November 2017

VOLUME 123 NUMBER 3 NOVEMBER 2017 T H E B U L L E T I N O F R E F O R M C O N G R E G A T I O N K E N E S&E TTHH EI SMR AE YE EL R S L I B R A R YJoin us for these exciting eventswith Rabbi Lance J. Sussman, Ph.D.IsraAID-Veterans Shabbat Evening Servicewith Guest Speaker Erin Zaikis,CEO of IsraAID-US, an Israel-based humanitarianorganization operating worldwideFriday, November 3, 8:00 p.m.Rabbi’s Fall Forum #2 of 3“Oyfn Pripetshik: Politics in the Pale”with Joan Myerson Shrager, M.Ed.Sponsored by the Rosenau FundSunday, November 5, 10:00 a.m.Kristallnacht Shabbat Evening Service:Remembering Regina Jonas (1902-1944),Pioneer, Rabbi, Holocaust HeroineFriday, November 10, 8:00 p.m.Masterpieces of Jewish Literature:“The Book of Job”Wednesday, November 15, 7:30 p.m.Rabbi’s Fall Forum #3 of 3“Oyfn Pripetshik: World of Yiddish Literature”with Joan Myerson Shrager, M.Ed.Sponsored by the Rosenau FundSunday, November 19, 10:00 a.m.Shabbat Evening Service with Sermon,“On the 100th Anniversary of Balfour Declaration”Friday, November 24, 8:00 p.m. Photo by Joan Myerson Shrager

KI Information President’s Our Building Makes KI Strong Our kitchen remains busy with preparations Message for KI social functions as well as monthly In 1951, the KI Board approved the sale of HaMotzi dinners for the food insecure, Cook for Evonne J. Kruger, our Broad Street buildings to Temple University a Friend meals assembled for KleinLife, and our President so we could follow our members to the suburbs. annual Hanukkah dinner for Federation Housing Land was acquired, plans drawn, and ground residents. Our Main broken. We moved in on July 16, 1957, although Sanctuary is looped dedication was in December l959, concurrent The K/G Auditorium is busy throughout the for those who have with the completion of Rabbi Korn’s 10th year. week. Almost every weekend it is in use by either T Coil-Enabled KI or rented to members of our community. Hearing aids For 60 years, our building has helped make Yes, our building strengthens not only KI butor cochlear implant processors. KI strong by providing a deeply-rooted sense of Eastern Montgomery County as well.Additionally, the FM system is SODFH DQG DPD]LQJ ÁH[LELOLW\ WKDW VXSSRUWV RXUalso available. members and community. 7KH JODVVHGLQ RIÀFH LQ WKH PDLQ RIÀFH which has held many occupants through KI On The Radio The Korn Sanctuary has undergone several the years, presently houses Jaimie Shmelzer, VLJQLÀFDQW FKDQJHV LQ UHVSRQVH WR RXU PHPEHUV· Membership Engagement Director, who works WWDB 860 AM changing sense of spirituality. The Landau with staff on member engagement, retention, Shabbat stained glass windows were installed in 1974, and recruitment. Morning Service adding beauty that continually reminds us of the at 10:00 a.m. prophetic quest. In 2012 the lower bimah was Our building provided the space we needed Includes a broadcast of added, creating a more intimate feeling during in the 1950s through 2000 for a large school and Friday Night’s Sermon. VHUYLFHV DQG SHUPLWWLQJ SURJUDPPDWLF ÁH[LELOLW\ family activities. Today it houses an increasing Radio broadcasts are In 2016 we led the way nationally with visual number of social action, adult education, social sponsored by the 7·ÀOORW ZLWK SURMHFWRUV VFUHHQV DQG VWUHDPLQJ MXVWLFH DQG FXOWXUDO DFWLYLWLHV 2XU VDFUHG VSDFH Tyson Radio Fund. Our sanctuary is also used by our Music Arts has been updated to meet the changing spiritual Committee to showcase world-class talent, and needs of our members. We have the ability to for large presentations such as Rabbi’s forums rent space to those with similar missions; this that reach our entire community. KDV KDG D VLJQLÀFDQW SRVLWLYH EXGJHWDU\ LPSDFW 7KDQNV WR VHYHUDO VLJQLÀFDQW JLIWV WKH The many activities going on throughout Neumann Chapel now has individual chairs, full our building send the message that KI is warm, FDUSHWLQJ D GLJLWDO SLDQR VFUHHQ SURMHFWRU DQG inviting, involved, and spiritually alive: the place VWUHDPLQJ ,W HDVLO\ FKDQJHV FRQÀJXUDWLRQ WR WR EH WKH SODFH WR MRLQ adapt to different uses. Our KI has been a house of prayer, a Our museum was added to the Fineshriber house of meeting, and a house of study for 60 /REE\ LQ  ZKHQ 7HPSOH -XGHD MRLQHG XV \HDUV ,WV ÁH[LELOLW\ KDV FRQWLQXHG WR PDNH XV The Meyers Library is now the core of a cultural strong, and its welcoming presence makes our center, surrounded by the Archives, Preschool community strong. Our building is a tangible Arts Alive: Words Alive Gallery, and museum symbol that we are here and we will be here for RIÀFH years to come. Thanks to Bernard Liebowitz’s Rabbi Sussman’s 2017 Fall Forums: transformative gift, the Evelyn Liebowitz Oyfn Pripetshik Education Center will soon be dedicated on Lance J. Sussman, Ph.D. WKH ÀUVW ÁRRU RIIHULQJ D G\QDPLF OHDUQLQJ with Joan Myerson Shrager, M.Ed. environment for our JQuest B’Yachad students. Sponsored by the Rosenau Fund While the Rothschild Auditorium wing Politics in the Pale SURYLGHG ÁH[LEOH VSDFH ZKHQ RXU VFKRRO ZDV Sunday, November 5, 10:00 a.m. very large, it has been the spiritual home of Melrose B’nai Israel Emmanu–El for the past World of Yiddish Literature ÀYH \HDUV Sunday, November 19, 10:00 a.m.2 NOVEMBER 2017

From the BimahStaying Strong: American Anti-Semitism Today Rabbi’s Message $QWL6HPLWLVP KDV H[LVWHG VLQFH $EUDKDP DQG Center. The ADL claims that anti-Sarah, but the term itself is modern. It was coined in Semitic incidents peaked in 2006 atWKH PLGWK FHQWXU\ UHÁHFWLQJ WKH WKHQ QHZ UDFLDOL]HG 1,154, then increased by one-thirdmeaning of hatred toward Jews and Judaism, but quickly LQ  ZLWK WKH ELJJHVW MXPS LQH[SDQGHG WR DOO IRUPV RI DQLPXV DJDLQVW XV &RPSDUHG WR November and December. So far inalmost any other country, anti-Semitism in America has 2017, the rate is up 87 percent.been relatively light and rarely lethal. Incontrovertibly, What are the new sources of anti-we are witnessing a measurable uptick in domestic anti- 6HPLWLVP\" 7KHUH DUH H[WUHPLVWV RQSemitism, and we must stay informed be prepared to the American left, “Antifa” groups,counter it through education, legal efforts and legislation. characterized as anti-fascist, anti-racist,Jewish life in the New World began as a function and anti-globalist. Many are communistof vicious anti-Semitism in Spain and Portugal. Dutch, or anarchistic or both. However,WKHQ (QJOLVK FRORQLHV ZHUH WKH ÀUVW WR DFFHSW SUDFWLFLQJ many conservative and libertarian Rabbi Lance J.Jews, but not without discrimination. The most dramatic groups agree that the far right is even Sussman, Ph.D.display of American anti-Semitism was during the Civil more dangerous. A Cato Institute:DU ZKHQ WKH 86 $UP\ WHPSRUDULO\ H[SHOOHG -HZV IURP study shows nationalist and right-the southern states. Had Lincoln not reversed that 1862 wing terrorists have killed 10 times asorder, the civil status of Jews would have been deeply many people since 1992 as left-wingdamaged. terrorists.There was a sharp upturn of American anti-Semitism For American Jews today, theduring the Gilded Age, leading to restrictive covenants biggest concerns are the alt-right and random violence againstagainst Jews, their ability to do business, belong to Jewish property, organizations and persons. In Europe, theorganizations and live in neighborhoods of their choice. Muslim threat to Jews is considered greater than the threat fromIn 1924, Congress all but closed America to Jewish the right. By far our greatest concern are the groups responsibleimmigration. While Jews were not the only group to for this summer’s “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville,suffer because of the Johnson Acts, the consequences of Virginia, including key alt-right leaders, supremacist organizationsthe restrictive legislation for European Jews during the and militias. The shock of seeing tiki torch-carrying white1930s and World War II was catastrophic. supremacists and Nazi demonstrators was compounded byAnti-Semitism in the United States waned after the President’s equivocal post-rally statements. Many felt heWorld War II. Jews became more Americanized in their normalized racism and anti-Semitism. Others pointed out thesecond and third generations. Most of all, the civil contradiction in his condemnation of protests involving therights movement challenged the deepest structures and $PHULFDQ ÁDJ DW 1)/ JDPHV EXW WRWDO ODFN RI FRQGHPQDWLRQ RIpractices of anti-Semitism in America, as part of its drive 1D]L ÁDJV ... V\PEROV DQG RWKHU GLVSOD\V RI H[WUHPH UDFLVPto break Jim Crowism. American Jews seem more unnerved than ever, and donations toPreviously closed industries opened up to American the ADL are at 1000 percent the normal rate.Jews. New neighborhoods were more diverse. By the In my opinion, the fear in our community is NOT that ourHDUO\ V WKH ÀUVW VWDWLVWLFDO HYLGHQFH RI PL[HG neighbors have become anti-Semitic over night, or that a dormantmarriage was detected, signaling a new kind of social anti-Semitism in America has awoken. The real concern is thatDFFHSWDQFH :LWKLQ  \HDUV PL[HG PDUULDJH ZRXOG dangerous, fringe elements are legitimized as true players in ourbecome statistically normal among American Jews, and essential national discussions. Given anti-Semitism’s long globaltens of millions of Americans now found themselves history, we must take any uptick seriously, especially any effortwith Jewish relatives. to legitimize it as a basis for political action or governance.,Q WKH ÀQDO TXDUWHU RI WKH WK FHQWXU\ -HZV ZHUH Supporting the ADL, strengthening Jewish life, especially ourincreasingly accepted in many areas of American society, synagogue, working with non-Jewish friends and vigilance arefrom hospital boards to museums to the administration critical.of Ivy League schools. Israel, following the 1967 war, Deep down, I do not believe that anti-Semitism here willforged a relationship with the American government resemble Germany in 1932, Russia in 1832, or Spain in 1432.and military, and organizations like AIPAC spanned both We do have a problem, but we have other internal problemssides of the aisle in Congress. too: lack of Jewish education, declining rates of synagogueHate in America spiked again after the 2000 census DIÀOLDWLRQ JHQHUDWLRQDO FRQWLQXLW\ DGHTXDWH IXQGLQJ DQG PRUHpredicted that white Americans would no longer be For centuries, as we complete each book of the Torah we haveWKH PDMRULW\ JURXS DIWHU  DV D UHVXOW RI LQFUHDVHG said: Hazak, Hazak, V’tnithazaik, be strong, be strong and let+LVSDQLF LPPLJUDWLRQ $SSUR[LPDWHO\  KDWH JURXSV us strengthen one another! We were strong when our strengthH[LVWHG LQ  ZKLFK GRXEOHG E\  DQG SHDNHG LQ seemed inadequate, we must remain strong today and continue to2011 at 1,018, according to the Southern Poverty Law be strong in the future, because our work is not yet done.SUPPORT KI! Call 215-887-8700 or visit www.kenesethisrael.org. Thank you! SHALOM KI 3

