June 2014 Shofar - Sivan/Tammuz 5774

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June Shabbat and Holiday Service Schedule Erev Shavuot and Confirmation June 3, 7:30 pm Service and Ice Cream Sundae Reception June 4, 10:00 am Short Study Session and Shavuot service with Yizkor

Temple Shearith Israel, Ridgefield, CT JFC kids enjoying good weather at our BBQ

Shabbat Beha’alotecha, Numbers 8:1 - 12:16 June 6, 7:30 pm

Shabbat service

Free babysitting June 7, 10:00 am

Shabbat service including

Cecelia Bersch’s Bat Mitzvah

Shabbat Shelach, Numbers 13:1 - 15:41

Youth Group end of year Party

June 13, 7:30 pm

Shabbat service

June 14, 10:00 am

Shabbat service including

Sarah Senese’s Bat Mitzvah

Shabbat Korach, Numbers 16:1 - 18:32 June 20, 7:30 pm

Shabbat service

Free babysitting Shabbat Chukat and Rosh Chodesh, Numbers 19:1 - 22:1 June 27, 7:30 pm

ECC students learn about butterflies

Shabbat service

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From the Rabbi’s Desk Advocating for Our Values As many of you already know, my personal favorite Jewish organization is the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism (RAC), based in Washington, DC. As the advocacy arm of the Reform Movement, the RAC fights for the values Reform Jews believe in on the national level. One of the reasons the RAC is my favorite organization is that it helps ensure our values in the United States and around the world. Rather than work with a particular party or on behalf of a particular candidate, the RAC can be supportive of an elected official on one issue one day, and be against them the next day. The RAC forms many alliances with all types of organizations across the religious and political spectrum, again depending on the issues at hand. I know that our Jewish principles come to life in the real world when Rabbi David Saperstein, Director and Counsel of the RAC for over 30 years, speaks to leaders from around the country and around the world. Because of his brilliant mind and longevity in this position, those leaders listen to him. If you have not spent any time on their website, I encourage you to visit www.rac.org to learn more about it. You can also learn about many ways Jewish tradition intersects with modern issues and life.

About 12 years ago, using the model of the RAC, leaders in New York State decided that advocating for our principles can also be critical on a state level. With that in mind, the Reform Jewish Voice of New York State (RJV-NYS) was established to bring our values to the statewide discussions facing our legislature. Once a year, RJV-NYS organizes an Advocacy Day in Albany, and I have attended every year except one since I moved to New York seven years ago. Because I participate in the Advocacy Day each year, my elected officials and their staff know who I am. We tell our senators and assembly members the day we visit that we represent the almost 100,000 Reform Jews that live in New York State. It is also fun to meet people who attend the Advocacy Day

from Rochester, Buffalo, Long Island, NYC, and other areas of the state. Sometimes RJV-NYS is joined by clergy from liberal Christian denominations, other times we lobby with other Reform Jews. You can find more information here: www.rjvnys.org as well as learn about the issues we think are important.

Last month I traveled to Albany for the day to lobby on The Women’s Equality Act. We also shared our disappointment that the NY DREAM Act did not pass the legislature, nor did the Campaign Finance Reform during the last legislative session. We will probably continue to encourage our elected officials to pass these important bills, helping those who need it.

There are many ways to get involved in influencing our elected officials on the state and national level – visiting them, sending letters, making telephone calls, or sending e-mails. If you are interested in organizing some members of JFC to share our views on a particular matter, please be in touch with me.

I look forward to you joining me in working for Tikkun Olam – Repairing our World, Rabbi Marcus L. Burstein

Rabbi Burstein and other members of RJV-NYS meet with Senator Andrea Stewart-Cousins in Albany

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Ritual Committee-----------------Page 7

Religious School-------------------Page 4

Ask The Rabbi---------------------Page 8

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From The Presidents

by Glenn Kurlander and Hal Wolkin

We and the rest of the Board, together with our professional and office staff, and volunteer members of committees, have all been hard at work preparing email: office@jewishfamilycongregation.org for JFC’s Annual Meeting, to be held June 17. While you will receive a separate, website: www.jewishfamilycongregation.org formal notification of the meeting, together with other materials related to the ----------------meeting, because preparation for the Annual Meeting necessarily requires reflection on both where we’ve been and where we want to go, we’ll give you a Rabbi preview here of what we’ve been thinking. And with the Gala and Passover in Marcus L. Burstein, D.Min. rabbi@jewishfamilycongregation.org the rearview mirror, and our one-year term as co-Presidents coming to its end on June 30, we think it’s appropriate to reflect on the changes that we’ve seen at Cantor JFC during the fiscal year that ends on that date.

