Volume 14, Number 4 October 2014 • Tishri/Heshvan 5775 Shalom from Rabbi Chalom Newsletter of Kol Hadash Making Connections Humanistic Congregation Affiliated with the Society for Humanistic Judaism by Rabbi Adam Chalom 175 Olde Half Day Road, Suite 123 ([email protected]) Lincolnshire, IL 60069 847/383-5184 • [email protected] How do you find out what’s going on? www.KolHadash.com Office Hours Monday-Friday: 10:00 AM-5:00 PM Ten years ago, when I first began working with Kol Hadash, Facebook had just started and was still restricted to college campuses. The iPhone was still three years away, so if you wanted a virtual connection, it was email on a computer or the old-fashioned phone call. Today there are more ways to get information and entertainment than I can count, and I and Kol Hadash participate in many of them: there is a Kol Hadash Facebook page, a Kol Hadash Twitter account (@KolHadash; mine is @HJRabbi), online calendars, a “Shalom from Rabbi Chalom” blog at www.hjrabbi.wordpress.com, the Kol Hadash Podcast on iTunes, and our website and weekly email. The Kol Hadash Sunday School has just started a system on Remind.com to send mass text messages directly to school parents. And, of course, we still have our Shofar newsletter, which you are reading right now. In other words, ignorance is no longer a plausible excuse. But making connections with a community is much more than receiving information; it’s encountering people. A real connection is individual learning combined with collective experience. Social clubs, holiday celebrations, schmoozing (chatting) at an oneg reception, volunteering together, even finding a professional service from the Kol Hadash Connections networking booklet . . . a living community is not unidirectional from member to rabbi, but rather an interconnected web of encounters and meaningful memories. It could be the shared experience of remembering a loved one’s yahrtzeit (death anniversary) in the same month, or having worked at the same hospital twenty years ago. Or the intergenerational experience of seeing friends and family go through what you did in what seems like another lifetime. At our Kol Hadash tenth anniversary celebration in 2011, I was struck by how well relatively new Humanistic Jews connected with those who had been members for decades — they were the same kind of people, but at different stages of life. Ten years ago, my wife and I (we didn’t have children yet) came to Kol Hadash. We were leaving the city and the Humanistic Jewish congregation in which we had both grown up, and our emotions were a cross between nostalgia for the past and the joy of freedom and new beginnings. What I found here were deep connections to a community and to individuals, who have welcomed me into their lives for joy and for sorrow, and then again for joy. I am tremendously privileged to be a part of your lives, and I am always grateful for this unique opportunity. As the congregation prepares for this year’s Mitzvah celebration at thirteen, and I mark my ten-year tenure (say that five times fast!) here, think of how far we have come in society and as a community, and also where we may be ten years from now. Most important, remember how we have impacted each other’s lives for the better. That, more than any electronic media, is the basis of a true connection. b) Message from the Chair Kol Hadash Humanistic Congregation Staff, Officers, and Committee Chairs by Steering Committee Chair Bill Brook ([email protected]) Rabbi Dear Kol Hadash Family Members, Adam Chalom, [email protected] The ancient guys who thought up the Hebrew calendar Youth Education Director sometimes crack me up! What were they thinking, starting out Dawn Friedman, [email protected] the month of October with Yom Kippur, a day of fasting and Music Director Ellen Apley, [email protected] lamentation, and ending with Halloween, a holiday devoted to partying, gluttony and excess! What’s that you say, Rabbi, Executive Assistant Jeremy Owens, [email protected] neither October nor Halloween are “ours”; we get Tishrei and Sukkot instead! Seriously? Rather than costumes and candy, we Officers