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W hat a sweet version of why Kol Nidre is chanted softly at first then grows louder. To me the prayer always feels like a loving invitation to relinquish unhelpful attachment. Yom Kippur is

a journey of recommitment and returning. In these initial moments of the day, though, I set down everything and open myself to the possibility of transformation. It is often in that first gentle recitation that I can listen for what is needed.

Kol Nidre at Havurah will be different this year. As she shares in her letter on page 3, Ilene Safyan will not be with us. It is for a wonderful reason, and we wish her and her family an abundance of blessing during this joyous time in their lives.

As Ilene writes, we have ample musical and spiritual talent among us. Still, we certainly will miss her soulful leadership and beautiful voice, during Kol Nidre and throughout these Days of Returning.

As Ilene would chant Kol Nidre, I tried my best to listen.

At Havurah, unlike other synagogues in which I have prayed, it is not only the prayer leader who chants Kol Nidre, but the entire community. It is a beautiful expression of how collaborative we are. And while it has been an adjustment for me, I appreciate and honor it. Still, I miss the quiet within the congregation during the chanting. At Havurah we sing pretty much everything together. So what would it be like, for a brief window as we enter our holiest day of the year, simply to receive? To take a few moments to reflect on what vows and commitments we need to relinquish in order to be renewed.

In this spirit, I am repeating an invitation that Deborah made from the bimah last year, something I have discussed with Ilene and others over these couple of years. It is for the community to listen to the first round of Kol Nidre. Just the first round! Then, in the spirit of the teaching above, to join in softly for the second and more loudly for the third. Perhaps we’ll discover a little extra space to identify what it is we are leaving behind, and to which direction we need to point. Then might our voices join and together strengthen.

May we each be blessed with a sweet and meaningful new year. L’shanah tovah tikateivu.

Listening and Raising our Voices Together From the Rabbi

First the cantor sings it very softly for our ancestors, our mothers and fathers and grandmothers and grandfathers, all those who have come before us and whom we have loved. For those whose lives we hold in our memories, a soft Kol Nidre will do.

Then she sings the prayer a little louder. This time it’s for you and me. She doesn’t sing too softly because my ears are old and don’t hear too well. And she doesn’t sing too loudly because your ears are young and sharp.

Finally, when she sings Kol Nidre the third time, she sings as loud as she can, so that your children and your grandchil-dren, and all children yet to be born can hear it.

— from The Magic of Kol Nidre by Rabbi Bruce Siegel

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From the Rabbi Events

Letter from Ilene Safyan Leadership Training

Music Task Force’s Final Update MACG Trainings

Weekend in Quest HCAT Book Group

Poverty & Homelessness Update 40 Years of Shabbat School

Growing Our Roots — Shorashim Kitchen Kvetch

High Holidays Tzedakah Project High Holidays Schedule

Tributes Calendar

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Contents

Singing in the Sukkah Sunday, October 13, 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm at Havurah Join us to sing under the sukkah! We will gather again for this annual event that ushers in fall in a melodic way. Adults and chil-dren welcome! Light refreshments provided. Musicians: Please come and bring your instruments! We’ll be using Rise Up Sing-ing. Contact Judy Heumann at mjheumann@gmail.com or Susan Rosenthall at sarosenthall@msn.com for information.

Havurah/Eastside Jewish Commons Sukkot Gathering Sunday, October 20th from 4 pm - 6 pm 5107 SE 35th Ave, Portland, OR 97202 A Tikkun Olam Spotlight on Poverty and Homeless. Havurah members host and share the work of partner or-ganizations: Portland Homeless Family Solutions, the Interfaith Alliance on Poverty and Lift UP Portland to address how individuals can take action. This will be a vegetarian potluck. Contact Sacha Reich or Aaron Pearl-man with questions.

The Havurah Office will be closed on:

October 1, 9, 14, 21 & 22

October Hakol Submission deadline:

Tuesday, October 8 Send to brad@havurahshalom.org

Monday — Thursday 10:00 am — 4:00 pm Friday 10:00 am — 3:00 pm

Office Hours Weekly Email Submission Form tinyurl.com/HavShaNL Deadline: Tuesdays at 12 pm

Events

Il Violoncello Capriccioso Sunday, October 27, 5:00 pm at Havurah A solo cello performance by Diane Chaplin. Admission is free. Donations accepted.