From the BimahCantor’s Encouraging Heart-CenteredMessage Spirituality, Giving & ConnectionCantor ,Q DQ HIIRUW WR H[SDQG .,·V RXWUHDFK WR paper towels, coffee, and personal hygiene items.Amy E. Levy food insecure people in our community, I Because the need is so great at this time of year, recently visited a local food pantry, Inter-Faith we would like to give 25 percent of our food Food Cupboard of Abington, along with our donations to the Food Cupboard, and reserve the congregants, Judi Metz (Chair of our Tzedek UHVW IRU +D0RW]L 3OHDVH KHOS XV ÀOO WKH QHHG E\ Center), and Margie Curtis-Cohen (Chair of donating whenever possible! Social Action). The Food Cupboard functions under the larger umbrella organization, the In other news, we will have a wonderful Inter-Faith Housing Alliance, and has operated opportunity to try out our recently- renovated since 1970. It is located in the Holy Trinity Neumann Chapel and make the space come alive Church, which donates space and covers utility at Shabbat LaLev, Friday, Nov. 17 at 7:00 p.m. bills. Beck Kelly, (pictured above, far right), is 3OHDVH MRLQ XV IRU WKLV WUDQVIRUPDWLRQDO UHQHZDO the coordinator for the Food Cupboard, and style Shabbat “of the heart,” featuring meditative she gave us an inside look into how a food music and uplifting prayer that engages heart, pantry works, and what food is needed most. mind and body. Come with an open heart, leave We learned that the clientele range from college with an uplifted spirit! students to the elderly to families in the area. She reminded us that many people are working, but don’t earn enough to make ends meet. Much like HaMotzi, items most needed LQFOXGH MHOO\ SDVWD VDXFH FDQQHG PHDWV DQG ÀVK Preschool So Many Reasons to Be Thankful at Our Preschool News 2FWREHU ZDV YHU\ H[FLWLQJ IRU RXU SUHVFKRRO :H KDYH PRGLÀHG DQG LPSURYHG RXU LQIDQW Liz Z. Sussman, ,W EHJDQ ZLWK DQ H[WUHPHO\ JHQHURXV GRQDWLRQ center, allowing us to include more babies in our M.Ed. Director of from the grandparents of one of our families, sought-after program. Our center now boasts Early Childhood Jeff and Betsy Smith, in partnership with Queen two rooms, offering a smooth transition from Education $SSOLDQFH ZKR FRQWULEXWHG ÀYH UHIULJHUDWRUV infants to pre-walkers to toddlers, grouping to our school. This enabled us to improve children based on developmental milestones and4 NOVEMBER 2017 our cafeteria, which now has an allocated readiness. refrigerator, and many classrooms can now keep lunches cool in their own refrigerator. As We are also thankful for another development we enter this month of thankfulness, we are so in our school. Our Preschool parents have grateful for the generosity of Jeff and Betsy! FUHDWHG WKHLU RZQ 372 DQG ZLOO KROG WKHLU ÀUVW fundraiser on November 5th, from 2-4 p.m. in Every Friday, our whole school gathers in the Youth Lounge, selling through the retailers the Chapel for a Tot Shabbat celebration. Each Rodan+Fields, Thirty-One and LuLaRoe. Please class takes their place on the bimah and sings a come see our PTO in action and do some Shabbat song before we do blessings and head shopping, too! to the classrooms for a delicious challah snack. We have implemented a monthly tzedakah Finally, we look forward to hosting our all- collection during Tot Shabbat and so far, we school Thanksgiving Feast in the K/G, where have provided 160 meals to PhilaBundance the children and their families will start the DQG UDLVHG RYHU  IRU UHVHDUFK DW WKH )R[ Thanksgiving break with their own special Chase Cancer Center. Our November tzedakah celebration of food, songs and crafts. collection will include a special guest, to help teach the children about where their donations We are so thankful for our Preschool go how they help. children and their families, and to the entire KI community for their continued support!

WorshipMake a Date with Shabbat… Trees for Israel If you wish to purchase a tree, in memory or honor of a loved one, in the KI Forest in Israel, please contact the KI Office, 215-887-8700.We will be happy to mail a beautiful tree certificate for you. The cost is $18, checks are payable to: KI Forest, 8339 Old York Road Elkins Park, PA 19027.Shabbat LaLevFriday, November 17 @ 7pm Save the date for ourcome with an open heart & leave with an uplifted spirit Congregationalpm Hanukkah DinnerNovember Worship Schedule Friday, Dec. 15Friday,November 3 Friday,November 10 5:00 p.m.Havdalah 5:30 p.m.Havdalah MoreShabbat Vayera ~ Shabbat Chayei Sarah Service - Service - Bat Mitzvah ofGenesis 18:1 ~ Genesis 23:1 Bat Mitzvah of Jane Lily Sarah Goldstein information8:00 p.m.IsraAID- 6:00 p.m.Tot Shabbat Rebecca Rosenthal coming soon!Veterans Shabbat Service Friday,November 24Evening Service with 8:00 p.m.Kristallnacht Friday,November 17 Shabbat Vayetzei ~ SHALOM KI 5Guest Speaker Erin Shabbat Evening Shabbat Toledot ~ Genesis 28:10Zaikis, CEO of Service: Remembering Genesis 25:19 8:00 p.m.ShabbatIsraAID-US Regina Jonas (1902- 7:00 p.m.Shabbat LaLev Evening Service - LJS 1944), Pioneer, Rabbi, with 11th Grade sermon“On the 100thSaturday,November 4 Holocaust Heroine Anniversary of Balfour9:00 a.m.Torah Study Saturday,November 18 Declaration”10:30 a.m.Shabbat Saturday,November 11 9:00 a.m.Torah StudyMorning Service 9:00 a.m.Torah Study 10:30 a.m.Shabbat Saturday,November 25 10:30 a.m.Shabbat Morning Service 9:00 a.m.Torah Study Morning Service - 2:00 p.m. Rydal Park 10:30 a.m.Shabbat Bar Mitzvah of Max Shabbat Morning Service Austin KronstadtSUPPORT KI! Call 215-887-8700 or visit www.kenesethisrael.org. Thank you!

