March 8 - Congregation Beth Shalom

6800 35th Ave NE
Seattle, WA 98115
206.524.0075
Welcome to Beth Shalom! Great to have you with us.
Please join us during Kiddush after services. B’ruchim Habaim (Welcome!)
Shavuon
A Beth Shalom Weekly
“In our very being there is rooted a mighty desire to know ourselves and our Creator, to
understand the primary basis of all real beings.” ~ Nachman Krochmal
26 Adar-4 Nissan 5773 March 8-15 2013
Board Members & Staff
Congregation Beth Shalom • Voted in JT News
Best Congregation for 2012! 4th year in a row!
President
Mark Stiefel
Past President
Jill Cohen
President-Elect
Andrew Cohen
Vice-President
Michael Madwed
Treasurer
TBD
School Committee Chair
Galit Ezekiel
Secretary
Craig Lawson
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
Rabbi Jill Borodin
Tzachi Litov
Executive Director
Irit Eliav
Director of Education
Leah Lemchen
Early Childhood Center
Director
Julie Hayon
Director of The Livnot
Project (High School)
Carol Benedick
Program Director
B’nai Mitzvah Coordinator
Marjie Cogan
Front Office Coordinator
Emma Shusterman
Bookkeeper
Sasha Prevost
Lifecycle Coordinator
Molly Johnson
Development Coordinator
Carlos Del Cid
Rimma Lobas
Morena Guidos
Custodians
Transliterations of
services are available;
speak to an usher to get
a copy.
Hearing Devices:
Beth Shalom has hearing
devices for all services.
Should you require one,
please speak to an usher.
Kabbalat Shabbat Services in the Sanctuary
Candlelighting for March 8th is at 5:46pm
Kabbalat Shabbat Services from 5:45-6:45pm
Service Leader: Ana Light
Service time will change to 6:00pm beginning next week
Shabbat Morning Services in the Sanctuary at 9:15am
Shabbat HaChodesh
Pekudei
Exodus 39:22-40:38
Maftir: Exodus 12:1-20
Haftarah: Ezekiel 45:16-46:18
Bat Mitzvah of Ana Light
This week’s Kiddush is Hosted by Wiebke & Rabbi Stuart Light
Learner’s Minyan has been cancelled this week
FDI (Future Daveners of Israel) - kids ages 3-6 from 10:45am in Room 1
Kid's Kehilla - kids ages 7-11 from 10:45am in Room 6
Shabbat Babysitting at 10:15am in Room 4/5
Kiddush Co-op from 12:30-1:30pm in the open space downstairs
Discussion with TIPS Partnership speaker, Roni Keidar
Shabbat, 3/9 from 1:15pm in the Beit Midrash
Minchah service for the Light Bat Mitzvah from 2:00-3:00pm in the Sanctuary
**Notice** Daylight Savings Time starts this Weekend.
Turn your clocks forward one hour before going to bed on Saturday night.
Weekday Minyanim in the Beit Midrash
Monday - Friday: 7:00AM • Monday Evening: 7:30 PM
• Sunday Morning: 9:30-10:15 AM
Torah study group every Sunday;
Torah study immediately following Minyan in the Beit Midrash
To honor the sanctity of Shabbat and High Holidays, we do not permit smoking, photography,
writing, use of beepers, cell phones or other wireless equipment.
When congregants are standing in prayer please do not disturb their concentration by moving around the shul.
In consideration of other members, please minimize the use of scented body products. Thank you.

ANNOUNCEMENTS
ERUV Website
Follow this link to check on the Eruv update each week
http://twitter.com/cstleruv. If you want to take a look at
the Eruv map use this link (it’s a long one) :
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms
msid=216346072790836754082.00046432d032bebff971e
&msa=0
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.
CBS Gift Card / Scrip Program
The Beth Shalom scrip program is expanding! We have
recently added Whole Foods, at $100 and $25, gift
cards to our set of offerings. If you regularly shop at
Whole Foods, this is your opportunity to support Beth
Shalom without paying anything extra at the grocery
store. If you have questions about gift cards or the scrip
program, please contact Kevin Coskey, at
scrip@bethshalomseattle.org.
Bulk Food Sales
The Va’ad and PCC are doing a bulk kosher for Passover
food sale at the Seward Park PCC, 5041 Wilson Ave S
Sunday, March 17th, 9am-2pm
Also starting March 17th, pre-packaged kosher for
Passover bulk items will be available at the View
Ridge PCC.
Kosher for Passover oils, spices, and decaf coffee must be
specially requested. Please call Scott at the Seward Park
PCC, 206-723-2720 to make special bulk food requests.
