519 Fourth Street • P.O. Box 659 • Greenport, NY, 11944 CONGREGATION 1-631-477-0232 • www.tiferethisraelgreenport.org [email protected] TIFERETH IN This issueAffiliated With The United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism A National Historic Site

E-Volume 2 2 Number 9 September 2020/Elul 5780-Tishrei-5781

• CALENDAR OF EVENTS •

Shabbat and Holiday Services Fridays: Erev Shabbat, 7:30 p.m., online only, via Zoom Saturdays: Shabbat, 9:30 a.m., online only, via Zoom

HIGH HOLIDAYS SCHEDULE: SEE PAGE 4

Learning at our Shul Mondays, Sept. 7 and 14: Hebrew class, 4 p.m., via Zoom

Shul Events Thursday, Sept. 3, 2020 Virtual Journal launch party, 5 p.m. Mondays, Sept. 7 and 14; Thursdays, Sept. 3, 10, 17: Lunch and Learn, noon, via Zoom Sunday, Sept. 13: Board of Directors meeting, 9 a.m., via Zoom Wednesday, Sept. 16: Book Circle, at noon, via Zoom

Lighting Shabbat Candles in September Sept. 4: 7:04 Sept. 11: 6:52 Sept. 18: 6:41 Sept. 25: 6:29

Dates to Remember • Beginning August 6, at noon, on Zoom, and for the next seven Thursdays before Rosh Hashanah, Rabbi Gadi will offer Lunch and Learn sessions as preambles to the High Holy Days. • Beginning on Thursday, Oct. 15, at noon, on Zoom, Rabbi Gadi will offer a series of Lunch and Learn sessions on Jewish history, one of the most requested topics for discussion on the recent survey conducted by the shul’s Long-Range Planning Committee.

(Submission deadline for the October 2020 issue of The Shofar: September 20 From The Rabbi…

“The Seven Covenants”

The period of seven weeks, from Tisha B’Av to Rosh Hashanah, is the time allotted to us to rebuild and start anew. This year is different. Even the rock bottom of Tisha B’Av is still wobbling and not stable enough on which to build. Perhaps this is the meaning of the opening of Psalm 24: “The earth is the Lord’s and all that it holds, the world and its inhabitants. For He founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.” Like many rabbis, I decided to dedicate these seven weeks to preparing for the High Holidays and to talking about them to my students and congregants. So what message is appropriate for this year? Rosh Hashanah is naturally associated with the beginning – the first covenant, with Abraham. This gave birth to the idea of dedicating each of the seven weekly Lunch and Learn sessions to one of the three patriarchs or four matriarchs — Abraham, Isaac and Jacob; Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel and Leah. Perhaps we can find a message there. What guided each of them and propelled them to perpetuate their relationship with God and to build the Jewish people? So far we’ve discussed Abraham, Sarah, and Isaac. One of the clues about their journey is that they lived their lives with a sense of mission. They, and therefore we, believe in a destination — going from one point to another. Even if that point is allusive, we continue forward. Furthermore, our forbearers teach us that, as each of them, each of us has a unique covenant, a unique conversation with God. It is up to each of us to trod our own mysterious path. As we begin the month of Elul, the month of repentance — Teshuvah — “I return to My beloved, and My beloved returns to me.” As we read in Isaiah 54, the Haftarah for the fourth week of consolation leading to Rosh Hashanah: “For the mountains may move and the hills be shaken, but my loyalty shall never move from you, nor My covenant of friendship be shaken — said the Lord, who takes you back in love.” Basically, the covenant with God is a marriage that may experience a period of separation but will never result in the breaking of the matrimony. In the next four weeks, we will continue to explore the paths of the matriarchs and patriarchs, to study the contribution each offers to the Jewish continuum and, moreover, how each shows us how to view our own individual contributions. Once a year, we see an ingathering of all types of Jews — the Abrahams, the Sarahs, the Isaacs, the Rebeccas, the Jacobs, the Leahs, and the Rachels. We welcome them all. This year, we will celebrate the holidays mainly online. With the help of God and Zoom, we will overcome the inherent obstacles, and enjoy the benefits of expanding our space. And although we will meet differently, we will still meet to affirm our covenants — all of them. Looking forward to seeing all of you with us in the new year — 5781. Shana Tova. —Rabbi Gadi Capela

You are invited to join Rabbi Gadi each Thursday at noon for Lunch and Learn to talk about the seven covenants. Remaining in the series are Rebecca, Jacob, Leah and Rachel.

2 From The President

“Let Go And Let God”

Why does that resonate? Let go and let God — what does it even mean? And why does it offer solace and comfort at this time? I first heard that phrase from Rabbi Gadi during a Lunch and Learn about the Covenant of Abraham. As it replays in my head, the phrase becomes more and more relevant as we approach the high holidays. During this time of the great pandemic, when we know and accept that this life is not as it was, we ponder what it will be. Even that is an unknown. Let go and let God. Surely, we know this is not business as usual. And yet we have turned that to our advantage. Our shul functions, our services and programs are delivered in new ways. And that wasn’t even part of a grand plan, just simply serendipity. We put our creative heads together and took a leap of faith. As a result, with unexpected intimacy, more shul members and friends than ever are engaged online with Congregation Tifereth Israel. More people than ever before have access to our new razzle-dazzle 2020 Virtual Journal. As we prepare for a new version and vision of the high holidays, there is a growing and impassioned call for “empathy.” It has become the word of the day. The word of our time. It permeates the air waves, it infiltrates our day-to-day activities, and it guides our shul strategies as we move forward — as we let go and let God. At the same time, we take action and responsibility for our community and our country. At this time of year, we reflect and we repent. We heed the biblical wake-up call of the shofar and symbolically cast our sins upon the water. L’Shanah Tovah. —Judith Weiner

