Givah Night Out!

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Givah Night
A Night in Tuscany
Out!
Saturday, February 27
7:00 PM
Adults (13+) $18
Kids (5-12) $10
Kids (4 & under) FREE
RSVP by Thursday February
25th to Linda Young at 4387858, ext. 117
Questions? Contact
Rachael Woren at
[email protected]
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Featured Articles
Purim Inversions
Rabbi
David M. Eligberg
Page 2
Caucus
Cantor
Rogerio Marx
Page 3
Trips to the Library
President
Samuel P. Morris
Page 4
Rabbi’s
Florida Luncheon
February 3
12:00 PM
See inside for deTails!
Hebrew Immersion
Nursery Director
Amie Bloom
Page 7
V’nah-ah-foch Hu - Turn It Upside Down: Purim’s Inversions
By Rabbi David M. Eligberg
fortunate to join in the festivities
and able to afford their own
s’eudah, or festive meal.
Purim is a holiday of inversions, of
opposites, of things being turned upside
down. We are all familiar with the story
of Esther, which relates how the evil
Haman orders that all the Jews be killed
and ends with Haman himself being put
to death. This reversal of fortune also
informs the “upside down” nature of
our celebrations. We change our
appearances with costumes, we change
our drinking habits for the day, and we
create Purim spiels in which we poke
fun at our rabbis, our tradition, and
ourselves. Nothing is sacred on Purim!
Given the extreme silliness mandated
for our celebration of Purim it is all too
easy to lose sight of an essential
inversion that lies at the core of the
holiday; on Purim we are challenged to
turn the inequities and injustices of our
society on their heads. In the Book of
Esther, we read, “the same days on
which Jews enjoyed relief from their
foes and the same month which had
been transformed for them from one of
grief to joy and from mourning to
festival, they were to observe them as
days of feasting and merry-making, and
as an occasion for sending gifts
[mishloach manot] and presents to the
poor [matanot l’evyonim]” (Esther
9:22). Our celebration is incomplete, at
best, if we have not furthered the cause
of social justice and brought about a
change in the hierarchy of the haves
and the have-nots.
As the verse teaches us giving matanot
l’evyonim is an integral part of our
celebration. We cannot rejoice unless
we make it possible for those less
Our tradition requires that, even the
poor who receive tzedakah, are
required to fulfill the mitzvah of
matanot l’evyonim, thereby
asserting that there is a joy in giving
which all should experience. It also,
even if only briefly, erases the
societal divisions between the most
and least privileged. In that moment
we can envision a world that does
not know such vast disparities
between the wealthy and the
needy; a world where all can live
and thrive with basic needs met.
“It also, even if only briefly, erases
the societal divisions between the
most and least privileged. “
Megillat Esther also highlights
inequities based on gender. Both
Vashti and Esther are in vulnerable
positions because of their
gender. They stood up for
themselves in spite of the
tremendous risk; Vashti is banished
for asserting herself while Esther,
despite fearing for her life even as
she appears before the king, is able
to use her circumstance to benefit
her people and her king. Our world
is not so far removed from the
world of Shushan. Discrimination
and violence against women are
global problems with women
disproportionately bearing the
burdens of poverty and the effects
of war. Like Vashti and Esther,
women in developing countries and,
in some ways even our own, have
limited control over their bodies or
their livelihoods. The precarious
situation of women as reflected in
the Purim
narrative
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tasks us to work towards a day on
which women are no longer
susceptible to abuse and
discrimination.
Finally, the Purim narrative warns us
of the evils of persecution. Haman
appears before King Ahasverosh
asserting that there is “a certain
people, scattered and dispersed…
whose laws and customs are
different” therefore the king should
not tolerate them.
As a people we are all too painfully
familiar with persecution and
genocide. We know that the
accusations of being scattered,
dispersed and different are a
prelude to unspeakable horrors. The
realities of ethnic violence and the
atrocities of persecution persist in
the world today where thousands
are attacked for differences of race,
religion, gender or political
philosophy. It is our obligation to
demand an end to these atrocities.
The Babylonian Talmud preserves
the teaching of Rava* who said,
“One is obligated to be intoxicated
on Purim until one does not know
[the difference] between ‘Cursed is
Haman’ and ‘Blessed is
Mordechai’” (Megillah 7b). Rather
than becoming intoxicated to the
point of being unable to tell the
difference between the hero and
villain in the Purim story, let us
instead imbibe the idea of inversion,
of turning things on their head so as
to create a society wherein
inequities are erased and
differences are celebrated.
*Abba ben Joseph bar Ḥama (c. 280
– 352 CE), who is exclusively referred to in the Talmud by the name
Rava, was a fourth-generation rabbi
(Amora) who lived in Mahoza, a
suburb of the
capital of Babylonia.
Caucus
By Cantor Rogerio Marx
As I am reading the newspaper,
listening to the news on TV, radio and
the Internet, one of the most frequent
words I hear these days is Caucus. The
Iowa caucus. During my early years in
Brazil and until 1985, the country was
under a military regime, and
democracy returned to Brazil four years before I moved away.
