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BULLETIN OF BETH EL CONGREGATION
JUNE • JULY 2020 AKRON, OHIO SIVAN • TAMUZ • AV 5780
BULLETIN OF BETH EL
CONGREGATION All Pages All-Color on the Web
bethelakron.com
Table of Contents Rabbi’s Message ......................... 1 COVID-19 Committee ................ 1 Lunch & Learn ............................ 1 Synagogue Directory .................. 2 Mazel Tov ................................... 2 Happy Anniversary ..................... 2 2021 Yearbook ............................ 2 Schedule of Services ................... 2 Sisterhood ................................... 2 Candle Lighting, Havdalah ......... 2 Tree of Life ................................. 2 Yahrzeits – June .......................... 4 In Memoriam .............................. 4 Calendar – June ........................... 4 Yahrzeits – July........................... 5 Memorial Plaques ....................... 5 Calendar – July ........................... 5 Mind Body & Shul Challenge .... 6 Summer Study with the Rabbi .... 7 Tisha B’Av .................................. 8 Youth Education ......................... 9 Summer Virtual Hebrew Camp ... 9 President’s Message ................. 10 Contributions............................. 11 Beth El in Your Will ................. 11 Jewish Shakespeare Week ........ 12
Compassion in the Wilderness
Summer is for Numbers. Many of us may
be counting right now the days until we get to
return to a modicum of normal life (and how
long we will be counting is still a mystery!).
Just at the end of last month we finished
counting the Omer, our people’s journey to
receiving the Torah. We are used to counting
for a minyan, and yet now physical distancing
challenges our rituals and life rhythms. And many of us have been “counting”
on summer experiences and vacations that have had to be canceled or
significantly altered. So, what is it that we can truly “count on?”
Hazzan Matt recalls that as a summer camp counselor at Camp Ramah in
Canada, campers always would read from the book of Bamidbar – literally,
“in the wilderness” – the part of the Torah most commonly referred to in pop
culture as the Book of Numbers. The reason for this name is that the book
begins with a census – a counting of the Israelite nation after they left Egypt.
The campers always seemed to relate well to this book. Perhaps it was
because the experience of summer camp feels like a little oasis in the
wilderness. Perhaps it was because of the juicy stories in Bamidbar that are
the stuff of a Netflix miniseries, which include magicians, surprise
earthquakes, vigilante justice, and talking donkeys. But at a deeper level, the
book remains relevant to anyone as the story of Jewish people
Rabbi Elyssa Austerklein
Hazzan Matt Austerklein
Rabbi → page 3
Please Join Us
Tuesday at Noon
June 9, July 14 Virtual Meeting
Please enjoy your lunch in your home or office.
Check your e-mail to log in.
New A committee has been formed for two purposes: to determine what
the virtual needs of the congregation are and to determine when
and how we will resume in person services and programs. Dr.
Marty Hellman is chair. Committee members are Micah Beree,
Nick Hall (MPH), Dr. Marissa Levine, Joe Pryweller, and Gary
Rosen. Should you have thoughts, questions, or concerns related
to our congregation and the pandemic, please contact any of these
committee members.
COVID-19 Committee
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Beth El Congregation 750 White Pond Drive
Akron, OH 44320
www.bethelakron.com
Office: (330) 864-2105 [email protected]
Affiliated with
The United Synagogue of
Conservative Judaism
The Jewish Theological
Seminary of America
Rabbi Elyssa Austerklein [email protected]
Hazzan Matthew Austerklein [email protected]
Stephen Grundfast Rabbi Emeritus
Stephen Stein Hazzan Emeritus
Sharon Merklin President
Stacey Simonton President Elect
Gregg Maines Vice President
David Stock Treasurer
Susan Osherow & Debra Shiffrin Co-Secretaries
Jenifer Jeney Manager of
Synagogues Services [email protected]
Robynne McKee Administrative Assistant
Laurel Gress Baalat Koreh
Leonard Rose Editor
Vol. LXXV No. 9
The Bulletin is published monthly by Beth El Congregation
750 White Pond Dr., Akron, Ohio 44320
(USPS 052-100)
Periodicals postage paid at Akron, Ohio.
Postmaster: Send address changes to Bulletin of Beth El Congregation,
750 White Pond Dr., Akron, Ohio 44320
Mazel Tov Congratulations to Hannah Pryweller on
completing her Master of Science in Social
Administration.
