UT Bulletin September 2013 - final.pdf

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HIGH HOLYDAYS

SCHEDULEFOR 5774

ROSH HASHANAH

Wednesday, September 4th 8:00 PM - Servicefor Rosh Hashanah

Thursday, September 5th 9:00 AM - Family Service (Ages 1-5; 6-12) 10:00 AM - Morning Service

YOM KIPPUR Friday, September 13th 8:00 PM - Kol Nidre

Saturday, September 14th 9:00 AM - Family Service (Ages 1-5; 6-12)10:00 AM - Morning Service1:00 PM - Early Afternoon Prayers1:30 PM - Social Action Forum3:00 PM - Service of Healing and Renewal4:15 PM - Temple Youth Group Study

Program4:30 PM - The Reading of the Torah5:00 PM - Yizkor & Neilah, Shofar, Havdalah7:00 PM - Break-the-fast

Child care is available during all

High Holiday ServicesFor ticket information call the Temple

office at 718 638 7600

Services are FREE, all are welcome,regardless of membership.

Please see Page 3 for thePlease see Page 3 for thePlease see Page 3 for theFestival of Sukkot scheduleFestival of Sukkot scheduleFestival of Sukkot schedule

The BulletinUnion Temple of Brooklyn

Affiliated with the Union for Reform Judaism

SEPTEMBER, 2013 ELUL - TISHRI 5773 5774 Vol. 165, No 1

SHABBAT SERVICES FOR SEPTEMBER SHABBAT HAAZINU

6 Friday EveningFirst Friday Family Shabbat: Welcome to the Year and Meet and Greet: Student Cantor Emma Goldin, and

Director of Youth and Family Engagement, Mindy Sherry6:00 PM - Snacks6:30 PM - Kabbalat Shabbat

7:30 PM - Pot Luck Dinner 7 Saturday Morning

10:30 AM - Shabbat Morning ServiceTorah: Deuteronomy 32:1 52 Haftarah: II Samuel 22:1 - 22:51

SHABBAT YOM KIPPUR 13 Friday Evening

8:00 PM - Kol Nidre14 Saturday Morning

10:00 AM - See full schedule at left

Torah: Deuteronomy 29:9 14, 30:11 20 Haftarah: Isaiah 58 (Morn.)Torah: Leviticus 19:1-4, 9-18, 32-37 Haftarah: The Book of Jonah (Aft.)

SHABBAT CHOL HAMOED SUKKOT20 Friday Evening

4:00 PM - Preschool Family Sukkah Party6:30 PM - Kabbalat Shabbat

Pizza to follow

21 Saturday Morning10:30 AM - Shabbat Morning Service

Torah: Exodus 33:12 34:26 Haftarah: Ezekiel 38:18-39:16

SHABBAT BEREISHIT27 Friday Evening

Fourth Friday Shabbat 4:00 PM - Friday at Four: Shabbat for Tots 7:00 PM - Shabbat Dinner 8:00 PM - Shabbat Service 9:00 PM - Oneg with Lenny Shiller

28 Saturday Morning10:30 AM - Shabbat Morning ServiceConversion: Faye White-Willinger

Kiddush to follow

Torah: Genesis 1:1 6:8 Haftarah: Isaiah 42:5-43:11


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Rabbis Message

A Request. This is a repeat of a request that I made to you in one of my blasts this past July. I hopethat you will share some of your thoughts with me, even if they go no further. Pleaseread on.

This year I would like to try something new, and I hope that you will try it with me. Someof you know that I like to tell stories. So now I am going to ask you to tell me some stories- your stories. I am asking you to tell me the story of an experience you have had, at some

point in your life, that was, for you, life-altering. It can be a wonderful, joyous experience,or a more challenging one.

I will not qualify it any further than that, so that your mind can go wherever it takes you.And then, if you can, I'd like to ask if there was anything you can say that you learned from it, and if so, whatthat was. It can be a story, or a few sentences, or a few paragraphs, or whatever you like.

What will I do with what you tell me? Nothing, if that is your preference. On the other hand, what I would

like to do, with your permission only, is to put your responses together into a little booklet to distribute onYom Kippur. I can either attach your names or leave them out, or not publish them at all. If it is your prefer-ence that no one see your responses but me, they will go no further than my eyes. This I promise you, accord-ing to the confidentiality to which I am bound as a rabbi.

Please send it to me at [email protected], or in a handwritten note addressed to me at the temple: Rabbi Goodman, Union Temple, 17 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11238. Or, please feel free to callme personally in my office before Rosh Hashanah or before Yom Kippur. 718-638-7600, Ext 2.

