October 2010 Temple Israel Bulletin

Tishrei - Cheshvan 5771 PAGE 1OCTOBER 2010

Temple Israel Bulletin

Children’s Clothing Swap—page 1

Adam Paget to become a bar mitzvah—page 5

Tot Shabbat—page 5

Strudel Workshop—page 6

“A Book and A Cookie” returns—page 7

Jewish film series—page 8

Volunteer opportunities—page 9

Wanna dance? - page 14

Jazzercise discount offered to TI members—page 14

Good News from Israel—page 15

IN THIS ISSUE

SCHEDULE OF

SHABBAT SERVICES

EREV SHABBAT, October 1:

6:30 PM: Family Shabbat evening serviceTorah Portion: Bereshit, Gen. 1:1—6:8;Haftarah: Isa. 42:5-43:10


7:30 PM: Friday Night Shabbat eveningserviceTorah Portion: Noach, Gen. 6:9-11:32, Num.28:9-15; Haftarah: Isa. 66:1-24


7:30 PM: Shabbat evening service. AdamPaget becomes bar mitzvah.Torah Portion: Lech Lecha, Gen. 12:1-17:27;Haftarah: Isa. 40:27-41:16

SHABBAT, October 16:10:00 AM: Shabbat morning service. AdamPaget is called to the Torah as a bar mitzvah.


7:30 PM: Shabbat evening service with To-rah reading.

Torah Portion: Vayera, Gen. 18:1-22:24;Haftarah: II Kings 4:1-37

EREV SHBBAT, October 29:

7:30 PM: Shabbat evening service w/specialguest, Alan Henkin

Torah Portion: Chaye Sarah, Gen. 23:1-25:18; Haftarah I Kings 1:1-31

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FROM THE RABBI’S STUDY

As cycles go, as I write thiscolumn, we are right in themiddle of the Ten Days ofRepentance, wedged betweenRosh Hashanah and YomKippur. I’ll admit that I wasas surprised as you were atthe length of our Rosh Hasha-

nah morning service (3+ hours!), but as surprised as I wasabout the length of the service, I was just that touched andmoved by the music we shared in it. We will learn fromthis year’s experience and will not have as long a servicenext time around. But we will also learn to pay attention tothe responses of the worshippers who seemed inspired bythe music that Fran, Alex, and the Choir provided for us.

Speaking of learning, by the time you read these lines, ourHebrew and Religious School classes will have begun forthe year already, the day after Yom Kippur and three daysbefore Sukkot. And so the cycle continues in which ourchildren are taught the values, concepts, and practices ofJudaism – spoon-fed, as it were. If our kids are anythinglike what we were at their age, then much of what theyhear in our school will go in one ear – if it gets that far --and out the other. Both children and parents occasionallycomplain that we keep going over the same things over andover again, year after year. And in some sense, that’s true.One of Judaism’s pedagogical principles is that we learn byrepetition. That principle, though, does not require us tomake the material boring or even necessarily so seeminglyrepetitive, so we do our best to package it each year in newand interesting ways so that it becomes an inseparable partof the Jewish child’s psyche and experience.

The older the child, the more sophisticated we believe thematerial they can handle. But our school is not only aboutfacts, dates, and ritual practices. We realize and understandthat the 21st century is already much more complex thanthe 20th, and the things children learn reflect that complex-ity, even if they are not necessarily ready to comprehendall the nuances that more mature minds can handle. So wealso try to inculcate what we believe are fundamental Jew-ish values, propounding them as simply as we know howwhen the children are young, and adding layers of com-plexity as we believe they are able to comprehend.

For example, we introduce the concept of tzedakah earlyon. Tzedakah, properly defined, does not mean charity, asit is so often mistranslated. Coming from the Hebrew root

conceptualizing justice, tzedakah implies taking an actionto right a wrong, and that action need not necessarily be amonetary one. So even for very young children we try tohelp them understand that it is wrong, i.e., unfair, for somepeople to have to be so poor, especially when we live in acountry and a time where many of us have more than weneed (and sometimes waste a lot of what we have!). We tryto teach them to share, not only of their material goods, butof themselves as well, so that by the time we introduce theactual concept of tzedakah itself, they already have somepersonal experience with the idea themselves. Thus, theJewish value is ingrained early and makes good sense bothJewishly and generally as we introduce it in the classroom.

Over the course of the year(s), we try to bring the Jewishvalues we teach into each child’s consciousness by articu-lating and identifying them specifically, so that no matterwhere they go or what they do, they will carry those valueswith them, sometimes even unconsciously, as they gothrough their lives.

