Ruach - Congregation Beth Shalom

Ruach 

6800 35th Ave NE 

Seattle, WA 98115 

206.524.0075 

Congregation Beth Shalom • Voted in JT News—Best Congregation from 2009-2012! 

May 2013 • Iyar-Sivan 5773 Volume 45, Issue 8 

M E S S A G E F R O M R A B B I B O R O DI N 

The Joshua Leadership Fund 

The Joshua Leadership Fund What is that 

The Jewish community has had many different 

enterprises with the name Joshua connected to the 

Biblical Joshua and the role he played in checking out the 

land of Israel, being one of only two spies to bring back a 

good report of the land, and his leadership following the 

death of Moses. It is under his leadership that we were 

able to cross the Jordan river and enter into the land of 

Israel. Many of our people’s experiences under him are 

recorded in the Book of Joshua, the first of our prophetic 

books (Neviim). A few of these chapters are read as part 

of our weekly and holiday Haftarahs. 

It is in connection to Joshua’s role of scouting out the 

land, and bringing back information and leadership skills 

to help the children of Israel that I have named a new 

fund at Beth Shalom—The Joshua Leadership Fund. In 

honor of my wedding, my fiancé Cary and I wanted to 

find ways to extend our blessings through the giving of 

Tzedakah with the hope that in lieu of presents, our 

guests would contribute to organizations close to our 

hearts. We decided that we wanted to be connected with 

four different areas of need and have chosen to partner 

with four different Jewish organizations: our community 

at Beth Shalom, addressing the crisis of hunger 

(partnering with MAZON), building the Israel of our 

dreams (partnering with the New Israel Fund - NIF) and 

improving the lives of the most vulnerable in the 

developing world (partnering with American Jewish World 

Service - AJWS). Together with MAZON, NIF and AJWS, 

we have created ways to donate in honor of our wedding 

– the links are included in our wedding invitations (which 

hopefully you have all now received, but if not, contact 

Sasha in the office). 

Here at Beth Shalom, while we have many important 

areas of need which benefit immensely from people’s 

generosity (and we would be honored to have donations 

made to any one of Beth Shalom’s funds), we were 

interested in creating a new fund to celebrate our 

marriage, and to help meet a need at Beth Shalom for 

which we currently have no resources allocated. 

Beth Shalom is a thriving congregation because of our 

members’ dedication (in both hours and money). We 

have the most incredible dedicated lay leaders and 

volunteers. 

An important avenue to supporting our lay leaders and 

volunteers, to help them be nourished and reach new 

levels of leadership and expertise, is in facilitating 

attending relevant conferences, seminars, workshops and 

training in their areas of involvement. These are usually a 

distance from Seattle and have a heavy price tag. The 

Joshua Leadership Fund’s goal is to partner with Beth 

Shalom lay leaders through helping defray some of the 

costs associated with attending these programs that will 

support the growth of our members’ leadership and our 

Beth Shalom community. In return for receiving support 

from the Joshua Leadership Fund, members will make a 

commitment to particular projects or leadership roles 

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INSIDE THIS ISSUE: 

Please note: 

June and July issues of the Ruach 

will be combined. 

If you have an article or announcement 

about something happening in June, July or 

early August, please help us get it into the 

joint June/July issue of the Ruach. The 

deadline is May 10th. 

Updates 1-5 

Shavuot 6 

Youth Updates 8 

Family Camp 9 

Adult Education - and Events 10-14 

Anniversaries, and Birthdays 15 

B’nai Mitzvah 16 

Events in Members Lives 17 

Contributions 18-19 

Service Schedules and Calendars 20-22 

Tzedakah Form 23

Message from the Rabbi continued 

(Continued from page 1) 

they will be playing at Beth Shalom that are of benefit to 

the community. 

I know from my own experience that often participating 

in conferences, seminars and workshops allows one to 

grow and become energized through exposure to best 

practices in the field, training, gaining access to 

resources and meeting other individuals working on 

similar initiative. And in turn, our community as a whole 

will benefit from the enhanced dedication, leadership and 

new ideas of the fellows of the fund. 

committee, training to create our own hevra kadisha and 

these conferences are only a few suggestions of the 

wonderful opportunities that exist. 

Cary and I are very grateful for your support. And we 

feel incredibly privileged to be part of this wonderful Beth 

Shalom community. We look forward to partnering with 

you in its continued growth and development. 

Here are a couple of examples of conferences or 

seminars that members could receive support through 

the Joshua Leadership Fund: Jewish song leading 

conferences for members teaching music in our schools, 

greening your synagogue for members interested in 

helping us further improve our environmental impact, 

SULAM – training for synagogue presidents, fundraising 

conferences for our development team, social justice 

organizing training for members of our social action 

Dues Agreements & Religious School Packets! - Your 2013/2014 dues agreements and 

Religious School packets should be arriving in your homes shortly. Please take the time to fill these out 

and return them to CBS by May 31, 2013 so we can finish our fiscal year planning. 

CBS 2012-2013 Board of Directors 

President 

Mark Stiefel 

President Elect 

Andrew Cohen 

Past President 

Jill Cohen 

Vice-President 

Michael Madwed 

Treasurer 

TBD 

Secretary 

Craig Lawson 

Religious School Committee 

Chair 

Galit Ezekiel 

Members at Large: 

Polly Amkraut 

Karen Binder 

Rhona Feldman 

Neeloufar Gharavi 

Jeff Gillman 

Nancy Goldov 

Steven Katz 

Susan Morgensztern 

John Schochet 

Peter Shapiro 

David Tarshes 

Perry Weinberg 

Deadlines: 

Articles / Announcements 

are due in synagogue office 

by the 10th of each month 

for the following month’s 

newsletter. 

206-524-0075 CBS phone 

206-525-5095 CBS fax 

info@bethshalomseattle.org 

Rabbi Jill Borodin 

rabbiborodin@bethshalomseattle.org 

Tzachi Litov 

Executive Director 

tzachilitov@bethshalomseattle.org 

Irit Eliav 

Director of Education 

iriteliav@bethshalomseattle.org 

Leah Lemchen 

Early Childhood Center Director 

leahlemchen@bethshalomseattle.org 

Julie Hayon 

Director of The Livnot Project–HS 

Carol Benedick 

Program Director and 

B’nai Mitzvah Coordinator 

carolbenedick@bethshalomseattle.org 

Marjie Cogan 

Front Office Coordinator 

marjiecogan@bethshalomseattle.org 

Sasha Prevost 

Lifecycle Coordinator 

sashaprevost@bethshalomseattle.org 

Molly Johnson 

Development Coordinator 

Emma Shusterman 

Bookkeeper 

emmashusterman@bethshalomseattle.org 

Rachel Kotkin 

Asst to the Director of Education 

assted@bethshalomseattle.org 

Carlos DelCid 

Lead Custodian/Handyman 

Rimma Lobas 

Morena Guidos 

Custodial Attendant 

Synagogue office address: 6800 - 35th Ave NE • Seattle, WA 98115 • website: www.bethshalomseattle.org 

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Message from the President 

Now that spring is firmly here, it reminds me that our 

annual meeting is coming up. I invite all members to 

attend Beth Shalom’s annual meeting on Sunday, May 

19th at 10:30 am. Come enjoy some nosh with our 

community, honor our volunteer of the year and learn of 

the state of the shul. 

As we approach the end of the year, my thoughts turns 

to finances. Our expectation is that we will end the fiscal 

year on May 31st on a high note. Help us end the year 

on the positive side – please complete your payment now 

of dues, tuition, High Holiday and Double Chai pledges 

and other amounts which are due this fiscal year. Our 

sacred community thanks you for your kind support. 

Help make Kevin Coskey’s day by purchasing scrip at the 

annual meeting. We are very fortunate that Kevin works 

tirelessly to direct our scrip program to raise money for 

the shul. Each year the shul receives over $10,000 

income from this program. The shul sells scrip or gift 

cards for QFC/Fred Meyer, PCC, Safeway, Albertsons, 

Home Depot, Starbucks, ARCO and we recently added 

Whole Foods. Members receive face value of the gift 

cards and the shul earns about 4% on each sale. 

Currently 36% of our membership purchase scrip – are 

you among this group 

Many of us purchase items from these stores regularly. 

Simply contact the office to purchase your scrip and, if 

desired, we can arrange a monthly scrip subscription for 

you. PCC cards are reloadable at the store and the shul 

gets credit for the reload. I am happy to share how 

Sheryl and I use the scrip program. Every month we 

purchase $600 in scrip for various stores to cover our 

groceries, sundries and home maintenance items. We 

also provide scrip to family members and friends. And, 

we often use the scrip to purchase gift cards at stores to 

provide gifts for special occasions. For us the scrip program 

is a win-win situation – the shul benefits, we purchase 

our necessities and we are able to make others 

happy. With all these opportunities regarding scrip I’m 

sure that you will find a way to make scrip work for your 

family. Let me know if you have any questions regarding 

scrip. 

