the of ohavi Zedek Synagogue voice Burlington, vermont elul/tiShri/cheShvan SeptemBer/octoBer 2014 SAVE THE DATE SCHOLAR IN RESIDENCE SHABBATON Sign up today and purchases made will earn points to help OZ Hebrew School get needed equipment FREE. Make sure you’re signed up! (School Code is 15180) If you don’t have a card, visit the Customer Service Desk at any Price Chopper location or sign up your current card at November 7–9, 2014 http://www.pricechopper.com/ Judaism and the Environment savings/tools-for-schools With Rabbi Or N. Rose Special guest Kathryn Blume Adult Education Class Schedule for Fall Semester is located on the See insert for more details back side of enclosed insert. Leadership Contacts .............................2 High Holy Days 5775 From the Rabbi......................................3 From the President................................4 From the Executive Director ..................5 Shanah Tovah! Rabbinic Search News............................6 Profile.....................................................7 Hebrew School News.............................9 Chavurah.................. ...........................10 Rosh HaShanah – September 25-26 Library...................................................13 Announcements..................................14 Erev Yom Kippur – October 3 Adult Ed...............................................15 Yom Kippur - October 4 Young Judaea.......................................16 Shalom Shuk........................................17 Tributes................................................18 Yahrzeits...............................................20 Calendar..............................................22 leaderShip contactS STAFF BOARD OF DIRECTORS Rabbi............................................................Joshua Chasan President...........................................Vivien Rabin Brown [email protected] (802) 309-9046 [email protected] Asst. Rabbi........................................................Jan Salzman Vice-President......................................Elizabeth Kleinberg [email protected] (802) 324-4269 [email protected] Executive Director..............................................Peter Pelaia Treasurer....................................................Peggy Munro [email protected] (802) 878-3932 [email protected] Hebrew School Principal..................................Naomi Barell Secretary......................................................Basha Brody [email protected] (802) 373-1623 [email protected] Chavurah Program Director.........................Melanie Kessler [email protected] Joey Bergstein (802) 321-0080, [email protected] Front Office Coordinator......................................Tari Santor David Borsykowsky [email protected] (802) 864-3311, [email protected] Facilities Manager.................................Raul Guevara Mitchel Cypes (802) 860-6847, [email protected] [email protected] Mindy Evnin Admin Asst............................................................Katy Blue (802) 863-4002, [email protected] Hours: M/W/F - 9 am to 3 pm [email protected] Joanna May Bookkeeper.......................................................Marcy Carton (802) 434-4290, [email protected] [email protected] Sharon Panitch Hours: T/TH - 2 to 5 pm; Fri-10 am to 2 pm (802) 864-9774, [email protected] Jeff Potash Youth Director...............................Fran Pomerantz (802) 862-0917, [email protected] (802) 434-3443 [email protected] Abby Rosenthal (802) 871-5631, [email protected] Michael Schaal Rabbi Emeritus..............................................Max B. Wall z’l (802) 922-0558, [email protected] Cantor Emeritus.................................................Jerrold Held Gary Visco (802) 985-9325, [email protected] COMMITTEES Adult Education: Fern Hill: Interfaith & Social Action: Religious: Judy Chalmer - (802) 272 8408 Nancy Sugarman - (802) 863-4447 Eric & Karen Corbman Marv Greenberg [email protected] [email protected] 802-399-2602 [email protected] [email protected] Archives: Finance: Shalom Shuk: Aaron Goldberg - (802) 862-0546 Gary Visco - (802) 985-9325 Library: Kay Greenberg - (802) 238-4888 [email protected] [email protected] Ellen Gittelsohn - (802) 657-3140 [email protected] [email protected] Cemetery: Hebrew School: Sisterhood: Shimmy Cohen - (802) 862-2851 Sarah Kleinman - 802-598-7246 Membership & Outreach: Kathy Chasan - (802) 363-5755 [email protected] [email protected] Sharon Panitch - (802) 864-9774 [email protected] [email protected] Development/Fundraising: House: Youth: Vivien Rabin Brown - (802) 309-9046 David Rome - (802) 878-6606 Rabbinic Search Committee Fran Pomerantz - (802) 434-3443 [email protected] [email