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D’var Torah . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Prayer and Learning . . . . 3
Youth and Parent Education . . . . . . . 4
Adult Learning and WTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Community . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Giving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 – 9
Legacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Lifecycles . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Israel Trips . . . back cover
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TEMPLE SINAI n OAKLAND, CA 11 TISHREI – 11 HESHVAN n OCTOBER 2017 n ISSUE 123
Chag Sameach!Celebrate Sukkot and Simchat Torah with your Temple family. Both holidays focus on joy, gratitude and community. Tradition’s after party post Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur! Let’s celebrate together.
Community Sukkah BuildingSunday, October 1, 2:00 – 5:00pmBuild, decorate and be among the first to sit in the Sukkah!
Erev Sukkot Wednesday, October 4 Shake the lulav and celebrate our plenty.
5:30pm Sandwiches and snacks will be provided in the Sukkah, Upper Courtyard
6:30pm Erev Sukkot Service
Erev Shabbat Family Service in the Sukkah Friday, October 6Welcome Shabbat and celebrate Sukkot!
5:30pm Bring your own picnic dinner, Sukkah in the Upper CourtyardBring food and come fulfill the mitzvah of eating in the Sukkah
6:30pm Erev Shabbat Family Service in the Sukkah, Upper Courtyard
Simchat Torah Service and Consecration Wednesday, October 11We dance with the Torah scrolls and celebrate our newest Religious School students. It’s ritual, meaning and fun all in one night.
5:00pm Yizkor (Memorial) Service, Albers Chapel
5:30pm Dinner. Make sure to RSVP in advance. For more information see your weekly email or contact the main office
6:00pm Erev Simchat Torah Service with Consecration, Sanctuary
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D’VAR TORAH
TEMPLE SINAI SENIOR STAFFMain Office (510) 451-3263
JACQUELINE MATES-MUCHIN Senior Rabbi: ext. 332 rabbimatesmuchin@oaklandsinai.org
ILENE KEYS Cantor: ext. 331 cantorkeys@oaklandsinai.org
YONI REGEV Rabbi: ext. 333 rabbiregev@oaklandsinai.org
SAMUEL BROUDE Rabbi Emeritus: ext. 301
maureen@oaklandsinai.org
STEVEN A . CHESTER Rabbi Emeritus: ext. 301
maureen@oaklandsinai.org
SAM SCHUCHAT Temple President: ext. 403
president@oaklandsinai.org
DORIAN FARROW Executive Director: ext. 304
dorian@oaklandsinai.org
SUE BOJDAK Education Director: ext. 342 sue@oaklandsinai.org
ELLEN LEFKOWITZ Preschool Director: ext. 313
ellen@oaklandsinai.org
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On behalf of the clergy, staff and Board of Trustees of Temple Sinai, Shanah Tova. May 5778 bring health, meaning and purpose to you and all those you love.
May it bring strength to our congregational community as we continue to build connections with tradition and with each other. And may our world come closer to equality and justice
through compassion and peace.
In friendship,
Rabbi Mates-Muchin, Cantor Keys, Rabbi Regev, Rabbi Broude, Rabbi Chester, Dorian Farrow, Sue Bojak, Ellen Lefkowitz
Shanah Tovah!
The season of celebrating the High Holy Days continues after Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur, and extends into the festival of Sukkot. The ancient custom of building temporary booths is meant to connect us to our roots, first as a wandering people in the desert, and second, as an agricultural people who lived off the bounty of Holy Land.
At its core, the Sukkah is a dwelling, and so it serves as a special place of gathering for family, friends and guests.
Moreover, since the Sukkah puts us outdoors, it is meant to break down the isolating barriers formed by our homes. Indeed, the Sukkah is meant to be accessible and inviting to outsiders by leaving a wide opening on one side. This corresponds with one of our most ancient and celebrated traditions of welcoming strangers, a tradition we trace all the way back to Abraham and Sarah. Throughout the Torah, we are commanded 36 different times to love and protect the strangers in our midst because we were once strangers in the land of Egypt, and therefore intimately know the hardships of exclusion and marginalization.
In the rich cannon of our tradition, the commandment to build and dwell in the Sukkah is unique because it adds the expectation that we should rejoice all seven days of the festival.
The Torah commands us to rejoice but does not specify the source of our joy, and so, the medieval commentator Chizkuni argues that our joy would derive from the abundance of the harvest, and the assurance that food and sustenance were secure for the winter months. Yet, as we grow more distant from those agricultural roots, we have the opportunity and responsibility to seek out new and more relevant sources of joy in this holy season.
