See page 23 for details HAKOL JANUARY 2021 Gayle Pomerantz Senior Rabbi Robert A. Davis Rabbi, D.Min. In This Issue Ethan Bair Rabbi Joanne Loiben Rabbi/Youth Shabbat Schedule ............................. 2 jLAB ......................................................... 13 Lisa V. Segal Cantor Rabbi Pomerantz ................................ 3 Sisterhood ............................................. 14 Gary A. Glickstein Rabbi Emeritus Civility Statement ............................... 4 B’nei Mitzvah ........................................ 15 Steven Haas Cantor Emeritus SJN .......................................................... 5 Recent Deaths ..................................... 16 Jeff Graff Executive Director Margie Zeskind Head of School President ................................................ 6 Tzedakah ............................................... 17 Mark Baranek Director of Congregational Engagement TBSIS/Margie Zeskind ...................... 7 Adult Education .................................. 20 Katy Boyask Director of Advancement Development ....................................... 8 Being Mortal ......................................... 21 Dalia Katz Director of Supplemental Education Circle of Giving .................................... 9 Israeli Books/Film ............................... 22 Greg Lawrence Director of Membership Above and Beyond Appeal ............. 10 Kavanah/Sara Hurwitz ...................... 23 Jenny Lowhar Director of Marketing and Communications Barb Shimansky Director of School for Living Judaism PURPLE Film Showing ..................... 12 BESHTY .................................................. 24 Michael Svayg Director of Operations Adam Trautenberg Director of The Tribe VIRTUAL SHABBAT SCHEDULE OFFICERS tbsmb.org/spiritual-life/shabbat Board of Trustees Shabbat is a taste of paradise. Talmud, Berachot 57a PRESIDENT Stevan Pardo Shabbat Evening Services VICE PRESIDENTS 6:00 pm | Friday Julie Basner Vanessa Ressler Jose Benrey Marte Singerman Our Shabbat evening service will embrace you. Fresh and familiar music will Michael Levinson Myra Spindel enable you to give voice to your own spirit. Special occasions in the lives of our Suzanne Meltzer Mike Weinberg congregants, Jewish teachings, sermons from our rabbis, and special music will Allan Pekor enhance “Shabbat—our sanctuary in time.” TREASURER Etan Mark Torah Study on Shabbat Morning SECRETARY 9:30 am | Saturday Bobbi Ossip Start your Saturday with Torah study and a bagel with a shmear of cream cheese. AT LARGE Each Shabbat morning before our Shabbat Morning Minyan (10:30 am), you will Cyndy Albert Larry Hurwitz study Parashat HaShavua, the weekly Torah portion. The rabbis will lead a Nikki Baron Diane Katzen discussion of ancient commentaries and teachings and reveal the Torah’s Jerri Bassuk Amy Ostroff Michael Berman Michael Pardo modern and relevant lessons. Eric Broad Denis Russ Bart Chepenik Jonathan Sepsenwol Tot Shabbat Tamas Doffek Robin Straus Furlong Glenn Dryfoos Rachel Unger 10:00 am | Saturday Barbara Gelber Andrea Wagner Join us Saturday morning at 10:00 am for a wonderful young family Shabbat expe- Judith Greene Cheryl Zuckerman rience. This interactive program is geared for families with children up to the age of Allison Greenfield five years old. Prayer, music, stories, movement, activities, snacks and much more PAST PRESIDENTS will be featured. Following Tot Shabbat, families stay and enjoy time together in our *Alfred B. Rosenstein *Harold B. Vinik beautiful playground. This is a great way for you to celebrate Shabbat with other *Dr. Max Ellis *Neal O. Amdur families with young children. tbsmb.school/programs/family *Morris Berrick *Marvin Stonberg *Harry A. Cornblum *Helen Kotler *Louis J. Krensky Michael Dribin Shabbat Morning Minyan *Shepard Broad Charles A. Citrin 10:30 am | Saturday * Leon J. Ell Andrew R. Hirschl Join us Saturday mornings at 10:30 am in our beautiful chapel or sanctuary. *Ralph Spero Nancy Ratzan *John Serbin Robert Hertzberg Our clergy and members of our congregation help to lead the prayers and read the *Judge Harry Shelley Niceley Groff Torah. Kiddush lunch follows. Arthur Greenberg Ronald Albert, Jr. *James Albert Peter Russin *Louis Snetman Marjorie Baron jLAB Family Shabbat * Jack Fink Jack Karson Each Saturday morning, jLAB students in grades K-5 and their parents (and other *Eli Katzin Karen Rivo *James S. Knopke Jeff Graff significant grown-ups) gather together in the chapel from 9:30-10:00 am for a lively *Milton Gaynor Shabbat morning t’filah experience. This is a great opportunity to learn the prayers ADVISORY BOARD of our liturgy and connect with the words of our prayer service. All those with Harvey Chaplin Hillel Meyers children in this age group are welcome to join us! For