Congregation P'nai Tikvah's Newsletter - Dec 2013 - Kislev / Tevet 5774 Congregation P'nai Tikvah - Rekindling the Jewish Spirit. Congregation P'nai Tikvah is the only Reconstructionist / Renewal synagogue in Nevada. The community's mission is to "Rekindle the Jewish Spirit" through meaningful spiritual and educational Jewish programming to the Las Vegas Valley through Torah (learning), Tefillah (prayer), Tzedakah (charity), and Kehillah (community). Serving the Jewish Community of Henderson, Green Valley, and greater Las Vegas, Congregation P'nai Tikvah is a joyful warm, welcoming spiritual home for all who are seeking a meaningful Jewish life, blending creativity and innovation with tradition.
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CONGREGATION P’NAI TIKVAH (Formerly Valley Outreach Synagogue) Kol Kiruv December 2013 Kislev/Tevet Vol. 20—No. 7 Table of Contents Cover Page Rabbi’s Message Cantor’s Notes President’s Message Women’s Rosh Chodesh Jewlicious Learning Jewlicious Hanukiahs Jewlicious Latkes MiShebeirach Gloria Steinman Reconstructionist News Reconstructionists In Israel Rabbi Arthur Waskow CPT Bookworms 5774 JFSA Updates & Fundraising Nid’vei Leiv—From the Heart Birthdays & New Members Kidz Korner Yahrzeits Jewish Federation Gala Grandma Sadie Getting Married The Sin City Schmoozer #MakeItHappen Melton Clergy and Staff Rabbi: Yocheved Mintz Cantor: Marla Goldberg Accompanist: Timothy Cooper Newsletter: D’vorah Turrentine, Educator: Rabbi Mintz Bookkeeper: Lynn Pisetzner Office Administrator: ‘D’vorah Turrentine [email protected]www.pnaitikvahlv.com www.facebook.com/ pnaitikvahlv www.twitter.com/ pnaitikvahlv 1 “TIS THE SEASON” December at Congregation P’nai Tikvah is the light in the dark filled days of winter. We start out the month with “Latkepalooza” a joyous welcome for Shabbat and an action- packed adventure of culinary competition as we battle for who has the best latkes, with taste, presentation and enjoyment being the bench marks. Whoever wins this friendly rivalry will be awarded the prize of two tickets to Grandma Sadie is Getting Married … Again? What bigger reward could a maven of latkes ask for? $18.00 gets your family into the event, where there will be an op- portunity to regal us with your Ninth Night of Chanukah song, story or pantomime. DON’T FORGET LATKEPALOOZA WILL BE HELD AT THE EASTER SEALS BUILDING 6200 West Oakey Blvd, Las Vegas Nevada!!! We will return on December 20th to the Kraft-Sussman chapel for Shabbat. Torah Study will be on the 7th and 21st of December at the Rabbi’s house. Make sure to RSVP for To- rah Study, the study group gets bigger and big- ger each time. We will not be having Tot Shabbat during December. Do a mitzvah and help make our up-coming “Grandma Sadie’s Getting Mar- ried….Again!” (January 26) a rollicking suc- cess by purchasing a tickets and sending your well wishes to the bride and groom. 1 2-3 4-5 6 7 7 8 9 10 11-12 13 14 15-17 18 19 20 21 21 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Congregation P’nai Tikvah will worship on Shabbat on the 6th at The Easter Seals Building at 6200 Oakey Blvd and on the 20th at Kraft- Sussman Chapel, in the Bank of Nevada Business Park at 3975 S. Durango, Suite 104, in Las Vegas. Kabbalat Shabbat and Maariv services will begin at 7:30 PM. Torah Study will take place at 10:00 AM on December 7th & 20th at Rabbi Mintz’s home. A bagels and lox brunch is served. Please RSVP by calling the administrative office at (702) 436-4900 or by emailing [email protected].
1. Peel, cut, and (using the grating disc of a food processor)
grate the potatoes.
2. Remove half of the grated potatoes to a large strainer set
over a large bowl.
3.Replace the grater blade with a metal blade. Add the onions
and scallions and pulse until the potato/onion and pulse until smooth.
