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“ Worship Together In The Quiet of G-‐d’s House” “Worship Together In The Quiet of G-‐d’s House” May-‐June 2014 2004 Shofar Sponsors: BROWN FAMILY CARNAGHI FAMILY FISCHER FAMILY KARSCH FAMILY MARILYN & LARRY KAUFMAN POST-SCURLOCK FAMILY PRUSNOFSKY FAMILY RIKOON FAMILY MOST FAMILY The Shofar HEBREW CONGREGATION OF SOMERS Annual Congregational Meeting Sunday, May 18th 10 AM JILL DAYAN KLEINMAN FAMILY HARVEY & GAIL KATZ ROBERT FRIED Web Page Sponsors: FISCHER FAMILY KARSCH FAMILY MARILYN & LARRY KAUFMAN POST-SCURLOCK FAMILY RIKOON FAMILY MOST FAMILY JILL DAYAN KLEINMAN FAMILY SAMPSON FAMILY ROBERT FRIED All congregation members are invited to review our last year and help make plans for the upcoming year. Join us for a pre-meeting bagel breakfast! Hebrew School Moving Up Ceremony May 18th at 11:30 AM Refreshments will be served! HCS CLOSINGS: Please listen to WHUD (100.7FM) or visit www.whud.com for information on weatherrelated Hebrew School closings and services/activities cancellations. 2 The Shofar LUNCH AND LEARN, RELAX AND REFLECT Dairy Pot Luck Dinner SATURDAY MORNINGS at the HEBREW CONGREGATION OF SOMERS Friday, May 2 and Friday June 6 6:30 PM We will have a dairy dinner followed by a service. Please bring your favorite dairy dish or a dessert along with a beverage. Following Shachrit services, which begin at 9:30 am, join Rabbi Fred and the HCS community for a light lunch and discussion of the week’s Torah portion (at about 11:00 am). If you are interested in sponsoring a Lunch ‘n’ Learn, please send a check to HCS with the subject line “Lunch ‘N’ Learn” or contact Mary Wolchan at 914-433-2423 A light lunch is provided from Somers Hot Bagels for $54. This includes bagels, cream cheese, egg salad, tuna and OJ. Sponsors are encouraged to bring special treats. 3 The Shofar Hebrew Congregation of Somers School Supply Drive 2014 Help us give needy kids a great start for the 2014-2015 school year. Please donate new or gently used school supplies Pre-school: Crayola large crayons Coloring books or pads Wet wipes Elementary : 1” 3 ring binder Crayola Washable Broad -Tip Markers Crayola Crayons (box of 24) 2 large glue sticks Elmer's school glue #2 pencils (packages of 12) Two pocket plastic folders Black and White marble composition books 5” scissors 3”x5” white ruled index cards Handheld pencil Sharpener Pink “pearl” eraser 3”x3” Post-Its Nylon pencil bag 12” ruler standard and metric units Wet wipes Paper Towels single rolls Secondary: Yellow highlighters Colored pencils #2 pencils (12 pack) 3x3inch Post-Its Blue or Black pens Notebook filler paper Subject dividers Single Subject Notebook Two pocket plastic folders 3”x5” white ruled index cards Donations will be accepted April-May at Hebrew Congregation of Somers Any questions please contact Victoria Prusnofsky [email protected] The Shofar 4 The Westchester Jewish Council is proud to honor your very own Hebrew Congregation of Somers, Vicki Prusnofsky as a recipient of the Julian Y. Bernstein Distinguished Service Award. Julian Bernstein was a well-known and admired leader in the Westchester Jewish Community. His visionary leadership, guidance and friendship remain an inspiration to us all. The recipients of this award and the organizations they serve follow in his legacy as they continue to strengthen our community. The Award Ceremony will take place On Wednesday, May 14, 2014 at 7:30pm at the Jewish Community Center of Harrison. Admission is free and everyone is welcome. For more information contact Donna Bartell, Program Manager at: Westchester Jewish Council 701 Westchester Avenue - Suite 203 White Plains, New York 10604 Phone 914-328-7001 Fax 914-761-6309 [email protected] 5 The Shofar A Message from the President Spring at HCS means time to clean up and clean