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T h e V o i c e o f C o n g r e g a t i o n B e t h S h a l o m Eric Zacks President [email protected] Robert V. Gamer Rabbi [email protected] David A. Nelson, D.D. Rabbi Emeritus [email protected] Samuel L. Greenbaum Cantor Emeritus [email protected] Sheldon L. Freilich Executive Director [email protected] Julie Grodin Circle of Friends [email protected] Arnie Weiner HaKol Editor [email protected] Congregation Beth Shalom 14601 West Lincoln Road Oak Park, Michigan 48237 Phone: 248.547.7970 Fax: 248.547.0421 Office Hours: Mon.-Thurs. 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Friday 8 a.m. - 4 p.m. email: [email protected] www.congbethshalom.org THE BETH SHALOM HAKOL IS PUBLISHED TWELVE TIMES A YEAR August 2015 Changes and Opportunities at Beth Shalom Opportunity often accompanies the need for change. We have learned from our own experience as well as local demographic studies with respect to religious school enrollment that there are challenges for us as Conservative Jews and as a Conservative congregation. At the same time, these challenges permit us to consider new types of community engagement, and I think that these opportunities are exciting, though obviously not without risk. As Rabbi Gamer explains in his Hakol article, our religious school is entering into a new partnership with Temple Emanu-El. This partnership is designed to not only provide our children with the education that they need but is also designed to create a critical mass of students necessary for a thriving community. In our new partnership, each grade will have a sufficient and healthy number of students (without combining with other grades) and allow our children to make and cement friendships with other Jewish children. In addition, the children will be in a broader Jewish educational community, which will enable the educators and the rabbis of each congregation to provide insight into the differences as well as the similarities between the denominations. Similarly, we are facing the issue of whether to employ a new full-time cantor. This challenge, though, also permits us to engage in short-term and long-term planning and consider the more significant question of whether our congregation needs and can afford a full-time professional in that position. In the short-term, our ritual committee, with Cantor Greenbaum’s help, is engaging our membership by providing opportunities to help lead services on a regular basis. One of our strengths is the number of members who are capable of leading a service, so I am happy that we are utilizing it. Our ritual committee is engaging in a search for a cantorial soloist to lead much of the services for the High Holidays. Once that search has been completed, we will inform the congregation and provide details. In the long-term, the Board will assess, based on congregational feedback as well as financial and other considerations, whether this new arrangement meets our needs for the future. We think that adding partners to our congregation only makes us stronger. We have begun to reach out to other synagogues and Jewish organizations to find ways in which we can participate in activities on a joint basis and leverage our collective resources, membership, and enthusiasm. Most of these ideas are in their infancy, but we hope to be able to roll many of them out in the next year. Although prompted in part by challenges our congregation is facing, we believe that they also permit us to envision and plan for a more exciting future. We would love to hear what you think, and we would particularly love to hear your ideas about community partnerships and ways to engage with others. F r o m t h e P r e s i d e n t E r i c Z a c k s

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The Voice of Congregation Beth Shalom

Eric Zacks President [email protected] Robert V. Gamer Rabbi [email protected] David A. Nelson, D.D. Rabbi Emeritus [email protected] Samuel L. Greenbaum Cantor Emeritus [email protected] Sheldon L. Freilich Executive Director

[email protected]

Julie Grodin Circle of Friends [email protected] Arnie Weiner HaKol Editor [email protected]

Congregation Beth Shalom 14601 West Lincoln Road Oak Park, Michigan 48237 Phone: 248.547.7970 Fax: 248.547.0421 Office Hours: Mon.-Thurs. 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Friday 8 a.m. - 4 p.m.

email: [email protected] www.congbethshalom.org

THE BETH SHALOM HAKOL IS PUBLISHED TWELVE TIMES A YEAR

August 2015

Changes and Opportunities at Beth Shalom

Opportunity often accompanies the need for change. We have learned from our own experience as well as local demographic studies with respect to religious school enrollment that there are challenges for us as Conservative Jews and as a Conservative congregation. At the same time, these challenges permit us to consider new types of community engagement, and I think that these opportunities are exciting, though obviously not without risk.

