February - Congregation Temple Israel

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February 2013
Shevat / Adar 5773
Volume XXXII / Number 5
www.ti-stl.org
126th Annual Meeting of Congregation Temple Israel
Sunday, February 10, 2013
10:00 a.m.
Isserman Auditorium of Temple Israel
A complimentary breakfast will be served.
JOIN US IN HONORING
Carol Cohen and Marcie Kalina
Recipients of the President’s Award for Continuing Excellence (PACE)
Michele Steinberg, Nancy Wilkerson-Kreinberg and Donna Wilkerson-Light
Recipients of the Pillar of the Temple Award
(See page 6 for Board Nominees and Honorees)
Congregation Temple Israel is a caring, inclusive community committed to living Reform Judaism
and participating in the sacred destiny of the Jewish people and Israel through education, worship, and repair of the world.
FEBRUARY WORSHIP SCHEDULE
Friday, February 1, 2013
6:00 p.m. Tot Shabbat
7:30 p.m. Classical-Style Shabbat Worship
Saturday, February 2, 2013
9:45 a.m. Bible Study
11:00 a.m. Shabbat Worship
Bar Mitzvah of Benjamin Kats
son of Yuriy and Irina Kats
Torah Portion: Exodus 18:13-23
Haftarah: Isaiah 6:1-5
A SHABBAT OF ROMANCE
Are you looking for love or wanting to find that perfect
match for a friend or adult child? Join us for a Shabbat
experience filled with prayer, song, romance, and
fun. Dr. Leah Hakimian, a professional matchmaker,
will speak on “How to Marry (or Marry Off) Your Best
Friend” at our 6:30 p.m. Shabbat service on Friday,
February 15. The evening will begin with a wine and
cheese pre-oneg at 6:00 p.m.
6:00 p.m. Pre-Oneg
6:30 p.m. Shabbat B’Shir
Bat Mitzvah of Leah Snidman
daughter of Robert and Elizabeth Snidman
Haftarah: Jeremiah 34:8-11
6:00 p.m. Pre-Oneg
6:30 p.m. Learners’ Shabbat
Guest Speaker: Dr. Leah Hakimian
Bat Mitzvah of Riley Deutsch
daughter of Jonathan and Jennifer Deutsch
Haftarah: I Kings 5:26-31
Dr. Hakimian will be available for complimentary
individual consultations following the service.
TI TO HOST
SHABBAT ST. LOUIS
Be sure to mark your calendar now and plan to join us
on Saturday, March 30, at 10:00 a.m. when Temple Israel
will host the 5th annual Shabbat St. Louis community
worship service during Passover. The theme of this
year’s service is “Joining Hands as a Community.”
This participatory, lay-led service will feature music
by HaShemesh. Come early for Rabbi-led Torah study
from 9:00-9:45 a.m. A Passover Kiddush will follow the
6:00 p.m. Pre-Oneg
6:30 p.m. Shabbat Worship with HaShemesh
Bat Mitzvah of Hannah Tolin
daughter of Josh Tolin and
step-daughter of Kim Tolin
Torah Portion: Exodus 27:20-21, 28:1-5
Haftarah: Ezekiel 43:10-12
service.
All generations are welcome and encouraged to attend.
Volunteers are needed to serve as ushers and greeters
and to bake Kosher for Passover sweets for the
Kiddush. To volunteer, contact Carol Wolf Solomon at
the Temple, 314-432-8050 or [email protected].
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at a
glance
FOOTNOTE AND SCHWARTZ DYNASTY
TO HEADLINE ISRAELI FILM FESTIVAL
The films Footnote and Schwartz Dynasty will headline
Uriel is thrilled to see his father’s achievements finally
Temple Israel’s Sixth Annual Israeli Film Festival on
recognized, but in a dark twist, must choose between
Sunday, March 10, in the May Chapel. Admission is free,
the advancement of his own career and his father’s.
however seating is limited so reservations are required.
Will he sabotage his father’s glory?
Both of these highly acclaimed films are primarily in
Hebrew with English subtitles, and are suitable for
Schwartz Dynasty is a bittersweet
mature teens and adults. The Israeli Film Festival
comedy featuring two women who
is co-sponsored by the Temple’s Israel Engagement
join forces in a struggle against
Committee and by Israeli House.
cemetery politics. Miriam is a
formidable grandmother who is
Footnote will open the festival at
heartbroken because she cannot bury
4:00 p.m. Schwartz Dynasty will be
her husband in the cemetery of the
shown at 6:30 p.m. Festival goers can
moshav that her family founded because he committed
choose to attend one or both films.
suicide. Nor will she be allowed to be buried beside him
Complimentary Israeli refreshments
when she dies. Meanwhile, Ana has come from Russia
will be served between the two
to bury her father’s ashes in the same cemetery, but
screenings.
also runs into roadblocks. Despite a number of ingenious
attempts, the efforts of the two women are thwarted at
Footnote is the tale of a great rivalry between a father
every turn. The story leaves a warm, haunting feeling
and his son. Both men are eccentric professors who
that continues after the film is over.
have dedicated their lives to their work in Talmudic
studies. The father, Eliezer, is a stubborn purist who
To make a reservation to attend one or both films,
fears the establishment and has never been fully
contact Janet Dillon at the Temple, 314-432-8050 or
recognized for his work. His son, Uriel, is an up-and-
[email protected]. For additional information about the
coming star in the field, who feeds on accolades and
films, call Linda Koenig at 636-394-6027.
recognition. One day the tables turn. When the father
learns that he is to be awarded the Israel Prize, the
highest honor for scholarship in the country, his
desperate need for validation is exposed.
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IF NOT NOW, WHEN?
Rabbi Amy Feder
In the Washington Post, a recent article appeared titled
And for the vast majority of us, myself included, rabbis
“Why All the Kvetching About Female Rabbis?” The
during that time were men. Thus, having a male rabbi is
article, in short, described the experience of many Jews,
what feels “right.”
even those who are believers of gender equality, who
have a difficult time connecting with female rabbis.
