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Page TEMPLE ISRAEL OF THE POCONOS Edition 610

Temple Israel of the Poconos Drawing by Marilyn Margolies

Inside this Issue

Rabbi’s Message 1 President’s Message 3 Norman Gelber 4 Concert 5 Ad Form 6 Ask the Rabbi 7 Save the Date 8 Donations 10 Birthdays/ Anniversaries 12 Yahrzeit Lists 13/14 Calendar 15 Advertising 19

BOARD MEETING WEDNESDAY July 1 7:00 p.m.

July 11 Kiddush/Luncheon sponsored by John Sonocki

Sunday, July 19 10:00 a.m. Breakfast/Speaker Dr. Sandra Alfonsi Topic: Fact, Fiction, Innuendo and Bias: Just what are our children learning?

Edition 610 July 2015 Tammuz/Av 5775 A monthly publication of Temple Israel of the Poconos

THE WHEEL AND THE HUB by Rabbi Baruch Binyamin Hakohen Melman

Many Israeli Jews at the first news of resurgent anti-Semitism in the West insist that the sole response for any sane Jew is to "return home" to Israel. How can you be a true Zionist, they ask, if you do not heed the "signs" and return to our ancestral home? If you love Israel so much why not live there? These are all good questions. But the true definition of a Zionist is not necessarily whether one actually lives in Israel, even though it is important for Israel's vitality and security needs and economy that a sufficient critical mass of Jews reside there to maintain its viability. A Zionist simply is someone who believes in the right of the Jewish People to live freely and independently in their own ancestral national homeland. Living as guests at the tender mercies of other nations has historically ended tragically in far too many instances. On the other hand, the Jewish state was conquered and defeated and scattered twice before in our history - the First Commonwealth at the hands of the Babylonians in 586 BCE and the Second Jewish Commonwealth at the hands of the Romans in 136 CE. There were other defeats and calamities but these were the two acts of politicide - the destruction of a state - in our people's history. Israel's rebirth and survival, the ingathering of our exiles, the rebirth of the Hebrew language as a living tongue - all these are true miracles. Every Jew alive needs to drink deeply of these miracles as evidence of true Divine Providence. Actually, the very fact that the Jewish People - even a mere saving remnant - survived stateless for almost two thousand years in the turbulent and antagonistic diaspora is itself a miracle! But here is the truth. Jews have built and lived in diaspora communities even in the days of the Bible and Antiquity - even while the Kingdoms of Judah and Judaea were flourishing. As economic partners and sources of political support, as centers of scholarship and trade, Jewish life was always a partnership between the two commu-nities. Each needed the other for succor and support. It is no different today. Pro-Israel voices, fluent and articulate in English, have a vitally important role to play in defend-ing Israel. Military strength alone is insufficient. This summer, as we contemplate the three weeks and Tisha B'Av, let us reflect on this balance between homeland and exile. Remember, a wheel needs both a strong tire and a strong hub. We are the spokes connecting the two. May we always keep a strong connection. That's how we roll!

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A MESSAGE FROM OUR PRESIDENT …… Dr. Sandra Alfonsi

As I write this message the month of June is coming to an end and with it the end of my second year as President of Temple Israel. As I look back on this year I admit that I have to smile at what we have accomplished together. We celebrated Rosh Hashanah with joy and left our services with a new-found belief that we were truly beginning a new year for Temple Israel. For the first time in many years we did not cancel upcoming events because of apathy and lack of support. We held our Israeli Fair and our annual Community Menorah Lighting Event. Members, Hebrew School families and their children and guests from the greater Stroudsburg community filled our Social Hall. They brought their menorahs and kindled the candles, sang Chanukah songs and ate home-made latkes. After Chanukah we celebrated Purim together – members, Hebrew School children and parents and once again individuals from outside our Temple Israel community. Perhaps the greatest accomplishment this year was our beautiful, well attended and thoroughly enjoyed First Seder. For the second time in two years we prepared our home for Pesach and welcomed members, their family and guests as well as strangers who were seeking a Seder and came to us. As we welcomed them they were no longer strangers but a part of our Temple Israel family. We have had a Minyan every Shabbat morning since before Rosh Hashanah. Individuals in need of a Minyan in order to say Kaddish now come to us and feel that they are a part of our family. We voted to abolish the traditional dues schedule and to adopt a per person affiliation fee of $200. It was indeed a very good year.

