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The Shofar “Worship Together In The Quiet of G-d’s House” March/April 2019 HCS CLOSINGS: Please listen to WHUD (100.7FM) or visit www.whud.com for information on weather- related Hebrew School closings and services/activities cancellations. Join us for lovely Family Shabbat Services followed by a Dairy Potluck 6:30 Friday April 5 Come sing with us! Shofar Sponsors: Jill Dayan Harvey and Gail Katz Andrew and Roberta Carnaghi Fischer Family Susan and Jeff Gilberg Russell Greenspan and Rachel Izes Diane and Steve Karsch Marilyn and Larry Kaufman Albert and Stephanie Lasher Ellen and Alan Most Amy Post and Peter Scurlock Family Vicki and Les Prusnofsky Nancy and Gary Rikoon Leonard Staub Linda Worthman and Robert Kleinman Web Page Sponsors: Jill Dayan Harvey and Gail Katz Andrew and Roberta Carnaghi Fischer Family Russell Greenspan and Rachel Izes Diane and Steve Karsch Marilyn and Larry Kaufman Ellen and Alan Most Albert and Stephanie Lasher Vicki and Les Prusnofsky Nancy and Gary Rikoon Leonard Staub Linda Worthman and Robert Kleinman Find us on Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/pages/Hebrew- Congregation-of-Somers/295519860462455?

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The Shofar “Worship Together In The Quiet of G-d’s House”

March/April 2019

HCS CLOSINGS: Please listen to WHUD (100.7FM) or visit www.whud.com for information on weather-

related Hebrew School closings and services/activities cancellations.

Join us for lovely Family Shabbat

Services followed by a Dairy Potluck 6:30 Friday April 5

Come sing with us!

Shofar Sponsors: Jill Dayan Harvey and Gail Katz Andrew and Roberta Carnaghi Fischer Family Susan and Jeff Gilberg Russell Greenspan and Rachel Izes Diane and Steve Karsch Marilyn and Larry Kaufman Albert and Stephanie Lasher Ellen and Alan Most Amy Post and Peter Scurlock Family Vicki and Les Prusnofsky Nancy and Gary Rikoon Leonard Staub Linda Worthman and Robert Kleinman

Web Page Sponsors: Jill Dayan Harvey and Gail Katz Andrew and Roberta Carnaghi Fischer Family Russell Greenspan and Rachel Izes Diane and Steve Karsch Marilyn and Larry Kaufman Ellen and Alan Most Albert and Stephanie Lasher Vicki and Les Prusnofsky Nancy and Gary Rikoon Leonard Staub Linda Worthman and Robert Kleinman

Find us on Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/pages/Hebrew-Congregation-of-Somers/295519860462455?

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A message from Co-President Bob Fischer

Thank you to all who are our attending our services led by Cantor Ruth. It is a pleasure to see all of you and the energy you contribute to the congregation and good feelings we all share through prayers, singing, chanting, and being together. Remember to order your Shalach Manot and attend the Megillah reading on Friday, March 22.

Thank you for using our new RING doorbell. We can now know when someone is at the door and can verify their identity. Thanks to all have been contributing to security improvements. We have repaired and improved the front door in addition to the doorbell. More changes will occur in the future.

Oscar continues to keep the building ship-shape. Nonetheless our building and the house across the street do need work. We recently completed chimney repairs at the house and our sanctuary exit and stairway by the bima need repair. Your contributions toward these efforts are appreciated. All of the security and building repairs and improvements are costly. As we have always said, our expenses are covered by dues, tuitions, HH pledges AND contributions. Thank you for your generosity.

Look for emails inviting you to attend Ritual Committee meetings to plan services and the upcoming High Holidays. Please continue to support your synagogue and community at services and pot lucks and through participation in Sisterhood, the Education Committee and your energy and enthusiasm.

