In This Issue:125th Anniversary, page 4Annual Meeting, page 6

GWCTS, page 7 VOLUME 15 NUMBER 9 MAY, 2019 NISAN-IYYAR 5779

Shavuot commemorates the giving of the TenCommandments to Moses and the Israelites atMount Sinai. Just as the Israelites stayed up latethe night before receiving the Ten Command-ments, we do too! Our evening begins by gathering together for thelast hours of Shabbat. These hours are among thesweetest of the whole Shabbat experience.Shabbat Mincha (afternoon service) with itsdistinctive melody will be followed by the “thirdmeal,” Seudah Shlishit. In honor of Shavuot wewill have a dairy dinner of lasagna, salad, andaccompanying noshes. After filling our stomachs, we will fill our soulswith special songs for the close of Shabbat. Thiswill be followed by a study session entitled:“Infectious Opposition: Taking a Jewish Shotat Vaccinations in Halakhah.” We will concludethe evening with the Festival Evening Service.

The evening begins at 7:00pm on Saturday, June 8th. We hope you will join us! No charge,but please RSVP by June 3rd so we can plan accordingly for the meal.

Please join us for our 4th annual Shavuot potluck picnic!! We’ll meetat Orchardly Park in Oakwood, Sunday, June 9th from 5pm-7pm.Please RSVP with the vegetarian/dairy dish you’d like to bring toHazzan Jenna Greenberg at yoninale@hotmail.com.

All are welcome – hope to see you there!

2The Cantor’s CornerCantor Andrea Raizen

This May marks 30 years since Ireceived my Master’s Degree inEducation from the University ofJudaism (now called the American

Jewish University) inLos Angeles.Immediately upongraduation, I acceptedmy first position asDirector of Educationat a mid-sizeConservativecongregation inSouthern California.Back in 1989 almost allConservative

synagogues still maintained religiousschools that met three days a week forapproximately six hours. This was thetype of supplemental school that Iexperienced as a child, as I am sure manyof you did as well.

But it wasn’t that many years laterthat Conservative schools began toeliminate one weekday of traditionalHebrew School, going to Sundays andone afternoon. This was due to pressurefrom parents who complained that theirchildren had too many other activities toattend after school, and that they couldnot bring them that many hours. At first,schools resisted making the change. Insome cases parents just chose not tobring their children both days and inothers they simply moved to the nearestReform Temple where they only had togo two days. By the early 2000’s, manyConservative synagogues had changedthe model, some coming up with othercreative ways to make up for the losthours, but nonetheless, once that thirdday was gone the challenges to oureducational endeavors began to mount.

In the ensuing years there was muchfocus on revisiting Jewish schoolcurricula. With fewer hours, what shouldbe the emphasis of our educationalprograms? It wasn’t just about thechange in hours attended. The studentsattending the traditional supplementalJewish schools were now coming fromdifferent backgrounds. Originally theseprograms were meant to “supplement”basic Jewish knowledge that childrenwere getting at home. It assumed thatmost families celebrated Shabbat andholidays at home, attended services atthe synagogue and had a basic workingknowledge of Jewish terms andpractices. Although this was still true forsome families, other households reliedon the synagogue school to providethose basics. I cannot elaborate on allthe aspects of this here, but there is arecent movement that is addressing the

approach to teaching Hebrew based onmuch research and testing.

It was found that young childrenlearning Hebrew in the synagogue schoolsetting did well during the first year whenthey were introduced to the letters andvowels. But in the next couple of years,learning slowed considerably and childrenstruggled, making little progress. Some ofthis is indeed due to reduced hours ofclass time, but there is much more to theproblem. When we look at languageacquisition in children, they first learn byhearing the spoken word. It is not untilseveral years later that we make thetransition from sound to print. At that time,when sounding out a word, there iscontext and recognition with the years ofexperiencing the language through sound.

Some forward thinking Hebreweducators jumped on this idea and createda new approach to Hebrew learning forchildren in the synagogue school setting.The first step was to abandon teachingeven letter recognition to young childrenand instead focus on the spoken word.One system developed in Cleveland isknown as Hebrew Through Movement,and is based on ways that children learnnaturally; that is, they learn by movingabout and doing. The teacher usescommands and demonstrates actions thatthe students then mimic, introducing alimited number of new words each session.

Over time the children build asubstantial vocabulary base by listeningand doing, never being expected to speakthe words or see them in print. Not onlyare movements such as stand, sit, walk,run, etc. used, but nouns are introducedso that a child can be told to get up, walkto the table, point to an object, pick it up,etc. At holiday times, ritual items are usedand manipulated. In addition to HebrewThrough Movement, students learnprayers and blessings orally and teachersconstantly refer to objects in and aroundthe classroom by their Hebrew names.When done with regularity andconsistency, this is proving to build thefoundation for an easier transition toHebrew reading. Schools that arechoosing this approach are delaying theteaching of Hebrew decoding and readinguntil a year or two before Bar and BatMitzvah. If the foundation has been welllaid, adding the building blocks of theHebrew letters comes much more naturally.

