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JUNE 2018 Garden Room Thursday, June 7 th, 7:00 PM Wine & Cheese Join us for an evening to celebrate

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7:00 PM Kabbalat Shabbat Service Join with friends and family for an uplifting musical service

1 JUNE 2018 Garden Room Thursday, June 7 th, 7:00 PM Wine & Cheese Join us for an evening to celebrate small groups, reflect on our experiences, and connect with one another. RSVP to bmiller@larchmonttemple.org New Member Aliyah Celebrating your first year as members of Larchmont Temple Friday, June 15 th 6:30 PM Pre-Oneg, Sanctuary Lobby Welcome and get to know new members over wine, cheese, fruit and more. 7:00 PM Kabbalat Shabbat Service Join with friends and family for an uplifting musical service featuring our LT Band, Shir Chadash. For updated information on Temple events, visit us at

Larchmont Temple 75 Larchmont Avenue, Larchmont, NY 10538 914-834-6120; FAX: 914-834-6503 www.larchmonttemple.org a member of the Union for Reform Judaism JEFFREY J.

2 Larchmont Temple 75 Larchmont Avenue, Larchmont, NY ; FAX: a member of the Union for Reform Judaism JEFFREY J. SIRKMAN Rabbi BETHIE MILLER Associate Rabbi TRACEY SCHER Cantor RABBI EVE RUDIN Director of Education, Youth & Families LISA GERSHON MIA KARGEN Co-Directors of Early Childhood JANE SABLE-FRIEDMAN Executive Director FREDDA MENDELSON Cantor Emerita H. LEONARD POLLER z l Rabbi Emeritus EDWARD GRAHAM z l Cantor Emeritus BOARD OF TRUSTEES STACEY CHERVIN SIGDA President HARRI TARANTO Honorary President ROBERT ROTHMAN Executive Vice President MARTHA STEINMAN 1st Vice President JEFFREY WANG 2nd Vice President MICHAEL NATHAN Financial Vice President STEVE LEHMAN Administrative Secretary KAREN ZIMMERMAN Treasurer JON BIRGER STACEY CREEM MICHAEL FINEBERG MARTHA FRIEDLAND YVETTE GOOREVITCH KEN GORDON BARBARA LEWIS KAPLAN JENNIFER PERKINS STEWART ROSS TOBY SKLAREW RANDI SPATZ DAVID SZABO Trustees DAVID KAHN Brotherhood President NICOLE FIFTAL MICHELE METSCH Limud Noar/Youth Ed. Committee Chairs LEAH LEICHT WENDY SAYLES LTNS Parent Association Co- Chairs Thank you for submitting by the 1st of each month to 2 ltsubmissions@larchmonttemple.org Cynthia Weissman, Editor/Designer Linda Price, Proofreader From the President Savoring the Sweetness of Community After what may seem like a long winter, during which some serious storms affected so many of us, it is at last June and it s time to savor the beautiful weather and feel the sunshine. While we have been celebrating our 70 th all year, it s time to celebrate our members, our mensches. Join us for our congregational meeting June 4 th. It s a wonderful way to learn what has been going on at LT all year, the health of our synagogue and, most importantly, its community as we honor those members who have given their time and their hearts to making our LT world stronger, more engaging and more loving. Judaism teaches us about the importance of relationships. Consider the words of the Torah: It is not good for people to be alone, I will make for them an ezer kenegdo a fitting helper for them. (B reishit 2:18) and love your neighbor as yourself (Vayikra 19:18). As LT transforms to meet the changing needs of our members, we honor what binds us not just Jewish rituals but caring for each other, reaching out to whomever is in need, comforting those suffering from loss or illness, and always striving for greater ways to bring us all together. What better to acknowledge the importance of community than by honoring those members each year who have gone above and beyond to be that fitting helper who bring us out of the darkness and into the sunshine of being together. Our mensches have made us better people, more enriched and more connected without their unique and loving helping hand. June is a month of transitions for many of us as our children graduate from one school or grade or leave us briefly for camp. We make our own personal transitions into hopefully a more restful period of summer or a new job or family situation. Knowing that we are going through these transitions this June reminds us that these transitions happen throughout the year for many of us the loss of a beloved relative, a change of focus, or moving to a new home. For all of us in transition, seemingly a perpetual state given how quickly our world changes, let this month and this summer be a time to savor and enjoy the moment. As we have learned by studying spirituality all year, a moment can be sacred if we take a breath and the time to acknowledge it and share with each other. What better culmination of a year of celebrating our past 70 years to stay than now to be in the present and give our gratitude to our LT community full of mensches. Have a wonderful summer. Remember LT never goes on vacation. Our lay leaders will continue to enrich us with beautiful Shabbat services and chevrah Torah study. And while the high holidays are always right on time, for some of us they may seem to come a bit earlier this year so look forward to Selichot (which happens to be Labor Day weekend this year). With sweetness and gratitude, Stacey Chervin Sigda

