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Page TEMPLE ISRAEL OF THE POCONOS Edition 576

Temple Israel of the Poconos Newsletter

by Rabbi Baruch Binyamin Hakohen Melman

Drawing by Marilyn Margolies

"Never Again" Means Never Again! Inside this Issue

Rabbi’s Message 1

President’s Message 3

Norman Gelber 4

High Holiday Schedule 5

C.H.A.I. Program 7

Ask the Rabbi 8

Kitchen 9 Hadassah trip to Philadelphia 12

Donations 13

Hessed 14/15

Birthdays/ Anniversaries 16

Yahrzeit Lists 17/18

PLEASE NOTE CHANGE IN

DATE EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2012

Edition 576 October 2012 Tishrei/Cheshvan 5773 A monthly publication of Temple Israel of the Poconos

IRAN

When is the risk of not acting worse than the risk of acting?

TEMPLE ISRAEL OF THE POCONOS Edition 576

Temple office: (570) 421-8781 Rabbi Baruch Melman [email protected] (570) 730-4799 www.templeisraelofthepoconos.org [email protected]

711 WALLACE STREET, STROUDSBURG, PA 18360

3 yr Trustee: Art Glantz 424-7876 [email protected]

2 yr Trustee: Bernie Driller Esther Graves Mark Entenberg

421-6103 426-7020

[email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

1 yr Trustee: Ed Krawitz Mitchell Marcus

421-3139 588-0991

[email protected] [email protected]

Cemetery: 209/ Eliezer Gardens

Charlie Cahn

424-7955

[email protected]

C.H.A.I. Debbie Smith 610-751-7692 [email protected]

Ritual Bernie Driller 421-6103 [email protected]

Finance Dave Rosenberg 894-4537 [email protected]

Membership Sandra Alfonsi 223-7062 [email protected]

Kitchen Lois LaBarca Sandra Alfonsi

421-6103 223-7062


House Herb Rosen Barry Tremper

424-1161 588-6148


Chesed & Wishograms Suzanne Tremper 588-6148 [email protected]

Newsletter Barbara Rosenberg 894-4537 [email protected]

Gift Shop Debbie Smith 610-751-7692 [email protected]

Programming Barry Tremper Barbara Rosenberg

588-6148 894-4537


Publicity Sandra Alfonsi 223-7062 [email protected]

Rabbi Melman’s Office Hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday

10:30 — 12:00 noon To talk in person please call me to set up an appointment.

Please provide Barbara with any information that is missing for you in the above grid. Thank you.

President Suzanne Tremper 588-6148 [email protected]

1st Vice President Sandra Alfonsi 223-7062 [email protected]

2nd Vice President Lois LaBarca 421-6103 [email protected]

Secretary Barbara Rosenberg 894-4537 [email protected]

Treasurer Dave Rosenberg 894-4537 [email protected]

Asst. Treasurer Herb Rosen 424-1161 [email protected]

mailto:[email protected]

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A MESSAGE FROM OUR PRESIDENT ……

Dear Temple Family, We have just completed celebrating Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. In the coming days ahead we will be celebrating Sukkot, Shimini Atzeret and Simchot Torah. We spend these holidays going to Temple, seeing family and friends and enjoying great food. Do you notice the common denominator for last month and this – FOOD, There are a few people that must be thanked for their assistance in preparing for the Holidays. Merle Turitz – thank you for your unending time to put together this year’s High Holiday Memorial Book Minda Krawitz – thank you for the beautiful job as usual polishing the silver for the Torahs Lois LaBarca, Sandra Alfonsi, Yafit Entenberg and the others I may have missed – thank you for the delicious meals The Kitchen Committee wants to thank Holly and Caesar for their assistance in the kitchen both before the meals and cleaning up. They were a great help. Bernie Driller, Art Glantz and Rabbi Melman for their assistance in putting together the aleyahs and honors for the services. Ivan Margolies – thank you for greeting everyone entering the Temple for the holidays Bernie Driller and his committee – thank you for putting up our Sukkah and for the Brunch pre pared by the Kitchen. Thank you to those who chanted the Haftorahs – Art Glantz, Marty Sagofsky, Herb Rosen and Ed Krawitz – Mazel Tov Thank you to those who contributed toward the flowers on the Bema for the holidays – Sandra Alfonsi, the Newmans, the Rosens, the Rosenbergs,

Barbara Schneiderman, the Trempers and Merle Turitz.