The word caucus was pretty unfamiliar to me.
This morning I was very surprised when I read this word in the
“The Times of Israel” Jerusalem based online
newspaper. And it reads: “A Knesset caucus on religion and
state reveals startling figures on the growing divide between
Israelis and their state rabbinic institutions. According to
Hiddush, an advocacy group that presented a report on the
subject to the Knesset Nation, Religion and State Caucus
today, 666,000 Israelis are unable to marry at all under Israeli
law. These are Israelis who do not fit any state-recognized
religious categories — Catholic, Muslim, Jewish, Druze, etc. —
for which the state offers a publicly-funded religious court
system. Israel has no civil marriage. This reality leads some 20
percent of Israeli couples to register their marriages abroad.”
The group cites a survey that found some 70% of secular
Israelis would choose to marry outside the Orthodox state
rabbinate if they were legally allowed to do so.
According to Hiddush’s head, Rabbi Uri Regev, “The
rabbinate’s monopoly not only fails to contribute to
preserving Judaism; it is a cause for the public’s hatred of
Judaism, identifying [the religion] with dark zealotry.”
A bill proposed by Yesh Atid party MK Aliza Lavie that would
have instituted civil marriage in Israel, including for gays, was
voted down in the Knesset this past July by an 11-vote
margin, with 39 for and 50 against.
The Israeli marriage laws were an inheritance from the
Ottoman’s time that granted each Israeli religious
community’s state-recognized leadership sole jurisdiction
over marriage. During the British mandate the Ottoman laws
were kept, and after Israel’s independence, it too maintained
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the system, citing among other considerations its obligations to the country’s minorities.
All marriages in Israel must be performed through
religious institutions. Jewish couples must marry
through the Chief Rabbinate, whereas Catholics, Druze
and Muslims all marry through their own statesanctioned and publicly-funded religious legal systems.
The result: any couple whose marriage is not in
keeping with the religious law of their respective
religions, or who belongs to a religious tradition that
does not have its own state hierarchy, simply falls
outside the boundaries of marriages recognized by the
Israeli state.
This is a serious problem when such a large number of
the Israeli population needs to be married outside its
borders, and many more that choose to be married
elsewhere. It is a staggering number, but not
completely unexpected. A few years ago I co-officiated
at a wedding in Israel. The wedding was conducted by
a rabbi who was not part of the Orthodox
establishment, and it only took place because the
couple first had a civil marriage in the United States.
Israel is required by international agreements to
recognize marriages performed abroad that are
recognized by those jurisdictions.
For the most part the only alternative to the Chief
Rabbinate exists for those able to afford an
international trip. I hope the day will soon come when
Israelis will be able to choose the officiant of their
liking, which should include Conservative movement
sanctioned clergy, among many denominations, as well
as civil ceremonies.
A Message from Samuel P. Morris
Hadar Gift & Book Shop
President
OK, so who here didn’t grow up
surrounded by books and with trips to
the library? Assuming the answer is
nobody, then good for your parents. In
my home there were plenty of books,
and of course, trips to the library. Our
shul had a small library, which my
mother, may she rest in peace, founded
and tended to most of her adult life. My grandfather too was an
avid reader, primarily of the Forwards.
When my parents convinced my mother’s folks to move out of
Boston to the suburbs, my grandfather became even more
attached to the Forwards, as it was his Jewish lifeline. If the mail
was late he would wait outside for the mailman, more eagerly
than a watchman waits for dawn. Once he had his paper, he’d
read it devoutly. On days when he wanted to be alone, he would
look for some place to read quietly.
“Thanks to the hard work of our library volunteers, we
have a remodeled library
with new carpeting, furniture and a wide selection of
books, magazines and newspapers. “
Hadar Gift Shop recently
purchased many new items at
the New York Gift Show,
beautiful jewelry from Ayala Bar,
Michal Golan, and Christophe
Poly from Crono Designs.
Tallitot from Gabrieli, glassware
from Lily Art, Judaica from Metal
Lace and Jillery, colorful glass dreidels,
mezzuzot and Chanukiah from Gary Rosenthal,
children’s puzzles, Chanukah and Shabbat
activity sets from Pigment & Hue, wedding and
Bat Mitzvah gifts from Sara Beames and many
more beautiful items.
Having a Simcha? Ask how Hadar Gift Shop can
help – inscribed kippot, benchers, tallitot, gift
registry.
In addition to its Judaica treasures, Hadar Gift
Shop has many gift items from beautiful jewelry
to items to beautify the home.
Regular Hadar Hours
One day he found such a place. It was about a half mile from
their apartment, which was about as far as he could comfortably
walk. It was a quiet place on the main street, comfortably
furnished, where one could read the Forwards, in Yiddish, in
peace. The library? No, it was the Christian Science Reading
Room. I’m not quite sure he realized where he was, but if he did,
he didn’t care.
