Now that Passover is completed, our tradition commands that we begin counting the Omer. We count from the first day of Passover until Shavuot. While Passover consumes our lives for seven days, we spend weeks focusing on our next holiday--Shavuot. Shavuot is, after all, the holiday that commemorates one of the most significant moments in our tradition. Shavuot is the anniversary of when God gave Moses the Ten Commandments at Mt. Sinai. While the Ten Commandments have been a source of ethics and knowledge for countless cultures over the years, the Talmud focuses just as much on the process of giving the tablets as they do on the words inscribed upon them. First, the rabbis pointed out that all Jews were present at the moment God gave the commandments. As such, God delivered the message in a way that allowed every Jew to understand. Both toddlers and elders were able to understand the words. From this, our rabbis teach that Torah should be accessible to everybody at every level. The Talmud was also focused on the inscription on the tablets. When Moses saw that the Hebrews were worshiping the golden calf, he smashed the tablets. The inscription, however, was not destroyed. The letters remained in tact and ascended back up Mt. Sinai, waiting for Moses to bring them back again. This teaches us that our tradition is eternal. Despite our mistakes, the Torah is always there for us when we are ready for it. Finally, the rabbis pointed out the method by which the tablets were to be transported. As they came down the mountain, they were placed in the Ark of the Covenant. The Ark was covered with pure gold within and without. The Talmud describes this as a representation of our ideals. Each Jew should not only have Torah on the inside, but use it to shine on the inside as well as the outside. Putting these lessons together, we discover the importance of Shavout. As we celebrate the day upon which the Ten Commandments were given, we remember that these words belong to everybody, they are there for us even when we stray from them, and when used properly, we become the best versions of ourselves on the outside as well as the inside. Kul Tov, Rabbi David Gerber Shabbat Achrei Mot Friday, May 3 6:15 pm Family Shabbat Worship Saturday, May 4 10:30 am Morning Worship Shabbat Kedoshim Friday, May 10 8:00 pm Shabbat Worship including Installation Saturday, May 11 10:30 am Morning Worship and Torah Discussion Shabbat Emor Friday, May 17 8:00 pm Shabbat Worship Saturday, May 18 10:30 am Morning Worship including the Bar Mitzvah of Aiden Middleberg, son of Aaron and Kelley Middleberg & Nicole Tucker and Beau Baudier Shabbat Behar Friday, May 24 8:00 pm Shabbat Worship Saturday, May 25 10:30 am Morning Worship including the Bar Mitzvah of Daniel Gillis, son of James & Julie Gillis Shabbat Bechukotai Friday, May 31 8:00 pm Shabbat Unplugged Saturday, June 1 10:30 am Morning Worship and Torah Discussion The Gates Way May 2019 ANNUAL MEETING AND INSTALLATION OF OFFICERS AND BOARD May 10 Annual Meeting and Dinner 6:00 pm Before Shabbat, come together for the business of the congregation. Enjoy dinner. (There is no charge for dinner, but please let the office know by May 8th that you will be joining us so we can prepare enough for all) Hear reports from the Rabbi and leaders. Elect the officers and board. Shabbat and Installation Service 8:00 pm Have you bought your tickets yet??
