1836 Rohrerstown Road Lancaster, PA 17601 office@tbelancaster.org 717-581-7891 www.tbelancaster.org

Volume 69, No. 2 HIGH HOLIDAYS OCTOBER 2016 Mission Statement

The mission of Temple Beth El is to pro-vide a house of Conservative Jewish worship which fosters spiritual fulfill-ment, Jewish theology, life-long Jewish education, and community support throughout the cycles of the seasons.

Board of Directors Pres. - David Ehrlich 1st VP - Gary Kogon 2nd VP - Vacant 3rd VP - Steve Gordon Secy - Harold Koplin Treasurer - Samantha Besnoff Financial Secy - Linda Hutt Lynn Brooks, Bob Brosbe, Abshalom Cooper, Randi Jacobs, Debbie Rubin, Sheila Cohen, Stacy McCormick & Marc Weiner, Sue Friedman, Bob Matlin, Arne Ostroff, Earl Stein, Chuck Paul Sisterhood Rep. - Joan Goldman Rabbi Daniela Szuster & Rabbi Rami Pavolotzky Principal - Larry Besnoff Men’s Club - Steve Kleinman USY/Kadima - Megan Hart & Alyssa Gottlieb Sisterhood - Sisterhood Board Membership - Sue Friedman

Inside this issue: Rabbi Rami’s Message 2 President’s Message 3 Principal’s Message 3 BPES Program 4 Our Temple Family 5 High Holiday Infor. 8&9

Candle Lighting Times

Oct. 7 6:18 PM Oct. 14 6:07 PM Oct. 21 5:57 PM Oct. 28 5:48 PM

OCTOBER EVENTS *High Holiday Service schedule included inside bulletin

**No Executive Committee meeting or Temple Board meeting in October

Oct. 9 Men’s Club

Oct. 22 Beth Pomerantz Education Series Program @6:30 PM

Schedule of Shabbat Services

Oct. 7 Shabbat Services 7:30 PM Weekend sponsors needed Oct. 8 Torah Reading:VAYELEKH 9:45 AM Oct. 14 Shabbat Services 7:30 PM Weekend sponsors needed Oct. 15 Torah Reading:HAAZINU 9:45 AM Oct. 21 Shabbat Services 7:30 PM Weekend sponsors needed Oct. 22 Shabbat Hol Hamoed Sukkot 9:45 AM Oct. 28 Shabbat Services 7:30 PM Weekend sponsors needed Oct. 29 Torah Reading:BEREISHIT 9:45 AM

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Wearing white clothes during Yom Kippur

By Rabbi Rami Pavolotzky

People customarily wear white clothes on Yom Kippur. Some peo-ple dress completely in white, some people wear a kitle (a white robe) on top of their clothes, and some people try to wear something white, like a shirt, a blouse, a tie… or at least a white kippa! Rabbi Daniela and I would love to have the synagogue filled with congre-gants dressed in white clothes on Yom Kippur. Let me explain to you why.

This custom is a very old one; as it appears first in the Jerusalem Tal-mud, “Jews on Yom Kippur… wear white and cover themselves in white” (Rosh Hashanah 1:3, fol. 57b). However, why do we wear white clothes in Yom Kippur? There are many traditional reasons. Let’s review the most well-known of them:

1) White is a symbol of purity: On Yom Kippur our sins are hopefully forgiven by God; thus, we emerge from it without sins, as pure souls. As it is written in the book of the prophet Isaiah (1:18), “If your sins be like scarlet, they shall be white as snow”. We wear white to show how we feel inside, or how we hope to feel inside when Yom Kippur ends.

2) To resemble the angels: Rabbi Moses Isserles, in his commentary

to the Shulchan Aruch (Orach Chaim 610:4) explains that it is the Ashkenazi custom to wear white to resemble the angels. Actually, there are other laws and customs that we observe on Yom Kippur that make us look like angels, like not eating and drinking, standing during much of the services, saying Baruch Shem aloud, etc.

