Rabbi Carl M. Perkins Cantor Harry Gelman Lesli Reich, President
Coming Up @ Temple Aliyah
25 Nisan, 5764 April 15, 2004
  • IN THIS ISSUE
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    Condolences | Mazal Tov | Living Wall Exhibit | Holocaust Memorial Day | Roses for Mom | Kabbalat Shabbat | JTS Trip | Project Manna | Annual Retreat | Mitzvah Day | In the Community | QuickLinks
  • BARUCH DAYAN EMET
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    Our condolences go out to Temple members David and Linda Gotthelf and their family on the loss of David’s father,  Eugene Gotthelf. The funeral and shiva will be held in Connecticut.

    Our condolences again to our Educational Director, Dr. Beverly Schwartz-Katsh and her family on the loss of Beverly’s brother, Rabbi Gershon Schwartz. The funeral was held in New York on Wednesday. Dr. Bev will begin sitting shiva in New York, returning home late Thursday to complete shiva at her home (67 Richard Road in Needham). Minyans, which are being coordinated by the Newton Centre minyan, will be held at the following times: Friday (4/16) at 8:00 am, Saturday (4/17) at 8:15 pm, Sunday (4/18) at 8:00 am and 7:10 pm, Monday (4/19) at 9:00 am and 7:10 pm, and Tuesday (4/20) at 7:00 am.
    If you think you can attend one of the minyans, particularly on Friday morning, please email Carol Mesch at camesch@comcast.net.

    May the Divine Presence comfort them, among all the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem.
  • MAZAL TOV
    •   Mazal tov to our own Religious School teacher, Bill Lichtman, on being named as a Keter Torah Award honoree by the Bureau of Jewish Education for his outstanding contributions to Jewish education. In addition to teching hundreds of our TA kids over three decades, Bill has also been a major contributor to the programs at Camp Yavneh. The award will be presented at the BJE’s annual meeting on Monday evening, May 10, at the JCC in Newton. Please email Jan ASAP if you would join a contingency from Temple Aliyah at the hors d’ouevres and dessert reception.
  • “A LIVING WALL: DENMARK, OCTOBER, 1943, THE RESCUE OF THE JEWS FROM ANNIHILATION”
    •   The Living Wall Exhibit will continue at Temple Aliyah through April 18.

    The “Living Wall” exhibit commemorates the 60th anniversary of the rescue of the Danish Jews during World War II, when the Danish people saved their Jewish citizens. In October 1943, during the Nazi occupation of Denmark, all available Jewish citizens, numbering over 7,000, were ferried across to neighboring Sweden from Denmark with the widespread cooperation of local fishermen, housewives and children. This occurred just as the Gestapo began its planned roundup of Jews for deportation to concentration camps.

    Recounting this remarkable story through text and illustrations the poster exhibit shows how an entire country was able to marshal its forces and through collective action assure that life could and would be protected.

    The self-guided exhibit will be on display in our “upper social hall” and features 36 poster-sized panels that tell the remarkable story, in careful and accurately written texts and illustrations. The exhibit has absorbed visitors as it has traveled from the US Capitol, where it opened last fall to a record crowd of half of the US Senate and House of Representatives and their staffs and dozens of embassies and their staffs.

    Temple Aliyah is truly fortunate to be one of the hosts of this exhibit in its nationwide tour. Please be sure to stop by and view it.
  • HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY PROGRAM 4/21
    •   Please join us next Wednesday evening, April 21, from 7:30 to 9:30 pm at Temple Beth Shalom in Needham for our annual joint Yom Hashoah program. Author, journalist, entrepreneur, and TBS member David Gumpert will share with us his most recent book, Inge: A Girl’s Journey Through Nazi Europe, a powerful and dramatic personal story form his own family. Following the program there will be a short memorial service.
  • ISRAELI ROSES FOR MOTHERS DAY AND SHAVUOT
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    Help support the economy of Israel and our adopted victims of terror and decorate your home for two special occasions. Orders for Mothers Day are due by tomorrow, Friday, April 16 (Delivery date: Friday, May 7), and orders for Shavuot are due by Monday, May 3 (Delivery date: Monday, May 24).

