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1 CONGREGATION AM HAYAM 4839 Market Street, Unit C, Ventura, Ca. 93003 Phone (805) 644-2899 Fax (805) 644-2887 Website: www.AmHayam.com From The Rabbi’s Study—November 2016 From the Rabbis Study What If We Cant Love Our Neighbor? A newspaper cartoon shows a rather testy-looking woman greeting his pastor on the way out of church. The caption reads, Id like to see you love my neighbors!She has a point—a point we usually prefer to overlook. We quote the biblical verse You shall love your neighbor as yourself (Leviticus 19:18), the very last verse we read on Yom Kippur afternoon, just before the gates of Neilah drew shut. When we hear this verse we nod our heads approvingly, and then we have that warm, self-righteous feeling as we add, Yes, I believe in that.We are entering our Christian neighborsholy day Advent season, when even unreli- gious Americans proclaim Peace and love and good will on earth”. Some people who profess no religious faith of any consequence will frequently explain themselves, For me, loving your neighbor as yourself is my religion.If only it were as easy to observe that command as it is to quote it! But as the uncon- vinced woman reminded the preacher, it isnt all that easy. Forget the neighbors for a minute. I ask: Is it really possible for us to relate in love to some of the people we actually know? To all of them? Do we love all our relatives? A deeper question, but clearly related: How much do we really love ourselves? Are we all that lovable? Is it a simple matter for all who know us to love us? As we stop to reflect on one of the most widely acclaimed Jewish teachings, we real- ize that it is more easily professed than practiced. As an ideal toward which to aim, it is lofty and pure, but as a guide to daily living, it is far from practical. There is another serious weakness in the biblical injunction. Can human relations be guided by love alone? Love is an emotion, and we cannot always control our emo- tions, even with the best of intentions. And love does not always guide us to make the best decisions. If we feel no love for our neighbor, what then? continued HAMIGDALOR

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CONGREGATION AM HAYAM

4839 Market Street, Unit C, Ventura, Ca. 93003 Phone (805) 644-2899 Fax (805) 644-2887

Website: www.AmHayam.com

From The Rabbi’s Study—November 2016

From the Rabbi’s Study

What If We Can’t Love Our Neighbor?

A newspaper cartoon shows a rather testy-looking woman greeting his pastor on the way out of church. The caption reads, “I’d like to see you love my neighbors!”

She has a point—a point we usually prefer to overlook. We quote the biblical verse You shall love your neighbor as yourself (Leviticus 19:18), the very last verse we read on Yom Kippur afternoon, just before the gates of Ne’ilah drew shut. When we hear this verse we nod our heads approvingly, and then we have that warm, self-righteous feeling as we add, “Yes, I believe in that.”

We are entering our Christian neighbors’ holy day Advent season, when even unreli-gious Americans proclaim “Peace and love and good will on earth”. Some people who profess no religious faith of any consequence will frequently explain themselves, “For me, loving your neighbor as yourself is my religion.”

If only it were as easy to observe that command as it is to quote it! But as the uncon-vinced woman reminded the preacher, it isn’t all that easy.

Forget the neighbors for a minute. I ask: Is it really possible for us to relate in love to some of the people we actually know? To all of them? Do we love all our relatives?

A deeper question, but clearly related: How much do we really love ourselves? Are we all that lovable? Is it a simple matter for all who know us to love us?

As we stop to reflect on one of the most widely acclaimed Jewish teachings, we real-ize that it is more easily professed than practiced. As an ideal toward which to aim, it is lofty and pure, but as a guide to daily living, it is far from practical.

There is another serious weakness in the biblical injunction. Can human relations be guided by love alone? Love is an emotion, and we cannot always control our emo-tions, even with the best of intentions. And love does not always guide us to make the best decisions.

