force! More than 25 families (90 people) committed to having an Israel experience through BJ and they took the country by storm.

From the beginning days in Tel Aviv discovering the old and the new in the country, to Shabbat in the desert and then an ascension towards Jerusalem, the group seamlessly encountered the people, the land and the history. They tackled difficult issues, discussed what they were exposed to and took their experience in their own hands. (continued on page 4)

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SOCIAL ACTION/SOCIAL JUSTICE

Contemplative Practice: A Source of Support for Wise and Compassionate Action for Justice and Healing

“Min ha’metzar karati Yah, Anani va’merchav In our contemplative practice classes, weekly meditation Yah.” —Psalms 118:5 groups at the JCC, monthly Friday night services, and annual retreats, we experience and learn readily applicable meditation “From the narrow place I call on Yah. Answer practices. We learn and practice together in a silent container me through Divine Expansiveness.” of safety and support. Come join us in this opportunity of spiritual fellowship, rest and renewal. here is such tremendous suffering in our world. It can be truly overwhelming. How do we respond as The practice of contemplation helps many people to rabbis and congregants to the pain we experience in experience a deeper closeness to God and clearer insight into T our own lives and which we see in our BJ the underlying Unity that connects us all. On that basis, we community? How do we respond to the pain caused to strengthen our commitments to honor the divinity in each ourselves and to our local and global neighbors by socio- human life and to act as wise partners in God’s creation—to political problems, degradation, and injustice? We care deeply seek the healing and justice that allows the divine in our world about the world, and we will engage with it to repair it. But to flourish. n we need to do so in sustainable ways. —Rabbi Rachel Cowan, co-chair, Social Action/Social Justice Steering Committee Meditation practice can be a powerful source of support for us in our work in this world. Meditation can help us to stay centered and rooted. It can help us to realize in all of our actions, as Abraham Joshua Heschel put it, our “adjacency to Contemplative Shabbat services are held on the the eternal.” This practice can help us to avoid burnout, and it fourth Friday of every month at SPSA/86th Street, can help to make our activism sustainable. at the same time as the regular early service. Contemplative services are led by Rabbis Rachel Cowan Additionally, meditation can inform how we engage in the and Marcelo Bronstein with a team of BJ lay leaders. world. Instead of reacting to the world reflexively, we can cultivate our ability to bring more space into our consciousness, and thus greater wisdom. This wisdom will help us respond appropriately to a given situation—not out of fear or anger, but out of genuine compassion.

JOIN US FOR THE SECOND ANNUA\L CONCERT OF Music O F TH E BJ Shabbat Musicians

Saturday, February 3 • 8:00 PM • 88th Street Sanctuary

Join us as we celebrate with our resident musicians as they gather to present their own original music and amazing artistry. The different bands will offer an eclectic mix of styles including Middle Eastern, cocktail cabaret, classical and traditional Jewish song. Tickets: $15/$10 students, available at the door.