Kerry Ben-David cantor@jewishfamilycongregation.org

---------------Director of Education Leslie Gottlieb lgottlieb@jewishfamilycongregation.org Administrator Kathleen Sakowicz ksakowicz@jewishfamilycongregation.org Early Childhood Center Director Jane Weil Emmer jemmer@jewishfamilycongregation.org -------------------Glenn Kurlander Co-President Hal Wolkin Co-President president@jewishfamilycongregation.org Richard Mishkin, Vice-President Polly Schnell, Vice-President Robyn Cohen, Treasurer Suzanne Sunday, Secretary executive@jewishfamilycongregation.org Josh Blum, Trustee Karen Conti, Trustee Michael Gitlitz, Trustee Ken Levinsohn, Trustee Robi Margolis, Trustee Paul Storfer, Trustee Bonnie Wattles, Trustee Elisa Zuckerberg, Trustee board@jewishfamilycongregation.org -------------Shofar Editor Bryan Wolkin Shofar Printer Copy Stop Royal Press

In short, from our vantage point, we’ve witnessed a truly transformative spirit take hold within our special community: a spirit of revitalization and rededication; of renewed, enhanced and broadened community; of heightened energy and more ambitious possibility.

Of course, our fiscal year began with a huge change: the first change in JFC’s rabbinical leadership in almost two decades. While many of us continue to have deeply fond memories of Rabbi Freedman, it is impossible to overstate how fortunate we are to have found Rabbi Burstein to be our new teacher, spiritual guide and mentor. Maintaining organizational stability at times of transformative change can be an immense challenge, but Rabbi Burstein’s exuberant energy, his personal warmth and unusual sensitivity and his thoughtful intelligence have helped JFC not just weather the change but emerge from the transition with an energizing sense of excitement and possibility. His musical talent has blended beautifully with Cantor Kerry’s special gifts, bringing a deeper meaning and even greater joy to our Sabbath and holiday observances and to other occasions. And his sense of humor and his wonderful manner with children has endeared him to congregants of all ages.

As the year has progressed, it’s been wonderful to watch new members come into the fold, while long standing ones renew and deepen their bonds with one another. That sense of renewal and of revitalized commitment was very much on display at our recent Gala, which has become the high point of the JFC social calendar. Always an important fund-raising event, the Gala has become the defining celebration of our connectedness: an opportunity for us to come together and underscore our commitment to JFC and to one another, revel in our sense of shared mission and, just as important, simply have fun together.

The Gala has become a powerful acknowledgment of all that JFC is and all that it can be, and we’re grateful to all those who worked so tirelessly to make it a success.

And the bonds of community were readily visible at the Passover observance we recently shared with our neighbors, when members of Temple Shearith Israel, in Ridgefield joined us at JFC for a joint service. This first joint service, led by Rabbi Burstein and Cantor Ben-David, and their TSI counterparts Rabbi David Reiner and Cantor Deborah Katchko Gray, was an immense success. TSI will have the opportunity to return the hospitality on June 4, when they invite all members of the JFC community to join them at TSI for a Shavuot service led by Continued on page 9

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From the Religious School

By Leslie Gottlieb

“How can I know who I am until I see what I do? How can I know what I value until I see where I walk?”

Psychologist Karl Weick asked these very questions while studying moral identity in children. So what creates moral character, and as a parent how can I help develop strong character traits for my children as they grow? I would like to argue that in addition to modeling this behavior at home, giving children a value-based, meaningful religious education can serve as an additional force for laying the foundation for a morally-driven life.