I hope I have not forgotten anyone. If so, my apologies. Just let me know and I will mention you in next month’s letter. I hope everyone has remembered their donations to the Temple for Kol Nidre and Yiskor. We have been making repairs to the Rabbi’s house and the outside of our Temple building – We have only made a dent – more work must be done outside and in. We should all be proud of our Temple when visitors come in. Please send your check in today while it is fresh in your mind. Shalom Suzanne Tremper President


CONTROVERSY AND THE JEWISH TRADITION by Norman Gelber

Religious controversy has been part of the Jewish tradition going back to Abraham’s questioning the justice of God’s decision to destroy the inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah There is also Moses’ appeal for God’s mercy after the Israelites’ idolatry of the golden calf at Mt. Sinai. And it includes the disputes between the Pharisees and the Sadducees, the schools of Hillel and Shammai, and the Hasidim and their opponents, the mitnagdim.

In modern times Judaism has been fragmented into Orthodox, Conservative, Reform and Reconstructionist denominations with their individual approaches to religious worship and practice. How did this disunity among Jews come about, and what does it portend for the survive al of our Jewish tradition?

According to Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, the modern fragmentation of Judaism into various denominations began in 18th-century Germany with the intellectual movement of the Haskalah, or enlightenment. The goal of the enlightenment was to modernize the think-ing and behavior of European Jews and thus lead them out of their ghetto lifestyle and into the mainstream of European society and the world of arts and sciences. Proponents of the enlightenment argued that “Jews were persecuted because they differed from non-Jews in culture, language, education, dress, and manners.” The Orthodox Jews, however, opposed this assimilation as a threat to traditional Judaism. In fact, not only did the assimilation of secular culture fail to end anti-Semitism, it led eventually to inter-marriage, conversions to Christianity, and the crumbling of traditional Judaism. As a result of the Haskalah, we modern Jews are enlightened and emancipated from the traditional Judaism that prevailed in the enforced and voluntary ghettos of Europe. We have become a distinguished segment of Western society in the arts and sciences, and we can boast of our close friendships with Gentiles. But these advantages in the secular culture of Jews come with a price: a resultant mishmash of diverse beliefs and practices. So today we argue about who is a Jew, and what is the normative behavior of a religious, or authentic, Jew. We now have a hodgepodge of pious Jews, secular Jews, agnostic Jews, ham-on-a-bagel Jews, and pro- and anti-Israel Jews. We have Jews who observe the Dietary Law, Jews who keep kosher at home but eat non-kosher food elsewhere, and Jews who eat whatever they wish. And to top it off, we even have anti-Semitic Jews. Despite the diversity of our Judaic beliefs and practices, however, we must remember that our controversy with God and with fellow Jews on religious issues is part of our ongoing tradition that has persisted over thousands of years.


VOLUNTEERS NEEDED Sunday September 30

9:30 a.m.: Sukkah Construction VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

10:30 a.m.: Sukkah Decoration VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

Brunch Served for all volunteers

SUKKOTH Sunday September 30

7:15 p.m.: Maariv Service Kiddush in the Sukkah

Monday October 1

9:00 a.m.: Shacharit Service with Lulav Processional

7:15 p.m.: Maariv Service

Kiddush in the Sukkah


Tuesday October 2

9:00 a.m.: Shacharit Service with Lulav Processional


SHEMINI ATZERET Sunday October 7

7:15 p.m.: Maariv Service Kiddush in the Sukkah

Monday October 8

9:00 a.m.: Shacharit Service 11:00 a.m. (approx): Yizkor

Final Kiddush in the Sukkah

SIMCHAT TORAH Monday October 8

7:15 p.m.: Maariv Service Torah Processional and Dancing

Tuesday October 9

9:00 a.m.: Shacharit Service 10:00 a.m. (approx): Torah Service

We finish one Torah and immediately begin reading the second Torah.

SUKKOTH—The Feast of Tabernacles/Festivals of Booths

FRIDAY SHABBAT SERVICES: 8:00 p.m. SATURDAY SHABBAT SERVICES: 9:30 a.m.