My third term as your President will begin on July 1st. It will start with mega-event of major im-portance to us as Jews. On Sunday August 9 we will hold a concert at the Theater at Stroudsburg High School. This concert From Shtetl to Broadway to Israel: A Celebration of Jewish Peoplehood is a response to the rise of anti-Semitism and anti-Israelism witnessed this year. Soon after we will come together to celebrate Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur and to pray for another year of life for us, our families and our beloved Temple Israel. Exciting events are being planned for the upcoming year: the return of Kaskeset in the fall; several Shabbat Dinners; a pre-Chanukah Bazaar and our Community Chanukah Menorah Lighting, to name a few. We will share meals together and celebrate life cycle events. There will be some changes in the upcoming year – changes which are designed to help us grow.

So, as my second year comes to an end, I thank all of you for continuing this journey with me. May we go from strength to strength together!


DIVINE COMMUNICATION By Norman Gelber

In an early scene in Shakespeare’s tragedy, Hamlet, the brooding protagonist who has just experienced a traumatic visit and story from his slain father’s ghost, says to his loyal friend, Horatio, "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamed of in your Philosophy." Hamlet cannot be referring merely to the belief in the existence of human souls after death, for that belief was already an integral part of the Roman Catholic religion. So what "things in heaven and earth" could Hamlet have had in mind?

Whatever the answer, it probably refers to matters beyond the scope of the known philosophy and theology prevailing at that time. I suggest that it concerned the extraordinary event that Hamlet had recently experienced– the visitation and story of his father’s ghost – that prompted him to refer to the mysteries that exist beyond the scope of philosophy or a university education. The Torah is our primary source of information on this subject. In the Torah we learn that God speaks to Adam and Eve, to the Patriarchs, to Moses, to King David, to his son Solomon, and to His prophets. We speak to God in our prayers to Him, in our belief and faith in Him, and in our obedience to His commandments. The point is that communication between God and human beings may be in words or in the context of a seeming miraculous event. The Exodus, the division of the Red Sea, the giving of the Ten Commandments, the trek of the Israelites through the Wilderness to Canaan, the survival of the children of Israel despite enemy occupation, many years of exile and dispersion, attest to Divine intercession in behalf of His "Chosen People." In other words, these miraculous events do not need spoken words to assure the Israelites of Divine protection. Just as a picture is said to be worth a thousand words, so can meaningful events convey a message: if we take the time and make the effort to search for one.

Despite these modes of Divine communication, we are rarely aware of them today because of our busy involvement in the practical concerns of daily living. Besides, we tend to be skeptical and wary about experiences that we cannot weigh, measure, or actually perceive. Yet I believe that "God works in mysterious ways His wonders to perform," and that He communicates with us in non-verbal ways. For example, I have discovered that spending many weeks in the hospital and in rehabilitation was a blessing in disguise, for it gave me the opportunity to meditate on what seemed to be adverse experiences and to find their unexpected advantages.

The Biblical story of Joseph provides an instructive example of God’s communicating with man by means of a prophetic dream-vision. When Joseph reveals his dream that he will become the leader of his family, his father Jacob and his envious brothers believe that his dream foretells the future. Their belief is vindicated when the story ends with Joseph’s becoming the Pharaoh’s overseer as a reward for his foreknowledge and advice on how to adapt to the impending seven years of drought that Egypt will suffer.

Most people today would probably describe a prophetic dream-vision as just anecdotal, nothing more than a personal experience or coincidence. Thus far, direct Divine communication with humans cannot be empirically proved or disproved!


