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Content Highlights

1 Rabbi’s Monthly Word

2 Letter from the Presidents

2 From the Executive Director

3 News from School

6 Contributions

8 Oseh’s Annual Retreat

13 Torah Study Course

14 Oneg Sponsors

18 Candle Lighting Times

18 Calendar Highlights

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Executive Director Barry Nove Religious School Director Renee Richards

Volume 50 No. 3

November 2016/5776

Oseh Shalom’s Monthly Newsletter

The Shalom

Rabbi Heifetz’s Monthly Word

Dear Friends,

It was a tremendous pleasure to cele-brate the High Holidays with so many of you at Oseh Shalom. My heart leapt a bit--with happiness--when I saw each famil-iar face and family group enter the sanc-tuary. I felt a hint of sadness, too, since this was my last High Holiday season as the rabbi of Oseh Shalom.

I very much intend to savor the time with our congregation over the year ahead. My adult education classes will offer some great occasions to connect this year, and I hope as many of you as possible will join in.

For example, I'm offering an Adult B'nei Mitzvah Class, starting on Sun-day November 6th. It's a perfect opportunity for Jewish adults (whether by conversion or birth) to learn or refresh their memory of synagogue basics for Shabbat services, to dive into study of a weekly Torah por-tion, to make friends from the Oseh Shalom community, and to cele-brate and renew commitment to Jewish life. I'll meet with the class ap-proximately ten times, on Sundays at noon starting this fall. Together as a group, we'll make arrangements for each individual to learn Torah chanting. We'll hold the Adult B'nei Mitzvah celebration itself in syna-gogue on Saturday morning, May 13th during services, when we'll also dedicate our newly repaired Torah scroll. If you're interested in partici-pating, or if you have any questions whatsoever, please let me know. Please spread the word!

As the year continues, I’ll also teach a 3-session class on ‘Aging & Elder-ing in Judaism’ (Sundays from 10-11:30 AM, Dec. 4 & 18, Jan. 8). In early 2017, I’ll offer a five part class entitled ‘Like a Tree of Life: the Branches & Genres of Classic Jewish Wisdom’ (Sundays 10-11:30 AM, Feb. 26, March 5 & 12, April 23 & 30).

I hope to see you for some of these classes, and at many other upcom-ing services, gatherings, and celebrations at Oseh Shalom.

Best wishes for a great rest of the fall season,

Rabbi Doug

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From the Executive Director Welcome to the November issue of the Shalom. I would like to personally thank all the volunteers who helped make not only our services so lovely, but who worked so hard to make the process of High Holiday set-up and deal-ing with tickets seem so ef-fortless. It’s not always. Our office could not do what we do without the help of so

many marvelous volunteers.

Looking back, I’d like to share what other volun-teers made possible in time for the High Holidays. The lighting of the Sanctuary is now 100% LED. Steve Klein, Stephen Schoenfeld, and Gary Mag-nus, using a rented 16 foot ladder, replaced all the recessed lighting over the course of two days. Rich Burger did some long needed patch work that re-quired that very long ladder as well. Phil Victor and Steve Klein replaced burned out lights in the Social Hall, and much more over the summer.

Last month I shared that in an effort to make our-selves more accessible and inclusive we planned to add ramps in time for the High Holidays. The Cate-gory 2 ADA approved ramps are taking some get-ting used to, but they are the perfect “accessory” to our bima, the Torah table's platform, also mak-ing curbside drop off for loved ones in front of the main entrance much easier. Irv Miller, who re-searched and helped select these ramps, built a support for the ten foot ramp to the bima, so it would be firmer. When we began testing out the long ramp, it, well, squeaked. The fact that the ramps can be folded up and stored elsewhere is really wonderful.

