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D’var Torah . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Prayer and Learning . . . . 3

Youth and Parent Education . . . . . . . 4

Adult Learning and WTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Community . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Giving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 – 9

Legacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Lifecycles . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Israel Trips . . . back cover

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TEMPLE SINAI n OAKLAND, CA 11 TISHREI – 11 HESHVAN n OCTOBER 2017 n ISSUE 123

Chag Sameach!Celebrate Sukkot and Simchat Torah with your Temple family. Both holidays focus on joy, gratitude and community. Tradition’s after party post Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur! Let’s celebrate together.

Community Sukkah BuildingSunday, October 1, 2:00 – 5:00pmBuild, decorate and be among the first to sit in the Sukkah!

Erev Sukkot Wednesday, October 4 Shake the lulav and celebrate our plenty.

5:30pm Sandwiches and snacks will be provided in the Sukkah, Upper Courtyard

6:30pm Erev Sukkot Service

Erev Shabbat Family Service in the Sukkah Friday, October 6Welcome Shabbat and celebrate Sukkot!

5:30pm Bring your own picnic dinner, Sukkah in the Upper CourtyardBring food and come fulfill the mitzvah of eating in the Sukkah

6:30pm Erev Shabbat Family Service in the Sukkah, Upper Courtyard

Simchat Torah Service and Consecration Wednesday, October 11We dance with the Torah scrolls and celebrate our newest Religious School students. It’s ritual, meaning and fun all in one night.

5:00pm Yizkor (Memorial) Service, Albers Chapel

5:30pm Dinner. Make sure to RSVP in advance. For more information see your weekly email or contact the main office

6:00pm Erev Simchat Torah Service with Consecration, Sanctuary

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D’VAR TORAH

TEMPLE SINAI SENIOR STAFFMain Office (510) 451-3263

JACQUELINE MATES-MUCHIN Senior Rabbi: ext. 332 [email protected]

ILENE KEYS Cantor: ext. 331 [email protected]

YONI REGEV Rabbi: ext. 333 [email protected]

SAMUEL BROUDE Rabbi Emeritus: ext. 301

[email protected]

STEVEN A . CHESTER Rabbi Emeritus: ext. 301

[email protected]

SAM SCHUCHAT Temple President: ext. 403

[email protected]

DORIAN FARROW Executive Director: ext. 304

[email protected]

SUE BOJDAK Education Director: ext. 342 [email protected]

ELLEN LEFKOWITZ Preschool Director: ext. 313

[email protected]

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On behalf of the clergy, staff and Board of Trustees of Temple Sinai, Shanah Tova. May 5778 bring health, meaning and purpose to you and all those you love.

May it bring strength to our congregational community as we continue to build connections with tradition and with each other. And may our world come closer to equality and justice

through compassion and peace.

In friendship,

Rabbi Mates-Muchin, Cantor Keys, Rabbi Regev, Rabbi Broude, Rabbi Chester, Dorian Farrow, Sue Bojak, Ellen Lefkowitz

Shanah Tovah!

The season of celebrating the High Holy Days continues after Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur, and extends into the festival of Sukkot. The ancient custom of building temporary booths is meant to connect us to our roots, first as a wandering people in the desert, and second, as an agricultural people who lived off the bounty of Holy Land.

At its core, the Sukkah is a dwelling, and so it serves as a special place of gathering for family, friends and guests.

Moreover, since the Sukkah puts us outdoors, it is meant to break down the isolating barriers formed by our homes. Indeed, the Sukkah is meant to be accessible and inviting to outsiders by leaving a wide opening on one side. This corresponds with one of our most ancient and celebrated traditions of welcoming strangers, a tradition we trace all the way back to Abraham and Sarah. Throughout the Torah, we are commanded 36 different times to love and protect the strangers in our midst because we were once strangers in the land of Egypt, and therefore intimately know the hardships of exclusion and marginalization.

In the rich cannon of our tradition, the commandment to build and dwell in the Sukkah is unique because it adds the expectation that we should rejoice all seven days of the festival.

The Torah commands us to rejoice but does not specify the source of our joy, and so, the medieval commentator Chizkuni argues that our joy would derive from the abundance of the harvest, and the assurance that food and sustenance were secure for the winter months. Yet, as we grow more distant from those agricultural roots, we have the opportunity and responsibility to seek out new and more relevant sources of joy in this holy season.

