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L'dor V'dor Project Interviews
Interviewer: Jennifer Morrish
Interview: Anna Alpert
Date: November 17, 2018
AA:
How did you get so lucky to choose me? [laughs] Did Marilyn assign them?
JM:
No, we chose.
AA:
Oh, really?
JM:
Yeah.
AA:
Thank you.
JM:
Yeah.
JM:
So today is November 16th, 2018.
AA:
17th
JM:
It's the 17th? It is the 17th.
AA:
Tomorrow is Mickey Mouse's birthday.
JM:
You're right, it's November 17th, 2018.
AA:
Right [laughs]
JM:
I am here with Anna, conducting an oral history for the L'or v'dor Project. Would you
please state your name for the recording?
AA:
My name is Anna Alpert.
JM:
Thank you. Do you consent to participate and have your history recorded for this
project?
AA:
Yes.
JM:
Alright.
AA:
As long as I can keep eating my bagel.
JM:
Go right ahead.
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�JM:
Alright, so tell me about yourself and your life, and what you were like as a child/young
adult.
AA:
Wow, that's a pretty big question!
JM:
It is.
AA:
It's huge. I mean, where do you start? If somebody was longer it wouldn't take as long,
but... [laughs] Okay, I was born in Paris, France, and I'm the daughter of Holocaust
survivors, which I'm very proud of. I did have a sister, who died before I was even born.
I'm an only child and came to the United States when I was five. Lived in St. Louis, did
not care for it; it was hot and humid. Did you say you were from St. Louis?
JM:
No.
AA:
Somebody I talked to was from St. Louis. We moved to St. Paul. Spent most of my
childhood there. Not too many friends. Started dancing, taking ballet classes, which I
still—I don't take classes, I teach now. Moved to California just before my senior year,
which was horrible.
JM:
That would be horrible.
AA:
Absolutely terrible. After going through kindergarten all the way up, but my parents
were practical: You wanna go to UCLA, we have to establish residency. Okay, so moved
to Los Angeles, love it there. Love the weather, love the geography with the mountains
and the palm trees and the beach. Love it there! Went to college at UCLA. Met my
husband at a camp. Moved to Muskegon, because that's where his job took him, and
love the people—I love—sometimes I say I wish I could do a Brigadoon, which is take
the whole town of Muskegon—the musical—and just float it over to like around San
Diego. Cause I love the people here. I don't care for the weather, and the gloom. No sun.
You know last month we only had—we had 21 days with no sun?
JM:
I did not know that.
AA:
From October 23rd until this week.
JM:
Wow.
AA:
Yeah.
JM:
That's Michigan. [laughs]
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�AA:
I have three kids—unfortunately one of them passed way, is not with us—and an
absolutely phenomenal best grandson in the entire world [laughs]. I think that kind of
covers it. I'm sure there's a lot of other things that are in there.
JM:
Well, that's a good place to start.
AA:
Oh! I know one thing I forgot to put on my timeline. I'm a founding member of the
Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, which I'm very proud of, and also Gilana's
fund, which was named after our daughter.
JM:
Going back to your parents, you're the child of Holocaust survivors, and not everyone in
the Temple has had this experience.
AA:
No
JM:
So I was just wondering if you could tell me about it, because you're sort of the
generation after, if that makes sense.
AA:
Yeah, I'm the child of survivors, I'm the second generation.
JM:
Right, so that specifically.
AA:
It's an added responsibility now because so many survivors are dying. Cause we're what,
70 years after 1945? Yeah, more than 70, and now about the only thing that's left are
maybe child survivors. Those who were, you know, children. So now it's up to those of
us who were children of survivors to carry on their story. One reason I am so passionate
about it, is because I strongly feel that—the people who died—it has to mean
something. It has to mean something, their death, their existence. So I use that—for
good—cause I tend to be pretty optimistic, and I just want people to learn so that
doesn't happen again. It's become a trite phrase: never again, but it's true, and today,
when you see so many similarities, you really have to impress upon kids, and that's my
focus. I mean, adults, yes, but I really feel that if you can get—especially middle school
kids [laughs] yeah—if you can get them to realize that and internalize it, at least what
happened to my family will have some positive outcome. So. I don't think there's
anybody else, now in the congregation, who has that experience.
JM:
Yeah, I don't believe so.
AA:
There used to be. There is one woman, but she doesn't come that often. But as far as
being an active member.
JM:
Right, yeah, you're the only one.
AA:
I love going around to schools and talking about it. I really really do.
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�JM:
Yeah, I was curious, so the center that you helped found, is that how you—like is that
what you do your work under?
AA:
Yes, the Center for Holocaust and Genocide studies used to be called the Shoah
Remembrance Committee. It was Pastor Anderson, my husband, and I. Trying to
remember, I used to say Pastor Anderson was Moses, he was our leader. My husband
was Aaron, who did the work. I was Miriam, who kept them on track.
JM:
[laughs] Yeah
AA:
Right?
JM:
Yeah
AA:
The maintenance stuff. But it's under that committee, and of course now we have more
members, but we, for instance, did the Gathering of Healing and Solidarity after the
Pittsburgh incident. We have a commemoration service in the Spring. We bring in
speakers. We try and arrange programs to go out to schools. We're kind of—and we've
broadened our base, not just the Holocaust, but and genocide studies. Because there
are other—like this past week we had a speaker on the Armenian genocide, which is
fascinating. God! I didn't know anything about that. But it basically, it's how can we
combat hate and ignorance? How can we get people to think for themselves? That's
something I'm really, really passionate about.
JM:
That's awesome. I think it's really great.
AA:
So, that's what I do. And Gilana's fund, which is another one that I'm really hoping to
perpetuate, was named after our daughter, who died when she was 26, yeah. She—it
kind of ties in with the center because our tagline is: celebrating acceptance, cause she
was such an accepting person. That we raise money to give to various organizations that
celebrate acceptance of themselves, of each other, the Elie Wiesel fund, Big Brothers Big
Sisters, any organization that helps with the idea of acceptance, is what we support. So
they kind of go hand in hand.
JM:
Definitely. Those are two awesome organizations.
AA:
Oh yeah.
JM:
Yeah
AA:
Oh yeah.
JM:
Okay, so—
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�AA:
Accepting my bagel too
JM:
[laughs]
JM:
We sort of just kind of talked about this but, one of the next questions is: what were the
most important roles that you've had in life?
AA:
Being a person.
JM:
That's a pretty good role.
AA:
[laughs] Being a teacher. I think is very important because I've been able to influence so
many people, hopefully for the good. Being married to Alan, because it brought me here
to Muskegon, and the position that I hold in this community. Absolutely definitely being
a mother. I mean, that's right up there. It's just been such an incredible experience. My
parents had just me, that was enough. But having had three kids and seeing how two
people can have three different personalities and raising them in the same household,
three different personalities. It's just incredible. Then now as a grandmother, seeing my
child in that position and how she’s improving on what I did. and seeing just the wonder
and the excitement and the, you know, 'Oh look what I found!' 'It's just a blade of grass.'
'Oh but look it's wonderful!' I go, 'Yeah, I guess it is wonderful.' I think being the rabbi's
wife here in Muskegon, being a mother, being a teacher, being a grandmother. Those
are the four.
JM:
Can you describe what it means for you to be a Jew?
AA:
Mm. These questions you could just spend hours talking about. You know, interacting,
not just talking.
JM:
Yes.
AA:
A responsibility. That's the first word that comes to mind, because I think our heritage
and our traditions are so rich and deep. It's a responsibility. People always say, you
know, we're “the chosen”, supposedly, or when God says: I have chosen you, it's not
something taken lightly because throughout our history we have had that responsibility
and then paid the price for it often. But I think that's my role primarily is that
responsibility... and the joy! I mean, duh, not to negate that part, and the pride. So, I
think that's kinda it.
JM:
How do you practice Judaism?
AA:
[pause] Jen. I'm married to the rabbi
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�[both laugh]
JM:
But for you specifically. Like I know that, I think, rabbi keeps kosher, but you don't,
right?
AA:
In the house we do.
JM:
Oh, you do, both, in the house?
AA:
Mmhm. The only place that we vary is when we eat out. But at home we have kosher
home. Would I have that if he wasn't the rabbi? Maybe. I don't know. What was the
question?
JM:
How you practice Judaism?
AA:
I guess, with me, it's talking about it. You know, letting people know, you know, with my
star [lifts up necklace], being open to answering questions, being proud of it. I don't
think it's so much—being a reformed Jew I don't think it's as important to have the ritual
part of it. The ritual is the outward appearance of what you're feeling. I think talking
about the way I feel about the way I feel about it. But definitely the holidays are very
important. The way we raised our kids, was very important, and excepting that
responsibility that I talked about.
JM:
Can you tell me about a time that you questioned your faith?
AA:
When my daughter died.
JM:
Okay, can you tell more Gilana?
AA:
Oh [laughs] oh Gilana. How do I describe Gilana? It almost sounds like that, you know,
‘how do you solve a problem like Maria?’
[both laugh]
AA:
How do you explain a person like Gilana? She was an imp. Red hair, brown eyes, edgy,
very edgy, very passionate. You know, when she, when she got her mind on something,
and that's why we have that celebrating acceptance, that Gilana's fund, cause she was
so passionate about accepting people as they were, where they were. When she died,
we said, it can't stop, she can't to her work, we have to do her work. But as a child she
was—I remember one time, I think she was in middle school, probably taking
government, and I was doing laundry. We had the best time that day. She just propped
herself up on the dryer, which was probably the warmest place in the house, and we
just talked about the government, and she was in middle school! You know, the
different branches, the checks and balances, and she always was questioning, and I
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�remember when she got to Indiana University, when we were moving her in, we were
waiting for her to come back and we couldn't find her and we go out on campus and it
was a bright beautiful fall day and she's just walking around, swishing through the leaves
[laughs] and just enjoying life. And then I remember, she also said, ‘Mom, I'm finally
able to have a conversation with somebody.’ In college. When she was in elementary
school, she wanted to get to middle school. When she was in middle school, ‘I want to
get to high school.’ Because she never felt she could really have a conversation. Cause,
you know, you've gone through, when you get to middle school and high school it's like
‘what are you wearing?’ and all that kind of stuff. She didn't care. She wanted to get into
things. And she had a phenomenal sense of humor. And she loved The Beatles. The
Beatles were her boys. Those were her boys. She could listen to a song and say, ‘John's
playing the guitar there, and that's Paul's voice.’ She just could pick them out. She loved
the Beatles.
JM:
That's pretty cool.
AA:
And she introduced me to a lot of the songs, cause she was taking a class in the history
of rock n’ roll. When I used to go down there, and I would sit in on the class with her,
she would always—she just introduced me to so much. She was great. Yeah. I miss her
terribly. I miss our conversations.
JM:
So do you still believe in God, or do you...?
AA:
Yeah, the thing—the turning point—after she died, I was furious. Because we have a
tradition that with the high holidays, with Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, that the book of
life is opened and it's sealed. And the decision is made who shall live and who shall die.
Traditionally. And I sat there going, ‘Give me break!’ You know, why was this person
chosen not to live, who had so much promise to do so much. I mean she [laughs] she
worked at an adult toy store, and loved it, because she was helping people. You know,
she didn't look at it as being, ‘Oh my goodness, I gotta keep this secret.’ She says, ‘Mom,
I'm helping people.’ She wanted to go into either sex therapy or sex education. But I was
so angry with the concept and I was saying, ‘oh God, how could you do this?’ And then I
realized, how could you be angry at something that doesn't exist? So, God must exist if
you're being angry, and that was kind of a turning point. And I think most people as they
get older, start getting a little bit more spiritual. I'm not the kind of person—Alan, you're
not hearing me say this—that believes I have to be in this building, and sometimes I
don't want to be here for services, reading the same thing that everybody else reads. I'd
rather go outside. I'd rather sit in the garden. I’d rather look up at the sky. You know,
some part of me thinks that I may have been a Native American in my early life, because
I really, feel the trees have a soul and that I don't like to cut down a tree, I don't like to
pull the leaves off, cause they hurt. But that's, to me, where I feel that there's a God, is
when I'm outside.
JM:
That's interesting.
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�AA:
Yeah.
JM:
And it's almost like earlier, how you practice, it's almost like that sort of, I feel like goes
along…
AA:
Mmhm, yeah. Cause, I think if you feel that you have to be here at services to pray, it
compartmentalizes it. It puts a beginning and an end. You know, I'm walking in, I'm
Jewish. I'm walking out, I'm secular, it stops. And it's not the way it is.
JM:
That's interesting.
AA:
Okay.
JM:
That's smart.
AA:
You do what you want with that piece of information.
JM:
Okay, so kind of linked to that, what has it been like being the rabbi's wife?
AA:
[laughs]
JM:
And when you met Alan, did you—was he already planning on being a rabbi?
AA:
Mhmm, I knew what I was getting into.
JM:
Okay [laughs]
AA:
Let me start by saying that I am so fortunate that this is the congregation we're with.
They're extremely accepting. When I was younger, there's a term called rabbitzen. I
don't know if you've heard that?
JM:
AA:
I think so, yeah
That's the phrase that often times they'll call the rabbi's wife, and I didn't want that
because that had a certain stereotype in my brain, of the woman who runs everything,
and is forceful and domineering, and I'm going ‘nahh’ and I remember coming to
Muskegon, going ‘I'm not the rabbitzen. If I'm married to the rabbi, I'm the playboy
bunny. I'm not a rabbit, I'm a bunny’ [laughs]. But, they have been—in fact, within a
year of coming here, I've always been involved in theatre and theatre sometimes is on a
Friday night, and they've never been critical of my having to take it off. And one year we
did The Merry Widow, and I don't know if you're familiar with that play, but it's about a
man who falls in love with a courtesan and she goes to—and it takes place in France, so
there's the can-can girls and we all know about the can-can girls.
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�JM:
Yes,
AA:
I was one of 'em! And I remember sitting there on stage, sitting on one of the guy's laps.
The guy happened to be the daughter of somebody in our congregation, who was off
stage cause she was involved in the play as well, and I'm going [awkward noise and
laugh] you know, part of me is going, ‘I'm the rabbi's wife sitting on a congregant's son's
lap, playing a can-can girl.’ [laughs] But, never, any questions as to why I wasn't there, or
as to what I was doing. And I'm, by nature, somebody that gets involved, and likes to be
involved and share things and whatever. So, they've given me that opportunity, within
this—and they've never been demanding of me. Never thinking ‘you need to fit this
role.’ So it's, it's just never been a problem, it's just kind of been an extension of me.
JM:
That's very interesting, that's cool.
AA:
Yeah, if you, if, there are some rabbis who are married to a spouse who are more
introverted, maybe, and don't want to be involved, that might be a problem, depending
on how the rabbi—but I think a lot of it has to do on what the rabbi—that's the
connection between the congregation and the spouse, and I'm using those terms
because there are rabbis who are women as well. You know, but the rabbi sets the
boundaries that ‘my spouse will be doing some other things,’ the congregation will more
or less accept it. And Alan has always done that. You know, ‘Anna is not gonna be here.’
Even now, I can't come to services, I'm involved with the Miss Michigan pageant, a
studio recital, I'm not feeling well, and never, never any problems.
JM:
Can you describe your earliest memories of the temple?
AA:
Of this temple?
JM:
Yeah
AA:
Oh, yeah, huh [laughs]. Because I think, when we came here, I'm tryin’ remember, ‘76, I
was just shy of being 28 and we were interviewed here and I just remember being at
somebody's house being interviewed. And then the building itself, coming in here, is to
me, is very stark, and that's not really my taste, but I can appreciate the fact that some
people do like it. It was built in the forties, and it reflects that period, so being a
historical...a hysterian... a hysterical historian [both laugh] I kind of look at it as
reflecting the period it was built in. But I met the people before I was in the building. I
think you're talking about the building, or about the congregation?
JM:
Either one. If your first interaction is with this building or with the congregation...
AA:
My first interaction was with the people. I remember after the interview, going home,
and there were two or three women that I had already picked out that I thought, you
know, I could probably get to be really good friends with them. And they were so
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�accepting and natural, as you've experienced. I never felt that I had to impress or was
intimidated by anybody. Eh, maybe one or two [laughs] but being who I am, even the
people that I've felt were a little intimidating, I always kind of said, probably deep down,
they're not like that. They're probably doing that for a reason or putting on a certain
persona because they feel they have to, and there's gotta be something in there that's
more relaxed. But my first impression with the people was, ‘they're pretty neat, really.’
JM:
I agree with that. [both laugh] Okay. What changes have you witnessed at B'nai Israel?
AA:
Mm. [pretends to talk with mouth closed as she eats bagel]
JM:
That's alright [laughs]
AA:
Chewing and thinking. It's gotten smaller, for sure. It bothers me that we don't have kids
as much anymore. That was one of the things that [recording glitches] here when we
were trying to decide [glitch] I can remember thinking, ‘oh, there's a youth group! I can
maybe in charge of the youth group.’ I think one of the biggest things, because as we've
gotten smaller, there's more of a blending. That's the only word I can think of. It hasn't
become congregant [holds up one hand] us [holds up other hand separate]. It's more
like [interlaces fingers of hands] it's a bunch of people that get together. We have all
these things, but it's not imposed, it's: we decide together. Obviously, not the holidays.
Those are pretty much set, but even within the holidays there are things that people
say, you know, ‘can we not do this?’ or I remember once, we were ready to start
services, and Alan was up in the front wanting to start, and we were talking, and I don't
remember who it was, it might have been Lee [leans forward and whispers to
microphone]: don't quote me on that. [laughs] And we, a bunch of us, turned around
and said, ‘wait a minute, we're not ready yet,’ and we kept on talking and he's just
standing up there [laughs] but that's kind of the feeling. Or we'll come in and we'll say,
‘you know what, why don't we go outside and do services today?’ So it feels more, than
it did before, because we are smaller, and also more distance from the previous rabbi.