out. Sisterhood had taken on the job of beautifying the outside of our synagogue. We have a large television that needs to be disposed of. (Any volunteers?) Somers bulk pick-‐up does not take electronics. We now have a new flat-‐screen TV to host Saturday movie night, which begins May 10th at 6:30. Rabbi Fred will surprise us with a wonderful film. May 18th is the last day of Hebrew School and moving-‐up day. Our Annual Congregational Meeting is also May 18th. All families should send at least one representative. This is the time where we review the events of the past year and plan for next year. Brunch will be served. Get involved, join a committee. You don’t know how good you will feel. Ask anyone of our volunteers who keep this synagogue running. Check the new directory for their names. Remember, it is a mitzvah to sponsor a Kiddush during our Saturday morning Shabbat service. I am creating a new form that will be mailed out to make the process easier. Somers Bagels supplies the food. You contribute the donation of $54. You can celebrate a birthday, anniversary or the Yartzeit of a loved one. I hope to see you soon. Shalom! Mary Wolchan 6 The Shofar A Message from the Rabbi Memorial-Independence Day I am writing this in Eilat, walking distance from Jordan and Egypt, a stone’s throw away from Saudi Arabia. Right now we are in the middle of the Pesach holiday, the biggest holiday of the year in Israel, in terms of family vacations. Eilat is filled with Israeli families instead of the usual plethora of French and American tourists that come here during the winter months. With all its myriad of problems, Israel is a sea of tranquility when compared with its neighbors. The Arab spring, to put it mildly, has had mixed results. Egypt’s experiment with democracy appears to be rapidly coming to an end with a new military strong-man taking over from the old one. Ironically, in the short term this has worked in Israel’s favor since the new military leadership has closed Egypt’s border with Gaza and filled in the smugglers’ tunnels. The ruling family of Saudi Arabia is above all else concentrating on one topic - maintaining its one-family rule. Privately, it is well aware of the importance of Israel as one of its few defenses against the radical Shiites who not only control Iran but who inhabit S. Arabia’s eastern (oil-rich) provinces. Jordan is barely keepings its head above water under the weight of over a million Syrian refugees. Syria and, to a great degree Lebanon, suffer under the cruelest of civil wars. There are frequent bombings in Beirut in the area of the city ruled by Hamas, hundreds if not thousands of Hamas members have lost their lives fighting to keep Assad in power. Syria itself no longer exists as a unified country and the cruelty and brutality of its civil war goes on. Meanwhile, Israel is celebrating. The economy continues to boom even while the supposedly indispensable Stanley Fischer left his chairmanship of the Bank of Israel and became the Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve Bank. Anyone who kept their money in Shekels instead of Dollars has reaped a windfall profit over the last year, although that also means that Israel is no longer a cheap destination for tourists. Jobs are plentiful, the Knesset has passed laws that are starting to limit the power of Israel’s economic oligarchies, the infrastructure of the country is continually being improved with new rail lines and improved highways, universal pre-school was adopted for the whole country three years ago. More and more of the ultraorthodox and Israeli Arab populations (Israel’s economic underclasses) are being compelled either legally or for practical reasons to participate more fully in Israeli society and even to limit the size of their families. In short, in all the areas that America