March 27, 2021

14 Nissan 5781

Parshat: Pages 429-438 Haftorah Malachai (3:4-24): Pages 1005-1008

SHABBAT SHALOM A warm welcome to our guests

We welcome you and are pleased that you have joined us to

worship. We hope you will feel welcome whenever you are in

town. If you are a new resident to our area, please introduce

yourself so we can properly welcome you and tell you more

about our wonderful congregation and community.

SCHEDULE

MINYAN

UNFORTUNATELY NOT POSSIBLE DURING

THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC

Candle Lighting: Tzav 3/26 7:06 PM

Shabbat Ends 3/27 8:05 PM

Candle Lighting: Passover 4//2

7:13 PM

TZAV

(SHABBAT HAGADOL) Leviticus 6:1-8:36

G‑d instructs Moses to command Aaron and his sons regarding

their duties and rights as kohanim (“priests”) who offer

the korbanot (animal and meal offerings) in the Sanctuary.

The fire on the altar must be kept burning at all times. In it are

burned the wholly consumed ascending offering: veins

of fat from the peace, sin and guilt offerings; and the “handful”

separated from the meal offering.

The kohanim eat the meat of the sin and guilt offerings, and the

remainder of the meal offering. The peace offering is eaten by

the one who brought it, except for specified portions given to

the kohen. The holy meat of the offerings must be eaten by ritu‑

ally pure persons, in their designated holy place and within

their specified time.

Aaron and his sons remain within the Sanctuary compound

for seven days, during which Moses initiates them into the

priesthood.

REMINDER

The office will be closed on Monday, March

29th, for Passover.

VIRTUAL SEDER AND YIZKOR There will be a virtual seder on the second night of Passover (March 28th) starting at 5:30 pm. In addition, Yizkor services will be held in the sanctuary on Sunday, April 4th, at 10 am (last day of Pesach). For ALL these activities, please write/call the office if you plan to at‑tend physically or virtually (email congknesethisra‑el@gmail.com or phone 410.263.3924 x0).

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REFUAH SH’LEIMA (SPEEDY RECOVERY)

Jeffrey Blum, Glenn Carr and Joyce Ani

May the Holy One, Blessed is He, be filled with compassion

for them, to restore their health, to heal them, to strengthen and

revivify them. May He send them a speedy and complete

recovery from heaven, a recovery of the body and a recovery of

the spirit, swiftly and soon. Amen.

RABBI PANITZ

LAY LED SERVICES

April 24 June 26

May 22

YAHRZEITS FOR THIS WEEK

The following Yahrzeits are being observed during the

week of March 28 - April 3

CONTRIBUTIONS

Yahrzeit Contributions

In memory of Aaron George Polansky by Cindy Gallagher

In memory of Boris Tenner by Jeff Tenner

Perpetual Torah Fund

In memory of Jeffrey P. Goldstein by Roberta Goldstein

April 10 June 12

May 8

Sunday, March 28 Bessie Deborah Shemer

Joseph Glickman

Zelda Huber

Monday, March 29 Arthur Cohen

Bala Hershkovitz

Tuesday, March 30 William Zieve

Isaac Finkelstein

Arthur I. Alper

Jeffrey P. Goldstein

Albert Goldstein

Abraham D. Rosenblatt

Morris Shapiro

Wednesday, March 31 Rose Slovis

Ellen Leonard

Bonnie Sue Legum Thistle

Malka S. Kotzin

Harry Louis Oshry

Louis Fine

Manuel Jacob Schenker

Thursday, April 1 Julia Feldman

Friday, April 2 Fannie L. Goodman

Morris Haberfield

Samuel Messinger

Barney Shapiro

Saturday, April 3 Yetta Kanter

Morris Legum

Sarah Lasky Michaels

VOLUNTEERS Since we are short staffed in the office, for the time being,

anyone willing to help out with answering the phone and

letting people into the building, your assistance would be

greatly appreciated. Just a couple of hours would be a

great help. If you are willing to help out, please call

Shirley Aronson at 410-263-3924, ext. 0.

CEMETERY CLEANUP Volunteers are needed to help clean up our cemetery on

Sunday morning, April 11th. This effort is being coordinated by

The Baltimore Cemetery Council, Levinson’s Funeral Home and

Fram Monument. For more information, please contact Michael

Snyder at 410-507-4508.

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CONTRIBUTION FUND OPTIONS

If you would like to make a contribution to a specific fund,

please see the list below. Your contributions to any of these

funds would be greatly appreciated.

• Rosenblatt Memorial Fund

• Kiddush Fund

• Perpetual Torah Fund

• Torah Fund

• Cemetery Fund

• PreSchool Fund

• Kitchen Fund

• Program Fund

• Sisterhood Fund

• Tree of Life & Simcha Fund

• Prayer Book Fund

• Concert Fund

• Building Fund

PLEASE NOTE

If we have inadvertently omitted your name for any reason, please

accept our apologies and please call the office at 410-263-3924 with

complete information so we may include your information in the

next publication. Please advise the office of any congregant’s simchas

that you are aware of or if you know of someone who is ill so we may

acknowledge it. When calling the office, if you get the answering

machine, please leave a message. Someone will return your call.

