KOL T.O.L” The “Voice of the Tree of Life” February 2018 /Shevat - Adar 5778 ·...

“ KOL T.O.L” The “Voice of the Tree of Life”

February 2018 /Shevat - Adar 5778 Tree of Life Congregation Monthly Newsletter Columbia, South Carolina

February Worship Services

Friday, February 2 6:30pm

7:30pm

Tot Shabbat w/Feliza & Rabbi Or Zohar

Shabbat Evening Service w/Feliza & Rabbi Or Zohar

Yitro Exodus 18:1-20:23

Saturday, February 3 12:00pm

7:00pm

Lunch & Master Class w/Feliza & Rabbi Or Zohar

Havdalah/Concert w/Feliza & Rabbi Or Zohar

Friday, February 9 6:30pm Friday Night Live featuring Shorashim

Saturday, February 10 10:30am Shabbat Morning Service

Mishpatim Exodus 21:1-24:18

Friday, February 16 7:30pm Shabbat Evening Service

T’rumah Exodus 25:1-27:19

Friday, February 23 7:30pm Shabbat Evening Service

T’tzaveh Exodus 27:20-30-10

Special Birthday Blessing

Purim

Jewish Federation/Birthdays 10-11

Yahrzeits/Calendar 12-13

Jewish Book Fair/Contributions 14-15

KOL T.O.L.

Purim/From the Rabbi 2-3

Education Director/TOL in Action 4-5

In House Speaker/Community

Involvement

6-7

B’nai Mitzvah 8-9

Inside this issue:

FROM THE RABBI

Dear Friends,

Tree of Life began the New Year with some fantastic highlights. January started

with a new Lunch and Learn series featuring the first chapter of National

Geographic’s 50 Most Influential Figures of the Bible, Adam and Eve. Later that

week, Tree of Life welcomed Jack Williams at the second Coffee House event

which has opened the door for hundreds in our community to visit our warm

community. On January 13th and 20th we welcomed two new b’not mitzvah to

the minyan as Zoe Kaplan and Emma Iskhakov were called to the Torah for the

first time.

Just this past weekend, COFTY held its first babysitting night to great effect as

busy parents (including yours truly) were given a four-hour respite from

parenting to enjoy a quiet evening. This was a fantastic idea from our COFTY board. Our Youth Director, Jordan

Henry, and the members of COFTY who volunteered to babysit (many of whom were the Jewdrops) handled their

babysitting responsibilities with flying colors. Given the success of this first outing, I am quite sure that we will

be seeing more babysitting fundraisers (and date-night opportunities) in the near future.

This February, we have a full plate of exciting programming at Tree of Life not to be missed!

Tot Shabbat this Friday, February 2nd @ 6:30pm

February 2nd-4th we welcome our scholars/musicians in residence, Rabbi Or and Feliza Zohar to Tree

of Life. They are coming all the way from the mountains of the Galilee just to be with us for an enriching,

spiritual, uplifting, and musical weekend.

Shabbat Evening Services 02/02/18 @ 7:30pm

(featuring a sermon in song from Rabbi Or and Feliza Zohar)

Saturday afternoon master class 02/03/18 @ 12:00pm

($5.00 registration includes lunch and music)

Saturday Evening concert w/Havdalah 02/03/18 @ 7:00pm

($5.00 online or at the door)

Sunday Afternoon Concert 02/04/18 @ 12:00pm

(TOL Religious School students and family)

Friday Night Live featuring our temple band, Shorashim February 9th @ 6:30pm

Shabbat Morning Service on February 10th @ 10:30am

Shabbat Evening Service featuring a presentation by the director of Centropa (preserving the stories of

Holocaust survivors), Edward Sirota on February 16th @ 7:30pm

Bar Mitzvah of Andrew Barkan on February 24th @ 10:30am

TOL Purim Service, Megillah reading, and Purim Spiel featuring the talents of the Jewdrops! February

28th @ 7:30pm

Chodesh Tov! Wishing us all a fantastic February,

Rabbi Eric Mollo

From the Rabbi

From the Education Director

KOL T.O.L.

*** Please note a change in the schedule:

Feb. 25th will be a regular day for Nursery-

5th grade students.

