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A Publication of Mosaic Law Congregation
October 2015 |18 Tishri - 18 Heshvan 5776
Inside this Issue
Bat Mitzvah 4
MLC Events 4-6
KOH Library 7
Community Notes 8
Birthdays/Anniversaries
Donations, Condolences,
Mazel Tov! 9-11
2300 Sierra Boulevard | Sacramento, CA 95825 | (916) 488-1122 | Fax: (916) 488-1165 | www.mosaiclaw.org
Life and Legacy,
Jewish Intermarriage/
Outreach, Israel,
Gratitude
On the first night of Sukkot, Ju-
dy and I were honored to host in
our backyard about 70 adult members of our Congregation
who have signed Letters of Intent to participate in Mosaic
Law Congregation’s ATID Life and Legacy Fellowship.
It was an elegant evening with wine and a delicious dinner
catered by Aharona Catering (kosher of course). One high-
light of the evening was the amazing viewing of the lunar
eclipse. The evening's combination of a super blood moon
and a lunar eclipse is a rare occurrence that hasn’t hap-
pened for 30 years and will not happen again until 2033.
When the Lunar Eclipse was completely visible we all
recited a special blessing: Baruch Atta Ado-noy Elo-hai-nu
Melech ha'olam osei ma'asei vereisheet. Blessed are You,
L-rd our G-d, Sovereign of the universe, who reenacts the
works of the wonders of creation. After making Kiddush
in the Sukkah we heard remarks from Legacy Chairs,
MLC Past Presidents Caren Zorman and Dr. Steve Polan-
sky who thanked everyone for insuring the future of Mosa-
ic Law by agreeing to leave a gift in their will/estate to the
synagogue. This important endeavor will insure that the
synagogue will be able to sustain itself financially and that
the future generations of Mosaic Law members will not
have to rely solely on membership dues to cover its ex-
penses. It is a no-brainer. Most successful non-profit or-
ganizations, especially churches and synagogues, must
rely on the generosity of its members and the creation of
an endowment. Membership dues alone cannot sustain the
operation of our shul. There will be other such events spe-
cifically for ATID Fellowship donors in the future. One
such event is our April 3rd Legacy Trip to Poland and Is-
rael. This special trip will include meetings with the lead-
ership of Krakow and Warsaw as well as meetings with
leaders of the Knesset in Israel. We are also awaiting word
as to potential meetings with Israel’s President Reuven
Rivlin and Chairman of the Jewish Agency, Natan Sha-
ransky. The trip is open to any and all members of Mosaic
Law who have signed a Letter of Intent to participate in
our Life and Legacy Campaign. It is not too late to sign
up. Contact Caren Zorman at [email protected] or
Steve Polansky at [email protected] for further
information. I sincerely hope that many of you who have
not yet signed a Letter of Intent will consider participating
in this important program and consider joining Judy and
me on this special Legacy Tour this coming April.
For those of you who attended our services on Rosh
Hashanah, you know that I delivered what was probably
one of the most challenging sermons I have ever given in
my tenure as rabbi of our synagogue (to read the text, go
to: https://mosaiclaw.org/sites/default/files/images/
SERMON%20FOR%20FIRST%20DAY%20OF%
20ROSH%20HASHANAH.pdf.). I have received quite a
number of written letters from members of our congrega-
tion as a result of the sermon which have all affirmed that
the topic I raised has indeed hit a chord. As a follow-up to
the sermon, I am pleased to announce that Rabbi Charles
Simon, Executive Director of the Federation of Jewish
Men's Clubs (FJMC), has agreed to visit our congregation
as a Scholar-in-Residence in the coming months. Rabbi
Simon has been working on issues of Keruv (Outreach) to
interfaith families for the past 15 years. In the winter of
2000, Rabbi Simon was asked by the leadership of the
FJMC to place the issue of intermarriage on the agenda of
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October Services & Shabbat
Candlelighting Times
October 2 - 6:29pm
October 9 - 6:18pm
October 16 - 6:08pm
October 23 - 5:59pm
October 30 - 5:50pm
Shabbat Friday Kabbalat Shabbat – 6pm
Friday Night Live - 7:30pm
Shabbat Morning Service -
9:00am
October 3 - Shabbat Hol Hamoed
Sukkot
Havdalah - 7:25pm
October 10 - Parshat Bereshit
Havdalah - 7:14pm
October 17 - Parshat Noah
Havdalah - 7:04pm
October 24 - Parshat Lekh Lekha
Havdalah - 6:55pm
October 31 - Parshat Vayera
Havdalah - 7:47pm
Minyan Schedule Mornings
Sunday – 9:00am
Monday & Thursday - 7:15am
Rosh Chodesh – 7:15am
Federal Holidays – 8:30am
Afternoons Monday – Thursday – 5:45pm
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Sacramento USY
By Ilana Clay Rub
SUSY’s year is off to a fantastic start! We kicked off the year with a pool par-
ty at the home of the Kurzrocks and had a blast catching up with each other
while getting excited for the year ahead. We then dove right into the High
Holidays and ran services and programming to learn ruach, discuss issues sur-
rounding homelessness and to broaden our Hebrew vocabulary. We are look-
ing forward to New Frontier’s Yom Theme Park on October 18th – it will be a
day for 6th through 12th graders to catch all the rides at Six Flags. Please reg-
ister your Kadimaniks & USYers if you haven’t already!
