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November 9 and 10, 2018 / 2 Kislev 5779

Parashat Toldot

�די עש�והקל קול �די�ם י י�עקב ו�הי

“The voice is the voice of Jacob, yet the hands are the hands of Esau.” (Genesis 27:22)

SHABBAT PROGRAM SHABBAT PROGRAM

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Welcome to CBST! ברוכים וברוכות הבאים לקהילת בית שמחת תורה! קהילת בית שמחת תורה מקיימת קשר רב שנים ועמוק עם

הפתוח בירושלים לגאווה ולסובלנות ועם הקהילה הגאה בישראל.ישראל, עם הבית ן לגלות יהדות ליבראלית גם בישראל!\אנחנו מזמינים אתכם

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NOVEMBER 9, 2018 / 2 KISLEV 5779 – PARASHAT TOLDOT GERMAN & AUSTRIAN SYNAGOGUE MUSIC SHABBAT 80TH ANNIVERSARY OF KRISTALLNACHT POGROMS

OPENING PRAYERS AND MEDITATIONS הכנת הלב

Mah Tovu Louis Lewandowski (1821-1894) מה טבו 28

ש�ל ש�בת הדלקת נרות 38 Candle Blessing Abraham Wolf Binder (1895-1967)*

*Shalom Aleichem Israel Goldfarb (1879-1956) ש�לום עליכם 40

KABBALAT SHABBAT/WELCOMING SHABBAT קבלת ש�בת

L’chu N’ran’na (Psalm 95) Samuel Lampel (1884-1942) )תהלים צה( לכו נ�ננה 52

O kommt, lasst uns singen (Psalm 95) George Friderich Handel (1685-1759) )תהלים צה( לכו נ�ננה 52

)תהלים כט(מזמור לדו�ד 62 Mizmor L’David (Psalm 29) Spanish-Portuguese*

L'cha Dodi (Shlomo Alkabetz) Louis Lewandowski (1821-1894) לכה דודי 66

/ Tov L’hodot )תהלים צב( טוב להדות 72Tzadik Katamar

Louis Lewandowski (1821-1894) Emanuel Kirschner (1857-1938) Arr. by Larry Hochman (Born 1953)

MA’ARIV/THE EVENING SERVICE מע�יב

Bar’chu Heinrich Schalit (1886-1976) ב�כו 78Louis Lewandowski (1821-1894)

Hama’ariv Aravim Nusach - Western Ashkenazi המע�יב ע�בים 80

*Ahavat Olam Eric Mandell (1903-1988) אהבת עולם 86

Sh’ma Yisrael Salomon Sulzer (1804-1890) ש�מע י�ש��אל 88

V’ahavta Torah Cantillation (Trop) ו�אהבת 89

Mi Chamocha Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) מי כמכה 94(Adapted by Ira Rosenblum)

Hashkiveinu Eduard Birnbaum (1855-1920) הש�כיבנו 98 V’shamru Heinrich Schalit (1886-1976) ו�ש�מרו 102

Chatsi Kaddish Nusach (Eastern and Western European) חצי קדיש 104

Silent Amidah עמידה 106

Program ב�כת הכוהנים Segen (Priestly Blessing) Samuel Lampel (1884-1942)

Prayer for Healing תפלה ל�פואה 130

Program למדינהתפלה Prayer for Our Country

Kaddish Shalem Nusach קדיש ש�לם 138

SERMON IN SONG: MUSIC DIRECTOR JOYCE ROSENZWEIG AND CANTOR STEVE ZEIDENBERG

*Aleinu Salomon Sulzer (1804-1890) עלינו 140

Mourner’s Kaddish קדיש י�תום 150

הינו-אין כא 155 Ein Keiloheinu Julius Freudenthal (1805-1874)

שדויק 156 Kiddush *Arranged by Joyce Rosenzweig

Kurt Weill (1900-1950)

Pictured: The Vienna Great Synagogue

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TONIGHT’S SERVICE LEADERS Service Leader: Rabbi Yael Rapport Ba’alei Tefillah: Cantor Steve Zeidenberg and the CBST Community Chorus, conducted by Music Director Joyce Rosenzweig Sermon in Song: Cantor Steve Zeidenberg and Music Director Joyce Rosenzweig Guest Pianist: Beth Robin The CBST Community Chorus Julie Levinsohn Aarlev Marni Aarlev Jonathon Adler Ilene Block* Mitch Bloom Martin Bruner Joseph Cunin Dan Ettinger Ora Ezrachi Roberta Feldhusen

