be happy, it`s adar!

GATEWAYS
CONGREGATION SHAAREY TIKVAH  BEACHWOOD  OHIO  SINCE 1940
MARCH 2015  ADAR/NISSAN 5775
BE HAPPY, IT’S ADAR!
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OUR LEADERSHIP
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CLERGY
PRESIDENT
EXEC. COMMITTEE
President
Leslie Sobel
Vice President
Karen Mintzer
Cantor
Gary Paller
President
Leslie Sobel
cantorgary@
shaareytikvah.org
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howari@
sbcglobal.net
Executive Director
Martha Sivertson
Office Manager
Roz Stone
Face to Face Director
Louise Freilich
martha@
shaareytikvah.org
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roz@
shaareytikvah.org
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shaareytikvah.org
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Education Director
Ilana Yares
ilana@
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Youth Director
Katie Mintzer
katiemintzer@
gmail.com
Maintenance Manager
Frank George
Vice President
Eric Kodish
Rabbi
David Kosak
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Secretary
Peter Shulman
STAFF
Vice President
Josh Gordon
Assistant Secretary
Alyson Fieldman
Treasurer
Abby Stadlin
Assistant Treasurer
Michael Goldberg
BOARD MEMBERS
Michael Axel
Jeff Cohen
Ted Einhorn
Jeff Epstein
Ethan Karp
Martin Kohn
Deb Picker
Toby Rosenberg
Jessi Shapiro
Steve Wertheim
PAST PRESIDENTS
Howard Bochnek
Amy Einhorn
Marvin Engelberg
Sharon Fagin
David Hutt
Roberta Kaplan
David Leavitt
Stuart Sharpe
REPRESENTATIVES
Men’s Club
Richard Friedman
Sisterhood
Shirley Edelman
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Our front cover:
Purim 2014—Bill Sattin and our president, Leslie Sobel! Erev Purim is
Wednesday, March 4. Come join us for the festivities beginning at 6pm.
Gateways is a monthly publication of: Congregation Shaarey Tikvah
26811 Fairmount Boulevard Beachwood, Ohio 44122
216.765.8300: Fax: 216. 765.0149 www.shaareytikvah.org
Congregation Shaarey Tikvah is an egalitarian Conservative congregation
whose members are passionate about Judaism. By combining meaningful
and joyful worship, serious Jewish learning, social action and compelling
Shabbat and holiday experiences, we create a vibrant spiritual community.
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BOARD MEMBER FOCUS PETER SHULMAN
Peter Shulman serves on the CST board as secretary and takes
thorough and entertaining notes. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, he
attended the Krieger Schechter Day School. After his Bar Mitzvah, he
began tutoring other students in Torah and Haftarah trope, beginning
his deep commitment to chanting. As an undergraduate at MIT, he
studied mathematics, then decided to continue graduate school there
in American history and the history of science and technology. For the
past seven years, he’s been an assistant professor of history at Case Western Reserve
University and his first book, Coal and Empire, comes out in June. Ten and a half years
ago in graduate school, he married Trysa, a clinical psychologist, and they now have two
sons, Malachai (7½) and Josiah (almost 5). The Shulmans have been members of CST
since 2011 and are grateful for this amazing community for friendship, learning, and
practice. When he was 19 years old on a dinosaur dig in Montana, he swallowed a 75
million-year-old fossilized hadrosaur tendon on a dare, and to this day, wonders if it is still
somehow stuck inside of him.
WE ARE TURNING 75!!!
CONGREGATION
SHAAREY TIKVAH
Small Shul.
Large Community.
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A LESSON FROM RABBI DAVID KOSAK
Joy is a Lens We Focus on Our Experience
Mi SheNikhnas Adar, Marbim b’Simcha
The fifth commandment tells us to honor our parents. It does not say we should love them. Some of our
classical commentators explain that we can command obedience, but not love. Indeed, many times we
conventionally have been taught that God and Judaism do not command our emotions because they often
seem beyond our control, whereas we presumably have greater power to dictate our own behavior.
The truth about our emotions, our behavior, and Judaism is unsurprisingly more nuanced than that. Most of us
have found that at times, we have as little control over our behavior as we do over our emotions. Anyone who
watches someone else’s child in the midst of a tantrum readily grasps this, yet mastering our adult selves is
itself an ongoing challenge. Modern psychology and behavioral science have theorized that willpower is itself a
limited, if self-renewing, resource. Catch us when we are more run down, and our resistance to that piece of
chocolate cake is quite diminished (behavior) and our equanimity in the face of stressors is also curtailed
(emotion).
If we are only partially in control of our behavior, and yet Torah feels confident to place behavioral demands
upon us, we shouldn’t be too shocked when Torah also commands us concerning our emotions. The most
famous example would be to love God as stated in the Shema. We are also enjoined to love our neighbor, and
not to hate them as well.
Sometimes, the mitzvot that speak of regulating or directing our emotions don’t at first appear to be doing so.
We are now living through the days of Adar, the month about which tradition states, When Adar enters, Joy
increases. There is something almost passive about this--as though joy is its own entity with no need for
humans to experience it? But that is hard to accept--can emotions exist without someone to feel them? The
verb for increases here, marbim, hints at more. It is a plural construct that can be understood in different ways,
most literally as one increases in joy. Implicit in this, though, is the understanding that this is what people do-they increase their joy. And therefore, we come to conclude that this also is within our power. Joy is an attitude
we can choose, and that we ought to choose at some seasons more than others. Yet doesn’t it remain true that
the heart sometimes has a mind of its own?