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From Ilene To my Havurah Shalom Community,

I have had the privilege of davening with you during the High Holidays for the past 37 years. It has been my great honor

and joy to be invited, year after year, to chant Kol Nidre and be a part of our High Holiday services. It has been, and continues to be, one of the most meaningful parts of my life and I thank you for this gift that the community has given to me.

I’m writing to let you know that this coming High Holidays, I will not be with Havurah. Our daughter, Arielle, delivered a baby girl, our first grandchild, in July. Arielle is a rabbi in Minneapolis. It will be her first High Holidays as both rabbi and mother, and we will be with her family, celebrating there.

I will miss being here and being a part of services. But the amazing thing about this community is that there is such a breadth and depth of musical and spiritual talent; such a commitment to creativity and excellence, that we have members in Ha-vurah who have stepped forward, ready to learn, contribute and lead.

May this coming year bring you good health and much happiness. May the coming year bring us many opportunities to come together in joy, in good works, and in prayer.

Wishing each and every one of you l’shana tovah!

With great affection, Ilene Safyan

Final Musical Notes from the Task Force

The Music Disappearing Task Force has come to an end! The basic task of the committee was to define the importance and nature of the role of music in life at Havurah, assess the desires of the congregation and commitment to a music posi-tion and define the nature of that music position at Havurah. The committee has crafted a job description for a new Music Coordinator at Havurah and presented it to the Steering Com-mittee. Plans are in the works to establish a hiring committee and create opportunities for Havurahniks to interview candi-dates, as has been done in the past.

There are also plans to charter a new Music Committee.

The role of that committee would be to support the new music person in their work and help create a future vision for the role of music at Havurah.

We are incredibly grateful to the staff, to all the people who took time to answer our questions, to all the people who filled out the music survey last Decem-ber (almost 200 replies), and to all who attended the Survey Report on January 6. We look forward to hearing all the new voices and music to come about with the addition of this staff member.

by Andrew Ehrlich, Laura Ehrlich, Alanna Hein, Shelley Sobel

Havurah’s Leadership Development Committee and MACG (Metropolitan Alliance for the Common Good) are teaming up to present a series of three workshops for Havurah leaders and members.

Who should attend?

• Committee chairs

• Committee members

• New and not-so-new members interested in learning more about leadership at Havurah

What will the training cover?

• Defining leadership at Havurah

• Nuts and bolts of chairing meetings, including clarifying meeting objectives, setting agendas, running the meeting, tracking notes and Havurah’s budget and event planning processes

• Building relationships

• Dealing with difficult situations

Sessions will be from 9:30 am – 12:00 pm on:

Sunday, December 15, 2019 Sunday, January 12, 2020 Sunday, March 15, 2020

To register, go to tinyurl.com/y6b6aa3n. For info, contact Debbi Nadell at debbinadell@gmail.com. Childcare available with prior arrangement.

Leadership Development Training

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Havurah is a member of MACG, Metropolitan Alliance for the Common Good. Havurah supports MACG through an annual fee that helps to organize campaigns, actions, and leadership training.

MACG is known for leadership training sessions that are available to all member organizations. The MACG Core Team at Havu-rah is working with the Havurah Leadership Development Committee to develop specific leadership development modules. These modules will be based on the MACG organizing model and will be integrated with other content the committee is planning for lead-ership development at Havurah.

MACG Works with Havurah on Leadership Development Tikkun Olam

Upcoming MACG Leadership Training Sessions These sessions are free and available to all Havurah members. Love Where You Live-In (Partnership with the Storyline Community) Learn what it means for the community of Oak Grove and Mil-waukie to move past just talking and toward the transformation that happens when we ask the right questions. Four Tuesday evening sessions: October 8, 15, 22 & 29 6:30-9:00 pm Oak Grove United Methodist Church in Oak Grove Leadership Institute for Public Life A two-day Leadership Institute for Public Life training to learn the MACG organizing model and to be part of MACG's work for the common good. Topics include: Why organize? Examine the history, traditions, and values of our labor, faith, community and educational organizations.