Roy Feldhusen Geoffrey Goldberg Donna Gray Stacey Harris Dianne Hess Nora Isacoff Irwin Kroot Karen Krop Irwin Kroot Aari Ludvigsen

Paul Marsolini Marc Molomot Julia Ostrov Ellen Ratner Tracy Sivitz Joyce Weinstein Nancy Wiener Janet Zaleon *Chorus Coordinator

Guest Speaker Our Guest Speaker, Rick Landman, will tell us what is was like growing up as a child of 2 Jewish refugees. His father, Henry Landman, was 18 years old when he and around 20,000 other Jewish men were rounded up and sent to concentration camps after Kristallnacht. Henry was released and eventually made his way to NY, and years later, as a US soldier, he was there when the army liberated Dachau where he was interned in 1938. Henry also was the speaker at CBST's first Kristallnacht Program in 1990. He was asked to give the speech in Dachau for the 70th Anniversary of the liberation, but he died a few months before the date of the speech. One of the last events that he attended before he died was CBST’s German-Austrian Synagogue Music Shabbat service in the Church of Holy Apostles in 2014.

Segen / Priestly Blessing Text: Numbers 6:23-27

May God bless you and protect you. May God’s face shine upon you and be gracious to you.

May God’s face be turned toward you and give you peace.

Es segne dich der Herr und behüte dich. Er lasse sein Antlitz dir leuchten und sei dir gnädig.

Es wende der Ewge sein Antlitz und gebe dir Frieden. Amen.

German/Austrian Jewish Music Shabbat Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass) was a horrific pogrom against Jews that took place throughout Germany and Austria on November 9-10, 1938. The name refers to the shards of broken glass that blanketed the streets after Jewish-owned stores, buildings and synagogues had their windows smashed, and were set on fire. These dark and frightening days marked the transformation of Nazi Germany from words of hatred to acts of murder and destruction. We at CBST mark these days of unfathomable destruction by celebrating the glorious musical heritage of the German synagogue. We will pray our Shabbat service incorporating musical settings written by Germany and Austria's greatest synagogue composers including Lewandowski, Sulzer, Schalit and

Weill. The CBST Community Chorus, under the direction of Joyce Rosenzweig, Cantor Steve Zeidenberg and guest pianist Beth Robin will bring to life many examples of this rich tradition, which continues to this day to be some of the most gorgeous and profound synagogue music ever written.

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Composer Biographies

Eduard Birnbaum (1855-1920) was born in Cracow, Poland to a family of notable rabbis and scholars. Birnbaum received his primary education at a Yeshiva in Bydgoszcz, Poland. His teachers identified his musical talent early on and sent him to Viena to study hazzanut with Salomon Sulzer. In 1869, Birnbaum was awarded a sholarship to study hazzanut at the Breslau Theological Seminary, founded by Moritz Deutsch. While studying there, he was contracted to work as a hazzan in the Seminary's Synagogue. In 1872, he received an offer to officiate as the cantor for the Magdeburg community, where he served for two years. In 1874, he moved on to a position as the chief cantor in Beuthen, taking a short two month break between posts to return to Vienna and study with Sulzer. Finally in 1879, Birnbaum replaced Zvi Hirsch Weintraub as the chief cantor of Koenigsberg, a position he held until his death in 1920. According to Birnbaum’s own account, he was offered a position to succeed Sulzer in Vienna, but decided to remain in Koenigsberg where he was offered a life contract and comfortable salary. Julius Freudenthal (1805-1874) was born in Braunschweig, Germany, and was a violinist and composer. He performed in chamber music concerts and was the concertmaster of several orchestras. He composed works for violin, piano, and voice. Together with Chazzan Hirsch Goldberg (1807-1893), he published a collection of synagogue songs for solo and small choir in two parts entitled Gesange fur Synagogen in 1843. His setting of Ein Kelohenu, written for this publication, became one of the most well-known synagogue melodies in the world.

George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) was a German-born British Baroque composer, famous for his operas, oratorios, anthems and organ concertos. Handel was born into a family indifferent to music. He received critical musical training in Halle, Hamburg and Italy before settling in London (1712) and becoming a naturalized British subject in 1727. By then he was strongly influenced by the great composers of the Italian Baroque and the middle-German polyphonic choral tradition. Handel is regarded as one of the greatest composers of all time, with works such as Water Music, Music for the Royal Fireworks, Judas Maccabeus, and Messiah remaining universally popular. Handel composed more than forty operas in over thirty years, and with the

