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Rabbi's Message
When last we met at High Holiday services, the world seemed kinder. We were walking without having to wear masks and meandering along shopping centers and parks getting on with our lives. We even smiled to passersby and in Ukraine the people were calm and happy as they gathered corn, oats, rye and rice and packaging them for export to various countries around the world. Life was good in Ukraine. In fact, better than good as they had a Jewish President! And then, the world as we knew it, came to a screeching halt.
There is nothing I can write about that will elevate our feelings at this point especially with anti-Semitism, the proliferation of guns and the unconscionable killings of young and old, destroying life possessions, homes and families. As we all know, when Jews get together as one in thought, hope and prayer, a glimmer of hope sprinkles from heaven and positive things happen. Especially, if the gathering consists of a conglomerate of Creative Arts Worshippers. To quote the great sage Hillel….
”Im tirtzu, ein zu agadah.” “If you will it, it will not be a dream.”
Together, let us pray for an end of anti-Semitism; an end to despotic rulers who care not, destruction of another country and its inhabitants, an end to poverty and homelessness, and an end to the killing of innocent men, women and children.
So, who better than our friends and congregants, along with my family, who have given me, thus far, the most fulfilling years of my life.
To each, and every one of you, may this year be a Most Joyful, Safe, Productive and HEALTHY YEAR!
Amen.
Rabbi Jerry
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CAT FNL (Friday Night Live) on Facebook Live
Where:
In your home
We will be meeting on
November 4, 2022
Save The Date - Next service:
TBA
Why?
Tradition!
Please like and share with others.
Click on this link where we will be live streaming:
https://www.facebook.com/CreativeArtsTemple/live/
You will also be able to view it on Our Website (creativeartstemple.org) and on YouTube as well.
This is a Streamlined Shabbat Service with special guests. You will be able to chat with us, share any news from your week, or send a virtual hug all via Facebook.
We will be chanting the Mishabeirach for global healing and reciting the Kaddish for the current yahrzeits. If you have the names of loved ones you would like to include, please let us know.
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The Creative Arts Temple
is once again preparing for our
High Holidays 2022 Services.
We look forward to celebrating the High Holidays with you!
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Please send in your membership form and payment to reserve your seats. We are looking forward to celebrating the holidays with you!
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Do you shop on Amazon?
Please help to support CAT when you shop on Amazon.
All you have to do is go to http://smile.amazon.com and follow the instructions. Add Creative Arts Temple to your charity of choice. Easy Peasy! Then when you make a purchase on Amazon, begin your shopping at smile.amazon. The temple will then receive 0.5% of your eligible purchases. It is a win win!
If you want Amazon to donate to the Creative Arts Temple, you need to start each shopping session at http://smile.amazon.com and they will donate 0.5% of the price of your eligible purchases.
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Renew Ralphs Community Contributions Now!
Please Register today!
For your convenience, step-by-step website registration instructions can be found at www.ralphs.com, or if you are having a problem registering call the temple office at 310-720-9618 and we will help you.
Also, if you don't have computer access, you can call Ralphs at 1-800-443-4438 for assistance.
CAT NPO# 92136
Ralphs Rewards Card
Donate to CAT while you grocery shop
Participants are required to register for the new term online at www.ralphs.comor by calling Ralphs at
1-800-443-4438.
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You will be asked for The Creative Arts Temple NPO number. It is NPO# 92136
Please Note!!
The Scan Bar letters will no longer work at the register.
To verify if Creative Arts Temple is your charity of choice, look at the very bottom of your receipt next time you shop at Ralph's. It should say "At your request, Ralph's is donating to Creative Arts Temple." If you do not see that, you will need to register through the Ralph's
website.
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September Anniversaries
Mazel Tov to our CAT lovebirds!
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Earl & Aya Kimura Goldberg - 9/7/2022
Mitchell & Rochelle Blumenfeld - 9/20/2022
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With a donation of Chai ($18) or above, CAT will mail out a tribute card in your honor of Birthdays, Anniversaries, Get-Well-Soon wishes, Congratulations and In Loving Memory.
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DONATIONS
You now can Order Tribute Cards, Remember A Yarzheit, Make donations to the Services, or Order a Plaque through your Temple Talk Email or on our website.
Just click on the link and choose what kind of donation you would like
to make.
Paypal is secure and safe. You can choose to use your credit card or through your bank. Once we receive your information, we will send you a confirmation email to let you know that we are in receipt of
your donation.
Or, you can call the office or just send a donation in the mail.
Click here to make your donation with PayPal.
or go to our website at creativeartstemple.org
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You can now make a donation through Venmo. Our username is @CreativeArtsTemple-10
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September Birthdays
And many happy returns!
Robby Fraser 9/1/2022
Dee Ann Simon 9/8/2022
Stacey Levine 9/13/2022
Sharon Karp 9/14/2022
Amy Katch 9/14/2022
Elaine P. Schulman 9/14/2022
Ken Bitticks 9/21/2022
Jamie Metrano 9/22/2022
Warren Sefton 9/22/2022
Ann Radow 9/24/2022
Sharon Freed 9/25/2022
Paul Bernstein 9/26/2022
Rabbi Jerry Cutler 9/26/2022
Etan Markowitz 9/27/2022
Murray J. Smith 9/28/2022
Laurie Waldstein 9/29/2022
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July Tributes
Your Thoughtfulness is Truly Appreciated
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Service Sponsors
Thank you to our sponsors!
