2. For those of you who have children and don't know it, we have a nursery downstairs.

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1 Synagogues and the Future: Rabbi Weintraub, Dru Greenwood (center), Director of Synagogue Renewal at UJA-Federation of New York, and Sacha Litman, Founder and CEO of Measuring Success, the strategy consultants, led a March 13 UJA conference UJA about "Sustaining Synagogue Business Models". Purim Torah! These Are the Jokes, Folks When Adar (the month of Purim) comes, increase merriment! We thank Rabbi Simkha Y. Weintraub, LCSW, for the material below. In the spirit of Purim, share a laugh with Shabbat and Purim Service and Program Times: March Shabbat Tzav-Zachor Candle Lighting 6:46 P.M., Shabbat ends 7:49 P.M. Friday Night Service 6:00 P.M. Shabbat morning Sanctuary Service 9:30 A.M. Singing Service 9:30 A.M. Purim!! (also see programs, below) Saturday, March 19: Chapel Service and mellow Megillah reading, 7:45 P.M. Sanctuary Service and boisterous Megillah reading, 8:00 P.M. Sunday, March 20: Shacharit Services with Megillah reading, 8:30 A.M. March Shabbat Sh mini-parah Candle Lighting 6:53 P.M., Shabbat ends 7:56 P.M. Friday Night Service 6:00 P.M. Shabbat Morning Services 9:30 A.M. March 27, Sunday Shacharit Services 9:00 A.M. a friend. Rabbi Weintraub is Rabbinic Director of the National Center for Jewish Healing and the Jewish Board of Family and Children s Services ( Purim Torah I: True Bulletin Bloopers These announcements, with hilarious typos and phrasing blunders, were reportedly found in various shul newsletters and bulletins around the country. Even the spellchecker wouldn't have helped! 1. Don't let worry kill you. Let your synagogue help. Join us for our Oneg after services. Prayer and medication to follow. Remember in prayer the many who are sick of our congregation. 2. For those of you who have children and don't know it, we have a nursery downstairs. 3. We are pleased to announce the birth of David Weiss, the sin of Rabbi and Mrs. Abe Weiss.

2 4. The ladies of Hadassah have cast off clothing of every kind and they may be seen in the basement on Tuesdays. 5. A bean supper will be held Wednesday evening in the community center. Music will follow. 6. Weight Watchers will meet at 7 PM at the JCC. Please use the large double door at the side entrance. 7. Thursday at 9, there will be a meeting of the Little Mothers Club. All women wishing to become Little Mothers please see the rabbi in his private study. 8. We are taking up a collection to defray the cost of the new carpet in the sanctuary. All those wishing to do something on the carpet will come forward and get a piece of paper. 9. If you enjoy sinning, the choir is looking for you! 10. The Associate Rabbi unveiled the synagogue's new fundraising campaign slogan this week: "I Upped My Pledge. Up Yours." And let s not forget Jewish goings-on outside the Synagogue: Purim Torah II: Central Park Minyan Moishe, a Jewish actor, is so down and out, he's ready to take any acting gig that he can find. Finally, he gets a lead, a classified ad that says, "Actor needed to play an ape." "I could do that!" says Moishe. To his surprise, the employer turns out to be the Central Park Zoo in New York. Owing to mismanagement, the zoo has spent so much money renovating the grounds and improving the habitat, they can no longer afford to import the ape to replace the recently deceased one, so, until they can, they'll put an actor in an ape suit. Out of desperation, Moishe takes the offer. At first, his conscience keeps nagging him, that he is being dishonest by fooling the zoo-goers. Moishe also feels undignified in the ape suit, stared at by the crowds who watch his every move. But after a few days on the job, he begins to enjoy all the attention and starts to put on a show for all the zoo-goers. Moishe hangs upside down from the branches by his legs, swinging about on the vines, climbing up the cage walls and roaring with all his might, while beating on his chest. Soon, he's drawing a sizable crowd. One day, when Moishe is swinging on the vines to show off to a group of school kids, his hand slips and he goes flying over the fence into the neighboring cage, the lion's den. Terrified, Moishe backs up as far from the approaching lion as he can, covers his eyes with his hands and prays at the top of his lungs, "Sh ma Yisrael HaShem Elokeinu, HaShem Echad!" The lion opens his powerful jaws and roars the response, "Baruch Shem K'vod Malchuto L'Olam Va'ed!" From a nearby cage, a panda yells, "Shut up, you jerks, you'll get us all fired!"