As Rabbi Gamer explains in his Hakol article, our religious school is entering into a new partnership with Temple Emanu-El. This partnership is designed to not only provide our children with the education that they need but is also designed to create a critical mass of students necessary for a thriving community. In our new partnership, each grade will have a sufficient and healthy number of students (without combining with other grades) and allow our children to make and cement friendships with other Jewish children. In addition, the children will be in a broader Jewish educational community, which will enable the educators and the rabbis of each congregation to provide insight into the differences as well as the similarities between the denominations.

Similarly, we are facing the issue of whether to employ a new full-time cantor. This challenge, though, also permits us to engage in short-term and long-term planning and consider the more significant question of whether our congregation needs and can afford a full-time professional in that position. In the short-term, our ritual committee, with Cantor Greenbaum’s help, is engaging our membership by providing opportunities to help lead services on a regular basis. One of our strengths is the number of members who are capable of leading a service, so I am happy that we are utilizing it. Our ritual committee is engaging in a search for a cantorial soloist to lead much of the services for the High Holidays. Once that search has been completed, we will inform the congregation and provide details. In the long-term, the Board will assess, based on congregational feedback as well as financial and other considerations, whether this new arrangement meets our needs for the future.

We think that adding partners to our congregation only makes us stronger. We have begun to reach out to other synagogues and Jewish organizations to find ways in which we can participate in activities on a joint basis and leverage our collective resources, membership, and enthusiasm. Most of these ideas are in their infancy, but we hope to be able to roll many of them out in the next year.

Although prompted in part by challenges our congregation is facing, we believe that they also permit us to envision and plan for a more exciting future. We would love to hear what you think, and we would particularly love to hear your ideas about community partnerships and ways to engage with others.

From the President…Eric Zacks

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AUGUST 2015

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Enhance your birthday celebra!on by joining us at the

daily Minyan (morning and evening) the day of your

birthday. Enjoy camaraderie, friendship and prayer.

We need your par!cipa!on and presence to help those

who have yahrzeit or wish to say Kaddish. Thank you

for par!cipa!ng in this very important Mitzvah.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

CANDLE LIGHTING TIMES

August 2015

Friday, August 7 8:28 p.m.

Friday, August 14 8:18 p.m.

Friday, August 21 8:08 p.m.

Friday, August 28 7:57 p.m.

FAMILY HAPPENINGS CONDOLENCES TO Marty and Sheila Lederman on the death of his brother, Raymond Lederman. MAZAL TOV TO Julie Grodin on her retirement.

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!

1 Howard & Ellen Berlin 1 Yefim & Alla Milter 7 Jacob & Jolene Schwartz 10 Jerry & Caryn Acker 10 Rob & Julie Grodin 11 Paul & Barbara Goodman 11 Alan & Mara Starr 11 Eric & Renee Zacks 13 Alan & Beth Blase 14 Leonard Katz & Judye Kanfer 15 Ivan & Constance Fidler 16 Bryan & Teresa Beckerman 18 Myron & Dora Jackler 18 Jay & Nancy Waldman 19 Steve & Marcia Meyers 19 Jason & Rhonda Savine 20 David & Doris Schey 21 Neil & Ilene Cantor 21 Glen & Wendy Pickover 25 Samuel & Mona Greenbaum 26 Mitch & Hilda Bloom 26 Louis & Mary White 31 Sol & Bess Lipson 31 Thomas & Sheyna Wexelberg-Clouser

1 Kenneth Gaynor 1 Marie Slotnick 2 Yuriy Mushkin 2 Seymour Sandweiss 4 Susan Rott 4 Marc Weitzman 5 Anna Lindemann 7 Samantha Elkus 7 Rabbi Robert Gamer 7 Benjamin Smith-Helman 8 Fran Hildebrandt 9 Lois Kadushin 9 Pelli Mechnikov 10 Libby Cooper 10 Millicent Goldberg 10 Betty Pianin 10 Ina Silbergleit 10 Susan Yerman 12 Yefim Goldvekht 12 Daniella Mechnikov 13 Anaruth Bernard 13 Matthew Citron 13 Steven Levine 14 Sydnie Little 14 Joseph Yaker

16 Karl Smith 17 Darren Hessenthaler 18 Joy Landau 19 Mikhail Pinelis 19 David Siegel 20 Ashley Bronstein 20 Dora Kershtein 20 Lawrence Lublin 22 Fay Jacobs 22 Alan Pearlstein 22 Simon Shapiro 23 Liat Lerner 24 Natalie Fleming 25 Pearl Dubin 26 Barrett Chomsky 26 Anita Epstein 28 Kenneth Bernard 29 Benjamin Lerner 30 Isabel Johnson 30 Shayna Mouradian 30 Adele Nodler 30 Sheldon Schwartz 31 Aaron Schwartz 31 Rochelle Siegel

ARE YOU READY FOR THE DAYS OF AWE?

