PACIFIC COMMUNITY HIGH HOLIDAYS. Please join us as we observe the High Holidays of Rosh Hashanah - Sunday, Sept. 9, :30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

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Pacific Community of Cultural Jews Chai-Lights September 2018 Pacific Community of Cultural Jews Orange County, CA 714-739-1366 PacifComm@aol.com www.pccjews.

1 Pacific Community of Cultural Jews Chai-Lights September 2018 Pacific Community of Cultural Jews Orange County, CA PACIFIC COMMUNITY HIGH HOLIDAYS Please join us as we observe the High Holidays of 5778 Rosh Hashanah - Sunday, Sept. 9, :30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Yom Kippur - Wednesday Sept. 19, 2018 (See forms at the end of the newsletter for Holiday and registration information) Sukkot / Succos Celebration Pacific Community Sukkot Celebration September 29, :30 p.m. Come celebrate the harvest holiday of Sukkot at Zena & Lee Jacobi's home. Bring a dish for a potluck lunch at 12:30 p.m. After lunch, we will learn about this happy holiday, and decorate the Sukkah in their backyard. The sukkah booth is traditional. The decorations will be somewhat traditional. 23 Alameda, Irvine RSVP to Lee Jacobi at LeeJacobi123@gmail.com Page 1 of 10

May the New Year bring you and your loved ones happiness, health, and peace.

9th) and Yom Kippur (Sept. 19th) services. And join us for a meal in a Sukkah (9/29).

2 The Prez Box L Shanah Tovah! In keeping with Jewish tradition, we will be celebrating the Jewish New Year in September. May the New Year bring you and your loved ones happiness, health, and peace. Tell your friends and extended families about our meaningful, non-theistic Rosh HaShanah (Sept. 9th) and Yom Kippur (Sept. 19th) services. And join us for a meal in a Sukkah (9/29). Lee Jacobi, President DINE OUT Sept. 19, 2018 Break the Fast Meal Yen Ching Chinese Cuisine 574 S. Glassell St. Orange RSVP to be included in the reservation no later than Sept. 17 th to Knechtfour@aol.com or Page 2 of 10

PHILOSOPHER S CAFÉ (Our Friendly Discussion Group) Friday, Oct. 5, 2018 7:30 p.m.

2 nd to Di at 714-951-9180 or DBF331@hotmail.com Happy Birthday!

3 PHILOSOPHER S CAFÉ (Our Friendly Discussion Group) Friday, Oct. 5, :30 p.m. At the home of Di Bunin 8885 Plumas Circle Unit # 1116A Huntington Beach please RSVP by Oct. 2 nd to Di at or DBF331@hotmail.com Happy Birthday! Terry Bayer - 9/17 Larry Machtinger - 9/19 Happy Anniversary! Dave & Nancy Okamoto - 9/7 Terry Bayer & Victor Vega - 9/16 Eric & Isabelle Kaminsky - 9/19 Page 3 of 10

Jews To Know by Lee Jacobi The Father of the Quark Murray Gell-Mann was born into a Jewish family in New York City in 1929.

He enrolled at Yale University at the age of only 15, and earned his BS in physics in 1948. He went on to earn a PhD in physics from MIT in 1951. He married J. Margaret Dow in 1955.