are supposed to camp out in a shack for a week in the northern Steering Committee Chair Bill Brook, [email protected] Illinois cold? What were they thinking? Not very good planning, if Steering Committee Vice-Chair you ask me. Sheila Sebor, [email protected] But, never fear, WE have some great planned events this Treasurer month! Check them out this month, and every month, at Larry Dworsky, [email protected] https://kolhadash.com/events/month. As we continue to move Secretary forward into this Internet-enabled age, we will continue to put Mark Friedman, [email protected] greater effort into enhancing our digital home. We trust that the Committee Chairs & Other Volunteers website is a good resource for you. Let us know what we can do Book Club to improve and expand the content; we truly value your input. Stacey Max, [email protected] At the very Community Service Committee least, the heat Susan Addelson, [email protected] from your notebook PC will keep you Development Committee David Hirsch & Sam Gilbert, warm in the [email protected] Sukkah! Can one Helping Hands Committee make lemonade Terry Kass, [email protected] with etrogs? IT Committee As always, Bill Brook, [email protected] should you have Marketing Committee any questions or Mark Friedman, [email protected] concerns, about membership, the services, or anything else, Membership Committee Andrea Friedlander & Sheila Sebor, please contact me via e-mail at [email protected]. [email protected] See you in shul! My costume this year will be old Jewish man! Movie Group Leora Hatchwell & Sue Addelson, [email protected] Shofar and Website Editor Mark Friedman, [email protected] Social Events Committee Leora Hatchwell, [email protected] Theatre Club Mark Friedman, [email protected] Winers (wine group) Nov 1 Bar Mitzvah of Aaron Lieberman Mike Lippitz, [email protected] Nov 1 Progressive Dinner Nov 6 Steering Committee Meeting Youth Education Committee Nov 7 Bat Mitzvah of Julia Ratnaswamy Rachel Samlan & Kim Stone, [email protected] Nov 12 Book Club  Nov 16 Taste of Kol Hadash Nov 21 Shabbat Service The Kol Hadash Steering Committee meets once a month, Dec 13 Bat Mitzvah of Kate Kramer usually on the first Thursday, 7:30 PM, at the Kol Hadash Dec 14 Hanukkah Celebration office. Check the calendar in this Shofar to confirm this month’s date. Members are welcome to attend Steering Committee Mar 1 Purim Carnival meetings. Contact the SC chair for information. Apr 4 Kol Hadash Passover Seder June 7 Kol Hadash 13th Birthday/Mitzvah The Shofar newsletter is published monthly and is mailed to Celebration all members. An electronic version is available at www.kolhadash.com. If you would like to contribute content to the Shofar, contact Mark Friedman. - 2 - b) October Events at Kol Hadash High Holidays 2014/5775 Yom Kippur Evening Service (Kol Nidre) • Friday, October 3, 8:00 PM Yom Kippur Morning Service • Saturday, October 4, 10:00 AM Yom Kippur Children’s Service • Saturday, October 4, 2:00 PM Yom Kippur Memorial & Concluding Services • Saturday, October 4, 3:30 PM Unless otherwise noted, events are held at the North Shore Unitarian Church, 2100 Half Day Road, Deerfield. Adult Education/Jewish History: Introduction Tuesday, October 7, 7:30 PM • North Shore Unitarian Church There are two basic questions to history: What happened, and what does it mean? Tradition has its answers, and so do we. How do we understand what it means for a Humanistic Jew to study Jewish history? Join us for the first session of our yearlong exploration of Jewish history. Shabbat Service: Celebrating Rabbi Chalom’s 10th Anniversary Friday, October 10, 8:00 PM • North Shore Unitarian Church In the fall of 2004, our congregation was transformed with the arrival of Adam Chalom as our full-time rabbi. No longer a lay-led congregation, we embraced our new leader and engaged with him in a new and exciting path for both our community and the Humanistic Jewish movement. Join us October 10 for an evening of recollection, celebration and tribute to our rabbi on his 10th anniversary with Kol Hadash. Our service will be followed by a special Oneg Shabbat hosted by the Kol