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Thank you for entrusting me with the honor and

responsibility of President of Beth El.

Through the leadership and strategic vision of the

last several Board of Directors, Executive Committees

and especially the past presidencies of Gary Rosen, Andrea Steinberger,

Marty Oppenheimer and Dr. Harvey Sterns, the Congregation has sold the

building on South Hawkins, moved and built out the current location here at

the J.C.C. and has brought in a dynamic couple to lead us as our clergy.

We have accomplished many things and have made great strides with the

direction and assistance of Rabbi Elyssa and Hazzan Matt. Clearly we are on

a new spiritual path, fostered by joy and beautiful harmonies.

Here we go! Jerry B. Nelson, President

The Honeymoon

Continues

It is hard to believe that by the end of this

Bulletin’s calendar, we have completed a full year

cycle as Beth El’s clergy. We feel blessed to have

experienced a tremendous and positive response to

our “style” and way of doing things. With any

transition and new relationship, it naturally takes

time to adjust. Any honeymooning that we

have had this first year, we would like to

continue – in other words, we are both committed to keeping things fresh, to

bringing awareness to what’s happening in the larger Jewish world, and for

how we can best serve the needs of the Akron Jewish community.

In Pirkei Avot it is taught: “Rabbi Tarfon would say: ‘The day is short, the

work is much, the workers are lazy, the reward is great, and the Master is

pressing.’”

Moving into summer, the days are at their longest, but nonetheless, “the

day is short.” How might we seize these long days to do more - to learn

something from the Jewish Tradition, to participate at a Beth El program or

service, to be outside and engaging with the community? While we take some

summer vacation time, consider pitching in

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June • July Table of Contents Rabbi & Hazzan’s Message ..... 1

President’s Message ................ 1

Thank You to ........................... 2

Milestone ................................. 2

Happy Anniversary .................. 2

Tisha B’Av Observance .......... 2

Schedule of Services ................ 2

Sisterhood ................................ 2

June Yahrzeits ......................... 3

June Calendar .......................... 3

July Yahrzeits .......................... 4

July Calendar .................... 4

Dr. Aviva Zornberg ................. 5

Jews & Brews .......................... 6

Lunch ‘n Learn ....................... 6

Memorial Plaques .................... 6

Planning an Event? ..................... 6

Observing a Yahrzeit? ............. 6

Akron Jewish Music Festival .. 7

Social Action at Beth El .......... 7

Election Results ....................... 8

Beth El in your Will ................ 8

Community Shabbat Dinner .... 9

Tisha B’Av ............................ 10

Year Book – Time to Update . 11

Upcoming Events .................. 12

Tree of Life ............................ 12

Jewish Shakespeare Festival .. 12

In Memoriam ......................... 12

Education Program ............... 13

Contribution Form ................. 13

Contributions ......................... 14

Torah, Drums, and Prayer...... 15

Shul Barbeque ....................... 16

BULLETIN OF BETH EL CONGREGATION

JUNE • JULY 2018 AKRON, OHIO SIVAN • TAMMUZ • AV 5778

Rabbi Elyssa Austerklein

Hazzan Matthew Austerklein

http://www.bethelakron.com/monthly-bulletin.html


Knitzvah Resumes in September

Taste of Torah July 16, 7:00-8:30 PM

L'Chaim Cooking Club June 25, 6:00-8:00 PM at Temple Israel

July 23, 6:00-8:00 PM, Revere Rd.

Women's League for Conservative Judaism

Thank You to Sid and Andrea Steinberger for sponsoring

the bima flowers on April 14 in memory of

Inge Steinberger.

The Saferstein family for sponsoring the

bima flowers on May 5 in memory of Gerry

Saferstein.

Joy Epstein for sponsoring the kiddush on

May 5 in memory of Bart Epstein.

Rabbi Elyssa & Hazzan Matt for sponsoring

the kiddush on May 5 in honor of Georgie's

3rd birthday.

Joy Epstein for sponsoring bima flowers

on May 20 in memory of her mother,

Lillian Clayman

Milestone Mazel Tov to

Herb and Ellen Moss for their decades-long

dedication to the community as recognized by

the Jewish Community Board of Akron

Happy Anniversary JUNE YEARS 4 Donald Meltzer & Carole Lepilleur ..... 25

10 Rabbi Stephen & Judy Grundfast ......... 45

17 Michael & Linda Osherow ................... 45

19 Joseph & Diane Pryweller .................... 25

27 David & Debra Kaplan ......................... 30

JULY YEARS 1 Richard & Debbie Zelin ....................... 45

16 Dr. Arthur & Marcey Aronson ............. 40

20 David & Robin Levy ............................ 40

SCHEDULE OF SERVICES

JUNE • JULY 2018 SIVAN • TAMMUZ • AV 5778

Sunday – 8:30 AM

Wednesday and Friday – 7:30 AM

Saturday Morning – 9:15 AM

Please note: • Minyan times are Wednesdays and

Fridays at 7:30 AM. For summer months – 8:30 AM. Other times by request only.

