TEMPLE SINAI BULLETIN

Temple Sinai Bulletin
New Orleans’
First Reform
Congregation
Founded in 1870
6227 St. Charles Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana 70118-6141
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Volume 87
February 2015 - 5775
Number 3
From Where I Stand
Dear Friends,
Here are highlights from Sydney Gold’s wonderful
address to the Congregation at this year’s Henry S.
Jacobs Camp Shabbat. I share them with you as lessons
worthy for all of us “big kids”. Thanks Sydney!
Camp has taught me a lot of things. It has given me
countless Jewish role models, extensive knowledge
on Israel which I might have never been exposed to otherwise, the opportunities
to learn from dozens of regional rabbis, and I won’t even begin to mention the
friendships. Still, one of the biggest lessons I have taken away from my camp
experience is how to be a Jewish leader. Though I could go on forever about the
hundreds of lessons camp has taught me about leadership, I felt that the top 18
would suffice for now.
1. Being a good leader means not being afraid to lead- This seems like a pretty
obvious one, but it’s a lesson I feel Jacobs teaches well. If you want to be a leader,
you need to be confident in yourself, and trust that the people around you will
support you. I can’t think of an environment where I feel more accepted and
comfortable than at camp, which is why this lesson topped the chart.
2. Being a leader is scary, so do it. Throughout the history of the Jewish people,
we’ve had some hard times. In fact, we’ve had times so hard that the
survival of our entire religion has been tested. But from this, we have gained some
of our most valuable leaders. That’s what Jews do.
3. Leading means creating your own ideas, but also using the lessons that our
ancestors learned to help accelerate your own leadership. If you can follow, you
can lead
4. You still need to know how to be part of the collective. You’re not going to be the
leader every time.
5. Don’t be afraid to be a leader in your own right. Not everyone is loud, and
outgoing. If you are more comfortable leading quietly, do it.
6. Be kind
7. Be loyal
8. Be smart. Educate yourself, be well informed, and make a stand, because no
matter what, no one can take that knowledge away from you.
9. Take advice
10. Be passionate about your cause. If you don’t have the drive, you won’t
accomplish it.
11. Be active- passivity never got anything done. Taking a stand is one thing, but
taking a step is another. Start the journey.
12. Remember why you’re doing this.
13. Learn from former leaders. No sense to make the same mistake twice, right?
Find some leadership role models, be it MLK or your unit head.
14. You will rarely find more leaders in one room than in a Garin cabin. Little kids
are the best leaders, and if you have any way to utilize some of that potential, do it.
They have a drive, ambition, and effervesce that can rarely be matched. Draw from
it, and try to find it in yourself.
15. Know how to be a good friend. Every quality a good friend possesses is
important in leadership.
16. Never say your cause is stupid. Do you care about it? Then it’s not stupid.
17. Surround yourself with other leaders. This is one of camps gifts. It allows you
to immerse yourself in a community of leaders, and use them as resources to grow
as a person. They’re also probably going to be your best friends.
18. Leading is certainly the most difficult part of being a leader, but anyone can
do it.
As I drag my feet in approach to my last summer at camp, a part of me grows
excited to conclude my camp experience with these lessons in tow, ready to
become a leader.
February Worship Services
Friday, February 6
6:15 p.m.- Shabbat Service
Rabbi Cohn will speak on “Are the
Ten Commandments Now the Ten
Opinions”?
Saturday, February 7
10:15 a.m.- Shabbat Service
Torah Portion: Yitro, Exod. 18:120:23
Haftarah: Isaiah 6:1-7:6, 9:5-9:6
Friday, February 13
Friday, February 20
6:15 p.m.- Shabbat Service
Rabbi Cohn will speak on “What
Would Moses Do?”
Candles: Lillian Opotowsky
Saturday, February 21
10:15 a.m.- Shabbat Service
Torah Portion: T’rumah, Exod.
25:1-27:19
Haftarah: I Kings 5:26-6:13
Friday, February 27
6:15 p.m.- Shabbat Service
Rabbi Cohn will speak on “Yom
Ha- Valentine, Why I love
Valentine’s Day”.