Happy Anniversary JUNE YEARS 7 David and Janet Minc .................................... 50
11 Kevin and Lori Sandel ................................... 20
22 Randy and Bonnie Cohen .............................. 45
24 Fred and Audrey Weisberg ............................ 30
26 Martin and Susan Spector .............................. 60
JULY YEARS 5 Phillip and Livia Kades .................................. 50
30 Mark and Darla Kent ..................................... 40
SCHEDULE
OF SERVICES
JUNE • JULY 2020
SIVAN • TAMUZ • AV
5780
Morning Minyan Sunday 8:45 AM
Live – Beth El Facebook
Shabbat Services Saturday 10 AM
Live – Beth El Facebook
Candle Lighting
June 5 ....... 8:38 PM June 12 ....... 8:42 PM June 19 ....... 8:44 PM June 26 ....... 8:45 PM
July 3 ....... 8:44 PM July 10 ....... 8:42 PM July 17 ....... 8:38 PM July 24 ....... 8:32 PM July 31 ....... 8:25 PM
Havdalah
June 6 ....... 9:46 PM June 13 ....... 9:50 PM June 20 ....... 9:52 PM June 27 ....... 9:53 PM
July 4 ....... 9:52 PM July 11 ....... 9:49 PM July 18 ....... 9:45 PM July 25 ....... 9:39 PM
Face-to-face Sisterhood meetings are more
congenial, but if you have an idea for a
Sisterhood program or "Zoom" event, please
call Sarah Greenblatt at 330-687-0203 or email
[email protected]. As pandemic restrictions begin to loosen, we
will schedule Sisterhood activities. Until then,
stay healthy.
Women's League for Conservative Judaism
Tree of Life
Our magnificent Tree of Life was created to record the happy events in the lives of Beth El members and their families.
A birth, a wedding, a bar/bat mitzvah, a confirmation, an anniversary – all are among the milestones that can be remembered on the leaves of the Tree of Life.
The cost of a leaf is $125. You may use three or four lines with up to 23 letters per line. To order, call Sherri Leubitz, 330-867-0364.
These are the newest leaves on Beth El’s Tree of Life
2021 Yearbook Due to the pandemic, we are going to delay our 2021 Yearbook publication. Please check the next bulletin for an update or contact Susan Osherow with any questions.
BULLETIN OF BETH EL CONGREGATION Page 3
struggling to move forward into uncharted territory
– something we are very much feeling today.
In the book of Numbers, uncertainty can bring
out the worst in people. The Israelites struggle with
change and want their predictable lives back. They
want the restaurant food and the creature comforts
of Egypt. They complain bitterly to their leaders
that this way of living is unsustainable, and they
succumb to power politics and lustful appetites as a
way of displacing their discomfort and fear. None of
the leadership are immune – Moses strikes a rock in
anger, Miriam makes racist comments, and Aaron
struggles with his children. The whole people
experience difficulty, uncertainty, and loss.
The end of the Israelite journey in the
wilderness, as we know, is the Promised Land. But
on the way, our wilderness journey exposed that we
are all vulnerable. And this is perhaps one of our
greatest spiritual learnings today: we are all
vulnerable.
We are vulnerable. Our members are vulnerable.
Our families are vulnerable. Our children are
vulnerable. Our doctors and nurses are vulnerable.
We, your clergy, are vulnerable. We are all
vulnerable.
None of us is immune from the pandemic
wilderness into which we are thrust. To pretend that
there is no or little threat is irresponsible, a denial of
interconnectedness and our moral interdependence,
both of which are both scientifically grounded and
spiritually core to Jewish faith and community.
We can never know, among our friends and
relations, whose genetic makeup or physical
condition will leave them susceptible to the ravages
of the coronavirus, nor do we know who has family
members that are especially vulnerable to this
disease. We often do not know how people are
coping with (or without) childcare, with financial
worries, with mental and emotional overload. This
pandemic should remind us that we are all
vulnerable, and therefore our first response to
uncertainty should be just this -- compassion.
Rabbi Shai Held wrote recently regarding this
pandemic: “Acknowledging our vulnerability can
open the door to deeper and deeper levels of
Rabbi from page 1
compassion and responsiveness to other people’s
pain...Simple as it sounds, there is no more fundamental
lesson about human life than this one – we need each
other; and there is no greater religious commitment than
this one – we are here for each other.”