is failing, Israel is succeeding. By the time you are reading this, the twin Israeli holidays of Memorial Day and Independence day will be upon us. Israel celebrates its independence day on the anniversary of its declaration in 1948. It’s leadership had the great good sense to schedule its memorial day for the day before. That way, one can never forget the price that had to be paid to gain that independence. But, perhaps more importantly, Israelis understand that paying that price is not over. Every generation has had to fight to maintain Israel’s continued existence. The parents of each succeeding generation has always wondered whether their kids were up to the task. I well remember being here for the last war in Lebanon against Hizballah; the last two wars in Gaza against Hamas. I also remember the shaggy-haired, tattooed and pierced hedonists of Tel Aviv, the knit-kippah orthodox, the Ethiopian and Russian immigrants putting on their uniforms, showing up for their reserve units and disproving the doubts of their worried parents. The irony of Israel is that it truly is an Eretz Nehederet, an “amazing country,” but every generation for over a hundred years has had to pay a price to keep it alive. Given the current situation, I doubt that this will change in the foreseeable future. But when each generation’s turn comes, I am confident that they too will pay whatever price needs to be paid to preserve the country. 7 The Shofar PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE Dear Congregants and Students, In the next few weeks, Hebrew School will be coming to a close. It has been a glorious year. Our students are engaged and we had some of the best teachers ever. I am excited that many of our long time staff will be returning. Sara Doar and Beth Whipple are motivated to return to a new group of students to work with. Jess Sampson, a teen teacher, will be attending college locally. Rose Rayner and Hannah Most, who I taught at HCS years ago, will be returning through their senior year of high school. Please remember that while school may be out of session, services will still be going on weekly. First Friday potluck and all the rest are Saturdays. It would be especially exciting for the students to attend the three Bnei Mitzvahs occurring in June and July. Our students work hard to learn the material and I think you will be very impressed I look forward to the beginning stages of planning next year with all of you in mind. Peace~ Tal Tree Of Life Sponsors Brown Family Karsch Family Larry and Marilyn Kaufman Fischer Family Post-Scurlock Family Prusnofsky Family Rikoon Family Most Family Jill Dayan Kleinman Family Robert Fried Adult Education at HCS While the Hebrew School year is quickly coming to a close for the kids, we are planning to continue to meet at Turco’s in Yorktown. Check your e-‐mail for further information, and please come and join us for Sunday morning coffee and learning! The Shofar Yahrzeit Donation from: William Farkas for yahrzeit of Anna Bernstein Janet & Sidney Eisig for yahrzeit of Pearl Eisig Lawrence & Marilyn Kaufman for yahrzeits of Celia and Julius Funk Philip Greiss for yahrzeit of Max Greiss Howard & Donna Hirsch for yahrzeits of Minnie and Jack Hirsch Harvey & Gail Katz for yahrzeit of Alexander Katz Randi Kenna for yahrzeit of Solomon Kleiman Bernard Landman for yahrzeits of Alice and Irving Landman Roberta Levine Carnaghi for yahrzeit of Bernard Levine Molly Schwartz for yahrzeits of Arthur and Joseph Schwartz Arlene & Barry Brown for yahrzeit of Abraham Sonsky Leonard Staub for yahrzeit of Claire Staub Rosalind Lipson for yahrzeit of Helen Utah Arlene & Barry Brown for yahrzeit of Samuel Wohl In-‐Memory-‐Of Donation from: Diane Karsch for Michele Klein Diane Karsch for Paul Kleinman Albert Lasher for Israel Lasher Donation to Rabbi’s