Temple Israel 66 Salmon Street Manchester, NH 03103 603.622.6171 Interim Rabbi: Gary Atkins Temple President: Steve Saulten Editor: Christine Dame The voice of Temple Israel - Greater Manchester s Center for Conservative Jewry Volume 18, Issue 3 (March) In this Issue: In the Interim... 1 Temple Members in the News!... 5 March Yahrzeits... 2 Friday Night Service with Shir Appeal... 6 Donations... 3 Upcoming Events... 7 March Dates... 4 Calendar... 8 Passover What s it all About?... 4 Legumes/ KITNIYOT on Passovera The Committee on Jewish Law and Standards, the halachic body of the Rabbinical Assembly and the Conservative Movement, recently adopted a teshuvah (religious /halachic paper) regarding the permissibility of eating rice, corn, and beans on Passover. While not desiring to make anyone change a tradition they are comfortable with, I present an excerpt from this teshuvah for your consideration. The entire teshuvah is available in the office. Conclusion and Psak Halakhah In order to bring down the cost of making Pesah and support the healthier diet that is now becoming more common, and given the inapplicability today of the primary concerns that seem to have led to the custom of prohibiting kitniyot, and further, given our inclination in our day to present an accessible Judaism unencumbered by unneeded prohibitions, more easily able to participate in the culture that surrounds us, we are prepared to rely on the fundamental observance recorded in the Talmud and codes and permit the eating of kitniyot on Pesah. Some Details of This Psak Fresh corn on the cob and fresh beans (like lima beans in their pods) may be purchased before and during Pesah, that is, treated like any other fresh vegetable. Dried kitniyot (legumes, rice and corn) can be purchased bagged or in boxes and then sifted or sorted before Pesah. These should ideally not be purchased in bulk from bins because of the concern that the bin might previously have been used for hametz, and a few grains of hametz might be mixed in. In any case, one should inspect these before Pesah and discard any pieces of hametz. If one did not inspect the rice or dried beans before Pesah, one should remove pieces of hametz found in the package on Pesah discarding those, and the kitniyot themselves remain permissible. Kol Israel March 2018 Page 1 Vol. 18, Issue 3 Kitniyot in cans may only be purchased with Pesah certification since the canning process has certain related hametz concerns, and may be purchased on Pesah. Frozen raw kitniyot (corn, edamame [soy beans], etc.): One may purchase bags of frozen nonhekhshered kitniyot before Pesah provided that one can either absolutely determine that no shared equipment was used or one is careful to inspect the contents before Pesah and discard any pieces of חמץ (hametz). Even if one did not inspect the vegetables before Pesah, if one can remove pieces of (hametz) found in the package on חמץ Pesah, the vegetables themselves are permissible. Processed foods, including tofu, although containing no listed hametz, continue to require Pesah certification due to the possibility of admixtures of hametz during production.