revival of baroque music and original instrumentation, interest in Handel's operas has grown. The L’chu N’ran’ah (Psalm 95) that we will sing tonight is an excerpt from an Anthem (cantata) entitled “O kommt, laßt uns singen” that sets verses from Psalms 95, 96, 97, 99, and 103 and is scored for two violins, oboe, recorders and continuo. Samuel Lampel (1884-1942) was born in Berlin, and moved to Leipzig in 1914 to serve as cantor at the Gottschedstrasse Synagogue. A scholar of Jewish music, Lampel hosted a popular radio show focused on Jewish musical and liturgical history, and organized lectures for non-Jewish musicians and composers at the synagogue. His major work, Kol Shmuel, a collection of fifty-seven liturgical works, was published in 1928. Following the destruction of his synagogue during Kristallnacht in 1938, Lampel served as the last communal leader of the Leipzig Jewish community until 1942, when he and his wife Rosa were deported to Auschwitz. Tonight, we perform two of his liturgical settings: L’chu N’ran’na (Psalm 95) for Cantor and congregation, as well as his choral setting of Priestly Blessing (Segen).

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Louis Lewandowski (1821-1894) A composer, music director, and teacher, Lewandowski was born in Wreschen (Wrzeźnia) in the province of Poznań. He and his four brothers accompanied their father as “singers” during the services. After his mother’s death and because of extreme poverty, he left for Berlin at the age of twelve and became a singerel (singer) for Cantor Ascher Lion (1776-1863). With the aid of Alexander Mendelssohn, a cousin of Felix Mendelssohn, Lewandowski received a thorough musical training. He was the first Jew to be admitted to the Berlin Academy of Arts. In 1844 the Berlin Jewish Community invited him to organize a choir and serve as its director. Lewandowski is the first in the history of the synagogue to hold the office of choirmaster. In 1864 he was invited to become choir director of the New Synagogue in Berlin where he was given the opportunity to create a complete service with organ accompaniment. The culmination of his career came with the publishing of his Kol Rinnah (1871) for solo and two-part voice for Sabbath, festivals and High Holy Days, and his two volume Todah Wesimrah (1876-1882) for four-part choir, congregational singing, and solo pieces with organ accompaniment for the entire yearly cycle. His music was adopted throughout the world and is still widely used today. Eric Mandell (1903-1988). A refugee from Nazi Germany who founded the music department at Gratz College, he established a major collection of Jewish music and served as a composer, music director and teacher, died in 1988. Born in 1903 Gronau, Westphalia, he studied at a cantorial institute in Muenster, Westphalia, and at a music school in Dusseldorf. Mr. Mandell was working as cantor and music director of the Synagogue Bochum, in Westphalia, when he was arrested by the Nazis and placed in a concentration camp in Germany. He was among 3,000 German and Austrian Jews released from internment in 1939 on the condition that they leave the country. He emigrated to the Kitchener displaced-persons camp, in England, where he served as a cantor and cantorial instructor. He arrived in New York City in June 1941. From 1941 to 1966, Mr. Mandell was music director at Har Zion in Philadelphia. In 1942, he established the music department at Gratz College, where he taught until 1956. The college awarded him an honorary doctor of letters degree. Mr. Mandell also lectured on Jewish music at Temple University and at the seminary. Mr. Mandell accumulated one of the world's largest collections of Jewish music and related literature and donated it to Gratz, which now houses the Eric Mandell Music Collection. From 1949 to 1951, Mr. Mandell's collection was on display at the Jewish Museum in New York. Actually, that was Mr. Mandell's second collection of music. His first was destroyed by the Nazis in the Netherlands, where the music had been sent for safekeeping. In 1966, Mr. Mandell received the Kavod Award from the national Cantors Assembly "in recognition of a lifetime devoted to the music of the synagogue as composer, conductor and musicologist, in which he has generously enriched the musical treasure of our people."

Heinrich Schalit (1886–1976) is one of the principal names associated with mid-20th-century American Reform synagogue music. Schalit was born in Vienna, where he studied composition with Robert Fuchs and with Joseph Labor, who was also one of Arnold Schoenberg's teachers. In 1927 Schalit was appointed to the position of organist at the principal Liberal synagogue in Munich, whose learned cantor and productive resident composer, Emanuel Kirschner (1857–1938), a former singer in the choir of Louis Lewandowski in Berlin, appears to have exerted a lasting influence on him. Liturgical composition became for him a sacred calling, with a sense of mission that he posed as a challenge to contemporary Jewish musicians to "prepare a change in

style and outlook," as he wrote in the preface to his first service. His goal was to "create a new, unified liturgical music growing out of the soil of the old-new, significant and valuable source material" that had become available through recent musicological studies. In 1933, following the National Socialist victory in Germany, Schalit accepted the position of music director at the Great Synagogue in Rome, where, despite the Mussolini regime, the racial and anti-Jewish parameters of Italian Fascism had yet to emerge. In 1940, after it had become necessary once again to relocate, he immigrated to the United States. After serving a number of synagogues in the East and on the West Coast, he settled in Denver. After a brief period in Los Angeles, he returned to the Denver area and retired in Evergreen, Colorado.

