ttheheApril MaM 2015 ● NISANa ~’ IYAR alota 5775lot Join Us for These Events & Much More! • Community Passover Seder Saturday, April 4th, 5:30 pm Shabbat Service with Nobel Laureate, Dr. Randy Schekman Friday, April 17th, 7:30 pm • Israel Celebration Sunday, April 19th, 10:00 am Yom Ha’atzmaut with guest, Dr. Rachel Korazim “Israel Diaspora Relations” Thursday, April 23rd 6:30 pm Reception 7:00 pm Program • Friday Night Live! Shabbat Service “Turn, Turn, Turn” Friday, April 24th, 7:30 pm • Spring Fling 2015 Saturday, April 25th 7:30 pm: Appetizers & dessert provided with no host Wine Bar 9:00 pm: Magic Show A LIFETIME OF BELONGING EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Beth Carroll President tthehe MaMRabbi Richard M.a Steinberg’ alota lot Carole Frankel THE RONA PERLEY MEMORIAL SENIOR RABBINIC CHAIR Vice-President/Membership, Chavurot Rabbi Leah Lewis Wendi Fast RABBI AND DIRECTOR OF LIFELONG LEARNING Vice-President/Administration THE JAFFE FAMILY RABBINIC CHAIR Sharon Blindell Vice-President/Community Relations Cantor Arië Manela Shikler Rod Stern THE HOLLANDER FAMILY CANTORIAL CHAIR Vice-President/Legal Rachel Harman-Friedman Beth Shikler, M.S. Kat Key Entzminger Vice-President THE LOEB FAMILY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR CHAIR ASSISTANT TO RABBI LEWIS & EDUCATION DEPARTMENT Richard Sternberg Stacy Bleiweis, M.B.A. Treasurer Lynne Koffl er MEMBERSHIP DIRECTOR BOOKKEEPER Heath Liner Secretary Alon Rozen Lynda Cline SRAEL NGAGEMENT OORDINATOR I E C COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR/GRAPHIC DESIGN BOARD MEMBERS Lindsey Morlan, M.A. Debra Borden OFFICE MANAGER/ASSISTANT TO Rabbi Bernie King, z”l Karen Brutman RABBI STEINBERG AND CANTOR SHIKLER FOUNDING RABBI Kim Burger Shannon Coleman Becca Clark Debra Goldman YOUTH DIRECTOR Marty Hart Jamie Evans Sharlene Konowitch Eileen Lenson Lisa Monette SHABBAT Ellen Olshansky Charlotte Radziminsky THE PERSPECTIVE Lori Reznick Abby Rozenberg Please note: Friday, April 3rd Friday, April 24th Jerry Silver is the first night of Passover • 7:30 pm: Jr. Congregation (Grades 3-7) Joe Sloate and there is no Shabbat Service David Susson • 7:30 pm: Friday Night Live! Shabbat Bob Yonowitz scheduled. Service, “Turn, Turn, Turn” Saturday, April 4th BROTHERHOOD David Teincuff • 9:30 am: Kaddish Minyan President • 5:30 pm: Community Passover Seder CHAI SOCIETY Barbara Kaitz Friday, April 10th Co-Chair • 7:30 pm: Shabbat Service Sid Kuperberg Co-Chair Friday, April 17th NASHIM (SHM WOMEN) • 6:30 pm: Tot Shabbat Service Jamie Evans • 7:30 pm: Shabbat Service with Co-Chair Temple Musicians and guest, Katherine Liner Co-Chair Dr. Randy Schekman 2 APRIL 2015 MEMORY • MITZVAH • MENTSCH MAKING • MAKING MEANING OUR RABBI’S PERSPECTIVE THE KADDISH LIST Every Friday night we read the “Kaddish that shared moment of intersection between list,” which includes those whose yartzeits you and your loved one. (anniversary of their deaths) falls during that The trajectory of our services often flow week and then we read aloud those who from high to low and back to high again— have died in the past thirty days. It is Jewish deliberately so. In Judaism, we believe Rabbi Richard Steinberg tradition to recite the names of loved ones at that even in our most joyous moments, we The Rona Perley Memorial those periods in a community setting, so that remember those who came before us. During Senior Rabbinic Chair no one should have to mourn alone. At our the High Holy Days, Sukkot, Passover, and synagogue we also recall innocent victims of Shavuot, we commemorate Yizkor by reading terror, military personnel and all those who aloud the names of our deceased family and died in the Holocaust, who don’t have anyone friends. At a Jewish wedding we stomp on to say Kaddish for them—we take it upon the glass to remind us of the destruction ourselves to do so. of our People. Pausing to remember those And yet I cannot ask you to say Kaddish after Our Jewish tradition is psychologically sound upon whose shoulder we stand, elevates our my mother. The Kaddish means to me that when it comes to death, dying and mourning experiences. Kaddish, while sad to recall the the survivor publicly and markedly manifests practices. As a congregation over 47 years loves of our lives, in essence, lifts our spirits his wish and intention to assume the relation old now, our Kaddish list is getting longer to greater awareness of their presence in our to the Jewish community, which his parent and longer—there is much history to cherish lives, even if not physically. had, so that the chain of tradition