kol israel - Temple Israel

The voice of Temple Israel
Greater Manchester’s Center for Conservative Jewry
Rabbi Eric Cohen, PhD
July & August 2014
Tammuz 3 to Elul 5, 5774
[email protected]
Volume 14, Issue 7/8
In this Issue:
Words from the Rabbi ................................................... 1
Editor’s Note .................................................................. 2
Dates and Times ............................................................ 3
We have finally arrived: those lazy, hazy, crazy
days of summer. After a long, cold winter, it’s
time to kick back, and slow down. We are
blessed to live in a beautiful state. Let’s enjoy
God’s blessings! But let’s also be aware of the
world around us.
As Nigel Savage of Hazon (a Jewish
organization devoted to preserving the
environment) reminds us, living in comfort and
peace can also lead - without our being fully
aware of it – to irresponsibility. Savage
includes within this a whole range of things:
not reading serious newspapers (including,
especially, those with which we disagree);
allowing our attention spans to shorten;
polluting our inboxes, and thus indirectly our
souls, with nonsense and vapidity. If we only
focus on our comfort and peace, we are
tempted to step back from civic engagement.
Looking at the Near East, he continues, is a
good antidote to this. You can see the epitome
of culture, community, education, law – human
assets built over millennia - disintegrate in
minutes. Aleppo, Baghdad, Cairo, Damascus –
these have been thriving cities since ancient
times, but are currently in upheaval or
disintegrating. Jerusalem is just next door,
and it is subject to our own internal animosities
and divisions.
Savage notes that we create communities and
frames – both legal and cultural – that enable
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and encourage us to hold difference, and to
restrain our worst selves. When communities
don’t hold, we break apart, and – in an extreme
– we kill each other.
Savage concludes that this is why we should
not take peace and relative stability for
granted. This is what Jewish tradition is about:
not just going with the flow, but counteracting
it, challenging it. We commit to making a
better world. And others are learning this
lesson as well. Holland this past year had to
close 19 prisons because they did not have
enough criminals to fill them. Sweden ran out
of garbage for its recycling program – ran out
of garbage. People working together, engaging
each other, can bring about amazing, positive
changes.
Savage reminds us that the process of
engaging
need
not
be
somber
or
cheerless. We need to start by building and
strengthening relationships, but we can do this
through reading, learning, talking, and eating
together. We need to switch off our machines
and get outside. We need to advocate and
vote. I invite you to enjoy New Hampshire over
the summer, as I invite you to be aware of the
brokenness of world. If you see a need, try to
fill it. If you see an injustice, try to right it. I
for one will be keeping my eyes wide open.
~ Rabbi Eric
Vol. 14, Issue 7/8
A big thank you to Steve Saulten, Brian Grodman,
Karen Jacobs, Charlotte Crockett, and Aida
Koocher for their contributions to Kol Israel
throughout the fall, winter and spring. Enjoy your
summer off, and we all look forward to hearing
from you again in the September issue.
I would also like to extend an open invitation to all
of our readers to contribute articles or information
for our upcoming issues.
Thank you to the Singer/Sydney family and
Merchants Automotive for continued upkeep
of the Temple property.
Thank you to the Eckman Family for
continuing to provide our kitchen paper
supplies.
Thank you to Merchant’s Motors for picking
up temple items.
Summer Fun at the
TAY Brotherhood’s
6th Annual BBQ!
Rabbi Beth & Rabbi Eric dishing. . .
Edith Novak
Jordan Singer
Isadora Zlotowicz
Steve Saulten
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Rabbi Eric, Michael Sydney and
Sandi McCurdy heat things up!