3) To dress as a dead person: The Kitel, and in general simple white clothes, are similar to shrouds Ac-cording to Rabbi Isserles, dressing like the dead on Yom Kippur helps us to feel humble and to regret our sins. Other sages explain that because on Yom Kippur our fate is decided, we are virtually like dead people until Yom Kippur ends. Only when we are forgiven and pardoned, do we regain our lives.

4) To show we are joyful: White is also the symbol of joy, as opposed to black. We dress in whites because we are confident that God will forgive us during Yom Kippur. As the same source from the Jerusalem Talmud quoted above says, “Generally, when a man knows he faces judgment, he wears black [clothing], robes himself in black, and lets his beard grow, for he does not know the outcome of the judgment. But not so Israel, who wear white [clothing], robe them-selves in white, shave their beards, and eat and drink and are joyful, knowing that God, blessed be He, per-forms miracles for them.” Of course, the eating and drinking is reserved for before and after Yom Kippur (!).

There are other reasons that were given to explain why we wear white clothing during Yom Kippur, but I be-lieve these are the most important and significant ones. It is worth noting that not only do we wear whites, but we also use white ark cur-tains, white Torah mantles and white table covers on the High Holy Days,

and especially on Yom Kippur.

Joy, humility, purity, willingness to elevate our souls… these all are great qualities that we want to ex-perience during Yom Kippur. The prayers, the melodies of the pray-ers, the fast, etc., help us to feel these emotions. I do believe that wearing white clothes also tremen-dously helps us to achieve our spir-itual goals during Yom Kippur. What a beautiful experience it is to pray in a synagogue where every-body wears white clothes!

Therefore, Rabbi Daniela and I want to invite you to consider wearing white clothes during this coming Yom Kippur. What could you do? You could buy a Kitel (you can easily order it online!), use the white clothes that you already have, or at least try to dress in something white, as I mentioned before. Of course, nobody will criticize you if you decide not to wear white clothes. This is not a policy, but rather just a suggestion.

So please consider wearing white during this Yom Kippur, or even for next Yom Kippur, if this article ar-rives too late for you to alter your clothing this year. I hope you enjoy the unique feeling of “praying in white” on Yom Kippur, as I enjoy it every year.

Bebirkat Ktiva Vechatima Tova!

May you be inscribed and sealed for a good year!

Rami

MESSAGE FROM RABBI RAMI

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Dave Ehrlich Gary Kogon Before looking ahead to the New Year, we want to look back to the end of August when we held our synagogue open house/meet the Rabbis event. It was very success-ful. Many of our members turned out for an afternoon of food and socializing and several new faces dropped by to learn about Temple Beth El. Many thanks to the mem-bers of the Membership Outreach/Retention Committee for planning the event and the Communications Committee for publicizing it. October promises to be a busy month with Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, and Sukkot all occurring this month. We are looking forward to spending our first High Holidays with Rabbis Daniela and Rami. We are pleased that Rabbi Chaim Galfand will return again this year as Cantor.

Preparations for the High Holidays require much volunteer effort. Spe-cial thanks to members of the Exec-utive Committee for preparing the High Holiday information packet that you received in the mail and for planning the meal events. We are also grateful to the members of the Religious Practices Committee for planning the services and distrib-uting the honors. These are neces-sary and time-consuming tasks and we thank everyone involved. We would be remiss in not thanking our staff members Janet Lefever and Carol Kappen for all that they do to ensure that we are ready for the

High Holidays.

Also in October, there will also be a Beth Pomerantz Education Series pro-gram on October 22 featuring a movie and dinner.

In other synagogue news, repairs to the retaining wall at our cemetery began. The wall had deteriorated and the repairs being done should stabilize it for many years to come. Thank you to the Cemetery Committee for attending to these much needed re-pairs.

Finally, your Board of Directors took the first step in identifying the goals and objectives that we want to achieve this year. This will give us direction and focus. We will share these with you in a subsequent bulle-tin.

Best wishes for a happy, healthy and

sweet New Year. Shana Tovah

u’Metukah!