If behavior and action drive character-- then practicing an ethical code is helpful here. As parents of the helicopter variety, many choose to constantly compliment actions rather than character as we guide our young children. According to Wharton professor Adam Grant, “Many parents believe it’s important to compliment the behavior, not the child—that way, the child learns to repeat the behavior.” He continues, “Praise appears to be particularly influential in the critical periods when children develop a stronger sense of identity.” If children are regularly exposed to actions of caring and giving and this behavior is modeled repeatedly, then the likelihood for imitation of this behavior increases. Research in this field is clear in that, “The most generous children were those who watched the teacher [in an experiment] give but not say anything,” according to Grant.

Judaism is a religion based more on deeds than words, in my mind, and within it we have all the parenting answers we could ever want or need. Can we really help to create caring individuals truly devoted to good deeds and committed to mitzvot, tikkun olam and tzedakah? The research implies that without doing, words alone will not stick to helping our children develop this sense of kindness. In the end Grant espouses, “If you don’t model generosity, preaching it may not help in the short run, and in the long run, preaching is less effective than giving while saying nothing at all.”

That’s why it is so important when our school parents get involved, and they do, in what we are modeling and volunteer alongside their children.

And remember feeling guilty as a child? Well, as it turns out, that is a good thing, a very good thing. Making someone feel guilty and sharing real disappointment with them is better, it turns out in studies, than

making someone feel shame. When children analyze their behaviors after disappointing someone they value, they establish and re-establish the necessary fuel to guide moral character. To analyze our own behavior at any age seems to be a good thing. If we create a standard of behavior for ourselves through self-examination and high expectations then empathy and kindness can result. “You’re a good person, even if you did a bad thing, and I know you can do better,” is, by the standards of psychologists Nancy Eisenberg and David R. Shaffer, a solid approach to training children to see themselves in control of their evolving character. A long-held educational/psychological theory shares this ideal that it is good to isolate behaviors from the whole child-- blaming these random negative actions as incidental rather than suggesting that the entire character of an individual is corrupt. You might say, “Yelling at your brother was not a nice thing to do-- rather than saying you’re bad because you yelled at your brother.”

In this way we can make a distinction that avoids crushing the identity of a person who means well, but whose momentary decision or act was not in the best interest of another person. We must always remember to model the behaviors we try to instill. I reflect often on a situation when, once in a grocery store, I came upon a mother hitting her son across the arm repeatedly and at the same time scolding him never to hit his little brother.” That punitive action and lecture will fail every time-- and the reasons are clear enough.

At the Religious School and in our Youth Group, with leadership from teachers and our clergy, everyone helps to decide as a group on one or two worthwhile organizations to support throughout the school year.

This year these charities included: R.O.A.R. (Ridgefield Operation for Animal Rescue), the Community Center of Northern Westchester, Shaaray Tefila of Bedford to help them run their annual seder for developmentallydisabled adults, Sloan Kettering’s Children’s Hospital, Feeding America, Taglit Birthright, Chai Lifeline, Jewish National Fund, Newtown Action Alliance (and the Jr. NAA), Invisible Children & Esther’s Aid (Rwandan relief efforts) and many others. In the classrooms and sanctuary at all age levels, when we talk about Torah and the characters in history who created the foundation for our ritual life, we think in terms of how these lessons can help us to improve the lives of others and how we can make a difference in our day.

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From The Early Childhood Center

by Jane Emmer

May was a very busy month for us. The weather warmed up and new life emerged after a long winter. Spring is one of my favorite times of year to get children outside to check out the changes in nature. Sometimes though, it is helpful to bring nature inside. One up-close science activity that we did this spring was to raise butterflies. Children are fascinated to see the life-cycle of a butterfly happen before their own eyes! It is one thing to read about it and another to see it happen in real life.

The butterfly larvae were delivered at the very beginning of May. We watched as they crawled around and danced right before our eyes. One day we noticed that they were quiet on the top of their home. We knew it was time to transfer them to their net where they would turn into butterflies. It was nothing short of magical to watch this happen.

May 6 was Israel Independance Day. We celebrated by taking a “trip” to Israel. It took the students at the ECC about 30 minutes to get to Israel on Friday May 9, including going through customs.

Their airplane consisted of rows of chairs and their pilots were two of their teachers, their passports and boarding passes were necessary for travel. The in-flight movie was Shalom Sesame.

While their feet never left the ground, the student’s jet-lag free version of Israel was a huge hit The trip included an archeological dig, a visit to the Wall and Israeli snacks. Rabbi Burstein taught us an Israeli dance and some Israeli music. It was a great trip.