Discretionary Fund from: Andrea Eisenberg in memory of Phyllis Eisenberg Donation to HCS General Fund from: Roman Kent (via Jewish Communal Fund) Lawrence & Marilyn Kaufman in celebration of the Rabbi’s birthday William Farkas in celebration of Passover 8 9 The Shofar Highlights from the March 2014HCS Board Meetings The board invited Chief Burpee and Chief Driscoll to speak with teachers and students about safety. They also made a presentation to the board to offer suggestions on improving security and safety measures. A Safety Committee has been formed to address possible changes. Chief Driscoll mentioned that prescription drugs no longer needed may be dropped off at the Somers Police Dept. behind the Teen Center from Mon.-‐Fri., 9am-‐5pm. Please notice our new enlarged bulletin board in the front hall. There’s plenty of room, now, for our notices and photos. Enjoy! The Purim Carnival was a big success. Lots of people attended from tots to grandparents, and a good time was had by all. Please join us for the Spring Clean Up on April 27. We’ll have snacks to keep our energy going. In no time, with everyone’s help, we can spruce up our grounds and be ready for spring. On May 18 we will have our annual Congregational Meeting. We will go over congregation business, concerns and progress made. We will also have committee reports and will review board positions. Your input is appreciated. IMPORTANT LINKS JRF leadership listserv sign-up: http://www2.jrf.org/cong/disc-cong.php JRF Convention website: http://www.jrfconvention.org Education Directors' website: http://www2.jrf.org/rena/ Reconstructionist Divrei-Torah web site: http://www2.jrf.org/recon-dt/index.php JRF Publications: http://jrf.org/press/index.html JRF Long distance Learning: http://www.jrf.org/news/RRC_Distance_Learning.html http://www.judaicawebstore.com/default.asp Help the residents of Sderot by buying their products. http://www.madeinshderot.com http://[email protected] (America-Israel Friendship League) http://www.jdc.org/jcdr_co_sudan.html (Jewish Coalition for Disaster Relief-info on Sudan) http://www.onefamilyfund.org/index.asp?ID=224 http://www.wjconference.org (Westchester Jewish Conference) http://www.ajws.org (American Jewish World Service) http://www.ajc.org http://honestreporting.com/ http://www.onejerusalem.org/ http://www.pmw.org.il/ (Palestinian Media Watch) 10 The Shofar God Bless These Birthday People, Let Their Day Bring Joy and Cheer Come Grow Old With Me... The Best Is Yet To Be May 3 Kenneth Wexler 5 Bill Farkas 6 Jace McEwan 7 Manny Stern 9 Lauren Dahling 10 Bruce Woogen 16 Andy Cheung 16 Kayla Kleinman 17 Ted Novick 21 Patricia Carlin 25 Stephen Ucko 26 Sharon Sherwin 26 Andrew Kahn 27 Isaac Shelby 29 Jeff Sampson 29 Amy Post 31 Jeremy Sevelovitz 31 Julie Woogen June 1 Alan Most 4 Debra Tannor 4 Gary Rikoon 4 Anne Gotz 7 Marc Sevelovitz 8 Nathaniel Woogen 9 Pauline Rose 9 David Gotz 9 Adam Fischer 10 Noah Brenner 11 Steve Karsch 11 Reuben Siegel 14 Caitlin Burgess 14 Donna Wolfson 17 Jennifer Koenig 18 Ross Weiner 19 Elena Lurye 21 Robert Frank 22 Linda Kortick 23 Lauren Hirsch 23 Sarah Waldinger 24 Ira Nitzberg May 18 Victor Danielle Greenberg/Klebanoff 29 Mark Beth Nitzberg/Cariker June 2 Murray Patricia Carlin 5 Bruce JulieWoogen 10 Elliot Sharon Sherwin 10 Chris Michelle Manzares 11 Ted Karin Novick 15 Kenneth Marilyn Wexler 18 Gary Nancy Rikoon 18 Kevin Ilyse Desharnais 19 Mory Amy Katz 22 Leslie Vicki Prusnofsky 27 Peter Amy Scurlock/Post 29 Kenneth Janet Shelby/Weinrib Happy Birthday to our Junior Congregants: May 2 Sage Cheung 7 Michael O'Hare 20 Aaron Katz 23 Allison Tannor June 8 Andrew Scurlock 21 Samuel Fragoso 11 The Shofar In Memoriam Lila Bernstein Julius Funk Celia Funk Yetta Wohl Henry Prusnofsky Samuel Wohl Michael Prusnofsky Jack W. Dolny Jean Prusnofsky Gertrude Dolny Zeke