H ello to all!

Spring has sprung and everything is starting out

new and refreshed. It feels wonder-ful to throw open the windows and inhale the fresh air and to hear the melodious sound of the birds chirp-ing. I love springtime! I feel rejuve-nated after the long cold winter and am ready to clean up and toss out the clutter accumulating around the house. On that note, the Sisterhood has come up with the idea of hav-ing another summer garage sale on August 13th and 14th. Since we‘ve begun renovating the kitch-en, there is much we can sell at a garage sale. You must have accu-mulated stuff you don‘t need any-more at your home. Perhaps you would consider adding to our things for our sale. We‘re giving you lots of time to collect your things and drop them off at the temple be-tween May 1 and August 9. To ar-range a drop-off time, please call Renée @ 216-392-5739. Please be aware that I will be out of town from June 19 through July 4th weekend. (Steve and I will be attending my

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Inside this issue:

CUBA: Home to a small but Mighty Jewish Community 2

Gallilee Diary–– Co-existence 3

Lag B’Omer 3

Torah Portions for May 4

B‘chukotai, Leviticus 26:3-27:34 Counting Days, Measuring Merit

4

Trip to Toronto Fundraiser 5

Fundraising benefits Am Shalom 5

Pesach Sheini 5

Shavuot 1, 5

Healing Prayers 6

Donations 6

Yahrzeit List 6

Calendar 7

IYYAR—SIVAN 5775

MAY 2015

The Kibbitzer

Temple Am Shalom

Mentor, Ohio

LEADERSHIP COLUMN

Shabbat Services

Friday, MAY 8 Service 8:00p.m ASYG Award Service

Friday, MAY 22 Service 6:45pm

Board Meeting

7:30 pm Wed MAY6 We encourage congregants to attend and get involved!

Sisterhood

10:00am SUNDAY, MAY 17, at

Manhattan Deli, Mentor

Contact Rita Rose at (440) 867-2268

niece‘s wedding in Daytona, and then, Steve‘s barbershop chorus will be competing in Pittsburgh at the interna-tional level.) so, if you want to donate items during that time period, please hold off until July 6th to call me. Thanks!

The kitchen project has begun with the removal of the donated cabinets (ruined by the last water incident), emptying of the cupboards and re-moval of the old cupboards which were water-logged and deteriorated. Thank you to Gary Tucker, Jennifer Magid’s fiancé, for removing them with the help of Ben, Jonah and friend. George Evangelista has de-molished the old kitchen and we are looking to see if the leak is due to a need to excavate the corner of the building adjacent to the kitchen or not. Estimates of cost for that are coming in at around $5600.00. Our donation fund was just shy of $5,000.00. thanks to a donation of $1,000.00 from Audrey and Albert Ratner, solicited by George‘s wife, Janet, we now have $6,000.00 in our fund. Even though

(Leadership Continued on page 2)

SISTERHOOD—

Meeting for breakfast SUNDAY, MAY 17

10:00 am at Manhattan Deli, Mentor.

Let’s schmooz.

Men’s Fellowship Group

8:00am Sunday, May 17, at Mentor Family

Restaurant. (formerly known as Best Friends

Restaurant) Questions? Contact Lee Haw-

thorne at (440) 725-6852 at hawk-eye1@-

ameritech.net

Sunday School

May 3 w/Preschool 9:15am

Last Day — Parent breakfast and awards.

Youth Group

MAY 8TH Service at 8:00p.m.

SHAVUOT

Shavuot, known as the Festival of the Giving of the Torah, is reflected in the Bible, which recounts how, after the Exodus from Egypt, the Children of Israel proceed to Mount Sinai in the desert. Moses ascended the moun-tain to meet God, who gave him the Ten Commandments, which were written on two tablets to be delivered to the Children of Israel.

According to the Torah, it took pre-cisely 49 days, or seven weeks, for the ancient Israelites to travel from

(Shavuot Continued on page 5)

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labor is graciously being donated by George and friends, we are still in need of funds for flooring, cabi-nets, and countertops. Ron Rose has a fundraising trip to Toronto scheduled in October, in which proceeds will be given to Am Shalom. In the past, we have benefitted nicely from this project, as well as the above-mentioned garage sale.

