Shabbat Shalom and Welcome!We welcome you to Anshe Emet Synagogue and hope that you enjoy our worship service. If you are a visitor, please introduce yourself so we may welcome you and wish you Shabbat Shalom. Everyone is invited to join our community for Kiddush lunch following services.

Mission Statement Anshe Emet Synagogue seeks to encourage involvement and create a special sense of belonging. We are committed to meeting the religious, educational, social, and cultural needs of our members within the framework of the Conservative Movement. In keeping with the teachings of Judaism and the spirit of Klal Yisrael, we recognize our responsibility to serve the Jewish community, the wider community and the state of Israel.

Michael S. Siegel • Senior Rabbi, Norman Asher Rabbinic Chair

Alberto Mizrahi • Hazzan Emeritus, Arnold H. Kaplan M.D. Cantorial Chair

David Russo • Rabbi

D’ror Chankin–Gould • Rabbi

Elizabeth Berke • Interim Hazzan

Naomi Weiss-Weil • Ritual Director

Art Friedson • President

Boni Fine • Executive Director

Established 1873Affiliated with United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism

3751 North Broadway • Chicago, Illinois 60613-4104AnsheEmet.org • 773.281.1423

October 3, 2020 • 15 Tishri 5781

Sukkot, First Day

Mazel Tov to proud parents, Jennifer and James Goodman, on the Bat Mitzvah of their daughter, Ella Goodman. Mazel Tov to proud parents, Lauren and Todd Berger, on the Bar Mitzvah of their son, Tyler Berger.Mazel Tov to proud parents, Jennifer and Matthew Seidner, on the Sunday Bat Mitzvah of their daughter, Talia Seidner.

Please proceed to WWW.ANSHEEMET.ORG/LIVESTREAM to view our Shabbat morning service.

Transliteration of the Prayer for the State of Israel:Avinu sheh-bashamayim, tsur Yisrael v’goalo, bareikh et m’dinat Yisrael reishit ts’michat g’ulateinu. Hagein aleha b’evrat chasdekha ufros aleha sukat sh’lomekha, ushlach or’kha va’amit’kha l’rasheha sareha v’yoatseha, v’tak’neim b’eitsa tovah mil’fanekha. Chazeik et y’dei m’ginei eretz kodsheinu, v’hanchileim Eloheinu y’shua, va’ateret nitsachon t’at’reim. V’natata shalom ba’arets v’simchat olam l’yosh’veha, v’nomar: Amen.

October 3, 2020 • 15 Tishri 5781

Sukkot, First Day

Click here to see all of our services, events and open Sukkah times for the community during Sukkot and Simchat Torah.

OPEN SUKKAH TIMES We want to give you a chance to sit in a sukkah! We have one large sukkah that can fit fifteen people at a time for 15 minutes. Anshe Emet will provide light snacks for everyone who comes to sit in the sukkah. Please do not bring your own food. We will also be providing a lulav and etrog (with hand sanitizer and wipes) in order to fulfill the mitzvah of shaking the lulav. To begin, we are asking people to only sign up for one of our time slots, to ensure that as many people can celebrate in the Sukkah as possible. Can’t wait to celebrate Sukkot with you!

Saturday October 3 • 1pm – 3:30pm Sunday, October 4 • 1pm – 3:30pm Monday, October 5 • 4:30pm – 6pm Tuesday, October 6 • 4:30pm – 6pm Wednesday, October 7 • 4:30pm – 6pm Thursday, October 8 • 4:30pm – 6pm

Select a Sukkah time and sign up here!

YahrzeitsWe remember those of our Anshe Emet family who are no longer

with us and whose Yahrzeits we observe this week.May their memory be for a blessing.

