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February 2010

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The Voice of Congregation Kneseth Israel

In this IssuePresident 2

Torah School 2

Sisterhood 2

Parashat 3

USY/Kadima 3

Donations 3

Social Action 5

Rabbi 6

Birthdays 6

Yahrtzeiten 8

Marketplace 9

Calendar Back

THE CAFÉ IS BACK!!An Evening of Song, featuring Solange Sior

RABBI JONATHAN KOHN BARBARA MARING, Presidentjon_kohn@excite.com bmaring@kestone.com

NINA BOBROW FINN,Director of Education ZAHAVA RAZ, Secretarycki.nina@yahoo.com zahava@wowway.com

Cafe CKI

Get out of the winter cold and join us at CKI for a warm &enjoyable evening of wonderful vocal music as we welcomevocalist Solange Sior from the ELGIN OPERA!

Ms. Sior, accompanied by pianist Rosemary Schroeder,will perform a selection of both Jewish and classicalselections for our listening pleasure at this special event.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2010Doors open at 7:00pmShow begins promptly at 7:30pm

Tickets purchased in advance: $10.00 each*Tickets purchased at the door: $12.00 each(* Advance ticket purchase must be received in themail no later than Monday, February 15.)

Make your check payable to:CKI MEN’S CLUB.Mail to Zahava's attention at the CKI Officewith a note indicating the ‘Elgin Opera’ eventand the quantity of tickets you are purchasing.

Concessions will be available for purchase.

Contact Arthur Shankman at 630-377-5465 or shankart@aol.comfor more information.

This is an event you won't want to miss!Be sure to invite your friends and relatives as well!

Solange Sior

PurimFebruary 28

We came,we ate, and we prayedas the Sisterhood community.And much to our surprise, there

was no major snow or ice storm!

The dinner was delicious. Thank youWendyBarrash for arranging it.

AdeIe Stein did a great job of organizing theservice. Thank you to the members whotook part. I am always stuck by how we allpull together. I especially want to thankAdele for the D’var Torah. I do no think I willlook at Rosh Chodesh the same way. I alsowant to thank Judy Rubenstein-Gantz andWanda Pitzele for arranging the oneg. All inall, a good time was shared by all.

February is the shortest month but oftenfeels like the longest. Be sure to call a friendwhen the weather gets to you. In fact, callsomeone you have been meaning to call“just because.” That call will bring somerelief from the winter doldrums.

Join us on February 9th for a joint programwith Hadassah. (See information to right.)

“As long as teachers givetests, there will always beprayer in schools.”

February School Schedule:

February 3,Wednesday - Hebrew 5:00 pm

February 7, Sunday – Torah School – Hebrew9:00 am – Torah 10:00 am

February 8,Monday – Confirmation Class6:30 pm

February 10,Wednesday - Hebrew 5:00 pm

February 13, Saturday – Jr. Congregation10:00 - 11:00 am

Attendance mandatory grades 4-7

February 14, Sunday – Torah School –Hebrew 9:00 am – Torah 10:00 am

February 17,Wednesday - Hebrew 5:00 pm

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HaKol Information

Kol Kneseth Israel (HaKol) is published monthly byCongregation Kneseth Israel of Elgin, Illinois. It is mailedto CKI members via first class postage.Non-members who would like to receive a copy may doso by forwarding a yearly donation of $18 (Chai) to covercost of production and mailing.

Make checks payable to CKI.

All material for the March issue is due NO LATER thanFebruary 10, PLEASE.

