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2009 ONEGS
Please send your Onegs’ list to Beth Becker immediately.
The Chosen
Jewish members in the 111th U.S. Congress; By Ami Eden · November 5, 2008
The following is a list of the 44 Jewish members -13 senators and 31 representatives - who will serve in the
111th U.S. Congress that convenes in January:
U.S. SENATE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) Gary Ackerman (D-N.Y.) Ron Klein (D-Fla.)
Benjamin Cardin (D-Md.) John Adler (D-N.J.)* Sander Levin (D-Mich.)
Norm Coleman (R-Minn.)** Shelley Berkley (D-Nev.) Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.)
Russ Feingold (D-Wisc.) Howard Berman (D-Calif.) Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.)
Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) Eric Cantor (R-Va.) Jared Polis (D-Colo.)*
Herb Kohl (D-Wisc.) Stephen Cohen (D-Tenn.) Steve Rothman (D-N.J.)
Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.)** Susan Davis (D-Calif.) Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.)
Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.) Allyson Schwartz (D-Pa.)
Carl Levin (D-Mich.)** Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.) Adam Schiff (D-Calif.)
Bernard Sanders (I-Vt.) Bob Filner (D-Calif.) Brad Sherman (D-Calif.)
Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) Barney Frank (D-Mass.) Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.)
Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) Henry Waxman (D-Calif.)
Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) Jane Harman (D-Calif.) Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.)
Paul Hodes (D-N.H.) Robert Wexler (D-Fla.)
Steve Israel (D-N.Y.) John Yarmuth (D-Ky.)
Steve Kagen (D-Wisc.)
* Elected to Congress for the first time
**January
Senators
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Sisterhood...Women Enjoying Jewish Life
Recently I sat in services, the tzitzit of my tallit
wrapped around my fingers. My daughter sat Sisterhood Needs Your Help!
beside me and I picked up her tzitzit as well. I held It is time for our Annual Drive to help
both in my hand. I remembered being a little girl victims of Domestic Violence
and playing with the fringe on my father's tallit
during synagogue (how I loved to braid it! No- this Please bring your donations of new,
unopened toiletries, lotions, soaps, etc. to
isn't to be a maudlin article, he's merely moved to
the collection box at the entrance to the
Florida.) As a little girl, I did not imagine that I
Hebrew School in preparation for our
would grow up to attend services wearing my own January, 2009 meeting.
tallit. Men wore them. Women did not. Men were
called to the Torah. Women were not. Men Please join us for our meeting on January
counted for a Minyan. Women did not. And yes, it 11th to assemble the packages for
was a Conservative synagogue. So things have distribution.
changed. Perhaps even more so for some of you, Thank you for your continuing generosity!
who grew up in Orthodox homes (where this has
not changed) or in homes with little Jewish
participation.
I had friends in Reform synagogues where FHC Babysitting Clearing House
things were different. But even there, women did
not wear tallitot; in fact, neither did most of the Who of us with young children isn’t
men. Now I can look around at services at First looking for a few good babysitters?
Hebrew Congregation and see this change within FHC will continue to list the names of
the Conservative movement. There are women like our teenagers (and others) who would
me who wear their tallitot during the entire like to baby-sit for other families in the
service. There are women who wear one only congregation. Of course, you will need
while they are on the Bimah. There are women to pay these sitters! FHC will provide
who put one on when called to the Bimah and then this service purely as a convenience to
keep it on for the duration of the service. And as its members and will take no
the young women in the congregation become Bat responsibility for the individuals who
Mitzvah, they each receive a beautiful tallit of their offer their services here for pay.
own. Even some of the men are starting to wear
Email your names and telephone
more colorful tallitot.
numbers to: Bulletin@FirstHebrew.org
This month, we will celebrate the best of
Babysitters now available:
women's full inclusion and leadership with our
annual Sisterhood Shabbat. We invite the
Marli Kasdan.........
congregation to join us on January 24th. You will
see Sisterhood members, your friends and relatives, Jessie Meadvin.....
lead services, take Aliyot, read Torah, chant the Ariel Rosen............
