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Chailights
JUNE/JULY 2017
“Sometimes Pictures Are
Better Than Words”
FROM OUR PRESIDENT
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BETH ISRAEL OFFICE HOURS
Monday: CLOSED
Tuesday: 10:00 a.m.- 5:00 p.m.
Wednesday: 10:00 a.m.- 6:00 p.m.
Thursday: 10:00 a.m.- 5:00 p.m.
Friday: 10:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.
Closed for lunch: 12:30-1:30 p.m.
REMINDER
Article Deadline for the following:
THE BLAST
12:00 p.m. TUESDAY
CHAILIGHTS
1st FRIDAY OF EVERY MONTH
FRIDAY NIGHT LEAFLET
1:30 p.m.. Wednesday
Michele Schipper President
Join us for a special Fourth of July dinner after Shabbat Services
June 30, 2017.
The cost is $5.00 per person.
Please RSVP by Monday, June 26th, to Mindy Humphrey at [email protected].
Veggie burgers will be available if requested in advance in your RSVP.
As a kick-off to the summer season, please join us for the BIC semi-annual meeting, Sunday, June 4 at 4:30 p.m. The meeting will have a different format this year. We are taking this opportunity to share brief BIC updates, but then we will socialize with our fellow congregants, and engage together as we plan programs for the coming year. There are many opportunities for involvement within the temple, as well as opportunities to engage with the greater community. We’ll have delicious refreshments. Babysitting will be provided. Please join us!
For the upcoming High Holidays this year, we will be using the new High Holiday prayer books. You will see from the insert in this Chailights, that there are opportunities to dedicate our new Machzor Mishkan HaNefesh. This is a wonderful way to honor a family member or friend or to remember a loved one. I'd like to thank Rabbi Debra Kassoff for serving as Youth Director these past three years. Rabbi Kassoff is moving on to a new adventure (more information on page 4) but will remain part of the Beth Israel community. Please join me in wishing her congratulations on her new job!
Please join us for a Temple Dinner after Shabbat Services
June 2, 2017
The cost is $5.00 per person
RSVP to: Mindy Humphrey at [email protected] no later than Monday, May 29, 2017
Checks should be made payable to Beth Israel Sisterhood and can be sent in advance to the Temple office.
We will be serving brisket sliders and sides. Vegetarian sliders will also be available for those who indicate in the
RSVP that you want the vegetarian option.
SISTERHOOD SPOTLIGHT
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"Unity is strength...when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved." ~Mattie J.T. Stepanek Shalom! I hope everyone is enjoying Spring and having fun getting ready for summer! This year has flown by so quickly. As I reflect on this past year as Sisterhood President, I am filled with gratitude for all of the support Sisterhood has been shown. It is YOU who helps to make our Sisterhood a successful & thriving entity of the BIC community. Thank you! In June, Sisterhood Board will be meeting to plan our budget for the new fiscal year and our calendar activities. We will be sure to share information via Chailights, BIC Blasts, Sisterhood emails, Sisterhood Closed Group on Facebook, and other ways as necessary. We hope that you will join us this coming year. If you have any wonderful and exciting new ideas for activities, and if you are interested in helping out in any way, please let me know. Frankie Springer, my Co-President this past year, has resigned from the Sisterhood Board. I want to thank her for all of her hard work and diligence throughout the year in helping to make Sisterhood run so smoothly. We are going to miss her on our Board, and I am going to miss her partnership. We wish her the very best. Please know that you may contact me if you have any Sisterhood questions or concerns. I am available via phone, text, or email. My contact info is: Cell Phone: 601-454-2148 Texting: 601-454-2148 Email: [email protected] ** Due to my work schedule, please call me after work hours only - unless it is an emergency. Thank you! I hope to see you at many events during the year! Best regards,
Suzanne Freedman Sisterhood President
Beth Israel Congregants: As you know, our BIC Annual Bazaar is one of the oldest and of course, still going strong, as witnessed by the visitors to our 50th year celebration. We have put together a congregational survey that will be important to the future and the sustainability of the Beth Israel Bazaar. Please take time to read and respond either by email or return to the Temple office. We feel that it is imperative, at this time, to get a pulse from the membership as to your thoughts, observances, suggestions, and willingness to participate by answering the questions offered through this survey. The Bazaar is a wonderful congregational event that calls out to each and everyone one of us to participate, men, women, and yes, even to our young people who help every year. With this being said, our very successful Beth Israel image maker and sustainer has also continued to grow in cooking, organizing, set-up, take-down, and working not only that one day, but many days before hand. We ask that you please email the survey to the addresses below. Thank you for your prompt return by June 15th. Jo Ann Gordon & Paula Erlich Suzanne Freedman Co-Chairman President
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Religious School
Beth Israel Congregation would like to thank Jeff Good
and the Mangia Bene company for their generous dona-
tion of gift cards for us to be able to express our apprecia-
tion to our volunteer teachers. Mangia Bene is the compa-
ny that owns Bravo, Broad Street Bakery and Sal &
Mookies.