Classes have started for Sunday School and Hebrew School. We welcome our returning families as well as our new families to anoth-er exciting year here at

Temple Beth-El Religious School. We are very excited be-cause we have enthusiastic students and teachers. Our revamped curric-ulum has helped our teachers devel-op more purposed lesson plans and are taking every opportunity to make learning fun and meaningful to all the students. The flexibility that our small school offers allow us to adapt better to the student's needs and abilities, making their learning more focused.

Throughout the year the students will be doing their Mitzvots. Be on the lookout for students that are showing random acts of kindness or respecting others. If you see any, please share that with me or one of the teachers so we can recognize them for living what they are learn-ing. Rabbis Daniela and Rami are putting their caring and thoughtful touch onto many important aspects of the temple. One of them is their desire to include the children in as much as they can. This includes their dedication to the school with both of them teaching a class and leading group activities during the class time.

On a different note, our Religious School continues to collect Box Tops for Education, so if you have any we would gladly take them off your hands. There will be a box set on the table outside the principal's office. that you can drop in. Also be on the lookout for our upcoming HaKaFoT-A-Thon fundraiser we hold

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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

KIDDUSH & ONEG SPONSORS - OCTOBER

Weekend Sponsors needed

Monthly Sponsors

Joan & Marc Weiner

Alan Glazer & Family

In Memory Of Annabelle Glazer

BULLETIN DEADLINE

The deadline for November’s bulletin

is Friday, October 14th

PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE

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annually on Simchot Torah.

From me and all the teachers and students, L'Shana Tovah

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BETH POMERANTZ EDUCATION SERIES

SATURDAY OCTOBER 22 @ 6:30 PM • DINNER AND A MOVIE

THE WANDERING MUSE

From Ram’s Horn to Beatbox, THE WANDERING MUSE explores the

kaleidoscope of Jewish identities through the ever-changing music of the

diaspora. In constant motion, the film is a series of encounters with Jewish

musicians from around the world.

Film will be shown following Havdalah and a light dairy dinner. This

program is being offered on a pay-what-you-can basis. Suggested

contribution is $10 per person that will be collected that evening.

Please make reservations through the synagogue office.

"How to Care for an Aging Parent and How to Handle This Rite of Passage in Our Own Lives"

By Mindy Fried

October 20, 2016 - 7:30PM

Congregation Shaarai Shomayim Social Hall

75 East James Street, Lancaster, PA 17601

(enter through the glass doors - Duke Street entrance)

Mindy Fried’s Caring for Red, a Daughter's Memoir,

is her moving and colorful account about

caring for her ninety-seven-year-old father, Manny -

an actor, writer, labor organizer, and survivor of political persecution

in this country during the McCarthy Era in the final year of his life.

Temple Office Hours

Monday - 9:00 am - 2:30 pm Tuesday - office closed Wednesday - 9:00 am - 2:30 pm Thursday - 9:00 am - 4:00 pm Friday - 9:00 am - 4:00 pm

Rabbis Daniela and Rami will be happy to meet with Temple Beth El congregants. If you want to talk with them privately, please call or email: 717-618-2388/rabbidaniela@tbelancaster.org (Rabbi Daniela) or 717-618-2383/ rabbirami@tbelancaster.org (Rabbi Rami) to set up an appoint-ment. You can also call the Temple office 581-7891

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OUR TEMPLE FAMILY

Mazel Tov To Robin Adler on the engagement of her son Jon to Trisha Stein. They met in Israel on a Birthright trip!

Condolences Temple Beth El notes with sorrow the death of Bernice Brittner, grandmother of Samantha Besnoff. Temple Beth El notes with sorrow the death of Rita Firestone, mother of Ken Firestone. We send our prayers of consolation and strength to the bereaved family members.