As always, if you have a comment for me, email me at: 

CBSMarkS@gmail.com 

B’Shalom, 

Mark Stiefel 

S O C I A L A C TI O N C OM M I T T E E, C O N TA C T: G A I L C O SK E Y, N I C O L E H A B ER 

And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall 

not reap all the way to the edges of the field, or gather 

the gleanings of your harvest; you shall leave them for 

the poor and the stranger: I the Eternal am your God. 

(Lev. 23:22) 

Mid-May marks the beginning of Shavuot and the end of 

the counting of the Omer. The Book of Ruth is 

traditionally read during Shavuot, and it contains many 

social justice themes such as reaching out to strangers 

and our communal obligations to those in need. We read 

how Ruth and her mother-in-law, Naomi, were collecting 

the gleanings of the harvest when they are noticed by 

Boaz, who has his workers leave extra sheaves of grain 

for Ruth and Naomi. 

In a form of modern ‘gleaning’, SAC Chair Gail Coskey 

initiated a new program to donate chametz before 

Pesach. As Gail reports: 

The SAC would like to thank the CBS community for their 

generous contributions of "open," non-perishable food 

for the Pre-Passover food drive. Tent City & Mary's Place 

(homeless day center for women & children) greatly 

appreciated your food donations. We made three trips 

with a full van to both locations. The collection box was 

overflowing and SAC plans to continue this drive next 

year. Thanks again for your support. 

This also complemented daughter Rachel Coskey’s Bat 

Mitzvah project. Rachel writes: “Thank you so much for 

helping me with my Bat Mitzvah Project of collecting 

clothes for Mary's Place. They really appreciated all the 

clothes. Thanks again for your thoughtfulness.” 

As we reflect on those who do not have enough to eat, I 

am always struck by the abundance of food in any 

grocery store or Costco in Seattle. How can there be 

hunger in the midst of so much food One CBS member, 

Dan Bernhard is hoping to explore this issue, and others, 

with the Religious School. In his own words: “A couple of 

Sundays before Passover, my daughter Abby (a high 

school senior) and I conducted a teaching with the pre-K 

through second graders of the religious school at 

Congregation Beth Shalom in which the kids shared 

tzedakah, symbolized by Satsuma oranges. The exercise 

emphasized the importance of mutual respect and 

kindness in the process of giving and accepting tzedakah. 

MAZON provided the kids with tzedakah boxes and 

several pieces of literature designed to facilitate a 


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Updates 

S O C I A L A C TI O N C OM M I T T E E, C O N TA C T: G A I L C O SK E Y, N I C O L E H A B ER 


discussion of hunger-related issues in the context of 

Pesach. A week before the holiday I distributed the 

MAZON Passover literature to the Prozdor kids. We had a 

short, but rewarding discussion about the reality of 

hunger in the United States. These young people 

demonstrated a surprising level of knowledge about food 

insecurity, and a heartening level of engagement in 

seeking remedies to the problem. 

I look forward to hearing from the kids about the 

discussions that took place at their respective Seders 

concerning food insecurity. Also, I hope to continue my 

involvement with the religious school, representing 

MAZON and the Social Action Committee in an ongoing 

effort to raise awareness among the kids of Congregation 

Beth Shalom of the issues surrounding food insecurity, 

homelessness, and women’s and children’s rights.” 

We look forward to getting updates from Dan and letting 

you know about Religious School involvement with social 

justice issues. 

Members of our community, who don’t have enough to 

eat, often don’t have adequate shelter. Regular readers 

of this column know that CBS is involved with Temple 

Beth Am in the Homeless-to-Renter (H2R) program. 

According to SAC member Carolyn Cohen: “As of March, 

2013, H2R has supported 194 families in moving into 

housing! This number represents a total of 436 people: 

238 adults and 198 children. The average grant is $740, 

and is used for move-in costs. Beth Shalom is an H2R 

affiliate member, and our support has contributed 

significantly to its success. For example, at Purim, CBS 

members donated over $800 to the fund, covering a little 

over the average move-in costs for one family. Please 

save the date for the next H2R event which will be on 

Sunday, August 18th, at 5 pm, and see the 

announcement on page 19. Donations to H2R are always 

welcome, and can be made to CBS, identified as 

H2R/Social Action Fund.” Please contact Carolyn Cohen 

if you have any questions about H2R. 

On Shabbat, March 30th, David Frum, spoke to the 

congregation about his involvement with the local 

chapter of Habitat for Humanity. David talked about the 

formidable economic obstacles to buying a home in and 

around Seattle, and how HforH helps families build and 

move into affordable housing. To this end CBS is 

participating in an Interfaith Build on Sunday, June 2nd. 

While there might be enough workers from CBS, help will 

be needed the week before to make lunch for the 

workers. If you would like information about helping in 

this area, contact Sheryl Kipnis at : cbshforh@gmail.com. 

From time to time there are social action issues that 

might start in other parts of the country, but eventually 

work there way to Seattle. Former SAC Chairperson, 

Edna Oberman, brings to our attention an issue relating 

to the Hyatt Hotel chain. Edna reports: 

DID YOU KNOW THERE IS A THREE-YEAR-OLD JEWISH 

BOYCOTT OF THE HYATT HOTELS BECAUSE OF THE WAY 

THEY TREAT THEIR WORKERS We thought not. 

WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW HOW TO TAKE ACTION IN 

SEATTLE Read on. 

The Hyatts are controlled by Chicago’s Pritzker family, 

who are active in Jewish civic life. The Pritzkers also are 

one of the wealthiest families in the U.S. Yet, Hyatt is 

notorious for injuries among its housekeepers, for 

replacing career housekeepers with minimum wage 

temporary workers, and for punishing workers who 

complain. Three years ago, Jewish religious leaders, as 

an act of faith, declared the Hyatt hotels “lo kasher” for 

their treatment of workers, and initiated a boycott. So 

far, 5,000 organizations and individuals, both Jewish and 

non-Jewish, have signed on to the boycott, including 

some 250 rabbis and cantors. The rabbis consist of 

Reform, Reconstructionist, and Conservative Rabbis 

(including the renowned Elliot N. Dorff). Look on the 

Internet for “Justice at Hyatt” for the Jewish statement 

called “Open the Gates of Justice.” Another source is 

“Hyatt Hurts.” 

HERE’S THE SEATTLE CONNECTION: Seattle Opera has 

recently teamed up with the Grand Hyatt to offer a 

special discount for visitors to Wagner’s “Ring” cycle in 

August. The Opera has named the Grand Hyatt its 

“official” hotel for the “Ring.” To support the Jewishinspired 

boycott of the Hyatt, this is the time to WRITE 

TO THE SEATTLE OPERA TO OBJECT TO THE 

CONNECTION WITH THE HYATT. State if you’re an opera 

goer; if not, you can write out of civic pride in the Opera. 

Perhaps as few as 20 letters or e-mails can make a 

difference. 

If you would like additional information about this issue, 

contact Edna at (206) 306-8765. 

Finally, please look for upcoming information about the 

CBS Blood Drive in June. 

The next scheduled SAC meeting will be on Thursday, 

May 2. Meetings are held at CBS from 7:30 -9PM. All 

are welcome. 

If you would like more information about upcoming or 

ongoing SAC activities, contact Gail or Nicole at: 

sacchairs@bethshalomseattle.org. 

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Updates 

Join us on Shabbat, 

May 11, 2013 

as we honor 

Tzachi Litov 

for his many years of service as Beth 

Shalom’s Executive Director 

Tzachi has served Congregation Beth Shalom with leadership, 

dedication, and compassion since 2007. We are grateful to Tzachi 

and look forward to staying connected with him and his family as 

he embarks on a new stage in his career. 

The Beth Shalom Board of Directors is sponsoring Kiddush in 

Tzachi’s honor. 

Explore Israel: happy 65th anniversary! 

Sunday, May 5 from 1-4 pm at SJCC Mercer Island, 

3801 East Mercer Way, Mercer Island 

Learn culture and traditions and have a blast on a 24- 

foot rock climbing wall and inflatable surf rider. 

Grab a passport and travel through Israel: 

♦ Make chocolate in Natzrat Illit 

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Hit the big waves in Haifa 

Take your photo in Kibbutz Dgania 

Face paint in Tel Aviv 

Write notes to put in the Kotel in Jerusalem 

Crush grapes in Rishon Lezion 

Make bath salts in Yam Hamelach 

Climb Mount Masada 

Work out IDF-style in Ktziot 

Make herbal tea and pita bread in a Bedouin tent in 

the Negev 

Make colored sand bottles in Eliat 

And join us as at 3:10 pm for a concert of Israeli music 

with singing sensation Meshi Kleinstein, accompanied by 

Avi Avliav. 

Israeli food for purchase. FREE admission. 

Register here: 

https://asoft137.securesites.net/secure/sjcc/index.phps 

rc=forms&ref=Israel+at+65+may2013&id=Israel+at+65 

+may2013. 

If you have any questions, contact SJCC Program 

Director Zach Duitch at ZachD@sjcc.org or 206-388- 

1990. 

