Congregation Anshai Torah

Sivan-Tammuz-Av 5780 June / July 2020 Volume 40 / Issue 6 & 7

Kol Emet

This year has been a whirlwind. No one really knows what to truly expect as President, but after two years I can honestly say that this is the most meaningful and special board experience of my life. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to serve as your President. First, I want to thank Rabbi Weinberg and Rabbi Kush-nick for your wonderful leadership, guidance, and friend-ship throughout these past two years. I also want to thank our amazing and dedicated staff led by Harvey, Rachel, Kay, Wanda, Carol, Debbie, Daniel, Nancy, Don, and their entire teams, insuring that Anshai runs smoothly on a daily basis. Again, Thank You. It has been an honor to work with you. I will always cherish the special bonds that I have created with each of you over the past two years. Additionally, I want to give a special thank you to all the past presidents for the assistance you provided me when-ever I needed to call on you. Your experience is invalua-ble and greatly appreciated. I could not have asked for a better Board of Directors and Executive Committee. I have been blessed to be able to work closely with Dan, Jay, Haim, Marcy, Andrew, War-ren, Cheryl, and Jen on the Executive Committee. Mar-cy, thank you for your guidance over the past two years, and Cheryl and Marcy, thank you for your dedication to Anshai; we will miss both of you on the Executive Com-mittee next year. Our full Board has been absolutely amazing, and enthusiastically stepped up to the plate whenever needed. They along with the many committee chairs, staff, Rabbis and volunteers have become the Anshai Torah Doers. (One Last Time) Remember DO OR DO NOT; THERE IS NO TRY. Thank you for all that each and every one of you does for our congregation. Our Financial Stability Committee continues to provide us with information and recommendations on important top-ics like the size of our current physical structure, growth, fundraising, endowment and investment programs. We officially created a separate endowment committee out of the Financial Stability Committee to assist us with our financial future.

Our Early Childhood Director, Rachel Blum, continues to lead our Preschool in providing a top-notch educational environment for our youngest members. Rachel, it has been a absolute pleasure to work with you over the past two years. We have been very busy over the past year. Our auxilia-ries continue to provide our members with a variety of remarkable programming throughout the year. We began this working calendar year with the great Weinberg Family Golf Tournament, where we had 120 participants and raised thousands of dollars to assist our Anshai children with summer camp scholarships. Diamonds & Dice was a huge success, and we were priv-ileged to be able to honor Pam and Matt Kurtzman for their dedication to Anshai over the years, while having a whole lot of fun. Our Arnie Sweet Scholar-In-Residence program contin-ues to be a yearly pillar of our congregation. We had the honor of welcoming Rabbi Brad Hirschfield as our Arnie Sweet Scholar in Residence this year. We could not have asked for a better Scholar in Residence. Other highlights from the past year include our High Holi-day and Shabbat Services, our deliveries of Shalach Manot baskets; several Israel Advocacy programs (including hosting Sarah Tuttle-Singer); education; Artist in Residence program (where we hosted Joey Weisen-berg); Sunshine committee initiatives; social media, tech-nology and communication implementations and improve-ments; Flower Sales, CAT’s in College programs, Sukkot-Hanukkah-and-Purim Programs; and Tikkun Olam com-mittee programs. We continue the success with our twice-daily minyanim to ensure that all who need to say kaddish for a loved one can do so. Also, our Hesed Committee continues to be an unsung positive for our congregation, doing the little things for our members (like visiting those who are ill, in-cluding during these past two months).

2020 Anshai Torah Annual Meeting – President’s Report

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President’s Perspective . . .

I want to personally thank each of you who volunteered your time to fundraise for each event this year. It is not easy to ask people and companies to donate their money, but it is a necessary task and cannot be overlooked. Our membership has been steady over the past year; I am happy to report that we have more members than we did last year (over 550 families). I hope we continue to grow our membership moving forward. Membership (in-reach and outreach) is vital and is of utmost importance. We have improved our membership cabinet this past year, and I commissioned new committees that will have the sole focus of membership retention and new mem-bers so we can engage our members in targeted ways, with specific experiences and opportunities for all congre-gants. Our membership cabinet is hard at work to contin-ue to make our shul a success. In addition, our Chai Membership Program has never been stronger with many new families joining to ensure that all who wish to become part of our family, regardless of financial ability, can do so. We must maintain our sense of intimacy and personal in-reach even as we grow. Rabbi Kushnick has provided continued consistency with our Religious School. The search committee has been working extremely hard to find our next Education Direc-tor over the past year. We started our search with many highly qualified candidates, but we have not found the right fit just yet. We will continue to look for our next di-rector as we move forward. Our Religious School Com-mittee, with an active group of parents, has assisted in connecting the classrooms, calendars, and staff with our Religious School families in a positive and productive way. The joint Hebrew High Program with the two other conservative synagogues had another positive year. Our children continue to receive only the very best Jewish education and experiences from Preschool through high school and are fully prepared for their own Jewish Jour-ney thereafter. Sadly, we have seen an increase in anti-Semitic threats, including our own incident last summer. Even though that incident was found not to be a true threat against our shul, we were proactive with the safety implementations and actions for our children, families, and staff. Our con-gregation continues to work on making our community a safer place. We have always been proactive with our security initiatives; and this year, we again made some additional enhancements to our security. The Board of Directors adopted the proposed security recommenda-tions made by the Security Committee, including "if you

see something, say something." The safety for our chil-dren, congregants, staff, Rabbis, and our synagogue’s physical structure will always be of the utmost im-portance. We have worked tirelessly to keep our financials stable while being fiscally responsible. With that said, COVID-19 changed our financial picture for the remainder of the year, but we were able to obtain an SBA PPP loan that assisted our yearly financial outlook. We currently have a positive cash flow and will continue to keep a close eye on this coming year’s budget numbers to make sure that we are financially successful over the coming year. I want to thank Rabbi Weinberg, Rabbi Kushnick, Harvey, the staff, Dan, Executive Committee, the Board, our COVID-19 Task Force, and TF Sub-Committee for all you have done in order for Anshai to continue on as smoothly as possible during this dynamic time. These are trying times, and to have such a collaborative effort to assist in making these difficult decisions is greatly appreciated. First, we needed to go virtual, which we did immediately (from meetings, school, education, to services). We are having magnificent attendance at our daily minyanim, Kabbalat Shabbat & Havdalah Services. Your commit-ment to be active in our virtual world shows how positive our future will continue to be. Then, I put together, with the assistance of our Rabbis, Harvey, and Dan, a COVID-19 Task Force to assist with navigating through vital decisions that needed to be made. The task force was made up of past presidents, business and financial experts, current BODs and non-profit experts (all in conjunction with the guidance of Dr. Jeffrey Kahn and Steven Davidoff). The Task Force worked diligently to make certain we as-sisted Rachel and our Preschool/Summer Camp with op-tions and opportunities to make our PreK families com-fortable for the remainder of this year and into next year. We made sure our financials and cash flow were protect-ed by applying for the PPP SBA Loan, which we have already received (A very special thank you to Pam Kurtz-man, Rusty Cooper, Jonathan Goodman, Jay Post and Harvey for your assistance with obtaining the PPP Loan). We revised our budget for next year, which was viewed at the meeting, to account for the possible difficulties that we may face in light of COVID-19. Additionally, we have con-tinued to pay all of our Rabbis and staff.

