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BULLETIN OF BETH EL CONGREGATION

JUNE • JULY 2020 AKRON, OHIO SIVAN • TAMUZ • AV 5780

BULLETIN OF BETH EL

CONGREGATION All Pages All-Color on the Web

bethelakron.com

Table of Contents Rabbi’s Message ......................... 1 COVID-19 Committee ................ 1 Lunch & Learn ............................ 1 Synagogue Directory .................. 2 Mazel Tov ................................... 2 Happy Anniversary ..................... 2 2021 Yearbook ............................ 2 Schedule of Services ................... 2 Sisterhood ................................... 2 Candle Lighting, Havdalah ......... 2 Tree of Life ................................. 2 Yahrzeits – June .......................... 4 In Memoriam .............................. 4 Calendar – June ........................... 4 Yahrzeits – July........................... 5 Memorial Plaques ....................... 5 Calendar – July ........................... 5 Mind Body & Shul Challenge .... 6 Summer Study with the Rabbi .... 7 Tisha B’Av .................................. 8 Youth Education ......................... 9 Summer Virtual Hebrew Camp ... 9 President’s Message ................. 10 Contributions............................. 11 Beth El in Your Will ................. 11 Jewish Shakespeare Week ........ 12

Compassion in the Wilderness

Summer is for Numbers. Many of us may

be counting right now the days until we get to

return to a modicum of normal life (and how

long we will be counting is still a mystery!).

Just at the end of last month we finished

counting the Omer, our people’s journey to

receiving the Torah. We are used to counting

for a minyan, and yet now physical distancing

challenges our rituals and life rhythms. And many of us have been “counting”

on summer experiences and vacations that have had to be canceled or

significantly altered. So, what is it that we can truly “count on?”

Hazzan Matt recalls that as a summer camp counselor at Camp Ramah in

Canada, campers always would read from the book of Bamidbar – literally,

“in the wilderness” – the part of the Torah most commonly referred to in pop

culture as the Book of Numbers. The reason for this name is that the book

begins with a census – a counting of the Israelite nation after they left Egypt.

The campers always seemed to relate well to this book. Perhaps it was

because the experience of summer camp feels like a little oasis in the

wilderness. Perhaps it was because of the juicy stories in Bamidbar that are

the stuff of a Netflix miniseries, which include magicians, surprise

earthquakes, vigilante justice, and talking donkeys. But at a deeper level, the

book remains relevant to anyone as the story of Jewish people

Rabbi Elyssa Austerklein

Hazzan Matt Austerklein

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Please Join Us

Tuesday at Noon

June 9, July 14 Virtual Meeting

Please enjoy your lunch in your home or office.

Check your e-mail to log in.

New A committee has been formed for two purposes: to determine what

the virtual needs of the congregation are and to determine when

and how we will resume in person services and programs. Dr.

Marty Hellman is chair. Committee members are Micah Beree,

Nick Hall (MPH), Dr. Marissa Levine, Joe Pryweller, and Gary

Rosen. Should you have thoughts, questions, or concerns related

to our congregation and the pandemic, please contact any of these

committee members.

COVID-19 Committee

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Beth El Congregation 750 White Pond Drive

Akron, OH 44320

www.bethelakron.com

Office: (330) 864-2105 [email protected]

Affiliated with

The United Synagogue of

Conservative Judaism

The Jewish Theological

Seminary of America

Rabbi Elyssa Austerklein [email protected]

Hazzan Matthew Austerklein [email protected]

Stephen Grundfast Rabbi Emeritus

Stephen Stein Hazzan Emeritus

Sharon Merklin President

[email protected]

Stacey Simonton President Elect

Gregg Maines Vice President

David Stock Treasurer

Susan Osherow & Debra Shiffrin Co-Secretaries

Jenifer Jeney Manager of

Synagogues Services [email protected]

Robynne McKee Administrative Assistant

[email protected]

Laurel Gress Baalat Koreh

[email protected]

Leonard Rose Editor

Vol. LXXV No. 9

The Bulletin is published monthly by Beth El Congregation

750 White Pond Dr., Akron, Ohio 44320

(USPS 052-100)

Periodicals postage paid at Akron, Ohio.