We have experimented with someaspects of these new approaches at BethAbraham. As our school year comes to anend, we hope to work on more ways toimplement these systems to help ourstudents better succeed in their Hebrewstudies.

3A Day of FreedomRabbi Joshua Ginsberg

“The decision that was made to place Yom Ha-Zikaron on thecalendar each year on the day immediately preceding Israel’s

independence day was an effort by Israel’s founders to remindeveryone that freedom, independence, and security come at a cost.”

Find the cost of freedomBuried in the ground

Mother Earth will swallow youLay your body down

(Stephen Stillsof Crosby, Stills,Nash & Young)

These simplelyrics, backed bya hauntingacoustic guitarwere originallyrelated to thecontext of 1970.

The “cost offreedom” refers

to the death of those who are fightingfor it, in this case the anti-war activistsleft dead at Kent State and the soldierswho were dying in Vietnam. MotherEarth has swallowed the bodies ofyoung soldiers fighting the “freedomwar” in Vietnam, as well as the bodiesof young students expressing theirfreedom in protestsagainst the war inVietnam.

Recently, listeningto a contemporaryversion of this song,made me think of ourseason in the Jewishcalendar as it relates toIsrael. In just a few days, Israelis (andus) will be remembering the “cost offreedom” that allows the Jewish peopleto have independence in our birthplaceand historic homeland.

Yom Ha-Zikaron, Israel’s MemorialDay, falls every year on the day beforeIsrael’s Independence Day, Yom Ha-Atzma’ut. Israel’s independence daybears some resemblance toIndependence Day in the UnitedStates. It’s a day for parades andbarbecues, a day for celebrating andnot necessarily for reflecting deeply onthe meaning of the holiday.

But Yom Ha-Zikaron bears almostno resemblance to the AmericanMemorial Day that we will observe atthe end of May, which is for mostAmericans simply a day off.

The most outstanding observanceof Yom Ha-Zikaron in Israel is thattwice during the day – at 8pm theprevious evening, and then at 11am inthe morning – sirens sound throughoutIsrael, for an entire minute. People stopwhatever they are doing and stand still,in memory. Traffic stops, and peopleget out of their cars, and stand by theircars. Cultural events stop. Busymarketplaces, restaurants, workplaces

come to a complete standstill for anentire minute. The entire nationtransformed into monuments andmemorial stones, for just a minute.

To know that the entire country isunited in memory is extraordinarilypowerful, and all the more striking forthose, certainly the majority in Israel,who are thinking during those minutesof very specific people they knew: parents, siblings, spouses, children,grandchildren, and other relatives andfriends who fell in Israel’s wars or weremurdered in acts of terror.

The decision that was made to placeYom Ha-Zikaron on the calendar eachyear on the day immediately precedingIsrael’s independence day was an effortby Israel’s founders to remind everyonethat freedom, independence, andsecurity come at a cost.

Visitors to Israel for the first time areoften alarmed to see just how manysoldiers are walking around and carryingweapons. But everyone across theIsraeli political spectrum, from the far

right to the far left, knows that it is onlybecause of the existence and strength ofthe Israeli military that they manage tolive in any sense of security andfreedom. This sense is all the moreheightened by the fact that each year,exactly one week before Yom Ha-Zikaron, is Yom Ha-Shoah, HolocaustRemembrance Day. This is yet anotherpoignant pairing of significant historicalevents for global Jewry. As we know,only three short and full years separated1945 and the end of the Holocaust, from1948 and Israel’s independence.

Jews today are fortunate to live inconditions of freedom; such conditionsare new and unfortunately unusual forus as a people. These truths are not loston Israelis.

Some of us may have personallyknown people who have been killed inAmerica’s recent wars in Afghanistan orIraq. For many of us, though, thesehave been far-away conflicts whoseimpact on our day-to-day lives haven’tever really been felt. In Israel, however,conflicts are not far away, and theirimpact on day-to-day life is abundantlyclear. This, too, probably contributes towhy Yom Ha-Zikaron in Israel feels so

different from the American Memorial Day.Still, even as American Jews, our

awareness of the “costs of freedom” makesthe celebration of Israel’s triumphs all themore intense; and it also compounds theanxiety felt by those who love Israel whenit is in danger. This reminds me of whatIsrael’s first Prime Minister David benGurion said in one of the transitionceremonies between Yom Ha-Zikaron andYom Ha-Atzma’ut: “There is only one dropof consolation: their lives and deathsweren’t for nothing, and as long as AmYisrael is alive, he will carry their memoryin his heart forever.”

There have been mixed reactions in theAmerican Jewish community sinceBenjamin Netanyahu won re-election asIsrael’s prime minister for anunprecedented fifth term. Whatever yourown opinion on the election, it is worthremembering that the establishment of theState of Israel 71 years ago restored Jewishindependence lost 2,000 years earlier.Today nearly half of world Jewry lives inIsrael. That freedom has come at a cost of

over 25,000 fallen IsraelDefense Forces (IDF) soldiersand victims of terroristattacks. Yet, Am Yisrael Chai– The Jewish People Lives!

