Congregation Ner Tamid newsletter, November 2000

Congregation Ner Tamid THE REFORM JEWISH CONGEGATION OF LAS VEGAS ...A SPECIAL PLACE TO BELONG NOVEMBER 2000 - VOL. XV NO. 2 SANFORD D . AKSELRAD Rabbi BELLA FELDMAN Cantorial Soloist DREW LEVY President MELISSA FOGEL Student Rabbi 3 CHESHVAN - 3 KISLEV 5761 MONTY E. WILLEY Executive Director JACQUELINE FLEEKOP Education Director Lois BERGMAN Preschool Director MELANIE GORMAN BULLETIN EDiroR/PuBucrrr Chanukah Happenings MITZVAH MENORAH PROJECT The Social Action Committee is again sponsoring our Mitzvah Menorah Project. At the Chanu-kah Bazaar on November 19th, look for our booth with the huge meno-rah hung with name tags of needy Jewish children. The tags will note whether the Chanukah gifts pur-chased by those who adopt these children are for a boy or girl, the age, size, interests and new this year, one special gift the child re-ally wants. The idea is for you to select a child and purchase Chanukah gifts for that child. If you have your own children, this is an excellent way to teach the meaning of tzeda-kah or giving to those less fortu-nate than yourselves. You bring the wrapped gifts to the Temple. Jewish Family Services then picks up the gifts and delivers them to the selected families before Cha-nukah. Inside each family bag is also a menorah, candles, prayers, Chanukah chocolate gelt and as-sorted Chanukah treats. If you know of any Jewish families who could be helped by this project, please call Sue Levinsky at Jewish Family Services - 732- 0304. All information will be held in strictest confidentiality by Sue who will be the only one with family names. CHANUKAH BAZAAR The Annual Chanukah Bazaar sponsored by Sisterhood, will be held on Sunday, Nov 19th, in the Social Hall. The fun begins at 11am and will continue 'till 3pm. As always our bazaar gets bigger and better every year. A raffle drawing will be held t o benefit the Sisterhood Fun-D for Youth Programs with prizes t h a t include, a bicycle, television, Runnin Rebel basketball tickets, jew-elry, restaurant certificates, and many other fabulous priz-es. One thing you can always count on is a mouth-water-ing lunch prepared by the Party Shop, the Gift Shop will be open with a sensation-al selection of Gift items. You won't want to miss the crowning, of Ms. Noodle Kugel, Ner Tamid's award winning contest! Bring your family, bring your friends, to this years fun and festive Chanu-kah Bazaar. To reserve a booth or enter the Ms. Noo-dle Kugel Contest, please call Yvonne Weiss at 255-2207. It's that time! Get ready to wrap! Holiday Gift Wrap at the Galleria mall see page 4 for details l l l l l l l l l - m Worship Services 2 Rabbi's Message 2 Message from our President 3 Notes from Our Cantorial Soloist 4 Preschool/Religious School 5-7 Auxiliaries 8 New Member Welcome 10 November B'nai Mitzvah 13 Birthdays & Anniversaries 14 Tributes 15-16 Yahrzeits & In Memorium 17 (the Bulletin is published monthly) More Chanukah Happenings on page 9 A SpeciaC Thee To HeCong Worship Services Conducted by Rabbi SanfordD. Akselrad & Cantorial Soloist Bella Feldman NOVEMBER 3 TOT SHABBAT 6:30PM SHABBAT SERVICES WITH STUDENT RABBI 7:30PM ONEG SPONSORED BY MELANIE AND SCOTT GORMAN IN HONOR OF THE BABY NAMING OF NOAH MICHAEL NOVEMBER 4 TORAH STUDY 10AM NOVEMBER 10 FAMILY SHABBAT SERVICE WITH C N T BAND 7:30PM ONEG SPONSORED BY THE SISTERHOOD NOVEMBER 11 COURTNEY GOLDSTEIN BAT MITZVAH 10AM KIDDUSH SPONSORED BY THE GOLDSTEIN FAMILY TORAH STUDY 10AM NOVEMBER 17 SHABBAT SERVICES 7:30PM ONEG SPONSORED BY THE SISTERHOOD NOVEMBER 18 TORAH STUDY 10AM NOVEMBER 24 SHARONA DAGANI BAT MITZVAH 5:30PM SHABBAT SERVICES 7:30PM ONEG SPONSORED BY THE SISTERHOOD NOVEMBER 25 KORY KAPLAN BAR MITZVAH 10AM KIDDUSH SPONSORED BY BARBARA KAPLAN RABBI'S MESSAGE On Growing Older, Without Growing Old As I sit down to write this article at the beginning of October, my birthday is fast approaching. Though not deemed by any tradition to be a "significant birthday such as turning 18 or 21 or 30 or even "40", this birth-day has brought with it some feelings that were unanticipated. 