We welcome returning and new members:
Stephen & Lynne Stolzer Martin Towbin & Suzan Towlen Rabbi Kenneth Ehrlich & Mary Silva
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Shul School First Day of School September 27 Adult Education
Thursday at the Movies
After a delightfully successful presentation that featured the classic film, "Sunset Boulevard," and an hour-long discussion of the film led by retired producer Ron Silverman, the Thursday Night at the Movies series continues on September 10th with the Oscar-winning film, "The Apartment."
The new series features four films by Billy Wilder, considered one of the best filmmakers of all time. In addition to "Sunset Boulevard" and "The Apartment," the final two films of the series are "Witness for the Prosecution" (November 12) and "Some Like It Hot" (December 10).
The films and discussions take place in the Temple's Conference Room, starting each night at 7 p.m.
Click here for a printable flyer with dates and details.
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We are pleased to announce the upcoming B'Nei Mitzvah dates scheduled for 2015/16: Leah Aaronson
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| Lucas Cook
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| Dane Stewart
| 1/16/2016
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Details for B'Nei Mitzvah will be announced as dates approach.
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Member News!
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We love to hear about and share your personal life events, simchas and accomplishments. Please send us your joyous news for the monthly newsletter to Kathy Balint, Office Manager at [email protected].
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The TES office will be closed on the following days for High Holy Days:
Monday, Sept. 14 Tuesday, Sept. 15 Wednesday, Sept. 23 Monday, Sept. 28 Tuesday, Sept. 29
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Holly & Lenny Neimark | 9/1/2015 | Don Haney II & Karrie Haney | 9/2/2015 | Steve & Anna Werblow | 9/6/2015 | Daniel & Maggie Portrait | 9/7/2015 | Beverly & Pete Jorgensen | 9/21/2015 | Matthew David & Danielle Cooper | 9/22/2015 | David & Linda Young | 9/29/2015 |
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Anya Saturen | 9/1/2015 | Aaron Berg | 9/2/2015 | Dr. Steven Hersch | 9/2/2015 | Glenn Sagal | 9/2/2015 | Cheri Sperber | 9/2/2015 | Robin Miller | 9/3/2015 | Julie Dubiner | 9/4/2015 | Leah Aaronson | 9/5/2015 | Isaac Schoneberg-Dolinar | 9/5/2015 | Cara Semanisin | 9/5/2015 | Maggie Portrait | 9/6/2015 | Stephanie Nead | 9/7/2015 | Emily Simon | 9/7/2015 | Hannah Spector | 9/8/2015 | Rabbi Joshua Boettiger | 9/9/2015 | Asher Werthaiser | 9/9/2015 | Jeffrey Beaupain | 9/10/2015 | Emilie Dempsey | 9/10/2015 | Sasha Borenstein | 9/12/2015 | Ines Finkel | 9/13/2015 | Gerald Sonnenschein | 9/13/2015 | Dr. Mack Bandler | 9/14/2015 | Helen Reinhold | 9/15/2015 | Don Haney II | 9/16/2015 | Grant Miller | 9/18/2015 | Adam Parris | 9/18/2015 | Jeremy Samuel Treger | 9/18/2015 | Jasmine Gillett | 9/19/2015 | Elianna Hersch | 9/20/2015 | Miriam Liberatore | 9/20/2015 | Glenn Gelfenbein | 9/21/2015 | Seth Hill | 9/21/2015 | Micah Lieberman | 9/21/2015 | Ofer Alves | 9/23/2015 | Alina Metz | 9/23/2015 | Jeff Solomon | 9/26/2015 | David Stone | 9/27/2015 | Janice Slater | 9/28/2015 | Mel Canal | 9/30/2015 | Jim Warriner | 9/30/2015 |
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Yahrzeit Candle Lighting Prayer
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For the love that death cannot sever, for the time we shared along life's path, for the gifts of heart and mind, we are grateful. Divine one, help us to understand that grief and love go hand in hand.
As we are made more aware of light by kindling this Yahrzeit candle, may we remember the light which (say the name) brought in the world.
Zich-ro-no(m) Zich-ro-nah(f) liv'ra-cha. May his/her memory be for a blessing.
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TES Business Sponsors are helping to underwrite the cost of digital communication. Be sure to support and show appreciation for our business sponsors (shown below). Their contact information can be found in TES Weekly, Kol Ha'Emek and on the TES website. If you would like to become a business sponsor please contact Larry Diamant at [email protected]. |
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Message from Rabbi Boettiger
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It's been a tradition in recent years that as the summer wanes and the High Holy Days draw near, my family and I have been on vacation up here in the Gulf Islands of British Columbia.
