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2021 E. 71st STREET
TULSA, OKLAHOMA 74136
Vol. 77 No. 7
www.JEWISHTULSA.org
Founded in 1930 by Tulsa Section, National Council of Jewish Women
PUBLISHED BY THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF TULSA
8 Elul 5766
Sept. 1, 2006
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A Sweet New Year
2 TULSA JEWISH REVIEW SEPT. 1, 2006
Campus-Crisis Response
on July 28
BY
DAVID BERNSTEIN
On page 5 of this issue of the Tulsa Jewish Review, there is a report on
the Friday afternoon, July 28, tragic shooting at the Seattle Jewish
Federation, which ended with one death and three seriously injured. It
highlights the story of Dayna Klein, a pregnant federation professional who
was seriously wounded and whose life was being threatened as she
became the hero of the day (Be sure to read the article in full).
Here in Tulsa that afternoon we immediately went to our pre-planned
emergency procedures since we did not know whether the shooting was
committed by a member of a terrorist organization or a lone individual
acting on his own. That afternoon we secured the Federation, JCC, and the
Miller Museum. We then also contacted the Retirement and Health Care
Center, as well as other off-campus Jewish institutions to fulfill our
responsibility to share information in any crisis situation.
All our professional staff, support staff, and camp counselors reported to
work on their next work day and should be thanked by all for their loyalty
and commitment.
We have since reviewed our Emergency Procedure Guide with all staff
and have continued police presence on the Zarrow Campus and its buildings, especially since we were then in the last weeks of Camp Shalom, and
now Heritage Academy has begun its school year. We have also shared
daily information via e-mails and conference calls with other federations
and the JCCA, including assistance from the SCN (Secure Community
Network), which is part of the Jewish community’s response to heightened
security concerns in the United States.
SCN maintains close working relationships with federal, state, and local
law enforcement agencies, intelligence, counter-terrorism units, and others who provide advice on security and safety matters.
Please call David Bernstein at 495-1100, if you have any questions or
suggestions regarding security-related issues.
Keep in Touch!
Help make it easier to get
timely information to you
by providing the Jewish
Federation of Tulsa
with your e-mail address.
E-mail Debbie Foo at
[email protected]
Support Our
Jewish
Community
Agencies
Community Blood Drive
IN COOPERATION WITH THE
TULSA AREA RED CROSS
Sunday, September 17
9 a.m. – 1 p.m.
at
Temple Israel
Sponsored by Temple Israel Brotherhood
GIVE THE “GIFT OF LIFE”
T H E H E B R E W M A R AT H O N
IS COMING!
JOIN US FOR A “RACE TO LEARN!”
The Tulsa Jewish community, led by the Jewish Federation of Tulsa,
Congregation B’nai Emunah, and Temple Israel, will once again be sponsoring a “Hebrew Marathon” this year.
The Hebrew Marathon, an internationally renowned program prepared by
Rabbi Noah Golinkin, was developed in order to provide adult learners with
the tools necessary to become Hebrew readers in just a few hours.
The Hebrew Marathon has become a frequent event in the Tulsa Jewish
community, and has been an inspirational success for many people.
The Hebrew Marathon will take place on Sunday, September 17,
from 12:30-6:00 p.m. at Congregation B’nai Emunah.
Registration for the program is $20 for affiliated members (Congregation
B’nai Emunah, Temple Israel, Congregation Beth Torah, Charles Schusterman Jewish Community Center) and $75 for unaffiliated, which includes
the cost of all program materials, textbooks, administration, refreshments,
as well as a special recognition award upon completion of the program.
The program will be led by Helen Winoker, education director of Congregation B’nai Emunah, a gentle, patient, and exceptionally skilled teacher.
Receipt of your payment for $20 or $75 will fully enroll you in the Hebrew
Marathon.
Please send your payment no later than September 11, to:
The Charles Schusterman Jewish Community Center,
Hebrew Marathon
Attention: Mindy Prescott
2021 East 71 Street, Tulsa, OK 74136
Questions? Call 495-1100
Social Service Partnership
The Jewish community of Tulsa is in partnership
with Family and Children’s Services of Tulsa to offer
a full range of social, counseling, and emergency services.
In case of need, please contact David Bernstein,
Rabbi Marc Boone Fitzerman, Rabbi Charles P. Sherman,
or Rabbi Yehuda Weg for information about this program.
Every inquiry will be held in the strictest confidence.
Generous financial help is available for this service.
This program is funded by the Jewish Federation of Tulsa
TULSA JEWISH REVIEW
The Newspaper of the Tulsa Jewish Community
THE TULSA JEWISH REVIEW (ISSN # 1521-5482) is published monthly
by the Jewish Federation of Tulsa, 2021 E. 71st St.,Tulsa, OK 74136.
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...in the Review
Hebrew Marathon Is Coming .........................................................p.2
What’s Nu?....................................................................................p.3
UJC launches Israel Emergency Campaign ....................................p.3
Touching: Rabbi Marc Boone Fitzerman.........................................p.3
Institute of Adult Jewish Studies: Fall 2006 Semester ..................p.4
CSJCC Pool Modernization Project 2006-2007 ...............................p.4
Hero of Seattle Shooting Remembers Incident ..............................p.5
Getting Personal: Rabbi Yehuda B. Weg ........................................p.5
Shaliach Report: Itai Lavi ..............................................................p.6
Heritage Academy News ...............................................................p.7
For What Shall We Pray: Rabbi Charles P. Sherman ......................p.7
What’s Happening at the JCC....................................................pp.8,9
Jewish GIs Mark High Holidays during Four Wars........................p.10
God Is in the Details: Your children are watching!.......................p.12
TU President Discusses Jewish-Related Activities on Campus .....p.13
Community Calendar ............................................................pp.14,15
ON THE COVER
Heritage Academy students (l-r): Eric Haake, Rachel Brodsky, and Taylor King
are shown getting ready for the High Holy Days by posing in front of “Jacob
Blessing the Sons of Joseph,” one of the three large stained glass windows in the
Sherwin Miller Museum of Jewish Art lobby. Eric is holding a 19th century ram’s
horn shofar from North Africa, dedicated by Mr. and Mrs. Jay Newman in honor of
the 1966 B’nai Emunah Confirmation Class; Rachel, a shofar from the museum’s
permanent collection; and Taylor a honeypot from the private collection of
Goldie Cash.
photo by Jeff Darby
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Brad Dunitz, president
JEWISH FEDERATION OF TULSA
CHARLES SCHUSTERMAN
JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER
David Bernstein, interim executive director
Jon Stolper, president
BBYO N.B.S. BBG CHAPTER # 243
Erika Silberg, president
NATIONAL COUNCIL
of JEWISH WOMEN
Denise Landgarten, president
B'NAI B'RITH, TULSA LODGE #798
Aaron Maissell, president
SHERWIN MILLER MUSEUM
OF JEWISH ART
Louis Davidson, president
B'NAI EMUNAH MEN'S CLUB
Dean Mandlebaum, president
TULSA HEBREW SCHOOL
David Charney, president
B'NAI EMUNAH SISTERHOOD
Carol Mandlebaum, president
TEMPLE ISRAEL BROTHERHOOD
Itzik Levin, president
CHABAD
Rabbi Yehuda B. Weg
Yohanan Zomer, M.D., president
TEMPLE ISRAEL
Rabbi Charles P. Sherman
Estelle Avery, president
CONGREGATION B'NAI EMUNAH
Rabbi Marc Boone Fitzerman
David Charney, president
HERITAGE ACADEMY
Sandi Tilkin, director
Richard Borg, president
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TEMPLE ISRAEL SISTERHOOD
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TULSA JEWISH RETIREMENT
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Andrew Wolov, president
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What’s Nu?
More than 500 English-speaking immigrants arrived in Israel on August 16, barely
four days after the cease fire in hostilities
with the terrorist group, Hezbullah. Prime
Minister Ehud Olmert was among dignitaries welcoming the 520 immigrants from
North America and Britain when they
landed at Ben-Gurion Airport. “There can
be no stronger show of trust in the state of
Israel than your decision to come to live
here,” Olmert said. “We are not an easy
county to live in; you don't know it yet, you'll
find out soon, but there is no other home
but this one.” The immigrants arrived under
the aegis of Nefesh B'Nefesh and the Jewish Agency for Israel. Many younger members of the group are expected to be
drafted for military service soon.
Jews in Norway have been advised to
keep a low profile for their own safety. The
Mosaic Religious Community, which represents Jewish interests in Norway, advised
the country’s approximately 2,000 Jews
against speaking Hebrew on the streets of
Oslo or wearing Jewish emblems. News
reports say the suggestions have infuriated
some Jews. “We can’t conceal that we’re
Jews,” Mona Levin, daughter of acclaimed
pianist Robert Levin, told the Oslo-based
paper Aftenposten. “That’s letting ourselves down.” Mosaic’s recommendations
come after a Jewish man wearing a kippah
was assaulted in Oslo. In recent years,
attacks on Jews in Europe have surged
when tensions have been high in the Middle East.
A New York Holocaust memorial added a
marker honoring Albanians who saved
Jews. The Holocaust Memorial Park in
Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn — which
includes granite markers honoring Holocaust victims and righteous gentiles such
as Raoul Wallenberg, residents of the
French village of Chambon-sur-Lignon, and
the citizens of Denmark — added a section
honoring citizens of Albania in April. Most of
Albania’s 2,000 Jews, along with escapees
from other nations, survived the Holocaust.
Travel journalist Jack Goldfarb, who has
visited Albania often, noticed several years
ago that the country was not mentioned in
the memorial and worked to gather material
to convince New York City bureaucrats to
add the Balkan nation. “In the New York
area, where the largest Albanian-American
community resides alongside the largest
Jewish community in the U.S.A., it’s imperative that Albania’s defiance of the nazis
and heroic rescue of all of its Jews be forever remembered,” Goldfarb said.
Germany will initiate a point system to
reduce the number of Jews it accepts from
the former Soviet Union. The most important
criteria are education and job experience,
with the goal of reducing pressure on existing Jewish communities to integrate the
newcomers. In the 16 years since German
unification, the Jewish population of Germany has more than quadrupled, reaching a
current official total of 120,000. According to
the new system, which reportedly received
the approval of the Central Council of Jews
in Germany, any Jew applying for citizenship
must have at least 50 of 105 possible points,
according to the news magazine Der
Spiegel. Exceptions will be made for survivors of nazi persecution.
