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SETIEMBRE 2003)
Dear Hevre,
Rabbi Michael Holzman
MEZUZAH HANGING PARTY
Come celebrate the new Rabbi’s office
HAVDALAH AND PARTY
HIGH HOLIDAY TICKETS
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* SERVICES WILL BEGIN ON TIME
* Please note our new seating policy
MESSAGE FROM OUR RABBI
As we enter the High Holiday season, we begin a period of Pikuach Nefesh, the evaluation of the soul. During the entire month of Elul preceeding Rosh Hashanah, we traditionally blow the shofar at weekday morning services. The sound of the Shofar is intended to call the soul to attention, reminding ourselves to begin asking difficult questions about who we are and who we would like to be.
All of this builds up to the moment of Neilah on Yom Kippur, the afternoon service in which we are repeatedly reminded that the Gates of Repentance may in fact close, and that our opportunity for change may pass. The liturgy and the imagery of the High Holidays understands something crucial to human nature. Change is difficult. It requires looking at parts of the self about which we might not be too proud. Therefore we are given an entire month to prepare, each day knowing that we have an approaching deadline, an approaching day upon which we must finally decide how we want to live the upcoming year. The climax of Yom Kippur is intended to give us that extra bit of motivation that actually makes a change.
This year is a bit different for B’nei Israel. Not only must we all as individuals do Pikuach Nefesh, but the entire synagogue needs to ask what kind of community we want to be, and the Rabbi needs to ask what kind of rabbi he wants to be. Although B’nei Israel has been building and growing and evolving for the last fifteen years or so, entering this new phase means asking new questions and seeking new answers.
Over the next month we will be beginning conversations that will continue through the High Holidays — conversations about what it means to be a member, about how we serve our community and how our community serves us, about our commitment to learning and teaching, about our experience of prayer and holiday celebration, and about how we as a community can help to heal the world.
The Torah considers Pesach the actual new year, and Rosh Hashanah the religious new year. Just as on Pesach we clean out all of the chametz, the yeast-risen bread from our homes, on Rosh Hashanah we try to clean out the fluffy, empty, puffed up, stuff from our souls. We hope to replace that fluff with substance, meaningful commitments and rewarding obligations to our community. The goal is that by the end of Neilah, when the sun has set, and the shofar has sounded one last time, we leave feeling like fuller human beings, and we leave as a stronger community.
Use this month of Elul to begin that process. Please call or come visiting me in my new office. I look forward to our conversations, our learning and to this period of reflection as a community.
Dear friends:
I would like to share with you the different activities scheduled for the month of September.
On September the 6th, the Board of Directors will have a “Shabbaton”, which will take place at Conversa. In this Shabbaton, in a peaceful environment, the Board will be able to set new goals for the future, as well as revalue what we have accomplished so far.
On the other hand, the weekend of September 19-21, we will hold a Seminary, sponsored by the Leatid of the Joint Distribution Committee for B’nei Israel. The objective of this seminary, which will be led by excellent panellists from the Joint, is to share our experiences as a Community with those from other communities of Latin America. This way we hope to strengthen our bonds even more and apply ourselves to the near future.
Additionally, this month is very intense because of the preparations for the High Holidays, which convey a lot of organization and following. However, I’m sure they will be a success, thanks to the planning and work of Hilda, Jody, Rosario, Pilar, David, Roberto, and of course, the spiritual leadership of our Rabbi Holzman.
And while we are on the subject of the High Holidays, this year our Rabbi has asked that we do not speak about donations or fund raising during this period, something quite difficult to do because of our Congregation’s needs. As you might remember, the campaign to raise funds to hire a Rabbi full time began last year; yet, the goal is far and we need your help. That is why, taking advantage of this space, I ask you to make your promises, and we shall try not to speak about these things during the High Holidays.
