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September 2015 | Kol Nefesh (“Every Soul”)
Visit our Full Temple Calendar at: http://www.centralreformtemple.org/events/calendar-at-a-glance/
HIGH HOLY DAYS
* Seating at High Holy Day Services is by Card of Admission only, included in the confirmation of your Membership Renewal. Please be sure to send in your Pledge Renewal for the New Year today, so that we may send you your seating cards in time for Rosh Hashanah!
* Please bring a contribu-tion of food for our New Year Reception on Rosh Hashanah Morning - baked goods, sweets, fruit, veggies, etc... to help us celebrate together follow-ing the Morning Service!
* We will once again be holding our annual High Holy Day Mitzvah Food Drive, collecting canned goods for the Greater Boston Food Depository. Collection bags should be picked up at the Temple on Rosh Hashanah and returned filled with non-perishable, nutritious groceries on Yom Kippur.
THE HIGH HOLY DAYS - 5776
Erev Rosh Hashanah The Eve of the New Year Sunday, September 13 - 7:30 PM
Rosh Hashanah Morning Service Monday, September 14, 10:00 AM Children and Family Celebration 9:00 AM
Kol Nidre Eve of the Day of Atonement Tuesday, September 22 - 7:30 PM
Yom Kippur Morning Service Wednesday, September 23 - 10:00 AM Children and Family Service - 9:00 AM
Afternoon Study/Discussion Forum 3:30 PMYizkor Memorial Service - 4:30 PMConcluding Service - 5:00 PM
SAVE THE DATE!CRT’s 10th ANNIVERSARY GALA CELEBRATIONSATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 26, 2015
15 NEWBURY STREET
A Special Feature of Our Anniversary Gala; Live and Silent Auction!
As a part of our 10 th Anniversary Gala, we will have a live auction with very exciting Grand Prizes!
Throughout the evening, there will also be a silent auction of very special goods and services.
Services
Providing a consultation, preparing a
special dinner for 6, or a valued home
service
Entertainment Tickets to a sporting event, theater,
music, golf, or dining experience
Perishables
A gourmet basket, case or bottles
of wine, gourmet foods
Travel A weekend stay at a vacation home,
an escorted tour to some cherished
location, Bed and Breakfast
accommodations for two
Art An appealing art object to most
collectors, sculpture, pottery, textile,
or literature
Picking From Our Garden Customized to the person donating
Donations of silent auction items are needed and include:
Please provide a description of your auction item/items to [email protected].
The Gala Committee will review all submitted items for final acceptance by August 31st and persons
donating will be communicated to via email with further instructions.
September 2015 | Kol Nefesh (“Every Soul”)
September 2015 | Kol Nefesh (“Every Soul”)
Visit our Full Temple Calendar at: http://www.centralreformtemple.org/events/calendar-at-a-glance/
Membership Renewal Reminder
Membership Renewal forms for the New Year.
Please be sure to return
your form and pledge as
soon as possible.
The Festival of Sukkot Sunday, September 27, 4:00 - 6:00 PM
Come help us celebrate the Harvest Festival by
decorating the Sukkah! Please bring branches,
cornstalks, gourds, pumpkins, flowers...
Our CRT Sukkah is an important attraction for
our community each year, drawing hundreds
of visitors to stop in front of Emmanuel on
Newbury Street to learn about this beautiful
Jewish tradition!
Picking from our Garden Event Brisket, Bourbon and SmokeSunday, October 11th, 4:30 PM
Hi Everyone,
Please spend a bit of Autumn on October 11th with Joe and Tannus at their Lexington home for Brisket, Bourbon and Smoke. From 4:30 to 8:00, Joe will share his techniques for smoking brisket and we’ll share in the delicious results as we sip from his bourbon collection. Pull up a chair by the bonfire and feel free to bring a harvest dish to share...no doubt smores will be on the menu!
Please contact Tannus Schlam at [email protected] if you plan on attending this special event. There will also be another reminder in the October Kol Nefesh.
Thanks so much,Tannus and Joe Schlam
Central Reform Temple’s 10th Anniversary Gala Silent Auction As a part of our 10th Anniversary Gala we are having a silent auction. Donations of silent auction items are welcomed and include:
Service - Providing a consultation, preparing a special dinner for 6, or a valued home service Entertainment - Tickets to a sporting event, theater, music, golf, or dining experience Perishables – A gourmet basket, case or bottles of wine, gourmet foods Travel - A weekend stay at a vacation home, an escorted tour to some cherished location, Bed and Breakfast accommodations for two Art - An appealing art object to most collectors, sculpture, pottery, textile, or literature Picking From Our Garden - Customized to the person donating
Please provide a description of your auction item/items to [email protected]. The Gala Committee will review all submitted items for final acceptance by August 31st and persons donating will be communicated to via email with further instructions.
