The High Holidays & Fall Program Catalog 5780 / 5781

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VOLUME 63 • NUMBER 1 SEPTEMBER 2020 ELUL-TISHRI 5780-81 The High Holidays & Fall Program Catalog 5780 / 5781

שָׁ נָׁהטוֹבָׁה ּומְתּוקָׁ ה A Good & Sweet Year

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From the President Joel Freedman

generation of members – from the all of our parents down to the youngest congregants preschoolers. to join us in לדור ודור our celebrations of the holidays. Even though we will not all be As synagogue president, I have had together in person, we will e are all familiar with the W the pleasure of attending many of definitely be together in spirit as we Hebrew phrase L’dor V’dor, the varied activities that take place continue to follow the teachings of commonly translated as “from in our shul. My Shabbat’s have L’dor V’dor - both from older to generation to generation”. been enriched by my visits to Tot younger and younger to older. Traditionally, this refers to the Shabbat and the Oreo Minyan. I responsibility of passing on have celebrated the religious school spiritual knowledge and culture opening day with our families, the from one generation to the next – ECC Back to School Picnic and L’shanah tovah grandparents and parents to even had a brief stint as a dodgeball children and grandchildren. We referee. In each interaction, I have tikateivu recite these words during the Bar/ learned much from our younger Bat Mitzvah ceremony and in the families. The young adults and v’teichateimu Kedushah. The importance placed children have given me a positive on this idea is one of the reasons for outlook for the future of our the survival of the Jewish people community. It is the beauty of our לשנה טובה and our traditions. multi-generational atmosphere that has opened up my eyes to how our traditions are being learned, תכתבו ותחתמו The traditional meaning of L’dor understood and applied in this new V’dor has applied to most of my world. adult life: Sharon and I have strived to pass along our beliefs and traditions to Alex and Dylan. I know it has been hard to interact However, as they have grown older, with anyone over the past five it has been amazing to see how months and we are not sure when much they continue to teach us we will be able to congregate about Judaism, about the world and together again. Once we are back in about ourselves. My time at Temple our building, please take the Beth Hillel – Beth El has led to opportunity to look around and similar experiences. Yes, I have watch how joyful our young people learned so much from our more are at services and other events. seasoned members, incorporating Continue to set an example for the many traditions that I have gathered next generation, while also being from our shul into my own life. But open to learning from them. what has really made the difference for me is what I have learned from those younger than I – our next As we look to the new year, I invite

From the Rabbi’s Study Rabbi Neil S. Cooper

Conservative Movement to create Community? what would become the Today, we are Beyond the Virtual Reconstructionist Movement. dependent on Raised in an Orthodox home in Zoom and Livestream Community and Europe, Kaplan also served for technologies. Since the strict many years as the rabbi of guidelines due to the pandemic Social Distancing: Kehillath Jeshurun, an Orthodox have been in place, services, Congregation in New York. But classes, and meetings appear his ideas about the role, purpose, online. Attendance has a new Thoughts as we and mandate of synagogues in meaning. Involvement looks today American Society were anything much different than it did last year approach the High but Orthodox. He articulated the at this time. Holidays vision of synagogues as Jewish Today, we are personally isolated, Community Centers, the focus of leaving our homes only when Jewish culture, art, and social necessary, maintaining safe interaction. For Orthodox distances between us when we synagogues, which saw synagogues Mordechai Kaplan was a great interact, fastidious about primarily as houses of worship, cleanliness and consumed by the thinker, educator, and force for Kaplan’s vision of a more frightening possibility of progressive new ideas in the expansive center for Jewish Life contracting or conveying this American Jewish Community for was radical and dangerous. Today, dangerous virus. With these and nearly the entire twentieth century. however, those ideas are not only other differences, can we still call Kaplan taught at the Jewish embraced within the Orthodox ourselves a community? My Theological Seminary (JTS) and world, but Kaplan’s ideas about the answer is an emphatic yes. My served as Dean of the newly notion of the Jewish Community guess is that Kaplan would created Teachers Institute at JTS and synagogue life continue to embrace and extol the virtues of the for 5 decades. He was a prolific challenge, to motivate change and new face of the American Jewish writer and influential figure to inspire. Community. beginning in the early 20th century Of late, I have wondered what Although we gather differently, we and continuing until the day he Rabbi Mordechai Kaplan would still gather. Although we maintain died, at age 103. Despite the say about today’s American Jewish contributions he made to the safe distances from one another, we Community, a community which still enjoy each other’s company. American Jewish Community has changed significantly from through his work at JTS, it was his Although our desire for physical what it was during Kaplan’s time. proximity remains, we have used personal philosophy of Judaism Over the last six months, we have which distinguished him and put the latest technology to provide us seen a radical transformation of the with the “Facetime” that we crave. him at odds with the faculty of JTS. American Jewish Community, His new ideas were expressed in made necessary by COVID 19. For many months, we have his major philosophical work, Specifically, how would Kaplan planned, discussed, and debated the Judaism as a Civilization (1934). assess today’s re-structured and re- question of how best to run our Eventually, he broke away from the defined American Jewish High Holiday services. We have

been working to organize the wide It is real. It is substantive. It is participation will be via Zoom. range of options for you and your thriving. Whether attending remotely or in children, without compromising the And more: the distance we person, regardless of the distance meaning, message, and quality you maintain between us is not an you preserve between you and the have come to expect from our example of social distancing. As a person next to you, you will still services. community, we are as close as ever feel the warmth, support and pull of Most important, however, when we to each other. The distance we our community. You will still feel gather for the High Holidays, we provide is physical, not spiritual, the friendship and embrace of those renew our connections with old and not social. from whom we maintain a physical distance. friends, we wish our neighbors a High Holiday services will, no “Shanah Tovah,” and we discuss doubt, be different in some ways This year, the High Holidays, the rabbi’s sermons (with varying from those you and I have though somewhat different in degrees of approval!). I expect all experienced for many decades. The appearance and execution, aspire to these familiar aspects of the High crowded parking lot, the full similar goals for our services: to Holidays will be the same this year sanctuary, the formal recitation of inspire, to uplift and to motivate. I as they have been in the past. The prayers by the Cantor and his Choir think that Mordechai Kaplan would community which gathers will, this year, be modified a bit. heartily approve. electronically, our remote Our services will be shorter, and community, is anything but virtual.

From our Rabbinic Intern Noam Kornsgold

of the High Holidays. In reflecting upon the High Holidays, this year Whether it be in particular I am struck by the in-person or Meet Our image of the shofar’s blast. “Blast,” virtual, I am excited to meet you Rabbinic Intern! however, is a bit of a misnomer. over the next year. As we welcome Although we are most familiar with in the Jewish New Year of 5781, I (and excited for) the tekiah pray that we heed the call of the gedolah, the long shofar blast, the shofar, gathering in many forms in fact is that we interact the most our collective hesitation, looking Hello folks! My name is Noam with the shorter, broken blasts of towards and building a world of Kornsgold, and I am thrilled to be the shevarim (three medium notes) which we can be proud. your Rabbinic Intern for the and the teruah (nine staccato upcoming year! Over the next ten notes). In the Babylonian Talmud months, I look forward to being (Rosh Hashanah 33b), we learn that part of your community, learning the origins of these sounds come with and from you, and cultivating from the mother of Sisera, the relationships across the various wicked Canaanite general who demographics of TBH-BE. appears in the Book of Judges. As Sisera’s mother waited patiently for As the beginning of my internship her son to return home, she quickly is fast approaching, I wanted to turned to worrying and sobbing, share a few details about myself. I suspecting correctly that something am currently entering my final year terrible had befallen her son. These of rabbinical school at The Jewish sobs, our Rabbis tell us, constitute Theological Seminary (JTS). In the basis for the sounds of the addition to my studies, I serve as shofar. In other words, the origins the research assistant to JTS of the shofar’s notes are surrounded Chancellor Shuly Rubin Schwartz, in worry and apprehension. They am one of the Jewish Life Directors reflect our uncertain position in the (along with my wife Gavriella) for world. I believe that during this the undergraduates at JTS, and am High Holiday season, we will be the coordinator of Camp Ramah’s able to access these original Daf Yomi learning program. For underpinnings of the shofar much the past eight summers (including more easily than we have in the this one, albeit virtually), I worked past. In the current state of our as a staff member at Camp Ramah world, we will enter the High in the Berkshires. On the personal Holidays, which marks the creation side, I am an avid reader, consumer of the world, with feelings of of Japanese cartoons, and an active uncertainty. Yet, the shofar Philly sports fan (go Phillies!). reminds us that out of doubt, comes strength. Out of the shevarim and The start of my internship with you the teruah, we arrive at the tekiah nearly coincides with the beginning gedolah.

From the Cantor’s Study Hazzan Eugene Rosner world to be with the bereaved, in of course, real time. Those who could not Lauren physically make the trip to be with Krivitzky’s The Silver Linings someone in person can at least, be dad, Marty Askinazi for being our seen and heard live. indefatigable engineer. The choir hroughout these difficult last six T never sounded better! months there have been some TBH- Choirs have been hit very hard. BE programs and events that have TBH-BE has had a long and rich These are silver linings. Please look brought with them, many a sweet history of Jewish Choral music. for them, especially now as we get memory, a contrast to the pains and Thanks to Adobe Premier Pro, there ready for our High Holy Day fears that have consumed our lives. is a music software application that season. They are out there, and they These are the silver linings; those gets its day in the sun. Our choir will bring a smile to your face in things that bring a smile amid all members have been extremely busy these challenging times. the hardships we have faced day in recording themselves this summer. and day out. We have been preparing a dozen pieces from our High Holy Day Amy, Morey, Elana and I wish you Early on, in the pandemic, we were repertoire that we will be presenting all a Shanah Tovah! all encouraged and inspired to reach virtually at our services. It is also out to our congregants in their time nice to know that we have created a Hazzan Eugene Rosner of need. One of the most enriching recorded repertoire for our efforts. and personally meaningful things I Thanks go out to all our singers, engaged in was calling members Lee Milhous for creating the master daily and chanting a memorial recordings, Amy Eisen for her prayer on a loved one’s yahrzeit. valuable instructions, and being the The appreciation I felt from master collector of video files, and everyone was overwhelming. We now have a cadre of volunteers that help me with this wonderful activity. I can now say that I am getting to be very good at navigating shul cloud, our database, as well!