Brought to you by the Stroum Jewish Community Center, 

Temple De Hirsch Sinai and the Jewish Federation of Greater 

Seattle. Additional sponsors: BBYO, Bet Alef Meditative 

Synagogue, Bikur Cholim Machzikay Hadath, Camp Kalsman, 

Camp Solomon Schechter, Congregation Beth Shalom, Herzl- 

Ner Tamid, Hillel UW and Jconnect Seattle, Jewish Family 

Service, Jewish Day School of Metropolitan Seattle, J Street 

Seattle, Shevet Matar Tzofim Seattle, StandWithUs Northwest, 

and Temple B’nai Torah. 

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Shavuot Leil Tikkun 

Weaving Art, Torah, and Relationships 

with Professor Shalom Sabar 

Updated Schedule 

Tuesday, May 14, 2013 

7:30pm Kids art project & learning, including mini bakeoff and 

shtender presentation for kids 

7:30pm The Marriage Between God and Israel in Jewish 

Art and Tradition with Prof. Shalom Sabar 

8:30pm Candlelighting & Ma’ariv Service 

9:00pm Presentation with Prof. Shalom Sabar 

10:00pm The Role of Art in Jewish Practice—a discussion 

with Rainer Adkins, Iris Brumer, and Diane Douglas 

11:00pm Cheesecake Bakeoff & Ketubah Exhibition 

11:45pm Shtender presentation 

12:15am Learning Sessions with Rabbi Borodin, Rainer 

Adkins, Shoshanna Barnett, and Rabbi Light 

4:30am Dawn Minyan 

No charge. 

Let us know you’re coming 

so we can make enough cheesecake. 

Better yet, enter yours in the cheesecake bakeoff. 

RSVP at www.bethshalomseattle.org. 

Or contact Marjie at (206)524-0075, marjiecogan@bethshalomseattle.org. 

Calling all Ketubot! 

During our Shavuot Leil 

Tikkun we will learn about 

Ketubot and how they are 

metaphors for the 

relationship 

between God and Israel. 

We’re looking for Beth 

Shalom members to bring in 

their ketubot for the evening. 

Please let us know if you’re 

able to share yours. 

Shavuot Services 

Wednesday, May 15 

9:30am 

full morning service 

10am 

Shavuot Katan 

12:30pm 

Picnic at Viewridge 

Playfield and 

sports in the park 

Thursday, May 16 

9:30am 

Services & Yizkor 

& cooking with 

Hannah Cordes, using 

Yotam Ottolenghi’s 

Jerusalem: A Cookbook 

Attention Bakers: 

This Shavuot, enter your favorite cheesecake (baked at Beth 

Shalom. of course) in our ninth annual Shavuot Cheesecake 

Bakeoff. 

Don't be buttonholed by tradition! Make it sweet, make it savory, 

make it vegan, make it anyway that you want and know that it'll get 

eaten anyway! 

Cheesecakes will be tasted and voted on at our May 14th Erev 

Shavuot Leil Tikkun (all night Torah study). 

Contact Carol Benedick at carolbenedick@bethshalomseattle.org or 206-524-0075 and 

she’ll hook you up with our Bakeoff Coordinators, Dana Tell and Rhian Lombard, who 

will give you “the rules” and schedule your baking time. 

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Updates 

BEIT SHALOM 

CEMETERY 

Purchasing cemetery space during life 

- rather than waiting for an emergency - 

is a gift to yourself and your family. 

More information can be found at the CBS website under “About CBS.” 

To receive a cemetery packet, contact: 

Debrah Jeffs-Grad at cemetery@bethshalomseattle.org 

CBS Greening Initiatives - The Ruach 

At Beth Shalom we are always looking for ways to be a “greener” 

community. Our 100% compostable Kiddush is a great example as is our 

community garden. We are offering the opportunity to receive our monthly 

newsletter—The Ruach—in electronic form only. If 

you are interested in receiving only an electronic 

version of the Ruach (currently available on our 

website and via our weekly Cybershul), please email 

Marjie at 

info@bethshalomseattle.org and let her know. 

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Youth Updates 

F R O M TH E D I R E C T O R OF E D U C A TI ON: I R I T E L I A V 

For the last several years, one of our CBS children has 

made a rather amusing comment to me on multiple 

occasions. She has remarked that “you aren’t a grown 

up yet. You aren’t married.” As a strong, independent, 

single woman it was a little hard not to take offense at 

that comment. The fact that it was made by an innocent 

young child helped. But, as my wedding is now only a 

little over three months away, I’m struck by how 

different my life really does feel now that I am getting 

married. 

But most of all, it’s amazing how much Josh and I make 

nearly every decision based on what is best for our 

future children. Without any idea on when we might 

have children (God willing) or what those children will be 

like, we are already thinking about their education, what 

kind of home we want them to be raised in, and how to 

ensure they have good relationships with their grandparents, 

aunts, uncles, and cousins. As someone who 

has dedicated most of my adult life to caring for literally 

hundreds of children, it is interesting to be 

contemplating being the one making the decisions on 

parenting, instead of just brainstorming with parents on 

ideas for how to help their children. I find myself 

thinking a lot about the many children I have watched 

grow up at Beth Shalom and pondering what aspects of 

their parents’ choices I hope to emulate in my own 

home. 

In addition to all the big changes happening in my life, I 

am truly amused by some of the little ones. I find 

myself starting more and more sentences with “we” 

instead of “I”. My social calendar has become much 

more complicated, as we merge the lives of two busy 

professionals (neither of which have typical 9-5 jobs) 

and go to the multitude of appointments involved in 

wedding planning, making it far too difficult to spend as 

much time as I would like with other loved ones. I find 

myself constantly unable to make decisions quickly, as I 

am acutely aware that I am no longer the only one 

impacted by my choices. Instead, I regularly reply to 

questions and emails with “Let me ask Josh and get 

back to you…” 

Beth Shalom does an exceptional job of, as a 

congregation, raising children who are bright, articulate, 

committed to social justice, and deeply immersed in 

Judaism and Jewish life. I am constantly in awe of how 

capable and extraordinary our children are in this 

community. I am tremendously grateful that I have had 

nearly 13 years to learn from the multitudes of 

exceptional parents in this community. I look forward to 

the time when I will be able to put all I have learned 

here to good use in my own family. I am also excited to 

use this new chapter in my life to continue to shape our 

educational programming at CBS. 

What changes are happening in your life How has CBS 

helped to shape you into the person you are What 

challenges have you faced and has the CBS community 

been helpful in meeting those challenges What exciting 

new adventures are on the horizon I hope that our 

community has meant as much to you as it has to me. 

As all of our lives change over time, I for one, feel 

grateful that I get such an exceptional community to 

share it with. I hope that you do as well. 

The CBS Men’s Club will join forces with the USY at Safeco Field 

to cheer as 

The Seattle Mariners take on the New York Yankees 

Thursday night, June 6th 

Join us at the ball park to show your support for United Synagogue Youth, 

Cracker Jack, and the Home Team. P l a y B a l l ! ! 

Info about USY and this event 

TICKETS - $30 

Note: At least $5 from every ticket sold will go to the Pinwheel Region 

Scholarship Fund to help USYers attend Regional Events. 

Buy Your Tickets NOW! 

http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventoeidk=a07e76euitp0d653a36&llr=zaeak9dab 

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Family Camp 

There are only 10 spots le. Sign up now! 

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Adult Education 

ADULT EDUCATION 

Women’s 

Rosh Chodesh 

Chavurah 

Rosh Chodesh Sivan, 

Sunday, May 19, 2013, 7-9pm. 

"Transmitting Jewish culture through art" will be 

the topic at May’s Rosh Chodesh gathering at the home 

of Joan Rudd. Joan is a Seattle sculptor best known for 

her Yiddish theme METRO bus shelter murals in the 

Northend, now all removed due to weathering. She will 

present an overview of Jewish museums in a few other 

cities (Berkeley and Berlin for example) as well as take 

us downstairs to view a scale model of a planned 

Jewish heritage exhibit. We will be discussing the role 

of Jewish "culture" and items of Judaica in our own lives 

and homes. Participants are invited to bring a Judaica 

item or "heirloom" to the evening discussion for "show 

and tell". 

To RSVP and get information on the location, please 

contact Annette Peizer, Peizer@aol.com by Friday, May 

17th. 

Parve and dairy snacks are welcome! 

- שיעור פרקי אבות-‏ Pirkei Avot 

with the commentary of Me’am Lo’ez 

Instructor: Yiscah Smith 

Avoth (Pirkei Avot – The Ethics of the Fathers) is the 

one Talmudic tract that explores the very roots of 

Judaism. It has long been regarded as a rare treasure 

of our Torah tradition. Pirkei Avot, as contrasted with 

the Talmud’s discussions around Jewish law, centers our 

attention directly on the Jew’s efforts to improve one’s 

relationship with G-d and fellow human being. Of all 

the many commentaries written on Avoth, perhaps the 

clearest is that published in 1747 by Rabbi Yitzchak 

Magriso of Constantinople , as part of the famed Me’am 

Lo’ez series. His commentary was written in Ladino and 

was translated into English in 1978 by David N. 

