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SEPTEMBER 2011
FEBRUARY 2015
AV / ELUL
SHEVAT / ADAR 5775
building self. building community. together.
Love Your Neighbor
by Rabbi Joshua Katzan
44 West 66th Street / New York, NY 10023
ph 212-787-5347 / fax 212-595-3542
101 West End Ave / New York, NY 10023
www.habonim.net
ph 212-787-5347
/ fax 212-595-3542
www.habonim.net
EVENTS
Win-Win: Be Better,UPCOMING
Be Happier
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by– 10:00–11:15am
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February 7, 14, 21 & 28
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HABONIM HAPPENINGS(continued on p 4)
forSEPTEMBER
your neighbor2011
is a fulfillment of this mitzvah. How powerful this is
Check out the calendar at our website www.habonim.net or
call Adina Rifkin at 212-787-5347 ext 100
(continued on p.5)
FEBRUARY 2015
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CONGREGATION HABONIM
SHABBAT CANDLE LIGHTING
email: office@habonim.net / www.habonim.net
Rabbi Joshua Katzan * ext 109
Cantor Bruce Halev * ext 107
Richard Kargauer *
ext 101
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Fran Pearlman
ext 105
Sarahann Goldstein
ext 104
DIRECTOR OF LIFELONG LEARNING
ASST DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION
YOUTH AND FAMILY PROGRAMMING
Tina Lobel
ext 108
Ann Obsatz
ext 123
NURSERY SCHOOL DIRECTOR
Friday, Feb. 6
Friday, Feb. 10
Friday, Feb. 20
Friday, Feb. 27
OFFICE STAFF
Maryann King
Roy Ramsey
Adina Rifkin
ext 102
ext 106
ext 100
MAINTENANCE STAFF
Malvey Khazanov
Jesus Gutierrez
5:01pm
5:10pm
5:18pm
5:27pm
ext 122
ext 122
CONDOLENCES
To the family of our long time member, Grace
Neumark z”l
ASSOCIATE NURSERY SCHOOL DIR
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Elaine Witkoff
PRESIDENT
Fred Seid
VICE PRESIDENT & TREASURER
Susan Grant
VICE PRESIDENT & SECRETARY
Neil Goldstein
VICE PRESIDENT - FUNDRAISING
Michael Harwayne
VICE PRESIDENT- REAL ESTATE
Laurance Kaufman
VICE PRESIDENT - OPERATIONS
Lewis Krulwich
VICE PRESIDENT
PAST PRESIDENTS
Saul Sanders *
Leo Asen *
John Keller *
Carol Kahn Strauss
Ralph Stein, MD z”l
* indicates ex officio board member
Amy Kargauer *
SISTERHOOD PRESIDENT
Stephen Berman
David Feuerstein
Wendy Halperin
Jennifer Pavane Kenter
Paul Millman
Jeffrey Moelis
Ruth Murphy
Nicole Savage
Robert Sherman
Adele Solomon
Howard Stoffer
Joanne Tuckman
Richard Unis
Richard Verner
Elisa Winokur
TEMPLE SERVICES
Yahrzeit / Memorial Plaques
Plaques are displayed outside the Sanctuary
Tree of Life Leaves
Commemorate special occasions or honor
someone special with a leaf displayed on our
entrance wall
Prayer Books
Book plate dedications for all occasions
Facilities Rental
Available for private parties
Kiddush Sponsorships
Sponsor an Oneg Shabbat
Cemetery Plots
Plots are available at Cedar Park Cemetery
Paramus, NJ in the Habonim section
For more information contact Adina Rifkin at
arifkin@habonim.net
or call 212-787-5347 Ext.100
HONORARY TRUSTEES
Arthur Falkenstein z”l
Herman Lichtenberg z”l
Peter Mayer z”l
Marga Walter
Nita Gottesman
EDITOR
DEPARTMENTS & THEIR EXTENSIONS
Adult Education
100
Membership
Bookkeeping
102
Nursery School/Admissions
Bulletin
100
Religious School/Youth
Cemetery
100
& Family Programming
Kiddush Sponsorship 100
Service Times & Location
Life Cycle Events
100
Maintenance
122
Space Rental
100
106
105
100
100
Please send all donations and/or payments to:
CONGREGATION HABONIM
C/O KESEF ACCOUNTING SERVICES
P.O. BOX 159
MONTVALE, NJ 07645-0159
It would be most appreciated and helpful.
CONGREGATION HABONIM is a member of
United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism
Please inform the Habonim office of all Life Cycle events in
your family: births, deaths, anniversaries, awards, promotions
and any other joyous occasion. Contact Adina Rifkin at
ext 100 or arifkin@habonim.net
FEBRUARY 2015
Deadline for submission of articles, photos and ads
for the March Bulletin is February 15th.
