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Steve Hurst

OCTOBER 2018OCTOBER 2018OCTOBER 2018OCTOBER 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.”

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Friday, Oct. 5Friday, Oct. 5Friday, Oct. 5Friday, Oct. 5

7:00pm7:00pm7:00pm7:00pm With Cheryl Lester

Saturday, Oct. 13Saturday, Oct. 13Saturday, Oct. 13Saturday, Oct. 13

10:30am10:30am10:30am10:30am With Sam Brody &

Carrie Caine


7:00pm7:00pm7:00pm7:00pm With Cheryl Lester


7:00pm7:00pm7:00pm7:00pm With Shiray

Shabbat

All are Welcome!

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Adult Education ……..………….5

Calendar…….….…..…..…...….….2

Contributions.….……..........…..4

Der Yiddisher Vinkel…………..5

Events & Activities….3, 5,6, 7

Grocery Certificates…….…..4

Outreach report………………..3

Religious School News……...6

What does it mean to be a community? From the early days of the LJCC, it

has meant finding a place of belonging, a place to be with those who share

the same values and history, a place to find camaraderie in coming together

with a shared vision. In our current society, community is o!en defined a

li"le differently, with so much of what we call community taking place in

front of a screen, with no real connec%on to the warmth of a voice speaking

our name, eyes gree%ng us in recogni%on, arms held out to offer an embrace.

Historically, membership in a Jewish community has demanded a sense of

shared responsibility for one another, the mitzvah of caring for those mem-

bers of the community who are in need, as well as coming together to cele-

brate life’s joys. This is the community that we strive for, yet it is not some-

thing that can be achieved by only a few.

There are many opportuni%es coming up for you to par%cipate in this sense

of community. Come to Shabbat services and stay to visit with friends or get

to know someone new. Show up for the Blintz rolling on Oct. 7. Join in the

conversa%on at Adult Ed on Oct. 18. Celebrate a baby naming on October 20.

Come out to learn and write together in the “Wri%ng Jewish” workshop and

symposium on October 21. Help us feed the hungry at LINK on Oct. 25. Find

out how you can help with the Blintz Brunch on November 4. As LJCC

member Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg wrote so beau%fully recently, “...we can’t

sustain posi�ve change in our lives without the help of one another. By open-

ing our eyes to the wonder of how we can show up for each other and our-

selves, we may just find the right steps, words, breaths, and s�llnesses to

arrive right where we are, in the promised land of this beau�ful life even

while trudging through the desert of brokenness, injus�ce, heartbreak, and

grief.” (carynmirriamgoldberg.com)

CALENDAR

LAWRENCE JEWISH COMMUNITY NEWS

Yahrzeit

Mi Shebeirach

October Calendar

Friday, Oct. 5 7:00pm Shabbat Service

with Cheryl Lester

Oneg sponsored by

Cheryl Lester in

honor of Philip’s

birthday

Sunday, Oct. 7 10:00am Blintz Rolling!

Saturday, Oct. 13 9:30am LJCC Religious

School

10:30am Shabbat Torah Ser-

vice with Sam Brody

& Carrie Caine

Potluck Kiddush

luncheon to follow

Thursday, Oct. 18 5:00pm Wise Aging Group

7:30pm Adult Education with

Rabbi Mark Levin


Oneg sponsored by

Martin & Maureen

Winkler

Saturday, Oct. 20 4:00pm Becker baby naming

Sunday, Oct. 21 9:30am LJCC Board

Meeting

10am—

noon

“Writing Jewish”

workshop with

Caryn Mirriam-

Goldberg

1:45— “Writing Jewish”

symposium

Thursday, Oct. 25 12:30pm LJCC serves LINK


with Shiray Shabbat

Rick B. Litwin October 5, 1986

Dorothy Elkins October 11, 2012

Milton Shalinsky October 14, 2000

Herbert Brill October 13, 2014

Carol Newman October 13, 2017

Homer Melgren October 20, 2014

Ida Marks October 21, 1937

Anne Biller Gottlieb October 24, 2012

Stuart Levine October 29, 2016

Sara J. Cohen October 30, 1999

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


Blintz Rolling Sunday, October 7 10:00am

Please join your friends from the LJCC in Rolling our homemade Spinach and Potato Blintzes that we sell in frozen

packages at the Bake Sale at our annual Blintz Brunch. We sold out last year for the first %me, so let’s keep up the

good work! All hands are welcome, but we are s%ll needing a few helpers for these specific tasks:

1. Pick up ba"er from Biggs on Saturday between 2-4 and bringing it to the Center.

2. Bring completed blintzes to HyVee on 6th

Street following blintz rolling on Sunday.

