INSIDE THIS ISSUE Executive Director’s Editorial ................2 President’s Message ..................................3 Religious School .........................................4 Youth/Young Family Programming/ B’nai Mitzvah ...........................................5 CBS U/ Adult Education/Programming.............6 CBS Happenings..................................... 7-9 Sisterhood .......................................... 10-12 Men’s Club ......................................... 13-15 Purim ................................................... 16-17 CBS Fundraiser ....................................... 18 Birthdays and Anniversaries ................ 19 Milestones ................................................ 20 Yahrzeits ................................................... 21 Donations ........................................... 22-24 Social Action ............................................ 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 Director of Youth and Young Family Engagement……..Eric Golberg 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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FEBRUARY 2022• VOLUME 98 ISSUE 68
ADAR I 5782 | FEBRUARY 2022| VOLUME 98 ISSUE 68
RABBI MELMAN’S MINUTES Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, reminds us of a very important message there’s no place like home. Indeed, there is no place like home. For two months, 7550 Benning Rd. at Fort Jackson in South Carolina was my home. It was more than just a house, so to speak, I made it a home. I cooked, celebrated Shabbat, decorated my room for Chanukah and lit candles. However, I have loved coming home, being back on the bima, and inside the walls of CBS. Rabbi Melman
that my training has now allowed me to offer a new set of blessings to people. I have been able to learn more about myself and new skills that better enable me to serve our CBS family – lifelong learning isn’t just a saying; it is real and it is powerful.
Jacob’s children had been through a lot in the Torah and yet there was still so much that they didn’t know. They dealt with famine and overall tumult in their lives. Even when they are reunited with Joseph in Egypt, they aren’t sure whether he will show them compassion. Will they be punished for their treatment of their brother all those years ago? Joseph doesn’t hold a grudge, he is able to let go and embrace his brothers. This clear conscience allows him to transition from this life without a heavy heart and without any grievances. Joseph wants to be It feels good to bring a new set of skills back brought up, literally, having his bones carried to our congregational family. It feels good to to the Land of Israel, ultimately spiritually bring a new sense of who I am as a rabbi, as elevating his unburdened soul. a pastor, to our community. I’ve been reIt is up to us to take these lessons of flecting on something I shared on the last elevation and elevate our own spirits, our Shabbat of 2021. Our patriarch, Jacob, own souls, and our own hearts and minds requests to be buried with his father and even though, with good, legitimate reason, grandfather (Isaac and Abraham). Joseph, we might be stuck. As human beings, we before his death, requests that his bones be must not let things consume us and not let carried with the Israelites so that he may the things that are troubling us overcome ultimately be buried in his ancestral home in us. We can turn to each other, those that the Land of Israel. Our people and our his- love us and care about us. We here, at CBS, tory remain connected to one another and are some of those people. We are here for to a very special place – a place that was you! Share with each other, share with us. home. Too often, we focus on the destination and not the journey. I have appreciated and Shortly before Jacob’s death, he gives his enjoyed each step along the way. There is so children and grandchildren a blessing and much more I want to share with you about desires to let each one know of their destiny. Before he has the chance to reveal my chaplain training, and God-willing, I will do so in that information, he passes from the earth and it is up to each child to determine their person, over kiddush, at own path. The message of determining one’s some point soon. Yes, own path is something I spent a lot of time there’s no place like home, and I am excited to thinking about while at the United States Army Chaplain Center and School. I believe be here with all of you.
