Temple Israel the BULLETIN November/December 2018 Cheshvan/Kislev/Tevet 5779 Annual General Meeting Monday November 19, 2018 -7pm Happy Chanukah 2018 December 2 - December 10 Worship Schedule Holiday Dates Times SHABBAT Friday, November 2 6:15 pm Kabbalat Shabbat Service Solidarity Shabbat Saturday, November 3 10:15 am Shabbat Service, Parsha Chaye Sarah Bar Mitzvah of Jonah Wilbur SHABBAT Thursday, November 8 7:30 am Morning Minyan Friday, November 9 6:15 pm Kabbalat Shabbat Service 7:00 pm Bring your Own Dinner Saturday, November 10 10:15 am Shabbat Service, Parsha Toldot 10:30 am JBABY Program Friday, November 16 6:15 pm Kabbalat Shabbat Service SHABBAT Saturday, November 17 10:15 am Shabbat Service, Parsha Vayetze New Member Shabbat 10:30am Junior Congregation Program SHABBAT Thursday, November 22 7:30 am Morning Minyan Friday, November 23 5:30 pm TOTally Shabbat 6:30 pm Kabbalat Shabbat Service Saturday, November 24 10:15 am Shabbat Service, Parsha Vayishlach SHABBAT Friday, November 30 6:15 pm Kabbalat Shabbat Service Saturday, December 1 10:15 am Shabbat Service, Parsha Vayeshev SHABBAT Friday, December 7 6:15 pm Kabbalat Shabbat Service 7:00 pm Bring your own Chanukah dinner Saturday, December 8 10:15 am Shabbat Service, Parsha Miketz Thursday, December 13 7:30 am Morning Minyan SHABBAT Friday, December 14 6:15 pm Kabbalat Shabbat Service (No Bring Your Own see Dec 7) Saturday, December 15 10:15 am Shabbat Service, Parsha Vayigash 10:30am Junior Congregation Program SHABBAT Friday, December 21 5:30 pm TOTally Shabbat Saturday, December 22 6:30 pm Kabbalat Shabbat Service 10:15 am Shabbat Service, Parsha Veyechi SHABBAT Thursday, December 27 7:30 am Morning Minyan Friday, December 28 6:15 pm Kabbalat Shabbat Service Saturday, December 29 10:15 am Shabbat Service, Parsha Shemot SHABBAT Friday, January 4 6:15 pm Kabbalat Shabbat Service Saturday, January 5 10:15 am Shabbat Service, Parsha Va’era 2 | TEMPLE ISRAEL BULLETIN - November/December 2018 From the Pulpit President’s Message November already? Almost a year On Saturday Oct 27th temple was ago, I became Temple’s President. filled with people celebrating The time has flown by, filled with Shabbat. A time to let the cares many activities and some chal- of the world recede and embrace lenges. With the involvement of the promise and beauty of God’s our Temple staff, volunteers, and creation. On this particular fellow Board members, we have moved Temple forward and will Shabbat, the beauty and calm continue to do so. I am proud to was shattered as we heard the be a member of the Temple Israel news of the shooting and tragic team. deaths at the Tree of Life Syna- gogue in Pittsburgh. Words cannot We are working hard to continue to express the depth of our sorrow and get feedback from you, the congregation, through sur- our hearts are with the Pittsburgh Jewish commu- veys and other means regarding High Holy Days, Ren- nity and especially the members of the Tree of Life ovation Vision, and Rabbinic transition, as well as other Synagogue. activities to come. We want the lines of communication to be open. Thank you for your input. We Jews are no strangers to violence. We have survived countless attacks and attempts at geno- As you are aware from a recent notice, there are four Visioning sessions in the month of November. These ses- cide. Yet we continue to prevail. The inherited sions, animated by Patsy Royer and Rabbi Morais, will wisdom of our tradition has taught us to be resilient. help provide input for our Vision for the future for Tem- ple. This relates to our members’ needs, how we want Jewish communities around the world have come to be measured against known Jewish values, and also together in solidarity with families of those who to ways of improving our building so that it will be the were killed in Pittsburgh. Our response is not to best possible facility for all of our activities, our events, seek revenge on the perpetrator. Our revenge is and our outreach. Have your say. Be there!! far sweeter, far more meaningful. Our revenge is to show those who would hate us that we are strong. Our Rabbinic Search Committee (RSC), under co-chairs That we will not be deterred from living Jewish lives. Tamara Taub and Lorne Rachlis, is a great team and is Our response is to call for a Shabbat of Unity! To dealing diligently with the many aspects of this vital ac- encourage everyone, we know, Jew and non-Jew tivity. Your input to the recent survey has provided key alike, to attend our services. information that greatly assisted in the application pro- cess. Timely RSC updates will be provided. Stay tuned. Ron Wolfson who wrote Relational