Fortunately for members of Temple Israel, we don’t have to
make such a trek to find a quiet, comfortable place to read.
Thanks to the hard work of our library volunteers, we have a
remodeled library with new carpeting, furniture and a wide
selection of books, magazines and newspapers. Outside of the
library we have an absolutely plush area with all new chairs,
couches, carpeting and lighting. Don’t forget that we have free
wifi in the temple as well. So I invite you to bring a book, or
tablet and come over. If you don’t have a book or want to pick
up something new, just bring yourself and your curiosity and find
something new to read.
If my grandfather were still with us, I’m sure this is where he and
his beloved Forwards would be found.
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Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Thursday
9:30 AM – 12:30 PM
3:30 PM – 5:30 PM
2:30 PM – 4:30 PM
11:00 AM – 1:00 PM
For evenings by appointment, call the
synagogue office, 438-7858, ext 112.
There is a SOUP KITCHEN on Sunday, 2/28.
Please contact Amy Krenzel at 472-0138 or
516-319-6880. E-mail [email protected].
Please bring grocery bags & plastic
containers for people to take food home with
them. Thank you.
February 2016 – Schedule of Services
Date
Candle
Friday Eve
Shabbat
Shabbat
Shabbat
Lighting
Kabbalat
Morning
Mincha
Ends
Feb 5 – 6
4:55 PM
4:45 PM
9:00 AM
4:30 PM
5:56 PM
Feb 12 – 13
5:05 PM
5:00 PM
9:00 AM
4:45 PM
6:06 PM
Feb 14 – 15
5:14 PM
5:15 PM
9:00 AM
4:45 PM
6:15 PM
Feb 16 – 17
5:23 PM
5:15 PM
9:00 AM
5:00 PM
6:24 PM
Mornings
Sunday, February 7 – World Wide Wrap
8:30 AM
Sundays
8:30 AM
Mondays
6:45 AM
Tuesdays, February 2, 16, 23
7:00 AM
Tuesday/Wednesday, February 9 - 10 – Rosh Chodesh
6:30 AM
Wednesdays, February 3, 17, 24
7:00 AM
Thursdays, February 5, 12, 26
6:45 AM
Fridays
7:00 AM
Evenings in February
Sun, Jan 31 – Thurs, Feb 4
4:45 PM
Sunday – Thursday, February 7 - 11
4:45 PM
Sunday – Thursday, February 14 - 18
5:00 PM
Sunday – Thursday, February 21 - 25
5:15 PM
Sun, Feb 28 – Thurs, March 3
5:15 PM
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March 2016 – Schedule of Services
Date
Candle
Friday Eve
Shabbat
Shabbat
Lighting
Kabbalat
Morning
Mincha
Ends
March 4 – 5
5:31 PM
5:30 PM
9:00 AM
5:00 PM
6:33 PM
March 11 – 12
5:40 PM
5:30 PM
9:00 AM
5:15 PM
6:42 PM
March 18 – 19
6:48 PM
6:45 PM
9:00 AM
6:30 PM
7:50 PM
March 25 – 26
6:56 PM
6:45 PM
9:00 AM
6:30 PM
7:58 PM
Services for Purim
Wednesday, March 23 Megillah Reading
Thursday, March 24
Morning
Thursday, March 24
Evening
Shabbat
6:45 PM
6:15 AM
6:45 PM
Mornings
Sundays, March 6, 13, 20, 27
8:30 AM
Mondays
6:45 AM
Tuesdays 2, 16, 23
7:00 AM
Wednesdays 2, 9, 16, 30
7:00 AM
Wednesday, March 23 – Ta’anit Esther (Fast of Esther)
6:45 AM
Thursdays, March 3, 17, 31
6:45 AM
Thursday/Friday, March 10 –11 – Rosh Chodesh
6:30 AM
Fridays, March 4, 18, 25
7:00 AM
Evenings in March
Tuesday – Thursday, March 1 - 3
5:15 PM
Sunday – Thursday, March 6 - 10
5:30 PM
Sunday – Thursday, March 13 - 17
6:30 PM
Sunday – Thursday, March 20 - 24
6:45 PM
Sunday – Thursday, March 27 - 31
6:45 PM
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A Message from the Nursery School Director
By Amie Bloom
Help The Preschoolers Help Others!
The Herman and
Libbie
Michaelshon
Early Childhood
Center at
Temple Israel
offers
an incredible
Early Childhood
program!
March in the Early Childhood Education program has
been known as Mitzvah March for the past 3 years at
Temple Israel! We hold our Scholastic Book Fair in
March and the preschoolers bring in Tzedekah which
they then use to purchase books for the patients in the
Pediatric Wing of St Peter’s Hospital. Once the
weather warms up in April, the 3 and 4 year olds then
walk over to St Peter’s for a tour of the hospital and to
hand deliver the books that they purchased with their
own Tzedekah money.