3 From Rabbi Sirkman Connected? WHAT was the great take-away from this 70 th year in the life of LT? You might say, we really know how to throw a party! Over 300 LT-ers, schmoozing, drinking, dancing reconnecting, remembering when which might be 40 years ago when you joined, or just a few. Which means the real revelation from our 70 th B-day bash, with people across the decades celebrating the generations, is that our congregation is a community of communities; a coming together of multiple circles of members some quite connected, others not so engaged a diverse mix of spiritual, educational, emotional life needs that bespeak a spectrum of what LT should be. When the Holy One appeared to the entire People Israel as it stood at Sinai, Torah tells us: All the people witnessed the Voices [Exodus 20:15] And the Sages ask: Not The Voice, but rather the Voices? Rabbi Yochanan explains: God s Voice split into seventy different voices, one for each of the seventy languages known to humankind, so all could hear the Holy One in their own language and understand. Judaism has never been nor should it be one size fits all. Monotheism YES. Monolithic NEVER. That does not mean, however, we are not linked by a common legacy: a Covenant that connects us even as it calls us... But how we respond to that covenantal call the questions we ask, the challenges we bring to bear; indeed, IF we respond at all, helps us understand that there is no single pathway to being part of our people. How Covenant speaks to you depends on YOU! your own spiritual/religious life-story, where you and your family are this moment of the life-journey, the values you hold most dear the hopes you harbor the struggles that remain your major challenges the feelings that frame what Belonging means Dr. Yehudah Kurtzer, President of the Shalom Hartmann Institute, inaugural Chair of Jewish Communal Innovation at Brandeis, teaches: At the core of Jewish peoplehood is Jewish pluralism It is not going to be in consensus politics that Jewish community will be found But it might be in consensus commitment to collectivity itself. The aim of a community linked in Covenant, a congregation like Larchmont Temple, is to create the space in the Sanctuary or Social Hall or Religious School entryway, or a hiking trail or bike-path or a booth at the diner or the living room of an LT-home, to enable people, to empower people through the voice they hear to respond. With delight in the dialogue.. Rabbi Jeffrey Sirkman

4 Summer Service-Leader Prep Session Thursday, June 7, 6 p.m. Have you ever thought about leading a Summer Shabbat Service? Are you interested in learning how to chant from the Torah, deliver a drash (a teaching from the Torah portion), teach an iyyun (an introductory perspective to liturgy or Torah), or lead part of the service? We can help you become the service leader that you always wanted to be! Please contact Cantor Scher at tscher@larchmonttemple.org, if you would like more information. Summer Service Leader Prep Session will take place on Thursday, June 7, 6 p.m. Refreshments will be served. Hope to see you there! Recognizing the Commitment and Effort of our Cornerstone Participants On Friday June 8 th, join us at services when we will honor 18 Larchmont Temple congregants who are completing a year of Larchmont Temple s Cornerstone leadership development program. Cornerstone is named to acknowledge that our volunteers and leaders for the foundation upon which the Temple Community rests, supporting our covenantal pillars of Torah (study), Avodah (prayer), and Gemilut Chasadim (acts of loving kindness). Larchmont Temple depends on talented, enthusiastic, and dedicated members to fulfill its mission to advance Jewish life and Jewish values for our families and our community. Through our annual Cornerstone program, Larchmont temple hopes to add to the reservoir of potential leaders for the future. Congratulations to the following participants who completed Cornerstone for Mara Anastas Rachel Belsky Jed Dorfman Nicole Fiftal Kim Greenfield Lisa Kaufmann Wendy Kaye Stephen Lebowitz Sarah Lieberman Stephen Master Jennifer Mitchell Nathalie Orans Jennifer Senders Haley Siman Mara Steinberg Sara Beth Stonner Aimee Trissel Karen Gross Vig Brotherhood On April 29th, the Brotherhood hosted the LT's Spring Scholar in Residence, Cantor Benji Schiller, for our last breakfast of the year. It was our most interactive breakfast in several years, with Cantor Schiller guiding the attendees through a series of spiritual hymns and songs. Her joyous presence and inviting energy had the whole room singing along in unison. Looking ahead, these are some of the exciting, must-attend events scheduled for the year: Sep 23rd breakfast: Ted Rosenthal - Ted has composed a jazz opera to be performed at Lincoln Center either this Fall or next Spring. Titled Dear Erich, it is inspired by more than 200 newly discovered letters written in Germany between 1938 and 1941 by Herta Rosenthal to her son Erich, the composer s father. He will play piano and have two singers there to perform a few numbers from the show. Oct 14th: Fall Blood Drive Dec 9th breakfast: George Latimer, Westchester County Executive Jan 13th breakfast: Rachel Fisher is the Director of a documentary, Joachim Prinz: I Shall Not Be Silent." This is the first film to comprehensively chronicle and examine the life and mission of a famed German-American rabbi and civil rights activist who lived from 1902 to

