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First Hebrew Congregation of Peekskill

Tevet – Shevat 5769 / January 2009


Candle lighting
Meetings and Events
Jan. 2…..... 4:20pm
Jan. 9…….. 4:27pm Board of Trustees………………Tuesday, Jan. 6 @8:00pm
Jan. 16…….. 4:35pm Sisterhood Breakfast................ Sunday, Jan. 11 @9:15am
Jan. 23…….. 4:43pm Men’s Basketball……………….Sunday, Jan. 11 @7:30pm
Jan. 30…….. 4:52pm Men’s Club Breakfast…………. Sunday, Jan. 25 @9:00am

Hebrew & Nursery School Events

K-A-B Parent Participation……………..…Sunday, Jan. 11


Coffee with Principal……………………… Sunday, Jan. 25

Family Service:
Shabbat Service -- Uptown Friday, Jan. 9 @6:30pm
Friday Evenings……………7:00 pm
Saturday Mornings………...9:30 am

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Sisterhood Shabbat:
Saturday, Jan. 24@9:30am

Happy Secular
Daily Minyan -- Downtown
Monday thru Friday……. 8:00 am
Sunday…………………..
January 09 9:00 am
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First Hebrew Congregation of Peekskill
Uptown Synagogue Directory

1821 East Main Street Rabbi................................. Lee Paskind


Telephone: ............. (914) 739-0500 Educational Director.......... Jeffrey Wrightman ..................
(914) 788-4657 .......principal@firsthebrew.org
Fax: ....................... (914) 739-0684 Administrator ..................... Lisa Segal.........845-857-9157
Nursery School Director .... Barbara Kaufman
Nursery School President ........................... Jeremy Krantz ......... 736-6455
1st Vice President ............. Mark Stern............... 739-4981
Telephone: ............. (914) 739-0504 2nd Vice President ............ Alice Krochmal .845-528-1684
3rd Vice President............. David Kasdan .......... 737-8248
Downtown Synagogue Financial Secretary ........... Carol Gold
813 Main Street Recording Secretary ......... Ilene Zanchelli ......... 734-8107
Telephone: ............. (914) 737-8155
Committee Chairpersons
Emails Bar/Bat Mitzvah................. Debby Bleiweis........ 734-7623
Congregation: .......fhc@firsthebrew.org Linda Treinish.......... 788-9798
Rabbi Paskind:.. rabbi@firsthebrew.org Beautification/Hospitality ... Daniela Rosen......... 734-7282
Lisa Segal: ........... lisa@firsthebrew.org Bikkur Holim ...................... Daniela Rosen......... 734-7282
Website: ............... www.firsthebrew.org Bingo................................. David Shea…………734-8231
Mark Stern............... 739-4981
Rabbi’s Office Hours Board of Education............
Hebrew School............ Laurie Baskin........... 736-1227
Please contact office. Buildings & Grounds ......... Mark Stern............... 739-4981
Bulletin .............................. Masoud Radparvar.. 962-6702
Synagogue Office Hours Capital Improvements ....... Mark Stern............... 739-4981
Monday–Thursday: 7 am–12 noon & Bruce Lindenbaum .. 739-7159
1 pm–4 pm Cemetery........................... Richard Zorn............ 671-7546
Friday: .................... 7 am–2 pm Fund Raising ..................... Steven Cohen.......... 734-2149
_____________________________ Andy Polay .............. 736-2055
First Hebrew Daniela Rosen......... 734-7282
Congregation of Gift Shop ........................... Arlene Kaufman....... 232-5999
Peekskill is Alice Yasuna ........... 737-7687
affiliated with the Library Committee............. Fran Olmsted....845-424-4077
United Synagogue Membership ...................... Frances Weiner ....... 734-9602
of Conservative Men’s Club Co-Presidents.
Judaism, Steven Cohen.......... 734-2149
Women’s League Paul Schaffer........... 739-5714
for Conservative Programs........................... (to be announced)
Judaism, Publicity............................. Lili Kasdan............... 737-8248
Federation of Ritual................................. Donald Feldman ...... 736-3417
Jewish Men’s Social Action ..................... (to be announced)
Clubs, and Young Sisterhood President......... (to be announced)
Judaea United Synagogue............. David Kasdan .......... 737-8248
******************************************** Youth Director ................... (to be announced)