On Wednesday, May 21 our entire school visited Green Chimneys Farm. We each had the chance for a pony ride. We enjoyed a wonderful hayride, a farm tour, and ended the morning with a picnic. It was great fun and we can’t wait to return next year.

As our year winds down, we are looking forward to our summer fun at JFC. Camp begins on June 23. There is still time to register for fall classes and summer fun. Call today!

From the Blue Room: In May we worked on Mother’s Day gifts and cards.

We learned are read all about bees and butterflies. We learned that insects have 6 legs and spiders have 8 legs. We named our favorite bug... ladybug was the big choice!

We discussed the new season, spring. We discussed clues for knowing that it is spring: “The grass is green,” “The buds are on the trees,” “”The air is warmer,” “There are bugs everywhere.”

We also learned all about the animals that live on the farm. We learned about baby animals and adult animals.

We watched our caterpillars grow and change. We charted the growth and the changes.

From the Yellow Room: We had a very busy month of May. We made Mother’s Day cards with handprints. We also decorated a clay pot and filled it with a beautiful plant. We went to Green Chimneys Farm and learned all about farm animals.

We watched our caterpillars turn into beautiful butterflies.

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From The Ritual Committee

By Michael Salpeter, Chair

Memorial Day, the “unofficial” start of the summer has passed. Many aspects of life now take on summer mode – at JFC, both the Religious School and the Early Childhood Center have ended their classes. Quite a number of our former students graduated from college, and others are preparing for their high school graduation ceremonies. Businesses have converted to their summer hours and families are planning their summer vacations.

Summer also marks a busy time for the ritual committee. We have a number of exciting activities planned for the upcoming weeks. On May 2 we kicked off our events with a prospective new member barbecue, along with both family and traditional services which was well attended. Saturday, May 31 has been set aside for a hike and Havdalah service. July 4 occurs on a Friday this year and Shabbat services that night begin at 6 pm. Although not confirmed, we hope this will be a joint service with congregants and clergy from Temple Shearith Israel of Ridgefield, CT. The second barbecue of the season is planned for July 18, hopefully with weather conducive to outdoor seating, along with Shabbat services. A traditional JFC “Shabbat in the Great Outdoors” (SITGO) has been scheduled for August 15 with congregants invited to bring a picnic dinner followed by an enjoyable outdoor service.

There are also a number of events we are planning which do not yet have dates at the time of the writing of this column. These include a Sephardic Shabbat service with seating in the round featuring Ladino songs, a Sunday visit to the Gomez Mill House in Marlboro, NY, (the oldest Jewish dwelling in North America), and a Sunday walking tour of the Lower East Side. Finally, our celebration of summer will conclude with a 6 pm service on the Friday evening of Labor Day weekend.

We also began planning for the High Holy Days which occur quite a bit later in the secular calendar than they did last year. Plans are being developed to re-introduce a meaningful Selichot service the Saturday night prior to Rosh Hashanah, to sponsor an activity for children and adults to create decorative embellishments for our tent, and to hold a Second Day Rosh Hashanah luncheon which we introduced last year. If you attended the luncheon last year, you know it was absolutely stupendous. If you will be a first-timer this year, we look forward to welcoming you.

Please continue to follow the announcement of these activities in the Shofar and weekly e-mail blasts. The rabbi and the members of the ritual committee look forward to sharing these events with your family.

Use the Shofar to say...

Happy Birthday, Get Well, Thanks, or I Remember...

Sanctuary Chair Plaque $150 Leaf on Simcha Tree $180 Memorial Board Plaque $450 General Fund Building Fund Caring Committee Fund Social Action Fund Ground Beautification Fund JFC-URJ Camp Fund Molly and Gregory RS Scholership Fund Rabbi Discretionary Fund Music and Choir Fund Religious School Director Fund

Good Luck to the Carson family.

We will miss you!

Thank you for all that you did for JFC Our loss is Needham, MA’s gain.