Postmaster: Send address changes to Bulletin of Beth El Congregation,

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Mazel Tov Congratulations to Hannah Pryweller on

completing her Master of Science in Social

Administration.

Happy Anniversary JUNE YEARS 7 David and Janet Minc .................................... 50

11 Kevin and Lori Sandel ................................... 20

22 Randy and Bonnie Cohen .............................. 45

24 Fred and Audrey Weisberg ............................ 30

26 Martin and Susan Spector .............................. 60

JULY YEARS 5 Phillip and Livia Kades .................................. 50

30 Mark and Darla Kent ..................................... 40

SCHEDULE

OF SERVICES

JUNE • JULY 2020

SIVAN • TAMUZ • AV

5780

Morning Minyan Sunday 8:45 AM

Live – Beth El Facebook

Shabbat Services Saturday 10 AM

Live – Beth El Facebook

Candle Lighting

June 5 ....... 8:38 PM June 12 ....... 8:42 PM June 19 ....... 8:44 PM June 26 ....... 8:45 PM

July 3 ....... 8:44 PM July 10 ....... 8:42 PM July 17 ....... 8:38 PM July 24 ....... 8:32 PM July 31 ....... 8:25 PM

Havdalah

June 6 ....... 9:46 PM June 13 ....... 9:50 PM June 20 ....... 9:52 PM June 27 ....... 9:53 PM

July 4 ....... 9:52 PM July 11 ....... 9:49 PM July 18 ....... 9:45 PM July 25 ....... 9:39 PM

Face-to-face Sisterhood meetings are more

congenial, but if you have an idea for a

Sisterhood program or "Zoom" event, please

call Sarah Greenblatt at 330-687-0203 or email

[email protected]. As pandemic restrictions begin to loosen, we

will schedule Sisterhood activities. Until then,

stay healthy.

Women's League for Conservative Judaism

Tree of Life

Our magnificent Tree of Life was created to record the happy events in the lives of Beth El members and their families.

A birth, a wedding, a bar/bat mitzvah, a confirmation, an anniversary – all are among the milestones that can be remembered on the leaves of the Tree of Life.

The cost of a leaf is $125. You may use three or four lines with up to 23 letters per line. To order, call Sherri Leubitz, 330-867-0364.

These are the newest leaves on Beth El’s Tree of Life

2021 Yearbook Due to the pandemic, we are going to delay our 2021 Yearbook publication. Please check the next bulletin for an update or contact Susan Osherow with any questions.

mailto:[email protected]








struggling to move forward into uncharted territory

– something we are very much feeling today.

In the book of Numbers, uncertainty can bring

out the worst in people. The Israelites struggle with

change and want their predictable lives back. They

want the restaurant food and the creature comforts

of Egypt. They complain bitterly to their leaders

that this way of living is unsustainable, and they

succumb to power politics and lustful appetites as a

way of displacing their discomfort and fear. None of

the leadership are immune – Moses strikes a rock in

anger, Miriam makes racist comments, and Aaron

struggles with his children. The whole people

experience difficulty, uncertainty, and loss.

The end of the Israelite journey in the

wilderness, as we know, is the Promised Land. But

on the way, our wilderness journey exposed that we

are all vulnerable. And this is perhaps one of our

greatest spiritual learnings today: we are all

vulnerable.

We are vulnerable. Our members are vulnerable.

Our families are vulnerable. Our children are

vulnerable. Our doctors and nurses are vulnerable.

We, your clergy, are vulnerable. We are all

vulnerable.

None of us is immune from the pandemic

wilderness into which we are thrust. To pretend that

there is no or little threat is irresponsible, a denial of

interconnectedness and our moral interdependence,

both of which are both scientifically grounded and

spiritually core to Jewish faith and community.

We can never know, among our friends and

relations, whose genetic makeup or physical

condition will leave them susceptible to the ravages

of the coronavirus, nor do we know who has family

members that are especially vulnerable to this

disease. We often do not know how people are

coping with (or without) childcare, with financial

worries, with mental and emotional overload. This

pandemic should remind us that we are all

vulnerable, and therefore our first response to

uncertainty should be just this -- compassion.

Rabbi Shai Held wrote recently regarding this

pandemic: “Acknowledging our vulnerability can

open the door to deeper and deeper levels of

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compassion and responsiveness to other people’s

pain...Simple as it sounds, there is no more fundamental

lesson about human life than this one – we need each

other; and there is no greater religious commitment than

this one – we are here for each other.”

