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Published Monthly

Vol 41/No 11

Av-Elul 5767

August 2007

 

Editor: 

Stan Schaffer

Congregation Beth Hamedresh – Beth Israel

B U L L E T I N

 

August President’s Message

 

Friends,

 

I hope you have all been enjoying the summer.  It always seems to me that just as soon as our Rochester summer has finally started, it is already approaching its end!

 

One of the highlights of the BHBI summer has always been our annual August picnic.  This year the Board has decided it is time to try something new!  In place of our usual picnic, this year we will host “Barbecue and Borochu,” a Friday evening chicken barbecue dinner, followed by Shabbat evening services, and concluding with dessert.  So be sure to save the date, Friday, August 24.  Socializing will begin at 5:30 pm, with dinner served at 6:00 pm.  Shabbat services will follow dinner, approximately at 7:30 pm.  Weather permitting, dinner will be outside on our lawn, with services inside in the sanctuary. Please use the reservation form, found on page 5 of this bulletin, to let us know that you are coming!  Reservations are due by Friday, August 17, so that we have time to shop and prepare the right amount of food.

 

“Barbecue and Borochu” will also serve as our OPEN HOUSE event for the year.  All prospective new members are invited to come, free of charge, as our guests.  So please, if you know of any unaffiliated members of the Jewish community, or have any friends who are shul shopping, help spread the word and invite them to come.  They are sure to get a warm welcome and a delicious dinner!  Prospective new members should phone (244-2060) or email (bhbi@frontiernet.net) the shul to make reservations.

 

Since “Barbecue and Borochu” will be a Friday evening event, and many of us work during the day, we are in particular need of volunteers who can come by the shul earlier on Friday afternoon to help set up and to man (or woman) the grills.  Help preparing the food earlier in the week would also be appreciated.  Please contact me (472-6331) if you are able to help.

 

See you at shul,

 

Steve Teitel

 

Join us for a very special event,

Barbecue and Borochu

on Friday evening, August 24th.

The event starts at 5:30 pm followed by dinner at 6 pm and a rousing Kabbalat Shabbat service at 7:30 pm.

See page 5 for reservation information

BHBI CALENDAR OF EVENTS – August 2007

 

Friday

Aug 3

8:00 PM

Shabbat Evening services

     Light candles at 8:11 PM.

Saturday

Aug 4

9:30 AM

Shabbat Morning Service                             Torah: Eikev

Sunday

Aug 5

9:00 AM

Service, Breakfast, Discussion

Wednesday

Aug 8

7:30 PM

Small Conservative Shul Collaborative Joint Torah Study Session at BHBI

Friday

Aug 10

8:00 PM

Shabbat Evening Services

     Light candles at 8:02 PM.

Saturday

Aug 11

9:30 AM

Joint Shabbat Morning Service with Congregants from Temple Beth Am at BHBI                                                             Torah: Re’ei

Blessing for the new month

Sunday

Aug 12

9:00 AM

Service, Breakfast, Discussion

Monday

Aug 13

7:30 PM

BHBI Board Meeting

Friday

Aug 17

8:00 PM

Shabbat Evening Services

     Light candles at 7:51 PM.

Saturday

Aug 18

9:30 AM

Shabbat Morning Service                              Torah: Shoftim

Sunday

Aug 19

9:00 AM

Service, Breakfast, Discussion

Friday

Aug 24

5:30 PM

 

7:30 PM

Barbecue and Borochu

 

Shabbat Evening Services

     Light candles at 7:40 PM.

Saturday

Aug 25

9:30 AM

Shabbat Morning Service                              Torah: Ki Teitzei

Birthday and Anniversary Kiddush

Sunday

Aug 26

9:00 AM

Service, Breakfast, Discussion

Friday

Aug 31

8:00 PM

Shabbat Evening Services

     Light candles at 7:29 PM.

 

High Holy Days & Festivals – Autumn 2007

Rosh Hashanah: Thursday and Friday, September 13 & 14

Yom Kippur: Saturday, September 22

Sukkot: Thursday, September 27 – Wednesday, October 3

Shemini Azeret: Thursday, October 4

Simchat Torah: Friday, October 5

THANK YOU TO OUR KIDDUSH SPONSORS

FOR THE MONTH OF JULY

July 6                 Nina Klionsky and Leon Metlay in memory of their daughter, Nelli Ahuva Metlay

July 13               Karen Schulman in memory of her mother, Louise Ruth Schulman

July 20               Katharine Metlay in memory of her father, David Titof

July 27               Janet Grable in honor of the anniversary of her bat mitzvah

                          

TO OUR DONORS -- THANK YOU FOR YOUR GENEROSITY!

 

GENERAL FUND

John Rothbard

 

In memory of Esther Cole

Helen and Saul Pressberg

Jeffrey and Leah Blum

Kathy Barnstead

TORAH FUND

In honor of the birth of Micah Gould

Ira Cohen

 

In sympathy to the family of Victor Silver

Charles and Laura Levinson

 

DO YOU HAVE FRIENDS WHO ARE UNAFFILIATED?

 

Tell them about BHBI and invite them to attend our services – they will be sure to get a wonderful welcome.  We would also be happy to add them to our bulletin distribution list and send them information about BHBI.  Give their contact information to Harris Honickman, Stan Schaffer or Leon Metlay who will put them on the mailing list

TORAH STUDY

Join friends from BHBI, Temple Beth Am and Temple Beth David for an interesting evening of Torah Study at BHBI at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, August 8th.

 

HIGH HOLY DAY TICKETS

Once again this year, we will be selling reasonably priced tickets for our High Holy Day services.  If you know someone who would like to purchase tickets, please have them call the synagogue office at 244-2060.