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upcoming LIMUD

Jewish Practice Skills Workshop: Kashrut Teacher in Residence Shabbat Rabbi Dara Frimmer, Marshall T. Meyer Fellow In Memory of BJ Member Ceil Merritt z”l 3 Tuesdays (remaining classes February 6, 13) Throughout the course of the year, we will have the • 7:00–8:30PM • 86th St. Chapel • Cost: Free, opportunity to have an intensive Shabbat learning experience registration required. Chewing cud, split hooves, with distinguished visiting teachers. Unless otherwise noted, scales and fins, meat and milk: Come learn how to the scholar will teach at a Shabbat B’Ya had dinner following navigate the vast system of rules and regulations of the Friday night 5:45PM service at 86th Street, give the D’var keeping kosher while uncovering principles of conscientious Torah during Shabbat morning services, and teach on Shabbat consumption and marking sacred time. afternoon at 86th St. To sign up for a Friday night dinner and teaching, please visit www.bj.org or contact Amanda at x233. First Annual Stuart Polly Interfaith Study: • • • Introduction to Islam for Jews and Christians The Tefillat Ensemble Rabbi David Freidenreich, PhD February 9 –10 4 Thursdays (February 1, 8, 15, 22) • 7:15–9:00PM Currents of the River : Four young, innovative Israeli • 86th St. Parlor Room • Cost: Free, registration required composers/performers explore the roots of Hebrew prayer and This course introduces the basics of Islam: Muhammad and the song. They navigate the multicultural soundscape of 21st- Quran, Islamic belief and practice, Islam from Muhammad to century Israel and present a unique interpretation of modernity, and Islam in America. It is designed for members of traditional and modern Jewish materials, including settings of BJ and SPSA and will assume minimal knowledge of the faith sacred Hebrew poetry from North Africa and the Middle East, and traditions of our Muslim neighbors. Students will be Hassidic niggunim, and original musical and literary expected to attend regularly and to participate in discussion. The compositions. Currents of the River includes texts from the course will be taught by Rabbi David Freidenreich, PhD, whose Mishnah, daily prayers, 19th Century Moroccan Rabbi Shlemoh Columbia doctoral dissertation dealt with comparative study of Hacohen, and modern Israeli poets Rachel and Rivka Miriam, as the three Islamic faiths, and will feature speakers representing well as tunes from the oldest surviving manuscript of Jewish the diversity of Islam in the metropolitan area. music (12th century), and a piece by Jewish composer Andre Hajdu. Yair Harel, vocals and percussion; Nori Jacoby, viola Shabbat: A Sanctuary in Time -and vocals; Yonatan Niv, cello and vocals; Matti Kovler, piano Rabbi Jonathan Lipnick, Chapter 4 and vocals. Saturday, February 3 • 4:30PM • 86th St. Social Hall • Cost: Free, registration not required. During the course of Abraham Rosh Hodesh Women ’s Group for Adar Joshua Heschel’s centennial year, we will read together as a Monday, February 19 • 7:00PM • 88th St. • Cost: Free, commu nity Heschel’s The Sabbath . On the first Shabbat of each registration not required month, a different rabbi/teacher in our community will teach Join Rabbis Felicia Sol, Dara Frimmer and Lauren Holtzblatt to one chapter through various sources. All are encouraged to buy study and pray together on this holiday traditionally associated the book and bring it to the Shabbat afternoon sessions (copies with women. Please bring a dairy/vegetarian/kosher snack for of each chapter will not be distributed). All sessions will everyone to share. conclude with havdalah except for April, May and June . Jewish Practice Skills Workshop: Shabbat Abraham Joshua Heschel: Moral Grandeur Rabbi Dara Frimmer, Marshall T. Meyer Fellow and Spiritual Audacity 2 Tuesdays (February 27, March 6) and Learner’s Shabbat dinner Rabbi J. Rolando Matalon on Friday, March 2 • 7:00–8:30PM • 86th St. Chapel; Shabbat 6 Wednesdays (remaining classes February 7, 14) dinner is at 86th St. Social Hall • Cost: Free, registration • 6:30–8:00PM • 88th St. Frankel Hall • Cost: Free, registration required. How do we make our Shabbat practice more required. We will mark Heschel’s centennial by reviewing some meaningful? More regular? This class will explore the rituals, of his teachings on faith, spirituality, halakhah and social blessings, and music of Shabbat. We will study the traditional activism. approach to celebrating Shabbat with the goal of enhancing our own Shabbat practices. Lunchtime class: Text Study on Mekhilta De Rabbi Ishmael Rabbi Felicia L. Sol The End of Patriarchy: A Redefinition of the Male 6 Thursdays (remaining classes February 1, 8, 25) Jewish Voice • 12:30–1:45PM • BJ Office, Ansonia Building, 2109 Broadway, Rabbi Marcelo Bronstein Suite 203 • Cost: Free, registration required. I n the months 5 Wednesdays (February 28, March 7, 14, 21, 28) • 7:00 –8:30PM when we read and experience Yitzi’at Mitzrayim (the Exodus • 88th St. Frankel Hall • Cost: Free, registration required from Egypt) and Kabbalat HaTorah (the Revelation of Torah), We will study male Jewish voices from the texts of our we will do a close text study on this early midrashic work on tradition and examine how these voices have created models the book of Exodus with a primary focus on the midrashim on of behavior in our collective unconscious for the sake of the Exodus and the Revelation on Mount Sinai. Texts will be looking for new paradigms of what it means to be a man. This given out in Hebrew and English, though studied in English. class is for men only. We also hope to have a Men's Retreat, No prior knowledge necessary. dates TBA.

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Rabbi’s Message (continued from page 1)

charter schools, not a single federal dollar has gone into the build a sanctuary here in our country. There are an abundance rebuilding of the public school system. Of the 10 billion dollars of issues in the world that we must raise voice about and promised by our government for the recovery, only about which we must not abandon. AND we must not forget our 1 billion has been received. The statistics go on and on to own home. The sanctuary at home is in need of rebuilding prove the inadequacy of the response to the devastation of towards a more just, fair and compassionate society. A society hurricanes Katrina and Rita, which exposed the deeper tragedy and government that does not only run to meet disasters in below of the poverty in our country and its deep connection their high moment of crisis (albeit not so effectively with with race. Katrina and Rita) and the media blitz that accompanies them, but with the long haul commitment to envision a society in As we read Parshat Teruma this month, with the command to which all can lend their hand to building an inclusive and build the mishkan (the sanctuary) echoing in our ears, we need equitable society in which the American dream can be possible to do a serious soul searching about what it really means to for all of its members. HOW DIVINE! n

