The Bulletin of Temple Beth Sholom, June 2003

Temple Beth Sholom THE BULLETIN TEMPLE BETH SHOLOM June 2003 Sivan - 5763 Vol. 3, No. 6 INSIDE THIS ISSUE Rabbi's Message 2 Cantor's Message 3 President's Message Executive Director Message 4 Under the Dome 5 Women's League Men's Club 6 Youth Activities B'nai Mitzvot 7 Preschool News 8 Religious School 9 Donations 10 Warsaw Ghetto Dedication Photos 12 Other Stuff 14 Chapel Windows 15 Shavuot Passover Pantry 23 Calendar of Events Schedule of Services 24 Temple Beth Sholom is a Conservative Congregation affiliated with The United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism HOLIDAY TO BE "A BUFFET OF TORAIF The celebration of Shavuot (see Page 23 for information on the holiday) will be a feast for all at Temple Beth Sholom. Allow yourself to be spiritually, intellectually and physically fed as part of the three days series of activities. What we are serving up is Torah, stories, discussions and blintzes. Beginning on Thursday, June 5, we will have both an Adult Tikkun from 7:45 pm to 11 pm and a Children's Tikkun from 7:45 pm to 11 pm. We are being blessed with five teachers - one for each book of the Torah, who will teach five subjects. Educating us that evening and throughout the holiday will be: Rabbi Charles Savenor, Associate Dean of the Rabbinic School at the Jewish Theological Seminary ("JTS"); Rabbi David Seth- Kirschner, Senior Director of Institutional Advancement at JTS; Will Berkovitz, our Rabbinic Intern and student at the Ziegle School of Rabbinical Studies at the University of Judaism; Paul Wolff, otherwise known as Th Maggid of Hollywood and a master story teller will spin his Torah tales, and our own Rabbi Goodman. In addition Cantor Friedman will be inspiring us with niggunim throughout the nig. of study. The topics which will be discussed will be: "The Torah Codes - Are They Real?" "The Torah of Loving Kindness", "Writing Your Own Torah", "Watering the Tree of Life through Renewal of Torah" and "The Power of Torah In Your Daily Life." The Children's Tikkun will be rich in stories, age appropriate learning and fun for the children. Baby sitting will be provided. On Friday, June 6, Shavuot services will begin at 9 am. Holiday prayers will be recited at min-yan. Then at 5:30 pm we will host a Dairy Buffet Dinner prepared by Gustav Mauler and his staff. For members of TBS the price of the dinner is $10 per adult and $5 for each child under 12, with a maximum for a member family of $25. For non-members the cost is $15 per adult and $5 per child under 12, with no maximum. After dinner Kabbalat Shabbat services will follow, and our five teachers will briefly participate in the service which will end at 8:45 pm. There will not be an Oneg Shabbat following the service. Completing our celebration will be Shabbat services on Saturday starting, as usual, at 9 am which will include Yizkor. Mincha will be observed beginning at 5:00 pm immediately followed by our guest teachers participating in "Give Us 45 Minutes and We'll Show you the World of Torah." Each of the five teachers will teach on one book of the Torah. You pick the book you are interested in and we'll pick the teacher. There you have it?a regular smorgasbord of Torah to taste to your heart's content. Try this, try that, eating of Torah won't make you fat. It feeds your soul and it feeds your brain. Taste our Torah Tikkuns again and again. 2?Rabbi's Message ShavuotAnd OurTorah Rabbi Felipe Goodman According to the Midrash, on Shavuot the Torah was given to Moshe at Mt. Sinai. The Torah itself says that only the Ten Commandments were given. The Torah is the holiest book in the Jewish Tradition. It is our constitution, declaration of independ-ence and God's revelation, all in one. Reading of the Torah four times a week, Shabbat morning and afternoon, Monday and Thursday mornings, is designed to teach us the contents of the Torah so we can know our history, follow its laws and live according to its high standards, as well as preserve the unique people God has chosen to teach the world moral living. When we read the Torah we can see the hierarchy of the holidays. On Shabbat, the holiest day of the year, we read seven aliyot; on Yom Kippurwe read six; on Rosh HaShanah and the Shalosh Regalim (Pesah, Shavuot, Sukkot) we read five; on Rosh Hodesh, four; and on regular weekly daily readings, three aliyot. In ancient Palestine (Eretz Yisrael) the Torah was read in a three-year cycle. We follow that tradition in a modified way. We don't stretch the whole Torah reading into three years, but take each Sidrah (Parashah) and divide it into