• Friday night services will be held on the 2nd Friday of the month at 7:00 PM.

• Other morning and evening services will be held by request only. Please call the office one week in advance to make special arrangements.

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

Elyssa Austerklein Rabbi

[email protected]

Matthew Austerklein Hazzan

[email protected] Stephen Grundfast

Rabbi Emeritus

Stephen Stein Hazzan Emeritus

Erin Katz Ford Director of Synagogue Education

[email protected]

Jerry B. Nelson President

[email protected]

Sharon Merklin President Elect

Stacey Simonton Vice President

Marsha Friedman Treasurer

Gregg Manes Secretary

Marsha Friedman Endowment Chair

[email protected] 330.603.1890

Robynne McKee Administrative Assistant

[email protected]

Laurel Gress Baalat Koreh

Leonard Rose Editor

Vol. LXXIII No. 10/11

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Candle Lighting

June 1 ..... 8:34 PM

June 8 ..... 8:39 PM

June 15 ..... 8:42 PM

June 22 ..... 8:44 PM

June 29 ..... 8:45 PM

July 6 ..... 8:43 PM

July 13 ..... 8:40 PM

July 20 ..... 8:36 PM

July 27 ..... 8:30 PM

Havdalah

June 2 ..... 9:43 PM

June 9 ..... 9:48 PM

June 16 ..... 9:52 PM

June 23 ..... 9:53 PM

June 30 ..... 9:53 PM

July 7 ..... 9:51 PM

July 14 ..... 9:47 PM

July 21 ..... 9:41 PM

July 28 ..... 9:34 PM

Tisha B'Av Observance

July 21

Saturday night

9:00 PM – Services

July 22 Sunday morning

9:15 AM – Services

Afternoon

1:00 PM – Paper Clips movie

and discussion followed by a

short mincha


Sivan 5778 June 2018 Tammuz 5778

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

Services (unless otherwise noted)

Sunday 8:30 AM

Wed. & Fri. 7:30 AM

Saturday 9:15 AM

Let Us Know Rabbi Elyssa and Hazzan Matt are eager to visit congregants in the hospital but, can’t if they don't know. If you or someone you know is in the hospital or sick at home, and would appreciate a pastoral visit, please let us know.

Rose

Birth Flower for June

1 18 Sivan

2 19 Sivan

Beha’alotecha

3 20 Sivan

4 21 Sivan

5 22 Sivan

6 23 Sivan

7 24 Sivan

8 25 Sivan

9 26 Sivan

Shelach

10 27 Sivan

11 28 Sivan

12 29 Sivan

13 30 Sivan

Rosh Chodesh

14 1 Tammuz

Flag Day

Rosh Chodesh

15 2 Tammuz

16 3 Tammuz

Korach

17 4 Tammuz

Father’s Day

18 5 Tammuz

19 6 Tammuz

Board Meeting 7:00 PM

20 7 Tammuz

Jews & Brews 7:30 PM

21 8 Tammuz

Summer Begins

22 9 Tammuz

23 10 Tammuz

Chukat

24 11 Tammuz

25 12 Tammuz

L’chaim Cooking Club 6:00 PM

26 13 Tammuz

27 14 Tammuz

28 15 Tammuz

29 16 Tammuz

30 17 Tammuz

Balak

June 1-4 Betty

Paul Leventhal Gustave L. Levinson Alex Levitt Isaac Lipson Bela Lowy Rose Luck Hyman Milkman Marlene Miller William Neiman Frank Nelson Paula Cohen Padove Leo Romisher Sylvia Rosenthal Eleanore Rudick David Sapp Helen Schneier Bessie Senser Anna Shecht Louis Sherman Louis Shifrin Rose Sinder Bertha Stein Esther Wish Sarah Zwelling

June 9 - 16 Harry Auerbach Fannie Berloff Samuel Budzanover Rose Cohen Carl M. Fertel Sally Finkel Sarah Foster Ida Gergel Beatrice Glauberman Susan Glauberman Morris Kaufman Rosa Kobotsnick Sybil Kriger Sanford Levenson Harold Levin Helen Levin Alex Marks Molly Opas Irving Osherow Sol Regal Libby Schneir Milton Slavin Ben Slavin