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July 15
July 19
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Faith Guttman
United States
Stuart Brogadir
Skyler Cohen
Robert Singer
Ben Greiner
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Jennifer &. Shane Citron
Joy. & Michael Sydney
Paul Schill & Christine Gagnon
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18 ...................................... 8:03
25 ...................................... 7:57
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Bill & Bonnie Greiner
Rachel & Melvin Spiererp
PM ...................................................Balak
PM ................................................ Pinchas
PM .................................................. Matot
PM ................................................. Massei
Isadora Zlotowicz
David Greiner
Bernie Gasser
Sharon Taub
Gary Singer
Judith Shapiro
August
August
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August
August
Pam & Luis Englander
Rebecca & Jeffrey Singer
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August
August
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August
Sandi McCurdy
Deborah Sklar
Larry Eckman
Merle Paltrow
Richard Winneg
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8 ............................ 7:41
15 ........................... 7:31
22 ........................... 7:21
29 ........................... 7:09
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Bernice Singer
Steve Rudman
Margery Harrison
Harry Shepler
Pam & Luis Englander
Rebecca & Jeffrey Singer
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YAHRZEITS – JULY 2014
TAMMUZ 3 TO AV 4
2 Hyman Eckman
Samuel Silver
3 Benjamin Dzick
Joseph Ekman
Selwyn Ekman
Bessie Kaplan
4 Sophie Holtzman
5 Abraham Bresnick
Harold Geyer
Sara Goldberg Hirsch
Essie Kramer
Morris Novak
6 Harry Goldberg
Maurice Tevelov
7 Anna B. Slosberg
8 Sydney Burnston
Ida Litvin
Isaac Shamash
10 Bernhard Benjamin
David Foster
11 Claire Kurtz
Eliezer Leo Romer
Ross Alan Silberberg
12 Rose Harris
Ethel Silver
13 Fred Haas
Hyman Specter
14 Molly Gruber
Benjamin Klein
Helen Eluto Miranda
Anne Taub
Marshall Wolfe
15 Sophie Foster Margolis
16 Dr. Morris Nathan Cohen
Dr. James Samuel Grevior
17 Abraham Berke
18 Serena Klein
19 Leah Bialo
Sadie I. Cagan
Norman Morse Fox
21 Leon T. Rubin
Harry Tolman
22 Howard Fieldman
Charles Hollander
Maurice Kane
Mort Rosen
23 Abram Stein
Nathan Tabachnick
24 Robert Isaacson
25 Doris Liverman
Gail Singer
26 Abraham Feldman
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Av 21
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Av 30
Elul 1
Max Fishbein
Bertha Lefcofsky
Charlie Sondik
Leon L. Weiner
Pearl Carlin
Jacob Itzkowitz
Lillian Whinston
Michael Cohen
Morris Rosencovitz
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YAHRZEITS – JULY 2014
TAMMUZ 3 TO AV 4
31 Abraham Margolis
George Resnick
Ida Schwartz
YAHRZEITS – AUGUST 2014
AV 5 TO ELUL 5
1
Newton Davidow
William Spilberg
Max Weterhahn
2
Sam Soreff
3
Ida Brenner
David Sklar
5
Jacob Kohl
Ida Silberberg Schacter
6
Louis Beitz
Maurice George Litvin
7
Morris Goody
Samuel Plotkin
Nathan Rabinovitz
Samuel Charles Rosenthal
8
Rose Soreff
9
Mark Maxwell
10 Bessie Fish Horwitz
Rosie Kropp
Florence Smulian
11 Arthur Mallin
Abraham Perlstein
14 Dorothy Schubert
Anna Utan
17 Sidney Gross
Phyllis Landfield
19 Leona Silberberg
20 Samuel Gorenstein
Chaye Leifer
Devorah Silberberg
Charles A. Slosberg
22 Sarah Bresnick
Samuel Rosen
23 Dr. William Perlstein
Klara Sklar
24 Sarah Horenstein
Ann Koupchik
Hyman Levin
David Milden
25 Rebecca Shamash
26 Louis Caplan
Gerald Cohen
Ari Tjaden
27 Fraydel Ita Bialoglowski
Israel Bradbard
Ashney Hodack
Charna Silberberg Hodack
Rose Mandel
Benjamin Oppenheim
Abraham Silberberg
Faiga Silberberg
Faiga Silberberg
Joseph Harry Silberberg
Rebekah Privah Silberberg
30 Sonia Litvinchook