Executive Director’s Message (continued from page 1)

Generations—from kindergarteners to grandparents—dug in time that we had spent together in the holy land and how to the caves at Tel Marasha, hiked Masada and prayed at the incorporate the experience back into our holy lives at home. Western Wall. Our teenagers forged their own paths both at Jerusalem and through the streets of Tel Aviv and we came There is no doubt in my mind that these remarkable families together as a community to celebrate Shabbat and the bat will continue to carry that holy spark with them as they return mitzvah of Rebecca Lowy, one of our participants. to the BJ community. They have joined the ranks of our very own haluztim—pioneers—along with the 180 who traveled As the trip neared its end, we learned the line from havdalah, with us last year, and they bring with them the message of hamavdil bein kodesh l’chol (literally the separation between peace that they wove through their Israel experience and the holy and ordinary) as the separation between the holy and shared with all of those whom we encountered. n the holier and began to think both about marking the holy

SAVE THE DATE...

Women’s Retreat Rabbis Felicia Sol, Dara Frimmer, Lauren Holtzblatt, # and Chen Ben Or Tsfoni Purim 2007! March 16 –18 • Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center • Cost: TBA SAVE THE DATE: Join us for our sixth BJ women’s retreat. Be part of a Saturday, March 3 , family services at Shabbat weekend devoted to encountering the 86th St., 6:30PM and community tradition and ourselves through kol nashim services at 88th St., 7:30PM. The (the voice of women). community service will be followed by a masquerade ball after the reading of the Megillah. Families will have a chance to experience a real Purim carnival on Sunday, March 4 following the always popular Purim play. The day’s activities start right after the morning reading of the Megillah. Look for more details in the Kol Jeshurun and community emails, and refer to the Purim flyer enclosed with this issue of the Kol Hadash .

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announcements

Mazal Tov

To the following members and their families on their Condolences (through December 22) bat/bar mitzvah (through January):

Jonah Bleckner Oliver Fisher The community of B’nai Jeshurun extends condolences Sophie Klein Aviva Malz to the following members and their families:

Jordan Wechsler Richard Blinkoff, Sharon Schuster, and Rachel Waldman on the death of Richard’s beloved sister, Ruth Rosen.

Jenn and Sara Batterton on the death of their beloved To the following members and their families (through December 22: father, Richard Aaron Batterton.

Sandee Brawarsky and Barry Lichtenberg on their recent wedding. Sharyn Wagreich on the death of her beloved grandmother, Leah Mosher. Judith Fisher and Geoffrey Phillips on their recent wedding. James, Anna and Alexander Altman and Ellen Schecter Susan and Stephen Kippur on the engagement of their daughter, on the death of James' beloved father, Stanley Altman. Sara, to Josh Lambert. Wendy, David, Robert Linderman and Ida Granowitz on Barbara Fonseca, BJ’s Membership and Development Associate, and the death of their beloved mother and mother-in-law, Vidal Rosario on the birth of their son, Jeremy Lorenzo Rosario. Harriett Linderman.

Kimberly and Peter Brooks and Robert Goldeberg on the naming of Marian Mass and on the death of her beloved uncle, their daughter and granddaughter, Asher Isabel Brooks. Alvin Mass.

David and Nancy Sternoff on the birth of their granddaughter, Zoey Marcia Annenberg on the death of her beloved mother, Annabelle. Francis Annenberg.

Anne Kohn and Chuck and Sami Gold on the birth of their son and Nathana Josephs and Caroline Koppelman on the death brother, Jacob Lev. of their beloved father and grandfather, Harry Josephs.

Valerie and Mark Gerstein on the birth of their daughter, Mia Ann. Susan Green and Elizabeth Scafidi on the death of their beloved mother and grandmother, Naomi Kohn. Calvin and Suzanne Ander on the birth of their grandson, Zachary Bonnet. Cindy Levy on the death of her beloved grandmother, Sylvia Feuerman. Susan Landau and Thomas Reiner on the birth of their granddaughter, Hannah Julienne Jaffe.