Shalom Bob

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From the Cantor I’ve been doing a lot of thinking recently about belief in God. Yesterday, a teenager I was teaching asked me if I believed in God. She does. And, recently, another child very respectfully asked how he could say the words of our prayers when they assume a belief in God that he’s not sure he has. Baruch ata Adonai, Elohainu melech ha’olam, Blessed are you Adonai, our God, Ruler of the universe, it’s the start of every blessing. Is it reasonable to say it if you don’t believe in God? Firstly, I want to say that I love that our children are grappling with this issue as are many of our adults. Jews are supposed to question, not just accept things. So, how do I answer these questions? I always begin by saying that I’m sharing my thoughts. Yes they’re based on Jewish study, but still, they’re just my thoughts. I tell them the expression “Two Jews, three opinions.” Judaism isn’t just about set answers, we’re meant to grapple with things. Often when people say they don’t believe in God, their idea of God is the “old man” in Heaven looking down on us, answering our prayers and pulling strings for us. I don’t believe in an intervening God either. And yet, often I experience, or hear about others’ experiences where there seem to be coincidences that can’t be explained. My explanation is that we’re all interconnected in some way that we don’t yet understand. And that there is some sort of force beyond us. And I call that force God. So why do I find our prayers so meaningful when I don’t believe in an intervening God? I’m aware that many of these prayers are ancient and they help me feel part of a long line of Jews. This connection to our past also struck home when I recently had genetic testing and found I had a gene that predated the destruction of the first Temple! Another way I give our prayers meaning is by looking at their themes. The blessings, to me, are about gratitude for what we have: bread, wine, vegetables and fruits, freedom, life, our blessings go on and on! There’s been many studies outlining the health benefits of gratitude. How wise our ancestors were! We have various prayers asking for peace: Sim Shalom, Shalom Rav, Oseh Shalom. That’s easy. The Mi Chamocha reminds me of the joy we felt when we were truly free and safe from slavery. It reminds me of the importance of freedom and helping others achieve it. V’Shamru makes me think of how wise our ancestors were in understanding the importance of not working all the time.

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The Shofar page 4. I also find that the beauty of the music transports me. Prayer is so much more than finding meaning in the words. It’s why so many of our prayers are sung. Music moves us. So, I want to thank our children, for raising such important issues. What are your thoughts about God? At our recent LunchNLearn, one of our congregants quoted Einstein. I’ll end with a few quotes from Einstein: A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty - it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute the truly religious attitude… (Albert Einstein) I believe in Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with the fates and actions of human beings. (Albert Einstein)

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From Jill Liflander, Educational Director: A Plate of Rugelach and Moral Guidance

The more I explore life within the Jewish world, the more that I experience how complicated people's relationship is with religion. I would be a very wealthy woman if I had a dollar for every person who, upon hearing that I work at a synagogue, replies, “Uch, I hate religion. It’s the reason for all of the world’s problems. Wars, hatred…It’s the opioid of the masses!”

It’s true that there are a tremendous number of people and cultures who distort religion to further their agenda. And we humans as a species don’t have a terrific track record with acceptance and wide-reaching love. Religion is weaponized to be a divider, a way to separate us into competing tribes, competing for resources, hating generation after generation of our neighbors.

But consider the "Ruggelach Theory!"TM Jill Liflander ;) Stay with me. I learned how to make this insanely delicious Eastern European Jewish cookie last weekend, and baked batch after batch, testing each style on my willing and eager family. Rugelach is incredibly rich and buttery, and If you ate rugelach all day, you would probably contract all sorts of diseases-heart disease, diabetes, your teeth would rot, and you would probably have a perpetual stomach ache and be extremely grouchy and mean to the neighbors when they made noise outside of the window. If you covered your bedsheets with ruggelach, your bed would be crumbly and you would never have a good sleep. If you put ruggelach in your oil tank, your car would break. And so on….

But if you made a batch of with the intension of sharing the sweetness, invited your neighbors over for coffee and ruggies, ate a few as you laughed and enjoyed each other’s company, the rugelach would be a sweet unifier that brings everyone joy and moist, cinnamon pleasure. It’s the manner in which we engage with the rugelach that determines whether the rugelach detracts from our growth, or is a boon to the soulfulness of our existence.

Thus, we find ourselves back at religion. All religions contain a moral exoskeleton that we humans can grab onto to help us find our way back to center. We can use the guidance of religion to help us nourish our “yetzer tov” our good inclinations or our “yetzer hara” our evil instincts (less than desirable traits). We can twist words intended to bring us closer to our brothers and sisters and our best, highest selves, or we can reach to a myriad of sources for guidance on how to be a good person, to manage being a rascally human being. We Jews can look to the moral codes of Torah and the commentary of Talmud, to our liturgy, to our literature and music. We practice tzedakah to pull our base humanness into being open to the needs of others, to constantly look outside of our own existence and to connect with the suffering in the world around us.