Candle Blessing: Dorlene Alaynick
6:15 p.m.- Shabbat Service
Rabbi Cohn will speak on “What
Every Villain Hates”.
Candle Blessing: Doris Baron
Saturday, February 14
Saturday, February 28
10:15 a.m.- Shabbat Service
Torah Portion: Mishpatim, Exod
21:1-24:16
Haftarah: II Kings 12:5-16
10:15 a.m.- Shabbat Service
Torah Portion: T’tzaveh Exod.
27:20-30:10
Haftarah: Esther 7:1-10; 8:15-17
Save The Date:
Temple Sinai Gala
April 11, 2015
Six o’clock- Patron Party
Seven o’clock- Gala
Temple Sinai’s Goldring Pavilion
Celebrating the 145
Anniversary
WITH A SALUTE TO THE PAST,
WE STEP INTO THE FUTURE
From The Temple Educator - Ann Zivitz Kientz
After the long Winter Break our Religious School and Hebrew School jumped right back into full swing. The report cards from the 1st
semester have been mailed out to all of the parents and as I reviewed how much each class has learned it really is amazing. From Pre-Kindergarten all the way through Confirmation our staff is amazing and the daunting amount of information we teach each semester is something
to be very proud of.
Our beginner Hebrew students have now learned the entire Aleph-bet and have begun simple reading. And our most advanced students have
nearly completed learning all of the Prayers of Shabbat. All of the kids who regularly attend at every level have increased their skills
exponentially.
Each Sunday morning in our Sr. T’filah (4th – 7th graders) we pray the prayers of Shabbat morning as well as learn about the Torah portion of the week. This
learning service is not only an opportunity to pray, learn and build skills, but also our Senior Hebrew students preparing for Bar/Bat Mitzvah are learning how to
lead. Our Jr. T’filah (Pre-K – 3rd graders) begins with kids volunteering each week what they are thankful for and then we move into the basic Jewish prayers.
These kids also enjoy a mini Torah service which along with their Hebrew time with Maya, is preparing them for the next level in T’filah as well as Hebrew School.
Upcoming Family Friendly Experiences:
Children’s Shabbat – Saturday February 7th 10:15am – THE 10 COMMANDMENTS are the theme for the service with Rabbi Cohn and Cantor Colman and the
activity with Ann.
Brotherhood Intergenerational Shabbat – Friday February 27th – 6:15pm
Brotherhood sponsored – Family Fun Day!! Sunday March 1st 10:30 – 11:30!
PURIM PLAY – “Into the Torah” – Featuring the Temple Sinai Players! A fun musical show for our congregation on Purim – Wednesday March 4th 5:30, followed
by a FREE family Purim dinner! Watch your Email for MORE details coming SOON!!! DON’T MISS IT!
Our Confirmation class having a
wonderful time on their trip to
New York.
JewCCY- Ivy Cohen
JewCCY was very strongly represented at NFTY Southern’s Winter KallahClave in Memphis. We enjoyed a fun weekend of
programming, exploration of the Civil Rights Movement and a clean-up of South Memphis with Knowledge Quest – an
organization that gives kids in South Memphis somewhere to go after school. We look forward to having even greater participation at Spring
Kallah at Jacobs Camp, April 17-19!
There are some awesome events for 2015, so save the dates below! If you attend a JewCCY event and wish to see the photos taken, they can
always be seen at jewccy.shutterfly.com
February 4 – HumpDay Hangout at Gates of Prayer – 6:30pm Dinner, Movie & some mid-week fun with JewCCY
February 21st – Dads vs. JewCCy Second Annual Jewbowl Flag Football game 1pm – Contact Todd Hamilton for details or if you wish to
participate! Fun for the WHOLE family!
Febrary 28th – JewCCY’s FIVE YEAR ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION at SECTOR6!! All 6th-12th graders welcome! Register TODAY to
save your spot https://jewccy.wufoo.com/forms/jewccys-5th-birthday-at-sector6/
Our Temple Sinai members of JEWCCY
at the NFTY Weekend in Memphis
Voices of Our Members
By Bonnie Adler Aronson
Temple Sinai Sisterhood Co-President and Board Member
I am a lifelong member of Temple Sinai, which is soon to be sixty-five years. I have so many vivid recollections of my early Temple life.
