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Friday, February 66 pm Tot Shabbat 6 pm Sukkat Shalom6:30 pm Tot Dinner and Popsicle Oneg7:30 pm Shabbat Service | Caring Community Torah Portion: Vayeira (Gen. 18:1-22:24)Sermon: Why should we care? Building Community at TBE.
Saturday, February 78:50 am Torah Study with Rabbi10 am 6th Grade Led Shabbat Service
Friday, February 136 pm Tot Shabbat 6:30 pm Tot Dinner and Popsicle Oneg7:30 pm Shabbat Service | Birthday/ Anniversary CelebrationTorah Portion: Chayei Sarah (Gen. 23:1-25:18)Sermon: The Price of Justice. Saturday, February 14 8:50 am Torah Study with Rabbi10 am Chapel Service
Friday, February 206 pm Tot Shabbat 6:30 pm Tot Dinner and Popsicle Oneg7:30 pm Shabbat Service | Sisterhood ShabbatTorah Portion: T’rumah (Exod. 25:1-27:19)
Saturday, February 21 9:30 am Chapel Service
Friday, February 276 pm Tot Shabbat 6:30 pm Tot Dinner and Popsicle Oneg7:30 pm Shabbat Service with Worship BandTorah Portion: T’tzaveh (Exod. 27:20-30:10)
Saturday, February 28 8:50 am Torah Study with Rabbi10 am Chapel Service
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February 2015 Sh’vat - Adar • 5775
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Caring Community...................................................................................................pg. 5Volunteer Spotlight..................................................................................................pg. 7Snap Shots of TBE...................................................................................................pg. 16
Keren R. McGinitySponsored by the Melvin & Lois Levy EndowmentThursday, February 19 | 7 pm | LectureFriday, February 20 | 5:30 pm | Dinner
Keren R. McGinity is an educator and agent of change who specializes in Jewish intermarriage. Dr. McGinity is a Research Associate at the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute and a Research Affiliate at the Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies at Brandeis University. She was the inaugural Mandell L. Berman Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Contemporary American Jewish Life at the University of Michigan’s Frankel Center for Judaic Studies (2008-2010). Dr. McGinity earned her Ph.D. from Brown University where she subsequently held an appointment as a Visiting Assistant Professor of history (2005-2008). She also holds degrees from Harvard and Rutgers Universities. She has just published her second book entitled Marrying Out: Jewish Men, Intermarriage, and Fatherhood (Indiana University Press, 2014), the first gender history of intermarried Jewish men.
Join Keren McGinity as she presents her research and speaking about her work in the social hall at 7 pm, on Thursday, February 19. She will be closing her visit at a dinner Friday, February 20 at 5:30 pm. Both events are open to the community and free of charge. RSVP to [email protected] or call the office, 665-4744.
Keren R. McGinity
Save-the-Date Adult Purim Party Saturday, March 7 | 7 pm
Music, Food, Casino games, Talent Competition with Karaoke, Drinks, Dancing. Silent and Live Auction. The event is open to the community. Proceeds support the Temple. Pre-sale tickets $36. $40 at the door. Tickets are on sale online now, or call the office, 665-4744.
2 Rabbinic ReflectionsFifty years ago, a rabbi might have lost his job by delivering a sermon embracing intermarriage within the Jewish community. Not that intermarriage was not a reality back then; not that Jews weren’t creating loving and supportive marriages and families in interfaith settings; not that good, sincere, decent people were not engaging in positive relationships across religious lines, but it was perceived, within the established Jewish community as a threat and only as a threat.
We, that is the “we” of the organized Jewish community, even when we held out a welcome to the intermarried, it was always conditional. If you join, if you raise the children exclusively, if you accept the stigma...How poorly we behaved.
This was part of the intermediate period. Many congregants, empowered congregants would have had the rabbi’s neck and job if he or she did officiate until such time as these congregants needed a rabbi to officiate at an intermarriage, and then they could not fathom how their rabbi was so prejudiced.
There was a time when a rabbi’s public, “from the pulpit,” acceptance of intermarriage would have cost him or her the job and a time, more recent, when condemning intermarriage would achieve the same results.
Yet both paradigms are faulty. Intermarriage is neither to be condemned or accepted. The intermarried and the intermarried family are not a category or a class. They, we, all of us are just people who merit respect and welcome and place. The less time we spend classifying the more time we can spend on our mission to build vibrant Jewish life. My personal goal is to live without the the label.
That being said, understanding of the present truth of Jewish families can help us to best achieve our mission. Yet we need knowledge and not opinions, regardless of of their sensitivity and wisdom. Keren McGinity, who was a precious member of our congregation before relocating to parts east, has spent years studying the truth of intermarriage. We are so fortunate that she will be coming to TBE to share her knowledge, as we were so fortunate when she sat among us.
Rabbi Robert Levy
Rabbi Levy
Executive Director
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David Monroe, our former Account Manager, has left TBE to pursue a new sales opportunity. His last day was January 9, 2015.
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3Cantor’s NotesDid you know that when a tree’s leaves fall in the autumn and it gets ready for the winter, it has already prepared its buds for the spring? I was completely unaware of this little fact until only about a year or so ago when a docent at the New York Botanical Gardens shared this fact with us at our Torah Study discussion. If you look really closely, you can definitely see the tiny buds lying dormant while the tree is hibernating for the winter. I’m not entirely sure if our ancient ancestors were aware of this, but they sure picked an interesting time of year to mark the yearly counting of the age of a tree when they chose the New Year for the trees to fall in the middle of the winter on Tu B’Shevat.
In short, the holiday of Tu B’Shevat was merely meant to help us count the age of a tree. In the Book of Leviticus, we are commanded that we are not to eat the fruit of a tree for its first three years of life.
The commandment was so important that instead of everyone trying to remember exactly when each tree was planted and carefully mark its life until one may partake of the fruits, this somewhat random date was chosen to mark another year in the life of a tree. It really didn’t matter when you planted the tree. On the next Tu B’Shevat, even if you only planted the tree the day before, your tree would become one year older.
I always had thought that the date was chosen because it was the time of year that one would normally do their planting, somewhat like Mother’s Day on the East Coast. But that isn’t really the case, so perhaps it was chosen because trees were more or less asleep during this season. The reasoning behind the choice of date is not widely known, but the celebration of the holiday has surely taken on much more significance and joy over the generations.
It is traditional to eat either a “new fruit” or foods from the seven species described in Torah as popular in the Land of Israel. They are: wheat, barley, grapes, figs, pomegranates, olives and date honey. I recall as a child chewing on carob in our religious school classes as we celebrated the holiday. Today we also frequently adopt a Kabbalistic ritual of celebrating a seder in which the various species of fruits and degrees of redness of wine or juice offer added spiritual meaning to the fruits, the holiday and our lives.
Tu B’Shevat also offers us an opportunity for renewal during the coldest and snowiest and still relatively darkest time in our calendar year. It is a chance to peek forward to the spring thaw which may seem so very far away, especially here in Ann Arbor. But we know when Tu B’Shevat arrives, just as with Groundhog Day, that the winter doldrums will soon lift away. This year, we get to celebrate Tu B’Shevat on February 4, just two days after Groundhog Day. I wonder who will be doing the better predicting of the coming of spring?
Many of you were wondering how I was faring during my first winter in Michigan. I must say that having a milder winter than last, even in northern New Jersey, has been a relief and has made it less challenging than I had anticipated. Slippery, unplowed roads notwithstanding, there is a beauty and easiness that rests upon us during the winter, and it feels like we all understand that we are in this together and will get through this together.