Anniversaries & Birthdays OCTOBER

Birthdays 1st Rabbi Daniela 4th Faye Friedman 4th Nina Stein 5th Dolly Shuster 6th Alan Hertz 7th Paul Gottlieb 8th Robert Macy 11th Caryl Buffa 11th Sue Friedman 13th Les Rhoads 17th Diane Penchansky 22nd Dick Lavy 23rd Douglas Binder 23rd Steve Gordon 24th David Frank Anniversaries 10th Mandy & Chuck Paul 19th Eve & Walter Kamlot 25th Debra & Mark Naudain

MONTHLY YAHRZEIT LISTING

Yahrzeit begins the evening before the day listed. The names of departed loved ones are memorialized at Shab-bat services the week prior to the yahrzeit observance. Saturday, Oct. 8 Sue Friedman Father Joan Weiner Father Sunday, Oct. 9 Diane Penchansky Mother Pam Lessans Father Wednesday, Oct. 12 Renee Hartman Mother Friday, Oct. 14 Alan Glazer Mother Saturday, Oct. 15 Arlene Arrow Father Sunday, Oct. 16 Evy Epstein Mother-In-Law

Wednesday, Oct. 19 Sue Wolf Mother Thursday, Oct. 20 Randi Jacobs Stepmother Friday, Oct. 21 Dick Lavy Brother Saturday, Oct. 22 Irving Mall Wife Murray Mall Mother Joan & Beryl Sherman Son Sunday, Oct. 23 Nadine Abowitz Sister-In-Law

Monday, Oct. 24 Gwen Weisman Mother Faye Friedman Father

Tuesday, Oct. 25 Steve Rubin Mother Elliott Rubin Mother Thursday, Oct. 27 Dave Ehrlich Mother Gary Kogon Grandmother

Friday, Oct. 28 Hilde Month Father Evy Epstein Sister-In-Law

Monday, Oct. 31 Faye Friedman Father-In-Law

Wednesday, Nov. 2 Jay Reichenthal Sister Friday, Nov. 4 Alan Cohen Father

Congregational Thanks Being chosen with Deena Hertz to be Sisterhood’s Woman of the Year was truly an unexpected honor. I’d like to take this opportunity to thank Sisterhood and the brunch committee for planning such a beautiful morning. It was so nice coming together and seeing so many of our synagogue friends to enjoy very tasty food and a fun game too. Thank you Rabbi Daniela for the lovely davar torah and Rabbi Rami for blowing the Shofar for us. Responding to congregant’s re-quests for Sisterhood cards has nev-er been a chore because I know the money raised is used to fund our religious school as well as other syn-agogue needs. Once again I’d like to thank you for bestowing this honor on Deena and me. Beverly Rubin Thank you to our friends at Temple Beth El for remembering us on the occasion of our anniversary. Deanna & Alan Cohen

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Thank you so much for the lovely Leagram and good wishes on our 23rd wedding anniversary. Alyssa & Steve Gottlieb Many thanks to our Beth El “family” for all the good wishes on our anni-versary. Receiving the Leagram al-ways makes the day extra special. Linda & Gordon Hutt

SISTERHOOD FUND

*Sisterhood Fund cards are now $3.50 due to increase in postage costs. If your last name begins with A-M, please contact DEENA HERTZ at Sister-

hoodFundA-M@tbelancaster.org

If your last name begins with N-Z, please contact BEV RUBIN at SisterhoodFundN-Z@tbelancaster.org IN HONOR OF Beverly Rubin & Deena Hertz - 2016 Sisterhood Women of the Year Sandy & Greg Weekes Tobi & Bob Sherman Robin Adler Judy Anthony Joan Sherman - for all you do for the ladies of Temple Beth El Judy Anthony Deena Hertz Robin Adler - Jon’s engagement to Trisha Stein Judy Anthony Debbie & Steve Rubin - birth of grandson Robin Adler Edna & Zvi Naveh - birth of twin grandsons Robin Adler

(Continued from page 5) Donna & Bob Brosbe - birth of grand-son Robin Adler Carol & Mike Gleiberman Judy Anthony Linda & Gary Kogon - birth of grand-son Robin Adler GET WELL Stacy McCormick Michele & Bob Matlin Linda Kogon Judy Anthony Deena & Alan Hertz Jan Gitomer IN MEMORY OF Howard Worobow - father of Alyson Gleiberman Carol & Michael Gleiberman Bernice Brittner - grandmother of Samantha Besnoff Michele & Bob Matlin Judy Anthony Saul Munchick Tobi & Bob Sherman Jeanette Shapiro - mother of Dr. Wil-liam Shapiro & Ms Marcia Shapiro Sue & John Wolf Ruth - mother of Joy Silverman Tobi & Bob Sherman