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ASK THE RABBI by Rabbi Baruch Binyamin Hakohen Melman Dear Rabbi Melman, Most of my Jewish family and friends are very generous people. They leave nice tips if the service is good. Some even tip nicely in advance, in order to ensure good service! Even if one looks around in the major cities, so many hospitals, universities and cultural institutions are festooned with clearly Jewish names, proud that this country enabled them to flourish and give back to the country for all the opportunities for success which it provided. So my question is, why do so many people say that "Jews are cheap." In my own experience that belief is so very far from reality. And yet it persists. Why? Thank you, Curious ************************************************************************** Dear Curious, You are right! Jews are among the most generous people on the planet. Of course, we all know exceptions. But they are the exceptions, not the rule, in my opinion. This myth of the stingy and cheap Jew first arose during the days of Antiquity, in the Hellenistic era. In a polytheistic society, people were expected to bring sacrificial offerings to all their gods. No exceptions. The more gods, the more sacrifices. And sacrifices were not cheap. Now when they saw that Jews only worshipped one god, they just assumed the worst of intentions. Jews, they said, only worshipped one god so that they could save money. They were clearly too cheap to be like everyone else and worship many gods with their many sacrifices. This is based on jealousy. And to add to the accusations, they looked around and saw that Jews "took off" a day from work each week as a day of rest. Why did they need a day of rest, they wondered? Because Jews must be lazy, they said. Here they were, slaving away seven days a week to give expensive sacrificial gifts to their gods and their insatiable priests, and these Jews have the gall to rest one whole day each and every week and worship just but one god. So that is their "proof" that Jews are both lazy as well as cheap. And so, throughout every historical era and epoch, as cultures and religions came and went, one deep "truth" lived on and persisted throughout the vicissitudes of the ages, passed down from family to family in each generation. Of course, when one struggles economically one is looking to blame some one else for his troubles. And of course the ruler is looking to blame "the other" - the Jew - to deflect the anger of the masses at their suffering and plight. And so the myth lives on. But the best way to fight it is to be a personal example of its opposite. © 2015 by Rabbi Baruch Binyamin Hakohen Melman


July 19, 2015 Breakfast/Speaker Dr. Sandra Alfonsi

Topic: Fact, Fiction, Innuendo and Bias: Just what are our children learning?

August 9, 2015 “From Shtetl to Broadway to Israel - A Celebration of Jewish Peoplehood” Concert at Stroudsburg High School

(see flyer on page 5)

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In honor of your Bar or Bat Mitzvah anniversary?

Or for any reason?

No problem!

Just pick up the phone and call Bernie Driller, head of

our Ritual Committee, and let him know what date

you would like to have the maftir aliyah and chant the haftarah.

He will mark it on his special Haftarah calendar.

Just call Bernie at 570-421-6103

If you need a brush up or a recording, just call Rabbi Melman.

And if you've never done one before and you'd like to learn,

just call Rabbi Melman, at 570-730-4799.


THANK YOU TO THE FOLLOWING FOR THEIR GENEROUS DONATIONS TO TEMPLE ISRAEL OF THE POCONOS

YAHRZEIT DONATIONS Leigh Steltzer in memory of Norman and Elsie Steltzer

Harold Jacobs in memory of Esther Jacobs Sandy Magnes in memory of Rose Goldberg Ivan Margolies in memory of Ann Margolies

Rabbi’s Discretionary Fund

Polypodium Psyllium Leigh Steltzer

GENERAL DONATIONS Aloysius Murgatroyd

Art Glantz Beatrice Greenberg

Michael Newman Merle Turitz

Lester Abeloff Foundation

SHABBAT KIDDUSH LUNCHEONS SPONSORED BY:

Charlie Cahn in memory of Murray Abeloff Mel Kaplan

MEMORIAL PLAQUES Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Mackintosh in memory of Frances and Bernie Forster


HESSED FUND Hessed is a Hebrew word meaning kindness and a reaching out to other people.

It is the way you can express sympathy, warm wishes or celebrate simchas for any one within or outside the Jewish community. If you would like something included here:

Call Suzanne Tremper at 588-6148. Please leave all the information on the machine so Suzanne doesn’t need to call you back.

OR Better than telephone, is contacting Suzanne by e-mail at [email protected]. That's the best!