As a young girl in the mid-1950s, my family often attended Friday Night Family Services that were held on the first Friday night of the month. We all sat together on the
far left side of the Sanctuary, a few rows from the back with my uncle, Neville Levy, my father’s brother-in-law. I was crazy about my uncle, and it made me laugh when
I would see him nod off during the service. The best part of the evening for me was the reception afterwards. Shirley Jeskin, Jill’s mother, represented the Sisterhood,
and she made sure that the tables were filled with beautiful small squares of chocolate doberge cakes from Mrs. Ledner’s bakery. It was worth sitting through the long
services for those cakes. I also remember going to Temple on Sunday mornings for religious school wearing a dress and my black patent leather Mary Jane shoes with
little white socks folded in half. It was special going to Temple and I knew it an early age.
In second grade, 1957, my Sunday school teacher was a beautiful lady named Ann Harris. When I started third grade, she had become Mrs. Kiefer for the new second
graders…and a Tulane student named Charles Cohen was my teacher that year. Then I remember Bobby Applebaum, another Tulane student a year or so later teaching
along with Robert Wolf, a future president of Temple Sinai and Milton Fingerman whom I see to this day.
As a high school sophomore, I was confirmed. Rabbi Julian Feibelman presided and stood with us at the ark. He then blessed each student with a special individual blessing. To prepare for this important milestone, we attended weekly confirmation practices on Wednesday afternoons. Mary Anna Feibelman, the Rabbi’s wife, helped me
to memorize my part. I was the first to speak. I still remember my prayer. It was the 121st Psalm, “I will lift up mine eyes to the hills from whence shall my help come…”
I stood under the ark again in December of 1970 when Rabbi Murray Blackman led the congregation. That night, my soon to be husband, Jay Aronson, and I received a
blessing a week before our marriage. I wore a black dress. Imagine that?
I joined the Sisterhood a year or so after I married, and I remember being invited to a Sisterhood luncheon as a prospective member. That meal had been prepared by Janis
Barton, a marvelous member who dedicated so much energy and effort to the Temple. In the mid-1970s, Sue Levy, now Sue Barton, was president of the Sisterhood.
She asked me to work with Sabina Chapman, now Sabina Altman. Our project was to create a Children’s Tree of Life. We collected names of children and newborns in
the congregation, and a local artist Charles Reinike created the tree. Individual leaves were inscribed with the names we collected, and then the leaves were affixed to
the tree. The leaves filled the outline, and over time the tree became filled and beautiful.
The Sisterhood is an organization that I have been involved with my entire married life. I remember: Holland bulb sales, Antique seminars, and cooking lessons arranged
by Lillian Opotowsky held at the Royal Orleans with experts from the Silver Palate restaurant in New York. There were monthly bingo games at Willowood, now called
Woldenberg, where the Sisterhood sponsored games followed by a cake and punch reception. I often drove some of the older members across the river to help at the
games – perhaps hoping silently inside that someone would drive me to such a destination when I reached that stage of life.
The Temple has been a continuous anchor for me for all these decades – it is right there, on the avenue, near the park. There is always work to do inside its’ walls…and
performing that work can make one feel a bit more complete.
Brotherhood President’s Message - Josh Danzig
February is going to be a great month for the Temple Sinai Brotherhood. February 27 is the annual Intergenerational Shabbat held in conjunction
with the Religious School. Please bring your son, daughter, parent, grandparent, or any other family member to this special service.
March 1 brings the Brotherhood Family Fun Day. This wonderful morning of rock climbing, games, food, and fun takes place at Shelter #11 at
Audubon Park.
In addition, the Brotherhood is funding a new Public Relations campaign for Temple Sinai with Peter Mayer Advertising. The campaign will
celebrate Sinai’s 145th anniversary in an attempt to bring in new unaffiliated members. It will lead up to the Gala on April 11…stay tuned for
more info!
If you’d like more info on joining the Sinai Brotherhood, please email me at jdanzig4@cox.net Dues are $38 for the year and help the Brotherhood put on various programs that benefit Temple Sinai and the community as a whole.