With programs for children ages 18 months to 5 years,
and a variety of options including full-time and parttime care, we are able to meet the needs of most
families. From the child who comes 2 days a week, 9:00
-1:00 for some socialization, to the family who sends
their child full-time to our program, we offer a fun filled,
hands on, high quality early childhood environment.
This has been a fantastic hands on learning opportunity
that brings the idea of mitzvot and tzedakah full circle
for our little kids. From collecting the money, to
choosing a perfect book and then delivering the book
to the patients in the hospital the children feel great
joy and pride in making other children happy.
Over the past few years we have introduced a variety of
new programs including:
This March we will be starting a Shoe Drive in March to
also help our students celebrate Mitzvah March. We
will be working with Funds2orgs.com to collect gently
used shoes, slippers and other footwear. Funds2orgs
then works with people in 3rd world countries to
distribute the shoes.
Hebrew Immersion for toddlers Tuesday and Thursday
mornings
Universal Pre-k program in collaboration with the
Albany City School District, which allows us to offer a
full day 4 year old classroom for Albany City School
District students at no charge to families.
As described on the Funds2org website:
Gently worn, used and new shoes collected through
our shoe drive fundraiser are used in developing
nations for impoverished people to start, maintain, and
grow a micro-enterprise. The shoes collected by our
fundraiser will help to create sustainable economic
impact in countries that need it the most. Shoes from
our shoe fundraiser are consolidated and shipped to on
-the-ground business operators where they clean or
make minor repairs. The shoes you collect will
empower individuals to provide basic necessities for
families, while helping your organization meet its
financial goals.
PJ Library Playgroup Friday mornings, free and open to
the public, 9:15-10:30, in collaboration with United
Jewish Federation of NENY.
We have also been able to expand multiple programs
including:

Our 3 and 4 year old Hebrew Immersion program is
now Mondays, Wednesday and Friday mornings
from 9:00-1:00. This allows us to offer a more
complete and well developed classroom experience.

Our toddler program has expanded and grown to
include 2 separate toddler classrooms; a classroom
for children ages 18-30 months that meets the
developmental needs of this young age group, and a
toddler classroom for children as they turn 30
months, but before they are truly ready for the
structure of a 3 year old classroom.
We are very excited to begin this undertaking on
March 1 and will be in touch with more information as
Mitzvah March gets closer. For now, please start
saving all of your
gently used shoes
and prepare to help
us bring Mitzvah
March to life while
we teach our
students about
helping others.
For information about our Early Childhood Summer
Camp Program or registration for the 2016-2017 school
year program, please contact Amie Bloom, 438-7858 ext
120 or [email protected].
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A Message from the B’Yachad Eighth Grade Teacher
By: Althea Pestine
A Peek into the 8th Grade at B’Yachad
Our B’Yachad 8th graders have expressed interest in learning
about key topics that have been showing up in our U.S.
presidential debates and how to approach them from a Jewish
perspective.
Last week, the topic was immigration. Students formed groups
to learn about and then lead a discussion with the class on
three different sub-topics: the history of Jews and immigration
in the U.S., Israel's immigration policy, and Biblical/Talmudic
passages about immigration. Primary sources were read
whenever possible, and students grappled with the complex
topics within.
When it came time for students to lead their segment of the
class discussion, one group described some of the issues that
current immigrants to the U.S. are facing. The class
unanimously decided that it is our duty as Jewish Americans
(particularly given our own immigration history in this country)
to help out these families in any way that we can. However,
the student-leaders then posed the following question to their
peers: would you take an immigrant family that would
otherwise be homeless into your own home?
Students were a little taken aback. Many responded that they
did not have space in their homes, that their kitchen would be
too crowded to cook the types of food that the immigrant
family would want, and that they treasure their recreational
space too much to give up (particularly, watching Netflix in the
basement). They posited that maybe other households would
be more suitable. One student then offered the one spare
room that they have for the hypothetical individual immigrant
or small family.
Soon after, students were inviting siblings to move into their
bedrooms to make room for immigrant siblings, and finally,
they decided that they would be able to watch Netflix in their
own room so that a family could move into the basement.
There was talk about finishing and cleaning up basements in
order to take in more people. Before we could begin to build
additions to our homes, we realized that we were 15 minutes
late to our next activity and had to wrap up our discussion.
This is just one glimpse into the insightful discussions of which
our 8th graders are capable. I look forward to learning much
more from our passionate, just, and creative 8th graders
throughout the rest of this school year.
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Library Time at B’yachad
Judy Arian states that one of the joyful perks of being the
volunteer librarian of the Temple Israel library is that she
has contact with the students of B'Yachad. Reading to
the primary grades and introducing the older students to
books in the juvenile collection that may be borrowed
can only be described as delightful.
As part of our recent library renovation, the children’s
collection has been moved to a very comfortable
corner. It's a pleasure to see students sitting in a circle on
our new carpeting, listening to a story and
enthusiastically joining in conversation when the last
page is read.