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Now that Passover is completed, our tradition commands that we begin counting the Omer. We count from the first day of Passover until Shavuot. While Passover consumes our lives for seven days, we spend weeks focusing on our next holiday--Shavuot. Shavuot is, after all, the holiday that commemorates one of the most significant moments in our tradition. Shavuot is the anniversary of when God gave Moses the Ten Commandments at Mt. Sinai. While the Ten Commandments have been a source of ethics and knowledge for countless cultures over the years, the Talmud focuses just as much on the process of giving the tablets as they do on the words inscribed upon them. First, the rabbis pointed out that all Jews were present at the moment God gave the commandments. As such, God delivered the message in a way that allowed every Jew to understand. Both toddlers and elders were able to understand the words. From this, our rabbis teach that Torah should be accessible to everybody at every level. The Talmud was also focused on the inscription on the tablets. When Moses saw that the Hebrews were worshiping the golden calf, he smashed the tablets. The inscription, however, was not destroyed. The letters remained in tact and ascended back up Mt. Sinai, waiting for Moses to bring them back again. This teaches us that our tradition is eternal. Despite our mistakes, the Torah is always there for us when we are ready for it. Finally, the rabbis pointed out the method by which the tablets were to be transported. As they came down the mountain, they were placed in the Ark of the Covenant. The Ark was covered with pure gold within and without. The Talmud describes this as a representation of our ideals. Each Jew should not only have Torah on the inside, but use it to shine on the inside as well as the outside. Putting these lessons together, we discover the importance of Shavout. As we celebrate the day upon which the Ten Commandments were given, we remember that these words belong to everybody, they are there for us even when we stray from them, and when used properly, we become the best versions of ourselves on the outside as well as the inside. Kul Tov,
Rabbi David Gerber
Shabbat Achrei MotFriday, May 3 6:15 pm Family Shabbat WorshipSaturday, May 4 10:30 am Morning Worship
Shabbat KedoshimFriday, May 10 8:00 pm Shabbat Worship including Installation Saturday, May 11 10:30 am Morning Worship and Torah Discussion
Shabbat EmorFriday, May 17 8:00 pm Shabbat WorshipSaturday, May 18 10:30 am Morning Worship including the Bar Mitzvah of Aiden Middleberg, son of Aaron and Kelley Middleberg & Nicole Tucker and Beau Baudier
Shabbat BeharFriday, May 24 8:00 pm Shabbat WorshipSaturday, May 25 10:30 am Morning Worship including the Bar Mitzvah of Daniel Gillis, son of James & Julie Gillis
Shabbat BechukotaiFriday, May 31 8:00 pm Shabbat UnpluggedSaturday, June 1 10:30 am Morning Worship and Torah Discussion
The Gates Way May 2019
ANNUAL MEETING AND INSTALLATION OF OFFICERS AND
BOARDMay 10
Annual Meeting and Dinner6:00 pm
Before Shabbat, come together for the business of the congregation.
Enjoy dinner. (There is no charge for dinner, but please let the office know by May 8th that you will be
joining us so we can prepare enough for all)
Hear reports from the Rabbi and leaders.
Elect the officers and board.
Shabbat and Installation Service8:00 pm
Have you bought your tickets yet??
Welcome to Our New Members
Samantha & Jared Oberlin431 26th Street
New Orleans, LA 70124Child: Asher Oberlin
Sharon & Neil Wolfson4525 Taft Park
Metairie, LA 70002
Anna Alicia Bourgeois4401 Yale Street
Apt. AMetairie, LA 70006
May 3-4Etta L. Burr, Ruth Weisand Friedman, *Miriam Weiner Glynn, *Maurice Grossman, Ted Kline, *David L. Levy, *Leon Polmer, S. Barbara Alterman, David Bernstein, *Louise R. Hayem, *Sadie Jacobs, Gerald David Katz, Suzanne A. Mann, Henry Maurice Mayer, Edward C. Samuels, Sam Buckman, *Julie Buckman Dreyfus, *Norman A. Falk, Charles Grossman, Betty Ostrick, *Moise Strauss, *Jonathan Eric Hiller, Joseph R. Hirschfield, Dr. Lawrence Linder, *Hannah Wainer, Abraham Yarutsky, *Catherine Foreman, Tilly Kray Harris, Minnie Schwartz Lehman, Albert Pukof, *Clara K. Pulitzer, Moses Welsch, Abraham Finkelstein, Edythe Gureasko, Rosalie Welsch Rosenthal, Albert George Shear, *Lester Wainer, Samuel Breen, Samuel Cohen, Robert Goldstein, Leslie Greenwald, Jules Katz, Bluma Davis Korn, Ruth Lehman, Isaac Mayer, Sylvia Berman Rosenberg.