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President’s Message
During these cold winter months when the days memories, important family milestones and the things
are shorter, the cold chill goes through the coat and she did while living that made a difference.
the sunny days are few, I sometimes get a bit somber
It is improper to place a value on one’s life. Yet, in
thinking about the loved ones in my family and close
my opinion, the person who performs mitzvot is a
friends that have left us. While it can be difficult at
person who has had a lot of George Bailey moments
anytime of the year to face the loss of a loved one, or
and has been able to touch others in a unique and
to face the lingering thoughts of the departed, during
memorable way. As Jews, we take it as a moral
this time of the year having the empty seat at the
obligation to perform good works, to strive to be
table where your mother, father, grandparent or
better persons, to make the world a little better by
friend once sat makes one’s heart wish for a simpler
having lived on this small planet for our respective
time when our youthful innocence and the discretion
allotted “human time”.
of our parents shielded us.
To get over the feelings of sadness and loss, the
Now, having already lost my grandparents, my
husband had those in attendance speak in unison at
mother and my in-laws, the thoughts of loss are
least three times “I celebrate the life of…..” After we
especially painful at this time of the year.
all spoke in unison, louder each time, there was a
Today, we went to the funeral of a loving and feeling of catharsis and goodness for having raised
caring woman who passed away from cancer. She our voices in an expression of joy and appreciation
was a daughter, mother, wife, grandmother and a for her life.
person who truly dedicated herself to important
At the end of our respective days on this earth,
causes that touched others. Her grandson has
when our human time has expired, let us hope that
Tuberous Sclerosis, the very same disease as my
we will have given at least one other person a reason
son Noah. As I listened to the eulogies from her
to shout out loud that they celebrate our life. L’Chaim.
family and close friends, it reminded me of the
concept of the “George Bailey moments” we make in Shalom.
our lives. Those specific moments are when we do Jeremy Krantz, President
things that have a positive impact on the lives of
others. The eulogies memorialized special moments,
Get Well

Congratulations First Hebrew wishes a speedy recovery to:


Morton Bensky Selda Bloome Luz Corona
The Ruth Taylor Award Fund has selected Amy
Murray Halperin Esther Katz Glady Kessler
Burkhard (Fordham University Graduate School of
Social Welfare) as one of its current year
scholarship recipient. She was recognized at
MAZEL TOV…
United Way of Westchester and Putnam's annual
meeting on October 7th. To Paula & Joseph Martin on the birth of a
granddaughter Ruthie Yael Meytin, born on October
Mazel Tov 31, 2008 to Rachel & Sarah Meytin.

2009 ONEGS
Please send your Onegs’ list to Beth Becker immediately.

January 09 See back cover for the form. www.FirstHebrew.Org 3


Message from the Hebrew School Principal,
Dear Parents, Students, and Congregants, our communal worship experience it is also central
to the work we do in our school. I invite all parents
This month we will hold the first of what will
as well as congregants to join us and participate in
be several class services this year. I would like to
our class services. You will have the experience of
take this opportunity to explain what is involved in
seeing firsthand the work that our children do to
terms of preparation, why we do this, and what we
create and nurture their own learning and worship
hope the outcome to be. This will I anticipate open
community within, and as an integral element of,
a window into one of the important ways our
the larger First Hebrew community.
learning community integrates the many facets of
Jewish education and communal life. January also marks the midpoint in the
school year. It is a transitional month that bridges
Our faculty and the Rabbi work together for
the first half of the school year with the second.
a long time preparing the students for the service.
While reflection is always an ongoing and integral
The preparation includes what is most obvious
part of what we do as educators it is especially
learning to read and chant the prayers. However,
important at such times to take stock of how far we
as our school has evolved the groundwork has as
have come and what we can do to continue to
well. In addition to learning the prayers our students
improve. We have created a much closer knit
are learning the different parts of the service and
school community this year with each child feeling
the overall rationale for how the components fit
a strong connection to each other and to a purpose
together. We also study the prayers themselves
greater than themselves. There is abundant
with the goal of creating meaning for each child.
enthusiasm for learning, experiencing, worship, and
Lastly, the service is a communal experience.
just being together. Nonetheless, we will continue
Children of different ages come together each
to reach higher and embrace the secular New Year
learning and understanding at their own level with
with profound hope, dedication, and promise.
older children helping younger ones.
Bi’ Shalom
This is truly the essence of the Jewish
prayer experience. It is both individual as well as Jeff Wrightman
communal. With the prayer service being central to

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

Sisterhood e-mail List Call to make an appointment—

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,
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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

THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTINUED COOPERATION!

