from our spiritual leader · 2014. 7. 29. · summer 2014 sivan/tammuz/av 5774 volume 18, issue 5 ....

Summer 2014 Sivan/Tammuz/Av 5774 Volume 18, Issue 5

From Our Spiritual Leader

Cantor Henry Shapiro

Summertime Jewish Journeys The last parsha we read in the Book of Numbers begins with, Eileh masei b’nei yisroel ..., these are the journeys of the children of Israel who went out of the land of Egypt. Not only does it mention the places traveled, there’s special music to chant along with the locations named. So we get a little travelin’ music with our road (and wilderness) trip. Btw, this particular melody is also used for Shirat HaYam, the Song of the Sea and when naming the tribal chiefs earlier in Numbers. There have been many PJC members also taking trips this summer, journeying from here to there for vacation and to visit family. Though we have a core of regulars at PJC, I’m never quite sure who will be coming from week to week. Even with that uncertainty, we have managed to make our minyans for both Friday nights and Saturday services, be it someone returning from a trip or a family coming to say kaddish for a special yahrzeit, It did occur to me while waiting to make our minyan one Saturday morning, that just a little increase in attendance would make a difference. If you’re someone who comes mostly for holidays and special occasions, consider coming once a month or even once a season extra. Not only will your soul feel better for it, you will be very appreciated by others coming to services. This time of the year is referred to as ‘the Three Weeks.” Meaning the weeks leading up to Tisha B’Av. Parkway Jewish Center will be joining with other traditional/conservative synagogues in the area at New Light Congregation in Squirrel Hill. Speaking of special melodies, we read the Book of Lamentations, Eicha, on erev

Coming Events

Friday Night Shabbat Services - 6:00 PM Saturday Morning Shabbat Services - 9:30 AM August 8th & 9th Birthday Shabbat Weekend August 14th Chutz-pow Comic book launch party Toon Musuem 8:00 PM Sept 12th & 13th Birthday Shabbat Weekend Sept. 14th Sisterhood Annual paid up luncheon at DeNunzio's, Monroeville High Holiday Schedule will be announced in the Sept. issue.

See calendars for Candle Lighting times

Parkway Jewish Center

Sivan/Tammuz/Av 5774 Tisha B’Av with special cantillation. I will read a chapter at the service and possibly some other service leading as well. See details below for location and time. Tisha B’Av Evening Service in Squirrel Hill - Monday, August 4th New Light Congregation, will host Erev Tisha B'av with the reading of Eicha, with Mincha at 8:30 PM and Maariv at 8:45 PM Monday, August 4th. Congregations Beth Shalom, Tree of Life, Parkway Jewish Center, and Adat Shalom will be participating. New Light Congregation 1700 Beechwood Blvd. Pittsburgh, PA 15217 Israeli Dancing We’re taking a hiatus over the summer and will resume Israeli dancing at PJC in the fall. Check the next Scribe for dates and other upcoming programming. Israel and Operation Protective Edge The situation in Israel is changing day by day, even hour by hour. There’s no end to news and online information. Below are a few internet links with local connections. On Tuesday evening, July 15th, there was a community meeting at the JCC about the current situation in Israeli. Rabbi Jamie Gibson of Temple Sinai who just returned from Israel spoke as did Dr. David Pollock of the Washington Institute - http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/ The Pittsburgh UJF is accepting donations for an Israel Emergency Fund. See www.jfedpgh.org/ Sharin Berman, daughter of Israeli dance instructor Lynn Berman, is serving with the IDF in the Iron Dome unit. There’s a Jewish Chronicle article last week about her and her family here in Pittsburgh - “Pride, worry surround family whose IDF daughter is in thick of things”. Read at: http://thejewishchronicle.net/bookmark/25450485-Pride-worry-surround-family-whose-IDF-daughter-is-in-thick-of-things