Youth and EducationJQuest Getting an Early Start on Hanukkah MitzvotB’Yachad Every year at KI, in the spirit of kindling are then delivered to homebound and elderlyRabbi StacyEskovitz Rigler, light and goodness in the community DGXOWV :H HQFRXUDJH DOO NLWFKHQ H[SHUWV LQ RXUDirector ofReligious during Hanukkah, we have planned various ., FRQJUHJDWLRQ WR MRLQ XV IRU VRPH FRPPXQDOEducation opportunities for our members to perform cooking! RSVP to [email protected] mitzvot. We are trying to be more intentional We hope everyone will support our friends with our mitzvot this year. In years past, we have at the Lowell School by purchasing new school organized a Mitzvah Day on December 25th uniforms, supplies and/or toys for the students at KI, but recently it has seemed like we have there who so desperately need them. The Lowell EHHQ VWUXJJOLQJ WR ÀQG PHDQLQJIXO \HW SUDFWLFDO School is a Kindergarten – 4th grade school. activities for people to do. While the “mitzvahs” They need uniforms: light blue polo shirts and made some members feel good, they have not navy or khaki pants, sizes four to 16. They been as constructive as we would hope. Last year also need the following clothing: underwear, we wrapped Christmas gifts for school children socks, winter coats, hats and gloves. Also school that day, but they therefore did not receive the supplies: pencils, notebooks, paper, crayons, gifts until January. markers, rulers, backpacks, and educational This year we are doing things a little bit games: math and spelling cards, and matching differently for our Hanukkah Mitzvot. First, we and memory games. will be setting up our Mitzvah Menorah earlier We are also collecting non-perishable food this year, so look for it in the lobby around mid- and general supplies, (paper towels, toothpaste, November and please donate! Also, we will wrap soap, feminine hygiene products, etc.) for guests the gifts we collect in the Mitzvah Menorah at at our HaMotzi dinners. While some of these the congregational Hanukkah dinner prior to our collections are ongoing, the toys/gifts for Hanukkah Shabbat service on December 15th. Lowell kids are being wrapped on December That way everything can be delivered before 15th, so please bring them to KI by then. Also, Christmas. your donations of wrapping paper are greatly One activity that will take place at KI on appreciated! Help spread the light of the season December 25th at 9:00 a.m. will be cooking for to our friends and neighbors, and please be as the KleinLife “Cook For a Friend” program, generous as possible! Many thanks! where volunteers will help prepare meals thatKIFTY Fun Not to Be Missed! battled head-to-head to escape the Rosh September 24th and had a great group of Hashanah-themed room. kids join us in tie-dye, gaga, and games.By Julie Ostroff, KIFTY President We hope that all our families with 2nd- KIFTY has exciting events planned 6th graders will join in our upcoming The KIFTY Board sincerely hopes for this year, including latkes and laser- events, including family ice skating, ourthat all of our KI families had a tag, snow tubing, a Sky Zone and JRA movie marathon, and a party to closemeaningful High Holy Day season! We event (also known as Bounce and Box), out the year.warmly welcome all of our new families our annual shul-in, and a couple ofand new KIFTY members, and send programs for Quest Noar on Tuesdays. If you are not yet a part of KIFTYa big “thank you” to KI families who The new KIFTY Board is optimistic and or Club KIFTY, we hope that you willcontinue to support KIFTY by sending eager for the year ahead, and we look join us this year for the fun programs weyour kids to events. forward to running events, attending have planned. If you have any questions regional NFTY events, and growing and or concerns, you can always reach out to After successfully hosting NFTY- improving our youth group as a whole. our advisor, Danielle Strauss atPAR’s WINSTY this past year, as well as [email protected] in a number of new members Club KIFTY is also growing andfrom KI, KIFTY cannot wait for the has some amazing events planned. Weexciting year ahead. KIFTY rang in 5778 hosted our Welcome Back party onwith an “escape the room”-themed eventin mid-September, where two teams6 NOVEMBER 2017

In Our CommunityHaMotzi Dinners, Year Three: Delicious, Meaningful & GrowingBy Sue Fried & Paulette Sterman-Soroko e mission of KI’s HaMotzi Dinners, which began We o en say that these dinners are about so much moreNovember 2015, came from the Passover Haggadah: All than the food. is was never more evident than at ourwho are hungry, come and eat; and, She opens her hand to September dinner. One of our regular guests tragically lostthe poor and reaches out her hands to the needy. (Proverbs her 17-year-old son, who also had attended our dinners.31:20). is November marks our ird Anniversary for She joined us in September so she could be surroundedthese community dinners for the food insecure, and we by her KI HaMotzi Dinner “family.” We had a moment ofhave grown from 18 to over 100 guests. From the begin- silence in his honor, and then people visited with his momning, we have had at least 25 KI volunteers prepare food all evening to share stories and extend their condolences.at home or at KI, set up, greet, serve, join our guests, and It was basically shiva, and the mom shared how much theclean up. Our volunteers range in age from grade school evening meant to her.students to “youngsters” in their 80s. Andrew Beer, a KIeighth grader who regularly volunteered last year with his We reached out to our Lowell School Families again atsister and dad, has asked to be on the HaMotzi Dinner their Back-to-School Night, and are hoping to have moreCommittee. Several individuals and groups from outside of them attend dinners. We have also reached out to HIASKI volunteer regularly. Without this support, the dinners to invite immigrants and their families living in the North-could never have reached this milestone. east section of Philadelphia, and also to Manor College students. We anticipate our numbers will be growing. On November 26th we will host a special USO-styledinner to honor veterans and celebrate this special anni- ere are numerous ways to help with the dinners:versary. Our KI sixth graders who have chosen the dinners 1. Cook and/or bake at home following recipes we provide.as their Mitzvot project, Hailey Adelman, Julia Gersh- 2. Cook at KI.man, and Lauren Markowitz, are busy organizing ways to 3. Volunteer at a dinner.demonstrate our appreciation for the veterans who attend. 4. Make a donation to the Sharing is Caring Fund, Our Menu Mavens, Mindi Glachman and Donna Os- specifying “HaMotzi Dinner”.tro , carefully cra delicious and nutritionally-balanced 5. Sponsor an entire dinner for $600.meals, and tirelessly shop, calculate recipes, and orchestrate 6. Contact restaurants/businesses you frequent to ask forthe kitchen jobs. eir passionate team, Lynore Eisman, Ed food donations.Feevish, Diane and Murray Miller, Kim and Nicole Farber, 7. Help pick up food donations.and Laurie Myers, direct the other kitchen volunteers as 8. Donate remaining food from a party and or simcha youthey work non-stop. Jack Myers expertly organizes and have had.runs our pantry of non-perishables, fruit, and produce that 9. Help us nd business/corporate sponsors for dinners.our guests take home. 10. Write a grant to help fund dinners. We are extremely grateful to our monthly Merchant You really must attend a dinner to feel the warmth andDonors: caring that has developed amongst all in attendance. OurDaryl’s Pastries in Glenside next dinners are Nov. 26th, Dec. 10th, and Jan. 28th, all atFill a Bagel in Oreland 5:00 p.m. We would love to have you join us!Glenside Farmers Market [August through November] TJNDIB!HNBJMDPN
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TUFSNBOQ!DPNDBTUOFUM. Levin and Co., Inc, for fresh fruitJules in Crust Pizza in Jenkintown Masterpieces of Jewish Literature ClassPanera of Jenkintown with Rabbi Lance J. Sussman, Ph.D. The Book of Job We are indebted to all of the congregants who havemade supportive nancial donations, and especially Wednesday, November 15 at 7:30 p.m.want to thank the extreme generosity of:Brith Shalom-Kraus Pearlstein Lodge #8 KI Members - Free / Non-Members $10 per classMargie Curtis-Cohen and Marc CohenPhyllis Greenberg ฀ ฀฀ ฀ ฀ ฀฀ ฀฀ ฀ e Rosenthal Family & Paradigm Digital Color Graphics Contact the Clergy office to pre-register - 215-887-8702KI Brotherhood Co-sponsored by the Clergy office and the Meyers LibrarySUPPORT KI! Call 215-887-8700 or visit www.kenesethisrael.org. Thank you! SHALOM KI 7

In Our Community Welcome to the KI Family!Membership We warmly welcome Paul & Ruth Frank Justin & Shira Moriconi the following people who Mark Funt & children Ava & OliviaJaimie Abt KDYH MRLQHG RU UHMRLQHG RXU Jeffrey Gang & Suzanne HunterShmelzer, synagogue in 2017 (as of Michael & Mindy PezzanoMembership 9/30/17)! A few others not & daughter Julia Gang Armin & Sarah PorzigEngagement OLVWHG KHUH UHMRLQHG DIWHU D EULHI Allen Getz, Joanna Bisler &Director absence, but we are so happy to grandchildren/children & children Jakob & Samuel have them back! Jacob & Izzabella Bisler Joan Sall Stanley & Phyllis Ginsberg Jonathan & Janis Schmalzbach Raymond & Joan Abrams Dale & Cynthia Goldberg & daughter Rose Christian Balabanoff Acosta Myrna Goodman Adam & Ellen Segalow /RLV $OH[DQGHU Marcia Gross & children Jackson & Brie Crystal Amoah Chris & Lauren Hallenbeck Walter & Linda Sherin Leonard & Charlotte Babinski Maury & Kiri Harris Cyndi Silverman Craig & Judie Berg Carolyn Swinger & children Eli & Sylvie Douglas & Hannah Troutman & children Mia & Eva Jordan & Allison Herman Mark & Martha Wagner Albert & Amy Berkheimer Larry & Amy Wapnitsky & daughter Olivia & children Soleil & David & children Iris & Matan Gary and Judy Hoffman Howard & Ann Weinblatt Arthur & Barbara Blackman Austin & Anu Holloman Michael & Anne Westrom Andrew & Tara Blum & children Jacqueline & Rebecca FKLOGUHQ $QMDOL =DFKDU\ Eben & Ali Wilson & children Mia & Noah Michael Jacobs & children Oren & Heath Ethyl Treatman Burns Leon & Millie Jonas 'DYLG .DU\Q =DYHORII (YDQ $OH[DQGUD %\FHU Eric & Robyn Kazatsky FKLOGUHQ =RH (PPHWW & son Darion & children Lily & Jackson Florence Caplan Michael & Mindy Levin I welcome all of our Robert Caplan 0HUHGLWK /LQHV6DÀQ members, new and old, to Rhonda Chatzkel & Michael Mann Frederick Lipman come and talk to me with Brad & Julie Copeland Brad & Hillary Marg any concerns, suggestions, or questions about KI. I hope & children Austin, Logan, & children Caroline & Addison this is the beginning of a long & Addison Craig & Ann Markowitz VSLULWXDO MRXUQH\ WRJHWKHU $OH[ 5DFKHO 'RXJKHUW\ & children Alyssa & Lauren VRQ $OH[DQGHU Robin Marks Gerald & Eleanore Driza, Jack & Sheila Marshall Mike Millis daughter Paula Hilley, Margie Mogell & daughter Mia granddaughter Ashley Hilley Toni Montague Robert & Lisa Morganstein Calling All Volunteers for Federation Housing Annual Hanukkah Luncheon Sunday, Dec. 17 3OHDVH FRQVLGHU YROXQWHHULQJ IRU ., 6KDULQJ LV &DULQJ·V $QQXDO +DQXNNDK /XQFKHRQ WR EHQHÀW WKH UHVLGHQWV of Federation Housing in Northeast Philadelphia! Volunteers are needed for Sunday, Dec. 17th. First shift begins at 10:00 a.m. to prepare food and to set up the auditorium. Additional help needed at 12:45 p.m. to greet guests, help serve food and to clean up. This is a wonderful annual KI tradition! If you are interested please contact Debbie Zlotnick by email at [email protected] or 215-380-8188 or Ellen Edelman Grossman at [email protected] or 215-576-0160. Any amount of time is much appreciated. Bring a friend to volunteer for this wonderful mitzvah!8 NOVEMBER 2017

