The Voice of Congregaon Beth Shalom April 2018 Gretchen Weiner GREENBAUM CONCERT President [email protected] SET FOR SUNDAY, MAY 6 Robert V. Gamer Klezmer, fiddlin’ and food! Rabbi [email protected] Come hungry for good food and good music at the 13th Annual Cantor Sam and Mona Greenbaum Concert at Beth Shalom on Sunday, May 6, at David A. Nelson, D.D. Rabbi Emeritus 4:00 p.m. Enjoy the sounds of klezmer music by Klezundheit, a local [email protected] ensemble that includes Beth Shalom member David Rodgers, and old-time fiddle and banjo music by Aaron Jonah Lewis, who grew up at Beth Shalom. Samuel L. Greenbaum Cantor Emeritus [email protected] Sheldon L. Freilich Executive Director [email protected] Abi Taylor-Abt Yachad Religious School Director yachadrelschool @congbethshalom.org Julie Grodin Circle of Friends [email protected] Arnie Weiner Klezundheit, a 12-member Aaron Jonah Lewis lives in HaKol Editor ensemble, was organized in 2014 Southwest Detroit when he isn’t [email protected] to play traditional and modern traveling with his own band, the Klezmer, gypsy, Balkan, and jazz Corn Potato String Band, or Congregation Beth Shalom 14601 West Lincoln Road music. The band was the another ensemble. “Technically Oak Park, Michigan 48237 brainchild of both Ken Posner of he’s a brilliant fiddler, able to Phone: 248.547.7970 West Bloomfield and his son, blend genres at will, and he’s got Fax: 248.547.0421 Alan, of Ferndale. the kind of high-wire aggression Office Hours: that makes for compelling Monday-Thursday listening,” said Sing Out! 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. Friday 8:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. Dinner will follow the musical program. Reservations are $12 for adults and $6 for children 4 – 12. Children 3 and under are free. email: [email protected] Let the Beth Shalom office know if you plan to attend: call (248) 547-7970 or email www.congbethshalom.org [email protected]. THE BETH SHALOM HAKOL IS PUBLISHED TWELVE TIMES A YEAR Find us on: See Pesach Schedule on Page 2 APRIL 2018 FAMILY HAPPENINGS HAPPY BIRTHDAY! WELCOME NEW MEMBERS: 2 Elaine Erdos Eric & Adena Barenholtz and son, Joel 2 Neil Zemmol 21 Aleza Lichterman 3 Lisa Yufit 21 Elizabeth Schubiner MAZAL TOV TO: 5 Steven Abrams 22 Yefim Milter Sharon and Paul Levine on the birth of their 5 Linda Lublin 22 Shari Zemmol granddaughter, Hayden Avery Abromovich, 6 Rimma Polevoy 23 David Rodgers daughter of Shoshana and Scott Abromovich. 10 Gabriel Sugarman 24 Anthony Mosko Lou and Joy Landau on the birth of their great 11 Steven Meyers 24 Louis White granddaughter, Hayden Avery Abromovich. 11 Peter Rodgers 25 Lauren Marcus Johnson 12 Inna Mushkin 26 Rachael Efros SPEEDY RECOVERY TO: 13 Henri Bernard 26 Jonathan Falk Dr. Bernie Goldstein 15 Danielle Chimovitz 26 Neil Weiner Jean Goldstein 16 Charles Mudryk 27 Richard Polk Myron Jackler 18 Ella Mendelson 28 Leslie Nodler CONDOLENCES TO: 18 Rabbi David Nelson 28 Denise Rodgers 19 Eileen Polk 28 Brandon Urikh The family of Esfir Zisser, beloved wife of the late Sheftl Zisser. Esfir was the devoted mother of Boris 20 Adena Barenholtz 29 Sherri Gelb (Marina) Zisser and Bela Khershberg and the loving 20 Shelia Levine 29 Willa Matthies grandmother of Artyom Zisser, Naum Khershberg, HAPPY BIRTHDAY! CANDLE LIGHTING TIMES Enhance your birthday celebraon by joining us at the April 2018 daily Minyan (morning and evening) the day of your Thursday, April 5 (Pesach)….…….………….……7:43 p.m. birthday. Enjoy camaraderie, friendship and prayer. Friday, April 6 (Pesach)..……………………….…..7:45 p.m. We need your parcipaon and presence to help those Friday, April 13………....……….…………….….......7:52 p.m. who have yahrzeit or wish to say Kaddish. Thank you Friday, April 20……….….……….……………….…...8:00 p.m. for parcipang in this very important Mitzvah. Friday, April 27…………………………………………..8:08 p.m. SCHEDULE FOR THE OBSERVANCE OF PASSOVER Friday, March 30 First Seder in evening Saturday, March 31 Passover – First Day Services begin at 9:30 a.m.. Second seder in the evening Sunday, April 1 Passover – Second Day Services begin at 9:30 a.m. Friday, April 6 Passover – Seventh Day Services begin at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, April 7 Passover – Eighth Day Services begin at 9:30 a.m. Yizkor will be observed 2 Message from Rabbi Gamer Israel’s National Anthem RABBI GAMER’S Yom Ha’atzmaut, Israel’s Independence Day, ADULT EDUCATION CLASSES falls on April 19th. This year we mark 70 TUESDAYS, APRIL 10 & 24 years since the birth of the State of Israel in 7:00-8:00 P.M. 1948. As we celebrate this anniversary, I have been thinking about two words – hope EVERYONE IS WELCOME and dreams. These two words have played an important role in the centrality of the Jewish faith for 2000 years as we have hoped for and dreamed of the restoration of our ancient RABBI’S LUNCH & LEARN homeland. The centrality of these two words can be seen in the will resume on wording of the two poems/songs that were under consideration by the World Zionist Congress for the Israeli national anthem – Tuesday, May 1 Psalm 126 and Hatikvah. Noon to 1:30 p.m. Psalm 126 reads in English translation: “A song of ascents. When the LORD restores the fortunes of Zion - we will be like $12 per person dreamers - our mouths shall be filled with laughter, our tongues, RSVP to the office with songs of joy. Then shall they say among the nations, ‘The LORD has done great things for them!’ The LORD will do great things for us and we shall rejoice. Restore our fortunes, O LORD, like watercourses in the Negev. They who sow in tears ISRAEL AT 70 – A SNAPSHOT shall reap with songs of joy. Though he goes along weeping, carrying the seed-bag, he shall come back with songs of joy, Israel is rapidly approaching the tipping point where the carrying his sheaves.” majority of the world’s Jews Hativkah reads in English translation: “So long as still within our will be living in the Jewish breasts, The Jewish heart beats true; So long as still towards the state. Last year the Central East; To Zion, looks the Jew; So long our hopes are not yet Bureau of Statistics lost. Two thousand years we cherished them. To live in freedom announced that Israel has in the land; Of Zion and Jerusalem.” Hatikva, has been attributed 8.68 million citizens, 10 to Naftali Herz Imber, written in 1878 and published in 1886. The times more Jews than at its poem was first published under the title of “Tikvatenu (Our founding. Hope)” in Imber's journal Barkai and had nine stanzas. The inspiration of the poem is said to have been the founding of the According to the report, the Jewish population represents 6.484 million residents city of Petach Tikvah (Gateway of Hope) in Israel. – 74.7% of the total population – and the Arab In 1901, one of the sessions of the Fifth Zionist Congress in population stands at 1.808 million people, 20.8% of Basel, Switzerland, ended with the singing of Hatikva (still the country’s inhabitants. The remaining 5.5%, called Tikvatenu). It wasn't until 1905 that the entire Hatikva was approximately 388,000 people, represent non-Arab sung by all the delegates present at the Seventh Zionist Christians and people of other religions, as well as Congress, making Hatikva the (unofficial) Zionist anthem. When those with no religious affiliation, the vast majority of Hatikva the State of Israel was established in 1948, was again them from the former Soviet Union. unofficially proclaimed the national anthem. Psalm 126 was also considered as a possible anthem, set to the music of Cantor The report cited that at the founding of the state in Yossele Rosenblatt. Interestingly, Hatikva did not officially 1948, there were 11.5 million Jews in the world, of become the national anthem until November 2004, when an whom 6% were living in Israel. In contrast, in 2015 abbreviated and edited version was sanctioned by the Knesset. there were 14.411 million Jews in the world, 43% of The official version of the anthem is only the first stanza of the whom were living in Israel. Since 2016 the country’s original poem. population grew by some 159,000 people, marking a 1.9% increase. The data also revealed that by 2048 Each of these beautiful pieces sum up the hopes and dreams of th the Jewish people – to be reestablished in our ancestral – Israel’s 100 birthday – the Jewish state’s homeland. As we celebrate 70 years of the modern State of population is expected to hit over 15 million people. Israel, I hope we will continue to hope and dream of a peaceful future in the land of Israel. 3 Message from the President... Gretchen Weiner April is a month to celebrate! During National Library Week, April 8-14, be sure to visit your local library or give them a shout-out on FaceBook, Volunteer Shabbat Twitter, SnapChat or your favorite Saturday, April 21 social media platform! The following week, April 15- followed by kiddush & light lunch 22, is National Volunteer Week, and we will honor our Let us know you are coming! Beth Shalom volunteers at our Shabbat service on RSVP March 21. by Wednesday, April 18 [email protected] Volunteers are special people! When I think of 248-547-7970 volunteers at Beth Shalom, myriad scenarios come to mind: someone answering the phones at CBS on a day all staff are off; a group of people planning programs such as ChanuCon or Women’s Seder; welcoming guests at an event; individuals leading weekday minyan and Shabbat services and those attending those services to ensure there is a minyan for anyone saying kaddish.