Registration continues for International Convention, taking place in Baltimore,
MD, from December 27th-31st. There will be a pre-convention hosted for our
New Frontier region in a DC area community from December 23rd-26th. The
Convention is an incredible week of sightseeing, learning and lots of fun spent
with hundreds of Jewish teenagers from all over North America.
Finally (for the moment…) please mark your calendars for November 15th.
SUSY will be hosting its first-ever USY Concert! Details will be announced
but look forward to a beautiful evening of music with USY. If you have any
questions about these or other upcoming events, or need to receive registration
forms to register your USYer, please email [email protected].
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the Conservative Movement. Ten years later, FJMC’s
Keruv (Outreach) Initiative for understanding intermar-
riage involves more than 65 congregations and approxi-
mately 87 volunteers in various stages of repositioning
their synagogues to meet the challenge of demographic
change. We will now be joining those other congrega-
tions and I am delighted that longtime MLC members, Dr.
Andy and Anita Kincaid, have agreed to attend a special
training weekend in November in Chicago at Anshei Emet
Synagogue, sponsored by the FJMC. The training assists
in developing a carefully crafted plan to work with con-
gregational rabbis, as partners, to welcome and include
intermarried families into our synagogue community and
those searching for an inclusive synagogue. I plan on es-
tablishing a Keruv Team for our congregation to create
ways to make Mosaic Law a more welcoming and inclu-
sive synagogue for interfaith families. If you are interested
in working with me on this project, I encourage you to
email me at [email protected]. With the Jewish inter-
marriage rate at an escalating 58%, we must address this
issue which I consider to be an existential one for the fu-
ture of the Jewish People in our country.
As you consider your plans for next summer, I urge you
and your family to consider joining me for a Multi-
Generational Family Tour to Israel June 26-July 8 with an
optional extension to Eilat and Petra, Jordan. Included in
this tour will be a special group Bar/Bat Mitzvah ceremo-
ny at the egalitarian section of the Western Wall. We have
three families who have made the commitment to join us
on this tour. Many who have traveled to Israel on Mosaic
Law trips know how unique this experience will be. It
will be unlike any tour/trip to Israel you have ever experi-
enced. Please do not delay as airfares have a tendency to
increase closer to the departure dates. For further infor-
mation go to: http://israeltour.com/rtaff2016/.
Lastly, I want to thank all of the volunteers who gracious-
ly contributed to our recent High Holyday services. The
choir, adult and junior soloists, the lay Ba’alei Tefillah
(chanters), Torah and Haftarah Readers, leaders of the
prayers for our Country, Israel, Peace and the Martyrology
Readings all added to the spirituality of our prayer experi-
ence over Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. The ushers,
the runners and Bima volunteers all made the services
seamless and we are grateful to all of the volunteers who
led our family and youth services. Our Baalei Tokeah, Dr.
Ben Glovinsky and Michael Levy inspired us with the
sounding of the Shofar and Kate Provance did an out-
standing job in her first High Holyday stint as our volun-
teer Gabbai Rishon. The Honors Committee and Ritual
Team as always, do a stellar job in assigning and assisting
during the High Holydays. We are always grateful to
those who provided flowers to beautify our Bima and to
those volunteers who sponsored the reception and break-
fast on the first night of Rosh Hashanah and after the
Ne’ilah Service on Yom Kippur. And our office staff and
maintenance staff deserve tremendous thanks for all of the
hours and effort to help make these holydays run smooth-
ly. Lastly, Todah Rabah to our Hazzan, Cantor Ben Ros-
ner for inspiring us with his leadership of our High
Holyday services.
