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shabbat services shabbat Friday Evening, February 2* Rabb i’s olumn In one of my firsCt sermons at Temple Beth 5:30 P.M. – Likrat Shabbat Israel, in the summer of 1987, I spoke about See box below for additional contributors 3601 W. Dempster Street • Skokie, Illinois 60076 our congregation having a proud heritage 6:15 P.M. – Kabbalat Shabbat 847.675.0951 • ww w.tbiskokie .org and a destiny of distinction. Now, thirty years February Birthday Blessings later, those words still ring true and yet they Michael A. Weinberg, Rabbi resonate in a slightly different fashion. As we shabbat saturday Morning, February 3 at 10:30 a.M. Lori B. Sagarin, RJE, Director of Congregational Learning celebrate our centennial year we, indeed, Torah Portion “Yitro” Marla Aviva Bentley, Director of Music have much of which to be proud. Longevity, Amber Wood, Director of Operations shabbat Friday Evening, February 9 at 7:30 P.M. in and of itself, is noteworthy. We are among only a handful of congregations that have been around for a century or Jon Schneider, President 6:00 P.M. Shalom Shabbat more. I think that our greatest source of pride ought to be that, over the Ernst M. Lorge, Rabbi Emeritus* 7:30 P.M. Erev Shabbat Services with Koleynu course of the past 100 years, we have touched and inspired hundreds, S. Felix Mendelsohn, Founding Rabbi* shabbat saturday Morning, February 10 at 10:30 a.M. if not thousands, of people. We have been here to help our fellow *of Blessed Memory Shabbat Shekalim congregants cope with the most challenging times in their lives, and we have been here to help each other celebrate our greatest joys. And we Printed by Total Graphics DATED MATERIAL — PLEASE RUSH Torah Portion “Mishpatim” have been here for all the times in between – the holidays, the classes, shabbat Friday Evening, February 16* the programs and projects to help those in need, the retreats and 5:30 P.M. – Likrat Shabbat Israel trips, the community engagement – and the friendships and relationships that have spanned the decades. 6:15 P.M. – Kabbalat Shabbat The first weekend in December 2017 found nearly seventy Now we are looking forward to our second century. We have no shabbat saturday Morning, February 17 at 10:30 a.M. intention of resting on our laurels. We are so gratified that new members members of TBI enjoying the beauty of Olin Sang Ruby Union Bar Mitzvah of Jack Broutman have joined the ranks of our congregation. Each new member brings Institute (OSRUI). The event was multi-generational and com - Son of Paula and Jay Broutman new energy and new ideas as well as new questions, new curiosity, and new hope. And each new member also brings his or her own life story Torah Portion “Terumah” bined spirituality, music, fun, learning, and rest. Even if you and life experience to be added to our collective congregational story. shabbat Friday Evening, February 23 at 7:30 P.M. Our TBI story continues to be written day in and day out – every week, weren’t able to participate this year, mark your calendar now Rabbi’s Yahrzeits every life cycle event, every religious school class, every holiday for next year’s retreat: February 8 – 10, 2019. Rabbi David Saperstein, Guest Speaker celebration, every social action project, every Kabbalat Shabbat. Our congregation’s scroll is quite literally still being written. Over the shabbat saturday Morning, February 24 at 10:30 a.M. next few months please stop by the Temple and take the time to scroll Bat Mitzvah of Lena Costello through and read of the events that your fellow congregants have Daughter of Jenny Costello entered, and to write part of your story onto our TBI scroll. Only when Shabbat Zachor all of our stories are included will our collective story be complete. I am thrilled to be a part of this very exciting journey of the community we Torah Portion “Tetzaveh” call Temple Beth Israel. shabbat Friday Evening, March 2* 5:30 P.M. – Likrat Shabbat 6:15 P.M. – Kabbalat Shabbat March Birthday Blessings shabbat saturday Morning, March 3 at 10:30 a.M. Torah Portion “Ki Tisa” *Please note time

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We would like to thank Barbara Alper who made a donation for the Likrat Shabbat on February 2 in honor of her February birthday. We would also like to thank Ernie Heimann, Debbi Kohl, Linda Lewison, and Gary Zimmerman who made donations in honor of their January birthdays. Thank you also to Vera Rubin and Beth Sair who made donations in honor of their December birthdays. TBI Students had a magical time at our Chanukah Party. February 2018 Shevat – Adar 5778 Volume 101 Number 4 in thE tEMPLE FaMiLY FroM thE PrEsidEnt contributions MAZEL TOV TO: By Jon Schneider A minimum contribution of $15.00 (unless otherwise noted) for donation to be acknowledged with a card and published in the bulletin.

Lisa Wynn on the birth of her new grandson, son of Hanni Itah and This is the first time I’ve had to write a bulletin article Education Fund Music Fund israEL schoLarshiP Fund Andrew Moses. since my dad passed away. Life for me will be changed Provides funds for Jewish education at TBI Provides funds for music programs This fund is used to help send our children forever. While my dad was 93 years old and his Fran and Allan Klenestky on the birth of their new grandson, son of donor in honor of on authorized trips to Israel and supports our passing was not tragic, it certainly leaves a hole in my donor in honor of Jody and Joshua Ehrenberg. Gertrude Isbitz Brodsky commitment to SKIP (Send a Kid to Israel life. There are some things that only my dad would Ellen Garber Bronfeld & Noah Bronfeld ...... Nina & David Henry Program) which underwrites travel to Israel Linda and Irwin Janush on the birth of their new grandson, son of understand. There have been a few times in the past ...... Happy New Year! Sheila & Eddie Rosenfeld donor in honor of Caryn and Bryan Mullaney. couple of months I’ve wanted to tell my dad something, Laura & Leon Finkel ...... The birth of Alice Solovy Faye & Arnold Oskin ...... Jack Broutman but that’s no longer possible. I’ve been attending ON THE ROAD TO RECOVERY: ...... Drs. Susan and Jimmy Cohn’s Gary Zimmerman ...... Speedy recovery ...... on his Bar Mitzvah Shabbat services more regularly than ever in the past year, yet this is the ...... grandson, Jonah Cohn ...... of Marla Aviva Bentley The following Temple members are recovering from recent illness: first time I have been a mourner, standing during the Mourner’s Kaddish. Beth & Dave Osten . . .Andrew Robert McFall Ina Hill and Elaine Morgan . We wish them a speedy recovery. Bill Klopsch ...... Anniversary Beth & Dave Osten . . .Andrew Robert McFall ...... on his 40th Birthday The passing of a parent is a milestone event in my life. It somehow ...... of Beth and Dave Osten ...... on his 40th Birthday CONDOLENCES: makes my own mortality more real. It is a time of reflection, a time to Gary Zimmerman . . .Rabbi Michael Weinberg Beth & Dave Osten . . .Andrew Robert McFall hErZL b. MEndELsohn LibrarY Fund We note with sorrow the passing of Arnold Schneider, father of Jon consider what I want out of life, what makes me happy. It has helped me Gary Zimmerman ...... Marla Aviva Bentley ...... on his 40th Birthday This fund is used exclusively for the Schneider; Dorothy Reisberg, mother of Robert Reisberg; Jerome realize the importance of my family, of being together, of supporting donor in Memory of Lillian Rubenstein ...... Thank you purchase of books, periodicals, furnishing Broutman, father