*Friday, November 1 Kabbalat Shabbat 6:00 p.m.

Rabbi Mark Goodman officiating

Candle Lighting: 5:53 p.m.

*Saturday, November 2 Morning Services, 10:00 a.m.

Rabbi Mark Goodman officiating

Shabbat Noah

Torah: Genesis: 6:9-8:14 Haftarah: Isaiah 54:1-55:5

Chanted by: Paul Serrins Havdalah: 6:52 p.m.

Sunday, November 3 - No Sunday Minyan

Tuesday, November 5 Election Day

Friday, November 8 - No Service Candle Lighting: 4:45 p.m.

B R I T H S H O L O M C O N G R E G A T I O N

Jewish Center News NOVEMBER 2019

Rabbi Mark Goodman

President Doris Pinski

Volume 72 - No. 2

CELEBRATING OUR 123rd YEAR

Solomon Schechter 2007 Silver Award Winning Newsletter

Solomon Schechter 2009 Gold Award Winning Newsletter

Solomon Schechter 2011 Bronze Award Winning Newsletter

Saturday, November 9 - No Service Kristallnacht Remembrance Lekh lekha Torah: Genesis 12:1-13:18 Haftarah: Isaiah 40:27-41:16 Havdalah: 5:44 p.m.

Sunday, November 10 - No Service

Monday, November 11 - No Service Veterans Day

Friday, November 15 - No Service

Candle Lighting: 4:38 p.m.

Saturday, November 16 - No Service Vayera Torah: Genesis 18:1-18:33 Haftarah: 2 Kings 4:1-37 Havdalah: 5:37 p.m.

Sunday, November 17 - No Service Friday, November 22 - No Service Candle Lighting: 4:33 p.m.

Upcoming Services 3 Heshvan - 10 Kislev

On November 9, 1938 the Nazis unleashed a coordinated

wave of pogroms against Germany’s Jews. In the space

of a few hours, thousands of synagogues and Jewish

businesses and homes were damaged or destroyed, and

more than 30,000 Jewish men sent to concentration

camps. This event came to be called Kristallnacht

(Night of Broken Glass) for the shattered store

windowpanes that carpeted German streets.

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Services Continued

Saturday, November 23 - No Service Mevarekhim Hahodesh Hayyei sarah Torah: Genesis 23:1-24:9 Haftarah: 1 Kings 1:1-31 Havdalah: 5:32 p.m.

Sunday, November 24 - No Service

Thursday, November 28 - No Service Rosh Hodesh Day 1 Torah: Numbers 28:1-15 Thanksgiving Day Office Closed

Friday, November 29 - No Service Rosh Hodesh Day 2 Torah: Numbers 28:1-15 Candle Lighting: 4:29 Office Closed

Saturday, November 30 - No Service Toledot Torah: Genesis 25:19-26:22 Haftarah: Malachi 1:1-2:7 Havdalah: 5:29 p.m.

*Friday, December 6 Kabbalat Shabbat 6:00 p.m. Rabbi Mark Goodman officiating Candle Lighting: 4:28 p.m.

*Saturday, December 7 Morning Services, 10:00 a.m.

Rabbi Mark Goodman officiating Vayetse

Torah: Genesis 28:10-30:13 Haftarah: Hosea 12:13-14:10 Chanted by: Shanna Hodgson Havdalah: 5:28 p.m.

Sunday, December 8 - No Minyan Service

NOVEMBER

ANNIVERSARIES

Rabbi Mark and Noa Goodman November 2

Shanna & Rob Hodgson November 8

NOVEMBER BIRTHDAYS

4 Melissa Olgin

Martha Cohen

Les Cohen

11 David Zacks

Naomi Maldet

14 Billy Benjamin

15 Elaine Rubin

20 Lauren Unger

21 Bari Schwartz

22 Dominick Comi

23 Rabbi Mark Goodman

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Message from the Rabbi

The Core of Torah There are so many commandments; so many intricacies to Judaism. From all the holidays to the dietary laws to the ritual commandments and the tiniest details of the many prayers we say and how we say them. So it is interesting that, the week after we conclude all the many holidays of the month of Tishrei, we get Bereshit - 'in the beginning' - which one could argue is the simplest parsha in all of the Torah.