Jacob AnselLinda Ben-Ami

Joy BermanGoldie H. Bierman

Sidney BraudeWilliam ChudMorris Dubin

Stephen K. DunnPearl D. Eisenstadt

Morris EpsteinDavid EttelsonTerry Fadem

Mary FainmanBernard Feinberg

Nicholas FoxJeffrey Fryer

Mortimer GerstmanAlice Gold

Katherine GoldblattSelwyn GoodmanLazarus Goodstein

Morris GorindarPearl Gottfried

Allan HarrisJudson Horrell

Theodore HorwitzGertrude Isaacson

Isidore JackelAbe Jacobson

Pearl Levin JacobsonRegina R. JokelMorris I. KaneEarle Karno

Leona KoenigPesel Kornbluth

Fay KromDorothy KurtzKathleen Lax

Sam LeavittJoyce Levin

David LevineLee J. LindauMaurie Lipsey

Zelda LustPhilip Malvin

Rachel MarcusHyman Molotsky

Lillian MoscowBette NowellEllen Pauker

Solomon PearlmanBarbara PerlsteinTheodore Pierson

Philip PotokerCharles PrinceAnna RattnerAnita Rosen

Lester RosenbergMollie Rubin

Sol SalinsLita Schecter

George SchembergHarry Schiller

Herman SchneidermanMaurice Schneiderman

Helane SchwartzJoseph Schwarzbach

Miriam SeidnerZina Shapiro

William ShermanNathan P. Shure

Meyer SiegelJoseph M. Simon

Sadie StiglitzHarriet WeinerSadie Yablon

Tikkun Chicago Fall Trimester Registration Now OPEN!Classes Start Sunday, October 18th

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The first 10 students registered will receive a Tikkun Chicago Swag care package!

Please make every effort to return your mahzorim no later than Monday, October 5. There will be a table for drop-off under one of our parking lot tents.

Thank you!

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Life Cycle • Support HaZaK • Torah Readings

Help Us Be There For YouSynagogue is a place where you want to feel at home, nourished, nurtured and spiritually fulfilled; a place where your soul, heart and head are touched. It is a place where you and your children feel a sense of relevance. It is a place where you are safe, where you are stim-ulated, and where you will find a welcoming community.

As part of this commitment, the clergy at Anshe Emet are here to help with Simchas and crises in your or your family’s life. If you know someone who needs to speak with a member of our clergy, or if you want to add a name to the Mi Sheberach list, please contact Antoinette (Toni) Nuñez at 773-868-5120 or anunez@ansheemet.org. Names will be kept on the Mi Sheberach list for two weeks only unless otherwise specified.

HaZaK • Mondays at 1pmHaZaK is an Anshe Emet daytime program for mature adults with active minds. Co-taught by our clergy and other community educators, this year HaZaK is focusing on Jewish Ethics with the Melton curriculum “Ethics of Jewish Living.” Generously funded by Beatrice Mayer, z”l.

MONDAY, OCTOBER 5 • HAZZAN ELIZABETH BERKE

TORAH READING PAGE NUMBERS IN ETZ HAYIM DEUTERONOMY Chapters 22- 23

1st Aliyah: p.723, 22:26-22:332nd Aliyah: p. 724, 23:1-23:33rd Aliyah: p. 725, 23:4-23:84th Aliyah: p. 725, 23:9-23:145th Aliyah: p. 726, 23:15-23:22 6th Aliyah: p. 727, 23:23-23:257th Aliyah: p. 728, 23:26-23:328th Aliyah: p. 729, 23:33-23:44

Maftir: Numbers, p. 934, 29:12-29:16Haftarah: p. 1253, Sukkot I, Zechariah 14:1-14:21

Please join us, every fourth Monday of the month, for our online support group for adults who have experienced the death of a loved one within the past two years. Meeting ID: 170 885 666 | Contact Tamar Brooks for Zoom Password: tbrooks@ansheemet.org

On-Line Bereavement Group Supporting our community in times of loss.October 26 • 7:30pm • Anshe Emet

Visit ansheemet.org/livestream to join | Meeting ID: 663 098 957Contact Cantor Liz Berke for Zoom password and more information at eberke@ansheemet.org

SIMCHAT TORAH CELEBRATION: READICULOUS FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9 • 4:30PM

Join Us for Our Annual READiculous Celebration — Kidz-Style!