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SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSD 1

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• 4 PM – BJ Book Club, 88th St. Frankel Hall

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• 5 PM – BJHS Mishpa ha • 5 PM – 2nd Grade Families Gimmel, 88th St. cook for the Shelter, 88th St. Frankel Hall

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• 7 PM – Rosh Hodesh Women’s Group, 88th St. (SEE P.3)

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• 11 AM – Zayin Adar Brunch, 88th St. Frankel Hall

service Morning Minyan (88th Street) • Monday–Friday 7:30 AM • Sunday & National Holidays 9:30 AM

times Kabbalat Shabbat • Kabbalat Shabbat 5:45 PM 88th St. Sanctuary • 7:15 PM 88th St. Sanctuary • Additional Services February 2 : Wandering Minyan 5:45 PM 88th St. Frankel Hall • Family Service 5:45 PM 88th St. Sanctuary • Additional Service February 23 : Contemplative Shabbat 5:45 PM 86th St. Sanctuary

Shabbat Morning • 9:30 AM 86th St. Sanctuary • Children’s Services 10:45 AM 86th St. Chapel • Additional Services February 3, 17 : Junior Congregation 10:30 AM 86th St. Social Hall

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DAY FRIDAY SATURDAY TU BISHEVAT Adult Classes 2 • 5:45 PM – Family Service, 3 • 9:30 AM – Shabbat Morning 88th St. Sanctuary Services, 86th St. • Following Family Service – • 10:30 AM – Junior Congregation, MONDAY BJHS Bet Dinner, 86th St. 86th St • Introduction to Judaism, 7-9 PM • 5:45 PM – Wandering Minyan, • 10:45 AM – Children’s Services, 88th St. Frankel Hall 86th St. TUESDAY • 7:15 PM – Kabbalat Shabbat • Bat Mitzvah: Meredith Ruskin Service, 88th St. Sanctuary • Bat Mitzvah: Rebecca Lowy • Gems of Genesis, 8:10-9 AM • Following 7:15 PM Service – • 4 PM – Study of The Sabbath • Jewish Practice Skills Workshop: Kashrut, 7-8:30 PM Oneg Shabbat, 88th St. Sanctuary followed by havdalah, 86th St. (remaining classes February 6, 13) (SEE P.10) Social Hall (SEE P.3) • 8 PM – BJ Musicians (SEE P.2) • Jewish Practice Skills Workshop: Shabbat 7-8:30 PM (February 27, March 6) 9 10 • 5:45 PM – Kabbalat Shabbat • 9:30 AM – Shabbat Morning WEDNEsday Service, 88th St. Services, 86th St. • Abraham Joshua Heschel: Moral Grandeur and Spiritual • Following 5:45 PM Service – • 10:45 AM – Children’s Services, Audacity, 6:30-8 PM (remaining classes February 7, 14) Shabbat B’Ya had Dinner, 86th St. 86th St. (SEE P.3) • Bat Mitzvah: Isabelle Tsesarsky • The End of Patriarchy: A Redefinition of the Male Jewish • Following 5:45 PM Service – • 4:30 PM – The Tefillalt Ensemble, Voice, 7:00-8:30 PM (begins February 28) Reach for Shabbat Dinner, 88th St. Artists in Residence, 86th St. Frankel Hall (SEE P.3) THURSDAY • 7:15 PM – Kabbalat Shabbat Service, 88th St. • Text Study on Mekhilta De Rabbi Ishmael, 12:30-1:45 PM (remaining classes February 1, 8, 15) 16 17 • Parashat Hashavu’a, 7-8:30 PM • 9:30 AM – Shabbat Morning • Introduction to Islam for Jews and Christians, 7:15-9 PM • 5:45 PM – Kabbalat Shabbat (February 1, 8, 15, 22) Service, 88th St. Services, 86th St. • 7:15 PM – Kabbalat Shabbat • 10:30 AM – Junior Congregation, Service, 88th St. 86th St. • 10:45 AM – Children’s Services, 86th St. youth Classes

Monday 4-5:30 PM, K-1st Grade 4-6 PM, 2nd-7th Grade

23 24 Tuesday • 5:45 PM – Contemplative Shabbat • 9:30 AM – Shabbat Morning 5-7 PM, Lishma Service, 86th St. Services, 86th St. • 5:45 PM – Kabbalat Shabbat • 10:45 AM – Children’s Services, Thursday Service, 88th St. 86th St. • 7:15 PM – Kabbalat Shabbat • Bat Mitzvah: Emma Leibman 4-5:30 PM, K-1st Grade Service, 88th St. • Following Services – Ledor Vador 4-6 PM, 2nd-6th Grade Luncheon, 88th St. (SEE P.10) ONGOING ACTIVITIES

sunday–Thursday • BJ/SPSA Homeless Shelter 7 PM

Wednesday • Kesharim 2 PM

Thursday • Judith Bernstein Lunch Program 12 PM

Candlelighting Times Parashat HaShavu’a Havdalah Times

February 2 4:56 PM February 3 Beshala h February 3 5:58 PM February 9 5:04 PM February 10 Yitro February 10 6:06 PM February 16 5:13 PM February 17 Mishpatim February 17 6:14 PM February 23 5:21 PM February 24 Terumah February 24 6:21 PM