The wonderfully illustrated volume, "It's a-----It's a-----It's a Mitzvah" has been quite a hit with our younger
grades. Animals are portrayed, humorously and imaginatively, helping one another do good deeds. Pictures are
accompanied by minimal text that playfully let the children understand that doing a mitzvah is not a choice-----it's a commandment.
Classes will be coming into the library on two Sundays
and one or two Wednesdays during the school calendar
year. We eagerly look forward to a wonderful library
year!
Thank you to everyone who has signed up for our
green initiative to receive the monthly bulletin online
only. This reduces our costs greatly as well as saves
the amount of paper Temple Israel uses. If you would
like to sign up for this initiative please contact Sierra
Lynch at 438-7858, ext. 112 or
[email protected]
A Message from the Librarian
By: Judy Arian– Eson
If you haven’t visited our newly renovated library on the
The last of the volumes to be discussed in this article is
second floor of our building please make a point to do so. You
My Promised Land by Ari Shavit, a well known Israeli
will find that new furnishing have replaced the old and space
journalist and political commentator.
has been opened for comfortable browsing and programming.
Drawing the reader into the history of Zionism and the
Speaking of new - a donation of a dozen recently published
modern state of Israel itself, the author, writing in a most
books of Jewish interest has been made to our library in
engaging manner, poses serious questions, such as: Why
memory of Dr. Judith Rettig z”l’. A few words about three of
and how did Israel come to be? Will it survive? What is
these volumes follows.
necessary for its survival?
The book is quite personal, as well.
Shavit’s
great-grandfather, Sir Herbert Bentwich of England – one
of the country’s most passionate Zionists – made his first
trip to Palestine in 1897 and realized that it could become
a needed safety net for European Jews in distress as well
as a future home for Zionists like himself.
The first is Jews and Words by the internationally renowned
Israeli
writer
Amos
Oz
and
his
daughter, historian
Fania Oz – Salzherger. By way of story telling and scholarship
father and daughter take the reader on a delightful tour of
Jewish history, commenting on the relationship of Jews and
language and suggesting that our uniqueness as a people has
Whether you agree with Shavit’s presentation of history
or not, and whether you agree with the author’s concern
for the present conditions in Israel or not, a reading of
this book is bound to make you think and think hard.
Isn’t that exactly what a good book should do?
Stop in to visit soon.
been enhanced by the writer’s’ word and debate.
Another volume, Brother Emanuel, is a memoir by Dr. Ezekiel
Emanuel, the eldest of three highly intelligent and
hypercompetitive brothers, each of whom has made an
outstanding mark for himself in American life.
Ezekiel is a renowned bioethicist and oncologist and a former
advisor for health policy in the Obama administration. Rahm
is the current mayor of Chicago and a former chief of staff of
the White House. Ari is a well-known Hollywood super agent.
The memoir, truly a story of the entire Emanuel family, is an
interesting narrative of how this family raised three very
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A Message from the Schlarship Committee
By: Ellen Schwartz
New Post-Secondary Education Scholarship Award Being Offered
This year, in addition to the Judaic-themed summer study/travel and the
Judaic-themed post-secondary education scholarship awards, we are happy
to announce the newly revised Dorothy K. Davis Foundation Scholarship
being offered. This scholarship award will be given to one student, who is a
member of Temple Israel or the child of a member, and is enrolled full-time
in a Bachelor’s Degree program of an accredited college or university. The
award for the 2016-17 year will be $5,000. Need may be considered if
appropriate.
All scholarship application forms will: be accessed on the Temple Israel website, be able to be filled out online, and be
available in hard copy at Temple Israel. Look for availability of applications by the end of February. If you have any questions,
please contact Ellen Schwartz, Scholarship Committee Chairperson at 518-459-9105 or [email protected].
A Message from the Dance Committee Chair
A picture is worth a 1000 words. Here are a few which show
the many faces of our dance community. I hope you enjoy
them. And to all those who put in a little "extra" on behalf of
the Albany Israeli Dance community--Thank you!
Adult dance continues on Wednesday nights from 7:30 to
10:00 pm. First timers get a free night!
We would like to start a Tuesday night 8 week session
beginner's class but cannot until we have a minimum of 5
dancers. Please let the office know if you are
interested. When five people sign up, we will set a date for
the classes to begin.
HELP US SPREAD THE WORD--dancing gets you moving
and laughing!
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Do you have good news?
Be sure to share it with us so we can post it in the next bulletin!
Send your news to Sierra Lynch at
[email protected]
Carole and Michael Bieber would like to announce
the engagement of their son,
Jordan to Carly Menkin, of Irvine, California and New York City.
SAVE THE DATE
Please consider sponsoring a Kiddush - you can sponsor a Kiddush
yourself or with one, two or a group of friends for only $200.
Sponsors will be listed on the Shabbat sheet and can include a special
message if sponsoring Kiddush in honor of a special birthday, anniversary or simply in honor of Temple Israel.