Hadash Steering Committee. Adult Education/Jewish History: Origins Tuesday, October 14, 7:30 PM • North Shore Unitarian Church Where did the Jewish people really begin? If Adam and Eve and Noah are myths, and Abraham may well also be, and the Exodus story is not confirmed by archaeology, where did we come from? And where did those stories come from that we thought were our history? New Member Wine & Cheese Reception & Shabbat Service: In the Beginnings Friday, October 17, 7:00 PM • North Shore Unitarian Church The Hebrew Bible begins with the beginning of the world and humanity. The problem is that it begins, then it begins again rather differently. As synagogues roll their scrolls back to Genesis, we will consider how myths, science and philosophy can each inform who we are and what we believe. We invite all first- and second- year members (and all continuing members!) to a special Wine & Cheese Reception at 7:00 PM. It will be followed by the Shabbat Service at 8:00. Adult Education/Jewish History: Monarchy & Divided Kingdom Tuesday, October 21, 7:30 PM • North Shore Unitarian Church Archaeology’s voice grows louder as we move into the Hebrew monarchies. The legendary David and Saul give way to the historical Omri, Jehu and Hezekiah. This period may also have seen the beginnings of the stories that would become the Torah. Join us to explore the real origins of our founding myths. Shabbat Service: Guest Speaker Susan Katz Miller Friday, October 24, 8:00 PM • North Shore Unitarian Church Join us for a presentation by Susan Katz Miller, author of Being Both: Embracing Two Religions in One Interfaith Family. In her book, Ms. Katz Miller interweaves her three-generation interfaith family story with original reporting, and with survey responses from hundreds of parents who chose to celebrate both family religions, and their grown interfaith children. The result is the first book by an adult interfaith child to advocate for interfaith families who want to provide interfaith education for interfaith children. Being Both focuses primarily on Jewish and Christian families, but also includes the stories of interfaith families including humanists, Hindus, Muslims and Buddhists. Since publication last fall, Being Both has been featured in the New York Times, Time, Utne Reader, Salon, Slate, and on National Public Radio. Miller is also one of the rotating experts on the Jewish Daily Forward’s interfaith families advice column. A former Newsweek reporter, she lives in the Washington, D.C., area. Adult Education: Is There “Jewish Food”? Sunday, October 26, 9:30 AM • Deerfield High School For some Jews, bagels and kugel are home cooking. For others, it’s mujaddhra and kibbeh. What ties Jewish foods together across language, geography and menu? Is Jewish food just what Jewish people eat? Or is Jewish food whatever your mother (or now father) made? Join us for an appetizing discussion! - 3 - b) From the Youth Education Director by Dawn Friedman ([email protected], 847-997-8931) One of my favorite readings in our services is one by Yehuda Bauer, the noted historian, humanist, and professor of Holocaust Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem: Bible is Judaism, Talmud is Judaism, everyday life is Judaism, Jewish history is Judaism, Jewish poetry is Judaism, Jewish customs are Judaism, Jewish food is Judaism, Jewish jokes are Judaism; just as religion is Judaism. But you cannot argue that Judaism equals the religious beliefs of Jews; first, because these beliefs were and are different, even mutually contradictory; and second, because religion was and is just one aspect of Jewish existence; today, for many Jews, it is not even that. Judaism, then, is everything that the Jewish people in their very long history have produced. Judaism is Jewish civilization, Judaism is Jewish culture. This one passage sums up our approach to Jewish education at Kol Hadash. We strive to teach our students about Jewish civilization, about Jewish culture, about how the Jewish people have evolved, so that our children might deepen their understanding of who they are and where they came from. Each week in