The Gates Way March 2020

Shabbat TetzavehFriday, March 6 6:15 pm Family ShabbatSaturday, March 7 10:30 am Morning Worship 5:00 pm Munchkin Minyan Havdalah

Shabbat Ki TisaFriday, March 13 8:00 pm Shabbat Worship Oneg Shabbat in honor of the Bar Mitzvah of Max PollockSaturday, March 14 10:30 am Morning Worship including the Bar Mitzvah of Max Pollock, son of Mark & Keri Pollock

Shabbat Viyakhel/Pekude(Note time change)Friday, March 20 7:00 pm Limmud ShabbatSaturday, March 21 9:30 am Morning Worship

Shabbat VayikraFriday, March 27 8:00 pm Motown ShabbatSaturday, March 28 9:30 am J-FLEx Shabbat 10:30 am Morning Worship

Rabbi Lexi Erdheim

Okay, so who’s ready to get dressed in outrageous costumes and masks, eat, drink and be merry, make lots of loud noises, and consume lots of seasonally themed baked goods? No? No takers?

For Jews in New Orleans, Purim can feel like Mardi Gras Part Deux. And while Mardi Gras is wonderful, by the end of it, we are all exhausted and the last thing we want is more debauchery. Purim, though, is different from Mardi Gras in important ways.

There are four mitzvot, or obligations, that we are traditionally expected to fulfill for Purim. These four mitzvot express what Purim is really about. The goal of Purim is not just to enjoy ourselves, have fun and turn things upside down for a night (although those are also important). Each of these mitzvot serves as a kind of tikkun, as a way of fixing or improving the world around us.

1) The Megillah – we gather together as a community to hear the story of Esther read aloud. We are encouraged to be rowdy and boisterous, drowning out Haman’s name with boos and groggers.

2) Mishloach Manot – Mishloach Manot are small gift baskets that we deliver to friends and family. We respond to Haman’s evil deeds not with hatred but with thoughtfulness and caring.

3) Seudah – the Seudah is a special feast so that we can “eat, drink and be merry.”

4) Matanot Ha’Levyonim – we are also commanded to give gifts to the poor during Purim to ensure a more just world.

The parties and fun of Purim are not without their purpose. The four mitzvot of Purim push us to respond to the violence and hatred of Haman by creating more love, more joy, and more justice in our world. I hope that everyone will be able to join us at Congregation Gates of Prayer and Tribe’s Adults-Only Purim Celebration on Monday, March 9th from 7-9pm. We will have a hilarious Muppets themed shpiel and megillah reading, lots of food, hamantashen (courtesy of the Sisterhood), and daiquiris. In keeping with the tradition of Matanot Ha’Levyonim, we will be raising funds through a 50/50 raffle for Nechama, a Jewish organization that provides comfort and hope to communities by engaging volunteers in disaster recovery work.

Wishing everyone a chag Purim sameach, a very happy Purim!

The Muppets Take PurimAdults-Only Purim ShpielHosted by CGoP & Tribe

Monday, March 97:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Join us for a Muppets-themed Purim shpiel and

megillah reading, 50/50 raffle and costume contest. Heavy hors d’oeuvres and daiquiris will be served.

RSVP to rabbierdheim@gatesofprayer.org.

Sisterhood News

SAVE THE DATE

Hamentashen Baking Wednesday, March 4, 4:30pm

Gates of Prayer Kitchen - A light dinner will be served. RSVP to Co-Chairs Jennifer Schexnayder or DeeGee Liniado

Cooking for Passover 2nd Night SederMarch 8, 9:00am

Gates of Prayer KitchenChair Margery Thomas

Brotherhood & Sisterhood Health Breakfast Series

Sunday March 15th - See more info below

Book ClubMarch 23, 7:00 pm

@ the home of Judy Lieberman

Posh Paint Pub Thursday April 2nd - See more info below

Pottery * Snacks * Fun

Join CGoP Sisterhoodat

Posh Paint Pub3218 Taft Pk in Metairie

Thursday, April 25-8 pm

Cost: You pay for the piece you choose to paint

RSVP to Diana Mann, mann.dh@gmail.com,

by Monday, March 30.

Rosh ChodeshTuesday, March 24

What does it mean to be a Jewish woman in North American society?

Join Rabbi Lexi and Susan Levin for an evening celebrating Miriam,

Yocheved, Shifra and Puach.

