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“ Worship Together In The Quiet of G-­‐d’s House” “Worship Together In The Quiet of G-­‐d’s House” May-­‐June 2014 2004 Shofar Sponsors: BROWN FAMILY
CARNAGHI FAMILY
FISCHER FAMILY
KARSCH FAMILY
MARILYN & LARRY
KAUFMAN
POST-SCURLOCK FAMILY
PRUSNOFSKY FAMILY
RIKOON FAMILY
MOST FAMILY
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HEBREW CONGREGATION OF
SOMERS
Annual Congregational Meeting
Sunday, May 18th
10 AM
JILL DAYAN
KLEINMAN FAMILY
HARVEY & GAIL KATZ
ROBERT FRIED
Web Page
Sponsors:
FISCHER FAMILY
KARSCH FAMILY
MARILYN & LARRY
KAUFMAN
POST-SCURLOCK FAMILY
RIKOON FAMILY
MOST FAMILY
JILL DAYAN
KLEINMAN FAMILY
SAMPSON FAMILY
ROBERT FRIED
All congregation members are invited to review our
last year and help make plans for the upcoming
year.
Join us for a pre-meeting bagel breakfast!
Hebrew School
Moving Up Ceremony
May 18th at 11:30 AM
Refreshments will be served!
HCS CLOSINGS:
Please listen to WHUD (100.7FM) or visit www.whud.com for information on weatherrelated Hebrew School closings and services/activities cancellations. 2
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LUNCH AND
LEARN,
RELAX AND REFLECT
Dairy Pot Luck Dinner
SATURDAY MORNINGS
at the
HEBREW
CONGREGATION OF
SOMERS
Friday, May 2 and
Friday June 6
6:30 PM
We will have a dairy dinner followed by a
service. Please bring your favorite dairy dish or
a dessert along with a beverage.
Following Shachrit services, which
begin at 9:30 am, join Rabbi Fred
and the HCS community for a
light lunch and discussion of the
week’s Torah portion (at about
11:00 am). If you are interested in
sponsoring a Lunch ‘n’ Learn,
please send a check to HCS
with the subject line “Lunch
‘N’ Learn” or contact Mary
Wolchan at 914-433-2423
A light lunch is provided from Somers
Hot Bagels for $54. This includes
bagels, cream cheese, egg salad,
tuna and OJ. Sponsors are
encouraged to bring special treats.
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Hebrew Congregation of Somers
School Supply Drive 2014
Help us give needy kids a great start for the 2014-2015 school year.
Please donate new or gently used school supplies
Pre-school:
Crayola large crayons
Coloring books or pads
Wet wipes
Elementary :
1” 3 ring binder
Crayola Washable Broad -Tip Markers
Crayola Crayons (box of 24)
2 large glue sticks
Elmer's school glue
#2 pencils (packages of 12)
Two pocket plastic folders
Black and White marble composition books
5” scissors
3”x5” white ruled index cards
Handheld pencil Sharpener
Pink “pearl” eraser
3”x3” Post-Its
Nylon pencil bag
12” ruler standard and metric units
Wet wipes
Paper Towels single rolls
Secondary:
Yellow highlighters
Colored pencils
#2 pencils (12 pack)
3x3inch Post-Its
Blue or Black pens
Notebook filler paper
Subject dividers
Single Subject Notebook
Two pocket plastic folders
3”x5” white ruled index cards
Donations will be accepted April-May at
Hebrew Congregation of Somers
Any questions please contact Victoria Prusnofsky
Vixenpru@aol.com
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The Westchester Jewish Council is proud to honor your very own Hebrew Congregation of
Somers, Vicki Prusnofsky as a recipient of the Julian Y. Bernstein Distinguished Service
Award.
Julian Bernstein was a well-known and admired leader in the Westchester Jewish Community. His
visionary leadership, guidance and friendship remain an inspiration to us all. The recipients of this award
and the organizations they serve follow in his legacy as they continue to strengthen our community.
The Award Ceremony will take place On Wednesday, May 14, 2014 at 7:30pm at the Jewish
Community Center of Harrison. Admission is free and everyone is welcome.