Please email to 1nita.gottesman@gmail.com
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SISTERHOOD SNIPPETS
SISTERHOOD gave members of Habonim an opportunity to
start the new year with a social action event. Ten people
volunteered at the West Side Campaign Against Hunger on
Wednesday, January 7th. They had an opportunity to tour the
facility and then help the clients of WSCAH choose their foods
from their food pantry. See separate article to learn how you,
too, can be a part of this project in the future.
Sisterhood Book Club discussions, open to all Habonim
members and guests, continue! We meet at Habonim, 101
West End Avenue, from 7 to about 8:30pm. On February 11,
join the group to discuss Little Failure by Gary Shteyngart.
Candice Brown will lead the discussion. On April 29, Russ and
Daughters by Mark Russ Federman, forward by Calvin Trillin,
will be our focus with Hilda Jaffe guiding the discussion.
Our major activity that boasts great participation (probably
because we have so much fun doing it!) is coming up - creating
Mishloach Manot to distribute among our congregants! (See
separate article explaining this mitzvah.)
March 11th: Annual Women’s Seder at Sutton Place
Synagogue, co-sponsored by the Women’s League groups of
Sutton Place Synagogue, Or Olam (E. 55th St. Synagogue) and
Congregation Habonim. Watch for the flyer at Habonim and a
link to the flyer from the weekly Shabbat email in early
February.
MANY volunteers are needed to bake hamantaschen, fill bags
and distribute them during the days and times listed below.
Please check your calendars for any available time you can
spare, then RSVP to sisterhood@habonim.net or call the office,
ext. 100, to let Mary Sanders, the chair of this project, know
when she can expect you to join us!
This is a Habonim community-wide effort. NOT limited to
Sisterhood members, NOT limited to women, OPEN to ALL
congregants, teens and children who are able to work safely in
the kitchen.
Baking hamantaschen:
Wed. 2/18 & Thurs. 2/19, 9am - 8pm; Friday, 2/20, 9am - 1pm;
Sunday 2/22, 9am - 5pm.
Assembling the bags, with RS students: Mon. 2/23, Tues. 2/24, &
Wed. 2/25, 3 - 7pm.
Distributing Mishloach Manot:
Wed. 2/25 (to Wed. RS students), 3 - 7pm;
Thurs. 2/26, 9am - 7pm;
Fri. 2/27, 9am - 1pm;
Sun. March 1, 9am - 7pm (neighborhood distributions);
Mon. 3/2, noon - 7pm;
Tues. 3/3, 9am - 7pm.
Whether or not you can participate in the making and
distribution of the Mishloach Manot, everyone can actually
perform the mitzvah by ORDERING Mishloach Manot to be sent
to fellow Habonimers.
Go to the Habonim website
(www.habonim.net) to see how easy it is to send your holiday
greetings along with Mishloach Manot, to members of the
Congregation. Call the office if you would prefer a printed form.
Don’t forget that you can order Mishloach Manot for members of
our clergy, our hard-working staff, members of the faculty, and
the families of classmates in the Nursery and Religious
Schools. Giving and receiving Purim greetings adds to the
warm spirit of community that Habonim is known for. Chag
Purim Sameach!
May 2nd: Sisterhood Shabbat! Rabbi Rosalie Osian will lead
the services, with participation by as many Sisterhood members
as possible. Most slots are filled, but if you would like to read or
lead a prayer; read an appropriate poem; take an aliyah; or sing
an appropriate song and you are a member of Sisterhood, we
will find a way to have you participate! Please contact Abigail at
sisterhood@habonim.net asap.
May 19th: Annual Torah Fund Dinner, honoring one of
Habonim’s members, TBA
June 7th: Annual Sisterhood Luncheon, program TBA
“Why is this night different from all other nights?”
The Women’s Leagues of
Or Olam (East 55th Street Synagogue)
Sutton Place Synagogue
Sisterhood of Congregation Habonim
invite you to take a spiritual journey celebrating women!
PASSOVER WOMEN’S SEDER & DINNER
led by Rabbi Rachel Ain & Cantor Bonnie Streigold.
WEDNESDAY,
March 11, 2015
Seder begins
promptly at
7:00 pm
DOORS OPEN AT 6:30 PM
SUTTON PLACE
SYNAGOGUE
225 East 51st Street
(between 2nd &
3rd Avenues)
New York City
Advance paid reservations required
& must be received prior to March 2.
$36 per WL member & daughter(s)
$40 per female guest
.
Questions? Call Marian Saltzman 212-688-4763 or email Evelyn Gomer
eviegomer@gmail.com or Amy Kargauer sisterhood@habonim.net
Please complete reservation form below, tear-off and mail with your check, payable to:
Women’s League of SPS, 225 East 51st Street, New York, NY 10022.