Cause the previous rabbi had certain standards that he set up, and then gradually it
became us. But it's more of a—like a family, deciding what's gonna happen. That's a big
change that's happened gradually.
JM:
It's become more family like.
A [to M who entered room]: Who made up these questions?
M:
The students collectively.
AA:
Woah. [laughs]
E [entered with M]:
Questions by committee.
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�AA:
Yeah!
JM:
What are your worst memories and your best memories at B'nai Israel?
AA:
Oh, good grief [laughs] and this is going to be recorded, right?
JM:
Yes, it is [laughs]
AA:
Can I plead the fifth? [laughs]
JM:
You don't have to say anything you don't want to.
AA:
Worst memories and best memories… Best memories: oh my god, probably around my
kids. I remember with Gilana, she was not even a year, and it was the high holidays, she
must have been about four or five months, and at one-point Alan says, ‘and we all say
amen’ and everybody goes ‘Amen,’ and then I hear this little voice going ‘Ah-eh-ah’
[laughs]. That's one memory I always have. I have one memory of, it seems to be mostly
of Gilana, where we couldn't find her. She was three or four and she had climbed up the
stairs in the kitchen, and there used to be a field back here [points out library window]
and this guy walks up to the front door and he says, ‘are you looking for a little
redheaded girl?’ I'm going ‘well, why didn't you grab her?!’ You know, she was heading
that way [points out window] to the street, so I think that might not be a very fond
memory. But it's also a little hard to say temple, or Jewish community. Very fond
memory around our centennial when all of Muskegon celebrated us. We had Itzhak
Perlman here, if you know who he is.
JM:
Yes, I do! I do.
AA:
Wow! You know, that was amazing! Weddings that have been held here, bar and bat
mitzvahs of my kids, working with the Sunday school. Alan always used to say, ‘I wanna
be a rabbi in a community where I can work through generations,’ and we've had that.
We've known great-grandparents, grandparents, children, grandchildren, and that's
been really neat. Worst memories: I can't think of any. You know, obviously probably
the deaths of some people that were very important. People leaving, that meant a lot to
us, that have moved on. That's pretty much it. I can't think of anything. It's interesting
that you ask that question. I can't think of anything! Now [transition back to best
memories], having my children, when they were brought into the community, and the
way everybody accepted them, and they were raised by this congregation. That's a good
memory. Having a bite of my bagel.
JM:
How would you describe the values of B'nai Israel?
AA:
Good.
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�JM:
Good?
[both laugh]
AA:
I'm chewing!
JM:
Okay.
AA:
Very positive. There are times when I'll say, ‘Ah, oh my god we're so small. How are we
going to do anything? Is it really worth putting this in? We're so small. Are we really
going to be here that long?’ and the value of these people is: we're here, let's do it.
Why shouldn't we plan this? Why shouldn't we put in a stairlift, people are going to be
getting older. Why shouldn't fix the roof? As opposed to saying, let's just close down
and get smaller. It's ‘No. We're still here. We're still thriving. We're vibrant.’ That's a
very positive value. The value of their involvement in the community. I really think that
Muskegon must think that we're bigger than we are, because we are so involved, in the
symphony, in the museum, in the library, in, you know, in every aspect, we're there. I
think the values are really positive. And you've experienced that.
JM:
Yes, definitely, I have.
JM:
Okay, so beyond—so you have kind of already answered this with what you've said, but
beyond being married to the rabbi, what still keeps you a member of this temple?
AA:
It's the only one in town [laughs] You know, let's get practical, Jen.
JM:
Right, well why have you and Alan stayed in Muskegon?
AA:
Oh, going back to a positive thing that happened here! It just happened this summer!
The feeling when Jen and Kim got married. Jennifer, a different Jen. When they got
married, because they'd been going together for so long, but they wanted to formalize
their union, and what was so wonderful about it, was when Ellen approached our
president about whether they could get married, nobody thought anything other than
‘Are they members?’ and that was such a beautiful thing. Nobody questioned that it was
going to be a same sex marriage. It was just: it's happening. Very natural, and that is
such a positive value, and I'm so proud of this congregation for that. It was one of the
most beautiful ceremonies, and most joyful and loving that we have ever ever had. It
was wonderful. Then my son posted on Facebook ‘This is where I come from, I'm so
proud of my father,’ and I'm going ‘aww, I love you David!’ [laughs] Anyway, that wasn't
the question you just asked me. What keeps me here?
JM:
That's alright. So yeah, you and Alan have been here since 1976, right?
AA:
‘76
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�JM:
So why have you stayed at this temple? Cause usually rabbis will move around, so what
has...?
AA:
Cause there has always been something that's gonna be happening that we want to be a
part of. You know, we had an opportunity to move at one point, and I remember
thinking, ‘oh, but the centennials coming up’, ‘oh but I want to wait until so-and-so gets
married’, or you know, ‘I wanna see what happens with this’, it's really the people that
are so wonderful. I mean, when, again, I go back to when Gilana died, I don't know what
we would have done. I mean can you imagine one of our congregants drove Alan down
to Chicago in the middle of the night, and stayed with us? And was so instrumental
when the doctors talked to us, obviously our minds were going all over the place, but he
and his wife had this talent of listening, interpreting for us, and then leaving the room,
to help us—they were just there. Then we came and, we came back on a Monday, and
just like that the congregation had arranged sweets and coffee and all that to welcome
us back. That whole week, you know. We had a huge celebration at the Frauenthal,
which wasn't just the congregation, it was the whole city. And that's what keeps us
here. It’s just every time I think we're gonna move or maybe we should retire, it’s like,
can we take the town with us? [laughs]
JM:
Right, this your community.
AA:
But, you know, obviously, he is the rabbi and he's not going to move until there is no
congregation, which I don't think will ever happen, I hope.
JM:
Yeah, that's, well actually the next question is how do you envision the future of B'nai
Israel?
AA:
Who knows. We have been told so many times, going back 30 years, 40 years, no, not
quite that much, ‘you might wanna start looking. This congregation has maybe five more
years.’ In fact, my son, he says that scared his life. Cause Alan would always come home
going ‘we may not be here much longer.’ Can you imagine saying that to a 5 year old, a
6 year old, a 10 year old? ‘Ahh, don't get too comfortable?’ [laughs] ‘Can I unpack my
bag yet dad?’ But it's like the little engine that could, ‘I think I can, I think I can, I think I
can.’ It just keeps going. Okay, so we don't have a function that attracts 100 people, so
we have 50, so we have 30, so we have 20. But we have 20! It’s the congregation that
always looks at the positive, not ‘well, we're not here anymore. maybe we should sell
the building and move someplace.’ It's ‘no, we're gonna fix this up. This is our home.’ So
I don't know what the future's gonna be. If Muskegon turns around, which it might, we
might get more people. And we're here.
JM:
You're ready for ‘em
AA:
We're ready! Come and get it [laughs]
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�JM:
That's awesome.
AA:
Yeah
JM:
Yeah. I don't have other specific questions. Is there anything else that you… I actually do
have one other question. When we talked about... ballet! So just tell me about your—
why you do ballet? You teach it now, right?
AA:
Mmhm
JM:
And did you used to do it yourself?
AA:
Mmhm, not professionally, semi-professionally. I was a semi, I guess you could say semiprofessional, folk-dancing, it was really folk-dancing. I was a part of company, and we
travelled, and we were paid. So I guess that's what makes it professional. I started taking
ballet when I was six or seven, I don't remember what I put on there [referring to
timeline of life].
JM:
Yes, six, “started dance classes.”
AA:
It's always been there. I remember once, we had just moved to California, and my
parents had gone somewhere, and I was home I had to wash my hair, or do something
or other, and the landlord came up to fix something. And I was listening to Swan Lake,
and he stops before he leaves, and he goes ‘Why are you so different?’ and I'm going
‘oh my god, where are we going with this thing?’ and I'm like, ‘whattya mean?’ and I
knew him so we could talk. And he said, ‘You're seventeen years old and you're listening
to Tchaikovsky. Why are you different?’ [laughs] That's just me, I've always been drawn
to classical music. I'm always drawn to things that move. I'm always drawn to sculptures
or pictures that have fluid things. You know, I'm not, I don't like—that's one thing with
this building, it's so geometric.
JM:
It is very geometric.
AA:
Very geometric! But I love sculptures that have circles to it. That have movement. I love
rhythms. I love drums! Oh my god. I love to embarrass my kids in the grocery store.
‘Mom, you're doing that again!’ ‘Yes!’ It's just been a way of expressing myself, maybe
because I was an only child. It gave me that outlet. That brought me to theatre, and Alan
loves musical theatre, and I do, and so, our son's a director, and Gilana was majoring in
theatre too. One child that is practical and that's Aleza, she's a teacher! I always used to
say Gilana and David were gonna struggle and Aleza was going to support them both.
She's the practical one. God, I've talked more about Gilana than David and Aleza in this
interview. But with theatre because it’s such—everybody talks about sports as being a
way of teamwork and cooperation and discipline—so are the arts. There was a quote
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�that I saw on Facebook, I can't remember what it is but basically with the arts, what do
you have of past civilizations? You have their art. You have their sculpture. You have
your literature. You have their paintings. That's what survives. Not their sports—except
the Olympics—not the sports and the competition stuff. I'm not downplaying that, but
when I teach my students, I've always said to them, you know they say, ‘well I can't
come next week because I've got a final.’ I'm going: organize. You've got a class,
discipline yourself. You’ve got a class on Thursday, you've got a paper due Friday, you
get it done on Tuesday. You know, the organization part. It's also making the kids aware
of what their bodies can do. It's like, okay you wanna reach for the cookie jar on the top
shelf, what are you going to do with your body weight? How are ya going to support
that, you know, that little—it's learning about their bodies and what it can do. And so, I
just, I love teaching it now.
JM:
That's amazing. You never really think about it that way.
AA:
Yeah, and then in my class I always try to bring in—they always know that when we
have a recital, if you're in Miss Anna's class, you're gonna do it to classical music. Not
anything modern. Cause, when I do that, I teach them about the composer, about the
music, about the period. I'm a history teacher, I can't get away from that. And, you
know, I just, I try to give them some reason—none of them are going to become
professional dancers—but some reason for why they should be there, an appreciation
for that, developing that, learning how to steal the cookies from the top shelf when they
shouldn't.
JM:
Were you a history teacher in Muskegon? So I know you taught ballet, but…
AA:
I teach ballet and my major is history, my minor is speech. That's why I talk so much.
[laughs] I’ve never really taught—I did teach long term a little bit, but in Muskegon I did
mostly subbing. No, actually I subbed once for almost an entire semester. As I say, I've
never really had my own class to corrupt. [laughs] But I do like to tell kids—because
history is a boring subject for everybody, I don't know if you liked history?
JM:
I did, I liked history.
AA:
But I always tell them, you've never had me for a teacher. Cause everybody looks at
history as being all those dull facts and figures, and I'm going: that's just the coat
hanger. It's not the whole thing. It's what you hang everything else on, and it's the
everything else that's so exciting. And yeah, the dates never change, but your
interpretation of what happened will change, and your interpretation will reflect where
you live. And so, somebody living in the 20th century may look at the Civil War different
from somebody who lived right afterwards, or somebody next year, or whatever. So
history is constantly changing, but most teachers will teach it as go come and learn this
dates, and I'm going ‘Ugh, please.’ So I would say, history and dance, and my family, are
the three big things in my life.
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�JM:
Yeah, sounds like it. Can you tell me more about David and Aleza?
AA:
Yeah, oh my goodness. David, my youngest, being the only boy, and as he told me as he
was graduating high school, that he says ‘Mom, you will never have a daughter-in-law,’
and I said, ‘Go forward.’ You know, he says, ‘you'll never have a daughter-in-law’ and I
said, ‘so I'll have another son-in-law, that's okay!’ And, as I'm sure many parents of gay
children will say, my first concern is for you, because luckily society is getting, hopefully,
more accepting, but they haven’t always been. But he has done incredibly well. He’s
very focused. He's very organized. He has tremendous people skills. And to be successful
in that field in New York, is brutal. It's really, really—and sometimes when he feels down
I say, ‘Hey, David, how many of your friends moved to New York when you did? How
many are still here? How many are still here pursuing theatre, or gone into other
careers? You are so focused,’ and I say to him, ‘If dad and I didn’t think you had the
talent, we wouldn't be supporting you. By now we would have said, maybe you should
find something else.’ But…I'd love for him to get off my payroll. [laughs] He's still on our
payroll, but we don’t care because he has the talent. From what we've heard other
people say about him, and the work we've seen, he has the talent, so why shouldn't we.
He's going to make it. And then he comes back with, ‘what do you mean going to? I
have.’ I go, ‘don't get too cocky. You know, I brought you into this world, I can take you
out.’ [laughs] But he's right, he has made it because he's survived. And he's getting more
and more known, and he's getting asked, and he's—you know, I think the bond between
a mother and son is very special, and especially when that son is the youngest. And, I'm
gonna say this, especially when your son has a lot of feminine traits, and obviously in
dance I've met a lot of gay men, and they have always been the kindest, most generous,
most loving, and to have a son like that? Why should I object to it? And so he has been,
he calls, he still sits on my lap [laughs]. As he was growing up, being the last one out of
the house, you know, going with me to run errands. And then Aleza has always been the
stable one, I don't know if it's cause she's a middle child. Are you a middle child?
JM:
I am not. I'm the youngest.
AA:
Okay, so you're my David.
JM:
Yes.
AA:
Perfect example of Aleza, okay, we're at the dinner table, and Gilana being a redhead,
and David being a redhead, and both being in theatre, [flicks arms up and down] boing!
boing! boing! everything's flying around! And Gilana shares my husband's passion for
things, just [makes movement and noise indicating discord] you know, fighting, and
there's Aleza, and she, you know, she waits for a pause in the conversation and she goes
‘Can you pass me the salt?’ [laughs] That happened! You know, the other ones, the four
people just going at it, and she just ‘can you pass me the salt?’ Just very calm, very
focused, very generous, very stable. There's David and Gilana [holds up one fist for
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�David, and the other for Gilana] and there's Aleza [puts fists together] holding on to
them as they go. Just very—and I have been so fortunate that my kids are extremely
close. Extremely. It was like, Gilana and David were very close, not so much Aleza, until
Aleza, I always say kinda crossed the bridge, became closer Gilana as she aged, and then
David was left behind. And then David caught up. When they were younger, because
Alan grew up with two brothers, he would wanna go running in. I'd say, ‘wait.’ When
he'd hear screaming, I'd go, ‘let ‘em work it out.’ And sometimes I wonder, how did I
know that? I was an only child. But a friend of ours said, ‘if there's no blood, don't go,’
and they would solve it, and I think that's what did it. They learned to be together, and
even now, David will say to me, ‘I'm flying down to Charlotte, next week. I just wanna
see Aleza,’ or she'll go up to see him. I'll say to them, ‘have you talked?’ ‘Oh yeah, we
talked to each other this morning, or yesterday.’ Feeling in myself, I'm going, ‘you didn't
call me…’ [laughs] and then I go, ‘that's okay.’ You know, they're very very very close to
each other. When David went to Western, and he was a freshman, and it was
orientation week, and he was really lonely cause he was very much a home kid, Aleza
borrowed her roommate’s car and drove in from Lansing, to spend the day with him.
They do things like that. So, I'm very very fortunate to have those three kids.
JM:
They sound awesome.
AA:
Ah, they are. They really are. And I'm gonna see ‘em next week [laughs]
JM:
Yay!
AA:
So, did I answer everything?
JM:
You answered everything. Yeah, I mean [looks at Timeline]
AA:
Oh, that thing [looks at timeline]. Last year I was given the Friends of Hackley Library
Humanitarian Award. I remember when I got it, I said to Alan, ‘I think this is a mistake.’
[laughs] I mean, what have I done. And then Susan Harrison Wolf, who’s a friend of ours
and she worked for the chronicle, typical writer's response ‘just start writing down
things.’ I guess, that was another highlight. I just kind of added that.
JM:
Yeah, I think that's great! I mean, from what I've heard, you've done a lot.
AA:
Yeah, I guess I have. But, this was fun!
JM:
Good, I'm glad that you enjoyed!
AA:
Yeah, and like I said, I love talking to classrooms. I love talking to—I love talking. I love
eating bagels. What time is it? Oh my god, it's almost one o'clock. We've been talking
for a while.
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�JM:
Yeah, looks like [looks at recorder] almost 50 minutes.
AA:
Really?!
JM:
Yeah
AA:
Wow
JM:
It's wild. I did notice one other thing on here [the timeline] you wrote down “met [your]
best friend, Barbara.” You wanna tell me more about that?
AA:
Mmhm, Barbara and I just celebrated our 50th anniversary, that's what this rose is for
[points to necklace]. This star [other necklace she is wearing] by the way was Gilana's.
And um, there's the rose [points back to other necklace]. She [Barbara] was my big sister
in the sorority, and an only child. In our first week, we went off on a retreat and it was
the middle of the night, and we were out at a beach house and I couldn't find the key to
the bathroom [laughs] and she got up to help me. And I figured, I think I'll get to know
this woman a little bit more. And, it's interesting because our lives are so parallel. When
we were growing up, I mean, throughout our friendship she'd say ‘god, I stubbed my toe
yesterday,’ and I'm going ‘Really? So did I!’ ‘I'm coming down with a cold.’ ‘So am I.’ I
mean there was so many things that would happen, at the same time. But they say that
if you know somebody ten years, whatever, you'll know them for a lifetime. With her—
and I have another friend from 8th grade that we were in the same city for one year, her
family moved to New York, we stayed in St. Paul, we're still friends.
JM:
That's amazing.
AA:
Isn't it?
JM:
That's very amazing.
AA:
From 8th grade. Then I have another friend in Chicago from high school.
JM:
That's really amazing.
AA:
You have to work at it.
JM:
Yes, definitely!
