CONGREGATION P’NAI TIKVAH

(Formerly Valley Outreach Synagogue)

Kol Kiruv

September 2013 Elul/Tishrei Vol. 20—No. 4

Table of Contents

Cover Page

Rabbi’s Message

Cantor’s Notes

President’s Message

Women’s Rosh Chodesh

Jewlicious Learning Decide to Forgive

MiShebeirach

Women’s Retreat

Challah Baking at the Rabbi’s

Security Briefing Report

Apricot-Raisin Apple Recipe

Updates & Fundraising

Mitzvah Envelopes

Birthdays & Anniversaries

Kidz Korner

High Holiday Services Flyer

Yahrzeits

Kever Dorot Memorial Services CPT Bookworms 5774

Grandma Sadie Getting Married

Calendar at a Glance

Clergy and Staff

Rabbi: Yocheved Mintz

Cantor: Marla Goldberg

Accompanist: Timothy Cooper

Newsletter: D’vorah Turrentine,

Educator: Rabbi Mintz

Bookkeeper: Lynn Pisetzner

Office Administrator: ‘D’vorah Turrentine

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MAY YOU BE INSCRIBED AND SEALED FOR A GOOD YEAR — 5774

The Yamim HaNoraim, the Days of Awe,

are upon us, and a new Jewish year is

dawning, filled with promise and possibil-

ities.

If you haven’t already done so, please go online at

www.pnaitikvahlv.org tor call the office, 702-436-4900, to re-

quest tickets for services in the Houston Room of the Texas

Station:

Erev Rosh HaShanah, Wednesday, Sept 4 , 7 p.m.

Rosh HaShanah, Thursday, Sept 5, 10 a.m.

Erev Yom Kippur, Friday, Sept 13, 7 p.m.

Yom Kippur, Saturday, Sept 14, 10 a.m. (all day)

(Dr. Gard Jameson and Dr. Mark Baxter

will speak on “Spirituality in HealthCare”

during the afternoon ‘break’)

Do let the office know if you will be joining us at the Buffet for

Rosh HaShanah and Break-the-Fast, Yom Kippur night.

Tashlich and an al fresco Kabbalat Shabbat and picnic will be

held at the lake at Sunset Park, on Friday, September 6 at 5

p.m. Bring bread crumbs ...and, if you have one—-a shofar!

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Congregation P’nai Tikvah will worship on Shabbat, September 20th at

Kraft-Sussman Chapel, in the Bank of Nevada Business Park at 3975 S.

Durango, Suite 104, in Las Vegas. Kabbalat Shabbat and Maariv services

will begin at 7:30 PM.

Torah Study will take place at 10:00 AM on September 21st at Rabbi

Mintz’s home. A bagels and lox brunch is served. Please RSVP by call-

ing the administrative office at (702) 436-4900 or by emailing

gkmintz@aol.com.

Message from the Rabbi

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Note: Every year since its founding in 1964, the Cleveland Jewish News used to publish a New

Year’s message from my late grandfather, Rabbi Israel Porath (z”l), who was the dean of the Or-

thodox rabbinate in Cleveland until his death in 1974. At this time of year, when we think of

those who have gone before and of the future that is yet to unfold, I wish to honor my Zeide’s

memory and intersperse his words with mine in this Rosh HaShanah message to you all. My

words will be in black; his in blue…

Dear Chevreh,

We are about to enter a new year, and within the Jewish psyche, we are deep into our t’shuvah

work, preparing ourselves for the challenges, both heavy and hopeful, of the coming year. On

Rosh HaShanah, the world around us will be preoccupied with business as usual, the daily affairs

to which we are conditioned to accept as a normal way of life, namely inflation, pollution, bank

robberies, thefts, vandalism, narcotics, racial tensions, party politics, etc. To that list we now add

xenophobia, terrorism, foreclosures, and job insecurities.

In the midst of all that tumultuous confusion, Jews all over the world will retreat, assembling in

synagogues to proclaim and salute a new year in the Jewish calendar. We, members of Congrega-

tion P’nai Tikvah, will swell in numbers with those congregants who join us only at this time of

year…and we will welcome them and honor them for being with us to celebrate the New Year.

