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Congregation Beth Tikvah • 6121 Olentangy River Road • Worthington, OH 43085
Phone: 614-885-6286 • Fax: 614-885-4052 • www.bethtikvahcolumbus.org
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Aug. 1
7:15 p.m.
Thank You August
Bima Flower and Oneg Sponsors
Shabbat Evening Service
Aug. 1
Aug. 22
Aug. 8
Bima flowers sponsors
Bima flowers sponsors
Services Schedule
7:15 p.m. Shabbat Evening
Jan & Andrea Smith in memory of
Andrea’s brother, Bruce Brumberg
Service Celebrating the
Installation of the 2014-15
Board of Trustees
Oneg sponsors
Philip & Betsy Samuels
Aug. 9
Joel, Connie & Drew Mayerson in
honor of the Bar Mitzvah of their son
and brother, Ethan
Oneg sponsors
9 a.m. Torah Study
10:30 a.m. Shabbat Morning
Aug. 8
Family & Friends of Ethan Mayerson
in honor of Ethan’s Bar Mitzvah
Bima flowers and Oneg sponsors
Aug. 29
Aug. 15
Michael Schecter & Michael Spaulding
in honor of the Bar Mitzvah of their son,
Noah
Service Celebrating the
Bar Mitzvah of
Noah Spaulding-Schecter
7:15 p.m. Welcome Back
Shabbat Alive
Aug. 15
Aug. 16
9 a.m. Torah Study
10:30 a.m. Shabbat Morning
Bima flowers sponsors
Service Celebrating the
Bat Mitzvah of Gabriella Stern
Wendi, Randy & Nicholas Stern in
honor of the Bat Mitzvah of their
daughter and sister, Gabriella
Aug. 22
Oneg sponsors
7:15 p.m. Shabbat Evening
Service
Aug. 23
9 a.m. Torah Study
10:30 a.m. Shabbat Morning
Service Celebrating the Bar
Mitzvah of Ethan Mayerson
Aug. 29
7:15 p.m. Shabbat Evening
Service
9 a.m. Torah Study
10:30 a.m. Shabbat Morning
Service Celebrating the Bat
Mitzvah of Lauren Lemmon
Inside this issue
Intergenerational
Israel Trip
Calendar
B’nai Mitzvah
announcements
Sisterhood
Contributions
Yard Sale
Linda Hatfield, Bill & Glenda Hewitt,
Bev & Lew Stern, the Fogel Family and
the O’Connell Family in honor of the
Bat Mitzvah of Gabriella Stern
High Holy Days Calendar
Sept. 20
Aug. 30
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7-13
9 & 11
Bima flowers and Oneg sponsors
Shawna Lemmon in honor of the
Bat Mitzvah of her daughter, Lauren
Oct. 3
7 p.m. S’lichot
7:15 p.m. Kol Nidrei
7:30 p.m. Erev Rosh HaShanah Service
10 a.m. Yom Kippur Morning Service
10 a.m. Yom Kippur Youth Service
12:30 p.m. Yizkor
2 p.m. Young Children’s
Yom Kippur Service
3 p.m. Yom Kippur Discussion
4:30 p.m. Yom Kippur
Afternoon Service
5:30 p.m. N’ilah
6:30 p.m. Sisterhood Break Fast
Sept. 24
Sept. 25
10 a.m. Rosh HaShanah
Morning Service
10 a.m. Rosh HaShanah Youth Service
3 p.m. Young Children’s
Rosh HaShanah Service
3:30 p.m. Rabbi Kellner’s
Open House
7605 Southview Court
Columbus, 43235
Sept. 26
10 a.m. Rosh HaShanah
Morning Service
7:15 p.m. Shabbat Evening Service
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Oct. 4
Oct. 8
5:45 p.m. Sukkot
Pizza in the Hut Event
Oct. 15
6:30 p.m. Simchat Torah Services
With Blessings
A message from Rabbi Rick Kellner
Thousands of Jewish kids
from across the country have
spent their summers at Jewish
summer camp. While attending camp, they live together,
learn together, sing together,
pray together, play sports together and change the world
together. One of the highlights
of my summer was to spend
three days at the Goldman
Union Camp Institute (GUCI)
in Zionsville, IN. GUCI is
owned by the Union for Reform Judaism. In my three
days there, I helped welcome
new campers, taught Torah,
helped counselors prepare to
teach their campers about Jewish virtues and led a conversation with Avodahniks (incoming 12th graders) about what
they believe.
It was a blessing for me to
visit GUCI as a faculty member. This unique environment
allows me to connect with other colleagues in an atmosphere
that breeds creativity. The
juices flow as we think about
how to give students a more
meaningful prayer experience,
to teach kids how to be better
individuals and to challenge
our own beliefs. The creative
environment empowers our
entire community to lay the
foundation as we create connected and responsible Jews.
One easily sees the blessings of
community, the joys of song,
and the bonds of friendship
being lived in a Jewish setting.
This month, our children
will have all returned home
from camp and Israel. They
will bring with them new ideas
about Judaism and Jewish life.
They bring with them excitement about Judaism that some
do not feel at Beth Tikvah.
A child’s home, temple and
camp are their predominant
centers of Jewish life. All these
communities help children
create their Jewish identity.
Camp’s role in that is significant. It is the only place that
lives on “Jewish Time.” The calendar revolves around Shabbat, the places have Hebrew
names and the values lived by
all are Jewish values.
The challenge for synagogues
is that as kids return home inspired by camp and looking to
continue their exploration of
Judaism, they don’t recognize
the melodies that gave them
great joy in camp. They don’t
feel the “Jewish Time” because
we live in a world where Sunday is not a weekday. They lose
the connection they worked all
summer to create.
It is our responsibility to
ensure that as many kids who
want to go to Jewish summer
camp can. We will continue to
encourage our kids to attend
Jewish summer camps and we
need to continue to support the
Beth Tikvah Brotherhood’s efforts to send our kids to Jewish
summer camp. Last year at the
Souper Bowl, the Brotherhood
raised the most funds ever. As
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camp costs continue to rise, we
need to find ways to increase
the amount of financial support provide so our own Beth
Tikvah kids can attend Jewish
summer camps. The experiences the kids have are incredible. They make great friends
at camp, they learn amazing
lessons about life and their
Jewish identity is nourished in
profound ways. Attending Jewish summer camp has the second biggest impact on a young
person’s connection to Judaism. (A peer trip to Israel is the
first.)
