LESSONS - Congregation Agudas Achim
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The Conservative Jewish <strong>Congregation</strong> Serving San Antonio and Central Texas since 1889 - 121 122 Years strong!<br />
Join us in honoring:<br />
SHARI AND RANDY PULMAN<br />
for their years of selfless dedication<br />
to our synagogue.<br />
Purchase ads in our Tribute Book and<br />
plan to attend our Annual Gala and<br />
Honors Evening<br />
VISIONS OF ISRAEL<br />
SUNDAY, MARCH 18 7:00 P.M.<br />
Tevet - Adar 5772<br />
Winter 2011<br />
Photo courtesy of Allan Smith<br />
<strong>LESSONS</strong><br />
FROM THE RABBI<br />
KOL SHIRA<br />
HEINTZ<br />
PRESCHOOL<br />
INDA POSNER<br />
RELIGIOUS SCHOOL<br />
BIRTHDAYS<br />
& ANNIVERSARIES
Rabbi<br />
rabbi.b@agudas-achim.org<br />
Cantor<br />
hazzan.jcl@agudas-achim.org<br />
Executive Director<br />
a.glazerman@agudas-achim.org<br />
President<br />
President-Elect<br />
VP Finance & Administration<br />
VP Fundraising<br />
VP Membership<br />
VP Education<br />
VP Ritual<br />
Secretary<br />
Treasurer<br />
Inda Posner Religious School<br />
Education Director<br />
iprs@agudas-achim.org<br />
Heintz Preschool<br />
Director<br />
preschool@agudas-achim.org<br />
Goldie & Joe Tills Library<br />
Librarian<br />
tills.library@agudas-achim.org<br />
Controller<br />
m.spigel@agudas-achim.org<br />
Mashgiah<br />
kitchen@agudas-achim.org<br />
Sisterhood President<br />
sisterhood@agudas-achim.org<br />
Mens Club President<br />
IPRS PTO President<br />
USY / Kadima Advisor<br />
usy@agudas-achim.org<br />
Halutzim Advisor<br />
Editor<br />
kolenu@agudas-achim.org<br />
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Rabbi Leonardo Bitran<br />
Hazzan Jeremy Lipton<br />
Allan H. Glazerman<br />
Robi Jalnos<br />
Sharon Charlip<br />
Marc Ross<br />
Rhonda Gurinsky<br />
Craig Berkowitch<br />
Ed Eastman<br />
Alice Troy<br />
Steve Saklad<br />
Kevin Epstein<br />
Karen Katims<br />
Dena Hoenig Valdez<br />
Lynn Waghalter<br />
Mia Spigel<br />
Marinel Robbins<br />
Judy Halfant<br />
Mike Kelne<br />
Daphna Haas<br />
Pam Rosen<br />
Meg Grossman<br />
Amy Levine<br />
Please support businesses that support<br />
<strong>Agudas</strong> <strong>Achim</strong>.
Cover Story<br />
16 <strong>Agudas</strong> <strong>Achim</strong> Honors Pulmans for Their Years<br />
of Selfless Dedication<br />
By Mindi Stern<br />
Columns<br />
4 Lesson from the Rabbi<br />
by Rabbi Leonardo Bitran<br />
5 Kol Shira<br />
by Hazzan Jeremy Lipton<br />
12 Message from the Executive Director<br />
by Allan H. Glazerman<br />
13 President’s Remarks<br />
by Robi Jalnos<br />
20 Celebrating the Holidays<br />
by Hazzan Jeremy Lipton<br />
16<br />
Departments<br />
7 Goldie and Joe Tills Library<br />
8 Heintz Preschool<br />
9 Inda Posner Religious School<br />
In This Issue<br />
11 <strong>Agudas</strong> <strong>Achim</strong> Men’s Club<br />
14 Veteran’s Day<br />
15 Annual Gala and Honors Evening<br />
Tribute Book Ad and Ticket Order Form<br />
18 Kol Nidre Appeal<br />
In Every Issue<br />
6 Chai Lights<br />
10 <strong>Agudas</strong> <strong>Achim</strong> Sisterhood News<br />
21 Oneg & Kiddush Sponsors<br />
22 Around the Community<br />
23 Anniversaries<br />
24 Birthdays<br />
26 Yahrzeits<br />
29 Torah Fund Donations<br />
30 Tributes<br />
03
Origins of the Jewish Bible<br />
You are sitting in shul at a Shabbat<br />
morning service. The ark opens. You and<br />
your family rise, kiss the Torah, and your<br />
child asks you, “Dad, Mom, where does<br />
the Torah come from?”<br />
You say, “Well, God gave it to Moses and<br />
Moses wrote it and passed it on to the<br />
Jewish people. Generation after generation until today.” Good-<br />
-I say. Then you go home and wonder about it. Is the “original”<br />
Torah somewhere? You should know that all “original” copies of<br />
the individual biblical writings have eluded the excavators and<br />
us. Books of the Torah were probably written on papyrus made<br />
from the sliced stem of a plant, nowhere to be found. We are<br />
usually unaware that there is no “original” manuscript available.<br />
Most of the writings were done in a script that resembles the<br />
present writing. It was probably Old Hebrew or Phoenician<br />
script, which was also shared by Canaanites and Phoenicians.<br />
After the first exile in 586 BCE, the Aramaic script influenced<br />
the Hebrew language in the direction of the square script as we<br />
know it today.<br />
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We coded it.<br />
We designed it.<br />
We are also unaware that the oldest parchment scroll of the<br />
Torah dates from about 900 CE, which is probably more than<br />
1,300 years later than the likely time of the composition of the<br />
Torah. It is not too speculative to say that probably much has<br />
happened to the text in terms of its oral and written forms.<br />
The “version” we use in our synagogues is the Masoretic<br />
version. The Masoretes were scholars who, over the centuries,<br />
attempted to preserve the “best text.” One of these versions<br />
was produced in Tiberias, Israel in the tenth century CE, and<br />
from that scroll we have made copies.<br />
Someone once wrote, “The birth of a text is like the birth of<br />
a human being. The umbilical cord connects the text with its<br />
producers and with the time in which it was produced. When<br />
the cord is severed, its existence has become a fact; the text is<br />
now going to live its own life . . .”<br />
B’Shalom,<br />
Rabbi Leonardo Bitran<br />
We created it.
THE MUSAF MAVENS ARE COMING!<br />
This has been a watershed year for the<br />
youth of <strong>Congregation</strong> <strong>Agudas</strong> <strong>Achim</strong>!<br />
Since my family’s arrival here in San<br />
Antonio three-and-a-half years ago, we<br />
have been blessed to see more of our<br />
students participate more regularly and<br />
in multiple domains of congregational<br />
life. Just last month we saw the<br />
increased presence of our young people as twenty-six of our pre-<br />
Bar/Bat Mitzvah students enthusiastically lead Torah Service,<br />
called up as a group for the Maftir aliyah, after which students<br />
chanted individual sections of the Haftarah and Brachot in the<br />
first of their two designated “6th Grade Shabbat” services.<br />
This same group will show off additional, new synagogue skills<br />
in early May when they chant from the Torah and lead the<br />
Shabbat Musaf Service for the very first time. Have you also<br />
noted that in addition to the masterful, regular participation and<br />
presence of our Bar/Bat Mitzvah students in Shabbat services,<br />
younger members of our congregation have consistently come<br />
forward to celebrate this extremely important rite of passage<br />
with their family and friends? This has resulted in an increased<br />
presence of our IPRS students in shul on Shabbat mornings,<br />
which has partially been fueled by the monthly participation of<br />
Junior <strong>Congregation</strong>, Tot Shabbat and Shabbat School, an IPRS<br />
program that previously took place only twice a year, but has<br />
been reformulated this year to bring Religious School students<br />
to the synagogue on a monthly basis, not only to study and learn<br />
about the celebration of Shabbat and holidays, but to become<br />
full participants in our regular services along with the rest of<br />
the congregation. In this way we teach and model for our<br />
students to not only to talk the talk, but to also walk the walk<br />
of Jewish life and ritual through their participation along with<br />
community. Shabbat School is yet one more tool to give our<br />
youth the context and skills to be our congregation’s present<br />
and future.<br />
Even with this increased presence of our students, there<br />
is always more that we can do to enhance their Jewish<br />
experiences. With this in mind I am initiating a new, exciting<br />
project this month—a youth choir called The Musaf Mavens.<br />
This new group, designed for 3rd through 7th grade IPRS<br />
students, will meet and rehearse every Sunday morning during<br />
religious school hours in anticipation of their ongoing, monthly<br />
participation in Shabbat morning services. The group’s eagerly<br />
anticipated premiere will coincide with Shabbat School on the<br />
morning of February 12th, as students join me on the bimah<br />
to assist in the leading and enhancing of our regular Shabbat<br />
morning services. I know you will want to be there to support<br />
our students’ first efforts, who will joyously share their<br />
beautiful voices, boundless energy and unbridled enthusiasm<br />
for our liturgical traditions. The Musaf Mavens are coming!!<br />
The Musaf Mavens are here!!<br />
B’shalom,<br />
Hazzan Jeremy Lipton<br />
6:15 p.m. -7:00 p.m.<br />
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Jacob Powell will be called to<br />
the Torah on Saturday, January<br />
14, in honor of his Bar Mitzvah.<br />
Jacob is the son of Barbara and<br />
Jon Powell, and brother of Jeremy<br />
and Sophie. He is the grandson<br />
of Dr. Robert Schnitzler and Laura<br />
Schnitzler of San Antonio, and of<br />
Ron and Georgeanna Powell or Rochmond, IN.<br />
Jacob is a 7th grade honor student in the Gifted and Talented<br />
program at the Krueger School of Applied Technology. Jacob<br />
represents his school in Math UIL competitions and is a<br />
member of the KSAT Science Olympiad team. His interests<br />
include photography, designing cell phone apps, and reading.<br />
It’s Jacob’s love of reading that lead him to his choice of<br />
Mitzvah Project. The Reading Is Fundamental (RIF) program<br />
provides age-appropriate books to children who would<br />
otherwise never own their very own book. When Jacob<br />
learned that RIF lost it’s funding and is now struggling to<br />
find books for older kids, he decided to focus his attention on<br />
collecting books for middle-school age children. Members<br />
of the congregation who would like to donate gently used<br />
books to this cause can bring them to the synagogue on<br />
Sunday, January 8th, or send an email to medidite@yahoo.<br />
com to arrange a pickup from your home.<br />
Jules Michael Bouhadana will<br />
celebrate becoming a Bar Mitzvah<br />
with family and friends on Saturday,<br />
March 3, 2012. Jules is the son of<br />
Alicia Heintz and Michael Bouhadana<br />
and brother of Isabelle Bouhadana.<br />
His grandparents are Solange and<br />
Felix Bouhadana of Miramar, Florida,<br />
Karen Heintz of San Antonio, and the<br />
late Irene and Philip Heintz.<br />
Jules is a 7th grade honor student in the Hobby Middle<br />
School Gifted and Talented program. Jules plays the cello<br />
and enjoys basketball and gaming with his friends during his<br />
free time. For his Bar Mitzvah project, Jules will donate a<br />
portion of his Bar Mitzvah money to The Heintz Preschool.<br />
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Nancy and Mark Gold are<br />
delighted to announce the<br />
engagement of their daughter,<br />
Jessica Lindsey, to Jonathan<br />
Thomas Kipnis of Scottsdale,<br />
AZ. Jonathan is the son of<br />
Karen and Gary Kipnis of<br />
Tucson, AZ.<br />
Jessica is the granddaughter of the late Helen and Aaron<br />
Block of San Antonio and Lillian and Bernard Gold of<br />
Houston. Jonathan’s grandparents are Phyllis and Alan<br />
Slavin and Miriam Mills of Chicago, IL. He is also the<br />
grandson of the late Marshall Kipnis and Herman Mills.<br />
Jessica is employed by USAA and Jonathan works with the<br />
Seidberg Law Offices in Phoenix, AZ. A November 2012<br />
Mazel Tov to Gail and Melvin Topp<br />
on the marriage of their son Ira to<br />
Patty Ellis daughter of Mary and Gregg<br />
Ellis of Marysville, WA. The wedding<br />
took place October 30, 2011 at Temple<br />
B’nai Israel in Oklahoma City among<br />
immediate family and friends of the<br />
couple. Rabbi Barry Cohen officiated.<br />
Ira is the brother of Ashley and grandson of Roselle Simon<br />
Lebo and the late Paul Simon and Anna and Julius Topp.<br />
The couple is living in Oklahoma City where Patty is working<br />
at North Care Health Center as a clinical psychologist and<br />
Ira is continuing his engineering degree after his 6 years in<br />
the military.
