Central ttIII III Synagogue Vol. 44. NO.7 March 1990 • Adar/Nlsan 5750 In From The You are cordially Invited to our Rabbi's SOCIAL ACTION SABBATH Study Friday. March 2 Elie Wiesel was speaking. The occasion was a full 8:15 PM plenary session of the Global Forum on the Environment, meeting in Moscow. As Resa and I along with some 800 others list~med, Rabbi Stanley M. Davids Wiesel wove a message uniquely his own, a will speak on message of hope and of pain. He wanted all of us Human Survival: Religion and to know that before the environment can be saved, before we can truly begin to hear the Science Preserving the anguished cries of Mother Earth, we must Global Environment radically change the nature of education. We are forbidden to forget, we were told, that it was the best-educated nation on earth which had Rabbi DavIds recently retumed from a conceived and implemented the Holocaust. week-long conference In Moscow on Education must be freed from all imposed the environment and economic ideologies; education must be open to development sponsored by the Global ambiguities as well as to certainties; education Forum of Spiritual and Partlamentary must open our minds to truths which flow from Leaders. He was one of only seven multiple sources. By remembering, we can avoid rabbis In attendance from around the yesterday's errors. Without our memories, we can World. never expect to redeem our world from human evil. In the Sanctuary Wiesel's comments touched off a firestorm of response from the floor, some warmly supportive Please see the enclosed announcement. and some violently critical. The most painful of all for me to hear came from a resident ofIndia, who indignantly proclaimed: "The past is dead. All Mark your calendar for that lives for us is the present and the future. And that is the only valid basis for human hope." Friday, April 13 • 8:15 PM We Jews have lived a long time. We treasure our memories, but we ought never allow those when Central Synagogue will memories to entice us into believing that that present its annual SHOFAR which was is that which always must be. AWARD to JONATHAN KOZOL, Memories guide, memories suggest, memories add feeling and significance-but memories must author and activist against never demand of us blind and unthinking illiteracy and homelessness. obedience. See April Bulletin for details. Some four months ago, a trusted ' friend and colleague forwarded to me an unusual request Continued on page 4 MARCH Calendar SMTWTFS Religious Sc.hool About Our 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Monday, 3/ 5, 12 Religious School of 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Wednesday, 3/7, 14 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Dr. Jack L. Sparks, Ed.D" RJE 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Sunday, 3/4, 11 Events After explaining the experiences our Sisterhood Sponsored Meetings Religious School children enjoy during a class retreat to the mountains or a Central Women's Focus ActMties Shabbat dinner or a specific religious Tuesday, 3/ 13, 8:00 AM school celebration, many adults lament: Bridge MAKOR/The Source "Why don't you run these types of Tuesday & Thursday, 7:30 PM Friday, 3/ 16, 7:30 PM 3/ 1, 6, 8, 13, 15, 20, 22, 27, 29 programs for adults?" The answer is WE DOl Last month in the Institute of Jewish Sisterhood Gift Shop Scouts Studies column in the Bulletin, you read Monday - Friday, 10 AM - 4:00 PM Girl Scouts about the adult retreat which Rabbi Open Meeting Wednesday, 3/7, 14, 21 , 28, 3:30 PM Davids' led at the Dellwood Country Club. Monday, 3/ 19, 12:00 NOON I now share you with another innovation: Boy Scouts the Adult Shabbaton. In our usage, a Board Meeting Tuesday, 3/ 6, 13, 20, 27, 6:30 PM Wednesday, 3/7, 5:30 PM Shabbaton is an Erev Shabbat workshop Cub Scouts service, followed by a festive Shabbat Seniors Club Monday, 3/5, 5:45 PM dinner and some serious study. Please Tuesday, 3/ 6, 13, 20, 27, 10:00 AM join us on Friday, March 9 (see second Junior Youth Group Brotherhood Sponsored column, this pagel. 