A California philanthropist has donated
$25 million to the Technion-Israel Institute
of Technology in Haifa. The gift from Lorry
Lokey, founder and chairman of Business
Wire, will be used to create a new combined life sciences and engineering center.
The money came through the New Yorkbased American Technion Society, which
has raised more than $1.2 billion since its
inception in 1940. “I feel that Israel has in
the Technion an asset as valuable as MIT
and Cal Tech combined,” Lokey said. Technion Professor Aaron Ciechanover, who
won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2004,
will head the center.
U.S. museums still may contain many
nazi-plundered artworks, a new report
found. “The U.S. has traditionally been a
leader in Holocaust restitution,” Gideon
Taylor, executive vice president of the
Claims Conference, said at a news conference recently in New York, yet only 12 percent of artworks in U.S. museums possibly
stolen from Holocaust victims have been
fully researched and the results publicized,
according to the survey by the Claims Conference and the World Jewish Restitution
Organization. The 140,000 artworks in
question were created before 1946 and
UNITED JEWISH COMMUNITIES/
FEDERATIONS LAUNCH
NEW ISRAEL EMERGENCY
CAMPAIGN
purchased after 1932, and changed ownership between those dates. Several major
U.S. museums, including the J. Paul Getty
Museum in Los Angeles and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, did not
respond to the survey. Results of the survey and an analysis are available online at
www.claimscon.org.
HELP..... GIVE..... HOPE
Hewlett-Packard has agreed to purchase
an Israeli software maker for about $4.5
billion. The July purchase, which sent Mercury Interactive Corp. shares soaring, is
Hewlett-Packard’s biggest acquisition
since 2002.
Ezra Fleischer, a poet and scholar who
shed new light on the history of Jewish
prayer, died July 25 in Jerusalem. Fleischer, who taught at the Hebrew University
in Jerusalem, showed that modern Jewish
prayer developed after the destruction of
the Second Temple in 70 A.D. He helped to
study the Cairo Genizah, a medieval set of
documents found in the late 1800s. Born in
1928 in what is now Romania, he was
imprisoned for his Zionist activities after
World War II, where he wrote a poem,
“Massa Gog,” that won the Israel Prize in
1959. He immigrated to Israel in 1960.
Yad Vashem has uploaded about 11,650
archival lists to its Web site. The Shoah
Related Lists Database, indexed from
about one million pages of documentation,
includes records compiled by the Soviet
army and later stored in the Soviet Union.
The database also includes deportation
lists, lists prepared by Jews during the
Holocaust, registers compiled by survivors
at liberation, and records prepared by various municipalities under nazi rule, according to the Israeli Holocaust museum.
German Nobel Prize winner Gunther
Grass has admitted he had been a member of the Waffen SS at the end of World
War II. Grass told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper he never actually saw military action, but ended up
behind the Russian front on reconnaissance patrols, witnessing what he
described as gruesome scenes, and surviving by pure chance. The new autobiography by Grass, who wrote the novel “The
Tin Drum,” is due out this all.
A former New Jersey rabbi allegedly
spent more than $100,000 of temple funds
for personal use. Peter Light, 47, had been
a rabbi at Marlboro Jewish Center in Marlboro, N.J., for roughly two years before
resigning June 30, according to the Asbury
Park Press. During that time, he allegedly
used synagogue funds to relocate his mistress to the area and buy her things such
as a $5,000 ring. Light told synagogue
board members he was using the money
to help Hurricane Katrina refugees. A
police investigation is ongoing.
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The United Jewish Communities Board of Trustees has approved a new
Israel Emergency Campaign to raise a minimum of $300 million to help
Israel recover from the recent crisis. In the wake of the ceasefire, UJC is
now transitioning the campaign towards its next phase beyond addressing
critical needs: helping two million Israelis in the north recover and rebuild.
The initial response of the Israel Crisis Fund focused on helping the most
vulnerable in Israel’s north deal with the daily onslaught of missile
attacks. To date, the impact has been deep: Israel has suffered 156 dead
and 4,500 wounded from 4,000 rocket strikes; thousands of homes, buildings, and institutions have been damaged; 90,000 businesses have suffered economic losses. Initial estimates put the economic price tag at $2
billion in the north alone, alongside the estimated $1.5 billion in military
costs to date.
Just as we did in 1948, 1967, and 1973, the North American Jewish
community will stand shoulder to shoulder with our brothers and sisters
in Israel. “While we can’t all be with them along the border, we can support
them with our voices, with our hearts, and with our resources,“ said
Robert Goldberg of Cleveland, UJC’s chair of the Board of Trustees.
The campaign, which communities will aim to complete within a few short
months, will be built on the foundation of the Israel Crisis Fund, and has
raised in pledges more than $191 million to date. Over $41 million (no
overhead is being taken out) has been collected thus far and forwarded to
our overseas partners, the Jewish Agency for Israel and the American
Joint Distribution Committee.
“Whether generating annual campaigns or rallying behind Israel in times
of need, the Jewish community continues to be a light unto the nations,
fulfilling our most sacred mitzvoth of tzedakah and tikkun olam,” said Joel
Alperson of Omaha, national campaign chair.
Jon Stolper, president of the Jewish Federation of Tulsa, has announced
the appointment of John Clayman as chairman of the Tulsa Israel
Emergency Campaign Committee.
If you have not made a gift to this important campaign, please mail your
check to: Jewish Federation of Tulsa, 2021 E. 71st Street, 74136, marked
“Israel Emergency.” For more information, call Brina at 495-1100. Shown is some of the damage to neighborhoods in Haifa.
Photo by Nancy Kaufman, Boston
TOUCHING
potter and then a stonemason. This
RABBI MARC BOONE FITZERMAN God is blacksmith, glazier, embroiderer,
CONGREGATION B NAI EMUNAH
and then smith. In every instance, we
BY
he most
beautiful
High Holidays melody I
know is part of
the service for
Yom Kippur. As it
happens, it is not
“Kol Nidre.” The
daunting
part
about “Kol Nidre”
is that it is difficult to know the
intent
of
its
author. The version in our prayer
implies
Rabbi Marc Boone Fitzerman books
that we are asking for forgiveness in advance for vows that we may utter
in haste sometime soon. A second version looks
backward to vows violated already. Both versions
present different sets of problems, but the difficulties
stand as a barrier to understanding.
No such difficulties apply to “Ki Hinay,” a liturgical
poem chanted after “Kol Nidre.” From childhood
forward, I have loved its language and the easy cadences
of the melodies that have attached to it. Here is the God
I feel closest to, who holds us in hand with the skill of a
craftsman. The poet describes the God of Israel first as a
T
are the raw material, receiving the
imprint of God’s energy and skill, thinned and thickened
according to the will of the Maker. The poet is uneasy,
but ultimately confident. The craftsman can do precisely
as he wishes, but the result is usually an object of
beauty.
That thread of reassurance is always what moves me,
but it is also the notion of a God who touches, who
makes contact with us and the created world. Our
relationship with Him can be intimate, almost physical,
in ways that confound simple, rational understanding.
What does it mean to the poet of “Ki Hinay” that an
invisible, immaterial, awesome God somehow draws
close to us in unexpected ways? I do not know the life of
this poet, but I can feel the power and joy of his experience. The poet seems to know the sustaining power of
touch, of being held by another in supportive ways.
For the year ahead, I ask you to consider just this. We
are talkative people, living in a world of words, but
sometimes we need to put words aside, and enfold each
other in more elemental ways: a reassuring glance, an
extended hand, a caress that reflects God’s own love for
those whom He created. For most of us, that would be
blessing enough, to know God better through a caring
touch. It is the fundamental promise of “Ki Hinay” that
we are most like God when we move toward intimacy,
when we draw each other toward warmth and closeness.
May the year ahead bring blessings to each of us, with
peace for Israel in its own land, and security and joy for
all people everywhere. 4 TULSA JEWISH REVIEW SEPT. 1, 2006
FALL 2006
CSJCC Pool Modernization Project
2006-2007
INSTITUTE OF ADULT JEWISH STUDIES
Ten Consecutive Mondays – October 16 – December 18
BY LAUREN ZELIGSON, STACEY ROBINOWITZ, AND JEFFREY WEINSTEIN
Thanks to successful “Campus
Campaign for Excellence” programs
of the past few years, our Jewish
community of Tulsa now has a beautiful and multifaceted complex.
However, the pool – the first thing
you see when you drive onto the
Zarrow Campus – is a facility stuck
in the 1970s.
Plans are now underway to modernize the pool at the CSJCC to complement the new campus additions
and bring the pool area into the 21st
century.
Over the years, the CSJCC pool has
always been a vital part of the Tulsa
Jewish community. It had anchored
Camp Shalom even before the JCC
building was built, and it was a place
where you would find many parents
spending time with their children
and socializing with their friends, as
well as seniors relaxing or doing laps.
However, in recent years, other
than Camp Shalom usage, the pool
appears less than full on most summer days. The question we ask is,
“Why is the pool underutilized and
how can we make it the busy, vibrant
place the community wants it to be?”
Currently, many families are
joining other facilities that offer
amenities that our pool does not
offer, further accelerating the decline
in pool attendance.
We are part of a committee of twelve
which has envisioned a modernized
pool area for our community. The
existing area will be rebuilt to
include a snack bar offering items
such as pizza, yogurts, and smoothies; new dressing rooms with showers and lockers; additional shaded
areas; new fencing and landscaping;
a children’s play area; and enhancements/updates to the pool itself. The
area would also include ADA access
and be barrier free.
Our
objectives
are
simple:
increased use of the pool area,
increased membership to the CSJCC
facility, and increased benefit for the
entire Jewish community.
We envision a pool area that will be
a place where young families spend a
lengthy amount of time, where
adults can exercise and socialize
with their peers, and where members
of the retirement community can
enjoy interaction with younger generations.
If we create a more appealing pool
facility that competes with other
pools in the area, including those in
some of our own backyards, we will
attract more members and create an
atmosphere consistent with the mission of the CSJCC - bringing families
together.
With the approval of the Jewish
Federation of Tulsa and the CSJCC
Committee, we have embarked on a
fundraising effort to accomplish the
above outlined goals. The success of
our initial requests for funding from
our friends, families, and the many
visionary Jewish leaders in Tulsa has
encouraged us to give all community
members an opportunity to be part of
this venture.
Naming opportunities are still
available for this project. If you are
interested in contributing to this
project, please contact Jeffrey
Weinstein at 586-8169.
This enhancement will benefit the
entire Tulsa Jewish community.
Help us attain this goal.