All items should be emailed to:jemcfarlane@earthlink.net

HaKol Editor: Jana McFarlaneAdvertising Manager: Ron Razowsky

CKI BOARD MEMBERSPRESIDENT - Barbara Maring

EXECUTIVE VP - Rochelle FoscoVP/Education - Anita Hornung

VP/Sisterhood - Risa CohenRECORDING SECRETARY - Maureen Manning-Rosenfeld

TREASURER - Marc ZemelFINANCIAL SECRETARY - Barry Rose

IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT - Perry Pitzele

CKI COMMITTEE CHAIRPERSONSADULT EDUCATION - Barbara Sharf

BY-LAWS - Malcolm MorrisCEMETERY - Jeff Rifken

ENDOWMENT - Charles ZimmermanFUNDRAISING - Helen Lindow

HAKOL EDITOR - Jana McFarlaneHOUSE - Dan Marshall

MEMBERSHIP - Dr. Joe RosenfeldPUBLICITY - Marcie Monteith

RITUAL - Paul GlaserSOCIAL ACTION - Sherry Wiesman, Fern Raben

YOUTH ACTIVITIES - Liza Bachrach

To contact, call CKI at 847-741-5656

A Message from Our President

A personal meditation

Avinu Malkenu, bless my family with peace.Teach us to appreciate the treasure of ourlives. Help us to find contentment in oneanother. Save us from dissension andjealousy; shield us from pettiness and rivalry.May selfish pride not divide us;may pride inone another unite us. Help us to renew ourlove for one another continually. In the lightof Your Torah grant us, the people Israel andall Your children everywhere, health andfulfillment, harmony, peace, and joy. Amen.

– Siddur Sim Shalom, page 149, Copyright1998, The Rabbinical Assembly

Barbara Maring

February 19, Friday – Family Shabbat Service– Alef Class Participating

Attendance mandatory grades 4-7

February 21, Sunday – Torah School –Hebrew 9:00 am – Torah 10:00 am

February 22,Monday – Confirmation Class6:30 pm

February 24,Wednesday - Hebrew 5:00 pm

February 27, Saturday –Megillah Reading –

Attendance mandatory forConfirmation Class

February 28, Sunday – Torah School –Hebrew 9:00 am

PURIM CARNIVAL!!!! 10:00 AMAttendance mandatory forConfirmation Class

Sisterhood News

Bu sure you stop in at the libraries… you willbe surprised at the range of books,especially for children or grandchildren

Chanukah may be over but our gift shop isstill open for business, with interestingvases, purses, purse holders, and Judaicaitems.

See you in February. Remember, if you needa ride to the meeting or any activity, pleasecall. But, whatever you, do join us for a littleor a lot, but do come join us!

– Risa Cohen, Sisterhood President847-934-4953

Torah School News

Please join us on Tuesday, February 9, for aspecial program: “Legal Issues Affectingthe Elderly and Their Caregivers.” Therewill be a short Sisterhoodmeeting at 7:00 pm,followed by the program at 7:30 pm.

Our speaker, Dan Parsons, is a graduate ofLoyola Law School and was admitted to theIllinois bar in 1992. He is one of only sevencertified elder law attorneys in the State ofIllinois, having earned his certificationthrough the National Elder Law Foundation,the only organization approved by theAmerican Bar Association to offercertification in the area of elder law. He is amember of the National Academy of ElderLaw Attorneys and the Illinois and KaneCounty Bar Associations. He is also amember of Kane County Senior Resourcesand the DuPage County Association ofSenior Service Providers, organizations ofsenior service providers. Dan also sits on theEstate Planning and Probate Committee ofthe Kane County Bar Association and wasrecently appointed to the Board of Directorsof the Northeastern Illinois Area Agency onAging.

Dan has a broad range of legal experiencebut has chosen to focus his efforts on thosewith special needs and maintains a lawpractice concentrating in Elder Law andEstate Planning.

Dan is committed to educating the publicon those issues that affect older Americansand people with disabilities and theirfamilies.

Joint Sisterhood/HadassahProgram with Guest SpeakerAttorney Dan Parsons

Begin to think spring….The CKI gift shop is full of items

for Passover, Mother’s Day, birthdays,graduation, weddings.

Come see us for all your gift needs.Special orders for Passover can be

placed throughSue Johnson 847-695-7160 or

Tina Wolf 630-377-1287.

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Parashat HaShavu’a – Weekly Torah Portions

findyourselfinShul!ShulisGood!

