“...to do justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with thy God.”

TEMPLE BNAI ISRAEL’S MEMBERS & FRIENDS NEWSLETTER

SHEVAT-ADAR 5776

The Bulletin FEBRUARY 2016

106 Years and growing!

Board of Directors 2

President’s Message 3

Rabbinic Reflections 4

Weekly Readings 4

Services, Spirituality Task Force 5

Committee Updates 6

Temple Family News, Drop-In Kabbalah, Study Session with Beth El, Save The Dates

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Your Library & Religious School 8-9

Windham No-Freeze Shelter 10

Daughters of Abraham and the Peace

Islands Institute 11

Winter Food Extravaganza and Chili Cook off entry/reservation form

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Sephardic Cooking Event 13

Donations 19

Yahrzeits 20-22

Calendar 23

More good things Back cover

In this issue

Save The Date For Our

Winter Food Extravaganza

(aka our 9th Annual Chili Cook Off)!

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28th, 4:00pm (snow date March 6)

NEW THIS YEAR: a delightfully delectable pasta bar (with gluten free options!)

RETURNING THIS YEAR: our make-your-own-sundae ice cream bar, and the

Goldens’ whitefish feast!

FOR ADULTS: Great beer to go with those slammin chili recipes!

FOR CHILDREN: A perfectly plump piñata!

So what if it’s cold outside……brrrrrr!

You’ll be warmed up in no time with great food and great company!!

So crank up that crock pot and dig out the chili recipe! Turn to page 12 for entry and reservation information!

SEE YOU THERE!

Rabbi Jeremy Schwartz Office hours:

Tuesday through Friday To schedule an appointment call

860.423.3743 Ext. 0 or e-mail office@templebnaiisrael.org

Confidential Voice Mail: 860.423.3743 Ext. 1

ravjeremy@templebnaiisrael.org

Affiliations: The Jewish

Reconstructionist Movement www.jewishrecon.org

Jewish Federation of Eastern Connecticut

www.jfec.com

Windham Area Interfaith Ministry (WAIM) www.waimct.org

Mazon: A Jewish Response to Hunger

www.mazon.org

Religious School Administrator Morah Dara Bowling

Email: morahdara@att.net

Office Administrator Marlene Aulten

860.423.3743 Ext. 0 office@templebnaiisrael.org

Monday 9am-2pm Tues/Wed/Thurs noon to 5

THE BULLETIN is a publication of

TEMPLE BNAI ISRAEL 345 Jackson Street

PO Box 61 Willimantic, CT 06226 Phone: 860.423.3743

Fax: 860.423.7594

Submission deadline: 3rd Monday of each month.

OFFICERS & BOARD OF DIRECTORS

President Immediate Past President David Golden David Stoloff

Vice President, Mishkan/Building & Operations Jim Baber

Kesher/Secretary & Communications

Marilyn Moir

Secretary-Elect Gloria Gerald

Tikkun Olam

Anne Willenborg

Brit/Community & Membership Mona Friedland

Torah/Education & Programming

Karen Drazen

Avodah/Religious Life Judy Stein

Kemah/Treasurer Glenn Blumenstein

Financial Secretary

Fran Jaffe

Members at Large: Gerry Berkowitz

Alex Nishball Ellie Shane

Doreen Simonsen

Thank you for your service to our shul.

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Chili Cook Off

The other item I want to make sure to plug is our 257th Annual

Temple Bnai Israel Chili Cook Off.

For centuries, our greatest culinary artists and visionaries have gathered in the frozen waste of the Willimantic winter season to share the tasty delights of their own personal vegetarian chili recipes, in some cases passed down from Bubbe and Zadye themselves! And while it may be true that my family has won this event 178 times, going all the way back to my great-great-great-great-great grandfather Aloysius Alfredus Chiliriffic Golden and his greater Tri-Baltic State Area award winning recipe "Ochi Chernye," our stock has been fading somewhat of late. My daughters have basically grown out of the phase where they can simply "cute-ify" their way into getting everyone to vote for us. That's right, ladies and gentlemen, the field is wide open, and anyone could be the big winner.