43 is different than 40. It means I have taken the plunge ever firm-ly into the "40's For many this is still very young. Ana for others, they are eager to point out the greying of my hair and beard! I even found myself "slipping" when I delivered one of my High Holydays sermons and referred to myself as a "young rabbi" in Columbus Ohio, only to hopefully, quickly recover exchanging the word "young" for "younger"! Different things have happened in my life to make me even more aware of the aging process. I am now the proud father of a teenager. And all that goes with it! In a month, I will be choosing the bar mitzvah date for my eleven year old son Sam. Though two years away, those two years seem to pass by very quickly. And next year my father will turn 80, firmly placing me in the "sandwich" genera-tion- a person with children at home and agina parents that will gradually need more and more attention and care. As a rabbi I have always had a "window" into the aging process. After all I have dealt my entire career with people who are old-er than I am. It is just that now, some of my doctors are a bit younaer than I am...And there was the one wedding where the father of the groom and I were the same age... Moments. Moments in time that remind me, and I suppose remind all of us, that time does not stand still. We are growing older. The key of course is not to grow old. An odd worry I suppose for someone who is only" 40 something. But then, again, I have had a window into the aging process. And what I have discovered is that the people who have diverse interests, a wide circle of friends, satisfy-ing work, the love of family and take good care of themselves physically are the people who age, but do not grow old. For most of us, we manage to ac-complish one or two on this list. But we let our physical health go by the way side. Or perhaps we spend so much time at work that we neglect our family or friends. Or we take care of our bodies - attending the health club every day religiously - but neglect our spirit. I don't know if 40ish is too young to worry about this or not. I do know that it is never too early to embrace these values. And that is why I am going to start tomorrow...right after I have a slice of that delicious chocolate birthday cake! B'Shalom, fRaBSi Sanford yUqetrad Jk 2\ Congregation Ncr T*mit> November 2000 TEMPLE BOARD MEMBERS DREW LEVY STEWART BLUMENFELD SCOTT STOLBERG HOWARD LAYFER IRA SPECTOR JUDY CORNETT LYNN SASSO RUTH URBAN DAVID STAHL MINDY UNGER-WADKINS MEL HALLERMAN JACKY ROSEN LEON MARCO MARC GARBER DICK GRANICH BETH BROMBERG CECILIA SCHAFLER ESTHER SALTZMAN SHARNA BLUMENFELD SANDY STOLBERG MICHAEL MILANO BRENNA YAHRAUS T B D SANDY PITTLE BOB UNGER JERRY GORDON CAL LEWIS EILEEN KOLLINS KENNETH SCHNITZER DR. DAVID WASSERMAN DR. STEVE KOLLINS MICHAEL CHERRY DR. BERNARD FARROW EUGENE KIRSHBAUM* RABBI SANFORD AKSELRAD President VP Administration VP Ways c? Means VP Membership VP Religious Activities VP Education & Youth VP Member Activities VP Social Action Treasurer Secretary Trustee Trustee-Membership Trustee Trustee Trustee Trustee Trustee Trustee- Youth Trustee-Library Sisterhood Brotherhood NTTY TNT Golden Chai Past President Past President Past President Past President Past President Past President Past President Past President Past President Past President Ex Officio ?Deceased 9{pvember and ^December \ Torafi Study 'Dates Tuesdays unth Kgbbi J4J(sefrad 12pm-lpm / 'Board Room 9{pvember 7th and 21st 'December 5th and 19th Saturdays with Student 'Rabbi 'Melissa J~ofjeC 10am. / Library 9{pvember 4th and 18th 'December 2nd ESSAGE FROM OUR TEMPLE PRESIDENT With the new year also comes a number of changes at the Temple. On behalf of the Board of Trustees and myself I want to thank Mindy Unger-Wadkins for all her time, effort and energy in producing our temple bulletin over the past 4 years. This has been a labor of love for Mindy and at NO cost to the temple. With the assistance of Monty Willey she has done a wonderfully fantastic job and there is no way we could ever thank her enough. We will truly miss all her efforts. But, don't worry as she will still be a part of our board as she takes on the job of the Corporate Secraetary of CNT. To take over Mindy's position as the bulletin editor, Melanie Gorman has moved from her position as Co-Program Director to be the bulletin editor. This is a great opportunity to keep Melanie involved with the temple and still leave her time to spend with her new baby, Noah. We are very excited to have Melanie in this position and we have all the confidence in the world in her that she will do a great job with the bulletin. Mindy has been training her to do the job just right (as a matter of fact, this bulletin you are reading is her first). If any auxiliaries, committees or temple members have an article, an-nouncement or advertisment for the bulletin, you must get it to Melanie by the 6th day of each month for publication in the next issue. This is especially