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Close-Up: Upcoming at RS Discover the many ways
to create profound connections, starting with our Hanukkah
Musical Artist-in-Residence weekend on Friday, December 11
Additional events are on pages 2 & 3
Mid-Year UpdateMid-Year Update
Cook & Connect Series Join with each other &
world-renowned chefs on a virtual cooking adventure
Accept our thank you gift when you participate — as a patron or as a donor
See pages 4 - 7
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Socially distanced, we are still able to draw near, in Hebrew, karov, in community. Zoom creates a level of intimacy, from the close up of another’s face, to the glimpse into another’s kitchen. The reality of isolation is heartbreaking, yet we continue to learn new ways to create profound connections.
In the coming months, we will lean into a close-up. With guest presenters who lift up important issues such as multicultural Jewish life, anti-racism, anti-Semitism, Israel, and Jewish music, we will have a literal close-up on Zoom.
As we gear up our stamina to commit to limits meant to preserve our own lives and the lives of our community and our world, we will find ways to be near, karov, to be in each other’s lives, close up. I hope to connect with you soon at our upcoming events.
- Rabbi Jill Maderer
Close-Up: Upcoming at RS
Introduction to Judaism Wednesdays, January 14 - April 14, 6:00pm-8:00pm If you are an interfaith couple, considering converting to Judaism, or Jewish and looking for beginner’s education, Introduction to Judaism is perfect for you. It provides a foundation of the Jewish faith, culture, people and history, from a Reform perspective. Cost: Free for RS members; $180/non-member singles and couples. Register on our website. Contact Melissa Erlick ([email protected] or 267-930-7286) for information.
Welcome to The Shiva House - A Play Reading Saturday, February 6 - Sunday, February 7 The Shiva House is a 45-minute theatrical experience utilizing digital performance, a guided walking meditation, and a companion booklet. Created by professional playwrights and congregants Benjamin Behrend and Logan Schulman, it crystallizes the necessity of communal gathering, sharing grief, and storytelling, and will take place virtually. Contact Esther Troetschel ([email protected] or 267-930-7284).
For Zoom information,visit our website, see Staying Connected
at RS (weekly email), or contact Dina Horowitz ([email protected] or 267-930-7289).
Anti-Racism Work Group In this season of our anti-racism work and action, we will read and discuss Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson; we will learn from POWER organizers about ways to advocate for economic dignity, education, and justice reform. New participants may sign up at [email protected].
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Purim: Order Your Mishloach Manot The joyous holiday of Purim begins February 25. Engage in the mitzvah of sending Purim gift bags filled with hamentashen and other delicious treats — “mishloach manot” — to friends, children, and others in our community. Recipients will feel the love of their Rodeph Shalom family. Sending and receiving mishloach manot is inspiring and powerful. Use the personalized login codes being sent to your email in January. Contact Esther Troetschel ([email protected]) with questions. Proceeds benefit Berkman Mercaz Limud.
The Story of a Mixed-Race Jewish Girl Thursday, March 11 at 7:00pm Marra B. Gad will speak on her memoir, The Color of Love: The Story of a Mixed-Race Jewish Girl. She is an award-winning author, speaker and independent writer/producer. A grateful child of adoption, Gad speaks internationally about her own transracial adoption in 1970, and her experiences being Black/White biracial and Jewish through the lens of her memoir. Thank you to the Behrend Lecture Fund for sponsoring this event.
Anti-Semitism & the Free Exchange of Ideas Tuesday, April 20 at 7:00pm Professor and Director of Bard University's Center for the Study of Hate, Kenneth Stern, will discuss the line between anti-Israel and anti-Semitism, along with how this question affects free speech. Mr. Stern was the lead drafter of the "working definition" of anti-Semitism, now adopted by the US Department of State. Presented in partnership with The Feinstein Center for American Jewish History at Temple University and Stockton University Department of Holocaust & Genocide Studies.
For Zoom information,visit our website, see Staying
Connected at RS (weekly email), or contact Dina Horowitz ([email protected] or 267-930-7289).
