HaKol April 2015 Nisan-Iyar 5775

Rabbi Beth Jacowitz Chottiner

Karen Kangisser, President

Shabbat Services

Friday, April 3rd, No Shabbat Services

Passover Seders at home

Friday, April 10, 6:00 pm Seventh Day of Passover

Friday, April 17, 8:00 pm

Parashat Shmini Lev. 9:1-11:47

Friday, April 24, 8:00 pm Parashat Tazria-Metzora

Lev. 12:1-15:33

Yom HaShoah

Join us on Sunday, April 12th at 7 :00 pm

For our Annual

Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance)

Service and Program.

The evening will include original writings by participants in last summer’s Classrooms

Without Borders Study Seminar to Poland, a yellow candle lighting ceremony, a skit by Elissa Gross and Judge Chris Fontaine, and

a 45-minute video that chronicles the CWB study seminar.

This event is free and open to the public. Please invite your friends and colleagues.

FYI ...

If your check has been received by 5:00 pm on Tuesday, March 31st, you do have a reservation

for the Passover Seder. See you there!

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From the Rabbi’s Study . . . . .

For the past eight years, the Torah Study group has been meeting on a regular basis to study parashat hashavua, the Torah portion of the week. We talk, discuss, debate, agree and disagree with each other. We stick to the text and go off on tangents, all during the same hour. In the end, we come away feeling fulfilled, knowl-edgeable and enlightened.

While studying the Torah is valuable and interesting, there is also a tradition in Judaism to study Pirkei Avot (Ethics of the Fathers) during the weeks that fall between Pesach and Shavuot. In the coming weeks, our Torah Study group will take up the study of Pirkei Avot.

Avot is one of the sixty-three tractates of the Mishnah (the first compilation of the Oral Law, edited by Rabbi Judah HaNasi in the 2nd Century C.E.). The precursor of the Talmud, the Mishnah was originally passed down verbally and was created to help us better understand and interpret the Torah.

While it is full of instructions and requirements for practicing Judaism, Tractate Avot also “speaks to the aspiring chasid, one who seeks to go beyond the letter of the law. While the rest of the Mishnah deals primarily with the pragmatic details of ritual and regulation, Avot speaks to the person beneath and behind the actions—to one’s

character” (Pirkei Avot: Ethics of the Fathers, Rabbi Yosef Marcus, p. xi.).

Please note that the term chasid used above refers not to a follower of the Baal Shem Tov, the founder of the Chasidic movement, but rather to a humble and altruistic person who goes beyond the letter of the law (as the word is used in the Talmud). The root of chasid is the same as chesed, meaning kindness. As such, a chasid is seen as a kind person.

Studying Pirkei Avot will be a new venture for all who join us on Shabbat mornings. I have never studied Pirkei Avot in an organized fashion and I’m looking forward to learning with, and from, those in attendance.

There is much wisdom in Pirkei Avot, and I hope that together, we can not only find pearls of wisdom, but become kinder people, during the process.

The studying of Pirkei Avot will begin on Saturday, April 11th at 10 a.m. I hope to see you there.

May you and yours have a zeisen Pesach!

L’shalom,

Rabbi Beth Jacowitz Chottiner

Torah Study Takes

On A

New Twist

April Birthdays

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1: Bobbi and Norman Pollock (53rd)

12: Lisa and Barry Allen (7th)

16: Tobie and Eloy Nepo (26th)

20: Clare and Isaac Levenson (14th)

23: Adrienne and David Melgary (33rd)

April Anniversaries

1: Harold Burech

2: Rachel Lewine

Eloy Nepo

6: Debra Goldberg

7: Faith Peluchette

(19th)

8: Jo Burech

9: Richard Jones

13: Myra Talenfeld

15: Barbara Lief

16: Betsy Jones

Gretchen Strauss

17: Roanne Burech

19: Jonathan Lief

21: Elaine Peluchette

22: Safia Jenny Good Boncana

(3rd)

Leah Josephine Lief (5th)

H. John Rogers

Alan Ruben

23: Hanalei Lewine (16th)

Jaclyn Lewine (16th)

25: Elijah Porbin (13th)

Robyn Ruttenberg

Rachel Schwam (18th)

27: Bobbie Jacowitz

29: Janet Rosenthal

Mazel Tov /Kudos/ Congratulations to . . .

Lisa Allen and Ziegenfelder Company designation as a female -owned business by the Women’s

Business Enterprise National Council in 2014, giving it a right to place a ”Woman Owned” logo on their packaging to

inform the public.

Lisa and Barry Allen on birth of a new grandchild.

Blake Humphrey for being elected to WVU Student Government Association Board of Governors.

Dona Wiseman, Barb Lewine and Norman Pollock for being 2015 Stock Market Raffle winners!