URJ Summer Camp Programs Like so many of your children, I, too, will be packing up my bug spray, a hat, and a water bottle and heading off to camp for a week to serve as a faculty member at the URJ

6 URJ Summer Camp Programs Like so many of your children, I, too, will be packing up my bug spray, a hat, and a water bottle and heading off to camp for a week to serve as a faculty member at the URJ Eisner Camp in Great Barrington, MA. This summer we will have 20 of LT s children and young people participating in URJ Summer programs such as Eisner Camp, Crane Lake Camp, Sci-Tech (a specialty camp), Kutz Camp for Teen Leadership and NFTY in Israel. Some of the younger members of our LT community will also be campers at the brand-new Reform Jewish day camp Camp Pinebrook at Temple Israel of New Rochelle! Hundreds of rabbis, cantors, youth directors and educators from URJ congregations serve on faculty at URJ camps each summer (Rabbi Sirkman served as a faculty member at Eisner for nearly 20 years!). While we certainly (hope to) enhance the experience and the camp community, our contributions to camp in turn feed and nurture our souls exponentially. What do we look forward to? Campers thriving in a joyful living and breathing Jewish 24-7 environment Jewish values such as Tikkun Olam, B Tzelem Elohim (everyone made in the image of God) and inclusion being lived out day to day Celebrating Shabbat especially Israeli Dancing and Song Session on Friday night Mentoring college age staff to be the best role models they can be Playing softball, participating in teva (nature) and zip-lining alongside the campers Engaging with the Israeli staff who come to camp; as much as they give to camp, they, too, learn so much about living Jewishly in a Reform Jewish environment Experiencing tefillah (services) outdoors I look forward to seeing our LT campers at Eisner and Crane Lake this summer! I ll be there for when LT is recognized as stakeholder the weekend of July and the week of August 5! L Shalom, Rabbi Eve Rudin, Director of Education, Youth and Families SOCIAL ACTION From joining congregants of all ages to prepare meals for Hope Soup Kitchen, hosting parties and enhancing literacy for homeless children at the Coachman family center and Pleasantville, delivering meals and much needed clothing supplies to the homeless in New York City, enhancing local environmental initiatives, helping to make the lives of the elderly richer and more fulfilling, collecting and distributing coats and holiday gifts to the needy and distributing much needed funds through our Tzedakah Fund, Larchmont Temple Social Action Committee actively seeks to make our world a better place! Thank you to all the volunteers who have joined us in these activities! Our last meeting is on Sunday June 10 at 10:00 in the LT library. We would welcome anyone with new ideas for projects for next year and anyone who would like to become more involved in making these events happen. Vicki Ehrlich, Sari Winter and Linda Riefberg Teen & Parent Volunteers for Bookbag Program at Coachman We are looking ahead to September. If you would like to volunteer Saturdays from 1:30-3 p.m. for the Bookbag Program at the Coachman Center, please contact me. We are seeking teen readers and parent supervisors. Contact: Elissabard@gmail.com 6

