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June 2015 Sivan/Tammuz 5775 Volume 19, Issue 6
From Our Spiritual Leader Cantor Henry Shapiro
A Little Traveling Music As I write this I’m preparing the reading for the parsha, B’ha’alotcha. In this potion is a description of the Tabernacle with details on how it was moved and the logistics of the tribes. There’s also a commandment to make two silver trumpets and use them to essentially direct traffic - which tribes to go where, and when certain people should gather. Additionally, the trumpets were to be used for announcements, to start a military campaign or to declare a holiday. This is very similar to the uses of the shofar. Indeed, much of the musical ‘notation’ and directions are the same. Meaning the terminology for trumpet blasts are familiar, teruah for example which is one of the calls for blowing shofar over the High Holidays. I can only imagine that when trying to signal tens if not hundreds of thousands of people, this is the most practical method. The sound of the trumpet is also different enough from the shofar that it too indicates something different. We use sound similarly nowadays to signal the public - as when I hear a siren from the local volunteer fire department or when there’s a noon bell or siren. When I
Coming Events
Friday Night Shabbat Services 6:00 PM Saturday Morning Shabbat Services 9:30 AM June 19th Friday Musical Shabbat 6:00-7:00 PM June 22nd Chabad program & Bob Korfin Lamplighter Award recognition at the JCC 7:00 PM (see flyer in this issue) June 26th & 27th weekend of June birthday Shabbat See calendars for Candle Lighting
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lived in Israel there was a siren that was sounded at noon on Yom HaZikaron, the memorial day for Israel’s fallen. Not as part of a ceremony inside but outside throughout the city in acknowledgment. People stopped what they were doing and stood in silence while it blew. Also in Jerusalem a siren went off 40 minutes before the start of Shabbat. It was a good reminder to wrap up my cooking and get ready to go to shul. There’s a musical change as well in parts of chanting this portion. It is one of the sections known as the ‘Journeys’ or the ‘Chiefs’. It’s a very old melody. Actually it’s the same melody as Shirat Hayam, the Song of the Sea. As explained in the Prof. Josh Jacobson’s comprehensive book, Chanting the Hebrew Bible,
‘The festive melody used for the Song of the Sea is also used to add a majestic tone to the verses that recount the Israelites itinerary in Sinai, as well as those that proclaim the names of the tribal chiefs.’
To me, it’s a good opener to the summer season. We have members who wintered in Florida coming back, or people finishing school and returning. Whether you’re passing through or planning a little stay, it’s nice to see you at the Friday or Saturday minyans. Have a good summer and stop by and see us some time. Cantor Henry Shapiro Musical Shabbat June 19th, 6-7pm Charlie Drummond, clarinet Denny Kurzawski, flute We have a few additions for the Shabbat of June 19th. Our own Charlie Drummond with Denny Kurzawski playing along. Same time, just a little more musical.
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From the President’s Desk………………........................Robert E. Korfin When Hershey met Mary: I always had a soft spot for the comedian Anne Meara, in large part because she looked a lot like my mother, of blessed memory. Similar cheek bones, the wide smile, a deep dimple in her left cheek. My mother was usually there, too, on her side of the green sofa, when we’d watch Meara and her comedy partner and husband Jerry Stiller on a talk or variety show in the 1960s and ’70s — Carson, or Mike Douglas, or Ed Sullivan (where the pair were said to have performed 36 times). So it felt sort of personal when Meara died last week at age 85, leaving behind Jerry, their son (the actor and director) Ben Stiller, and a daughter, Amy. It made me think about my mom, my childhood, and a Jewish moment, fascinating to me, when the parochial interests of Jews were very much part of the general pop culture (a thought, I promise you, that hadn’t occurred to me when I was 11). Stiller and Meara, like Nichols and May, had a wonderful comic rhythm which drew on their real-life marriage and demeanors. Meara, tall and redheaded, was raised an Irish Catholic on Long Island; Stiller, short and hirsute, was an unmistakable Jew born in New York City. Their best-known characters were Mary Elizabeth Doyle and Hershey Horowitz (“my friends call me ‘Hesh’”), a mismatched pair of lovers. Like Abie’s Irish Rose in the 1920s and Bridget Loves Bernie in the early ’70s, they made comedy out of their interfaith romance. In a typical (and visionary) skit, the two are brought together by an “infallible” computer dating service. There are no “jokes” per se, just the sight and attitudes of two awkward strangers repeating their last names. I find myself weirdly nostalgic for Stiller and Meara’s heyday, when a major comedy duo could joke about interfaith marriage and a large national audience could find it cute and funny, not threatening. Somehow, they seemed to put the traditionalists on the wrong side of history — in the post-civil rights era, after all, who wanted to be seen as opposing diversity? I like to joke that American Jews are the only group that roots against Romeo and Juliet getting together. I’ll leave the last word to my Myrna, who also shares with Meara a wicked sense of humor. Years ago we were dropping one of our daughters off for her freshman year at college, and a nice-looking Asian student crossed the street in front of our car. “What would you think if I brought home an Asian boy?” asked my daughter. “As long as he’s Jewish,” Myrna deadpanned. We’ll talk again…