Whatever our circumstances, most members of our community occupy a position of privilege when compared to our ancestors. We are no longer strangers in a strange land, and no longer depend on the yields of our own harvest to feed our families. By building the Sukkah and experiencing its transience and vulnerability, we may indeed derive joy in knowing this is not our daily lot. But behind that joy and in our hearts, we must remember that we are not so far removed from the precariousness of transience, or the plight of the immigrant.
On this festival, and in this holy season, I hope we embrace not only the richness of our tradition, but the imperative the Torah seeks to drill into our conscience, and which has not lost its urgency or significance; we must love and protect the strangers and immigrants in our midst. Our joy depends on it.
~ Rabbi Regev
WORSHIP
SCHEDULE OF SERVICESWEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 6:30pmErev Sukkot Service in the Sukkah, Upper Courtyard Sukkah
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 6:30pm Erev Shabbat Family Service in the Sukkah, Upper Courtyard Sukkah
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7, 10:30amShabbat Morning Service with the Bar Mitzvah of Max Blankman, Sanctuary
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 115:00pm Yizkor Service, Albers Chapel
6:00pm Erev Simchat Torah Service with Consecration, Sanctuary
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 7:30pmErev Shabbat Service, Albers Chapel
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 10:30am Shabbat Minyan Service, Albers Chapel
Shabbat Morning Service with the Bat Mitzvah of Sophia Vitek, Sanctuary
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 7:30pmErev Shabbat Mizmor Shir! Service, Sanctuary
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 10:30am Shabbat Morning Service with the Bat Mitzvah of Frances Freais, Sanctuary
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 276:00pm Sababa Shabbat for Pre-K through 2nd grade with their families, Albers Chapel
7:30pm Erev Shabbat Service, Albers Chapel
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 10:30am Shabbat Morning Service with the Bar Mitzvah of Matthew Ragins, Sanctuary
PRAYER and LEARNING
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We are now Streaming Services!If you can’t be here in person but would like to watch at home, go to our Temple Sinai Community Facebook page at www.facebook.com/TempleSinai2808 and you can watch Friday and Saturday services live.
Don’t have Facebook? Let us know and we can arrange to have a member come to your home to help set it up! Email Rabbi Mates-Muchin at rabbimatesmuchin@oaklandsinai.org or call (510) 451-3263 ext. 332 for more information.
Do you love Jewish music? Do you like to sing? Do you want to meet new people?
Join one of our Temple Choirs!Adult Choir and Junior Choirs open for new members.
No auditions necessary.Adult Choir meets Tuesday nights 7:00 – 8:30pmJunior Choir meets Sundays 11:30am – 12:00pm
For more information and schedules, contact Cantor Ilene Keys at
haznkeys@oaklandsinai.org or go to: https://www.oaklandsinai.org/Adult-and-Junior-Choirs
MARK YOUR CALENDAR!Friday, October 27; 5:30 – 7:00pm
Saturday, December 2; 9:30 – 11:00am Friday, January 26; 5:30 – 7:00pm
Saturday, February 24; 9:30 – 11:00am
Saturday, March 24; 4:30 – 6:00pmFriday, April 20; 5:30 – 7:00pm
Saturday, May 12; 4:30 – 6:00pm
Celebrating Shabbat with children in pre-k – 2nd grade
and their families.Sababa Shabbat is our monthly family Shabbat
celebration for children in preschool through 2nd grade and their families. Each month we will
gather together as community to enjoy either a Friday evening, Shabbat morning or Havdallah (Saturday evening) service.
Our first Sababa Shabbat of the year is Friday, October 27!
SAVE THE DATE New Member Dinner,
November 17th
FROM THE CANTOR’S DESK
New Student Consecration & Simchat Torah CelebrationWednesday, October 11, 6:00pm – Dinner at 5:30pmWe begin our annual Torah cycle anew with a Simchat Torah Celebration where we consecrate (make holy), welcome, bless and honor our new Religious School and beginning Day School students as they start their formal Jewish educational journeys. Come and shower them with sweetness at this family-centered, musical service. Join us at 5:30pm for an easy dinner. Look for dinner sign-up directions in your Weekly Email. Have a child entering day school? Contact Sue Bojdak at sue@oaklandsinai.org so we can be sure to include them in our celebration.