We are really grateful for the volunteerism of so

many who have stepped up over the past few months to

help create more opportunities for mitzvot and

compassion. We are grateful for the members of our

Beth El community who are in the medical profession

and are on the front lines, offering medical care and

saving lives, often at risk to their own health. We’re

grateful for the Caring Team, and especially the chair,

Debbie Saferstein, who assisted us in reaching out via

phone to our entire membership over the past few

months. We’re grateful to new leaders who stepped up

to join the COVID committee, which is evaluating how

our synagogue can encourage best practices and offer

worship, learning, and outreach under evolving

conditions. We’re grateful to our new President, Sharon

Merklin, who has partnered with us and convened a

long-term planning committee to consider our deepest

values and questions, so that we emerge from this

wilderness moving towards the Promised Land. We’re

grateful for the many congregants who have joined us

for the dozens of services, classes, and meetings we

have offered over Facebook Live and Zoom-- we have

appreciated connecting with you as much as you have

enjoyed connecting with us and each other. And we’re

grateful for all of the little and big acts of kindness that

each of you are doing every day to be kinder and more

compassionate with each other.

Uncertainty is hard -- but it can, and should,

encourage us to be compassionate, and to lean on each

other. The Book of Numbers shows us the pitfalls of

uncertainty – bitterness, lashing out, and striving for

power and desire. We should learn well from our

Torah’s warning, and know that the best counting we

can do, and should encourage, is on each other. We

bless you for a summer of kindness, of patience, of

embracing life’s messiness. We are resilient, and we

know that this experience will not just make us stronger

as a community, but kinder as well.

Blessings,

Rabbi Elyssa & Hazzan Matt


Sivan 5780 June 2020 Tamuz 5780

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

Services (unless otherwise noted)

Sunday 8:45 AM

Saturday 10:00 AM

1 9 Sivan

2 10 Sivan

3 11 Sivan

4 12 Sivan

5 13 Sivan

6 14 Sivan

Naso

7 15 Sivan

Judaism Ten Best Ideas 10:30 (Zoom)

8 16 Sivan

Community Check-in 8 PM (Zoom)

9 17 Sivan

Lunch & Learn 12 noon

Board Meeting 7 PM

10 18 Sivan

11 19 Sivan

12 20 Sivan

Kabbalat Shabbat 5 PM (Zoom)

13 21 Sivan

Beha’alotecha

14 22 Sivan


Flag Day

15 23 Sivan


16 24 Sivan

17 25 Sivan

18 26 Sivan

19 27 Sivan

Young Family Shabbat 4:30 PM (FaceBook)

20 28 Sivan

Shelach

Summer Begins

21 29 Sivan Judaism Ten Best Ideas 10:30 (Zoom)

Father’s Day

22 30 Sivan


Rosh Chodesh

23 1 Tamuz

Rosh Chodesh

24 2 Tamuz

25 3 Tamuz

26 4 Tamuz

27 5 Tamuz

Korach

28 6 Tamuz Judaism Ten Best Ideas 10:30 (Zoom)

29 7 Tamuz


30 8 Tamuz

We hope you are healthy

and able to join us online.

June 1-4 Betty

June 6-12 Howell Aarons Edward G. Foster Alfred Freireich Giles Burda Groden David Hoffman Ernest Klein Elizabeth Krosner Isaac Liberman Isaac Lipson Trudy Loeb Joseph Marks Helen Schneier Irving Spector Arthur Winer Esther Wish June 13-19 Edith Adler Louis Berenson Myer Caplan Lillian Chapman Walter Cohen Helen Davidson

Betty Fitterman Sophie T. Friedlander Erin Geller Judith Ann Helfgott Lena Heyman Idelle Kodish Allen Kofsky Sybil Kriger Paul Leventhal Gustave L. Levinson Bela Lowy Mary Marks Marlene Miller William Neiman Frank Nelson Ben Nemeroff Sol Regal Eleanore Rudick Rose Sinder Milton Slavin June 21-26 Shirley Borodkin Rose Cohen