remains and recall. But as the joke goes; if a tree unbroken from generation to generation, One of the traditions of the Kaddish derives falls in the forest and no one hears it, did it each adding its own link. You can do that for from the prayer known as the Kaddish make a sound? So too, if no one shows up to the generations of your family, I must do that d’Rabbinan…the Kaddish of the Rabbis. It remember the life of a loved at services, is for the generations of mine (as told by was a ritual to recite a form of Kaddish after the person still remembered? The answer is, Rabbi Greg S. Marx).” one had studied the work of a deceased “Of course, the person is remembered.” But I scholar. The words of study gave life to the Whether your parent or loved one was Jewish would like to talk about the remember-er... moment and the recitation of the Kaddish or not, your link to them and to this, your that is, not the deceased, but the living. gave it meaning. So too it is with all our Jewish community, is bound by the knots of Coming to services to recite Kaddish for love ones, scholars or not; they taught us in the Kaddish prayer. Please join at services to a loved one can be transformative. We ways measurable and unseen as well, which say Kaddish for those who touched your lives. remember those who came before us and how helped us become who we were intended to Add your own link. they affected our lives in a myriad of ways. be. Coming to services to pay respect for their Attending Shabbat services, in the midst of influence in our lives is one of the greatest love, community and joy is a precious way to mitzvahs of all the mitzvahs. hold sacred the memory of a loved one. Henrietta Szold who founded Hadassah in In fact, I would like to invite you to email me the early 20th century insisted on saying and/or Rabbi Lewis a vignette or memory of a Kaddish for her mother despite the fact, that loved one you are remembering on any given it was not traditional for women to say the Shabbat. Email us during the week prior and prayer. On September 16, 1916 Szold wrote when we read the name aloud, we will be able to Haym Peretz who had offered to say the to put a holy connection to the words we are prayer for her. “It is impossible for me to find speaking as we look you in the eye and recite words in which to tell you how deeply I was the name. Kaddish is about making a person’s touched by your offer to act as “Kaddish” for memory live in our souls. Actualizing such a my dear mother. I cannot even thank you—it memory by writing the email will make sacred is something that goes beyond words. …. A LIFETIME OF BELONGING APRIL 2015 3 OUR CANTOR’S PERSPECTIVE anyone is, even family, but could sing songs they popularity. Rock and Roll had all the elements of knew or say the artist’s name. Maybe the design the music I had been listening to before like blues, of our brain has something to do with it. Maybe spirituals, folk, and jazz. From Buddy Holly to Elvis the first and last sound we hear in our life is and the Beatles and the British Invasion, Rock took music. Research of people who had a near death over. I was playing guitar already and was busy experience tells of the “beautiful music” they with folk, blues jazz and rock. heard at the time of their death. Some describe In the late 50’s and during the 60’s Israeli music got it as “angelic”, without words, perfect notes and a surge of Mizrachi music. It was a genre listened harmonies. When they recall it they are moved to to by immigrants from the Arab countries and tears. I heard it directly from my father who had Cantor Arie Shikler others like Turkey, Greece and France. Aris San, a died clinically and was given a shot to the heart by The Hollander Family young immigrant from Greece scored some major the paramedics and came back to life. Cantorial Chair hits and is credited with putting this music on the Jazz has been called America’s classical music, map. The Middle Eastern rhythm and melodies and for good reason. Along with the blues, which took a prominent part on the radio waves. Ever since I remember myself….. came before, it is one of the first truly native music “The 60’s brought us Motown Music and those to develop in America, yet its unpredictable trips I have been hearing music, all kinds of music; songs were so amazingly good that everyone was into improvisation gave it a unique quality that from my mother’s lullabies to songs on the radio, taken by them. It broke the race barriers as white blues didn’t have. Throughout the years, and in all movies, live performances or on the street.