impor-tant if your item is time sensi-tive. You can reach Melanie at the temple office or e-mail her at: MGcntprogdir@aol.com. Speaking of the Program Direc-tor's position, we are actively looking to fill this full-time posi-tion. Abbie Burk who has been sharing the position with Melanie has decided to step down for personal reasons. We will surely miss Abbie's hard work and thank her for her dedication to the position. We wish her the best and thank her for all her dedica-tion to the temple. She has a new baby on the way and is pre-paring to be a mommy. She too will not be lost from CNT, as she and her husband will still work with the youth groups and teach in our religious school. Applications are now being accepted, in the office, for the vacant Program Director position. If you know of anyone who may be interested, please have them see Monty Willey for a full job description and to schedule an interview with the search committee. L'Shana Tovah, (Dreu) Levy November 2000 A Special Place To Belong gjQf / / y y / A / o u t * ( ' f i n t i ) i ' i ( i l i S f l J f i i x t Over the past twelve years I have had the opportunity to develop and nurture CNT's music program. In a way, each project feels like an-other child to me. As I watch our choir's grow, flourish and accom-plish new musical challenges I also have had to learn to let them walk on their own. Well...not ex-actly on their own... for it would not be possible to make such beau-tiful music without the assistance of our fabulous accompanist Rhonda Greeson and my talented guru/voice teacher, Peter Bugel. Their work with the Adult Choir is "instrumental" to their achieve-ments and I would like to thank them for their parenting skills. My longtime friend, Lori Frankl who helped Degin our Jr. Choir program ana continues to work with tnem each week, had a vision of form-ing a Teen Choir and made it hap-pen this year! They sang at our early Family services and compli-mented our guest soloist Debby Barkat. We also added another music professional to our staff, Lola Rivera, who co-officiated at our High Holiday youth services and helped out with our newly formed Teen Choir. Thank you both for your dedication. I would like to take this opportunity to extend a special THANK YOU to all of the members of both choirs for an outstanding job dur-ing the High Holidays! Also, my deepest thanks to Fern Percheski for her diligent work with our sheet music ana a special thank you to Maxine Molinsky for singing at the Healing Service. Everyone s hard work truly paid off. "Yasher Kochavim (A Job Well Done): ADULT CHOIR Sally Birman Susan Breene Bonni Casale Dick DeFranco Mitch Eisner Florence Ellison Dee Ann Emmer Marty Fessler Randi Friedman Frances Klamian Michael Mehr Christy Molasky Maxine Molinsky Jill Oaks Fern Percheski Barbara Rosenberg Sheldon Rosenberg Glori Rosenberger Larry Rudolph Larry Sasso Lean Sichel Jaquie Smith Katherine Scott Nanette Spector Cynthia Zeidner TEEN CHOIR Rachel Alterman Kelly Chenin Brittan Greenberg Jessica Hoffman Chelsea Lewis Deborah Lewis Dania Lugo Kelsey Lugo Anthony Messinger Molly Rosenberger Danny Weinstein We are so lucky to have such tal-ented musicians to help out at the many services we offer. Wishing you all a happy and healthy new year! B'shalom, Vetta m E CNT Holiday Gift Wrapping at The Galleria Mall Volunteers Needed! Hard work and f u n at tbe same time, A great way to ma k e n ew friends, and a great w a y to Kelp support this important CNT fundraiser. On tbe job training available. Call Sandy S t o l b e r g at 228-6863 to sign up , , ASAP! A * .V' ft n w r , ?r. >?1 >. CNT's Second Friday Musical Shabbats are a hit! Don't miss out on the third Installment of this exciting, exhilarating and Inspiring service! November 10, 2000 7:30 p.m. Upcoming dates: December 8th & January 12th Congregation hfer Tamfo November 2000 CNT Preschool Fall is in the air and the boys and girls of Congregation Ner Tamid's Preschool and Kindergarten are hard at work and play. October was a tun filled month. We celebrated Yom Kippur, Sukkot and Simchat Torah. Nevada Day was observed, by learning the history of our state. We want to say a special "TODA RABAH" to Peter and Coral Reveen for helping us procure a generous contribution from Lance Burton for our Computer Lab. Hugs and kisses to Larry Rosen for helping us set up our Computer Lab, and to Amy Christensen and Shelly Weiner for painting our Computer desks. Jacky Rosen helped shlepp, assemble, purchase, set up and paint the desks in our Computer Lab (THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU). She has helped us in every aspect of our school, Kol Ha K'vod, you are the greatest. This month of November, we have many projects planned. The Kindergarten will be going on a field trp to see Czhdeielh atHam HaHon the 3rd. On November 2nd we will be taking our class pictures. The boys and girls will learn about the election process and even get to vote themselves. We will talk about our countries Vets, and other heroes who helped to make the USA great. Of course we will celebrate Thanksgiving with our own CNT preschool kindergarten style feast. Our youngsters will help cook a dinner and dress up as Pilgrims and Indians. They will also travel on the Mayflower just as our ancestors did many years ago. Our students and teachers are bonding as a family in our wonderful facility . It is a pleasure for us to see our school thriving and growing. Next month we will be preparing and executing our Chanukah program as well as learning all there is to know about this joyful holiday. All of the classes enjoy listening to stories, and learning their numbers, letters, shapes, and colors. They also learn about the weather, and the calendar. It is a pleasure to hear these little ones recite the Pledge of Allegiance every morning and to listen to them singing in Hebrew, as well . We have a delightful group of students and a dedicated group of loving teachers What a perfect mix! Lois 'Bergman Early Education Director Going Grocery Shopping? Traveling? Buying New Clothes or Gifts? Don't forget the Scrip program! Have you signed up yet? Call the Temple at 733-6292 for details. ? A November 2000 A SpecialPlace To Belong X?A Religious School News There is a chill in the air, the days are shorter and Thanks-giving is on everyone's mind, it must be November. Everyone loves holidays even though it means some stress getting things ready. The fact that families are together is a wonderful experience. At our Religious school we try to help our students be aware of others who are without family, home and food. The Jewish education process must go outside the class-room. We are not just educating them to understand the service, and their heritage, but to understand their respon-sibility to the world. At Rosh Hashanah we sent cards to our sister synagogue in Israel. We try to reach out to the Jewish world as well as those in our community who are in need. We sent money from Tzedakah to UMC Neo-Natal unit to buy gel mattresses for low weight babies. Money was sent to the school district's Homeless Program for school supplies and we gave money to NTTY and our Social Action commit-tee. This year we hope to buy a dog for the Israel Guide Dog Program. These dogs are trained here in the United States. It is important for the children to know how the Tzedakah money is allocated. There are so many in need that we sometimes feel help-less. We can touch a few people and when we help others we are reminded of our own gifts. Thanksgiving is a time not only to remember those with less, it is a time to thank those who have made us who we are and G-d for sustaining us. There is sadness, poverty and war; the world is not yet perfect. Our children have a chance to help create a better world. Sometimes along the many stages of their lives, they too are not perfect, but we support them and love them. The problem with parenting is that we want them to skip the difficult times. We want lives for them filled with successes and happiness. We want perfection, but just like the world we live in, perfection is not realistic. Look at your own life and growth experiences and you will see how each stage created the person you have become. Imperfections give us cause to improve. This past summer I became ill. No longer could I remem-ber things, walk without tripping or even hold a glass with-out causing it to break. I had to learn that perfection is not important, LIFE IS! This Thanksgiving as you enjoy your dinner, think of all life's imperfections, your difficult times and those with less in the world. Then lift your glass to say the Blessing over the wine and say, AMEN?and L'CHAIM, TO LIFE for all your treasures. Be thankful for Life and the chance to make the world a better place through the actions you take and those of your children. B'Shalom, Jactqe. J(eef<gp Religious School Calendar School Schedule for November Tuesday Kesterson 7 14 21 2& Wednesday Ober 1 b 15 22 2 9 - No R/S Thursday C NT 2 9 16 23 3 0 No R/S Jk 2\ Congregation Ncr T*mit> November 2000 POST B'NAI