Whatever our circumstances, most members of our community occupy a position of privilege when compared to our ancestors. We are no longer strangers in a strange land, and no longer depend on the yields of our own harvest to feed our families. By building the Sukkah and experiencing its transience and vulnerability, we may indeed derive joy in knowing this is not our daily lot. But behind that joy and in our hearts, we must remember that we are not so far removed from the precariousness of transience, or the plight of the immigrant.

On this festival, and in this holy season, I hope we embrace not only the richness of our tradition, but the imperative the Torah seeks to drill into our conscience, and which has not lost its urgency or significance; we must love and protect the strangers and immigrants in our midst. Our joy depends on it.

~ Rabbi Regev

WORSHIP

SCHEDULE OF SERVICESWEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 6:30pmErev Sukkot Service in the Sukkah, Upper Courtyard Sukkah

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 6:30pm Erev Shabbat Family Service in the Sukkah, Upper Courtyard Sukkah

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7, 10:30amShabbat Morning Service with the Bar Mitzvah of Max Blankman, Sanctuary

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 115:00pm Yizkor Service, Albers Chapel

6:00pm Erev Simchat Torah Service with Consecration, Sanctuary

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 7:30pmErev Shabbat Service, Albers Chapel

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 10:30am Shabbat Minyan Service, Albers Chapel

Shabbat Morning Service with the Bat Mitzvah of Sophia Vitek, Sanctuary

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 7:30pmErev Shabbat Mizmor Shir! Service, Sanctuary

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 10:30am Shabbat Morning Service with the Bat Mitzvah of Frances Freais, Sanctuary

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 276:00pm Sababa Shabbat for Pre-K through 2nd grade with their families, Albers Chapel

7:30pm Erev Shabbat Service, Albers Chapel

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 10:30am Shabbat Morning Service with the Bar Mitzvah of Matthew Ragins, Sanctuary

PRAYER and LEARNING

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We are now Streaming Services!If you can’t be here in person but would like to watch at home, go to our Temple Sinai Community Facebook page at www.facebook.com/TempleSinai2808 and you can watch Friday and Saturday services live.

Don’t have Facebook? Let us know and we can arrange to have a member come to your home to help set it up! Email Rabbi Mates-Muchin at [email protected] or call (510) 451-3263 ext. 332 for more information.

Do you love Jewish music? Do you like to sing? Do you want to meet new people?

Join one of our Temple Choirs!Adult Choir and Junior Choirs open for new members.

No auditions necessary.Adult Choir meets Tuesday nights 7:00 – 8:30pmJunior Choir meets Sundays 11:30am – 12:00pm

For more information and schedules, contact Cantor Ilene Keys at

[email protected] or go to: https://www.oaklandsinai.org/Adult-and-Junior-Choirs

MARK YOUR CALENDAR!Friday, October 27; 5:30 – 7:00pm

Saturday, December 2; 9:30 – 11:00am Friday, January 26; 5:30 – 7:00pm

Saturday, February 24; 9:30 – 11:00am

Saturday, March 24; 4:30 – 6:00pmFriday, April 20; 5:30 – 7:00pm

Saturday, May 12; 4:30 – 6:00pm

Celebrating Shabbat with children in pre-k – 2nd grade

and their families.Sababa Shabbat is our monthly family Shabbat

celebration for children in preschool through 2nd grade and their families. Each month we will

gather together as community to enjoy either a Friday evening, Shabbat morning or Havdallah (Saturday evening) service.

Our first Sababa Shabbat of the year is Friday, October 27!

SAVE THE DATE New Member Dinner,

November 17th

FROM THE CANTOR’S DESK

New Student Consecration & Simchat Torah CelebrationWednesday, October 11, 6:00pm – Dinner at 5:30pmWe begin our annual Torah cycle anew with a Simchat Torah Celebration where we consecrate (make holy), welcome, bless and honor our new Religious School and beginning Day School students as they start their formal Jewish educational journeys. Come and shower them with sweetness at this family-centered, musical service. Join us at 5:30pm for an easy dinner. Look for dinner sign-up directions in your Weekly Email. Have a child entering day school? Contact Sue Bojdak at [email protected] so we can be sure to include them in our celebration.