three parts, reading the first third in Year One of the three-year cycle; the second third in Year Two of the cycle, and the third in Year Three. In Babylonia the entire Torah was read each year, but the Palestinian custom of reading the whole Torah in three years is the one that we follow at Temple Beth Sholom. Since reading the Sefer Torah (Torah Scroll - on parchment, as opposed to the Humash, the printed Torah) is the holiest moment of worship, it is forbidden to disrupt the reading by talking, or by entering or leaving the synagogue. One may do these things in between aliyot, but not during the actual read-ing of the words of the Torah. During that sacred moment, which metaphorically is like receiving the Torah again at Mount Sinai, we should sit quietly and follow the reading in our Humash, and try to learn its lessons and become familiar with the text and its messages. The Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) has a hierarchy of sanctity. The Torah is holiest, next is the Prophets, and third, the Writings. So if one has a copy of these three, the Torah should be on top of a pile, Prophets next, and the Writings on bottom. It should never sit on a table with anything on top of it, nor should it be used for any utilitarian purpose. If you have a copy of the Torah or Tanakh, nothing should be placed on top of it, not even a Siddur. Neither the Sefer Torah nor any printed version of it should be used to prop up anything, or for any purpose other than studying and reading it, and learn-ing from it. Shavuot is, according to the words we insert in the Amidah in the Siddur, "Zeman Matan Toratenu," "the Time of the Giving of the Torah," and during the period of Shavuot, before and during the holiday, we should remember that it is by the Torah that we live, and by its words we rise to a higher level of holiness and spirituality. As Saadyah Gaon, the great Egyptian/Babylonian sage of the 10th century wrote' 'We are a People only by virtue of our Torah." Hag Sameah! Cantor's Message?3 MY TRIP TO NEW YORK, Part IV Cantor Daniel Friedman Wow, what a movie! "The Pianist". Okay, so I can go on-and-on about "The Pianist," but I won't. All I have to say is, if you have not seen the movie yet, see it. What a wonderful surprise it was for me to find out the movie was about the life of Wladyslaw Szpilman a Jewish concert pianist, a maestro, set against the backdrop of the Nazi occupation of Poland and in particular the Warsaw Ghetto. This description of the movie is a simplification of this story. The film took me on a rollercoaster ride of emotions. As to the rele-vance of including my seeing this film in this story, well, let's just say it added tremendously to my Jewish adventure in New York. After leaving the United Artists movie house just down the street from ABC Furni-ture, I felt proud to be Jewish, and became resolute in my desire to remain actively "Jewish." I felt my soul cry out to challenge other people to wake up to the glorious freedoms and opportunities we have today as Jews. I wanted to shout "Celebrate Life! Celebrate Being Jewish! Participate! Learn! Be Joyous, Be Jew-ish!" This is my message to you. I walked home on a cloud and floated into my dreams, content and at peace. I giggled at the image of myself, dressed in jeans and an orange t-shirt, dancing with Chassids. Oh, what a dream I had as I awoke and prepared for my day in Bensonhurst and Crown Heights. I am not much different than them, I thought. I am "religious." I pray three times a day. I keep my head covered. I keep kosher. I observe Shabbat. I study Torah and strive to keep the mitzvot. So why is it that people give the religious high ground to the Orthodox? I guess I will try to find out at least part of the answer. Off I went on my Jewish adventure. I got onto the NR train going downtown and figured I would get off at an exit in the area of B. and C.H. and just walk around. I knew I was going in the right direction when the train started to fill up with men wearing black, with long ringlets of hair as sideburns and black fedoras. I got off the train at 26th St. and headed south. As I walked, I was greeted with store after store of Jewish "stuff," Kosher restaurants everywhere. Kosher butcher, kosher market, kosher candy store, kosher ice-cream, kosher caterers, Kosher, Kosher, Kosher...no worries. Book stores, hat stores, clothing stores, silver stores and synagogues! Synagogues and schools on almost every block. It was about 4:30 in the afternoon and I noticed a group of men running to get into a building packed with other men. It was a synagogue that dou-bled as an