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CONGREGATION AGUDATH ACHIM Page 1 April 2018

Shabbat Services: Friday Evening at 8:00 p.m., Saturday Morning at 10:00 a.m. nisan - iyar April 2018

Hazzan Neil Schwartz Spiritual Leader (612) 999-5060 Howard J. Silberman President (318) 317-5554 9401 Village Green Dr. Shreveport, LA 71115-2801 (318) 797-6401 [email protected] Website: agudathshreveport.com

Congregation Agudath Achim

The Shul Shpiel

Holocaust Rememberance Service

April 15, 2018

3:00 pm

Centenary College

Brown Chapel

“Music of the Holocaust”


Shalom my Agudath Achim brothers and sisters !!! Well….our long cold

Winter is over and as we move into Spring, we can all look forward to the

trees in bloom, the start of baseball season and my favorite holiday of the

Jewish calendar, Pesach ( Passover ). And we do it well here at Agudath

Achim. Our congregational second night seder was wonderful and highly

educational, as always…..Todah Rabah to Cantor Schwartz and to those

who prepared a sumptuous feast for everyone. Passover is all about passing

on the traditions of the holiday from one generation to the next, to teach

our children and educate our community…..a job well done.

And speaking of education and a job well done, I am pleased to tell you

about two excellent educational programs that Congregation Agudath

Achim is offering this Spring. First, our ongoing class in Pirkei Avot ( The

Wisdom of the Fathers ), taught by Dr. Bruce Herniter, every Saturday,

after Shabbat morning services. The discussion is lively and engaging, so

please consider joining us and contributing some of your wisdom.

The second class we are presenting is Jewish 101, open to the community

at large, to learn the basics of Jewish history, culture and traditions. Our

first class was held in March and will continue on Wednesday April 18 at

7 PM in the AA library. The class is being taught by lay members of our

congregation and if you would be interested in teaching a class please

let me know, so we can schedule you in the coming months.

Education is a core Jewish value that is absolutely critical to the

continuation of The Jewish people around the world and right here in

our little congregation in Shreveport, La. As we move forward together,

Kadima B’yachad.

REMINDER: April Board Meeting is on Monday, April 2.

(NOT on the 2nd Monday as usual.)

Howard J. Silberman

From the President


Hazzan’s Notes

Jewish Music of Leonard Bernstein

The Jewish journey of Leonard Bernstein began a generation earlier when his father Samuel

settled in Boston around 1912, after immigrating from the Ukraine. Leonard was born in 1918,

and he grew up attending a large Conservative synagogue named Mishkan Tefila. There was

a Rabbi and a Cantor, an organ, and a choir led by a professional Music Director from Vienna.

Bernstein was profoundly influenced by the music he learned from this Music Director, named

Solomon Braslavsky. It was based on traditional European synagogue music, yet considered

to be forward-looking in the 1920's, because of Braslavky's innovative musical arrangements.

Leonard served as a student Cantor for the Youth Service, he studied piano and organ as a

youth, and he learned aspects of public speaking from the Rabbi of Mishkan Tefila. Between

the Jewish home environment provided by his family and the influence of Jewish music in this

large Boston synagogue, Bernstein went on to Harvard firmly grounded in his Jewish identity.

Throughout Leonard's entire career as a composer, conductor, music educator, pianist, and

social activist, this Jewish identity was expressed in subtle and overt ways through his music.

Here is just a partial list of his compositions that are either entirely Jewish, or include musical

material taken from the world of synagogue music and Hebrew religious texts.

Bernstein composed settings of at least two prayers from the Shabbat evening service – the

Hashkiveinu prayer for protection, and the closing Yigdal prayer. He composed a setting of

the Dybbuk, and Simchu Na is his exciting choral arrangement of an Israeli dance melody.

Chichester Psalms is the work that was sung with our Shreveport Symphony in March. It

was commissioned by Chichester Abbey in England in 1965, and it presents three movements

of exciting and moving choral music for Psalms 100, 23, 2, 131, and a verse of Psalm 133.

Bernstein's Symphony #1 is entitled the Jeremiah Symphony, and all three movements quote

Hebrew Biblical music verbatim. The 2nd Movement is based on the chant of our Prophets,

using exact Haftarah Trope, while the 3rd Movement is based on the chant of Lamentations.

His Symphony #3 is the Kaddish Symphony, using the Aramaic text of Kaddish and its English

translation from our liturgy. It presents a theological challenge to God, based on the Yiddish

song in which a Rabbi chastises God for allowing misfortunes that befall Jewish communities.

Bernstein's Broadway musicals include Candide and West Side Story, both of which have the

sound of the Shofar in their music. He often wrote in 7/8 time (Pa da, Pa, da, Pa da da), with

this syncopation in his Symphonic music (including Chichester) and in his Broadway musicals.

Hazzan Neil Schwartz


Kroger Community Contributions

Please take a look at your Kroger receipts - at the bottom - does it say

“you are contributing to Congregation A”? If it does, Thank You for

your contribution. If it does NOT, there is an easy, painless, no money

out of your pocket solution to correct the issue and contribute to us.

Go to Kroger.com, click on “Savings Rewards”, then click on “Kroger

Community Rewards”. Our Organization number is 8277.

Jewish Community Directory

NEW EDITION COMING SOON!

Thank you for providing your updated information to us. Our next bulletin will have information

regarding availability, cost and mailing expense of the new directory.

Community Events

Thank you to Dr. Howard Lippton

for donating several trees to Agudath Achim Synagogue.

