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May 2017 Nissan 5777 - Iyar 5777 Vol. 71 No. 52

Inside HaRuach

Rabbi’s Desk ........................... 2-4

President’s Article ....................... 5

Sisterhood ............................. 6/7

Religious School ......................... 8

Preschool & Kindergarten ............. 9

Calendar ............................. 10/11

May Celebrations ...................... 15

Yahrzeits ................................. 16

Todah Rabah ....................... 18/19

Highlights .................... Back cover

The SPIRIT of Beth Israel Congregation - Chester County, PA

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From the Rabbi’s Desk

Rabbi Cutler

Shalom

Retirement Speech given on April 30, 2017

John F. Kennedy said: “I can imagine no more rewarding a career. And any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make

his life worthwhile, I think can respond with a good deal of pride and satisfaction, I served in the United States Navy.”

I stand here this afternoon with a sense of awe, thanksgiving, and humility and can say: “That life is worthwhile because with a good deal

of pride and satisfaction, I served in the United States Navy.

Thirty-two years ago, this very day (April 30th) at this very hour, I raised my right hand in front of a Naval officer and swore to defend the

United States Constitution. At that moment, I became a commissioned officer, Ensign, junior officer, in the United States Navy. Today,

April 30th, I retire as a Captain, a senior officer, in the United States Navy. What happened between Ensign and Captain? Obviously, a

lot! We no longer have pay phones (I would call my folks from Saudi Arabia during Desert Storm using a pay phone), or carbon paper

which was used on electric typewriters (used to type my Navy evaluations), or handwritten letters (to correspond with family and friends

when stationed in the Philippines) or handing in a one page written travel claim to a Yeoman, a Navy enlisted person.

With the advances in technology what has not changed is the role of the United States Navy chaplain, caring for sailors, marines, Coast

Guardsmen and their families. When I stepped off the plane as a brand new minted chaplain, LTJG, at Naval Station Subic, Philippines I

immediately was put to work as a marriage counselor, counseling young sailors who married Philippine women. For the next 32 years I

have been blessed and granted a gift that I was able to support and care for hundreds of military personnel and their families. I hopefully

had a positive effect on their lives: counseling people at Naval Sea Systems Command with Izzy, my dog, after the tragic event where an

active shooter killed 12 people, offering support to mortuary affair team members as we walked through the Pentagon after 9/11 looking

for body parts, sitting with a mother whose son, a marine, was accidentally shot and killed when checking his weapon, providing a Passo-

ver Seder to 36 marines in the desert, outside Kuwait City, standing on the deck of an aircraft carrier in the Indian Ocean with a Jewish

pilot discussing the importance of being Jewish, meeting a young Jewish marine in Diego Garcia and then again during Desert Storm and

then again at a field hospital after being wounded in battle and he is here today, Rick Musicant.

My story is not unique but the story of every Navy Chaplain. The positive impact that chaplains have had on hundreds of thousands of

people is impossible to ever measure. It is unfathomable to calculate the results but I know I made an impact as do my fellow chaplains

when a sailor or a marine comes to you after some period and thanks you for helping them. Honestly, you never thought you did much.

Seeing so many people here this afternoon, to help celebrate my 32 years of service, proves my point that a Navy chaplain is never fully

aware of the impact on and the appreciation of so many. I am quite humbled.

It is not just the Navy chaplain it is also the Religious Program Specialist (RP), ‘chaplain assistant’, who, in conjunction with the chaplain,

has made a difference in individual lives. The chaplain and the RP are a team and I could not function effectively and positively without

support from my RPs. They physically protected me while in Desert Strom and Iraq, supported me administratively, and, most im-

portantly, gave me honest feedback when deserved. I am indebted to every RP that I have teamed with such as Senior Brett Baldree who

is here this afternoon.