http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/


Sivan/Tammuz/Av 5774 Chubby Zumba Emmanuel Lutheran Church of Eastmont has ‘Chubby Zumba’ on Wednesdays, 6PM. Cost is $8/class. Eastmont Farm Share Update We launched our Emmanuel Lutheran/PJC joint venture a few weeks ago. Emmanuel Lutheran Church is now the designated pickup site for the Penns Corner Farm Cooperative for the whole Monroeville/Wilkins/Penn Hills area. The spring farm share has begun and we’ve already garnered some publicity in the Penn Hills Progress and the Pittsburgh Tribune. To find out more and to sign up for the Summer Share, go to: ttp://triblive.com/neighborhoods/yourpennhills/yourpennhillsmore/5995882-74/penn-corner-shapiro#axzz313O329T2 http://parkwayjewishcenter.org/farmshare/ or eastmontfarmshare.org Chodesh tov, Cantor Henry Shapiro

At a recent Sisterhood planning meeting, the following names were drawn as Chai Club winners: Barbara Welner ($100 Mazel Tov bond) $18 Sisterhood gift shop certificates: Michele Caplan Claire Iszauk Donna Wolfson Robert/Marlene Zukerman Congrats to the winners!! Chai Club helps fund many sisterhood projects and we greatly appreciate your support. Watch your fall mail for the new Chai Club information.


Sivan/Tammuz/Av 5774

From the President’s Desk………………………….Robert E. Korfin “It’s Summer Time, Summer Time,” http://youtu.be/WG6zo05tcQA Remember that great oldie? Especially when we think back to the frigid winter we endured. By the time you receive this edition of The Scribe, the dog days will be upon us. In the New York/New Jersey Metropolitan area there’s an expression often asked, “What’s going on in the Garden tonight?” Which refers to Madison Square Garden, the world’s most famous arena. In our neck of the woods, the same question may be posed in reference to Parkway Jewish Center….”What’s going on at PJC tonight?” Over the past year we’ve held Shabbat dinners, Wine Tasting, Israeli Dancing, Klezmer Kabbalat Shabbat, Adult education, a Hebrew Reading Refresher, Picnics, Spaghetti Night, and most recently a Jazz Concert. Don’t give me credit for all or most of those events. You can give your gratitude to Cantor Henry Shapiro for planning almost each of the events listed above. He worked almost single-handedly to make those events happen. So you can join me in thanking Cantor Shapiro as he begins his second year of service to our beloved PJC. Yes, Cantor Shapiro has accepted another contract and we couldn’t be more pleased. What, you say you hardly know Cantor Shapiro? Well, make a point of attending any Shabbat Service on Friday evenings at 6PM or Saturday morning at 9:30AM. The Friday Shabbat is “user friendly” and includes Cantor’s guitar playing and singing the familiar melodies of that “Old time Religion.” Come Fridays or Saturdays….we would love to have you join us. A few weeks ago we held a late Sunday afternoon Jazz Concert in the PJC Social Hall. We had hoped to hold it outside in the PJC Cove but the high heat and forecasted rain brought it indoors and in the comfort of our air conditioning. Had we held the concert outside, you would have seen the beautiful landscaping and planting of flowers. My thanks go out to Debi and Charlie Drummond, as well as Diane Bloomfield and Edy Dickman. They chose the warmest day to come to PJC to pull weeds, plant flowers and put down mulch. Thank you again…. We celebrate birthdays each month at Parkway. In this edition of The Scribe you will see the list of birthdays for this month. I must share a couple of very special birthdays…..Jack Kessler was 93 and Syma Levine 90. Funny, they both look wonderful and not much more than 37. May they live in good health to hear Willard Scott wish them a happy birthday on their 100th and beyond. Have a fun and safe rest of the summer. Before long we will begin to plan for the High Holy Days; and not too long after that it will be time to tune up the snow blower and buy rock salt. And so it goes…..and then we’ll talk again.