But we do not celebrate our New Year with hilarious entertainment. We don our kippot and talli-

tot, dress respectfully, and look to our machzorim for liturgy that resonates in our hearts and to our

Rabbi, Chazzan, and choir for words and music that stir our souls. We approach it with a solemn

feeling of awe and reverence (the period is called, after all, Yamim HaNoraim/the Days of Awe),

after a full preparatory month of Elul, marked by daily sounding the Shofar, heralding the arrival

of Rosh HaShanah, when we dedicate the first ten days as Asseret Y’mei T’shuvah, a period for

meditation and repentance, culminating in Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement (at-One-ment).

Over the past month, we have spoken about one of the main focal points of this period: T’shuvah/

Repentance, but equally important, at this season, is to focus on gratitude. So, in the midst of the

turmoil of our contemporary life, why should we be thankful? The Talmud advises us, when trav-

eling from city to city, on reaching a given destination; one shall offer a twofold prayer, consisting

of an expression of gratitude for the road just covered, and an invocation for success in his new

adventure.

By the same token, standing at the threshold of a New Year, we have first to render thanks for

whatever bounties granted to us in the past, and pray for the well-being of mankind as a whole,

and for the security and happiness of our own Jewish people, collectively and individually, during

the coming year.

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Message from the Rabbi continues

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We must keep in mind that only less than ¾ of a century ago, the outlook for our destiny was very

dark and gloomy. A full 1/3rd of our Jewish population were brutally tortured and massacred. The

region then called Palestine harbored half a million frightened and helpless Jews. Who could pre-

dict that within a brief period the representatives of the United Nations would vote to restore part

of the Holy Land, the land of our ancestors, to their rightful heirs and descendants, after 19 centu-

ries of exile, inquisitions, pogroms and persecutions.

Who would dream at that time that within the succeeding 60 years, Israel would have to defend

herself over and over again against overwhelming aggressive armies, and by the grace of heaven,

emerging each time with substantial victories until finally regaining all territories of Ancient Israel

described in the Torah as “the Promised Land.” And who would think that after starts and stops at

negotiating for peace with the descendants of the Palestinian people with whom we once lived

side-by-side, we are, once again, in negotiations (tentative though they are) for a two-state solu-

tion, where we could once again live side-by-side, please G-d, in peace. Therefore, it behooves

us to give thanks to “Shomeir Yisrael”/the Guardian of Israel, for G-d’s bounties in the past, but

also to invoke G-d’s mercy for continuous divine vigilance over G-d’s people and their inher-

itance for all days to come.

The psalmist advises us “Vegilu Birada,” namely: Rejoice, but with anxiety. We must not forget

that our horizon is still covered with threatening dark clouds, endangering our very existence.

Although the existential threats to the 3,000,000 Jews of the Soviet Union and the hundreds of

thousands of Ethiopian Jews were addressed by worldwide Jewry, there are Jews living in humili-

ation and poverty throughout the world, Jews lost through assimilation, and Jews who do not

know the richness of our heritage. Last but not least, the internal conditions within the Holy Land

are far from stable and peaceful. There is still the menace of “The sword from the outside,” and

unrest from within.

At the blast of the Shofar, let us yearn for the realization of the prophetic message on the forth-

coming huge blowing of the gigantic Shofar described by Isaiah: (Shofar Gadol) such as will

thunder through the world and “those who are lost in Assyria and pushed around in Egypt, will be

released to worship the Almighty on the holy mountain in Jerusalem.” (Isaiah 27:13) It is the ul-

timate hope for universal freedom, global stability, and human peace, with security without fear,

except the fear of G-d.

I am personally grateful for all this and much more. I thank G-d for blessing me with a loving

family, for G-d having given me nearly 48 years of marriage to my late husband, Alan, and for G-

d granting me the honor and responsibility of being the spiritual leader of Congregation P’nai Tik-

vah. May we all be privileged to be inscribed in the Book of Life for a happy, healthy, and pros-

perous year. L’shana tova tikateivu v’teichateimu.