CBS forecasters are predicting

a 100% chance that Rosh Hashanah will fall on

Sept. 13(eve) – 15 with the certainty that

Yom Kippur will follow on Sept. 22 (Kol Nidre) - 23

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Message from Rabbi Gamer

RABBI’S LUNCH & LEARN

WILL RESUME IN SEPTEMBER

SUNDAY, AUGUST 2 MINCHA, MA’ARIV AND A MOVIE

MARATHON MAN (1976) Directed by John Schlesinger and starring Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, Roy Scheider, William Devane, Marthe Keller, and Fritz Weaver. (**1/2) Glossy thriller adapted by William Goldman from his book. The basic premise is of graduate student Hoffman propelled into the dizzying world of international intrigue. Hoffman and arch-villain Olivier are superb. Be prepared for some repellent violence.

SUNDAY, AUGUST 30 (IN LIEU OF LABOR DAY WEEKEND)

MINCHA, MA’ARIV AND A MOVIE GENTLEMAN’S AGREEMENT

(1947) Directed by Elia Kazan and starring Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire, John Garfield, Celeste Holm, Anne Revere, June Havoc, Albert Dekker, Jane Wyatt, Dean Stockwell, and Sam Jaffe. (***) Sincere Oscar-winning adaptation of Laura Hobson’s novel of a writer pretending to be Jewish, discovering rampant anti-Semitism. Holm won Supporting Actress Oscar as a chic but lonely fashion editor, as did Kazan for his direction. Screenplay by Moss Hart. Please join us to help make the minyan at 5:00 p.m. and stay for the movie. You’ll have an opportunity to order dinner (self-funded). Popcorn and beverages will be provided.

LET’S PLAY TWO! (Ernie Banks)

Dear Congregants, Congregation Beth Shalom is thrilled to announce a new Religious School for this coming year. This new school for students in Kindergarten through 7th grade will allow us to enhance the quality of Jewish education for our children and enrich their learning experience. The school is being created in partnership with Temple Emanu-El and with support from the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit's Education Department. We are excited to have Arlene Keller as the Interim Director for this coming year. Arlene is a native Detroiter, holds a degree in teaching from Wayne State University, and has extensive teaching and administrative experience. She held the position of principal at Temple Beth El for the past seven years. Over the coming weeks there will be several opportunities to meet with Arlene to find out more information about the school. A few key benefits for students and parents: 1. The Director position is full-time, which will allow for timely communication with parents, detailed evaluation of curriculum, along with training for and evaluation of faculty. 2. Each grade will have its own full class as opposed to combined grades, allowing for more focused teaching and learning. 3. ·We are making every effort to keep the very best teachers from this past year and find the best new teachers available. 4. With this new school comes enhanced programs for families enrolled in the school. We will be sending out registration and calendar information in the coming days and all of that information will be made available online. Once again, we are thrilled about this opportunity for an enhanced, enriched learning experience for our students. Shalom u'vrakha

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CIRCLE OF FRIENDS

WEDNESDAYS 10:30 a.m. to noon

Gathering Place

August 12th and 26th Please come join us two Wednesday mornings to meet some wonderful people and engage in lively conversations. Everyone is welcome to stop by and bring a friend! We

need YOU to complete our circle!!

If you have ideas or questions, please feel free to call me. I’d love to hear from you!

Julie Grodin, Program Director 248.399.3147 (home) OR 248.770.1074 (cell)

Men’s Club Media Potpourri Thursday, August 20, 7:00 p.m.

Steven Spielberg

The Men’s Club Media Potpourri presents programs on noteworthy people with a Jewish connection. Our goal is to offer an opportunity to participate in an informal, stimulating presentation and discussion.