Richard Sterns Esther Weiss James Wells Morris Zudnick June 16 - 22 Shirley Borodkin Norwin Brovitz Manuel Cohen Sy L Fischer Louis Gergis Paul Greenlick Esther Kates Mary Kodish Ruby Kodish Jerry Kodish Robert Kranitz Jennie Krupp Dave Lowy Milton Luck Sadie Ekus Manes Minnie Mirman Ruth L. Mulfelder Bernard Penner

Rose Pinsky Max Robinson Jack Rubens Dr. Leo Rubin Morris Sacks George Shapiro Eugene Treiber Samuel Wakser Cathy Wakser Mendel Weintraub Katie Wolfand June 23 - 29 Rebecca Albert Samuel C. Bershon Barnet Beyer Mollie Dorman Harold Garson Bernard Heller Anna Kalish Max Keane Herschel Kriger Florence Lessing Samuel Leubitz

Miriam Levenson Leah Lieberman Jerrold Lockshin Milton Pren Ruth Rakusin Zelda Rosenthal Dina Savage Rose Sholiton Sol Slavin Samuel Tucker John Waits June 30 Leonard Bernstein Minnie Roth Ida Stambor Blanche Yonas

YAHRZEITS

June 1 Norman A. Freedman Nate Mervis Arthur Winer June 2 - 8 Edith Adler Katie Backer Louis Berenson Myer Caplan Walter Cohen Goldie Cohn Helen Davidson Betty Fitterman Ann Joan Freedman Sophie T. Friedlander Erin Geller Lee Greenlick Judith Ann Helfgott Lena Heyman Phyllis Jacobson Nathan Kropko Hyman Lerner


Tammuz 5778 July 2018 Av 5778

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

1 18 Tammuz

Fast of Tammuz

2 19 Tammuz

Canada Day

3 20 Tammuz

4 21 Tammuz

Office Closed

Independence Day

5 22 Tammuz

6 23 Tammuz

7 24 Tammuz

Pinchas

8 25 Tammuz

9 26 Tammuz

10 27 Tammuz

11 28 Tammuz

12 29 Tammuz

13 1 Av

Rosh Chodesh

14 2 Av

Matot-Masei

15 3 Av 16 4 Av

17 5 Av

18 6 Av

19 7 Av

20 8 Av

21 9 Av

Devarim

9:00 PM Service Shabbat Chazon

Erev Tisha B’av

22 10 Av

9:15 AM Service 1:00 PM Movie, Service

Tisha B’Av

23 11 Av

24 12 Av

25 13 Av

26 14 Av

27 15 Av

28 16 Av

Vetchanan

Shabbat Nachamu

29 17 Av

Jewish Shakespeare Week

30 18 Av 7:00-9:00 PM

Jewish Shakespeare Workshop with Hazzan & OSF Actors, Greystone

Hall, 103 S High St

31 19 Av

Services (unless otherwise noted)

Sunday 8:30 AM

Wed. & Fri. 7:30 AM

Saturday 9:15 AM

Larkspur

Birth Flower for July

Let Us Know Rabbi Elyssa and Hazzan Matt are eager to visit congregants in the hospital but, can’t if they don't know. If you or someone you know is in the hospital or sick at home, and would appreciate a pastoral visit, please let us know.

Anna Stein Ida S. Waxman Benjamin Weiss Rose Ethel Winer July 7 - 13 Ruth Berloff Jacob Braunstein Sonya Buksdorf Leonard Davidson Dr. Sidney J. Eichner Rose A. Friedman Carol Gergis Israel Charles Goldberg Toby Gertrude Kaufman Morris Lieberman Phyllis Lockshin Martin Mermelstein Mayer Millman Doris Minkin Blanche Nusbaum Adolph Rabe Ida Rabinowitz Pearl Schwartz

Luba Small Bertha Weissfeld Pauline Wolman July 14 - 20 Sarah Cohen Harry Davidson Fred Finger Isidore Gergel Jennie E. Goldberg Alan Grundfast Stefan Handler Harriet Horn Rose Kahan Ida Kern Amy Lazbin Jeanette Levinson Arthur E. Lewis Gertrude Monosoff Susan A. Myers Max Neiman David Nelson Jay Nusbaum Ralph Peters

Netti Pollack Mary Potrock Benjamin Roth Jack Sarbey Janyne Sokol Heinrich Y. Steinhauer Miriam Vengrow Jacob Wolf July 21 - 27 Louis Adelman Dorothy Bloom Irving Botnick Philip Culiner Harry H. Davis Max Federhar Anna Friedman Leonard Katz Sol Katz Zella Kaufman Edward Kaufman Louis Kay Nathan Kraus Sam Liberman