May 10-11*Hannah R. Aronowitz, Gustav Braun, *Doris Goldman Cohn, Fannie S. Myer, Eli Ruch, Julia S. Schwartzberg, *Uriah Wainer, *Margaret Kosberg Baumsten, Sarah Heuman, *Ruth Sher Mattes, Beryl Nemeth, Selma Levy Gordon, Fridman Gutkovich, *Monroe Allen Horton, Richard Steven Light, Patrick Hugh McGehee, Adolph Pincus Polmer, *Samuel Solomon Davidson, *Max Goldenberg, *Leonard C. Joseph, *Gussie G. Koritzky, Ray Moshkowsky, Julian Opotowsky, Solomon Teles, *Helen Steinman Wainer, *Jacob Winsberg, *Jack S. Hyman, Donald Joseph Miller, *Paulina Norman Polunsky, *Isidore E. Salem, Rachel Resnick Scudder, Clarice Romer Weil, *Alvin M. Weinstein, Edward Bronston, *Joseph Frank, *Max Friedman, *Rabbi Mendel Silber, *Cecile Klein Washofsky, Jake Alhadeff, *Frances Shapiro Ramer.
May 17-18Lorraine Ann Crossland, *Richard Charles Heidel, *Ruth Sizeler Herzog, Charles Jagot, *Mayer Levy, *Milton Stiebel, *Colletta Tatar, Mary Bronfin Cohen, Louis Alter Freyer, *Minnie Herzog, *Albert I. Lupin, *Lillian S. Pulitzer, *Florence Rosenzweig, Anthony Scudder, Sylvia R. Allison, *Ruth Simon Davidson, *Ione Singerman Fellman, *Jules G. Fisher, Pincus Roseman, Alice Baum Rosenthal, George Solomon, Max Philip Zander, Rhea Cornman Regenbogen, Justin Rosenfeld, Benjamin Redman, Leonard Ungar, Herman Aaron Yuspeh, *Ruth T. Levy, Julia Extine Parody, *J. Jack Pastel, Stanley Zakem, Laurie Sue Kanstroom, *Andrea J. Liniado, Retta Moses Nash, *Jacob Max Pulitzer, *Joseph Saltz, Mollie Shemel Tatar, *Sarah G. Taul.
May 24-25Julius Marks Rosenberg, *Louis Isaac Berlot, Rene I. Salomon, *Sarah Finger Streiffer, *Lazard Hayem, *Samuel O. Kancher, Carolyn Meyer, Daniel Solomon, *Henrietta Levy Frank, Edward A. Goldberg, *Samuel L. Jacobs, *Samuel Robert Klinger, Edward Lust, Dontella Martinelli, Rabbi Baruch Braunstein, *Sarah Finkelstein Saltz, *Flora F. Singerman, *Sadye Rae G. Winsberg, *Louis Latter, Dr. Benjamin Nitzberg, Katherine Hart Rutledge, Ida Saymon, Aida Shirer, Louis L. Gertler, *Linda Dulitz Hirsch, Emile Levy.
May 31-June 1Anna Levin Fisher, Estelle Kovner, Ralph Liniado, *Ruth Kahn Jacobs, *Wolfe Jacob Levy, Florence Caplan Loevy, Gary Steven Bennett, Rose Mallitz Fruhthaler, Irving Haberman, *Heyman Isaacs, *Nick S. Karno, Marilyn Lemoine Spencer, *Isaac Victor, *Helen Levy Bodenger, *Florence Plotkin Stiebel, *Esrael Taul, Martin Zuckerman, *Lillian S. Barton, Lenard Joseph, Morris Levin, Adele Neumark Benjamin, *Rachel Pesses Caron, Paula Benjamin Friedhoff, Sarah Fine Herron, Joyce G. Kraus, Sandra Schudmak, *Barnett Blitz, *Lena Bohrer, *Dorit Berger Fenton, Edward M. Grossman, Albert Ellis Patent, *Lena Winstein Santa Cruz, Esther Shushan, *Dr. Saul A. Silverman, Elliot Tanenbaum.