A Sort of Farewell (emailed to religious school and youth programs families on
May 17th, 2017)
Dear Friends,
As many of you have learned since my announcement on
Sunday morning, I will not be continuing as Religious
Educator and Youth Director at Beth Israel Congregation
beyond this month. Rabbi Kurtz-Lendner and our
congregational board are working on finding a successor,
and I will work with them to ensure a smooth transition.
For three years I have had the honor and pleasure to serve in
this position and to play a very special role in the lives of
our congregation’s children and youth. I will miss much
about my work here. I thank you all for the opportunity, and
for entrusting your children’s religious education and Jewish
identity formation, in part, to me and to the wonderful
volunteer teachers and advisors who have worked with me
over the years.
It is time for me to take on new professional challenges. On Friday I accepted a full-time position as
Development Associate with the new Mississippi Public
Broadcasting Foundation. In this position I’m looking
forward to learning a lot about professional fundraising, and
to using my skills as teacher, counselor, story teller, and
community builder in a new arena. During my time on the
staff of Beth Israel Congregation I have been blessed by the
support and confidence of our religious school parents,
teachers, students, and many other members of the
congregation. I feel confident that, going forward in my new
-old role as a Beth Israel congregant, I will find plentiful
ways to match and give back in return for all I have re-
ceived.
Shalom uv’rachah—peace and blessing, and l’chayyim—
here’s to many more years of Jewish life for all of us, to-
gether.
Sincerely and with affection,
Rabbi Debra Kassoff
Religious School Registration for the 2017-2018 school year will open later this summer.
Families, watch your email for more details!
Thank You to our wonderful teachers, madrikhim, and BITY advisors,
and to all the parents, congregants, and students (too many
to name) who contributed in other ways.
It takes a shtetl!
The folks named below worked especially hard this year.
Please thank them when you see them.
TEACHERS MADRIKHIM
Elias Chajet T. J. Grossman
Gabi Cohn Ella Rockoff
Chloe Edwards-Stowe Tovah Rubinsky
Rachel Glazer Eric Schipper
Alex Kassoff Richard Smith
Dave Miller
Bill Morris BITY ADVISORS
Shira Moskowitz Erica Abeles
Shira Muroff Sarah Thomas
Bette Shornick
Leah Wittenberg
CONFIRMATION CLASS
May, 2017
Pictured left to right: Rabbi Kurtz-Lendner
Richard Smith, Jake Davidson
Abby Craig, Josh Guimbellot, Eric Schipper
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JUNE BIRTHDAYS 4 Robert Briggs 6 Art Salomon 6 Gino Giammarco 6 Mark Johnson 6 Leah Kurtz-Lendner 6 Aaron Trubman 8 Erica Abeles 9 Elizabeth Springer 9 Howard Roffwarg 10 Joan Amman 15 Caroline Norris 15 Jim Goodman 16 Roger Rosenfield 21 Sarah Thomas 21 Lynne Rosenfield 22 Ian Paul 22 Michael Jacobs 23 Jo Ann Gordon 25 Sara Evan
JUNE ANNIVERSARIES 7 Helen & Mark Johnson 10 Bernice & Steve Silberman 11 Carey & Robert Emmich 12 Julie & Ian Paul 13 Suzanne & James Freedman 15 Melissa & Ralph Daniel, III 16 Erica Weil & Matthew Dreffin 17 Kay & Philip Pollack 18 Jennifer & Clifton Tucker 19 Judy & Josh Wiener 21 Cookie & Marcelo Ruvinsky 21 Cheryl & Howard Katz 22 Marla Harbor & Erik Hearon 24 Deborah & Clay Crystal 25 Mindi Helschein & Eric Phillips 29 Sherrie & George Glass 30 Anne & Don Sawyer
