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HAYOM MARCH 2017 ADAR-NISAN 5777 ISSUE #3

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In This Issue: Information from the President Shalom School Info Donor Dues Program

Sisterhood Mitzvah-Gram Men’s Club Info Upcoming Events

Weekly Study Opportunities Yahrzeits Contributions March Calendar March Birthdays

Dear Congregants

The AA Rabbinical Search Committee would like to inform you that we will be hosting three rabbinical candidates

for our congregation during the next month. Each rabbi offers very special talents and we believe each would be a

good fit for our synagogue. Your thoughts and concerns are vitally important for us to make this decision so please

plan on attending. Here are the dates:

Rabbi Judith Beiner March 10-11, 2017

Rabbi Daniel Wolpe March 24-25, 2017

We will send you more information about each rabbi in the very near future, as well as an itinerary of events for each

weekend. You also will receive an online survey at the conclusion of each weekend and again after all three rabbis

have been to Savannah. We are very happy to move forward in this process and we hope you will all take part in this

very important opportunity for our congregation. Please make every effort to meet each of these rabbinical

candidates.

We also wanted to remind you all that these rabbis are interviewing us as well. We ask that you share stories about

why you love our synagogue and our community and be as positive as you can be. The candidates know that

Savannah is a small city and they are all looking to make a difference as they move forward in their careers. We are

very excited about these opportunities for you to meet and greet each rabbi.

Thanking you all in advance for your participation.

Lynn Reeves

Search Committee Chair

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EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Motti Locker

PRESIDENT

Victor Shernoff

FINANCIAL SECRETARY

Elise Shernoff

RECORDING SECRETARY

Ed Bernard

TREASURER

Michael Bonder

IMMEDIATE

PAST PRESIDENT

Steven Roth

BOARD MEMBERS

Matthew Allan

Robyn Carroll

Adam Fins

Kenneth Hoffman

Fran Kaminsky

Marcy Konter

Nancy Isaacson

Jeff Mayo

Rick Meier

Scott Samuels

Barry Schlafstein

Linda Zoller

HONORARY MEMBER

David Hirsh

MEN’S CLUB PRESIDENT

David Hirsh

CHEVRA KADISHA

David Reeves

ENDOWMENT

COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN

Joel Goodman

RITUAL COMMITTEE

Steve Arkin

SHALOM SCHOOL

Eva Locker

Good afternoon fellow members. February proved to be a very busy month at Agudath

Achim. We had a scholar in residence weekend, our SCAD/HILLEL Friday night service

and dinner, our progressive dinner, and we concluded our draft of our synagogue's 3 year

plan. We also confirmed dates for 3 Rabbinical candidates to visit us. Our adult education

classes continued with good enrollment. Lastly, Ronnie Ginsberg’s Wednesday sessions

with breakfast continued with 20 people or more attending.

March looks to be busier than February. March 5 brings us the Larry Lasky golf tournament

at the Landings. In addition, March 11 is the Back Pack Buddies Shabbat with services and

Kiddush luncheon honoring its over 40 volunteers. Also March brings us weekend visits

from 3 of our visiting Rabbis to lead services and meet with our fellow congregants. March

3/4 brings us Rabbi Steven Henkin for the weekend. The weekend of March 10/11 brings

us Rabbi Judith Beiner. Finally, we are privileged to host for the weekend of March 24/25

Rabbi Daniel Wolpe to conduct services and meet us. Also a special Friday night Shabbat

dinner catered by Tom Rosen and Elise Shernoff is planned for March 31. In addition, we

are Skyping 4 May graduates of the RA who chose us as their preferred choice of pulpits.

Perhaps we will have more weekend visits after the Skype. To be announced.

All adult education continues and Ronnie Ginsberg continues to request your presence at

his Wednesday morning service, breakfast, and educational experience with Motti.

We continue to have quorums at Board meetings, and good participation at committee

meetings. Both of which have consistency.

Folks, the staff and lay leaders are working hard and with your best interest in mind. We are

making progress on financial matters and with the Rabbi search. Please, be a part. Come to

meetings and events which interest you. Our doors are open for you.

As always my best wishes,

Your President,

Victor Shernoff

INFORMATION FROM THE PRESIDENT


SHALOM SCHOOL

Hamentaschen: our victory over a bully.