Wrestling with Our Times: A Parent Nosh & Talk with Rabbi Mates-MuchinSunday, October 22, 9:30-10:30am in the Living RoomGather once a month for a topical discussion — plus good coffee and snacks — on parenting through critical issues of our day: tent cities, Muslim bans, gender fluid bathrooms, extreme rhetoric, police shootings, terror attacks. What 2017 realities are you wrestling with as you try and raise emotionally healthy children? We’ll wrestle together with how to make sense of our world for kids and for ourselves.

DATES TO REMEMBERYOUTH 4th-6th Grade Trip to QZAR for Lazer Tag Sunday, October 1, 10:00am – 3:30pm

8th Grade Scavenger Hunt Saturday, October 14, 7:00 – 9:00pm Meet at Fenton’s

9th-12th Grade C-Dubb SmashFriday through Sunday, October 20 – 22

At Camp Newman

7th Grade Rosh Hodesh Sunday, October 22, 1:00 – 3:00pm

The youth calendar is full of great events this year. http://bit.ly/SinaiYouthCalendar. For more info, please contact [email protected].

RELIGIOUS SCHOOLCongregational Sukkah Building Sunday, October 1, 2:00 – 5:00pmNo Religious School

Erev Sukkot Service in the SukkahWednesday, October 4, 5:00pm

Parents please join us!

New Student Consecration & Simchat Torah Celebration Wednesday, October 11, 6:00pm

No Late Hebrew Classes Today

Wrestling with Our Times: A Parent Nosh & Talk Sunday, October 22, 9:30 – 10:30am

7th Grade Family Shabbat Service Friday, November 3, 6:30pm


YOUTH and ADULT EDUCATION

SAVE THE DATE Dedication of the

Temple Sinai David Pregerson PreschoolSunday, November 12, 5:00pm

SiTY (SINAI TEMPLE YOUTH) KICK-OFF BBQ

OAKLAND SINAISinai Temple Youth

WORSHIP


ADULT LEARNING and WTS

Introduction to Liturgy with Cantor KeysSundays, 9:30 – 11:00am, (10/22, 11/12, 12/10) in the Albers ChapelEverything you wanted to know about Shabbat morning liturgy but were afraid to ask. A hands on approach to the Shabbat morning service. Come ready to question, explore and chant.

Adult Hebrew Class with Elaine Bachrach Sundays, 1:00 – 2:15pm, September 24 through December 17 Are you interested in improving your prayerbook Hebrew skills? This continuing class for adult Hebrew learners presumes only that you can decode (recognize and sound out) printed Hebrew. We will study the prayers of the Shabbat morning service, including relevant vocabulary, some grammatical structures, and some chanting. New students are welcome. If this fits your limited Hebrew skills, join us now and watch how much fun and how satisfying it will be to progress as a Hebrew learner and speaker. Cost is $160. Contact Rabbi Regev at [email protected] to sign up today.

OPENING BRUNCHChasidism Meets Feminism — A Dichotomy?Sunday, October 8, 11:00am in William Stern HallThe Women of Temple Sinai begin the new year with a gathering of our members and friends that we hope will stimulate discussion and ideas and strengthen our community. This year our speaker will be Nechama Langer. Nechama, is the eldest daughter of the co-directors of Chabad of San Francisco. She is making her own path from Chasidism to one that is more progressive and feminist, while continuing her close family relationship and keeping Kosher and shomer Shabbat practices. She will be joined by Melita Silberstein, a singer/songwriter, folk musician, and song leader. We hope you will join us to hear Nechama’s story and to have a candid discussion about orthodoxy, feminism and our responsibility as women. For more information, please contact Sue Bachman at [email protected].

CEO of IsraAid, Yotam PolizerSunday, October 15, 9:30 – 11:00am in the Albers ChapelTemple Sinai welcomes Yotam Polizer, who led the interfaith mission to Greece in which Rabbi Mates-Muchin and Rabbi Chester took part. Yotam will discuss how humanitarian work with refugees and communities around the world not only saves lives, but also changes lives while building essential bridges between communities in the US, Israel and globally.

YOUTH WATERWORLD TRIP 2017

Nechama Langer

Yotam Polizer

SENIORS LUNCHMemoir-Writing Workshop

with Joanne RocklinTuesday, October 24, 12:00pm in the Albers Chapel

Join us for the first of two memoir-writing workshops led by our congregant and acclaimed author, Joanne Rocklin.

