October Highlights - Peabody

TEMPLE NER TAMID
368 Lowell Street, Peabody, MA 01960
(978) 532-1293, Fax: (978) 532-0101
Website: www.templenertamid.org
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Peabody, MA
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The Conservative Congregation of Peabody, MA
Affiliated with the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism
OCTOBER 2015
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October Highlights
Men’s Club Sukkot Dinner & Service
Friday, October 2 (see flyer)
Shabbat Dinner & Service
Friday, October 16 (see flyer)
Service led by
Rabbi Bernie Horowitz & Cantor Steve
Sisterhood Paid Up Supper
Wednesday, October 28 (see flyer)
Friday, October 30
Gordon College visits
Services led by
Rabbi Bernie Horowitz & Cantor Steve
Saturday, October 31
Shabbat Services led by
Rabbi Bernie Horowitz & Cantor Steve
TNT SERVICE HOURS
Sunday
Sunday - Thursday
Friday
(unless otherwise noted)
Saturday
9:00 AM
7:30 PM
8:00 PM
9:30 AM
Our Temple staff members and volunteers
are happy to help you by phone or email
SHABBAT & HOLY DAY
CANDLE LIGHTING
Rabbi: Deborah Zuker
Temple Ext.201
[email protected]
Friday, October 2
Cantor: Stephen Abramowitz
Temple Ext: 203 [email protected]
Shmini Atzeret
Sunday, October 4 6:03 PM
Simchat Torah
Monday, October 5 7:00 PM
Synagogue Administrator: Beth K. Hoffman
Temple Ext: 200 [email protected]
President: Eric Richman
Cell (617) 908-2434 [email protected]
Vice Presidents:
Harvey Dragoon [email protected]
Adele Lubarsky [email protected]
Alan Titelbaum [email protected]
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Bookkeeper: Linda Swears
Temple Ext: 202 [email protected]
Sisterhood President: Sue Callum
[email protected]
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Men’s Club President: Larry Malatzky
[email protected]
Torah Fund Cards: Sue Savy
Home: (617) 686-7470 [email protected]
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Monday,
October 5
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Tuesday,
October 6
Simchat Torah
Please call the office and
we would be happy to
help you!
Monday,
October 12
Columbus Day
President, Eric Richman
(Kol Nidre High Holy Day Appeal)
Shana Tova!
synagogue. There are many unaffiliated Jewish families on the
North Shore in search of a warm, welcoming and nurturing
temple with a strong sense of and commitment to community.
We offer all of that and so much more. Yet, despite tonight’s
attendance, we, unfortunately, have far too many empty seats
at services and programs throughout the rest of the year.
Simply, we need to expand our membership in order to sustain
this Temple for future generations.
Membership outreach is not a one person job. It takes all of us
here tonight, working together, to get the word out as to what
makes our Temple so special and welcoming and to assist in
attracting new members. If we all take this pledge and join
forces to attract new members, then standing room only will
not just be limited to the high holidays, but will become the
norm at every Temple service and event.
Our involvement with the Temple, however, cannot end with
our commitment of time and energy. Expanding programming
and the upkeep of this building strains our budget each and
every year. As such, to achieve all of our aspirations and
dreams for this Temple, each of us must dig deeper and find a
way to increase our individual financial contributions to the
Temple. In order to house our programming and attract new
members, this building needs to shine. We all need to give
what we can to keep our Temple beautiful and our programming strong.
As you walked into the synagogue tonight, you received an envelope. As you consider your annual donation, I challenge each
of you to exceed your donation from years past, as well as the
one you had in mind when you walked in this evening, and donate more. Every little bit helps! Every dollar received will be
used to improve and strengthen the foundation of the Temple
and will benefit all of us.
This is a challenge we all must accept. We can no longer rely on
the person sitting to the right or left of us to step up while we
sit on the sidelines and hope that no one discovers that we conveniently misplaced the envelope. No more excuses. We all
have something to give. As congregants, we all have the responsibility to get into the game. This is OUR Temple. This is
OUR spiritual home. This is OUR community.
We all must
participate. No donation is too small and every donation is
greatly appreciated.
I realize that I am asking a lot of each you tonight. In
some cases, I am challenging you to take on a new, unfamiliar
role and move outside of your comfort zone. Embrace the challenge. Don’t leave tonight content to let others do the work in
and outside of this Temple that must be done. If everyone
commits to donating more tonight, being more active at the
Temple and actively recruiting new members in the coming
year, then a year from now, when we again come together during the Days of Awe and the shofar sounds, we will do so in a
stronger, more diverse and even more vibrant Temple Ner
Tamid.