attorney's office. It was time for Mincha and Maariv. So I stepped in and joined them. "You come to daven," a very large man, with a beard and wearing a black suit, said to me. "Yes," I said, as he looked at me, his heading tilting to one side as he handed me a siddur. Maybe it was my jeans and blue sweater that tilted his head. From then on no one said a word to me and no words needed to be spoken. The language was Hebrew and here I was connecting to a traditional sect of Judaism that goes back hun-dreds of years to Lithuania, back to the Lubavitchers and Chasidism. There we were 20 men crammed into a room no bigger than twenty feet square, praying. Why? Because we are commanded to do so? Because it makes us feel good? Because we feel connected to God? Because it reminds us who we are and how we should act throughout the day? I don't know the exact answer why, but, for me, all of those questions have become the reasons, the answers to the question "why"? That afternoon, I davened loud and proud with this group of men more acutely aware of who I am. My clothing may not be the same. My theology may not be the same. But my "Jewishness" is the same. I felt proud to be a Conservative Jew in a sea of black. I felt proud to be able to navigate my way through the service and stand with these men and all the men that have come before me. My only wish was that I could have also been able to bring a woman to stand next to me and share this experience. So, I thanked the man that gave me the siddur and went on a shopping spree. Kosher, kosher everywhere. Two hours and ten blocks later, I was out of the "Zone" as quickly as I had entered it. All of a sudden, I crossed a street and there staring me in the face, hanging in the window of a Chinese restaurant was a duck, dripping with fat and sweet n' sour sauce. Oh, how quickly times change, I thought, as I headed toward the train station and my return to Manhattan. Oh, how quickly times change. (To be completed next month) June 2003 4?President's Message/Executive Director's Column Jeff Zucker, President Time flies when you're having fun ? and when you're a synagogue president. It is hard for me to believe that I have already completed my first term. Some of it has been fun, some of it not so much fun, but almost all of it has been rewarding. We have done a lot in the past year. The dedication of the Warsaw Ghetto Re-membrance Garden still is vivid in our minds. We have finished and opened a new school wing. The instal-lation of the stained glass windows in the Steinberg Chapel has been completed. Our accomplishments are not limited to the physical. This past year we have had a full slate lectures; five Shaarei Binah lectures from distinguished scholars and the Shirley and Sidney Chaplin Lecture brought us Dr. Charles Krauthammer. The L'dor v' Dor program has given many Jewish senior citizens, regardless of affiliation, the opportunity to get out and spend time with our next generation. People are still raving about our Purim Carnival. Purim was also a time for helping the less fortunate. As a result of your generous contributions for the Mishloach Manot bas-kets we were able to make a significant contribution to the Jewish Family Services Agency. Our support for Israel included last summer's remarkable contribution to Mogen David Armdi and co-sponsoring the Israeli Vendor Day with the JCC. We also joined with the rest of the community in making this year's Federation Israeli Independence Day celebration a great success. We also shouldn't forget the importance of just being here. The faces of both the Las Vegas residents and visitors who have the opportunity to say Kaddish for their loved ones because of our daily minyans are a blessing to all of us who help make it hap-pen. The Chevrah Kaddisha volunteers have earned gratitude beyond measure. TBS, however, is not resting on its laurels. The Warsaw Ghetto Remembrance Garden is not just a structure but also an op-portunity for teaching. Docents are now organizing and looking forward to making full use of all the educational possibilities that the Remembrance Garden provides. The Torat Hayim writing project offers each of us the chance to participate in the actual writing of a Torah and in the process come to a fuller understanding of both its making and meaning. Much of what we have and are doing shows a strong sense of continuity. Projects which culminated this year are the result of years of planning and effort. We are now starting programs which will not see fruition for several years. They are all a testament to our commitment to the future of Judaism and our