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Vol. 64 No. 16 . April 6, 2001 - 13 Nisan, 5761

RabbI Kenneth Brickman - Cantor Larisa Averbakh

Friday, April 6th .......... ..... ............................... 8:00 pm Candle Blessing: Ellen Smith Kiddush Prayer: Carolyn Smith

Rabbi Brickman will Speak "Shabbat HaGadol:

The Great Shabbat of Preparation for Pesach"

Oneg Shabbat Sponsored by Ellen Smith

Saturday, April 7th ....... .. ...... ..... ..... . ... ..... ..... .... 10:00 am Haftarah Reading: Sol Swerdloff Kiddush

Sunday, April8th(First Day ofPesach) ........ . ...... '" .10:00 am Haftarah Reading

Friday, April 13th ................ ........ ............ ........ . 8:00 pm

Candle Blessing Kiddush Prayer

Rabbi Brickman Speaks "The Countdown Begins"

Saturday, April 14th ........................................ 10:00 am Haftarah Reading

7th Day of Passover - Yizkor Memorial Service

Affiliated with the Union of American Hebrew Congregations

JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE PASSOVER APPEAL

It is not too late to make your contribution to the Jewish Family and Counseling Service Passover and Relief Fund. Please make your checks payable to "JF&CS Passover and Relief Fund" and send them to the Temple. This is a wonderful mitzvah, which enables everyone in our community to celebrate a happy and Kosher Passover, so we hope you will assist the Jewish Family Service by making a very generous contribution.

OUR VOLUNTEER CHOIR NEEDS YOU!

Cantor A verbakh will begin rehearsing with our volunteer choir after Pesach in preparation for a performance at one of our Shabbat evening services in June. The choir rehearses on Saturdays after our Shabbat morning services. If you have enjoyed the choir' s performances in the past and have wanted to join the fun, now is your chance. The only requirement for joining the choir is the desire to sing and a love for Jewish music. New volunteers are welcome, of course. Just call the Temple office and let us know that you are interested in joining our choir. and we will let you know when rehearsals will begin.

COMMUNITY HOLOCAUST OBSERVANCE

Our community Yom HaShoah commemoration will be held on Thursday, April 19 at 7:00 pm at Congregation B'nai Jacob, 176 West Side Avenue. Rabbi Brickman will participate in this commemoration of the Holocaust, which is always a very moving ceremony. We hope that you will join us for this important annual community event.

ADA GARFlJNJtEL HAPPY PAX iVNO Contributions have been received:

In honor of the engagement of your granddaughter, Michelle Shoenthal to Brian Pargman, to Ruth Lubow from:

Betty Berger Marjorie Lubowsky Betty Schuchman

In honor of the engagement of your daughter, Michelle Shoenthal to Brian Pargman, to Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Shoenthal from: Marjorie Lubowsky

In honor of a Speedy Get Well to Eleanor Bouer from: Martha Weinberg

In honor becoming a great- grandmother to Mimi Nickelsporn from: Freda Hofstetter

In honor of your Special Birthday to Bea Kaplan from: Martha Weinberg In honor of Rabbi Kenneth Brickman for

his many kindnesses from: Martha Weinberg

In honor of your 80'> Birthday to Leon Zucker from: Ruth Lubow

In honor of a Speedy Get Well to Ben Kaplan from: Marjorie Lubowsky

In honor of the Bar Mitzvah of your grandson, Mark Gordon Cavanagh to Ceil Wolff from: Ruth Lubow

In honor of- the Bar Mitzvah of your son, Mark Gordon Cavanagh to Beverly & Mark Cavanagh from: Ruth Lubow * * * * * • * • * • * • • • • • • • • •

URTIIA lRIOOQBIRG lLOWIR iVNO Contributions have been received:

In memory of beloved mother and father, Anna and Harry Banner by Ruth Zimmerman

In memory of beloved husband, Lothar Daniel by Irma Daniel

In memory of beloved father, Kalman Muchnick by Emma & Isaac Ryslik

In memory of beloved wife Sonya Moskowitz by Jesse Moskowitz • • • • • * • * • • * • • • * * * • * •

BELLA PESIN MEl«>lUAL LIBlW\Y iVNO Contributions have been received: In honor of your 80~ Birthday to Hilda

Chinitz from: Gladys Hauptman In honor of a Speedy Get Well to Ethel

Pesin from: Irwin Rosen In honor of a Special Birthday to Bert

Mehlworm from: Irwin Rosen * • • • • • • * * • * * * * • • * * • • PR o HENRY J. ANI! ITBIL 11:. CiEWIRTZMAH

SCHOLARSHIP lCHP A contribution has been received in memory of beloved sister Bea Daniel to Dr . Sam & Sarah Hirsch from: Maurice Weinberg • • • • * * * * • • • * * • * * • • • •

MUlL TQV Congratulations to Stacie and Jason Koenigsberg on the birth of their daughter, Eliana. • * • • • * * • • • • • • • * • •

THANJt YOU Generous contributions have been received:

In memory of beloved father, Sidney Karp from: Fran & Michael Eisenberg

In memory of Maurice Brickman, beloved father of Rabbi Kenneth Brickman from: Wendy Parmet and Marvin Glazerman • • • • •. * • • • • • • • • • • • • *

SOPHIE GRUNBAUK TRIBtlTlIj iVNO Contributions have been received:

In memory of beloved sister Beatrice Daniel to Sarah Hirsch from:

Ceil Bauer Hortense Gutmann

In memory of beloved husband, Abe Solomon to Ida Solomon from: Martha Weinberg * * * * * * * * * * • • • • * * • • *

BJI,JI;Jl ANI! MAX SCBNljlP MOSIC iVNO A contribution has been received:

In honor of a speedy get well to Ben Kaplan, from: Hortense Gutmann * • * * * * * * • * * • * * • * * • •

RABBI'S PISClIE'UONARX iVNO Contributions have been received:

In memory of beloved parents, Harry and Anna Banner on the occasion of their "Yahrzeits," from: Ruth Zimmerman Wishing good health to all of her

dear family members, from: Ida Flior In memory of her beloved sister,

Beatrice Daniel, from: Sarah Hirsch and from Lisa and Michael Shuchman

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A contribution has been received in memory of Beatrice Daniel, beloved sister of Sarah Hirsch from: Blanche Dohrman * * * • * * * * * • * • • • * * • * •

THANJt IOU Ruth Lubow continues to raise significant funds for the Temple with her unique fund-raising project. Ruth accepts donations of merchandise that she sells in her antique shop. When Ruth sells the items donated to her by Temple members, she donates the sale price to the Temple. Thank you to Ruth and to the following Temple members who have recently donated merchandise: Hortense Gutmann Miriam Nickelsporn Eleanor Bouer Shirley Bouer Ann Cohen Evelyn Brauer Bert Mehlworm Marjorie Lubowsky Karen and Geoffrey Elkind We thank these individuals, as well as the many others who have donated items in the past . If you have an item that you would like to donate to this project, please contact Ruth Lubow. • • • • • * * * • • • • * * * • • • *

IRVING & MINERVA SWEET MEMORIAL LECTURE Sunday, May 6, 2001- 9:30 am

Admission is Free

"Emma Lazarus: American, Jewish and Female" Dr. Daniel A. Harris, Ph.D.

Founder, JEWISH VOICES: 200 YEARS OF POETRY IN ENGLISH

Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life; Professor of English, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

If we know the lines Lazarus wrote about the "huddled masses yearning to breathe free," few of us realize that Lazarus aimed, from the beginning to be a significant Jewish-American female poet. Jewish poems, spanning her entire career, speak to the chief issues in Jewish-American cultural life: Lazarus's repeated efforts to shape her Jewish, female "voice" despite Christian conversionist designs and the weight of New England literary pressures, her understanding of Jewish liturgical traditions, her historical conception of Judaism in relation to other major civilizations, her fierce responses to the Russian pogroms of the 1880's, and her assumption - through Moses, Heine, others - of prophetic roles . Her increasingly strident tones and the complexity of her cultural perceptions combine with sharp auditory imagination and smart psychological strategies. Dr. Harris has given many workshops and short courses on Jewish poetry in the northeast United States. He teaches in the Center for the Study of Jewish life at Rutgers University, where he has been Professor of English since 1983. In 1993, the University presented him with its highest teaching honor, the Award for Excellence in Teaching. Join us for a light continental breakfast at 9:30 am, followed by the lecture. There is no charge for this event, however reservations are required. Please call the Temple office to make reservations .

RELIGIOUS SCHOOL NEWS Religious School will be closed for Passover vacation on

Sunday, April 8 Thursday, April 12 We wish all of our religious school students and their families a healthy and happy Passover.

SAVE THE DATE Our Temple President, Irwin Rosen, will be one of the honorees at the Jewish Family and Counseling Service Annual Brunch. The Brunch will be held at Congregation B'nai Jacob on Sunday, May 20 at 10 am. The other honorees will be Rabbi Robert Scheinberg of the United Synagogue in Hoboken and Faye Grossman of Bayonne. Watch your mail for your invitation to this event. If you would like to place an ad in the ad journal in honor ofIrwin or one of the other honorees, please call the Temple office. or the JF&CS office, 436-1299.

HAVE YOU BOUGHT YOUR RAFFLE TICKETS? By now you should have received your raffle books for the Temple's annualSO/SO Raffle. If you have not yet purchased your raffle tickets, please return the raffle tickets stubs to the Temple office along with your check. We hope that you will also sell raflle tickets to family and friends. Additional raflle books are available in the Temple office. Just call us, and we will send them to you. Remember that every raffle ticket you sell helps the Temple ease our budget deficit.

TEMPLE TRIP TO PRAGUE AND BUDAPEST There is still space available for anyone who would like to join the Rabbi on the congregation's trip to Prague and Budapest in May. If you are interested in joining us or would like more information, please call the Rabbi. There will be meeting for all of those going on the trip on Sunday, April 22 at 10:00 am in the Temple social hall.

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Temple Beth-EI

Sisterhood "Members

Are Invited To

A Dinner Meeting

Tuesday, Apri1 17, 2001 at 6:00pm

In The Harold Nickelsporn Socia1 Ha11

- Program -

BOB LEACH, HISTORIAN "About Jersey City"

Price: $8.25 (Inc1uding donation to Mazon)

Ca1l: 333-4229 to Make Reservations

Reservation Deadline: Apri1 10, 2001

Dinner frepared By Our Own Catering Crew

President:. Phy11is Barison