Barocas, a Sephardic scholar from Rodesto, Turkey and 

then edited into a contemporary idiom by Rabbi Aryeh 

Kaplan. Rabbi Magriso ferrets out the root meaning of 

the text, and presents it in clear, unambiguous 

language. Stories, parables and ethical discussions 

round out his commentary to produce a clear and highly 

inspirational teaching. 

New Spring Session of Pirkei Avot 

Wednesday nights, 7-8:00pm 

Dates: May 1– June 26th (8 weeks) 

Cost: $80/Member, $120/Non-member 

FOOD FOR THOUGHT 

DINING ROOM LEARNING 

Come to a workshop learning series over the summer. 

We will work together from My People’s Prayer Book, Vol. 2, 

The Amidah and other texts while enjoying a pasta dinner. 

All levels of learning are welcome! 

Learn the 

Text & Meaning 

of the Amidah 

When: Tuesday, evenings at 7pm 

May 28 to September 3 

Where: Robert and Ron’s home, RSVP and address 

will be provided, carolbenedick@bethshalomseattle.org 

We’ll learn together while enjoying a pasta dinner. 

Bring an appetite for learning! All are welcome! No 

Charge. 

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Adult Education 

Shabbat Learning 

There is no charge for Shabbat Learning. 

Learn Talmud after Lunch with Rabbi Stuart Light 

What’s Shabbas without a little Talmudic logic Put 

your lawyerly skills to work learn how the Rabbis of old 

picked apart every word of the Torah and Mishna in 

order to discover nothing less than TRUTH. 

We meet every Saturday after lunch, about 1:00pm in 

the Sanctuary. No charge 

An Observant Life—Discussion Group with 

Joel Freedman 

3rd Shabbat of the month, 1:15—2:15pm 

Next discussion: May 18th 

Nusach HaTefilah with Carl Sayres 

1st Shabbat of the month, 1:15—2:15pm 

Next class: May 4th 

Nusach HaTefilah is the traditional musical modes and 

motifs that are characteristic for each service. These 

modes are specific to the time of day and also the day 

of the year (weekday, Shabbat, festival, High Holiday). 

This class is open to everyone, and will be especially 

useful for people with experience or interest in leading 

services 

Learner’s Minyan with Robert Hovden 

2nd Saturday of the month, 10:30-11:15am 

May 11 2013 

Kaddish; Adon Olam 

June 8, 2013 

Tallit/Tzitzit 

Sunday Torah Study 

The Northwest's feistiest Torah study group wrestles 

with the text of the upcoming parashah every week in 

a member-led medley of laughter, challenge, and 

insight. High-energy participation is strongly 

encouraged; no prior study is necessary. 

Time: Weekly on Sunday, 10:15-11:15am 

Cost: No Charge 

Last Month’s Middah & Middot was scheduled on the 

same Shabbat as the Bierman Scholar In Residence. 

We have rescheduled it for May 11. 

Middah of the Month 

Next meeting, May 11 1:15-2:30pm 

Topic: Faith—Emunah 

The target for a life well lived 

is summed up in the word 

wholeness (sh’lemut), about 

which Rabbi Shlomo Wolbe 

says: “We seek only our 

wholeness.” Then he guides, 

“The foundation of wholeness 

is faith.” Without faith, 

wholeness will elude us. 

Alan Morinis writes: “to my way of thinking, the 

primary question is not whether or not you believe in 

God, but rather a more empirical issue of where to 

look to find God. If you know where to look for God, 

then you have the potential to perceive a reality, and 

that is a far better foundation for faith than either 

blind belief or adherence to received opinions.” 

To build a foundation of faith, then, we need to pay 

attention to the sorts of glimpses, intuitions and 

flashes that are the only way in which we can hope 

to experience something of the presence of God. 

How can you grow in faith, or into faith 

The doorway to faith is not opened by rational 

thought. Only through elevated inner experience can 

one come to faith or strengthen the faith one has. 

Through reflection and learning, we may be 

convinced that there must be more to life than is 

apparent, but it is only through lived experience that 

this notion becomes implanted as faith. 

Each of us needs to ask ourselves what it is that 

stands in the way of opening to faith, and what we 

can do about it. There are many sorts of actions that 

can be undertaken as a result of faith, and that in 

the doing can also become a source of faith. This is 

true of the classic acts of loving-kindness, like giving 

charity, visiting the sick, clothing the naked, and 

burying the dead. The same is true of prayer. It is 

logical to think that living a life by the 

commandments would demand that faith be in place 

first; my experience is that living by the 

commandments fosters and nurtures faith as well. In 

the end, what is important about faith is that we 

keep seeking. 

Please join Rabbi Harry Zeitlin and Shirah Bell to 

explore emunah after Shabbat Kiddush May 11, 

2013, 1:15-2:30pm. 

(© copyright Shirah Bell. Adapted from Everyday 

Holiness by Alan Morinis, with permission; all rights 

reserved worldwide.) 

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Adult Education Registration 

Please return with payment to Congregation Beth Shalom, 6800 35th Ave NE, Seattle, WA 98115 

Name: 

Address, 

City, State, Zip: 

Phone, Email: ( ) , 

PLEASE INDICATE YOUR COURSE SELECTIONS 

EVENING CLASSES 

 

Pirkei Avot Class, New Spring Session in May & June, 

$80/member, $120/non-member (Wednesday evenings) 

OTHER CLASSES 

 

Sunday Torah Study, no charge 

 

Food for Thought—Dining Room Learning 

SHABBAT STUDY GROUPS 

Talmud Study, no charge 

 

 

 

 

Middot & Mitzvot, no charge 

Observant Life Discussion Group, no charge 

Learner’s Minyan, no charge 

Nusach HaTefilah, no charge 

Member Non-member A 3% fee is applied to all credit card payments 

Enclosed is my payment via Check Visa/MC 

Card # / / / exp. 

Signature of Cardholder 

Verification Code 

Total Tuition: 

3% CC fee (if applicable 

Total Included: 

Scholarships are available for 

members. Let us know! 

Refund Policy: 

Beth Shalom will refund tuition in the event a course is canceled. Students who withdraw from a 

course and request a refund within two weeks of the course’s start date are eligible for a pro-rated 

refund. Tuition will not be refunded for course withdrawal after two weeks from a course’s start date. 

For Office Use Only 

Date Rec’d: 

Original to CB 

Conversation About Life with David Shields 

Join us as New York Times bestselling author David Shields reads from The Thing About 

Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead (2008) and How Literature Saved My Life (2013). 

Book signing and kosher reception will follow. 

Wednesday, May 29, 2013, from 7-8:30pm 

Held at the Phinney Neighborhood Center, 6532 Phinney Ave N, 

Seattle. 

No Charge. 

Advance registration is required. 

RSVP to Leonid Orlov, 206-861-8784 or familylife@jfssseattle.org 

Co-sponsored by Jewish Family Service, Congregation Beth Shalom, Temple Beth Am, 

Santoro’s Books and the PNA Greenwood Senior Center. 

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Updates 

Come to the Annual Meeting...Stay for the Wood Chips 

Free Wood Chips for your Garden 

Sunday, 5/19 from 1:00-3:00 pm behind the Annex house 

The Grounds Committee is offering free chips to beautify your yard and control weed growth. An excess of chips 

was delivered to CBS and we want to share the wealth with our fellow CBS members. 

On Sunday May 19 from 1-3 pm, members of the committee will help fill your containers (yard bags, pickup trucks, 

garbage cans, etc). You can come back more than once but still 1-3 pm. This timely notice will give you time to 

prepare your flower beds or if not finished dump onto a tarp in your driveway. Take advantage of this opportunity. 

S H A B B A T A D U L T L E A R N I N G @ C B S 

“THE OBS ERVA N T LIFE” DI S C U S S I ON GROUP 

Want to learn more about the Conservative Movement’s vision of living the ‘good’ Jewish life 

Be part of the conversation: join fellow CBS’ers on a journey through The Observant 

Life: The Wisdom of Conservative Judaism for Contemporary Jews every third Saturday of 

the month after lunch. The Observant Life (Rabbinical Assembly, 2012) draws on a 

decade of work, with contributions from the Movement’s top thinkers, rabbis, and 

scholars. 

Upcoming Discussions @ 1:15 pm: 

May 18 th : Between Parents & Children (pp. 673-692) 

June 15 th : Between Siblings & Between Grandparents (pp. 693-712) 

Attend when you can. No prior knowledge of Hebrew or halakha (Jewish law) 

required. For reading summaries and up-to-date schedule, e-mail: ObservantLife 

[at] CoryFreedman [dot] com. 

“An incredible guide to living in this century according to Jewish law…” 

- Ruth W. Messinger, American Jewish World Service 

Date Change! 