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youth and Family education

Unmasking Purim

During the year, I have the privilege of favorite things!) I think the meaning of dressing up and meeting several times with all of the masking out true identities was lost to me, as it is to most O staff responsible for the different children. While dressing up is a way for us to be joyous and aspects of our Purim festivities at BJ: often an element of gathering to hear the telling of the story the rabbis, Ari, Michael, Deborah, and the Youth & Family of Esther, it also reminds us of how Esther concealed her true Education Team. We discuss the themes of Purim, and how identity as a Jew from Ahashverosh. The miracle of Purim was we will translate them to the community through the services, not only that the Jews escaped the terrible fate planned by Purimspiel, and celebration. For the sixth time, I have Haman for them, but that Esther was courageous enough to participated in conversations about how to transmit the “flip reveal her true self to the king. side” of Purim, the underlying darkness of the day, the evil that was just barely banished to the periphery, and the As your family discusses Purim costumes this year, it might be quashing and revealing of one’s true identity. Then, I return interesting to ask your children about who they feel they are to my desk and wonder how I will convey any of it to BJ’s deep inside. On another day, when costumes are not de families. rigeur, perhaps you will learn about the elements of your child’s identity about which she feels most strongly, or the As a child, I relished dressing up for Purim. Over the years, I personal strengths of which he is most proud. You can also was a gypsy, a rock star, an actress, and any number of other discuss how the “costumes” we wear every day reveal a bit of costumes that required lots of make-up, big earrings, and who we are. n high-heeled shoes. (Incidentally, these are still a few of my —Hollis Gauss, Director of Education (Youth & Family

Important Dates for February Family Programs

Saturday, February 3, 10:30AM, 86th St. Social Hall: ...... Junior Congregation

Tuesday, February 13, 5:00PM, Frankel Hall: ...... 2nd Grade Families Cook for the Shelter

Saturday, February 17, 10:30AM, 86th St. Social Hall: ...... Junior Congregation

Teen Programs

Thursday, February 1: ...... BJHS Ozrim Development Session

Tuesday, February 6, 5:00PM, BJ Office: ...... Lishma

Hebrew School Programs

Friday, February 2, following the Family Shabbat Service, 86th St.: ...... BJHS Bet Family Shabbat Dinner

Friday, February 9, following the early Shabbat Service, 88th St. : ...... Reach for Shabbat Dinner

Monday, February 12, 5:00PM, 88th St.: ...... BJHS Gimmel Mishpa ha Family Learning Program

Monday, February 19 and Thursday, February 22 ...... BJHS closed for Presidents’ Week

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NEW MEMBERS Congregation B’nai Jeshurun welcomes new members to the community (as of May 1, 2006):