If you are unhappy withthe current state of things inIsrael, take strength in thewords of Rabbi Jeffrey Salkin

who recently commented:“[T]wo generations ago, the Israelipoet and statesman, Nathan Alterman,said: ‘The state will not be given to theJewish people on a silver platter.’ Itwasn’t. Neither is the state that wewant as well. I’m not giving up. Neithershould you.”

“… for God’s blessing upon the Stateof Israel, her government, and all whodwell within her boundaries and underher authority. Grant her leaders the fortitude to keep

ever before us those ideals upon which theState of Israel was founded. Grantcourage, wisdom, and strength to thoseentrusted with guiding Israel’s destiny todo Your will.

Be with those on whose shouldersIsrael’s safety depends and defend themfrom all harm.

Spread over Israel and all the worldYour shelter of peace, and may the visionof Your prophet soon be fulfilled: “Nationshall not lift up sword against nation,neither shall they learn war anymore.”(Isaiah 2:4) – Siddur Lev Shalem

On this 71st anniversary of Israel’sindependence, let us all pray:

4125th ANNIVERSARYEVENTS HUGELY SUCCESSFUL!

Our anniversary events have been simply spectacular. They enable us to recall and connect to ourshared past. They allow us to rejoice in the present. And they set the stage for us to take renewalsteps now to ensure our future.

Our most recent anniversary events are no exception. The Celebrating Beginnings and Second Decade Shabbatweekends allowed the hundreds of us who participated to better appreciate our beginnings and the many transitions andtransformations as a dynamic Conservative congregation. Please keep reading…

Celebrating Beginningsby Marc Katz

As a dual kickoff to Beth Abraham’s125th Year celebration and the RuthScheuer Life Enrichment Series,nationally-recognized Brandeis UniversityProfessor, Jonathan Sarna, brilliantly setthe historical stage at the March 26Celebrating Beginnings weekend. Withdetail and humor, he put Jewish Americanlife in perspective, including BethAbraham in his timelines, giving reasonand perspective to some of our earlyprofessional leadership.

His first presentation, after KabbalatShabbat Services and a delicious EasternEuropean-style meal, enabled over 180attendees - both long-time congregantsand more recent members and friendsalike – to learn about and connect withour beginnings as a congregation with astrong Lithuanian heritage, our movefrom Wayne Avenue to Salem Avenue,and our adjustment to the Conservativemovement in the second half of the 20thcentury.

In his second presentation, at Shabbatmorning services and as a preview of theproximity of Pesach, Dr. Sarna uniquelyillustrated the mantra of the ConservativeMovement – Tradition and Change – bytracing the development of matzah from amostly hand-made, round product to themachine-made square-boxed staple weuse today, a story that resonated evenmore since it centered in nearbyCincinnati.

With this background, in his thirdpresentation after a delicious Kiddushlunch, Dr. Sarna then addressed currentchallenges that must be overcome as weenter the next 125 years of ourcongregational journey. Ending on apositive note, he reminded us that, whenwe Jews fall down, we always get up andbecome stronger; and he concluded bychallenging us to develop strategies toensure our survival into the distantfuture.

We want to thank Edna and JerryWillis for their generous sponsorship ofthis event through the Ruth Scheuer LifeEnrichment Series. Based on manypositive comments, there is no questionthat this weekend was a fabulous officialbeginning to our year-long anniversarycelebration.

Second Decade Shabbatby Susie Katz

The Second Decade ShabbatWeekend, April 12, 2019 - a glorious timeat Beth Abraham – was the perfectreflection of the glorious decadesbetween 1944 and 1978 at our belovedsynagogue.

This continuation of our anniversaryyear began with a joyful KabbalatShabbat, complete with the magnificentchanting of Beth Abraham’s cantor ofthose years - Cantor Abraham Lubin -who led us in the Ma’ariv Service.

This Friday night glow then set thestage for a Shabbat morning service thatsimply vibrated with the spirituality,camaraderie and pure joy that hasbecome emblematic of Beth Abraham.

There are too many highlights torecount, but imagine this - our Torahaliyot recognized past synagogue,Men’s Club and USY presidents and

others who served the synagogue insignificant ways in those thirty-fouryears. We read from a Torah thatconsisted of fragments that survived theHolocaust and that was donated by thePhilip Sokol family so many years ago.Joyful stories were recounted by JeffTilson, grandson of our only PresidentEmeritus, Philip Kravitz; by RenateFrydman, one of the first B’not Mitzvah;by Joe Adler, son of Rabbi Ernest Adler;and by Cantor Lubin, who bothbeautifully davened Musaf and sharedhis very cherished memories of his timewith Beth Abraham. In his sermon, RabbiGinsberg regaled us with the details ofthose incredible decades, and ourpresident, Mike Freed added his wordsof wisdom dressed in the jacket that hewore at his own Bar Mitzvah - and it fit!And we enjoyed the second issue of theBAS Chronicle, the timeline, and thehistory table memorabilia that detailedthose years.