Shabbat Sponsors:
Gregory Cruz - Shabbat Sponsor
Nicole Karsenty-Ligeti - Shabbat Sponsor
Howard and Molly Murray - Shabbat Sponsor
Judy Diamond - Shabbat Sponsor
Lana Pinkenson - Shabbat Sponsor
Donna Paul - Shabbat Sponsor
Edie Horwitz - In honor of Sherwyn's 91st birthday
High Holiday Sponsors:
Stephen Maitland -Lewis
Don and Shelly Sterling
Click here to make a donation or go to our website at creativeartstemple.org
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Get Wells
Refuah Shleima
CAT wishes speedy recoveries to:
Fred Ostraski, Debby and Ken Bitticks, Lowell and Penny Dreyfus, Barbara Fleming-Marmorstein, Andrew Martin, Donna Paul, Peter Paul, Maxine Picard, Rita Vale, and Lynn Zaifert.
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AugustYahrzeits
We thank those who have made a donation in memory of your loved one.
Harriet Diamond
In memory of Martine Feuerman
Felicia Ricks
In memory of Madelon Cohen
David & Kathleen Rips
In memory of Irving Rips
Tootsie Veprin
In memory of Harry Raphael
May you be comforted by the mourners of Zion
If you made a donation and you don't see it here, it is because it was received after the publication deadline and will appear next month
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An inspiring story of a school that relocated to escape the Nazis
Reviewed by Stephen Maitland-Lewis
There is no shortage of books on the Holocaust and the overall inferno of the Hitler years.
Reading anything from the vast published material on this subject is bound to evoke obvious disgust and horror. Yet, the question remains: how could this have happened in the 20th century, in a country which hitherto was considered one of the foremost cultured and educated of all civilized nations?
Deborah Cadbury in her The School That Escaped the Nazis skillfully evokes another, more heartwarming emotion, and this book goes a long way to confirm that amid the carnage of that era there were instances of profound goodness and human decency.
Anna Essinger, a young German schoolteacher, had established a small progressive school in southern Germany. She saw the writing on the wall when Hitler came into power in 1933. She had read Mein Kampf and abhorred its wicked ideology.
With an abundance of courage, determination, and pure defiance, in spite of her limited resources, she succeeded in relocating her school to the rural county of Kent in southeast England. The school flourished and soon attracted a number of English pupils as well as teachers. Before long, as a result of Nazi regulations which made it impossible for Jewish teachers and pupils to remain within the German school system, there was an additional influx of pupils and highly qualified academic staff.
The school swiftly earned a fine reputation and enjoyed good relations with its neighbors. The local villagers were largely friendly, supportive and hospitable. But, in 1939 upon the outbreak of war, the school faced new challenges. Many of the German staff and the older students were interred as enemy aliens far away from Kent. The locals, who had treated the school and all those connected with it with respect, now treated it with suspicion. The school’s neighbors shunned it.
The British Government requisitioned the school’s strategically important premises for British military purposes, and another evacuation was necessary. On short notice, Essinger found a decrepit mansion for the school, two hundred miles away. Simultaneously, the school was struggling to take in as many Jewish children as it could among those who had remained in Germany. Additionally, the school admitted countless others whose parents the Nazis had kidnapped and sent to concentration camps throughout Germany and Poland.
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The author recounts the testimony of many of the students who described how they left their homes and families only to struggle with the differences in culture and a new language, as well as with the heartache of not knowing whether they would ever reunite with their parents and other family members. Essinger and her colleagues had to deal not only with the academic and overall well-being of her pupils but also with the immense trauma that they were suffering.
The school became a home for the children, a haven of love and warmth where they could live peacefully and without fear of being bullied and treated as outcasts in their native Germany. They formed lifetime bonds and a great many succeeded as adults in their chosen fields.
Essinger and her colleagues created a loving home for approximately nine hundred pupils between 1933 and 1948 when the school finally closed. Despite all the miseries and suffering that the children and the German staff members, had endured, she created a happy and productive environment. To describe reading about this period of history as a joyful experience is counterintuitive. However, Deborah Cadbury succeeds in delivering an uplifting and inspiring book about the challenges that Essinger, her pupils, and her colleagues faced. So many books on the Holocaust focus heavily on statistics that in time one becomes almost immune to the savagery. Case studies of specific named individual children, some as young as eight, who arrived at the school traumatized and how they fared carry more weight. Cadbury illustrates the teamwork between teachers and pupils who together faced hurdles and survived.
This book is a worthy edition to the countless books written about this painful historical period. The school was devoid of any form of religious syllabus or practice but nevertheless, Anna Essinger, as the author states, “fulfilled in her own way, the old Hebrew saying, ‘Tikkun Hoaolam’ — ‘mend the world.’”