Fundamental organizing skills Learn tools to conduct individual relational meetings, listening sessions, research, negotiations and action to help obtain a con-crete, winnable outcome. Strengthening our institutions Engage people systematically in a culture that is relational, ac-tion-oriented and reflective. Problems vs. issues Focus from general problems to concrete, winnable issues by using relational power in the public arena to negotiate for the common good. Friday & Saturday, October 18-19 Holy Redeemer Church in North Portland Friday & Saturday, November 22-23 St. Andrew Lutheran in Beaverton

The fourteenth annual Weekend in Quest, a Shabbaton (study weekend), will be held on the weekend of March 6-8, 2020 in Astoria, Oregon. Weekend in Quest is sponsored by The Institute for Judaic Studies in Portland.

Evlyn Gould is College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor in the Humanities and Professor Emerita of French at the University of Oregon, where she has taught since 1983. She also serves as cantorial intern at Temple Beth Israel in Eugene and as Hazzanite at Temple Har Zion in Mt. Holly, New Jersey.

Prof. Gould's work focuses on 19th century French literature, culture, and the performing arts, as well as issues in Jewish and European Studies. She is the author of Virtual Theater from Diderot to Mallarmé (1989), The Fate of Carmen (1996; 2001), and co-author and editor of Engaging Europe: Rethinking a Continent in Change (2005; 2007). Her latest book, Dreyfus and the Literature of the Third Republic: Secularism and Tolerance in Zola, Barrès, Lazare and Proust (2012) explores the "Jewish question" during the Dreyfus Affair in France and the moral turning of each of these authors around this question.

She will present four lectures on the topic “Friends, Foes, Fanatics and Proto-Fascists: The Dreyfus Affair in Fin-de-Siècle France (1894-1906).” Her lecture titles are “The Dreyfus Affair and the Origins of Modern Anti-Semitism,” “Bernard Lazare: Unsung Hero of the Dreyfus Affair,” “Modern Marranos: Marcel Proust and the Salons of Turn-of-the-Century France,” and “The Trials of Public Education and the Rise of the Modern Secular State.”

Also included in the Shabbaton will be Shabbat services led by Beth Hamon and Elizabeth Schwartz of Havurah Shalom. We will enjoy catered kosher-style meals including a festive Erev Shabbat dinner, Kiddush lunch and Saturday evening dinner. So-cial time, entertainment and possibly a Shabbat afternoon walk along the Columbia River will also be woven into the experience. The weekend promises to be a dynamic, spiritual, and educational experience.

For more information, go to weekendinquest.org or contact Mimi Epstein at mimiepstein42@comcast.net.

Weekend in Quest 2020

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HAKOL October 2019

Update from the Poverty & Homelessness Work Group

A re you overwhelmed by our cli-mate and other social and envi-ronmental crises? Want to under-

stand causes and solutions more deeply and study in community?

This year we will be reading EcoMind by Frances Moore Lappe, sup-plemented by sections from Paul Hawken’s Drawdown, The Most Com-prehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Re-verse Global Warming. We will also review chapters from Dietz and O’Neil’s Enough is Enough, Building a Sustaina-ble Economy in a World of Finite Re-sources, and we will conclude with an introduction to the Green New Deal, how it can support sustainable solutions, and how we can participate in the great t’shuvah of our times.

The leaders in climate activism teach that as much as we all need to do more as individuals, the fundamental problem is with the pronoun “I.” What we need from individuals is to become a unified

movement and change the way we think about the problem and the solutions. HCAT is helping us become part of this movement.

We are also inviting our larger Jew-ish community to join us in developing an inter-congregational Jewish climate action group.

To learn more about the book group, go to: tinyurl.com/y25sowax For questions, contact Harriet Cooke at holisticooke@aol.com. To become more involved in HCAT, join us October 3, at 7 pm for our next meeting.

Join the HCAT Book Group! Tikkun Olam

by Marcia Suttenberg

Havurah is now a partner of the Interfaith Alliance on Poverty. We have a growing group of Ha-vurahniks (some are volunteers with Portland Homeless Family Solutions) who are interested in the Alliance’s work. They are in-volved in Alliance meetings and their three action groups: Poverty Awareness and Communication Action Team, Transitions to Sta-bility, and Advocacy. Marcia Sut-tenberg is one of these Havurahniks who attended the Alliance's monthly September meeting. Here is her brief, succinct report of that meeting:

The Interfaith Alliance on Poverty is committed to educa-tion, advocacy, and direct action to help us understand what it means to live in poverty, and how faith-based organizations can remove barriers between the lower and upper class.