There are many options for
our kids to attend summer
camps including focused Jewish experiences for those who
might not attend a traditional
Jewish summer camp (e.g. URJ
GUCI, Wise, Emma Kaufman
or Livingston). The Union for
Reform Judaism has invested
in specialty camps for athletes
and those interested in science
at the URJ Six-Points Sports
(North Carolina) and Sci-Tech
(Massachusetts) Academies.
If you are interested in your
child attending Jewish summer
camp and wish to learn more,
please contact either Morissa
or me. It is not too early to
start thinking about summer
2015!
While
attending
camp,
they live
together,
learn
together,
sing
together,
pray
together,
play
sports
together
and
change
the world
together.
One of the
highlights
of my
summer
was to
spend
three days
at the
Goldman
Union
Camp
Institute
(GUCI).
A letter from the President
Earlier this summer Liz and
I welcomed many members
new to the congregation to our
home to learn how their first
year at Beth Tikvah has gone.
With more than 50 new member families in our congregation last year, Rabbi Kellner,
Debbie Vinocur, and I thought
it would be wise to assess how
our temple processes stood up
to this large influx. Our hope
was that what we discovered
would lead to many more large
influxes.
Jen Withee and Ernie Mandell joined us for dessert and
discussion with many new
members. We had a simple
agenda: step us through your
new member experience. Describe what worked, what
could have been better and
what Beth Tikvah can do to be
more welcoming as our congregation grows.
We’ve already had a variety
of activities ranging from new
member events, gifts and invitations from various auxiliary
organizations. After an hour or
so of discussion, several concrete ideas came up that make
sense for us as a congregation,
board and staff to implement.
Some of the simple ideas range
from a standard “kit” that new
members receive about Beth
Tikvah (enhancing the excellent book we already have),
to establishing a more formal
chavurah structure to allow
smaller groups of like-minded
people to meet and mingle.
All of us acknowledged that
the process of welcoming people on a Friday night can be
challenging for all involved.
Now we want to look for ways
to streamline the process, so no
one feels awkward or left out.
So many ideas came out of
this meeting that we’ve decided to focus our annual board
retreat on the topic so that we
can formalize the new member
process, understand the specific roles of staff versus committee chairs and lay-leaders,
and create a plan so we make
new members feel welcome in
their important first year.
One of the most interesting discussion points centered
around whether these new
member processes could or
should also be applied to our
diverse set of existing members. If congregants are unsure
about who is new and who
they just haven’t met yet, attempting an introduction is
scary. While we all want to be
welcoming, many of us fear insulting a fellow member of the
Beth Tikvah family.
I know there are many constituencies in the congregation to focus on, and I thought
that by starting here we could
positively influence the existing and next generation of
Beth Tikvah members.
As we prepare for the board
retreat and another great year
at Beth Tikvah, I invite you to
share with me any suggestions
on how we can make the new
member experience at Beth
Tikvah an enjoyable and successful scenario. Ideas from
other congregations or organizations or reflections on your
own experience would be terrific. Please send them all my
way and I will make sure we
include them in our board retreat discussion!
Andy
Shafran
To share
ideas
about how
to better
welcome
new
members
please
email Andy
Shafran
at
abshafran@
gmail.com
Sincerely,
Andy Shafran
New and Prospective Member
Ice Cream Social
All new members are invited to an ice cream social to get to
know Beth Tikvah and each other. Representatives from several
Beth Tikvah organizations and committees such as Brotherhood,
Sisterhood, the Green Team and our Caring Community will be there
to give information on fun, meaningful ways to get involved.
Aug. 24 at 2 p.m. in the Beth Tikvah Social Hall
Hope to see you there! For more information contact the Beth Tikvah office
at 614-885-6286 or visit our website: www.bethtikvahcolumbus.org.
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Look for your invitation
in the mail.
RSVP to the office by
Friday, Aug. 15.
A note about education
I hope that everyone has
had a wonderful summer so
far! I am anxiously waiting
for our 2014-15 school year
to begin! It is too quiet in the
building without our kids.
I wanted to take this time to
provide some updates on curriculum and programming
for our upcoming year.
Religious School Updates:
We will incorporate new
Israel lessons in Gan - 6th
grade from the iCenter. The
majority of these lessons incorporate technology, games,
and hands on learning while
giving students a taste of contemporary, as well as ancient
life in Israel.
I am currently attending
a workshop at Case Western Reserve University on
the Jewish Lens curriculum,
which will also be implemented in our Religious
School this year in the 6th
grade class. The Jewish Lens
is a photography-based curriculum, which, “is designed
to engage students actively in
learning about the values that
are important in their Jewish
communities.” It uses the creative arts and project based
learning to: “help young people connect intellectually and
emotionally with their traditions. Along the way, students
develop skills in visual literacy, text study and photography.”
Our 9th graders are in
for a transformative school
year, through a new curriculum developed by Rabbi Kellner and me, called “Accessing Your Prophetic Power.”
The program will consist of
team building activities such
as a visit to a high/low ropes
course. Students will spend
two to four weeks in these
team initiatives to develop
trust and study Jewish texts
related to community. They
will spend eight to ten weeks
visiting with four nonprofit
organizations and studying Jewish values related to
those organizations. Next,
students will then be divided
into teams of four or five. In
those teams they will choose
a problem they hope to solve
for one of the sites they visited, and work in teams to
develop a creative solution to
those problems. This curriculum initiative is made possible
through a grant from the Columbus Jewish Foundation.
Hebrew School Updates:
Our Aleph (3rd grade)
students will use a new curriculum called Ot La-Ba’Ot.
Some of the key features are:
• Home Workbook: Each class
lesson is paired with a page to
be completed at home and returned to the classroom. Each
exercise, which should take
no more than 15 minutes, can
be completed by parent and
child together and enable parents (even those parents who
have not learned to read Hebrew before) to be successful.
• Home Review App: It works
for both Apple and Android.
Students use interactive gamebased learning to review what
was covered in class. Once
completed, the app sends the
results of each game/assignment to the teacher.
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• Family Website: The website
has the answers to exercises,
as well as a user-friendly audio program that sounds out
words and phrases.
• Parent Introduction: This
sixteen-page booklet for parents includes a full vocabulary
list, a Hebrew letter chart and
a short introduction to help
parents understand how best
to help their children.
Our Hebrew School students in 4th - 6th grade (Bet
- Gimel) will have the option to use a new Hebrew app
called PrayerTech to supplement classroom instruction.
The app is available for iOS
and Android tablets, as well
as Mac and PC computers.
PrayerTech encourages student to do work on their own,
invites parent involvement,
offers teacher a way to diagnose student challenges and
fix the problems and allows
the administrator to monitor the progress of each class
and each student. As students
successfully complete Hebrew
and prayer activities, they
earn game-time towards major (non-teaching) games.