Local respiratory health researcher awarded huge<br />
grant by NIH<br />
By Natalie Gutierrez<br />
at San Antonio.<br />
Last month Joel B. Baseman,<br />
Ph. D., was awarded a fiveyear<br />
$11.5 million grant from<br />
a division of the National<br />
Institutes of Health for his<br />
research of airway diseases.<br />
Dr. Baseman is professor and<br />
chair of Microbiology and<br />
Immunology at The University<br />
of Texas Health Science Center<br />
“The key studies in the respiratory disease survey, propelled<br />
by philanthropic support and federal funding, will lead to<br />
innovative treatments of serious acute and chronic pulmonary<br />
Todah rabbah to all of you who supported<br />
your library by purchasing books at<br />
our Scholastic Book Fair, To the Book<br />
Fair and Beyond! Reading Is Out of<br />
This World! The Jewish books that<br />
we obtained from the Los Angeles, CA<br />
warehouse were FABULOUS!! I do not<br />
have a list of book fair contest winners as of this writing, but<br />
will have it for the next report.<br />
Please come and visit your library! New additions are being<br />
added to our collection. Make 2012 the year that you’ll check<br />
us out! We’re open when the Inda Posner Religious School<br />
is in session: Sunday, 9:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.; Monday and<br />
Wednesday, 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.; and online 24/7 at<br />
pathologies,” Dr. Baseman said. To facilitate and expand on<br />
these studies Dr. Baseman and the University will establish<br />
an interdisciplinary cooperative research center in airway<br />
diseases in the Health Science Center’s new South Texas<br />
Research Facility.<br />
In addition to his work in respiratory disease science, Dr.<br />
Baseman and his wife Marjorie are esteemed members of<br />
San Antonio’s Jewish Community. <strong>Congregation</strong> <strong>Agudas</strong><br />
<strong>Achim</strong>, San Antonio’s Conservative Synagogue, takes great<br />
pride in his exceptional funding achievement researching<br />
innovative treatments of serious acute and chronic<br />
pulmonary pathologies in infants, children and adults.<br />
Reprinted, in part, from Mission magazine of The<br />
University of Texas Health Science Center at San<br />
Antonio.<br />
Written by Natalie Gutierrez<br />
www.agudas-achim.org. We have coffee available for<br />
adults on Sunday mornings, this month on January 22nd and<br />
January 29th.<br />
Happy & Healthy 2012!<br />
B’ shalom,<br />
Lynn Waghalter<br />
Librarian<br />
Your contributions to the Goldie & Joe Tills Library Fund and<br />
to the Bob Kboudi Children’s Book Fund help our library to<br />
grow and stay current.<br />
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Program Unites Jewish Community Hand in Hand<br />
© 2011 Hearst Corporation, reprinted with permission<br />
By Jenny Halpin, Contributing Writer - Updated 12:22 p.m., Wednesday, November 30, 2011<br />
Children at Heintz Preschool at <strong>Congregation</strong> <strong>Agudas</strong> <strong>Achim</strong> learn about their Jewish heritage from teachers<br />
and senior citizens, including grandparents of many students there, in the monthly program “Yad B’ Yad” (“hand<br />
in hand” in Hebrew). Pictured (from left) are Charlotte Woo-Bloxberg, Baylor and Landry Kerr with grandmother<br />
Carolyn Glick, Sari Valdez with grandmother Nancy Hoenig, Shai Ben-Amotz with adoptive grandparent for the day<br />
Mel Eichelbaum, and Lauren Met.<br />
Photo: Courtesy Photot/SA<br />
Thanks to a unique local grant, children at Heintz Preschool at<br />
<strong>Congregation</strong> <strong>Agudas</strong> <strong>Achim</strong> are learning more about their Jewish<br />
heritage from teachers who are more than half a century older.<br />
The program is called “Yad B’ Yad,” which means “Hand in Hand”<br />
in Hebrew. Participants are young Jewish children and Jewish<br />
senior citizens, many of whom are grandparents. Each month, both<br />
generations join together to celebrate and take part in a variety of<br />
Jewish traditions from honoring Shabbat, the Jewish Sabbath, to<br />
playing musical instruments, dancing to Israeli songs, and even<br />
creating art together.<br />
Four-year-old Gavin Valdez said his favorite part of Yad B’ Yad is<br />
“eating challah,” a ritual egg bread with his grandmother. During<br />
the Nov. 18 Yad B’Yad gathering, children and grandparents<br />
joined together in classrooms to create paper covers that protect<br />
the challah. Then, at a miniature table, both preschoolers and<br />
seniors enjoyed the traditional bread along with a Dixie cup full<br />
of grape juice.<br />
“After the last event, several grandparents hadn’t even left our<br />
school parking lot when they called their children to tell them how<br />
much fun they had with their grandkids at school that day,” says<br />
Heintz Preschool Early Childhood Director Dena Hoenig Valdez.<br />
The November event drew more than 30 Jewish seniors from<br />
across the city. For children whose grandparents live out of town<br />
or have passed on, stand-in grandparents are provided. According<br />
to grant Coordinator Risa Weinberger, “It’s beneficial to both. It’s<br />
an opportunity for them to teach another generation.”<br />
Jean Karren, a surrogate grandmother to a 4-year-old boy named<br />
Jack, said sharing her mornings with him and celebrating their faith<br />
is a “real treat” for her, especially since her two grandchildren are<br />
older and live in Dallas. After they first met, Jean realized that she<br />
had attended Jack’s mother’s Bat Mitzvah in Houston decades ago.<br />
“It’s all about family tradition, sharing a lifestyle,” said Carolyn<br />
Glick. She and her husband, Howard, haven’t missed an event with<br />
their two grandchildren, Landry and Baylor.<br />
Rabbi Leonardo Bitran said the traditional Jewish setting that is<br />
created at each event, like the Shabbat services, evokes wonderful<br />
memories for many seniors. “To be connected through tradition is<br />
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emotional for all the generations,” added Bitran.<br />
Grandmother Susanne Jalnos became teary-eyed as a pianist<br />
played traditional Jewish music throughout the Shabbat service.<br />
“It’s so beautiful. I’m so glad they do it. It makes me feel very<br />
good,” she said.<br />
The special program wouldn’t be possible without funding from<br />
San Antonio’s Golden Manner Jewish Senior Services. Valdez<br />
said over the last 10 years, she’s applied to various organizations<br />
for a grant that would fund an intergenerational program, but was<br />
always turned down.<br />
Daniel Laser, executive director of Golden Manor, said the<br />
organization is extremely pleased with the program’s success<br />
so far. “We saw this as a program that would reach some of San<br />
Antonio’s seniors that we may not have been reaching before,<br />
in a way that was different from what had been done in recent<br />
years,” says Laser.<br />
The Yad B’ Yad program will continue throughout the school year.<br />
In the coming months, coordinators plan to take the show on the<br />
road when preschoolers climb aboard a bus and head to a North<br />
Side nursing home to visit and interact with residents there.<br />
Valdez said seeing her idea come to fruition has been gratifying.<br />
“It’s lifting spirits and bringing back those traditions and<br />
customs from the past that have sort of been lost for three<br />
different generations.”
Going Bananas!<br />
On Any Monday or Wednesday…<br />
IPRS is bustling with activity! Our 3rd -7th Graders are always busy with lively discussion<br />
and learning; with inspiring teachers guiding them to become active participants in their<br />
constantly widening circles of Judaism. From studying Tefillot (prayers), to learning about the<br />
importance of marriage and creating a Jewish home, to strengthening Jewish identity through<br />
Jewish history, literature and language, our religious school afternoons are filled with energy,<br />
enrichment and education!<br />
We always found Maury Jacobs “apeeling” and so do Hannah Reep, Lexi Magram and Lauren<br />
Weinberg! They all had “bunches” of fun at the USY/Kadima’s Fall Kallah at CYJ. Maury is not<br />
only a great teacher at IPRS, but he’s also “top banana,” as the Regional Youth Director for<br />
Southwest Region USY!<br />
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Hello Everyone,<br />
It’s been quite a while since I’ve written an article for the<br />
Kolenu. I want you to know about the very successful events that<br />
Sisterhood has had in recent months, starting with our Haven for<br />
Hope program in October, chaired by Bernice Mazer. We felt we<br />
did a real mitzvah donating clothing and supplies to the homeless<br />
shelter, and our visit there was truly eye-opening. Thanks to<br />
all our <strong>Congregation</strong>al members who helped us with generous<br />
contributions. In early November, we had our Rummage/Estate<br />
sale. Jean Schlesinger, Sandra Shaenfield, Chairs, and all our<br />
many workers made a difficult job a real success. The sale was<br />
quickly followed by an interesting Book Review with Susan<br />
Whipple. Thank you, Susan, and I want to give a special thanks to<br />
Suzan Mendlovitz, who organizes four book reviews for us every<br />
year. In November, also, we had our fun-filled Games Day, chaired,<br />
as usual, by Linda Aboloff, with good food and prizes and a lot of<br />
fun for everyone, men and women. On 11/11/11, we honored our<br />
veterans and active military with a beautiful Friday night service<br />
and delicious dinner. Thank you, Deanie Vogel, for organizing this<br />
wonderful event. I also want to thank YOU, our <strong>Congregation</strong>al<br />
family, who came to services and dinner that night. Finally, on<br />
December 4, we had our Gift Shop Open House and Hanukah sale.<br />
If you had not been in the Gift Shop before this, I know you were<br />
impressed by all the beautiful items for sale. Judy Kelne spends<br />
many hours ordering merchandise and making sure the Gift Shop<br />
runs smoothly.<br />
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CONGREGATION<br />
AGUDAS ACHIM<br />
By the time you read this, we will have had our New Year’s Eve<br />
party. At present, Joan Bernstein and her committee are working<br />
very hard to make this New Year’s one you will never forget--in a<br />
good way, I hope.<br />
Our next event will be Hazzan Lipton’s Book Review on January<br />
10 at 10:00. He will be discussing The KOL NIDRE. A light<br />
breakfast will be served. Our Hazzan always gives us an exciting<br />
and in-depth discussion, and this one will be no exception, I’m<br />
sure. Finally, in January, SISTERHOOD SHABBAT. Please join<br />
us on January 20 and 21. We will have dinner Friday night and<br />
a wonderful Kiddush lunch on Saturday, and, most important,<br />
meaningful services on both days.<br />
Well, now I’ve brought you up-to-date on the doings of your<br />
Sisterhood. As always, we thank you for your support.<br />
See you in shul,<br />
B’Shalom,<br />
Judy Halfant<br />
Sisterhood President<br />
((SHWEIKI AD GOES HERE))
CONGREGATION<br />
AGUDAS ACHIM MEN’S CLUB<br />
Men’s Club Program Calendar<br />
Set Through April<br />
A planning committee of <strong>Congregation</strong> <strong>Agudas</strong> <strong>Achim</strong>’s revitalized<br />
Men’s Club has set the group’s program calendar for the first four<br />
months of 2012.<br />
“These programs attempt to strike a balance between opportunities<br />
for guys to get together to have a little fun and opportunities to<br />
do something meaningful for the synagogue,” said Mike Kelne,<br />
Men’s Club president.<br />
“We went back to ‘square one’ to address the questions, ‘Why<br />
should there be a Men’s Club?’ and ‘Why would someone want<br />
to join?’ To us it’s very simple: Men’s Club exists to benefit the<br />
synagogue and its individual members, and the reason men should<br />
join is to have fun and to support the shul.<br />
“Like Sisterhood, Men’s Club benefits the congregation by providing<br />
religious school and camp scholarships, and by supporting the<br />
synagogue financially when special needs arise,” Kelne said. “In<br />
addition, Men’s Club is uniquely qualified to provide leadership<br />
and stability within the synagogue through its own programs and<br />
by supporting other synagogue programs.<br />
“Our kick-off for the year will be a sports viewing evening on<br />
Thursday, January 19, at Robi Jalnos’ home. We’ll watch some<br />
great NBA basketball, and enjoy noshes and fellowship”<br />
The following programs were also set:<br />
• January 29 (Sunday) – We’ll teach Tefillin skills to fathers and<br />
sons as part of World Wide Wrap<br />
• February 26 (Sunday) – We’ll go to our Palmetto cemetery for<br />
a general clean-up and tree trimming, followed by a hearty<br />
lunch<br />
• March 4 (Sunday) – We’ll assemble Yellow Shoah Candles<br />
and have a Holocaust education program<br />
• March 24 (Saturday evening after Shabbat) – We’ll have a<br />
jazz band program and a wine/scotch/vodka tasting (wives<br />
will also be invited)<br />
• April 27 (Friday) – Fiesta Battle of Flowers parade<br />
• April 28 (Saturday evening) – Fiesta Flambeau parade<br />
“Programs for the rest of the year will be announced later,” Kelne<br />
said. “Our goal is to have at least one program every month –<br />
some months more. We recognize that the same program won’t<br />
appeal to everyone, so we’ll have a variety – social, educational,<br />
community service, and synagogue assistance – that we hope<br />
will attract more people in total.<br />
“The Planning Committee discussed the subject of dues, and<br />
agreed that we will only request, not require, dues of $30 this<br />
year, and that no one will be turned away for not paying dues.<br />
Words used most often in this discussion were ‘inclusion’,<br />
‘connection’, ‘involvement’, ‘brotherhood’, and ‘belonging’. You<br />
don’t get those by erecting barriers. Hopefully, men will see the<br />
value of the organization and want to support its scholarship<br />
programs.<br />
“We also decided to organize ourselves a bit differently. For now,<br />
we’re only going to have two officers – I’m president and I’ll<br />
handle communications, and Jeff Siegel will continue to serve as<br />
treasurer. And instead of a VP-Programming who’s responsible<br />
for all programs, we’re going to have ‘program owners’ – guys<br />
who have stepped up (and will step up) to ‘own’ one program<br />
each and assure its success. This will involve more people in<br />
program planning and implementation, and make sure we don’t<br />
over-burden one or two individuals.<br />
“Our ultimate goal is to return our Men’s Club to its historic<br />
position of prominence by presenting all men in the congregation<br />
with a great ‘value proposition’ – that is, that we provide<br />
opportunities for fun and closer connection to the synagogue that<br />
are worth their personal participation and support.”<br />
All men of <strong>Congregation</strong> <strong>Agudas</strong> <strong>Achim</strong> are invited to attend the<br />
sports program January 19, and are urged to RSVP to Amy Levine<br />
at the synagogue office, 479-0307, by January 16. Directions to<br />
Robi’s home will be provided.<br />
B’Shalom,<br />
Mike Kelne, Men’s Club President<br />
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CONGREGATION<br />
AGUDAS<br />
ACHIM<br />
Your Jewish Home<br />
As this issue of Kolenu goes to press,<br />
we are winding down our Kol Nidre<br />
Appeal, preparing next year’s budget<br />
for presentation to the board, tending<br />
to a number of facility issues and<br />
looking forward to an exciting new year<br />
of services, as well as educational,<br />
cultural and recreational programs and<br />
activities. Kol Nidre, by any account, has<br />
been a hudge success, and I would like to thank everyone<br />
for participating in this campaign. We raised over $40,000<br />
which will be used for Jewish education and for subsidizing<br />
memberships of those in need of assistance. Our members’<br />
generous contributions show that when the synagogue calls<br />
upon you to support its endeavors you certainly respond.<br />
Thank you for your generosity.<br />
January, of course, is a month for making resolutions.<br />
As I was making my own list, which consisted mainly of<br />
resolutions to eat less and exercise more, I turned to Antoine<br />
de Saint Exupery’s “The Little Prince” for further inspiration.<br />
Exupery’s “Little Prince” lived alone on a tiny planet, which<br />
had three volcanoes, several baobabs (giant weeds?) and<br />
caterpillars, and a flower - a rose. He believed that his rose<br />
grew only on his planet and was, therefore, unique in all<br />
the universe. Because he was attracted to its great beauty<br />
and uniqueness the prince loved his rose. He built a fence<br />
around it to protect it from the caterpillars, and he watered it<br />
faithfully. Since the fence would not protect the rose against<br />
baobabs, which if neglected would overrun everything on<br />
the planet, the prince would pull them up at the very first<br />
moment he could distinguish them from rosebuds. And the<br />
rose flourished and the prince took great pride in it.<br />
During his interplanetary travels, the prince became<br />
understandably perturbed and deeply saddened when, on<br />
earth, he discovered a rose garden with five thousand roses,<br />
all beautiful and indistinguishable from his rose. His unique<br />
and special rose now seemed very common. A fox helped<br />
the Little Prince to realize that he loved his rose, not for<br />
its beauty or its singularity, but because he watered it and<br />
because it was his.<br />
Caring for something, as the prince had cared for his rose,<br />
is precisely what makes it unique. The fox, you will recall,<br />
implored the prince to “tame” him, so that each of them<br />
would be distinguishable from others of their kind. “If<br />
you tame me,” said the fox, “it will be as if the sun came<br />
to shine on my life. I shall know the sound of a step that<br />
will be different from all the others. Other steps send me<br />
hurrying back underneath the ground. Yours,will call me,<br />
like music, out of my burrow.” The prince tamed the fox, and<br />
understood, by analogy, that because he had cared for his<br />
rose he had, in effect, tamed it and made it unique. Thus he<br />
was able to confront the thousands of roses in the garden<br />
and say to them: “You are beautiful but you are empty.” “To<br />
be sure,” the prince continued,<br />
“ . . . an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked<br />
just like you . . . But in herself alone she is more important<br />
than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she<br />
that I have watered; because it is she that I have put under<br />
the glass globe; because it is she that I have sheltered<br />
behind the screen; because it is for her that I have killed<br />
the caterpillars (except the two or three that we saved to<br />
become butterflies); because it is she that I have listened to,<br />
when she grumbled, or boasted, or even sometimes when<br />
she said nothing. Because she is my rose.”<br />
I believe there is an analogue in this story for synagogues.<br />
Our love for our synagogue, just like the little prince’s love<br />
for his rose, is defined by our caring for it, protecting it, and<br />
making it ours. Thus we ought to ask and find answers to<br />
such questions as: “How do we best water a synagogue?”<br />
“How do we put her under a glass globe, or shelter<br />
her behind a screen?” “How do we best make her our<br />
synagogue, and cause the sun to shine upon her as she calls<br />
to us like music?” Our individual and collective answers to<br />
these questions, I would like to suggest, can be the basis of<br />
our resolutions relating to our synagogue.<br />
Have a Happy New Year!<br />
Allan H. Glazerman<br />
Executive Director<br />
Scholarships Available<br />
Students wishing to go on a recognized program to Israel,<br />
including March of the Living and Birthright, or wishing<br />
to attend Jewish camps, are encouraged to apply directly<br />
to the synagogue for partial scholarships. To request an<br />
application please call Karen Katims at the synagogue and<br />
request a Scholarship Application Form. Applications must<br />
be received in the office at least thirty days before your<br />
chosen Israel or camp program requires a check.