The event this year will be held on Sunday, February 28th (snow date Sunday, March 6) and I strongly encourage everyone to attend. Whether you cook a pot of chili or simply come to judge the entries, your presence will be welcomed. Moreover, even if you don't like chili, my parents will make sure that there are alternatives, like whitefish, available, so there's really no reason not to come. If that wasn't enough, there will also be a pasta bar (with gluten free offerings), a make-your-own ice cream sundae buffet, a pinata for the kids, beer for the adults, and more. This is one of my favorite events of the year, and I truly hope to see you on February 28th! No pressure, but you better be there! That's all for this month, kids. See you around the synagogue. Until then, take care, be well, and do good! David Golden, President

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MISSION STATEMENT

Visioning

Shalom! The first thing I want to let everyone know is that the second phase of our Temple's Visioning process is kicking into high gear in the early months of 2016.

We have formed four very strong task forces consisting of volunteers from both inside and outside our congregation, in the areas of Spirituality, Culture, Intellectual Offerings, and Families with Children/Youth.

These task forces will focus on their respective areas, work with the information we've already gathered from you and other members of our greater community, and help us come up with meaningful concrete suggestions for ways we can improve our Jewish community, congregation, synagogue and beyond.

Overseeing and coordinating all of this, while at the same time looking at the bigger picture, will be the Long Term Planning Committee. This committee and the task forces have either already started having meetings, or will do so in February. As we continue on this great adventure, we will endeavor to keep the greater congregation informed, and seek input from everyone before we commit to any larger changes.

Thank you again for your interest and participation in this process. As always, if anyone wants to get more involved, please do not hesitate to contact either Rav Jeremy or myself.

PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

I’d like to encourage you to read Anne Willenborg’s Tikkun Olam report, in this edition of The Bulletin (pg. 6), about our Temple’s participation in a Northeast Connecticut interfaith effort to co-sponsor the settlement of refugees in our area. The topic of refugees has been much on our minds and in our hearts lately. If our hearts haven’t been completely hardened like Pharaoh’s, the news and images of refugees flowing out of Syria, Africa, and the wider Middle East, sometimes dying on the way, has been heartbreaking. And hearts that are open will also acknowledge fear and anger in response to the sheer magnitude of the humanitarian challenge, and to attacks in Europe carried out sometimes by people from the same places, or of the same religions, as the refugees (broadly speaking – like we at Temple Bnai Israel are the same religion as Jewish fanatics who recently burned a Palestinian family to death in the West Bank town of Duma).

But our heritage isn’t one of fear and anger.

We relate to our ancient slavery from Egypt not with anger, but by celebrating our freedom and by trying to create a society of freedom. We laugh at Haman. Our history and identity are entwined with being “other” and “foreign” and “powerless” and we try to act as people who “know the heart of the stranger.” It’s no coincidence that the words on the Statue of Liberty were penned by a Jew, Emma Lazarus.

My understanding is that the United States has the most rigorous vetting process for refugees in the world, and that no one who has been admitted through our refugee process has committed an act of terrorism in the U.S. I think it’s reasonable to assume that no system is perfect and some day, some refugee will commit a terrorist act here. Natural-born Americans of many different ethnicities and religions also commit terrorist acts and mass-murder attacks. That’s not a reason to refrain from acting Jewishly, out of love and hope. I’m proud that our Temple Board thought it obvious that we cannot be deterred by those dangers, and must live up to the Prophet Isaiah’s words that we read every Yom Kippur:

Is not the fast that I desire the unlocking of the chains of wickedness, the loosening of exploitation, the freeing of all those oppressed, the breaking of the yoke of servitude? Is it not the sharing of your bread with those who starve, the bringing of the wretched poor into your house, or clothing someone you see who is naked, and not hiding from your kin in their need? Then shall your light burst forth like the dawn, your waters of healing soon flourish again, your righteousness will travel before you, and the glory of THE ALMIGHTY will encompass you.