Lunch is being provided but feel free to bring a veggie or fruit tray and some drinks to add to the repast!

PLEASE Sign up on line: h!p://signup.com/go/xTU1A7

or call/email call Steve Hurst at (785) 766-0029, [email protected]

55th Annual Blintz Brunch! Sunday, November 4 10:00am—2:00pm

The Blintz Brunch itself is fast approaching on Sunday, November 4th

, 2018 so we really need your volunteer help! As

you know, a good part of our success is due to the diverse ac%vi%es offered at our Blintz Brunch. Specific tasks we

need helpers for are:

1. Waiters 9:45-12:00 and 11:45-2

2. Kitchen help-warm and serve blintzes 9:45-12:00 and 11:45-2

3. Silent Auc%on prep for auc%on, set up Nov 3, tear down following brunch

If you have helped at the Brunch previously and want to sign-up for the same posi:on please sign-up on line at:

h!p://signup.com/go/m4UDsz or, call/E-mail Steve Hurst at (785) 766-0029, [email protected]

Bake Sale: Of course as always we look forward to your baked goods and ethnic foods for our bake sale. Plan to

bring them in Saturday morning, Nov 3rd

, 10am—noon. We need all kinds of yummy treats - cookies, cakes, pies,

kugels, soups, ethnic foods, vegetarian, etc.. Please make sure that all bake sale items are a"rac%vely packaged

with ingredients listed.

Silent Auc:on: We need your help! Here are some ideas.

♦ If you have some unique Art or an%ques, jewelry, collectors items, Tickets to KU games, the KU Theatre or the

Lied center for events that you know you can’t make, please consider dona%ng them to our Silent Auc%on.

Please include the following:

1. descrip%on of item, phone photo would help

2. es%mated value

3. what the minimum price you would want to sell it for.

♦ Solicit your favorite salon, specialty store or restaurant for a gi! cer%ficate dona%on.

♦ Create a gi! basket to be raffled off. Raffle is new this year. Put together baby items, food items, bath and

beauty items, bird goodie basket. Buy items yourself or solicit from establishments.

You can drop items off at the LJCC or contact Steve Hurst. The sooner we get items, the more prepared we will be

with bid sheets and descrip%ons.

Gi? Shop: Wait un%l you see what Herb has in store for us. Fabulous as always!

Thanks so much for your help! Steve Hurst, LJCC Outreach Coordinator

September 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!

Heather Frost Martha Taylor Judy Roitman

Susan Elkins

Goody Garfield

Marty Stemmerman

Shelley Skie

Pat Bates

General Fund Martin & Maureen Winkler In loving memory of Selma Winkler Bob & Lynne Holt Shawn & Doug Holiday

Nomi Redding

Nicole Bakerink & Hernan Slepakoff Richard & Shari Barr Mark & Stacie Eliades Becker Jessica Kunen

Herman Leon

Jonathan Paretsky & Rachel Lyle

Judy Green

Erica Landsberg

In loving memory of Barbara & John Landsberg

Herb Friedson & Martha Taylor In honor of everyone who volunteers

Jerry Yochim

Ruth P. Sussman

In honor of Sam Brody & Carrie Caine

Dinah & Fred Lovitch

Charles & Michelle Heller Marni Kessler Alison Dishinger Herb & Suzanne Achleitner Michael & Rita York Hennecke

Bob & Lynne Holt Larry & Linda Maxey

In memory of Neil Salkind

In honor of Hilda Enoch

Benjamin Schwab & Germain Halegoua

Louis & Rachel Levy

Sara Paretsky

In memory of David & Mary Paretsky

In honor of Jonathan Paretsky

Harvey & Mary Steir Suzanne Lange

Adult Education Fund Jessica Kunen

Linda & Larry Maxey

Cemetery Fund Santa Fe Trail Historical Society

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 con-tribute .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.