Rabbi Yocheved Mintz and Rabbi Israel Porath (z”l)

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Cantor’s Notes:

What makes a melody “Jewish”? Yes, I’ve asked this before when writing a little about the modes that make up

“Traditional” Jewish music. I described what “freygish” is all about, and how it is used many times in our worship.

On the High Holidays, different melodies are used. Special music was written to bring the New Year in with more

splendor and intensity than the weekly music used. It is very melodic, and the theme goes throughout the Holiday

season. (Anyone humming the tune now?).

For many people, certain songs and melodies make Rosh Hashanah, well, Rosh Hashanah. Not hearing the Avinu

Malkeinu by Max Janowski can make some feel that the Holidays are not complete. They have a connection to the

melody that, perhaps as it does for me, goes back to childhood. I have wonderful memories of Julie Mirel’s (our

soloist and rabbi’s wife) glorious voice filling our synagogue with awe.

For Yom Kippur the big musical piece is, of course, Kol Nidre. It is our declaration that,

“All vows [ ], obligations, oaths, and anathemas, whether called 'ḳonam,' 'ḳonas,' or by any other name,

which we may vow, or swear, or pledge, or whereby we may be bound, from this Day of Atonement until the next

(whose happy coming we await), we do repent. May they be deemed absolved, forgiven, annulled, and void, and

made of no effect; they shall not bind us nor have power over us. The vows shall not be reckoned vows; the obliga-

tions shall not be obligatory; nor the oaths be oaths.”

Notice I did not say it is a prayer. But it is an important statement to make about our personal vows to God. It

involves vows we might make in the heat of the moment, (If I get this promotion I’ll go to shul every week). They

are for things we vow with good intent, but as a normal human being, sometimes don’t follow through. It has noth-

ing to do with debts to others. The nature of this statement has been misinterpreted many times. Some have

thought that saying it gives people the ‘okay’ to not pay back a loan, or do a promised job for someone. Many anti-

Semites have used this as an excuse to say that Jews are not trustworthy. This thought has also caused the Early

Reform Movement to exclude Kol Nidre from the original Union Prayer Book. But many people missed hearing it,

so the next printing of the Reform machzor added a line “Some congregation insert Kol Nidre here.” Eventually, it

was added completely to the prayer book.

On the night of Yom Kippur the tradition is to recite the Kol Nidre before sunset, as it is considered a legal state-

ment and we do not conduct legal or business transactions on the holidays. It is traditionally sung 3 times. It must

be different each time. In some congregations the first recitation starts in one key, and each time after, it is sung a

step higher. Some congregations will begin the first rendition very softly and hesitantly as if going before a king.

The second rendition is louder and the third time louder still to be like one who is now friendly with the king. Or

some, as our congregation does, has added other elements to the presentation, such as cello for one rendition. And

why do we sing it three times? So everyone has a chance to hear it, even those who come in late.

So join me in enjoying the melodies that bring in our holiday season, take in their richness and beauty.

If I have done anything to offend in the past year, please take my apology.

L’Shana Tova Tikateivu,

Cantor Marla Goldberg

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Message from the President:

Shimon (the son of Rabban Gamliel) says: “It is not what one says but rather what one does that makes all the difference in the world-- (Pirkei Avot ). Between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, Judaism sets aside a period of reflection when we as indi-viduals can ask ourselves what can I do to make a difference in the coming year? Your leadership team, Rabbi Mintz, Cantor Goldberg and your Board of Directors, and our many vol-unteers, has spent many hours asking the same question: What can we do to make a difference in the coming year? The answer is that the WE that is needed to make a difference is a much larger “we” than just the leadership team…it is the greater team that is the Congregation P’nai Tikvah community in total. WE CAN’T MAKE A DIFFERENCE WITHOUT YOU, OUR MEMBERSHIP. It starts with renewing our memberships, our commitments and our pledges to our synagogue---all of us. The funds that we re-ceive from our pledges serve as our investment in our Congregation. They allow us to continue to provide the spiritual and religious nourishment that makes a difference in the quality of our life. Our Kol Nidrei pledges and our contributions to the Book of Remembrance are not only mitzvahs for those whose memories we want to honor but are mitzvahs in securing the future of our shul. We need each other to spread the word as to why we are members of P’nai Tikvah to other individu-als and families whom we know are searching or maybe searching for a new spiritual home. Invite them to join us at Shabbat services, Torah, High Holidays and the many other religious and social events that we sponsor during the course of the year. We need volunteers. Shabbat services, the High Holiday services require hours of volunteer work, as well as Chanukah, or Purim or Passover, etc. We will soon be in full gear promoting our major fund raiser of Grandma Sadie and her upcoming wedding. We will need volunteers to help us from work-ing the reception desk, helping to obtain ads for our wedding program. Together, hand in hand, we can make a difference. May this coming year be one of good health for you and your family. L’Shana Tovah Tikateivu! Barbara Holland President of the CPT Board

For details regarding current CPT fundraisers or suggestions for future fundraising opportunities, please contact Dale Gardner cabinutsky@aol.com

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Women’s Rosh Chodesh Group

Check out the photos of our wonderful Re-

treat held last month in Deer Valley. Hope

you can join us next year.

Thank you to Annie Goodrich for being so

flexible with the Elul get-together, which was

canceled due to the Shiva minyan for our be-

loved Davida Lewin-Schermer (z”l). We will

all celebrate Rosh Chodesh Elul at Rosh

HaShanah services, of course, and the next

Women’s Rosh Chodesh get-together will be

October 6, at the home of Jane Kusel, in An-

them. Please RSVP to Jane by October 3rd,

at kuseld@yahoo.com or 702-407-5077.

Hostesses and homes are still needed for the

following Sunday evenings at 7 pm,: No-

vember 10th (tentatively at Annie’s), Decem-

ber 8, January 5, February 2, March 2,

April 6, May 4 (tentative), and June 1st.

Mitzvah Envelopes:

Mitzvah envelopes are given out at services with

the hope that they will be filled

out and returned with a donation

for the congregation. Honoring or

remembering loved ones, giving

tzedakah for a MiShebeirach,

simply being thankful for meaning-

ful services, and any other reason

you can think of helps the congregation’s sustaina-

bility and funds future

Jewlicious Learners

Classes for the Fall will take

place on Monday afternoons at the Rab-

bi’s home, from 4:15 to 6:00, beginning

August 26 and continuing Sept 9, 16,23,

and 30; October 6, 21, 28,; November

4, 18, and 25; December 2, 9, and 16;

January 6, 13, and 27; February 3, 10,

and 24; March 3, 10, 17, 24, 31; April 7,

and 28; May 5, 12,19 and June 2. Regis-

tration continues to be open, but clas-

ses have begun.

We are looking forward to a great year

of learning and growing. Older students

will be completing “Likro u-L’vareich,”

which younger students will be begin-

ning. Our Gan will be doing reading

readiness. Older students will be learn-

ing cursive and conversational Hebrew,

and will be delving into the prayer cur-

riculum and Jewish values. Younger stu-

dents will be exploring the holidays and

learning Hebrew print. The entire

group will be continuing to learn through

experiential programming and discovery

methodology.

If you know of youngsters who are in

need of Jewish education, please call

the office.

DECIDE TO FORGIVE

Decide to forgive

For resentment is negative

Resentment s poisonous

Resentment diminishes and devolurs the self

Be the first to forgive, to smile and to take the first step

And you will see happiness bloom

On the face of your human brother or sister.

Be always the first

Do not wait for others to forgive

For by forgiving you become the master of fate

The fashioner of life

A doer of miracles

To forgive is the highest,

Most beautiful form of love.

