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Lawrence Jewish Community NewsLawrence Jewish Community NewsLawrence Jewish Community NewsLawrence Jewish Community News
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Jordan Yochim
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Marty Stemmerman
SEPTEMBER 2019SEPTEMBER 2019SEPTEMBER 2019SEPTEMBER 2019 LAWRENCE JEWISH COMMLAWRENCE JEWISH COMMLAWRENCE JEWISH COMMLAWRENCE JEWISH COMMUNITY NEWS UNITY NEWS UNITY NEWS UNITY NEWS
“an inclusive and thriving center of Jewish spiritual, cultural and social life for the Lawrence area.”
Shabbat Shabbat Shabbat Shabbat
Service Times Service Times Service Times Service Times
Friday, Sept. 6Friday, Sept. 6Friday, Sept. 6Friday, Sept. 6
730pm730pm730pm730pm
Shabbat Service with
Bridey Stangler
Saturday, Sept. 14Saturday, Sept. 14Saturday, Sept. 14Saturday, Sept. 14
10:30am10:30am10:30am10:30am
Shabbat Torah
Service with
Sam Brody
& Carrie Caine
Friday, Sept. 20Friday, Sept. 20Friday, Sept. 20Friday, Sept. 20
730pm730pm730pm730pm
Shabbat Service with
Susan Elkins &
Jack Winerock
Friday, Sept. 27Friday, Sept. 27Friday, Sept. 27Friday, Sept. 27
730pm730pm730pm730pm
Shabbat Service with
Carrie Caine
An oneg follows
each service.
All are Welcome!
Guest Column Guest Column Guest Column Guest Column
“On the Cusp of the Days of Awe”“On the Cusp of the Days of Awe”“On the Cusp of the Days of Awe”“On the Cusp of the Days of Awe”
Caryn Mirriam GoldbergCaryn Mirriam GoldbergCaryn Mirriam GoldbergCaryn Mirriam Goldberg
This pre-Rosh Hashana a�ernoon, as I watch a dive-bombing hummingbird
and a dozen others just trying to get a drink from our feeder, my mind is on
community. How we can make and keep community. What community is at
its best, and how it enacts love as a verb. Why breaking bread, breaking
through barriers, and breaking new ground together ma#ers, especially in a
$me of rough-edged divides, poli$cal name-calling, and one-size-fits-all la-
bels that diminish us all.
I’m also thinking of awe: that sense of wonder at the shining edges and in-
depth centers of the life force. From the vantage point of the porch I get to
witness this regularly in the parade of clouds behind the translucent lines of
spider webs where unfortunate moths meet their maker (and the spider).
The good dog, realizing I’m not ge+ng up to let him in, lies down gingerly,
then collapses to sleep on his side. A hummingbird suspends itself in buzz on
the other side of the screen, and the air is brilliantly bright and cool.
At sundown, I’ll be at the Lawrence Jewish Community Congrega$on, singing,
davening (bowing back and forth in prayer), and even dancing at our Rosh
Hashana service before the annual cookie orgy that follows, all of which
opens the Day of Awe — the 10 days between the new year celebra$on and
Yom Kippur, the day of fas$ng, prayer and atonement. During this $me, we
are called to fix anything we screwed up (par$cularly with other humans) this
year, based on the premise that while prayer can right us with God, only
ac$on can right us with each other. Of course this also entails looking at how
we’ve messed things up with ourselves: $mes we may have acted not from
our values and deepest goodness but from our anxie$es and fearful badness.
Which gets me back to community and awe: we can’t sustain posi$ve change
in our lives without the help of one another. By opening our eyes to the
wonder of how we can show up for each other and ourselves, we may just
find the right steps, words, breaths, and s$llnesses to arrive right where we
are, in the promised land of this beau$ful life even while trudging through
the desert of brokenness, injus$ce, heartbreak, and grief. Whether you’re
Jewish or not, a new year is here for the taking (and I believe in jumping
onboard for every new start that rolls on through). Let us walk together, and
to all, L’Shanah Tovah (have a good and sweet year).
