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SHOFAR Tishri/Heshvan 5782 October 2021
Since taking the position in July, being the B’nai Israel president has been a truly rewarding and fulfilling experience. With the help of Rabbi Polokoff, the B’nai Israel staff and Board of Trustees, I have learned a great deal in a short amount of time.
The month of September was a busy one for our congregation. In-person High Holiday services resumed and were well attended despite ongoing challenges.
We are looking forward to welcoming back our B’nai Israel Religious School students for another exciting year of fun and learning with our dedicated faculty. Abby Peklo has been working most diligently to ensure the program will give all the students a meaningful experience that will include lessons in Judaic studies, Hebrew, and field trips, where I’m sure everyone will make new friends and become reacquainted with old ones.
I am open to all who may have questions, concerns, comments or suggestions. Please feel free to email any time at [email protected].
As we head into the new autumn season, I’d like to wish everyone a sweet new year. May we all be inscribed for renewed faith, health, happiness, joy, love, and prosperity in the new year of 5782. Thank you, all, and L’shanah Tovah.
Steven M. Reps
W e are truly grateful to Murray and Susan
Haber for your fundraising challenge – to B’nai Israel – a
$20,000 match for new donations. Our tradition explains Im ein kemach ein Torah – “Without sustenance there is no Torah.” Your generosity is impactful, especially here – and together with you, we all must help to sustain Torah in our midst.
Murray & Susan
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Rabbi’s Discretionary Fund in memory of Nancy Stammelman Joe Stammelman Alice Sheinbaum Ben Sheinbaum Joel Abramson Rubin Goldman William Fingerhut Barry Fingerhut David Ross Marjorie Ross Nancy Guillaume Ival & Ron Kovner Leah Linton Beatrice Gold Sandy Gold & Paul Medina Ida Saperstein Eleanor Saperstein Rabbi’s Discretionary Fund in honor of Rabbi officiating at Nancy Stammelman’s unveiling Joe Stammelman My conversion Laura Jackson Rabbi Eric Melissa Fleischer Flower Fund Shari Abelson General Fund Pam & Martin Steiglitz Saralyn Dyme General Fund in memory of Amee Fishman Al S. Fishman Suzy & Coby Ben-Chitrit Roberta Brown Lisa & Scott Segal Anne Kaplan Rudy Zeidler Max Gross Larry Engelman Ann Bress Norma & Charles Fleischman Julian Epstein Morton Goldman Milton Bisnov Sharon Goldman Judy & Erick Herman Glenn Herman Albert Koweek Barb & Art Phillips
General Fund in honor of Michael Wasserstein’s college graduation Lisa & Scott Segal Thank you for use of HHD flip book Michael Feldman Thanks for the calendar Rose Valletta Rabbi leading memorial service at cemetery Tamara & Mark Rubanovich In gratitude for Rabbi, Linda & Dan’s help with his Bar Mitzvah Matthew Witmyer Nathan & Mildred Romanoff Rabbi Eric Silver Fern Sundermeyer Rabbi & B’nai Israel Leonard & Susan Segal Caring Fund in memory of Leah Linton Ival & Ron Kovner Memorials & Dedication Fund in memory of Leona Tendler Dawn Tendler High Holy Day Flower Fund Lisa & Scott Segal Music Fund Sue Benenson & Eileen Fallas Music Fund in honor of Linda Goodman & the High Holiday Choir Sandy Gold & Paul Medina Ritual Fund in honor of Chanting Torah on Yom Kippur Sandy Gold & Paul MNedina Adult Education Fund in memory of Leo Purrinson Rochelle & Earl Gershenow Paul Morton Cohen Rochelle & Earl Gershenow Becky & Sean Samberg
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SHARING OUR RECIPES
B’nai Israel President, Steven
Reps, invites you to share your
favorite family recipes in Shofar.
Each month we will print a
congregant’s recipe contribution.
To participate please send your
submission with a few words of
interest, wisdom, history, whatever!
We look forward to hearing from
you!
Submissions should be sent to:
Thank you to Beth Rosen, MS,
RD, CDN for this months’ recipe!
A banana bread recipe suitable to eat during the elimination phase of the Low-FODMAP diet. Prep Time 10 minutes Cook Time 1 hour Total Time 1 hour 10 minutes Servings 1 loaf Ingredients:
3-4 ripe bananas mashed 1/4 cup butter melted 1/2 cup sugar reduce to 1/3 cup sugar when adding chocolate chips 1 egg beaten 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 teaspoon baking soda 1/8 teaspoon salt or two pinches 1 1/2 cup of Bob's Red Mill 1 to 1 Gluten free flour OR any gluten-free flour PLUS 1 teaspoon xanthan gum Additions:
1/3 cup blueberries rinsed and patted dry 1/2 cup sliced strawberries into 1/2" pieces 1/3 cup mini chocolate chips use a low-FODMAP brand, ie Enjoy Life Instructions:
Preheat the oven to 350º F
In a large bowl, mash bananas and stir in melted butter.
Add the sugar, egg, and vanilla and stir.
Add the baking soda and salt and mix.
Mix in the flour (and xanthan gum).
Fold in the "addition" ingredient.
Pour mixture into a 4"x 8" greased loaf pan (or line it with parchment paper) and bake for1 hour.
Cool in pan for five minutes and then cool on a rack.