• SHUL NEWS AND NOTES •

Shul Organizes Telephone Chain To Keep Tabs On Member Safety

Hurricane Isaias swept through the North Fork early in August, downing power lines and uprooting trees in its wake. The storm alerted residents to what might be ahead if Isaias is any predictor of weather to come during the 2020 hurricane/winter storm season. Bottom line: we’d better organize and prepare. To that end, the shul has organized a telephone chain, headed by shul president Judith Weiner, who will instruct phone-chain members to call the names on their lists to check on the health and safety of shul members, who could be affected by dangerous weather or other emergencies here on the North Fork. Snowbirds, vacationers and members living out of the immediate area are advised to keep a close watch on their local conditions and take proper precautions. Telephone-chain volunteers include Sara Bloom, Elaine Goldman, Ann Hurwitz, Thelma Novick, Susan Rosenstreich, Irma Strimban, and Judith Weiner. Sara Bloom solicited the callers and organized the lists. Like good insurance, we hope the phone-chain won’t be needed.

3 High Holidays Services Will Be Different This Year, Yet Reverential Planners OK Mostly Zoom Services; Tashlich And Yizkor In-Person

Congregation Tifereth Israel is moving forward with a mostly virtual model for High Holidays worship this year. Consideration of congregant safety imposed by the spread of Covid-19 has forced our shul to adopt virtual means for Sabbath and holiday worship. Yet, the upcoming High Holidays when, under ordinary circumstances, communal prayer encourages worshippers to connect with each other as Jews in their devotion to the faith, seemed in jeopardy as the virus continued to affect our local villages. The shul’s Task Force of medical, religious and civic leaders considered the wisdom of virtual vs. in-person services and made its recommendations to the shul’s Ritual Committee, which is charged with determining the procedural details of High Holiday worship, among other aspects of synagogue observance. Following an investigation of Covid-19 responses by other synagogues, and also Task Force and Ritual Committee discussions, our synagogue will offer most High Holiday services on Zoom, with two exceptions. Zoom is the teleconferencing program that the shul has used successfully for Shabbat services and Passover Seders as well as meetings and fundraising events that have kept our shul operational. The exceptions to Zoom services are an in-person Tarshish service on the second day of Rosh Hashanah, which will be held at the water’s edge, and an in-person Yizkor memorial service that will be held in Andrew Levin Park, the garden adjacent to our shul building. A second Yizkor service will be conducted on Zoom for those reluctant to participate in-person in the park. The planners believe that this model of mostly virtual services with a few in-person opportunities responds to safety concerns considering the usual large attendance at High Holiday services, while catering to the need for some communal connection at the in-person Tashlich services and one of the Yiskor services, usually attended by fewer members and guests.

Format for Rosh Hashanah/Yom Kippur services The following format will be observed throughout the High Holiday services: • Rabbi Gadi Capela will officiate on Zoom from the sanctuary, with the screen queued to “speaker view.” Gabbai Paul Nadel, representing the congregation, will be the only person other than the rabbi allowed in the building during the virtual services. • Rabbi Gadi will use the shul’s regular High Holidays prayer book. Thanks to a generous donation, copies are available for members to keep. See information below. • The cantorial portions of the services will be fulfilled by Rabbi Gadi and also by interspersing videos of selected cantors within the virtual services. Andrea Blaga and Steve Benthal will facilitate the video portions, to be chosen by Rabbi Gadi and members of the shul. • All members and guests will be muted on Zoom, except those selected for aliyot and English language readings, who will be unmuted during each one’s portion. • In case of questionable weather, please check the shul’s website for decisions on the outdoor Tashlich service and the outdoor Yizkor service.

Shul Organizes Curbside Pickup for High Holy Days Prayer Books Members who want to have their own prayer book for High Holy Days services can take advantage of curbside pickup on the following dates and times: Sept 10 (1-3 p.m.); Sept. 14 (2-4 p.m.); Sept. 15 (10 a.m.-noon); Sept. 17 ( 11 a.m.-1p.m.). Please do not come into the shul or get out of your car. Volunteers will hand you a prayer book through your open car window. Books have been donated; no need to return. Contributions optional. Questions? Call Elaine at 631-765- 3504. 4

------Clip-And-Save-Guide To High Holiday Services ------All Services on Zoom, Unless Indicated ‘In-person’

Schedule of Services/Rosh Hashanah

Friday, Sept. 18/1 Tishrei Erev Rosh Hashanah 7:30-8:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 19/1Tishrei Rosh Hashanah/1st day 9:30 a.m.-noon Sunday, Sept. 20/2 Tishrei Rosh Hashanah/2nd day 9:30 a.m.-noon *In-person Tashlich 1 p.m.

*Tashlich: meet behind the Seaport Museum, next to the Shelter Island Ferry in Greenport. Masks are required; social distancing will be observed.

Schedule of Services/Yom Kippur

Sunday, Sept. 27/10Tishrei Kol Nidre 6:30-8 p.m. Monday, Sept. 28/10 Tishrei Yom Kippur Service 9:30 a.m.-noon Zoom Yizkor noon *In person Yizkor 1 p.m.