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If you have recently had a new addition to your family, recently become engaged, married or had a major milestone birthday or anniversary, please let us know! We would love to share good news with our Anshai Torah family, but we can only share if you share with us!

Send details/pictures to kay.sykora@anshaitorah.org.

Anshai Torah Families

A note from the Hesed Committee —

We all know the remarkable acts of humanity seen all over the world during this Covid-19 crisis and I have seen my own little miracles from the many volunteers who called to help Hesed. Hesed committee volunteers made over 150 phone calls to the more senior members of our congregation to offer help or simply to check in. We shopped and delivered groceries, ordered, cooked and delivered meals. We also delivered fresh baked challah from the kitchen of Sharon Horn. I am overwhelmed with the generosity and support of all those who, despite the difficulties, help make sure our congregants are well supported. Volunteers from both our congrega-tion and from our greater Dallas community did not hesitate to step forward.

In addition to meals, a group of young adult volunteers took it upon themselves to provide a family with an order from Amazon: diapers, wipes, toilet paper, water, children’s books, toys and snacks, laundry detergent, and gift cards. A congregant wrote: “I cannot tell you how much I appreciate all you and the volunteers have done for us. There really are no words to express my sincere gratitude. My heart is filled with gratitude”. Another wrote: “Thank you so very much for offering to help get us kosher meat. We are so very grateful. We are now stocked with food so we can continue staying inside our home”. Gerri Romanik said “Your volunteer is an absolute angel. Talking to her filled me with joy; she simply made my day and week that much better. My heart is full. Thank you so very much for bringing her into my life”. So from the bottom of my heart I thank my volunteers: Ilene Baumel, David Berman, Ora Bernstein, Ilene Bierman, Sheryl Billman, Kristen Binkley, Jenna Braoude, Cynthia Brooks, Kerri Chambers, Karen Cohen, Liz Cooper, Stephen Fleischman, Jessica Gordon, Alex Horn, Sharon Horn, Arielle Iola, Marcy Kahn, Lynne Kirshenbaum, Tanya McDaniel, Janis Peiser, Denise Pollis, Jessica Ringenberg, Katty Rosenstock, Sherry Rubin, Genna Skolnik, David Stanley, Sheri Vine, Ivette Wilderman, Lisa Wile, Carolyn Wilkov and Natalie Wills. And to all those who contacted me, I will call on you as the need arises. Your kindness is immeasurable; it has warmed my heart and soul. I wish everyone blessings for good health. Elaine Levitt Hesed Committee Chair

Even our young volunteers helped their mom pack meals and made greeting cards.

Gerri Romanik enjoys the greeting cards and meals provided to her.

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Sisterhood — Schmooze and News

Men’s Club. . .camaraderie and commitment

The 2019-2020 year was a successful year for the members of Anshai Torah’s Men’s Club. While we had the year cut short, some of the more memorable moments included: · Beer Tasting · Sukkah Construction and Teardown · Football in the Sukkah (with TV provided by Star Power) · Annual Men’s Club Latke Fry · Scotch Tasting · Worldwide Wrap at Anshai Torah with Rabbi Brad Hirschfield · Men’s Club Shabbat · 1

st Anshai Torah Men’s Club Lifetime Achievement Award honoree – Jeff Romick

· Yom Hashoah Yellow Candle Program Mens’ Club was honored to award 18 scholarships, totaling $13,500, as part of the Men’s Club Youth Scholarship Pro-gram. This was the largest amount ever granted to Anshai’s youth for sending our youth to Jewish Summer Camps, Israel Trips, Leadership Conferences, and Conventions.

Men’s Club Officers and Chairmen for 2020–21

President – David Ginchansky Vice – President – Jonathan Feldman

Treasurer – Brad Welcher Corresponding Secretary – Jeff Arbesman

Past President – Howard Eisenberg Religious Chair – Eric Berman

Thank you all for another wonderful year of Sisterhood! We are thrilled to have so much representation at our events and our Zoom end-of-year bash celebrating Lisa Gerstenfeld's achievements as our president. We look forward to an exciting year ahead . . .hopefully in person! Our slate has been approved for the new board members, although we are still in search of a Treasurer. If you are interested or curious about what this entails, please reach out to Paige Roth-stein, Lisa Gerstenfeld or Cynthia Brooks. Did you know your membership to the Anshai Sisterhood also gives you automatic membership to the Women's League of Conservative Judaism? Check out their rich website filled with information, classes, book clubs, and more. They also have a daily psalm educational reading and an opportunity to say kaddish with a large group of women from all over the world. For more information, visit their website www.WLCJ.org and sign up for their newsletter and classes.

2020-21 Sisterhood Officers

President—Cynthia Brooks Membership—Corrie Shores & Sharon Ginchansky

Programming—Suzy Fine & Robin Feldman Torah Fund—Bonnie Rubinstein & Gilda Zucker

Ways & Means—Melissa Welcher & Samantha Fairman Corresponding Secretary—Stephanie Kufert

Recording Secretary—Bethany Last Treasurer—Open (need to fill)

Member at Large—Jennifer Robinowich Women’s League Representative—Sherry Lynn Rubin & Shawn Frank

Past President—Lisa Gerstenfeld

Leida Uretsky Chapter of Hazak. . .

The Hesed committee: provides meals to those needing a helping hand, delivers care packages to bring a little sunshine and nourishment to your day. (Will resume

this once we are able to) fulfills the mitzvah of Bikkur Cholim, visiting those who are ill at home, in hospitals and those recovering in physical

rehabilitation centers. (Will resume this once we are able to) writes notes to recognize milestones, and acknowledges losses. makes phone calls to check on your progress.

welcomes new babies and grandbabies with an Anshai baby bib.

During this challenging time please call on me should you need help or know of anyone in our extended Anshai Torah family who could benefit from our support. We have volunteers ready to drop a meal off at your home.

I can be reached on my cell 214-783-4000, by email elainelevitt@gmail.com or you may contact Kay at the shul kay.sykora@anshaitorah.org Elaine Levitt, Hesed Committee Chair

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Phil Balis, President David Intebi, Vice President Josh Socolof, Treasurer Morrie Weinman, Secretary Hal Babitch, Programming

Prior to our Bingo event on May 20, Hazak’s Board of Directors for July 1, 2020 – June 2021 was unanimously elected. Gale Vaughn and nominating committee members Patty Weinman, Josh Socolof, and Sandy Balis presented an experi-enced and dedicated slate. Thank you to the committee members and Mazal Tov to our new board:

Congratulations to the Gail Berman, Diane Kufert, Allen Kufert, Susan Moger and Ramona Alpern for being big winners of our Celebration Magazine “Zoom” Bingo on Wednesday, May 20. Each winner received a $10 gift card. Bingo was hosted by Celebration Magazine, celebrating life after 60! To learn more about the magazine and to sign-up to play oth-er Bingo games, go to https://www.celebrationmagazine.com. Special thanks to Hal Babitch and Roberta Poznick for planning this great activity for us. We would love to have more Hazak members join in if we play Bingo again and/or for other virtual get-togethers until we can safely physically.