of Jay Broutman and Debra Berk; Sheldon Rosenfeld, each other, and enjoying time with each other. It also has impacted my Roz & Ernie Heimann ...... Betty Winter ...... for the birthday wishes and supplies for our library brother of Eddie Rosenfeld; Elmer Goldman, brother of Eudice Lorge; feelings about TBI. While my dad was 93, TBI is now 100, having been Nina & David Henry donor in honor of Marjorie Goldzweig, sister of Phyllis Cantor; Edward Keno, son of established 7 years before my dad’s birth in 1924. As I think about my Mikala & Adam Stewart ...... Efram Stewart Mary Bucher Kloet dad’s life and how he lives on through what he accomplished and how Beth & Dave Osten . . .Andrew Robert McFall Lee Keno; and Saul Kaufman, father of Michael Kaufman. May their donor in Memory of Leah & Mike Ostrar he lived, I find that keeping the spirit of TBI alive for another century and ...... on his 40th Birthday memories be a blessing. Becky & Greg Reuhs expanding its reach is even more important than before. Barbara & Robert Agdern . . . .Rosalyn Brown Mary Roth ...... Dorothy Reisberg donor in Memory of Barbara & Robert Agdern . . . . .Shirley Agdern In MeMOrIAM I look forward to continuing to work to expand TBI’s reach, not just Leah & Mike Ostrar ...... Phillip Singer Betsy Fuchs ...... Rose Fuchs to new members whom we are always looking to bring in, but also to our Libby & Andy Beider Temple Beth Israel announces with profound sorrow the passing of Betsy Fuchs ...... Leonard Fuchs current members who perhaps are not as connected as we would like Elaine Gallagher sociaL sErVicE Fund BETTY WINTER Ilene & Doug Klegon . . .Maurice “Mel” Crohn them to be. The leadership of the Congregation and the professional Provides support for social service Beloved mother of Ilene Klegon and Jody Weinberg Bill Levy & Patrick Schwarz staff are working hard every day to create meaningful programs and programs within the Temple and May her memory be a blessing Paula & Daniel Sabin in the surrounding community and kLEi kodEsh Fund make connections with ALL our members. But we do not have a to some individual tzedakah recipients monopoly on good ideas. How can TBI be the center of our Jewish Gary Zimmerman ...... Betty Winter This fund is used exclusively for the donor in honor of lives? What can we do as a community to better serve the needs of our Sherry Brick ...... Sarah Meyer purchase and repair of prayer books In MeMOrIAM Beth & Dave Osten . . .Andrew Robert McFall members? Let me know. Call me. E-mail me. There is so much that TBI and religious articles Temple Beth Israel announces with profound sorrow the passing of Sherry Brick ...... Sherwin Brick ...... on his 40th Birthday has done and so much TBI has meant over its first 100 years. What can donor in Memory of ROSELIN ROTHMAN Sherry Brick ...... Sam Brick donor in Memory of it become? How can we better meet the needs of the community? How Morris Levy ...... Arthur Levy Beloved mother of Judy Wenger Alyce Heman ...... Norman Sussman can we engage more of our current members? This is the challenge we CPS Student Science Fair, Inc. Board of May her memory be a blessing Alyce Heman ...... Betty Winter face moving forward into our second century. I am honored and Directors & Operating Committee Chairpersons Laura & Leon Finkel . . . . .Marjorie Goldwzeig Morris FaMiLY coMMunitY Fund humbled to be a part of this amazing time at TBI. My dad would be Helene & Charles Levine Betsy Fuchs ...... Rose Fuchs This fund was established to respond to POsTcArd FrOM TBI reTreAT OsrUI 2017 proud. Miss you, Pop. Staff of McGreal Center and Mission & Ministry Betsy Fuchs ...... Leonard Fuchs emergency needs of individuals in the Shalom Friends, Jay Niederhoffer ...... Dorothy Reisberg Morris Levy ...... Evelyn Levy Skokie community as identified by the Village of Skokie social services staff Good company – new and long-term, restful Shabbat, rich conver - Roseanne & James Dorger ...... Elise Levin Becky & Greg Reuhs ...... Sadie Sherman sation, music, walks, full moon, Wisconsin campus, and plentiful food. UnsUng herO recOgnITIOn donor in honor of Nancy & Joel Goodman Thank you to all who facilitated! See you next year. In our last Bulletin of 2017, we began a program to honor volunteers torah Fund Beth & Dave Osten . . .Andrew Robert McFall Madelon & Chuck Gryll ...... Jerry Hirsch Provides support for all Temple programs From a Refreshed and Grateful TBI Soul at TBI who have made contributions to our community that have been ...... on his 40th Birthday largely unrecognized over the years. This is the space where we will be Sharon Saphier Grad ...... Rhoda Saphier donor in honor of Lillian Rubenstein ...... Thank you to Rabbi cOngregATIOnAl ThAnk yOU able to continue to recognize these Unsung Heroes in our congregation. Alyce Heman rabbi Ernst M. LorGE . . . . . & Jody Weinberg and Eudice Lorge I would like to thank the members of Temple Beth Israel for the Nina & David Henry sanctuarY Fund This month, I would like to recognize another woman with a strong donor in Memory of notes, cards, flowers, and good wishes that you bestowed upon me Provides for the continued maintenance history at TBI, Judy Kemp. For the last several years, Judy has been pri - Bill Levy & Patrick Schwarz Naomi Bayer & Stuart Brandhandler during my two unexpected surgeries. Your prayers and support and beautification of our sanctuary marily responsible for the meal for mourners on the day of the funeral. Sue Schneider ...... Arnold Schneider Mimi Fox & Lloyd Wasser brightened an otherwise challenging time. I am grateful to work at a ($18.00 minimum) This is a task which requires quick turnaround, tact, organization, and Alyce Heman Cyndy & Brian Novak place like Temple Beth Israel where the leadership, staff, and clergy donor in Memory of diligence. Judy has demonstrated all of that and more. She has also Nina & David Vinik were so supportive during my hospitalization and recovery. You are all Nina & David Henry . . . .Maurice “Mel” Crohn been under the radar as a key part of the Catering Committee and Lenore & Joel Wineberg . . . .Arnold Schneider Ilene & Doug Klegon ...... Elmer Goldman my family and I feel very blessed. Nina & David Henry ...... Sheldon Rosenfeld coordinating Bar/Bat Mitzvahs (along with Linda Lewison), and she Judith Dorfman ...... Sheldon Rosenfeld Roberta & Robert Washlow ...... Bettie Port Marla Aviva Bentley Deana Hoffman ...... Paul Hoffman has worked with Carol Barrington to coordinate our High Holy Day Sofia & Naum Ligum ...... Raya Serman Roberta & Robert Washlow ...... Byron Port TBI MeMBers In The news Services at ETHS. She has served as Co-VP of Fund Raising and is also Joan & Albert Leb ...... Emanuel Ager Leah & Mike Ostrar currently co-chair (with Lisa Drucker) of our Committee charged with Angela & Charlie Platt ...... Elsie Levin Mimi Rosenbush ...... Betty Winter FaYE and hoWard ricE The 40th Anniversary Book Issue of Chicago Jewish History , all of the various aspects of our celebration and recognition of our cuLturaL Fund Vol.41, No.4, Fall 2017, mentions both Jewish Law In Transition: How Paula & Daniel Sabin ...... Betty Helen Giffin 100th Anniversary as a Congregation. Whatever needs doing, Judy’s arnoLd FaMiLY Education Economic Forces Overcame the Prohibition Against Lending Interest, Sue Schneider ...... Marjorie Goldwzeig EnrichMEnt Fund This fund provides support for social probably done it. She is easy to work with, she gets things done, never and cultural programming including by Rabbi Hillel Gamoran, and Beyond The Scent Of Olives, by Alice This fund is used for special programs complains, and rarely gets the recognition she has earned for her hard Janice & Modesto Senra . . . .Arthur Gartzman Marcus Solovy. In addition to the two TBI members of the Chicago in our religious and Hebrew schools scholars in residence. work. Diane Stotland-Repkin . . . . .Samuel Stotland Jewish Historical Society having their books cited, the issue reprints an donor in honor of donor in Memory of email thanking Lori Sagarin and TBI students for giving Christmas gifts With such a lengthy resume, I am very pleased to be able to give the Carol & Mark Winston ...... Lenny Winston Beth & Dave Osten . . .Andrew Robert McFall Beth & Dave Osten . . .Andrew Robert McFall to 460 Herzl school students in Chicago. latest Unsung Hero award to Judy Kemp. Joanne Yashar ...... Dr. Nasrat Yashar ...... on his 40th Birthday ...... on his 40th Birthday contributions FroM thE dirEctor A minimum contribution of $15.00 (unless otherwise noted) for donation to be acknowledged with a card and published in the bulletin. oF conGrEGationaL LEarninG