Wrestling with Our Times: A Parent Nosh & Talk with Rabbi Mates-MuchinSunday, October 22, 9:30-10:30am in the Living RoomGather once a month for a topical discussion — plus good coffee and snacks — on parenting through critical issues of our day: tent cities, Muslim bans, gender fluid bathrooms, extreme rhetoric, police shootings, terror attacks. What 2017 realities are you wrestling with as you try and raise emotionally healthy children? We’ll wrestle together with how to make sense of our world for kids and for ourselves.
DATES TO REMEMBERYOUTH 4th-6th Grade Trip to QZAR for Lazer Tag Sunday, October 1, 10:00am – 3:30pm
8th Grade Scavenger Hunt Saturday, October 14, 7:00 – 9:00pm Meet at Fenton’s
9th-12th Grade C-Dubb SmashFriday through Sunday, October 20 – 22
At Camp Newman
7th Grade Rosh Hodesh Sunday, October 22, 1:00 – 3:00pm
The youth calendar is full of great events this year. http://bit.ly/SinaiYouthCalendar. For more info, please contact Michele@oaklandsinai.org.
RELIGIOUS SCHOOLCongregational Sukkah Building Sunday, October 1, 2:00 – 5:00pmNo Religious School
Erev Sukkot Service in the SukkahWednesday, October 4, 5:00pm
Parents please join us!
New Student Consecration & Simchat Torah Celebration Wednesday, October 11, 6:00pm
No Late Hebrew Classes Today
Wrestling with Our Times: A Parent Nosh & Talk Sunday, October 22, 9:30 – 10:30am
7th Grade Family Shabbat Service Friday, November 3, 6:30pm
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YOUTH and ADULT EDUCATION
SAVE THE DATE Dedication of the
Temple Sinai David Pregerson PreschoolSunday, November 12, 5:00pm
SiTY (SINAI TEMPLE YOUTH) KICK-OFF BBQ
OAKLAND SINAISinai Temple Youth
WORSHIP
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ADULT LEARNING and WTS
Introduction to Liturgy with Cantor KeysSundays, 9:30 – 11:00am, (10/22, 11/12, 12/10) in the Albers ChapelEverything you wanted to know about Shabbat morning liturgy but were afraid to ask. A hands on approach to the Shabbat morning service. Come ready to question, explore and chant.
Adult Hebrew Class with Elaine Bachrach Sundays, 1:00 – 2:15pm, September 24 through December 17 Are you interested in improving your prayerbook Hebrew skills? This continuing class for adult Hebrew learners presumes only that you can decode (recognize and sound out) printed Hebrew. We will study the prayers of the Shabbat morning service, including relevant vocabulary, some grammatical structures, and some chanting. New students are welcome. If this fits your limited Hebrew skills, join us now and watch how much fun and how satisfying it will be to progress as a Hebrew learner and speaker. Cost is $160. Contact Rabbi Regev at rabbiregev@oaklandsinai.org to sign up today.
OPENING BRUNCHChasidism Meets Feminism — A Dichotomy?Sunday, October 8, 11:00am in William Stern HallThe Women of Temple Sinai begin the new year with a gathering of our members and friends that we hope will stimulate discussion and ideas and strengthen our community. This year our speaker will be Nechama Langer. Nechama, is the eldest daughter of the co-directors of Chabad of San Francisco. She is making her own path from Chasidism to one that is more progressive and feminist, while continuing her close family relationship and keeping Kosher and shomer Shabbat practices. She will be joined by Melita Silberstein, a singer/songwriter, folk musician, and song leader. We hope you will join us to hear Nechama’s story and to have a candid discussion about orthodoxy, feminism and our responsibility as women. For more information, please contact Sue Bachman at memasue2@gmail.com.
CEO of IsraAid, Yotam PolizerSunday, October 15, 9:30 – 11:00am in the Albers ChapelTemple Sinai welcomes Yotam Polizer, who led the interfaith mission to Greece in which Rabbi Mates-Muchin and Rabbi Chester took part. Yotam will discuss how humanitarian work with refugees and communities around the world not only saves lives, but also changes lives while building essential bridges between communities in the US, Israel and globally.
YOUTH WATERWORLD TRIP 2017
Nechama Langer
Yotam Polizer
SENIORS LUNCHMemoir-Writing Workshop
with Joanne RocklinTuesday, October 24, 12:00pm in the Albers Chapel
Join us for the first of two memoir-writing workshops led by our congregant and acclaimed author, Joanne Rocklin.