more information or to RSVP * Joel Friedland Irving Miller contact Kimberly Hyde at [email protected]. Gary Gerson Gerald Robins David Kenin Manuel Zaiac Donald Lefton B’nei Mitzvah Service *deceased Our b’nei mitzvah services are at 10:00 am and 4:30 pm. These services occur only when a member of the Temple is celebrating the occasion of becoming bar or bat mitzvah. See above (table of contents) or tbsmb.org/calendar for current schedule. Sisterhood Co-Presidents Kim Haber and Phyllis Winston Brotherhood President Josh Laurence Live Streaming BESHTY President Chloe Wiesenfeld Watch Friday night and Saturday morning Shabbat services on your computer at Founding Sr. Rabbi Leon Kronish www.tbsmb.org/watch or on YouTube.com/user/tbsmbtube Auxiliary Rabbi Harry Jolt Cantor Emeritus David Conviser Executive Director Emeritus Dennis Rice Visit TBSMB.ORG Executive Director Emerita Alice Miller for viewing platforms by service Page 3 Sacred Connections Rabbi Gayle Pomerantz This month we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day in mid- Our tradition models respectful disagreement. The Talmud, January at the same time as we read the story of a central pillar of Jewish learning, records majority and the Exodus from Egypt by our ancestors. In our siddur, minority opinions. And we are taught that though Rabbis the following passage appears: Hillel and Shammai rarely agreed on matters, they continued to break bread at the same table. In healthy “Standing on the parted shores, we still believe what we conflict, we may express anger and frustration but we were taught before ever we stood at Sinai’s foot; that have to agree to listen to each other. Healthy argument wherever we go, it is eternally Egypt; that there is a better may be passionate and animated but it cannot include place, a promised land; that the winding way to that promise demonization and scapegoating. passes through the wilderness. That there is no way to get from here to there except by joining hands, marching With the dust settling on the 2020 presidential election, together.” —Mishkan T’filah, adapted from Michael and a new year before us, it is time to roll up our sleeves Walzer’s Exodus and Revolution and begin the work of healing and solidarity. Unity does not mean uniformity—it means standing together, These words remind us that despite our ancestors’ and working for the common good. liberation from Egypt and despite all the victories of the Civil Rights Movement with MLK’s leadership, “that wherever To help us bridge the polarization that has divided our we go, it is eternally Egypt.” Though this message may country, and at times, even our synagogue, we will be be disheartening, it is a reminder that whatever progress airing a new short documentary film entitled: PURPLE: toward freedom and liberation is made, there is always more America, We Need to Talk. The film provides a work to be done. It is a polemic against complacency and window into what it looks like when people engage in indifference. healthy public discussion on contentious issues. The filmmakers brought together people from opposite sides Indeed, for us today, we need no reminder that there is of the political spectrum who live in the same rural much work to be done. As George Floyd’s brutal murder communities in two distinctly purple states – Wisconsin demonstrated so graphically this summer (and before and Iowa. The film will be followed by a community him Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Eric Garner, Michael discussion around how we build empathy with people Brown…), the struggle for racial justice and equality must from different world views and begin to appreciate continue. 2019 also saw the largest number of antisemitic each other’s experiences and perspectives without having incidents in the United States, more than in the previous to agree. Please join us on Tuesday, January 19 from four decades. And as the recent election demonstrated, 5:30–7:00 pm for this important conversation. The zoom our country is deeply and painfully divided with the global link may be found at tbsmb.org pandemic exacerbating the fissures that had been percolating just beneath the surface. “And history tells The Egypt we must try to escape is the cruelty of hatred and us that where there are the cracks, we can expect blame. May this year see us coming together in new and extremism and hate to seep in” says Jonathan Greenblatt, healing ways, with each one of us reaching across lines of CEO of the Anti-Defamation League. difference to bridge the divide. As our prayerbook reminds us: “… there is no way to get from here to there except by Knowing that we are at an inflection point in our country, joining hands, marching together.” we have an opportunity and a responsibility for turning the tide