For some of us, eating hamentaschen on Purim is close to a Mitzvah! While this cookie is only a

tradition that we can’t to do without, it has nothing to do with the four Mitzvot required to do on

Purim: reading the Megillah, the festive meal, the gifts to the poor and the mischloah manot. Since at

Shalom School we always look for hands-on projects, baking hamentaschen with the students is

always an exciting time. And every year, the question of the shape comes up: is this cookie this way

because of Haman’s hat or Haman’s ears?

The story of the megillah is one of victory but also a real modern day lesson: Haman, the king’s

prime minister, expects all to bow to him and while Jews are fine bowing to a representative of the

monarchy, Mordechai has an issue bowing to someone who is also a tyrant and a brutal dictator. In

today's world: a real bully.

Mordechai is not the only one to rebel. In her own way, Esther risks her life when actively plotting

against Haman. She is showing up before the king without being invited and that alone is a passible

of death. But that doesn’t stop our princess on her quest to stop the bully and she takes control of the

situation by pushing the king to ask questions and investigate Haman.

Meantime Haman continues in is evil plan and he convinces the Persian people to join him in killing

all the Jews in one single day, the 13th of the month of Adar. The Jews, maybe inspired by

Mordechai’s and Esther’s heroism, did not sit still: they gathered to take arms and fight the Persians

back.

Three resistance steps to the bully, each heroic, courageous and necessary: standing up to Haman to

alert higher authority, to bring others to question the bully’s integrity (and intellect) and to take

actions. All steps that are part of a modern anti-bully campaign.

The question of the hamentaschen’s shape is still on the table: hat or ears? Whatever the answer is,

the important thing is that our children always remember to refuse to take a bully seriously and that

laughter is the best medicine to such a trauma. By humoring Haman’s hat or ears we are establishing

the victory of the good against the evil: our children’s laughter is our revenge on Haman and that

alone is worth devouring any flavored hamentaschen!

Wishing you Purim Sameah


DONOR DUES PROGRAM


How do I Send a Mitzvah-Gram? Here are 4 simple steps to do this:

1 Print out the Mitzvah-Gram page from the current HaYom newsletter with the list of people celebrating a birthday or

anniversary in February.

2 Circle the names of all those people to whom you would like to send a Happy Birthday or Happy Anniversary greeting.

3 Mail or deliver your list, along with your check made out to Agudath Achim Sisterhood for $.50 for each circled name, to

Barbara Abrams, 24 Raindrop Lane, Bluffton, S.C. 29909, or leave your list and check in the synagogue office.

4 Make sure to include your name(s) the way you want it (them) listed.

In order for your birthday and anniversary greetings to be delivered in a timely manner, everyone needs to turn in April’s Mitzvah-Gram

sheet by the 15th of March.

If you have any questions about this project, please contact me at [email protected], or at (843) 705-3723 or (843) 290-3995.

Thanks to everyone for participating in this exciting program.

Barbara Abrams, Chair

Gale Hirsh, Acting Sisterhood President

APRIL BIRTHDAYS APRIL ANNIVERSARIES

Please indicate how you would like your greeting signed:

e.g. Barbara & Ellis Abrams

If we are missing your March birthday and/or anniversary, please contact Barbara Abrams at [email protected] or

(843) 705-3723 or (843) 290-3995.

2 Steven & Anna Berwitz

6 Benjamin & Lisa Mackowiak

18 Harold & Catherine Sacaloff

2 Simone Wilker 17 Kelly Gordon

2 Phillip Wizwer 17 Clare Kinsey

4 Merry Bodziner 17 Steffi Zerden

4 Reggie Goldstein 18 Connie Glaser

5 Harold Sacaloff 18 Lisa Goldstein

5 Steven Smithberg 20 Michael Bonder

6 Jay Gould 20 Morris Geffen

7 Steven Roth 21 Stanley Rosenberg

7 Chaya Udinsky 21 Bob Schwartz

8 Matthew Allan 22 Becky Cohen

12 Susan Frischer 24 Jack Wolff

12 Frances Lowery-Wilson 25 Ira Miller

14 Carole Cohen 27 Liela Weltman

15 Simone Karsman 30 Carolyn Cohen

15 Marcus Seligman 30 Jerald Cohen

SISTERHOOD

mailto:[email protected]


MEN’S CLUB


UPCOMING EVENTS

Join us for Purim party,

Megillah Reading, Hamentaschen,

costume

parade and more on Sunday,

March 12th at 10 am.

