Voice of the Shore Congregation Torat El ~ Jersey Shore Jewish Center June 2017 - Sivan/Tammuz 5777 Congregation Torat El Board of Trustees, Sisterhood and Men’s Club Shabbat Installation Service & Dinner Friday, June 16th - 6:00pm We invite the entire Congregation Torat El Family to join us as we look forward to a year filled with continued growth and excitement. Our Shabbat Service will begin at 6:00pm with dinner immediately following. Please have all reservations to the Temple office by June 12th. Adults (ages 14 and up) - $20.00 Children (ages 7 - 13) - $12.00 Children (ages 3 - 6) - $5.00 Children (2 and under) - No Charge Family Max - $70.00 Please make Installation Dinner checks payable to Congregation Torat El and return by June 12th to the Temple office. Name: _____________________________________________________________ Phone: __________________ Total Enclosed: $_______________ # Adults ___ # Children (7-13) ____ # Children (3-6) ____ # Children (2 and under) ____ CONGREGATION T ORAT E L CONTACT I NFORMATION Torat El Professional Staff Committee Contact Info Senior Rabbi Beth El Cemetery - Alan & Sonny Winters 732-222-2510 Aaron Schonbrun Chesed Chair - Alyce Isaacson 732-870-1492 Executive Director Contribution Cards - Beverle Richelson 732-493-1595 Pam Cardullo Education Chair - Sherrie Robinson 732-513-9688 Dir. Of Ritual Engagement Ben Laskowitz Finance Chair - Michael Breslow 732-493-4065 Bookkeeper/Admin. Hazak - Marjorie & Stanley Cotler 732-922-6590 Joanne Bass Membership Chair - Suzanne Michel 732-695-0258 Administrative Asst. Lisa Arnold Technology - Howard Lang [email protected] Youth Advisor Koreen Family Library - Sandy & Carl Koreen 732-229-6125 Jane-Rachel Schonbrun Other Contact Info Torat El Executive Board Temple President - Larry Shapiro 732-531-4410 President Larry Shapiro Sisterhood President - Carri Silverberg 732-245-8939 First V.P. Steve Fineberg Men’s Club President - Neil Warar 732-299-9287 V.P. Warren Goode Youth Group Advisor - Jane-Rachel Schonbrun [email protected] V.P. Linda Pickelny Facility Rental - Pam Cardullo 732-531-4410 V.P. Laurie Gross Kiddush Information - Pam Cardullo 732-531-4410 V.P. Neil Weitzenkorn Bulletin - Pam Cardullo 732-531-4410 V.P. Michelle Winters Treasurer Michael Breslow JNF Tree Donations - Joanne Bass 732-531-4410 Secretary Alan Morris Gift Cards - Joanne Bass 732-531-4410 Donations - Lisa Arnold 732-531-4410 Board of Trustees Congregation Torat El Main Office 732-531-4410 Dawn Barofsky Susan Berkowitz Rabbi Aaron Schonbrun [email protected] ext.13 Galit Binns Maddy Cohen Pam Cardullo, Exec. Director Marjorie Cotler Mindy Estin [email protected] ext.10 Sheryl Kaplan Carl Koreen Ben Laskowitz, Ritual Engagement Howard Lang Suzanne Michel [email protected] ext.18 Fran Nudelman Beverle Richelson Joanne Bass, Bookkeeper Michele Robins Sherrie Robinson [email protected] ext.11 Marc Schnabolk Dorothy Secol Lisa Arnold, Administrative Asst. Judy Solomon Mark Steinberg [email protected] ext.12 Jason Stern Sara Turian Cynthia Walsh Sonny Winters Sisterhood Pres. Carri Silverberg Men’s Club Pres. Neil Warar Past President Rep. Alan Winters facebook.com/CongregationToratEl 2 June Service Announcements Friday, June 2, 2017 Shabbat Service 6:30 pm Candles 8:02 pm Pajama Shabbat 5:30 pm YAHRZEITS: Bessie Barnett, Menashe Brand, Beatrice Burke, Sara Cooper, Mark Donner, Ida Gallay, Sam Greenberg, Jack Gribin, Beatrice Kempler, Joseph Kempler, Samuel Kramer, Louis Kreisler, Morton Lehrer, Golda Levine, Ruth Madnick, Eva Maltz, Harriet Miller, Mildred Rose, Ethel Rosenfeld, Meyer Rothman, Lillian Sacher, Susan Samuel, Marianne Santo, Grace Schreibman, Ethel Schutzer, Henry Silverman, Ruth Starrett, Lea Tuchfeld, Maurice Webman, William Weinberg, Anne Weiner Saturday, June 3, 2017 Parsha: Naso 4:21-5:10 Haftarah: Judges 13:2-25 Shabbat Morning Service ~ 9:00 am Friday, June 9, 2017 Shabbat Service 8:00 pm Candles 8:07 pm YAHRZEITS: David Alterman, Jeff Brustein, Albert Cannava, Elliot Dulberger, Rose Freedman, Lewis Friedman, Sarah Goldenberg, Dorothy Heiferman, Tessie Krivins, Ethel Leibman, Donna Lieberman, Max Miller, Joseph Popok, Philip Rosenbloom, Samuel Rosenfeld, Emma Schiff, Gail Schreibman, Milton Secol, Jean Sukinik, Stuart Yaskulka Saturday, June 10, 2017 Parsha: Beha’alotekha 8:1-9:14 Haftarah: Zechariah 2:14-4:7 Shabbat Morning Service ~ 9:00 am Friday, June 16, 2017 Installation Shabbat Service 6:00 pm Candles 8:10 pm Dinner to follow service YAHRZEITS: Aliasghar Ardakanian, Gary Berger, Florence Brown, John Carchman, Anita Caslar, Sally Conners, Frieda Cotler, Samuel Friedman, Howard Grabelle, Eva Greenberg, Anna Gruber, David Holub, Irvin Korn, William Lang, Helen Leicht, Judith Lester, Ralph Lutz, Fanny Netkin, Evelyn Phillips, Ann Pollock, Morris Port, Michael Posnock, Hilda Schnabolk, Harry Shapiro, Elizabeth Tretsky, Isadore Vorchin, Evelyn Warm, Sally Weitzenkorn, James Wolf Saturday, June 