For more information contact Donna Bartell, Program Manager at:
Westchester Jewish Council
701 Westchester Avenue - Suite 203
White Plains, New York 10604
Phone 914-328-7001 Fax 914-761-6309
Donna@WJCouncil.org
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A Message from the President
Spring at HCS means time to clean up and clean out. Sisterhood had taken on the job of beautifying the outside of our synagogue. We have a large television that needs to be disposed of. (Any volunteers?) Somers bulk pick-­‐up does not take electronics. We now have a new flat-­‐screen TV to host Saturday movie night, which begins May 10th at 6:30. Rabbi Fred will surprise us with a wonderful film. May 18th is the last day of Hebrew School and moving-­‐up day. Our Annual Congregational Meeting is also May 18th. All families should send at least one representative. This is the time where we review the events of the past year and plan for next year. Brunch will be served. Get involved, join a committee. You don’t know how good you will feel. Ask anyone of our volunteers who keep this synagogue running. Check the new directory for their names. Remember, it is a mitzvah to sponsor a Kiddush during our Saturday morning Shabbat service. I am creating a new form that will be mailed out to make the process easier. Somers Bagels supplies the food. You contribute the donation of $54. You can celebrate a birthday, anniversary or the Yartzeit of a loved one. I hope to see you soon. Shalom! Mary Wolchan 6
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A Message from the Rabbi
Memorial-Independence Day
I am writing this in Eilat, walking distance from Jordan and Egypt, a stone’s throw away from Saudi Arabia.
Right now we are in the middle of the Pesach holiday, the biggest holiday of the year in Israel, in terms of
family vacations. Eilat is filled with Israeli families instead of the usual plethora of French and American
tourists that come here during the winter months. With all its myriad of problems, Israel is a sea of
tranquility when compared with its neighbors. The Arab spring, to put it mildly, has had mixed results.
Egypt’s experiment with democracy appears to be rapidly coming to an end with a new military strong-man
taking over from the old one. Ironically, in the short term this has worked in Israel’s favor since the new
military leadership has closed Egypt’s border with Gaza and filled in the smugglers’ tunnels. The ruling
family of Saudi Arabia is above all else concentrating on one topic - maintaining its one-family rule.
Privately, it is well aware of the importance of Israel as one of its few defenses against the radical Shiites
who not only control Iran but who inhabit S. Arabia’s eastern (oil-rich) provinces. Jordan is barely keepings
its head above water under the weight of over a million Syrian refugees. Syria and, to a great degree
Lebanon, suffer under the cruelest of civil wars. There are frequent bombings in Beirut in the area of the
city ruled by Hamas, hundreds if not thousands of Hamas members have lost their lives fighting to keep
Assad in power. Syria itself no longer exists as a unified country and the cruelty and brutality of its civil war
goes on.
Meanwhile, Israel is celebrating. The economy continues to boom even while the supposedly indispensable
Stanley Fischer left his chairmanship of the Bank of Israel and became the Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve
Bank. Anyone who kept their money in Shekels instead of Dollars has reaped a windfall profit over the last
year, although that also means that Israel is no longer a cheap destination for tourists. Jobs are plentiful,
the Knesset has passed laws that are starting to limit the power of Israel’s economic oligarchies, the
infrastructure of the country is continually being improved with new rail lines and improved highways,
universal pre-school was adopted for the whole country three years ago. More and more of the ultraorthodox and Israeli Arab populations (Israel’s economic underclasses) are being compelled either legally or
for practical reasons to participate more fully in Israeli society and even to limit the size of their families. In
short, in all the areas that America is failing, Israel is succeeding.
By the time you are reading this, the twin Israeli holidays of Memorial Day and Independence day will be
upon us. Israel celebrates its independence day on the anniversary of its declaration in 1948. It’s
leadership had the great good sense to schedule its memorial day for the day before. That way, one can
never forget the price that had to be paid to gain that independence. But, perhaps more importantly,
Israelis understand that paying that price is not over. Every generation has had to fight to maintain Israel’s
continued existence. The parents of each succeeding generation has always wondered whether their kids
were up to the task. I well remember being here for the last war in Lebanon against Hizballah; the last two
wars in Gaza against Hamas. I also remember the shaggy-haired, tattooed and pierced hedonists of Tel
Aviv, the knit-kippah orthodox, the Ethiopian and Russian immigrants putting on their uniforms, showing up
for their reserve units and disproving the doubts of their worried parents. The irony of Israel is that it truly
is an Eretz Nehederet, an “amazing country,” but every generation for over a hundred years has had to pay
a price to keep it alive. Given the current situation, I doubt that this will change in the foreseeable future.
But when each generation’s turn comes, I am confident that they too will pay whatever price needs to be
paid to preserve the country.
