B'nai Jacob Bulletin

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Congregation B'nai Jacob 7227 Bittersweet Moors Drive

Fort Wayne, IN 46814 Tel: 260-672-8459

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Rabbi Mitchell Kornspan

President Pamela Friedman

November 2018

Cheshvan/Kislev 5779

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Rabbi’s message

2 Rabbi’s message (cont.)

Sisterhood/Gift Shop

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Life Cycle

4

Donations/Tzedakah

5 Religious School

MishnehTorah

Events

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Events

Dear B’nai Jacob family,

The Treasure

This story should be familiar to

you. It is a classic and has an

important moral.

Rabbi Nachman of Breslov tells it

this way:

“A man once dreamed that there

was a great treasure under a bridge

in Vienna. He traveled to Vienna

and stood near the bridge, trying to

figure out what to do. He did not

dare search for the treasure by day,

because of the many people who

were there.

An officer passed by and asked,

‘What are you doing, standing here

and contemplating?’ The man

decided that it would be best to tell

the whole story and ask for help,

hoping that [the officer] would

share the treasure with him. He

told the officer the entire story.

The officer replied, ‘A Jew is

concerned only with dreams! I also

had a dream, and I also saw a

treasure. It was in a small house,

under the cellar.’

In relating his dream, the officer

accurately described the man’s city

and house. The man rushed home,

dug under his cellar, and found the

treasure. He said, ‘Now I know

that I had the treasure all along.

But in order to find it, I had to

travel to Vienna’ (Rebbe

Nachman’s Parables, The

Treasure).

I have always liked this story. At

the present I understand its

message to each of us, as our

congregation and Jewish

community become smaller. We

have witnessed many of our

friends and family who have

moved away from Fort Wayne and

some of them who have passed

away.

Yet, even with this occurring, we

should never lose sight of the fact

that we have a veritable treasure

right here within our “Jewish

home”, our Jewish community.

Whether on a congregational level

or community one, we have

services, life cycle events and

cultural, artistic, musical events, as

well as scholars-in-residence.

Thanks to the generosity of the

Harry Salon Foundation, our

congregations and Jewish

Federation have brought in

speakers and entertainers that

(Continued on page 2)

JEWISH LEARNING

See page 5 for opportunities for

continuing your Jewish Learning

Religious school

Mishneh Torah

Torah Study

Global Day of Jewish

Learning

would otherwise be beyond our means to procure.

Later in this bulletin, you will see some pictures of an event

that took place recently, when the Jewish Federation and our

community continued to fete the 70th anniversary of Israel

with a celebration, which included the Yiddishe Cup

Klezmer Band. (Thank you to Mark Cole for the pictures!)

As in the opening story, the treasure was right here in our

community. It is only buried if we don’t join in. If you

were present, you were among the people who had a

thoroughly enjoyable time filled with fantastic music.

And, we also learned different dances!

My hope is that each of you reading this column may

make a resolution. (After all, it is not that much past the

High Holidays to still make our New Year’s resolutions!)

Please look carefully at the events sponsored by the

Jewish Federation and our congregations. Once you go to

them, you will understand how much they have to offer.

We publicize them in our What’s Happening and in our

bulletins. (Later in this bulletin, you will see how we are

observing Jewish Global Learning.)

One last request. I would urge you to make one Saturday

morning a month sacrosanct, if you aren’t regularly

coming. Once a month, come to our services and stay for

kiddush to socialize with your friends. If you do, I hope

you will enjoy it and want to come back again!

May you find the treasure right here in your home.

L’shalom,

Rabbi Mitchell Kornspan

(Continued from page 1)

THANK YOU:

Sisterhood Treasurer, Donna Tourkow, would like to

thank the women who have sent in their checks for

5779 (2018-2019) Sisterhood dues.

For those who have yet to do so, your prompt attention

is greatly appreciated and enables the Sisterhood to

continue to serve Congregation B'nai Jacob and the

community in a variety of ways:

The gift shop is fully stocked for Hanukkah and other holiday needs! Come browse after Services and during office hours. Office hours

for November will be all Wednesdays and Fridays from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Daylight Savings Time ends on

Sunday, November 4th at

2:00 a.m.

Change clocks back one hour on Saturday evening before you go to bed.

Todah Rabah…

The Schneider Family thanks everyone who helped us celebrate

the simchah of Becca's Bat Mitzvah.

Special thanks go to Janet Finkel, who was a huge help with last-

minute preparations!

Many thanks!

