Volume 6 ♦ March 2017 Worship COMMITTEES... Premium Dues, Ellen Kurtz, Elizabeth Ward, [email protected] Food Pantry, Pam Millian, [email protected] Calendaring, Rachel Eckhaus, [email protected] Adult Learning, Jennifer Lemberg, [email protected] B’nai Mitzvah, OPEN [email protected] College Youth, Stacey Matusow, [email protected] ECP, Cindy Musoff, [email protected] Green Team, Bonnie Hagen, [email protected] Israel, Jack Berger, [email protected] Religious School, Jen Labovitz, CONGREGATION KOL AMI [email protected] A REFORM SYNAGOGUE Youth Groups, Karen Reynolds, [email protected] Marketing, Leslie Wiesen, [email protected] 252 Soundview Avenue • White Plains, New York Inter-Faith Families, 914.949.4717 • www.nykolami.org [email protected] Men’s Council, AdamHutter, [email protected] A Member of the Union for Reform Judaism Leadership Development, Michael Elkin, Lisa Borowitz, [email protected] RABBIS Membership, Adrienne Pollak, Dana Ross, [email protected] Rabbi Shira Milgrom & Rabbi Tom Weiner Retreat, Genna Farley, [email protected] CANTOR Worship, Sheryl Brady, [email protected] David Rosen WRJ Sisterhood, Sheryl Brady, Rachel Eckhaus, Stacey Matusow, [email protected] Annual Fund, David Okun, [email protected] Executive Director • Jess Lorden Budget and Operating, Jeff Gelfand, [email protected] Religious School Director • Felice Miller Baritz Capital Budget, OPEN ECP Director • Nan Blank [email protected] President • Hank Rouda Digital Communication, Judy Sarch, [email protected] Dues Review, Martin Kahn, [email protected] RABBIS EMERITI Facilities, David Seicol, [email protected] Personnel, OPEN [email protected] Lawrence W. Schwartz ∞ Planned Giving, Howard Geller, Evelyne Klein, Maurice Davis ∞ [email protected] Mark L. Winer Social Justice, Laura Wilker, Jess Lorden, [email protected] Spring Fundraiser, Lori Abrams, CANTOR EMERITUS [email protected] Coachman Family Center, Allison Adler, Lisa Hochman, Raymond Smolover ∞ [email protected] Inclusion, Marci Frankenthaler, Beth Tomkiewicz, ∞ of blessed memory [email protected] Inter-Faith Outreach, Julie Carran, [email protected] Kol Ami Cares, Betsy McCormack, Ginny Ruder, [email protected] 2 ♦ The Connection ♦ March 2017 Worship SHABBAT WORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES Shabbat Morning Spiritual Lift Friday Evening Services Shabbat Morning Study with Rabbi Shira Milgrom Shabbat in the Woods for Young Children and Chapel in the Woods their Families Take My Hand... 5:30 - 6:00pm A service in story and song for Shabbat for all Generations families with young children OUR RE-IMAGINED SATURDAY MORNING Atrium SHABBAT SERVICE 6:15 – 7:15 pm Shabbat crafts, light supper & Designed to involve school-aged children, inspire parents and grandparents, and integrate the supervised childcare beauty and soul of our Lift service. Bring your own family - children, aunts, uncles, grandparents - or Kabbalat Shabbat Services come join hands with your extended Kol Ami 6:15 pm family. Main Sanctuary Chapel in the Woods 8:45am: Coffee, tea and kibbutzing 9:00am: Child-friendly Shabbat Service with aliyot, songs for children, prayer and celebration for all 9:45am: Family Oneg with bagels and snacks 10:30am - 12:00pm: Torah Study, debate and discussion Begin your activity-filled weekends with friends, family, fun, song, and meaning! Come as you are… WEEKLY TORAH PORTIONS FOR MARCH Week ending March 4, 2017 Parashat Teruma Exodus tablets of God’s law. Joined by the Levites, Moses 25:1-27:19 Parashat Teruma describes the construction of executes a campaign to root out the offenders. Moses then the Tabernacle. God gives meticulously detailed pleads with God to secure divine mercy for the people. The instructions regarding the elements and design of the parashah ends with a restoration of mutual faith and Moses Tabernacle, particularly the Holy Ark. Each individual is carving a second set of tablets inscribed with Ten asked to contribute towards its building materials and Commandments. furnishings as he or she is motivated. Week ending March 25, 2017 Parashat Vayak’heil- Week ending March 11, 2017 Parashat T’tzaveh Exodus P'kudei Exodus 35:1-40:38 This double parashah, brings 27:20-30:10 The rituals surrounding the priests and us to the end of the Book of Shemot (Exodus). In sacrifices are described, and the obligations of Aaron and Vayak’heil, Moses reminds the people that God his sons are enumerated in Parashat T’tzaveh. This commanded them to keep Shabbat, not to perform any parashah has the distinction of being the only parashah in work on the seventh day, and to make the day holy. The the last four books of the Torah in which the name of parashah continues with Moses asking the Israelites to Moses does not appear. donate materials for the building of the mishkan (sanctuary). In