NO BINGO DECEMBER 24th March 11th –


NO BINGO DECEMBER 31st
Bill Rubin .....................
BINGO
Beverly Schwartz......... Important Note: Your 2008–2009 dues
January 7th - include a surcharge for Bingo. If a
Sue Ellen Silber ...........
Richard Zorn .............. member family meets its two-bingo
Susan Abrams ........... March 18th – requirement during the year, the family will
Laurie Baskin ............. receive a credit. Similarly, if a single
Lloyd Treinish .............. member meets his/her one-bingo
Steven Weiner............. requirement during the year, he/she will
January 14th -
Ron Yakin.................... receive a credit.
Debby Bleiweis ..........
Steven Brenner .......... March 25th –
URGENTMESSAGE — NEW POLICY: If
Amy Burckhard ..........
Joan Pinkerton ............ you are unable to attend on your
Daniela Rosen............. scheduled Bingo night, IT IS YOUR
January 21st -
Paul Schaffer............... RESPONSBILITY TO GET A
Jennifer Chervin ......... REPLACEMENT.
Jennifer Cole.............. April 1st –
Martin Edelstein ......... Thank you for your continued
Jay Schwartz ...............
Phyllis Ticker ............... cooperation!!!! Workers should report to
January 28th - Bingo by 6:15 pm and are expected to
Richard Zorn................
Cliff Hames ................ stay until at least 10:00 pm
Lili Kasdan ................. NO BINGO APRIL 8TH & 15TH
Arlene Korngold ......... – PASSOVER Why are we asking you to donate your
time to helping out with Bingo? It
February 4th - April 22nd – generates approximately $20,000 in
revenue per year to our operation of the
Ken Kissel.................. Jenny Yakin................. synagogue. The time commitment is only
Robin Krantz .............. Jeanne Berger............. about three hours on a Wednesday night.
Carol Kuczinski .......... Susan Cohen...............
We now start Bingo at 6:30 pm so you and
our customers can get home earlier. If you
February 11th - April 29th –
are opposed to fulfilling your obligation as
Abe Kuszel................. Susan Feldman ........... a member, then pay the $400 Bingo
Carol Lipsky ............... Nancy Kohel ................ assessment immediately and let Lisa
Charles Lipsky ........... William Madenberg...... know to take you off the Bingo list. As a
member in good standing it is your
February 18th - May 6th – obligation to participate in this fundraising
Lori McDonald............ Paula Martin ................ activity. If the congregation chooses not
Sharon Memis............ Robert Nachamie......... to continue providing Bingo to the
Barry Moskowitz......... Linda Polay.................. community and forfeiting the OPM (other
people’s money), then the congregation
February 25th – May 13th – will need to be assessed accordingly to
raise the $20,000, or determine what
Carol Newman ........... Phyllis Ticker ...............
services will be cut. Do your part of
Fran Olmsted ............. Ilene Zanchelli .............
fundraising and show up for your assigned
Richard Perlman ........ Bruce Bleiweis .............
Bingo night. Bring a book or magazine to
read (there is time when you are waiting).
March 4th –
Happy If you come late, it is still better than not
Susan Poritzky ........... coming at all. Or, if you choose, send the
Masoud Radparvar.....
Debbie Rogers ........... New Year $400.
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Sisterhood Meetings 5769 (2008 – 2009) @ 9:15am
FHC’s Men’s Basketball Schedule
Sunday, Jan.11……………General meeting @ 7:30pm
Sunday, Feb. 1…………… General meeting
Sunday, March 1…………. General meeting Sunday, Jan. 11
Sunday, April 19………….. Joint meeting with MC Sunday, Feb. 8
Sunday, May 3…………….General meeting
Sunday, March 29
Men’s Club Meetings 5769 (2008 – 2009) @ 9:15am Sunday, April 19
Sunday,, May 17
Sunday, Jan.25……………General meeting
Sunday, Feb. 8…………….Downtown Synagogue Sunday, June 14
Sunday, March 8…………. Purim Carnival
Sunday, April 19………….. Joint meeting with Sisterhood If you are homebound and would like
Sunday, May 31………….. BBQ books from the First Hebrew Library,
please contact Beth Shea at 734-
8231 or the Bikkur Holim
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Lyndon Johnson
Sep. 9, 2008 "Lady Bird" Johnson. It was an incredible engagement
present.
Lenny Ben-David, Jerusalem Post
FIVE DAYS after taking office in 1937, LBJ broke with the
A few weeks ago, the Associated Press reported that
"Dixiecrats" and supported an immigration bill that would
newly released tapes from US president Lyndon
naturalize illegal aliens, mostly Jews from Lithuania and
Johnson's White House office showed LBJ's "personal
Poland. In 1938, Johnson was told of a young Austrian
and often emotional connection to Israel." The news
Jewish musician who was about to be deported from the
agency pointed out that during the Johnson presidency
United States. With an element of subterfuge, LBJ sent him
(1963-1969), "the United States became Israel's chief
to the US Consulate in Havana to obtain a residency permit
diplomatic ally and primary arms supplier."
Erich Leinsdorf, the world famous musician and conductor,
But the news report does little to reveal the full historical credited LBJ for saving his live.
extent of Johnson's actions on behalf of the Jewish
That same year, LBJ warned a Jewish friend, Jim Novy,
people and the State of Israel. Most students of the Arab-
that European Jews faced annihilation. "Get as many
Israeli conflict can identify Johnson as the president
Jewish people as possible out [of Germany and Poland],"
during the 1967 war. But few know about LBJ's actions to
were Johnson's instructions. Somehow, Johnson provided
rescue hundreds of endangered Jews during the
him with a pile of signed immigration papers that were used
Holocaust - actions that could have thrown him out of
to get 42 Jews out of Warsaw.
Congress and into jail. Indeed, the title of "Righteous