I guess three’s is a charm. Thank you<br />
for honoring me with a third term as your<br />
President. I must admit the last two years<br />
have flown by.<br />
I would like to start out by thanking all<br />
the outgoing officers and trustees for all<br />
their dedication, devotion, and time you<br />
all gave to your Synagogue. Every one of<br />
you made a difference and I thoroughly enjoyed working with<br />
each and every one of you. You will be missed. Let’s just<br />
referred to this as a hiatus. I’m sure you will be back to help<br />
out soon.<br />
To the new officers and trustees I welcome the opportunity to<br />
continue with the successes we have started and to develop<br />
our future leaders so I know when my term as President is<br />
over, the Synagogue will be left in good hands. With fresh<br />
minds come new ideas and I look forward to working with<br />
you all.<br />
Last, but certainly not least (I just saved the best for last) I<br />
want to thank our incumbent officers and trustees for staying<br />
on and continuing our goal of being the best conservative<br />
Shul we can be. Your continued leadership guarantees<br />
that we will stay the course and provide the services and<br />
programs our congregants want. You all understand what<br />
fiscal responsibility means and that is vital to the success of<br />
our Synagogue.<br />
I always hear how it’s impossible to provide the goods and<br />
services of a full service Synagogue and operate in the black.<br />
This is not an easy task, but I’m happy to say we are well<br />
on our way to doing just that. Our 2012 budget will be a<br />
balanced budget. I want to acknowledge our controller Mia<br />
Spigel for all her hard work putting this budget together. I<br />
am confident that our executive director will operate our shul<br />
tightly adhering to this budget. Again, the jury’s out to see<br />
if we can operate within our means. I look forward to our<br />
first quarter report to evaluate how we are doing. Last year<br />
we approved a budget with over a $70,000 deficit. We had<br />
several setbacks with our physical plant and had to overcome<br />
a down economy. With all these negatives we were not able<br />
to overcome this shortfall. In last months Kolenu, Randy<br />
Pulman summed it up correctly. We are finally on the path<br />
to fiscal responsibility. None of this would be possible if we<br />
didn’t have the support of our congregants. Each and every<br />
one of you helped make a difference and I want to thank<br />
each of you for your dedication and support. It’s only getting<br />
better each and every day.<br />
2012 holds some exciting times ahead. We have many<br />
programs planned that will be fun and different. We also<br />
have many things planned ahead for our youth. In December<br />
our 6th grade class participated with leading our Shabbat<br />
morning services and collectively in small groups, chanted<br />
the weekly Haftorah. From my vantage point on the bimah<br />
I witnessed first-hand the excitement of each and every<br />
one of them. It was awesome. Another awesome site was<br />
seeing all their parents and grandparents beaming ear to<br />
ear as their kids showed off what they have been learning<br />
all these years. This was a large group and next year we will<br />
have a B’nai Mitzvah almost every week.<br />
Other news is the resurgence of the New Men’s Club under<br />
the leadership of Mike Kelne. This isn’t the Men’s Club of<br />
the past. Already in the works are programs and planning<br />
the likes our Synagogue have not seen before. With the<br />
new focus being on our Synagogue and all its members, the<br />
new Men’s Club will provide services that have been lacking<br />
from our Synagogue for a long time. All male members over<br />
the age of 21 are members of the New Men’s Club. More<br />
details are to follow on our first program in January. It’s<br />
guaranteed to be something outside of the box.<br />
This March we are fortunate to be honoring two very devoted<br />
members of our congregation. Shari and Randy Pulman are<br />
not strangers to any one. Their families have been part of<br />
our Synagogue for a long, long time and we can’t wait to<br />
show them how much we really appreciate them being part<br />
of our Synagogue family. Rhonda Gurinsky is already busy<br />
fine tuning what will certainly be a fabulous evening for all.<br />
Our own Hazzan Lipton and his troupe will be back for a third<br />
Cantorial concert. Everyone that has been to one of Hazzan’s<br />
concerts in the past knows how wonderful an evening it<br />
will be. More information on our Annual Gala and Honors<br />
evening will follow and we all look forward to March.<br />
Well, we’re off to a fast and exciting start. As always I look<br />
forward to seeing everyone at services and at the many<br />
programs ahead.<br />
Happy New Year.<br />
Robi Jalnos<br />
President<br />
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THIS PAST VETERANS’ DAY, CONGREGATION AGUDAS ACHIM SALUTED<br />
THEIR MEMBERS FOR THEIR MILITARY SERVICE TO AMERICA.<br />
Active duty, retired and other military personnel who are members of <strong>Congregation</strong> <strong>Agudas</strong> <strong>Achim</strong> were honored with a special<br />
Friday night Shabbat service on Veterans’ Day, November 11, 2011. Several <strong>Agudas</strong> honorees who are either currently active<br />
duty or retired wore their uniforms, and others their Jewish War Veterans campaign hats. While their names were called by<br />
Rabbi Leonardo Bitran, each honored member rose to be recognized as their branch of service and rank were announced. After<br />
all names were mentioned, followed by a rousing chorus of applause, the veterans gathered on the bimah and were blessed.<br />
As the service concluded, the sanctuary filled with the voice of Hazzan Jeremy Lipton, accompanied by the congregation,<br />
singing America the Beautiful.<br />
Honor boards featuring photographs of the veterans were on display in the <strong>Congregation</strong> <strong>Agudas</strong> <strong>Achim</strong> rotunda for viewing<br />
by congregants. Afterwards, a special Shabbat dinner arranged and sponsored by the <strong>Congregation</strong> <strong>Agudas</strong> <strong>Achim</strong> Sisterhood<br />
was served to 150 military honorees, their families and guests. More patriotic songs and striking desserts featuring the ionic<br />
emblems of the United States Armed Forces were enjoyed by all.<br />
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This year during our Annual Gala and Honors Evening on Sunday, March 18, 2012 at 7:00 p.m. we will honor Shari and<br />
Randy Pulman for many years of devoted service to <strong>Congregation</strong> <strong>Agudas</strong> <strong>Achim</strong> and San Antonio’s Jewish community.<br />
Please join us in honoring this couple and supporting the synagogue by purchasing tickets and/or space in our Tribute Book.<br />
All ads must be received by Friday, February 24, 2012.<br />
Please use this form to order tickets and/or purchase an ad to support our honorees or pay tribute to <strong>Agudas</strong> <strong>Achim</strong>. Business<br />
and personal ads are welcome. If you have a photo taken in one of <strong>Agudas</strong> <strong>Achim</strong>’s buildings over the years, consider including<br />
that in your ad. Enclose camera-ready art for ads and/or clearly typed messages with this form. Ads and messages may also<br />
be sent via email to Amy Levine at a.levine@agudas-achim.org. For further information, please contact the synagogue office<br />
at 210-479-0307.<br />
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Shari and Randy Pulman<br />
<strong>Congregation</strong> <strong>Agudas</strong> <strong>Achim</strong> is delighted to honor Shari and Randy<br />
Pulman at our congregation’s annual Gala and Honors Evening.<br />
Together, Shari and Randy perfectly parallel our synagogue’s long<br />
rich history, vibrant and productive present, and a future secured<br />
through hard work and commitment.<br />
Just as <strong>Agudas</strong> <strong>Achim</strong> is dedicated to the concept of L’Dor Va-Dor<br />
(from generation to generation), Shari and Randy, both raised with<br />
a strong Jewish identity, are setting an example for their children<br />
of how solid leadership and love of Jewish values makes a lasting<br />
difference in our community.<br />
Shari and Randy’s families share the familiar Jewish immigrant<br />
story. An entrepreneurial characteristic runs deep in both families,<br />
and Shari and Randy’s strong work ethic can be directly traced<br />
back to these enterprising relatives.<br />
Shari’s maternal grandfather immigrated from Romania, met<br />
her maternal grandmother and then settled in Galveston. Her<br />
grandfather initially made a living selling produce from a truck to<br />
the city’s finest restaurants. Her mother, Reesa Rabinowitz, and<br />
siblings Roz and Bernard, grew up in Galveston. Her paternal<br />
grandparents settled in Crystal City where they opened a dry<br />
goods store while raising her dad, Joel, and uncles, Stuart and<br />
Allen (of blessed memory).<br />
Shari’s parents, Reesa and Joel Pullen, were introduced by Joel’s<br />
cousin. Reesa, the young co-ed, and Joel, the sharp attorney, fell<br />
in love, married and soon became parents to Shari, Forrest, Scott<br />
(married to Rachel Stern) and Eric (married to Sheri Friedson). Joel<br />
built a successful law career, and Reesa made her mark in the<br />
Jewish community through extensive volunteering. Reesa is also<br />
known for her penchant for cooking and entertaining and is widely<br />
recognized as the consummate hostess. Both Shari’s parents are<br />
past Presidents of the Barshop Jewish Community Center. Shari<br />
remembers growing up in a home always filled with family, friends<br />
and celebration.<br />
Randy’s paternal grandparents immigrated to America from Latvia<br />
at the turn of the 19th century. They first settled in St. Louis after<br />
an extended stopover in London where they had the first two of<br />
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their six children. The family later settled in San Antonio and<br />
opened Pulman Furniture Company. Randy’s father, Jake, and his<br />
brother opened Acme Furniture Company after serving in World<br />
War II. Although born in St. Louis, Jake grew up in San Antonio<br />
and graduated from Brackenridge High School. Randy’s maternal<br />
grandparents settled in Waco where his mother, Minnie,<br />
graduated from high school and worked in civil service on several<br />
Air Force bases during World War II.<br />
It was just after the war that Minnie met and married Jake. Their<br />
family grew to include son Charles (married to Janine), daughter<br />
Susan Butler (married to Steve) and youngest child, Randy. Jake<br />
ran Acme Furniture which was located downtown at the corner<br />
of Commerce and Navarro. Randy was raised in a home on<br />
West Gramercy which was three blocks from the old <strong>Agudas</strong><br />
<strong>Achim</strong> on Donaldson. Over the years, Jake served on many of<br />
our synagogues’ boards, and Minnie was very active in <strong>Agudas</strong><br />
<strong>Achim</strong>, Sisterhood and Hadassah. In fact, Jake (like Randy) served<br />
as <strong>Agudas</strong> <strong>Achim</strong> Treasurer.<br />
Shari Pullen and Randy Pulman have been “Shari and Randy” since<br />
they met at 12 years old in Hebrew school at <strong>Agudas</strong> <strong>Achim</strong>! Both<br />
their families were (and still are!) members of <strong>Agudas</strong> <strong>Achim</strong>.<br />
Growing up in different parts of San Antonio before Facebook and<br />
Twitter didn’t stop Shari and Randy from connecting. They got to<br />
know each other the old fashioned way – by telephone, Hebrew<br />
School and the all important Bar/Bat Mitzvah seasons of middle<br />
school. Shari was chosen “Sweetheart” when they were both<br />
members of BBYO.<br />
After attending high school apart for the first three years, they<br />
found a way to be together their senior year. Even at a young<br />
age, Randy was able to find the loopholes, along with help from<br />
Jay Sam Levey (of blessed memory) and his debate coach. He<br />
transferred to Churchill High School his senior year where he and<br />
Shari shared every class but one.<br />
They attended the University of Texas at Austin together. After<br />
receiving their undergraduate degrees, they separated for the<br />
first time. Shari attended Southern Methodist University School<br />
