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September 2021 / Elul 5781 - Tishrei 5782 |
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President's Reflections
by John Spera
With the High Holidays approaching, I encourage you to visit our Temple Israel website. You’ll find it provides you with everything you need to know about the High Holidays at Temple Israel and much, much more. The information is very educational and it gives an excellent history of our congregation, from our roots at the McKinley Avenue to our current home. There is a side of Temple that you may have never found that is just a click away. As we look to celebrate a New Year and reflect on the past year during the Days of Awe – on behalf of the Temple Board and family – May you have a good and sweet New Year.
L’Shana tova.
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High Holy Day Schedule and Sign-Up Information
Temple Israel's High Holy Day services and programming will be in-person with livestreaming options.
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The full up-to-date schedule and all sign-up links are available on our website at www.templeisraelcanton.org/HHD.
- In-person attendance requires advanced sign-up.
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Services will stream live from the large prayer space to our YouTube channel.
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Given the increase in local COVID-19 cases and the threat of the Delta variant, Temple Israel will require masks at all High Holy Day services at Beit Ha'am. Those who are not able to wear a mask should not come to the services in person.
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High Holy Day Prayerbooks
If you will be livestreaming the service and would like to follow along with the book, we are offering two options.
Access the flipbook online version of the Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur prayerbooks.
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CLICK for the Rosh Hashanah flipbook
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CLICK for the Yom Kippur flipbook
Temple Israel members may arrange to pick-up and return hard copies of the Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur prayerbooks.
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CLICK to schedule pick-up and return of prayerbooks
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The Old and the New: Chadash Fall Holiday Traditions
For most Jews, the month of September not only brings about images of Fall like it does for most inhabitants of Northeastern Ohio, but it also brings up thoughts of the holidays. Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur remind us of new beginnings and trying to improve ourselves to do better in the year ahead. Sukkot and Simchat Torah gives us appreciation for God’s great Earth and the teachings of the Torah.
All these holidays also conjure up memories with our families steeped in tradition that bring individualized meaning to our celebrations and rituals and sharing these practices together as a community extends our families on a much larger scale.
Chadash, too, has developed its own traditions over the years all while maintaining the ever-changing needs of the community and trying to balance the old with the new.
One of the favorite traditions of Chadash has always been the annual family Sukkot party. From hanging decorations on the Sukkah to waving the Lulav and the Etrog, spending time with our friends in the Sukkah feels like sacred time. Farmers in ancient Israel used these primitive booths as protection as they slept on farms camping out in order to get the most out of a harvest.
This year, our annual Sukkot party will focus on “Sukkat Shalom,” a “shelter of peace,” and we will use the annual event as a kickoff for our newly created curriculum entitled “Building Resilience With a Jewish Framework.” The curriculum will suggest short age-appropriate classroom activities that help to create coping skills and that can be easily interwoven into the already existing Chadash curriculum and utilized all year long. In a post pandemic country with an upward trend of anti-semitism, it is our wish that Chadash students feel that the Jewish community in Canton is their “Sukkat Shalom,” and we recognize the need to provide these lessons that are built in to our mitzvot in the Torah.
We are looking forward to a wonderful year ahead.
From the Chadash board and faculty, L’shanah tovah u’metukah or best wishes for a sweet year ahead.
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Thank you so much for your generous donations of school supplies for Belle Stone Elementary School. They were extremely grateful for the donations as so many kids are in need. A special thanks to Brotherhood and Sisterhood for their monetary donations which enabled me to purchase backpacks for the kids. As usual, Temple Israel comes through for the kids of Canton.
Paulette Karelitz
Social Action Committee
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The Social Action committee will be collecting items for the Stark County Veterans Service Commission.
It is an organization that was formed in 1886 and has been serving veterans and their families ever since. Their staff consists of all veterans and families members of veterans so they have a deep understanding of the issues their clients face. They assist in multiple areas, such as housing, transportation, financial, and dental just to name a very few.
They are in need of: (new items only)
- socks and gloves for men and women
- scarves
- toothpaste
- toiletries, shampoos including trial sizes
- combs, brushes and soaps
- Gift cards (grocery store and gas)
Thank you,
Anita Porter
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As the World Turns: Immigration in the Biden Administration |
Brad Ortman will be our featured speaker at the Shabbat evening service on Friday, October 15 at 6:15 p.m.
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September 3
Clara Abrams
Celia Adelman
John Autilio Jr.
Robert Bailey
Harry S. Berger
Lena Brodell
Evelyn Chernin Chapman
Anne M. Cohen
Wilbert Duntze
Blanche K. Feiman
Fannie (Babs) Fischer
Fannie Fisher
Julia Fenyves Friedman
David Greenberg
Reuben F. Jacobson
Lillian Knell
Marcella Lavine
Sophia Lefkovits
Esther Kaplan Levin
Rose Lipson
Isador S. Low
Edith Marks
Mollie R. Narrens
Grace Frances Queen
Margaret Roberts
Norma Rothman
Howard Rubin Jr.