Thank you to Community Homes for Adults, Inc. (CHAI), for bestowing their 2020 Volunteer of the Year honor on Hazak member Denise Pollis. For over four years, Denise has conceptualized, produced, and participated in many activities for our CHAI residents and friends including our annual CHAI-HAZAK-PSO picnic. During her Zoom recognition event, Denise said, “As always, it takes a village to accomplish what we have for CHAI. This honor goes to Joe Milkes (from the Kalman and Ida Wolens Foundation) for his ongoing generous support of our picnics; to Kathy Schneider (Anshai Torah member and CHAI Community Relations Manager) for her outstanding coordination and communication skills; to Robert Reed (Executive Director of the Plano Symphony Orchestra) for his talent, knowledge and dedication to CHAI; and to Larry Pollis for his photography and graphic design skills, as well as patience and love. We are the volunteer team that ‘makes it happen’ for our precious CHAI residents and amazing staff!”

Enjoy some thought-provoking lectures One Day University. They have a huge library of lectures from top college/university professors from around the world. Logon to https://www.onedayu.com to review their offerings on topics that address health, history, current events, politics and the arts. Most lectures are recorded with a live audience, making the questions and answers at the end more relevant. Examples— American Jews: Where are We now? and The Jewish Brain: Neuroscience, Philosophy, Ritual, and Ethics. There is a nominal fee to download each session; or, if you join as a member, the presentations will be at a much-reduced rate.

Please watch for Hazak emails announcing Zoom events throughout the Summer to engage, enlighten, and entertain all of our wonderful members. If you have a suggestion for an activity you would like us to research and possibly produce, please contact President Phil Balis at phbalis@gmail.com or 214-906-7046.

Denise Pollis, Publicity Sheila Brown, Membership Eric Berman, Communications (ShulCloud) Shimon Ben-Poorat, Social Action Sandy Crook, Sunshine

Bar Mitzvah . . . Called to the Torah

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David Matthew Gershenson will be called to the Torah as a Bar Mitzvah on Shabbat morning, June 6, 2020. Da-vid is the son of Laura and Eli Gershenson, and younger brother to Hannah. He is the grandson of Neil z”l and Bari Millman of Dallas, TX, and Alyson and Elliot Gershenson of Houston, TX. David is entering the eighth grade at the St. Marks School of Texas, where he is an exceptional student and is very involved in school sports. David ran cross-country and was part of the undefeated 7

th grade soccer and baseball

teams. He enjoys playing baseball and soccer out of school as well. David plays baseball with the Rays (Young Guns), and plays on DKSC, a select soccer team in the DFW area. His other interests include video games, hanging out with friends and traveling. For his Mitzvah project, David participated in ACEING AUTISM where he helped teach kids with autism how to play tennis. We would like to thank Warren Rubin, David’s tutor, for helping David prepare for his Bar Mitzvah. He was sup-portive and encouraging of David throughout the process and we are truly appreciative of his time and dedication. Thank you to Rabbi Weinberg and Rabbi Kushnick for their guidance and support throughout David’s years at Anshai Torah. We could not be more proud of David and his accomplish-ments. We look forward to celebrating this Simcha with our family and friends from near and far and the Anshai Torah community in June and again in October.

Jonathan Buck Grossfeld, son of Ashley and Marc Grossfeld, was called to the Torah as a Bar Mitzvah on Thursday, May 21, 2020. The beautiful and mean-ingful service was conducted, with our immediate fami-ly present, at Levine Academy in the Wende Weinberg outdoor prayer garden, with Rabbi Weinberg officiat-ing. Rabbi Litton of Levine Academy was also in at-tendance, acting as Gabbai during the Torah service. The service was also livestreamed on Facebook, and was used as the Levine Academy morning service for that day. Over 2000 views have been recorded to date of his service video on Facebook. Jonathan worked so hard to learn his Haftarah and Torah portions, and he was thrilled to have the oppor-tunity to have his service at this time rather than re-scheduling. We would like to thank Rabbi Weinberg for making our day so special. Jonathan’s parsha lays out a framework for the Jews to set up and take apart the tabernacle as they traveled through the desert. Unfor-tunately, the Torah did not provide guidance for hold-ing a Bar Mitzvah during a pandemic, and we are ex-tremely grateful for the flexibility and creativity to help create this special service for Jonathan. Also, thank you so much to Adina Weinberg for pre-paring Jonathan for his Bar Mitzvah. To say that Jona-than was overwhelmed and anxious when he began would be an understatement. Adina’s calm demeanor and always smiling personality helped put Jonathan at ease to allow him to prepare for his special day. Even when we pivoted to a weekday Shacharit service, her encouragement eased the transition. Jonathan just completed his 7

th grade year at Levine

Academy, where he enjoys being a member of the basketball team and is also a member of the Student Congress and NJHS. A heartfelt thank you to Levine Academy, especially to Rabbi Litton, for opening your doors to us — not just for this event, but welcoming our family for the past 14 years. It is even more mean-ingful that we held our service in the Wende Weinberg Prayer Garden with Rabbi Weinberg. Wende was so influential in our family’s Jewish journey that we cannot think of a better place to celebrate this special occa-sion.

Jonathan Grossfeld David Gershenson

Kiddush Sponsors / Donors

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June Donor Gerry Romanik in honor of her June 4 Birthday June 6 Donors Errol Hepker in honor of Jennifer’s Birthday Paula & Irwin Kerber in honor of their Anniversary Jason Parker in honor of Andrea’s Birthday Bonnie & Harold Rubinstein in honor of their Anniversary Harvey Wine in honor of Gail’s Birthday June 20 Donors Gail Wine in honor of Harvey’s Birthday

July Donors Jackie & Sheldon Fleschman in honor of their July 1Anni-versary July 25 Donors Neil Rothstein in honor of Paige’s Birthday Julie Shrell in honor of Rob’s Birthday

Class of 2020! (left row, top to bottom) Lily Conroy, Lexi Cobert, Carly Sue Polishuk, Shaun Fishkind, Skylar Sevak, Mikayla Woodruff, (second row, top to bottom) Caroline Acks, Josh Hacker, Shani Korobov, Blake Cohen, (third row, top to bottom) Zachary Wainer and Brett Cobert, (fourth row, top to bottom) Miriam Gold and Jacob Grudo, (far right, top to bottom) Levi Kushnick, Meira Rey, Romi Sofer Shimon and Rachel Hacker. Many thanks to our Early Childhood Director, Ra-chel Blum and our Preschool Teachers and Facul-ty; Yael Beck, Sandi Bodzin, Jake Cannella, Me-ghan Cannella, Ilene Gould, Dganit Machness, Talia Maor, Valerie Petersen, Hani Pisek, Bonnie Ratliff, Heather Rey, Bev Sandheinrich, Jacob Santo, Shellee Saplitsky, Ilisa Trotter, Jhil Wilkins and Hagar Zafir.

