Shma Koleinu exists for the purpose of serving Jews, Jewish families, and those who love them, with high

quality Jewish programming, meaningful spiritual experiences, opportunities for personal growth,

and a visionary voice.

Rabbi Scott wants you to know...how grateful and inspired he is by you. Your presence, your gener-osity of heart and attention, your energy, whether in person or online, are what make the High Holy Days matter. Together during these ten days of awe (Yamim Noraim), Rabbi Laura, Hannah, our musi-cians, and Rabbi Scott are committed to creating for you a space of inspiration, intensity, and intellect in the hopes that you will discover new ways of seeing, feeling, and understanding your life and those whom you live with, work with, and love. These days of awe belong to you. They have arrived and soon, they will be gone. We’ve rehearsed and prepared to provide the most meaningful experience we can. But now its up to you. What will you do with these hours and days ahead? What trajectory for yourself will you set? What might you wish to feel, to learn, to discover to-night, tomorrow, and through the next ten days? Even if you don’t have what you might consider “the perfect answer,” that’s OK. Just pick one and get going. This is to be a sanctuary of time, whose gates are open-ing. Join us with your whole self and you will find these days indeed to be days of awe.

High Holy Days Schedule

All events take place at The Emery/Weiner School and online

except for Tashlich, which is at the Lost Lake at the Dunlavy.

Rosh Hashanah Schedule

Monday, September 6, 2021 • 7:00 pm Erev Rosh Hashanah Service

Tuesday, September 7, 2021 • 9:00 am Rosh Hashanah Family Service featuring

“Chozen” starring Hannah Madeleine Goodman (online only) • 10:00 am Rosh Hashanah Day Service • 5:00 pm Tashlich with Ice Cream!

Lost Lake at the Dunlavy

3422 Allen Parkway, Houston, TX 77019

Yom Kippur Schedule

Wednesday, September 15, 2021 • 7:30 pm Kol Nidre

Thursday, September 16, 2021 • 9:00 am Yom Kippur Family Service featuring “Oy Story”

starring Hannah Madeleine Goodman (online only) • 10:00 am Yom Kippur Day Service • 1:00 pm Renewal Workshops • 2:30 pm "Texting in Services" - A text study dialogue

with Rabbi Scott and Rabbi Laura (Sheinkopf) • 3:30 pm "Wholehearted Repair" - A brand new healing

service incorporating music and poetry, with a special meditation led by Ann Friedman

• 4:30 pm Yizkor “Memorial” Service • 5:15 pm Neilah Service • 6:00 pm Havdalah

High Holy Days Spiritual and Music Leaders

Rabbi Scott Hausman-Weiss received his Smicha (ordination), Masters in Jewish Education and Masters in Hebrew Letters from the Hebrew Union College - Jewish In-stitute of Religion in 1998 and 1999. He was ordained at the Cincinnati Campus, after having studied at HUC in Jerusa-lem and Los Angeles as well as the University of Judaism Rabbinic program. In his first pulpit at Temple Emanuel as the Rabbinic Director of Education and Outreach, he served the Jewish community of Birmingham, AL for 12 years. In 2013, Rabbi Scott became the founding Rabbi of Shma Koleinu in Houston, TX.

Rabbi Laura Sheinkopf is the Director of Jewish Life at the Emery/Weiner School - overseeing Jewish programming for both the Middle and Upper School, and is part of the school’s Senior Leadership Team. Rabbi Sheinkopf grew up on Cape Cod, attended Northfield Mt. Hermon School, and graduated from Columbia University with honors in religious studies where she was a New York State Scholar. Rabbi Sheinkopf attended Hebrew Union College where she was a Wexner Graduate Fellow.

Kelly Dean, Band Director, has become one of Houston’s most sought-after musicians. A regular performer on sax, flute, keys and vocals, Houston-born Kelly attended the Uni-versity of North Texas as a jazz studies major and has a degree in flute performance from the University of Houston Moores School of Music. Kelly has performed with such greats as Ray Charles, Bernadette Peters, Frankie Valli, Kenny Rogers, The O’Jays, The Temptations and the Four Tops as well as Jazz/Swing artists Jeff Lorber Fusion & Ste-ve Tyrell. This is Kelly’s 14th year at The Emery/Weiner School where he & Josh Sheiman have developed Music Reality, a multi-instrumental approach to music literacy and education. His hard work has led him to be honored four years in a row as recipient of the NAMM Foundation Sup-portMusic Merit Award. 2021 marks Kelly’s 8th year as a

proud contributor to Shma Koleinu’s High Holy Days.

Hannah Madeleine Goodman, Cantorial Soloist, is a crossover soprano from NYC. LA credits: LA Opera Cho-rus debut in Amadeus Live at Valley Performing Arts Cen-ter, Ensemble in The Hunchback of Notre Dame at La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts, Micaëla in Carmen with Center Stage Opera, and Madrigal Singer on Glee among many regional credits. Hannah has also sung so-prano at Sinai Temple in Los Angeles, CA for four years. NYC Credits: Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro at the Center for Jewish History, Emmie in Albert Herring and Constance in The Sorcerer with Utopia Opera, and Pamina cover in The Magic Flute with Opera On Tap. Tours: Out-reach Tours for LA Opera Connects and Opera Saratoga, Young Artist at the 2019 iSING!, International Young Art-ists Festival in China.

