Jul/Aug - Temple Micah

JULY/AUGUST 2013
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FROM RABBI ZEMEL
RELIGION AND
THE SEARCH FOR
UNDERSTANDING
DEAR FRIENDS,
I greatly appreciate last winter’s
sabbatical that Micah granted me. The
time away allowed me the distance and
perspective to think about Micah, Jewish
life and the direction that we should be
seeking as a congregation. A
large percentage of my time
away was spent reading. My
reading informs my thinking
about Micah, the rabbinate
and the larger world.
My preoccupying question
quite naturally is: How should
we think about religion? One
approach is to view religion as the stuff
of nostalgia. It provides peace and comfort in a complicated world. The hard
minded know that science is what really
provides the answers in today’s world.
Religion’s role is to comfort and offer
solace.
The approach I favor sees religion
another way. It is not nostalgia but
our very being that pushes humanity into a religious quest. The defining
experience of being human is to strive
to make sense of the world in which
we find ourselves. Science provides
answers for the questions “how” and
“what.” But even as science explores
and deepens our understanding of the
universe, something equally deep inside
the human essence pushes us to ask
“why.” Human beings love context and
explanations and reasons. We are unsatisfied without them. Religion seeks a
path to the human question of “why?”
And when that proves impossible—for
the religious liberal can never accept
a dogmatic answer—religion searches
for answers about what the quest itself
might mean.
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Against the Odds:
Temple Micah’s Architects
Reflect on the Project of a
Lifetime
By Dor i a n Fr iedm a n a n d Ju dith C a pen
“Babies were born, couples married,
people joined the congregation, others left.
Congregants died and children became teenagers and bar/bat mitzvah while Temple
Micah decided to build a new building—and
built it. As architects, we have designed
and watched many buildings built. But
this building has been a consuming process in both the life of a small congregation and, indeed, in ours.”
So begins a personal and poignant
reflection on the architectural history of
Temple Micah by Judith Capen and husband Robert Weinstein, whose inspired
vision brought us the spiritual home
on Wisconsin Avenue we know today.
As the congregation enters its next 50
years, we look back on the genesis of
our building, lovingly documented by
the architects, longtime members, in
the years leading up to and following
its dedication in September 1995. In
this edition of the Vine, we are pleased
to share notable passages adapted from
their informal memoir, Against the Odds:
A Small Reform Congregation Builds
a Building. Additional excerpts and
insights from Judith and Robert will be
published in the next issue of the Vine,
and on Micah’s website.
area were expanding outward into farmland and suburban tracts along interstates as if an empty universe, Temple
Micah committed to staying in the city.
Its new home was to be the first new
synagogue building built in the District
of Columbia in 35 years.
While most congregations seem
dominated by pragmatic members of
building committees asking how long,
how much, how fast, Temple Micah
asked how good, how right, how appropriate for God and our community.
While seat backs, chapels, gardens,
rooms—indeed, entire wings—are all
up for naming honors in recognition of
gifts in most synagogues, Temple Micah
pursued a policy of no names in or on
the building, start to finish.
While just about all of America operates by the principle of the low bid,
Temple Micah bid and built union.
While words like ‘expedite,’ ‘schedule,’ and ‘efficient’ dominate discussion
in many institutions’ building processes,
Temple Micah worked on consensus building, keeping the community
informed, soliciting input, listening,
and—most amazing of all—respecting
veto power.
To us, Winston Churchill’s aphorism, “We shape our buildings, thereafter they shape us,” has the power
of revealed wisdom. After designing
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The “Temple Micah
Way”
From the beginning, we did things
differently. While the vast majority of
congregations in the Washington metro
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“Every person shall sit under
his grapevine or fig tree with
no one to make him afraid.”
M I CA H , C H A P T E R 4 , V E R S E 4
Vine
Vol. 48 No.2
TEMPLE MICAH—
A REFORM JEWISH CONGREGATION
2829 Wisconsin Ave, NW
Washington, D.C. 20007
Voice: 202-342-9175
Fax: 202-342-9179
e-mail:
office@templemicah.org
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Daniel G. Zemel
RABBI
Esther Lederman
ASSOCIATE RABBI
Rachel Gross
E XECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Meryl Weiner
CANTOR
Teddy Klaus
MUSIC DIRECTOR
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Jodi Enda
PRESIDENT
Ira Hillman
VICE PRESIDENT
Marc Levy
SECRETARY
David Adler
TRE ASURER
Sheri Blotner
Lynn Bonde
Victoria Greenfield
Helene Granof
Alison Harwood
Kate Kiggins
Joel Korn
Ed Lazere
Mary Beth Schiffman
VINE STAFF
Dorian Friedman
EDITOR
Shelley Grossman
WELCOME
APRIL PETERS, NEW RABBINIC FELLOW
By Dor i a n Fr iedm a n
Temple Micah is delighted to welcome
April Peters to our congregation this
summer. Peters, a Tisch Rabbinical Fellow,
is completing her third year of study at
Hebrew Union College’s Jewish Institute
of Religion in New York City.
The aspiring rabbi knew she wanted
to pursue her summer residency at Micah
as soon as she visited the temple early
in 2013. “I really liked Rabbi Zemel’s style
and felt I could really learn from him,”
she says, “and the community was just
great. I loved the service, the community work and the deep commitment to
social activism.”
The admiration is mutual. “The
summer interns from the Tisch Fellows
program have become a wonderful
source of energy and vitality for our
Micah community,” says Rabbi Zemel.
“This summer, I am especially pleased
to learn from April who requested to
be placed with us immediately after the
fellows visited last winter. She promises
to continue a great tradition.”
Peters’ route to the rabbinate is
interesting and unconventional. Raised
in Council Bluffs, Iowa in an Evangelical
Christian family, she began to explore
Judaism while attending Brown
University and working part-time at a
Jewish Community Center in Providence.
Her curiosity led her to Harvard for a
master’s degree in Divinity. Rabbinical
school remained an interest over the
next decade, as she built a diverse portfolio of work experiences including
teaching high school (English literature)
and offering palliative care as a social
worker.
At Micah through July, she looks
forward to leading occasional services
and assisting with other responsibilities.
“The goals of the residency are for us to
develop our leadership skills and ability
to lead a visionary congregation, so we
get paired with someone who’s doing
outstanding work, like Danny Zemel,”
she adds.
The Tisch Rabbinical Fellows
Program, established through the vision
of Bonnie and Dan Tisch, offers rabbinical students an opportunity to specialize in congregational leadership through
three years of enriched study and learning experiences.