YAHRZEITS

June 1-5 Frank Fitterman Lillian Clayman Zelda Cohen Reisha Cohn Robert Garner Fanny Katz Sol Levinson Eugene Lieberman Stanley Minster Gerald Pryweller James M. Robinson William Rosenblatt Rose Sheff Irving Sholiton Helen Shulan Max Silverstein Eugene Sokol Beverly Waterstone Sally Waxman Louis Yablon Bella Zetzer

Carl M. Fertel Sally Finkel Sarah Foster Ida Gergel Louis Gergis Gregg Gertz Susan Glauberman Jodi Merklin James Morris Kaufman Sanford Levenson Harold Levin Helen Levin Milton Luck Alex Marks Annie Miller Max Robinson Libby Schneir George Shapiro Ben Slavin Richard Sterns Esther Weiss Morris Zudnick June 27-30

Sy L Fishcer Esther Kates Ruby Kodish Dave Lowy Sadie Ekus Manes Richard Merklin Rose Pinsky Jack Rubens Morris Sacks Eugene Treiber Samuel Wakser Mendel Weintraub

Please call the Beth El office to inform us of Yahrzeit omissions or corrections.

In Memoriam

Beth El Congregation notes with sorrow

the passing of

Samuel Albert

Schleider

Husband of Barbara;

father of Natalie, Scott

and Marcy; grandfather

of Andrew, Corey and Josh


Tamuz 5780 July 2020 Av 5780

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

Services (unless otherwise noted)

Sunday 8:45 AM

Saturday 10:00 AM

Please stay healthy.

Join us online.

1 9 Tamuz

Canada Day

2 10 Tamuz

3 11 Tamuz

Office Closed

4 12 Tamuz

Chukat-Balak

Independence Day

5 13 Tamuz

6 14 Tamuz


7 15 Tamuz

8 16 Tamuz

9 17 Tamuz

Fast of Tamuz

10 18 Tamuz

Kabbalat Shabbat 5 PM (Zoom)

11 19 Tamuz

Pinchas

12 20 Tamuz


13 21 Tamuz


14 22 Tamuz

Lunch & Learn 12 noon

15 23 Adar

16 24 Tamuz

17 25 Tamuz

Young Family Shabbat 4:30 PM (FaceBook)

18 25 Tamuz

Matot-Masai

19 27 Tamuz Judaism Ten Best Ideas 10:30 (Zoom)

20 28 Tamuz


21 29 Tamuz

22 1 Av

Rosh Chodesh

23 2 Av

24 3 Av

25 4 Av

Devarim

Shabbat Chazon

26 5 Av Judaism Ten Best Ideas 10:30 (Zoom)

27 6 Av


28 7 Av

Rosh Chodesh

29 8 Av

Erev Tisha B’Av (Part 1) 9 PM (Zoom)

30 9 Av

Tisha B’Av (Part 2) 2 PM (Zoom)

31 10 Av

Howard Katz Abraham Kodish Florence Lessing Miriam Levenson Theodore Levenson Leah Lieberman Rose K. Marks Ruth Rakusin Minnie Roth Dina Savage Selma Seider Sol Slavin Samuel Tucker Evelyn Weinberger Blanche Yonas July 11-17 Jacob Apelbaum Sonya Buksdorf Rose Caplan Fred Cohen Dr. Sidney Eichner Janka Fischmann Richard Friedman

Carol Gergis Estelle Hellman Natalee Hendler Nathan Katz Phillip Kodish Martin Mermelstein Mayer Millman Henry Rubin Betty Sabetay Anna Stein Ida S. Waxman Benjamin Weiss Rose Ethel Winer Pauline Wolman July 18-24 Marvin Cohen Rose A. Friedman Ida Kern Morris Lieberman Doris Minkin Gertrude Monosoff Blanche Nusbaum Lockshin Phyllis

YAHRZEITS July 1-3 Barnet Beyer Mollie Dorman Anna Kalish Jerry Kodish Herschel Kriger Mitchell Lieberman Jerrold Lockshin Zelda Rosenthal Dr. Leo Rubin Isadore Schlossberg John Waits Cathy Wakser July 4-10 Leonard Bernstein Samuel C. Bershon Miriam Edith Davis Nancy Davis Bessie Klausner Federhar Harold Garson Bernard Heller