Sisterhood Co- President’s Message - Bonnie Aronson & Joan Tuchman
25 Reform Jewish women stepped, one by one, up onto the bimah to participate in
Temple Sinai's annual Shabbat Service on the morning of January 10th, 2015. These
women particularly enjoy being involved in the worship aspects of the Temple and thus
created a meaningful day with their readings of passages from the scriptures emphasizing
the woman's point of view.
Our illustrious speaker, Nancy Marsiglia gave an inspiring speech about the non-profit
organization which she and fellow Temple member, Melanie Bronsin have established
to make certain that the first five years of a child's life can be as secure as possible so they
can face a life full of laughter, education and hope.
A spectacular display of Pot Luck followed showing the creativeness of the women who read,
and those who prepared mouth watering cuisines. Kudos to the following: Dorlene Alaynick,
Sabina Altman, Bonnie Aronson, Doris Baron, Sue Barton, Sarah Churney, Andrea Cohn,
Judith Custer, Genie Dyer, Phyllis Feran, Robin Giarusso, Irene Hirsch, Lawlene Kaplan, Sharon Kirkpatrick, Lisette LaPrairie,
Nancy Marsiglia, Betty Moore, Marian Moore, Andrea Morris, Robyn Nowak, Lillian Opotowski, Verdie Richburg, EllenRae Shallet,
Judy Simkin, Sue Singer, and Joan Tuchman.
Respectfully submitted by Bonnie and Joanie Co-Presidents
Mazel Tov to......
In Memoriam
Josh Rubinstein for being chosen by
CityBusiness to the 2015 Leadership
in Law class.
Temple Sinai extends
sympathy to the mourning
Family of:
Elaine & Ed Schlesinger on the
birth of their granddaugher, Arielle
Ruth Schesinger
Margaret Veta
Mother of Sherry Snyder
Mike Sherman for being chosen by
CityBusiness to the 2015 Leadership
in Law class.
Rabbi Cohn’s Updated Information
Home Phone: 504-833-7200
Address:
800 Rue Rampart St. # 303
Metairie, LA 70005
Reaching the Temple in an Emergency when phones
are not working
Do you know
someone for the
Mazel Tov
section?
Tell the Temple
Sinai office!
6227 St. Charles
Ave, New
Orleans, LA 70118
sinai@usa.net or
504-861-3693
“May her
memory be for a blessing”
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If you have an emergency and need to reach the Temple
and the Temple phones are unavailable due to a power
outage, please note the following cell phone numbers for
emergency use:
Rabbi Edward Paul Cohn: 504-231-6626
Cantor Joel Colman: 504-296-7221
EllenRae Shalett (Exec. Director): 504-812-4993
Temple Sinai Calendar
February 2015/5775
Week of February 1-7:
1st: Religious School
9:00 - 11:30 am
4th: Hebrew School
4:00 - 6:00 pm
6th: Shabbat Service 6:15 pm
7th: Shabbat Service 10:15 am
Week of February 8-14:
8th: Religious School
9:00 - 11:30 am
10th: 92nd Street Y 6:30 pm
11th: Hebrew School
4:00 - 6:00 pm
13th: Shabbat Service 6:15 pm
14th: Shabbat Service 10:15 am
Week of February 15-21:
15th: NO RELIGIOUS
SCHOOL
16th: Office Closes at Noon
17th: Mardi Gras - Office
Closed
18th: NO HEBREW
SCHOOL
20th: Shabbat Service 6:15 pm
21: Shabbat Service 10:15 am
Week of February 22-28:
22nd: Religious School
9:00 - 11:30 am
23rd: Executive & Board
Meetings
25th: Hebrew School
4:00 - 6:00 pm
27th: Shabbat Service 6:15 pm
Brotherhood Shabbat
28th: Shabbat Service 10:15am
February Birthdays
James Altman
Anne Babin
Patricia Barnett
Michael Barton
Linda Baum
Vanessa Berg
Jean Brickman
Melanie Bronfin
Max Cohen
Joel Colman
Giselli Danzig
Mildred Denegre
Craig Evans
Barbara Fisher
Mollie Fried
Marcia Gersovitz
Robin Goldsmith
John Haspel
Eve Hirsch
Ellen Hooper
Stephanie Kenyon
Brittany Kirschman
Kenny Klein
Noah Kohan
Lynne Kullman
David Kunian
Lori Lambert
Adolph Levy
Jack Lyles, Jr.