We have had several shiva minyanim during the spring and summer. Of course, they are zoom minyanim. It is very difficult and indeed alien to Jewish life, not to be together and be able to offer condolences in person. But zoom invites people from all over the

News from our Synagogue Family Mazel Tov To

Nancy and Robb Fox and Rose and Amy and Phil Bursky on the birth Rachel and Stanley Kull on the Paul Astor on the engagement of of their granddaughter, Sophie engagement of their daughter, Lily their daughter and granddaughter, Helen. to Jon Shamberg. Emily Jane Fox to Lee Eisenberg. Ben and Susan Stein on the birth of Judith and Richard Ross on the Taryn and Jeffrey Fine on the birth their granddaughter, Penelope. engagement of their daughter, Elizabeth to David Rubin. of their son, Zachary Easton Fine. Janie and Mitchell Rosen on the Itzhak and Ilana Nissim on the engagement of their son, Matthew Marsha Yankelev on the birth of a birth of their grandson. to Samantha Ring. grandson, Ezra Akiva Yankelev Samuel Brint on his daughter Maia Dan and Jennie Rodgers on the Kevin and Barbara Ilsen on the making Aliyah as a Lone Soldier birth of their daughter, Aubrey with Garin Tzabar. birth of their granddaughter, Rodgers. Melissa Ariel Stafford.

Our Deepest Condolences To

Anita Bihovsky on the loss of her Susan Kessel on the loss of her Marilyn Kutler on the loss of her mother, Lorraine Weisberger (z”l). mother, Maxine Horovitz (z”l). husband, Ira Silberman (z”l). Barbara Schwartz on the loss of her The family of Evelyn Clement Len Samuels on the loss of his brother-in-law, Fred Bonn (z”l). (z”l), long-time congregant. father, Joseph Samuels (z”l). James Lozada on the loss of his Elaine Beck on the loss of her Debbie Greenberg, Aaron, Ethan father, Eriberto (Bert) Sevalla brother, Theodore Kushner (z”l). and Jordan on the loss of their Lozada (z”l). mother and grandmother, Rose Susan Smith and Stephen Smith on David Haas on the loss of his the loss of their husband and father, Greenberg (z”l) mother, Phyllis Haas (z”l). Robert Smith (z”l). Debra and Jeffrey Hoffman on the Gloria and Bob Spitz and Susan Remember your loss of their son, Trevor Hoffman and Len Lodish on the loss of their loved ones with a (z”l). son and nephew, Sam Spitz (z”l). Nancy Schmidt, Anne Frankel and Barbara Smolen on the loss of her Memorial Plaque Grant Schmidt on the loss of father, Jacob Kaufman (z”l). displayed in the mother and grandmother, Gail Kessler on the loss of her Holocaust Memorial Chapel. Sylvia Haber (z”l). mother, Betty Strauss (z”l). For more information, Bob Elias on the loss of his mother, Deborah-Jo Essrog on the loss of contact Alma Elias (z”l). her mother, Toby Essrog (z”l). Barbara Schwartz at 610.649.5300.

Meet The B’nei Mitzvah Harrison Shapiro School: Bala Cynwyd Mitzvah Project: Bar Mitzvah Date: Challenger Baseball and September 12, 2020 Challenger Baseball. This Parasha: Vayeleich is a sports program for children and teenagers with special needs. Jackson volunteered to be a “buddy” which is a 1:1 friend who helps the child understand and play the game. Benjamin Friedman Fun Fact: Jackson loves Alex Kohn

to play baseball. Bar Mitzvah Date: Bar Mitzvah Date: January 9, 2021 February 27, 2021 Parasha: Shemot Parasha: Tetzaveh School: Jack Barrack School: Radnor Hebrew Academy Miriam & Rebecca Mitzvah Project: Alex Mitzvah Project: BB will will be volunteering at Goldberg be virtually tutoring math Ada Mutch Food Pantry to elementary school Fun Fact: Alex loves to B’not Mitzvah Date: students that may not October 3, 2020 swim, dive, & play otherwise be able to baseball. Parasha: First Day of afford a tutor Sukkot Fun Fact: BB was born School: Radnor in Rochester, MN Middle School and Shipley Elijah Nichols Mitzvah Project: Friendship Bar Mitzvah Date: Circle & Dinner Club at October 24, 2020 JFCS Parasha: Noach Fun Fact: We were born School: Bala Cynwyd five minutes apart! Middle School. Mitzvah Project: In the works! Fun fact: He is coding, designing and programming his own Kate Spirn video game. Elijah loves playing ice hockey! Nicole Altman Bat Mitzvah Date: March 6, 2021 Alana Ufberg Bat Mitzvah Date: Parasha: Vayakhel- February 6, 2021 Pekudei Bat Mitzvah Date: Parasha: Yitro School: Welsh Valley November 14, 2020 School: Bala Cynwyd Mitzvah Project: In the Jackson Berry Parasha: Toldoth Fun Fact: Nicole goes to works! Pine Forest Camp Fun Fact: Kate loves Bar Mitzvah Date: overnight and loves it! dogs, especially the two October 17, 2020 that she has, Lucky and Parasha: Bereshit Fozzie!

bracelets, and planning Meira Greenberg zoom sessions with friends. Bat Mitzvah Date: May 15, 2021 Parasha: Bamidar

Mia Elkins

Bat Mitzvah Date: April 17, 2021 Parasha: Acharei Mot Sophie Thomas School: Bala Cynwyd Mitzvah Project: Challah Bat Mitvah Date: Sophie Brecher baking with community May 1, 2021 “experts” and creating a Parasha: Emor Bat Mitzvah Date: cookbook, also giving out June 5, 2021 challah “hugs” through Parasha: Shelach Lechah TBH-BE. School: Radnor Fun Fact: Mia loves Mitzvah Project: She had chocolate chip cookies been volunteering for the Wayne Senior Center once a month before Covid-19 and is working on a way to keep working with them remotely. Fun Fact: She is currently teaching herself graphic design.

Ava Kate Arkader

Samantha Gaspari Bat Mitzvah Date: Bat Mitzvah Date: May 8, 2021 June 12, 2021 Parasha: Behar- Parasha: Korach Hailey Madison Miller Bechukotai School: Welsh Valley Bat Mitvah Date: Mitzvah Project: Hoping April 24, 2021 to work with kids with Parasha: Achrei Mot autism on soccer skills/ School: Bala Cynwyd coaching. Mitzvah Project: In the Fun Fact: She is fluent in works! Portuguese, plays travel Fun Fact: Hailey enjoys soccer and loves Gilmore playing soccer, making Girls!

From the Director of Community Engagement Hallie Chandler “if you are not a better person tomorrow than you - Providing What is Already in are today, what need have intergenerational you for a tomorrow?” opportunities with the B’nei Your Toolbox? Mitzvah Journey program, Do-Re- keeps ringing in my ears. Me Chorus and family holiday programs. On the high holidays we “Buy Nothing” has become a are asked to look inward to see These are the things we will not how we can be better. Though I Facebook group favorite, one that I be gifting on "Buy would encourage us this year to see have become fascinated with this Nothing" this year but will be what we are already doing well and past year. With hundreds of people keeping for our community and expand on those abilities instead. in every neighborhood, it has risen watching them grow. What will What have we been good at our as a worldwide social movement you treasure this year, and how can entire lives that we can continue to with groups in over thirty nations. you make sure to reinforce your excel in? What obligations do we You can give away, lend, or share appreciation of it? have to others that we should amongst neighbors. Their online continue to grasp? What traditions, website states: “Ask for anything religion, family, or other, do we you’d like to receive for free or have the responsibility to uphold? borrow. Keep it legal. No hate As a synagogue, I would like to speech. No buying or selling, no point out what we are already trades or bartering, we’re strictly a doing well. gift economy.”

- Outreach and engagement with It has become fascinating to see the larger community including what people across the world the craft and gift show, splurge on, become invested in, or volunteering for Federation, our outgrow. From hobbies to baby collaboration with KLM, Kehillah clothing, and from music stands to of Lower Merion, Torahthon, and food items. People outgrow tastes, dodgeball. they outgrow furniture, they change interests, and our physical environment must constantly be - Showing we care by taking altered to adapt to those changing responsibility of each other as a needs. community through Challah programs, phone call check-

ins, yahrzeit-calls, cook for a When observing this platform, I friend, supporting our staff through questioned, is there anything about difficult times, and listening to the ourselves, our families, or our needs of our members. interests that stay the same? It seems that we are encouraged by our culture to continuously grow, - Providing a variety of options by learn, and study. The famous quote aiming to spark the interests of our from Rebbe Nachman of Breslov members from Yoga to the work of saying; the Havurah, virtual versus in- person opportunities and holiday programming.