Peters is married to Emily Davis, a
specialist in labor relations at Columbia
Presbyterian Hospital in New York. And
she wants to assure Micah members that
she’s a dedicated baseball fan who typically pulls for the Red Sox—though she
could easily be persuaded to cheer for
the Nats this season, she confesses.
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Louise Zemel
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PRESIDENT’S COLUMN
Next issue, we will see a return of the President’s Column on this page, as we
welcome Jodi Enda to the position and she shares her thoughts moving forward as
Micah president.
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Micah’s Olivia Kessler elected to
NFTY youth leadership post
By Ron it a n d Shir a Zemel
Olivia Kessler, rising senior at Edmund Burke School, was
elected this spring as the Social Action Vice President (SAVP)
of the North American Federation of Temple Youth MidAtlantic Region (NFTY MAR). NFTY MAR, the regional
Reform Youth Movement, encompasses
Washington, DC, Virginia, Maryland,
Delaware and North Carolina. Olivia
served this past year as social action VP
within our own MiTY (Micah Temple
Youth) and as a regional Winter Kallah
co-chair, and she attended NFTY in
Israel last summer. Kessler says she has
wanted to be the regional Social Action
Vice President since her freshman year.
“I remember sitting at my first NFTY
event in Raleigh and seeing how passionate everyone was to be there and
to make a change,” she recalls. “This is
when I knew I could become a leader of
the region, share my passion for social
action, and become part of an amazing
family.”
“When I think of Olivia, I think
of all the usual things about the amazing teens I get to work
with,” says Alexa Broida, Regional Advisor of NFTY MAR.
“She’s awesome, hard-working and dedicated. But what really
comes to mind is that she has the best sense of humor of any
teen I have ever worked with.” Similarly, Rabbi Zemel notes,
“Olivia always has a smile on her face.”
It is these qualities in Olivia that have paved the way for her
success in NFTY MAR. “In a region that is so big and full of
incredible people and leaders, to be elected as one of nine of
them demonstrates how much the individual stands out,” Broida says.
Rabbi Zemel also stresses the importance of Olivia’s dedication to NFTY. “I
love Olivia’s participation in the NFTY
region. NFTY opens up a larger Jewish
world to our teens that makes such an
impact on their lives. NFTY provides
experiences that no individual congregation can provide. We want our kids to be
involved in MiTY and NFTY. It is here
that they cement lifelong friendships and
make the critical transition to Jewish life
in college and beyond.”
Looking to the year ahead, Olivia
will bring the commitment to social justice she learned, in part, from Temple
Micah. “Micah’s dedication to social
justice and change has always inspired
me,” says Kessler. “Micah has taught me about tikkun olam,
and my responsibility as a Jew. Whether it’s rallying for
Darfur, collecting underwear for the annual underwear drive,
or doing a mitzvah project, Micah encourages its students to
make a difference.”
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UNDERWEAR DRIVE LAUNCHED IN MAY
The annual Underwear
Drive to collect new underwear for the homeless in
upper Northwest DC begins,
as usual, on the High Holy
Days. But because Rosh
Hashanah comes right after
Labor Day this year, this
year’s 5th grade class kicked
off the campaign at a special
session of Machon Micah on
May 14.
Representatives from the
Community Council for
the Homeless at Friendship
Place (CCH/FP), the organization that distributes the
collected underwear, joined
the students to give their
first-hand take on the
importance of
the project.
The 2013–14
6th grade is
coordinating
the drive as a
class project. The
students are preparing grocery bags provided by Whole Foods
and will distribute them to
the congregation at Rosh
Hashanah services
on September 5.
Congregants are
asked to fill the
bags with new
underwear,
which will
be collected on
Yom Kippur. In
addition, for several
weeks after the High Holy
Days, members may
drop off bags of underwear
in a large box in the Micah
lobby.
Founded in 1992, CCH/
FP’s mission is to integrate
homeless neighbors in upper
Northwest into the community. It offers street outreach,
a drop-in center, free medical
care, supportive services and
more for those in small congregation-sponsored shelters
in Ward 3. Many people and
organizations donate coats
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Building FROM PAGE 1 ;
Temple Micah’s building, we understood
the first part of the statement more
acutely. We now understood this building was very much a reflection of the
congregation.
The Pre-Story
The Southwest Hebrew Congregation,
later Temple Micah, was formed by
young couples and singles in 1963,
many lawyers and other professionals
working for the government, living in
the southwestern quadrant of the city.
In 1966, when the Southwest Hebrew
Congregation began sharing space with
the Episcopalians of St. Augustine’s, it
was under an earlier rabbi of the synagogue and rector of the church. The
two had a special ecumenical chemistry
that eased cohabitation.
But by the later 1980s the two congregations had diverged demographically. Temple Micah had a growing
population of school-age children needing classrooms. Also, the 1965 modernist building was showing signs of wear.
It was becoming clear to some temple
members and the rabbi that something
had to be done about space issues.
The first, and big, decision was
whether to pursue change at all,
explored in a series of meetings in member living rooms. Once there was a sense
that most of the congregation wanted
facility change we tried to work out an
accommodation with St. Augustine’s,
respecting our shared history. After
the church’s congregation made it clear
that the two congregations’ needs had
diverged, Temple Micah began seriously
exploring options for a new home.
Sacred Space
In designing a new building for Temple
Micah, we were faced not simply with
the practical realities we always face
with a new building, but also with the
imperative to make a place that felt like
it was a spiritual space. We wanted to
make a building that felt to some degree
like when you entered you were entering
a realm separated from the “dailyness”
of life. And, to make a Jewish space. Just
as Shabbat is at one level just another
day of the week yet is separated from
the other six as sacred from the profane;
and just as the ancient Talmudists
thought of the Talmud as the fence
around Torah; we wanted Temple Micah
to be a sacred precinct, but consistent
with our Reform notions.
Some of the specifics that emerged
in the Temple Micah process were
emblematic of the congregation.
The Sanctuary. Having officiated
in the St. Augustine’s sanctuary, Rabbi
Zemel could articulate why he wanted a
low bimah, the platform with the Torah
reading table, and moveable chairs. He
saw the worship service as participatory. He saw his role less as leader of
the service than as first among equals.
He specifically did not see his role as
performing. Worship was not theater
in which the congregation kicked back
in padded seating, seat arms between
them to insure dignified distance, and
consumed the show, afterward evaluating the music or sermon as they would
a movie.
During congregational meetings I
would ask for descriptors for the sanctuary. Did people imagine dim and mysterious? Light and bright? A room with
a view? Attendees at the early meetings
opted universally for bright and warm.
Plenty of natural light, but no view. The
congregation was consistent in wanting
the sanctuary, the entire building, not
to be ostentatious.