Shabbat Morning Babysitter needed
Spend Saturday mornings hanging out with wonderful
children at Congregation Beth Shalom. We are hiring
someone to supervise children (ages 1-5) from 10:15 am
– 12:15 pm on Saturday mornings. You are welcome to
join the congregation for lunch afterwards. Experience
with children and basic familiarity with Judaism required.
If interested, please send resume and cover letter to Irit
Eliav, Director of Education, at
Iriteliav@bethshalomseattle.org.
Minyan Help
Attached is the Doodle Poll for the minyanim (including
Kabbalat Shabbat) for the week of March 10 - 15, 2013.
http://www.doodle.com/ug38gdaxcmk9td4u
MILESTONES
Mazel Tov to Ana Light, and her family, on becoming
Bat Mitzvah
Mazel tov to Betsy and Jason Schneier, on the
engagement of their daughter Amanda to
Adam Sheffer
Wanted:
Five or six large cotton towels (bath towels or larger) that
we can use during our Passover community kashering.
Used towels are fine. Please contact
carolbenedick@bethshalomseattle.org.
Mitzvah Project
For Ana Light’s Mitzvah project, she will put together arts
& crafts kits for kids hospitalized at Children’s Hospital. To
help her with this mitzvah, please consider donating
markers, crayons, kid scissors, and glue sticks into the
box in our lobby.
Message to the congregation from Rabbi Elana
Zaiman
I am writing to correct myself. In seeking texts for
Gabriel Rosenbloom's charge, I looked at many, among
them, many poetic texts. The text I chose to quote,
however, was not the text from Yehuda Amichai, but from
Zelda. Since many of you mentioned you wanted a copy
of the poem I include it here. We have a saying in our
tradition that when we quote something in the name of
the one who says it we bring redemption to the world. So,
in order to bring redemption to our world, which our world
badly needs, I humbly offer my apologies.
The poet Zelda wrote the poem, Each Of Us Has A
Name. The translation below is by Marcia Falk
“Each of us has a name, given by God, and given by our
parents.
Each of us has a name, given by our stature and our
smile, and given by what we wear.
Each of us has a name, given by the mountains, and given
by our walls.
Each of us has a name, given by the stars, and given by
our neighbors.
Each of us has a name, given by our sins, and given by
our longing.
Each of us has a name, given by our enemies, and given
by our love.
Each of us has a name, given by our celebrations, and
given by our work.
Each of us has a name, given by the seasons, and given
by our blindness.
Each of us has a name, given by the sea, and given by our
death.”
TODDAH RABAH
Ana Light, for being our Service Leader at Kabbalat
Shabbat services
Wiebke & Rabbi Stuart Light, for Hosting this week’s
Kiddush in honor of their daughter’s Bar Mitzvah
David McDonald and Stan & Nancy Zeitz, for all the
pruning and weeding, plus removal of a tree stump,
and spraying the fruit trees
Bev Blum, Judith BenDor, and Jeremy Alk, for their
help to Dina, getting the book sale ready
Carol Starin, for donating 400 books to the library
and the library sale
An extra special thank you to Lifetouch
Directories, for donating money in honor of “Feed
the Need” program, for us to use for our Food Bank
of choice
Joanna Gerber, for her help in our office

UPCOMING PROGRAMS AND EVENTS
ירושלים מדור לדור
The Evolving Image of Jerusalem in
Passover Haggadot with Shalom Sabar
Sunday, 3/10 from 11:30am-12:30pm
How did the Jews over the ages, far away
from Jerusalem, imagine the Holy City
Illustrated Haggadot, whether produced as costly illuminated
manuscripts in the Middle Ages or as printed illustrated
books after the invention of printing, provide the
most curious and the richest visual means to comprehend
the "shape" of the yearnings to the Messiah and
Messianic times in the Jewish tradition.
No charge. RSVP at https://bethshalomseattle.org/
event_details.phpid=784 or email
carolbenedick@bethshalomseattle.org.
Ethical Wills - Writing a Legacy for the Next
Generation with Muriel Dance
Sunday, 3/10 from 1-3pm
Ethical wills are an age old custom for preserving and
passing on your values, beliefs, life lessons, hopes for
the future, love to your family and community.
A variety of writing prompts will be used to explore what
you’ve learned and what matters to you most, in words
that reflect your pattern of speech.
Cost: $20/member, $30/non-member
Registration Deadline, March 4th.
