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May/June/July 2019

www.thejewishcenter.org

See page 2 for more details.

May 5, 2019 • 9:00 am - 12:30 pm

OUTDOOR SUMMER KABBALAT SHABBAT SERVICES AT TJC

MARK YOUR CALENDAR AND JOIN US IN THE RUACHat The Jewish Center

JULY 12 & AUGUST 16 • 6:30 pmSee page 17 for more details.

TJC MITZVAH DAY

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435 Nassau Street, Princeton, NJ 08540609.921.0100 • www.thejewishcenter.org

The Jewish Center is a non-profit organization whose policy is to not deny membership or education to any person based on financial need.

The Jewish Center will be hosting a congregational Mitzvah Day! To register for any of the projects listed below, please click on the Mitzvah Day link from the TJC website.

Below is a list of projects we will be working on that day. For further information contacts are listed below. Thank you in advance for your support.

Projects for Religious School Students and Parents

For more information, contact Sharon Diamondstein at [email protected] unless otherwise noted below.

Gan Katan-2nd grade: TJC Garden and Card-Making: Plant in garden and create cards for those who are ill.

3rd-4th grades: Princeton Community Housing: Planting in community gardens and patio clean up.

5th grade: JFCS: Shop and Stock Food Pantry

6th grade: Feed the Hungry: Stone Soup Salaam Shalom: Work together with our Muslim friends from the Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom to make soup, to be distributed, at a soup kitchen.Contact: [email protected]

7th-8th grades: Womanspace: Create Welcome Bags for women and children entering the shelter.

7th-8th grades: UIH Family Partners: Put together bags of clothing and personal products.

9th-10th grades: CAR WASH AT TJCContact: [email protected]

11th-12th grades: Princeton Community Housing:Painting the walls and installing ceiling tiles in the Community Room in Holly House, at Princeton Community Village.Contact: [email protected]

Projects for Adult CongregantsJewish Cemeteries: Placing flags on Jewish War veteran’s gravestones.Contact: [email protected]

TASK: Trenton Area Soup Kitchen Food Preparation off site in congregants’ homes.Contact: [email protected]

Feed the Hungry: Stone Soup Salaam Shalom: Work together with our Muslim friends from the Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom to make soup, to be distributed, at a soup kitchen.Contact: [email protected]

Princeton Community Housing: Painting the walls and installing ceiling tiles in the Community Room in Holly House, at Princeton Community Village.Contact: [email protected]

Come Learn About Non-Profits in Our Community! In addition to the organizations listed above, the following programs will have representatives and/or send material about their services:

• Arm in Arm• Housing Initiatives of Princeton (HIP)• Interfaith Refugee Resettlement• Not In Our Town (NIOT) Princeton• Send Hunger Packing• Sustainable Princeton

May 5, 20199:00 am - 12:30 pmOpen to the Community!

Not able to participate in a project or visit representatives from local non-profits? Stop by to get your car washed! Proceeds will benefit JFCS’ Kosher Food Pantry.

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The Jewish Center • 435 Nassau Street, Princeton, NJ 08540 • 609.921.0100 • www.thejewishcenter.org 3

Newsletter Highlights

Rabbi’s Message .................................................. 4

President’s Message ...........................................5 TJC Annual Awards ..............................................6

Cantor’s Message.................................................7

70 Years of TJC ................................................9-11

In Memoriam / Mazal Tov ................................. 12

Membership ........................................................ 13

Director of Congregational Learning Message ............................................ 14

Religious School ........................................... 15-20

Spotlight on Our B’nai Mitzvah ....................... 21

Jewish Center Women ............................... 22-23

TJC Men’s Club .................................................. 24

Adult Education...........................................25-30

Ongoing Adult Education ................................ 29

55 Plus Lecture Series .................................... 29

Arts & Cultural Affairs ...................................... 31

Well-being Committee ...................................... 32

Social Action ......................................................34

Our Advertisers ........................................... 35-37

Contributions .....................................................38

May / June/ July Calendar .......................39-40

Annual Fund Donors ....................................41-42

TJC Happenings ................................................43

Donations ...........................................................44

Vol. 81 • No. 9The Jewish Center Newsletter is a monthly publication of

The Jewish Center 435 Nassau Street Princeton, NJ 08540

435 Nassau Street, Princeton, NJ 08540

www.thejewishcenter.org

email [email protected] office 609.921.0100 x201

fax 609.921.7531 school 609.921.7207

Service ScheduleShabbat WorshipFridays at 6:30 p.m.Saturdays at 9:30 a.m.

Midweek MinyanimSunday at 9:00 a.m Wednesday at 7:00 a.m.

RabbiAdam Feldman

CantorJeff Warschauer

Rabbi Emeritus Dr. Dov Peretz Elkins

Cantor EmeritusMurray E. Simon

Executive Director Sandy Wilson

Director of Congregational Learning Sharon Diamondstein

Youth & Family Program Coordinator Daryl Rothman

Principals EmeritaeFran AmirGila LevinDr. Shoshana Silverman

Office Manager Maryann Yarin

Office Staff Roni Garrison Cynthia Richman

Building Services Supervisor Luis Rodriguez

Building Services Staff Khaled AhmedCandaleria Gonon

PresidentLinda Meisel

President ElectRandall Brett

Vice PresidentsAdministration & MembershipJudi Fleitman

Finance Warren Mitlak

Education & YouthNicole Soffin

Religious AffairsLinda Milstein

ProgrammingHelaine Isaacs

TrusteesBret Jacknow Edye Kamenir David Politziner Ginger Schnitzer

Recording SecretaryBernard Abramson

Adult Education Co-chairs Jeremy KasdinMoshe Margolin

Arts & Culture ChairHeidi Joseph

Fundraising Chair Rick Rosenberg

House Committee ChairEric Jaffe

Israel Affairs ChairDebbie Gross

Jewish Center Women ChairDebbi Gitterman

Membership Co-ChairsMartha FriedmanAndrea Hoberman Martinez

Men’s Club Co-ChairsNeal MasiaDavid Rubinstein

Religious Affairs Co-ChairsJeremy BlackJames Rosenberg

School, Youth & Family Co-ChairsRachael CooperKim Marks

Social Action Co-ChairsLew GantwerkAbigail Rose

Save the Date!

Save and Donate Your McCaffrey’s receipts

The Jewish Center of Princeton generously receives 1% on all donated McCaffrey’s receipts. Congregant Michael Strauss collates the receipts so we can receive our donation. Please look for the McCaffrey’s receipt box outside the Main Office and drop your receipts there!

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The Jewish Center • 435 Nassau Street, Princeton, NJ 08540 • 609.921.0100 • www.thejewishcenter.org4

Dear Friends,

I struggle every year with Yom HaShoah. My connection to the Shoah is not through my family but it does feel personal. My relatives came to this country in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. I remember as a child asking my mother if we had relatives in the Shoah and she said only distance cousins. But it still feels personal. I began to feel a deeper connection to the Shoah when I came here to The Jewish Center and that is because of certain people that I met who told me their stories including Vera Goodkin who is a regular at TJC on Shabbat, Hana Gruna who was a part of our Holocaust Torah reunion, Abe Krotowsky the man who gave us the candelabras that we use to light our memorial candles every year and so many others.

I always see a connection between Pesach and Yom HaShoah two important Jewish commemorations that both fall during the Hebrew month of Nisan. Both days involve telling stories – telling difficult stories, about persecution and courage, about hope and liberation. I just returned from Israel where the connection between Pesach and Yom HaShoah is more palpable. There many attempts to connection these two days through the lens of story-telling. Just like our people are still telling the story of the Exodus from Egypt thousands of years later, we have to make sure the world knows the story of the Shoah thousands of years from now.

It is not easy to tell the stories of the Shoah. We have watched the powerful movies and read the books that tell the stories of the Shoah, and we still struggle. The people that may be the most qualified and most determined to tell the stories of the Shoah today are the children and grandchildren of the Survivors of the Shoah. If you ask anyone who is a child of a Survivor of the Shoah, when did your parents first begin to tell you what happened, many of them will say not until many years later. So often Survivors say that they did not talk about the atrocities for 20, 30 or even 40 years. To me that could be because the stories were too difficult to share with young people. Or perhaps the motivation to tell the stories only years later was due to the fact that Survivors knew their time on this earth was approaching the end.

Our young people today are the last generation who will know Survivors of the Shoah and we all need to honor our Survivor by hearing their stories and making them our own. We need to become the next generation of Story Tellers of the Shoah. I would go as far to say, that with all due respect to those who truly survived the horrors of the Shoah, we need to see ourselves as if we were there in the Concentration Camps and that somehow we were freed from the persecution.

This theme of the next generation telling the stories of the Shoah is our theme for our Yom HaShoah program on May 1st. Please join us as Mimi Werbler joins us for a powerful presentation on this challenge – how the next generation can tell the stories; how each new generation can accept the responsibility to make sure the world NEVER FORGETS. (For more information about this program please look on page of this newsletter).

We all have survival stories to tell. For some it is how we ourselves survived and for others it is how the Jewish People survived. No matter how challenging it is to tell these stories, we must tell them to the next generation who must also make them their own. Story telling is something the Jewish People do so well.

Happy Story Telling.

Rabbi’s Message

Rabbi Adam Feldman • 609.921.0100 x203 • [email protected]

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President’s Message

Dear Congregants,

This is my last newsletter column as President. It has been an honor and a privilege to serve this congregation as President. I have worked with the clergy, staff, long time members, new members and everyone in between these two years as my partners and I have appreciated all their passion, hard work and dedication to our congregational community. And it has been so rewarding to see The Jewish Center thriving as a congregation. My last column has been inspired by a sermon written by Rabbi Paul Kipnes of congregation Or Ami in California. The sermon addresses the issue of whether as a congregation we Kvell or Kvetch. He defines “ Kvetching as a typical Jewish act of complaining” and that it comes so naturally. From the temperature in the sanctuary, to the clergy sermons, to the behavior of other congregants, to the number of emails, to the variety of food at the Kiddush

lunch, to the too many adult programs or too few adult programs, Rabbi Kipnis asserts that we often fall into the Kvetch mode and it defines how we look at ourselves and our congregation.

The flip side of the Kvetch is the Kvell which he defines as “ Kvelling is Jews offering praise”. We fall easily into Kvelling about our children, our last vacation – and about our blessing of health, family and comfort. But there is a lot to Kvell about at our congregation – our dedicated and committed clergy and staff, the stellar adult programs, our award winning school, our passionate and committed volunteers, our ability to witness successive generations of young people become Bar/Bat Mitzvah, and the fact that for 70 years, the Jewish Center has been a central force in the lives of members of the Jewish faith in the Greater Princeton community.

Rabbi Kipnis recommends that everyone wait three days before they kvetch—if whatever it was that made you think of kvetching is still important and relevant three days later then by all means email the President, talk to the Rabbi, but if in fact, three days later the kvetch has passed into memory then move on and look for the opportunities to kvell.

