January/ February/ March 2020 Tevet/Shevet/1 Adar/Nisan

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519 N. Main Street, Butler, PA 16001 724-287-5806

E-Mail: CongBnaiAbraham@zoominternet.net Website: www.CongBnaiAbraham.org

Founded In 1903

Congregation B’nai Abraham A warm, caring, inclusive community

Eric Levin President

Cantor Michal Gray-Schaffer Spiritual Leader

From The Cantor’s Desk… Cantor Michal

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Dear Friends,Yesterday, I sadly took down the electric chanukiah that always shines in my front window, and

carefully packed the glass bulbs and put them away until next year. I also worked on getting the wax off the chanukiah my husband and I had on our kitchen table, including running it under warm water to loosen the wax. I love this practice of lighting the candles and/or turning the bulbs, when Jews literally add more light to the world each night that Chanukah progresses. Biblically, we have been commanded to be a “light unto the nations” (Isaiah 42:6), and I like the metaphor of bringing more light into the world during the darkest time of the year.

In the past year-and-change, I believe that much of the light we have brought to the world has been found in the light others are bringing to us. The world’s response to the tragedy of 10/27 generated a del-uge of caring in every possible way. I am reminded daily of this as I pass Tree of Life/ Or L’Simcha syna-gogue on my way to and from work, and see the school children’s artwork that hangs on the chain-link fence surrounding the still-closed building. This touching support in its various forms from our gentile neighbors will be well known to you.

This support hasn’t waned, as recent events will show. In the past few months, one credible threat against the Jewish community of Butler and one anti-semitic hate crime have come to our attention. When I shared this with the Butler Interfaith Ministerium that was created in the wake of 10/27, the response was swift and heartwarming. A beautiful letter of support was written by a member of the Ministerium, with the rest of the priests, pastors and ministers signing it. It appeared in the Butler Eagle, our local newspaper, in the Editorial section. Members have offered to “stand guard” for us at our services. We are working to plan a Friday night service at B’nai Abraham, where Christian congregants and pastors will come to show their respect for our faith. This light of love and caring is still burning brightly in Butler.

A teaching in Chapter 5 of the Pirke Avot, the Wisdom of Our Fathers, makes its clear that it is a mitzvah to allow others to do a kindness for you; conversely, it is a sin to refuse that kindness. Receiving the good deeds of all those who have been moved to do so is what the Holy One wants of us. It is dis-couraging to find that anti-semitism is still with in, but at least it has allowed us to feel the unprecedented support of our non-Jewish neighbors.May the light of goodness continue to light up our troubled world.L’shalom,Cantor Michal

A Few Words From Our President, Eric Levin...

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Asthesayinggoes“Ifyoufeedthemtheywillcome.”WhatawonderfulturnoutwehadfortheHanukkahpartylastmonth.Almost50peoplea?endedandatleast10lentahelpinghandinthepreparaAonofourdeliciouslunch.OursynagogueconAnuestoprovidethesetypesofeventsforourmembersandfriendsonaregularbasis.TherearealsomanyinteresAngprogramsonaweek-lyandmonthlybasis.AstheworldaroundusconAnuestospinoutofcontrolitisevenmoreim-portantnowforustoconAnuewithourendeavorssurroundingCongregaAonB’naiAbraham.Itistheonlywaythatforustokeepourfootprintinthiscommunity.ThanksmustbegiventoCantorMichalaswellastherestoftheBoardofDirectorsonajobwelldoneinkeepingourcongregaAonmovingforwardwhensomanyofoursmallersistercongregaAonshaveclosedinthepastfewyears.Ilookforwardtoanotherstrongyearforoursynagogueandnottosoundtoomuchlikeabrokenrecordbutseeingeveryoneinshul.Mybest.