Would you like to chant the haftarah every now and then?

In honor of your Bar or Bat Mitzvah anniversary?

Or for any reason?

No problem!

Just pick up the phone and call Bernie Driller, head of

our Ritual Committee, and let him know what date

you would like to have the maftir aliyah and chant the haftarah.

He will mark it on his special Haftarah calendar.

Just call Bernie at 570-421-6103

If you need a brush up or a recording, just call Rabbi Melman.

And if you've never done one before and you'd like to learn,

just call Rabbi Melman, at 570-730-4799.


From Debbie Smith

Tuesday, October 2 Hot Dogs in the Hut 4:45—6:45

Monday, October 8 Simchat Torah 7:15 All Children Attend

Tuesday, October 9 NO PROGRAM

Tuesday, October 16 4:45—6:45

Sunday, October 21 Hadassah Trip to the National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia



Sam and Maryjane Newman wish to announce:

The unveiling for David A. Newman has been scheduled for Sunday, Oct. 14th at Laurelwood Cemetery at 11:00 a.m. There will be a luncheon immediately following at

Sycamore in Delaware Water Gap, to which the community is invited.


ASK THE RABBI Rabbi,

When we wash our hands, why do we do pour the water from the cup three times over each hand?

Thank you,

Aquaman

Dear Aquaman,

Great question! First, did you know that Jewish law requires us to wash when we rise-first thing in the morning as well as before eating bread.

Washing on the morning is to cleanse our hands from impurities while we slept. When our neshama connects with the SOURCE OF ALL SOULS at night while we are asleep, it gives a full report of our deeds from the day before.

The Talmud teaches that sleeping is considered 1/60 of death. Just as after we die when the soul leaves the body for good, and it requires washing the whole body, performed during the Tahara, the ritual washing purification ritual, so too we wash our hands af-ter our soul returns to us from just a brief journey!

In the morning the custom is to wash right hand/left hand/right hand/left hand/right hand/left hand. But before eating bread the custom is to wash three times consecu-tively on the right hand, and then repeat for the left hand.

Why three times?

The first time is to cleanse us from any physical schmutz. The second time is to cleanse us from any spiritual schmutz. And the third time is to cleanse our hands from the now contaminated water which had adhered to our hands.

Now that we are both physically and spiritually cleansed, we may feed our body the staff of life, offering our body, which is like a Temple, the food it needs to serve our Creator.


Thank you to the “Kitchen

Crew” for planning, preparing and serving the many holiday meals we recently enjoyed. A special “thank you” to Yafit and Mark Entenberg for sponsoring the Erev Rosh Hashanah dinner. All proceeds went directly to Temple Israel.

Don’t be shy — offer an hour of your time to help the

kitchen crew chop, dice, cook and plate one of the

many meals prepared monthly. Contact Lois Labarca

or Sandra Alfonsi if you are interested in helping.


2007 RAID ON AN SYRIAN NUCLEAR PLANT Redacted from an article in the International Jerusalem Post by Herb Rosen

On September 6, 2007 Israel’s air force destroyed a Syrian nuclear plant. The first hint came from Israel in mid September. Bits and pieces of what happened leaked out to the world. The New York Times did not publish a story until October 14. Strangely neither Israel nor Syria said a public word. There were no protests from Arab countries not even an effort to condemn Israel at the UN.

This IAF operation started with an Israeli wiretap of a Syrian official. The tale is chronicled in a new book called “Israel vs. Iran: The Shadow War” by two Israelis. The whole story includes all kinds of twists and turns similar to the foreign intrigue shoot-em up movies I personally hate. Thank goodness there are no car chases in the book but you do get a good look at the quiet all encompassing activities of covert intelligence work from electronic surveillance, to putting together a complete picture from disparate parts, to agents working quietly in the field. They even obtained pictures of the plant interior which proved beyond a doubt that the Syrians had built a nuclear reactor. Most startling to Israel was the advanced stage of the construction. No one had imagined that Bashir Assad would defy all taboos to attempt a nuclear bomb.

His effort can be traced back to 2000 when Iranians and North Korean officials paid their respects at the funeral of Bashir’s father Hafez Assad. The Koreans wanted to make hundreds of millions of dollars. The Iranians wanted to spread their nuclear investment to other sites to make it harder for Israel to find and destroy them all.