I believe this can be a valuable exercise for us, as we anticipate the New Year, and one that will help us in the process of introspection, in which our tradition calls us to engage during this period.

And of course, from Stephen, Philip and myself, I wish you joy, sweetness, and hope, in this New Year.

- Lshanah tovah tikateivu vteichateimu -

May you be inscribed and sealed for blessing in the Book of Life.

-Rabbi Linda Henry Goodman


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Did you hear that Whooshing sound? That was Julyand August speeding by. It seems only yesterday thatwe were wishing you a happy summer and suddenly

its September and welcome back time. And what awelcome Sisterhood has for you this season, with alineup of stimulating, thought-provoking programsthat are guaranteed to add excitement to your Sun-days! Watch this space for details on all the greatevents that will be coming your way.

First, mark your calendar for Sunday, October 20th at10 AM. Well be launching the season with a spiriteddiscussion of The Dove Keepers by Alice Hoffman.Called, Beautiful, harrowing, a major contribution totwenty- first century literature, by Nobel LaureateToni Morrison, this spell-binding novel explores thelives of four extraordinary women who escape the Ro-man assault on Masada in 73 C.E. and then muststruggle to survive on their own in a world filled with

peril. Dont have time to read the book? Not to worry.Once the conversation gets going, you are sure to have

plenty to add. So join us for a morning of lively talk,warm friendship, and mouth-watering treats.

We look forward to having you with us for all our pro-grams, and we hope you'll be there as a member. If you have not yet renewed your membership, please doso promptly, and if you are not yet a Sisterhood mem-

ber, we hope you will join us now. It's as simple aswriting a check for $36 to Sisterhood of Union Tem-

ple. Think about it for only double chai you can per-form the mitzvah of bringing hope and help wherethey are needed by adding your voice, your heart, andyour hands to ours, as together we reach out to per-form tikkun olam .

Sisterhood wishes everyone a happy, healthy, success-ful, sweet New Year. May 5774 be a year of peace inour hearts, our homes, and our world. LShanahTovah!

-Barbara Brett, Secretary

Sisterhood

The New Year Takes Wing

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Shabbat Morning HevreTorah Study for AdultsSaturday Mornings, 9:00-10:20

Beginning September 21

This years focus:SEFER DEVARIM - The Book of Deuteronomy

Because of the calendar cycle, the reading of the Book of Deu-teronomy generally occurs during the summer when, quite hon-estly, many of us are away. This is our opportunity to look atDeuteronomy in depth. In certain ways, it is a revolutionarybook in relation to the four other books of the Torah. Comestudy with us on Saturday mornings and together well discover

why.

Bagels, Coffee, and Torah Study with fellow congregants

Led by Rabbi Goodman

The Festival of Sukkot Wednesday, September 18

7:00 PM: Reception in theSukkah7:30 PM: Service for theEvening of Sukkot

Thursday, September 19 10:30 PM: Festival Morning Service

Wednesday, September 25

6:00 PM: SheminiAtzeret Simchat TorahReligious School Party andCongregational Celebration

Thursday, September 26 10:30 AM: Festival MorningService; Yizkor


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Bruchot Habaot Welcome!

We are delighted to welcome two wonderful new members of our senior staff. We know thatthey will be warmly embraced by our congregational family, and we hope that they will findgreat meaning and fulfillment in their work with us.

Student Cantor Emma GoldinWe at Union Temple have been blessed by some of the finest professionals inthe American Cantorate. We are so excited to welcome Student Cantor EmmaGoldin into our midst this year. She grew up at Congregation B'nai Tikvah inthe San Francisco Bay Area. She began performing in musicals at age four andwas very involved in her synagogue choir. While attending the University ofCalifornia, Davis, Emma led weekly Shabbat services at Hillel and also workedas a cantorial soloist at Congregation Bet Haverim. Twice she received the Don

Kunitz Jewish Studies award for her undergraduate research. After spendingtwo years post-college working as an actress, cantorial soloist, and Hebrewschool teacher and spending time in Israel as a volunteer for the IDF, Emma

decided to follow her dream of becoming a cantor. Emma is currently a third year at the Deb-bie Friedman School of Sacred Music at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religionand is thrilled to be joining the community at Union Temple. She has a beautiful voice, and weare thrilled to have her with us.