We are really grateful for the volunteerism of so
many who have stepped up over the past few months to
help create more opportunities for mitzvot and
compassion. We are grateful for the members of our
Beth El community who are in the medical profession
and are on the front lines, offering medical care and
saving lives, often at risk to their own health. We’re
grateful for the Caring Team, and especially the chair,
Debbie Saferstein, who assisted us in reaching out via
phone to our entire membership over the past few
months. We’re grateful to new leaders who stepped up
to join the COVID committee, which is evaluating how
our synagogue can encourage best practices and offer
worship, learning, and outreach under evolving
conditions. We’re grateful to our new President, Sharon
Merklin, who has partnered with us and convened a
long-term planning committee to consider our deepest
values and questions, so that we emerge from this
wilderness moving towards the Promised Land. We’re
grateful for the many congregants who have joined us
for the dozens of services, classes, and meetings we
have offered over Facebook Live and Zoom-- we have
appreciated connecting with you as much as you have
enjoyed connecting with us and each other. And we’re
grateful for all of the little and big acts of kindness that
each of you are doing every day to be kinder and more
compassionate with each other.
Uncertainty is hard -- but it can, and should,
encourage us to be compassionate, and to lean on each
other. The Book of Numbers shows us the pitfalls of
uncertainty – bitterness, lashing out, and striving for
power and desire. We should learn well from our
Torah’s warning, and know that the best counting we
can do, and should encourage, is on each other. We
bless you for a summer of kindness, of patience, of
embracing life’s messiness. We are resilient, and we
know that this experience will not just make us stronger
as a community, but kinder as well.
Blessings,
Rabbi Elyssa & Hazzan Matt
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Sivan 5780 June 2020 Tamuz 5780
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
Services (unless otherwise noted)
Sunday 8:45 AM
Saturday 10:00 AM
1 9 Sivan
2 10 Sivan
3 11 Sivan
4 12 Sivan
5 13 Sivan
6 14 Sivan
Naso
7 15 Sivan
Judaism Ten Best Ideas 10:30 (Zoom)
8 16 Sivan
Community Check-in 8 PM (Zoom)
9 17 Sivan
Lunch & Learn 12 noon
Board Meeting 7 PM
10 18 Sivan
11 19 Sivan
12 20 Sivan
Kabbalat Shabbat 5 PM (Zoom)
13 21 Sivan
Beha’alotecha
14 22 Sivan
Judaism Ten Best Ideas 10:30 (Zoom)
Flag Day
15 23 Sivan
Community Check-in 8 PM (Zoom)
16 24 Sivan
17 25 Sivan
18 26 Sivan
19 27 Sivan
Young Family Shabbat 4:30 PM (FaceBook)
20 28 Sivan
Shelach
Summer Begins
21 29 Sivan Judaism Ten Best Ideas 10:30 (Zoom)
Father’s Day
22 30 Sivan
Community Check-in 8 PM (Zoom)
Rosh Chodesh
23 1 Tamuz
Rosh Chodesh
24 2 Tamuz
25 3 Tamuz
26 4 Tamuz
27 5 Tamuz
Korach
28 6 Tamuz Judaism Ten Best Ideas 10:30 (Zoom)
29 7 Tamuz
Community Check-in 8 PM (Zoom)
30 8 Tamuz
We hope you are healthy
and able to join us online.
June 1-4 Betty
June 6-12 Howell Aarons Edward G. Foster Alfred Freireich Giles Burda Groden David Hoffman Ernest Klein Elizabeth Krosner Isaac Liberman Isaac Lipson Trudy Loeb Joseph Marks Helen Schneier Irving Spector Arthur Winer Esther Wish June 13-19 Edith Adler Louis Berenson Myer Caplan Lillian Chapman Walter Cohen Helen Davidson
Betty Fitterman Sophie T. Friedlander Erin Geller Judith Ann Helfgott Lena Heyman Idelle Kodish Allen Kofsky Sybil Kriger Paul Leventhal Gustave L. Levinson Bela Lowy Mary Marks Marlene Miller William Neiman Frank Nelson Ben Nemeroff Sol Regal Eleanore Rudick Rose Sinder Milton Slavin June 21-26 Shirley Borodkin Rose Cohen
YAHRZEITS
June 1-5 Frank Fitterman Lillian Clayman Zelda Cohen Reisha Cohn Robert Garner Fanny Katz Sol Levinson Eugene Lieberman Stanley Minster Gerald Pryweller James M. Robinson William Rosenblatt Rose Sheff Irving Sholiton Helen Shulan Max Silverstein Eugene Sokol Beverly Waterstone Sally Waxman Louis Yablon Bella Zetzer
Carl M. Fertel Sally Finkel Sarah Foster Ida Gergel Louis Gergis Gregg Gertz Susan Glauberman Jodi Merklin James Morris Kaufman Sanford Levenson Harold Levin Helen Levin Milton Luck Alex Marks Annie Miller Max Robinson Libby Schneir George Shapiro Ben Slavin Richard Sterns Esther Weiss Morris Zudnick June 27-30
Sy L Fishcer Esther Kates Ruby Kodish Dave Lowy Sadie Ekus Manes Richard Merklin Rose Pinsky Jack Rubens Morris Sacks Eugene Treiber Samuel Wakser Mendel Weintraub
Please call the Beth El office to inform us of Yahrzeit omissions or corrections.