Here’s just one small, sweaty example of how religion, aka Judaism, an over five-thousand-year old religion that has grappled with morality and the nuances of chesed (kindness), since its onset, has assisted me recently in not being a jerk:

A few weeks ago, the kids had a late arrival morning due to snow. I sat lazily on the couch doing absolutely nothing in the early morning silence, drinking coffee and breathing in the stillness.

BAM! BAM! BAM! I jumped up in confusion and stumbled to the door where a local police officer in his navy-blue uniform informed me that Mark’s car was blocking a driveway. I hurled a coat over my pajamas and sprinted down the street to move the

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The Shofar page 6. car, hoping that I wouldn’t also find a ticket on the windshield. The stick shift on Mark’s car is tetchy, and he was parked on a steep hill. I could barely get the car out of the spot without stalling clunkily and repeatedly tapping the fender of the car behind me. Sweat dripped down my neck, my jaw tightened and my head throbbed. I still had to drive around for another ten minutes in the freezing cold looking for a new spot. By the time I finally parked, steam poured out of my ears; I hadn’t even begun getting the kids ready for school. What a horrible way to start the day! Aaaaaargghhhh!!!!!

But I knew (Judaism rolling in from the background) that Mark had simply made a parking mistake. I have made plenty of parking mistakes (That which is hateful to you don’t do to your fellow human…the rest is commentary…Hillel). Even as I was so angered by the situation and wanted to yell and scream and accuse, I thought about how Mark would have treated me if this were my car and my parking fiasco. (Do unto others as you would have done to you…Do unto others as you would have done to you..) Mark treated me with respect and with kindness and I needed to bring myself back down from a fury(That which is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow human…).

By the time I entered the apartment, repeating Hillel’s Golden Rule over and over in my mind, I was no longer a seething, steaming hydra with hissing snakes above my head, but a compassionate partner who also made mistakes and didn’t want to hurt Mark any more than the hefty parking ticket would. (Later we would learn that a truck had hit Mark’s car on the hill, and that it rolled his car backwards a few feet, thus blocking the driveway. Our ticket was reduced from $150 to $20.)

I could seriously go on and on with incidents from just the past week of how I checked back to the moral framework housed in Judaism for guidance. I choose to feed my yetzer tov because that’s who I want to be. Am I one hundred percent sure that I am always doing the right thing? No, not at all. But I would rather err on the side of chesed and know that I had kindness as my goal, than be right.

Judaism provides a moral and spiritual guidepost that consistently reminds us of how to build upon a foundation of love and kindness in this quirky world. Add in a warm, lively community and a plate of rugelach and I’m all in! (I can feed my yetzer tov and my belly all at the same time.)

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THANK YOU AGAIN TO: The Greenspan/Izes family, Les and Vicki Prusnofsky, the Koenig family and Marilyn Kaufman

FOR THEIR GENEROUS DONATION OF AMAZON FIRE TABLETS

TO THE HEBREW SCHOOL! THANK YOU TO LES PRUSNOFSKY

and RUTH AND HAROLD OSSHER WHO SPENT COUNTLESS

HOURS PREPARING THEM FOR USE AND MADE THIS ALL

HAPPEN!!!

The kids love using them! They have already added so much to

our Hebrew School instruction!

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PURIM FESTIVITIES!

FRIDAY MARCH 22: 6:30 pm

COMMUNITY MEGILLAH READING and SHALACH MANOT!

COSTUME PARADE (FOR EVERYONE)! HEBREW SCHOOL

PUPPET SINGING EXTRAVAGANZA!

SUNDAY MARCH 22: 10:30 am

HEBREW SCHOOL PURIM TALENT SHOW, MORE

COSTUME PARADING AND……HAMANTASCHEN!!!!

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HCS IN THE COMMUNITY

Zachary Siegel visited Katonah Elementary School as a Science

Ambassador and look who was there??! It’s Aaron Koenig!

Field Trip to Tenement Museum:

Thank you to everyone who organized this fantastic trip to the Lower East Side!

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The Shofar page 12. Jill Liflander performed in a production of the “Vagina Monologues” at the Tarrytown Music Hall. The show raised $42,000 for two local domestic violence shelters.

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Celebrate the 75th

Anniversary of HCS Date: Sunday May 5, 2019 Location: The Centennial

Golf Club Time: 1 to 5 PM

Hope to see you all!