Reuben B. Manes Roni Marks Hyman Ben Marks Bryan May Bessie Penner Ben Post Sylvia Post Elsie Pren Jeremy Putra Morris Ruben Ada H. Sacks Dr. William Schneider Elka Tauba Schnur Murray Schwartz Edith Shapiro Fay Siegel Lottie B. Simon Helen B. Steinreich Dorothy Woloveck July 28 - 31 Jerry Apple Etch Mary Blessing Barbara Cohen

Milton Kodish Harold Levinson Dennis Luck James Luck Selma H. Paskal Mollie Potrock Alma Reuben Lawrence Siff Louis Stile Helen Welsh

YAHRZEITS

July 1 - 6 Jacob Apelbaum Rose Caplan Bessie Klausner Federhar Martha Feingold Janka Fischmann Richard Friedman Adelle Gourse Estelle Hellman Natalee Hendler Howard Katz Nathan Katz Abraham Kodish Phillip Kodish Theodore Levenson Anna Liberman Rose K. Marks Jack Marshall Elaine Porush Henry Rubin Betty Sabetay Selma Seider Shirley Shapiro

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May 6, 2018

Learners engaged in Dr. Avivah Zornberg's talk: Moses: A Human Life


Returns in October

Observing a Yahrzeit

anytime soon?

If you plan on attending an evening Minyan and

want to make sure that someone is there to open

the synagogue and/or lead the service, please call

at least one week in advance, especially during the

summer months.

We will always do our best to get someone to lead

the service, however, we ask that you invite some

friends to join you to ensure that we have the

required Minyan.

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, 330-864-2105.

June 20, 7:30 PM So Far, July is Dry

A discussion group with drinks for the men of Beth El Congregation. Hazzan Matt leads this monthly men's discussion group on wide-ranging topics of interest to those in our community and the Jewish world. Have a drink and share the brotherhood with others.

Papa Joe's in the Valley 1561 Akron Peninsula Rd, Akron, OH 44313

Planning a Bar/Bat Mitzvah,

a wedding, a Kiddush, or another event at Beth El?

Call Erin at the synagogue office:

330-864-2105 ext. 118.

She will help you with arrangements.


6 PM

SOCIAL ACTION AT BETH EL

Sharon Merklin, Rebecca Lieb, Rachel Osherow, Andrea Steinberger, Laurel Gress, Fred Weisberg, Bob Cohen, and Hazzan Matthew Austerklein

Akron Jewish Music Festival Beth El Choir

Join Others at Beth El Get Involved Bring Friends

So much has been done and there is so much more to do.

Thank you to Julie Katz for arranging volunteers for JCBA Spring Cemetery Clean up at Sherbondy Cemetery on White Street. Of course, thank you to Beth El volunteers for helping out!

Contact Bunny Rose to get involved: 330-836-4043, brose139att.net

Thank you Beth El volunteers for helping on

Sunday, June 3 at Mitzvah Day!

As summer begins, please do not forget to drop off food for Akron/Canton Regional Food Bank

in the Food Basket in Beth El entryway. Food Basket is courtesy of Dick Rossen.

Hazzan Matthew Austerklein and Martha Chestnut

Rebecca Lieb, Rachel Osherow, Tim Borham, and Hazzan Matthew Austerklein

http://brose139att.net/


Congregation Beth El

2018 Election Results

Officers Board of Trustees

Jerry B. Nelson

President

Martin Belsky Susan Osherow

Art Benson Marsha Rabe

Sharon Merklin

President Elect

Diane Caplan Andrea Rabinovitz

Leora Cohen Myron Rabinovitz

Stacey Simonton

Vice President

Morgan Domokos Bunny Rose

Sarah Greenblatt Jerry Schneier

Marsha Friedman

Treasurer

Julie Katz Andrea Steinberger

Marc Merklin Anthony Sterns

Gregg Manes

Secretary

Scott Newman Harvey Sterns

Debra Shifrin Newman Tom Trieber

Martin Oppenheimer Irving Kauvar, Trustee for Life

at services.

“The work is much.” Over the course of this year, our congregation has lost beloved community members to death, and we have blessed new life with brises and baby namings. As the clergy, we have reached out with dozens of emails, phone calls and visits each month - both in times of illness and of happiness.

We have joined Sunday School & Hebrew school, adding music, presence, and content. In May, we celebrated Beth El’s first consecration in several years, on Shavuot. And we are excited for the first bat mitzvah of our tenure, coming this August (Abigail Litt).

“The workers are lazy.” Sometimes people are satisfied with simply fulfilling the requirements – just checking off a list. But life is so much richer when we are able to imagine outside the box and push beyond the status quo. This past year, the Rabbi led a Yoga Seder as an alternative to the Second Day Pesach service, which had 16 participants. She has also established herself as a Jewish voice in Akron, giving blessings and invocations at Akron City Council, Holocaust Memorials, the city-wide MLK Commemoration, and others. The Hazzan has been a regular at the Preschool’s Granny Group program providing Jewish music to our youngest audience. This year’s concert weekends (MeshugaNotes Shabbat, Daniel Asia, and the Akron Jewish Music Festival) have added to the new musical vibrancy of

Rabbi & Hazzan, from page 1

the congregation, empowering and honoring both diverse talent from our local universities and from our own Jewish community.