On September 26 (Tishrei 1) we will celebrate our New Year. It will be the beginning of the year 5764, and on this solemn occasion, when we reflect upon our triumphs and tragedies of the year before, it is also the time to rethink and revalue our lives, it is the time to seek understanding within us and the world we live on. During this time of introspection, we pray for a sweet new year.
May the family tie, the special meals, and the sweet tastes mark the beginning of a new era.
I hope that all the celebrants of our Community, and of the world, can strengthen the bonds between people, between neighbours, between communities, always trying to make this world a better place for our children. Let us pray so that the peace plan continues in Israel, so that the Jewish people can achieve our so desired tranquillity.
In the name of my family and my own, we wish you a happy holiday, with health and peace for this new year.
L’Shanah Tovah
Eduardo Keibel
(Translated by Tamara Baum)
By Hilda ten Brink, Treasurer
As in past years, we will be selling tickets for seats in the Synagogue for the High Holydays. However, this year we will not reserve the seats by name. The reservation of seats by name requires extensive time consuming arrangements and we are sure that we can depend on the goodwill of all to select the seats in the best possible way. The required number of seats will be available for all persons buying tickets. Those who arrive earlier will have the better selection of seats.
The price for the tickets is:
$20 children 5 to 13 years old |
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The Dinner (optional) at the San Jose Palacio Hotel on Friday, September 26th right after the Erev Rosh Hashanah service, will cost an additional $21 per adult and $13 per child from 5 to 13 years old, for members, and $25 for visitors.
The proceeds from the sale of tickets will be used to cover the costs of the High Holydays activities (chazzan, security, rental of chairs, refreshments, photocopies, etc.). Profits, if any, will go to the Rabbi Fund.
Tickets can be purchased from the Secretary of the Congregation, from Hilda or from Jody before September 22. Any questions, please call:
In answer to article written by Marvin Sossin, “What Lies Ahead” - Koleinu, July 2003
Saturday, August 23, 2003
My Dear Friend Marvin,
Don’t worry about the future of B’nei Israel and the spirit of Reform Judaism in Costa Rica and elsewhere. You built strong and you built well in an incredibly short time. Your leadership and dedication called forth the response of all the good people who shared the work with you and created a truly wonderful congregation.
Remember, in a sense you have reached a plateau, for a time people can look back and say “just look at what we have accomplished”. But it is like the rhythm of nature: growth almost reaches a stand still in winter, but not quite. The germ still remains to be awakened and that has been the secret of the continuance of Judaism. It is in our blood, and those who have it will again awaken to action. When the need arises a leader comes forward.
Now you have a fine new rabbi who can help reawaken the interest and activity, and the younger generation will start to take on the responsibilities of leadership.
May the new year, 5764 bring new purpose and shared joys to each of you and to all my friends of B’nei Israel.
With love,
Eleanor Perkins
Congregation B’nei Israel began from nothing more than a few of us who celebrated Rosh Hashanah together in 1986. We called ourselves the International Jewish Community. Since then, we have achieved a great deal, become a Congregation, and now enjoy our dream of having our own Rabbi.
What we have achieved has been due to many sacrifices of our members, those who made the Congregation a number one priority in their lives, and who opened their hearts and pocketbooks to assure that B’nei Israel developed what it has today: a cemetery, a school, the synagogue, and our Rabbi. All of this has happened because of the work and contributions from our members. Special donations from our members, large and small, have made it possible to maintain the Congregation, pay our debts, go forward, and grow.
We find ourselves, however, at a critical moment. We have 65 members. The economic situation in our country is difficult, and many of our members cannot pay the $50 family or $40 individual monthly dues that have been assessed by our Board of Directors to take effect this month. Our income from these dues should be $2,245. With this money we pay the synagogue caretaker, the secretary, our land payment, electricity, telephone, RACSA, the kosher wine, and all the other expenses that necessarily come with the daily maintenance of our Synagogue and Congregation. These expenses total approximately $2,150 per month. Except for expenses related to having a Rabbi for the Congregation, our dues should cover our regular maintenance expenses. This, unfortunately, does not happen because all of the members rarely pay on time every month. At the present time, of the eight funds which we manage (Congregation, School, Rabbi, Building, Publications, Cemetery, Youth, and Tzedakah), four of them are negative for a total of more than $12,000, because of unpaid dues and pledges. One of the funds with a negative balance of more than $3,000 is the School Fund. We cannot deny our children Jewish education. Certainly the parents of our school children can cooperate by timely paying their fees, necessary to support the infrastructure of the School.