If you can think of any fundraising projects that you‘d like to see occur, please bring your ideas to the board or call me and I will forward them. I know we‘ve dis-cussed a bowling party and several other ideas are floating about. Don‘t hesitate to suggest something. One person brought up the garage sale and now it‘s a go. We are making things happen at Am Shalom, but we need your help. Donations of garage sale items, reservations for the Toronto trip, as well as financial donations are all ways to raise the funds needed to ren-ovate the kitchen and keep our temple a viable Jewish institution in Lake County. Thanks to everyone who have already been instrumental in making this new, much needed, renovation a reality.

The Passover Seder was a huge success. It was won-derful to see the 30 people who attended and who brought delicious side-dishes and desserts to share. Thanks to everyone who came early to help, collected money, helped serve and cleaned up afterwards. This is a big undertaking, but with all of the assistance, it be-comes easier and much appreciated by me and all who

(Leadership Continued from page 1) attend this yearly event. I hope everyone had a joyous Pesach holiday with family and friends!

I am happy to report that Elise is on the mend from her surgery. She was even at temple in mid April for a youth group meeting. It is so wonderful to see her re-covering so nicely.

Welcome home to Ronnie and Milt Abrams. After traveling south for the winter, they have returned to their Mentor home. It was great to see Ronnie at Sister-hood breakfast!

Happy summer break to all temple Hebrew and Sunday school students! Have an enjoyable (and safe) sum-mer. Kelly Sobol and I are looking into doing some summer bowling with the kids. If interested, please contact me for information.

Congratulations on the upcoming conversion of Pene and Mark Obenour on Sunday, May 31. Since Mark is having knee replacement surgery in June; we will be having a celebration of this event sometime later on in the summer. Read your future Kibbitzers for more infor-mation.

Summer services will all be at 6:45 p.m., unless otherwise noted in the Kibbitzer. There might be a change. If Elise can cover one of my services in

June while I am away.

B’ahava (With love), Renée ¤

The following article is excerpted from ReformJudaism.org—

Jewish Life in Your Life published on January 2, 2015.

CUBA: Home to a Small but Mighty Jewish

Community

By Rabbi Steven Stark Lowenstein

So many people have asked me over the years, ―Why do you keep going back to Cuba? What‘s so special about that trip? What‘s so unique about that place?‖ Given the U.S. govern-ment‘s recent announcement about changes in its relations with Cuba, this question is more relevant than ever.

My congregation, Am Shalom in Glencoe, IL, has been tak-ing groups to Cuba for more than a decade. Our founding rabbi and educator emeritus first began this journey, and we are privileged to continue it each year at the end of January.

Over the years, I have come to understand Cuba as a fasci-nating place, a place of amazing contradictions, a place where we can truly help a struggling Jewish community fight for its very survival in real-time. From my very first trip, I loved the food, the music, and the atmosphere, but it‘s the people I found most enthralling.

What amazes me, each time I travel the short 90 miles from Florida, is the resilience the community shows year in and year out. To say it hasn‘t been easy is an understatement.

Adela Dworin, the head of Cuba‘s Jewish Community Cen-ter and Congregation, the Patronato recalls the time Fidel Castro came to a Hanukkah celebration in 1998. She quips, ―I told him he would really like the story of the Mac-cabees. It was kind of like a revolution.‖ According to Ade-la, when Castro spoke to the Jewish community for a very short (two hour!) speech, he said, ―What could move me more than the struggle of a people to preserve its tradi-tions, its religion, and its culture? In some 2,000 years, the Jewish people have preserved your culture, identity, reli-gion, and tradition.‖

And yet, today, their numbers are dwindling. Cuba‘s Jewish population has shrunk from more than 15,000 to about 1,500, depending on how you count. According to commu-nity leaders, no rabbi has lived in Cuba since the 1959 rev-olution. Mayra Levy, president of the Sephardic Center in Havana, struggles each Shabbat to make a minyan (the quorum of 10 Jewish adults needed for prayer). Young leaders we‘ve met over the years have given up and moved to Israel as soon as they got the chance.