The Eternal Light. Another element of the sanctuary that got quite a
lot of attention during design was the
Ner Tamid. Our old lamp was a piece of
‘wild’ crystal, a faceted chunk of glass,
sitting on a clear disk suspended from
the ceiling. While we, the architects,
thought it was wonderfully elegant and
abstract, we knew it was doomed when
we first heard it characterized as “the
eternal candy dish.” A more traditional
gas Ner Tamid, with a real flame, not
an electric bulb, became part of the
program.
As the design process moved along,
the building committee tried to build
consensus about every major decision
as well as being receptive to congregant
ideas. We didn’t imagine it would be
possible to build the kind of 100 percent
consensus for which the Quaker community strives. As a congregation, we
just tried to provide opportunities for
everyone who wanted to be heard to
speak up and tried to keep congregants
posted as decisions were considered and
made. The congregation moved toward
general agreement, slowly, in the Temple
Micah way.
Gematria. The first of many questions
from the District of Columbia building
department was: what did we want the
building’s address to be? Jim Shulman,
a former employee of ours and temple
member, who was spending the endless
hours necessary to negotiate the District
bureaucracy, came back to the office to
report that we needed an address for the
project and could select any of the four
street addresses assigned to the four separate lots comprising our site on Wisconsin
Avenue. We, the architects, didn’t have a
preference. Someone said, let’s ask Dan.
Rabbi Zemel did a little gematria*
and picked 2829 for the address for the
building. He explained that 28 and 29
added together total 57. Fifty-seven can
be broken down into four 10s and a 17.
Four 10s can be seen as four yuds as a
yud is ten. Two yuds are an abbreviation for God’s name. Four yuds can be
seen as God’s symbolic name twice.
Seventeen can spell out the word “tov”,
meaning good—a tet is nine, a vav is
six, a bet is two. Thus, our new address,
in gematria, became 20-17-20 or “God,
good, God.” We were happy to have
an official address for the building for
forms and delighted with the Jewish way
the decision was made.
This exercise in gematria got us
thinking. Numbers are one of the ways
we define our buildings. It occurred to
me that maybe we should apply gematria to some of the key dimensions for
the building. I called Rabbi Zemel and
set up a meeting with him to talk about
numbers.
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* In Hebrew, each letter possesses a numerical
value. Gematria is the calculation of the numerical
equivalence of letters, words, or phrases, and, on
that basis, gaining insight into interrelation of different concepts and exploring the interrelationship
between words and ideas.
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(far left to bottom
right) The building
of Temple Micah,
from clearing the
lot to the finished
structure in 1995.
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We looked at the width of our three
‘houses:’ the sanctuary or house of
prayer, the galleria or house of community, and the office and classrooms,
the house of study. The number
twenty, for double-yud or God’s name,
appeared over and over. The building
was eighty feet in its east-west direction, breaking down into four twenties
east to west. The sanctuary was forty
feet wide giving us two forty by forty
squares each containing four twenty by
twenty squares.
We made the round arches at the
end of the sanctuary
and forming part of the Syrian arches
on the east and west elevations of the
building eighteen feet in radius for the
Hebrew letter chai for ‘life.’
Excited to be thinking about numbers with significance, we began to
make other numerical decisions based
on Jewish numbers. We had twelve
one-by-one foot glass block ‘windows’
high on the north and south walls of the
sanctuary for the twelve tribes. When
the number three appeared, as it did in
three square openings on either side of
the arch framing the bimah and arks
on the east wall of the sanctuary, we
thought of them as the three
fathers of Judaism: Abraham, Isaac, and
Jacob. When four elements appeared
in the four boxes on the wall behind
the ark from one of which the gas line
for the Ner Tamid emerged, we considered them the four mothers of Judaism:
Sarah, Rachael, Rebecca, and Leah. The
single square opening on the east wall,
centered over the eighteen-foot radius
arch, was emblematic, of course, of
Jewish monotheism. And so it went. We
finished the project feeling like we had
incorporated Jewishness in the very fiber
of the building.
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TEMPLE MICAH LAUNCHES PARTNERSHIP
WITH SASHA BRUCE YOUTHWORK
By Va ler ie Ba rton
“One year ago I was at a standstill in my life. I had dropped
out of school, was totally anti-social and was having a hard
time coping with the abusive relationship I had with my stepfather. I was homeless and angry, but Sasha Bruce Youthwork
took me in.” — Jasmine, a resident of Sasha Bruce’s Independent
Living Program
Temple Micah has developed a partnership with Sasha
Bruce Youthwork (SBY), a DC-based nonprofit organization
dedicated to improving the lives of runaway, homeless, and atrisk youth in the city.
Almost three years ago, Rabbi Lederman challenged the
congregation to make connections and deepen relationships
with fellow Micah members as well as others in our larger DC
community.
This community organizing (See Vine, September/October
2011 and May/June/July 2012) began with one-on-one conversations between congregants, through which each person sought to better understand the other’s life experiences
and concerns. Four areas of focus emerged: Aging Together,
Forging Micah Connections, Beyond the High Holiday
Blessing, and Beyond the Walls of Micah.
Through a series of house meetings in which a broad range
of issues was discussed, the Beyond the Walls group began
to focus on the needs of our city’s youth. The group identified a dozen nonprofits working with young people in DC.
Members of the group researched the organizations and, in
teams, interviewed the executive directors and key staff about
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Rabbi’s Message FROM PAGE 1 ;
Simply put, religion seeks to answer
that classic musical question: “What’s it all
about, Alfie?”
I write this in mid-sabbatical and my
reading this past six weeks has included
the following books that I highly recommend:
Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns
Goodwin
Moral Believing Animals: Human
Personhood and Culture by
Christian Smith
Solomon: The Lure of Wisdom by
Steven Weitzman
Rethinking the Holocaust by Yehuda
Bauer
(My entire sabbatical reading list to this
point is found at the end of this letter.)
The Goodwin book on Lincoln taught
me more about leadership than any book
that I can remember. This book should be
required reading for every rabbinical student. Lincoln knew how to listen. He had
patience, a sense of timing and great compassion. He took great trouble to explain
himself and he was self aware enough to
understand when he needed to clarify
his thinking. He never thought that it was
beneath him, even as president, to answer
questions about his positions. He told stories. Humor was his constant companion.
Lincoln never overlooked his mistakes,
but learned from them and apologized
for them. He was strong, smart, wise and
determined.