RABBINIC REFLECTIONS Rav Jeremy Schwartz

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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6 Mishpatim Exodus 21:1-24:18 This year: 23:20-24:18 Haftarah: Malachi 3:1-4

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13 Terumah Exodus 25:1-27:19 This year: 26:31-27:19 Haftarah: 1 Kings 8:22-43

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20 Tetzaveh Exodus 27:20-30:10 This year: 29:19-30:10 Haftarah: Ezekiel 43:10-27

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27 Ki Tisa Exodus 30:11-34:35 This year: 33:12-34:35 Haftarah: 1 Kings 18:1-39

-Isaiah 58:6-8 (Joel Rosenberg translation from our Kol Haneshamah Mahzor)

FEBRUARY READINGS

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Spiritual Task Force/Ritual Committee

SERVICES

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 9:30am—BAGEL & BIBLE

Please note that the next meeting of the combined Spiritual Task Force/Ritual Committee will be Wednesday, February 10 at 7pm. We will work on continuing to develop concrete plans from the input we received at the Small Group Vision meetings and the Spirituality Brunch.

We ask Task Force members to come to the meeting with ideas for specific programming that they think could be implemented to meet the expressed desires of the community, or specific research for the Task Force to carry out, or specific ways of organizing and planning our spiritual life.

We’ll share and compare our ideas and decide on priorities for next steps. For more information, contact Judy Stein or Rav Jeremy

All are welcome!

Topic: That Thing That Spock and the Priest(esse)s Do With Their Hands

Please join us! Bring a friend, or invite a member of our non-Jewish community! All are welcome!

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Fran Jaffe Ellie Shane 860.228.2390 860.423.7418 franjaffe@earthlink.net eshane01@charter.net

TIKKUN OLAM ACTIVITIES, Anne Willenborg willenborg5@gmail.com 860.429.8725

DAUGHTERS OF ABRAHAM BOOK CLUB Carol Kraus yveskraus@earthlink.net

Our next book club meeting will be: Tuesday, February 15, 7:00pm

at Right Trac (office of Gail & Joe Petrowsky)

110 Main St., Manchester

Our discussion will be on: If The Oceans Were Ink An Unlikely Friendship

and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran

By Carla Powers

Thank you to Susan Meisler and Sheila Amdur for being our e-leaders in January. Our Caring Committee is always ready, willing, and able to provide whatever assistance is helpful in times of need, and we always welcome new members. REMEMBER, no meetings! All of our communication is done by e-mail!

Our e-leaders for February are Sheila Amdur, Carol Kraus, and Denise Polivy, with Gail Petrowsky providing back-up as needed.

Thank you everyone, and stay warm!

CARING COMMITTEE

COMMITTEE NEWS

Temple Bnai Israel’s, and the Tikkun Olam Committee’s, response to the Refugee Crisis

Last month the TBI Board approved support for the Refugee Resettlement Co-sponsorship Program that is being organized by Reverend Ann Plumley, Steve Lane and the First Church of Christ of Mansfield.

Integrated Refugee & Immigration Services (IRIS) is a program of the Episcopal Church dedicated to resettling refugees in Connecticut. The mission of IRIS is “to enable refugees and other displaced people to establish new lives, regain hope, and contribute to the vitality of Connecticut’s communities. Refugees are men, women and children who fled their countries of origin due to persecution on the basis of their race, nationality, religious belief, political opinion, or membership in a particular social group.”

The United States has the most rigorous screening process for refugee resettlement in the world. In 2016 the U.S. will take in 85,000 refugees up from 70,000 in 2015. As other States have decided to decrease the number of refugees entering their states, IRIS is committed to helping a larger number of refugees enter Connecticut. Up until now, about 250 refugees have come to Connecticut each year. The hope is that this number can increase to 500 refugees in 2016. IRIS has an organized system for refugee resettlement. This involves a very large commitment including but not limited to ensuring refugees have housing and furniture, clothing, health care, education, language support, job opportunities and food security. IRIS limits the resettlement process to 4-6 months and greatly discourages producing financial dependence.

A prime directive is self-sufficiency. Since there will be a larger influx of refugees in Connecticut, and IRIS has received an overwhelming number of requests from people who want to help with refugees, IRIS has put together a co-sponsorship program. Communities can gather together resources and then apply to co-sponsor a refugee family (or families). These co-sponsors will be trained by IRIS and go through a rigorous training process. This is where TBI comes in. We have committed to being PART of the large group of individuals and groups organized by the First Church of Christ involved in co-sponsorship.