MARCH YAHRZEITS Adar 14 to Nissan 15 Adar 14 1 Harry White Adar 15 2 Gershon Cohen Bessie Kniager Jeannette Morganstern Lottie Leah Romer Frank Rosenberg Fredric Silberberg Adar 16 3 David Almekias Kalman Alterman Bessie Cutler Maurice Foster Samuel Resnick Joseph Stein 17 4 Louis Bresnick Samuel Katz Edith Lipinsky Benjamin Richmond Shirley Solomon Adar 18 5 Beatrice Grodman Morris Kniager Chone Litvinchook Adar 19 6 David Badler Mollie Cutler Morris Davidow Ralph Harrison Melvin Thorner Adar 20 7 Benjamin Morris Cutler Nathan Messenger Israel "Izzy" Schill Adar 21 8 Ilene Atkins Levin Benjamin Bornstein Menachem Dishon Samuel Katz Sally Martin Adar 22 9 Annie Goodman Edith Levine David H. Mulman Isaac Mushlin Adar 23 10 Sarah Atkins Bernice Grodman Dora Miner Joseph Mulman Robert Silberberg Jordan Singer Adar 24 11 Samuel Goldberg Rose Haller David Kniager MARCH YAHRZEITS Adar 14 to Nissan 15 Barnet Resnick Lillian Shepler Adar 25 12 Frances Bresnahan Rebecca Elfond Sydney Hyman Jack Resnick Bernard Steinberg Adar 26 13 Samuel Kramer Steven Novak Harry Perlman Adar 27 14 Joseph Kropp Louis Less Michael Sesen Adar 28 15 Harry Davidovitz Hyman Treisman Adar 29 16 Harry Fieldman Philip Peterman Nissan 1 17 George Gilman Rose Hoffman Rose Saber Nissan 2 18 Etty Sesen Gary Wallin Nissan 3 19 Samuel Israel Harry Phillip Rovner Joseph Rovner Nissan 4 20 Hyman Mandell Nissan 5 21 Morris Cohen Natalie Eckman Max Gottsegen Georges Hania Nathan Levine George Madnick Maurice Ritter Joseph Rudnick Jeanette Sussman Nissan 6 22 Joseph Berger Leon Eckman Nissan 7 23 Harry Berger Moses Feldman Herbert Sonny Kaplan Bertha Kniager Dr. Harry Mushlin Samuel Wolfe Nissan 9 25 Michael Chitister Celia Spector Feldman Nissan 10 26 Samuel Firestone Nissan 11 27 Danny Levine Ida Levine Dr. Louis Ross Morris Wexler Nissan 12 28 Mary Gilman Rosalyn Gronowski Sadie Kniager Nissan 13 29 Lillian Gordon Crockett Ann Weiss Levine Nissan 14 30 Jacob Bradbard Nissan 15 31 Jeno Klein Nathan Koocher Waldemar Schaffer Kol Israel March 2018 Page 2 Vol. 18, Issue 3
Renee Brenner in honor of Rabbi Gary & Iris Atkins Richard Ekman in memory of Nathan Ekman Irwin Singer in memory of Irving Singer Irving Taube in memory of Louis Taube Carolyn Corliss in memory of David Knaiger Robert Singer in memory of Irving Singer Robert Singer in memory of Jordan Singer Roberta Sachs in memory of Louis Less Sandra Hoexter in memory of Herbert Hoexter Merle Paltrow in memory of Jeanette Morganstern Rochelle & Gary Lindner in memory of Rose Haller Harry Shepler in memory of Karen Shepler Bill and Carol Cohen in memory of Danny Levine Kol Israel March 2018 Page 3 Vol. 18, Issue 3
Kol Israel March 2018 Page 4 Vol. 18, Issue 3
Kol Israel March 2018 Page 5 Vol. 18, Issue 3
Recent Friday Night Service with Shir Appeal by Al Shamash Thanks to the efforts of board member Ken Cohn, Temple Israel hosted Shir Appeal, a Jewish acapella group from Tufts University, on Friday night, January 26, 2018 in its beautiful main sanctuary in Manchester. The ten members of this college group, freshmen through seniors, sang in wonderful harmony, using their voices as additional musical instruments. Group members showed both talent and energy in their passion for music and related well to the congregation, singing both traditional Shabbat songs and songs from other genres. They sang in a wide variety of languages and musical styles, including traditional and liturgical songs, Israeli pop and rock, Jewish world music and English songs with Jewish themes. Rabbi Atkins officiated at the service, attended by approximately fifty Temple Israel members, who then enjoyed a delicious dinner. More information about the music and accomplishments of Shir Appeal is available on this musical group s website: https://www.shirappeal.com. Kol Israel March 2018 Page 6 Vol. 18, Issue 3
No RSVP needed! No RSVP needed! RSVP to PJ library at the email above Email: mohel8@aol.com or call 622-6171 Watch your Weekly Temple e-bulletin for signup link! Kol Israel March 2018 Page 7 Vol. 18, Issue 3