Gentile" is certainly appropriate in the case of the Texan, But that wasn't enough. According to historian James M.
whose centennial year is being commemorated this year. Smallwood, Congressman Johnson used legal and
sometimes illegal methods to smuggle "hundreds of Jews
Appropriately enough, the annual Jerusalem Conference
into Texas, using Galveston as the entry port. Enough
announced this week that it will honor Johnson in
money could buy false passports and fake visas in Cuba,
February 2009.
Mexico and other Latin American countries.... Johnson
Historians have revealed that Johnson, while serving as smuggled boatloads and planeloads of Jews into Texas.
a young congressman in 1938 and 1939, arranged for He hid them in the Texas National Youth Administration...
visas to be supplied to Jews in Warsaw, and oversaw the Johnson saved at least four or five hundred Jews, possibly
apparently illegal immigration of hundreds of Jews more."
through the port of Galveston, Texas.
During World War II Johnson joined Novy at a small
A key resource for uncovering LBJ's pro-Jewish activity Austin gathering to sell $65,000 in war bonds. According to
is the unpublished 1989 doctoral thesis by University of Gomolak, Novy and Johnson then raised a very
Texas student Louis Gomolak, "Prologue: LBJ's Foreign "substantial sum for arms for Jewish underground fighters
Affairs Background, 1908-1948." Johnson's activities were in Palestine." One source cited by the historian reports that
confirmed by other historians in interviews with his wife, "Novy and Johnson had been secretly shipping heavy
family members and political associates. crates labeled 'Texas Grapefruit' - but containing arms - to
Jewish underground 'freedom fighters' in Palestine."
Research into Johnson's personal history indicates that
he inherited his concern for the Jewish people from his ON JUNE 4, 1945, Johnson visited Dachau. According to
family. His aunt Jessie Johnson Hatcher, a major Smallwood, Lady Bird later recalled that when her husband
influence on LBJ, was a member of the Zionist returned home, "he was still shaken, stunned, terrorized
Organization of America. According to Gomolak, Aunt and bursting with an overpowering revulsion and
Jessie had nurtured LBJ's commitment to befriending incredulous horror at what he had seen."
Jews for 50 years. As a young boy, Lyndon watched his
A decade later while serving in the Senate, Johnson
politically active grandfather "Big Sam" and father "Little
blocked the Eisenhower administration's attempts to apply
Sam" seek clemency for Leo Frank, the Jewish victim of a
sanctions against Israel following the 1956 Sinai Campaign
blood libel in Atlanta. Frank was lynched by a mob in 1915,
"The indefatigable Johnson had never ceased pressure on
and the Ku Klux Klan in Texas threatened to kill the
the administration," wrote I.L. "Si" Kenen, the head of
Johnsons. The Johnsons later told friends that Lyndon's
AIPAC at the time.
family hid in their cellar while his father and uncles stood
guard with shotguns on their porch in case of KKK attacks. As Senate majority leader, Johnson consistently blocked
Johnson's speechwriter later stated, "Johnson often cited the anti-Israel initiatives of his fellow Democrat, William
Leo Frank's lynching as the source of his opposition to Fulbright, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations
both anti-Semitism and isolationism." Committee. Among Johnson's closest advisers during this
period were several strong pro-Israel advocates, including
Already in 1934 - four years before Chamberlain's
Benjamin Cohen (who 30 years earlier was the liaison
Munich sellout to Hitler - Johnson was keenly alert to the
between Supreme Court justice Louis Brandeis and Chaim
dangers of Nazism and presented a book of essays,
Weizmann) and Abe Fortas, the legendary Washington
Nazism: An Assault on Civilization, to the 21-year-old
"insider."
woman he was courting, Claudia Taylor - later known as
January 09 www.FirstHebrew.Org 10
Johnson's concern for the Jewish people continued only three million Israelis. "Because it is right," responded
through his presidency. Soon after taking office in the the straight-shooting Texan.
aftermath of John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963,
The crafting of UN Resolution 242 in November 1967 was
Johnson told an Israeli diplomat, "You have lost a very
done under Johnson's scrutiny. The call for "secure and
great friend, but you have found a better one."
recognized boundaries" was critical. The American and
Just one month after succeeding Kennedy, LBJ attended British drafters of the resolution opposed Israel returning all
the December 1963 dedication of the Agudas Achim the territories captured in the war. In September 1968,
Synagogue in Austin. Novy opened the ceremony by Johnson explained, "We are not the ones to say where
saying to Johnson, "We can't thank him enough for all other nations should draw lines between them that will
those Jews he got out of Germany during the days of assure each the greatest security. It is clear, however, that
Hitler." a return to the situation of 4 June 1967 will not bring peace.
There must be secure and there must be recognized
Lady Bird would later describe the day, according to
borders. Some such lines must be agreed to by the
Gomolak: "Person after person plucked at my sleeve and
neighbors involved."
said, 'I wouldn't be here today if it wasn't for him. He
helped me get out.'" Lady Bird elaborated, "Jews had Goldberg later noted, "Resolution 242 in no way refers to
been woven into the warp and woof of all [Lyndon's] Jerusalem, and this omission was deliberate." This historic
years." diplomacy was conducted under Johnson's stewardship, as
Goldberg related in oral history to the Johnson Library. "I
THE PRELUDE to the 1967 war was a terrifying period