Following the elimination phase of the low-FODMAP can be a daunting and confusing task. The low-FODMAP diet can feel restrictive if not implemented correctly, resulting in confusion about low-FODMAP food choices, and fear of impending digestive symptoms. As a follower of first a gluten-free diet, and eventually the low-FODMAP diet, I know how challenging it can be to incorporate, substitute and eliminate favorite foods. When working with clients who have Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), we talk about the foods that they like and look for recipes that are FODMAP friendly. One that comes up over and over again is banana bread. Believe it or not, low-FODMAP banana bread is possible!
Banana bread is typically made with wheat flour, which contains fructans and thus makes banana bread a high-FODMAP food. But, with a switch of the flour to one that is low-FODMAP, banana bread becomes a safe food for the elimination phase. While bananas have the ability to be higher in FODMAPs the riper they are and as the portion increases, the portion of banana per slice in my version makes this a low-FODMAP banana bread recipe.
This low-FODMAP banana bread recipe is a favorite in my house (even for those who don’t have IBS) because it is so versatile. t can be made plain, with chocolate chips, blueberries, strawberries, or a combination of all of them. It can be frozen in loaves or in slices so that it can be savored and enjoyed even after the elimination phase has ended.
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Leadership
Rabbi
Eric Polokoff, D.D.
Director of Sacred Music
Linda Goodman
School Director
Abby Peklo
Officers
Steven Reps, President
Patti Berkowitz, 1st Vice President
Sheri Kipperman, 2nd Vice President
Eric Linnetz, Secretary
David Augenbraun, Treasurer
Lisa Segal, Immediate Past President
Trustees
Kathryn Albee (2024)
Charlene Blatter (2023)
Phil Feinman (2022)
Melissa Fleischer (2024)
Bill May (2024)
Adam Price (2022)
Michelle Rosen (2022)
Allison Berman Schwartz (2023)
Jodi Wasserstein (2023)
10/1
Saul Bennet Alderman
Norma Basch
William Henry Blank
Dorothy Danen
Peggy Erlanger
Annette Bernstein Feinn
Sonia Frenkel
Hortense Green
Celia J. Kamak
Jean Komitor
Ida Medin Leopold
Benjamin Littman
Martha Protter
Anna Rearson
Saul Rhodes
Emanuel Scher
Diane Shwedick
Sarah Roger Strisik
John Weisman
Nellie Wohlgemuth
10/8
Trina Cohan
Joseph Cohen
Amelia Dover
David Harris Feinn
Morris Friedman
Bea Gold
Doreen Halberstam Cyge
Rose Markowitz
Albert Miller
Peter Quigley
Edward Segal
Josephine Smith
Lillian Yarish-Kutner
Wolf Zelinger
10/15
Lillian G. Berland
Maurice Berlin
Joseph Brinker
Jennie Cohen
Louis Cohen
Bernard Erlanger
Jay Erlanger
Harry Goldberg
Max Hoffman
Joseph G. Levin
10/15 (continued)
Barbara McChesney
Doris Pace
Max Saper
Evelyn Singer
Max R. Traurig
Marjorie Blick Walzer
Morris Weinstein
10/22
Caroline Basch-Gould
Maurice David Berman
Donald Cohan
Theodore W. Davis
Clara Eisenberg
Marvin Louis Gelb
Elizabeth Weinstein Heit
Estelle Hersh
Manuel Lax
Judge Yale Matzkin
Nettie Pashkis
Sidney L. Silverman
Michael Sochin
Nancy Stammelman
Julia Stein
10/29
Pauline Balmuth
Lewis Freedman
Andrea Gershenow
Jacques Henry Green
Bernard Hall
William N. Kronick
Calvin Light
Arthur Marcus
Paul Megibow
Esther Meth
Louis Mintz
Isabelle O. Muravnick
Hyman Rechtman
Jason Salomon
Charline Saunders
Ralph Schoonmaker
Fannie Summit
Nettie Raydner Traurig
Isadore Zackin
May their memories be for blessing
*each name in
bold has a
yahrzeit plaque in
the B’nai Israel
sanctuary
www.bnaiisraelsouthbury.org
Memorialize your loved one with
a plaque on our Yahrzeit
boards. Contact the office or
Memorials & Dedications Chair,
Sharon Goldman at
860.631.6541 or
YAHRZEITS
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October 10/1 Ethan Bearz Sandra Marcus Michael Pekovich 10/2 Cameron Linnetz Dianne Selby-Nybakken 10/3 David Eckwall Barbara Phillips 10/6 Matthew Magida 10/7 Audrey Borenstein David Johnson Rebekka Rosen 10/8 Mary Beth Pratt 10/9 Zachary Fuchs 10/10 Jeremy Voegeli 10/12 Mark Berkowitz Henry Blatter Joshua Ross 10/13 Marcelo Tortoriello 10/14 Sophie Ackert Amanda Blatter 10/15 Celia Schwartz 10/16 Jason Feinman 10/18 Jonathan Bernon Marvin Deutsch Marci Durnell Anita Pettengill Amy Qualls
10/19 Katherine Friedman 10/21 Sharon Goldman 10/22 Gillian Eckwall Eric Kipperman 10/23 Steven Fisch Ian Lee 10/25 Tracy Hill 10/27 Cody Voegeli 10/28 Ella Manning David Ranzer 10/29 Paula Baron 10/30 Sean Samberg Roy Walzer Samantha Wisnefsky 10/31 Eleanor Crystal Eli Manning
October
10/1 Randi & Mitchell Solomon
10/10 Ariana & Steven Fisch
Kimberly & Marc Rubel
10/16 Tammy & Eric Wisnefsky
10/20 Susan & Thomas Wise
10/26 Allison & Iurie Schwartz
10/28 Mary Beth & Michael Pratt
10/29 Michele & Michael Gerstenfeld
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