The Gates Way February 2020

Rabbi David Gerber

Shabbat BoFriday, January 31 8:00 pm Brotherhood ShabbatSaturday, February 1 10:30 am Morning Worship

Shabbat BeshalachFriday, February 7 6:15 pm Family Shabbat with guests NJBeats from Tulane Pre-Neg in honor of the Bat Mitzvah of Penina BermanSaturday, February 8 10:30 am Morning Worship including the Bat Mitzvah of Penina Berman, daughter of Carol & Benjamin Berman

Shabbat YitroFriday, February 14 6:15 pm Early Shabbat Worship Pre-Neg in honor of the Bat Mitzvah of Fiona GuillotSaturday, February 15 10:30 am Morning Worship including the Bat Mitzvah of Fiona Guillot, daughter of Staci Strauss and John Guillot

Shabbat MishpatimFriday, February 21 6:15 pm Early Shabbat WorshipSaturday, February 22 10:30 am Morning Worship

Shabbat TerumahFriday, February 28 8:00 pm Shabbat UnpluggedSaturday, February 29 10:30 am Morning Worship with J-FLEx

Your vote counts.

In 1897 Theodor Herzl established what is now known as the World Zionist Congress. The WZC is the legislative body of the World Zionist Organization, which promotes Zionism. The WZC is made up of 500 delegates and meets every five years, with its next meeting scheduled for October 20, 2020. We, as members of Congregation Gates of Prayer, have a say in who represents us. From Martin Luther King Day (January 21) to Purim (March 11), Jews all over the world will be voting for their representatives in the WZC. With a strong election turnout, we can ensure that the Reform Movement is well-represented. This will allow us to allocate funding to our causes and support our institutions in the State of Israel. I am asking members of our congregation (and any Jews who may be reading this) to support ARZA in this election. The Association of Reform Zionists of America is the Israel arm of the Reform Movement. Their mission is to maintain and grow the connection between Reform Jews in America with Reform Jews in Israel. During the upcoming weeks, there will be voting stations in the Loewy Lobby. You will find them on your way into Friday night services, as well as J-FLEx on Sundays. Please take a moment and cast your vote. Every Jew who is at least 18 years old is eligible to vote. There is a minimal processing fee. During the last election five years ago, there were fewer than 100 votes cast in the New Orleans area. It is my hope that our congregation alone can improve upon that number. This is our best and only way that American Jews can weigh in democratically about issues in Israel.

Please visit www.arza.org to learn more.

If you are interested in joining Rabbis Gerber and Erdheim at the AIPAC Policy Conference, please contact Rabbi Gerber at rabbi@gatesofprayer.org.

Sisterhood News Brotherhood News

BROTHERHOOD SUPER BOWL POOL

Keep an eye out for the Brotherhood Super Bowl Pool this year! Cost will be $10 a

square and you can sign up on the board at CGoP.

On Saturday, January 11th, over 50 women from Congregation Gates of Prayer and four local area sisterhoods gathered for Louisiana Area Day. Hosted by Congregation Gates of Prayer Sisterhood, women were inspired for a day of spirituality, sisterhood and social good.

We began the day with Shabbat services -- experiencing such a special moment when the large group of sisterhood past-presidents all stood together for an aliyah at the Torah. During the kiddush luncheon, we honored long-time Sisterhood member Nita-Joan Sams and presented her with the WRJ Special Service pin.

Next, Women of Reform Judaism President (and proud Southwest District member) Susan Bass, inspired attendees to take action in Louisiana with her workshop on Reproductive Health & Rights.

Lastly, we finished the day learning how to really ‘hear’ the women of our sisterhoods when Southwest District President Jennifer Daley and First Vice President Cheryl Barenberg facilitated a workshop on ‘Listening Campaigns’.

A big thank you to Susan Bass for coming in from Houston and giving us a fabulous Shabbaton weekend of inspiration and leadership development, Joanne Fried for chairing the Area Day luncheon and Gates of Prayer Sisterhood President Claudia Shabetai for organizing a wonderful weekend for our women’s group.

