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The Bulletin

Union Temple of Brooklyn Affiliated with the Union for Reform Judaism

FEBRUARY 2009

Shevat - Adar 5769

Vol. 160, No 6

SCHEDULE OF SERVICES FOR FEBRUARY SHABBAT SHIRA/BESHALACH 6

SYNAPLEX SHABBAT Friday Evening THE SABBATH OF SONG 4:30 PM - Kids’ Shabbat Fun with Yoshie Fruchter 6:00 PM - Work Week Wind Down 6:30 PM - Kabbalat Shabbat 7:30 PM - Dinner 8:15 PM - Jazz Night: INNER DIASPORA, featuring Ned Rothenberg and Friends Oneg Shabbat to follow, sponsored by Gayle Solomon in honor of her new grandson Pheonix Jaxson Garcia.

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Saturday Morning

Torah: Exodus 13:17-17:16

10:30 AM Haftarah: Judges 4:4-5:31

SHABBAT YITRO 13 14

Friday Evening Saturday Morning

Torah: Exodus 18:1-20:23

6:30 PM 10:30 AM Haftarah: Isaiah 6:1-7:6:9:5-6

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Friday Evening

6:30 PM

Kabbalat Shabbat

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Saturday Morning

10:30 AM

11:15 AM - Tot Shabbat Torah: Exodus 21:1-24:18

Haftarah: II Kings 12:5-12:16

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Friday Evening

8:00 PM

Late Shabbat Service

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Saturday Morning

Torah: Exodus 25:1-27:19

10:30 AM Haftarah: I Kings 5:26-6:13

Live and Become, a film about the Operation Moses airlift of Ethiopian Jews in 1985 in will be shown on Sunday, February 1st at 1:30 PM

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Officer’s Column

Welcome Dr. Jonathan Hall

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Jonathan B. Hall where he also taught adult education classes. He is thoroughly familiar with has been engaged to be our new Music Director. Dr. Hall holds a Doctorate of Music from the Jacobs the Reform liturgy and reads Hebrew. School of Music at Indiana University and he also Rabbi Goodman obtained enthusiastic holds two Master’s degrees with honors in music and references from the former Rabbi and Cantor of TemEnglish language and literature. Dr. Hall is the Dean ple Beth Or. She and Student Cantor Maria Dubinsky of the Brooklyn chapter of the American Guild of Or- are looking forward to working with Dr. Hall. Dr. Hall has played at Union Temple for three Shabbat ganists. services and led the Chanukah music program. He is currently the organist and choir master of St. John’s Episcopal Church in Cornwall, N.Y. He has I am also pleased to inform you that Student Cantor twenty years of similar church experience. Dr. Hall Maria Dubinsky has agreed to return to Union Temple was organist and choir director for five years at Tem- for another year. ple Beth Or in Washington Township, New Jersey, -Henry Singer, Vice President

Brotherhood

Defiance!

On February 8th, the Brotherhood is pleased to present Josh Waletzky, who will show and discuss his film Partisans of Vilna. We are especially looking forward to this, after several Brotherhood members got together to watch the film Defiance in January. For too long, it was generally believed that the Jews in Nazi-controlled parts of Europe went meekly to their fate, with only a small handful of uprisings. At last, we are learning of brave resistance actions throughout Europe, and not a mere handful, but numbering at

least in the hundreds. We thank Andy Mirer for making the arrangements for Partisans of Vilna. The Brotherhood Shabbat service and luncheon will be on March 14th. Erez Mirer and I will each be chanting part of the Torah reading, Ki Tissa (the Golden Calf), so we hope that you all can attend. Our next Brotherhood book discussion, on April 26th, will be about Edward Kritzler’s new book Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean. Come and hear about this amazing and little known part of our history. -Steve Segall, Brotherhood President

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Religious School

The Purim Carnival is a Union Temple tradition with games, food, prizes and Purim spiels. Any parent or community member who would like to offer assistance would be much appreciated.

Dear Union Temple Community

The Time Capsule Project is a creative effort to help the children decide upon and create materials that they would like to include in our Temple Time Capsule. Our students with the guidance of teachers and interested community members will create photographs, drawings, articles and reflections.