So, how am I doing? Great! Because no matter what the groundhog decides to tell us, Tu B’Shevat is here bringing a new year for our trees and hope as we move toward the spring.
Cantor Regina Lambert-Hayut
Cantor Hayut
4 President’s Post
Adult Jewish Yoga Classes with Shlomit! Thursdays, February 5- March 29Noon-1:15 pm | TBE Social Hall (Semester package $90) Bring your own mat.
To learn more about the instructor, Shlomit Cohen, check out her website at mivyoga.com.
If you would like to purchase a package, please RSVP to [email protected].
Since its inception in 1962, the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism (RAC) has worked tirelessly to promote civil rights, to champion the cause of Soviet Jewry, to protect religious liberty, and to promote many other social justice issues in the United States and around the world. Rabbi David Saperstein, who has led this important arm of the URJ since 1974, left the RAC last month when he was nominated by President Obama and confirmed by the U.S. Senate to become Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom. Rabbi Saperstein’s successor at the RAC is Rabbi Jonah Pesner.
The Israeli Religious Action Center (IRAC) began in 1987. Its current leader is Anat Hoffman, a remarkable woman whom TBE was privileged to have as a speaker a few years ago. IRAC promotes social justice issues in Israel. In particular, it strives to protect the rights of women and of Jewish converts and to strengthen religious pluralism and fight racism in Israel. Recently it has taken up the cause of women being asked to change their airline seats at the insistence of Orthodox Jewish men. This has happened not only in Israel but in the United States and other countries as well.
Anat publishes regular letters to those who support her cause. In her recent email, she listed achievements won by IRAC over this past year. I am reprinting them below:
•We prevented the election of Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu as chief rabbi of Jerusalem.
•We engaged thousands of Israelis across the country in public events against racism.
•We worked with government agencies to remove gender segregation signs in cemeteries, eliminate separate entrances for men and women in public health buildings, and end modesty dress requirements in clinics and hospitals.
•We won a class action suit against a public radio station, requiring them to broadcast women's voices.
•We won compensation and a public apology from a rabbi who slandered a lesbian dance teacher.
•We won two lawsuits compelling the government to provide civil burial rights to Israeli citizens.
•We prevented measures in the new conversion law that would have jeopardized the progress we achieved in court on this issue.
At the end of her letter, Anat mentions that the Hebrew word for hope, tikvah, comes from the root kav, which means thread or string. She adds: “With this string of victories, I give you a thread of hope.” I find this helpful as I listen daily to reports of injustice in the U.S. and around the world. It is often hard to remain positive and hopeful in the face of atrocities and injustices. It is good to remember what has been accomplished and that we must not give up.
L’shalom,
Susan Gitterman
Susan Gitterman
Other HappeningsCall for Purim Auction Donations
This year’s Adult Purim Party includes both a silent and live auction. Do you have items to donate that can either stand alone or become a part of an “experience package” (i.e. dinner and movie passes)? If you would like to help solicit businesses there is a donation letter that has been emailed out to the congregation. If you would like another copy, or for more information please contact Avital, [email protected]. Items will be collected the entire month of February. Thank You!
5Caring Community
With a discussion of Caring Community’s future on the horizon, I hope that many of you have already read the Caring Community email that Rabbi Levy and I sent out last month. Our roll out plan includes a Shabbat (February 6), two congregational town hall meetings (Tuesday, March 17 at 7 pm in the Social Hall or Friday, March 20 at 12:30 pm), and a general call for feedback and suggestions. Below you will have the opportunity to learn more about me, and I hope to learn more about each of you and what caring community can do for you throughout this process.
I have joyfully been a part of the senior staff at TBE for a little over six months now. I have met some of you, many of you I have yet to meet. For those of you I have met and spent time with, there is still
so much more for us to know about each other!
I wear many hats here at TBE, but my exciting focus for now and the next year or so is to bring new life to Caring Community. A brief review of my career and academic path may help explain why this project is so important and exhilarating for me. During my undergraduate studies at the University of Oregon (Go Ducks!), I studied Family and Human Services with a minor in Judaic Studies. During these four years, I was active with Hillel, Chabad and the Jewish Student Union. I completed internships with the Department of Youth Services and with an alternative school for behaviorally challenged 3rd-8th grade students, as well as with a community organizing internship that brought me to city-wide meetings about hate groups and how to handle them on campus and in the larger community.
By the middle of my senior year, I accepted an offer to become a part of the charter corps of Teach for America in Detroit. I was once again ready to move across the country (I grew up in Minnesota, so I moved far away to become a duck) and to embark on a challenging adventure to do my part in closing the achievement gap for kids. After pouring my heart and soul into to my kids in Detroit, I moved to Ann Arbor to get my masters in social work and Jewish Communal Leadership (JCLP).
When I applied to graduate school, I had every intention of becoming a school social worker. At the time, I couldn’t see outside the school system, but I knew myself well enough to know that I was not interested in being instructionally responsible for the rest of my career. I was committed to serving the needs of others and social work seemed the route to take. Due to the nature of the JCLP requirements, I was unable to pursue social work in a school setting.
I ended up focusing on Management of Human Services and minoring in Interpersonal Practice in addition to the Judaic Studies requirements. In addition to my course work, I spent a year with the National Council of Jewish Women, doing a lot of the same kind of work I do here at TBE, as well as five months at Jewish Family Service of Metro Detroit in the Family Case Management department as a case manager.
Through all my internships, leadership, volunteer work, and the years I spent teaching (which included two years here with our Hebrew School and Religious School students), I have really seen many demographics of need, what community is capable of and the integral part it plays in all of our lives. I hope to be a positive part of moving our community forward in the coming years.
Avital Ostfield Director of Congregational Services
Avital Ostfield
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Caring Community Town Hall Meetings Tuesday, March 17 | 7-9 pm and Friday, March 20 | 12:30-2:30 pm
Let’s come together and plan the next development of Caring Community. We are convening a pair of TBE structured community discussions. Together we can discover the gaps in our supportive services to our community and what new ideas need to be explored.
We will publish an evaluation document by Passover that we will share with the entire congregation with what was discovered in the meetings and how we might proceed. Your presence and voices will determine how we move forward. Please join us.
6 Generation to Generation: Our SchoolThe topic for our 11/12th grade seminar this semester is A Time to Speak Out and a Time to Heal: How to Be Leaders for Revitalizing the Earth and Our Communities in the Sabbatical Year. Sam Molnar, the teacher, is a graduate student in the School of Natural Resources and the Environment. He chose the topic of Shmita, the Sabbatical, because this is the year of the sabbatical and it is a topic that he believes leads to social action. The students are studying Torah texts related to the agricultural and economic sabbatical. They are relating it to land and food ownership, Tu B’shevat, climate change and human rights. The class culminates in the students developing a social action project and carrying it out together. It is exciting for our students to study another Jewish tradition from long ago that can have much meaning today.
Third Grade Families came together for a program on Jewish names (see photos on pg. 16). Parents were asked to send in their child’s Hebrew name and if they did not have one, Rabbi Levy or I helped them select a name that had meaning for them. Students had fun tracing their Hebrew name onto parchment paper while parents explained what the name means and why they selected it. They made elaborately decorated frames for the name plaques. We do this program in third grade because the students are learning their Hebrew letters and also because it gives them a chance to become familiar with their Hebrew name well before being called up to the bima for their bar or bat mitzvah. We learned about naming traditions in Judaism by having different groups create and present skits on the topic. There was plenty of time for eating and schmoozing as we continue to work on the TBE-wide goal of creating community.