USY and Kadima News

The first USY “Bring Your Own Percussion”Friday night service and Chanukah

celebration was a lot of fun. Eleven kidsgathered around using shakers, bongos, andvarious percussion instruments toaccompany the prayers and songs. It was areally invigorating and spiritual experience.We will definitely make it an annual event.

Four kids actively participated in the USYInternational Convention in downtownChicago, and they all had a great time. Thisis what Jessica Shankman had to say aboutit,“I had an incredible time meeting newpeople and making stronger ties with thoseI had met before and wish that I was stillthere now. It deepened my understandingof the importance of having a Jewishcommunity to keep with, and I miss it somuch!”

ALSO, BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR LOX BOXORDER FORMS IN MARCH. WEWILL BESELLING THEM TO RAISE FUNDS FOR SOCIALACTION AND TIKKUN OLAM!

UPCOMING USY/Kadima PROGRAMSIN FEBRUARY:

8 USY Board Meeting, 8 pm

6 USY/Kadima Movie Night – To BeAnnounced (Check emails)

19-21 Kadima Kallah

28 USY Purim Jail – SATO Fundraiser

UPCOMING USY/Kadima PROGRAMSIN MARCH:

7 USY/Kadima Laser Quest

8 USY Board Meeting, 8 pm – Begin LoxBox Sale

13 USY Board Lock-in 7 pm to 9 am

– Liza Bachrach,Youth Chair – USYSusan Robbins,Youth Chair – Kadima

If you are not receiving Youth Group informationemails and would like to, please email Liza atArchbroch@comcast.net, and let me know. Youcan also download flyers from the website atwww.ckielgin.org/youth.html

February 6 Yitro – Exodus 19:1-20:2322 Shevat Haftarah: Isaiah 6:1-7; 6; 9:5-6

(Congregation stands for the reading of the Ten Commandments)

February 13 Birkat Hachodesh; Shabbat Shekalim29 Shevat Mishpatim – Exodus 23:20-24:18

Maftir: Exodus 30:11-16Haftarah: II Kings 12:1-17(called Shabbat Shekalim becausemaftir section recounts the obligationto donate a half-shekel for maintenance of the Temple)

February 14 Rosh Hodesh Adar30 Shevat Numbers 28:1-15

February 15 Rosh Hodesh Adar1 Adar Numbers 28:1-15

February 20 Terumah – Exodus 26:31-27:196 Adar Haftarah: I Kings 5:26-6:13

February 27 Shabbat Zakhor13 Adar Tetzaveh – Exodus 29:19-30:10

Maftir: Deuteronomy 25:17-19Haftarah: I Samuel 15:2-34)(called Shabbat Zakhor becausemaftir section calls on us to “remember”Amalek, said to be an ancestor of Haman)

February 27 Purim14 Adar Exodus 17:8-16

GENERAL FUNDDonation

Charlie and Charlotte GrunerIn honor of Zachary Kohn’s Bar Mitzvah andthe wonderful congregation in which theevent was observed.

Nathan and Judy Brown; Aaron & Ruby KohnIn memory of Dorothy Jacobson Stein

Kevin & Sandi PhelanWishing Perry Pitzele a speedy andcomplete recovery

The McFarlane family

RABBI’S DISCRETIONARY FUNDThanks to all our CKI Family for theirsupport during the time of our loss. Specialthanks to Rabbi Kohn for his guidance andhelp during the shiva process.

The Fosco Family

USY/KADIMATo Ron & Karen, Jason and Laura Sigal, inloving memory of your dear mother andgrandmother, Shirley.

Fern & Ron RabenJana & Bill McFarlane

CKI SISTERHOODIn honor of my husband’s recovery fromsurgery. May this donation pay for a newlibrary cart.