Mindy Sherry, Director of Youth and Family EngagementAs you know, we made the decision this year to engage a full-time profes-sional in the field of Jewish Education. After a careful search by variousmembers our Religious School, Preschool, and Youth Group Committees, inaddition to the Rabbi and Bea, we are delighted to welcome Mindy Sherryinto the position of Director of Youth and Family Engagement. A native ofMiami, FL, Mindy holds a Masters Degree in Jewish Education and a Mas-ters Degree in Jewish Nonprofit Management from the Rhea Hirsch Schoolof Education of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in LosAngeles. With an undergraduate degree in Social Work, Mindy worked at Temple Judea in

Coral Gables, Florida for over nine years before returning to school for her graduate degrees.In her personal statement Mindy writes, My experiences in developing a passion for JewishEducation taught me that children learn by doing. Children appreciate the Jewish experience ifthey actively participate in it. Jewish educators facilitate learning by providing students withopportunities for involvement in hands-on learning activities, and by mentoring them to appre-ciate the values of Judaism they are learning by doing. As children become adults in the Jew-ish community, they remember these experiences and stay connected with Judaism and Jewishcauses. Welcome Mindy!


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Happy New Year, and a big Thank You to those who volunteered to serve as ushers for theHigh Holy Day services.

Our favorite fun activity, assembling the sukkah , will take place on Sunday morning, Sep-tember 15th, at 10 AM. Its always a great way to start the Brotherhood year. And wellhave coffee and bagels, of course.

July marked the 150 th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, and brought renewed interestin the Civil War this year. On Sunday morning, October 27th, at 10 AM, I will lead a book discussion about Jews and the Civil War , edited by Jonathan Sarna (Brandeis University)and Adam Mendelsohn (College of Charleston). It is a collection of essays about the role of Jews in the Civil War and the wars impact on American Jews, both at the time and longafterward. It includes discussions of the battlefront (where about 8,000 Jews served, count-

ing both sides), the home front, slavery and abolition, rabbis in wartime and other topics. Whether you haveread the book or not, I am sure youll enjoy the discussion. And if you do read it, youll learn a great dealabout our history as American Jews, from many perspectives. And again, well have bagels and coffee, too!

-Steven Segall, Brotherhood President

Brotherhood

Sukkah Bu ilding and Book Club are Back!

Introduction to JudaismNew Class Beginning October 3

Thursday Evenings, October 3, 2013 January 23, 20147:00 9:15 PM

Union Temple of Brooklyn~ a member congregation of the Union for Reform Judaism ~

17 Eastern Parkway, at Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, NY 11238(718)638-7600

Taught by Rabbi Linda Henry Goodman

Are You In an interfaith relationship and want to learn more about Judaism?Looking for a way to live a Jewish life of meaning and beauty?Eager to understand what your children already know about Judaism?

Jewish, but missed a Jewish education as a child or werent quite ready to absorb the educationoffered?Considering converting to Judaism?

If so, this is the class you have been looking for!

The Union for Reform Judaisms INTRODUCTION TO JUDAISM course offers a 16 -week meaningful, educational experience for anyone inter-ested in knowing and understanding Judaism and Jewish life. It is an opportunity to broaden Jewish awareness, acquire a basic Jewish vocabu-lary and gain intellectual and experiential knowledge of Judaism in an open and relaxed atmosphere.

Tuition:$320 for an individual or couple.

$295 for members of a URJ congregation.

To register, go to: http://www.reformjudaism.org/class-search For more information, contact Cantor Caitlin OSullivan Bromberg,

URJ Introduction to Judaism Coordinator, Greater New York [email protected] - ( 212)650-4293
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Mazal Tov to our GraduatesDAVID MEISTER , son of Laurie Shahon and Ken Meister, graduated from the University of Southern California.

MAYA ROSE , daughter of Lisa and Hal Rose, graduated from Dickinson College, magna cum laude, with honors inPsychology. She was also awarded the senior prize in psychology as well as the junior prize in psychology.

We express ourheartfelt sympathy to

DEMETRIA ROYALSon the death of her sister

SONYA FUSELIER

on August 6th.

and to

MINDY SHERRYon the death of her grandmother

GERTRUDE LEONARD KORNBLAU

on August 5.We send our condolences as well to

Mindy's stepmom, Barbara Kornblau,and Barbara's brothers, Herb and

Michael Kornblau.

May their memoriesbe for a blessing

Mazal Tov toCarolyn Kubitschek and

David Lansner

on the birth of their grandsonClay Lansner

on July 24, 2013.Clay's parents are Noah and

Devon Lansner, andhis big sister is Blythe.