In Memoriam
Beth El Congregation notes with sorrow
the passing of
Samuel Albert
Schleider
Husband of Barbara;
father of Natalie, Scott
and Marcy; grandfather
of Andrew, Corey and Josh
BULLETIN OF BETH EL CONGREGATION Page 5
Tamuz 5780 July 2020 Av 5780
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
Services (unless otherwise noted)
Sunday 8:45 AM
Saturday 10:00 AM
Please stay healthy.
Join us online.
1 9 Tamuz
Canada Day
2 10 Tamuz
3 11 Tamuz
Office Closed
4 12 Tamuz
Chukat-Balak
Independence Day
5 13 Tamuz
6 14 Tamuz
Community Check-in 8 PM (Zoom)
7 15 Tamuz
8 16 Tamuz
9 17 Tamuz
Fast of Tamuz
10 18 Tamuz
Kabbalat Shabbat 5 PM (Zoom)
11 19 Tamuz
Pinchas
12 20 Tamuz
Judaism Ten Best Ideas 10:30 (Zoom)
13 21 Tamuz
Community Check-in 8 PM (Zoom)
14 22 Tamuz
Lunch & Learn 12 noon
15 23 Adar
16 24 Tamuz
17 25 Tamuz
Young Family Shabbat 4:30 PM (FaceBook)
18 25 Tamuz
Matot-Masai
19 27 Tamuz Judaism Ten Best Ideas 10:30 (Zoom)
20 28 Tamuz
Community Check-in 8 PM (Zoom)
21 29 Tamuz
22 1 Av
Rosh Chodesh
23 2 Av
24 3 Av
25 4 Av
Devarim
Shabbat Chazon
26 5 Av Judaism Ten Best Ideas 10:30 (Zoom)
27 6 Av
Community Check-in 8 PM (Zoom)
28 7 Av
Rosh Chodesh
29 8 Av
Erev Tisha B’Av (Part 1) 9 PM (Zoom)
30 9 Av
Tisha B’Av (Part 2) 2 PM (Zoom)
31 10 Av
Howard Katz Abraham Kodish Florence Lessing Miriam Levenson Theodore Levenson Leah Lieberman Rose K. Marks Ruth Rakusin Minnie Roth Dina Savage Selma Seider Sol Slavin Samuel Tucker Evelyn Weinberger Blanche Yonas July 11-17 Jacob Apelbaum Sonya Buksdorf Rose Caplan Fred Cohen Dr. Sidney Eichner Janka Fischmann Richard Friedman
Carol Gergis Estelle Hellman Natalee Hendler Nathan Katz Phillip Kodish Martin Mermelstein Mayer Millman Henry Rubin Betty Sabetay Anna Stein Ida S. Waxman Benjamin Weiss Rose Ethel Winer Pauline Wolman July 18-24 Marvin Cohen Rose A. Friedman Ida Kern Morris Lieberman Doris Minkin Gertrude Monosoff Blanche Nusbaum Lockshin Phyllis
YAHRZEITS July 1-3 Barnet Beyer Mollie Dorman Anna Kalish Jerry Kodish Herschel Kriger Mitchell Lieberman Jerrold Lockshin Zelda Rosenthal Dr. Leo Rubin Isadore Schlossberg John Waits Cathy Wakser July 4-10 Leonard Bernstein Samuel C. Bershon Miriam Edith Davis Nancy Davis Bessie Klausner Federhar Harold Garson Bernard Heller
Adolph Rabe Lawrence Rothstein Edward Schneider Luba Small July 25-31 Philip Culiner Harry Davidson Isidore Gergel Nora Gilman Alan Grundfast Stefan Handler Harriet Horn Rose Kahan Zella Kaufman Alan Kay Jeanette Levinson Arthur E. Lewis Rita Lockshin Bryan May Susan A. Myers Max Neiman Jay Nusbaum Ralph Peters
Netti Pollack Ben Post Mary Potrock Jeremy Putra Marjorie Robbins Morris Ruben Stanley B. Schneiderman Janyne Sokol Heinrich Y. Steinhauer Helen B. Steinreich Dorothy Woloveck
Please call the Beth El office to inform us of Yahrzeit omissions or corrections.