A Healthy and Happy
New Year
Fred and Martha Strauss
and Family
GOOD
YOM TOV
The
B’nai B’rith
Tulsa
Lodge
HAPPY NEW YEAR
Harvey & Sandy Blumenthal
and Family
NEW YEAR
GREETINGS
Rosalee, Marcia
and Greta Minsky
Classes will be held at the Charles Schusterman
Jewish Community Center
Watch your mail for more information or call 495-1100,
Cosponsored by the Charles Schusterman Jewish Community Center,
Temple Israel, and Congregation B’nai Emunah
Course Offerings
*Indicates new class
HOUR 1: 7:15-8:05 p.m.
CLASS
INSTRUCTOR(S)
*Ezra
Rabbis Marc Boone Fitzerman
& Charles P. Sherman
Dr. Cathy Kass
Dr. Hank Knight & M. Shiela Mudd
and Nehemiah:
Rebuilders or Extremists
*Women in the Bible: Lessons for Today
*Public Responsibility and Religious Authenticity
Hebrew Blessings & Prayers for
Non-Hebrew Readers: Part 1
*“Write” from the Heart
Jackie Lasky
Richard Roby
Hebrew
Beginning Hebrew: Part I
Intermediate Hebrew: Part I
Alin Torianyk
Helen Winoker
HOUR 2: 8:20-9:10 p.m.
INSTRUCTOR(S)
CLASS
Introduction to Judaism: Part I
Rabbis Charles P. Sherman
& Marc Boone Fitzerman
Rabbi Yehuda Weg
*You
*The
be the Judge – Talmud
Return to Zion and Formation
of Medinat Israel
*The First Kings of the Jewish People
*American Jewish History: Part I
*Jewish Literature
*Israeli Dance: A Jewish Perspective
Itai Lavi
Miki Zohar
Nancy Sherman
Dr. David Goldstein
Aya Rikin
Hebrew
Intermediate Hebrew: Part II
Helen Winoker
SUNSHINE SESSIONS
TUESDAYS AT ZARROW MANOR BEGINNING IN SEPTEMBER
WHERE:
WHEN:
REGISTRATION:
COST:
Zarrow Manor – Rainbow Room – 1st Floor
Tuesdays, 11 a.m. - noon
Call Mindy Prescott at 495-1100
NONE
Instructor:
Dr. Cathy Kass – Temple Israel “Insights From Our Matriarchs”
Tuesday, Sept. 4, Tuesday, Sept. 11, Tuesday, Sept. 18, Tuesday, Sept. 25
On Shabbat, we pray that our young girls “will grow up to be like Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel;
and Leah.” What can we learn from our Matriarchs? Join us for this bright “sunshine” course
as we explore these important women in the Torah and the relevant lessons for today.
MONTH
October 2006
INSTRUCTOR
Itai Lavi
The Institute of Adult Jewish Studies Is Funded by the Jewish Federation of Tulsa
L’Shana Tovah
Best Wishes
Martyl Adelman
Faye & Marvin
Robinowitz
Scott & Stacey
Robinowitz
Happy
N e w Ye a r
John and Leah Clayman
Stephen, Jacob & David
L shanah
Tovah
Curtis and Joan Green
and Family
Ava and Jake
Richard & Elise
Robinowitz
Sarah, Lauren & Jackson
Happy Holidays
Tracey, Scott,
Paige & Zach
Rudd
wishes all
our friends
a happy, healthy
New Year
PREGNANT HERO IN SPOTLIGHT AFTER
ACTIONS DURING SEATTLE SHOOTING
BY TALIA S. COUTIN
NEW YORK, (JTA) — It was only a
phone call, but it changed everything.
Dayna Klein’s act of defiance halted
the shooting spree at the Jewish Federation in Seattle on July 28 and
made her a heroine. Now Klein, six
months pregnant, is sharing her
story, urging all employers to take
workplace security seriously, speaking up for gun control, and speaking
out in the media against the kind of
prejudice that may have led to the
catastrophe.
Even with her left arm in a brace,
her Israeli husband, Erez, at her side
in an interview with JTA, she reports
that she is able to slide her wedding
band on and off can squeeze toothpaste onto the toothbrush. She still
needs to see nerve specialists, and
her arm, which she flung out to protect her stomach to catch the
whizzing bullet, may never fully
function again.
“There’s no road map on what to do
when you get shot as a pregnant person,” she said half-jokingly.
Throughout the interview, she
retains her composure, but her eyes
glisten when she talks about Pam
Waechter, her colleague who was
killed in the attack.
Klein, a native of Long Island, N.Y.,
grew up in a secular Jewish household. When faced with the choice of
attending Hebrew school or playing
soccer, she chose the latter, and
became a Bat Mitzvah only two
months ago, as a 37-year-old.
The speech that “I gave as part of
my Bat Mitzvah was about all the
wonderful things I learned really as a
kid playing soccer, about the commitment and being on a team,”
reflected Klein, a brown-haired
woman who smiles easily, even
under the strain of the tragedy.
Klein delved into the communal
and religious aspects of Judaism
when she moved to Seattle with her
now-husband, whose family lives in
HOLIDAY GREETINGS
TO THE
JEWISH COMMUNITY
Jaclyn and Eugene Loftis
and Family
Happy New Year
from
Estelle and Norman Fabes
Haifa, two and a half years ago after
leaving Bakersfield, Calif., she said.
In January 2004, on her father’s
yahrzeit, a colleague at the federation
convinced Klein to attend the adult
b’nai mitzvah class at Kol Ha
Neshamah, a progressive Reform
synagogue in Seattle — which
became the first synagogue she and
her husband ever joined.
“The opportunity to have worked at
the federation really has expanded
my scope and interest in being a part
of Jewish community life,” she said.
At the federation, where she
worked as the director of major gifts,
Klein initiated projects to send
impoverished youths in Israel to
summer camp — and for Russian
children to travel to Israel to explore
their religious heritage.
As a side project, she worked
closely with the Reform and Conservative movements in Europe “to help
them become less marginalized,” she
said, including raising money to
send an Italian student aspiring to
enter the rabbinate to the Leo Baeck
College in London.
On the day of the shooting, Klein
was in her office sending thank you
notes to donors and making calls,
wishing people a peaceful Shabbat.
She then heard noises that
sounded like bubble wrap popping,
she said, and then screams. Then
she was shot in the arm.
The gunman then warned that anyone caught seeking help from the
outside would be killed immediately.
But Klein, 17 weeks pregnant and
wounded, crawled to her desk,
picked up the phone and dialed 911.
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OF SEATTLE SHOOTING,
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HAPPY
NEW YEAR
From the
Levinson Family
L’Shanah
Tovah
Isabel Sanditen
Leo & Linda Werner
Jesse & Ethan
Judy Sanditen & Jacob
Janie & Arnold Kolman
Austin Corley
Jacob Kolman
Mike Sanditen
Happy New Year
Sheldon & Molly Berger
Michael and Sarah
Best Wishes for a year of
health and happiness
from
Adeline Wohlgemuth
Getting Personal
BY
RABBI YEHUDA B. WEG
CHABAD
It was a wonderful party… after all,
they were celebrating a loving and
successful marriage of 60 years.
Finally, someone spoke up and asked,
“So, what is the secret of your success? How have you maintained such
a wonderful relationship all these
years and avoided the strife that can
put such stress on a marriage?”
A hush settled over the assembled to
hear the ‘groom’ respond.
“Early on we decided that we would
each stick to our respective roles. I
would decide all the ‘big’ questions,
and my beloved would decide on all
the ‘little’ issues…. My wife decided
where we would live, what jobs we
would take, where the kids would go
to school, and the like. Ya’ know, all
the little stuff.”
Rabbi Yehuda B. Weg
“So if those are the ‘little’ questions,
what, pray tell, are the ‘big’ ones?” asked the neighbor.
“Oh, all the major issues…. I decide if the U.S. should invade Iraq,
if we should accept a U.N. ceasefire, how to stimulate the world economy….
Ya’ know, all the ‘big’ stuff.”
o be quite frank, I have tried it already, and considering its limited
success, I wonder if perhaps we should reconsider. I refer to the
popular habit of individual prognosticators opining on how to settle
all the world’s big problems. I think we should refocus on a scale at which
we can actually be most effective.
I may not be able to dictate the foreign policy of another country, but I can
dictate what kind of a person I am going to be. I may not be able to impose
environmental policy for Planet Earth, but I can ensure a loving environment in my home. I may not be able to determine whether Country A should
go to war with Country B, but I can determine whether to “go to war” with
my neighbors and friends. I have many decisions to make. And to boot, I can
implement them, too.
Don’t misunderstand me. I do not believe in, nor am I advocating isolationism. I am just reminding myself about how Judaism says we should go
about making a difference. There is much in the broader world that each of
us needs to be concerned about, and even much that we can do about it.
But let’s not lose perspective. The way to make it work is by improving
ourselves, and as a result we will in fact have an effect on the world.
The entire ‘big’ world is made up of individuals. What I do at home has an
effect not only on myself, but also on those around me, and eventually
beyond. What you do ‘here’ has a ripple effect ‘there.’
Let’s get specific. It’s called a mitzvah. Choose one. There is a considerable
list of them, but may I suggest Tefillin or Shabbat candles. If you prefer,
choose a different one. These are things you can do, and no one can stop
you. It’s your decision to make, and a good one at that. A mitzvah is its own
reward, and inherently valuable. And that is reason enough to do a mitzvah,
especially on the cusp of a New Year. However, being aware of the broader
effects of a mitzvah can only motivate us further. So, what can you do for a
personal upgrade? A mitzvah. And what is it that you can do for world
peace? Get personal.
Etel and our children join me in wishing you, and yours, and Klal Yisrael
— a Shana Tova! T
Happy New Year
Happy Holidays
Tillie and Robert Spear
Lawrence & Jennifer
Schreier
Leah Friedman
and Family
GOOD YOM TOV
We Wish
The Entire
Jewish
Community
a Healthy
and
Happy
New Year
Belsky
& Waits
Family
5
Happy
New Year
Leona Glazer
& Family
Morris Glazer
& Family
HOLIDAY
BLESSINGS
Charlotte Schuman
and Family
HAPPY NEW YEAR
Happy New Year
Flora, Elaine,
and Edie Solow
D ean and C arol
Mandl ebaum
HOLIDAY
GREETINGS
Happy
New Year
to all our Friends
Joy & Julius
Nancy & Andy Wolov
Mark & Julia
Bankoff
and Family
Shaliach Report
BY ITAI LAVI
COMMUNITY SHALIACH
JEWISH FEDERATION OF TULSA
ear friends, Camp Shalom is
over, and school has begin.