MEN’S CLUB office@tbelancaster.org

IN HONOR OF Deena Hertz & Bev Rubin - Sister-hood’s Women of the Year Evy Epstein

BETH POMERANTZ EDUCATION SERIES

office@tbelancaster.org

IN HONOR OF Deena Hertz & Beverly Rubin - Sis-terhood’s Women of the Year 2016 Joan & Beryl Sherman Linda & Gary Kogon Donna & Bob Brose IN MEMORY OF Rita Firestone - mother of Ken Fire-stone Linda & Gary Kogon Donna & Bob Brosbe Dolly Shuster & Jeff Edelson Joanne & Alan Berkowitz Joan & Beryl Sherman Sheila Cohen

RABBI’S DISC. FUND office@tbelancaster.org

IN HONOR OF Rabbis’ Daniela & Rami - Installa-tion, Steve Jacobs - thank you, Rob-in Adler - Congregant of the Year, Debbie & Steve Rubin - birth of grandson, Donna & Bob Brosbe - birth of grandson Alan Glazer Donation Sue & Irv Liss Jerry & Terry Stevens In Appreciation to Temple Beth El & In Loving Memory of Beth Leichter David, Sharon, Matthew & Joshua Leichter

CHESED COMMITTEE

office@tbelancaster.org IN HONOR OF - Robin Adler - son Jon’s engagement to Trisha Stein Joan & Marc Weiner

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PRAYER BOOK FUND office@tbelancaster.org

1 Mazhor Lev Shalem IN HONOR OF the birth of our grand-son Daniel Pesach Mar-Chaim Linda & Gary Kogon 1 Mazhor Lev Shalem IN HONOR OF the birth of our grand-son Noam Elijah Goldwyn Linda & Gary Kogon 1 Mazhor Lev Shalem IN HONOR OF our granddaughter Maya Rachel Mar-Chaim Linda & Gary Kogon 2 Etz Hayim IN LOVING MEMORY OF Shirley & Mortimer Kadushin MRK

GENERAL FUND office@tbelancaster.org

IN HONOR OF Numa & Dick Lavy Margie & Sheldon Weintraub IN MEMORY OF Enid Hirsch Alan Glazer Sandy Goldman - mother of Gary Goldman Alan Glazer

YAHRZEIT FUND office@tbelancaster.org

IN MEMORY OF Beth Pomerantz - Robin Adler Bernita Archenhold, Florence Joffe, Victor Bloom - Evy Epstein Annabelle Glazer - Alan Glazer & Family

Jewish Family Service

With Congregations

Shaarai Shomayim,

Degel Israel and Temple Beth El

For

*

When: Sunday, October 30, 2016

Collecting gently used clothing of all sizes including

mittens, gloves, winter outerwear**

Two places to drop off: (1) Donations to Temple Beth El

during the week of October 23rd through the 30th

(there will be a bin in the lobby) or (2) to Congregation

Shaarai Shomayim, James St Lobby from October 24 – 30

(by 1 pm)

Contact jfshelps@gmail.com with any questions.

Clothing should be folded and placed in bags or boxes.

*JFS is a benefactor of Matthew 25

**Please place clean clothes in bags, boxes or on hangers.

Receipts for tax purposes will be given to donors.

LIBRARY NEWS

2 copies of the book “Hanna House” are now in the library. This book is being read for the F&M reading course series.