6th grade and up will meet at Beth Shalom

at 9:30am for a special viewing of Lost

Childhood: The Story of the Birkenau Boys,

sponsored by the Columbia Holocaust

Education Commission

The Purim Carnival will be at Beth Shalom

Sunday, March 4th @ 10:30am

TOL In Action

Green Team

WRJ / Sisterhood Brotherhood

Please contact us at [email protected] to volunteer.

To learn more about the Green Team, please visit

http://www.tolsc.org/about-us/associations/green-team

Please contact us at [email protected] if you would like to be added to our email list or have questions.

Please consider earmarking your TOL donations for the Green Team.

Remember to Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

[email protected]

Brotherhood Meeting And

Cookout Sunday, February 25th

11:30am to 1:00pm

Click the link below to register

http://www.tolsc.org/event/sisterhood-event1.html

mailto:[email protected]

http://www.tolsc.org/about-us/associations/green-team



http://www.tolsc.org/event/sisterhood-event1.html

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In House Speaker

Community Involvement

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Bar Mitzvah Announcement

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Jewish Federation

February 1

Andrew Barkan

February 2

Harrison Moses

February 3

David Bannister

February 4

Zachary Helman

Lois Wandersman

February 9

Jerry Gibson

February 12

Dori Nudelman

William Barkan

Elaine Cohen

February 13

Artur Iskhakov

February 16

Rowan Buscemi

Dennis Cohen

Alex Ogden

February 17

Nina Contino

February 18

Keenan Silver

Alexander Levy

Alexander Bernstein

February 21

Richard Cohen

February 22

Linda K. Sterne

February 24

Lisa Helfer

February 25

Mark Crawford

Kay Radin

Gabriella Perales

February 27

Daniel Canady

Bryan Tucker

February 28

Brody Nail

Alyssa Greenhouse

February Birthdays

KOL T.O.L.

Bimah Flowers Yahrzeits

January 5

David & Ellen Potter in loving memory of Hanna Messer, Marc & Ann

Posner in loving memory of Philip Posner, Lea Weiner in loving memory

of Rose Josephs, Carolyn & Alan Conway in loving memory of Jeffrey

Wander, Debbie, David, Alyssa & Hannah Greenhouse in loving memory

of Rita Wasserman, Rob & Amy Scully, Harriet Posner in loving memory

of Ben Levin, Rabbi Eric Mollo & Rabbi Carolan Glatstein in loving

memory of Suni Lieber, Deborah Clark in loving memory of Sarah Plavin.

January 12

Jeannie & Hyman Rubin, Jr. in loving memory of Jeannie A. McLain,

Adam, Julie & Rebecca Firetag in loving memory of Mackie Firetag, Gail

Bienstock in loving memory of Marvin Bienstock, Feliks & Sarra

Rabinovich and Family in loving memory of Joseph Rabinovich, Beverly &

Dennis Kaplan, Lisa, Scott, Zackary & Zoe Kaplan in loving memory of

William Kaplan. Beverly & Dennis Kaplan, Carolyn & Jim Clarke, Lisa,

Scott & Zackary Kaplan in honor of the Bat Mitzvah of Zoe Newton

Kaplan.

January 19

Ernie & Donna Magaro in loving memory of Eddie Linzer, Joseph Abuelo

in loving memory of Ruth Smith, Rob & Amy Scully, Harriet Posner in lov-

ing memory of Clara Levin, Rob & Amy Scully in loving memory of Betty

Scully, Jerry Rothstein in loving memory of Edward Rothstein, Deborah

Salzberg Clark in loving memory of Herman Erlichson.

January 26

Barry & Eleanor Bornstein in loving memory of Anna Bornstein, Susan

Altman in loving memory of Charles Daniel.

Feb 2 Board Host: Marc Posner

Steve Merlin

Jeff & Larraine Moses

Sam & Kim Moses

Bryan & Maggie Tucker

Allan & Cheryl Nail

Feb 9 Board Host: Elisa Westfall

Kenneth & Myra Nelson

David & Dori Nudelman

Alex Ogden & Judith Kalb

Leeds & Katherine Barroll

Irina Plotkin

Feb 16 Board Host: Deb Tedeschi

David Polen

Donald & Karen Portnoy

Marc & Ann Posner

David & Ellen Potter

Feb 23 Board Host: Bruce Miller

Steven & Helga Cohen

Richard & Robin Chapman

Erica Pfister

Marc & Mia Rapport

Barbara Rast

February 2

Alfred Ackerman*, Oscar Alexander, Jerry Berez, Sylvia Cohen, Darrell

Cooper*, Susan E. Furman*, Mathilde N. Gruber*, Paul E. Kalman, Sol

Kohn*, Bernard Lefton*,Joseph Lipsitz, Meyer Love*, Edwin N. Mittle*,

Larry Newton, David Richman*, Ann L. Savitz*, Josephine T. Specter*,

Rose W. Stern, Elias Stiglitz, Charles Thide.