Beth Shalom’s Social Action Committee is supporting the Interfaith Building Crew for 

Habitat for Humanity on Sunday, June 2nd. (Habitat changed the date from April 28.) 

Thank you to all the volunteers who filled our available spaces for the building crew! 

Sheryl is looking for volunteers who can help prepare lunch for the building crew 

(a la Shabbos chefs) during the week before June 2. She is also taking names for 

volunteers who would like to be on the building crew wait list in case there are cancellations. 

Participants for the building crew must be 16 or older. 

To volunteer or for more information, please contact Sheryl Kipnis at cbshforh@gmail.com. 

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New-ish Members (Bruchim Habayim) 

Before our fiscal year was over we wanted to make sure 

that we officially introduce you to the members who 

joined the Beth Shalom community this year: 

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Kimberly Schulze 

Jon Zimmerman 

Eugene & Sari Lipitz 

Arthur & Glenda Warmoth 

Rafi Stern 

Chelsey Swan 

Scott Cohen & Lauren Kurland 

Cindy Garbell 

Kelsey Beckner & Charles Gussow 

Leslie & Joshua Katz 

Allan & Rachael Moss 

Michael & Katherine Walter 

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Daniel Addess & Jill Nogi 

Sam Fahrer 

Mickey Balderas 

Michel Chriqui & Ellice Ellenhorn 

Joel Kanter 

Benjamin & Ellen Weinstein 

Ira & Peta Mehlman 

Matthew & Erica Doctor 

Aaron Davis & Tabitha Torkelson 

Eric Engel & Janna Smith 

Martin & Karma Joseph 

Melissa Stern 

Moran Rubinstein Haitin & Jhonathan Rubinstein 

Nitzan & Dror Shabek 

Wendy Friedman & Becky Blixt 

David Tannenbaum & Patricia Morton-Thomas 

May 3 —Neighborhood Shabbat — Join your neighbors for a potluck Shabbat 

meal on Friday night, May 3rd. RSVP directly to the host to find out when dinner 

is and what you can bring. Please contact Susan Monas for more information, 

206-781-8543. 

Hosts: 

Wedgwood/Morningside Heights: Jill Cohen & Rik Katz, jillcbs@gmail.com – Adults only (6 max.) 

Viewridge: Cherie Hershman & Mick Ostroff, che30_1999@yahoo.com – Teens and kids are welcome 

Wedgwood: Shirah & Chauncey Bell, sb@nineseeds.com 

Viewridge: Lynn & Steve Katz, thekatzes@comcast.net 

Bryant: Shoshanna Barnett & Michael Jolson, sbarnett@u.washington.edu (6 max.) 

Greenwood: Annette Peizer & Don Ivanov, Peizer@aol.com – All ages welcome (5 max.) 

West Seattle: Kayla Weiner, activistkmw@yahoo.com, - Adults and kids of all ages welcome (20 max.) 

Mountlake Terrace: Jeremy Alk & Cynthia Green-Alk, lightstar@prodigy.net – Adults only (4 max.) 

Eastside: Jeff & Marcy Gillman, drffej45@msn.com 

Wedding Announcement: 

Rabbi Borodin and Cary Atlas are getting married on Sunday June 16th at 1:30pm 

The whole congregation is invited. Electronic invitations have sent to Beth Shalom members. 

Please be in touch with Sasha in the office at sashaprevost@bethshalomseattle.org, or 

206-524-0075, if you do not have an email account or did not receive your invitation, so a hard 

copy can be mailed to you. 

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ANNIVERSARIES, and BIRTHDAYS Mazel Tov to All 

A NNIV E R SA RIE S 

Laura Lavi & Maurice Jones 5/1 

Betsy Gilbert & 

Flora A. Ostrow 5/4 

Allen & Lori Safer 5/12 

Harold Bobroff & Yonah Karp 5/16 

Joel & Kate Altus 5/22 

Lorraine & Dan Satterfield 5/22 

Gail Katz & Henry Liebman 5/24 

Ted & Kellan Eisenhardt 5/27 

Ginny Cassidy-Brinn & 

Alan Brinn 5/28 

Craig Saran & 

Joani Diskin Saran 5/28 

Bruce & Laurie Pritchard 5/29 

David Grossman & 

Cezanne Garcia 5/30 

Mark & Sheryl Stiefel 5/30 

Barry Kahn & Mindy Cohen 5/31 

Martin & Deborah Wahl 5/31 

Arthur & Glenda Warmoth 5/31 

B IRTHD AY S 

Nadine Cadesky-Zimmerman 5/1 

Greg Griffin 5/2 

Ken Jacobsen 5/2 

Karey Kessler 5/2 

Judah Nathan 5/2 

Dani Nurick 5/2 

Michel Chriqui 5/3 

Linda-Jo Greenberg 5/3 

Eugene Huppin 5/3 

Noa Blume 5/4 

Shira Stern 5/4 

Mark Bensadon 5/5 

Peter Raskind 5/5 

Shoshana Wineburg 5/5 

Dora Aprin 5/6 

Daniel Frum 5/6 

Steve Greene 5/6 

Michael Madwed 5/6 

Steve Marx 5/6 

Carol Brown 5/7 

Gerry Huppin 5/7 

David McDonald 5/7 

Benjamin O'Quin 5/7 

Susan Adler 5/8 

Deirdre Gabbay 5/8 

Lena Klarnet 5/8 

Naima Antolin 5/10 

Norman Chapman 5/10 

Tom Haitin Rubinstein 5/10 

Ted Kolb 5/10 

Talya McCurdy 5/10 

Jill Nogi 5/10 

Edward Sider 5/10 

Lisa Geiger 5/11 

Shaina Huntley 5/11 

Ari Pernick 5/11 

Samara Spitzer 5/11 

Maxine Alloway 5/12 

Barry Kahn 5/12 

Eileen Klein 5/12 

Ariela Medrash 5/12 

Douglas Ramsay 5/12 

Michael Zieve 5/12 

Matan Bilavsky 5/13 

Nadav Brumer 5/13 

Jacob Glickman 5/13 

Daniel Markowitz 5/13 

Debbie Shapiro 5/13 

Max Anderson-Portnoy 5/14 

Isaac Cordes 5/14 

David Kahn 5/14 

Craig Lawson 5/14 

Sarah Medwell 5/14 

David Ringold 5/14 

Martin Schnitzer 5/14 

Christy Aberg 5/15 

Samuel Fein 5/15 

Robert Isgur 5/16 

Marc Rosenshein 5/16 

Daniel Addess 5/17 

Joshua Adler 5/17 

Sydney Friedman-Blixt 5/17 

Debra Mowat 5/17 

Jeremy Schroeter 5/18 

Andrea Kravette 5/19 

Zev Newman 5/19 

Marc Erlitz 5/20 

Jacob Glick 5/20 

Jennifer Hurshell-Hobson 5/20 

Susan Morgensztern 5/20 

Gerald Pollack 5/20 

Sarah Deutsch 5/21 

Hazel Samnick 5/21 

Craig Brown 5/23 

Bertha Lowenstein 5/24 

Aviva Bienn 5/25 

David Fulton 5/25 

Maayan Gordon 5/25 

Sophie Isaac 5/25 

Ariel Krasik-Geiger 5/25 

Daniella Bayley 5/26 

Eli Glick 5/26 

Oleg Koltman 5/26 

Sam Perlin 5/26 

Jettie Person 5/26 

Joel Freedman 5/27 

Alan Kunovsky 5/28 

Ira Mehlman 5/28 

Anthony Moore 5/28 

Cherie Hershman 5/29 

Rina Isaac 5/29 

Heather Lemchen 5/29 

Frances Ringold 5/29 

Jaime Friedman 5/30 

Sivan Tratt 5/30 

Michael Faigenblum 5/31 

Aaron Strauss 5/31 

Buy Scrip/Gift Cards For CBS 

Come to the shul office and purchase QFC/Fred Meyer, PCC, Safeway, Albertsons, Home Depot, Starbucks, 

and ARCO, and now Whole Foods-$100 and $25, from Marjie. 

Remember that your use of these gift cards when you shop provides great benefit to the synagogue, 

and it costs you nothing extra! 

If you have any questions about the scrip program, please contact Kevin Coskey at 

(206) 365-2275 or scrip@bethshalomseattle.org, and the CBS Offices at 206-524-0075. 

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B’NAI MITZVAH - Mazel Tov 

Sarah Kader Katz 

Sarah Kader Katz will be called to the Torah as a Bat Mitzvah on Shabbat morning June 

5, 2010, parshat Behar/Behukotai. 

Sarah is the daughter of Steve Katz and Claire Lieberman and the sister of Maya. She is 

the granddaughter of Patty and Mayer Glimcher and Veronica and the late Walter Katz 

(z”l) of Columbus, Ohio, and the late Betty and Lee Lieberman (z”l) and Walter and 

Doris Lehman (z”l) of Toledo, Ohio. 