Also Megillah Reading on

Saturday night.


UPCOMING EVENTS


HAMENTASCHEN FRESH BAKED FOR PURIM

Purim is March 12, 2017

Orders are ready for pickup

Weekly Study Opportunities

1. Food for the Soul - Chapter of the father - What the Rabbi’s thought of, hosted by Ron Ginsberg.

Wednesdays at 9:00 a.m. following breakfast and minyan.

2. Midrash: The Rabbinic Imagination - Learn how the rabbinic mind works through traditional text study.

Thursdays at 8:00 a.m.

3. Parashat HaShavuah - Analyze the weekly Torah portion after the Shabbat Kiddush lunch at 12:45 p.m.

4. Biblical Study Group - Book of Kings on Thursdays at 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

NEW

5. The Skeptics - present topic: The Shabbat of Kabbalah meeting on Fridays from 12:15 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. once a month.

6. Theology, Ideology & Texts - Avot D’Rabbi Natan, The Fathers According to Rabbi Nathan.

Meet 1st & 3rd Monday of every month from 2 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.

7. The Monday Woman’s Group - meets on the second Monday of every month, presently reviewing the new Siddur of the

Conservative Movement. 1:30 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.

INFORMATION


MARCH 01/03 ADAR

ERWIN FRIEDMAN

MARCH 02/4 ADAR ISRAEL DUNN

SAM MORRIS

AARON ROSENBAUM

MARCH 03/5 ADAR ISADORE WEITZ

MARCH 05/7 ADAR ESTHER KAMINSKY

ABRAM RUBIN

JOSEPH SCHWARTZMAN

MARCH 06/8 ADAR

PAUL MADISON

CHAIM MELAMED

MARCH 07/9 ADAR

LOUIS ROTHMAN

MARCH 08/10 ADAR CELIA HIRSCH

GABRIEL MAGLIONE

RANDALL RECHT

LABELLE TENENBAUM

MARCH 09/11 ADAR BELLA DAVID

KOPEL HELFAND

LAURETTE SUSSMAN

MAYER TANENBAUM

MARCH 10/12 ADAR AARON HAYSMAN

DAVID SHOOB

JENNIE STEIN

MARCH 11/13 ADAR

MAGDA GOULD

MOSE SIMMONS

ROSE ZEGER

MARCH 12/14 ADAR JOYCE BONDER

DONNA BUCKNER

RONALD BUCKNER

RUSSELL BUCKNER

ABRAHAM FEILER

HERBERT RAY

PESIL SHERMAN

PERRY SMOLEN

MARCH 13/15 ADAR

HELEN ISAACSON

PATRICIA REED

SOPHIA SAMORODIN

MARCH 14/16 ADAR MARSHALL BERNARD

SUSAN GLAZAR

GLADYS M. SCHILDT

ROSALIE MATIS

MARCH 15/17 ADAR ZELDA CRANMAN

ROSE GOLDSTEIN

BESSIE TANENBAUM

BELLA TENENBAUM

STELMA TOWBIN

MARCH 16/18 ADAR

ESTELLE BERKOWITZ

HELEN FELDMAN

CELIA MADISON

EMANUEL PALEFSKY

BETTY JEAN SMITHBERG

MARCH 17/19 ADAR MORRIS SADLER

RUTH SAND

SARAH SCHWARTZMAN

MARCH 18/20 ADAR

RUTH DERMER

BARRON GOODMAN

ANNA HOLLANDER

IRMA LEHRBERGER

SHIRLEY ROBBINS

MORRIS SAMORODIN

JOHN SCHILDT

MARCH 19/21 ADAR MARIE BEHR

MARCH 20/22 ADAR

ARNOLD BONDER

SARAH GARVIS

RUTH GELMAN

SANDER SMALHEISER

MARCH 21/23 ADAR

CELE GOLDBERG

VERA LENOWITZ

BERT OESTREICHER

ALAN WEXLER

MARCH 22/24 ADAR

SIMON DIRECTOR

MARCH 23/25 ADAR EDITH KARPF

MARCH 24/26 ADAR WILLIAM HAYSMAN

GLORIA KAMINSKY