BOARD

President – Jody Goldsmith

Executive VP – Jack Schmerling

1st VP (religious) — Aryeh Englander

Comptroller – Larry Block

Treasurer – Shirley Aronson

Secretary – Steve Lebowitz

Board Members – Walter Beckerman, Lawrence Goldstein, Nancy

Gordon, Ethan Halpern, Jonas Legum, Marcia Lewis, Francine Rattner,

Michael Snyder, Steve Sutton

Sisterhood President – Nancy Gordon

PreSchool Director – Alex Melnick

Web Master – Glenn Carr

Gift Shop – Laura Sutton

Gabbayim – Glenn Carr, Aryeh Englander, Jody Goldsmith,

Barnett Rattner, Michael Snyder, Steve Sutton

Gabbayah – Amira Goldsmith, Gail Snyder

CONTACT US

Congregation Kneseth Israel

1125 Spa Road, Annapolis, MD 21403

CongKnesethIsrael@gmail.com

knesethisrael.org | 410.263.3924

SISTERHOOD GIFT SHOP

Engagements, Weddings, Graduations, Bar and

Bat Mitzvahs, Babies! Gifts for all occasions available

at the Gift Shop! Please contact Laura Sutton at

ls217@comcast.net or 410 721-0679 for an appointment.

HOSPITAL VISITS

Hospital visits are temporarily halted until doing so is again

safe, considering the precautions required because of the

pandemic.

KI FACEBOOK PAGE

We are putting in positive thoughts for members of the

congregation on our Kneseth Israel Facebook page. If you

would like to contribute, please feel free to participate.

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YAHRZEITS OBSERVED

March 2021 Louis Brilliant Albert Sodensky Rebecca Young Sapsin Dorothy Cheplowitz Manuel W. Rosen Marianne Goldsmith Emil Lachman Nora Slobody Albree Allen S. Handen Yetta Marcus Irta Ellen Weiner David Baker Anna Handen Helen Meyerson Adella Shacks Francis Snyder Lucas Dora Blum Shirley Goldberg Hyman Goldstein Max E. Rubin Jeannette R. Rosen Paul D. Meyer Rose Setzer Edith “Kitty” Schmerling Mary Wolfe Nathan Seltzer Patsy R. Goldschmidt Sara Singerman Irving I. Goldberg Yitzchak Tourgeman Rev. Louis Weitzman Eugenia Kojfer Julius Klawans Samuel S. Hamilton Brother and Sisters of Helen Hammer Brother and Sisters of Rev. Henoch Hammer Gertrude Holtzman Carrie Born Lewis Morris Kaufman Jeanette Caplan Flora Loganofsky Jeanne Block Bessie Levy Jack Cohen Nettie Kaufman Czeslaw Jakubowicz Bessie A. Gritz Carol Frank Rosenberg Celia Brock Hollander Samuel Trubin Hesse Handen Ron Zion Margolis Charlotte Olim David Finkelstein Ceily Greengold Ethel Schiff Michael Marx

Bea Finkelstein Benjamin C. Bloom Jeannette H. Rosen Bernard Hahn Leon Lipman Anna Salganik Boris Tenner Eva Sodensky Louis Wolfe Lillian Feldstein Benjamin F. Stockfish Mildred Hyatt Cramer Eva Silverberg Sylvia Greenfield Basil Bertha Katsef Louis J. Freedman Betty J. Katz Toba Behar Shelley Richard Earle Fannie Renbaum Celia Kotzin Samuel Kriminsky Jean Miller Yetta Salsbury Helen L. Albert Rose Block Mills Sadie Cooper Irene Bouch Abraham Freedman Joseph Harris Bert Strausz Victor Dietz Samuel Finkelstein Lillian Dorothy Shapiro Halwa Ani More Schwarzschild Shirley Lieberman Ida Ruth Earle Rose Cohn Oscar Soroko Renee Brooks Morton Israel Horvitz Rita Schenker Cohen David I. Goldberg Irving Messinger Louis Handen Herbert Kotzin Ethel E. Brown Janet Susan Earle Samuel Lerner Joseph Loox Mollie Shafran Sylvan Engle Merwin Alfred Kolman Janice Ann Frieman Eva Horvitz William David Weiss Albert Bishop Fannie Harwitz Samuel Axelrod Karen S. (Sinen) Junghans Howard Lerner