The Center is quiet and
empty, and the rooms are prepared
for Heritage Academy to begin.
Camp was so great. I wish you
could all have come and visit. So
much energy, happiness, activities…
more than 400 participants; great
counselors, great camp staff [Martha
and Allen]. Miki, my wife, worked
with the CITs all summer, leading a
young leadership seminar all summer, supporting them, helping them
solving problems, and with their
jobs. I know that everyone involved
was satisfied with that project.
D
My opinion: We won
the war! ‘We’ meaning
Israel, the Jewish state!
We, because we showed
ourselves and the world
that we have morals!
I want to take this opportunity to
thank our Israeli counselors, Tali
and Ongy! They were with us almost
three months, worked very hard, had
and created lots of fun for the kids at
camp, made some great friends, and
were very appreciated by us all.
On Tali and Ongy’s behalf, I want to
thank the Jewish community of
Tulsa, the JFT staff, and camp staff,
for caring, supporting, helping, and
all the love and warmth they received;
most of all during the days of war in
Israel, when we were all concerned
and worried about our home.
A Healthy
& Happy New Year
Lillian & Irv Eisen
Barry & Barbara Eisen
Eric & Craig
Nancy Eisen
L Shana Tovah
Betsy & Joel Zeligson
Last and most, Tali, Ongy, and I
want to thank the hosts for
their great hospitality, care, support,
and being home away from home,
including the Snitz, Torianyk, Lasky,
Lowen, Shohat, Kaiser, Mandlebaum,
Schusterman-Dow, Singer, Eglash,
Stafford, Finer, and Sotkin families!
Thank you all so much [and we will
count on you for next year…]
War in Israel
Today, as I am writing this, first of
all, the good news: the northern border of Israel is quiet, no rockets, no
artillery fire, no combat, no casualties.
Now the bad news. A short summary: Thirty-four days of fighting in
Lebanon and northern Israel [not
counting Gaza], 156 people killed in
Israel (117 soldiers and 39 civilians).
More than 1,000 Lebanese killed.
Over 4,000 rockets landing in the
north of Israel, a half-million people
leaving their houses in Israel, a halfmillion refuges in Lebanon. at least
$2 billion in damage to Israel, and
much more in Lebanon.
Many people are asking, talking
[too much and too many ‘experts’],
trying to decide who won this war.
This, to me, is like two children discussing whose daddy is stronger, or
who won a kids’ fight!
War is bad. People are asking in
Israel and here: Did Israel achieve
what it wanted to? Some of it? Sure.
All of it? Not so sure. Sure enough, at
war, there are rarely any winners.
Everyone loses in a war; that’s my
opinion. I hope and pray for the
return of the prisoners. I hope that
Happy New Year
to Family and Friends
Marjorie Lubin
HOLIDAY
GREETINGS
Scott & Lauren Zeligson
Miles
Jill Zeligson
Holiday
GREETINGS
Barry and Karen Davis
and Family
the Lebanese army will control the
northern border with no “help” from
Hezbollah. I hope and pray for peace
between
Israel
and
Lebanon,
because I really see no reason for
conflict between these states.
I’m afraid that now we will hear a
lot of people in Israel criticizing the
Israeli government and its decisions,
because that’s the kind of democracy
we are. Personally, I’m not very
happy with it, but I expect it every
day now.
My opinion: We won the war! “We”
meaning Israel, the Jewish state! We,
because we showed ourselves and
the world that we have morals! We do
not hide behind civilians to kill civilians! We regret killing civilians! We
could have wiped out and erased villages and towns in south Lebanon,
but we did not, because we are
human beings!
Our soldiers are ready to risk their
lives, to get killed, only to rescue their
wounded comrades in battle, and
some of them got killed in action trying to do it! Our enemy is willing to
get killed while killing women, children, Jewish people, Arabs, anyone
who lives in Israel! So yes — this is
winning for me!
I would like to recommend an interview available on the Internet with
an Arab psychiatrist. This interview
contains strong and hard words by a
Muslim scholar. I can add that personally I disagree with some of her
statements. Still I find it interesting
to read and argue with. But if you
wish to read it, contact me.
L’shanah Tovah
to all our friends
Phyllis & David Fist
& Oscar
Rebecca & Jim Bednar
Noah & Jonah
Eileen, Don
Himelfarb
Evan and Debi
Himelfarb
Allison, Alan
& Jonah Satyr
Henry Zarrow
Tom & Judy Kishner
Julie & Adam Cohen
Will & Theo
Jay & Dana Wohlgemuth
Jack, Charlie & Henry
Hillary Kishner
Jude & Jeanna Kishner
Cynthia, Brandon & Jacob
Wishing all
our friends a
Happy Holiday
Nancy & Harvey Cohen
Bryan, Jordan,
and Kenny
L ’ S h a n a
T o v a
Our best wishes to all for a happy and healthy New Year
Stuart & Carol Zarrow
Lisa Zarrow
Mark & Sarah Zarrow
Ted Zarrow & Carrie Bertrand
Coming Soon to Tulsa
Professor Moshe Maoz, from
Jerusalem University, will be in
Tulsa on Monday, Sept. 12. Prof.
Maoz is an expert of Islam, Middle
East, Syria, and Iran, and will talk
about “The Shi’a Party in the Muslim
World — Myth and Reality,” current
events, and the situation in the Middle East. We will send a mailing to
the community with specific details.
On Sept. 11 – 20, we are hosting
“The East Wind Duo”- two brilliant
musicians, members of the Israeli
Philharmonic Orchestra. They will
perform in OKC, Tulsa, and more.
“Word Explosion”
You will find information on the
In August I attended a Christian CSJCC and JFT Web sites.
event at the Mabee Center, which
Wish you all a Shana Tovah —
was the final event of a week called peace and happiness.
f r o m
Todd, Kelley
Oskar,
and
Otto Singer
Word Explosion. There were about
5,000 people who came to listen to
Dr. John Hagee. I will not go through
all the details, but a few. The support
for Israel was enormous by Hagee
and other speakers. They sang
Hatikvah and had Israeli dancing
and music. On July 17-18, they had
a congress in Washington D.C.
[Christians United for Israel] with
more than 2,000 participants, and
visited with every senator and
congressman to ask him or her to
support Israel.
They are planning “A night to
support Israel” in every city in the
U.S.A., including Tulsa, of course. I
met personally with Dr. Hagee at the
end of the event and thanked him for
all his support. Yes, not all Israelis or
American Jews are happy with this
support and question its motives,
but officially, there is a lot of respect
and gratitude from Israel for Dr.
Hagee and his actions.
Wishing All
a Happy
and Healthy
New Year
Jon, Linda,
Kasey & Jay
Kantor
L’Shanah Tovah
Phyllis & Stephen Zeligson
Jack & Maxine Zarrow
Wendy & Robert Adler
Nikki, Jason & Katie
Kip & Gail Richards
Rebecca
Eric
Brad & Lauren Zeligson
Brittany, Emma & Jack
Andrew & Jennifer Zeligson
Kevin & Brett
Kathy Zarrow
Scott & Hilary Zarrow
Alison
Rachel
Happy
New Year
Mrs. Leonard Seigel
and Family
HERITAGE ACADEMY NEWS
Welcome to New School Year!
The Heritage PTO sponsored a successful Back-to-School pool party on
Sunday, August 6, to kick off the 200607 school year. The staff, parents, and
students had an opportunity to get to
know each other and share a delicious
barbecue chicken supper at the CSJCC
pool area. This traditional celebration
allowed new teachers to become more
familiar with our Heritage families.
Prospective families were also in attendance.
Teachers also attended a team-building session at the Southern Hills Marriott
Hotel. A qualified counselor/teambuilding expert led the staff through a series
of activities, which helped to build k’hela,
or community, in which its members
gained trust and built relationships.
Teachers will be modeling many of these
techniques with their students as we
begin the school year. Students will be
encouraged to consider their classrooms
a community in which everyone gains
trust, feels secure and is willing to take
risks. Building classroom communities
will foster a solid school community,
which flows from the Heritage vision of
tikkun olam, repairing and caring for the
world.
The afternoon session concentrated
on familiarizing new teachers and staff
members with Jewish holidays and celebrations conducted by Cantor Kari
Siegel-Eglash. Everyone felt the presentation was very informative and set the
tone for exemplary Hebrew/Judaica
Wishing You
a Good, Sweet
Year
from
The Fell Family
experiences which we will be taught to
our students. They will have many
opportunities to demonstrate their
knowledge through Tefillah, Kabbalat
Shabbat, Havdalah services, and a
host of other meaningful celebrations
throughout the year. Classroom teachers will support what students are learning in their Hebrew/Judaica studies.
As the teachers reported on August 9,
they worked diligently to prepare their
classrooms and plan lessons for the
opening of school. Time was also spent
during teacher work week touring the
Sherwin Miller Museum to have them
become familiar with the opportunities
for instruction. They also received CPR
training by Pat Snitz.
A Back to School night for parents took
place on Thursday, August 22, with delicious refreshments by Alin Torianyk.
Parents had the opportunity to hear from
their child’s teacher about curriculum
and expectations for the school year.
Sandi Tilkin, Heritage director, says
there is a sense of excitement among
the staff whose positive energy will contribute to an exciting year for all of our
students.
You are invited to attend weekly
Shabbat services, which are held on
Friday afternoon at 3 p.m. Other programs and celebrations will be
announced throughout the year. Monthly
school newsletters can be mailed to you
upon request. Call us at 494-0953 for
more information
Holiday Greetings
Janet & Mort Cohen
The Kaye Family
Harley & Melissa Cohen
Carson
La Shana
To v a
Mindy, Harris, Rachel,
Alex, and Ari Prescott
Wishing all a
happy and
healthy new year
Jean and Will Sanditen
Jolene Sanditen-Stephens
and Jim Stephens
Brad and Leslie
Harold Sanditen
Happy
New Year
Phyllis Zeligson
Debbie and Danny
Zeligson
Kate
Karen Zeligson
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For What Shall We Pray?
BY RABBI CHARLES P. SHERMAN, D.D.
TEMPLE ISRAEL
abbi
Arnold
Turetsky
observed: “A man I know and
admired died this summer –
suddenly, but not unexpectedly. He
had an episode of this illness 13 years
ago, recovered, suffered another nearly fatal attack five years ago, and wondrously recovered. He was dressing
for work one morning in July when he
collapsed and did not recover.