Please contact Jeff Lurie at 438-7858, ext. 110 to schedule a date.
Micki Groper, a Master Teacher in the Herman and
Libbie Michaelson Early Childhood Education Center, will be retiring at the end of the 2015-2016
school year, and we will be honoring her and her
years of service at Temple Israel with a special Kiddush following services on Saturday, May 21,
2016.
Please join us to thank Micki for all that she has
brought to our program over the past 20+ years.
Micki has been a leader in our Music Education program, as well as the leader of our Friday Shabbat
programs at Temple Israel, and has taught so much
about Judaism, music and so much more to so
many of our little ones.
More information as well as a formal invitation will
be mailed over the upcoming months. If you are
interested in being on the honoring committee to
help us thank Micki, please contact Amie Bloom,
518-438-7858 ext 120 or [email protected]
or Beth Levine at [email protected] . We are
looking forward to a fantastic celebration to honor
all that Micki has brought to our Early Childhood
program and all of her students past and present.
Rabbi Eligberg Florida Luncheon
Wednesday February, 3
12:00 PM
$18.00 per person
Deli sandwiches, drink, and dessert included!
Temple Beth Tikvah
4550 S Jog Rd, Greenacres, FL
Please RSVP to Sierra at 518-438-7858 ext 112 or
[email protected]
It’s time to start thinking about Summer Camp and
the 2016-2017 School Year!
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF CONTRIBUTIONS February—March 2016
Contributions to Temple Israel December 16, 2016–January 31, 2016
We gratefully appreciate all contributions made in honor of a special occasion or in memory of a loved one.
Rabbi Leo Geiger Memorial Library Fund
Michael L. Margolius, donation for Temple Israel
Tzedakah
Marilyn Kaplan for the yahrzeit of Dora Obodov;
Mr. & Mrs. Sidney Mintzer for the yahrzeit of Julius Mintzer
Rabbi’s Discretionary Fund
Bruce & Cathy Fisichberg in memory of Marvin Patack;
Mrs. Sharon Beilinson in memory of Martin Beilinson;
Melissa Patack Berenbaum in appreciation of Rabbi Eligberg;
Sheril Cohen in appreciation of Rabbi Eligberg;
Aaron Kassoff in appreciation of Rabbi Eligberg;
Eliot Rich in memory of Rose Miller Rich
Cantors Music Fund
Melissa Patack Berenbaum in appreciation of Cantor Marx
Evelyn & Jerry Scheer Scholarship
Barbara Neiman for the yahrzeit of Rebecca Scheer
Dance Fund
Nancy Bell in appreciation of the hospitality and friendship of Naomi & Barry Reiss;
Ms. Nancy Bell in honor of Shelley Justa's special birthday;
Nancy Bell in honor of Eric Schwartz's special birthday;
Dr. & Mrs. Gavin Setzen in memory of Robert Posner;
Barbara & Nicole Stein in memory of Robert Posner;
Mr. Eli Taub & Ms. Nancy Bell in memory of Robert Posner;
Stanley & Valerie Zalen in memory of Robert Posner;
Mrs. Joyce Teitelman & Family Mazel Tov to Millie & Daniel Grossberg on their 50th wedding anniversary;
Herb & Marilyn Cohen in memory of Marvin Patack
Ben & Ruth Berkun Youth Pilgramage for Israel
Mr. & Mrs. Richard Berkun for the yahrzeit of Ruth & Ben Berkun
Hebrew School Fund
Fingerprint Marketing in memory of Dr. Judith Rettig;
Hank & Mary Ellen Haase in memory of Judith Levine Rettig;
Saul & Edith Abrams in memory of Dr. Judith H. Levine Rettig
Jule Olshein Camp Givah Scholarship Fund
Mrs. Myrna Bernstein for the yahrzeit of Helen Silverman
Prayer Book Fund
Mrs. Phyllis Shamus for the yahrzeit of Eva Mickelson;
Mr. & Mrs. Robert Freedman in memory of Marvin Patack;
Mrs. Muriel Frank for a speedy recovery for Shirley Cohen
Eleanor & A. Abba Koblenz Memorial Fund