The topic for Thursday, August 20, will be Steven Spielberg (born 1946), an American director, producer and screenwriter. Spielberg was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, to an Orthodox Jewish family but spent most of his teen years in Phoenix, Arizona. He attended Cal State-Long Beach for three years and then was signed to a seven-year directing contract by Universal Studios. It made him the youngest director ever to be signed for a long-term deal with a major Hollywood studio.

Spielberg is considered as one of the most popular and influential directors and producers in film history. In a career spanning more than four decades, his films have covered many themes and genres. Spielberg's early science-fiction and adventure films were seen as archetypes of modern Hollywood blockbuster filmmaking. In later years, his films began addressing humanistic issues such as the holocaust, the slave trade, war, and terrorism. Spielberg won the Academy Award for Best Director for Schindler’s List in 1993 and Saving Private Ryan in 1998.

Ritual Committee News LET THE WORD GO FORTH…

In my June Hakol article I mentioned to all of you that one of the functions of the Ritual Committee is to engage our congregational community in prayer and bring a meaningful and spiritual sense to our services. I would like to expand on that topic. The Board of Directors has recognized that we have an untapped resource right here in our own back yard…YOU!

CBS is asking all of you to help us lead Shabbat and some Holiday services. Starting July 4th, our services will be led by…us!. No, Cantor Sam is not going anywhere. He will be here with us and will be leading services from time to time, and, as you will see below, he will be helping all of us become more fluent in leading the service.

We are asking you to accept our invitation to lead part of Shabbat morning or maybe a Sukkot or Simchat Torah service. Don’t know how to daven the entire service? That’s ok, we are asking you to contribute based on your ability. Want to lead a portion of the service, but don’t know it? That’s ok. too. as Cantor Sam will offer classes starting August 1st and 2nd. Classes will be held after Kiddush on Shabbat mornings and after minyan breakfast on Sunday mornings. The classes will be designed to help you refresh your skills or expand on what you already know.

We are scheduling three to four months in advance, so you would be asked to attend on a specific day, and you would be recognized to lead a specific part of the service. As has been stated before, “We are Beth Shalom!” Please come and join us.

Glen Pickover Ritual Committee Chair

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High Holidays 2015 / 5776

BOOK OF REMEMBRANCE

We are preparing a BOOK OF REMEMBRANCE for Yom Kippur. The book will contain all of the names of your loved ones listed next to your name.

Information must be submitted BY MONDAY, AUGUST 24, 2015 to allow time for layout and printing.

Please return the form below with the names you wish to have inscribed and a check for $36 PER NAME ($180 MAX PER FAMILY).

NO names will be taken by telephone to avoid misspellings.

Your contribution helps the synagogue provide the many social, cultural and educational programs offered throughout the year. Your participation is appreciated.

Please list the following names of deceased relatives

and/or friends to be listed in the BOOK OF REMEMBRANCE

NAMES OF LOVED ONES WE WISH TO REMEMBER:

_________________________________ _________________________________

_________________________________ _________________________________

_________________________________ _________________________________

_________________________________ _________________________________

£ PLEASE REPEAT MY LISTING FROM LAST YEAR.

Please list YOUR NAME as you wish it to be listed in this year’s BOOK OF REMEMBRANCE:

Name:

Address:

City/State/Zip:

Telephone: ( )

Total Number of Names: ________ X $36 each =

Amount : $ ______________________ ($180 MAX PER FAMILY)

PLEASE RETURN THIS FORM AND YOUR PAYMENT NO LATER THAN MONDAY, AUGUST 24, 2015

Please make checks payable to: CONGREGATION BETH SHALOM

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Sisterhood … Fran Hildebrandt

Why Support Torah Fund?

Torah Fund Supports

The Jewish Theological Seminary

Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies

Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies

Seminario Rabinico Latinoamericano

Torah Fund provides scholarship and support to JTS

students who are our future rabbis, cantors and Jewish

educators. It strengthens and perpetuates

Conservative/Masorti Judaism throughout the world.

Please consider making a donation.

For additional information

and/or to make a donation, contact Linda Lublin

at (313) 410-1666 / [email protected].