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I am grateful to all my colleagues, fellow chaplains, throughout the years. I can unilaterally say these are the finest, the most professional,

and have the highest level of integrity of all the individuals that I have worked with. Why? Because we fundamentally hold to the idea that

all human beings are sacred and valued – created in the divine image. It is not about us but about serving others. That is why the United

States Navy Chaplain Corps is an invaluable institution and represents what is fundamentally right about America. For example, look at

the various faith traditions that are represented here – Southern Baptist (Admiral Lee), Presbyterian (CDR Loney and CDR King),

Church of the Latter-Day Saints (LCDR Top), Roman Catholic (CAPT Caiazzo), Muslim (Chap. Shakur Ali), and even Jewish (CDR

Hoffman, CDR Zalma, LT Lurer and Captain, retired, Irv Elson). We all stand together this afternoon honoring each other’s faith tradi-

tion because that is what we do as Americans. The Chaplain Corps along with Religious Program Specialists are at the tip of the spear in

what America is all about.

Thank you, Chaplain Lee, for being here this afternoon representing the Chief of Chaplains Office. Thank you to Chaplain Top for or-

ganizing this entire ceremony and to Chaplain Loney for your support with this event. Thank you to Captain (retired) Irv Elson, endors-

ing agent for the Jewish Welfare Board. He is responsible for me joining the Navy in 1984. Thank you to a good and dear friend Captain

(retired) Gregory Caiazzo. Thank you to all the chaplains and RPs who are here today.

And I am thankful to have worked with some of the finest Naval officers, Navy enlisted and civilian personnel who throughout the years

have become very close friends. I have friendships that go back 32 years – Rich Hamm, we were roommates at Chaplain school, or Bill

Mosenfelder (stationed together in Djibouti) who honored me today by being a side boy -- and span the globe – Scotland (Gordon and

Margaret Craig, daughter Wendy), California, Japan, France, Africa, Virginia, Rhode Island, Texas, and many other states. I apologize for

not personally recognizing everyone who has had a positive impact on my life. In the Navy, you make friends for life that span the globe,

what a blessing and now Thierry and I have places to stay throughout the world.

I am grateful to all my friends who are here today who have been there for me in so many different stages of my career as a rabbi, as a

Navy chaplain and a friend. As I mentioned earlier, you do not know the impact that an individual has on someone’s life until sometime

later. So many of you may not realize the tremendous impact that you have had on making me a better rabbi, Navy chaplain, and a per-

son. But two people I need to single out who has truly been there from the beginning to offer advice, support and friendship uncondi-

tionally, a truly good friend – thank you, Brad Hoffman, and my friend since kindergarten, thank you Lenny.

The Navy as whole gave me great organizational skills, the value of the chain of command, communication skills, etc. But so many of you

taught me the value of humility and to serve.

I want to thank my new set of friends here at Beth Israel. I cannot thank you enough that so many of you have made me and Thierry feel

part of this community, thank you to Michelle and the Sisterhood, Neal and the Men’s Club, Robin and the Choir, Cindy, Drew, and

Mark. And many of you will need to forgive me if I do not mention you personally but, individually, I will want to thank you in person.

It is not without sadness that my parents, Marilyn and Murray, could not be here. In August of 2001 my father and mother were at my

promotion ceremony to Commander, that December my father died and three years later my mother. They never saw me promoted to

Captain. When I graduated from Chaplain school in the summer of 1985, my parents were there and they told me that they would be

there when I would be promoted to Captain and, with sadness, they were not. But I am blessed to have had my brother Steven here from

the chaplain school graduation, through every promotion and to be here this afternoon. He has been a source of strength for me. And as

my closest family member, he was there to take care of all my legal stuff when I was deployed to Desert Storm and to Iraq.

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Because my next of kin, Thierry, my husband, was invisible. It was only within the last 5 years that we could be acknowledged by the Na-

vy and only two years ago, Thierry, as my husband. Otherwise, he remained invisible and I feared of being found out. When I was pro-

moted to Captain it was my brother who put on my Captain shoulder boards and Thierry, like a good trooper he is, was in the back-

ground.

Thirty-two years ago, the doctor doing my initial Navy physical exam asked me a series of questions and one was: “Is the service member

a homosexual?” The doctor responded ‘no’ before I could say anything. From that moment on I lived in fear of being found out.

Throughout my Navy career I always lived under this dark cloud not only being ‘found out’ but how the Navy would have ‘kicked me’

out and all the shame that went with it. During my Naval career, I had to remain vigilant – on what pronouns I used, making sure that I

always used Thierry’s proper name, who I could trust to tell, how I acted, what I said in public while all the time doing my best to make

sure no one would ever suspect me as being gay. I wish I could have joined the Navy today, I would have remained on active duty.