We are all aware of how fragile our lives are and certainly our world. Let’s join together to Kvell to praise G-d for all the blessings we have as part of this thriving and connected community … for the friendships that we have made, for the celebrations that we have shared, for the learning opportunities we have had, for the the meaningful worship that brings us a sense of peace. As I end my Presidency I hope we all can continue to look for the positives in our community and become a congregation of Kvellers!

I want to extend my deepest gratitude to the clergy and staff of The Jewish Center, to the members of the Executive Committee and Board during my tenure and to the countless congregants who chaired and served on committees. It does take a village.

Thank you again for privilege of being President

Linda Meisel • [email protected]

Please join us for our

2019 TJC Annual MeetingSunday, May 19

7:00PM - Social Hall

AGENDA:

D’var Torah

President’s Report

Budget Presentation and Vote

Nominating Committee Report & Vote

Refreshments

We hope to see you at the meeting!

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Alison Politizner, TJC Congregant of the YearAlison Politziner has been named Congregant of the Year and will be honored at Shabbat of Appreciation on Saturday morning, June 1. She and her husband, David, joined The Jewish Center in 1982 and have remained active members ever since.

Alison continues to contribute to TJC life through so many avenues -- as a regular participant in Bible BaBoker, years of work with the Chavurah Chesed committee including serving as chair (when it was still called Bikkur Cholim), as a long-time, active member of the Social Action Committee including her devotion to the Refugee Resettlement Committee, working alongside last year’s co-Congregant of the Year, Louise Sandburg. Alison also lends her artful eye and decorating sensibility to a myriad of beautification projects, including chairing the Torah cover sub-committee of last year’s 613 Torah Project, is currently working replacing our ahmud (Torah table) cover, and advises on selection of carpets, wallpaper and other furnishings for our synagogue.

Please join us as Shabbat services on Saturday morning, June 1 to honor Alison.

Lori Feldstein serves as the CEO and Executive Director of the nonprofit, Goals of Care Coalition of NJ (GOCCNJ). She’s responsible for directing the organization’s efforts to improve the standard of end-of-life care in NJ. As such, Lori advocates for better shared decision-making between healthcare providers and patients and their families to ensure that decisions about care align with the patient’s values and goals. After losing both of her parents to cancer, Lori realized that the way we, especially in NJ, deal with serious advanced illness and end-of-life care needed to be rethought. She became intent on changing the way we think and act when dealing with life limiting illness. Because of her experience, she is more determined than ever to make certain that policy makers, healthcare providers, patients and family members talk honestly and frequently about the importance of advance care planning and that they consider the patient and family’s goals of care so that patients get the care they need and no less, and the care they want and no more! Prior to joining GOCCNJ, Lori was the founder of Cogent Medical

Marketing in Princeton, NJ. Her experience in developing and implementing professional communication strategies for the pharmaceutical industry, focusing in such areas as market access, key opinion leader development, medical education, and advocacy prepared her well for the works she now does on behalf of GOCCNJ.

Lori is also the president of AJC Central New Jersey and a member of the Board of Governors. She’s been involved with AJC since 2010 and a member of its local board since 2015. Lori has traveled on AJC diplomatic missions to Bahrain, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, India, Sri Lanka, Rwanda, Kenya, and Morocco. This summer she’ll participate in a mission to South Africa and Mozambique. She’s also participated in the Hilda Katz Blaustein Leadership Institute. As a member of AIPAC’s National Council and part of the AIPAC Princeton Leadership Council, Lori also works to strengthen the relationship between the US and Israel and to ensure bi-partisan support for Israel in the US Congress. As a longtime member of the Jewish Center, Lori has served on the board and helped to lead the effort to recruit and hire a new director of the Joan Levin Nursery School at the Jewish Center. Lori also serves on the WashU Hillel Parent’s Council and is a volunteer with Greenwood House Hospice.

It was a natural fit for Lori to become involved with advocacy on behalf of the Jewish people. Her work with AJC, AIPAC, TJC and Hillel provide an opportunity to combine her professional skills with her passion to work for freedom and justice for the Jewish people and the security of Israel. A graduate of Muhlenberg College, Lori enjoys time with her husband Michael and their three children, Peri (22), Jacob (20) and Carly (17). She loves to travel, run, read and cook.

Lori Feldstein, Richard Fishbane Award Recipient

TJC Annual Awards

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The Beautiful Mitzvah of Counting the Omer As I write this, on a cold and gray April day, we are preparing for Pesach. But since this is the May, June and July issue of the TJC newsletter, by the time you read this, the weather will be warm. We will be approaching Shavuot, and we will be counting the Omer.

But what is the Omer? And why do we traditionally chant when we count the Omer, and why does the chanting sound the way it does?

As you probably know, the festival of Shavuot is a sort of dual Festival:

First, Shavuot is an agricultural festival commemorating the first grain harvest in the Land of Israel. In Temple times, during the 49 days of the Omer, between Passover and Shavuot, offerings of grain (“omer”) would be brought

each day, to be used in the Temple sacrifice. So we still commemorate that daily sacrifice as we count each day of the Omer.

But there is, of course, another meaning for the festival of Shavuot, which is that Shavuot is traditionally the day that the Torah was given at Mount Sinai. In connection with that meaning, counting the Omer takes on a very spiritual and mystical purpose.

The thought is that when the Hebrews left Egypt, because of the difficult lives that they had lived there, they were in a very bad spiritual condition. They needed 49 days to recover and grow spiritually before they were ready to receive the Torah.

Consequently, for Jews today, the counting of the Omer is still thought of as a very religious, very spiritual process of purification, and of a deeply introspective period of self-improvement. It’s sort of like a spiritual spring cleaning. We ask God’s help in this process, so traditionally, chanting the Omer should be a deeply spiritual act.

And one more thing. When we chant the Omer, we are also mindful of the concept of “hiddur mitzvah” (beautifying the mitzvah). If you are doing a mitzvah, if you are fulfilling a commandment, you should make it as beautiful an experience as possible.

For example, think of the beautiful silver decorations on the Torah scrolls. The scrolls could be plain. The mitzvah would still be fulfilled if we read from simple, unadorned scrolls.

But the decorations are a physical manifestation of the concept of beautifying the mitzvah. We get great esthetic pleasure from seeing the beautiful decorations!

This concept of hiddur mitzvah also applies to the music of the service. We take great care to ensure that the chanting of the liturgy, and the congregational songs that we sing together, will be as beautiful and uplifting as possible.

Likewise, in order to beautify the mitzvah of counting the Omer, and hopefully to inspire spiritual introspection, the cantor will traditionally chant the Omer in an emotional and somewhat elaborate fashion.

Furthermore, the melody of the Omer chanting is evocative of the melodies used on Shavuot itself, so the chanting also reminds us of the deep spirituality of the coming festival.

May we and our families, friends and loved ones enjoy a meaningful Shavuot, and the beautiful warm spring and summer months ahead!

Cantor’s Message

Cantor Jeff Warschauer • 609.921.0100 x213 • [email protected] • [email protected]

Jeff Warschauer

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WARNING: Torah Learning is contagious and can cause an excited condition known as “Saturday Night Fever.”

The following remedies are known to help:

Absorb wisdom in stimulating Workshops

Attend engaging Speed Learning Sessions

Expose self to a terrific TED-Style Torah Talk These remedies must be taken with food. Snacks provided

beforehand, delectable desserts later.

June 8th, 7pm-Midnight*

Catch Saturday Night Fever

WORKSHOP LEADERS SPEED LEARNING PRESENTERSRabbi Elisa Goldberg

Harold HeftFran Lees

Juliana Ochs DweckCantor Jeff Warschauer

Froma ZeitlinAnd More...

Meta Arnold Nancy Ballard Eve Coulson

Suzanne Esterman Joel Dietz

Rob Goldston David Greenberg

Bob Karp Jerry Kaufman Arnold Landy

Frank Lees Eleni Litt

Elliot Ramer Louise Sandburg

*Shavuot celebration for Young Families, 5:30-7pm: Torah reading and a play, crafts, light dinner.

Babysitting 7-9pm so parents can participate in adult program. RSVP required to [email protected]

Tikkun Leyl Shavuot at TJC5779

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Sandie Rabinowitz and Sally Steinberg-Brent

Synagogue presidents and executive directors (previously called “administrators”) keep our synagogue on track day to day and over the long haul. Sandie Rabinowitz served as administrator 1978-82, and Sally Steinberg-Brent as president 1996-98.

Sandie RabinowitzSandie and her husband Irv, then a graduate student in astrophysics at Princeton University, got married June 1, 1952. After short stints in Pasadena, CA, and Schenectady, NY, the couple settled in Princeton and in about 1955 joined the Jewish Center. Irv worked at the Institute of Advanced Study for two years while finishing his dissertation, and Sandie was a proofreader then a research associate at the Educational Testing Service. After getting his PhD, Irv became head of the computer center at Matterhorn, which is today known as the Plasma Physics Lab.

The Jewish Center, Sandie said, was “small and I thought very friendly.” She met long-time friend Fran Zeitler early on. On Erev Rosh Hashanah in September 1956 she gave birth to her daughter Sarah. Erev Yom Kippur she and Irv set out from

Linden Lane on foot, and said, “Whoops, we forgot the baby.” Sarah and Arnie Gluck’s daughter Shira Gluck will be ordained as a rabbi on May 5, 2019, by Hebrew Union College in New York.

Sandie’s primary volunteer involvement early on was with Hadassah, where she was involved from 1955 on and was president from 1971 to 1973.

Later on she got more involved in the Jewish Center. Roz Staras, who served as the Jewish Center’s president from 1974 to 1976, asked Sandie to teach adults to read Hebrew, and she remembers Fran Zeitler and Irene Goldfarb being part of one of the two groups she led. She also volunteered at the Jewish Center’s library, where she put together a booklet summarizing a book by scholar Danny Matt, son of Herschel Matt, rabbi of the Jewish Center from 1970 to 1975.

The Rabinowitz family spent the 1976-77 school year in Israel. Sarah, an Oberlin College student, did a junior year abroad at Hebrew University, and Irv secured a one-year appointment at the Technion in Haifa. They arranged for Rachel to do her bat mitzvah Memorial Day weekend and had her tutored in Hebrew. They moved in August rented an apartment from a family suggested by a Jewish Center contact who, Sandie says, “never told us it was 102 steps up.”

When they returned to Princeton, Sandie was invited to become vice chair of the United Jewish Federation. “I loved it; I was good at fundraising and with people,” she says. When she realized that the organization had never approached people who gave $200 or less, she decided to start the telethon.

During that period, a search committee for a new administrator formed at the Jewish Center. They hired someone who they fired immediately, then, based on Sandie’s experience as Hadassah president, they offered her the job. “They gave me an 8-page single-spaced list of functions,” she says of the 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. job. “They paid me practically nothing, but I accepted the job.” She was a bit sad that she had to resign as a vice-president and financial secretary of United Jewish Federation because she couldn’t give her all to the UJA and her new job.