I am looking forward to
sharing more information
about new programming for
the 2014-15 school year in my
next Tikvah Topics article. The
Religious and Hebrew School
calendar,
parent/student
handbook, and curriculum
information brochures will be
hitting your mailboxes soon
after (if not before) this issue.
L’Shalom,
Morissa Freiberg
Morissa
Freiberg
Use the
links
below to
learn more
about our
updated
curriculum
The iCenter
http://www.
theicenter.org
Jewish Lens
http://www.
jewishlens.org
PrayerTech
http://www.
prayertech.net
Mazel Tov to our August Bar and Bat Mitzvahs
Noah Spaulding-Schecter
Gabriella Lynn Stern
Noah is an 8th
grader at Phoenix
Middle School in
Worthington. Noah
loves music and both
sings and plays the
clarinet. You may
have also heard him
on the drums at some
Beth Tikvah services.
Noah takes horseback
riding lessons and has
competed at events
around Central Ohio.
Noah attends Goldman Union Camp Institute in
Indiana and looks forward to seeing his GUCI friends
at camp each summer. Noah is a member of PETA
and for his Mitzvah project put together a web site
discussing the ethical treatment of animals
(http://thinkaboutanimals.org/)
Gabriella Lynn Stern is
being called to the Torah as
a Bat Mitzvah on August 16,
2014. For her mitzvah project,
she has chosen to support
Amethyst, Inc., a nonprofit
organization that provides
housing and counseling for
homeless women as they work
through drug and/or alcohol addiction. Amethyst
is the only rehabilitative facility in central Ohio that
allows women to keep their children with them.
The children also receive counseling. Gabriella is
collecting bath towels, hand towels, washcloths, twin
sheet sets and twin blankets as her project. If you
would like to support Gabriella’s efforts, you may
drop off items in the laundry basket located in the
breezeway at the temple.
Gabriella attends Heritage Middle School and in
her spare time she enjoys playing guitar, listening to
music and spending time with her friends.
Aug. 16
Aug. 9
Lauren Lemmon
Aug. 30
Lauren
attends McCord
Middle School
in Worthington.
She enjoys music,
shopping, swimming
and playing
volleyball. She
also loves spending
time with her
friends. For her Bat
Mitzvah project,
she is volunteering
for an organization
called Project Linus.
Their mission is to
provide love, a sense
of security, warmth and comfort to children who
are seriously ill, traumatized or otherwise in need,
through the gifts of new, handmade blankets.
For information about joining
Beth Tikvah, call our office at
614-885-6286 or email Temple
Administrator Debbie Vinocur at
dvinocur@bethtikvahcolumbus.org
to schedule a tour.
We pride ourselves on offering a
warm, welcoming and inclusive
community serving the Jews in
Northwest Columbus.
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The
Jazz
of Prayer
“Prayer is not entertainment,
it is a discipline like music,
running, or meditation.”
Rabbi Levi Weiman-Kelman
• Do you feel lost sometimes in
services?
• Do you want to learn why our
prayerbook is written the way it is?
• Do you want connect with God or
do you want God to connect with
you?
The Jazz of Prayer is FOR YOU
One Monday evening each
month the class will meet with
Rabbi Kellner to dive into the
depths of Jewish prayer. It will
explore various layers of themes,
history and spirituality to make the
siddur come to life.
7:30-8:30 p.m. Oct. 20, Nov. 3,
Dec. 1, Jan. 5, Feb. 2, March 2,
April 13 and May 11
RSVP to the office 614-885-6286
Rabbi Huber’s Fall Class:
Still More
Midrash
Rabbi Huber will teach his
ongoing class STILL MORE MIDRASH Oct. 7 - Nov. 18,
from 7:30-8:30 p.m.
Midrash refers to the nonlegal writings of the great
sages and scholars of the
Talmudic period.
While there is no charge
for the class, please let us
know of your interest in
attending by phoning the
office, 614-885-6286.
Israel o
v
Breakfa er
Returns st
!
Do you love Israel? Do
you want to learn more about
what Israelis faces every day?
Do you want to discuss the
challenges of peoplehood,
the conflict, Israel’s internal
struggle for existence and
anything else that might come
up each month?
Join us one Wednesday
morning each month for a
delicious breakfast at Panera.
Thought provoking
conversation with lovers of
Israel and connecting with
friends.
Join us at our first meeting
this fall. Look for details in
“News from Beth Tikvah”
And you shall
teach them to
your children?
Judaism teaches us it is a
Mitzvah to pass tradition on
to your children. How do you
know what to pass on? What
are the challenges you face
when you are trying to teach
your children to be a mensch?
Parents (and grandparents
too!) are invited to join with
Rabbi Kellner as we dive into
the world of teaching Jewish
values to our children.
Join Rabbi Kellner
from 9:45- 10:45 a.m.
Sept. 21, Oct. 12, Nov. 9,
Dec. 14, Jan 11, Feb. 8 and
March 22
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Beth Tikvah
Board Motions:
June 10, 2014
Board Meeting:
Wendi Stern moved to allow the
Building Committee to spend
up to $10,000 to implement
a solution for High Holy Day
extended seating sight-line
problems. Tara Rozen seconded
the motion which passed
unanimously.
May 8, 2014
Board Meeting:
Patti Price moved that the Board
allocate up to $12,000 from the
Capital Campaign to fund the
creation and installation of the
Dedication Wall. Wendi Stern
seconded the motion which
passed unanimously.
Thank you to
our contributors:
MUSIC FUND
• Judi & Al Bindman in
memory of their granddaughter,
Ellen Bindman-Hicks
• Jennifer E. Mendelson
CARING COMMUNITY
FUND
• Marcey & Rick Forman in
honor of the Adult B’nai Mitzvah
of Wendy Klein and Rhonda
Moskowitz
• Dossy & Marty Gelender
in honor of Arlene Levy’s Bat
Mitzvah
• Paul E. Nord in memory of
Sandra M. Lazaroff, mother of
Alan Lazaroff
Contributions Con’t.