If we feel no love for our neighbor, what then? continued

HAMIGDALOR

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The answer is provided by the majestic words, Justice, justice shall you pursue

(Deuteronomy 16:20). We may not be able to control our feelings, but we can and

must control our actions. We may not be able to give our neighbors love, but we are

never permitted to withhold justice from them. This much we owe them no matter how

we feel about them. And if we avoid harming them in any way, the feeling of love may

come later.

John Ruskin, the nineteenth-century English essayist seemingly addressed himself to

this very theme when he wrote:

If we do justice to our brother even though we may not like him, we will come to

love him; but if we do injustice to him because we do not love him, we will come

to hate him.

If we do take seriously the thundering biblical command Justice, justice shall you pur-

sue, we may come at last to love one another. If we do not, then love can wait.

Justice cannot.

Rabbi J.B. Sacks

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Message from Brenda Rich

Greetings: For those of you who were not at services on Yom Kippur Day, I am sending you my appeal speech which is given each year with the hope that you will reach deep in-side your HEARTS and contribute to CAH to ensure its survival. Those of you who were at CAH and heard my appeal and have not pledged yet, again I appeal to you from my heart. WE ARE YOUR SHUL. YOU ARE OUR COMMUNITY.

G’MAR TOV! ONCE AGAIN I STAND BEFORE YOU--HUMBLE AND OVERCOME WITH THIS TASK THAT HAS BEEN PLACED IN MY HANDS--THE TASK OF ASKING FOR YOU TO REACH INTO YOUR POCKETS AND PLEDGE MONEY. IN MY HEAD I AM TERRIFIED BUT IN MY HEART I FIND COMFORT, BECAUSE WHAT I AM ASKING MONEY FOR IS SO DEAR TO MY HEART. AND THAT IS WHAT I WANT YOU TO DO, TO LISTEN WITH NOT JUST YOUR EARS BUT WITH YOUR HEARTS AND I WANT EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU TO REACH INTO YOUR HEARTS. ALL OF US HERE HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO CONTRIBUTE TO OUR SHUL TODAY. AND UNLIKE OTHER ORGANIZATIONS THAT YOU SUPPORT, YOU CAN SEE RIGHT BEFORE YOUR EYES THE RESULTS OF YOUR GENEROSITY, LOOK AROUND AND SEE OUR TREE OF LIFE, OUR MEMORIAL BOARD, OUR BEAUTIFUL CALLIGRAPHY OF THE 5 BOOKS OF THE TORAH. AND JUST LOOK UP ON THE BIMA AT WHAT WE HAVE. YOU HAVE HEARD AND WILL CONTINUE TO HEAR THE BEAUTIFUL RENDITIONS OF OUR PRAYERS FROM CANTORIAL SOLOIST MITZI SCHWARZ. WE ARE SO LUCKY TO HAVE HER GRACE OUR BIMA. MONETARILY SHE COULD DO MUCH BETTER ELSEWHERE BUT SHE HAS CHOSEN TO BE HERE. AND OUR RABBI. SINCE COMING HERE 5 YEARS AGO, HE HAS HAD NO INCREASE FOR HIS SER-VICES. AND YOU SEE AND HEAR WHAT HE DOES. HIS D’VAR TORAHS, HIS TORAH READINGS, HIS HAFTORAH READINGS, HIS DISCUSSIONS, HIS NUMEROUS HANDOUTS, HIS NUMEROUS HOURS OF PREP-ARATION. NOT ONLY DOES HE NOT ASK TO BE REIMBURSED FOR ANY OF HIS EXPENSES, BUT HE REFUS-ES TO ACCEPT PAYMENT WHEN OFFERED. HE IS ONE IN A MILLION AND WE ARE FORTUNATE TO HAVE HIM.

