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917 Highland Drive Lawrence, KS 66044

(785) 841-7636 [email protected]

Office Hours: Office Hours: Office Hours: Office Hours:

10am-4pm M-F

Board PresidentBoard PresidentBoard PresidentBoard President

Jordan Yochim

Office ManagerOffice ManagerOffice ManagerOffice Manager

Marty Stemmerman

Outreach CoordinatorOutreach CoordinatorOutreach CoordinatorOutreach Coordinator

Steve Hurst

NOVEMBER 2018NOVEMBER 2018NOVEMBER 2018NOVEMBER 2018 LAWRENCE JEWISH COMMLAWRENCE JEWISH COMMLAWRENCE JEWISH COMMLAWRENCE JEWISH COMMUNITY NEWS UNITY NEWS UNITY NEWS UNITY NEWS

“an inclusive and thriving center of Jewish spiritual, cultural and social life for the Lawrence area.”

Shabbat Shabbat Shabbat Shabbat

Service Times Service Times Service Times Service Times

Friday, Nov. 2Friday, Nov. 2Friday, Nov. 2Friday, Nov. 2

6:00pm6:00pm6:00pm6:00pm

Community

Shabbat Dinner

at Oriental Bistro

Saturday, Nov. 10Saturday, Nov. 10Saturday, Nov. 10Saturday, Nov. 10

10:30am10:30am10:30am10:30am

Shabbat

Torah Service


7:00pm7:00pm7:00pm7:00pm

With Herb Friedson

& Martha Taylor


7:00pm7:00pm7:00pm7:00pm

With Susan Elkins &

Jack Winerock


7:00pm7:00pm7:00pm7:00pm

With

Bridey Stangler

All are Welcome!

LJCC 55LJCC 55LJCC 55LJCC 55thththth Annual Blintz BrunchAnnual Blintz BrunchAnnual Blintz BrunchAnnual Blintz Brunch

Sunday, November 4Sunday, November 4Sunday, November 4Sunday, November 4thththth, 2018, 2018, 2018, 2018

10:00 AM to 2:00 PM10:00 AM to 2:00 PM10:00 AM to 2:00 PM10:00 AM to 2:00 PM

Inside this issue:Inside this issue:Inside this issue:Inside this issue:

Adult Education ……..………….4

Board Update……………………...7

Calendar…….….…..…..…...…....2

Comics Corner……………..…….6

Contributions.….……..........…..4

Der Yiddisher Vinkel…………..5

Events & Activities……..1, 4, 6

Grocery Certificates…….…..4

Outreach report…………….…..1

Religious School News……...3

Mark your Calendars for the up coming 55th

Annual Blintz Brunch! A Fantas�c

Time will be had by ALL! Remember to set your Clocks back one Hour on

Saturday night before bed for the start of Daylight Savings Time!

♦ Bake Sale & Brunch! Not only are we serving delicious Blintzes with

orange slices, sour cream, & your choice of Strawberry topping or

cinnamon & sugar, and Gourmet Coffee, BUT the Bake Sale will have a

selec�on of Home Baked cakes and pastries, Babkas from Brooklyn, and

chopped liver, Kosher Salamis and other delicacies such as Bagel & Lox

shmears to eat here!

♦ Herb’s Fantas�c Gi� Shop will be open with an assortment of Judaica,

such as Chanukkiah’s, Jewish Books, Art, jewelry, fancy knitwear and

other irresis�ble goodies.

♦ Silent Auc�on: Last but not least we will have our Silent Auc�on

Upstairs, with a wide variety of unique items including Original signed Art

from well known Ar�sts, autographed Books by LJCC member & alumni

authors, gently used tools for the handymen & women, jewelry, exo�c

Fragrance perfumes from NY, like new Bicycles & Helmets, and for the

very first �me, a “GIFT BASKET RAFFLE”! Several extremely nice Gi7

Baskets have been donated with various themes: Wine Basket; Bird

Lovers Basket; Judaic Cooking Baskets; Jewelry Baskets, some with

unique an�que jewelry.

Come Join the Fun! Visit our 55th

Annual LJCC Blintz Brunch! Steve Hurst

LJCC Blintz Brunch Coordinator

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November Calendar

Friday, Nov. 2 6:00pm Community Shabbat

Dinner at Oriental

Bistro

Saturday, Nov. 3 10am—

noon

Drop off baked goods,

help set up for brunch

Sunday, Nov. 4 10:00am

- 2:00pm

55th Annual Blintz

Brunch!

Saturday, Nov. 10 9:30am LJCC Religious

School

10:30am Shabbat Torah

Service

Potluck Kiddush

luncheon to follow

Thursday, Nov. 15 5:00pm Wise Aging Group

7:30pm Adult Education with

Rabbi Mark Levin

Friday, Nov. 16 7:00pm Shabbat Service with

Herb Friedson &

Martha Taylor

Herb’s 85th birthday

celebration oneg!