JOICE LEDERMAN

JACK ROSEN

SAM SHUSTERMAN

TOBY WOLFF

MARCH 25/27 ADAR

HARRY LEON DUNN

ALBERT TENENBAUM

MARCH 26/28 ADAR

MORDECHAI LOCKER

RAE ROSENTHAL

ROBERT SUTNER

MARCH 27/29 ADAR HANNAH BAKER

PAUL JOLLES

MORRIS KAMINSKY

NATHAN MANN

MARCH 28/1 NISAN ALVIN GALIN

MORRIS KONTER

DOLORES NARDUCCI

MARCH 29/2 NISAN

CLARA GALIN

MARY TOOMER

MARCH 30/3 NISAN

ESTHER HAYSMAN

THEODORE WITZKE

MARCH 31/4 NISAN

ANNIE DANA

SYLVIA HOLSTEIN

PHILIP SEIDEL

YAHRZEITS MARCH 2017 5777


Siddur Rededicating

In Honor Of

Samra & Ron Robbins

Sharon & Murray Galin

Sylvia & Morris Cohen Israel

Travel Endowment Fund

In Memory Of

Malcolm Alterman & Lewis

Cohen

Edward & Becky Cohen

Siddur Sim Shalom

Ronald Kronowitz Lynn & David Reeves

Bailee Tenenbaum Kronowitz

Kiddush Fund

In Memory Of

Miriam T. Dobbs

Michael Dobbs

Elizabeth Weitz

Harriet & Eric Meyerhoff

Ronald Kronowitz

Lisa & Danny Kaminsky

Harriet Ullman

Jill & Brad Strauss & Family

Susan & Frank Slotin

Thank You

Jerry & Ginger Caplan


Backpack Buddies

Stephen & Lori Lilienthal

In Memory Of

Sylvia Schwartz

Barbara & Ellis Abrams

In Honor Of

Ron Robbins

Judith Goldkrand

Speedy Recovery Of

David Hirsh


General Fund

In Memory Of

Elizabeth Weitz

David & Gale Hirsh

Glenn Ross Bobrow

Davida Stockton

Joseph Stock

Marla & Morris Geffen

Leonie Israel & Berthe Gomel

Rachel & Eliot Israel

Goldie & Joseph Schmalheiser,

Jean Cranman, Phillip Cranman

& Matthew Cranman

Helen & Herman Cranman

In Honor Of

Faye Kirschner


Speedy Recovery Of

Ginger Caplan

Anita Schlossberg

Ernie & Mary Weitz Friedman

Fund for the Study of

Conservative Judaism

In Memory Of

Elizabeth Weitz

Margie Wright-Williams

Riette R. Pollack &

Michele P. Kaplan

Harriet Ullman

Suzanne & Michael Konter

Susan & Frank Slotin


Sally Krissman

Tom & Connie Glaser

Elise & Victor Shernoff

Muriel Bono

Faye Kirschner & Christine Addy

Marie M. Davis

Sidney Karp

Steffi & Sol Zerden

Brenda & Patrick Salter

Joan Pam

Buddy Metzger

Robin Rackoff & Yetta Tureck

Barbara Shrut &

Steven Gretenstein

Anita Schlossberg

Helen & Herman Cranman

CONTRIBUTIONS


Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

Shabbat Services

followed by

Kiddush

Luncheons

Daylight Savings

Time

Sunday, March

12th

1

8:00 a.m.

Shacharit with

Breakfast and Torah

Study 6:00 p.m. Mincha/

Maariv

2

7:30 a.m. Shacharit and Torah Study

6:00 p.m. Mincha/

Maariv

3

7:00 a.m. Shacharit

with breakfast to

follow 6:00 p.m.

Kabbalat Shabbat

6:06 p.m. Candle Lighting

4

9:45 a.m.

Shabbat Services

12:40 p.m. Mincha

6:55 p.m. Maariv 7:01 p.m. Havdalah

5

9:00 a.m. Shacharit 6:00 p.m. Mincha/

Maariv

2nd Annual Larry Lasky

Golf Tournament

6


Maariv

7


Maariv

8

8:00 a.m.