We now have a Rabbi. The cost of having a Rabbi amounts to approximately $6,700 a month for salary and related expenses. We need money for these expenses and appeal to all our members for help. We must again open our hearts and pocketbooks to hold on to something that means so much to us. We must think of the children who have taken their Bar or Bat Mitzvah in B’nei Israel, in the conversions, the marriages, what we have learned, the spiritual satisfaction of celebrating services on Shabbat and Holidays, and decide if it is worth the effort to maintain all that we have put in motion during the past years.
Please know that your treasurers are always willing to speak with you and adapt to your needs. As members of B’nei Israel, however, we are obligated to pay monthly and on time if we want our Community to continue as the Liberal Jewish centre of Costa Rica. As members, we must also make additional donations to support the Rabbi Fund for the spiritual guidance that we all need.
Hilda ten Brink
Gordon Finwall
Five years ago, 1998, Hurricane Mitch devastated Tegucigalpa like an avenging retribution of a super-power. The capital city of Honduras was pounded with rain and winds without stop for 10 days. The river crested and swamped the lowlands of the city and environs, swallowing everything in its path and costing thousands of lives.
I flew in to see the damage after the storm had subsided. I had never seen such total devastation. I was taken to where the small house that was the place of worship for the tiny (35 families) Jewish Community of Tegucigalpa used to stand. It was a ruins. Also, the Sefer Torah was lost. Ultimately it was found by two young boys who lived nearby, who dug for it in the mounds of mud that surrounded the area. No one believed it would ever be restored. The remarkable restoration of the Torah, a two-and-a-half year undertaking by a Scribe and assistants in New York, is a story unto itself; a testament to the faith and discipline, incredible determination of a faithful few that believed it could and would be done.
On August 30th, 2003, I flew into Tegucigalpa once again, to witness the inauguration of the new Synagogue of the Comunidad Hebrea de Tegucigalpa. The Losks picked me up, David and Rosario, who were once members of B’nei Israel. It was David who taught our community to chant the music of our services. It was a time when Rosario was inspired to convert formally to Judaism. It was a time when the Losks came to Shabbat with little Rebecca, in a carriage. Rebecca today is a beautiful 18 year old young lady, who could double for a reigning princess.
The following day we arrived at the Synagogue, now beginning to fill with the 120 guests and members. Claudio Kahn was there, together with the new Rabbi from El Salvador, and the Israeli Ambassador to Guatemala, the brother of the President of the country, who has a Jewish background (his father and grandfather were Jewish), the Bishop of Honduras, the President of B’nai Brith in our region, and many others. The weather was warm and the sun was strong.
![[Foto de Sinagoga Shevet Ajim]](Shevet_Ajim_Synagogue.jpg)
Philip Gelman, the President of the Honduras Community, and who was mainly responsible for obtaining the grants and donations which made the building possible, was in charge and spoke from the Bimah.
The design of the Ark and the Bimah is beyond description. The woodworking for which Honduras is famous, was never more evident.
I won’t describe what I saw, because the pictures will do it for me. (To view more pictures, please visit the UJCL webpage at: http://www.ujcl.org ). However, I can tell you that I was super charged with emotion on that day and will always remember the occasion with affection, pride, and an overall feeling that we Jews are not about numbers; we are about achieving – and continuity.
Congratulations to the Honduras Jewish Community, to Phil Gelman and the Board, and to the Congregation that could.