nanEttE b. MEndELsohn Elaine Fox Laura & Leon Finkel Sometimes it is a well-timed phone call, a note, or a short visit. Sometimes it is a meal, an offer to walk a dog, trEE oF LiFE Fund Madelon & Chuck Gryll Nancy & Joel Goodman or a ride to services. It could be setting up the meal of Funds used for the beautification Lois Harris Nina & David Henry of Temple Beth Israel consolation at the outset of shiva or the offer to pick up Ina Hill Rochelle & Steven Katz a prescription. These are some of the tasks provided donor in honor of Cyndy & Brian Novak Helene & Charles Levine through the TBI Mitzvah Corp, a dedicated group of Pam and Ted Lavine ...... Marla Bentley’s volunteers that provides these services graciously. This Bobbie & Henry Nussbaum Ellen Lewis ...... Speedy Recovery community never ceases to amaze me in our members’ Benette Phillips Estelle London donor in Memory of willingness to step up and volunteer as needed. One of the community programs that I saw in action is in Kiryat Gat Mary Roth Linda & Alan Nidetz Harriet and Richard Arons Serving on the Mitzvah Corp is one of the most fulfilling volunteer roles (Chicago’s sister city!). It is a two-month course for women who want to return Beth & Ralph Sair Pam and Ted Lavine Ione & Steve Novak in our congregation and we are always seeking additional participants. If to the workforce or to join it for the first time. Many – perhaps a majority – of Roseanne Sangerman these women are from ultra-orthodox homes. I attended their concluding Patti and Cliff Levy Susan & Robert Reisberg you are interested in visiting someone, delivering soup, or providing other Phyllis Stock needed services, please consider volunteering. If you are interested, please ceremony. We heard about the success of the program from the organizers Sharrel Titlebaum ...... Sheldon Rosenfeld Eleanor & Ed Rosen reach out to the Mitzvah Corp co chairs Jolie Rubin [email protected] and, more importantly, from the participants. Their stories were inspiring and Bobby & Sam Wasserman Janice & Mark Samberg Harriet and Richard Arons and Fran Meyer [email protected]. uplifting. After the ceremony, we shared a potluck lunch (of course there was Alfred Zacher ...... Betty Winter Rozanne and Steve Epstein Sue Schneider & Kevin Schneider food!) and a lot of conversation. I would have loved to have stayed longer to Eunice Burns ...... Fae Levine February can be a cold, lonely, and isolating month. We can each do our continue our conversation, but we were on a mission. We had to get to Netanya Linda and Alan Nidetz . . . .Majorie Goldzweig Doris Simon part to help others feel that they are part of a loving community. I hope you Eunice Burns ...... Jerry Berman for a meeting. So we said our good-byes and hit the road. The meeting in Harriet and Richard Arons . . . .Maurice Crohn Meryl & John Smyth will consider joining the team. Netanya was about opening new Citizens’ Rights Centers in the Netanya area. Eunice Burns ...... Harry Berman Harriet and Richard Arons Alice Solovy Stay warm! There is work to be done and YEDID is working to be sure it happens. Eunice Burns ...... Minnie Berman Minna and Marv Einhorn . . .Dorothy Reisberg Dawn & Michael Strauss B’shalom , I am not a social worker. I’m not a lawyer. I don’t know Israeli law. What could Elaine Fox ...... Rhoda Saphier Harriet and Richard Arons . . . .Elmer Goldman Judy & Steven Zacher ...... Betty Winter Lori B. Sagarin I do to help? They had some development materials that needed tweaking. Faye & Arnold Oskin . . .Helen Filerman Treger They wanted to update the statistics that they use in fundraising. They were Ellen Baygood Peggy & Melvin Alexander . .Evelyn Alexander Beth & Ralph Sair ...... Sheldon Rosenfeld Visit our LibrarY behind with their thank you notes. All of this was in English and in my wheel - Minna and Marv Einhorn Carolyn & Bruce Anders ...... house. I reworked PowerPoint presentations; I researched poverty statistics; I Patti and Cliff Levy ...... Jeanette Lebedoff Steinberg Come and visit the Cohn Library located developed templates in Word and PowerPoint. And I listened and I learned rabbi’s discrEtionarY Fund on the lower level. Take time browsing through Joanne Merritt Carole & Robert Arenson . .Florence Strusiner about realities in Israel about which I was unaware. And I had a great time. Provides funds for charitable uses our wonderful collection then check out your Sheila and Eddie Rosenfeld Carole & Robert Arenson . . . .Harvey Arenson selections. You will be glad you did! within and outside the congregation Deborah Bornstein & Steve Sklare ...... Jolie and David Rubin at the discretion of the Rabbi ...... Maxine Sklare Sharrel Titlebaum ...... Betty Winter donor in honor of hoW i sPEnt MY WintEr Vacation Laura Cooper & Bruce Crane Pam and Ted Lavine Shari & Daniel Gottlieb ...... Rabbi and Jody By Barbara Seaver Karen Gray-Keeler & Tom Keeler Jolie and David Rubin ...... Weinberg, with thanks for coming Another winter. Another trip to Israel. And it never gets old or boring. As Gary Zimmerman ...... Arnold Schneider Sisterhood TBI ...... all the way to Durango to perform my wonderful month quickly comes to an end, I decided to avoid the Sharrel Titlebaum ...... Arnold Schneider ...... the service for Diana’s Bat Mitzvah Andrea Backman & Mick Siegel ...... morning rain and sit in my apartment to reflect with a cup of coffee and my ...... Maurice “Mel” Crohn computer. Paula & Larry Hyman ...... General Donation Minna & Marvin Einhorn sidnEY i. coLE caMP Deborah Krupp ...... Happy Chanukah As many of you know, my visits to Israel have become an annual event and one that I begin to plan even before I leave the previous year. During my schoLarshiP Fund Beth & Dave Osten . . .Andrew Robert McFall Susan & Robert Reisberg ...... Phillip Singer This was not completely a busman’s holiday. I still met friends for coffee and visit of 2015-16, I learned about Skilled Volunteers for Israel and it has Provides camp scholarships ...... on his 40th Birthday Iris & Jim Friedlieb ...... Walter Friedlieb meals in Jerusalem and elsewhere. I visited Machane Yehuda, the big market in become the center of my visits since then. As the name implies, Skilled for our students who attend Jerusalem; and I walked on the tayelet (the boardwalk) in Netanya. I attended Susan & Robert Reisberg . . . .Helene & Chuck Betsy Fuchs ...... Leonard Fuchs Volunteers for Israel matches people who have