Which brings me to the unexpected, something I’ve never had to do in the rush for the High Holi-days. We did an emergency repair on one of our Torahs. One of the Torah handles broke off during a Religious School class, when Rabbi was showing the students the scroll. Good thing we just hired a sofer for our upcoming Torah renovation project. We purchased a new pair of etzei chayim (the wood handles for Torah scrolls) and the sofer, Jef-frey Schulevitz, installed them for us right before Rosh Hashanah. That was a good thing for another reason – we had a triplets' bnei mitzvah this past month and each of the three wanted to hold one of those scrolls during the service.

I also think it was wonderful that on Simhat Torah, to kick-off the Torah renovation project, the scroll we are starting to repair was opened for all to see.

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Another month! I hope the busy High Holiday season left you some time for reflection, con-templation and spiritual renewal.

Congratulations to everyone on our staff, on the High Holiday Committee, everyone who helped with the wildly successful religious school pro-grams, and everyone else who gave so gener-ously of their time and talent to make the ser-vices especially meaningful this year. The strength of our community is most evident when we are all together.

Now that the High Holidays are past, our next priority is the rabbinical search. The rabbinical search process has begun, and you will be re-ceiving regular updates. Andy and I are delight-ed to announce that Brad Sachs has agreed to chair the committee. He brings experience, thoughtfulness, and a deep understanding of our congregation to the process, and we could not be more pleased.

Our first event is a meeting on Sunday, Novem-ber 6, at 9:30 a.m., and is open to all. We will be dividing into small groups to talk about our priorities. Look for a survey, coming soon, to help us identify the qualities and strengths you believe are most important. We look forward to seeing as many of you as possible.

The future of Oseh Shalom belongs to each of us. The search process is only one example of the project-based volunteerism Andy and I talked about in our High Holiday appeal. We en-courage you to come, take your part in any as-pect of synagogue life that has meaning to you, and believe you will find a satisfying connection to each other and our community.

Happy 5777.

Allison

Letter from the Presidents

Volume 50, No. 3 The Shalom

Sixty columns will be repaired – in this interactive project, which can involve every member of the congregation who wishes to participate. You’ll be learning more about the project this month. We’ve plans to feature our sofer on what we’re piloting as “Oseh TV” – using our live streaming in truly creative ways. Watch for details in the eNews and our Social Media – on Facebook and on our website.

Before concluding, I would like to thank all those who have helped in the office: Mona Davis, Lisa Karpf, Doris Kirschbaum, Mariyan Kolev, Pauline Pivowar, and Shelley Sypes.

Barry Nove

Executive Director

[email protected]

301-498-5151

Shalom everyone, This year, the Education Com-mittee worked with the Reli-gious Committee to create a new service option during the High Holy Days. While the ser-vices have since come and gone, I cannot stop thinking about the beauty of our family tent service. So many factors came together at just the right time in order to make our new

service a sold-out success.

First, there was the tremendous dedication of our Education Committee. They gathered information nearly a year ago, and realized that many of our religious school families were opting to go to other services at other congregations. They wanted a more kid-oriented service that allowed everyone to be together as a family. To find a solution, we had to begin thinking outside the box, or in reality, out-side our synagogue walls. And this is where the open-mindedness of our Religious Committee be-came involved. Both committees agreed that our Aleph and Bet traditional services needed to re-main, but we needed to create a third service that catered to a young family styled service.

Our traditional programming of music, crafts, and a few light prayers in the classrooms was not going to cut it anymore. We heard our parents’ desires for the family to be together as a unit during services, but also realized children running around the main sanctuary during our traditional services was not an option. Thus came the idea for a tent service out-side. We have such a beautiful piece of property

News From School with Renee

and the perfect spot to put a tent.

Next, we had to think about who would run the service and what would it entail? Fortunately, we have a wonderful teaching staff in our religious school. Our music teacher, Stephanie Weishaar, knew a cantor who works with several camps and who is used to leading family services. As anyone who attended our tent service can attest, Rachel Wolman was a perfect fit.