And in the meantime, I went into the Reserves to still serve and remain closeted but I was very out and proud in the civilian world. I lived

this split life doing everything to hide and doing anything I could to be an activist in the gay community.

This had real life consequences. Thierry had to live in fear if anything ‘bad’ happened to me while in Iraq he would have never known

except through my brother and worse Thierry would have never received any support from the Navy. As the Navy was promoting the

need to support military families, Thierry never received that support, not even a phone call to check in on him. He stood the ‘watch’

alone.

However, thirty-two years later I could not have imagined that Thierry would be at my side and being recognized for his support for be-

ing a Navy spouse and walk down the aisle with me at the conclusion of this ceremony. This is nothing short of a miracle to know that I

began my Navy career under the guise of falsehood and I am ending my career in truth. Honestly, I wanted to have this retirement cere-

mony not just for me but more importantly to give Thierry the recognition that he deserves after 16 years as a loving and loyal husband.

And I also wanted to show the Navy and the world that we are a loving and ‘legitimate’ family. Most importantly, thank God, I had a

found this special man to support me 100% and he did it with the utmost grace and care.

I have been blessed ten-fold with Thierry and with an already made family that Thierry brought into our relationship, with Cedric and

Tammy and later Keith, her husband, and three grandchildren. I am so proud to call them my children. In 2010, TJ became part of our

life and we could not be any prouder fathers of him and so fortunate that he is our son, even though he joined the Army. Thierry and I

are truly blessed in countless ways.

As I officially retire within the next few moments, there is a tradition in Judaism that thanks God for bringing us to this moment.

The Shehecheyanu blessing (Hebrew: שהחינו‎‎"‎,Who has given us life") is a common Jewish prayer said to celebrate special occasions. It

is said: That we are to be thankful as we move into a new experience.

Please rise and, those who know it, join me and the choir in singing this blessing.

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President’s Article

Mark B. Segal

Learn, Live, Teach Judaism…L’Dor va Dor Sunday, April 30, 2017, we commemorate Rabbi Jon’s retirement from the U.S. Navy Chaplain Corps, after 32 years of dedicated service. Rabbi Cutler has served our country during numerous tours overseas, ministering to our Sailors and Marines in combat zones and at home. He has served as a chaplain in Iraq, Afghanistan, the horn of Africa, the Indian Ocean, and Washington, D.C. When we send our children into harm’s way to protect and defend our national interests, it is the task of the military chaplains to care for and support them. Rabbi, thank you for caring for our children. Here at Beth Israel, Rabbi Jon has emphasized that we are a caring community. We support each other when there is an illness, a death in the family, or some other difficult circumstance, as well as sharing joyful simchas, births, B’nai Mitzvot, and weddings. Beyond caring for our immediate families and congregation members, we are obligated to care for the sick, the hungry, and the stranger. This is the teaching of the Torah: love your neighbor as yourself; do not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block in the path of a blind person. Leviticus 19:9-18. When the Israelites left slavery in Egypt and stood as the Jewish people at Mt. Sinai, God gave us the commandments. The Jewish people responded: “Naaseh v’Nishma……We will do and we will hear.” Each year, at Shavuot, we all stand again at the foot of Mt. Sini, renew our covenant with God, and recommit to follow these commandments, to pursue justice, to make this world better. This year, at our Erev Shavuot service on Tuesday, May 30, 2017, at 7:30, p.m., let us come togeth-er as a congregation to renew our commitment, and to celebrate the conversion of the Myers family. They will cast their lot with us, the Jewish people. Let us share this simcha and celebrate our heritage and our future. Naaseh v’Nishma……We will do and we will hear. L’Shalom, Mark

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Beth Israel Sisterhood

SISTERHOOD SNIPPETS

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Sisterhood Calendar:

Tuesday, 2 May, 7:30 pm Monthly Board Meeting - All Welcome!