Marvin Sossin
As we begin a new semester, I am filled with the excitement of a “new beginning”. All beginnings are new. But this one is special. We are embarking on a new journey: a guided tour. Before, we were as pioneers, struggling along our path. But now, as Rabbi Holzman becomes part of our B’nei Israel family, we have a leader, and the assurance of a new, stronger path.
Personally, it is very exciting to have a teacher. I spent one session learning about Talmud; another about Responsa. And there are many, many more sessions to look forward to from which to learn, grow, develop in my Jewish knowledge.
As we begin this new path, I hope we can all share in this excitement of learning. Over the next few months, we will be instituting new opportunities for learning throughout our B’nei Israel community, for students of all ages: evening classes, open sessions, book clubs, cooking classes; Shabbat learning opportunities; morning and/or afternoon sessions for adults, to name some of the ideas.
We are also opening our Education Committee to new members. If you are interested in taking part in the planning of this “new beginning”, please let me know.
In the meantime, come upstairs; visit the newly painted and re-decorated classrooms. Soon the library will move upstairs, creating a new space in which our members can read, study, borrow books. There is a board with the “phrase of the month” and another with three words: an everyday Hebrew word, a Hebrew value word, and a word or expression in Yiddish. This month’s phrase is from Pirke Avot, Simon the Just: “The world is sustained by three things: by Torah, by worship, and by loving deeds.” Through study, we begin to strengthen these bases that sustain the world!
Come share with us on the new path of the Jennifer Sossin School!
Jody Bonilla
By Julián Schvindlerman
As an Argentine writer specializing in Middle East affairs, I have good reason to be intrigued by the recent primary elections of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) in El Salvador. The July 27 primaries faced off Schafik Handal with Oscar Ortiz. The winner, Handal, of Palestinian descent, has announced that if elected president of El Salvador in 2004, he would maintain diplomatic relations with Israel but would close his country's embassy in Jerusalem (El Salvador and Costa Rica are the only two nations to keep their embassies in Israel's capital).
The leftist FMLN has at present the largest bloc in the legislature and a past of close cooperation with the Palestine Liberation Organization. FMLN fighters were trained by the PLO in Lebanon during the 1970s; in 1982 Yasser Arafat underlined the link between his organization and the Salvadoran guerrillas: ``We have connections with all the revolutionary movements of the world, in El Salvador, Nicaragua -- and I repeat, El Salvador -- and anywhere else in the world.''
As Arafat said, the FMLN was by no means the only Latin American guerrilla group to be aided by the Palestinian terrorist organization: Colombia's M-19, Chile's Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria, Brazil's Vanguardia Popular Revolucionaria, and Argentina's Montoneros, too, were trained by PLO militants, mostly in Lebanon, but some in Libya.
It was, however, in Daniel Ortega's Nicaragua and Fidel Castro's Cuba where the PLO had the strongest penetration in the region, as authors Robert Thomas Baratta, Mordechai Nisan, Jillian Becker and others have documented.
When Marxist Ortega became president, Arafat visited him and declared that ''the road to Jerusalem goes through Managua.'' The PLO relationship with the Sandinistas began during the early 1970s and grew so much that it has been estimated that more than 200 Nicaraguan guerrillas had been trained in Lebanon by 1979. The PLO provided weapons and money to the Sandinistas, and Palestinian pilots flew with Nicaragua's Air Force.
In June 1979, a spokesperson for the Sandinista National Liberation Front told the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Watan that ''at the beginning of the '70s, Palestinian and Nicaraguan blood was shed in Amman and other places during the battles of Black September.'' A year later, Arafat told a Nicaraguan audience, ''Our links are not new, your comrades did not just come to our country for training, but to fight.'' And it was in Nicaragua where the PLO had its most populous ''office'' in Latin America, with more than 50 ``military and diplomatic delegates.''