Thank You! On behalf of our entire congregationalfamily, Rabbi Goodman offers her heart-felt thanks and commendation to our con-gregants who conducted Shabbat servicesthis summer. It is a great mitzvah thatthey have performed.

Abe Barnett Gail LevineRobert Fried Betsy MinkinDennies Gajadhar DeeDee RoyalsPeter Gomori Howard SimkaRichard Goodstein Linda SimkaJannette Katz Henry SingerArnold Kolikoff Jeffrey SteinEllen Kolikoff Denise Waxman


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Tzedakah UNION TEMPLE MEMORIAL FUNDDonated by .................................................................................... in memory of Dennies Emelda Gajadhar ....................... .......................... ...................... Claville R. CummingsDenise Waxman.......................... ........................... ......................... ......... Dorothy and Abner WaxmanCheryl L. Pasternack ........................ ......................... .......................... ..... Steven Pasternack Anna Budd and George Hausman .......................... ......................... ......... Lena HausmanSherry Rosenberg ..... ........................... ......................... ........................... Eva GoldstoneDavid and Beatrice Segal .......................................... .......................... ..... Nathan SegalHerb and Julie Karlitz ............................... ......................... ...................... Irwin KarlitzHenry and Susanne Singer . ........................... ......................... .................. Solomon J. Singer Anna Budd and George Hausman .......................... ......................... ......... Gilbert HausmanSherry Rosenberg . ........................... ......................... .......................... ..... Harry GoldstoneFlorence Katzman ........................................ .......................... .................. Seymour KatzmanJoyce M. Charles ........................ ........................... ......................... ......... Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson

SHABBAT ONEGDonated by .................................................................................... in honor of Howard and Linda Simka..................... ......................... .......................... . their wedding anniversaryAbe Barnett and Anna Schiavone, Dennies Gajadhar, Michael Glikin,Stephen and Beatrice Hanks, Hortense Hurwitz, Arnold and Ellen Kolikoff,David Lansner and Carolyn Kubitschek, Marvin and Purlaine Lieberman,Steven Segall and Mark Silverstein, Henry and Susanne Singer, Doris Klueger Leonard Shiller and Elyse Taylor, Robert Newhouser, Howard and Linda Simka.Eric Siegel and Rachel Woolley, Jonathan Silverberg and Leonore Max, Irvin andPearl Schonfeld, Lois Ellison, Jeffrey Stein and Denise Waxman ..... ..... .. Cantor Lauren Phillips

DR. A. STANLEY DREYFUS LECTURE FUNDDonated by .................................................................................... in memory of Hy and Barbara Brett .......................... ......................... ........................... Joseph Zink and Simon Brett

UNION TEMPLE BOOK FUND (Shabbat editions of Mishkan T'filah )Donated byThe Sisterhood of Union Temple ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... .. in honor of Union Temple SisterhoodAnne Maltz ....................... ........................... ......................... .................. Richard Maltz

RABBIS DISCRETIONARY FUNDDonated by .................................................................................... in memory of Anna Budd and George Hausman ......................... ......................... .........Lena Hausman

SISTERHOOD HATTIE NEWMAN HAPPY DAY FUNDDonated by .................................................................................... in honor of Ann Bender .......... .......................... ........................... ......................... .....Sisterhood of Union TempleHortense Hurwitz ........................ ........................... ......................... .........Sisterhood of Union Temple

SISTERHOOD MEMORIAL FUNDDonated by .................................................................................... in memory of Barbara and Hy Brett ................................................ .......................... .....Ann Zink Frank


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Union Temple suggests that its memberscontact our Funeral Director

Martin D. Kasdan of Boulevard-Riverside Chapels

1895 Flatbush AvenueBrooklyn, NY

1-800-522-0588Proudly maintaining more

than 50 years of Temple involvement

The Bulletin Union Temple of Brooklyn

17 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn NY 11238( 718) 638-7600

Fax (718) 783-9151E-mail [email protected]

Website Uniontemple.org Dr. Linda Henry Goodman

Rabbi

Emma GoldinStudent Cantor

Shinae KimTemple Musician

Susan Sporer Preschool Director

Mindy Sherry

Director of Youth and Family Engagement Beatrice Hanks

President

Abe BarnettEllen Kolikoff Jeffrey Stein

Vice Presidents

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Leonard Shiller Treasurer

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Honorary Presidents

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Memorial Plaques

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REMEMBER MAZON:A Jewish Response to Hunger

Donate 3% of your food expenditures to MAZON. Give to our MAZON tzedakah can at temple dinners.

Find out more at: www.mazon.org

A memorial plaque is a lastingtribute to a loved one.