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April Donations Fund Donation Key: Sebulsky Aesthetics (A), Archives (AR), Cemetery (C), Foundation (F),

General (G), Levenson Sanctuary (LS), Posin/Wishnew Library (L), Kaufman Music (M), Rabbi's Discretionary Fund (RDF), The Rabbi Daniel Lowy Religious School Fund (RLRSF),

Ben Rudner Torah (T), Shelby Lynn Posin Fund for Adult Education (SLP), Sisterhood Campership (SC), Sisterhood Floral (SF), Sisterhood Friendship and Remembrance (SFR),

Capital Campaign (CC), Caring Committee (CARE)

Donation to Rabbi Discretionary Fund Sheldon Pinsky

In memory of Constantin Samaras Carol and Stanley Stein (G)

Please remember

Temple Shalom in

your

Estate Planning

In memory of Florence Mendelson Joanne and Denny Burech (G) Mrs. Valorie Mendelson (G) Jan and Brad Northcraft (G)

Suncrest United Methodist Church (G) Carol and Stanley Stein (G)

NEW BOOKS IN THE TEMPLE LIBRARY

Thank you to Winkie Kusic for donating the following books to our

library:

Pesitka de Rav Kahana

Passover Haggadah by Joseph Elias

Judaism by Howard Greenstein

The Prophets by Abraham Joshua Heschel

Weaving the Visions, edited by Judith Plaskow and Carol P. Christ

Please let us hear from you

with any news you would

like to send---life cycle

events, simchas as well as sorrows.

oneg Shabbat . . .

Celebrate

A mitzvah that came your way or the life of a dear one who passed.

Congregate

With your friends at the Sabbath Table or welcome the stranger as did Abraham and Sarah.

Communicate

by telling Trina at 304-233-4870 or Jocelyn Cooper at 304-242-2801 you will sponsor an oneg Shabbat for the month of April.

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Pics from Our Purim Celebration

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Save-The-Date . . .

26th Annual

Chocolate Samples Door Prizes Raffles

Thursday, May 7, 2014 4:00 pm-6:30 pm

$12 in advance - $15 at the door

Tickets available at the Temple Office

benefit the Hadassh

non-sectarian hospitals in Israel

Harbay Todot ~ Many Thanks To . . .

Roz Lando, Howard Pascoll, David Rose & Rachel Weinberger for volunteering at the Catholic Neighbor Center in March.

Amy Humphrey and Harold Burech for organizing and running the Stock Market Rafle.

The religious school parents, teachers and students for making our Purim celebration a great success, with a special todah rabah to Charity Porbin for spearheading the event.

Janice Meister for leading Shabbat services in March.

Rachel Weinberger for leading Shabbat services in March and for being the M.C. at our Purim celebration.

Jonathan Lief for assembling the Purim jelly bean guessing container and teaching an adult education class to the members of Vance Memorial Presbyterian Church.

Lee Chottiner for overseeing our mitzvah project at the Catholic Neighborhood Center this season and for heading up our recycling efforts at the Temple.

Vera Schwartz for shopping for our Temple onegs.

Dr. Norman Franklin and family, Jennifer Monga and family, Sherry Rosenberg, Dona and Bob Wiseman or sponsoring pulpit flowers in March for the bimah.

Bobbi and Norman Pollock, Dona and Bob Wiseman for sponsoring an oneg Shabbat for the month of March.

Glenda Pavilack, Bobbi Pollock and Sherry Rosenberg from The Infusion Room at the Schiffler Cancer Center for the lovely hand knit hats they knitted for cancer patients.

Our thoughts, prayers and good wishes are with

Blanche Rybeck as she volunteers for six

weeks in Sierra Leone with Ebola patients. We

are proud of Blanche and look forward to seeing

her upon her safe return.

The deadline for the

May HaKol will be on Thursday,

April 16, 2015.

Faith Dialogue Group

The third meeting

of our group will take place

on Wednesday, April 29th

at 7:00 pm

TEMPLE SHALOM SUPERSALE

August 9, 2015

PLEASE MARK YOUR CALENDARS FOR THIS WONDERFUL FUNDRAISING OPPORTUNITY!

WE ARE SEEKING DONATIONS OF THE FOLLOWING TYPES:

Kitchen Items including Tupperware, Dinnerware and Flatware; Knickknacks; Furniture;

Lighting; Home Decor; Large and Small Appliances; Consumer Electronics including Cam-

eras; Luggage; Sporting Goods; Children’s Toys and Bikes; Linens; and other home goods.

WE WILL ALSO BE HAVING WOMEN’S AND CHILDREN’S BOUTIQUES CONSISTING OF:

Women’s formal (business and dress) Wear and Outerwear; Handbags; scarves; Accessories;

Jewelry; Children’s Clothes and Shoes.

Note: all items must be in new or lightly-used condition. Clothing must not be stained or torn

and dry cleaned/ recently laundered.

Temple drop-off times will be included in the May edition of the Ha’Kol. FREE Home pickup

for large items such as appliances and furniture.