Lunch will be served.


Too Many Tomatoes? Sunday, October 8, 9:00am – 12:00pmJoin Sinai Green at our first Harvest Exchange during the Sukkot celebration on Sunday October 8 from 9:00am – 12:00pm. Come share your bounty with other Temple members! Bring what you have too much of, take what you need; fruit, veggies, seeds, herbs, jams and honey are all welcome. Anything extra will be donated to the Oakland Elizabeth House.

Sunday Morning Mah JongSundays, October 8, 15, 22, 9:30-11:00am in Stern HallFriends, nosh, mahj. All levels welcome (instructors available each week). Learn this Jewish classic while your children study the Jewish classics! Happening nearly every Sunday there is Religious School.

Sinai Garden Clean-Up Work DaySunday, October 15, 9:00am – 3:00pmBe among the first to help transform Temple Sinai’s sacred garden into something truly inspiring. Help us clear the land on this first garden work day. Bring your work gloves and your enthusiasm as we cut down and pull up the current plantings. Come for an hour or come for the whole day.

Baby GroupIf you’ve recently had your first baby, or maybe the second or third, and you’d like to meet other parents with very young children (infants through around age two), let us know. Please email Michelle Van Tijen at [email protected] to be included in the email list and Google Calendar.

Creating a Sacred Garden at Temple Sinai“And Adonai Elohim took Adam and put him in the Garden of Eden to tend it and guard it.” (Genesis 2:15) Gardens have deep roots in religious understandings of the world. The garden state, the paradisal starting point for humanity, is elemental in creation myths across cultures. In our own tradition, our relationship with the garden is a gift, a commandment, and a longing once we are cast out and set to work the land for real. In myth, the cultivation of the garden is a quest of return to our more divine state, creating order out of chaos, both in the world physically and in the soul. In everyday life, the garden is an opportunity to reconnect with what matters, with the land, with yourself, and with one another.

Perhaps you too have noticed that Temple Sinai’s sacred garden — the space between our upper and lower courtyards — tends more toward chaos than order and does not so much resemble the Eden of our mind’s eye. The time has come to return to the garden and craft the kind of sacred space that will inspire us to engage in the sacred pursuits of cultivation, learning, community and quiet contemplation.

Over the course of this year we aim to transform that patch of land into a workable garden with space for people of all ages to plant and play and sit quietly. Our small garden collective welcomes your involvement. Do you want to dig in the dirt? Join us for our October 15 clean-up day and future planting days. Do you want to sponsor a plant or a planting box? Stay tuned for future giving opportunities. Do you really love gardening and want to help us imagine our garden space into being? Contact Sue Bojdak and join the Sinai Garden Collective today! We look forward to re-growing our garden together.


EVENTS

The Holiday Dinner Drive is back!Last year, Temple Sinai members raised over $20,000

for the Alameda County Food Bank. One in five people in our county use the food bank — if they held hands, they’d reach from Oakland to Fresno! Overall, the Holiday Dinner Drive raised more than $125,000 for Bay Area food banks, who have come to rely on these funds. Look for information coming your way in October, and please give generously to help our neighbors enjoy the holiday season.

WORSHIPCOMMUNITY


2017 Annual Meeting Reelection of the Senior Rabbi

Under Temple Sinai’s bylaws, the congregation is given two opportunities to vote for the Senior Rabbi: first, at the Senior Rabbi’s initial election; and then again at the conclusion of the Senior Rabbi’s first period of service. In January, 2015, the congregation voted overwhelmingly to elect Rabbi Mates-Muchin as our Senior Rabbi. It is now time for the congregation to vote for the second time.

The bylaws require that the Board of Trustees make a recommendation as to the reelection of the Senior Rabbi, to be considered at a congregational meeting. Over the summer, Temple President Sam Schuchat solicited input from senior staff and from the congregation, and presented the Board with the input he received and with a review of Rabbi Mates-Muchin’s performance. The Board of Trustees at the August, 2017 Board meeting voted unanimously to recommend the reelection of Rabbi Mates-Muchin as Temple Sinai’s Senior Rabbi.