The Weitzman book on Solomon
reminded me of the difference between
knowledge and wisdom, a difference that
is far too often overlooked. Solomon,
in rabbinic tradition, was both wise and
smart. He combined what Weitzman calls
Milton’s “Be lowly wise” and Kant’s “Dare
to know.” Religion should be a strong
voice for wisdom, but never for curtailing
knowledge.
Smith’s book, at its core, is about my
favorite subject: the human impulse for
stories. One sentence will suffice. “Our
stories,” Smith writes, “define our lives...
by elaborating the contours of fundamental moral order, comprising sacred and
profane, in narrative form, and placing
us… as actors within the larger drama.”
Smith shows that our lives are meaningful
insofar as we are able to place ourselves
within a particular drama.
Yehuda Bauer, former director of the
International Institute for Holocaust
Research at Yad Vashem, is regarded as
the world’s pre-eminent Holocaust historian. His book, sobering in its brilliance, is
elegant, simple and clear. Bauer maintains
that there is an overwhelming moral mandate to study the Holocaust as a way of
safeguarding human civilization. He points
out relentlessly that the Holocaust was
conceived, planned, organized and carried
out by human beings. Therefore, it is replicable—and must be continually studied in
order to be understood as much as that is
possible and never repeated.
My takeaway from these four books
is that the role of religion is to impart
in humans wisdom, goodness, selfunderstanding and courage. This, in turn,
requires mentors and leaders to influence
us in the right direction as well as the ability to understand our lives as partners in a
sacred drama. Perhaps this is why we pray.
Shalom,
Rabbi Daniel G. Zemel
SABBATICAL READING
Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns
Goodwin
Moral Believing Animals: Human
Personhood and Culture
by Christian Smith
The Great Partnership: Science,
Religion and the Search for
Meaning by Jonathan Sacks
Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three
Essential Prayers by Anne Lamott
Solomon: The Lure of Wisdom
by Steven Weitzman
The Book of Job: When Bad Things
Happened to a Good Person
by Harold Kushner
Rethinking the Holocaust by Yehuda
Bauer
A Psalm in Jenin by Brett Goldberg
The People of Forever Are Not
Afraid by Shani Boianjiu
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MEMBER PROFILE
Dorothy Kirby
By Shelley Grossm a n
For a guide to key facets of 20th-cen-
tury American history, look at the biography of Micah member Dorothy Kirby.
She knew anti-Semitism first hand in
the 1930s, landed on Omaha Beach
in the 1944 World War II invasion at
Normandy, worked with Dr. Spock in
the 1950s, and entered an interracial
marriage in Virginia in the 1970s.
Now age 92, the plucky Kirby is
engaging the 21st century with vigor,
going to the theater and other cultural
events with friends, participating in a
movie group, and enjoying the Temple
Micah community. But she especially
loves making art, paintings in particular. Always interested in art—she was a
docent at several local art museums—
she began to paint in 1969 after the
death of her first husband. After a bout
of breast cancer in 1990, she redoubled
her efforts. “I find it very therapeutic,”
she said. “I can start painting at 10 in
the morning and not stop until 10 at
night.” A very modern lady, she even has
a website to display some of her work!
(www.dorothykirby.com.)
Kirby recently counted more than 90
of her paintings in her house—and little
remaining space for the new art she is
creating. So she is using her paintings
to raise money for Temple Micah. “I
have received so much from the people
at Micah and wanted to give something
back,” she said. She will donate the proceeds of sales of her paintings to Temple
Micah’s 50th Anniversary Fund to retire
the mortgage.
Dorothy Kabat was born in 1920 in
Somerset, PA, a small town with only
10 Jewish families about 70 miles from
Pittsburgh. She first confronted prejudice there as a child. Her father owned
a small department store, she said, and
the Ku Klux Klan burned a cross close
by. When she was a teenager, “no one
invited me to parties,” she said.
She grew up, became a nurse and
enlisted in the Army when World War
II began. “I was among the first nurses
Dorothy Kirby (middle) with her daughters, Ina (left) and Gwen (right).
to go overseas,” she recalled. Her group
went to England to set up a hospital in preparation for the landing at
Normandy. “I found out recently that
I am most likely the only one among
those first nurses left alive.”
The invasion began and as soon as
the troops secured the beaches, she and
her fellow nurses crossed the channel on
an amphibious transport ship (LST) and
landed on Omaha beach. “We waded
ashore with packs on our backs,” she
said. “It was horrible. Bodies floating in
the water. It was the first time I knew
what war was. I was 22.” But the battlefield was only the beginning. “To see
a country ravaged by war—not enough
food, no medicine, the poverty—was
terrible. I never want to see war again,”
she continued.
She also witnessed some joyous
events, including the liberation of Paris.
After the war, Kirby earned both
bachelors and masters degrees in public
health from the University of Pittsburgh.
She also met Harold Pollack who was
studying at Carnegie Tech on the GI
Bill. They married in 1947. After graduation, she took a job with Benjamin
Spock, the famous pediatrician and baby
book author, who was a professor of
child development at Pittsburgh at the
time. “He was very tall, a very nice person,” she recalled. “He drove a convertible and had to crunch up to get in.”
The Pollacks had three children, Ina,
Gwen and Fred. In 1965, they moved
to suburban Virginia near Burgundy
Farm Country Day School, which Fred
attended. For a while, stability reigned
in their lives. But then Harold died after
a series of heart attacks, leaving Kirby
with three growing children to support by herself. She returned to work as
a public health nurse, commuting to DC.
Meanwhile, son Fred Pollack had a
friend and classmate, Chris Kirby, who
was African-American. His mother,
Helen, was a physician and his father, Ed,
was a psychiatrist. Dorothy and Helen
became friends. Then Helen became sick
and died. Dorothy and Ed began seeing
each other and, in 1973, they married.
This was just six years after the
Supreme Court decided Loving v.
Virginia, prohibiting state laws that forbid interracial marriages. Friends and
relatives from both families opposed the
union. As in the 1930s, invitations to
social gatherings dried up. Even those
who approved of the marriage had little
understanding of African-Americans,
Kirby said. “A relative of mine asked me
if he beat me!”
So they moved to the District seeking
a more tolerant neighborhood and purchased a six-bedroom house across the
alley from where Temple Micah now is.
The new seven-member household—
two adults and five teenagers—made up
a blended family in all its facets: interracial, inter-religious and inter-social class
(the Kirbys were affluent, the Pollacks
were not). “The differences created
both challenges and rich experiences.
Everyone learned a lot,” Gwen Pollack,
Kirby’s younger daughter, said recently.
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Sasha Bruce FROM PAGE 6 ;
the organization’s mission, services, staffing, and outcomes.