Haftarah, and still provide a lovely Kiddush. We Jamie Spock……...
look forward to sharing this special service with you.
Remember Sisterhood’s Judaica Shop
Shalom,
Mindy E. Steinholz Spock for gifts, talitot, teffilin, yarmulkes, books, videos,
Sisterhood Executive Board and song cassettes
If you would like to be included on Sisterhood’s e-mail list, Arlene Kaufman 232-5999
please send your e-mail address to Fran Olmsted at Alice Yasuna 737-7687
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Message from Men’s Club
This month’s Men’s Club article will be a lesson in minds when we heard his name. Was the
both American and Jewish history. purchaser and preservationist of Monticello, one of
the great landmarks in architecture and American
As part of our family vacation at the end of this past
history, a Jew?
summer, Susan, Madeline and I visited Monticello,
the Virginia estate and home of Thomas Jefferson, The tour of the estate continued with a walk
primary author of the Declaration of Independence, through the garden where our answer revealed
“founding father” and third President of these United itself. On the headstone of the grave of Rachel
States. We all have learned much in school of Mr. Levy, the mother of Uriah, were the dates of her
Jefferson’s great accomplishments and talents, as birth and death- reflected under both the Gregorian
well as some of the complications, in his lifetime. As calendar and the Hebrew calendar! There
part of our tour of Monticello, we learned something appeared to be our proof. A bit of further
that I don’t recall being included in the history investigation shows that the Levy family (Uriah was
curriculum at any of the schools I’ve attended. the third of 14 children of Rachel and Michael)
hailed from Philadelphia and were Jews of
As part of the tour at Monticello, it is described how,
Portuguese descent.
after Jefferson’s death, his family had to deal with a
high debt burden and the effects of an economic Apparently, the property stayed in the Levy family
downturn in the young nation. Apparently, the home until 1923 when it was acquired by the Thomas
fell into disrepair under the watch of Jefferson’s Jefferson Memorial Foundation, which has
heirs, and in 1834 the home was purchased by a maintained it ever since. If you find yourself in the
naval officer who had written that the houses of Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, I highly
great men should be preserved as “monuments to recommend a stop!
their glory”. The purchase price- $2,700. The
To me this represents another, if not surprising,
purchaser’s name- Uriah Phillips Levy.
instance of positive Jewish influence in the history
Susan and I made quick eye contact when we heard of the United States- and a great source of pride!
the name, and after we left the house we talked
Steven Cohen
about what had been unmentioned about Mr. Levy,
but had apparently immediately come to both our
Babysitting
Thank you
David and I would like to thank the following for their contributions
FREE Babysitting will be available
in making the Rabbi's installation a wonderful experience for all: once a month during the Saturday
Shabbat service.
First and foremost, Fran Olmsted for the invitations, for shopping
and shlepping (and especially for the bio-degradable flatware that
We need babysitters!
she was able to find), and for her hard work in the kitchen and the
We are offering ten dollars an hour
gym in setting everything up.
from 9:30am-12:00ish.
Next, Andy Polay for arranging and coordinating all of the
"dignitaries" that attended and for video-taping the event. For more information, please
Then, Bill and Leslie Ruben for shopping for and shlepping the contact Alice Yasuna,
outstanding cakes and cookies. Selu@optonline.net
Jeremy Krantz for emceeing the event.
Lisa Segal for the labels and collating. Bar/Bat Mitzvah Students
And, last but not least, Rabbi Hammerman for installing Rabbi Please send your biography to
Paskind with wonderful thoughts and a terrific sense of humor. mradparvar@hotmail.com at least 5
If we have left anyone out , please forgive us and accept our weeks prior to the first day of your
thanks. Bar/Bat Mitzvah month to be placed in
the Bulletin.
Januarysincerely,
Most 09 Alice K. and David K. www.FirstHebrew.Org 6
Siddur
By: Tsipora Kissel
I am like an old Siddur,
Sitting on a shelf
Where no one will bother to look
Passed by without a glance
Because of the old and battered cover
People fail to see past the scars
They look by and pick up the next Siddur
Shiny, bright and new
And I still sit on the shelf
Where no one has bothered to look
Until a young child comes by
Not taught to see any difference
And plucks me up from my lonely shelf
He sees the tears, the rips, the scars, but pays no heed to them.
