AUGUST 2013/AV-ELUL, 5773

Celebrating Rabbi Cohen’s 20th Year at TSTIFriday, June 7, 2013

ClergyRabbi Daniel M. Cohen, D.Min.Rabbi Ellie Lynn Miller, M.A.R.E.Cantor Rebecca MosesCantor Joan FinnRabbi Emeritus, Harvey S. GoldmanCantor Emeritus, Theodore Aronson

Lay LeadershipJay Rice, PresidentHeidi Sussman, VPSue Wishnow, VPRussell Kaplan, VPMax Weisenfeld, VPGail Kanef, VPJennifer Larson, VPRenee Helfenstein, VPCraig Krandel, TreasurerJanet Schwamm, Secretary

Leslie Y. Sporn, Executive DirectorCarol Paster, Preschool DirectorMindy Schreff, Religious School DirectorTracy Horwitz, LSW, Program DirectorBeth Sandweiss, MA, MSWJFS Social Worker at TSTISunny Seglin, Bulletin

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Schedule of Services

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Laurie Landau and Susan Siegeltuch

Shabbat Services begin at 6:00 PM in July and August

A huge heartfelt THANK YOU to everyone who helped make the celebrations for Rabbi Cohen’s 20th so special. The Friday evening worship, presentation by Carol Meyers and Oneg were warm, educational and delicious. The children had a great time at their special program and oneg. Thanks to Debbie Bernstein, Matty Goldberg, Linda Scharf, Joie Berman, Alice Forman, Roberta Probber, Rabbi Miller and of course the army of bakers and dessert makers, the beautiful voices of the Women’s Connection Choir and everyone who attended to make the evening special.

The Saturday event was an evening to remember, filled with spectacular food and drinks, Rabbi Ellenson’s engaging talk and great music, all within the cel-ebratory atmosphere created by Tracy Fox and her team. Thank you to everyone who had a hand in creating this most memorable evening: Sue Wishnow, Randi Rievman, Heidi Sussman, Lana Rosenberg, Helene Sorin, Roberta Probber, Judy Epstein, Gail Barry, Howard Gellis, Jay Rice, Leslie Sporn and the entire of-fice staff who pitched in to help with countless extra requests over the last six months.

As you may have heard the Rabbinic Endowment for Jewish Learning raised in excess of $725 ,000 (as of early June); a huge success to honor Rabbi Cohen’s vision. Thanks to chair Gary Shedlin as well as David Baum, Jay Rice, Sue Wish-now, David Wishnow, Brett Harwood, Gail Kanef, Rob Cohen and Jules Nissim.

More to come in the next bulletin with even more photos!! Thanks to everyone who supported the events and the Endowment as our unified TSTI community.

We would like to thank the following members of the Adult Education for their energy, commitment, ideas and hard work over the last few years:

Debbie Bernstein Ellen Blake Judy EpsteinSusan JosephLois LarkeyEllen Nolff

And a warm welcome to our new chairperson, Heidi Sussman, and the following new members:

Barbara LowellEllen RiceLori Feigenbaum

We look forward to another year of exciting Jewish programing.

Jamie Ostroff Pam RiesenbergLois SchillingRenee SpelmanRuth TennerRoger Sachs

Jill FarrerDiana GalerSharon Lindberg

A note of thanks to the Adult Education Committee

Please remember, tickets will be issued only to members in good standing. Please check your account and call the bookkeeping office with any questions. We’d like everyone to be with us to enjoy services at Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.

Thank You to “Team Cohen”All Who Made the Celebration Possible

Cover photos credit: Bob Krasner, bobkrasnerphoto@gmail.com

A Note About High Holy Day Tickets . . .

What Once was Lost, Now is Found . . .. . . and is hanging or on tables in our coatroom. If you’ve lost children’s clothing, coats, books, umbrellas, etc. please look in the coatroom or contact the preschool or religious school if the item is a child’s. What isn’t claimed by the end of August will be given to a charitable organization.