*In-person Yizkor: meet in Andrew Levin Park. Participants will stand for the brief service. Printed copies of the service will be available; participants are asked to take their copies home. Masks are required; social distancing will be observed. Mincha Service 5:30-6:30 p.m. Ne’ilah Service 6:30-7:30 p.m.

Additional Services

Friday, Oct. 2/15 Tishrei Sukkot 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 3/15 Tishrei Sukkot 9:30 a.m. Friday, Oct. 9/22 Tishrei Shemimi Atzeret 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct 10/22 Tishrei Simchat Torah 9:30 a.m. ------

Enthusiastic Audiences Zoom In For ‘Lunch and Learn’

The idea for a Lunch and Learn program was an initiative inspired by the shuttering of our synagogue in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. The organizers of the program were concerned about helping members maintain a connection to the shul and each other while the doors were locked and everyone was sheltering in place at home. Enter Lunch and Learn. Every Monday, Lunch and Learners zoom in (via Zoom, a videoconferencing antidote to the shelter-in-place restrictions) for sessions led mostly by our members. Recent offerings included quilting with Roberta Garris, family history with Dede Whitsit, ukulele basics with Ellen Jaffe, all about the flute with Bill Packard, and the joy of chicken farming with Cookie and Michael Slade. Each Thursday, Rabbi Gadi fills the noontime slot with probing questions about Judaism, often a follow-up to the theme of the Monday program. During August and upcoming in September, Rabbi Gadi is offering preparation for the upcoming High Holidays, including the 5 covenants of the three Hebrew patriarchs — Abraham, Isaac and Jacob — and the four Hebrew matriarchs — Sarah, Rachel, Rebecca and Leah. What have we cooked up for the fall? Zoom at noon every Monday and Thursday at noon, and find out. You’ll discover that our shul members are pretty talented and interesting folks, willing to share ideas and expertise with viewers. There’s always discussion, Q&A, and chitchat. It’s instructive, it’s entertaining, it’s fun. To Zoom at noon for Lunch and Learn, visit www.tiferethisraelgreenport.org, click on “Go to meeting/services,” follow the prompts, and enter code 955110. Come learn. Bring lunch.

The Lunch and Learn program joins Danielle Grafas and Angelo Zisimopoulos in thanking Dr. Lewis Teperman for his heroic work in saving the lives of baby Athena and her mother. Shul member Lewis Teperman honored our L&L program at its July 9 session. Newsday photo

Would You Like A Jewish Calendar For The Coming Year — Elul 5780-Elul 5781?

Once Again, the Horton-Mathie Funeral Home in Greenport has underwritten the annual Jewish calendar, and has delivered a stack of them to our shul, ready for distribution. Ay, there’s the rub… The shul building is closed and will remain so throughout the public health emergency posed by the spread of Covid-19, the coronavirus pandemic. Ever prepared to meet whatever challenge arises, the Men’s Club has stepped forward and will deliver or mail a Horton-Mathie Jewish calendar to interested members, at no charge. In the spirit of good will for the New Year, one of our shul members has generously offered to pay for all mailing costs. To receive a Jewish calendar, please email Shofar editor Sara Bloom at [email protected]/. Include your name and mailing address, and please be patient; it’s a busy time of year. L’Shanah Tovah. 6 Thurs, Sept. 3: Virtual Journal Goes Live at 5; Zoom Party Set

The 2020 Virtual Journal is going live at 5 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 3. All shul members and guests are invited to the launch party for a sneak peek at the eye-popping colors and hi-tech graphics designed by shul member Joanna Paulsen and office assistant Andrea Blaga. Also on tap are videos centered on our honoree, Susan Rosenstreich, from her friends and family who may be revealing the “real” Suzi — her serious side, and…well, we’ll see… When the idea of a virtual journal was first proposed by the shul’s Fundraising Committee, lively debate gave the committee pause. Should we? Shouldn’t we? Would members and friends and our cadre of commercial advertisers support it? The committee needn’t have worried. The 2020 Virtual Journal is a resounding success, as all are invited to see on Sept. 3, when messages and ads go live to a global audience. The 2020 Virtual Journal is strikingly colorful and typographically interesting, thanks to the design elements available on an online platform and the computer expertise of Joanna and Andrea, who composed each page to be graphically attractive. The Shofar learned that advertisers were enthusiastic about the benefits package that accompanied inclusion in the journal, including postings on Facebook, Instagram, and a year- long presence on a Shofar list of supporters. Other incentives that motivated advertisers, members and friends is the reach of a virtual publication, which is far beyond that of a print publication. Reach, after all, is free — with no production costs — and also virtually unlimited as it travels across the globe. This is good for advertisers and a boon for our shul. If any readers have missed the deadline yet still want to be included, The Shofar was assured that late-arriving ads could be inserted within the pages of the journal, with all the benefits of participation for the remainder of the online run. Those interested in adding their voices to the 2020 Virtual Journal can respond to [email protected]. To access the Virtual Journal — after 5 p.m. on Sept. 3 — click here: https://tiferethisraelgreenport.org/journal/

Oculus: Eye On Art This month’s Oculus column features a painting by Saul Rosenstreich, coordinator of the Judaism & Art group. The work, titled “The First Commandments,” an oil and collage on canvas, 12 x 12, was completed in 2020, after meticulous research. According to Biblical history, Moses descended Mt. Sinai with the Ten Commandments, but smashed them in anger when he saw his people worshipping a golden calf. God commanded Moses to replace the tablets. But what had happened to the first tablets? When J&A member Susan Weinflash posed that question, Rosenstreich responded with research and the creative energy that produced this work. Speculating that the fragments became part of the mountain, he copied writings from a 6th century BCE Hebrew text and tinted the sheet to simulate stone. He then tore the sheet into pieces and affixed them to canvas in the general shape of the mountain thought to be the Biblical Mount Sinai in Egypt. Finally he added details, such as the shadows on the mountain and the dramatic sky, with thin oil washes— and his imagination.