PLEASE PRINT
! I am a WL/Sisterhood member and will attend the Women’s Seder on March 11.
Enclosed is $_______ for ____member & ____ daughter(s) plus ____ female guest(s).
! I am not a WL/Sisterhood member and will attend the Women’s Seder on March 11.
Enclosed is $_______.
Name_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Address___________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Tel No. (day)___________________(evening)Tel No._____________________Email address_________________________________________
Synagogue affiliation: _____________________________________________
If you have a seating or dietary request, please include a separate paper or write on back of this form.
Please include your guest(s) name(s). Your check is your reservation.
FEBRUARY 2015
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WEST SIDE CAMPAIGN AGAINST HUNGER
On the bitter cold morning of
W e d n e s d a y, J a n u a r y 7 t h , t e n
Habonimers met at WSCAH’s 86th St.
basement-of-a-church location for a tour
and a couple of hours of volunteering.
The program was organized by Vicki
Brown, Program VP of Sisterhood.
West Side Campaign Against Hunger is
an organization that has been serving
the needs of a broad swath of the Upper
West Side for more than 30 years.
People in need are treated with dignity.
In an orderly process, with never more
than a 10-minute wait, clients are
admitted to a small, supermarket-like
space where they may choose their
groceries rather than receiving a prepacked bag of food that may or may not
be what they want or be able to use.
FEBRUARY 2015
Nutritional guidance is given
beforehand, and clients choose 3
balanced meals with quantities for three
days per month as determined by family
size.
Congregation Habonim has had a longstanding relationship with WSCAH going
back more than a decade. The mother
of our former Rabbi Joanna Samuels
was a member of the Board of WSCAH
and Habonim makes regular
contributions to this day. In the fall of
2011, Sisterhood had the Director,
Doreen Wohl, speak at our Sukkot
program.
As part of a “new year’s resolution,”
Sisterhood Board would like to make
volunteering at WSCAH a regularly-
scheduled opportunity, and the event on
January 7th crystallized how that can
happen - but volunteers are needed!
We would like to start small, with a
planned group visit to volunteer every
other month. If we can get a core group
- NO LONG-TERM COMMITMENT
NECESSARY - we will consider
bumping up to monthly. If you would
like to see what it’s all about and you
can spare a few hours, please meet us
on Thursday, March 12th, 9:30 am, at
263 W. 86th St. (basement entrance of
the church, near West End Ave.).
RSVP to sisterhood@habonim.net or
call the office, ext. 100. At least one
Sisterhood Board member will be at
each session. We hope to see you
there!
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Rabbi Katzan (continued from p.1)
What is Mishloach Manot
and why should I order
it?
These questions come up
every year around this time
… so here’s the scoop:
Mishloach Manot (Hebrew: ‫משלוח מנות‬, literally, "sending of
portions”; also known as “Shalach Manes” in Yiddish), are gifts of
food or drink that are sent to friends, fellow congregants, relatives
and any other acquaintances on Purim. The mitzvah
(commandment) of Mishloach Manot comes from the Book of
Esther, which commands us to observe Purim "as days of feasting
and gladness, and send portions of food to one another, and gifts
to the poor" (9:22). This verse refers to two mitzvot: sending at
least two different, ready-to-eat foods and/or drinks to someone,
and distributing two charitable donations (money or food) to people
in need. The purpose of these mitzvot is to ensure that everyone
has enough food for the Purim feast, and to increase love and
friendship among Jews.
So, why should I order Mishloach Manot from
Habonim? First and foremost, to fulfill the mitzvah! But also,
because ordering Mishloach Manot from Habonim is a fundraiser
for the Congregation. Many synagogues facilitate the performance
of the Purim mitzvot by creating and distributing Mishloach Manot
gifts that are purchased by their members and also by donating
some portion of the funds raised to a charity involved in feeding the
hungry.
Each year, Sisterhood does this at Habonim too.
Sisterhood prepares and delivers festive holiday gift bags,
containing several delicious items of food and/or drink, to the
people who you designate on your order form. If more than one
member of the congregation orders Mishloach Manot to be sent to
the same recipient, Sisterhood still sends just one gift bag, but
indicates that the gift was sent from more than one member of the
congregation (that’s how the process becomes a fundraiser).
Most of the money raised from this initiative goes to the
synagogue, a small portion goes to support other Sisterhood
programs, and 10% goes to a hunger relief organization chosen
each year by the participants in our Religious School. So by
ordering Mishloach Manot from Habonim, one fulfills the mitzvah by
sending actual gifts of food and drink and also by making a
charitable contribution to an organization that has as its mission
hunger relief.