Ilana and David Adelman Joy Glass Jessica Moskowitz Shari Adler Ana Glick and Morton Hodas Yuri Mushkin Leslie Agisim Andrew Goffe and Jeffrey Levin Gary Narin and Ann Fragen Elyse Altabet Eve Goldberg Susan Nathan and Martin Stalman Doug and Dale Anderson Eitan Goldman and Juliana Min Amy Nederlander Odile Anderson Lauren Goldstein and Allen Bromberger Ron Oddo Cathy Arden Stephanie and Daniel Goldstein Estelle Osofsky-McGonigle and Richard Aron and Mark Kashden Gillian Granoff Raymond McGonigle Joshua Asher Fred and Elizabeth Graver Rochelle Ostroff-Weinberg and Margot Asher Mark Greenfield Robert Weinberg Jamie Askin Nicole Greninger Ava Parnass and Ita Parnass Susana Gordon Attias Amy Grossman Emily Penn Lore and Murray Azaria Liliana Halac Suzzanne Phillips Daniel Baldinger Bonnie Halpern Kenneth Picache and Tamara Totah Jennifer Batterton David and Ellen Hirsch Dylan Pichulik Sara Batterton Matthew Hirsch Stephanie and Richard Pietromonaco Elana Beale Aaron Hochman-Zimmerman Murray and Ina Pitt Helene Benaim Steven Hodas and Catherine Holland Corey Podolsky and Rebecca Levey Ellen and Samuel Bender David Hoffman Alan and Susan Preis Elie Jerome Benveniste Janice and Charles Honig Elise Preston Sarah Berenbeim Delphine Horvilleur Eve Raisen Shira Berenson Susan Ingram Lauren M. Randall Barbara Berger and Eli Ofek Miriam Iwrey Danielle Reed-Baty and Abraham and Estelle Bernstein Suzanne Jacoby Jean-Philippe Baty Elissa Bloom David Jaffe and Cori Miller Kim Richman and Stacey Cagan Stephen and Lisa Bochner Linda Kagan and Smadar Dayan James Rinsler Allan and Renee Borkow Nancy and Fred Kahn Marlowe Robbins Daniel Budofsky and Beth Caunitz George Kaplan and Alyssa Roher Eileen and Larry Butler Miriam Harris-Kaplan Daniel Rosan and Rachael Hanlon Daniela Caleff Jack and Laura Kattan Jaime and Ariela Ross Stephanie and Michael Chaly Suzanne Kaufman Lawrence and Michelle Rubenstein Paul Charney Sabrina Kippur Marcia Salovitz Renee Cohen and Margo Cook Sara Kippur and Josh Lambert Barbara Sassoon Roberto Cohen Eliana Kissner Mindy Schachtman Lauren Coleman-Lochner Robert Klein Amanda Schanfield and David Lochner Julie Kleiner Barry and Mira Schlein Lori Cypress Seth Kleinman Bonnie Schwartz Paul Dana Kim Knopfer Gregg Schwartz Getzel Davis Susan Kramer Daniel Senor and Campbell Brown Scott Dubler Ceil Kraus Yosef Serkin Beverly Engelman Mona Kreaden Dan Shidlovsky Stephen and Michel Evanusa Holly Kuper Benjamin Shykind and Lyuba Konopasek Neil and Susan Faber Tony Kushner Julia Siegel Patricia and Howard Farber Rebecca Lange Jill Silverman Rebecca Feinstone Douglas Lehrman Amalia Smith and Jerome Ghisolfi Paul Feldsher and Gary Peterson Albert Lerner Adam Sobel and Marit Larson Lisa Ferrisi Batya Lewton Geula and Joshua Solomon Ari Fife Roberta Lichtman Donna Spector Diane and Russ Fisher Elizabeth Loeb Michael Stadler Steven Fletcher Abbe Lowell and Molly Meegan William and Alisa Stein Nancy Newman Fortunato Suzy Lowinger Miriam Stern Jon and Erin Frankel Esther Mandelbaum Richard and Zulma Stern Leora Frankel Julie and Alexander Margolies Norman Sutin Scot Frazin Nurit Margulies David Svartman David Freid Jennifer Mariaschin Carol and Howard Tichler Anne and Jack Fried Mark and Karen Mariaschin Kelly Wachowicz Lauren Friedland Melissa Mariaschin Jeffrey Webber Abigail Friedman Melissa Marks Diana Weiss Ben-Ami and Carla Friedman Mario and Michele Markus Elizabeth Weiss Stuart Friedman and Susie Mayer Barbra Yarnell and Danae Yarnell Laurie Schwartz-Friedman Marcos Memran Marc and Joyce Yassky Alan Futerfas and Bettina Schein Adam Metzger Martin Zuckerman Rebecca Garrison Esther Michels Robert and Myrna Zuckerman Orly Genger Doris Mitchell-Gonzalez and Luis Gispert Gilbert Gonzalez

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upcoming community activities

Shabbat Oneg: A Taste of the World to Come! Ledor Vador Shabbat Luncheon: Fashion and Fancy Friday, February 2 , following the late service, 88th Saturday, February 24 , following Shabbat morning services, Street 88th Street Frankel Hall Shabbat in the 21st century doesn’t have to look Ledor Vador continues our series of featuring vibrant women like the traditional meal of generations past— in the BJ community through our Shabbat luncheons. Tziporah maybe there’s live music, maybe there’s no Salamon will entertain us through a rich tapestry of pictures, Manischewitz. You bring the kosher wine/grape juice (we ask stories and costumes. Please RSVP at x334, leaving the names everyone to contribute) and we’ll provide light finger food and of those who will be attending. Also, send a check for a great space to socialize. $15/member or $18/non-member with “Ledor Vador 2/24” on the memo line. Children are welcome to attend free of charge.

donations (through December 15)

