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November 10th, 2016
Cheshvan 10, 5777
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Shabbat
Friday, November 11th
Candle Lighting - 4:18pm
Saturday, November 12th
Shabbat Service - 9:30am
Shabbat ends
- 5:19pm
Lech-Lechha
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Book Launch and Signing
Sunday, November 13
3 to 5 pm
Supersoul Yoga Studio
25 Main Street, Chatham
After traveling across three continents to stalk the ancient and modern story of butter, TCS/NT member and award-winning food writer Elaine Khosrova serves up a story as rich, textured, and culturally relevant as butter itself. In conjunction with the Chatham Bookstore, Elaine will give a presentation, serve up some treats, and sign copies of her just-released book. All are welcome.
BUTTER In NYC too:
November 15, 7:00 pm
Elaine with give an author presentation at Barnes & Noble, 2289 Broadway at 82nd St.
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Winter Coat and Bike Drive
As the winter approaches and temperatures drop the coats will be well received by those in need. Bicycles give those without transportation the means to get to work or to stores.
Please bring your unwanted winter coats and bicycles to the lower level of the synagogue on Shabbat mornings. For more information, contact Craig Bender
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TCS/NT Donors
The Synagogue gratefully acknowledges the following members, family and friends for their generous support.
(As of November 1st,
in order of receipt)
Ann Dee Goldin
Jonathan Stoler
John & Lynda Wachsteter
Richard Corenthal &
Andra Fertig
Jon & Ellen Channing
Marilyn Cohen &
Gail Chamberlain
Elaine & Art Greenberg
Aileen Leventon & Marc Freed
Sheldon & Lucile Lichtblau
Ellen & Alan Goldner
Lawrence Levenson &
Joseph DeLeo
Phyllis & Steve Abramson
Michael Peskoe &
Patricia Bourdon
Martin & Joyce Shenker
David Klafter &
Nancy Kestembaum
Lily Harvitt
Joan & Henry Kazer
Mitch & Elaine Khosrova
Brenda Gevertz & Carl Rheins
Robert Gibbs & Wendy Kahn
Raman & Lindsay Gardner
Bart & Jody Schoenfeld
Ike & Tobby Cassuto
David Golub
Debra Osofsky &
Leonard Cassuto
Bruce Shenker
Robert Zukerman &
Jan Moseman
Jackie & Eliot Morrison
Debroah Mintz
Deborah Gallant &
Jonathan Lieber
Samuel & Denyse Kirsch
Florence & Sandy Frucher
Barbara Lax & Kenneth Kranz
Alice Swersey
Janet Carey
Felicia Herman &
David Ben-Ur and family
Laura and Eric Perlman
Mary Beth
"Bubsy" McDonough
Susie Kaufman
Arlene Yolles
Robin & Tony Zelle
Hana Askren & Noah Palmer
Donations "In Honor of" / "In Memory of" since July 2016
* In honor of Gloria Kaufman's hospitality from Marilyn Cohen & Gail Chamberlain
* In honor of Lucile Lichtblau from Ike & Tobby Cassuto
* In honor of the birth of Hazel May Passno-Merker, daughter of Danielle Passno and Kate Merker by Barbara Lax & Ken Kranz
* In honor of the birth of Hazel May Passno-Merker from Bart & Jody Schoenfeld
* In honor of the naming of Vivian Ethel, grandaughter of Peter Span from Jody & Bart Schoenfeld
* In honor of Steve Eidman's 60th Birthday from Susan Puder & Peter Verrengia
Recent contributions to the Building Fund
* In memory of Burt Swersey from Allen & Irene Brill
* In honor of Alan Gelb & Karen Levine from Barbara Goodman
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Join Us!
We welcome members from diverse Jewish backgrounds and perspectives. Our members are people who were born into Judaism as well as those who chose Judaism. We recognize patrilineal as well as matrilineal descent, and we welcome interfaith families and LGBT.
You can download a membership application
here.
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Being Bar Mitzvah All Over Again
Saturday, November 12, 2016 at 9:30am
In honor of a milestone birthday, Steve Eidman will be leyning a portion of his bar mitzvah parsha, Lech-Lecha, this coming Shabbat. The Eidman's are sponsoring a kiddish and luncheon after services and look forward to the TCS/NT community joining in the celebration.