In 2007 Israel’s PM Olmert contacted Washington to show the existence of a Syrian nuclear rector that was almost operational. Washington was skeptical and wanted to study the matter further. Bush spoke about sanctions and going to the UN and the International Atomic Energy Agency. Israel was sure that Syrian nuclear capacity would become active within a short period. To his everlasting credit Olmert told Bush, “Allow me to remind you that the reactor needs to go away. If we reveal its existence to the UN the Syrians will build a nursery school on top of it and prevent a strike forever.” In a meeting a few months before the strike he again told Bush that he was not there to ask for permission. He just wanted to update him about Israel’s intentions. Despite the U.S. opposition Olmert still shared the air operation’s full plans with the Bush administration.

Continued on page 11


Continued from page 10

The difference is vast in the way Israel was treated in 2007 and 1981 after bombing the Iranian Osirak nuclear into smithereens. Syria’s response was curious. Assad did not retaliate or even think about going to the UN. All he did was scrub the site and insist there never was a nuclear plant. The other Arab countries were also silent. As opposed to 1981 when there was a lot of sword rattling it seems that they were content with the Mideast nuclear balance not being disturbed. Reaction over the 2007 Syrian strike in the U.S. was very muted. In 1981 our country supported for the first time a UN resolution condemning Israel. Delivery of weapons to Israel was slowed greatly. And for some reason many news sources including the BBC, Washington Post and the New York Times insisted that the Syrians were not that close to making a bomb.

Personally I would like a more detailed version of the story and have ordered the Israel vs. Iran book. I’ll share it with anyone who would like to read it. Just call me at 424-1161.

Rabbi's Weekly Class Schedule:

MORNINGS:

Tuesdays 10:30 - 11:20 AM Parsha of the week with Etz Chaim commentary.

Wednesdays 10:30 - 11:20 AM Understanding the Siddur, what our prayers mean.

Thursdays 10:30 - 11:20 AM Parsha of the week (continued) with Etz Chaim commentary.

EVENINGS:

Mondays: 5:15 - 6:15 PM Understanding the Talmud - Tractate Kiddushin, using the Vilna Shas edition.

Thursdays 5:15 -6:15 PM Understanding the Talmud -Tractate Kiddushin (continued)


Join the Golon Hadassah of Northeast PA for a day at the National Museum of American Jewish History

Museum at Dusk 2, Todd Mason/Halkin Photography,National Museum of American Jewish History

The National Museum of American Jewish History, located in the heart of historic Philadelphia, is the only museum in the nation dedicated solely to telling the story of Jews in America.

Bus departs from *Temple Israel of the Poconos in East Stroudsburg.

Please get to the synagogue around 9:00 for a prompt 9:30am departure. *Pick up in Scranton if there are 10 or more people.

Cost: $55 (includes round trip charter bus, Museum admission & guided tour, and Kosher boxed lunch) Seating is limited; Payment is requested no later than October 10, 2012

The bus will leave Philadelphia between 4:00pm and 5:00pm.

Checks made out to Hadassah. Send to Dr. Sandra Alfonsi 24 September Circle, East Stroudsburg, PA 18301

Please respond to Dr. Sandra Alfonsi - by email ([email protected]) or phone (570-233-7062) ASAP to confirm attendance and to submit your lunch order.

Kosher, boxed lunch selections:

Each lunch comes with a drink, potato chips, chocolate chip cookie, whole fresh fruit, and vegetable slaw. Bagel with Nova Lox, Cream Cheese & Tomato

White Meat Tuna Salad with Lettuce & Tomato on Twist Roll Grilled Salmon on Black Bread with Cucumber Dill Sauce

Grilled Vegetable Hoagie with Red Pepper Mayo Oven Roasted Turkey on Challah

Corned Beef on Rye

Lunch beverage selections: Please choose one.