October we have programs that are clear examples of this. On October 4-5 we observe Yom Kippur as a community, with services for every age. On October 12, we’ll celebrate the fall harvest holiday of Sukkot in our big sukkah at the Heller Nature Center in Highland Park. On October 19, we’ll honor Jewish learning in all its forms via our observance of Simchat Torah; Rabbi Adam brings our congregational Torah to each Sunday School class so everyone can see it up close. And on October 26, Sunday morning programs cover food and music, with Rabbi Adam leading Adult Education on Jewish foods and the Kol Hadash Choir, usually only heard at adult High Holidays services, will give a special concert at Sunday School, from 11:00-11:30 AM. Everyone is welcome to join us at any of these programs. L’shana tova, Dawn Friedman Youth Education Director (847-997-8931, [email protected]) Sunday School Events Family Sukkot Celebration: October 12, 10:00-11:30 AM Heller Nature Center, Highland Park Kol Hadash celebrates the 4th day of Sukkot with a family service at the The Congregation is invited to Heller Nature Center on Sunday, October 12. See the enclosed flyer. attend Bring your own chairs or blankets and a seasonal item (with string attached, please!) to hang in our sukkah. After the service we’ll enjoy snacks inside; students can decorate a mini-pumpkin at the Youth The Bat Mitzvah of Group’s craft table. Take advantage of the lovely setting to enjoy a Alexa Pomerantz hike in the prairie! Please note that there are no classes at DHS this day. (Although we welcome all guests to our sukkah, we kindly ask that Daughter of dogs be left at home.) Valerie Urow & Jeff Pomerantz Sukkah Crew Needed! We need volunteers to help build our sukkah this year. Volunteers are Saturday, October 18, 10:30 AM needed to build the sukkah on Sunday, October 5 (after Sunday School drop-off) and take it down on Sunday, October 12 after our Sukkot service. If you can volunteer, contact Dawn Friedman at Heller Nature Center [email protected] or 847-997-8931. We are in need of a Highland Park, IL volunteer with a truck, SUV or minivan to help transport our sukkah to Heller on October 5! Kol Hadash Choir Sings at Sunday School: October 26, 11:00-11:30 AM Deerfield High School Usually only heard at the High Holidays adult services, the Kol Hadash Choir will give a special concert for our Sunday School students and their families on October 26. All are welcome. Come for Adult Education at 9:30 and stay for some beautiful music! - 4 - b) Sunday School News Please note that food brought Sunday School, 9:30–11:30 AM to Sunday School may not 6th Grade Hebrew School & 7th Grade B’nai Mitzvah Class, 11:45 AM-12:45 PM contain any peanuts, tree nuts (including almonds), or October 5, 19, 26 sesame seeds, due to severe Deerfield High School allergies among our students. PreK students may join the K/1st class on October 5 & 19. This includes snacks or lunches brought to Sunday School and Hebrew School as Please note that there are no classes at DHS on October 12; we will celebrate well as any foods brought to Sukkot at the Heller Nature Center that morning. See Events for more details. meetings or events at DHS. We cannot allow snacks from Sunday School Snacks home due to other student allergies. Thank you for your Kol Hadash provides mini bagels to students as a snack during Sunday School. cooperation! (Many thanks to Upper Crust Bagels in Deerfield for their generous discount!) We also provide Pirate’s Booty for those with gluten allergies and sensitivities. Other snacks from home may NOT be brought to Sunday School unless you have contacted Dawn Friedman, [email protected], to discuss other arrangements that meet our allergy restrictions. All students should bring water bottles to class each week. Please, no juice or soda. Family Sukkot Celebration: October 12, 10:00–11:30 AM Heller Nature Center See Events on previous page for details. We’re putting up our congregational sukkah on Sunday, October 5, and need volunteers! We also need help taking down the sukkah after the service on October 12. Contact Dawn Friedman ([email protected], 