specific skills with non- Olin-Sang-Ruby Union Institute Camp Shabbat services at Har-El in Jerusalem. Some of you may have followed my ...... Levine on the engagement of their Betsy Fuchs ...... Rose Fuchs profit organizations who could use those skills. Mine are primarily computer donor in honor of search for The Best Shakshuka in Israel on Facebook. In a 10th grade class . . . . .daughter Rebecca to Michael Drayer Debbie & Mark Greenberg skills with an emphasis on the user side of software. (I’m not a programmer about diplomacy, I presented information and stories about multi-culturalism. Naomi Bayer & Stuart Brandhandler ...... Susan & Robert Reisberg . . .Speedy recovery Luba & Robert Johnson and, beyond “turn it off and on again,” I have no idea what to do when a My annual visit to Har Herzl was particularly inspiring this year. I celebrated a ...... Refuah Shelema to Leon Finkel computer simply stops working.) The fact that my Hebrew is at a fairly high ...... of Cindy Franklin Village of Skokie ...... Dorothy Reisberg friend’s retirement and mourned the loss of a dear friend. level, opens other opportunities, although many of the people who volunteer Naomi Bayer & Stuart Brandhandler ...... Susan & Robert Reisberg . . .Speedy recovery Karen Gray-Keeler & Tom Keeler ...... with Skilled Volunteers have no Hebrew beyond “Shalom,” are easily placed, .Refuah Shelema to Rabbi Hillel Gamoran ...... of Marla Aviva Bentley ...... Sam H. Gray and have an equally terrific experience. Beth & Dave Osten . . .Andrew Robert McFall Roberta & Howard Rosell . . .Speedy recovery Evelyn Hyman Last year I did volunteer work for The Rossing Center which was an ...... on his 40th Birthday ...... of Rea Robin donor in Memory of Paula & Larry Hyman ...... Samuel Stotland amazing and eye-opening opportunity. (Check out the TBI bulletin from Cynthia Roth Garfield ...... Susan Sosin’s February 2017 at www.tbiskokie.org for the details.) This year I was placed Naomi Bayer & Stuart Brandhandler June & Joel Levin ...... Anna Lubow ...... 75th Birthday with YEDID (www.yedid.org.il/English). “YEDID helps thousands of Israelis Carolyn Lieder ...... Helen Treger Laura & Leon Finkel ...... Arnold Schneider Dawn & Michael Strauss ...... Anniversary every year struggling with poverty through individual assistance, community Naomi Bayer & Stuart Brandhandler ...... of Dawn and Michael Sofia & Naum Ligum ...... Riva Kogan programs, and advocacy. We campaign to tackle the root causes of poverty Susan Buchbinder donor in Memory of Ione & Steve Novak . . . . .Marjorie Goldzweig so that, one day, no one will have to turn to us for help.” (From their 2016 Robin & David Budish Peggy & Melvin Alexander Faye & Arnold Oskin . . .Helen Filerman Treger Annual Report.) Quite a lofty goal! They have 16 Citizens’ Rights Centers throughout the country and hope to open more. People come to these Deborah Carter Berkson & Rabbi Marc Berkson Andrea Backman & Mick Siegel Eleanor & Ed Rosen ...... Frank Klopfer centers for a variety of reasons: they are having trouble getting what is due Ilana Baden Eleanor & Ed Rosen ...... Ben Altman Rose & Oren Conway to them from Bituach Leumi (national insurance); their electricity has been In less than 24 hours, I will board a flight to return to the States. I return with Perri & Richard Courtheoux Gertrude Isbitz Brodsky Cynthia Roth Garfield ...... Jules Roth cut off; they are homeless and have been denied welfare. YEDID advocates wonderful memories and anticipation about next year’s trip, which is already Marianne Dreyfus Laura Cooper & Bruce Crane Cynthia Roth Garfield . . . . .Ruth Kaplan Roth for these people on an individual basis. They have also had great success at being planned. I welcome you to ask me about Skilled Volunteers for Israel the community level and at the national level; laws have been changed and (www.skillvolunteerisrael.org) or anything else about my trip. (I’m even willing to Rozanne & Steve Epstein Rachel & Steve Chaiken Alice Solovy ...... Jerome Raymond Marcus bills have been passed in the Knesset. (The website has more information share my personal Shakshuka recipe.) Make your plans now to see Israel soon Rachel Evans Linda & Zachary Fainman Joanne Yashar ...... Dr. Nasrat Yashar about this.) (or again). 00 Years sistErhood g 1 19 sistErhood anniVErsariEs Ch ai notEs sistErhood nEWs in 17 t - ra 2 b 0 and birthdaYs e 1 cEntEnniaL tidbit l FroM thE Music dirEctor EVErYthinG i nEEd to knoW 7 e C MARCH ANNIVERSARIES In the November bulletin, I began a 3-part series i LEarnEd WhiLE PLaYinG Mah jonGG During the 1960s, Sisterhood instituted about Cantillation, or the art of chanting Torah. I In November of last year, Sisterhood organized a “Mahj for the Career Group. Evening meetings were Judi and Cary Weinstein ...... 3/2/1996 held for working members. Bowling, Bridge, Shirley and Hy Levens ...... 3/3/1946 explained that the symbols of cantillation, also Beginners” class. Over forty women participated, many of whom were Sisterhood known as trope, or ta-amei hamikrah, function in not members of Sisterhood or even of TBI. We showed a PowerPoint and Mah Jongg groups were started and Mary Anne and Raymond Wexler ...... 3/5/1967 Temple Beth Israel three ways: melody, syllabic stress, and punctuation. presentation, handed out an instruction booklet, played a few open- tournaments were held. A Welcome Wagon Paula and Daniel Sabin ...... 3/14/1993 handed games, and offered snacks and wine. (Yes, Mahj does improve Each symbol has a prescribed melody, and where committee began visiting new members of the Congregation and Shana and Matthew Johnson ...... 3/25/2001 with wine.) At each table we seated three beginners and one Maven. It delivering gifts of challah, wine, and candles. New Circle groups were Lisa Gelfond and Garry Manning ...... 3/26/2000 the symbol is located above or below the Hebrew, was a fun and very successful program and many of the attendees started that held regular meetings with programs to suit the Deborah and Jay Shulruf ...... 3/29/1980 indicates the syllabic stress of the word. This month requested follow-up sessions. we will discuss how each symbol provides punctuation and therefore interests of the group. Michelle and Jeff Dorfman ...... 3/30/2003 Mah Jongg is a staple at many Sisterhood and WRJ events. So, for can help us interpret meaning of our sacred texts. those of us who play Mahj on a regular basis and especially those who Sisterhood TBI Centennial Committee MARCH BIRTHDAYS Each trope symbol is designated as either a mafsik (separator) or a do not – what life lessons can all this Mahj playing impart to us as Shelley Stone ...... 3/2 m’chaber (connector). The most important mafsikim (separators) also individuals and to Sisterhood as a group? [ editor’s note: Non-Mahj sistErhood book GrouP Aviva Goldman ...... 3/4 happen to be the names of each of the 6 major clauses: Etnachtah, players: Even if you don't understand the Mahj terminology, you will find Devy Weitzman ...... 3/4 the Life Lessons well worth reading. So jump to the Life Lesson and skip The Sisterhood Book Group will meet on Sof-Pasuk, Katon, T’vir, R’vi-i, and Segol. There are additional Rea Robin ...... 3/6 the Mahj-speak. ] Wednesday, February 21, 2018 at 7:00 p.m. separators such as: Tipcha, Pashta, and Gershayim; there are 19 in Eunice Burns ...... 3/8 in the TBI Cohn Library at 7:00 pm. We will total. Based on a system of hierarchy, each of these symbols tells the 1. you can’t play every hand on the card. Tanya Frid ...... 