Thank you to Shelly Charles, thePhilip Kravitz grandchildren, Oscar andClaire Soifer, Allan Spetter and ClaudiaBirch, and Dena Briskin for sponsoringthis Decade Shabbat.

What a wonderful Shabbat! What awonderful synagogue! What awonderful congregation!

And you won’t want to miss theThird Decade Shabbat which will be heldon July 13th celebrating our remainingyears at Salem Avenue from 1979-2007.

Cantors Lubin and Raizen

Dr. Sarna and the Scheuer Family

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LIFE & LEGACYHelp Assure Beth Abraham’s Future

“As we plan our legacy for the future of our family, we alsoinclude the future of Jewish organizations which have been somuch a part of our family. Life & Legacy makes that happen.”~Mike and Rochelle Goldstein

If you are interested in learning more about the Life & Legacy program andhow you can make a legacy gift, please contact Elaine Arnovitz at 937-293-9520 or elaine@bethabrahamdayton.org

The month of May marks the end ofboth the fiscal and administrative yearsfor Beth Abraham. As part of thesynagogue’s Code of Regulations, we

are alsorequired tohold an annualmeeting of thecongregationduring themonth of May.By now, everymember of thecongregationshould havereceived

written notice of the 2019 AnnualMeeting which will be held on Tuesday,May 21st at 6:15 pm, along with adescription of the business to beconducted at the meeting. As we havedone in the past, we will provide areview of the past year along withfinancial results for the soon-to-becompleted fiscal year. We will also bevoting on the proposed slate of Officersand Directors as submitted by theNominating Committee, chaired by ourimmediate Past President, Ellen Leffak.

In addition, we will be voting on amotion to transfer the assets of the BethAbraham cemetery to the JewishCemeteries of Greater Daytonorganization, contingent on the JewishCemeteries organization successfullymeeting their endowment fundraisinggoal. This vote is the latest step in a

process that began over two years ago,when Beth Abraham, along with BethJacob and Temple Israel, were invited tojoin an effort spearheaded by the JewishFederation of Greater Dayton to explorethe potential of creating a community-wide cemetery organization. Modeled onefforts previously undertaken by theCincinnati Jewish community, this effortis a forward-thinking, proactive approachto assure the future of the threesynagogue-operated Jewish cemeteries inDayton.

The successful formation of a singlecommunity-wide organization will createeconomies of scale resulting in loweroverall operating costs, and will provide adedicated approach to cemeterymanagement relieving these operationalresponsibilities from each of theindividual congregations including BethAbraham. In addition, it will alleviate thelong term financial commitment that BethAbraham would be required to make if wewere to continue to operate the cemeteryon our own, a commitment that over timewould seriously impact thecongregation’s financial stability.

Critically, under the new structure,Beth Abraham will retain ritual andhalachic control over burials at ourcemetery under our rules. All of ourexisting membership requirements forburial and the associated fees, as well asfees for Chevra Kadisha services, wouldbe payable to Beth Abraham. This willnot have any effect on those who already

own plots or who have prepaid theircemetery expenses.

Under our Code of Regulations, a fullcongregational vote is required onmatters related to the transfer of property.The Board of Directors has been fullyengaged as the community effort hasprogressed over the past years and hasunanimously approved the proposedmotion. And while I urge each of you toalso approve the motion, I also recognizethat there may be questions regardingthe transfer from our congregation. Forthis reason, we have scheduled aninformational meeting on the evening ofTuesday, May 7th at 6:00 PM whererepresentatives of the Jewish Cemeteriesof Greater Dayton, along with synagogueleadership, will be in attendance toanswer your questions about theproposed transfer.

I hope everyone will be able to attendthe 2019 Annual meeting on May 21st andencourage anyone wishing to learn moreabout the proposed cemetery transfer toattend the informational meeting on May7th. The active involvement of everyonein the on-going governance of BethAbraham is a key to maintaining andbuilding a strong congregation. I lookforward to your participation and hope tosee you at both these meetings.

A Message From MikeMike Freed, Beth Abraham President

On the lighter side in the synagoguelibrary book collection is theautobiography of the great operaticperformer, Robert Merrill titled, Between

Acts: An IrreverentLook at Opera andOther Madness.Born Moishe(Morris) Miller inJune, 1917, intoextremely modestcircumstances inBrooklyn, New York,he turned into anoverweight kid who

stuttered. Typically he did not stutterwhen he sang and he demonstrated hisvocal ability from a very early age.

He would have advisors, agents,managers and, most importantly, theultimate “stage mother” to push hiscareer. To start with, she bought a usedpiano for $10. Merrill says that his fatherworked very long hours in the garmentindustry but he earned $25 a week, adecent wage in the early and mid-1920s.So the family kept moving to nicerneighborhoods in Brooklyn. Merrill’smother, frustrated in her own desire to bean operatic performer, made many showbusiness contacts along the way and sherealized that the right people could helpher son.