Temple. All of these projects show clearly that Temple Beth Sholom is its members. If you look at our budget you would never believe we could accomplish one half of what we actually are doing. Every single program, every single event, I have mentioned and the many more I did not only happen because members of TBS gave of their time and resources to make them happen, all too often unknown and unappreciated except by a few. It has been my good fortune to have had a chance to get to know some of these volunteers and to see their efforts first hand. They have not made my day. They have made my year - and many years to come. IF YOU TELL THEM, THEY WILL COME- Robert Mirisch, Executive Director This past month was an amazing one. With the twin events of the dedication of the Warsaw Ghetto Remembrance Garden and the Shirley and Sidney Chaplin Lecture by Charles Krauthammer, TBS was in the news in a big way. And what was the result? We had over 500 people attend the dedication ceremonies on a Sunday morning that was ideal for golfing. We had 500-600 people hear the remarks of Dr. Krauthammer. Both events were free to the public. The dedication received print and broadcast press coverage, through the hard efforts of Arlene Blut and Gillian Silver-Rodis. They worked over a period of three months to prepare the public for our event. The result of their efforts was the attendance, the increased phone calls concerning the Garden, and increased donations from people who were moved to come and see the facility. They did a commendable job. Barbara Kenig had the laboring oar in publicizing the appearance of Dr. Krauthammer. Great job, Barbara. Having Alan Stock interview our speaker didn't hurt either. All these people working to get the word out are members of TBS. Getting the word out about the many community-wide things we do here is a key factor in the membership growth of our shul and, correspondingly, in its financial stability. Getting the word out is not merely a function of media mavens. It is a function of each member. Each of us has friends, acquaintances, and family who could benefit from affiliation with TBS. I am not sug-gesting we "lure" people away from other synagogues. In this city with a 90% non-affiliation rate, there are plenty of prospects without doing something that could undermine other congregations. WHAT IT TAKES IS BEING CONSCIOUS OF THE NEED FOR NEW MEMBERS. By thinking of it, you can be our ambassadors from TBS to the community. Every member is (or should be) a member of our publicity committee. As a matter of fact, if you are able to, we would love to have more members on our formal publicity committee. If you can help out throughout the year promoting our shul, our communal programs and building our relationship with the community at large, please give me a call. We have proved that by getting the word out we can get new members. As we approach the summer and lead into the High Holy Days, now is the time to recruit. We will continue to provide opportunities for the community as a whole to appreciate the presence of TBS in their midst. You must tell the community we are here, we are active, and we want them. Under the Dome?5 Letter from Arnold Saltzman, Interim Director of Jewish Family Service Agency to Robert Mirisch 5/9/03: Dear Bob: Please convey to the Board of Directors and the membership at Temple Beth Sholom our deep appreciation for the Purim project gift in the amount of $941. As you know Jewish Family Service experienced a difficult time financially which impacted our capacity to provide financial assistance to the needy and troubled members of our community. The support Temple Beth Sholom provides will help us respond in a more effective manner. Thank you very much. Warmest regards to Rabbi Goodman and other friends of the agency. Cordially, Arnold WELCOME TO JULIE Julie Fox has joined the Office Staff as Administrative Assistant. She comes to TBS after eight years of increasing responsibilities at Nevada Big Brothers/ Big Sisters. Julie adds a dimension of computer and graphics expertise to the staff that will make us more efficient in many areas. Please make her feel at home here at TBS. We look forward to her being with us for a long, long time. TBS MEMBERSHIP ID CARDS MAILED By the time you receive this Bulletin you should have received your ID cards indicating you and your immediate family members are members in good standing of Temple Beth Sholom. In our on-going efforts to increase the security of our members, staff and the facility, the Board decided to issue these cards. If you should be asked to identify yourself as