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For any questions, contact Amy Post: [email protected]

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DONATE GENTLY USED PROM DRESSES AND SHOES OR TUXEDOS FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS WHO CANNOT AFFORD TO RENT THESE ITEMS.

PLEASE PLACE YOUR DONATIONS OF FORMAL WEAR AND ACCESSORIES IN LOBBY BIN.

IN COOPERATION WITH NORTHERN WESTCHESTER COMMUNITY CENTER YOU WILL BE HELPING TEENS PARTICIPATE IN AN IMPORTANT PART OF THEIR HIGH SCHOOL EXPERIENCE.

THANK YOU! CONTACT: VICKI PRUSNOFSKY, [email protected] 914-669-5832

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COMMUNITY RESOURCES: Co-President Vicki Prusnofsky and Board Members Marilyn Kaufman and Jeff Gilberg have been attending the Somers Community Council Meetings. The following is a list of local organizations that can provide resources to those in times of need. We will add organizations to the list as we learn about them in future meetings. *Friends of Karen- 914-277-4547 support for families with children suffering from cancer *Support Connection - 914-962-6402 support for families and individuals suffering with breast cancer *Lions Club Somers' Angels - 914-302-4546 volunteer labor, supplies and fund raising where it is most needed *Somers Police Dept, Officer Kim - for victims of domestic violence - risk reduction, escape plans, shelters, legal services, job counseling and the New Dawn Family Resource Center * "No Place for Hate " Initiative - Somers School Disrict addresses intolerance working with the Anti-Defamation League and others to educate students at all levels to become tolerant, empathic and kind. These organizations could be good options for B'nei Mitzvah Projects too!

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Dorot "Generations Helping Generations"

DOROT is all about generations coming together to share ideas, mutual interests and life experiences

through friendly visiting.

Dorot's Friendly Visiting Program and Holiday Food Delivery Program match volunteers with seniors who are isolated and often home bound. Maria, age 92 , says, "I wish everyone could have a friend like mine.".

Adults and adolescents are welcome to participate. You arrange your visits at your convenience.

To learn more about DOROT call Daniel Jackson, M.S.W. (914) 844-3460, or email djackson @dorotusa.org

To fill out a volunteer application visit the website at www.dorotusa.org

Questions? Call Vicki Prusnofsky (914) 669-5832, or email : [email protected]

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LEV LA LEV “Heart To

Heart”

The Rubin-Zeffren Children’s Home Est. 1961 is an orphanage in Netanya, Israel providing a dignified, safe, loving, Jewish environment for tragically disadvantaged, abandoned and abused girls ages 3-21.

We can take action and be supportive! ★ Look for tzedekah boxes around the synagogue

and donate here, or take a box home to fill and return.

★ Shop at the Lev La Lev “E”Store at www.levlalev.com or [email protected]

★ Make a memorial, or an honor donation at www.levlalev.com

Thank you!

Questions? Donations collected May/June Contact: Vicki Prusnofsky (914) 669-5832 or [email protected]

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VOLUNTEER!

The Community Center of Northern Westchester

84 Bedford Rd Katonah, N.Y. 10536

Call: Clare Murray (914) 2326572

X105

Or [email protected]

The Community Center of Northern Westchester

seeks to improve the wellbeing and self-sufficiency of Northern Westchester neighbors in need by providing food, clothing, school supplies, programs and other resources. Clients are treated with

dignity and respect.

Volunteers are needed to sort and distribute donated food, clothing and supplies as well as help clients learn English and

other skills.

Questions? Call: Vicki Prusnofsky

(914) 6695832 [email protected]

