Wednesday, April 8 is the first night of Passover. Many OZS congregants have a tradition of gathering with family and friends for the first night seder. It is considered a great mitzvah to welcome in the stranger to such a gathering. Please let me know if you are planning to have a seder at your home for the first night, and if so, if you have room to invite any newcomer OZS congregants to your Passover table.

Thank you in advance for your welcoming kindness.

Kathy Grossman Membership Chair kathygrossman@gmail.com

Bulletin Ohavay Zion Synagogue Ohavay Zion Synagogue

Shevat/Adar 5780 February 2020 2048 Edgewater Court

Lexington, Kentucky 40502 859-266-8050

http://www.ozs.org

PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE ~

January 31 Shabbat at Home w/ Family & Friends

February 7 Shabbat Rocks 5:30PM

Shabbat Services: February 2020

February 1 Shabbat - 9:30AM Bo Birthday Aliyah Speaker: Matt Simons

February 8 Shabbat - 9:30AM Beshalach Speaker: Scooter Stein

February 14 Shabbat at Home w/ Family & Friends

February 21 Kabbalat Shabbat w/ Stewart Home 5:30PM

February 15 Lunch & Lead Shabbat OZS Students 9:30AM Yitro Speaker: OZS Students

February 22 Shabbat - 9:30AM Mishpatim Speaker: Guy Kemper

February 28 Shabbat at Home w/ Family & Friends

February 29 Shabbat - 9:30AM Terumah Speaker: Seth Himelhoch

Hello Congregants,

How cool is it that we have such great young adults and younger folks at OZS? It is such a wonderful feeling to come to Shul and see so many activities being run by our young adults for our younger folks. Not only do these young adults need to know what they are talking about, they have to know how to get along with and communicate with others in order to teach. It is not always easy when dealing with such a wide variety of personalities to get your point across so all understand. When I arrive for Tuesday Minyan and see the Teachers leading the younger folks in lessons it warms my heart. And on Shabbat morning hearing younger folks read Torah so beautifully it makes me know we are doing things right. All said I wish to take this opportunity, as me AND as OZS President, to say THANK YOU to all the Young Adults and younger folk who make our Synagogue so great!

With Great Respect, Ira Cooper

IN MEMORIAM

WE MOURN THE PASSING OF…

Richard Reiss brother of Toni Reiss

January 15, 2020 18th of Tevet 5780

Jack Sharer and Sharyn Cantin

announce the wedding of their daughter

Tasha Sharer and Michael Zysman January 19th, 2020 in New York

OZS Gift Shop

2020 Winter Sale - 20% Off All Items

February and March

Please contact Madeline for a select appointment Email: madelinebrownstein@gmail.com

or call: 410-598-4008

Tuesday, February 11th, at 7:30PM in the OZS Library

OZS Board Meeting 2/11

Shabbat Rocks with Rabbi Cohen on Friday, February 7th at 5:30PM. Led by students, nosh to follow!

Shabbat Rocks 2/7

Backpacking is collecting bags of apples and oranges for the next Backpacking for Mary Todd Elementary School students event. Collection will run February 1st-9th. Please place the bags of fruit in the small kitchen refrigerator or containers in the lobby. Contact the office for more information.

Backpacking for God’s Pantry 2/1 - 2/9

Kids’ Havdalah Glow Party 2/1 Please join us at OZS on Saturday, February 1st at 6:30PM for a Havdalah Family Glow Party! OZS and TAI Religious Schools are co-hosting an end-of-shabbat celebration. Families with K-5th graders are welcome! The celebration includes Havdalah ceremony, crafts, Fazoli’s dinner and glow in the dark fun! Contact Ilona for more information.

Monday, February 3rd, at 7:30PM in the OZS Library

Religious Committee Meeting 2/3

Religious School Families are invited on Sunday, February 9th at 10:00AM to the Tu B'Shevat Seder lead by Rabbi Cohen.

Religious School Tu B’Shevat Seder 2/9

Kabbalat Shabbat with Stewart Home on Friday, February 21st at 5:30PM

Kabbalat Shabbat 2/21

Backpacking will meet on Sunday, February 16th at 10:30AM in the Social Hall to pack bags for Mary Todd Elementary School students.