WE WILL ALSO BE BRINGING YOU SO MUCH IN THE YEAR 5777. MONDAYS WITH MORT LED BY MORT RESNICK WILL CONTINUE TO BRING YOU FULLER EXPLANATIONS OF THE WEEKLY TORAH PORTIONS. OUR SIGNIFICANT BOOK CLUB, UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF EDUCATION VICE PRESIDENT, FRAN LANDE, WILL BE BRINGING YOU 4 BOOKS THAT WILL BE DISCUSSED. THE FIRST ON WILL BE ON DECEMBER 18TH THE COLLECTED STORIES BY GRACE PALEY. THREE MORE BOOKS HAVE ALREADY BEEN CHOSEN. ANDREA MASSION AND HER WAYS & MEANS COMMITTEE WILL BE BRINGING US 3 EMPOWERING, PRO-VOCATIVE, AND THOUGHTFUL COMPELLING SPEAKERS BEGINNING WITH GABRIEL CORDELL ON FEBRU-ARY 16 SHOWING "ROLL WITH ME" A FILM DOCUMENTING HIS 99 DAY TRIP ACROSS THE U.S. TO BECOME THE FIRST PERSON TO DO SO USING A MANUAL WHEELCHAIR. REBECCA D. COSTA WILL SPEAK IN MARCH AND RONNIE SANLO WILL SPEAK IN APRIL MIRIAM MACK, OUR MEMBERSHIP VICE PRESIDENT AND HER COMMITTEE HAS PUT TOGETHER A FOLDER CONTAINING COMPLETE INFORMATION ABOUT CAH. GUESTS PLEASE TAKE ONE ON YOUR WAY OUT. ON NOVEMBER 6TH, RABBI SACKS WILL BE CONDUCTING A COOKING DEMONSTRATION FEATURING COOKING AND THE COMMUNITY.

WE NOW HAVE STARTED A CHAVURAH - THE MENSCHES -WHOSE NEXT GET TOGETHER WILL BE ON NO-

VEMBER 13 AT ROUND TABLE PIZZA IN VENTURA FOLLOWED BY A GET TOGETHER AT A HOME FOR A

LIVELY DISCUSSION.