Our work has already begun to a small degree as some of us have been asked to help secure health care, jobs, and gather support for the program. We are happy that the TBI community is part of this process. Once co-sponsorship is approved, the group can receive notification that a family may arrive within 24 hours. We will keep you informed of the process and if you are interested in helping out please watch for requests for help on email and Facebook. As always, if you have any questions please ask.

Thank you, Anne Willenborg and the Tikkun Olam Committee

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TEMPLE FAMILY NEWS

Mazal Tov - Congratulations!

To Alex and Ramona Nishball on the December 21, 2015 birth of their first grandchild, Magdalena Catherine Nishball.

מזל טוב

Please join us for the fourth class in our Kabbalah series:

Thursday, February 18, 2016 7:30pm

This month’s topic:

Kabbalistic Prayer and Prayer Books

Each of our drop-in Kabbalah classes is a “stand-alone”; you need not have attended our previous sessions to have this session be meaningful.

Hamakom yenachem Condolences

To Todd and Mona Friedland on the passing of Todd’s aunt, Lillian Levine.

To Martin and Randee Berliner on the passing of Randee’s mother, Selma Halperin.

DROP-IN KABBALAH

המקום ינחם

February 2nd, 7:00pm, the first meeting of the Children & Families Task Force;

anyone interested in being on this Task Force is welcome to attend.

March 5th, Bagel & Bible: special guest, Ahmet Caglar, will be sharing his Muslim

heritage.

March 13th, 6:00pm, Movie night with Beth El at UCONN Hillel

March 17th, 7:30pm, Drop-In Kabbalah, Topic: Kabbalistic Prayer & Prayer Books

March 23rd, 6:00pm Purim-Tastic Event

April 14th, 7:00pm, Sephardic Cooking & Culture, Part I: Cooking

April 15th, 6:30pm Sephardic Cooking & Culture, Part II: Shabbat Dinner

May 22nd, A Traveling Dinner with a Twist! If you are able to host 6-8 people contact

Jane Moskowitz via e-mail at rmoskowitz@charter.net or call 869-429-6109

Please join us! All are welcome!

STUDY SESSION WITH BETH EL at UCONN HILLEL

SAVE THE DATES

Sunday, February 7, 10:00am. Rav Jeremy’s topic will be: “My Recollection of Revelation”

SARAH RATNER LIBRARY Sue-Ellen Kirkham: sueellenbruriah@gmail.com Brenda Rosen: brendarosen5@yahoo.com

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We have almost two thousand wonderful and varied Judaica in our library and we will be very grateful for your ideas on making it more accessible. Far too many CD’s and tomes have never been borrowed! Please write, e-mail or call, and share your ideas with Rav Jeremy, Brenda or Sue-Ellen. After-all, it is your library!

Here is a sampling of what awaits you:

For our children: One People, Many Stories This is a great 6 CD set of Jewish stories from around the World. From the Los Angeles Public Radio Series hosted by Jerry Stiller as the Story Peddler.

For Adults A gift from Judy Stein, thank you for donating the New American Haggadah by Jonathan Safran Foer and Nathan Englander (translator).

Remember Eating Animals also by Mr. Foer? Described by reviewers as “Brilliant reinterpreta-tion of the traditional text…” with commentary that is appreciated. How about augmenting your Passover this year with new text? I also enjoyed the artwork in this volume.

Ellis Island Interviews. In their own words by Peter Morton Coan. This book offers first- person insight into those Jewish emigrants from Eastern and Western Europe, the Middle East, Northern Europe, Italy and the British Isles who preceded us. A great read in part or entirety. I was so fascinated that I lost time reading some of the entries and not tending to “library business”. I think that you, also, will find it fascinating and heart rending.

The Book of Jewish Food by Claudia Roden and donated to us by Rav Jeremy and Merle. Thank you! This book was a recipient of the James Beard Foundation Cookbook of the Year Award. It has more than 800 recipes from both Ashkenazi and Sephardi. Try some new recipes from India, Italy, Turkey, Syria and more. Yum!