4. Add the entire mixture to the grated potatoes in the strain-
er and push down to strain out as much liquid as possible. Let this
liquid sit in the bowl for a few minutes and pour out the liquid, re-
serving the residual potato starch that will be in the bottom of the
bowl.
5. Add the potato mixture back into the bowl with the potato
starch. Add the egg and mix in with the salt and pepper.
6. In a large skillet, heat the oil (peanut oil will not burn) and
add the potato mixture, one heaping tablespoon at a time. Fry until
golden, flip and fry until golden on the other side. Drain on paper
bags or paper towels.
Yield: 14– 18 latkes
Serve with applesauce, sour cream….or, as in our case, ketchup. Yum!
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Mi Shebeirach/”Get Well” Wishes to…
Marie Ackerman
Marjorie Lieberman
D’vorah Turrentine
Edith Rome
Gary Paykel
Elliot Bender
Paul Bodner
Gittel bat Libba Heika
Libba Heika bat Sima
Wendy Linker
Maya Granat
Craig Goodrich
Richard & Eric Wulff
Corey Goldman
Phyllis Zuckerman
Tiffany Freud
Andy Holland
Rosemarie Chapman
Connie Rivchum
Scott Dykstra
Anne Altman
Barry Goodwin
Arlene Cohen
Paul Goldstein
Seth Horowitz
Arleen Gibson
Richard Steinberg
Larry Kamanitz
Danielle Reitenour
Brazyl Monique Ward
Pinky Garcia
Susan Margolin
Scott Simon son of Margaret
Joyce Schneider
Bob Mirisch
Salavatore Salzano
Helene Bernstein
Jackie Kolner
Jay Berger
Bernie Gehring
Esther Schwartz
Superman Samuel Sommer
Seth Axelrod
Survivors of Typhoon Hyaun
Sonny & Lew Mayron
Jay Berger
Barbara Grossman
Deborah Williams
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“Oh, You’re Still An Activist?” By Gloria Steinem
(as published in “This is what 80 looks like!”)
Fifty was hard. It was the end of the central years of life—maybe
harder for women, since we’re still valued for bearing and raising children—so I greeted it with defiance: I was going to go right on doing everything I’d done before. It took me three or four years to realize this was not progress. Sixty was great, like a doorway into a whole new country. Once the gender role was over, I could go back to the tree-climbing, rebellious person I was before it de-scended—only now I had my own apartment, a little cash, and was tall enough to reach the light switch. Indeed, the person we become after sixty probably most re-sembles who we were before we were 9 to 12 (if we are female) or 5 to 8 (if we are male and the “boys don’t cry” stuff happened earlier). Seventy was sobering, but still a seamless continuation of freedom because I was healthy, engaged in work I loved, and was able to travel as an organizer as I’d ever been. I also had that most life enhancing of all things, a circle of chosen family who were both co-workers nearby and in other countries; say, India or South Africa or Zambia. But eighty is different. It’s about mortality. Though I have every intention of liv-ing to 100, it’s only twenty years into the future, and something that happened twenty years in the past seems like yesterday. I continue to do every bit of the on-the-road organizing that I have always done, but now, I’m super-conscious that this has always taken me away from writing, and I don’t want to die saying, “Wait a minute….” Also I do notice that my memory for names and nouns—never good—is bad enough to interfere with my conversation. When I was seventy, I used to say that re-membering something right away was as good as an orgasm. Now I worry that I’ll soon be asking someone how I like my eggs. Most of all, I notice that the word “ Still” has entered almost every sentence ad-dressed to me. As in: “Oh, you’re still traveling and speaking.” Or: “You’re still wear-ing blue-jeans.” Or even: “You’re still funny!” And especially: “You still haven't re-tired!” I’m tempted to respond: Retired from what—from life? But instead, I explain that I’ve always been a freelance person, as a writer and in the movement: something my father prepared me very well for by his love of insecurity. (As he used to say, “If I don't know what happens tomorrow, it could be wonderfull!”) I’ve never had a real job, and besides, I love what I do. But by far my most serious worry is that, just by being close to eighty and telling my stories—crucial because listening to each other’s stories is the major way we learn and the only way we remember—I will contribute to the current form of opposition: The false idea that our movements are over, and terms like “post-racist” or “post-feminist.” Just to name one example of why that is wishful thinking: It took more than a cen-tury for the abolitionists and the suffragists to gain a legal identity as human
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beings for all women and men of color. Now, we’re striving for legal and social equality, regardless of race or sex or ethnicity or sexuality—and that’s likely to take at least a century, too. As original cultures say: It takes four generations to heal one act of violence. So I would just like to contribute a few lessons I’ve learned in the past decades, and might be useful in the very long years to come. Only you will know in the future moment: 1) Be hopeful. Pessimism kills possibilities before we even start. I do recommend
skepticism—it keeps from being impractical or profligate with resources—but re-member: Hope is a from of planning.