This piece originally appeared in the Washington Independent Review of Books.
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Roots Music & Beyond
KPFK 90.7 FM
Saturdays,
6-8 a.m.
New Christy Minstrels, Art Podell, was a Greenwich Village folk singer in 1958. In the rush to capitalize on the folk boom, Columbia Records signed Podell and partner Paul Potash and, as the duo “Art & Paul,” they released two albums in 1960 and ’61, which are sought-after today by folk music aficionados.
"I thought I was watching and listening to Will Rogers with an Ivy League education and maybe that's true, but your humor and songs - both touching and delightful - was better and much more enjoyable than his lasso"
-Herb Freed, Film-maker, novelist, and friend
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If you are a fan of the classic folk music of the fifties/sixties, this might be the program for you.
Add to that some flavors of old-time jazz and bluegrass. We'll be catering to your musical pallets while offering some wonderful premiums to help support KPFK.
Roots Music & Beyond celebrates ten years on air in March!
Third Saturday host: Art Podell [email protected],a bona fide Greenwich Village folkie, one-half of the legendary duo Art and Paul and an original member of The New Christy Minstrels, and Professor.
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For information & booking requests, contact:
Matt Aaron Krinsky
[email protected]
New Dates:
Theatre West
3333 Cahuenga Blvd W, Los Angeles, CA 90068
Phone: (323) 851-4839
- Fri Dec 16 @ 8 pm
- Say Dec 17 @ 8 pm
- Sun Dec 18 @ 2 pm
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Our good friend, Broadway, film and television actress, Barbara Minkus has a new show called
18 Minutes of Fame.
While searching for fame, Barbara found
the more meaningful things in life.
In this acclaimed one-woman show, Broadway, film, and television singer/actress Barbara Minkus shares an intimate evening of personal moments, funny and poignant songs, and her remarkable stories working with such luminaries as Danny Kaye, Merv Griffin, Jerry Lewis, and Charlotte Rae.
Featuring a variety of show-stopping songs, this 90-minute multi-media musical (with live piano accompaniment) incorporates film, graphics, recordings, and photos to showcase Barbara’s exceptional journey of love, life, difficult decisions, family dynamics, and so much more.
Please enjoy these clips from this critically acclaimed show:
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Fern Field Brooks, author of Letters to My Husband, has written a new meowmoir on her cat called Destiny's Children. You can order this charming book at http://www.books2cherish.com. Temple members and friends can add "Temple Member" to your shipping instructions and 10% of all sales will go to C.A.T.
"LOVED IT! A clever and refreshing approach to a memoir!"
Mary Lou Belli, Director, Author, Teacher
"Wow! Destiny is incredible! I read it in two evenings and was absolutely enthralled. This book is one in a million!"
Laurel D. - Miami
"I Love Destiny and Fern! I was concerned for Destiny on every adventure, felt relieved when all was well, and eagerly await the rest of the series! Engaging. Charming. Insightful - about cats and humans!"
Dr. Linda Seger, Author, Script Consultant, Lecturer
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Burial Plots for Sale
In Mount Sinai Memorial Parks and Mortuaries
Garden of Moriah
Hollywood Hills
Original Price: $30,000 Asking Price: $24,000 Or Best Offer
For more information contact the Temple Office at 310-720-9618
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Israeli experts: Monkeypox won’t be another Covid
Physicians counsel caution and innovative ways to educate the public and collect epidemiological data but do not expect a serious pandemic.
By Abigail Klein Leichman AUGUST 7, 2022, 8:13 AM
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Here’s some hopeful news for everyone dreading another pandemic before we’ve gotten over the first one: Monkeypox won’t cause a pandemic of Covid-19 proportions.
“At present, we don’t see evidence showing monkeypox will affect as many people as Covid affected, primarily because it’s simply less transmissible,” says Dr. Eyal Leshem, director of the Center of Geographic Medicine and Tropical Diseases at Sheba Medical Center and clinical associate professor of internal medicine and infectious diseases at Tel Aviv University’s medical school.
“To get infected with monkeypox, close contact is necessary — contrary to Covid, where airborne infection is not uncommon,” Leshem tells ISRAEL21c.
Still, monkeypox infections are spreading widely, prompting the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare a global emergency on July 23.
As of August 3, the US Centers for Disease Control mapped more than 26,000 reported monkeypox cases in 87 countries. In the United States, the number is climbing close to 7,000 confirmed cases.
While the majority of monkeypox infections have struck men with male sexual partners, “Most professionals think there is high likelihood monkeypox will spread to other populations and will become a bigger public health problem,” says Dr. Hagai Levine, chairman of the Israeli Association of Public Health Physicians and a professor of epidemiology at the Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Public Health.
“But it’s very hard to imagine it will reach the magnitude of Covid,” he adds.
To read the full article click here.
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Apologies for our error -
Condolences to the Goldberg Family
on the passing of
Donald Goldberg
(husband of Lorain Goldberg and brother to Earl L. Goldberg)
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Creative Arts Temple
P.O. Box 241831
Los Angeles, CA 90024
310-720-9618
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