We have almost two thousand wonderful and varied Judaica in YOUR library!

Visit us soon!

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Shalom, chaverim--

Love chocolate?

Who doesn’t? Well, there are a few people who say they don’t, but I’m thinking that it just isn’t possible! So if you LOVE chocolate (or those super delicious fruit spirals pictured below), and want to help the religious school, then please make your Passover Kosher candy purchases via our Miss Chocolate Fundraiser! In addition to the items pictured below, Miss Chocolate offers 12 other delectable kosher choices for your Passover sweet treats! Our school’s students will be taking orders now through March 2. You can also place an order by contacting Marlene or you can order ONLINE, directly from Miss Chocolate at www.misschocolate.com; be sure to provide our school’s code (702606) so that your order will be credited to our school.

Kol tuv, Morah Dara

RELIGIOUS SCHOOL Morah Dara Bowling: morahdara@att.net

These are the real pictures from Miss Chocolate’s web site of some of the great Passover candy they offer! There are 12 other great items to choose from!! For you non-chocolate folks (I still don’t believe there is such a person), Miss Chocolate offers a variety of fun and decorative non-food gifts!

YUM!! YUM!!

LAST DAY TO PLACE AN ORDER IS MARCH 2!

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NO-FREEZE SHELTER SUPPLIES GREATLY NEEDED!

Dear Friends, the local no-freeze shelter, always a busy place as winter sets in, is in great need of the following supplies:

Gift Cards (of any value) to Stop & Shop, BJ’s, Walmart, Staples or Home Depot

Non-Instant Coffee, Sweetener, Non-Dairy Creamer, Hot Chocolate

Paper products, toilet paper, paper towels, napkins, coffee cups (small size, disposable)

Razor blades and disposable razors

Shaving Cream

Toothbrushes

Deodorant

Plastic soap saver boxes

Laundry detergent (powder)

Floor and bathroom cleaner

HOW TO DONATE: Thank you to those who brought items to the Tu Bishvat Seder! Future donations can be dropped off at the Temple during Marlene’s office hours, when you are at the Temple for an event or service, or by or contacting Lee Duffy, Shelter Director, or Avery Lenhart, Lee’s assistant, to make other arrangements.

860-450-1346, or e-mail windham.nofreeze@gmail.com

They are also in need of community volunteers to assist in checking people into the Shelter from 7:00pm through 10:30pm. Normally they have student volunteers, but many of those students are gone over winter break. If you can volunteer, please contact Lee or Avery.

For further information about the Shelter, visit windhamnofreeze.com

Thank you! Martha Cutter and the Tikkun Olam Committee

Help make this new year a great one for the guests of

The Daughters of Abraham were invited to a traditional Muslim Turkish food luncheon by one of our members at the Peace Islands Institute in New Haven www.peaceislands.org. We traveled by carpool and met and enjoyed the company of the Sisters of Spirit and other Muslim friends of our hostess.

While there, we learned about the Institute, and each other, in a relaxed supportive atmosphere. As Virginia Fulton said, "the seemingly simple, universal act of gathering around food, conversation, music and dance has such power."

We hope that the understandings we gained about each other that day continue and spreads everywhere. Please join us.

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CELEBRATING OVER 35 YEARS!

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Classes held here!!!

Tax season is upon us

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Library

Good & Welfare

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Religious School

High Holiday Cantor

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Anne & Meyer Russian Youth Fund

Mini Berkowitz Lighting Fund

Humashim

(Torah & Haftarah Books)

$75 each for a bookplate

Siddurim (prayer book)

$30 each for bookplate

Mahzorim

(High Holiday Prayer Books)

$30 each for a bookplate

Sanctuary Seat Plaques &

Yizkor Board Plaques

$250 each

Tree of Life

in Greer Auditorium

$90 for a leaf

$180 for a branch

General Fund

Ilene Reiner in memory of Ruth Russian Mona & Todd Friedland in memory of Mona’s aunt, Etta Beckerman Alex and Ramona Nishball in honor of the birth of their 1st grandchild, Magdalena Catherine Nishball. Rabbi’s Discretionary Fund

Penny & Rebecca Barton-Zuckerman Bernie Schreiber in honor of Jane Schreiber’s 70th birthday! 5776 Chai Appeal

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YAHRZEITS FOR THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY

Remember to light your Yahrzeit candle on the night before the date shown. It is also appropriate

to come to shul to say Kaddish on the Shabbat when your loved one’s name is read, and to give

tzedakah in your loved one’s memory.