Her job, under the presidencies of Zola Horovitz and Alvin Gordon and during the rabbinate of Melvin Glatt, was busy and varied: from running the synagogue’s day-to-day activities and talking to the b’nei mitzvah parents, “picking up every prayer book and putting them in the bookshelf the proper way instead of their being thrown in,” checking to ensure that people had paid their dues and building assessments, running the break-the-fast, and going to many meetings and supervising employees, including long-time secretary Helen Schlaffer and custodian Jay Craig. One of her big accomplishments, she says, was prorated vacation time for part-time employees, so that they got vacation with pay.

SHARING STORIES ABOUT THE JEWISH CENTER’S HISTORY AS PART OF OUR 70TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION

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During her tenure, the Jewish Center was starting to renovate and add to its building. Sandie says she favored a single, large kitchen, but the decision was in favor of separate kitchens for milk and meat. “When we had a big dinner to raise money for the building of the Jewish Center, I remember going with Irv. We had decided what we were going to give, but we were so moved by the speeches and the need that we upped the ante,” she says.

After four years as part-time administrator, Sandie resigned with 12 weeks notice because the board refused to make the position full time. “I’m very diligent, and I think I got the place in working order,” she says. “I left meticulous notes on everything.” The new administrator, full time but very short lived, tossed Sandie’s notes. “We are reinventing the wheel all the time,” she observes.

Sandie says that she and Irv always went to adult education, services for all the holidays, and special events. After he died in 2004, she went to services for a year on Friday nights and Sunday mornings to say Kaddish. She continued Friday nights for nine more years until she switched to Saturday mornings and occasional Friday nights. She has been enjoying the Friday night services that Cantor Jeff leads, followed by a communal meal and singing. Sandie is now part of the Friday morning kitchen crew that prepares the weekly Shabbat lunches when there are no special events.

Sally Steinberg-BrentNot interested in living in a “typical suburb,” Sally Steinberg-Brent and her husband Dan Brent moved to Princeton. ”If we weren’t going to live in New York City, I wanted to live in place that had culture and an intellectual environment,” she said. In 1983 when they joined the Jewish Center, their older son, Adam, was a baby. Finding no Shabbat morning babysitting for young children, Sally established a babysitting service. Today she is active on the Social Action Committee and chairs the ad hoc subcommittee on gun violence prevention.

To ready the new school building for operation, Sally and Dan were part of a parents’ crew that helped paint and lay sod. Sally’s three children, Adam, Lily, and Howard went to the Jewish Center nursery, which she called “a wonderful

school”; it spawned a group important in her life, the Nursery Havurah. “We still call it that, even though the youngest child is now in law school,” Sally said. For years they met regularly for lectures, programs, and book reviews, and now get together more sporadically on holidays and for mutual support in times of joy and sorrow.

In the early 1990s, Sally joined David Newton and Jerry Neumann as a co-chair of the Religious Affairs Committee. In this capacity, she was a member of the rabbi search committee that selected Rabbi Dov Elkins and a nonvoting member of the commission exploring changing the siddurim and machzorim to use gender-neutral English and also adding the emahot to the Amidah. The idea of changing prayers, even the English translation, was touchy but times were changing. “Women were being accepted in leadership roles in Conservative, Reform, and Reconstructionist Judaism,” Sally recalled. “We felt that we wouldn’t change the Hebrew, except by adding the matriarchs, but we could change the English without upsetting or offending too many people, and that would make people who were progressive happier.”

Sally commented, “I thought we did a good job of trying to be all things to all people—which was what the Jewish Center has tried to do.”

An important role that Sally took upon herself as part of the Religious Affairs Committee was to ensure that every shiva home had a minyan. Joking that she used to call herself “the angel of death,” she would “try to figure out who people are friendly with and who lives in their neighborhood,” and then she would check with the rabbi or the family. “Sometimes I knew it would be okay [that there would be a minyan], and sometimes I knew it wouldn’t, and I would be on the phone [getting other people to come]. As far as I know, we never didn’t have a minyan.”

When Jerry Kurshan, chair of the nominating committee, asked whether Sally or Dan would be willing to be Jewish Center president, Dan was too busy at work and encouraged Sally to do it. Being president, Sally recalled, “meant managing the budget, trying to make sure that all needs were met, taking care of the physical plant, trying to make sure that the staff was happy, and listening to all the complaints and trying to satisfy people.”

A continuing struggle at the Jewish Center, she said, has been to make it warm and welcoming for staff, members, and especially new members. Sally suggested that calling a congregation “friendly” “means you have friends in the congregation,” and feels the best way to make friends is to join a committee.

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Sally faced a number of challenges as president. Many involved staff: the integration of new cantor Murray E. Simon, who replaced Bob Freedman; the board’s disapproval of Rabbi Elkins’s request for a sabbatical, which the Jewish Center had never before authorized (the board approved it in the second year of Sally’s term); the resignation of education director Rabbi Liz Rolle after less than a year in the position; and the resignation of administrator Marci Citron, who was replaced first by Ziona Silverman, followed by Nancy Lewis.

Feeling it was important to get raises for teachers and benefits for teachers and part-time nonclerical staff, Sally appointed a committee to ensure a more democratic process. The committee approved some raises, but not for teachers, and the committee did not support benefits, citing budgetary problems. In the wake of the committee’s decision, Sally remembered Mel Schulman, one of her primary advisors, telling her, “A synagogue that’s in the black isn’t doing its job.” Mel also helped Sally set up a group of presidents from area congregations to talk about synagogue problems and solutions.

During Sally’s tenure Dick Bergman pressed the initiative to purchase the land next door, and Jonathan Gross and Ellie Schweber spearheaded the Riverside School High Holiday Alternative Service, to be led by congregants and Rabbi David Silverman.

Sally said she is thankful for the help of “a very supportive executive committee,” the teachers, the janitorial staff, the professional staff, and then-secretary Helen Schlaffer, who deftly guided her through some of the politics and personalities at The Jewish Center.

In an effort to capture the contradictions of being a synagogue president, Sally shared a joke about a new congregant who asks to meet the synagogue president. The first person she asks says, “Why do you want to meet that gonif [“thief,” in Yiddish]? A second person tells her, “She’s so full of herself and so unfriendly, why do you want to meet her?” When finally introduced, the new congregant says to the president: “I really wanted to meet you, and I’m curious why did you decided to become president of the congregation?” The president responds: “For the kaved [“honor” and “respect,” in Yiddish].”



The program is open to the community. FREE for members, $10 for community members

For more information please contact the TJC office at (609) 921-0100 x200 or [email protected]

Rabbi Vanessa Ochs, PhD, is Professor of Religious Studies and member of the Jewish Studies Program at the University of Virginia. Author of “Inventing Jewish Ritual,” (winner of a Jewish Book Award) “Sarah Laughed” and “Words on Fire”, she originated the concept of Jewish Sensibilities in 2003. She is spending her sabbatical in Princeton this spring.

Join The Jewish Center for a special presentation and discussion by Rabbi Vanessa Ochs, PhD on the topic of Jews, Health and Healing

SESSION TWO: May 2, 2019 • 7:30 pmFor people who are or have been in healthcare professions:What are Jewish Sensibilities that are especially relevant in healthcare? How can an awareness of these Sensibilities increase the understanding we bring to caring for Jewish patients and families?

Jews, Health andHealingJews, Health andHealing

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Membership

Mazal Tov

To Fran Zeitler and Fred Edelman on their first anniversary

To Hedy Shavel on her special birthday

To Sara and Steven Just on the birth of their grandson, Jacob Kenneth Dobay

To Ana and Leon Buzali on the birth and bris of Eduardo Buzali

In Memoriam: We extend our deepest sympathy in remembering

Arthur Berg z’l, father of Ronald Berg

Harry Mendelsohn z’l , brother of Miki Mendelsohn

Fred Pollack z’l, brother of Lewis Pollack

Judy Sarett z’l, mother of Josh Sarett

may their memories be for a blessing

Be assuredwhen our family is called to serve yours.

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Pot Luck Dinners* Hang out with Cantor Jeff

following Kabbalat Shabbat Services

May 17, June 7, July 19, August 9

Wine & Cheese Receptionsprior to

Kabbalat Shabbat Services

First Friday of Every Month: 6:00- 6:30 pm

May 3 • June 7

Kabbalat Shabbat Services begin every Friday night at 6:30 pmProspective and greater Princeton community members welcome.

2 monthly opportunities to share Shabbat at TJC

ShabbatShalom שלום שתב ! ! !

Shalom, Shabbat!!!


Wine & Cheese Receptions

prior to Kabbalat Shabbat Services


February 1, March 1, April 5, May 3 and June 7

Pot Luck Dinners* -- Hang out with Cantor Jeff following Kabbalat Shabbat Services

2019 Dates: January 18, February 8, March, 15, April 12, May 17

*beverages and main course provided by The Jewish Center

Kabbalat Shabbat Services begin every Friday night at 6:30pm The Jewish Center 435 Nassau Avenue Princeton Phone 609-921-0100

prospective and greater Princeton community members welcome

שלום שתב ! ! !

Shalom, Shabbat!!!











שלום שתב ! ! !

Shalom, Shabbat!!!











* beverages and main course provided by The Jewish Center

THE JEWISH CENTER

SATURDAY EVENING • SEPTEMBER 14, 2019

SAVE THE DATE!



A Night on the Town

Membership

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Director of Congregational Learning’s Message

Dear Congregants,

Growing up, I was not a strong math student. I was always more interested in literature, connecting to texts and characters in the books I was reading. As I became more involved in Jewish education, I realized not only the prevalence but the significance of numbers in the Torah and in Judaism. I became fascinated by how frequently certain numbers appear throughout our texts. The numbers seven, ten and thirteen come to mind.

We’ve already celebrated Sukkot and Pesach this year, and now we are on to our third festival, Shavuot. Shavuot takes place seven weeks after Pesach. In those seven weeks, we literally count the days and the weeks – for example,

on the 26th day, we count as “Today is 26 days – three weeks and five days – of the omer.” On the last day we count “Today is 49 days – seven weeks – of the omer.” 49 – a multiple of 7.

Seven. The year of Sabbatical, the year we allow the land to rest. Seven is a number that symbolizes wholeness. There are seven branches of the Temple Menorah, seven aliyot to the Torah, and so many other examples. After 6 days of creation, G!d took the seventh day to rest. We, too, have the obligation and opportunity to separate from the rest of the week. There are many rituals our faith offers us to personalize Shabbat, and using that day can help make us complete.

After we’ve counted seven weeks in the Omer, we celebrate the receiving of the Ten Commandments. Ten also shows up in the Torah when Abraham finally was able to convince G!d to not destroy Sodom if he could find 10 righteous people. A minyan consists of 10 people, referring back to the ten spies who lied about Eretz Yisrael. We turned the negative connotation into a positive one. Like Abraham, we should look for the good people, look for those trying to make the world a better place. And once we find them, we should help them.