In Our CommunityCongregant Spotlight: Bob Michaelson Israel CommitteeBy Donna Bleznak Keller Birkat Shalom: KI’s Vibrant SisterWhere did you grow up? Synagogue in IsraelI grew up in Elkins Park. By Sonnie KatzWhat kind of work do/did you do?I recently retired after 37 years practicing as an Obstetrician-Gynecologist at I recently heard from Rabbi MiriAbington Hospital. I probably delivered close to 10,000 babies. Gold of Kehilat Birkat Shalom, our sister synagogue at Kibbutz Gezer inHow long have you been a KI member? Israel. She shared the following poem byI am a lifetime member so since birth. I was in Alden Solovy, a new immigrant from thethe Pre-Kindergarten class on North Broad Street! Chicago area who now teaches and writes, ZDV LQ WKH &RQÀUPDWLRQ FODVV RI  in Jerusalem.So you have family history and connection Rabbi Gold found the poem to behere at KI? comforting and inspiring for the holidayMy father was one of the architects of this season and thought we might too:building. My grandfather was a Trustee, and mymother was a president of the Sisterhood. I sit This is the season of healing:in the seats in the sanctuary that my grandfather Of healing our hearts and souls,and mother sat in. Unfortunately, my father had Of healing the moments we share with eachdied before completion of the building. I sit in the row dedicated to my othergrandmother, with the row in front dedicated to the memory of my father. And the moments we share with ourselves.You are very involved here — tell us a bit about what you do at our This is the season of memory:synagogue. Of remembering our parents andI am a senior Trustee, and have been a member of the Board for greater than grandparents,20 years. I am currently on the Hazak Leadership and Steering Committees. The love of generations,, KDYH EHHQ RQ WKH 1RPLQDWLRQ DQG 3XOSLW &RPPLWWHHV , DOVR HQMR\ DWWHQGLQJ The holiness of our ancestors.weekly services with my wife, Robin and daughter, Heather. This is the season of stillness,What causes are near and dear to your heart? Do you do any other The season of silence and quiet:volunteer work outside of KI? Of deep breaths,I am interested in health and wellness. I am an avid cyclist and swimmer. Of open eyesI have a very strong interest in advancing the care of developmentally- Of compassion and consolation.challenged individuals. I have been the President of the ARC of MontgomeryCounty Foundation, and currently serve on the board of the ARC Alliance This is the season of healing:of Berks, Bucks, and Montgomery Counties. I am a past president of the The season of grief turning to wonder,American Cancer Society Wissahickon Unit. I am a past president of the Of loss turning toward hope,Abington Hospital Medical Staff and a former member of the hospital’s 7KH VHDVRQ WKDW ELQGV WKLV \HDU WR WKH QH[WBoard of Trustees. The seaon that heralds the redemption of spiritWhy KI? By that I mean, in your opinion, what distinguishes KI and And our return to God’s Holy Word.why should others consider joining or deepening their commitment?KI is distinguished by its members, its clergy, and its senior staff. The (From This Grateful Heart: Psalms and Prayerscongregation is rich in tradition, while at the same time is forward thinking for a New Day, CCAR Press, 2017)with progressive forms of worship. The programming and religiousH[SHULHQFH DUH VHFRQG WR QRQH Rabbi Gold ended her letter by saying ´0D\ ZH DOO ÀQG ZRQGHU KRSH DQG DWhat are your fondest memories of your years at KI so far? strong spirit in this coming year.” Amen!The highlights must be the B’nai Mitvah of my children, especially mydaughter Heather who has Down Syndrome. Also the naming of my BostonJUDQGVRQV DW WKH V\QDJRJXH  QRZ UHSUHVHQWLQJ ÀYH JHQHUDWLRQV 5DEEL .RUQRIÀFLDWHG DW RXU PDUULDJH FHUHPRQ\SUPPORT KI! Call 215-887-8700 or visit www.kenesethisrael.org. Thank you! SHALOM KI 9

Lifelong LearningMeyers Library Update selections are available in the Meyers Library and Library on the library Kindles. Programs AtBy Ellen Tilman One Book One Jewish Community A GlanceBorrowing Books Keneseth Israel is once again a partner in Adult Book Last week a library patron asked to borrow this citywide program. The implementation Discussion Group: committee selected After The Fire by Lauren And After the FireThe Whistler by John Grisham. I checked our Belfer as this year’s selection. (See book Tuesday, Nov. 28,online catalog and determined that this title is description at bottom left.) Learn about this 1:00 p.m.part of our collection. I saw that it had not been engaging title and be prepared to question thechecked out. I spent two hours searching for the author at the citywide Kickoff Conversation Jewish Film Series:book and could not find it! I guess this book with the Author at 3:00 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. Denialdecided to take a walk! I had to explain to the 3 at Adath Israel (250 N. Highland Avenue, Tuesday, Dec. 5,patron that the book should have been on the Merion Station) 1:00 p.m.shelf, but was not in the library. Jewish Film Series Tuesday, Dec. 6, 7:00 p.m. This morning I checked the coatroom book The Meyers Library sponsors a Jewishdrop and found four books that still had the Film series. In order to best meet the needs OBOJCcirculation card in their book pocket. I guess of participants, we will have both an evening Kickoff Authorthese books also “walked” out of the library and and afternoon screening of each film. Films are Conversationa Good Samaritan returned them! Option B by free for KI members and only $5 per film for Sunday,Sheryl Sandberg also walked out the door but non-members. On Tuesday, Dec. 5 at 1:00 December 3,has since been returned. Unfortunately, books p.m. and Wednesday, Dec. 6 at 7:00 p.m. we 3:00 p.m. atwalking out the library door is not an unusual will see Denial (2016). Based on the acclaimed Adath Israeloccurrence. book Denial: Holocaust History on Trial, the film recounts Deborah E. Lipstadt’s legal battle Library Hours If you wish to borrow a book from the against David Irving, who accused her of libellibrary and there is no one to assist you, when she declared him a Holocaust denier. In During theplease remove the circulation card from the the English legal system, in cases of libel, the academic yearbook pocket in the back of the book. Write burden of proof is on the defendant, therefore it Tuesday & Wednesday:your name on the next blank line and leave was up to Lipstadt and her legal team to prove 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.the card on the librarian’s desk. It is really very that the Holocaust occurred. Future film dates Thursday: 10:00 a.m.simple. Books that walk out the door without are February 5 and 13 (Nora’s Will); March 20 to 1:00 p.m.being checked out are not available to other and 13 (A Mighty Heart); May 8 and 15 (Fiddlerpatrons. The library cannot remind the borrower on the Roof ). Tuesdays when JQuestto return the book, since we do not know who is in session: 6:00 p.m.has it. Let’s all try to be concerned members If you would like to receive information onof our community and sign out a book before any of these projects, new acquisitions, library Sundays when there is aremoving it from the library. events and updates, please send your email program in the building:Adult Book Discussion Group address to [email protected] and ask to 9:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. be added to the special Meyers Library email list. Come share your insights, reactions, and You may also call the library at 215-887-8700 To reserve a book, pleasecomments about And After the Fire by Lauren x122. call 215-887-8700 x122Belfer at our Adult Book Discussion Group, Become a Book Reviewer or email:Tuesday, Nov. 28 at 1:00 p.m. Bring a bag [email protected] if you wish at 12:30 p.m. Coffee and Have you read a Jewish book that youdessert will be provided. This 2016 National recommend others read? Would you like toJewish Book Award winner interweaves the see your name in print? Contact Ellen aboutstories of two women and more than 200 years becoming a Book Reviewer for our “Goodof Jewish history. Susanna finds an unpublished Reads” column.piece of music by Johann Sebastian Bach among Coffee in the Libraryher uncle’s papers. How did it get there? In1783, Sara Itzig Levy receives an anti-Jewish Coffee Angels contribute $25 each tocantata from her piano teacher, Bach’s son. This sponsor FREE coffee for one month for KIwork of historical fiction traces the cantata from library patrons. We need more angels in order18th century Berlin to the present day. Future to continue this program. If you would like toAdult Book Discussions: Jan. 23 (The Inquisitor’s become a Coffee Angel and enable us to provideTale), March 6 (Nine Folds Make a Paper FREE coffee, please contact Ellen.Swan), and April 24 (After Anatevka). All book10 NOVEMBER 2017

