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1 CONGREGATION AGUDATH JACOB October Tishrei/Cheshvan Rabbi: Gordon Fuller President: Jeff Wolf Phone: Editor: Fax: Office Admin: Amanda Henson This bulletin is published twelve times per year by Congregation Agudath Jacob a non profit organization. Founded in 1888 Celebrating 125 years Member of United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism. Irving and Deana Stupak are second and third generation members of Congregation Agudath Jacob Synagogue. Their parents were Philip and Sarah Stupak and Anne and Hyman Frindell. Irving was born in New York and moved to Waco with his family at the age of three. Deana had lived in Rhinelander, Wisconsin with her parents, Sander, her brother and her sister Esther. They would come to Waco to visit her grandmother, Bessie Genecov, her aunt Pauline Kolom and uncle Julius Genecov who were all members of CAJ. Deana moved to Waco at the age of 18 with her family after the death of her father. Irving and Deana met through his sister Hannah (Cissy Moser). "Deana do I have a brother for you.. They were married on November 3, 1946 by Rabbi Charles Blumenthal. Irving was a co-owner of Central Produce with his father. Mike Stupak later joined the business and continues to this day. Irving spent many years in various positions at the shul and chaired the membership committee for years. He was perfect for this job because he didn't know a stranger. He loved welcoming new comers to our community. Deana was an active member of the CAJ sisterhood. She enjoyed setting up for special occasions and coming in to bake whenever it was needed. This could also be said for her Mother Anne and Aunt Pauline. She was a former president of the Waco Hadassah and mentored many younger members as they took leadership roles. She also served on the yearbook committee seeking advertisers and information to put together the annual edition. When Harriet moved back to Waco she also helped with the task. Deana and Irving have three children: Harriet, Ellen, and Mike who continue to be members of CAJ. All three were bat/bar mitzvahed at Congregation Agudath Jacob Synagogue on Jefferson. Both daughters enjoyed having their wedding in the new shul. Richard and Ellen live in Houston, but remain dual members of a congregation in Houston and Waco. They enjoy returning whenever possible for CAJ holiday services each year. Their daughter Annie lives in Pittsburgh after graduating from Carnegie Mellon University. Irving and Mike took pride in joining along with other members of the shul as they marched the sacred torahs across Waco to the new and present location. The entire family felt great pride in watching the Baylor performance of "The Immigrant" based on Haskell Harelick's life, written by his grandson Mark Harelick, in celebration of CAJ s 100th anniversary. We all have fond memories of Haskell chanting the story of Jonah each year. When asked about her feelings about her years at CAJ Deana answered "It's been wonderful to me. It is fitting that her uncle Alec Genecov from Tyler who loved CAJ donated the eternal light for the new shul. May the light of the Stupaks, Frindells, and Genecovs shine a light on this very special place and community we love.

2 This newsletter will be received during the aseret y mei teshuvah the 10 days of repentance that make up days of awe. Here is an outstanding and thoughtprovoking article written by Yossi Klein Halevi, an American-born Israeli who is a senior fellow at the Hartman Institute in Jerusalem: As we enter Rosh Hashanah, I am, like many of us, a confusion of emotions. I am angry and fearful, grieving and grateful, proud and ashamed and, despite everything, hopeful. I am angry at how, once again, much of the world has turned an Israeli war of self-defense into a war crime. I am angry at the UN for investigating Israel and not Hamas, at much of the media for falling into Hamas trap and blaming Israel for civilian deaths it tried to avoid, at Israel s critics who seemed disappointed that there weren t more dead Israelis, as if somehow that would have been more fair. I am grieving for the fallen soldiers. In Israel a soldier killed in battle doesn t become a martyr but everyone s son a husband, a father, a boyfriend. I grieve too for the three kidnapped boys, murdered as their kidnappers laughed and sang. I am grateful for the nobility of those boys mothers, who inspired the people of Israel with their courage and love. I am grieving for the devastation we were forced, in the process of defending ourselves, to inflict on our neighbors. I am grieving for the dead and wounded children of Gaza, for each life cut short, for the suffering that endures. I am fearful for the future of Israel in a region that is turning mad. Fearful for an Israel surrounded by Hamas and