Sarah is a seventh grade student at University Prep, and is a graduate of the Seattle 

Jewish Community School. She enjoys playing soccer, basketball, and skiing, singing 

and dancing, and spending time with friends. Her mitzvah project involves serving 

meals to, and collecting dental supplies for, homeless adolescents as part of Teen Feed. 

Sarah and her family invite the congregation to share in her simcha and join a Kiddush 

lunch following services. 

Hannah Braunstein Wahl 

Hannah Braunstein Wahl will be called to the Torah as a Bat Mitzvah on May 18, 

2013. Hannah is the daughter of Deb and Martin Wahl, and the sister of Livia. 

Hannah is a 7th grader at the Jewish Day School of Metropolitan Seattle. She 

loves science, math, and writing, and has worked hard to become a consistent 

straight-A student. She plays volleyball at JDS, and with the Moxie Otters yearround. 

This year, she surprised herself by running the third-fastest time in the 

girls mile at JDS since 2007. At home, Hannah likes to have fun with Livia and her 

yellow lab, BJ. She also likes to swim, play tennis, hike, spend time with friends, 

play clarinet, and sing. Hannah loves living in Seattle, and especially loves the 

warm community of friends that she has found here. 

For her mitzvah project, Hannah plans to volunteer at Teen Feed beginning in 

May. 

We would like to invite the community to join us as Hannah becomes a bat 

mitzvah, and to celebrate with us at the Kiddush luncheon following Shabbat morning services. 

Theo Berman 

Theo Berman will be called to the Torah as a Bar Mitzvah on June 1, 

Parshat Shalach. He is the son of Mark Berman and Wendy Katz and 

the brother of William Berman. Theo attends Eckstein Middle School, 

where his favorite classes are Spanish and Tech. When not deep in a 

book, Theo enjoys Magic tournaments, gluten-free crepes, rock 

walls, Dungeons and Dragons, and creating complex and inscrutable 

(to everyone else) games with his brother. 

A longtime student of loopholes and connoisseur of (extremely) spicy 

foods and sauces, Theo has chosen to support Heifer International as 

his mitzvah project. 

We hope you will join us at services on June 1 and stay for Kiddush 

lunch. 

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EVENTS IN MEMBERS LIVES 

MEMBERS IN SHLOSHIM OR YUD BET HODESH 

Betsy Schneier, for her mother, Mildred 

Rosenbaum, z”l (1 Iyar) 

Kim Isaac, for her sister, Susan Haas, z”l 

(18 Nissan) 

Ariella Migdal, Tamar Azous, and Amram 

Migdal, for their mother, Marcy Migdal, z”l 

(15 Nissan) 

Joel Migdal, for his wife, Marcy Migdal, z”l 

(15 Nissan) 

Jill Nogi, for her father, Jay Nogi, z”l (10 

Nissan) 

Karyn Levie, for her mother, Cynthia 

Winsor, z”l (4 Nissan) 

Gregory Korshin, for his uncle, Yelfim 

“Fima” Korshin, z”l (24 Adar) 

Cindy Strauss, and Warren Fein, for their 

mother, Jane Fein, z”l (27 Shevat) 

Robert Rosenberg, for his wife, Jane Fein, 

z”l (27 Shevat) 

Ellice Ellenhorn, for her mother, Joan Ellenhorn, 

z”l (5 Shevat) 

Nancy Goldov, for her mother, Anita C. 

Stolov, z”l (18 Tevet) 

Jerry Becker, for his cousin, Raymond Becker, 

z”l (6 Tevet) 

Marie Poole, for her godson, Kyle Clark, z”l 

(4 Kislev) 

Rose Marie Bensadon, for her husband, 

Leon Bensadon, z”l (19 Heshvan) 

Yonah Karp, for her mother, Laenu Adelilah 

Greenberg Karp, z”l (28 Tishrei) 

Linda Levy-Kanter, for her mother, Blanche 

Levy, z”l (27 Tishrei) 

Mark Slosberg, for his father, Robert 

Slosberg, z”l (18 Tisrei) 

Daniel Addess, for his mother, Elaine 

Clarke, z”l (11 Elul) 

Michael Lubow, for his father, Nathan 

Lubow, z”l (5 Elul) 

Iris Brumer, for her husband, David Brumer, 

z”l (18 Tammuz) 

Nadav and Asaph Brumer, for their father, 

David Brumer, z”l (18 Tammuz) 

Craig Saran, for his mother, Dorothy Saran, 

z”l (8 Tammuz) 

Steve Katz, for his mother, Harriet Katz, z”l 

(3 Tammuz) 

Carol Brown, for her husband, Brent Brown, 

z”l (18 Sivan) 

Rachel Brown, and Craig Brown, for their 

father, Brent Brown, z”l (18 Sivan) 

Carol Brown, for her mother, Eleanor Covell, 

z”l (29 Iyar) 

Vera Kantor and Israella Kleiman, for her 

mother, and her grandmother, Leah Schwartz, 

z”l (12 Iyar) 

REFUAH SHLEMAH 

CBS Members 

Michaela Shulamit bat Sara v’Avraham 

(Julie Shusterman) 

Yisrael bar Yafa v’Moishe Zissel (Jordan 

Spiro) 

Mira bat Shmuel v'Betty (Cindy Garbell) 

Mia bat Pesiah (Mia Mehlman) 

Orli bat Sofia 

Freydl Miryl bat Sima Masha v’Pesha 

Gedaliah Yosef ben Yehudit 

Rolande bat Vivie (Rolande Chesebro) 

Avigdor ben David (Avi Erlich) 

Masha bat Shaindel 

David Henached shel Goldja (Elric 

Wolfsbruder McCurdy) 

Yachna Maryam ha’Cohen bat Masha 

Leah 

Chisda ben Yonah (Tony Moore) 

Chizkiyahu Yitzchok Yehoshuah ben 

Rachel v’Eliezer 

Yitzchak ben Miriam v’Benjamin (Ira 

Kalet) 

Ita bat Taube (Inna Lacker) 

RELATIVES of Members 

Ezra Zimmerman, nephew of Henry 

Zimmerman 

Ira Weiner, cousin of Kayla Weiner 

Helena Baronheid, cousin of Debbie Gordon 

Michael Burke, husband of Svetlana Burke 

Aryeah Labe Ben Freydl v’Avrom Chaim 

(Leo Shalinsky), father of Howard 

Shalinsky 

Hillel Korin, brother-in-law of Lisa Orlick- 

Salka & Corey Salka, and uncle of Ariel and 

Daniel Salka 

Gershom ben Miryam v’Shmuel (Gilbert 

Cooperman), father of Sheryl Stiefel 

Matan ben Miriam Sarah (Matthew 

Permut), nephew of Victor & Cheryl Lamin 

Monique Tollnaar, niece of Susan & Don 

Aylesworth 

Aryeh ben Davida v’Yehudah (Ashley 

Goldberg), nephew of Jacquie Bayley 

Leah bat Rachel, mother of Rita Vilkevitch, 

in-laws of Lucy & Mikhail Taskar and Sara & 

Issy Moldaver 

Yehudit bat Cora, mother of Linda-Jo 

Greenberg 

Zaev ben Gittel, father of Linda-Jo 

Greenberg 

Yaakova bat Masha, sister-in-law of Mihal 

Stern 

FRIENDS of Members 

Yehuda Dov Ha'Cohen ben Malkah, 

(Ernest Cohen), friend of Sharon Greenberg 

Larry Zolton, friend of Patti Kieval 

Rachel bat Gavriela v’Yehuda (Andrea 

Stern), friend of Patti Kieval 

Seth Barronian, son of a collegue of Michael 

De Haan 

Tova Rina bat Yetta Davida v’Herschel 

Hayyim (TJ Sundsvold), friend of Paul 

Schwartz 

Mechola bat Chava (Myra Rothenberg), 

friend of a Brianna Sayres 

Gaby Bell, friend of Carolyn Cohen 

David Ben Leah (Keith Eaton), SJCS 

parent and friend of many at CBS 

Michael Gallagher, friend of Kayla Weiner 

Shepsel Reuven Ha Levi Ben Gila (Bob 

Kupor), a friend of Congregation Beth Shalom 

Ruchama Sara Miriyam bat Tamar, friend 

of Tamira Hartman 

Gilad Chayo Nissim Ben Techiya, friend of 

Tamira Hartman 

MILESTONES 

Mazel Tov to Bat-Noy Ari-Gur & Matt 

Anderson, on the birth of their baby boy, 

Monday, March 18 

Judith & Mark Benjamin, in honor of their 25th 

wedding anniversary 

Mazel Tov to Jake Klein and his family, on 

becoming Bar Mitzvah 

KaraAnne & Michael Grodin, on the birth of 

their baby girl, Dinah 

Mazel Tov to Asher Savin and his family, on 

his becoming Bar Mitzvah all the way from 

Idaho! 