Dinner is at 7:00 pm @ Sake Cafe, 4201 Veterans Blvd. and then the program

will continue in the CGoP sanctuary.Please RSVP to Susan Levin at

(504) 352-9698 or naturespirit18@gmail.com

by Thursday, March 19.

The Music FundIn Memory of:Rose Bosofsky Bernstein Marilyn & Marvin BernsteinS. Harold Singer Irving & Susan KochIn Honor of:The Speedy Recovery of Lorraine WilliamsThe Speedy Recovery of Sarah Schatzmann Sherry Harris

The Sarah Winsberg Memorial Flower FundIn Memory Of:Isabel Winsberg Jerome Winsberg

The Louis Leopold Gerler/Plotkin Israel Action FundIn Memory of:Dulai Adjmi Lynn & Steven Plotkin

Tikun Olam for The New Orleans Women & Children’s ShelterIn Memory of:Gustave Louis Pailet Susan & Gerald LevinJennie Rosenzweig Dale Fleishmann

The Fund for the Louise Hayem Manheim Center for Early Childhood EducationIn Memory of:Gloria Pushker Saltz Dee Dee & Lester Dulitz Michelle, David & Michael BasshamYudice Starr Blitz Randal Blitz

The Prayerbook FundIn Memory of:Joshua Daniel Loewy Rabbi Bob & Lynn Loewy

The General FundIn Memory of:S. Harold Singer Gerald LatterIn Appreciation of:Congregation Gates of Prayer The Kanter Family The Lunch Bunch

Rabbi’s Discretionary FundIn Memory of:Clara Hinda BiegeleisenRose GoldenbergFelix H. WelschMax Roth Marty & Dale RothS. Harold Singer Franco & Anne BombaDottie & Jack FryEthel Mazur Polunsky Dee Dee & Lester DulitzJacob Goldman Marilyn & Joseph KlineIn Honor of:The Baby Naming of Harlee Diane Stevens Anne Zoller KieferIn Appreciation of:Rabbi Gerber Lisa Sanders

The Cemetery FundIn Memory of:Anne Horton Renee HortonPaul & Helen Goldberg Stephen & Amelia Goldberg

The Endowment FundIn Memory of:Abraham Webber Larry & Rhoda Webber

N’davot~Contributions

Condolences

March YahrzeitsMarch 6-7Betty Weil Barnett, Jacob Becker, Abraham Bernstein, *Harry Blackman, Barnett Blitz, *Irene D. Block, Adele Cahn, Philip Leroy Cameron, *Michel Caplan, Hannah N. Dansky, Felice Ginsburg Evans, *Jack Fein, Judah Feldman, Louis Friedman, *Mervin N. Gaethe, Arthur Gensburger, *I. M. Goldberg, *Solomon Goldenberg, *Henrietta Weil Goldenberg, *Alex Gordon, Annette Green, *Rose Lee P. Grosch, Pearl Gureasko, *Abraham Hayem, *Babette Feitel Heidenheim, L. Walter Herscovitz, Joan Bascal Johnston, *Lazard Joseph, Dora Katz, *Morris Klinger, Gladys G. Koch, H. Charles Korn, David Marcus Korn, *Clara Welsch Lake, *Rachael Deinard Lang, *Steven Edward Latter, *Adelaide S. Maitrejean, Emanuel Nathan Mansberg, Sr., Ronnie Gottesman Miller, Elmere Morganstein, Louis Rosenstock, Rabbi Richard Rosenthal, Neil Shatkin, Louis Singer, *Minette Epstein Smith, Rebecca Willer, Harold Zissman.

March 13-14*Matilda Baar, Rebecca B. Bennett, Martha Braunstein, Rose Bazar Brown, Marion K. Burstein, Milton Casper, Hattie Klein Cohen, *Goldie M. Cohen, Henry Eli Cohn, Martha Caldera Conover, Albert J. Daube, *Faye W. Finger, Anis Goelman, *Louis Goldman, *Frank Hirsch, Samuel F. Hirsch, Beverly Hyman, *Janice Himmler Hyman, Marvin Leo Joseph, Sarah Levy Kaufman, *Alfred J. Korns, Miles S. Kuperman, Morris Latter, *Joseph S. Loeb, *Rose Wainer Mansberg, Virginia Marek, Rose G. Mayer, *Harriet Levy McGraw, *Margot Hirschmann Mendler, *Nathan Phillip Miller, Ray Casper Miroff, *Norma Moskowitz, *Morris Oppenheimer, *Sadie Levy Phillips, Herman Rabinowitz, Sarah Richmond, Adele Hayem Rosenthal, Betty Sackett, Alex Silverman, Sippie Berlock Smith, Sarah Yatter Stone, Jesse Stone, *Flo Streiffer, Rose Pesses Teles, Dan M. Watsky, *Winfred Julius Winsberg, Leon Witten, Fanny Blumstein Zuckerman.