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June Board Host: Michael Gitlitz 6/6/2014

Jay Zaslow and Samantha Rai

HS Graduation Service

Matthew Ducket and Elisabeth Rich

Bat Mitzvah of Cecelia Bersch

Jodi Waxman 6/13/2014

Jay Zaslow and Samantha Rai

Matthew Ducket and Elisabeth Rich

6/20/2014

Graeme and Catherine Lipper

Shaun and Marnie Levine

6/27/2014

Judy and Steve Vandervelden

Paul and Kathy Storfer

Bat Mizvah of Sarah Senese

Torah Chanters and Readers Wanted!

On High Holy Days, our lay people at JFC take the lead in reading and chanting of our most ancient texts. If you are interested in chanting Torah or reading for the High Holy Days please contact Rabbi Burstein at: rabbi@jewishfamilycongregation.org as soon as possible.

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Ask The Rabbi What is the meaning and importance of Shavuot?

Shavuot literally means “weeks” (from shavua, week), and takes place 50 days after the beginning of Passover.

The two holidays are connected in that we were freed from Egyptian slavery in order to worship our God in a Jewish way. Because Shavuot is so important in the biblical calendar, we count each of the 49 days leading up to that holiday and include an extra blessing in our daily prayers – this period is called Sefirat HaOmer, the Counting of the Omer, an omer being a measure of grain. Other names in the torah for Shavuot are Chag Hakatzir (the Harvest Festival) and Chag Habikurim (the Festival of First Fruits).

Shavuot is one of the three pilgrimage festivals in the Jewish calendar, along with Passover and Sukkot. The torah commands us to go to The Temple in Jerusalem to offer extra (animal and food) sacrifices for the first fruits of our crops. Since The Temple in Jerusalem was destroyed in 70 CE, the observance of the holiday takes place in synagogues around the world, with prayers replacing animal sacrifices.

In addition to marking the first of the barley harvest in the Land of Israel, Shavuot commemorates Z’man Matan Torah – the Season of the Giving of the Torah. To celebrate this event, the torah reading for the holiday includes the Ten Commandments. The special haftarah reading comes from the Book of Ruth. As one of the first “official” converts to Judaism, Ruth accepts the torah just like the Israelites accepted the torah. The Book of Ruth also contains passages relating to the barley harvest.

When the Reform Movement began the ceremony of Confirmation for high school students, the holiday of Shavuot was chosen because of its meaning. Just as we affirm our connection to torah by studying it and celebrating on Shavuot, confirmation students again take on the responsibility to learn and fulfill its mitzvot.

Please join us at JFC on Tuesday, June 3 at 7:30 pm as we celebrate the confirmation ceremony of Isaiah Blum, Shoshana Chipman, and Zachary Kaplan. On Wednesday, June 4, we will continue to celebrate Shavuot as we join our sister congregation Temple Shearith Israel at 10 am in Ridgefield, CT, for a service and short study session.

One of the ways Jewish communities celebrate Shavuot is by studying words of torah. Some congregations hold a Tikkun Leil Shavuot, or a study session late into the night. A few congregations even study all night long until morning! I remember hearing a story as a young boy in Sunday school that said the sky opened on the night of Shavuot, and I remember looking out my bedroom window that night trying to see that happen. Of course, I fell asleep before midnight and did not see the sky open!

We also celebrate Shavuot by eating dairy foods, because the torah is supposed to be sweet in our mouths “like milk and honey.” Be sure to join us at JFC on Tuesday, June 3 when we will conclude our service with ice cream sundaes. Chag Sameach – Happy Shavuot!

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Continued from page 4 We may be teaching the alef bet and Jewish history-- but there is so much more going on at the JFC Religious School. As teachers (and I include the Rabbi and Cantor here), we are constantly trying, as leaders of developing minds, to model the best behaviors and practices so that children can see themselves individuals who possess strong moral characters. We are constantly modeling and rewarding kindness-- and gemilut chasidim.

These children are our future in every way, and the path we create for them together is full of possibility, wonder and promise.

We look forward to seeing all of our children and Youth Group members in the fall and over the summer, too.

Safe travels to all!!!

Todah Rabbah to‌ All the Religious School staff members, mentors, class parents, Youth Group members and its Board-- and all volunteers Rabbi Burstein and Cantor Ben David (our clergy) for their support, leadership and friendship.

Jane, Kathleen, Carol, Laurence (our professional staff) for everything all year long.