Adolph Rabe Lawrence Rothstein Edward Schneider Luba Small July 25-31 Philip Culiner Harry Davidson Isidore Gergel Nora Gilman Alan Grundfast Stefan Handler Harriet Horn Rose Kahan Zella Kaufman Alan Kay Jeanette Levinson Arthur E. Lewis Rita Lockshin Bryan May Susan A. Myers Max Neiman Jay Nusbaum Ralph Peters

Netti Pollack Ben Post Mary Potrock Jeremy Putra Marjorie Robbins Morris Ruben Stanley B. Schneiderman Janyne Sokol Heinrich Y. Steinhauer Helen B. Steinreich Dorothy Woloveck

Please call the Beth El office to inform us of Yahrzeit omissions or corrections.

Memorial Plaques

The Memorial Plaques in our Sanctuary constitute a permanent record of the names of men and women departed from this earth. To cherish and keep alive their precious memories is a sacred Jewish tradition. The contribution for an individual plaque is only $250. For further information, please call Beth El at 330-864-2105.

May your loved one’s

memory be a blessing.


Use this sheet to fill out your twelve steps on this ladder and return it by mail or text a picture to 216-438-1357 for a special prize! Remember to include your name!

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➢ 4 Jewish Books for the Mind

➢ 4 times doing Israeli dance with Hazzan Matt, Jewish yoga with Rabbi Elyssa, or a Mindfulness Walk for the Body

➢ 4 shul programs or prayer services


Summer Study

with the Rabbi

is Coming!

on Zoom

Start your summer

with study as

Rabbi

Elyssa Joy Austerklein guides

us through

Judaism's 10 Best Ideas

by Rabbi Arthur Green,

Rector of the Rabbinical School of

Hebrew College.

8 Sundays @10:30-11:30am

June 7 - August 2 (excluding July 5)

Register for our

eight sessions –

A FREE COPY of the

book will be shipped

to those who register by

May 31

For your free copy,

e-mail Jenifer Jeney Manager of

Synagogue Services

at

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Tisha B'Av Wednesday

July 29, 9:00 PM Zoom

Thursday July 30, 2:00 PM Zoom

PART 1: Rising from the Ashes: Coping with Loss Join us in the evening as we gather to watch David Hoffman's TED Talk on loss and discuss

what it means to make something good out of something bad. Knowing that we are all

engaged in this challenge right now, we will then chant together the Book of Eicha

(Lamentations).

PART 2: Piecing Together Hope On the afternoon of Tisha B'Av we will rejoin together on ZOOM under the leadership of

artist and congregation member Bonnie Cohen for a mosaic art project. Each person who

signs up will receive a packet of materials on their doorstep ahead of time. We will discuss

how we can embody hope in our own lives and live the Jewish promise that after wearing

sackcloth we turn to dancing. The individual projects will represent the hope that in time we

will come back together with bigger and better projects and events at Beth El.

Tisha B'av a two-part

Exploration

Part 1 – July 29 @ 9 PM

Part 2 – July 30 @ 2 PM

Mosaic by Barbara Elkin (Hazzan Matt’s mom)


Youth Education

The Hebrew School completed another successful year! Thank you to

our committed and fabulous teachers: Leora Cohen, Andrea Rabinovitz,

April Sharrock, David Stock and Volunteer Ellen Moss. A special thank

you to April for serving as the Religious School Coordinator - her passion

for Judaism and exceptional kindness to adults and children alike, shines

through! Leora, April and David, all pivoted pretty seamlessly into a

virtual Hebrew School when we all had to isolate. A special thank you to

Leora for moderating and being the tech guru. In keeping with current

recommendations about school openings in the Fall, we expect to be at

least partially virtual over the 2020-2021 school year.

This summer we will engage a professional in developing a tailored curriculum for Beth El.

Thank you to our Education Committee Chair, Julie Katz, for working with the USCJ to create

a survey for our congregation. We hope that you took the survey which was sent out in May

about learning priorities for our religious school. The results of the survey will be used in

developing Curriculum and will be shared in the August Bulletin.

Summer

Virtual

Hebrew

Camp

This summer, we will continue with a Virtual Hebrew

Summer Camp for our 5-6-year old children, which will be

taught by April Sharrock on Tuesday afternoons from 4 to

4:30 PM on ZOOM. If your child is close to this age and

interested in joining, please contact Rabbi Elyssa at

[email protected]. If there is further demand in other

age groups, we may be able to accommodate an additional

class or two.