A Summertime Prayer For Family

We thank God for the gift of family for loved ones to honor

for Father’s Day and Mother’s Day for special thoughts to share for words of praise and joy

for happy times for times of tears

for times to make memories to pass along for love and devotion given to all

for long summer days and warm summer nights for family picnics in the park for cool swims in the pool

for quality time to share with a son, a daughter, a husband or wife

for the partnership of parents and children for the opportunity to preserve and transmit our

heritage - Marilyn Berger

It is my hope that you are having opportunity upon opportunity to experience the joys of family and friendship at Beth Shalom this summer. Please join Sisterhood at our opening program for the new year on August 10th.

B'shalom, Fran

LIKE to READ?

SISTERHOOD'S Afternoon Book Club invites you to join us

the third Wednesday of every month

Contact Charlotte Goldin at 248 624-8687 Fran Hildebrandt at [email protected]

FUN FIT

FABULOUS

Are you interested in participating

in an exercise program

once a week?

(date / time / place to be

determined)

Contact Fran Hildebrandt at

248-661-4179 or [email protected]

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CBS Sisterhood Presents Our 2015 MOVIES AND MUNCHIES SERIES

Monday, Aug.24 @ 7:00 p.m.

“Deli Man”

Wednesday, Sept. 30 @ 7:00 p.m.

“Ida”

Monday, Oct. 12 @ 10:30 a.m.

“Zero Motivation” (includes lunch)

Monday, Nov. 16 @ 10:30 a.m.

“Advanced Style” (includes lunch)

Series: $25 per person Single session: a.m. $7.50 Single session p.m. $5.00

(Checks payable to CBS Sisterhood, sent to Phyllis Weeks,

7061 N. Merrybrook, West Bloomfield, MI 48322)

For information, contact Phyllis Weeks (248-470-4157 or [email protected])

Help Make a Difference

in a Child’s Life! SISTERHOOD

is thrilled to announce that we

are continuing

our partnership with Norup International

to provide tutors

for students in grades 1-8

If you are interested in participating,

contact Doris Schey at

[email protected] or 248.545.7112

CHOCOLATE

Torah Fund

CHOCOLATE

Torah Fund

What is the connection?

Find out in October

YAD EZRA DELIVERIES

Sunday, August 16th at 11:00 a.m.

Drivers and volunteers needed! Contact Ian Zitron (248) 217-7236 or (248) 647-7644

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THANK YOU TO OUR JUNE 2015 DAILY MINYAN BREAKFAST SPONSORS

SPONSOR A BREAKFAST

After Morning Services in honor of or in memory of a loved one.

� $60 for Monday through Friday

� $120 for Sunday Contact the Beth Shalom office or Richard Racusin via email,

[email protected]

1 Richard Minkin

3 Phil Elkus, in memory of brother, Floyd Elkus.

4 Zieva & Marc Konvisser, in memory of father, Emanuel Dauber.

5 Richard Minkin.

7 Carol & Arnold Daien, in memory of grandmother, Freida Daien.

8 Anna Lindeman, in memory of Ema "Oma" Zydower.

9 Susan Kaplan, in memory of father, Herman Kaplan.

10 Richard Minkin

11 Zieva & Marc Konvisser in memory of her mother, Dina Dauber.

14 Rosalyn Schwartz, in memory of husband, Sidney Schwartz and father, George Sturman.

17 Richard Minkin

18 Richard Minkin

19 Aviva Phillips, in honor of her 60th birthday. YOM HULEDET SAMEACH!

21 Amy Chimovitz in honor of her 40th birthday. YOM HULEDET SAMEACH!

22 Susan Cohan, in memory of her father, Jack Cohan.

23 Aviva Phillips, in memory of her mother, Sally Sara Schiff.

24 Eileen Leider & family, in memory of her father, Isadore Schwartz.

25 Bernie & Esther Hammer, in honor of his birthday. YOM HULEDET SAMEACH!

Michael & Shelia Levine, in honor of his birthday. YOM HULEDET SAMEACH!

26 Carol & Arnold Daien, in memory of father, Charles Daien.

28 Barbara & Sheldon Schubiner, in memory of father, Morritz Schubiner.

29 Dan, Irene, & Fran Biber, in memory of brother, David Biber.

30 Richard Minkin

Coming in September: Milestone Shabbat

How long have you been a member

of Beth Shalom? Did you join in a year ending in 0 or 5? Come celebrate your 5-year milestone.