The final piece to the puzzle came to our religious school as a wonderful surprise. We knew funding a family tent service would be difficult. Renting a tent and affording a talented cantor was some-thing we knew we had to figure out. Then, one of our families bestowed upon us the Eskin Endow-ment in honor of Ed Cheng’s mother. The endow-ment is specifically meant for unique and innova-tive programming. It is through this endowment and hopefully future donations to this fund that we hope to continue this tradition.

L’Shana Tova,

Renee Richards


New Synagogue-wide “One Book” Read Explores a Search for Jewish Roots The Lifelong Learning Committee has selected An Orphan in History: One Man's Triumphant Search for his Jew Roots by the late Paul Cowan for our Oseh Shalom “One Book” synagogue-wide read. After growing up as a fully assimilated Jew, Paul Cowan embarked in his mid-thirties upon a journey to discover and appreciate his true identity and heritage. This “orphan in history” relates his search for these roots, detailing the path he took from his Park Avenue home to nineteenth-century Lithuania to a contemporary Israeli kibbutz, leading to remarkable personal discoveries that will move everyone who has yearned to know more about their past.

Join us on Sunday, November 13, 2016 at 10 AM for a book talk brunch led by Dr. Eliyana Adler, Associate Profes-sor of History and Jewish Studies at Penn State. She is a historian of the modern Jewish experience in Eastern Europe with particular interests in the history of religion, education, and gender studies. New copies of the book (originally published in 2002 by Jewish Lights Publishing) are available on www.amazon.com and from Barnes and Noble (www.bn.com ) for $16.99. Used copies are offered for less. Please contact Marla Singer (301-725-5338) or at [email protected] if you need help obtaining a copy.

NewandProspectiveMemberBrunchDecember4th

TheMembershipCommitteeishostingaNewandProspectiveMemberBrunchonSunday,

December4,2016,at9:30a.m.(duringreligiousschool).TheBrunchisanopportunityfor

newmembersandnon-memberstolearnmoreaboutwhatOsehShalomhastooffer.Weal-

soplantohavesomeoneavailabletospeakandanswerquestionsabouttheReligious

School.

Thebrunchisfree—weonlyaskthatyouRSVP,preferablybyNovember27th,ifyouplanto

attendsoweknowhowmuchfoodtoorder.YoucanRSVPtomeatawittik@gmail.comor

(410)792-2868ortothesynagogueof7iceat(301)498-5151.

SincethebrunchisopentoanyonewhoisnotamemberofOsehShalom,feelfreetoinvite

yourfriends.

AnnWittik-Bravmann

MembershipChair


Contributions

Rabbi’s Discretionary Fund Don Street In memory of Donald L. Street Building Fund Gail & Ron Schimel In memory of Jane Schimel – beloved mother of Ron Schimel In memory of Ruth Springer – beloved mother of Gail Schimel Community Services Fund (Social Action & Caring & Support) Ellis Schlossenberg In memory of Sidney Schlossenberg Chumash – Five Books of Moses Anonymous Tamar Eskin In memory of Rajna Eskin High Holiday Appeal Anonymous Judy Arnoff In memory of Zella & Irving Brenner Maurice & Margrit Assaraf In memory of Mesoda Assaraf In memory of Issakhar Assaraf Bella & Larry Clamage In memory of Ray & Lil Clamage and Jim Davis Bonnie & Michael Cornell The Eskin/Cheng Family In memory of Rajna Eskin and David Eskin Laura Finkelstein In memory of James Finkelstein Andy & Beth Friedman Bernice Goodwin In loving memory of Herbert Goodwin Stuart Greenbaum In memory of Alan Greenbaum Ariel Greenberg & Ioana Stoica Penny & Brian Kritt Jackie & Eric Land Timothy A. Livengood & Gwyn F. Fireman In memory of David Fireman Beverly & Hal Ludwig In honor of Zach, Lea, Steven, and Ben Helen Metzman In memory of Sara Tema Lowe Donna Potemken & David Friedman Barry Segal