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PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE
Dear Congregants and Students,
In the next few weeks, Hebrew School will be
coming to a close. It has been a glorious
year. Our students are engaged and we had
some of the best teachers ever.
I am excited that many of our long time staff
will be returning. Sara Doar and Beth
Whipple are motivated to return to a new
group of students to work with. Jess
Sampson, a teen teacher, will be attending
college locally. Rose Rayner and Hannah
Most, who I taught at HCS years ago, will be
returning through their senior year of high
school.
Please remember that while school may be
out of session, services will still be going on
weekly. First Friday potluck and all the rest
are Saturdays. It would be especially exciting
for the students to attend the three Bnei
Mitzvahs occurring in June and July. Our
students work hard to learn the material and
I think you will be very impressed
I look forward to the beginning stages of
planning next year with all of you in mind.
Peace~
Tal
Tree Of Life Sponsors
Brown Family
Karsch Family
Larry and Marilyn
Kaufman
Fischer Family
Post-Scurlock
Family
Prusnofsky Family
Rikoon Family
Most Family
Jill Dayan
Kleinman Family
Robert Fried Adult Education
at HCS
While the Hebrew School year is quickly coming to a close for the kids, we are planning to continue to meet at Turco’s in Yorktown. Check your e-­‐mail for further information, and please come and join us for Sunday morning coffee and learning! The Shofar
Yahrzeit Donation from: William Farkas for yahrzeit of Anna Bernstein Janet & Sidney Eisig for yahrzeit of Pearl Eisig Lawrence & Marilyn Kaufman for yahrzeits of Celia and Julius Funk Philip Greiss for yahrzeit of Max Greiss Howard & Donna Hirsch for yahrzeits of Minnie and Jack Hirsch Harvey & Gail Katz for yahrzeit of Alexander Katz Randi Kenna for yahrzeit of Solomon Kleiman Bernard Landman for yahrzeits of Alice and Irving Landman Roberta Levine Carnaghi for yahrzeit of Bernard Levine Molly Schwartz for yahrzeits of Arthur and Joseph Schwartz Arlene & Barry Brown for yahrzeit of Abraham Sonsky Leonard Staub for yahrzeit of Claire Staub Rosalind Lipson for yahrzeit of Helen Utah Arlene & Barry Brown for yahrzeit of Samuel Wohl In-­‐Memory-­‐Of Donation from: Diane Karsch for Michele Klein Diane Karsch for Paul Kleinman Albert Lasher for Israel Lasher Donation to Rabbi’s Discretionary Fund from: Andrea Eisenberg in memory of Phyllis Eisenberg Donation to HCS General Fund from: Roman Kent (via Jewish Communal Fund) Lawrence & Marilyn Kaufman in celebration of the Rabbi’s birthday William Farkas in celebration of Passover 8
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Highlights from the March 2014HCS Board Meetings
The board invited Chief Burpee and Chief Driscoll to speak with teachers and students about safety. They also made a presentation to the board to offer suggestions on improving security and safety measures. A Safety Committee has been formed to address possible changes. Chief Driscoll mentioned that prescription drugs no longer needed may be dropped off at the Somers Police Dept. behind the Teen Center from Mon.-­‐Fri., 9am-­‐5pm. Please notice our new enlarged bulletin board in the front hall. There’s plenty of room, now, for our notices and photos. Enjoy! The Purim Carnival was a big success. Lots of people attended from tots to grandparents, and a good time was had by all. Please join us for the Spring Clean Up on April 27. We’ll have snacks to keep our energy going. In no time, with everyone’s help, we can spruce up our grounds and be ready for spring. On May 18 we will have our annual Congregational Meeting. We will go over congregation business, concerns and progress made. We will also have committee reports and will review board positions. Your input is appreciated. IMPORTANT LINKS
JRF leadership listserv sign-up: http://www2.jrf.org/cong/disc-cong.php
JRF Convention website: http://www.jrfconvention.org
Education Directors' website: http://www2.jrf.org/rena/
Reconstructionist Divrei-Torah web site: http://www2.jrf.org/recon-dt/index.php
JRF Publications: http://jrf.org/press/index.html
JRF Long distance Learning: http://www.jrf.org/news/RRC_Distance_Learning.html
http://www.judaicawebstore.com/default.asp
Help the residents of Sderot by buying their products.
http://www.madeinshderot.com
http://www.aifl@aifl.org (America-Israel Friendship League)
http://www.jdc.org/jcdr_co_sudan.html (Jewish Coalition for Disaster Relief-info on Sudan)
http://www.onefamilyfund.org/index.asp?ID=224
http://www.wjconference.org (Westchester Jewish Conference)
http://www.ajws.org (American Jewish World Service)
http://www.ajc.org
http://honestreporting.com/
http://www.onejerusalem.org/
http://www.pmw.org.il/ (Palestinian Media Watch)
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God Bless These
Birthday People,
Let Their Day Bring
Joy and Cheer
Come Grow Old With Me...