Lifelong LearningVernacular Photography: Rich in Meaning & CuriosityBy Rita Rosen PoleyThis museum’s photography collection offers a fascinating the reason is not so clear.ORRN DW WKH -HZLVK H[SHULHQFH LQ WKH 0RGHUQ $JH DQG SURYHV 7KH ZRPDQ LQ WKLV XQLGHQWLÀHG SRVWFDUGthat the development of photography has changed history portrait is obviously wearing a Purimforever. Most of the collection can be described as Vernacular costume. Could the Magen David servePhotography, a recent term applied to everyday photographs, to make the Jewish connection clear to us,from press photos to family photos and more. Vernacular the viewers? The photograph of the threePhotography has become so important that it is collected and men looking at the sign came only with thestudied by museums and private collectors and auctioned by description that it was one of a group of PDMRU DXFWLRQ KRXVHV 2XU FROOHFWLRQ KDV photos taken in a Polish ghetto. Can we intuit come to us through gifts from congregants from that, and from their clothing, that it is after WWII and in and community members and from eBay. a Displacement Center? The Hebrew +HUH DUH MXVW D IHZ H[DPSOHV )LUVW WKHUH LV banner, “Baruch HaBah” - Welcome - the “Mink Brigade” (possibly Anne Morgan, along with the Magen David, would daughter of JP Morgan). In the early 1900s seem to indicate a sense of hopefulness. wealthy, non-Jewish, New York women, led The 1920s-era wedding photograph by Anne Morgan, supported the cause of has a curious display of the Magenlow-paid garment workers who were largely Jewish women 'DYLG DV WKH WRSV RI ÁRZHU KROGHUV FDUULHGfrom immigrant families. With union encouragement, members by two small children. The addition ofof the “Mink Brigade” often found themselves on the front the star carried by the children adds aline of protests and strikes. The horrible labor conditions they very charming and very unusual visualwere protesting led to the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist Fire on punctuation to an otherwise ordinary0DUFK   LQ 1HZ <RUN &LW\ NLOOLQJ  ZRUNHUV , ÀQG celebratory photograph of a marriagethis portrait fascinating. Obviously, her contribution to the ceremony.Labor Movement was very, very, important to her. So far, I am Finally, who thought to90 percent sure this is Anne Morgan from other photos I have embroider the pants of thatseen of her. Stay tuned as I continue to research this image. little, turn-of-the-last-century boy with theWhile I dislike the random application of the Magen David, Magen David? What did the family mean to tellWKH 6WDU RI 'DYLG WR HYHU\GD\ REMHFWV LQ RUGHU WR PDNH WKHP us? Formal portraits at that time were fraughtlook or seem “Jewish,” I am totally taken with the appearance with ceremony, importance and substantialof the Magen David in historic photographs. Slowly, I have cost. What made them take the Magen Davidstarted a mini-collection. In some instances, the Magen David “along for that ride”?DSSHDUV RQ WKH ÁDJ RI ,VUDHO EXW VRPHWLPHV DV LQ WKHVH SKRWRVGood Reads TJM Seeking Memorabilia & Photos The Temple Judea Museum isThe Other Einstein by Marie Benedict is the story of looking for photographs, records and$OEHUW (LQVWHLQ·V ÀUVW ZLIH 0LOHYD 0DULF 9HU\ OLWWOH ZDV memorabilia from a wide variety of sources such as: Jewish camps, theater,known about Mileva until a treasure trove of letters was Grossingers and Concord, synagogue shows, etc. Please contact the museumdiscovered. Mileva and Albert met in physics class at the if you have anything to contribute or lend.TJM is also looking for photo-=XULFK 3RO\WHFKQLF 6KH ZDV 6HUELDQ DQG WKH RQO\ ZRPDQ graphs of KI members taken in Israel (will make copies), including: familyin the class. Mileva was brilliant and Einstein was instantly trips, kids or grand-kids on Birthright, group tours, independent travel, orattracted to her. They worked together on his theories of even families in Israel, if you happen to have family in Israel. You do not haverelativity. to leave the photos with us! Please contact us at: TJMuseum@When Mileva became pregnant, she dropped out of kenesethisrael.org or 215-887-2027school and Einstein’s attitude towards her underwent a radical change.He reluctantly married her and consistently refused to share credit onWKHLU MRLQW ZRUN 7KH (LQVWHLQV VXEVHTXHQWO\ GLYRUFHG DQGMileva returned to Serbia. She found employment as a physics tutorDQG D PHQWRU WR VFLHQWLÀFDOO\LQFOLQHG ZRPHQ 7KLV QRYHO SUHVHQWV DYHU\ XQÁDWWHULQJ SRUWUDLW RI (LQVWHLQ +H LV SRUWUD\HG DV DQ LQVHFXUHegotistical researcher, who is reluctant to credit his muse andcollaborator. By Bobbi FormanSUPPORT KI! Call 215-887-8700 or visit www.kenesethisrael.org. Thank you! SHALOM KI 11

Life Cycles Mazal Tov to the following congregants on their Special Simchas . . .Mazal Tov to our Bar/ BirthsBat Mitzvah Students Blake Harrison Rosenbloom, son of Melanie and Andrew Rosenbloom, 0\ QDPH LV 0D[ $XVWLQ .URQVWDGW great-grandson of our member Frances Nodiff my Bar Mitzvah is on November   )RU P\ 0LW]YDK 3URMHFW Eve Bernice Kovach, daughter of Naomi Gray and Joshua Kovach, I volunteered at cemeteries in the granddaughter of our members Jacqueline and Brian Kovach area, cleaning, raking, and picking up trash. I am also collecting sports We mark with sorrow the passing of . . . equipment to donate to LowellElementary School. I am in 8th grade at Abington Olga Moss, our memberJunior High School. I am an avid basketball playerand I also love to write short stories. I make my own Hope Demchick, daughter of our member,basketball/sneaker cleaning videos and have many Sondra (Michael Zukerman) Polish<RX7XEH IROORZHUV 0\ VSRUW LV GHÀQLWHO\ EDVNHWEDOO , SOD\ RQ WZR OHDJXHV HQMR\ ZDWFKLQJ JDPHV DQG DP D Leonard Schoenberg, our member, husband of our memberELJ 6L[HUV IDQ 0\ SDUHQWV DUH 6X]DQQH Ruth Schoenbergand Avery Kronstadt. Muriel Polikoff, our member My name is Jane Rebecca Rosenthal; my Bat Mitzvah is Jack Martin Hornstein, great-nephew of our members November 11, 2017. For my Marc & Marlene Adler 0LW]YDK 3URMHFW , DP KHOSLQJ RXW at KI’s Preschool, mostly with Harold Cramer, our member, and husband of our member the Pre-K group. I attend Murray Geraldine Cramer Avenue Middle School in LowerMoreland. I love to dance and dance competitively at Marilyn Furman, our member, wife of our member Allan Furman,=HUR *UDYLW\ 'DQFH &RPSDQ\ , DOVR HQMR\ GRLQJ KDLU mother of our members Susan (Howell) Brister, Ellen Furman andand makeup and playing tennis. My parents are Diane Judy Furman, aunt of our member Marc (Robin) Furmanand Jim Rosenthal and my older sister is Maddie. Veachey Bloom, our member My name is Lily Sarah Goldstein; my Bat Mitzvah is November 18, Barbara G. Haines, mother of our member Kimberly (Joel) Farber  )RU P\ 0LW]YDK 3URMHFW , have been volunteering at the KI HIAS-PA at KI HaMotzi dinners helping to set up, prepare food and serve the meals by Janice Schwartz-Donahue to the guests. In addition, I will beasking friends and family attending my Bat Mitzvah to In late September, the Socialbring a non-perishable food item to contribute to the Justice Policy Task ForceKI food pantry. I attend Abington Friends School. My sponsored guest speakerKREELHV DUH SOD\LQJ SLDQR EDNLQJ DQG ',< SURMHFWV Catherine Miller-Wilson,and I play soccer and lacrosse. My parents are Betsy Executive Director of HIAS-PA.Madway and Steven Goldstein and my brothers are Forty congregants attended theWilliam and Henry. Shabbat Torah Service led by KI’s Minyanaires. Miller-Wilson Inspirational Musings spoke from the bimah, then stayed for lunch and answered You shall have one standard for questions on the topic \"Refugees, Immigrants and Asylees - Who They Are, How stranger and citizen alike. They Are Under Attack and What You Can Do About It.” Leviticus 24:2212 NOVEMBER 2017