Saturday, September 12 There will be CAKE!

YES I CAN!

Beth Shalom will begin to offer “Yes I Can” seminars to help prepare members to lead the davening for Shabbat mornings and holidays on

Saturday, August 1 after Kiddush, and on

Sunday, August 2, after minyan breakfast.

These classes will be designed to refresh your skills or expand on what you already know and will be led by Cantor Sam.

P’sukei De-zimra, Shacharit,

Torah Service, Musaf

ALL INCLUDED!

Here’s another opportunity to really contribute to your shul and join in showing that

“WE ARE BETH SHALOM!”

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THE BETH SHALOM GO TEAM This feature of Hakol is designed to recognize and profile those volunteers who help make Cong. Beth Shalom go. That is, they provide an invaluable service that our congregation cannot do without…and WE THANK THEM!

DAN BARTH

Dan is a native Detroiter and a product of Southfield High School. Although growing up at Temple Israel, Dan decided to join Beth Shalom in 1981. He and his wife, Ellen, were married in 1982, after which they joined as a couple. They have three grown children and all were bar/bat mitzvahed at Beth Shalom and went through the religious school. Dan is a teacher and taught instrumental music for many years in Detroit Public Schools. He now substitutes in Berkley and Royal Oak and gives music lessons at McCourt’s Music in Berkley. Dan also taught for six years each in the religious schools of Beth Shalom and Temple Emanu-El.

Dan has made a number of special contributions over the years that make him a member of the GO Team. He has served as a member of the Ritual Committee for 31 years and has served as co-chair. He hands out the honors once a month at Shabbat services. He is also one of the people who lead our daily minyan. His mom passed away in February 2014 and he started coming to minyan, liked the group, and now is a regular.

Dan got involved in Beth Shalom a couple years after joining when Eugene Greenstein asked him to become part of the ritual committee. He had been involved as a leader at MSU Hillel. He was also asked to lead the minyan and sees that as “one of those things you kinda pick up.”

Dan enjoys coming to Beth Shalom because he likes a haimishe shul. He encourages others to start by coming to something – a Friday night service, a mincha – ma’ariv on Shabbat, a Torah study with Joe Lewis. Talk to people.

Volunteer and be a part of who we are. WE ARE BETH SHALOM!

Interested in playing Kickball and supporting a great cause?

The Detroit Jewish Federation will be holding its annual Pitch for Detroit event on Sunday, August 23, on Belle Isle! The program offers free food, music, and family fun, plus their signature sports tournament – all to raise money for Bradby Community Park in Detroit's North End neighborhood. Each team in the Kickball tournament is made up of five guys and five girls minimum, and each team member is asked to raise $180 for the park. If you'd like to join a CBS team, please contact Aaron Schwartz at [email protected] or 313-300-5617.

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When an important occasion arises, such as an Aliyah (Torah Honor), Birth, Bar

or Bat Mitzvah, Graduation, Wedding, Recovery from Illness, Bereavement, tc.,why not make a contribution to our synagogue?

Large Print Weekday Siddur In memory of Grace & Bill Naftaly Jerry Naftaly

Circle of Friends In honor of Julie Grodin’s retirement Marie Slotnick

Sanctuary Fund In honor of Maya Gamer’s Bat Mitzvah Eric Hansen Leslie & Harold Nodler David & Ruth Marcus Barb & Jim Sugarman Irene & Dan Bibier Anita Epstein Joshua & Judith Adler Lorraine & Sidney Faber Janice & Henry Citron Sheila & Marty Lederman Rachel & Charles Growe Ida Geyler Cherrin Family David, Beth & Evan Rodgers Linda Bell Gail, Steve & Sam Elkus Eileen Leider & Family Shirley Gendler-Goldstein & Frances Gendler Marla & Andy Moiseev Jerry Lapides & Arlene Gorelick Fran & Tom Hildebrandt Joshua & Sandra Lerner Alvin & Adele Ndler Susan Sugarman Dan & Ellen Barth Cantor Sam & Mona Greenbaum Arnie Weiner & Shira Shapiro Sheilah Goldberg Yolande Jannett Vicki & Jeremy Salinger The birth of Jacob A Hildebrandt Anita Epstein Bat Mitzvah of Lida Esfir Nozhnik & Vladimir Tankilevich Bar Mitzvah of Nathaniel Hayat Marie Slotnick In memory of Raymond Lederman Zieva & Marc Konvisser Gretchen & Neil Weiner Paul & Barbara Goodman Marie Slotnick Sue & Burt Shifman