The Best Is Yet To Be
May 3 Kenneth Wexler
5 Bill Farkas
6 Jace McEwan
7 Manny Stern
9 Lauren Dahling
10 Bruce Woogen
16 Andy Cheung
16 Kayla Kleinman
17 Ted Novick
21 Patricia Carlin
25 Stephen Ucko
26 Sharon Sherwin
26 Andrew Kahn
27 Isaac Shelby
29 Jeff Sampson
29 Amy Post
31 Jeremy Sevelovitz
31 Julie Woogen
June 1 Alan Most
4 Debra Tannor
4 Gary Rikoon
4 Anne Gotz
7 Marc Sevelovitz
8 Nathaniel Woogen
9 Pauline Rose
9 David Gotz
9 Adam Fischer
10 Noah Brenner
11 Steve Karsch
11 Reuben Siegel
14 Caitlin Burgess
14 Donna Wolfson
17 Jennifer Koenig
18 Ross Weiner
19 Elena Lurye
21 Robert Frank
22 Linda Kortick
23 Lauren Hirsch
23 Sarah Waldinger
24 Ira Nitzberg
May 18 Victor Danielle Greenberg/Klebanoff
29 Mark Beth Nitzberg/Cariker
June 2 Murray Patricia Carlin
5 Bruce JulieWoogen
10 Elliot Sharon Sherwin
10 Chris Michelle Manzares
11 Ted Karin Novick
15 Kenneth Marilyn Wexler
18 Gary Nancy Rikoon
18 Kevin Ilyse Desharnais
19 Mory Amy Katz
22 Leslie Vicki Prusnofsky
27 Peter Amy Scurlock/Post
29 Kenneth Janet Shelby/Weinrib
Happy Birthday to our
Junior Congregants:
May 2 Sage Cheung
7 Michael O'Hare
20 Aaron Katz
23 Allison Tannor
June 8 Andrew Scurlock
21 Samuel Fragoso 11
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In Memoriam
Lila Bernstein
Julius Funk Celia Funk Yetta Wohl Henry Prusnofsky Samuel Wohl
Michael Prusnofsky Jack W. Dolny
Jean Prusnofsky Gertrude Dolny Zeke Karsch
Sidney N. Sonsky
Joseph Kaufman
Ida Kaufman
Arthur Sherman Minnie Sonsky
Louis Stein Lillian Stein Abraham Sonsky
Muriel Brown
Louis and Ester Sonsky
Flora Most
Steven Post
Hershel Post
Gertrude Worthman
Estelle & Seymour Charton
William Most
Hyman Levy
Howard & Helen Rikoon
Paul Grossman
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Yahrzeits May
5/1/14 Samuel Schuckman 1 Iyyar
5/1/14 Seymour Charton 1 Iyyar 5763
5/2/14 Harry Epstein 2 Iyyar
5/3/14 Adolph King 3 Iyyar
5/4/14 Jack Reback 4 Iyyar
5/7/14 Stephanie Kugel 7 Iyyar
5/8/14 Lillian Carlish 8 Iyyar
5/10/14 Louis Friedman 10 Iyyar
5/10/14 Eleanor King 10 Iyyar
5/11/14 Charles Bernstein 11 Iyyar
5/13/14 Flora Most 13 Iyyar
5/13/14 Jack Abrams 13 Iyyar
5/13/14 Charles Duchen 13 Iyyar
5/13/14 Jack Nachbar 13 Iyyar
5/13/14 Hilda Stone 13 Iyyar
5/14/14 Selma Stoller 14 Iyyar
5/14/14 Jules Krisky 14 Iyyar
5/14/14 Peggy Sonnenberg 14 Iyyar
5/15/14 Louis Wiener 15 Iyyar
5/15/14 Ben Marsh 15 Iyyar
5/16/14 Emanuel Kahn 16 Iyyar
5/17/14 Regina Chuney 17 Iyyar 5727
5/17/14 Lillian Marsh 17 Iyyar
5/17/14 Regina Chuney 17 Iyyar 5727
5/18/14 Ralph Eisenberg 18 Iyyar 5773
5/18/14 Samuel Browner 18 Iyyar