But more important than our classroom instruction is thereinforcement of those values that we hope the childrenwill have at home. That is why we try to offer classes andother programming over the course of the year at the adultlevel so that parents will be able to learn (or in many casesre-learn) many of the things they (were supposed to have)learned when they, themselves, went through ReligiousSchool. If you have a child or children in our school, pleasedo two things: First, ask your children what they learnedeach week in class. If nothing else, your asking will sug-gest to them that you care about what they are learning. Ifyou really do care, and if you are not as well-versed on thesubjects the children are learning as you might like to be,either ask the children to share with you what they’velearned so that you can “be on the same page” as they are,or contact me to see if we can offer something at the adultlevel to close the knowledge gap. Second, try to learn andunderstand what values we are trying to teach your chil-dren with the material we cover each week, and see if youcan add to what we teach by modeling that set of values orat least trying to give them more concrete examples ofthem during the week. By doing so, you will reinforce whatwe are teaching, and you will demonstrate that this is asimportant to you as we hope it will be or become to them.

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PRESIDENT’S HIGH HOLY DAY APPEAL

Welcome to everyone from far andnear. If these holidays were your firstHigh Holy Days here, we are very happythat you chose to worship with us.

I know you are going to react to this…but….I LOVE being the President ofthis Temple. You laugh! Why do youlaugh?

I know that you know, the job of the President is not aneasy one. Being the head of any all-volunteer or mostlyvolunteer organization is ridiculously hard. But I love ithere. I love the people I meet here; I love the friends Ihave made. My kids love the Religious School. They loveplaying music at Friday Night Chai. I love the multigen-erational and multi-cultural mix that makes up this ex-tended family of mine.

You may have your own thoughts about what it is like toserve on a Temple board. You might remember your par-ents serving on a board or committee. In the Temple Igrew up in, the board members got to sit in special seats inthe sanctuary and they were very important people. Theboard of my parents’ synagogue ran from a much differentmodel. That model invited the wealthiest members of thesynagogue to be the board; they all wrote a check, and keptthe Temple running. They were equally dedicated to thesuccess of the Temple, but they managed it differently.

Well this is not my parents’ synagogue.

One of the reasons that I love being President at this time isthat the Board that I am President of is made up of a di-verse group of extremely dedicated men and women. Weare all very passionate about Temple Israel’s sustained ex-istence in this community. We are all completely investedin its future and the future of Judaism in Alameda and thesurrounding area. We know that this is our home and weare working very hard to make this the community for ourfuture. We recognize the change all around us: the chang-ing economic situation, the changing demographics of ourtown; and we know we need to incorporate this into ourenvironment in order to grow.

Because our community is so important to us, we nevertake it for granted. Last year for the very first time, weopened our doors for High Holy Day services without sell-ing tickets. This year we restructured our dues in order tomake it possible for everyone to contribute their fair shareand take ownership in this community. We have restruc-tured our volunteer commitment in order to get everyone

involved quickly, so that even if you have never been herebefore, before long you will have an idea of what it takes toset up the Religious School bbq and you have met a bunchof new people in the process. Then when you are at the Artand Wine Fair on Park Street you will run into these verysame people on the street and know you have somethingelse in common!

Because of these new ways of managing our synagogue,we have welcomed more new members than any other yearthat I have been a member here.

We all work very hard around here too. We are a workingBoard. We have a few really well-formed committees thatreport up to the Board, and we keep things going. Thedays leading up to these days of awe are some of our busi-est.

Last week, if you were here, you got to see a whole lot ofpeople stand up and get a great big dose of gratitude forparticipating, volunteering and just being part of life atTemple Israel. I think it surprised some of us that 85% ofthis room was standing and looking at one an-other, thinking – oh you too? I believe that those notstanding were new to our community, and next year, Godwilling, they , too, will stand up and be counted.

As is our tradition, at this time of personal renewal, reflec-tion and introspection we stop and take pride in manythings here at Temple Israel. We proudly reflect upon howour commitment to Torah, avodah and g’milut casadim iscentral to all of our programs:

TORAH: we provide life-long learning opportunities duringevery stage of life. We are so proud or our b’nai mitzvahstudents. We believe we have one of the finest religiousschools in the East Bay, but the costs of providing our chil-dren with this education cannot be covered by volunteerismalone.

AVODAH: We provide various worship opportunities forour diverse community. We have made changes in the past2 years, but you are aware that a service as beautiful as KolNidre cannot have been made possible by the work of vol-unteers alone.