Social Action Tobin Community Market My sincere thanks to all of my CRT friends who helped out with the Tobin Market this year. We have continued to serve between 40-55 families every two weeks with this effort and I know it makes a difference to those families. This years CRT team included: Susan Werbe, Howard and Diana Kassler, Robert Rubin, Saralynn Busch, Cathy Corman, Jennifer Livengood, Bob Frank, Caren Peters, Stacey Cannon, Arthur marquis and Paula Dickerman. It takes a village – and here is ours in action! Many thanks to all! Peace. Jill
Summer is a busy time of growth for our Temple members. It’s great to relish a less full schedule, warm weather and leisure. However, August is the beginning of the harvest. Please contact “Pickings” Coordinator Joan Brodsky ([email protected]) with ideas that you’d like to share about your lives, hobbies or collections. Currently, the schedule is wide open for August, September and October and your contribution to the “Picking From Our Garden” events would be most appreciated!
September 2015 | Kol Nefesh (“Every Soul”)
Mark Your Calendars! CRT’s Annual Chanukah Gift to Our Community
A LIGHT THROUGH THE AGES
Sunday, December 6th, 4 o’clock pm
Community HonoreesWe are looking for your suggestions of organizations whose work embodies our values of Spirit, Service, and Study. We will
recognize 8 representative leaders of these organizations at our annual gift to the Boston Community – our Chanukah
celebration, A Light Through the Ages. Last year’s honorees came from the words of education, civil rights, the arts, and those
who provide services to our neighbors in need. If you would like to make a suggestion for this year, please let us know at
[email protected], or speak with Caren Peters ([email protected]) and Tom Leavitt ([email protected]).
Our Temple Community
Social Action Committee News
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7th Annual Tobin School Fall Clean-UpSaturday, September 12th 9:00 am - 4:00pmJoin the Tobin School community for the Fall Clean-Up that brings together students, staff
and families with school partner organizations to freshen and plant the outdoor environment.
CRT is a lead sponsor of this event.
In the past six years the school campus has become a place of pride for the Mission Hill
neighborhood and your help is needed on September 12th to add fall plants. We plan to
create additional benches under the guidance of teacher Ms. Sandy’s husband Nick who
is a carpenter. Volunteers constructed the first yard furniture in 2010 and more seating is
needed as classes continue to use the outdoor learning spaces.
Come for as much of the day as you can and invite your friends. Your gardening, carpentry
and painting skills of any level are needed. Bring gloves and hand garden tools. Hammers
and screw drivers, too! Breakfast and lunch are provided.
Tobin is a short walk from the Longwood stop on the Green E/Heath line. Some parking is available in the school lot and in
the neighborhood.
Map: https://plus.google.com/101769834838047278933/about?gl=us&hl=en
Please contact [email protected] with questions
September 2015 | Kol Nefesh (“Every Soul”)
Visit our Full Temple Calendar at: http://www.centralreformtemple.org/events/calendar-at-a-glance/
Sisters in Spirit Inspirational and Entertaining Music from our Islamic and Jewish Traditions
Location: Central Reform Temple, Emmanuel Room Date: Sunday, October 4, 12:30-2:30 PM
Rabbi Devon Lerner and Esra Cansizoglu will bring recordings
of Jewish and Turkish music. We will discuss the content and
impact of these songs as it relates to our religions, cultures, and
traditions. We welcome all women from CRT and look forward to
new and old members. Please RSVP by October 1st to Jennifer
Coplon at [email protected] or 617-424-6733 .
Annual High Holy Day Food Drive Friends - we will once again be holding our Annual High Holy Day Food Drive to benefit the
Greater Boston Food Bank. As in years past, we will make bags available to pick up on
Rosh Hashanah and hope you will plan to return them on Yom Kippur filled with food
(Again, our gratitude for the wonderful Whole Foods Earth-friendly bags given by our CRT
family members James and Serena Robinson). Your donations help our neighbors in need
who may not have enough to eat. We have a special tie to the GBFB, because they supply
the food for the bi-weekly Community Market that we coordinate at the Tobin School in
Mission Hill. Last year, we collected 70 bags of food weighing 888 pounds. This translates
into 740 meals, or enough to feed a family of 4 one meal a day for 6 months. This is a
meaningful mitzvah to start your New Year off on the right foot.
Thanking you in advance for your participation and your generosity.