As to Cuba, the communist island broke diplomatic relations with Israel in 1973, and Castro gave the Israeli Embassy building to the PLO -- a move that later would be imitated by the Ayatollah Khomeini, Idi Amin and Daniel Ortega. By the end of 1967, Palestinians were being trained by KGB experts in the island. In 1974, Cuba became the first Latin American country to welcome a PLO ''office of representation'' in the region, which years later would be upgraded to embassy status. During the Lebanon war, Castro sent his foreign minister to Beirut as a show of public support for Arafat. And Castro was instrumental in promoting Third World opposition to the 1979 Camp David agreements between Israel and Egypt, a peace accord that the PLO rejected.
The close relations that the PLO cultivated with leftist radical groups from the late '60s onward paid politically when some of their leaders eventually took power in their countries. Nicaragua is a clear example of this, and the fact that Arafat might still reap benefits even as late as 2004 in El Salvador is testimony to the effectiveness of the PLO's policy of outreach to guerrilla movements of yesteryear.
Next year Handal will vie for the presidency with the candidate of the current ruling party, the right-wing National Republican Alliance (ARENA), and with the still-to-be-elected candidate of a centrist coalition formed by the Christian Democratic Party (PDC) and the Centro Democrático Unido (CDU).
Let's hope that Salvadorans will vote the FMLN leader down and thus show us that Handal -- like Castro and Arafat -- is an ideological dinosaur on his way to political extinction.
This would be good not just for El Salvador but for the rest of the world as well.
Julián Schvindlerman is a columnist in The Miami Herald and author of Land for Peace, Land for War (in Spanish), which is for sale at the Librería Universal. With views to present his work and deliver a series of conferences, Mr. Schvindlerman will be in Costa Rica at the beginning of next November. Those interested in buying the above mentioned book on a special price, please contact Lizzi Fachler, tel. 382-2899.
By Rabbi Michael Holzman
This month we begin a new part of our bulletin and web site: “Ask the Rabbi.” Many synagogues have such a column, where members of the synagogue can send a question to the rabbi and he/she responds in the bulletin. We have been collecting questions for a couple of months, but I want to try something a little different with my answers.
I must begin with a disclaimer: I am not giving Psak Halakhah¸ which is authoritative findings of rabbinic law. I am not a posek (an authoritative judge of Jewish law) and I do not want to be one. I do not believe in the authority of a rabbi to hand down decisions that require individual Jews to behave in a certain way. Rabbis have not always had this kind of authority, the power of rabbis has ebbed and flowed through the generations. But the story of that ebb and flow is a topic for another column (or sermon).
So if I am not giving Jewish legal rulings, what is this column?
Rulings of halakhah (Jewish law) are based upon reference to earlier laws and biblical passages. They exist because of their origin solely in tradition. Innovation does exist in halakhah, but it must be cloaked in the garments of the texts. If someone has a new idea or question, even if the answer is entirely new, it must appear as a discovery within existing texts—something earlier generations did not elucidate fully.
When I answer an “Ask the Rabbi” question, I look to legal texts as only one voice among many in giving my answer. Other voices include the wide variety of other texts, biblical, midrashic, philosophical, mystical, Hasidic, and modern that have been written throughout our history. In addition, in answering your questions I also consider our responsibilities as members of the modern world, our personal spiritual paths and origins, our individual theological beliefs, and our personal ethical imperative. I will try to summarize the views of traditional law on the subject, but I also include these other voices creating a conversation around the subject. I believe this is what separates progressive Jews, we consider the entire spectrum of Jewish tradition, including but not limited to the more focused view of legal writers. This is how we make progressive Jewish decisions.
One more note. Asking questions is a treasured Jewish tradition, one we need to increase in the modern Jewish community. Unfortunately, most modern Jews finish their Jewish education at the age of 13. Jews today have sometimes 20 years of secular education becoming doctors, lawyers, college professors, architects, engineers, psychologists and so on, yet we often leave Jewish school at 13, after only 4-5 years of education. Many Jews continue learning in their fields, reading journals, attending conferences, and learning from colleagues, but in our Jewish lives, we rarely continue learning. Asking questions is the beginning of such learning. Nevertheless, sometimes people may feel embarrassed by their supposed lack of knowledge. For this reason, all questions will remain anonymous.