Yet I fear that nostalgia is an empty, unproductive and
They give a number of reasons, but it in the end, most
even dangerous way to think about religion. While we
said that it comes down to the idea that it just doesn’t
should respect our past, no religion, no people can move
feel “right.”
into the future if they are only focused on what was, and
not on what can and should be. Our Reform movement
I am proud to say that there have been very few
and even our own congregation, Temple Israel, is
occasions in my years at Temple Israel when I have
currently in the process of determining what our future
encountered people who seemed discomfited by the fact
holds. And while we may, at times, be tempted to think
that I am a woman. Sally Priesand, the first documented
nostalgically of how things have been for generations
female rabbi, retired the year I was ordained, so my class
past, we need to have the courage and clarity of vision
was really the beginning of the second generation of
to see that the road ahead may be brighter, more
female rabbis. The many women who came before me
exciting, and far different than we ever could have
shattered the glass ceiling of the Reform rabbinate, and
imagined.
my road has been made monumentally easier because of
their sacrifices.
In the few decades that women have been able to
become rabbis, I’d like to believe that the Jewish
What really affected me about the article was not so
world has become better, stronger, and a little more
much the issue of gender, but the author’s hypothesis
whole for having allowed a new kind of leader into our
as to why the discomfort with female rabbis was still
communities. May we have the wisdom and foresight to
an issue, even with more than a generation of women
move beyond nostalgia and open ourselves to whatever
rabbis in the field. The author suggests that the real
comes next in the future of our congregation and our
issue at hand is not gender, but nostalgia. We liberal
movement. I, for one, am tremendously excited to see
Jews primarily follow our faith not because we believe
what comes next and to share the journey with you.
God commands it, but because it has emotional,
historical, and sentimental meaning. We are here for the
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sense of tradition and connection to our past, because
the music and words remind us of our youth, of the
safety and uncomplicated world of childhood.
worth
noting
CHUTZPAH
Rabbi Michael Alper
Several weeks ago, I was exiting highway 170 a few
blocks away from home. At the edge of the off ramp I
saw a man standing with a sign. He was begging.
It was not the first time I had seen this man. From
time to time, I have been able to give him some money
when I pass by, though more often than not, I drive by.
Sometimes I’m in a rush and I can’t stop. Sometimes it
feels unsafe or uncomfortable.
I was equipped with this bag of items thanks to the
caring and ingenuity of one of our Temple Israel youth,
Matthew Bloom. This amazing 12-year-old delivered a
sermon at our Shabbat service during Chanukah, where
he discussed his design concept to repair the world.
Matthew, who will become a Bar Mitzvah this June, came
up with the idea of putting together an “emergency
bag/car mitzvah kit” to give to people in need.
In St. Louis, most of us travel within a protective space,
as cars are the most common method of transportation
here. While this is, for most of us, a blessing, there is
something lost in our gaining privacy. When I was in
my 20s, I lived in New York City. Urban life reminds
one that human suffering is much more prevalent an
issue than we could ever imagine. When there is no
space between you and the disenfranchised, it becomes
increasingly difficult to look away. While encounters with
and opportunities to fix a clearly broken world present
themselves daily, we often pass them by because we
have no simple solution.
At our Chanukah dinner following the service,
congregants gathered to assemble the bags. Each
person took home one of the emergency car mitzvah
kits. During that evening and the following Sunday in
Religious School, TI students and families made more
than 120 bags to keep in their cars to give to someone in
need.
This day when I met the man in need by the side of the
road something was different. This time I was able to
reach over beneath the passenger seat of my car, where
I had a large canvas bag waiting for him. “Here you go,
sir,” I said.
Inside the bag were some warm gloves, socks, a winter
hat, granola bars and toiletries. There was also a list of
local shelters and a few other odds and ends. Opening
the bag, the man looked startled at first, and then he
smiled. “God bless you,” he said. The light turned green.
Tears ran down my face. I rolled the window up and
drove away.
Many of us wondered if we would have the chance to
use our kits. All three bags my family made were given
away within a week. Soon the telephone lines lit up. “We
need more bags!” Had it not been for Matthew, I would
never have had the opportunity to perform this truly
meaningful act. Rarely do we see so simple and elegant
a solution to such a complex problem.
The Talmudic sage Ben Azzi said that any person
who causes another person to do a mitzvah, it is as if
he himself did the mitzvah. Thanks to Matthew, we
both had the opportunity to make the world a little
bit better. We rarely know how our mitzvot impact or
influence a sequence of events, perhaps changing all
of humanity. May we find the courage, the wisdom, and
the opportunity to lead each other to fulfill these simple
sacred acts.
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2013 BOARD OF TRUSTEES NOMINEES
OFFICERS
JoAnne Levy, President
Dee Mogerman, Vice President
David Chassin, Vice President
Carol Cohen, Vice President
Harvey Harris, Vice President
Michael Weiss, Vice President
Neil Marglous, Secretary
Pamela Dern, Assistant Secretary
Cathy Goldsticker, Treasurer
Diana Rothbarth, Assistant Treasurer
BOARD TRUSTEES
Nominees for a first, three-year term
Nominee for a first, one-year term
David Aronson
Amy Fenster Brown
Marni Deutsch
Carla Feuer
Jayme Fingerman
David Geddes
Sally King
Greg Levine
David Rosenberg
Adam Wallis
Jeffrey Stern
Nominees for a second, three-year term
Ron Chatmon
Dorette Goldberg
RECOGNIZING OUR OUTGOING OFFICER AND TRUSTEES
Dr. Jerry Levy
Dr. Eric Mann
Tami Martens
Jan Offenbach Nykin
David Victor
Jonathan Bloom, Vice President
Amy Cohen
Jennifer Deutsch
Ted Greenberg
Bryson Hartranft
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News
CREATING CRAFTS TO ENRICH OUR COMMUNITY
Our Crafting for Community group, led by Jody Chassin,
creates handmade items to donate to charitable causes.