G’MILUT CHASADIM: A sustained commitment to per-forming acts of loving kindness. We cannot reduce our

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EDUCATION NEWS

Dear Temple Israel Commu-nity:

Recently a parent asked meif I was planning to teach

students in the religious school how to be “spiritual.” Imust say I was taken aback because I personally don’tthink spirituality can be taught.

For me, spirituality is a feeling, not an idea or a lessonplan. Spirituality is about picking up on one’s ownnuance and complexity. Spirituality is about noticingthe subtleties of one’s life that creates a spark. Spiritu-ality is soulfulness, and that’s hard to measure orquantify.

I liken teaching spirituality to teaching music. You canteach a child to read music, to place their fingers cor-rectly on the keyboard, to follow musical directions,but you can’t teach someone how to feel the music intheir kishkas. That is simply felt.

And when music does come from the kishkas, it takeson a completely different sound. The music suddenlyhas meaning and relevance. It has the strength to stiryou. It has the power to stay in your memory, affect-ing you months later. It sounds different than someoneelse playing the same melody, because the music has asoul; a spiritual quality.

I think I didn’t start to feel spiritual until I was in my20’s and noticed there was something more to life thansimply “doing and being.” I was sitting in templethinking about a friend who was very ill and a haunt-ing Jewish melody began. I found myself swept awaywithout noticing I was swept away, and taken to aplace that had giant depth and introspection. I wasmoved to tears. The melodies stayed with me, after themusic stopped. It gave me pause to consider.

As a Jewish educator who appreciates spirituality,what I can offer your children is the framework to ac-

quire a spiritual dimension. This is not to say that achild will be ready to hear their inner voice, but if theyare, I can offer the platform.

At the Religious School we don’t just teach, we alsotry to get students thinking. Along with curriculum ofconcrete information and Hebrew language acquisi-tion, we ask a lot of questions and have students con-sider things. Often there’s no right answer. It’s thenthat a student must speak and see if their answer is theright answer for them.

Questions sometimes prompt a student to go deeperinto themselves to find an answer. I encourage teach-ers to ask “Are you sure you feel this way?” which inturn encourages a child to rethink, and promotes re-consideration. A person needs to look at one’s core toreconsider. Looking at one’s core is getting in touchwith one’s spiritual self.

Lastly, I try to model what being spiritual looks like.Students will see me moved. Students will see my un-conditional respect and caring for all the students inthe school. It is my hope that this will create emula-tion.

For me, spirituality comes from a place beyondthought. Feeling spiritual enables me to feel awe andexquisite joy. It’s part of my relationship with God,and not a New Age-y mantra. Spirituality cannot beintellectualized or simply manifested because youwant it now, although it is also not elusive.

The spiritual side of me is very important to me. Itmakes my life deeper and richer and it is my hope thatyour children will discover their own spiritual dimen-sions, if not now, whenever they are ready.

B’Shalom,

Mindy Myers


ADAM PAGET TO BECOME A BAR MITZVAH ON OCTOBER 15-16

Adam Paget was born July 13, 1996, in Alameda, California and has an

older sister, Laura. He has attended Temple Israel Religious School

since kindergarten and this past year worked diligently with Cantor Pam

Sawyer and the Rabbi to prepare for his becoming a Bar Mitzvah, now

just weeks away. His passions are music, playing the guitar, soccer,

and video games, not necessarily in that order. In honor of becoming a

his Bar Mitzvah, as a family we ran a garage sale to benefit Haiti earth-

quake victims, earning $200 to support this cause.

One adjective to describe Adam would be “determined”; once he gets

his mind set on an idea, he is relentless. But he is also kind-hearted, social, considerate and so much more.

We invite everyone from the Temple to join us on Saturday , 10/16, as Adam is called to the Torah.

Introduce Your Young Child to Judaism

With A Tot Shabbat Service

Welcome Shabbat with puppets, singing, prayer, and joy!

A Shabbat service designed especially for children ages 1 – 8.

Older children are invited to help lead the service.

Tot Shabbat services are led by Rachel Herrmann.

An Oneg Shabbat follows the brief service.

Mark your calendars for upcoming 2010/2011 Tot Shabbats:

October 15, November 19, December 17, January 21, February 18, March 18, April 15, and May 20.

All Tot Shabbats begin promptly at 6:30 pm in the Temple Israel sanctuary.

Doors open at 6:15. New families and friends welcome!

Temple Israel is located at 3185 Mecartney, Alameda 510-522-9355


Apple Strudel Workshop(The kind your bubbie used to make!)

Wed., October 13, from 7 – 9pm

at Temple Israel, 3183 Mecartney Road, Alameda

Baker Michael Goldstein (from the blog breadandsuch.wordpress.com), will share his secretsto making a delicious Jewish apple strudel. Workshop participants will take home their ownapple strudel and a recipe. Cost is $20 per person. Class is limited to 15 participants.