I hope that many of you will join us for the services which
will conclude our holiday season: Shabbat Under the
Stars at 7:30pm on Friday, October 3rd, Shmini Atzeret
and Yizkor is on Monday, October 5th and don’t forget
Simchat Torah services on Monday night October 5th at
7pm and the following morning, Tuesday, October 6th at
9am. I hope to see many of you at Capital Christian Cen-
ter on Sunday, October 11th for CUFI’s Annual Night to
Honor Israel. And don’t forget to join us for the special
Persian Scholar-in-Residence Weekend, October 16-18 as
world renowned Cantor Farid Dardashti will be our guest
scholar.
As I mentioned on Yom Kippur Day during my sermon,
consider joining us on Shabbat mornings to nourish our
spiritual souls followed by Kiddush lunch to nourish our
bodies :).
Wishing you and your family a Chag Samayach,
Rabbi Reuven Taff
Rabbi (Continued from page 1)
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October Bat Mitzvah
Shalom! I am Talia Friedman. I will be called to the Torah as a Bat Mitzvah on October 10th. My Torah portion is
Bereshit, which tells the story of the creation of the world.
I am a 7th grader at Sutter Middle School in Sacramento and a graduate of Shalom School. I spend my time hanging out
with my friends, writing and making movies. I also play soccer and softball and am a first degree black belt in Tae Kwon
Do and I also play saxophone and piano.
My Torah portion speaks of the wonders of God’s creations and how we are commanded to care for them. My mitzvah
project allows me to fulfill this mitzvah by helping at Happy Tails Cat Sanctuary. I also spent time this summer in New
Mexico helping at a therapeutic horseback riding program on the Ramah Navajo Reservation helping the disabled riders.
I am looking forward to sharing this special day with family and friends, many of whom are coming from far away.
Thank you to everyone who has helped prepare me for this special day!
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Bernie Goldberg’s English readings: Maimonides, Mish-
na Torah, Selections every Shabbat at 8am in the Chapel.
Shabbat Shalom in the Home - Nov 13. Shabbat with a
small group of fellow Mosaic Law congregants and friends
in an informal home setting. To sign up as a host or a guest
please contact Alla Gamarnik at 392-5782 or agamar-
[email protected]. Alternatively, a host/guest ques-
tionnaire can be found on the Mosaic Law website and
submitted either to the MLC office or directly to Alla via
email.
Chicken Soup Warms the Soul - The meat freezer died
and took the chicken soup with it. If you are interested in
sponsoring the preparation of the soup, please contact
Caren Zorman at [email protected].
Adventures in the Amidah - Come one and all as the
Sunday minyannaires restart their weekly breakfast discus-
sions. Join Jonathan Lightman and guest facilitators in
leading “Adventures in the Amidah,” explaining the bless-
ings of the Amidah one week at a time. Join the Sunday
minyan at 9am and stay for a bagel and a great discussion.
Don’t worry about missing a session; each week will stand
on its own.
Come to MLC for music lessons! Teachers use our facili-
ties to teach more than 20 instruments. This also raises
money for the synagogue! For more information, go to the
Community page at mosaiclaw.org.
Save the Date!
5th Annual Kiddush Cup Golf Tournament – Friday,
June 10, 2016. We will be returning to the beautiful Whit-
ney Oaks Golf Club. Registration 7:00 am with continental
breakfast, shotgun start 8:00 am, kosher BBQ after golf.
Sponsorship opportunities available! Contact Steve
Turtletaub 916-549-3725 for more information.
Loaves & Fishes - MLC volunteers at Loaves & Fishes
every third Monday of each month. You can come at
7:30am to help cook and/or at 10:45 to help serve. For
more info, contact the MLC office at (916) 488-1122.
Mosaic Law Events
Important Notice
Please keep your belongings with you at all times
while you are on campus. Do not leave them unat-
tended at any time!
By Appointment
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KOH Library and Cultural Center
Calendar of Events October 2015
Shana Tova to our entire KOH and Mosaic Law Commu-
nity. We hope to see many of you in our bright, comforta-
ble facility for a variety of programming, art, music, read-
ing, learning and discussing. Perusing KOH’s wonderful
collection of scholarly, spiritual and entertaining books
and videos is a wonderful way to bring in the year 5766.