2) You can’t do it alone for long. Human beings are communal animals. If we are alone, we come to feel wrong or crazy or at fault. Make sure you meet once a week or once a month with a small group of people you trust and share your worldview. The Internet is great for locating people and facts, but being together with all five senses produces the brain chemicals that allow empathy. You can’t raise a baby on the Web. Pressing Send is not activism.
3) Diversity is way better than uniformity. Maybe you can’t represent every-body affected by an issue, but it's harder to solve if you don’t. It’s worth waiting to start. Otherwise, the first people in a group will be viewed as its owners. Be-sides, we learn from difference, not sameness.
4) Change doesn’t start at the top. That’s an anti-democratic idea used to keep us passive at the middle and bottom. Grass without roots will always be vulnera-ble. Even electing someone is just the beginning. As President Roosevelt is said to have told a supporter, “Okay, you’ve convinced me. Now go out and force me to do it.”
5) The end doesn’t justify the means; the means are the ends. That means it’s crucial to choose the means that most reflect the ends you want. After all, the difference between means and ends is just time. This means that the surest way to be effective is to behave as if everything you do matters; a lesson I learned form Arthur Waskow decades ago; a moment of time he had no reason to remember—but I did. We have no idea which thing we do in the present will matter in the future.
6) Human beings and all living things are linked, not ranked. Most of us have grown up with the idea that the hierarchy or pyramid is the desirable and even the only paradigm, yet for nearly all of human history, the paradigm was the circle. From the lethal cost of defeating each other and conquering nature, we are learning that the pyramid is not sustainable. Only the circle can be sus-tained. Here is the good news: Each of us is a unique combination of heredity and environment who could never happen before or again, and each of us shares more with other humans than we do not share. Sometimes as I approach eighty, people ask me if I’m going to “pass the torch.” I always explain that I’m not giv-ing up my torch, thank you very much; I’m using my torch to light the torches of others. Because if each of us has a torch, there will be a lot more light.
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New Movement Leader Announced Rabbi Deborah Waxman, Ph.D., is the new president elect of RRC, it was announced earlier this month. She will take office on January 1. Waxman, a historian of American Judaism, brings a vision well suited to today’s landscape. As many readers will know, a recent study by the Religion and Public Life Project of Pew Research found that three quarters of U.S. Jews feel “a strong sense of belonging to the Jewish people,” although 42 per-cent of those say they have no religion. Waxman offered a decidedly upbeat take on the study: “Reconstructionist Judaism brought to the forefront of Jewish thinking the concept of Jewish people-hood, and our approach continues to offer pathways for non-religious Jews—inviting them to explore and ideally deepen their experience of Judaism and Jewishness,” she said. Waxman previously served as vice president for governance at RRC. She also serves on the faculty, teaching courses on Reconstructionist Judaism and practical rabbinics. From 2002 to 2012, she was a High Holiday rabbi for Congregation Bet Havarim in Fayetteville, NY. Learn more about our president elect at www.rrc.edu/MeetDeborahWaxman. Registration Is Now Open for Summer 2014 at Camp JRF! Recognized as one of the “Top 10 Jewish Camps,” Camp JRF provides innovative, creative and engaging pro-
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First Plenum Business Meeting a Resounding Success The first business meeting of the new Reconstructionist plenum, a conference call on Sunday, October 27, opened
with a happy cacophony as 89 voices from all over
North America recited a prayer for conducting com-
munity business. Fifty-three voting representatives of
congregations and havurot participated. By a vote of
46 in favor and seven abstentions (with zero ”no”
votes), the plenum ratified the slate of RRC board
governors who had been elected for three-year terms
to end August 2016. A lively discussion ensued about
the current tikkun olam issue our communities are
addressing—the “wealth gap.” For the next two years,
Reconstructionist congregations and havurot will ex-
amine the widening discrepancy between rich and
poor in North America. The commission will develop
resource materials and will gather information about
It’s the shape and flow of my body that arises first when
I think about aging. Why? Because four years ago I went
through an auto crash that is still making my left knee hurt
and my back ache, and two years ago I went through a
throat cancer and the radiation that for months left eating
impossible. It brought me to wonder whether living was
such hard work and dying so easy that I might as well stop the hard work.