__________________________________________________________________Temple Israel Apple Strudel Workshop, Oct 13, 7 – 9pm

Your Name:________________________________________ Phone____________________________Address_____________________________________________________________________________

Email:______________________________________________________________________________□ I’ve enclosed my check for $20 made payable to Michael Goldstein for the class and materials. Please mail

your check and this completed form BEFORE OCT. 6th to: Temple Israel, 3183 Mecartney Road, Alameda,

CA 94502.


Your favorite Jewish children’s book authors are coming to Alameda!

Come meet them at Temple Israel’s:

A Book & A C kieJoin us for this amazing three-part series where 3 award-winning children’s book authors will charm children with theirstories, writing inspirations, and humor. For the $15 admission, each child will receive an autographed book, a cookieand juice.

Sunday, Oct. 10, 12:30 – 1:15 Wendy Lichtman

Math and fiction? Who would believe these two subjects could fit together so nicely! Wendy Licht-man’s book, Secrets, Lies and Algebra has great appeal to kids 9+. It’s a story about a math wizard,13-year-old Tess, who uses math to decode problems and solve mysteries. Tess continues using math tosolve mysteries in Wendy’s next book, The Writing on the Wall, where mathematical equations lead tothe solving of a shocking arson problem.

Sunday, Oct. 17, 12:30 – 1:15 Jane Wattenberg

Jane Wattenberg is the author/illustrator of many eye-popping photo-collage books for children. Shewrites board books like Mrs. Mustard’s Beastly Babies, and Mrs. Mustard’s Name Games; and booksfor older kids like Henny Penny, This is Rain, Duck and Kangaroo, and Never Cry Wolf. Her naturalistart, imagination and excellent story telling is interwoven into all her books.

Sunday, Oct. 24, 12:30 – 1:15 Dorothy Hearst

Dorothy Hearst is the author of Promise of the Wolves which takes readers, ages 10+ to a land wheretime is counted in phases of the moon, distance is measured in wolf-lengths, and direction by thescent of the nearest trail. Her stories are told from the point of view of a wolf, Kaala who was born ofa mixed-blood litter and outcast after her mother is banished. It is a story about how Kaala is deter-mined to earn a place in the Swift River pack.

Temple Israel ♦ 3183 Mecartney Rd, Alameda ♦ 510-522-9355 ♦ www.templeisraelalameda.org


Temple Israel’s Adult Education Committee presents

A Jewish Film Series3 Saturday nights: Oct 16, Nov 6, Dec 11Tickets are $25 for the 3-part series or $10 at the door

(Movie snacks included!) Don’t delay….Send for your tickets now!Temple Israel is located at 3183 Mecartney Road, Alameda

“Then She Found Me” October 16th 7 – 9 pm

An extraordinary cast (Helen Hunt, Matthew Broderick, Bette Midler, andColin Firth) star in this story of a Jewish New York schoolteacher who isforced to make life-changing shifts when, in quick succession, her husbandleaves, her adoptive mother dies and her biological mother, an eccentric talkshow host, materializes and turns her life upside down just as she begins acourtship with the father of one of her students. Filmed in 2007.__________________________________________________________

“Goodbye Columbus” November 6th 7 – 9 pm

A Jewish man (Richard Benjamin) and a Jewish woman (Ali MacGraw) meet,and while attracted to each other, find that their worlds are very different. She isthe archetypical Jewish-American-Princess, very emotionally involved with herparents’ world and the world they have created for her, while he is much lessdependent on his family. They begin an affair which brings more differences tothe surface. (Surprise appearances by Johnny Carson, Susan Lucci, BetteMidler, and Jaclyn Smith.) Filmed in 1970.

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“Secret Lives: Hidden Children & Their Rescuers” December 11th 7–9 pm

A gripping film that brings up questions about family, allegiance, and existence. Afternon-Jewish households rescue Jewish youngsters during the Holocaust, these childrenhad to resolve important matters: Who is my true family: the Jewish parents whocreated me, or the gentile parents who took me in? Surprisingly open, the grownchildren, families who took the Jewish children in, and a few surviving birth parentswho gave up their children and were later reconciled honestly tell their story in thisunforgettable documentary. Filmed in 2002.