Arnie Weiner & Shira Shapiro Eric & Renee Zacks Anaruth & Henri Bernard Joseph Isaacson Diane & Alan Baum Sam Taylor Allen Wolf & Mandy Garver Tony Lee Marie Slotnick Mark Webber Ted & Suan Friedman Stanley Berlin Mara, Alan, Ariel, Sarah & Dayna Starr Janet Karp Recht Jody Kaufman Marking the yahrzeit of Gersh Malina Bella Beltser Herman Brodsky Dina Brodsky Leah Jacobs Rachel & Charles Growe Phillip Phillips Bea Phillips Iosif Geyler Ida Geyler

Cantor Sam & Mona Greenbaum Concert Fund

In honor of Cantor Sam’s help preparing for reading Torah Susan & Ted Friedman Marking the yahrzeit of Richard Berg Ceil Duchin

Lewis & Betty Cohen Jewish Learning Scholarship Fund

In honor of The birth of Jacob A Hildebrandt Susan & Ted Friedman

Rabbi’s Discretionary Fund In memory of Abe Gamer Carol Kunkle

Eileen & Irven Leider Kiddush Fund Marking the yahrzeit of Albert Komer Dena Komer

Morning Minyan Breakfast Fund

Marking the yahrzeit of Ruth Berg Gertrude Schneider Linda Bell Morris Mirsky Jean Bakst Elkus Rabbi Emeritus Discretionary

Fund In honor of Mark Zacks’ 70th birthday Paul & Adrienne Shwedel

Music Fund In honor of Thanks for subbing for me Michael Levine

PRSTD STD US Postage PAID

Detroit, MI Permit No. 7229

Congregation Beth Shalom 14601 West Lincoln Road Oak Park, Michigan 48237

RETURN SERVICE REQUESTED

August 2015—Av/Elul 5775

SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT

1 VA-ETHANNAN

Children’s Birthday Blessings SHABBAT NACHAMU Shabbat ends...9:38 p.m.

2 Sisterhood Mah Jongg ………………….10:00 a.m. Mincha, Ma’ariv and Movies……...5:00 p.m.

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Nach Explorers ………………….7:00 p.m.

4 5 Sisterhood Mah Jongg ………………….12:30 p.m.

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Candle lighting...8:28 p.m.

8 EIKEV

Shabbat ends...9:30 p.m.

9 Men’s Club Bikkur Cholim …………………..9:30 a.m. Sisterhood Mah Jongg ………………….10:00 a.m. Men’s Club Board Meeting ………………….10:30 a.m.

10 Sisterhood General Membership Meeting……..10:30 a.m.

11 12 Circle of Friends ……………...….10:30 a.m. Sisterhood Mah Jongg ………………….12:30 p.m.

13 14 Candle lighting...8:18 p.m.

15 R’EIH

ROSH CHODESH ELUL Shabbat ends...9:20 p.m.

16 ROSH CHODESH ELUL Sisterhood Mah Jongg ………………….10:00 a.m. YAD EZRA DELIVERIES

17 Nach Explorers ………………….7:00 p.m.

18 19 Sisterhood Mah Jongg ………………….12:30 p.m.

20 Men’s Club Media Potpourri …………………..7:00 p.m.

21 Candle lighting...8:08 p.m.

22 SHOFTIM

Shabbat ends...9:09 p.m.

23 Sisterhood Mah Jongg ………………….10:00 a.m.

24 25 26 Circle of Friends ……………...….10:30 a.m. Sisterhood Mah Jongg ………………….12:30 p.m.

27 28 SHARING SHABBAT Candle lighting...7:58 p.m.

29 KI TEITZEI

Anniversary Shabbat Shabbat ends...9:38 p.m.

30 Sisterhood Mah Jongg ………………….10:00 a.m. Mincha, Ma’ariv and Movies……...5:00 p.m.

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