of Law in Dallas, while Randy continued his education in Austin<br />
at the University of Texas School of Law. Before they graduated<br />
with their Juris Doctor degrees, they became engaged. During<br />
law school, they spent countless weekends traveling between<br />
the two universities to spend time with each other.<br />
Married at <strong>Agudas</strong> <strong>Achim</strong> by Rabbi Louis Schechter (of blessed<br />
memory), they quickly moved to Houston where they initially<br />
worked for separate law firms. In short order, they were juggling<br />
their hectic work schedules while raising their growing family.<br />
Shari eventually joined Randy’s firm where they both were<br />
made partners. The opportunity to live once again close to their<br />
families and friends presented itself, and in 1994 they packed up<br />
their children, Jason age six, Hailey sixteen months old and Josh<br />
three days old, and returned to San Antonio. Moving back proved<br />
to be a great decision both personally and professionally as their
practice, Pulman, Cappuccio, Pullen & Benson, is now a thriving<br />
law firm of 17 attorneys.<br />
Shari and Randy wasted little time once they settled in; their priority<br />
was giving back to <strong>Agudas</strong> <strong>Achim</strong> and the Jewish community<br />
where they have been lending their leadership and fundraising<br />
expertise for nearly eighteen years. They donate their time, talents<br />
and money to a myriad of our community’s organizations.<br />
Randy’s impressive contributions include serving as a board<br />
member in various capacities at <strong>Agudas</strong> <strong>Achim</strong> consistently<br />
since 1995! Randy has served on our Endowment Committee, as<br />
Treasurer, and just recently completed his term as VP of Finance<br />
and Administration, during which he oversaw the successful<br />
reorganization of our synagogue’s accounting department.<br />
Randy’s affiliation with the Jewish community includes serving as<br />
a board member with Camp Young Judaea, Chairman of Golden<br />
Manor Foundation, Israel Bonds Co-Chair and AIPAC Event Co-<br />
Chair (with Shari).<br />
Shari’s involvement with our community is extensive. She served<br />
as Vice President at the Barshop JCC and chaired many events for<br />
many years before becoming its President. She was also the JCC<br />
Maccabi Delegation Head for the 2005 Maccabi Games and one<br />
of the Housing Chairs for the 2009 Maccabi Games. She is very<br />
proud that her brother, Eric, is the current Chairman of the JCC. If<br />
anyone is keeping score, that adds up to four Pullens serving as<br />
JCC President - quite a family legacy!<br />
While serving on the Board of the Jewish Federation of San<br />
Antonio for many years, Shari co-chaired Super Sunday and chaired<br />
a women’s division of the Annual Campaign. Our community<br />
recognized her dedication and hard work by awarding her the<br />
Federation’s Sylvia F. and Harry Sugarman Young Leadership<br />
Award in 1998.<br />
Shari has been involved with the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg<br />
Campus from the ground up. She served on the original Policy<br />
Committee which created the Campus’ current governance, cochaired<br />
a Campus Capital Campaign Division that raised funds<br />
from the “40 and Under” age group and chaired the dedication<br />
ceremony for the Campus in 1999. After many years on the<br />
Campus Board, Shari became President of the Campus in 2006<br />
and continues her involvement to this day.<br />
Shari continues to serve as Vice President of Golden Manor Jewish<br />
Senior Services as she has done for many years. Shari was one<br />
of the creators of the “Manor Munchkin” program – a monthly<br />
multi-generational, interactive program that was so successful it<br />
received statewide recognition. She also enjoys sharing the joys<br />
of Hanukkah with the secular community by serving as co-chair of<br />
the International Latke Society with Bill Sinkin, which sponsors<br />
an annual inter-faith luncheon. Shari also currently serves on the<br />
board of the Patient Institute, and chairs their annual gala.<br />
By Mindi Stern<br />
As busy as they are, they still make time for some of their favorite<br />
things. They love to entertain, but it’s traveling abroad with their<br />
family and friends that really lets them unplug and enjoy each<br />
other. Their passports have been stamped in Italy, Monaco,<br />
France, Russia, Spain and Israel to name a few. They enjoy<br />
experiencing cultures from around the world with their children<br />
and teaching them to be “worldly.” They are sharing a great gift<br />
they are fortunate enough to provide. Yet, they’re both Texans at<br />
heart and are always ready to jump in the car and head down to<br />
the coast!<br />
Their children have matured into smart, savvy young adults under<br />
their guidance. Jason is now working in document management<br />
in San Antonio after earning an Administrative Assistant<br />
Certification through Austin Community College. Hailey is<br />
pursuing an education at the Elliot School of International Affairs<br />
at George Washington University in Washington D.C. Her interest<br />
in politics and current affairs could lead her straight to a job in<br />
the White House, and since she lives only four blocks away, she<br />
wouldn’t have to drive! Josh, a junior at St. Mary’s Hall, is a chip<br />
off the old block. He shares his parents’ passion for debate and<br />
politics and his dad’s for finance. He plans to attend college in<br />
the northeast as soon as the ink dries on his high school diploma!<br />
Shari and Randy are so pleased that <strong>Agudas</strong> <strong>Achim</strong> is<br />
acknowledging their contributions, but insist we’ve got it all<br />
wrong! They feel this is the perfect time to let us know what<br />
<strong>Agudas</strong> <strong>Achim</strong> means to THEM! Their deep feelings of gratitude<br />
to our synagogue leave them with a profound bond to our clergy<br />
and congregation; specifically, Rabbi Bitran and Silvana’s Bat and<br />
Bar Mitzvah preparation for Hailey and Josh, held here and in<br />
Israel. Shari and Randy also share a connection with Hazzan and<br />
Kay Lipton since both families presently have a child attending<br />
university in Washington D.C.<br />
Sharing life cycle events with the parents of their childhood<br />
friends, and maintaining life-long friendships, while enjoying<br />
the comfort, familiarity and tradition that <strong>Agudas</strong> <strong>Achim</strong> offers<br />
are why they remain active members. Shari and Randy are so<br />
excited their children are now old enough to understand how<br />
special <strong>Agudas</strong> <strong>Achim</strong> is. Shari shares a recent conversation she<br />
had with Hailey which sums up their family’s feelings about our<br />
synagogue. After Hailey attended High Holiday services for the<br />
first time in Washington D.C. last year, Shari asked Hailey how<br />
the services were. Hailey replied, “They were okay, but it just<br />
wasn’t like being at <strong>Agudas</strong>!”<br />
Yasher koach, Shari and Randy. You are truly a blessing to our<br />
synagogue and the Jewish community. Your lifetime commitment<br />
and generous spirit is an inspiration to us all. We hope by<br />
honoring you, it becomes apparent your affection and devotion is<br />
sincerely reciprocated.<br />
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We gratefully acknowledge all those who participated in this year’s Kol Nidre Appeal. By supporting <strong>Congregation</strong> <strong>Agudas</strong><br />
<strong>Achim</strong>, you ensure that we will continue to meet the Jewish educational needs of our sacred community and provide<br />
membership assistance for those in need of our help. We thank you for your support and encourage your active participation<br />
in our many programs.<br />
Rochelle Adelstein<br />
Charlotte Sue & Richard Alterman<br />
Frances Anderson<br />
Barbara & Ronnie Argo<br />
Barbara & Burton Arnow<br />
Luise & Morris Bankler<br />
Sheri & Brad Barenblat<br />
Elise Barenblat<br />
Helene Barenberg-Gunn<br />
Jim Barshop<br />
Cookie & Lou Belinsky<br />
Barb Bikoof & Craig Berkowitch<br />
Joan & Stuart Bernstein<br />
David Bikoff<br />
Amy Birnbaum<br />
Beverly & Mike Birnbaum<br />
Silvana & Rabbi Leonardo Bitran<br />
Magi & Jonathan Blucher<br />
Kim & Adam Boyar<br />
Phyllis Brooks<br />
Ana Caddess<br />
Guillana Castellano<br />
Sharon & Walt Charlip<br />
Kitty Chatelain<br />
Andrea & Irving Cohen<br />
Gloria & James Cohen<br />
Tammy & Jerome Cohen<br />
Micheline & Sam Cohen<br />
Sylvia Cohen<br />
Phyliss & Steve Cole<br />
Madeline & Charles Cytrin<br />
Carolyn Devin<br />
Ellen Dubick<br />
Marilyn Dubrin<br />
Ingrid & Ed Eastman<br />
Jean & Arnold Eisenstot<br />
Carolyn & Clay Epstein<br />
Lisa & Kevin Epstein<br />
Morris Eskenazi<br />
Barri & Kirby Fogel<br />
Bertie & Selig Frank<br />
Tevia & Joel Friedman<br />
Lucille Friedman<br />
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Kol NidreAppeal<br />
Joan Fries<br />
Sandy & Felix Frydberg<br />
Sal Garcia<br />
Sara Garcia<br />
Leslye & Glenn Geller<br />
Araceli & Robert Ginns<br />
Allan Glazerman<br />
Carolyn & Howard Glick<br />
Pam & Sid Gold<br />
Sonja Goldberg<br />
Lucy & Gene Goldman<br />
Aaron Goldstein<br />
Maria & Francisco Gonzalez<br />
Fonda & Gary Gossen<br />
Pearl Gossen<br />
Chery & Lee Greenberg<br />
Miriam & Morton Greenberg<br />
Lynn & Adrian Gresores<br />
Fanya & Klimenty Grinshpan<br />
Georgiana & Sheldon Gross<br />
Meg & Tim Grossman<br />
Rhonda & Charlie Gurinsky<br />
Sara Lee Gurinsky<br />
Judy & Eddie Halfant<br />
Sara & Barry Harris<br />
Miriam Harris<br />
Kim & David Hauser<br />
Karen Heintz<br />
Karen & Tom Hoffman<br />
Helen Isgur<br />
Esther Jacobs<br />
Marvin Jalnos<br />
Eileen & Robi Jalnos<br />
Susanne Jalnos<br />
George Johnson<br />
Jeanie & Butch Karren<br />
Karen Katims<br />
Leanore & Mike Kavy<br />
Anita & David Kboudi<br />
Judy & Mike Kelne<br />
Carol & Joel Klein<br />
Keith Klein<br />
Sandra & Fred Kline<br />
Sandi & Bob Kolitz<br />
Gladys Koranek<br />
Margarita & Iosif Korostyshevsky<br />
Hilary Kouhana<br />
Ilene & Steve Kramer<br />
Alexandra & Edward Kuperman<br />
Caryn & Phillip Landes<br />
Rachel & Jordan Lauterstein<br />
Frances Lehrman<br />
Marilyn & Cal Lemmon<br />
Marguerite Lerer<br />
Sheldon Levine<br />
Kay & Hazzan Jeremy Lipton<br />
Robin Thorner & John LoCurto<br />
Ruth & Lois Lown<br />
Barbara & Roger Lyons<br />
Anne & Robert Marcovich<br />
Bertha & Hy Marcus<br />
Jodi & Greg Marion<br />
Shari & Stuart Markowitz<br />
Denes Marton<br />
Tina Klein & Ande Mass<br />
Esther & Gerry Mata<br />
Bernice Mazer<br />
Elizabeth & Ervin Mendlovitz<br />
Suzan & Max Mendlovitz<br />
Leslie & Mike Met<br />
Joyce & Carrol Meyer<br />
Rhonda & Gregg Michel<br />
Julie & Ira Miller<br />
Jane Mincho<br />
Jason Mittman<br />
Gert Myers<br />
Nora & Howie Nestel<br />
Kathy & Ron Noble<br />
Margie & Sam O’Krent<br />
Pat Kalmans & Michael Ozer<br />
Goldie Panzer<br />
Davora & Mike Peck<br />
Janice & Mark Penner<br />
Michele & Derek Perry<br />
Elizabeth Glazier & Michael Piesman<br />
Merle Polunsky
Ruth Posner<br />
Barbara & Jon Powell<br />
Marge & Dave Present<br />
Shari & Randy Pulman<br />
Sammi & Eduardo Raez<br />
Linda & Evan Ratner<br />
Jody Reddy<br />
Glenda & David Regenbaum<br />
David Reitblatt<br />
Clara & Harold Reich<br />
Dawn & Sam Ribak<br />
Marinel & Mike Robbins<br />
Beck Roosth<br />
Pam & Joel Rosen<br />
Joanne & Paul Rosenbaum<br />
Susan & Andrew Rosengard<br />
Bari & Arthur Rosenthal<br />
Rosalyn Rosin<br />
Rose Rosin<br />
Hana Ross<br />
Lauren & Marc Ross<br />
Peggy & Peter Ross<br />
Anne & Joel Roth<br />
Rachel Rustin<br />
Joel Rutstein<br />
Amy & Stephen Saklad<br />
Joyce & Irving Saltzman<br />
Sally Scharff<br />
Sandi & Marc Schnall<br />
Babs Schnitzer<br />
Laura Schnitzler<br />
Charles Schwartz<br />
Leonard Schwartz<br />
Perla & Irwin Scott<br />
Clarice Seeman<br />
Sandra & Bernard Shaenfield<br />
Ida Rose & Edwin Shapiro<br />
Bonnie & Gal Shweiki<br />
Phyllis & Philip Siegel<br />
Judy Sobre<br />
Kim & Dan Solomon<br />
Mindy & Barry Spigel<br />
Mia & Chad Spigel<br />
Bobi Stern<br />
Mary Stewart<br />
Faye & Leo Swidler<br />
Rachel & Randy Tawil<br />
Julie & Craig Teplitz<br />
Alice & Richard Thorner<br />
Marilyn & James Tolleson<br />
Cristina & Bruce Topletz<br />
Doris & Jimmy Toubin<br />