Hezbollah and Al Qeida on its borders and Islamic State moving toward the Jordanian border, and with a nuclear Iran becoming more of a reality with every passing day, even as the West negotiates and delays. I am grieving for the ongoing tragedy of the Palestinian people. For all my anger against Palestinian leaders for poisoning their people with hatred, on Rosh Hashanah I ask God s forgiveness for what we have done to contribute our share to maintaining the conflict and the suffering. In public, in a political context, my contrition requires Palestinian reciprocity. In prayer, before God, I am required only to face myself. I am angry at the growing attempt to criminalize the Jewish state, turn the Jews again into the world s symbol of evil. Angry at the way our history, our story, the essence of our identity, is being distorted by a campaign of lies and half truths. Angry that, the more we succeed in rerooting ourselves in the land of Israel, producing one generation after another of native Israelis, the more our rootedness, our nativeness, is denied. I am fearful for the future of Jews around the world. In this terrible summer, many Jews rediscovered the meaning of exile, of living in acute uncertainty, in dread. I fear for the future of the great Jewry of France, a creative and diverse community of Sephardim and Ashkenazim that is now questioning its long-term viability. I fear for the future of the Jewry of Turkey, a magnificent repository of intact Jewish life in a Muslim country, now under assault

3 by a lunatic leader who demands that his Jews repudiate Israel, commit an act of public apostasy, as the price for remaining citizens in good standing. I fear for the future of Jews in Venezuela and South Africa, where public figures close to the government have called for violence against Jewish fellow citizens. I am grateful that, in Israel, the Jews have finally learned to defend themselves, grateful that we have the means and the will to thwart the murderous intentions of our enemies. And I am proud of the heroism of our sons who went into Gaza s tunnels and booby-trapped houses, who fought not to avenge but to protect. This Rosh Hashanah I also feel shame. If we had asked ourselves, a few months ago, whether it was possible for Jews any Jews to kidnap a teenage boy and burn him alive, our answer almost certainly would have been: Not that. In the following days, young Jews marched in the streets of Jerusalem and chanted, Death to the Arabs. As if that death hadn t sufficed. I am entering Rosh Hashanah committed to doing all I can to defend Israel from those outside our borders who hate and vilify it and also from those among us who express their twisted love for the Jewish people with hatred for others, who endanger the precious miracle of Israeli democracy. I believe we will persevere. I believe this because Jewish history events we ourselves have witnessed insists that despair is always premature. I resist the fatalism contained in the terrible words: The whole world hates us. Israel may well have more active enemies than any other country, but it also has more active friends and by no means all of them Jews. The largest pro-israel demonstration this summer happened not in New York or Toronto but in a city without Jews Calcutta where thousands of Hindus, Buddhists and Sikhs affirmed Israel s right to self-defense. This summer in China, social media was reportedly overwhelmingly pro-israel. One of the most powerful condemnations of the link between Jew-hatred and Israel-hatred was expressed at a rally in Berlin by Germany s Chancellor, Angela Merkel. Among the protesters were thousands of Kurds, Syrian Christians and Africans. We will persevere because the Jewish fanatics of the far right and the far left those who have a ready answer to all our dilemmas and who contribute, each in their own way, to Israel s isolation are a minority. Most Jews instinctively know that to be a Jew means to balance paradoxes security and morality, realism and vision, particularism and universalism, selfdefense and self-critique. This year especially, I will pray that we have the wisdom to hold together as a people, despite the growing pressures on us to fragment and turn against each other. I will pray for the courage to defend the justness of our return home against the big lie that is aimed against us, even as we admit where we have erred. Most Jews share the same hope of a strong Israel at peace with its neighbors. We will continue to argue about the best way to achieve that but as partners, aware that there are no easy answers, that none of us can speak for the totality of Jewish wisdom, that we need each other s insights to be a whole people, that we cannot thrive without being a whole people. Rabbi Gordy & Sharon Fuller wish you a Happy, Healthy & Peaceful New Year!