From knitting baby items, to creating scarves from
upcycled t-shirts, to making papercut Chanukah cards,
there are projects suited for all interests and talents.
Whether you’re an experienced crafter or a beginner
eager to learn, this group is for you! Join Jody and
friends at 9:30 a.m. two Sunday mornings per month in
The Gathering Place at the Temple.
For information, contact Jody at 314-566-1274 or
[email protected].
CHANUKAH CARDS FOR OUR TROOPS
Our Crafting for Community group created beautiful
papercut Chanukah cards that were sent to Jewish
troops. The following note from one of the receipients,
a Lieutenant Commander in the United States Navy,
was received via our Temple website:
“I just wanted to send my thanks for thinking about
deployed troops like me during Chanukah.
Your card certainly brought a smile to my face and
enhanced the celebration we had here in Kabul.”
DEUTSCH EARLY
CHILDHOOD CENTER
OF TEMPLE ISRAEL
Leslie Wolf, Director
Once again, we are in the middle of winter and all I can
Our DECC teachers strive to increase the amount of
think about is how cold it is outside. I do not like the
physical activity that kids are involved in every day.
winter and I am perpetually cold. However, I make it
They take their classes outside, unless it is below
a goal to remain active, even though I might feel like
freezing. We have incredible playgrounds tailored for
planting myself on the couch and watching television.
older and younger students. DECC is also very fortunate
The activity actually warms me up as I dream of the
to have a large indoor motor area downstairs for all
beach in Hawaii!
children, and an area on the main floor for our younger
students.
The same is true for our students at DECC. They need to
remain active during the long cold winter. For children,
How can parents help? Get your kids moving!
physical activity and movement enhance fitness. As
Go outside with them and run around, play a game of
teachers of young children, the staff at DECC are aware
soccer or kickball, go to the park with friends. Take
that most children are innately physically active. We
your kids ice skating. Have a dance party with your kids
all see them running, jumping, throwing, and climbing
by putting on some of your favorite CDs and just have
in an unstructured environment. This is what kids do
fun moving! Not only will your children have a blast,
naturally; they enjoy active play! So why should we
you will also benefit from the activity.
all be concerned about our children’s physical activity
level?
DECC integrates physical activity throughout our
curriculum. It is through movement that children
Children today are in a more sedentary environment.
develop social, emotional, and cognitive skills. It is
They travel to and from school by car; they watch more
a critical means of communication, expression, and
TV; they play more computer games, and they do not
learning. DECC strives to educate the whole child and
have as much freedom to play outside on their own.
physical activity is great to keep our bodies and minds in
There is evidence that even our very young children are
shape.
becoming less physically active and more overweight.
Overweight kids usually grow up to be overweight adults
REMINDER! Enrollment for Camp and Preschool for the
who encounter many health issues.
2013-2014 school year is right around the corner. For
more information about camp or school, please contact
Physical activity helps children build and maintain
healthy bones and muscles, and it reduces fat. Physical
me at 314-432-8076 or [email protected].
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activity can prevent high blood pressure, reduce anxiety
in kids, and increase a student’s learning capacity.
PJ GOES TO SCHOOL AT DECC
school
NEWS
Our Deutsch Early Childhood Center has been selected
PJ Goes to School is designed to enrich and extend
to participate in a special initiative called “PJ Goes to
the early childhood curriculum, strengthen bonds
School.” This program is dedicated to enhancing the
between home and school, and spark meaningful Jewish
Jewish content in the classroom through the use of
conversations in class, on the playground, and at home.
Jewish children’s books. It is an offshoot of PJ Library®,
a Jewish family engagement program that mails free,
DECC will receive special books every month, along
high-quality Jewish literature to families raising Jewish
with professional resources to aid teachers in weaving
children.
the Jewish values of these books into all aspects of the
curriculum.
OUR RELIGIOUS SCHOOL STUDENTS AT WORK
A NEW TAKE ON MIDRASH
We are so proud of the amazing learning that our
“Once there was a ram. He ate
students do each week in Religious School. Sometimes,
a chicken that could fly.
they produce stories, questions and ideas that are just
That gave him the ability to
too good not to be shared with the whole congregation!
fly. Then he heard about a ram
disco party! It was in a cave
In December, Debbie Schultz taught her third grade
class a lesson about midrash. Midrashim are stories that
under a bush on a mountain
Ben Hartmann
explain and fill in the gaps of biblical stories that seem
peak. The ram was going
outside of the disco party so he
to have something missing. Some midrashim become as
could rest in the bush. Then Abraham found him and
famous as the stories in the Torah themselves. The story
killed him.”
of Abraham smashing the idols and baby Moses putting a
burning coal in his mouth are two well-known examples.
Thank you, Ben, for sharing your story with us! The
rabbis and your teacher loved it. We look forward to
Ms Schultz’s class wrote their own midrashim in the
sharing more of our students’ work with you in the
style of the ancient rabbis as they wrestled with the
months to come.
challenging story of Abraham and the near sacrifice
of Isaac that we read each Yom Kippur. One of her
students, Ben Hartmann, offered to share his midrash
with you. He chose to answer the question: Why was
the ram in the bush?
RELIGIOUS SCHOOL
HAPPENINGS
Marisa Reby, Director
In Religious School, we recently held a New Year
Tu B’Shevat occurred on January 26. We conducted
celebration – the “New Year for Trees,” that is, the
Tu B’Shevat seders at Religious School on Sunday,
holiday of Tu B’Shevat. This holiday, literally the 15th
January 27. Some of the highlights of a Tu B’Shevat
day of the Hebrew month of Shevat, celebrates the
seder include drinking four cups of grape juice, starting
earliest bloom of the fruit trees in Israel.
with white and gradually darkening to pink, light red, and
dark red to represent the changing seasons of the year.