Marsha Schwartz

SISTERHOOD FLOWER FUNDGet well wishes to Shirley Friedman

Barbara & Paul Maring

CLARA WECHTER EDUCATION FUNDIn memory of Scott Schwedel

Ed & TinaWolfBarbara & Paul Maring

In memory of Dorothy Jacobson SteinEd & TinaWolfBarbara & Paul Maring

In honor of Ramona & Don Fields on thebirth of their twin daughters

Fely &Walter ArnoldWishing Nina Finn a speedy recovery. Mayshe be“back on her feet” soon!

The McFarlane familyIn memory of Frieda Simon

Barbara & Paul Maring

TREE OF LIFEIn honor of Perla Svigilsky Aron

Marla & Michael Finger

R’FUAH SH’LEIMAH – GET WELL

Generous Donations

In Our Family

Lisa SchulmanSherry WiesmanShirley FriedmanDavid GoodmanPearle BrodyCheryl StanczakSheri Mussar

Melissa GerlachMiltonWohlPaul MaringShirley SimonNina FinnPerry Pitzele

May God bring speedy and complete healingto you and all others who are ill among thepeople of Israel.

Our hearty congratulations to…

Maureen Rosenfeld for being

honored by the City of Elgin as a

Humanitarian Award Recipient at

the 25th Anniversary Prayer

Breakfast celebrating the life of Dr.

Martin Luther King.

The Mazal Tov Corner…

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Sale set-up on Sunday, April 18th – 9:00 am

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Social Action

In the planning stages…

”20th Century Maccabees:Thrust into Heroism”

The Adult Education committee, 50+ Club,and Social Action committee are veryexcited to be jointly planning a late Shabbatafternoon of intellectually stimulatinginteractive discussion on Saturday,March 20,followed by Havdalah and an (evening)showing of the movie Defiance, the truestory of the Bielski Brothers, who hid Jewsfrom the Nazis in the forest of Beloruss.These 1200+ survivors never lost sight of thedignity that defines us as humans. Theyfought back, while still maintaining life ascivilized persons, never abandoning theirJewish identity.Today, their descendentsnumber several thousand.

This event is free of charge to all over theage of 17 (the movie is not suitable toyounger persons). The general public iswelcome. Please invite your friends andneighbors. Whenever Jews assemble, weobserve Tikkun Olam (our responsibility to‘repair the world’) by performingMitzvot.Therefore, admission is free, but we areencouraging you to bring a minimum twoitems per person to donate to the CKI FoodCupboard. Please be respectful of Shabbat:the donations will be collected afterHavdalah.

Prior to the movie, a light dinner will beprovided to CKI members, complimentsof the 50+ Club. (Non-CKI members may, ifthey choose, purchase dinner for $10 perperson.) Registration is required so that wemay plan adequate quantities of food. Thepurchase of dinner is not a requirement toparticipate in the discussion or see themovie.

As this goes to press, we are still attemptingto secure a speaker. We also hope that someHolocaust survivors and their children willattend and participate. Save this date!

Jewish Federation HaitianEarthquake Relief FundThe Jewish Federation of MetropolitanChicago has opened an emergency mailboxto funnel humanitarian aid to Haiti.100% ofcollected donations will go directly tosupport non-sectarian needs on the ground.The Jewish Federation will absorb alladministrative costs. Send your donation to:Jewish United Fund/Jewish Federation ofMetropolitan Chicago, Ben Gurion Way,30 S.Wells Street, Chicago, IL 60606-4694.You may also donate online:www.juf.org.

Winter Outerwear CollectionWe are in the middle of our annual CKIWinter Outerwear Drive. Unfortunately,many persons in our own community do nothave warm clothing. The collection startedduring January and will run through the endof February. You are not too late to donatewarm, new, or very gently used outerwear.Please clear out your closets and bringclean, usable, and new items to CKI. Thecollection box is on the stage.

Job SeekersGail Borden Public Library is offering freetraining workshops onWednesdaysbeginning Feb 3 from 2-3 pm. Noregistration is necessary. It is an opportunityto network and hone your interviewingskills. Also in February, the library will offer asession called “Sell Yourself in Any Interview”.Contact Gail Borden for additional details.847-742-2411.