MITZVAH STUDENTS, WHAT ARE THEY? Most Sunday mornings at Congregation Ner Tamid, you will find the library filled with students who are beyond Bat/Bar Mitzvah. This is the Post B'nai Mitzvah class, a group of young teens that assemble to socialize as well as learn. Under the supervision of Ms. Suzanne Katz, they have created their own calendar, which includes visiting other religious facilities and doing service to the community. When the class began, many of the students were not excited. They all wished they could jump from Bat/Bar Mitzvah to Confirmation. Confirmation is the class that discusses contemporary teens. concerns related to The first day they were given a story to read and they were asked to find the Jewish values within the story. Next they had to figure out how to implement these values into actions that they could participate in as a class. They even liad to write proposals justifying the use of school funds to activities. support their The reason I said that most Sundays they are in the library is because most of their activities happen outside the building. They are living Jewishly and learning through action. Some Sundays they visit nursing homes or other health care facilities. Through the use of different means our students are exposed to new experiences with other religious groups. Speakers, visits to other religious facilities and learning how other people find a spiritual connection to G-d raises our student's level of awareness of others. In October the entire class attended the House of Blues Gospel Breakfast. They also attended our Second Friday Service as a group of friends. Post B'nai Mitzvah students have found how valuable music can be in connection with prayer. This class helps our students take the step to go beyond Bat/Bar Mitzvah to the next level as involved, committed and educated Jewish adults. jacfyjkefgp HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS STAY CONNECTED AT NER TAMID Being a teenager is a demanding as well as fun stage of life. Students are involved in sports, youth groups, volunteer work, earning money and of course school work. Many students find they want to do more but time does not allow them to participate in any additional activities. Academic responsibilities are sometimes stressful. Can we expect our teens to attend services, be active in Jewish youth groups and even take the additional step to continue their Jewish Education? Well, we have to be realistic. Our children need our support and guidance. They need us to encourage them to balance their secular world with their responsibilities as the future voice of our people. Kol Ami (Voice of Our People) is a Federation sponsored program for Las Vegas high school students. At Ner Tamid, our 9,h graders are preparing for confirmation. The 10th, 11th and 12th graders will be studying the influence of Jews on the media and economics. We have thirty- six students in high school who are registered as part of the Kol Ami program. Several times throughout the year, our students will participate with other synagogues in our community. Jewish teens learning, laughing and sharing, it's a Jewish moth-er's/ father's dream. Our students attended the Kick-Off day at the All American Sports Park and they all had a GREAT time. The next community event will be held at Red Rock Canyon in early November. The inclusion of Jewish activities into our teen's lives is very important. They may not come to every class or every activity, but they come We are realistic; our teens are busy socially and academically. We at Ner Tamid are proud of our youth. We hope that they will continue to find time for NTTY, Confirmation and Kol Ami, and feel con-nected to our people. Jacf(ie Jlee((gp - A November 2000 A Special PIACC To Debug A u x i l i a r i e s m i i i i i i i i Sisterhood fA{guvs t t t i i t t t t t i This years paid up luncheon was a hugh success with 110 women in attendance. Door prizes, lunch, and entertainment, all tor the cost of a sisterhood membership. Debbie Hallerman and Ruth Urban - I give you a big standing ovation. Ruth and Debbie put a lot of time into this program and boy did i t pay off. The Party 5hop once again out did themselves witn a great lunch. Thanks to Phyllis Mark who Shalom. Are we having fun or what? With an extremely successful breakfast behind us, we moved on to the raising of the Sukkah. The turnout was great. The Sukkah went up in record time again this year (maybe we should have Sukkah raising in the Olym-pics? CNT's Men's Club would RUN away with the gold). As is customary, breakfast was served for the troops. 