3/11 discuss Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' chanter to pause. We can compare this to the way a comma, colon, or There are 52-plus possible hands on a typical Mahj card. The idea Joan Hakimi ...... 3/11 First 100 Years, by Sarah and A. Elizabeth period function in language. In contrast, other symbols called is to rack the tiles you are dealt and then scan the card trying to find Florence Berman ...... 3/13 Delany with Amy Hill Hearth. m’chabrim (connectors) tell the chanter to connect to the next word. possible hands to go for. Many players get stuck here – not knowing Gail Weiss ...... 3/16 what to pass and what to keep. The main connectors are Mercha, Munach, Mapach, Kadma, and According to Goodreads "In their 200+ Roslyne Heimann ...... 3/17 Darga. There are 8 connectors in total. life lesson #1: We can’t do it all. We need to learn to choose what combined years, Sadie and Bessie Delany Susan Derex ...... 3/19 we do by being clear about our overarching goal: where we want to go, have seen it all. They saw their father, who was DarLynn Kaufmann ...... 3/19 By understanding whether you are chanting a connector or who we want to be/become. Then we can choose projects, activities, born into slavery, become America's first black Episcopal bishop. Ione Novak ...... 3/19 separator, the reader can determine phrasing and, therefore, meaning. and actions that align with our goal and will bring us closer to it. They saw their mother – a woman of mixed racial parentage who Linda Perlin ...... 3/21 For example, if you examine the sentence The panda eats shoots and 2. you can’t Mahj (win) second. was born free – give birth to ten children, all of whom would Sandy Sabin ...... 3/21 leaves, you understand that the panda is an animal that eats both the become college-educated, successful professionals in a time when Elaine Clearfield ...... 3/25 shoots of a plant and its leaves. However, if you change it to The panda Don’t get so caught up in wanting to win that you hold on when all evidence tells you that it is not meant to be. blacks could scarcely expect to receive a high school diploma..." Dale Cone ...... 3/26 eats, shoots and leaves you have the story of an animal who, following Ardel Fogel ...... 3/28 his meal, picks up a gun and fires it before leaving the premises. A very life lesson #2: In life we may find ourselves asking, what am I New members are welcome. The book is available at the public Elaine Bers ...... 3/30 different story. (By the way, Eats, Shoots & Leaves is the title of a holding onto (behaviors, a job, a relationship) that is no longer working? library. Please RSVP to Jane Page, [email protected]. Detaching, letting go, is very freeing. When we let go, we can step Andrea Blain ...... 3/30 book about grammar by Lynne Truss.) Without proper punctuation or back and look at our lives and circumstances more objectively. We can Lee Schur ...... 3/30 with incorrect punctuation, words and phrases can be interpreted in initiate new actions that will better serve our current needs and lead to a way not intended by the author. Trope marks distinguish these achieving our goals. Letting go, detaching, is critical to success in so UPCOMING SISTERHOOD EVENTS Would you like to celebrate simchas and benefit Sisterhood TBI? phrases so the reader (and the Rabbis) can focus their study. many aspects of our lives. Send a Uniongram, $2.00 each, by contacting: Rozanne Epstein, February 11, 2018 at 10:00 a.m...... Board Meeting r k e 7 3 5 0 @ g m a il . c o m , 847-676-3299 or Candy Siegel, maltesepeanut-biz@ Joy & Blessings, 3. There is no perfect way to play the tiles you are dealt. February 21, 2018 at 7:00 p.m...... Book Group: y a h o o . c o m , 8 4 7 - 6 79-4707. Marla Aviva Bentley Each player is dealt tiles. The first person to match one of the hands on the card wins the game. . .Having Our Say, the Delaney Sisters' First 100 Years FUnd FOr The FUTUre life lesson #3: We are each dealt circumstances (tiles in Mahj- March 1 – 4 . . . .WRJ Fried Leadership Conference, Nashville VIsIT The TBI weBsITe speak) in our lives. Our height, our body type, our family, etc. Maybe With the arrival of TBI’s Centennial Anniversary, we are celebrating March 7, 12:00 p.m...... Open Program Meeting T a k e a look at our NEWLY UPDATED website at we would like to be taller, maybe we would like to be a size 4, and a century of community bound by love for Judaism, the Jewish people, www.tbiskokie.org. You’ll find loads of up-to-date, easy to maybe we wish our family behaved differently. However, many of these March 7,14, and 21, 10:00-11:30 a.m. . Study With the Rabbi ties of family and friendship, and caring for one another. This very circumstances cannot be changed, so we need to learn to play with find information about worship services, school schedules, March 11, 10:00 a.m...... Board Meeting special milestone has inspired the establishment of the congregation’s what we have and strive to get as close to winning as possible. That’s all regular programs, and special events, along with important programmatic endowment, the Fund for the Future, to carry vibrant we can do. March 23 – 25 ...... Mah Jongg, Canasta, and p h o n e n u m bers and other handy and useful information. Jewish life into our next hundred years. With generous leadership 4. have a strategy...... Games Weekend, OSRUI commitments, we already are more than halfway toward the endowment campaign’s $1,000,000 target! Equally important as the dollars we Similar to many games, Mah Jongg has a few rules which are easy to March 24, 6:00 p.m...... Spring Fundraising Event follow and simple to learn, but they can be difficult to master. You must raise, however, is the goal of everyone’s participation. The hope is that learn what combinations of tiles make up a hand. You need to become every member household will take part in this campaign at a level that skilled to play both offensively and defensively. is personally meaningful and thereby share proud ownership of the attEntion journaLists and life lesson #4: If we don’t have a strategy, life controls us instead of endowment. Every gift to the endowment is valued and important, and the other way around. asPirinG journaLists! is, itself, an expression of confidence in TBI’s vitality and future. Please be prepared to respond as generously as possible when you are asked. 5. The tiles don’t always go your way. reminder: Material for the bulletin is Sometimes, it doesn’t matter how great a player you are or how solid due electronically to the Bulletin Editor at tELL Your FriEnds about tbi your strategy is. At times, the tiles just don’t come your way. You might [email protected] on the 10th of the have the best plan in the world, but Mahj sometimes turns on bad luck. month prior to publication. If you do not Temple Beth Israel has so much to offer – a diverse, involved, and life lesson #5: We all need to learn to accept the hands we are have access to a computer, please submit caring community, a top-notch professional staff, a warm and welcom - dealt in life, to uncover our gifts and talents, and play our life hands ing home for worship and spiritual exploration, outstanding schools paper copy to the Temple office by the 7th extraordinarily well. For now, perhaps the seeds we have planted here of the month prior to publication so that it and adult education, friendly and active Sisterhood and Brotherhood, will get you thinking. a commitment to community service and social justice, and lots more. can be transcribed and sent by the 10th. The deadline for the March So let your friends know about us. Invite them to join you for services Live Long and Mah Jongg!! bulletin is February 10. and programs throughout the year . . . and invite them to join us! Sheila Rosenfeld and Joanne Merritt – Sisterhood Co-Presidents 00 Years sistErhood g 1 19 sistErhood anniVErsariEs Ch ai notEs sistErhood nEWs in 17 t - ra 2 b 0 and birthdaYs e 1 cEntEnniaL tidbit l FroM thE Music dirEctor EVErYthinG i nEEd to knoW 7 e C MARCH ANNIVERSARIES In the November bulletin, I began a 3-part series i LEarnEd WhiLE PLaYinG Mah jonGG During the 1960s, Sisterhood instituted about Cantillation, or the art of chanting Torah. I In November of last year, Sisterhood organized a “Mahj for the Career Group. Evening meetings were Judi and Cary Weinstein ...... 