Memorial Plaques
The Memorial Plaques in our Sanctuary constitute a permanent record of the names of men and women departed from this earth. To cherish and keep alive their precious memories is a sacred Jewish tradition. The contribution for an individual plaque is only $250. For further information, please call Beth El at 330-864-2105.
May your loved one’s
memory be a blessing.
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Use this sheet to fill out your twelve steps on this ladder and return it by mail or text a picture to 216-438-1357 for a special prize! Remember to include your name!
__________ Your Name
➢ 4 Jewish Books for the Mind
➢ 4 times doing Israeli dance with Hazzan Matt, Jewish yoga with Rabbi Elyssa, or a Mindfulness Walk for the Body
➢ 4 shul programs or prayer services
BULLETIN OF BETH EL CONGREGATION Page 7
Summer Study
with the Rabbi
is Coming!
on Zoom
Start your summer
with study as
Rabbi
Elyssa Joy Austerklein guides
us through
Judaism's 10 Best Ideas
by Rabbi Arthur Green,
Rector of the Rabbinical School of
Hebrew College.
8 Sundays @10:30-11:30am
June 7 - August 2 (excluding July 5)
Register for our
eight sessions –
A FREE COPY of the
book will be shipped
to those who register by
May 31
For your free copy,
e-mail Jenifer Jeney Manager of
Synagogue Services
at
bethelservices750@ gmail.com.
Page 8 BULLETIN OF BETH EL CONGREGATION
Tisha B'Av Wednesday
July 29, 9:00 PM Zoom
Thursday July 30, 2:00 PM Zoom
PART 1: Rising from the Ashes: Coping with Loss Join us in the evening as we gather to watch David Hoffman's TED Talk on loss and discuss
what it means to make something good out of something bad. Knowing that we are all
engaged in this challenge right now, we will then chant together the Book of Eicha
(Lamentations).
PART 2: Piecing Together Hope On the afternoon of Tisha B'Av we will rejoin together on ZOOM under the leadership of
artist and congregation member Bonnie Cohen for a mosaic art project. Each person who
signs up will receive a packet of materials on their doorstep ahead of time. We will discuss
how we can embody hope in our own lives and live the Jewish promise that after wearing
sackcloth we turn to dancing. The individual projects will represent the hope that in time we
will come back together with bigger and better projects and events at Beth El.
Tisha B'av a two-part
Exploration
Part 1 – July 29 @ 9 PM
Part 2 – July 30 @ 2 PM
Mosaic by Barbara Elkin (Hazzan Matt’s mom)
BULLETIN OF BETH EL CONGREGATION Page 9
Youth Education
The Hebrew School completed another successful year! Thank you to
our committed and fabulous teachers: Leora Cohen, Andrea Rabinovitz,
April Sharrock, David Stock and Volunteer Ellen Moss. A special thank
you to April for serving as the Religious School Coordinator - her passion
for Judaism and exceptional kindness to adults and children alike, shines
through! Leora, April and David, all pivoted pretty seamlessly into a
virtual Hebrew School when we all had to isolate. A special thank you to
Leora for moderating and being the tech guru. In keeping with current
recommendations about school openings in the Fall, we expect to be at
least partially virtual over the 2020-2021 school year.
This summer we will engage a professional in developing a tailored curriculum for Beth El.
Thank you to our Education Committee Chair, Julie Katz, for working with the USCJ to create
a survey for our congregation. We hope that you took the survey which was sent out in May
about learning priorities for our religious school. The results of the survey will be used in
developing Curriculum and will be shared in the August Bulletin.
