AFFILIATED WITH THE UNITED SYNAGOGUE OF CONSERVATIVE JUDAISM May, 2021 Iyyar/Sivan, 5781 Har Zion Herald Temple Har Zion Worship Schedule (all on Zoom) HAR ZION SERVICES Candle Lighting Times 1040 North Harlem Ave. May 7 7:38 PM River Forest, IL 60305 Friday Evening 6:30 PM Saturday morning services are streamed on May 14 7:45 PM 708.366.9000 PHONE Saturday 10:00 AM Har Zion Facebook and YouTube (no password), Monday–Friday Morning 8:00 AM May 16 7:47 PM 708.366.9006 FAX and Zoom (ask the office for the password); May 17 8:48 PM www.harzion.org Sunday Morning 9:30 AM the daily minyan and Friday night services are Shavout I & II 10:00 AM May 21 7:52 PM Email: [email protected] only on Zoom. More on the calendar on page May 28 7:59 PM Facebook: Zoom ID# 828 3517 7631 www.facebook.com/WSTHZ 10. YouTube: www.bit.ly/HarZionYouTube SAVE THE DATE AND OTHER THINGS: CLOSINGS, SPECIAL EVENTS, PROGRAMING THE SOLOMON FAMILY RABBINIC CHAIR Young Families, Preschool and KRS Events journalist, writer, and editor, having worked at Adir Glick The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. MUSICAL TOT SHABBAT: RABBI EMERITUS Registration for this program is required; register ✡ Saturday, May 8, 9:30–10 AM Dr. Victor A. Mirelman and receive the Zoom link at: PROGRAMS FOR YOUNG FAMILIES: THE GOLDSTINE FAMILY http://bit.ly/THZ23May2021 CANTORIAL CHAIR ✡ Shavuot for Young Families: Monday, May 17, Stewart Figa 10:30 AM. Details and registration at: SUNDAY, MAY 30, 11 AM, YOSSI KLEIN HALEVI: “The Legacy of the 6 DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION http://bit.ly/THZyf17May2021 Day War.” Author Yossi Klein Halevi reflects on David Schwartz LAST KRS FOR THE SCHOOL YEAR: Sunday, May 23, 9:30 AM how the 1967 Six-Day War has profoundly THE GURALNICK FAMILY changed Israel. Register and receive the Zoom link PRESCHOOL CHAIR Shavuot at: http://bit.ly/THZ30May2021 Lorrie Applebey Shavuot begins in the evening of Sunday, May 16, Jewish Journeys/Jewniversity TEMPLE ADMINISTRATION and runs through Tuesday, May 18. The morning Charles Shapera services on Monday and Tuesday are being held at 10 May Theme: Relationship with God COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND AM, with Yizkor on Tuesday. Shavuot for Young INTRO TO JUDAISM 2020-21: Want to learn more about OUTREACH Judaism? You are welcome to join the Har Zion Position Open Families is on Monday morning (above). Additional programs are being planned; visit the Har Zion Intro to Judaism for any program. PRESIDENT https://www.wsthz.org/ ¤ Sunday, May 2, 10:30 AM: Israel JuliAnn Geldner webpage for more: ¤ Sunday, May 23, 10:30 AM: Death VICE PRESIDENT OF Special Programs BUILDING & ADMINISTRATION HAR ZION TEMPLE TALKS: On select Sundays at 3:30 PM, Jay Michaels SUNDAY, MAY 16, 10:30 AM, BOOK GROUP: Apeirogon, by Colum we will present a series of talks with distinguished VICE PRESIDENT OF McCann; the first of a two-part discussion. This members of our congregation who will share their EDUCATION & YOUTH complex novel is based on the true story of two life’s work/experiences. Zoom ID#: 884 1406 9962 Michael Weinstein fathers —one Israeli, one Palestinian—who lost ¤ Sunday, May 2, 3:30 PM—See page 2. VICE PRESIDENT OF daughters to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. ¤ Sunday, May 15, 3:30 PM: TBD FUNDRAISING Register and receive the Zoom link at: Open http://bit.ly/THZbook16May2021 Red Cross Blood Drive VICE PRESIDENT OF Sunday, May 30, 9 AM–2 PM. Registration is MEMBERSHIP AND OF SUNDAY, MAY 23, 7 PM, BARI WEISS : “Cancel Culture through a PRESCHOOL EDUCATION Jewish Lens.” Bari Weiss is an acclaimed American required; register at: https://rcblood.org/3niVKvF Amy Guralnick VICE PRESIDENT OF PROGRAMMING B’nai Mitzvah Peter Norlander TREASURER Haftarot Readers Ed Schmitt May 1 Emor Ruth Brown SECRETARY May 8 Behar-Bechukotai Joshua Harter Shirley Lieb May 15 Bamidbar Hai Solomon GABBAI May 17 Shavout I Yochanan Bauer Ed Sachs May 18 Shavout II Marc Stopeck May 22 Nasso Dale Guralnick BOARD OF DIRECTORS Ruth Brown Leah Grandsard Hannah Grandsard May 29 Sh’lach Alan Peres On page 2 May 1 May 20 May 20 LETTER FROM THE RABBI First Steps to Opening Up ear Friends, Torah to Jerusalem. After the Second Temple was “Our camera As of mid-April, 13 months after the destroyed, the rabbis created a Judaism based on onset of the pandemic, our society is home, community, and synagogue life. Even with a system is beginning to open up, and an increasing flourishing diaspora in the United States and a Jewish installed in the number of our members are vaccinated. homeland, we continue to live with the fruits of exile. Over the past several months, we have When the pandemic forced us to close down, we