Kiddush & Oneg Shabbat Sponsors PJC Sisterhood Joanie Jacob Linda Tashbook Ruth Daniels Bob Caplan Cantor and Mary Berlin Diane Bloomfield Barbara Welner Allan Goppman The Tell Family Kiddush Oneg Sponsorships Sisterhood invites you to celebrate birthdays, anniversaries and other Simchas by sponsoring an Oneg Shabbat or Saturday Morning Kiddush. You can also sponsor in memory of a loved one’s Yahrzeit. For more information, call Diane Bloomfield at 412-373-9240 or Leslie Rubin at 412-371-8437

Donation Contacts: Donations to the Marilyn Markowitz/Phyllis Stein Memorial Library Fund can be made by calling the shul office. Mazel tov to: Joanie and Mike Jacob, on the Engagement of Mike's Son, Jordan Lois and Alan Forman, on the Birth of their Grandson, Spencer Matthew Forman Cantor and Mary Berlin, on the High School Graduation of their Grandson, Jordan Marlene and Bob Zukerman, on the Marriage of their Grandson, Zachary Susie and Bruce Feldman, on the Marriage of their Son, Michael Feldman Marlene and Bob Zukerman, on the Bat Mitzvah of their Granddaughter, Ally Zukerman

JUNE ANNIVERSARIES 11 Lois and Alan Forman

24 Rhoda and Irwin Feinberg JUNE BIRTHDAYS

1 Jack Silverstein Lynn Weisman 4 Lori Levine

Mike Speranzo 5 Faye Fischman Gerri Moldovan 7 Jack Kessler Ronna Vrcic

9 Mallory Mayer 16 Alan Iszauk Ron Secorie Cantor Berlin

17 Erin Kosko Betty Ann Secorie

21 Elizabeth Goppman 27 Bruce Feldman 28 Lynda Heyman

Syma Levine JULY ANNIVERSARIES 1 Joanna and David Heyman

10 Gail and Ron Brown 23 Risa and John Kosko

Rosalyn and Stanley Markovitz JULY BIRTHDAYS

5 Bonnie Heyman Debbie Iszauk 8 Marlene Rebb

Ted Rubin 9 Elaine Schwartz

10 Mary Berlin 15 Tom Cain

18 Donna Wolfson Shawn Vrcic

20 Mitchell Levine 22 Liz Berlin Katie Berlin

23 Stanley Markovitz 26 Dorothy Levenson 27 Michael Feldman

31 Pauline Davis



June Yahrzeits Week of May 30, 2014 - Sivan 1 Max Stern, Miriam Stern, Nathan Berlin, Robert Milton Greenbaum, Abe Halperin, Jacob Zukerman, Henry Melnick, Joseph Marcus, Goldine Hirsch, Anna Shefsky, Laura Gross Jacob, Marion Cohen, Robert Moldovan, Charlotte Perelstine, Coleman Holtzman, Bertha Braun Perlman, Roy Temeles Week of June 6, 2014 - Sivan 8 Fannie Slutsky, Phil Samuels, Mary Rosenzweig, Hyman Kisilinsky, Samuel Cohen, Goldie Ackerman, Albert Fetter, Milton E. Lederman, Blanche Sigel, Florence Tatar, Mary Rebb Abromovitz, Ludwig Suess, Saul Grossman, Shirley Slepian Week of June 13, 2014 - Sivan 15 Max Steinberg, Matthew Allen Rosenbaum, Herb Weisman, Jacob Landay, Allen L. Verk, Rabbi Solomon Freehof, Shirley Levenson, Ann Toltzis, Max Eisner, Harry Rose Week of June 20, 2014 - Sivan 22 Louis Schwartz, Harold Barnett, Benjamin Horne, Stephen Neil Podolsky, Sonia Pearl, Norman Infeld, Max Pepper, Ethel Goppman, Louis Alpern, Benjamin Moidel, Jordan T. Rosenbaum Week of June 27, 2014 - Sivan 29 Sheldon R. Zilber, Sidney Schatz, Edward A. Wollman, Ethel Cowen, Donald Max Goldstein, David Levine, Joseph Edward Levine, Beverly Lynn Reich, Joseph Morris, Anna L. Reel, Arthur Irving Smith, Sylvia Heyman, Mattityahu Schwarcz If the name is printed in Bold, a Yahrzeit Plaque will be illuminated in the Sanctuary during the Yahrzeit week. If you would like to place a Yahrzeit Plaque in the Sanctuary, please call the Synagogue Office at 412-823-4338 between 9 am and 1 pm daily.