During my San Francisco years, I had a very brilliant and wise friend from whom I was seeking advice. I wasn’t
getting enough exercise, and life felt unbalanced; she noted how useful it can be to view our lives like a wide
angle telephoto lens on a camera. When we zoom all the way in, the lens tends to shake and jitter (this was
before the age of image stabilization), and the picture is distorted. When we pull the lens wide, though,
everything is remarkably in focus. So too, my life was in greater balance than I believed simply because I was
looking at things with the wrong lens, the wrong focus.
This was an enduring lesson, and one I have turned to during my rehabilitation from knee surgery. With the
wrong focus (zoomed in), it would have been easy for me to be overwhelmed by the physical pain and the
accompanying reduction in my capacity to concentrate. But my friend’s advice was a powerful reminder. I chose
knee surgery to increase my options and to open up the possibility to play more sports with my boys. After a
decade with this limiting knee condition, I chose to throw off a self-imposed restriction. In other words, I chose
an increase in short term pain for greater long term joy, contentment and purpose.
Or let’s phrase it slightly differently: Joy is a behavior, and thus it can be commanded.
Rabbi Nahman of Bretslov famously noted that there is no such thing as despair--by which I understand he
means despair is as much a behavioral choice as an existential emotion. And the former Chabad rebbe,
Menachem Mendel Schneerson, was extremely adept at framing life in its positive light. He viewed Tisha B’Av,
ostensibly the saddest day in the Jewish calendar, from a midrashic perspective. He chose to experience the
Ninth of Av as the birthday of the messiah, as legend foretells, rather than commemorating the destruction of
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OUR CONDOLENCES
SAVE THE DATE
...to Steve Fishman on the loss of his mother, longtime
congregant Evelyn Fishman.
...to Amnon Ophir on the loss of his mother, Dina Ophir.
Milestone Birthdays for March:
Shel Oberfeld
Melanie Kutnick
Shirley Hoffman
Milestone Anniversaries for March:
SUNDAY, MAY 17, 6-9PM
Rabbi David & Laura Kosak 15
Jeff & Leah Epstein 10
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A MESSAGE FROM LESLIE SOBEL
Past, Present, Future – Leadership
Over the past many months we have been speaking about our 75th anniversary. The celebration of our past on
February 21st was a great morning. Despite the inclement weather, our current and past members and their
families were out in force. There were even potential future members on hand to enjoy our passion for
celebration. Yasher Koach to all the lay leaders and staff for making it such a great morning. The stories
brought to light our essence, stories from so many. New stories from Dina Shtull and old stories from Julius
Rothschild, stories of those not living and those full of life, and Brian Amkraut’s stories of the German Jews
making their way in Cleveland all meld together, leaving a picture for us. The hakafah with the youngest and
the oldest celebrating Shabbat together, the lunch made of recipes from our German relatives, sealed the
morning with warmth.
Feeling the energy of the past propels us into the present, as we look forward to celebrating our synagogue
“today” on March 21st. The memories of the past will still be with us and the fabulous timeline with all its life will
continue to be displayed on that Shabbat. Whether you heard about the past celebration via phone, email,
letter, Facebook, etc., please keep the energy alive, reminding others of this upcoming Shabbat morning.
Along with more stories, the morning will be full of intergenerational programs throughout the service, lunch
and afternoon activities. It is quite apparent that we all enjoy being together and sharing together. I hope to
see you on March 21st.
Today Shaarey Tikvah is vibrant and energetic and, while we more than appreciate the leaders of our past, to
whom we owe a great debt of gratitude, we look forward to a bright future. All of you make up our future and
many more who are yet to be here will contribute enthusiasm and love for our kehillah. Two such current
leaders will spearhead our future direction. As my term as president winds down, I am excited to tell you that
Rick Kodish will enthusiastically take charge of our future direction as Congregation Shaarey Tikvah’s next
president. To ensure continuity, Rick looks forward to working with the future Executive Vice President, Jeffrey
Epstein. Their energizing presence is the piece of the puzzle that our synagogue life craves.
Our annual meeting is on Sunday June 7th at 10am. Prior to that you will receive an invitation and the list of
the future board leaders that will be nominated at the annual meeting. At this meeting, I will be able to say
goodbye and share some highlights from my three years. We will also share in Rick’s future as we wish him
the best on his upcoming term. Please mark your calendars.
During these past years and while celebrating our roots, I met some longtime members and their families. We
love you and realize that your connection to CST may not be the same as when you joined or after your
children became B’nei Mitzvah. You are right, time has a way of changing us and those things around us do
not remain the same. Yet you are our legacy, an essential part of our history, and we need you to be a part of
our future, to be a pillar of support for our community.
Shaarey Tikvah, Gates of Hope, grew from a handful of German Jewish refugees with a vision of the future in
1940. That vision for our future remains. Our roots – our pride - our hope are constant as our journey
continues forward for another 75 years.
See you soon,
Leslie
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The Journey through our Past got off to a terrific start on February 21st where we had in attendance over 250
founding member families, current members and special guests. While it was a cold day in Cleveland, it was a
warm day inside Shaarey Tikvah as we heard stories of our congregation's past, learned about the impact of
German Jews on the Jewish World Today and ate the food that our founders loved! The timeline and photos
will be on display as we move on our journey to the present. Thank you to everyone who made our shul what
it is today and the celebration of our past so meaningful!
On March 21st, we will continue our celebration with pride in our present! Our Shabbat morning service will
be one of celebration where we plan to have our spirit shine! We are also planning a special congregational
lunch with time for bonding, ruach and fun! We would love to have as many of our current members participate
in this morning as possible - and of course guests are also welcome. Let's keep the momentum of our 75th
anniversary celebration going. Together - we are what makes Shaarey Tikvah so special.