7 Book Circle Selection: Journey Of Faith Turns Into Espionage

The September meeting of the Book Circle will take place on Wednesday, the 16th, at noon, on Zoom. The members have selected The Mandelbaum Gate by prolific Scottish writer Muriel Spark, who won the James Tate Memorial Prize for this novel. As the narrative unfolds, a journey of faith to the Holy Land turns into an adventure of espionage when the Mandelbaum Gate into Jordan is crossed. The Book Circle meets each month to explore books on Jewish themes and Jewish writers. For more information, call the shul at 631-477-0232 and leave a message for Susan Rosenstreich, coordinator of the group.

Random Reads An occasional column on new and noteworthy reading with a Jewish perspective

• The Seventh Heaven: Travels In Jewish Latin America, Ilan Stavans Essayist and cultural commentator Ilan Stavans spent five years traveling across a dozen countries in Latin America in search of what defines the Jewish communities in the region, whose roots date back to Christopher Columbus’s arrival. Along the way, he looks for the proverbial “seventh heaven,” which according to the Talmud suggests the meaning of life in general and Jewish life in particular. • Love and Treasure, Ayelet Waldman In 1945, on the outskirts of Salzburg, American soldiers discover a train filled with riches: gold watches and wedding rings, picture frames and Shabbat candlesticks. The gift of a necklace comes with an assignment: return the necklace to its rightful owner. • Stanley Kubrick: American Filmmaker, David Mikics A look at a cool, cerebral talent. A study of Kubrick’s films and life. Kubrick’s Jewishness played a role in his idea of himself as an outsider, the author says. Kubrick rebelled against authority, war, and male violence, and reveled in the creation of his films.

• FYI • FYI • FYI •

Israel and United Arab Emirates Agree to Landmark Accord

According to an article in the August 14 issue of The Times, “Israel and the United Arab Emirates reached a landmark accord [on August 13] that could presage a broader realignment in the region as the two agreed to ‘full normalization of relations’ in exchange for Israel suspending annexation of occupied West Bank territory.” If fulfilled, the pact would make the Emirates only the third Arab country to have normal diplomatic relations with Israel along with Egypt, which signed a peace agreement in 1979, and Jordan, which signed a treaty in 1994. “It could reorder the long stalemate in the region, 8 potentially leading other Arab nations to follow suit in forging an increasingly explicit alliance with Israel against their mutual enemy in Iran while taking Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s explosive annexation plan off the table, at least for now,” The Times said. The agreement drew backlash, despite support on both sides. The Shofar will continue to follow developments and report on progress as it occurs.

What does the Israel-UAE accord mean for the Middle East? For Israel? Be sure to Zoom at noon for the Lunch and Learn session on Monday, August 31, when Rabbi Gadi and shul member and former U.N. Ambassador Francis Dubois will offer their personal experiences and views on long-standing Middle East strife and what the new development may suggest.

Israeli Chemistry Students Win Top Prizes At 52nd Olympiad

A member of the Israeli delegation to the 52nd international chemistry Olympiad held this year in Istanbul, became the first Israeli competitor in a decade to win a gold medal at the prestigious event. The Israelis competed against 240 youths from 60 nations. Because of the coronavirus pandemic, this year’s event was held via Zoom. Roi Peer, 18, of Gan Haim, scored a total of 90.35 qualifying him for the gold medal. Peer had won a silver last year, and a bronze two years ago. Peer’s teammates, Ron Shprints and Bar Sheffer, earned silver medals with scores of 83.31 and 81.80 respectively. Team member Ward Yahya scored 62.05 for a bronze. The Education Ministry oversaw the team’s training.

Israeli Air Force Makes Historic Flight Over Dachau

A joint drill by the Israeli and German air forces on August 18 included an historic flyover above the Dachau concentration camp and also above Munich, both sites in memory of the victims of the Holocaust and of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre. Two Israeli F-16s and two German Eurofighters escorted an Israeli Air Force Gulfstream G-550 carrying the commanders of both air forces — Israeli Air Force Commander Maj. Gen. Amikam Norkin and chief of the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) Lt. Gen. Ingo Gerhartz — over the camp memorial outside Munich, while a third Eurofighter filmed the formation from the sky. Then the flyover passed above the Fürstenfeldbruck Air Base, where 11 Israeli athletes and coaches were murdered during the 1972 summer Olympics in a terrorist attack carried out by the Black September Palestinian Terrorist Group. At the end of the aerial maneuver, a formal memorial service was conducted at the Dachau camp, with German Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer and Israeli Ambassador to Germany Jeremy Issacharoff in attendance.