From the Director of the Religious School Lisa Richman

reinforce or learn new prayer joy and skills. sweetness in The Sweetness of the our school community. And how sweet it is to work with New Year an amazing group of parents who We have been working throughout are committed to our Religious the summer to plan a school year School and working very hard to which exudes joy and sweetness. As we start another academic help ensure the health and safety With your help, we’ll do just that! year, the COVID-19 virus has of our entire community. created complications and On behalf of my husband Jeff, my challenges never seen or heard of Rabbi David Wolpe recently children and my grandpuppies and before. But, despite the changes related the story of a boy who tells greatgrandpuppies, I wish we are required to make because his rabbi that he wants to play everyone a happy and healthy new of COVID, some things don’t and soccer instead of going to Hebrew year that is filled with joy and won’t change. Among them: School. When the rabbi asks what peace and much sweetness. Apples and honey for Rosh soccer is, the boy explains that Hashanah and the busy buzz of one has to kick the ball and try to students learning. get it past the goalie and into the net. The rabbi asks why the boy How sweet it has been to see our doesn’t just try to kick it in when Religious School faculty filling there’s no goalie. The boy their toolkits with newly acquired exclaims that if it’s not difficult tech tools that they use to create then there is no point. The rabbi dynamic lessons for our students. agrees and adds that the same is true of school and of Jewish How sweet it is to plan for our education. students to come in on Sundays and Zoom in on Wednesdays, We, parents and teachers, know eagerly participating in their how difficult it is to maintain teachers’ creative lessons and levels of excellence in teaching, strengthening their Jewish filled with creative ideas and education. finding new models of instruction that will captivate our students’ How sweet it has been to see interests and imaginations. Truth students continuing their learning be told, the task of Jewish throughout the summer, some on education is a difficult one. Sundays when we join for our Sometimes the goalie wins. With Havdalah Plus program and some your support we continue to kick with Hazzan Rosner as they away, finding new ways to create

From the Director of the Early Childhood Center Judith Scarani

we have come to know as an ECC New early childhood experience. We operable will do that with the same windows in his year, ECC sounds of T professional and loving staff that many classrooms laughter will be muffled by the has always been here to meet the Air Purifiers in every classroom wearing of masks for many of our social-emotional and academic Tents for outdoor learning children. In these unprecedented needs of our children. The rest is New playground fencing and times, the care of our community icing on the cake. scheduling by class children will not look like it ever No more than 10 children to a has before. With the recent From the ashes of our Temple’s classroom – classrooms will not passing of Tisha b’Av, I am destruction in Jerusalem, we mix for any reason reminded that as a people, we renewed and recreated our No outside visitors allowed in the have consistently been challenged relationship with God. We would building by destruction, a change of plans, not be stopped by the mere loss of Strict health and safety measures and renewal. It feels a little like a place to make sacrifices. So too including daily screenings this for me now. As we cried on is our commitment to our On-site laundry facilities for the shores of the rivers of children. Our teshuvah for a new napping sheets Babylon, we cry too for the “times year takes on new meaning. Using that were.” CDC, State, and local guidelines, we have recreated our And the cleaning, let us not forget Yet, I am hopeful and heartened programming to provide the safest the cleaning. by the support and confidence our and strongest programs possible, community has for our beloved while maintaining our sense of If you happen to see some of our ECC. As of this writing we have kehillah, and our high standards ECC staff members in Giant, on 120+/- children enrolled for the for education. Changes include: Zoom during services, or on coming school year! I have social media, please thank them. learned from other Directors in New WiFi wiring in the entire They are our “essential workers” the area that their numbers are not building as they carry out our mission to as strong. Apple TV and Monitors in every educate the next generation of classroom for bringing music and Jews and members of Temple dance into the classrooms Beth Hillel-Beth El. Many of you who are not Monday morning Havdalah and involved in the ECC anymore Friday morning Shabbat prayers Shanah Tovah, may wonder at how we will be via Zoom providing our children with what Judith

From the President of the Sisterhood Debbie Greenberg

family. My children were all enrolled in the preschool, attended VPs our ECC, participated in New Baby Fundraising Management: Shabbatot, and completed their Bar Taryn Wortman Mitzvah at Temple Beth Hillel- Julie Karp Beth El. My second career Stephanie Gantman Kaplan happened more than twelve years ago while I continued my role of VPs of Membership: Jewish educator at the Early Melissa Richman Childhood Center. TBH-BE is my Jill Cantor Burns home. VPs of Programming: Now more than ever, our Amy Botel hanah Tovah. I am thrilled to S synagogue needs our support. Anita Dorf greet a new year. May all of us be Sisterhood has been working very filled with good health, sweet hard to find ways to help all VPs of Jewish Studies: blessings, and a year of growth. Temple Beth Hillel-Beth El women Cynthia Saltzman stay connected. Whether by Susan Schmidt I do not know about you, but I am attending Book Club, Rosh happy to think of this particular Hodesh, Game Night, or an art VPs of Communications & Social Rosh Hashanah, as the beginning. activity to zone out with on Zoom, Media: The secular year, 2020, has we are here for you. We hope you Joy Hoffman certainly brought with it challenges will join us and stay connected. Katie Grinnell and chaos for us all to navigate. It is a year that many have wished to Please keep supporting TBH-BE Treasurer end so we can start anew. We, as through these tumultuous, Maxine Comisky Jews, are lucky to be able to look unprecedented times by forward to that rebirth with the start participating in any Sisterhood Financial Secretaries: of the Yamim Noraim, the High activity that may engage you. We Charlene Powery Holy Days. need to be a part of each other’s Dawn Berue lives more than ever. As I think about this New Year, I Recording Secretary am forever grateful for our Take a look at the Sisterhood Rachel Dunaief wonderful synagogue community. calendar. Find something to try. Many may wonder, how we can Especially if you have never We have been hard at work to still be a part of this community, attended a Sisterhood event, THIS make this year as wonderful as given social distance requirements? is YOUR year. For those tired of possible. Please join us in However, I look at it completely Zoom, we will try to offer in- supporting Temple Beth Hillel, our differently. We need to work harder person events with limited numbers synagogue family and home. to use any and all opportunities to of people, as allowed by the shul. stay connected to our synagogue We are hoping that Opening dinner Shanah Tovah. family. will occur, in the Sukkah. Debbie Greenberg For over 26 years, our synagogue The Sisterhood Board, consists of: Sisterhood President has been an integral part of my

From the President of the Men’s Club Sam Brint

community and we will need help game constructing them. viewing, Men’s Club and Sisterhood joint Sukkah build – for those who are Shabbat, Worldwide Wrap and considering building a Sukkah at Silver Circle home, may consist of a supply list, We also have a monthly Men’s instructions, and a YouTube video Club planning meeting the first Tuesday of every month, start time Drive in movies – we need help to 8:00. All are welcome to attend. coordinate this project. Can be This is a great way to get involved targeted to different groups at and meet others. The meeting different times. Has been details are announced in a weekly successfully done elsewhere. May email from TBH-BE which become an ongoing project. contain the Zoom link. What a difference a year makes. May we continue to grow together Using last year’s Pharisee article Menorah build – building a large as a community in substantive and for the same time period, it came menorah to be displayed / used at meaningful ways. as no surprise that what Men’s TBH-BE during holiday. As this Club has in the works is gets further defined, most likely L’Shanah Tovah Tikatevu. appreciably different than last year will need help building. Sam Brint, or perhaps better said, why is this Men’s Club President year different from all other years? Man of the Year – March 14, 2021. Every year, each of the Following are upcoming programs regional Men’s Club selects that run the gamut from being new someone who has been a deeply to variations on what has been involved leader and strong force tried and true. We have several for our club. creative ideas that will allow us to gather as a community, while also Book Club – meets approx. every adhering to safety guidelines. Help other month. It is facilitated by and suggestions are welcome and the host. Very informal with appreciated. lively discussion. All are welcome but make sure you book Sukkot early. 9/27 or prior | Sukkah build 10/6 | Virtual Scotch & Steak Other possible / hopeful 10/18 |Sukkah take down happenings – Brunch with Cantor Rosner, Dinner and discussion with Rabbi Cooper, Battle of the Sukkah Village – used Sukkot are Bands, NY Tenement trip, Eagles being provided from our

Fall Program Catalog The High Holidays 5781 Community Services Times Rosh Hashanah Yom Kippur

The High Holidays Youth Programming Rosh Hashanah & Yom Kippur

Tot Programming Rosh Hashanah Day 2 Sep 20 | 11:00 AM – 11:45 am Story Time Online Rosh Hashanah Day 1 Sep 19 | 9:00 am – 9:45 am Yom Kippur Family Online Service Sep 28 | 9:00 am – 9:45 am Family Online Service

K – 5th Grade Rosh Hashanah Day 2 Teen Programming Sep 20 | 4:45 pm – 5:30 pm Rosh Hashanah Day 1 Family in person Tashlich Rosh Hashanah Day 1 Sep 19 | 10:00 am – 10:45 am RSVP Required We encourage teens to participate Family Online Service in online congregational services Yom Kippur Rosh Hashanah Day 1 Sep 28 | 10:00 am – 10:45 am Rosh Hashanah Day 2 Sep 19 | 11:15 am – 12:00 pm Family Online Service Sep 20 | 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Holiday Online Program In Person Tashlich Yom Kippur Rosh Hashanah Day 2 Sep 28 | 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Rosh Hashanah Day 2 Sep 20 | 10:00 am – 10:45 am Holiday Online Program Sep 20 | 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm Family Online Service LMAHH Rosh Hashanah Program Online 6th – 8th Grade Rosh Hashanah Day 2 Sep 20 | 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm Yom Kippur Family in person Tashlich | RSVP Rosh Hashanah Day Sep 28 | 11:00 am – 12:00 pm Required Sep 19 | 10:00 am – 10:45 am Teen online discussion Family Online Service Yom Kippur – Kol Nidre

Sep 27 | 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm Rosh Hashanah Day 1 Family online service Sep 19 | 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Holiday Online Program Yom Kippur Young Adults Sep 28 | 10:00 am – 10:45 am (post-college, in their 20’s) Rosh Hashanah Day 2 Family Online Service Sep 20 | 10:00 am – 10:45 am

Rosh Hashanah Day 2 Family Online Service Yom Kippur Sep 20 | 11:00 am – 12:00 pm Sep 28 | 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm In-person Oneg at TBH-BE Holiday Online Program