Eric

Our Religious School Director: Roberta Gallagher

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HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

Religious school  has been busy since our last bulletin.  In October,  our students participated in a memorial service for the 11 victims of the Tree of Life shootings. We lit candles and read a short memory of each victim.  Jonah, Josh and John continue to say Kaddish for members of both our Butler and  Kittanning congregations. We are trying something different at Religious School.  As this may be our last year, I have tried to bring more "learning through doing" experiences to our students.  In November,  we had mem-bers and former members speak to us about why and what Judaism means to them.  I want to thank Chris Hood, Phil Terman, Katie Riggs, Janice Dunmire, Howard and Meg Kossover, Cantor Michal, and Zach and Lori Doerr for participating in our 3 week program. It was a valuable insight into people's commitment to their Judaism. Everyone who attended enjoyed the talks! In December all three boys tried their hand at sufganyot~jelly donuts ~for Chanukah! We had lots of fun, made a wonderful  mess and shared many  memories of previous cooking experiences! Jonah, azoy, azoy,azoy!! In the new year, we have volunteers coming to bake their favorite Jewish dish with our students! Our Mitzvah project  during November and December was collecting underware and sweatpants for our local elementary schools.  This was requested by the school nurses. A huge thank you to Ben Vincent for helping me fill 150 baggies with candies and "Snow-man  Soup" poems for our Weekend Backpack Program. There are over 350 students at the ele-mentary level who receive a bag of food each Friday  to help them through the weekend. I am amazed at how compassionate these 3 boys are towards complete strangers. They see or hear of a need, and step right up to help. True Menches. I think i can speak for the entire congre-gation when I say how proud of them we are. They truly teach us what Tikum Olam really means.

I hope that 2020 brings everyone much peace, love, good food  shared with love one and many great memories. 

Roberta

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Notes from the

Neshamah:

A Poetry Moment with Phil

If We Were as Brilliant as Groundhogs

We know these are the shortest days: late dark, early dark, we’ve adjusted in our own fashions to the degrees of gray, maneuvering down icy roads

to spend hours in dusty rooms reciting the literature of our complaints. But now the clouds have decided to disperse and the pre-dawn moon re-appears,

having experimented with how long we could live without it, like a lover vanishing into an inexplicable privacy, or a God who needs the reassurance

That we are unable to live without Him. Yes, that’s what the light is for us: we can take its absence only so far. At first we rejoiced in its leave-taking,

its daily requirements of radiance, glarings and exposures, its requisite pleasures, the burden of beauty’s full view, content to bear what our new lives require:

turning inward, taking deliberate steps, the deeper silences, sudden distances, mist gathering and receding, monochrome and framed, objects blurring into themselves:

trees into sky, water into field, the sudden bursts of snowfall from the place the stars were. And the flashflames of the smaller gods who carry what remains of light: blue jay

and cardinal, red-headed woodpecker, red-streaked finch, enough to keep most happy, reminders of what once was the harbingers of what will come again.

But for others it’s not enough—a flick of an occasional flight is only a gesture, some cosmic mockery meant to tease or test their resolve for just how much

they can stand, stuck in their houses, relying on their own inner resources. If we were a brilliant as groundhogs we’d sleep through it, sink deeply

into the muddy caves of our own bodies and dream the dream of the inactive, practicing for our own deaths, suspending almost completely our blood, like the waters

of this immediate earth, until the stirring, as now, the prodigal light roaring across the horizon, blinding us in its harsh return, daring us once again back into our own lives.

Photograph by Kevin Mueller

From: House of Sages, by Phil Terman Copyright: 1998

We are pleased to announce the donation of the following books to our library:

Thank You For Your Contributions!

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Yahrzeit Fund Min Offstein In memory of Lew Offstein

Gil Kart

Marlene Schechter In honor of parents

Saul & Frances Schechter

Larry & Judy Berg In memory of Irwin Berg

Arnovitz Handicap Access Fund

Cantor’s Discretionary Fund

Alfred Zacroisky In honor of

The Torah Restoration Maintenance Fund

Herman & Joan Leventhal in honor of

Shirley Grossman

Religious School Jamie & Paul MarkowitzIn honor of

The Leventhal Family

Torah Restoration Fund

Library Fund

Todah Rabah To The Following Congregants & Friends!

• Denny Offstein-for his gracious donation of potatoes & eggs for our Chanukah party and for donating money for the 10/27 Memorial Service & bulbs for the Memorial Garden.

• Dr. Ira & Helene Abramowitz for the donation of the defibrillator…“All in the heart of giving.”