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Kiddush & Oneg Shabbat Sponsors PJC Sisterhood Hal Lederman Donna Wolfson Allan Goppman Kiddush Oneg Sponsorships Sisterhood invites you to celebrate birthdays, anniversaries and other Simchas by sponsoring an Oneg Shabbat or Saturday Morning Kiddush. You can also sponsor in memory of a loved one’s Yahrzeit. June 26th & 27th weekend of June birthday Shabbat For more information on sponsorships call Diane Bloomfield at 412-373-9240 or Leslie Rubin at 412-371-8437
Donation Contacts: Donations to the Marilyn Markowitz/Phyllis Stein Memorial Library Fund can be made by calling the shul office. Mazel Tov to: Bob Korfin for being recognized by Chabad of Monroeville for the Lamplighter Award Alan Iszauk on his MS ride and fundraising efforts. Please consider a donation to support his ride. If you would care to do this online you can make a secure donation at: http://main.nationalmssociety.org/goto/iszauk7
JUNE ANNIVERSARIES
11 Lois and Alan Forman 24 Rhoda and Irwin Feinberg
JUNE BIRTHDAYS
1 Jack Silverstein Lynn Weisman
3 Tony Curtis 4 Lori Levine
Dr. Ruth Westheimer 5 Faye Fischman
Gerri Moldovan Glick 7 Jack Kessler Ronna Vrcic 8 Joan Rivers
9 Mallory Mayer Natalie Portman
10 Eliot Spitzer(former governor of NY) 11 Gene Wilder 12 Anne Frank 16 Alan Iszauk Ron Secorie Cantor Berlin 17 Erin Kosko
Betty Ann Secorie 20 Martin Landau
21 Elizabeth Goppman 25 Carly Simon
28 Lynda Heyman Syma Levine
Mel Brooks
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June Yahrzeits
Week of May 29, 2015 - 11 Sivan Blanche Sigel, Florence Tatar, Mary Rebb Abromovitz, Ludwig Suess, Saul Grossman, Shirley Slepian, Max Steinberg, Matthew Allen Rosenbaum, Herb Weisman Week of June 5, 2015 - 18 Sivan Jacob Landay, Allen L. Verk, Rabbi Solomon Freehof, Shirley Levenson, Ann Toltzis, Max Eisner, Harry Rose, Louis Schwartz, Harold Barnett, Benjamin Horne, Stephen Neil Podolsky, Sonia Pearl, Norman Infeld Week of June 12, 2015 - 25 Sivan Max Pepper, Ethel Goppman, Louis Alpern, Benjamin Moidel, Jordan T. Rosenbaum, Sheldon R. Zilber, Sidney Schatz, Edward A. Wollman Week of June 19, 2015 - 2 Tammuz Ethel Cowen, Donald Max Goldstein, David Levine, Joseph Edward Levine, Beverly Lynn Reich, Joseph Morris, Anna L. Reel, Arthur Irving Smith, Sylvia Heyman, Mattityahu Schwarcz, Alex Gross, Edy Wolfe, Mark Jeffrey Tannenbaum, Sivia Chosky, Ruth Schenk, Herman Lotz, Lillian Kessler Week of June 26, 2015 - 9 Tammuz Hymen Israel Leff, Morris Merenstein, Morris Cadoff, Josephine Silberman, Elizabeth Felser, Yetta Chosky, Simon Harry Samuels, Sadie Bonn, Mary If the name is printed in Bold, a Yahrzeit Plaque will be illuminated in the Sanctuary during the Yahrzeit week. If you would like to place a Yahrzeit Plaque in the Sanctuary, please call the Synagogue Office at 412-823-4338 between 9 am and 1 pm daily. Refuah Schleimah A Speedy Recovery to ... Ron Secorie, Betty Bernstein
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LIBRARY NEWS Nothing assists in rejuvenating ones spirit as being in the midst of planting a flower garden......feeling earth slip through your fingers, thoughts of the beauty to come, and the wonder of nature. We at PJC have our own type of garden....a garden of books planted in the library. Each book contains it own beauty and wonderment. So when you have completed your flower garden come and select a PJC flower from our garden of books. Two new books have been added to our collection! FICTION The Book of Jonah:A Novel by Joshua Max Feldman Overview "THE STORYTELLING, INFUSED WITH ENERGY THROUGHOUT, GATHERS MOMENTUM AND CULMINATES IN AN ENIGMATIC, UNEXPECTED ENDING."—The New York Times Book Review The modern day Jonah at the center of Joshua Max Feldman’s brilliantly conceived
retelling of the Bible’s Book of Jonah is a lucky guy: healthy and handsome, with two beautiful women ready to spend the rest of their lives with him, and an enormously successful legal career that gets more promising by the minute. He’s celebrating a deal that will surely make him partner at his firm when a bizarre vision at a party changes everything. Jonah tries hard to forget what he's seen, but this disturbing sign is only the first of many he will witness, and before long his life is unrecognizable. As this funny and bold novel moves to Amsterdam and then Las Vegas, Feldman examines the way we live now while asking an age-old question: How can we explain the unexplainable? NON-FICTION Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant:A Memoir by Roz Chast Overview. #1 New York Times Bestseller, 2014 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST In her first memoir, Roz Chast brings her signature wit to the topic of aging parents.