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Jewish Film Series Ticket FormYes! I want to come to the 3-part Jewish Film Series. Enclosed is my check for $25, made payable to Temple Israel.Please mail check to: Temple Israel Film Series, 3183 Mecartney Road, Alameda, CA 94502. Tickets will be mailed toyou if received BEFORE October 8th.Name___________________________________________________________________________________________

Address_______________________________________________________________________________

Phone_____________________________ Email______________________________________________

□ I would like childcare for these movie dates_______________________________________________. (Add $5 for each child and for each date to the $35 series price. Babysitting info will arrive with tickets.)


Leveraging Our Resources – Volunteering our Skill andTalent

Our Temple has a valuable asset which many non-profitorganizations can only dream of acquiring. Although weare a relatively small congregation, our Temple has an en-ergetic, committed and growing core group of volunteers.More help is continually needed, however, to keep ourTemple running smoothly. Each week Moshe’s List is e-mailed to the congregation offering volunteer opportuni-ties. Here is a current sampling of postings.

SEEKING:

Webmaster Assistant – Help update Temple website con-tent and photos from home. Contact Josh [email protected]

Rides to Temple – Drivers needed to give rides to servicessometimes on Friday nights. Can you help? Contact Tem-ple Office [email protected] or call 510-522-9355

Children’s Clothing Swap Volunteers – Help create sign-

age, set-up or staff event Sunday Oct. 17th. Contact [email protected]

Green Team– Want to help make the Temple more envi-ronmentally friendly? Join others working to “green” ourbuilding and practices. Contact Eric [email protected]

Holiday Expo Crew – Volunteers needed to staff this one-day fundraising event November 14. Various shifts avail-able. Recruiting crew now. Contact [email protected]

WANTED:

Six Comfortable Chairs – for Temple library table. Con-tact Patti Stein [email protected]

Tchotchkes - to consign at a local shop. Money raisedgoes into the Temple’s General Fund. We can pick-up youritems from you. Contact: Kimberlee MacVicar [email protected]

MOSHE’S LIST MONTHLY ROUND-UP

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If, as the saying goes, it takes a village to raise a child,then we’d like to have as many of our parents as possibleinvolved in the effort, not just by dropping a child off atour door once or twice a week, but by reinforcing thelearning at home on a daily basis. We are partners in thisenterprise, and we want to hold on to our reputation asthe “People of the Book,” by making sure that Jewisheducation holds a place of special value and importancein the lives of Jewish families.

Finally, if you are not the parent of one of our ReligiousSchool children, you can still play a very important partin their learning by demonstrating, manifesting, and ar-ticulating our Jewish values when you are around thechildren. In one sense it’s not much different from“wearing one’s Judaism on [our] sleeve,” although I’mnot suggesting doing this in an evangelizing way. I sim-ply believe that the more conscious we are about livingout our Jewish values, the better we are able to transmitthem to the generations that will follow us.

I believe it’s the least we can do.

Shalom,Rabbi Allen B. Bennett

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commitment to those in need in our community. Wewould like to ensure our continued commitment to thewomen’s shelter and the Alameda Food Bank. We wouldlike to be able to restore our Bikkur Cholim programto provide contact or visits with members who are hospital-ized or homebound.

Our synagogue relies on the generosity of our members toinsure that we are able to meet the needs of everyone in ourcongregation. We appreciate and greatly value your com-mitment to our community as demonstrated by your contri-butions throughout the year. But dues and fees alone can-not provide enough resources to permit us to bring you allthe programs and services you deserve from your syna-gogue.

Please review the giving options listed on the envelope youreceived with your tickets, mark your choices, and return itto the synagogue office in the next week. This is your com-munity, your home, the place where you teach your chil-dren the values that will guide their lives. Please take amoment to reflect on why you choose to be part of ourwonderful community, and let your gift reflect what Tem-ple Israel means to you.

L'Shana tova to you and all of those you love,


OCTOBER 2010


NOVEMBER 2010


RABBI ALAN HENKIN TO SPEAK ON OCTOBER 29

Rabbi Alan Henkin is the Union Rabbi for the Union for Reform Judaism’s West District. Prior to that, he served as Re-gional Director of the Pacific Southwest Council of the URJ. From 1990 to 2000 he was the rabbi of Congregation BethKnesset Bamidbar in Lancaster, California.

During the 1980s he was rabbi for Temple Beth Solomon of the Deaf in Arleta, California. He has taught Modern Jew-ish Thought, Bible and Rabbinic Literature, “the Rabbi in the Hospital” and Rabbinic Practice at the Hebrew Union Col-lege-Jewish Institute of Religion, Los Angeles Campus.

Rabbi Henkin was ordained by Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati in 1980, and he holds a Ph.D. in Social Ethics fromthe School of Religion at the University of Southern California, where he also earned an undergraduate degree. In 2005he was awarded a Doctor of Divinity degree from HUC-JIR.