AA:
And you have to have the right person. But Barbara, I know, in fact, sometimes when I—
it's something about her, that I can't call her and ask her about [laughs] or complain
about. It's like, well who do I complain about her to. But never. But that was a high
point, meeting her.
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�JM:
Okay, well, I don't have any other questions. Is there anything else you'd like to say?
AA:
Thank you!
JM:
Thank you, this was amazing.
AA:
I'm gonna go eat my bagel now.
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amstore
1657 GETTY STREET, MUSKEGON, MICHIGAN 49443
(616) 722-6681 TELEX 228-444
November 12, 1973
MUSKEGON JEWISll COMMUNITY
Dear Fellow Congregants :
I would like to share with you my positive feelings about
a number of our significant, although divergent recent
accomplishments.
'
....
We collected and transmitted to Israel over $60,000. Most
', of this money was given in addition to contributions to the
· United Jewish Ap p eal for 1973 and 1974 .
The prayers f or p eac e of f ered by the Rabbi at the special
daily services durin g the war appear to have been answered.
The Community respon se wa s exc e llent .
The celebra t ion of the 25th Anniversary of the Temple was
beautifully h a n d led by Al an Opp enh e imer, his committee and
other volunteers .
It wa s a we ll attended, meaningful event.
We American Jews represent the center of Jewish population,
culture and wea l th i n this era .
I am proud that we in
Muskegon reco gn i ze t h i s and accept our responsibilities.
Sincerely,
RFK/sea
USA
Israel
USSR
France
Argentina
Gr. Britain
Canada
Brazil
s. Africa
Romania
Other
TOTAL
WORLD JEWISH POPULATION
1971 EST.
5, 870,000
NOTE:
3,012,000
2 ,620, 000
Au s tria
535,000
Czech.
500,000
Germany
450,000
Poland
280, 000
150 , 000
116,000
100, 000
903,000
14 ,436,000
AMERICAN STORE EQUIPMENT CORPORATION
8,000
15,000
30,000
�I
amstore
1657 GETTY STREET, MUSKEGON, MICHIGAN 49443
RICHARD F. KAUFMAN
PRESIDENT
(616) 722-6681
November 8, 1973
Mr. Charles Zlotogura
Dear Charles:
This letter will confirm our understanding which was arrived
at in Jordan's absence. We will adhere to the following
procedures until I change them in writing. Meanwhile, I'm
asking those receiving a copy of this letter to comment and
to agree or to recommend changes:
Work of the Custodians:
~-
You are outlining their duties in writing and will indicate
what jobs have to be done and at what time.
You will
personally see that they are doing t~e job properly.
In general, they will do all normal work required by the
Temple which includes special functions.
They will be paid
additional amounts for work done for private functions.
You are the only one au~horized to give them official instructions.
In your absence, I may authorize them to do things upon
request. However, we expect them to be cooperative when
informally asked to do things that reasonably fall within their
duties.
Payment to Custodians - Authorization of Purchases
The custodians will be paid $50 weekly. All other payments
to them must be approved by you in writing.
Requests for reimbursement to you or to the custodians will be
accompanied by written support of the expenditure and approved
by you in writing.
No one but you may authorize additional work done or items
purchased by the custodians or anyone else. This must be
approved by you, or in your absence, by me.
This includes
work or gifts to be paid for by the donor .
\
AMERICAN STORE EQUIPMENT CORPORATION
�y
,
Page 2
Let's plan to include the above in the agenda of the Temple
Board Meeting on November 19th.
Sincerely,
RFK/sea
cc: All Temple Board Members
Mary Allen
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Letter from Dick Kaufman of Amstore to the Muskegon Jewish Community about their collective contributions to Israel for the years 1973 and 1974.
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1
B NAI B'RITH DISTRICT 6
Is Proud To Recognize and Applaud The ~!embers Of The
ABRAHAM ROSEN UNIT #818
On Occasion Of Their
SEVENTY-FIFfH ANNlVERSARY
Saturday, November 14, 1992
Muskegon, Michigan
-JkJ:k_
PRESIDENT
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��More Than 400 Women Respond to Temple
Bid to First Community Interfaith Meet
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An ertort to weave an under•
standin$: between rep1-e~ntative
religions in
the community
through an interfaith m<"cting met
with suoce~ last niji?ht t"Xeccding
the hopt"S or the, 5PQnsor$. \\ omen
or the Temple B'nal hracl.
They expected a crowd. but
they did not expe-ct to h&\'e to
use the large auditorium to ac•
commo<Sate their iuc.sts. Tablt>s
were quickly dismantled in the
recreation room and n,ovcd upstairs where, in narration and
pageant, the orii;:-in and goal
ot re-
ligions was traced tor more than
400 area women.
Pageantry depicting the ancient
faith<i, was directed by Mt~• Jenette '.Faber. oC the 1\tu~kegon
High School faculty and active in
Civic Thcatr<'.
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TABLES holding symbol< pomt•
In~ up holidays obsl"r\ed in the
Jewi.slt faith were spotll$:hted as
~fr$. F1'«1 Rodott explaint>d them.
Herbert Baker's or1tan mu~ie
add~ to the et!ectivcncs., or thr-
mcs..-.;ag('s.
::l.frs. Samuel (;-, Klay( wa.t nar•
rator td!' the se-,cton. •"Peaeo"'- :-ttl:l
~ their hoUd&)' events, slgntfic-anoes ot which were explained to e. crowd of
night in th~ Temple B' nai lsra&I at the ill'St Interfaith meeting arc
prominent in the event. Mrs. Ht'nry Darmstadter and Mrs. J. Ke-Uy
Al ._. the farther table and ~lrs. Robert Rosenberg and ~trs. Reuben Levy arc
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qu.cst." the basic thought behind
this interfaith e!tort.
The gue~ts were conducted on
a tour of thE" Temple t'.'l:p1tt.ining
the Golden Book, the PUl"PO,Se ot
other symbols and the Sunday
School crar.s.e~.
Mrs. John Powell. pri"'~ident of
the Muskegon County Council of
Church Women and Mrs. T4"d
Beauchamp, president ot the °MU!'tkegon Deanery National Coancll
ot Cathollc W9men headed largc,::roUJl$ ot. their m('mbers:.
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REFRESHMENTS weu? ii:erved.
aCter the meeting with Mrs. Har•
ry H. Berman and M~. Max Lebow pouring. Serving on the com•
rnittee were the Mesda.me-s Jerome
Cherin. Henry Dumstadter, Har·
old Ro5:en, Ma.x Lebow, R&Jph AU·
gust. William Bercovitch and Sey•
mour Rosenbtrg. .)1rs. Samuel
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ot the Sisterhood B'nai Jsrael. wet•
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the wlsh that the effort to explain
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�TRF.ASURF.R'S REPORT FOR DECEI!IBER 1956.
Cash in Bank, December 1,1956 ••••••
RECEIPTS:
Dues
60.00
Achievements215.00
Gift Shop
8Q 0 08
Uniongrams 10 0 00
Bonations 130.79
H. Fisher
127.79
Anon.
3.00
495.87
Total Receipts •••••
2,778.74
DISBURSEMENTS:
umlongrams
12.00
Kitchen Help 10.50
s. s. Supplies26.95
s. s. Parties 17.36
Gift Shop
32.55
Teachers'
Salaries for
period ending
November JO. 368 00
Donation10.00
County Conv.
Hosp.
Miscellaneous 8 2
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SPECIAL FUNDS
(This fund does not inPOWDER ROOK 51.00
clude the Special Funds
s. Gros19111an F141.08
of 573.28
Expans. F.
381 2 20
Total...
$ 573.28
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Peters n, onald
Pr-us, An';hony
Rainey, Percy
Smith, Horman
sucnovsky, Carl
VanAelst, Jerry
Vallie, Charles
lerople, Kenneth
Whl te, I cAr tour
111lliams, \,illie
abrey, La tie
ilne lmina
Chcatums, Vergla
C nley, G.oria
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Smit-i, Pegg
Stei~kraus, Pa<;s~
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Wnite, Jessie
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Galloway, ~abney
Gre11r, Arthur
Jackson, llonald
onnson, Dennis
Jo,mson, Hobort
Kuc..<, Raymond
Nor an, Cedric
Marquand, tlruce
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1at iff, Arthur
,USJoll, lbert
~agu ...a, Phillip
.:,el nder, Gone
Thorsto son, Neal
Trice, ~ester
Vandex•laan, Gary
r-i !J!.ane
E(l.17ard, argarot
K~lloy, Marlon
c llory, Lois
Martnez, Olga
Llaynard, Uar..:ia
Paac':11:u, Virrlnia
erl:Lns, Eloise
Rr.ap, Josn
Rtc~1rd~on, Barbara
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Bird, Victor
Darien, Edward
Hall, Thomas
l!clntyre, John
Pace, Badie
Pasco, 'I"nomas
Paul, Jon
Reed, Thomas
Robinson, John
Sain, Lai trice
Stein, Michael
Terpstra, Robert
Watson, Robert
l'iilkins, Lee
William.s, James
l'lill(;a te, Prank
Alex, Joseph
Baldwin, Arthur
Barbor, Ivan
Bowen, Herbert
Hoffman, Charles
Johnaon, Bruce
Johnston, Kenneth
Judd, Jack
Keefer, Theodore
Ruiter, Gregory
Smith, I3obby
Shunta, Joseph
Stovall, James
Sydnor, Robert
Valk, David
Vonk, James
GIRLS
Abrahru.1son, Bonnie
Anderson, \,illie
Banks, Elizabeth
Battle, Claudette
OrahaI:l, June
Hale, Mary
Knobe, Betty
Leavell, Shirley
Lynn, Con~ta,1ce
McLaughlin, Kay
Olson, Karen
Payno, Joan
Porter, Mary
Potts, Landis
Scott, Judith
VanNoordy,yk, Jean
Argetsinger, Diane
Bromley, Camilla
Burnett, Ellen
Covell, Ellen
Goranson, Kay
Graves, Carol
Hasenbank, Sharon
Lear, Sharon
McQuinn, Anna
MUcherson, Joyce
Ouellette, Sandra
Personett, Sharon
Schihl, Joan
Seng, Susan
Shanty, Linda
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�A STATEMENT OF SISTERHOOD PHILOSOPHY
BY JANE EVANS, EXOCtJrIVE DIRECTOR
NATION'AL FEDERATION OF TEMPLE SISTERHOODS
AT THE STATE PRESIDENTS' COUNCIL, NEU YORK, N. Y., NOVEMBER 1-2, 1949
We o.re the wor1en 1 s o.ru of J\L1erico.n llnd World Reforo, Libero.l or Progressive Judo.isc .
:1c o.re not o. social orgnnizo.tion; ue llre not o. philo.nthropic orgo.nization; we o.re
o. religious gro~ dedicated to the philosophy that the congrego.tion is the logico.l
unit of organizo.tion in Isro.el, o.nd that through congrego.tiono.l life the codern
jewess co.n raost effectively exercise her influence upon Jewish o.nd non-Jewish life .
Religion is the centro.l core of the vo.st contribution which we, the Jewish people,
uake to hUt?o.nity nnd to ourselves .
We will be better Sisterhood cei;1bers, Sto.te o.nd
District leo.ders o..~d officers of the No.tiono.l Fedcro.tion of Tenplc Sisterhoods only
o.s we understand that J udo.isu, the religion of our people, is the source of all our
service to Jewish and huoanita rio.n co.uses.
From this s tandpoint, we t1u»t reco.11
with sooe hu:lility a few of the cr.arges co.de a.go.inst us .
i-/e tend to welcone wor,en
to our Boards, whether of State Federations or of loco.l Sisterhoods, irrespective of
whether or not they are reo.lly expressing their interest in our central philosophy
through the accepto.nce of the obligations of regulo.r temple and synagogue attendo.nce .
It is not beyond the real.J:1 of possibility that we could use State and District conventions to educo.te our cet1bers and ourselves upon our central philosophy of Sisterhood life .
We o.re a fellowship of wooen religiously t1otivated, recognizing the
congregation o.s a logical unit of organization in Jewish life, dedicated to the
service of Jewish and hucanito.rian causes through the centrality of Judaisc, the
religion through which we translate our beliefs into deed for the benefit of K'lal
Israel (the whole of the household of Isro.el) o.nd cllnkind.
�Lighting of the Ca.ndles
Boruch Ato Adonoi Elo~nu ,t.elech Ho-olJ:1 Asher K' idshuno
B'ooitsvosov Vetsovenu L'rui.dlik ner Shel Shabbos .
BP.W-RUCH
Praised be
AH-TAW
Thou
AH-DO-NOY
0 Lord
EH-LO- HAY-m.l
our God
King of
HA!l-0-I.AWM
the universe
ASHER
who
KID-D' -S!f.AII- HU
has s~nctified us
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"ith his cor.:umdr.:ents
V 'TSEE - VAI/- NU
and cor.Jr:lOndcd us
to kindle
NAYR
the light
SHEL
of
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So.booth
SHEL
YOM-TOV
V'SHEL
YOM-TOV
(on festivo.1s)
of
the festival
(on festivo.ls that begin on Friday evening say Shel o.nd then Sho.h-bo.ws)
o.nd of
the festivnl
Blessing over Food
Boruch Ate Adonoi Elo~nu V.elech Ho-olor.1 Ho.-ootsi
Leher.1 oin Ho-orets.
Praised be Thou, 0 Lord our God, King of the Universe,
who bringest forth breo.d fr<l!.. the eo.rth.
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Temple - a year filled with more responsibilities , greater accomplishments , and further joys and satisfactions •. •' Our higher goals
and realizations of i ncreasing responsibilities belong to each
and every one of us .
Those who served faithfully in the past
have the inner satisfaction of an obligation fulf i lled .
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presents a very favorable picture if we can lay aside the trials ,
tribulatioss , and decending faetors with which every organization
must contend .
However , many existing di fficult i es would never
come to be if we all realized that too much has been accomplished
by too few .
Let this thought serve as a lesson to gui de our
course in the future.
On behalf of Sisterhood , I wish to thank our offi cers
whose faf hful and efficient services are gr eatly appr eciat ed .
1.
Sophie Lebow who conducted all boa rd meeti ngs
and was in charge of membership and hospitality.
2.
Rose Lawson- Gener al Chairman of all fund rais ing
functions , unti r ingly re s ponded to all duties ,
requests and unsolicited needs.
J.
Dora Berman ' s r~i nutes are detailed , a ccur a t e and
beautifully written .
All necessary correspondence
was always assured promptly .
4.
Ellen Aron shows in great detail money received
and di_spersed .
Ellen also served with Mildred
Rodoff on the budget committee .
Milly ' s very
valuable knowledge and experience helped us greatly
in our financial goal .
Our briefly written thank yous to the fol l owi ng board
members is measurably small compared t o the f i ne result s .
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time not permitting may the ability and the satisfaction of bei ng
of service to others suffice .
PROGRAM :
'fhe climiix to our business meeting always brought what
we might term as "dessert ".
Our chairman, Mrs. Samuel Umen per-
formed outstandingly in her diversified program selections ,
which included book reviews , timely topics , dramatic productions ,
and entertainment of ga i e t y. and fun .
These programs were always
stimulating, interesting and informative .
UNIONGRAMS :
We can proudly brag for Mrs . Mary Pogel as chairman
l'lhen we say she is responsible with the assistance of Mrs .
Samuel Buckland of beating an all t ime record by selling six
hundred and eighty uniongrams .
This amount is l!learly doubl e
the requirement .
SEWING :
This project brought few , but steady fa i thful and
loyal workers under the leadershi p of Mrs . Milton Steindler .
Frances ' s wise and careful purchases and utilization of materials
so far have netted us ~82 . 50 .
We are most appreciative of
t hese ladies for their faithful service .
A very hearty t'1anks
goes to Esther Rubinsky who in the absence of our chairman efficiently
carried the responsibility of directing the .ladie~ in her own ho!le • . 1
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It has been tol d that a t ~ served~ If you feel that you have or
will qualify , consider yourself invited.
Let this serve as an
inducement for the professionals or the amateurs wi l ling to learn .
In conjw tion with Sewing , Reeva Levy and Co- Chairman
fan Stern rnade very practical purchases of gifts and ceremonials
for different occasions throughti:>ut the year .
The•1 many customers
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were well pleased having purc hased gifts not readily available .
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ONEG SHEBBOTH :
Our Oneg Shabboth ' s were increasiry more interesting
and we were happy to serve our Temple., , Cha irma~ Esther Stein.>
in obtaining hostesses assumed her duties very well .
The
delicious home made cakes added a pleasant taste to the vlose of
our Friday night services.
SUNDAY SCHOOL :
Sisterhood met its primary obligation , namely the
financial support and mainteniance of the Sunday Scg66l ahd
Hebrew School in all its entirety .
Mrs . Harry H. Berman as
Superintendant fulfilled her duties admirably , a·nd we certainly
want to extend our thanks to her and our teachers who served
us and our children .
The Sunday School parties were always lovely .
Every
holiday celebrated brought student particigation and interest .
One program that gave much pleasure was "A ::,ick Purim".
'l'o
many of us parents , greater joy was brought 1 than any Broadway
production .
Credit for this fine J irection goes to Jean Berman
with the assistance of Lenore Umen .
Refreshments are always a ,ifi ghli ght of most affairs.
Mrs . Samuel Price was li:n charge of all Sunday School parties
/ stimulated many appetites by bringing different , delicious
and appropriate foods for all occasions .
As a pre-e:::hool introduction to our Sunday schhol, our
Cradle Roll parties conducted by Rose Friedenberg , Lee ?isher ,
and Helen Roberts carried the desired purpose and showed the
joyful response of our little tots i n the beginning of their Temple
debut .
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Our newly formed "Board of Education" consisting of
appointees of four members each of both Sisterhbod and Temple
boards , and led by Rabbi Umen
comp◊,sed
our very fine monthly
fu~tioning board,btand:~~1JY},,:'fquirements for Sunday School
and Hebrew Sc h o o l ~ ~ n y proliems , grievances , or needs
in general were presented at this time.