9 U.S. HHS Agency Awards Jewish Federations $5 Million Grant

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Community Living/Administration on Aging has awarded a $5 million grant to the Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA) to expand person-centered, trauma-informed care to Holocaust survivors, other older adults with a history of trauma and their family caregivers. The funding relies upon annual Congressional appropriations and $1.6 million in philanthropic contributions. Some estimates suggest that up to 90 percent of older adults in the United States have experienced a traumatic event during their lifetimes, which can affect the aging process. The problems of this group have become even more acute with social distancing and the threats posed by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

• JEWS IN THE NEWS • Adrianne Greenberg

Shul member Adrianne Greenberg makes the top of the “Jews in the News” column this month for her nail-biting first-place finish in the Islands End Women’s Flight A Golf Championship. To hear Adrianne tell it, the final match in the Match Play format came down to the final hole. Adrianne was one-up, having taken the 17th hole, and she putted successfully on the 18th. Now it was Bonnie Palmer’s turn. If her opponent tied her on the 18th, play would continue. Palmer had been sinking long putts throughout the match. Clearly under pressure, Palmer putted. Her ball tracked to the hole, but veered a quarter- inch left, sealing yet another championship in Adrianne’s impressive career list. Mazel tov, Adrianne. Yasher Koach.

Douglas Emhoff

Douglas C. Emhoff (born Oct. 13, 1964) is an American entertainment lawyer and the husband of U.S. Senator and 2020 Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris. He was born to Michael and Barbara Emhoff in , and moved to California as a teenager. His family is Jewish. Emhoff graduated from the California State University, Northridge and the USC Gould School of Law. He is an entertainment litigator. He was previously married to Kerstin Emhoff, with whom he has two children, Cole and Ella. His children were raised Jewish. He married Kamala Harris on August 22, 2014, in Santa Barbara, CA.

Peter Madoff

Peter Madoff, brother of disgraced financier Bernie Madoff, has been released from federal custody. He served a 10-year sentence in a federal prison in Miami for his involvement in his brother’s Ponzi scheme, which was worth almost $65 billion — the largest in history and one that inflicted heavy financial losses on investors, many of them Jewish. In June 2012, under a plea deal, he admitted guilt to charges of conspiracy and fabricating investment records. He was sentenced the following December and was transferred from the Miami federal prison to home confinement in November 2019. Bernie Madoff, 82, pleaded guilty to 11 crimes in 2009 and is currently serving a 150-year sentence at a federal prison in Butner, NC. 10 • OBITUARIES •

The Shofar joins the membership in mourning the deaths of Paul Mueller, brother of Tim Mueller, a close friend of our shul; and also Elaine Schwartz, a friend of many in our shul. Elaine was killed in an auto accident this month. A celebration of her life was held on August 23.

Nadine Taub

In the early 1970s, Nadine Taub was one of a cadre of young female lawyers breaking new ground by fighting gender discrimination. Along with Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Nancy Stearns and others, she made legal history in cases that successfully argued that equal rights for women were protected under the Constitution. She litigated cases for rape victims, for women seeking access to abortion, and for employees battling workplace discrimination and sexual harassment. Ms. Taub, 77, a professor emerita at Rutgers Law School, died June 16 at her home in . Ms. Taub was the founder and director of the Women’s Rights Litigation Clinic at Rutgers. In the early 1970s, legal clinics like hers were both a new source of legal representation and an innovative educational tool, allowing students to work on real cases. After graduating from Yale Law School in 1968, she provided legal services for the poor in the Bronx and then for the A.C.L.U., working out of a storefront in Newark. She joined the faculty of Rutgers Law School in 1973 and retired in 2000. Ms. Taub was the co-author of several books and publications on women’s rights and gender discrimination, including Sex Discrimination and the Law: History, Practice and Theory.

Reese Schonfeld

Reese Schonfeld, who founded the Cable News Network (CNN) with in the early 1980s before developing another major cable channel, the , a decade later, died July 28 at his home in Manhattan. He was 88. Mr. Turner and Mr. Schonfeld gambled that CNN could effectively challenge the three main broadcast networks in their news coverage, which at the time consisted largely of 30- minute evening newscasts. In 1975, he started the Independent Television News Association, which provided news footage to local news stations. Later he founded the Food Network, which is now part of global entertainment.

Martha Nierenberg

Martha Nierenberg had barely turned 20 when she was bundled off a train in central Hungary and hidden by nuns in a Roman Catholic hospital. It was March 1944, and a Nazi occupying force that included Adolf Eichmann would immediately embark on the annihilation of 500,000 Hungarian Jews. Mrs. Nierenberg, who was born into one of Hungary’s wealthiest families, evaded capture for two months before friends assured her she could venture home. There she learned that she would be among 42 family members and close associates who were to be driven by the Germans to the Austrian border and, several weeks later, allowed to escape to Switzerland or Portugal. The cost was high. The Nazis strong-armed the family into signing away their estates, including some 2,500 pieces of precious art.

11 A trained biochemist who spoke six languages, Mrs. Nierenberg made it to the U.S. with her mother in 1945. She set off on a career as a scientist and researcher at M.I.T. and the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research in New York, and then as an entrepreneur when, in 1954, she and her husband founded the Dansk Designs housewares company. Mrs. Nierenberg died in her sleep on June 27 at a senior living facility in Rye, NY. She was 96. At her death, she was a lead plaintiff in a 30-year Holocaust art restitution battle with Hungary that counts as one of the highest-value cases ever pursued by a single family. Among the 40 paintings Hungary has refused to return are four by El Greco and others by Corot, Velazquez and Courbet. Her granddaughter, Robin Bunevich, estimates that the collection is worth $100 million. She said the family would continue to press the case.