Backpacking for God’s Pantry 2/16

Social Action Committee will be holding their meeting on February 9th at 10:30AM. Please check out updates on their Facebook Group for more information or contact Dominique.

Social Action Committee 2/9

A highlight of our Shabbat service is our discussion of the week's parsha. To expand on some of the issues raised by the parsha, we're proposing to have a weekly round table discussion during the lunch period. Come join our table after services and discuss the week's parsha. This is an informal way to engage with Torah. Look for our table after blessings. Brought to you by the Adult Education Committee.

Torah Study at Shabbat Lunch Saturdays

Talmud for Everybody Classes Sundays

Talmud for Everybody is held Sunday mornings from 10:30 a.m. to noon. While the Bible is the foundation of Judaism, it is through the Talmud and its later commentaries that we learn how to live a Jewish life. Led by Jon Glixon. For more information: jonathan.glixon@uky.edu.

OZS children (5th grade and up) will assist with leading our services as well as preparing and serving lunch. Please mark your calendars and plan to attend - in the spirit of L'dor V'dor.

Lunch & Lead Shabbat 2/15

Wednesday Study Classes Wednesdays

Led by Alice Goldstein, we explore the Jewish Holidays: their meaning, history, structures of prayers, as well as ancient and modern traditions.

Rabbi Smith’s Biblical Hebrew Class meets at his home every Thursday evening at 7:00PM. Call 859-223-9682 to RSVP.

Web Sites: Schennberg.com Schennbergrealty.com

Cindy M. Derer, P.L.L.C.

Cindy M. Derer, D.M.D. Family Dentistry

698 Perimeter Drive, Suite 102 Lexington, Kentucky 40517

859.268.9090 www.cindydererdmd.com

PLEASE SUPPORT THESE COMMUNITY BUSINESSES (CLICK ON WEBSITE LINKS WITHIN THE ADS TO ACCESS BUSINESS WEBSITES)

darogallery@gmail.com

Thank you to our OZS Supporters who are members of our Kroger Community Rewards Program. Last August through November, 2019, 74 OZS supporters “gave” us donations of $501.09. We appreciate YOU! If you haven’t signed up yet but are a Kroger shopper you can help OZS earn fundraising dollars at NO COST TO YOU!!!! All you will have to do is present your Kroger Plus card and then we get the proceeds. Please go on line now to krogercommunityrewards.com to register, be sure to have your Kroger Plus Card and OZS #WI315. If you have any questions about it please call or email the office.

Kroger Community Rewards Program

AmazonSmile Rewards Program

Thank you to those who have been using SmileAmazon.com and have designated Ohavay Zion Congregation as the charitable organization to receive 0.5% of your eligible purchases. And thanks to you, OZS received $86.25 this last quarter, August through November, 2019. OZS appreciates your continual support Ohavay Zion! Have questions about AmazonSmile? Please contact Debbie Aminoff, treasurer, via email or phone: 859-317-3839.

Rabbi Smith’s Beginning Hebrew Classes

Dearest OZS Congregants ~

Thank you for the joyful memories you have given to me these last 3 years. You’ve included me as one of your family, enriching my life with your kindness and educating me as I’ve learned Hebrew words and more about the Jewish faith. Every day has been a gift. I will truly miss not being at the synagogue every day but hope to see all of you here in Lexington out and about. You are all the best!! Until we meet again. Jae

Jewish Studies in the College of Arts and Science at the University of Kentucky

JS presents its 2020 Spring Events in February and March. The events are free and open to the public. Free parking is available in the Boone Center lot (enter from Columbia Avenue, yes, it is gated, but the gate will be opened for exit and there will be tokens available from the Boone Center’s main desk). There will be a reception immediately following the lectures.

Hilary J Boone Center

Thursday, March 12th at 7:00pm

Dr. Eric Goldstein presents: Jews and Whiteness in the Jim Crow South

Dr. Goldstein is an Associate Professor, Department of History, Emory College of Arts and Sciences and Director of the Tam Institute of Jewish Studies, Emory University. He specializes in American Jewish history and culture, modern Jewish history, American social and cultural history (19th & 20th centuries). Dr. Goldstein is the author of The Price of Whiteness: Jews, Race and the American Identity, and co-author (with Deborah R. Weiner) of On Middle Ground: A History of the Jews of Baltimore.