Marcia Spear George & Holly Stone Linda & Ron Tobin In memory of Bill Rowell, Bertha Kahn, Violet Davidowitz Susan & Ken Wilson In honor of the birth of Linda & Art Solomon’s grandchild Directed Donations Tiffany Lynn Heath Kol Haneshama: Daily Prayerbook/Shabbat & Festivals Prayerbook Tamar Eskin In memory of Rajna Eskin Life Long Learning Fund Neal & Mary Meyerson In memory of Irving Meyerson Nancey & Steve Parker In memory of Evelyn Cohen, mother of Nancey Parker Music & Arts Fund Anonymous Prayer Book Fund Linda Bergofsky In memory of Sadie Kay Sharon Stern Garden Fund George & Holly Stone Torah Repair Fund Anonymous Nancey & Steve Parker In memory of Evelyn Cohen, mother of Nancey Parker Yartzeit Fund Gary Gaines & Lolly Gaines In memory of Elizabeth Levin Steve & Sheila Urman In memory of Julius Urman Alan & Marilyn Wilder In memory of Max Wilder, beloved father of Alan Wilder General Donations Carol & Martin Loeb


Social Action/Caring Shalom. I hope everyone had a wonderful Holi-day Season. Now, we can take a breath until Ha-nukkah! While things are a little bit slow, please take a moment to consider doing a Mitzvah. Be-ing part of the Social Action Committee/Caring and Support Committee is a wonderful way to help others in our Oseh Community. You need not be present at meetings to be a part of this committee. Please go to http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0c48a5a92ea1fc1-

oneclick if you are at all interested in helping out. A lot of the ways of helping, listed there, are on an as-needed basis, such as providing a ride, making a meal or a simple phone call, or an elder visit, just to name a few. More details are provid-ed on the website. If you are interested, need help with signing up, or have general questions, don't hesitate to contact me. I am also excited to announce that we have a few new additions to our Committee! Welcome to Jen Queen, Jeni Wamaling (both new members to Oseh!), Lysie Sarantos, Sonya Everett, Vernel Thomas, and Katy Clemens. We appreciate your joining us and look forward to working with you this year. Our next major event will take place on Decem-ber 11, which will be our annual Wrapping Party. We will adopt a family from LARS and will collect and wrap presents for them. Please look for de-tails via the December Shalom as well as the Enews and other email communications. This is a wonderful way to help others in our local commu-nity. B'Shalom, Felicia Friedman Social Action/Caring and Support Chairperson 240-786-6274(Home), 410-707-0749(Cell), [email protected]

Birthdays 1 Richard Aug 2 Amy Berger 2 Henry Horn 2 Matthew Kramer 3 Margrit Assaraf 3 Matthew Bernhardt 3 Daniel Gabel 4 Steven Goldfarb 5 Shayna Kleinberg 7 Heather Kleinberg 8 Beth Schimel 9 Bonnie Rosenberg 10 Arnold Jacobson 10 Jonah Richardson 11 Ethan Burger 11 Jeremy Burger 11 Mackenzie Mager 11 Caren Mitchell 12 Terry Klein 12 Susan Romm 13 Michelle Lenet 14 Rebecca Fields 14 Michael Paulson 15 Jill Gabel 15 Joshua Swanner 16 Katy Clemens

16 Benjamin Ludwig 17 Bettina Clamage 17 Jennifer Queen 18 Michael Becker 18 Deborah Firestone 19 Michael Cornell 19 Myla Goldberg 19 Robert Weiss 19 Hal Zaslow 21 Maida Salant 21 Stephen Siegel 23 Alia Fink 23 Dan Krieger 24 Arthur Solomon 25 Evan Lessler 27 Colette Cheng 27 Shane Feldman 27 Saryn Goldberg 27 Beverly Ludwig 28 David Paulson 28 Jennifer Stern 29 Yuri Stone 30 Bonnie Cornell 30 Gary Greenwald 30 Chad Stern 30 Alison Swanner