It is wonderful to see so many members of our Temple community and their guests here tonight as we come together as one
to mark the beginning of Yom Kippur.
For many of us, Yom Kippur is a time to reflect on all we have
experienced over the last twelve months. For some, it is a time
to celebrate accomplishments and mitzvahs, both personal and
professional. For others, it is a time to reflect on the loss of a
loved one and recall cherished memories of happier times. For
all of us, it is a time to celebrate, remember, and reflect.
A year ago, I stood before you and pledged, as your newly appointed president, that I would shake things up in order to energize our Temple. We would work hard, be open-minded,
listen to new voices, and we would embrace positive change.
I am happy to report that, with the help of so many of
you, we have shaken things up in many different ways. In one
of my first Board of Trustees meetings, I asked everyone to be
creative, to think outside the box, and to come up with programs and initiatives that could add new life and activity to the
Temple. Many new and exciting ideas came from this exercise,
and from those initial discussions sprung new programs for all
of our congregants, young and old. We moved beyond the status quo, and developed programs that met the needs and interests of our congregants today. Many of our programs were
without walls as we collaborated with other local temples and
Jewish organizations throughout the North Shore. Our children
continue to thrive in our vibrant joint Religious School with
Temple Beth Shalom.
Leaders and volunteers stepped forward to help implement
each of these programs. Our Board of Trustees and our other
volunteers are the lifeblood of this Temple - it has been only
through your innovative thinking and your willingness to help
out that we have been able to do all that we have accomplished
in the last year. To all of you, I want to extend my sincere appreciation and gratitude.
Yet, as I begin my second term as President, I am here to tell
you tonight that last year was just the beginning and we are far
from done. For example, on October 16th, we will be having our
inaugural monthly Shabbat family dinner lead by Cantor Steve
and Rabbi Bernie Horowitz. I hope that these dinners will be
red circle events on everyone’s calendar, and you will make
every effort to join us as often as possible. More and more programs for all ages will be introduced over the coming months.
In order to continue to build upon what we have started, we,
however, need more of you now than ever before to step up
and devote time and energy to the Temple as the New Year
begins. Believe me, I can find something for any one to do. It is
always possible to find an opportunity that interests you and
also fits your schedule and other time commitments. No one is
too young or too old to step up and share their ideas as to how Susan, our children and I, wish you a happy and healthy
we strengthen our Temple community. Everyone is wel- holiday.
comed…and everyone is needed.
In addition to committing to be more involved within the four THANK YOU!
walls of the Temple, I also need all you to pledge tonight to
become goodwill ambassadors for the Temple outside of this
Cantor Stephen Abramowitz
Sisterhood President, Sue Callum
I hope everyone's holidays were spiritually fulfilling. It’s always nice to see so many members
of our temple family during these days.
Our year is off to a great start. On September 10
we enjoyed an evening painting wine glasses,
mugs, or pint glasses with Drinkable Art. Everyone showed off their talents with a variety of
designs. Thank you to Judy Kemp for spearheading this event. I hope everyone has enjoyed
drinking from their own art work.
Once again, Lisa Stone and Tracy Cranson will
organize our Paid Up Supper on October 28. I
hope to see everyone there for a delicious and
entertaining evening. On November 1 and 2 Sisterhood will hold its annual Rummage Sale. If
you anything to donate or time to help, please let
me know. There will be a card party on November 18. Keep the night open and join us for dinner and games. More information will be available soon.
Keep watching for more exciting events that we
have planned for this year.
L’Shalom,
Sue Callum
Religious School, Tracy Cranson
Men’s Club, Larry Malatzky
“Not by might and not by power,
but by SPIRIT alone RUACH –
Shall we all live in peace!”
Our first day of Religious School on September 20th
started with a terrific RUACH rally! Nearly 100 students and their families joined us in celebration of a
new school year. It was quite a sight to see everyone
on their feet singing and dancing. A special thank you
to Diane Shapiro who learned the songs and accompanied our rally on the piano…she jammed!!! I am so
thankful for this new position and look forward to the
upcoming year as Head of School.
With all of the Fall holidays, it’s hard not to continue
to have school spirit as we celebrated Sukkot together
in the TBS sukkah. Students were treated to our own
special 7th grade Ushpizin (visitors). Students got to
guess who the students were portraying. We got to
shake, shake, shake the lulavim and etrogim thanks to
both TBS and TNT for providing kits to our school for
use.