She kept “schlepping” him aroundNew York and he began to miss school.He would be asked to leave his highschool and attend a “trade school.”Merrill does not mention whether hegraduated from high school. Merrillauditioned for the Major Bowes AmateurHour, one of the nation’s most popularradio shows. He would be assigned to atroupe of traveling entertainers andwould be paid $75 a week, the firstindication that he would earn much morethan his father could ever imagine. Heearned even more money by performing atweddings, bar mitzvahs, on cruise shipsand at various hotels, particularly in theCatskills.

Soon he began to appear regularly onradio at a salary of $90 a week. Along theway he associated with many otherJewish performers and he formed a veryclose relationship with Danny Kaye,perhaps the greatest entertainer of the20th century. Merrill had already changedhis name to Merrill Miller and he says

that Kaye, born Daniel Kaminsky,suggested Robert Merrill would soundeven better. It is interesting that Kayealways insisted he was two years youngerthan his actual age and Merrill did thesame thing.

Merrill had one goal, to join the cast ofthe Metropolitan Opera. He failed his firstaudition, but continued to work onmaturing his voice. At last, in June, 1945,only 28 years old, he signed a contractwith the Met for $125 a week, a verymiddle class wage for the mid-1940s.Merrill did not realize that he would beassigned only bit parts for several years.Merrill crossed over into popular musicbecause of his radio career. He evenappeared in a movie with the great singerDinah Shore, also Jewish, in the early1950s, and it was so bad he decided neverto do that again.

At the same time, he emerged as theMet’s leading baritone. He had a veryclose relationship with the Met’s leadingtenor, Richard Tucker, born ReubenTucker in Brooklyn in 1913, an orthodoxand very observant Jew who started hiscareer as a cantor. Tucker died suddenly in1975 while on tour with Merrill. Tucker hadbeen the brother-in-law of another greatJewish tenor at the Met, Jan Peerce, bornJacob Perelmuth on the Lower East Side ofManhattan in 1904. Three great Jewishperformers at the same time with the Met,all the sons of immigrants, is one of thegreat stories of how far Jews have come inthe United States.

The man born in a sixth floor, “coldwater flat,” sang for every president fromRoosevelt to Johnson. He sang a duetwith President Truman’s daughterMargaret and the president put his arm onMerrill’s shoulder and said, “Thank youfor being sweet to my baby.” He traveledthe world with the Met. On one memorableoccasion the world came to Merrill in NewYork. The Queen Mother of Great Britainvisited New York in 1954.

Merrill described their longconversation. She asked why theBrooklyn Dodgers are called the “bums.”He said it was a term of affection. Sheasked if she could tour Brooklyn and saidshe remembered that President Rooseveltserved hot dogs at a picnic when shevisited the United States n 1939. Sheasked if those hot dogs are available inBrooklyn. Merrill said the best hot dogs

are in Coney Island at Nathan’s. Thetrip did not work out but Merrill says,“I’m sure they would have loved theQueen Mother at Nathan’s.”

Those of us who grew up inBrooklyn and cared much more aboutbaseball than about opera appreciateMerrill’s close friendship with thelegendary Gil Hodges, first baseman forthe Brooklyn Dodgers. Theautobiography, published in 1976, didnot cover all of Merrill’s career.

In the 1970s, after turning downseveral offers to perform in Broadwaymusicals, he decided that playingTevye in Fiddler on the Roof would bethe role of a lifetime. Merrill says thatbeginning in 1970 he did some 200performances as Tevye, at times beforean outdoor audience of 10,000 to15,000. Merrill passed away in 2004.

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Library News - Off the ShelfAllan Spetter

ANNUALMEETINGMAY 21st

Please join us for our annualmeeting on Tuesday, May 21st at6:15 pm. We will be voting on theslate of officers and directors, aswell as voting on a motion relatedto the Jewish Cemeteries of GreaterDayton and our cemetery assets.Please read Mike’s column forfurther information.

Following the induction andbusiness meeting, and a highlightof this past year, a light dessert willbe served. We hope to see youthere!

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Men’s Club News Irwin Dumtschin

SisterhoodRuth Ellenbogen

On April 11th, Sisterhood held their second cooking program with the theme Souper Soups. Beth Adelman and Judy Chesen,our chairladies, selected 3 very creative, tasty and easy to make soups. While we were busy chopping, grinding and mixing, wewere treated to mini frittatas freshly made. We feasted on the fruits of our labor and went home happy with a packet ofdelicious recipes. Our final cooking program in this series is Delectable Desserts on May 16th from 6:00-8:00PM. The cost is$10.00 to cover the cost of supplies. Please RSVP to the office by May 10th. By now Sisterhood members should have received a survey via email. Kindly take a few moments to complete and return itpromptly. Our board will gather for a calendar planning meeting soon and your responses will give us a direction as to theprograms you would like to participate in next year. Please call the office if you have any questions or need assistancecompleting this very important questionnaire. Watch this space for more information, and as always, we are happy to haveyour input and ideas. Please don’t hesitate to contact us anytime.