For questions or to volunteer with the event, please email Rachel Weinberger at

rbweinberger@gmail.com or call 845-558-8980.

We also desperately need hangers for all of the clothing- we anticipate a lot of clothing to

display!

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Art Rybeck, z’’l, has been selected as an inductee

into the Wheeling Hall of Fame in the category of

philanthropy. The celebration will be held on Sat-

urday, May 30th at WesBanco Arena (5:30 pm for

cocktails and 6:30 for dinner). Tickets are $30

each and will be available in the Temple office.

April Yahrzeits

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March 29 - April 4 observed April 3 Rose K. Buchalter 3/30 Sylvia Floretta Cohen 3/30 Nissan 10 Ilona Stern 3/30 Katherine Murray Berg Brown 3/31 Ida Cohen 3/31 Nissan 11 Gerald Singer 3/31 Nissan 11 Rose Zweig 3/31 Sophia Hanauer 4/2 Nathan Harrison 4/2 Nissan 13 David J. Levenson 4/2 Alexander Lowy 4/2 Nissan 13 Ann Goldman 4/3 Zelma Anna Zweig Lando 4/3 Rabbi Jacob Moses Schmuckler 4/3 Nissan 14 April 5- April 11 observed April 10 Hamey Cooper 4/5 Nissan 16 Joseph Dobkin 4/6 Susan Beth Rosenberg 4/6 William Stevens 4/6 Nissan 17 Bernhard H. Goldmann 4/7 Philip K. Landau 4/7 Nissan 18 Josephine Klausner Mayer 4/7 Ben Pinsky 4/7 Gershon Gaston Sebulsky 4/7 Nissan 18 Rebecca Weissman 4/7 Nissan 18 Paul Zeff 4/7 Nissan 18 Charlotte Kahn 4/8 Roma Schreiber Perkel 4/8 Abe Sherman 4/8 Richard Wiseman 4/8 Ida Hannah Lebow 4/9 Nissan 20 Harry Seeling Schwartz 4/9 Helen Wilder 4/9 Beatrice Alon 4/10 Nissan 21 Irwin Horowitz 4/10 Nissan 21 Robert Gordon Markham 4/11 Nissan 22 Laib Weizer 4/11 Nissan 22 April 12 - April 18 observed April 17 Joseph Alon 4/12 Etea Cohen 4/12 Lazarus Cohen 4/12 Edwiga Marcus 4/12 Joel Mishne 4/12 Daniel Sella 4/12 Richard Mark Siegler 4/12 Dr. Frederick Watts 4/12 Margaret Watts 4/12 Mary Zeff 4/12 Silvia Zuckerman 4/12 Maurice Lewine 4/13 Mary Levy Cohen 4/14 Harry Rubin 4/14 Nissan 25 Jacob J. Sapper 4/14 Freda C. Cohen 4/15 Nissan 26 Harvey Feder 4/15 Ruth Wise Ganger 4/15 Ida Fox Kriegman 4/15 Nissan 26 Rina Lubetz Pinsky 4/15

Sara Stein 4/16 Minnie J. Westerman 4/16 Nissan 27 Henrietta Ann Behr 4/17 Nissan 28 Zelda Lowy 4/17 Nissan 28 Catherine S. Rudner 4/17 Vivian Ruth Fischer Kaufman 4/18 Olga E. Kohut Sebulsky 4/18 April 19 - April 25 observed April 24 Marie Franklin 4/19 Sylvan Edward Franklin 4/19 Leonard Samuel Levine 4/19 Sadie Diskin Resnick 4/19 Nissan 30 Henry E. Front 4/21 Joan Marion Furman Robbin 4/22 Iyar 3 Jack Weissman 4/22 Iyar 3 Harry Kaufman 4/23 Lillian Zelevian 4/23 Iyar 4 Shirley Ruth levy Steinfeld 4/24 Sarah Osoff Supovitz 4/24 Iyar 5 Louis Berlow 4/25 Iyar 6 Joseph Feingold 4/25 Iyar 6 Rochelle Posin 4/25 Iyar 6 Esther Weissman 4/25 Iyar 6 April 26 -May 2 observed May 1 Robert A. Frank 4/26 Rosemary M. Front 4/26 Ivan Pavilack 4/26 Iyar 7 Zella Reichblum 4/26 Iyar 7 Eugene Behr 4/27 Iyar 8 Thelma T. Berman 4/27 Iyar 8 Sam Sebulsky 4/27 Iyar 8 Harry Stein 4/27 Iyar 8 Matilda Favish 4/29 Lillian Anon 4/30 Iyar11 Clara Kaufman 4/30 Sol Lurie 5/1 Iyar 12 Patricia Siegal 5/1 Benjamin Kaufman 5/2 Joshua Laifer 5/2 Doris Phillips 5/2 Joan Markham Seibert 5/2 Iyar 13

May their memory be for a blessing.