Please visit our webpage: kohlcc.org or call us at 485-
4143 for more information.
Persian Cantor in Residence Weekend
With Hazzan Farid Dardashti
October 16 – 18, 2015
Hazzan Dardashti is the first Iranian born international
concert artist and hazzan in the western world. He will
lead us in traditional Persian Services on Friday and Shab-
bat. In conjunction with the Scholar in Residence week-
end, please join us in the KOH Library and Cultural Cen-
ter on Sunday, October 18th at 10:30 AM for a lecture by
Mansour Yaghoubian of Mansour’s Oriental Rug Gallery
on Jewish influence in the Carpet Trade. Mansour’s talk
will be followed by Hazzan Dardashti presenting,
“Growing Up Jewish in Iran – How an Iranian TV Idol
Became an Ashkenazi Hazzan in the United States” at
11:00 AM in the KOH Library and Cultural Center.
My Big Fat Cancer Wedding - Sunday, October 25 at
2:00 PM. The uplifting story of a filmmaker who discov-
ers she has breast cancer right before her wedding
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/my-big-fat-cancer-
wedding#/story. October is global breast cancer awareness
month and we hope that you will join us for the screening
of the emotional story of Sivan and her fiancée, Ronen
Goldman (son of Yossie and Judy Goldman). With the
humor, love and compassion that can only come from the
people who have allowed us into the most intimate corners
of our lives, Sivan and Ronen tell their personal story
while also telling a universal story about breast cancer. For
more information and to RSVP contact Taliah Berger at
916-541-3720 or [email protected]
Ongoing Groups:
KOH Book Club:
There will be no meeting in October. We will be discuss-
ing “Clouds Across the Sun” by Ellen Brazer at the No-
vember 17th meeting.
Rabbi Melamed’s Discussion Group:
Monday, October 12th from 1:30 – 3:30 PM
Rabbi Melamed’s popular discussion group resumes. Open
to all.
Hadassah Study Group:
Wednesday, October 7th and 21st: at 9:45 AM
This lively discussion group meets on the 2nd and 4th
Wednesday mornings. Contact Soni Meyer at 383-5743
for more information on this season’s discussion topics.
Writing as a Healing Art
Monday, October 12 the and 26th at 6:30 PM
Pia Spector will continue to facilitate writing exercises
utilizing the Amherst Writers and Artists’ philosophy: eve-
ry person is a writer and every writer deserves a safe envi-
ronment in which to experiment, learn, and develop their
craft. Suggested donation is $5 per class to cover costs,
snacks and journals. To register contact Pia Spector at
(916) 747-0541 or [email protected]. You are wel-
come to visit Pia’s website at www.piasierotyspector.com
for more information.
Save the Dates:
Saturday, November 7th: KOH Board members and vol-
unteers will lead Shabbat services and host a Kiddush
luncheon
November 16 at 7 PM: Artist Reception with Local Artist,
Sharon Gerber
The KOH Library and Cultural Center is run solely by vol-
unteers. If you wish to join our volunteer family, please
contact Taliah Berger, KOH President and Program Direc-
tor at [email protected] or 916-541-3720 or call the li-
brary office directly at 916 485-4143.
KOH Hours and Amenities:
Free Wi-Fi is available.
Sunday, Monday, Thursday and Friday: 10:00 AM to
1:00 PM
Wednesday: 1:00 PM – 6:00 PM
We are also available as needed – just call ahead to be sure
someone is here to assist you (916) 485-4143.
Please continue to visit in person – or check us out on our
webpage: kohlcc.org. You can access our catalog, calen-
dar of events and our Wish List online.