Reprinted with permission from “Everyday Magic Day 953 Sept. 9, 2018”
© Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg carynmirriamgoldberg.com
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CALENDAR
LAWRENCE JEWISH COMMUNITY NEWS
Yahrzeit
September Calendar
Friday, September 6 7:30pm Shabbat Service with
Bridey Stangler
Wed., Sept. 11 5:00pm Challah for Hunger
Saturday, Sept. 14 10:30am Shabbat Torah Ser-
vice with Sam Brody &
Carrie Caine
Thursday, Sept. 19 7:00pm Adult Education with
Rabbi Mark Levin
Friday, Sept. 20 7:30pm Shabbat Service with
Susan Elkins & Jack
Winerock
Wed., Sept. 25 5:00pm Challah for Hunger
Thursday, Sept. 26 12:30pm LJCC serves LINK
Friday, Sept. 27 7:30pm Shabbat Service with
Carrie Caine
Sunday, Sept. 29 7:00pm Erev Rosh Hashanah
Monday, Sept. 30 9:30am 1st Day Rosh
Hashanah Services
3:00pm Tashlich Services,
Burcham Park
Tues., October 1 9:30am 2nd Day Rosh
Hashanah Service
Saturday, Sept. 14 9:00am LJCC Religious
School starts!
Saturday, Sept. 21 9:00am LJCC Religious
School
Chloe Rombach
Daryl Cantor
Neil Brooks
Marc Frost
Jim Schneider
Corinne Anderson
Shirley Garfield
Herb Primrose
Terri Rosen
Jan Loux (loo)
Chaim Reuven
ben Dina
Ben Levy
Gar Lester
Larry Maxey
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mi ShebeirachMi ShebeirachMi ShebeirachMi Shebeirach
Coletta Burkhardt Lyman September 1, 2008
Abe Frost September 6, 1969
Selma Cohen September 8, 2009
Katherine Winkler September 14, 2009
Stanley M. Elkins September 16, 2013
Arthur A. "Artie" Shaw September 16, 2017
Mayer S. Litwin September 17, 1977
Howard Rosenfeld September 19, 2012
Lawrence A. Sherr September 20, 2015
Melvin Magilow September 21, 2009
Lynn Denise Leban September 23, 1975
Bruce Randall September 23, 2013
Esther Gurian September 25, 2008
Blanch Rombach September 26, 2015
Joseph Samuel Winerock September 26, 1999
Louise Leon September 27, 2017
Selma Winkler September 29, 2013
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To Blintz or Not to Blintz?
The LJCC is looking for a few good menschen, three to be exact
(and yes, that includes women!)
Your community wants you - to help oversee this year's Blintz
Brunch. The Blintz Brunch, the LJCC's largest annual fundraising
event, has four parts, each of which requires one volunteer
coordinator: the brunch itself, blintz rolling, the bake sale, and
the silent auc$on. We already have a volunteer to help coordinate blintz rolling (Yay, team!), and a volunteer
to help oversee the bake sale, but we s$ll need at least two people willing to help us execute the other
parts.
As a coordinator you'd have at your finger$ps a well-organized event plan, support volunteers, support from
the LJCC board, and eternal gra$tude from your fellow congregants and the greater Lawrence community -
my how the love those blintzes! For more informa$on and to express your interest, contact the LJCC:
ljcc@sunflower.com, or 785-841-7636.
With thanks, b'shalom,
Jordan Yochim, LJCC President
July-August Contributions
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CONTRIBUTIONS
General Fund
Terri & Dennis Rosen
In memory of Bob Schulman
Steve & Jeannette Shawl In memory of Bob Schulman
Cheryl Lester & Philip Barnard
In honor of Pat Bates, for her devotion and service to the LJCC
In honor of Goody Garfield's birthday - may he stay forever young! In memory of Bob Schulman
In memory of Morris Lester on his 23rd yahrzeit In memory of Adeline Zwirn Hellesvig
Anne Schulman
In loving memory of Bob In honor of Rabbi Mark Levin
With thanks to the LJCC community for all of the loving support received during Bob's illness and after his passing. Martin & Maureen Winkler In memory of Bob Schulman
Melvin & Randa Dubnick
Security Fund
Bruce Cutler
Cemetery Fund
Susan Levine
LINK Fund
Susan Levine
Remember that purchasing grocery certificates benefits the LJCC while costing nothing extra to the user! We all need to eat… We all need to buy gas…
Why not benefit the LJCC at the same time? It’s easy! Contact Marty in the office with any questions.
Many thanks to the following people who have chosen to benefit the LJCC by purchasing certificates this month:
Don’t Forget Don’t Forget Don’t Forget Don’t Forget
Grocery & GasGrocery & GasGrocery & GasGrocery & Gas
Certificates!Certificates!Certificates!Certificates!
Leni Sakind
Lauren Hoopes
Anne Schulman
Michael Fox
Terri Rosen
Jan Stewart Robin Rosenberg
Sign up to benefit the LJCC every time you make a
purchase from Amazon!
Support the LJCC every time you make a purchase from Amazon. It’s easy!
Here’s how it works:
• Go to smile.amazon.com and sign up, choosing “Lawrence Jewish Community, Inc.”