847-997-8931) if you can help. Youth Group October 5: Meeting at Heller Nature Center (Sukkot prep), 11:10 AM-12:30 PM October 5: Bowling at Brunswick Lanes, Deerfield, 12:30–3:00 PM October 12: Sukkot Craft Activity Table, 10:00 AM–12:00 PM The Kol Hadash Youth Group is open to students in 8th grade and up. Students plan their own programming, with advisor Aleya Schwartz. On October 5, Youth Group will meet at Heller after Sunday School classes to paint mini-pumpkins for the Sukkot craft activity table. Each student should bring at least five mini-pumpkins to paint. RSVP to Dawn Friedman ([email protected]), for pizza lunch. Students will then have a bowling party at Brunswick Lanes in Deerfield. Please contact Aleya Schwartz (847-340-7330, [email protected]) about costs & driving arrangements. The Youth Group will run the craft activity table at our Sukkot celebration the following week, October 12. Youth Education Committee (YEC) Meeting: October 5, 9:30-11:00 AM Deerfield High School It’s not too late to join the YEC for the coming year but members must commit by the October 5th meeting. Want to get more involved in your child’s Jewish education and in Kol Hadash? Already helping at one or more school events? Consider joining the YEC! Our YEC serves as a combination school board and PTO, setting policy and coordinating school events and family programs. During the school year, the monthly meetings are during Sunday School. Meetings are open to all congregants, but only YEC members may vote on policies. For more information, contact YEC Co-Chairs Rachel Samlan and Kim Stone ([email protected]). Info Meeting on SHJ HuJews Teen Conclave: October 26,11:45 AM–12:45 PM Each year, the Society for Humanistic Judaism sponsors a Teen Conclave, attended by Humanistic Jewish teens from across North America. Kol Hadash students have attended Conclave for many years. This year’s Conclave is March 20 – 22, 2015, at the Butzel Center outside Detroit, Michigan. On October 26, parents and teens (8th grade and higher) are invited to attend an informational meeting about this year’s Conclave. Never been to a Conclave and want to know more? Been to several and want to share your experiences? Please come to this meeting! Lunch is provided; RSVP to Dawn Friedman ([email protected], 847- 997-8931). - 5 - JJeewwiisshh HHiissttoorryy they didn’t teach in Sunday School…     If  Abraham  is  a  myth,  where  did  the  Jewish  people  really  begin?  Was  there  an  Exodus?  How  has   Judaism  evolved  from  Jerusalem  cult  to  international  culture?  Join  us  for  an  Introduction  to  Jewish   History.  Classes  will  be  held  on  selected  Tuesday  evenings,  7:30-­‐8:30  PM  at  the  North  Shore  Unitarian   Church.  Feel  free  to  drop  in  for  any  topic,  or  consider  taking  the  entire  class  as  the  first  year  of  our   two-­‐year  Adult  B’nai  Mitzvah  program.    Classes  are  open  to  all,  free  of  charge.     October  7   November  11   Introduction   Exile  and  Creation  of  the  Torah         October  14   November  18   Beginnings The  Priestly  Period         October  21   December  2   Monarchy  and  Divided  Kingdom     Greeks  and  Maccabees       November  4   December  9   Yahvism  –  The  God  of  the  Hebrews     Roman  Period       December  16   Establishing  Rabbinic  Judaism      Sessions  will  continue  January-­‐June  2015;  dates  TBA.  To  RSVP,  or  for  any   questions  about  this  course  or  the  Adult  B’nai  Mitzvah  program,  please   contact  Rabbi  Adam  Chalom  ([email protected]  or  847-­‐347-­‐3003).             