Sunday, Nov. 18 9:30am LJCC Board

Meeting

Thursday, Nov. 22 Thanksgiving—office

closed


Susan Elkins & Jack

Winerock


Bridey Stangler

Sunday, Nov. 25 11:00am

-12:30pm

Gift Shop Open

House!

Chloe Rombach Cousin of Pat Bates

Daryl Cantor Cousin of Cheryl Lester

Neil Brooks Nephew of Cheryl Lester

Marc Frost Brother of Heather Frost

Jim Schneider

Bob Schulman

Corinne Anderson

Lee Wright

Sharyn Katzman

Shirley Garfield

Herb Primrose Friend of Pat Bates

Terri Rosen

Jan Loux (loo)

Chaim Reuven

ben Dina

Cousin of Cheryl Lester

George Martin

Tara Deaver

Dylan Ryan

Dehncke

Harry George Shaffer November 3, 2009

Ethel Einstein November 5, 1958

Dorothe Greenberg November 5, 1988

Carl Leban November 6, 1981

Manya Raffelock November 12, 1951

Jean Levine November 13, 1990

Louis Weiskopf November 15, 2006

Ruth Friedson November 16, 1990

Leah Berkowitz November 17, 1990

Neil Salkind November 18, 2017

Harold Lionel "Hal" Keltz November 21, 2003

Eva Edmands Acher November 21, 2014

Robert Winner November 22, 2013

Mary Sue "Simrain" Skie November 25, 2016

Iris Pollack November 27, 1997

Shirley Brown Schwartz November 28, 2016

Ida Tabachnik Winerock November 28, 1999

Emmy Fischbein Herzfeld November 29, 1983


As the LJCC prepares for its third month of the new Religious School program, we must admit that it’s probably

�me for a renaming. It’s not religious school – not in the way most of us grew up thinking about it. The bulk of the

learning isn’t, a7er all, in the school, but a7er “religious school” session ends, at the dining room tables, in the kitch-

ens, and cars of our community’s Jewish families. The goal is not to have a child leave that Saturday morning with new

knowledge, then, but rather to have a prop or discussion piece to carry with them the rest of the month.

Consider the “teeny �ny torahs” made in October. These cute li@le projects were at first considered by some

to be just that – a fluffy ac�vity around a Jewish theme intended to fill the �me. But children were encouraged to

select a prayer that spoke to them deeply about their own faith and to use it throughout the month as a touchstone.

We discussed how they might be read on Shabbat evenings as candles were lit, or as a way to feel grounded during

the stresses of the school day. Then, a week later, one child’s family posted to social media how he used his torah to

explain his Judaism to classmates. This boy had chosen the Sh’ma to go in his torah scroll, and his teacher read the

prayer aloud to the class.

If we seek to impart all Jewish knowledge to our children in one hour a month, we’ll fail—and abysmally. Let

us instead see this monthly Family Shabbat as an opportunity to return to community and ins�ll a love of our faith and

tradi�ons. Let us share with children the tools to prac�ce Judaism and with parents, the language to imbue life with a

sense of Jewish wonder.

The Family Shabbat Experience is open to everyone and the support of all genera�ons is needed to create a

las�ng love of Judaism. Please feel free to join the celebra�on on the second Saturday morning of every month.

SHABBAT MORNING SCHEDULE

(2nd Shabbat of each month)

9:00 a.m.

Breakfast is served! Families are invited for a morning nosh before diving in.

9:30 a.m.

Family Shabbat Begins with stories and song.

10:20 a.m.

Kids are released from age-specific programming

10:30 a.m.

All members of the congrega�on sit down to Shabbat morning worship together.

First Aliyah

Kids will leave the service to con�nue with age-specific programming while the

adult congrega�on remains for more in-depth study and discussion of the weekly parshah.

12:00

The whole congrega�on enjoys a Shabbat Kiddush luncheon.

Moving forward, the LJCC religious school is known simply as “Family Shabbat.” It is the point in the month

when we return to each other and return to Shabbat. It is our chance to jump back into our faith and tradi�ons—

together.

Religious School NewsReligious School NewsReligious School NewsReligious School News Bridey Stangler Bridey Stangler Bridey Stangler Bridey Stangler

Religious School CoordinatorReligious School CoordinatorReligious School CoordinatorReligious School Coordinator

The LJCC’s

Family Shabbat

and children’s

programming is

funded in part

by a grant from

the

Flo Harris

Foundation.

October Contributions


CONTRIBUTIONS

Remember that purchasing grocery certificates benefits the LJCC while costing nothing extra to the user!

We all need to eat… We all need to buy gas… Why not benefit the LJCC at the same time? It’s easy!