If you would like us to send a card to a person who is not a Temple Israel person, you must include the recipient’s address when giving Suzanne the information. Cards are usually sent within three days of the request.

Acknowledge the accomplishments of your favorite

graduate with a Hessed Card.

Wish a friend a happy birthday on that special day.

Send get well greetings to someone who has not been feeling well.

Call Suzanne


If you are celebrating a milestone year, whether it be birthday or anniversary, please let me know so others may celebrate with you. Contact: Suzanne Tremper 588-6148 or [email protected]

July Anniversaries

July 22 Howard & Marlena Magnes July Birthdays July 01 Shawna Blake

July 02 Marcie Rabinowitz Marilyn Hertz

July 05 Michele Mann

July 09 Jacob Speicher

July 13 Russell Bear Donna Waite

July 14 Darryl Speicher Sandy Magnes

July 18 Esther Graves Suzanne Tremper June Farber Maryjane Newman

July 19 Ed Krawitz Barth Rubin

July 26 Penina Scullion

July 27 Bruce Weidenbaum Maura Bear

July 29 Steve Krawitz

July 31 Myra Trumpaitzky


July 16 Tammuz 29 Samuel Barton July 17 Av 01 Ida Binder

Manus Rabinowitz

July 18 Av 02 Ann Odzer Weisbrot Charles Manley

July 19 Av 03 Rebecca Sommer Raphel Max Reader

July 20 Av 04 Abraham Klein Dorothy Helman

July 21 Av 05 Louis Zubow Mary Goldstein Freida Soloman Robert Levokove

July 23 Av 07 Rubin Binder

July 25 Av 09 Samuel Rubin Lester Abeloff

July 26 Av 10 Rebecca Soler

July 28 Av 12 Rose Wilkins Frederick Starr Louis Silverman

July 29 Av 13 Dr. Seymour Pollan Louis Cohen

July 1 Tammuz 14 Sophie Rosenston July 2 Tammuz 15 George Binder

Robert Goldman

July 3 Tammuz 16 Jack Cahn

July 5 Tammuz 18 Nathan Ptashkin Ben Rosenblum

July 6 Tammuz 19 Bessie Greenberg

July 7 Tammuz 20 Abe Rosenston Michael Schecter Anna Katz

July 9 Tammuz 22 Jack Brody Joseph Blassberg Leo Goldberg

July 11 Tammuz 24 Bessie Pollack

July 12 Tammuz 25 Elizabeth Malbin Harry Edelstein

July 14 Tammuz 27 Irene Rothstein Dora Hertz Israel Melman Irving Parnes

July 15 Tammuz 28 Yetta Elisweig Larry Schneider

July Yahrzeit List

Yahrzeit candles are lit the evening before the date listed above. If the candle is to be lit on Friday night, remember to light the candle prior to lighting

Shabbos candles.