This leads me to my final number – thirteen. Thirteen is the age of Bar or Bat Mitzvah. We use thirteen attributes to describe G!d: merciful, compassionate, gracious, slow to anger, abundant in kindness and truth, preserver of kindness for generations, forgiver of iniquities, willful sin and errors, and one who cleanses and gives us a clean slate. We find these attributes in the Torah and declare them during the High Holidays. We were created b’tzelem elokim, in the image of G!d. We, too, possess these attributes and do not need to look too deeply within ourselves to find them.

As I reflect on my first year here at TJC, these numbers are very clear in my mind. I spent a lot of time getting to know our seventh graders, and am excited as they finish this leg of their Jewish journeys and continue on to our new High School program. Our tenth graders, known as our Siyyum Tichon class, are preparing for their ceremony and also to further their Jewish education. Thirteen of those tenth graders represented The Jewish Center in New Orleans for an experience that showed me that each one of us possesses the Attributes of G!d.

This summer, let’s work together to find those Attributes of G!d within ourselves and those around us. Let us show the kindness and compassion that Abraham showed as he tried to judge Sodom favorably. And let us remember to take that Seventh day and make it special, just as G!d did after creating the world.

I guess despite not being a math person, numbers have a significant impact on my life afterall...

B’shalom,

Sharon Diamondstein • 609.921.0100 • [email protected]

Sharon Diamondstein

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Religious School



Wednesday, May 84:00-7:00 PM

Open to the Community!

Come see all the great things The Jewish Center has to offer

See Religious School classrooms in action

Choose your own learning path in the Religious School

State of the Art technology and smart boards in all classrooms

Come explore from Early Childhood to High School

WinPrizes

Food forPurchase

at

OPENHouse

Religous School

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Religious School



Join us as we celebrate Israel’s

Independence Day!

Wednesday, May 8th

4:00-7:00 PM

Music with DJIsraeli Dancing

BBQCrafts Games

YomHaatzmaut

YomHaatzmaut


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Religious School



June 7, July 19 and August 23 9:30 - 11:00 am

Join us for a very special Challah Bake program for children ages 12-36 months and their adult people! We will make our own dough and then be able to take it home to bake for Shabbat dinner! Come sing Shabbat songs, hear stories, and make your very own challah!

FREE to the community! pre-registration required so that

everyone can bring home their own challah!

To register, contact Sharon Diamondstein at

[email protected]

ChallahChallahBakeBake

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Shabbat Katan

MonthlyYoungFamilyServiceandGet-together

Shabbatmorningsat11:00amintheYouthLoungeon

November 3 ● December 8, 2018

2019 Dates to be announced soon!

Celebrate your child's birthday or other milestone by sponsoring a Shabbat Katan lunch. Call Sharon Diamondstein, Director of Congregational Learning at [email protected] or 609-921-7207 to arrange.

Shabbat Katan






Shabbat Katan






June 14, July 12, August 16

Shabbat Katan








Please join us for Kabbalat Shabbat Katan and greet Shabbat with young families from TJC! We will sing songs, tell stories, and make new friends! Please join us afterwards for a dairy potluck dinner.

May 3 and June 7 5:45 pm Youth lounge

Kabbalat Shabbat Katan


Shabbat Katan

Religious School

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Religious School



The Jewish Center

Welcome to #Sulam (Ladder), Our New and Improved Hebrew High School Program

Tuition: $720 per year TJC members; $1200 per year Non-TJC members. Scholarships are availableFor more information contact Sharon Diamondstein in the TJC Religious School office at (609) 921-0100 x220 or [email protected]

ADDITIONAL COMPONENTS OF THE PROGRAM:HINEINI - Sulam off-site Shabbaton October 4 – 6, 2019.

CSI: PRINCETON - Family learning opportunities each semester.

FIRST FINAN-SHUL BANK – Financial Incentive Program for Scholarship to any Jewish teen program.

• Experiential Community Components• Two types of learning: Didactic and Experiential• Financial incentive• Top-notch Educators

• School-wide Shabbaton for Community building • Community Service hours• College credits• Teaching Certificate

WHAT’S NEW?

DAYS OF THE WEEK:Sunday and Wednesday evenings (includes dinner and snacks)Wednesdays three times a month for educational didactic programs by gradeSundays once a month for an Experiential Program

SHLAV ALEPH – How To Escape From Shul?8th Grade – Jewish Escape Rooms

SHLAV BET – A Rabbi, a Priest and an Imam walk into a Bar…9th Grade - Comparative Religion

SHLAV GIMMEL – Picking Up the Pieces: Repairing a Broken World10th grade - Social Justice

SHLAV DALED – Defense Against the Dark Hearts11th and 12th grades: Israel with Gila Levin

SHLAV HEH – Dorm Room Debates and Campus Clashes

CURRICULUM/CLASS TOPICS:

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OUTDOOR SUMMER KABBALAT SHABBAT SERVICES AT TJC

MARK YOUR CALENDAR AND JOIN US IN THE RUACHat The Jewish Center

JULY 12 & AUGUST 16 6:30 pm

Followed by dairy potluck dinners at TJCBring a dairy side dish/dessert

Entree & Beverages provided by The Jewish Center

For more information contact [email protected]

Religious School

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Spotlight on Our B’nai Mitzvah

ALEXANDER SILVERMAN - 5/18Zander has cared about his connection to The Jewish Center since he began Hebrew school here in the third grade. Thanks to his devoted teachers, and his small group sessions with Rabbi Adam, he is continuing to develop a passion for learning about Jewish traditions, history and law. Zander is a seventh grade student at Princeton Day School. He is passionate about science and engineering, Legos, and architecture, and he is a deeply empathetic and loving friend brother, nephew, cousin, son and grandson.

DYLAN OSTER - 6/1Dylan grew up in Red Bank, NJ (by the shore) and moved to New Hope this past fall. Dylan has two older brothers and a sweet vizsla puppy named Duke. She attends the Hun School and plays several sports there. Her main sport is diving, which she does on a club team year round. Dylan has also been a figure skater and plays the piano and violin occasionally. She is very excited about her upcoming Bat Mitzvah!

SYLVIE LEBOUEF - 6/15Sylvie has cared about her connection to The Jewish Center since her pre-school days. She has led the way and inspired us on her journey towards becoming a Bat Mitzvah. Thanks to her devoted teachers and good friends and to her loving family, she is continuing to develop her interest in studying Jewish traditions, history and culture. Sylvie is a seventh grade student at John Witherspoon Middle School. She is a passionate lacrosse player, a beautiful artist and musician: a singer, guitar player and pianist and a kind friend, sister, niece, cousin, daughter and granddaughter.

ZACHARY BERNSTEIN – 6/22Zachary is a seventh grader at Timberlane Middle School in Hopewell. He has been a part of The Jewish Center since he was in pre-school and is very much looking forward to becoming a Bar Mitzvah this year. Zachary really enjoys his time spent at Hebrew School mainly in part to the good friends he has made over the years and to the wonderful teachers he has had. They have all had a part in this amazing journey for him. Zachary loves spending time with his friends and family when he is not busy with football, basketball and lacrosse.

OLIVIA SPEKTOR - 6/8Olivia Spektor is a 7th grade student at The Hun School of Princeton. After moving to the area two years ago, Olivia is happy to have found a home & many close friends at The Jewish Center. Olivia is an avid athlete and loves playing many sports including soccer and basketball on her club teams. She also enjoys art, shopping and hanging with friends. Her Chesed project was to volunteer with Princeton Special Sports where she helped athletes have a good time playing baseball.

CATALINA MOLINA - 5/11Catalina is in the seventh grade at John Witherspoon Middle School. Since she was little she has loved music and theater. She now sings with the Princeton Girl Choir, plays piano, performs in her school shows, and makes movies with friends. She also loves working with kids. She has volunteered at her former preschool as a junior counselor for the past two summers. Catalina also loves learning languages and has enjoyed studying Hebrew. Her family is so proud of her path to Torah and her dedication to studying for her Bat Mitzvah.

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JCW: Jewish Center Women...WE WANT YOU!

Nosh & DroshBon Appetit in the Princeton Shopping CenterThursdays, 9:30-11:00 am • 5/16 & 6/20

Drop in for a morning of schmoozing, discussion, connecting and inclusion. Our new format will include a combination of guest leaders and self-guided discussions.

Questions? Contact the “Nosh & Drosh” Co-chairs: Lauren Neufeld; 908-216-1412; [email protected] or Cynthia Neufeld; 908-359-8440; [email protected]



ISRAELI DANCING Registration FormPlease complete the form below and return to The Jewish Center Attn: ISRAELI DANCING

Registrant Name( ________________________________________________________________________ q Member q Non Member

Email Address________________________________________________ Cell phone number ______________________________________

q Enclosed is my check q Charge my VISA/MC/AMEX

Name on credit card: ___________________________ Card Number _________________________________________________________

Exp. Date ______________ CCV# ______ Signature: ______________________________________________________________________

Sponsored by Jewish Center Women

May 7 • 7:30 pmOpen to the Community! RSVP requested.

$10 for Jewish Center members $12 for community membersPlease register using the form below, call the synagogue office 609-921-0100 ext. 200 or email [email protected]

Dancing LaShir

The Jewish Community Choir of Princeton

In ConcertSunday, June 2 at 2:00 p.m.

Join us for a delightful musical afternoon! Hillman Hall at Westminster Community College

101 Walnut Lane, Princeton

For information, please call 347-782-2746

Free admission

LaShir The Jewish Community Choir of Princeton





Free admission

LaShir The Jewish Community Choir of Princeton





Free admission

Sunday, June 2 at 2:00 p.m.The Jewish Community Choir of Princeton

LaShir in Concert

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WOMEN’S STRUGGLES Registration FormPlease complete the form below and return to The Jewish Center Attn: WOMEN’S STRUGGLES

Registrant Name _________________________________________________________________________ q Member q Non Member

Email Address________________________________________________ Cell phone number ______________________________________


Name on credit card: ___________________________ Card Number _________________________________________________________

Exp. Date ______________ CCV# ______ Signature: ______________________________________________________________________

Thursday eveningsMay 16, 23 & 30

7:30 pm

Open to the Community! RSVP requested.$54 for Jewish Center members $72 for community members

To register, please complete the form below or email [email protected] and mail your payment to TJC Attention: Women in Israel OR call 609-921-0100 Ext. 200 to pay by credit card.

Women’s Struggles for Equality in a Jewish and Democratic Israel

Co-sponsored by Adult Education and

Jewish Center Women

Presented by Tanya Zion-Waldoks, a gender scholar, feminist activist and mother of four – intertwined callings. Her research examines intersections of religion, gender, and politics, with a focus on women’s social movements. Currently a post-doctoral Rothschild fellow at Princeton University’s Center for the Study of Religion, Tanya will join the faculty of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s School of Education in 2019. Her current project is a comparative study of religious feminisms in Israel.