After much careful deliberation, the group selected Sasha
Bruce Youthwork (www.sashabruce.org) as Micah’s new
strategic partner. Many group members were moved by the
opportunity for real and positive impact presented by working with teens, and SBY has a track record of success in serving the city’s at-risk youth population. This partnership will
enable Micah to engage in ways that match individual members’ interests, skills, and time commitments.
SBY was founded by Deborah Shore in 1974. It has grown to
be one of the largest and most experienced providers of services
to DC’s youth. It runs over 18 different programs throughout
the city ranging from transitional shelter and family counseling
to workforce development and afterschool programs at Ballou
High School and the Richardson Youth Center.
“We are thrilled to be partnering with Sasha Bruce,” said
Rabbi Lederman. “This initiative will enable SBY to benefit
from the wealth of our congregants’ professional expertise
and inner passion. It will also enable us to roll up our sleeves
and reconnect with our city in ways that are consistent with
the principles upon which Temple Micah was founded 50
years ago.”
Potential areas of engagement with SBY are “game nights,”
ongoing tutoring and mentoring as well as a one-day repair or
gardening project at one of SBY’s locations. Over time, Micah
will expand its involvement based on the combination of congregants’ interests and SBY’s most pressing needs.
If you would like more information or to get involved,
please contact Valerie Barton at thevaleriebarton@gmail.com
or Susan Bandler at srbandler@gmail.com.
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Underwear Drive FROM PAGE 3 ;
and other used clothing, but homeless
clients have not had ready access to new
underwear and socks.
This is where Temple Micah comes
in. Since the tradition began in the fall
of 2000, the congregation has donated
thousands of pairs of under garments.
This year’s students collected an
Member Profile FROM PREVIOUS PAGE ;
“The white, Jewish family members
learned about African Americans and
racism. The African American members
learned about Judaism and anti-Semitism. Everyone was actively involved
at the family Passover and Christmas
included a bagel and lox brunch.”
Although Kirby’s Jewish education
ONEG HOSTS WALK
IN ABRAHAM AND
SARAH’S FOOTSTEPS
Hosts of the onegs before Friday evening services
and the kiddushim after those on Saturday morning are following an age-old Jewish tradition of
hospitality. Abraham and Sarah in the Bible set
the example when they welcomed three strangers
passing by and served them a feast.
“At Temple Micah, we do our best to follow
Abraham and Sarah’s example,” says Mary Beth
Schiffman. “And to make our hospitality as haimish
as possible, we ask Micah members to provide a
variety of noshes.”
Oneg/kiddush co-chairs Geri Nielsen and Judy
Hurvitz invite all members to perform this mitzvah once a year. They provide help and guidance
to make it easy and generally ask two households
to split the responsibility. “Bringing the oneg or
kiddush is a way to team up with another family to
spend an evening or morning preparing food and
being together,” says Nielsen. “It is also a way to
meet other members in the community and make
new friends.”
Reserve a spot through the temple’s online registration form, located under the “Worship” tab at
www.templemicah.org.
amazing 6,967 items and the new class
aims to top that record this fall.
Beyond its beautiful expression of
tikkun olam, the Underwear Drive has
meaning in Jewish teachings. As Rabbi
Zemel explains, it makes sense to hold
the collection in the autumn around
the holidays of Rosh Hashanah, Yom
Kippur and Sukkot, citing the Mishnah
Sukkot (Chapter 5, verse 3): “They made
wicks from the worn out underwear and
girdles of the priests and with them they
made torches and candlesticks and there
was not a courtyard in Jerusalem that
did not reflect their light.”
Rising 6th grade parents are invited
to help with this endeavor. Please contact Joy Grossman, Jocelyn Guyer, Josh
Seidman or Gregg Rothschild via email
at underweardrive@templemicah.org.
was minimal, she maintained ties to the
Jewish community. Her children went
to Sunday school and Fred observed
his Bar Mitzvah at a synagogue in
Northern Virginia to which the family
belonged. Ed Kirby, the son and father
of Baptist ministers, took courses in
Judaism, attended services and belonged
to temple groups. Although he didn’t
convert, Dorothy Kirby said, “He
identified so much as a Jew.” He died in
2007 from lung diseases.
Back in Virginia, several friends
who belonged to Micah raved about it
to Dorothy, but she was devoted to the
Virginia rabbi. Micah moved across the
alley in 1995, the Virginia rabbi died,
and Dorothy and Ed joined Micah in
2003. Said Kirby recently, “I’ve always
been sorry I hadn’t joined earlier.”
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B’NAI MITZVAH
SAMUEL BLUMENFELD
APRIL 20 – 10 IYAR
PARENTS:
Liz and Lane Blumenfeld
Acharei Mot/Kedoshim
TORAH PORTION:
CARLY SAHR
APRIL 27 – 17 IYAR
PARENTS:
Lori Milstein and David Sahr
Emor
TORAH PORTION:
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Mazal Tov
The congregation wishes a hearty mazal tov to:
Helene and Gene Granof on the birth of their newest grandchild,
Zoe Irene Granof
Deborah Srabstein and Ari Houser on the birth of their daughter,
Talia Rose Houser
Maggie and Russell Kirsh on the birth of their daughter,
Rachel Chalmers Kirsh
Shelley Temchin and Tom Parker on the marriage of their son,
Mark Parker
Emma J. Spaulding and Todd Jasper on their recent marriage
Susie and Harvey Blumenthal on the birth of their granddaughter
JACOB “COBY” COHEN
MAY 4 – 24 IYAR
CON D OLEN C ES
TORAH PORTION:
The Temple Micah community extends its deepest
condolences to:
ISAAC ROSENBLUM-SELLERS
Lesley Weiss on the passing of her father, Martin
Weiss
PARENTS:
Nicola Goren and Andrew Cohen
Behar-Bechukotai
MAY 11 – 2 SIVAN
Katie Sellers and Marc Rosenblum
TORAH PORTION: Bamidbar
PARENTS:
Michael Coplan on the
passing of his mother,
Esther Coplan
Henri Barkey on the pass- Liz Blumenfeld on the
ing of his mother, Tuna
Barkey
passing of her father,
Edward deGrazia
Robert Walker on the
HERO MAGNUS
MAY 18 – 9 SIVAN
PARENTS:
Manya and Magus Magnus
Naso
TORAH PORTION:
SARAH CARLETON
JUNE 1 – 23 SIVAN
PARENTS:
Rita and Gary Carleton
Sh’lach
TORAH PORTION:
ELIANA PANSEGROUW
JUNE 8 – 30 SIVAN
Lisa and David Pansegrouw
TORAH PORTION: Korah
PARENTS:
NADAV SOLTES
JUNE 15 – 7 TAMUZ
PARENTS:
Leslie Shampaine and Ori Soltes
Chukat
TORAH PORTION:
Carolyn Margolis on
passing of his father, Roland the passing of her brother,
Walker
Philip Margolis, Jr.