February 9

Bob Blenner, Henrietta Block*, Mac Davidson, Hilda Fischman*,

Sandra Gaffney, Paul Garber*, Wilma P. Hill, Isadore J. Hoffman*,

Eugene Korash*, Barry Levey*, Sue Mandell*, Ruth Richmond*,

Samuel Savitz*, J. Paul Silberberg*, Herbert Spiers*, Mira Volynets, Ida

L. Weisberg*, Michael E. Weisberg*, Sidney Zucker.

February 16

Morris Alion*, Abram Aroneck*, Norman Becker, Bruce Becker, Philip

Bernath, Elsie H. Bruck*, Marshall Diamond, Henrietta S. Farber*,

Gertrude S. Furman*, Rabbi Harold Gelfman, Alvah H. Gould, Bella

Kalb, Julius Lichterman, Helene Lipsitz, Mabel Mann, Charles R.

Meador, Nancy B. Milman*, Alfred Mischner, Ethel Radin, Lillian

Schulman*, Ethel A. Serbin*, Herschel Sims, Florence Snyder, Kenneth

Sorenson, Paul Spector, Marc Sunshine, Jonathan S. Train*, Harry

Vigodsky*, Catherine Weiner*, Nellie L. Winter*.

February 23

Mildred Auerbach, David Becker, Milton E. Block*, Ilene Bronson*,

Manya Cohen, Janet P. Cohn*, Herschel Cooper*, Ernest Ellisor,

Bernard Fleischman, Sr.*, William Frisch, Jean F. Gergel*, Herbert

Grosby*, Joseph Halper, Charles M. Herzog, Dorothy B. Herzog, Kay

Politis*, Bernard Reyner, Maurice Savitz*, Rena Sheftman*, Henry

Steel*, Yakov Volfson, David Wallace*, Goldie Weiner*, Wolf Winter*,

Henry Wolff*, Rachel Zarek*

March 2

Nathan Blatt*, Leon Brett, Edward Davidson, Ruth G. Diamond, Julius

Feinstein, Doreen Friedman, Jennie Ginsberg*, June Goldfein, Rita B.

Green*, Annette Hark*, Elaine Harris, Sylvia Jastrow*, Howard Jolles,

Solomon Korash, Shirley Levine, Esther Magrill, Dora Meyers, Samuel A

Mild*, Tania Paul, Morris Rauch*, Joseph Russ, Edna Sims, Judi Swartz,

Harold Weiss, Libbie Wittenberg*.

February Oneg Shabbat

SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY

1

12:00p Lunch &

Learn @

Groucho’s-Five

Points

2

Scholar in Residence:

Rabbi Or Zohar

6:30p Tot

Shabbat

7:30p Shabbat

Evening Service

3


Rabbi Or Zohar

12:00p Lunch & Master

Class w Feliza

& Rabbi Or Zohar

7:00p Havdalah/

Concert with

Feliza & Rabbi Or Zohar

4


Rabbi Or Zohar

9:00a Religious

School

11:45a Hebrew

School/Makom

Chalom

5

6

7

8

7:00p

Judaism 102

8:00p

Judaism 101

9

6:30p Shabbat

Evening Service

10

10:30a Shabbat Morning

Service

11

9:00a Religious

School

11:45a Hebrew

School/Makom

Chalom

12:30p

WRJ SC Area Day

1:00p

Mitzvah Corps: Food

Not Bombs

12 13 14

15

6:00p Executive

Board Meeting

7:00p Board

Meeting

16

7:30p Shabbat

Evening Service

17

18

19

Presidents’ Day

20

6:45p

Sisterhood

Board Meeting

21 22

23

7:30p Shabbat

Evening Service

7:30p Special

Birthday Blessing

24

10:30a Bar Mitzvah of

Andrew Barkan

25

9:00a Religious

School

9:30a 6th-10th

Grades: Boys of

Birkenau film at BSS

11:30a Brotherhood

Meeting & Cookout

11:45a Hebrew

School/Makom

Chalom

26

27

28

7:30pm

Megillah Reading

& Purim Schpiel

@ TOL

Columbia Jewish Book Fair

Contributions KOL T.O.L.