Andrew Lienhard, Piano, is a musician and software developer. As a pianist, he has performed with Joe Hen-derson, Ronnie Laws, Hubert Laws, Dee Dee Bridgewater, and Kirk Whalum, along with a wide range of musicians from the Gulf Coast region. He has also been commis-sioned to write music for radio, theater and dance groups. A graduate of Houston’s High School for the Performing Arts (where he later taught), Andrew holds Masters de-grees in Mathematics, Industrial Engineering and Opera-tions Research. He lives with his wife, artist Stephanie Lienhard, in Houston, Texas.

Dr. José-Miguel Yamal, Piano, is a Chilean-American jazz pianist and graduate from the High School for the Per-forming and Visual Arts (HSPVA) in Houston, Texas. His musical voice draws from many genres including jazz, lat-in, and nu jazz, creating a synergistic cultural palette of sounds. Jose-Miguel has performed with many jazz and salsa international artists and performed at many festivals including the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland. Jose-Miguel also is a professor of biostatistics and specializes on clinical trials and using machine learning for prognosis of disease.

Dennis Dotson, Trumpet / Shofar, has been a profes-sional musician since 1965, having begun his career in Houston, while attending Sam Houston University in Hunts-ville, TX. He later played in Las Vegas house bands for five years before joining the Woody Herman Orchestra as a trumpet soloist. He worked in NYC for three years before returning to Texas, where, after a brief tour with the Buddy Rich Orchestra, he moved to Houston, where he now re-sides. He is active as a trumpet player throughout the state of Texas, has performed with the Houston Symphony Or-chestra, and has been a sideman on numerous jazz record-ings. Also, he has been adjunct faculty at Houston Commu-nity College and the University of Houston, as well as the University of Texas in Austin, where for 14 years he was instructor of jazz trumpet. Dennis has led several high school All-Region jazz bands and has appeared as guest soloist/clinician at over forty high schools and colleges.

Daphnee Johnson, Chello, graduated from the Universi-ty of Houston with a Bachelors degree in Music Perfor-mance. She studied with the Hungarian-born American cel-list Laszlo Varga and Vagram Saradjian who was a student of Mstislav Rostrophovich. She has been a member of the Corpus Christi Symphony for 8 years. She is now actively freelancing with Divisi Strings LLC, Houston’s leading chamber music agency. She is a co-founder of the Divisi String Quartet. A Suzuki trained cello instructor, Daphnee teaches at Parker Elementary and maintains a private stu-dio of about 30 students. Her leading cause of joy is her 10 year old son, Sebastian. This Yom Kippur marks Daph-nee’s 6th year bringing inspiration and joy to the Shma Koleinu community. Shma Koleinu is tremendously touched by her soulful rendition of the Kol Nidre by Max Bruch.

Josh Sheiman, Guitar, is a Houston based performer, composer, and educator. He received his bachelors degree in music from the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami, and his masters degree in music education from Boston University. He is starting his 8th year as a music in-structor at the Emery/Weiner School. Josh enjoys compos-

ing and recording with his original jazz/fusion band Groove Adhesive, as well as arranging and recording with various groups around town. When not playing music, Josh enjoys spending time with his wife, two kids, and extended family.

Thank you to our stellar High Holy Day

organizational leaders:

• Registration Manager: Larry Sklar • Prayer Book Embossing: Houston Jewelry and

the Solomon Family

• Gabbai: Rabbi Laura Sheinkopf • Yizkor Slide Producer: Holly Hunsicker

• Hospitality: Andi and Scott Kupferberg, Marci

and Mark Arnold, and Leslie Sharp • And the volunteers who make the in person

days possible

Special thanks to our Renewal Workshop Leaders.

We are extremely grateful to the

wonderful leadership of The Emery/Weiner School

for welcoming us into their home for our High Holy Days.

Renewal Workshops Yom Kippur Afternoon 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Links Will be Sent to All Who Register

Details about each workshop and registration information can be found on the website.

Each year at Shma Koleinu, our Yom Kippur experience includes what we call “Renewal Workshops.” Focused on teshuvah, which means turning or returning towards directions in our lives that are healthier, more honest, more open, and freer than how we have lived our lives in the past. We do not prescribe or presume what that can mean to you. However, we have found that when the prayers, hopes and dreams that can be summoned in our hearts and minds on Yom Kippur have the chance to be activated through creative and informative media, the lessons of the day stand a better chance of “sticking.” And very importantly, every-one is invited to attend the “Renewal Workshops” whether or not you or they are engaged in a whole day of Yom Kippur ob-servance.

“Yom Kippur Your Way”

The workshops do not presume any previous knowledge or experience in their medium. So just give it a try!

See where it takes you! • On Site and on Zoom

• Restorative Yoga led by Rochelle Mannigel

• Angels in Jewish Texts led by Marian Bell

• On Zoom only

• Ageing to Saging led by Sue Schechter

• Art Exploration led by Ilana Reisz and

Deborah Horwitz

• Eidetics: Beyond Relationship Conflict led

by Nanette Tashnek

• Accidental Interactions: Creating Connection and

Shared Experiences led by Ileya Grosman

Shma Koleinu Leadership Team

Mark Arnold

Jonathan Axelrad Colin Brokaw Jay Goldberg

Andi Kupferburg Andy Lee

Margi Levin Harry Selig

Leslie Sharp Marty Shellist Rex Solomon

You can contact any member of the Leadership Team

at admin@cskhouston.com