Used Jewish Book Sale
Sunday, 3/10 from 9:15am— 1:15pm
Tuesday, 3/12 from 5:45pm— 8:15pm
We have reorganized the synagogue library and have a
number of books that need to find new homes. We also
have a number of donated books that we cannot use in
the library. These books will be for sale at very low
prices, most for $1. Proceeds will go to buy new books
for the library. On Tuesday, books will be 1/2 price.
“The Observant Life” Discussion Group
Next week, Shabbat, 3/16
Want to learn more about the Conservative Movement’s
vision of living the ‘good’ Jewish life With the tax filing
deadline coming up, this month we’ll tackle Taxation,
Loans & Lending (pp. 551-570). Reading notes are
available – so you’re welcome even if you haven’t had a
chance to review this chapter.
Be part of the conversation: join fellow CBS’ers every
third Saturday of the month after kiddush lunch as
we journey through The Observant Life: The Wisdom of
Conservative Judaism for Contemporary Jews
(Rabbinical Assembly, 2012). Attend when you can; no
prior knowledge of Hebrew or halakha (Jewish law)
required.
Future Discussions: April 20th | May 18th | June 15th
| July 20th | August 17th
To receive future reading notes & up-to-date
schedule information, e-mail: ObservantLife [at]
CoryFreedman [dot] com.
SAVE THE DATE
Prof. Amy Kalmanofsky - Edwin L. Bierman
Scholar in Residence
Fringe Books with Essential Theologies
Friday, 4/26 – Saturday, 4/27
Empty-Nester Potluck Group
Saturday, 3/16 from 5:30pm at the home of Dina
Tanners & Howard Cockerham
We will start at 5:30 with a seudah shlishit and also host
Roni Keidar from Hof Ashkelon Israel, who also will
speak/spoke at Beth Shalom on March 9th after
services. To RSVP, pleast contact Dina at
tanners47@yahoo.com.
Note the food alphabet below for the dairy/pareve pot
luck. If your name starts with:
A-F fruit dessert beverage G-J salad
K-R main
S-Z appetizer
Women’s Rosh Chodesh Chavurah
Sunday, 3/17 from 7-9pm at the home of Nancy
Goldov
To RSVP and get information on the location, please
contact Annette Peizer, Peizer@aol.com.
The Jewish Wedding Ceremony: What Messages Does
that Suggest about Gender Dynamics
Presenter: Rabbi Borodin
Parve and dairy snacks are welcome!
PRE-PESACH HAMETZ FEST Community Dinner
Friday, 3/22
6:00PM - Regular Kabbalat Shabbat Services
6:30PM - Family Kabbalat Shabbat Services, Led by
Rabbi Lauren Kurland
7:00PM - Hametz Fest Community Dinner
Join us for a wonderfully delicious Pre-Pesach meal
prepared by our very own fabulous, Eric Gorbman
Adult Members/$18 and Adult Non-members/$20.
$12/child 4– 10yrs
No charge for children 3 and under.
Reservation and pre-payment required by
Monday, March 18th. (For financial assistance, please
contact Executive Director, Tzachi Litov)
A special upcoming Kids Kehilla service!
Saturday morning 3/23, Lego Kids Kehilla
Work with your Kids Kehilla friends to build Lego
creations that help us explore the Shabbat morning
prayers. Hope your children can join us for this special
service!
Middah of the Month with Shirah Bell and Rabbi
Harry Zeitlin
Next meeting, 3/23 from 1:15-2:30pm
Topic: Trust—Bitachon
From Alan Morinis’ book Every Day Holy Day we learn:
“While humility defines our sense of self, the trait of
trust defines how we are in relationship.
Save the Date
Beth Shalom’s Social Action Committee invites you to
join an Interfaith Building Crew for Habitat for
Humanity. We’ll work on a construction project at Rainier
Vista Housing. There will be a facilitated interfaith
discussion during lunch.
Participants must be 16 or older. Come for a morning,
afternoon or full-day shift. Volunteers are also needed
during the week before our build-date to help prepare
lunch. You can be a lunch volunteer even if you’re not
building.
To volunteer or for more information and to RSVP,
please contact Sheryl Kipnis at cbshforh@gmail.com.