Still, the faces of the Jewish people we meet reflect their passion to keep Judaism a vital part of their lives. They care deeply about their community. They care about their

(Cuba Continued on page 3)

The following article is excerpted from Ten Minutes of Torah—

Israel Connections from urj.org on May 7, 2008.

Galilee Diary

Co-existence By Marc Rosenstein

*Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai and his son were sentenced to death by

the Romans, for publicly criticizing Roman culture+ They went and

hid in a cave. Miraculously, a carob tree and a spring appeared. They

used to take off their clothes and sit up to their necks in sand, and

occupy themselves with Torah study all day. When it was time for

prayer they dressed, wrapped themselves in their tailitot, and prayed;

afterwards they undressed again, in order to preserve their clothes.

They lived in the cave for 12 years. Elijah came and stood at the en-

trance to the cave and said: Who will tell bar Yochai that the Caesar

has died and the persecution ended?

- Babylonian Talmud, Shabbat 33b-34a

According to folk tradition, Rabbi Shimon‘s years of meditation resulted in his writing of the Zohar, the central text of kabba-lah. And that same tradition places his cave in the picturesque upper Galilee village of Peki‘in, today populated by Druze, Moslems, Christians, and Jews. There is a small cave in the village, surrounded by old carob trees, and a few hundred yards away is the village spring. Yitzchak ben Zvi (second president of Israel) and his wife Rachel were fascinated by Peki‘in and the tradition of the Zeinati family living there, that this is the one location in Eretz Yisrael that the Jews had nev-er abandoned, since the Second Temple. They researched and publicized these traditions. Today, on the Israeli 100 shek-el note, which bears ben Zvi‘s portrait, the background engrav-ing is an illustration of the Peki‘in village square.

During the revolt of 1936-39 the Zeinatis left Peki‘in temporari-ly, and assigned a Moslem family to take care of their assets. Today, the last Zeinati in Peki‘in is Margalit, a woman in her seventies, who never married, and lives alone across the alley

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from the ancient synagogue, of which she is the guardian and caretaker. The synagogue, built in 1873, contains carved stones found on the site that attest to a previous synagogue from the rabbinic period.

And a few blocks away is ―Raya‘s Place,‖ another tourist landmark—a restaurant operated by the children and grand-children of Raya—the matriarch of the Moslem family men-tioned above. Their marketing technique for Jewish tour groups is to show off the letter of thanks they received from the Zeinatis. Across the street is a similar restaurant whose Druze proprietor‘s marketing strategy is to point out that he and his sons have served in combat units in the Israeli army.

I spent last Shabbat with a group of 18-year-olds at the Pe-ki‘in youth hostel. At dinner on Friday we decided it would be nice to try to hold our Shabbat morning service in the ancient synagogue. However, what if Margalit were out? Besides, she is known to be a bit fussy, and not always eager to be disturbed by tourists. What to do? The Druze dining room manager, once he had finished explaining the halacha of boiling water on Shabbat (or lack thereof) to some unhappy secular Jewish guests, suggested a solution: the dishwasher on duty happened to be Raya‘s granddaughter. She could intercede with Margalit on her way home from work.

And so it happened that we held our Shabbat service in a stuffy, cluttered, ancient stone synagogue in the heart of an Arab village, where the bells of the neighboring church could be heard loud and clear. Aside from fluorescent lights, the one modern addition was a new mechitza, dividing the small room into men‘s and women‘s sections. Was it a spiritual experience? Not sure, but there was something moving about the continuity of the place, about realizing that people had been praying these same prayers here ever since these prayers had been written.

Later that day, strolling through town, we met Margalit relax-ing at Raya‘s Place, enjoying a fresh-baked Druze-style flat pita, under a large hand-lettered sign: ―Kosher, under the

supervision of Margalit Zeinati.‖ ¤

Jewishness. They care about their past, and they hope for their future. Our short annual visits given them a shot in the arm to know they are not alone. These trips remind us that we can fulfill the Jewish teaching ―Kol Yeisrael arevim zeh l’zeh,‖ all Israel is responsible for each other. Cuban people, and Cuban Jews in particular, have suffered so much over the last 50 years. Prior to the revolution, Jews prospered there, and I believe this can happen again. The U.S. government‘s newly announced changes are definitely encouraging, the beginning of a journey back to what once was. In this current political climate, I know it won‘t be easy to get Congress to eliminate the embargo, but at least they are discussing it, and President Obama seems determined to take things as far as his powers will allow. One day can‘t erase 54 years, but we welcome any measures that will make daily life easier for all of Cuba.