Beth Abraham will host its next Guess Who’sComing to Shabbas? (GWCTS) event on Friday, June14th. We hope you will join us in this exciting, popularprogram!

How can you participate?Start by thinking about what role you want – that of

guest or host. Remember, there are only twoexpectations for our hosts:

1. to provide a pareve or dairy dinner; and,2. to recite the brachot for the candle lighting, the wine, and the challah.That’s it. In fact, we will have host brochures with

the blessings, just in case hosts or guests would liketo refer to these in print. In addition, we will providethe hosts with candles, a challah, and a really awesomeGuess Who’s Coming to Shabbas? reusable grocerybag.

As always, we need many more guests than hoststo make the program successful, so don’t be shy…Beour guest!

An email has already been sent with the links andyou can also find the information in the weekly News& Notes. We need you to sign up by May 24th and wewill email everyone with the matches the beginning ofJune. If you need help signing up, please call theoffice and we will gladly help you.

Guess Who’s Coming to Shabbas? We hope YOU are!

Yom Hashoah Yellow Candle Distribution: We would like tothank those who have volunteered to help distribute our YomHaShoah candles this year. The Men’s Club appreciates andacknowledges the following individuals who assisted inhelping to make sure all congregants in the Dayton areareceived their candles for this important day: Beth Adelman,Ariel Berry, Alan and Judy Chesen, Ted Cooper, Doug andBonnie Deutsch, Melinda Doner, Howard Ducker, IrwinDumtschin, Adam Feiner, Emily Fogel, Mark Gordon, Jeff andConnie Roberts, Rick Pinsky, David Rothschild, Allan Spetterand Claudia Birch, and Ralph Williams.

Mother’s Day Brunch – May 12th: Please come and celebrateMother’s Day with us as we honor all mothers with our annualMother’s Day brunch on Sunday, May 12th at 10:00 am. Thebrunch will be free to all mothers with compliments of theMen’s Club. Along with our usual fare, it has become atradition to serve Dena Briskin’s famous blintze soufflé for thisspecial brunch. The entertainment will be provided by BobKohn, with his accompanist Ron Meyer. Please RSVP by May8th, so we can make sure we will have enough food for all!

FJMC-Kio Regional Man Of The Year Honors Luncheon –June 30th: This honors luncheon that was originallyscheduled for April has been rescheduled for Sunday, June30th in Columbus. Please RSVP to join and support DavidRothschild, our elected Man of the Year, as well as IrwinDumtschin, for the region’s Ma’asim Tovim award.

Rabbi Joshua GinsbergCantor Andrea S. RaizenPresident Michael FreedVice President Matthew ArnovitzVice President Marc KatzVice-President Marcia KressVice-President Andrew SchwartzTreasurer Scott LibermanSecretary Tara FeinerMen’s Club President Irwin DumtschinSisterhood President Emily FogelChevra Kadisha President Ted CooperRabbi Emeritus Samuel B. Press D.D.Cantor Emeritus Jerome B. Kopmar D.Mus.

The printing of this publication is funded by private donations.

LayoutBrenda Rives Stampfli

Articles CoordinatorElaine ArnovitzHazzan Jenna GreenbergMarc KatzAnnie PotterAnn Rismiller

PhotographyDennis DayJudy Chesen

Staff WritersIrwin DumtschinRuth EllenbogenTara FeinerMike FreedRabbi Joshua GinsbergMarc KatzSusie KatzCantor Andrea RaizenAllan Spetter

Bulletin Staff

Times for Shabbat Candle Lighting & Services

Friday, May 3Morning Service 7:15 a.m.Kabbalat Shabbat 5:30 p.m.Candle Lighting 8:14 p.m.

Saturday, May 4Morning Service 9:00 a.m.Havdalah 9:18 p.m.

Thursday, May 9No Evening Minyan

Friday, May 10Morning Service 7:15 a.m.Kabbalat Shabbat 5:30 p.m.Candle Lighting 8:21 p.m.

Saturday, May 11Morning Service 9:00 a.m.Havdalah 9:25 p.m.

Friday, May 17Morning Service 7:15 a.m.Kabbalat Shabbat 5:30 p.m.Candle Lighting 8:28 p.m.

Saturday, May 18Morning Service 9:00 a.m.Havdalah 9:32 p.m.

Sunday, May 19Pesach SheniMorning Service 9:00 a.m.

Friday, May 24Morning Service 7:15 a.m.Kabbalat Shabbat 5:30 p.m.Candle Lighting 8:34 p.m.

Saturday, May 25Morning Service 9:00 a.m.Havdalah 9:38 p.m.

Monday, May 27 – Memorial DayOffice ClosedMorning Service 8:30 a.m.No Evening Minyan

DAILY MINYANMonday & Thursday7:00 a.m. & 5:30 p.m.