TODDAH RABAH 

Shabbas Chef, Cherie Hershman, and her 

helpers, Elizabeth Braverman, Ellen Spear, 

and Gail Coskey 

Joanna Gerber and Karen Binder, for their help 

in our office 

Joel Goldstein & Rachel Jacobson, for helping 

lead Pesach services, coming all the way from 

Ann Arbor 

Jake Klein, for leading Kabbalat Shabbat, and 

Yoni Kintzer, for leading Ma’ariv 

Julie & Mitch Klein, for Hosting Kiddush 

Michael Madwed, and Naomi Savin, for leading 

Kabbalat Shabbat services 

Courtney & Andrew Savin, for Hosting Kiddush 

this week 

A SPECIAL THANKS TO ALL OF OUR 

VOLUNTEERS WHO GENEROUSLY DEVOTE 

THEIR TIME TO THE SHUL CONSISTENTLY!! 

Buy Scrip/Gift Cards For CBS 

Come to the shul office and purchase QFC/Fred Meyer, PCC, Safeway, Albertsons, Home Depot, Starbucks, 

and ARCO, and now Whole Foods-$100 and $25, from Marjie. 

Kevin Coskey will be selling scrip at the Annual Meeting, on Sunday, May 19 

If you have any questions about the scrip program, please contact Kevin Coskey at 

(206) 365-2275 or scrip@bethshalomseattle.org, and the CBS Offices at 206-524-0075. 

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CONTRIBUTIONS 

Adult Education Fund 

Esther & Tommy Damm 

For Joel Migdal, in memory of 

Marcy Migdal, z”l 

Kathy Andeway 



Campership Fund 

Rabbi Rachel Kort 

For the Migdal family, in memory of 


Carol Starin 



Moss Patashnik & Peg Hall 

In honor of the Bar Mitzvah of 

Asher Savin 

Double Chai Plus Chavurah 

Karen Binder 

Marjie Cogan 

Cherie Hershman & Mick Ostroff 

Sandy Kibort & Shelly Crocker 

Michael Krasik 

Tony Moore 

Philip Nurick & Liora Minkin 

Paul Schwartz 

Mark & Sheryl Stiefel 

David Tannenbaum 

Perry & Michelle Weinberg 

Kayla Weiner 

ECC Fund 

Beverly & Larry Lemchen 



Microsoft Matching Gifts 

Michael & Jackie Kallay 

Mark Vulfson 

General Fund 

John Schochet & Tenaya Scheinman 

Jesse Kleiman 

David & Maxine Alloway 

Phaedra Lankutis 

Susan & Isaac Morgensztern 



Barbara & George Grashin 



Lisa & Bob Low 



Helen Weiss & Dana Tell 



Jennifer Cohen & Michael Spiro 



Kevin & Gail Coskey 



In honor of Chuck Shifren 

Estelle Glasser 



Lauren Basson 



Doris Stiefel 



In memory of father, Richard 

Pintus, z”l 

Allen & Carol Gown 



For Kim Isaac, in memory of Susan 

Haas, z”l 

Zieva & Marc Konvisser 



Lewis Polishook & Susan Sapiro 



Dov & Joanne Gartenberg 



Carol & Ephraim Peretz 



Nancy & Stan Zeitz 

In memory of A. Harold Leighton, 

z”l 

Naomi Sokoloff & Doug Berry 



Nancy & Stan Zeitz 

In memory of Anna Seelig, z”l 

Kathleen & Rob Spitzer 

In memory of brother, Alan Strick, 

z”l 

Stan Sorscher & Judith Arms 

In memory of parents, Sam & Sidell 

Sorscher, z”l 

Peter Shapiro & Diane Aboulafia 

In memory of father-in-law, Jay 

Greenberg, z”l 

Joani Diskin Saran & Craig Saran 

In memory of grandfather, Mier 

Kris, z”l 

Dorothy & Jerry Becker 

In memory of father, Harry 

Friedman, z”l 

Hilary Stern 

In honor of my parents, Edward & 

Sylvia Stern 

Judah & Pnina Ari-Gur 

In honor of the birth & Brit Milah of 

our grandson 

Stacy & Tatyana Globerman 

In memory of parents, Helene 

Schultz Globerman & Alfred 

Globerman 

Sarah & Izyaslav Moldaver 

In memory of son, Roman 

Moldaver, z”l 

Danielle Yancey 

In honor of Ayelet’s birthday 

Israel Travel Fund 

Marcia, Andy & Ben Kalfas 

For Amram Migdal, in memory of 


Liz Labadie & David Frum 

In memory of Ernesto Frum, z”l 

Carol Benedick & Joe Orzach 

In honor of Adam Bernhard’s Bar 

Mitzvah 

In honor of Mark Lamin’s Bar 

Mitzvah 

In honor of Rachel Coskey’s Bat 

Mitzvah 

In honor of Gabriel Levy’s Bar 

Mitzvah 

In honor of Ana Light’s Bat Mitzvah 

Kiddush Fund 

Rita Shtull 



Landscaping Fund 

Alberta & Ken Weinberg 

In memory of Troy James Smith, 

z”l 

In memory of Ruth B. Smith, z”l 

Mitzvah Corps Fund 

Rita Edelson 

In memory of son, William Edelson, 

z”l 


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CONTRIBUTIONS 


In memory of son, David Edelson, 

z”l 

In memory of father-in-law, Mac 

Edleson, z”l 

In memory of father, Robert 

Schaeffer, z”l 

Joani Diskin Saran & Craig Saran 

In memory of husband, Harold 

Diskin, z”l 

In memory of sister-in-law, Sonja 

Harrison, z”l 

In memory of father-in-law Albert 

Diskin, z”l 

Rabbi’s Discretionary Fund 

Dorothy & Jerry Becker 



Anonymous 



Edith Horn 



In memory of Werner Horn, z”l 

In memory of Karl & Irene Horn, 

z”l 

Harry Goldman & Jettie Person 

In memory of father, A. Leon 

Goldman, z”l 

Deirdre & Michael Gabbay 



In memory of grandmother, Evelyn 

Krauss, z”l 

Gerald & Adrienne Lasin 



Gregory & Bella Korshin 



Cherie Hershman & Mick Ostroff 



Norm & Isabella Chapman 

In memory of grand-nephew, Alan 

Chapman, z”l 

In memory of brother, Milton 


In memory of brother, Jake 


Inna Lacker 

In memory of father, Michael 

Posner, z”l 

Religious School Fund 

Ted & Kellan Eisenhardt 



Robert & Deborah Isgur 



In memory of Irving Isgur, z”l 

Evelyn Gharavi 

Mazel tov to Rabbi Borodin 

Social Action Fund 

Cheryl Cohen 



Ruth Dick 



Kathy Andeway 

In honor of Shelly Crocker & Sandy 

Kibort’s wedding 

Charles & Loryn Paxton 



Thank you to all who donated to Maot 

Hittim through their Sale of Chametz 

contributions. We collected and sent 

to Mazon: a Jewish Response to Hunger 

$2,500 this year. 

Homeless-to-Renter Gala: Save the date! 

“A Taste of Elegance in the Courtyard”: Mark your calendar now for Sunday evening, August 18, 5:00 pm. 

The “ Taste of Elegance” is a sit-down dinner, limited to 100 guests, and all 

proceeds benefit the H2R Program, providing assistance to the children and families 

who struggle daily with the risk or reality of homelessness. The evening features: 

wine tasting provided by Eight Bells Winery; silent auction for dinners at top 

restaurants, demonstrations and dinner by 3 well-known chefs: 

• Chef Dylan Giordan, Executive Chef of bin on the lake on Carillion Point 

in Kirkland – fish and side dish, 

• Chef Zachary King of the Purple Café - pasta, and 

• Chef William Leaman of Bakery Nouveau – fabulous dessert. 

All the chefs and the winery are donating their time and expertise to the benefit. All 

expenses will be covered by donations from area businesses and other sponsors. 

All proceeds will go to H2R. 

More information about registration will be available in the next Ruach. Or, for 

questions, contact Carolyn Cohen. 

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SERVICE SCHEDULE FOR MAY 2013 - IYAR~SIVAN 5773 

Members of the Beth Shalom community lead worship services at CBS. If you have synagogue skills and wish to 

participate, call Sasha Prevost, 206-524-0075. 

CBS DA I LY MI NYANS 

Please support the minyan by attending on a regular or even irregular basis one or more days a week. 

The minyan does not meet on Festival days. The minyan (Monday – Friday) starts at 7:00AM on all American holidays 

except Thanksgiving, December 25 th , New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day and Labor Day when 

it will meet at 9:00AM. 

Monday through Friday mornings: 7:00-7:45am (Beit Hamidrash). 

Sunday mornings: 9:30-10:15am, (Beit Hamidrash) 

Monday Evening Minyan: 7:30-8:00pm, (Beit Hamidrash) 

For Torah Readings on Mondays and Thursdays, add ten to fifteen minutes to services. 