Out of chaos came order. God creates for six days, and rests. The first two human beings discover shame, and mortality. Pretty simple stuff: There's a reason Bereshit is such a popular story to teach in Jewish pre-schools. And one of the core moral truths to all of Torah is there, too. And it's pretty simple. Be positive, not negative. Uplift your fellow man, as God has uplifted you. Because we were created in the image of God, we have an obligation - not as Jews, but as humans, to elevate, not denigrate our fellow human. To glorify and not belittle. And we desire at our very foundations to spread that love, trust, and positive energy to everyone while simultaneously counteracting all forces of negativity - because that's what God would do. In this week’s parsha, we read from the beginning of the Torah. There, in Genesis 1:27, we are told ‘And God created human in the Divine image, in the image of God was human created’. On this verse, the Hassidic master known as The Alter of Slobodka said: “According to this Torah, humankind was designed to be a witness that testifies to the manifest reality of the Divine in the Universe. The creation must give testimony to its Creator, not in speech and in action, but rather to the very fiber of its existence. It is the testimony of humankind to elevate and to reach to the realm of the spiritual and the moral - that they must recognize and comprehend the image between themselves and their Master.” We were put on this earth to elevate and to glorify our fellow humans with the very fiber of our essence. To prove that every person is created in the image of God.

That's the core of all of Torah. Sometimes, Judaism really is that simple.

L'Shalom (In Peace),

Rabbi Mark Asher Goodman

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Presidents Corner

As we think back upon our High Holy Day services, we know it takes many participants to continue to make our traditions successful. First and foremost, we thank our Rabbi—Rabbi Mark Goodman – for leading us and sharing the stories and sermons that made our services both interesting and inspiring at the same time. Along with Rabbi Goodman, we thank Cantor Yisrael Guttman, whose beautiful voice not only enhanced our services, but also made them even more meaningful. As I said on Yom Kippur, Cantor’s powerful and moving voice was the spirit of our services, and Rabbi’s stimulating and thought-provoking words the soul. We truly appreciate their many hours of preparation needed to make the High Holidays motivating for all of us. For our out-of-town members and others who may not have been able to be with us, Rabbi’s High Holiday sermons can be found on our website (brithsholomerie.org). Click on the lined icon on the top left-hand corner, then on “About Our Rabbi,” and then on “Divrei Torah.” Wow! What a shofar-blasting duo Rabbi and our own Trenton Maldet made! Thank you, Trenton! Once again, you are our star! We appreciate the Schwartz family and Ilana Wolfson and Morse Taxon opening their homes and hosting Rabbi and the Cantor and Devorah for High Holy Day meals. Thank you, also, to Morse Taxon for leading Pesukay Dezimra each of the High Holidays. Yasher Koach to Shanna Hodgson, Paula Schwartz, Paul Serrins and Morse Taxon for their beautiful Haftarah chanting. We are fortunate to have an outstanding group of Gabbayim. Thank you to Paula Schwartz, Morse Taxon, Paul Serrins and Shanna Hodgson who were kept busy on the Bimah during Torah readings. Once again, as usher, Jeff Pinski did an extraordinary job keeping proper decorum at all

our services and making sure Ark openings and readings proceeded according to schedule. We wish to thank Paula Schwartz for ordering the flowers that beautified the chapel during the entire High Holy Day season. Thank you to Morse Taxon for seeing that the mantles on our Torot were changed to the beautiful Holiday white. Thank you to Enid Marcus and Jeff Pinski for replacing the Shabbat prayer books with the High Holiday books and to Jeff Pinski, Lisa Mittelmeier and David Hull for switching them back. We also thank Nancy Weil for arranging the housing for Cantor and Devorah, for setting up the Break-Fast at the conclusion of Yom Kippur, and, along with Jerry Cohen, Jessica Maldet, and Ilana Wolfson, for providing the delicious dairy meal that followed. Thank you to our secretary, Lisa Mittelmeier, for preparing everything needed for our services so efficiently and carefully. Last, but not least, thank you to all our congregants and guests who attended and participated in our High Holy Day services. You were the icing on the cake that made our services so successful as we continue to employ the many spiritual traditions of those who came before us in their commitment to Conservative Judaism. May 5780 be a great year for all of us! L’Shalom, Doris Pinski

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Yahrzeits

The following to be read on November 1:

4 Heshvan-November 2 Lillian Lichter Jacobson Sam Kaufman Jacob Roberts Isaac Jacob Samnick Rabbi Jordan I. Taxon

5 Heshvan-November 3 Jeffrey Helfand Jerome Kramer

6 Heshvan- November 4 Lester Brauser Isadore Goodman

7 Heshvan-November 5 Anna Koppelman-Bruch Edith Specter Maurice Zacks

8 Heshvan-November 6 Harris Schlossman

9 Heshvan-November 7 Ceil Benjamin Aaron Gellman Boruch Koppelman Milton Tenenbaum 10 Heshvan-November 8 Bernard Edelman Garson Fall Louis Fox Anne Gold Rachael Sherman Rachel Carin Yomtob 11 Heshvan-November 9 Joseph Abrams Rose Landsberg Rebekah Vikhman 12 Heshvan-November 10 Abraham Bennett