The High Holidays Family Programming Rosh Hashanah & Yom Kippur

“Experience the Light from the Ark” | RSVP Required in advance

Sep 16 | 5:15pm | Day of one of our High Holiday Drive Options

Sept 17 | 7:00 pm | Day before Rosh Hashanah

Sep 20 | 3:00 pm | Second Day of Rosh Hashanah

Sept 27 | 8:00 - 10:00 am | LMAHH Teen Rosh Hashanah Lounge/Discussion | Grades 8-12 The morning of Yom Kippur Sep 19 | 8 pm – 9 pm Zoom Meeting ID: 224 278 184 | PW: 18 The Torahs, the Ner Tamid, the Ark doors and the Bimah can put Join Norman Einhorn, Director of LMAHH and Main Line teens for a us in an atmosphere in which we Rosh Hashanah Wake Up Call conversation talking about the feel more connected to prayer, boundaries of forgiveness as Jews, Americans, and as human beings. reflection, and God. We know this will be difficult to achieve physically these high holidays with Shofar Community Blast Community Neila & Havdalah physically distancing limitations Sep 20 | 2:30pm - 3:00pm Sep 28 | 6:30 pm and most of our programs and In-person at TBH-BE services being virtual. We are After your holiday lunch come Space is limited | RSVP Required providing the times above if you join Adath Israel and TBH-BE to would like to come spend a few participate in or listen to the All families are invited to join us minutes of time by yourself or with sounds of more than 30 shofar for a family parking lot Neila and your family in our sanctuary. blowers traveling from Adath Havdalah service with glow sticks, Please sign up for one of the time Israel all the way to Temple Beth meditation and Shofar blowing! slots above on our website. When Hillel – Beth El and back to Everyone will be able to hear the you come, a volunteer will be Adath. Shofar blowers will be Shofar though we ask that you keep waiting to allow you into the distanced along a route so you and your personal shofar at home. building at the appropriate time. your family can pick a prime spot from which to listen. A map will be available soon.

New Members’ Shabbat Sep 11 | 5:00 pm Removing the Coats of Many Congregational Colors Come meet our new VP of via Zoom membership Ranita Thomas and Programming Wednesday | September 16 continue the party spirit of the summer by joining in our As we enter the high holidays Caravan to bring welcome each year, we are given the baskets to our newest member’s Bring a Bag Take a Bag, High opportunity to change over the homes. Continue the evening Holiday Participation Torah covers from the vibrant during our Friday night service Dates Below | Free colors and designs to majestic where we will welcome and hear RSVP for your bag online white and gold. This year, Hazzan introductions from all our new

will give us all the opportunity to members as we welcome them We are very excited to be participate in this experience into our community. providing each one of our while speaking about the congregants with Holiday Bags symbolism of a Torah Cover, how this year filled with sweets, family to change them and why we do it. discussion guides, high holiday program resources, our community Sanctuary Torahs calendar, source sheets, and more. 4:40 pm - 5:00 pm Simultaneously, for us to remain 5th-7th graders of the community hygienically responsible we will and all congregants are invited be resorting to a drop-off high Study Torah with Friends Monthly | 11:00 am holiday food drive. Please choose Chapel Torahs RSVP requested though not one of the four times above where 5:40 pm - 6:00 pm required volunteers will be waiting to K-4th graders of the community collect your donated food items, Sep 13 | Oct 25 | Nov 15 | Dec 13 are invited. hand you a high holiday goody We may not be doing Daf Yomi bag, and play the Shofar for you together though we can still spend and your family! time learning about the 54 Annual Supplies for a Sukkah Torah Portions. Maybe you have Friday, September 11 Sponsored by the Men’s Club students in Religious School on 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm Free | Stay tuned for details Sunday mornings or just love learning about the Parashot in the Torah. Come learn with Michael This is your year! Never built a Sunday, September 13 Elkins along with other TBH-BE 10:00 am - 11:30 am Sukkah by yourself or with your community members, in hevruta family before? Come learn from style learning, about the greatest, Wednesday, September 16 one of TBH-BE’s contractors on most meaningful, longest, and 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm how to make a Sukkah on your most complex Torah stories and own, the best ways to get the concepts and what they can teach us about ourselves and our daily Thursday, September 17th supplies during Covid and how to actions. 8:00 am - 9:30 am make it easy!

Please RSVP at www.tbhbe.org Questions? email Hallie Chandler

Shake it back to TBH-BE in the Nighttime Simchat Torah Sukkah Village! Parade & Line Dancing 10th year Anniversary Shabbat Welcome back event! Sat | Oct 10 | 7:00 pm Fri | Nov 6 | 6:00 pm Free Sunday | Oct 4 For those who have been in our 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Come to the TBH-BE parking lot community for 10 years we invite dressed up as your Bar/Bat you to join us for a special From camping in the mountains to Mitzvah Parasha, your favorite anniversary Kabbalat Shabbat relaxing at the beach house to biblical character, or just honoring your commitment to this ending “family camp,” we want to yourself and join us for line community! Special treats will be welcome all our congregants dancing interspersed by a available for your pick-up from back! Come shake it back in time socially distanced Simchat Torah the synagogue the week prior or for Sukkot and join us on Sunday Parade. Candy and Glow Sticks during Kabbalat Shabbat for a socially distanced picnic provided! Dancing and music Services. where you will have the will be led by Rak Dan/ opportunity to do hamotzi and Don Shilinger. The party will mizonot in the Sukkot and help in also be streamed via zoom. Shabbat 100: Who’s Coming making the longest paper chain to for Shabbat? be placed in our sukkah! **Phase 1-4 Friday | Dec 4

Please join us! Let’s get 100 Weekly time slots will be Drive-In Movie Nights families together! Participate in provided online for those who Sponsored by the Men’s Club our match Shabbat zoom want to use our Sukkah Village All times and showings will be program. for their own family dinners and/ provided online or socially distanced gatherings. RSVP online. Questions? We will have our jumper cables Contact Ken Krivitzky Questions? ready! Come with your blankets Contact Hallie Chandler and join us for parking-lot movie nights sponsored by the Men’s Share a Sukkah Club of our community. Community Candle Lighting Anytime during Sukkot! Every night of Chanukkah Additional Showings! 7:00 pm Have a large enough Sukkah to From Annie and Fiddler on the Sponsored by Men’s Club socially distance with another Roof to Grey from the Temple family for a meal? Fulfill the and Oklahoma, TBH-BE Come stand in our parking lot Mitzvah of having guests in your members have put on numerous while we light our gigantic new Sukkah by hosting congregational shows in our community Chanukiya by a different TBH-BE members for a picnic or meal for engaging multiple demographics family every night. Songs and one of the days of Sukkot. and providing laughter and joy daily surprise take-home treats to the community. This year, we will be provided! Email Hallie Chandler if you will be providing showings of would like to be a host or be a these performances during our guest at one of these meals. drive-in movie series. Popcorn and drinks provided!

Magic Moments environment children 1st grade and older. These Youth encourages independent play and will be led by Yehudit Rubin and socialization for the very young all parents are invited though not Programming child. Age-appropriate art projects required. Mats will be provided to are designed for parent and child to mark off distancing. ECC Opens create together. Adult discussions Rain plan/Cold we will move inside Sept 1st | 8:15 am about nutrition, sleep habits, and to a large enough space for toilet training (among others) can physically distanced Oreo Minyan We are opening school September help you weather the ever-changing 1st. “Rock n roll” with your needs of your young toddler. Circle Rain Plan will vary based on date. classmates and teachers as we time includes songs, books, and explore the world of viruses and movement activities. At our sanitation! Join in the fun coloring Shabbat snack we cover our eyes to Tot Shabbat your masks and playing with old bless the candles, raise our sippy Families with children and new friends! With Rosh cups for the Kiddush and always Kindergarten and younger Hashanah around the corner we will enjoy the delicious challah. Sat | 11:00 am – 12:00 pm learn to listen to the pre-recorded (Phase 1 or 2) We will be holding Sept 12 sounds of the Shofar. Actual an hour long class, socially Oct 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 blowing in the classroom will be distanced, in the backyard of TBH- Nov 7, 14 prohibited due to the spread of BE. If we have inclement weather, Dec 5, 12 aerosol droplets but we encourage we will move to an online zoom all the blowing at home! class. Please join us for an outside physically distanced service, Magic Moments (Phase 3 or 4) We will be holding activities, and parasha discussions Parents with Children Ages 6 to 26 an hour-long class, socially for families with children months distanced, in the backyard of TBH- Kindergarten and younger. These BE. If we have inclement weather, will be led by Rachel Thomas and Every Friday, Starting Sep 4 for we will move inside unless the all parents are invited to join and 11 classes | 10:00 am – 11:00 am preference of participants is to stay for the duration of the $195, families may request a per/ continue on zoom. program. session fee of $20 Oreo Minyan . Rain Plan will vary based on date. Sep 4, 11, 25 Families with children 1st grade Oct 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 and older Nov 6, 13, 20 Sat | 11:00 am – 12:00 pm Sept 12 The Magic Moments program, led Oct 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 by former Kindergarten teacher Nov 7, 14 Amy Botel, provides an opportunity Dec 5, 12 for you to meet other parents like you who are looking for ways to Please join us for an outside connect with other adults interested physically distanced service, in spending quality time with their activities, and parasha discussions child. The warm and welcoming for families with

Family Programs

Sep 13 | Apple Picking Adult 2:00 pm TBH-BE Talent Show Education Oct 3 | Sukkah Program Dec 16 2:00 pm Jugglers, Magicians, Musicians, Nov 14 | Thanksgiving program Fortune Tellers, Acrobats, almost 2:00 pm all acts are welcome! Come as a guest or be one of our performers Dec 12 | Family Havdalah for our annual Talent Show. 5:30 pm L’Chaim | open to all ! If you would like to participate sponsored by L’Chaim, our Save the date for Sunday and please send your name, your act, seniors’ group Saturday afternoon socially and a funny fact about yourself to Monthly | Stay tuned for times distanced family programs, led by [email protected]. Ari Schwartz. These programs Join Jackie Goldstone and Estelle will be held in-person though All demographics and families Benson, in virtual trips around the physically distanced. For families invited! As we get closer we will world, conversations with keynote with children up to 2nd grade, let you know if this will be held speakers, concerts and “The including siblings in-person or virtually. stories of collections series” by our very own congregants. Family Havdalah of the week), the candles (the light For families with children up to 5th of the week), and the spices (the Dates to follow in our monthly grade vibrancy of the week). pharisees. Below are two examples of upcoming programs: Dec 12 | 5:30 pm Rabbi Cooper and Lori along with Free our family program coordinator, - Francine Broder, PsyD, from the Ari Schwartz, will lead us in Beck Institute which provides For years Lester and Lynn Shapiro, Havdalah, special stories, crafts Cognitive Behavior Therapy to along with their sons Randy and and dessert! health and mental health Will, have hosted family Havdalah professionals worldwide, will start programs for our community. Join **(Phase 1-2) Pick up supplies a conversation on coping during us again this year, in the separation from the synagogue the week this long Pandemic and how to between before and join us on Saturday have a good time! shabbat and night for arts and crafts, cookie preparing us decorating and Havdalah. - Ellen Moscow will lead us in for the Memories of the mishpucha, upcoming **(Phase 3-4) Join us in the stories that we remember that may week Cherry auditorium for arts and have a twist to them. through the crafts, cookie decorating and wine Havdalah. We look forward to having you (sweetness join us!