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A NOTE FROM CANTOR GARY
Giants of Jewish Music: Max Janowski
Max Janowski is one of a group of Jewish composers who brought about a renaissance of Jewish music after
WW II, when so much of European Jewish culture had been destroyed by the Holocaust. He was born in
Berlin, Germany on January 29, 1912, so this year is the 103rd anniversary of his birth. Janowski came to
America in 1937, and died in 1991. He continued writing music well into the 1980’s, and was Director of Music
at K.A.M. Temple in Chicago for nearly 50 years. Janowski’s liturgical compositions are still widely performed.
I had the honor of meeting Mr. Janowski when he came to Cleveland in the 1970’s for the Jewish Singing
Society’s performance of his oratorio “The Ten Commandments.” The beautiful setting of Sim Shalom that we
use on the High Holy Days is by Max Janowski. He wrote a lovely setting of Adon Olam which I hope we can
add to our repertoire. Janowski’s music is accessible, that is, not so complex that only conservatory musicians
can perform it. He often writes in an antiphonal style, that musical term I am so fond of, which describes two
choirs or a soloist and choir answering each other. This gives Janowski’s works a “give and take” that is so
appealing. I’ve even used some of his songs such as “Zachor Et Yom Hashabbat” (4th Commandment) for
religious school children, because its antiphonal nature aids in learning, and it alternates between Hebrew and
English, so the students can learn vocabulary and understand what they are singing. Max Janowski’s music
continues to uplift and inspire in synagogues, churches, colleges, and concert halls all over the world. What a
wonderful legacy.
L’shalom,
Cantor Gary
P.S. Please mark your calendars for Sunday, March 15th at 6:30 pm. CST will be hosting an Interfaith
Concert of Psalms in which I will be participating. I hope many of you will be able to attend!
Sunday, March 15
6:30-8:00 pm
An interfaith concert with
Cleveland area
musicians
Made free by generous
donor support
Light refreshments served
RSVP to Roz
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Wednesday, March 25 6—8 pm
Volunteer to help with the serving of the Passover meal
to some very special people.
Seating limited—contact Martha ASAP.
Sponsored by the CST Mitzvah Corps but your
contributions are welcome.
Passover Meals –
Wanted and/or Shared
If you would like to either host a Passover
meal or be hosted for a Passover meal, please check in with
Roz or Martha to select days, times, number of people, etc.
Let’s make sure every Shaarey Tikvah congregant has a
beautiful Pesach making new friends, sharing old stories and
eating great food.
Shabbat Roulette
“Invitational”
Saturday, April 18, 2015
Details to come
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FROM THE DESK OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
MARTHA SIVERTSON
My husband and I went to Playhouse Square the other night to see the only Cleveland performance of Hal
Holbrook as Mark Twain. My husband had given me the tickets as a Christmas present. My first reaction was “I
didn’t know that Holbrook was still alive.” Well, let me tell you, he’s alive alright. At almost 90 years old, he is
straight and tall and can bend from the waist, get up from a chair (several times) and pace the stage for two 50
minute acts. I can only hope I will be that spry when I’m that age.
As captivating as the performance was, however, I have to admit that my mind did wander back to that morning
– the morning of the first of several 75th Anniversary celebrations here at the synagogue. Congregants, former
congregants and even some people totally outside our community gathered to pray, to listen, to reminisce and
to party. Several times I heard people talk about the “old days” of Shaarey Tikvah. Did they really mean the
“young days”? Well, of course they did in a timeline sense, but that is how we look at history. European castles
are old. Physically, yes, because they do not change. Now, should that European Castle be turned into a luxury
hotel, I suppose you might start calling it “new.”
Allow me to continue this play with opposites and say that the history of Shaarey Tikvah is old. Now, however,
we are not young but we are new. We have dug up our archives, dusted them off, given them some
organization and made them all pretty. They will stay on the wall in the social hall for several months now to
make sure everyone has a chance to see them. There will be additions, I’m sure, as one memory sparks
another. All insights, comments and suggestions are appreciated. Later this year it will be packed up and set
aside for our next anniversary year – 2020, perhaps – when more pictures, more landmark years and more
memories will stretch it on to a third wall.
Like Hal Holbrook, let’s stay spry in our thinking and our actions to keep CST at top performance. We have the
talent. We have the ambition. We have the humor. We have the strength to keep it NEW.
There were so many people that worked on the “Celebrating Our Past” event but six, in particular, deserve
whatever medals we can bestow:
- Karen Mintzer and Leah Spector – leading the charge and picking up the details.
- Roz Stone – the go-to person for gathering and organizing the memories.
- Melanie Kutnick – a commitment to the timeline assembly that I have never seen in a volunteer…
and I have worked with thousands of volunteers!
- Louise Freilich—as writer and director of the informative and entertaining Readers Theatre.
Louise also helped with the early draft of the timeline.
- Shirley Edelman – you would not believe the hours she spent on the phone doggedly retrieving
information for honors, aliyot and historical references.
Thank you all for continuing to include me in the newness of Congregation Shaarey Tikvah.
Martha
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NEWS FROM FACE TO FACE DIRECTOR LOUISE FREILICH
“It’s a great loss. Sir Martin was a good friend. He ignited in
countless people an exceptional love of and excitement
about history.”
A Holocaust Education
Program at
Congregation Shaarey Tikvah
Deborah Lipstadt, US Historian &
author of Denying the Holocaust
Recently, I was saddened to hear the news of Sir Martin Gilbert’s death. Sir Martin Gilbert the author of 80
books on the subjects of the Holocaust, World War I, World War II, and Jewish History died on February 4,
2015 at age 78 after a long battle with cancer. He was the official Churchill biographer and was awarded a
knighthood in 1995 for services to British history and international relations.
A Jerusalem Times obituary reported that Sir Martin Gilbert had said that writing about the Allied Forces’
response to news of the Holocaust in Auschwitz and the Allies had been his “most controversial,” while his
book The Holocaust “generated by far the most correspondence and contact with individuals whom I would
never otherwise have met.”