Lunch will be served.
FROM THE CANTOR’S DESK
Too Many Tomatoes? Sunday, October 8, 9:00am – 12:00pmJoin Sinai Green at our first Harvest Exchange during the Sukkot celebration on Sunday October 8 from 9:00am – 12:00pm. Come share your bounty with other Temple members! Bring what you have too much of, take what you need; fruit, veggies, seeds, herbs, jams and honey are all welcome. Anything extra will be donated to the Oakland Elizabeth House.
Sunday Morning Mah JongSundays, October 8, 15, 22, 9:30-11:00am in Stern HallFriends, nosh, mahj. All levels welcome (instructors available each week). Learn this Jewish classic while your children study the Jewish classics! Happening nearly every Sunday there is Religious School.
Sinai Garden Clean-Up Work DaySunday, October 15, 9:00am – 3:00pmBe among the first to help transform Temple Sinai’s sacred garden into something truly inspiring. Help us clear the land on this first garden work day. Bring your work gloves and your enthusiasm as we cut down and pull up the current plantings. Come for an hour or come for the whole day.
Baby GroupIf you’ve recently had your first baby, or maybe the second or third, and you’d like to meet other parents with very young children (infants through around age two), let us know. Please email Michelle Van Tijen at michellevt@gmail.com to be included in the email list and Google Calendar.
Creating a Sacred Garden at Temple Sinai“And Adonai Elohim took Adam and put him in the Garden of Eden to tend it and guard it.” (Genesis 2:15) Gardens have deep roots in religious understandings of the world. The garden state, the paradisal starting point for humanity, is elemental in creation myths across cultures. In our own tradition, our relationship with the garden is a gift, a commandment, and a longing once we are cast out and set to work the land for real. In myth, the cultivation of the garden is a quest of return to our more divine state, creating order out of chaos, both in the world physically and in the soul. In everyday life, the garden is an opportunity to reconnect with what matters, with the land, with yourself, and with one another.
Perhaps you too have noticed that Temple Sinai’s sacred garden — the space between our upper and lower courtyards — tends more toward chaos than order and does not so much resemble the Eden of our mind’s eye. The time has come to return to the garden and craft the kind of sacred space that will inspire us to engage in the sacred pursuits of cultivation, learning, community and quiet contemplation.
Over the course of this year we aim to transform that patch of land into a workable garden with space for people of all ages to plant and play and sit quietly. Our small garden collective welcomes your involvement. Do you want to dig in the dirt? Join us for our October 15 clean-up day and future planting days. Do you want to sponsor a plant or a planting box? Stay tuned for future giving opportunities. Do you really love gardening and want to help us imagine our garden space into being? Contact Sue Bojdak and join the Sinai Garden Collective today! We look forward to re-growing our garden together.
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EVENTS
The Holiday Dinner Drive is back!Last year, Temple Sinai members raised over $20,000
for the Alameda County Food Bank. One in five people in our county use the food bank — if they held hands, they’d reach from Oakland to Fresno! Overall, the Holiday Dinner Drive raised more than $125,000 for Bay Area food banks, who have come to rely on these funds. Look for information coming your way in October, and please give generously to help our neighbors enjoy the holiday season.
WORSHIPCOMMUNITY
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2017 Annual Meeting Reelection of the Senior Rabbi
Under Temple Sinai’s bylaws, the congregation is given two opportunities to vote for the Senior Rabbi: first, at the Senior Rabbi’s initial election; and then again at the conclusion of the Senior Rabbi’s first period of service. In January, 2015, the congregation voted overwhelmingly to elect Rabbi Mates-Muchin as our Senior Rabbi. It is now time for the congregation to vote for the second time.
The bylaws require that the Board of Trustees make a recommendation as to the reelection of the Senior Rabbi, to be considered at a congregational meeting. Over the summer, Temple President Sam Schuchat solicited input from senior staff and from the congregation, and presented the Board with the input he received and with a review of Rabbi Mates-Muchin’s performance. The Board of Trustees at the August, 2017 Board meeting voted unanimously to recommend the reelection of Rabbi Mates-Muchin as Temple Sinai’s Senior Rabbi.