Shacharit with

Breakfast and Torah


Maariv

9


6:00 p.m. Mincha/

Maariv

10

7:00 a.m. Shacharit

with breakfast to

follow 6:00 p.m.

Kabbalat Shabbat


11

9:45 a.m.

Shabbat Services

12:40 p.m. Mincha


Oneg Shabbat

12


Maariv

Daylight Savings Time

Change

Purim

13


Maariv

14


Maariv

15

8:00 a.m.

Shacharit with

Breakfast and Torah


Maariv

16


6:00 p.m. Mincha/

Maariv

17

7:00 a.m. Shacharit

with breakfast to

follow 6:00 p.m.

Kabbalat Shabbat

7:16 p.m.

Candle Lighting

18

9:45 a.m.

Shabbat Services

12:40 p.m. Mincha


19


Maariv

20


Maariv

21


Maariv

22

8:00 a.m.

Shacharit with

Breakfast and Torah


Maariv

23


6:00 p.m. Mincha/

Maariv

24

7:00 a.m. Shacharit

with breakfast to

follow 6:00 p.m.

Kabbalat Shabbat


25

9:45 a.m.

Shabbat Services

12:40 p.m. Mincha


26


Maariv

27


Maariv

28


Maariv

29

8:00 a.m.

Shacharit with

Breakfast and Torah


Maariv

30


6:00 p.m. Mincha/

Maariv

31

7:00 a.m. Shacharit

with breakfast to

follow 6:00 p.m.

Kabbalat Shabbat


Come welcome the Shabbat by celebrating with our friends at

Buckingham South on Fridays at 11am.

UPCOMING EVENTS 2017 Monday, April 10th, First Seder

Tuesday, April 11-18th, Passover

Sunday, April 30th Tiny Yeladim Program 10:30am

MARCH 2017

Rabbi Judith Beiner

Rabbi Daniel Wolpe


Yom Huledet Same’ach!

We Extend Happy Birthday Wishes

to the Following Members MESSAGE FROM THE

MINYAN CAPTAINS

If you are planning to come to

Shul for Kaddish, please

contact the minyan captain a

few days in advance.

Monday (7:15 am) -

Kenneth Sadler

Tuesday (7:30 am) -

Lynn Reeves

Wednesday (8:00 am) -

Ron Ginsberg

Thursday (7:30 am) -

Michael Konter

Friday (7:00 am) -

Bobby Isaacson

Sunday (9:00 am) -

David Hirsh

1 David Reeves 10 Beth Roth 17 Marilyn Farley

2 Anita Schlossberg 12 Donna Cohen 19 Sheldon Tenenbaum

2 Hannah Slotin 12 Toby Hollenberg 20 Eric Meyerhoff

4 Ronald Robbins 13 Nancy Feldman 23 Jerry Konter

4 Brenda Rosenberg 13 Kenneth Hoffman 24 Ronnie Rosen

5 Jonathan Cohen 13 Nathan Skidmore-Hess 24 Mike Strear

6 Ginger Caplan 13 Lynne Spector 25 Edward Bernard

6 Susan Timna 14 Anna Berwitz 25 Jack Streicher

7 Mark Lewis 14 Herman Cranman 27 Jordan Shoob

9 Susan Slotin 16 Rebecca Buckner Pam 27 Jackie Sitrin

9 Jonathan Tenenbaum 16 Ellie Rich 28 Warren Zeger

10 Linda Hoffman 16 Patrick Salter 29 Richard Barker

10 Eva Locker 17 Ellis Abrams 30 Sam Carroll

MARCH 2017 BIRTHDAYS

@AgudathAchimSav

Congregation Agudath Achim,

Savannah Georgia

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SAVANNAH, GA

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OFFICE HOURS

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS

PRESIDENT VICTOR SHERNOFF

FINANICAL SECRETARY ELISE SHERNOFF

TREASURER MICHAEL BONDER

RECORDING SECRETARY ED BERNARD

PROFESSIONAL STAFF

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR MOTTI LOCKER

FINANCIAL COORDINATOR LAURA EVANS

ADMINISTRATIVE ASST. JULIANA BLAND

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