Mrs. Phyllis Smith for the yahrzeit of Alfred Smith
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Marcus Ribak Torah Fund
Dr. & Mr. Joseph Gerberg for the yahrzeit of Rebecca Gerberg
Louis & Clara Weinstein Scholarship Fund
Mr. Eli Taub & Ms. Nancy Bell for the yahrzeit of Jeanette Sheber Weinstein
Segel Playground Fund
Mr. & Mrs. William Marin for the yahrzeit of Dora Marin
Leonard & Ruth Briskman & Barbara Silverman Sunshine Fund
Pearl & Harris Sanders in memory of Myrna Sanders
Raymond & Ruth Laven Library Fund
June & Sidney Mintzer in memory of Myrna Sanders
Tilman Kallet Kallah
Mrs. Shirley Cohen for the yahrzeit of Jennie Muraven
Cemetery Maintenance Fund
Dr. & Mr. Joseph Gerberg for the yahrzeit of Rebecca Gerberg;
Mrs. Shirley Jacobson for the yahrzeit of Harris Jacobson
The Pozner Babysitting Fund
Mr.& Mrs. Louis-Jack Pozner for the yahrzeit of Morris Podell and Anna Judkowitz;
Mr.& Mrs. Louis-Jack Pozner in honor of Millie & Daniel Grossberg's 50th wedding anniversary;
Mr.& Mrs. Louis-Jack Pozner in memory of Carl Goldblum
Mr.& Mrs. Louis-Jack Pozner for the speedy recovery for Honorable Leonard A. Weiss
Siegfried & Stefanie Isser Fund
Ms. Nancy Bell in appreciation of the hospitality and friendship of Marilyn & Herb Cohen
Bernard Gordon Fund for the Needy
Robert & Natalie Klein in memory of Judith Miller
Harold Becker Fund
Brian & Jennifer Raducci in memory of Freida "Fritzi" Becker
Patricia Agnello in memory of Freida Becker
Herman Kudon & Frances Kudon Lotstin Hebrew School Fund
Mr. Eli Taub & Ms. Nancy Bell in memory of Cantor Daniel Chick
Edith & Milton Ruffer Fund
Mr. & Mrs. Robert Freedman in memory of Judith Rettig
Perry Wolfson Camp Givah Aquatics Endowment
Michael & Robin Lawrence in memory of Perry Wolfson;
Michael & Robin Lawrence in memory of Scott Mazzio
Camp Givah Future Fund
Mr. & Mrs. Paul Rudnick for the yahrzeit of Nathan Rozines;
Jonathan Carp & Deborah Stayman in memory of Cantor Daniel Chick
Deborah Stayman, Jonathan Carp, Ilana & Alex Carp in memory of Haley Lauren Birken
General Fund
Ida Rous for the yahrzeit of Louis Rous;
Martin & Barbara Scher for the yahrzeit of Louis Mostensky;
Sophie Lavine for the yahrzeit of Joseph Bottwin
Arnold & Katherine Kaplan in honor of Marilyn Kaplan's 90th birthday;
Arnold & Katherine Kaplan in memory of Edith Kaplan;
Dr. & Mrs. Gavin Setzen in memory of Judith Miller;
Ms. Diane Weinles in memory of William Weinles;
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YAHRZEITS
February 2016
2/1/2016 (22 Shevat)
2/2/2016 (23 Shevat)
2/3/2016 (24 Shevat)
2/4/2016 (25 Shevat)
2/5/2016 (26 Shevat)
2/6/2016 (27 Shevat)
2/7/2016 (28 Shevat)
2/8/2016 (29 Shevat)
2/9/2016 (30 Shevat)
2/10/2016 (1 Adar I)
2/11/2016 (2 Adar I)
2/12/2016 (3 Adar I)
2/13/2016 (4 Adar I)
2/14/2016 (5 Adar I)
2/15/2016 (6 Adar I)
2/16/2016 (7 Adar I)
2/17/2016 (8 Adar I)
2/18/2016 (9 Adar I)
2/19/2016 (10 Adar I)
2/20/2016 (11 Adar I)
2/21/2016 (12 Adar I)
2/22/2016 (13 Adar I)
2/23/2016 (14 Adar I)
2/24/2016 (15 Adar I)
2/25/2016 (16 Adar I)
2/26/2016 (17 Adar I)
2/27/2016 (18 Adar I)
2/28/2016 (19 Adar I)
2/29/2016 (20 Adar I)
Benjamin Ginsberg, Henry Gold, Arlene Judd, Carl Eric Silverman, Esther Wexler,
Fay Zusman
Max Burick, Sidney Cohen, Anne Lessen, Saul Muraven, Anna Poskanzer
Samuel Cohen, Milton Greenfield, Samuel Menchel, David Shapiro, Martin Zeibert
Nellie Branz, Abraham Aaron Gaies, Jules Olshein, Sonya Perkis, Elias Rein
Ida Blecker, Rose Kabalkin, Celia Kraut, Rose Rosen, Maurice Schneider
Ralph Insel, Lester Kommit, Charles Kraut, Sarah Leibman, Moe W. Schwartz