Pepsi-Regular ***** Pepsi-Diet ****** Sweetened Iced Tea ***** Bottled Water

Sunday, October 21, 2012

mailto:([email protected])


THANK YOU TO THE FOLLOWING FOR THEIR GENEROUS DONATIONS TO TEMPLE ISRAEL OF THE POCONOS

GENERAL DONATIONS Aloysius Murgatroyd

Abraham Gold Beatrice Greenberg

Stanley Rothman in memory of Mindy Solomon

YAHRZEIT DONATIONS Charles Feinstein in memory of Debbie Feinstein

Howard Farber in memory of Ruth Gittleman Pat Nerlinger in memory of Cy Nerlinger

Maxwell Cohen in memory of Edward Rosenzweig Lester Abeloff in memory of Clementine Abeloff

Marc Wolfe in memory of Sara Wolfe

SPONSORED ONEGS/KIDDUSH Gesia Rosenberg sponsored a Kiddush in honor of

her mother’s birthday.

TREE OF LIFE Irv Effross’ name was previously omitted as being part of the

donation of A Tree of Life plaque in honor of Jack Bernbaum’s 80th birthday.

A DONATION WAS RECEIVED FROM

Dr. Sandra Alfonsi for a memorial plaque for Dr. Ferdinando Alfonsi


HESSED FUND Hessed is a Hebrew word meaning kindness and a reaching out to other people.

It is the way you can express sympathy, warm wishes or celebrate simchas for any one within or outside the Jewish community. If you would like something included here:

Call Suzanne Tremper at 588-6148. Please leave all the information on the machine so Suzanne doesn’t need to call you back.

OR

Better than telephone, is contacting Suzanne by e-mail at [email protected]. That's the best!

If you would like us to send a card to a person who is not a Temple Israel person, you must include the recipient’s address when giving Suzanne the information. Cards are usually sent within three days of the request.

To Charlie Cahn Mazel tov on the birth of your Grandson

from Lester & Murray Abeloff

Sandra Alfonsi Judy Brown

Danny & Marsha Cahn Bernie & Lois Driller

Howard & June Farber Art Glantz

Elisheva Kosmerl Sandy Magnes

Mitchell Marcus Sam & Maryjane Newman

Jose & Stacy Rodriguez Herb & Sylvia Rosen

Michelle & Dylan Star Patrice Summa

Barry & Suzanne Tremper Merle Turitz & Family

To Rose Reader Best wishes for a r’fua sh’leima

from Patrice Summa

Barry & Suzanne Tremper

To Sylvia Rosen Congratulations and Mazel Tov on your birthday

from Howard & June Farber

To Jack Bernbaum Happy Belated Birthday

from Selma Cohen

To Dolores Cohen & Family In memory of Maxwell, loving husband, father, grandfather & great-grandfather

from Judy Brown Art Jolley

Elisheva Kosmerl Lea Katz

Ed & Bobbie Krawitz Ed & Rachelle Kuschner

Sam & Maryjane Newman Howard & Ruth Popkin

Rose Reader Paul & Judy Schuchman

Paul Solomon Michelle Star

Barry & Suzanne Tremper Merle Turitz

To my long time friends,

Thank you for your prayers and good wishes for a quick and healthy

recovery.

Sincerely,

Rose Reader

mailto:[email protected].


HESSED FUND Hessed is a Hebrew word meaning kindness and a reaching out to other people.

It is the way you can express sympathy, warm wishes or celebrate simchas for any one within or outside the Jewish community. If you would like something included here:

Call Suzanne Tremper at 588-6148. Please leave all the information on the machine so Suzanne doesn’t need to call you back.

OR

Better than telephone, is contacting Suzanne by e-mail at [email protected]. That's the best!

If you would like us to send a card to a person who is not a Temple Israel person, you must include the recipient’s address when giving Suzanne the information. Cards are usually sent within three days of the request.

To Dr. Paul Solomon & Family In memory of Mindy, loving wife, mother and grandmother

Lester & Murray Abeloff

Sandra Alfonsi Camille Breslauer

Judy Brown Charlie Cahn

Bernie & Lois Driller Irv & Eda Effross

Howard & June Farber Chuck & Yiskah Feinstein

Manny Fineberg Paul & Shelley Giblin

Art Glantz Myra Goldberg & Jay Roseman

Esther Graves Art Jolley Lea Katz

Lou & Marion Koshar Elisheva Kosmerl

Ed & Bobbie Krawitz Sandy Magnes

Mitchell Marcus Ivan Margolies

The McGowan Family Amy Moulton

Sam & Maryjane Newman Howard & Ruth Popkin

Norman & Marcie Rabinowitz Herb & Sylvia Rosen

David & Barbara Rosenberg Barbara Schneiderman

Paul & Judy Schuchman Michelle & Dylan Star

Patrice Summa Barry & Suzanne Tremper

Merle Turitz & Family Ken & Donna Waite

Alan & Adrienne Westheim & family



Note: Hessed Fund wishes are $10 each.