CHOIR:
Our i mpressive Friday and Ternple servi ces a r e partially
due to our choir .
Mrs . Robert Rosenberg , as chairman functioned
very efficiently .
Rose was willing to take the chance of bringing
in any new voice .
"The America All
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program in which
our choir
represented the Jewish community was very impressive.
We offer our most hearty tha nks and a ppreciation to
the following .
Irene Steindler f or securing hostesses f or each meeting
and keeping the Temple paper supply in..>t-act .
Helen Roberts for her 1ink reports.
Mrs . Max Shumaker fo r purchases of kitchen supplies .
Mrs . Martha Gudelsky f or her continuance in building
the Fanny Rosen Memorial Fund .
Gloria Grossman and Lois 5her in for their many original
and beautiful table and room decorations .
Rena Levine and her calling squad ~.ho served us many
tifles this year.
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Mrs . !<'red Rod off ~1ho promptly,___nigiight~ir-.each meeting
and gave de tailed and interesting reports in our Temple bulletin .
Florence Rubinsky in helping us out by sending our monthly
meeting cards .
Jean Berman who made many visits to our sick membersn
�- 5and br ought cheer and happiness .
FUND RAISING :
October 1949 opened Siste rhood ' s busy and active year
with a drive for new members .
man .
Sophie Lebow was the a cting chairOV~ '( ,f~ YI OU, S re,~6'>1,$ I "l
Our guests pr esent were new comers~unable to heed the
Sisterhbod call.
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The past and potential members showed the desiree
interest when fifty - eight ladies out of our present ninety-two
members came with their ten dollar dues in order to partake of
the fa11 paid up rnembership"L~tke Dinner'' that .:>isterhood offered.
Sophi e Lebow and her committee served a very delicious meal , amd well
worth the admitting pr i ce.
The money was ~reatly needed and wisely
spent for a stage curta in for our Recreation Room.
Mrs, Harry Fi sher
a nd co- chairman Mrs. Leo, Rosen assumed the responsibility of the initial
steps in the selection of the material and decorator .
Behind the stage
s cenes, other than the inst a llation of a new track , and a sprained ankle,
we proudl}' presented the curtain to our community.
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On Sunday evening , November 6 , the Gol den Book Dedication took pl a ce.
All local organizations l ent a helping hand.
Sisterhood assU111ed the g«N«tt
general chairmanship , along with the food preparations and t able decorations.
' When the treasurer 's report showed a u«~«x«f balance of$2OJ.S2
we felt the i mmediate need of another fund raising function.
ty resulted in a thorough cleanup, a rummage sale.
Thi s activi -
Betty Price as Chair-
man left no home or store unsolicited. Her conscientiousness was clearly
shown when she collected the rummage almost singlehandedly.
Much appreci-
a tion and hearty thanks goes to Betty and her corps of wo rkers who showed out ~tand ing sales a bilit y.
Purim tine brought t he whole family to Temple f or a supper, carnival and enterta inment.
Rose Lawson , as general chairman worked as
�- 6usual, dilligently and laboriously.
A baked goods sale, knick-knack
booth and a doll and apron display brought very remunerative results.
Many people lent a helping hand and to the chairmen of these indiviaual
projects , we offer many thanks .
Hortense Berman, Rose Lawson and Esther
Rubinsky!
Plans with elaborate and detailed preparation brought us our
second Sisterhood Community Seder.
eral chairmanship .
Again Leah Shumaker assumed the gen-
Efficiency, organi~a tion a nd arrangements , not ~,i th-
s tanding the countless hours that our chairman and her efficient staff of
co-workers spent in elaborate preparations is an affair that will long be
remembered.
We are grateful to Rabbi Umen for his very impressive Seder
services along with his unique ability in RRh'.xi enhancing our treasu~y
with his handling of the "Afikomin" money.
Credit goes to the following
who served as sub-chairmaen; Beryl Rosenberg, Mr. & Mrs. Fred Rodoff , Mr.
and Mrs. Mag Lebow, Mrs , Morris Levine, and Mrs . Esther Freedman.
A second rummage sale was held this Spring , which although not as
lucrative as our first sale , helped swell the general funds.
Our concluding project is a hand-made afghan, generously donated
by Mrs . Ida Ashendorf, and led by Mrs. Mary Fogel .
Our chairman has con-
scientmously made every possible effort to make this activity a financial
success.
,Let us co- operate with her to the f ullest and make this early
Fall function outstanding.
have a summer card party.
An excellent suggestion of our chairman is to
Two tidkets purchased by each guest with ten
people present would sell one book of tmckets,
Try this and enjoy the free
luncheon wo which you are entitled.
In the above mentioned re port, you will note that no mention was
made of receipts or disbursements , and at this time it would be f itting to
have our treasurer Ell en Aron show us the status of our treasury throughout
the year .
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In closing my yearly report, I wish to thank all you ladies
for mak-
ing this year the f ine success that it was.
Our most hearty thanks goes
to Rabbi Umen for his splendid support and his many helpful suggestions.
May his leadership continue to guide us and may Sisterhood continue to
serve the Temple in greater and more efficient capacity.
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Muskegon, Michigan
Congregation B'nai Israel
FROM THE RABBI
MARCH
ADAR I
PURIM
The Scroll
of
Esther and the
holiday of Purim have always had
their
critics.
Questions
are
still being
raised
as to why
Esther
was
included
in
the
Scriptures, and why we celebrate
such a frivolous holiday.
Because
of the critics, and the meaning of
the Scroll and the holiday, the
Rabbis spend considerable time in
both
Jewish
law
and .. folklore
discussing the book of Esther and
Purim.
It is no less a mitzvah to
read and hear the Megillah than it
is to listen to and retell the
Passover story.
Even when the
Messiah
comes,
Purim
will
be
celebrated while most other Jewish
holidays will not.
At that time
all the books of the Bible will
lose their value except for the
Five Books of Moses and the Book
of Esther.
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What is the value of the book of
Esther? Is it an historical book?
In the recent Five Scrolls, Rabbis
Friedlander
and
Bronstein
summarize
the
views
of
most
scholars:
"The events described
here,
if
not
historically
verifiable,
are
paradigns
of
historical
events
which
have
plagued the Jewish people in every
era." The Hamans of history have
had no
qualms
about,
nor the
Ahasueruses
any
objections to,
genocide.
Thus, the particularly
Jewish
story
of
Esther
has
universal implications.
Purim demonstrates for us how we
should understand the Megillah.
We might focus on the dark side of
Esther, genocide and revenge, and
be filled with despair.
In order
to face the realities of a hostile
world around us, thour: we need
PURIM PARTIES see calendar
Jewish Centennial
Passover Celebration
see enclosed brochure
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rift-I"~
Monday March 6
Hope College
Tuesday March 7
Frauenthal Theater
to do something irrational: we
need to hope and laugh.
For one
day during the year we ~ari escape
the realities of uncertaint-J,-~nd
celebrate
the
mira-c-l-e._ of
o"tir
survival.
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This year,
don't be a critic,
listen to all the exaggerations
and comic irony. Hear the message
of triumph and hope.
Let your
hair down and celebrate!
�OFFICE HOURS
Congregation B'nal Israel
Muskegon, Michigan
Robert Scolnik
President
Alan Alpert
Rabbi
Ira Socol
Editor
Secretary 8:30 - 12:30
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday
Rabbi 10:30 - Noon
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
2:00 - 3:00
Tuesday, and by appointment
"JEWISHMUSKEGON•
What's
in
a
name?
When
I
developed
the
"JEWISHMUSKEGON"
name and masthead I was trying to
show our pride.
Pride in the
survival
of
a
tiny
minority
community.
Pride in our success
at being Jewish outside the major
metro
areas
that
are
usually
associated with Judaism. Pride in
our
hometown's
attributes,
and
pride in a community that has
treated us so royally throughout
our Centennial year.
Six months later, I'm still happy
with the title, and the bulletin.
What do you think?
I'd like to
know.
Do you like the name? do
you have another idea? How do you
feel
about
the
rest
of
the
"bulletin?"
What do you like?
What don't you like?
On pages 11 and 12 this month, is
a
"survey" about the bulletin.
Please take a few minutes to check
a few boxes, and make a few notes.
The whole idea of this publication
is
to
allow
us
to
better
communicate among ourselves, and
with our friends.
Please lend a
hand by letting me know what works
for you.
STORIES
The last
thing
I
want
is a
bulletin filled with my opinions.
We've got lots of space here for
you to
display
your thoughts,
ideas, stories and concerns.
I
can offer as much ( or as little)
assistance as you want in putting
your ideas into words.
Any topic
relating to Judais~ and/or our
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community seems fair game.
So
come on ••. I know there are more
than a few inspired authors out
there, put it down on paper and
send it in.
THANKS
to Bob Scolnik, who prov ides us
with the wonderful photo·-pages.
Bob gets these together on his own
each month, and they make the
bulletin look great!
SPONSORSHIPS ·
Making this a better publication
takes work and money.
To build
the
"Newsletter
Fund"
we're
reviving the "Sponsorship" idea.
Individual
sponsors
( $50.
per
year) will
be
listed in each
months
publication.
Corporate
Sponsors ( $120) will get a three
line listing, Company Name, type
of business, and address.
Please,
if you can add to your current
support
for
Temple activities,
consider this option.
�When
you read this, it will
already be March.
I can hardly
believe
that
this
year
as
President of your Congregation
is passing so quickly. I have a
tremendous sense of pride in our
Centennial Celebration and look
forward to the events yet to
come. The most recent event that
comes
to mind
The Klezmer
Conservatory
Band
was
spectacular.
The
overflowing
Overbrook Theater was magically
transformed
into
a
Jewish
11 Shtetl"
from another time and
place.
The
audience,
predominantly non-Jewish, really
got into the spirit of Klezmer
music and I could sense a real
feeling of electricity in the
room. I believe that all of you
who were there felt the same
pride in being part of bringing
this
group here!
This event,
like many others in the past
year, was simply amazing.
I would also like to comment on
last
month's editorial, "That
LETTERS
Old Time Religion 11 by Ira Socol.
I read Ira's words at least 4
times.
His
description
of
"Midwood 11
was fascinating and
evoked a wish to go back to that
simpler time I knew as a child
growing up in a much more Jewish
community
in New York State.
Ira's conclusion's and comments
fit us perfectly. "We must make
the
best available compromise
with our times." In my view, the
current debate over pagers is
senseless. Pagers are a way of
life for many people and I would
much rather have a person and a
pager filling a seat than just
the
empty seat. Perhaps what
needs to be addressed is why has
Friday
evening
attendance
dropped? Many events a~e very
well attended but services seem
to be a problem. Why? I'll be
waiting for your answers.
(Note:
If anyone would like a
copy of last month's editorial,
please contact me for a copy.)
Dear Rabbi and Mrs. Alpert,
The children all did so well the
evening of December third, from
the middle school children down to
the youngest speakers.
Thank you again for so graciously
opening your beautiful place of
worship to our whole community on
Friday,
December
3,
to better
acquaint us with your observance
and enjoyment of Hanukah.
It was
so very meaningful.
r am sure
that
I
express
the
sincere
feelings of all who could be with
you that evening.
From my name you can tell that I
am of German descent; however, my
grandmother (with whom I lived)
and
father
never
approved
of
cruelty toward any people.
I have
enjoyed much kindness from the
Jewish persons I
have known and
have a liking for them all.
I have been so interested in this
year's observance of your Jewish
Centennial
since
the
first
write-up in our Chronicle, having
attended several of its programs
at the Frauenthal, including the
fine presentation of "The Diary of
Anne Frank."
I am glad that my church, St.
Mary's,
locally,
was
so
well
represented, as well as so many
other churches.
I
trust that Hanukah
enjoyable in your home.
was
most
-Anne L. Freitag
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B'NAI B'RITH
INSTALLS
NEW OFFICERS
ANNIVERSARIES
Aliyah and Lester Schick
Susan and Norman Halbower
Sally and Marcus Bess
Barbara and William Reed
CONGRATULATIONS
to
Portia
Rothchild
on
being
selected as one of two recipients
of
the
Urban
League's
Equal
Opportunity Award.
DAN RAPOPORT (L}, INSTALLS NEW B'NAI B'RITH
PRESIDENT ED KRAUSE
EVENTS/OUT-OF-TOWN
GRAND RAPIDS:
Congregation Ahavas
Israel's 1989 Dinner Dance, is on
March 11, at 8 p.m.
A Cadillac,
and many door prizes will be given
away.
Reservations close March 5,
the cost is $22 per person.
Call
1-949-2840
for
details
and
reservations.
WEST
BLOOMFIELD:
The
Jewish
Community Center of Metropolitan
Detroit pre sen ts LET US ENTERTAIN
YOU,
a festival of Jewish art,
theatre,
and
music.
March and
April events include:
Sculpture by
Itzik Ben Shalom (3/4-3/19); Gabe
Kaplan "In Concert" (3/4, 8 p.m.);
Michigan Musician Winners Concert
(4/5, 8 p.m.); and Betty Comden and
Adolph Green (4/8,
9 p.m.).
The
Center is at 6600 West Maple, in
West Bloomfield, Call 313-661-1000
for details.
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LES SHICK, OUTGOING B'NAI B'RITH
CONGRATULATES ED KRAUSE .
PRESIDENT
AS PART OF THE PROGRAM AT THE B'NAI B'RITH
MEETING, MEMBERS WATCH A VIDEO AND
PROGRAM PROVIDED BY DR. JOEL RUBIN.
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<tongressional 1Record
United States
of America
Vol. 134
PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES OF THE
J00 th CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION
WASHINGTON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1988
No. 152
Senate
JEWISH CENTENNIAL
CELEBRATION IN MUSKEGON
• Mr. LEVIN. Mr. President, in this
last CoNGRFS.:,IONAL REcono of the
100th Cong!'ess, I would like tu bring
lo the attention of the S1·nate another
notable event In the annals of this
Nation.
On September 21, 1988, a Jewish
centennial celebration was begun in
Muskegon, Ml. What Is unique about
the celebration Is that the entire community of Muskegon organized a comprehensive 8-month commemoration,
Including 50 Individual programs and
events. The 14 major cultural, educational and religious organizations in
the Muskegon community united to
focus, In this intensive way, on the
contributions of the Jewish people
both worldwide and in Muskegon.
For the community of almost
300,000 people to celebrate with such a
massive outpouring of creative talent
the 100th birthday of a tiny 87-family
minority community represents the
most eloquent testimony to American
pluralism that I can remember.
I had the privilege, that I will always
remember, of speaking at one of the
first events, the opening of the Anne
Frank exhibit at the Muskegon History Museum. That evening Itzhak Perlman ga\·e a solo recital at the historic
Frauenthal Theatre. And the next day
Congressman Guy VANllER JAGT, who
obtained his bachelor of divinity
degree at Yale University, symbolized
In a very personal way the ecumenical
nature of the celebration by participating in the Jewish service of Sukkot.
One of the features of this 8 month
celebration is the publication of a
booklet entitled "Michigan's Jewish
Community: A Centennial History
1888-1988," written by Dennis Devlin,
who is a professor of history at Grand
Valley State University.
Next May, the celebration ends with
a trip to Egypt and Israel, foscusing on
art and music and the history of the
two countries, and sponsored by the
art museum and the symphony orchestra. None of this could have been
done without the extraordinary effort
of Sylvia Kaufman.
I havt' never been so touched by thi:
Lula! commitment of a large community to the ctmtributions of a tiny c-omponent of iL. It Is a model which other
communities can use as we exercise
ou1· freedom to maintain our diverse
ethnic traditions. This unique country
of ours not only allows everyone to do
so, but proclaims the importance of
that freedom.
A New York Times article on September 28, 1988, contained some of the
flavor of the Muskegon celebration. I
ask that it be printed In the RECORD at
this time.
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�FRIENDS OF THE NORTON SHORES LIBRARY
NORTON SHORES BRANCH, MUSKEGON COUNTY LIBRARY
705 SEMINOLE ROAD
NORTON SHORES, MICHIGAN 49441
THE JESSE AND BARBARA LEVIN
COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION
In 1988, Jesse and Barbara Levin donated funds to the Friends of the Norton
Shores Library in order to establish a yearly college scholarship award for high
school students. This scholarship award is open to any 12th grade student who is a
resident of either Norton Shores or Roosevelt Park, Michigan. Also, any 12th
grade student who is a member of the Muskegon Temple B 'Nai Israel Congregation is eligible to apply. The scholarship will be awarded for the best essay on the
subject: THE IMPACT OF WDAISM ON WORLD HISTORY. References to be
used should be works which promote a better understanding between Jews and
non-Jews. Footnotes and a bibliography should be included. The recommended
length for the essay is 1,000 to 1,500 words. The essay with this form attached
must be submitted to the above address by May 1 to be considered for the award.
Please complete the following information.