Contact Marty in the office with any questions.

Many thanks to the following people who have chosen to benefit the LJCC by purchasing certificates this month:

Don’t Forget Don’t Forget Don’t Forget Don’t Forget

Grocery & Grocery & Grocery & Grocery &

GasGasGasGas

Certificates!Certificates!Certificates!Certificates!

Judy Roitman

Heather Frost Marty Stemmerman

Jan Stewart Jonathan Paretsky

General Fund David & Katherine Berkowitz In loving memory of their parents: Morton Harry Berkowitz Leah Ruben Berkowitz Dale Edward Kline Margaret Jean Kline Suzanne Sherr In appreciation and admiration of all the leaders of our High Holiday services. Thank you. Virginia Katz Jerome Berkowitz & Nancy Briggs Martin & Maureen Winkler In loving memory of Edward Winkler Barri & Nathan Horn Miles & Paula Schnaer In appreciation of the High Holiday services. Adult Education Susan Elkins & Jack Winerock Martin & Maureen Winkler We list donations received with the exception of dues or pledge

payments. If you would prefer not to have your donation listed,

please let us know.

Sign up to benefit the LJCC every time

you make a purchase from Amazon!

Support the LJCC every time you make a purchase from Amazon. It’s easy!

Here’s how it works:

• Go to smile.amazon.com and sign up, choosing “Lawrence Jewish Community, Inc.”

• After you sign up, your future purchases (minus shipping, gift wrapping, etc.) automatically contrib-ute .05 percent to the LJCC.

• Just start your purchases at smile.amazon.com. You don't have to do anything else special, and there’s no cost to you.

• Contact the LJCC office with any questions.

Adult Education Adult Education Adult Education Adult Education with with with with

Rabbi Mark LevinRabbi Mark LevinRabbi Mark LevinRabbi Mark Levin

Thursday, November 15Thursday, November 15Thursday, November 15Thursday, November 15

7:30pm7:30pm7:30pm7:30pm

Rabbi Levin is available for pastoral counseling

appointments on the Thursdays that he is here.

Email him at [email protected] to

schedule an appointment.


Der Yiddisher Vinkel Der Yiddisher Vinkel Der Yiddisher Vinkel Der Yiddisher Vinkel Do you have Do you have Do you have Do you have mazel tovmazel tovmazel tovmazel tov? (Or ? (Or ? (Or ? (Or vos iz ayer tsaykhnvos iz ayer tsaykhnvos iz ayer tsaykhnvos iz ayer tsaykhn?)?)?)?)

Part 1 Part 1 Part 1 Part 1 Jonathan ParetskyJonathan ParetskyJonathan ParetskyJonathan Paretsky

As I write this month's column, my birthday is fast approaching. I was born on October 27, which makes me

a Scorpio. And that awareness got me thinking about astrology and signs from the heavens.

Our ancient ancestors lived in a world at best dimly lit at night, with no electric or gas lights. One can try to

imagine how bright the heavenly bodies must have shone in the dry night air! There was great mystery as to

what those overhead lights, seemingly arranged in designs, could be, and why certain designs appeared at

certain �mes of the year. Equally mysterious were the wandering stars—the planets—and the bright sun of

the day and the luminous moon of the night. All of those wanderers traveled within the confines of twelve

specific pictures, or constella�ons, seen in the arrangement of the "fixed" stars. Surely the mo�ons of all

these things had significance for us.

We are accustomed to saying mazl tov as a message of congratula�ons. The word mazl, which is derived

from Hebrew and has come to mean "luck," originally referred to the stars and constella�ons, and the signs

of the Zodiac are mazoles. As language evolved, the word came to refer to a fiLng or a suitable �me be-

cause the constella�ons are in certain posi�ons on certain days and at certain �mes. Mazl tov thus meant

"a good star" or an "auspicious omen." We recall Shakespeare's Parolles, who was "born under a charitable

star." Over �me, "a good star" evolved to mean "good luck" and then a congratulatory recogni�on of some

happy event. The Germanic word shtern is less ambiguous: it means a star, with less of the metaphorical

meaning that mazl has.

Jewish tradi�on, much like gen�le tradi�on, a@ached great significance to astrology. For example, in the

Talmud, Rav Papa said, "A Jew should avoid li�ga�on with gen�les in the month of Av, because his mazl is

bad; he should move the court case to Adar, when his mazl is good." (I wonder why we weren’t taught this

in law school. Professor Go@lieb? Professor Shapiro? Professor Levy? Professor Lovitch?)

In this month's column we look at the sun and the moon, which appear to

move through the "houses" of the Zodiac.

Di zun is the sun. Di zun shaynt glaykh, oyf orem un raykh. The sun shines

the same on both the poor and the rich. Di eygene zun makht layvnt vays,

un dem tsigayner shwarts. The same sun makes lined white and a gypsy

black.