Summer
Virtual
Hebrew
Camp
This summer, we will continue with a Virtual Hebrew
Summer Camp for our 5-6-year old children, which will be
taught by April Sharrock on Tuesday afternoons from 4 to
4:30 PM on ZOOM. If your child is close to this age and
interested in joining, please contact Rabbi Elyssa at
[email protected]. If there is further demand in other
age groups, we may be able to accommodate an additional
class or two.
Education
Program
By Rabbi Elyssa
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Greetings from Beth El’s New President
It is mid-April and I am sitting at home watching the snowfall. As the State of Ohio is
currently under stay at home orders, I do not really have programs and gatherings to write about
in the next month. Instead, I would like to share with you my religious background and why
this congregation is so important to me.
What an honor it was for me several years ago to have been asked to serve on the Beth El
board, and the executive team of the synagogue, especially if you know anything about my
Jewish roots.
My parents never belonged to a synagogue. I did not have the opportunity to go to
synagogue on the High Holidays until given free tickets in college. Growing up, and as a young
adult, I rarely had the opportunity to sit with my parents in synagogue. I never had to get up on Saturday or Sunday mornings
to attend services or Sunday school. I did not have the opportunities afforded by synagogue membership.
My mother and father did send my sister and me to the Cleveland Hebrew Schools. Four days a week the bus picked
us up and brought us home from an hour and fifteen-minute education in reading and writing in Hebrew. I loved Hebrew
School. There was one teacher, Mar (Mr.) Orlan, who spent the year teaching his twelve-year-old students the beginning
and ending blessings before reading a haftorah. I had no context for this. I did not understand what I was learning. (Little
did I know that this would be a great help twenty years later when Laurel Gress patiently tried to teach me and a couple of
women the Torah and haftorah trops for our adult bat mitzvah.) My parents talked about giving me a bat mitzvah. Now that
I look back, I think to this day, what synagogue would bat mitzvah the child of someone who did not belong?
Any knowledge I had of Jewish culture and holidays came from the household of my aunt and uncle, Harold and
Marlene Millerz”l. I think to this day, that everything I knew about Jewish holidays and culture as a child, teenager and
young adult came from my aunt. Many times, we went to Anshe Sfard, where they belonged before they joined Beth El. I
remember sitting in the women’s balcony with my grandmother, mother, and aunt. At that time, I was not bothered by the
separation of men and women and that women did not participate.
Aside from carpool for Hebrew school, and dropping children off on Saturday morning, I did not become involved with
Beth El Congregation until 1995, when my father died. His death was so sudden and unexpected that the only thing in my
control was the ritual mourning as a Conservative Jew. At that time, we had no Rabbi, but Cantor Stephen Stein was a
tremendous help. There was also an early evening minyan that I attended several times a week. The people at that minyan
became a true support group for a thirty-five-year-old woman who had suddenly lost her fifty-nine-year -old father: Walter
and Louise Cohenz”l and Dr. Bartz”l and Joyce Epstein, to name a few. That year I did not just drop my children off on
Saturday morning. I went to services regularly for the first time in my life and learned about the important parts of Judaism
I had been missing. I learned the services and even took a class with Cantor Stein to learn how to daven.
This history is in part why Beth El means so much to me. I was not part of a synagogue growing up. Conservative
Judaism is where I belong. It allows me to participate as a Jewish woman. My background gives a clear understanding of
why I could never give this up. Dedication to this synagogue will be a major part of my life for the next two years. That is
why it is important, as I undertake this new two-year commitment, to serve the synagogue as Judaism has served me.
I am incredibly grateful for the work of the Caring Committee, headed by Debbie Saferstein with Rabbi and a group of
dedicated volunteers who have been reaching out to our membership. The Caring Committee wants to make sure that
everyone is coping with the new normal: Do you have enough food, are you coping, and are you safe? If you would like to
help the committee, please let Debbie or me know. Hopefully, by the time you are reading this Bulletin we will be back at
Shabbat morning services and seeing each other for synagogue programs.
Please don't hesitate to reach out to me by phone or by email.
Thank you for allowing me to serve!