Leon Fleisher

Leon Fleisher, a leading American pianist in the 1950s and early ‘60s, who was forced by an injury to his right hand to channel his career into conducting, teaching and mastering the left- hand repertoire, died August 2 in Baltimore. He was 92. Mr. Fleisher searched for years for a cure to his malady, focal dystonia. He tried shots of lidocaine, rehabilitation therapy, psychotherapy, shock treatments, and others. Ultimately, he joined the faculty of the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore and devoted himself more fully to teaching there and at the Tanglewood Music Center, where he was artistic director from 1986 to 1997. He also studied the repertoire of works for the left hand composed by Ravel, Prokofiev and others. Eventually, a deep massage techniques and Botox injections provided sufficient relief that he was able to resume his career as a two-handed pianist in 1995. He continued to play recitals and make recordings until last year.

Adam Max

Adam Max, an investment manager who became a leading patron of Brooklyn cultural institutions, notably the Brooklyn Academy of Music, where he had been board chairman since 2017, died July 27 at his home in East Hampton. He was 62. Mr. Max and his wife, Diane Max, gave numerous gifts to the BAM and were the largest donors by individuals in its history. Mr. Max was also a major benefactor of St. Ann’s Warehouse, the performance space now in Brooklyn’s Bridge Park. He and his wife were instrumental in the establishment of the New York Historical Society’s Center for Women’s History, which opened at the society’s headquarters in Manhattan in 2017. The couple also sponsored the Diane and Adam E. Max Conference on Women’s History there. Mr. Max played a significant role in the opening last fall of BAM Strong, which included a visual art exhibition space, designed to unify the Academy’s facilities along Fulton Street in the Fort Greene section. Mr. Max and his wife headed the Next Stage Campaign, which raised more than $30 million for its endowment as BAM celebrated its 150th anniversary.

Richard Gelles

Richard Gelles, who helped draft landmark legislation that affirmed that the safety of a child should supersede attempts to reunite a family, died June 26 under hospice care at his home in Philadelphia. He was 73. The new law made it easier for children who were languishing in foster care — because their biological parents still had custody — to be put up for adoption.

12 Dr. Gelles, who taught at the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy and Practice, where he was also dean for more than a decade, was one of the world’s leading scholars of family violence and child welfare. Over a four-decade career, he wrote 26 books, served as an expert witness in scores of legal cases, and was a prolific contributor to the national conversation about domestic violence.

Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz

Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz, one of Judaism’s modern-day commentators, died in on August 7. He was 83. He began his career as an educator and school principal in Jerusalem. That was also the beginning of his writing career, which included about 60 books during his lifetime on an array of topics from the Talmud, the Torah, Jewish mysticism, Chassidism and Jewish philosophy. In 1965, in conjunction with the government of Israel, he founded the Israel Institute for Talmudic Publications, later the Steinsaltz Center, from which he helped make Judaism and the heritage of Israel accessible by translating and explaining the Babylonian Talmud to the world. His writings have been translated into dozens of languages. Among his long list of awards and degrees are the Israel Prize for Jewish Studies (1988); the President’s Medal (2012); and honorary doctorates from Bar-Ilan University, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, and Yeshiva University in New York. The U.S. Library of Congress recently announced that an English translation of an extensive work about the Steinsaltz Center had been accepted into the library’s catalogue.

Bernard Bailyn

Bernard Bailyn, an American historian, author and academic specializing in U.S. Colonial and Revolutionary-era history, died August 7 at his home in Belmont, MA, a suburb of . He was 97. Bernard Bailyn was a professor at Harvard University beginning in 1953. He won the Pulitzer Prize for History twice — in 1968 and 1987. In 1998, the National Endowment for the Humanities selected him for the Jefferson Lecture. He was a recipient of the 2010 National Humanities Medal. In his research, professor Bailyn looked at merchants, demographic trends, Loyalists, international links across the Atlantic, and especially the political ideas that motivated the Patriots. He was best known for studies of Republicanism and Atlantic history that transformed the scholarship in those fields. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and sciences in 1963.

Sumner Redstone

Sumner M. Redstone, the billionaire entrepreneur who saw business as combat and his advancing years as no obstacle in building a media empire that encompassed CBS and Viacom, died August 11 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 97. His death was announced in a statement by National Amusements, the private theater chain company founded by his father. Mr. Redstone had vowed never to give up the reins of his conglomerate, but in February 2016, he stepped away from managing it, and his daughter, Shari E. Redstone, took control of day-to-day affairs. Beginning with a modest chain of drive-in movie theaters, Mr. Redstone negotiated, sued and otherwise fought to amass holdings that over time included CBS, the Paramount film and television studios, the publisher Simon & Schuster, the video retail giant Blockbuster, and a host 13 of cable channels, including MTV, comedy Central, and Nickelodeon. At their peak, the businesses were worth more than $80 billion.