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Salomon Sulzer (1804-1890) Often called the “father of the modern cantorate”, Sulzer was tutored in synagogue music by Salomon Eichberg (1786-1880), cantor of Hohenems. Sulzer went to Switzerland to further his studies, first with Cantor Lippman, and serviced as an itinerant cantor in Switzerland, Germany, and France. His general music education was acquired in Karlsruhe, Germany, and in Vienna, where he studied with Ignaz von Seyfried (a pupil of Haydn and a friend of Mozart and Beethoven), Josef Fischoff, and J. Weigl. In 1820 at the age of sixteen, he returned to Hohenems and the Viennese Seitenstettengasse Temple, where for forty-five years he rejuvenated synagogue song and exerted a profound influence over European synagogue music. Cantors and synagogues throughout Europe turned to Sulzer for advice in Jewish music education and on the improvement of the musical service. Classical composers such as Schubert and Liszt were frequent visitors to Sulzer’s services, and were said to have been in awe of his gorgeous voice and superb artistry. Blending his cantorial and musical skill almost to perfection, he composed a work of surpassing value, his monumental opus Schir Zion, the first volume published in 1840, the second in 1866. His recitatives for the cantor, his congregational responses, and his choral composition are still sung the world over. His approach to liturgical music has played a conspicuous role in synagogue literature in that he was the first to reconstruct the traditional melodies and response in accordance with the rules of classical harmony. Kurt Weill (1900-1950) Son of a cantor, Kurt Weill was raised in a religious Jewish home in Dessau, Germany. He studied with Engelbert Humperdinck and Federico Busoni at the Hochshule fur Musik in Berlin. By the time his first opera, The Protagonist (Georg Kaiser), was performed in April 1926, he was already an established young German composer. He decided to devote himself to the musical theater, however, and his collaboration with Bertolt Brecht soon made him famous all over Europe. He fled the new Nazi leadership in March 1933 and continued his indefatigable efforts, first living in Paris (1933-35), then in the U.S. until his untimely death. Certain common threads tie together his career: a concern for social justice, an aggressive pursuit of highly-regarded playwrights and lyricists as collaborators, and the ability to adapt to audience tastes no matter where he found himself. His most important works are the Violin Concerto (1925), The Three- Penny Opera, Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, The Pledge, The Seven Deadly Sins, Lady in the Dark, Street Scene, and Lost in the Stars. Although he was not observant, Weill composed a number of "Jewish" works, from the vast score to The Eternal Road to a setting of the Kiddush. He married actress Lotte Lenya in 1926, and it is known that “it was her voice that he heard in his head when he was writing his songs.” The Kiddush that we will be singing tonight was commissioned by Park Avenue Synagogue.

Featured Pianist

Beth Robin received her undergraduate training at Oberlin Conservatory and graduate degree from the Indiana University School of Music. She has collaborated with members of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic. As a choral accompanist, she has performed at Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall (now David Geffen Hall), and Alice Tully Hall. She toured Germany with the Strelow Piano Trio, performed violin/piano recitals in New Delhi India and for many years was the founding member of the Hudson piano trio, performing concerts in the New York, New Jersey area. She was also the pianist for Tryptich, a flute, cello, piano trio.

Her professional recordings include several premieres of Israeli choral music with the Zamir Chorale of New York, an album of 21st century saxophone/piano works, and an album of Puerto Rican Danzas. She is on the faculty of Montclair State University. She sings in the professional chorus of the Riverside Church in New York City.

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PRAYER for OUR COUNTRY

Our God and God of our ancestors, bless this country and all who dwell within it.

Help us to experience the blessings of our lives and circumstances,

To be vigilant, compassionate, and brave. Strengthen us when we are afraid, Help us to channel our anger, So that it motivates us to action. Help us to feel our fear, So that we do not become numb. Help us to be generous with others, So that we raise each other up. Help us to be humble in our fear,

knowing that as vulnerable as we feel, there are those at greater risk, and that it is our holy work to stand with them.

Help us to taste the sweetness of liberty, To not take for granted the freedoms won

in generations past or in recent days. To heal and nourish our democracy,

that it may be like a tree planted by the water whose roots reach down to the stream; it need not fear drought when it comes, its leaves are always green (Jeremiah 17:8).