March 20-21*Laz Aronson, *Millie Baker, Bertha Bodenheimer, Harry Bornstein, *Rosalie Lobstein Buchwald, *Morris Burgas, Esther Lubritz Campell, Gloria Plitman Cohen, *Richard I. Cohen, *Annie Jacobs Eron, Noble Evans, Yetta Gordon, *Charles Goslinski, Walter Hudson, *Bertha deBlanc Jacob, Herman Jacobs, Sarah Karno Jeffer, David Kraus, Morris Latter, *Benjamin Leopold, *Gus Levy, *Hattie Meyer Levy, *Lulu Whitson Levy, Esther Feldman Loevy, Joseph Metzinger, *Lynne Welsch Nagler, P. Sidney Neuwirth, Sarah Dreifus Perez, *Annie Polmer, *Robert A. Raymond, Fanny Reich, Rosa Levy Richmond, Sonia Rothschild, Camille Salomon, Mila L. Samuels, Martin Schofel, *Jacob Steckler, *A. W. Steeg, Abraham Mordecai Suffrin, Robert T. Wakefield, *Dr. Charles F. Wasserman, *Ivan J. Weiner, Morris Weiss, Pincus Wolfson, *Samuel Wolfson.

March 27-28*Daniel Bernard Alexander, Bertha Nowak Ball, *Iris Barron, William Brown, Ronald A. Cameron, Juliette Blum Chigoy, Rebecca Cohn, *Theodore Dreyfus, Marilyn Miriam Dryfuse, *Hugh R. Fenton, Milton Foerster, *Sol Fromer, Martin Gartner, David Goldstein, Samuel Hayem, Lorraine Hurwitz, Saul Kapelow, Emanuel Lansberg, *Michael Jay Levy, Sidney Levy, Julia Lehman Levy, Bridget Adler Lingoni, *Morris Liniado, Jennie S. Moskowitz, *Maurice Bernard Polunsky, *Melvin H. Presser, *Sadie Kahn Rabin, Irving Bertram Rau, Carol Barnett Robbins, Meyer Rosenfeld, Mildred Alexander Rosenthal, *Jacob Schlemoff, Gertrude Pailet Singer, Morris Smith, *Lazard D. Sokolsky, Eva Freyer Sperling, *Maurice Phillip Weinstein, Jr., Audrey Pailet Weiss, Louis H. Yarrut.

Welcome to Our New Members

To Anne Zoller Kiefer on the birth of her granddaughter, Harlee Diane Stevens. Parents are Jay & Jennifer Kiefer Stevens.

To the Beerman Family who were honored at this year’s JCRS gala.

Bridget & Leonard Berins3944 Uri Street

Metairie, LA 70002

Munchkin MinyanTumbles out of Shabbat

Saturday, March 75:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Miss Jenn will be here with Little Ninjas to help us tumble out of Shabbat!

First we will meet in the sanctuary and bid goodbye to

Shabbat with Havdalah.

Then we will go into the Bart Community Room for some pizza and

ninja activites.Please contact the

Temple office to RSVP.

Gates at 170Wednesdays

March 11, 18 and 257:00 pm

Over our 170 years, these Gates have witnessed the birth and evolution

of Reform Judaism, the devastation of the Holocaust, and the rise of

Zionism in our movement. This class will be a comprehensive

look at the world of Judaism during the history of Gates of Prayer.

To Randy Pick on the death of his mother, Thaia Pick.

Important D

ates to Rem

ember:

SisterhoodM

arch 4 - Ham

antaschen Making

March 8 - Prep for 2nd N

ight SederM

arch 10 - SH Board M

tg. M

arch 15 - Health Breakfast

March 23 - Book C

lubM

arch 24 - Rosh Chodesh

BrotherhoodM

arch 10 - BH Board M

eetingM

arch 15 - Health Breakfast

J-FLExM

arch 28 - J-FLEx Shabbat Morning

March 8, 15, 22

SeniorsM

arch 2 - Senior Outreach Lunch

Young Children w

ith Adults

March 7 - M

unchkin Minyan H

avdalah

Adult Education

March 4, 11, 18, 25 - A

dult Hebrew

M

arch 25 - Lunch ‘n Learn with Rabbi Erdheim