Lora Ferguson on the
Jean Freedman on the
passing of her mother, long- passing of her father, Leon
time Micah member Gail
David Freedman
McDonald
Andi Mathis on the passing of her father, Leonard
Margery Doppelt on
Rosenstein
the passing of her father,
Lawrence Doppelt
Lee Futrovsky on the
passing of his father, past
Jeff Passel on the passing
of his wife, long-time Micah Temple Micah president,
Richard Futrovsky
member Ellen Passel
Gerald Liebenau on the
passing of his wife and Betsi
Closter and Arlene Reiniger
on the passing of their
mother, long-time Micah
member and past president,
Vivian Liebenau
Richard Katz on the pass-
ing of his mother, Lucile
Katz
Jill Berman on the pass-
ing of her mother, Suzanne
Oppenheimer
Gail Povar on the passing
SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER
passing of his mother,2012
Verna
of her father, Morris Povar
Greg Lipscomb on the
Mae Lipscomb
May their memories be a blessing.
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TZEDAKAH
AUCTION FUND
GENERAL FUND
IN MEMORY OF
IN HONOR OF
Vivian Liebenau, by
Carolyn Margolis
Philip Margolis, Jr., by Carolyn
Margolis’ friends at The
Smithsonian Natural History Museum, Mary Beth
Schiffman and David Tochen
Janet Hahn’s birthday,
by Jean Simon
Talia Rose Houser, by
David and Livia Bardin
The speedy recovery of
Michelle Tow, by Mary Beth
Schiffman and David Tochen
Jordi Parry becoming Bar
Mitzvah, by Judith A. Miller
Ken Simon, by Jean Simon
BUILDING FUND
IN MEMORY OF
Kirby Capen, by Janice
Meer and Michael Bodo
Patrick Lynch; Edith
Rosenberg, by Jeff Passel
Morris Povar, by Larry Cooley
and Marina Fanning, Claire
Rubin, Nancy Lang, Judith Capen and Robert Weinstein
Ellen Passel, by Claire
Rubin, Judith Capen and
Robert Weinstein
Vivian Liebenau, by Claire
Rubin, Ed and Bobbie
Wendel, Judith Capen
and Robert Weinstein
Edith Rosenberg; Gail
McDonald, by Judith Capen
and Robert Weinstein
Richard Futrovsky; Philip
Margolis, by Bobbie
and Ed Wendel
CEMETERY FUND
IN MEMORY OF
Vivian S. Liebenau, by
Larry Salinger
ENDOWMENT FUND
IN HONOR OF
Helene and Gene Granof’s
new granddaughter,
by Michelle Sender
IN MEMORY OF
Lawrence Doppelt, by
Michelle Sender
Ellen Passel, by Michelle
Sender, Brenda Levenson
Vivian Liebenau, by
Michelle Sender, Beverly
and Harlan Sherwat, Nancy
Lang, Brenda Levenson
Esther Coplan;
Bezalel Herschkovitz;
Richard Futrovsky, by
Brenda Levenson
FOX-MEHLMAN FUND
(Scholarships and grants for
educational and camp programs)
IN MEMORY OF
Manuel Rosen; Morris Povar,
by Bobbie and Ed Wendel
IN MEMORY OF
Alfred Goldeen, by
David and Livia Bardin
Milton Levy, by Margaret
Ann Gray, Tamar and
Stanley Rabin
Walter Tritell, by Harriet
and Randy Tritell, Mary Beth
Schiffman and David Tochen
Esther Lahne, by Michael
and Regine Feuer
Betsy Kanarek; Russell
Scott; Joseph Grossman,
by Learita Scott
Fannie Kramer, by Susie
and Harvey Blumenthal
Edith Rosenberg, by Randy
and Harriet Tritell, Mary Beth
Schiffman and David Tochen
Patrick Lynch, by Mary
Beth Schiffman and
David Tochen
Pearl and Marty Obrand,
by Lorri Manasse and
Russ Misheloff
Morris Povar, by Susie
Avnery, Jennifer Gruber
and Eric Rosenberg
Esther Coplan, by Ted
and Stephanie Baker
Vivian Liebenau, by Andrea
Sobel, Clem and Ed
Rastatter, Henry Ehrlich,
Len and Sheila Wollins,
Cynthia and Paul Rosenthal,
Mary Beth Schiffman and
David Tochen, Bayla White,
Marilyn and William Paul
Esther Coplan, by Bayla White
Ellen Passel, by Linda and
Allan Sherman, William and
Kathleen Thompson, Bayla
White, Marlene Passell,
Douglas and Melinda
Soffer, Marilyn and William
Paul, Bobbie and Edward
Wendel, Paula Schneider,
Ed Stein and Lisa Hartman,
Suzanne and Ray Kogan,
Clem and Ed Rastatter, Susan
Levy, Seth Motel, Randy
and Harriet Tritell, Donna
Reynolds, anonymous
Harris Tarlin, by
Jonathan Tarlin
Morris Povar, by Robyn
Garnett and Catherine Lynch
Abraham Futterman, by
Marlene Futterman
Julien Mezey, Irene Chait,
and Nettie Rogers, by
Marilyn and William Paul
Richard Futrovsky, by
Mary Beth Schiffman
and David Tochen
Leonard Rosenstein, by
Richard Fitz and Kathy Spiegel
Vivian Liebenau, by Bruce,
Sara, Suzana and Julie Berger
Irving Falb, by Robert and
Carolyn Falb
HINENI FUND
( To assist congregants in need)
IN HONOR OF
Ann Sablosky, Steve
Rockower; Betsy Broder;
Mary Beth Schiffman; Susan
Lahne; Sheri Blotner, by Gail
Povar and Larry Bachorik
IN MEMORY OF
Abraham Brumberg; Jim
McDonald, by Laurie
and Daniel Brumberg
Gloria Appel, by Betsy Broder
and David Wentworth
Morris Povar, by Susan
and Richard Lahne, Milton
and Marlyn Socolar,
Sid and Elka Booth
Ellen Passel, by Mark and
Cecelia Weinheimer, Alan and
Jannet Carpien, Marc and Gwen Pearl, Diane and Lowell
Dodge, Sid and Elka Booth
Vivian Liebenau, by
Lora Ferguson, David
and Barbara Diskin
Milton Booth, by Sid