you enter the premises or move about it, showing your card will let the person asking know that you are properly here. If you drive on and for some reason are not in a car with the auto IDs we previously issued, this card will permit you to drive into our lot. It will save time and avoid angst if you have the card when coming to TBS. The card will not get you on airplanes or give comfort to someone cashing your checks, but it will be honored at 10700 Havenwood Lane. We appreciate your cooperation. Event organizers offer thanks Following is a note of appreciation from Arlene Blut, Warsaw Ghetto Remembrance Garden project launch lead, and Gillian Silver, media relations/publicist. "We would like to thank TBS Men's Club for the marvelous opportunity to present the Warsaw Ghetto Remembrance Garden to the community. Other individuals to whom we wish to express our appreciation for their contributions are: David Frydman - USY Advisor and his volunteers Susan Vex and the Temple Beth Sholom Zimriyah Youth Chorale Robin Reinarz and the Las Vegas Philharmonic - cello Sasha Seminoff-violin Cantor Rabbi Robert Mirisch and the office staff. Additionally, we are grateful to the following media outlets for their substantial coverage KLAS, Channel 8 News KTNV, Channel 13 News KVBC Channel 3 Alan Stock, KXNT Radio The Las Vegas Sun The Las Vegas Review-Journal Las Vegas Weekly View Newspapers/Summerlin View Newspaper/Southwest Las Vegas Israelite Jewish Reporter Summerlin Magazine The Veterans' Reporter." The Las Vegas Zimriya Youth Chorale will be performing at TBS on June 8th from 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm. Please come and support the Chorale and Cantor Daniel! "Under the Dome" is an ongoing column of general information. Read "Under the Dome" to find out the latest tidbits about people and events at Temple Beth Sholom. June 2003 6?Women's League/Men's Club WOMEN'S LEAGUE FROM INSTALLATION TO GRADUATION Florence Frost, a long time seasoned member of Temple Beth Sholom and the Women's League, has just been installed as our new president for 2003-04. She is a dedicated, sincere, well organized woman who has vision and empathy. Florence is a wonderful composite of all the positive attributes of the Jewish woman. I wish her every success and have confidence that she will reach her well planned goals. At installation time one is full of hopes and challenges. The incoming officers and board members realize that they will be on a roller coaster ride, with some smooth areas but that the excitement, thrills, and scary moments will build (we wonder what we are doing here in the first place) but somehow, we have the confidence that we will pull into the gate at ride's end and will have had a wonderful exhilarating ride. It is our love and dedication to the Jewish people and to our home congregation that gets us through the ride. Spirit of adventure and willingness to grow and succeed also helps to get us there. I have just experienced all of the above. The goal was to get as many women involved as possible, to set some new stan-dards, to start some new programs, and to cooperate and assist our congregation where needed. Much of that was accom-plished but some always remains to be done. Now that my presidential double term is over, I am enriched and exhila-rated. I had a lifetime of experiences and I cherish many wonderful moments. I thank you all for your support, your efforts both large and small, your friendship and your cool good humor. You have all been a blessing to me. I know that Florence has a wonderful group to work with and will succeed in all she envisions. TBS MEN'S CLUB Irwin Goldberg & Jerry Katz, Co-Presidents The Men's Club wants to thank everyone for their participation in our very successful Yom HaShoah Yellow Candle fundraising program. Because of your generosity, the Men's Club will be able to continue supporting the many worthwhile activities within our synagogue and the Jewish community. Our Men's Club chapter has been nominated for two Torch Awards from the Federation of Jewish Men's Clubs. One nomination is for "Outstanding Programming" and the other is for our Warsaw Ghetto Remembrance Garden as "Best Holocaust Program". The awards will be given in July at the FJMC's international convention in Florida. At the May 21st membership meeting, the following men were elected to lead our Men's Club for the 2003 - 2004 term of office: President Irwin Goldberg Vice President Dr. Michael Breyer Secretary Warren Stamm Treasurer Sam Showel Financial Secretary Dr. Howard Kramer Our deepest appreciation for an exciting and memorable past