    Please email your order, including number of dozen and color preference (peach, yellow, yellow with red tips, mixed, red, or no preference), ASAP to Elana Kling Perkins. You will also need to make out a check to Temple Aliyah for the full amount due ($15/dozen) and get it to the Temple office (sorry, roses cannot be put on your Temple bill).
  • KABBALAT SHABBAT 4/23
    •   Our next Friday evening service will be on Friday, April 23 at 6:15 pm (concluding around 7 pm).
  • JTS TRIP 4/25
    •   There is still time to sign up to join Rabbi Perkins and a limited number of congregants (the luxury tour bus holds 40 people) for a full-day trip to the Big Apple. We will leave early in the morning and return late in the evening. We’ll visit the Jewish Museum and the Jewish Theological Seminary, including the Rare Books room at the JTS Library, which alone is worth the trip. The low cost of $100 covers transportation, all food, and museum passes. Our theme for the day will be “Jewish Life in the Medieval Islamic World.” Check the Web site for full details. For more info, email David Lintz.
  • PROJECT MANNA CONCERT 4/28
    •   The 15th annual Project Manna Concert will be held on Wednesday, April 28, 2004 at 7:30 pm, at Temple Emanuel (385 Ward Street in Newton). This fabulous collaboration of Gospel choirs and several synagogue choirs performing together will make you want to jump up and dance in the aisles. Our own Temple Aliyah Choir will be part of this wonderful evening, and we hope you will join us! Tickets may be purchased at the door or in advance from Temple Emanuel (617-332-5771). Individual tickets in advance are $18, $12 for seniors and students, and $20 at the door (you may also sponsor at various levels—call for more details). This money from this concert provides over 10,000 meals each year to those in need. Any questions, contact Margie Brodsky.
  • ANNUAL RETREAT 5/28-30
    •   The sixth annual TA Family Retreat is nopt too far away, so make your reservations now. This is a great event for families young and old. If you’ve been, you know how great it is, and if you haven’t, you owe it to yourself to come to this great getaway. The early reservers get the best rooms, so register now. Contact Terri with any questions.
  • MITZVAH DAY 6/13
    •   This year’s Mitzvah Day will be held on Sunday, June 13. On this Mitzvah Day, the entire Temple community will come together to participate in a wide variety of social action projects. Whether it is cooking food for a homeless shelter, cleaning up the Broadmoor Wildlife Sanctuary, making dolls for sick kids, or planting gardens at group homes in Needham, there will be projects appropriate for almost all ages. Click here for more details. Anyone interested in helping to plan or organize Mitzvah Day, please contact Peter Krupp.
  • IN THE COMMUNITY
    •   The JCRC and Friends of the New England Holocaust Memorial cordially invite the public to attend this year’s Community Holocaust Commemoration Service for Yom HaShoah. The service will take place on Sunday, April 18, 2004 at 1:00 PM at Faneuil Hall. This year’s theme is “Anti-Semitism: Yesterday and Today.” The service will include songs from the Kol Rinah Jewish Youth Chorus of Greater Boston and Makhela, the South Area Solomon Schechter Day School Choir. The service will be followed by a solemn procession to the New England Holocaust Memorial for the recitation of Mourner’s Kaddish in memory of the victims of the Holocaust.
    The keynote address will be delivered by Boston University Professor Paula Fredriksen. Professor Fredriksen specializes in the social and intellectual history of ancient Christianity, from the Late Second Temple period to the fall of the Western Roman Empire. Professor Fredriksen is editor of the book “Jesus, Judaism, and Christian Anti-Judaism: Reading the New Testament after the Holocaust.” For more information, check out the JCRC web site.
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