The next step in the process is the congregational vote, which will take place at our annual membership meeting, on Sunday, October 29, 2017, at 9:30am, in William Stern Hall. An affirmative vote of two-thirds of the votes cast, pursuant to Section 4.04 of the bylaws, is required for the Senior Rabbi’s reelection. All adult members of the congregation are encouraged to vote, with a maximum of two votes per household. You may vote either in person at the annual meeting, or by absentee ballot. Watch for information on absentee voting in a forthcoming Temple email. If you choose to vote in person at the annual meeting, voting will take place from 9:30 to 10:30am. The results will be announced at 11:00am, after which everyone is invited to stay for t’filah with the Religious School in the sanctuary.

We look forward to seeing you at the Annual Meeting!

Please join us for the TEMPLE SINAI

ANNUAL MEETINGSunday, October 29, 2017; Stern Hall

9:00am Coffee and bagels, meet members of our committees

9:30 – 10:30am Voting on Reelection of Rabbi Mates-Muchin as Senior Rabbi

9:30am Welcome Sam SchuchatOpening Prayer Clergy

9:40am Election of TrusteesFirst term: Liz Daoust, Diane Grauer, Laurie Leiber,

Sydney Firestone Schimmel, Anne Schmitz

Second term: Jon Braslaw, Debra Schoenberg 9:45am Committee and Staff Presentations

Finance and Membership: Jon Braslaw and Dorian FarrowEducation: Ellen Lefkowitz and Sue Bojdak

Cemetery: Robin ReinerClergy Presentations: Rabbi Mates-Muchin,

Rabbi Regev, Cantor Keys

10:45am Q and A

11:00am Announcement of results of the Senior Rabbi Vote

11:10am Religious School T’filah Service

2017 PRIDE PARADE



GIVING

Todah rabah! Thank you very much to the following who provided contributions to Temple Sinai. These donations were recorded between August 9 & September 1, 2017. For corrections or additions to this list, please contact [email protected] (510) 451-3263 x303.

ANNUAL GIVING CAMPAIGNStephen and Dale Block

in memory of Beth Karren

CANTOR KEYS MUSIC FUNDAlice and Bob Breakstone

in appreciation of Cantor Keys, on the occasion of Ethan Kabatchnik’s becoming a Bar Mitzvah

Barry and Dori Dubinin appreciation of Cantor Keys

Jack Lawrence Weinstein, Susan Weinstein, JoAnne Bressick, and Julie Stern

in appreciation of Cantor Keys, on the occasion of Natalie Weinstein’s funeral

Sharon Testa-Harker and Jim Harkerin appreciation of Cantor Keys, for Carrie Testa’s Shiva Minyan and Olivia Goodsell’s Bat Mitzvah

Maureen Loganin memory of Mrs. Ethel Holman

Stan and Marty Rossin memory of Gladys Inlander

CARING COMMUNITY FUNDNita and Alvin Barshefsky

in memory of Florence “Flossie” Ginsburg

Elaine Bingerin memory of Diane Lichtenstein and Flossie Ginsburg

Betsy and Lawrence Blockin memory of Beth Karren

Georgia Cassel and Peter Perverein memory of Beth Karren

Norman and Carole Robinowin memory of Beth Karren

Mary Triest and Chuck Rossin memory of Al Dubin

Beth Wolinskyin appreciation of and thanks to all those who offered support for my chavurah

ENDOWMENT FUNDHarold and Marian Smith

in memory of our dear friend Beth Karren

JOE REMCHO FUND FOR PRESCHOOL SCHOLARSHIPSBob and Barbara Morrison

in memory of Al Dubin

JOELLYN WEISS MEMORIAL FUND – URJ CAMP SCHOLARSHIPSSusan and Mike Levy

in memory of Diane Lichtenstein

LIBRARY FUNDBob and Barbara Morrison

in memory of Marjorie Isaac

LIONEL BENAS CONFIRMATION FUNDEvelyn Benas

in memory of Lucile Koplan Steen

PEOPLE OF THE BOOK — OAKLAND LITERACY PROJECTNadyne Epstein

in memory of Natalie Weinstein

PRESCHOOL FUNDSidney and Sandra Zusman

in memory of Judith Gurevitch

RABBI GIVING FUNDBob and Barbara Morrison



Sandy and Mac Searsin memory of Natalie Weinstein

RABBI MATES-MUCHIN DISCRETIONARY FUNDThe Alexander Family

in appreciation of Rabbi’s leading the August 23rd service: Standing Together Against Hate