Rabbi Henkin has published articles in such journals as the American Rabbi, the Jewish Spectator, the Journal of Re-form Judaism, Judaism, the Reconstructionist and Reform Judaism.

He was born in Chicago, Illinois, and currently lives in Northridge, California. He has four children.


THE MIDWAY SHELTER COOKINGPROJECT

The Women of Temple Israel are proud to have beenpreparing dinner once a month for the residents of theMidway Shelter for the past several years. Many reli-gious and community organizations in Alameda take partin this activity, so that the women and children who areputting their lives back together at the Shelter get a nour-ishing, healthy dinner each day.

In September, Nancy Freed, Mary Gold, Alison Harris,and Doris Weiner Gluckman prepared and deliveredshepherd’s pie made with healthy ground turkey, greensalad, pumpkin pie, and juice. We always have a goodtime visiting with each other and catching up on eachothers’ lives while we cook! And, as Mary Gold fre-quently says, “Many hands make work light”!

We cook on the third Wednesday of each month. Fouror five volunteers are needed, and if you’d like to help,please contact Alison Harris at 521-3375 or [email protected].

NEW ISRAEL FUND’S 16th ANNUALGUARDIAN OF DEMOCRACY

DINNERWednesday, October 13

San Francisco’s Four Seasons HotelFeaturing:

Avraham Burg

Veteran Israeli social activist and the youngest Speakerin the history of the Israeli Knesset. Burg has beencalled one of the best speechmakers in politics.

Honoring:

Diane Jordan Wexler – Guardian of DemocracyAward

Jeremy Lizt – New Generations Leadership Award

Please join us to help honor our friends and supportNIF.

VISIT WWW.NIF.ORG/GUARDIAN.

HELP NEEDED FROM LESBIANWOMEN WHO IDENTIFY AS

MEMBERS OF THE REFORMJEWISH MOVEMENT

Are you a lesbian identified woman?

Are you between the ages of 35-50?

Do you self-identify as a member of the Reform

Movement of Judaism?

If the answer is YES to all the three questions,

you are needed for a study exploring the interac-

tion between lesbian identity development and

Reform Jewish Movement. It involves only one

two hour interview and participation is Voluntary

and Confidential.

A Gift Certificate of $15.00 to a bookstore will be

given for your time after the interview is com-

plete.

If interested or have further questions please e-

mail me at [email protected]

Thank-You!

Erin

Erin Harrell MADoctoral Candidate, Clinical PsychologyAlliant International University, of the Califor-nia School of Professional Psychology


Big Band Concert/Dance

in Alameda the Last Wednesday of the MonthCome and listen/dance to Dave’s Swingtime Big Band playing the hits from the 30’s to the

60’s. Eighteen piece big band plus a female vocalist performs east and west coast swing,

rumbas, waltzes, cha chas, tangos, night club two-step and a few surprises!

Wednesday, October 27

8:00 pm to 10:00 pm

Temple Israel 3183 Mecartney Road

$5.00 donationFor further details call Dave at 510-521-1349 or

Email: [email protected]

Directions:

From I-880 take High Street exit into Alameda crossing the High Street Bridge. At the 5th stoplight turn left ontoOtis Drive. Take the right lane across the bridge; immediately after the bridge take the right fork onto IslandDrive. Go approximately 2/3 of a mile and the shopping center will appear on the right. Make a right onto Me-cartney Road at the stop sign, and turn right into the shopping center (at the Union 76). Take the first left(before reaching CVS Drugs); parking lot ends at Temple Israel.

JAZZERCISE OFFERING SPECIAL DISCOUNT TO TEMPLE ISRAELMEMBERS!

Jazzercise on Bay Farm Island would like to offer any Temple Israel member a 25% EFT discount on ourmonthly membership. Jazzercise does not offer this discount to anyone else because our prices are so low.This is a special offer for Temple members only.

Normally Jazzercise is $40.00 per month, which is already a great value. At 25% off, Temple members arebeing offered an extraordinary fitness value. Jazzercise hopes you will take advantage of it.

Please let Karen Park know if you have any questions. The Temple office cannot answer any questions youmay have.

Karen ParkJAZZERCISE

-on-BAY FARM ISLAND

-and-TWIN TOWERS CHURCH GYM510-865-2213510-814-0127/Fax


CONTRIBUTIONS

Contributions made in August and throughout the High Holy Days will be listed in the November Bulletin

ISRAEL “GOOD NEWS” BULLETIN SEPTEMBER, 2010

Israel, the 100th smallest country, with less than 1/1000th of the world's population, can lay claim to thefollowing:

The cell phone was developed in Israel by Israelis working in the Israeli branch of Motorola, which has itslargest development center in Israel .