While I never met Sir Martin Gilbert personally, I did have contact with him prior to our 2008 community-wide
commemoration of the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht. Through this he gave us an important exhibit for the
Face to Face museum. In preparing for the commemoration I read Sir Martin Gilbert’s book Kristallnacht:
Prelude to Disaster and saw the 10 pages of maps which were included in that book detailing the 1200 cities
and towns where synagogues were destroyed, burned, vandalized or looted on November 9, 1938 or the next
day. I wondered whether all the dots representing those cities and towns could be displayed on one large
map, so I contacted Sir Martin Gilbert and he graciously sent me the computer file with the large map. I had
the map printed on a large foam core poster and we were able to use it on the day of the commemoration. We
also had teens reading the names of the cities and towns as people were entering the synagogue to create the
mood for the commemoration. Now, the Kristallnacht map poster has become part of the Kristallnacht exhibit in
our Face to Face museum.
After the commemoration in 2008, I sent Sir Martin Gilbert a thank you note and a copy of the DVD of the
event. He responded with a very gracious thank you note writing that “it was a great pleasure to serve you and
you have produced something not only of importance, but of lasting value.”
not only of importance, but of lasting value.”
Sir Martin Gilbert’s death reminds us of the importance of studying the Holocaust, commemorating the
Holocaust, and teaching the next generation about this tragic period in human and Jewish history. You can
help us do just that by donating to our Friends of Face to Face campaign this year. Please become a friend by
responding generously to the Friends letter recently mailed to you. Allow us to “ignite an exceptional love of
and excitement about history” in the teens and the teachers who attend Face to Face.
Also, please visit us! We have a very busy March in front of us including six Face to Face sessions, the
Sisterhood book discussion on the evening of March 9 about the Children of Willesden Lane featuring
Kindertransport survivor and Face to Face speaker and docent, George Kronenberg, and the Sisterhood
March 15 trip to the Pianist of Willesden Lane at the Cleveland Playhouse.
L’hitraot,
Louise
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PASSOVER FUND
Sponsored by CST Men’s Club
Donations accepted in support of OUR congregants and the
other Jewish families in the Cleveland area that are in need
of Passover foods and items for the holiday. We look forward to the financial support that WE need to help those in
NEED.
Please give by Sunday, March 15th 2015
Make your donation out to CST Men’s Club PASSOVER
FUND
Questions? Contact Mark Fixler at [email protected]
Date
3/3/2015
FACE TO FACE SCHEDULE FOR MARCH
School
City
Speaker
Chardon
Alex Zelczer
Chardon
Ellis Lewin
3/12/2015
Notre Dame Cathedral Latin
H.S.
Notre Dame Cathedral Latin
H.S.
St. Michael School
Independence
Erika Gold
3/17/2015
Kenston Middle School
Chagrin Falls
Helen Marks
3/19/2015
Kenston Middle School
Chagrin Falls
TBD
3/24/2015
Struthers Middle School
Struthers
Leo Silberman
3/10/2015
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UPDATE FROM THE EDUCATION DIRECTOR
MORAH ILANA YARES
I always love March/Adar. When we reach the month of Adar we are commanded to “meeshaneechnes Adar,
marbim b’simcha” - when you enter the month of Adar, you should be happy and rejoice. This is to help get us
in the mood for Purim. Three years ago, Yoni and I really took this commandment to heart as we welcomed
Yochai into our lives. On the afternoon of the 13th of Adar, we were blessed with our first child.
The four mitzvot of Purim are:
Hear Megillah on Purim evening and Purim day
Participate in a Seudat Mitzvah (festive meal)
Give Mishloach Manot (gifts) to at least two friends
Donate Matanot Le’evyonim (gifts to the poor)
So, in 2012, in order to participate in the mitzvah of hearing the Megillah, I needed to call someone that would
be willing to come and read for me. Chabad did this! I was so super organized, Yoni had to deliver all of the
pre-packaged mishloach manot to our friends!
Yochai had his bris a week later, and being the first child and a boy not delivered via C-section, we needed to
have a Pidyon Ha-ben for him. Basically, Yochai is indebted to a life of servitude in the Temple if we don’t
“buy” him back. So, on erev Pesach, instead of hearing a siyyum so that the first borns do not have to fast, we
participated in a Pidyon ha-Ben.
Yochai has been involved so much in the Jewish holidays already and each week when he helps make
Kiddush and Motzi for Shabbat, I feel a sense of pride that because of the education we give him each week in
celebrating Shabbat or singing zemirot, he is being prepared for the future when he becomes an adult.
This month, Yochai will be three. A Jewish boy is equated to a tree. As the roots of the tree grow strong, the
rest of it will be stable. I am seeing these roots growing strong. These Jewish roots. Once a tree turns three
you are allowed according to Jewish law eat the fruit of the tree. So, we can finally cut Yochai’s hair! He has
learned enough that he can distinguish between right and wrong.
So, pretty soon you will see my little boy walking around with a new haircut and a kippah. May we all be able to
rejoice together! Please join us on Sunday, March 22, at 10:30am for Yochai’s upsherin.
Morah Ilana
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SISTERHOOD NEWS
Shalom. It is a sunny bitter cold day outside today, 2 degrees, as I sit down to write this article. The days are
getting longer and I am looking forward to Pesach, my family's favorite holiday! We know that warmer weather
is just around the corner.
Adult games night was February 8th. Everyone had a great time and we finished off the evening with a group
game of "Guesstures" which had everyone laughing and working together!! I want to thank Ruth and Ellen for
all of their food prep and help.
I hope that you have had a chance to stop by the gift shop to purchase one of the many fabulous items we
have available. We will have many wonderful items for Passover. Check out the window for a sampling of what
there is to offer. Sheryl Golden and Jan Kneitel are the newest faces in the gift shop and they are doing a great
job. Leanne would still like to get one or 2 more volunteers. Please don't hesitate to call her to offer your help.