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The President’s Point of View

From the Rabbi’s Study

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I am writing this article in early June, just days after the passing of Senator Lautenberg. When you read this it will be August, the middle of summer with the High Holy Days only weeks away. I want, however, to write about the Senator and the lessons he taught all of us who were lucky enough to be part of the con-gregation of which he was a member.

I am sure that we all will have read the many articles about the Senator; his humble beginnings, the issues he passionately fought for, his commitment to Israel and the Jewish people, and the enormous impact he had on making this country great.The question that came to me as I read about his life was why did he remain such a loyal TSTI congregant? As we all know, he was a regular attendee at Rosh Hashanah services. I so much enjoyed walking up to him each year to ask if he would come up to say the prayer for our leaders. He always said yes but with the proviso that he would not have to give a speech. And, of course, after he recited the prayer, the speech came next. He would shrug his shoulders, look at the clergy and me and say, “I just can’t help it!”

And he did more than just attend services. He was a most gener-ous benefactor to many of our causes, endowments and cam-paigns, usually done in a very quiet and inconspicuous manner.Rabbi Cohen and Senator Lautenberg became very good friends, talking often. My sense was that Rabbi Cohen became one of a very small group of people that the Senator felt he could com-fortably and openly talk to.

There were, however, many reasons for Senator Lautenberg to let go of his relationship with TSTI. Most of his time over the last 30 years was spent in Washington. The Senator and his wife also lived in New York City were Mrs. Lautenberg had a long- standing relationship with the Park Avenue Synagogue.

So why did he stay? Surely, it was not for political benefit. I am certain that even if he never came to a TSTI service most of our members would have supported him. My belief is that he remained because he never forgot his roots and he never forgot that he was a part of a community. I think that he so enjoyed greeting the TSTI members that he had known for decades. I believe that when he came to our sanctuary he felt that he was home. He came because he believed that the TSTI community was indeed special.

Dear friends,

As we hit the midpoint of the summer I wanted to take this opportunity to express to all of you how profoundly grateful I am for the celebrations in June. In fact, even though you are only reading them now, I’m actually writing these words the day after the Friday evening service. I am grateful for all of the support, kindness and generosity in helping to establish our new endowment. We will see the direct benefit of the endowment as early as this fall and I thank all of you.

I hope that you have had some time to slow down and enjoy the warm and relaxing summer weather over these past weeks and I also trust that you are looking forward to things picking up again soon. As you know we will formally end the more relaxed summer services on Labor Day weekend, then jump right into the New Year and all that the High Holy Days will bring. Be-cause so much can happen between my writing these words in mid-June and you reading them, I’m keeping this column rather generic. We will, of course, be updating the temple website, the temple iPhone app, the Thursday Blast, and our Facebook page throughout the summer so please check these sources for information on worship, programming and other important TSTI news.

I’m looking forward to seeing all of you in a few short weeks if not before.

Wishing you the very best,

This year features a once in a lifetime event for us as American Jews. This year, for the very first time since 1888 Thanksgiving and Hanukah will collide. Yes, you can have latkes with your turkey and sing I Have a Little Dreidel while sitting around the Thanksgiving table. Why is this a once in a lifetime experience? Why do the Jewish holidays always seem to come “late” or “early?” Come to our S’lichot program and find out! Learn a little bit about our calendar and about the songs associated with the holidays of each season. As we prepare to start the New Year, come find out why this year will be one like no other.

S’lichotSaturday, August 31 7:00PM

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Linda and Rudy Slucker Religious School

Mindy SchreffReligious School Director

And on that Note . . .

This is the time of year that most rabbis and cantors spend both dreading and, at least in my case, secretly excited about. The upcoming holidays are like my Super Bowl. I train. I prepare. I plan my strategy and check my equipment, in this case my books of music, white robe, and comfortable black heels. The pressure is great and nothing less than perfection is expected. Just like the teams that play in the Super Bowl I pre-pare myself mentally and physically to do my best and leave it all on the field, or the bimah.