JEWISH CAMP FUND
• Chari, Micky & Leah Fogel
in memory of Ruth Bechky,
grandmother of Cheryl Bendis;
and Gloria Albert, grandmother
of Jennifer Sanderow
• Marcey & Rick Forman
in honor of the Adult B’nai
Mitzvah of Susan Pomerantz
and Diane Saks
• Marsha & Stephen Harris
in memory of Stephen’s father,
Morton Harris
PRAYER BOOK FUND
• Lois Winnick-Chapman &
Bruce Chapman in honor of the
2014 Adult B’nai Mitzvah class
RABBI’S DISCRETIONARY
FUND (Richard M.C. Kellner)
• Bunny & Steven Cohen in
honor of the engagement of
their daughter, Beth Cohen to
Zack Tuck
• Chari & Micky Fogel in
appreciation for Rabbi Kellner
officiating at the Bat Mitzvah of
their daughter, Leah
• Dossy & Marty Gelender in
appreciation of Rabbi Kellner’s
support and caring
• Linda & Les Kellner in
memory of Linda’s father,
Richard P. Zuckerman; in
memory of Les’ father, Sidney
Kellner
• Risa & Alan Lazaroff in honor
of Rabbi Kellner and Family
• Florence Lewis in
appreciation of Rabbi’s care and
comfort
• Ruth & Ron Siegle in honor
of Dora Sterling, Joyce Sabgir
and Susan Pomerantz for their
generosity at the yard sale
Endowment- Contact Sonia Aron at sonsnid@gmail.com
The B Myer Simon Endowment
By ShelDon Simon
In the summer of 1966, Rhoda
and I arrived in Columbus with our
3 year-old daughter. We joined the 65
members of Beth Tikvah, which was
then at the corner of High Street and
East North Broadway, in an old rented
house. After a few years we moved to
Indianola Ave by raising money from
the congregation to purchase an old
dance studio. We walked with the
congregation and, by then, our three
kids from High Street to Indianola
carrying the Torah. Most of the
members of the congregation were
from other parts of the country with
no ties to the local Jewish Community.
This led to strong friendship bonds
within Beth Tikvah with everyone
chipping in to do every day chores. I
filled many slots - from membership
chair to treasurer and president.
By the late 70s we had over 230
families and were seriously cramped
for space. We held Sunday School at
the East Broadway United Methodist
Church. I spent many afternoons
riding around Northwest Columbus
with Jack Resler looking for a new site
for the congregation. When we found
our present site he stipulated that the
congregation had to raise enough
money to show we were committed
before he would agree to purchase the
land. We built our present building and
again we all walked with our Torah
from Indianola to the new facility.
In 1979, my father, Myer Simon, a
retired electrician, moved to Heritage
Tower in Columbus. He joined Beth
Tikvah to help support us in our move
to Olentangy River Road even though
he rarely went to services. During
his membership, the congregation
rallied again in the late 80s to build the
addition to our present building.
Photo by Sheldon Chizever
In the course of our 48 years
of membership, we have had five
baby namings, two B’nai Mitzvah,
three Confirmations, our daughter’s
wedding, a funeral for Rhoda’s mother
and a memorial service for my father.
Our son, Eric, and his son, Bennett
(named for my father), were both
named at Beth Tikvah. All three of
our children attended Camp GUCI
and spent semesters in Israel. We
feel that our continued support and
involvement in Beth Tikvah has further
nurtured their interest in supporting
Jewish institutions and in reinforcing
their Jewish heritage. They now belong
to congregations in other cities and so
far we have enjoyed five B’nai Mitzvah
of our seven grandchildren.
Beth Tikvah is the core of the
Northwest
Columbus
Jewish
Community. It depends on membership
contributions for most of its support.
Although we have several successful
fundraising activities each year, we need
additional income streams to provide
operating reserves and contingency
funds. By participating in the newly
inaugurated endowment program
members are now able to commit
funds in perpetuity. In that light, we
are establishing the B. Myer Simon
Endowment for Building Maintenance.
We see this endowment as a way to
enhance our continuing commitment
to Beth Tikvah and as a small stone in
the wall of future needs.
For more information about the endowment process or how to set
up an endowment, contact the Endowment Committee Chair Sonia
Sniderman Aron at sonsnid@gmail.com or 740-548-8235.
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Contributions Con’t.
SOCIAL ACTION FUND
Photo by David Binkovitz
Fundraising- Contact Dora Sterling at dsterling0150@wowway.com
• The Bendis Family in honor of
Wendi Stern’s Bat Mitzvah
• Katherine & Alan Burkman
in honor of Evie Freeman and
Arlene Levy’s Bat Mitzvah
• Rose & Manny Luttinger in
honor of Patti Price, Arlene Levy
and all the Adult B’nai Mitzvah
class members
• Friends in The Village of
Willowbrook in honor of Arlene
Levy’s Bat Mitzvah
The 2014 Yard Sale of Biblical Proportions
TORAH TABLE FUND
The Craigslist notices spoke of
a religious community of over 400
households donating their treasures
to this sale. Photos taken by David
Binkovitz and David Goss reveal a
social hall filled with every temple
table heaping with items. Congregants
donated goods in record numbers. It
took 77 volunteers four days to empty
and sort seven stuffed classrooms
worth of donations and another three
days to price and display items. This
dusty, tiring, thankless work was made
pleasant by priceless camaraderie,
endless laughter and shared body aches
and aspirin. The volunteers, ranging in
age from teens to octogenarians, made
the sale go smoothly and successfully.
Yard Sale Co-Chairs Susan Pomerantz
and Joyce Sabgir, who were ably
assisted by their muscled spouses,
Louis Pomerantz and Dick Sabgir, as
well as Fundraising Chair Dora Sterling
and her better half, Ed led the planning
for this year’s sale. They worked beside
a corps of dedicated volunteers.
The Beth Tikvah 2014 A-Team
included: Lynne and Vince Allen,
Ben Azriel, Matthew Barrille, Valia
Bergelson, Trudy Blumenstein and
Debbie Kramer, Ray Brakefield, Jackie
Chizever, Ed and Adele Dauerman,
Sarah Deahl, Susan Dworkin, Patty
Fertel, Jan Fish, Rhoda and Bill Gilbert,
Myriam Gluck, Abby Goldbaum, Janet
Golder, Marilyn and Yuliya Hallowell,
Marsha Harris, Roberta Havel, Ruth
Kaiser, Joan Kalb, Lisa Kalson and
Adam Beck, Carol Krempley, Jackie
Kon, Rachel Levin, Sue Levin, Stacy
Levine, Arlene Levy, Rose Luttinger,
Jeff Merschbach, Leslie Meyer-Miller,
Jane Mitchell and Hannah Cather,
Margot Morrisey, Joanne Notowidigdo,
Suzanne Parr, Del Parrot, Nancy and
Dick Pawliger, Eleanor Pearlman,
Marsha
Pond, Ronni and Paul
Richards, Tyler Robinson, Debbie
Romanoff, Maria and Steve Rosenthal,
Tara and Brad Rozen, Marlene
Ruzicka, Max and Noah Scholl, Ruth
Siegle, Elaine Selekman, ShelDon
Simon, Rachel Shaw, Barb Taxier,
Nancy Tiemeier, Debbie Vinocur,
Judy Weisberg, Shelley Grieve-Zerkel,
Rochelle Zweben, Cathy Appel, Ed
Hara, and Danielle Pietrowicz.