Wayne and Melissa Bataviain memory of Beth Karren

Catherine deCuirin memory of Jeanette deCuir

Helen and Lowell Dittmerin memory of Jonathan Austin

Barry and Dori Dubinin appreciation of Rabbi Mates-Muchin

Jack Lawrence Weinstein, Susan Weinstein, JoAnne Bressick, and Julie Stern

in appreciation of Rabbi Mates-Muchin, for Natalie Weinstein’s funeral

Larry Ginsburg, Lynn Simon, and the Ginsburg family

in memory of Flossie Ginsberg

Steve Goldstein and Pat LivingstonMarc and Cherie Hallert

in memory of Alfred Dubin

in memory of Flossie Ginsburg

Sharon and Jim Harkerin appreciation of Rabbi Mates-Muchin’s kindness and generousity toward our family in the last year

Herb Holman and Leslie Painein memory of Ethel Holman

Lois Horwitz and Bill Montaguein memory of Diane Lichtenstein


Joe and Beth Hurwichin honor of Lisa and Sterling’s Wedding

Stephen and Ruth Kassin memory of Beth Karren

Eric Lipsittin appreciation of Rabbi Mates-Muchin

Roger and Joan Mannin memory of Beth Karren


Dr. Ron and Adele Ostomelin memory of Flossie Ginsburg

WORSHIP

Denise’s LegacyDenise Sherer Jacobson submitted the following as her page at a signing ceremony last June :

For the most part I grew up in a secular Jewish family. My father was a High Holiday Jew while his parents, who had fled the pogroms, clung to their Orthodox ways. My mother’s family proudly claimed to be Americanized, emigrating from an area called “Deutchland” circa mid-19th century. Still they observed holidays, kept kosher, and lit Shabbos candles every Friday night — reciting the prayer they learned through oral tradition. My male cousins all celebrated B’nei Mitzvahs while the girls carried on the traditions of keeping Jewish homes...

Except I couldn’t imagine, since I have cerebral palsy — a disability affecting coordination — how I would ever make those kosher dinners or light Shabbos candles without setting the house on fire!

My parents never would have dreamed that I would be the one to light those Shabbat candles with a flick of a switch. When I do, I remember them, and pass on my Jewish legacy to my son David. It comforts me.

That’s Denise’s legacy — What will your legacy be?

“Those congregants who have already committed to make a legacy gift can expect to hear from the Create a Jewish Legacy committee about formalizing their commitments sometime soon after the High Holidays.”


GIVING

RABBI REGEV DISCRETIONARY FUNDBarry and Dori Dubin

in appreciation of Rabbi Regev

Sam and Katie Jubelirerin celebration of our daughter Etta’s birth and naming ceremony

SOCIAL ACTION/ ANTI-HUNGER FUNDSue and Ron Bachman


Bob and Barbara Morrisonin memory of Flossie Ginsburg

Alycia Sears and Brian Stokleyin memory of passing of Natalie Weinstein

WHERE THE NEED IS GREATEST FUNDAudrey Adler

in memory of David Adler

Richard and Jane Cohenin memory of Sylvan E. Cohen

Sanford and Leslie Delugachin memory of Alfred Dubin

The Dreyfuss Family

Lynn Simon and Larry Ginsburgin appreciation of Bob Schoen and Catherine de Cuir for honoring Flossie Ginsburg with music

Murray and Janet Gordonin memory of Beth Karren

Marc and Cherie Hallertin memory of Todd Merydith

Leo and Florence Helzelin memory of Flossie Ginsburg

Stanford M. Hornin memory of Diane Lichtenstein

Sarah M. Kernin memory of Judy Bliss Gurevitch

Jan and Randy Kesslerin memory of Beth Karren

Deborah and David Kirshmanin memory of Beth Karren

Miriam Ladriganin memory of Diane Lichtenstein

The Lefkowitz familyin memory of Judith Gurevitch

Catherine R. Lewisin memory of Robert W. Schmerl

The Lichtenstein familyin appreciation of and with deep gratitude to the Temple Sinai community in our time of loss