The RUACH continues….Simchat Torah (October
4th) at school will be celebrated by a schoolwide –
“Marching of the Flags”. Students will make their
own Degelim (Flags) and we are very excited to see
all the creativity that our students will display. The
festivities will continue that evening, beginning at
5:30 p.m., with a Consecration/Simchat Torah party.
We will honor over 15 students, Kindergarten -3rd
grade, with Consecration certificates to signify their
first year at our school. There is no better way to celebrate the holidays than with our children and their
families and fellow congregants….of course the Pizza
and Ice Cream Sundae bar certainly will make the
night even more stupendous and DELICIOUS!!
Men’s Club Happening’s
By the time you read this Rosh Hashanah and Yom
Kippur are behind us but we are still in the midst of
the holiday season with Sukkot and Simchat Torah
happening soon. Thank you to Richard Band and his
team for an outstanding job at ushering during the services. The Men’s Club is looking ahead to our next
event, our 17th annual Sukkot Dinner. Alan Talewsky
and his committee are preparing a traditional Friday
night dinner to be held on October 2nd, beginning
with hors d’oeuvre’s in the Sukkah. Don’t miss it!
Looking forward to Sunday, October 25th at Temple
Emunah in Lexington, for the Keeper of the Flame,
where our own Mo Sack will be our well-deserved
honoree. Details on this event can be found in the bulletin and here: http://www.nerfjmc.org/regionalprograms/kof . I hope many of you will join us in celebrating this honor with Mo. In between these two
events, the Men’s Club will be sponsoring the Ice
cream social as part of the Simchat Torah festivities to
be held on October 5th. If you are interested in joining
the Men’s club, have any ideas for new events or want
to help me understand if anyone is reading these articles, please email me at [email protected]
In November we will hold our annual Paid Up Supper,
more details will be announced as they become available. Please save the date of December 5th on your calendar for our annual auction. The entire Men’s club is
promising to make it a fun as well as an exciting evening.
L’Shalom,
Though the lull of the Fall holidays concludes the end Larry
of October, it provides invaluable time to our teachers
to really delve into their curriculum and get the students knee deep into the Alef Bet, Hebrew, Torah and
other Judaica topics…
Upcoming:
Friday, October 23rd – 2nd grade lead Family Service
and “Birthday Blessings” – 7:00 p.m. at TBS
B’ahava,
Tracy Cranson
Head of School
To our newest
TNT Member
Jenn Peary
MAZEL TOV!
Jason Mazur’s grandson, Zachary Mazur, on his Bar Mitzvah
Sharyn & Mark Solomon’s son, Greg on his engagment
Larry Levine
GET WELL
Ron Generazzo
Mark Lerner
Al Fogel
KIDDUSH & ONEG SPONSORS
Sisterhood & Men’s Club
Larry Levine & family for sponsoring the Yom Kippur “break the fast”
To share your news or if you are interested in sponsoring an
Oneg Shabbat or Kiddush Luncheon
in honor of a special occasion,
Contact: [email protected]
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Condolences to:
Debbie & Gary Coltin on the loss of Debbie’s father, Jack Soll
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Save The Date!
Saturday, December 5th
Men’s Club Annual Auction
ZUMBA FOR FITNESS
Every Monday Night
At TNT
6:15 PM - 7:17 PM
Instructor: Jenn Pomerantz
Try out your class for $5.00. 5 class punch card
passes are $40.00 for NSJCC/TNT members
and $50.00 for non members.
Call Arlyne Greenspan
at 978-471-5520 for more info.
ISRAELI DANCE GROUP
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DONATION $1.00
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DEPOSIT BOTTLES TO
TNT!
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MONEY AND HELP THE
ENVIRONMENT!