He proudly shows his father what he has found.
The father takes me from the little boy,
Holding me gently in his hands,
Turning me, inspecting me,
Careful not to drop me
The father takes his son by the hand, still holding me,
And leads him to the Rabbi, showing him the old and battered cover,
Asking if I could be repaired
The Rabbi takes me gently from the father
And replaces the old, battered, ripped, scarred cover,
With a new, shiny bright one
The Rabbi hands the book back to the boy and says:
“Take good care of this Siddur, because you helped it and paid no
heed to the scars and bruises,
And this lonely old Siddur will be your guide.”
And the boy says:
“Shouldn’t I place it back, on the shelf in the corner?”
And the Rabbi answers:
“No, for who will see it there? You take it, because you healed it, it is
now your responsibility to see it put to good use.”
And the boy joyfully skipped back to the service and opened his
Siddur for the first time
And although he did not yet know the prayers, he felt he could sing
along.
And now years later, I, who felt like that old Siddur, watch over the
crowd of people,
As they walk in to join the congregation for a service.
Siddurs are picked up, all new and shiny and bright,
But one old, battered Siddur,
Sit on a shelf where no one would bother to look,
Where people would pass it by without a glance,
Until a small child would come along and pick it up,
And bring it to his father,
Who would bring it to me,
And I would replace the old, battered cover with a shiny, bright, new
one
And give it to the child to keep.
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B i n g o
FHC WEDNESDAY NIGHT BINGO SCHEDULE
DECEMBER 2008 - MAY 2009
Condolences…
• To Meryl Novor and the entire Novor-Meadvin family on the loss of Meryl’s father Leonard.
• To Michael Meadvin and the entire Novor-Meadvin family on the loss of Michael’s mother,
Jean Shapess.
• To Bensky/Kaplan family on the loss of their beloved Francine Kaplan Bensky.
“Hamakom Ienahem, May God comfort the mourners among all the mourners for Zion and
Jerusalem”
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Don’t Use Cash!
Shop With SCRIP
and stores will donate to FHC!
At the supermarket … at the movies …
when eating out … buying clothes and gifts…
Friday, January 9
• Mike Seid in honor of his great-granddaughter Jordan Hassan’s birthday on January 11
• Mike Seid in honor of his great-grandson Sean Ennis’ birthday on January 12
• The Newman family in honor of Lily’s birthday on January 13
• Roshi & Ben Newman in honor of their granddaughter Lily Jennifer Newman’s birthday on January 13
Friday, January 16
• Selda Bloome in honor of her granddaughter Andrea Hersh’s birthday on January 19
• Alice Krochmal in honor of Marsha Landsberg’s birthday on January 20
• Carl & Estelle Fryburg in honor of their wedding anniversary on January 21
• The Schefflein family in honor of Nana’s birthday on January 22
Friday, January 23
• The Stern family in honor of Paul’s birthday on January 25
• Fran & Larry Miller in honor of Rochelle’s birthday on January 26
• Selda Bloome in honor of her son Leslie Bloome’s birthday on January 28
• The Newman family in honor of Sara’s birthday on January 29
• Roshi & Ben Newman in honor of their granddaughter Sara Rose Newman’s birthday on January 29
Friday, January 30
• Carol Gold & Wayne Schechter in honor of Jamie & Sandy Schechter’s wedding anniversary on January
31
• Selda Bloome in honor of her daughter Faith Bloome Krupnik’s birthday on February 2
• The Rosen family in honor of Andrew’s birthday on February 3
• Alice Genis in honor of her grandson Ryan’s birthday on February 4
********************************* Donations:
Yahrzeit: Ofelia Ticker, Carol Gold & Wayne Schechter, Judge Leonard Rubenfeld,
Roz Gaffen
Rabbi’s Discretionary Fund: Carol Gold & Wayne Schechter, Carol Schlacter,
Downtown Shul
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First Hebrew Congregation
“O p p o r t u n i t i e s f o r G i v i n g”
Yahrzeit Plaques Chapel Seats
(memorial) (engraved brass plate on seat backs)
In memory of a member……….............................$200 First three rows...........................$1,500/plate
In memory of a non-member………………………$300 Second three rows……………....$1,000/plate
In memory of and purchased by a non-member...$500 Last row…………………………..$750/plate