Past Program Highlight! Watercolor Class with Diane Hark Names of artists are displayed from Left to Right

Abby Horowitz Rachel Dunaief

Cynthia Saltzman

Nosh & Learn Coffee & Chat with Lori Standing/Chair Yoga Class | Thursdays | 8:30 am Wednesdays | Starting Sep 2 Starting Sep 2 Free 9:00 am | Free 11am-12:15 pm | $12 /session a portion will be donated to Mindy Oppenheimer has been Join Lori Cooper over Zoom as sisterhood an involved member and Hessed we reflect on the week gone by Chair at TBH-BE for several and the week to come with friends Standing/Chair yoga classes- years. Originally an Economics and your TBH-BE family, led by Chair yoga is one of the gentle major at the University of Lori Cooper. This is an informal forms of Yoga. Students perform Pennsylvania with an MBA get-together ending with a word of postures and breathing techniques from UCLA, life experience Torah or a song. with the aid of the chair, without brought her to extended study at having to get up or down from the the Center for Contemporary Gentle Beginner/Intermediate floor. In addition, this class allows Yoga Class Mussar. Starting Sep 2 students to be challenged to 9:30am -10:45am | $12/session perform many of the sitting yoga Following her love of spiritual a portion will be donated to postures from a standing position. service, she began clinical sisterhood The postures have been adapted pastoral education through the for either a sitting pose or a Gentle Beginner/Intermediate standing pose. This allows the University of Pennsylvania classes focus on releasing tension, Health System and Main Line connecting with the breath and individual to decide to either sit or Health, training to become a helping students gain strength and stand depending on their stamina Chaplain; she currently works flexibility. Gentle yoga uses on any given day. Benefits locally in that capacity. classical hatha postures with include: increased balance, slight variations to accommodate strength, flexibility, range of all levels. New students are Join Mindy and other welcome as accommodations motion and stress reduction. congregants for text-study and are made for all level of students. conversation. Gentle yoga incorporates both Please RSVP or contact our standing and prone positions, congregant Jane Rosen, LCSW, requiring students to have the ** For Phases 1-4, these Registered Yoga Teacher, at ability to get up from and down to [email protected] with any sessions will remain on Zoom. the floor unassisted. This class practices the connection between questions or concerns. movement and breath while Rabbinic Intern Noam Korngold refining the focus of alignment **(Phase 1- 4) This class will be individually. Students are also offered over Zoom only sometimes challenged with a Come welcome our Intern Noam series of poses that highlight the Korngold during his annual visits power of inhaling and exhaling to TBH-BE. and sun salutations combined with the classic poses of hatha Stay tuned for the opportunities yoga. and weekends he will be joining us Please RSVP or contact Jane and make sure to come stop in or Rosen, LCSW, Registered Yoga say hello over zoom! Teacher, at [email protected] with any questions.

**(Phase 1- 4) This class will be offered over Zoom only

Class with Adena Potok Occurring now Tuesdays | 9:30 am | Free via Zoom only This class is a discussion format based on a psalm that either Adena selects or one of the members requests. Most recently the group decided to schedule a three-week period in late August/early September that will be devoted to preparation for Yamim Noraim. Selichot | Sep 12 Chug Ivrit Tuesdays | 11:00 am | Free Kehillah of Lower Merion via Zoom only Selichot Program For dovrei ivrit who can ask a more-or-less grammatically correct question in Hebrew but are unable to fully understand the answer. Join Sep 12 | 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm Mrs. Rochelle Wolf and other congregants on Zoom and someday, panim el panim. KLM will provide its annual program starting with Havdallah followed by learning from Teach me Tefillot community Rabbis, Cantors and Thursdays | Sep 3 – Nov 19 | 2:00 pm | Free Service Leaders. via Zoom only Ever wanted to learn how to lead services or just participate in them? Maybe the last time you did was at your Bar/Bat Mitzvah?

Join our post B’not Mitzvah Students for a class with Hallie Chandler on learning various T’filot for the Shabbat Moring Service.

High Holiday Review with Rabbi Cooper Sep 8 & Sep 15 | 12:00 pm | Free Selichot Night Live via Zoom only Sep 12 | 8:30 pm – 12:30 am Join us for a deeper dive into the sources and messages for the High Tinyurl.com/cjselichot Holidays. Rabbi Cooper will use this as an opportunity to review his Free sources from his sermons. Zoom Recording will be provided to all RSVP Required those who wish. “Selichot Night Live” will be a program given as a collaboration Mishneh Torah with Rabbi Cooper between the United Synagogue of Starting Thursday | Sep 10 Conservative Judaism, Rabbinical 12:00 pm | Free Assembly, Cantors Assembly, the North American Association of Mishneh Torah, the expansive work of Jewish Law and Thought, Synagogue Executives, and the written by Maimonides, has been a source for study and adjudication Jewish Educators Assembly. since it was written more than 800 years ago. In each class, they review the laws and dive deep into the material, to find both the brilliance of Maimonides postings and the clarity of his thought in the application of Jewish Life to the modern world. In the fall they will all be able to engage in discussions including Depression, Mason and the Board of Rabbis. Anyone is welcome!

On Oct 8th they will be starting at 11:00 am so those who wish can join for the Sukkot Lunch and Learn.

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Sisterhood Book Club Review Lunch and Learn A Movie Discussion Sponsored by Sisterhood Dates Below Thursday | Oct 22 | 12:00 – 1:00 pm Save the date! Sponsored by Sisterhood **(Phase 1-4) All sessions will be Prices are listed below conducted over zoom only. We will choose a well-reviewed, Thursday, October 8th Jewish-themed film, possibly one Opening Meeting Shake it up like it is Sukkot, the that was shown at one of the Sunday | September 13 most unusual Jewish customs Jewish film festivals. 10:00 am and what others think about them with Rabbi Cooper We will let everyone know if the Sponsored by Sisterhood film is available on Amazon, or Netflix, or Kanopy, a platform We look forward to our sisterhood Thursday, January 28th available through some libraries. opening meeting featuring Ms. Tu Bishvat Seder, the plants of Debbie Cenziper the author of the bible and what they can tell Someone will be Citizen 865: The Search for us about our traditions and appointed to lead an online discussion. Hitler’s Hidden Soldiers in customs.

America. We hope you will Wednesday, February 24th join us! This program will be moderated Purim Seuda, the beauty of Iran by Ms. Sharon Stumacher Gold. today, arts, culture and Sephardic delicacies with Shani Feinstein. Jews and Animals with Rabbi Alan Iser Thursday, March 25th Mondays | Oct 19 – Nov 16 What you shouldn’t Pass-over 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm this year at your seder, new Free innovations, technology and initiatives coming out of the You may have your favorite Jewish Community with our Biblical Person though do you Rabbinic Intern, Noam have your favorite Biblical Kornsgold. Animal? Come learn about Judaism’s views on animals with (Phase 3 or 4) Come for a subjects such as the treatment of bagged lunched filled with animals, animal experimentation,

holiday treats and join us in eating animals and vegetarianism, Oct 14 | 1:00 pm person for the above sessions pets and asking ourselves the Review of the book City of Girls (Coslov) | $18 per/person/ question, “do animals have by Elizabeth Gilbert. This session. souls?” program will be Moderated by Dr.

Susan Schmidt. (Phase 1 or 2) Pick up a bag **(Phase 1-4) We will be

with holiday treats from TBH- conducting this session over zoom Nov 11 | 1:00 pm BE the week leading up to our only. Review of the book A Women of Lunch and Learn and join us No Importance. over zoom for the above sessions. | Free

Scholar in Residence Series with Professor. David Golinkin The Afterlife with Saul Wachs Sundays | Nov 1, 8, 15 | 9:30 am Tuesdays | Dec 1, 8, 15 7:30 pm | Free via Zoom only Rabbi David Golinkin was raised in Arlington, Virginia. He made aliyah in 1972, earning a B.A. in Jewish History and two teaching Today, many beliefs coexist in certificates from The Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He received an the Jewish community about M.A. in Rabbinics and a Ph.D. in Talmud from the Jewish afterlife. In this mini-course, Saul Theological Seminary of America where he was also ordained as Wachs will lead us in conversations covering the Rabbi. Prof. Golinkin is President of Schechter Institutes INC. and Jewish beliefs about life after President Emeritus of the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies in death that Jerusalem, where he also serves as a Professor of Jewish Law. In June have evolved 2014, Rabbi Golinkin was named by The Jerusalem Post, as one of the since the time 50 most influential Jews in the world. Rabbi Golinkin is the author or of the Bible. editor of 52 books. We look forward to having him join us for our first Zoomed Scholar in Residence.