must say for Johnson," Goldberg stated. "He gave me great
for Israel, with the US State Department led by the
personal support."
historically unfriendly Dean Rusk urging an evenhanded
policy despite Arab threats and acts of aggression. Robert David Johnson, a professor of history at Brooklyn
Johnson held no such illusions. After the war he placed College, recently wrote in The New York Sun, "Johnson's
the blame firmly on Egypt: "If a single act of folly was policies stemmed more from personal concerns - his
more responsible for this explosion than any other, it was friendship with leading Zionists, his belief that America had
the arbitrary and dangerous announced decision [by a moral obligation to bolster Israeli security and his
Egypt] that the Strait of Tiran would be closed [to Israeli conception of Israel as a frontier land much like his home
ships and Israeli-bound cargo]." state of Texas. His personal concerns led him to intervene
when he felt that the State or Defense departments had
Kennedy was the first president to approve the sale of
insufficiently appreciated Israel's diplomatic or military
defensive US weapons to Israel, specifically Hawk anti-
needs."
aircraft missiles. But Johnson approved tanks and fighter
jets, all vital after the 1967 war when France imposed a President Johnson firmly pointed American policy in a pro-
freeze on sales to Israel. Yehuda Avner recently Israel direction. In a historical context, the American
described on these pages prime minister Levi Eshkol's emergency airlift to Israel in 1973, the constant diplomatic
successful appeal for these weapons on a visit to the LBJ support, the economic and military assistance and the
ranch. strategic bonds between the two countries can all be
credited to the seeds planted by LBJ.
Israel won the 1967 war, and Johnson worked to make
sure it also won the peace. "I sure as hell want to be The writer served as deputy chief of mission of the Israeli
careful and not run out on little Israel," Johnson said in a Embassy in Washington. Today, an international consultant
March 1968 conversation with his ambassador to the he blogs at www.lennybendavid.com.
United Nations, Arthur Goldberg, according to White
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House tapes recently released.
Soon after the 1967 war, Soviet premier Aleksei Kosygin Edith Nissenblatt
asked Johnson at the Glassboro Summit why the US Sisterhood VP/Education
supported Israel when there were 80 million Arabs and
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Share your memories
Everyone has a story to tell. Most of us Edith Nissenblatt
would love to tell about our mom and dad,
One Lakeview Drive, Penthouse Six
our bubie and zadie, a loved tante and fetta,
Peekskill, New York 10566
people who fill our memory no matter how
or if you are on the Internet, send email to:
far back.
ediebaby@verizon.net
Won’t you let us in on your past? Send your
precious memories to:
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Yahrzeits
The following Yahrzeits will be observed during the months of Tevet and Sh’vat as
noted on the memorial plaque in our sanctuary:
Eric Hillel Hersh.................... Tevet 1 Tillie Silverstein..............Tevet 26 Capt. Julius "Duke" Hersh. Shevat 12
Nancy L. Pines ..................... Tevet 1 Morris Miller ...................Tevet 29 Dr. Franklin L. Kessler ...... Shevat 13
Louise Hersh ........................ Tevet 2 Cheryl R. Lindenbaum ...... Shevat 13
Raymond Smalheiser........... Tevet 3 Ruth Schulman ..............Shevat 1 Harriet Nathan................... Shevat 13
Samuel Liebowitz ................. Tevet 5 Gertrude Brill Roberts....Shevat 2 Shirley Silverstein ............. Shevat 13
Lena Fleischer...................... Tevet 6 Esther Sara Kessler ......Shevat 3 Ada Halperin ..................... Shevat 14
Agatha Alterman .................. Tevet 8 Samuel S. Pines............Shevat 3 Abraham Goldstein ........... Shevat 16
Bessie Bergman................... Tevet 8 Martin I. Nissenblatt.......Shevat 4 Rose Miller ........................ Shevat 16
Betty Asen............................ Tevet 9 Sue Goldberg ................Shevat 5 Jack Heck.......................... Shevat 17
Jacob Schragis..................... Tevet 9 Nina Golden Halper.......Shevat 5 Frieda Wesler.................... Shevat 22
Bernard Gerber .................... Tevet 10 Max Bergman ................Shevat 6 Harry Kaufman.................. Shevat 23
Bella Goldstein ..................... Tevet 11 Max Rosenbaum ...........Shevat 6 Mildred S. Agunien............ Shevat 24
Jerome Silverstein................ Tevet 11 Norman Cohen ..............Shevat 7 Fay Katzman ..................... Shevat 24
Dina Herschorn .................... Tevet 12 Dorothy Drogy ...............Shevat 7 Goldie Rosenbaum ........... Shevat 24
Molly Ephraim ...................... Tevet 13 Oscar Levitz...................Shevat 7 Shelley Weiler ................... Shevat 24
Bessie Levine....................... Tevet 14 Bessie Bergman ............Shevat 8 Nathan Katz ...................... Shevat 25
Yitzhak Czigler ..................... Tevet 15 Betty Drogy....................Shevat 8 Tillie Silverstein ................. Shevat 26
Samuel Ephraim................... Tevet 15 Daniel Halperin ..............Shevat 8 Frank Smalheiser.............. Shevat 27
Sidney H. Fisch .................... Tevet 17 Jacob Schragis ..............Shevat 9 Bessie Richman ................ Shevat 28
Reverend Simon Domowitz . Tevet 18 Sarah Cohn ...................Shevat 11 Aaron Weiler ..................... Shevat 28
Fannie Schragis ................... Tevet 19 Bessie Goldstein ...........Shevat 11 Zalman Grifka.................... Shevat 30
Sara Ganeles ....................... Tevet 26 Lester Smalheiser .........Shevat 11
Arthur Ruina ......................... Tevet 26 Ernest Feldman .............Shevat 12

