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CONGREGATION AGUDATH ACHIM Page 1 April 2018
Shabbat Services: Friday Evening at 8:00 p.m., Saturday Morning at 10:00 a.m. nisan - iyar April 2018
Hazzan Neil Schwartz Spiritual Leader (612) 999-5060 Howard J. Silberman President (318) 317-5554 9401 Village Green Dr. Shreveport, LA 71115-2801 (318) 797-6401 [email protected] Website: agudathshreveport.com
Congregation Agudath Achim
The Shul Shpiel
Holocaust Rememberance Service
April 15, 2018
3:00 pm
Centenary College
Brown Chapel
“Music of the Holocaust”
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Shalom my Agudath Achim brothers and sisters !!! Well….our long cold
Winter is over and as we move into Spring, we can all look forward to the
trees in bloom, the start of baseball season and my favorite holiday of the
Jewish calendar, Pesach ( Passover ). And we do it well here at Agudath
Achim. Our congregational second night seder was wonderful and highly
educational, as always…..Todah Rabah to Cantor Schwartz and to those
who prepared a sumptuous feast for everyone. Passover is all about passing
on the traditions of the holiday from one generation to the next, to teach
our children and educate our community…..a job well done.
And speaking of education and a job well done, I am pleased to tell you
about two excellent educational programs that Congregation Agudath
Achim is offering this Spring. First, our ongoing class in Pirkei Avot ( The
Wisdom of the Fathers ), taught by Dr. Bruce Herniter, every Saturday,
after Shabbat morning services. The discussion is lively and engaging, so
please consider joining us and contributing some of your wisdom.
The second class we are presenting is Jewish 101, open to the community
at large, to learn the basics of Jewish history, culture and traditions. Our
first class was held in March and will continue on Wednesday April 18 at
7 PM in the AA library. The class is being taught by lay members of our
congregation and if you would be interested in teaching a class please
let me know, so we can schedule you in the coming months.
Education is a core Jewish value that is absolutely critical to the
continuation of The Jewish people around the world and right here in
our little congregation in Shreveport, La. As we move forward together,
Kadima B’yachad.
REMINDER: April Board Meeting is on Monday, April 2.
(NOT on the 2nd Monday as usual.)
Howard J. Silberman
From the President
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Hazzan’s Notes
Jewish Music of Leonard Bernstein
The Jewish journey of Leonard Bernstein began a generation earlier when his father Samuel
settled in Boston around 1912, after immigrating from the Ukraine. Leonard was born in 1918,
and he grew up attending a large Conservative synagogue named Mishkan Tefila. There was
a Rabbi and a Cantor, an organ, and a choir led by a professional Music Director from Vienna.
Bernstein was profoundly influenced by the music he learned from this Music Director, named
Solomon Braslavsky. It was based on traditional European synagogue music, yet considered
to be forward-looking in the 1920's, because of Braslavky's innovative musical arrangements.
Leonard served as a student Cantor for the Youth Service, he studied piano and organ as a
youth, and he learned aspects of public speaking from the Rabbi of Mishkan Tefila. Between
the Jewish home environment provided by his family and the influence of Jewish music in this
large Boston synagogue, Bernstein went on to Harvard firmly grounded in his Jewish identity.
Throughout Leonard's entire career as a composer, conductor, music educator, pianist, and
social activist, this Jewish identity was expressed in subtle and overt ways through his music.
Here is just a partial list of his compositions that are either entirely Jewish, or include musical
material taken from the world of synagogue music and Hebrew religious texts.
Bernstein composed settings of at least two prayers from the Shabbat evening service – the
Hashkiveinu prayer for protection, and the closing Yigdal prayer. He composed a setting of
the Dybbuk, and Simchu Na is his exciting choral arrangement of an Israeli dance melody.
Chichester Psalms is the work that was sung with our Shreveport Symphony in March. It
was commissioned by Chichester Abbey in England in 1965, and it presents three movements
of exciting and moving choral music for Psalms 100, 23, 2, 131, and a verse of Psalm 133.
Bernstein's Symphony #1 is entitled the Jeremiah Symphony, and all three movements quote
Hebrew Biblical music verbatim. The 2nd Movement is based on the chant of our Prophets,
using exact Haftarah Trope, while the 3rd Movement is based on the chant of Lamentations.
His Symphony #3 is the Kaddish Symphony, using the Aramaic text of Kaddish and its English
translation from our liturgy. It presents a theological challenge to God, based on the Yiddish
song in which a Rabbi chastises God for allowing misfortunes that befall Jewish communities.
Bernstein's Broadway musicals include Candide and West Side Story, both of which have the
sound of the Shofar in their music. He often wrote in 7/8 time (Pa da, Pa, da, Pa da da), with
this syncopation in his Symphonic music (including Chichester) and in his Broadway musicals.
Hazzan Neil Schwartz
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Kroger Community Contributions
Please take a look at your Kroger receipts - at the bottom - does it say
“you are contributing to Congregation A”? If it does, Thank You for
your contribution. If it does NOT, there is an easy, painless, no money
out of your pocket solution to correct the issue and contribute to us.
Go to Kroger.com, click on “Savings Rewards”, then click on “Kroger
Community Rewards”. Our Organization number is 8277.
Jewish Community Directory
NEW EDITION COMING SOON!
Thank you for providing your updated information to us. Our next bulletin will have information
regarding availability, cost and mailing expense of the new directory.
Community Events
Thank you to Dr. Howard Lippton
for donating several trees to Agudath Achim Synagogue.