1 want to thank the members of the Board and all of the volunteers from Men's Club and NTTY who banded together to make this happen. We look forward to more activities with the NTTY kids. Then, on October 15th, we held our first, Sunday Morning Football. We took the 60 inch TV and wheeled it out for the guys. Of course, breakfast was served. Attendance was great and I could see all the new friend-ships being formed and all of the old ones being renewed. We will be having Sunday Morning Football the third Sunday of every month. So, let the wives sleep and bring the kids to school. Join us for a great time. At this time I want to say to my good friend Stu Solomon, "You are the Man." Stu's hard work and creativity has brought us the new, weekly, C.N.T. Men's Club Internet Report. This is a weekly newsletter that Stu e-mails to our members to keep them aware of upcoming events. If you are not receiving it and would like to, please get us your e-mail address. We also sponsor the Temple Hot Line which will give you all of the upcoming events by phone. suggested the entertainment team of Gary Oakes and Lou Garica, what a show. It's never too late t o join sisterhood, our year has j u s t begun. November 19th is the date you could be crowned the next Ms. Noodle Kugel. You ask where? A t the annual Chanukah Bazaar. Once again the sisterhood will hold the Chanukah Bazaar, Ms. Noodle K,ugel Contest, and Raffle for the Fun-d for youth program. This all happens on Sunday We are coming to the end of our member-ship drive. We have set a goal of one hun-dred members for this year. Although a very ambitious goal, it is still a possible goal. Please help us achieve this milestone. Send your checks for $40 to: CNT Men's Club c/o the temple. Entertainment books are still selling and we have some left. Please support us by purchasing one. They can be obtained at the Temple office. Please see Monty. They are only $30 and are worth over ten times that. With the High Holi-days behind us I would like to thank Allan Nathanson and all of his ushers for a great job. We look forward to having you back next year. Well, it is now November and we are approaching Y2K + 1. We worked very hard to make this a fun year and will con-tinue to do so. We are already in the plan-ning stages for our annual golf tournament in April. Be on the lookout. Last year we had one hundred golfers, let's see if we can make one hundred and fifty this year. I want to thank EVERYONE from the Rabbi, to the Temple Board, to the Men's Club Board, to all of our Congregants, MALE AND FEMALE for all of their support and friend-ship. Steve Joseph's shoes are pretty big to fill but I'm trying. I look forward to many years of fun and worship with all of you. From the bottom of my heart Thank You. Shalom, Nov 19th 11:00-3:00. If you're interested in a booth, making a kugel, or donating a prize for the raffle please call me a t 22S-6&63. Slim down your f a v o r i t e holiday recipes. Join us on Thursday Dec 7th, 7:00 pm when Patty Orin, dietician, helps us cut the f a t on our favorite recipes. There is no cost for this program and refreshments will be served. Please RSVP t o the Temple office 733-6292. Shalom, Sandy Golfcen CViAi Golden Chai invites you to visit our table, near the kitchen at the Chanukah Bazaar. We will have home baked delicacies and we are raffling off a hand made, lavender, king size afghan made by one of our members who teaches needlework. Stop by our table and say hello. We have wonderful entertainment planned for our two November meetings and hope you will join us. Welcome home snowbirds. Shalom and Love, Sandy Tittle \ Congregation Ner November 2000 More Chanukah Happenings ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^p ^ CNT's Chanukah How To For Intermarried Couples CNT will have a Chanukah How To on December 2,2000, at 7:00 p.m. All interfaith families are invited to explore Chanukah traditions such as: lighting the menorah, playing dreidel, and eating traditional foods. They will also have the opportunity to make Chanukah treats and treasures including: dreidels and latkes. There will be a special Chanukah song session that will help to start the holiday off right. This is an opportunity for interfaith families to leam how to create their own Chanukah traditions for their homes. The program is free of charge. Please RSVP by November 24th, 733-6292. CAT'/ Annual Chanukah Dinner and Service Cm*/ Annual Chanukah family Dinner uiill be on