May their memory be a blessing to all


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Date Converter Tevet 14 ..... Sat 10-Jan Shevat 1 .... Mon 26-Jan Shevat 17 .... Wed 11-Feb
Tevet 15 ..... Sun 11-Jan Shevat 2 .... Tue 27-Jan Shevat 18 .... Thu 12-Feb
Kislev 30 ..... Sat 27-Dec Tevet 16 ..... Mon 12-Jan Shevat 3 .... Wed 28-Jan Shevat 19 .... Fri 13-Feb
Tevet 1 ..... Sun 28-Dec Tevet 17 ..... Tue 13-Jan Shevat 4 .... Thu 29-Jan Shevat 20 .... Sat 14-Feb
Tevet 2 ..... Mon 29-Dec Tevet 18 ..... Wed 14-Jan Shevat 5 .... Fri 30-Jan Shevat 21 .... Sun 15-Feb
Tevet 3 ..... Tue 30-Dec Tevet 19 ..... Thu 15-Jan Shevat 6 .... Sat 31-Jan Shevat 22 .... Mon 16-Feb
Tevet 4 ..... Wed 31-Dec Tevet 20 ..... Fri 16-Jan Shevat 7 .... Sun 1-Feb Shevat 23 .... Tue 17-Feb
Tevet 5 ..... Thu 1-Jan Tevet 21 ..... Sat 17-Jan Shevat 8 .... Mon 2-Feb Shevat 24 .... Wed 18-Feb
Tevet 6 ..... Fri 2-Jan Tevet 22 .... Sun 18-Jan Shevat 9 .... Tue 3-Feb Shevat 25 .... Thu 19-Feb
Tevet 7 ..... Sat 3-Jan Tevet 23 .... Mon 19-Jan Shevat 10 .... Wed 4-Feb Shevat 26 .... Fri 20-Feb
Tevet 8 ..... Sun 4-Jan Tevet 24 ..... Tue 20-Jan Shevat 11 .... Thu 5-Feb Shevat 27 .... Sat 21-Feb
Tevet 9 .... Mon 5-Jan Tevet 25 ..... Wed 21-Jan Shevat 12 .... Fri 6-Feb Shevat 28 .... Sun 22-Feb
Tevet 10 ..... Tue 6-Jan Tevet 26 ..... Thu 22-Jan Shevat 13 .... Sat 7-Feb Shevat 29 .... Mon 23-Feb
Tevet 11 ..... Wed 7-Jan Tevet 27 ..... Fri 23-Jan Shevat 14 .... Sun 8-Feb Shevat 30 .... Tue 24-Feb
Tevet 12 ..... Thu 8-Jan Tevet 28 ..... Sat 24-Jan Shevat 15 .... Mon 9-Feb Adar 1 .... Wed 25-Feb
Tevet 13 ..... Fri 9-Jan Tevet 29 ..... Sun 25-Jan Shevat 16 .... Tue 10-Feb