Congratulations to Anshai Torah's Preschool Graduates

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The following students were not properly identified as Seniors in last month’s Kol Emet. We sincerely regret this error. Ethan Grandfield is graduating from Reedy High School in Frisco, TX. He will attend the Uni-versity of Oklahoma in the fall. Ethan is the son of Sherri and David Grandfield. Madeline Schafer, daughter of Dee Anna and Greg Schafer, will graduate from Wakeland High School in Frisco. In the fall, she plans to attend the University of Florida, majoring in biology. Leah Ariel Stoller is graduating from Plano West, where she has been very active in BBYO and National Honor Soci-ety. In the fall, Leah will attend Arizona State University to study Finance. She is the daughter of Steve Stoller and Sophia Stoller, and oldest sister of Talia, Sasha and Tessa. Walker Wood, son of Beth and Don Wood, graduated Willow Bend Academy in November 2019. He currently at-tends cosmetology school, preparing for a career as a stylist, colorist and make-up artist.

Our CATs in College committee continues to connect our students to Anshai Torah while they are in col- lege, graduate school, or active military. Needless to say, that looks very different today than during typical times. We aim to support our kids as their lives are turned a little bit upside down during the Covid-19 pan-demic. We were able to honor our high school grads (our new CATs in College kids) at the end of May with a gift bag including a special book from Rabbi Weinberg and Rabbi Kushnick. Congratulations to our college grads, Sarah Balis (Arizona State), Yael Cohen (University of North Texas), Shelby Evans (UT Austin), Zachary Kolodny (UT Dallas), Rachael Knubowitz (University of Arkansas), Ilana Kovach (UT Arlington), Dani Milner (Bentley University), Sydney Shusterman (University of Kansas),

Erin Sporkin (Indiana University, and Michael Zetune (UT Austin). We are pleased to offer these great projects to all children of Anshai Torah families at no charge. To be included, please remember to let us know about your child in college (or if they’re graduating) and send us their updated contact information to catsincol-lege18@gmail.com.

A special thank you to our CATs in College 2019-20 donors! Please consider making a contribution to the CATs in College/Military fund so we can continue to connect with our students with fun packages, gift cards, and more. To make a contribution, log into shulcloud, and under the "donations and payments" tab, select "CATs in College" from the dropdown menu. Also, continue to send photos of your student enjoying Jewish life on campus and their special gifts from CATs in College. Thank you to ALL of the volunteers who have helped make this happen! If you want to volunteer, please let us know! - Amy Balis & Debbie Cohn

Arona & Robert Ackermann Mojgan & Farzin Bakhshian

Amy & David Balis Sandy & Phil Balis

Janis & Bruce Barbash Leigh & Scott Bennett Ora & Evan Bernstein Sheryl & David Billman Stacy & Darren Blank

Elayne Brown

Michelle & Mark Meiches Carol Newman & Bob Ciago Vivienne & Gavin Notelovitz

Yaffa Podbilewicz Nancy & Andy Rabhan

Shani & Jeff Romick Dafna & Neil Rubinstein

Ilene & Dave Sporkin Cheryl & Lane Weitz

Tracey & Jacob Cherner Debbie & Dan Cohn Jin & Ron Friedman

Lisa & Philip Gerstenfeld Tobilynn & Andrew Gottesman

Athene & Warren Harmel Irene & Mark Jacobs Marcy & Jeff Kahn

Pam & Matt Kurtzman Alisa & Jason Makler

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Illustrated Torah — June / July Naso

Sedra—Beth & Scott Berk in honor of Eli's Bar Mitzvah--5/29/2015

Congregation Anshai Torah in honor of Scott Westle's Ordination

Pasuk—Ann Arnold & Eugene Morris in honor of

Dave Romanik's z"l 90th Birthday

Behalotecha

Sedra—Sherie & Jeff Wigder in honor of Sydney's Bat Mitzvah-- 5/25/2013

Evelyn Gross z"l in loving memory of her husband Fred z"l

Shelach

Sedra—Shabbat Group in honor of Michelle Meiches, Past President

Pasuk—Pat & Bill Schultz in honor of

Michelle Meiches, Past President

Korah

Sedra—Debbie & Bruce Katz in honor of their Anniversary- -

6/22/1985

Hukkat + Balak

Sedra—2013 Israel Trip in honor of Wende z"l & Rabbi Weinberg

Pinhas

Mattot + Mas’ey

Devarim

Please contact the synagogue office if you would like to purchase a Sedra or Pasuk

of any Torah portion to honor a loved one or special occasion.