Hilary J Boone Center

Thursday, February 13th at 7:00pm

Dr. Helene Sinnreich presents: Gendered Martyrdom:

Orthodox Jewish Hagiographies of Holocaust Victims

Dr. Sinnreich is an Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies, at the University of Tennessee. She is a scholar of Jewish experience during the Holocaust and European Jewry where her main research focus is on the experience of Jews in Nazi ghettos. Dr. Sinnreich serves as the editor in chief of the Journal of Jewish Identities (Johns Hopkins University Press).

Have you noticed?

Many of our Etz Hayim chumashim are in need of repair or replacement. A committee will soon assess how many new Etz Hayim are needed and how many of the damaged ones can be repaired for a reasonable cost to have a full complement to meet our needs for study and reading. This should be completed towards the end of February. Twenty-four new Etz Hayim have been given to start a Book Replacement Fund. How this Fund is expected to work is that as Books are purchased for $72 (4xChai), then that money will then be used to buy new Etz Hayim. This revolving Fund is intended to keep our Etz Hayim in best condition. You can help with this mitzvah. Buy an Etz Hayim for any simcha or in honor/memory of a loved one or anyone. Just let the office know that you want to be part of this project to insure our Etz Hayim remain in the ready for reading and learning.

Ohavay Zion Synagogue Donation Form 2048 Edgewater Court Lexington, Kentucky 40502

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Paypal donation - please go to our website ozs.org for the link. To donate stock, securities or other assets please contact the office.

Donations may be made to the following:

___ General ___ Green Campership

___ Backpacking ___ High Holidays

___ Building ___ Kitchen/Kiddush

___ Caring Committee ___ Library

___ Chevra Kaddisha ___ Rabbi’s Discretionary

___ Cooper Security Fund ___ Social Action Committee

___ Education - Adult ___ Torah/Prayer Books

___ Education - Youth ___ Other __________________

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An Israeli Mossad agent is sent to Germany to protect a Lebanese informant recovering from plastic surgery to assume her new identity. Together for two weeks in a quiet apartment in Hamburg, the relationship that develops between the two women is soon exposed to the threat of terror that is engulfing the world today. In this game of deception beliefs are questioned, choices are made and their fate takes a surprising turn. For more information, check out www.lexfilm.org. The showing is free and open to the public. trailer

SHELTER

Thursday, March 5th Kentucky Theater

at 7:00PM

Hadassah Bakers to host

a reception following the film.

One World Films Festival 2020

IF YOU HAVE A SIMCHA (COLLEGE GRAD, WEDDING, BIRTHS ETC.)THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO SHARE CONTACT THE OFFICE AT 859-266-8050 OR OFFICE@OZS.ORG

OZS MAZAL TOV

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Thanks for Sponsoring Kiddush

January 4th, 2020 - 7 Tevet 5780 Glixons and Himelhoch/Jelens

In honor of the birthdays of Beth Glixon, Sheila's mother Syma Ralston, and Sheila and Seth's daughter Meirav Sarit, and to celebrate Seth and Jon's completion today of the daf yomi, reading the entire Talmud over the past seven and a half years.

January 25th, 2020 - 28 Tevet 5780 Aylene and John Kovensky-Gard

In honor of Aylene’s birthday and their 21st wedding anniversary.

2/1 Gayle Bourne

2/1 Stanley Saxe

2/3 Emilie Tackett

2/5 Gilson J. Capilouto

2/5 Andres Gedaly

2/6 Ross Moosnick

2/7 Kainan Kash

2/7 Jennifer Rice

2/10 Jonathan Glixon

2/10 Darcie Jarman

2/11 Jared Bryan

2/12 Seaver Baumfeld

2/15 Brian Derer

2/17 Davida Isaacs

2/22 Rachel Belin

2/22 Tamara Ohayon

2/25 Ira Cooper

2/26 Will Bourne

2/27 Jessica Chavin

2/28 Clarence Weddle

CARING COMMITTEE FUND Marilyn Robie and Art Shechet In Memory of Nancy Davis, E.J. Mervis, Sharon Goldstein, Shebetey Alkhasov, Jack Westerman Gilson Capilouto In Honour of Marty Luftman’s Retirement

KIDDUSH/KITCHEN FUNDS Gilson Capilouto In Memory of my mother, Corinne Franco Capilouto

