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Congregation Shaareth Israel February 2021
TEMPLE TIMES
| Lubbock, Texas |
Announcments Dear CSI Family,
Special January programs: We need Purim more than ever!
Book Club on Feb. 13
Wherever we are in the spectrum of
PURIM - As is our tradition, we
being careful and adjusting to this
will combine Purim and pandemic, we are all eager to see this
Shabbat celebrations on past year be but a memory.
Friday night, Feb. 26
On the one hand it may all be over soon. On the other
hand it could last a while. Whatever the case may be,
fantasy is as good a way as any to help us push through
Book Club the current moment as best as we can.
See box, bottom of page 2 In the spirit of Purim’s quick approach, let’s give
ourselves permission to fantasize about the things we are
looking forward to doing, the places we want to travel,
Adult Learning - Musar the crazy things we want to do.
NEW DAY & TIME: Every Many people like to focus on the apparent permission of
Monday at 6:30pm CDT, via drunkenness of Purim. And most quickly forget that the
Zoom wine, or hard alcohol, are only meant as one of the many
tools to fantasize ourselves away from this crazy reality
Everyone is welcome. Please
email Rabbi for more
we are living in.
information. The most obvious and accepted device that Purim
provides isn’t alcohol, but fantasy: costumes that invite
us to pretend to be someone else living a very di erent
Men’s Lunch
life.
The program of monthly When you join us for a Purim celebration, bring your
Men’s Lunches is suspended craziest dreams with you. And hopefully, soon, that
until further notice. We will
dream will become a reality.
resume swapping jokes and
lies when we can do so Missing you from crazy California and wishing you a
without also swapping viruses. fantastic and dream- lled Purim.
Rabbi
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Congregation Shaareth Israel February 2021
Donations
Thank you to all of our donors for your continued support!
To the General Fund:
• Anonymous
February Yahrtzeits • Monty Strauss and Jane Winer in honor of the Rabbi
for her hard work; and in memory of Milton Strauss,
2 20 Sh’vat Edna Chansky Larry Strauss, Ann Schloss Strauss Sal eld, Alfred
4 22 Sh’vat Rabbi Aaron J. Sal eld, Harold Winer, and Elizabeth Winer. And in
To eld memory of our relatives killed in the Holocaust: Stefan
5 Lillie Ogutsch
Strauss, Bella Schloss, and Margit Schloss.
7 Herbert Evensky
8 Scott A. Beason Sr.
Abraham Curzer
To the Building Fund:
Bobbie Freid
• Richard Ginsburg in memory of his sister: Eileen
Herbert Wachtel
Ginsburg Lipsich
9 Morris Strauss
Terry Bennett
10 Bob Fusco
13 Anna Schwartz
20 Aida Mikels
22 10 Adar Bertha Feldman
Moss
23 Perry Berg
24 Mary Lerner
25 Frances Owens Walters
Lee Scott Rachman
26 Benno Ogutsch
27 Sarah Putter
15 Adar Shifra Freytag
CSI Book Club 5781
15 Adar Elizabeth J. Winer
28 16 Adar Josef Schloss March 20 - Peace Like a River by Leif Enge
29 Sam Snyder May 15 - The Things We Cannot Say by Kelly Rimme
July 17 - Year of Living Biblica y by A.J. Jacobs OR Friday the Rabbi
Slept Late by Harry Kemelman
The Story of the Jews by Simon Schama
February 12 - vol. 1 - Part 2, pages 173 - 42
May 22 - vol. 2 - First Hal
August 28 - vol. 2 - Second Hal
Good websites to order (new or used) books from:
Local, independent book sellers
Betterworldbooks.co
Barnesandnoble.com
Powells.co
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Congregation Shaareth Israel February 2021
Refuah Shleimah February Shabbat Services
We offer Mi Sheberach, a prayer for healing, to those 5t Yitro - 7:00 pm - Via Zoo
who are sick, and to all the people who love and care
for those who are sick. If you want additional names Exodus 18:1 - 20:2
mentioned during services, please be sure to email
12t Mishpatim - 7:00 pm - Via Zoom
the rabbi during the week.
