MARCH 2004 C E L E B R A T I N G I M A G I N A T I V E J U D A I S M www.neveshalom.org UPCOMING EVENTS AT NEVE Wednesdays, March 3 thru April 21 -- St. Louis Writers Workshop The St. Louis Writers Workshop meets at Neve Shalom from 7 to 9 P.M. every Wednesday from March 3 through April 21. Check out www.stlww.com for more details. Saturday, March 20 -- Archaeology and the Bible On Saturday morning, March 20, at 9:30 A.M., the Religious School will have a special session on archaeology and the Bible. This enjoyable and informative session will be led by Seattlebased writer Marian Broida. Mr. Broida has published two award-winning books (Ancient Israelites and their Neighbors, selected as a 2003 Sydney Taylor Honor Book by the Association of Jewish Libraries, and Ancient Egyptians and their Neighbors, selected in 1999 by The Smithsonian Magazine as a "Notable Book for Children" ) that combine the archaeology of ancient Israel and its neighbors with hands-on crafts that elders and youngsters alike can enjoy. The whole congregation and interested friends are also invited to attend. Come and hear how the study of how these peoples' lives enriches our understanding of the Bible, and be the first one on your block to have made a Philistine headdress. Tuesday, April 6 -- Neve Shalom Seder This year s Neve Shalom Seder (on the second night of Pesach) will once again be held at the Creve Coeur Community Center at 6:00 P.M. If you did not receive a flyer with details in the mail, call Sandy Stoliar, 314-872-7258. Friday, April 16 -- Welcome Shabbat for New Members Tuesday, May 4 -- The Return and Release Concert, 7:30 PM at the Sheldon Concert Hall CD #4 release concert: Incantation, a ceremony in Ten Incantation is an original integration of music, poetry, chant, story, song, midrash, from Rabbi James Stone Goodman and his conventicle of musical pals. EXECUTIVE BOARD NEVE SHALOM James Stone Goodman Rabbi Elaine Levine/Monte Ross Co-Presidents Judy Newmark Vice President Vladimir Golynskiy Treasurer Barbara Weinman Secretary Board meetings are held on the first Thursday evening of each month. The next Neve Shalom board meeting will be held on Thursday, April 1, at 7:30 PM. All members of the congregation are welcome to attend. NEWSLETTER STAFF Norm Rosenbaum Editor Peggy Rothschild Graphics Shel Levine Production & Mail If you have something you want to include in the newsletter, contact Norm Rosenbaum Phone: 314-994-1542 Address: 2100 East Drive St. Louis, MO 63131 Email: nvr52@sbcglobal.net Material must be received by Norm no later than the 15 th. Neve Shalom phone numbers: Public: 314-863-4366 Emergency: 314-447-0167 or call Shel at 314-878-8891
Message from the Co-Presidents St. Louis has had a long, cold, difficult winter, and we know that all of you are happily looking forward to spring. And, as we all know, in spring a young man's/woman's fancy turns to fundraising. Well, maybe not so many of you, but unfortunately, as co-presidents of Neve, we seem to spend a great amount of time thinking about fundraising. And this month, we have a new and exciting idea for you! We are going to be selling things on ebay! We can't claim this as an original concept since The Jewish Light reported how successful this has been for another St. Louis congregation, but we're not above stealing great ideas. We all have some small item or items around our house that we no longer need but that someone else may collect or want (that old "one person's trash is another person's treasure" syndrome). So find that vase, that statuette from Kenya, your old baseball card collection, an old music box, your aunt's antique pill box, old kitchen clock or whatever and have it do some good. 100% of what the item is auctioned for will go to Neve, and the donor can take it as a tax deduction. We are reserving a storeroom at Neve to hold the stuff until sold. If you can't easily drop your item or items off, please call Harriet Ross at (314) 994-9399 and she will pick it up or make arrangements to do so. Since we will need to mail out these items to their new owners, please take size into consideration when choosing your donations. We will also need any background information on your items which could enhance their value or interest to potential buyers (such as its age and origin, the material that it is made out of, etc.) which will be used in the description we post on ebay. In addition to items to be auctioned, we need computer-literate people who would be interested in facilitating the auctions. We have some experienced folks who can teach the rest of us how to set up an auction, so you do not need to actually have experience in auctioning items on ebay; you just need to be willing to spend some time at your computer to help us. In order to remain a healthy congregation, we need funds, and this can be an exciting and fun way to raise them. We are trying hard to raise sufficient funds so there will be no need for a dues increase just to make ends meet. If we can collect enough via our programs, we will be fine, but we need everyone to help by contributing something of value to the ebay effort. In another bit of exciting news, the Neve cookbooks have arrived. This is another way to help raise funds for Neve, so find out how to get lots of copies for yourself, your family and your friends check for all the details elsewhere in this newsletter. Thanking you all in advance, Monte and Elaine - 2 - EDITOR'S COLUMN UPDATE I am pleased to announce that I have finally narrowed down the field of potential topics for a column to two candidates... either (A) my observations on transliteration, or (B) Jewish leap years. (I'm serious.) As we go to press for this issue of the newsletter, I haven't committed anything to paper yet...but I have some good ideas floating around in my head. (To those of you who may think I am just procrastinating, we can discuss that later.) Norm