So why do we need to celebrate such a holiday in St.
Fruits and nuts mentioned in the Bible are sampled,
Louis, particularly when it falls during the snowy days
making a tasty and colorful array, ranging from those
of winter, a time of year clearly not conducive for trees
with inedible coverings on the outside, like oranges;
to bear fruit? We join our fellow Jews throughout the
those with pits, like peaches and olives; and those that
world in celebrating Tu B’Shevat because it reminds us
are entirely edible, like figs and raisins.
of a very important Jewish value, Bal Tashchit, caring
for the environment.
Tu B’Shevat, began as a minor holiday in Judaism, but
has since grown into the modern Jewish Earth Day,
One of the best ways to make the holiday feel as real as
an occasion that links a traditional celebration of a
possible, since we are not in Israel to enjoy the beginning
festive meal with our growing sense of environmental
of the growing season, is to hold a Tu B’Shevat seder,
responsibility. This holiday reminds us of our personal
a ceremony celebrating the fruits of Israel. While the
responsibility to make the world a better place and that
concept of a Tu B’Shevat seder is adapted from and
it is indeed a mitzvah to reduce, reuse, and recycle.
modeled after the traditional Passover seder, there are
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differences. While the preparations for the Passover
seder are a joyous but albeit arduous process, the Tu
B’Shevat seder is prepared for with relative ease and is
often an engaging and fun event for students.
february
SUN
MON
TUES
WED
Calendar
THU
FRI
SAT
1
2
6 pm Tot Shabbat
9:45 am Bible Study
7:30 pm
Shabbat Worship
11 am Shabbat Worship
Bar Mitzvah of
Benjamin Kats
5 pm TIFTY Movie Night
3
4
5
9:30 am Religious
School
10:30 am
Intro to Hebrew
9:30 am
Crafting for Community
6
7
8
9
10:30 Advanced Hebrew
12 pm Lunch and Learn
4:30 pm Hebrew Lab
12:00 pm
Lunch and Learn
6 pm Pre-Oneg
9:45 am Bible Study
6 pm Club 56
12:30 pm
Rabbis’ Roundtable
6:30 pm
Boy Scout
Shabbat B’Shir
Bat Mitzvah of
Leah Snidman
16
Lounge Night
6:30 pm Lilith Readers
6:30 pm Life in Transition
7 pm Intro to Judaism
7:30 pm Boy Scouts
9:45 am Yoga with Lisi
9:45 am Adult Education
Series
12 pm TIFTY Board
Meeting
3:30 pm
Yoga with Lisi
10
11
12
13
14
15
9:30 am
Religious School
9:30 am
Crafting for Community
10 am Annual Meeting
6:30 pm Cotillion
9 am
Symphony Lecture
9:30 am Study Group
12:00 pm
Lunch and Learn
6 pm Pre-Oneg
17
No Religious School
24
10:30 am
Intro to Hebrew
7:30 pm
Boy Scout Committee
18
Presidents’ Day Building Closed
25
9:30 am Religious School 10:30 am
Intro to Hebrew
11:30 Purim Carnival
4:30 pm Hebrew Lab
3:30 pm
Yoga with Lisi
7:30 pm Boy Scouts
19
20
4:30 pm Hebrew Lab
6:30 pm Exploring Life’s
Journey
7 pm Ess and Fress Cooking
7:30 pm Boy Scouts
26
4:30 pm Hebrew Lab
7:30 pm Boy Scouts
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9:45 am Bible Study
11 am
Shabbat Worship
Bat Mitzvah of
Riley Deutsch
21
22
23
12:00 pm
Lunch and Learn
6 pm Pre-Oneg
9:45 am Bible Study
3:30 pm
Yoga with Lisi
27
6:30 pm
Shabbat Worship
Guest Speaker:
Leah Hakimian
28
12:00 pm
Lunch and Learn
3:30 pm
Yoga with Lisi
6:30 pm
Shabbat Worship
with HaShemesh
Bat Mitzvah of
Hannah Tolin
ENGAGING OUR YOUTH
Stephanie Rhea, Youth Groups Advisor
A delegation of TIFTY members
Sunday, February 24: Temple Israel Purim Carnival.
attended the regional youth group
Come to the Purim shpiel at 11:00 a.m. Stay for
Winter Chavurah in Denver, CO over
the carnival from 11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m. There will be
the Martin Luther King Jr. weekend.
games, prizes, great food, and more. Many volunteer
Our Temple Israel youth joined 200
opportunities are available for adults and students in 7th
fellow high school-age Reform Jewish
grade or older. Admission is free. Game tickets are 25
teens for a weekend of social justice and socializing.
cents each.
Many great activities are coming up for youth in grades
Friday, March 1: PURIMPALOOZA! This Purim
5-12. Some include opportunities for teens to volunteer
celebration for the entire congregation will begin at
and receive community service credit. For details on
5:00 p.m. with dinner, games, and fun surprises. A
any of the following activities, contact Youth Groups
special Purim Shabbat service and megillah reading will
Advisor Stephanie Rhea, [email protected] or 314-432-
start at 6:30 p.m. Volunteer opportunities are available
8050.
for adults and children 5th grade or older.
Saturday, February 2: Family Movie Night to benefit
Saturday, March 2: TIFTY Tastes St. Louis. The TIFTY
Camp Rainbow, 5:00 p.m. TIFTY is showing
Board is busy putting together a mystery bus tour of St.
Madagascar 3 and will operate a concession stand
Louis that will include some of the best places to dine
offering dinner and snack items. The evening will include
and have fun. The journey begins at 6:00 p.m. Watch for
face painting and circus-themed games and activities.
details.