Come find out how we came to be who we are!               www.KolHadash.com b) Welcome, New Members! Kol Hadash extends a warm welcome to the following members who have joined us this year! Randi & Paul Carlson, Arlington Heights Robyn & Joel Corelitz, Park Ridge Michelle Delise, Deerfield Leah Sosewitz & Helga Guenbauer, Highland Park Ami & Dan Polonsky, Deerfield Please help us make our new members feel welcome — introduce yourselves at Kol Hadash events … “friend them” on Facebook … invite them to sit with you at a Shabbat service. We hope to see all our members (new and “old”) at our annual New Member Wine & Cheese Reception on Friday, October 17 (see page 3 for details). To help you get to know our members, we are providing brief introductions, beginning below and continuing in upcoming editions of the Shofar. All members’ contact information will be included in the new membership directory, which will be mailed with the November Shofar. If you wish to contact any member prior to receiving the directory, please ask Jeremy Owens ([email protected]) for contact information. Randi & Paul Carlson live in Arlington Heights with their 13-year-old daughter, Bailey, and their 11-year- old son, Ryan, who are both enrolled in Sunday School. Paul works for United Airlines in labor relations, and Randi is an environmental consultant for Roux Associates. The Carlsons had been thinking of joining Kol Hadash for years — ever since attending Daphne Kass's Bat Mitzvah. They are very interested in learning more about Humanistic Judaism, especially how people are empowered as individuals to make the world a better place. Their favorite band is Blue Moon, featuring lead singer and rhythm guitarist, Ryan Carlson, and the bass player, Bailey Carlson. If you are looking for a youthful group to spice up your birthday party or block party, consider booking them! (Their fee is very reasonable — they usually play for ice cream. Blue Moon is their favorite flavor!) Michelle Delise lives in Deerfield with her six-year-old daughter, Sophia. Michelle is an attorney in the corporate law department of State Farm. She decided to join Kol Hadash after attending a number of our events and feeling that Kol Hadash is a good place to put down roots. She grew up in Los Angeles, went to college in the San Francisco/Berkeley area, and then moved to Chicago to attend law school. She discovered that she is more of a “Midwestern kind of person” and never returned to California. In her spare time, she does a lot of kid activities such as Chucky Cheese, Children’s Museum, Six Flags, the beach etc. - 7 - J C . . . OIN US TO ELEBRATE R C ’ 10TH A ABBI HALOM S NNIVERSARY Friday, October 10, 8:00 PM North Shore Unitarian Church In the fall of 2004, our congregation was transformed with the arrival of Adam Chalom as our full-time rabbi. No longer a lay- led congregation, we embraced our new leader and engaged with him in a new and exciting path for both our community and the Humanistic Jewish movement. Join us October 10 for an evening of recollection, celebration and tribute to our rabbi on his 10th anniversary with Kol Hadash. Our service will be followed by a special Oneg Shabbat hosted by the Kol Hadash Steering Committee. www.kolhadash.com b) Kol Hadash News & Announcements Membership Forms Are Due This Month’s Yahrtzeits Just a friendly reminder that membership renewal The following names will be read at the October 17 Shabbat service at forms and Sunday School registrations are now due the North Shore Unitarian Church. If there is a name missing or if you to the Kol Hadash office. Please contact Jeremy would like to have a name read at the service, please contact the Kol Hadash office (847-383-5184, [email protected]). ([email protected]) at the KH office if Albert Baer Anita Edwards you have any questions. Dorothy Feldman Melvin Gerberding Host an Oneg! Eileen Herron George Jerris Bernice Kirsner Alice Lakin Hosting one of our Oneg Shabbats is an easy and Frieda Levitt Leopold Levoy fun way to get involved at Kol Hadash and meet David Marcus Belle Matthews new friends. The time commitment is minimal, and Ben Matthews Bonnie Pashkow the rewards are plentiful. Upcoming available dates Morris Richter Nathan Rothenberg include December 5 & 12, January 9 & 30. Alvin Samson Bertie Sarasohn Interested? Contact David Hirsch Katherine Tankel-Lipkin Dorothy Wolens ([email protected]). This Month’s Birthdays Thank You! Diane Sandler October 3 • Thank you to Michael LIppitz & Susan Wagner Daphne Kass October 4 for hosting the oneg at our September 5 Ronald Sebor October 5 Shabbat service. Robert Seeley October 7 • Thank you to Terry Kass, Alisa Klein