At the September meeting there was a speaker from Street Roots, which produces a monthly newspaper about homeless-ness, promotes creativity and community, and gives people an opportunity to earn money selling the paper. Vendors pay $0.25 for each copy and sell them for $1. Currently there are 170 ven-dors in Portland.

One vendor and community organizer read poems and dis-cussed his own experiences being homeless. One thing he men-tioned was the simple role of sleep deprivation in triggering anger and frustration. He has been “inside” (housed) since 2010 and is an active member of the Street Roots community.

Alliance committees reported on work they are doing with the Cully/Oak Leaf trailer project. They also reported that they are providing comment on current Trump-proposed cuts to the S.N.A.P. program (food stamps), and are recruiting and training volun-teers for the CASH program, which provides tax re-turn assistance. The next educational Alliance meeting is October 3rd from 12 pm - 2 pm at The First Unitarian Church. Come hear the presentation from the Alliance's Study Group on the EcoNorthwest Study on Homelessness in the Portland region.

Upcoming Events

The Street Roots Fundraiser Breakfast is on October 4. From the Alliance's experience: this is really an inspiring event and a perfect way for a congregation to support this work by sponsor-ing a table and bringing members to learn more about this excel-lent resource we have in Portland.

Details: Friday, October 4, 7:30-9 am, Oregon Convention Center, 777 NE MLK Jr Blvd. Sponsorships start at $500 and individual tickets are $40 per person. Tickets and sponsorships can be purchased at www.streetroots.org/breakfast. The annual fund raiser for PHFS called "Family Reunion" is October 11. This is always rewarding and lots of fun! Please contact John Devlin for ticket information.

For information on the Alliance, PHFS or Lift Up PDX, please contact Gloria Halper or Steve Rudman, co-chairs of the Poverty and Homelessness Tikkun Olam subcommittee.

Please join the Havurah Climate Action Team for our fall book study for six

Thursday evenings 7 pm - 9 pm!

Nov. 7, 14, 21 & Dec. 5, 12, 19

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Celebrating 40 Years of Shabbat School Learning

T his year marks the 40th Anniversary of Havurah’s be-loved Shabbat School! We hope that you will join us to celebrate this remarkable milestone on December 7, 4:00 – 5:30 pm. We must marvel at 40 years of our

unique family-cooperative Jewish education model. Over the past 40 years, probably around 400 children have

participated in Shabbat School and almost as many parents have been teachers. But how did it all begin? What changes have taken place over the years? We recently asked these ques-tions to those who were involved in the beginning; and so, the story of Havurah’s Shabbat School is told.

Before there were Saturday morning services at Havurah, families would use this time to gather for Torah study. Soon, there was an idea that it was important to have Jewish educa-tion for the children, but it was a matter of deciding on the best day and time. Saturday mornings were filled with Torah study and kids’ soccer games, and Sunday was a day that everyone agreed should be a family day.

And who would teach this religious school? Many parents remembered their own religious school experience as children, being dropped off at the synagogue with no parent involve-ment. These Havurah parents wanted something different for their children. They wanted something that would provide both Jewish learning and community, where parents were involved with their children. They wanted the time that they met to feel Jewish. Thus, Shabbat School was born — September 15, 1979. It was to be on Saturdays at 3:00 pm and end with Havdalah, much like it does today.

Margie Rosenthal and Mari Livingston were the initial lead-ers, with Mimi Epstein and Sydney Gold taking over after them. Margie and Marie traveled to California to meet with Jewish educators and brought back curriculum material and books for each grade. Shabbat School started with approximate-ly 30-40 families who met in the classrooms at the West Hills Unitarian Fellowship. Parents were the teachers but not all par-ents taught their own children’s group at that time.

In 1982, Shabbat School classes moved to the Jewish Com-munity Center, where they continued until our community found and rehabbed the current Havurah Shalom building in Northwest Portland in 1998. During one of the first years, the families hired teachers who were working in other synagogue education programs. But they decided that having those “professionals” teach didn’t actually work as well as being the teachers themselves, and they quickly realized how important it was to them to have the parents do the teaching. The benefit of the children seeing that their parents care about what they are doing, in addition to the parents truly getting to know the kids of their community, is what helped shape Havurah’s family cooperative education model that we know today.