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Birthdays . . . June

Anniversaries . . . June

1 Rowan DeMerit

Sherri Riskind

Larry Friedman

Lydia Elieff

2 Amit Azo

Tia Einhorn

Eva Lemeshev

Sophie Schochet

3 Levi Kushnick

Zachary Seinfeld

Sharon Ginchansky

Suzanne Feinberg

4 Geraldine Romanik

Blake Silverthorn

Madelyn Levy

5 Israel Suster

Christopher Sevak

Clara Moskowitz

6 Katriel Klein

Sydney Wigder

Gail Wine

7 Debra Lowey

Andrew Schwarz

8 Braeden Morse

Michael Goldstein

Shaina Rabhan

Steve Schachter

9 David Goldberg

Ilene Knubowitz

Andrea Parker

9 Marcia Kaufman

Jenna Fink

Shirah Kirshenbaum

Bruce Lewin

10 Shari Seinfeld

Adina Weinberg

Jay Katz

Allen Kufert

Ilene Sporkin

Jennifer Hepker

Neil Rubinstein

11 Mark Jacobs

Heather Rosenbaum

Ian Rosenberg

Alexis Welcher

Evan Katz

Ilene Bierman

12 Cheryl Klein

Arielle Reister

Yevgeniy Kelman

Jordan Rey

Keith Klein

13 Cherry Swento

Shauna Milstein

Allison Eisenberg

Joshua Bransky

14 Ann Arnold

Jason Vanacour

Maya Comisar

Jake Marks

14 Evan Davidoff

Viktoriya Kozmina Schommer

15 Piper Peska

Bella Behringer

Andrew Domenico

Ellen Fishpaw

Wyatt Peska

16 Eugene Morris

Micole Schwartz

Olivia Lowery

17 Jori Sayewitz

Melissa Kahn

Joli Reiman

18 Kayanna Klein

Olivia Shapiro

Liv Laynor

19 Joshua Mehr

David Friedman

20 Jennifer Robinowich

Sarah Rosen

Leslie Peskind

Harvey Wine

21 Gale Vaughan

Lindsey Bennett

Gail Milner

22 Hannah Schildkraut

Noah Mehr

Andrea Rosenfield

23 Leeron Laizerovich

Jennifer Shatto

23 Sophie Saland

Joshua Mason

24 Robbyn Lewin

Barbara Schochet

25 Leonard Isenstein

Suzy Schwartz

David Mendelson

David Chestler

26 Leslie Goodman

Lisa Kenter

27 Sasha Sevak

28 Austin Jacoby

Sheryl Weisberg

Mark Norton

Inna Shmerlin

Jacob Cherner

Bruce Zik

Kevin Robinowich

29 Joyce Garb

Charlie Weitz

Max Friedman

Wendy Korenman

Benjamin Halpern

Donna David

Yonathan Zetune

30 Leah Comisar

Elaine Berry

Stuart Lieberman

1 Grandfield, Sherri & David

Greenberg, Robert & Cindy

Satlof, Ellen & Richard

2 Kufert, Joseph & Stephanie

Wigder, Sherie & Jeffrey

3 Sandheinrich, Paul & Bev

6 Glubochansky, Igor & Tanya

Schaar, Richard & Vivian

7 Domenico, Amanda & Andrew

Kerber, Irwin & Paula

Peska, Rory and Lori

8 Rabinowitz, Fred & Debra

9 Berger, Murray & Roberta

Aronovich, Faina & Rafael

Dubner, Michael & Stephanie

10 Pulman, Charles & Janine

10 Shores, Todd & Corrie

Gutman, Alex & Milana

11 Evans, Paul & Meryl

Rubinstein, Bonnie & Harold

12 Cohn, Dan & Debbie

Klein, Keith & Cheryl

Liberman, Jay & Julie

Rajunov, Manuel & Debbie

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Anniversaries Cont’d . . . June 20 Gross, Brad & Amy

Levine, Donald & Arlene

Riskind, Sherri & Lorin

21 Fishpaw, Jack & Ellen

22 Katz, Bruce & Debbie

Katz, Gary & Sue

23 Lewin, Bruce & Robbyn

24 Morse, Rustin & Michelle

25 Croll, Joanne & Gary

Schwartzberg, Sam & Joyce

26 Ackerman, Barbara & Bruce

Feinberg, Suzanne & Cory

27 Wood, Don & Beth

28 Laizerovich, Leeron & Erin

Marcus, Michael & Linda

Rivner, Marisa & Josh

30 Daniels, Edmund & Taryn

Landgarten, Michael & Stephanie

Wolfson, George & Norma

13 Jacobs, Mark & Irene

15 Bierman, Solomon & Ilene

Levy, Brett & Jill

Peskind, Steven & Leslie

17 Pincus, Michael & Jeanette

Subar, Lorin & Ellias (Subar), Flora

Weinman, Morrie & Patti

18 Goldin, Darrin & Rachel

19 Goldberg, Alice & Barnett

Azo, Dotan & Michal

Birthdays . . . July 1 Eric Berman

Sherry Rubin

Ira Kravitz

Joseph Kufert

2 Andrea Katz

Lillian Todres

Johanna Vanacour

Adam Mendelson

3 Joshua Saland

JoAnn Becker

4 Erin Sporkin

Irwin Kerber

Lorin Riskind

David Berman

Elias Baron

Daniel Weber

5 Vivian Schaar

Michael Roy

Maggie Nudelman

6 Aidin Akhmkhkuami

Roberta Berger

Randi Gerber-Katz

Stewart Levine

Justin Katz

7 Esther Nathan

Cynthia Brooks

8 Lily Conroy

Orone Laizerovich

Benjamin Goldstein

8 Stephanie Dubner

Brooke Feinberg

Sabina Pincus

Samantha Blum

Edna Robinson

Michelle Rodgers

9 Isabella Weinstein

Stephanie Landgarten

Cory Sutker

Melissa Bernstein

Michelle Kelman

Susan Hasson

Ryan Rosemore

10 Brad Behringer

Gil Sadka

Caroline Rothman

Patrice Adler

Melissa Halpern

Noa David

11 Asher Herman

Sonia Brown

Lilian Herman

Michael Dressman

Leah Herschberg

Amy Balis

Hannah Gershenson

12 Gary Katz

Howard Shapiro

Chloe Todres

12 Herb Goodman

Ilene Baumel

13 Leslie Greenblatt

Jennifer Goldstein

Allison Knubowitz

Eli McCrary

14 Summer Malek-Ahmadi

Daniel Gold

Jessica Wolfe

Asher Laynor

Walker Wood

Elisabeth Brustein

15 Dan Cohn

Joshua Zietz

Marcelo Szperling

Elam Unell

Zachary Harmon

Godfrey Traub

16 Limor Cohen

Sitaara Zuckerman

Jacquie Goldstein

Eric Fine

Aiden Hazan

Yael Cohen

17 Jeffrey Aaronson

David Iola

John Malek-Ahmadi

Abagail Kanter

Faina Aronovich

18 Lisa Neuman

Alan Chernow

Natalie Rubin

Albert Torkiya

19 Adam Alkalay

Doug Shusterman

Amy Shusterman

Alisa Rubinstein

20 Ricki Dworkin

Ava Kufert

Gail Donoff

Asher Epstein

Mark Lowey

Ryan Kboudi

Eran Golan

Linda Marcus

Melanie Kuhr

Lauren Sayah

21 Marcia Parker

David Sporkin

Jessica Green

Elliott Biederman

22 Alexander Murphy

Sari Edwards

Nanditha Zuckerman

Amanda Tolkov

23 Seth Kaplan

Danielle Weber

Craig Einhorn

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Donations . . .

Anniversaries . . . July

23 Arielle Lewin

Liam Altit

24 Paige Rothstein

Reece Parker

Sarah Orkin

Steven Sayewitz

25 Stephen Bernstein

Caroline Acks

25 Jonathan Reid

Lydia Feuerberg

Jamie Futterman

26 Joshua Gold

Tatiana Ho

Samuel Rubin

Gabrielle Luterman

Adam Dubner

27 Abigail Goldberg

Naomi Kaufman

Alisa Makler

28 Stuart Rosenfield

Nicole Post

29 Robert Shrell

Nicole Davidoff

Jacob Valencia

29 Devyn Norton

30 Emily Dworkin

Noah Abrahams

Shahnia Cohen

31 Leah Stoller

Darci Iola

Mason Hewitt

Sophie Rubin

1 Eisenberg, Howard & Alyse

Schwarz, Bertram & Miriam

2 Baumel, Britt & Ilene

Romick, Jeffrey & Shani

Rothstein, Stanley & Marilyn

3 Green, Daryl & Jessica

Herman, Sean & Sarah

Dribben, Lisa & Horwitz, Darren

Mellman, Scott & Natalie

4 Kamen, Alex & Kim

Kasner, Michael & Cheryl

Markowitz, Aliyah & Paul

5 Lowey, Mark & Debra

Massarella, Sherri & Bob

Moscowitz, Barry & Stacy

Rosen, Chad & Sarah

7 Gerstenfeld, Philip & Lisa

Nathan, Fred & Esther

9 Goldstein, Morton & Iris

11 Wainer, Pamela

13 Haymann, Gary & Julie

17 Minsky, Rachel & Don

18 Ginchansky, David & Sharon

19 Bakhshian, Farzin & Mojgan

20 Knubowitz, Joel & Nancy

23 Fleschman, Sheldon & Jackie

Fuller, Jacqueline & Dean

25 Rubin, Howard & Ann

26 Kolodny, Adam & Lisa

Weber, Daniel & Danielle

27 Abrahams, Howard & Jennifer

Feldman, Barbara & Mark

30 Becker, Robert & JoAnn

31 Buttermark, Sheila & Thomas

Adult Education In memory of Norma Sayewitz Janis & Robert Sayewitz In memory of Alice Kasner Cheryl & Lane Weitz CATS in College Mazal Tov to Dani Milner on her recent graduation from college Mazal Tov to Jake Green on his recent high school graduation Sheryl & David Billman In memory of Samuel Robert Massarella Amy & David Balis In honor of Sarah Balis, Erin Sporkin, Dani Milner, Eli Berk, Marla Dolginoff, Daniel Kaplan, Ella Makler, Chase Olschwanger, & Dylan Ratner on their gradua-tions Debbie & Dan Cohn

