INSIDE THIS ISSUE Annual Meeting .......................................... 2 Culminating Celebration ......................... 3 President’s Message.................................. 4 50th Anniveresary .................................... 5 Cantor’s Notes.......................................... 6 Shavuot ........................................................ 7 Q&A/CBS Staff........................................... 8 ShabbaTONE ............................................. 9 B’nai Mitzvah ............................................ 10 Youth/Young Family Programming….11 School ........................................................ 12 Library........................................................ 13 CBS High/CBS University ..................... 14 HAZAK ..................................................... 15 Sisterhood........................................... 16-17 Men’s Club ................................................ 18 Social Action ............................................ 19 Birthdays/Anniversaries ......................... 20 Milestones ................................................. 21 Yahrzeits ............................................. 22-23 Donations ........................................... 23-25 Ads ........................................................ 26-27 Service Times ........................................... 28
Rabbi ................................................... Aaron Melman Cantor ..................................................Steven Stoehr Assistant Rabbi ..................................... Ari Averbach Executive Director ............................ Michael Garlin Director of Jewish Life & Learning ................................................. Leann Blue Director of Education .......................... Stacy Ybarra Ritual Director ............. Cantor Raquel P. Gershon Director of Youth Activities................ Matt Rissien Controller ......................................... Susan Karlinsky President ......................................... Debbie Solomon Sisterhood President..........................Leatte Gelfeld Men’s Club President ................................. Dan Sher USY President ................................ David Zelkowitz
Rabbi Emeritus .......................................Carl Wolkin Executive Director Emeritus .................................... Harvey Gold, FSA z’l Director of Education Emeritus ................... Rabbi Sander J. Mussman, RJE
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MAY 2018 • VOLUME 61 ISSUE 31
MAY 2018 • VOLUME 61 ISSUE 31
RABBI MELMAN’S MINUTES Every family has its stories, and Jewish families tend to be very good at sharing them. How we got from there to here. How branches of the family came together – or were torn apart. How we learned from those who came before us. Each week on Shabbat, rabbis have the opportunity to tell stories about our collective history and share lessons for the future as we relate the Torah portion to modern life. Some weeks, of course, are a little more difficult than others. As I write this, we prepare for the parshiyot of Tazria and Metzorah, parshioyot that deal with leprosy and disease. Not the most comfortable topics to discuss. Yet it is the sometimes uncomfortable stories of illness and disease that can provide some of the most valuable information for our own health and the health of our families. Diseases may run in families for different reasons, yet often arise due to our shared genetic heritage not just as family members, but as persons from a particular ethnicity or whose ancestors came from specific parts of the world.
only occur when two carriers have a child together, they rarely turn up in family health history. In contrast, other diseases with a genetic component often show up in family health history. Of particular concern to Jewish families are cancers related to mutations in the BRCA genes, which can greatly increase the risk for several cancers in both women and men. Sharing family health history can help current generations identify shared risks and help individual family members get the education and preventative care they need. As families gather on Shabbat and other occasions, they have an opportunity to share and ask questions of one another to piece together health history. I have always said that knowledge is power. We must make this a time to discuss our health information and ask questions of other family members. Share this information with each other and, ultimately, with our healthcare provider, who can help us interpret it and provide guidance to protect our family.
For family health history tools and to learn more about Jewish genetic health, visit JewishGenetics.org or contact the Norton & Elaine Sarnoff Family health history has partic- Center for Jewish Genetics at ular importance for us. Several recessive (312) 357-4718 or genetic disorders – including Tay-Sachs Jewishgeneticsctr@juf.org. disease, Gaucher disease, and Cystic Fibrosis – are much more common among Jews. But because these diseases