AND SO MUCH MORE WILL BE PROVIDED THROUGH CAH. continued

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WE ARE YOUR SHUL. YOU ARE OUR COMMUNITY. NONE OF YOU WOULD BE HERE IF YOU DIDN’T FEEL THAT. IT IS OUR CRAVING FOR A SENSE OF COMMUNITY THAT KEEPS US TOGETHER. AND WE GREATLY NEED YOUR SUPPORT. IF YOU ARE COUNTING ON THE PERSON SITTING NEXT TO YOU TO MAKE A CONTRIBUTION, AND YOU WILL SIT THIS ONE OUT, GUESS WHAT, IF EVERYONE TAKES THIS STANCE WE WON’T BE HERE WORSHIPPING NEXT YEAR. IN THE UNATANE TOKEF PRAYER ON ROSH HASHANAH WE ARE REMINDED THAT THREE THINGS ARE NECESSARY TO CONVINCE G-D TO FORGIVE OUR SINS, NAMELY: TESHUVAH (REPENTANCE), TEFILAH (PRAYER), AND TZEDAKAH (CHARITY). YOU ALL WILL HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO FUL-FILL THIS PRAYER BY CONTRIBUTING FUNDS TO YOUR PLACE OF WORSHIP - CONGREGATION AM HAYAM. WE ARE YOUR SHUL. YOU ARE OUR COMMUNITY. WE ARE A HOLY COMMUNITY OF FRIENDS AND FAMILIES WHO SUPPORT YOU THROUGH ADVER-SITY WHO SHARE YOUR JOYS AND SORROWS AND WHO HELP CELEBRATE YOUR JOYS. WE ARE HERE TO HELP YOU BY OFFERING RIDES TO SERVICES, TO TAKE YOU TO DOCTORS, TO INVITE YOU TO SHARE A MEAL, TO CALL YOU AND SAY HOW ARE YOU DOING. WE CARE ABOUT YOU. I KNOW PERSONALLY OF THE CARING AND LOVE GIVEN BY MEMBERS OF MY HOLY COMMUNITY--CAH DURING THE RECENT ILLNESS OF MY HUSBAND, ARNIE. YOUR CALLS, CARDS, TOUCHES HAVE MADE THIS DIFFICULT TIME MORE BEARABLE. WE ARE YOUR SHUL. YOU ARE OUR COMMUNITY. THERE IS PROBABLY NO ONE IN THIS ROOM WHO HAS NOT SUFFERED A LOSS OF SOMEONE THEY LOVED OR CARED ABOUT. WE LOST OUR SON WHEN HE WAS 32 YEARS OLD. ALTHOUGH HIS DEATH OCCURRED BEFORE WE WERE MEMBERS OF AM HAYAM, HIS PRESENCE IS HERE BECAUSE OUR MEMORIAL BOARD IS DEDICATED TO HIS MEMORY. THIS YEAR OUR SHUL HAS LOST 3 TREASURED MEMBERS. JACK SPERBER OF BLESSED MEMORY HELPED BUILD THIS BIMA. HIS PRESENCE IS HERE. STELLA BERMAN, BELOVED WIFE OF BOB BERMAN, PRESENCE IS HERE. STELLA STOOD ON THIS BIMA DURING HER BAT MITZVAH IN HER LATE 80’S AND SHE READ FROM THE TORAH DURING THIS HO-LY DAY. MORT MARGOLIS LEFT US ON THIS PAST THURSDAY. HIS PRESENCE IS ALSO HERE. AND ALSO PRESENT HERE ARE ALL THOSE LISTED ON OUR MEMORIAL WALL. THEY ARE URGING US NOT TO GIVE UP - NOT TO FADE AWAY. WE GATHER TOGETHER TO REMIND OURSELVES THAT WE ARE NOT ISLANDS AND OUR LIVES ARE TIED TOGETHER. WE ARE YOUR SHUL. YOU ARE OUR COMMUNITY. YOU ALL KNOW THAT DUES ALONE CANNOT SUPPORT CAH. IF IT COULD I WOULDN’T HAVE TO STAND HERE MAKING THIS APPEAL. I HOPE YOU LISTENED WITH YOUR HEART AND WILL GIVE LIFE TO OUR SHUL. GIVE LIFE TO THE JEWISH TRADITION OF TZEDAKAH. IT IS CRUCIAL THAT WE SIMPLY DON’T GIVE A LITTLE BUT STRIVE TO REACH DEEP INSIDE OURSELVES AND GIVE OUR HARD-EARNED MEANS. CONGREGATION AM HAYAM IS COUNTING ON YOU. YOU HOLD THE KEY TO OUR FU-TURE. WE ARE YOUR SHUL. YOU ARE OUR COMMUNITY. TODAH RABAH

G’MAR CHATIMA TOVAH. MAY YOU BE SEALED IN THE BOOK OF LIFE – FOR GOOD. Next month I will talk about the services and give thanks to all who helped make them so meaningful. But please pay attention to all the articles and fliers regarding all the events coming in November starting with Community and Food on November 6th and Havurah event on November 13th.

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CONGREGATION AM HAYAM

Remember!!!!!!

SCRIP = GIFT CARDS

Purchasing “scrip” means

buying gift cards!!

CAH can meet all your needs:

Markets; Restaurants; Dept. Stores;

Entertainment; Gas Cards; Brent’s Deli;

Ventura Kosher Market and more

Contact Brenda Rich

at [email protected]

or 805-469-1818

Need a special order???? Just ask!!!!!

We are here for YOU!!!!!

Holidays are coming!!!!!!!!!

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Mondays with Mort

During the month of November there will NOT be any sessions of Mondays With Mort at CAH.

Question of the Month:

What is the flood in Genesis analogous to?