Food PantryIt is in the news regularly: Everyday we readof food pantries across our nation closingbecause the need far exceeds the donations.The CKI Food Cupboard donates ourcollections to the Community Crisis Center.Please bring a donation item each time youcome to CKI.*

– Fern Raben, and Sherry Wiesman

* Donations are not accepted on Jewish holidays, including Shabbat.

The “CKI SENIORS”

Lox & Bagel LuncheonTuesday, February 912:00 noon at CKI

RSVP to phyllisCKI@aol.com or (847) 741-8784Please respond DEFINITELY NO LATER THAN

Thursday, February 4.Payment by cash or check at $8.00 per person.

Please make check payable to “Cash.”

I will be attending the 20th Century Maccabees Program on March 20.

Name(s) of CKI Member(s)(no charge) _______________________________

______________________________________________________________

Number of meals for Non-CKI members @ $10 each ______

Please return this form (and check,if appropriate,made out to CKI) to:

Wanda Pitzele2274Wildwood LaneHanover Park, IL 60133

Dinner reservation deadline is March 10.

milk AND Honey• On a per capita basis, Israel has the largestnumber of biotech startups.

• Israel is contributing to the relief ofdevastated Haiti, as it does for all strickencountries that will accept its aid.

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February Birthdays

3 Sara Shankman3 Rochelle Fosco3 Richard Kruth4 Helen Lindow4 Lucy Marshall4 AbramWiesman5 Brian Finn6 Sarah Bender7 Anna Gilbert9 Ron Razowsky9 Carolyn Ginder10 Richard Johnson11 Jennifer Eagels14 Zachary Kohn14 Ellie Kohn14 Erik St. Pierre15 Jessica Shankman18 Laura Wolf19 Paul Maring19 Kara Gauthier19 Adeline Kohlhagen20 Sylvia Karnal21 Cyril Friend21 Marla Finger22 Spencer Kravis23 Marc Stone26 Mindy Bear

1 Jeff & Sandy Rifken18 Richard & Eva Kruth28 Sheila & Bernie Miller

February Anniversaries

People ask,“Is the PopeCatholic?” as if it’s a no-brainer,but I’m not certain. I presumethat the Pope is Catholic. I’m

pretty sure that most of the Popes,maybe allof them,were. But I don’t know. I’m noteven certain what the question means. Howdo you tell whether someone is Catholic?The answer is beyond me.

It’s the same with,“Does the rabbi keepkosher?” The answer is, absolutely. As muchas the pope is Catholic. Which he probably is.

Obviously, the question can be clarified. Therabbi is kosher by whose standards? Well, inour case, by Conservative standards. Okay,by which Conservative standards? Why, byhis own. Are you glad now that I clearedthat up?

I am strictly kosher by my own standards,but on those there is controversy. Forinstance, according to the LubavitcherChasidim I am not kosher. Neither, by theirstandards, are the Satmar Chasidim.Neither, for that matter, is the OU (which isthe Orthodox Union,whose mark is theletter U inside a circle). Lubavitch is verystrict, and if a non-Jew milks a cow then theywon’t drink the milk. (That rule is calledcholov yisro’el.) No Lubavitcher Chasid willeat at our shul unless he brings his ownfood.

But, within standards that can be justifiedthrough the Talmud and the law codes, ourkitchen is strictly kosher. It has to be,because those who use our kitchen areresponsible not just for themselves but foreveryone who comes to our events. A friendonce told me, “I’ve eaten treif [non-kosher]only twice in my life, and both times were atsynagogue events that were labeledkosher.” We can’t allow that to happen inour shul. When we announce that ourkitchen is kosher, it’s a promise, and ourword must be good.

On the other hand,my personal kashrut,outside of the shul, is perhaps not all thatstrict. I do eat dairy in non-kosherrestaurants (with three exceptions, aboutwhich more below).