Sixth graders are busy working with Cantor Hayut and their teachers on the service that they will be leading on Saturday, February 7. Fifth graders are creating puppets for the Purim Shpiel (play) which they will present for the rest of the Saturday morning students. Second graders are finishing up their model Torahs. In the process of making the various parts of the Torah, students visited the sanctuary several times to look carefully at the TBE Torahs so that their Torahs were accurate models.
Show your appreciation for TBE teachers. The Religious Education Committee is sponsoring a Purim Tzedakah drive in which families are asked to donate money in honor of their child’s teachers, and the teacher receives a card acknowledging the donation. The money goes to the Religious Education Fund to support student trips to Cincinnati, the RAC in Washington, DC, as well as other needs of the Religious and Hebrew School.
B’shalom,
Terri
Terri Ginsburg
4th Grade Tu B’shevat Seder Monday & Wednesday February 2 and 4 | 4:30 pm
During Hebrew School
Parent volunteers needed.
Students experience a Tu B’shevat seder enjoying many fruits, grape juice that changes colors, blessings and songs.
Purim Tzedakah for TBE SchoolMonday, February 16 - Sunday, March 8
Donations for cards to honor your children’s teachers.
Show your appreciation for our dedicated teachers and donate to the Religious Education Fund.
Teachers will get a card with your family’s name on it acknowledging the donation.
6th Grade Leads Services Saturday, February 7 | 10 am In the Sanctuary
Followed by a luncheon for 6th grade families in the Social Hall.
7MembershipNew Members:
Diane Greenley and Richard Corson
Alisa and Kevin Cox
Kate Duchowny and Zlato Fagundes
Julia and Jared Hoffert
Dana Levin and Jason Kosnoski
Each month we feature a volunteer and the work that he or she does on behalf of TBE. For February 2015 our featured volunteer is Patty Benson!
How do you volunteer at TBE? I am a long-term member of the Membership committee and was previously a VP of Membership. I am one of the “neighborhood representatives” for my area, a program sponsored by Membership, which helps to welcome new members by delivering welcome bags. I also help with Caring Community to deliver meals to congregants. My husband and I are honored to host an annual fall bike outing and brunch to welcome new members, which I encourage long-term and new members to attend!
What do you do with your time when you are not volunteering at TBE? I work on call at St. Joseph Mercy, Chelsea (previously Chelsea Community Hospital) as an Occupational Therapist. I enjoy time with family and friends and am blessed to be the main support for my almost 94 year-old mother. I like to read, bike, ski and swim and enjoy cooking (most of the time!).
I am on the Board of Jewish Family Services and volunteer at JFS in their Partners in Care Concierge and citizenship programs.
When did you become a member of TBE? My husband and I joined TBE when we were married in 1987. We loved having our twin daughters, now 22 years-old, grow up with TBE youth activities in their lives.
What was your first TBE volunteer activity? I don’t remember exactly what my first volunteer activity was. It may have been doing something which at the time seemed small, such as bringing something for an oneg shabbat or helping with a school or choir activity. I am a true believer that volunteer activities build on themselves. What seems like a small task truly contributes in a meaningful way, and helps to connect us with Temple programs and the community.
How did you first become involved in volunteering at TBE? Do you remember who invited or encouraged you to start volunteering? I had a number of contact people in the past that helped me to become involved. I remember that it was Bette Cotzin who invited me to join the Membership committee and made me feel welcome and a part of the group.
What do you like the most about volunteering at TBE? What’s your favorite memory of volunteering at TBE? I have felt that volunteering at TBE has helped me to meet and develop friendships with many people. Initially, as a newer member, volunteering was a way for me to get to know others and to feel that I was making important contributions. There have been lots of fun times and laughter over the years. Staying involved has helped me remain engaged and has deepened my connections to our TBE community.
Interested in volunteering at TBE? The membership committee is looking for volunteers to serve on the committee and help with other tasks. Contact Rachel Glick, [email protected], for more details. For volunteer activities with other TBE committees and groups, contact the TBE office (665-4744) and SooJi or Avital will help you to get in touch with the right people.
Joe Pollak Membership Committee
Volunteer Spotlight
Patty Benson
Mazel Tov to: Jennie Lieberman on the birth of her grandson Jay, December 8. Condolences to: Sam Taylor, on the death of his sister, Shirley Young, November 19. Ellen Katz, Chuck & Sharon Newman, Allan & Roddy Newman, Rachel Newman & Yossef Zekic, on the death of Martin S. Katz, November 20. John Swerdlow & Pamela Harnick, Sylvie and Zane, on the death of John’s father Al Swerdlow, December 10. Arthur & Karen Lindenberg, on the death of their son-in-law Dan Kerr, December 13. Ann Gordon, on the death of her mother Marle Abramson, December 22. Marty & Kathy Ludington, on the death of Rev. Charles Fry, Kathy’s father, on January 23.
8 Learnings & TeachingsNosh and Nowledge SeriesFebruary: Avital OstfieldMonday, February 2, 7 pm | Thursday, February 5, NoonCourse Pack (emailed out to the congregation) about Operation Protective Edge. An alternative to the normal book group with a compilation of readings on the effects of social media in the context of Operation Protective Edge. Articles, videos, and other materials from this summer and the reactions pertaining to the situation in Israel.
Beyond Pentateuch: The Rest of the Hebrew Bible Thursday, February 26 | 7:30 pmProfessor Michael Weiss teaches Esther and DanielJoin us for guided discussions of the Hebrew Bible we know less well. Together we will read from our ancient prophets, our historical narrative, from Joshua to the Babylonian exile, the poetry of Psalms, Job and more….
In each seminar we will discuss texts chosen by a specialist in history, textual analysis, ancient Near Eastern civilization, or maybe even archeology. Enjoy informal exchanges; learn from scholars and each other; chat over refreshments after class. Registration is not required, but it will allow us to email you the focus texts. To register, contact Leonore Gerstein, [email protected] or 930-1673.
[E]met: An Honest Conversation about DeathMonday, February 16 | 7 pmRemember the two topics never discussed at the dinner table; sex and death? Well, we’ve had the sex talk. Now let’s have the death talk. Emet means truth and met is death. Come join us for our ongoing monthly discussion group about death. The purpose is to increase the awareness of death with a view to helping people make the most of their (finite) lives. [E]met is a group-directed discussion of death with no specific agenda other than to share stories, ideas and experiences. While a decidedly Jewish context will be offered, the discussion is not limited by any one belief. [E]met is not a grief support group or a counseling session, but rather an opportunity to grapple with this important part of life within a community of others, and of course, to share a nosh. This will be co-facilitated by Brian Ashin, and Rabbi Levy.
Men’s Torah Study ReinventedEvery 2nd and 4th Monday, February 9 & 23 | 7 pmA men’s Torah discussion group will be led by a lay leader on the 2nd Monday and by Rabbi Levy on the 4th Monday. We will find our way as men by wrestling with text. For more information contact Bill Parkus, [email protected].
Women’s Torah Study Every 2nd and 4th Monday, February 9 & 23 | 7 pmLed by Cantor Regina Hayut, the group will explore various passages from the portion looking at several translations and commentaries from a variety of scholars from Talmudic times to the modern day. No Hebrew knowledge necessary. For questions, contact Cantor Hayut at [email protected].
OSRUI Adult & Family Programs
Mark your calendars now and save the dates for:
Family Camp | October 2-4Camp isn’t just for kids, it’s for the whole family! Experience a taste of what OSRUI has to offer. For more information, see our website: http://osrui.urjcamps.org/yearround/programs/familycamp/.