Anniversaries 2 Andrew & Beth Friedman 4 Hal & Joanne Zaslow 5 Hal & Beverly Ludwig 5 Gary & Melody Magnus 7 Adam & Shelley Reese 10 Jean & Ari Silver-Isenstadt 10 Bryna & Howard Weiss 12 Dan Glaser & Maryrita Wieners 12 Kenneth & Marla Singer 13 Michael & Bonnie Cornell 15 Aaron & Tina Clamage 17 Ron Dziengiel & Elaine Povich 25 Steven & Nancey Parker 26 Robert & Margie Ginsberg 26 Leon & Helen Litow 28 Joan & Robert Nachman


ONEG HOST REMINDER When you receive your email or letter notifying you of your scheduled date for hosting an Oneg, WE NEED TO HEAR FROM YOU as soon as possible, WHETHER YOU CAN MAKE YOUR DATE OR NOT. We need time to find an alternate to take your place if you cannot keep your assigned date, and we will reschedule you if possible, or put you on our reserve list for a future opening.

Please respond to Lisa Karpf at [email protected] when you receive your email or letter.

Thank you for your prompt response.

Lisa Karpf, Chair, Oneg Host Coordinator

Sponsor a Friday Night Oneg Shabbat

Honor a loved one by sponsoring an oneg. This is a unique and special way to commemorate life events, such as birthdays, anniversaries, bar/bat mitzvahs and special additions to the family. You would also be contrib-uting to the spirit of community following erev Shabbat services. The oneg sponsor honors are listed in both the weekly bima notes and the Shalom. Each sponsor honor is $25; the funds benefit the entire congregation. Please notify Mona Davis at [email protected] or anyone of the Sisterhood members to sponsor an oneg.


Applications for Oseh Shalom's 2017

Camp JRF Scholarships

Oseh Shalom is again offering financial assistance to help families send their kids to the Jewish Recon-structionist Federation's summer camp--Camp JRF--in the Pocono Mountains in Pennsylvania. It's been shown that attending a Jewish summer camp can be a truly transformative experience. All of the Oseh kids who have attended Camp JRF have had a won-derful time!

Our scholarships cover a portion of Camp JRF's cost for families in financial need. The amount we can provide depends on how many families apply for as-sistance, their level of need, and the current amount in our scholarship fund. Since our fund is supported entirely by voluntary contributions from Oseh mem-bers, we encourage everyone to make a contribu-tion, large or small, to the fund.

Families seeking financial assistance should fill out a confidential application, which is reviewed by Oseh Shalom's scholarship committee. Please contact John Finedore ([email protected]) to obtain a 2017 application form. The deadline for submitting this form is January 15, 2017. Our scholarship com-mittee will make funding decisions at that time. Preference is given to families applying for support for the first time.

Families who apply for an Oseh scholarship should also apply for financial aid directly from Camp JRF. In addition, first-time campers should apply for a grant from "One Happy Camper," which provides grants (that are not needs-based) of up to $1,000 to children attending an overnight Jewish camp for the first time. To apply for a Camp JRF summer session and for more information about Camp JRF's financial aid and "One Happy Camper," visit the Camp's web-site, campjrf.org. Camp JRF's summer sessions do fill up, so we encourage you to act early!

"To-rah or Not To-rah – Where Do You Stand? Give Us Four Weeks and We'll Give You 4,000 Years"

Torah study course by Rabbi Gordon Fuller Mondays, November 7, 14, 21 and 28, 2016

Location in Columbia, Maryland to be determined

This is an introductory course for those who'd like to know more about Torah and how to study it. The class will be a participatory, discussion-style class rather than a lecture. Participants' questions, thoughts, and desires are more important than the course outline. This is a learning journey we will take together. Session I - Where do we get the authority to "wrestle" with Torah? Who wrote the Torah and when? How do I make it my own?

Session II - How are Torah scrolls made? What are the rules and customs around them? When are they read and how does the weekly cycle work? Can anyone read them or have an aliyah?

Session III - Who are the traditional commentators and how do I learn/study about them? Who are the modern ones? What is the "Parsha Project" anyway?