7th & 8th Grade "Mystery Bus Ride" On Saturday, March 10, we usher in our ActMties Saturday, 3/ 3, 6:30 PM Purim festivities for children and adults. Program for the Blind 5th & 6th Grade "Chocolate Seder" Beginning at 5:30 PM in the sanctuary, we Sunday, 3/ 18, 10:00 AM Thursday, 3/ 15, 4:45 PM will share in the reading of the Megillah by our rabbis and cantor. Immediately Board Meeting Senior Youth Group following that we will have our annual Wednesday, 3/7, 5:45 PM Purim Carnival in Schwartz Auditorium, Religious Action Center coordinated by our Youth Group teens. Study Friday, 3/ 2-Monday, 3/ 5 This promises to be the best Purim Institute of Jewish Studies Purim Carnival carnival yet, so please make every effort to Judaica Treasures in Our Saturday, 3/ 10 join us. Own Synagogue Collection - Post-Confirmation Class It's not too late to plant a tree in Israel in Cissy Grossman Monday, 3/ 12, 6:00 PM honor or memory of a loved one. Send $7 to Mrs. Genel in the education office with Monday, 3/ 1, 7:45 PM Open Meeting the appropriate name and address. Our Close-Up of the Worms Machsor Monday, 3/ 12, 7:30 PM and the Kennicott Bible - goal this season is a grove of trees donated Evelyn Cohen Special Events by the Central Synagogue community. Monday, 3/ 19, 7:45 PM Social Action Sabbath: Rabbi Davids Lunch with the Rabbi will speak on The Global Wednesday, 3/ 28, 12:30 PM Environment Talmud Friday, 3/ 2, 8:15 PM Don't miss this IJS lecture Friday, 3/ 2, 9, 16, 23, 30, 8:00 AM Mon., Mar. 19 • 7:45 PM Chevra Torah Saturday, 3/ 3, 10, 17, 24, 31, 9:15 AM CLOSE-UP OF THE Please join us In our ftrst WORMS MACHSOR AND ADULT SHABBATON THE KENNICOTT BIBLE EXPLORING by Evelyn Cohen Friday, March 9 • 5:30 PM THE HAGADDAH: Curator of Jewish Art, The Kabbalat Shabbat Services Jewish Theological Seminary; A Passover Workshop Sanctuary lecturer on medieval Hebrew with Shabbat Dinner and Study manuscripts. Joslin Hall Rabbi Tom Weiner Evelyn Cohen will speak on Rabbi Davtds will lead the illuminated manuscripts and Wednesday, March 28 • 7:30 PM study session on the joys and provide a close-up view of the The Outreach Committee Invites fears contained within the two great facsimiles menHoned you to Join Rabbi weiner for an Megiliah tradlonally read on above. Normally under lock and evening of study as we explore PURIM. key, these great books will be the Haggadah, the telling of our Reservations required: Please available for examination during people's most dramatic and send your check at $10 per the discussion. profound story of liberation, person to the education office, In the Ubrary In the Ubrary (Space Is limited), 2 Notes from Sisterhood to do are taken for granted these days­ CLUWS Participant's Kit Ruth Oliver and shouldn't be. One is our Gift Shop, which has a much wider variety of items Available "Earth, Our Endangered for gifts, for the home, or for personal Five years ago, a group of 12 congregants Home" at March Meeting enjoyment than the shop's space would led by Ruth Perelson, set out to teach indicate. After a brief break, the shop We all know that Earth, our home, is other congregants the process reopens on March 1st, well-stocked with threatened by environmental crises, and surrounding Kabbalat Shabbat. In a new and attractive spring merchandise. each of us would like to know what we unique, hands-on series of three can do to prevent cosmic calamity. On The shop, chaired by Jean Blum, is surely workshops, participants learned the basic Monday, March 19, at noon, we will convenient, the prices are right, and blessings as well as the answers to the have a chance to find out, when Father without the funds the shop provides to many questions surrounding the Daniel Martin, a priest of st. Patrick' Sisterhood we could not support many observance of the Friday evening welcome Missionary, who serves as director for programs that would be sorely missed. of the Sabbath in one's home. The global issues at Wainwright House, an For example, we could not have pledged workshops were offered in the evening for interfaith learning center, will speak at and paid $150,000 to the synagogue working people and on Sunday mornings Sisterhood's Open Meeting. Father Daniel endowment drive; could not conduct for parents of children in the Religious is also religious advisor to the United programs that are a source of continuing School. Nations Environment Program. pride-English in Action, Talking Books The Sisterhood of Central Synagogue for the Blind, the Seniors Club, the On the 19th Father Daniel will explore the offered the program to parents of children monthly Oneg Shabbat, the weekly special responsibility of all religions in in Central's Nursery School and Parenting Kiddush, and much, much more. environmental matters and discuss ways Center. Adapted to the needs of this group in which religions, separately and Another activity that may be overlooked is and led by Joanne Doades, the CLUWS collectively, can become involved in our Bridge Club, chaired by Pearl program received the Or Ami Award of the answering questions concerning the Zimmerman, The club meets every National Federation of Temple environment.