Steve and MaryJane Lowenthalin memory of Beth Karren

Daniel McClosky and Nancy Toderin memory of Marjorie Isaac

David and Donna Mendelsohnin memory of Flossie Ginsburg and Diane Lichtenstein

Ken and Lindsey Meyersieckin memory of Beth Karren

Patricia Rubensteinin memory of Henry Rubenstein

Yael and Jacob Samuelin memory of Flossie Ginsburg

Arthur and Meredith Stantenin memory of Beth Karren

Arthur and Meredith Stantenin memory of Diane Lichtenstein

Pearl Wolffsin memory of Flossie Ginsburg

in memory of J. Levin

for the speedy recovery of Fred Isaac

Denise Jacobson

LIFECYCLES


Birthdays and anniversaries are listed in multiples of 5 as well as birthdays age 80 and over. Mazel Tov!

B’NEI MITZVAHBIRTHDAYS10/1 Mark Lubin

10/1 Lawrence Rabkin

10/3 Deena Levine-Lipsett

10/3 Robin Dubner

10/3 Dan Oppenheimer

10/5 David Hardy

10/6 Kelly Glazer Baldwin

10/7 Adam Brill

10/7 Jennifer Eisenbud Sawle

10/8 Anne Estep

10/8 Susannah Bell

10/8 Rona Morris

10/9 Melissa Torok

10/9 Sheldon Brown

10/10 Rachel Phillips

10/11 Ana Schwartzman

10/12 Heidi Lustig

10/13 Lisa Regelman

10/13 Peter Boffey

10/15 Colleen Orfuss

10/15 Guy Golan

10/15 Tammy Medress

10/17 Shelley Hubner

10/17 Fred Karren

10/18 Frances Rainin

10/19 Charles Palley

10/20 Robert Fulop

10/21 Cristi Goldman

10/21 Jewel Strom

10/24 Jacquelyn Horwitz

10/25 Carol Levine

10/25 Billie Mandel

10/27 Victoria Carlisle

10/28 Olivier Zitoun

10/30 Andrea Tivers

10/30 Andrea Tanenbaum

10/31 Matthew Waitkus

10/31 Pearl Wolffs

Thank you to the Blankman, Vitek, Freais

and Ragins families for sponsoring an oneg this month.

Max Aaron Blankman

Son ofDana and Adam Blankman

Saturday, 10/7/2017

Sophia Claire Vitek

Daughter of Jan & Elana Vitek

Saturday, 10/14/2017

Frances Penelope Freais

Daughter of William Freais and Andrea Silvestri


Matthew Isaac Ragins

Son of Noam and Melinda Ragins


WEDDING ANNIVERSARIES5 Troy Blanchard and Rachel Meyer 10/6

5 Thomas and Amy Kelly 10/27

5 Jill and Daniel Saper 10/28

10 Sari Leivent Sanghvi and Siddharth Sanghvi 10/28

15 Matthew and Sarah Langdon 10/5

15 Lloyd and Lucy Ross 10/12

15 David Lemberger and Lisa Bograd 10/20

25 Mark and Susan Zeme 10/24

35 Alice Klein and Prentice Starkey 10/18

40 Randall and Cheryl Berger 10/30

MAZEL TOV!On the marriage of Sterling Robert Pratz and Lisa Hurwich on August 12, 2017.

Proud Parents:Beth and Joe Hurwich

On the marriage of Benjamin Nadler and Emily Gische on September 1, 2017.

Proud Parents:Andrew Nadler and Cindi Flynn z”l

On the marriage of Benjamin Latham-Bryman and Harte Hill on September 2, 2017.

BRUCHIM HABAIM – WELCOME TO THE WORLD!Henry Olson was born January 17, 2017.

Proud Parents:Mats Olson and Shana Olson

Lila Hunt was born March 13, 2017.

Proud Parents:Adelia Malmuth and Justin Hunt

Tess Goldman was born July 12, 2017.

Proud Parents:Zoe Palitz and Brian Goldman

Ronan Shererwas born on August 21, 2017.