In return you will receive

Untold peace and happiness

And here is the program for

Achieving a truly forgiving heart

SUNDAY: Forgive yourself

MONDAY: Forgive your family

TUESDAY: Forgive your friends and associates

WEDNESDAY: Forgive across economic lines within your own nation

THURSDAY: Forgive across cultural lines with your own nation

FRIDAY: Forgive across political lines with your own na-tion

SATURDAY: Forgive other nations

Only the brave know how to forgive, a coward never for-gives

It is not in his nature

Submitted by Phyllis Zuckerman

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Mi Shebeirach/”Get Well” Wishes to…

Marie Ackerman Marjorie Lieberman D’vorah Turrentine Edith Rome Gary Paykel Elliot Bender Paul Bodner Olivia Bender Gittel bat Libba Heika Libba Heika bat Sima Wendy Linker Maya Granat Rabbi Rob Bonem Edward Rueben Patti Lade Wendy Linker Tony Reed Ginger Odom Rabbi Bob Freedman Phyllis Zuckerman Rabbi Stephen Robbins Craig Goodrich Connie Rivshun Gavriella bat Yisraella v’Yosef Bonnie Epstein Dina Bat Sara Danny Lev Rosabelle Mintz David White Bud Corson Esther Schwartz Richard Wulff Ann Brandt Aaron Shopnick Marilyn Kapel Karl Reynolds Peter Hernandez Lou & Sonny Mayron Madeline Plonsker Rabbi Dr. Byron Sherwin Kayle Julianno Scott & Rachel Dykstra Jonathan Schwartz Beverly Wiegert Dotti Elgart Jan Orenstein

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Women’s Retreat – July 25-28, 2013

--Submitted by Nancey (Naftala) Kasse

"Making Trouble: The Role of Women in the Shifting Paradigm of Contemporary Judaism”---

Thirteen words that were the key to a doorway to a Shabbaton in Park City, Utah.

The sun was shining as we arrived in Salt Lake City: Caren Epstein, Annie Goodrich (and her

trusty dog, Levi), Nancey Kasse, Jane Kusel, Ellen Royer, and Rose Shapiro, off on an adventure.

Some of us hardly recognized the others as fellow CPT members, but that soon melted away as the

bonding began. We were picked up from the airport by our one and only Reb Yo! (aka Rabbi

Yocheved Mintz). As the drive started, the study commenced. The first question was, “Think of

three Jewish women that have influenced your lives”…and from there the sharing flowed. We

drove through Salt Lake City as we made aliyah (you know, up the mountain). We stopped in

Park City, had a tasty lunch in a small diner, encompassed by the ambiance of the silver mining/

ski resort town. Beauty shone in the architecture and the bustling of shopkeeps and shoppers.

Brick and wood buildings stood side by side, with little sitting areas to be found in the nooks and

crannies of the mountain town. Art galleries, bookstores, people from many countries, candy

stores and each other exchanged stories, getting to know each other.

After our acclimating to the higher elevation, we moved forward on our aliyah to the place where

we would share meals and dream dream—Deer Valley (a misnomer, as it brought us even higher,

to 9000 foot altitude). A couple of turns, as the terrain changed to trees, and grass, we could just

see sky above the mountain tops. A couple of landmarks, to include a defunct silver mine and we

were at Little Belle, number #18 (did you think it would be any other number?)

Kissing the rainbow glass mezuzah, walking through the door into the abode where we would be

sleeping and storing our assorted belongings for the weekend, we continued to ascend; from floor

to floor we circled each area, becoming aware of our surroundings.

Like a spiral, we would draw together as a circle on many occasions throughout the Shabbaton.

To sit in a circle as we studied about women, each of us facing each other, to sit in a circle around

the table as we ate and praised G!d for our meals and to sit in a circle as we davenned Shacharit.

We came from different backgrounds, rich and delicious with tradition, which we shared at each

turn. Reb Yo, guiding and mentoring us on the trail we were walking together, to learn more

about the Shifting Paradigm of Female Empowerment into the future and about the integration of

tradition into a modern understanding. Reb Yo, had much for us to learn, many prompts to bring

out hidden treasures inside of us.