It‘s not easy being Jewish anywhere, but the dwindling com-munity on this tiny little island keeps trying—and as long as they keep trying, we will keep visiting and supporting them. ¤

(Cuba Continued from page 2) Lag B’Omer

Lag B’Omer is a festive minor holiday that falls during the seven weeks between Passover and Shavuot (usually in May or June on the Gregorian calendar). This period of time is known as the Omer. An omer is an ancient Hebrew measure of grain, amount-ing to about 3.6 liters. Biblical law forbade any use of the new barley crop until after the omer was brought as an offering to the Temple in Jerusalem. The book of Leviticus (23:15-16) also commanded ―And from the day on which you bring the offer-ing...you shall count off seven weeks. They must be complete.‖ This commandment led to the practice of the Sefirat Ha‘omer, or the 49 days of the ―Counting of the Omer,‖ which begins on the second day of Passover and ends on Shavuot. Lag B‘Omer is a shorthand way of saying ―the 33rd day of the Omer‖.

Historically, the period of the Omer is a time of semi-mourning, when weddings and other festivities are avoided, in memory of a plague that killed thousands of students of Rabbi Akiva, a Talmudic scholar. Lag B‘Omer was the day on which the plague ceased, and thus became a day on which the mourning rituals are abandoned and are replaced with great joy—weddings, out-door activities, bonfires (which symbolize the light of the Torah)

Reprinted from URJ.org ¤

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May 2 — Acharei Mote-Kedoshim Lev 16:1 - 20:27

May 9 — Emor Lev 21:1 - 24:21

May 16 — Be-Har-Be-Chukkotai Lev 25:1 - 27:34

May 23 — Be-Midbar Num 1:1 - 4:20

May 30 — Nasso Num 4:21 -7:89

Torah Portions for May

May Torah Portion

The following article is excerpted from Ten Minutes of Torah — Re-

form Voices of Torah from urj.org on May 19, 2008. Rabbi Sue Levi El-

well, PhD (at the time of this writing), serves as the director of the URJ

Pennsylvania Council and the Federation of Reform Synagogues of

Greater Philadelphia, and as co-president of the Women’s Rabbinic

Network.

D’VAR TORAH

B’chukkotai: Leviticus 26:3-27:34

Counting Days, Measuring Merit Sue Levi Elwell

Each year, for forty-nine days, from the second night of Pesach until Erev Shavuot, we Jews count. We count the days of the Omer. Some of us count every evening. Some count sporadically. And some don‘t count at all. But re-gardless of our personal or communal practice, night fol-lows day, and day, night. Like our ancestors, each year we make our way from Egypt to Sinai, reenacting the journey from slavery to freedom, from involuntary servitude to Pharaoh to the chosen service to the Holy One. We count the days as we travel from one reality to another, from the degradation of enslavement to becoming a self-determined community.

But we are not yet there. As we read Parashat B’chukotai, we are making our way to Sinai with increased excitement: on the 18 of Iyar (this year, Thursday, May 7), we cele-brate Lag B‘Omer, the only holiday that falls during this period of counting.

Rabbi Jill Hammer teaches that this thirty-third day of the Omer is, according to Jewish mystical tradition, ―a wedding between heaven and earth‖ (www.telshemesh.org/Iyar). As we anticipate Shavuot, when we celebrate God‘s union with the Jewish people, the 18th of Iyar is a day to redraw con-nections that have been strained or broken during the years of slavery and throughout the difficult wilderness journey. After a month of shuffling through sand and sleep-ing under the stars, of making do with inadequate provi-sions and dealing with exhaustion and frustration and fear, this day is a gift. On the 18 of iyar, our people, then and now, lift up our eyes and see not dislocation but connec-tion. We remember the promise of an end to dispersion and to settling in our own land. Rabbi Hammer teaches that this is a time of ―linking heaven to earth, human to Di-vine, one person to another... The 18th of Iyar is a moment of union par excellence, signifying the knowledge that all of

us are leaves on one tree of life (ibid.)