JUNE AND JULY, 2017 – BIRTHDAYS AND ANNIVERSARIES
JULY BIRTHDAYS JULY ANNIVERSARIES 2 Riley Weil 20 Julia Levingston 4 Debra and Joel Jacobs 4 Phil Cohen 21 Michel Rivlin 6 Robyn and Greg Pollack 5 Betty Crystal 22 Judy Wiener 7 Tammy and Bert Rubinsky 6 Susan Snyder 22 Alexander Goldstein 14 Lynda and Eric Balfour 7 Sally Cohen 23 Benjamin Orlansky 19 Jill and Bob Lazarus 7 Jonathan Sledge 24 Jon Rost 23 Arna and Richard Miller 8 Suzanne Freedman 28 Joann Eisenstatt 27 Judy and Richard Stamm 8 Richard Gavant 28 Brandon Schlakman 9 Lisa Pence 29 Steve Orlansky 9 Joan Burwell 29 Edward Erlich 9 Diann Hesdorffer 30 Tammy Rubinsky 10 Kay Metz 30 Robert Smith 12 Sylvia Kassoff 30 Stephen Rozman 12 Susan Rockoff 30 Ellis Hart 12 Ellen Hart 31 Nafie Sollek 14 Stacey Mitchell 31 Tedd Abeles 15 Breaunne Hirshman 16 Garrett Dubois 17 Carey Emmich
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We Remember
Yahrzeits
JUNE 2017 6/4/2017-6/10/2017
Harry Praver
Barbara Sandler
Sandra Zalowitz
Michael Lasky
*Alan Fields
*Jennie Carp
Elizabeth Taffet
Samuel Roffwarg
Jack Avins
Edith Stone
Florence Wiener
*Raymond Oppenheim
Herbert Grief
Sarah Beckerman
Bernard Weiss
Mitchell Pollack
Ruth Schwartz
Joe Goldstein
*David Gordon
Michael LeBlanc
Goldie Kweller
*Myer A. Segal
Minnie Wolff
*Ida Muskin
Peter Ziman
Leo Sonnabend
Robert Gamzon
*Julia Hart
Hillel Sloan
William Rosenblatt
6/11/2017-6/17/2017
*T. Orkin
*Isaac Simon Ascher
Gertrude Schwartz
Charles Miller
*Charlotte Crystal
Nathaniel Bloom
*Bernard Finkelberg
Morris Neveleff
Bill Krock
Steve Braver
Joseph Elfassy
Homer Benson
Irving Rosen
Rhea Hubal
Mayer Robbins
6/18/2017-6/24/2017
James Gibb
Esther Draft
Minnie Hart Dreyfus
Helen Lasky
Ella Goodman
Alfred Jefferson
Bob Emmich
Bessie Balkin
6/25/2017-7/1/2017
George Bloom
Natalie Goldberg
Chalom Charles Elfassy
Eldora Judlin
Lena Kahn
Isadore Beckerman
Sumner Levine
Shirley Kreisman
*Walter Berman
Gussie Roffwarg
*Edwin Ascher
Davera Goldstein
Carla Willenzik
Stuart Altshool
Celia Rozman
*Memorial Alcove
JULY, 2017 7/2/2017-7/8/2017 *Vladimir Ivshin Peter Brannan Michele Krock
Carl Rost Henrietta Goldberg Freda Lewis *Harriet Trubman
Richard Vavrick Lawrence Gavant Jacob Elfassy Martin Chamow
Tillie Friedman *Ernest Workman Vera Marsden *John Simon
Myles Jaffee *Marvin Cohen Christopher Dimattia Ron Black
Wolfie Cohen Paul Mandel George J. Gordon Anne Fishman
Emily Magidson Eric Stessman
Leo Mermelstein 7/16/2017-7/22/2017 *Allan Mitchell 7/30/2017-8/5/2017 George Davis Irene Liverman James Lawson
Gerson Gran Sarah Teeman Bloom 7/23/2017-7/29/2017 Lois Steiner *Rose Rosenzweig *Simon Waisbrod *Maxine Harris Jess Docter
*Bertha S. Rubinsky Jeanette Smith Reuben Gavant *Ida Sebulsky
Joseph Berg Jeanette Ettinger William Sklar Edward Spielman
*Celia Falk Louise Stamm Lewis Plotkin *Maude Lehman
Betty Hyde Norman Kaminsky *Lev Aronov
7/9/2017-7/15/2017 Francis Davidson Anita Sherr Kathleen Waxman Marilyn Spielman Florence Robbins Harry Sherman Sandra Klinger
Lona Cohen *Joseph Emile Berman *Bennett Freedman *Lillian Crystal
Victor Gorelik Ruby Stern *Myer A. Lewis Michele Fijman
Gerald Alpern Lucile Rosenbaum *Flo Berman Solomon C. Waxman