Admission is free. Volunteer opportunities are available
for adults and students in 7th grade or older.
March 8-10: All 7th and 8th graders are invited to
attend the JYG Chavurah that will be hosted by United
Tuesday, February 5: Club 56 lounge night in the youth
Hebrew’s junior youth group. This will be a weekend of
lounge from 6:00-8:00 p.m. All 5th and 6th graders are
fun and learning with youth from all over our region,
welcome! You do not have to be enrolled in religious
which stretches from Colorado to Kentucky. Host
school. The cost is $8, which includes dinner.
families will be needed to house attendees from out of
town.
Saturday, February 9: J8M, the community-wide group
for 8th graders, is having its final event of the year,
snow tubing at Hidden Valley Ski Resort. This event is
open to 8th - 12th graders.
Scan our QR code to visit
TIFTY on Facebook.
February 15-19: NFTY National Convention in
Los Angeles.
club
TALK
CELEBRATE PURIM AT TEMPLE ISRAEL
PURIM SHPIEL AND CARNIVAL
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 24
11:00 A.M. SHPIEL
11:30-1:00 P.M. CARNIVAL
Games, prizes, costumes, food concessions, and fun for all ages.
FREE ADMISSION
Game tickets are 25 cents each. Sponsored by TIFTY, Temple Israel’s high school youth group.
PURIMPALOOZA
FRIDAY, MARCH 1
5:00 P.M. LIGHT DINNER AND FUN ACTIVITIES
6:30 P.M. PURIM SHABBAT SERVICE AND MEGILLAH READING
Join us for a light dinner, sweets, and drinks.
Enjoy the carnival atmosphere with a bounce house and tons of fun.
Be sure to stay for the family service and Megillah reading with Rabbis Feder and Alper.
(Purimpalooza will take the place of Tot Shabbat for the month of March.)
Both events are open to the community.
FEBRUARY ADULT LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
Sunday Series: The Jewish Response to Evil –
Lunch and Learn: Torah Study – Tuesdays,
Sundays, Feb. 3 and 10, 9:45-11:15 a.m. Drop the kids
noon-1:15 p.m. Bring your lunch and join Rabbi Alper in
off at Religious School and join Rabbi Alper in exploring
exploring the week’s Torah portion. No Hebrew skills
Jewish responses to evil in the world. All adults are
necessary. Come every week or whenever you can.
welcome!
Lunch and Learn: Judaism and Jesus, Interfaith
The Lilith Readers Book Club – Tuesday, February 5,
Texts and Topics – Thursdays, noon-1:00 p.m. Bring
6:30-8:00 p.m. Bring your dinner and enjoy a ladies’
your lunch and study a variety of interfaith texts and
night out, interesting books and great discussion. For
topics with Rabbi Alper.
details, see page 18 or visit www.ti-stl.org.
Shabbat Morning Bible Study – Saturday mornings,
Crafting for Community – Sundays, February 3 and 10,
9:45-10:45 a.m. This year’s class is focusing on the
at 9:30 a.m. in The Gathering Place at the Temple. Join
women of the Hebrew Bible.
Jody Chassin in learning fun and easy crafts to make
and donate to organizations that serve people in need.
Yoga Plus with Lisi –Sundays at 9:45 a.m. (when
religious school is in session) and Thursdays at
Rabbi’s Roundtable – Thursday, February 7, at 12:30
3:30 p.m. in the Kriegshaber Foyer at the Temple.
p.m. Join one of our rabbis for lunch and a lively
Wear comfortable clothes, bring a yoga mat if you have
discussion of current events or any topic of interest to
one, and join Lisi Weinstein for yoga, pilates and a dose
participants. The cost for lunch is $10. RSVP to
of spiritual wellness. Cost: $10 per session.
Evie Bernstein, 314-434-3937.
For more information on any or all of these adult
Ess and Fress: Jewish Holiday Cooking – Tuesday,
education programs, contact Rabbi Alper,
February 19, 7:00 p.m. Join Diane Packman in the
[email protected] or 314-432-8050.
Temple Israel kitchen for a special Purim edition of her
popular Jewish Holiday Cooking class. RSVP to Diane,
314-469-6335 or [email protected].
Introduction to Hebrew – Mondays, 10:30-11:30 a.m.
Learn the basics with Rabbi Alper.
temple
NEWS
LIFE IN TRANSITION; EXPLORING LIFE’S JOURNEY
Life in Transition and Exploring Life’s Journey will begin
Exploring Life’s Journey begins Tuesday, February 19,
a new season in February. These groups are led by Jan
and will meet the third Tuesday of each month from
Nykin, M.Ed., LCSW, a psychotherapist in private practice
6:30-8:00 p.m. This group is for those interested in
who also has para-rabbinic certification.
exploring life lessons and purposes, spirituality, Jewish
meditation and other related topics.
Life in Transition meets the first Tuesday of each month,
from 6:30-8:00 p.m., starting February 5. This group
Participation is free and open to the community.
is for individuals coping with a recent loss, whether
No RSVP is necessary.
through death, divorce, unemployment, retirement or
any other life circumstance.
JEWISH AND MUSLIM
DAY OF SERVICE
INAUGURATION
INVOCATION
Temple Israel was a supporting organization for this
year’s Jewish and Muslim Day of Service on
December 25. A number of our congregants were
among the 600 volunteers from Jewish, Muslim, and
other faith communities who participated in the second
annual event.
Volunteers attended a welcome breakfast at the Jewish
Community Center Staenberg Arts and Education
complex, and then fanned out to 21 community service
sites in the region. Virtually every site had Jewish and
Muslim volunteers working side-by-side.
The event was co-sponsored by the Jewish Community
Relations Council and the Islamic Foundation of Greater
St. Louis.
Our own Rabbi Amy Feder delivered the invocation at the inauguration of
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon in Jefferson City on January 14. You can view the
video at www.mo.gov/inauguration.