Are there any laws concerning the celebration of a conversion? If we consider conversion as a life-cycle event (at least for the person involved), shouldn't it be celebrated publicly? Do they have to be sort of a "secret", as if the converted person is ashamed of his/her past? Are they like that because of halakhah or because of minhag? Please note that I'm not speaking about the ritual, but about the way to celebrate the event.
Relative to other areas of Jewish law we have very little Jewish legal material on Gerut. Maimonides’ Mishneh Torah and the Shulchan Aruch deal with the subject in summary fashion. The reason for this dearth of material is that for most of Jewish history, the gerut of a non-Jew to Judaism has been illegal in Christian and Muslim lands. Therefore, people just did not convert very often, and legal scholars had little reason to write about it.
The traditional literature does require a beit din of 3, and for this reason, according to Walter Jacob, gerut is a public statement. The traditional law also states that an individual converted as a child has the opportunity at the age of maturity to renounce Judaism as if he/she were never a Jew. Halakhah also allows gerim to marry a wider range of individuals, such as individuals with questionable lineage. Therefore the public must know who is a convert to permit these decisions at the time of Bar/Bat Mitzvah or the wedding. These are halakhic reasons why conversion is public.
We also have the minhag that converts usually receive the Hebrew name as ben Avraham (son of Abraham), or bat Rut (daughter of Ruth—the first female convert—I often suggest bat Sarah as well). Since this Hebrew name is used in all public ceremonies, the public always knows who is a convert.
From the halakah and the minhag it is clear that conversion is public. Nevertheless, it is also a personal decision. Converts often receive discrimination from certain Jews and can be uncomfortable openly declaring their non-Jewish origin. This derives from individuals who see Judaism as an ethnic community, something passed by blood. No matter how distasteful this behavior may be, it still exists, and for this reason the privacy of a convert should be treated with sensitivity.
In our community, gerim undergo a year of limud, and often they have spent many years prior studying on their own. The process is rigorous, and the gerut marks the completion of a difficult task. In addition, conversion is an event in the life of not just the individual ger or gioret but also in the life of family and friends who have supported this individual and participated in the process as well.
In the modern world, all of us could chose to assimilate and to leave Judaism behind. Many Jews follow this choice. For this reason gerut is an event in the life of a community, welcoming new members, and celebrating the decision of every single individual, whether born Jewish or not, to embrace Judaism. For these reasons, a public celebration can be quite appropriate.
In order to fully integrate the conversion into the life of the community, I recommend that the public ceremony be built into an existing, ongoing synagogue activity or service. Therefore, in my opinion, a blessing of converts in front of the Ark and in front of the entire congregation on a Shabbat evening (followed by an extra big oneg Shabbat) afterwards, would be most appropriate.
Finally, the tradition teaches that a convert is like a Jew on the first day he/she is born. For this reason, we should create our public conversion ceremony to resemble a baby naming ceremony, in which we publicly welcome a new life into the congregation.
If you have any questions concerning Jewish issues, please contact Rabbi Michael Holzman,
at the synagogue – tel. 231-5243 - or by e-mail, at: mholzman@hotmail.com .
He will be very pleased to answer, and all of us in B’nei Israel will learn something new and important.
Given by Jorge Shulman, Myriam Lipszyc, and others from LEATID
of the Joint Distribution Committee for our congregation only.
Date: Weekend of the 20 and 21 of September
Place: Hotel San José Palacio
* Saturday morning services
* Afternoon workshops
* Coffee break
* Havdalah service
* All day long Sunday conferences
* Lunch and two coffee breaks.
