THE VALLEY TEMPLE NEWS

October, 2001 Tishri, Chevan, 5762

RELIGIOUS SERVICES

Monday, October 1 at 7:00 p.m. Sukkot Service around the fire David Snyder will lead music

Tuesday, October 2, 9:00 a.m. Festival Morning Service Temple office will be closed

Friday, October, 5,2001 at 7:30 p.m. Temple Board Installation Rabbi Kopnick will speak on "Leadership from our Tradition."

Saturday, October 6,2001 9:30 a.m Torah Study 10:30 am Informal Service

Monday, Odober 8 Simciaat Torah 6:15 Dinner (Reservations required) 7:00 Service including consecration and Grand Torah March

Tuesday, October 9 at 9:00 a.m. End of Festival Service with Yizkor Memorial Prayers

Friday, October 12 at 7:30 a.m. Family Service Jeremy Barras will tell a story

Saturday, October 13 9:30 am Torah Study 10:30 a.m. Informal Service

Friday, October 19 at 7:30 p.m. Installation Service for Rabbi Kopnick Rabbi Ron Klotz, Director of GUCI Rabbi Samuel K. Joseph, HUC-JIR Rabbi Solomon T. Greenberg Will speak Music: Charlene Andres, Tom Sherwood and Bob Pollack And Hazemir Choir of Fort Wayne

Saturday, October 20 9:30 am Torah Study 10:30 am. Informal Service Hazemir choir will lead music

Friday, October 26 at 7:30 p.m. Rabbi Kopnick will lead a discussion about the Torah Portion

Saturday, October 27 10:00 Tot Shabbat Service 10:30 Infonnal abbreviated Shabbat Service. Baby sitting available.

Babysitting is available for all Friday Night Services by reservation to 761-3555 or Valley temple. com

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Festivals and Twentieth Century America ...

Is there really any significance to living in a Sukkah (booth) anymore? Do we really need to take the afternoon and build a sukkah? We are not farmers, how isn't it too remote an experience to celebrate the harvest when we can get most fruits and vegetables all year long? Shouldn't we just celebrate the good price of peaches found now?

Of course Sukkot and all of our festivals are still relevant, but the point is well taken that we are challenged to find the relevance given that original assumptions for the holidays are no longer as compelling. There is much for which to be thankful, so Sukkot as a Thanksgiving festival is certainly appropriate. While you probably don't need to build and decorate a sukkah-it sure can be a good time. Coming to Services to mark the changing of the season is also a meaningful thing to do.

Imagine the scene in our home. If the Talmud does not prohibit Jews with power tools, it should! When I erect our Sukkah each year, those under 21 are not allowed to participate due to the language the rabbi utters as he attempts to construct the sukkah. Our children have been known to ask Nancy whether they are safe even watching from the window. But builder's rage turns to a sense of sanctity after the finish product is displayed (especially when it's stable enough to enter).

Simchat Torah is also a wonderful festival, for it celebrates our connection to our Torah. While I must tell you I have

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some issues regarding the near ido 1-worship some people seem to create when dancing and kissing the Torah, the tremendous celebration and joy that comes with the holiday overshadows my reservations. Simchat Torah is not just a time to welcome consecrants to our religious school, it is a true multi­generational celebration, and I hope you will all make one of our services.

We are adding some morning Festival worship services in order to give us extra opportunities to mark our time Jewisbly. While the Torah prohibits work on these festivals as it does for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, I do live in this world. We are offering early services in case some of you need to dash off to work following the service. Surely some of you who want to be with us for the morning services can arrange the schedule so that you are a little late that morning.

The Torah commands us to mark the time, and we command each other to mark the time meaningfully. Let us help!

Have a great month.

RABBI RON KLOTZ COMING TO VALLEY l'O'T ALK CAMP ...

.·Join us on October 28,2001 during religious school for a special presentation on Jewish summer camp. Rabbi Ronald A. Klotz, Director of GUCI will be on hand to discuss the Reform Movement's Goldman Union Camp Institute. Located near Indianapolis, GUCI has been a summer home to Temple members of almost 30 years. Names like Derringer, Simon, Frieder, Greenberg, Sass, Lerner, Knarr, ( CDIIIinu.ed M nM:t ".)