As you probably remember, our High Holy Day services were quite different from years past and were found to be meaningful and fulfilling for a huge swath of our synagogue population. This style of service also led to our once a month Lev Tahor service, which is an uplifting, heart-opening and musical take on the Kabbalat Shabbat service.

“The reward is great.” We can both say without any doubts that coming to Beth El and Akron, Ohio, was the right move for us and our family. We are excited about the relationships we have begun to build, and the work we have started and accomplished. One year is a long time, and it is also a very short time. We have only begun. If you still haven’t met us, please reach out and let’s have a cup of coffee together. Let’s not let another year disappear before we connect - we need your help in reaching out, too.

“The Master is pressing.” God requires a lot of us. For us, this is a reminder and a feeling of how valued we are as human beings and as individuals. We hope that the summer gives us all a chance to reflect on what’s pressing the most - what project do I want to start, what group do I want to join, what joy do I want to partake in? Talk to God, and God might just give you the answer you are seeking…

Rabbi Elyssa & Hazzan Matt

Remember Beth El

in Your Will

For information, contact

Marsha Friedman Endowment Chair

330.603.1890


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Tisha B’Av, the ninth of the month of Av, is a day of mourning for Jews. It is the day we remember the

destruction of both Temples that once stood in Jerusalem as well as a number of other tragedies that have

befallen the Jewish people over the course of history.

In the synagogue, the lights are dimmed; congregants remove their leather shoes and do not greet each

other. At the evening service, Megillat Eicha (Lamentations) – which is a lament for the destruction of the

First Temple – is chanted along with several kinot, elegies or dirges written at different periods of Jewish

history. The kinot speak of the suffering and pain of Jewish tragedy through the ages.

Tallit (prayer shawl) and tefillin (phylacteries), usually worn during morning services, are instead worn

during Minchah (the afternoon service). This year, we will watch the movie Paper Clips (about a school in

Tennessee which created a project to help students understand the scale of the Holocaust) in the Mercaz,

before the mincha service.

Tisha B’Av is a full fast day. The last meal before the fast is often comprised of round foods like eggs or

lentils, which symbolize mourning in Jewish tradition because they evoke the cycle of life. In addition to

abstaining from food or drink during Tisha B’Av, Jewish tradition also mandates refraining from wearing

leather, engaging in sexual relations, washing one’s body, and using perfume or other such ointments.

Visiting cemeteries on this day is encouraged, as if to heighten the sadness.

The meal ending the fast traditionally omits meat and wine, in acknowledgment of the fact that the

burning of the Temple continued until the next day. Finally, the sorrow that began on the 17th of Tammuz

comes to a halt and the Shabbat immediately following Tishah B’Av is called Shabbat Nahamu (Shabbat of

comfort) because the Haftarah begins with the words “nahamu nahamu ami” (“comfort, comfort my

people”). This begins a period of consolation and comfort leading up to Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year.

עה באב ש ת

Tisha B’Av


Re` The continued shrinking Jewish population in Akron is an issue of concern.

All these positive activities, getting out of the old building and relieving that financial burden, joining the

JCC campus and hiring new clergy, were critical steps towards a future on which we need to focus , with

particular attention to two specific words:

Those words are ENGAGEMENT and INCLUSION.

ENGAGEMENT – We are thrilled with our increased participation as motivated by our clergy. The next

step is to engage the balance of the congregation who have had the pleasure to interact with Rabbi Elyssa and

Hazzan Matt. A major reason we hired Rabbi Elyssa and Hazzan Matt was to attract a broader demographic to

our congregation. We are relying on clergy and their fresh perspective to grow our congregation & facilitate

more involved participation from the congregation as a whole.

INCLUSION – We need to further define the needs and desires of our Entire Congregation, which will

help us identify how we can best serve those needs and make a higher percentage of our members feel

welcome in order to provide a totality of Services that span the Life Cycle and resonate to today’s

Conservative Jew. We must review and update our rules and regulations relative to Beth El burial rights and

responsibilities, and support our local funeral home to make certain that when out of town members are buried

in the Beth El Section, Beth El Rules and requirements of being a member in good standing are met. In the

spirit of Inclusion, it is important to review the current rules regarding funerals at Beth El and consider

opening up Beth El to all members, not just Past Presidents of the congregation.

Engagement and inclusion are nice terms, but without true relationships with give and take, we cannot

achieve a higher level of activity for all.