Karsch Sidney N. Sonsky Joseph Kaufman Ida Kaufman Arthur Sherman Minnie Sonsky Louis Stein Lillian Stein Abraham Sonsky Muriel Brown Louis and Ester Sonsky Flora Most Steven Post Hershel Post Gertrude Worthman Estelle & Seymour Charton William Most Hyman Levy Howard & Helen Rikoon Paul Grossman The Shofar 12 Yahrzeits May 5/1/14 Samuel Schuckman 1 Iyyar 5/1/14 Seymour Charton 1 Iyyar 5763 5/2/14 Harry Epstein 2 Iyyar 5/3/14 Adolph King 3 Iyyar 5/4/14 Jack Reback 4 Iyyar 5/7/14 Stephanie Kugel 7 Iyyar 5/8/14 Lillian Carlish 8 Iyyar 5/10/14 Louis Friedman 10 Iyyar 5/10/14 Eleanor King 10 Iyyar 5/11/14 Charles Bernstein 11 Iyyar 5/13/14 Flora Most 13 Iyyar 5/13/14 Jack Abrams 13 Iyyar 5/13/14 Charles Duchen 13 Iyyar 5/13/14 Jack Nachbar 13 Iyyar 5/13/14 Hilda Stone 13 Iyyar 5/14/14 Selma Stoller 14 Iyyar 5/14/14 Jules Krisky 14 Iyyar 5/14/14 Peggy Sonnenberg 14 Iyyar 5/15/14 Louis Wiener 15 Iyyar 5/15/14 Ben Marsh 15 Iyyar 5/16/14 Emanuel Kahn 16 Iyyar 5/17/14 Regina Chuney 17 Iyyar 5727 5/17/14 Lillian Marsh 17 Iyyar 5/17/14 Regina Chuney 17 Iyyar 5727 5/18/14 Ralph Eisenberg 18 Iyyar 5773 5/18/14 Samuel Browner 18 Iyyar 5/18/14 Leonard Sonnenberg 18 Iyyar 5/19/14 Melvin Kamenetzky 19 Iyyar 5759 5/19/14 Sarah Naidus 19 Iyyar 5/20/14 David Wittenberg 20 Iyyar 5/21/14 Henry Kurz 21 Iyyar 5/21/14 Jesse Schwartz 21 Iyyar 5/22/14 Lawrence Kugel 22 Iyyar 5773 5/23/14 Nathan Platnick 23 Iyyar 5/23/14 Shirley Staub 23 Iyyar 5/23/14 Joseph A. Schwalb 23 Iyyar 5/25/14 Marian Heyman 25 Iyyar 5/25/14 Frances Frank 25 Iyyar 5/26/14 Baruch Ganbaum 26 Iyyar 5/26/14 Louis Hirsch 26 Iyyar 5/27/14 Ethel Slupsky 27 Iyyar 5/28/14 Alan Farkas 28 Iyyar 5/28/14 Charlotte Kahn 28 Iyyar 5/29/14 Bernice Kurz Yahrzeits June 6/1/14 Harris Harvey Koenig 3 Sivan 5760 6/3/14 Hyman Weiskott 5 Sivan 6/5/14 Martin Woogen 7 Sivan 5769 6/6/14 Bernice Kurtz 8 Sivan 5772 6/6/14 Abraham Sheindlin 8 Sivan 6/7/14 Clara Stoller 9 Sivan 6/9/14 Sarah Supovitz 11 Sivan 6/9/14 Rose Rifkin 11 Sivan 6/10/14 Ray Wittenberg 12 Sivan 6/11/14 Seymour Poppoly 13 Sivan 6/11/14 Hyman Zimmerman 13 Sivan 6/12/14 Samuel Wiener 14 Sivan 6/13/14 Eleanor Waldinger 15 Sivan 6/13/14 Ilse Godfrey 15 Sivan 6/15/14 Louis Berkowitz 17 Sivan 6/16/14 Joseph Gold 18 Sivan 6/16/14 Esther Taubman 18 Sivan 6/17/14 Louis Sonsky 19 Sivan 6/18/14 Adolph & Irma Farkas 20 Sivan 6/19/14 William Dyckoff 21 Sivan 6/19/14 Charles Silverstein 21 Sivan 6/19/14 Evelyn Goldstein 21 Sivan 6/19/14 Sylvia Carmel 21 Sivan 6/21/14 Fave Sondike 23 Sivan 6/21/14 Percep Omin 6/22/14 Paul Grossman 24 Sivan 5773 6/23/14 Hyman Halpern 25 Sivan 6/23/14 Sadie King 25 Sivan 6/23/14 Stanley Pomerance 25 Sivan 6/25/14 Isaac Zeitlin 27 Sivan 6/25/14 Max A. Berger 27 Sivan 6/26/14 Hyman Jacobson 28 Sivan 6/26/14 Samuel Pearlman 28 Sivan 6/27/14 Saul Schwartz 29 Sivan 6/27/14 Leizer Steinberg 29 Sivan 6/28/14 Sam Levine 30 Sivan 6/28/14 Sam Levine 30 Sivan 5765 6/29/14 Sarah Schreiber 1 Tammuz 6/29/14 Henry Chuney 1 Tammuz 5771 6/29/14 Pepe Ucko 1 Tammuz 6/30/14 Lawrence Epstein 2 Tammuz The Shofar 13 Our Advertisers The Shofar 14 The Shofar 15 The Shofar 16 The Shofar 17 MAY 2014 Nisan/Sivan 5774 The Shofar 18 June 2014 Sivan/Tammuz 5774 The Shofar 19 The Shofar Sisterhood Hebrew Congregation of Somers PO Box 40 Shenorock, NY 10587 Hebrew Congregation of Somers Rabbi Fred Schwalb President: Mary Wolchan Financial Secretary: Bernie Landman Hebrew School Chairperson: Melissa Greenspon Hebrew School Principal: Tal Hadani-Pease Membership Chairperson: Open Sisterhood Coordinator: Amy Post/Emily Siegel Shofar Editor: Audrey Sherman Shalom-O-Gram / Memorials / Refuah Shlemah: Lorraine Stromes Hebrew Congregation of Somers Telephone Number (914) 248-9532 Web Site: http://www.hebrewcongregationofsomers.org [email protected] Calendar
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