A Monthly Publication for Temple Beth-El, Las Cruces, New Mexico JUNE 2021 (SIVAN-TAMMUZ 5781) Temple Beth-El and the TBE Mensch Club are proud to announce: Pastrami for Pops A JFFF food pick up event For the whole Las Cruces community As the Levy’s rye bread ads used to say – “You Don’t have to be Jewish” Father’s Day - Sunday, June 20, 2021 – 11:00 AM-5:00 PM Menu to include Pastrami sandwiches on rye, Hebrew National Hot dogs, pickles, chips, baked desserts, and sodas. Cooked sandwiches will be available for pick-up only. No on-site consumption – pre-orders and bulk orders available - To that end we are setting up a special email address: [email protected] Volunteers Needed!! – BOARD OF TRUSTEES 2021-2022 Contact Dave Zeemont – 575-523-0913 President-Nan Rubin or at the above email Vice-President-Lynn Zeemont Secretary– Wendee Lorbeer Treasurer– Michael Mandel Pearie Bruder Marieka Brown Steven Haydu Bryan McCuller Martha Roditti Diane Fleishman Cherri Hudson-Brown Jeff Lewis (Mensch Club) Dee Cook (Sisterhood) JUNE 2021 (SIVAN-TAMMUZ 5781) Page 2 Worship Schedule (Via Zoom) Friday, June 11 6:30 pm Shabbat Evening Services You can also watch the Facebook livestream for holiday and Shabbat services lay-led by Leora Zeitlin on this page: Saturday, June 12 https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/ 9:00 am Talmud Study Synagogue/Temple-Beth-El- Parshat Korach 115816285166004/ Numbers 16:1-18:32 (if you do not have a Facebook profile now, and it asks you to join when you go to the Friday, June 18 page, click “Not Now” and that box will 6:30 pm Shabbat Evening service disappear). lay-led by Erich Zameret and If you do not have a siddur at home, you Ruth Rubin can follow along in the Mishkan T’filah for Saturday, June 19 Shabbat flipbook provided by the Central 9:00 am Talmud Study Conference of American Rabbis at this link 10:15 am Bar Mitzvah of https://www.ccarnet.org/publications/mis Max Tobin Bruder (Zoom hkan-tfilah-for-shabbat/ information to come) Zoom invites for all Services, and any text Parshat Chukkat to follow, will be sent out weekly. Numbers 19:1-22:1 Wednesday Tanakh study with Rabbi Larry Karol Friday, June 25 Currently on hiatus during the Karol’s 6:30 pm New Member Shabbat relocation. Contact Rabbi Karol Evening Service ([email protected]) to attend when it coordinated by the Membership and resumes (continuing remotely via Zoom) Outreach and Religious Practices Saturdays- committees with participation from Talmud Study 9:00 AM new congregants Contact Bryan McCuller Saturday, June 26 ([email protected]) to attend 9:00 am Talmud Study Friday, June 4 Parshat Balak 6:30 pm Shabbat Evening Service- Numbers 22:1-25:9 lay-led by the Bruder Family Saturday, June 5 9:00 am Talmud Study Parshat Shelach Numbers 13:1-15:41 Page 3 _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________JUNE 2021 (SIVAN-TAMMUZ 5781) Yahrzeits-June 5, 2021 through July 2, 2021 Read on Friday, July 2 (Listings include the name of the loved one on the yahrzeit list and Josephine Glater (Leslie Glater) the name of the congregant or congregants remembering that loved Kathryn Goldstein (Arthur & Wendee Lorbeer) one -asterisks indicate loved ones remembered with memorial Diane Gutman (Allen & Eve Palanker) plaques) Gertrude Kalmanowitz (Sally Sicherman) Jacob Krasner* (Frima Marquez, Jeffrey Marquez) Read on Friday, June 5 Marcia Rabinovich (David Rabinovich) Jerome Batkin* (Mike Batkin) Michael Singer (Mark & Stefani Singer) Richard Batkin* (Mike Batkin) Dorothy Whitledge (Dee Cook) Christina Griffasi (Deborah Lee Thuman & James Jaworski) Read on Friday, July 9 Aaron Hyman* (Michael & Stacey Hyman) Lakie bat Aaron and Katya (Burt & Ann Berkson) Ruben Kasten* Manny Blumkin* Miriam Kuznekoff*(Chuck Kuznekoff) Chalmit Iris Cohen (Tanah Hemingway) Anna Weinglass (Teddy Weinglass) Arnold Heart (Nancy Bergman & Greg Artman) Sam Maness (Mark & Stefani Singer) Read on Friday, June 11 Logan Pearson (Jeff Brown & Cherri Hudson-Brown) Bernard Cutler (Allen & Michelle Blum) Shana Sicherman (Sally Sicherman) Clara Kleiner (Rachel Stevens) Bernard Singer (Mark & Stefani Singer) Nathan Mandel (Michael & Barbara Mandel) David Williamson (Michael & Barbara Mandel) Barbara Orner (Ralph Orner) Joseph Rosenfeld* Steven Pasternak* Isaac Podolsky (Selma Ryave & Rosalyn Richman) In order to ensure that the name of your loved one will be Elissa Poel (Martin Poel) recited during services, we have instituted the following Max Taub* practices: Marian Turnbull (Joanne Turnbull) • The Hebrew dates for each week’s Yahrzeits are listed in each Adelante. Asher Segen* Quinn Sticler (Cheryl & David Decker) • Names are read on the Shabbat following the Yahrzeit, or on the day, if it falls on that Shabbat. • Hebrew vs. conventional (Gregorian) calendar: The temple’s Read on Friday, June 18 tradition is to