Ruth Gavison

Ruth Gavison, an internationally acclaimed Israeli legal scholar died August 15. She was 75. Gavison, a founder of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, was one of the country’s most prominent and influential researchers and teachers in the field of law. Among her many awards is the Israel Prize (2011), the country’s highest civilian honor; the Cheshin Prize (2009), and the Avi Chai Prize (2001). She was also granted honorary doctorates from the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York (2003), and from Israel’s Bar- Ilan University in Ramat Gan (2009). A member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Gavison was best known for her research, body of work, and sometimes controversial views on issues of religion and state, as well as on that of Israel as a Jewish and Democratic state. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said of Ruth Gavison in a statement, “Many times she refused to accept the accepted legal assumptions and led independent, courageous and groundbreaking positions that challenged the legal discourse and would leave their mark for many years.”

Claire Shulman

Claire Shulman, the first woman to become Borough president, died August 16 at her home in Beechhurst, Queens. She was 94. Ms. Shulman was the deputy to Donald R. Manes, the borough president for 14 years and one of New York’s most powerful politicians, when he resigned in February 1986 in the wake of a municipal corruption scandal and a suicide attempt. Claire Shulman was chosen by the City Council as interim president, then won election after election for 16 years. As borough president, she was a champion of Queens cultural institutions, including the Queens Museum of Art, the Museum of the Moving Image, and Flushing Town Hall. The hall honored her last year on its 40th anniversary. “When you spend taxpayers’ money,” she said at the time, “you want to make sure that it goes to a good purpose.”

• COMMEMORATIONS •

Yahrzeits In September 1: Dorothy Kaliski; Golda Orleans; Mort B. Shakin; Norman Bruce Weiner 3: Rabbi Ya’acov Berman; Max Siegel 4: Eva O. Rubin 6: Belle Baulsir; Elsie Glockner 7: Eve Adler 8: Esther Dolin, Aaron Novick; David Rothman 9: Hubert Bloom; Stanley Greenberg; Lena Rosenstreich; Hattie Weinstein 10: Aaron Jacob Levin 11: Harry Kornberg 12: Abraham Klausner; Benjamin Stock 13: Abraham Cohen 15: Arthur Levine; Abraham Melnick 14 17: Rose Labar 18: Laura Klein; Libby Orliansky 19: H. Lee Blumberg; Beatrice Farber; Lucille Jaffe; Edith Kapell 21: Frank Hollis Bryant, Jr.; Fanny Ballen Goldstein 23: Stephen F. Schwartz 24: William Bernard Sachs 25: Donald Simon 26: Ann Malaspina Holton; Hannah Kaplan; Roza Spokoini 27: Hannah R.; Levinson 28: Sam Winters 29: Ethel Ballen

Birthdays in September 5: Zev Carter 8: John Clauss; Meryl Fishbine 10: Scott Kolin 11: Stephen Meshover 13: Alan Garmise 15: Diane Levin 18: Miriam Gabriel 20: Alexander Nadel 27: Z. Micah Kaplan, MD 29: William Berg 30: Gayle Kaplan

Anniversaries in September 4: Alan and Rochelle Garmise 28: Z. Micah Kaplan, MD, and Gayle Kaplan

Refuah Shlemah Jane Sachs Jody Levin Philip Goldman Paul Birman Thelma Novick Harold (Hal) Neimark

Spreading Sunshine In times of celebration as well as those of sadness, a card to a family member or friend is a welcome expression of love. You can purchase a Hallmark card, or you can purchase a Sunshine Card from the Sisterhood by calling Andrea Blaga, the shul’s office assistant, at 631-477-0232. Relay your message to Andrea, and she will send a personalized Sunshine Card, indicating your feelings, and also that a donation has been made to the Sisterhood in the recipient’s honor. You can mail your donation to the Sisterhood (P.O. Box 659, Greenport, NY, 11944) or take advantage of the shul’s donate tab on our website (www.tifereth-israel.com), where you can use a credit card for payment. Your loved one and the Sisterhood appreciate your thoughtfulness.

15 As a fundraiser, Sisterhood is selling the cards at $18 each (chai) or three for $36 (double chai) by calling Andrea, and paying by mail or online by credit card.

Our historic sanctuary greets the recipient, with an acknowledgment of your generosity inside.

• MONEY MATTERS •

Donations in August Maria-Lourdes Alcasid-Escano, MD Joseph and Elizabeth Brittman Philip and Elaine Goldman Dr. William Packard Ronald and Madelyn Rothman Carol Seigel Jonathan and Devi Ellant Ann Hurwitz Paul Jesselsohn Lawrence Kotik Rachel Murphy Jonathan and Jamie Linder Fire/Police Squad of Jericho Michelle Doroski Roberta Garris Philip and Elaine Goldman Stony Brook/Eastern Long Island Hospital

Dedicated Funds • Capital Improvement: covers major additions and repairs to our building and grounds. • Archive/Library: supports new books for our library, plus archival materials. • Education: provides supplies/materials for the Hebrew School and adult education classes. • Ritual Materials: replaces prayer books, tallit, kippah, Torah mantles, Rimmonim, breastplates, curtains, reader’s table covers, etc. • Rabbi’s Discretionary Fund: allows the rabbi to provide help when he is asked. • Financial Assistance Fund: supports those in need in Southold Town. 16 • Harold Winters Fund For the Hebrew School: supports Jewish education. • Paul S. Birman Technology Fund: supports updates and new communication programs. • Marshall S. Hurwitz Fund for Special Programs and Projects: supports cultural endeavors for the shul and community.