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Jewish Genealogical Society of Sacramento—Sunday,
October 18, 2015, 10 a.m. Susan Miller presents "Jews in
the Moslem World." Join the Jewish Genealogical Society
of Sacramento for a presentation by Susan Gilson Miller,
professor of history at UC Davis, who teaches courses in
Jewish studies. Dr. Miller is a graduate of Wellesley Col-
lege and the University of Michigan and has taught at
both, as well as at Harvard University, where she served as
director of the Moroccan Studies Program from 1991 to
2008. She has lived and worked in North Africa, starting
her career as a Peace Corps volunteer in Morocco from
1971-73, where she learned fluent Moroccan Arabic. She
has published numerous books and is the recipient of two
Fulbright Fellowships. Her current research concerns res-
cue efforts and humanitarian relief in North Africa during
World War II. All are welcome to attend the October 18
program at the Einstein Residence Center, 1935 Wright
Street, Sacramento. For more information about the Jew-
ish Genealogical Society of Sacramento, email
Jewish Family Service Caregiver Support Groups October 7, and October 21. Mornings: 10-11:30am , Eve-
nings: 6:30-8pm. Open to spouses, family members, and
friends who are acting as caregivers for a loved one. The
group has an emphasis on those providing care to their
aging parents and provides a warm environment in which
participants receive support and strategies to address the
unique needs and stresses of caregiving. Facilitated by
Jane Zeigler, LCSW. Space is limited. $60 for 6 sessions.
Congregation Bet Haverim, 1715 Anderson Rd., Davis.
For more information or to RSVP (recommended), contact
Community Social Worker Alicia Mittleman at 916-205-
0688.
Committee on Inclusion and Disabilities - October 1.
Regular meeting of the Committee on Inclusion and Disa-
bilities. 7:00pm. Jewish Federation, 2130 21st St., Sacra-
mento. For more information about community program-
ming for children with special needs and their families,
visit www.jewishsac.org/inclusionanddisabilities. For
more information about CID, contact inclu-
Shabbat-in-a-Box - Volunteer to make Shabbat-in-a-box
on a Friday afternoon with Jewish residents at local senior
facilities. Federation provides all of the fixings: candle-
sticks, candles, grape juice, challah, etc. You provide com-
panionship and a visit! 3pm - 4pm. For more information,
location, and dates, contact Elissa Provance at 916-486-
0906 ext. 304 or [email protected].
Individual/Family Counseling - JFS offers affordable
individual and family counseling with Community Social
Worker Alicia Mittleman, LCSW, and Pastoral Counseling
Intern, Rabbi Joel Zeff. Strict confidentiality maintained.
For more information or to schedule an appointment, con-
tact Alicia at 916-205-0688.
Make a Dream Come True – Host an Exchange Stu-
dent - American Scandanavian Student Exchange (ASSE),
a highly respected non-profit public-benefit organization,
is seeking volunteer host families for high school boys and
girls from various countries for the upcoming school year.
The students are excited and are already awaiting word
about their host families. Host families provide room,
board, and guidance for a foreign teenager living thou-
sands of miles from home. Couples, single parents, and
families with or without children living at home are all
encouraged to apply. The exchange students arrive from
their home countries before the current school year begins.
Each ASSE student is fully insured, brings his/her own
spending money and expects to bear his/her share of the
household responsibilities as well as be included in normal
activities and lifestyles. If you are interested in opening
your home and sharing your family life with a young per-
son from abroad, please contact your Local Representa-
tives Carol or Susan Berger at 209-502-7443 or by e-mail
[email protected]. Please also visit our website for
more information: www.asse.com. Local Contact: Carol
and Susan Berger, P O Box 1376, Riverbank, CA 95367,
209-502-7443 or www.asse.com.