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Contributions/General Fund
Regina and Roland Lehker
Contributions/Newsletter Fund
Lotta and Sam Shumacher
(in appreciation)
YABRZEITS
(memorialized March 3)
Fannie Honick-2/26
Henry Bespaloff-2/26
Louis Brontman-Adar I 22
Gloria Bess-2/29
Warren Galombeck*-3/1
Shima Spivak-3/3
Louis Simon*-3/4
Wilfred Dixon-3/4
Leo Friedlander*-Adar I 27
(memorialized March 10)
Beatrice Danto-Adar I 28
Greta Louise Gudelsky-3/6
Anna Fisher-3/9
Beatrice Levin-3/9
Clara Jacobs*-Adar II 3
(memorialized March 17)
Oscar Gudelsky-3/15
Isaac Rosen-3/15
David Gudelsky*-Adar II 10
Rose Singer-3/17
(memorialized March 24)
Jerome Bomash-3/19
Edward Kushner-3/20
Sophie Rosen-3/21
Harold Fleischer-3/23
Bernard C. Steindler*-3/25
(memorialized March 31)
Eileen Cahill-3/29
Richard Vanderleest-3/29
Dr. Norman Fleishman-3/30
Samuel Brontman*-3/31
Ellis Chevlin*-3/31
Libby Bloomfield-4/1
May Vanderleest-4/1
Leb Fonstein-4/1
(memorialized April 7)
Louis Aron*-4/4
Morris Kantor*-4/6
Craig Silberman-4/6
Evelyn Singer-Nisan 2
Maurice Brow-4/7
Milton Steindler*-4/7
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The
Temple
Bulletin
Achduth Vesholom
.J -::1 tion, Fort Wayne,
Indiana
by Rabbi Richard B. Safran
Some 19,300 Soviet Jews were able to leave the Soviet Union in 1988,
representing a considerable increase over previous years. Most of
these Soviet Jews came to the United States to settle here under a
liberal American law that allowed refugees from lands of persecution
to find a home here. With the changed poli.tical climate in the USSR
some 30-40,000 additional Soviet Jews are expected to leave Russia this
year. We rejoice at this new opportunity being given to our brothers
and sisters, yet we must be made aware of the new problems this increased immigration creates. First, now that the refugees are not
fleeing oppression they are placed in a different legal category that
does not give them automatic entrance into our shores. At this moment
some 300 Jews have already been denied entrance. Secondly, our federal
deficit has limited the amount of immigration this country is allowing,
and there has been some attempt to allocate slots that have not been
used by Southeast Asian refugees. Needless to say, this has caused some
inter-group conflict. Thirdly, if Soviet Jews seek entry to the U.S.A.
under their new status as gene Lal refugees, federal help for their
settlement is very limited, and they will have to turn almost completely
to the American Jewish community to assist them. This will mean that
American Jewish organizations will have to foot the bill for the transit
facilities in Europe and then local Federations will be asked to settle
them in their communities and to assist them financially and in other ways.
(;nr - :.-
Recently the Jewish Agency in Israel has advanced an interesting proposal that Israel serve as the transit point for the Soviet Jews leaving Russia.
This would involve all Soviet Jews going directly to Israel on their way
to the United States and would expose them to that land, while the Israelies would have an opportunity to persuade them to settle there. Those
who then want to go to the United States could continue on as refugees.
There would also be the advantage of having the millions spent on the
refugee transit facilities being spent in Israel. The plan has merit and
should be considered, but only if the Soviet Jews will be allowed to
continue to the U. S. as "refugees." In the past Israel has not been
willing to accept this condition, claiming that to do so would be the
betrayal of Zionism.
No matter what the final arrangements, we who for years have been working
for the freedom of Soviet Jews will now have the joy of seeing many come
out, and we will have the shared responsibility of settling them in our
community and in other cities.
I am sure, as in the past, we will rise to the challenge.
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Muskegon, Michigan
April 1988
Nisan/lyar 57 48
Rabbi's Message
by Rabbi Alan Alpert
In his preface to "A Passover Haggadah" the
editor Rabbi Herbert Bronstein, dedicates
the ne; Reform Haggadah in memory of his father who made him " ••• aware that I am part of
a great processional still being led by a
pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire
by night, from degradation to ~lory." Ev7n
before his education as a rabbi, Bronstein
states, " ••• as a child, I had already glimpsed the awesome and wonderful kingdom of the
sacred into which the Haggadah was an enchanted portal."
As editor, Bronstein brings a vision of a
spirjtual guest--to allow the ancient evolving message of the Haggadah to speak to our
inner soul. Our soul recognizes and verifies
the religious truths of the ancient and the
modern, and longs for redemption for all humanity and a spiritual unification with God.
Whether we use this or any other Haggadah,
Bronstein's vision is important for us. The
Haggadah should be " ••. a g~teway to the ~ctual experience of redemption, new and different each year, yet ever permanent in the
realities of our history and ever reluming
our vision of life."
At the Seder let us enter the gateway and
relive our experiences, open our minds and
hearts to feel the sacred and allow it to
grow each and every day.
Traditional Passover Preparations
On the night of March 31st, the night before Passover starts, traditional Jews will
complete their thorough cleaning of the house
with a search for any remaining crumbs of
leavened bread (bedikat hamatz). In the morning the crumbs are burned no later than 10am.
During the 8 days of Passover, only foods
containing a "Kosher for Passover" label an~
fresh fruits and vegetables are eaten. Prohibited foods include anything with leavening;
cereals and grains(wheat, barley, oats, rye);
alcoholic beverages; and, in the Ashkenazic
tradition but not the Sephardic, rice,millet,
corn,and legumes(dried beans & peas,pean~ts).
Dishes and untensils need to be set aside
for Passover use only, or "kashered" by thoroughly scouring them in hot water, and~ 24
hour soaking in hot water. Pottery, baking
dishes, and vessels which cannot be thoroughly cleaned cannot be kashered and should not
be used. The oven or stove must be thoroughly
cleaned and heated to highest heat for 30
minutes. A dishwasher needs to be thoroughly
scrubbed and run through a complete cycle
after not using it for 24 hours.
The Haggadah
(from "The Passover Anthology" by Philip
Goodman)
The Haggadah, the book that presents the
order of the home service for the first two
evenings of Passover, occupies a unique place
in Jewish liturgy. It is an anthology of
readings from the Bible, appropriate talmudic
and midrashic selections and legends, prayers
and blessings, hymns and songs. All these are
interwoven with the ritual for the Seder--the
order of the service.
Product of many hands, the Haggadah has had
a long development. The antiquity of the Haggadah, having its origin in the Bible, has
been well established. Certain portions antedate the period of the Maccabees. Its present
character was largely formed by about 200 CE,
for it is described in some detail in the
Mishnah, compiled by Rabbi Judah the Patriarch at that time. It was further embellished, however, during the course of succeeding
centuries.
The spirit pervading the Haggadah is one of
longing for redemption and freedom, a belief
in the survival of the Jewish people and an
unyielding confidence in divine salvation. It
was, therefore, natural for this work to capture the hearts of the Jewish people in all
generations and to give them a sense of pride
in Jewish destiny and broad perspectives on
the precious values of freedom and liberty
for all mankind.
Endeared to Jews, the Haggadah has appeared
in innumerable editions--printed, illuminated, illustrated--some without commentaries
and one with as many as 238 commentaries.
More than a score of translations of the Haggadah have been made and it has been adapted
in various ways to serve different needs and
interests.
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Passover
Seder
For those who have
reservations for the
Community Seder, the Seder will held at 6 pm
on Friday, April 1, 1988, in the Temple
Social Hall.
If you are having a seder at your home, and
need any information or questions answered,
Rabbi Alpert will be happy to help you.
Moses
(by Ahad
Ha-am, from "The Passover Anthology"
by Philip Goodman)
On the threshold of Jewish history the figure of Moses, the greatest of our national
heroes, stands like a pillar of light. As I
read the Haggadah, on Passover eve, his image
hovers over me and lifts me to a higher
plane, where all the doubts and questions
that have been raised about Moses do not
trouble me in the least.
Did Moses really exist? Did his life and
activities really correspond with the traditional account? Did he really save the Jewish
people and give them the Torah in the form in
which it has been handed down to us? Questions there are in plenty; but I wave them aside with a short and simple answer.
This Moses--! say to the erudite questioners--this man of antiquity, whose existence
and character you are investigating, is no
concern of anybody but learned antiquarians
like yourselves. We have another Moses of our
own, woose image has been enshrined in the
hearts of the Jewish people for centuries,
and who has never ceased to influence our national life from the earliest times to the
present day.
The existence of this Moses of ours is a
historical fact which is wholly independent
of your researches. Even if you succeeded in
proving beyond all doubt that the man Moses
never existed, or that the actual Moses was
different from our picture of him, that would
not in the slightest degree affect the historical reality of the ideal Moses--the Moses
who not only led us for forty years in the
wilderness of Sinai, but has led us for thousands of years in all the wildernesses in
which we have wandered since the Exodus •••
Seder Service Additions
Please add the following two selections at
your Seder:
SEDER RITUAL OF REMEMBRANCE FOR THE SIX
MILLION JEWS WHO PERISHED IN THE HOLOCAUST:
On this night of Seder, we remember with
reverence and love, the six million of our
people of the European exile who perished at
the hands of a tyrant more wicked than the
Pharaoh who enslaved our fathers in Egypt.
Come, said he to his minions, let us cut them
off from being a people that the name of Israel may be remembered no more. And they slew
the blameless and pure, men and women and
little ones, with vapors of poison and burned
them with fire. But we abstain from dwelling
on the deeds of the evil ones lest we defame
the image of God in which humankind was
created.
Now, the remnants of our people who were
left in the ghettoes and camps of annihilation rose up against the wicked ones for the
sanctification of the Name and slew many of
them before they died. On the first day of
Passover, the remnants in the Ghetto of Warsaw rose up against the adversary, even as in
the days of Judah the Maccabee. "They were
lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in
their death, they were not divided,w and they
brought redemption to the name of Israel
through all the world.
And from the depths of their affliction,
the martyrs lifted their voices in a song of
faith in the coming of the Messiah, when justice and fellowship will reign among the
people.
THE MATZAH OF HOPE
This matzah, which we set aside as a symbol
of hope for the Jews of the Soviet Union, reminds us of the indestructible links that exist between us.
As we observe this festival of freedom, we
recall that Soviet Jews are not free to leave
without harrassment; to learn of their past;
to pass on their religious traditions; to
learn the language of their forebearers; to
train teachers and rabbis of future generations.
We remember the scores who sought to live
as Jews and struggled to leave for Israel and the land of our forebearers - but now
languish in Soviet labor camps. Their struggle against their oppressors goes on. They
will not be forgotten.
We will stand with them in their struggle
until the light of freedom and redemption
shines forth.
Passover Supplies
A check of local stores reveals that
Meijers has the best selection of Passover
supplies. They are carrying a fairly large
selection of various matzah products,
including meal, farfel, and cereal, plus
macaroons, potato starch, and soup.
D&W has a few things, including soup, cake
mix, and egg matzah.
For those willing to go farther, Wieners
deli in Grand Rapids has a very good
selection of Passover supplies.
�Recipes for Passover
EGGLESS SWEET MATZO BRIE(serves 4-6)
(from "Jewish Vegetarian Cooking")
Blend together:
1 C milk
2 ripe bananas
1/4 tsp. cinnamon
soak 8 matzot, broken into pieces, in the
above mixture. Fry in oiled pan over medium
heat. Serve with applesauce.
EGGLESS KNEIDLICH
(from Jewish Vegetarians of North America)
4 medium potatoes
1 1/4 c. (approx.) matzo meal
pepper
Peel, cut up, and boil potatoes until soft.
Mash add pepper to taste, and cool. Add
matz~ meal gradually and knead until firm and
smooth.
Fill a large pot 3/4 full with water. Heat to
boil. Form smooth ·balls out of the mixture
and drop into boiling water or broth. Cook
for about 20 minutes in the pot, covered. Do
not ' overcook. Serve with your favorite soup
or broth.
LAYERED MATZO PUDDING
(from "Jewish Vegetarian Cooking")
4-5 apples, grated or sliced thin
4 matzos
1/2 cup raisins, washed in hot water
1/4 cup butter or margarine
2 eggs
2 Tbl sugar
2 cups water or milk
pinch of salt
1 tsp powdered cinnamon
3 Tbl chopped nuts
l.Dip matzos in water to moisten, but not
soften. Place one matzo in bottom of greased
pie dish.
2.Place a layer of grated apples on top of
the matzo and sprinkle with raisins. Dot with
pieces of butter or margarine.
3. Repeat until all the matzos, apples and
butter or margarine have been used.
4.Beat the eggs and sugar until frothy. Add
water or milk, salt and cinnamon. Pour over
the layers in the pie dish.
5.Sprinkle with chopped nuts. Dab with more
butter or margarine.
6.Bake in a preheated 350 degree oven about
20-30 minutes.
FESTIVE MACAROONS (makes about 20)
(from "No Cholesterol Passover Recipes")
Mix together:
16 ounces shredded coconut
4 ripe bananas, mashed
4 Tbl. cocoa
1 cup walnuts, chopped finely
.
Form pyramid shape clusters on a lightly
oiled cookie sheet. Bake at 350 degrees for
20 minutes. (Note: Coconut is high in
saturated fat.)
Matzoh Is Matzoh
Why is matzoh called matzoh?
Because it has the shape of matzoh; it has
small holes like matzoh; it is dry as matzoh;
it tastes like matzoh. What else can you call
it but matzoh?
Matzoh Baking
(from "The Passover Anthology" by Philip
Goodman)
In about 1857 the first Matzoh-baking machine was invented in Austria, beginning a
heated controversy which raged for half a
century ••• (called) "one of the most acrimonious discussions in the history of the responsa literature." However, this should not be
surprising as this was, indeed, a radical innovation for the fulfilment of a duty whose
execution had long ago been elaborately defined to the minutest detail.
The newly invented machine kneaded the
dough and rolled it through two metal rollers
from which it came out thin, perforated and
round. It was then placed in an oven. As the
corners of the dough, cut to make the matzot
round, were re-used, it was feared that the
time elapsing until these pieces of dough
were used again might allow them to become
leavened. A later machine was developed which
produced square matzot so that there would be
no leftovers.
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The Still Small Voice
by Abraham M. Klien
The candles splutter; and the kettle hums;
The heirloomed clock enumerates the tribes;
Upon the wine-stained tablecloth lie crumbs
Of matzoh whose wide scattering describes
Jews driven in far lands upon this earth.
The kettle hums; the candles splutter; and
Winds whispering from shutters tell rebirth
Of beauty rising in an eastern land,
Of paschal sheep driven in cloudy droves;
Of almond-blossoms coloring the breeze;
Of vineyards upon verdant terraces;
Of golden globes in orient orange-groves.
And those assembled at the table dream
Of small schemes that an April wind doth
scheme,
And cry from out the sleep assailing them,
Jerusalem, next year! Next year, Jerusalem!
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�Editorial
by Aliyah Beruryah Schick
we introduced the material on the proposed
Chavurah Program (see accompanying article,
"Chavurah") at the March Board meeting. When
I finished explaining how a chavurah can meet
our needs for a sense of community, for active participation, meaningful guidelines for
life, and a sense of fulfillment, one of the
older Temple Board members was sitting on the
edge of his seat with his face all scrunched
up. I thought, "Oh no, he doesn't like it.
Too much change?" I took a breath, "You look
puzzled." I said.
"It's ten years too late!" he exclaimed.
It wasn't at all that he didn't like it. On
the contrary, it looks so good that one can't
help think that it would have made a real
difference in the past.
As he went on, I wondered if the rest of us
were going allow past experiences to stop us
from giving this hope for our present and future a real effort. I interrupted him, saying, "I hope that you can be supportive of
this if you think it is a good idea." He
looked up at me, not quite ready to have been
stopped from speaking.
A few minutes later, after we had gone on,
he said, "Yes! I will support this! It can
make a real difference. This is an important
thing you are doing here."
I agree. We all suffer from alienation and
loneliness, passivity and non-involvement,
lack of direction, insecurity, and a sense of
meaninglessness, not only in this society in
general, but within this congregation. We
like to think that we are warm and caring,
that we are "family". We want very much to be
that way. Perhaps the Chavurah Program can
help us do it. Wouldn't that be wonderful!
Spring Clean-Up
The annual spring clean-up of the Temple
grounds will take place on Sunday morning,
April 24th, 9am to noon or thereabouts. Last
year abottt a dozen people did wonders with
sweeping, raking, pruning, bagging, and
washing, and had a lot of fun at it!
If you would like to participate, please
call Rick Boyden, 798-1592, so he can plan
the work. Don't forget to bring your work
gloves, rakes, shovels, brooms, and pruning
equipment!
Building Accessibility
Temple President Bob Scolnik and the Board
of Trustees have been investigating the possibility of making our building more accessible for people who have difficulty with our
many stairs. Unfortunately, no viable solution has been discovered. If anyone has information or suggestions on the issue, please
contact Bob Scolnik.
Meanwhile, let's all be aware of the problem, and offer our arms to those who may appreciate a stabilizing hand on the stairs.
Chavurah
An exciting
result of the Temple Board
brainstorming sessions of recent months is
the effort to develop a Chavurah Program for
the congregation. Everyone who has been involved in the research and discussion of this
is very excited about the potential benefits
for our members.
"Chavurah" is the Hebrew word for "fellowship" which we are using to describe voluntary groups of 4 or 5 families who get together once a month for a meeting/program/activity which emphasizes Jewish values.
The following is exerpted from a paper by
Bernard Reisman, Ph.D., Brandeis University:
"A central characteristic of the chavurah
is that it offers its members the opportunity
to be a part of a small, intimate community.
Given the dissolution of extended family networks, the breakup of traditional neighborhoods, and the increasing bureaucratization
of most modern-day institutions, people have
few opportunities for primary group affiliations. For a lonely, alienated population,
the chavurah is a welcome antidote. Having a
small, fixed membership, the members come to
know one another as people and not as anonymous, interchangeable parts. They share with
one another major events and celebrations and
offer support when any of their members encounters loss or adversity.
" ••• Many contemporary Jews feel a sense of
meaninglessness in their lives. This condition is exacerbated by the fact that a significant proportion of Jews has eagerly pursued
and achieved a comfortable material existence
which has •.• failed to offer a sense of fulfillment. The need remains for a beliefsystem which can help them find meaning in
life beyond self-gratification.
" ••• If the chavurah were only a social
group it would be another of many selfgratifying, novel experiences. As an effort
to draw personal meaning from one's Jewishness and to contribute to Jewish continuity,
the chavurah is able to offer to members an
experience of transcendence. It moves beyond
the ordinary and is seen by the members as a
special and significant experience.