How does B’chukotai, this final Torah portion in Leviticus, help us claim a day that reminds us who we are and where we are going?

B’chukotai challenges readers by beginning with a series of ―blessings and curses‖ and continues with direction on the funding of the sanctuary. Throughout our history, sag-es have struggled with this portion as the conclusion of our law book. Robert Alter writes, ―This miscellany of laws seems by modern lights, an odd way to conclude a book. Interpretive attempts have been made to rescue it as a thematically appropriate conclusion, but none is altogether persuasive. This final chapter is best regarded as an ap-pendix to Leviticus... Perhaps these... issues, necessary for the maintenance of the sanctuary but not altogether agreeable for the audience of the book to contemplate, were deliberately tacked on at the very end‖ (The Five Books

of Moses [New York: W. W. Norton, 2004], p. 667).

We are left with what seems to be an assessment of the comparative worth of men and women of various ages were they to dedicate their labor to the sanctuary: ―Speak to the Israelite people and say to them: When anyone explic-itly vows to the Eternal the equivalent for a human being, the following scale shall apply: If it is a male from twenty to sixty years of age, the equivalent is fifty shekels of silver by the sanctuary weight; if it is a female, the equivalent is thirty

shekels....” (Leviticus 27:2-7) What are we to make of this text?

Our people has just come out of slavery, escaping from a system that coldly measured the worth of each individual. For Americans, pre-Civil War images of African American slaves huddled together—or standing alone—on the auc-tion block are a source of our national shame. How can we read this text as a response to—and not merely a perpetu-ation of—an arbitrary system of objectifying human be-ings?

Even in our so-called postmodern world, the equality of all people continues to be debated. This challenging text pos-its a measure of one‘s ability to contribute to the collective; this measure of individual‘s worth is based on how people fit into a functioning community. But most importantly, this assessment is made in the context of creating a culture of interdependence, crafting free society of individuals who choose how to serve one another and how to serve God.

We read this concluding chapter of Leviticus as we reach this single, sweet day in our days of counting. On Lag B‘O-mer, we see the possibility of connection and of working together as diverse individuals to build a society that works for all of its members. We need to continue our jour-ney to Sinai and beyond, working toward a time when dis-tinctions will be made not on the basis of gender or age, or on predetermined assessments of strength or talent or ability. B’chukotai challenges us to think about how we measure ourselves and others, empowering us to see one another as free, self-determined participants in creating and sustaining sacred communities.¤

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Fundraising Can Benefit Am Shalom

As your Treasurer it is my responsibility to make sure we are currently paying our bills. With our expenses, we must be able to depend on fundraisers in addition to our dues. Last year our Toronto fundraiser earned over two thousand dollars, which will be used to pay our bills in the next few months. Last month, I announced a new Toronto Fund-raiser on October 13-14, 2015, which is an all-inclusive trip including two major Broadway Shows, five meals, accommodations, transporta-tion and sightseeing attractions for $415 a person, double occupancy. What we can accomplish with this fundraiser, in addition to benefitting our temple, will benefit you as well. For example, let’s compare our

price to the retail price of the trip:

Am Shalom Price: $415 per person (double occupancy) v.

Retail Cost of Trip Greyhound Bus (round trip)..........$194.81

Tickets to Shows (vivid seating)..........$783.00 (Motown $311, Kinky Boots $472.)

Hilton Garden Inn (One Night)............$213.57 Various restaurant meals (5).........$104.00

Total Retail Price..........................$1295.38 Thus by helping your temple pay its bills, you are saving a projected $880.38! That‘s my idea of a fundraiser! Ron Rose—440.867.2268 ¤

AN INVITATION TO

Temple Am Shalom Members & their Guests!