With so many bargains available,
these volunteers made over $1,600 in
purchases prior to the official sale start.
Special thanks to Barbara Taxier, Bill
Gilbert and Stacie O’Connell. They
assured that volunteers were fed as they
worked through several lunches and
dinners. Additional thanks to Elliot
and Retta Slotnick for a raffle prize
donation to cover sale overhead costs.
Several million Israelites followed
See more on page 11
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• Darla Abraham
• Andrea Adkins
• Cindy Barker
• Matthew Barrile
• Sharon Chelnick
• Debbie Ecker
• Shelley Engler
• Evie Freeman
• Shelly Igdaloff
• Wendy Klein
• Jacqueline S. Kon
• Arlene Brilliant Levy
• Rhonda Moskowitz
• Stacie O’Connell
• Susan Pomerantz
• Patti Price
• Josh Reinicke
• Tara Rozen
• Joyce Sabgir
• Diane Saks
• Nancy Schwartz
• Liz Shafran
• Carol Sliger
• Wendi Stern
• Patricia Upchurch
GENERAL FUND
• Jo & Norman Stern in honor
of 2014 Adult B’nai Mitzvah
members: Darla Abraham,
Debbie Ecker, Shelley Engler,
Patti Price and Diane Saks
Contributions Con’t.
ADULT EDUCATION FUND
• Andrea Adkins in honor of the
Sanderow family
• Alan, Beverly & Phillip Baker
and Eleanor Baker in honor of
Wendy Klein’s Bat Mitzvah
• Rebecca Ann Cornacchia in
honor of the 2014 Adult B’nai
Mitzvah class
• Chari & Micky Fogel in
appreciation of Barb Mindel
tutoring their daughter, Leah, for
her Bat Mitzvah
• Barb & Marc Goldenberg in
honor of Cindy Barker’s
Bat Mitzvah
• Rebecca Kon in honor of
Jacqueline Kon’s Bat Mitzvah
• Stacy & Howard Levin in
honor of the 2014 Adult B’nai
Mitzvah class
• Judith Levy in honor of Shelly
Igdaloff ’s Bat Mitzvah
• Barb Mindel in honor of the
2014 Adult B’nai Mitzvah class
• Libby & Charles Pierce in
honor of Patti Price’s Bat Mitzvah
• Nathan Render & Tal Bendor,
Ben & Adina Kozberg in honor
of Shelly Igdaloff ’s Bat Mitzvah
• The Romanoff Family in
honor of the 2014 Adult B’nai
Mitzvah Class
• Melissa & David Sitter in
honor of 2014 Adult B’nai
Mitzvah members: Liz Shafran,
Andrea Adkins and Tara Rozen
• Marcia Katz Slotnick in honor
of Evie Freeman’s Bat Mitzvah
RELIGIOUS SCHOOL
FUND
• Jodi, Tom, Asher & Andrew
Collins in honor of Gisela
Weinstein and Lisa Pulsifer
for their commitment and
dedication as Jewish Educators
for children of all abilities
Treasurer - Contact Stu Zweben at zweben.1@osu.edu
Treasurer’s Report to the
Congregation for FY 2013-14
Fiscal year 2013-14, which ended on
May 31, 2014, was a very good year financially. We were blessed with membership growth and growth in our religious school enrollment of a nature not
seen in many years. Fundraising was
also extremely effective during the past
year. Our spending was only marginally above budget, in part due to some
staff vacancies during part of the year.
The result was a $57K surplus relative
to budget and a $59K surplus overall.
This surplus goes into our Operating
Reserve fund.
As I noted at the Annual Meeting,
for the 2014-15 year our expenses are
forecast to increase by over 7 percent.
This is due mainly to increased staffing
costs, including new contracts for the
Rabbi and Director of Education, increased costs of our membership in the
URJ, the cost of an external financial
review and the increased costs of our
use of the new space. Our budget for
2014-15 anticipates only a modest surplus of $2,596.
This past year we collected “year 2
pledge monies” from the building campaign. While setting aside sufficient
funds to pay for the dedication wall, as
of the end of the fiscal year we’ve been
able to pay back over 70 percent of the
funds that we borrowed for the project
from Development and Operating Reserve funds. The rest will be repaid as
additional pledge receipts are realized.
Finally, this past year we received the
proceeds from our merger with Ohev
Israel of Newark, OH, as they completed the sale of their building and closed
their accounts. These funds now are
part of Beth Tikvah’s reserves.
The financial figures as of the fiscal
year close are shown below. Our financial records are currently undergoing
a planned review by an external firm;
these numbers do not reflect the result
of that review.
Thank you for your continued generosity, which has made it possible for
Beth Tikvah to be on sound financial
footing.
FY 2013-14 Operations
Budget
Actual
Revenue$765,994.42* $826,846.37*
Expenses
$763,723.95
$767,414.02
----------------------------
Net
$ 2,270.47
$ 59,432.35
Fiscal Year Change
$60,851.95
($ 3,690.07)
------------$57,161.88
*Includes ~$6K from operating reserves
Fund Balances
Fund Category
Operating Reserve Fund
Capital Campaign Fund
Development Fund
Other Dedicated Funds
Total Cash Assets
Beginning Balance
June 1, 2013
$129,597.71
$
0.00
$179,955.79
$124,220.75
--------------
$433,774.25
Ending Balance Fiscal Year
May 31, 2014 Change
$324,679.32
$195,081.61**
$ 8,463.22
$ 8,463.22
$165,318.92
($14,636.87)
$136,912.33
$ 12,691.58
---------------------------$635,373.79
$201,599.54
**includes additions of $97K from Ohev Israel and $45K repayment of funds borrowed for
building project, plus $59K from operating surplus less expense of $6K for 2013-14 operations
as noted in previous table.
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Membership - Contact Debbie King at dfdwking@gmail.com
‘Zip Tag’ success, BT more relational
June was a wonderful time for the
Membership Committee. We had 4
very successful ‘Zip Tag’ events for
ZIP codes 43235, 43017, 43035/43021
combined and 43026/43064 combined.
Each “Zip Tag” was very different ranging from a concert to a potluck. All four
were great successes because everyone
who attended had a great time.
To get the ball rolling one family
agreed to spearhead the celebration.
Then the family found someone to assist and got email addresses from the
office. After that they planned a great
gathering. All the ZIP code groups are
planning other functions hosted by
other volunteer families.