But I decided I really enjoy living, especially loving my co-teacher Reb Phyl-
lis, and loving my work of twirling Torah into activism. So I’m still around, but
much more conscious of my body than I used to be.
Besides writing, speaking, and organizing, one important aspect of my work
had been getting arrested—about 22 times, one for every book, my beloved Phyl-
lis says. Since some of those arrests have been hard on my body, as I aged I’ve
been more anxious about getting arrested. To my astonishment, getting older has
made the arrests easier—at least so far.
In my next-to-last arrest, as part of a prayer-in under the great Dome of the US
Capitol. Hoping to inspire the US House of Representatives to pass a budget at-
tuned to the needs of the poor and the Earth, the Capitol Police waited so long to
arrest us that my back began to hurt. I asked the Police if I could get a chair
somewhere. Ten minutes later they ceremoniously trundled out a wheelchair, en-
throned me in it, and wheeled me away when they finally got the signal to arrest
us.
That ended well, not only physically but politically. The judge who convicted
me of “discommoding pedestrian traffic in the US Capitol” then thanked me for
my devotion to the Constitution and the welfare of the American people.
My last arrest was at the White House, calling for the President to declare once
and for all that the Tar Sands Pipeline was indeed too filthy of CO2 and methane
for the planet to bear. We had gathered in the week just before Passover and Palm
Sunday and had just celebrated a religious ceremony with the Matzah of urgent
action and the Palms of green and growing life before crossing Pennsylvania Ave-
nue to the White House fence. I was still wearing the befringed sacred
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prayer shawl, the tallit, as we stood (“illegally”) against the fence. For almost an
hour, the Park Police let us sing psalms, cradle a globe, and sing “We have the
whole world in our hands.”
When they finally moved to arrest us, the policeman who was responsible for
me first cuffed my hands behind my back and then carefully gathered the fringes
of the tallit in his own hands so that they would not trail on the pavement.
Though my concern that aging would make it harder to use civil disobedience
as a form of activism has not quite vanished, indeed I begin to think my age may
sometimes be a privilege, a bodily protection, as well as a bodily burden. A privi-
lege of gentleness for my body that is denied young Black men on the streets of
Brooklyn frisked or body-searched by a policeman, or women soldiers raped by
their superior “officers and gentleman,” or the poor whose bodies were bettered
and whose lives were ended by climate-crisis storms like Sandy and the climate-
crisis floods of Colorado.
There is a different way in which my heart has softened, along with my back
and legs, as I’ve grown older. I have more compassion than I used to have for
people who are cross-driven by the terrible crisis of our lives and their own wish-
es to live a loving life, more or less oblivious in their own homes. Even when
their own homes tremble in the hurricanes of change.
When people say that they can’t take part in political action because they have
lost their jobs, or their homes, or maybe are right on the edge and are full of fear,
trying to barely cath a breath—I try both to affirm their need for quiet and to
plant a seed for deeper change.
“You didn’t ‘lose’ your job” I say. “It’s not like losing your car keys, or your
cane. I know—twice I’ve forgotten my cane somewhere, and I feel stupid and
careless for losing it. The words “lost job” are meant to convince you that you
are stupid and careless for losing it. But you didn’t ’lose’ it—some banker, politi-
cian, CEO, or Climate Pharaoh took your job away. I understand that right now
you need to focus on how to pay the rent, or the doctor, or the grocery store—but
don’t forget—you didn’t lose the job, they stole it.”