Both the Pentium-4 microprocessor and the Centrino processor were entirely designed, developed and pro-duced in Israel.

Both Microsoft and Cisco built their only R&D facilities outside the US in Israel .

Israel's $100 billion economy is larger than all of its immediate neighbors combined.

Israel has the highest percentage in the world of home computers per capita.

Israel produces more scientific papers per capita than any other nation by a large margin - 109 per 10,000 peo-ple -- as well as one of the highest per capita rates of patents filed.

Twenty-four per cent of Israel's workforce holds university degrees, ranking third in the industrialized world,after the United States and Holland and 12 per cent hold advanced degrees.

Israel has a larger number of startup companies than any other country in the world, except the U.S. (3,500companies mostly in hi-tech).

Israel has the third highest rate of entrepreneurship -- and the highest rate among women and among peopleover 55 - in the world.

“ISRAEL GOOD NEWS BULLETIN” is intended to help you learn more about the positive contributions taking place inthe state of Israel. Adapted from “Israel 21C and news from the Weizmann Institute, these stories are distributedweekly by the “Temple Isaiah Israel and World Jewry Committee” and selected and provided to you monthly by theEast Bay JCRC. If you are interested in learning more about the East Bay JCRC, please contact your JCRC representa-tive (Felice Zensius).


YAHRZEITS

October 1Annette Louis 9/25 Tishrei 17Edwin Meyerhoff 9/26Woodrow Parker 9/26Mina Reznik 9/26Beverly Fass 9/27Samuel Jacobs 9/27Louis Shuster 9/27Hyman I. Krongard 9/28 Tishrei 20Florence Dines 9/29Maxine McIntosh 9/29Selma Schiller 9/30Mimi Gold 10/1October 8Frank Riback 10/2Mirra Zaspitsky 10/2Hyman Karsh 10/3Ilona Thomas 10/3Regina Cohen 10/4 Tishrei 26Anna Karsh 10/4Alfred Hankin 10/5 Tishrei 27Sidney Hertz 10/5 Tishrei 27Arthur Zinn 10/5George Albert 10/6 Tishrei 28Hyman Cohen 10/6 Tishrei 28Hyrum Glick 10/6Jonas Goldfarb 10/6H. Wilson Moorhouse 10/6Joseph Schwartz 10/6Morris Wolf 10/6 Tishrei 28Jonathan Ginsburg 10/7Emma Soskin 10/7Avraham Weiner 10/7 Tishrei 29Irmgard Alba 10/8Louis Huberman 10/8Gustave Kapler 10/8Solomon Kutin 10/8 Tishrei 30October 15Rosa Lipkowitz 10/9Isaac Strassburger 10/9 Heshvan 1Jeannette Wagner 10/9Minnie Davidson 10/10Hans Gumpert 10/10 Heshvan 2Leonard Ginsburg 10/11Ellis Irving 10/11Milton Malakoff 10/11Sam Barnett 10/12Melvin Crosby 10/12Esther Haber 10/12Dorothy Lutz 10/12

William Ragent 10/12 Heshvan 4Yetta Finberg 10/14Hirsch Hankin 10/14 Heshvan 6Angela Wagner 10/14Sam Chelouche 10/15 Heshvan 7Jacob Feldman 10/15 Heshvan 7Joseph Harrosh 10/15 Heshvan 7Edith Hurwitz 10/15 Heshvan 7Lela Olsen 10/15Dina Soboleff 10/15October 22Alfred Weiss 10/16 Heshvan 8Herbert Altschuler 10/17 Heshvan 9Benjamin Cohen 10/18Bette Drucker 10/18Harry Jaffe 10/19Gregory Berezlavsky 10/20 Heshvan 12Joseph Kingsley 10/20 Heshvan 12Moritz Rosenfeld 10/20 Heshvan 12David Herman Norell 10/22 Heshvan 14Ilonka Salzman 10/22 Heshvan 14Louis Silberberg 10/22 Heshvan 14October 29David Reid 10/23Beatrice Altman 10/23Zohra Benisty 10/23 Heshvan 15Sarah Braun 10/23Sara Currie 10/23Hilda Chadow 10/24Sam Golbert 10/24Dorothy Cotton 10/25Sidney Rosenthal 10/25 Heshvan 17Morris Warshaw 10/25Gertrude Baron 10/26Jeff Wasserman 10/26 Heshvan 18Leo Bernstein 10/27Rachel Crosby 10/27Arthur Kapler 10/27 Heshvan 19Sara F. Kofman 10/27Allen Serlin 10/27Bertha Albert 10/28 Heshvan 20Barbara R. Hubber 10/28Evelyn Rapkin 10/29November 5Anna Brown 10/31 Heshvan 23Irving Drucker 10/31Max Steinberg 10/31