Harold Rosenzweig Elvyn Spencer Ida Simon Herbert Nash
Fay Lewis Berman Sol Blumenthal Albert Clark Bill Byous
Isaac Snyder
* Memorial Alcove
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WE APPRECIATE THE THOUGHTFULNESS OF THOSE WHO SUPPORT BETH ISRAEL
BY REMEMBERING AND HONORING THEIR FRIENDS AND LOVED ONES THROUGH THEIR GENEROUS CONTRIBUTIONS
Donations may be applied to the following funds, per your request:
GENERAL FUND MEMBERSHIP & ENGAGEMENT CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT FUND TIKKUN OLAM FUND
ENDOWMENT FUND ONEG FUND LIBRARY/PRAYER BOOK FUND WEBSITE FUND
RABBI’S DISCRETIONARY FUND SATURDAY MORNING FUND MUSIC FUND CEMETERY FUND
CARING FUND (SISTERHOOD) ART FUND PROGRAM FUND JEWISH CINEMA MISSISSIPPI
BITY MITZVAH FUND (SISTERHOOD) RELIGIOUS SCHOOL HOLOCAUST FUND
CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT FUND CEMETERY FUND In Memory of T. Stanley Orkin—Donna & Ted Orkin In Memory of Asher Katz—Melanie Dobel Recovery of Esther Roberts—Rebecca Laskin & Don Sawyer Amy & Arty Finkelberg In Memory of David Kweller—Rebecca Laskin & Don Sawyer Joe, Jenner, Eliza & Jonah Roberts The Haber Family Jeanne & Irving Weiss GENERAL FUND Gloria & Mark Roberts Donation—Morgan & Aaron Samuels Kathryn Wiener In Honor of Robyn Pollack’s Birthday—The Haber Family Sonia & Howard Marshall In Loving Memory of David Kweller—The Haber Family Queen Ester McGee In Memory of Nick Sam Karno—Honorine & Allen Weiss Marcia & Alvin Notowich In Memory of Lucile R. Rosenbaum—Lauren Rosenbaum Brown Marilyn & Alan Magnus In Honor of Graduate Natalia Ustinova—Amy & Arty Finkelberg Michelle Henderson & Kirk Maddox Lee Maxwell Sue Rae & Ken Bishop CEMETERY FUND Bette Shornick In Memory of A. J. Orkin, Sr.—Donna & Ted Orkin Donation—Morgan & Aaron Samuels In Memory of Florence Stiebel—Sheila Rubin RABBI’S DISCRETIONARY FUND In Memory of Milton Stiebel—Sheila Rubin Donation—Edward Robertson In Memory of Meyer Falk—Lynn Crystal In Memory of Judy Wahba—Rebecca Laskin & Don Sawyer In Memory of Lou Shornick—Rebecca Laskin & Don Sawyer In Memory of Loved Ones—Janice and Bernard Blumenthal In Memory of Jerry Crystal—Betty Crystal In Memory of David Hesdorffer—Gilda Hesdorffer
Will Leonard for graduating from Mississippi State, with a BS in Industrial Engineering. Will is the son of Melanie Howell and grandson of William and Mary Golde Howell. Joseph Metz and Caroline Metz for graduating from Mississippi State. Joseph graduated with a BS in History and Caroline with a BS in Social Work. Lawson and Kay Metz are the proud par-ents.
Meals on Wheels needs help stocking up
on meals to get us through the summer.
We are still serving between 15-17
people.
Below are a few items that would be great
to have. You may drop off donations in the temple kitchen. Please
label your donation MOW so it doesn't get mixed up with other
items in the kitchen. Thank you for all of your help.
Main Courses (Beef, Fish, or Turkey)
Frozen Vegetables
Desserts (Individually wrapped items, cookies, brownies, or any des-
sert that can be put into zip lock bags)
Fresh fruit or fruit cups
P.O. Box 13249 Jackson, MS 39236
Phone: (601) 956-6215 Fax: (601) 952-0895
bethisraelms.org
Non-Profit Org
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JACKSON, MS
BIC Semi Annual Meeting
Sunday, June 4 at 4:30 p.m.