In Israel’s multicultural society, national politics and everyday lives are shaped by the interplay between religion and gender. This mini-course will explore how Israel’s aspiration to be both Jewish and democratic, shapes women’s lives, and how women – particularly religious women – shape Israel’s character. We will discuss how Jewish (from secular to ultra-Orthodox) and Arab (Muslim, Christian, Druze and Bedouin) women transform law, culture, and society and what challenges they face.

Women’s Struggles for Equality in a Jewish and Democratic Israel

Adult Education & JCW

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Men’s Club

Join us for our monthly gathering at KIXX – the Sports Bar in Kingston as we gather to share some food, a good beer and a conversation about some critical topic in our Jewish lives. The Rabbi always brings a text or a topic or a story that keeps us talking for at least an hour. We welcome new people to our group and we are open to any men in our community including people who have not yet joined TJC. The food and drink are usually pretty good – the topic of the month is interesting and the camaraderie is the best part of all.

Wednesday, May 15 • 8:00 pmWednesday, June 5 • 8:00 pm KIXX Sports Bar • 4591 Route 27 • Kingston


TorahTorahTorah

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435 Nassau Street, Princeton, NJ 08540609.921.0100 • www.thejewishcenter.orgI N N O V A T I V E P R O G R A M M I N G

The Jewish Center’s

GREATMINDS S A L O N

THE JEWISH CENTER’S “GREAT MINDS” SALON IS A SPEAKER SERIES FASHIONED AFTER THE 1900’S ERAPARIS SALON HOSTED BY JEWISH AUTHOR GERTRUDE STEIN (PICTURED ABOVE), WHICH REGULARLY

BROUGHT TOGETHER THE BRIGHTEST ARTISTS AND THINKERS OF THAT ERA TO DISCUSS THEIR LATEST WORK.

THE JEWISH CENTER • 435 NASSAU STREET • PRINCETONDESSERT WILL BE SERVED

FREE TO TJC MEMBERS. $5 FEE FOR COMMUNITY MEMBERS RSVP REQUESTED BUT NOT REQUIRED TO [email protected]

THURSDAY, MAY 9

JENNY RICHSPEAKING ABOUTHOLOCAUST MEMORY IN AMERICA&THURSDAY, JUNE 6

CATHY QUARTNER BAILEYSPEAKING ABOUTCULTIVATING MINDFULNESS:THE PATH TO A MOREJOYFUL, EFFECTIVE LIFE

THURSDAY, MAY 9 (8PM-9PM)JENNY RICH SPEAKING ABOUTHOLOCAUST MEMORY IN AMERICAThis talk focuses on the ways in which society remembers the Holocaust, and how and in what ways this remembering affects individuals, particularly the descendants of survivors, today. Jenny Rich is the Director of the Rowan Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, and an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Rowan University. Her research focuses on mass violence and memory. Jenny’s writing has most recently appeared in The Hechinger Report, The Washington Post, and The Philadelphia Inquirer.







OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. NON-CONGREGANTS $5 ADMISSIONRSVP REQUESTED BUT NOT REQUIRED TO [email protected]

TUESDAY, JANUARY 22GARY FRIEDMAN, MDSPEAKING ABOUTBREAKING BARRIERS THROUGH ORGAN TRANSPLANTS

&THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7

RABBI JULIE ROTHSPEAKING ABOUTTHE COLLEGE CAMPUS: FRONTIER OF AMERICANJUDAISM

TUESDAY, JANUARY 22 (8PM-9PM)GARY FRIEDMAN, MD SPEAKING ABOUTBREAKING BARRIERS THROUGH ORGAN TRANSPLANTSDR. FRIEDMAN is a Nephrologist and Organ Transplant Specialist with more than 15 years in medical practice. After training at The New York Hospital/Cornell University Medical Center and practicing as a nephrologist at Saint Barnabas Medical Center, he transitioned into research and development in the pharmaceutical industry ten years ago. Dr. Friedman has been lead clinician on the development of anti-rejection medications and immunomodulatory medications for chronicinflammatory and autoimmune diseases.







OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. NON-CONGREGANTS $5 ADMISSIONRSVP REQUESTED BUT NOT REQUIRED TO [email protected]

THURSDAY, FEBRAURY 7 (8PM-9PM)RABBI JULIE ROTH SPEAKING ABOUTTHE COLLEGE CAMPUS: FRONTIER OF AMERICAN JUDAISMBased on her 14 years at Princeton University, she will share insights into Jewish identity and the key issues facing Jewish college students today. Rabbi Roth enjoys nothing more than meeting with students, faculty, and alumni, and her passion for pluralism, Jewish life, and multi-culturalism make campus work an ideal match. Originally from Cleveland, Ohio, Rabbi Roth holds a B.A. in Comparative Religion from Brown University and was ordained by the Jewish Theological Seminary in 2015. She is a recipient of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship and the Richard J. Joel Exemplar of Excellence Award from Hillel International, its highest professional honor. Rabbi Roth and her husband, Rabbi Justus Baird live in Princeton with their twin boys, Ilan and Rafael, and daughter, Noa.

THURSDAY, JUNE 6 (8PM-9PM)CATHY QUARTNER BAILEY SPEAKING ABOUTCULTIVATING MINDFULNESS: THE PATH TO A MORE JOYFUL, EFFECTIVE LIFECATHY QUARTNER BAILEY, president of Quartner and Associates, LLC, has coached and facilitated workshops for executives from Fortune 500 companies and entrepreneurial ventures across a broad range of industries. She recently published the book Show Up as Your Best Self: Mindful Leaders, Meditation, & More. Cathy also works as an executive coach in Wharton’s MBA leadership program and has taught at New York University’s Leadership and Human Capital Department. She earned her MBA from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Adult Education

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Join us for an Inspiring visit to the Center for Holocaust, Human Rights and Genocide Education in Lincroft, NJWednesday, May 22, 2019 • Open to the Community! Our day will include:• A guided tour of the exhibit, which engages visitors with the compelling human story behind the Armenian

Genocide, the Holocaust, and the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda. Through video testimony and archival items of local survivors, visitors can connect the lessons of genocide to today’s world.

• Box Lunch

• A visit with Claire Bohren, a Holocaust survivor, who began painting later in life. Along the way, Claire realized that her paintings were an expression of her memories of her war time experiences.

• Student Art Exhibit

Schedule for the day:Our bus will leave The Jewish Center (TJC) at 9 AM on May 22, arriving at Chhange at 10:00 am. We will leave Chhange at 2:00 pm, arriving back at TJC at 3:00 pm.Cost: $25 per person for TJC members $30 for Community members

The Jewish Center is grateful for the Marchand Espir Family Holocaust Education Fund’s generous support of this program.

To register please complete this form, email [email protected] and mail your payment to TJC Attention: Trip to cchange, OR call 609-921-0100 Ext. 200 to pay by credit card

Registrant Name _______________________________________________________________________________ q Member q Non Member

Email Address________________________________________________ Cell phone number __________________________________________

Box lunches will be provided. Please select your preferred sandwich q egg salad q tuna fish q roasted veggies


Name on credit card: ___________________________ Card Number _____________________________________________________________

Exp. Date ______________ CCV# ______ Signature: __________________________________________________________________________

Adult Education

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Adult Education



Judaism and neuroscience have much to say about consciousness. Join us as Princeton University professor Michael Graziano discusses his current research on the neurological basis of consciousness with Rabbi Daniel Nevins, Dean of the Jewish Theological Seminary Rabbinical School. Our panelists will explore how do we think? What does it mean to be conscious of ourselves, our emotions, our decisions, and our memories? How is it that we are aware of being alive, aware of other people, of our community, even of faith?

Tuesday, May 14th7:30 pm

The program is open to the community. FREE for members, $10 for community members

For more information please contact the TJC office at (609) 921-0100 x200 or [email protected]

Rabbi Daniel Nevins is the Pearl Resnick Dean of the JTS Rabbinical School. He also serves as Dean of the Division of Religious Leadership, which includes the H.L. Miller Cantorial School, the Center for Pastoral Education, and the Block-Kolker Center for Spiritual Arts. A graduate of JTS and of Harvard College, where he studied Middle Eastern History, he worked for 13 years as Rabbi of Adat Shalom Synagogue in Farmington Hills, MI. A scholar of contemporary Jewish law, Rabbi Nevins serves on The Committee on Jewish Law and Standards, for which he has written responsa on topics of science, technology, bioethics, sexuality and disability. His writings can be found at www.rabbinevins.com. Rabbi Nevins lives in NYC with his family.

Michael S. A. Graziano, PhD is a professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Princeton University. He is an author—including popular science articles for The New York Times, The Atlantic, and The Washington Post—as well as a composer, and sometimes a ventriloquist. His current research focuses on the brain basis of consciousness and how the social mechanisms in the brain may allow us to attribute the property of consciousness to ourselves and to others. His ventriloquist puppet Kevin sometimes accompanies him in his scientific talks, to help illustrate social perception. You can find links to his articles at https://www.princeton.edu/~graziano/ .

Panelists: Rabbi Daniel Nevins and Michael S. A. Graziano, PhD

How do you think? A Jewish & Scientific Exploration of Consciousness

This program is the fourth in a series, co-sponsored by Scientists in Synagogues, run by Sinai and Synapses in consultation with the AAAS Dialogue on Science, Ethics and Religion,

and primarily funded by the John Templeton Foundation.

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Adult Education

Bible BaBokerBible BaBoker is a Torah study group, comprised of congregants who meet each Shabbat morning from 8:45-10am to study a section of the week’s Parsha. We are not Torah scholars and our goal is not to become Torah scholars. Rather, we study the parsha of the week in order to try to extract some wisdom from the Torah that we can use in our daily lives to become better Jews and better people.

Prior Torah knowledge or background is not necessary and new participants are always welcome. Study with us each week or whenever you can make it! We look forward to learning together. To be added to the BBB mailing list or for questions, contact Michael Goldin at [email protected]

TJC Book ClubOur next TJC Book Club meeting will be on the third Tuesday, May 21, at 7:30pm. We are currently scheduled to meet in the TJC Beit Midrash (that is the small chapel), but stay tuned and be flexible. We meet this month to discuss:

May 21: Linda Hirshman’s Sisters In LawThe relationship between Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg —Republican and Democrat, Christian and Jew, western rancher’s daughter and Brooklyn girl—transcends party, religion, region, and culture. Strengthened by each other’s presence, these groundbreaking judges, the first and second to serve on the highest court in the land, have transformed the Constitution and America itself, making it a more equal place for all women.

June 18: Nicholas Dawidoff’s The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe BergMoe Berg is the only major-league baseball player whose baseball card is on display at the headquarters of the CIA. For Berg was much more than a third-string catcher who played on several major league teams between 1923 and 1939. Educated at Princeton and the Sorbonne, he as reputed to speak a dozen languages (although it was also said he couldn’t hit in any of them) and went on to become an OSS spy in Europe during World War II.