And food. Did I mention the food yet? Fruit, veggies omelets, cinnamon mini-bagels, couscous,

chicken-yummy, lamb chops, fish, impromptu lasagna, challah, challah French toast, M&M’s,

cashews, Oreo’s, juice, grapes, bananas, melon, pineapple…I am sure I am forgetting something,

but it was all delicious!

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We swam in a pool perched in the woods, surrounded by flowers and trees, an observing dor,

and white puffy clouds, the temperature just right in or out of the pool. We had a light rain as

we stood on the mountain top on Shabbat and studied Torah and davenned Shacharit with a sid-

dur prepared by Reb Yo. We did Alef-Bet Yoga each morning to stretch our bodies, once again

in a circle with each other.

One night we did a play, The Women’s Minyan, by Naomi Ragen--- each of us taking on at least

one role, going through the challenges of Charedi women in Meah She’arim, an ultra-Orthodox

section of Jerusalem. It was a stimulating play that prompted stimulating conversation. One

night we watched a documentary about famous Jewish women in show business, like Molly

Picon, Sophie Tucker, and others. We also read about different Jewish women who changed

the world, like Golda Meir and Barbara Streisand, Susan Sontag and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Do-

na Gracia Nasi and Estee Lauder; and discussed how other Jewish women have made their

mark, how much work remains to be done, and where we each could make a difference. We

had some hilarious Scrabble and Boggle games, too, and had to deal with an inability to go on-

line for four days (although some of us did go up to Stein Ericksen’s Lodge to use their wi-fi).

As we sat together on the last morning, it was apparent that we had all been touched by one an-

other, the women of our tradition, and Reb Yo’s teachings.

The next time you see an invitation to attend an event that Reb Yo is putting on, sign up! You

will be glad you did!

And one more thing, we learned this, the shortest birkat ha-mazon /grace after meals:

B'rich rahamana malka d'alma mareih d'hahy pita

Sweet!

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Happy New Year

Department

Women’s Retreat "Making Trouble: The Role of Women in the Shifting Paradigm of Contemporary Judaism”---

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“CHALLAHDAY” BAKING with RABBI MINTZ

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Board President, Barbara Holland, Participates in Security Briefing

More than two dozen Jewish community organizations participated in the annual Community Security

Briefing sponsored by our Jewish Federation in cooperation with ADL. Audrey Plotkin, Chair of the

Crisis & Emergency Management Committee of the Jewish Federation chaired the meeting at which

Jason Periard, Director of Community Security for the Jewish Federation of Los Angeles, was the key-

note speaker. Congregation P’nai Tikvah was represented by Board President, Barbara Holland. Also

attending was CPT member Wendy Kraft, co-owner of Kraft-Sussman, our gracious venue hosts.

Representatives from Las Vegas Metropolitan Police, Henderson Police and the FBI were also present

and offered recommendations as to how Jewish organizations can insure the safety and security of

their facilities.

Apricot-Raisin Baked Apples

6 large Rome Beauty or Granny Smith apples (about 3 pounds)

1 cup apricot jam

2/3 cup raisins

1/4 cup sugar

Ground cinnamon

2 tables butter

1/2 cup water

1. Core apples, peel bottom third of each apple at blossom end

2. Place apples in buttered 9-by-13-inch baking dish, blossom (peeled) ends up. Mix half the apricot jam with the raisins

and fill the cored opening in each apple with the mixture. Sprinkle apples with sugar and cinnamon. Place pat of but-

ter on each apple. Combine remaining jam with water; pour into bottom of baking dish.

3. Bake apples at 350 degrees on middle rack about 45 minutes, basting often, until tender and well browned. If apples

are tender but have not colored sufficiently, place under broiler about 30 seconds. Place pan on rack to cool slightly.

Serve apples warm or at room temperature with some of the juices spooned over each apple. Make 6 servings.

Nick Malgieri is the author of “Chocolate,” HarperCollins; 1998

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UPDATES and

Fundraising Opportunities

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On’gai Shabbat— Time to Sign up!