Devorah Quilting Kallah | April 15-19OSRUI has pieced together this fabulous adult program for all levels of quilters. At Devorah we will explore ways to stitch together our creativity, spirituality, Jewish identity, and personal life stories into quilts that wrap us with warmth both physically and emotionally. Limited space available. For more information and to register see our website: http://osrui.urjcamps.org/yearround/programs/devorah/.
Hava Nashira | May 27-31The annual songleading and music workshop of OSRUI & the URJ. Registration opens in March. For more information, see our website: http://osrui.urjcamps.org/yearround/programs/havanashira/.
Community Events
9Books & MoreThe TBE library has been a busy place. Several groups have found that the library is a great place for tutoring, meeting, and study. I loved walking in on the Men’s Torah Study, and found them studying Torah! And I was able to pull out all our Jacob Neusner books for their perusal. I hope more of you will find the library’s cozy corners.
The Temple Beth Emeth Library has become a partner with Sifriyat Pijama B’America, the Hebrew language children’s book club. Similar to PJ Library, SP-BA will send a monthly free book to Hebrew speaking families with children ages 2-8. Our first Sifriyat Pijama story time will be Saturday, March 14 at 11:30 am in the library.
New Books in the Library
Adult Fiction
The UnAmericans, by Molly Antopol
A Good Place for the Night: Stories, by Savyon Liebrecht
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, by Aimee Bender
In the Courtyard of the Kabbalist, by Ruchama King Feuerman
Henna House: A Novel, by Eve Nomi
The Collected Stories, by Grace Paley
Adult Non-Fiction
Kuzmino Chronicles: Memoirs of Teenage Holocaust Survival, by Nathan C. Moskowitz
Out of the Shoebox, by Yaron Reshef
Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition, by David Nirenberg
No Ordinary Days: A Journey of Activism, Globe-trotting and Unexpected Pleasures, by Susan Sygall
Bringing Bubbe Home: A Memoir of Letting Go Through Love and Death, by Debra Gordon Zaslow
How About Never--Is Never Good for You?: My Life in Cartoons, by Bob Mankoff
The Principles of Uncertainty, by Maira Kalman
We Are On Our Own: A Memoir, by Miriam Katin
Who Will Write Our History?: Rediscovering a Hidden Archive from the Warsaw Ghetto, by Samuel D. Kassow
From Foe to Friends & Other Stories: A Graphic Novel, by Shay Charka (from the stories of S.Y. Agnon)
Teen Fiction
Green Glass Sea, by Ellen Klages
White Sands, Red Menace, by Ellen Klages
Sun Inside Rain: A Novel of Hope, Challenge, and Inspiration, by M. Bassara
Quake!: Disaster in San Francisco, 1906, by Gail Langer Karwoski
Missing Persons #1: Rose Queen, by M.E. Rabb
Zack, by William Bell
Youth Non-Fiction
The Underground Reporters, by Kathy Kacer
Here Is the World: A Year of Jewish Holidays, by Leslea Newman
Israel: The People (Lands, Peoples, and Cultures), by Debbie Smith
Israel ABCs: A Book About the People and Places of Israel (Country ABCs), by Holly Schroeder
Picture Books/Easy Readers
Hey Willy, See the Pyramids, by Maira Kalman
Rabbi Rocketpower in a Tooty Fruity Tale for Tu Bishvat - A Juicy Mystery, by Rabbi Susan Abramson
Bonjour, Lonnie, by Faith Ringgold
Made by Raffi, by Craig Pomranz
Chik Chak Shabbat, by Mara Rockliff
New DVDs
Inventing Our Life: The Kibbutz Experiment
Alive Inside: A Story of Music and Memory
Refusing To Be Enemies: The Zeituna Story
Clare Kinberg
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February 2015Coming in March
Adult Purim Party......................................................................................... .....................................................................Saturday, March 7Social Action Shabbat........................................................................................................................................................ Friday, March 20Sisterhood Annual Passover Sale.................................................................................................................................. Sunday, March 22
Jewish Communal Leadership Program: Communal Conversation
Brotherhood Superbowl Party (off-site)12:30 pm Sisterhood Busy Women’s Lunch & Movie
4:15 pm Hebrew School4:30 pm Shalom Gever4:30 pm 4th Grade Tu B’Shevat Seder5:40 pm All-School Sing Along7 pm Nosh & Knowledge | Avital
5 pm Hebrew 1046 pm Hebrew 103
Tu B’Shevat1 pm Mahj – off site4:15 pm Hebrew School4:30 pm 4th Grade Tu B’Shevat Seder4:30 pm Shalom Gever5:30 pm Hebrew 1005:40 pm All-School Sing Along6:30 pm Sisterhood Tu B’Shevat Dinner8 pm Board Meeting
4:15 pm Hebrew School 4:30 pm Shalom Gever5:30 pm Hebrew 1005:40 pm All School T’filah7:30 pm Pulpit Committee7:30 pm Sisterhood Series | Cyber Bullying7:30 Finance Committee Meeting
5 pm Shir Chadash 6 pm Religious School6:15 pm Kol Halev7:30 pm Middle School Shir Chadash Café7:30 pm AARTY | JNN
4:15 pm Hebrew School4:30 pm Shalom Gever5:40 pm All School T’filah 7 pm Women’s Torah Study7 pm Men’s Torah Study
5:30 pm TNT: Torah on Tap5 pm Hebrew 1046 pm Hebrew 1037:30 pm Brotherhood Board Meeting
1 pm Mahj – off site4:30 pm Shalom Gever5:30 pm Hebrew 1005:40 pm Youth Choir
4:30 pm Shalom Gever7 pm [E]met: An Honest Conversation about Death7:30 pm Genesis Green Meeting
5 pm Hebrew 1046 pm Hebrew 103
4:15 pm Hebrew School4:30 pm Shalom Gever5:40 pm Youth Choir7 pm Men’s Torah Study7 pm Women’s Torah Study
4:15 pm Hebrew School4:30 pm Shalom Gever5:30 pm Hebrew 1005:40 pm Youth Choir 6 pm Kadima Parent Meeting7pm Genesis Board Meeting
5 pm Hebrew 1046 pm Hebrew 103
No Religious or Hebrew School - AAPS Mid-Winter Break
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AARTY Ann Arbor Reform Temple YouthBRHD BrotherhoodMSSC Middle School Shir ChadashHSSC High School Shir ChadashR&R Renaissance & Ruach GroupSAC Social Action CommitteeTNT Twenties & ThirtiesKH Kol Halev YC Youth Choir
Thursday Friday Saturday
She’vat - Adar • 5775
Religious School | L’Taken Washington DC Trip8:30 am Religious School8:30 am Brotherhood Breakfast | Weber’s 8:50 am Torah Study with Rabbi9:45 am 5th Grade Purim Schpiel10 am Chapel Service10:45 am Religious School10:45 am Pre-School 3 MeetsNoon 5th Grade Purim Schpiel
Religious School | L’Taken Washington DC Trip12:30 pm Rabbi’s Lunch & Learn6 pm Tot Shabbat 6:30 pm Tot Dinner and Popsicle Oneg7:30 pm Shabbat Service with Worship Band
Noon Yoga with Shlomit4 pm Back Door Food Pantry7:30 pm Beyond Pentatuch: The Rest of the Hebrew Bible7:30 pm Membership Committee Meeting
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Noon Nosh & Nowledge | AvitalNoon Yoga with Shlomit4 pm Back Door Food Pantry
8:30 am Sisterhood Workshop with Sharon Benoff, WRJ VP8:50 am Torah Study with Rabbi9:30 am Chapel Service10 am Sisterhood Workshop with Sharon Benoff, WRJ VP
12:30 pm Rabbi’s Lunch & Learn6 pm Tot Shabbat 6:30 pm Tot Dinner and Popsicle Oneg7:30 pm Shabbat Service | Birthday & Anniversary Celebration
8:30 am Brotherhood Blood Drive8:50 am Torah Study with Rabbi10 am Chapel Service8 pm Sisterhood attend Elijah Performance
12:30 pm Rabbi’s Lunch & Learn6 pm Tot Shabbat 6 pm Sukkat Shalom6:30 pm Tot Dinner and Popsicle Oneg7:30 pm Shabbat Service | Caring Community
Noon Yoga with Shlomit4 pm Back Door Food Pantry7 pm Melvin & Lois Levy Endowment Lecture: Keren McGinity
12:30 pm Rabbi’s Lunch & Learn5:30 pm Levy Endowment Lecture Dinner featuring Keren McGinity6 pm Tot Shabbat 6:30 pm Tot Dinner and Popsicle Oneg7:30 pm Shabbat Service | Sisterhood Shabbat
11:30 am Sisterhood Board Meeting Noon Yoga with Shlomit4 pm Back Door Food Pantry7 pm Purim Committee Meeting
8:30 am Religious School8:50 am Torah Study with Rabbi10 am 6th Grade Led Shabbat Service10:45 am Religious School6:30 pm AARTY | SkyZone
No Religious or Hebrew School - AAPS Mid-Winter Break
No Religious School - AAPS Mid-Winter Break
12 Social ActionSocial Action Committee Meeting Dates: 2014: Monday, November 17 2015: Wednesday, January 14 | Monday, March 16 | Monday, May 18 7-9 pm, Adult LoungeSAC Retreat | June 2015 TBD
Upcoming Events Social Action Shabbat on March 20 featuring Lee Gordon founder of Hand in Hand Schools. This
is the start of the 3-day tour that Lee will have in Ann Arbor, including another event open to the community co-hosted by TBE and STC on Saturday evening. For further information contact Irene
Butter (663-7885), or Helena Robinovitz (475-7751).