year goes to our outgoing officers: Co- Presidents Irwin Goldberg & Jerry Katz Vice President Roger Meyers Secretary Irv Herman Treasurer Dr. Gary Markewich Financial Secretary Sam Showel The new Board is seeking men who would be interested in getting more involved in the worthwhile activities of our organization by accepting one of the many positions available under the new Board. Installation of new officers will be announced. Please come and help support our new Board. Youth Activities?7 Kadima is a social and religious youth group for children in 4th grade - 6th grade. We have monthly social and religious events as well as lounge nights in the youth lounge. In May, Kadims participated in a Havdallah service and then we all ate ice cream and watched a movie. We will have one more event in June. If interested, call the youth director, David Frydman at 336-7583 o 804-1333 ext 122. USY is a social and religious youth group for young teens in 7th - 12,h grades. They have the op-portunity to go to Shabbatons and Kinnusim in different states in the Southwest. In May, we met up with the USY from Congregation B'nai Israel in New Mexico. We davened Ma'Ariv and then went for pizza and a movie. Once again, if your child is going to be in high school next year, contact David Frydman at the Temple. I hope everyone has a happy Shavuot. David Frydman Youth Director nai cftitzvot t ? t t ? ? I I ! ? ? I f ! f f ? I t I f f ! ! f f I I ! f f I ? f f t f I I f f f f f f f f f f t ! Congratulations to our adult B'nai Mitzvot?Naomi Sauerland and Adrienne Rosenberg f f f f f f t t f f t f f t f f t t f t f f f f f f f f f f f f f f t f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f Jesseca Callie Zwerg-June 14 SidneV Boruszak^June 21 Jesseca is a 6th grade student at Lawrence Junior High school. She has won numerous math, writing, art and honor roll awards. While she is diligent in her studies, Jesseca also likes to play piano, dance, and spend time with her friends and family. She also as-pires to be involved in the theater arts through acting lessons. For her Mitzvot program to Temple Beth Sholom and to her Las Vegas community, Jesseca has chosen The Safe Nest program. This organization provides temporary assistance for men, women and children in domestic crisis. There will be donation bins set up at the synagogue for all to help with donating clothes, toys, etc. Sidney Allen Boruszak, son of Amy May and Dr. Allen Boruszak, will be called to the Torah as a Bar Mitzvah on June 21 at Temple Beth Sholom. He has two sisters, Haley and Sarah and a brother, Jeffrey. Grandparents are Bernice May of Boise, Idaho and the late Sidney May and Joan and James Boruszak of Islamorada, Florida. Sidney is a seventh grade student at Becker Middle School in Summerlin. June 2003 8?Preschool News The Early Childhood Department PARENTS PUSH THEIR PROFESSIONS The Parents of children at the Temple Beth Sholom Pre-School came to the school during Community Helper's week to explain to the students what they do professionally. Over a week's time children became acquainted with numerous job categories, including: prosthetic physician, lawyer for the Colorado River Commission, obstetrician, land developer, stock broker, land surveyor, chef, and yes, even rabbi and cantor, among others. The talks were accompanied with the children getting goodies representing some of the jobs they had heard about. The kids received surgical masks and rubber gloves, dental water cups, toy buses and bookmarkers to name a few. A trial attorney even fingerprinted some of the children. As a special treat, Chef Chris Mortenson, from the Border Grill, demonstrated Kosher cooking. He prepared a Kosher "A to Z Buffet" with a different food item for every letter of the alphabet; from Apples to Zucchini, the children discovered that they can eat their way through all the letters they have studied this year. Shouts of "That's what I want to do when I grow up" could be heard all week long. ^ June 6-Shavuot .Closed -June 12- Pre-K Graduation ~ June 13- Last day of school Israeli Independence Day Celebration Let's all dance the Hora Religious School/?9 Dear Friends, It has been a great year in the Religious School, with many achievements and mile stones. Our Religious School was a home for 150 students this year, 30 of them were new students. Our students excelled in their Hebrew studies, created wonderful projects in their Judaic classes, and were the first to use the computer lab. We couldn't have done it without our excellent faculty and our wonderful families. Our families contribution and participation in our