August Yahrzeit List

August 18 Elul 03 Joshua Costanza Edith Cabelly

August 19 Elul 04 Edward Rosenzweig Sally Steinberg

August 20 Elul 05 William Friedman Isaac Kassel

August 21 Elul 06 Rose Fuchs Meyer Boyers Max Goldman

August 22 Elul 07 Fritz Breslauer Arleen Jolley

August 23 Elul 08 Dorothy Horowitz

August 24 Elul 09 Daniel Zadoff Mindy Solomon

August 25 Elul 10 Roberta Bernbaum Berton Burros

August 26 Elul 11 Maxwell H. Cohen Beverly Armel

August 27 Elul 12 Sadie Rosenthal

August 28 Elul 13 Soy Kleinfeld

August 29 Elul 14 Harry Koshar Harold Laffer Sadie Katz

August 30 Elul 15 Seymour Katz

August 31 Elul 16 Harry Sherman

August 2 Av 17 Clementine Abeloff August 3 Av 18 Herman Schwartz

Charles Schaffer August 4 Av 19 Rita E. Katz

August 5 Av 20 Sadie Effross Abram Richmond

August 6 Av 21 Jennie Goldman

August 7 Av 22 Leonard Grey

August 8 Av 23 Lester Brown Annie Sperling Jennie Cohen

August 9 Av 24 Phillip Costanza Leon J. Koster

August 10 Av 25 Phyllis Abramson Alvin Mandel Harry Heller Jerome Karver

August 11 Av 26 Harry Sagofsky Ruth Gittleman Leonard H. Berman

August 12 Av 27 Norman L. Garber Diane Greenfield Kurt Wimer

August 13 Av 28 Simon Hoffman Harry Bogatz Neal Goodman

August 14 Av 29 Norman Rosenthal

August 15 Av 30 Arnold Levine Ethel Berkman

August 16 Elul 01 Isadore Rakowitz Sylvia Blassberg Rose Kronitz


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Friday Night Oneg: $75 Package includes cakes, cookies, fresh fruit in season, hot coffee, milk, sweeteners, seltzer and cold beverages. Shabbat Kiddush-Luncheon: $125 Package includes 4 different salads, veggie platter, fresh fruits of the season, assorted cakes and/or cookies, hot coffee, milk, sweeteners, seltzer/cold beverages.

Each package is priced for 25 people.

Other special request items (including lox) are available upon request and for an additional fee; please contact me to design your own special event. For scheduling, availability and more

information contact: Lois LaBarca at 421-6103

Sponsored Kiddush Luncheons must be arranged at least 2 weeks before the requested date. Dates must be given to Lois by phone or email and NOT during or following Shabbat Services.

There will be NO Sponsored Kiddush Luncheons during September because of preparations for the

High Holiday Meals.


WE ALL HAVE SIMCHAS AND NACHES IN OUR LIFE CELEBRATE AND COMMEMORATE WITH ANY OF THE FOLLOWING...

SEND WARM THOUGHTS Give Suzanne Tremper a call at 588-6148 or e-mail her at [email protected] and let

someone know you’re thinking of them. For a small contribution to the Hessed Fund, Suzanne will send a card wishing a Happy Birthday, Congratulations, Mazel Tov, Get Well or

Condolences. A notice will appear in this bulletin, as well. When you call, please leave all the information needed.

TREE OF LIFE AND MEMORIALS Add a leaf to the Tree of Life to celebrate births, birthdays, marriages, bar and bat mitzvahs, or

any other special event for a minimum contribution of $150. Remember loved ones with a Memorial Plaque at a minimum contribution of $600 for members, $850 for non-members.

Contact Suzanne Tremper at 588-6148.

ENDOWMENT FUND It’s always a great time to make a contribution. Make your check out to “Temple Israel.”

Another thought to consider, remember Temple Israel in your will. Call the Temple office at 570-421-8781 or [email protected]

Honor or Remember Someone Special with a Bookplate

A bookplate can be placed in a Siddur, the weekly prayer book we use every Friday evening and Shabbat morning, or in a machzor, the prayer book which is used on the High Holidays. Remember a special occasion such as a birthday, anniversary, bnei mitzvah or any other occasion you want to note for a relative or friend. You can also place a dedication in someone’s memory. A nameplate with the donor, recipient, and occasion will be inserted. The minimum donation is $50.

Contact Herb Rosen, 424-1161, or at [email protected].

Do you need a Mi Sheberach Recited?

When you can’t make services, but would like a prayer said on behalf of someone important to you, please don’t hesitate to call the synagogue and leave a message

on the Temple answering machine for Rabbi Melman so that your prayers will be included in our services.


FROM YOUR MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE…..

we offer you a challenge!

We need everyone to help with this. Surely you know individuals and families who have no affiliation with a Synagogue.

Encourage them to become members of our Temple Israel Family!

If every family brings in one individual or family,

think of the possibilities!

At Temple events, be they regular Shabbat Services or a social occasion, introduce yourself to anyone you don’t recognize. You’ll make new friends

and assist us in enlarging our family.

YOU CAN BE PART OF OUR SUCCESS!!

For information please contact:

Dr. Sandra Alfonsi 223-7062

[email protected]

or Temple Israel 421-8781

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