• For all the speakers who participated in Roberta’s discussion forum,”Why I Am A Jew”: Lori & Zach Doerr, Janice Dunmire, Meg & Howard Kossover, Cantor Michal, Chris Hood & Phil Terman, Katie Riggs, and Roberta herself.

• Kathleen Bell for her extraordinary financial generosity over the past year. You rock, sister!

• Tim’s security guards who keep us safe. • To Lori Doerr who we thank for being the treasurer of the board and for doing such an excellent job.

• To the faithful few congregants who attend Friday night Shabbat services…we would be lost to the sands of time without you. :)

• To Eric & Joe Levin for purchasing and installing the mats on the front porch. • Denny Offstein, Eric Levin, Tom & Lori Doerr, Marty Myers, ian Miller, Meg Krossover, Esther Miller and all others who helped cook, set up and clean up for the Chanukah party.

• Kim Csonka for coming in to help with our computer problems…Thanks for being our tech geek! :)

• Thanks to the anonymous gentleman who came to our door to donate $200. It’s people like him that proves that goodness and kindness still shines brightly in the world.

• Thanks to Shirley Grossman and Ben Vincent for stepping up to the grueling chal-lenge of serving as Cantor’s assistants…G-d help her!

• Marty & Julie Myers for hosting our annual Congregational Picnic…as always it was a blast!

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Announcing the 2020 Purimschpiel!

The 1987 movie, “The Princess Bride,” became a cult favorite. This year, we will be doing “The Jewish Princess Bride” for our annual Purimschpiel on Friday, March 13 at the annual Purim Service. A non-musical, it calls for a varied cast of villains, heroes, a giant, princess, pi-rate, witch, wizard, and more fun and zany characters. Sword fights, ROUSes (Rodents of un-usual size), a poison game - how will Cantor M fit all these into the Purim story? Will she use the famous lines from the movie?:

.....As you wish.....Inconceivable!Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.I’m not a witch! I’m your wife!Goodbye, boys. Have fun storming the castle!

It would be a good idea to watch the movie to see how charming it is and how funny the lines are.

We’re looking for a cast of Religious School students and adults. Rehearsals will be held on Sundays after Religious School, 12:30 - 2p.m., starting January 25. Not everyone will be called every week. Rehearsals will last longer when it’s closer to the performance.

Please contact Cantor Michal at congbnaiabraham@zoominternet.net with your interest. She promises a riotous good time will be had by all!

The Princess

Bride

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1/17/2020 Shabbat Service 7:00 P.M.

1/24/2020 Shabbat Service 7:00 P.M.

1/31/2020 Shabbat Service 7:00 P.M.

1/2/2020 Kabbalah Class 2-3 P.M.

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1/8/2020 Sh’ma Now Class 7 P.M.

1/5/2020 Religious School 10-12:30 P.M.

1/12/2020 Religious School 10-12:30 P.M.

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Notes: 2/7/2020 Shabbat Services 7 P.M.

2/14/2020 Shabbat Services 7 P.M.

2/21/2020

Shabbat Services 7P.M.

2/28/2020

Shabbat Across America Dairy Pot Luck Dinner 6 P.M.

2/28/2020

Shabbat Service 7 P.M. R.S. Students will have parts in the Service.

2/6/2020 Kabbalah Class 2 P.M.

2/13/2020 Kabbalah Class 2 P.M.

2/20/2020 Kabbalah Class 2 P.M.

2/27/2020 Kabbalah Class 2 P.M.

2/12/2020 Sh’ma Now Class 7P.M.

2/9/2020 Tu Bish’vat Seder: 11 A.M.

2/2/2020 Religious School 10-12:30 P.M.

2/9/2020 Religious School 10-11 A.M.

2/16/2020 Religious School 10-12:30 P.M.

2/23/2020 Religious School 10-12:30 P.M.

Birthdays Anniversaries

On Life!

Sam Campbell Jan 3Jo Rosenblum Jan 5Lori Gallagher Jan 11Elissa Abramowitz Jan 14Judy Berg Jan 17Jessica Campbell Jan 26Ruth Ralston Feb 10Helene Goldstein Feb 11Sandi Hewko Feb 12Rick Bitter Feb 13Lori Doerr Feb 14Rachel Miller Feb 14Jim Csonka Feb 19Arlene Barron Feb 19Yisraela Cohen-Klinger Feb 27Helene Abramowitz Mar 3Janice Dunmire Mar 7Howard Muranko Mar 8David Perelman Mar 11Tim Campbell Mar 12Katie Campbell Mar 16

Mark Your Calendars!