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October Birthdays
1 Robert & Laura Wendel
2 Henry & Rande Zaretsky
3 Michael & Holly Fahn
6 Gus Ballis & Shelley Weisman
7 Richard & Terry Pachter
8 Steven & Judy Lewis
8 David & Ruth O’Riva
10 Jeff & Irit Winston
12 Ezra & Marilyn Amir
12 Robert & Debra Brown
12 Gershon & Sherry Shapiro
13 Gary Gilbert & Barri Freeman
14 Scott & Gayle Govenar
14 Richard Robinson &
Marjorie Swartz
15 Steve & Melanie Mopsick
16 Niall Stahl & Gabrielle
Wolf-Stahl
17 Allen & Carolyn Green
17 Richard & Leslie Schuman
18 Harvey & Elise Canter
18 Daniel & Katherine Gumpert
18 Daniel & Ellen Yamshon
20 Dwight & JoAnn Freund
24 Mervin & Yael Fahn
26 Scott & Monica Shapiro
October Anniversaries
1 Max Berkowitz
1 Jonathan Friedman
1 Noah Reiner
2 Debra Brown
2 Andrew Clay
2 Laini Golden
2 Eliana Leaderman-
Bray
2 Shelly Weisman
3 Benjamin
Aizenberg
3 Jacob Friedman
3 Betsy Singer
3 Cindy Swarz
4 Scarlet Edber
4 David Lerner
4 John Ortego
4 Ezra Rosenheim
4 Igal Shamir
5 Doris Gray
5 Carol Salasky
5 Mike Singer
6 Robbie Holland
6 Becky Rosenheim
7 Micha Ben-Reuven
7 Rachel Ostwald
7 Moshe Rosenberg
7 Sima Toledano
8 Lisa Horst
8 Rosalie Roth
9 Ian Lobel
9 Rachel Salman
9 Art Terner
10 Mark Aizenberg
10 Gabriel Erle
10 Ava Fahn
10 Molly Makel
11 Steven Block
11 Julie Lavine
11 Joshua Rosenblume
12 Zachary Stauber
12 Katherine Tokarski
13 Kaz Brodovsky
13 Aaron Kravitz
13 Susan
Weiss-Shannon
14 Gabriel Burbank
14 Scott Govenar
14 Debra Press-Lewis
14 Natalie Rochman
14 Phillip Rosenberg
14 Roxanne Stanger
15 Randi Gold
15 Elisa Levy
15 Michael Salman
15 Raena
Santos-Begley
16 Chuck Gourley
16 Steve Leibovitz
17 Aaron Soskin
17 Michaela Terner
17 Dani Weinstein
18 Matthew Baron
18 Cory Dulberg
18 Rebecca Ray
18 Courtney Shannon
18 Alex Zamansky
19 Rick Brodovsky
19 Jennifer Prusak
20 Benjamin Green
20 Naomi Green
20 Richard Lehrfeld
20 Patrice Ratinoff
21 Clifford Berg
21 Jan Highman
21 Molly Ratinoff
21 Mychal
Stecher-Weitzman
22 Victor Burbank
22 Hudson Cusimano
22 Michael Fahn
22 Jacob Gurev
22 Jennifer Gurev
22 Sarah Gurev
23 Michael Cohodes
23 Jeffrey Goldstein
24 Justine Dowden
24 Ruth Hochman
25 Sandra Singer
26 Dale Gaskin
26 Melissa Opper
26 Judy Prohofsky
26 Jill Reiser
26 Michael Schaffer
26 Daniel Schwarz
26 Judi Turtletaub
27 Ricki Lobel
27 Marian Samoville
28 Hannah Broad
28 Mervin Fahn
28 Ben Glovinsky
29 Chuck Brabec
29 Max Feinstein
29 Zion Hunter
29 Helaina Kravitz
29 Kate Provance
29 Rachel Provance
29 Cantor Emeritus
George Wald
29 Alyssa Weshner
30 Michael Cohen
30 Ariel Shenhar
31 Hilel Damron
31 Andrew Kincaid
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Generous Gifts From Thoughtful People Donations Made Between 21 August - 20 September
General Synagogue Fund In memory of Harry Loew
Lloyd & Sharyn Rich
In memory of Harry Loew
Ed & Gayle Fishkin
In memory of Harry Loew
Melanie Mages-
Canale & Edward
Canale
In memory of Harry Loew,
with our deepest condolences
on the loss of your beloved
husband
Shirley Cohodes
In memory of Harry Loew
Sam & Sharon
Anapolsky
Kesher Fund
In honor of Marvin Kamras’
70th birthday
Art Zimmerman
In honor of Marvin Kamras
on his 70th birthday
Nancy & Alan
Brodovsky
Mazel Tov! Marvin Kamras -
Happy & healthy 70th birth-
day
In memory of Nancy
Brodovsky’s father, Edward
Lackner
Joyce & Steve
Weinberg
Murray Bachman Minyan
Fund
In memory of Harry Loew
Charlie & Goldie
Block
In memory of Harry George
Loew - with sympathy for
your loss
Ron & Iris Bachman
In memory of Mildred
Rasmussen, her mother
Betsy Singer
Past President’s Youth
Fund In honor of Carol Licker &
Sonny Cooperman for their
kindness; Caren Zorman for
her kindness and friendship;
Elliot Pearl’s 2nd Bar Mitz-
vah
Harry & Julie Lavine
In honor of Elliot Pearl’s Bar
Mitzvah anniversary and
birthday
Joyce Berger &
Family
Rabbi’s Mitzvah Fund In appreciation of a very nice
unveiling service
Teresa Bilyk
Mazel Tov! Malcolm Brabec
on your Bar Mitzvah. It’s
been a blast watching you
grow up
Elissa Provance
In memory of Harry Loew
Rick & Laura
Weisberg
Yahrzeit In memory of her beloved
step-mother, Ann Deutsch
Shirley Cohodes
In memory of Carole Baron,
his wife
Martin Baron
In memory of Linda Garland,
her sister
Shirley Kobrin
In memory of her mother,
Jane McClaskey
Meg McClaskey
In memory of Ilse Becker, his
mother
Ron Becker
In memory of Robert Kobrin,
his father
Edward Kobrin
In memory of June Klein, her
mother
Shirley Kobrin
In memory of her beloved
brother-in-law, Phillip
Cohodes
In memory of her beloved
brother, Bernard Deutsch
Shirley Cohodes
In memory of Will
Zimmerman
Art Zimmerman
In memory of Raymond Levy,
his father
Mike Levy
KOH Library & Cultural
Center
In memory of Harry Loew
Harry was devoted to his fam-
ily and community. We will
miss this very special person.