ZIP codes 43081, 43016, 43220/43221
and 43085 may plan something around
Sukkot. If you are in one of the ZIP
codes that is getting started in the fall
and want to help, contact me. I will get
you in touch with the family that is organizing. The four original groups will
have something around Sukkot as well,
if not before. If you are in any of the
“Zip Tag” ZIP codes, watch for information about the next meet-up. Don’t
Yard Sale
Continued from page 9
Moses out of Egypt. The first night of the
sale, seemingly half that number waited
in line, some for more than an hour to
enter Beth Tikvah convinced that milk
and honey awaited them. That promise
was fulfilled. By the end of the evening,
sales totaled $6,500. When the sale ended at 2 p.m. on
Friday, dozens of unsold baskets were
put aside for a St. Jude’s fundraiser, the
JCC North Preschool had additional
toys and furniture, three boxes of
beanie babies were stored for the
Purim carnival, Jewish-themed youth
books were saved for mini-libraries in
temple classrooms, office staff had new
equipment and furniture, and movers
Photo by Suzanne Parr
miss out on the fun.
If no one has organized a happening
for your ZIP code, and you would like
to host a get-together, please contact
me. I will help you plan the first event
and help you get the contact information for the group. The more each of us
engages within the Beth Tikvah community the more we will feel part of the
community.
Throughout the year the Membership
Committee will be engaging in other
ways to encourage our Beth Tikvah
community to become more relational.
The Membership Committee is the
committee that supports Shishim and
the Caring Community. Please contact
the office for more information about
any of these groups.
filled two trucks to capacity with
reusable items to support the Goodwill
of Columbus mission. The goal of the
sale was to raise $10,000, a 20 percent
increase from the previous sale. About
$11,500 was collected. Miriam Gluck
and Marilyn Hallowell are using eBay
and consignment store sales to move
the final total closer to $12,000.
Yard sales are not easy, elegant
or effortless. Nevertheless, the Beth
Tikvah Yard Sale of Biblical Proportions
is a natural for promoting connectivity
to one another, the congregation and
common ethical values. Thank you
for a massive community effort. The
2014 Sale of Biblical Proportions in
review demonstrates once again that
the members of Beth Tikvah R O C K!
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Contributions Con’t.
RELIGIOUS SCHOOL
FUND
• Sonia Sniderman Aron &
Stewart Aron in honor of
Arlene Levy’s Bat Mitzvah
• Eve Davis in honor of Evie
Freeman’s Bat Mitzvah
• Shelley & Philip Engler in
memory of Abe Price, father of
Sid Price
• Phyllis Farbish in honor of
Joyce Sabgir’s Bat Mitzvah
• Chari, Micky & Leah Fogel
in honor of Wendi Stern’s Bat
Mitzvah
• Alice & Gideon Fraenkel in
memory of Gideon’s mother,
Rachel Fraenkel
• Clemy & Bob Keidan in
honor of Shelly Igdaloff ’s Bat
Mitzvah
• Betty & Michael Klapper in
honor of Evie Freeman’s Bat
Mitzvah
• Joan & Jay Loewenstein in
memory of Jay’s mother, Elsie
Loewenstein
• Nada & Bob Mazurek in
memory of Nada’s mother,
Eleanor Suna
• Shelley & Scott Meyers in
memory of Shelley’s parents,
Charlotte & Sam Rachlin
• Laurie & Anthony Pearson
in honor of Wendi Stern’s Bat
Mitzvah
• Arlene & Jerry Russell in
honor of Bonnie & Sylvan
Frank’s “special anniversary”
• Betsy & Marvin Schwartz in
honor of Nancy Schwartz’s Bat
Mitzvah
• Kentucky Writing Projects
Network in appreciation
of Rabbi Kellner and the
Holocaust Educators meeting
held at Beth Tikvah
Contributions Con’t.
SPECIAL EVENTS &
BIMA FLOWERS FUND
• Paul Feder in memory of his
father, Adolph Feder
• Marcey & Rick Forman in
honor of the Bat Mitzvah of
Darla Abraham and Shelley
Engler
• Suzanne & Dave Parr in
honor of the 25 members of the
2014 Adult B’nai Mitzvah class
SENIOR PROGRAMMING
INITIATIVE FUND
• Sue & Matt Ringel in
memory of Matt’s mother,
Phyllis Ringel
• Sandy & Dick Rose in honor
of the Bat Mitzvah of
Joyce Sabgir
YOUTH ACTIVITIES
FUND
• Andrea & Chase Adkins
in memory of Gloria Albert,
grandmother of Jennifer
Sanderow
• Dossy & Marty Gelender in
honor of Andrea Adkins’
Bat Mitzvah
• Marsha & Steve Harris in
memory of Steve’s mother,
Eve Bolon Harris
For more information about
Beth Tikvah’s funds please
visit our website:
www.bethtikvahcolumbus.org
The Run with the Rabbi
has been postponed
until spring. Stay tuned
to “News from Beth
Tikvah” and the our
website for updates.
Ritual - Contact Cindy Barker at cbarker3@columbus.rr.com
Ritual Committee serves
up radical hospitality for all
Wow, what a busy summer it has
been for the Ritual Committee! We
are thankful for many things, primarily because our congregation and committee members come together so well
in times of need. Many thanks to our
Ritual Committee volunteers for the
“radical hospitality” that they provided
as greeters for both Adult B’nai Mitzvah
events on June 6 and 13. We’d also like
to thank Dawn Heyman, Rabbi Gary
Huber, and the Beth Tikvah Brotherhood and Sisterhood for the beautiful
services that they led while Rabbi Kellner was on vacation. We are also very
grateful to the participants and leaders
as well as our vocalists and musicians.
We were fortunate to host the TriState Holocaust Educators on June 27.
Thank you to Rabbi Kellner for leading a beautiful and meaningful service
which emphasized the need for Holocaust education, to David Binkovitz for
his thoughtful introduction of Jewish
ritual tradition, and to Debbie Vinocur
for arranging the pre-service dinner.
The Committee has also been work-
ing to insure that our upcoming High
Holy Days experience is one that we
can all enjoy. To that end, we have
worked closely with the temple staff to
resolve seating and parking issues and
with the Building Committee to evaluate and implement aesthetically pleasing visual options for the services. We
are also reviewing congregant seating
and parking guidelines. Our objective is a service experience that is truly
wonderful for everyone.
The committee will continue its emphasis on the Beth Tikvah “Vision of
Prayer” during the coming year, and we
will bring back (by popular demand)
Saturday morning Shabbat services led
by the Ritual Committee. We are also
exploring the idea of “Social Sermons”
to further involve our community in
our services. Stay tuned for more news
on all of these worthwhile initiatives.