The next step in the process is the congregational vote, which will take place at our annual membership meeting, on Sunday, October 29, 2017, at 9:30am, in William Stern Hall. An affirmative vote of two-thirds of the votes cast, pursuant to Section 4.04 of the bylaws, is required for the Senior Rabbi’s reelection. All adult members of the congregation are encouraged to vote, with a maximum of two votes per household. You may vote either in person at the annual meeting, or by absentee ballot. Watch for information on absentee voting in a forthcoming Temple email. If you choose to vote in person at the annual meeting, voting will take place from 9:30 to 10:30am. The results will be announced at 11:00am, after which everyone is invited to stay for t’filah with the Religious School in the sanctuary.
We look forward to seeing you at the Annual Meeting!
Please join us for the TEMPLE SINAI
ANNUAL MEETINGSunday, October 29, 2017; Stern Hall
9:00am Coffee and bagels, meet members of our committees
9:30 – 10:30am Voting on Reelection of Rabbi Mates-Muchin as Senior Rabbi
9:30am Welcome Sam SchuchatOpening Prayer Clergy
9:40am Election of TrusteesFirst term: Liz Daoust, Diane Grauer, Laurie Leiber,
Sydney Firestone Schimmel, Anne Schmitz
Second term: Jon Braslaw, Debra Schoenberg 9:45am Committee and Staff Presentations
Finance and Membership: Jon Braslaw and Dorian FarrowEducation: Ellen Lefkowitz and Sue Bojdak
Cemetery: Robin ReinerClergy Presentations: Rabbi Mates-Muchin,
Rabbi Regev, Cantor Keys
10:45am Q and A
11:00am Announcement of results of the Senior Rabbi Vote
11:10am Religious School T’filah Service
2017 PRIDE PARADE
FROM THE CANTOR’S DESK
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GIVING
Todah rabah! Thank you very much to the following who provided contributions to Temple Sinai. These donations were recorded between August 9 & September 1, 2017. For corrections or additions to this list, please contact rhonda@oaklandsinai.org (510) 451-3263 x303.
ANNUAL GIVING CAMPAIGNStephen and Dale Block
in memory of Beth Karren
CANTOR KEYS MUSIC FUNDAlice and Bob Breakstone
in appreciation of Cantor Keys, on the occasion of Ethan Kabatchnik’s becoming a Bar Mitzvah
Barry and Dori Dubinin appreciation of Cantor Keys
Jack Lawrence Weinstein, Susan Weinstein, JoAnne Bressick, and Julie Stern
in appreciation of Cantor Keys, on the occasion of Natalie Weinstein’s funeral
Sharon Testa-Harker and Jim Harkerin appreciation of Cantor Keys, for Carrie Testa’s Shiva Minyan and Olivia Goodsell’s Bat Mitzvah
Maureen Loganin memory of Mrs. Ethel Holman
Stan and Marty Rossin memory of Gladys Inlander
CARING COMMUNITY FUNDNita and Alvin Barshefsky
in memory of Florence “Flossie” Ginsburg
Elaine Bingerin memory of Diane Lichtenstein and Flossie Ginsburg
Betsy and Lawrence Blockin memory of Beth Karren
Georgia Cassel and Peter Perverein memory of Beth Karren
Norman and Carole Robinowin memory of Beth Karren
Mary Triest and Chuck Rossin memory of Al Dubin
Beth Wolinskyin appreciation of and thanks to all those who offered support for my chavurah
ENDOWMENT FUNDHarold and Marian Smith
in memory of our dear friend Beth Karren
JOE REMCHO FUND FOR PRESCHOOL SCHOLARSHIPSBob and Barbara Morrison
in memory of Al Dubin
JOELLYN WEISS MEMORIAL FUND – URJ CAMP SCHOLARSHIPSSusan and Mike Levy
in memory of Diane Lichtenstein
LIBRARY FUNDBob and Barbara Morrison
in memory of Marjorie Isaac
LIONEL BENAS CONFIRMATION FUNDEvelyn Benas
in memory of Lucile Koplan Steen
PEOPLE OF THE BOOK — OAKLAND LITERACY PROJECTNadyne Epstein
in memory of Natalie Weinstein
PRESCHOOL FUNDSidney and Sandra Zusman
in memory of Judith Gurevitch
RABBI GIVING FUNDBob and Barbara Morrison
in memory of Beth Karren
in memory of Diane Lichtenstein
Sandy and Mac Searsin memory of Natalie Weinstein
RABBI MATES-MUCHIN DISCRETIONARY FUNDThe Alexander Family
in appreciation of Rabbi’s leading the August 23rd service: Standing Together Against Hate
Wayne and Melissa Bataviain memory of Beth Karren
Catherine deCuirin memory of Jeanette deCuir
Helen and Lowell Dittmerin memory of Jonathan Austin
Barry and Dori Dubinin appreciation of Rabbi Mates-Muchin
Jack Lawrence Weinstein, Susan Weinstein, JoAnne Bressick, and Julie Stern