While I strive for perfection, I have recently been wondering if perfection is indeed something to want. While studying classi-cal music in university, my teachers’ ideas of “perfect” were the goals I strived for. These ideals were based on the singers who had come before me and made certain roles and arias famous. While studying in cantorial school, “perfection” was a little more ambiguous and, therefore, harder to attain. It was one of those things that you knew when you saw it, but you wouldn’t know how to define it beforehand. A perfect cantorial moment was the most beautiful singing of just the right piece of music for that performer. Now, perfection is recognized in hindsight, and I struggle to recreate that whenever possible. Perfect for one person is anything but perfect for another. A perfect moment for me now is something that touches me as the singer and someone else as the listener and allows us both to feel whatever it is that we need to feel in that moment.

For me, perfection means that something is completed and that I have found the best possible expression of whatever it is I have tried to achieve. If I may go back to my football analogy… I have run the play absolutely according to the playbook and it turned out exactly as I imagined it. And in that lies my real issue with the idea of perfection: all the imagination and creativity that went in to planning for that one perfect moment was the fun part. Seeing it to fruition is amazing, but now what? In both the case of the Cantor who finds a perfect moment and the football player who throws the perfect pass, that moment is gone. The conditions that created it will never come again. That “perfect” will never be attainable again. So, we move on to try to find the next opportunity for perfection and the one after that, con-stantly chasing that ideal, knowing that we can do it, but maybe never living up to that again.

I would rather focus on the preparation. This is what I call striv-ing for excellence, rather than perfection. Excellence, for me, is

Happy summer! This is the time of year educators re-charge their batteries and fuel-up for the upcoming year. I love to search for new resources, read all those books I have no time to read during the rest of the year and try to visit some new places that spark my creative thinking for our school.

I started the warm weather learning with a two day intensive course at the Matan Institute along with Carol Paster. The Insti-tute aims to provide educators with the tools they need to create inclusive Jewish communities for students with special learn-ing needs. Carol and I will be working alongside our teachers to continue to provide learning opportunities that allow every child to grow and explore. It was an amazing start of a two-year journey and I look forward to the continued learning and growth that will take place for us all.

Next stop was Chicago, which included a visit to the Spertus Institute for Jewish Studies. There was an enlightening exhibit called “Voices and Visions” comprised of posters by contem-porary Jewish artists based on quotes from Torah, Talmud and prominent Jewish leaders. The one that really resonated with me was the quote by Blu Greenberg, a feminist Orthodox activist: “Once I had tasted the fruit of the tree of knowledge, there was no going back”. It reminded me of why I am a Jewish educator: I hope that once our students have a taste of the rich-ness of our Jewish heritage they will continue to want to delve deeper and make those personal connections that encourage them to be life-long learners. As soon as I arrived home, I packed up to head to NEWCAJE in Massachusetts, which is always an amazing three days of learn-ing. There are hundreds of workshops offered that vary from those geared to professional growth for directors to ideas for school and classroom programming. Some of the classes that really jump started my thinking were so cleverly titled I could not resist: “Pray Ball! Teaching meaning through metaphor in Jewish Prayer,” “Servant Leadership: Is it a way to get the next generation to embrace Jewish education?” and finally, “When I study, God talks to Me”. These were just a few of the “out of the box” workshops that inspired me to delve into the many ways to approach Jewish learning. I came home with a suitcase full of ideas to encourage our students to become an even stronger community of learners, ready to explore our collective and personal pasts as they build their Jewish futures.

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A Thought to Share

The Iris Family

It’s hard to write an exciting, inspirational and timely article when it is due by the first of June and the audience will be reading this near the end of August. School isn’t over yet so I can’t write about the fabulous Moving On Ceremony. Camp has yet to begin and by the time you read this, camp will have been closed for a few weeks. It is currently the lull before the storm known as preschool limbo.

At a time when we are giving tours for parents interested in fall enrollment, we are also preparing the new preschool board members for their responsibilities, trying to close the fiscal year and process reimbursement requests even though our final events have not occurred. Camp counselors are prepping their camp themes although they haven’t said goodbye to their current students yet. Every year around this time teachers are looking forward to the last days of school. We can’t wait to finish the year. I’m not exactly sure why. Yes, there are some obvious reasons such as, for most people, not having to work is a happy alternative for a few weeks. But it dawned on me recently that while it seems like a good thing to say goodbye to this crop of happy, enthusiastic, children who know the routines and expectations, in a few weeks we will begin with a fresh crop of anxious, crying children who need to be taught everything the last group already had mastered.