The answers can be found at http://www.mondayswithmort.com/doyouknow.htm,

Also be sure to check out the entire

Mondays with Mort web site at

http://www.mondayswithmort.com

and the

CAH web site at www.amhayam.com .

Mort

$36 $75 $100 $250 $500 $1000 $2500 $5000

Here is our pledge….

“We want to keep Judaism alive

at Congregation Am HaYam”

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Tree Planted In Israel November 2016

To Ronald Boronkay

In Memory Of

loving daughter Nora

From Paul, Alma, Susanna, Terri and Danny

To Alma Golden

In loving memory of your

granddaughter Nora Ataturki

From Ruthy Resnick

Judye and Rick Newberger

Brenda and Arnie Rich

To Bratspis Family

You will be sorely missed

From Lee and Milt Rothschild

To Marsha Spector

In memory of Irwin Spector

From Brenda and Arnie Rich

To Claudia Katz

In memory of Gerry Katz

From Brenda and Arnie Rich

To Charlotte Johnson

Complete recovery

From Brenda and Arnie Rich

To Scott Fishman

Complete recovery

From Brenda and Arnie Rich

To Judy Margolis and Family

In loving memory of

Mort Marigolis

Loving Husband, Father & Grandfather

From Brenda and Arnie Rich

Alma Golden

Elaine Hanig

To Alma Golden

In honor of your 90th birthday

From Brenda and Arnie Rich

To Alma Golden

Complete recovery

From Brenda and Arnie Rich

To Roz and Mort Resnick

Special thanks for your hospitality

From Donna Gustafson

To Brenda and Arnie Rich

Congratulations on your "chai "award

From Donna Gustafson

To Erika Schwartz

Complete recovery

From Brenda and Arnie Rich

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November Birthday’s

If your birthday or anniversary is not acknowledged please email me at

[email protected]

November Anniversaries

NO ANNIVERSARIES

Gerald Davis 11

Janice Aharon-Ezer 15

Fil Barton 25

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CHAVURAH INTEREST

The Membership Committee is sending you this form to discover if you have an interest in joining a

Chavurah. A Chavurah is a small group of families, couples or individuals who share common inter-

ests and desires. These groups meet together, usually monthly, to study, socialize, cook, camp, or

participate in any other activities. Each group sets their own schedule and plans their own activities.

A Chavurah is a wonderful way to build and nurture strong friendships within our Congregation Am

HaYam family extending beyond the schedule of community services and events

After receiving back this questionnaire, an organizational meeting will be set to get everyone together

to make further plans.

Name(s)________________________________________________________________________

Address_________________________________________________________________________

Phone #______________________________________ Email______________________________

Name and age of other members in your household______________________________________

Please circle age group you prefer: 30 -39 40-59 Over 60

Please circle the situation that best applies to you and your family:

Single Adult Adults Only Family (events with children) Other___________________

What type of events do you expect from a Chavurah (e.g. Judaic Studies; Social Activities; Sporting

events; Discussion groups; Jewish cooking; Book groups; Theater groups, other Interests?)

Please fill out this form and return it to: Brenda Rich; 4030 Nice Court; Oxnard, CA 93035

FORM AVAILABLE DIGITALLY AT www.amhayam.com

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ADULT EDUCATION PRESENTS SIGNIFICANT BOOK CLUB

1. The first event is Sunday December 18, 2016 at 1 pm at Brenda and Arnie's House.

The book is The Collected Stories by Grace Paley.

This reissue of Grace Paley's classic collection―a finalist for the National Book Award―demonstrates her rich use of language as well as her extraordinary insight into and compassion for her characters, moving from the hilarious to the tragic and back again. Whether writing about the love (and conflict) between parents and children or between husband and wife, or about the struggles of aging single mothers or disheartened political organizers to make sense of the world, she brings the same unerring ear for the rhythm of life as it is actually lived.

The Collected Stories is a 1994 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.

2.The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara by David Kertze

The extraordinary story of how the vatican's imprisonment of a six-year-old Jewish boy in 1858 helped to bring about the collapse of the popes' worldly power in Italy.