Sherie & Anatole Trakhtenbroit<br />
Alice & John Troy<br />
Shirley Tuczin<br />
Iris Usnik<br />
Marcia & Mel Waldgeir<br />
Sandi & Fred Wartell<br />
Marcia & Bernard Weiner<br />
Amy Sugarman & Dan Weingart<br />
Sandra & Mel Weingart<br />
Emma & Eli Weingerz<br />
Dorothy Jo & Robert Weiss<br />
Joan Westgor<br />
Bonnie Wiedermann<br />
Marcel Wiedermann<br />
Sylvia Wilk<br />
Rose Williams<br />
Gaye & Mike Winakur<br />
Carole & Abe Wilson<br />
Anne & Morris Wise<br />
Helaine & Ken Wolf<br />
Bertye Wolfson<br />
Joanne & Don Zaike<br />
Barbie Scharf-Zeldes &<br />
Adam Zeldes<br />
Esta & Stan Zucker<br />
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The usual focus of my Holidays with Hazzan Lipton monthly<br />
column has been to share interesting and/or unique facts<br />
and practices related to holidays throughout our Jewish<br />
liturgical calendar. The challenge in some months is that<br />
there are too many holidays from which to choose, as<br />
happened in October, a month that coincided with the end<br />
of our High Holiday season, including the observance of<br />
Yom Kippur, Sukkot, Hoshanah Rabbah, Sh’mini Atzeret<br />
and Simchat Torah. But our quandary this month is the<br />
fact that there are NO Jewish holidays that coincide with<br />
the secular month of January, 2012. As Jews living in an<br />
overwhelmingly non-Jewish world, especially here in Texas,<br />
we are constantly exposed to secular holidays and practices,<br />
which we typically view through a Jewish lens. A seemingly<br />
innocuous example of this occurred this past week with the<br />
marking of the end of 2011 and the beginning of 2012—New<br />
Year’s Day is the first U.S. Legal Holiday of the year. How do<br />
we, as Jews, relate to New Year’s Day? After all, we have<br />
our own New Year’s Day. In fact, according to the Mishna<br />
we celebrate four distinct New Years each and every year:<br />
the first day of Tishrei (Rosh Hashanah) is designated as the<br />
New Year for the seasons; the fifteenth day of Shevat (Tu<br />
B’Shevat) is known as the New Year for trees; the first day of<br />
Nissan, perhaps because of the sense of renewal that comes<br />
with the arrival of spring, bears the biblical distinction as the<br />
first month of the year, and is also known as the New Year<br />
for the reign of Jewish kings; and finally, the lesser-known,<br />
first day of Elul, which is designated as the New Year for the<br />
tithing of cattle.<br />
For most of us, it is Rosh Hashanah alone, the first day of<br />
Tishrei, that has retained its common distinction as New<br />
Year’s Day for several reasons: 1) the actual counting of our<br />
years (now 5772) advances with the first of Tishrei, so it is<br />
considered the beginning of the civil and legal year in Jewish<br />
tradition; 2) a sense of spiritual renewal is expressed through<br />
our sincere teshuvah and urgent reconciliation with others<br />
expressed most powerfully within the Un’tane Tokef prayer,<br />
where our liturgical tradition suggests that our fate for the<br />
entire year is determined on Rosh Hashanah and sealed<br />
on Yom Kippur, a mere ten days later; 3) Rabbinic tradition<br />
tells us that the creation of the world occurred on the first<br />
of Tishrei; and 4) Rosh Hashanah is also known as Yom<br />
Teruah (the Day of the Sounding of the Shofar), and so it not<br />
only marks an historical, spiritual and legal anniversary, but<br />
utilizes the distinct, primal call of the ancient ram’s horn to<br />
touch our souls in a unique and emotional way.<br />
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Holidays with the Hazzan<br />
The New Year Through Jewish-Colored Glasses<br />
by Hazzan Jeremy Lipton<br />
It is curious that the secular New Year’s Day has another<br />
component to it that is extremely familiar to us as Jews—<br />
the celebration begins the night before the day on New<br />
Year’s Eve. As Jews, this is normal operating procedure,<br />
because we follow the biblical tradition expressed in the<br />
Book of Genesis, which teaches that “there was evening<br />
and there was morning” on each of the days of creation. For<br />
us, a new day begins and ends in the transition between<br />
day and night, as the sun sets and the stars appear. On<br />
Shabbat, for example, we welcome the day of rest by<br />
gathering together in the evening just before sunset, and<br />
ritually welcoming the Sabbath through proscribed rituals<br />
(for example, the lighting of the Shabbat candles, the<br />
blessing of the wine during Kiddush, and the sharing of a<br />
communal, ritualized meal). At the end of Shabbat, when<br />
we recite Havdalah, we conclude through similar communal<br />
rituals in conjunction with a blessing over wine to mark the<br />
separation of time: the lighting of a multi-wicked candle, the<br />
inhaling of the aroma of spices and the communal gathering<br />
of those we know and love as we prepare to begin anew in<br />
the coming week.<br />
On New Year’s Eve you may have witnessed a secular<br />
practice that is analogous to a regularly-practiced and<br />
familiar Jewish ritual and not even thought twice about it.<br />
The singing of the song Auld Lang Syne, a custom dating<br />
back to the early eighteenth century (predominantly, but not<br />
exclusively heard in English speaking countries) is used to<br />
mark the departure of the old year and the welcoming of the<br />
new year at the stroke of midnight. The formalized ritual<br />
associated with this song has been described by numerous<br />
writers: “It is common practice that everyone joins hands<br />
with the person next to them to form a great circle around<br />
the dance floor. At the beginning of the last verse, everyone<br />
crosses their arms across their breast, so that the right hand<br />
reaches out to the neighbor on the left and vice versa. When<br />
the tune ends, everyone rushes to the middle, while still<br />
holding hands. When the circle is re-established, everyone<br />
turns under the arms to end up facing outwards with hands<br />
still joined.” My Jewish experience instantly connects this<br />
ritualized communal gathering with the commonly practiced<br />
choreography of Havdalah. How many times have you<br />
participated in a circle of family, friends and community<br />
members as you bid a fond farewell to Shabbat? You have<br />
stood together in the flickering light of the Havdalah candle,<br />
with your arms intertwined, singing together, swaying back<br />
and forth, as you have looked forward to the possibilities
of new beginnings in the week ahead. You enthusiastically<br />
wished those around you a “Shavuah Tov” (a “Good Week”),<br />
and then looked hopefully to a satisfying future. Doesn’t<br />
this sound familiar to you? How often do we see the world<br />
through our Jewish colored glasses? Shanah Tovah…<br />
Happy New Year!!<br />
Would you like to provide an Oneg Shabbat or Kiddush K’tan (lite Kiddush) for your synagogue family?<br />
This is your opportunity to celebrate a Simcha, honor someone special, or recognize a loved one. Friday night Oneg<br />
Shabbat is $75 and Shabbat morning Kiddush K’tan is $400. Donations to the Oneg Shabbat and Kiddush Fund are<br />
always gratefully accepted.<br />
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JFS Grateful to Temple Beth-El and<br />
Golden Manor Jewish Senior Services<br />
Jewish Family Service (JFS) has maintained and expanded<br />
its Senior Case Management Services through the generous<br />
support both of the Kimmelman Charitable Fund of Temple<br />
Beth-El and Golden Manor Jewish Senior Services (GMJSS).<br />
Because of this assistance, JFS has been able to respond to<br />
the rapidly growing number of seniors who need and deserve<br />
community support. These seniors often face economic<br />
hardship, disability, or enormous stress related to mobilityimpairment,<br />
home maintenance, transportation needs,<br />
medical emergencies, isolation, and mental illness. Even the<br />
most self -sufficient seniors may suddenly need JFS services.<br />
A stroke, a fall, the loss of a spouse, or even the sudden<br />
loss of investment income can transform an autonomous<br />
senior into one who needs a hand. The dedicated JFS case<br />
managers assist seniors and their family members whenever<br />
they need care and coordinate services wherever the clients<br />
may be living. Because case managers retain a connection<br />
with the senior as they move from setting to setting, there<br />
are fewer errors in medical care, transitions are easier when<br />
clients change their places of residence, and the senior has<br />
Churchill Debaters Rank Second in the Nation<br />
Year after year, elite schools like The Greenhill School, Pace<br />
Academy, College Prep, St. Mark’s School and Bronx High<br />
School of Science dominate the national policy debate circuit in<br />
the constant pursuit of a Tournament of Champions (known as<br />
the TOC) championship, the most sought after prize in all of high<br />
school debate. The 2011-2012 school year has been no different.<br />
Three months into the debate season, the lists of top debaters<br />
are growing crowded with the usual suspects. However, even as<br />
these and other perennial national powers continue their usual<br />
winning, ways a pair of debaters from Churchill High School has<br />
started to make quite a name for themselves as they too, aim to<br />
lay claim to the end of season championship.<br />
Churchill seniors (and, by the way, also members of <strong>Congregation</strong><br />
<strong>Agudas</strong> <strong>Achim</strong>) Max Birnbaum and Adam Lipton have been<br />
debate partners since the first tournament of their freshmen year<br />
of high school. While they have experienced a lot of successes<br />
over their debate careers, nothing compares to what they have<br />
accomplished this fall. Since early September, Birnbaum and<br />
Lipton have been ranked among the top 10 debate teams in<br />
the nation and, as of November 3, were tied for second. With a<br />
third of the season already gone, they are proving themselves<br />
much more than just an afterthought when it comes to true<br />
championship contenders.<br />
High school debate is a high stakes activity involving students<br />
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a stable relationship to rely on at a time when she may be<br />
lonely and frightened. A good example was Mrs. Kogan,<br />
an 84-year old diabetic woman with a very fast-moving<br />
case of Alzheimer’s disease. She was middle class, did not<br />
qualify for poverty-based programs, but came to JFS with<br />
multiple needs. JFS worked diligently with this client and<br />
her family for 18 months through the steps of selling her<br />
home and moving to an Adult Independent Living complex<br />
and, within a year, into a Memory Care Facility. From there<br />
she went to a hospital for orthopedic surgery and then to a<br />
rehabilitation facility. JFS also partnered with her family,<br />
providing consultation, supportive counseling, information<br />
and referral. Mrs. Kogan’s situation was not unique, but the<br />
case management that JFS provided was unlike the usual<br />
patchwork of casework that is offered by each facility that<br />
serves seniors. In the past year JFS has provided direct<br />
case management services to more than 1000 seniors, their<br />
caregivers and their families. The demand for these services<br />
is increasing; JFS has enrolled 226 new clients since July<br />
1, 2011. Temple Beth-El, GMJSS and the entire Jewish<br />
community have provided the financial means for JFS to<br />
offer quality, compassionate care to a precious commodity,<br />
our seniors.<br />
and schools who spend thousands of dollars to maintain their<br />
competitiveness. A number of private schools in the country<br />
spend hundreds of thousands of dollars each year to fly their<br />
students to tournaments all over the country. The TOC, founded<br />
in 1972 and a prominent subject in the 2007 HBO documentary<br />
Resolved, is their ultimate goal.<br />
Fewer than 80 teams are invited to the TOC each year, with<br />
invitations extended only to those teams who perform the<br />
best at the most competitive of national circuit tournaments.<br />
Birnbaum and Lipton, who have faced teams from California,<br />
Alabama, Washington D.C. and a number of other locations<br />
this year, have already earned their invitation to the 2012<br />
edition of the tournament with outstanding performances at<br />