We still have a few openings left for those of you who want to celebrate a simcha or commemorate the memory of a loved one by sponsoring an Oneg Shabbat. And for you foodies who want to get your Bobby Flay or Gordon Ramsey on, there’s still time! Check the schedule below; an opening is your opportunity:

September 20 Sponsor & Caterer Needed

October 4 Sponsor & Caterer Needed

October 18 Sponsor & Caterer Needed

November 1 Sponsor & Caterer Needed

November 15 Sponsor Needed

Caterer - Barbara & Andy Holland

December 6 Sponsor– Scott Linker

Caterer Needed

December 20 Sponsor & Caterer Needed

Note URL for Congregation P’nai Tikvah , As well as Facebook and Twitter Addresses

Make our web address, www.pnaitikvahlv.org , a favorite! Social networking with our shul is easier than ever! “Like” us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/pnaitikvahlv and follow us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/pnaitikvahlv .

Thanks to Cindy Fox, Jon Axelrod, and Danielle Holland—CPT’s social network mavens—for keeping us current!! Anyone else wish to volunteer? Just call 436-4900 to be our new maven!

TORAH STUDY

THIS MONTH:

Rabbi Mintz will lead Torah Study for Parashat

Hol ha-Moed on September 21st at the Rabbi’s

home at 10:00 AM.

Please RSVP for Torah Study at

gkmintz@aol.com or call —the office at 436-

4900.

BE A BIRD DOG??

If you refer someone to a car dealership, on behalf of CPT,

we can receive a referral fee. This is a wonderful and easy

way to do a mitz- vah for

CPT . More in- formation

contact Doris 869 -2700.

Mitzvah Envelopes Harriet & Jules Schreider -In memory of Seymour Cohen Jennifer Cohen -In gratitude for studying with Rabbi Mintz as my teacher Barbara Holland Annie Goodrich -In memory of Joseph Lowther David Aris -Rabbi's Discretionary Fund

Philip & Ellen Weinblatt -Rabbi’s Discretionary Fund

Ann Brandt -In deep appreciation for Rabbi Mintz prayers & hospi-tal visits

Jane Kusel -In loving memory of Davida Lewin Schermer

Luis & Rose Dominguez -In memory of Davida Lewin Schermer

D’vorah & Palmie Turrentine -In memory of Davida Lewin Schermer

Rabbi Yocheved Mintz -In memory of Davida Lewin Schermer and Harold Sussman

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Happy September

Birthday!!

KIDZ KORNER for September

HAPPY SEPTEMBER BIRTHDAYS

Danny Royer David Clark Ethan Deal Jackie Ackerman Don Ortega Andy Holland Anne Ullman Emma Kraft

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY

De'Anne Ernst & Don Ortega September 10

B’RUCHIM HaBAIM / WELCOME TO

NEW MEMBERS

Welcome to Edward & Mary Benstock Patsy Kart

Stanley & Sondra Rose Sol & Adrianne Rubin

September 4 September 6 September 7 September 11 September 12 September 20 September 25 September 30

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Memorial plaques are available for your consideration,

To honor the departed,

To inspire the living.

To be remembered in the hearts of those we leave

behind is,

In a sense, to live forever.

For further information, call the Synagogue office at

702-436-4900

Mitzvah donations also appreciated

YAHRZEITS

FOR SEPTEMBER

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*Davida Lewin-Schermer -Remembered by the CPT Congregation

*Harold “Suss” Sussman -Remembered by Laura Sussman & Wendy Kraft

Abraham Ancman -Remembered by the Ancman Family Jeffrey Bernstein -Remembered by Harriet Bernstein Gabriel Eugene Blechman -Remembered by Maxine Blechman Irving Malerman -Remembered by Cindy Fox Bell Berland Mogliner -Remembered by Maxine Blechman

Tillie Rauch -Remembered by Gloria Granat Rabbi Richard Schachet -Remembered by CPT Congregation

Remembering Friends and Family: If you know of someone who can use a little cheer in their life because of illness or a death in their family-or a simcha -mazel tov celebration; the "Sunshine La-dy” Phyllis Zuckerman would like to send a card. Please contact her at:(702)