I’m just as clear and passionate about the scandal of the One-Tenth of One Per-
cent as I ever was, but the ups and downs of aging have made me more compas-
sionate for those who cannot take the time and energy right now to be the activ-
ists they need to be. That the world needs them to be..
Passion plus compassion, that’s the ticket now.
In the last few years, I’ve more and more been drawn by the metaphor that we
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are living in God’s earthquake. By “God” I don’t mean a Lord or Ruler in the sky
but—pronouncing that ancient “YHWH” name without vowels as a Breath—the
Interbreathing of all life. And by “God’s Earthquake,” therefore, I don’t just
mean what happens in the church, synagogue, mosque, temple, I mean—
everything quaking. Shaken.
I think this metaphor rises for me partly because indeed the world is shaking
itself to pieces, and partly because my own body feels more fragile. So I am
more conscious of the quaking all around me, and to me.
Constant violence—official bombs from the sky, unofficial guns in the street,
paternal beatings in the home, child abuse inside the church and synagogue. A
global economic mess. Ecological disaster. Sexual upheaval. Child-rearing baf-
flement. Age-old religious forms dissolving. Technology making obsolete our
knowledges and skills, each decade.
So what do you do if you are living in a multi-dimensional earthquake that
won’t stop?
Some people ignore it,. Walk right on while the bricks and railings crash upon
them.
Some people look desperately for something to hang on to . In a social earth-
quake, something they remember as immovable, from the past. Their granddad-
dy's church, and race, and respect. If the ground is quaking and the creek is ris-
ing, be damned to the foreign and the furriners. Stuff back in the bottle all the ge-
nies that have escaped. Women. Gays. Blacks. Browns. Muslims. Jews. Israe-
lis. Palestinians.
But it’s much harder to stuff a genie back in the bottle than to keep it bottled
up in the first place. Takes coercion, armies and cops.
There is a third response: dancing in the earthquake. Hard to do, when the
dance floor itself is whirling, swirling, tipping, toppling. But the most life-giving
response.
Dancing in God’s Earthquake; hard, but what we are trying. Feminism that
doesn’t shatter the old structures of the family, but creates new ones. That doesn’t
just celebrate the possibility of electing a Margaret Thatcher, but looks toward a
world suffused by the Majesty of Nurture. (B’malkhut shaddai, says that trans-
formative vision of the Jewish Alenu prayer.) Religion that—like understanding
El Shaddai as the Breasted God—goes deeper into one’s own tradition to look be-
yond one’s own community. Not “what’s good for the Jews, or the Christians, or
Islam,” but what in one’s own tradition is good for the world, for the Interbreath-
ing Spirit of all life..
Dancing. Harder now I’m 80 and sometimes need a cane, but I still enjoy it.
Physically, politically, religiously. Join us in the dancing!
P’nai Tikvah Book Group 5774
THE PARTICULARS WHO: All members of our Congregation P’nai Tikvah community WHEN: January 16, 2014 @ 6:45 PM April 17, 2014 @ 6:45 PM July 17, 2014 @ 6:45 PM WHERE: Home of Jane Kusel 2645 Evening Sky Drive Henderson, NV 89052 702-407-5077 (H) [email protected]
WHAT/WHY: 4 evenings translated into 4 journeys of the senses through shared dissections of the readings below. *Limited to 12 voices-please RSVP in a timely fashion
This Year’s Selections
October Book: ONCE WE WERE BROTHERS Ronald H. Balson
Elliot Rosenweig, a wealthy Chicago philanthropist, while attending an opera, has a gun
shoved in his face by Polish immigrant, Ben Solomon. Although Rosenweig has Solomon released
from jail, the determined immigrant continues his quest to bring Elliot before the courts to answer for
war crimes. This thriller is infused with poignant flashbacks into life in small town Poland during WW
II.