• After you sign up, your future purchases (minus shipping, gift wrapping, etc.) automatically con-tribute .05 percent to the LJCC.
• Just start your purchases at smile.amazon.com. You don't have to do anything else special, and there’s no cost to you.
Contact the LJCC office with any questions.
Carrie Caine
Goody Garfield
Judy Roitman
Heather Frost Barry Shalinsky
Marty Stemmerman
Dillons Rewards Program
Sign up to benefit the LJCC!
TO ENROLL IN THE COMMUNITY REWARDS PROGRAM:
• Visit the Dillons website at
www.dillons.com/communityrewards
• Sign in OR Create an account
• Click on "Enroll Now”
• Enter 86813 to have your purchases from Dillons and Kwik Shop benefit the LJCC
• Select Lawrence Jewish Community and click ‘enroll’.
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Der yiddisher vinkel Der yiddisher vinkel Der yiddisher vinkel Der yiddisher vinkel Don’t Kvetch, Don’t Kvetch, Don’t Kvetch, Don’t Kvetch, Fetch Fetch Fetch Fetch
Jonathan Paretsky
As we try to get through the Dog Days of summer (called that because Sirius, the "dog star," the hunter Orion's faithful companion, is prominent in the evening skies at this time), let us take some time to commune with our best friends in mummeloshn.
Historically, dogs were not a positive part of Eastern European Jewish life. Jews rarely could afford to keep them as pets and instead associated them with hostile landowners and aristocrats. In Yiddish proverbs and idioms, the dog is usually a negative character, e.g., the Yiddish phrase a karger hunt (miserly dog). In scripture, the dog was seen as unclean. For example, Deuteronomy 23:19 mandates that, if prostitution or a dog is used as payment for an animal, say, a goat, the purchased animal may not be brought to the temple as a sacrifice. In Jewish mystical tradition, dogs symbolize the demonic. The Zohar, for example, states that evil in the world is like "a vicious dog on a long leash." The Mishneh Torah states that dogs must be kept chained because these animals are known to cause "substantial and fre-quent" damage. And Rabbi Jacob Emden wrote that dogs may be kept for economic or security reasons, but to keep a dog merely for pleasure is "precisely the behavior of the uncircumcised."
These days, even the circumcised keep dogs as pets. Der Arbeter Ring (The Workmen's Circle) occasionally offers classes for communicating with our canine companions in Yiddish. Among its missions, Der Arbeter Ring seeks to preserve and teach Yiddish for humans as well as animals. (Der Arbeter Ring was established in 1900 to promote Jewish community and social justice. It brings to bear a definite leftist political slant, but that is not readily apparent in its choice of doggy vocabulary.) Try learning some of these commands together with your favorite dog (keep in mind that the u is pronounced longish):
Gut hunt (Good dog) Zitz (Sit) Kum (Come) Shpring (Jump) Shtey (Stay) Arop (Down) Aroyf (Up) Maykhl (treat)
Speaking of dog days, I was surprised to learn that a bark mitzvah is a thing. Some people apparently really do
celebrate their dogs' coming of age. According to Wikipedia, the rite has been around since at least 1958, much to the disdain of many in the rabbinical community, with one writing to The New York Times that the celebration is "nothing less than a desecration of a cherished Jewish tradition." Seemingly unaware that the
term is in fairly widespread use, the funnies page strip Mother Goose and Grimm ran a riff on it twice over the past 10 years.
The Comics Corner The Comics Corner The Comics Corner The Comics Corner Jonathan ParetskyJonathan ParetskyJonathan ParetskyJonathan Paretsky
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The LJCC grounds looks be#er than it has in
YEARS! Thanks to Pat Bates who not only arranged
for the phenomenal Rachel to come and clear out
trees, weeds, and excess detritus, but worked along-
side her to give the LJCC the special a#en$on it de-
serves. Thanks also to Jeff Ridgway, who hauled
away the huge amount of limbs and debris that
Rachel and Pat cleared.
LINK A HUGE thank you to the member and non-
member volunteers who help prepare, serve and
clean up at LINK, plus numerous members and non-
members who make delicious casseroles or bring
other food items. Your efforts are appreciated more
than you can know. A special thank you to Judy
Roitman, who makes sure it all happens each month.
By the way - we serve at LINK (Lawrence Interde-
nomina$onal Nutri$on Kitchen) again on September
26. We can always use more help! Please consider
joining in.
The LJCC Library is being skillfully reorganized with
the help of Brandon S$enke! Thanks, Brandon!