3/2/1996 held for working members. Bowling, Bridge, Shirley and Hy Levens ...... 3/3/1946 explained that the symbols of cantillation, also Beginners” class. Over forty women participated, many of whom were Sisterhood known as trope, or ta-amei hamikrah, function in not members of Sisterhood or even of TBI. We showed a PowerPoint and Mah Jongg groups were started and Mary Anne and Raymond Wexler ...... 3/5/1967 Temple Beth Israel three ways: melody, syllabic stress, and punctuation. presentation, handed out an instruction booklet, played a few open- tournaments were held. A Welcome Wagon Paula and Daniel Sabin ...... 3/14/1993 handed games, and offered snacks and wine. (Yes, Mahj does improve Each symbol has a prescribed melody, and where committee began visiting new members of the Congregation and Shana and Matthew Johnson ...... 3/25/2001 with wine.) At each table we seated three beginners and one Maven. It delivering gifts of challah, wine, and candles. New Circle groups were Lisa Gelfond and Garry Manning ...... 3/26/2000 the symbol is located above or below the Hebrew, was a fun and very successful program and many of the attendees started that held regular meetings with programs to suit the Deborah and Jay Shulruf ...... 3/29/1980 indicates the syllabic stress of the word. This month requested follow-up sessions. we will discuss how each symbol provides punctuation and therefore interests of the group. Michelle and Jeff Dorfman ...... 3/30/2003 Mah Jongg is a staple at many Sisterhood and WRJ events. So, for can help us interpret meaning of our sacred texts. those of us who play Mahj on a regular basis and especially those who Sisterhood TBI Centennial Committee MARCH BIRTHDAYS Each trope symbol is designated as either a mafsik (separator) or a do not – what life lessons can all this Mahj playing impart to us as Shelley Stone ...... 3/2 m’chaber (connector). The most important mafsikim (separators) also individuals and to Sisterhood as a group? [ editor’s note: Non-Mahj sistErhood book GrouP Aviva Goldman ...... 3/4 happen to be the names of each of the 6 major clauses: Etnachtah, players: Even if you don't understand the Mahj terminology, you will find Devy Weitzman ...... 3/4 the Life Lessons well worth reading. So jump to the Life Lesson and skip The Sisterhood Book Group will meet on Sof-Pasuk, Katon, T’vir, R’vi-i, and Segol. There are additional Rea Robin ...... 3/6 the Mahj-speak. ] Wednesday, February 21, 2018 at 7:00 p.m. separators such as: Tipcha, Pashta, and Gershayim; there are 19 in Eunice Burns ...... 3/8 in the TBI Cohn Library at 7:00 pm. We will total. Based on a system of hierarchy, each of these symbols tells the 1. you can’t play every hand on the card. Tanya Frid ...... 3/11 discuss Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' chanter to pause. We can compare this to the way a comma, colon, or There are 52-plus possible hands on a typical Mahj card. The idea Joan Hakimi ...... 3/11 First 100 Years, by Sarah and A. Elizabeth period function in language. In contrast, other symbols called is to rack the tiles you are dealt and then scan the card trying to find Florence Berman ...... 3/13 Delany with Amy Hill Hearth. m’chabrim (connectors) tell the chanter to connect to the next word. possible hands to go for. Many players get stuck here – not knowing Gail Weiss ...... 3/16 what to pass and what to keep. The main connectors are Mercha, Munach, Mapach, Kadma, and According to Goodreads "In their 200+ Roslyne Heimann ...... 3/17 Darga. There are 8 connectors in total. life lesson #1: We can’t do it all. We need to learn to choose what combined years, Sadie and Bessie Delany Susan Derex ...... 3/19 we do by being clear about our overarching goal: where we want to go, have seen it all. They saw their father, who was DarLynn Kaufmann ...... 3/19 By understanding whether you are chanting a connector or who we want to be/become. Then we can choose projects, activities, born into slavery, become America's first black Episcopal bishop. Ione Novak ...... 3/19 separator, the reader can determine phrasing and, therefore, meaning. and actions that align with our goal and will bring us closer to it. They saw their mother – a woman of mixed racial parentage who Linda Perlin ...... 3/21 For example, if you examine the sentence The panda eats shoots and 2. you can’t Mahj (win) second. was born free – give birth to ten children, all of whom would Sandy Sabin ...... 3/21 leaves, you understand that the panda is an animal that eats both the become college-educated, successful professionals in a time when Elaine Clearfield ...... 3/25 shoots of a plant and its leaves. However, if you change it to The panda Don’t get so caught up in wanting to win that you hold on when all evidence tells you that it is not meant to be. blacks could scarcely expect to receive a high school diploma..." Dale Cone ...... 3/26 eats, shoots and leaves you have the story of an animal who, following Ardel Fogel ...... 3/28 his meal, picks up a gun and fires it before leaving the premises. A very life lesson #2: In life we may find ourselves asking, what am I New members are welcome. The book is available at the public Elaine Bers ...... 3/30 different story. (By the way, Eats, Shoots & Leaves is the title of a holding onto (behaviors, a job, a relationship) that is no longer working? library. Please RSVP to Jane Page, [email protected]. Detaching, letting go, is very freeing. When we let go, we can step Andrea Blain ...... 3/30 book about grammar by Lynne Truss.) Without proper punctuation or back and look at our lives and circumstances more objectively. We can Lee Schur ...... 3/30 with incorrect punctuation, words and phrases can be interpreted in initiate new actions that will better serve our current needs and lead to a way not intended by the author. Trope marks distinguish these achieving our goals. Letting go, detaching, is critical to success in so UPCOMING SISTERHOOD EVENTS Would you like to celebrate simchas and benefit Sisterhood TBI? phrases so the reader (and the Rabbis) can focus their study. many aspects of our lives. Send a Uniongram, $2.00 each, by contacting: Rozanne Epstein, February 11, 2018 at 10:00 a.m...... Board Meeting r k e 7 3 5 0 @ g m a il . c o m , 847-676-3299 or Candy Siegel, maltesepeanut-biz@ Joy & Blessings, 3. There is no perfect way to play the tiles you are dealt. February 21, 2018 at 7:00 p.m...... Book Group: y a h o o . c o m , 8 4 7 - 6 79-4707. Marla Aviva Bentley Each player is dealt tiles. The first person to match one of the hands on the card wins the game. . .Having Our Say, the Delaney Sisters' First 100 Years FUnd FOr The FUTUre life lesson #3: We are each dealt circumstances (tiles in Mahj- March 1 – 4 . . . .WRJ Fried Leadership Conference, Nashville VIsIT The