base the Yahrzeits list on the Hebrew calendar. Cecile Elfant (Rose Jacobs) Those who wish to have a name read on a Friday night close Siebert Feldman* (Louise & Frank Baskey) to the conventional (Gregorian) calendar date are asked to Ruth Frank (Lester & Renee Frank) please email or call the Temple office a few days prior to the Jennie Frank* service. Ralph Holiday (Marjorie Gordon) *Asterisks indicate that a loved one has been permanently Henrietta Horowitz (Ellen Torres) memorialized with a plaque in the Temple sanctuary. If you are Harold Nachison (Jerry & Jodie Nachison) interested in acquiring a plaque for your loved one, contact the Roslyn Rice* Temple office. Leo Steinborn* (Vivian Steinborn, Jeff Steinborn) Efrem Violin (Stefani & Mark Singer) Rachelle Petrowski* Read on Friday, June 25 Milton Berkson* (Burt & Ann Berkson, Arthur & Rebecca Berkson) Raymond Gettleman (Sally Sicherman) Honor the memory of loved ones Rose Lieberman (Buzzie Lieberman) Joseph Okin (Stan & Gerie Muchnikoff) with a memorial plaque and mark Dora Stern* celebrations and Shaina Devorah bat Aaron & Gittel (Burt & Ann milestones (and also Berkson, Arthur & Rebecca Berkson) Leonard Weinglass (Teddy Weinglass) the memory of friends Pearl Weisman (Cyrille Kane) and family) by adding leaves to our Tree of Life. JUNE 2021 (SIVAN-TAMMUZ 5781) Page 4 JUNE 2021 TRANSITION REPORT FOCUS GROUP 1: MEMBERSHIP and OUTREACH – Sunday, June 13, 2:00 PM The major focus of Phase 2 of TBE’s transition is to Martha Roditti, Point Person gather information that will move our congregation forward. The two ways that we are doing this—the URJ FOCUS GROUP 2: WAYS & MEANS – Congregational Study and Focus Groups—are described Sunday, July 11th, 2:00 PM in detail below. Information from these sources will be Wendee Lorbeer, Point Person shared with the congregation this fall, after the High Holidays. FOCUS GROUP 3: SISTERHOOD & MENSCH CLUB – Sunday, July 18, 2:00 PM URJ Congregational Study Lynn Zeemont & Jeff Lewis, Point Persons There are three parts to the URJ Congregational Study. The first part, the Congregational Survey, ended on May FOCUS GROUP 4: RELIGIOUS SCHOOL – 25th. Data for the second two parts—Finance and Board Self-Assessment—will be due to the URJ on June 25th. To be scheduled in August TBE will receive results in August. Rebecca Berkson, Point Person. Focus Groups Any member is welcome to join any Focus Group. Please We’re listening! You gave feedback during the Fall 2020 contact Jeff Brown at [email protected] and put Focus Discussion Groups and the recent URJ survey. Now you Groups in the subject line if you would like to participate. can give input about important specific areas that will Thank you! affect TBE’s future. Jeff Brown is taking the lead for Focus Groups that will be held via Zoom in June, July and August 2021 to address issues related to Membership, Ways & Means, Sisterhood & Mensch Club, and the Religious School. Nancy Barnes-Smith will facilitate the Focus Groups. The following questions will be addressed at each session: Adelante Submissions: 1. What is the group doing now? During this time of social distancing due to COVID-19, let 2. What does the group need to do better? us not become distant from each other. Speak with fellow 3. What might the group like to do if possible? congregants, friends and family. Send me your pictures of family Shabbat, book recommendations, recipes, 4. What needs to happen for the group to achieve its illustrations, etc. I will share as many as space allows in goals? next month’s Adelante. The deadline for turning in articles, items and photos for Each group will also be able to address other questions the July 2021 Adelante is June 20, 2021. Late items may specific for their group. not be included. Please do your best to keep to that schedule to facilitate a timely completion of the Adelante! All content can be e-mailed to Beth Tierney at [email protected] Page 5 JUNE 2021 (SIVAN-TAMMUZ 5781) Continued from previous column Words from our New wheelchair with MS. This limits my mobility and Board President, requires me to arrange timely transportation because I Nan Rubin can't just jump in a car on a moment’s notice. Also, it can limit my ability to attend events, especially if a This is a note of introduction in venue has stairs. So I may be asking some of you to context of the new Board represent the Temple at events, not to shirk my duty, configuration! I appreciate the high but more likely because the logistics are too difficult for participation in the membership me to arrange. Thanks for your understanding! meeting and your vote of confidence for the Board. Taking on the role of President at this time is definitely a Please send me your comments, ideas, questions, or challenge, but our board includes both experienced issues concerning Temple Beth-El.