4 Jews To Know by Lee Jacobi The Father of the Quark Murray Gell-Mann was born into a Jewish family in New York City in His parents Arthur and Pauline (nee Reichstein) were from a town in the Austro- Hungarian Empire now in the Ukraine. As a boy, Gell-Mann exhibited an intense curiosity for nature and mathematics. He enrolled at Yale University at the age of only 15, and earned his BS in physics in He went on to earn a PhD in physics from MIT in He married J. Margaret Dow in The couple had 2 children of their own, and a step-child. Dr. Gell-Mann s work at the University of Chicago in the 1950s focused on cosmic ray particles that came to be called kaons and hyperons. In 1964 he hypothesized that the hyperon was composed of a smaller particle that he dubbed a quark. Dr. Gell-Mann was awarded a Nobel Prize in physics in 1969 for his contributions and discoveries concerning the classification of elementary particles and their interactions. In his long career he has been Professor of Theoretical Physics Emeritus at the California Institute of Technology, a Distinguished Fellow and co-founder of the Santa Fe Institute, a Professor of Physics at the University of New Mexico, and the Presidential Professor of Physics and Medicine at USC. Dr. Gell-Mann also helped found the World Resources Institute, which conducts policy studies on global environmental problems. In 1986 Dr. Gell-Mann led a group of 72 Nobel laureate scientists and 24 scientific organizations who filed a legal brief with the U.S. Supreme Court challenging the constitutionality of a Louisiana law requiring schools that teach evolution to also teach creation-science. The brief argued that the Louisiana law threatened scientific education by disparaging proven scientific facts to promote fundamentalist Christian beliefs. The brief stated: Teaching religious ideas mislabeled as science is detrimental to science education. It misleads our youth about the nature of scientific inquiry... and strips our citizens of the power to distinguish between the phenomena of nature and the supernatural articles of faith. The Supreme Court struck down the law in Written by Lee Jacobi. Credits: Jewdayo 08/18/2012; Wikipedia BOOK REVIEW By Jerry Zwick THE CATCHER WAS A SPY: THE MYSTERIOUS LIFE OF MOE BERG By Nicholas Dawidoff This is a biography of Moe Berg. If you look in the dictionary for Renaissance Man, you might find his picture there. The man could do seemingly everything. He was a professional baseball player with the Boston Red Sox and Washington Senators, a spy for the OSS in Europe during WWII, educated in Princeton and the Sorbonne, and could speak a dozen languages. He was a child in an immigrant Jewish family. He had a difficult relationship with his pharmacist father who wanted him to become a lawyer (so he passed the Bar Exam on his first try but never really pursued this career). His first loves were always baseball, languages and spying. He led a mysterious and nomadic life, living with many personal friends, such as Albert Einstein and Joe DiMaggio, but never had a permanent residence. A wide variety of people were drawn to him, but he was always extremely secretive about his past as well as his personal story. The book in parts read like a sports digest, a spy novel, and a personality treatise. I found it a fascinating read and hard to put down. Page 4 of 10

5 RECIPE OF THE MONTH This is our once a month contribution to your meals and desserts. If you would like to submit a recipe, please send it to Bernice Stein at jstein7901@aol.com Apple Kugel for Rosh Hashanah Ingredients: Main 12 oz. Fine eggs noodles 1/4 cup oil 6 apples, peeled 6 eggs 3/4 cup sugar 1-1/2 tsp cinnamon 1-1/2 tsp salt Ingredients: Topping ½ cup cornflake crumb ½ cup sugar 1-1/2 tsp. cinnamon Directions: Cook and drain the noodles, and mix in the oil Grate the apples and squeeze gently to drain the liquid Add the eggs, sugar, cinnamon and salt to the apple mixture. Then add the mixture to the noodles. Stir to combine Pour mixture into a 9" x 13" baking pan. Mix the crumb topping in a small bowl and sprinkle over the kugel. Bake covered at 350 degrees for 50 minutes, then uncovered for another 10 minutes. Remove from oven and let kugel cool completely before covering, to prevent the topping from getting soggy. Serve warm or at room temperature. MARK YOUR CALENDARS - SEPTEMBER & OCTOBER Sept. 9, Rosh Hashanah Program Sept. 19, Yom Kippur Observance Sept. 29, Succos / Sukkot Oct. 5, Philosopher s Café Oct. 13, League of Women s Voters & Dine Out Page 5 of 10

2018-2020 PACIFIC COMMUNITY BOARD MEMBERS President Lee Jacobi LeeJacobi123@gmail.com Vice President Leslie Zwick jerlesz@verizon.net Secretary Sylvia Rothman sobaysyl@aol.

com Publicity Nancy Okamoto 949-386-0400 COMMUNITY AND BOARD POSITIONS SHJ Representative Lee Jacobi LeeJacobi123@gmail.com Board Members at Large Jerry Zwick jerlesz@verizon.