Plant Yourself at Religious School

The Religious School teachers and I are planning for several school wide events in the coming months and I’m inviting all parents and community members to consider choosing an event that you are interested in and joining in the planning process. The upcoming events are the Tu B’Shevat Seder on February 8, the Purim Carnival on March 8th, the Time Capsule Project in honor of the Temple’s 160th Anniversary, and the Mitzvah Day Oral History Project. The Tu B’Shevat Seder is a celebration of the New Year for the Trees. According to the Talmud there are four different types of New Years, and the 15th of the month of Shevat is the New Year dedicated to the trees. Tu B’Shevat marks the beginning of spring in Israel and is a time of renewal and connection to nature. The Tu B’Shevat Seder we will be celebrating was designed using kabbalistic principles and helps us to connect more fully to the worlds of assiyah, yetzirah,briyah, and atzilut (action, emotion, thought, and spirit). This year with Israel on our minds we will make a special effort to connect the holiday to the current situation in Israel.

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The Social Action Committee suggested the Mitzvah Day Oral History Project. The purpose of this project is multifold. Students will develop questions and work on their interviewing skills prior to meeting elders of our community. The information they gather will be included in a Bulletin article and may also be included in the Time Capsule. Later in the spring, students will visit a local senior residence and visit with and interview residents. I am hoping that many parents and community members will volunteer to help with these projects. Please contact me at [email protected] if you are interested in becoming involved. Wishes for a Happy and Healthy New Year, -Ann Landowne, Principal

Tzedakah UNION TEMPLE MEMORIAL FUND Donated by .......................................................................... In memory of Marilyn Goodman......................................................................... Eric Schein Erica Shatz-Spry ........................................................................... Kopel Shatz Erica Shatz-Spry ........................................................................... Jack Shatz Erica Shatz-Spry ........................................................................... Jack Shatz Beth L. Kurfirst............................................................................. Saul Kurfirst Beth L. Kurfirst............................................................................. Arlene Lawrence Mr & Mrs. David Zubnick............................................................ Alex Zubnick Robert Levine-Fried ................................................................. Sylvia Wolfson Fried Rabbi Linda Henry Goodman....................................................... Jeanette Henry

PRAYER BOOK FUND Donated by .................................................................. In memory of Arnold and Ellen Kolikoff ........................................................................Sarah Kolikoff Arnold and Ellen Kolikoff ........................................................................Seymour Kolikoff Sheila Solow ..............................................................................................Linda Karpman Arlene Greendlinger..................................................................................Amy DeSantis

Donated by .................................................................. In honor of Arnold and Ellen Kolikoff ........................................................................ Julia’s Kolikoff’s Bat Mitzvah

HAPPY DAY FUND Donated by .......................................................................... In honor of Gayle Solomon ........................................................................................the birth of her grandson Phoenix Jaxson Garcia to her children Marissa Solomon and Jason Garcia Doris Klueger.............................................................................................Sophie Miller’s Bat Mitzvah Doris Klueger.............................................................................................Lucas Mirer’s Bar Mitzvah Doris Klueger.............................................................................................birth of Valerie Chu daughter of Daniella Lednicer and Darryl Chu Beatrice Hanks...........................................................................................birth of Valerie Chu daughter of Daniella Lednicer and Darryl Chu

Preschool

David Shaffer Joins the Preschool

This year we welcomed some wonderful new staff members to the preschool. One of our new additions is David Shaffer. Although David started in September, he has been working with our summer program for eight years. David joined us when he was 15 years old as a CIT (Counselor in Training). After working here that first summer David knew that he wanted to be a teacher. He has worked here every summer since.

be pursuing an MS in Education in science and environmental studies.

David graduated from SUNY Oneonta in 2008 with a BS in Early Childhood Education with a concentration in geography. While attending Oneonta he had several internships on and off campus at local preschools and public elementary schools.

We express our deepest sympathy to HENRY EHRLICH, and his children SAM, MICHAEL, and MARGARET EHRLICH on the death of their mother and grandmother

David is currently a floater. He works in all of the classrooms and on Wednesday afternoons he does a cooking/baking class with the afternoon threes class, The Swallows.