Organic Fair Trade Kosher Chocolate for Sale! SAC has partnered with Equal Exchange, the chocolate manufacturer, who contributes a portion of its sales price to Fair Trade Judaica and T’ruah. Purchases will also help fund SAC activities such as Mitzvah Day, Rotating Shelter, Hand in Hand Schools and community collaborations. In 2014, the Jewish Fair Trade Project was initiated to apply Jewish values in an attempt to reduce and ultimately eliminate child slavery and human trafficking in the cocoa industry. We are selling Fair Trade Kosher for Passover dark chocolate as well as other Fair Trade chocolate products at upcoming temple events and will have educational materials available. The chocolates are high quality and delicious. We hope to raise some much-needed funds!
Mitzvah Day at Alpha House, Sunday, May 31. Coordinators Bob Milstein, [email protected], Marty Ludington, [email protected], and Helena Robinovitz, [email protected]. If you are interested in becoming involved please contact one of them. VOLUNTEER NEEDS
Back Door Food PantryContributions of money , food and personal hygiene products from TBE members continue to be extremely generous and greatly appreciated. As we continue to serve and purchase food for 100 to 140 families weekly your donations are extremely helpful. Thank you very much.
Revised hours for volunteer shifts are: MONDAYS from 12:45-2:45 pm; THURSDAYS from 3-5 pm and from 5-7:30 pm. Please contact [email protected] regarding volunteering or planning an event benefitting BDFP.
Tuesday, April 28 from 7-9 pm: Dessert meeting for our volunteers. Food Gatherers CEO Eileen Spring will speak.
Program and Informational Wrap UpsJubilee congregational dues met! TBE is committed to relieving the burden of onerous international debt on impoverished countries. We are delighted to report that last year’s Jubilee dues of $225 were met with generous donations from our congregation and that we continue to be a supporting congregation.
Zeitouna Visits TBE! On January 4, members of TBE viewed the movie “Refusing to be Enemies” followed by light refreshments and discussion with the amazing women of Zeitouna. This was a very special event with nearly 40 in attendance. We are looking forward to planning another event together. Thanks to Clare Kinberg for purchasing a copy of the film for our library. If you have not had the gift of seeing this movie, consider taking it out to watch. A special thanks to Irene Butter for facilitating this connection. A truly magical evening.
Interfaith Hospitality Network (IHN) at Alpha House 2015 Dates of Service: March 9-15, June 8-14, August 24-30, December 21-27. Alpha House needs YOU! Monday, March 9 through March 15. 5:30 pm drop off a child-friendly meal for 25; 5:30-7pm serve the meal and clean up; 7-8 pm supervise playtime for resident children; or 9 pm-7am spend the night. Questions? contact Helena Robinovitz: [email protected] or 734-475-7751.
Food Gatherers Community Kitchen at the Delonis Center Volunteers needed two different dates per month. Ten (10) volunteers covering two (2) shifts to prepare and serve food.
Second Saturdays, Noon-2:30 pm and 2:30-5 pm. 2015 dates: March 14, April 11, May 9, June 13, and July 11.
Contact Yuni Aaron, 369-4411 or [email protected]. Click here for easy online volunteer registration.
First Mondays, 3-5 pm or 5-7 pm. 2015 dates: March 2, Apr 6, May 4, and July 6. Contact Bette Cotzin, 663-4817 [email protected].
Shoshana Mandel-Warner
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TNT (Twenties and Thirties) Twenties and Thirties (TNT) get together monthly for social and religious programming.
TNT Torah on Tap Tuesday, February 10 | 5:30 pm
Join TNT at the Arena Bar, 203 East Washington Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48104. Contact Avital, [email protected].
Shalom Gever | Peaceful Warrior Martial ArtsMondays & Wednesdays | 4:30–8 pm February 2, 4, 9, 11, 16, 18, 23 & 25
REGISTER TODAY !!!
Health, Healing and Self-Defense
Try out this unique martial arts instruction including lessons in how to live a healthy lifestyle, be energetic, do well in school, and learn anti-bullying self-defense. 12-week semesters for belt advancement. Drop-in when schedules permit. Enrollment is open for students and their parents. Shalom Gever is taught by Rabbi Peter Gluck, 5th Degree Black Belt and martial arts instructor for eighteen years.
Contact: Temple Beth Emeth office or Rabbi Gluck, [email protected] for more registration information.
Youth
Families with Young Children (FYC): Tot Shabbat Service times every FridayFebruary 6, 13, 20 and 27Tot (0–5 year olds) Shabbat Services led by Rabbi Levy, and Cantor Hayut, 6 pmDinner for Tot Shabbat 6:30 pm Popsicle Oneg, 7 pm
All of your favorite songs, tot bots, tot team, Cantor Hayut and Rabbi Levy will hold Tot Shabbat at 6 pm. Join us for macaroni and cheese, fish sticks, applesauce, and salad bar at 6:30 pm. Dinner is just $5 per person and punch cards can be purchased ahead of time for a discounted price. Punch cards are available in the TBE office.
AARTY goes to SkyZone Saturday, February 7 | 6:30 pmJoin the high school age students for an evening of fun and jumping at SkyZone in Canton. To RSVP, email [email protected].
AARTY presents JNN: Jewish Nerd Night Sunday, February 8 | 7:30 pm | TBE LibraryJoin us for our monthly Jewish Nerd nights directly following Religious School on Sunday.