Please help Habonim and do your part to fulfill the mitzvah by
ordering Mishloach Manot to be sent to people within the Habonim
community or to friends and family anywhere. It’s one sure positive
way to defeat Haman and to strengthen our community! Thank
you on behalf of Sisterhood!
- Mary Sanders, Chr. Mishloach Manot
FEBRUARY 2015
in raising ethical questions about self-imposed limits on how
one conducts business, especially in the sensitive realm of
competition in the marketplace, etc. Imagine wanting
success for your competitors as much as you want success
for yourself.
As a contemplative principle, spending time thinking in these
terms allows for the generation of a more giving and
compassionate nature, even if we don't necessarily change
our business plan. Rabbi Shai Held, a colleague and
teacher, gives this practice real strength. He would propose
to a congregation of young adults in their 20's to consider
this commandment in terms of what they most deeply
desired for themselves, and then to pray and wish it for
their friends even before receiving it themselves.
"Imagine," he taught, "praying for that perfect partner in life,
and then praying that that happiness should first go to your
friend, even before yourself." It is very powerful to think
about what we most desire in the inner sanctum of our soul,
and then wish that for someone else. Doing this as a
practice might help build space within our heart and mind to
hold our fellow's interests as our own.
It is from that place that this mitzvah can help us grow in
myriad other ways into our most prized achievement of all:
being a mensch, being a good, compassionate, and
wholehearted human being.
A REMINDER
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Congress is almost here. You can help MERCAZ increase
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and then voting for MERCAZ delegates when you receive
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Things are in full swing at our new location! We had our
first RS sessions in our new space and our 3rd-5th
graders enjoyed 'breaking in' our new space with a
sleepover. We are looking forward to celebrating
Tu'Bshvat together with model seders led by Rabbi
Josh and Cantor Bruce.
Our teens joined Ansche Chesed for an MLK day of service. We
are looking forward to our 'Zumb-dalah' (Zumba and Havdalah)
event, led by our very own Kori Rehfield.
Look below for some fun pictures from the sleepover!
Sarahann Goldstein
Assistant Director of Education/
Youth & Family Programming
The Nursery School returned from winter break
to a busy schedule of playing, learning and
celebrating in the new space. The children and
parents alike were thrilled to start the new year
off in the brightly-lit classrooms at 101 and the
transition to our new space has gone smoothly
for the teachers as well. Most of our classes
read stories about Martin Luther King Day and engaged in ageappropriate discussions.
Our parents and greater community celebrated Habonim on the
evening of January 29th for our Annual NS Fundraiser, at which
Elisa Winokur was honored for her tireless efforts on behalf of
the Nursery School. Our utmost gratitude to our parents
who worked with so much dedication, commitment and
creativity to make the evening a success. Among other things,
proceeds from our fundraisers are used to purchase new
equipment and material for the children’s use, replenish our
Clara Zeitlin Scholarship Fund, and afford us the opportunity to
offer enrichment to the children through Science, Movement
and Music Teachers and special field trips.
At the beginning of February, we look with excitement to
celebrating Tu B’Shevat, "the new year of trees," with visits from
Rabbi Josh and Cantor Bruce, learning about Israel and
sampling foods that grow on trees there, such as dates and
grapes.
FEBRUARY 2015
By the end of February, we will complete the
admissions process that began last fall and, in
March, we will look forward to welcoming many
new families, our returning families, and those
returning with younger children, to our school.
Current Nursery School parents have been
instrumental in that process as well,
accompanying me and Ann on tours, welcoming prospective
parents who have come to visit the school, speaking on a panel
for prospective parents, and greeting parents and their children
when they have come to Habonim for one-on-one admissions
“play visits.” I can’t thank all of the parents enough for making
such meaningful contributions to our school.
All these
personalized efforts demonstrate that we are truly a close-knit
community working together to make Habonim the special place
that it is for our families.
As always, please feel free to stop by if you wish to discuss
anything. Ann and I look forward to
welcoming everyone in our new office.
All best wishes,
Tina Lobel
Nursery School Director
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11:00am to 1:00pm
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6:30pm to 8:00pm
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10:00am to 11:15am
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Sisterhood Book Club
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Nursery School Closed
9:30am to 12:00pm
Learner's Service
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Religious School Closed
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6:30pm to 7:30pm
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Beit Midrash
1:30pm to 2:30pm
Queens Service
10:00am to 11:00am
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Ohr Haboker
Tour of the 42nd Street
Scholar in Residence: Rabbi Elie Kaunfer
9:30am to 11:30am
10:00am to 11:00am
Library
3:00pm to 5:00pm
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Kabbalat Shabbat Service
Morning Service
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6:30pm to 7:30pm
9:30am to 12:00pm
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