“Talking with his family I learned
something that should not have surprised me. The last 13 years of his
life were the happiest, especially the
last five years – which were savored
day by day, with never a complaint.
Appreciation, gratefulness – the
steady awareness of a precious gift
renewed. The delicious taste of a day
of life lived fully... Life as a plus.”
Many of us have been fearful for
our lives or for that of someone we
love – not just concerned, but terrified. The moment, hours, days of
concentrated fear, the encounter
with mortality – too soon.
“Reprieve,” Rabbi Turetsky observes,
“comes with a residue. Better, but
not fully well. Improved, but not
truly recovered. Treated, but not
actually cured. The bittersweet
residue reminds that life will not be
the same. Therefore, it has never
been so precious – each day, another
week. The blessing of a new year
brings deep, deep gratitude. Wasted
life becomes a sin. Don’t waste a
drop. No room, therefore, for anger,
selfishness, greed, stinginess, impatience, nastiness, spite, jealousy,
regret. That is called perspective. ‘Oh
God – just to be alive.’ Must we
suffer loss, a handicap to find this
perspective?”
In 1931 the French composer
Maurice Ravel wrote two piano concertos. The first was conventional,
the second was written for one hand.
An important pianist had suffered a
calamity – the loss of his right hand.
In an act of genius and affection,
Ravel composed the “Piano Concerto
for the Left Hand and Orchestra.”
Ravel’s work was not an artistic compromise or an emotional impulse.
R
Holiday
Greetings
Malcolm & Paula
Milsten
and Family
Rabbi Charles P. Sherman
The composition became a standard
of style and disciplined beauty, a
response of excitement and awe –
the power of a person to rescue
beauty from tragedy, to rise above, to
transform weakness into strength. Is
there a greater art in the human
experience?
This month we pray for a new year.
Seriously and humbly we ask for
good things – life continuing with all
the blessings we have now, plus
those we have not yet received.
(Might as well ask.) Yet we know
from previous years and from other
people’s experience that we shall be
lucky to keep what favors we have
and be able to enjoy them. The
losses around us in the last year
have made more of an impression
than the gains. Good things bring
uplift for a few hours; bad things
have a way of remaining inside.
So let our prayer be for perspective,
the maturity and wisdom to turn
weakness into strength. That is
within our power. If loss and handicap help, mortality is always around
as a reminder. Do not waste your
life. The past has passed. Life is a
plus when you look and live forward.
For all of us and those we love, may
the new year bring continuing life
and the blessings of a grateful spirit.
We yearn for shnat chayim v’shalom
– a year of life and peace.
Kayn y’hi ratzon – with God’s help,
may we make it so. Best Wishes
Susan Fenster
and Family
JCRS Scholarships Increase
t o J e w i s h Yo u t h i n 2 0 0 6
With the first half of 2006 over, the
Jewish Children’s Regional Service
has already experienced a 55 percent
increase in the number of youth it
typically funds in an entire year:
rising from 450 to over 700.
The 150-year-old regional agency,
based in Greater New Orleans,
serves lower-income Jewish families
in seven states of the mid-south
including:
Alabama,
Arkansas,
Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma,
Tennessee, and Texas, four of which
border the Gulf Coast and battered
by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita last
year.
The JCRS also continues to provide
special subsidies for the care, treatment, and education of the most
dependent and handicapped Jewish
youth in seven states of the South.
This program for families who can
document financial need is the only
one of its kind offered by a Jewish
agency in the United States.
Currently, fifty such youth have
received 2006 subsidies in what is
called the “special needs” program.
By July 1, 2006, the JCRS had
already approved funding for 138
such Jewish undergraduate college
students and had provided “gift
cards” for 27 Jewish youth whose
families had shown need. Many, but
not all, gift card recipients are also
hurricane victims.
While the camp scholarship awards
for 2006 are now complete, the JCRS
will continue to accept applications
for all other programs and will continue to fund qualified youth until
the budgets are exhausted.
The best way to contact the JCRS
to become a client or a needed supporter, is to e-mail the agency with a
specific request to jcrs_south@
yahoo.com, call 1-800-729-5277, or
write JCRS, Post Office Box 7368,
Metairie, LA, 70010-7368.
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September 21 – “Paradise Now”
October 19 –“The Legend of Paul and Paula”
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You are cordially invited to the
TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL
INTERFAITH AWARDS LUNCHEON
Friday, September 8, 2006, 11:30 a.m.
Mt. Zion Baptist Church
419 North Elgin Avenue
Honoring
MARTIN H. BELSKY
DR. SANDRA K. RANA
DR. WILLIAM TABBERNEE
For outstanding contributions
to interfaith understanding
Sponsors
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Of machzors and munitions:
Jewish GIs mark High Holidays during four wars
BY JANE ULMAN
ENCINO, Calif., (JTA) — “Who shall live and who
shall die. Who shall reach the end of his days and
who shall not.”
Ralph Goodman recited those words in a hillside
tent in southeastern Belgium. Warren Zundell’s
shul was a patch of no man’s land somewhere in
North Korea. For Robert Cirkus, it was a jungle
clearing in the bug-infested Central Highlands of
Vietnam. And for Lee Mish, it was Saddam
Hussein’s former palace.
The four men have never met, but they share an
uncommon bond. They represent four generations
of Jewish servicemen for whom the High Holidays
— and their signature “Unetanah Tokef” prayer —
took on new meaning.
For all Jews, the words of the emotionally
charged “Unetanah Tokef” — the liturgical poem
that is recited on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur
which describes the consequences and challenges
of the day of Judgment — are a powerful reminder
of mortality. All the more so for Jews serving their
country in wartime — such as Goodman, Zundell,
Cirkus, and Mish — where every day is Judgment
Day and where prayer, righteousness, and repentance can’t always avert a decree of death.
Here are the stories of these American servicemen who observed the High Holidays not in conventional synagogues, but on far-flung battlefields. The worship services they participated in
were often improvised and incomplete. But the
jarring juxtaposition of war and prayer, faith and
fear, continues to resonate with these men.
nothing except a few prayer books. But Goodman’s commanding officer, Harry Goslee, was
more accommodating. He ordered a large blackout
hospital tent set up on a hillside, with chairs and a
portable electric generator.
For all Jews, the words of the
“Unetanah Tokef” — the liturgical
poem recited on Rosh Hashanah and
Yom Kippur that describes the
consequences and challenges of the
day of Judgment — are a powerful
reminder of mortality.
All the more so for Jews serving their
country in wartime, where every day
is Judgment Day and where prayer,
righteousness, and repentance can’t
always avert a decree of death.
On Yom Kippur, Sept. 27, 1944, about 25 soldiers and airmen congregated in that tent. Two
Orthodox laymen acted as cantor and rabbi.
Goodman sat by the tent flap opening, his gun
on his lap. He was juggling several different prayer
books, trying to find the correct pages for
“Unetanah Tokef.” He finally located the prayer
and recited the words. But what he really was saying that day was, “Please, God, bring my buddies
A Tent on the Side of a Hill
Fays, Belgium, September 1944
“Colonel, the Jewish community
wants to observe Yom Kippur. What
can you do to help us?”
Ralph Goodman, attached to the
1st U.S. Army’s Headquarters Commandant in Belgium, was unable to
celebrate Rosh Hashanah because
his unit was traveling. But Yom
Kippur was fast approaching, and the
24-year-old enlistee from Pittsfield,
Mass., was determined that the Jewish servicemen, now encamped at
a temporary base near Verviers,
Belgium, be given a place to pray. He
had already approached the 1st
Army’s chief chaplain, who offered
Good
Yo m To v
from
H e r i t a g e
A c a d e m y
Happy New Year
Sylvia and Irv Braverman
and me home.”
Suddenly he felt a tap on his shoulder. He looked
up to see a chaplain he didn’t recognize, a freshfaced, sandy-haired man about 30, who asked
permission to address the troops. “How lovely are
your tents, Oh Jacob,” he began, intoning the
words to a prayer Jews say each morning. He
talked about five minutes, thanking the men for
allowing him to speak and commending them for
assembling a service.
Goodman thinks about that service often, proud
that he and his buddies were able to make it happen. He wishes he could share another Yom Kippur with them. But 62 years later, he still regrets
that he never asked the name of that fresh-faced
Christian chaplain who reached out to a group of
Jews on the holiest day of their year.
“God bless that man,” he said.
An All-Jewish Convoy
North Korea, October 1951
Warren Zundell, an orthopedic surgeon with the
11th Evacuation Hospital in Wonju, South Korea,
wasn’t eager to attend Rosh Hashanah services. It
meant traveling 40 miles on an unpaved, mountainous road to 10th Army Corps headquarters,
over the border into North Korea. Zundell, 27, had
a baby daughter back in Fall River, Mass., whom
he had never seen, and he didn’t want to risk
encountering snipers or land mines. But Zundell
was the unit’s only Jewish officer, and the Catholic
chaplain on his base was insistent that Zundell
escort the convoy. “There are about 30 Jewish
boys around here who want to go,” said the priest,
who planned to remain in Wonju at
the hospital.
On Rosh Hashanah eve, Sept. 30,
1951, in the priest’s jeep with a white
cross painted on the hood, Zundell led
the way. A few truckloads of Jewish
soldiers, all heavily armed, followed.
Perhaps the only all-Jewish convoy
ever to travel into North Korea, they
arrived safely several hours later at the
camp, a war-scarred patch of ground
that sported some tents and housed
perhaps a few hundred soldiers.
The next morning, a rabbi conducted services in a large tent, with
about 300 soldiers, many who had
traveled there from other units, sitting
on the ground or on boxes. There was
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no ark, no Torah and no prayer books, except for
the rabbi’s. “I just sat there and listened,” Zundell
recalled. “I didn’t think about where I was.”
After services, he traveled back
to Wonju with the same soldiers.
Even less enthusiastic about
observing Yom Kippur, Zundell
was again induced to return to
the prayer site. On Yom Kippur
day, the convoy again traveled
above the 38th parallel, the dividing line between North and South
Korea. The scene was identical to
what Zundell remembered from
Rosh Hashanah, except, instead
of 300 soldiers in the tent, there
were now 150.
“Where are the other boys?”
Zundell asked the servicemen sitting near him. “Heavy casualties
during the week,” one of them replied.
Zundell doesn’t remember his exact reaction; he
remembers the service was pretty sad. Afterward,
they loaded up the trucks and headed home.