Judaism says: November will continue to be an important month. A “People will come to synagogues, Jewish community new Board will be installed at our November 19th AGM. centers, federations, and other organizations for There are some proposed constitutional amendments programs, but they will stay for relationships.” and other important changes to be dealt with. Updates on key activities will be provided. I urge you to be at the It is though the power of our relationships that we AGM: it is important. will draw strength from one another and continue to build Jewish life here in Ottawa and around the On completion of her two year term, I say thank you world. We can defeat hate by showing those who to Board member Pam Cogan for her contributions to hate us how incredibly precious Jewish wisdom Temple as Social Action chair and for MAID and pallia- is. How it can lead us to live lives of meaning and tive care activities. I would also like to thank Board and Executive member David Cotsman for his four years as purpose! Lives dedicated to pursuit of what is right Board Secretary and other duties. A very special thank and good in the world. you and acknowledgement to Steve Mendelsohn for his decades of service to Temple as Board and Executive With hopes and prayers for peace and healing for member including as President and Treasurer. Thank you everyone. all for being part of the Temple Israel team. Shalom, Enjoy the joys of Hanukkah. Hanukkah Sameach. Rabbi S. Robert Morais Stephen Asherman, President Special Chanukah Bring Your Own Dinner Celebrating a milestone, simcha or a special Friday December 7 event? Please note we have changed the week of our monthly If you would like to make a donation in honour of this Friday night dinner so we can celebrate it during Chanu- occasion, please see our website, contact our volun- kah. We hope you will join us, we will provide the teers (see TIOF page 12 or Temple information page latkes! 13) or the office and we will make it easy for you! November/December 2018 - TEMPLE ISRAEL BULLETIN | 3 School News Officially, we have 95 students enrolled programs can be found in this bulletin, on the Temple in TIRS including children from 7 new Israel website, and on the TIRS Facebook page. families. As in other years, I expect a few more to register throughout the Enjoy the rest of 2018! school year. Sue Potechin, TIRS Principal With all of the Tishrei holidays in September, it made for a rocky start for our students, especially the new ones. Other students who thrive on routine were affected by the “chop- piness” of the schedule including a Sunday off due to the tornado. The good news is that we can now coast through all the way to the Winter Break. Our Grade 6 class led a beautiful service on October 12th. What a great way to start off the year! Grade 7 will be leading our Kabbalat Shabbat service on November 9th and our Gan Yeladim (Kindergarten) will be leading our Chanukah celebration service on December 7th. All of our class-led services on Friday nights are followed by a “Bring Your Own Dinner” where families are able to get to know other families over a meal and share in community. It is a great way for new families to meet and for the children to TIRS goes apple picking! be together outside of school. Please check our calendar on the Temple Israel website for information on upcoming class-led services. By now, some of you have met Liam, our new ShinShin who is here from Israel for the year between high school and the Israeli army. Liam will be doing activities with our students on Sundays and Mondays and some Wednesdays for this school year as TIRS is his base school. Likewise, Temple Israel is his base synagogue and we welcome his Divrei Yisrael, his insight into Israeli events, holidays and notable Israeli figures. Liam is a very outgoing and warm addition to our school and shul. Introduce yourself to him --- if he doesn’t introduce himself first! November is Holocaust Education Month. TIRS and Temple Israel have been entrusted with artifacts by members of the Ottawa Jewish community to create a Pop-Up Museum at Temple Israel. The Pop-Up Museum is open to the community on Sunday, Nov. 4th from 12:30 – 4:00 pm and Monday, Nov. 5th from 6:30 – 7:15 pm. At 7:30 pm on Nov. 5th, Dr. Robert Ehrenreich from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) will present, “Let the Artifacts Speak: Returning Humanity to Holocaust Victims.” We are proud to bring this to you in collabora- tion with Carleton University’s Zelikovitz Centre for Jewish Studies and Centre for Holocaust Education and Scholar- ship (CHES), as well as Jewish Federation of Ottawa, and USHMM.