We are also preparing for the Fall
2015 release of Mishkan HaNafesh, our
new High Holy Days prayerbook. Our
book dedication effort will commence
after High Holy Days 2014.
FORGIVENESS:
An Ethical Imperative
At S’lichot Professor
Don Hubin of the Philosophy
Department at OSU gives us
an inside look of our ethical
imperative to forgive.
S’lichot begins the High Holy
Days season with thoughtful
learning, introspective prayers for
forgiveness and repentance
This year we will dedicate our
new High Holiday Torah Cover.
The evening begins at 7 p.m.
on Sept. 20 at Beth Tikvah with a
delicious dessert reception.
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Looking for meaning
in your life?
Discover Judaism’s ancient words
of wisdom at Torah study with
Rabbi Kellner
Saturday mornings
9 - 10 a.m.
Check the temple calendar to
confirm dates.
Give to Beth Tikvah in a way you may not have thought of...
Rewards
We received $388 last quarter
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Our number is 80474.
Log on to https://www.kroger.com/
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Facility Improvement
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normally do, but
Beth Tikvah gets a
share of the profit.
It’s a fun easy way to
give to Beth Tikvah.
Visit https://smile.amazon.com and
log in to your Amazon account
Social Action - Contact Alex Joseph at siliro3@mac.com
Meet the new Social Action Chair
Shalom! My name is Alex Joseph
and I am your new Social Action Chair.
I grew up in a blended family. My
dad was Christian and my mother was
Jewish. However, my Jewish identity is
from both of my parents because for
me Judaism is Social Action. Judaism is the life long struggle to Tikkun
Olam: to bring our world closer to that
of what God envisioned through our
daily choices and practices. This idea
became even more poignant when I
was blessed with children, and I began
to see the world as their inheritance.
As a child I grew up all over the
world. I did not live in the U.S. until I
was 13 years-old. But, I was blessed by
being American and all that connotes
from birth. My father made sure that
we understood how privileged we were
as Americans. My mother was a Zionist
and drove into us the responsibility of
being Jewish.
I want my children to understand
that they are part of a bigger community. That their choices have consequences and that their community’s choices
also have consequences for them. I have
seen the poorest of poor. I have seen the
wealthiest of wealthy. I have seen ignorance, experienced prejudice and, I
hope, I have experienced wisdom. The
one thing that has stayed with me is that
we are not alone in this world. I believe
that to be more true today than before.
Our local actions have global impact.
Fund of the month:
I am no longer a child of the world. I
am a Californian, but my children only
know Ohio. I am still trying to find out
what part of me is Jewish, while raising
a Jewish household.
I belong to the Beth Tikvah family. I believe that only together we can
be strong and make a difference. I am
hopeful that as a community under the
guidance of our Rabbi and under the
power of our effort and time we can
make changes to our Jewish and local
community for the better. We need to
discover what is important to us as a
community and as a whole, and focus
our energies on making a difference in
those issues. I think it is a beginning.
I think beginnings are awesome,
they are filled with potential and hope.
I hope that my beginning as your Social Action Chair leads us to working
together to making small differences
that have ripples to bigger changes.
Our Temple is blessed with so many
people involved in so many committees striving to give and make changes for the good. I want to focus our
energies, I want to make us efficient,
and I want us to collaborate. I want
to discover what is important to us
as a community, who we are as Jews,
and who we are as a community. I
need your help, your want, your energy. Please join me. Let me know
your interests, reach out to me at
siliro3@mac.com. Thank you.
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Thank you to our
phone volunteers:
• Roberta Havel
• Madeline Karn
• Stacy Levin
• Debbie Walter
• Rose Luttinger
• Susan Pomerantz
• Lois Winnick-Chapman
• Joyce Sabgir
• Stacy Levin
• Jackie Kon
In Loving Memory:
• Elliot Boxerbaum member
and husband of member
Debbie Boxerbaum
• Gloria Albert grandmother of
member Jennifer Sanderow
• Sylvia Cotzin grandmother of
member Debra Kellner.
Women’s Torah study
with Morissa Freiberg
First Monday of every month
from noon - 1 p.m.
The class focuses on the role of
women in the Torah.
New learners are always welcome, no
prior knowledge is necessary!
Join the Religious School
Committee
The Religious School Committee
will begin meeting again as the new
school year kicks off. We are open to
anyone interested in having a voice
regarding the education of our youth
here at Beth Tikvah. If you are interested in joining, or learning more,
please contact Wendi Stern,
wendistern12@gmail.com.
Sisterhood - Contact Ilissa Eiferman at ilissae@gmail.com
Brotherhood
2nd Annual
Father/Child
event at
Camp Hoover
Saturday, Oct. 11
(There’s no OSU
game!)
Zip Line, Archery,
Fishing, Canoeing, Dinner,
Havdalah, S’mores and
more.
More information coming
soon, keep an eye out
for it!
Save the date and join Sisterhood
Women of Beth Tikvah if you
have not already joined Sisterhood,
now is the time to join! Membership papers were included with your
Beth Tikvah membership packet or
you may contact Ilissa Eiferman at
ilissae@gmail.com with any questions.
We would love to have you!
August’s SWEET dinner is Aug. 27 at
El Vaquero on Sancus Blvd. Please be
on the lookout for the evite.
SAVE THE DATE!!! The Sisterhood
Schmooze (formerly know as the Paid
Up Brunch!) is Sunday, Sept. 21. This
Mitzvah Craft - Contact Judy Weisberg at judy.weisberg.7@gmail.
Mitzvah Craft Group makes a difference
Mitzvah Craft is a group that meets
once a month (fourth Wednesday at
12:30 p.m. at BT) to share social time
while doing mitzvot. We are more
about mitzvot than craft. This year we
are going to collect $5 a person at each
meeting to purchase supplies. We’ve
create our own fund line at BT, so anyone who wants to financially assist us
Welcome Back
Shabbat Alive!
Oct. 22
is a great chance to meet other women
of Beth Tikvah and learn about Sisterhood. Our membership chair, Cara
Cloyd, has graciously offered to host
this in her home and we are looking
forward to it. This is always a lovely
event. Look forward to seeing you
there!
Finally, Sisterhood would like to
thank Michelle Waltman for her leadership as president and getting this year
off to a great start. The new Sisterhood
President is Ilissa Eiferman. We look
forward to continuing a great year!!
Join us to welcome back
Shabbat Alive on Aug. 15 at
7:15 p.m. The Oneg will be
make-your-own cupcakes and
S’mores.
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can send a check to the office.