Katie Goodman, Sarah Clara Kotlow, Morris Silton, Michael Speigel, Pauline Wolberg
Joseph Tourel
Allen Eiss, Edward Fuhrman, Philip Kaminsky, Yadviga Kazdoy, Abraham Rothman
Rebecca Abrookin, Louis Beck, Ella Herschenhorn, Anne K. Lieberman, Rose Lieberman,
Samuel Mennen, Richard Palatsky, Lillian Stark, Philip Louis Wiess
Dr. Henry Essig, Naomi Jacobs, Sylvia Kaplan Korfin
Joseph Goldberg, Ann Hellman, David Miller, Sarah Rheingold, Morris Rosen
Rose Abrookin, Bernard Dunn, Harry Ginsburg, Carol R. Rosenthal
Harry Ginsburg. Bernice Leighton, Robert Levine
Anna Hobel Ainspan, Lillian Cohen Briskman, Saul Heckelman, Bernard Israel,
Dorothy Levensohn, Sarah Pock, Louis J. Simon
Jennie Kahn, Martin Kazen, Edward Riseman
Nathan Ainspan, Ray Frank, Rose Fribush, Gertrude Laven, Leah Einstein Mensch,
Minnie Snitowsky, Samuel Wolfe
Leonard Butler, Saul Israel, Joan Sinai
Anne Hershberg, Stefanie Isser, David Oko, Shirley Shakowitz
Myer Fribush, Isadore Fried, Beatrice Levine, Rose Levy, Albert Phillips, Samuel Rosenblatt
Fannie Fried, Ida Moskowitz
Jeanne Arcus, Miriam Lazar, Morris Sax, Tess Weishaut, William Rosenblum
Harriet Goldstein
Nettie Arkush, Morris Cohn, Helen Easton, Marcus Silberman, Lena Stone, Esther Tarler
Tillie Alter, Rose Wartik Rosenberg
Herman Bronstein, Harold M. Gotteim, Sidney L. Krakower, Oscar Rheingold
Sidney Bloom, Abraham Hausler, Abraham Lieberman, Celia Nitzberg
Zelda Greenfield, Perry Lee Wolfson
Emma Oliva Ginsburg, Zelda Kaminsky, Marilyn Rome, Hyman Joseph Rosen,
Bessie Shakowitz
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YAHRZEITS
March 2016
3/1/2016 (21 Adar I)
3/2/2016 (22 Adar I)
3/3/2016 (23 Adar I)
3/4/2016 (24 Adar I)
3/5/2016 (25 Adar I)
3/6/2016 (26 Adar I
3/7/2016 (27 Adar I)
3/8/2016 (28 Adar I)
3/9/2016 (29 Adar I)
3/10/2016 (30 Adar I)
3/11/2016 (1 Adar II)
3/12/2016 (2 Adar II)
3/13/2016 (3 Adar II)
3/14/2016 (4 Adar II)
3/15/2016 (5 Adar II)
3/16/2016 (6 Adar II)
3/17/2016 (7 Adar II)
3/18/2016 (8 Adar II)
3/19/2016 (9 Adar II)
3/20/2016 (10 Adar II)
3/21/2016 (11 Adar II)
3/22/2016 (12 Adar II)
3/23/2016 (13 Adar II)
3/24/2016 (14 Adar II)
3/25/2016 (15 Adar II)
3/26/2016 (16 Adar II)
3/27/2016 (17 Adar II)
3/28/2016 (18 Adar II)
3/30/2016 (20 Adar II)
3/31/2016 (21 Adar II)
Larry Ginsburg, Leo B. Grabell, Paul Kendall, Rebecca Pressman, Celia Rosenthal
Estelle Cohen, Joshua Koblenz, Solomon Levine, Harry Margolius, Solomon Rosenfeld,
Betty Weintraub
Marvin Gingold, Frank Gordon, Fannie Phaff, Arnold Sichel
Edna Goldfeder, Sender Lipfeld, Margaret Weiss
Israel Gewirtzman, Sally Horowitz, Jeremiah Jochnowitz, Aaron Katz, Louis Schaffer
Osher Einstein
Charlotte Abrams, Sophie Katz, William Schwartz, Amy Szlamowicz
Howard Corman, Bernhard Goldblum, Betty Hauler, Celia Israel, Sanford Jaffee,
Burt Meyers, Fred Pozefsky, Dorothy Rosenthal, Anna Shavell, Evelyn Wagenheim
Rose Auerbach, Frieda Fox, Sylvia Katz, Irving Long, Saul Rubtchinsky, Martin Smith,
Rose Swire, Gussie Taub
Edward Rous, Harry Silverman
Anna Ellowitz, Maurice Heisman, Rosalie Kassoff, Edward Alan Weinberg
Anna Cohen Leberman
Michael Vener, Clara Zubres
Ira Evans, Edythe Levine
Theodore Icke
Charles Grossman
Herman Frank, Lena Rosen
Samuel Sitrin, Edward Solomon
Nathan Reiss
Robert Geller, Lena Goodman
Abraham Kaplan
Molly Staff
Daniel Goldstein
Harry Burick, Emanuel Pogoda, Ruth Rosenblum
Sarah Kogan
Rebecca Weiner
Howard M. Kahn, Sidney Sebelowitz, William Silverman
Frank Meiner, Jerome Scheer
Shirley Atkin, Mollie Boyer, Irving Sternberg
Benjamin Cohen, Benjamin Gottheim, Joseph Lustig, Gertrude Goldberg Wagner
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