Source of all Life, Guide our leaders with righteousness, Strengthen their hearts,

but keep them from hardening. That they may use their influence and authority to

speak truth and act for justice (Isaiah 16:3-5). May all who dwell in this country

share in its bounty, enjoy its freedoms, and be protected by its laws.

May this nation use its power and wealth to be a voice for justice, peace, and equality for all who dwell on earth.

May we be strong and have courage To be bold in our action and deep in our compassion, To discern when we must listen and when we must act, To uproot bigotry, intolerance, misogyny, racism,

discrimination, and violence in all its forms, To celebrate the many faces of God reflected

in the wondrous diversity of humanity, To welcome the stranger and the immigrant

and to honor the gifts of those who seek refuge and possibility here, as they have since before this nation was born.

Let justice well up like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream (Amos 5:24)

© Rabbi Ayelet Cohen

אלוהינו ואלוהי אבותנו ואמותינו. ברך את ארצנו ואת כל היושבות והיושבים בה

יחד לבבנו להודות לך על חיינו ועל הזמן הזה להיות דרוכות, אמיצים, ומלאי חמלה.

חזקנו וחזק ידנו כאשר אנו אחוזים בפחד סייע בידינו לנתב את כעסנו לידי מעשה חזק לבבנו לחוש את מלוא הפחד שלנו

כדי שלא נהפוך לאדישות סייע לנו להשפיע נדיבות על אחרים כדי שנרים זה את זו .

סייע לנו להיות צנועות בפחד, כדי שנדע כי גם כשאנו מרגישים פגיעות, יש אחרות, הנמצאות בסיכון גבוה אף יותר, זוהי חובתנו

הקדושה להיות עמן. ברכנו בטעם המתוק של החופש

ת החופש לו זכינו בדורות קודמים ובעת הזוכדי שנשכיל להעריך א מי�ם, -כעץ ש�תול על לרפא ולחזק את הדמוקרטיה שלנו שתהיה

י�בא חם, ו�הי�ה עלהו �ענן; -יובל י�ש�לח ש��ש�יו, ו�א י��אה כי-ו�על (ירמיהו יז, ח)

שכינה, אם כל חי, שלחי אורך ואמתך למנהיגנו חזקי לבבותיהם שלא יתקשו

שישתמשו בכוחן כדי לדבר אמת ולפעול בצדק (ישעיהו טז, ג-ה)מי יתן וכל יושבי הארץ יחלקו בעושרה, ישגשגו בחופש שתציע,

ויהיו מוגנים בחוקיה מי יתן ואומה זו תשתמש בכוחה ובעושרה על מנת לקדם צדק,

חופש ושלום לכל יושבי תבל מי יתן ונהיה חזקות ואמיצים

מי יתן ונהיה נועזים במעשי ידנו ועמוקות בחמלה שבלבנו שנבחין מתי עלינו להקשיב ומתי עלינו לפעול

לעקור שנאה, גזענות, שוביניזם, אפליה, אלימות בכל צורה,

לחגוג את צלם אלוהים בפנים שונות המשתקפות בכל המגוון האנושי

ל מי לקבל את הזר ואת המהגרת, ולכבד את המתנות שמביא כשמבקשת מקלט והזדמנות בארץ זו, כפי שהיה מאז לפני שאומה זו

נולדה ו�י�גל כמי�ם, מש�פט; וצדקה, כנחל איתן

(עמוס ה כד)

Hebrew by Rabbi Noa Sattath

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Condolences To CBST member Olga Izakson on the death of her father, Pavel Izakson, z”l, who died on Friday, November 2, at the age of 59. Yortzeits 2 to 8 Kislev 5779 Members memorialized on the Wine Family Sanctuary Memorial Wall David Alter Sol Goldman

Gerald Meltzer Ken Meyerson

Fred Sax Rose Scheiner

Family & Friends memorialized on plaques on the Kuriel Chapel Memorial Wall Alice Alpert Leah Bernstein Jason Finn Jean Friedman Jack Garmise Lillian Levy

Renee Levy Lloyd Melnick Beverly Pollak Leopold Rieser Jeanette Rogger-Amies Sarah Schack

Edward Schwartz Henry Snyder Seymour Tipograph Herbert Weinberg Sylvia Wilson

The CBST community extends condolences to mourners among us. May God comfort you among all who mourn. We pray for peace.

All are welcome to an Oneg downstairs following the service.