Session IV - How do I make Torah part of my everyday life without feeling/becoming "religious"? What is the dif-ference between Written Law and Oral law? What is Midrash? Rabbi Gordon Fuller relocated to Maryland about a year ago to be closer to his children and grandchildren. He has been teaching and preparing b’nei mitzvah students at the Oseh Shalom religious school. Previously, he lived pri-marily in Chicago and Texas, where, among other activities, he was a congregational rabbi for 11 years and a Jew-ish educator at the Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas. The fee for the course is $60 for members of Oseh Shalom and $75 for non-members. To reserve a space in the class, please send your check payable to Oseh Shalom at 7515 Olive Branch Way, Laurel, MD 20707.


Community News Baruch Dayan ha'Emet The congregation sends its sympathy and deepest condolences to Richard Bacharach on the passing of his mother Lilo Bacharach, z''l. The congregation sends its deepest sympathy and condolences to Sharon Baranson and the entire Baranson family on the passing of Sharon's son Paul Baranson, z"l. Paul is also a grandson of Pauline Pivowar. May the family be comforted among the mourners of Israel.

GIANT’S A+ SCHOOL REWARDS Oseh Shalom is again participating in A+ School Rewards, a great fundraising program run through our local Giant! This is an easy way for you to help us earn CASH each time you shop at any Giant Store. Please help our school and register your Gi-ant Card to Oseh - our ID is 02475. Registration opened in September, so please regis-ter today if you haven’t already. If you have signed up in the past, you do not need to reregister. Let’s get over 200 cards registered to help Oseh. You can have friends, family, and neighbors sign up with us too if they aren’t supporting another organ-ization. Registration is easy. But please have your 12 digit card number ready when you register (If you don’t know it, call 1-877-366-2668 and choose option 1). All you have to do is go to www.giantfood.com/aplus and select register your card, which is locat-ed in the red box on the right for customers. Fol-low the prompts to complete your registration or you can call 1-877-Ask-Aplus (1-877-275-2758) and they can register your card for you! After you register, all you have to do is use your card each time you shop at Giant and you will earn CASH for Oseh Shalom. You can track the number of points you are earning for our school by check-ing your grocery receipt starting October 7, 2016 through March 16, 2017.

Oseh needs your support! Please take a moment to register your Giant Card today! And don’t forget to tell your friends and neighbors to do the same. It could mean the world to us. Thank you! Kelly

SCRIP AND GIANT GIFT CARD

PROGRAMS HAVE MERGED For those of you who are using Scrip—thanks a million. For those who haven’t, we hope you try it out soon. For those who have been buying Giant Gift Cards through Heidi, thanks a million too. Starting this month, the Giant Gift Card program is being rolled into the Scrip program. This will not change anything for those who have been buying the cards other than how Oseh orders the cards. With this merger, we are now offering all members the opportunity to put standing orders in with Scrip. You can tell me what you want to order on a monthly basis and then you can send in a pay-ment every month or authorize Oseh to make an automatic withdrawal from your bank. If you want to set up automatic withdrawals, contact Kelly for the form. If you are a Giant Card participant and want to add to your order, please let me know. You can adjust your standing order (maybe you want a Shell gas card) or just purchase additional cards as needed.