4 Friday, October 3 Erev Yom Kippur Mincha/Kol Nidre 6:30 p.m. 6:54 p.m. Saturday, October 4 Yom Kippur 10:00 a.m. ***Break approx 3:00 p.m.*** Mincha Neilah 7:00 p.m. Break the Fast 7:47 p.m. Wednesday, October 8 Erev Sukkot Erev Sukkot 8:00 p.m. 6:48 p.m. Thursday, October 9 Sukkot 1 st Day Ends 7:41 p.m. Friday, October 10 6:46 p.m. Saturday, October 11 Shabbat Ends 7:38 p.m. Wednesday, October 15 Shemini Atzeret/Simchat Torah Simchat Torah 5:30 p.m. Thursday, October 16 Shemini Atzeret/Simchat Torah Yizkor (approx) 10:30 am. Friday, October 17 6:36 Saturday, October 18 Shabbat Ends 7:30 p.m. Friday, October 24 6:29 p.m. Saturday, October 25 Shabbat Ends 7:23 p.m. Friday, October 31 6:22 p.m. Saturday, November 1 Shabbat Ends 7:17 p.m. Food for Families Feeding the Hungry This month s mitzvah will span from after the Holidays through November 21 st. We will participate in the annual Food for Families drive co-sponsored by KWTX, Boy Scouts of America, HEB, & the Texas National Guard. Please bring ANY non-perishable food items to our baskets in the foyer and we will take them to the warehouse. Get Well Soon!! Elayne Lynn Shirley Hoppenstein Mary Levy Stanley & Florence Hersh Congratulations! Congratulations to Abbye & Susan Silver on the marriage of their son, Daniel to Zoie Flaks! Food from the Faithful We will bring Cereals & pastas on an on-going basis. Please bring packages throughout the year and we will see that they are delivered to caritas

5 Leonard & Elysse Englander Miguel Perez Hersh s Anniversary Abbye & Susan Silver In Honor or of Daniel Silver s Wedding October 1 Rebecca Levy October 2 Robert Glick Susan Fuller Goldstein Loren Schwartz Jessica Fuller October 4 Jake Wolf October 6 Chance Farley October 9 David Rosen Donald Lynn October 14 Larry Silver October 19 Meg Looney Spark Scott Silver Cissy Chernoff October 23 David Novy October 26 Barbara Wolpo October 30 Cheri DeWilde Thank You!! Thank you to Nate & Audrey Koss for polishing all of the silver pieces for the High Holidays! Also, thank you to Stanley & Florence Hersh for having the carpets in the front of the shul cleaned! Thank you to the Wolf & Silver families who donated the flower arrangements for Rosh Hashanah in memory of their parents, Manny & Esther Wolf and Jack & Doris Silver. Thank you to Harry Harelik for donated the flower arrangements for Yom Kippur. Thank you to Max Schwarz for putting out all of the Machzorim! Fannie Lieberman Jeff & Lea Levin Bessie Chernoff Morris Chernoff Sylvia Chernoff Michele Chernoff Marissa Dinetz The office will be closed Thursday & Friday, October 9, 10, 16 & 17 for the Holidays. Due to the Holiday schedule, there will be no board meeting during the month of October. The next meeting will be November 12 th.