Tuesday, 23 May 7:30 pm Book Club at Deborah Kaplan's Home. Come join us to discuss "The Marriage of Opposites",

by Alice Hoffman

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Religious School Chai-lights Joan Sharp

The end of May brings our next important holiday of Shavu-ot, an agricultural Pilgrimage holiday which takes place seven weeks after Pesach, and celebrates the giving of the Torah to the Jewish people. It is customary to eat dairy foods such as cheesecake or blintzes on Shavuot. There are various inter-pretations as to why we eat dairy. The simplest explanation comes from Song of Songs (4:11): "Like honey and milk [the Torah] lies under your tongue." This line compares the Torah to the sweetness of milk and honey. In some European cities children are introduced to Torah study on Shavuot and are given honey cakes with passages from the Torah written on them. Essentially, milk serves as sustenance, the source of life, and honey represents sweetness. There is another theory that because the Jews only received the Torah at Mount Sinai, they didn't have the laws of how to slaughter and prepare meat prior to this. Once they received the Torah and all the commandments about ritual slaughter and the separation law of "do not cook a kid in its mother's milk" (Exodus 34:26), they didn't have time to prepare all the animals and their dishes, so they ate dairy instead. My Bubbe made the best homemade blintzes ever! Here’s a great recipe that we have used with the Religious School stu-dents when we’ve made our own blintzes to celebrate Shavu-ot. Perhaps you can try to make some this Shavuot with your children!

Homemade Blintzes This dish may be made well ahead of time, either in total or in part. The crepes may be cooked, cooled completely, then stacked, wrapped well, and either refrigerated or frozen. Stuff them one day ahead, then hold in the refrigerator overnight; or stuff and freeze for up to a month. Here are two types of filling: a creamy ricotta filling, slightly runny when baked, and a firmer, less sweet, more traditional filling. Yield: 14 blintzes Crepes 1 cup (8 ounces) water 3/4 cup (6 ounces) milk 3 large eggs 5 tablespoons (2 1/2 ounces) butter, melted 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 1/2 cups (6 1/4 ounces) unbleached all-purpose flour In a medium-sized mixing bowl, whisk everything together to make a smooth batter. Place the batter in the refrigerator for 1 hour or long-er, to relax the gluten. Heat an 8-inch (or slightly larger) crepe or omelet pan until a drop of water skips across the pan. Lightly grease the pan, and pour a scant 1/4-cupful of batter into the middle. Tilt the pan and swirl the batter to completely coat the

bottom with batter. Cook until the crepe is opaque and set. Transfer the crepes, "uncooked" side down, to a sheet pan or rack to cool. Note: you only cook the crepes on one side; this is sufficient to cook them all the way through. When you stack them, stack them "uncooked" side down, so that this side will be on the outside when you roll them. Creamy Ricotta Filling 1 (3-ounce) package cream cheese 1 large egg, lightly beaten 2 teaspoons lemon zest OR 1/4 teaspoon lemon oil 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 1/4 teaspoon salt 3 tablespoons (1 3/8 ounces) sugar 15-ounce container (approximately 2 cups) ricotta cheese In a medium-sized mixing bowl, beat the cream cheese until soft. Add the beaten egg a bit at a time, beating until smooth after each addition, and scraping the sides of the bowl often. Add the lemon zest or oil, vanilla extract, salt, and sugar, and mix until well-combined. Fold in the ricotta cheese. Traditional Filling 1 3/4 cups (16-ounce container) cottage cheese 2 cups (15-ounce container) ricotta cheese 1 large egg 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 teaspoon lemon zest OR 1/8 teaspoon lemon oil 2 tablespoons (7/8 ounce) sugar Place the cottage cheese and ricotta cheese in a colander lined with cheesecloth, or in a yogurt cheese maker. Let it drain for 1 1/2 to 2 hours, pressing down lightly occasionally. Note: If you can find farmers' cheese, substitute it for the cot-tage cheese and skip the draining step. With some brands of cheese, you'll only remove 1 or 2 tablespoons of liquid, while others may give up 1/4 cup or more. For a smoother, creamier filling, blend all the ingredients in a food processor. For a more traditional, grainier filling, simply mash the cottage cheese with a fork, and stir in the remaining ingredients. Assembly Use approximately 3 rounded tablespoons filling for each 8-inch crepe. Place the filling about 2 inches from the top of the crepe, fold the sides in, fold the top down, then loosely roll the crepe into a log. This is the same as the procedure used to make eggrolls; the point is to contain the filling. Heat a medium-sized frying pan, and melt in it about 2 table-spoons of butter till it's sizzling. Sauté the blintzes until they're lightly browned and heated through. Alternatively, nestle the blintzes in a buttered 13 x 9-inch pan, and bake them in a preheated 350°F oven for 25 to 30 minutes, or until they're thoroughly heated. Serve hot with fruit compote or pie filling on top, if desired.