"The central thrust of contemporary society
is centrifugal. Opportunites for meaningful,
continuing, personalized associations are
diminishing. The chavurah is a centripetral
experience - one which brings people together
•.• (it) is an attempt to generate a greater
sense of ownership and participation by people for the individual and collective wellbeing ••• (it) provides (its members) with a
means of contributing to Jewish continuity
and through this they experience a sense of
purpose in their own lives."
Our Chavurah Committee welcomes your input
on this as they proceed with the specific
structure and design of the program. Please
contact any of the members with your comments
or questions: Aliyah Schick (chair), Merle
ScolniK, Alan Oppenheimer, Shoshana Stein,
Ruth Krause, Les Schick, an_g Rabbi Alpert.
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Howard Wolpe
Meet Janet Hunter and Barbara Reed
Representative Howard Wolpe will be our
guest speaker on Friday, April 29. Services
will begin at 8:00, followed by Rep. Wolpe's
talk. An Oneg will follow.
If you would like to join Rep. Wolpe for
dinner before services at 6 pm, please call
the Temple office.
by Gertrude Greenberg
Our Temple family can be extremely proud of
our twin sisters, Janet Hunter and Barbara
Reed, who came to us from Long Island, New
York.
Barbara has been a teacher in the Muskegon
school system for 20 years. She holds a Bachelor's degree in education from Potsdam University in Potsdam, N.Y., and has done graduate work at Western University in Kalamazoo.
In addition, Barbara has been a member of
the Muskegon Teachers' Board for 10 years,
and she represents 191 teachers on the Muskegon Area Regional Council. In our Temple
Barbara has served 10 years on the Religious
School Board and 3 years on the Temple Board.
Barbara's husband, Bill, whom she married
when he was in the Air Force at West Hampton,
N.Y., grew up in Muskegon. He has several degrees, among them a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration from Grand Valley University. At present, he is in Quantico, Virginia, studying at the National F.B.I. Academy, which is the most prestigious school in
the country for law enforcement officers.
Janet is a graduate of the Nursing School
of Wyckoff Heights Hospital in Brooklyn, N.Y.
Her husband "Skip", who is an engineer at
Sealed Power, was a friend of Bill Reed and
also in the Air Corp at West Hampton when
Janet met and married him.
Janet is a successful business woman. Recently she established Shoreline Health Care
Services where she has 120 employees. In the
past she has cared for three of our Temple
members when they were seriously ill--Maurice
and Sue Friend, and Margaret Ashendorf.
Janet's six children were all born in Muskegon and are a credit to their parents.
Janet and Barbara, along with their husbands, did a superb job of helping our Russian family, the Spivaks. They did everything
from finding an apartment, collecting and
hauling in the donated furniture and household goods, and getting donations from area
food stores, to greeting the newcomers on
their arrival at the airport. Janet says that
hearing Igor exclaim, "This is America!" when
he got off the plane repaid them for all
their time and labors.
New
Members
Deborah and Ira Socol
and their son Jamie
have joined our congregation. They moved here
from New York, where Ira was with the Bronx
police department and Deborah prepared museum
art exhibits. Here in Muskegon they have
opened the new art gallery and framing shop,
Deborah's Choice, and Ira is establishing a
freelance graphic arts business, using his
skills and training in graphic arts from MSU.
Let's give them a warm welcome!
Photograph'?
Our Temple Historical Committee would like
to borrow a photograph of the Webster Street
side of the Temple building, showing the reflecting pool. This is for possible inclusion
in the - history book for the Centennial.
Please contact Alan Oppenheimer at once.
Jewish Mysticism
A noted authority on Jewish Mysticism, Professor Laurence Fine, of Indiana University,
will be scholar-in-residence at Ahavas Israel
on the weekend of April 15-17. We have been
invited by Ahavas Israel to join them.
Friday evening: 8:15 services; Prof. Fine
on "Mysticism in Judaism: The Forgotten
Tradition"
Saturday: worship services, 9:30 am; lunch
(by reservation); study session, 12-1, topic
"Is God Male or Female? The Answer of the
Kabbalists."
Sunday morning: breakfast (by reservation),
10-12, Prof. Fine on "Hasidism, Kabbalah, and
Contemporary Jewish Piety."
Sunday afternoon:Inter-Religious Symposium,
2:30-4:30. Prof. Fine and outstanding clergy,
on "Mysticism and Rationalism."
To RSVP for the lunch and/or breakfast
please call Ahavas Israel, 1-949-2840, Monday
through Friday, 10-5. If you need a ride or
could take someone else, please call Al
Parker, 755-2924.
The Pavarim in GR
By popular request, The Jewish Cultural
Council of Grand Rapids is bringing back
Israel's celebrated folk-duo, The Pavarim.
Yossi Hur and Ori Harpaz will present their
distinctive repertoire of traditional and
contemporary songs. These include selections
in Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino, Greek, Spanish,
and English--all performed with a distinctive
Middle East flavor.
This program is especially recommended for
the entire family.
Part of the twentieth annual Jewish lecture
and entertainment series, Spectrum 88, this
program takes place on Sunday, April 17, at 8
pm, at Congregation Ahavas Israel, 2727
Michigan NE. Individual admission $8, student
admission $3.
�Holocaust Remembrance Day
Israeli Independence
On April 14th we commemorate the Holocaust
with Yorn Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day.
The Official State of Michigan Holocaust
Commemoration will take place on that day at
12:00 noon in the Rotunda of the State Capitol in Lansing. Cosponsored by the Office of
Governor Blanchard,the State Legislature, and
the Jewish Community Council of Metropolitan
Detroit in cooperation with the Department of
Managem~nt and Budget, the Michigan Jewish
Network, and the Greater Lansing ~ewish Welfare Federation, the observance will feature
as its theme the concept of resistance. The
theme was selected to coincide with the 45th
anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
Featured in the program will be:
*Legislative declaration of Day of Remembrance -- presented by Senator Lana Pollack
*Winner of Essay contest on the Holocaust
*Music by Rosalie Gerut
*Keynote remarks by Dr. Kenneth Waltzer, MSU
*Candle-lighting ceremony
This very important event is a statewide
gathering, and it is hoped that people from
around the state will make every effort to
attend. If you are interested in car pooling,
please call Al Parker, 755-2924.
The 40th anniversary of the independence of
the State of Israel occurs on the 22nd of
this month.
Celebrations are taking place
all over the world, not only on this day, but
throughout this year.
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Plans are being made for our congregation
to join with Temple Emanuel and Congregation
Ahavas Israel for a joint celebration on May
13th. Details will be announced in next
month's newsletter.
Israel Bond Holders
from the State of Israel Bond Office
Last year Michigan's Jewish Community was
urged to reinvest, at full maturity value,
State of Israel Bonds which were purchased in
1973 during the Yom Kippur War. As a result,
reinvestments of over $1,000,000 worth of
1973 Bonds were made during 1987 --BUT many
'73 Bonds are still out there in safe deposit
boxes, file cabinets and dresser drawers.
If you have reinvested your '73 Bonds, Israel thanks you, but if you have not, you are
again encouraged to find them and loan Israel
those dollars once more through the purchase
of a eurrent Israel security. In this way you
will renew your partnership with Israel and
help safegu&id her peacetime economy.
Additionally, as of January 1, 1988, the
Israel Bond Organization has been given permission by the Government of Israel to also
accept 1974 Bonds, maturing in 1989, for early reinvestment. This means that you will receive full maturity value for an '73 or '74
Bond which you use towards the purchase of a
current Israel security.
During this time of crisis in Israel, the
Jewish State needs, more than ever before, a
show of American-Jewish support for its
"right to exist• as an independent and secure
nation. Please call or write the Israel Bond
office, 24123 Greenfield Rd., Southfield, MI
48075, (313) 557-2900.
40 Years Ago ...
(from "My People", by Abba Eban)
On May 14, 1948 [5 Iyar 5708], Sir Alan
Cunningham, the High Commissioner, with the
last of his staff,left the soil of Palestine.
From a cruiser outside territorial waters he
signaled the end of the Mandatory era. It had
been born in high exaltation. It had now expired in chaos and discredit. In a short ceremony at the Museum of Tel Aviv at 4 P.M.
that day the State of Israel was born. Two
hundred forty men witnessed a new page in
Jewish history, as David Ben Gurion read the
Proclamation of Independence:
" ••• Accordingly we, members of the People's
Council,representatives of the Jewish Community of Eretz-Israel and of the Zionist Movement, are here assembled on the day of the
termination of the British Mandate over Eretz-Israel and, by virtue of our natural and
historic right and on the strength of the
resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, hereby declare the establishment of a
Jewish State in Eretz-Israel, to be known as
the State of Israel •••• "
When the proclamation had been read, its
signatories advanced to the table to give it
their sanction. The Hebrew benediction was
recited. "Blessed art Thou, 0 Lord our God,
King of the Universe, who hast kept us alive
and preserved us and enabled us to see this
day." Two hundred and forty filed out into
the sun-drenched street. The air-raid sirens
were sounding.
At the General Assembly in New York, Dr.
Silver broke in on the committee's debate to
announce that the State of Israel had been
established. In the White House, President
Truman sat with Marshall and Lovett, deliberating 9n a letter from Dr. Weizmann asking
for recognition of the Jewish State. At 5:16
P.M. President Truman authorized the recognition of Israel by the United States. American
diplomacy had taken an audacious and visionary course.
The news of President Truman's recognition
broke like a thunderbolt on the representatives of the UN in the General Assembly. It
astounded the American representatives themselves.The Soviet Union was the next to grant
recognition. The next morning,the young State
of Israel was plunged into war. As Egyptian
planes bombed the Tel Aviv area, the first
immigrant ship brought detained "illegals" to
the shores of a free country. In twenty-four
hours a Mandate had ended, a State had been
proclaimed and recognized, and an armed invasion launched. It was the most crowded day in
modern Jewish history.
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Contributions
(To be memorialized April 1)
Jacob Libner Nisan 10
Yetta Greenbaum Nisan 11
Richard Vanderleest March 29
Eileen Cahill March 29
Moses Pitkowsky Nisan 12
Joseph Wiener* Nisan 12
Dr. Norman Fleishman March 30
Samuel Broutman* March 31
Ellis Chevlin* March 31
Bernaut Zeligkovits* Nisan 14
Frida Zeligkovits* Nisan 14
Blanka Zeligkovits* Nisan 14
Bella Zeligkovits* Nisan 14
Malke Zeligkovits* Nisan 14
David Zeligkovits* Nisan 14
Mandel Zeligkovits* Nisan 14
Harvey Shaperia Nisan 14
Libby Bloomfield April 1
May Vanderleest April 1
Leo Fonstein April 1
FUND RAISER
Rabbi Alan and Anna Alpert
Albert and Helen Parker
(To be memorialized April 8)
Louis Aron* April 4
Morris Kantor* April 6
Craig Silberman April 6
Maurice Brow April 7
Milton Steindler* April 7
Mandel Clayman Nisan 22
Louis Darmstadter April 9
(To be memorialized April 15)
Ester Gudelsky April 10
Sara Neumer April 12
Harvey Shapiro April 13
Harold Rosen April 14
(To be memorialized April 22)
Louis Levin April 17
Rose Kohn* Iya r 5
Blanche Muskovitz April 22
Margaret Ashendorf April 22
Reuben Berman* April 23
(To be memorialized April 29)
Rachael Stromberg* Iyar 7
Joseph Blumbli!rg Iyar 8
Samuel Stromberg* Iyar 9
Abraham Fishbein Iyar 11
Paul Wiener* April 29
(To be memorialized May 6)
Doris Mandel* Iyar 14
Herbert Kohn May 1
Samuel Ashendorf* May 4
Milford Reed May 4
Harold Page* May 5
Benjamin Gudelsky May 6
Henrietta Bloomfield May 7
Letter
Thanks to Rabbi for his visits and calls
during my recent illness and hospitalization.
And thanks to members of the community for
their calls and cards.
Doris Stromberg
JAY SINGER MEMORIAL FUND
Jack and Edith Lipman
LIBRARY FUND
Maurice and Doris Stromberg,
in memory of Elliott Cohen
GENERAL FUND
Salome Schick, in honor of Lester and Aliyah
Schick on their anniversary
Anniversaries
There are no anniversaries in April, so,
let's wish an extra "Mazel Tov" to all of our
"mid-anniversary" couples!
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Bits 'n Pieces
**David Alpert just turned 3 years old! Do
you believe it has been three years? Mazel
Tov, David and family!
**Les Schick has joined the Coast Guard
Auxiliary, passed his BQ(?), and is now an
ensign! Don't forget to salute him!
**Andi Kahn is busy testing recipes for son
Alan's upcoming bar mitzvah celebration!
While things are baking she is studying lines
for tryouts for local stage productions!
**Roz Muskovitz has two of her wonderful
computer graphics being shown in the Regional
Show at the Muskegon Museum of Art! Besides
doing her own creative work, and teaching art
and design classes at Grand Valley, she is
trying to get the college to allow her to
introduce computer assisted design classes to
the curriculum!
**Have you seen Joel Rubin on TV? He tells us
that the TV station had originally designed
his commercial to sound like a used car
dealer's ad! Needless to say he did a lot of
rewriting and ended up with a very tasteful
commercial! •.. What next? Will he and Bob
Scolnik, our other "TV star", do an ad
together? .•• discount on brake parts with
every surgery?
�Religious School
by Merle Scolnik, Principal
The Religious School Children invite you to
a Mothers' Day Brunch,, on Sunday, May 8th,
at 11:30 AM, in the Temple Social Hall.
Please be sure to RSVP to the Temple Office
by May 5th, so that the children will know
how many places to set at the table.
Dads volunteering to cook and clean-up (see
related article below, "Dads") please contact
Merle Scolnik, 780-2748.
Sunday, May 15th, will be the last day of
Religious School for this year. A Picnic and
Game Day is being planned with lots of fun
for all. We hope to see all of the children
there.
Dads
Hey you
Dads! How about coming down on
Sunday, May 8th and helping the children
prepare brunch for the special ladies in our
community. We need Dads to both cook and
clean up. Lots of fun promised to all! How
about it?
Please let Merle Scolnik (780-2748) know
that you will be there.
Centennial History Book
by Marcia Garrigan
Exciting news! The Centennial History Book
will soon go to press!
The history of the Jewish community in Muskegon was researched by a committee from the
congregation consisting of Alan Oppenheimer,
chairperson, Rabbi Alan Alpert, Anna Alpert,
Isadore Ashendorf, Fran Boyden, Marcia
Garrigan, David Kolbe, and Ruth Krause.
As you have already read in the pre-publication announcement, the book was written by
Dr. Dennis Devlin, professor of history at
Grand Valley State University. It will be dedicated by Senator Carl Levin on September
24, 1988, at the Muskegon County Museum, at
the opening of the Anne Frank Photographic
Exhibition from the Anne Frank Home in Amsterdam.
Be sure to send in the form at the bottom
of the flyer to reserve your books at the
special pre-publication price of $7.95 per
copy. Beginning August 1, 1988, the price
will be $9.95 per copy.
If for some reason you did not receive your
pre-publication announcement in the mail,
please contact Margaret in the Temple office.
If you can think of any out of town friends
who might enjoy a copy of the book, please
let Margaret know.
The Muskegon Museum of Art and the Hackley
Public Library have been kind enough to send
our pre-publication announcement in their regular mailing to all of their members. Ye
Booke Nooke, Hages Christian Supplies, the
Norton Shores Branch and North Muskegon
Branch of the County Library will also make
the pre-publication announcement available.
It is wonderful that so many groups outside
of our Temple community are truly interested
in our history boo~ and in our centennial celebratio~, ~n~ h~ve offered to help with the
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by Shirley Rapoport
As the horror continues in Israel one looks
for Jewish voices to address it. Here is
Arthur Waskow of Philadelphia in "Sh'ma, a
Journal of Jewish Responsibility," April 15,
1988.
"At first Pharoah hardened his own heart.
When Israelite demonstrators come to him to
say 'Let our people go!' he responds with a
more bitter subjugation: 'Go make bricks
without straw.' When they persist and when
God--the very Truth and Power of the universe
--closes in upon him with the first few plagues, he hardens his heart and head still
more.
"And then God takes over. Pharaoh loses the
ability to choose. Even when his own advisers
say to him, 'Don't you understand that you
are destroying Egypt?' he cannot change. Now
God--Reality--is turning his rigidity, which
he thinks will save him, into what will actually destroy him.
"It is as if he has been smoking crack-once, twice, thrice, he is still choosing-and then the addiction takes over.
"Rarely have we faced the danger that the
leaders of the Jewish people might use power
in a Pharaonic way. Yet that is now our danger. That the Israeli government will become
addicted to its own rigidity, and bring down
upon Israel and all Jewry even worse plagues
than have already begun.
"If we want to prevent the recent choices
of hard-heartedness from becoming an addiction to hard-heartedness, the addiction that
brings down still worse plagues upon us, what
must we do? What would we do, what risks
would we take, to prevent a beloved sister,
brother, spouse, from becoming addicted to
crack?"
Here is Rabbi Balfour Brickner, same
source:
"American Jews need to begin a serious and
major effort to tell our political leadership
that they will not lose our support if they
advocate a two-state solution or suggest that
Israel sit down with the PLO as well as with
the Palestinians and those who speak for Arab
states."
Reeva Levy Moving
by Ruth Krause
Our dear friend, Reeva Levy, has moved this
April to live near her daughter, Sukey
Denniss. Her new address is Shalom Apts, il
Shalom Drive, Warwick, Rhode Island.
Reeva has lived in Muskegon since 1930, and
with her husband, Reuben, raised two fine
children here. She has been active in the
Temple as a Sunday School teacher, a choir
member and a study group participant. She has
been President of, and a hard worker in, both
Sisterhood and Hadassah, and has given many
volunteer hours to the Red Cross. In recent
years illness has slowed her activity, but it
has not dimmed her interest in the community
or her love for the Temple.
We will miss you greatly, Reeva, and we
wish you health and contentment in your new
home.