Cost: ¢15.000 per person. All materiales included
$20 additional for simultaneous interpretation,
as the conference will be given in Spanish.
For reservations, please contact Rabbi Holzman, Jody, or Hilda.
Limited space.
taken from The Big Book of Jewish Humor
When Yankel met Mendel on the train, he was surprised to find his friend in pain, yelling “Oy” every minute or two.
“What’s the matter with you?” asked Yankel.
“It’s my feet,” replied Mendel. “My feet are killing me. It’s because my shoes are too small.”
“But that’s crazy,” replied Yankel. “Then why do you wear them?”
“I’ll tell you why. My partner made off with all our profits. My daughter is about to marry a goy. My other daughter is so ugly and unpleasant that she’ll never get married. My son is nothing more than a bum. My wife doesn’t stop nagging. And bills – every day I come home and there are more bills to be paid. Right now I’m out of work. And so every night I go home, and then I take off these shoes – and Yankel, believe me, I feel like a million dollars!”
Two Jews are sitting silently over a glass of tea.
“You know,” says the first man, “life is like a glass of tea with sugar.”
“A glass of tea with sugar?” asks his friend. “Why do you say that?”
“How should I know?” replies the first man. “What am I, a philosopher?”
A merchant bought a sack of prunes from his competitor. Opening the sack, he saw that the prunes had begun to go rotten. He went back to the seller and demanded his money back. The seller refused, and the two men went to see the rabbi to settle their dispute.
The rabbi sat down at a table between the two men and emptied the sack in front of them. Then he put on his eyeglasses, and without saying a word, he went to work, slowly and carefully tasting one prune after another and each time shaking his head.
After some time had passed, the plaintiff finally spoke up: “Nu, Rabbi, what do you think?”
The rabbi, who was about to consume the last of the prunes, looked up and replied sharply: “Why are you fellows wasting my time? What do you think I am – a prune expert?”
Somebody once asked Motke Chabad, the legendary wit: “Tell me, Motke, you’re a smart fellow. Why is kugel called kugel?”
Motke lost no time in responding. “What kind of silly question is that? It’s sweet like kugel, isn’t it? It’s thick like kugel, isn’t it? And it tasted like kugel, doesn’t it? So why shouldn’t it be called kugel?”
This year, please buy your New Year's Cards at B'nei Israel.
Lauran Bonilla is selling hand-painted Jewish art cards
as a fund-raiser for the congregation.
Cards are appropriate for Rosh Hashanah greetings,
Bar/Bat Mitzvah, or wedding gift cards, note cards.
Cards can be purchased at the synagogue.
Or call: 231-5243 or 289-9321.
| FESTIVITY | DATE - TIME | PLACE |
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| EREV SHABBAT | Friday, September 19 8:00 p.m. |
Synagogue |
| SLICHOT | Saturday, September 20 11:00 p.m. |
Synagogue |
| EREV ROSH HASHANNAH Service: Dinner: |
Friday, September 26 6:00 p.m. 8:00 p.m. |
Synagogue Hotel San José Palacio |
| ROSH HASHANNAH First day service: |
Saturday, September 27 10:00 a.m. |
Synagogue |
| TASHLICH | Saturday, September 27 5:00 p.m. |
To be announced |
| ROSH HASHANNAH Second day service |
Sunday, September 28 10:00 a.m. |
Synagogue |
| EREV SHABBAT SHUVAH | Friday, October 3 6:30p.m. |
Synagogue |
| SHABBAT SHUVAH | Saturday, October 4 10:00 a.m. |
Synagogue |
| KOL NIDRE Service EREV YOM KIPPUR |
Sunday, October 5 6:00 p.m. |
Synagogue |
YOM KIPPUR
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Monday, October 6
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Synagogue |
| EREV SUKKOT | Friday, October 10 6:30 p.m. |
To be announced |
| SIMCHAT TORAH | Friday, October 17 6:00 p.m. |
Synagogue |