the second part of this double parashah, Week ending March 18, 2017 Parashat Ki Tisa Exodus P’kudei, Moses describes every object, every attribute of 30:11-34:35 Moses lingers on Mount Sinai for forty days. the structure, every manner of work, and every detail of the The people become agitated during Moses’ long absence altar that is needed in building a Mishkan to God. As the and persuade Aaron to fashion a golden calf. Upon building of the sanctuary and its holy objects are returning with the 10 Commandments, Moses sees the completed, Moses blesses all of the people who took part Israelites cavorting around the calf and he smashes the in their creation. The Connection ♦ March 2017 ♦ 3 Worship 4 ♦ The Connection ♦ March 2017 Worship Do You Agree With Any Of The Following? Kol Ami has been there for me in times of sorrow and joy Kol Ami has challenged me intellectually Kol Ami has enriched me at High Holy Days and Shabbat Services Kol Ami has delighted my senses with its music Kol Ami programs have allowed my family to grow spiritually and as Jews Kol Ami is my second home If you do, then please consider including The Legacy Fund of Congregation Kol Ami as a beneficiary of your estate. For information contact Evelyne Klein at 914.761.7659, PlannedGiv- [email protected] or Judi Brown at 646.206.4547, [email protected]. Kol Ami is a community that makes incredible things happen. The Connection ♦ March 2017 ♦ 5 Worship Jonah Dichter, son building, job training, and a safe haven in Service with Volunteer New York by of Julie Mosow and a compassionate environment. Rebecca making “birthday boxes” for Sasha Dichter and big is working with the girls to design their underprivileged children. Lindsey has brother to Zoe and recreation room, and to make the enjoyed giving back to her community. Clara, will be called to institutional feeling of the facility softer In her spare time, Lindsey likes playing the Torah as a Bar and more comfortable. She is also softball, cooking, doing art projects, and Mitzvah on running a book drive, in the hopes that going to sleepaway camp during the March 4, 2017. He is their bookcases can be filled with summer with family and friends. a seventh grader at Scarsdale Middle wonderful new and hopeful stories. In School and is so happy to be celebrating addition, she will be using a portion of Parker Lance Press, with his sisters, parents, grandparents, her Bat Mitzvah gifts to help purchase son of Alison and and all of his cousins. Jonah enjoys items for the recreation room. Brandon Press and reading whatever he can find as well as older brother of Eliza, creating content for the world he and his Cole Gavin Bates, son will be called to the friends have created. For his mitzvah of Karin Bates and Torah as a Bar project, he raised money for the Eisner younger brother of Mitzvah on March 18, Camp scholarship fund by having bake Sloane Bates, will be 2017. Parker is a sales and walking 16 km. Camp is called to the Torah as a 7th grader at The Windward School. He important to him, and he wanted to give Bar Mitzvah on March enjoys cooking, playing baseball and that gift to somebody else. 11, 2017. Cole is a 7th tennis and watching sports. For his grader at John Jay Middle School in mitzvah project, Parker volunteered at Rebecca Ilana Cross River NY. He enjoys Kol Ami for the Thanksgiving feast for Strauss, snowboarding in the winter and soccer in the Coachman Family Center. Parker daughter of the fall and spring. For Cole’s Mitzvah helped prepare the meal in the kitchen, Elissa and project, he collected over 10,000 helped set up for the party and played David and sister recyclable bottles and cans collecting games with the children who attended to Daniel, will be over $500.00. This money was then the party. Parker is looking forward to called to the donated to Mystic Aquarium for their sharing his special day with family and Torah as a Bat Penguin program and sister program in friends. Mitzvah on March 11th. She is a 7th South Africa that helps rescue and grade honor roll student at Irvington rehabilitate injured penguins from Alyssa Faye Middle School. Rebecca enjoys her release back into the wild. Penguins Klein will be climbing team at The Cliffs, tap dancing, have been a passion of Cole’s since he called to the playing cello, competing in the Science was a baby so this was very near to his Torah as a Bat Olympiad, and working on the IMS heart. Mitzvah literary magazine. She is also a die-hard on Saturday, Crane Lake camper. Rebecca is so Lindsey Smith, daughter March 25, excited to share her Jewish journey of Stephen Smith and 2017. Alyssa is a through UJA-Federation of New York’s Lauren Wyler-Smith, and 7th grader at Give a Mitzvah – Do a Mitzvah program, sister to older brother Edgemont Junior/Senior High School.