Grocery Cer ficates Did you ever wonder who does
all the work in making sure the grocery cer$ficate
program runs smoothly? A very big thank you goes
to Heather Frost. Like Heather reminds us, if every-
one in the community bought grocery cer$ficates,
we’d bring in more per year than we do at the Blintz
Brunch!
Commi"ees and Board — So many of you work $re-
lessly behind the scenes, making sure that the LJCC
con$nues to thrive. To all who serve on the various
commi#ees and board, your contribu$ons are
beyond measure. We hope you know how very much
you are appreciated.
LJCC High Holy Days ScheduleLJCC High Holy Days ScheduleLJCC High Holy Days ScheduleLJCC High Holy Days Schedule
The LJCC cordially invites you, your family, and friends to join us for
our 2019/5780 High Holiday services. Your dona$ons are gratefully
accepted to ensure that these services con$nue. Childcare will be
available.
Rosh Hashanah
Sun. Sept. 29 7:00pm Erev Rosh Hashanah
Downstairs: Shiray Shabbat
Upstairs: Tradi$onal Service
Mon. Sept. 30 9:30am First Day of Rosh Hashanah
3:00pm Tashlich Services Burcham Park
Tues. Oct. 1 9:30am Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
Yom Kippur
Tues. Oct. 8 7:00pm Kol Nidre
Wed. Oct. 9 9:30am Yom Kippur Services
1:00pm Yiskor Memorial Service
5:00pm Yom Kippur Mincha
5:00pm Neilah
JOIN US!JOIN US!JOIN US!JOIN US!
We are thrilled to announce that
Rachel Black Rachel Black Rachel Black Rachel Black
will serve as Cantorial Soloist
during High Holiday Services!
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LJCC Board President Jordan Yochim 785-218-1310 jeyochim@gmail.com
Vice-President Michael Hennecke 785-979-1166 Hennecke.ma@gmail.com
Treasurer Les Schwartz 816-806-6200 lmschwartz@lmschwartzlaw.com
Corresponding Secretary Suzanne Sherr 785-842-2557 lasherr@sunflower.com
Past President Jonathan Paretsky 785-832-8993 Paretskyj@kscourts.org
Members-at-Large Pat Bates 785-842-0303 pbates48@gmail.com
John Hoopes 785-841-7636 hoopes@ku.edu
Cheryl Lester 785-841-7636 chlester@ku.edu
Greg Rudnick 785-542-9874 grudnick74@gmail.com
LJCC Gift Shop Herb Friedson 785-841-3328
L’dor V’dor L’dor V’dor L’dor V’dor L’dor V’dor
SocietySocietySocietySociety
Herman & Louise Leon
Robert Einstein (deceased)
Susan Elkins &
Jack Winerock
Anita Herzfeld
Frances & Floyd Horowitz
Dinah Lovitch
Judith Roitman
Beverly & Howard
Rosenfeld
Leni & Neil Salkind
Artie Shaw
John W. Hoopes &
Lauren Mattleman Hoopes
David & Sharyn Brooks
Katzman
The L’Dor V’dor Society is a
group of individuals who have
left property or funds to the
LJCC in their estate plans. This
Society is open to everyone,
and the only requirement is to
let the Treasurer know that
you have mentioned the LJCC in
your estate plan. Exact details
of what is allocated are not
required, but the estate plan
LJCC Board ReportLJCC Board ReportLJCC Board ReportLJCC Board Report
AUGUST BOARD REPORT
The LJCC Board met on Sunday, August 18 at 9:30am. Items discussed included:
♦ Dues increases have come in from several members in response to request from board. Thank you!
♦ LJCC membership has decreased since 2016-18 by about 20 member families
♦ Request by member to remove firearms signs currently posted on doors. Decision delayed pending further research.
♦ Religious School tuition, fees and membership requirements approved by board. LJCC will work with families unable to pay full amount.
♦ Ritual Committee suggestion of sending yahrzeit reminder letters approved
♦ High Holidays planning almost complete. Discussion of ways to increase donations to help support High Holiday services.
♦ Hiring process for Religious School Director and Security Coordinator underway.
♦ Blintz Brunch planning delayed while search is on for volunteer coordinators
The next meeting of the LJCC board will take place on Sunday, September 15 at 9:30am. Questions concerning board activity may be directed to any board member.
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High Holy Days Greeting
Again this year, the LJCC High Holy Day celebrations will recognize the extent and interconnectedness of our community by publishing a holiday greetings edition of the newsletter. The Greetings newsletter will provide an oppor-tunity for you to express New Year's wishes to distant friends and the community as a whole, and to send more exten-sive messages if you wish (e.g., new contact information, family news, etc.). Please send no later than September 15.
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