Reopening Phases Please refer to the most up-to-date TBH-BE Covid-19 Action Plan

Disclaimer: No one should enter the events, exception being grave-side volunteers operating the event will be premises at any point who has (1) any funerals of 10 or less people. All allowed. symptoms of illness, specifically, fever of services and programs will be Phase 3 | Inside and outside 100.4°F (38°C) or higher, cough, shortness conducted online via Zoom and other of breath, sore throat, pneumonia/flu gatherings of up to 50 people (not platforms. symptoms, headache, body aches, nausea/ including staff) are permitted though a vomiting, or loss of taste & smell (2) had Phase 2 | Programs will be permissible room may not have more than 50% of contact with or otherwise been exposed to on the grounds of the synagogue of 25 its capacity, according to posted someone with Covid 19, or symptoms of participants or fewer including building/fire code numbers. Meetings Covid 19 (including any respiratory or minyanim and social gatherings. and events will continue to be available febrile illness), within the past 14 days Minyanim of up to 25 will be allowed, online. (Medical professionals will utilize their with online access continuing. professional guidelines for quarantines) (3) Phase 4 | Fewer than 250 people Minyanim will be scheduled for contracted Covid 19 or an unknown illness allowed on the synagogue property. outside, but may be moved inside in with similar symptoms, unless they have We will continue to follow CDC the event of poor weather. Life cycle been symptom free for 14 days (4) traveled regulations of physical distancing until events will be allowed in the sanctuary out of the country, coming from a highly the pandemic has subsided or the infected area, been on an airplane in the with up to 25 participants. Up to four widespread availability of a last 14 days, or under mandated quarantine. congregants will be allowed in the vaccination has been obtained. We will kitchen to assist in essential food Phase 1 | All public operations and continue to enforce sanitation policies preparation. Drive-through events with facilities will remain closed. There will to protect the health and well-being of fewer than 25 staff members or continue to be no outdoor or indoor all our community members.

Contributions

The Ann Altus Bright Horizons Steve and Lynne Savran In memory of Lanny Leibovitz, Fund Gene and Barbara Spector beloved father of Beth Myers In honor of the Bat Mitzvah of Eve In loving memory of Harold Jay and Fran Perlman Alimansky Friedman In honor of the birth of Olivia, Mark and Sharon Raivetz David and Elizabeth niece of Alexis and Peter Shapiro In honor of Ann and Jerry Altus’ Friedman Jay and Fran Perlman special wedding anniversary In honor of Arlene Goldberg’s 30 In honor of the Bar Mitzvah of Howard and Myrna Asher years at the ECC Elliot Perlis Mark and Sandy Graboyes Paul and Jen Shandelman Jay and Fran Perlman Paul and Jen Shandelman In loving memory of Renee Gene and Barbara Spector Grossman In honor of the birth of Ava, In loving memory of Charles granddaughter of Beth and David Steve and Lynne Savran Raivetz Galinsky In honor of the B’nai Mitzvah of Mark and Sharon Raivetz Gene and Barbara Spector Chloe and Luke Halpern In loving memory of Martin In memory of Fred Bonn, beloved Jay and Fran Perlman Rollnik brother-in-law of Barbara Schwartz In memory of Trevor Hoffman, David, Elizabeth and Daniel Ted and Linda Schwartz beloved son of Debra and Jeffrey Friedman Hoffman In honor of a speedy recovery for In memory of John Rothschild, Jeff Bookman Lisa Hofferman beloved husband of Beth Rothschild The Early Childhood Center In memory of Steve Jaffe, beloved husband of Patti Jaffe Jerry and Ann Altus Jay and Fran Perlman Jerry and Roz Elkins Joe and Bev Gerber In appreciation of Jill Cantor Burns Helen Goldberg In loving memory of Douglas Jarett Jonathan and Stacy Levitan Lou and Margie Surden The Levitan and Jarett Will and Bobbi Lorry In honor of the birth of Nora Doran, Families Jay and Fran Perlman daughter of Stephanie and J.B. Ted and Linda Schwartz In loving memory of Linda Kriger Doran Steve and Susan Solow Jay and Fran Perlman Louis and Susan Marks Gene and Barbara Spector In honor of Jerry Elkins’ special In honor of the engagement of Lily Gary and Debra Zlotnick birthday Kull to Jon Shamberg In loving memory of Sandy Gene and Barbara Spector Jay and Fran Perlman Chad Brecher and Sara Byala In memory of Leonard Feldman, In loving memory of Tulay Lechter long-time congregant and among In loving memory of Blanche Matthew and Maxine the founders of TBH-BE Saslofsky Comisky Jay and Fran Perlman Mark and Sharon Raivetz

In honor of the birth of Cathy and In loving memory of George and Larry and Michele Michael Schack’s granddaughter Frieda Belman Goldstein Jay and Fran Perlman Michael and Cookie Belman Nancy Leeds In honor of the birth of Isaac Reece In loving memory of Mitchell Susan Lodish Shabtai, son of Allison Horowitz Brucker Thelma Rosenberg and Jeremy Shabtai and grandson Alexander and Terry Jean Rothstein of Allan and Merle Horowitz Brucker Leah Samuels Jay and Fran Perlman In honor of the Bat Mitzvah of Gene and Barbara Spector Leora Chwalow Susan Shaman In honor of Will Shapiro’s David Blumenthal and Ellen Siegel confirmation Sandra King Gloria Spitz Paul and Jen Shandelman In loving memory of Marcia Susan Wankoff Fineman In memory of Sam Spitz, beloved Bill Wankoff son of Gloria and Bob Spitz and Anita Baer Elli Weinstein nephew of Susan and Len Lodish In loving memory of Robert In appreciation of Cantor Rosner Jerry and Roz Elkins Friedman Jordan and Ellen Driks Uri and Sue Langer Allan and Merle Horowitz Mark and Sandy Graboyes Jay and Fran Perlman In honor of the Bat Mitzvah of Randie Gollomp Lois Kaliner In loving memory of Jerome Marvin Zaslow David Blumenthal and Barry Klayman and Anna Kornbrot Jared and Jodi Gordon Sandra King Don and Jane Corey Jonathan and Sharon Levin Cantor's Music Education Fund In loving memory of Tulay Lechter Sharon Raivetz In honor of the Bat Mitzvah of Eve Abelardo and Lynne Mitchell and Janie Rosen Alimansky Lechter Azriel and Susan Schmidt Gene and Barbara Spector In loving memory of Sylvia Rabin The Stumacher and Gold Marc and Bonnie Dan, Sharon, Hannah, Family Zimmerman Sophia ad Dalia Weinstein Flaura Winston In honor of the Bat Mitzvah of In honor of the Bat Mitzvah of Nelson and Rochelle Wolf Judith Aronchick Janie Rosen In honor of the Bat Mitzvah of Larry and Michele Andy Berman Cynthia Saltzman Goldstein David Blumenthal and David Blumenthal and In loving memory of Charlotte Sandra King Sandra King Badder Irene Bolts Nancy Halpern Cookie Belman Jordan and Ellen Driks Lou and Margie Surden

Beth Galinsky

In memory of Sam Spitz, beloved Joe Loewenberg and Ann The Early Childhood Center son of Gloria and Bob Spitz and Krupnick Fund nephew of Susan and Len Lodish In honor of the engagement of Barry Klayman and Anna Dana Bookman to Matt Sumner Charlotte & Nathan Becker Kornbrot Holocaust Endowment Fund Alan and Marilyn Fogel Warren and Diane Seider In loving memory of Sally In memory of Richard Dash, In memory of Betty Strauss, Friedland beloved father of Larry Dash beloved mother of Gail Kessler The May Family Melvin and Marlene Dion Neil and Ellen Moscow In memory of Trevor Hoffman, Gary and Debra Zlotnick In loving memory of Louis Strauss beloved son of Debra and Jeffrey In loving memory of Howard Gail Kessler Hoffman Glassman In loving memory of Russell Jack and Caryn Becker Melvin and Marlene Dion Stumacher In loving memory of Irving In memory of Trevor Hoffman, The Stumacher and Gold Kaufman beloved son of Debra and Jeffrey Family Ruth Kaufman Hoffman In loving memory of Barbara Paul and Jen Shandelman Eidelman Wachs College Outreach Fund Lou and Judith Soslowsky Saul Wachs In loving memory of Florence In memory of the beloved father of In loving memory of Shirley Weiss Luger Howard Jaffee Howard and Francine Elgart Michel and Selina Hoessly Melvin and Marlene Dion In loving memory of Steven In memory of Gary Peck, beloved In honor of the birth of Theodore Zimmerman brother of Phyllis Rozner Henry McEnroe, grandson of Sarah Poncz Marcia Zimmerman Philippe Cini Ellen Davis Marc Zimmerman In honor of the Bat Mitzvah of Cynthia Saltzman In honor of the birth of Penelope, granddaughter of Ben Stein and the The Covid Relief Fund Darien Finder marriage of Gila to Manolis In memory of Sam Spitz, beloved In loving memory of Joseph Phil and Amy Bursky son of Gloria and Bob Spitz and Samuels, beloved father of Len nephew of Susan and Len Lodish Samuels In appreciation of Daniel Ritterman Jerry and Wendy Santoro The Bolts Family Lou and Margie Surden In memory of John Rothschild, beloved husband of Beth The Havurah Fund The Cook for a Friend Fund Rothschild In honor of Elisheva Apple In honor of the Bat Mitzvah of Richard Busis and Judith Janie Rosen Ed Goldberg Beck Darien Finder In honor of the Bat Mitzvah of Ellen Davis Cynthia Saltzman

In loving memory of Jerry Segal In memory of John Rothschild, In loving memory of Mary Y. Melvin and Marlene Dion beloved husband of Beth Susner and Dina M. Goldstone Rothschild In loving memory of Herb Seidel George and Jackie Jill Ingber Goldstone Robin Seidel Oriel Doug and Amy Ress In loving memory of Beth Kessler In memory of Sam Spitz, beloved Waasdorp son of Gloria and Bob Spitz and In loving memory of Branna Sharf nephew of Susan and Len Lodish Norma Munin Matthew and Maxine Comisky Alan and Marilyn Fogel In loving memory of Herman