protected] Lee Lichtenstein - (802) 8778-1466 [email protected] Events: Human Resources: [email protected] Judy Hershberg - (802) 863-4214 Vivien Rabin Brown - (802) 309-9046 [email protected] [email protected] 2 / September.October 2014 / www.ohavizedek.org from the raBBi ROSH HASHANAH BASKETS his summer it didn’t matter Twhere we lived, as Jews we This New Year, help us came face to face, once again, to continue building a with the depth of the hatred meaningful community at of our people that continues OZ. Our G’Mach (Gemilut to plague humanity. No doubt Chasadim – Acts of Loving in the days ahead and during Kindness) Committee is the yamim nora’im, the Days planning its largest ever of Awe, we will be thinking and delivery of New Year’s baskets talking and feeling the consequences of Hamas’ attack to elders and others at OZ to on Israel and Israel’s defense of its people. communicate our care and The consequences were and continue to be concern. experienced most directly by Israelis and Palestinians. Can you help us with Even so, if we are not in denial, the challenge of our deliveries? Just as important, can you let us know if right to live as Jews once again has surfaced. When a you would welcome a delivery? congregation of Jews on Shabbat in Paris is surrounded by an armed, vitriolic mob, shouting “death to the Baskets will be available for delivery after noon on Jews,” and it takes the police hours to gain control of Sunday, September 21 in the OZ kitchen. Please let us the situation, it is time for us to open our eyes and know if you’d that you’d like to participate and help. see a new reality for us personally as Jews and for all This is part of our ongoing efforts to provide visits and of us as the people of Israel: citizens of the State of food, as needed, to members of our community. Israel and members of the spiritual people of Israel all ~ Jeff Potash about the world. [email protected], 862-0917 As the days of soul-searching of Rosh Hashanah ~ Rabbi Joshua and Yom Kippur approach, Judaism commands of [email protected], 864-0218 us a cheshbon ha’nefesh, an accounting of our state as human beings; a reckoning of the ways we have served God and the ways we have turned away from the service of God as measured by our attitudes about others and our actions in regard to them. Boucher & Pritchard We are particularly challenged this year because so many in the world, including our erstwhile friends, Funeral Home “Serving the are wallowing in their prejudice against Jews and not Jewish a few in their hatred of our people. We must stand Community guard against the insidious ways in which this bigotry since 1917” seeps into the larger culture and manages, osmosis- like, to infect the processes of our doing t’shuvah, seeking forgiveness, getting straight with God. We will pre-arrange all of your funeral service needs at any time. Please call us and It is tempting to shut down the very processes we will contact the Jewish Sacred Society. of t’shuvah through our insistence on naming the If an emergency arises when you are out of calumny of contemporary charges against Israel state, for the fastest most efficient service, call us first. and all of us Jews. Listening to the unctuous words of UNRA officials about Jewish cruelty when UNRA Directors has abided the hiding of rockets in its schools and Sumner “Shimmy” Cohen hospitals, makes it difficult to generate the personal Carol A. Pritchard vulnerability that our tradition asks of us as we begin 802-862-2851 or toll free: 800-862-2851 the new year. But hardly impossible. And so we have our work cut out for us during the coming weeks. ~ Rabbi Joshua www.ohavizedek.org /September.October 2014 / 3 from the preSident Announcing the Raul & Katherine Guevara Playground or the next several weeks, Fwe’ll be focused on the On Sunday, August 10, over 150 members of the OZ beauty and solemnity of the family turned out at Oakledge Park to surprise Raul High Holy Days. There’s much Guevara with a party celebrating his 30 years of service involved in preparing for this to Ohavi Zedek Synagogue. We really managed to sacred time. I am grateful to surprise Raul; he had no idea! everyone at OZ who works so At the party we announced that the new playground hard on these preparations. we are building this year will be named the Raul & Of course, regular business still Katherine Guevara Playground in honor of Raul's many must continue. This year, the semi-annual Congregational years of dedicated service to our community, and in Meeting will be held on Sunday, December 7 at 9:30 particular, his love and devotion to all of the children am. Board elections take place each year at this winter of Ohavi Zedek.