Mary Miller
Marian Moore
Betty Moore
Robyn Nowak
Eric Nowak
Kim O'Donnell
Avra O'Dwyer
Arthur Pulitzer
Ann Rabin
Allison Reu
Zollie Richburg
Louis Rippner
Carol Lise Rosen
Susan Roskind
Neil Shapiro
Briann Shear
Michael Sherman
Mimi Shlenker
Aimee Siegel
Jonathan Silverman
Susan Simon
Alan Sizeler
Steven Sobel
Jane Steiner
Mary Stern
Walter Stern
Lynne Stern
Sharon Wolfson
Leonard Wormser
Justin Zitler
February Anniversaries
Jeffrey & Candice Betz, Tamie & Lee Bressler,
Matthew Glodowski& Jeri Rome, James & Hope Meyer,
Edna & Lester Scheinuk, Gail & Harold Victor,
Margot & Larry Yuspeh
February Yahrzeits
February 6,7
Jack Alden
Elise Mayer Besthoff
Moise S.Cahn
Marilyn Weiss Davis
Charles W. Frank, Sr.
Jay Morton Jalenak
Charlotte McArthur Kornman
Charles H. Levy
Leopold LeonardLevy
Gertrude ScherckLevy
Rose Newman Mopsik
Paul Rosenmeyer
Julia A. Sasso
Ethel R.Sternberg
Leo Weil
Louis A.Weil
Joseph D. Weiner
Eva Simon Welsch
Jules Wolbrette
February 13,14
Theresa Abraham
Janet Jacobs Aschaffenburg
Philip Beekman
Sydney J. Besthoff
William B. Burkenroad
Rudolph J. Cohn
Jan Corenswet
Abraham B. Feibelman
Melanie Pulitzer Feldman
Albin Charles Fisher, Sr.
Irving A. Fosberg
Betty Pearlman Fosberg
Bernard H. Goldsmith
Mary Roos Haas
Max H. Hart
Edward Max Heller
Edward Max Heller
Hannah Block Hirsch
Ralph Katz
Howard L. Leventhal
Dianne Lynn Levy
Hilbert Sampson Loeb
Leopold Loeb
Samuel Marcuse
Hermance Dreyfus Meyer
Leo Miller, Jr.
Leo Miller, Sr.
Velma D. Prins
Edwina Hirsch Reisfeld
Jesse S. Rosenfeld, Sr.
Henrietta B. Rosenthal
Hans W.Schlesinger
Paul Schreier
Virginia Rush Threefoot
Arthur Weiss
Samuel Wolf
Janet Selig Wolf Zadek
February 20, 21
Lillian Erlich Alaynick
Myrtle Blum
Nettie Pulitzer Carmel
Louis E.Cohen
Mayer Leon Dresner
Anne Kurtz Elster
Jake Henry Gutmann
William Haspel, Jr.
Benjamin Goodwin Katz
Yevgenia Khaimsky
I. Jay Krieger
Celestine M. Lazarus
Carrie Abraham Lemann
Miriam Straus Levy
Ezekiel E Moore
Milton Eli Pick
Emma L. Sperling
Harold Simon Weil
Julius Weill
J. Benjamin Weiner
Hyman Weinstein
Albert Jacob Wolf
Tillie Diefenthal Wolff
Dora Finger Yuspeh
Isadore Zadek
February 27, 28
Coleman E. Adler
Joan Opotowsky Caplan
Thomas B. Cobb
Sol Cohen
Reuben A. Cohen
Beulah G. Drapekin
Charles F. Dufour, Sr.
Fred Feran
Ida Finkelstein Greenberg
Edward A. Hayem
Abraham J. Jacobson
Carolyn Blum Klein
Isabel Weil Kohlmeyer
Ethel Lichtentag
Rose Pollock Litwin
Leo Levy Lowentritt
BeatriceLevy Marcuse
Nancy Alcus Marshall
Sally Marx
David Regenstein
Samuel Reisfeld
Claretta Mayer Rosenberg
Rebecca Russell
Bernard N. Samuel
Tess Levy Schornstein
Gabe Scooler
Patrick E. Senac
Harry Spiro, Sr.