July: Summer Potluck and Video, Details To Be Announced

Multiple copies of our selections are available at the Princeton Public Library on the “Book Club” shelves. (NOTE: The fiction Book Club shelves are on the first floor, but the non-fiction Book Club shelves are upstairs on the second floor.)

All of our books can be ordered online and you can click on the synagogue link (below) to find the Amazon link that will earn a commission for the Synagogue:

http://thejewishcenter.org/Participate-With-Us/Our-Commitees/Book-Club.aspx

If you’d like your name removed from this e-list, please let me know.

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Yiddish ClassClass meets on Wednesdays (except Jewish holidays) • 1:30-3:00 pmYiddish is alive and well. Join this class in reading Yiddish literature orally.For more information, contact Ziona Silverman 732-329-1069

Talmud Study ClassMeets weekly on Wednesdays (except Jewish holidays) • 12:15 - 1:15 pmClose reading and analysis of selected passages and sugiyot in the Babylonian Talmud and related texts. Previous familiarity with Talmud study is recommended.For more information, contact Neil Litt [email protected] to TJC are requested from non-members

Ongoing Adult Education

Interested In Learning To Read Hebrew?Do you want to be more comfortable participating in the service and following along in the prayer book? The Jewish Center is considering offering a prayer book Hebrew course for adults taught by Nancy Lewis.

If you’re interested, please call Maryann Yarin in the synagogue office 609-921-0100 ext. 201 or email [email protected].

Adult Hebrew Class with Edna NoimanAdvanced Beginners 9:00-10:00 amAdvanced Hebrew 10:00-11:00 amBeginners Hebrew 11:00 am-Noon

Classes follow Religious School Sunday calendar.

For placement and information regarding registration fee, call Edna Bryn-Noiman at609-716-1164 or email [email protected]

Judge Stern will reminisce about his career in public service including some of his more publicly known cases and events which occurred while he was a prosecutor and judge, and will generally discuss some of the opinions in cases on which he presided, and the trend of recent jurisprudence in New Jersey. He will also address some of the work that he was involved with respect to implementation of the New Jersey Code of Criminal Justice, and development of the procedures for processing of criminal cases. These include the efforts to develop alternatives to prosecution and incarceration, and efforts to achieve sentencing reform and to avoid undue sentence disparity.

5/16 • Farrin Anello, from ACLU of NJ – She will be speaking about Immigration

55 Plus Lecture Series

5/2 • A Memorable Legal Career • Speaker: Ed Stern, Retired NJ Judge

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Rabbi Dov Peretz Elkins

Book Signing

Thursday, May 30 7:30 p.m.

The Jewish Center

Rabbi Emeritus Dov Peretz Elkins has just published two fascinating volumes about his half-century of service as a Rabbi. FOUR RABBIS AT LUNCH: CANDID CONVERSATIONS

AMONG AMERICAN CLERGY and

TO CLIMB THE RUNGS: A RABBI’S MEMOIR [TO CLIMB THE RUNGS has a long, exciting chapter

on Rabbi Elkins’ 13 years as senior rabbi at The Jewish Center]

RSVP: [email protected]

Adult Education

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Arts & Cultural Affairs



Sunday, May 5 • 2:00-4:00pm

HomeFront’s ArtSpace Exhibit

Spring into Color

The spacious ArtSpace studio is located at the heart of the new HomeFront Family Campus. Through this innovative therapeutic art program, the creative process becomes a tangible tool for self-expression, critical thinking and problem-solving that can transform the lives of the artists. Making art lets us step away from our lives for a moment. It’s a chance to breathe, a chance to reset your system and bring a new reality to an otherwise blank page. All of us as humans need to express ourselves in some way. When there are limits to how you can express yourself, having an outlet where you can create, where you can make art, opens doors to new ways of thinking and helps us to see ourselves in new and beautiful ways.

A collection of artwork and poetry

created by HomeFront Clients.

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On Wednesday evening, April 3, a ceremony was held in the lobby of TJC to celebrate the unfurling of our Rainbow Flag. The flag was purchased with overwhelming support of the Board and had been championed by Rabbi Feldman and Board President Linda Meisel. Abigail Rose, co-chair of the Social Action Committee led the process to make this all happen. The Flag will be permanently stationed in the lobby for all inside and outside the Center to see. The display of the flag highlights the Jewish Center’s ongoing committment to celebrating diversity and inclusion as a central tenet of our community.

The ceremony was very well attended and included a broad range of our members - children, parents, educators, congregants, Board members, the clergy and guests. A spirit of joy pervaded the event.

Well-being Committee

Savor your prayer experience using mindfulness meditation techniques to focus on words, texts and ideas associated with the Shabbat afternoon or weekday evening service. In so doing, you will have the opportunity to discover the richness of silence, and to deepen your appreciation of the many layers of meaning in the liturgy. You will leave feeling relaxed, refreshed and centered. Even if you’ve never tried mindfulness or meditation before (or if you’ve tried and you think you’ve “failed”), you are welcome to join us.

Ruth Goldston is a long-time congregant, as well as a psychologist in private practice in Princeton. She has used meditation and mindfulness techniques successfully with her clients for many years, and has drawn on them to create meaningful prayer experiences for participants in TJC’s Havurah Minyan.

led by Ruth GoldstonMindful Prayer / Meditation Mincha

YOUR SLOGAN GOES HERE

TJC


in the Adult Library Saturday, May 4 • 4:00 pm

Tuesday June 4 • 7:30 pmTuesday, July 9 • 7:30 pm

Tuesday August 13 • 7:30 pm

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COMMEMORATE A LOVED ONE YIZKOR BOOK OF REMEMBRANCE 5780 Every year TJC produces an annual Yizkor Book of Remembrance. This booklet is distributed at services four times during the year when Yizkor is recited, beginning with Yom Kippur.

To commemorate a loved one in this booklet, please list their name(s) below and return the bottom portion, together with a check or credit card payment of $20 per name.

DEADLINE FOR BOOK: TJC Book of Remembrance is prepared solely from your response.

If you would like to be notified of future yahrzeit dates (a few weeks before they occur) and you currently are not receiving this information, please include the full English date of death and relationship when you return your form.

If you have any questions or need additional information, please call Maryann Yarin at The Jewish Center office, (609) 921-0100 Ext. 201 or e-mail at [email protected].

✂…………………………..…………………✂……………………………………….…………✂

YIZKOR BOOK OF REMEMBRANCE ORDER FORM Deadline: Sept. 10

Return Form to TJC – 435 Nassau St., Princeton, NJ 08540 Attn: Maryann Yarin

Name: _______________________________________________________________________

Address: _____________________________________________________________________

Donation: $20 Per Name. Use Form Below ___My donation of $________is enclosed by check payable to The Jewish Center.

___Please charge my credit card (MC/VISA/AMEX) for my donation of $_____________.

Card number____________________________Exp. Date____________ Cardholder Signature _____________________________________________________

____________________________________________ (Your name as Donor as you would like it will appear in the Book of Remembrance)

I wish to honor the memory of the following: (PLEASE PRINT FULL NAMES IN ENGLISH) If a past TJC congregant please place an asterisk * next to the name

1. 7.

2. 8.

3. 9.

4. 10.

5. 11.

6. 12.

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Social Action

TJC May CollectionThe Social Action Committee is asking for donations of boxed and canned goods for the Arm in Arm food pantries in Princeton and in Trenton. Canned protein and low salt canned vegetables are particularly needed. The pantry shelves are emptying faster than usual with the need for food increasing month by month. Thank you for whatever you can contribute.

Congregants can drop these items in the bin, in the TJC lobby. Thank you in advance for your support of this project. Please donate:

Recycling and Compost UpdateDue to the disruption in composting collection in Princeton The Jewish Center of Princeton is not able to collect food waste at this time. This means that the organic waste we have been diverting from the landfill and converting into rich compost will go into the landfill until we can solve the problem. Do not despair, the municipality of Princeton and members of the TJC Green Team are working to ensure that our community continues to observe the mitzvah of Ba’al Tashhit (Do Not Destroy). Stay tuned for more information in the near future!

WE WILL CONTINUE TO COLLECT RECYCLABLES, so please ensure each of the following (and only these items) are sorted into our blue recycling bins. When in doubt, throw it out!

Plastic bottles • Glass jars & bottles • Metal cans • Clean paper and cardboardMilk and juice cartons • NO PLASTIC FORKS, PLASTIC BAGS, PIZZA BOXES or YOGURT CUPS

Questions? Contact Alexandra Bar-Cohen [email protected] or Jenny Ludmer [email protected]

Dear Congregant,

I want to thank those congregants who have paid their $100 security assessment. We continue to have security personnel on site for school and worship services. In addition, we have had a professional security assessment conducted and are in the process of planning next steps to increasing the overall security of The Jewish Center facilities. I would ask that those members who have not yet paid the security assessment to do so in the next few weeks as the fiscal year for TJC ends on May 31, 2019. There are grant opportunities for which TJC may be eligible for government funding, but we will need the monies from congregant assessments to meet the grant match requirements.

Thank you in advance for sending in your security assessment and for your commitment to making the Jewish Center a safe and caring environment for all of us.

Linda Meisel, President

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—Avot De Rebbe Natan

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Office: 609.924.1600Mobile: [email protected]

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Call Leslie Duffy at 609-512-2919 to discuss the right strategy for you.

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We Can Help!

Helping Seniors, Small Businesses and Busy People

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• Wedding Invitations • Birth Announcements• Bar & Bat Mitzvah Invitations

• Personalized Social & Business StationeryHours by Appointment • Discount Prices

Barbara Litt 609-921-3854

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Capri Catering for any occasion!

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335 US Hwy 9Manalapan, NJ 07726

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I will donate $180 in honor of each of my Jewish Center clients who buy or sell a home this year.

The donation will be made to the Jewish Center fund of their choice.

To schedule a free confidential consultation,

contact me at cell: 609-577-2989 e-mail: [email protected] or

visit BeatriceBloom.com

350 Nassau Street Princeton, NJ 08540

BLOOM WHERE YOU’RE PLANTED AND GROW!

With Beatrice Bloom, Princeton Residential Specialist

I will donate $180 in honor of each of my Jewish Center clients who buy or sell a home this year. The donation will

be made to The Jewish Center fund of their choice.