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care of the sick is an important mitzvah. By
remembering the sick it is considered as if
taking away part of the illness. During
Evelyn Singer's hospitalization it would be
nice to let her know that we are thinking of
her. Please send cards to her c/o Pine Rest
Christian Hospital, Stuart Center, 6850 S.
Division St., Grand Rapids, 49508.
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Assistant Editors: Andrea Kahn, Shoshana
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Rabbi's Message
by Rabbi Alan Alpert
Neither the Holocaust nor Passover were
complete in and of themselves. The Rabbis
have taught us that the Exodus of Passover
was completed only after God gave us the
Torah at Shavuot. The Passover-Shavuot connection serves to broaden our perspective and
to see that the freedom from slavery needed
to include the transformation which would
give us the freedom to lead a godly life
based on the teachings of the Torah. That
message was and continues to be central in
our Jewish Heritage.
The link between Passover and Shavuot is a
natural one. What can possibly be linked to
the Holocaust which will give it meaning to
future generations? It is so difficult to see
through the smoke of the chimneys. We live
too close to the hellish era to see anything
but brutality, cowardice, and evil. The dark
cloud of the Holocaust is still on the horizon threatening to open up with drops of
blood and tears. For us the message is "Never
Again."
However, there is a link. It is what Rabbi
Harold Schulweis calls "Hakarat hatov"--the
recognition of goodness. Despite the darkness
there were courageous men, women, and children who braved all odds and risked everything
to save Jewish lives. These Righteous Christians redeemed the image of man from the
abyss. In the April issue of "Moment" Rabbi
Schulweis writes that " ... 'Hakarat hatov' is
an affirmation that human nature goes beyond
selfishness. 'Hakarat hatov' is not a denial
of the presence of cruelty in human society,
but a refusal to be blinded by cynicism and
despair. It is the effort to make ourselves
aware of human kindness and self sacrifice.
Nor is 'hakarat hatov' simply a passive acknowledgment of goodness. It entails a moral
imperative to cherish and protect goodness.
It is incumbent on us to remember goodness
and to add some measure of joy to the rescuers among us."
There has never been a full accounting of
what happened to the rescuers and how they
are living today. However it is known that
Righteous Christians were often held in contempt, persecuted, or worse for their heroic
actions by their own neighbors and countrymen. Today many live desperate lives in need
of emotional, medical, and financial help.
Rabbi Schulweis points out that " •.• the
· memory of evil and the record of its acts are
better known than the memory of goodness and
its deeds. That evil should be enshrined in
our annals while goodness is ignored or barely footnoted is a tragic miscarriage of justice."
(continued next page)
From Our President
by Robert Scolnik, Congregation President
Last week Israel celebrated its 40th anniversary. I, as I am sure many of you do, read
the daily accounts of violence in Israel and
wonder about the future. We are all very much
concerned about where the Jewish state is
headed. I wish I had some answers to these
very tough problems but I do not.
I know that many of my fellow Jews are
quick to criticize Israel and we are sometimes our own worst critics. But Israel at 40
has seen other tough times and this latest
violence is just another addition to the pattern of hostility which pervades the Middle
East.
Israel's accomplishments over the last 40
years will probably be overshadowed by this
latest violence. How this small country grew
from a desert to a great modern nation in
just 40 short years is a miracle. And I can
only hope and believe that this latest crisis
will also be solved. I hope that you will
continue to support Israel and that our prayers for peace will be answered.
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from The Ye llow Star, by S.B.Unsdorf e r
Strangely enough it was on th e pyre of th e
camp, in that nellhole of Buchenwald, that 1
received my first injection of vitamin R -Religious Revival.
A few days before our scheduled departure
for Czechoslovakia, the camp loudspeakers
blazed out an announcement that the Jewish
chaplain to the U.S. forces would be conducting religious services in the evening to mark
the festival of Shavuot -- the anniversary of
the receiving of the Law by the Jewish people
on Mount Sinai.
Having lost my handwritten diary, as well
as my Haggadah, during the march from NiederOrschel to Buchenwald, this announcement came
as a pleasant yet disturbing surprise.
Since my childhood I had always looked forward eagerly to the arrival of our wonderful
and inspiring festivals, and particularly so
in the tragic war years. But I wondered whether we weren't being put to a test too soon.
Who among those thousands of physical and
mental cripples would want to attend services
and prayers so soon after their tragic experiences? The Festival of the Receiving of the
Torah! Within a few weeks after liberation,
religion, which had seemed to do so little
for us, was now challenging us and our loyalties.
But just as you cannot measure the physical
strength of an oppressed people, so you cannot gauge its spiritual wealth and power.
On that evening, Buchenwald staged a fantastic demonstration or f-ait
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God. Thousands upon thousands of liberated
Jews crowded into the specially vacated block
for the first postwar Jewish religious service to be held on the soil of defeated Germany. The "Mussulmanner", the cripples, the
injured, and the weak came to demonstrate to
the world that the last ounce of their
strength, the last drop of their blood, and
the last breath of their lives belonged to
God, to Torah, and to the Jewish religion.
As Chaplain [Herschel] Schacter intoned the
evening prayers, all the inmates in and outside the block stood in silence, reaccepting
the Torah whose people, message, and purpose
Hitler's Germany had attempted to destroy.
Jewish history repeated itself. Just as our
forefathers who were liberated from Egypt accepted the Law in the desert, so did we, the
liberated Jews of Buchenwald, reaccept the
same Law in the concentration camps of Germany.
Needed
Your help with the following is needed and
would be very much appreciated:
**Volunteers to clean the Torah silver
**Donations for the purchase of a Temple
computer
**Volunteer to coordinate Newsletter
photography
**Dads to help with Mother's Day Brunch
**Grocery receipts from Eberhards and D&W
**Library volunteer
**Newsletter Bits 'n Pieces writer
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Rabbi Alpert will be offering a course for
the congregation this month entitled "The
Prayerbook and Creative Servicei." After an
examination of the "Gates of Prayer" and some
creatlve services the class will write a
creative service. Plan to join the Rabbi in
the Temple Social Hall May 13, 20, and 27, at
12 noon.
Bring your own brown bag lunch.
Rabbi's Message, continued
Last year Rabbi Schulweis established the
Fund to Sustain Righteous Christians in order
to recognize the goodness and prevent that
miscarriage of justice. The Fund is concerned
with identifying the rescuers, retelling
their stories, and entering into their lives
so that they need not be alone and that they
will be able to live their final years with
companionship, peace, and respect.
We must never forget the evil of the Holocaust. At the same time we cannot ignore the
goodness. The message of "Never Again" must
be forged with "hakarat hatov" so that future
generations will see a broader perspective,
root out evil, and cherish goodness.
Action is long overdue to assist the rescuers. Rabbi Shulweis notes, "The time is short
but whatever powers we have, we must let
these rescuers and the world know that they
are not alone. These remarkable spirits who
would not betray the image of God in them
must be helped through our friendship to live
out their remaining years in dignity. They
are models for the education of our young.
They remind us of the possibilities of working for a better future and a healthier society." Don't forget these ordinary people who
were so extraordinary. Please give generously
to the Fund to Sustain Righteous Christians,
823 United Nations Plaza, 10th Floor, New
York, NY 10017.
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(To be memorial;zed May 6)
Doris Mandel* Iyer 14
Herbert Kohn May 1
Samuel Ashendorf* May 4
Milford Reed May 4
Harold Page* May 5
Benjamin Gudelsky May 6
Henrietta Bloomfield May 7
{To be memorialized May 13)
Sue Friend* May 8
Marcia Rosen May 10
Rebecca Zorn May 13
(To be memorialized May 20)
Martin M. Fox May 15
Harry Fisher May 21
(To be memorialized May 27)
Meyer Jacobs* Sivan 7
Molly Fonstein May 24
Edward Chevlin May 25
Carol Charlotte Steindler* May 27
(To be memorialized June 3)
Oscar Wajntraub June
Anita Druker* June 2
Samuel Price* June 3
Anniversaries
Jessie and Ted Neumer
MAZEL. TOVJ
Contributions
GENERAL FUND
Edward Larson,
for a joyful Passover
Bits
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**Congratulations
to Bill Reed on his
graduation from the prestigious FBI School in
Washington, D.C. I He is among a select few of
outstanding Law Enforcement Officers!
**There was a lovely feature article in the
Northshore Times about Dana Ashendorf and her
extensive animal figurine collection! Her
favorite is of a quarterhorse foal that her
husband Jacob found for her!
**Rabbi Alpert and Steve Rubin emerged
bleary-eyed from the Temple on the morning
after chaperoning the Teen Sleep-Over!
Wonder if they got any sleep? According to
Susan Rubin the teens didn't want to leave!
It must have been a great success!
Rides to Temple
If you need a ride to Temple, or if you are
available to give one, please call Al Parker,
at 755-2924, preferably two days before the
event. He will help coordinate rides.
Temple Off ice Hours
Rabbi: Tues thru Thurs 10:30am-12noon;
Tues 1:45-3:lSpm; and by appointment.
Secretary: Mon thru Thurs 8:30am-12:30pm.
Temple phone: 722-2702
Grads?
Please share your joy with us as members of
your family graduate from high school and
institutions of higher education this June.
Drop a note to the Temple office with all the
information by May 15th.
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Nine members of our new Temple Youth Group
had a great time at their overnight at the
Temple in April.
Plans are being made for a
fun activity for Saturday, May 14th. Horseback riding or bowling are possibilities.
Call the Temple office for an update.
A fundraiser is underway. The group is
offering their services to congregants for
help with yard or house spring cleaning
chores. Need some work done? To make
arrangements, or to get more information,
please call Jeff Kahn, 780-4560, or Youth
Group Advisor Steven Rubin, 755-2699.
Newsletter Deadline
Please note that the LAST day to submit material for the June Newsletter will be
Tuesday, May 17th!
Newsletter Sponsors
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INDIVIDUALS (at $50 or more)
Gil Ashendorf
Dora and Lou Berman P.P.
Julia and Howard Bruelbeck
Sandra and Jeffrey Kommit
Barbara and Jesse Levin
Alisa and Joseph Osipovich
Support our Newsletter! Become a Sponsor!
�Torah
Silver
from the Temple House
Committee
In conjunction with our project to completely clean up our Temple, our Torah silver
needs cleaning and polishing. We would like
to have help from congregants to do this. Every two months would be a practical interval
for polishing the breast plates,Torah crowns,
and pointers.
We are hopeful that we will have enough
members in our congregation to help with this
project. Instruction is available, and people
can work together. If you would like to be a
polisher once or twice a YEAR, contact Alan
Oppenheimer, 755-2814.
It has been said that to work with Torahs
is a mitzvah. Even if it isn't wouldn't you
feel good all over?
. . Jewish Chat~uqua Society: Rabbi Alpert
- - (Chautauqua -press release)
Under the aupices of the Jewish Chautauqua
Society (JCS), Rabbi Alan Alpert will lecture
on "Judaism" at Holland Christian High School
in Holland, Michigan on April 11, 1988.
JCS, in addition to endowing courses, assigns,rabbinic lecturers to colleges and secondary schools, donates books of Judaica to
libraries, distributes a large film collection, and sponsors Interfaith Institutes for
Christian Clergy in its goal of improved interfaith relations.
JCS is the educational arm of the National
ederation of Temple Brotherhoods, which is
comprised of 400 Temple Brotherhoods with
over 60,000 members in the United States. Canada, and abroad. It is affiliated with the
Union of American Hebrew Congregations, parent body of Reform Judaism.
Rabbi Alpert, spiritual leader of Congregation B'nai Israel in Muskegon, Michigan, was
ordained at Hebrew Union College--Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati, in 1975.
Religious School
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by Merle Scolnik, Principal
Thank you teens for the wonderful Purim
Carnival we had on the 6th of Marchi The kids
had a great time! A special thank you goes to
Mark Singer for repainting the stage steps
and repairing our Purim games. Also, thank
you parents for the delicious lunch for Purim
and the Model Seder for Passover.
The first two weeks in April will be our
Spr~ng Vacation. See everyone on Sunday,
April 17th. Religious School will meet this
month on April 17 and 24.
Save May 8th for the Mother's Day Brunch.
RSVP's need to be in to the Temple office by
May 5th if you and your family will be coming
for the Mother's Day Brunch.
We need Dads to help the kids out with the
cooking and clean up for the Brunch. It's a
lot of fun! Please contact Merle Scolnik to
volunteer to help, 780-2748.
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Newsletter Deadline
Please note that the LAST day to submit material for the May Newsletter will be Friday,
April 15th!
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Centennial
Notes
(From the Winter 1988
issue of the "Muskegon
Intermediate School District News")
submitted by Sylvia Kaufman
The Jewish Centennial Education Committee
for area schools is coordinating interdisciplinary learning activities in recognition of
the Centennial of Congregation B'nai Israel.
Over two years of planning by the Community
Centennial Committee has flowered into a
dynamic year of cultural and artistic events
beginning in September, 1988.
Teachers are encouraged to take advantage
of events such as the photographic exhibit
from the Anne Frank home and the theatrical
production of "The Diary of Anne Frank" by
Muskegon Civic Theatre. Itzhak Perlman, Jeffrey Siegel, and the Soviet Emigre Orchestra
are a few of the performing musicians that
are scheduled for next year. Artists and enthusiasts will be thrilled with the Chagall
exhibit and children's art from the Israeli
Kibbutz. Many lectures, slide shows, films,
and videos will be available.
Preview and inservice opportunities will be
announced by the MAISD for the educational
video series. "Heritage, Civilization and the
Jews." Other materials will be available for
coordinating committee members listed [for
each of the twelve participating school
districts) .••
Our community has a unique opportunity
through this Centennial celebration to realize a greater appreciation of Jewish life
and culture and its contributions to society.
Teachers are encouraged to help students take
advantage of the many opportunities provided
during the Centennial year. Similar observances of other cultures could be planned along the lines represented by the Jewish Centennial model.
An Invitation trom
Congregation Ahavas Israel
Congregation Ahavas Israel of Grana Rapids
invites the entire Jewish Community to join
our Congregation's gala Centennial Celebration. The following special events are scheduled to co~memorate this exciting 100th
Anniversary:
Friday, April 29, 8:15 pm - Services with
Cantor Zvee Aroni
Saturday, April 30, 9:30 am - Services with
Rabbi Hayyim Kieval, Cantor Aroni, and
the Shir Shalom Choir
Sunday, May 1 - Cocktails at 6:30 pm
Gala Dinner and Reception at 7:30 pm
Donation $18.00 per person
You are cordially invited to join us for
one or all of the events of this memorable
weekend. This is indeed a landmark occasion
for us as a Congregation and we are eager to
share our pride and nachas with others. Plans
are nearing completion for this unforgettable
milestone and we hope you will be a part of
it with us. For more information, please call
Rosalie Rotenberg at 1-245-8693.
�Criticizing Israel
(exerpts from A.M. Rosenthal, Detroit Free
Press, March 9, 1988)
Many of us have been saying the same things
about Israel: Israel cannot go on forever being an occupying power. Jews must not break
bones. Israeli use of force against young Palestinians is costing Israel support around
the world. Israel must enter negotiations on
Gaza and the West Bank.
Right--but sometimes when I hear or read
these points, which I have made myself, made
over and over by others, I find myself deeply
uneasy. It is not because there is no validity in them,but because so often they are presented empty of the historic realities that
brought about the crisis and must be understood tb find a way out.
This is an attempt to set down the political, military and historic truths that raise
fears about the road that many American intellectuals, journalists and senators are demanding Israel take.
CAUSES: The critics' implication is that
the cause of the current crisis is Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir's opposition to an international conference and his refusal to agree in advance to cede West Bank territory.
This is not true. The cause is 40 years of
Arab refusal to accept the existence of Israel,40 years of furious hostility and military
attempts to destroy Israel.
You do not have to like Shamir to realize
that if the Arabs had accepted Israel in the
beginning or for 20 years thereafter, all of
the West Bank and Gaza and other territory
would today be part of a Palestinian state.
If you believe that the very existence of
Israel is anathema,you are right to see Israel's policies as the root cause of the Mideast ugliness--otherwise not.
OCCUPATION: Some critics also act as if it
were Israeli occupation of the West Bank and
Gaza in 1967 that led to so many years of unrest and skirmishing there.
This, too, is historic distortion. It was
the Arat countries that seized Gaza and the
West Bank, which were to be part of the Palestinian state under the 1947 United Nations
partition plan,and occupied them for 20 years
--not in peace but with constant harassment
and attack against Israel.
Finally,Israel struck back. Israel's unhappy occupation of the West Bank is a result,
not the cause,of aggression--Arab aggression.
NEGOTIATION: With whom and for what? The
United States proposes an international conference with the Big Five participating.Since
Britain and France are cool to Israel and the
Soviet Union and China are hostile, the chicken is being invited to negotiate under the
sponsorship of four foxes and a lame dove. To
think the major powers would not pressure Israel for Arab advantage is not only naive but
black comedy.
It is not the Big Five Israel must live
with, but the Palestinians and other Arabs.
Which Arab states have promised to negotiate
directly with Israel? None.Which Arab leaders
are criticizing Palestinians sworn to the elimination of Israel? Where are the "moderate"
(continued next column, see "Criticizing")
Historical Notes:
Stone for Our Temple
by Alan Oppenheimer
I came across something that might be of
interest to the readers of the Temple bulletin. It is a file entitled "Specifications
for the Construction of a Jewish Center and
House of Worship, Muskegon, Michigan." Dated
April 12, 1946, architects: Grunsfeld,
Yerkes, Lichtmann, & Koenig, of Chicago.
"All of the following shall be of rockfaced Ashlar: all wall surfaces of the building proper, including the garden side of the
retaining walls enclosing the sunken gardens
which are entered from the stairs leading
from Webster Avenue, the garden side of the
reflecting pool walls and the exposed faces
of the walls leading to the sunken garden."