Perhaps it’s not so much looking forward to having time off; personally that’s not the draw for me. Maybe it’s about closure and knowing that I’ve finished something. While I was growing up, my mom often remarked that I started lots of projects but rarely finished any. Although I’d like to take umbrage with that observation, unfortunately it’s an accurate assessment based on the recent fact that I gutted 2 bathrooms more than a year ago and have completed neither. The shutters I built after Hurricane Sandy have yet to be hung. I guess starting to frame the walls for a laundry room in May was not the best example of my prioritizing skills. Nowadays I’d be labeled as a child with A.D.D., but I digress.

Back to the topic of closure. At the end of the school year I remind the teachers at TSTI to encourage the children to be part of the process of closing up their classroom by asking them to check for dried up markers, clean out their cubbies, and take home art works so they can slowly come to the understanding that the school year is ending. It’s important for kids to be part of the process of making the transition from one activity to

I was recently at a meeting at the Partnership for Jewish Learning regarding a grant that TSTI received from the Partnership and the Foundation for Jewish Camping. At the meeting it was revealed that very often families do not speak to their rabbi about overnight camps. Apparently, families are convinced that the rabbi will promote only the camps affiliated with their congregation’s umbrella organization and the rabbi will not have information about other Jewish camps or programs. Sadly, this results in more kids attending secular camps and not Jewish camps.

I have already written in several previous articles about the merits of Jewish camping and specifically Reform Movement camps. And I will say that yes, I have a bias toward Reform Movement camps, especially Camp Harlam, our regional URJ camp. I think Harlam is a great camp but I recognize that it is not the right fit for everyone. I want our TSTI kids to go to Jewish camps, to spend the summer singing Jewish songs, playing sports in a Jewish context and living Judaism 24/7. There are so many camps; large ones, small ones, those concerned with the environment, those featuring sports or, perhpas, science. My goal is to help each family to find the right fit and I do think there is a Jewish residential summer program for everyone!

Our philosophy at TSTI is to meet each person where they are. Our goal is to be inclusive and to create an environment of acceptance. We embrace diversity and believe that it strengthens our community. Everyone on the senior staff is available to you, and we hope that you feel comfortable engaging us in conversation. We know we might not always agree on a solution but we always expect to have honest and fair conversations.

Summer time is a great time to start looking at camp for the next year. I would love to speak with anyone interested in Jewish summer camp to help pick a few that might fit your family well so that you can plan on sight visits accordingly. I want to strongly encourage families to look at Jewish camps and to choose the camp that is right fit. As always, my door is open. I encourage everyone to stop by during the summer to talk camp or to say hello.

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Carol PasterPreschool Director

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another especially when it’s a big change. A change like a new baby coming, a move out of a crib and into a bed, a move to a new home or, as in our case, a move to another age group or another school can feel like a huge burden if the child is left out of the process.

I have now finished this article; the last of the school year. I have had my closure and am now ready to take on my next project. Perhaps by the time you read this article I will have finished at least one of my bathrooms or maybe I hung the shutters. The laundry room? That’s another story.

Liam Aviv ZielonyAugust 17, 2013Liam is the son of Karen Zielony. For his Mitzvah Project, Liam volunteers with the Friendship Circle, helping children with special needs enjoy sports and summer camp.

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Jay Rice, President

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putting my best work out there every time. It’s welcoming that once in while moment of perfection, but recognizing that the wonder and the growth and the beauty come from finding that perfection after the mistakes and missteps. If I work towards putting the same inspiration and creativity into everything I do, if I work toward learning something and becoming better at what I do every day, then I, and those around me, will hopefully find fulfillment and joy in the time we spend praying, talking, and singing together.

As we approach this holiday season I wish for you a year of excellence. I pray for a year where the journey is as meaningful as the destination. I look forward to spending the holidays with you in song, and I can’t wait to see all the wonderful things that this next year holds for you.

