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Bulletin March 1, 2016 MARCH 2016 ADAR 5776 Temple Emanu-El where you belong VOL. 58, NO. 6 14450 West Ten Mile Rd . Oak Park, MI 48237 • 248.967.4020 . www.emanuel-mich.org MARCH WORSHIP Fri, Mar 4, 2016 6:45pm Erev Shabbat family service and congregational birthday blessing with 4th and 5th grade participation Oneg sponsored by Sisterhood Sat, Mar 5, 2016 9:15am Torah Study 10:30am Shabbat Morning service Fri, Mar 11, 2016 7:00 pm Erev Shabbat service with Congregational dinner following service SAVE SHUSHAN! Sat, Mar 12, 2016 Calling all superheroes, kings, queens, 9:15 am Torah Study 10:30 am Shabbat morning princes, princesses, wizards, service dragons, Jedis, Esthers and Mordechais! Fri, Mar 18, 2016 We need you to help save Shushan 7:00 pm Erev Shabbat service with Anniversary Blessing from evil Haman at the... Oneg sponsored by Sisterhood Temple Emanu-El & Cong. Beth Shalom Sat, Mar 19, 2016 9:15 am Torah Study 10:30 am Shabbat Morning PURIM CARNIVAL service with Leo Abramsky’s Bar Mitzvah -- Kiddush spon- Sunday, March 20 sored by the Abramsky family Temple Emanu-El -11:30 am Wed, Mar 23, 2016 6:30 pm Erev Purim service and Admission and Kosher lunch: $5 per person Purim Spiel-Wizard of PersOz Come in costume for a free raffle ticket Fri, Mar 25, 2016 Kids of Volunteers needed to help with 5:45 pm TOT Shabbat with all agEs games and lunch. Contact Rachel Frank K-1 classes followed by complimentary dinner at [email protected] 7:00 pm Sisterhood Erev or Temple office (248) 867-4020 Shabbat service w/ Shir Chadash Choir - Oneg sponsored by Sisterhood Sat, Mar 26, 2016 9:15 am Torah Study 10:30 am Shabbat morning service Help Assemble Packages! Purim is March 23rd Assembly & Pizza Party March 18, 10:30am -2:00pm Service at 6:30 pm Drivers needed to Delivery This Year’s Purim Spiel is Packages March 18-22 “The WIZard of PersOZ” Contact Kelly Onickel at 248-967-4020 if you wish to perform in the Purim Spiel. Performances are at 11am on March 20 before the Purim Carnival and at the Purim Service on March 23. OUR TEMPLE FAMILY second friday shabbat service first friday family shabbat service followed by complimentary MARCH 4TH, AT 6:45 PM Congregational dinner All the congregation will come together for a FAMILY FRIENDLY Shabbat service at March 11, 2016 - 7:00pm 6:45 PM in which 6th and 7th grade classes of our religious school will participate. Let’s celebrate together, get to know each other better and be inspired by RSVP by March 9 to 248-967-4020 or a wonderful, musical Shabbat service. email [email protected] IN MEM ORIAM all of Temple Zone Emanu-El is NETWORK: TEpublic William Weiss, father of brother-in-law of Neal Now a free Wifi Silver (Teri Sahn-Silver), January 27, 2016 PASSWORD: TEguest2014 Sol Rynor, uncle of David (Kathy) Sloan, January 27, 2016 MAZEL TOV To Jeff Abt & Mary Paquette-Abt on the November 30th birth of grandson Elliot Tian-Yue Abt to Uri Abt & Yvonne Lam of Chicago Mar 4 YartZEITS Every month, members who have a birthday are invited to attend the FIRST FRIDAY EVENING Mar. 6-12 Julius Braun *Herman Dictor *Rose Fried *David B. Aaron Phyllis Brooks *Louis Feldman *David Gleekman SHABBAT to receive a BIRTHDAY BLESSING *Harriet Aiken-Mishark Priscilla Dickman Sy Gliner Sy Gliner during our SHABBAT service which begins at 6:45pm. Irene Alessandro Mirla Draichorn *Freda Ruth Grand Raymond Gold Sarah Bacow Wolf Draichorn *Dorothy L. Hirschfield *Sol Gorman Larry Berger *Karl Feber *Charles Kaufman Kahn Esther Graef MARCH KIDS BIRTHDAYS! *Fred Chertoff *Sadie Fenster *Esther L. Kann Lee Grodsky Martin Cooperman *Frank I. Finn *Jack L. Kann *Lawrence Gubow Jack Bacow Zachary Kanfer Benjamin Schondorf *Dora Wax Cunich Theresa Galea Geraldine Kaplan David Hazan Ava Cohen Zoe McManus Sarah Shartsis Esther Cutler *Lois Goode *Ida Kaufman *Lillian Hollander Brett Davidson Shayna McPherson Harper Stacey *Phillip Dershowitz *Abraham J. Goodman Terry Krupp *Anton “Oscar” Emma Driker Reilly Rogers Morgan Stearn *Beatrice A. Fealk *Rachel Grand *Yetta Levitsky Kaczander *Rose Feldhandler Doris MacMurray *Flo Kerner Kovan Dylan Field Anna Schneider Harry Wessels *Miriam L. Hamburger Edythe Ferman *Fannie Hoffman *Sally Mandel *Isaac Kuschner Samuel Flacks Sybil Kappel *Celia Marks *Dr. Dora (Dolly) Levine *Betsey Kaplan Florence Keys Rose Michelson *Hilda Lucas *Sol Wolf Landau *Elsie Greenstone Sophie Mikon *Louis Lucow *Dave Lane Marks *Mitzi Moses *Joseph Maltzer *Eva Lepler *George E. Owen Ernest Needle *Irving Manheimer *Harry Levine *Philip Robinson Jascha Benjamin Pohl *Shirley Mann *Albert Manchel Gloria Shapiro *Anna Ressler Rose Michelson Mar 18 *David Marks *Dr. Sidney O. Siegan *Philip Robinson *David Miller *Morris Marks Marvin Sol Siegel Morris Rubin *Mervin Pelzner Pearl Eglin Martin *Anna Silverman *Sandra Jane Schwartz *Suzanne Portner *Benjamin Meyrson Tess Solomon Wendy Shifrin Isidore Ravitz Every month, all those who have wedding anniversaries *Marian Pelzner *Sam Solomon *Dr. Milton J. Steinhardt Solomon Sacks are invited to attend the THIRD FRIDAY SHABBAT Lipshaw Samuel Stewart *Bertha Strausz Bertram Schultz *Samuel Plotler *Lee Kushner Van Albert Stutz *Henry Schwartz OF THE MONTH to receive a wedding anniversary *Lily Ringler Duren Lillian Taylor Greenwald Hania Shane blessing during our Shabbat service which begins @ Frederick F. Rose Freda Vernick *Rose Zuckerman *Celia Sidder 7:00pm. Bring all your family and friends to celebrate! *Samuel L. Rosenfeld Andrew Winston Irene Lillian Soffin *Irwin Serlin Anne Zuckerman Mar.27-Apr.2 Adele Sperber Rabbi Kalfus invites you, if you are able, to come to his *Ben Shapero Harold Ash *Freda Steinhardt Robert Shapiro Mar.20-26 Marsha Aulbach *Dorothy B. Thal office @ 6:45pm to greet each other prior to the service. Owen Sodders *Louis Alpiner Henrietta Drasnin *William Weiss Roscoe Bills *Sarah “Sally” Druker *Solomon Wolf Mar. 13-19 Sol Bloom Samuel Dudick *Samuel Zafron MARCH ANNIVERSARIES! *Edwin J. Barnes Douglas Cash Lucille Falk *Fredrick H. Zeidman *Dr. Peter Bernstein *Sarah F. Cohen Edith Fowler *Bessie Zlatkin Jeffrey & Joy Gable Dr. Charlotte Simon & Melvin Natinsky Sam Braiker *Minnie Dashow Robert & Yona Kahn Dr. Daniel & Leah Rosenbaum Arnold & Deena Mikon Mark Selitsky & Orit Szwarcman *A light will be lit on our Memorial Board. If you wish to memorialize your loved ones in a special way, consider purchasing a Jack & Elsa Shartsis Adam & Tracy Taub memorial plaque to be displayed in our Anne Jospey Sanctuary. Each year, on the anniversary of their death, it will be lit as a remembrance. Contact the Temple office at 248-967-4020 to make arrangements for this eternal memory of your loved one. -2- Temple emanu-el BulleTin • march 2016 • adar 5776 THE RABBi’S CORNER I invite you to join me on March 12 to homosexuality with Judaism. He has tried numerous forms watch the movie Trembling Before G-d. of "treatment", from eating figs and praying to wear a rubber This movie challenges, so publicly, Juda- band on his wrist to flick whenever he thinks of men, but to ism’s views on homosexuality within the no avail. During the course of the film, David decides to visit Orthodox Jewish community. It will be an the Chabad rabbi to whom he first came out. evening you will not forget. Israel is a 58-year-old New Yorker who decided he couldn't Synopsis be gay and Orthodox, and turned his back on his religion, though not before his family forced him into electroshock Trembling Before G-d interviews and therapy to try to cure him. Now a tour guide in the Haredi follows several gay and lesbian Orthodox Rabbi Arturo Kalfus neighborhoods of New York, the film follows him as he gives Jews, many only seen in silhouette, and a tour, psychoanalyzes himself and decides, on the 25th an- also interviews several rabbis and psychologists regarding niversary of being with his life partner, to call his 98-year-old their views on homosexuality in Orthodox Judaism. The film father, a rabbi, whom he has not seen in over twenty years. repeatedly returns to several characters: Michelle is another New Yorker, in her forties, who be- David is an observant Orthodox Jewish doctor from Los An- lieved she was the only Hasidic lesbian in the world and as a geles who has spent a decade trying to reconcile his consequence allowed herself to be pressured into marriage. However, she got divorced and was subsequently ostracized by her family and community when they discovered she was DINNER & MOVIE SERIES homosexual. The film shows her visiting her old neighbor- AT TEMPLE hood and an Orthodox fair. Rabbi Steven Greenberg, one of the founding members of Meet other Temple members and have a great time!! We will discuss the themes that the mov- the Jerusalem Open House, a gay rights organization in Israel ies present to us. which provides support to gay Orthodox Jews and their families, who is sometimes called "the world’s first openly Dinner 6:15 pm • movie 7:00 pm gay Orthodox rabbi", discusses parents' reactions to their $12 pp dinner movie free children coming out, as well as traditional interpretations of the prohibitions on homosexual acts in the Torah. TREMBLING BEFORE GOD Shlomo Ashkenazy is a gay psychotherapist who has run a Saturday, March 12, 2016 confidential support group for Orthodox gay men for nearly 20 years. He is interviewed about the effects of Orthodox RSVP by March 10 to office: 248-967-4020 or email [email protected] attitudes to homosexuality and the reactions of rabbis to gay Jews. "Malka" and "Leah" are two observant Orthodox lesbians who have been together for ten years, which has destroyed Malka's relationship with her family.
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