Since then, every Rosh Hashanah, the Coral
Gables, Fla., resident sits in temple and remembers Korea. “It never leaves my mind,” he said. “I
think about those boys who didn’t make it back
for Yom Kippur.”
tuna fish, bread, wine, and kosher rations. “We
sat, we chit-chatted, and we went our separate
ways,” he said. “But we knew we were all Jews.”
Until 10 years ago, Cirkus was
too traumatized to discuss his
Vietnam experience at all. Even
now, he can’t talk about all of it.
But he’s able to look back on
that Rosh Hashanah in the
Central Highlands, where, for a
short time, five Jews who didn’t
know each other sat around
together with a rabbi praying.
“I don’t want to say it like it’s
jerky, but you felt like you were
being watched by God,” he said.
... every Rosh
Hashanah, [Zundell]
sits in temple and
remembers Korea.
“It never leaves my
mind. I think about
those boys who didn’t
make it back
for Yom Kippur.”
A Jungle Clearing
Central Highlands, Vietnam, September 1966
While stationed in Vietnam with the 25th
infantry, Robert Cirkus often didn’t know what day
it was. But somehow the 21-year-old draftee from
Passaic, N.J., knew the High Holidays were coming. And he knew he wanted to attend services. A
rabbi was dispatched to the forward base camp in
the Central Highlands where Cirkus was working
as a weapons repairman. Around noon on Rosh
Hashanah, Sept. 15, 1966, Cirkus, three infantrymen and a medic, all strangers to one another,
gathered together in a cleared-out
jungle area.
The rabbi set up a small ark on a
bench in the back of his open Jeep.
Inside was a traveling Torah. Cirkus
and the others sat on the ground in
the hot sun, the air muggy and buginfested. He wore a tallit over his uniform, holding his submachine gun
and his prayer book on his lap.
Cirkus, who now lives in Clifton, N.J.,
remembers that the service was truncated and that he and the others were
not really at ease. They were praying,
but they were also alert to every
sound, especially gunshots off in the
jungle. He knows he wasn’t thinking
about life and death. Or about Judgment Day. He didn’t want to think
about what was really going on. Afterward, the rabbi handed out cans of
Saddam’s Palace
Tikrit, Iraq, Sept. 2004
September 2004 was a tense
time in Tikrit, Iraq, where special agent Lee Mish
was stationed. Roads were impassable, bridges were
blown up, and food and water were rationed. Plus,
with flights grounded, the rabbi assigned to Tikrit
couldn’t leave Baghdad. Despite these obstacles,
Rosh Hashanah eve services were held on September 15. And Mish, 27, a Conservative Jew from
Sharon, Mass., who enlisted in the army nine years
ago, walked to Saddam Hussein’s former
palace, now under control of the U.S. military.
There, in a large room with marble floors
and ceilings and a gold chandelier, a room
once used by Saddam’s servants, Mish
encountered three other Jews. They included
a captain who served as the Jewish lay
leader, a sergeant and a civilian contractor.
Wearing kippot, the uniformed men sat
around a card table on folding chairs, their
guns by their sides. For about 20 minutes,
they read from prayer books sent by Hebrew
school students in Wisconsin. Mish doesn’t
remember the specifics, but he recalls saying
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prayers for all the soldiers and being aware of
Rosh Hashanah’s message of mortality.
“When you’re in a situation where your friend are
dying, where people all around you are dying, any
time you pray, it hits home more,” he said.
Afterward they shared a bottle of wine and ate
some “normal food,” including bagels with jelly. They
also read Rosh Hashanah cards that the students
had decorated with honey pots and apples and
inscribed with messages such as “Be safe” and
“Hope you come back soon.” Inside the holiday
cards, the students had placed prepaid phone cards.
Despite its informality, that service resonated
with Mish, now stationed in Wurzburg, Germany.
Rosh Hashanah had always been important to
him, a way of confirming his Jewishness. But
being in Iraq had given him more time to reflect on
death and destruction, and he was feeling more
religious while stationed there.
Also, he had recently learned from his Iraqi
translator, who was born and raised in Mosul,
Iraq, that during Saddam’s reign, the Jews in that
area were barred from observing holidays in public
and were forced to celebrate secretly in their
homes. That day, however, Jewish soldiers were
praying openly inside Saddam’s palace.
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GOD IS IN THE DETAILS —
EVEN IN THE CARPOOL LANE
Your children are watching — and taking inventory!
BY WENDY MOGEL
LOS ANGELES, (JTA) — Preparation for the High Holidays means
engaging in cheshbon hanefesh,
accounting of the soul. This includes
taking a personal inventory of your
own behavior and the lessons you
may unwittingly be teaching your
children. In Judaism, God is in the
details, and one of the most important details is everyday courtesy.
The rabbis teach that respectfulness and courtesy are redeeming
virtues even when the Jewish people
do not fulfill the other precepts of the
Torah. They call these practices
derech eretz, and say: “A Torah
scholar who does not have derech
eretz is worse than a dead animal.”
Whoa, Nelly. In our competitive,
overscheduled world, we so often get
in the habit of looking for shortcuts
and finding creative justifications for
breaking rules and putting our own
needs ahead of those of the community — that it’s easy to forget that
our children are watching.
You need look no further than the
carpool drop-off lane at your child’s
school to know exactly what I’m talking about.
All of us do things we don’t want
our children to emulate, more often
than we realize and often in
undramatic, everyday ways. The
High Holidays are a good time to
switch gears and to find ways to
practice derech eretz, beginning with
the details of daily living.
Our sages have plenty of suggestions for how to do this. The rules
are as sensitive, countercultural,
and ethically sharp today as they
were 2,000 years ago. Here are some
of my personal favorites.
* To protect a rabbi from possible
embarrassment, you shouldn’t ask a
question if you suspect he may not
know the answer.
* Invite guests to Shabbat dinner
by Wednesday so they won’t think
the invitation is an afterthought.
* When dancing on certain holidays, some of the daughters of the
rich would exchange dresses with the
daughters of the poor in order that
the latter would not be embarrassed.
* Laws of lashon hara prohibit gossip, even in its most subtle, peripheral form, called avak lashon hara,
the dust of gossip. For example, the
rabbis warn us never to praise anyone too highly because too much
praise can invite the other person to
compare the image you're presenting
to his own.
To these venerable laws I would
like to add three suggestions of my
own that will give parents nowadays
frequent opportunities to teach by
example.
1. A parent must lay down his or
her phone when greeting his child
after school. The laws of derech eretz
state that when in public, you should
try to greet others as soon as you
spot them so they won’t think you’re
ignoring them or trying to avoid
them. Your child deserves as much
consideration.
2. It is forbidden to cut ahead in the
carpool line. Why? Because it is a
theft of time. The Babylonian Talmud
explores the problem of two boats
simultaneously approaching a bottleneck in a river. If it is impossible for
both to pass together, they should
compromise in the following way: one
boat goes first, and the captain of
this boat compensates the second
boat for the time that it lost waiting.
What is your compensation for waiting your turn in the carpool lane? The
knowledge that you are teaching your
child patience and courtesy.
3. A mother or father shall not fib
on a child’s behalf, not even to maintain the purity of the college transcript. I hear stunning examples of
parents who commit unethical acts
in the name of helping their children
— the father who signed his daughter’s name to an e-mail he wrote to
her English teacher contesting a
grade; the mother who rewrote her
son’s college application essay without his knowledge; the parents who
research and even write their children’s papers for them.
The rabbis say that one should not
break a promise to a child, because
doing so will teach the child to lie. If
you tweak the rules for your children,
you are breaking the agreement you
made with them when they were
young. Back then, you taught them
to tell the truth. When they see your
hypocrisy, they will lose respect for
you, imitate your behavior, or both.
The commandment to honor one’s
parents helps elevate the laws of
derech eretz to prominence in our
High Holiday inventory. We can ask,
“Do I deserve the reverence of my
child? Am I the kind of parent my
child can learn from and be proud of?”
Whatever motivates you — your
entry ticket to the gates of heaven,
how your children will treat your
grandchildren, or your child’s next
letter of recommendation — this is
the time to think about not only
crimes but misdemeanors and, if we
are right by the rabbis, even dust.
Wendy Mogel is a clinical psychologist.
She is the author of “The Blessing of a
Skinned Knee: Using Jewish Teaching to
Raise Self-reliant Children.” PREGNANT HERO OF SEATTLE SHOOTING
“Somewhere in my mind, I had the
information I needed and because I
was able to stay calm, everything
rushed to the surface and I was able
to do what I needed to do,” she
recalled.
The gunman caught her, infuriated.
He cursed at her, pointed a gun at
her head, took her hostage, and
launched into an anti-Semitic diatribe.
He then demanded to speak with
CNN. She thrust the phone at him
with the 911 operators still on the
line. He took it and talked with the
operators. He relented. He put the
gun down, and walked out.
“One very unhappy person sadly
took his aggression out and manifested his racism by hurting me and
my friends and my community, and I
do not blame Israel nor would I ever
blame Israel,” she said. “Israel is
such a scapegoat to so many people
who are just racists.”
The alleged shooter, Naveed Haq,
pleaded not guilty on August 15, and
is being held on nine counts, including aggravated homicide and malicious harassment.
The Kings
County prosecuting attorney, Norm
Maleng, has 30 days to decide
whether Haq will face the death
penalty.
Klein, who has a master’s degree in
social work, credits her confidence
and aplomb to her training in crisis
intervention and the skills she
learned as a director of the American
Red Cross.
“It’s what saved my life, it saved my
baby’s life, and I hope I saved a lot of
other people’s lives in the process —
and it’s just because I had little bit
more knowledge than the next guy
and was able to use it when I needed
to,” she said.
As the SWAT team escorted her out
the building, she saw her close friend
and the federation’s campaign director, Waechter, sprawled on the stairs.
Waechter died in the shooting, which
injured four other women, in addition to Klein.
“The most important thing to me is
to maintain the integrity of Pam’s
legacy. Pam truly does have a legacy
on Seattle’s Jewish community,”
Klein said of her friend and colleague.
Klein is transforming the tragedy
into a lesson plan while trying to heal
from the physical and psychological
wounds, offering to visit any Jewish
organization to encourage that security precautions be taken and emergency planning provided.
“Balancing being a heroine and
recovering from what could potentially be a lifelong disability, you
know, to me. I’m going to take these
really horrible lemons and make a
hell of a glass of lemonade, and
hopefully just be able to save more
people.’’