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The Shofar page 23. Yahrzeits and Memorials for January and February: Harvey and Gail Katz Yahrzeit in honor of Joseph Fisher Leslie and Vicki Prusnofsky Yahrzeit in honor of Louis and Lillain Stein Barry and Arlene Brown Yahrzeit in honor of Esther Sonsky, Sidney Sonsky abd Benjamin Brown Lunch and Learn Dates Still Available: Only 3 dates are still free for Lunch and Learn Sponsors: Mar. 16 May 18 June 15 To Sponsor a Lunch and Learn please send a check for $50 payable to HCS. Please mail to: Hebrew Congregation of Somers, PO Box 40, Shenorock, NY 10587 Thank You to our Lunch and Learn Sponsors: Arlene and Barry Brown Ellen and Alan Most Gloria Caldarella Jeff Motelson Susan and Jeff Gilberg Ruth and Harold Ossher Irene Herz Vicki and Les Prusnofsky Gail and Harvey Katz Nancy and Gary Rikoon Marilyn and Larry Kaufman Audrey Sherman and Robert Fischer Rob and Susan Leffler Donations for the Security Fund-Thank You!: Andy Brenner Alissa Ciurczak Rachel Izes and Russell Greenspan Diane and Steven Karsch Marilyn Kaufman Susan and Jay Leffler Vicki and Les Prusnofsky Nancy and Gary Rikoon Audrey Sherman and Robert Fischer Emily and Cary Siegel Jesse and Gale Weiner

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Need A Ride to Services at HCS? A member of HCS would like to provide transportation to a member of the

congregation who is unable to drive to HCS for services. Please contact Audrey for more information (914) 245-7596.

To Our Readers If you have a business or service you would like to offer, please consider advertising in the Shofar. For information on our advertising rates call 914 248-9532 or email us at [email protected]

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Tree of Life Sponsors Andrew and Roberta Carnaghi Jill Dayan Fischer Family Russell Greenspan and Rachel Izes Diane and Steve Karsch Harvey and Gail Katz Marilyn and Larry Kaufman Albert and Stephanie Lasher Ellen and Alan Most Vicki and Les Prusnofsky Nancy and Gary Rikoon Leonard Staub Linda Worthman and Robert Kleinman

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HCS Birthdays

March

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Happy Birthday to our Junior Congregants!

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HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!

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Memoriam

Joseph & Josephine Fisher

Joseph Kaufman

Ida Kaufman

Michael Prusnofsky Jean Prusnofsky Henry Prusnofsky

Lillian Stein Louis Stein

Julius Funk

Arthur Sherman Celia Funk

Alexander & Rosalyn Katz

Martin Staub Shirley Staub

Anna Staub

Claire Staub

Paul Staub Irving Lasher Ida Lasher Ian David Lasher

Lila Bernstein

Pearl & Hyman Levy

Jerry & Erika Ross

Estelle & Seymour Charton

Gertrude & Sonny Worthman

Jean Prusnofsky

Florence Neumann

Janet Greenspan

Steven Post

Patricia Scurlock

Howard & Helen Rikoon

Hershel Post

Melvin Katz

Edith Simon

Paul Grossman

G. Michael Merns

Paul Kleinman

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Yahrzeits March

03/02/19 Jack Hirsch 25 Adar I

03/03/19 Israel Lasher 26 Adar I

03/04/19 Julius Funk 27 Adar I

03/04/19 Alfred Greenberg 27 Adar I

03/05/19 Frances Weaner 28 Adar I

03/05/19 Bernard Kleinfeld 28 Adar I

03/08/19 Hershel Post 1 Adar II 5763

03/09/19 Chava Ganbaum 2 Adar II

03/09/19 Helen Utah 2 Adar II

03/09/19 Mollie Gitnik 2 Adar II 5774

03/11/19 Joseph Warrenbrand 4 Adar II

03/12/19 Claire Staub 5 Adar II

03/12/19 Isabelle Hirsch 5 Adar II

03/15/19 Abraham Berlin 8 Adar II

03/16/19 Dorothy Portnoy 9 Adar II

03/17/19 Michele Folchetti 10 Adar II 5774

03/18/19 Abraham Sonsky 11 Adar II

03/18/19 William Schwartz 11 Adar II

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03/19/19 Rita Chuney 12 Adar II 5760

03/20/19 Sidney Sherwin 13 Adar II

03/20/19 Charles Kaufman 13 Adar II

03/21/19 Jules Fredric Schwalb 14 Adar II

03/23/19 David Schechtman 16 Adar II

03/24/19 Nathan Jainchill 17 Adar II

03/26/19 Irving Landman 19 Adar II

03/27/19 Benny Seidman 20 Adar II

03/28/19 Phillip Rosenthal 21 Adar II

03/31/19 Gussie Fleischman 24 Adar II

April 04/01/19 Tillie Memis 25 Adar II

04/03/19 Walter Finkelstein 27 Adar II

04/05/19 Gary Schmeltzer 29 Adar II

04/05/19 Mervyn Dayan 29 Adar II

04/07/19 David Meersand 2 Nissan

04/07/19 Natalie Sharkey 2 Nissan

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04/09/19 Rebecca Wiender 4 Nissan