On Friday, January 10, CGoP Sisterhood held their ‘Sisterhood Sparkle Shabbat’. Sisterhood members answered the call to give back to the community by donating cleaning items to the New Orleans Women and Children’s Shelter.

Sisterhood sends a BIG thank you to Tory May for organizing and leading such a beautiful Sisterhood

Shabbat service, chair Judy Stiebel for her help in organizing and WRJ President Susan Bass for

delivering such a meaningful D’var Torah.

I’d like to summarize what Brotherhood has done for Congregation of Gates of Prayer over the last several months. We had our opening steak dinner in August and prepared breakfast for the opening Sunday of religious school’s new format, J-FLEx. Brotherhood sponsored the bagel breakfast for Rabbi Erdheim’s installation weekend. During the fall holidays, Brotherhood put up the sukkah, co-sponsored a family night in the sukkah with Sisterhood, cooked breakfast for the Sukkot morning service, sponsored the Simchat Torah reception, and cooked a Munchkin Minyan spaghetti dinner. We have worked with Sisterhood in bringing quality speakers for our health programming and lox and bagel breakfasts. Serving our famous hot dogs and ½ lb. grilled hamburgers and all the fixins, we watched the Saints in the Manheim Social Hall. Torah Study on Shabbat mornings, once a month, is a Brotherhood event. The Synagogue Directory is also a product of the hard work that Brotherhood does.

Any income generated by Brotherhood from fundraising and donations goes back to the synagogue to fund different projects such as the Henry S. Jacobs Camp camperships and the many things just described above. All these things are very typical of what we do for this synagogue, and we do it out of love and devotion.

When people describe Gates of Prayer as the best place for their family to affiliate, I can’t help but believe that the programming of Brotherhood and Sisterhood plays a big part in what they see and hear and influences their decision to join our congregation.

I invite you, yes you, to support our events and get involved. This is your congregation. Be a part in helping us to continue to the great work we do.

Robert Liniado, President of Gates of Prayer Brotherhood

The Gates of Prayer Sisterhood Gift Shop has a mezuzah for every doorway in your home!

Come by to check them out. The shop is open during J-FLEx on Sundays and office hours during the week.

Baby & MeMonday, February 10

10:00 amTu B’Shevat

Celebrate Holidays as a Blended Family

Guest Speaker:Jennifer Winters

BROTHERHOOD PRESENTS AND HAVDALLAH

Saturday, February 29th5:30 pm Havdallah

6:00 pm Dinner$10 for adults/$5 under 18

$25 family of 4 or more

The Music FundIn Memory of:Sandra Kanter Cynthia & Hank GreenwaldAndrea Campell Alan & Carol CampellCelia Kleinfeldt PailetGladys Cohen Stillman Susan & Gerald LevinIn Honor of:Tory May Janet & Kevin Krane

The Sarah Winsberg Memorial Flower FundIn Memory Of:Agnes Colbert McCarty Anne Chirinos

The Fund for the Louise Hayem Manheim Center for Early Childhood EducationIn Memory of:Fanny D. KlumokErnst Preis Sue & Fred PreisSandra Kanter Melanie & Richard BlitzVivian L. Goldstein Carol AsherLeonard David StoneSaralyn Plantowsky Bronfin Leah P. StoneSidney Baumsten Vicki & Jacob Karno

Lev B’LevIn Memory of:Sandra Kanter Michelle & David Bassham

Tikun Olam for The New Orleans Women & Children’s ShelterIn Memory of:Andrew J. Weinberg Jayne StillmanSandra Kanter Susan Glade

The Rabbi Nathaniel Share Religious School FundIn Memory Of:Morris Watsky Lazelle, Amy, & Becky Alexander

The Rabbinic Endowment FundIn Memory of:Morris & Marjorie Katz Larry & JoAnn Katz