HAMAKOM YINACHEM ETCHEM: “May God Comfort You”
MEMBERS IN SHLOSHIM OR YUD BET HODESH
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)
Elizabeth Braverman, for her father, Barry Braverman, z”l (8 iyar)
Nadine Cadesky-Zimmerman, for her father, Macey Cadesky, z”l (2
Iyar)
Lyle Margulies, for his father, Isadore Margulies, z”l (21 Nissan)
MEMBERS OBSERVING YAHRZEITS
Cindy Hirsch, for her mother, Caryl Hirsch, z”l
Bella Korshin, Emma Shusterman, Marina Kiselev, and Svetlana
Burke, for their grandfather, Michael Ganelin, z”l
Marina Nagel, for her grandfather, Michael Ganelin, z”l
Ron Yancey, for his grandmother, Orthelia Jordan, z”l
Jeff Ross, for his grandmother, Regina Melzer, z”l, and for his
grandfather, Max Melzer, z”l
Judith Osman, for her aunt, Dorothy Brody, z”l
Dorothy Becker, for her father, Harry Friedman, z”l
Arlene Azose, for her grandfather, Harry Friedman, z”l
Isaac Morgensztern, for his mother, Rosalie Morgensztern, z”l
Judy Rosenfeld, for her brother, David Rosenfeld, z”l
Kelly Sweet, for her grandmother, Rose Pease, z”l
David Heller, for his mother, Helen Glazier Heller, z”l
Gerald Pollack, for his mother, Helen Pollack, z”l
Flora Ostrow, for her sister, Jane Lazere, z”l
Inna Lacker, for her father, Michael Posner, z”l
Nancy Zeitz, for her grandmother, Anna Seelig, z”l
Liora Minkin, for her mother, Ruth Minkin, z”l
Guenter Mannhalt, for his brother, Herbert Mannhalt, z”l
Steve Adler, for his uncle, Herbert Mannhalt, z”l
Sheryl Stiefel, for her grandmother, Miriam Cooperman, z”l
Mark Slosberg, for his grandfather, Jack Gelfenbaum, z”l
REFUAH SHLEMAH
If your loved one’s name is not listed, you may announce them during the
prayer for the sick, after the reading of the Torah.
CBS Members
Mira bat Shmuel v'Betty (Cindy Garbell)
Aryeh Labe ben Rivka v’Feivish (Lane Gerber)
Mia bat Pesiah (Mia Mehlman)
Yocheved bat Batyah v’Avraham Meir (Jacquie Bayley)
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)
Aviella Bara bat Nechama Raisel v’Shlomo Vared (Susan
Aylesworth)
Malka bat Leah v’Rav Avram (Mildred Rosenbaum)
RELATIVES of Members
Ezra Zimmerman, nephew of Henry Zimmerman (re-listed 2/4)
Ira Weiner, cousin of Kayla Weiner (re-listed 2/4)
Daniel McNamara, brother of Tink Williams (re-listed 2/15)
Sima Tema bat Chava v'Gershon (Shirley Stephson), mother of Amy
Stephson (re-listed 2/4)
Helena Baronheid, cousin of Debbie Gordon (re-listed 2/4)
Michael Burke, husband of Svetlana Burke (re-listed 2/4)
Myra Silverman, aunt of Carrie Horwitch (listed 1/30)
Aryeah Labe Ben Freydl v’Avrom Chaim (Leo Shalinsky), father of
Howard Shalinsky (listed 2/1)
Refuah Shlemah
The Refuah Shlemah list is for the seriously ill and names need to
be re-submitted monthly.
Each entry is dated. The listing expires one month from the listing
date. To renew names on the list call Marjie at 206-524-0075.
Thank you for understanding our policy
to make room for names in the future.
RELATIVES of Members continued
Monique Tollner, niece of Susan & Don Aylesworth (listed 2/4)
Hannah Aylesworth, great-niece of Susan & Don Aylesworth (listed
2/6)
Yehudit bat Cora, mother of Linda-Jo Greenberg (listed 3/5)
FRIENDS of Members
Yehuda Dov Ha'Cohen ben Malkah, (Ernest Cohen), friend of
Sharon Greenberg (re-listed 2/4)
Larry Zolton, friend of Patti Kieval (re-listed 2/4)
Rachel bat Gavriela v’Yehuda (Andrea Stern), friend of Patti Kieval
(re-listed 2/4)
Krista Conner, friend of Kayla Weiner (re-listed 2/4)
Seth Barronian, son of a collegue of Michael De Haan (re-listed 2/4)
Tova Rina bat Yetta Davida v’Herschel Hayyim (TJ Sundsvold),
friend of Paul Schwartz (re-listed 2/4)
Mechola bat Chava (Myra Rothenberg), friend of a Brianna Sayres
(re-listed 2/19)
Erica Harris, friend of Jacquie Bayley (listed 2/14)
Gaby Bell, friend of Carolyn Cohen (listed 2/19)
David Ben Leah (Keith Eaton), SJCS parent and friend of many at
CBS (listed 3/1)
Rachel bat Angelique (Rachel Weinstein), a child in Children’s
Hospital with cancer