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”
January 09 www.FirstHebrew.Org 12
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…

Make your purchases with the store’s own gift


card purchased through the FHC Scrip Program.

Stores donate a percentage of all gift cards


bought through SCRIP to non-profits like FHC.

Turn Purchasing Power into Fundraising at:


iTunes Macy’s CVS
Starbucks Dunkin Donuts Claire’s
Staples Home Depot Build-A-Bear
Gap Kohl’s Barnes & Noble
A&P Stop & Shop ShopRite
Movies, restaurants, & more!
Order by the end of the month for pick-up after the 10th
Visa & MasterCard accepted on orders over $500
For details call Susan Cohen 734-2149/Lili Kasdan 737-8248
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Friday, January 2
ONEGS
• Mary Goldfarb in honor of her granddaughter Adena Goldfarb’s birthday on January 3
• Mort Bensky in honor of Charles Nathan’s birthday on January 4
• Roshi & Ben Newman in honor of their children Eileen & Steven Litchfield’s wedding anniversary on
January 7
• The Levy family in honor of Louise’s birthday on January 8
• The Schefflein family in honor of Paul’s birthday on January 8

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

In memory of: Philip Zamaloff – Roshi & Ben Newman


Mollie Feldman – Roshi & Ben Newman

Rabbi’s Discretionary Fund: Carol Gold & Wayne Schechter, Carol Schlacter,
Downtown Shul

Help support our Hebrew School when you shop online.

Visit the congregation’s website: www.FirstHebrew.Org for details.

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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

Tree of Life Miscellaneous


(in honor of a birth, Bar or Bat Mitzvah, wedding, special Bricks (exterior near front entrance, for any life event
anniversaries, life events, in memoriam, etc.) or message, engraved)…………………………….$150
Leaf…………….$100 Classroom named for a family member................$25,000
Rock……………$250 Library or lounge named for a family member….. $50,000
Root……………$350 Wall Plaques: please inquire
Memorial Plate..$500
Other Donation Ideas
Books Gifts of highly appreciated stock or real estate—save on
(plate on inside cover recognizes your gift and names income tax while avoiding capital gains taxes!
those you wish to honor) Scholarships—for youth programs and camps and travel
Siddurim........... $35 to Israel.
Mahzorim..........$25 ===========================================
Chumashim...... $50 Note: Recognition for all gifts will be provided in the
Bulletin (as well as on the particular item if warranted).
Library Fund
General Fund Gifts (i.e., purchases at library discretion) All donations are tax deductible to the extent allowed by
Specific Purchase Gifts (i.e. book series or encyclopedia) law. Please consult your tax advisor for specific advice on
tax savings through charitable gifts.
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Bikkur Holim Committee

All those interested in joining our


Bikkur Holim/Nihum Avelim committee
and fulfilling the mitzvah of visiting the
sick / comforting the bereaved, please
contact Daniela Rosen @ 734-7282

Send TORAH FUND donation cards for all occasions

$3 per card w/envelope


$25 per 10 cards w/envelopes

We have three additional new cards •Thank you


•Thinking of you Visit us on the web:
• Sympathy

Call to have card sent — $3 per card www.FirstHebrew.org


Torah Fund Chairperson —
Shelley Kessler • 739-0781

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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.