6 CEMETERY RESTORATIION FUND Due to weather conditions and the passage of time, our CAJ cemetery has suffered significant damage. We are committed to bringing the cemetery up to standard and have set up a designated Cemetery Restoration Fund. Trees have been replaced and we are now in the process of righting all headstones. Generous donations have helped defray costs, but significant expense still lies before us. Thank you to the following for their donations: Carolyn Neuwirth Jeff & Lea Levin Gene Goltz Audre Rapoport Nathan & Audrey Koss Brent & Dianne demoville The Leibowitz Fund Judy Hersh Rick & Melanie Bauer Benjy & Betty Bauer Kam & Shauna Bauer Jeff & Colleen OConnor Wolf Paul & Paula Farmer Temple Rodef Sholom will be hosting an Acoustic Shabbat featuring Doug Hoffman and Joe Buchanan. Doug is a Waco native,, Torchy s son, and longtime guitar player and lay song leader. Joe has been writing and playing music for most of his life and is currently the lay cantor and music teacher at Congregation Shaar Hashalom in Clear Lake, TX. For various reasons, the Sukkah open house this year will be lunch on Saturday, October 11, following regular services at the shul Sukkah. Please RSVP no later than October 5 to let us know if you will join us. Worldwide Religious Persecution A Panel Discussion Monday, October 6 4:00 p.m. Open to the whole congregation Alexander Reading Room at Baylor Panelists: Rabbi Gordon Fuller Father Timonthy Vaverek Anne Zaki Moderator: David Garland Special Remarks: Ken Starr

7 August 30 Stanley & Florence Hersh Abbye & Susan Silver Jeff Wolf Brent & Dianne demoville Shabbat Donations September 6 September 13 Brent & Dianne demoville Stanley & Florence Hersh Jeff & Lea Levin Aislinn Bonneville Abbye Susan Silver September 20 Stanley & Florence Hersh Rabbi & Sharon Fuller Brent & Dianne demoville HOW TO OBSERVE THE YAHRZEIT It is traditional to kindle a Yahrzeit Candle in the home on the evening Yahrzeit begins. It should remain lighted until sunset the next day. Possible prayer before lighting a Yahrzeit candle: Eternal God, I/we light this candle in memory of (name), my/our beloved (relationship). The light of the flame rekindles all the warm memories of the moment we shared together, and reassures me /us that a piece of his/her soul dwells in my/our heart(s) forever. May his/her soul be bound up with the bonds of eternal life. Amen. Candles are available at the Gift Shop. Every effort should be made to say Kaddish at congregational services. It is meritorious to perform some Mitzvah or to contribute to the synagogue in commemoration of the deceased. Kaddish will be read on Sept 26 Tishri 2 Louis Meinstein Tishri 4 P. Markusfeld Lillie Siegel Tishri 5 Fannie Klein Grace Goldsmith Louis Wolfe Wizig Sadie Wizig Lionel Ellis Sarah Kirschner Tishri 6 Tishri 7 Dora Woolf Sarah Brockman Shirley Greenberg William Bell Germaine Caron David Chozick Tishri 8 Chaya Silevitch Sadie Hoppenstein Hyman Miller Kaddish will be read on October 3 Tishri 9 Tishri 10 Tishri 11 Tishri 12 Tishri 13 Tishri 14 Tishri 15 Dr Eli Berkman L. Ginsberg Anna Hoffman Miss Mary Levy Jack Schaevitz M. Markman Mrs. M. Markman Lillian Epstein Irving Frankfort J. Markusfeld Jules Bloch Friedman Goldberg Albert Rubenstein Perry Segal Emma Gallo Harry Levine Evelyn Dalkowitz Jacob Kroll Sarah Harris Jacob Kessler Morris Chazonow Meyer Jerwick Sophie Adams Estelle Falgout Kaddish will be read on