Kuhr, and so many more have participated in the camp over the years

Each summer Rabbi Sandford . Kopnick serves on the faculty of the Camp. He spends the last two weeks of June. In fact, when we hired Rabbi Kopnick, it was part of the agreement that he would go to camp representing the Valley Temple. In 1978, Rab~i Kopnick first met Rabbi Greenberg at camp when Sol was serving on faculty there!

If you are interested in hearing more about the wonderful program at Goldman Union Camp-please plan on joining us on October 28, 2001 during religious school.

SUl(l(oT CELEBRATION

MONDAY OCTOBER 1 7:00 P.M.

SERVICES AT THE CAMPFIRE CIRCLE

BEHIND THE TEMPLE! David Snyder, accompanist

IIMCHAT TORAH FOR AU

MONDAY OCTOBER 8 6:15 p.m. Dinner

($6.501 Adults--$3.251 children) reservations required!

7:00 p.m. Service including Consecration

Families with children in Kdg. or new to the Temple should call the Temple

office to register their child for this wonderful service!

L'Shanah Tovah! Our New Year has begun and Sisterhood activities are already underway. The following is a summary of our planned activities for October.

• Our membership campaign for the year 2001-02 will begin on September 30th

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Membership packets will be available at the Temple on the first day of Sunday school and will be mailed to Valley Temple members the week of October 1 st. For specific information regarding membership, please contact Jean Amber, membership chairperson, 573-9334.

• Our first business meeting will be Sunday, October 14t1a at !0:00am, in the Rabbi's office.

• Our Member Welcome Brunch will be Sunday, October 28th at 1 0:00am in the Temple kitchen. We hope you will join us for an opportunity to visit with old friends, meet new friends and learn about Sisterhood activities. Additionally, Rabbi Ron Klotz, Director of Goldman Union Camp Institute, will be at the Temple to share information regarding camp. Immediately following our brunch, please join us in the Temple sanctuary for a brief service to install our officers. For specific information regarding the Member Welcome Brunch, please contact Jean Amber, membership chairperson, 573-9334.

Special Thanks!

The Sisterhood would like to thank Laurel Fischbaum and all those who helped to bag and label the Rosh Hashanah Challah.

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Shabbat Morning Torah Study ••• 9:30-10:30a.m.beginning Join us as we take the weekly Torah portion and turn it on its ear! We learn about how Jewish tradition has thought about the various Biblical passages, and we attempt to add contemporary thought and sensibilities to the discussion. No experience required--come once or come weekly!

Tuesday Evenings ...

Adult Beginning Hebrew 6:30-8:00 p.m.with Rabbi Kopnick Join us as we learn the Holy

Tongue of the Jewish people. It starts with baa baa and moves to Baruch Atah. .. Rabbi Kopnick is endlessly patient and loves to work with adults in acquiring this difficult skill. Who knows--it can even lead to an adult BarlBat Mitzvah someday. (Beginning Tuesday, October 2, 2001).

Basic Judaism ••• 15 Weeks Beginning October 2, 2001 -7:30-9:00 p.m. (new time) Join Rabbi Kopnick and Rabbi Jeremy as they give an overview of Jewish thought, belief, life-cycle, holidays, and prayer. Designed by the Chicago Area Reform and Conservative Rabbis, this curriculum can be used towards conversion or for anyone who wants to learn more about Judaism. Reconnect with our tradition, learn about what kids learn in religious school, or feel more connected to family, friends, and services!

I Lunch N' Learn on the run_ THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4.12:00 Noon-1:00 p.m. Sharp! at Office Suites Plus, 11427 Reed Hartman Highway in Blue Ash. Contact David Feldstein at 618-6412for directions.

THURSDAY OCTOBER 11.12:00 Noon-l:00 p.m. Sharp! Downtown--36 E. 4th St., Suite 1210 Corner of 4th and Walnut-­Contact Phyllis Bossin at 421-4420 for directions-

Join us in the Conference room for "Judaism Confronts Contemporary Issues. We will take the work of the CCAR Responsa Committee--where they are asked to comment on modern situations and dilemmas and deliver an opinion rooted in Jewish sources and tradition. Always from a Reform perspective, our discussions will talk about medical ethics, evolving religious ideas, and much more. Bring your lunch! We'll always end on time.