I think that there are a number of congregants who are not aware that the area in
front of the Temple office windows, now covered with greenery, was originally a reflecting pool, which did contain water.
The specifications also call for the use of
some cut stone and some dressed stone, with
this notation: "All stone is to be Lannon
Stone, taken from the quarries of the Wisconsin Lannon Stone Corporation at Lannon, Wisconsin. The color shall be quarry run,approximately 10% in light buff color, but NO rust
colored stones shall be used."
Criticizing, continued
Palestinians who can swerve the young men of
Gaza and the West Bank away from seeking
Israel's death?
STAKES: Israel is fighting for survival.The
Arab states are fighting out of anti-Israel
hatred and fear of the Palestinians. The
young Palestinians are fighting for a new Palestinian state because they hate the ruler
of a present state with a Palestinian majority:Jordan.They plan to eliminate King Hussein
one day and swallow Jordan as part of their
own single Palestine.
As things stand, any ceded West Bank territory will become a de facto state run by the
Palestine Liberation Organization and other
Palestinians sworn to destroy Israel. Those
young Palestinians would be hurling not
stones from their territory but rockets.
SOLUTIONS: Open pressure on Israel to make
concessions must be accompanied by open pressure on the Arabs. Palestinians must accept
totally and clearly the right of Israel to
live forever, secure and in peace. The United
States and the Arab leaders can achieve this
and guarantee it, if we have the will and
they the courage.
Shamir may not promise in advance to cede
"territory for peace"--that is what direct
talks are for--but the definition of peace
cannot mean Palestinians continuing war to
the death. They,too,must feel hard pressure
to do some ceding, specifically of their
demand for another Palestinian state in a
region where one already exists, and to negotiate in peaceful stages for the eventual
goal: a single Jordan-Palestine.
Americans have a right to criticize Israel.
They have a right to suggest solutions--but
not the suggestion of suicide.
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4 f you need a ride to Temple, or if you are
available to give one, please call Al Parker,
at 755-2924, preferably two days before the
event. He will help coordinate rides.
Computer for Temple
The Board has decided to begin the process
of getting a computer for the Temple office.
The computer will handle word processing, the
newsletter, mailing list, financial records,
yahrzeits, etc.
The first step is to ask if anyone has an
IBM compatible computer that they would be
willing to donate. If you would consider
this, please contact Les Schick, 744-0452, or
Bob Scolnik, 780-2748.
Spruce-up
Thanks to the efforts of the Temple House
Committee and Sisterhood our Temple building
is being dramatically spruced up! We can
really be proud of it!
With new wallpaper, paint, and upholstery
the Sisterhood has completely transformed the
downstairs women's lounge and bathroom.
Sisterhood workers have now turned their
attention to the painting of the kitchen and
the social hall.
Members of the House Committee Julia
Bruelbeck and Alan Oppenheimer recently spent
four hours evaluating the cleaning needs of
our building, from top to bottom. Their goal
of establishing a routine cleaning plan for
our custodian has expanded to include some
additional plans for extra cleaning to really
spruce up the facility.
Note the appeal for volunteers to clean the
Torah silver (see page 9), and the outdoor
grounds spring clean up scheduled for April
24th (see page 4). Let's renew our pride in
our building and in our congregation! Get
involved!
(exerpt from the Conference of Presidents of
Major American Jewish Organizations}
Q:Does the Palestinian struggle differ from
the struggles of South African blacks or the
opposition of South Korea or from the American civil rights movement?
A:Yes. All those movements have sought to
win rights denied them by their governments.
They have not sought to deny the rights of
others, nor have they announced as their purpose the destruction of the governments whose
policies they seek to change, nor have they
rejected any invitation to negotiate a peaceful resolution of their differences with
these governments. The Palestinians have never given negotiation a chance •
Nothing could be farther from the Christian
nonviolence of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,
than the premeditated murder of women and
children that the PLO has consistently offered instead of diplomacy.
The comparison of Israel to South Africa,
though often made, is especially grotesque •••
Israel is a democratic state, all of whose
citizens are entitled to vote, regardless of
color or religion. Israeli Arabs serve in the
high ranks of the army and represent Israel
as members of its diplomatic corps.
Israel assumed the responsibility for the
occupied territories as a result of a war
which it did not want and was forced to fight
in its own defense. It is surrounded by hostile neighbors who, for the past forty years
(with the exception of Egypt},have maintained
an unremitting military and diplomatic siege.
The white government in Pretoria turns a deaf
ear to all calls for negotiations. The Israeli government, by contrast, calls for negotiations and is met with silence.
Kids:
Picture This!
You're spending this summer
swimming, boating, playing softball, horseback riding,
singing, dancing, drawing, making lifelong
friends, and learning about what it means to
be Jewish. Doesn't that sound great?
It IS great! It's Olin-Sang-Ruby Union Institute, the Reform movement Camp in Ocomonowoc, WiscGnsin. If you're entering 3rd
through 12th grades, you can do all this and
more. OSRUI has an extensive arts program, a
fabulous creative Hebrew program, and a beautiful lakefront.
There are six different units from which to
choose, depending on your age and interests:
The main section is Kallah (grades 3-8), but
there are also three tenting units --Kibbutz
HaTzofim (grades 4-8), Moshava (grades 9-12),
and Mosh West (grades 10-13) --and two Hebrew
units --Chavurah (grades 8 and 9) and Chalutzim (grades 10 and 11).
OSRUI truly has something for everyone.
Most sessions are still open, but they won't
be for long. For registration information
contact the Camp office at 100 W. Monroe St.,
Chicago, IL 60603, (312) 782-1477
�Youth Happening
On April 15th the teens of our Congregation
are planning to have a social event and sleep
over at the Temple. The last time they did
this it was a lot of fun and judged successful by everyone. If you haven't signed up for
this, do it quick!
More adults are needed to help with the
event. If you would like to participate, to
volunteer or need more information, please
call Merle Scolnik, 780-2748.
Special Thanks
Special thanks go to Julia Bruelbeck for
HAND WASHING our two Israel flags. They had
become discolored over the years; now they
are clean and they sparkle!
Temple Office Hours
Rabbi: Tues thru Thurs 10:30am-12noon;
Tues 1:45-3:lSpm; and by appointment.
Secretary: Mon thru Thurs 8:30am-12:30pm.
Temple phone: 722-2702
12Congregation B'nai Israel
391 W. Webster Avenue
Muskegon, Michigan 49441
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"The Newsletter" is published monthly by
Congregation B'nai Israel, Muskegon,
Michigan. Please send any suggestions for
articles, comments, and letters to the Temple
office.
Aliyah Schick, Editor
Assistant Editors: Andrea Kahn, Shoshana
Stein, and Doris Stromberg
April Issue Contributors: Rabbi Alan Alpert,
Marcia Garrigan, Art Greenberg, Gertrude
Greenberg, Sylvia Kaufman, Alan Oppenheimer,
Bob Scolnik, Merle Scolnik, secretary
Margaret Hanger
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B'nai Israel Temple
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A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1988-04
Title
A name given to the resource
Temple B'nai Israel Newsletter
Description
An account of the resource
Temple B'nai Israel Newsletter from April 1988.
Subject
The topic of the resource
Jews--United States
Muskegon (Mich.)
Synagogue bulletins
Passover
Source
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Digital file contributed by the B'nai Israel Temple as part of the L'dor V'dor project.
Publisher
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Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives
Relation
A related resource
L'dor V'dor (project)
Rights
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<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">In Copyright</a>
Type
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Text
Format
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application/pdf
Language
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eng
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Title
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Temple B'nai Israel Collection
Creator
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Temple B'nai Israel (Muskegon, Mich.)
Description
An account of the resource
Collection of photographs, scrapbooks, programs, minutes, and other records of the Temple B'nai Israel in Muskegon, Michigan. The collection was created as part of the L'dor V'dor project directed by Dr. Marilyn Preston, and was supported by grants from the Kutsche Office of Local History and Michigan Humanities Council. Original materials were digitized by the University Libraries and returned to the synagogue.
Source
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Digital objects were contributed by Temple B'nai Israel as part of the L'dor V'dor project.
Rights
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<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">In Copyright</a>
Subject
The topic of the resource
Jews--United States
Muskegon (Mich.)
Scrapbooks
Synagogues
Women--Societies and clubs
Minutes (Records)
Publisher
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Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Allendale, Michigan
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Preston, Marilyn
Grand Valley State University. Special Collections and University Archives
Relation
A related resource
L'dor V'dor (project)
Identifier
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DC-08
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Image
Text
Type
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image/jpeg
application/pdf
Language
A language of the resource
eng
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
Circa 1920s-2018
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials.
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DC-08_Certificate_1952
Creator
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B'nai Israel Temple
Date
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1952-09-15
Title
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Hassadah Buds Charter certificate
Description
An account of the resource
Hassada Buds Charter certificate, September 1952. Text reads: "Be it hereby known by all present that the following are chartered as founding members of the Hadassah Buds of Muskegon by the parent chapter of Muskegon Hadassah for the purpose of developing an understanding of the spirit of the Jewish people and of assisting in the realization of Jewish aims. Sandra August, Nancy Klayf, Lynn Cheolin, Carol Parker, Marion Greenberg, Raleigh Radoff, Phyllis Greenberg, Judy Siegel, Marlyn Stein. This fifteenth day of September 1952. President: Ruth Krause
1st Vice President: Irene Steindler."
Subject
The topic of the resource
Jews--United States
Muskegon (Mich.)
Charters
Certificates of incorporation
Source
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Digital file contributed by the B'nai Israel Temple as part of the L'dor V'dor project.
Publisher
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Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives
Relation
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L'dor V'dor (project)
Rights
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<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">In Copyright</a>
Type
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Image
Format
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image/jpeg
Language
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eng
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Title
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Temple B'nai Israel Collection
Creator
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Temple B'nai Israel (Muskegon, Mich.)
Description
An account of the resource
Collection of photographs, scrapbooks, programs, minutes, and other records of the Temple B'nai Israel in Muskegon, Michigan. The collection was created as part of the L'dor V'dor project directed by Dr. Marilyn Preston, and was supported by grants from the Kutsche Office of Local History and Michigan Humanities Council. Original materials were digitized by the University Libraries and returned to the synagogue.
Source
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Digital objects were contributed by Temple B'nai Israel as part of the L'dor V'dor project.
Rights
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<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">In Copyright</a>
Subject
The topic of the resource
Jews--United States
Muskegon (Mich.)
Scrapbooks
Synagogues
Women--Societies and clubs
Minutes (Records)
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Allendale, Michigan
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Preston, Marilyn
Grand Valley State University. Special Collections and University Archives
Relation
A related resource
L'dor V'dor (project)
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
DC-08
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Image
Text
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
image/jpeg
application/pdf
Language
A language of the resource
eng
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
Circa 1920s-2018
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials.
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Identifier
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DC-08_Confirmation_Class_1979
Creator
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B'nai Israel Temple
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1979/1980
Title
A name given to the resource
Confirmation Class photo
Description
An account of the resource
Photograph of Confirmation Class of 1979/1980
Subject
The topic of the resource
Jews--United States
Muskegon (Mich.)
Confirmation (Jewish rite)
Reform Judaism
Source
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Digital file contributed by the B'nai Israel Temple as part of the L'dor V'dor project.
Publisher
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Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives
Relation
A related resource
L'dor V'dor (project)
Rights
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<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">In Copyright</a>
Type
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Image
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
image/jpeg
-
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Title
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Temple B'nai Israel Collection
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Temple B'nai Israel (Muskegon, Mich.)
Description
An account of the resource
Collection of photographs, scrapbooks, programs, minutes, and other records of the Temple B'nai Israel in Muskegon, Michigan. The collection was created as part of the L'dor V'dor project directed by Dr. Marilyn Preston, and was supported by grants from the Kutsche Office of Local History and Michigan Humanities Council. Original materials were digitized by the University Libraries and returned to the synagogue.
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Digital objects were contributed by Temple B'nai Israel as part of the L'dor V'dor project.
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">In Copyright</a>
Subject
The topic of the resource
Jews--United States
Muskegon (Mich.)
Scrapbooks
Synagogues
Women--Societies and clubs
Minutes (Records)
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Allendale, Michigan
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Preston, Marilyn
Grand Valley State University. Special Collections and University Archives
Relation
A related resource
L'dor V'dor (project)
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
DC-08
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Image
Text
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
image/jpeg
application/pdf
Language
A language of the resource
eng
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
Circa 1920s-2018
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials.
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Identifier
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DC-08_Construction_1947
Creator
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B'nai Israel Temple
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1947-01-25
Title
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Temple construction
Description
An account of the resource
Photograph of two workmen at the construction site of the Temple, 1947. Neighborhood houses and cars in background.
Subject
The topic of the resource
Jews--United States
Muskegon (Mich.)
Building sites
Neighborhoods
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Digital file contributed by the B'nai Israel Temple as part of the L'dor V'dor project.
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives
Relation
A related resource
L'dor V'dor (project)
Rights
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<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">In Copyright</a>
Type
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Image
Format
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image/jpeg
-
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Title
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Temple B'nai Israel Collection
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Temple B'nai Israel (Muskegon, Mich.)
Description
An account of the resource
Collection of photographs, scrapbooks, programs, minutes, and other records of the Temple B'nai Israel in Muskegon, Michigan. The collection was created as part of the L'dor V'dor project directed by Dr. Marilyn Preston, and was supported by grants from the Kutsche Office of Local History and Michigan Humanities Council. Original materials were digitized by the University Libraries and returned to the synagogue.
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Digital objects were contributed by Temple B'nai Israel as part of the L'dor V'dor project.
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">In Copyright</a>
Subject
The topic of the resource
Jews--United States
Muskegon (Mich.)
Scrapbooks
Synagogues
Women--Societies and clubs
Minutes (Records)
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Allendale, Michigan
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Preston, Marilyn
Grand Valley State University. Special Collections and University Archives
Relation
A related resource
L'dor V'dor (project)
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
DC-08
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Image
Text
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
image/jpeg
application/pdf
Language
A language of the resource
eng
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
Circa 1920s-2018
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials.
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Identifier
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DC-08_First-day-of-building_1946
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
B'nai Israel Temple
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1946-10
Title
A name given to the resource
"First dig for new temple - Oct - 1946"
Description
An account of the resource
Photograph of the bucket of an excavator as it breaks ground at the site of the new temple, 1946.
Subject
The topic of the resource
Jews--United States
Muskegon (Mich.)
Building sites
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Digital file contributed by the B'nai Israel Temple as part of the L'dor V'dor project.
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives
Relation
A related resource
L'dor V'dor (project)
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">In Copyright</a>
Type
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Image
Format
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image/jpeg
-
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Dublin Core
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Title
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Temple B'nai Israel Collection
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Temple B'nai Israel (Muskegon, Mich.)
Description
An account of the resource
Collection of photographs, scrapbooks, programs, minutes, and other records of the Temple B'nai Israel in Muskegon, Michigan. The collection was created as part of the L'dor V'dor project directed by Dr. Marilyn Preston, and was supported by grants from the Kutsche Office of Local History and Michigan Humanities Council. Original materials were digitized by the University Libraries and returned to the synagogue.
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Digital objects were contributed by Temple B'nai Israel as part of the L'dor V'dor project.
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">In Copyright</a>
Subject
The topic of the resource
Jews--United States
Muskegon (Mich.)
Scrapbooks
Synagogues
Women--Societies and clubs
Minutes (Records)
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Allendale, Michigan
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Preston, Marilyn
Grand Valley State University. Special Collections and University Archives
Relation
A related resource
L'dor V'dor (project)
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
DC-08
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Image
Text
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
image/jpeg
application/pdf
Language
A language of the resource
eng
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
Circa 1920s-2018
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials.
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Identifier
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DC-08_Hebrew-School-Class
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
B'nai Israel Temple
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1950
Title
A name given to the resource
Hebrew School Class
Description
An account of the resource
Photograph of Hebrew School students sitting around a table with open books while the teacher stands at the head of the table in front of a chalk board, circa 1950s.
Subject
The topic of the resource
Jews--United States
Muskegon (Mich.)
Jewish religious schools
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Digital file contributed by the B'nai Israel Temple as part of the L'dor V'dor project.
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives
Relation
A related resource
L'dor V'dor (project)
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">In Copyright</a>
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Image
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
image/jpeg
-
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Title
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Temple B'nai Israel Collection
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Temple B'nai Israel (Muskegon, Mich.)
Description
An account of the resource
Collection of photographs, scrapbooks, programs, minutes, and other records of the Temple B'nai Israel in Muskegon, Michigan. The collection was created as part of the L'dor V'dor project directed by Dr. Marilyn Preston, and was supported by grants from the Kutsche Office of Local History and Michigan Humanities Council. Original materials were digitized by the University Libraries and returned to the synagogue.
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Digital objects were contributed by Temple B'nai Israel as part of the L'dor V'dor project.
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">In Copyright</a>
Subject
The topic of the resource
Jews--United States
Muskegon (Mich.)
Scrapbooks
Synagogues
Women--Societies and clubs
Minutes (Records)
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Allendale, Michigan
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Preston, Marilyn
Grand Valley State University. Special Collections and University Archives
Relation
A related resource
L'dor V'dor (project)
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
DC-08
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Image
Text
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
image/jpeg
application/pdf
Language
A language of the resource
eng
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
Circa 1920s-2018
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials.
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DC-08_Simcha-Dancers_1976
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
B'nai Israel Temple
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1976
Title
A name given to the resource
Simcha Dancers
Description
An account of the resource
Photograph of the Simcha Dancers wearing red blouses with floral skirts.
Subject
The topic of the resource
Jews--United States
Muskegon (Mich.)
Jewish dance -- United States
Source
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Digital file contributed by the B'nai Israel Temple as part of the L'dor V'dor project.
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives
Relation
A related resource
L'dor V'dor (project)
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">In Copyright</a>
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Image
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
image/jpeg