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TNT’s Lending Library
Choose a selection from
some of these authors
James Patterson
Dan Brown
Anita Shreve
Faye Kellerman
Jodi Picolt
Robert Ludlum
Sue Monk Kidd
Liane Moriarty
Naomi Ragen
SOCIAL ACTION MEETING
Monday, October 26
7:30 PM
Join this group and make
a difference in
our community
RSVP to
Elliot Wyner
[email protected]
THANK YOU TO OUR GENEROUS CONTRIBUTORS
GENERAL FUND
TEMPLE NER TAMID Todah Rabah! by ISRAELI DANCING
THE DERMAN FAMILY In Memory of Husband, Father and
AND FAMILY
THE DERMAN FAMILY In Memory of Husband, Father and
THE DERMAN FAMILY In Memory of Husband, Father and
THE DERMAN FAMILY In Memory of Husband, Father and
Grandfather, David by WENDY & MARK GERSHLAK
Grandfather, David by SANDRA LITNER
Grandfather, David by JANET COHEN
Grandfather, David by GLORIA & MURRAY SIMONS
JUDY LEVENTHAL FUND
In Memory of mother, Anita Baker by STEPHEN BAKER
KITCHEN
DEBBIE COLTIN AND FAMILY In Memory of Father and Grandfather, Jack by SIMONE & TODD LEVINE
MARK PERLMUTTER AND FAMILY In Memory of wife and mother, Sue by MINDY & LARRY LEVINE
MR. & MRS. ALLEN LEVINE In Memory of sister-in-law, Sue by MINDY & LARRY LEVINE
MR. & MRS. GERALD LEVINE Wishing you Happy Anniversary! by MINDY & LARRY LEVINE
MR. & MRS. HAROLD PERLMUTTER In Memory of daughter-in-law, Sue by MINDY & LARRY LEVINE
THE DERMAN FAMILY In Memory of Husband, Father and Grandfather, David by SIMONE & TODD LEVINE
THE DERMAN FAMILY In Memory of Husband, Father and Grandfather, David by MINDY & LARRY LEVINE
RABBI DISCRETIONARY FUND
RABBI ZUKER In Honor of the birth of your new addition by GLORIA & MURRAY SIMONS
RABBI ZUKER AND FAMILY Wishing you Mazel Tov on the birth of Daniel by VITA FREEDMAN
SARITA PICKARD MEMORIAL
THE LYMAN FAMILY In Memory of Wife, Mother and Grandmother, Phyllis by JUDY & KEN ROSENTHAL
VITA FREEDMAN Wishing you a complete recovery by JUDY & KEN ROSENTHAL
YOUTH
RABBI ZUKER In Honor of the birth of your son, Daniel Simon by DAVE GOLDBERG
Yahrzeit Fund in memory of
BERNICE LEVINE BRESS (Mother) by Ellen Chmara
EDWARD EISENMAN (Husband) by Dorothy Eisenman
IRVING BERG (Brother) by Rosalyn Stein
MARSHA KEMP (Wife) by Alexander Kemp
Join us on Friday, October 30 - 8:00 PM
As we welcome
Gordon College & Professor Wilson
Services will be led by Rabbi Bernie Horowitz and Cantor Steve
Saturday, October 31
Shabbat Services at 9:30 AM
led by Rabbi Bernie Horowitz and Cantor Steve
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO OUR OCTOBER BIRTHDAYS!
Don’t see your OCTOBER birthday?
Make sure the office knows the date.
Marty Appelstein
Gordon Bowman
Sherry Brass
Stephen Brass
Edith Braverman
Joe Cherkas
Janet Cohen
Susan Comak
Selma Derman
Paula Dollin
Donald Finn
Henry Kaplan
Alex Kemp
Marty Krinsky
Simone Levine
Mark Lubarsky
Jeff Newton
Elyse Novak
David Ponn
Eric Richman
Steve Ring
Lisa Rivero
Richard Strauss
Paul Wacks
Richard Willens
Michael Zero
WHY SCHELP TO BROOKLINE?
VISIT THE SISTERHOOD JUDAICA SHOP
FOR ALL OF YOUR SHOPPING!