We gratefully acknowledge these tributes received as of January 16.
DEUTSCH EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER FUND
In memory of Harold Fudemberg
Dorette and Ed Boldberg
Ivy and Michael Klein
Carol Margolis
In memory of Lillian Goodman
In memory of Myra Grossman
Susan K. and Paul Goldberg
Susan and Art Stiefel
In honor of John and Annette Fudemberg’s 40th Anniversary and New Home
Karla and Steve Rosenblum
In honor of Ellen and Jack Deutsch
Angela and J. J. Flotken
In honor of Robert Greenberg’s 80th birthday
Linda and Ivan Blumoff
FRIEDA & LESTER HANDELMAN
EARLY CHILDHOOD ART FUND
In memory of Selma Wax
Frieda Handelman
In honor of a Happy Chanukah
Frieda Handelman
In honor of Bob Bernstein’s special birthday
Natalie and Neil Handelman
In memory of Marvin Davidson
Marcee and Merle Silverstein
In memory of Susan Irgang
Marilyn Berger Rubin
JoAnn Stephan
In honor of Bob Greenberg’s special birthday
Ann and Marty Epstein
In honor of the special birthdays of Arthur and Adele Litz
Rob Litz
In honor of the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Laurence Schiffer
Evelyn and Louis Cohen
In honor of Temple Israel
Hana Tepper Taylor
LIVNOT FUND
In honor of Jerry Levy
The Levy-Thomeczek Family
LYNNE & ARNIE COLE URJ CAMP SCHOLARSHIP FUND
In honor of the Lynne & Arnie Cole URJ Camp Scholarship Fund
Lynne Cole
MILLARD S. COHEN CARING COMMUNITY FUND
In memory of Millard Cohen
Myra Cohen
NATHAN KAHN - ERNESTINE KAHN CHARLES KAHN FOUNDATION
In honor of Lylas and Ron Chatmon
GERALDINE & GIDEON SCHILLER
CONFIRMATION WASHINGTON SEMINAR FUND
RABBIS’ DISCRETIONARY FUND
In memory of Gideon Schiller
In memory of Lois DeWoskin
Diana and Michael Iskiwitch
Thelma Davidson
Wade DeWoskin
HARRY STEINER FAMILY FUND
YAHRZEIT FUND
In memory of Henrietta Steiner
In memory of Samuel Bender
Carolyn Foster
TEMPLE ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUND
In honor of the special birthday of Bob Greenberg
Sandra Greenberg
In honor of the special birthday of Jan Greenberg
Sandra Greenberg
TEMPLE ISRAEL GENERAL FUND
In memory of Sandy Breadman
Mary Beth and Allen Soffer
In memory of Harold Fudemberg
The Bridge Group
Marjorie Ross Martin
Ruth and Harvey Bender
In memory of Barry Garden
Anita Garden
In memory of Elmer and Selma Gidlow
Audrey Friedman
In memory of Florence Gertrude Gold
Jane and Alvin Gold
In memory of Ruth Schermer Goldstein
Esther and Ted Berger
In memory of Wilma J. “Billie” Goldstein
Roz Kessler
february
TRIBUTES
In memory of Ida-Mae Herzmark
Ralph A. Herzmark
In memory of Jan Holtzman
Martin Holtzman
In memory of Maxine Jane Jacks
Sidney Jacks
In memory of Betty Jacobson
Joan and Howard Wittner
In memory of Frederick Weiss
Terry Weiss
In memory of Selma Weissman Weiss
Sanford Weissman
In memory of Neil Alan Werner
Joy and Al Melman
In memory of Celia Widman
Marilyn and Sam Fox
In memory of Petr Kholodner
Raisa and Igor Belotserkovsky
In memory of Lydia Kolodny
Carol Winston
In memory of Sophie Harris Lending
Joy Lending
In memory of Dorothy Liermark
Sanford Weissman
In memory of Perry L. Mehlman
Betsy Mehlman
In memory of Harold Motchan
Craig Schultz
In memory of Norman Nachman
Les Nackman
In memory of Boris Oris
Maya Samoylovich
In memory of Bart Phillips
Shirley Phillips
In memory of Bess Rainey
Jeanne Ferman
In memory of Max Reichenberg
Margot Richards
In memory of Lee C. Richards
Jane and Mark Tucker
In memory of Dorothy Schuman
Sanford Weissman
In memory of Tillie Seigal
Ina Padratzik
In memory of Frank Siegel
Joan and Howard Wittner
In memory of Ruth I. Serkes Silverstein
Terry Weiss
In memory of Helen Thaller
Adrienne and Mickey Rosen
BIMAH FOOD BASKETS
January 19: In honor of grandson Alex Kemppainen’s Bar Mitzvah
With love from John Kemppainen, Sr.
January 26: In honor of Charlie Smoller’s Bar Mitzvah
From Charlie Smoller
SHIRLEY POST BIMAH FLOWERS
February 9: In honor of Leah Snidman’s Bat Mitzvah
sponsored with love, Robert, Elizabeth
and Hannah Snidman
ONEG SPONSORS
January 4: In honor of Jonathan Greenberg’s Bar Mitzvah
With love from Patti and Bob Gold
January 18: In honor of Alex Kemppainen’s Bar Mitzvah
With love from his great-grandparents,
Henrietta and Mark Fish
January 25: In honor of Charlie Smoller’s Bar Mitzvah
With love from his aunts and uncles,
Gary and Susan Hollenberg, Kathy Hollenberg
and Aaron and Kelly Smoller
February 8: In honor of Leah Snidman becoming a Bat Mitzvah
With love from Liz and Robert Snidman
IN OUR TEMPLE FAMILY
Mazal Tov to Lauren Marglous, daughter of Shelley
Marglous and the late Steven Marglous on her
engagement to H. Peter Steffen.
