Ohef Sholom Temple's Monthly News Publication THE TEMPLEEstablished 1844 • VolumeP 61, OIssue 5 • FebruaryST 2021 A PANDEMIC IN PERSIA! See page 8 for details In this Issue: Worship .......................... 2 Clergy Corner ................. 3 Presidential Address ....... 4 WORSHIPTORAH PORTIONS Announcements ............. 5 Sisterhood ...................... 6 Men's Club ..................... 7 Quilting Group ............... 7 FEBRUARY Purim .............................. 8 February 4 | 22 Shevat February 18 | 6 Adar February 26 | 14 Adar Education ....................... 9 Torah Study - 4:00 pm Torah Study - 4:00 pm Purim Parashat Purim Temple Programming ... 10 February 6 | 24 Shevat February 20 | 8 Adar Exodus 17:8 - 17:16 We of Ohef Sholom ...... 11 Torah Study - 9:00 am Shabbat Zachor February 27 | 15 Adar Donations ..................... 13 Parashat Yitro Torah Study - 9:00 am Parashat Tetzaveh Exodus 18:1 - 20:23 Parashat Terumah Exodus 27:20 - 30:10 Yahrzeits ....................... 14 Haftarah: Isaiah 6:1 - 7:6; Exodus 25:1 - 27:19 Haftarah: Ezekiel Calendar & Birthdays .... 15 9:5 - 9:6 maf: Deuteronomy 43:10 - 43:27 pOST Bulletin Board ..... 16 25:17 - 25:19 February 11 | 29 Shevat Haftarah: I Samuel February 28 | 16 Adar Torah Study - 4:00 pm 15:2 - 15:34 Parashat Shushan Purim Exodus 17:8 - 17:16 February 13 | 1 Adar February 25 | 13 Adar Shabbat Shekalim Erev Purim (on Rosh Chodesh) Torah Study - 4:00 pm Torah Study - 9:00 am Parashat Ta'anit Esther Parashat Mishpatim Exodus 32:11 - 34:10 Exodus 21:1 - 24:18 Numbers 28:9 - 28:15 530 Raleigh Avenue maf: Exodus 30:11 - 30:16 Norfolk, VA 23507 Haftarah: II Kings 12:1 - 12:17 757.625.4295 (F) 757.625.3762 ohefsholom.org Light the Shabbat Candles with Us! Volunteer today and sign up online at ohefsholom.org to light the Shabbat Candles with Rabbi Roz and Cantor Jen during our live stream services! EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE BOARD OF DIRECTORS PAST PRESIDENTS HONORARY DIRECTORS LEADERSHIP StaFf President: Carol Brum Minette Cooper Tom Bachman & Terri Denison Budman, Matthew Fine Karen Fine Terri Budman CLERGY [email protected] Tammi Foer Kim Simon Fink Allan Donn Senior Rabbi Engagement and Vice President: Andrew Fox Linda Fox-Jarvis Morris Fine Rosalin Mandelberg Programming Associate John Cooper David Hirschler, II Robert C. Goodman, Jr. Sandra Forte-Nickenig [email protected] Nina Kruger Secretary: David Kushner Steven Kayer Jay M. Friedman [email protected] Barbara U. Dudley Robert Levinson Edward G. Kaufman Leslie Friedman Cantor Treasurer: Mike Jaffe Amy Metzger Dr. Howard Kesser Mark Friedman Office Manager Jennifer Rueben Member-at-Large: Alyson Morrissey Edward A. Kramer Mark Hecht Shelley Stephens [email protected] Charlie Nusbaum Dr. Bert Newfield Cathi M. Laderberg Andrew C. Kline [email protected] Engagement Committee Chair: Sharon Nusbaum Charles S. Nusbaum Steve Kocen Rabbi Emeritus Clergy Assistant Marsha Moody Ethan Ostroff William L. Nusbaum Jay Legum Lawrence A. Forman Education Committee Chair: Dr. Abbey Pachter Dr. Robert M. Rubin Dr. Rachelle Luna [email protected] Elizabeth Vincent [email protected] Barb Gelb Nicole Rosenblum Henry M. Schwan Robin Mancoll Worship Committee Chair: Paula Russel Linda Spindel Dr. David Metzger STAFF Controller Margaret Sawyer Joashua Schulman Alan D. Stein Alyssa Muhlendorf Executive Director Anna Rivera Frank Scott Alex Pincus Linda Peck Finance & Development [email protected] [email protected] Committee Chair: Leslie Shroyer Dr. Meredith Rose Neal Schulwolf Tom Snyder June Saks Graphic & Web Design Music Director Immediate Past President: Lawrence Steingold Miriam Seeherman Linette Bond Charles Woodward Karen Fine Valeria Williamson The Honorable Louis Sherman [email protected] [email protected] Louis D. Snyder Director of Religious School Archivist Kitty Wolf, RJE Amanda Brooks, MSc, CA Sisterhood President OSTY Advisors [email protected] [email protected] Gail W. Bachman Robyn & Paul Weiner Follow Us! Men's Club President OSTY President ohef.s.temple Tom Bachman Leia Morrissey 2 THE TEMPLE POST ohef_sholom_temple Clergy Corner WITH CANTOR JEN A Pandemic in Persia! Pandemic in Persia A plague in the land A The shelves are all empty All gatherings are banned We can’t come together It isn’t ideal But no pandemic will stop us From holding our spiel! Queen Esther is ready Contact Clergy To plan Haman’s doom Rabbi Roz & Cantor Jen But we won’t be in Kaufman… [email protected] We’ll do it on Zoom [email protected] So bring your best costume And a matching background And come to the best Virtual Purim around! There’s no need for pants And you won’t have to drive It’ll be at 6:30 On 2/25 We’ll cheer for Good Mordy And Haman, we’ll boo And we’ll celebrate Esther For saving the Jews! We can’t wait to see you for A Pandemic in Persia: A Virtual Purimspiel! Bring your family, grab a hamantaschen, pour a