INCLUSION must take on a broader meaning – we need to expand our religious dialogue to all of the

congregation, not just those who have regularly supported programs and services in the past.

It is imperative that we broaden the discussion, determine what motivates the balance of membership that

we only see the first Day of Rosh Hashanah and during Yizkor on Yom Kippur. We need to INCLUDE the 31

family units we lost in the last years, before our new clergy took office and change the narrative from

disenfranchisement to engagement.

One goal I have is to get to know all of you much better, so a legitimate relationship can develop. I would

challenge both clergy and our membership to get to know each other better. It is only with a true relationship

that we can be transparent and move forward together.

I appreciate this opportunity to serve in this role, work on behalf of the congregants in order to work

closely with our Clergy and Board so that we may enhance the spiritual, organizational and religious needs of

our soon to be growing Beth El family.

My best,

Jerry

President, from page 1

Time to Update Yearbook forms are due!

Please send your form to the Beth El Office by June 11.

Final Reminder


In Memoriam

Beth El Congregation notes with sorrow the passing of

Rhoda Gordon Mother of Barry Saferstein,

Bonnie Wakefield, and Sue Saferstein

Rolinda Schneiderman Wife of Ted; mother of Toby, Karen, Nancy,

and Amy; grandmother of Adam, Sam, Jacob,

Allison, Claire, and Joanna; sister of Randell

Dr. Robert Stone Husband of Rochelle; brother of Don;

father of Cynthia, Randall, and Jeffrey;

grandfather of Daniel and Samantha

Vivian Witt Mother of Evan and Ellen;

grandmother of Sophia, Julie, and Brian

Tree

of Life The 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 3 or 4 lines

with up to 23 letters in each line. To order, call Sherri

Leubitz, 330-867-0364.

This is the newest leaf on Beth El’s Tree of Life:

Herb and Ellen Moss

Tribute by the JCBA

June 18, 2018 Mazel Tov!

Love, Dear Friends

Dec. 2, 2018

Celebrate Jewish Akron’s First Night of Hanukkah, at Beth El, with Jewish Music, Dance, & Food! Stay tuned for next month’s announcement of our musical guest artists.

Feb. 24, 2019

Akron/Canton Cantorial Concert, sponsored by the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (and featuring Beth El’s Hazzan Matt Austerklein, Cantor Bruce Braun (Canton, OH), three JTS cantorial students and Cantor Nancy Abramson, Dean of the H.L. Miller Cantorial School (The Jewish Theological Seminary). Free & Open to the Public.

Jewish Shakespeare Week!

Ohio Shakespeare Festival & Beth El

Monday July 30 at 7:00-9:00 PM

Jewish Shakespeare Workshop

Join Hazzan Matthew Austerklein and two

leading actors from the Ohio Shakespeare

Festival for drinks and dessert as we examine

Jewish themes in this week’s play, All's Well

that Ends Well, and workshop to connect to

Shakespeare's text through theatre games,

scene study, and fun that will demystify

Shakespeare's text and bring it to life.

Thursday August 2 at 7:30 PM

Come with our congregation to see

Shakespeare's romantic tragicomedy, All's Well

that Ends Well, live on the grounds of Stan

Hywet. Tickets discounted to $10 for participants.


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Learning Opportunity Thursdays, July 12 – August 2, 10 AM – Noon Social Justice as a Spiritual Practice: Jewish Perspectives Instructor: Stephen Grundfast

Landmark Centre

25700 Science Park Dr., Suite 100

Beachwood, OH 4412

In this course, we will examine a range of Jewish sources

that address the issue of social justice. Using selections

from the Bible, Talmud, early rabbinic sources and

commentary of modern rabbis, we discuss the ethical

impulse in Judaism and the spiritual endeavor to make

our world more just, compassionate and godly.

For more information or to register, please

visit case.edu/lifelonglearning.

Education

Program

Sunday School students learning with teacher Andrea Rabinovitz

Mazel Tov to our consecrants: Noa Beree, Kaitlyn Domokos, Taylor

Domokos, Liliana Moskovitz, Emily Shkolnik, Jacob Shkolnik, and Ellie York.