The following Yahrzeits will be read on February 5th and February 6th

Regina Petrowsky Mother of Joe, Nathan and Sammy Petrowsky

27 Shevat February 6

Robert Schupack Uncle of Beth Schilberg 27 Shevat February 6

Jack Rabinowitz 27 Shevat February 6

Curt Sachs Grandfather of Benjamin Sachs 27 Shevat February 6

Abraham I Ostrofsky Uncle of Sareta Baker 29 Shevat February 8

Dora S. Ballon 30 Shevat February 9

Dora Frankel Sue Chase 30 Shevat February 9

Anna Russian Mother of Gerry Russian 30 Shevat February 9

Pauline Zenchoff 1 Adar February 10

Minnie Sugarman Grandmother of Todd Friedland 1 Adar February 10

Esther R. Sussman Mother of Elaine Shapiro 1 Adar February 10

Clara Davis Grandmother of George Davis 1 Adar February 10

Harry Freedman Father of Eve Schwartz and Israel Freedman 2 Adar February 11

Edward Pollack Husband of Rita Pollack 2 Adar February 11

Dina Fox Grandmother of Eve Schwartz 2 Adar February 11

David Rothenberg Grandfather of Sandra Roth 2 Adar February 11

Milton Kaskowitz Husband of Ruth Kaskowitz 3 Adar February 12

Florence Rappoport Mother of Doreen Simonsen 3 Adar February 12

YAHRZEITS FOR THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY

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The following Yahrzeits will be read on February 12th and February 13th

Miriam Chasen Kerachsky

Herb Curkin 4 Adar February 13

Dora Levine 4 Adar February 13

Lowell Albert Marmon Brother of Stefan Marmon 5 Adar February 14

Frank Lewis Father of Barry Lewis 5 Adar February 14

Muriel Narotsky Mother of Debbie Stoloff 6 Adar February 15

Julius L. Sussman Father of Elaine Shapiro 7 Adar February 16

Norman Hilsenrad Husband of Marsha Hilsenrad 7 Adar February 16

Natalie Shifrin Second Cousin of Bruce Brettschneider 8 Adar February 17

Samuel Schretter 8 Adar February 17

Lena Hochberg Grandmother of Jeanne Morascini 10 Adar (February 19

Harry Chait 10 Adar February 19

Nathan Marks Father of Adrienne Marks 10 Adar February 19

The following Yahrzeits will be read on February 19th and February 20th

Corinne Mittelman Mother of Eugene Mittelman 11 Adar February 20

Gail Piotrkowski Sister-in-Law of Joe & Gail Petrowsky 11 Adar February 20

Sarah Leah Heller Grandmother of Paul Heller 12 Adar February 21

Florence Eisenberg Mother of Marvin Eisenberg 12 Adar February 21

Barnet Shifrin Great-Uncle of Bruce Brettschneider 14 Adar February 23

Abraham Hillman Father of Ellen Goldberg 14 Adar February 23

Larry Segal Son of Annie Segal; Brother of Herbert Segal

15 Adar February 24

Benjamin Hochberg Father of Jeanne Morascini 17 Adar February 26

Welvyn Douglas Starger

17 Adar February 26

Remember to light your Yahrzeit candle on the night before the date shown. It is also appropriate

to come to shul to say Kaddish on the Shabbat when your loved one’s name is read, and to give

tzedakah in your loved one’s memory.