• Arthur Bahme Exodus 21:1 - 24:1
• Lin Ehrenpreis
19t Terumah - 7:00 pm - Via Zoo
• Harold Evensky
• Arnold Loewy Exodus 25:1 - 27:1
• Judy Loewy
• Barbara Manhood 26t Tetzaveh - 7:00 pm - Via Zoo
• Jonathan Marks
Exodus 27:20 - 30:1
• Tova Marks
• Monty Strauss
• Jane Winer President’s Corner
Welcome to the President’s Corner
What’s the Board Up To?
Thank You!
The Board met virtually on January 21,
• Thank you to all our lay leaders in beginning with a D’Var Torah from Rabbi and
January: Michael Akins, Leon her activity report: updating our email and
Shturman, and Stephanie Shine; phone lists, meeting with B’Nai Mitzvah
and to our darshanit (who shared words students, leading book club and Mussar (adult
of Torah), Sandra Kurtzman. And an education), teaching all the Religious School
additional thank you to Stephanie classes, and coordinating online services,
Shine for helping to make sure we have whether Rabbi-led or lay-led. Rabbi set up a
lay leaders whenever we need them. phone tree so the Board will be phoning
members to check in and say hello, so that we
keep connected. We had two discussions
about space – a group from the Religious
School is exploring renovating the playground
and a group of Board members will review
Cemetery plots and deeds.
The Board invites your question, comments
and suggestions. We also welcome your
letters to the editor for publication in the
Temple Times. If you are writing a letter for
publication, please specify in your email. We
If any member would like to add a name to will check with you before publishing any
the monthly Yahrzeit list, please send the communications. You are welcome to contact
name, date of celebration, and relationship to us by emailing csilubbock@gmail.com
Leon Shturman (leonsdesk@gmail.com).
Thank you.
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.Congregation Shaareth Israel February 2021 Condolences: We send our heartfelt condolences to the Ginsburg family on the loss of Eileen Ginsburg Lipsich of Dallas. Eileen grew up in Lubbock and attended Religious School at the old Shaareth Israel synagogue on Avenue Q with her siblings Larry (now in Dallas), Jane Ginsburg Fredman (now with husband Richard in St. Louis), Richard (now with wife Carlene in Houston), and Bobby (now Bob, with wife Rhonda in Dallas). Richard was President of CSI around 1988-1992 with Rabbi Stephen Weisberg and Rabbi Sherman Stein. Religious School with Rabbi via Zoom Sunday Kitah Alef - Feb 7, 14, 18 at 10:30am Sunday Kitah Alef, special class at 10am on Feb 21* Sunday Kitah Bet - Feb 7, 14, 21*, 18 at 11am *Both Kitah Alef and Bet will have a “cooking class” via Zoom with our ISJL Fellow Paige Bearme and Julia Kunis (fellow for Midland). We will be making matzah and hamentaschen! Temple Times 4
Congregation Shaareth Israel February 2021 CSI Voices A recurring feature to capture the voices of those associated with Congregation Shaareth Israel. Would you like to share your voice? There are three questions: 1. What are your first memories of Congregation Shaareth Israel? 2. What role has the Congregation played in your life? 3. What role has the Congregation had in this community? CSI Voices: Henry Joseph Shine, Lubbock, member since around 1955 What are your first memories of Congregation Shaareth Israel? Although I and my brother went to a Jewish primary school (Stepney Jewish Boys School) in London, and although my sister Sadie went to the Jewish Girls School, our parents were not members of a synagogue. Pesach was observed, particularly for foods, and my mother fasted, but we did not attend services except for the bar mitzvahs of my brother and me. Similarly, Sellie’s parents as far as I know were not synagogue members in the Bronx or in Queens but observed the major Jewish holy days. When we moved to Lubbock, we had Jewish friends and we were aware of the synagogue and of Jewish life, but we didn’t become active until our daughter came home from school speaking of the devil. We knew then