If you wish more information regarding obtaininga plaque in memory of a loved one please e-mail

the temple [email protected]

or leave a message with the temple office.

SEPTEMBER Zelda Elly ................................................................ September 1, 1945Sara Kirsch .............................................................. September 2, 1939Albert M. Kasdan..................................................... September 2, 1968Kate K. Kauffman ............ ............. ............. ............. . September 3, 1970Joseph D. Novich ............. ............. ............. ............. . September 4, 1948Stella D. Kahn ......................................................... September 4, 1969

Jacob Lorence ............. ............. ............. .............. ..... September 5, 1929Bashe Kremer .......................................................... September 5, 1958Marion Frieman ....................................................... September 5, 1974Harris Obstfeld ........................................................ September 6, 1931Alyce Nicole Fogel ............ ............. ............. ............ September 6, 1958Cecilia Masur .......................................................... September 6, 1962Louis Lorence ............. ............. ............. .............. ..... September 6, 1966Marion Zupnick ............ ............. ............. ............. ... September 7, 2012William Bergman..................................................... September 8, 1926Michael Goldsmith .................................................. September 8, 1934Hattie Mayer ............. ............. ............. ............. ........ September 8, 1963Sidney Berman ...................................................... September 10, 1956Florence Beacon .................................................... September 11, 1992Julius Wechsler .............. ............. ............. ............. . September 14, 1943Lazarus Muscat .............. ............. ............. ............. . September 14, 1944Louis Kahn ............................................................ September 15, 1918Rosa Newman ............. ............. ............. .............. ... September 15, 1926Helen Himmelreich ............ ............. ............. .......... September 15, 1947Harry Rutenberg .................................................... September 15, 1967Jeanette Abromowitz.............................................. September 15, 1977Max Kamen ........................................................... September 15, 1981Rabbi Simon R. Cohen ............. .............. ............ .... September 16, 1942Dr. Benjamin E. Wolfort ............. ............. ............ .. September 17, 1950Irving S. Millman................................................... September 17, 1977Vera Kamen........................................................... September 17, 1989Charlotte Berko...................................................... September 18, 1976Samuel Schwartz ................................................... September 19, 1928Machen Rice ............. ............. ............. ............. ...... September 23, 1910Max Dreyfuss ........................................................ September 25, 1942David Kaufman...................................................... September 26, 1958Minnie Cowin ............. ............. ............. .............. ... September 28, 1924Henrietta Van Raalte ............ ............. ............. ........ September 28, 1927
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Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 2 3 4

8:00 PMRosh HashanahEvening Service

5Rosh Hashanah

9:00 AMChildrensServices

10:00 AMMorning Service

6 First FridayFamily ShabbatWelcome to the

New Year, and toour new StudentCantor and Dir.

Of Youth &Family Engagment

710:30 AM

Shabbat Service

89:30 AM

Religious SchoolOpening Day

9:00 AM-1:00 PMMembership Open

House

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6:00 PMBoard ofTrustees

10 11

6:30 PMUT Singers

12 13

8:00 PMKol Nidre

14 Yom Kippur

Services all day,please see

schedule.

159:30 AM

Religious School

10:00 AMBrotherhood

Sukkah Building

16Preschool

Opening Day

6:30 PMReligious School

Committee

17 18

7:00 PMSukkah Reception7:30 PM

Sukkot EveningService

1910:30 AM

Sukkot MorningService

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4:00 PMPreschool Family

Sukkah Party6:30 PM

Kabbalat ShabbatPizza Night

219:00 AM

Shabbat MorningHevre

9:30 AMOut of the

Shabbox10:30 AMShabbat Service

229:30 AM

Religious School10:00 AM

MembershipCommittee

23 24 25

6:00 PMShemini Atzeret-

Simchat TorahReligious School

Party &Congregational

Celebration

2610:30 AM

Morning ServiceShemini Atzeret-

Simchat TorahYizkor

8:45 PM

BrooklynCommunity

Simchat Torah

274:00 PM

Friday at FourFourth FridayLate Shabbat

7:00 PM Dinner8:00 PM Service

9:00 PM Onegwith Lenny Shiller

28 9:00 AMShabbat Hevre

9:30 AMOut of theShabbox

10:30 AMShabbat Service

Conversion: FayeWhite WillingerKiddush to follow

299:30 AM

Religious School

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September 2013 ~ Elul 5773-Tishrei 5774

6:00 PM Snacks 6:30 PM Kabbalat Shabbat 7:30 PM Pot Luck Dinner


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