and Elka Booth
Richard Futrovsky, by
Jonathan and Carrie Ustun,
Sid and Elka Booth
Ellen Passel, by Toby Passel
ISRAEL FUND
IN HONOR OF
Benjamin Michael Leroy,
son of Becky Claster
and Steve Leroy, by Fred
and Judy Horowitz
IN MEMORY OF
Ellen Passel, by Richard
and Martha Katz
Morris Povar, by David
and Barbara Diskin
KALLEK ADULT
EDUCATION FUND
IN MEMORY OF
Esther Lahne, by Larry
Bachorik and Gail Povar
Donald Miller, by
Miriam Miller
Don Rothberg, by
Sheila Platoff
Lillie Page, by Bill Page
and Mary Hollis
Morris Povar, by Jim and
Debbie Billet-Roumell
Jack Chernak, by Beverly
and Harlan Sherwat
Vivian Liebenau, by Jennifer
Gruber and Eric Rosenberg
LANDSCAPE FUND
IN HONOR OF
The wedding of Dan
Baum and Carmel
Greer, by Sue Baum
IN MEMORY OF
Ellen Passel, by Jennifer
Gruber and Eric
Rosenberg, Lora Ferguson,
Marcia Sobel-Fox
LIBRARY FUND
IN MEMORY OF
Patrick Lynch, by Alice Falk
Richard Futrovsky, by
Doug Meyer and Jacque
Simon
MACHON MICAH
FUND
IN HONOR OF
Ken Goldstein’s speedy
recovery, by Adam
and Casey Bressler
Talia Rose Houser, by Susie
and Harvey Blumenthal,
Ellen Sommer, Ed and
Bobbie Wendel
IN MEMORY OF
Vivian Liebenau, by Jeff
and Margaret Grotte
MICAH HOUSE
Debbie-Billet Roumell and
Jim Roumell, Katherine
Allen, Harlan Messinger, Eric
Rosenberg,Judith Daniel,
Michael Leibman, Sharon
Salus, Ellen Messer, Jodi Enda,
Roger and Cheri Friedman,
Harriette Kinberg, Sophia
Coudenhove, Philip Tabas
and Helen Hooper, Andrea
and James Hamos, Julie
Granof, Carol Nachman, Dena
Puskin, Jan Greenberg and
Gary Dickelman, Yael Traum,
Mary Mahle, David and
Sheri Blotner, Bobbie and Ed
Wendel, Morton Friedman,
Heather Moran, Ann Sablosky
and Stephen Rockower, Lisa
Anbinder, Janet Hahn and
Ken Simon, Arlene Brown
and Gene Bialek, Cynthia
Hogan and Mark Katz, Daniel
Schwartz and Dance Slone,
Andrew Bressler, Michelle
Sender, Marcus Rosenbaum
and Lynn Ingersoll, Sarah and
Jay Grusin, Martin Zoltick,
Brian and Dorothy Landsberg,
Jocelyn Guyer and Joshua
Seidman, Beth Grossman
and Eric Wolf, Larry Cooley,
Jessica and Harry Silver,
Ruth Tenzer Feldman, Iris
Barnett, Sonia Pearson White,
Susan Orlins, David Tochen
and Mary Beth Schiffman,
Andrea LaRue and Matthew
Schwartz, Jacqueline London,
Michael Sellinger, Kate and
Paul Judson, Morton and
Barbara Libarkin, William
and Marilyn Paul, Robert
Weiner, Jon Kaplan, Stacey
Grundman and Owen
Herrnstadt, Al and Barbara
McConagha, Gail Zwiebel
Kate and Paul Judson, Tamar
Hendel, Rita and Gary
Carleton, Todd Goren
IN HONOR OF
Her friendship with Ann
Sablosky, by Kim Schifrin
Danny, Ben, and Rachael
Moss, by Phil and Susan Moss
Ed Lazere’s retirement from
the Micah House Board, by
Judith and Mervine Rosen
Rabbi Zemel, by David Bardin
Julie Morgan, by
Susan Landfield
Julia Elizabeth Seidman,
by Aaron Seidman
IN MEMORY OF
Natalie Bailes, by Richard
and Susan Lahne
J U LY/A U G U S T 2 0 1 3
Julian Meer, father of
Janice Meer, husband of
Clarice Meer, by Janice
Meer and Mike Bodo
Jeanne Talpers, sister of
Helene Granof, by Arthur
and Carol Freeman
Richard N. Wolf, by
Muriel Wolfe
Beatrice Doniger, by
David Doniger
Julius and Elsie Saks,
by Lisa Saks
Natalie Westreich, by
Jonathan Westreich
Nancy Scheiner, by Stan
and Paulette Shulman
Patrick Lynch, by Steve
Rockower and Ann Sablosky
Ellen Passel, by Richard
and Susan Lahne
Vivian Liebenau, by
Richard and Susan Lahne,
Arthur and Carol Freeman,
Judy and Jack Hadley
Gail McDonald, by Jennifer
Gruber and Eric Rosenberg
MITY FUND
IN MEMORY OF
Nancy Scheiner, by
Ellen Sommer
MUSIC FUND
David and Lucy Asher
IN HONOR OF
Rabbi Lederman, Ken
Goldstein, and Teddy
Klaus, by Erica Perl
and Michael Sewell
Benjamin Michael Leroy,
son of Becky Claster
and Steve Leroy, by Ed
and Shelley Grossman
William Crystal becoming
Bar Mitzvah, by Sheila
Platoff and Bob Effros
IN MEMORY OF
Milton Levy, by Richard
and Susan Fisch
Zelda Diskin, by David
and Barbara Diskin
Chip Broder, by Betsy Broder
and David Wentworth
John Calvert Ward, by
Alice Greenwald
Anne Cooley, by Sheila
Platoff and Robert Effros
Patrick Lynch, by
Robert Aronson, Ed and
Shelley Grossman
Bobbie Landsberg, by Lynne
Landsberg and Dennis Ward
Edith Rosenberg, by Ellen
Sommer, Richard and
Susan Lahne, Bobbie and
Ed Wendel, Peggy Banks
Samuel R. Iker, by Jean Iker
Gail McDonald, by David
and Martha Adler, David
and Barbara Diskin, Harlan
and Beverly Sherwat,
Kit Wheatley and Tom
Sahagian, Sid and Elka
Booth, Ellen Sommer,
Judy and Jack Hadley,
Mary Mahle, Richard and
Susan Lahne, Peggy Banks,
Edward and Bobbie Wendel,
Lucy and David Asher
Morris Povar, by Bob
Dorfman and Celia Shapiro,
Lucy and David Asher
Fred Sugarman, by Carole
Sugarman and Mark Pelesh
Ellen Passel, by Jeff and
Margaret Grotte, Helene and
Gene Granof, Larry Cooley
and Marina Fanning, Barbara
and Skip Halpern, Laura