many activities during this year surpassed our dreams. Dining in the Sukah and dancing with the Torah on Simchat Torah celebration. Driving all over Las Vegas in search for the Chanukah Treasure Hunt and eating Latkes in the terrific Chanukah party. Lounging on the social hall floor for the creative picnic style Tu B'Shvat Seder. Dressing up in the most funniest costumes in the Purim carnival and the Megila reading, which couldn't be noisier... Our Pesach Seder which gave everybody a sense of one big Mishpucha, and last but not least the End of The Year Assembly and BBQ. We also had great participation in Friday and Shabbat services and in Friday Night Kids and On Shabbat Morning family services. Now, we are gearing up towards the 2003?2004 school year. The growth of our school requires us to find new faculty members and think creatively of how to utilize our "shrinking" class spaces. While speaking of the new school year, registration is already underway! As we mentioned here last month, we started a little earlier this year in order to accommodate students that needed to be registered before leaving on summer vacations. If you did not make it to registration on May 22nd, please call the Religious School office to schedule a time to come in and register your student (s). We really had a blast of a year and I would like to take this opportunity and send a warm thank you from the bottom of my heart to all the dedicated teachers, wonderful families, unbelievable Education Committee, congregants, clergy, and Temple staff for their tremendous support and help. O.K. now I can take a deep breath and go and spend some time with my family in Israel. I hope you will have a wonderful, safe, and relaxing summer. See you in the fall! B'vracha f\yd*X Miss Hannah's Beginning Hebrew class gets a "thumbs up!" Ms O r l y ' s students think she's tops'. 5th ? ^ nard in June 2003 10?Tributes...Donations from our Hearts CANTOR'S DISCRETIONARY Klara Alter Esther Jones-Frankenstein FUND Yolanda Phelps Marlene & Maury Jones In honor of: Kenneth Altose Dorothy Katz Adam Marias' Bris Selma Altose Brenda & Jerry Katz Dara & Kenneth Marias Edith Banker Naomi Lambert Lester Banker Teri Thienhaus Frank Bard Beatrice Lederer Dorothy Klegerman Harold Lederer EDUCATION FUND Anna Berns Fannie Levien In honor of: Berns & Rubin Family Louis Levien Joe & Renee Premack's new Leah Block Fran & Len Levien granddaughter Rachmeal Block Gerhard Lewy Steve & Marsha Cohen Shirley Chaplin Anita Lewy Arnold & Rochelle Schneider's Joseph Blumenthal David O. McNally daughter's marriage Phil Rosenberg Marjorie & Joseph Wrobel Steve & Marsha Cohen Anna Bluth Michael Marmor Ron Turshinsky's Birthday David Bluth Rose Marmor Steve & Marsha Cohen Jack Carroll Mollie Weiss Memorial Shelley & Stan Carroll Fund Edna Casey Sidney A. May RABBI'S DISCRETIONARY FUND Jay & Sharyn Brown Amy May & Children In honor of: Yoska Chozahinoff Martin Mendlovic The Rabbi's Kindness Barbara & Igal Chozahinoff Penny & Eva Mendlovic Louise & Jerry Appenzeller Dr. David Coblentz Elias Messinger Paul & Faye Jeser Alan & Suzanne Feld Dee Glick Baby Naming Bert Colodny Jacob Mogill Robert H. Frey June Colodny Barbara & Marlowe Mogill Granddaughter Emily Grace Don Parents Joe & Renee Premack Barbara Don Ida & Sidney Stern Opening the Ark Rochelle Thone Rose Peterson Elaine & Holly Jacobs Jacob Dondis Ellie Rosenstein Adam Marias' Bris Fran & Len Levien Rose Pettinato Dara & Kenneth Marias Mollie Eisenstein Paul Schmier Ron Turshinsky's Birthday Bella Hasselson Sidney Phillips Carolyn & Morris Gertz Dorothy Entratter Max & Lily Phillips Louise & Jerry Appenzeller Michele Entratter Wolkoff Boris Premack Jesseca Zwerg's Bat Mitzvah Isaac Eddie Friedman Joe & Renee Premack Jill & Fred Zwerg Steven & Sharon Goldman Lily Ringler In memory of: Diana Frush Ralph Gabay Louis Beckenstein Sam Dvorak Henry Rothman Barbara Beckenstein Laz Galansky Lee Rothman Harold Lederer Jenny & Stan Madlof Seymour Rudolph Sam & Charlotte Showel Madeline Gamble Clarice Kirsch In appreciation of Rabbi's book The Miner Family Roberta Schack reviews Leroy Gentry Arnold Schneider June Colodny Viola Goldstein Benjamin Schrager Ida Glaser Seena Spindel Naomi & Burton Sorkin Miriam Schwartz YAHRZEIT/MEMORIAL FUND Murray Hochberg Joe & Renee Premack In memory of: Denise & Marc Abramow Buddy Shiffman Eleanor Abrams Charles Isler Sam Dvorak Sidney Abrams Reba Isler Ida Sorkin Shelley & Stan Carroll Eva Jaeger Jacob Sorkin Esther Reicin Aisuss Jacque Jaeger Naomi & Burton Sorkin Sam & Charlotte Showel Rabbi Samuel Jones Edith Stein Tributes...Donations from our Hearts