May Yahrzeits
Officers to be elected to a one (1) year term:
President........................Aaron WolfsonExec. Vice President .....Darrah Caplan Vice President.............Jonathan FawerVice President....................Lane Cohen Vice President....................Diana Mann Treasurer........................Shael WolfsonFinancial Secretary..........Rella ZapletalRecording Secretary.......Barri Bronston
Board of Trustees Members for a 3 Year Term (2019-2022):David Becker, Sue Daube, Cindy Denn, Julie Gillis, Noah Jacobs, Adam Newhouse, Ann Streiffer
Board of Trustees Member for a 2 Year Term (2019-2021):DeeGee Liniado
Endowment Trustees (2019 - 2022):Rick Levin
Rick LevinNominating Committee Chair
Nominating Committee:Brotherhood President Mike Fein, Sisterhood President, Diana Mann, along with Presidential appointees, Darrah Caplan, Jonathan Fawer, Art Waterman and Shael Wolfson.
The following section to Article XI of the Constitution of Congregation Gates of Prayer provides for nomination by petition:“Nomination for any elective office may be made by petition of at least ten (10) voting members of the congregation in good standing. Said nomination shall be filed with the President at least seven (7) days before the general election.”
Sisterhood News
*Are you looking for a way to honor or remember your mother this Mother’s Day? Why not make a donation to the Sarah Winsberg Memorial Flower Fund? This Sisterhood fund is responsible for the beautiful bimah flowers every Shabbat.
*Mazel Tov to the Sisterhood Campership Recipients, Addie Cohen and Jacob Daley!
*Sisterhood will have an open Board meeting on May 14th at 7:00 pm at CGoP in the Lake Library and Media Center. The new slate of officers will be presented.
*Look at the attached flyer for Bubbles and Bonbons on Broadway, our closing program on June 1st at the home of Diana Mann. Our new Sisterhood leadership will be installed!
*Todah Raba (THANK YOU!) to Margery Thomas and her committee for a wonderful 2nd night seder and to DeeGee Liniado and her committee for a fun Bonco night!
Brotherhood to HoldAnnual Meeting
Brotherhood will hold its annual meeting at the Mandarin House
on Severn Ave, Wednesday, May 22nd. Come enjoy the buffet at
6:00 pm, with elections and budget presentation at 6:30 pm.
J-FLEx Comes to our
Religious School
Important D
ates to Rem
ember:
May 10 - A
nnual Meeting and Installation
May 11 - Th
e Great G
atesby Gala
Sisterhood:M
ay 14 - Open Board M
eetingM
ay 27 - Book Club @
Lauren Gerber’s
June 1 - Closing Program
Brotherhood:M
ay 22 - Annual BH
Meeting @
Mandarin
House
Young Families:
May 3 - Fam
ily ShabbatM
ay 5 - Closing D
ay of Religious School
May 16 - Pre-K
Graduation
May 17 - M
unchkin Minyan
Senior Outreach:
May 6
The General FundIn Memory of:Mickey Marsh Micki & Ben Bronston Mike & Debra Fein Irwin & Judy Lachoff Diana & Chip Mann Dot Levin Rabbi Brian, Karen & Corianna Nevins-Goldman Leslie Slobotzky Ressler Annette Smason Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Wieder The Beerman Family Marion & Harry Mohre Sue Rae Brown & Ken Bishop Melanie & Danny BronfinHelen Wainer Harold WainerMorris Smith Edward & Betty SmithWalter Hudson Jack HudsonIris Richmond Barron Dot LevinAnn E. Gardsbane Linda & Hal Becker