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3/15/2020 Religious School 10-12:30 P.M.

3/22/2020

J-Serve Pittsburgh For grades 6 & Over-Every Student is eligible this year!

3/29/2020 Religious School 10-12:30 P.M.

Bill & Sandi Hewko Mar 31

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CLASSES AT B’NAI

New Class Forming: A History of the Jewish People 101 Interest has been expressed about this subject to Cantor Michal. Please contact her at congbnaiabraham@zoominternet.net with your interest and available times.

Adult Education Class:Our Sh’ma Now Adult Ed Class is now studying from a different text. The class chose “A Taste of Text: An Introduction to the Talmud and Midrash” from Berman House. We have used it for three months now, and like it very much. The subject matter is very approachable and stimulates great conversations! The class is on-going, but we would welcome new members at any time. Eric Levin has said, “If congregants knew how enjoy-able this is, they’d all be here!” We meet the second Wednesday of each month from 7 - 8 p.m. Our next subject will be “Repentance.” Well - what are you waiting for?

Kabbalah - This class meets most Thursdays at 2 p.m. in the library. Soon we be switching to the study of the Prophets-beginning with the Early Prophets i.e, Joshua, Judges, etc. Bring you own Tanahk (Hebrew Bible). You will not believe what is in some of our Holy Scriptures, OY! Contact the synagogue, congbnaiabraham@zoominternet.net,with your interest. Everyone is welcomed… Even if you haven’t come before. Shalom.

Tu Bish’vat Seder

Please come and join us in our annual Tu’Bishvat Seder

February 9th, 2020 11:00 a.m. And let us celebrate the Original

Arbor Day Together!

Come and be a part of the larger Jewish Community Across America as we welcome the Sabbath together in the Annual Shabbat Across America Service, February 28, 2020.

We will have a Potluck Dinner @ 6p.m. Services will follow @ 7:00 Where the Religious School Students will have

Parts in the Service. Hope to see you there!

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YahrzeitThe Yahrzeits of the following beloved relatives will be observed in the weeks to come. Their names will be read at Friday evening or Saturday morning services the week of the date listed. Attendance at synagogue services and the recitation of Kaddish is always a most appropriate way to remember a loved one.

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The following names will be read at services on Friday, January 3 Tevet Jan. Isaac Levy 6 3 Morris A. Abes 6 3 Martin St. Lifer 6 3 Milton Friedman 7 4 Grace A. Zoth 7 4 Jennie Green Zeichner 7 4 David Baron 8 5 Irvin Grossman 9 6 Georgia Rosenblum 9 6 Sura Solodar 10 7 Henry Levy 10 7 Rhonda D’Antuono 10 7 Harry Charovsky 11 8 Sandford Berman 11 8 The following names will be read at services on Friday, January 13. Tevet Jan. Samuel Rossen 14 11 Mrs. Harry (Ann) Blatt 14 11 Kiva Dov Charovsky 15 12 Rebecca Goldberg 15 12 Saul B. Garber 16 12 Rosalind Caplan 16 12 Kay B. Steiner 17 13 Sarah Flam 19 16 Sally Bloomberg Bailey 19 16

The following names will be read at services on Friday, January 17. Tevet Jan. Lawrence King 22 19 Louis Feigenbaum 22 19 Morton Klein 22 19 Hirsch Rosenblum 22 19 Ruth Lipsky Berer Belkin 23 20 Harold Friedman 24 21 Paul Gendler 24 21 The following names will be read at services on Friday, January 24. Tevet Jan. Ruth Siev 28 25 Ilene Grossman Mattock 28 25 Lena Berger 28 25 Libby Rosenberg 29 26 Shevet Jan. Jacob Miller 1 27 Reva Maglin Abes 3 29 Hazel Klinger 4 30 David L. Simon 4 30 Harry Spero 4 30 Lenore Abes Mendicino 4 30 Esther Jane Rubin Rosenthal 4 30 Arthur Seder 4 30