YESHAR KOACH TO OUR SERVICE LEADERS SINCE THE LAST RUACH 

AND TODDAH RABAH TO THE KIDDUSH SPONSORS 

Ashrei Club: Edee & Alexander Polyakovsky, Evan & Eliana Klein, and Leah Savin 

Daveners: Mark Lamin, Dov Pinker, Carl Sayres, Ethan Tucker, Nance Adler, Ariela Migdal, Jake Klein, Joel 

Goldstein, Rabbi Stuart Light, Rachel Jacobson, Jake Klein, Asher Savin, and Andy Savin 

Leyners: Wendy Katz, Linda-Jo Greenberg, Norbert Song, Deb Arnold, Bryna Shane, Josh Nathan, Tamar Azous, 

Carol Benedick, Nance Adler, Emily Barton, Ira Kantrowitz-Gordon, Yonah Karp, Danielle Yancey, Sheryl Kipnis, 

Jake Klein, Asher Savin, Diane Savin, and Andy Savin 

Haftorah: Joel Migdal, Dina Tanners, Freya Brier, Lauren Kurland, Jake Klein, and Asher Savin 

Gabbaim Rishon & Sheni: Nance Adler, Michael Jolson, Jason Kintzer, Yoni Kintzer, and Teddy Rothman 

Gabbaim: Margot Kravette, Shelly Crocker, Debby Gordon, Amy Stephson, Jordon Gussin, Dave Tarshes, Shelly 

Crocker, Jeff Ross, and Joel Kanter 

Guest Speakers: Ethan Tucker, David Frum, Joel Goldstein, and Rachel Jacobson 

Greeters: Pat Hurshell, Linda Gebaroff, Howard Cockerham, Perry Weinberg, Richard Brodsky , Robert Isgur, Kevin 

Coskey, Marilyn Meyer, Joe Ginsburg, Allen Gown, and Joel Kanter 

Minyan Leaders: Ellen Goldblatt, Lori Safer, Linda-Jo Greenberg, Sam Perlin, Robert Hovden, Sharona Gordon, 

Paul Schwartz, Nance Adler, Steve Marx, Kathy Andeway, Vanessa Edrich, Dina Tanners, and Nancy Geiger 

Kiddush Hosts: Julie & Mitch Klein, Courtney & Andrew Savin, and Bat-Noy Ari-Gur & Matt Anderson 

Kiddush Sponsors: Shabbos Chefs: Susan Monas and Margot Kravette 

Join us on Shabbat, 

June 15, 2013 

as we celebrate the Aufruf of 

Rabbi Borodin & Cary Atlas 

The Beth Shalom Board of Directors 

is sponsoring Kiddush in 

their honor. 

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SERVICE SCHEDULE FOR MAY 2013 - IYAR~SIVAN 5773 

CANDLE-LIGHTING AND THE WEEKLY KABBALAT SHABBAT MINYAN 

(Friday Evening Services): Beit Hamidrash 

The regular Kabbalat Shabbat services last approximately one hour. The service is 

spirited with the beautiful melodies of Kabbalat Shabbat including L’cha Dodi and Yedid 

Nefesh. After services, participants return home for Shabbat dinner. Shabbat hospitality will 

be available. Children are welcomed and treasured. If you wish to help lead services, to offer 

home hospitality after services, or simply to participate on a regular basis, please contact Paul 

Schwartz at kabbalatshabbat@bethshalomseattle.org. 

Date Kabbalat Shabbat Candelighting Havdallah 

May 3-4 6 PM 8:05 PM 9:07 PM 

May 10-11 6 PM 8:15 PM 9:16 PM 

May 17-18 6 PM 8:24 PM 9:25 PM 

May 24-25 6 PM 8:32 PM 9:33 PM 

May 31 – June 1 6 PM 8:40 PM 9:41 PM 

SHABBAT MORNING SERVICES: Main Sanctuary at 9:30am - 12:00pm 

Shabbat Morning 

Dates & Portion 

May 4 

Behar-Bechukotai 

Lev 27:1-34 

Haftarah: 

Jeremiah 16:19-17:14 

May 11 

Bamidbar 

Num 3:14-40:20 

Hafatarah: 

Hosea 2:1-22 

May 18 

Naso 

Num 7:1-89 

Haftarah: 

Judges 13:2-25 

May 25 

Beha’alotecha 

Num 10:35-12:16 

Haftarah: 

Zechariah 2:14-4:17 

Concurrent Services 

10:15-12:15am Babysitting Co-op 

10:45-12:15m FDI & Kid Kehilla 

11:00-11:30am Tot Shabbat 

1:15pm Nusach Class 

1:00pm Talmud Study 

10am – 12:30 pm Youth Minyan 


10:45-12:15 am FDI & Kid Kehilla 

10:30-11:15am Learner’s Minyan 

1:00 pm Talmud Study 


10:45-11:15am FDI & Kid Kehilla 

1:15 An Observant Life Discussion 

Group 

1:00 pm Talmud Study 


10:45-11:15am FDI & Kid Kehilla 

1:00-2:00 pm Talmud Study 

1:15 pm Middot & Mitzvot 

B’nai Mitzvah, Sermon 

Topics and 

Special Occasions 

Bat Mitzvah of Sarah Katz 

Guest Darshan: Natan Meir 

Bat Mitzvah of Hannah Wahl 

Bar Mitzvah of 

Samuel Ashkenazy 

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9:15am Religious 

School 

9:30am Minyan 

10:15am—Torah 

Study 

9:30am Minyan 

10:15am Torah 

Study 

9:15am Religious School 

9:30am Minyan 

10:15am Torah Study 

12:30-2:00pm Religious 

School Picnic 

9:30am Minyan 

10:15am Torah 

Study 

7:00am Minyan 

4:15pm Hebrew 

School 

7:30pm Evening 

7:00am Minyan 


Minyan 

7:00am Minyan 


Minyan 

OFFICES CLOSED 

7:00am Minyan 


Minyan 

7:00am Minyan 

4:15pm Hebrew 

School 

7:00pm Adult Ed 

7:00am Minyan 

SHAVUOT 

OFFICE CLOSES AT 

2:00 PM 

7:00am Minyan 

4:15pm Hebrew 

School 


7:00am Minyan 

4:15pm Hebrew 

School 


7:00am Minyan 


7:00am Minyan 


SHAVUOT—Day 1 

Yom Tov Services 

OFFICE CLOSED 

7:00am Minyan 


7:00am Minyan 


7:00am Minyan 

4:30pm Prozdor 

7:00am Minyan 


SHAVUOT—Day 2 

Yom Tov Services & 

Yizkor 

OFFICE CLOSED 

7:00am Minyan 


7:00am Minyan 

6:00pm Kabbalat 

Shabbat Service 

7:00am Minyan 



7:00am Minyan 



7:00am Minyan 



Bat Mitzvah of 

Sarah Katz 

9:30am Shabbat Services 

10:45am FDI & Kid Kehilla 

11:00am Tot Shabbat 

11:00am Family Services 



10:00am Youth Minyan 

10:15am Babysitting 

10:30am Learners Minyan 



Bat Mitzvah of 

Hannah Wahl 




1:00pm An Observant Life 

Study Group 

Bar Mitzvah of 

Sam Ashkenazy 




1:15pm Middot & Mitzvot 

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Congregation Beth Shalom Mail in Tzedakah Form 

You may also call us at 206-524-0075 and make your donation via credit card. 

1. DONOR INFORMATION 

Name: 

Address: 


Acknowledgement cards are mailed to the honoree or the family of those memorialized, and are 

also listed in our monthly newsletter, the Ruach. 

To minimize the use of synagogue resources please send my acknowledgement via e-mail to: 

2. GIFT INFORMATION 

My gift is (choose one) □ In honor □ In memory □ In honor of an Aliyah 

of 

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Name: 

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PLEASE USE MY DONATION TO SUPPORT : 

□ General Operating Fund 

All donations to the General Fund help maintain a balanced budget. 

A Special Fund: 

□ Adult Education Fund □ Campership 

□ Cemetery Fund □ Endowment 

□ Israel Travel Fund for Youth □ Joey Wes Library Fund 

□ Joshua Leadership Fund □ Kiddush Fund 

□ Kitchen Fund □ Landscape Fund 

□ Library Fund □ Mitzvah Corps Fund 

□ Prayer Book Fund □ Rabbi’s Discretionary Fund 

□ Religious School Fund □ Social Action Fund 

□ Sustaining Fund 

□ Torah Fund 

□ Youth Fund 

3. PAYMENT INFORMATION (Note: there is an additional 3% charge on all credit cards) 

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via (choose one) □ Check □ Visa □ Mastercard 

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Signature of Cardholder _________________________ Date _________ 

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Voted Best Congregation in Town! 

Congregaon Beth Shalom 

Annual Meeng & Brunch 

The Rabbi, Board & Staff of CBS invite you to join us to honor 

Carol Starin 

2013 Volunteer of the Year 

Sunday, May 19 • 10:30am - 12:00pm 

Other items on the agenda will be: 

• Budget presentations and vote 

• Board Nominations 

The 60th household to sign in, 

representing a quorum, 

will receive a Portlock Salmon Gift Box! 

• Messages from President 

Your presence is very important! 

Please join us for schmoozing, 

honoring, working and noshing 

as a community.

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