tournaments held at The Greenhill School, Grapevine High<br />
School and Houston Memorial High School.<br />
Birnbaum and Lipton will next debate on the national circuit<br />
during the weekend of January 27 when they travel to Atlanta,<br />
Georgia to compete in The Barkley Forum Tournament at Emory<br />
University, one of the most prestigious and oldest invitational<br />
debate tournaments in the nation. Two weeks later they travel<br />
to the California Invitational Tournament at U.C. Berkeley,<br />
another TOC qualifier, where they will also compete in the U.C.<br />
Berkeley Round Robin, an honor extended to only twelve teams<br />
in the entire nation!<br />
Dylan Pearcy<br />
Winston Churchill High School Director of Debate
January 1<br />
Sheryd and David Jackson<br />
Michele and Derek Perry<br />
January 2<br />
Teresa and Jack Mynier<br />
January 5<br />
Lainey and Michael Berkus<br />
January 10<br />
Rosanne and Bob Atlas<br />
Sheri and Brad Barenblat<br />
Cynthia and Bobby Jorrie<br />
January 13<br />
Phyliss and Steve Cole<br />
January 17<br />
Jessica and Jon Bernstein<br />
Mary Jo and Leonard<br />
Friedson<br />
Marinel and Mike Robbins<br />
January 18<br />
Bonnie and Gal Shweiki<br />
January 19<br />
Anne and Joel Roth<br />
January 21<br />
Suzan and Max Mendlovitz<br />
January 22<br />
Tammy and Jerome Cohen<br />
January 24<br />
Gaby and Alex Scharlack<br />
January 25<br />
Dara and Eric Holwitt<br />
Rachel Rosenberg-Peden<br />
and Ron Peden<br />
January 26<br />
Judy and Eddie Halfant<br />
Amy Sugarman and Dan<br />
Weingart<br />
January 27<br />
Lois and Arthur Solomon<br />
January 28<br />
Burlene and Bruce<br />
Baumann<br />
January 30<br />
Betsy and Jeff Cowan<br />
February 4<br />
Susie and Dan Lepow<br />
February 5<br />
Lauren and Robert Stanley<br />
February 11<br />
Louise and Michael Beldon<br />
Joanne and Paul<br />
Rosenbaum<br />
February 12<br />
Bertha and Hy Marcus<br />
February 14<br />
Kay and Allan Nussbaum<br />
Sammi and Eduardo Raez<br />
Sandy and Bernard<br />
Shaenfield<br />
February 18<br />
Sharon and Edward<br />
Rosenthal<br />
February 19<br />
Karee and Loren Jones<br />
Ora and Ryan Schwope<br />
February 22<br />
Eileen and Adam Bowman<br />
Matilde and William<br />
Gresores<br />
February 26<br />
Sara and Barry Harris<br />
Reesa and Joel Pullen<br />
Molly and Michael Sowry<br />
March 2<br />
Jackie and Moses Saba<br />
March 4<br />
Esther and Harold Vexler<br />
March 7<br />
Sheila and David Altman<br />
March 10<br />
Daphna and Daniel Haas<br />
March 11<br />
Maria and Francisco<br />
Gonzalez<br />
March 12<br />
Betty and Roger Adler<br />
Sunny and Bob Blumenthal<br />
March 13<br />
Barbie Scharf-Zeldes and<br />
Adam Zeldes<br />
March 14<br />
Carolyn and Bryan<br />
McKinley<br />
March 16<br />
Micheline and Sam Cohen<br />
Emma and Eli Weingerz<br />
March 18<br />
Evelyn and Berthold Goldman<br />
March 19<br />
Leanore and Mike Kavy<br />
Dorothy Jo and Bob Weiss<br />
March 20<br />
Rosario and Josue Martinez<br />
Linda and Evan Ratner<br />
March 22<br />
Bonnie and Garland Scott<br />
March 24<br />
Mindi Alterman and<br />
Glenn Halff<br />
Susan and Charlie Whipple<br />
March 26<br />
Shifra and Barry Birnbaum<br />
Jamie and Nick Kohn<br />
Rosario and Isidoro Korngold<br />
Marta and Harold Zuflacht<br />
March 29<br />
Cookie and Lou Belinsky<br />
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January 1<br />
Barb Bikoff<br />
Reed Hauser<br />
Esther Vexler<br />
Berniece Weiner<br />
January 2<br />
Bernard Weiner<br />
January 3<br />
Moises Farji<br />
Jacob Shweiki<br />
Benjamin Zucker<br />
January 4<br />
Aaron Goldstein<br />
Carolyn McKinley<br />
January 5<br />
Mark Reitblatt<br />
Max Reitblatt<br />
January 6<br />
Sheryd Jackson<br />
Randy Tawil<br />
January 8<br />
Daniel Barshop<br />
Shari Pulman<br />
January 9<br />
Sheri Barenblat<br />
Beverly Birnbaum<br />
Helen Pollack<br />
January 10<br />
Bryan Mendlovitz<br />
Sarah Topletz<br />
Morris Wise<br />
January 11<br />
Mark Berger<br />
Rose Rosin<br />
January 12<br />
Pavlova Gonzalez<br />
Stacy Greenberg<br />
Melissa Gunn<br />
January 13<br />
Helene Barenberg-Gunn<br />
Bob Blumenthal<br />
Shane Epstein<br />
Joan Fries<br />
Felix Frydberg<br />
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Nick Kohn<br />
Marguerite Lerer<br />
Caleb Martinez<br />
Leigh Ohlstein<br />
Edward Rosenthal<br />
Garland Scott<br />
Alice Troy<br />
January 14<br />
Linda Aboloff<br />
Lauren Barshop<br />
Rabbi Leonardo Bitran<br />
Elliot Foote<br />
Abigail Pullen<br />
Sam Schwartz<br />
January 15<br />
Diane Fisher<br />
Georgiana Gross<br />
Elizabeth Mandlovitz<br />
January 16<br />
Zachary Ozer<br />
Jason Siegel<br />
January 17<br />
Stephanie Stern<br />
January 18<br />
Angela Behn<br />
Ariella Chauca<br />
Reesa Pullen<br />
Morris Toback<br />
January 19<br />
Maurice Federbusch<br />
Elaina Komerofsky<br />
Gabriel Komerofsky<br />
Sarita Saltzman<br />
Philip Siegel<br />
January 20<br />
Evelyn Crisp<br />
Rachel Kutler<br />
Goldie Panzer<br />
Emma Reep<br />
Esta Zucker<br />
January 21<br />
Gloria Cohn<br />
Mack Goldberg<br />
Brandon Gossen<br />
Elizabeth Shaenfield<br />
Bennett Stahl<br />
John Troy<br />
January 23<br />
Jane Bankler<br />
Madison Cohen<br />
Jocelyn Epstein<br />
January 24<br />
Ari Friedman<br />
Michael Goldberg<br />
Sheri Pullen<br />
January 25<br />
David Feigenbaum<br />
Miriam Harris<br />
Susanne Jalnos<br />
Tammy Mata<br />
David Reitblatt<br />
Garry Stillman<br />
Emma Weingerz<br />
January 26<br />
Zee Fisher<br />
Syd Harris<br />
Brandon Jalnos<br />
Nailya Maryanchik<br />
January 27<br />
Howard Garb<br />
Madeline Tawil<br />
January 28<br />
Frances Anderson<br />
Jane Mincho<br />
January 29<br />
Sonja Goldberg<br />
Gary Gossen<br />
Sam Gresores<br />
Heather Kerr<br />
Devan Lauterstein<br />
Mike Met<br />
Mel Waldgeir<br />
January 30<br />
Benjamin Mann<br />
Perla Scott<br />
January 31<br />
Rick Fein<br />
Marc Magram<br />
Yoshua Weingerz<br />
February 1<br />
Harry Abelow<br />
Shirley Kboudi<br />
Helen Kerman<br />
February 2<br />
Allison Alterman Halff<br />
Ron Isgur<br />
Sarah Lunenfeld<br />
Kat Solomon-Medeiros<br />
February 4<br />
Cynthia Jorrie<br />
Molly Rosenblatt<br />
Linda Wilk<br />
February 5<br />
Karen Hoffman<br />
Stanley Waghalter<br />
Kathy Weaver<br />
February 6<br />
Rochelle Adelstein<br />
Elliot Sacks<br />
February 7<br />
Eli Friedman<br />
Rachel Kaufman<br />
Sharon Kaufman<br />
Don Zaike<br />
February 8<br />
Sandra Kline<br />
February 9<br />
Rosanne Atlas<br />
Klimenty Grinshpan<br />
John Jonasz<br />
Rueben Litofsky<br />
Laura Schnitzler<br />
February 10<br />
Abigail Diamond<br />
Linda Ratner<br />
Suzanne Wyker<br />
February 11<br />
Rachel Bernstein<br />
February 12<br />
Alison Meyer<br />
February 13<br />
Gloria Cohen<br />
Berthold Goldman<br />
Michael Linn<br />
Sofia Nestel
February 14<br />
Isidoro Korngold<br />
Stephanie Kutler<br />
Margaret Pena<br />
February 15<br />
David Fox<br />
Leanna Garb<br />
Adam Jonasz<br />
Michele Perry<br />
Barbara Powell<br />
February 16<br />
Nikki Boyar<br />
Rhonda Michel<br />
Joshua Troy<br />
February 17<br />
Shelley Baillargeon<br />
Steven Bankler<br />
Mitzi Efron<br />
Stephanie Goldberg<br />
Cal Lemmon<br />
Elise Rosen<br />
Blanche Rubin<br />
Stanley Zucker<br />
February 18<br />
Baylor Kerr<br />
Bruce Stern<br />
Doris Toubin<br />
February 19<br />
Marissa Barnhardt<br />
Elizabeth Glazier<br />
Joyce Leighton<br />
Daniel Mitzelman<br />
February 20<br />
Stuart Bernstein<br />
Marty Halfant<br />
Tom Hoffman<br />
Madeline Miller<br />
Marilyn Sintes<br />
Arthur Solomon<br />
February 21<br />
Mark Penner<br />
Rachel Usnik<br />
Daniela Weingerz<br />
February 22<br />
Chery Greenberg<br />
Bonnie Wiedermann<br />
February 23<br />
Leonard Friedson<br />
Angela Kagan<br />
Sarah Pearsall<br />
February 24<br />
Burton Arnow<br />
Rachel Friedman<br />
Samuel Grossman<br />
Barry Harris<br />
February 25<br />
Marilyn Cweren<br />
Pat Linn<br />
Joe Sasson<br />
February 26<br />
Nathan Kaufman<br />
Mitchell Pullen<br />
Mike Robbins<br />
Kathy Sasson<br />
Debby Zucker<br />
February 27<br />
Sonya Blumenthal<br />
Matthew Peck<br />
February 28<br />
Myrna Alwais<br />
Greg Meyer<br />
March 1<br />
Mindi Alterman<br />
Benjamin de Leon<br />
Jordan Goldberg<br />
Joe Olney<br />
March 2<br />
Joshua Behn<br />
Selig Frank<br />
Edward Kuperman<br />
Esther Mata<br />
Jake Ribak<br />
Jenn Rosenblatt<br />
Giselle Saba<br />
March 3<br />
Hayden Eichelbaum<br />
Mikayla Landes<br />
Daniel Solomon<br />
March 4<br />
Barry Spigel<br />
Mindy Spigel<br />
March 5<br />
Ian Heritch<br />
Mary Stewart<br />
March 6<br />
Jennifer Miller<br />
Hervey Rudd<br />
Amanda Sintes-Yallen<br />
Leo Swidler<br />
March 7<br />
Pat Kalmans<br />
Lois Solomon<br />
March 8<br />
Zoe Barocas<br />
Betsy Cowen<br />
Ilan Haas<br />
March 9<br />
Spencer Bowman<br />
Hannah Eichelbaum<br />
Alexander Koplin<br />
March 10<br />
Josh Foster<br />
Leonard Schwartz<br />
Mallory Spigel<br />
March 11<br />
Jules Bouhadana<br />
March 12<br />
Paul Rosenbaum<br />
March 13<br />
Sam Cohen<br />
Gerry Mata<br />
Ruth Posner<br />
March 14<br />
Sam Ross<br />
Jason Serchay<br />
Morgan Stanley<br />
March 15<br />
Jacob Gresores<br />
Milford Jacobs<br />
Marci Peck<br />
Rudi Schweitzer<br />
March 16<br />
Lynn Gresores<br />
Jean Karren<br />
Josh Saltzman<br />
Jean Schlesinger<br />
March 17<br />
Jonathan Blucher<br />
Beverly Geller<br />
Ethan Haas<br />
Sheryl Jalnos<br />
Jacob Lauterstein<br />
Lauren Met<br />
March 18<br />
Phil Simon<br />
March 19<br />
Ian Smith<br />
Gavin Valdez<br />
March 20<br />
Daniel Haas<br />
Robert Marcovich<br />
Josue Martinez<br />
March 21<br />
Robin Laycock<br />
Lily Marcovich<br />
March 22<br />
Isaac Cohen<br />
March 23<br />
Louis Belinsky<br />
Tyler Piesman<br />
Amy Saklad<br />
March 24<br />
Natalie Barath<br />
Miriam Bernstein<br />
Carly Diamond<br />
Sandy Frydberg<br />
Jordan Lauterstein<br />
Beck Roosth<br />
Libby Wiedermann<br />
March 25<br />
Lori Solomon<br />
Aidan Sowry<br />
Zach Stern<br />
March 26<br />
Phyllis Brooks<br />
Clara Reich<br />
Ana Weingerz<br />
March 27<br />
John Mitchell<br />
Hailey Pulman<br />
March 28<br />
Flora Garb<br />
Sara Garcia<br />
Charles Weiner<br />
Michael Weiner<br />
March 29<br />
Tammy Cohen<br />
Joseph Friedberg<br />
Ray Kanter<br />
Harold Karren<br />
March 30<br />
Maxine Cohen<br />
Kayla Krantman<br />
Loree Miller<br />
Emma Schafer<br />
Gaye Winakur<br />
March 31<br />
Jonathan Thompson<br />
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January 1<br />
Nettie Lipner Berman<br />
Morris Ginsburg<br />
Eleanor Kolitz<br />
January 2<br />
Rose Cohn<br />
Mark Kolitz<br />
Morris Pines<br />
Minnie Segall<br />
January 3<br />
Evelyn Kanter<br />
Ralph Robbins<br />
January 4<br />
Tillye Hahn Adler<br />
Jesse Holwitt<br />
Morton Lasky<br />
Sam Seidenberg<br />
January 5<br />
Sarah Levi Behar<br />
Theresa Silver<br />
January 6<br />
Frances Krantman<br />
Dennis Marion<br />
Irving Abraham Rutstein<br />
January 7<br />
Jacob Kazdoy<br />
Morton Leof<br />
Julius Wartell<br />
January 8<br />
Arnold Alper<br />
Samuel Buchalter<br />
George Dubrow<br />
Harry Greenberg<br />
Otto Haar<br />
Harry Kalmans<br />
January 9<br />
Morris Beldon<br />
Israel Dodic<br />
Sylvan Gurinsky<br />
Rachel Wilk<br />
January 10<br />
Paul Atlas<br />
Bernice Dym<br />
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Gladys Greenberg<br />
Sam Skolnick<br />
Netty Weschler<br />
January 11<br />
Mary Glazier<br />
Charles Gossen<br />
Victor Krull<br />
Morris Wiedermann<br />
January 12<br />
Ida Arnow<br />
Larry Feigenbaum<br />
Saul Friedman<br />
Sylvia Lippman Kahn<br />
David Katims<br />
Mark Levine<br />
Leah Schuman<br />
January 13<br />
Gay Golmon<br />
Rae Lionell<br />
January 14<br />
Simon Weschler<br />
Melvin Oakes<br />
George Stern<br />
January 15<br />
Isadore Miller<br />
Judith Jamigson Saklad<br />
Goldie Shapiro<br />
Reva Tobias<br />
Camilo Villanueva<br />
Mary Wiedermann<br />
January 16<br />
Rose Isgur<br />
Tillie Rubin Korn<br />
Lupe Mata<br />
Fannie Nadler<br />
Nehama Sachnowitz<br />
Yadya Shulman<br />
Jacob Weizman<br />
January 17<br />
Edna Alper<br />
Roger Sacks<br />
Vivian Shaenfield<br />
January 18<br />
Emanuel Harkavy<br />
Bernice Jacobs<br />
Rose Leah Jacobs<br />
January 19<br />
Elizabeth Abner Bikoff<br />
Bella S. Jacobson<br />
January 20<br />
Rose Esstman<br />
January 21<br />
Nathan Cytrin<br />
Isidor Fonarow<br />