7 ZERO WASTE at LT We continue moving our building to zero waste and held 2 successful events, the Purim Carnival and the April Brotherhood Breakfast. We used compostable serve ware and generated several large bags of compost that were delivered to the Larchmont Compost Center. We have now added compostable bins in the Nursery School classrooms and are excited to educate the little ones about composting and recycling. We will be adding bins labeled Compost around the building this summer. They are for the disposal of all food scraps and compostable serve ware. We will eventually be replacing our paper goods with plates and cups that are compostable. They are made of plants and when disposed off in a commercial composting facility, turns into compost in 3 months - nutrient-rich soil that can be added to help grow crops and plants. Watch for more on our zero-waste program in the fall. Family News Mazal Tov to Ron and Danis Sher on the wedding of Lauren Sher & Brandon Goodman Our deepest sympathies to the family of Edna Driansky grandmother of Harrison Glassman Judith Godin mother of Larry Godin Judith Burstein Cohen mother of Nessa Lear Bibe Schlesinger aunt of Wendy Weiner Jerome Newmark uncle of Martha Steinman Irwin Reiter brother of Allen Reiter THANK YOU RABBI SIRKMAN S MITZVAH FUND In gratitude for officiating at the wedding of our daughter Lauren and Brandon Goodman by Danis & Ron Sher In memory of Rhoda Rodbell by Colette & Gary Rodbell In honor of Will Tarica becoming Bar Mitzvah by Suzie & Michael Gill In memory of Ann Scheffler by Cindy & Randy Heller In memory of Michael Rosenbaum by Virginia & Michael Fineberg In memory of our parents Virginia Delehanty and Leon Prince by John & Judy Delehanty In gratitude for the blessing by Ellen Handler Spitz & Howard Bloch CANTOR SCHER S MITZVAH FUND In gratitude for officiating at the shivah minyan for Andy s brother, Walter Harrison by Adrienne Weiss-Harrison and Andy Harrison. In memory of Rhoda Rodbell by Gary and Colette Rodbell In honor of preparing for and officiating at Marion Karp s Bat Mitzvah in Israel by Wendy Weinstein Karp In memory of Michael Rosenbaum by Virginia & Michael Fineberg RABBI MILLER S MITZVAH FUND In appreciation on the occasion of Will Tarica s Bar Mitzvah by Clay & Tom Tarica LOIS BRAUN/CANTOR GRAHAM ADULT EDUCATION In memory of Ann Scheffler by Mr. & Mrs. Gordon MEMORIAL FUND In memory of Ann Scheffler by Gayle & Nathan Schneider In memory of Jerry Robinson By Marilyn & Edwin Gevirtz In memory Eugene Grant by Priscilla Poller CULTURAL ARTS & EDUCATION In memory of Eugene Grant by Marshal Cohen & Ellen Brooks JOEL & LOIS COLEMAN OUTREACH In memory of Gertrude Canter by Joel & Lois Coleman MEMORIAL CONTRIBUTIONS In memory of Ann Scheffler by Marshall Cohen & Ellen Brooks SOCIAL ACTION TZEDAKAH FUND In memory of Michael Rosenbaum by Virginia & Michael Fineberg

WORSHIP SCHEDULE Friday, June 1 BEHA ALOTECHA (Num.

Roseman 10:30 AM Downstairs Minyan Friday, June 8 SHELACH-LECHA (Num.

Downstairs Minyan Friday, June 22 CHUKAT (Num. 19:1-22:1) 6:30 PM Pre-Oneg 7:00 PM Shabbat Worship Larchmont Temple 75 Larchmont Avenue Larchmont, NY 10538 914-834-6120 www.larchmonttemple.

8 WORSHIP SCHEDULE Friday, June 1 BEHA ALOTECHA (Num. 8:1-12:16) 6:30 PM Pre-Oneg 7:00 PM Kabbalat Shabbat Saturday, June 2 9:00 AM Chevrah Torah 9:00 AM Shabbat Yoga 10:30 AM Congregational Worship Bat Mitzvah of Riley French Bar Mitzvah of Asher Roseman 10:30 AM Downstairs Minyan Friday, June 8 SHELACH-LECHA (Num. 13:1-15:41) 6:30 PM Pre-Oneg 7:00 PM Shabbat Worship Saturday, June 9 9:00 AM Chevrah Torah 10:30 AM Congregational Shabbat Bat Mitzvah of Brianny Dorf Bat Mitzvah of Olivia Dorf 10:30 AM Downstairs Minyan Friday, June 15 KORACH (Num. 16:1-18:32) 6:30 PM Pre-Oneg 7:00 PM Kabbalat Shabbat with New Members Blessing Saturday, June 16 9:00 AM Chevrah Torah 10:30 AM Congregational Worship Bar Mitzvah of Eli Tannenbaum 10:30 AM Downstairs Minyan Friday, June 22 CHUKAT (Num. 19:1-22:1) 6:30 PM Pre-Oneg 7:00 PM Shabbat Worship Larchmont Temple 75 Larchmont Avenue Larchmont, NY CUBA, January 7 14, 2019 NONPROFIT U.S. POSTAGE PAID WHITE PLAINS, NY PERMIT NO Join with Cantor Scher & American Conference of Cantors On a week of discovery and Jewish humanitarian effort For full itinerary and online registration: Secure.ayelet.com/ACCCuba2019.aspx Saturday, June 23 9:00 AM Chevrah Torah 10:30 AM Downstairs Minyan Friday, June 29 Summer Services begin 8 2 nd Timers Trip to Israel February 14 24, 2019 See Israel as you ve never seen it before. Together we will explore hidden gems and encounter new perspectives. Giving us a firsthand connection to Israel s cultural mosaic. For the full itinerary and online registration visit: Secure.ayelet.com/SirkmanFeb2019.aspx. Or call Ayelet Tours

FEBRUARY From the Rabbi. For updated information on Temple events, visit us at

FEBRUARY From the Rabbi. For updated information on Temple events, visit us at FEBRUARY 2018 From the Rabbi For most of us, what does Presidents Week really mean? With the advertising blitz on blockbuster sales and the hope for fresh snow at our favorite ski resorts, the B-Days of