17, 2017 Parsha: Shelah Lekha 13:1-14:7 Haftarah: Joshua 2:1-24 Shabbat Morning Service ~ 9:00 am Friday, June 23, 2017 Shabbat at the Beach 7:15 pm Candles 8:11 pm YAHRZEITS: Max Barr, Maurice Brodman, Adolph Frankel, Milton Goldberg, Bernard Grossman, Martin Israel, Rose Kirsch, Herman Kreisler, Pamela Krosney, Charles Kullback, Abram Lavene, Eleanor Maron, Abraham Meyer, Herbert Michelson, William Miller, Joyce Nahan, David Pomerantz, Ronald Rediker, Ben Remar, Ben Reuben, Myles Sandberg, Mary Shapiro, Tillie Shear, Abraham Talansky, David Wallach, Matthew Warshauer, Neal Weber Saturday, June 24, 2017 Parsha: Korah 16:1-17:15 Haftarah: Isaiah 66:1-24 Shabbat Morning Service ~ 9:00 am Friday, June 30, 2017 Shabbat Service 6:30 pm Candles 8:11 pm YAHRZEITS: Samuel Barr, Mabel Cooper, Norman Copeland, Morton Elfenbein, Avrohm Friedman, Samuel Gold, Marion Goldfus, Bessie Gottlieb, Jerome Karasic, Charles Kaufman, Henry Kempler, Fred Klein, William Knifel, Edward Levitt, Richard Marcus, Inge Nussbaum, Esther Rubin, Goldie Sandberg, Max Schloeffer, Carole Schwartz, Shirley Sherman, Albert Silberman, Sylvia Singer, Sadie Steinberg Saturday, July 1, 2017 Parsha: Hukkat 19:1-20:13 Haftarah: Judges 11:1-33 Shabbat Morning Service ~ 9:00 am Weekday Mornings Weekday Evenings Monday-Thursday: 7:00pm Sunday: 8:30am Service Monday-Friday: 8:00am Shabbat Evening Services Schedule 1st, 3rd, 4th Friday ~ 6:30pm Shabbat Morning: 9:00am 2nd Friday ~ 8:00pm 3 A MUSICAL S HABBAT A T T HE B EACH As some of you know, last February I was privileged to attend a conference entitled “Songleader Boot Camp” (SLBC), which was launched in 2009 in an effort to create “immersive, inspirational, and strategic Jewish leadership programs for Jewish clergy, educators, and songleaders .” As a former song leader at Camp Ramah in my teens and college years, a congregational Rabbi who cares deeply about bringing the power of song and music into our community, and someone who always loves to learn new things about leadership, I thought that this was a conference not to be missed. Thankfully, I was correct. The conference was simply incredible. Along with hundreds of Jewish educators, clergy, and lay leaders from synagogues, JCC’s and Jewish summer camps, we spent a few days remembering how to bring a sense of deep Jewish connection, purpose, and passion into our personal and professional lives. The goal of the conference was really not song leading, but rather a way to teach Jewish leaders from around the country about how to bring a sense of depth and connection back to their communities through leadership training, musical experiences, engaging prayer, and deep Torah study. The vehicle used to do this throughout the weekend was often music and song, but the vehicle was a means to an end, and not the end itself. In truth, the conference was indescribable in words, which is perhaps appropriate for a musically based conference. If I had to explain it using language, I would say that it was a conference where music meets leadership, meets Torah study, meets what I imagine an evangelical revival meeting must be like! As with many conferences I attend, I left feeling spiritually uplifted, nourished, and refreshed. But I was left with one critical question. How can I take all that I experienced (or at least some of it), and bring it back to our community? How can I take the creative prayer experiences, the new and beautiful melodies, the sense of souls connecting to one another and to their Judaism, and bring it back home? And then it hit me. Shabbat at the Beach was the perfect place to begin. Each summer as we gather for our Friday night services on the beach, the location, the different pace of the beach season, and the sense of friendship and community that is felt between us always ensure that these Erev Shabbat services are some of the most special of the year. Shabbat at the Beach is the perfect setting to try to infuse a bit more kavanah (spiritual feeling and intention) into our prayer service. Shabbat at the Beach is the perfect place to begin sharing with you a bit of what I learned and experienced a few months ago at SLBC. As a Conservative congregation, we are always striving to balance the keva (fixed liturgy) with a sense of kavanah (spiritual feeling and intention). That is part of the reason that we bought the Lev Shalem siddur earlier this year. Shabbat at the Beach this year is going to be a service in which we focus more on kavanah and less on keva . Those who know me know that I tend to be a “traditionalist” when it comes to prayer. And yet, I have come to realize that every so often, one has to take a pause in the keva to reconnect to the kavanah side of the equation. That is what we are going to aim to do on June 23rd at our first Shabbat at the Beach service. With the help of a few of our musician lay leaders, this service will have instrumentation and will be an abbreviated service.