In Our Community Women of KI Upcoming Events In Giving Thanks, Give To Others Paint Night: Vases or Wine Glasses Monday, Nov. 6, 6:30 p.m. at KI By Lynore Eisman Bring your vases or wine glasses - we will When you sit down at your Thanksgiving table this year with bring the art studio to you! Dessert, coffee and tea will be served. BYOB.your family and friends, take a moment to think about those less fortunate $35/person After Nov. 2 - $40in our society and what you might do to help. Certainly, you can take a few Your check to Women of KImoments to be thankful for the many blessings in your life, but you can is your reservation. RSVP by 11/1/17also make a plan to help others. Hanukkah Beat the Rush Sale Throughout the Torah we are compelled to help those less fortunate, KI Gift Shop and Gallery: 9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.especially in terms of making sure there is enough food for everyone; Sunday, Nov. 5 Sunday, Nov. 19And you shall not strip your vineyard bare, neither shall you gather the fallen Sunday, Dec. 3grapes of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the poor and for the stranger. Sunday, Dec. 10(Leviticus 19:9-10) Hello Dolly in NYCWhen you give food to a hungry person, give your best and sweetest food. Sunday, Nov. 12, 9:30 a.m.(Mishneh Torah, Hilchot Issurei Mizbayach 7:11) Feel free to bring a snack to share with everyone for return bus trip home. Call/email The Religious Action Center has information regarding hunger that can Paulette Sterman-Soroko with what snack yoube found at RAC.org/hunger and of course at Mazon.org, you can also will bring at 215-287-1073look up information to guide you on your quest to help others. Women or [email protected] 5HIRUP -XGDLVP DOVR SURYLGHV LQIRUPDWLRQ DQG DFWLRQ LQLWLDWLYHV DW ZUMorg. Here at KI, we are always looking for your support at our monthly Upcoming HaMotzi DinnersHaMotzi Dinners. Sundays, 5:00 p.m. Nov. 26, Dec. 10, & Jan. 28, 2018 Women of KI wish you, your family, and friends a HappyThanksgiving! Join us for our monthly KI Brotherhood Board Meeting on Monday, November 27th at 6:30 PM in the KI Board Room. Contact David Pinsky for more information: 215-346-3311Main Line Symphony Orchestra to Perform at Keneseth IsraelBy Ellen Bildersee As Chair of KI’s Music Arts Committee, I am thrilled toOn Sunday evening, Nov. 5 at 7:00 p.m., KI Music FHOHEUDWH RXU WK VHDVRQ RI SUHVHQWLQJ H[FLWLQJ &RPPXQLW\Arts Committee presents the Main Line SymphonyOrchestra in concert right here at KI! According to Music Family Virtuosi Concerts for the entire area. We presentDirector and Conductor of the Main Line Symphony, Don world-class artists and we also have a ‘Catch a Rising Star’ VHULHV IHDWXULQJ VXSHUE \RXQJ DUWLVWV MXVW EHJLQQLQJ WKHLULiuzzi, “We have planned a powerhouse of a program forour audience: the gorgeous Polovtsian Dances by Borodin; FDUHHUV :H ZHUH WKH ÀUVW DQG VHFRQG YHQXH IRU <XMD :DQJthe Carmen Fantasy by Sarasate with our guest artist Juliette now the most sought-after female pianist in the world. Our audiences are loyal; music-loving regulars come to.DQJ ÀUVW DVVRFLDWH &RQFHUWPDVWHU RI 7KH 3KLODGHOSKLDOrchestra; and we will end the program with one of the most our concerts from Staten Island, NY, New Jersey, and Delaware, as well as from our suburbs! In addition toH[FLWLQJ DQG URXVLQJ SLHFHV LQ WKH HQWLUH FODVVLFDO UHSHUWRLUH presenting world-class music to our community, we alsoBeethoven’s 7th Symphony.”Maestro Liuzzi is a good friend of KI audiences: he is not KDYH DQRWKHU PLVVLRQ WR VSUHDG WKH MR\ RI FODVVLFDO PXVLF WR students who might not have had music offered in theironly Principal Timpanist with The Philadelphia Orchestra, schools, so we have instituted a policy of free tickets to allbut is also in the PhilOrch Jazz. Don and Jason DePue students through age 23.(violinist with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Concertmaster Adult ticket: $30. Students through age 23: FREE.of Main Line Symphony) perform with the DePue Brothers More info: 215-887-8700 or www.kenesethisrael.org.Band. Don will return to KI in the spring for Info to come about Karen Akers on 12/2!a children’s concert!SUPPORT KI! Call 215-887-8700 or visit www.kenesethisrael.org. Thank you! SHALOM KI 13

November 2017 CalendarSunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday5 6 7 1 2 3 4Daylight Saving Time Ends 11:30 a.m. Adult Ed. NO JQuest B’Yachad 8 11:30 a.m. Maimonides Café 10:45 a.m. Adult Ed Prog. 9:00 a.m. Torah Study9:00 a.m. WKI Hanukkah Sale 6:30 p.m. WKI Paint Night NO Quest Noar - out of bldg. 10:30 a.m. Shabbat Morning9:15 a.m. JQuest B’Yachad 7:00 p.m. Adult Choir Rehearsal 7:30 p.m. Religious Practices 910:00 a.m. Rabbi’s Fall Forum 13 Comm. Mtg. 8:00 p.m. IsraAID-Veterans Service 14 16 Shabbat Evening #2 of 3 11:30 a.m. Adult Ed. 15 Service with 1112:00 p.m. Shir Joy Rehearsal 4:30 p.m. JQuest B’Yachad 11:30 a.m. Adult Ed. guest Speaker7:00 p.m. Music Arts Program 6:00 p.m. Quest Noar 1:00 p.m. Israel Comm. Movie 7:00 p.m. Board of Directors Mtg. Erin Zaikis, 9:00 a.m. Torah Study 7:00 p.m. Adult Choir Rehearsal 7:30 p.m. Rabbi LJS - CEO of IsraAID-US 10:30 a.m. Shabbat Morning12 Masterpieces of Jewish 10 Service9:15 a.m. JQuest B’Yachad Literature - The Book 5:00 p.m. Havdalah Service9:30 a.m. W of KI trip to NY of Job 6:00 p.m. Tot Shabbat Service12:00 p.m. Shir Joy Rehearsal followed by dinner 18 8:00 p.m. Kristallnacht Shabbat 9:00 a.m. Torah Study Evening Service: 10:30 a.m. Shabbat Morning Remembering Regina Jonas (1902-1944), Service Pioneer, Rabbi, 2:00 p.m. Rydal Park Shabbat Holocaust Heroine 5:30 p.m. Havdalah Service 17 7:00 p.m. Shabbat LaLev – w/11th grade19 20 21 22 23 24 259:00 a.m. WKI Hanukkah Sale 11:30 a.m. Adult Ed. 4:30 p.m. JQuest B’Yachad Offices and Preschool Closed Offices and Preschool Closed 9:00 a.m. Torah Study9:15 a.m. JQuest B’Yachad 6:00 p.m. Quest Noar Happy Thanksgiving! 7:00 p.m. Adult Choir Rehearsal 8:00 p.m. Shabbat Evening 10:30 a.m. Shabbat Morning10:00 a.m. Rabbi’s Fall Forum 30 Service - LJS sermon, Service #3 of 3 “On the 100th Anniver 11:30 a.m. Adult Ed. sary of Balfour12:00 p.m. Shir Joy Rehearsal Declaration”26 27 28 29 Keneseth Israel Phone DirectoryNO JQuest B’Yachad 11:30 a.m. Adult Ed. 1:00 p.m. Adult Book Administrative Office . . . . . . . . . . . 215-887-8700NO Shir Joy Rehearsal 6:30 p.m. Brotherhood Mtg. Discussion Group Rabbinic Office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215-887-87025:00 p.m. HaMotzi Dinner JQuest B’Yachad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215-887-8704 4:30 p.m. JQuest B’Yachad Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215-887-1070 6:00 p.m. Quest Noar Preschool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215-885-2425 7:00 p.m. Adult Choir Rehearsal Museum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215-887-2027 Gift Shop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215-884-4364

December 2017 CalendarSunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 8:00 p.m. Interfaith Shabbat 9:00 a.m. Torah Study Evening Service 10:30 a.m. Shabbat Morning Service 5:00 p.m. Music Arts program3 4 5 6 7 8 99:00 a.m. WKI Hanukkah Sale 11:30 a.m. Adult Ed. 1:00 p.m. Library Film Series URJ Biennial (12/6 – 12/10/17) 11:30 a.m. Adult Ed. Prog. 8:00 p.m. Shabbat Evening 9:00 a.m. Torah Study9:15 a.m. JQuest B’Yachad 4:30 p.m. JQuest B’Yachad 7:00 p.m. Library Film Series Service12:00 p.m. Shir Joy Rehearsal 6:00 p.m. Quest Noar 10:30 a.m. Shabbat Morning3:00 p.m. OBOJC Event 7:00 p.m. Adult Choir Rehearsal Service at Adath Israel10 11 12 1st night of Hanukkah 13 14 15 169:00 a.m. WKI Hanukkah Sale 11:30 a.m. Adult Ed. 4:30 p.m. JQuest B’Yachad 1:00 p.m. Israel Comm. Movie 11:00 a.m. Blood Drive 5:30 p.m. Tot Shabbat Service 9:00 a.m. Torah Study9:15 a.m. JQuest B’Yachad 6:00 p.m. Quest Noar 10:30 a.m. Shabbat Morning12:00 p.m. Shir Joy Rehearsal 7:00 p.m. Adult Choir Rehearsal 7:30 p.m. Religious Practices 6:00 p.m. Congregational5:00 p.m. HaMotzi Dinner Comm. Mtg. Hanukkah Dinner Service 2:00 p.m. Rydal Park Shabbat 7:00 p.m. Hanukkah Shabbat Service17 18 19 20 21 22 23 2710:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. 4:30 p.m. JQuest B’Yachad 6:00 p.m. Board of Directors Mtg. 8:00 p.m. Shabbat Evening 9:00 a.m. Torah StudyVolunteers needed! 6:00 p.m. Quest Noar 7:00 p.m. Board of Trustees Mtg. Service 7:00 p.m. Adult Choir Rehearsal 10:30 a.m. Shabbat Morning for Federation Housing Service Hanukkah Luncheon 25 26 28 29 309:15 a.m. JQuest B’Yachad12:00 p.m. Shir Joy Rehearsal Offices Closed Winter Break 8:00 p.m. Shabbat Evening 9:00 a.m. Torah Study NO Preschool Service24 PS Closed from NO JQuest B’Yachad 10:30 a.m. Shabbat Morning 12/25/17 – 1/1/2018 NO Quest Noar ServiceNO JQuest B’Yachad NO Adult Choir RehearsalNO Shir Joy Rehearsal PS Reopens 1/2/2018 31 New Year’s Eve NO JQuest B’Yachad NO Shir Joy Rehearsal