Proud Parents:Ilana Sherer and Elana Story


CALENDAR

WELCOME NEW MEMBERSEmanuelson FamilyRobyn and Sarah Brody-KaplanHarte Hill and Benjamin Latham-BrymanSteven and Kristan KirshBernhard Baltaxe and Scotia MillerCaroline and David GouldShana Lazerow and Christopher UnderwoodSeth Engel and Ilana PearlmanLiz AlpertArthur and Debra BakalCristi GoldmanSamantha and John HarnettBarbara and Sebastian JohnckDaniel Korn and Trang LaElla and Paul RosenbloomJill and Dan Saper

REMEMBRANCES We mourn the loss of:

Edward Tiedemann, father of Karen Tiedemann Meg Zweiback, congregant and wife of Zack Wasserman

Alan Peterkofsky, father of David Peterkofsky Jose Luis Madrigal, great uncle and godparent of Francisco Cerna

Clifford Miller, grandfather of Adam Miller Judy Dietz, aunt of Susan Krauss

May their memory be a blessing.

SUNDAY OCTOBER 1No Religious School2:00pm Congregational Sukkah Building

TUESDAY OCT 37:30am Tuesday Morning Minyan

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 411:30am WTS Lunch Connection (Offsite)

12:15pm Al-Anon Meeting

5:30pm Erev Sukkot Dinner

6:30pm Erev Sukkot Service in the Sukkah

THURSDAY OCTOBER 5Sukkot – Office closed7:30pm WTS & Friends Bridge Night (Offsite)

FRIDAY OCTOBER 66:30pm Erev Shabbat Family Service in the Sukkah with potluck dinner

SATURDAY OCTOBER 79:00am Torah Study

10:30am Shabbat Morning Service with Bar Mitzvah of Maxwell BlankmanSUNDAY OCTOBER 89:00am Sinai Green Harvest Exchange

9:30am Sunday Morning Mah Jong

1:00pm Adult Hebrew Class

3:00pm FACoCaC Sing-along Concert (Lake Park Retirement Residence)

TUESDAY OCTOBER 107:30am Tuesday Morning Minyan

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 1112:15pm Al-Anon Meeting

5:00pm Yizkor service

5:30pm Erev Simchat Torah Dinner

6:00pm Erev Simchat Torah service

THURSDAY OCTOBER 12Simchat Torah – Office closed7:30pm Brotherhood Board Meeting (Offsite)

FRIDAY OCTOBER 137:30pm Erev Shabbat Service


10:30am Shabbat Morning Service with Bat Mitzvah of Sophia Vitek

SUNDAY OCTOBER 159:00am Sinai Garden Clean Up Work Day

9:30am Sunday Morning Mah Jong

11:30am Junior Choir



7:00pm Adult Choir

7:30pm Green Committee Meeting


1:00pm WTS Book Group Meeting

6:00pm Social Action Committee Meeting

7:00pm Temple Board Meeting

7:15pm WTS Board Meeting

THURSDAY OCTOBER 197:30pm WTS & Friends Bridge Night (Offsite)

FRIDAY OCTOBER 207:30pm Erev Shabbat – Mizmor Shir! Service


10:30am Shabbat Morning Service with Bat Mitzvah of Frances Freais

5pm Havdallah Hike

SUNDAY OCTOBER 229:30am Sunday Morning Mah Jong




11:30am Seniors Lunch

7:00pm Adult Choir


7:30pm Israel Education Committee Meeting

FRIDAY OCTOBER 275:30pm Sababa Shabbat

7:30pm Erev Shabbat Service


10:30am Shabbat Morning Service with Bar Mitzvah of Matthew Ragins

SUNDAY OCTOBER 299:00am Congregation Annual Meeting



TUESDAY OCTOBER 31No SiTY7:30am Tuesday Morning Minyan

7:00pm Adult Choir

PERIODICALFirst Hebrew Congregationof Oakland

Temple Sinai2808 Summit StreetOakland, CA 94609

(510) 451-3263oaklandsinai .org

VISIT ISRAEL WITH OUR RABBIS!

WALKING THE LAND with Rabbi Mates-Muchin

March 11 – 21, 2018•

Informational meeting Sunday October 15, 12:00pm

•Contact Rabbi Mates-Muchin

[email protected] or (510) 451-3263 ext. 332

FAMILY ISRAEL TRIP with Rabbi Regev

June 20 - July 1, 2018•

Information Meeting, Sunday, October 29, 12:00pm

•Contact Rabbi Regev

[email protected] or

(510) 451-3263 ext. 333

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