Di levone is the moon. Men muz di levone mekhadesh zayn, azoy lang zi sht-

eyt. One should bless the new moon as long as possible. What is meant is

that one should take advantage of an opportunity when it arises.

Next month we will address what to call the sun signs if we translate their

names from Hebrew or La�n into Yiddish. In the mean�me...


LJCC Announcements

Bake Sale Reminder

Bring in your Home Baked Goods and Jewish

Ethnic Foods on Saturday Morning, Nov. 3rd

from 10am—noon. Please have your baked

items a@rac�vely packaged for sale, with in-

gredients listed. Contact Steve Hurst with

any ques�ons.

Blintz Brunch Volunteers

Please remember to show up for your shi7 15

minutes ahead of �me! We especially need

some people who are willing to stay a7er the

brunch to help clean up and get things back

in order. Contact Steve Hurst at 766-0029 or

[email protected] if you can help out.

November 16 Service & Celebra�on!

In thanksgiving for his 85th

birthday, Herb Friedson and

Martha Taylor will lead the

Shabbat service on

Friday November 16 and

sponsor the oneg a7er the

service. We hope you will

be able to join us for this special Shabbat!

Chanukah at the Gi� Shop The first night of Chanukah

is early this year, Sunday

December 2nd. The Gi7

Shop will be open for your

shopping convenience on

Sunday November 25th,

11:00 to 12:30 p.m. and by

appointment (call Herb 841 3328). The Gi7

Shop carries a wide selec�on of Chanukah

merchandise including candles, menorahs,

dreidles, gelt, toys, games, decora�ons, gi7

wrap and much more. Mark your calendar

and support the Gi7 Shop.

The Comics Corner The Comics Corner The Comics Corner The Comics Corner Jonathan Paretsky

The September newsle@er inaugurated this column with Jewish War

Heroes. This month, we take up a segment from a comic book that

came out right a7er World War II. The comic compares allied bombing

missions to the legendary golem that saved the Jews of Prague. From

The Challenger, July 1946, Writer: Bob Bernstein; Inks: Joe Kubert.


LJCC Board President Jordan Yochim 785-218-1310 [email protected]

Vice-President Michael Hennecke 785-979-1166 [email protected]

Treasurer Martin Winkler 847-370-5125 [email protected]

Corresponding Secretary Suzanne Sherr 785-842-2557 [email protected]

Past President Jonathan Paretsky 785-832-8993 [email protected]

Members-at-Large Pat Bates 785-842-0303 [email protected]

John Hoopes 785-841-7636 [email protected]

Leslie Newman 785-843-3388 [email protected]

Cheryl Lester 785-841-7636 [email protected]

Jonathan Paretsky 785-832-8993 [email protected]

Greg Rudnick 785-542-9874 [email protected]

Erica Fox Zabusky 785-840-9611 [email protected]

JCW JCW Board Representative Shelley Skie 785-760-3448

Past President Martha Taylor 785 841-3328

JCW Gift Shop Herb Friedson 785-841-3328

L’dor V’dor L’dor V’dor L’dor V’dor L’dor V’dor

SocietySocietySocietySociety

Herman & Louise Leon

Robert Einstein (deceased)

Susan Elkins &

Jack Winerock

Anita Herzfeld

Frances & Floyd Horowitz

Dinah Lovitch

Judith Roitman

Beverly & Howard

Rosenfeld

Leni & Neil Salkind

Artie Shaw

John W. Hoopes &

Lauren Mattleman Hoopes

David & Sharyn Brooks Katzman

The L’Dor V’dor Society is a group

of individuals who have left prop-

erty or funds to the LJCC in their

estate plans. This Society is open

to everyone, and the only require-

ment is to let the Treasurer know

that you have mentioned the LJCC

in your estate plan. Exact details

of what is allocated are not re-

quired, but the estate plan must be

properly executed.

LJCC Board Report

The LJCC Board met on Sunday, October 21 at 9:30am.

Items discussed included:

♦ The Sukkot celebration went well, with 40 people in attendance.

♦ The new Family Shabbat programming for Religious School has had a successful start.

♦ The Cemetery Committee has received a request from another congregation to join with LJCC in using B’nai Israel cemetery.

♦ Maintenance costs for cemetery approved.

♦ Discussion of Blintz Brunch plans, including pre-brunch expenses.

♦ Volunteers have stepped up to help with the Silent Auction.

♦ Concern of the feasibility of continuing Adult Education due to low turn-out.

♦ Concern over low numbers of volunteers at LINK.

♦ Plans for Chanukah celebration discussed.

♦ Discussion of the use of the building on Shabbat mornings. Review of LJCC policies.

Questions about board activity may be addressed to any board member.

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Lawrence, KS 66044

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