Please consider our gift shop for your gift buying in the future. We have great Jewish books and games for
young children and beautiful Judaica for all occasions. We will open the shop by appointment so please don't
hesitate to call.
Our Upcoming Events...Please Mark Your Calendars:
-Hamentashen Bake Off is Sunday, March 1st
-The Book Review of The Children of Willesden Lane is Monday night, March 9th at Shaarey Tikvah
-Attending the play "Children of Willesden Lane" at the Playhouse on Sunday afternoon, March 15th
CST has many exciting events planned. Please check out the Bulletin and the CSR website for future Shabbat
celebrations for our 75th year and for The Kosher Taste of Cleveland in May.
If you have not sent in your Sisterhood dues it is not too late. Contact me and I will be happy to send you a
dues form.
May we continue to go from strength to strength
Roberta Kaplan, Sisterhood co-president with Ruth Bakst
CST Sisterhood and Face to Face Holocaust Education Program Present
A Prelude to the Cleveland Playhouse Performance of
"The Pianist of Willesden Lane"
Monday, March 9 2015, 7pm-9pm
Join Cleveland Kindertransport Survivor
George Kronenberg
as he shares his experiences and we discuss the book
“The Children of Willesden Lane”
by Mona Golabek
Free and open to the public
Refreshments Provided
RSVP by March 4 to Roz 216-765-8300, ext. 100
Reading the book is recommended but not required for attendance
For information about obtaining the book, contact
Nina Rosner 216-382-8825
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MITZVAH CORPS
Our first volunteer event at the Kosher Food Bank was
wonderful. Our amazing crew, including Jessi and Mark
Shapiro and their two sons, Benjamin & Ethan, Ilyssa
Gordon, Ruth Pecha, Erin Greene and Scott Picker, was
able to pack approximately 170 bags for distribution to
families in our area. The time it took was minimal (1 1/2
hours) but the impact was great.
The Kosher Food Bank has a tremendous need for help
each Sunday. Our Mitzvah Corp would like to organize
volunteers to help the last Sunday of each
month. Please sign up now for our next volunteer event
there on March 29th from 9:30 to 11:30. Email me if you
are able to join us: [email protected].
Thanks
Debbie
JOSH STONE’S GAME DAY
Congregation Shaarey Tikvah Men’s Club is welcoming you to join us for the “First Annual Josh Stone
Day at the Ballpark.” As Josh’s 1st yahrzeit is coming near, we are promoting this event with the net
proceeds to go to the Josh Stone Fund to honor his memory as a son, brother, teacher, and friend.
Game: Baltimore Orioles vs. Cleveland Indians
Date: Sunday, June 7th, 2015
Time: Game begins at 1:05pm
Tickets may be purchased through the CST Men’s Club at $30 each, which includes a thank you gift and a
raffle ticket towards merchandise and memorabilia. Additional raffle tickets will be available at $5 each
starting March 16th.
Seats will be located down the 1st base side lower box
Section 131 Rows BB-GG, Section(s) 130-129 Rows AA-GG
Tickets must be purchased no later than Monday, May 11th with payment made to:
CST Men’s Club—Attn: Josh Stone Fund
Contact Roz Stone at 216.765.8300 x100 or [email protected]
or Joe Rettman at 216.857.4222 or [email protected]
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MENS CLUB MOMENTS
Okay, spring is just around the corner, or at least the Cleveland Indians are leaving for Spring Training!
Our Membership Kick Off drive has begun. Our dues are $18 for the year. Please renew and bring in another
friend or relative. You may contact either of our Co-Chairmen, Phil Golden at [email protected] or
Larry Rosner at [email protected].
Yom HaShoah Candle Project. This will be our 1,000,000 Candle Challenge to the World. We need you to
participate and get involved. We are pleased to welcome USY to the challenge! Come join us.
On Sunday, March 8th we will welcome sports therapist, Chris Miloscia with the Summa Health System, part of
our Speaker’s Breakfast program and our Sports Breakfast. Chris is involved as a Track and Cross Country
Coach at Akron Saint Vincent Saint Mary H.S. as well as Water Exercise Instruction for Runner’s working with
Summa Sports Health. Come and join us and bring your Pain!
On Sunday, March 15th we will have the pleasure of hearing from Dennis Lehman, Sr. Exec. VP with the
Cleveland Indians, who will speak to us about the upcoming 2015 season. A suggested donation of $5. The
program will begin at 10am.
You’re invited to attend our Scholar in Residence Breakfast, on Sunday, March 29th at 10am, entitled
“Contemporary Anti-Semitism in Europe and the USA in response to the Arab Palestinian Conflict.” Our
speaker is none other than Brian Amkraut.
Our Speaker’s Breakfast Programming has been underwritten by an anonymous donor. Thank you.
Israel Scholarship Fund Invitations: Chairman, Steve Wertheim—[email protected]. Contact him with
your children or grandchildren’s request to apply.
We’ve begun our annual PASSOVER FUND DRIVE, which supports OUR congregants in need of Passover
foods and items needed for the holiday. So, please support our drive to help our own with a donation. Please
contact Mark Fixler at [email protected] with your questions and donations.
On Sunday, April 19th we will be honoring regional Men’s Club members from Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana, with
a luncheon to be held at B’nai Jeshurun.
Finally, we are ‘kicking off’ the JOSH STONE GAME DAY with the Cleveland Indians! Game time is Sunday
June 7th beginning at 1pm. Tickets are on sale NOW for $30. This includes a thank you gift and a raffle ticket
towards merchandise and memorabilia. Please contact Roz Stone or me for details.
This is YOUR Men’s Club, so we need YOU! Get involved, feed your stomach and your brain; come for an
event and see what we can offer you.