The Prayerbook FundIn Memory ofGoldie Carp Katz Sidney & Ellen Raye Miller

The General FundIn Memory of:Janice AntinDr. Sidney Antin Judy AntinManuel Denn Cindy & Avrom DennBeulah Latter Stanford LatterJulius SpizerAdolph Asher Barry & Eilene SpizerKohlman Campell Alan & Carol CampellRoselyn Gross Jack R. GrossDot & David Kancher Shelley Forman & Michael KancherIn Honor of:Betty & Harry Lazarus Brian & Judith Siegal

Rabbi’s Discretionary FundIn Memory of:Vivian Goldstein Marilyn & Joseph KlineLouis GureaskoBeate Gureasko Jackie MarxSidney E. RudmanJudith B. Rudman Larry RudmanIn Appreciation of:Congregation Gates of Prayer PFLAG

Assistant Rabbi’s Discretionary FundIn Memory of:Julius A. Haberman Sherri, Matt, Josh & Kayla TarrIn Honor of:Congregation Gates of PrayerThe Installation of Rabbi Erdheim Joanie & Greg CoxThe Installation of Rabbi Erdheim Sherri, Matt, Josh & Kayla Tarr

The Rabbi Emeritus Discretionary FundIn Appreciation of:Rabbi Loewy & Rabbi Erdheim Brint & Carrie Marks

The Cemetery FundIn Memory of:Edith Oppenheimer Michele, Vadim, Hannah & Kaitlin Gelman

The Endowment FundIn Memory of:Lena Stone Rhoda & Larry Webber

N’davot~Contributions

Thank you to all for your donations. Our Congregation, Sisterhood and Brotherhood

Funds all help to make our synagogue run smoothly.

We are deeply appreciative of your generosity.

Condolences

In Memorium

Sandra Cotlar Kanter

Samuel Harold Singer

February YahrzeitsJanuary 31-February 1*Jerry Z. Aronowitz, Abe Cohen, *Emma Kling Cohn, *Stella Cohn, Nathan W. Fredman, *Jack Fry, Daniel Furman, Jacob Goldman, Richard Gordon, *Dr. Max Myrum Greenberg, Sam B. Hirsch, Rudolph Jacobs, Samuel B. Katz, Martin Kugler, Marcia Lachoff, Alvin R. Leopold, *Ina Miller, Florence Jacobus Milner, Myron Moshkowsky, Branah Nemeth, Earl E. Polmer, *Ethel Mazur Polunsky, Stephen Preston, David Rabin, Lillian Feitel Roseman, William Rosenbaum, *Harold Rubin, *Kurt S. Schwartz, *Louis Shapiro, *Sharyn Robbins Silverstein, Doris Simon, Blanche Sitron, A. Louis Sizeler, Sidney Stabinsky, *Sol Strauss, Dorothy Varon, David Leopold Weil, *Eva Simon Welsch.

February 7-8*Gita Anshelevitz, Helen Anshelevitz, *Abbe Baum, Albert Berry, *Arnaud Bloch, John Ellis Crossland, *Bella Dryzer, Herbert Evensky, *Arthur M. Felix, Constance Durieu Felix, Vivienne Freeman, *Dottie Fry, *Ruth Phillips Furst, Emil L Greenwald, Sara Greenwald, Jennie Caplan Grodsky, Samuel Grossman, *Ida Elaine Finkelstein Heidel, Ann Cohen Horton, Joseph Webster Jacob, Yetta Kapelow, Annie Goldberg Lennie, Max M. Levy, *Tilden A. Levy, Thirba Green Margolis, Mayer Mayer, *Sophie Teles Munch, Leon Myer, Ida Newstadt, *Jennie A Rosenzweig, Philip P. Spencer, Hannah Szyller, *Linda Bassham Webb, *Felix Henry Welsch, Wihlma Potash Wood.