Audrey and Joseph Kalaf in Hebrew School Fund Israel Partnership Fund memory of Audrey's Leslie Hyman in memory of Donny Lee Adult Education Fund mother, Dorine Cohen her father, Nathan Hyman Sharon Anstey in memory of Lana Kalickstein in honor of Lana Kalickstein in honor of Pamela Cohn Allen Rabbi Felicia Sol's Tze'irim the birth of Rachel H evra Kadisha Fund Israel Trip Fund class on prayer Abramowitz to Julie and Jerome Korman and Mira Jonathan and Orli Silver in Mark Abramowitz Rivera in memory of Aurora memory of Jonathan’s Beba Bronstein Jewish Camp Dede and Stephen Kessler in O. Rivera, M.D., their “Lola" mother, Carol Silver Scholarship Fund honor of their daughter, and mother Alan and Mimi Frank in Carla's 21st birthday Judith Bernstein Lunch honor of the bar mitzvah of Andrew and Sara Litt in Homeless Shelter Fund Program Marie Peterson's grandson, honor of Susan and Stephen Lore Baer Azaria Tamar Baumgold in memory Derrick Kippur's daughter’s Stacey Goldston and David of Frances Greenberg's engagement Steinberg in honor of Lori daughter Bikkur Holim Fund Glenn Marlowe and Judy Sattler's induction as a Ida Brown in honor of the Cindy Levy in honor of her Geller-Marlowe in honor of Judge of the Civil Court marriage of Sandee mother, Rochelle Levy the marriage of Sandee Wendy Greenspan in honor Brawarsky and Barry Brawarsky and Barry of Stefan Krieger Lichtenberg General Fund Lichtenberg Eileen Mullen in honor of Mark Highman Calvin and Suzanne Ander in Elan and Roberta Masliyah in Rabbi Lauren Holtzblatt, Ellen Perecman in memory of honor of the birth of their celebration of their Derech Rabbi Marcelo Bronstein her mother, Rivke Perecman grandson, Zachary Bonnet Torah class and her friend, Elaine Herbert Wolfe Norman and Sheila Bleckner Arnon Mishkin & Susan Fine Nevins in honor of Anne Kohn and Deborah Pinsky in honor of Marshall T. Meyer Memorial Chuck Gold's new baby Susan and Stephen Kippur's Interfaith Art Committee Fund John Bonavita and Harold daughter’s engagement Eileen Weiss in honor of Sally Norman and Sheila Bleckner Goldman in honor of Susan Philip Steinbach Gottesman, Rachel Tiven in honor of Harvey and and Stephen Kippur's Toni Siegel in honor of and their new baby Helen Schrier’s 40th daughter’s engagement Sandee Brawarsky daughter anniversary Robert David Goldenberg in Benjamin and Annette Blom honor of the birth of his Danielle Dixon in honor of granddaughter, Asher Isabel Rabbi Lauren Holtzblatt and to Kimberly and Peter the occasion of Danielle's Brooks conversion

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Elizabeth Genn in memory of Theodore Metzger and her father, Albert Genn Robin Fleischner in memory Morning Minyan Fund Jeffrey and Laurie of their son, Jordan Tamar Baumgold in honor of Goldberger in memory of Fleischner Metzger the marriage of Sandee Laurie's grandfather, Moses Irma Radus in memory of her Brawarsky and Barry Hornstein dear friend, Fannie Lichtenberg Nancy Greenblatt in memory Kugelmass Norman and Sheila Bleckner of her mother and father, Cecile Rodau in memory of in honor of Morty and Lilian and Sidney her grandmother, Sarah Bernice Levine’s anniversary Wolkenberg Baier and her mother, Fae Morty and Bernice Levine in Arline Guinn in memory of Mittleman honor of the marriage of her father, Benjamin Sobel Charles and Amy Rudnick in Sandee Brawarsky and Barry Sofia Hubscher memory of Charles' father, Lichtenberg Florence Keller in memory of David Rudnick her husband, Kenneth Kurt Heidi Sadowsky in memory Social Action Fund Keller of her father, Norman KOL HADASH Mark Greenfield in memory Ronald Keller in memory of Sadowsky New Voice of his mother, Harriet A. his father, Kenneth Kurt Gary Smoke in memory of February, 2007 Greenfield Keller Herbert Smoke Dara Pinnes in memory of Ralph and Merryl Klein in Mark Solomon in memory of All material is the Harriett Linderman, mother memory of Anne Koffler, Doris Freedman property of Congregation of Wendy Linderman daughter of Frances William Stein in memory of B’nai Jeshurun and cannot Greenberg his father, Nathan be reprinted without Yizkor Fund Gerald Lebovits in memory Finkelstein permission. Eileen Baker in memory of of his father, Eugene Diego Syrowicz in memory of Philip Perman Lebovits his grandmother and Editor & Designer: Matthew Bernstein in Gerald Lebovits and Carol grandfather, Lisa Levenstein Harriet R. Goren memory of his father, Alvin Keller in memory of Amos and Shilem Gajnaj Illustration: Pam Pritchett Bernstein Neufeld’s father, Ernest Rabbi Pamela Wax and Lesley Blumenthal in Neufeld Chaim Bronstein in memory memory of her mother and Susan Lerner in memory of of Pamela’s father, Herbert father, Barbara and Irving her grandfather, Jack March Wax Blumenthal Albert and Naomi Levine in Marvi Weigensberg Rise Dimson in memory of memory of Naomi's mother Donna Weinstein in memory her father, I. Maxwell Small and father, Henrietta and of her mother and father, Beverly Engelman in memory Philip Lassar Min and Maynard Weinstein of her mother, Ann Cindy Levy in memory of her Zelda Weiss in memory of Engelman father, Benjamin Levy her mother, Fannie Prensky Samuel and Phyllis Feder in Laurence and Stephanie Levy Barbara Willinger in memory memory of Phyllis' father, in memory of Laurence's of her father and Jack Friedlander father, Arthur Levy grandfather Lynda Fisher in memory of Rochelle Levy and Sylvia Holly Zabitz in memory of Harriett Linderman, mother Feuerman her grandfather, Samuel of Wendy Linderman Jonathan and Ellen Litt in Zabitz Ted Fisher and Edward Kane memory of Rochelle in memory of Harriet Lindenauer Linderman, mother of Marc and Linda Luxemburg Wendy Linderman in memory of Linda's Jane S. Gabin in memory of brother, Bruce Novograd her mother and father, Billie Howard Mandell in memory and Al Gabin of his mother, Frances Sheila H. Gabins in memory Friedman Mandell of her brother, Stuart Elliot Gabins