Regards,
Joe Rettman, President
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MEN’S CLUB BREAKFAST & LECTURE SERIES
Sundays at 10am Breakfast Donation $5
March 8
“Oy my aching…”
Alright already. So you ain’t got it anymore.
Come join your CST Men’s Club and get some
info on Sports Health and YOU.
Our Guest Speaker is
CHRIS MILOSCIA, PT with
the Summa Health System
Chris is involved as a Track and Cross Country
Coach at Akron Saint Vincent Saint Mary H.S.
as well as Water Exercise Instruction for
Runner’s working with Summa Sports Health.
March 15
Dennis Lehman, Senior Executive Vice President
with the Cleveland Indians, will speak about “The
2015 Indians Season.”
March 29—BRIAN AMKRAUT will talk to us about
“Contemporary Anti-Semitism in Europe and the USA in response
to the Arab Palestinian Conflict.”
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Shalom!
Many things have been happening for our USYers: college acceptances have been rolling in, gap year
programs have been picked out and, by the time you read this, we will have hosted our first major convention
for the region.
In addition to all of the fun events and happenings going on with our USYers, many of our boys have been
participating in the BBYO basketball league and have officially made it to the semi finals!! The team is coached
by our very own Ted Einhorn and Mat Napchen. Members of the team include STUSY board members Barak
Spector, Sam Schneider, Jake Browner, Itamar Nurko and Greg Israelstam.
The semifinals will take place at Quicken Loans Arena on April 14. Come on down and cheer "The Bad News
Jews" on to a championship!
Until next time!
Katie
RABBI’S ARTICLE CON’T. FROM PAGE 4
Jerusalem. He also preferred to call a hospital (in Hebrew, beit cholim, a “house of the ill”) a beit refua, a house
of healing.
Every month, every season of the Jewish calendar comes to teach and impart lessons to us. As Adar enters,
we are reminded that joy is a lens we can focus on our lives, and that when we choose to do so, the very
experience of our lives will follow after. I suspect we all know this. May this also be the month when we live it
as a command of love.
With warm wishes,
David
The Kosak family would like to thank the community
for the many blessings of support we received as David
recuperates from knee surgery: meals, shul donations,
flowers, friendship, dozens of get well cards and
countless other gestures of love. We are very grateful.
Kesher Chanukah donations
were used to help support the
Cleveland Hunger Network
and Hebrew Shelter Home.
Accepting the contribution to
the Hunger Network is Dana
Cook, left, chief program
officer, from Jessi Shapiro,
chair of the Kesher Chanukah
campaign. Stephen Wertheim,
chief operating officer of the
hunger network, looks on.
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THE SENIOR CAFÉ AT CST
GET OUT OF THE HOUSE!
Join friends and peers once a month for our free midday coffee klatch.
Conversation, a changing selection of light, breezy activities
and occasional speakers on topics of interest.
When: Second Wednesday of each month
1:30 – 3:00 pm
Contact: Judy Friedman (216) 534-5039
Shirley Hoffman (440) 781-1788
NEXT CAFÉ DATE:
March 11
Marlene Englander and her mother,
Hinda Saul, will talk about their book:
“My Dear Hindalla: Remember Me—
Letters from a Lost World”
Future dates: April 22, May 13, June 10
Transportation available
The Jewish Federation of Cleveland has partnered with the Mandel Jewish Community
Center to introduce PJ Our Way, a new pilot program created by the Harold Grinspoon
Foundation. This pilot program was designed to give 9- to 11-year-olds ownership over
the material they read by allowing them to select their own books and express their
opinions online. Families can register for this free program at www.pjourway.org.
Fifteen local preteens, including our own Hannah Plotkin, have been selected by PJ
Our Way as youth leaders for “Cleveland’s Local Design Team.” This prestigious post
gives young people the opportunity to develop leadership skills, while connecting with
nine other PJ Our Way pilot communities across the country. Hannah was also
selected to represent Cleveland on the PJ Our Way National Design Team.
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DONATIONS AS OF February 19, 2015
GENERAL FUND
In memory of:
DEAN WYMAN: Nina & Larry
Rosner
HERMAN DAVIS: Sam &
Pauline Leber, Roberta &
Gary Kaplan
EVELYN FISHMAN: David
Tavens
Leanne Leavitt, Marcia &
Albert Fishman, Louise &
Joel Freilich, William &
Barbara Fisher
ALEXANDER WEIL: Gary &
Peggy Dorfman
HYLAN HOFFMAN: Shirley
& Neal Hoffman
Marion Gruen
RACHEL HOFFER FUND
In memory of:
HANK WOLFE: Joyce &
Barry Hoffer
LEAVITT FUND
In honor of:
In honor of:
BIRTH OF ASA SINGER:
ENGAGEMENT OF ALAN
Leanne Leavitt
In honor of:
BIRTH OF ASA SINGER:
HOFFER & JODI POLSTER: ILANA YARES FOR A
Sam & Pauline Leber
Laurie & Aaron Billowitz
WARM & GREAT
LESLIE SOBEL’S
BIRTH OF ASA SINGER:
SHABBATON: Leanne