Karen Blum for her tirelessness this year and always-- and for her leadership in sending out holiday gifts four times this year to JFC students away at college—even overseas. Gifts this year were sent for the HHDs, Chanukah, Purim and Passover, and our K-6 students helped to prepare cards and gifts that added another layer of meaning to this effort.

To Bryan Wolkin for his efforts in creating The Shofar all year long.

To Hal Wolkin, Glenn Kurlander and the JFC Board of Trustees and the Religious School Committee for their ongoing support.

To the members of JFAB (Jewish Family Alliance for a Better-world).

Carol Wakeman (and her family) for her help this year in creating a meaningful program this year to bring together JFC and the Newtown community.

Continued from page 3 Rabbi Reiner and Rabbi Burstein and Cantor Katchko Grey and Cantor Ben-David. Please join us as we expand the meaning and significance of community as we come together again with our Temple Shearith Israel neighbors.

Glenn Kurlander and Hal Wolkin

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Temple Shearith Israel

Erev 7th Day Passover Services including Yizkor Sunday, April 20 at 7 pm Jewish Family Congregation, 111 Smith Ridge Road, South Salem, NY

Shavuot Study and Service including Yizkor Wednesday, June 4 at 10 am Temple Shearith Israel 46 Peaceable St, Ridgefield, CT For more information please look on our temple websites: www.jewishfamilycongregation.org and www.tsiridgefield.org

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Shavuot 5774 Join us for Erev Shavuot Tuesday, June 3, 7:30 pm As we will honor our confirmands

Isaiah Blum, Shoshana Chipman, and Zachary Kaplan Each will share a few thoughts on this special occasion

Festive Ice Cream Sundae reception to follow

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JFC Graduation Shabbat Friday, June 6, 2014, 7:30 pm

Some of our graduating students

Please join us at this special Shabbat service where we will honor our graduating high school students.

They will receive a blessing from Rabbi Burstein and Cantor Kerry as they embark on a new phase in life.

Students will also receive a gift from JFC. Come celebrate with them and us!

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Make JFC Sparkle June 8, 2014 10 am—4 pm Rain or Shine

The Men's Group invites you to participate in our second Make JFC Sparkle.

Volunteers Needed Contact Greg Schwartz at greg26@optonline.net if you are available for an hour or two or more.

Open to volunteers age 12 and older.

Please wear old clothing and bring work gloves.

RSVP by May 30 to: greg26@optonline.net

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Sisterhood Spring Dinner June 8, 2014 WOMEN OF VALOR & COURAGE Eshet Chayil

Please join us at the Sisterhood Spring Dinner We will be honoring Polly Schnell as she has shown her dedication, elegance and loyalty to Jewish Family Congregation.

Date & Time: Sunday, June 8 @ 6:30 pm Place: Jewish Family Congregation Host by JFC Sisterhood: $10 Suggested Donation RSVP: Nicole Rose @ rosetimes4@sbcglobal.net

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Jewish Family Congregation’s

FAMILY BARBECUE Friday, July 18

5:30 pm Family Service for all ages 6:00 pm BBQ and Shabbat sing-a-long 7:30 pm Shabbat Service with Free Babysitting

BRING A FRIEND OR TWO NO CHARGE WE SUPPLY: Burgers (beef & veggie)/buns, hotdogs/buns, potato salad, cole slaw, condiments and paper goods.

YOU SUPPLY: Beverages and any other (kosher-style) food you’d like to grill.

YOU MAY ALSO WANT: Lawn chairs/blankets Bug Spray Frisbees, etc.

R.S.V.P. by noon Thursday, July 17

Either call (914) 763-3028 or email office@jewishfamilycongregation.org with number of people Jewish Family Congregation * 111 Smith Ridge Road * South Salem, NY 10590