DAILY MINYANTuesday, Wednesday & Friday7:15 a.m. & 5:30 p.m.

Sundays8:30 a.m.

Rosh Chodesh IyarSunday – May 5 – 8:30 a.m.

Monday – May 6 – 7:00 a.m.Minyan – 5:30 p.m.

If you need transportation to any BethAbraham Shabbat service or program,please call the office (293-9520) atleast a few days before the service orevent and the synagogue will help youfind a ride. If you would like to volunteerto be a driver either on a regular basisor for a particular event, please contactthe office at 293-9520.

COMMUNITY

Yom Ha’Atzmaut Community Celebration: Celebrate Israel IndependenceDay on Thursday, May 9th at 5:30 pm at the CJCE with Jewish singer RickRecht.

Dayton Jewish Film Fest: The Opening Night is on Tuesday, June 4th,7:00 pm @ the Dayton Art Institute with the showing of The SamuelProject. The Film Fest continues through June 27th. Check out furtherdetails in the Observer or at jewishdayton.org.

We Gratefully Acknowledge...these thoughtful contributions

Building FundIn memory of

Louis Wall, by HenryGuggenheimer

General FundIn memory of

Leon Williams, by Bari & SteveBlumhof, Ann & Scott Liberman,Harriet & William FenbergLouis Hoffman, by Roberta &Richard Prigozen, Barbara & JimWeprin, Stanley and Susan Katz

Ida Pinsky FundIn memory of

Leon Williams, by Terry & MarlenePinsky

Joel Horenstein FundIn memory of

Leon Williams, by Steve & LindaHorenstein, Edie PequignotCarmine Garofalo, by Steve &Linda HorensteinJoel Horenstein on his birthday, byNelson and Harriet Tarbell

Kiddush FundIn memory of

Carol Lewis Callas, by Norm & KayLewis

In honor ofHy Blum’s Special Birthday, byBruce Brenner & Sandy SloaneBrenner

Men’s ClubIn honor of

Irwin Dumtschin’s Federation ofJewish Men’s Club award, by Jim &Carol Nathanson

Rabbi Ginsberg’s Discretionary FundIn memory of

Max Stern, by Beth AdelmanSarah Adelman, by Beth AdelmanEvelyn Adelman, by Beth AdelmanEdward Erkes, by Rochelle & MichaelGoldsteinLeon Williams, by Beth Adelman, BettyCrouseMarvin Levitt, by Oscar & Claire SoiferSiegmund Baer, by HenryGuggenheimerElfrieda Ritter, by Nathaniel & SusanRitterLouis Hoffman, by Oscar & Claire Soifer

In honor ofShelly Charles’ Special Birthday, byOscar & Claire SoiferLois Solganik’s 90th birthday, by Oscar &Claire SoiferLois Unger’s 90th birthday, by Oscar &Claire Soifer

Rinzler College FundIn memory of

Marvin Levitt, by Brenda RinzlerLouis Hoffman, by Brenda Rinzler

Ritual FundIn memory of

Abe Fleischman, by Abe MerdingerLeo Merdinger, by Abe MerdingerShirley Pollack, by Jody Pollack Blazar &familyArthur Pollack, by Jody Pollack Blazar &familyPamela Pollack, by Jody Pollack Blazar& familyJack Burke, by Aaron & Anne BurkeBetty Remick, by Russ Remick & familyRuth Schoenfeld, by WilliamSchoenfeld

Abraham Rafner, by Ruth RafnerLeon Williams, by JudySchwartzman & Mike Jaffe, LynnMantell, Alan & Judy ChesenAlice Woll, by Judy WollRolf Rothschild, by DavidRothschildAugust Blumhof, by Bari & SteveBlumhofJacqueline Lapidus, by Stanley &Susan Katz

Ruth Scheuer Life EnrichmentSeries Fund

In memory ofFred Scheuer, by Amelia Ramer,Lois Unger, Susie Katz, & PhilipUnger

Sam & Sadie Berman Candy FundIn honor of

Lois Unger’s 90th birthday, byClara HochsteinLois Solganik’s birthday, by ClaraHochstein

Sanderow/Tannebaum FundIn memory of

Ellen Spurling, by BarbaraSanderow

In the Beth Abraham Family

Congratulations to those celebratingbirthdays and anniversaries in May

Thanks for the followingKiddush contributions

** If you have a birthday or anniversary and it is not listed above,please call the office so we can put it in the database.