Peace - Jill
The Jewish Publication Society releases 50th Anniversary Editions of two classics
Of Jewish historical scholarship
Publication Date: October 1, 2015; U.K.: December 1, 2015
About the Books: The Rise of Reform Judaism: A Sourcebook of Its European Origins By W. Gunther Plaut Foreword by Solomon B. Freehof New Introduction by Howard A. Berman 320 pages This classic volume on the beginnings of the Reform Movement is updated with a new introduction. It covers the first one hundred years of the movement, from the time of the eighteenth-century Jewish Enlightenment leader Moses Mendelssohn to the conclusion of the Augsburg synod in 1871. In these pages the founders who established liberal Judaism speak for themselves through their journals and pamphlets, books and sermons, petitions and resolutions, and public arguments and disputations. Each selection includes Plaut’s brief introduction and sketch of the reformer. Important topics within Judaism are addressed in these writings: philosophy and theology, religious practice, synagogue services, and personal life, as well as controversies on the permissibility of organ music, the introduction of the sermon, the nature of circumcision, the observance of the Sabbath, the rights of women, and the authenticity of the Bible.
“The characteristic diversity within Reform Judaism is underscored on virtually every page of Plaut’s volumes.” -- Rabbi Howard A. Berman, executive director of the Society for Classical Reform Judaism
The Growth of Reform Judaism: American and European Sources By W. Gunther Plaut Foreword by Jacob K. Shankman New introduction by Howard A. Berman New epilogue by David Ellenson With select documents: 1975-2008 416 pages This classic second volume on the history of the Reform Movement is a sourcebook of the original writings that shaped the second century of organized liberal Judaism. It features a new introduction, a new epilogue, and important additional primary sources documenting the profound changes of the last fifty years. Although the emphasis in this volume is chiefly on the American scene, where the movement had its most notable advances, selections of representative liberal Jewish thought in Europe and to a lesser degree in Israel are included as well. These selections help us to understand the emergence and character, problems and tensions of Reform Judaism as it developed and grew in modern times. In addition to the primary texts new to this edition, David Ellenson’s epilogue considers the developments of the last fifty years that have continued to shape the course of Reform Judaism. About the Authors: Rabbi W. Gunther Plaut (1912-2012) was a longtime rabbi of Holy Blossom Temple in Toronto. The author of more than twenty books on Jewish theology, and culture, he is best known for The Torah: A Modern Commentary. Rabbi Solomon B. Freehof (1892-1990) was a leader of the Reform Movement and a world-renowned interpreter of Jewish law. Rabbi Howard A. Berman is the executive director of the Society for Classical Reform Judaism, and Rabbi of Central Reform Temple of Boston. He lectures at congregations throughout the country on behalf of the society and teaches regularly at Hebrew Union College. Rabbi Jacob K. Shankman (1904-1986) was the rabbi of Temple Israel of New Rochelle, NY and a leader in Reform Judaism. Rabbi David Ellenson is chancellor and past president of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion and is the author of Jewish Meaning in a World of Choice: Studies in Tradition and Modernity (JPS, 2014).
“The work of Rabbi Plaut is not only crucial for an understanding of Reform Judaism; it is also indispensable for grasping the development and history of Judaism in the modern world.” -- Rabbi David Ellenson, chancellor and past president Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion
To Order: Buy online at JPS.org The Rise of Reform Judaism The Growth of Reform Judaism Price per volume: $30; Canada: $38.95; U.K.: £24.99 Save 25%! Enter the code 6AF15 in the promotion code field of your shopping care and click “update.” To place your order by phone, call Longleaf Services at 1-800-848-6224. Please mention the promotion code when placing your order. This discount expires December 31, 2015. Also available on Amazon.com
September 2015 | Kol Nefesh (“Every Soul”)
Central Reform Temple’s residency at Emmanuel Church is supported by the Bycoff Family Fund
Dr. Howard A. Berman, Rabbi | Todd A. Katzman, President15 Newbury Street | Boston, MA 02116 | www.centralreformtemple.org | 617.262.1201
Recent Contributions
In memory of Jonathan Zibrak Joe Zibrak & Beverly ZibrakIn observance of the Yahrzeit of Aizik Khozak Gina & Lev Romm In observance of the Yahrzeit of Morris Goldman Marylou & Herb Gray
Welcome New Members!
Michael CohenJerry KatzLaurie KatzLillian Weigert & Joe AmbashJanice, Glen and Hannah Seidman
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B’YACHAD is a way for Temple members to connect with and support fellow
Temple members who are in need of support. If you need support or know a Temple
member who is in need of a hot meal, or if would you like to volunteer, please contact
[email protected] or call 617-262-1202.