As our summer winds down and we all prepare for these very early holidays, I think we can all be thankful for the Senator’s commitment to TSTI, take pride in what we have built to date, and recommit ourselves, as the Senator would want us to do, to making TSTI more meaningful and important to every TSTI fam-ily. It is a wonderful goal to set for the New Year.

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AN UNFORGETTABLE DAY. A MEMORABLE GIFT.

SUBURBAN FUNERAL CHAPEL68 OLD SHORT HILLS RD, LIVINGSTON, NJ

Louis J. Urban, Manager - “NJ Lic. No. 3537”(973) 422-0600 • (800) 938-6372

Funeral Directors: Allan L. Kreitzman - NJ Lic. No. 2522 Louis J. Urban - NJ Lic. No. 3537

THE SOURCE OF COMFORT AND SUPPORT FOR THE JEWISH COMMUNITY SINCE 1880

THE LEADERS IN ADVANCEFUNERAL PLANNING

*Graveside/SOP package includes professional charges, preparation, and local transportation. Does not include casket, vault, shroud and cash disbursements such as cemetery fees, death certificates, gratuities. Request our general price list. Call for details.

Jason L. Apter, Manager, NJ Lic. No. 3650

J.L. Apter Memorial ChapelsA Non Profit Jewish Funeral Home

973.376.2600 • 973.761.12122122 Millburn Ave. • Maplewood, NJ

Independently Owned and Operated

Services available from $4695*Up to a $500 donation back to Temple Sharey Tefilo-Israel from each funeral.In home and at need arrangements available from an Apter family member.

The Apter family returns to Maplewood, continuing to serve

the Jewish Community for four generations.

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WILBER’S PAINTING

973-762-6333Interior & Exterior

Ross’ Shalom Chapels A Lifetime Commitment To Honest, Caring Service

In Our Shared Tradition, At Three Elegant Locations

345 Main Street

Chatham, NJ 07926

415 Morris Avenue

Springfield, NJ 07081

49 Whippany Road

Whippany, NJ. 07981

Toll Free 855-606-3600 � Phone 973-665-1800 � www.rosschapels.com

Mark Samuel Ross, Esq., Manager, N.J. Lic. No. JP03716

Robin L. Ross, Licensed Funeral Director, N.J. Lic. No. JP04283

We Offer A Special Program For Your Synagogue Members Which Provides Cost Savings

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Personalized and compassionate home care

for your loved ones.

(973) 810-0110

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Larry Aronson, Owner Margo Weill, MSW

Karen Frank, RN, BSN

2012

432 Scotland RoadSouth Orange, New Jersey 07079

NON-PROFIT ORG.U.S. Postage Paid

Permit #7091Newark, N.J.

ADDRESS SERVICE REQUESTED

40 South Jefferson RoadWhippany, NJ 07981

NJ 973.560.4540NY 212.361.0022

www.omecaterers.com

Printed on recycled paper.

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Contact us at info@tstinj.org Visit our website at www.tsti.org Ph: 973-763-4116 Fax: 973-763-3941

40 Main StreetWest Orange, NJ 07052973-736-1732

RICHARD STOLZPresident

2950 Vauxhall Road, Union, NJ 07088

Rudolph H. Kindel, Manager, NJ Lic. No. JP03158 Karen Ross Kerstein, Licensed Director, NJ Lic. No. JP03663 Toll Free 1-800-437-5151

At Menorah Chapels at Millburn we recognize the importance you place on planning your final arrangements. Your decision demonstrates both your individuality and compassionate caring for those you love. Our professional team will work closely with you to ensure that your arrangements reflect your wishes and financial situation. Both funded and unfunded pre-funeral planning are available. Like estate planning, it is a responsible decision that makes financial sense.

In your time of need, we are here. To request our Pre-planning Kit, contact us at 908-964-1500.

Independently Owned

...We Truly Care

Menorah Chapels at MillburnMenorah Chapels at MillburnA legacy of caring... for the Jewish community.