http://case.edu/lifelonglearning


ELEANORE AND JERRY LIPPMAN

BAR/BAT MITZVAH BOOK FUND

In Memory of

• Dr. Robert Stone from Jacques and Etty Sardas

FLORAL

FUND

In Memory of

• Inge Steinberger from Sidney and Andrea Steinberger

GRESS

TORAH FUND

In Memory of

• Rachel Hexter from Larry and Esther Hexter

HAKOAH

EDUCATION FUND

In Memory of

• Sherwin Ruben from Steve and Ellen Winer

KIDDUSH

FUND

In Memory of

• Bertha Iczkovitz from Kevin Tucker

• Louis Yablon from Warren and Joie Yablon

KNITZVAH

FUND

In Memory of

• Rhoda Gordon from Dr. and Mrs. George Litman

• David Recht from Dr. and Mrs. George Litman

• Rolinda Schneiderman from Dr. and Mrs. George Litman

• Vivian Witt from Dr. and Mrs. George Litman

LENORE GORDON

SCHOLARSHIP FUND

In Memory of

• Dr. Robert Stone from Dr. and Mrs. George Litman

LISA BOTNICK

MEMORIAL FUND

For the Recovery of

• Susana Afonso from Jacques and Etty Sardas

LOUIS LOCKSHIN

SCHOLARSHIP FUND

In Memory of

• Rhoda Gordon from Jim and Susan Osherow

• David Recht from Jim and Susan Osherow

• Rolinda Schneiderman from Jim and Susan Osherow

• Dr. Robert Stone from Jim and Susan Osherow

AARON KRANITZ

MEMORIAL FUND

In Memory of

• Rolinda Schneiderman from Joe and JoEllen Kodish, Jeff and Susan Kodish, Alvin and Rochelle Lieberman

• Dr. Robert Stone from Joe and JoEllen Kodish

ALEXANDER AND LILLIAN

MEDOFF MEMORIAL MUSIC FUND

In Memory of

• Rhoda Gordon from Mrs. Donna Geller

• David Recht from Mrs. Donna Geller

• Rolinda Schneiderman from Mrs. Donna Geler

• Dr. Robert Stone from Mrs. Donna Geller

• Vivian Witt from Mrs. Donna Geller

CANTOR’S

DISCRETIONARY FUND

In Memory of

• Bernard Friedman from Rabbi Joan Friedman

For the Recovery of

• Marty Hellman from Joe and JoEllen Kodish

EDUCATION

FUND

In Memory of

• Hyman Finkelstein from Burt and Lois Nobil

• Rhoda Gordon from the Crane family, Mr. and Mrs. Jacques Sardas

• Reuben Katz from Ann Rosenthal family

• Lillian Katz from Carl Lieberman

• David Katz from Carl Lieberman

• Edward A. Lieberman from Carl Lieberman

• Allan Lieberman from Carl Lieberman

• David Recht from the Crane family, Mr. and Mrs. Jacques Sardas

• Rolinda Schneiderman from the Crane family, Larry and Esther Hexter, Carl Lieberman, Mr. and Mrs. Jacques Sardas

• Sam Schneiderman from Ted Schneiderman

• Dr. Robert Stone from the Crane family, Mr. and Mrs. Jacques Sardas

• Vivian Witt from the Crane family, Laurel Gress, Dr. John and Patty Saks, Mr. and Mrs. Jacques Sardas

For the Recovery of

• Marty Hellman from Jerry and Sandy Schneier

In Honor of

• The birth of Benjamin, grandson of Steve and Debra Shifrin Newman, from Dr. John and Patty Saks

• The birth of Benjamin, son of Scott and Meghan Newman, from Larry and Esther Hexter

• Jerry Nelson becoming president, from the Crane family

Contributions • Vivian Witt from Jim and Susan Osherow

In Honor of

• The birth of Maddy, granddaughter of Todd and Michelle Willen, from Jim and Susan Osherow

• The new home of Ed and Alice Schneider from Jim and Susan Osherow

LUCK

HOLOCAUST FUND

In Memory of

• Harvey Winer from Hope Winer

RABBI'S

DISCRETIONARY FUND

In Memory of

• Robert Bloch from Harry and Ilene Shapiro

• Bernard Friedman from Rabbi Joan Friedman

• Rhoda Gordon from Joe and JoEllen Kodish, Eileen Schneir

• Manny Iczkovitz from Kevin Tucker

• Eugene Meyer from Arnold Bleiman

• David Recht from Joe and JoEllen Kodish, Eileen Schneir

• Rolinda Schneiderman from Eileen Schneir, David Shapiro, Edna Shapiro

• Dr. Robert Stone from Eileen Schneir

• Shirley Wagan from Ted and Rolinda Schneiderman

• Vivian Witt from Joe and JoEllen Kodish, Eileen Schneir

• Bella Zetzer from Sid and Shirley Zetzer

In Appreciation

• Rabbi Elyssa from Herb and Ellen Moss

REVEREND PHILLIP SALZMAN

SCHOLARSHIP FUND

In Memory of

• Rhoda Gordon from Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Newman

• Julia Liberman from the Nusbaum family

• David Recht from Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Newman

• Rolinda Schneiderman from Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Newman, Herbert Weiss and Dana Karon