Washington, D. C. anyone? Please contact Rabbi Kopnick if you are interested in a weekend Adult Education trip to Washington, D.C. We will visit the Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, Museums, theatre, and more. We'll start planning if we have a minyan of interest ...

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FORT WAYNE CHOIR TO HELP WHAT IS A TOT SHABBAT? INSTALL RABBI KOPNICK

The Hazemir Choir of Congregation Achduth Vesholom of Fort Wayne, Indiana will be on hand the evening of October 19 to sing portions of the service during Rabbi Kopnick's installation. Under the direction of Dr. John Planer, President ofthe Guild of Temple Musicians, the Hazemir Choir is a group of non-professional singers all of whom are members of Rabbi Kopnick's previous congregation. The choir will sing selections not sung by Charlene Andres, Tom Sherwood, and Robert Pollack who will also participate.

On Saturday, October 20,2001, Rabbi Kopnick will lead a Torah study at 9:30 a.m followed by a Shabbat Morning Service. The Hazemir Choir of Fort Wayne will lead the music during that service.

SA VE THE DATE-SPECIAL MUSIC IN NOVEWMBER

Charlene Gubitz will lead music during Shabbat Services November 16-17. Mrs. Gubitz is a faculty member of the Goldman Union Camp Institute, artist-in­residence for the Fort Wayne Community Schools, and the Director of Education of Congregation Achduth Vesholom of Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Charlene will play the guitar and sing during Friday night services for the congregation and lead a Tot-Shabbat experience on Saturday November 18. Join us as we explore the musical possibilities of Shabbat for all ages!

One Saturday Morning a month at 10:00 a.m, children ages 0-7 join their parents in the Sanctuary. Rabbi Kopnick and songleader David Snyder create a lively mix of stories, music, puppets, dancing with the Torah, and learning of basic prayers. The service lastJfor ~ hour, and then parents are encouraged to drop their children with one of our confirmation class students as the parents attend a ~ hour adult Shabbat morning service.

For more information, contact Rabbi Kopnick at the Temple Office.

RITUAL COMMITTEE TO DISCUSS HIGH HOLY DAY FAMILY SERVICE, SERVICE MUSIC, AND OTHER CUSTOMS

Rabbi Kopnick' s arrival at our congregation has given us the opportunity to consider many of the practices of our congregation. Rabbi Kopnick will be meeting with members of the Ritual Committee to discuss the High Holy Day procedures, the services we offer for High Holy Days, musical styles and guest musicians at the Temple, and more.

If you are interested in being a part ofthe ritual committee, please contact Wendy at the Temple 761-3555 or valleytemple.com

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SIMInHtiAp IAe ~", We gratefully acknowledge the following contributions to our Temple Funds ...

Social Action Fund In honor of Bar Mitzvah of Taylor Russell Kerry and Dianne Rabe and family.

Estelle Wigser Flower Fund In honor of Special birthday of Estelle Wigser Myrna and Chick Arlen Anita and Ernest Friedman

Rabbi's Discretionary Fund In honor of Rabbi Sandford Kopnick's arrival Jeff and Laurie Marks and Family Dr. Neil and Tracy Richtand In honor of Wendy Walsh for all of her kindness Carol Barnett In honor of Marriage of Keri Bryan to Max Gutnik Mark and Susan Detwiler

Rabbi Kopnick is on the fuculty of the high school where he teaches our confirmation class and an elective on Jewish ideas about contemporary issues. If your high school student hasn't yet enrolled, please call Rabbi Kopnick immediately.

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REFORM JEWISH HIGH SCHOOL BEGINS AT ROCKDALE

The Cincinnati Reform Jewish High School begins its first Semester on September 30,2001 at Rockdale Temple. Students of Valley Temple in grades 9-12 participate in the program as an extension of our own Religious School.

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10/19 SUSAN ELIZABETH MILLER

10/19 STEPHANIE JAY MILLER

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10/21 BRIAN JOHN BORTZ

10/21 MICHAEL SCHWARTZMAN

10/22, DIAN ROBINSON

10/22 BETTE SHERMAN

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