All inclusive—oNe cost adults only

Toronto Show Tour October 13th and 14th, 2015

(Passports or passcards needed)

Highlights—7 Attractions

(1) Motown, the Musical—tremendous seats!

(2) “Kinky Boots” - Best Musical, Canadian Cast Meet & Greet

(3) Dave Latshaw’s narrated tour

(4) “Niagara-on-the-Lake” - Revisit the 1890s

(5) Outstanding Movies on the Motorcoach with frequent stops!

(6) Robert Michaels—Canada’s finest Flamencan guitarist

(7) Horseshoe falls—Niagara Falls

FIVE (5) GREAT MEALS

(1) Breakfast at Cracker Barrel

(2) Dinner at Tucker’s Marketplace, Burlington, Ontario

(3) Continental Breakfast—Hilton Garden Inn, Brampton Ont

(4) Lunch at Frankie Tomattos—full buffet

(5) Dinner at Mandarin—Niagara Square Mall

SNACKS BETWEEN MEALS: Tour also provides water & soda

DELUXE ANDERSON MOTOR COACH— Leaves from Temple Am Shalom. Parking available at Am Shalom.

DELUXE HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS— Hilton Garden Inn, Brampton, Ontario

All inclusive Cost: $415 pp Dbl Occ; $475pp Sngl Occ $200 deposit—$215 balance due Sept 1 (Single Balance: $275)

Make Checks payable to Temple Am Shalom/Toronto c/o Ron Rose, 5636 Primavera Dr., Mentor OH 44060-9106.

Please enclose your email or phone number.

Trip is limited to 56 passengers.

This trip is a fundraising activity of Temple Am Shalom. Please contact Ron Rose at 440-867-2268 or by email at

rrose@oh.rr.com

PESACH SHENI

A year after the Exodus, G-d instructed the people of Israel to bring the Passover offering on the afternoon of the four-teenth of Nissan, and to eat it that evening, roasted over the fire, together with matzah and bitter herbs, as they had done the previous year just before they left Egypt.

―There were, however, certain persons who had become ritually impure through contact with a dead body, and could not, therefore, prepare the Passover offering on that day. They approached Moses and Aaron... And they said: ‗...Why should we be deprived, and not be able to present g-d‘s of-fering in its time, amongst the children of Israel?‖ (Numbers

9:6-7).

In response to their plea, God established the 14th of Iyar as a ―Second Passover‖ (Pesach Sheni) for anyone who was unable to bring the offering on its appointed time in the previ-ous month.

The day thus represents the ―second chance‖ achieved by teshuvah, the power of repentance and ―return.‖ In the words of Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak of Lubavitch, ―The Second Passover means that it‘s never a ‗lost case.‘‖

It is customary to mark this day by eating matzah, shmurah matzah (kosher for Passover matzah—that is matzah guarded

from the time of harvesting of the wheat) if possible.

Reprinted from chabad.org. ¤

Egypt to the foot of Mount Sinai. The Torah commands: ―And you shall proclaim that day (the 50th day) to be a holy convo-cation!‖ (Lev 23:21). The name Shavuot, ―Weeks,‖ symboliz-es the completion of this seven-week journey. The rabbis tightened this connection by associating Shavuot with Moses‘ receiving the Torah from God atop Mt. Sinai.

Shavuot also is a harvest holiday. In the time of the Temple, the ancient Israelites brought their first fruits to the Temple to offer to God at Shavuot. Along with Sukkot and Passover, it is one of the Shalosh Regalim (three Pilgramage Festivals), during which people gathered in Jerusalem with their agricul-tural offerings.

Reprinted from URJ.org ¤

(Shavuot Continued from page 1)

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Yahrzeits

Light Yahrzeit candles the evening before the date.