Hubbard, Celia Shapiro and
Bob Dorfman, David and
Barbara Diskin, Lorri Manasse
and Russ Misheloff, Ellen
Sommer, Richard Fitz and
Kathy Spiegel, Pat Goldman
and Steve Kurzman, Martha
and David Adler, Beverly
and Harlan Sherwat, Alan,
Deborah, and Julia Kraut,
Carla and Wolfgang Buchler, Harold Bailey Jr.,
Mary Mahle, Patricia Dillon
Lopez, Malcolm Bernhardt,
F. Scott and Ellen Kraly,
Nancy Lang, Carolyn Margolis,
Steve Rockower and Ann
Sablosky, Elka and Sid Booth,
Lucy and David Asher, Robyn
Garnett and Catherine Lynch
Vivian Liebenau, by
Celia Shapiro and Bob
Dorfman, Mary Mahle,
Malcolm Bernhardt, Lucy
and David Asher, Norman
and Roberta Pollock
PRAYERBOOK FUND
IN MEMORY OF
Robert Salzberg, by
Ellen and Stan Brand
RABBI’S
DISCRETIONARY FUND
Thomas and Pamela Green
IN HONOR OF
Rabbi Zemel, by Leslie
Shapiro, Melanie Franco
and Lawrence Nussdorf
Pamela and David, by
Mitchell and Caren Hartka
the birth of Rachel
Chalmers Kirsh, by David
and Barbara Diskin
the wedding of Emma
Spaulding and Todd Jasper,
by Emma Spaulding
Rabbi Lederman, by Lora
Ferguson, Lori and Rob
Maggin, Charles McDonald
and Maria Pastrana
50th Anniversary Gala,
by anonymous
their great grandchildren, by
Florence and Morton Bahr
IN MEMORY OF
Milton Levy, by Sid
and Elka Booth
Jimmy White, by Thomas
and Jane Wilner
Walter Tritell, by Sid
and Elka Booth
Mildred Kiggins, by Jared
Blum and Kate Kiggins
Tuna Barkey, by David and
Johanna Forman, Sara Ehrman
Edith Rosenberg; Gail
McDonald, by Ed and
Shelley Grossman
Morris Povar, by Doug
Mishkin and Wendy Jennis,
Robyn Garnett and Catherine
Lynch, Judy and Jack Hadley,
Myra and Mark Kovey
Ellen Passel, by Robyn
Garnett and Catherine Lynch,
Sonia Pearson White, Debbie
and Jim Roumell, Mary
Beth Schiffman and David
Tochen, Stuart Brown and
Margaret Siebel, Judy and
Jack Hadley, Carol Nachman
and Susan Rothrock, Peggy
Banks, Myra and Mark Kovey
Lawrence Doppelt, by
Elka and Sid Booth, David
Forman and Johanna
Mendelson-Forman
Patrick Lynch, by Robyn
Garnett and Catherine
Lynch, Learita Scott and
Robert Friedman
Vivian Liebenau, by Myra
and Mark Kovey, Susie
and Harvey Blumenthal
Esther Coplan, by Susie
and Harvey Blumenthal
Sylvia B. Lang, by Trish Kent
Richard Futrovsky; Philip
Margolis, by Susie and
Harvey Blumenthal
Shlomo Haim Bardin, by
David and Livia Bardin
RELIGIOUS OBJECTS
FUND
50TH ANNIVERSARY
CAMPAIGN
IN MEMORY OF
IN HONOR OF
Morris Povar, by Paul
Greenberg and Rick
Billingsley, Susie and
Harvey Blumenthal
Ellen Passel; Vivian Liebenau,
by Paul Greenberg
and Rick Billingsley
Dorothy Kirby’s 93rd
birthday, by Janice Meer
and Michael Bodo, Purvee
and Lucan Kempf
Daniel and Louise Zemel, by
Ronald and Joan Isaacman
Rabbi Lynne Landsberg
and her family, by
Gilad Landsberg
SOCIAL ACTION FUND
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IN HONOR OF
IN MEMORY OF
Talia Rose Houser, by
Barbara Green
Walter Tritell, by Ed
and Bobbie Wendel
Patrick Lynch, by Alan and
Jannet Carpien, Jeffrey
and Sharon Davis
Julian Meer, by Janice
Meer and Michael Bodo
Edith Rosenberg, by Susie
and Harvey Blumenthal
Barnett Coplan, by Tina
and Michael Coplan
Gail McDonald, by Susie
and Harvey Blumenthal
Lawrence Doppelt, by
Mary Beth Schiffman
and David Tochen
Morris Povar, by Cecelia
and Mark Weinheimer
Ellen Passel, by Kit Wheatley
and Tom Sahagian, Susie and
Harvey Blumenthal, Harriette
Kinberg, Gail Povar and Larry
Bachorik, Burton Greenstein
Vivian Liebenau, by Judith and
Robert Levin, Larry Cooley
and Marina Fanning, Mark
and Cecelia Weinheimer,
Burton Greenstein
Esther Coplan, by Harriet
and Randy Tritell
Richard Futrovsky, by Bev
and Harlan Sherwat
IN MEMORY OF
Nancy Scheiner, by Nancy,
David and Jacob Horowitz
Ethel Morgenstein, by
Beverly and Harlan
Sherwat, Fern Bleckner
Shigemitsu Nakashima,
by Ellen Nakashima
and Alan Sipress
Natalie Bailes, by Karen
Zizmor and Bruce Rinaldi
Edith Rosenberg, by
Barbara and David Diskin
Morris Povar, by Michael
Cannon and Denise Field
Ellen Passel; Vivian
Liebenau, by Arlene
Brown and Gene Bialek
Sari Erlanger, by Wendy
Erlanger and Alan Porter
Howard Garlick, by Carlos
Cano and Pamela Garlick
Belle Chernak, by Bev
and Harlan Sherwat
LUNCH AND LEARN
Temple Micah’s new Wednesday Lunch
and Learn series, a program of the Aging
Together Team, debuted last month. On
August 14th, the lunch series will feature
Morton Bahr, former president of the
Communications Workers of America,
discussing Jews in the Labor Movement.
For details or to register, please email
lunchandlearn@templemicah.org.
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Hundreds of congregants, family and
friends enjoyed Temple Micah’s 50th
Anniversary lecture and gala in June.
Many more photos can be seen at
templemicah.org.
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