A fund has been established to assist victims and families of the July 28 shooting at
the Seattle Jewish federation. Donors can
visit www.jewishinseattle.org to make a
contribution. The fund is being administered through the Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco. Some of the
funds may also be used to assist in renovation and security costs for the federation's
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University of Tulsa President Discusses Jewish-Related Activities on TU Campus
The following is a excerpt of a message
delivered on Brotherhood Shabbat,
June 9, at Temple Israel
BY DR. STEADMAN UPHAM,
PRESIDENT, UNIVERSITY OF TULSA
The Chronicle of Higher Education ran a story
heralding “a golden age of Jewishness on campuses.” That was the assessment of Chaim Seidler-Feller, executive director of the Hillel chapter
at UCLA. He made the statement in Washington at
Hillel’s first university summit, which drew participants from several Jewish organizations. (TU’s
Dean Robert Butkin and Professor Joli Jensen
attended the Hillel summit as Charles and Lynn
Schusterman Scholars).
While recognizing that some Middle East studies
programs have an anti-Israel bias, and that antiSemitic incidents do still happen on America’s
campuses, Seidler-Feller, nevertheless, found
encouragement in the rise of Jewish studies programs, the professional advancement of Jewish
academics, and student interest across the nation.
This is good news, and not entirely surprising.
Why is it not surprising? Because the traditions of
scholarship, mutual responsibility, and philanthropy that run so deep within the Jewish community are natural allies of education. The traditional liberal-arts education is rooted in discovery,
guided by conscience, enlightened by tradition,
and fulfilled in service. I believe that these values
form the basis for a fertile partnership between
higher education and the Jewish community.
Here in Tulsa, that partnership has been a
tremendous boon for TU. We have benefitted
greatly through the years from the active involvement and support of Jewish students, faculty
members, administrators, and benefactors. Nurturing and developing the connections between TU
and the Jewish community is an ongoing priority
for the university. We continue to mark the growth
of this relationship with auspicious milestones,
and the past year is no exception.
In March of this year, TU opened Hillel House.
Our students now have a dedicated space on campus at 6th and Gary, with dining and meeting
rooms, an administrative office, and a vegetarian
kitchen. Our students have been using the house
since last fall, in fact. Their activities have
included regular Shabbat dinners, a Hanukkah
party, and a Passover Seder. In a somewhat less
traditional vein, our students also held a TV
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TU’s Hillel House was furnished with gifts from
the Tulsa community, and I would like to take this
opportunity to thank those of you who so generously supported this project. Your gifts are enriching the college years and spiritual lives of our Jewish students.
I particularly want to say Yasher ko-ach! to Professors Estelle Levetin Avery and Martin Belsky for
their service to TU Jewish life, and for their leadership in the Hillel House and other projects. Our
students benefit both from their efforts and from
their example. Thank you also to Professor Joli
Jensen, who, as advisor to Hillel, has her hands
increasingly full. We look forward to another lively
year as our students return this fall.
Beyond the activities at Hillel House, TU Hillel
teamed with our United Campus Ministries and
the Muslim Student Association to sponsor the
recent “Stand Up for Peace” charity benefit.
In other positive news, we are developing connections with Hillel at the University of Oklahoma.
Professor Jensen and others are working with OU
Hillel Director Jeremy Cassius to plan joint programs and events. It will be interesting to watch
this collaboration grow, and we look forward to
seeing what our advisors and students devise.
As far as we can determine, this fall will mark
the very first time in TU’s 99-year history that
modern Hebrew will be offered on campus. Ofira
Shoham will teach the course; she is the wife of
Ovadia Shoham, who is TU’s Floyd M. Stevenson
Distinguished Presidential Chair in Petroleum
Engineering.
This auspicious step coincides with the creation
of our Certificate Program in Judaic Studies,
which our curriculum committee approved this
spring. This is an 18-hour program that gives students the opportunity to tailor their studies with
courses in literature and the arts, history, philosophy, and religion. Course offerings include topics
such as the Jewish experience in literature and
film, contemporary Jewish thought, Shoah studies, and Jewish-Christian relations. Jay Geller, TU
assistant professor of history, directs the certificate program and has been instrumental in its
development and implementation.
Professor Geller also serves on the board of the
Sherwin Miller Museum of Jewish Art, along with
Jacob Howland, our McFarlin Endowed Professor
of Philosophy. The museum is and will continue to
be an essential
resource for our
faculty and students, particularly as our
Judaic studies
program solidifies and gains
momentum.
This coming
academic year,
TU’s College of
Law will have a
very
strong
focus on Jewish
law. Thanks to
a generous gift
from the Lubell
family, TU will
welcome
Dr.
Menachem
Dr. Steadman Upham
Lorberbaum, a
visiting professor of philosophy from Tel Aviv University. Professor Lorberbaum will be teaching a
course on Jewish law. The College of Law will also
be hosting the Lillie Goldstein Collection of rare
Jewish law texts in the spring of 2007. Dean
Butkin is organizing public lectures with Professor
Lorberbaum that focus on the Goldstein Collection
and how these texts reveal Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform traditions of the law.
When we look at the growth of Judaic scholarship and Jewish student life at TU, we can be
pleased that the Chronicle’s optimistic report
bears out in our community.
There are many steps ahead. Our recent
progress in supporting Jewish student life and in
advancing Judaic studies has already begun deepening dialogue on campus. TU is committed to
incorporating the richness of the Jewish heritage
into an educational experience that broadens the
horizons of every TU student.
I am equally pleased to be able to thank you for
the strong support that you have shown the University of Tulsa. That support comes in many
forms, not only financial, but also in the hospitality that you show our students by welcoming them
into your congregation and into your homes. Your
help is greatly valued and appreciated, and will
continue to play a central role in making the University of Tulsa a favored destination for students
seeking a dynamic college experience.
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What’s Nu?
A new young-Jewish leadership program
is being launched with a reconstruction
campaign in Israel's north. The first initiative of the Center for Leadership Initiatives,
funded by Tulsa, Okla.-based philanthropist (and former Jewish Federation of
Tulsa president) Lynn Schusterman, will be
a $1.5 million project that “will bring 500
young Jewish adults from around the world
to northern Israel,” a release said. “Participants will help repair damage inflicted during the recent conflict.”
The home of Norway's wartime leader, a
nazi collaborator, has been turned into a
Holocaust museum. The villa of Vikdun
Quisling, who was executed in 1945 after
leading a puppet government that supported the nazis, now houses the Center
for Studies of the Holocaust and Religious
Minorities, inaugurated in August by Norway's Queen Sonja and Princess MetteMarit. The center will focus on the Holocaust and feature displays on the
persecution of minorities in Africa, Armenia, Cambodia, the Balkans, and Rwanda.
The renovated villa was given to the Jewish community by the Norwegian government five years ago. Some 800 Jews,
about half the country's pre-war population,
were killed in the Holocaust.
An Israeli woman wounded in a Hezbollah rocket attack was saved by her breast
implants, according to a hospital
spokesman. “This is an extraordinary case,
but it's a fact that the silicone implants prevented her from a more serious and deeper
wound,” Jacky Govrin of the Nahariya hospital, which treated the woman, told Israel
Army Radio. Doctors found shrapnel, only
inches from the 24-year-old woman's heart,
embedded in the implants.
The son of a man killed at Auschwitz has
taken legal action against Poland’s
Auschwitz Museum to obtain his father's
suitcase, the Sunday Times of London
reported. Michel Levi-Leleu spotted his
father's suitcase at an exhibition in Paris on
the Holocaust that contained items borrowed from Poland's state-run Auschwitz
Museum. His father's name and prisoner
number are on the suitcase, and the
Auschwitz Museum agrees that they were
his, according to the Times. Levi-Leleu had
last seen the suitcase in 1943 when he
was three and his father was deported. The
museum is seeking to keep the suitcase in
an effort to preserve the memory of the
Holocaust. The Times said the case is the
first in which a relative has demanded
something back from the Auschwitz
Museum, and officials there worry that the
case could set a precedent.
A man who was on the ship Exodus
turned 100 in Israel. Leon Hershlikowicz
celebrated his centenary in Tel Aviv on
August 14. Hershlikowicz survived two
world wars, the Holocaust, and a stint as a
prisoner in Russia before moving to Israel.
The Exodus, made famous in Leon Uris'
novel, was turned away from British Mandate Palestine in 1947, but the passengers
eventually immigrated to Israel.
A grant will help preserve items related to
the heyday of Yiddish theater in the United
States. The Eli and Edythe L. Broad Foundation made the $186,000 gift to help
restore items such as programs, photographs and props, The New York Times
reported. The items recently were given to
the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in
New York, which had been looking for
donations to restore them so they can be
displayed. (JTA)
“Tulsa Jewish Community Directory”
2007 Issue in Preparation
B’nai B’rith Lodge # 798 has mailed its Directory Change Form to the
Tulsa Jewish community for the 2007 issue of the “Tulsa Jewish
Community Directory.” The 2007 issue will have space for e-mail
addresses. Therefore, if you want this information included in the next
issue, go to www.burkhartsop.com/brith.htm, and to help avoid errors, list
the information yourself.
Please mail back the Directory Change Form with changes and/or
corrections (addresses, names, etc.) by Sept.15, 2006.
Call Marvin Mencher with questions at 494-8661. COMMUNITY
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Temple Israel ShalomFest 2006
Set for Sunday, September 10
Family-oriented Festival of Jewish Culture
Now in its thirteenth year, ShalomFest continues its family-friendly hospitality beginning at noon until 7 p.m., Sunday, September 10, at Temple
Israel. This unique and free event offers special sights, sounds, and flavors
of Israel and Jewish culture.
Have a snack or stay for lunch and dinner. A variety of tasty treats will be
available throughout the day, served a la carte. Enjoy Israeli-style falafel
and hummus, borekas (Israeli pastry), cabbage rolls, kosher hot dogs,
corned beef sandwiches, Hungarian cucumber salad, and much, much
more.
Throughout the day, there will be a joyous traditional and contemporary
music program. It will include Rebecca Ungerman, Jon Glazer,
Debbye Zanerhaft, and more.
Children’s activities include a Jupiter Jump, face painting, and kids’
crafts. Exhibits and ceremonies with be available for visitors and include
Jewish holiday and life-cycle demonstrations, ritual art, Israeli exhibits,
and groups tours of Temple Israel.
For those wishing to find items for the home or as gifts, there will be
plenty of Judaica jewelry from Israel, arts and crafts, and Jewish books,
literature, and music on display and for sale during the event.