The following names will be read at services on Friday, January 31. Shevet Jan. Miriam Schreiber 5 31 Aaron Blistein 5 31 Princeton M. Nadler 5 31 Harry Berger 5 31 Isabelle Venesky 5 31 Arthur Jaffe 5 31

Shevet Feb. Anna Kart 6 1 Bernard Bernstein 7 2 Elsie Gordon Elias 7 2 Zella Miller 7 2 Joseph Levin 8 3 Samuel Markel 8 3 Bessie Hurwitz 8 3 Ralph Marcus 8 3 Ruth Bernstein 8 3 Miriam Arnovitz 9 4 Samuel Stein 10 5 Gertie Port 10 5 Sidney Freedman 11 6

The following names will be read at services on Friday,February 7. Shevet Feb. Jacob Daly 12 7 Sam Robins 12 7 Elizabeth Wolf 12 7 David Kart 13 8 Jack Schor 14 9 David Mintz 15 10 William Mark 16 11 Miriam Miller 16 11 Jean Feldblum 16 11 Jospeh Moskowitz 17 12 Morris Markel 17 12

The following names will be read at services on Friday, February 14. Shevet Feb. David Miller 19 14 David Rosenblum 19 14 Nathan Boozell 20 15 Sarah Ziman 20 15 Dena Esther Epstein 20 15 Ben Parish 21 16 Eli Schrieberg 21 16 Dorothy Adelson 22 17 Manny Abes 23 18 Ida Kopelman 23 18 Jacob Secher 23 18 Paul Perrin 23 18 Bella Teaman 23 18 Slyvia Marcus Karp 25 20 Rhea Abramowitz 25 20 Arthur Baron 25 20 Rhoda Rosenfeld 25 20 Rhea Schwartz 25 20 The following names will be read at services on Friday, February 21. Shevat Feb. Helen Gendler 26 21 Dorothy Israel 27 22 Harry Novick 27 22 Elsie Abes 27 22 Milton X. Friedman 28 23 Charles A. Horewitz 28 23 Saul Langsner 28 23 Max Nast 29 24 Gertrude Grossmann 29 24 Adrienne Gould 29 24 Herman Markel 29 24

Shevat Feb. Roseline Rae Kodish 30 25 Arthur Arnovitz 30 25 Al Kaplan 30 25 1Adar Feb. Bernard Abes 1 26 Evelyn Zamoski Holtzman 2 27 Ruth (Rothel) Katz 2 27 Joseph Horewitz 2 27

The following names will be read at services on Friday, Feb 28. 1Adar Feb. Harry Abes 4 29 Gizella Cohen 4 29 Ida Bigg Cahen 4 29 Sadie Niemark Adleson 4 29 David Pollock 4 29 Presley Arnovitz 4 29 1Adar Mar. Leona Rossen 5 1 Leonard Feldstein 6 2 Leon Solitrin 6 2 Lena K. Kuhr 7 3 Abe Bloomberg 7 3 Alexis Rae Hewko 7 3 Anna Alter 8 4 Jennie Rapoport 9 5 Reuben Caplan 9 5 Paul “Pinny” Arnovitz 9 5 Mina Tompkins 9 5

The following names will be read at services on Friday, March 6. 1Adar Mar. Hyman Cahen 10 6 Josephine Zinman 10 6 Renee Scoratow 10 6 Barbara Selman 10 6 Sam Zamoski 11 7 Marc Selman 11 7 Louis Wishnev 11 7 Rebecca Schwartz 12 8 Harry Daley 12 8 Aaron Grushkin 13 9 Chasa Horowitz 14 10 Rebecca Mintz 14 10 Jayne Friedman 15 11 Rose Lennett 16 12 Esther Wishnev 16 12 The following names will be read at services on Friday, March 13. 1Adar Mar. Samuel Baron 17 13 Leonard Selman 18 14 Rita Cohen 18 14 Charlotte Levy 18 14 Moishe Greenberg 19 15 Marion Garber 19 15 Shirley King 20 16 Essie Schwartz 20 16 Anna Abes 22 18 Beatrice Bliss 22 18 Dorothy Goodman Green 22 18 Israel Michael Jacob Klinger 23 19 Michael Gary Abes 23 19 Eileen Barry 23 19

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YahrzeitThe Yahrzeits of the following beloved relatives will be observed in the weeks to come. Their names will be read at Friday evening or Saturday morning services the week of the date listed. Attendance at synagogue services and the recitation of Kaddish is always a most appropriate way to remember a loved one.