Clara Weil Steeg
Justin Wormser
The Congregation Extends its Sincere Thanks for the Following Contributions
ALTAR FUND
IN HONOR OF SHEILA GOLD’S
BIRTHDAY
Sydney, Audrey & Timothy Gold
IN HONOR OF IRVING GOLDSTEIN’S
BIRTHDAY
Irving & Joyce Goldstein
IN MEMORY OF FLORA OKUN \
HIRSBERG AND BERNARD HIMAN
HIRSBERG
Dr. & Mrs. Harris Hyman, III
IN MEMORY OF RONALD F. KATZ
Allan Katz & Saundra Katz Levy
IN MEMORY OF NAUM KHAIMSKY
Alexandra Shikhris
IN MEMORY OF JANE LEVY LUCAS
William Lucas, Jr.
IN MEMORY OF EMMA ANNETTE
WEINBERGER
Lynne Goldman
IN MEMORY OF ROBERT YUSPEH,
JR.
Mr. & Mrs. Robert Yuspeh
ENDOWMENT FUND
The Gottesman Family Foundation
George & Milly Denegre Fund
IN MEMORY OF COURTNEY ELIZABETH GIARRUSSO
Patricia Barnett
IN MEMORY OF MELBA LAW STEEG
Patricia Barnett
IN MEMORY OF DR. SAUL SILVERMAN
Patricia Barnett
IN MEMORY OF DR. JULIUS E.
ISAACSON, JR.
Patricia Barnett
GOTTESMAN FUND
IN APPRECIATION OF RABBINICAL
SERVICES
Mrs. Fred Kahn II
HASPEL GARDEN FUND
IN MEMORY OF BERNARD TUCHMAN
Patricia Barnett
RABBI
MURRAY
BLACKMAN
LECTUE FUND
IN HONOR OF MAX MOSES’ BAR
MITZVAH
Mr. & Mrs. Gilbert Andry, III
SOCIAL JUSTICE FUND
Dr. & Mrs. Stanley Cohn
Dr. & Mrs. Donald Pulitzer
Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Tuman
IN MEMORY OF SARALYN BRONFIN
Dr. & Mrs. Daniel Bronfin
TEMPLE FUND
Mr. & Mrs. Michael Kenter
IN HONOR OF DR. DANIEL BRONFIN
RECEIVING THE AMERICAN
ACADEMY OF PEDIATRIC’S
SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Dr. Diane Africk
IN HONOR OF RABBI EDWARD
PAUL COHN RECEIVING THE WEISS
AWARD
Dr. Diane Africk
IN HONOR OF RABBI EDWARD
PAUL COHN RECEIVING THE
LIVING LEGEND AWARD AND
THE WEISS AWARD
Patricia Barnett
IN HONOR OF ELLENRAE
SHALETT
Linda M. Kaplan
IN HONOR OF ANN THOMPSON
Dr. Diane Africk
IN MEMORY OF ALINE FRIED
THORPE ANDERSON
Mr. & Mrs. Robert Sloan
IN MEMORY OF EDITH SPECTOR
ARONOFF
Shirley Aronoff
IN MEMORY OF COUTRNEY
ELIZABETH GIARRUSSO
Dr. Diane Africk
Mr. & Mrs. Albert Batten
IN MEMORY OF JOSEPH
GIARRUSSO, JR.
Dr. Diane Africk
IN MEMORY OF BERNARD
GOLDSMITH & CHARLES
GOLDSMITH
Robin W. Goldsmith
IN MEMORY OF MARK STEVEN
GREENBERG
Dr. Diane Africk
Mr. & Mrs. Albert Batten
IN MEMORY OF RICHARD
GODCHAUX HIRSCH
Dr. Diane Africk
IN MEMORY OF MILES
HOCHBERG
Mr. & Mrs. John Elmer
IN MEMORY OF SOEVAH SACHS
JACOBS
Mr. & Mrs. Stanley Jacobs
IN MEMORY OF MARTIN S.