BIRTHDAY: Marion Gruen,
Laurie & Aaron Billowitz
Leavitt
Barry & Karen Mintzer
ARLENE LOMBARDY’S
AMELIA BRAVO’S
BIRTHDAY: Joyce & Barry
Speedy recovery of:
HAGIGAT HATORAH
Hoffer
RABBI KOSAK: Leanne
CEREMONY: Leonard &
Leavitt
Barbara Greenberg
Speedy recovery of:
HENRY MARSH FUND
RABBI KOSAK: Annette
In appreciation of:
Szabo
In memory of:
JUSTIN LAPPEN, RABBI
HENRY MARSH: Andy
KOSAK, & ETHAN KARP:
In honor of:
Havas & Janet Greene
Gussie, David, Hannah, &
RICHARD FRIEDMAN’S
MEN’S CLUB
Asa Singer
BIRTHDAY: Annette Szabo
In memory of:
TZARICH IYUN FUND FOR EVELYN FISHMAN: Diane
Speedy recovery of:
ADULT LEARNING
SAM & PAULINE LEBER:
Loveman
Rhoda & Leonard Robuck
In memory of:
HERMAN DAVIS: Ron
RABBI’S DISCRETIONARY
CANTOR FUND
FUND
Fersky
In honor of:
In memory of:
BIRTH OF ASA SINGER:
In honor of:
ROSE MANDEL: Shirley &
Jackie Freedman
BIRTH OF ELLY MILLER:
Neal Hoffman
Ron Fersky
In appreciation of:
Speedy recovery of:
CANTOR PALLER: Shirley & GRUEN ENTRANCE
RABBI KOSAK: Leona
GARDEN FUND
Neal Hoffman
Green, Marion Gruen,
Sandee & Norton Goodman,
In memory of:
CHENCHINSKY/SEGEL
WALLY GRUEN: Marion
Arlene Lombardy, Gabe &
FUND
Gruen
Susan Tannenbaum
In memory of:
BESSIE SCHWAB: Marion
MORRIS CHENIN: Mollie
Gruen
SISTERHOOD
Chenchinsky
HERMAN DAVIS: Marion
In memory of:
ABRAHAM CHENCHINSKY: Gruen
BETTINA KLAAR: Martin &
Mollie Chenchinsky
EVELYN FISHMAN: Marion Elaine Liston
Gruen
FACE TO FACE FUND
In honor of:
In memory of:
In honor of:
BIRTHDAYS OF KARLA
RUTH HOFFER: Barry &
ARLENE LOMBARDY’S
ANHALT, RACHAEL
Joyce Hoffer
BIRTHDAY: Marion Gruen
PARKIN, SHERYL GOLDEN,
SADIE GROSSMAN: Barry & ANDY HAVAS & JANET
ARLENE LOMBARDY:
Joyce Hoffer
GREENE’S 35TH
Roberta & Gary Kaplan
HERMAN DAVIS: Louise &
ANNIVERSARY: Marion
Joel Freilich, Debbie
Gruen
JOSH STONE FUND
Swisshelm, Bob & Alice
In memory of:
Schubach, Natalie Barr
Speedy recovery of:
JOSH STONE: Roz & Peter
EVELYN FISHMAN: Bob &
SAM LEBER, RITA SHTULL, Stone, Ron & Barb Lang
Alice Schubach, Joyce &
RICHARD KATZMAN,
Barry Hoffer, Paul Fishman, WALTER WERTHEIM:
HANNAH RATH: Ron & Barb
Lang
GUS RATH: Roz & Peter
Stone
HERMAN DAVIS: Leona
Green, Roz & Peter Stone
EVELYN FISHMAN: Roz &
Peter Stone
In honor of:
ROBIN COLLINS’
BIRTHDAY: Leona Green
Speedy recovery of:
BARRY MINTZER: Leona
Green
ZIMMERMAN SOCIAL
HALL FUND
In honor of:
BIRTH OF GREAT
GRANDSON TO BETTY
ROSSKAMM & GRANDSON
TO M/M FRED ROTHSTEIN:
Sandi & Burt Zucker
YAHRZEIT DONATIONS
MICHAEL ALBIN: Wendy
Sattin
DAVID ALEXANDER: Loni
Pinns
ANNA BRISKIN: David
Cameron
EDWIN C. BROWN:
Jonathan, Ellen, Bess, &
Simon Brown
FLORENCE BROWN:
Jonathan, Ellen, Bess, &
Simon Brown
ANNE BROWNER: Ken &
Rachel Browner
EDITH BUZNEY: Sandra
Buzney, Robert Buzney
SIDNEY BUZNEY: Sandra
Buzney, Robert Buzney
ALICE FIXLER: Simon Fixler
MARJORIE FLANZ: Ken &
Rachel Browner
JENNIE GENDEL: Joyce
Wiesenthal
WILLIAM GOLDSTEIN: Olga
Goldstein, Gabe & Susan
Tannenbaum
MERLE GORDON: Fran
Gordon
SALLY GREENBERG: M/M
Leonard Greenberg
RETA HEINBACH: Stuart
Heinbach
Continued on page 23
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YAHRZEITS
Feb 28—March 6
Sol Barron
Florence Brown
Estelle Chislow
Leo Decker
Shlomo Dinovitzer
Fritz Einstein
Pauline Felsenstein
Margorie Browner
Flanz
Helen Frankenthal
Merle Gordon
Norman Green
Jacob Hausman
Ruth Goge Katz
Adolph Keller
Edwyna Klastorin
Mira Kotov
Lila Krangle
Henriette Laemmle
Wilma Laurunen
Anne Lewinson
Alex Litman
Sophia Loevsky
Erwin Michel
Milton Polster
Martin Proskauer
Michael Rukin
Willy Sapell
Phyllis Sharpe
Leo Smith
Arthur Sobel
Lori Beth Solomon
Florence Spiegel
Martin Spiegel
Morris Strauss
Marcia H. Sukol
Geoffrey Symons
Jack Weiss
Flora Wolf
Leo Wurzman
March 7—13
Michael Albin
Gertrude Beckerman
Hanna Berg
Lehman Bildstein
Anne Browner
Edith Buzney
Sidney Buzney
Henry Dreyfuss
Dora Edelman
Alice Fixler
Joan Freilich
Esther Friedman
Melvin Gold
Hylan Hoffman
David Katz
Leon Katz
Simon Krakow
Manfred Kraus
Jeanette Leavitt
Rose Mandel
Morris Marsh
Maurice Melinkoff
Ann Nevins
Martha Pape
David Lester
Reichell
Ida Rund
Mollie Cohen
Sacolick
Ronald Schultz
Bessie Schwab
Gus Seitz
Arnold Seligman
Barbara Sharpe
Nadav Spector
Max Springer
Herta Straus
Eleanor Weiss
Leo Weiss
Kurt Wissbrun
Jack Yelsky
Continued from page 22
JOACHIM WERNER KIWI:
Robert Kiwi
LILA KRANGLE: Robin &
Larry Collins
HENRIETTE LAEMMLE:
Loni Pinns
JEANETTE LEAVITT:
Leanne Leavitt
EVA BARDON LEVY: Judy
March 14—20
Fanny Bickart
Edwin Brown
Lypa Davidson
Kurt Ebstein
Irving Edelman
Martha Einstein
Aron Freilich
Jennie Gendel
Beth Goldberg
Joseph Horowitz
Mimi Kahn
Frances Katz
Meyer Kohn
Sigmund Kramer
Max Lederman
Alan Leff
Alfred Meyer
Jack Meyers
Murray Okrent
Sally Pape
Gus Rath
Mary Richards
Bessie Rodin
Marvin J. Rosenthal
Nandl Rosskamm
Yetta Roth
David Sauer
Amalie Sichel
Mary Sutton
Milton Tanner
Jozsa Taubner
Fe Weiss
Elsa Wolffheim
Selma Zimmerman
Klein
RONALD M. LIPSON: Amy
Lipson & Andy Altman
HARRY PRIZANT: Sandy
Cameron
EDITH A. RETTMAN: Joe A.