If you are celebrating a milestone year, whether it be birthday or anniversary, please let me know so others may celebrate with you. Contact: Suzanne Tremper 588-6148 or [email protected]

October Anniversaries October 12 Daniel & Julie Harter

October 23 P.Jason & Jeanie King

October 25 Joshua & Vivian Herschlag

October 28 Edward & Rachelle Kuschner

October Birthdays October 04 Ed Katz

Deborah Costanza October 09 Miguel Canarte

Edwin Canarte October 10 Melvin Rosenthal

Molly Smith October 11 Phyllis Vogel

Louise August October 12 Rabbi Baruch Melman

October 14 Bobbie Krawitz

October 18 Dylan Star

October 19 Julie Harter

October 21 Judy Schuchman

October 26 Sara McGowan Barbara Rosenberg

October 30 Tyler Mann

October 31 Benjamin Trumpaitzky



October Yahrzeit List

October 1 Tishrei 15 Sydney Parish October 2 Tishrei 16 Morris Jacobson October 3 Tishrei 17 Simon Lewis

Frank Cohn October 4 Tishrei 18 Donald Green October 5 Tishrei 19 Nathan Abeloff

Peter Meyers October 6 Tishrei 20 Anna Silverm October 8 Tishrei 22 George Green

Tony La Barca October 9 Tishrei 23 SallyKandel October 10 Tishrei 24 Leon Wilensky October 11 Tishrei 25 David S. Katz

Minnie Rothstein October 14 Tishrei 28 Menachem Mendel Rosenfeld

Carl Newman October 15 Tishrei 29 Murray Weinstein

Mollie Rosen October 17 Cheshvan 01 Sylvia Rothman October 18 Cheshvan 02 Samuel Monatt

Samuel Cohen Molly Green

October 21 Cheshvan 05 Rebecca Libfeld October 22 Cheshvan 06 Sidney Hampell

Joseph Steir Benjamin Koshar

October 23 Cheshvan 07 Kiva Trumpaitzky October 24 Cheshvan 08 Rhoda Kravitz October 25 Cheshvan 09 Ida Jacobson October 26 Cheshvan 10 Mildred Caplan

Benjamin Rothman October 27 Cheshvan 11 Tova Loffer

Chic Gorman October 28 Cheshvan 12 Arthur Kaufman

Samuel Silverman Francis Marks Mollie Krawitz Samuel Lustgarten Evelyn Pehr

October 29 Cheshvan 13 Morris Martin Lillie Starr

October 30 Cheshvan 14 Joseph Saltzman


November 1 Cheshvan 16 Merle Steir Harry Morris Fannie Surks

November 3 Cheshvan 18 Hyman Levine William D. Bornstein

November 4 Cheshvan 19 Charles Sommer

November 5 Cheshvan 20 Morris Laveton

November 6 Cheshvan 21 Samuel Brody Gladys Solomon

November 7 Cheshvan 22 Grace Schurman

November 8 Cheshvan 23 Ida Fearer Yenofsky Abraham Kleinfeld

November 9 Cheshvan 24 Kusiel Chiat

November 10 Cheshvan 25 Rosa C. Zimmerman Isadore Frisch Nathan Mandel

November 11 Cheshvan 26 Sally Shevrin

November 12 Cheshvan 27 Terris Tornberg

November 13 Cheshvan 29 Minda Newman Hart

November 14 Cheshvan 30 Morris J. Newman

November 15 Kislev 01 Hyman Solomon Gertrude G. Breslauer Max Zacher

November 16 Kislev 02 Sophie Kaminstein Benjamin Phillips

November Yahrzeit List

November 17 Kislev 03 Samuel Kaminstein Felicia Susan Kyle Cary Mandel

November 18 Kislev 04 Jeanette Lubin

November 20 Kislev 06 Bentzion Goldberg

November 21 Kislev 07 Charles B. Schecter Harry Prizant

November 22 Kislev 08 Elizabeth Morris Sharon Marcus

November 23 Kislev 09 Esther Shevrin

November 24 Kislev 10 Jennie Greenfield

November 26 Kislev 12 Isaac Max Jacobson

November 27 Kislev 13 Joseph Greenfield Sabina Diamond Lawrence Green

November 29 Kislev 15 Lee Bogatz

November 30 Kislev 16 Rose Richmond Lillian Postol

Yahrzeit candles are to be lit the evening before

the date listed.