Seating & Accessibility: CBST is committed to accessibility. At Friday night services, several spaces for someone in a wheelchair and an adjacent chair are reserved; seats are released at 6:45pm if not occupied. Phones and photography: Silence your cell phones. Photos are not permitted during services. Bags and coats: Bags and coats are subject to search by security personnel. Bicycles: Due to space and security issues, there is no bicycle storage inside the CBST vestibule or building. Smoking: Is not permitted within 25 feet of our front door. From CBST’s Green Team: We live in a city where rigid plastics are recyclable. Toss plastic straws, bottles, etc. in receptacles labeled “cans/bottles.” CBST now participates in NYC’s composting program. All of our disposable cups, plates, and flatware (except for plastic Kiddush cups) are compostable and can go in the brown compost bins downstairs. The earth & the Green Team thank you. Tonight, our thanks to: Better Events Sound Technician · CBST Facilities Staff Jorge Loyola, Victor Reyes, and Teresa Gutierrez · CBST Members & Friends who greet everyone at services · Shabbat sponsors and donors.

Refuah Shlemah – Healing Prayers Alton Bader Ester bat Bryna Sima v’Avraham Hannah bat Rivka

Eitan Maccabi ben Elana v’Joe Shayna Caul Marge Kaufman

Brent Nicholson-Earle Rose Wahnon

If you or a CBST member you know is ill and would like support, contact cbstoffice@cbst.org. This printed list is for those with acute illness. You may say a name aloud during the healing prayer at services. CBST’s Chesed Committee provides assistance for members who are hospitalized or recovering from illness or loss. Email chesed@cbst.org. We’re your community; we’re here for you.

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Ahead… Saturday, November 10, 2018 / 2 Kislev 5779 Liberal Minyan, 10am Bar Mitzvah of Brent Roberts Service Leader: Rabbi Yael Rapport Ba’al Tefillah: Cantor Steve Zeidenberg D’var Torah: Brent Roberts Friday, November 16, 2018 / 9 Kislev 5779 Parashat Vayeitzei, 6:30pm Transgender Day of Remembrance Shabbat Service Leader: Rabbi Yael Rapport Ba’alei Tefillah: Cantor Steve Zeidenberg and Ilene Block Music Director and Pianist: Joyce Rosenzweig Drashah: Rabbi Yael Rapport

Saturday, November 17, 2018 / 9 Kislev 5779 Traditional Egalitarian Minyan, 10am Ba’al Tefillah: Cantor Steve Zeidenberg D’var Torah: Harry Lutrin

Upcoming

See all these events and more at www.cbst.org/events/month

Celebration of the Life of Janet Weinberg, z”l Sunday, November 11, 2pm, Manny Cantor Center – 197 East Broadway A celebration of the life of CBST member Janet Weinberg, z”l. Donations in her honor may be made to CBST, Educational Alliance, the LGBT Center, and the New York City AIDS Memorial. RSVP: http://bit.ly/JanetWeinbergCelebration.

Shabbat Dinner hosted by Mishpachah Friday, November 16, 5pm, 130 West 30th Street Mishpachah, a CBST social and cultural group that attracts those over the age of 55, welcomes all to a pre-Shabbat dinner for a truly inter-generational experience. $16 by Tuesday, November 13; $20 thereafter. Register: http://bit.ly/MishpachahDinnerNov. Transgender Day of Remembrance Shabbat and Discussion Friday, November 16, 6:30pm, 130 West 30th Street We remember and recognize transgender people all over the world who have died as victims of transphobic violence. During this Shabbat service we pray, reflect, learn, and commit ourselves to repairing our broken world so that it becomes safe for people of all gender expressions and identities. After services, discuss Trans Jews are Here, a first-of-its-kind convening hosted by CBST with Keshet in March of 2019. Learn more about the convening and let us know what you’d like to be included. All are welcome, but the voices of trans and non-binary members of the community will be prioritized in our discussion. Registration welcome but not required: http://bit.ly/tdordiscussion2018. Aleinu Havdalah Hangout: Brooklyn Museum Edition Saturday, November 17, 4pm, RSVP for more details Explore the famous Brooklyn Museum with us, followed by Havdalah in Prospect Park (weather permitting, otherwise we'll find an indoor location) and dinner in the neighborhood. RSVP: http://bit.ly/HavdalahHangoutNov.