Morris Halpin<br />
Jacob Harris<br />
Myron Hauser<br />
Charles Schaffer<br />
January 22<br />
Vera Fein<br />
Bernice White<br />
January 23<br />
Jack Domnitz<br />
Elsa Lampert<br />
Bertha Lusky<br />
Hortense Marcus<br />
Anton Sachnowitz<br />
Simon Wiedermann<br />
January 24<br />
Joseph Baseman<br />
January 25<br />
Erna Epstein<br />
Ruth Levinson<br />
Ann Lunenfeld<br />
Ernest Simon<br />
January 26<br />
Janice Garlitz<br />
Selma Banks Golden<br />
Roberta Greenberg<br />
Mary Ghetzler Harris<br />
Beatrice Gans Kline<br />
Ethel Polunsky<br />
Chaim Shapiro<br />
January 27<br />
Louis Caner<br />
Irwin Michael Danziger<br />
Isadore Herschman<br />
Arthur Kaiser<br />
Sheldon H. Vexler<br />
January 28<br />
Max Bier<br />
Bessie Buchalter<br />
Lillian Shapiro<br />
January 29<br />
Beatrice Aaron<br />
Freda Dzialoszynski<br />
Gustav Kahn<br />
Israel Maze<br />
January 30<br />
Pearl Abraham<br />
Israel Davis<br />
Oscar Hoenig<br />
Will Israel Rauch<br />
Joseph Slapper<br />
January 31<br />
Doris “Dottie” Fry<br />
Jacob Halfant<br />
Sheila Hans<br />
February 1<br />
Abe L. Argo<br />
Aaron Block<br />
Abraham Blucher<br />
Minnie Davis<br />
February 2<br />
William Emmanuel<br />
Alterman<br />
Nathan Aaron Lerer<br />
Jake Zaike<br />
February 3<br />
Sam Friedman<br />
Fannie Golden<br />
Clara Schwartz Goldman<br />
Samuel Grossman<br />
Lillie Hessel<br />
Helen Frances Katzman<br />
Leonard Lehrman<br />
Morris Rogal<br />
February 4<br />
Howard Anderson<br />
Rebecca Barath<br />
Martin Epstein
Dorothy Greenberg<br />
Anna Silberman<br />
February 5<br />
Isadore Braunstein<br />
Harry Ginsburg<br />
Sally Cohen Lasky<br />
Ben Lyons<br />
Herman Nitishin<br />
February 6<br />
Maxwell John Bikoff<br />
Aaron Klemnes<br />
Fred Reisberg<br />
February 7<br />
Renee Halpern<br />
Mary Leavitt<br />
Reuben Lubel<br />
Barney Polunsky<br />
Golda Shteynberg<br />
February 8<br />
Lisa Friedman<br />
Abraham Kadish<br />
Jane Lauterstein<br />
Samuel Simcha Lerer<br />
Leon Sachnowitz<br />
Leo Stelzer<br />
February 9<br />
Nathan Alterman<br />
Simon Haar<br />
Rebecca Kelne<br />
February 10<br />
Bart Arden Goldberg<br />
Channah Goldberg<br />
Charles Goldberg<br />
Charles Buddy Kulick<br />
February 11<br />
Hugo Scharlack<br />
February 12<br />
Lea Weingart<br />
February 13<br />
Meyer Cohen<br />
Bella Karotkin<br />
A.J. “Bob” Kboudi<br />
Benicio Marquez<br />
Rose Riesenberg<br />
Elizabeth Winakur<br />
February 14<br />
Lawrence Abramowitz<br />
Adolph Carl Spitzer<br />
Julius Wolfson<br />
February 15<br />
Rose Frank<br />
Hilda Heritch<br />
David Aaron Lown<br />
Sarah Topp<br />
Robert Schumaker<br />
February 16<br />
Ellen Efron<br />
Harry Kamen<br />
Josephine Levine<br />
Benjamin Rubin<br />
February 17<br />
Simon Arch<br />
Eli Belinsky<br />
Mary Forbes<br />
February 18<br />
Frieda Rosenberg Goldberg<br />
Alex Halff<br />
Bessie Halpin<br />
Max Kopelowitz<br />
Rebecca Levis<br />
February 19<br />
William Segaloff<br />
Morris Shapiro<br />
February 20<br />
Andar Jonasz<br />
Ronnie Linn<br />
Serene Schmidt<br />
February 21<br />
Stella Eskenazi<br />
Arthur Stiles<br />
David Weiner<br />
Bernard Wolf<br />
Marjorie Wormser<br />
February 22<br />
Clara Blucher<br />
Toby Nadler Gossen<br />
Keefe Greenberg<br />
Lillian Nitishin<br />
Milton Ozer<br />
Barney Sadovsky<br />
February 23<br />
Milton Eichelbaum<br />
Arthur Aaron Neuman<br />
Samuel Wernick<br />
Leonard Winakur<br />
February 24<br />
Ann Birnbaum<br />
Irwin Hill<br />
Max Simon<br />
February 25<br />
Eva Eisenstot<br />
Abe Gans<br />
Norman Seeman<br />
Morton Spigel<br />
February 26<br />
Marilyn Atlas<br />
Melvin Bloom<br />
Nat Freedman<br />
Ben Friedman<br />
Carol Horwitz<br />
Jennie Tudzin<br />
February 27<br />
Belle Maley<br />
Fannye Smith<br />
Gert Zeplain<br />
February 28<br />
Cissie Arch<br />
Anna Bernstein<br />
Freda Fleschman<br />
Mildred Hirsch<br />
Anna Ozer<br />
Judith Rachel Stillman<br />
February 29<br />
Harry Eisenstein<br />
Frances E. Klein<br />
Andrew Medeiros<br />
March 1<br />
Esther Freedman<br />
Linda Eisenberg Pullen<br />
Rebecca Rosenthal<br />
George Wiedermann<br />
March 2<br />
Lanny Cooper<br />
Stanley Joseph<br />
Jennie Kazdoy<br />
Evalin Novak<br />
Lillian Roth<br />
Joe Solomon<br />
March 3<br />
Monroe Albert<br />
Mollie Brisgel<br />
Jack David Jacobs<br />
March 4<br />
Moriz Adler<br />
Meyer Gilgus<br />
Jeannette Karren<br />
Bernard G. Leverant<br />
Shirley Schwartz<br />
March 5<br />
Howard Baskin<br />
William Dunn<br />
Bertha Franklin<br />
Alan “Teddy” Hirshfield<br />
Morris Isaac<br />
Max E. Katz<br />
David Leverant<br />
Solomon Malis<br />
Wolford Sadovsky<br />
J. Jay Saklad<br />
Sara Sasson<br />
Rose Steinbrecher<br />
Ida Tabackman<br />
March 6<br />
Samuel Aaron<br />
David Dym<br />
Eva Jarrell<br />
Rose Lubel<br />
Frances Rubinstein<br />
Beatrice Rivka Stillman<br />
March 7<br />
Simon Dinitz<br />
Marvin Kessler<br />
Jack Lunenfeld<br />
Rosa Rochman<br />
Sylvia Siegel<br />
Anne Spero<br />
March 8<br />
Edward Basara<br />
Yolanda Edelman<br />
Minnie Glick<br />
Ida Gossen<br />
Henry Louis Smith<br />
Julius Topp<br />
March 9<br />
Victor Morris Ades<br />
Helen Block<br />
Lester “Buzzy” Freedman<br />
Aaron Lipton<br />
Lyubov Kotlyar<br />
Charles Patrick<br />
Dorris Faye Sonkin<br />
Ruth F. Spector<br />
Ruth Waldgeir<br />
Josephine Waldgeir-Levy<br />
March 10<br />
Anne Baskin<br />
Ben F. Friedman<br />
Fred Kreiskoff<br />
Isaac Ledor<br />
Ben Pinsky<br />
Minnie Pulman<br />
Machla Minia Snyder<br />
March 11<br />
Samuel Aboloff<br />
Benjamin Barath<br />
Helena Drezner<br />
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Morris Isgur<br />
Bessie Bier Kimel<br />
Norma Kutler<br />
Rose Pinsky<br />
Jane Rodebaugh<br />
Estelle Shaenfield<br />
March 12<br />
Hesse Glick<br />
Morris Steinman<br />
March 13<br />
Ann Beldon<br />
Eugene Bloch<br />
Aaron Hessel<br />
March 14<br />
Annette “Ruth” Davis<br />
Miriam Kalmans<br />
Jacob Mackler<br />
Luis Rochman<br />
March 15<br />
Weldon Jacobs<br />
Albert Shaenfield<br />
Paul Simon<br />
Abraham Steinbrecher<br />
March 16<br />
Mary Beilin<br />
Hannah Ruth Frank<br />
Clarice Golden<br />
Max Kelfer<br />
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Joshua Panzer<br />
Aaron Rubin<br />
Bernie Smith<br />
Anna Topp<br />
March 17<br />
Carol Feldman<br />
Mary Scharlack<br />
Sidney Rosen<br />
March 18<br />
Ruth Leopold Barnett<br />
Sarah Cohen<br />
Charlotte Friedberg<br />
Lisa Kaletzel<br />
Ruth Klein<br />
Frieda Spillman Litofsky<br />
Anna Shapiro<br />
March 19<br />
Philip Dubrin<br />
Morris Marcus<br />
March 20<br />
Fannie Glazer Argo<br />
Fred J. Fluckers<br />
Hannah Kramer<br />
Bill Miller<br />
Jack Siegel<br />
Helen Stern<br />
March 21<br />
Esther Mazur Mazer<br />
Jenny Lea Schwartz<br />
March 22<br />
Julian Amols<br />
Sam Goldberg<br />
Malvin Gould<br />
Minnie Gross<br />
Lyda Lande<br />
Claude Morin<br />
Charles Panzer<br />
Myrtle Schwartz<br />
Celia Stom<br />
Julius Solomon<br />
March 23<br />
Joseph Rubin Beeber<br />
Harry Beilin<br />
Annie Birnbaum<br />
Pearl Loraine Litofsky<br />
Luis Mostkoff<br />
Joseph Panzer<br />
March 24<br />
Charles Cweren<br />
Charlotte “Shirley” Dal<br />
Jerome Kerman<br />
Maurice Bernard Polunsky<br />
March 25<br />
Flora Fleischmann<br />
Oscar Kelfer<br />
Sidney Kline<br />
Isidore Lasky<br />
Larry Mazer<br />
March 26<br />
Sarah Heintz<br />
Lisa Schwartz<br />
March 27<br />
Ida Albert<br />
Jerry Kanter<br />
Freda Kavy<br />
Nancy Rosenfeld<br />
March 28<br />
Yetta S. Beeber<br />
Margaret Jonasz<br />
Morris Weiner<br />
March 29<br />
Mildred H. Dinitz<br />
Bernard Dubrin<br />
Gertrude Jacobs<br />
Irving Kay Kadish<br />
Jacob Present<br />
Sophie Jacobson Segall<br />
March 30<br />
Harvey Goldring<br />
Milcah Riedel<br />
March 31<br />
Minnie Sarah Feldman<br />
Shmil Shteynberg<br />
Alphonse M. Wormser<br />
FYI - Donations made to the synagogue will be acknowledged as follows:<br />
$10.00<br />
Donation listed in bulletin and acknowledgement mailed<br />
to the recipient only.<br />
$18.00<br />
Donation listed in bulletin and acknowledgement mailed<br />
to the recipient and donor.<br />
ONE honoree’s name per donation<br />
Torah Fund Donation Information<br />
Donations received after the publication deadline will be<br />
published in the following Kolenu<br />
Sisterhood Torah Fund donations can be made by sending checks to Helen Isgur, 2900 Hunters Horn, San Antonio,<br />
Texas 78230. By Phone: Please contact Jean Eisenstot at 210-614-4617. Please call Sunday through Friday before<br />
8:00 p.m. Your donation, sent either way, is always appreciated. Todah Rabbah for your continued support.
Sharon and Harry Abelow<br />
Barbara and Burt Arnow<br />
Sunny and Bob Blumenthal<br />
Mitzi and Jack Efron<br />
Carolyn and Howard Glick<br />
Hilary and Neal Kavy<br />
Anita and David Kboudi<br />
Esther Alterman<br />
Charles Atkin<br />
Solis Berman<br />
Ethel and Max Borowsky<br />
Sam Briskman<br />
Joseph Chasan<br />
Norman Fink<br />
Irving and Elaine Lachman Frank<br />
Cynthia and Sam Glasser<br />
Dr. Eugene Gold<br />
Phyllis Gordon<br />
Phil Heintz<br />
would like to thank the following for their donations for the pulpit flowers and/or the food basket.<br />
Elaine and Ed Lauterstein<br />
Barbara Loeffel<br />
Debra and Gary Loeffel<br />
Joyce and Carrol Meyer<br />
Helen Pollack<br />
Merle Polunsky<br />
Rivka Schechter<br />
Rose Jacobson<br />
Rosa Lee Katz<br />
Eva Kavy<br />
Elsa Lampert<br />
Rivka and Isaac Ledor<br />
Itta Lenowitz<br />
Stizzi and Israel Lewin<br />
Gertrude Mendel<br />
Sam Polunsky<br />
Nat Posner<br />
Thelma Preissman<br />
Minnie Pulman<br />
Lynn Schnitzer<br />
Leonard Schwartz<br />
Cristina and Bruce Topletz<br />
Deanie and Arnold Vogel<br />
Marcia and Bernard Weiner<br />
Sandy and Mel Weingart<br />
Joanne and Don Zaike<br />
When observing a Yahrzeit, Simcha, or special occasion, please consider a donation to Sisterhood for Bimah baskets or<br />
flowers. For more information, call Helen Kerman at 210-492-3802.<br />
Speedy Recovery to<br />
Harry Abelow by Barbara and<br />
Ronnie Argo<br />
Phyllis Bonfield by Sandy and<br />
Fred Kline<br />
Hinda Greenberg by Joanne<br />
and Don Zaike<br />
Sophie Handler by Bernice<br />
Mazer<br />
Mickey Harris by Natalie and<br />
Irwin Barath<br />
Louise Michelson by Gaby and<br />
Alex Scharlack<br />
Marvin Miller by Charlene<br />
Petlin<br />
Lillian Sadovsky by Helen Isgur<br />
Rivka Schechter by Helen Isgur<br />
Linda Wolfe by Bernice Mazer<br />
In Honor of<br />
Babrara and Ronnie Argo, on<br />
their anniversary, by Sandy and<br />
Mel Weingart<br />
Jack Efron, on his birthday, by<br />
Helen Isgur<br />
Mitzi and Jack Efron, on their<br />
anniversary, by Helen Isgur,<br />
Joanne and Don Zaike<br />
Morris Eskenazi, on his<br />
birthday, by Joanne and Don<br />
Zaike<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Sam Proler by<br />
Sylvia Wilk<br />
Marinel Robbins, on her<br />
birthday, by Marguerite Lerer<br />
Michael Robbins, being<br />
honored by Jewish Family<br />
Service, by Sandy and Fred Kline<br />
Babs Schnitzer, on her birthday,<br />
by Suzan and Mex Mendlovitz,<br />
Joanne and Don Zaike<br />
Marvin Stein, on his 80th<br />
birthday, by Sylvia Wilk<br />
Nan Udell, on her new home, by<br />
Marguerite Lerer<br />
Joanne Zaike, on her birthday,<br />
by Suzan and Max Mendlovitz<br />
Joanne and Don Zaike, on<br />
their anniversary, by Helen Isgur<br />
In Loving Memory of<br />
A.W. Eisenstot, beloved brother,<br />
Odessa Ring<br />
Max Rosenman<br />
Shirley Rosofsky<br />
Leon Sachnowitz<br />
Berdie Scharlack Schwartz<br />
Leah Shapiro<br />
Esther and Israel Silber<br />
Greta Stat<br />
Joseph Steinfeld<br />
William Udinski<br />
Ruth Wilk<br />
by Jean and Arnold Eisenstot<br />
Minnie Ginsburg, beloved<br />
grandmother, by Jean and Arnold<br />
Eisenstot<br />
Steven Gossen by Barbara and<br />
Ronnie Argo, Jean and Arnold<br />
Eisenstot, Meredith and Cary<br />
Fox, Tevia and Joel Friedman,<br />
Judy and Eddie Halfant, Ann<br />
and David Kanter, Marilyn<br />
and Jerry Karren, Leah Maze,<br />
Bernice Mazer, Suzan and Max<br />
Mendlovitz, Charlene Petlin,<br />
Gaby and Alex Scharlack, Fannie<br />
Rae Shapiro, Joanne and Don<br />
Zaike, Esta and Stan Zucker<br />
Roslyn Horowitz by Bernice<br />
Mazer<br />
Henrietta Meltzer by Meredith<br />
and Cary Fox<br />
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Rabbi’s<br />
Discretionary Fund<br />
Thank You for<br />