Sharon
Sharon Merklin
BULLETIN OF BETH EL CONGREGATION Page 11
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Contributions
LOUIS LOCKSHIN
SCHOLARSHIP FUND
In Memory of
• Al Schleider from James and Susan Osherow
LUCK
HOLOCAUST FUND
In Memory of
• Ruth Skall from Hope Winer
• Harvey Winer from Hope Winer
RABBI'S
DISCRETIONARY FUND
In Memory of
• Harvey Winer from Sid and Shirley Zetzer
REVEREND PHILLIP SALZMAN
SCHOLARSHIP FUND
In Memory of
• Abraham Kalish from Leah Bliman
• Harold Miller from Paula Miller
• Ann Ruth and Morris Rosenthal from Marvin
Rosenthal
SAFERSTEIN
CARING FUND
In Memory of
• Israel Borodkin from Elinor Borodkin and
Family
• Burt Nobil from Harvey and Marilyn Groden,
Libby Portnoy, Jerry and Sandy Schneier
• Isadore and Bernice Rabinovitz from Myron
and Andrea Rabinovitz
• Sheldon Saferstein from Joel and Arlene
Miller
• Jonathan Small from Esther and Larry Hexter
For the Recovery of
• Susan Alfonso from Libby Portnoy
SIMON KOPELSON
MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND
In Memory of
• Esther Slavin from Marilyn Slavin
ALEXANDER AND LILLIAN MEDOFF
MEMORIAL MUSIC FUND
In Memory of
• The sister of Bud Sabetay from Carl
Lieberman
BEATRICE & MORRIS SARLSON
& FAMILY BEAUTIFICATION FUND
In Honor of
• Mom's – Margaret Chesler – Medicare Happy
Birthday! from James, Michael, & Jack Chesler
BETH EL FOUNDATION
FOR JEWISH EDUCATION
In Memory of
• Mark Reuben from Phil and Livia Kades
CANTOR'S
DISCRETIONARY FUND
In Memory of
• Jean Cooper from Robert and Regina Cooper
• Judith Finkel from Harvey Finkel
EDWARD SCHNEIDER
EDUCATION FUND
In Memory of
• Laura Lee Garfinkel from Dr. John and Patty
Saks
• David Katz from Carl Lieberman
• Harry Katz from Carl Lieberman
• Bruce Sugarberg from Blake Sugarberg
In Honor of
• The birth of Erwin and Sarah Greenblatt’s
grandson from Carl Lieberman
• Esther Hexter from Marc and Sharon Merklin
FLORAL AND
SHABBAT FLOWERS FUND
In Memory of
• Aron Schuldiner from Michael Schuldiner
KIDDUSH
FUND
In Memory of
• Manny Iczokovitz from Kevin Tucker
• Gary Nelkin from Jodi Savitt
LENORE GORDON
SCHOLARSHIP FUND
In Memory of
• Shirley Wagan from Ted Schneiderman
STEPHEN M. GROSS
MEMORIAL FUND
In Memory of
• David Recht from Marjorie Recht
SYNAGOGUE
FUND
In Memory of
• Theodore Kahan from Mel and Nancy
Mermelstein
• Ann Kauvar from Marilyn Mirman
• Burt Nobil from Ellen and Steve Winer
• Al Schleider from Martin and Joyce
Oppenheimer
• Howard Shapiro from Ellen and Steve Winer
• Sally Stein from Martin and Joyce
Oppenheimer
For the Recovery of
• Susan Alfonso from Lawrence and Harriet
Richman
• Herb Weiss from Ellen and Steve Winer
In Honor of
• Seth Glauberman’s new position at Malco
from Lawrence and Harriet Richman
• Gary Rosen’s birthday from Ted Schneiderman
• Gary and Toby Rosen’s anniversary from Ted
Schneiderman
• George Sterns’ promotion from Drs. Harvey
and Ronni Sterns
The Beth El Staff would like to extend our deepest apologies to those who have made donations since the COVID19 crisis began. Working remotely has brought many changes and challenges to our staff, but please be assured we are working diligently to make sure all donations are properly acknowledged as soon as possible!
Contributions received before the first of the month will appear the next month. Contributions may be submitted by mail or via Beth El’s website.
Remember Beth El
in Your Will
Marsha Friedman Endowment Chair For information,
call 330.603.1890
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BETH EL CONGREGATION 750 WHITE POND DRIVE AKRON, OHIO 44320
Virtual
Jewish Shakespeare
Week
July/August 2020
Hold thy peace and stay tuned to Beth El's
website, Facebook, and e-mails for updates
on our online programming for this year's
Jewish Shakespeare Week, which will take
place in July or early August.
For up-to-the-minute details, e-mail the
hazzan at [email protected].
'A sonnet a day keeps the doctor away.'
Sir Patrick Stewart reading Shakespeare’s
sonnets on the Internet.
(Actually, he reads bareheaded.)