in appreciation of Rabbi Mates-Muchin, for Natalie Weinstein’s funeral
Larry Ginsburg, Lynn Simon, and the Ginsburg family
in memory of Flossie Ginsberg
Steve Goldstein and Pat LivingstonMarc and Cherie Hallert
in memory of Alfred Dubin
in memory of Flossie Ginsburg
Sharon and Jim Harkerin appreciation of Rabbi Mates-Muchin’s kindness and generousity toward our family in the last year
Herb Holman and Leslie Painein memory of Ethel Holman
Lois Horwitz and Bill Montaguein memory of Diane Lichtenstein
in memory of Beth Karren
Joe and Beth Hurwichin honor of Lisa and Sterling’s Wedding
Stephen and Ruth Kassin memory of Beth Karren
Eric Lipsittin appreciation of Rabbi Mates-Muchin
Roger and Joan Mannin memory of Beth Karren
in memory of Diane Lichtenstein
Dr. Ron and Adele Ostomelin memory of Flossie Ginsburg
WORSHIP
Denise’s LegacyDenise Sherer Jacobson submitted the following as her page at a signing ceremony last June :
For the most part I grew up in a secular Jewish family. My father was a High Holiday Jew while his parents, who had fled the pogroms, clung to their Orthodox ways. My mother’s family proudly claimed to be Americanized, emigrating from an area called “Deutchland” circa mid-19th century. Still they observed holidays, kept kosher, and lit Shabbos candles every Friday night — reciting the prayer they learned through oral tradition. My male cousins all celebrated B’nei Mitzvahs while the girls carried on the traditions of keeping Jewish homes...
Except I couldn’t imagine, since I have cerebral palsy — a disability affecting coordination — how I would ever make those kosher dinners or light Shabbos candles without setting the house on fire!
My parents never would have dreamed that I would be the one to light those Shabbat candles with a flick of a switch. When I do, I remember them, and pass on my Jewish legacy to my son David. It comforts me.
That’s Denise’s legacy — What will your legacy be?
“Those congregants who have already committed to make a legacy gift can expect to hear from the Create a Jewish Legacy committee about formalizing their commitments sometime soon after the High Holidays.”
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GIVING
RABBI REGEV DISCRETIONARY FUNDBarry and Dori Dubin
in appreciation of Rabbi Regev
Sam and Katie Jubelirerin celebration of our daughter Etta’s birth and naming ceremony
SOCIAL ACTION/ ANTI-HUNGER FUNDSue and Ron Bachman
in memory of Diane Lichtenstein
Bob and Barbara Morrisonin memory of Flossie Ginsburg
Alycia Sears and Brian Stokleyin memory of passing of Natalie Weinstein
WHERE THE NEED IS GREATEST FUNDAudrey Adler
in memory of David Adler
Richard and Jane Cohenin memory of Sylvan E. Cohen
Sanford and Leslie Delugachin memory of Alfred Dubin
The Dreyfuss Family
Lynn Simon and Larry Ginsburgin appreciation of Bob Schoen and Catherine de Cuir for honoring Flossie Ginsburg with music
Murray and Janet Gordonin memory of Beth Karren
Marc and Cherie Hallertin memory of Todd Merydith
Leo and Florence Helzelin memory of Flossie Ginsburg
Stanford M. Hornin memory of Diane Lichtenstein
Sarah M. Kernin memory of Judy Bliss Gurevitch
Jan and Randy Kesslerin memory of Beth Karren
Deborah and David Kirshmanin memory of Beth Karren
Miriam Ladriganin memory of Diane Lichtenstein
The Lefkowitz familyin memory of Judith Gurevitch
Catherine R. Lewisin memory of Robert W. Schmerl
The Lichtenstein familyin appreciation of and with deep gratitude to the Temple Sinai community in our time of loss
Steve and MaryJane Lowenthalin memory of Beth Karren
Daniel McClosky and Nancy Toderin memory of Marjorie Isaac
David and Donna Mendelsohnin memory of Flossie Ginsburg and Diane Lichtenstein
Ken and Lindsey Meyersieckin memory of Beth Karren
Patricia Rubensteinin memory of Henry Rubenstein
Yael and Jacob Samuelin memory of Flossie Ginsburg
Arthur and Meredith Stantenin memory of Beth Karren
Arthur and Meredith Stantenin memory of Diane Lichtenstein
Pearl Wolffsin memory of Flossie Ginsburg
in memory of J. Levin
for the speedy recovery of Fred Isaac
Denise Jacobson
LIFECYCLES
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Birthdays and anniversaries are listed in multiples of 5 as well as birthdays age 80 and over. Mazel Tov!