Yahrzeits

Cheshvan/November

23 30-1 Hannah Crell

23 30-1 Lena Dinnerstein

23 30-1 Gittel Rovel

23 30-1 Minnie Moyer Sapirie

24 1-2 Myron M. Horwitz

24 1-2 Mae Levy

26 3-4 Harry Brateman

26 3-4 Harriet Chodash

26 3-4 Jeanne Erlich

26 3-4 Jennie Gilbert

26 3-4 Elaine Lazar

26 3-4 Jack Marks

26 3-4 Fred Schneider

27 4-5 Abraham Schwartz

27 4-5 Joseph Waterman

28 5-6 Emanuel Siegel

28 5-6 Frederick Reinhold

Tourkow

29 6-7 Mendel Frank

29 6-7 Sophia Heiligman

29 6-7 Tillie M. Kaposky

29 6-7 Jacob Levin

29 6-7 Don Sowles

Kislev/November

1 8-9 Shirley Babich

1 8-9 Samuel S. Meyer

1 8-9 Esther Rothstein

2 9-10 Norman Bosell

2 9-10 Max Gilbert

2 9-10 Joseph Zinn

3 10-11 Bessie R. Schmitz

4 11-12 Abraham Levy

4 11-12 Kathryn Sheray

5 12-13 Esther F. Grossman

5 12-13 William Hornstein

5 12-13 Jacob Reich

5 12-13 Wilbur Zweig

6 13-14 Rose Cohen

6 13-14 Samuel Liff

6 13-14 Sidney Trivus

6 13-14 Maurice Waldman

6 13-14 Sarah Weinberg

7 14-15 Mildred Prady

8 15-16 David Appel

8 15-16 Roslyn Rozeen

8 15-16 Claire Selan

8 15-16 Sam Stoller

9 16-17 Charlotte Maier

10 17-18 Zelda Novitsky

12 19-20 Emanuel Cohen

12 19-20 Herman Himelstein

12 19-20 Rabbi Samuel D. Hurwitz

12 19-20 Toba Malka Schwartz

13 20-21 Rita Jo Levin Rainey

14 21-22 Isidor Hassan

14 21-22 Milton Jerry Ontell

14 21-22 Mindel Yoinovicz

15 22-23 Elsie Levin

15 22-23 Samuel Rothberg

16 23-24 Louis Leader

16 23-24 Leonard J. Levy

16 23-24 Rebecca Winnick

17 24-25 Florence Bernstein

17 24-25 Clyde R. Gaddis

17 24-25 Max Konigsberg

18 24-25 Abraham M. Zinn

19 25-26 Emanual Kreitman

19 25-26 Peter Lauinger

20 26-27 Marcus Beck

20 26-27 Yetta Magazine

20 26-27 Audra E. Mandel

20 26-27 Isadore Yourist

21 27-28 Arnold L. Goldsmith

22 28-29 Paulette Bussell Oatley

22 28-29 Eric E. Eling

22 28-29 Alfred Solotkin

November Birthdays 7 Elianna Friedman

7 Kathy Jarvis

14 Jaki Schreier

22 Dan Appel

22 Aaron Farber

24 Ron Goltz

November Anniversaries

5 Adolph

and Adrienne Brateman

7 Jeffrey

and Marilyn Herman

10 Bruce

and Sheryl Merritt

20 Dr. Matthew

and Theresa Farber

Published by

Congregation B'nai Jacob

OFFICERS President...............Pamela Friedman 1st Vice President.........Jay Zemmol 2nd Vice President..Mark Schneider Recording Secretary...Mort Schaffer Treasurer ............Melissa Schneider Financial Secretary.......Mike Adams BOARD MEMBERS

Janet Finkel Marc Nusholtz

Jeff Herman Debby Roberts

Jerry Jarvis Josh Tourkow

Past President ...........Ron Friedman

Heart felt condolences to Jere and Brian Leib on the passing of their beloved wife

and mother, Arlene z’l

on October 28, 2018,

19h of Cheshvan 5779.

May her memory be a blessing to all those she knew

TZEDAKAH

A.J. Ochstein Fund

Building Fund

David Siegel Memorial Fund

General Fund

In appreciation

-Yuval Fuchs

In appreciation

-Estelle Greenberg

In appreciation

-Jeffrey Wolf

In appreciation

-Theresa & Matthew Farber

In appreciation

-Robert & Irene Walters

In appreciation

-Marc Nusholtz & Mary

Wilger

Kiddush Fund

In memory of Gertrude Brateman

-Adolph & Adrienne Brateman

Levy/Levin Endowment Fund

Library Fund

Rabbi's Discretionary Fund

In memory of Irving Walters

-Robert & Irene Walters

Seth Horwitz Education Fund

Simon/Hannah Crell Education Fund

Sisterhood Nursery Fund

Torah Maintenance Fund

Winnick Memorial Garden Fund

Yahrzeit Fund

In memory of Jean J. Pownall

-Jerry & Sue Pownall

In memory of Seth Aaron Horwitz

-Steve Horwitz

In memory of Edith Thomson

-Lis & Hugo Kahn

In memory of Max Cohen

-Rebecca & Michael Park

In memory of Mariam Nemoff

-Nancy Nemeroff

If you would like to make a donation in honor/memory of someone, please fill out the form and submit it with

your check to: Congregation B’nai Jacob

7227 Bittersweet Moors Drive

Fort Wayne, IN 46814

I have enclosed $_________

In honor/memory of: _

Fund Preference: Please indicate which fund you prefer to donate to:

A.J. Ochstein Fund Rabbi’s Discretionary Fund

David Siegel Memorial Fund Simon/Hannah Crell Education Fund

General Fund Sisterhood Nursery Fund

Kiddush Fund Torah Maintenance Fund

Levy/Levin Endowment Fund Winnick Memorial Garden Fund

Library Fund Yahrzeit Fund

Seth Horwitz Education Fund

From: _

Franck Hagendorf for

sponsoring the Kiddush on

October 20 in memory of

his beloved wife, Rosalie

Becker.

Thank you to Marc

Nusholtz for preparing the

wonderful Kiddush on the

20th as well as the Simchat

Torah Seudah.

Rabbi's Hours in november

Rabbi Kornspan will be conducting services and classes as well as available for appointments

from November 10th to the 17th.

Please call the office to make an appointment.

MISHNEH TORAH Wednesdays, November 7 & 14 at 7:00 pm

TORAH CLASS Saturdays, November 10 & 17 at 12:45 pm

Global Day of Jewish Learning will be celebrated in our Fort Wayne community.

"Extraordinary Passages: Texts and Travel". What are the journeys that matter most to us? From ancient adventures to the modern diaspora, spiritual to physical, experience the journeys of individuals and the Jewish people.

On Shabbat, Nov. 10th, at 12:45 our Torah Class will learn from the curriculum “Extraordinary

Passages”.

On Sunday, Nov. 11th the Jewish Federation and Partnership2Gether will feature a video presentation

with Lyn Julius, founder of HARIF – the UK Association of Jews from the Middle-East and North

Africa.

On Wed. Nov. 14th the learning at the Mishneh Torah class will also use the curriculum from

“Extraordinary Passages”.

November Class Schedule

Hebrew School 7th, 14th 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Shabbat School 10th, 17th 9:30 a.m.—11:45a.m.

“Torah is the shared inheritance of all the Jewish

people. It does not belong to a special sect or an

elite group of the Jews. We each get an equal

share.” —Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz

RELIGIOUS SCHOOL

JEWISH COMMUNITY NEWS

Genealogy JewishGen – Sunday, November 4, 2018 at 2:00 p.m.

“How the Jews Got to Europe” – Sunday, November 4, 2018 at 3:30 p.m.

Allen County Public Library Genealogy Department, Discovery Center

Avraham Groll will speak about JewishGen and how it can help with family history.

Following that he will focus on the background of the Jewish community prior to our

genealogical records, including the creation of the Ashkenazi and Sephardic communities.

Thanksgiving Turkeys for Thoughtful Thursdays In November, the Jewish community’s social action program will provide each of the 70

families with a 10- to 12-pound turkey for Thanksgiving, cooking instructions, and

trimmings. Through generous donations to Thoughtful Thursdays’ 8th annual Apple

Project we were able to provide a bag of Honey Crisp apples in mid-October to each

family. We are seeking donations of $18 each from 35 people to help us purchase enough

turkeys for all the families. We welcome additional volunteers to our next bag assembly

morning on Wednesday, November 7 at 10 a.m. at the Rifkin Campus.

Interfaith Thanksgiving Service Brings Community Together Fort Wayne’s annual community Interfaith Thanksgiving Service will be on Tuesday,

November 20 at 7 p.m., hosted for a seventh year at the Temple. Representatives of 12

religious organizations will participate, including Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Buddhist,

and Bahai congregations. The guest speaker is the Rev. Angelo Mante of Simpson United

Methodist Church, leader of Families First. A reception will follow the service.

Art Exhibit Gives Unique Take on Shabbat “The Seventh Day: Revisiting Shabbat” is a traveling art exhibit in the Temple’s Social

Hall through Thanksgiving featuring 36 works of photography, textile, collage, and

painting that explore some aspect of the Jewish Sabbath. On loan from the Hebrew Union

College - Jewish Institute of Religion Museum, the collection features 36 pieces created

by international artists representing a diverse, 21st-century approach to this day of rest.

The exhibit is open to the public on Thursday afternoons from 1 to 3 p.m. and during other

hours for groups by appointment.

Yiddishe Cup Klezmer band The Yiddishe Cup klezmer bands came to Fort Wayne at the Rifkin Campus

on October 14. A wonderful time was had by all.