sanctuary and welcomedD more people into our sanctuary than at did what Jews have always done; we adapted. Now we will any time since March 2020. we will take back with us all that we have learned. Although we have been open for in-person As we head into a period of transition back to continue to use services since last summer, the numbers attending normal, I wanted to reassure you that we will it so members have been small. Now they are slowly rising. At the continue to take the utmost precautions while the beginning of April, Shabbat parashat Shemini, we had pandemic is still among us. Everyone who enters our close and far our first socially distant Kiddush after services. We building will continue to have their temperature can attend have also hosted life cycle events in our sanctuary checked and will be instructed to wear their mask. with a growing but limited number of in-person We will remain safely distanced and ensure that we services.” guests. work out all of the details. I have confidence in our As we plan ahead to the summer, we are re-opening task force. considering outdoor Shabbat services and We will also strive to continue to offer all of you the contemplating when we can have our first major event creativity, community engagement, interesting back within the familiar walls of our synagogue. programming, and connection that have characterized We understand that our reality has already these months under the pandemic. kehilla changed. Our camera system is installed in the I am certain that our sacred (congregation) is stronger than it was. We are more devoted than sanctuary and we will continue to use it so members ever to being welcoming, diverse, engaged in close and far can attend services from home. profound intellectual and spiritual Jewish life, Over the past year, we have benefited from the dedicated to tikkun olam (repairing the world), and presence of new members as far away as Oregon HAR ZION HOURS to being a home for Jewish arts and culture. (who found us on the internet) and long-time I thank you for your trust and faith in Temple Har OFFICE STAFF AVAILABLE: congregants now in North Chicago who were able to Zion. 9 AM–5 PM, Monday– Zoom in to our services and events. Sincerely, Thursday, Our output will continue to be geared to bringing 9 AM–2 PM Friday Jewish life to all of you for wherever you are. After all, Har Zion Judaism is a religion of survival and adaptation. When the First Temple was destroyed in Jerusalem, the exiles Board RABBI ADIR GLICK Members in Babylonia turned their focus increasingly to Scriptures and brought back their habit of reading the [email protected] Elizabeth Berman Jackson Cone Jill Dempsey Stacey Flint Suzanne Fournier Courtenay Harris-Black Ted Lawrence Haran Rashes Sarah Ruman Ed Sachs Carol Solomon Larry Stark Eugene Stopeck Frank Vozak Sue May Wilde Michael Zmora 05/01/21 — Page 2 Contact the office for our online program password. THE CANTOR’S VOICE Bensoussan recorded for posterity the intricate modalities, patterns, and tunes of his family’s traditions. He is equally at home with Ashkenazi A Moroccan Prince musical traditions. It is a great privilege to share the bill with this master. of Hazzanut Along with Cantor Bensoussan in Toronto and Cantor Barash in Milwaukee, our multi-screen videos Aaron Bensoussan include colleagues from Los Angeles, New Jersey, and me in River Forest. Small world! I hope to share the “We have As I write this, I am in the midst of recording several videos on the Har Zion website this summer. started to have music videos for a concert in June hosted by my friend Cantor David Barash of Congregation Emanu-El B’Ne a socially Jeshurun in Milwaukee. I have done live concerts there distanced with him in recent years, but alas in these (hopefully) waning days of COVID-19, David is hosting an all- Kiddush after CANTOR STEWART FIGA virtual concert —a format that we have all gotten used [email protected] services, which to. Of course I miss the audience and the camaraderie of being in person with other artists, but the virtual felt like we platform has its advantages. One is that I will be working with one of the world-wide living legends of really are PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE getting closer hazzanut and Jewish music, Aaron Bensoussan. Through the magic of video technology and the to our ‘old internet, I have the honor of singing and collaborating Toward the normal.’ ” with him from his home in Toronto, Canada. You may not know of him or his music, but if you New Normal attended our musical Shabbats a few years ago, you might remember the rousing Judeo-Arabic version of L’cha Dodi that I used to do with the band; that is Dear Friends, Bensoussan’s composition.