NOW IT’S EASIER THAN EVER BEFORE TO SPONSOR AN ONEG OR A KIDDUSH

YOU CAN CELEBRATE A BIRTHDAY, ANNIVERSARY, LIFE

CYCLE EVENT OR JUST BECAUSE..... TEMPLE ISRAEL OF THE POCONOS KOSHER

KITCHEN ANNOUNCES SHABBAT ONEG AND KIDDUSH PACKAGES

Friday Night Oneg: $75 Package includes cakes, cookies, fresh fruit in season, hot coffee, milk, sweeteners, seltzer, paper goods, cutlery, setup and cleanup. Shabbat Kiddush: $125 Package includes 4 different salads, veggie platter, fresh fruits of the season, assorted cakes and/or cookies, hot coffee, milk, sweeteners, seltzer/cold beverage, paper goods, cutlery, setup and cleanup.

Each package is priced for 25 people.

Other special request items (including lox) are available upon request and for an additional fee; please contact us to design your own special event. For scheduling, availability and more

information contact: Lois LaBarca at 421-6103


WE ALL HAVE SIMCHAS AND NACHES IN OUR LIFE CELEBRATE AND COMMEMORATE WITH ANY OF THE FOLLOWING...

SEND WARM THOUGHTS Give Suzanne Tremper a call at 588-6148 or e-mail her at [email protected] and let someone know you’re thinking of them. For a small contribution to the Hessed Fund, Suzanne will

send a card wishing a Happy Birthday, Congratulations, Mazel Tov, Get Well or Condolences. A notice will appear in this bulletin, as well. When you call, please leave all the information

needed.

TREE OF LIFE AND MEMORIALS Add a leaf to the Tree of Life to celebrate births, birthdays, marriages, bar and bat mitzvahs, or

any other special event for a minimum contribution of $150. Remember loved ones with a Memorial Plaque at a minimum contribution of $600 for members, $850 for non-members.

Contact Suzanne Tremper at 588-6148.

ENDOWMENT FUND Hey, it’s always a great time to make a contribution. Make your check out to “Temple Israel.”

Another thought to consider, remember Temple Israel in your will. Call Herb Rosen at 424-1161 with any questions.

Honor or Remember Someone Special with a Bookplate

A bookplate can be placed in a Siddur, the weekly prayer book we use every Friday evening and Shabbat morning, or in a machzor, the prayer book which is used on the High Holidays. Remember a special occasion such as a birthday, anniversary, bnei mitzvah or any other occasion you want to note for a relative or friend. You can also place a dedication in someone’s memory. A nameplate with the donor, recipient, and occasion will be inserted. The minimum donation is $50.

Contact Herb Rosen, 424-1161, or at [email protected].

Do you need a Mi Sheberach Recited?

When you can’t make services, but would like a prayer said on behalf of someone important to you, please don’t hesitate to call the synagogue and leave a message

on the Temple answering machine for Rabbi Melman so that your prayers will be included in our services.




FROM YOUR MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE…..

we offer you a challenge!

We need everyone to help with this. Surely you know individuals and families who have no affiliation with a Synagogue.

Encourage them to become members of our Temple Israel Family!

If every family brings in one individual or family,

think of the possibilities!

At Temple events, be they regular Shabbat Services or a social occasion, introduce yourself to anyone you don’t recognize. You’ll make new friends

and assist us in enlarging our family.

YOU CAN BE PART OF OUR SUCCESS!!

For information please contact:

Sandra Alfonsi 223-7062

[email protected]

or Temple Israel 421-8781

Please leave a phone number so that we may return your call.


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Saturday Shabbat Services begin at 9:30 a.m. ALL ARE WELCOME!

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