CATS in College In honor of Sarah Balis & Erin Sporkin on their college gradua-tions…“very well done” Sheila Brown & Hal Babitch In honor of Sarah Balis’ college graduation In honor of Kayley Romick completing her third of five years of Rabbinical School Shani & Jeff Romick In honor of the graduation of Sarah Balis Marcy & Jeffrey Kahn Donation by Andrea & Jay Katz In memory of Ben Rosenbaum Elayne Brown General Operating In memory of Bill Schultz Gerry Romanik Amy & David Balis Cont’d on Page 13. . .

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Donations Cont’d. . . General Operating In memory of Maurice Leslie In honor of Jennifer’s birthday Jennifer & Errol Hepker In memory of Bill Weisberger Sheryl Billman In honor of Jonathan Grossfeld’s Bar Mitzvah Sally & Rick Rosenberg In memory of Samuel Robert Massarella Nicole & Michael Roy Debbie & Bruce Katz In memory of Lorraine Portnoy Linda & Mark Portnoy In memory of Mel Calderon Jeanette & Michael Pincus In memory of Alice Kasner Marcy & Jeffrey Kahn Wanda & Wincenty Borodziewicz Nicole & Michael Roy Cherry & Harvey Swento Debbie & Bruce Katz In memory of Sharyn Fein's mother Nicole & Michael Roy In memory of Eli Matsil Del & Bob Matsil Edna & Hugh Robinson Hazak In memory of Sally Behar Jackie & Sheldon Fleschman Susan & Mo Hasson In honor of Sheila Brown & Hal Babitch’s wedding Susan & Mo Hasson Del & Bob Matsil Hesed Donation from Tuesday Mah Jongg Group Thank you to Ilene Baumel for the delicious dinner with great appreciation Amy & Phil Leibowitz In memory of Alice Kasner Debbie Butvin In memory of Sharyn Fein's mother Gerry Romanik High School Lunch In honor of the graduations of Sarah Balis, Erin Sporkin, Eli Berk, & Ella Makler Athene & Warren Harmel

Rabbi’s Discretionary- Kushnick Thank you, Rabbi Kushnick, for your help with my d'var Torah. “I am so appreciative of education I receive from you; you are always willing to help and I am so grateful for all that you do.” Cynthia Brook In appreciation of Rabbi Kushnick’s sincere thoughtful-ness & assistance Debra & Mark Lowey & Family Donation by Yehoshua Valencia & Isabel Patino Donation by Allen & Diane Kufert Rabbi’s Discretionary- Weinberg In memory of Bill Schultz Janice Sweet & Art Weinberg In memory of Bettye Bredow In memory of Reuben Bredow Cynthia & Maurice Bredow Donation by Allen & Diane Kufert In memory of Miriam Goodman Leslie & Av Goodman In memory of Moe Last The Last Family In honor of Rabbi Weinberg for Jonathan’s Bar Mitzvah 5/21/20 Ashley & Marc Grossfeld Religious School In memory of Samuel Robert Massarella Sharon & David Ginchansky Sonia & Carl Goodman Gerry Romanik Beth, Scott, Eli, & Drew Berk In memory of Alice Kasner Darci & Randy Iola Sarah Clarke & Mark Iola In honor of the 4 Ratner sons completing the school year Diane Ratner In memory of Alice Kasner & in honor of Cheryl & Michael Kasner Robyn & Billy Galerston

Security Mazal Tov to Cherry & Harvey Swento on the birth of their granddaughter, Shay Amy & Phil Leibowitz In memory of Bill Schultz Lisa & Ben Kenter Sisterhood In memory of Betty Markowitz Paul Markowitz

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Remembering our loves ones . . . June Yahrzeit

9 Sivan June 1 Henry Berry, father of Mr. Richard Berry Mollie Stern, mother of Mr. Larry Stern Joseph Ruskin, father of Dee Anna Schafer Leah Azoulay, grandmother of Mrs. Leora Short William Crook, husband of Ms. Sandy Crook Marvin Cyk, father of Mr. Jeffrey Cyk 10 Sivan June 2 Herbert Goldberg, father of Mr. Miles Goldberg Esme Berman, mother of Mr. David Berman Alan Kenneth Croll, father of Dr. Gary Croll Betty Markowitz, mother of Paul Markowitz 11 Sivan June 3 Lena Shafer, mother of Mrs. Geraldine Romanik Lillian Neuman, mother of Dr. Sam Neuman Clinton Fred Haymann, son of Dot & Basil Haymann brother of Mrs. Sandy Marks Charles Pulman, grandfather of Mr. Charles Pulman Max Norman Rosenbloom, grandfather of Mr. Seth Kaufman Flore Souhami, sister of Mr. Robert Soussi 12 Sivan June 4 Roslyn Sureck, wife of Mr. Philip Sureck Rachel Bobsy Cohen, grandmother of Mr. David Berman Max Granofsky, father of Mrs. Sheila Buttermark Kay Waterman, mother-in-law of Rabbi Stefan Weinberg 13 Sivan June 5 Harry Shapiro, father of Mr. Howard Shapiro David Lemack, grandfather of Dr. Gary Lemack 14 Sivan June 6 Anna Brown, grandmother- in-law of Mrs. Sheila Brown Rosalie Goodman, mother of Mr. Joel Futterman Chaie Korn, grandmother of Mr. Ricardo Szperling Boris Katz, uncle of Mrs. Faina Aronovich 15 Sivan June 7 Esther Schnitzer, mother of Michael Schnitzer Henry Rochwerger, brother of Mrs. Katty Rosenstock Miriam Gerson, grandmother of Mr. Kevin Robinowich 16 Sivan June 8 Jerome Weinberg, father of Rabbi Stefan Weinberg Seymour Weil, father of Mr. Nelson Weil Martin Kravitz, father of Mr. Ira Kravitz 17 Sivan June 9 Gregory Berstein, father of Mrs. Faina Aronovich Lucille Cohen, mother of Mr. Leon Cohen Marcia Franklin , of Mr. Bruce Franklin