The Prayerbook FundIn Memory of:Helen Dumont Miller Sidney & Ellen Raye MillerAlbert J. Henry Diana & Chip MannMickey Marsh Sherri & Matt TarrIn Honor of:Marsha Bohrer’s Birthday Sidney & Ellen Raye Miller
Rabbi’s Discretionary FundIn Memory of:Mickey Marsh Jeff & Linda Green Joseph & Marilyn Kline The Welz Family Lori Goldman Lorraine Lake Williams Eddie Bronston Shirley GoldmanJules Pesses David PessesBernard GoldmanAgatha Diefenthal AsherDorothy Kline Joseph & Marilyn KlineLynne Welsch Nagler Dale & Marty RothIn Appreciation of:Rabbi Gerber Lenny & Bridget Berins David & Kristen Dulitz
The Tikun Olam FundIn Memory of:Mickey Marsh Debbie & Louis Tuck & Family Rachel Bergman
Rabbi Emeritus Discretionary FundIn Memory of:Manon “Jimmie” Seelig Shields Lorraine Lake Williams Marilyn Lake Neumann Jonathan & Fran Lake
The Fund for the Louise Hayem Manheim Nursery SchoolIn Memory of:Iris Barron David Greenberg Diana & Chip Mann Shelley & Steve Pincus The Lor Family Susan & Gerald Levin Sherry Harris & Shepard Harris Linda & Jeff Green Robin & Nathan Lew Dale & Marty Roth Rachel Bergman Elliot & Lisa Finkelstein Marion & Harry Mohre Jill Seibert Ava, Leon & Zack Nowalsky Glenn & Judy Lieberman Lazelle, Amy & Becky Alexander Jack & Dori Schulman Melanie & Richard Blitz Andrea & Jay Joseph Arty & Amy FinkelbergMickey Marsh Melanie & Richard Blitz Carol & Harold AsherBobette Szyller Diana & Chip MannSharyn Silverstein Ed & Betty SmithHugh R. Fenton Gail Fenton Pesses & FamilyRose Pesses Teles Gloria SaltzMickey MarshIris BarronMiriam Katz Cindy & Avrom DennIn Appreciation of:The Nursery School Ira MiddlebergRabbi David & Lauren Gerber Cindy & Avrom Denn
The Len C. Joseph Memorial Service FundIn Memory of:Mickey Marsh Andrea & Jay Joseph
The Music FundIn Memory of:Gloria Plitman Cohen Susan & Gerald CohenMickey Marsh Sherry Katz Harris Jack & Dori Schulman
The Endowment FundIn Memory of:Bobette SzyllerJane GoldnerMickey Marsh Anne Chirinos
The Cemetery FundIn Memory of:Mickey Marsh Lazelle, Amy & Becky AlexanderJoseph B. Merlin Shirley & Carl MerlinJoseph Hannon Balfour Myra Balfour, Bruce & Nan Balfour, Wendy & Kevin LopesNathan MohreIris BarronMickey Marsh Michele, Vadim, Hannah & Kaitlin GelmanMickey Marsh Lazelle, Amy & Becky AlexanderRuby Goldenberg Gensburger Ellis GensburgerNathan Mohre Marion & Harry MohreMickey MarshHarvey J. Green Diane Green-Freeman
The Louis Leopold Gerler/Plotkin Israel Action FundIn Memory of:Sadie R. GertlerMickey Marsh Lynn & Steven Plotkin
The Fund for the Rabbi Nathaniel ShareReligious SchoolIn Memory of:Daniel B. Alexander Lazelle, Amy & Becky AlexanderMaurice Bernard Polunsky Lester & Dee Dee DulitzIris Barron Dawn Lingle
The Cecile Washofsky Memorial Jacobs Campership FundIn Memory Of:Celia Dulitz Washofsky Leonard Washofsky
Condolences
In Memorium
To Gale Pick on the death of her mother, Jane Goldner.