Bologna: nightfall, June 1858. A knock sounds at the door of the Jewish merchant Momolo Mortara. Two officers of the Inquisition bust inside and seize Mortara's six-year-old son, Edgardo. As the boy is wrenched from his fa-ther's arms, his mother collapses. The reason for his abduction: the boy had been secretly "baptized" by a family servant. According to papal law, the child is therefore a Catholic who can be taken from his family and delivered to a special monastery where his conversion will be completed.

With this terrifying scene, prize-winning historian David I. Kertzer begins the true story of how one boy's kidnap-ping became a pivotal event in the collapse of the Vatican as a secular power. The book evokes the anguish of a modest merchant's family, the rhythms of daily life in a Jewish ghetto, and also explores, through the revolution-ary campaigns of Mazzini and Garibaldi and such personages as Napoleon III, the emergence of Italy as a mod-ern national state. Moving and informative, the Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara reads as both a historical thriller and an an authoritative analysis of how a single human tragedy changed the course of history.

3.Six Days of War by Michael Oren

Though it lasted for only six tense days in June, the 1967 Arab-Israeli war never really ended. Every crisis that has ripped through this region in the ensuing decades, from the Yom Kippur War of 1973 to the ongoing intifada, is a direct consequence of those six days of fighting. Michael B. Oren’s magnificent Six Days of War, an interna-tionally acclaimed bestseller, is the first comprehensive account of this epoch-making event.

Writing with a novelist’s command of narrative and a historian’s grasp of fact and motive, Oren reconstructs both the lightning-fast action on the battlefields and the political shocks that electrified the world. Extraordinary person-alities—Moshe Dayan and Gamal Abdul Nasser, Lyndon Johnson and Alexei Kosygin—rose and toppled from power as a result of this war; borders were redrawn; daring strategies brilliantly succeeded or disastrously failed in a matter of hours. And the balance of power changed—in the Middle East and in the world. A towering work of history and an enthralling human narrative, Six Days of War is the most important book on the Middle East con-flict to appear in a generation.

4. In My Brother's Image by Eugene Pogany is the extraordinary story of Eugene Pogany's father and uncle-identical twin brothers born in Hungary of Jewish parents but raised as devout Catholic converts until the Second World War unraveled their family. In eloquent prose, Pogany portrays how the Holocaust destroyed the brothers' close childhood bond: his father, a survivor of a Nazi internment camp, denounced Christianity and returned to the Judaism of his birth, while his uncle, who found shelter in an Italian monastic community during the war, be-came a Catholic priest. Even after emigrating to America the brothers remained estranged, each believing the other a traitor to their family's faith. This tragic memoir is a rich, moving family portrait as well as an objective his-torical account of the rupture between Jews and Catholics.

The books can be bought at Amazon.com using Amazon smile to support CAH or at Barnes and Noble or other book sellers.

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Food Share Collection

Food Share – The Good News and the BETTER News

The good news is Food Share came and emptied an entire barrel of

non-perishable food donated by members of CAH. The BETTER news

is that the barrel is again empty, sitting in the lobby, and waiting for

more of your donations! Please take a paper bag and return it full

of non-perishable foodstuffs to help the one in six people of Ventura

County who are food insecure. Let this be your first Mitzvah of the New

Year!

A Community of Caring

We are a family, and sometimes our members need to know there are

people who are concerned about them. If you or someone you know in

the CAH family is ill, bereaved or in need of consolation, condolence or

acknowledgement of a happy event, please contact Brenda Rich so she

can alert our volunteers who will reach out to offer a caring voice or

helping hand.