As time went on and the groups of children grew, parents came to teach their own children. In 1998, there was an internal assessment of the Shabbat School model, which led to the addi-tion of more structure. Curriculum was divided into 4 quarters. Parents started working in teams, with each team responsible for one quarter of teaching. Many dedicated parents strove to create a sequence of learning and themes. Amongst them were Susan Lazareck, Marydee Sklar, Karen St. Clair, Janet Byrd, Cindy Brodner, and Fran Berg.

Rabbi Joey Wolf, and the other rabbis before him, were in-volved in some ways but Shabbat School was fundamentally a parent-led vision and program. Then, when there were 80 fami-lies in Shabbat School, Havurah hired its second professional Jewish leader: Deborah Eisenbach-Budner, who has been our first, and only, Education Director since 2001.

Around that time, the Notebooks emerged, collating ideas and write-ups of activities specific to that quarter’s theme along with general educational resources. Deborah began to meet with each of the 28 teaching teams (7 grades, 4 quarters per grade – a team for each one) and helped parents consider their teaching philosophically, pedagogically, and pragmatically. As support for teaching grew, the curriculum resources grew, and the Notebooks began to burst. Parents were able to take work-shops that provided some training in teaching, Jewish learning, and integrating Jewish wisdom into parenting.

We came to the point that just managing the hundreds of curriculum resources became all-consuming — not to mention scheduling all the team meetings and tracking the myriad of details from a family cooperative with over one-hundred chil-dren and 85 very part-time teachers. Plus, our Education Direc-tor was also planning holiday celebrations, doing adult educa-tion, as well as serving many other roles in Havurah. In 2006, a group of Shabbat School Chairs proposed to Steering that we invest in 150 hours a year for a Shabbat School Assistant role, which later became the Assistant Coordinator of Education. This role would help Deborah collect and organize the existing Shabbat School grades’ materials (K-6), develop and integrate new materials and curriculum ideas, and make the whole cur-riculum accessible electronically for Shabbat School teaching teams — each quarter having designated pedagogical goals, objectives, activities, and material resources. Debbi Nadell es-tablished this role and then her fantastic work was built upon by Laura Ehrlich, Stacy Hankin, and now, Carrie Kirschner.

The quality of education that we can give our children has strengthened throughout the years. Through it all, we keep the community-building and family involvement core to our mis-sion and our experience. What began as an experiment has grown up into an innovative and engaging model of Jewish learning and living that we can all be proud of.

Share Your Experiences & Memories of Shabbat School With Us!

Will you share some reflections, recollections, photos, and memories of the Shabbat School experience for you, your children, and your family? Deborah and Brad will create a short film for our celebration.

• Send photos from any time in the last 40 years to brad@havurahshalom.org.

• Email Brad to schedule a time for us to film you talking about the program. Parents and children welcome.

• Send your thoughts or memories in writing to deborah@havurahshalom.org.

by Galit Reilly & Deborah Eisenbach-Budner

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Learning

Growing Our Roots –

T he Limud (Learning) cluster identified a goal for 5780 of creating more shared language and cultural under-standing within our community. We are calling this monthly column: “Growing our Roots – Shorashim.”

Shorashim means “roots” in ancient and modern Hebrew, as in the roots of a tree. Shorashim (or shoresh in the singular) also refers to the base of a Hebrew word, usually a sequence of three consonants. Shorashim are not themselves words until we add vowels or other consonants, creating nouns, verbs, or adjectives according to specific patterns.

For example, the shoresh of koof-dalet-shin, which means special, designated, or sacred, has grown into: Kiddish/Kiddush (blessing over the wine that sanctifies Shabbat or a holiday), aron kodesh (the place Torah scrolls are kept in the sanctuary), and nekadesh (we will sanctify).

The Hebrew bible only has 2100 shorashim. Because the Torah was passed down without vowels, and a shift in vowels can make all the difference, precise meaning can be elusive. Thus, our sacred text requires us, even on this fundamental lev-el, to engage in the process of interpretation called midrash. We make interpretive choices based on our own experiences, our knowledge, and our lack of knowledge, hopefully becoming more aware of our own spiritual assumptions and questions in the process.