Sukkat Shalom - The Peaceful Shelter of Shabbat Elemetary Shabbat Service with Rabbi Levy Friday, February 6 | 6 pm | TBE Chapel
Join us for another session of what will be a beautiful moment of welcome for both our children and for the Shabbat Bride.
This will be a quieter moment, more suitable for our slightly older children (post Tot Shabbat-5th grade). Rabbi Levy is still refining the program so your feedback is appreciated.
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PresidentHillary Handwerger
VP AdministrationBobbi Heilveil
VP MembershipNoreen DeYoung
VP Programming Carol Milstein
VP Fundraising Yuni Aaron
TreasurerFredda Unangst
Corresponding Secretary
Emily Miller
Oy, such a month—Sisterhood is sooo busy in February. Check out all our events!
More about our Sisterhood Shabbat later—but first I want to share with you want we have given the Temple in the last few months:
• Sisterhood has given $1,600 to the Religious School—Terri said she was going to purchase equipment for the much-used media carts for the classrooms; plus we paid for gelt and dreidles at Hanukah.
• Sent out 19 “packages” to students in the College Connection Program—Thank you Susan Henkin.
• Supported JFS Hanukah Dreidel project—Thanks to Melanie Calef and Sara Krell.
• Provided oneg for OSRUI Camp Shabbat—Dec. 5th (Sisterhood annually provides $2,000 to Rabbi Levy for camperships to OSRUI).
• Held a very successful DAMES dinner with 65 in attendance—thanks to Laura Wallace and her committee.
• Have made $5,000 available to the temple for other youth programming.
• Chanukah Bazaar—Thank you Amy Paberz, Helaine Reid, Ava Adler and all their helpers.
• Held a very interesting and successful Genetic Testing Panel.
• Celebrated with Cello-bration!
Now, I’d like to talk about Sisterhood Shabbat and Saturday’s program. Sisterhood Shabbat will be held on February 20. Our members have created a wonderful, meaningful service for us. On top of that, we are being honored by a member of the Women of Reform Judaism’s (WRJ) coming in to Ann Arbor to speak to us. Sharon K. Benoff is currently WRJ Vice President of Development & Special Projects, has been on the WRJ Board of Directors since 2003, with prior roles as WRJ Vice President of Programming and Advocacy and WRJ Vice President of Service to Sisterhoods. In 2012-2013, Sharon served as the WRJ Centennial Fundraising Chair, responsible for raising millions of dollars to secure WRJ’s future. She is also working with women’s groups in South America helping them organize and join the WRJ organization. At home, she has been an active member of Women of Shir Ami in Newtown, PA. I have known Sharon for a number of years—she is a dynamic, engaging speaker with a wealth of experience. She will be giving the D’vah Torah on Friday night and lead a workshop for us on Saturday, 9:30 am – 2 pm. Cost of the workshop is $10 to cover lunch. Others from Michigan Sisterhoods will be invited. Saturday’s programs will focus on Advocacy/Social Justice—how to organize, what WRJ has already done and “Cultivating Leadership/Sharing Ideas.” If you are interested in coming to our workshop and working with Sharon, contact Hillary Handwerger, 668-6585, [email protected]. Upcoming Events
Busy Women’s Lunch and Movie | Sunday, February 1 | 12:30 pm
After a 12:30 pm Dutch treat lunch at the Red Robin Restaurant on Carpenter Road the group will enjoy a 2 pm showing of Funny Girl at Rave/Ann Arbor 20 + I Max just down the road at 4100 Carpenter Road. Movie tickets are $5.50. To reserve a space contact Sandy Harlacher at [email protected] or call 663-3253.
Tu B’Shevat Seder | Wednesday, February 4 | 6:30 pm
Celebrate Tu B’Shevat by attending the Sisterhood sponsored Sustainability Seder. Like Passover, participants will share in reading the story of the birthday of the trees, share in four glasses of wine (or juice), taste a wide variety of fruits and enjoy a dinner featuring salmon fillets or tofu. Cost $20. After dinner relax over dessert and learn what fantastic things are being done in the Ann Arbor area. Contact Noreen DeYoung at [email protected], 973-2592 or Bobbi Heilveil at [email protected], 994-4261.
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Membership Form 2014/2015We focus on what our membership really wants and needs. Past experience tells us that this does not appear to be monthly social meetings with speakers, deli trays and poker. The range of our events in the last few years is too big to list here, but we do know that an opportunity for fellowship will get attention and an email for help will get the job done. Check our website: http://www.templebethemeth.org/tbe/brotherhood.
Questions? Contact George Brieloff at [email protected]
Temple Beth EmethAttn: Brotherhood,
2309 Packard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48104
Name _______________________________________________________Address _____________________________________________________Phone ______________________________________________________Email _______________________________________________________
Return form with check for $40 dues, optional $50, $75 to:
PresidentGeorge Brieloff [email protected]
TreasurerMarty Ludington [email protected] Vice President, Religious ProgrammingRoger Stutesman [email protected]
Vice President Larry Yonovitz [email protected]
It has been a busy year in Brotherhood! We have had a variety wonderful events this year that have been well attended including our recent Latke Dinner which had over 200 attendees who consumed approximately 800 latkes, 250 hot dogs, five gallons of apple sauce, five gallons of pickles, and two gallons of sour cream. This year TBE Brotherhood reached out to the Men’s Club at Congregation Beth Israel, and we’re planning some joint events (stay tuned). In January 2015, we put together a Brotherhood website which includes our calendar of events for the year, names and contact information of our board members, and a library of photos from past Brotherhood events. To get to the Brotherhood website, go to the TBE website and hit the link. Also this year, Brotherhood has decided to rejoin our national organization (Men of Reform Judaism). Currently, we are working on putting together our calendar of events for 2015-2016.
We are always looking at ways we can include more men of Temple Beth Emeth. If you haven’t attended a Brotherhood event yet, please join us!
Upcoming events for February and March:
Sunday, February 1 | Super Bowl Party | Home of Jan Warner. We’re asking guys to bring their own beverage and something to pass. We’ll supply the chili, pizza, and 60 inch TV for our viewing pleasure. Please RSVP to George Brieloff, [email protected] or 665-6655. When an RSVP is received, Jan’s address will be forwarded.
Saturday, February 14 | Blood Drive @ TBE in the Social Hall | 8:30 am - 2:30 pm. Sign up at redcrossblood.org and access blood drive with code: TBE. Walk ins are allowed but advance sign in is best. Please contact Larry Yonovitz, [email protected] or 971-0625, to assist with this event or if you have any questions.
Saturday, February 28 | Breakfast @ Weber’s | 8:30-10 am. Join the guys for breakfast and some great conversation. We love to eat and schmooze. Please RSVP to George Brieloff, [email protected] or 665-6655.
Thursday, March 26 | Men’s Seder @ TBE in the Social Hall | 6-9 pm. This is a wonderful event for men. This year we have invited Brotherhood members from Kol Ami and Congregation Beth Israel. Dinner will be vegetarian and there is no cost for Brotherhood members. The cost for those not affiliated with Brotherhood is $20. Please RSVP to George Brieloff, [email protected] or 665-6655, by March 18.
George Brieloff Brotherhood President
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Third Grade Family Program on Jewish Names
Photos Courtesy of Carrie Bank
Above: Decorating the frame.
Above: Discussing the name.
Above: Grandma holds paper as student traces her name. Below: Framing their Hebrew names.
Above: Three beautiful Hebrew name plaques. Below: Singing with Andrea.