• Dr. Robert Stone from Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Newman

• Rose Recht Weinberg from Charlotte Heisler family

• Betty Weiss from Herb Weiss

• Vivian Witt from Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Newman

SIMON KOPELSON

MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND

In Memory of

• Esther Slavin from Daniel and Marilyn Slavin


STEPHEN M. GROSS

MEMORIAL FUND

In Memory of

• Rhoda Gordon from Mr. and Mrs. Scott Gross

• Rolinda Schneiderman from Mr. and Mrs. Scott Gross

• Dr. Robert Stone from Mr. and Mrs. Scott Gross

• Vivian Witt from Mr. and Mrs. Scott Gross

SYNAGOGUE

FUND

In Memory of

• Mike Codell from Dr. and Mrs. Robert Stone

• Louise Cohen from Randy and Bonnie Cohen

• Walter Cohen from Randy and Bonnie Cohen

• Rhoda Gordon from Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence Richman, Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon Saferstein, Edward and Alice Schneider, Mrs. Rochelle Stone, Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Zetzer

• Ruth Gottlieb from Marty and Sheila Gottlieb

• Harriet Horn from Stacey, Rachel, and Sarah Simonton

• Pauline Katz from Ann Rosenthal family

• Julia Mermelstein from Mel and Nancy Mermelstein

• Ethel Mirman from Marilyn Mirman

• Oscar Mirman from Marilyn Mirman

• Selma Paskal from Randy and Bonnie Cohen

• Martin Polsky from Leona Pollock family

• David Recht from Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence Richman, Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon Saferstein, Edward and Alice Schneider, Sidney and Andrea Steinberger, Dr. and Mrs. Robert Stone, Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Zetzer

• Rolinda Schneiderman from Randy and Julie Katz, Sandra Levenson, Andy and Judy Moyer, Charles and Ilene Parke, Dr. Lawrence and Harriet Richman, Dick and Arlene Rossen, Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon Saferstein, Ed and Alice Schneider, Dr. and Mrs. Robert Stone, Dorothy Thomas, Hope Winer, Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Zetzer

• Dr. Marvin Sommerfeld from Dr. and Mrs. Robert Stone

• Dr. Robert Stone from Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence Richman, Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon Saferstein, Ed and Alice Schneider, Steve and Ellen Winer, Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Zetzer

• Vivian Witt from Sandra Levenson, Debra Shifrin and Steven Newman, Libby Portnoy, Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence Richman, Dick and Arlene Rossen, Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon Saferstein, Edward and Alice Schneider, Dr. and Mrs. Robert Stone, Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Zetzer

For the Recovery of

• Marty Hellman from Sidney and Andrea Steinberger

• Maxine Levy from Dr. and Mrs. Robert Stone

In Honor of

• The 80th birthday of Mel Mermelstein from Barbara Lewis, Libby Portnoy

• The birth of Benjamin, grandson of Steve and Debra Shifrin Newman, from Sandra Levenson, Sidney and Andrea Steinberger

• Joe Kodish receiving the Public Service Award from The Akron Bar Association from Dick and Arlene Rossen

• Marc Merklin becoming President of Akron Chamber of Commerce from Dr. Lawrence and Harriet Richman

• The new home of Alan and Irene Adler from Sidney and Andrea Steinberger

• The new home of Ed and Alice Schneider from Sidney and Andrea Steinberger

• Madison Spector's graduation from O.S.U. Magna Cum Laude from Edward and Alice Schneider

In Appreciation

• Sandra Schwartz from Dr. and Mrs. Robert Stone

Your thoughtful and generous contribut ions are appreciated.

Contr i but ions are usual l y publ ished one month af ter receipt . Due to a

combined June/July Bu l le t in , cont r i but i ons received before Jul y 1

wi l l appear i n the August Bul l et i n .

Torah, Drums, and Prayer

Sarah Greenblatt

On April 15, a group of women had a truly unique and meaningful experience connecting through Torah

study, instruments, prayer, rhythm and song. The Drumming Workshop, called “A Drum in Her Hand,”

at Beth El, was led by Rabbi Elyssa Austerklein and drumming specialist, Christin Green.

The Torah study focused on Torah and Midrash texts about Miriam, finding new meaning in Miriam’s

role in the Torah. Although most of the attendees were not musicians in any way, they found themselves

creating music together, that not only helped them relax, connect to each other and to the Torah, but to

also have fun!

BULLETIN OF BETH EL CONGREGATION `

PERIODICALS POSTAGE PAID AKRON, OHIO

BETH EL CONGREGATION 750 WHITE POND DRIVE AKRON, OHIO 44320

Shul Barbeque – August 10 at the Camp Pavilion

6:00 PM Dinner • 7 PM Lev Tahor Details and prices will be mailed.

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