WELCOME TO OUR
NEWEST TI MEMBERS
Andrew & MaryAnne Sabin
Yael
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who join together for positive, meaningful social,
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THE LILITH READERS
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Carol Wolf Solomon at 314-432-8050 or at
All women are invited to join us for any or all sessions
of our Lilith Readers Book Club.
Bring your own dinner and enjoy a ladies’ night out
from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.
February 5
Seven Blessings by Ruchama King
March 5
Unorthodox by Deborah Feldman
April 2
The Midwife by Roberta Rich
[email protected].
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temple
NEWS
YOUR CONTINUING
SYNAGOGUE SUPPORT
TI WISH LIST
Each of us connects with our Temple Israel community
All Temple members were recently sent a 2013
Continuing Synagogue Support statement.
If you have not received yours, please contact
JoAnn Stephan in the Temple office, 314-432-8050 or
[email protected].
in different ways. We may be passionate about worship,
learning, youth, social justice, or simply celebrating
holidays and life cycle events together. Likewise, when
making charitable giving decisions, we sometimes prefer
to target specific needs. In each issue of the Dateline,
we highlight a variety of needs at Temple Israel where
Please remember that the deadline for either remitting
your generosity can make an immediate impact.
your 2013 Continuing Synagogue Support payment in
full or setting up a payment schedule is Feb. 15.
We offer convenient quarterly or monthly automatic
credit card or ACH withdrawals. Simply complete and
$200
A chaperone for a youth group event
$300
Kol Nidre cellist
$1,000
Temple gifts to B’nai Mitzvah students
for one year
$600
Underwrites one of our monthly
Tot Shabbat programs
$500
Provides a Confirmation year
scholarship for one student
$720
Underwrites one year of after-hours
emergency phone service for our rabbis
return the payment plan form found on the back of the
statement you received or contact JoAnn Stephan.
If you have already paid your 2013 Continuing
Synagogue Support or sent in your payment plan,
thank you so much!
To fulfill a wish list item, mail a check (payable to
Temple Israel) to: Temple Israel Wish List,
P.O. Box 790379, St. Louis, MO 63179, or donate online
by credit card at www.ti-stl.org/wishlist.
Please specify the item you are funding. Contributions
will be recognized in future issues of the Dateline, so
please let us know if you prefer to donate anonymously.
For more information, contact Carol Wolf Solomon,
Director of Development and Communications,
[email protected] or 314-432-8050.
CONDOLENCES
We extend our deepest sympathy to the families of
Arthur Ellis Ansehl
Harold C. Fudemberg
Myra L. Grossman
Paula Kipnis
Dorothy Schoenfeld
WHAT’S NEW AT
NEW MT. SINAI?
New Mt. Sinai Cemetery will offer a complimentary tour
of the cemetery for members of Temple Israel and other
owner congregations later this year. The exact date has
not yet been set, but the tour will occur on a Sunday
afternoon in the late spring or early summer. Round-trip
bus transportation from Temple Israel will be provided.
The tour will last about 90 minutes. You are welcome to
bring your spouse or a friend with you, but the tour will
be limited to around 35 people.
WALL OF HONOR
A new Wall of Honor Memorial has been established for
Harold Fudemberg
by the Fudemberg Family
Henrietta Steiner
by the Steiner Family
Watch for more details in next month’s Dateline. If you
would like to reserve a place on the tour now, call the
cemetery office, 314-353-2540.
Dan Brodsky
Executive Director
WINE TASTING POSTPONED
LISTEN TO SERVICES LIVE!
Our Temple Israel wine tasting event, initially planned
Live audio broadcasts of all Shabbat and holiday worship
for April 28, has been postponed and will be rescheduled
services at Temple Israel make our worship accessible to
for this fall. Watch for a new date to be announced
those who are ill or homebound and to family members and
soon.
friends who are unable to attend a Bar or Bat Mitzvah.
To listen by phone, dial 1-800-846-4808 and enter account
code 8053. To listen online, visit www.ti-stl.org and click on
the “Listen to Worship Services Live” link. We are grateful
to the generous donors to our Broadcast Fund who make
this broadcast possible.
we
REMEMBER
February 3-9
Lillian Allen
Ferdinand S. Bach
Lucile Calisch Baer
Fannie Sanders Berger
Louis Berman
Henry Blatt
Charlotte Brandt
Grace D. Brickman
Samuel Bridge
Geraldine Carp
Jeanette Weiner Charnas
Mollie Cotler
Dr. Arnold Dankner
Melvin Degroote
Shirley Ruth Drohlich
Jules Dubinsky
Eva Engel
Henry Epstein
S. Lester Feldman
Arthur A. Fishel
Myron N. Fisher
Sophie Littmann Freund
Susan Fry
Clara Fuchs
Irene Gall
Helen Stone Gelfand
Solon Gershman
Gus Gillerman
Manuel Goldberg
Robert Goldenhersh
Virginia Lasker Goldman
Lester J. Handelman
Martin Handler
Ella Gregor Hartmann
Emil Hartmann
Emma Hesse Isselbacher
Leopold Isselbacher
Mendel Jacobson
Lillian B. Jossem
Mary Jane Kirsner
Hortense Goodman - Kohn
Joe W. Kopman
Irene Appel Lederman
Herbert Marples
Emil Mayer
Gertrude L. Mendelson
Fred Michelson
Regina Michelson
Janet Fuller Miller
Gussie Harris Nathan
February 3-9 (continued)
Magnus F. Poulson
Milton Rimmel
Bernard Rosenblum
Geraldine “Gigi” Rubenstein
Barrett Scallet
Bess Brand Schneider
Dr. W. Louis Schuchat
Alvin J. Shuchart
Joseph H. Silversmith
Earl Susman
Ray A. Weil
Alberta J. Weiss
Tesse B. Werner
Samuel Lesem Wisebart
Nancy Kline Wolfheim
Lucille Olian Yellen
Names listed have been placed in Perpetual Memorial.