February 14-15*Yudice Starr Blitz, *Harry Congress, *Raymon Goldstein, Caroline Weil Heinemann, Caroline Heymann, *Henry Levy, Eva Loeb, *Yetta L. Lupin, *Abraham G. Manheim, Howard Margol, Leon Moskowitz, Eileen Regenbogen Peitre, Dorothy Burk Roth, Shirley Schofel, Helen Straus Schwartz, Leslie Seidman, Paula Shapiro, Doris Steinberg, Loeb Steinhauer, *Dr. Bret Miles Tanenbaum, Laura Watson, Percy Watson, *Abraham Israel Webber, William Leopold Weil, Pauline Weiner, Leonard Weiner, *Sophie K. Winstein, *Sophie Latter Zerlin, Naomi Zichichi, *Bernard Irving Zoller.

February 21-22Edith Baldenhofer, *Manuel Berry, Dora Besser, Jacob A. Burr, Jeanette Moses Connolly, *Abraham Copeland, Samuel Finger, *Harry Flaumhauf, Jerome H. Foreman, *Marilyn R. Gaethe, *Grace L. Klinger, *Steven Edward Latter, Eliot Levin, Blanche Hayem Levy, *Lila Gradsten Philipson, Leah Rosenstock, Carl Rosenthal, Max Roth, Manon Seelig Shields, Rose Silvers, Lottie Lubritz Stabinsky, Mathilde Heineman Weil, Leopold Weil, Edith Zakem, Susan Zane, *David Lester Zerlin.

February 28-29*Freda S. Aronowitz, Mollie K. Bernstein, Dr. Jordan Sidney Blackman, Sylvia Blackman, Norman Brown, *Leo Max Bruchis, Betty Breen Burk, Meyer Cohen, Jeannette Wasserzug Davis, *Carl Abram Fisher, *Dr. Israel Fisher, Jacob Friedman, *Jacob Marx Gensburger, Muriel Gilman, *Rebecca L Goldman, Harry Goldstein, Jennie Grodsky, Annie Silverman Hirsch, Jeannette D. Hirsch, Dean Wood Johnson, Molly Gansar Kessler, Vernice Legendre, *Morris Levy, *Stella Winsberg Levy, Mayer Levy, Isaac Lichtentag, Rosalie Feitel Marx, *Edward E. Oppenheimer, *Albert Ashley Pesses, *Augusta Feitel Polmer, *Estelle Polmer Rabin, Nathan Raffie, Annie Kansas Regenbogen, Abraham Richmond, Elma Bloch Rosenfeld, *Albert Segaloff, Beryl Sloan, Clara Weil Steeg, *Flo Streiffer, *Miriam Falk Washofsky, Rose Cohen Winokur, *Herman W. Winsberg, Julius Aron Winsberg, Bruce Neil Yaffee, Leonard Young, David Yuspeh, *Fanny Wilk Zoller, *Tobias Zoller, Rebecca Herman Zuckerman.

Memorial Plaques

Welcome to Our New Members

To Rita Kranson Williams on the death of her mother, Theodora W. Kranson.

Adam & Carla Jacob4613 Lake Villa DriveMetairie, LA 70002

Marilyn R. GaetheFebruary 22, 2018 22 Adar 5778

Many thanks to The Whitman Family Foundation for their

generous donation to The Louise Manheim Center for Early

Childhood Education

Field Trips, Worship, Sisters and CECE January Memories

The Train Class visited the Ogden Museum.

The Butterfly Class loved making snowman pancakes.

Sisterhood Shabbat morning with Presidents from

around our Area.

Elana Arian, our visiting musician-in-residence, warms

up the Pre-K through 2nd graders at J-FLEx.

The 3rd-6th graders practice their song for

J-FLEx Shabbat.

Important D

ates to Rem

ember:

SisterhoodFeb. 11 - SH

Board Mtg.

BrotherhoodFeb. 11 - BH

Board Meeting

J-FLExFeb. 29 - J-FLEx Shabbat M

orningFeb. 2, 9, 16

SeniorsFeb. 3 - Senior O

utreach Lunch

Young Children w

ith Adults

Feb. 10 - Baby & M

e

Adult Education

Feb. 5, 12, 19 - Adult H

ebrew

Feb. 19 - Lunch ‘n Learn with Rabbi Erdheim