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The following Yahrzeits will be read on February 26th and February 27th

Murray H. Rosen Father of Steven Rosen and Anne Levine; Uncle of Janet Miller

18 Adar February 27

Daniel Sherman Uncle of Peter Golden 19 Adar February 28

Esther Frankel Mother of Warren and Meyer Frankel; Grandmother of Michael Lassow

19 Adar February 28

Bernard Newman Father of Carol Kraus, Father-in-law of Yves Kraus, grandfather of Renee Kraus, great-grandfather of Jocie Kraus

19 Adar February 28

Bill Baber Father of Jim Baber 20 Adar February 29

Gary Gottesman 20 Adar February 29

Eli Winter Sherman

Brother of Sandra Heckler; Son of Harry and Rose Sherman

22 Adar March 2

Morris H. Kaplan 22 Adar March 2

Israel Bernstein 22 Adar March 2

Edward Schupack Father of Beth Schilberg 22 Adar March 2

Frederick I. Lauter 23 Adar March 3

YAHRZEITS FOR THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY

Remember to light your Yahrzeit candle on the night before the date shown. It is also appropriate to come to shul to say Kaddish on the Shabbat when your loved one’s name is read, and to give tzedakah in your loved one’s memory.

10:00am Shabbat Service

9:30am Bagel & Bible, Shabbat Experience

10:30am Shabbat Service

BULLETIN ARTICLES DEADLINE

10am Shabbat Service, Shabbat Experience

7:00pm Spirituality Task Force/Ritual Comm. Mtg.

7:00pm Board Mtg

7:30pm Tikkun Olam vaNefesh Service - A service of healing for soul and world

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February Jewry Duty participants:

5th: A&R Nishball, S&T Gochros, J&R Moskowitz 6th: D&E Brodie, R. Pollack, M. Cutter 12th: F&D Jaffe, D&D Stoloff, R. Schwane 13th: M&J Horowitz, B&P DeRicco 19th: K. Dardick, J. Marocchini, S. Marmon 20th: S. Marmon, L. Finkelman, R. Marcus, L&M Lassow 27th: C&Y Kraus, S. Kirkham, J. Baber, K. Drazen

4:30pm Religious School

7pm Daughters of Abraham Book Club

4:30pm Religious School

9:30am Tikkun Olam Comm mtg

6:15pm T.G.I. Shabbes, wine and cheese and music celebration

4:30pm Religious School

10am Shabbat Service

6:30pm Shabbes Dinner at a member’s home; host/hostess needed

10:00am Sandwich Making at the Soup Kitchen

10:00am Family Mitzvah –meet at Covenant Soup Kitchen at 10

4:00pm, Chili Cook Off Winter Food Extravaganza

7:30pm Shabbat Service

10:00am Study Session with Beth El at UCONN Hillel

7:30pm Drop-in Kabbalah

4:30pm Religious School

10:30am Mussar Va’ad

7:00pm Children & Families Task Force mtg.

"It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade." - Charles Dickens

Temple Bnai Israel is a welcoming Jewish community which offers a spiritual, religious, and social home for all Jews. We cherish a belief in one God, the Torah, prayer and the music and beauty of our Jewish culture. We are commanded and committed to passing these blessings on to all future generations.

We observe and celebrate Jewish traditions and laws, while remaining open to change which meets the needs of our time, and which will stand the test of time.

We intend to be a force for good and comfort as individuals and as a whole. We seek to offer justice, tolerance, and charity within the Temple Bnai Israel community, the larger Jewish community, and the non-Jewish worlds within which we live.

Our synagogue recognizes the equality of all Jews. Jewish men and women, including those Jews in interfaith marriages, are entitled to participate equally in all religious rites, and all secular and religious leadership positions. Our congregation also reaches out to all who welcome Judaism into their lives.

We believe in the ancient teaching: “to do justly, love mercy, and walk

humbly with thy God.”

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HAPPENINGS:

5th, 9:30am Bagel & Bible; a special guest, Ahmet Caglar, will be sharing his Muslim heritage

6th, 4:00pm winter food extravaganza snow date

11th, 6:15pm, T.G.I. Shabbes with the Young Emissaries

13th, 6:00pm, movie night with Beth-El @UCONN Hillel

17th, 7:30pm, Drop-in Kabbalah, topic to be announced

23rd, 6:00pm, Purim-tastic event! Details TBA!

Stay tuned for more service and event announcements via e-mail.