TBI weBsITe speak) in our lives. Our height, our body type, our family, etc. Maybe With the arrival of TBI’s Centennial Anniversary, we are celebrating March 7, 12:00 p.m...... Open Program Meeting T a k e a look at our NEWLY UPDATED website at we would like to be taller, maybe we would like to be a size 4, and a century of community bound by love for Judaism, the Jewish people, www.tbiskokie.org. You’ll find loads of up-to-date, easy to maybe we wish our family behaved differently. However, many of these March 7,14, and 21, 10:00-11:30 a.m. . Study With the Rabbi ties of family and friendship, and caring for one another. This very circumstances cannot be changed, so we need to learn to play with find information about worship services, school schedules, March 11, 10:00 a.m...... Board Meeting special milestone has inspired the establishment of the congregation’s what we have and strive to get as close to winning as possible. That’s all regular programs, and special events, along with important programmatic endowment, the Fund for the Future, to carry vibrant we can do. March 23 – 25 ...... Mah Jongg, Canasta, and p h o n e n u m bers and other handy and useful information. Jewish life into our next hundred years. With generous leadership 4. have a strategy...... Games Weekend, OSRUI commitments, we already are more than halfway toward the endowment campaign’s $1,000,000 target! Equally important as the dollars we Similar to many games, Mah Jongg has a few rules which are easy to March 24, 6:00 p.m...... Spring Fundraising Event follow and simple to learn, but they can be difficult to master. You must raise, however, is the goal of everyone’s participation. The hope is that learn what combinations of tiles make up a hand. You need to become every member household will take part in this campaign at a level that skilled to play both offensively and defensively. is personally meaningful and thereby share proud ownership of the attEntion journaLists and life lesson #4: If we don’t have a strategy, life controls us instead of endowment. Every gift to the endowment is valued and important, and the other way around. asPirinG journaLists! is, itself, an expression of confidence in TBI’s vitality and future. Please be prepared to respond as generously as possible when you are asked. 5. The tiles don’t always go your way. reminder: Material for the bulletin is Sometimes, it doesn’t matter how great a player you are or how solid due electronically to the Bulletin Editor at tELL Your FriEnds about tbi your strategy is. At times, the tiles just don’t come your way. You might [email protected] on the 10th of the have the best plan in the world, but Mahj sometimes turns on bad luck. month prior to publication. If you do not Temple Beth Israel has so much to offer – a diverse, involved, and life lesson #5: We all need to learn to accept the hands we are have access to a computer, please submit caring community, a top-notch professional staff, a warm and welcom - dealt in life, to uncover our gifts and talents, and play our life hands ing home for worship and spiritual exploration, outstanding schools paper copy to the Temple office by the 7th extraordinarily well. For now, perhaps the seeds we have planted here of the month prior to publication so that it and adult education, friendly and active Sisterhood and Brotherhood, will get you thinking. a commitment to community service and social justice, and lots more. can be transcribed and sent by the 10th. The deadline for the March So let your friends know about us. Invite them to join you for services Live Long and Mah Jongg!! bulletin is February 10. and programs throughout the year . . . and invite them to join us! Sheila Rosenfeld and Joanne Merritt – Sisterhood Co-Presidents contributions FroM thE dirEctor A minimum contribution of $15.00 (unless otherwise noted) for donation to be acknowledged with a card and published in the bulletin. oF conGrEGationaL LEarninG

Lisa Wynn on the birth of her new grandson, son of Hanni Itah and This is the first time I’ve had to write a bulletin article Education Fund Music Fund israEL schoLarshiP Fund Andrew Moses. since my dad passed away. Life for me will be changed Provides funds for Jewish education at TBI Provides funds for music programs This fund is used to help send our children forever. While my dad was 93 years old and his Fran and Allan Klenestky on the birth of their new grandson, son of donor in honor of on authorized trips to Israel and supports our passing was not tragic, it certainly leaves a hole in my donor in honor of Jody and Joshua Ehrenberg. Gertrude Isbitz Brodsky commitment to SKIP (Send a Kid to Israel life. There are some things that only my dad would Ellen Garber Bronfeld & Noah Bronfeld ...... Nina & David Henry Program) which underwrites travel to Israel Linda and Irwin Janush on the birth of their new grandson, son of understand. There have been a few times in the past ...... Happy New Year! Sheila & Eddie Rosenfeld donor in honor of Caryn and Bryan Mullaney. couple of months I’ve wanted to tell my dad something, Laura & Leon Finkel ...... The birth of Alice Solovy Faye & Arnold Oskin ...... Jack Broutman but that’s no longer possible. I’ve been attending ON THE ROAD TO RECOVERY: ...... Drs. Susan and Jimmy Cohn’s Gary Zimmerman ...... Speedy recovery ...... on his Bar Mitzvah Shabbat services more regularly than ever in the past year, yet this is the ...... grandson, Jonah Cohn ...... of Marla Aviva Bentley The following Temple members are recovering from recent illness: first time I have been a mourner, standing during the Mourner’s Kaddish. Beth & Dave Osten . . .Andrew Robert McFall Ina Hill and Elaine Morgan . We wish them a speedy recovery. Bill Klopsch ...... Anniversary Beth & Dave Osten . . .Andrew Robert McFall ...... on his 40th Birthday The passing of a parent is a milestone event in my life. It somehow ...... of Beth and Dave Osten ...... on his 40th Birthday CONDOLENCES: makes my own mortality more real. It is a time of reflection, a time to Gary Zimmerman . . .Rabbi Michael Weinberg Beth & Dave Osten . . .Andrew Robert McFall hErZL b. MEndELsohn LibrarY Fund We note with sorrow the passing of Arnold Schneider, father of Jon consider what I want out of life, what makes me happy. It has helped me Gary Zimmerman ...... Marla Aviva Bentley ...... on his 40th Birthday This fund is used exclusively for the Schneider; Dorothy Reisberg, mother of Robert Reisberg; Jerome realize the importance of my family, of being together, of supporting donor in Memory of Lillian Rubenstein ...... Thank you purchase of books, periodicals, furnishing Broutman, father of Jay Broutman and Debra Berk; Sheldon Rosenfeld, each other, and enjoying time with each other. It also has impacted my Roz & Ernie Heimann ...... Betty Winter ...... for the birthday wishes and supplies for our library brother of Eddie Rosenfeld; Elmer Goldman, brother of Eudice Lorge; feelings about TBI. While my dad was 93, TBI is now 100, having been Nina & David Henry donor in honor of Marjorie Goldzweig, sister of Phyllis Cantor; Edward Keno, son of established 7 years before my dad’s birth in 1924. As I think about my Mikala & Adam Stewart ...... Efram Stewart Mary Bucher Kloet dad’s life and how he lives on through what he accomplished and how Beth & Dave Osten . . .Andrew Robert McFall Lee Keno; and Saul Kaufman, father of Michael Kaufman. May their donor in Memory of Leah & Mike Ostrar he lived, I find that keeping the spirit of TBI alive for another century and ...... on his 