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Contribution FormPlease find enclosed $________ as a donation to the _____________________________________________________
Fund in honor/memory of_________________________________TBE Funds: Adult Education, Building, Cantor’s Discretionary, Caring Community, Flower, General Fund, Isaac and Pearl Levine Educational, Genesis Landscape, Library, Melvin & Lois Levy Endowment Fund, Memorial Garden Care, Oneg Fund, Music, Professional Development Fund in Honor of Ronnie Simon, Rabbi Levy’s Discretionary, Religious Education, Social Action/Interfaith Hospitality Network, Spiritual Life, Year of Torah, Youth, Youth Scholarship.Sisterhood Funds: College Connections, Barbara F. Heilveil Campership Fund, Sponsorship Fund. Contributions are tax-deductible.
Please send acknowledgement to:
Name _________________________
Address ______________________________________________________________________________________
Donor’s Name_______________________________
Address ______________________________________________________________________________________
Cyber Bullying Workshop | Wednesday, February 11 | 7:30 pm | ChapelTBE Sisterhood and the TBE Religious School are sponsoring a Cyber Bullying Workshop in collaboration with the Washtenaw Area Council for Children. Topics covered will be Cyberbullying, Sexting, Online Predators, Privacy and Ethics and Digital Reputation. The presentation is suitable for parents and middle school students and others. The event will take place in the chapel at TBE.
Elijah | University Choral Union and Ann Arbor Symphony | Saturday, February 14 | 8 pmFrom the mournful wailing of the Jewish people because of drought, through the epic battle with the priests of Baal to the triumphant ascendance of Elijah in a fiery chariot, Felix Mendelssohn’s oratorio Elijah has it all! TBE Sisterhood has reserved 20 tickets for this performance on the mezzanine level of Hill Auditorium. Cost: $21/ticket
If you would like tickets to this performance, please send a check BEFORE FEBRUARY 1, payable to Carol Milstein, 2225 Tilsby Court, Ann Arbor 48103. Anyone who would like to join others for dinner at Tios before the performance, please indicate how many attendees are interested.
Sisterhood Shabbat | Friday, February 20 | 7:30 pmSee the many faces of Sisterhood as members celebrate Shabbat through worship, music and learning. This service, compiled by a group of women who regularly study together, is inspiring. Sharon Benoff, Women of Reform Judaism’s Vice President of Development and Special Projects, will deliver the sermon.
Questions? Noreen DeYoung, [email protected].
TBE SisterhoodAttn: Membership,
2309 Packard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48104
Yes! I want to join the TBE Sisterhood and share in the mitzvah of helping my community.Name ____________________________________________________Address __________________________________________________Phone________________ Email ______________________________
Please send a check (separate from your Temple dues) for $36 (basic membership level) or make an additional donation by paying $54 or $72
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May their memories be for a blessing.
Lots may be purchased over a three year period with no interest. Current prices are: Member, Pre-Need: $1,700 Member, Immediate Need: $1,900 Non-Member: $2,200
Cemetery LotsThe Temple maintains burial lots at Arborcrest Cemetery. Please contact any committee member to arrange a site visit or to purchase lots by phone or for any questions about the cemetery.
TBE Cemetery Committee: Ken Handwerger, 662-0154, Andrea Ludwig, 302-3335, Gary & Harriet Charson, 528-1061, Marty Ludington, 269-967-1556, Ronnie Simon, 429-5935 or Art Lindenberg, 657-0895.
February 6 & 7Florence AbramsEsther AdlerMel BarclayLenore BernsteinRachel Bonnewit-SonsArthur BroekingNita BuglioEdgar CoapmanArthur CohenGeorge CookCarl FriedmanEva FriedmanMax FriedmanJean GentileRae GoldsmithAlbert GoldsteinWilliam Gordon, Jr.Arthur GraineDora GrossmanMickey HaskinRose HoliberLeonard KasleDennis LaemmelFrieda LiebermanEthel LiebowitzWilliam LipsonMargaret LittleCaroline McDermottJason MillerHarry NewmanMilton OffenAbraham PriceEdith RosenbergMaria RozenfeldRon Samuels
Bernard SchwartzFay SingerMorris SprungPhilip SteinRoza Trompetter-van DamRose WagnerRobert Welk
February 13 & 14Siegfried AlexanderSam BassRuth BergerHenrietta BlockSimon BorowitzKathy BoxerKate BrannDavid CaeserMax CharsonGeraldine CohenHarry CohenLloyd EldenEsther FisherMichael FreemanPaul FriedlanderBoris GankinJanos GombosiAnne GordonHenrietta HamburgerDorothy HartMiriam HilfmanRaymond KanagurHarry KaplanAlfred KlunoverJoseph KoresDavid KronickAliene LeSueur
Beth LevineBenjamin LindenbergSamuel MarkelWoong Shik MinIrwin MorrisonSidney PalayJennie ParteeMilton PerlinIrwin SchwartzPatricia ShuttAlice SivakTibor SivakSarah TilmanRandolph WeberMurray Weintraub
February 20 & 21Beatrice AdlerBen BonnewitGlenda BrodkeyRenee BrowerElsie BubashWarren FreibandMorris GoldmanSol HandwergerRachel HarrisonBeatrice HertzJulian HurwitzLydia JacobsJane JosephJustin KestenbaumMarylane LeskoIsaac LevineGloria LitwackHarry LurraineLily MargulisVincent McMahon
Sophie MeskinLouis MillerNeal MillmanSola ModellSam PickusAlice PriceRose PriceEarl David RobertsMary RubinSol SachsCharnee SchatelNathan SilvermanJack SundelsonJakob TomasLucia VeeteesJanet WeintrobStella WeisfeldTore Wilensky
February 27 & 28 Rachel BarnettAnne BassHarry BereshSamuel BlockHarry BornsteinPaula BrandisRob BrombergJudith BruellSheldon ChusidAbraham CopelandMarion DavidsonLouis DiPietroMeyer EisenbergLillian FaginVivian FealkRalph FreedmanBen Freeman
Lena GittermanYvette GlickIda GoldbergRuth Rose GrametRobert GreenleyMax HornSteven HymansWalter JudaRubell KannerMarion KellyHarry KupermanHoke LevinMaxine LevinCharles LittSusan LuntzHyman MarkRochelle MizrahiReuben MokotoffHarry OrringerEva PritzkerSidney RavinsEsther SabbahMitchell ShawSidney SieganKatherine StewartBronia StoneSarah SunshineGoldie TaylorAugusta Woolf
Back Door Food PantryIn loving memory of Deb Weintrob, from Hank Mosberg. In honor of Molly Tyler on the occasion of her birthday, from Laurel Gutterman.Edward & Ellie Davidson
Building Fund Jack & Stephanie Zaientz
Cantor’s Discretionary FundIn honor of Cantor Hayut’s installation, from Ronnie Shapiro.In honor of Cantor Regina Lambert- Hayut’s participation in my father’s funeral service on November 20, 2014, from Ellen Katz. In appreciation of Cantor Hayut’s support of our family during Dorothy Saulles illness and passing, from Howie & Lisa Saulles & family. In honor Cantor Hayut’s installation, from Scott Wilderman & Sondra Bobroff. In memory of Richard Waldinger, and in appreciation of Cantor Hayut, from Thomas & Marcy Waldinger.
Caring Community FundIn honor of Roger and Natalie Palay for their love and friendship, from Arthur & Karen Lindenberg.In honor of Richard and Linda Greene for their love and friendship, from Arthur & Karen Lindenberg.Roger and Natalie Palay for their love and friendship, from Arthur & Karen Lindenberg.