3 Kane Street Is the Place for Purim Festivities March For Everyone: From our active Megillah readings to our famous Purim Carnival, Kane Street has a very deserved reputation as the most joyous place to be in Brownstone Brooklyn for Purim. We combine costume parades, music making, delicious refreshments, and hundreds of revelers of all ages in joint singing and screaming, as we bring the Megillah to life and conspire to drown out you-know-who s name. Costumes are not required but encouraged. Bring friends and musical instruments, and make a joyous connection to our community when we really let everything out. Megillah reading begins at 8 p.m on Saturday, March 19. A more mellow Chapel Megillah reading is 7:45 p.m. On Sunday, March 20, join us for Shacharit services and another Megillah reading at 8:30 a.m. For Kids: The Sunday Carnival on March 20 costs a mere $20 per family for refreshments, games, prizes and unlimited kid fun.the schedule: 10:30 a.m. to noon for toddlers through Kindergarten and siblings: face painting, hamantaschen-baking, crownmaking and more. 1:30pm to 3:00pm for kids K - 6 and siblings: carnival games, facepainting, prizes and more. Enjoy the whole Megillah! Mazel Tov, B rucha Ha ba a to the New Baby Girl! The Kane Street community extends a warm Mazel Tov to Terri Gordon, Eric Zolov and Sascha and Chloe Gordon-Zolov on the birth of their new daughter and sister, who will be named in a Simchat Bat, covenantal ceremony at the Synagogue on Shabbat Zachor, March 19. We thank Terri and Eric for their sponsorship of Kiddush in honor of the Simche, and look forward to more nachis and celebrations with their family. Cobble Hill Health Center Shabbat Visit March 19 Join the Social Justice Committee at the Cobble Hill Health Center, as we spend an hour with Cobble Hill residents of all ages, schmoozing and singing songs. Place: This month only, meet at Kane Street at 9:45 a.m. to transport misloach manot to the Health Center, at 380 Henry St. Time: 10-11:00 a.m. All ages welcome! Mitzvah of the Month: Housewares Drive for Kids Out of Jewish Foster Care The Jewish Childcare Association of New York is collecting houseware items for children who are aging out of foster care into their own residences. Drop your donations in the bin in the lobby of the Goldman Educational Center. These young adults in transition need dishes, cutlery, bathroom accessories, frames, clocks and other small items in order to start their independent lives off on the right foot. Some items (shower curtain, for instance) are better donated new, while other items are perfectly fine if gently used. No furniture please. New Book Club: Read All About It Calling all who love books and have opinions: Alison Lowenstein, author of City Weekends and City Kid New York, is hosting a book club the first Thursday of every month, starting April 7, from 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Meet in the community room of the Goldman Educational Center. Refreshments provided. The first book to be discussed is The History of Love by Nicole Krauss. Bar Mitzvah Invitation Rabbi Weintraub and Susan Sanders invite you to share their joy as their son Daniel Lev is called to the Torah as a Bar Mitzvah, 9:30 a.m. Saturday April 9, 2011, Shabbat Metzora. Kiddush luncheon will follow at the Brooklyn Heights Montessori School, 185 Court Street.