NORMA EHRLICH

David will be starting graduate school in a few weeks. He will be attending Brooklyn College where he will

David’s family are long time Temple members. His father Martin, z"l served as the Vice President of the Temple and chaired many committees. His mother Rosemarie served as the principal of the Religious School. -Susan Sporer, Preschool Director

on January 6. We extend our sympathy as well to Henry's brothers and sister, Jonathan, Richard, and Anne, and their families.  May her memory be for a blessing 5

Memorial Plaques Clyde Krell.................................................. February 2, 1946 Sadie Sherer ................................................ February 3, 1937 Anne F. Solomon ........................................ February 4, 1991 Henrietta Hamburger .................................. February 4, 1920 Frank O. Lane ............................................. February 5, 1929 Harry A. Levine .......................................... February 5, 1950 Natalie B. Levinson .................................... February 5, 1958 Moses Nias.................................................. February 6, 1919 Max Selig.................................................... February 6, 1930 William L. Spencer ..................................... February 7, 1949 Isabelle B. F. Ettlinger ................................ February 7, 1980 Abraham Bestoff......................................... February 8, 1907 Solomon May.............................................. February 8, 1919 Alvin D. Rosenberg .................................... February 9, 1961 David J. Brown ........................................... February 10, 1949 Hannah Messing ......................................... February 10, 1984 Max David .................................................. February 11, 1938 Sol Kolikoff ................................................ February 12, 1970 Milton Igelheimer ....................................... February 13, 1907 Dora Sacher................................................. February 14, 1954 Anna Solow................................................. February 14, 2002 Max Schey .................................................. February 16, 1931 Stella Sterzelbach........................................ February 16, 1960 Helen Epstein.............................................. February 16, 1987 Hyman Kleiman .......................................... February 16, 1987 Thomas Newman ........................................ February 18, 1910 Henry Bregstein .......................................... February 18, 1929 Millie W. Baar ............................................ February 18, 1966 Celine L Rosenthal...................................... February 19, 1947 Regina Weiss Brown .................................. February 19, 2000 Fannie Baar ................................................. February 20, 1947 Phineas Peters ............................................. February 20, 1951 Morris Messing, Past President.................. February 20, 1969 Kate K. Spitzer............................................ February 22, 1937 Dr. Milton G. Wasch................................... February 22, 1957 Stella Baar................................................... February 22, 1959 Charlotte Levy ............................................ February 22, 1997 Capt. C. S. Rockmore ................................. February 24, 1945 Dr. Irving Flyer ........................................... February 25, 1961 Madeleine S. Wallach ................................. February 26, 1996 Julius Altschul............................................. February 27, 1953 Fanny Nachman .......................................... February 28, 1918 Arnold M. Heller, Past President ............... February 29, 1992

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Website Uniontemple.org Dr. Linda Henry Goodman Rabbi Maria Dubinsky Student Cantor Dr. Jonathan Hall Music Director Dr. Ann Landowne School of Religion Principal Susan Sporer Preschool Director Doris Klueger President Henry Singer Jeffrey Stein Vice Presidents Ellen Kolikoff Secretary Beatrice Hanks Treasurer Mike Baron Hortense R. Hurwitz Honorary Presidents Eleanor Forman Honorary Trustee David Rapheal Bulletin Editor John Golomb Temple Administrator Martin Kasdan Funeral Director 1-800-522-0588

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THE SABBATH OF SONG

4:30 PM

Kids’ Shabbat Fun

6:00 PM 1:30 PM

Work Week Wind Down

4:00 PM

“Live and Become” Film

Religious School B’nei Mitzvah Track

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Trope for Adults

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9:00 AM Adult Shabbat Study Hevre

10:30 AM Shabbat Morning Service

Kabbalat Shabbat Pot Luck Dinner Jazz Night

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Adult Shabbat Study Hevre

10:00 AM

Shabbat Morning Service

10:30 AM

Kinder Kef

9:00 AM

Social Action Committee

11:00 AM

Brotherhood Movie

Partisans of Vilna

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Religious School Vacation

4:00 PM 6:00 PM

Religious School B’nei Mitzvah Track

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Bd of Trustees

6:30 PM

Kabbalat Shabbat

Trope for Adults

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Adult Shabbat Study Hevre

6:30 PM

Kabbalat Shabbat

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Shabbat Morning Service

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Tot Shabbat

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Adult Shabbat Study Hevre

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160th Anniversary Committee

Shabbat Morning Service

4:00 PM

Religious School B’nei Mitzvah Track

6:30 PM

8:00 PM Late Shabbat Service

Trope for Adults

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