We’ll start with so much singing and dancing with the Torah (the stuffed or homemade Torah you have in your home) that your feet and throat will hurt (in a good, fun kind of way!). Then we will have the exciting opportunity to hear students, 2nd grade and older, read from the Torah itself!

Click here to learn more and register.

WHAT’S HAPPENING AT ANSHE EMET?

THE PEN & THE YAD PODCASTFEATURING RABBI MICHAEL SIEGEL & JONATHAN EIG

Special Sukkot Episode: How Do You Measure Joy? Shemini Atzeret: One More Day

Listen at: Ansheemet.org/podcasts

Learn about more programs at www.ansheemet.org/events

SISTERHOOD PRESENTS: ANNUAL MEETING: IT'S TIME TO CELEBRATE THE HARVEST! WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7 • 7PM

Join us as we “gather” to celebrate Sukkot and the harvesting of grapes with a virtual wine tasting of five (5) individually bottled wine samples delivered directly to you!

Winemaker and founder of VIN312, Warner DeJulio, will conduct the virtual tasting and educate us on the harvest of the wine industry while our own Hazzan Liz Berke will wave the Lulav and educate us on the har-vest of Sukkot! Click here to learn more and register.

BONFIRE WITH THE RUSSOSTUESDAY, OCTOBER 6 • 8:30PMClick here to register

JUF SPRINGBOARD SUKKOT ICE CREAM SOCIAL TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6 FROM 4:30PM-6:30PM

Join JUF Springboard for a Socially Distant Sukkot Ice Cream Social at Anshe Emet. Registration is required. Deadline to register is Sunday, October 4! Open to all teens! Click here to register.

HOSHANA RABBA HOSHANOTTHURSDAY, OCTOBER 8 • 7PM

Join Rabbi Siegel and Hazzan Berke as they introduce Hoshanot and its meaning as well as learning the tunes used for the special Hoshanot.Click here to joinMEETING ID: 831 7262 4242

SISTERHOOD PRESENTS: DO YOU KNOW G-D IS AN ORGANIZER? TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13 AT 7:15PM

Do you know G-d is an organizer, creating the world in six days out of chaos? Then on the seventh day, G-d rested. We’ll be taking a look at texts about the mean-ing of Shabbat and some suggestions for organizing Shabbat in the time of COVID. We’ll cover what it means to prepare, the specialness of Shabbat, being a host even virtually, and time. With Elesheva Soloff and Dr. Shira Fischer.

Click here to join | Meeting ID: 820 6730 8742

SISTERHOOD'S WINE, WOMEN & WALKING WITH GOD SERIES WITH ANITA SILVERT WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14 AT 7PM

Explore Jewish texts of Resilience, Reproach and Transition. Resilience – what keeps us strong, and helps us move forward after crises? Are we changed? Do we bounce back, or move forward?

Click here to learn more and register.

This program will continue on Wednesday, October 21 and 28 at 7pm.

EXPLORING A FORGOTTEN WORLD: A SOCIAL HIS-TORY OF MEDIEVAL JEWRY AS REVEALED IN THE CAIRO GENIZAH WITH RABBI SIEGEL BEGINS MONDAY, OCTOBER 19 AT 7PM

Melton School of Adult Jewish Learning This ancient-era version of reality TV gives you a front-row seat to the drama, gossip, legal transactions, and other daily intrigues – straight from the Middle Ages. This course brings to life an exotic era in Jewish histo-ry, revealing the inner thoughts of real-life characters exploring the daily interactions and behaviors of Jewish men, women and families living along the Mediterra-nean more than 1,000 years ago. All of this has been

uncovered through the discovery of a collection of worn-out scraps, text frag-ments, and documents from ancient times. Join us for a journey of intrigue and adventure! Join Rabbi Michael Siegel as he leads this 10-Part series online, via Zoom. Click here to register