The following names will be read at services on Friday, March 20. 1Adar. Mar. Ruth (Saul) Bernstein 24 20 William Norman Brent 25 21 Anne Silverman Barnett 25 21 Hortense Israel 25 21 Abraham Mo Blatman 25 21 Bernice Abes 25 21 Ira Sadowsky 25 21 Sylvia Ogan 26 22 Carole Aron 26 22 Robert Baron 26 22 Anna Green 27 23 Julius Lipsky 28 24 Anne Mark 28 24 Dorothy Love 28 24 Helen Friedman 29 25

Nisan. Mar. Deenah Levin Rusnak 1 26 Paul Rudoff 1 26

The following names will be read at services on Friday, March 27. Nisan. Mar. Ann Jaffe 2 27 David Cessna 3 28 Paula Horwitz Alper 3 28 Patricia Lunkemer 3 28 Samuel Oram 4 29 Ben Klein 4 29 Gary Zinman 4 29 Elinor Devitt 5 30 Joseph Hurwitz 5 30 Gil Kart 5 30 Ann Hendel 6 31 Nisan. Apr. Rachel Frank 7 1 Gershon Apple 7 1 Annabelle Horewitz 7 1 Pearl Sadowski 8 1

"Man enters the world with closed hands, as if to say, “The world is mine”; he leaves with open hands, as if to say, “I take nothing with me.”" ~~ Midrash Ecclesiastes R. 5:14

"האדם נכנס לעולם בידיים סגורות, כאילו אומר" העולם הוא שלי ";

הוא יוצא בידיים פתוחות, כמו לומר "אני לא לוקח איתי כלום." - מדרש

קהלת ר '5:14

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Congregation B’Nai Abraham Remembers,

Chester N. Aaron

May Chester’s Memory be for a blessing.

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YAHRZEIT MEMORIAL PLAQUES

Yahrzeit plaques for the Memorial Tablets can be purchased to honor our loved ones who have passed away. The cost is $150.00 and can be purchased by contacting Shirley Grossman at (724) 287-1544. Checks for all of the above are to be made out to B’NAI ABRAHAM MEMORIAL FUND and sent to Shirley Grossman, 203 Beech Road,

Butler, PA 16001.

Refuah Sh’leima

This list is updated for each bulletin to include only those people whom we know are still in need of healing.

Please call the synagogue with the names of those whom you would like added to this list.

Barbara Cohn Angelique Faith Conrad Herb Klinger Arlene Windenhofer Philip Miller Muriel Grossman Bill Hewko Elisha Graham Frank Kennedy Bonnie Kennedy Debbie Schroth Hendricks Family Otterman Family Arlene Family Murray Cohn Beege (Bill) BonnerDale ZellefrowScott LevinKeith KnoxPatrick Rape

Phil TermanJordan Levin

“Comfort ye, comfort ye, My people Saith your G*d. For the Lord hath comforted his people; He hath redeemed Jerusalem.”

Isaiah 40:1

Please Note: At the cemetery entrance there are now pots of white stones to mark the Headstone(s) of the grave(s) you visit.

TREE OF LIFE LEAVES

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Mi-she-bei-rach a-vo-tei nuM’kor ha-bra-cha l’i-mo-tei-nu

May the source of strengthWho blessing the ones before us

Help us find the courageTo make our lives a blessing

And let us say, Amen

Mi-she-bei-rach i-mo-tei-nuM’kor ha-bra-cha l’a-vo-tei-nuBless those in need of healing

With r’fu-a sh’lei-maThe renewal of bodyThe renewal of spirit

And let us say, Amen.

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Sukkot2019

Tree of Life Memorial Service and Flower Garden

Our Yummy Shabbat Pot Luck Dinner & Oneg

Making Chanukah Donuts! 17

Chanukah Luncheon 2019

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