Thank you to all who donate toiletries which we donate to the Council on Alcohol-
ism & Drug Abuse. Also, remember soft drink tabs for St. Judes’s; Box Top cou-
pons and Community Coffee proofs of purchases.
Sale on Holiday Items
Sisterhood’s Rubenstein Gift Shop is running an incredible 75% off sale on all holiday-related merchandise, throughout the month of April. That means seder plates, dreidels, honey pots, and more… It’s all waiting to go home with you!
Gift Shop
Sisterhood
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APRIL 2018
Adult Education
Please join us on Wednesday, April 11th at 7:00 p.m. Topic is:
“Leonard Bernstein at 100”
Family Service
Friday, April 20
7:00 pm
With story and songs
Agudath Achim Board Meeting
April 2nd 7:00pm
Our condolences to the family of Bernard Rosenfeld,
former resident and pillar of our congregation; and
family of Muriel Bundrick, mother-in-law of Ben Sour,
President of our Federation.
May their memories be a Blessing.
Rachel Gross Lawent April 14
Joan Lurie April 16
Liza Judd April 19
Dr. Sanford Katz April 26
Howard Silberman April 26
Red River Radio FM 89.9 Passover Programs 2018
Apollo's Fire - Sephardic Journey – cultural history – Wed., March 28, 1 p.m.
Apollos Fire - Israel in Egypt – Handel’s Oratorio – Thursday, March 29, 1 p.m.
Why This Night with Rabbi Ismar Schorsch – Thursday, March 29, 7 p.m.
A Musical Feast for Passover with Itzhak Perlman – Tuesday, April 3rd
, 2 p.m.
The Four Cups - A Celebration of Passover – Wednesday, April 4th
, 2 p.m.
Passover Dreams – Wednesday, April 4, 8 p.m.
Passover-A Time To Cross Over – Thursday, April 5, 1 p.m.
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Yahrzeits
If you are interested in being a Host or would like more information concerning Oneg or Kiddush refreshments, contact the synagogue office at 797-6401,or Sandra Ginsburg at 865-2218.
Week of March 30 - Week of April 6 - 12 Week of April 13 -19
Abe Gilbert Barbara A Threefoot Irving Greenberg
Issie Gelfand Nathan Yellen Yetta Rubenstein
Ben Frumer Louis Abramson Charles Zelinsky
Ronald Aldin Edwin Coltin Kent Hayford
Daniel Gross
Week of April 20 - 26 Week of April 27 - May 1
Sally Bayer Meyer Gelfand
Harold Levinson Ruth L. Levine
Rose Cole Pessie Goldfinger
Meir Shamgar Ida Horowitz
Benson Zweig
It is the custom of Agudath Achim to commemorate the Yahrzeit
by reading the name the Sabbath before.
April Oneg Shabbat / Kiddush Schedule
6 Home Seder
7 Seder Committee
13 - 14 Dr. Aubrey & Joan Lurie
20 - 21 Oneg Committee
27 - 28 Sarah Diebner
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Donations
In Memory of: By:
Louis Schorr Paula & Bill Cornelious
Carol Goodman Dr. Kenneth Tichansky
Rose G. Vogel Jan & Warren Epstein
Felix Leiser Alcus Berte & Ike Muslow
Ron & Diane Aldin David & Sandra Ginsburg
Abram Ginsburg David & Sandra Ginsburg
Bernard Rosenfeld David & Sandra Ginsburg
Jacob & Rachel Groner Jacqueline Fleschman
Vivian Murov Ellis Murov & family
Bernard Rosenfeld Janet Ritman & family
Bernard Rosenfeld Sara Tebele
Bernard Rosenfeld Dr. Marshall & Charlett Frumin
Bernard Rosenfeld Carol Ginsburg
Barbara Alcus Threefoot Berte & Ike Muslow
Hedva Sada Dorothy Rosenfeld & family
Hazel Schwartzberg Dorothy Rosenfeld & family
Cecily Renov Mrs. Gloria Rosen
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APRIL 2018
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
16 nisan 1
AA Service
10:00 am
2nd day
PASSOVER
17 nisan 2
AA Board Mtg
7:00PM
18 nisan 3 19 nisan 4 20 nisan 5 21 nisan 6
10:00am Service
7h Day of
PASSOVER
22 nisan 7
Yizkor
10:00am
AA SERVICES
8th day of
PASSOVER
23 nisan 8
9am to
12 pm
BZ Blood
Drive
24 nisan 9
25 nisan 10 26 nisan 11
7:00pm
Adult
Education
27 nisan 12 28 nisan 13
AA Service
8:00 pm
29 nisan 14
Shemini
10:00am
AA SERVICES
30 nisan 15
3:00pm
Holocaust
Remembrance
Centenary
1 iyar 16 2 iyar 17 3 iyar 18
Jewish 101
7:00pm
4 iyar 19
Israel
Indepen-
dence
Day
5 iyar 20
Family
AA Service
7:00 pm
6 iyar 21
Tazria -
Metzora
10:00am
AA SERVICES
7 iyar 22 8 iyar 23 9 iyar 24 10 iyar 25 11 iyar 26 12 iyar 27
AA Service
8:00 pm
13 iyar 28
Acharei
Mot-Kedoshim
10:00am
AA SERVICES
14 iyar 29 15 iyar 30 16 iyar 1
MAY
17 iyar 2
MAY
18 iyar 3
MAY
19 iyar 4
MAY
AA Service 8:00 pm
20 iyar 5
Emor
10:00am
AA SERVICES
7:20pm
7:25pm
7:30pm
7:35pm
7 :40pm