December 22nd at 6:15 p.m. II will be a traditional dinner, latke/ and all! Hea/e feel free to bring your family menorah to light at your table. Adult/are { 1 6 . children (4-10) are $8. and children under 4 aie free of charge. Plea/e RSYP by December 15'\ Your check i/ your re/ervation! So bring it in to the Temple office today! After dinner, plea/e /toy for the fe/tive Chanukah family Service, which begin/ at 7:50pm. Keep watching the bulletin for more information. A Treat for Children and Parents Alike Mark your calendar for November 19, 2000! That is the day of the CNT Chanukah Bazaar with a very special treat for Young Adult Readers (upper elemen-tary and middle schoolers) and their parents. The latest Lois Ruby hardcover, Swindlelop, will be avail-able below retail price. Ms. Ruby is one of the few world renowned children's and young adult au-thors who tackles racism, immigrants, and alienation all with a quick plot and engaging characters grap-pling with doing right or wrong. In Swindlelop, she reveals a unique part of Jewish American History as Lithuanian Jewish families, via Ellis Island, travel -all the way to Galveston, Texas right after the devastating Galveston Hurricane and flood circa 1900. As Ketel and Yaakov become Kitty and Jake they see a city rebuilt, but a touch of the para normal lead them to deeper and more immediate mysteries. On November 19, CNT will have a video visit with Ms. Ruby about Swindlelop. We encourage all Jewish par-ents to make the effort and purchase a copy of this latest novel. This is because on Sunday, April 1st (no joke), Ms. Ruby will be coming to Congregation Ner Tamid to talk to her readers, both children and adults. Since Swindlelop is not out in paperback, her new publish-ers, Eakin Press, are working with us to supply the novel for the Chanukah Bazaar so everyone can read and talk about the hook well before Mrs. Ruby comes to do her Author Presentation on April 1st. Both entrance to the Hanukkah Bazaar and the Author Presentation are free to the public. Lois Ruby $ & ^ Qfa ^ ^ & ^ F ^ J ) November 2000 A Special Place To Belong gjQf Shalom and Welcome Welcome to all of our new members who joined in the month of September! We hope that you were able to join us for High Holy Day services and that you found them inspiring and fulfilling. Perhaps you attended our October Havurah get-togeth-er and found a group of new friends. You probably have joined one of our auxilia-ries: Sisterhood, Men's Club, Golden Chai, or one of our youth groups. Now we in-vite you to get involved with a CNT com-mittee, such as Membership, Social Action, Ways and Means, Adult Education, Youth, Library, Ritual, Chesed and others. It is through involvement that you will feel a part of our Temple family and will know that you have joined Congregation Ner Ta-mid - "A Special Place to Belong." We are so glad to include all of the following: Ruth Kane - retired and living on the East side of the Valley. Cookie Olshein - an attorney with Hafen, Porter & Storm Ltd. here in Las Vegas. Charles, Julia, and Maia Bernick (Maia is 7 years old) - The Bemicks live in Sum-merlin near Dr. Bemick's medical office. Julia is a student (and probably Maia is, too!) Suzanne, Andrew, and Austin Orrell (Austin is 11) - Andrew is a project man-ager with Sandia National Laboratory and Suzanne is a homemaker. Harlan, Meredith and Kala Kopolow (Meredith is 8 and Kara is 6 years old) - The Kopolows live in Henderson, where Harlan is an optometrist. Abe Linderman and Sylvia Oreskes ? in Henderson, and they are retired. live Bernie and Gloria Matusow - own Carey's Carpet & Furniture in Las Vegas and have lived in Clark County for 22 years. Herman and Lenette Rabinowitz - have lived in Clark County for over 30 years, and have joined CNT in their retirement. Howard, Angela, Anthony, and Douglas Brill (Anthony is almost 10 and Doug is 7) - The Brills keep busy in Las Vegas; Howie is retired and a student at CCSN and Angel works as a dental assistant. Evan and Lori Klase - Evan works in sales and Lori works in Customer Service for a local airline. The Klases live on the West side of the Valley. Gladys Berg - is a retired nurse and edu-cator who has lived in Clark County for 14 years. ARE YOU A R 3 ? j E w i s h A l c o h o l i c OR ChEMicAlly DEPENCIENT PERSON? J ACS , Jewish Alcoholics, Chemically Dependents, and Significant Others, is a 12-step support group. Meetings are held at Congregation Ner Tamid Tuesdays 7:00 p.m. Room 6 Anyone is welcome. Tell someone you love Howard and Barbara