CHEVRA KADDISHA Solomon, Maria & Svetlana Alkhasov In Loving Memory Shebetey Alkhasov Toni Reiss and Marc Plavin In Loving Memory of Richard Reiss and to thank OZS Jack Sharer In Celebration of the wedding of his daughter, Tasha and Michael Zysman

PURIM CARNIVAL FUND Nancy and Phil Hoffman In Memory of Jack Westerman, Nancy Davis. Steve and Susan Caller A Thoughtful Donation Kathy Stein A Thoughtful Donation Joe and Ricki Rosenberg A Thoughtful Donation

TORAH/PRAYER BOOKS FUND Gilson Capilouto In Loving Memory my paternal grandmother, Gilso Avzaradel Capilouto and my maternal grandfather, David R. Franco

“BUY A BOOK” FUND Anonymous In Memory of our parents

DONATIONS- Ohavay Zion Synagogue extends special thanks to those who have made contributions during the past month.

GENERAL FUND Sarah Chandler A Thoughtful Donation Anonymous A Thoughtful Donation Eleanor B. Sutter A Thoughtful Donation Clarence and Lana Weddle In Memory of Shebetey Alkhasov

EDUCATION - ADULT FUND Michelle Beard A Thoughtful Donation Jack Sharer In Celebration of the wedding of his daughter, Tasha and Michael Zysman

EDUCATION - YOUTH FUND Gilson Capilouto In Memory of Jack Westerman

LIBRARY FUND Anonymous A Thoughtful Donation Anonymous In Memory of Jack Westerman, Shebetey Alkhasov

BUILDING FUND Stan and Judy Saxe In Memory of Jack Westerman, Nancy Davis, Sharon Goldstein Jack Sharer In Celebration of the wedding of his daughter, Tasha and Michael Zysman

GREEN CAMPERSHIP FUND Sandy Green Zuckerman In Loving Memory of my parents, Sylvia and Jake Green

YAHRZEITS FOR FEBRUARY

Yahrzeit Observance

begins at sundown of the

previous evening

with lighting of the yahrzeit

candle. The traditional act of tzedaka,

honoring a loved one, is

often performed at this time.