October 10 Tishri 16 Bertha Wood Isaac Comer Mrs. Sam Katz Tishri 17 Tishri 18 Tishri 20 Tishri 21 Zalman Tannenbaum Hannah Knop Sidney Samet Helen Fitterman Lorraine Hoppenstein Boaz Levinson Jacob Aronson Estelle Goldfeder Baby Harris Bess Levinson Max Udashen Doba bas Yitzchok Tishri 22 Minna Adams Sarah Beerman Rabbi Charles Blumenthal Julia Ellis Harry Lapin Kaddish will be read on October 17 Tishri 23 Tishri 24 Tishri 25 Tishri 26 Tishri 27 Abraham B. Blank Billy Dwayne Brooks J. Harold Simon Frieda Atlas Mark Harris Sarah Levy Bell Joe Rubel Bernice Shapiro Saul Chernoff A. Rubinsky Eli Marks Bernard Hersh Samuel Patlis Joe Schwartz Baby Harelik Eric Engleman Gertrude Harris Tishri 28 Rebecca Jacobson Kaddish will be read on October 24 Tishri 30 Harvey Goldfeder Annie Harris Cheshvan 1 Cheshvan 2 Cheshvan 3 Mrs. Louis Gerson Yisrael Podrizki Faga Bergman Stanley Chodorow Mrs. B. Bauer Irving Berkman Julius Genecov Mrs. Irving Kippur Herman Rosenbaum Ida Segal Edythe Siegel Aaron Kalber Chas Novak Mrs. Harry Udashen Harold Fitterman Cheshvan 4 Lazare Heyman Hymie Hoffman Cheshvan 6 Israel Ellis Kaddish will be read on October 31 Cheshvan 7 Willie Lipinsky Louise Busch Cheshvan 8 Daniel Adams Esther Hoffman Solomon Shifrin Yaakov Belove Cheshvan 9 Cheshvan 10 Cheshvan 11 Cheshvan 12 Cheshvan 13 Mrs. Max Harelik William Ellis Bill Ellis Mrs. Ruben Gandler Louis Lipsitz Esther Beerman Betty Greenbaum Bettylee Greenberg L. Rosen Hyman Rosenberg Mrs. Max Siegel Max Beerman Morris Comer Helen Fred Ann Frindell Sarah Hoppenstein Mrs. Toby Novich

8 October Tishri Heshvan 5775 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 8:23AM/8:15PM 8:23AM/8:14PM 8:24AM/8:13PM :55PM Erev Yom Kippur Erev YK 6:30 p.m. 8:25AM/8:11PM 8:56PM Yom Kippur (Yizkor) YK 10:00 a.m. MIncha Neilah 7:00 p.m. 7 Tishri 8 Tishri 9 Tishri 10 Tishri Chagigah 23 Chagigah 24 Chagigah 25 Chagigah 26 8:25AM/8:10PM 8:26AM/8:09PM 8:27AM/8:07PM 8:27AM/8:06PM 8:28AM/8:05PM 8:29AM/8:04PM "Read Hebrew America!" Hebrew Class Panel on Worldwide Religiou Persecution at Baylor 4:00 p.m. 7:48PM Erev Sukkot Erev Sukkot 8:00 p.m. 8:50PM/ 8:50PM Sukkot I Sukkot 8:49PM/ 7:46PM Sukkot II 8:29AM/8:03PM 8:48PM Hol Hamoed Sukkot I Sukkah lunch following service 11 Tishri 12 Tishri 13 Tishri 14 Tishri 15 Tishri 16 Tishri 17 Tishri Chagigah 27 Yevamos 2 Yevamos 3 Yevamos 4 Yevamos 5 Yevamos 6 Yevamos 7 8:30AM/8:01PM 8:31AM/8:00PM 8:31AM/7:58PM 8:32AM/7:57PM 8:33AM/7:56PM 8:33AM/7:54PM :42PM/ 7:39PM Hol Hamoed Sukkot II Hol Hamoed Sukkot III Hol Hamoed Sukkot IV Hoshanah Rabbah Shemini Atzeret/Simchat Torah 5:30 p.m.. 8:41PM/ 8:41PM Shemini Atzeret (Yizkor) Shemini Atzeret/Simchat Torah 8:39PM/ 7:36PM Simchat Torah 8:34AM/7:53PM 8:38PM 18 Tishri 19 Tishri 20 Tishri 21 Tishri 22 Tishri 23 Tishri 24 Tishri Yevamos 8 Yevamos 9 Yevamos 10 Yevamos 11 Yevamos 12 Yevamos 13 Yevamos 14 8:35AM/7:52PM 8:36AM/7:51PM 8:36AM/7:50PM 8:37AM/7:49PM 8:38AM/7:48PM 8:39AM/7:47PM :29PM Rosh Hodesh I 8:39AM/7:46PM 8:31PM Rosh Hodesh II 25 Tishri 26 Tishri 27 Tishri 28 Tishri 29 Tishri 30 Tishri 1 Heshvan Yevamos 15 Yevamos 16 Yevamos 17 Yevamos 18 Yevamos 19 Yevamos 20 Yevamos :40AM/7:45PM 8:41AM/7:44PM 8:42AM/7:43PM 8:43AM/7:42PM 8:43AM/7:41PM 8:44AM/7:40PM 7:22PM 2 Heshvan 3 Heshvan 4 Heshvan 5 Heshvan 6 Heshvan 7 Heshvan Yevamos 22 Yevamos 23 Yevamos 24 Yevamos 25 Yevamos 26 Yevamos 27 [, Observance End, Printed September 24, 2014/29 Elul 5774 for Waco, TX]