There exist Conservative opinions thatpermit this as being perfectly kosher withina strict reading of the rules, and I’m glad thatwe have those opinions. But that’s not why Ido it. Other opinions, just as Conservative,argue that for a Jew to eat in those places iswrong. If the law follows that view, then Ihaven’t gotten there yet, and I’ll still eat withyou in a regular Elgin restaurant. But eitherway, it’s not like eating in a kosher place, andif you were to say to me,“You know, let’s dobetter than this. Do you mind if we travel toSkokie?” then I’d take off my hat, uncover myyarmulke, and thank you for the chance.

From the Rabbi’s Study...

I’ll also eat in anyone’s house, and I won’tdemand of their kitchens more than Idemand of a restaurant. That means that I’lleat dairy (or kosher meat), and I won’tconcern myself with the dishes as I would inthe synagogue kitchen or in my own house.

There is one difference, though, for me,between eating in someone’s home and in arestaurant, and that is when we areconducting any kind of official synagoguemeeting.

For a meeting in someone’s home, there’s noproblem, and my rules are the same as forany other time. We can order pizza orChinese food or whatever our host chooses.It doesn’t matter, because it’s a privatemeeting and everyone there knows what’sgoing on.

But when we conduct synagogue businessin a restaurant, then I take nothing at all toeat or drink, not even a glass of water, andthe reason is because of the yarmulke that Iwear.

In an ordinary restaurant, I cover myyarmulke with a hat. If I didn’t, then peoplemight think,“That religious Jew eats treif.”Orworse, they might think,“This place must bekosher.” So I eat dairy in ordinary restaurants,and I wear a hat.

But at a synagogue meeting, does the hatmake sense? In my capacity as rabbi of ashul, should I not show my yarmulke anddress as a Jew? And let’s say that I hid theyarmulke. It would make no difference,because we’re still conducting officialbusiness. The restaurant staff, at least, knowsthat, and they’ll probably also learn that I’mthe synagogue’s rabbi. At those times I don’twant people to say,“What kind of rabbi isthis? What kind of synagogue?” In someone’shome everyone knows just what’s going on,but in a treif restaurant the yarmulke gives avery strange impression. My choice, then, isto either pretend that we’re not asynagogue or not eat. I choose not to eat.

Incidentally, if I’m in a town where everyoneknows who I am, then it also makes nodifference whether or not I cover theyarmulke. When I lived in small towns, Istayed away from local restaurants.

I’ve mentioned two exceptions to my policyof eating in non-kosher restaurants. (Mypolicy for eating in people’s homes has noexception.) A third involves eating in oneparticular type of restaurant: the kind thatcalls itself “kosher style.”

In order to explain the special status ofthese restaurants, I often tell a story aboutthe unique place of honor that we give tothe pig, far beyond any other forbiddenanimal. The pig has its own special ruleabout it in the Torah. Kosher beasts have tohave cloven hooves and chew their cud.

One of these traits without the other doesn’tsuffice; a kosher beast has to have both.

Now, if the Torah just gave us the rule aboutcloven hooves, then the resulting list ofkosher animals would be exactly the sameas it is now, except for the addition of thepig. The extra requirement of chewing thecud (called “ruminating”) does nothing at allto the list of kosher animals except removethe pig.

The pig is the only treif animal with clovenhooves. It can raise its trotter as if to say,“Look at me. See? I’m kosher.” But we knowbetter, because we know something aboutthe pig inside. It has a secret. It lookskosher, but it isn’t.

Do you know what we call something thatlooks kosher and isn’t?

We call it kosher style.

Of such a restaurant, I won’t even passthrough the door.

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February 2010 Shabbat Services: Friday evenings 7:30 pmSaturday mornings 9:30 am

17 Hebrew School 5:00 pmPICK UP FUNDABILITY CERTIFICATES

19 Family Shabbat services 7:30 pmOneg:Alef class

19-21 Kadima Kallah (6th, 7th, & 8th grades)

20 Café CKI presents: An Evening Doors open: 7:00 pmof Song with Solange Sior Show: 7:30 pm

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26 Shabbat services 7:30 pm

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