2/3 Stanley Weinman Brother of Allen Weinman 2/5 Milton Suffian Father of Daniel Suffian 2/7 Agniya Altman Mother of Yeva Golynskaya 2/7 Pearl Bransdorf Wruble Grandmother of Susan Stang 2/13 Dorothy Bogard Mother of Robert Bogard 2/18 Florence Bale Mother of Eleanor Glick and Grandmother of Marcie Handler 2/21 Henrietta Fischer Mother of Ellis Fischer 2/26 Sylvia Hyatt Mother of Elaine Levine 2/28 Jakub Goldstein Father of Fradi Spilberg 3/-- Henry Tupper Drane III Father of Henry T. Drane 3/3 Harry Michelson Uncle of Byron Michelson 3/6 Mildred Ross Mother of Monte Ross 3/7 Morris Rosenthal Father of Jack Rosenthal 3/9 Jean Routburg Wife of Harvey Routburg 3/11 Esther Gordon Aunt of Rina Krasney 3/15 Ray Liebling Mother of Hayward Liebling 3/15 Mildred Pevnick Mother of Linda Pevnick 3/22 Sarah Spector Grandmother of Sandy Rosenthal 2/25 Abe Wasserman Father of Sid Wasserman Neve Shalom Tributes are easy to send and show the recipients that you care about them and about your synagogue. The next time you need to send a birthday card or a note of congratulations or sympathy, or for any other occasion, please remember your congregation as well as your friends and loved ones. Call Hedva Levy at 314-994-9824 and buy several at a time to have on hand. Tributes are also available on-line at the Neve Shalom website. Go to www.neveshalom.org and click on "Tributes and Donations". To the Robert & Jill Waxler family In memory of your mother and grandmother From the Bogard family. To David Horowitz Good health and healing From Rina Krasney February 5 Eden Samantha Newmark 8 Bruce Stoliar 12 Josh Handler 13 Cheron Guyton 19 Lauren Bright 22 Jon Margolis 27 Emily Hammerman 28 Linda Glickman March 1 Eileen Lieberman 2 Daniel Bogard 3 Jan Daniel 4 Jordan Hammerman 7 Candy Zemon 13 Sol Linder 13 Norm Rosenbaum 14 Richard Grosman 15 Rina Krasney 16 Hedva Levy 20 Debera Libkind 25 Eileen Millner 26 Selma Schlafman 28 Jerry Shatoff 31 Evan Siegfried 2/10 Harriet and Monte Ross 3/5 Hedva and Donald Levy 3/7 Monica and Harry Siegfried 3/13 Debra and Jerry Shatoff 3/26 Barbara and Allen Weinman - 3 -
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NEVE NEWS NOTES Congratulations to Harriet and Monte Ross on the birth of their granddaughter, Gabriella Amelia Ross, on January 30, 2004. Please be sure to check out the current exhibition at the Gallery at Neve Shalom : The Photography of Dan Weaks. The growing Neve Shalom Library welcomes donations of Jewish-related books and/or other media. Now you can read the Neve newsletter no matter what time zone or hemisphere you happen to find yourself in. Each month's newsletter will be posted on our web site, www.neveshalom.org. (Access to a computer and internet connection are the responsibility of the reader.) Neve Food Fest Cookbooks Rejoice, oh happy day, they're here, they're here! Yes, it s the moment we all have been waiting for, the Neve Food Fest Cookbook has arrived from the printer, just in time for Passover. It's full of delicious recipes to spice up the holiday or at least to make dining over the eight days a lot more interesting. As for the rest of the year, there are over 300 recipes to tempt your palate. Hors d'oeuvres, salads, soups, main dishes and desserts - they're all there. And not only will you get the secrets of wonderful meals, you get to help with the dreaded chore of fundraising for Neve. The cookbooks are $10.00 each, and all funds go to supporting the synagogue and its programs. To get yours, contact Ellen Lawrence (314) 997-6240 or Harriet Ross (314) 994-9399. The books will also be available at all upcoming Neve functions. Buy them for your friends, family, neighbors, strangers you meet on the street. There is something in the book for everyone. It will be a double mitzvah - one for you and one for the recipient when they use the wonderful recipes and bask in the praise of their cooking skill. IN THE COMMUNITY The Fleischer Jewish Healing Center will sponsor its monthly Service of Healing on Sundays, March 21, April 11 and May 23 at 4 P.M., at Temple Israel, #1 Alvan D. Rubin Drive. Join others seeking strength and comfort during times of illness, loss and other difficulties. "Jewish Meditation as a Practice for Health and Healing" will be led by Esther Scharf, LCSW, certified teacher of Jewish Meditation and will meet for three Mondays, April 19, April 26 and May 3, 7:30-9:00 PM at B'nai Amoona, 324 South Mason Road. Please send a check for $30.00, payable to The Fleischer Jewish Healing Center and send it to 10950 Schuetz Road, St. Louis, MO 63146 by April 12. The St. Louis Circle of Jewish Music's Annual Edward R. Fogel Spring Concert, set for 4:00 pm on Sunday, March 28 at B'nai El. 1240 dautel lane st. louis mo 63146-5533