5/18/14 Leonard Sonnenberg 18 Iyyar
5/19/14 Melvin Kamenetzky 19 Iyyar 5759
5/19/14 Sarah Naidus 19 Iyyar
5/20/14 David Wittenberg 20 Iyyar
5/21/14 Henry Kurz 21 Iyyar
5/21/14 Jesse Schwartz 21 Iyyar
5/22/14 Lawrence Kugel 22 Iyyar 5773
5/23/14 Nathan Platnick 23 Iyyar
5/23/14 Shirley Staub 23 Iyyar
5/23/14 Joseph A. Schwalb 23 Iyyar
5/25/14 Marian Heyman 25 Iyyar
5/25/14 Frances Frank 25 Iyyar
5/26/14 Baruch Ganbaum 26 Iyyar
5/26/14 Louis Hirsch 26 Iyyar
5/27/14 Ethel Slupsky 27 Iyyar
5/28/14 Alan Farkas 28 Iyyar
5/28/14 Charlotte Kahn 28 Iyyar
5/29/14 Bernice Kurz
Yahrzeits June
6/1/14 Harris Harvey Koenig 3 Sivan 5760
6/3/14 Hyman Weiskott 5 Sivan
6/5/14 Martin Woogen 7 Sivan 5769
6/6/14 Bernice Kurtz 8 Sivan 5772
6/6/14 Abraham Sheindlin 8 Sivan
6/7/14 Clara Stoller 9 Sivan
6/9/14 Sarah Supovitz 11 Sivan
6/9/14 Rose Rifkin 11 Sivan
6/10/14 Ray Wittenberg 12 Sivan
6/11/14 Seymour Poppoly 13 Sivan
6/11/14 Hyman Zimmerman 13 Sivan
6/12/14 Samuel Wiener 14 Sivan
6/13/14 Eleanor Waldinger 15 Sivan
6/13/14 Ilse Godfrey 15 Sivan
6/15/14 Louis Berkowitz 17 Sivan
6/16/14 Joseph Gold 18 Sivan
6/16/14 Esther Taubman 18 Sivan
6/17/14 Louis Sonsky 19 Sivan
6/18/14 Adolph & Irma Farkas 20 Sivan
6/19/14 William Dyckoff 21 Sivan
6/19/14 Charles Silverstein 21 Sivan
6/19/14 Evelyn Goldstein 21 Sivan
6/19/14 Sylvia Carmel 21 Sivan
6/21/14 Fave Sondike 23 Sivan
6/21/14 Percep Omin
6/22/14 Paul Grossman 24 Sivan 5773
6/23/14 Hyman Halpern 25 Sivan
6/23/14 Sadie King 25 Sivan
6/23/14 Stanley Pomerance 25 Sivan
6/25/14 Isaac Zeitlin 27 Sivan
6/25/14 Max A. Berger 27 Sivan
6/26/14 Hyman Jacobson 28 Sivan
6/26/14 Samuel Pearlman 28 Sivan
6/27/14 Saul Schwartz 29 Sivan
6/27/14 Leizer Steinberg 29 Sivan
6/28/14 Sam Levine 30 Sivan
6/28/14 Sam Levine 30 Sivan 5765
6/29/14 Sarah Schreiber 1 Tammuz
6/29/14 Henry Chuney 1 Tammuz 5771
6/29/14 Pepe Ucko 1 Tammuz
6/30/14 Lawrence Epstein 2 Tammuz The Shofar
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Sisterhood
Hebrew Congregation of Somers
PO Box 40
Shenorock, NY 10587
Hebrew Congregation of Somers
Rabbi Fred Schwalb
President: Mary Wolchan
Financial Secretary: Bernie Landman
Hebrew School Chairperson: Melissa Greenspon
Hebrew School Principal: Tal Hadani-Pease
Membership Chairperson: Open
Sisterhood Coordinator: Amy Post/Emily Siegel
Shofar Editor: Audrey Sherman
Shalom-O-Gram / Memorials / Refuah Shlemah: Lorraine Stromes
Hebrew Congregation of Somers Telephone Number (914) 248-9532
Web Site: http://www.hebrewcongregationofsomers.org
info@hebrewcongregationofsomers.org
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