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Bold Spiritual Community of Resistance and Love Learn About Israel’s Anti-LGBT Surrogacy Law hosted by CBST, the Middle East, and Me Monday, November 12, 7:30pm, 130 West 30th Street Israel’s new anti-LGBT surrogacy law is already having an impact on the LGBT community – how did it come to be, and what is happening to change it? Michal Margaliot, the Managing Director of the Israel Women’s Network, has been active in promoting women's rights for years, through her work with the IWN and during her four years as parliamentary advisor and chief of staff to MK

Merav Michaeli. We’ll hear from Michal, have a chance to ask questions and learn more over snacks and drinks.

Larry Kramer: In Love & Anger Screening and Discussion Wednesday, November 14, 6:30pm, The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center Larry Kramer was a successful screenwriter when a mysterious disease began killing his friends. The story of his emergence as the political firebrand who ignited AIDS activism demonstrates what happens when one person has the courage to challenge authority. After the film, Larry Kramer will discuss his activism with Sheila Nevins, curator of the 4-part HBO Documentary Films series "Who We Are: Four Films, One People." Use the discount code CBST for free admission! Tickets: http://bit.ly/InLoveAndAnger.

Resistance! Calls and Cards Thursdays, 12:30 - 2:00pm at 130 West 30th Street Come for pizza to fuel your phone calls and postcard writing. Make your voice heard by exercising your right to contact officials. Bring a cell phone and your fighting spirit!

Welcoming Visit at Islamic Center at NYU Fridays, 12:45 - 2:30pm at 238 Thompson St. Welcome worshippers to the Islamic Center at NYU’s Jummah midday prayer service.To participate in House of Peace, speak to Harold Levine, or email him at hslevine@gmail.com.

Living Successfully With HIV/AIDS Tuesdays, 6 to 8pm, 130 West 30th Street Shmooze with Rabbi James, share stories, and compare notes about what it means to live successfully with HIV/AIDS. Sessions led by Scott A. Kramer, LCSW-R, ACSW. For more info, email TalkHIV@cbst.org

Free, Confidential HIV Testing Friday, November 30, 4:30 to 6:30pm, 130 West 30th Street Maimonides wrote, “When keeping the body in health and vigor, one walks in the ways of G-d.” CBST offers free, confidential HIV testing on-site, open to all. The CBST Talk to Me About HIV Projects are funded by the NYC Dept. of Health and Mental Hygiene through a contract with Public Health Solutions.

World AIDS Day Shabbat Friday, November 30, 6:30pm, 130 West 30th Street World AIDS Day unites people the world over in commemoration, support, and struggle. Chazak: the Red Ribbon Team at CBST envisions a congregation that is comfortable with the reality of HIV/AIDS within our community and embraces all members without stigma or prejudice. We devote our World AIDS Day Shabbat service to memorializing fellow congregants and beloved family and friends who have died of AIDS, may all their memories be for a blessing. You are invited to place a tribute in memory in this year's Remembrance Program: http://bit.ly/WorldAIDSDayMemorial2018.

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Lehrhaus Adult Education Fall Lehrhaus Classes Have Begun

Tuesdays, 6:30 to 7:30pm: An Introduction to Contemporary Israeli Poetry Taught by Miya Rotstein, each session will focus on a major poet and on representative texts from his or her body of work. Register: http://bit.ly/IsraeliPoetry.

Education for Families with Children at CBST CBST is committed to providing a dynamic, inclusive, and multifaceted Jewish educational experience for children and their families. Through learning and doing, our program builds and strengthens a contemporary, relevant, ethical, and deeply rooted sense of both Jewish and LGBTQ values and identity. Registration required. Go to https://cbst.org/children.

Alef Bet Shabbat—Ages 0-5 (Drop-In) A twice-monthly, song-filled morning service, at 11:45am, led by our clergy and songleader, designed especially for our youngest congregants and their grownups. Followed by a Kiddush lunch with access to supervised free play and the children’s library until 1:30 pm.

Limmud B'Shabbat—Grades K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 This child-centered program introduces students to Jewish learning, t’fillah, holiday celebrations, and basics

of modern Hebrew; themes and stories of Torah through music, arts, and creative learning. Includes immersive Family Retreats, supplies, snack, and Kiddush lunch.

B'nai Mitzvah Program—Grades 6 and 7 Meeting twice monthly, classes include Hebrew instruction, t’fillah, Jewish studies, holiday celebrations,

music, arts, all materials, snacks, Kiddush lunch, preparation for B’nai Mitzvah, individualized tutoring, monthly family classes, and dinner with Rabbi Rapport.

Teen Track—Grades 8-9 and 10-12 Twice-monthly program engages CBST’s teens in thoughtful exploration of Am Yisrael, Eretz Israel, and

Medinat Yisrael: the people, the land, and the modern state of Israel. Includes all local field trips, Shabbat breakfast, and Kiddush lunch.