that we had to join the community to protect our children from non-Jewish indoctrination. There was a small home next to the synagogue when it was at the corner of 23rd and Q. Rabbi Stanley Yedwab lived in it with his wife. The Yedwabs were a young couple with a new baby, just as we were, so we would meet at their little home. Mrs. Yedwab was particularly un-rabbinic, going downtown in shorts and submitting a pork dish for the collective CSI cookbook. They soon went back east. I think Rabbi Kline came next. The Klines refused to live in the small house. Rabbi Kline was much loved by the Lubbock community. He gave weekly art lectures at the museum, from which the lecture room is even now called the Kline room. At that time, women were not allowed on the bimah. Rabbi Kline often asked me to read because he liked my voice. His sermons were always hand-written in large lettering on foolscap length pages. What role has the Congregation played in your life? Joining the congregation gave us the feeling of “belonging,” the feeling we still have. We support, and will always support, the congregation because of that feeling. I don’t feel religious, however, and continue to question my having faith. Is there a God? So many people must ask that. If so, why such painful happenings? For me it’s more of a community feeling. I feel secure among Jews, a feeling born in East- end London and continued throughout my life. That feeling of security is magnified by living in a town where religious groups play a big role in life. I feel honoured to have been President of the congregation. It was a way of signifying my commitment to the group of Jews here. That is still a very strong feeling for me. It was easier then to be President. One of the duties I took on during my tenure was to mow and edge the Temple lawn. 3. What role has the Congregation had in this community? The community on the whole is a religious one, so I think the Jewish community goes down well with Lubbockites. CSI is respected, I believe. When I was interviewed in New York for the job in the Chemistry Department at Texas Tech, my interviewer asked about my religion and I remember his writing down “Jewish, but nice.” I asked him if my being Jewish would be a problem in Lubbock and he said “No, not at all; it’s atheists we don’t like.” I think he meant it. For more information, contact Stephanie Shine. Temple Times 5
Congregation Shaareth Israel February 2021
Congregation Shaareth Israel Contact info for members:
P.O. Box 93594 Rabbi Goldmann - Call her or text her at (310)
Lubbock, TX 79493 402-7425 or email her at
(806) 794-7517
dygoldmann@gmail.com please
csitemple.org
Urgent Matters - Please contact Stephanie
Clergy Shine at (806) 470-1340 or email
Deborah Goldmann, Rabb
stephanie.shine@ttu.edu or contact Rabbi
Vicki Hollander, Rabbi Emeritus
Goldman
Board Members
Stephanie Shine, Presiden Bulletin Submissions - News, reports,
Charles Skibell, Vice Presiden information, etc. can be submitted to the bulletin
Leon Shturman, Secretary
June Wagner, Treasurer editor at csi_bulletin@hotmail.com
Jonathan Marks, Immediate Past President
Elissa Zellinger, Religious School Delegat Deadline for submissions is the 20th of the month
Andrew Friedman, Membe
Bulletin Design: Jonathan Meyer
Eileen Nathan, Member
Steve Balch, Membe
February 2021
Sunda Monda Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1 2 3 4 5 6
Musar Class Kabbalat Shabbat
6:30pm via Zoom
7:00pm
7 8 9 10 11 12 13
Kitah Alef Musar Class Board Meeting Kabbalat Shabbat
10:30 am 6:30pm 7:30 pm via Zoom
Kitah Bet 7:00pm
11:00 am
14 15 16 17 18 19 20
Kitah Alef Musar Class Kabbalat Shabbat
10:30 am 6:30pm via Zoom
Kitah Bet 7:00pm
11:00 am
21 22 23 24 25 26 27
Kitah Alef Musar Class Kabbalat Shabbat
10:00 am 6:30pm via Zoom
Kitah Bet 7:00pm
10:00 am
28 Mar 1 Mar 2 Mar 3 Mar 4 Mar 5 Mar 6
Kitah Alef Musar Class Kabbalat Shabbat
10:30 am 6:30pm via Zoom
Kitah Bet 7:00pm
11:00 am
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