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Donations General Fund Jeff Berg and Debra Paget in memory of Francis Horvilleur Anthony and Jodi Senese in memory of Francis Horvilleur Kenneth Aufsessor in memory of Francis Horvilleur Doris Hettmansberger in memory of Francis Horvilleur Roberta Margolis in memory of Arthur Margolis Adam and Robyn Cohen in memory of Francis Horvilleur Gordon and Polly Schnell in memory of Francis Horvilleur Michael and Marlene Actis-Grande in memory of Phylis Goldfield Ken Kurzweil and Suzanne Sunday in memory of Phyllis Goldfield Ken Kurzweil and Suzanne Sunday in memory of Muriel Silberstein - Storfer Doris Hettmansberger in memory of Phyllis Goldfield Grounds Beautification Fund David and Phyllis Amerling in memory of Jack and Helen Bergson JFC-URJ Camp Fund Jane Emmer in memory of Francis Horvilleur Rabbi Discretionary Fund Philip and Carol Poll Basse in honor of Jordan Schwartz becoming a Bar Mitzvah Clark Funeral Home in memory of Phyllis Goldfield

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Youth Group, High School Seniors and Confirmands

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Religious School Carnival and STARS PARTY

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Birthdays Jonathan Auerbach

Renna Gottlieb

Meredith Rudin

Newton Bersch

Max Grzymala

Abigail Rudin

Samuel Breslin

Doris Hettmansberger

Jonathan Rudin

Maggie Ceisler

Andrew Junquera

Sarah Senese

Brian Chipman

Emily Klotz

Tony Senese

Shoshana Chipman

Mark Lavin

Elyse Sherr

Julie Conti

Spencer Levine

Heather Sherr

Roger Drawec

Shaun Levine

Noah Sklarin

Emily Feldman

Talia Levinsohn

Andrea Stegman

Daniel Feldman

Graeme Lipper

Barbara Stern

Stuart Feldman

Dara Marceau

Samantha Stevelman

Robert Fischman

Danielle Ossher

Byron Wilson

Alison Ganis

Alexander Ozols

Hal Wolkin

Daniela Goldman

Lisa Papernik

Ava Goodstein

Alex Perlman

Martha Gordon

Nathaniel Rappaport

Yahrzeits Adolph Joseph Auerbacher Yehuda Ayash Helen Bergson Norda Berlin Judith Birnbaum

Estelle Bloch Ed Blum Maurice L. Cohen David Dutka Marilyn Eslofsky Indy Goldman

Marlene Ellen Klotz Tim Neary Tuesday Lillian Paget Ruth Pottish Martin Shapiro

Philip Stein Pearl Weiss Bernard Yegelwel Clarissa Zaltzberg

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Anniversaries Heath & Danielle Bender

Glenn & Deborah Kurlander

Alan & Lisa Sheptin

Peter & Liza Breslin

Shaun Levine & Marnie CohenLevine

Michael & Traci Silva

Rick & Bobbie Cohlan Roger & Jo Drawec Allen Gabor & Lisa Papernik Steven & Melissa Goodstein Terry Kalter & Marcia Sher-Kalter

Richard & Catherine Mishkin Richard & Johanna Perlman Alan & Jeanette Sanders Gordon & Polly Schnell

John & Barbara Stern Paul & Peri Stevelman Michael & Emily Wein Hal & Laurie Wolkin

Steve & Cheryl Shainmark

A big Thank You to: Richard Mishkin, David Fischer, Bryon Friedman, John Grzymala, Ken Aufsesser, Mitch Kahn, and Jay Zaslow for helping with the JFC Open House BBQ on Friday evening. The entire evening was a great success, and we could not have done it without your help! Please join us for our next BBQ on Friday, July 18.

Michelle Blum for organizing the Morris Glass lecture and the wonderful reception afterwards. With over 120 people in attendance, it was a huge success. And thank you Mr. Glass for visiting us.

All of you who helped to make this year’s STARS party and Carnival at JFC such a great success. Not only was it a fun day for our families, but this year we had a strong social action component that enhanced the value of the experience for all in attendance.

Those who helped bring the following organizations (some on behalf of JFAB, Jewish Family Alliance for a Better-world) to our attention: The Smile Train, Hope’s Door, Autism Speaks, and Ben’s Bells Kindness Project and the NAA (Newtown Action Alliance) - two Newtown , CT, groups we are happy to support.

Ben’s Bells is sending us a bell of our own to frame in honor of Amy, Molly and Gregory. Thank you, Jennifer, Mary Jo and Wendy.

Marcy Silverman for the donation of the puzzles for the school fundraiser.

Michelle Blum for taking beautiful class and individual photos for the Early Childhood Center.

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