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SYNAGOGUE: Committees & Services: Hakhnasat Or him ...... 351 Social Action ...... 259 257 West 88th Street Accounts Payable ...... 227 Havurot ...... 222 Telephone Language Companio n Accounts Receivable ...... 237 Hevra Kadisha . . . . .212-496-0616 212-721-9037 OFFICES: Adult Education Informatio n. 233 Homeless Shelter . . 212-339-4250 Teen Programming ...... 253 2109 Broadway (Ansonia), #203 Bar/Bat Mitzvah ...... 223 Interfaith Committee ...... 379 Torah/Haftarah Reading . . . . .232 Main Telephone Number Bikkur Holim ...... 308 Kesharim ...... Ushering ...... 305 212-787-7600 BJ Reads ...... 391 212-799-7979/873-8153 Volunteer Information ...... 254 Fax Number (2109 Broadway) Conversion ...... 264 Kiddush Scheduling ...... 233 Youth & Family Education . . .244 212-496-7600 Daily Minyan ...... 232 Kol Jeshurun ...... 254 Deaf & Hard of Hearing . . . . Ledor Vador ...... 224 Website e-mail: [email protected] Lunch Program ...... 338 www.bj.org phone: 212-628-7061 Membership Information . . . .224 Development Ralph Bunche School Partnership & Donation Information . . . .242 ...... 301 88th Street Rental ...... 223 Shabbat B’Ya had Committee . 233 Family Activities: Hotline . . . .318

Rabbis: Director of Membership: Board of Trustees: Robert Imershein Marshall T. Meyer (1985-1993) Belinda Lasky, x224 David Karnovsky J. Rolando Matalon Susan Kippurº Beth Kern Marcelo R. Bronstein Director of Facilities: President Ruth Lazarus Felicia L. Sol Roma Serdtse, x350 Ted Beckerº Jonathan Litt Chair Andrea Newman Hazzan and Music Director: Director of Social Action/ Ilene Rosenthal Robin Fleischnerº Ari Priven Social Justice: Benjamin Ross Vice President Guy Austrian, x259 Stephen Stulman Marshall T. Meyer Fellows: Harriet Abrahamº Mim Warden Rabbi Dara Frimmer Assistant to Rabbi Matalon: Vice President Rabbi Lauren Holtzblatt Sarah Michelson, x234 Honorary Trustees Irvin Rosenthalº Virginia Bayer* Brent Chaim Spodek Vice President Chen Ben Or Tsfoni Assistant to Rabbi Bronstein: Frederic Goldstein Charles Lenchner, x240 Avi Lewittesº Marcy Grau* Executive Director: Treasurer David Hirsch* Richard Janvey* Deborah Pinsky, x254 Assistant to Rabbi Sol: Rabbi Rachel Cowanº Robert Kanter Amanda Schanfield, x233 Secretary Director of Finance & Joan B. Kaplan Sara Moore Litt* Administration: Paul Deards Naomi Meyer Ron Seitenbach, x226 Susan Etra Judith Peck* Jeff Feig Director of Education Debra Fine General Counsel (Youth & Family): Donna Freireich Jonathan Adelsberg Hollis Gauss, x244 Rochelle Friedlich Christina Gantcher º Executive Committee Member Director of Development: Barbara Glassman * Past President Aviva Raichelson, x242

CONGREGATION B’NAI JESHURUN Non-Profit Org. 2109 Broadway (Ansonia), Suite 203 U.S. Postage New York, NY 10023 PAID Permit No. 530 New York, NY

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