These names will be read during services in the month of May:

Name Date of Hebrew Yizkor

Death Date corresponds to: Date

Claire Shapiro-Brown 5/2 (Iyyar 20, 5762 — May 9, 2015) Agnes O‘Loughlin 5/5 (Iyyar 9, 5758 — April 28, 2015) Ada Corbin 5/7 (Nissan 30, 5738 — April 19, 2015) Sam Nehamkin 5/8 (Iyyar 17,5764 — May 6, 2015 Donna Mae Negin 5/9 (Iyyar 29, 5765 — May 18, 2015) Ernie Fagin 5/14 (Sivan 5, 5773 — May 23, 2015) Russell Hawthorne 5/14 (Iyyar 28, 5759 — May 17, 2015) Bruce Sabine 5/17 (Iyyar 15, 5763 — May 4, 2015) Nancy Kades 5/18 (Iyyar 18, 5756 — May 7, 2015) Mary Lipinski 5/19 (Iyyar 19, 5774 — May 8, 2015) Martha Roerdansz 5/26 (Iyyar 29, 5739 — May 18, 2015) John Hawthorne 5/27 (Sivan 10,5767 — May 28, 2015) Max Abrams 5/29 (Sivan 9,5753 — May 27, 2015) Jennie Kohen 5/30 (Siven 3, 5775 — May 21, 2015 Jack Passan 5/30 (Sivan 15, 5759 — June 2, 2015) Esther Antonovsky 5/31 (Sivan 6, 5758 — May 25, 2015)

Exact year, month and/or day not given Phyllis Greenberg Brown Marvin Rukin Betty Chulin Shirley Rukin Hyman Gottlober Hyman Siebert Terry Hartman Mildred Woodruff Jules J. Kohenn Julius Zeiser Louis Millman

Help us update our records. Any corrections and/or infor-

mation on the names listed would be appreciated. (Regarding

the alphabetical names: Are you a relative or do you know the rela-

tives? Do you know the dates of death? Please tell us.)

THE TEMPLE

RECYCLES

Put recyclables in the recycle bin in kitchen

Plastic—glass—cardboard—paper—pop cans

Thank you for your Donation

Audrey and Albert Ratner Towards the kitchen fund

Donations are most welcome. Possible other areas for donation: Operating Expenses;

Oneg Expenses

The Memorial Board at the temple has 4 spaces left.

Memorial plaques are available for $225.

Contact the Temple at (440) 255-1544.

Cemetery Plots are Available

Cemetery plots at Western Reserve Memorial Gar-dens (Rt. 306 in Chesterland) are available. Temple Am Shalom has our own section. Plots cost $750 for members. Call Bob Weinberg if you are interested at (440) 256-0835.

MISSING

If anyone knows the whereabouts of the faded yellow, 8-foot stepladder that was on loan to the temple, please contact the office, Jerry Kozack or Lee Hawthorne.

Happy Happy Birthdays

Gail Steindler 5/1 Diane D‘Orazio 5/18 Laurel Weinberg 5/2 Norman Eberschlag 5/18 (25) Jack Klein 5/10 Marnie DeGuire 5/19 Lake Snyder 5/10 (8) Marcia Gerstein 5/19 Michael Echle 5/11 Betty Corbin 5/20 Sawyer Sobol 5/14 (1) Scott Steindler 5/20 Michelle Hawthorne 5/15 Edward Obenour 5/28 (24) Sarah Snyder 5/17 (10) Kelly Sobol 5/30 Alissa Bittinger 5/18 (12) Martin Berkens 5/31

Anniversaries

Jerrold & Linda Kozack May 8 (44)

Kitchen Fund

Phase 1:

Dig the Trench Fund $5,600 May be covered if we want to totally empty the account.

Phase 2:

Cabinets & Flooring

Phase 3:

Finish the Kitchen

$6,000

Healing Prayers

Doug Aitken

Elise Aitken

Leonard Cohen

Arlene Everly

Richard Hughes

Pene Obenour

Alice Planavsky

Mirel Schlesinger

Nadine Sherman

Betty Stein

Marc Steindler

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Renée Blau, Spiritual Director & Cantorial Soloist

Elise Aitken, Asst. Spiritual Dir. & Cantorial Soloist

T h e T e m p l e B o a r d

President Steven Blau

Vice President Jason Sobol

Secretary Pene Obenour

Acting Treasurer Ronald Rose

Youth Group Elise Aitken

Education Director Renée Blau

Facilities Maintenance Jerry Kozack

Members at Large :

Lee Hawthorne, Erik Nehamkin, Rita Rose, Bob

Sobol

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