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TEMPLE BETH EL OF LANCASTER

1836 Rohrerstown Road, Lancaster, PA 17601 - (717) 581-7891

HOLIDAY SERVICE SCHEDULE, FALL 2016

ROSH HASHANAH: Sunday, October 2 7:30 pm

(Annual Congregation Oneg)

1st day – Monday, October 3 9:00 am

TASHLICH (Leave Synagogue at 4:00 pm) 4:30 pm

OR meet us at Lewis & Associates Architects (same location that used to be

Scheffey Advertising across from Flory Mill Road) at 4:30 pm

Ma’ariv 7:30 pm

2nd day – Tuesday, October 4 9:00 am

SHABBAT SHUVAH: Friday, October 7

Ma‘ariv 7:30 pm

Saturday, October 8

Shaḥarit 9:45 am

KOL NIDRE: Tuesday Evening, October 11 6:30 pm SHARP

(Reminder: wear tallit at Kol Nidre)

YOM KIPPUR: Wednesday, October 12 9:00 am

Minḥah/Ne‘ila 4:30 pm

(Fast ends at 7:10 pm)

Ma‘ariv/Havdalah 7:10 pm

(Reminder: Children carry candles at Havdalah.

Bring your shofars to Temple before Kol Nidre)

SUKKOT: Monday, October 17 9:30 am

Tuesday, October 18 9:30 am

SHABBAT ḤOL HA-MO’ED: Friday, October 21 7:30 pm

Saturday, October 22 9:30 am

SHEMINI ATZERET: Monday, October 24 (Yizkor) 9:30 am

EREV SIMḤAT TORAH: Monday, October 24 7:00 pm

SIMḤAT TORAH: Tuesday, October 25 9:30 am

SHABBAT BEREISHIT: Friday, October 28 7:30 pm

Saturday, October 29 9:45 am

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ATTENTION SHOFAR BLOWERS

Come join in the final tekiah gedolah at the conclusion of Yom Kippur services. You can bring your shofar before Kol Nidre and leave it in the office overnight.

HIGH HOLIDAY YOUTH SERVICES

Temple Beth El will be offering special High Holiday Youth Ser-vices. Rosh Hashanah Monday, October 3 From 10:00 am - 12:00 pm Yom Kippur Wednesday, October 12 From 10:00 am - 12:00 pm The services will be held in the Chapel.

Rabbi Chaim Galfand

Rabbi Galfand is employed full time as the School Rabbi of the Perelman Jewish Day School in Melrose Park, PA. He comes to us with many years of experience serving as a guest chazzan with different syna-gogues. It is a pleasure to welcome Rabbi Galfand back to Temple Beth El.

MAZON: A JEWISH RESPONSE TO

HUNGER

Please be generous and bring your donation of non-perishable food items with you when you come to the Kol Nidre Service, Tuesday evening, October 11th. *Pick up a grocery bag at Rosh Hashanah services and return your non-perishable food items to the Temple office.

BABYSITTING FOR THE HIGH HOLIDAYS

Sisterhood has made arrangements for babysitting for our young children on the 1st day of Rosh Hashanah, Monday, October 3 from 10:00 am - 12:00 pm. Please note that there WILL NOT be babysitting available on the 2nd day of Rosh Hashanah. We will offer babysitting on Yom Kippur, Wednesday, October 12 from 10:00 am - 12:00 pm. This year we will be using ONE ROOM IN THE EDUCATION WING FOR BABYSITTING

DO YOU NEED A RIDE TO HIGH HOLIDAY

SERVICES?

If you need a ride to the High Holiday Services,

Please contact Robin Adler or Judy Anthony

or call the Temple office

HIGH HOLIDAY FLOWER SPONSORS

Rosh Hashanah Flowers

Sponsored by

Robert & Donna Brosbe In Memory Of Isadore Brosbe Harriet Brosbe

Earl Loeffler

Yom Kippur Flowers

Sponsored by Hal & Francine Koplin

In Memory Of Our Parents

Sponsored by

Dolly Shuster & Jeff Edelson In Memory Of

Sally & Albert Edelson Paula & Sidney Shuster

Sponsored by Robin Adler

In Memory Of Howard Adler

GIFT SHOP NEWS Want to spruce up your table for the high holidays?? Maybe with a new challah plate, or honey and apple server?? Perhaps you just want to pick up a hostess gift or a few bottles of kosher wine. Whatever your needs, the gift shop/ wine cellar is ready for you. You can always visit the gift shop during Janet’s office hours during the week.

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