The oldest Hebrew texts found are from around the 10th cen-tury BCE. Hebrew evolved within the family of Semitic lan-guages that spanned from western North Africa to contempo-rary Iraq and Turkey and south to Ethiopia. Tri-consonantal roots are a prominent feature of all Semitic languages.

The very word “shoresh” points us to both the interconnect-edness between our ancient Israelite ancestors and their neigh-bors as well as, potentially, the evolution of human culture.

The shoresh of “shoresh” is shin-resh-shin, with correspond-ing sh-r-sh sounds. Its essential meaning is ‘root,’ ‘bottom or lowest part.’ From this we get shor’shi, ‘fundamental’, ‘basic’, or ‘entrenched,’ and hishreesh, about being settled or rooted in a place.

This shoresh is echoed in Aramaic, Phoenician, Syriac, Ethi-opian, Akkadian, Ugaritic, and Arabic, in which the tri-consonental sh-r-sh denotes thornbush or hard, rough, and rug-ged – in regards to the ground. The scholarly guess is that the original meaning of the Hebrew “shoresh” meant tough, gnarled root fibers. As much as we use Hebrew to understand our own history and culture, these common ancestral roots (pun intend-ed) remind us of our shared humanity and interdependence.

The Torah has many narratives that point to a shift or con-flict in human culture: the painful difference between an idyllic life of foraging in the Garden of Eden and exile in which we must bring forth bread from the earth, repeated stories of clash-es between wandering shepherds and settled farmers. Noam Agmon writes: “Analysis of Proto-Semitic material terms re-veals that materials discovered from the Neolithic period (8,000 - 3,000 BCE) are uniquely triconsonantal whereas biconsonan-

tal names were utilized for materials of the Old Stone-Age (before 10,000 BCE). This establishes a major transition in pre-Semitic language structure, concomitant with the transition to agriculture.”

Thus, we can understand our sacred text as a reflection on how humans evolve, adapt, and succeed or fail to meet the chal-lenges of change. And doesn’t it make sense that the very foun-dation of our Jewish language comes from a term – shoresh, root – that is related to food, growth, and the sustenance of life itself?

by Deborah Eisenbach-Budner

Can you blow the shofar (even a little)? We need you to help us in the Family Service on Rosh Hashanah or Yom Kippur at 10:15 am.

Please contact Deborah Eisenbach-Budner if you can help. Thanks!

Parents & Kids with Shofar Skills Needed!

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Kitchen Kvetch

Community by Adele Thompson

During the afternoon break at Yom Kippur services, join the Climate Action Team in a lively and inspiring discussion about meaningful actions we can take to address the climate crisis. We'll explore how, as individuals, as a faith community, and as a society, we can work together in making a difference. The Climate Crisis is happening on such a large scale that it is easy for us to feel helpless to change it. However, there are meaningful actions we can take to address this challenge and adapt to its effects. There are steps we can take to ensure we are participating in the solutions rather than contributing to the problem. For more information, contact Andy Beers at andy@andybeers.com or Michael Heumann at heumanncycle@gmail.com.

Join HCAT On Yom Kippur! Each year, the Tikkun Olam Committee picks one or more organizations with whom we work to gather need-ed items. Many Havurahniks have expressed their con-cern over Portland's homeless problem by volunteering at the shelters run by Portland Homeless Family Solu-tions (PHFS), so we will again support that organization. We will also support Lift Up Portland, since homeless-ness results in a lack of food or nutritional food for spe-cific dietary needs. Our food collection will be to aug-ment Lift Up's "dietary specific" food box program. Final-ly, we will collect items requested by the teachers in the Dumbeta Ward in Tanzania through Rafiki Village Pro-ject, to be delivered in October by Havurah members David Newman and Laura Orgel.

Visit tinyurl.com/HavTikTP for a list of items you can drop off at the Tiffany Center or Havurah Shalom over the High Holidays.

Answer: All except A but you can take the pizza box and flowers home to your residential green bin and you can throw the plastic bag away after composting or consuming the challah.

Answer: B. See posters in kitchen. Plastic bags and paper coffee cups are garbage. Tea bags can go into the compost.

Answer: "Best" is such a fussy word. A and D are currently acceptable.