It's an obvious thing to point out, but life on an island is in constant relationship with the sea. You go out to a restaurant and everyone has a floating keychain sitting on the table. Barnacles seem to be growing everywhere. And having these past two weeks to watch the tireless march and retreat of the tides, to begin to learn to sail, to swim in the cove - all this ocean exposure has felt like an intuitive place for me to contemplate the themes of this Rosh Hashanah.
One can look out at the ocean and be aware of everything that doesn't pass away. There's a reason that Genesis begins with the image of G-d hovering over the waters - the shadow of the Eternal is always over us when we stand on any shore. There's less place to hide when one is near the sea, and this can have two effects. On one hand, because more is stripped away it is easier to come face to face with what one has to mend (if not easier to actually begin the work of mending it!). On the other hand, this sense of the ocean's vastness has a way of washing away the little things that cling. We can perhaps see more readily that some things mend themselves, and are not worth obsessing over.
This is not just true in our own inner/outer lives, but also in our collective historical moment. It is tempting to feel sometimes, as all people who have lived at all times do, that our time is witnessing the apex of civilizational drama and all hangs in the balance now in a way that it never did before. True, we cannot duck the hard choices that face us in this time. And - looking out to sea reminds us that there is little new under the sun, and that perhaps we can learn to have more equanimity and clench a little less tightly.
It is also tempting to go too far in the other direction; to feel that there is nothing special or urgent about the time we live in. When we do this we can often find ourselves opting out of anything that feels like an activist mindset. The ocean gives us perspective here, too; it can alert us up to the tasks that lie before us as a people, as a human race. The sea is nothing if not bracing. The ocean wakes us up, which is the very point of the month of Elul.
As always, I want to extend a warm invitation to all of you and each of you to come pray with us at Temple Emek Shalom over these upcoming High Holy Days, beginning with Selichot on this Saturday evening, September 5th.
May this upcoming New Year be one where we feel connected to what is most vital -in our own souls and in the world we all share.
L'shalom,
Rabbi Joshua Boettiger
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Upcoming Special Events & Announcements
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Join Us for High Holy Days 2015 at TES!
Click here for a printable version of the first flyer below. Click here for a printable version of the second flyer below.
Keepers of the Light, September 22-23 As in previous years, we are asking for those who feel called to sit with the yahrzeit candles on Kol Nidre evening and night (September 22) after the services. We are suggesting 2-hour shifts, beginning at 9:00pm until 9:00am. Please contact the TES office at (541) 488-2909 to sign up for a shift.
2015 High Holy Day Season -- Come Participate! TES is planning to continue our tradition of a warm and wonderful Community Break-Fast to culminate the contemplative days of Yom Kippur. Please join in, as our community comes together to create an organized Break-the-Fast pot luck meal to be enjoyed by all. Click here for more information on how and ways to participate. L'Shana Tova! Message from Social Justice Action Committee ONE TON! ONE TON! WE CAN DO IT! It's time for Temple Emek Shalom's annual High Holy Days Food Drive. We've done it before and we can do it again. Just one extra case of food from each member and we're there. Let's do it this year!!
Thursday Night At The Movies, September 10
See Adult Education sidebar for details. Click here for a printable flyer.
Leah Aaronson Bat Mitzvah, September 5, 10:00AMAll are joyfully invited to Leah's Bat Mitvah on September 5. Please RSVP to Susan Aaronson ASAP to [email protected]. Mitzvah Kitchen, September 10 The Mitzvah Kitchen continues and member Jerrine Rowley and her husband David are scheduled to.bake loaves of challah again on Thursday, September 10th, in the Temple kitchen. We ask you, our congregants, to contact the Rabbi or Kathy at 541-488-2909, so a challah can be delivered to you or a fellow congregant who is experiencing a special event or an illness in the family. If you are to receive a challah and are not at home, the challah will be left in a sealed bag by your front door. We hope that the challah that we provide will add to your Shabbat celebration or give you some comfort during a difficult time.