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Spanning the last several years of their lives and told through four-color cartoons, family photos, and documents, and a narrative as rife with laughs as it is with tears, Chast's memoir is both comfort and comic relief for anyone experiencing the life-altering loss of elderly parents. See you in the library,
Betty Ann
Thank you all for kind thoughts, cards and donations to Parkway during my recent hospitalizations. I am well on the road to recovery, and am looking forward to seeing you all soon. Thanks again! Michael Tell
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Wilkins Happenings Eastmont Picnic in the Park. Eastmont Reunion June 20th, 11AM - 3PM+
There's a neighborhood picnic reunion at the Eastmont Park on Saturday, June 20th. You can bring your own food, beverages and folding chairs if you want. According to the organizers, they expect 400 people to attend. I plan to mosey over after services to see. Check their Facebook page for details - https://www.facebook.com/groups/eastmontfirst/ Wilkins Twp Summer Fest – June 16-20th Wilkins is holding it’s annual summer festival in Penn Center behind Sears. Eastman Lutheran is hosting a booth there every night 6-11pm and I will be there sharing the table during the week. Come down and help me man the booth and to schmooze the crowd. Drop me a line and let me know when you can come. http://wilkinstownship.com/PDF/Summer Festival 2015.pdf
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Farmer’s Market New Wilkins Farmers Market Wednesdays , 3-7 pm. On route 22 in front of the old Chinese Buffet next to Home Depot Penns Corner Online Farm Stand Penns Corner offers farm shares which we mentioned here before. They also now offer an ‘online farm stand’. It’s a way to order specific produce without committing to a full share. You can still pick it up at the Eastmont Lutheran Church parking lot. See details at: http://pennscorner.com/online-farm-stand Monroeville Interfaith Ministerium's Poverty Simulation Tuesday, June 30 from 6-8:30 PM This is a special workshop for those people looking to volunteer with poverty. The Poverty Simulation will take place on Tuesday, June 30 from 6-8:30 PM at the Monroeville Convention Center. Please use the link below to register. There are a limited number of spaces so if you wish to identify a few other individuals from your house of worship, you may forward the link to them and suggest that they register quickly. They can also register by calling Donna at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, 412-372-2934. Others will be invited by invitation (school board, city council, etc.) <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/Monroeville-Interfaith-Ministeriums-Poverty-Simulation-Tickets>
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Parkway Jewish Center 300 Princeton Drive Pittsburgh, PA 15235
DATED MATERIAL PLEASE DO NOT DELAY
Or Current Resident
Congregation Sha’ar HaShamayim 412-823-4338 www.parkwayjewishcenter.org
Cantor Henry Shapiro, Spiritual Leader ([email protected] or [email protected])
Officers President Bob Korfin
Board Members Marvin Heyman Mike Jacob Ira Mazer Harold Bloomfield Donna Wolfson Committee Chair Persons
House Chair Alan Levine Ritual Chair Hal Lederman Cemetery Chair Arnie Levine & Syma Levine
Office Administrator Gail Levine
Sisterhood Officers President Laurie Barnett Levine Vice Presidents
Membership Susan Mazer Program Vera Greenberg Fundraising Vacant Catering Vacant
Corresponding Secretary Vacant Financial Secretary Amy Mayer Treasurer Lynda Heyman Auditor Lynda Heyman
Scribe Staff Editor Harold Bloomfield
PUBLISHED MONTHLY VOLUME 19, ISSUE 5
JUNE 2015 [email protected]
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