Answer: B. Only B. Please avoid pouring liquids into the Biobags. Most liquids can go down the drain. Ones which can clog the drain, such as oils, should be put into jars, closed tightly, labeled, and placed near the green bin.

Answer: D. Napkins go in the garbage. The food scraps and tea bag go into the kitchen compost. Please wash the plate.

Answer: False. Please be safe and thoughtful stowing items in our little kitchen.

Answer: C. The key is in the kitchen drawer near the sink.

We have been kvetching for some months now and can't help wondering: have you learned anything? Time for a pop quiz! Take it from home or treat it as an open-kitchen oppor-tunity and look around there. Clues and answers will be found in previous columns and the kitchen itself.

1. The 2 blue bins in the kitchen are reserved for:

a. plastic bags b. mixed recycling items (cans, foil, plastic tubs, jars with

necks, paper, etc.) c. old tea bags d. take-out coffee cups

2. Which of these does not go into Havurah's "compost" (green bins) per city policy?

a. old tea bags b. used pizza boxes c. tired floral arrangements d. plastic bags with challah remnants

3. The best way to do dishes is:

a. scrape off food debris into the compost can, rinse them, and wash them in the sanitizing dishwasher

b. leave them in the sink until enough accumulate to inspire someone

c. brush them off and return them to the shelves d. carefully hand wash them with detergent and hot water

and return later to put them away

4. You find a bottle of apple juice in the refrigerator which con-tains enough yeast that a gelatinous "mother" is visible.

You:

a. use it for Shabbat school class snack, saving the yeast to inoculate the next bottle b. pour it down the drain, extract and compost the yeast mass, and rinse and recycle the bottle c. pour it into a green Biobag d. call Rachel's attention to the sad state of the refrigerator

5. You are in the classroom thoughtfully sipping a cup of tea while concentrating on Rabbi Benjamin's teaching. During the break you will:

a. put the used teabag in the large cardboard recycling box labelled for clean paper

b. put your napkin in the same box c. empty crumbs from the plate of cookies into this box d. none of the above

6. True or False: These games are played while tidying the kitchen: Jenga, juggling, and teabag tossing.

This is more fun than I expected. One more for extra credit! The garbage and recycling closet is located:

a. in the basement b. at the rear of the men's room c. in the courtyard to the right of the new mosaics

Thank you for your kind reception. We welcome discussion of issues these are meant to highlight.

2019 High Holidays Tzedakah Project

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Rosh Hashanah

Sunday, Sept. 29 (at the Tiffany Center) 6:00 pm Erev Rosh Hashanah Dinner 7:30 Erev Rosh Hashanah/Evening Service Monday, Sept. 30 (at the Tiffany Center) 9:30 am Rosh Hashanah Morning Service— Shacharit 9:30 Family Service (w/children ages 0-10) 10:30 Apples, Honey & Fun for Grades 3-5 10:30 Torah Service 11:30 Children’s Aliyah 11:50 Shofar Service 12:15 Musaf/Additional Service Tuesday, Oct. 1 (at Havurah Shalom) 9:30 am Rosh Hashanah Morning Service— Shacharit 10:30 Torah Service 11:45 Shofar Service 12:15 pm Musaf/Additional Service 1:00 Community Luncheon Tashlich Monday, Sept. 30 (at Commonwealth Lake Park) 4:00 pm Cedar Hills (formerly Westside) Tashlich Service & Potluck Sunday, Oct. 6 (at George Rogers Park) 12:00 pm Potluck Lunch at George Rogers Park 1:00 Music and Tashlich Service

Cemetery Gathering Sunday, Oct. 6 (Havurah Cemetery) 1:00 pm Song and Remembrance at the Havurah Cemetery, 5656 SW Humphrey Blvd. Yom Kippur Tuesday, Oct. 8 (at the Tiffany Center) 7:00 pm Kol Nidre/Evening Service

High Holiday Guide 2019/5780 Schedule of Services and Gatherings

Access All Our High Holiday Information Online:

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Wednesday, Oct. 9 (at the Tiffany Center) 9:30 am Yom Kippur Morning Service– Shacharit 9:30 Family Service (w/children ages 0-10) 10:00 Middle School Discussion (ends at 10:45) 10:00 High School Discussion (ends at 10:45) 10:45 Torah Service 12:15 pm Musaf/Additional Service 1:30 Break 2:00 Tikkun Olam (Repairing the World) Discussion (4th Floor) 4:00 Avodah Meditation 4:30 Mincha Service/Book of Jonah 5:30 Yizkor/Memorial Prayers (approximate time) 6:00 Ne’ilah/Closing Service 7:15 Community Break Fast (approximate time)