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2016 Pot Luck Harvest Dinner for Members
Saturday, November 12, 2016 at 6:30pm
Home of Barbara Lax Kranz and Ke
n Kr
anz
43 Bowman Road, Chatham, NY
It's that time again when we gather together around the fire for good food, great company and to help local residents less fortunate than us.
All proceeds of the evening are for the benefit of the CHATHAM SILENT FOOD PANTRY. We will collect donations of canned goods and funds. Checks should be drawn to the Chatham Silent Food Pantry. If you cannot attend but would like to help, checks for the food pantry can be sent to the synagogue address, Box 51, Chatham NY.
Please contact
Barbara via email to let her know what you plan to bring. She will coordinate the evening to ensure we have a fabulous meal from soup to nuts.
We will need:
salads, vegetarian main courses, fruit, cheese and crackers, bread, drinks (beer, wine, cider), munchies.
A GREAT EVENING --
DON'T MISS OUT!
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The Chatham Synagogue Annual Meeting
Sunday, November 13, 2016, 10am
Refreshments will be served starting at 9:30am
During the meeting, the following items will be voted on by the Congregation: Nominated Trustees, Proposed Changes to By-laws.
Proxy votes may be sent to the Secretary, janina.deppe@gmail.com or by mail to
the
synagogue. Indicate a yes or no vote on all items (four trustee candidates and by-laws changes).
Nominated Trustees
The following Trustees are subject to re-election as an officer for one year,
Janet Carey - as Vice President
Alan Gelb - as Secretary
The board of Trustees has nominated the following new Trustees each for a three year term:
Diane Eidman, Barbara Roth
Additional nominations may be made by
the
general membership through written petitions, each petition to be signed by five members in good standing; these additional nominations must be received by
the
Secretary of
the
Board of Trustees at least two weeks prior to
the
annual meeting.
Proposed Changes to the By-laws
Although there are some changes to improve clarity, substantive changes are in Article III - Trustees. To compare
the proposed 2016 by-laws to
the 2015 approved by-laws:
Click here for
the 2016 proposed changes (to be approved by vote of
the Congregation at this meeting and put in place as of 2017).
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Learnin' Leynin':
New Synagogue Skills Course This Fall
Learn the ancient musical art of chanting the Torah. TCS member
Steve Eidman, a Torah-reader for 35 years, will teach you the traditional cantillation in this new course arranged by TCS's Continuing Education Committee.
You'll learn to read the musical symbols, and you'll practice on the Torah portion of your choice. Basic Hebrew skills -- knowledge of the alphabet and phonetics -- are required. Dates and times to be determined.
If interested, or for more information
, please email Steve: stretch44@gmail.com.
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Kristallnacht Interfaith Commemoration
Tuesday, November 15, 2016 at 7:00pm
Page Hall, University at
Albany Downtown Campus
135 Western Ave, Albany, New York
Free and open to the public 
Premiere One-Time Screening of
A Blind Hero: The Love of Otto Weidt.
This is is a powerful docudrama of a little-known story of love, devotion, and selflessness of Otto Weidt, and his tragic love for Alice Licht as he embarks on a desperate journey to save her and her entire family from the gas chambers. The film depicts Otto Weidt's story with award-winning journalist, author, and Holocaust survivor Inge Deutschkron, providing her personal story of Weidt's efforts to save her, her mother, and the rest of his employees from the Nazis. Otto Weidt is honored by the Yad Vashem - Righteous Among the Nations.
Sponsored by: Holocaust Survivors & Friends Education Center, the Community Relations Council of the Jewish Federation of Northeastern New York, and the Judaic Studies Program at the University at Albany.
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Bards of War: 1914-1918
Poets at the Western Front
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Bertrand Fay
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Sponsored by the Center for Faith Enrichment
Tuesday, November 15, 2016 at 7:00pm
St. James Church, Chatham, NY
Free and open to the public
In this period of thought and memorial celebrations honoring those who served us and our country in a period of war,
Bertrand Fay, who recently did an extraordinary recitation and analysis of The Book of Job, will offer a presentation that will be a rare insight and broaden both our understanding and appreciation of their gift of service.
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