B’NEI MITZVAHBIRTHDAYS10/1 Mark Lubin
10/1 Lawrence Rabkin
10/3 Deena Levine-Lipsett
10/3 Robin Dubner
10/3 Dan Oppenheimer
10/5 David Hardy
10/6 Kelly Glazer Baldwin
10/7 Adam Brill
10/7 Jennifer Eisenbud Sawle
10/8 Anne Estep
10/8 Susannah Bell
10/8 Rona Morris
10/9 Melissa Torok
10/9 Sheldon Brown
10/10 Rachel Phillips
10/11 Ana Schwartzman
10/12 Heidi Lustig
10/13 Lisa Regelman
10/13 Peter Boffey
10/15 Colleen Orfuss
10/15 Guy Golan
10/15 Tammy Medress
10/17 Shelley Hubner
10/17 Fred Karren
10/18 Frances Rainin
10/19 Charles Palley
10/20 Robert Fulop
10/21 Cristi Goldman
10/21 Jewel Strom
10/24 Jacquelyn Horwitz
10/25 Carol Levine
10/25 Billie Mandel
10/27 Victoria Carlisle
10/28 Olivier Zitoun
10/30 Andrea Tivers
10/30 Andrea Tanenbaum
10/31 Matthew Waitkus
10/31 Pearl Wolffs
Thank you to the Blankman, Vitek, Freais
and Ragins families for sponsoring an oneg this month.
Max Aaron Blankman
Son ofDana and Adam Blankman
Saturday, 10/7/2017
Sophia Claire Vitek
Daughter of Jan & Elana Vitek
Saturday, 10/14/2017
Frances Penelope Freais
Daughter of William Freais and Andrea Silvestri
Saturday, 10/21/2017
Matthew Isaac Ragins
Son of Noam and Melinda Ragins
Saturday, 10/28/2017
WEDDING ANNIVERSARIES5 Troy Blanchard and Rachel Meyer 10/6
5 Thomas and Amy Kelly 10/27
5 Jill and Daniel Saper 10/28
10 Sari Leivent Sanghvi and Siddharth Sanghvi 10/28
15 Matthew and Sarah Langdon 10/5
15 Lloyd and Lucy Ross 10/12
15 David Lemberger and Lisa Bograd 10/20
25 Mark and Susan Zeme 10/24
35 Alice Klein and Prentice Starkey 10/18
40 Randall and Cheryl Berger 10/30
MAZEL TOV!On the marriage of Sterling Robert Pratz and Lisa Hurwich on August 12, 2017.
Proud Parents:Beth and Joe Hurwich
On the marriage of Benjamin Nadler and Emily Gische on September 1, 2017.
Proud Parents:Andrew Nadler and Cindi Flynn z”l
On the marriage of Benjamin Latham-Bryman and Harte Hill on September 2, 2017.
BRUCHIM HABAIM – WELCOME TO THE WORLD!Henry Olson was born January 17, 2017.
Proud Parents:Mats Olson and Shana Olson
Lila Hunt was born March 13, 2017.
Proud Parents:Adelia Malmuth and Justin Hunt
Tess Goldman was born July 12, 2017.
Proud Parents:Zoe Palitz and Brian Goldman
Ronan Shererwas born on August 21, 2017.
Proud Parents:Ilana Sherer and Elana Story
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WELCOME NEW MEMBERSEmanuelson FamilyRobyn and Sarah Brody-KaplanHarte Hill and Benjamin Latham-BrymanSteven and Kristan KirshBernhard Baltaxe and Scotia MillerCaroline and David GouldShana Lazerow and Christopher UnderwoodSeth Engel and Ilana PearlmanLiz AlpertArthur and Debra BakalCristi GoldmanSamantha and John HarnettBarbara and Sebastian JohnckDaniel Korn and Trang LaElla and Paul RosenbloomJill and Dan Saper
REMEMBRANCES We mourn the loss of:
Edward Tiedemann, father of Karen Tiedemann Meg Zweiback, congregant and wife of Zack Wasserman
Alan Peterkofsky, father of David Peterkofsky Jose Luis Madrigal, great uncle and godparent of Francisco Cerna
Clifford Miller, grandfather of Adam Miller Judy Dietz, aunt of Susan Krauss
May their memory be a blessing.