18 Sivan June 10 Nissim Max Intebi, father of Mr. David Intebi Malka Ben-Poorat, mother of Shimon Ben-Poorat William Schwartz, father-in-law of Suzy Schwartz Lorraine Portnoy, mother of Mr. Mark Portnoy Hanna Schulman, grandmother of Mrs. Deborah Silverthorn 19 Sivan June 11 Martin Waterman, father-in-law of Rabbi Stefan Weinberg Ronald Leffler, brother of Mrs. Roberta Poznick uncle of of Mrs. Pamela Kurtzman 20 Sivan June 12 Lionel Eltis, grandfather of Mrs. Ashley Grossfeld Betty Wood, mother of Mr. Don Wood Minnie Goodman, mother of Mrs. Eva Sonik Aaron Poliak, father of Dr. Jorge Poliak 21 Sivan June 13 Jalalat Bakhshian, of Mr. Farzin Bakhshian Sylvia Lapidus , mother of Mrs. Alice Goldberg Gussie Hoffman, mother of Mrs. Charlotte Benson Evelyn Gross, mother of Mrs. Bonnie Rubinstein grandmother of Mr. Neil Rubinstein Marvin Taxman, father of Mrs. Tracey Cherner Abraham Feuerberg, father-in-law of Mrs. Lydia Feuerberg grandfather of Mrs. Sarah Herman 22 Sivan June 14 Paul Stanley, father of Mr. David Stanley Cyrel Gottesman, mother of Dr. Andrew Gottesman 23 Sivan June 15 Ron Freeman, uncle of Mrs. Lisa Olschwanger 24 Sivan June 16 Joan Solls, mother of Mr. Mark Solls 25 Sivan June 17 Bertram B Schwarz, father of Mr. Bertram Schwarz Anna Matsil, mother of Mr. Bob Matsil 26 Sivan June 18 Kenneth Hoffman, brother of Mrs. Charlotte Benson Abe Weinberg, grandfather of Mrs. Karen Reid George Ludwig, grandfather of Mrs. Gale Vaughan 27 Sivan June 19 Rachel DeMerit, mother of Mr. Samuel DeMerit

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Remembering our loves ones . . . July Yahrzeit

Remembering our loves ones . . . June Yahrzeit

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28 Sivan June 20 Benjamin Schwartz, grandfather of Mrs. Bethany Last Eric Schweitzer, grandfather of Mrs. Molly Woodruff Hava Krimerman, grandmother of Anya Reister 29 Sivan June 21 Joe Grubstein, father of Mr. Jerold Grubstein Charlotte Schulman, mother of Mrs. Julie Muchin 30 Sivan June 22 Cecil Behringer, grandfather of Mrs. Jaime Cohen grandfather of Mr. Brad Behringer Dan Ratner, husband of Ms. Diane Ratner father of Mr. Jacob Ratner 1 Tammuz June 23 Lissa Thomas, mother of Mrs. Deborah Schechter Benjamin Kholodenko, grandfather of Mrs. Faina Aronovich Henry Chuney, father of Mr. Ken Chuney 2 Tammuz June 24 Ron Dekelbaum , father of Jordan Dekelbaum father of Alex Dekelbaum 3 Tammuz June 25 Gertrude Hyman, mother of Mrs. Janis Sayewitz Carrol Rosenfeld, mother of Mrs. Vivienne Notelovitz

4 Tammuz June 26 Samuel Weiss, uncle of Mrs. Gale Vaughan 5 Tammuz June 27 Zelda Ginsburg, grandmother of Mrs. Melissa Welcher David Zelik Szperling, grandfather of Mr. Ricardo Szperling Alan Berman, cousin of Mr. David Berman Zelda Ginsburg, mother of Mrs. Cynthia Bredow 6 Tammuz June 28 William Bierman, father of Dr. Solomon Bierman Henry Fishman, father of Ms. Suzanne Azoulay 7 Tammuz June 29 Ruth Kenter, mother of Mr. Ben Kenter Irving Sadagor, grandfather of Mrs. Melissa Bernstein Fannie Herskovitz, aunt of Mrs. Diane Kufert great aunt of Mr. Joseph Kufert Paula Blumenthal, mother of Mr. Jamie Blumenthal 8 Tammuz June 30 Minnie Rubinstein, mother of Mr. Harold Rubinstein grandmother of Mr. Neil Rubinstein Sharon Gay Buffa, sister of Mrs. Sheila Buttermark

9 Tammuz July 1 Alvin Ludwig, father of Mrs. Gale Vaughan Jerome Roth, father of Mrs. Ellen Satlof Samuel Bassel, grandfather of Dr. Rhonda Bassel-Duby Joseph Solls, father of Mr. Mark Solls Caroline Weinberg, grandmother of Mrs. Kimberly Mabel Morris Sureck, father of Mr. Philip Sureck 10 Tammuz July 2 Irene Schweitzer, grandmother of Mrs. Molly Woodruff 11 Tammuz July 3 Belle Hafkin, mother of Mrs. Tobilynn Gottesman Harriet Gerber, mother of Mrs. Randi Gerber-Katz Jean Massarella, mother of Mr. Bob Massarella 12 Tammuz July 4 Harry Ackerrman, father of Dr. Bruce Ackerman

12 Tammuz July 4 Emilie Katz, grandmother of Dr. Gary Katz Betty Wasserman, aunt of Mrs. Gale Vaughan 13 Tammuz July 5 Pola Ruzansky, mother of Dr. Leon Jinich Max Neuman, father of Dr. Sam Neuman 14 Tammuz July 6 Barbara Krause ,mother of Mrs. Sylvia Rabin Griselda Steckerl, grandmother of Mrs. Sarah Sasson-

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Julia Brause, grandmother of Mrs. Andrea Rosenfield Sam Wolff, grandfather of Mrs. Beth Berk 15 Tammuz July 7 Sally Berman, mother of Mrs. Helene Grubstein Ann Altman, grandmother of Ms. Marissa Terra

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Remembering our loves ones . . . July Yahrzeit

. . .Cont’d from Page 15

16 Tammuz July 8 Adele Gaines, mother of Dr. Ferne Farkas Harold Rigler, uncle of Mrs. Gail Milner 17 Tammuz July 9 Frieda Brook, grandmother of Dr. Joel Brook Bernice 'Bunny' Freiden, grandmother of Mrs. Julie Shrell Joseph Levine, father of Mr. Stewart Levine 18 Tammuz July 10 Nathaniel Flekser, father of Mrs. Carol Cohen Saul Gaines, father of Dr. Ferne Farkas Harry Rosenthal, father of Ms. Sharon Levine 19 Tammuz July 11 Harry Schwarz, husband of Ms. Barbara Schwarz father of Mrs. Jessica Zik 20 Tammuz July 12 Barbara Zipkoff, mother of Mrs. Sherie Wigder Heinz Herbert Gundelfinger, father of Mrs. Brenda Traub Moshe Krause, father of Mrs. Sylvia Rabin 21 Tammuz July 13 Aaron Dietrich, great-nephew of Mrs. Sherry Rubin 22 Tammuz July 14 Loren Thomas, father of Mrs. Deborah Schechter 23 Tammuz July 15 William Kaplan, father of Ms. Marcia Parker Gordon Berman, brother of Mr. Eric Berman Alice Soroky, mother of Mrs. Lois Kohn Ana Bierman, mother of Dr. Solomon Bierman 24 Tammuz July 16 Eugene Guyer, brother of Dr. Richard Guyer Sarah Kessel, grandmother of Mrs. Bonnie Rubinstein Donald Wood, father of Mr. Don Wood Libby Robinson, mother of Mrs. Stacy Blank Rachmiel Postan, grandfather of Mrs. Shani Romick Thelma Fisch, mother of Mrs. Mari-Ellen Steinberg 25 Tammuz July 17 Murray Balis, father of Mr. Philip Balis Jay Knubowitz, brother of Mr. Joel Knubowitz 26 Tammuz July 18 Lillian Kormes, mother of Gilda Zucker grandmother of Mr. Matthew Zucker