Close-Up: Upcoming at RS
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Choose Your Way to Support Rodeph Shalom
Cook & Connect SeriesJoin these culinary experts on a virtual cooking adventure!
Cook & Connect Part One: Koshersoul with Michael W. Twitty Sunday, January 10, 6:30pm-8:00pm EST Join James Beard award-winning culinary historian and Judaic teacher Michael W. Twitty on an exploration of the intersections of his identity as an African American and as an American Jew. Twitty shares the way he uses the table to navigate complicated issues and contemporary challenges of racial inequity and intersectional identity. His cookbook, The Cooking Gene, explores the perspective on our most divisive cultural issue, race, in this memoir of Southern cuisine and food culture that traces his ancestry—both black and white—through food, from Africa to America and slavery to freedom. Cook & Connect Part Two: Sababa Cooking with Adeena Sussman Sunday, February 21, 10:30am-12:00pm EST Join world-renowned chef, Adeena Sussman, as we take a journey into Israeli and Arab cooking traditions. Learn how to make a delicious tahini smoothie, and discuss how food is a creative tool which can speak to our identity and bridge cultural differences. Sussman’s three most recent collaborations, including Cravings and Cravings: Hungry For More with Chrissy Teigen, were New York Times bestsellers. Sussman is the author of Sababa: Fresh, Sunny Flavors From My Israeli Kitchen, named a Best Fall 2019 cookbook by the New York Times.
OR• As a Year Long Patron
with special access and appreciation gifts
• As a Patron for one or more events with special access and appreciation gift(s)
• Gain access to the programs with General Admission
Participate in the Cook & Connect Series
Participate in the Coming Together
Gift Program Receive our appreciation gift when you participate as a donor.
RS-themed thank you gifts: - Challah cover - Mug - Jigsaw puzzle - Pen - Face mask
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- Challah cover - Mug - Jigsaw puzzle - Pen - Face mask
Cook & Connect Part Three: Fireside Chat & Cooking Demo with Julia Turshen Sunday, March 7, 6:30pm-8:00pm EST Join award-winning chef Julia Turshen for a fireside chat and marble loaf cooking demo as she takes us through her favorite childhood Jewish recipes and her quest for equity at the table. Turshen is the bestselling author of critically acclaimed cookbooks including Now & Again, Feed the Resistance, and Small Victories. She hosts the podcast ‘Keep Calm and Cook On.’ She is the founder of Equity At The Table (EATT), an inclusive digital directory of women and non-binary individuals in food.
PLUS Hear Michael Solomonov's Story of Addiction & Recovery
Sunday, May 2, 5:30pm-7:00pm EST Join world-renowned chef and restaurateur Michael Solomonov as he shares his recovery journey with addiction. Then, stay tuned for a panel discussion about addiction featuring Richard Roisman, Caron Board of Trustees member at Caron Treatment Centers, Dr. Tom Scott, Pain Management Specialist, and Moderator Colleen Barry, Chair of the Department of Health Policy & Management at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Photo Credit: Neal Santos
Pie in the Sky Level ($7,500): Season access to all four programs, special patron Q&A prior to programs, and...pie and dinner delivered to your home, FOUR RS-related gifts, plus a celebrity chef cookbook.
Making Ends Meat (vegetarian option) ($5,000): Season access to all four programs, special patron Q&A prior to programs, and...dinner delivered to your home, select THREE RS-related gifts of your choice, plus a celebrity chef cookbook.
Apple of My Eye ($2,500): Season access to all four programs, special patron Q&A prior to programs, and...dessert delivered to your home, select TWO RS-related gifts of your choice, plus a celebrity chef cookbook.
Squeeze the Day ($1,000): Season access to all four programs, special patron Q&A prior to programs, and... select ONE RS-related gift of your choice, plus a celebrity chef cookbook.
Year-Long Patron Options Select Your Way to Support RS
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Event Patron Options
Event Patron ($300): Patron Q&A before program and one celebrity chef cookbook for the program you attend.
Young Friends Event Patron (age 35 and younger) ($150): Patron Q&A before program and a fresh challah delivered to your home.