Member-Led Torah Study to Resume October 13After a short hiatus, a weekly member-facilitated Torah Study will meet on Tuesdays from 6 to 7 p.m. in the TES library. This member-driven Torah study is a long-standing tradition at TES, spanning about 25 years. The first study session will begin on Tuesday, October 13th, from 6 to 7 p.m. Each week, a different volunteer group member will facilitate the discussion, choosing drash on the parsha of the week for study. A basic principle of the group is support for individual searching: each of us is likely to have a different take on the parsha. Attendees are asked to have read the week's parsha in advance. We hope for lively, sometimes controversial, but always cordial wrestling with the text. Generally, Rabbi Joshua will lead us on the second Tuesday of each month. We welcome your participation. Previous Torah study experience is not required, nor is a knowledge of Hebrew. If you have any questions, or wish further information, please get in touch with Valentine Jones, Ruth Resch or Syl Zucker, all listed in the TES Member Directory. Temple Emek Shalom's Synagogue is Coming of Age! Thirteen years ago, our Temple Emek Shalom congregation moved into our new home here at 1800 East Main Street. Moving in (and having everything paid for!) was the culmination of years of hard work, dedication, and capital-campaigning committed to and carried out by the leadership and membership in the late 1990s and early 2000s. And now it is our bat mitzvah year. To celebrate this, we will have a bat mitzvah ceremony on Saturday morning, November 14th followed by a festive lunch. More details will follow, but save the date and please join us in giving thanks.
Fall Dates to Note We have a busy fall coming up with lots of interesting and unique events here at TES, in conjunction with the Havurah, and in the community. Please note the following dates on your calendars. More details will be forthcoming in future TES Weeklies and Kol Ha'Emek:
October 15, 17, 18, 22, 24, 25: "Divine Lunacy", a play written by TES member Peter Quince October 31 - Nov. 1: Scholar-in-Residence Shabbaton with Rabbi Ira Stone November 7: Day of Mindfulness with Alexa Singer-Telles November 8: SoulCollage Workshop with Alexa SInger-Telles November 15: Workshop with "Kirtan Rabbi" at TES
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A Time To Remember
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Ralph Schloming | 9/1/2015 | Elul 17, 5775 | Frederick Kolm | 9/2/2015 |
| Cheryl O'Reilly | 9/2/2015 | Elul 18, 5775 | Raymond Parris | 9/3/2015 |
| Samuel Rabinovitch | 9/3/2015 | Elul 19, 5775 | Walter Flatow | 9/4/2015 |
| Sophie Gross | 9/4/2015 | Elul 20, 5775 | Alex Cohen | 9/6/2015 |
| Stuart Sperber | 9/7/2015 |
| Rebecca Charney | 9/8/2015 | Elul 24, 5775 | Nat Silverman | 9/8/2015 | Elul 24, 5775 | Neil Stockton | 9/8/2015 | Elul 24, 5775 | Edward Greene | 9/9/2015 | Elul 25, 5775 | Louis Hershman | 9/9/2015 | Elul 25, 5775 | Rose Hyman | 9/9/2015 | Elul 25, 5775 | Harry S. Kieval | 9/9/2015 |
| Esther Schames | 9/9/2015 | Elul 25, 5775 | Ruth Golding | 9/10/2015 | Elul 26, 5775 | Trudy Flatow | 9/12/2015 |
| Leo Rosenfeld | 9/12/2015 | Elul 28, 5775 | Jacob (Jack) D. Gell | 9/13/2015 | Elul 29, 5775 | Bill Grayer | 9/14/2015 |
| Morton Halprin | 9/14/2015 | Tishrei 1, 5776 | Marion Bergman | 9/15/2015 |
| Arthur Tresser | 9/15/2015 |
| Sara Mae Wolfson | 9/17/2015 | Tishrei 4, 5776 | Asa Arnsberg | 9/18/2015 | Tishrei 5, 5776 | Milton Schein | 9/18/2015 | Tishrei 5, 5776 | Nevin Danner | 9/19/2015 | Tishrei 6, 5776 | Aaron Joseph Katzman | 9/19/2015 | Tishrei 6, 5776 | Leopold Churgin | 9/20/2015 |
| Louis Levi | 9/20/2015 |
| Samuel Mandelblat | 9/22/2015 |
| Harry Newman | 9/22/2015 | Tishrei 9, 5776 | Jennie Priesman | 9/22/2015 |
| Tillie Slomowitz | 9/22/2015 | Tishrei 9, 5776 | Nellie Byer | 9/23/2015 | Tishrei 10, 5776 | Jacob Kessler | 9/23/2015 | Tishrei 10, 5776 | Bert Portrait | 9/23/2015 | Tishrei 10, 5776 | Ida Finkel | 9/24/2015 | Tishrei 11, 5776 | Robert Mark Sendar | 9/24/2015 | Tishrei 11, 5776 | Mike Katz | 9/25/2015 | Tishrei 12, 5776 | Morris Miller | 9/25/2015 | Tishrei 12, 5776 | Harry Weinstock | 9/25/2015 |
| Rose Sonnenschein | 9/26/2015 | Tishrei 13, 5776 | Esther Weitz | 9/26/2015 | Tishrei 13, 5776 |
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