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Preschool & Kindergarten News

Adrianne Liebman

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Tel. (610) 436-9300 144 West Market Street Fax (610) 696-7962 West Chester, PA 19382-2985 Email: mcohen@lcslaw.com

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May Celebrations

Birthday Wishes

Best Wishes to All of Our May Celebrants!

Anniversary Wishes

2 Martin & Eva Skolnik 69th 6 Craig & Michelle Steiner 28th 14 David Gold & James Yiaski 1st 18 Aaron & Jennifer Blom 4th 22 Josh Schifter & Cassandra Lam 13th 23 Lee & Sharon Weintraub 53rd 24 Jerome & Heidi Walker 25th 25 Stuart Miller & Cindy Blair-Miller 37th 26 Larry & Carol Goldstein 26th 28 Randy & Jeffrey Steen 11th

2 Scott Keller 4 Adam Abrams 18th 4 Rachel Cohen 4 Leike Michelow 5 Barbara Kramer 5 Stephen Morse 8 Ian Keller 8th 9 Mark McPhillimey 9 Heidi Strauss

10 Sheri Faranoff 10 Barbara Hendel 11 Jacob Schmerling 6th 14 Jenna Abrams 14 Aviva Dubrow 14 Seymour Levin 14 Donald Suss 21 Deborah Kaplan 22 Michelle Ressel 23 Ellen Tauber 24 Jennifer Blom 25 Matthew Stone

30 Stephen Shapanka 30 Jon Cutler

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Yahrzeits

The following will be remembered on May 5th & May 6th: 6 Iyar 10 Milton Salow 7 11 Sara Gold 7 11 Edward Mittelman 7 11 Lewis Sacks 9 13 John Barnett 9 13 Sophie Goldring 9 13 Harriet Riebman 10 14 Dorothy Hankin 10 14 Louis Schwartz 11 15 Elinore Kaufmann 12 16 Rachel Blechman 12 16 Thelma Nemeroff

The following will be remembered on 12th & 13th: 13 17 Joel Frankel 13 17 Eva Levithan 14 18 Rivkah Cohen 15 19 Herbert Bomzer 15 19 Brent Kaplan 16 20 Hyman Epstein 16 20 Renee Frankel 16 20 Joseph Kassoff 16 20 Mary Rabinowitz 16 20 Thomas Simmons 17 21 Natalie Dickstein 17 21 Jeannie Gaines 18 22 Benjamin Sarvetnick 19 23 Mindi Gittis 19 23 Isaac Juftes 19 23 Sol Moskovitz

The following will be remembered on May 19th & May 20th: 20 24 Max Bran 20 24 Sidney Kalstein 21 25 Bertha Bomzer 21 25 Maybelle Brown 21 25 Robert Conston 21 25 Ezriel Horwitz 21 25 Hyman Kaplan 21 25 Ida Rachlin 21 25 Helen Stefanick 22 26 Bessie Becker 22 26 David Goldberg 22 26 Roz Goodman 22 26 Edith Reisenbach

23 27 Richard Christopher 23 27 Leah Jaffe 23 27 Ida Narod 24 28 Harvey Berse 24 28 Herman Cohen 24 28 William Cohen 24 28 Israel Schonherz 25 29 Abraham Sanders 26 Sivan 1 Leib Levin 26 1 Dorothy Margolis 26 1 Rose Siegel 26 1 Morris Silverstein 26 1 Rosalyn Weiss