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WITH APPRECIATION, WE RECOGNIZE
YOUR DONATIONS
MEMORIAL TZEDAKAH OFFERING
Aida & Edward Koocher in memory of Marilyn Koocher
Herta Grabstald in memory of Sara Hausknecht
Herta Grabstald in memory of Oswald Hausknecht
Luis & Pam Englander in memory of Dina Unikel
Carol Harwood in memory of Sylvia Metz Milden
Carol Harwood in memory of Edward Jacob Metz
Brian Grodman in memory of Charles Sondik
Brian Grodman in memory of Fred Haas
Robert Smith in memory of Hyman Smith
Jayson & Phyllis Levine in memory of Rose E. Levine
Debra Manning in memory of Augusta Goldberg
Arline Alpert in memory of Rose E. Levine
Rabbi Eric Cohen in memory of Gerald Cohen
Stuart & Ilene Brogadir in memory of Harold Geyer
Roberta Silberberg in memory of George Silberberg
Al & Sonia Shamash in memory of Isaac Shamash
Debra Manning in memory of Sara Hirsch
NEWTON DAVIDOW SILVER FUND
Pearl Davidow in honor of Eva Julia Lebovich
GENERAL FUND
Nancy Sandman in memory of Gwendolyn Eckman
White Mountain Lumber Co. in memory of Gwendolyn
Eckman
Stan & Rita Robbins in memory of Gwendolyn Eckman
Temple Israel offers condolences to the
Eckman Family on the loss of their mothe
Gwendolyn Eckman, on June 16, 2016.
MANDELL TORAH FUND
Bunny Golder in memory of Sidney Golder
Bunny Golder in memory of Edith Rebecca Mandell
PRAYER BOOK FUND
The Harrington Family in memory of Shirley Lindner
HAROLD & CHARLOTTE GROSS
HEBREW SCHOOL FUND
Harold & Charlotte Gross:
In memory of Gwendolyn Eckman
In memory of the three Israeli boys, Naftali, Gilad and
Eyal
TAUBE FAMILY KIDDUSH FUND
Ruth Chevion in honor of Herta Grabstald
ABRAHAM & DIANA BRAVERMAN FUND
Thelma Ellerin in honor of Edith & Milton Novak for
their Shem Tov Award
Carol Pressman in honor of Edith & Milton Novak for
their Shem Tov Award
EKMAN FUND
Arline Ekman in memory of Gwendolyn Eckman
Richard & Caroline Ekman in memory of Gwendolyn
Eckman
RABBI’S DISCRETIONARY FUND
Deb & Dan Sklar in memory of Gwendolyn Eckman
SINGER FAMILY FUND
Pam & Luis Englander in honor of the birth of Eva Julia
Lebovich to Rachel & Michael Lebovich. Eva is the
granddaughter of Joy & Michael Sydney, and greatgranddaughter of Bernice Singer and Sheila Sydney.
Bernice Singer in honor of Steve Saulten
Joy & Michael Sydney in honor of Steve Saulten
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GIFT SHOP NEWS....Come check out Shabbat candles and
candlesticks, kiddush cups, yahrzeit candles, mezzuzoth, and the
yarmulke for the bris. Also, marked down Chanukah and Passover
items and more! Call Carol Sternberg at 623-7752 or Renee Brenner
at 625-8203, or send an email to [email protected].
Please join me in extending a warm welcome to our newest members, the Lessard/McAdams
family. The family includes Sari Lessard and Ken McAdams, who wed on July 2, and children
Jamie Danklefs, Rachel Lessard and Alyssa Lessard, slated to attend Hebrew school next
year, and toddler Erin Lessard.
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Now Accepting
Registrations to:
Temple Israel
Religious School
66 Salmon Street
Manchester, New Hampshire 03104-3106
(603) 622-6171 [email protected]
Sunday Mornings
Grades Pre-K through Bar/Bat Mitzvah
Individualized Instruction
Small Class Size
Curriculum: Hebrew, Prayer, Ethics, History, Israel, and Torah
Please call the office of Temple Israel, Manchester, NH to request a
Religious School Application, and/or to obtain further information regarding
our program, or contact Karen Jacobs at [email protected]
Our parents say…
“The children look forward to going to Hebrew School each week.”
“We appreciate the small groups and 1:1 attention from the staff.”
“The children are learning at a rate that is quite impressive.”
“The teacher is fantastic.” “The older children help mentor the younger ones, which
builds their confidence.”
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