4 Rabbi Weintraub s New Mini-Course: How to Give a D var Torah Sharing the wisdom of Torah can really help us, and you don t have to be a Rabbi or scholar to do it. This course will help novices navigate the Torah text so they can impart their own understanding to others in what we call a D var Torah, a brief Torah teaching. We will meet on three Wednesday evenings, March 23, 30 and April 13, 7:30-8:45 p.m. No Hebrew or Jewish background required. There is also no charge but we would appreciate your dropping us a line at office@kanestreet.org, if you d like to come. Ever Thought About Moving to Israel? If so, go to the Crowne Plaza Times Square on April 3, where Nefesh B'Nefesh & The Jewish Agency are sponsoring an Aliyah Fair, with information on everything you need to know about making aliyah. For more information, go to A Message from Rebecca Shiffman About Donations in Memory of Her Mother Dear friends, Some of you have kindly offered to donate to a charity in memory of my mother, Bella Shiffman z l. As some of you may be aware, Bella's mother, Esther Gold, died in childbirth. I, therefore, feel it would be appropriate to donate to the organization listed below. Dr. Nergesh Tejani is working in Uganda to improve maternal care and decrease maternal mortality. Doctors for Global Health(DGH): In donating please write: Kisoro, Uganda Project (Nergesh Tejani, MD) and my mother's name: BELLA SHIFFMAN. Thank you to all of you for your kinds thoughts and wishes during this difficult time and thank you for your generosity Best, Rebecca Lisa Shiffman, MD Don t Miss The Holocaust in Film with A. O. Scott A. O. Scott, New York Times film critic and PSJC member, will teach a course on The Holocaust in Film, beginning Sunday, March 20. Each of four sessions will be organized around a particular theme, with clips from relevant films, including well-known Hollywood productions such as "Inglourious Basterds," "Defiance," and "The Reader," as well as European films, including "Voyages," "Fateless," and "A Secret," that may be less familiar to American audiences. March 20: Introduction and overview: history of the Holocaust on film. March 27: Reconstructing and remembering: documentaries, eyewitness accounts and survivors' stories. April 3: Reckoning: movies about the psychology of the perpetrators and the moral dilemmas of the victims. April 10: Revisionism, Resistance and Revenge: movies as alternative history. The cost is $20 a session for or $60 for the whole series. Call the PSJC office at (718) to register. Todah Rabah for Your Donations: Thank you to everyone who has made special donations to our shul. We update this list approximately every other week, however, due to

5 computer problems at the synagogue, we may be missing a few names from the past week or so. We will include those names in the next issue. As always, please let the office know if you believe your name was inadvertently omitted. Special Contributions to Kane Street Synagogue (from Jan. 1, 2011) Paul and Nancy Fink for the General Fund In honor of Bob and Gloria Blumenthal s anniversary In memory of Milton Mandel Marion Stein In honor of Paul Fink s birthday In honor of Sam Rubenstein s engagement In honor of Eva Lytal Phillips Andre and Rena Schklowsky Marion and Ronald Stein In memory of Rosalind Roses In honor of Doron Fried Andre and Rena Schklowsky Arnold and Barbara Badner Marion and Ronald Stein In honor of Benjamin Zalman s birthday * Donation for the synagogue s Building Fund. In memory of Irving Bennett Martin Gringer and Barbara Zahler-Gringer Jay Brodsky and Naomi Berger In memory of David Trager Leonard Wasserman Julia Hirsch Martin Gringer and Barbara Zahler-Gringer In memory of Maier Perlman In memory of Trude Mayer In memory of Miriam Schmerler In memory of Pearl and Herman Greenwald June Posner In honor of Ari Blumenthal s engagement In honor of Dean and Ronnie Ringel s new granddaughter In honor of Josh Gutoff About Kane Yirbu: Kane Yirbu, the Kane Street Newsletter, comes out on Thursday of every other week. Submissions are due the Thursday prior to publication at 5 pm. Please send submissions to editor Ron Dicker at rodicker@aol.com. Next deadline for submissions is March 24.