In honor of the birth of Ben and Shickman Susan Stein’s grandchildren Barbara Shickman Kaye The Hesed Fund Sarah Sherman Poncz and In memory of Betty Strauss, In memory of Judith Feinstein, Family beloved mother of Gail Kessler beloved sister of Elaine Sherman Howard and Randy Judy Poliakoff and Family Goldberg In appreciation of the Hesed The General Endowment Fund In memory of Lorraine Weisberger, Network In honor of all the women from the beloved mother of Anita Bihovsky Adult Bat Mitzvah Class Louis and Susan Marks Herb Engelsberg and Rabbi Jonathan and Ellie In loving memory of Ira Poliakoff, Margaret Carrillo Kremer Harvey Poliakoff and Ed Braude In honor of the birth of Marsha In memory of Leonard Feldman, Judy Poliakoff and Family Yankelev’s grandson long-time congregant and among the founders of TBH-BE Nancy Stark Honors and Memorial Fund Doug and Amy Ress In honor of the Bat Mitzvah of Eve In honor of Paul Fires’ special The Dina Goldstone Memorial Alimansky birthday Garden Fund The Maurer Family Howard and Randy In memory of John Rothschild, Mitchell and Janie Rosen Goldberg beloved husband of Beth Rothschild In appreciation of Bikor Holim In honor of a speedy recovery for wishes David Forsted Matthew and Maxine Comisky Jeff Marmon Howard and Francine Elgart In memory of Sam Spitz, beloved In loving memory of Philip Bolts In loving memory of Joseph son of Gloria and Bob Spitz and Gottfried David and Irene Bolts nephew of Susan and Len Lodish Jerry and Wendy Santoro In honor of the engagement of Abelardo and Lynne Dana Bookman to Matt Sumner In memory of Jacob Kaufman, Lechter beloved father of Barbara Smolen Jeff Marmon, Lisa Richman Gene and Barbara Spector and Family Howard and Randy

Goldberg

In loving memory of Abram Bork Philip Wachs, Juliet Spitzer In honor of the birth of Riley Rose, Josh and Rachel Dunaief and Family granddaughter of Judy and Richard Joan Wohl Ross In loving memory of Martin The Maurer Family Bronstein In loving memory of Marcia In loving memory of Miriam Rose Joyanna Horn Fineman David Fineman Matthew Rose and Sharon In honor of Lori Cooper and the Dion challah project In loving memory of Harvey Freedman In honor of the Bat Mitzvah of Max Apple and Talya Janie Rosen Fishman Elaine Freedman Joe Loewenberg and Ann In memory of Richard Dash, In honor of the birth of Robin Krupnick beloved father of Larry Dash Chaim Gist, grandchild of Barnett and Merle Kamen In appreciation of Janie Rosen and Scott and Pam Feldman her ongoing yoga classes Jeff Marmon, Lisa Richman In memory of Alma Elias, beloved Ann Krupnick mother of Bob Elias and Family In memory of John Rothschild, Scott and Pam Feldman In honor of the Bat Mitzvah of Randie Gollomp beloved husband of Beth In loving memory of Florence Rothschild Steve and Maribeth Lerner Mimi Erber Betty the Caterer Alan and Marilyn Maurer Marilyn Maurer and Family Jerrold and Sally Ganzfried In memory of Phyllis Haas, beloved In loving memory of Leonard Erber Cousin Jay and Family mother of David Haas Marilyn Maurer and Family Jeff Marmon, Lisa Richman Janet Levit In memory of Toby Essrog, and Family Wayne and Cheryl Marks beloved mother of Deborah-Jo Essrog In memory of Trevor Hoffman, Jeff Marmon, Lisa Richman beloved son of Debra and Jeffrey and Family Peter and Wendy Spitzer Hoffman The Maurer Family In loving memory of Leonard Jon and Marlene Graub Feldman, long-time congregant and Jennifer Novik Kenneth Kapner among the founders of TBH-BE Sheila Schneider Bobbie Baker In honor of Dan Loeb The Shotz Family Regina Basile The Fishman- Apple Family Linda Sterthous Mitchell and Bonnie Benson In loving memory of Alan Margolis Ted Tapper and Shelly Rachel Katz Cogan John Ingram Phillips Marcia Halbert In loving memory of Martha Marc and Bonnie Marmon Zimmerman Lee and Johann Levinson Jeff Marmon In honor of the Bat Mitzvah of Elsa Levitt Cynthia Saltzman Peter Miller and Jean Claudia Dorsch Johnson Alan and Marilyn Maurer

In loving memory of Bernice Sharf Irwin Ship Adult Education Fund In memory of Phyllis Haas, beloved Irving Sharf In honor of the Adult Bat Mitzvah mother of David Haas Class In memory of Sam Spitz, beloved Gloria B. Ellis son of Bob and Gloria Spitz and Paul Blumenthal and Leora In memory of Trevor Hoffman, nephew of Susan and Len Lodish Chwalow beloved son of Debra and Jeffrey Randy Allyn Baird In memory of Lewis Gold, beloved Hoffman father of Judith Friedman, brother Henry and Marcia Belman Maia Cabanas of Marc Gold and cousin of John

Michael and Amy Elkins Cohn Elliot and Jill Kaplan Eve Orlow Sydney & Esther Lazarus Memorial Fund for the Study of In memory of Mali Bat Shmuel Josh and Rena Kopelman Jewish Ethics Halevi, beloved mother of Silvia Debbie Robinson Skorka In appreciation of Josh Davison Peter and Wendy Spitzer Alan and Marilyn Fogel Lou and Margie Surden In honor of Ben Stein In honor of the birth of Sophie In memory of Lewis Gold, beloved The Fishman-Apple Family Helen, granddaughter of Amy and father of Judith Friedman, brother of Marc Gold and cousin of John In memory of Betty Strauss, Phil Bursky Cohn beloved mother of Gail Kessler Nelson and Rochelle Wolf Mitchell Klevan and Anne Jerry Sokolow In memory of John Rothschild, Lazarus In memory of Lorraine Weisberger, beloved husband of Beth Rothschild In honor of the Bat Mitzvah of beloved mother of Anita Bihovsky Randie Gollomp Eve Orlow Ellis and Amy Eisen Lou and Margie Surden Peter and Wendy Spitzer Stephen and Linda Pearlman In loving memory of Bertha Ted Tapper and Shelly Lachman Phillips In memory of Lorraine Weisberger, beloved mother of Anita Bihovsky Marlene Lachman Philip Wachs, Juliet Spitzer Azriel and Susan Schmidt In memory of John Rothschild, and Family beloved husband of Beth In loving memory of Monroe In memory of Rivka Yaron, Rothschild Weisberger beloved mother of Eli Yaron Mitchell Klevan and Anne Ron and Anita Bihovsky Azriel and Susan Schmidt Lazarus In memory of Lois Winter, beloved In loving memory of Pam Selig mother of Alyson Taub and Scott The Rabbi Neil and Lori Cooper Mitchell Klevan and Anne Winter Israel Advocacy Fund Lazarus David, Elizabeth and Daniel In honor of the Bat Mitzvah of In honor of Shirley White’s special Friedman Leora Chwalow birthday Lou and Margie Surden Mitchell Klevan and Anne Lazarus

Joey Fischer & Marlene Fischer In loving memory of Miriam In honor of a speedy recovery for Perry Meditation Garden Fund Silverman Jeff Bookman In memory of Sam Spitz, beloved Ruth Hattler Howard and Francine Elgart son of Bob and Gloria Spitz and In honor of the special anniversary nephew of Susan and Len Lodish of Linda and Robert Broder Men's Club Fund Anita Baer In honor of Jeff Bookman’s Neil and Ellen Moscow Neal Bergman and Jackie continued good health In memory of Toby Essrog, Allen beloved mother of Deborah-Jo Scott and Pam Feldman Laurie Shoemaker Kott Essrog In memory of Trevor Hoffman, The Maurer Family Howard and Bunny Kohn beloved son of Debra and Jeffrey Doug and Amy Ress Hoffman In honor of the engagement of Emily Fox to Lee Eisenberg Ted Tapper and Shelly Howard and Robin Zwick Phillips Lewis and Susan Gantman In memory of John Rothschild, beloved husband of Beth In appreciation of Adam L'Chaim Group Fund Rothschild Gregerman and Rahel Lerner In memory of Evelyn Clement, Mitchell and Bonnie Benson Lou and Margie Surden long-time congregant John and Sherry Cohn In loving memory of Wilton Ruth Hattler Howard and Francine Elgart Liebman In memory of Leonard Feldman, Scott and Lynne Feuer Ron and Joyce Liebman long-time congregant and among Jay and Sara Minkoff In honor of the birth of Penelope, the founders of TBH-BE granddaughter of Ben and Susan Richard and Sherrie George and Jackie Stein Ritterman Goldstone Lewis and Susan Gantman Gene and Barbara Spector In honor of a speedy recovery for In memory of John Rothschild, David Forsted Howard and Robin Zwick beloved husband of Beth George and Jackie In honor of Will Shapiro’s Rothschild Goldstone confirmation Neil and Ellen Moscow Nelson and Rochelle Wolf Howard and Janine Lou and Margie Surden Vigderman In memory of Theodore Kushner, In honor of the Bat Mitzvah of beloved brother of Elaine Beck In loving memory of Max Wolf and Cynthia Saltzman Irene Wolensky Lou and Margie Surden Phil and Amy Bursky Nelson Wolf In loving memory of Joanne Lippert Rabbi Neil Cooper’s Ruth Hattler Prayer Book Fund Discretionary Fund In loving memory of Arnold Porges In memory of Fred Bonn, beloved In loving memory of Rhoda Apple brother-in-law of Barbara Schwartz Ruth Hattler Jo Apple Steinhart Lou and Margie Surden