40th Birthday memories be a blessing. Becky & Greg Reuhs expanding its reach is even more important than before. Barbara & Robert Agdern . . . .Rosalyn Brown Mary Roth ...... Dorothy Reisberg donor in Memory of Barbara & Robert Agdern . . . . .Shirley Agdern In MeMOrIAM I look forward to continuing to work to expand TBI’s reach, not just Leah & Mike Ostrar ...... Phillip Singer Betsy Fuchs ...... Rose Fuchs to new members whom we are always looking to bring in, but also to our Libby & Andy Beider Temple Beth Israel announces with profound sorrow the passing of Betsy Fuchs ...... Leonard Fuchs current members who perhaps are not as connected as we would like Elaine Gallagher sociaL sErVicE Fund BETTY WINTER Ilene & Doug Klegon . . .Maurice “Mel” Crohn them to be. The leadership of the Congregation and the professional Provides support for social service Beloved mother of Ilene Klegon and Jody Weinberg Bill Levy & Patrick Schwarz staff are working hard every day to create meaningful programs and programs within the Temple and May her memory be a blessing Paula & Daniel Sabin in the surrounding community and kLEi kodEsh Fund make connections with ALL our members. But we do not have a to some individual tzedakah recipients monopoly on good ideas. How can TBI be the center of our Jewish Gary Zimmerman ...... Betty Winter This fund is used exclusively for the donor in honor of lives? What can we do as a community to better serve the needs of our Sherry Brick ...... Sarah Meyer purchase and repair of prayer books In MeMOrIAM Beth & Dave Osten . . .Andrew Robert McFall members? Let me know. Call me. E-mail me. There is so much that TBI and religious articles Temple Beth Israel announces with profound sorrow the passing of Sherry Brick ...... Sherwin Brick ...... on his 40th Birthday has done and so much TBI has meant over its first 100 years. What can donor in Memory of ROSELIN ROTHMAN Sherry Brick ...... Sam Brick donor in Memory of it become? How can we better meet the needs of the community? How Morris Levy ...... Arthur Levy Beloved mother of Judy Wenger Alyce Heman ...... Norman Sussman can we engage more of our current members? This is the challenge we CPS Student Science Fair, Inc. Board of May her memory be a blessing Alyce Heman ...... Betty Winter face moving forward into our second century. I am honored and Directors & Operating Committee Chairpersons Laura & Leon Finkel . . . . .Marjorie Goldwzeig Morris FaMiLY coMMunitY Fund humbled to be a part of this amazing time at TBI. My dad would be Helene & Charles Levine Betsy Fuchs ...... Rose Fuchs This fund was established to respond to POsTcArd FrOM TBI reTreAT OsrUI 2017 proud. Miss you, Pop. Staff of McGreal Center and Mission & Ministry Betsy Fuchs ...... Leonard Fuchs emergency needs of individuals in the Shalom Friends, Jay Niederhoffer ...... Dorothy Reisberg Morris Levy ...... Evelyn Levy Skokie community as identified by the Village of Skokie social services staff Good company – new and long-term, restful Shabbat, rich conver - Roseanne & James Dorger ...... Elise Levin Becky & Greg Reuhs ...... Sadie Sherman sation, music, walks, full moon, Wisconsin campus, and plentiful food. UnsUng herO recOgnITIOn donor in honor of Nancy & Joel Goodman Thank you to all who facilitated! See you next year. In our last Bulletin of 2017, we began a program to honor volunteers torah Fund Beth & Dave Osten . . .Andrew Robert McFall Madelon & Chuck Gryll ...... Jerry Hirsch Provides support for all Temple programs From a Refreshed and Grateful TBI Soul at TBI who have made contributions to our community that have been ...... on his 40th Birthday largely unrecognized over the years. This is the space where we will be Sharon Saphier Grad ...... Rhoda Saphier donor in honor of Lillian Rubenstein ...... Thank you to Rabbi cOngregATIOnAl ThAnk yOU able to continue to recognize these Unsung Heroes in our congregation. Alyce Heman rabbi Ernst M. LorGE . . . . . & Jody Weinberg and Eudice Lorge I would like to thank the members of Temple Beth Israel for the Nina & David Henry sanctuarY Fund This month, I would like to recognize another woman with a strong donor in Memory of notes, cards, flowers, and good wishes that you bestowed upon me Provides for the continued maintenance history at TBI, Judy Kemp. For the last several years, Judy has been pri - Bill Levy & Patrick Schwarz Naomi Bayer & Stuart Brandhandler during my two unexpected surgeries. Your prayers and support and beautification of our sanctuary marily responsible for the meal for mourners on the day of the funeral. Sue Schneider ...... Arnold Schneider Mimi Fox & Lloyd Wasser brightened an otherwise challenging time. I am grateful to work at a ($18.00 minimum) This is a task which requires quick turnaround, tact, organization, and Alyce Heman Cyndy & Brian Novak place like Temple Beth Israel where the leadership, staff, and clergy donor in Memory of diligence. Judy has demonstrated all of that and more. She has also Nina & David Vinik were so supportive during my hospitalization and recovery. You are all Nina & David Henry . . . .Maurice “Mel” Crohn been under the radar as a key part of the Catering Committee and Lenore & Joel Wineberg . . . .Arnold Schneider Ilene & Doug Klegon ...... Elmer Goldman my family and I feel very blessed. Nina & David Henry ...... Sheldon Rosenfeld coordinating Bar/Bat Mitzvahs (along with Linda Lewison), and she Judith Dorfman ...... Sheldon Rosenfeld Roberta & Robert Washlow ...... Bettie Port Marla Aviva Bentley Deana Hoffman ...... Paul Hoffman has worked with Carol Barrington to coordinate our High Holy Day Sofia & Naum Ligum ...... Raya Serman Roberta & Robert Washlow ...... Byron Port TBI MeMBers In The news Services at ETHS. She has served as Co-VP of Fund Raising and is also Joan & Albert Leb ...... Emanuel Ager Leah & Mike Ostrar currently co-chair (with Lisa Drucker) of our Committee charged with Angela & Charlie Platt ...... Elsie Levin Mimi Rosenbush ...... Betty Winter FaYE and hoWard ricE The 40th Anniversary Book Issue of Chicago Jewish History , all of the various aspects of our celebration and recognition of our cuLturaL Fund Vol.41, No.4, Fall 2017, mentions both Jewish Law In Transition: How Paula & Daniel Sabin ...... Betty Helen Giffin 100th Anniversary as a Congregation. Whatever needs doing, Judy’s arnoLd FaMiLY Education Economic Forces Overcame the Prohibition Against Lending Interest, Sue Schneider ...... Marjorie Goldwzeig EnrichMEnt Fund This fund provides support for social probably done it. She is easy to work with, she gets things done, never and cultural programming including by Rabbi Hillel Gamoran, and Beyond The Scent Of Olives, by Alice This fund is used for special programs complains, and rarely gets the recognition she has earned for her hard Janice & Modesto Senra . . . .Arthur Gartzman Marcus Solovy. In addition to the two TBI members of the Chicago in our religious and Hebrew schools scholars in residence. work. Diane Stotland-Repkin . . . . .Samuel Stotland Jewish Historical Society having their books cited, the issue reprints an donor in honor of donor in Memory of email thanking Lori Sagarin and TBI students for giving Christmas gifts With such a lengthy resume, I am very pleased to be able to give the Carol & Mark Winston ...... Lenny Winston Beth & Dave Osten . . .Andrew Robert McFall Beth & Dave Osten . . .Andrew Robert McFall to 460 Herzl school students in Chicago. latest Unsung Hero award to Judy Kemp. Joanne Yashar ...... 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