Contributions All listings indicate donor first, followed by the honor or memorial.YAHRZEIT FUND Leslie Knapp, Rita ShenkmanDONOR IN MEMORY OF David Lane, Reynold “Renny” LaneSteven & Phyllis Allen, Mildred Allen Elaine Leibowitz, Thelma MarkovitzCraig & Robin Anforth, Rebecca Klass; Samuel Klass Edith Leon, Marvin LeonSylvia Angert, Milton Angert Amy E. Levy, Sidney StillmanMaxine Arno, Harold Jeffrey Arno Margaret Lichtenstein, Dorothy L. BennettBrenda Baumholtz, Martin Baumholtz; Richard Lomberg Marilyn Lifson, Burton LifsonMartin Beilin, Rosa Beilin Estelle Maisel, Harry BishowStefanie Belitsky, Bernice Z. Kagel Sheila & Jack Marshall, Edith TuckerScott Bender, Frances Rabinowitz Marsha Elefant McGee, George ElefantDaniel Bleicher, Sidney Rosanne Henry Meil, Florence MeilGwen Blum, Jerry Blum Carol & Harold Miller, Anna WollmanJudith Blumenthal, Benjamin F. Richman; Shirley Richman Judith Monheit, Herbert MonheitMarlene Bookbinder, Robert Hirsh Kleinbart Lisa Nerenberg, Samuel PaikinElaine Breslow, Theodore Gutman Frances Nodiff, Freda Cohen; Max KramerAnne & Dick Brown, Bessie Brown; Eva Kleinfield Louise H. Ochroch, Charles OchrochConstance R. Caplan, Morton M. Rose Sallie Olson, Jerome N. OlsonAlison Carson, Nathan Carson; Theresa G. Carson Malcolm Pascal, Ann GreenbergSharon & Sydney Chipin, Neal Chipin Shanlee Pollack, Howard Pollack; Max PollackChas & Deena Cohen, Bernard E. Cohen Susan Lynn Pollack, Lillian Kasten CoanePhyllis & Martin S. Cohen, Rose Gelbstein Cohen Jill & Richard Pomerantz, Adele Bobrow Pomerantz;Les Cooperson & Robyn Miller, Bruce Cooperson Richard David Pomerantz, IIIGeraldine Cramer, A. Harry Cramer Richard Rake, Nina RakeJ.J. Cutler, Oscar Haimowitz Paul & Ann L. Rappoport, Muriel S. LittmannVickie & Jack Farber, Morris Farber Carl M. Reinhart, Marilyn Reinhart; Sophie ReinherzJoAnne Entrekin, Frank Semless Wendy Richman, Arnold DresnerCarl Fertman, Irving Fertman Adele Roda, Gladys AriffMorty Freedman, Elsie Heidelberger Lynne & Ron Rosen, Frederick SilversteinRose Ann & Kourosh Ghalili, Angelo DiMarla Sandy & David Rosenthal, Lou LewisSally Ginsberg, Florence Bendon Janet D. Rowland, George H. Rowland, Jr.Mindi Glachman, Louis Glachman Michael Rozansky & Iris Raylesberg, David RetikPhyllis & Barry Goldberg, Emanuel Goldberg Arlene Rubin, Seymour KalosDavid R. Goldenberg, Carl Goldenberg Henry I. Rubin, Ida Feldman; Paul LewisMichael & Jamie Goodman, Harold A. Goodman; Joanne Samuels, Manuel Silverstein Michael Jaslow Terry Rose Saunders, Morton M. RoseGail Greenspon & Ross Attix, Samuel Greenspon Ross Schriftman, Miriam Kandall; Shirley SchriftmanMarcia Gross, Max Speizman William A. Schur, Hyman PennCarol Halpern, Leonard A. Halpern Samuel Schutzbank, Anshel SchutzbankSusan Hamberg, Benjamin M. Shaure Alan & Carol Schwartz, Reuben SchwartzEdith Hanzelik, Edith D’Elia Norman Schwerin, Marilyn SchwerinEric Hening, E. Bradford Hening Natalie Shamberg, Claire Shamberg; Manuel Shamberg;Selma Hirshberg, Steven A. Jacobs Solomon Shamberg; Anne SugarmanLois N. Hitchman, Anne N. Hitchman Binnie Sharp, Beatrice LaikinMorton & Marcia Hoffman, Charles Epstein Charlotte Sichel, Robert D. SichelEdward E. Itzenson, Albert Fairman; Shirley Itzenson Sally Sickles, Moses Morton SicklesRuth Joseph, Meyer Joseph Phyllis Silver, Samuel TaplingerNan Jurman, Sue Ellen J. Albert; Charles L. Jurman Carol H. Silverman, David M. Helfond; Donald D. HelfondSeymour Kalikow, Isadore Zassler Gertrude L. Singer, Raymond S. LedererIrvin Kane, Miriam Kane Lois M. Singer, Eugene MondellJules Kay, Ellis Kay John & Anne Solis-Cohen, Solomon “Pete” Solis-Cohen, II16 NOVEMBER 2017

Contributions All listings indicate donor first, followed by the honor or memorial.Lesley Solomon, Edna Epstein DONOR IN HONOR OFShirley Somerman, Rose Messinger William A. Schur, 40th Anniversary of Liz & Lance SussmanRichard & Robin Stamm, Alice Stamm; M. Philip Stamm HAMOTZI FUNDLinda & Philip Stein, Bruce Johnson DONOR IN HONOR OFAnn Stolinsky, Sylvia Stolinsky Margie Curtis-Cohen, Sue Fried; Paulette Sterman-SorokoSteven Strauss, Francine Strauss Lynore & Elliot Eisman, 40th Anniversary of Liz & Lance SussmanBrenda Teich, James Barmish Phyllis Greenberg, Grayson Daniel CoffeyHelene & Bob Wagman, Anna Finkel; Julia Schwartz Jack & Laurie Myers, 40th Anniversary of Liz & Lance Sussman;Max & Marlene Wald, Andrew Zachary Wald Birth of Myer Leon Rogers and of Micah Toby TilmanRita Altman Weinberger, Jacob Weinberger; Lillian Weinberger Skits Soroko & Paulette Sterman-Soroko,Leah Weiss, Bertha Rosen Birth of Jennifer Miller & Myer Leon Rogers & Ivy ThomasRochelle Wolf, Samuel Wolf HIGH HOLIDAY MUSIC DONORADULT EDUCATION FUND IN MEMORY OFDONOR IN MEMORY OF Sonnie Katz, Hope Demchick; Marilyn FurmanMarilyn & Yale Bobrin, Hope Demchick KAHN MUSIC PROGRAMSElaine & Julius Ellison, Hope Demchick DONOR IN MEMORY OFDONOR IN HONOR OF Robyn Miller & Les Cooperson, Iris LoevClaire Schein, Birth of Blake Harrison Rosenbloom MILLICENT & MARK KAY SCHOLARSHIP FUNDARCHIVES FUND DONOR IN HONOR OFDONOR IN MEMORY OF Anita Nemez, 90th Birthday of Stanly GoldenbergRick & Michele Gusdorf, Leonard Schoenberg Charlotte Rosenthal, 90th Birthday of Stanly GoldenbergCANTOR’S PHILANTHROPIC FUND KING DAVID HARP SOCIETYDONOR IN HONOR OF DONOR IN HONOR OFShirley & Bernie Davis, KI Clergy Joyce & Ben Fishbein, 90th Birthday of Miriam FinkelAnne & Eric Greenberg, Cantor Amy E. Levy Sallie Olson, Birth of Ella Katherine KollarEDUCATOR’S PHILANTHROPIC FUND HARRIET MESSINGER MEMORIAL FUNDDONOR IN MEMORY OF DONOR IN MEMORY OFAdele Roda, Leonard Schoenberg Norma & Arnold Meskov, Ruth DodiesGENERAL FUND CLARENCE L. & ESTELLE S. MEYERS LIBRARY FUNDDONOR IN MEMORY OF DONOR IN MEMORY OFGarnet Bass, George Brantz Renate Elgart, Herbert AltmanMyra & Marvin Cohen, Leonard Schoenberg DONOR IN HONOR OFLinda Harris, Hope Demchick Renate Elgart, Birth of Ella Katherine Kollar;Harriet Hollin, Hope Demchick Marriage of Aaron & Rhonda Krauss;Rhoda & Melvin Kreiner, Leonard Schoenberg New home of Sallie Olson;Fred Lehman, Peg Meyer 40th Anniversary of Liz & Lance SussmanAdele & Hank Marmer, Hope Demchick Babe Hernes, Birth of Ella Katherine KollarDorothy Muessig, Veachey Bloom & Noah Anthony MenniesRichard & Joanna Patton, Leonard Schoenberg Irv Matusow & Barbara Rudnick, Birth of our granddaughterBill Rau, Muriel Polikoff Ella Katherine Kollar; Birth of Noah Anthony MenniesClaire & Ed Schweriner, Leonard Schoenberg & Micah Toby Tilman; Speedy Recovery of Eve MenniesDorothy Silverman, Leonard Schoenberg Eve Mennies, Birth of Ella Katherine Kollar;Grace Yeung, Hope Demchick Marriage of Aaron & Rhonda KraussGail Zukerman & Edwin Roberts, Hope Demchick ONEG SHABBAT FUND DONORDONOR IN HONOR OF IN MEMORY OFLois & Emil Cohn, 90th Birthday of Bernard Zolot Edith Leon, Fannie AronovitzJean Meyers, 90th Birthday of Stanley Goldenberg Linda & Marv Waxman, Hope DemchickAnn & John Solis-Cohen, 100th Birthday of Selma Hirshberg DONOR IN HONOR OFGENERAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND Julius & Elaine Ellison, OnegDONOR IN MEMORY OF Shirley & Bernie Davis, Rabbi Sussman & Cantor LevyWilliam A. Schur, Herbert Altman; Hope DemchickSUPPORT KI! Call 215-887-8700 or visit www.kenesethisrael.org. Thank you! SHALOM KI 17