September 16 Robin and Gary Gilbert in honor of the Bat Mitzvah of their daughter, Kelsey September 23 Bobbi Adams and Peter Gruhn in honor of the Bar Mitzvah of their son, David October 14 Sharon Cohen and Richard Cerkovnik in honor of the B'nai Mitzvah of their children, Da-vid, Benjamin, and Jessica Cerkovnik November 4 Assaraf family in honor of Margrit’s birthday Sisterhood in honor of Barry Nove’s birthday Sue and Mel Lippmann in honor of the anniversary of Rabbi Doug Heifetz and Elaine Lippmann Melody and Gary Magnus in honor of their anniversary November 11 Schimel family in honor of Beth’s birthday Maryrita Wieners and Dan Glaser in honor of their anniversary Shelley and Adam Reese in honor of their anniversary Rosenberg family in honor of Bonnie’s birthday Stephen Klein in honor of Terry’s birthday November 18 Elaine Povich and Ron Dziengiel in honor of their anniversary Sisterhood in honor of Margrit Assaraf ’s birthday Doris Kirschbaum in honor of the birthday of her daughter, Ellen November 25 Gerson Kramer and family in honor of the birthday of his great granddaughter, Piper Trigg Allen-Kingsland Linda Solomon and family in honor of Art’s birthday Margie and Robert Ginsberg in honor of their anniversary Helen and Leon Litow in honor of their anniversary Nancey and Steve Parker in honor of their anniversary Stone family in honor of Yuri’s birthday

Oneg Sponsors

Consider Oseh Shalom when planning your Simcha’s needs! Reasonable and competitive rates for use of our Social Hall, Kitchen,

Rooms, and Sanctuary.

For details and availability contact:

Barry Nove, Executive Director @ 301-498-5151 or [email protected]


Yahrzeits

11/2/2016 Regina Greenspon, mother of Susan Wilson

11/3/2016 Sylvia Feldman, mother of Paul Feldman

11/3/2016 Elisa Friedman, niece of David Friedman

11/4/2016 Herb Cohen, stepfather of Andrew Friedman

11/4/2016 Sonia Rosenblum, mother of Pauline Pivowar

11/6/2016 Helen Gordon, mother of Elissa Karpf

11/9/2016 Julius Levin, grandfather of Elizabeth Gaines and Gary Gaines

11/9/2016 Clara Lechter, mother of Amy Lechter-Siegel

11/9/2016 Alvin Shapiro, father of Eileen Pokodner

11/10/2016 Beverly Remer, mother of Laurie Remer

11/11/2016 *Satoshi Kondo, father of Hideko Fox

11/11/2016 *Gladys Helman, mother of Joan Magin

11/11/2016 *David Stoler, grandfather of Mark Pomerantz

11/11/2016 *Abraham Schoenfeld, father of Stephen Schoenfeld

11/13/2016 Emily Velelli, grandmother of Eileen Hollander

11/14/2016 *Karen Fox, daughter of Eugene & Hideko Fox

11/14/2016 *Jack Fox, father of Eugene Fox

11/14/2016 Ruth Goozman, mother of Marty Goozman

11/16/2016 Raymond Clamage, father of Larry Clamage

11/16/2016 *Karen Seigel, wife of Alan Seigel and mother of Jessica Seigel

11/17/2016 Roslyn Gladstone, grandmother of Bobbi Adams

11/17/2016 Barbara Frost, mother of Betsy Adelman

11/17/2016 Minna Lincoln, grandmother of Andrew Lincoln

11/18/2016 David Bacharach, father of Richard Bacharach

11/18/2016 *Gayle Petroff Thepaut, cousin of Karen Bonnie Eaton

11/18/2016 Sylvia Freiman, mother of April Koeppel

11/18/2016 Larry Katz, brother-in-law of Ann Wittik-Bravmann

11/19/2016 Victor Newman, father of Marcia Dresner

11/20/2016 Abraham Kimmel, father of Elaine Firestone

11/20/2016 Chester Kandel, father of Shelley Reese

11/21/2016 Annette Saunders, mother of Terry Klein and grandmother of Kelly Benton-Klein