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Get Well

Bob Packer

Sheila Myles

Fran Lande

Gail Packer

Miriam Rubinstein

Irv Jacobs

Dawn Kennedy

Elaine Hanig

Jerry Davis

Maurice Kozak

Arnie Rich

Lois Lebman

Nancy Stein

Donna Gustafson

ATTENTION ALL JEWISH WAR VETERANS MEMBERS

JWV Post 602

meets in the Veterans Administration Clinic,

Recreation Building 22, 16111 Plummer Street, North Hills, CA.

They meet the 1st Sunday of each month, at 10:00 am and all Jewish Veterans are wel-

come to attend.

Please join us there.

Ann Jacobs

Norma Van Riper

Rachel Kozak

Mort Resnick

Dianne Ruthman

Fred Rosen

Ann Sperber

Herb Stein

Kenny Halpern

Roz Resnick

Lee Rothschild

Barbara Miner

Beth Morales

Betty Abramson

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*Inscribed on Memorial Wall

November 4,

Milton Beck, Husband of Florence Beck

Ruth Levy, Mother of Arlene Bergman

Celia Bergman, Mother of Irv Bergman

Zipporah Bedrock, Sister of Aaron Fingerhut

Rose Sabath, Mother of Gail Packer

*Hyman Paper, Father of Marcia Perlmutter

Matilda Klein, Mother of Lee Rothschild

Rabbi Jordon I Taxon, Father of Morse Taxon

November 18,

Frank Spunt, Uncle of Fil Barton

*Natalie Gustafson, Sister-In-Law of Donna Gustafson

*William Hornick, Father of Tina Gustavson & Deanna Marenstein

Nettie Fenick, Mother of Elaine Hanig

Isabelle Gray, Grandmother of Freida Harary

*Sally Resnick, Mother of Mort Resnick & Mother in law of Ruth Resnick

Yetta Trister, Mother of Harry Trister

Rachel Wiener, Mother of Norma Van Riper

*Selma Weiner, Mother of Myrna Winer

YAHRZEIT

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November 2016—TishreiCheshvan5777

Hashanah @ 6:45pm

6:45 p.m. at

home of Roz &

Mort Resnick

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 2 3 4 5

Candle Lighting

5:40pm

Services 8pm

Services 10:00 AM

Shabbat Ends 6:35 pm

6 7 8 9 10 11 12

FOOD AND

COMMUNITY

MEETING

At Home of

Brenda & Arnie

Rich @ 1:30PM

NO Mondays with Mort

4:34pm

Candle lighting

Happy Birthday Gerald Davis

Shabbat Ends

5:31 pm

13 14 15 16 17 18 19

NO Mondays with Mort

Happy Birthday Janice

Aharon-Ezer

Candle Lighting 4:30pm

Services 8pm

Services 10:00 AM

Shabbat Ends 5:27 pm

20 21 22 23 24 25 26

NO Mondays with Mort

Thanksgiving Day

4:27pm

Candle lighting

Happy Birthday Fil Barton

Shabbat Ends

5:25 pm

27 28 29 30 NO Mondays

with Mort

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Rabbi J. B. Sacks

[email protected]———phone#323-387-0096

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

PRESIDENT Brenda Rich

[email protected]

phone#-805-469-0268

VICE-PRESIDENT—

TREASURER - Lois Lebman

SECRETARY - Donna Gustafson

CORRESPONDING SECRETARY-Ruth Resnick

WAYS & MEANS VP - Andrea Massion

MEMBERSHIP VP - Miriam Mack

RITUAL VP - Roz Resnick

RITUAL VP Emeritus—Milt Rothschild

HOUSING VP - Neal Abramson

IMMEDIATE PAST PRES - Brenda Rich

ADULT EDUCATION VP - Fran Lande

DIRECTORS—Marc Goldman, , Elaine Hanig,

Janice Aharon-Ezer, Rick Newberger

PAST PRESIDENTS

Mort Resnick

Arnie Fingerhut

Jerry Ruthman z'l

Peter Shack z'l Brenda Rich

OUR VOLUNTEERS

Kiddushim - Brenda Rich

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