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April 6 - Howard & Debbi Rubenstein in honor of their 60th wedding anniversary

April 13 - Decade Shabbat: Shelly Charles in memory of father Philip Sokol; the grandchildren of Philip Kravitz; Dena Briskin; Allan Spetter & Claudia Birch; Oscar & Claire Soifer

April 20 - Jean Isenberg in memory of Harold Isenberg

April 27 - The Gordon families in memory of those Gordon family members who survived the Holocaust

May Birthdays:

1 Ellen Leffak2 Edward Sperber4 Irwin Dumtschin4 Claire Soifer5 Terry Pinsky6 Joyce Burick Swarzman6 Judith Kelman6 Marcia Kress7 Stanley Katz9 Sarah Moore Leventhal10 Marilyn Moscowitz11 Ervin Pavlofsky12 Norman Weissman13 William Cohen13 Lois Unger15 Marnina Abrams15 Lawrence Burick15 Sheryl Zawatsky17 Myron Stayman18 Cissy Ellison18 Gary Goodman

18 Harriett Kaplan18 Linda Roden19 Harvey Cohen19 Jennifer Short21 Jay Kaplan22 Evelyn Fritz23 Jeffrey Gordon23 Lisa Pavlofsky23 Pamela Schwartz24 Debra Rosichan24 Elaine Rothstein26 Rex Tincher27 Judy Chesen27 Julie Liss-Katz27 Judge Walter Rice27 Ralph Williams28 Cindy Smith30 David Marcus31 Frederic Ross31 Zerla Stayman31 Janine Thomas

We Record With DeepSorrow the Passing of

May Anniversaries:

5 Jack and Maryann Bernstein8 Robert and Janice Kohn16 Jeff and Connie Roberts21 Marc Katz and Julie Liss-Katz21 Bruce and Rita Mendelson24 Joel and Jennifer Tobiansky26 Andy and Pam Schwartz27 Sam Dorf and Masha Kisel27 Kenneth and Janice Krochmal27 Philip and Janis Sussman

Louis HoffmanLeon Williams – brother of Ralph WilliamsMike Shane

YAHRZEITSThis list represents yahrzeits for this month as listed in Beth Abraham’s database.

If we have missed a name, please call the synagogue office at 293-9520 and let us know so we can update our records.This May (Nisan-Iyyar) we remember:

Nisan

Jacob CooperSolomon GettlemanYale GresselMorris HurevitzDavid NemkovskyPearl PressRose RinskyDorothy L. RobbinsHenry SacolickRuth SokolEmma BlockMilton KrochmalLeo H. MerdingerCarol ShalfWilliam ZappinSamuel ZippersteinDena Bluma FriedmanSarah HarrisHerman HoffmanHenrietta JenefskyIrene KlabenPhilip KravitzMilton KrochmanMarianna LevyLena PinskySamuel SableGeorge ZappinSam BermanAdele FrougJake FrougCelia GableBenjamin GetzelFrancis GoldbergEsther LouisLouis B. SchwartzRosalie AbbottSarah DrozHarry GisserMayer NaimanThelma Sokol

Iyar

Rose HochmanLawrence KatzDavid PerlmutterNaomi SlavinRose YarossSophie FroikinMax GoodmanAnna KitainEsther KotlerAaron PolsterHomer WykeNathan Friedman

Hymie WeinsteinAnn FriedmanMarshall KreitmanRuth LindenbaumSylvia MarcusBerniece MusinMary PerlmutterPaul SchriberMarian AftergoodIda GassmanAdolf KahnHyman LevineJake MatusoffJacob NaimanRachel AftergoodMoses L. ArnovitzJennie BeckmanArthur H. EhrenbergFaye GoodmanSophia HaberAaron Harold RosnerRachell WolfeCharles AbramovitzMaryan CaplanBarnett FeldmanMinnie HorwitzHarold B. JacobsonLouis KutashJoseph MorozovskyCelina RosenthalAllen SeymourLeah ZisenwineSol ArnovitzEmily BruckStanley FreedmanEugene GoldfliesHerbert JonesHarry YollesRosella PrattDora ShutlyCharles TanisSam TimmerAgusta BearmanLeland CharlesEdith DubersteinCharles GrobanNathan KatzElfrieda RitterAlvin SaperSarah ZippersteinRuth AltmanWilliam BernsteinNellie CohenBertha KrumholzBess C. LapinskyJack LeffakLouis Mark

Sam RaizenEleanor WallaceSamuil GrutmanAaron JacobsonRose KravetzSam ShuchatStanley ZakemAnna ZeifmanRae ByerMargaret FeldmanElaine FroikinSadie GalpernSelma JoslinMolly KatzCraig RabinerLeah RiffDoris SchwartzMeyer BarnettJacob BudnickIrene CooperMax MyersIsaac SegallLarry TomchinIdah BernsteinSylvia ForemanDavid JenefskyBeyla KomskyArthur Lester WeinreichAnnabelle HaegelEli JacobsonShiloh JacobsonCarl FasanoCharles GalpernBarnet LubensMary MerdingerArthur David MinkBreindl PerlmutterJennie RichJ. Kerry RothsteinMary RubinettBette ShermanHelena BenjaminMax BialerEvelyn ChuddeHerman DlottDavid DubersteinMax FeldmanThelma FeldmanMax JenefskySarah NaimanDavid RemickJoseph RobbinsMargarethe BaerMax CohenJoseph GarberMargarethe Guggenheimer BaerKenneth Rittner

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