11/22/2016 Frank Kodeck, grandfather of Amy Weissenburger

11/23/2016 Jacob Freedman, father of Debby Kover

11/23/2016 Claire Broad, mother of Barbara Margolis

11/24/2016 Rose Whitman, grandmother of Gary Magnus

11/25/2016 Siegfried Einstein, father of Ted Einstein

11/26/2016 Lillian Clamage, mother of Larry Clamage


Yahrzeits

11/26/2016 *Pauline Kaufman, mother of Lorraine Levan

11/27/2016 Ruth Dreifuss, mother of Peter Dreifuss

11/27/2016 *Samuel Robert Magin, father of Ed Magin

11/28/2016 Kurt Glaser, father of Dan Glaser

11/28/2016 Abraham Klein, father of Steve Klein

11/29/2016 Leepo Zalkind, grandfather of Susan Levine

11/30/2016 Isabelle Bravmann, grandmother of Daniel Bravmann

11/30/2016 *Phillip Gordon, father of Sandra Gordon-Salant

11/30/2016 Eric Neisser, father of Yvette Neisser


Candle Lighting Tim

es

Dates Lighting Time

Havdalah Parsha Haftarah

November 1-2

Rosh Chodesh Chesvan

November 4-5

Rosh haShanah

5:44 PM 6:51 PM Noach

Genesis 6:9-8:14

Isaiah 54:1-55:5; Isaiah 54:1-10*

November 11-12

4:37 PM 5:44 PM Lech Lecha

Genesis 12:1-13:18

Isaiah 40:27-41:16

November 18-19

4:32 PM 5:39 PM Vayera

Genesis 18:1-33

II Kings 4:1-37; II Kings 4:1-23*

November 25-26

4:28 PM 5:36 PM Chayei Sarah

Genesis 23:1-24:9

I Kings 1:1-31

* The first haftarah is read by Ashkenazim, the second by Sefardim.

Oseh Shalom Calendar Highlights

November 2016

November 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 8:15 PM Israeli Dance

November 5, 12, 19, 26 10:00 AM Shabbat Morning Service

November 6, 13, 20 9:00 AM Religious School

November 2, 9, 16, 30 5:00 PM Lower School

November 1 7:30 PM Sisterhood Board Meeting

November 4 6:30 PM Kabbalat Shabbat Dinner


November 4 7:30 PM Shabbat Family Service

November 6 9:00 AM Pre-K

10:00 AM Bnei Mitzvah Program Workshop

11:45 AM TeenConnect

12:00 PM Adult Bnei Mitzvah Class

November 9 7:15 PM Executive Committee

November 11 8:00 PM Shabbat Evening Service

November 12 6:30 PM B’Yachad Havdallah

November 13 10:00 AM One Book—Author Brunch—Lifelong Learning

11:45 AM Torah Study

11:45 AM RS Homeschool Meeting

12:30 PM Reconstructionist Congregational Presidents—

Regional Meeting

November 14 7:00 PM Oseh TV—Pilot Project featuring sofer Jeffrey

Shulevitz

November 17 7:00 PM Bnei Mitzvah Nuts and Bolts Orientation

November 18 8:00 PM Contemplative Shabbat Evening Service

November 20 9:00 AM Pre-K

10:00 AM Education Committee—Renee’s Office

10:00 AM Relcomm Meeting

10:00 AM Bnei Mitzvah Program Workshop

11:45 AM TeenConnect

12:00 PM Adult Bnei Mitzvah Class

4:30 PM Global Day Jewish Learning—

Chesapeake Regional Program

7:00 PM Board Meeting

November 21 7:30 PM Lifelong Learning Committee

November 25 8:00 PM Shabbat Evening Service

November 27 10:00 AM Membership Committee Meeting

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Oseh Shalom

7515 Olive Branch Way

Laurel, MD 20707

Phone: 301-498-5151

Doug Heifetz, Rabbi

Carolyn Makovi, Editor

Adam Goldfarb, Layout Editor

Mona Davis, Advertising

[email protected]

Oseh Shalom is a vibrant, inclusive Reconstructionist synagogue, with members throughout the Baltimore-Washington area, dedicated to providing a supportive community for celebrating

Jewish life through prayer, learning and social action.

Tentprogramsdevelopedandorga-

nizedbyReneeRichards,Religious

SchoolDirector.Overonehundred

andtwentypeopleattendedthe

FamilyRoshHashanahServiceand

theYomKippurFamilyService.

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