For one event or as many events as you like!
General Admission Option Non-patron tickets are available at $18 for each program.
Select Your Way to Support RS
Coming Together Gift Program Receive a Rodeph Shalom personalized gift as a
thank you when you support our community.
Make a donation at one of these levels and receive a thank you gift:
$500 Unity Donation Receive ONE gift of your choice:
RS-themed Challah Cover RS-themed Jigsaw Puzzle
RS Face Mask RS Mug
$250 Harmony Donation Receive ONE gift of your choice:
RS-themed Jigsaw Puzzle RS Face Mask
RS Mug
$100 Connection Donation Receive ONE gift of your choice: RS Face Mask
RS Mug
$50 Friendship Donation RS Mug
$25 Community Donation RS Pen
With Appreciation to Our Philanthropy Planning Committee
Ivy Barsky, Hank Bernstein, Bonnie Brier, Jonathan Broder,
Rachel Collins Clarke, Eric Dickstein, Chip Ellis, Michael Hauptman,Jill Ivey, Jonathan Klein, Deborah Klehr, Monica Kramer, Jonathan Krause,
Ellen Poster, Mickey & Ellen Simon, Fred Strober
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Year-Long Patron (See page 5 for details) ☐ Pie in the Sky ($7,500); Receive four gifts ☐ Making Ends Meat ($5,000); Receive three gifts☐ Apple of My Eye ($2,500); Receive two gifts ☐ Squeeze the Day ($1,000); Receive one gift Select Your Coming Together Gifts:☐ RS-themed Challah Cover ☐ RS-themed Jigsaw Puzzle☐ RS-themed Face Mask ☐ RS Mug
Select Your Cookbook: ☐ The Cooking Gene: Michael Twitty ☐ Sababa: Fresh and Sunny Flavors from My Israeli Kitchen: Adeena Sussman☐ Now and Again: Go-To Recipes, Inspired Menus + Endless Ideas for Reinventing Leftovers: Julia Turshen ☐ Zahav: A World of Israeli Cooking: Michael Solomonov
Event or Young Friends Patron (See page 6 for details)☐ Event Patron ($300) ☐ Young Friends Event Patron ($150)
Select Your Program: (Receive one celebrity chef cookbook for event you attend): ☐ Cook & Connect Part One: Koshersoul with Michael W. Twitty (Jan. 10) ☐ Cook & Connect Part Two: Sababa Cooking Adeena Sussman (Feb. 21)☐ Cook & Connect Part Three: Fireside Chat & Cooking Demo with Julia Turshen (March 7) ☐ Story of Addiction & Recovery with Michael Solomonov (May 2)
General Admission ($18/each)Select Your Program: ☐ Cook & Connect Part One: Koshersoul with Michael W. Twitty (Jan. 10) ☐ Cook & Connect Part Two: Sababa Cooking Adeena Sussman (Feb. 21)☐ Cook & Connect Part Three: Fireside Chat & Cooking Demo with Julia Turshen (March 7) ☐ Story of Addiction & Recovery with Michael Solomonov (May 2)
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Make a $500 Unity Donation — Receive ONE gift of your choice ☐ RS-themed Challah Cover ☐ RS-themed Face Mask ☐ RS-themed Jigsaw Puzzle ☐ RS Mug Make a $250 Harmony Donation — Receive ONE gift of your choice ☐ RS-themed Jigsaw Puzzle ☐ RS Mug ☐ RS-themed Face Mask
Make a $100 Connection Donation — Receive ONE gift of your choice☐ RS-themed Face Mask ☐ RS Mug Make a $50 Friendship Donation ☐ RS Mug
Make a $25 Friendship Donation ☐ RS Pen
If you have questions or would like more
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Close-Up: Upcoming Programs at RS & Cook & Connect Series, a virtual cooking adventure!
Thank You to Our Philanthropic SponsorsCelebrity chef underwriters:
The Joseph W. Rosenbluth Fund Marjorie Rosenbluth Philips
Corporate sponsors include:
See the January/February Bulletin for a list of our generous patrons.