Please consider making a tax-deductible donation to your favorite TOL General,

Sisterhood, or Endowment fund. Donations make wonderful gifts.

◦ General Funds ($10.00 minimum donation)

◦ Building Fund ($10 minimum donation)

◦ Choir Fund

◦ Green Team

◦ Foyer Leaf Fund ($72)

◦ High Holy Day/Passover Fund

(to help cover holiday operating expenses)

◦ Library Fund

◦ Memorial Board & Plaque Fund ($500)

◦ Prayer Book Fund

◦ Rabbi’s Discretionary Fund

◦ Rabbi Emeritus’ Discretionary Fund

◦ Religious School Fund

◦ Religious School Neil Cartiff Memorial Fund

◦ Youth Activities Fund

WRJ/Sisterhood Funds ($10 minimum)

◦ Reyner Convention Fund

◦ Courtesy Fund

◦ Evelyn & Dan Daniel Leadership Development

Fund

Endowment Funds ($25 minimum)

◦ Jeanette Birch Endowment Fund

◦ Diane Brown Sobel Endowment Fund

◦ Marian D. Fleischman Endowment Fund

◦ Ralph & Sarah Levine Endowment Fund

◦ Sylvia & Sam Savitz Music Enrichment Fund

◦ Jonathan Train Youth Group Endowment Fund

◦ General Endowment Fund

To make a donation in honor or in memory of a loved one, please notate the fund in which you wish to contribute in the memo

portion of your check. You may drop it at the Temple Office or mail it to:

Tree of Life Congregation

6719 North Trenholm Road

Columbia, South Carolina 29206

To pay by credit card, go to temple’s website www.tolsc.com/giving

If you do not find the fund in which you wish to donate, you may donate your money under membership dues and fill in the

special notes at check out, note where and to whom the donation should be accredited.

TOL Fund Directory

Rabbi’s Discretionary Fund

Nate Cason In Honor of Rabbi Eric Mollo

General Fund

Marcie & John Baker In Memory of Irwin Zucker

Religious School

Howie Weiss Memorial

Building Fund

Kay & Ira Radin

Fred & Doris Davidson

Ashton & Alaina Cutler

Richard & Laura Kagan In Memory of Ada Magaro and William Kaplan

In Honor of Annette Goldstein’s engagement to George David

In Honor of Zoe Kaplan’s Bat Mitzvah

Green Team

Carolyn Hudson In Honor Of David & Ellen Potter’s new granddaughter


6719 North Trenholm Road

Columbia, South Carolina 29206


Office: 803.787.2182 Fax: 803.787.0309

Website: www.tolsc.org Email: [email protected]

Office Hours

Tuesday—Thursday 9:00am-5:00pm

Friday 9:00am-4:00pm

Rabbi Eric Mollo, Senior Rabbi

[email protected]

Rabbi Carolan Glatstein, Education Director

[email protected]

Sanford T. Marcus, D.D., Rabbi Emeritus

[email protected]

OFFICERS COMMITTEE CHAIRS BOARD MEMBERS

President Bruce Miller Endowment Robert Feinstein Jackie Dickman-Babcock Donna Magaro

First Vice President David Polen Finance Ernie Magaro Debbie Cohn David Polen

Second Vice President Jessica Elfenbein House & Grounds Jessica Elfenbein Jeff Selig

Secretary Alex Ogden Membership Debbie Cohn & David Polen Eric Feuerstein Jeff Silver

Treasurer Marc Posner Oneg Annette Goldstein Annette Goldstein Deb Tedeschi

Immediate Past President Alan Brill Programs Fred Davidson Josh Gupta-Kagan Elisa Westfall

Religious School Board Elisa Westfall Scott Kaplan

AFFILIATES Ritual Laura Kagan

Brotherhood President Eric Feuerstein

WRJ/Sisterhood President Terry Garber TEMPLE EMPLOYEES LIFE TIME BOARD MEMBERS

COFTY President Ellie Feuerstein Carol Randolph-Davis Sharon Witherell Bernard Fleischman, Jr. Amy Scully

Green Team Representative Carolyn Hudson Stephen Savitz

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