Register for 5779 / October 2018 – June 2019: https://cbst.org/children. For questions, contact Jennifer Kleinbaum, Limmud Program Administrator, at jkleinbaum@cbst.org or 212-929-9498, x816. For information about the program, contact Jonathan Chapman, Principal, children@cbst.org.

New Program for Families with Babies and Toddlers!

Rattle & Resist: Activism with your Baby Thursdays November 15 and December 6 & 13, 11:30am Distraught over the current administration? Feeling too busy as a new parent to make a difference? Make the world a better place for your baby or toddler with this resistance-themed song & storytime class for them to learn, play, and connect as they too prepare to participate in Tikkun Olam (Reparing the World). Then, enjoy pizza while you contact your government officials to make your voice heard in NY, DC, and elsewhere. More info: cbst.org/children.

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To become a sponsor of an Oneg, Flowers, or Livestreaming contact Ann Targownik at Giving@cbst.org or go the CBST website, www.cbst.org.

CBST has a Hearing Induction Loop for hearing aids with T-Coils.

Psalms/Tehillim Project Has Begun—You Can Still Participate In Judaism, it is traditional to recite Psalms/Tehillim in times of fear, in times of mourning, calamity, and in joy and celebration. This project responds to the moment in history in which we find ourselves. As a congregation, we will recite the entire book of 150 Psalms each day with each person taking on the responsibility of one

Psalm. We began our community-wide recitation on Rosh Hodesh Elul. You can still join this initiative (non-members are welcome): Email Tasha Calhoun at tcalhoun@cbst.org with Psalms/Tehillim Project in the subject line. You can choose a Psalm that is meaningful to you or ask the CBST clergy to choose one for you.

Tonight’s Oneg (Delight) Sponsored by

Deluxe Oneg Barry Karpel and Alan Levy in memory of our beloved mother Renee Rose Levy, z”l. In memory of the 11 victims of the Tree of Life Synagogue massacre. In honor of our 6th wedding anniversary.

Deluxe Oneg Dvorah Stoll Congratulations and thank you to Harold Levine, Sabrina Farber and the entire Democracy Action Team for your relentless effort in helping to change the course of history. Can’t wait to see what the Team will accomplish in 2020.

The CBST Clergy, Board, and Staff wishes Mazal Tov to Brent Roberts and parents Babette and Bruce Roberts, and brother Bennet on the occasion of Brent’s Bar Mitzvah.

Gabriel Seidman in honor of Sabrina Farber, Harold Levine, and the Democracy Action Team, to thank them for their tireless work helping secure the victories we won this week, and for picking the district where I grew up as one of the districts that CBST helped turn blue!

Kiddush Sponsored by Bruce and Babette Roberts, and brother Bennett in honor of the Bar Mitzvah of Brent Roberts.

Livestream Sponsored by Marsha Melnick in memory of Lloyd Melnick, z”l, my beloved brother, on his 32nd yortzeit. I miss his big heart, smart humor, and warm embrace every day, and send gut shabbes greetings from Krakow.

Livestream Supported by Carol Feinman Judy Papenfus Seena Starr

Shabbat Flowers Sponsored by David Wine and Michael MacElhenny

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Tickets, Raffle Tickets & Sponsorships Now Available bit.ly/SethRudetskyAtCBST

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SAVE THE DATE

Trans Jews are Here: A Convening Friday – Sunday, March 29 – 31, 2019

A Radical, Joyful, Spiritual, Informative, Inspiring, Motivating Celebration and

Convening of Trans Artists, Academics, Activists and Spiritual Leaders

This first-ever convening will bring together trans and non-binary Jews of all ages, leaders, thinkers, and artists to celebrate and explore the intersection of transgender identity and Jewish life. This project, hosted by CBST with Keshet, will offer Shabbat experiences, workshops, panels, discussions, speaker presentations, and performances.

For info, email transjews@cbst.org

Seth M. Marnin Co-Chair

Jillian T. Weiss Co-Chair

Joy Ladin Guest Speaker

Kate Bornstein Guest Speaker

Ofer Erez Guest Speaker

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Senior Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum, D.D. Rabbi Yael Rooks Rapport ASSISTANT RABBI Cantor Steve Zeidenberg Steven M. Fruh-Paul L. Marsolini Cantorial Position Joyce Rosenzweig MUSIC DIRECTOR Rabbi Marisa Elana James DIRECTOR OF SOCIAL JUSTICE PROGRAMMING Gregg H. Passin PRESIDENT Yolanda Potasinski EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

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