The following will be remembered on May 26th & May 27th: 27 2 Jacob Cohen 27 2 Herman Merriam 28 3 Carl Epstein 28 3 Ralph Fanaroff 28 3 Roslyn Gottlieb 28 3 Lawrence Greer 28 3 Barry Semus 29 4 Arnold Cohen 29 4 Matilda Epstein 29 4 Max Gerstenfeld 29 4 Robert Rapkin 29 4 Edith Wexler 30 5 Abraham Barasch 30 5 Harry Cohen 30 Ronald Foye 31 6 Herbert DeKosky 31 6 Max Goldstein 31 6 Solomon Zimetbaum 1 June 7 Dritz Family 1 7 Yetta Hillman 1 7 Marilyn Troy 2 8 Ida Gross 2 8 Louis Linisberg 2 8 Samuel Shapiro 2 8 Leonard Strunk

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Dear Fellow Congregants: The Beth Israel Choir is appealing for donations so that we may sing at High Holiday, Friday night and other ser-vices throughout the year. The choir takes great joy in participating in services and while the members of the choir are strictly volunteers we still incur expenses such as our piano player, the purchase of sheet music and other material during the year. Although the Synagogue budget includes funds for the choir the amount won’t cover our expenses for the entire year. As such, we are appealing to your generosity so that we may bring music for your soul and for your enjoy-ment throughout the year. You can contribute to the Choir “In Memory Of”; “In Honor Of”; “In Appreciation For”; etc. All contributions will be so greatly appreciated and can be mailed to the Synagogue office payable to Beth Israel with a notation that it is for the choir fund. Thank You and Shalom! Your Beth Israel Choir

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Todah Rabah Tzedakah is a mitzvah, a unique privilege granted to every Jew. Remembering friends and family in this manner is an appropriate way to show our feelings towards both our loved ones and our community. We

want to thank the following for their contributions.

Building Fund To Rabbi Jon, In honor of your 32 years of service to our country in the Navy Deborah Kaplan and Erik Anderson To Alex Silow, With gratitude Ann Greenstein To Harold Gilman, In memory of your wife, Claire Sondra Abrams and David Kleiner To Dr. and Mrs. Philip Gilman, In memory of your mother, Claire Sondra Abrams and David Kleiner To the Bailey Family, In memory of Irma Bailey Susan and Gary Levin Sandy and Barry Milberg Eva and Martin Skolnik To Rabbi Jon, In honor of your retirement Susan and Gary Levin Nancy and Steve Goldberg To Rabbi Michael Charney, In memory of your mother Nancy and Steve Goldberg Sandy and Barry Milberg Eva and Martin Skolnik Roz Goldstein To Halle Schonherz, Wishing you a speedy recov-ery Susan and Gary Levin Nancy and Steve Goldberg Choir Fund To the Choir, In honor of the most delightful “Purim Skit”, performed by the talented members of the Beth Israel Choir, under the direction of Robin Sigrid Rosenthal To Craig Steiner, Happy birthday wishes! To Drew Cherry, Happy birthday wishes! To Noah Greenspan, Happy birthday wishes! To Allan Cohen, Happy birthday wishes! To Kathleen Greer, Happy birthday wishes! Sigrid Rosenthal To Robin Napiecek, Happy birthday wishes!

To Larry Faden, Happy birthday wishes! To Nancy Goldberg, Happy birthday wishes! To Thierry Steenberghs, Happy birthday wishes! To Jerry Napiecek, Happy birthday wishes! To Stuart Bran, Happy birthday wishes! To Evan Rosen, Happy birthday wishes! To Laura Richman, Happy birthday wishes! To Irv Hendel, Happy birthday wishes! To Jody Reinbold, Happy birthday wishes! To John Scott, Happy birthday wishes! Sigrid Rosenthal To Barb and Irv Hendel, Wishing you a happy an-niversary! Sigrid Rosenthal To Leike Michelow and Alberto Perez, Wishing you a happy anniversary! Sigrid Rosenthal To the Sunshine Club, Thank you for remembering my husband, Lennie Rosenthal Sigrid Rosenthal To Laura Richman, Deepest sympathy for the loss of your sister Sigrid Rosenthal In loving memory of, Ida Jacoby Joel Jacoby Mary Nussman Hyman Berger Bernice Berger To Robin and Jerry Napiecek, Happy birthday wishes Roz and Allan Cohen Don and Anne Suss Ilene and Richard Lipow Andrew and Esther Weintraub Michele and Craig Steiner Thank you to everyone for the Purim package Eva and Martin Skolnik To Thalia Rosen, In memory of your husband, Stan Eva and Martin Skolnik To Robin and Jerry Napiecek, In honor of your su-per big birthdays! Deborah Kaplan and Erik Anderson

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Todah Rabah Tzedakah is a mitzvah, a unique privilege granted to every Jew. Remembering friends and family in this manner is an appropriate way to show our feelings towards both our loved ones and our community. We

want to thank the following for their contributions.