Mildred Udoff Isadore (Ray) Goldstein Aaron George Polansky Bessie Deborah Shemer Joseph Glickman Zelda Huber Arthur Cohen Bala Hershkovitz William Zieve Isaac Finkelstein Arthur I. Alper Jeffrey P. Goldstein Albert Goldstein Abraham D. Rosenblatt Morris Shapiro Rose Slovis Ellen Leonard Bonnie Sue Legum Thistle Malka S. Kotzin Harry Louis Oshry Louis Fine Manuel Jacob Schenker April 2021

Julia Feldman Fannie L. Goodman Morris Haberfield Samuel Messinger Larry Miller Barney Shapiro Yetta Kanter Morris Legum Sarah Lasky Michaels Esther Brilliant Robert Hollander Bessie Kandall Peake Hyman Richman William Fine Emil Mendl Morgenstern Herman Braun Ruth Goldberg Jaybee Sherr Eva Weinberg Shirley Faller Jack Gottlieb Ray Ochs Minnie Snyder Kate Finkelstein Rabbi Louis B. Friedlander Diane Green Robert Bienenstok Jessie Steele Greil Ida Rubin Murray Miller Jennette Clarice Goodman Philip Packman Charlotte Gutter Bobbie Kotzin Murray Krane Etah Reding Lauren Carp Silverman

Raphael Tourgeman Dr. Charles Zimmerman Reuben Manuel Glick Mary Kirson Hellane Ossry Jacob Singerman Elli Tourgeman Bessie Lipman Bernard Streett Jacob Weinberg Alan Stuart Katcef Melvin B. Schlossman Benjamin Brooks Sarah Orlansky Anna Rose Cohen William L. Fox Florence Glassman Dr. Nathan Leonard Rachel Kreisman Olim Jack Cohen Celia Goldman Yetta Hyatt Arlene Axelrod Herman W. Kutun Dr. Hyman W. Schiff Meyer Wolod Rose Ann Zelvy Israel Block Dr. Irving L. Ochs Dr. William Reichel Morris Albert Ida R. Kaminsky Gertrude Kriminsky Meyer Weiner Morton H. Wilner Michael Harwitz Alfred E. Perlman Beatrice Schlossman Neville Charles Seymour Ellen Plaine Solomon Louis Walder Annie Fine Anne D. Handen William Plaine Berel Reiter William Rosenblum

Virtual Community Yom Hashoah Observance

of Anne Arundel County

April 8, 2021 at 7PM

By BERND WOLLSCHLAEGER, M.D. Author, A German Life

Join us (Via Zoom) for an evening of remembrance and inspiration

Congregation Kol Shalom; Congregation Kneseth Israel; Temple Beth Shalom

Friends of The Jewish Chapel; Hadassah; Jewish Women International; US Naval Academy

Honored Speaker

Bernd Wollschlaeger, MD, FAAFP, FASAM

Honored Violinist

Netanel Draiblate

Screening of

“Unto Every Person There is a Name”

Holocaust Victims Related to Our Families

will start at 6:45pm

Zoom Link ID:828 5006 3392

Between the years 1946 and 1953, the American, German-Jewish architect Eric Mendelsohn built four synagogues in the Mid-west. Mendelsohn’s synagogues were the crowning conclusion of his career through tumultuous times. In his book, Eric Mendel-sohn’s Synagogues in America, photographer Michael Palmer rec-ords in detail these four Mendelsohn synagogues, located in Saint Paul, Saint Louis, Cleveland, and Grand Rapids. Palmer will em-ploy his photographs as the foundation for a discussion about

Mendelsohn, his Jewish identity, and his architectural mission. Palmer will also explain how the founding of the State of Israel in 1948 affected Mendelsohn’s plans and how Mendelsohn sought to create radically new architectural solutions for American houses of worship that uniquely met the functional, social, and spiritual demands of their re-spective, diverse Jewish communities.

Congregation Kneseth Israel Announces

A VIRTUAL PROGRAM OPEN TO ALL

Eric Mendelsohn: Synagogue Architect with a Vision

By Author and Photographer Michael Palmer

Tuesday, April 20, 2021 at 7:00pm

Program via Zoom—Registration Required

Email to CongKnesethIsrael@gmail.com

or call 410.263.3924 x0

Michael Palmer is a photographer whose work has ex-

plored the architectural legacy and relevance of the Ger-

man Jewish exodus from Germany in the 1920s and 1930s.

His first photo book documents previously ignored aspects

of 1930s buildings in Tel Aviv’s historic “White City” dis-

trict, a center for German and other central European ref-

ugees in the 1930s. Palmer’s most recent work focuses on

the buildings of the noted German Jewish architect Eric

Mendelsohn, including Mendelsohn’s breakthrough Einstein Tower near Berlin, syna-

gogues in Saint Louis, Cleveland, Saint Paul and Grand Rapids, as well as his buildings

in Israel. Michael began his photography career in 2015 with the Tel Aviv White City

project. Previously, he had a career in pharmaceutical industry research and devel-

You may purchase Mr. Palmer’s book on Amazon.com

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