LITWIN
Nancy Kittay Litwin
IN MEMORY OF HENRY L.
ROSENFELD
Perry & Marilyn Brown
IN MEMORY OF JULIUS “JULES”
SOBEL
Guy & Kelley Brenner
Harris & Rosalie Dulitz
Altar Flowers
Jan. 2,3 – In loving memory of Emma Annette Weinberger from
Lynn Goldman; in loving memory of Ronald Katz from Allan Katz
and Saundra K. Levy.
January 9 & 10 –From Joyce and Irving Goldstein in honor of
Irving’s Birthday and in loving memory of Naum Khaimsky from
Alexandra K. Shikhris
January 16 & 17 -In honor of the Birthday of Sheila K, Gold from
Tim, Sydney and Audrey Gold; and in honor of the Bat Mitzvah of
Haley Abrams from Jennifer and Larry Abrams
January 29,30 – In loving memory of Dr. Melvin Steiner, Jane
Blumenthal Steiner, and Everett Rubenstein from Mr. & Mrs. Jerry
Steiner, Sidney Steiner, Michael Rubenstein & Jane Rubenstein; in
loving memory of Moise S. Steeg, Sr, from Rob and Pam Steeg and
in loving memory of Clarice Weinstein from her family.
Thank you for your support of Chesed
From December 22 - January 16
Neil & Kim Abramson
Mrs. Dorlene Alaynick
Robert & Caroline Brickman
Stanley & Karen Cohn
Mr. & Mrs. Stanley Cohn
Mr. Julian Feibelman, Jr. & Mrs. Joan Feibelman
J. M. Fried, Jr. & Mollie Fried
Mr. Joseph Friend
Judge Robin Giarrusso
Mr. Julian Good, Jr. & Mrs. Wendy Good
Mr. John Haspel & Mrs. Amy Gainsburgh Haspel
Dr. Ben Jacobs, III & Mrs. Augusta Jacobs
Mr. & Mrs. Philip Katz
Dr. & Mrs. Robert Kessler
Dr. & Mrs. Alvin Lassen
Dr. & Mrs. Alan Levin
Dr. & Mrs. Louis Levin
Henry & Jane Lowentritt
Jack Lyles, Jr. & Pamela Lyles
Mr. Charles Madanick
Mr. Joshua Mayer & Mrs. Jill Dupre
James & Hope Meyer
Mr. & Mrs. Keith Miller
Mr. Michael Rubenstein
Kevin & Dr. Ariane Rung
Mark & Amy Stein
Lowell & Nancy Stewart
92nd Street Y
Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2015 6:30 p. m.
$5.00 admission
Join us for dinner at 6:00 p.m. Please RSVP to Temple Sinai 504-861-3693
David Axelrod in Conversation with David Remnick—Believer: My Forty Years in Politics
One of the key players in the historic campaign that made Barack Obama President, David Axelrod has
been involved with some of the greatest political changes of the last decade.
Axelrod has devoted a lifetime to questioning political certainties and to bringing fresh thinking into the
political landscape.
Join him as he discusses his remarkable career from young journalist to political consultant and ultimately
senior advisor to the President along with his views on the most pressing issues facing
the United States today.
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VOL. 87
February 2015-5775
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at New Orleans, Louisiana
NO. 3
Sheila Gold............................................................President
Robert Brickman..........................Executive Vice-President
The Honorable Robin Giarrusso...................Vice-President
Tracey Dodd.................................................Vice-President
Harvey Herstein....................................................Secretary
Michael Kirschman...............................................Treasurer
Josh Danzig......................................President/Brotherhood
Bonnie Aronson & Joan Tuchman..Co-Presidents/Sisterhood
Dr. Edward Paul Cohn................................................Rabbi
Joel M. Colman, M.S.M............................................Cantor
Ann Zivitz Kientz..................................Education Director
EllenRae Shalett.....................................Executive Director
Herbert Barton........................Executive Director Emeritus
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President of Xavier University Dr. Norman Francis, Mayor Mitch Landrieu, Rabbi Cohn, and Former Mayor Moon Landrieu at MLK Shabbat.