OCTOBER YAHRZEITS: WE REMEMBER THEM
Freida Ainbinder
Esther Alperson
Samuel Bacherman [gr-uncle of Suzanne Swartz]
Benjamin Bankler [father of Brenda Halper]
Lillian Bankler [mother of Brenda Halper]
Martin H. Bargad
Samuel Elliot Barr
Lillian Becker [mother of Frederick Becker]
Nat Berland [father of Renee Zimmerman]
Samuel Block [grandfather of Sharyn Solomon]
Jacob Bromberg [father of Edward Bromberg]
Louis Brownrout [father of Susan Salkovitz]
Irene Burday [mother of Irving Burday]
Abraham S. Cohen [father of David Cohen]
Hyman Cohen
Frederick Donald Cole [brother of William Cole & father
of Marcia Levine]
Edward Eisenman [husband of Dorothy Eisenman]
Celia Abramson Finn
George S. Freedman [father-in-law of Vita Freedman]
Jessie Freedman [mother-in-law of Vita Freedman]
Dorothy Frye
Sheldon Gesson
Nathan Glasser [father of Judy Jacobson]
Eli Gordon
Solomon Graff
Andrew S. Gross
Anne Hurwitz [grandmother of Stuart Spitzer]
Samuel Katcher [brother-in-law of Gladys Katcher]
Rachael L. Kerbel [mother-in-law of Milton Rapaport]
Martin Emanuel Kestenbaum
Louis Kliger [father of Estelle Dubin]
Harvey Robert Langee, MD [brother of Leona Kaplan]
Minnie Kobrin Levey
Joseph Levin
Eva Levine [mother of Laurence Levine & grandmother of
Todd Levine]
Bezalel Lifshitz
Bess Litner [mother-in-law of Sandra Litner]
Bernard Hyman Long [husband of Barbara Linda]
Shirley S. Lubarsky [mother of Mark Lubarsky]
Morris Lubow
David Mazonson [father-in-law of David Goldberg]
Isaac Mazur [father of Jason Mazur]
Kenneth Allen Miller [brother of Nannette Shible]
Isaac M. Naggar
Mary Newman
Freida Oppenheim [aunt of Arlene Titelbaum]
Mack G. Paul [father of Ronald Paul & Stanley Paul]
Pauline Pransky [mother of Alan Pransky]
Albert Robbins
Israel Rogosa [uncle of Martin Rogosa]
David Rosoff [father of Marlene Goodman]
Elias Ross
Minnie Sack [mother of Morris Sack]
Harriet Schechter
George Schulman [father of Irving Schulman]
Arnold Schultz [brother of Jeffrey Schultz]
Harry Segal
Karl Shain [father of Neal Shain]
Melvin Shapiro
Jennie Shible [mother of Maxwell Shible]
Beatrice Shneider
Asher Joel Shuffer
Rose B. Shuman
Bella Siegel [mother-in-law of Edward Goldberg]
Harry William Silverman
Louis Siskind
Joseph Spector
Ruth Spitzer [mother of Stuart Spitzer]
Sheila Jane Sprinsky
Leonard Stein [husband of Rosalyn Stein]
Sophie Stein [aunt of Marlene Goodman]
Annie Swartz [mother-in-law of Annabelle Swartz &
grandmother of Suzanne Swartz]
Marian Tanenholtz [aunt of Dorothy Eisenman]
Martin B. Taylor
Solomon Thurman
Phillip Toby [father-in-law of Sylvia Toby]
Benjamin Willens [father of Richard Willens]
Ina Winokur [mother-in-law of Ellen Winokur]
Helen Yodler [sister of Janet Cohen & Aunt of Jenn Peary]
Condolences to:
Selma Razin Derman
on the loss of her husband,
David Derman
Neal Kaufman
On the loss of his brother,
Fred Kaufman
Remember your
loved one
with a
Memorial Plaque
Space is limited
Contact Beth in the
office for details
We are still Collecting!
Save Cancelled Postage Stamps For
the Holocaust Stamps Project!
JF&CS Family Table
(Kosher Food Pantry)
IS IN NEED OF
Canned Vegetables
&
Tuna Fish
Students, staff, parent volunteers, and friends of Foxborough Regional Charter School have been saving, trimming, and counting
cancelled postage stamps since 2009 as part of a Community Service Learning initiative, the Holocaust Stamps Project.
Five years ago, an ambitious goal was set – to collect 11 million
stamps to visually illustrate the enormity of that number of children,
women, and men having been killed as a result of prejudice, racism,
and discrimination by the Nazi regime. Six million Jewish people
and five million others considered by Germany’s dictator to be
“enemies of the State” are being honored and memorialized by each
of the collected stamps.
Thousands of the stamps are being used, by small groups of talented
middle and high school FRCS students, to create a series of 18
unique collage pictures that reflect causes and effects of the Holocaust. Long-term plans are for a public venue to be found where the
entire collection of stamps can be permanently displayed in a custom designed acrylic sculpture, along with the whole collage series.
As of mid-November, more than 5,467,130 stamps had been counted, but there is a long way to go before the goal is reached.
Please drop off your donations
in the bin located
in the TNT Coat Room
Food Pantry Distribution
at Temple Sinai, Marblehead
on Sunday, October 18, 2015