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P’nai Tikvah Bookworms 5774

THE PARTICULARS WHO: All members of our Congregation P’nai Tikvah community

WHEN: October 17, 2013 @ 6:45 PM

January 17, 2014 @ 6:45 PM

April 17, 2014 @ 6:45 PM

July 17, 2014 @ 6:45 PM

WHERE: Home of Jane Kusel

2645 Evening Sky Drive

Henderson, NV 89052

702-407-5077 (H) kuseld@yahoo.com

WHAT/WHY: 4 evenings translated into 4 journeys of the senses

through shared dissections of the readings below.

*Limited to 12 voices-please RSVP in a timely fashion

This Year’s Selections

October Book: ONCE WE WERE BROTHERS Ronald H. Balson

Elliot Rosenweig, a wealthy Chicago philanthropist, while attending an opera, has a gun shoved in his

face by Polish immigrant, Ben Solomon. Although Rosenweig has Solomon released from jail, the determined

immigrant continues his quest to bring Elliot before the courts to answer for war crimes. This thriller is infused

with poignant flashbacks into life in small town Poland during WW II.

January Book: HUSH Eishes Chayil

Gittel, a thirteen year-old girl who lives in the Chassidic community of Borough Park, Brooklyn, learns

of her best friend’s abuse by a family member. Forced to remain silent, nuances are wrapped in blindfolded faith

and Gittel’s exploration of the complex “outside” world confounds her and the reader as the conflict between

tradition and reality emerge.

April Book: TOO JEWISH Patty Friedmann

Autobiographical at its roots, this novel absorbs the reader into the heavily assimilated New Orleans

Jewish community. Bernie Cooper escapes Nazi Germany and ends up in LA only to find himself the victim

of a new prejudice against Jews-the kind that comes from other Jews.

July Book: COMING OF AGE...AGAIN Carol B. Mizrahi

Lighter fare for hot days, the humor, moxie and wisdom of four friends finds its voice around the table

of a weekly mahjongg game. Barbara, Irene, Rochelle, and Sylvia understand that their carefully orchestrated

lives are falling apart and prove that "coming of age" can happen more than once.

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Havdakkah &Slichot Rosh HaShanah Yom Kippur

CALENDAR AT A GLANCE:

August 31 Slichot—7:00 pm at the Rabbi’s home

September 2 Simchat Chochmah 7:00pm

September 4 Erev Rosh HaShanah—Texas Station 7:00pm

September 5 Rosh HaShanah—Texas Station 10:00am

September 6 Tashlich & Kabbalat Shabbat. Sunset Park Lake

September 8 Kever Dorot-Various Jewish Cemeteries

September 9 Jewlicious Learning 4:15pm

September 9 Simchat Chochmah 7:00pm

September 13 Erev Yom Kippur—Texas Station 7pm

September 14 Yom Kippur—(all day) Texas Station

September 16 Jewlicious Learning 4:15pm

September 16 Simchat Chochmah 7:00pm

September 20 Kabbalat Shabbat and Maariv Services 7:30pm at Kraft Sussman Chapel

September 21 Torah Study at Rabbi Mintz Home

September 23 Jewlicious Learning 4:15pm

September 23 Simchat Chochmah 7:00pm

September 29 Women’s Rosh Chodesh 7:00pm—Location TBA

September 30 Jewlicious Learning 4:15pm

September 30 Simchat Chochmah 7:00 pm

October 3 CPT Board Meeting at Sam Lieberman’s apartment

Blessing for the Month of Tishri In this year of new beginnings, may we all be blessed with the ability to

apologize and to offer forgiveness; with the determination to make the

course corrections in our lives to fulfill our divine potential; with a year

of health and good fortune, friendship and love, security and safety, and

peace. Amen

Kol Kiruv, the newsletter of Congregation P’nai Tikvah, is available on-line at www.pnaitikvahlv.org at no cost. If mailed, hard copy delivery is $36 annually. Please notify us and remit payment .