Der Yiddisher Vinkel Der Yiddisher Vinkel Der Yiddisher Vinkel Der Yiddisher Vinkel Our fourOur fourOur fourOur four----legged friends legged friends legged friends legged friends

(and foes)(and foes)(and foes)(and foes)

Jonathan ParetskyJonathan ParetskyJonathan ParetskyJonathan Paretsky

Rachel and I recently adopted an older, blind

dachshund. While watching her (the dachshund, not Ra-

chel) stumble around the house, bonking into furniture,

the other dogs, and us, it occurred to me that the read-

ers of this column might like some informa%on about

our animal companions and adversaries.

An animal in Yiddish is a khaye or a bal-khay. A

dog is a hunt, and three dachshunds are dray vursht-

hint, or the fourth plague—noxious beasts—visited upon

Pharaoh. A cat is a katz, a male cat is a koter, and The

Cat in the Hat is Di katz der payats (the cat [is] a clown),

a book translated by Sholem Berger. A mouse is a moyz,

and three blind mice are dray blinde mayz.

Down on the farm, a cow is a ku, a horse is a

ferd, a duck is a katshke, and a chicken is a hun. A pig is a

khazer; my late father would refer to greasy, yucky sub-

stances as khazeray, which I much later learned was "pig

-stuff".

A fly is a flig, a flea is a floy, a mosquito is a ko-

mar, and a spider is a shpin. And, just to cover our bases,

a bird is a foygl and a dinosaur is a dinozaver. (I

acknowledge that some of these creatures are more

than or less than four-legged.)

As you would guess, many, many proverbs

involve animals. Here is a very small selec%on:

A hunt vos bilt, bayst nit. A dog that is barking

doesn't bite.

Az di katz geyt avek hobn di mayz mekhaye.

When the cat is away, the mice have a good %me.

Er iz shoyn geven oyfn ferd un untern ferd. He has

been both on the horse and under the horse. [He's expe-

rienced both good %mes and bad.]

Az me lozt a khazer in gortn arayn, ken men im

azoy gikh nit poter vern. A!er you let a pig get in your

garden, you can't get rid of him just as easily.

Az men hot aroysgeganvet di ku, makht men der-

nakh di shtal tsu. A!er someone stole the cow, they

locked the barn.

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

Rabbi Mark LevinRabbi Mark LevinRabbi Mark LevinRabbi Mark Levin

Thursday, October 18Thursday, October 18Thursday, October 18Thursday, October 18

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

The importance, rank, & value The importance, rank, & value The importance, rank, & value The importance, rank, & value

Of Israel in our lives. Of Israel in our lives. Of Israel in our lives. Of Israel in our lives.

What are the inputs, the values, the criteria by

which we judge?

How have events over the past few years:

♦ the Kotel controversy

♦ the status of conversions in Israel

♦ treatment of the Pales%nians

♦ the Na%on-State Law

♦ the wars in Gaza

affected our aUtudes and affec%on/disaffec%on

for Israel?”

Join us for this important and %mely conversa%on.

Rabbi Levin is available for pastoral counseling

appointments on the Thursdays that he is here.

Email him at [email protected] to

schedule an appointment.


LJCC Announcements

Help Us Feed the Hungry!

Come join us the fourth Thursday of every month

as we take our turn at the Lawrence Interdenomi-

na%onal Nutri%onal Kitchen (LINK) at the First

Chris%an Church downtown. A dedicated crew of

regulars has been providing casseroles, fruit,

dessert, and more for many years, but we always

need more help, especially with serving and clean-

ing up. Prep and food delivery start at 11:30, serv-

ing from 1 to 2, and cleanup from noon to 2:30 or

so. Look for the link to our LINK SignUp page sent in

email and in weekly announcements. And, as an

extra bonus — it’s fun!

Judy Roitman

LJCC LINK coordinator

LJCC Yiskor List Updates

Please let us know if there were issues with names

that were read (or le! out) at the Yiskor service on

Yom Kippur. If you would like to review the current

Yiskor list to make sure your loved ones are listed,

contact Marty in the LJCC office.