To schedule a free confidential consultation, contact me at cell: 609-577-2989 or e-mail: [email protected] or

visit www.BeatriceBloom.comMilano Cleaners can be found at:

4095 U.S. Highway Route 1 South

South Brunswick Square Mall

Monmouth Junction, NJ 08852

732.329.1100

To place an ad contact the office at 609-921-0100 or info@the jewishcenter.org

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Contributions

GENERAL FUND

In honor ofJerry Goodkin’s special birthday from Anonymous, Donna and

David Gabai, Gil and Ellen Gordon, Ed Flax and Dee Silver

Fran Zeitler and Fred Edelman’s first anniversary from Gil and Ellen GordonHedy Shavel’s special birthday from Gil and Ellen GordonThe birth of Sara and Steven Just’s grandson, Jacob Kenneth Dobay from Gil and Ellen Gordon

In memory ofMichael Snyder from Leslie Azaroff, Mark and

Jane Wilf, Jon and Ruth ShavelSteve Klein from Leslie AzaroffMartha Mohr from Marilyn ZagorinEthel Goldstein from Joan GoldsteinAnn Demitrovic from Rick and Mitzi SeinfeldBernice Wishnick from Ross and Lesley WishnickMimi Gershen from Jon and Ruth ShavelArthur Berg from Jon and Ruth ShavelEdna Wang from Allen and Rhona PorterFred Porter from Allen and Rhona PorterFrancis Goldberg from Harriet JosephBernard Brill from Robert and Judy LevineAurelia Blau from Leslie and Stephanie BlauIrene Stern from Jon and Ruth ShavelRose Levy from Beverly Levy Beer

ADULT EDUCATION FUND

In honor ofStewart Levy from Beatrice Bloom

ANNUAL FUNDIn memory ofAmy Grossman from Rona and Jeff Sands

ARTS & CULTURAL AFFAIRS

In honor ofMartha Friedman and Ifat Shatzky from Michael Blumenfeld

HAZZAN’S MUSIC FUND

In honor ofCantor Jeff Warschauer from Jewish Women International

THE JEWISH CENTER REFUGEE FUNDIn honor ofJerry Goodkin’s special birthday from Fran Zeitler and Fred Edelman

In memory ofRabbi James Diamond from Judy DiamondMiki Mendelsohn’s brother Harry from Fran Zeitler and Fred Edelman

LASHIR FUNDIn memory ofHyman Coopersmith from Lew and Lynn Coopersmith

LIFE AND LEGACY ENDOWMENT FUNDIn memory ofJean Schwartz and Eleanore Greene from Martin and Judy Schwartz

PRAYERBOOK FUNDIn memory ofGerald Schreiber from Bonnie Schreiber

RABBI’S DISCRETIONARY FUND

from Jose Matiella from Sher and Jeanne LeimanIn honor ofGil Gordon from Michael and Naomi GoldinRabbi Feldman from Elizabeth Bloch-SmithJerry Goodkin’s special birthday from Myra Weiner and Irv

Newman, Stephen Cohen, Bob and Eileen Garber

The Bris Eduardo from Ana and Leon BuzaliRabbi Feldman for his kindness and caring from Ron and Barbara BergBob and Eileen Garber from Beatrice Bloom

In memory ofSol Kessler from Marsha and Eliot FreemanHelen Schlaffer from Fran Zeitler and Fred

Edelman, Andrea, Aileen and Marla Schlaffer, Marsha and Eliot Freeman

Roger Schwartz from Hazel StixHerbert and Fay Abelson from Joe Abelson and familyFrank Dottore from Marsha and Eliot FreemanMichael Snyder from Matty and Hedy ShavelPhilip Blick from Matty and Hedy Shavel

RELIGIOUS SCHOOL FUND

In memory ofHelen Schlaffer from Maryann Yarin

SHABBAT LUNCHEON FUND

In memory ofHelen Schlaffer from Joan Levin, Roslyn and

David VanderbiltTillye Klaben from Norma and Phil Papier

SOCIAL ACTION FUND

In memory ofRobyn Kevelson Burnside and Malcolm Burnside from Hinda WinawerMargaret Becker from Jeffrey Mattes and Amy

Becker-Mattes

YOUTH AND FAMILY PROGRAMS FUND

In honor ofThe birth of Eduardo Buzali from Beatrice and Michael Bloom

We appreciate the thoughtfulness of those who support The Jewish Center by remembering and honoring friends and loved ones through their generous contributions:

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May/June/July 2019 Calendar Visit our website at: thejewishcenter.org/calendar.aspx for more details and room locations

WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 20197:00 AM Morning Minyan12:15 PM Adult Ed Programs -

Talmud Study1:30 PM Yiddish Reading Group4:00 PM Religious School 6:00 PM Tichon7:00 PM Yom HaShoah Service

THURSDAY, MAY 2, 201910:00 AM 55Plus7:30 PM LaShir Rehearsal

FRIDAY, MAY 3, 2019Candle Lighting is 7:38 pm6:00 PM Shalom Shabbat-Welcome

Shabbat With Friends- Wine & Cheese Reception

6:30 PM Kabbalat Shabbat Service

SATURDAY, MAY 4, 20198:45 AM Bible BaBoker9:30 AM Shabbat School 9:30 AM Shabbat Morning Service11:00 AM Shabbat Katan4:00 PM Mindful Prayer / Meditation

Mincha with Ruth Goldston

SUNDAY, MAY 5, 20199:00 AM Mitzvah Day9:00 AM Morning Minyan9:00 AM Religious School 2:00 PM HomeFront ArtSpace Art

and Poetry Reception2:00 PM Interfaith Stitchers - Nassau

Presbyterian Church, Princeton7:00 PM EC Meeting

TUESDAY, MAY 7, 20194:00 PM Religious School 7:30 PM JCW - Israeli Daning

WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 20197:00 AM Morning Minyan12:15 PM Adult Ed Programs -

Talmud Study1:30 PM Yiddish Reading Group4:00 PM Religious School6:00 PM Tichon4:00 PM Open House at TJC4:00 PM YOM HAATZMAUT - Israel’s

Independence Day Celebration

THURSDAY, MAY 9, 20197:30 PM LaShir Rehearsal8:00 PM Great Minds Salon

featuring Jenny Rich

FRIDAY, MAY 10, 2019Candle Lighting is 7:45 pm9:30 AM Challah Bake 6:15 PM Zamru 6:30 PM Kabbalat Shabbat Service

SATURDAY, MAY 11, 20198:45 AM Bible BaBoker9:30 AM Shabbat School9:30 AM Shabbat Morning Service /

Bat Mitzvah of Catalina Molina10:00 AM Havurah Minyan

SUNDAY, MAY 12, 20199:00 AM Morning Minyan9:00 AM Religious School

TUESDAY, MAY 14, 20194:00 PM Religious School 7:30 PM Adult Ed: Scientists

in Synagogues

WEDNESDAY, MAY 157:00 AM Morning Minyan12:15 PM Adult Ed Programs -

Talmud Study1:30 PM Yiddish Reading Group4:00 PM Religious School6:00 PM Tichon8:00 PM Men’s Club - Torah on Tap -

KIXX Sports Bar - Kingston, NJ

THURSDAY, MAY 16, 20199:30 AM JCW Nosh & Drosh10:00 AM 55Plus7:30 PM Women’s Struggle for Equality

in a Jewish & Democratic Israel-Co-sponsored by JCW

7:30 PM LaShir Rehearsal7:30 PM Religious Affairs

Committee Meeting

FRIDAY, MAY 17, 2019Candle Lighting is 7:52 pm5:45 PM Kabbalat Shabbat Katan6:30 PM Kabbalat Shabbat ServiceHang Out, Sing, Schmooze and Eat with Cantor Jeff Following Services

SATURDAY, MAY 18, 20198:45 AM Bible BaBoker9:30 AM Shabbat School9:30 AM Shabbat Morning Service /

Alexander (Zander) Silverman-Dultz

10:00 AM Kulanu Minyan

SUNDAY, MAY 19, 20199:00 AM Morning Minyan9:00 AM Religious School 12:45 PM Young Families - Princeton

Scavenger Hunt

TUESDAY, MAY 21, 20197:30 PM TJC Book Club

WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 20197:00 AM Morning Minyan8:00 AM TJC bus trip to Holocaust

Museum at Brookdale Community College

12:15 PM Adult Ed Program - Talmud Study

1:30 PM Yiddish Reading Group

THURSDAY, MAY 23, 20197:30 PM Women’s Struggle for Equality


7:30 PM LaShir Rehearsal

FRIDAY, MAY 24, 2019Candle Lighting is 7:58 pm6:30 PM Kabbalat Shabbat Service

SATURDAY, MAY 25, 20198:45 AM Bible BaBoker9:30 AM Shabbat Morning Service10:00 AM Havurah Minyan -

Study Session

SUNDAY, MAY 26, 20199:00 AM Morning Minyan

WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, 20197:00 AM Morning Minyan12:15 PM Adult Ed Program -

Talmud Study1:30 PM Yiddish Reading Group

THURSDAY, MAY 30, 20197:30 AM Rabbi Elkins Book Signing7:30 PM Women’s Struggle for Equality


7:30 PM LaShir Rehearsal

FRIDAY, MAY 31, 2019Candle Lighting is 8:03 pm6:30 PM Kabbalat Shabbat Service

SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 20198:45 AM Bible BaBoker9:30 AM Shabbat Morning Service -

Shabbat of Appreciation

SUNDAY, JUNE 2, 20199:00 AM Morning Minyan2:00 PM LaShir Concert

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May/June/July 2019 Calendar Visit our website at: thejewishcenter.org/calendar.aspx for more details and room locations

TUESDAY, JUNE 4, 20194:00 PM Religious School 7:30 PM Mindful Prayer / Meditation

Mincha with Ruth Goldston

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 20197:00 AM Morning Minyan12:15 PM Adult Ed Programs -

Talmud Study1:30 PM Yiddish Reading Group8:00 PM Men’s Club - Torah on Tap - at TJC

THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 201910:00 AM 55Plus7:30 PM LaShir Rehearsal8:00 PM Great Minds Salon featuring

Cathy Quartner Bailey

FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 2019Candle Lighting is 8:08 pm - Erev Shavuot6:00 PM Shalom Shabbat - Welcome

Shabbat With Friends - Wine & Cheese Reception

6:30 PM Kabbalat Shabbat ServiceHang Out, Sing, Schmooze and Eat with Cantor Jeff following Services

SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 2019Candle Lighting is 9:09 pm - Shavuot7:00 P Tikkun Leyl Shavuot - An

Exciting Evening of Learning8:45 AM Bible BaBoker9:30 AM Shabbat Morning Service /

Bat Mitzvah of Olivia Spektor10:00 AM Havurah Minyan 11:00 AM Shabbat Katan

SUNDAY, JUNE 9, 2019Candle Lighting is 9:09 pm - Shavuot9:00 AM Morning Minyan

TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 20199:30 AM Equity Prospectors Group4:00 PM Religious School

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 127:00 AM Morning Minyan12:15 PM Adult Ed Programs -


THURSDAY, JUNE 137:30 PM LaShir Rehearsal7:30 PM Religious Affairs

Committee Meeting

FRIDAY, JUNE 14Candle Lighting is 8:11 pm6:15 PM Zamru6:30 PM Kabbalat Shabbat Service7:30 PM Havurah Aviv - Shabbat Dinner