HAKOL October 2019

Looking for something to do during the break on Yom Kip-pur? The three machzorim (High Holiday prayer books) will be on display on a table outside the sanctuary on the 4th floor for you to look through. Members of the Machzor Task Force will be on hand to answer questions and point out the features of each one. This is a perfect time to get to know the 3 options so that you can let your preferences be known. See you there!

Check Out the Machzor Options

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In the coming months Havurah Shalom will call to the

Torah the following B’nai Mitzvah:

October 19

Sam Waxman Son of Jessie Simmons, of

blessed memory, and Andy Waxman

October 26 Bennet Miller

Son of Ellen Meyer, of blessed memory, and Doug Miller

December 7

Levi Mandelsberg Son of Susan Williams and Jacob

Mandelsberg

January 18 Nathaniel Shine

Son of Sarah and Greg Shine

Please join us in celebration and welcome them to our community.

MAZEL TOV!

General Contributions Steve Goldberg, in honor of Dick Mastbrook's 90th birthday.

Sivia Kaye, in loving memory of my parents, Harry and Lily Karansky.

Sivia Kaye, in loving memory of my husband, Bernard Kaye.

Sivia Kaye, in loving memory of my grandparents, Bertha and Jacob Surick. Sivia Kaye, in loving memory of Ann Surick.

Tivona Reith and Henry Werch, in honor of Dick Mastbrook's 90th birthday.

High Holidays Contributions Surah Hirsch, in memory of Doris & Louis Hirsch.

Prayerbook Fund Fran and Tom Berg, in honor of Dick Mastbrook for his 90th birthday.

Tikkun Olam Fund Donna Pearlman, in honor of Janice and Mark Kettler's 45th anniversary, with love, from Donna, Dayle, Jay, Lauren, Sheldon and Judy.

Janice and Mark Kettler, in honor of all the folks from Havurah and in Ashland who planned a wonderful and meaningful weekend.

Carol Gelfer and Joe Sullivan, in loving

memory of Florine Gelfer.

Frances Payne Adler, in memory of my mother, Sybil Gordon Payne.

Barbara and John Neidig, in memory of Annette Cogan.

Havurah Endowment Fund Carol and Sy Chestler, in memory of my father, Sidney Chestler; my mother, Golda Chestler; and my brother, Herb Chestler.

Nancy Spigal, in memory of our beloved Harvey.

Nancy Spigal, in honor of Dick Mastbrook- Happy 90th birthday!

Rabbi Discretionary Fund Laura Orgel And David Newman, in memory of Julian Newman. Harriet and Richard Steinberg, in memory of Mary Goldstein.

Mazel Tov!

Tributes

On September 13, Miryam and Roger Brewer welcomed a new grand-daughter in Atlanta, Naomi Hershen-berg Brewer, daughter of Ben and Ra-chel, sister of Dafna. On July 11, Ilene Safyan and Mark Ros-enberg welcomed a new grand-daughter in Minneapolis, Hallel Chayim Lekach-Rosenberg, daughter of Rabbi Arielle and Noam Lekach-Rosenberg. On September 16, Sarah Liebman and Channing Dodson welcomed a new daughter here in Portland, Eliana Mey-tal, sister of Aviva and grand-daughter of Elaine and Bob Liebman.

Condolences

Julian Joseph "Bud" Newman, father of David Newman, father-in-law of Laura Orgel, grandfa-ther of Jennifer Kemp, Seth Alex-ander Newman and Tamarah Elyse Newman, passed away on September 6. Marvin Verman, father of Lesley Alter, father-in-law of Michael, grandfather of Zevi and Matan, passed away August 30.

Sam Kraus, father of Ed Kraus, father-in-law of Susan Brenner, grandfather of Michael Kraus, passed away September 5. Robert Wolheim, former hus-band of Karen Erde, father of Nate, Theo, and Josh Erde-Wolheim, passed away on September 21. Sheldon Gloger passed away September 23.

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October 2019

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L’shanah tovah!