Condolences To: Evey Morris, on the passing of her Sister, Reva Leah Rolnick Allan Goppman, on the passing of his Sister-in-law, Hena Jules Murray Goppman and Sandy Goppman, on the passing of their Aunt, Hena Jules Refuah Schleimah A Speedy Recovery to: Shirley Melnick, Myrna Korfin, Betty Bernstein



July Yahrzeits Week of July 4, 2014 - Tammuz 6 Edy Wolfe, Mark Jeffrey Tannenbaum, Sivia Chosky, Ruth Schenk, Herman Lotz, Lillian Kessler, Hymen Israel Leff, Morris Merenstein, Morris Cadoff, Josephine Silberman, Elizabeth Felser, Yetta Chosky, Simon Harry Samuels Week of July 11, 2014 - Tammuz 13 Sadie Bonn, Mary Fetter, Adolph Recht, Harriet Cohen, Ruth Balber, Leona Zukerman, Philip Weiner, Nick Welner, Harry Simon, Evelyn Temeles Week of July 18, 2014 - Tammuz 20 Harris Applebaum, Lawrence William Maysels, Annette Bergsman, Julia Reel Kearney, Joe Zuckerman, Robert Platt, Anne Catz, Alvin Kingsley, Adeline Morris, Abe Lipsitz, Julius L. Tell, Dorothy Reidbord, Gary Reifman, Norma Levenson, Sylvia Tell, Morris Cohen, Mollie Feldman, Leo Schaer, Lillian Caplan, Bernard Mervis Week of July 25, 2014 - Tammuz 27 Samuel Berman, Debbie Cohen, Sarah Liba Blumenthal, Helene Rose, Hyman, David Iszauk, Enice Bloomfield, Nettie Brawer, Helen Horowitz, Fannie Melnick, Ralph Cooper, Dorothy Goldstein, Joel Allen, Cecelia Flansbaum, Samuel Stahl, Calvin Tannenbaum, Alvin Moldovan

August Yahrzeits Week of August 1, 2014 - 5 Av Sidney Levine, Esther Direnfeld, Persh Melnick, Ben Cowen, Lewis Fisher, Meyer Handmaker, Minnie Landay, Rae Levine, Nathan Becker Week of August 8, 2014 - 12 Av Joseph Edelman, Melvin Moidel, Charlotte Becker, Mathilda Levine, Louis Barnett, Margaret Krause, Alfred Spier, Harry Horvitz Week of August 15, 2014 - 19 Av Jennie Horvitz, Rose Murovitz, Meyer Hiller, Lou Harris, Evelyn Fait, Meyer Rockman, Jerome Fait, Pearl Silverstein Week of August 22, 2014 - 26 Av Ida Haber Rosenfeld, Morris Goldstein, Julius Richman, Sherman Hershman, Arnold Hackman, Nathan Rosenfeld, Ruth Samuels, Jennie Gottlieb Week of August 29, 2014 - 3 Elul Samuel Flansbaum, Helen L. Speck, Stanley E. Holtzman, Bertha Green, Bernard B. Dickman, Helen Moss Weinberger, Ann Halperin, Goldie Goppman, Herman Goppman


Sivan/Tammuz/Av 5774 Penns Corners CSA Farm Share The summer Farm Share program has been going for more than a month now. What started off as root vegetables and early greens is now turning into a greater variety as the summer crops come in. Below are some useful links followed by some recipes. Food Storage tips http://pennscorner.wordpress.com/category/weekly-share-guide/ Cantor’s Swiss Chard/Kale Quick Breakfast

My CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) Penns Corner farm share just started. Now I’m getting all kinds of greens I used to walk right by in the grocer produce section. What to do? One easy and tasty thing I came up with is a super quick and healthy breakfast. I make it in a plastic folding omelet maker I bought from the dollar store. Put a couple of cups of washed (but not dried) chopped spinach, swiss chard or kale in the omelet maker and crack a couple eggs on top. Sprinkle a little feta cheese over it. I happened to have some extra pesto so I added 1/2 tsp over that. Zap it for around a minute and half and voila - it’s done. If you want a near-zero calorie breakfast, make it just egg whites. The chard and kale are tougher greens than spinach so they may need an extra 60-90 seconds or so of pre-zapping before adding the eggs. You have to experiment a little with it. Enjoy. - CHS


Sivan/Tammuz/Av 5774 Recipes http://pennscorner.wordpress.com/category/recipes/ Raw Rainbow Collard Greens Wrap

Ingredients

4 large collard leaves 3/4 cup hummus 1 tomato, sliced into thin wedges 1 medium carrot, cut in half and sliced into thin strips 1 yellow bell pepper, sliced into thin strips 2 Persian cucumbers, sliced into thin strips 1/2 cup pea sprouts 1/4 red onion, sliced into thin strips 1/8 head of red cabbage, shredded 1/2 teaspoon grated horseradish in beet juice

Preparation - Put raw collard leaves in a plastic bag and freeze them until they turn bright green,

about an hour. This makes them more pliable without losing any raw nutrition. - Run the leaves briefly under cold water and lay them topside down on a cutting

board. Using a paring knife, gently shave down the raised part of the spines so the surface of the collard is nice and flat. Spread 3 tablespoons of hummus down the center of each leaf and distribute the rest of the vegetables evenly among the leaves, laying them parallel to the spines. Be sure to leave about an inch on each edge uncovered. Sprinkle horseradish on top.

- Roll the collard tops and bottoms (stem side) inward, fold one of the long sides in, tucking all the filling underneath it, and continue rolling the leaf from that side to the other side to get a tight wrap. Slice in half with a sharp knife.

http://pennscorner.wordpress.com/category/recipes/



An important message from the PJC Sisterhood: We encourage and appreciate sponsors for Friday nights and Saturday mornings. Please try to give us two weeks notice whenever possible so that we may properly prepare for your Kiddush or oneg. If you'd like to be a part of the birthday shabbat and sponsor the oneg/kiddush for your birthday month please contact Gail in the office and send a check: $25.00 for Friday night and/or $36.00 for Saturday made payable to PJC Sisterhood.

AUGUST ANNIVERSARIES 1 Leslie and Charlie Rubin 9 Ronna and Richard Vrcic

17 Betty Ann and Ronald Secorie 19 Susan and Michael Tell

24 Diane and Harold Bloomfield 31 Debbie and Alan Iszauk

AUGUST BIRTHDAYS 5 Bernie Bernstein 6 Rachel Reifman 8 Jenifer Kosko

9 William Drummond 23 Marvin Heyman

Brianne Reifman 25 Allan Goppman

26 Michelle Korfin Perl 31 Ron Brown


Sivan/Tammuz/Av 5774 PJC Jazz Concert - ‘O’ What a Difference For a short time on Sunday June 29th, PJC turned into the Parkway Jazz Center. What a great turnout. One of the musicians, Dr. Nelson Harrison, sang his parody of the Henry Mancini tune, Moon River. What a difference one less ‘o’ makes! Below are his lyrics for Mon River. Btw, if you’re looking for other Jazz events around town, Nelson developed and hosts the website, Pittsburgh Jazz Network at http://jazzburgher.ning.com Mon River - lyrics by Nelson Harrison Mon River, shorter than the Nile Its real name takes a while, to say But “Burgh” trippers, on Gateway Clippers Will learn quite a lot when they sail it someday Two inclines, take you to the mount Where you can see the fountain spray And lovers can gaze at the view, a favorite rendezvous From Grandview Avenue, Mon River you’ll see. Mon River, different from the rest Flows North, not East or West or South From high mountain to Point fountain There’s only four rivers that do it that way No islands, sandy on its floor Shipped barges full of ore and coke To steel mills that once used to be, Its major industry But then you couldn’t see Mon River - for smoke



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