Call Temple Israel at 747-1309, or visit ShalomFest 2006 at
www.shalomfest.com “Prairie Landsmen: The Jews
of Oklahoma” Photo Exhibit
to Open in September
To help celebrate the 40th
anniversary of the establishment of
The Sherwin Miller Museum of
Jewish Art (originally The Gershon
and Rebecca Fenster Gallery of
Jewish Art), and to introduce the
museum’s special exhibit produced
for the state’s Centennial Celebration of statehood, the museum will
exhibit the photography of Tulsan
David Halpern.
Through “Prairie Landsmen:
B’NAI EMUNAH
EMOONIES TO HOLD
ROSH HASHANAH
YOM TOV LUNCHEON
SEPTEMBER 24
On Sunday, September 24, the second day of Rosh Hashanah, young
couples and singles throughout the
community are invited to join the
B’nai Emunah Emoonies for a delicious luncheon in a relaxed and joyful home atmosphere.
The lunch will begin this year at 1
p.m. following services, allowing
ample time to participate in Tashlich observance at Swan Lake. Cost
for the luncheon is $7.50.
The B’nai Emoonies are a group of
young couples and singles in the
Tulsa Jewish community, who
gather for holidays and special occasions. All are invited and welcome to
participate in any Emoonie event.
Contact
Greg
Raskin
at
[email protected]
with
questions and for location details.
To make reservations, contact
Suzanne at suzanne@bnaiemu
nah.com, or call 583-7121. Of blessed memory...
Dr. Allen N. Zeff died July 26,
2006. A U.S. Navy World War II veteran, longtime Tulsa dentist, and
member of Congregation B’nai
Emunah, Dr. Zeff is survived by
his wife of many years, Rita;
children, Michelle Zeff, Sharisse
O’Carroll, Loring Zeff, Ivette Cohen,
Brichet Zeff, Dorrin Zeff, and
Brianna Zeff; six grandchildren;
brother, Lester Zeff; and sister-inlaw, Estelle Aberson. The Jews of Oklahoma,” Halpern
shares insights into Jewish life in
small-town Oklahoma.
The opening reception is scheduled for Thursday, September 14,
beginning at 5:30 p.m.
Mr. Halpern will be presenting a
gallery talk on this special collaborative project that he and other
museum members created with
museums across the state.
RSVP by calling 492-1818.
SAVE THE DATE
OCTOBER 28
TULSA JEWISH RETIREMENT
AND HEALTH CARE CENTER
PRESENTS
SATURDAY NIGHT
SWING
with music by
Sounds of Music Orchestra
Look for more information
in the October TJR!
15
COMMUNITY CALENDAR
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AT
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David Mosley to Become
a Bar Mitzvah
Michael Lang to Celebrate
His Bar Mitzvah
M
at Temple Israel on Saturday,
Sept. 2, 2006, beginning at 10 a.m.
Michael is in the seventh grade at
Carver Middle School. He plays first
base on the Carver baseball team. In
addition, Michael plays ice hockey
and is a member of the Spanish
Club.
Celebrating with Michael will be his
grandmothers, Terry Fein and Allene
Lang. Other family and special
friends will be joining Michael for
this joyous occasion.
In honor of Michael’s Bar Mitzvah,
he is donating to his ongoing project,
the Eastern Oklahoma Community
Food Bank.
Michael Lang
The community is invited to join
ichael Halden Lang, son of Michael and his family for services
Lisa Lang and Chris Lang, and the Kiddush to follow. will become a Bar Mitzvah
Cong re ga tions to Hold
Selichot Ser vices September 16
Congregation
B’nai Emunah
to Celebrate Selichot
Selichot Services are the traditional
prelude to the High Holidays, a
vestibule through which the community passes on its way to the satisfactions of repentance and renewal.
Coming a week before Rosh
Hashanah, Selichot is part of the
season of turning, a transition which
calls for focus and readiness.
Congregation B’nai Emunah invites
the whole community to attend Selichot Services on Saturday evening,
September 16. Following the brief
Mincha service at 6:30 p.m., the
evening will continue with a se’udah
shelishit (final Shabbat meal) at 6:45
p.m.
Following the meal at 8 p.m., the
Congregation will present a special
dinner theater concert of solo performances comprised of music
appropriate to the season. Featured
participants will include Cantor Rafi
Dworsky, Jon Glazer, and Michele
and Jeff Cowen.
At 9 p.m., the evening will continue
with Selichot, an hour-long service
which introduces the motifs of the
High Holidays and sets the musical
mood of the liturgy. This year, for the
third time, the Selichot service will
feature the music of Klay Kodesh.
The service will conclude with the
blowing of the shofar by the large
group of volunteer shofar blowers
trained at CBE.
Reservations for this meal may be
made by calling Suzanne at B’nai
Emunah, at 583-7121 or at
[email protected].
The
cost is modest and special arrangements can be made for those of limited means. Childcare arrangements
can be made at least two days prior
to the event, or at the time of your
reservation, and are available for no
additional charge. Temple Israel
to Conduct
Selichot Service
The practice of rising late at night
to recite penitential prayers on the
Saturday before Rosh Hashanah is
based on Psalm 119:62. I arise at
midnight to praise You for Your just
rules.
In some communities it was customary for the shamash to make
rounds of the Jewish homes,
knocking three times on every door
and crying: “Israel, O holy folk.
Awake, arouse yourselves and rise
to the service of the Creator.”
The Temple Israel Selichot Service
is an introduction to the prayers,
themes, and musical motifs of the
Yamim Noraim – the holiest days of
the Jewish year.
A dessert reception will begin at 8
p.m., followed by Havdalah. The
Selichot Service in the Convocation
Center will begin at 9 p.m. and conclude by 10 p.m.
All are welcome to attend this
beautiful and moving service.
Temple Israel’s Young Kehillah
to Meet (and Eat)
Young Kehillah, a group for singles, couples, and those with young
families, is getting together for a
pre-Selichot dinner and shmooze at
Kilkenny’s Irish Pub on Cherry
Street at 6:30 p.m., on September
16.
Immediately following dinner, the
group will join others for the dessert
reception at Temple Israel, followed
by Havdalah and the moving
Selichot service. RSVP to Cantor
Kari at 299-7873 or [email protected].
Join the Temple Israel Young
Kehillah for a fun and spiritual
evening. A great way to start the
High Holiday season! Welcome Home Service For Jewish
Campers to be Held at B’nai Emunah
Congregation B’nai Emunah will
begin the school year with a special
edition of Kids’ Shabbat focused on
Jewish summer camping, on Friday,
September 15.
B’nai Emunah will officially welcome home with services and dinner
all campers who have spent time at
Ramah Darom, Camp Shalom, and
the many other Jewish summer
camps and programs to which parents send their youngsters.
Financial support for these programs
comes from many sources, including
Congregation B’nai Emunah, the
Jewish Federation of Tulsa, Temple
Israel, and the Charles and Lynn
Schusterman Family Foundation.
Members and friends may come for
Evening Services at 7 p.m., or participate in a special Shabbat chicken
dinner at 6:15 p.m.; cost for adults is
$10 per person, and for children and
tots priced accordingly.
Make dinner reservations by calling
583-7121, or to Suzanne D’Eath at
[email protected]. avid Isaac Mosley, son of
Brent and Deborah Mosley,
will celebrate his Bar
Mitzvah on Sept. 9, 2006, at Congregation B’nai Emunah. This date corresponds to 16 Elul 5766.
David is a sophomore at Catoosa
High School. He is a member of the
varsity football and baseball teams.
David also enjoys playing the saxophone. He attends Midrasha, the
B’nai Israel Studies Program.
Joining David for his simcha will be
his sister, Lily, and his maternal
grandparents, Sonja and David
Murphy. He will also be joined by
many friends and family from
around the country.
David will be participating in the
B’nai Tzedek program for one of his
mitzvah projects and also will be
donating 40 copies of Eli Wiesel’s
D
Temple to
Remember
“Forgotten Refugees”
September 8
When one speaks of Middle Eastern refugees, most people think
immediately of the Palestinians.
However, it is not well-known that
there were more Jews displaced
from Arab countries since 1948
than Palestinian refugees. Once
vibrant and vital Jewish communities no longer exist. The invisible
exiles – one million Jews dispossessed from their homes, their communities and their culture – should
not be forgotten.
At the Oneg Shabbat following the
8 p.m. Temple Israel Shabbat
Service on September 8, a new film,
"The Forgotten Refugees," will be
shown. This is an important segment of modern Jewish history
which we all need to know much
more about.
Community members and friends
are invited to attend. Mazel Tov!
BIRTH
Kate and Dr. Elon Jeffy, a son,
Oliver Solomon, born July 25,
2006. Grandparents are Anita and
Ed Ulrich, Shari and Mike Burks,
and Elaine and Allan Jeffy.
David Mosley
“Night” and other Holocaust educational resources to Catoosa High
School.
The community is invited to join
David and his family for services,
beginning at 9 a.m., and a dessert
Kiddush following services. Wedding
Held
Phillip and Holly Burger
Phillip Burger and Holly Kirby were
married on July 22, 2006. Phillip is
the son of Shirley and Willie Burger
of Tulsa and brother of Rachel
Burger of San Diego, Calif. Holly
Kirby is originally from Oklahoma
City.
The wedding ceremony and
reception were at the Tulsa Marriott
Southern Hills, Judge Merl Whitebook officiating. Cantor Kari SiegelEglash was the soloist, accompanied
by Michele and Jeff Cowen. Rabbi
Charles P. Sherman offered a
blessing during the ceremony.
Phillip and Holly honeymooned in
the Riviera Maya and now reside in
Bentonville, Ark. High Holy Days at Temple Israel
Our Services are filled with Inspiration & Beautiful Music
Our Doors are Open. You are Invited!
We look forward to welcoming all Temple members,
guests, newcomers, and those who would like
to share in our Reform Jewish worship.
Rosh Hashanah: Friday,Sept.22,8 p.m.;Saturday,Sept.23,10 a.m.
Yom Kippur: Sunday, Oct. 1, 8 p.m.; Monday, Oct. 2, 10 a.m.
Services continue through the afternoon,
concluding with Yizkor and Neilah
TEMPLE ISRAEL
2004 East 22nd Place, just south of Utica Square 747-1309
A Reform Congregation affiliated
with the Union For Reform Judaism
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Happy Holydays
Jenny R. Brouse
and Brian E. Brouse

Sept - Jewish Federation of Tulsa

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