2/1 Bernard Breitzer Shevat 6

2/2 Jacob Levy Shevat 7

2/3 Hannah Baker Shevat 8

2/3 Sadie Bell Osser Shevat 8

2/3 Henia Steinberg Shevat 8

2/3 Pauline Weinberg Shevat 8

2/4 Beila Scher Shevat 9

2/5 Vivian Wright Shevat 10

2/6 Francis Rubin Shevat 11

2/6 Edith Stone Shevat 11

2/8 Robert V. Courant Shevat 13

2/9 Annie Goldberg Shevat 14

2/9 Albert Kaplan Shevat 14

2/9 Nathan Morris Shevat 14

2/9 Dorothy Moss Shevat 14

2/9 Jeanette Tenner Shevat 14

2/10 Lynn Dubinsky Cooper Shevat 15

2/10 Eleanor Krongold Shevat 15

2/11 Arnold Bersofsky Shevat 16

2/11 Ethyl Simmos Paritz Shevat 16

2/12 Richard Zaitlen Shevat 17

2/13 Lawrence Dworkin Shevat 18

2/13 Shayne Kroll Shevat 18

2/14 Jacob Frank Belin Shevat 19

2/14 Joe Levy Shevat 190

2/14 Hya Etta Rosenberg Shevat 19

2/14 George Rosenkranz Shevat 19

2/14 Louis Shudnow Shevat 19

2/15 Yetta Kleinman Shevat 20

2/15 Bea Westerman Shevat 20

2/16 Lucian W. Barnes Shevat 21

2/16 Monroe Bayer Shevat 21

2/16 Moses Garmarnik Shevat 21

2/16 Fanny Goldberg Shevat 21

2/16 Moses Goldberg Shevat 21

2/16 Israel Rosenberg Shevat 21

2/17 Arthur Allweiss Shevat 22

2/17 Allan Archer Shevat 22

2/17 Tzvia Eres Shevat 22

2/17 Sylvia Singer Shevat 22

2/18 Libby Kirsh Fleishman Shevat 23

2/18 Edwin Louis Hoseus Shevat 23

2/18 Robert A. Kravetz Shevat 23

2/18 Jerry Perlmutter Shevat 23

2/19 Florence Cohen Belin Shevat 24

2/19 Evelyn Gall Freyman Shevat 24

2/19 Bessie Goldstein Shevat 24

2/19 Rebecca Hain Shevat 24

2/19 Dora Celia Krasne Shevat 24

2/19 Winifred E. Levy Shevat 24

2/20 Corrine Franco Capilouto Shevat 25

2/20 Philip Cohen Shevat 25

2/20 Norma Dabby Shevat 25

2/20 Myer Levine Shevat 25

2/20 Waldo B. Newell Shevat 25

2/20 Joan Wolfsdorf Shevat 25

2/21 Sam Beker Shevat 26

2/21 Charles Upton Lowe Shevat 26

2/21 Phillip Rosenberg Shevat 26

2/21 Gail Simons Shevat 26

2/22 Sonia Green Feigin Shevat 27

2/22 Eleanor Rudman Shevat 27

2/22 David Shechet Shevat 27

2/22 Sidney Simons Shevat 27

2/23 Esther Goldberg Shevat 28

2/23 Ira Hirschberg Shevat 28

2/24 Helen Edelstein Shevat 29

2/24 Norman Grossman Shevat 29

2/24 Rebecca Rudman Shevat 29

2/25 Beulah Capelouto Avzaradel Shevat 30

2/25 Nehemiah Grossman Shevat 30

2/25 Liz Levy Shevat 30

2/25 Bruce Plattner Shevat 30

2/25 Henry Ravvin Shevat 30

2/25 Sam Rozen Shevat 30

2/26 Anne Bersosky Adar 1

2/26 Joseph Green Adar 1

2/26 Herbert Karp Adar 1

2/26 Norman David Scarr Adar 1

2/26 Max Spiegel Adar 1

2/27 Bob Breitbart Adar 2

2/27 Sylvia Skuller Cohen Adar 2

2/28 David Cohen Adar 3

2/28 Leon Cooper Adar 3

2/29 Bruno Schapira Adar 4

2/29 Leon Sperling Adar 4

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

26 27 28 29 30 31 1 6 Shevat

2 7 Shevat 3 8 Shevat 4 9 Shevat 5 10 Shevat

6 11 Shevat

7 12 Shevat

8 13 Shevat

9 14 Shevat 10 15 Shevat 11 16 Shevat 12 17 Shevat

13 18 Shevat 14 19 Shevat

15 20 Shevat

16 21 Shevat 17 22 Shevat 18 23 Shevat 19 24 Shevat

20 25 Shevat 21 26 Shevat

22 27 Shevat

23 28 Shevat

24 29 Shevat

25 30 Shevat 26 1 Adar

27 2 Adar 28 3 Adar

29 4 Adar

February 2020 6 Shevat - 4 Adar

Wednesday Study Group

Noon

Lunch & Lead Shabbat 9:30AM

Speaker: Scooter Stein

Talmud Study Group 7:30AM

Kabbalat Shabbat with

Stewart Home 5:30PM

Shabbat Morning Service 9:30AM

Birthday Aliyah

Speaker: Matt Simons

Havdalah Family

Glow Party 6:30PM

Shabbat Morning Service 9:30AM

Speaker: TBA

Shabbat Morning Service 9:30AM

Speaker: Guy Kemper

Wednesday Study Group

Noon

Wednesday Study Group

Noon

Wednesday Study Group

Noon

Hebrew School 4:45PM

Minyan 5:45PM

Talmud Study Group 7:30AM

Shabbat Rocks 5:30PM

Talmud Study Group 7:30AM

Sunday School 9AM-Noon

Backpacking 10:30AM

Talmud For Everybody

10:30AM

Sunday School 9AM-Noon

Talmud

For Everybody 10:30AM

Hebrew School 4:45PM

Minyan 5:45PM

Board Mtg 7:30PM

Hebrew School 4:45PM

Minyan 5:45PM

Hebrew School 4:45PM

Minyan 5:45PM

Religious School Tu B’shevat Seder

9AM-NOON

Talmud For Everybody

10:30AM

Social Action Committee 10:30AM TU B’SHEVAT

Sunday School 9AM-Noon

Talmud For Everybody

10:30AM

Religious Committee Meeting

7:30PM

Shabbat Morning Service 9:30AM

Speaker: Seth Himelhoch