January Book: HUSH Eishes Chayil
Gittel, a thirteen year-old girl who lives in the Chassidic community of Borough Park,
Brooklyn, learns of her best friend’s abuse by a family member. Forced to remain silent, nuances are
wrapped in blindfolded faith and Gittel’s exploration of the complex “outside” world confounds her
and the reader as the conflict between tradition and reality emerge.
April Book: TOO JEWISH Patty Friedmann
Autobiographical at its roots, this novel absorbs the reader into the heavily assimilated New
Orleans Jewish community. Bernie Cooper escapes Nazi Germany and ends up in LA only to
find himself the victim of a new prejudice against Jews-the kind that comes from other Jews.
July Book: COMING OF AGE...AGAIN Carol B. Mizrahi
Lighter fare for hot days, the humor, moxie and wisdom of four friends finds its voice around
the table of a weekly mahjongg game. Barbara, Irene, Rochelle, and Sylvia understand that their
carefully orchestrated lives are falling apart and prove that "coming of age" can happen more than
We still have a few openings left for those of you who want to celebrate a simcha or commemorate the memory of a loved one by sponsoring an Oneg Shabbat. And for you foodies who want to get your Bobby Flay or Gordon Ramsey on, there’s still time! Check the schedule below; an opening is your opportunity:
December 6 Sponsor– Scott Linker in honor of Scott’s Birthday Caterer— CPT Committee
December 20 Sponsor - Sol & Adrienne Rubin & Ruth Kaplow in honor of Adrianne & Ruth’s Birthday & Adrianne & Sol’s 11th Anniversary D’vorah Turrentine Caterer
January 3 Sponsor-Jane Kusel Caterer-
January 17 Sponsor-Hariet Miller
Caterer-
Note URL for Congregation P’nai Tikvah, as well as Facebook and Twitter Addresses
Make our web address, www.pnaitikvahlv.org , a favorite! Social networking with our shul is easier than ever! “Like” us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/pnaitikvahlv and follow
us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/pnaitikvahlv . Thanks to Cindy Fox, Jon Axelrod, and
Danielle Holland—CPT’s social network mavens—for keep-ing us current!! Anyone else wish to volunteer? Just call 436-4900 to be our new maven!
TORAH STUDY THIS MONTH:
Rabbi Mintz will lead Torah Study for Parashat Vayigash
December 7th & for Parashat Vayechi on December 21th
Stan and Phyllis Zuckerman -in honor of Rabbi Mintz being honored by Hadas-sah. David Aris -Rabbi’s Discretionary Fund -MiShebeirach Morie Belgorod Elliot Bender -In memory of Kate Bender Harriet Bernstein -In memory of Dorothy Bernstein Ann Castro Lynda French Barbara Holland -Cantor’s Fund Howard Jacoby Lesley and Marvin Korach Jacqueline Lowrie Marlene Marcus -In honor of Rabbi mintz -In memory of Norman Marcus -In gratitude to Rabbi Mintz’s visit and prayers Rabbi Yocheved Mintz June Newmark Stanley Rose Dell and Peter Schilleci David Silverman Thank you to all of the people who contributed to the change jar.
TORAH FUND
PLANTING TREES IN ISRAEL
PRAYER BOOK DEDICATIONS
OR PURCHASE
For $40.00 a prayer book can either be purchased for per-
sonal use or be dedicated to the congregation “In
Memory” or “In Honor of” and a card from CPT will be
sent to the family. The prayer book plate will be placed on
the inside cover of our new Kol HaNeshamah siddur.
Interested in learning Hebrew? Learn-
ing how to chant from the Torah? In-
creasing your knowledge on the histo-
ry, ethics, philosophy, and practice of
Judaism? CPT has opport_Unity’s for
helping us all live life to the fullest.
Do contact Rabbi Mintz and
expand your horizons.