Invest In Our Shul • Bequest: Make a gift to the shul with an inclusion in your will. • Charitable Gift Annuity: A cash or appreciated stock gift provides fixed income for life. • Life Insurance Policy: Contribute a fully-paid or new policy with the shul as owner. • Life Estate: Donate real estate through a grant deed, and use the property for life. • Charitable Remainder Unitrust: This investment allows the contributor a tax deduction and an income for life. Upon death, the balance in the trust goes to the charity.

Honor Loved Ones With A Plaque • Memorial Plaque: mounted in the sanctuary, lighted during the anniversary month. Cost: $300 members; $600 nonmembers. • Tree of Life Leaf: commemorates a simcha or joyous event, mounted in social hall. Cost: $54 members; $108 nonmembers. • Sanctuary Seat Plate: nameplate is placed on the back of a seat in the sanctuary. Cost: $200 members; $250 nonmembers.

• SCHEDULE OF SYNAGOGUE FEES •

Membership Per Year Family: $850 Individual: $550

Event Members Nonmembers Wedding, Bar/Bat Mitzvah, Baby Naming* $450 $900 Sanctuary Only No charge $300 Community Room Only $25 per hour $50 per hour Community Room, Kitchen and Park $300 $600 Rabbi’s classes No charge No charge

Commemoratives Members Nonmembers Memorial Plaques $300 $600 Tree of Life Leaf $54 $108 Prayer Book Bookplate $54 $54 Pentateuch Bookplate $72 $72 Sanctuary Seat Plate $200 $250** Isidore Handler Hebrew School No charge No charge

*Fee includes use of the sanctuary, community room, kosher kitchen, and Andrew Levin Park. Setup and cleanup fees will be paid by the individual or group renting the facilities. Renters of our facilities must submit an agreement 10 days prior to the event. ** A seat plate designee must be a member or a deceased member of the synagogue.

17 • WHO’S WHO AT OUR SHUL •

Rabbi Gadi Capela: 631-477-6940 Gabbai Paul Nadel: 631-734-8519

Board of Directors Judith Weiner: President Sara Bloom: Vice President Alan Garmise: Treasurer Susan Rosenstreich: Financial Secretary Joanna Paulsen: Recording Secretary Elaine Goldman: Corresponding Secretary Hedvah Campeas-Cohen, Miriam Gabriel, Madelyn Rothman: Members at Large Adrianne Greenberg: Sisterhood Representative Z. Micah Kaplan, MD: Men’s Club Representative

The Sisterhood Adrianne Greenberg: President Joanna Paulsen: Vice President Roberta Garris: Secretary Eileen Santora: Treasurer

The Men’s Club Z. Micah Kaplan, MD: President Jesse Reece: Vice President Philip Goldman: Treasurer

The Shofar Sara Bloom and Miriam Gabriel: Editors

Shul Committees Andrew Levin Park/Garden Adrianne Greenberg, chair Veronica Kaliski Advertising Alan Garmise, chair Audio-Visual Phil Goldman, chair Adrianne Greenberg Beautification/Building and Grounds Z. Micah Kaplan, MD, chair Miriam Gabriel, Phil Goldman, Adrianne Greenberg, Jesse Reece Bylaws Joanna Paulsen, chair Alan Garmise, Phil Goldman, Adrianne Greenberg Calendar Elaine Goldman, chair E-Communications/Website Andrea Blaga 18 Education Rabbi Gadi Capela, Miriam Gabriel, Ann Hurwitz, Madelyn Rothman, Paula Shengold, Irma Strimban Finance Susan Rosenstreich, chair Alan Garmise, Z. Micah Kaplan, MD, Joan Prager, Nancy Torchio Fundraising: Judith Weiner, chair Alan Garmise, Z. Micah Kaplan, MD, Susan Rosenstreich, Nancy Torchio Gift Shop Sara Bloom, chair Information Technology Pamela Birman, Paul Birman, Rabbi Gadi Capela, Alan Garmise, Adrianne Greenberg, Journal Dinner-Dance Madelyn Rothman, chair Sara Bloom, Tom Byrne and Veronica Kaliski, Graham Diamond, Elaine Goldman, Z. Micah Kaplan, MD, and Gayle Kaplan, Joanna Paulsen Judaism and Art Saul Rosenstreich, chair Sara Bloom, Rabbi Gadi Capela, Hedvah Campeas Cohen, Graham Diamond, Phil Goldman, Ann Hurwitz, Ellen Jaffe, Irma Strimban, Dan Torchio, Judith Weiner Long Range Planning: Alan Garmise, chair Miriam Gabriel, Adrianne Greenberg, Susan Rosenstreich Membership Phil Goldman, chair Nominating Phil Goldman, chair Sara Bloom, Thomas Byrne, Roberta Garris, Susan Rosenstreich Pastoral Rabbi Gadi Capela, Miriam Gabriel, Elaine Goldman, Carol Seigel Plaques Adrianne Greenberg Public Relations Alan Garmise, chair Sara Bloom Ritual Paul Nadel, chair Rabbi Gadi Capela, Alan Garmise, Phil Goldman, Adrianne Greenberg, Susan Rosenstreich, Madelyn Rothman, Carol Seigel Security: Phil Goldman, chair Miriam Gabriel, Z. Micah Kaplan, MD, Paul Nadel, Joan Prager, Nancy Torchio, Telephone/Sunshine: Sisterhood Yahrzeits: Miriam Gabriel, chair

Shul president Judith Weiner is an ex officio member of all shul committees. 19

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