13 Heshvan-November 11 Jean Cohn Sidney Davis Lillian Gellis

14 Heshvan-November 12 Moe Goldberg Chassie Grefenson Ida Helfand Matilde Post Lillian Rotman 15 Heshvan-November 13 Abraham Lechtner David Mandel Frank Saft 16 Heshvan-November 14 Sarah Davis Hyman Haimsohn Helen Katz Matilda Spiwack Harry Steinberg 17 Heshvan-November 15 Isador Julius Averbach Harry Wexler 18 Heshvan-November 16 Nellie Abrams I. Michael Brown Harry Donick Abraham Silver Herman Spangenthal 19 Heshvan-November 17 Morris Cohn Samuel Levey Menachem Mendel Rechnitz David Isaac Rubin Max Scherr 20 Heshvan-November 18 Harold Halperin Nathanial “Sonny” Katz 21 Heshvan-November 19 Maurice Cohen Jacobeth Reiner 22 Heshvan-November 20 Dorothy Anderson Dr. Benjamin Feinberg Anne Golumbic Betty S. Hoffenberg Ben Rasnick 23 Heshvan-November 21 Leah Farkas Charles Gold Ida Miller Mortimer Rozen Ben Schaack

24 Heshvan-November 22 Henrietta Bornstein Malka Fainstein Morris Friedman Eve Sandelstein Kronenfeld Dr. Louis Wiland 25 Heshvan-November 23 Isidore Ackerman 26 Heshvan-November 24 Minnie Barron Max Felberbaum Meyer Landberg Rev. Hyman Schatz Siegfried Stang Ida Wallenstein 27 Heshvan-November 25 Anna Boychman Max Davis Harry Katz 28 Heshvan-November 26 David Katz Gus Radov Lothar Weil Randy Weil Joseph Zuckerman 29 Heshvan-November 27 Max Bellin Elaine Cohen Joseph Rotman 1 Kislev-November 29 Herman Arnson Philip Cohen 2 Kislev-November 30 Nathan Goldberg Bernard Sheptow 3 Kislev-December 1 Frieda Brown Jacob Gabin Ralph Kolinsky Gerald Sandelstein 4 Kislev-December 2 Rose Gold Louis Lester Jacob Spear

5 Kislev-December 3 Chane Farber Sarah Radov Sheldon Schwartz Max Silver

6 Kislev-December 4 Morris Katz 7 Kislev-December 5 Marcus Cohen Ida Davis Nathan Farkas Morris Landsberg Jacob Lechtner 8 Kislev-December 6 Abraham Adler Isaac Gunz Freda Blum Rubin Jacob “Simcha” Wexler

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December Bulletin

Deadline

November 15th

Benefactors Fund News

We continue to give thanks for the

generosity of Brith Sholom members,

their families and friends, both

past and present, as our Benefactors

Fund continues to receive donations.

We gratefully acknowledge

those who have contributed

this fiscal year.

This is the new list started

September 1, 2019.

Shomrim (Guardian) $1,000.00 +

Dorothy Dweck

Renee Weil

Bonim (Builders) $500.00-$999.00 Ted & Sue Levy Judith Selling

Magenim (Defenders) $250-$499.00

Steven & Ilisa Iskowitz

Judy & Bud Curva

Nedivim (Benefactor) $118.00-$249.00

Jonathan & Tess Burger

Les Bloom

Harvey Cohen

Martha Cohen

Neen Davis

Edda & H.D. Ramsdell

Chaverim (Friend)

Sherman Cohn

Yahrzeit Fund

David & Shelly Benjamin for Lillian Lichter

Jacobson and Ceil Benjamin

Shirley & Irving Camp for Jeffrey Helfand

Neen Davis for Jeffrey Helfand

Beth Lester for Herman Arnson

Edda Saft Ramsdell for Frank Saft

Arlene Sandelstein for Jerry Sandelstein

Morse Taxon for Rabbi Jordan I. Taxon

Renee Weil for Randy Weil and Lothar Weil

General Fund

Marshall Cohen & Ellen Brooks

~In memory of Norman P. Cohen

Robert & Shanna Hodgson

~Speedy Recovery to Beth Lester

Arlene Sandelstein

~Speedy Recovery to Beth Lester

~Speedy Recovery to David Cohen

Rob & Paula Schwartz ~Speedy Recovery to Beth Lester

Check out our website at brithsholomerie.org To contact us by email, send it to brithsholom@iloveerie.com

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