This year we plan to make:
1. Education: Preschool packets for Como
and Hamilton elementary schools (40
bags) – Make alphabet books, gather supplies, make cardboard shapes for building letters, make cardboard dominoes
2. Education: Repair books that have
been collected for distribution to Como
and Hamilton and make book marks to
hand out with the free books
3.Education: Make weighted lap pads
for children with ADHD.
4.Education: Make story bags for
grades K-1 at Como and Hamilton.
5.Troops: Bake cookies for USO at the
airport and make valentines for vets,
survival bracelets, sand masks and
cooling neckties
6. Health: Write encouraging notes for
breast cancer patients, and make lap
blankets for dialysis patients
7. Health: Knit/crochet hats for preemies, assemble and decorate door kits
for Children’s Hospital, possibly make
blankets, pillows and picture frames
for Children’s Hospital
8.Homeless: Knit/crochet plastic bag
mats for homeless/refugees
9.Support for Temple: Make Tu BiSh’vat
seder plates (six) for temple seder
10. Elderly: make pictures for nursing
homes
August / Av / Elul
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday Thursday
Read with Beth Tikvah
Sunday Morning Book Group:
The Installation will be
incorporated into the
Shabbat Evening
Services.
Sunday Evening Study Group:
Sept. 21- Beginning of “My Promised Land” by Ari Shavit
Sisterhood Book Club:
Aug. 12 - Book Selection Meeting
Contact the office for more information
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5
6
Noon
Women’s Torah
Study
7
6 p.m.
Sisterhood Board
Meeting
7:30 p.m.
Executive Board
Meeting
10
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9 a.m.
Brotherhood
Meeting @Panera
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18
9 a.m.
Sunday Morning
Book Group
Meeting @Panera
in Clintonville
8:30 a.m.
Comm. Teachers’
Orientation at
Temple Israel
2 p.m.
New and
Prospective
Member Ice Cream
Social
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13
10 a.m.
Shishim Planning
Meeting
noon
Green Team
Planning Meeting
Noon
Sisterhood Book
Club
7 p.m.
Green Team
Planning Meeting
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20
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7:30 p.m.
Board of Trustees
Meeting
8
9
7:15 p.m.
Shabbat Evening
Services
Celebrating
Board Installation
Shabbat
9 a.m.
Torah Study Group
15
7:15 p.m.
Welcome Back
Shabbat Alive
10:30 a.m.
Shabbat Morning
Service Celebrating
the Bar Mitzvah of
Noah SpauldingSchecter
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9 a.m.
Torah Study Group
10:30 a.m.
Shabbat Morning
Service Celebrating
the Bat Mitzvah of
Gabriella Stern
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22
7:15 p.m.
Shabbat Evening
Services
7:30 p.m.
Jewish Spirituality
Group
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9 a.m.
Torah Study Group
10:30 a.m.
Shabbat Morning
Service Celebrating
the Bar Mitzvah of
Ethan Mayerson
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2
7:15 p.m.
Shabbat Evening
Services
Aug. 8, at 7:15 p.m.
Aug. 17 - “The Story Teller” by Jodi Picoult
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Saturday
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Join us to honor
our leaders at the
Board Installation
Beth Tikvah has three fabulous book groups:
Join them at their next meeting!
9:30 a.m.
Board Retreat
Friday
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27
12:30 p.m.
Mitzvah Craft
Group
6:30 p.m.
Sisterhood SWEET
dinner
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15
28
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7:15 p.m.
Shabbat Evening
Services
30
9 a.m.
Torah Study Group
10:30 a.m.
Shabbat Morning
Service Celebrating
the Bat Mitzvah of
Lauren Lemmon
Rabbi Rick Kellner
rabbirick@bethtikvahcolumbus.org
After-hours call: (614) 407-4354
Rabbi Emeritus Gary Huber
rabbihuber@bethtikvahcolumbus.org
Temple Administrator
Debbie Vinocur
dvinocur@bethtikvahcolumbus.org
Director of Education
Morissa Freiberg
mfreiberg@bethtikvahcolumbus.org
Congregation Beth Tikvah
2014-15 Board of Trustees
Andy Shafran, President
abshafran@gmail.com; (614) 430-3164
Ernie Mandell, 1st Vice President
emandell@columbus.rr.com; (614) 451 6768
Tara Rozen, 2nd Vice President
trozen@msn.com; (614) 792-1151
Darla Abraham, Secretary
dsabraham@columbus.rr.com; (614) 888-1790
Stu Zweben, Treasurer
zweben@cse.ohio-state.edu; (614) 764-9845
Patti Price, Past President
babyprice@aol.com; (614) 738-9304
ADULT EDUCATION – Sharon Chelnick
chelnick.home@gmail.com; (614) 2469190
BROTHERHOOD – Adam Winter
awinter@pobox.com; (614) 2730153
BUILDING – Joshua Reinicke
jreinicke@ameritech.net; (614) 263-7724
FINANCE/ENDOWMENT –
Lewis Sanderow
lewis@run2promotions.com; (740) 548-0749
FUNDRAISING – Dora Sterling
dsterling0150@wowway.com; (614) 771-0824
MEMBERSHIP – Debbie King
dfdwking@gmail.com; (740) 548-7715
NEW MEMBER CONNECTIONS —
Jen Withee
jenwithee@att.net; (614) 846-9327
RELIGIOUS SCHOOL – Wendi Stern
wendistern12@gmail.com; (614) 777-4205
RITUAL – Cindy Barker
cbarker3@columbus.rr.com; (614) 793-0864
SISTERHOOD – Ilissa Eiferman
ilissae@gmail.com; (614) 553-7193
SOCIAL ACTION — Alex Nielson-Joseph
siliro3@mac.com; (614) 553-7658
YOUTH ACTIVITIES – Andrea Adkins
adkinsa@wowway.com; (614) 789-0684
TRUSTEE AT-LARGE – Michael Schecter
michaelschecter@hotmail.com; (614) 841-9493
TRUSTEE AT-LARGE – Judy Weisberg
judy.weisberg.7@gmail.com; (614) 431-9545
SUPPORT STAFF
Ben Azriel - Finance Assistant
bazriel@bethtikvahcolumbus.org
Rachel Levin– Communications
Coordinator rlevin@bethtikvahcolumbus.org
Joanne Notowidigdo—Receptionist
jnotow@bethtikvahcolumbus.org
Rachel Shaw— Education Assistant
rshaw@bethtikvahcolumbus.org
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Congregation Beth Tikvah
Congregation Beth Tikvah
6121 Olentangy River Road
Worthington, OH 43085
Non-Profit Org.
U.S. Postage
PAID
Dublin, Ohio
Permit #212