Dreidel Drive Virginia Morgan Richard & Yuni Aaron Burt Steinberg & Ava Adler Alan & Bette Cotzin Annette Fisch Ralph & Deborah Katz Andrea & Bob Ludwig Howie & Lisa Saulles Ronnie Shapiro David & Bethany Steinberg Bill & Jodi Wallo Peter Smith & Martha Weintraub General FundIn memory of Harriet Stern on her Yahrzeit, from Deb Odom Stern.In memory of Mary Newell, from Stephanie Newell.
In honor of the wonderful volunteers who helped make the Rotating Shelter week a great success, from Miriam Shaw.In honor of Ari, Josh, and Daniel Jacob on the occasion of Chanukah, from Theodore Jacob & Julie Gerhardt-Jacob.In memory of my Mom, Jenny Rubin and Dad, Harry Rubin, from Fran Weinstein.Ann GordonJohn and Amy MilanovichIn memory of Melvin Morgenstern on his Yahrzeit, form Frieda Morgenstern.In memory of Grace Borowitz, beloved wife of Irving, mother of Lisa Ensfield, and grandmother of Eli and Sammy Ensfield, from Susan and Dave Gitterman.
Year End DonationsMartin & Kathryn LudingtonRichard & Miriam MeislerHarvey & Robin WaxThea & Barry FishJennifer & Brad CarlsonJaroslav & Kimberly GoldRick & Melissa ReidLawrence & Mary YonovitzIn memory of Saul A. Frank, from Annette Fisch.Allen & Gail GutovitzCarl CohenSusan & Dave GittermanEd & Elaine SneidemanHowie & Lisa SaullesStephanie NewellDavid & Barbara HeilveilClifford & Alice HartDouglas & Joy EnsorDennis Bernstein & Susan KolovsonRonnie ShapiroAllen MenloJacob & Emily SweetSimond & Eva TaylorMae AxelroodSeymour & Lois FreedmanJulie SteinerIn honor of Emily & Ken Wachsberger, from Shirley Wachsberger.
Genesis Landscape FundIn memory of my father, William Brandis, from Charlotte Sundelson.
Library FundIn memory of Albert “Pete” Pickus on his yahrzeit, from Nancy Pickus. Laurel Gutterman.In memory of my husband, Jack Sundelson, from Charlotte Sundelson.
Melvin & Lois Levy EndowmentThanking Rabbi Levy for his kindness in helping us with recent life cycle events - the unveiling of the stone for Dorothy Newman and the baby naming ceremony for our grandson Gabriel Newman, from Sharon & Chuck Newman.
Music Fund In honor of June and Richard Swartz, from Thomas & Marcy Waldinger.
Music & Spirituality EndowmentIn honor of the installation of Cantor Regina Lambert-Hayut, from Rod & Robin Little.Rosanne Emanuele In honor of Cantor Annie Rose for giving voice lessons to our daughter Beth, from Mark & Anne Reinstein.In memory of Grace Borowitz, from Fred and Becky Hankin.
Oneg FundJack Billi MD & Sheryl Hirsch MD Sheila Feigelson Kirk Brower & Claire Weiner In memory of my mother, Paula Brandis, from Charlotte Sundelson.Ronnie ShapiroMartin and Kathryn LudingtonAnnette Fisch
Rabbi’s Discretionary FundIn memory of my mother, Miriam Shapiro, from Ronnie Shapiro.In memory of Harold Field, father of Stephen Field, from Allyn & Sherri Kantor.In memory of Gertrude Resnik, mother of Molly Resnik, from Allyn & Sherri Kantor.In blessed memory of my father John B. Wallace, and gratitude for the Rabbi’s ongoing support, from Laura Wallace.Eph TunkleAnonymous
Thank you so much for streaming your services so that I can still maintain my beloved association with Temple while down here in sunny Florida, from Trudy Wasserman.In appreciation of Rabbi Levy’s support of our family during Dorothy Saulles illness and passing, from Howie & Lisa Saulles & family.In appreciation of Robert Levy’s attendance at the Retirement Dinner for Steven Rhodes, by the Judge Steven Rhodes Tribute Committee.Sally SpiesIn memory of my father, Ellis Brownstein at the time of his Yahrzeit from Leslie Rosenwasser.In memory of Richard Waldinger, and appreciation of Rabbi Levy, from Thomas & Marcy Waldinger.
Religous Ed FundCharles & Melissa Simon
Social Action Fund - Rotating ShelterVirginia MorganKenneth & Hillary HandwergerDavid & Barbara HeilveilJerry & Emily Miller
Youth FundRichard & Lynn Adelman
Sisterhood Knitting FundIn memory of Dan Kerr, from Kenneth & Hillary Handwerger.
Sisterhood College Connection In honor of Shirley Young, sister of Sam Taylor, from Kenneth & Hillary Handwerger.
To donate online, please go to our website (www.templebethemeth.org) and click the teal “Donate Now!” button in the left-hand column.
You can also send checks made payable to “TBE” to 2309 Packard Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48104. Please include a note with the fund you would like to donate to and any tribute message.
Thank you for your continued support!
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Temple Beth Emeth2309 Packard Street Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104
TBE’s Staff and ResourcesRabbi Robert D. Levy ___________________________ [email protected]
Cantor Regina S. Lambert-Hayut _______________ [email protected]
Executive Director SooJi Min [email protected]
Dir. of Education Terri Ginsburg [email protected]
Library Coordinator Clare Kinberg _____________ [email protected]
Director of Congregational Services Avital [email protected]
Clergy Coord. Sarah Krell [email protected]
School Asst. Tressa Hart [email protected]
Saturday School Coordinator Emily [email protected]
Account Manager Amie Brockman [email protected]
Account Administrator Victoria Gross [email protected]
General Office Questions [email protected]
Website_________________________________________www.templebethemeth.org
Family Shabbat Table Talk ___________________________________urj.org/shabbat
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Add your name to these TBE e-mail lists by calling the office
Announcements___________________Weekly announcement of events and servicesHotline _________________________Births, deaths, emergency news (members only)TBE Tots __________________________________________________www.tbetots.orgBeth Israel Funeral Notices_____________________________________Call the office
The TBE Bulletin is published monthly by Temple Beth Emeth | 2309 Packard | Ann Arbor, MI 48104
TBE is a non-profit religious institution in the State of Michigan. Volume 15 | Issue 15
Rabbi Robert D. Levy
Cantor Regina S. Lambert-Hayut
Cantor Emerita Ann Z. Rose
Director of EducationTerri Ginsburg
Executive DirectorSooJi Min
Officers and Board of TrusteesPresidentSusan Gitterman
VP for AdministrationJulie Steiner
VP for Education and YouthLisa Newman
VP for Finance Ronnie Shapiro
VP for Membership Rachel Glick
VP for Religious Practice Alexandria Wood
VP for Social Action Bob Milstein
TreasurerLarry Yonovitz
SecretaryElaine Yeglic
Ex-officio:Immediate Past PresidentDeborah Scott Katz
Sisterhood PresidentHillary Handwerger
Brotherhood PresidentGeorge BrieloffMembers at LargePhil BarrSarah CohenMichele ForbesBonnie KeeneMarjorie LeskoLisa LynchJoe PollakDeb SchildJordan ShavitSteve StancroffJodi WalloMartha Weintraub
Bulletin EditorSooJi Min
Bulletin DesignTressa Hart
Sukkat Shalom with Rabbi Levy Friday, February 6 | 6 pm