SATURDAY, JUNE 158:45 AM Bible BaBoker9:30 AM Shabbat Morning Service /

Bat Mitzvah of Sylvie LeBouef10:00 AM Kulanu Minyan

SUNDAY, JUNE 169:00 AM Morning Minyan

TUESDAY, JUNE 184:00 PM Religious School 7:30 PM TJC Book Club

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 197:00 AM Morning Minyan12:15 PM Adult Ed Programs -


THURSDAY, JUNE 208:00 AM 55Plus9:30 AM JCW Nosh & Drosh7:30 PM LaShir Rehearsal

FRIDAY, JUNE 21Candle Lighting is 8:14 pm6:30 PM Kabbalat Shabbat Service

SATURDAY, JUNE 228:45 AM Bible BaBoker9:30 AM Shabbat Morning Service /

Bar Mitzvah of Zachary Bernstein

10:00 AM Havurah Minyan - Study Session


WEDNESDAY, JUNE 267:00 AM Morning Minyan12:15 PM Adult Ed Program -


THURSDAY, JUNE 277:30 PM LaShir Rehearsal

FRIDAY, JUNE 28Candle Lighting is 8:14 pm6:30 PM Kabbalat Shabbat Service

SATURDAY, JUNE 298:45 AM Bible BaBoker9:30 AM Shabbat Morning Service


WEDNESDAY, JULY 37:00 AM Morning Minyan

FRIDAY, JULY 5Candle Lighting is 8:13 pm6:30 PM Kabbalat Shabbat Service

SATURDAY, JULY 69:30 AM Shabbat Morning Service

SUNDAY, JULY 79:00 AM Morning Minyan

TUESDAY, JULY 97:30 PM Mindful Prayer / Meditation

Mincha led by Ruth Goldston


FRIDAY, JULY 12Candle Lighting is 8:10 pm6:30 PM Shabbat Under the Stars -

Kabbalat Shabbat Service




FRIDAY, JULY 19Candle Lighting is 8:06 pm6:30 PM Kabbalat Shabbat ServiceHang Out, Sing, Schmooze and Eat with Cantor Jeff following Services




FRIDAY, JULY 26Candle Lighting is 8:00 pm6:30 PM Kabbalat Shabbat Service




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Barry Ableman and Linda Rosenberg

Bernard and Barbara Abramson

Adele Agin

Dennis and Gail Alba

Jeffrey Albert and Marian Bass

Fredrick Appel and Marilyn Besner

Avi Argaman

David and Lorraine Atkin

Barak and Alexandra Bar-Cohen

Steven and Shelley Barnett

Olga Barsky

Meryl Baurmash

Aaron and Michelle Bellows

Richard and Victoria Bergman

Rachelle and Douglas Berkman

Bill and Ruth Besser

Jeremy and Jen Black

Leslie and Stephanie Blau

Oleg Bleyman and Anna Ginovker Bleyman

Michael and Beatrice Bloom

Harold Borkan

Dan Brent and Sally Steinberg-Brent

Randy and Debbie Brett

Thomas and Claire Calandra

Bernard and Phyllis Caras

Phil and JoAnn Carchman

Rabbi Joel and Marjorie Chernikoff

David and Denise Cheskis

Marc and Marcie Citron

Lewis and Lynn Coopersmith

Eve Coulson

Barbara Curran

Fred and Vivian Daniel

Roslyn Dayan

Judy Diamond

Marc and Sharon Diamondstein

Mike Dick and Daryl Rothman

Jessica and Diane Dickler

Conrad and Amy Druker

Mark and Patricia Edelstein

Michael and Susan Falcon

Chauncey and Rachel Farrington

Jack Feigenbaum

Richard and Sheryl Feinstein

Rabbi Adam Feldman and Sara Bucholtz

Elad Feldman and Rachael Cooper

Nathaniel and Tobe Fisch

Ed Flax and Dee Silver

Bernie and Judi Fleitman

Rabbi Robert and Sally Freedman

Anne Freedman

Barry and Bobbi Freedman

Eliot and Marsha Freeman

Jonathan and Beth Frieder

Seymour and Dorothy Friedman

Sheldon Friedman

Martha Friedman and Harold Heft

David and Donna Gabai

Lew and Barbara Gantwerk

Benjamin and Debra Gitterman

Benjamin Glasser and Jacqueline Berger

David Goldberg and Wilma Solomon

Robert Goldenberg and Nina Wacholder

David Goldfarb

Michael and Naomi Goldin

Ken and Michelle Goldman

Lewis Goldshore

Jerry and Vera Goodkin

Lawrence and Joan Goodman

Gil and Ellen Gordon

Michael and Linda Grenis

Jonathan and Susan Gross

Shulamith Gross

Jeffrey and Debra Gross

Lenny and Evy Grossman

Maxine Gurk

Diane Guvenis

Brig Henderson and Lori Weir

Joel Heymsfeld

Steve Hudis

Hanan and Helaine Isaacs

Bret and Lisa Jacknow

Eric and Lauren Jaffe

Curtis Johnson and Melissa Hager

Steven and Sara Just

Steven and Florence Kahn

David and Edye Kamenir

Robert Karp and Linda Oppenheim

Jeremy and Rakefet Kasdin

Ken and Christine Kaufman

Philip and Melinda Kirstein

Peter Kramer and Seva Jaffe Kramer

Mildred Kranzler

Sandy and Judy Kutin

Corey and Mindy Langer

Donna Laurie

Brad and Barbara Lawrence

Arthur Lehrhaupt

Sher and Jeanne Leiman

Michael and Judy Leopold

Joan Levin

Gadi and Gila Levin

Bob and Judy Levine

Annual Fund Donors We are deeply grateful to all those congregants who contributed to the Annual Fund.

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Morty and Sue Levine

Neil and Nancy Lewis

David and Marci Lieberman

Harold and Susan Loew

Philip and Jennifer Ludmer

Avron and Sally Magram

Sy and Phyllis Marchand

Moshe and Judith

Jason and Kim Marks

Jack and Sheila Marrero

Andrea and Alan Martinez

Jeffrey Mattes and Amy Becker-Mattes

Lawrence and Madlen Mayer

Alan Mevin and Harriet Kass

Art and Linda Meisel

Jacqueline Meisel

Miki Mendelsohh

Gerard and Sherry Meyer

Arlene Miller

Josh and Linda Milstein

Andrew and Carol Milstein

Warren Mitlak and Tirza Wahrman

Fred and Cynthia Neufeld

Jerry Neumann and Naomi Richman Neumann

Irv Newman and Myra Weiner

Peter Ozsvath and Elisheva Sperber

Simon and Melissa Pankove

Howard and Sofia Parish

Adam and Lauren Pechter

Robert and Mary Pickens

David and Alison Politziner

Mark and Carol Pollard

Stephen Pollard and Jessica Stevens

Allen and Rhona Porter

George and Ellen Pristach

Joseph and Sheryl Punia

Theodore and Tamar Rabb

Sandie Rabinowitz

Robert and Julie Ramirez

Luis Rodriguez

Marc and Debbie Rolan

Martin and Rogie Rome

Joseph and Marilyn Rosen

Richard and Donna Rosenberg

Honey Rosenberg

James Rosenberg

Lynne Ross

Martin and Martha Rossman

Rabbi Julie Roth and Rabbi Justus Baird

Phil and Anne Rutman

Jan and Lois Safer

Evelyn Saldick

Dave Saltzman and Heidi Joseph

Jeff and Rona Sands

Lynn Joy and Meyer Sapoff

Joshua and Rebecca Sarett

Robert Schapire and Roberta Sloan

Adam and Michal Scheer

Jay and Ginger Schnitzer

Ruth Schulman

Marty and Judy Schwartz

Robert and Carol Schwartz

Joe and Barbara Schwartz

Harriett Schwartz

Mitch and Diane Schwartz

Adam Seiden and Abigail Rose

Rick and Mitzi Seinfeld

Doug and Marcie Shavel

Sharon Shylit

Shoshana Silberman

Jane Silverman

Rabbi David and Ziona Silverman

Perrisue and Victor Silverstein

David and Andrea Silverstein

Ed and Lori Simon

Howard Siskowitz

Peter Smith and Louise Sandburg

Jeff and Vickie Solomon

Jerry and Roberta Spector

Melanie Stein

Hazel Stix

Joseph Straus and Sally Goldfarb

Rick and Polly Strauss

Rita Swirsky

Mark and Lisa Tobias

Jesse and Marissa Treu

David and Roslynn Vanderbilt

Michael and Nicole Vermut

David and Barbara Vilkomerson

Paul and Amy Vogel

Alan and Robin Wallack

Adam and Ann Warner

Cantor Jeff Warschauer and Deborah Strauss

Matthew and Suki Wasserman

Robert Willig and Ginny Mason

Sandy Gonzalez Wilson and David Wilson

Ned Wingreen and Rachelle Simon

Marc and Audrey Wisotsky

Deborah Yaffe and Alastair Bellany

Maryann Yarin

Eran and Amy Zacks

Ann and Brian Zecher

Fran Zeitler and Fred Edelman

Josh and Advah Zinder

Annual Fund Donors - cont’d We are deeply grateful to all those congregants who contributed to the Annual Fund.

*List as of 4/19

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ContributionsThe Jewish Center is grateful for the many donations that you give both in honor of joyous occasions and in memory of beloved family and friends. To make the logistics easier and the gifting choices clearer, a donor form is printed on the back of each monthly newsletter. Donor forms are also available in the Main Office. We thank you for the generosity that goes into each of these donations!

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Funds General Adult Education Adult Library Arts & Cultural Affairs Building Development Fund Fran Amir Community Service Trip Fund Hazzan’s Music Fund Irving N. Rabinowitz Conversational

Hebrew Fund Israeli Affairs Fund Jess & Marion Epstein Lunch & Learn Fund The Jewish Center Refugee Fund Jewish Center Women LASHIR Life and Legacy Endowment Fund Marchand Espir Family Holocaust

Education Fund

Men’s Club Neimark Senior Mitzvah Fund New Siddur ($36) New Chumash ($75)New Machzor ($36)

Rabbi’s Discretionary Fund Rabbi Tucker Life Cycle Fund Religious Affairs Fund Religious School Fund Sapoff Art Purchase & Restoration Fund Shabbat Luncheon Fund Silver Circle Scholarship Fund Social Action Social Action - Housing Fund Steven Levine Special Education Fund Torah Repair Fund Youth and Family Programs

Plaques and Remembrances Memorial Plaque $350 Tree of Life Leaf $216 (to commemorate a simcha)

Giving Opportunities Adult Ed Lecture or Series $300-$600 Sponsor a Shabbat Congregational Luncheon $2,500 or Shabbat Kiddush $600

Brick Pavers Small - $250 Medium - $500 Large - $750

* Now you can donate through our website. Go to www.thejewishcenter.org and follow the instructions!

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