Dillons Rewards Program

We currently have 20 households signed up to benefit

the LJCC each %me they use their rewards card to buy

groceries or gas at Dillons/Kwik Shop. This is another

way to benefit the LJCC at no cost to you! If you haven’t

yet done so, visit the Dillons website at

www.dillons.com/communityrewards Enter LI659 to

have your purchases from Dillons and Kwik Shop benefit

the LJCC. Select Lawrence Jewish Community and click

‘enroll’.

The LJCC leadership took a bold step this summer: they

dismantled the Religious School. No longer do our chil-

dren gather on Sunday mornings for school, no longer

do they sit at tables and desks in an otherwise near-

empty building. Nope. Now, we gather for Shabbat.

Children and parents together, along with all who seek

a Shabbos minyan, spend a morning celebra%ng the day

of rest. There’s not much about it that feels like

“school.” It’s a Shabbat experience – and all are wel-

come.

Families of children age three to seventh grade are par-

%cularly invited to a"end the Shabbat morning experi-

ence and worship the first Saturday morning of each

month.

9:15 a.m. Come early to grab coffee, cocoa, or a

morning snack!

9:30 a.m. The morning kicks off with music and stories

to set the tone and theme for the day.

9:50 a.m. Kids scamper off for age-appropriate, experi-

en%al programs on the chosen theme, while parents

refresh their coffee and se"le in for a relaxed discussion

of issues surrounding Jewish families and childhood.

10:20 a.m. Regroup!

10:30 a.m. Families join the whole community for

Shabbat morning worship. A!er the first aliyah, kids

gather for relevant and – again! – age-appropriate, ex-

perien%al programs.

11:45 a.m. Potluck Kiddush Luncheon

But this monthly Shabbat experience can hardly stand

alone. Rather, it should serve as a launch pad for fami-

lies as we exercise tradi%ons and create new rituals in

our own homes and as a community.

Weekly Hebrew tutoring for children 3rd

grade and

above, as well as b’nai mitzvah prepara%on are s%ll vital

components of the educa%on program at the LJCC with

more informa%on to follow in the coming weeks.

Shana Tova to all!

Bridey Stangler

Religious School Coordinator

Religious School News

Join us to celebrate the Join us to celebrate the Join us to celebrate the Join us to celebrate the naming of our daughternaming of our daughternaming of our daughternaming of our daughter

Saturday, October 20, 2018Saturday, October 20, 2018Saturday, October 20, 2018Saturday, October 20, 2018 4:00pm4:00pm4:00pm4:00pm

Mark & Stacie Eliades BeckerMark & Stacie Eliades BeckerMark & Stacie Eliades BeckerMark & Stacie Eliades Becker


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

“Writing Jewish: Midrash, Myth and Miracles”“Writing Jewish: Midrash, Myth and Miracles”“Writing Jewish: Midrash, Myth and Miracles”“Writing Jewish: Midrash, Myth and Miracles”

Sunday, October 21Sunday, October 21Sunday, October 21Sunday, October 21

10am10am10am10am----5:30pm5:30pm5:30pm5:30pm

“Writing Jewish: Midrash, Myth and Miracles” is the second annual offering of the “Jews in the Mid-west” speaker series. This one-day writing workshop plus symposium celebrates Jewish literature and crea-tive writing in the heartland.

For a complete schedule, please visit: https://jewishstudies.ku.edu/2018symposium

The morning writing workshop from 10am-12pm is hosted by Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg (2009-13 Kansas Poet Laureate). Writing our own midrash – the Hebrew tradition of re-visioning traditional texts from the To-rah and beyond – allows us to get into the control room of cultural and religious dominant narratives to re-script how we live and re-vision who we are. Using innovative and short writing prompts based on poetic meanderings through midrash, you’ll find your way into unearthing and inventing individual and collective stories that can lead to greater freedom and resilience.

The afternoon symposium from 1:45pm – 5:00pm will feature talks by Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg (2009-13 Kansas Poet Laureate), Renee Perelmutter (Associate Professor of Jewish studies and Slavic languages and literatures at KU), and Rena Rossner (author, and literary agent based in Israel).

Both programs are free. The symposium is open to the public, but the writing workshop requires a reserva-tion. RSVP to the writing workshop here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/writing-workshop-with-caryn-

mirriam-goldberg-tickets-47568657134

Lunch is provided for participants in the writing workshop. If you need a Kosher lunch, please email [email protected] or call (785) 864-4664 before October 5.

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