INSIDE THIS ISSUE CBS Annual Meeting/Slate 2022-23 ...... 2 President’s Message .................................. 3 Executive Director’s Editorial ................ 4 CBS Happenings ........................................ 5 Religious School/Youth/ B’nai Mitzvah ........................................... 6 Sisterhood Slate 2022-23 ........................ 7 CBS U/ Adult Education/Programming ........ 8-9 Sisterhood .......................................... 10-11 Men’s Club ......................................... 12-14 CBS Happenings ............................... 15-18 Birthdays and Anniversaries ................ 19 Calendar ............................................. 20-21 CBS Happenings ..................................... 20 Birthdays and Anniversaries ................ 19 Milestones ................................................ 22 Yahrzeits ................................................... 23 Donations ........................................... 24-25 Ads ....................................................... 26-27 Candle Lighting and Service Times .... 28
Head Rabbi ......................................... Aaron Melman Senior Cantor ..................................... Steven Stoehr Rabbi ............................................... Warner Ferratier Rabbi Emeritus....................................... Carl Wolkin Executive Director ............................Michael Garlin Director of Jewish Life and Learning .............................................. Leann Blue Director of Education .......................... Stacy Ybarra Controller ......................................... Susan Karlinsky President ................................................. Bob Spector Sisterhood President ..................... Jackie Zelkowtiz Men’s Club Co-Presidents.... Dr. Andrew Wagner & Steven Lessman USY President ............................................. Paige Star Shalom Designer/Editor...............Deanne Friedman
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APRIL 2022• VOLUME 100 ISSUE 70
NISAN 5782 | APRIL 2022| VOLUME 100 ISSUE 70
RABBI MELMAN’S MINUTES Mah nishtanah ha’lielah ha’zeh. The famous question! Why, or How, is this night different from all others? For the last two years our Pesach seders have looked vastly different. For the vast majority of us, our seders were small in number, often accompanied by Zoom or FaceTime. It was not the way the rabbis envisioned the seder taking place and yet, we had no choice. Rabbi Melman
Pesach is my favorite holiday. I love the cleaning and koshering the kitchen (and yes, I do both of those), and cooking for this special holiday. I get excited about the seder and the traditions that have been passed down to us through the generations of our family as well as new traditions that Elisa and I have adopted over the years. And this year, more than ever, I look forward to being with people (outside of my household) at the seder. I look forward to our traditional Pesach kiddushim here at CBS. I love Howard Freidin’s potato kugel and all the other treats we get to eat. And, to put it simply, I just can’t wait to be together. More and more people have started to come back to shul on a regular basis and I hope with this holiday season, warmer
weather, and our snowbirds returning, even more people will be back to celebrate the Festival of Freedom. Festival of Freedom. That seems to take on a new meaning for us this year. We are certainly feeling a new sense of freedom this year and I hope and pray that we can continue to feel this way. While we continue to proceed with a sense of cautious optimism, we are finding our way to live as we transition from pandemic to endemic. I know that there are those that are still not able to attend large Pesach gatherings at this point, and I pray that the time will soon come when they can. There are two main requirements at the Seder. Both of these requirements are mentioned in the Talmud. The first requirement is that someone has to ask a question, and the second is to tell of the Exodus from Egypt. Our Haggadah deals with the issue of questions by having someone ask the Four Questions. This is a part of the Haggadah that is probably done at most homes for two reasons. First, it comes toward the beginning; and second, it is a part customarily reserved in many households for the “youngest” person at the table, giving that person an opportunity to show off what they learned. There are many unanswered questions that the pandemic has given us. I think as we ask Mah nishtanah ha’lielah ha’zeh at the seder this year, we will have many different answers and we will be able to appreciate what we have. Chag v’Kasher Sameach