A Generous Donation by,<br />
Luise and Morris Bankler,<br />
The Intercontinental<br />
Companies<br />
In Appreciation of<br />
Rabbi Bitran, thank<br />
you for your help and<br />
generosity, by the Sheldon<br />
Family<br />
In Honor of<br />
The Blessings for my<br />
80th birthday by David<br />
Present<br />
In Loving Memory of<br />
Melvin Frank, beloved<br />
brother, on his yahrzeit, by<br />
Leanore and Mike Kavy<br />
Sol Frank, on his yahrzeit,<br />
by Leanore and Mike Kavy<br />
Beatrice Glick, beloved<br />
mother, grandmother, and<br />
great-grandmother, on her<br />
yahrzeit, by Carolyn and<br />
Howard Glick and Family<br />
Steven Gossen by<br />
Carolyn Mazer Devin,<br />
Carolyn and Howard Glick<br />
and Family, Leanore and<br />
Mike Kavy, Mr. and Mrs.<br />
Gerd Miller<br />
Marsha Henry by<br />
Danielle and David Weiner<br />
and Family<br />
Steve Henry by Denielle<br />
and David Weiner and<br />
Family<br />
Celia Kalish, beloved<br />
sister, on her yahrzeit, by<br />
Leanore and Mike Kavy<br />
Patricia Rayl, beloved<br />
mother, on her yahrzeit,<br />
by Babara and Michael<br />
Friedberg<br />
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Cantor’s<br />
Discretionary Fund<br />
Thank You for<br />
A Generous Donation by<br />
Luise and Morris Bankler<br />
In Appreciation of<br />
Hazzan Lipton, for all his<br />
work with me, by David<br />
Present<br />
In Honor of<br />
My 80th birthday by<br />
David Present<br />
In Loving Memory of<br />
Steven Gossen by<br />
Rachelle and Sterling<br />
Neuman<br />
Alexander Youth<br />
Fund<br />
In Honor of<br />
Alexandra Elovic, Happy<br />
Hanukkah, by Joanie and<br />
Steve Pechenik<br />
Ariella Elovic, Happy<br />
Hanukkah, by Joanie and<br />
Steve Pechenik<br />
Elisha Elovic, Happy<br />
Hanukkah, by Joanie and<br />
Steve Pechenik<br />
Jordan Loev, Happy<br />
Hanukkah, by Joanie and<br />
Steve Pechenik<br />
Marisa Loev, Happy<br />
Hanukkah, by Joanie and<br />
Steve Pechenik<br />
Jonah Pechenik, Happy<br />
Hanukkah, by Joanie and<br />
Steve Pechenik<br />
In Loving Memory of<br />
Arnold Alper, beloved<br />
father, by Pam and Sid<br />
Gold<br />
Enda Alper, beloved<br />
mother, by Pam and Sid<br />
Gold<br />
Milton Gold, beloved<br />
father, by Pam and Sid<br />
Gold<br />
Alwais School Fund<br />
Elaine and Irving<br />
Frank Educational<br />
Enrichment Fund<br />
Bertie and Selig<br />
Frank Heritage and<br />
Endowment Fund<br />
To send students and<br />
teachers to Israel to learn<br />
about their heritage.<br />
In Loving Memory of<br />
Melvin Frank, on his<br />
yahrzeit, by Bertie and<br />
Selig Frank<br />
Sol Frank, on his yahrzeit,<br />
by Bertie and Selig Frank<br />
Celia Kalish, on her<br />
yahrzeit, by Bertie and<br />
Selig Frank<br />
General Fund<br />
Thank You for<br />
A Generous Donation by,<br />
Luise and Morris Bankler,<br />
Karen Young<br />
In Appreciation of<br />
Brad Barenblat, thank<br />
you for repairing the Torah,<br />
by Silvana and Rabbi<br />
Leonardo Bitran and Family<br />
Our Family’s Aliyot, by<br />
Marge and David Present<br />
In Honor of<br />
Sharon Charlip, on her<br />
upcoming presidency, by<br />
Luise and Morris Bankler<br />
Mitzi and Jack Efron,<br />
Mazel Tov on your<br />
very special wedding<br />
anniversary, by Charlotte<br />
Sue and Richard Alterman<br />
Adam Kelne, on his<br />
wonderful find, by Silvana<br />
and Rabbi Leonardo Bitran<br />
and Family<br />
Amy Sugarman and Dan<br />
Weingart by Mr. and Mrs.<br />
A. Baker Duncan<br />
Sandy and Mel Weingart<br />
by Mr. and Mrs. A. Baker<br />
Duncan<br />
Maureen and Andrew<br />
Weissman, Mazel Tov<br />
on the birth of Moshe,<br />
by Silvana and Rabbi<br />
Leonardo Bitran and Family<br />
Stevie Weissman,<br />
Mazel Tov on the birth<br />
of grandson, Moshe,<br />
by Silvana and Rabbi<br />
Leonardo Bitran and Family<br />
In Loving Memory of<br />
Philip Barshop by Jim<br />
Barshop<br />
Melvin Frank, on his<br />
yahrzeit, by Dorothy Frank<br />
Sol Frank, on his yahrzeit,<br />
by Dorothy Frank<br />
Steven Gossen by<br />
Silvana and Rabbi<br />
Leonardo Bitran and<br />
Family, Dorothy Frank,<br />
Esther and Gerry Mata,<br />
Martha McKay and Family,<br />
Sandi and Marc Schnall,<br />
Sheila Weiner<br />
Helen Jacobs, on her<br />
yahrzeit, by Emi and<br />
Marvin Jacobs<br />
Eva Olian by Jean and<br />
Ron Schlesinger<br />
Israel Shulman, beloved<br />
father, on his yahrzeit, by<br />
Yadviga Shulman<br />
Gladys and Minnie<br />
Greenberg Kitchen<br />
Fund to Replenish<br />
the Ross Family<br />
Kitchen<br />
In Loving Memory of<br />
Steven Gossen by Joan<br />
and Stuart Bernstein<br />
Henrietta Meltzer by<br />
Joan and Stuart Bernstein<br />
Heintz Preschool<br />
Fund<br />
In Loving Memory of<br />
Steven Gossen by Karen<br />
Heintz, Babs Schnitzer<br />
Irene Heintz, beloved<br />
mother, by Alicia Heintz<br />
Phil Heintz, beloved<br />
father, by Alicia Heintz<br />
Phil Heintz, beloved<br />
husband, on his yahrzeit,<br />
by Karen Heintz<br />
Ben Lionell, beloved<br />
father, on his yahrzeit, by<br />
Karen Heintz<br />
Ruth Rutstein<br />
Posner and Nathan<br />
Posner Religious<br />
School Fund<br />
Jack and Kitty<br />
Kadish Minyan<br />
Breakfast Fund<br />
In Loving Memory of<br />
Betty Maize, beloved<br />
mother, on her yahrzeit, by<br />
Marcia and David Segal
Bernard and Sylvia<br />
Kanter Fund<br />
In Loving Memory of<br />
Steven Gossen by Nancy<br />
and Jay Kanter<br />
Bob Kboudi<br />
Children’s Book Fund<br />
In Loving Memory of<br />
Steven Gossen by Leigh<br />
and Andy Wilk<br />
I’Dor Va-Dor<br />
Endowment Fund<br />
Anna and Samuel<br />
Meadows<br />
Scholarship Fund<br />
Memorial Gardens<br />
Fund<br />
In Loving Memory of<br />
Steven Gossen by Linda<br />
and Marvin Aboloff,<br />
Clarice Seeman and Family<br />
Mina Kelfer, beloved<br />
mother, on her yahrzeit, by<br />
Marsha and Van Adams<br />
Holly Meyer by Joyce<br />
and Carrol Meyer<br />
Sam Polunsky by Merle<br />
Polunsky, Molly and<br />
Michael Sowry<br />
Ruth Skolnick by Joyce<br />
and Carrol Meyer<br />
Rose Statman by Joyce<br />
and Carrol Meyer<br />
Minyan Fund<br />
In Honor of<br />
Mitzi and Jack Efron,<br />
Mazel Tov on a milestone<br />
anniversary, by Suzan and<br />
Max Mendlovitz<br />
Joel Roth, thanks for all<br />
your help, by Judy Halfant<br />
In Loving Memory of<br />
Steven Gossen by Gloria<br />
and Jerry Cohn and Family,<br />
Helen, Carole and Nathan<br />
Kerman, Marilyn and Cal<br />
Lemmon, Sheldon Levine,<br />
Marion and Sid Shaenfield<br />
Gertrude Myers<br />
Family Endowment<br />
Fund<br />
Oneg and Kiddush<br />
Fund<br />
In Honor of<br />
Harold Karren, for his<br />
great help in planting the<br />
new memorial tree, by<br />
Nina Marcovich<br />
In Loving Memory of<br />
Steven Gossen by Esther<br />
Jacobs, Jean and Harold<br />
Karren<br />
Holly Meyer by Ruth and<br />
Morris Toback<br />
Palmetto Street<br />
Historical Cemetery<br />
Restoration Fund<br />
In Loving Memory of<br />
Irving Dubrin, on his<br />
yahrzeit, by Marilyn Dubrin<br />
Ruth and Felix<br />
Reif Building and<br />
Security Fund<br />
Speedy Recovery to<br />
Howard Alwais by<br />
Lucille Friedman<br />
Bob Harris by Marvin<br />
Jalnos<br />
Mazel Tov to<br />
Mazal and Marvin<br />
Moszkowicz, on Ari’s<br />
marriage, by Lala, Emily<br />
and Eleanor Gossen<br />
In Honor of<br />
Sherri and Steve Ross,<br />
Mazel Tov on Amanda’s<br />
engagement to Joe<br />
Lundblade of Dallas, by<br />
Lala, Emily and Eleanor<br />
Gossen<br />
In Loving Memory of<br />
Ethel Goldsmith, on<br />
her yahrzeit, by Marion<br />
Goldsmith<br />
Steven Gossen by<br />
Charlotte Sue and Richard<br />
Alterman, Wayne Choate,<br />
Eddie and Freddye Duchin,<br />
Suzanne and Randy<br />
Dym, Dale and Harry<br />
Eastman, Hortense Lyman<br />
Fein, Bertie and Selig<br />
Frank, Lucille Friedman,<br />
Carolyn and Howard<br />
Glick and Family, Sonja<br />
Goldberg, Monica, Lauren<br />
and Shelby Goldfaden,<br />
Marion Goldsmith, Susan<br />
and Rob Goldstein and<br />
Family, Goode, Casseb,<br />
Jones, Riklin, Choate &<br />
Watson, PC, William F.<br />
Goodman, Beryl Penner<br />
Greenberg, Miriam and<br />
Morton Greenberg, Rhonda<br />
and Charlie Gurinsky<br />
and Family, Sara Lee<br />
Gurinsky and Family,<br />
The Intercontinental<br />
Companies, Rhonda<br />
and Carl Jalnos, Marvin<br />
Jalnos, Elieen and Robi<br />
Jalnos, Susanne Jalnos,<br />
Janice and Bobby Jucker,<br />
Shirley Kanter, Leslie<br />
and Sid Karmia, Karen,<br />
Jason and Jenna Katims,<br />
Hilary and Neal Kavy,<br />
Anita and David Kboudi,<br />
Helen, Carole and Nathan<br />
Kerman, Joanie and Steve<br />
Pechenik, Anni Rado and<br />
Family, Jody and Paul<br />
Reddy, Clara and Soupy<br />
Reich, Bari and Arthur<br />
Rosenthal, Hana Ross,<br />
Laura Schnitzler, Marian<br />
and Ian Smith, Sheila and<br />
Jack Stein, Judy and Robb<br />
Steinberg, Sherie and<br />
Anatole Trakhtenbroit and<br />
Family, Danielle and David<br />
Weiner and Family, Martin<br />
and Michael Weiss, Sylvia<br />
Wilk, Rose Williams<br />
Celia Levis, on her<br />
yahrzeit, by Marion<br />
Goldsmith<br />
Ross Family Kitchen<br />
Improvement Fund<br />
In Honor of<br />
Hana Ross, on being<br />
honored by Hadassah as<br />
“Ima” of Israel, by Shirley<br />
Kboudi, Suzan and Max<br />
Mendlovitz<br />
In Loving Memory of<br />
Steven Gossen by Hana<br />
Ross<br />
Ruth Rutstein<br />
Posner and Barbara<br />
and Erica Rutstein<br />
Camp Fund<br />
In Loving Memory of<br />
Nat Posner, on his<br />
yahrzeit, by Ruth Posner<br />
Rabbi Louis<br />
Schechter Scholar-<br />
In-Residence Fund<br />
In Loving Memory of<br />
Rabbi Louis Schechter,<br />
beloved husband, on<br />
his yahrzeit, by Rivka<br />
Schechter<br />
Max And Serene<br />
Lowy Schmidt<br />
Scholarship Fund<br />
Synagogue<br />
Beautification Fund<br />
Synagogue<br />
Endowment Fund<br />
Goldie And Joe Tills<br />
Library Fund<br />
In Honor of<br />
Stanley Spigel, on his<br />
66th birthday, by Ronni and<br />
Jason Chozick, Barbara<br />
Spigel<br />
In Loving Memory of<br />
Steven Gossen by<br />
Barbara and Stanley Spigel<br />
Shirley Rosofsky, on her<br />
yahrzeit, by Alice and John<br />
Troy<br />
Goldie Tills, beloved<br />
mother, on what would<br />
have been her 89th<br />
birthday, by Barbara Spigel<br />
Torah Restoration<br />
And Repair Fund<br />
In Loving Memory of<br />
David Richard Ginns by<br />
Robert Jay Ginns<br />
Tot Shabbat Fund<br />
In Loving Memory of<br />
Steven Gossen by Sheila<br />
Wilk Cooper<br />
Usy Fund<br />
Vexler Flower Fund<br />
Weingart Youth<br />
Camp And Travel<br />
Fund<br />
Youth Opportunities<br />
Fund<br />
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<strong>Congregation</strong> <strong>Agudas</strong> <strong>Achim</strong><br />
16550 Huebner Road<br />
San Antonio, TX 78248<br />
Address Service Requested<br />
32<br />
CandlE lighting timES<br />
For San antonio<br />
January 6 5:32 p.m.<br />
January 13 5:37 p.m.<br />
January 20 5:43 p.m.<br />
January 27 5:49 p.m.<br />
February 3 5:55 p.m.<br />
February 10 6:01 p.m.<br />
February 17 6:06 p.m.<br />
February 24 5:11 p.m.<br />
January 7 6:33 p.m.<br />
January 14 6:38 p.m.<br />
January 21 6:44 p.m.<br />
January 28 6:50 p.m.<br />
February 4 6:56 p.m.<br />
February 11 7:02 p.m.<br />
February 18 7:07 p.m.<br />
February 25 7:12 p.m.<br />
March 2 6:16 p.m.<br />
March 9 6:21 p.m.<br />
March 16 7:25 p.m.<br />
March 23 7:29 p.m.<br />
March 30 7:33 p.m.<br />
Shabbat Ending timES<br />
For San antonio<br />
March 3 7:17 p.m.<br />
March 10 7:21 p.m.<br />
March 17 8:26 p.m.<br />
March 24 8:30 p.m.<br />
March 31 8:34 p.m.<br />
Daily Minyan<br />
Shabbat Evening<br />
Shabbat Morning<br />
NON-PROFIT ORG.<br />
U.S. POSTAGE PAID<br />
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS<br />
PERMIT NO. 57<br />
POSTMASTER PLEASE RUSH<br />
DATED MATERIAL<br />
7:30 a.m. Monday - Friday Vexler Chapel<br />
9:00 a.m. Sunday Vexler Chapel<br />
Evenings by contacting office<br />
6:15 p.m. Vexler Chapel<br />
9:00 a.m. Alterman Salkind Louis<br />
Sanctuary or Vexler Chapel<br />
Yahrzeits are read at EACH service.<br />
Babysitting provided for birth through 2nd grade at all Shabbat Morning services.<br />
Synagogue Contact Information<br />
Administration Office<br />
210-479-0307<br />
Administration Office Fax<br />
210-479-0295<br />
Heintz Preschool<br />
210-479-0429<br />
Inda Posner Religious School<br />
210-479-2689<br />
Rabbi Bitran’s Private Line<br />
210-479-0283<br />
info@agudas-achim.org<br />
www.agudas-achim.org