For information as to how you may place a loved one’s
name in Perpetual Memorial, please contact Sydney
Masin at [email protected] or 314-432-8050.
February 10-16
Maurice Benson
Herman Bernard Blum
Shirley R. Broderson
Anna Lee Brown
Julia Singer Bry
Dr. Norman Ward Clein
Moses M. Cohn
Anna Davis
Joseph B. Diamond
Mary Fadem Efron
Wallace N. Emmer
Sol H. Engel
Edith Kriegshaber Felsenthal
Rose K. Fry
Marilyn Mendelson Fudemberg
Arthur Goldstein
Leah S. Gross
Fanny Guckenheim
Sigmund Gusdorf
Hans K. Hagen
Simon Abeles Harris
Pauline Manlin Helman
Otto Hirsch
Jason Kawin
Adolphus Klauber
Joseph Leonard Kohner
Jeffrey Samuel Kopman
Edith Levi
Harold D. Marglous
Fritz Marx
David T. Portman
Arthur Rosenfeld
Morris Roufa
Jane M. Scheff
Martha Schneider
Jeanet P. Schnurmacher
Bertha Schoen
Leon J. Schwab
Sylvia Shanfeld
Joseph Sharf
Sarah Pattiz Smissman
Carrie Vetsburg
Michael Victor Ii
David H. Wagner
Fannie Waldman
Maurice Weil
February 17-23
Helen Sternberg Ackerman
Sam Agatstein
Elliott S. Bender
Hannah Ruth Bender
Irvin Bettman, Jr.
Josef B. Bloch
Rose Blumberg
Lillian Caplin
Louis Dern
Norman S. Dertke
Sarah Halle Edison
Harry Fuchs
Nathan Greenberg
Annie Harris
Matilda Honig
Ann Katzenstein
Tema Kopman
Mollie Guckenheim Landauer
Marvin S. Levin
Marion Jacobson Lieberman
Henrietta Berg Loewenstein
Julius Mannheimer
Ida Meyer
Alice Jane Miller
Louis M. Monheimer
Hubert P. Moog
Dora Kopman Moss
Anna May L. Nussbaum
Saul L. Nymark
Armin Price
Nathan Rosenberg
Frank Ross
Sidney Sacks
Rachel Stix Schwab
Albert M. Schwartz
Sarah Levy Shanblum
Joe Tabachnick
Harriett Trepner
Henry Wagner
Paul Kalter Weil
Richard M. Weiss
Vera R. ‘Bobbie’ Weiss
February 24-March 2
Sara Fox Ades
Albert Arndt
Benjamin Arnovitz
Isadore Auer
Morris Bass
Leonard L. Bierman
Norman Cecil Broddon
Stuart Caplin
Emanuel M. Cole
Rose M. Cole
Selma Dennis
Mark Aaron Edison
Moses J. Ehrlich
Lena Frank
Samuel Gartenberg
Eleanor Ghertner
Milton Goldman
Charles Gregor
Fanny Holtz
Louis Honig
Ida B. Horwitz
Dr. Ernst Jonas
Joseph Kaufman
Hannah Lederer Kohn
Michael Kutten
Pauline Landauer
Irvin S. Lang
Sylvia Levin
Louis Londy
Edith Mannheimer
Natalie Mehlman
Rosa Meyer
Joan Frank Plattner
Sadie Seidel Rickensohl
Betty Rosenberg
Augusta Schoenstadt
Jack M. Schultz
Leon J. Schwab
Dollie B. Shoenberg
Flora Siegfried
Richard A. Silverman
Richard C. Simon
Nat Singer
Ruth Reichman Solomon
Jerome J. Spector
Nancy Steele
Gunter Herbert Stern
Bill Wallis
Eugene S. Weil
Curt E. Weiss
Edith Newman Weiss
Bertha Wildman
Minnie Mayer Wolfheim
James Henry Yalem
Emil A. Ziskind
GIVE-A-MEAL-A-MONTH
For the month of February, the Harvey Kornblum Jewish Food Pantry
is looking for these specific items in order to assist the community in need:
Canned Pasta with Meat, Peanut Butter and Jelly, Macaroni and Cheese, Canned Fruit (all types),
Canned Vegetables (corn, green beans, peas, carrots and mixed vegetables),
Kosher Food, Shampoo, Conditioner and Toothpaste
Items should be brought to our collection site by the May Chapel.
For further information, please contact Louise Levine, 636-227-1259.
TEMPLE ISRAEL DATELINE
TEMPLE ISRAEL DATELINE
February 2013
#1 Rabbi Alvan D. Rubin Drive
Creve Coeur, MO 63141-7670
Shevat / Adar 5773
Volume XXXII / Number 5
www.ti-stl.org
STAFF
Amy Feder, Rabbi
Michael Alper, Rabbi
Mark L. Shook, Rabbi Emeritus
Eli K. Montague, F.T.A., Executive Director
Leslie Wolf, Director, Deutsch Early Childhood Center
Marisa Reby, Religious School Director
Carol Wolf Solomon, Director of Development and Communications
Amanda Radman, Membership and Development Coordinator
OFFICERS
JoAnne Levy, President
Jonathan Bloom, Vice President, Membership
David Chassin, Vice President, Facilities
Pamela Dern, Vice President, Social Action
Harvey Harris, Vice President, Community Outreach
Michael Weiss, Vice President, Strategic Planning
Carol Cohen, Secretary
Dee Mogerman, Assistant Secretary
Cathy Goldsticker, Treasurer
Diana Rothbarth, Assistant Treasurer
CELEBRATE PURIM
AT TEMPLE ISRAEL
SEE PAGE 13
OFFICE HOURS
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Wednesday - Thursday, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
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Phone: (314) 432-8050
Fax: (314) 432-8053
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