Thank you to all who donate toiletries which we donate to the Council on Alcohol-

ism & Drug Abuse. Also, remember soft drink tabs for St. Judes’s; Box Top cou-

pons and Community Coffee proofs of purchases.

Sale on Holiday Items

Sisterhood’s Rubenstein Gift Shop is running an incredible 75% off sale on all holiday-related merchandise, throughout the month of April. That means seder plates, dreidels, honey pots, and more… It’s all waiting to go home with you!

Gift Shop

Sisterhood


APRIL 2018

Adult Education

Please join us on Wednesday, April 11th at 7:00 p.m. Topic is:

“Leonard Bernstein at 100”

Family Service

Friday, April 20

7:00 pm

With story and songs

Agudath Achim Board Meeting

April 2nd 7:00pm

Our condolences to the family of Bernard Rosenfeld,

former resident and pillar of our congregation; and

family of Muriel Bundrick, mother-in-law of Ben Sour,

President of our Federation.

May their memories be a Blessing.

Rachel Gross Lawent April 14

Joan Lurie April 16

Liza Judd April 19

Dr. Sanford Katz April 26

Howard Silberman April 26

Red River Radio FM 89.9 Passover Programs 2018

Apollo's Fire - Sephardic Journey – cultural history – Wed., March 28, 1 p.m.

Apollos Fire - Israel in Egypt – Handel’s Oratorio – Thursday, March 29, 1 p.m.

Why This Night with Rabbi Ismar Schorsch – Thursday, March 29, 7 p.m.

A Musical Feast for Passover with Itzhak Perlman – Tuesday, April 3rd

, 2 p.m.

The Four Cups - A Celebration of Passover – Wednesday, April 4th

, 2 p.m.

Passover Dreams – Wednesday, April 4, 8 p.m.

Passover-A Time To Cross Over – Thursday, April 5, 1 p.m.


Yahrzeits

If you are interested in being a Host or would like more information concerning Oneg or Kiddush refreshments, contact the synagogue office at 797-6401,or Sandra Ginsburg at 865-2218.

Week of March 30 - Week of April 6 - 12 Week of April 13 -19

Abe Gilbert Barbara A Threefoot Irving Greenberg

Issie Gelfand Nathan Yellen Yetta Rubenstein

Ben Frumer Louis Abramson Charles Zelinsky

Ronald Aldin Edwin Coltin Kent Hayford

Daniel Gross

Week of April 20 - 26 Week of April 27 - May 1

Sally Bayer Meyer Gelfand

Harold Levinson Ruth L. Levine

Rose Cole Pessie Goldfinger

Meir Shamgar Ida Horowitz

Benson Zweig

It is the custom of Agudath Achim to commemorate the Yahrzeit

by reading the name the Sabbath before.

April Oneg Shabbat / Kiddush Schedule

6 Home Seder

7 Seder Committee

13 - 14 Dr. Aubrey & Joan Lurie

20 - 21 Oneg Committee

27 - 28 Sarah Diebner


Donations

In Memory of: By:

Louis Schorr Paula & Bill Cornelious

Carol Goodman Dr. Kenneth Tichansky

Rose G. Vogel Jan & Warren Epstein

Felix Leiser Alcus Berte & Ike Muslow

Ron & Diane Aldin David & Sandra Ginsburg

Abram Ginsburg David & Sandra Ginsburg

Bernard Rosenfeld David & Sandra Ginsburg

Jacob & Rachel Groner Jacqueline Fleschman

Vivian Murov Ellis Murov & family

Bernard Rosenfeld Janet Ritman & family

Bernard Rosenfeld Sara Tebele

Bernard Rosenfeld Dr. Marshall & Charlett Frumin

Bernard Rosenfeld Carol Ginsburg

Barbara Alcus Threefoot Berte & Ike Muslow

Hedva Sada Dorothy Rosenfeld & family

Hazel Schwartzberg Dorothy Rosenfeld & family

Cecily Renov Mrs. Gloria Rosen


APRIL 2018

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

16 nisan 1

AA Service

10:00 am

2nd day

PASSOVER

17 nisan 2

AA Board Mtg

7:00PM

18 nisan 3 19 nisan 4 20 nisan 5 21 nisan 6

10:00am Service

7h Day of

PASSOVER

22 nisan 7

Yizkor

10:00am

AA SERVICES

8th day of

PASSOVER

23 nisan 8

9am to

12 pm

BZ Blood

Drive

24 nisan 9

25 nisan 10 26 nisan 11

7:00pm

Adult

Education

27 nisan 12 28 nisan 13

AA Service

8:00 pm

29 nisan 14

Shemini

10:00am

AA SERVICES

30 nisan 15

3:00pm

Holocaust

Remembrance

Centenary

1 iyar 16 2 iyar 17 3 iyar 18

Jewish 101

7:00pm

4 iyar 19

Israel

Indepen-

dence

Day

5 iyar 20

Family

AA Service

7:00 pm

6 iyar 21

Tazria -

Metzora

10:00am

AA SERVICES

7 iyar 22 8 iyar 23 9 iyar 24 10 iyar 25 11 iyar 26 12 iyar 27

AA Service

8:00 pm

13 iyar 28

Acharei

Mot-Kedoshim

10:00am

AA SERVICES

14 iyar 29 15 iyar 30 16 iyar 1

MAY

17 iyar 2

MAY

18 iyar 3

MAY

19 iyar 4

MAY

AA Service 8:00 pm

20 iyar 5

Emor

10:00am

AA SERVICES

7:20pm

7:25pm

7:30pm

7:35pm

7 :40pm

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