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Kehilataynu Editorial Policy Email List
and Publishing Information If you’re interested in getting
emails with the weekly
announcements, please visit
The synagogue bulletin is a place not Please keep the following in mind: the website at
only for news and information about • Articles and announcements must be www.firsthebrew.org. If you
FHC and its members, but also a received in the FHC office by the last wish to contact the
forum for members to place week of each month, five weeks before synagogue for any other
information that may be of interest to publication. business, please note that
their fellow congregants. We are • Please submit your article or the e-mail address to use is
happy to consider all articles submitted announcement via e-mail to fhc@firsthebrew.org. To
to Kehilataynu; however, we reserve bulletin@firsthebrew.org. If you do not email Rabbi Paskind directly,
the right to edit for style, and length. In have a computer, and/or your use rabbi@firsthebrew.org
addition, all articles submitted by FHC submission is not available in digital
members are labeled as such and do format, you may fax, mail, or deliver
not reflect the opinion of FHC or the your (typed) submission(s) to the
Did you know that
Board of Trustees. temple office. First Hebrew has a
Please keep the following in mind: • Please provide original copies of flyers website?
Articles and announcements must be and photos (faxed copies are not
received in the FHC office by the last suitable for reproduction)— they will be Visit www.firsthebrew.org for
week of each month, five weeks returned. synagogue information,
before publication. --------------------------------------------- articles, plus current and
archived issues of the
bulletin. The following
Let Everyone Know How Proud month’s bulletin is posted
shortly after it goes to the
We are of Our Children! printer, so you can read it
The Board of Education would like to honor our wonderful Bar/Bat Mitzvah without having to wait for the
students in a special way! post office to deliver it! You
can even view a printable
We would like each student to submit a brief biography (5-7 sentences) to be version of the current
placed in the synagogue bulletin. The biography could include information such as month’s calendar. Come
their Bar/BatMitzvah date, grade, school, outside interests, and should include a check it out! If you have any
short description about his/her service project; you may also include a photograph questions or comments, feel
if you like. The responsibility to write and submit this information belongs to the free to send email to
family of the child. Please do not cause unnecessary disappointment for your bill@firsthebrew.org.
children when they don’t see their names in the bulletin with their classmates. The
biography must be submitted to the editor FIVE WEEKS prior to the first day of
the Bar/Bat Mitzvah month to ensure placement in a timely fashion. Any articles
sent after that time will be placed in the next bulletin, which may be after the
Bar/Bat Mitzvah date. Please submit the biography to the bulletin at bulletin@
FirstHebrew.org or you can mail or fax to the FHC office.
If you are interested in assisting with publishing the Kehilataynu as editor, designer, writer, or any
other capacity, please contact Lisa at the office or Masoud Radparvar at mradparvar@hotmail.com.
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FIRST HEBREW CONGREGATION OF PEKKSKILL Non-Profit Organization
UPTOWN * 1821 East Main Street * Peekskill, NY 10566 U.S. Postage
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In order to update our files, we are asking you to fill out this form. If you have never sponsored an Oneg,
now is the time to add your name and your loved ones’ names to the pages that you see in the Bulletin, as
well as having your SIMCHA announced from the Bima.
The cost is minimal — $6.00 for one Oneg, $30.00 for five Onegs, and $36.00 for seven Onegs (one is
free)!
Remember to fill out this form and mail it with a check made out to Sisterhood FHC to:
Beth Becker, 6 Maple Court, Cortlandt Manor, NY 10567
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I would like to sponsor _______Onegs.
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