Education

Program

By Rabbi Elyssa



Greetings from Beth El’s New President

It is mid-April and I am sitting at home watching the snowfall. As the State of Ohio is

currently under stay at home orders, I do not really have programs and gatherings to write about

in the next month. Instead, I would like to share with you my religious background and why

this congregation is so important to me.

What an honor it was for me several years ago to have been asked to serve on the Beth El

board, and the executive team of the synagogue, especially if you know anything about my

Jewish roots.

My parents never belonged to a synagogue. I did not have the opportunity to go to

synagogue on the High Holidays until given free tickets in college. Growing up, and as a young

adult, I rarely had the opportunity to sit with my parents in synagogue. I never had to get up on Saturday or Sunday mornings

to attend services or Sunday school. I did not have the opportunities afforded by synagogue membership.

My mother and father did send my sister and me to the Cleveland Hebrew Schools. Four days a week the bus picked

us up and brought us home from an hour and fifteen-minute education in reading and writing in Hebrew. I loved Hebrew

School. There was one teacher, Mar (Mr.) Orlan, who spent the year teaching his twelve-year-old students the beginning

and ending blessings before reading a haftorah. I had no context for this. I did not understand what I was learning. (Little

did I know that this would be a great help twenty years later when Laurel Gress patiently tried to teach me and a couple of

women the Torah and haftorah trops for our adult bat mitzvah.) My parents talked about giving me a bat mitzvah. Now that

I look back, I think to this day, what synagogue would bat mitzvah the child of someone who did not belong?

Any knowledge I had of Jewish culture and holidays came from the household of my aunt and uncle, Harold and

Marlene Millerz”l. I think to this day, that everything I knew about Jewish holidays and culture as a child, teenager and

young adult came from my aunt. Many times, we went to Anshe Sfard, where they belonged before they joined Beth El. I

remember sitting in the women’s balcony with my grandmother, mother, and aunt. At that time, I was not bothered by the

separation of men and women and that women did not participate.

Aside from carpool for Hebrew school, and dropping children off on Saturday morning, I did not become involved with

Beth El Congregation until 1995, when my father died. His death was so sudden and unexpected that the only thing in my

control was the ritual mourning as a Conservative Jew. At that time, we had no Rabbi, but Cantor Stephen Stein was a

tremendous help. There was also an early evening minyan that I attended several times a week. The people at that minyan

became a true support group for a thirty-five-year-old woman who had suddenly lost her fifty-nine-year -old father: Walter

and Louise Cohenz”l and Dr. Bartz”l and Joyce Epstein, to name a few. That year I did not just drop my children off on

Saturday morning. I went to services regularly for the first time in my life and learned about the important parts of Judaism

I had been missing. I learned the services and even took a class with Cantor Stein to learn how to daven.

This history is in part why Beth El means so much to me. I was not part of a synagogue growing up. Conservative

Judaism is where I belong. It allows me to participate as a Jewish woman. My background gives a clear understanding of

why I could never give this up. Dedication to this synagogue will be a major part of my life for the next two years. That is

why it is important, as I undertake this new two-year commitment, to serve the synagogue as Judaism has served me.

I am incredibly grateful for the work of the Caring Committee, headed by Debbie Saferstein with Rabbi and a group of

dedicated volunteers who have been reaching out to our membership. The Caring Committee wants to make sure that

everyone is coping with the new normal: Do you have enough food, are you coping, and are you safe? If you would like to

help the committee, please let Debbie or me know. Hopefully, by the time you are reading this Bulletin we will be back at

Shabbat morning services and seeing each other for synagogue programs.

Please don't hesitate to reach out to me by phone or by email.

Thank you for allowing me to serve!