6 PACIFIC COMMUNITY BOARD MEMBERS President Lee Jacobi Vice President Leslie Zwick Secretary Sylvia Rothman Treasurer Bryon Baron Membership Nancy Okamoto Program Coordinators Suzy Baron Karen Knecht Publicity Nancy Okamoto COMMUNITY AND BOARD POSITIONS SHJ Representative Lee Jacobi Board Members at Large Jerry Zwick Chai-Lights is published monthly by the Pacific Community of Cultural Jews, Orange County, CA Affiliated with The Society for Humanistic Judaism and The Congress of Secular Jewish Organizations Editor: Karen Knecht Phone: Bernice Stein Newsletter Editor Karen Knecht Sunshine Cheryl Cohen Web Master Marissa Jacobi Page 6 of 10

7 23 rd Annual Rosh Hashanah Observance Sponsored by the Pacific Community of Cultural Jews Please join us for a secular observance of the Jewish New Year on Sunday, September 9, 2018 Bluffs Fiesta Room 2414 Vista del Oro Newport Beach 10:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. (Bagels, Lox, and Fruit to follow observance) Program includes the blowing of the Shofar, the Pacific Community Choir, an emotional candle lighting, and a meaningful celebration. For further information, please call Pacific Community at or at PacifComm@aol.com Page 7 of 10

8 33 rd Annual Yom Kippur Observance sponsored by the Pacific Community of Cultural Jews Wednesday September 19, 2018 Village Park Clubhouse 4552 Michelson Dr. Irvine 1:00 P.M. - 5:00 P.M. Our Program Consists of the Following: A Secular Kol Nidre Discussion - TBD A Secular Niskor (Let Us Remember) No Host Dinner at the Yen Ching Restaurant Chinese Cuisine 574 S. Glassell St. Orange (Pre-Paid Reservations Required - See information sheet for details) For more information, please call Pacific Community at or at PacifComm@aol.com Page 8 of 10

9 . Pacific Community of Cultural Jews High Holiday Observance Rosh Hashanah - September 9, :30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Yom Kippur - September 19, :00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Price Information Members Members Rosh Hashanah & Yom Kippur Included in 2018/2019 membership Dues (13 & up) Included in 2018/2019 membership Dues (2-12 yrs.) Rosh Hashanah Yom Kippur Rosh Hashanah & Yom Kippur Package Non-Members $ $60.00 $ (13 yrs. & up) Non-Members $ $45.00 $70.00 ( 2-12 yrs.) Once again, there will be no food served at Yom Kippur, so for those interested in participating in a Break the Fast Dinner, Pacific Community is organizing a No- Host dinner at the Yen Ching Restaurant in Orange at 6:00 P.M. ($25.00 per person, pre-paid by separate check). Reservations must be made on the registration form for the High Holidays. The filled out registration form (attached), accompanied by TOTAL FEES DUE, should be sent to: Karen Knecht 7238 El Viento Way Buena Park, CA All registration checks should be made out to: Pacific Community All Break the Fast checks should be payable to Karen Knecht For further information, please call: Pacific Community at or at Pacifcomm@aol.com Page 9 of 10

10 Rosh Hashanah / Yom Kippur Registration Form Sponsored by the Pacific Community of Cultural Jews September 9, 2018 September 19, 2018 Family Name Address City Telephone ( ) Zip Code First Name(s) Age (if under 13) Member ** Non- Member Rosh Hashanah 09/9/18 Yom Kippur 09/19/18 Total Fee $ $ $ Memorial Donation (optional) $ Total amount $ ** If you sent in your 17/18 dues, your admission to Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur is already paid. If you include your dues check with this registration, no further fees for your admission to Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are required. Please indicate which observance you will be attending. Break the Fast Dinner - Please select one and list how many attendees. ** Yes, I/We am/are planning to attend the Break the Fast Dinner at Yen Ching Restaurant. I understand that it is a No-Host Dinner. No, I/We am/are not planning to attend the Break the Fast Dinner at Yen Ching Restaurant Please complete the above registration form, and send it along with your membership form and a check for registration, payable to Pacific Community for the full amount to: Karen Knecht 7238 El Viento Way Buena Park, CA **Please send a separate check for Break The Fast for per person, payable to Karen Knecht Page 10 of 10

PACIFIC COMMUNITY HIGH HOLIDAYS. Please join us as we observe the High Holidays of 5778

Pacific Community of Cultural Jews Chai-Lights August 2018 Pacific Community of Cultural Jews Orange County, CA 714-739-1366 PacifComm@aol.com www.pccjews.org PACIFIC COMMUNITY HIGH HOLIDAYS Please join