To sponsor the Bulletin,


contact Bon Venture @ 800-364-0684 or http://www.bonventure.net/

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.

Articles for the March 2009 Bulletin are due by:


Wednesday, January 28 , 2009
Articles for the February 2009 Bulletin are due by Wednesday, December 24, 2008
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Ethiopian Jewry
Jeff and I recently attended the annual board Every day we pray to keep faith with those who
meeting of NACOEJ (North American Conference on sleep in the dust. This powerful metaphor invokes
Ethiopian Jewry). humility as it harkens back to the days when
communities of our people actually slept on the
In Gondar, Ethiopia, the Jewish community of
ground. Those days are not over. Participants in
8,700 live in dung covered huts, most people actually
this mission will see the smiling faces of welcome
sleep on the ground. They might be the last Jewish
and hope. To save one life is like saving the world.
community in the world in need of being saved from
the daily quest to stave off starvation. Immigration to Let us know that you are interested in taking part
Israel is slow, and the community needs to be fed. in this unique mission, and we'll share more of the
specific details. Also, please, share this message
Unfortunately, they have been forgotten in the
with your contacts.
American Jewish community, and some grant
funding has dried up. Because of an 81% increase in B'shalom,
the cost of food, the lunch program needed to be
Rabbi Jeff & Mindy (Radler) Glickman
suspended for the months of June and July. In 2008,
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no Jewish community should be forced with the daily
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decision of whether or not they can afford to put a
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Jeff is a board member of NACOEJ and together
Other opportunities to assist are available by
we are organizing an awareness and fundraising trip
checking out Nacoej.org
in mid-January or February. The goal is to fly 10
people as witnesses to Gondar (five days, including http://nacoej.org/mitzvahprojecttools.html
flights), to see the Jewish community and to commit If you are interested, please contact Alice
to raising $20,000 per person. Yasuna: selu@optonline.net.

ICE - 'In Case of Emergency'


We all carry our mobile phones with names & numbers stored in its memory but nobody, other than
ourselves, knows which of these numbers belong to our closest family or friends.
If we were to be involved in an accident or were taken ill, the people attending us would have our mobile
phone but wouldn't know who to call. Yes, there are hundreds of numbers stored but which one is the
contact person in case of an emergency? Hence the 'ICE' (In Case of Emergency) Campaign.
The concept of 'ICE' is catching on quickly. It is a method of contact during emergency situations. As cell
(mobile) phones are carried by the majority of the population, all you need to do is store the number of a
contact person or persons who should be contacted during emergency under the name 'ICE' ( In Case Of
Emergency).
The idea was thought up by a paramedic who found that when he went to the scenes of accidents, there
were always mobile phones with patients, but they didn't know which number to call. He therefore thought
that it would be a good idea if there was a nationally recognized name for this purpose. In an emergency
situation, Emergency Service personnel and hospital Staff would be able to quickly contact the right person
by simply dialing the number you have stored as 'ICE.‘
For more than one contact name simply enter ICE1, ICE2 and ICE3 etc.
A great idea that will make a difference!

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The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's Team In Training® is the world's largest sports training program. This
program provides training to run or walk marathons and half marathons or participate in triathlons, bike rides
and hikes. By helping to raise funds for leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma research and patient services,
you'll receive:
- Personalized fitness training by certified coaches for a period of four to five months
- Training clinics
- Airfare and lodging while at your event
- Your own personal Web site for online fundraising
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• Scarsdale Public Library on January 8th at 6:30pm.
• New City Library on January 10th at 10:00 am.
• New Rochelle Public Library on January 12th at 6:30 pm.
• Parker Corporate Building Cafeteria (1311 Mamaroneck Ave.) on January 15th at 6:00 pm.

Our mission: Cure leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin's Disease, and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of
patients and their families.
We are currently recruiting for the following events:
• Country Music 1/2 Marathon- April 25, 2009 • America's Most Beautiful Bike Ride- June 7, 2009
• St. Anthony's Triathlon- April 26, 2009 • Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes Triathlon- June 20, 2009
• Grand Canyon Hike- May 18, 2009 • Mayor's Marathon & Half Marathon- June 20, 2009
• Rock 'n' Roll Marathon- May 31, 2009 • We hope you join the TEAM in 2009!

Visit http://www.teamintraining.org/wch or call 914-949-0488 for a list of events offered, as well as other
upcoming information meetings in your area.

New Year Blessing


Dear Lord,
This New Year, please take an
extra minute from your duties
up above, to bless those in my
address book that's filled with so
much love.
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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,
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