Sharon

Sharon Merklin


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Contributions

LOUIS LOCKSHIN

SCHOLARSHIP FUND

In Memory of

• Al Schleider from James and Susan Osherow

LUCK

HOLOCAUST FUND

In Memory of

• Ruth Skall from Hope Winer

• Harvey Winer from Hope Winer

RABBI'S

DISCRETIONARY FUND

In Memory of

• Harvey Winer from Sid and Shirley Zetzer

REVEREND PHILLIP SALZMAN

SCHOLARSHIP FUND

In Memory of

• Abraham Kalish from Leah Bliman

• Harold Miller from Paula Miller

• Ann Ruth and Morris Rosenthal from Marvin

Rosenthal

SAFERSTEIN

CARING FUND

In Memory of

• Israel Borodkin from Elinor Borodkin and

Family

• Burt Nobil from Harvey and Marilyn Groden,

Libby Portnoy, Jerry and Sandy Schneier

• Isadore and Bernice Rabinovitz from Myron

and Andrea Rabinovitz

• Sheldon Saferstein from Joel and Arlene

Miller

• Jonathan Small from Esther and Larry Hexter

For the Recovery of

• Susan Alfonso from Libby Portnoy

SIMON KOPELSON

MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND

In Memory of

• Esther Slavin from Marilyn Slavin

ALEXANDER AND LILLIAN MEDOFF

MEMORIAL MUSIC FUND

In Memory of

• The sister of Bud Sabetay from Carl

Lieberman

BEATRICE & MORRIS SARLSON

& FAMILY BEAUTIFICATION FUND

In Honor of

• Mom's – Margaret Chesler – Medicare Happy

Birthday! from James, Michael, & Jack Chesler

BETH EL FOUNDATION

FOR JEWISH EDUCATION

In Memory of

• Mark Reuben from Phil and Livia Kades

CANTOR'S

DISCRETIONARY FUND

In Memory of

• Jean Cooper from Robert and Regina Cooper

• Judith Finkel from Harvey Finkel

EDWARD SCHNEIDER

EDUCATION FUND

In Memory of

• Laura Lee Garfinkel from Dr. John and Patty

Saks

• David Katz from Carl Lieberman

• Harry Katz from Carl Lieberman

• Bruce Sugarberg from Blake Sugarberg

In Honor of

• The birth of Erwin and Sarah Greenblatt’s

grandson from Carl Lieberman

• Esther Hexter from Marc and Sharon Merklin

FLORAL AND

SHABBAT FLOWERS FUND

In Memory of

• Aron Schuldiner from Michael Schuldiner

KIDDUSH

FUND

In Memory of

• Manny Iczokovitz from Kevin Tucker

• Gary Nelkin from Jodi Savitt

LENORE GORDON

SCHOLARSHIP FUND

In Memory of

• Shirley Wagan from Ted Schneiderman

STEPHEN M. GROSS

MEMORIAL FUND

In Memory of

• David Recht from Marjorie Recht

SYNAGOGUE

FUND

In Memory of

• Theodore Kahan from Mel and Nancy

Mermelstein

• Ann Kauvar from Marilyn Mirman

• Burt Nobil from Ellen and Steve Winer

• Al Schleider from Martin and Joyce

Oppenheimer

• Howard Shapiro from Ellen and Steve Winer

• Sally Stein from Martin and Joyce

Oppenheimer

For the Recovery of

• Susan Alfonso from Lawrence and Harriet

Richman

• Herb Weiss from Ellen and Steve Winer

In Honor of

• Seth Glauberman’s new position at Malco

from Lawrence and Harriet Richman

• Gary Rosen’s birthday from Ted Schneiderman

• Gary and Toby Rosen’s anniversary from Ted

Schneiderman

• George Sterns’ promotion from Drs. Harvey

and Ronni Sterns

The Beth El Staff would like to extend our deepest apologies to those who have made donations since the COVID19 crisis began. Working remotely has brought many changes and challenges to our staff, but please be assured we are working diligently to make sure all donations are properly acknowledged as soon as possible!

Contributions received before the first of the month will appear the next month. Contributions may be submitted by mail or via Beth El’s website.

Remember Beth El

in Your Will

Marsha Friedman Endowment Chair For information,

call 330.603.1890

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Virtual

Jewish Shakespeare

Week

July/August 2020

Hold thy peace and stay tuned to Beth El's

website, Facebook, and e-mails for updates

on our online programming for this year's

Jewish Shakespeare Week, which will take

place in July or early August.

For up-to-the-minute details, e-mail the

hazzan at [email protected].

'A sonnet a day keeps the doctor away.'

Sir Patrick Stewart reading Shakespeare’s

sonnets on the Internet.

(Actually, he reads bareheaded.)


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