Rettman & Family
MOLLIE COHEN
SACOLICK: Natalie Barr
HUGO SCHLACHET: Nora
Sherwin
March 21—27
Yale Bossel
Jacob Leonard Cohen
Samuel Edelman
Sidney Eliasov
Edith Freilich
Lillian Gold
Jerome Goldstein
Eva Greenberg
George Grossman
Anna Immerman
Earl Kaplan
Harriet Karsh
Mildred Keyser
Alfred Kinstlinger
Carl Lehman
Max Levine
Max Levy
Alvin Lewis
Harry Liberman
Herbert Loveman
Ernest Maier
Fritz Mayerfield
Rudy Michel
Hirsch Neumann
Elsa Porjes
Bertha Reiner
Barbara Rosenberg
Flora Rosenthal
Elaine Schneider
Helen Silverman
Michael Tannenbaum
Herman Tisch
RONALD SCHULTZ: Rick &
Allison Schultz
RABBI JACOB SHTULL: Rita
Shtull
ELEANOR WEISS: Larry
Weiss
STANLEY WHAY: Sandra
Buzney
BERNARD WIESENTHAL:
Joyce Wiesenthal
FLORA WOLF: Jerry Wolf
March 28—Apr 3
Sara Axel
Sylvia Benis
Richard Braiman
Frances Daniel
Felice Engelberg
Nathan Estrin
Shirley F. Hand
Colman Isadore
Kirchner
Gertrude Kleiner
Irmgard Kornblum
Anna Krutowsky
Queenie Kunstler
Yale Mandel
Morris Manheim
Leo Margolis
Dorothy Rabiner
Joseph Reiner
Florence Sachs
Meta Schnerb
Dorothy Solomon
Willi Tisch
Al Turoff
Hannah Winick
Lina Wissbrun
Max Wissbrun
Phillip Zinner
Sophie Zychick
INA YULISH: Stuart & Susan
Muszynski
STANLEY YULISH: Stuart &
Susan Muszynski
SUMNER ZACKS: Post
Family
SELMA ZIMMERMAN:
Arthur, Rob, & Nancy
Zimmerman
Congregation Shaarey Tikvah
26811 Fairmount Boulevard
Beachwood, Ohio 44122
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SUNDAY
MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
SHABBAT
1
9am Services
10am-3pm
Hamantashen
Bake Off
2
3
9:30am F2F
6:30pm Rabbi’s
Talmud Class
7:15pm Minyan
7:30pm Exec.
Comm. Meeting
4
Erev Purim
6pm Festivities
& Megillah
Reading
5
Purim
1pm WSG
6
Shushan Purim
6pm Services
7
9am Services
10am Ed. Prog.
11:30am HEC
8
9am Services
10am MC
Breakfast/
Lecture w/Chris
Miloscia
9
7pm Sisterhood
Book Review
Family Friday
RSVP due
10
9:30am F2F
6:30pm Rabbi’s
Talmud Class
7:15pm Minyan
11
1:30pm Senior
Café
12
9:30am F2F
1pm WSG
13
5:45pm Family
Friday
6pm Services
14
9am Services
10am Ed. Prog.
11:30am HEC
15
16
17
9:30am F2F
6:30pm Rabbi’s
Talmud Class
7:15pm Minyan
7:30pm BOT
Meeting
18
19
9:30am F2F
20
6pm Services
21
9am Services
75th—
Celebrating
Who We Are
10am Ed. Prog.
11:30am HEC
22
9am Services
10:30am Yochai
Yares Upsherin
23
24
9:30am F2F
6:30pm Rabbi’s
Talmud Class
7:15pm Minyan
25
6pm A Very
Special Seder
26
27
6pm Services
28
9am Services
10am Ed. Prog.
11:30am HEC
29
9am Services
10am MC
Breakfast/
Lecture w/Brian
Amkraut
30
31
6:30pm Rabbi’s
Talmud Class
7:15pm Minyan
9am Services
10am MC Breakfast/Lecture w/
Dennis Lehman
Tzedakah Sunday
2pm Sisterhood at
Playhouse Square
6:30pm Interfaith
Concert of Psalms