Contributions All listings indicate donor first, followed by the honor or memorial.RABBI’S PHILANTHROPIC FUND TEMPLE JUDEA MUSEUM FINE ARTS FUNDDONOR IN MEMORY OF DONOR IN MEMORY OFMyrna Asher, Leonard Schoenberg Marlene & Marc Adler, Herbert AltmanThelma Bayuk, Leonard Schoenberg Lynne Bloom, Herbert AltmanBarbara Bronstein, Leonard Schoenberg Deborah Seltzer Cohen, Herbert AltmanDenise Ellner, Darwin Loigman; Leonard Schoenberg Phyllis & Earl Epstein, Herbert AltmanMuriel Henderson, Veachey Bloom Phyllis Feinberg, Herbert AltmanSallie Olson, Leonard Schoenberg Joyce & Ben Fishbein, Herbert AltmanSandy & Dave Rosenthal, Veachey Bloom; Marilyn Furman Morty Freedman, Herbert AltmanClaire & Ed Schweriner, Veachey Bloom Audrey & Len Hoffman, Herbert AltmanDONOR IN HONOR OF Sandy & Gil Kayson, Herbert AltmanMyrna & Howard Asher, 40th Anniversary of Liz & Ricki & Tony Lent, Herbert Altman Lance Sussman Anita & Murray Madnick, Herbert AltmanElaine Breslow & Amy Breslow, 40th Anniversary of Liz & Norma & Arnold Meshkov, Herbert Altman Lance Sussman Phil & Jill Plotnick, Herbert AltmanBarbara Bronstein, 40th Anniversary of Liz & Lance Sussman Natalie Shamberg, Herbert AltmanShirley & Bernie Davis, KI Clergy Ronda & David Silbermann, Herbert AltmanJulius & Elaine Ellison, 40th Anniversary of Liz & Harriet Swern Solomon, Ann Swern Lance Sussman Liz & Andrew Taylor, Herbert AltmanBabe Hernes, 40th Anniversary of Liz & Lance Sussman Bobbi & Dick Weiss, Herbert AltmanLois Hitchman, Birthday Blessing 21st CENTURY FUNDSonnie Katz, 40th Anniversary of Liz & Lance Sussman DONOR IN MEMORY OFNorma & Arnold Meshkov, Speedy Recovery of Joyce Fishbein Jane & Leonard Korman, Herbert AltmanWarren & Susan Nachmann, 40th Anniversary of Liz & DONOR IN HONOR OF Lance Sussman Marc & Andy Brookman, 100th Birthday of Selma HirshbergBobbi & Dick Weiss, 40th Anniversary of Liz & Lance Sussman TYSON RADIO FUNDBEN & RENEE RICHMAN FUND FOR ELDER CARE DONOR IN MEMORY OFDONOR IN MEMORY OF Annette Field, Gertrude Feigenblatt;Marjorie & Terry Caddy, Betty Goldis; Rodney Nicholson; Sarah Feigenblatt; Morris Friedman Denise O’Neill Michael & Jamie Goodman, Bernice ZoslawChuck & Alice Richman, Charlene Rowe Deborah & Bill Rubinsohn, Herta Goldsmith; Lillian Schlaff;DONOR IN HONOR OF Gail SilvertMarjorie & Terry Caddy, Birth of James Ian Cogen; DONOR IN HONOR OF Birth of Mila Victoria Palermo; Lois N. Hitchman, New Year Wishes to KI StaffBirthday of Daniel Richman; 5th Birthday of Ryan Richman WOMEN OF KIRICHARD E. RUDOLPH, JR. PRESCHOOL FUND DONOR IN MEMORY OFDONOR IN MEMORY OF Barbara Bronstein, Muriel PolikoffScott & Meryl Bender, Sam Wiener Jeffrey Miller & Sandra Gever, Muriel PolikoffIris & Kevin Parker, Yale Hirshberg; Selma Lewis; Muriel Polikoff The Parkinson Family, Muriel PolikoffDONOR IN HONOR OF Nan & Julie Rosner, Muriel PolikoffAnnette Field, 40th Anniversary of Liz & Lance Sussman Natalie Shamberg, Muriel PolikoffEve Mennies, 40th Anniversary of Liz & Lance Sussman Women of KI, Veachey Bloom; Muriel PolikoffNorma & Arnold Meshkov, 40th Anniversary of Liz & DONOR IN HONOR OF Lance SussmanFrances Nodiff, Birth of Blake Harrison Rosenbloom Frances Nodiff, Birth of my great-grandson,Doris & Paul Schor, 40th Anniversary of Liz & Lance Sussman Blake Harrison RosenbloomSHARING IS CARING FUND NEWTON YESNER RELIGIOUS SCHOOL FUNDDONOR IN MEMORY OF DONOR IN MEMORY OFAnnette Blume, Leonard Schoenberg Lillian & Harry Gottlieb, Leonard SchoenbergRobyn Miller & Les Cooperson, William WillClaire Spilker, Anne Benjamin18 NOVEMBER 2017

฀฀ ฀ ฀฀ Adult Ed: Something for EveryoneSENIOR STAFF By Caryl LevinSenior Rabbi, Lance J. Sussman, Ph.D., [email protected] / 215-887-8702 Have you ever attended a MaimonidesCantor, Amy Levy Café? On November 2 at 11:30 a.m.,[email protected] / 215-887-8702 Rabbi Lance Sussman will introduce aDirector of Religious Education, Rabbi Stacy Rigler word and we will have a [email protected] / 215-887-8704 based on reactions to that word.Executive Director, Brian [email protected] / 215-887-8700 Like music? How about a lecture andDirector of Early Childhood Education, Liz Sussman, M.Ed. lunch at the Doubletree followed by [email protected] / 215-885-2425 concert at the Kimmel ($95 on NovemberMembership Engagement Director, Jaimie Abt Shmelzer 3 at 10:45 a.m.)? Nostalgic? We [email protected] / 215-887-8700 Politics in the Pale brought to you by RabbiDirector/Curator, Temple Judea Museum, Rita Rosen Poley Sussman with Joan Myerson [email protected] / 215-887-2027 (November 5, 10:00 a.m.). Ever heard ofLibrarian, Meyers Library, Ellen Tilman Smedley Butler? Jim Rubillo will tell you [email protected] / 215-887-8700 about him on November 6 at 11:30 a.m.Youth Engagement Coordinator, Danielle [email protected] / 215-887-8700 History your passion? Learn about TheChoir Director/Pastoral Care, Hazzan David Tilman British Mandate in Palestine, ([email protected] / 215-887-8702 13, at 11:30 a.m.) by maven Barry Stein.Organist, Andrew SennRabbi Emeritus, Simeon J. Maslin, D. Min. Like to discuss books? Bev Rosen willCantor Emeritus, Richard Allen review Moonglow by Michael Chabon onExecutive Director Emeritus, William Ferstenfeld November 16 at 11:30 a.m. And there are four more: The World of Yiddish LiteratureOFFICERS by Rabbi Sussman with Joan Myerson Shrager (November 19 at 10:00 a.m.),President, Evonne Jonas Kruger [email protected] Abortion and the Jewish Community, by Julia Meyer (November 20 at 11:30 a.m.),Vice President, Janice Schwartz-Donahue [email protected] Trump and the Intelligence Community by Ira Cooperman (November 27 atVice President, James L.Rosenthal [email protected] 11:30 a.m.) and Fran and Sid Schwartz’s daughter, Aleeza ben Shalom, will presentVice President, Denise Yarnoff Soloff [email protected] Matchmaker, Matchmaker, Make Me a Match (November 30 at 11:30 a.m.) SheSecretary, Donna Bleznak Keller [email protected] is a very successful matchmaker.Assistant Secretary, Karen Langsfeld [email protected] Whew! That’s enough to keep everyone very busy.Treasurer, Robert B.Saltzburg [email protected] Treasurer, Andrew F.Altman [email protected] Treasurer, Robert B.Roseman [email protected] Past President, Arnold B.Meshkov [email protected] PresidentsJoyce Fishbein, Hon. Jan E. DuBois, Miriam Finkel, Connie Kay, E. Harris Baum,Norma Meshkov, Karen L. Sirota, Carey S. Roseman, Andrew J. Flame,Peter J. Soloff, Richard Weiss:OHSVT 3PRL 20 Keneseth Israel VU -HJLIVVR! LV DQ DIÀOLDWHTHE BULLETIN OF KENESETH ISRAEL & THE MEYERS LIBRARY congregation of REFORM the Union forEditor, Donna Bleznak Keller C O N G R E G AT I O N Reform JudaismAssistant Editor, Anita Madnick KENESETH ISRAELGraphic Designer, Lindsay Cameron SHALOM KI 19SUPPORT KI! Call 215-887-8700 or visit www.kenesethisrael.org. Thank you!

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