Choir Fund To Rabbi Michael Charney, In memory of your mother, Lillian Barbara and Irv Hendel Shelly Kramer and Family Roselyn and Herb Cadoff Robin and Jerry Napiecek To the Bailey Family, In memory of Irma Bailey Robin and Jerry Napiecek To Irv Hendel, In honor of your birthday Robin and Jerry Napiecek To James Vilbert, In memory of your grandfather Robin and Jerry Napiecek Cohen Fund To support the mezuzah project Barry and Sandy Milberg To Rabbi Michael Charney, In memory of your mother, Lillian Charney Paul and Sharon Zislis Yahrzeits In memory of my mother, Fannie Riebman Doris Goldring In memory of Esther Wattenmaker Fred and Barbara Wattenmaker In memory of my mother, Ann Miller Susan and Gary Levin Lecture Series To Robin and Jerry Napiecek, Mazel Tov on your special birthdays! Linda and Harold Glazer To the Bailey Family, In memory of Irma Bailey Cissie Halpern Deficit Appeal Roz Goldstein

Mortgage Reduction Roz Goldstein Sisterhood Rabbi’s Discretionary Fund To Rabbi Jon, In honor of you Deborah Kaplan and Erik Anderson To Roz Goldstein, In memory of your mother Barry and Sandy Milberg To Rabbi Cutler, In honor of your retirement from the Navy Roz Goldstein BICC5 To Rabbi Jon, In honor of your retirement from the Navy Don and Anne Suss Preschool Fund To Adrianne Liebman, In honor of all your hard work for the preschool Deborah Kaplan and Erik Anderson Hadassha To Rabbi Charney, In memory of Lillian Charney Beth Israel Congregation

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Rabbi ................................................. Jon Cutler

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

President ....................................... Mark B. Segal

Executive Vice President ............... Halle Schonherz

Vice President, Finance .............. Nadine Dinerman

Vice President, Program .....................................

Treasurer ........................................ Stuart Miller

Secretary ...................................... Roz Goldstein

Immediate Past Presidents ...... Robert Greer and

Andrew Weintraub

Cindy Blair-Miller, Evelyne Blair-Miller, Larry Faden,

Linda Glazer, Michelle Harbold, Barb Hendel,

Deborah Kaplan, Morris Kauffman, Robin Kerollis-

Napiecek, Gary Levin, Jody Reinbold, David Scott,

Mandy Scott, Heather Simon, Martin Skolnik, Neal

Stone and Paul Zislis

TRUSTEES

Ed Margolis, Jeff Pickholtz, Don Suss

Pre-School Director ................... Adrianne Liebman

Religious School Director ..................... Joan Sharp Office Manager/HaRuach Editor ....... Debbie Barbato

Music Director .................. Robin Kerollis-Napiecek

__________________________________ BETH ISRAEL CONGREGATION

of CHESTER COUNTY

385 Pottstown Pike (Rte. 100)

Eagle, PA

P.O. Box 678

Uwchland, PA 19480

(610) 458-8550

biccsyn1@gmail.com

May Highlights

Sisterhood Meeting ............................ 2

Ritual Committee Meeting .................. 4

Yom Ha’Atzmut ................................. 5

Life Long Learning ............................. 6

Men’s Club Meeting ............................ 7

ADL Discussion ................................. 7

Synagogue Board Meeting .................. 9

BIC5 .............................................. 11

Lag B’Omer Picnic ............................ 13

RS Committee Meeting ..................... 18

Shabbat Yeladim .............................. 19

Sisterhood Book Club ....................... 23

Membership Committee Meeting ........ 25

Shavout Service .............................. 30

Shavout Service .............................. 31

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