With deepest sympathy
Randy & Jeffrey
Goldstein
Mazel Tov! Rande & Henry
Zaretsky on the birth of your
grandson.
Linda & Marvin
Kamras
In memory of Lloyd’s mother,
Vi Rich
Sharyn & Lloyd Rich
In memory of Sharyn’s father,
Bernard Kershman
Sharyn & Lloyd Rich
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Kiddush & Oneg Sponsors, Hosts & Co-Sponsors for September Jim & Judy Lawson in celebration of the marriage of Judy’s daughter, Morgan, to
Bruce Deutsch
Henrietta Baron in honor of her 102nd birthday!
Hilary Ross in honor of the birthday of her son, Micah
Susanne and Chuck Brabec in honor of Malcolm's Bar Mitzvah
Diane and Allen Greenberg & Eunice and Russell Brabec in honor of Malcolm's
Bar Mitzvah
Mosaic Law
Congregation
Board of Trustees
2015-2016
Executive Board President - David Long
First Vice Pres - Steve Turtletaub
Second Vice Pres - Dan Ott
Treasurer - Caren Zorman
Secretary - David Tokarski
Immediate Past President
Jonathan Lightman
Board of Trustees
Joel Blank
Stuart Cohen
Mark Cohn
Harvey Edber
Joshua Heller
Michael Levy
Carol Loew
Jolan Rosenthal
Renee Schaffer
Joel Zimmerman
Women’s Network President
Sheri Pearl
Men’s Club President
Victor Strasser
Past Presidents Alan Brodovsky
Mark Cohn
Alan Edelstein
Morton Ehrlich, MD
Deborah Gonzalez
Kenneth Goore
Frank Gumpert
Marvin Kamras, MD
Steven Mopsick
Charles Nadler
Michael Opper
Mitchell Ostwald
Arlene Pearl
Elliott Pearl
Steven Polansky, MD
Sid Rosenberg
Marc Sussman
Robert Zeff, MD
Caren Zorman
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In Memoriam…
The congregation extends its condolences to:
Carol Loew on the loss of her dear husband, and our dear member, Harry Loew,
of blessed memory.
Mazal Tov! for August We would like to announce the arrival of our granddaughter, Julia Eden Davis, born
on August 30 to Marni and Jonathan Davis. The proud grandparents are Miriam
Steinberg and Ben Glovinsky. The proud Aunt and Uncle are Maya Glovinsky
and Jeff Maley and the happy big brother is Leo Davis, age 2 1/2.
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Mosaic Law Congregation
Rabbi Reuven Taff……………………....ext 113
email: [email protected]
Cantor Ben Rosner……………………….ext 112
Email: [email protected]
Cantor Emeritus George Wald
email: [email protected]
Rabbi’s Secretary Mary Blumenstein………………..ext 119
email: [email protected]
Education & Youth Director Irit S. Winston…….……………..ext 117
Email: [email protected]
Weekly/Monthly Scroll Designer Barbara Blue……………………..ext 118
email: [email protected]
Accountant Lisa Wade………………………..ext 116
email: [email protected]
Office Manager
President David Long
email: [email protected]
Men’s Club President Victor Strasser
email: [email protected]
Women’s Network President Sheri Pearl
email: [email protected]
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