In loving memory of Bart Axelrod In honor of the Bat Mitzvah of In honor of the engagement of Charna Axelrod Randie Gollomp Amanda Randel to Stephen Marbury In loving memory of Alexander Warren and Diane Seider Belman In memory of Phyllis Haas, beloved Lewis and Susan Gantman Henry Belman mother of David Haas In loving memory of Joshua Roberts In honor of the engagement of Lewis and Susan Gantman Dana Bookman to Matt Sumner Lewis Hoch Judith Soslowsky Lewis and Susan Gantman In memory of Mali Bat Shmuel In honor of the Bat Mitzvah of Janie Rosen In loving memory of David Civan Ezra Halevi, beloved mother of Silvia Skorka Warren and Diane Seider Mortimer Civan Mitchell Benson and Jared In memory of John Rothschild, In loving memory of Dora Civan Cole beloved husband of Beth Mortimer Civan Philip Cunningham and Rothschild In loving memory of Judith Civan Julia Anne Walsh Mike and Lisa Fogel Mortimer Civan In loving memory of Roberta K. Lewis and Susan Gantman Hirsch In honor of Lori Cooper’s recovery Jeffrey and Barbara Holst Matthew and Cindy Hirsch Warren and Diane Seider Neil and Ellen Moscow and Family In appreciation of Rabbi Cooper Don and Judy Weinstein In loving memory of Leon Hoffman Ron and Anita Bihovsky In loving memory of Blanche Jerome Hoffman Saslofsky Mitchell and Janie Rosen In memory of Trevor Hoffman, Mark and Sandy Graboyes In loving memory of Rose Driks beloved son of Jeffrey and Debra In memory of Joan, beloved sister Jordan and Ellen Driks and Hoffman of Art Skaroff Family Phil Wachs and Juliet Don and Judy Weinstein In loving memory of Margaret Spitzer and Family Eisner In loving memory of Matthew In memory of Sam Spitz, beloved son of Gloria and Bob Spitz and Joel and Judy Eisner Jacobson nephew of Susan and Len Lodish In loving memory of Sam Fogel Jeff and Liz Berger Lewis and Susan Gantman Alan and Marilyn Fogel In memory of the beloved sister of Steve and Marilyn Liedman In loving memory of Helen In loving memory of Robert Steinhart Friedman Lewis and Susan Gantman Rob Steinhart Allan and Merle Horowitz In loving memory of Melvin Marks In loving memory of Helen Gwen In loving memory of Pauline Louis Marks Weisman Gerstenhaber In memory of Donald Orr, beloved Joy Rosenthal Murray Gerstenhaber father of Rickie Brawer In loving memory of Arthur and Lewis and Susan Gantman Shirley Weiss Steven Weiss

October Leagrams Contributions Say Happy Anniversary! while raising money for our Sisterhood and synagogue. Each Leagram costs $1, or 6 for $5. Please CIRCLE or highlight the names of those couples to whom you wish to send an Rabbi Marshall J. Maltzman anniversary greeting. PRINT your name on the line below and mail Camp Ramah Scholarship Fund this form and your check, payable to TBH-BE, to the synagogue office In honor of Bill Becker’s special by September 20, attention: Leagram. birthday Your Name:______Alan Fogel Ben & Allyson Alimansky Richard & Mari Kalman In loving memory of Harold Cohn Michael and Julie Lippmann Bennett & Mindy Andelman Errol & Joan Kofsky In loving memory of Pauline Cohn Jeffrey Berman & Polly Edward & Nancy Leeds Michael and Julie Lippmann

Zavadivker In memory of Leonard Feldman, Steven & Alicia Ludwig long-time congregant and among the founders of TBH-BE David & Irene Bolts Joseph Magid & Elizabeth Rogan Michael and Julie Lippmann Eric Borowsky & Lara Robinson Gabriel & Robin Margent Ted and Linda Schwartz Bob and Marilyn Steiner David & Beth Buckman Joshua & Diane Marks In loving memory of Rebecca Joseph & Lynne Bucovetsky Bruce & Norma Miller Goldman Marjorie Surden Gary & Shirley Cohen David & Jessica Neeren In loving memory of Larry Horn

Michael & Sherrill Dresnin Norman Ostrove & Katie Joyanna Horn In memory of John Rothschild, Bob & Kathy Elias Calabrese beloved husband of Beth Rothschild David & Sarah Fask Steven & Michele Padersky Michael and Julie Lippmann David & Lenore Forsted Jason & Corinn Rocker In honor of Will Shapiro’s confirmation Matthew & Beth Goldstein Abraham & Roberta Shaked Darien Finder

Jeffrey and Stefanie Goldstone Fred & Jill Siegal In honor of Ellen Sklar’s special birthday Bruce & Sheryl Greenfield Lou & Judith Soslowsky Alan Fogel In memory of Sam Spitz, beloved Jonathan & Nancy Gurevitch Jonathan & Rochelle Weiss son of Gloria and Bob Spitz and nephew of Susan and Len Lodish Dennis & Alene Herman Sander & Jo White Joe and Ellen Siegel

Religious School Fund In memory of Frances Mancini, Sisterhood Fund In honor of the Bat Mitzvah of Eve beloved sister of Joe Bucovetsky In honor of the Adult Bat Mitzvah Alimansky Ron and Anita Bihovsky Class Marc Gold and Sharon In honor of the Bat Mitzvah of David and Robin Oriel Stumacher Gold Janie Rosen Sarah Sherman Poncz Mitchell and Janie Rosen Susan Shaman Sisterhood In memory of Leonard Feldman, In memory of John Rothschild, In honor of the engagement of long-time member and among the beloved husband of Beth Emily Jane Fox to Lee Eisenberg founders of TBH-BE Rothschild Marc Gold and Sharon Lou and Margie Surden Jane Bender Stumacher Gold In honor of a speedy recovery for Ken Leventhal In loving memory of Helen David Forsted In memory of Robert Smith, Ganzfried Phil and Amy Bursky beloved husband of Susan Smith The Stumacher and Gold In honor of the B’nai Mitzvah of and father of Stephen Smith Family Luke and Chloe Halpern Sivy Blume In honor of the birth of Emilia Bea Marc Gold and Sharon In memory of Sam Spitz, beloved Jacobson, granddaughter of Amy Stumacher Gold son of Gloria and Bob Spitz and and Doug Ress In memory of Trevor Hoffman, nephew of Susan and Len Lodish Scott and Pam Feldman beloved son of Debra and Jeffrey The Bihovsky Family In honor of Robin Oriel as outgoing Hoffman Sivy Blume Sisterhood President Matthew and Maxine In memory of Lorraine Weisberger, Marc Gold and Sharon Comisky beloved mother of Anita Bihovsky Stumacher Gold In honor of the Bar Mitzvah of Marsha Yankelev and In honor of the engagement of Elliot Perlis Family Amanda Randel to Stephen Marc Gold and Sharon Marbury

Stumacher Gold Marc Gold and Sharon Ruth N. Maltzman Memorial In honor of the Bat Mitzvah of Stumacher Gold Fund Cynthia Saltzman In memory of Leonard Feldman, Phil and Amy Bursky long-time congregant and among Youth Fund the founders of TBH-BE In memory of Trevor Hoffman, Response to Hunger Fund Ted Tapper and Shelly beloved son of Debra and Jeffrey Phillips Hoffman In loving memory of Ernest Blumenthal In memory of Sam Spitz, beloved Michael and Amy Elkins son of Gloria and Bob Spitz and Roberta Blumenthal Martin and Jenifer Wachs nephew of Susan and Len Lodish In memory of Trevor Hoffman, Larry and Susan Gordon beloved son of Debra and Jeffrey Hoffman Sivy Blume

October Birthday-Grams Send a Sisterhood BIRTHDAY-GRAM, and raise money for our Sisterhood and the synagogue. Birthday Grams are $1 each, or 6 for $5. PRINT your name as you would like it to appear on the greeting, then CIRCLE or HIGHLIGHT the names of those members to whom you wish to send a birthday greeting. Mail this form and your check, payable to TBH-BE, to the synagogue office, by September 20.

Your Name:______Meirav Abramovitz Vicki Erlbaum David Loren Jessica Segal Jessica Alexander Jeffrey Fine Alicia Ludwig Warren Seider Andrew Alloy David Fineman Toby Mallin Yochanan Shachmurove

Max Apple Caren Fox Fires David Marcus S. Jay Sklar Marcia Arem Anne Frankel Louis Marks Mark Solomon Alexandre Arkader Merrill Furman Debrah Meislich Steven Solow Stephanie Arnold Kelly Galfand Bruce Miller Susan Solow Charna Axelrod Lewis Gantman Norma Miller Judith Soslowsky Stacey Baer Steven Gilbert Rebekah Monson Ken Spivack Jodi Debra Bass Marcia Glickman Ellen Moscow Rebecca Starr Phyllis Beck Neil Godick Robin Mulherin Sharon Stumacher Gold Caryn Becker Jeremy Goldberg Moreye Nusbaum Molly Stumacher Richard Bellah Debbie Greenberg Peter Olster Sheryl Surkin Bonnie Benson Kristin Greenberg David Oppenheimer Benjamin Turk Tolub Randi Berry Jonathan Gurevitch Norman Ostrove Aaron Ufberg Roberta Blumenthal Ruth Hattler Janine Pawlowsky David Webner Nancy Broudo Philip Hirshman Roslyn Pollack David Weinstein Nancy Brown Alisa Hoffman Richard Reisboard Sharon Weinstein Sarah Busis Sandra Hoffman Douglas Ress Jo White Randi Cohen Barbara Ilsen Julie Roat Ira Winston Frank Cooper Merle Kamen Jennie Rodgers Susan Wolff Donald Corey Lynne Kessler Lechte Alyssa Rosen Maria Young Ellen Davis Sandi Kirschner Ruth Rothman Jonathan Zabusky Neil Dolinger Anna Kornbrot Seth Rubin Scott Zalut Rebecca Dolinger Jonathan Kremer Leah Samuels Polly Zavadivker Matthew Dorsch Eric Krengel Roberta Sands Michael Zuckerman Jordan Driks Ely Levine Nancy Schmidt Judith Eisner Alison Loren Richard Schmidt

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