SUNDAY OCTOBER 1No Religious School2:00pm Congregational Sukkah Building
TUESDAY OCT 37:30am Tuesday Morning Minyan
WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 411:30am WTS Lunch Connection (Offsite)
12:15pm Al-Anon Meeting
5:30pm Erev Sukkot Dinner
6:30pm Erev Sukkot Service in the Sukkah
THURSDAY OCTOBER 5Sukkot – Office closed7:30pm WTS & Friends Bridge Night (Offsite)
FRIDAY OCTOBER 66:30pm Erev Shabbat Family Service in the Sukkah with potluck dinner
SATURDAY OCTOBER 79:00am Torah Study
10:30am Shabbat Morning Service with Bar Mitzvah of Maxwell BlankmanSUNDAY OCTOBER 89:00am Sinai Green Harvest Exchange
9:30am Sunday Morning Mah Jong
1:00pm Adult Hebrew Class
3:00pm FACoCaC Sing-along Concert (Lake Park Retirement Residence)
TUESDAY OCTOBER 107:30am Tuesday Morning Minyan
WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 1112:15pm Al-Anon Meeting
5:00pm Yizkor service
5:30pm Erev Simchat Torah Dinner
6:00pm Erev Simchat Torah service
THURSDAY OCTOBER 12Simchat Torah – Office closed7:30pm Brotherhood Board Meeting (Offsite)
FRIDAY OCTOBER 137:30pm Erev Shabbat Service
SATURDAY OCTOBER 149:00am Torah Study
10:30am Shabbat Morning Service with Bat Mitzvah of Sophia Vitek
SUNDAY OCTOBER 159:00am Sinai Garden Clean Up Work Day
9:30am Sunday Morning Mah Jong
11:30am Junior Choir
1:00pm Adult Hebrew Class
TUESDAY OCTOBER 177:30am Tuesday Morning Minyan
7:00pm Adult Choir
7:30pm Green Committee Meeting
WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 1812:15pm Al-Anon Meeting
1:00pm WTS Book Group Meeting
6:00pm Social Action Committee Meeting
7:00pm Temple Board Meeting
7:15pm WTS Board Meeting
THURSDAY OCTOBER 197:30pm WTS & Friends Bridge Night (Offsite)
FRIDAY OCTOBER 207:30pm Erev Shabbat – Mizmor Shir! Service
SATURDAY OCTOBER 219:00am Torah Study
10:30am Shabbat Morning Service with Bat Mitzvah of Frances Freais
5pm Havdallah Hike
SUNDAY OCTOBER 229:30am Sunday Morning Mah Jong
11:30am Junior Choir
1:00pm Adult Hebrew Class
TUESDAY OCTOBER 247:30am Tuesday Morning Minyan
11:30am Seniors Lunch
7:00pm Adult Choir
WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 2512:15pm Al-Anon Meeting
7:30pm Israel Education Committee Meeting
FRIDAY OCTOBER 275:30pm Sababa Shabbat
7:30pm Erev Shabbat Service
SATURDAY OCTOBER 289:00am Torah Study
10:30am Shabbat Morning Service with Bar Mitzvah of Matthew Ragins
SUNDAY OCTOBER 299:00am Congregation Annual Meeting
11:30am Junior Choir
1:00pm Adult Hebrew Class
TUESDAY OCTOBER 31No SiTY7:30am Tuesday Morning Minyan
7:00pm Adult Choir
PERIODICALFirst Hebrew Congregationof Oakland
Temple Sinai2808 Summit StreetOakland, CA 94609
(510) 451-3263oaklandsinai .org
VISIT ISRAEL WITH OUR RABBIS!
WALKING THE LAND with Rabbi Mates-Muchin
March 11 – 21, 2018•
Informational meeting Sunday October 15, 12:00pm
•Contact Rabbi Mates-Muchin
rabbimatesmuchin@oaklandsinai.org or (510) 451-3263 ext. 332
FAMILY ISRAEL TRIP with Rabbi Regev
June 20 - July 1, 2018•
Information Meeting, Sunday, October 29, 12:00pm
•Contact Rabbi Regev
rabbiregev@oaklandsinai.org or
(510) 451-3263 ext. 333
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