04/10/19 Milton Mark 5 Nissan

04/11/19 Lillian Heller 6 Nissan

04/11/19 Ilan Hadani Ilan ben Minachem V'Shoshana 6 Nissan 5771

04/11/19 David Lanoff 6 Nissan

04/13/19 Nettie Lenett 8 Nissan

04/13/19 Daniel Berlin 8 Nissan

04/14/19 Elaine Hindes 9 Nissan 5772

04/14/19 Irma Horowitz 9 Nissan

04/14/19 Josephine Fisher 9 Nissan

04/14/19 Oskar Brecher 9 Nissan 5776

04/15/19 Sydny Flisser 10 Nissan

04/15/19 Mary Friedman 10 Nissan

04/17/19 Anna Bernstein 12 Nissan

04/17/19 Robert Brenner 12 Nissan

04/17/19 Rose Seid 12 Nissan

04/17/19 Ernest Gitnik 12 Nissan 5776

04/20/19 Morris Kupferberg 15 Nissan

04/21/19 Marvin Gimprich 16 Nissan

04/21/19 Aaron Carmel 16 Nissan

04/22/19 Solomon Kleiman 17 Nissan

04/22/19 Milton Kurland 17 Nissan

04/23/19 Henry Prusnofsky 18 Nissan

04/23/19 David Siegel 18 Nissan

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04/24/19 Florence Kleinfeld 19 Nissan

04/24/19 Alexander Katz 19 Nissan 5744

04/24/19 Frances Stiebel 19 Nissan 5776

04/25/19 Harold Keitelman 20 Nissan

04/25/19 Joseph Linder 20 Nissan

04/25/19 Lucille Schuckman 20 Nissan

04/26/19 Joseph Schwartz 21 Nissan

04/26/19 Erwin Wolfson 21 Nissan

04/27/19 Sarah Wright 22 Nissan

04/28/19 Samuel Wohl 23 Nissan

04/28/19 Lee Browner 23 Nissan

04/28/19 Samuel Richman 23 Nissan

04/28/19 Louis Schuckman 23 Nissan

04/29/19 Pearl Eisig 24 Nissan

04/29/19 Fagel Platnick 24 Nissan

04/29/19 Pearl Levy 24 Nissan 5776

04/30/19 Mitchell Nitzberg 25 Nissan

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IMPORTANT LINKS JRF leadership listserv sign-up: http://www2.jrf.org/cong/disc-cong.php

JRF Convention website: http://www.jrfconvention.org Education Directors' website: http://www2.jrf.org/rena/

Reconstructionist Divrei-Torah web site: http://www2.jrf.org/recon-dt/index.php JRF Publications: http://jrf.org/press/index.html

JRF Long distance Learning: http://www.jrf.org/news/RRC_Distance_Learning.html

http://www.judaicawebstore.com/default.asp Help the residents of Sderot by buying their products.

http://www.madeinshderot.com

http://[email protected] (America-Israel Friendship League) http://www.jdc.org/jcdr_co_sudan.html (Jewish Coalition for Disaster Relief-info on Sudan)

http://www.onefamilyfund.org/index.asp?ID=224 http://www.wjconference.org (Westchester Jewish Conference)

http://www.ajws.org (American Jewish World Service) http://www.ajc.org

http://honestreporting.com/ http://www.onejerusalem.org/

http://www.pmw.org.il/ (Palestinian Media Watch)

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March Calendar

https://www.hebrewcongregationofsomers.org/calendar

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https://www.hebrewcongregationofsomers.org/calendar

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Hebrew Congregation of Somers Cantor: Ruth Ossher

Presidents: Gloria Caldarella, Bob Fischer, Vicki Prunofsky

Treasurer: Audrey Sherman

Hebrew School Chairperson: Rachel Izes and Jennifer Koenig

Hebrew School Principal: Jill Liflander

Membership Chairperson: Irene Herz

Sisterhood Coordinators: Amy Post/Emily Siegel

Shofar Editor: Audrey Sherman

Hebrew Congregation of Somers Telephone Number (914) 248-9532

Web Site: http://www.hebrewcongregationofsomers.org

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