 

 

So far our TOPS Gift Card fundraiser has been quite successful.  Remember,

TOPS Gift Cards are now available through BHBI in $50 denominations. 

 

To purchase TOPS Gift Cards, contact Stan Schaffer

at 473-8072 or by e-mail at stanschaffer@frontiernet.net

 

 

GET WELL SOON

To Muriel Hobel who is convalescing at the Highlands at Brighton and to Ben Hobel who is currently at Highland Hospital.

AMAZON.COM

The next time that you want to buy something from Amazon.com, go to the BHBI web page at www.BHBIRochester.org and click on the Amazon.com link.  BHBI gets a percentage of the purchase price each time you link to Amazon.com from our web page.  Buy at Amazon.com and support BHBI at the same time!!

YAHRZEITS

At the following Shabbat Services, we will read the names of our late loved ones whose Yahrzeits will occur on that Shabbat or during the following week.

 

Aug 3-4

Av

Aug. 10-11

Av/Elul

Aug. 17-18

Elul

Aug. 24-25

Elul

Jennie Braime*

Abraham I. Spector*

Alexander aronov

Morrhis Ohl*

Sarah Applebaum Gastel*

Israel Osband*

Bessie Gastel*

Rose T. Cohen

Jacob Osband*

Samuel Wechsler*

20

20

21

21

22

22

25

26

26

26

Ruben Klein*

Esther Marker*

Sarah Weisenberg*

Harry Eber*

Bernard W. Engel*

Rose Gordon

Eva Lederman*

27

27

28

30

30

30

  2

Albert Joffe*

Harold Krinsky*

Ethel Strom*

Harold Schulman

Celia Goodman*

Jennie Levinson

Esther Mandelbaum

Irving Mack*

4

4

4

6

7

7

7

8

David Nidetz

Anna Zakofsky*

Sylvia Album*

Morris Mittelman*

Isidor Hess*

Frumeh Hinensky*

Joseph Taub

A.  Ben Glaser*

Celia Wolk*

 

 

 

 

 

* Denotes name memorialized on BHBI Memorial Plaque

12

12

13

13

14

14

14

16

17

Aug. 31-Sept. 1

Elul

Leonard Mayer Grossman*

Albert Perahya

Pearl Gross

Abraham Goldman*

Maurice Seide*

Hyman Senzel*

Bessie Cominsky*

 

18

18

20

21

21

22

23

We pray that our mourners will be comforted among all the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem and that the memory of the deceased continues to be a blessing to all who knew them.

 

 

Please Support Our Advertisers

    


Please join us for our summer Birthday and Anniversary Kiddush honoring those with June, July or August birthdays and anniversaries, after services on Shabbat morning, August 25th

 

Mazel Tov to those with birthdays:           

      Mazel Tov to our anniversary celebrants:  

 

Allyson Levine 

Nina Klionsky 

Ben Hobel

Nat Goodhartz

  

 

Erika Gunder  

Gavi Springut            

Bob Levine             

Leon Katzen

Katy Lipsky        

 

                                   

Esther Solomon

Patricia Malka y Negri

June

  9

16

18

20

 

July

  1

17

21

29

31

 

August

  8

19 

 

Jeff Nidetz and Leslie Toker

Marco and Patricia Malka y Negri      
Philip and Annette Garver  

Ken and Mollie Traub

Chris and Andrea Paprocki

 

 

Bruce and Katy Lipsky

Art and Judith Mercer

Alan and Emily Fishman

Leon Metlay and Nina Klionsky

                                                           

                 

 June

     5

     8

   11

   14

   20

 

August

     2

   19

   21

   21

 

 

 

KIDDUSH SPONSORSHIP

Would you like to honor or remember a friend or loved one?

Then why not sponsor one of our wonderful Shabbat kiddushim?

Contact Aline Honickman at 271-5145 for more information.

 

MEMORIAL PLAQUES

Several memorial plaques have recently been added to our memorial boards.  You can also memorialize a friend or loved one by purchasing a BHBI memorial plaque.  For more information, contact Stan Schaffer at 473-8072 or stanschaffer@frontiernet.net

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BARBECUE AND BOROCHU RESERVATIONS

To make a reservation for our barbecue dinner on Friday, August 24th, please send this reservation form along with your payment ($10 for adults, $7 for children ages 12 and under) to BHBI, 1369 East Ave., Rochester, NY  14610.

The deadline for receipt of reservations is August 17th.  Note: We will not be accepting payment at the barbecue – You must pay beforehand!

 

Names: __________________________________________________

 

Number Attending: _______________

 

Amount Enclosed: ________________
OFFICE HOURS:  The shul office is checked regularly for mail and messages.  The shul phone is 244-2060.  For urgent issues, call Steve Teitel at 473-5741 or Stan Schaffer at 473-8072.  You can also e-mail us at BHBI@frontiernet.net

 

WANT TO REMEMBER OR HONOR SOMEONE OR A SPECIAL OCCASION? 

Consider sponsoring a kiddush or make a donation to any one of our funds (General Operating, Kiddush, Library, Torah, Rabbi Aaron Solomon Scholarship, Our Youth, Special Events, or the Sam Malina Memorial Fund).  Please indicate which fund you would like your donation to go to and we will send out an acknowledgement card as you indicate and print an announcement in this bulletin.  To sponsor a kiddush, write the congregation or call Aline Honickman at 271-5145.

 

BULLETIN CONTENT

What do you enjoy reading in the BHBI Bulletin?  Is there something that you would like added (or taken out)?  If so, please let Stan Schaffer know.  We always appreciate feedback.

 

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Congregation Beth Hamedresh-Beth Israel

1369 East Avenue

Rochester, NY  14610