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KIDZ KORNER for December
Scott Linker Dec 1 Austin Royer Dec 6 Linda Kauffman Dec 7 Ron Royer Dec 8 Maxine Mintz Blechman Dec 9 Adrianne Rubin Dec 11 Ruth Kaplow Dec 18 Sondra Rose Dec 18 Gloria Granat Dec19 Chana Gelber Dec 20 Nancy Goldberg Dec 22 Sam Wagmeister Dec 30
Rose & Jerry Shapiro
Dec 18
Rachel & Ron Piekarsky
Dec 19
Adrianne & Sol Rubin
Dec 22
YAHRZEITS
FOR DECEMBER
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Dorothy Bernstein -Rememberd by Harriet Bernstein
George Effros -Remembered by Susan Bindhamer
Minnie Etkind -Remembered by Ann Brandt
Abraham Fried -Remembered by April Long
Edward Kaplow -Remembered by Ruth Kaplow
Samuel Kart -Remembered by Patsy Kart
Samuel Kosh -Remembered by Fern Kosh & Gayla Wennstrom
Margaret Lebenheim -Remembered by Kristen Jaeger & Tim Lockett
Joseph Porath -Remembered by Rabbi Yocheved Mintz
Evelyn Ullman -Remembered by Gary Ullman
Kate Bender -Remembered by Elliot Bender
Remembering Friends and Family: If you know of someone who can use a little cheer in their life be-cause of illness or a death in their family-or a simcha -mazel tov cele-bration; the "Sunshine Lady” Phyl-lis Zuckerman would like to send a card. Please contact her at:(702)617-0585 or [email protected]
BE A BIRD DOG??
If you refer someone to a car dealer-
ship, on behalf of CPT, we can receive
a referral fee. This is a wonderful
and easy way to do a mitzvah for
CPT . More information contact
D’vorah 869-2700.
Memorial plaques are available for your consideration,
To honor the departed,
To inspire the living.
To be remembered in the hearts of those we leave
behind is,
In a sense, to live forever.
For further information, call the Synagogue office at
December 6 Latke-palooza Chanukah Celebration-Kabbalat Shabbat and Maariv Services
7:30pm
December 7 Torah Study-Rabbi Mintz Home 10:00am
December 8 Rosh Chodesh—Home of Judy Mirisch 7:00pm
December 9 Jewlicious Learning 4:15pm
December 9 Simchat Chochmah 7:00pm
December 12 CPT Board Meeting 7:00 pm
December 16 Jewlicious Learning 4:15pm
December 16 Simchat Chochmah 7:00pm
December 20 Kabbalat Shabbat and Maariv Services 7:30pm at Kraft-Sussman Chapel
December 21 Torah Study—Rabbi Mintz Home 10:00am
December 21 First Day of Winter
January 3 Kabbalat Shabbat and Maariv Services 7:30pm at Kraft-Sussman Chapel
January 4 Torah Study-Rabbi Mintz Home 10:00am
January 6 Jewlicious Learning 4:15pm
January 6 Simchat Chochmah 7:00pm
Blessing for the Month of Tevet: May we remember, even in the darkest
days of the year, that we can kindle the inner flame and bring forth
light, joy, and hope.
Kol Kiruv, the newsletter of Congregation P’nai Tikvah, is available on-line at www.pnaitikvahlv.org at no cost. If mailed, hard copy delivery is $36 annually. Please notify us and remit payment .
Shabbat New’s Year 2014 Winter Begins
My Travel Plans for 2014
I have been in many places, but I’ve never been in Kahoots. Apparently, you can’t go alone. You have to be in Kahoots with some-
one. I’ve also never been in Cognito. I hear no one recognizes you there. I have, however, been in Sane. They don’t have an airport;
you have to be driven there. I have made several trips there, thanks to my children , friends, family and work.
I would like to go to Conclusions, but you have to jump, and I’m not too much on physical activity anymore.
I have also been in Doubt. That is a sad place to go, and I try no to visit there too often.
I’ve been in Flexible, but only when it was very important to stand firm. Sometimes I’m in Capable, and I go there more often as
I’m getting older. One of my favorite places to be is in Suspense! It really gets the adrenalin flowing and pumps up the old heart! At
my age I need all the stimuli I can get!
I may have been in Continent, but I don’t remember what country I was in. It’s an age thing. They tell me it’s very wet and damp
there.
From the October 11, 2013 Las Vegas ISRAELITE-submitted by Phyllis and Stan Zuckerman