CELEBRATIONS

BIRTHDAYSSophia Vitek October 3 6thHarry W. Gluckman October 4Daniel Levy October 4Anna Soskin October 4 17thMichael Lozovik October 5William Schaff October 5Josephine Schwartz October 6Mick Dylan Stein October 6 23rdPauline Schindler October 7Amy Blumsack October 8 29thJackie Culajay October 8 12thGabriel Kruglikov October 9 15thCharles Wolf October 9Michelle Hobbs October 11 22ndMikhail Partsuf October 12Peg Kofman October 13Harvey Stoller October 13Lee Harris October 14Cooper Freeman October 15 20thMikaela Freeman October 15 20thEric Cohen October 16

Lucy Gavrich October 18 10thCurt Mandell October 18Hannah Colette Reid October 18 3rdRonnie Blumenthal October 19Johanna Benson October 23 8thJacob Ackiron October 24 7thWalter Gruber October 24Kelly Idle October 27 23rdAnna Shelby October 27Linda Schneider October 27Isabel Cohn October 28 11thSylvia Blumberg October 29Brian Lutz October 30

ANNIVERSARIES

Charles & Nancy Rafalaf October 8 27th anniversaryEdward & Peg Kofman October 9 27th anniversaryPeter & Carol Parker October 11 30th anniversary

MAZEL TOV!

To Sarah Ohring and Simon Ffinch on their marriage taking place on October 24!


TEMPLE ISRAEL BULLETIN

The Temple Israel Bulletin is a monthly periodical.Deadline for articles is the 10th of the month for the fol-lowing month’s issue. Comments can be directed to theTemple office: 3183 Mecartney Rd., Alameda, CA94502-6912, Phone 510-522-9355, Fax 510-522-9356,email: [email protected].

RABBI: Allen B. Bennett,

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DIRECTOR OF CONGREGATIONAL LEARNING:

Mindy Myers

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ADMINISTRATOR: Linda Benmour

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PRESIDENT: Cindy Berk

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The TI Times is a weekly email publication sent to theTemple Israel membership with email addresses. If youwould like to receive the TI Times please contact the Tem-ple office at: [email protected]

OFFICE HOURSRabbi Allen B. Bennett is generally in the office:

10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Wednesdays,

9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Thursdays,

9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on Fridays,

and Sundays during Hebrew and ReligiousSchool hours.

The office is open from 9:00—11:00 AM on Monday andTuesday and 9:00 AM—2:00 PM Wednesday throughFriday.

Because the Rabbi may be involved in meetings, other ap-pointments, tutoring students, etc., during the times he is inthe building, it is best to make an appointment before com-ing in.

YOUR TEMPLE ISRAEL BOARDOF DIRECTORS

President - Cindy BerkTreasurer—Jacob Lustig

Education & Community Programs – Beth Magidson

Fundraising— Kimberlee MacVicar & Jen Whatley

Personnel—Betty Riback

Public Information- Carol Parker

Operations – Eric StrimlingDirectors at Large - Mike Riback, Suzi Scher, CharleyWeiland



UPCOMING ACTIVITIES AND EVENTS

JEWISH FILM SERIES RETURNSOct. 10, 7:00 PM: “Then She Found Me” will be the first film shown. See page 8.

A BOOK AND A COOKIE SERIES BEGINSOct. 10, 17, 24; 12:30 PM: A wonderful family event! See page 7.

STRUDEL WORKSHOPOct. 13, 7:00 PM: Learn to make a delicious apple strudel. See page 6 for more information.

TOT SHABBAT BEGINSOct. 15, 6:30 PM: See page 5 for more information

CHILDREN’S CLOTHING SWAPOct. 17, 9:00 AM: Save money!! Trade your children’s gently worn but outgrown clothes for someone else’s! Seepage 1.

BIG BAND NIGHTOct. 29, 8:00 PM: NOTE THE DATE CHANGE! Dance to the Big Band sound of Dave Altschuler’s SwingtimeBand. A $5.00 donation at the door is requested. See page 14 for information.

MINYAN AND BAGEL BREAKFASTOct. 31, 9:30 AM: Join us for davenning followed by a delicious bagel brunch

GIFT CARDSSales Table open during all Temple Israel committee meetings and during Religious School!

Documents

October 2010 Temple Israel Bulletin