drink, and get ready for the craziest Zoom Purimspiel Hampton Roads has ever seen! Chag Purim Sameach, Rabbi Roz and Cantor Jen JANUARY 2021 3 Presidential Address Mutual Support is a Necessity uring the first reasoning, it’s our job, our responsibility to care for several weeks of our Temple. We can’t depend on Ohef Sholom, he D January, I found would suggest, if it can’t depend on us. myself watching more national news We all have a role in supporting our Temple, and programs than those roles vary throughout our membership. For usual. Like most some, it is volunteering expertise and time, for Americans, I found others it is contributing funds beyond dues. For what was taking some it might be paying dues, and for still others, it place in Washington, could be attending services, classes, and events. All D.C. surreal forms of support are important and appreciated. Terri Denison Budman and frightening, President compelling me to For whatever role you assume in taking care of [email protected] flip through the and supporting our Ohef Sholom Temple, thank channels for updates. you. Ohef Sholom needs us all, and during these As I write, our particularly difficult times, we all need our Ohef nation’s capitol is in lockdown – streets are closed, Sholom. fences and barricades surround the mall and our L’Shalom, national monuments, and National Guardsmen are stationed throughout the city. America’s most iconic buildings where tourists flock and the business of our government occur, are off-limits. Concern for our nation’s capitol – physically and metaphorically – continues. Terri Denison Budman What does the nation’s news have to do with Ohef Sholom? A lot, according to Timothy Snyder, an American author, professor of history at Yale University, and historian who specializes in the history of Central and Eastern Europe and the Holocaust. I watched an interview with him just a few days before the Inauguration. He said, and I’m paraphrasing here, that we can’t just depend on our institutions to take care of us. We have to take care of and support them. If we want a local newspaper to alert us to the important news of our area and to monitor our cities’ governments, for example, we should read it, subscribe, and if appropriate, advertise. As Snyder listed other examples of institutions to be cared for on his way to his primary point, our democracy, my first thought was of Ohef Sholom. If we want our congregation to be available when we want it, we must support and nurture it along the way – not just when our personal circumstances require or desire its services. According to Snyder’s 4 THE TEMPLE POST JEWISH LIFE FEBRUARY Announcements Condolences Mazel Tov to Erin and Jody Balaban on the birth of Ohef Sholom offers heartfelt condolences to the following their daughter, Blair Paige Balaban, December 7, members & friends: 2020, weighing 6 lbs, 5 oz and meauring 19 inches Judy Freedman on the To family and friends on long. loss of her husband and the loss of Caitlyn Hall. Rachael Trussell (Brett) Terri Denison Budman Mazel Tov to Celia and Jay Friedman on the birth on the loss of her father, of their grandson, , on (Steve) on the loss of Aden Samuel Rotenberg Martin M. "Marty" December 31, 2020. The proud parents are her mother, Madeline Kari and Freedman. Mitchell Rotenberg of Playa Del Rey, California. and Deni Budman Excited Great-Grandmother is Ethel Goldman of To family and friends on the loss of their Virginia Beach and Lori and Fred Rotenberg of on the loss of William grandmother, Helen LaCanada, CA. Frieder. Lesser Koltun. Sally Adler on the loss June Goldman on the Mazel Tov to Lawrence Steingold who will be of her husband, loss of her husband, presented with the Virginia Center for Inclusive Theodore "Ted" Adler. Joseph Goldman. Communities' Humanitarian Award. The virtual dinner will be held on March 18, 2021 at 6:30 pm. Linda Cole on the loss Vivian Forman on the Call the office for ticket information. of her dear friend, loss of her brother, Deborah Orzack. Dr. Charles Fish. Nancy Wall (Alvin)on the loss of her aunt, Judith Eichelbaum. FEBRUARY IS Jewish Disability Advocacy Month! Join the Jewish Federations of North America for a month of education, solidarity-building and empowerment in support of peoples with disabilities. This year's JDAM will focus on advocacy to fight for laws, policies and norms to ensure that individuals with disabilities can live, work and prosper in a more just, inclusive and accessible society. It all begins on Wednesday, February 3 at 7 pm ET with special To register or find out more details, please go to: guest and world-renowned Israeli-American violinist, https://www.jewishtogether.org/jdam Itzhak Perlman. JANUARY 2021 5 JEWISH LIFE FEBRUARY Sisterhood hef Sholom Temple Sisterhood is wonderful!! Even during this pandemic with all of its challenges, Sisterhood has managed to continue a variety of O activities.