26 Tammuz July 18 Hymie Notelovitz, father of Mr. Gavin Notelovitz Arleyne Kuhn, aunt of Mr. George Wolfson Jeanette Cohn, mother of Mr. Dan Cohn 27 Tammuz July 19 Paula Jay Weintrub, mother of Mrs. Marianne Goodman Al Schiff, father of Mr. Brian Schiff Sharon Samen, mother of Mrs. Pamela Wainer Vivienne Cohen, grandmother of Mr. Jay Liberman Alfred D. Fertman, father of Mrs. Sherry Rubin 28 Tammuz July 20 Ludwig Cziment, father of Mrs. Sharon Horn Melvin Alpern, husband of Mrs. Ramona Alpern father of Mrs. Kyle Rabinowitz Philip Leffler, father of Mrs. Roberta Poznick grandfather of Mrs. Pamela Kurtzman 29 Tammuz July 21 Ernest Grunauer, father of Mrs. Miriam Schwarz Isaac Matsil, father of Mr. Bob Matsil Harry Benson, husband of Mrs. Charlotte Benson Ruth Strikman Schwartz, aunt of Mrs. Janine Pulman 1 Av July 22 Diane Hoffner, sister of Mrs. Nancy Solls Muriel Zik, mother of Dr. Bruce Zik Larry Wolfe, father of Mr. Damon Wolfe 2 Av July 23 Joseph Kenter, uncle of Mr. Ben Kenter Murray David Cohen, father of Mr. Leon Cohen Lloyd Phillips, father of Mrs. Kimberly Mabel 3 Av July 24 Hannah Ungerman, grandmother of Mr. Randall Iola Isadore Fleschman, father of Mr. Sheldon Fleschman Jake Horwitz, grandfather of Dr. Steven Peskind 4 Av July 25 Theodore Bernknopf, brother-in-law of Mr. Lawrence Mandell

Irene Sorin, grandmother of Mrs. Abbe Lemack Larry Kramer, husband of Mrs. Florence Kramer father of Mrs. Cheryl Weitz Muriel Chamie, grandmother of Dr. Eric Jacoby 5 Av July 26 Yakov Ben-Poorat, father of Shimon Ben-Poorat

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With sincere sympathy on your loss. . .

Harriet Hoffman, mother of Sharyn Fein

Alice Kasner, mother of Michael Kasner

Samuel Robert Massarella, father of Robert Massarella

Rebeca Yore, mother of Barbara Schochet

“May God comfort you among all the Mourners in Zion and Jerusalem”

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6 Av July 27 Evelyn Migden, mother of Mrs. Sherri Massarella Bess Kaplan, grandmother of Mrs. Karen Reid Earl Sussman, father of Mrs. Susan Harmon 7 Av July 28 Milton Lapidus, brother of Mrs. Alice Goldberg Stuart Dworkin, husband of Mrs. Sandra Dworkin father of Mr. Jeffrey Dworkin 8 Av July 29 Harold Scharlack, father of Mrs. Susan Hasson Barbara Shapiro , mother of Mrs. Lisa Kenter Joel Levine, husband of Ms. Sharon Levine Morris Riskind, father of Mr. Lorin Riskind

9 Av July 30 Philip Sureck, uncle of Mr. Philip Sureck Ethel Wilkov, mother of Mr. Michael Wilkov 10 Av July 31 Milton Silverman, father of Mr. Ram Silverman

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Yes, we have had to reschedule or cancel some program-ming and Mitzvah Events. We are working with all of the upcoming B’nai Mitzvah families for options as we navi-gate through this pandemic. We had our first Zoom meet-ing with the August and September Mitzvah families this past week, and plan to do so with the next set of families in the very near future. Our goal is to host every scheduled Shabbat B’nai Mitz-vah, beginning in August, although our service may look a little different. As we began to focus on our future during the pandemic, we realized that we needed to shift our attention to how and when we would re-open. Ensuring everyone’s safety to the best of our ability, with social distancing and vari-ous procedures would define our immediate future. I commissioned a Reopening Sub-committee to the Covid-19 Task Force with the mission of working on recom-mended protocols and procedures of our future reopening of the shul (what needs to happen to reopen and what we need to have in place when we reopen). The sub-committee is looking at all aspects of the current state of the virus, safety, guidelines, cleaning, shul life, preschool/summer camp, Minyanim, and services. I want you to know that we all have worries and concerns when it comes to opening up our doors again to the Pre-school and for you to attend services, but we will get through this together. The sub-committee’s recommendations on protocols and procedures will provide us with the guidelines for reopen-ing. Important safety protocols will be put in place, the number of members present at the shul will need to be set, no food service at this time, masks will be worn, and social distancing will be maintained. Strict procedures related to use of the Torah will be introduced, as well as changes to our participation during religious services.

We will continue to utilize the best medical advice availa-ble to determine how and when we should move forward with the re-opening of the shul. We are going to do all that is in our capacity to ensure the safety and protection of our children, congregants, Rabbis and staff. The process of opening the building in the very near fu-ture will be staged and gradual. Our procedures for opening the shul will be continually reviewed, subject to the medical advice we receive and government directives. We are in the middle of a dynamic situation, and we are prepared to tighten our social distancing restrictions and protocols as necessary. We will continue to utilize various technologies to address the set of conditions defined by COVID-19, including Zoom platform and a new Livestream platform for Shab-bat services beginning next month. This will allow all members to be able to attend services either virtual or in person. Our plan is to get back to normal (our new nor-mal) as soon as possible. Dan, I will make every effort to continue to make your transition to being our next President as smooth as possi-ble. I am confident you will do a wonderful job and con-tinue the wonderful success that we have experienced at Anshai over the past 21 years. I want to thank all of you, my kids Bailey and Sawyer, and especially Jana. Jana, through the many meetings and late nights, you have been by my side. I could not have done this important task without your support and pa-tience. I look forward to a little more free time with you and the kids after June 30. I am grateful and honored for you choosing me to serve as your President the past two years and I now look for-ward to joining the fraternity of our Past Presidents. Thank you and Shalom,

Barrett A. Stern, CAT President

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