Sylvia Sacks
Bessie Saloman
Minnie Schaner
Evangeline Schneider
Jack Shapiro
Mrs. Roxanne Wachtel
Luise Weintraub
Ruth Wilkof
Nathan Worshil
Carmen A. Zembrello
Alfred Ziff
September 10
Philip Abugov
Harry Axelrod
Esther Chessin
Gerald D. Cohen
Marlene Gaito
Arthur Gale
Fred Goldstein
David Katz
Julius Lazarus
David Levin
Becky Medoff
Don E. Neuberg
Leah Olden
Lt. Darin Pontell
Freda Schuerer Rapport
Anne Raxlin
Frances B. Rosenblum
Leon Russianoff
Doris Barnett Sanford
Rosalind Shedlarz
Benjamin Silverman
Harry Tenenbaum
Michael Wachtel
Herman G. Wells
Irv Winston
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September 17
Abraham Adelman
Mary Kathryn Balan
Elisabeth Bertman
Benjamin Block
Dr. Theodore Burstein
Edythe Drebin
Joseph Fenyves
Ida Goldenfeld
Helen B. Goldfarb
Louis Gordon
Norma Greenbaum
Bernard Greenwald
Belle Kail
Judith Lipson
Fay Logan
Wilbur Marusich
Karen McCrea
Sidra Nemoytin
Karin Rabin
Anna Refkin
Arnold Rubin
Jeanne S. Rubin
Herman Sachs
Louis A. Sacks
Gerard Saltarelli
Rachel Savage
Marion Sherwin
Robert Sternberg
Ida Tenenbaum
Joseph Tenenbaum
Florence Triger
Susan Goldberg Warshaw
Nancy Weinberg
Craig S. Weiss
S. Sgt. Sanford Wilkof
September 24
Ida Noble Factor
Belle Felder
Michael Flaksman
Dr. Albert Goldberg
Abe Goldstein
Yvonne Hervey
Sarah L. Hirschheimer
Clark James Johnson
Joseph Lasse
Cecile Low
Myer Manheim
Abe Miller
Sally Berkman Miller
Mary Mittelman
John Mudrak
Lillian S. Nathanson
Rae Robbins
Ileen Rubin
Dr. Morris Schaner
Bertha Batya Schlachet
Irving Schweitzer
Robert Shiffman
Sol Singer
Julius Stone
Solweig Wenar
Betty Wilkof
Raymond Wilkof
Marion Wolf
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October 1
Gerald Burns
Goldie Riben Cohen
Robert H. Erlanger
Dr. Samuel J. Feingold
Rae Fettman
Joseph Fisher
Norma Greenbaum
Robert Victor Haas
Harold Horwitz
Morris Kamenetzky
Sylvia C. Leitz
William S. Manheim
Dr. Howard V. Mishler
Hyman Nathanson
Murray Pearl
Bernard Ress
Jack Rosenstock
Alex Rosenthal
Eunice Rosenthal
Nathan Ross
Essie Samuels
Bonnie Turkeltaub
Abe Warszawski
Dorothy Werstler
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Welcome New Temple Members:
Dr. Shoshanah Inwood, her husband Dr. Jason Parker, and their children, Ivah and Abraham
Sally Henning
Jessica and David Whitehill and their child, Sadie
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The Temple's sympathy is extended to the families of:
Neal Libster
Mark Turkeltaub
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Mazel Tov to:
Megan Smuckler, daughter of Randi and Bill Smuckler, granddaughter of Harlene Smuckler, was married to Drew Devilbiss on July 31 in Columbus, Ohio. They will be residing in Columbus.
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Mazel Tov to:
Dara Hecht, daughter of Drs. Marcie Groesbeck and Bryan Hecht, was married to Christopher Worthington of Columbus, Ohio on August 14 in Columbus by Rabbi John Spitzer. The couple will be residing in Columbus.
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Temple Israel Endowments
Robert & Shelley Schweitzer Temple Youth Group Endowment
In Memory of
- Mark Turkeltaub, by Harlene Smuckler, by Rob & Shelley Schweitzer
- Larry Miller, by Rob & Shelley Schweitzer
- Evelyn Herman, by Rob & Shelley Schweitzer
In Honor of
- Helen Blocker's 100th birthday, by Rob & Shelley Schweitzer
Rabbis John H. Spitzer & Jon F. Adland Social Justice Endowment
In Honor of
- The Marriage of Dara Hecht & Christopher Worthington, by Rabbi John & Cheri Spitzer
Temple Israel Restricted Funds
Mazon Fund - A Jewish Response to Hunger
In Memory of
- Mark Turkeltaub, by Alicia Rozenbom, Sue Shafer, Matt & Eileen Saltarelli, Mimi Shapiro
- Lena Smuckler, by Harlene Smuckler
- Barbara Bahr, by Sue Shafer
- Evelyn Herman, by Gail & Marshall Bleckman & Family
- Neal Libster, by Harlene Smuckler, Irv & Eileen Dinn, Marty & Lois Jacobson
In Appreciation of
- Shelley Schweitzer and Estelle Blau, by Anita Porter
In Honor of
- Barb Ferne's Birthday, by Paula Bloom
Bilha Ron Religious School
In Appreciation of
- Julie Zorn and Rabbi Komerofsky for the Family Fun Day Program, by JuDeane & Drew Luntz
Rabbi's Discretionary Fund
In Appreciation of
- Rabbi Komerofsky, by Martin & Sandra Smith
- Rabbi Komerofsky, by Chuck & Esperanza Deutsch
- Rabbi Komerofsky, by Howard Berliner
Jewish National Fund
A Tree Has Been Planted:
In Honor of
- Annie Weinstock's Bat Mitzvah Celebration, by Bev Gross
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