and Andi Neil Parker October 8 Kenney for helping with the September 7 Ami Polonsky October 8 Sunday School Coffee. Adam Chalom October 9 • Thank you to Andrea & Mark Friedlander for Joel Corelitz October 11 Micah Finkelman October 11 hosting the oneg at our September 12 Shabbat Elyse Shaffer October 11 service. Diane Lieberman October 12 • Thank you to Jamie Bouma, Randi Carlson, Evan Katz October 14 Helga Gruenbauer, Karen Jackson, and Rachel Laura Burk October 16 Samlan for helping with the September 14 Betty Gordon October 20 Sunday School Bagel Brunch. Judd Levy October 22 • Thank you to Roland Finkelman, Michael Tate Landsman October 24 Lenore Adler October 25 Lippitz & Susan Wagner, Sheila & Ronald Michael Brook October 25 Sebor, and Happy Stone & Rick Henricksen for Jonah Chalom October 26 their sponsorship of our Rosh Hashana onegs. Glynis Hirsch October 29 • Thank you to Andrea Friedlander, Lori Gerberding, Leora Hatchwell, David Hirsch This Month’s Anniversaries and Margaret Wittlinger for their coordination Suzanna & Larry Dworsky October 9 of our Rosh Hashana onegs. Andi &Thomas Kenney October 10 • Thank you to Leora Hatchwell and Lori Rabbi Adam & AJ Chalom October 13 Gerberding for their High Holidays coordination Dawn & Mark Friedman October 16 work, including the organization of nametags! Diane & David Sandler October 18 • Thank you to the Youth Education Committee Alexandra & William Brook October 23 and Dawn Friedman for coordinating the Rosh Bobby & Howard Jacobs October 23 Hashana Family Service oneg. Michelle & Steven Fishman October 28 Diane & Louis Lieberman October 29 Eleanor & Louis Altman October 30 Family News & Events If you or someone you know is experiencing important and life-altering events, please share the news with Kol Hadash. In times of need, Kol Happy Sukkot! Hadash members can offer support. In times of happiness, we can help celebrate. To share your news, please contact Rabbi Chalom. Join us! Mazel tov to Sean Blitzstein, who was presented October 12, 10:00 AM with the Roberts Award for Inspirational Mentorship Heller Nature Center at the Association for Academic Psychiatry Highland Park conference in Portland last month. Wishing Roger Addelson a swift recovery from recent medical treatment. - 9 - c) Tributes, Donations & Gifts Kol Hadash offers several opportunities for donations: Kol Hadash General Fund Weiss Choir Fund Kol Hadash Youth Group Fund Rabbi’s Discretionary Fund Kol Hadash Tzedakah Fund To donate to any of our funds, please make your check payable to “Kol Hadash” and send with instructions about the gift to: Kol Hadash Humanistic Congregation, 175 Olde Half Day Road, Suite 123, Lincolnshire, IL 60069. The congregation expresses its gratitude to the following individuals, whose donations were received in the last month. Susan & Roger Addelson, to the Rabbi’s Discretionary Fund, with thanks to Rabbi Chalom Sarah Beatty, in loving memory of Eunice Addelson Alexandra & Bill Brook, in memory of Eunice Addelson Randi & Paul Carlson, to the General Fund Ruth & Gilbert Feldman, in memory of Eunice Addelson Marilyn Litz & Milton Field, in memory of Eunice Addelson Toby Fisher, to the Weiss Choir Fund, in memory of Eunice Addelson Andrea & Mark Friedlander, in memory of Eunice Addelson Dawn & Mark Friedman, in memory of Eunice Addelson Rosemary & Robert Goldstein, in memory of Eunice Addelson Diane & Frank Guercio, in memory of Eunice Addelson. We feel very lucky to have become friends with Eunice during the last 15 years of her life. She was a very special lady and touched us deeply. We will miss her. Rhonda & Robert Hart, in memory of Eunice Addelson Happy Stone & Rick Henriksen, to the Rabbi’s Discretionary Fund Happy Stone & Rick Henriksen, to the Tzedakah Fund Glynis & David Hirsch, remembering and celebrating the wonderful Eunice Addelson; we shall miss her. Joyce & Richard Hirsch, in memory of Eunice Addelson; our thoughts are with her family Cynthia Kreutzer, in memory of Eunice Addelson Rhita Lippitz, in memory of Eunice Addelson Margie Marcus, in memory of Eunice Addelson Stacey & Ethan Max, to the Tzedakah Fund, in memory of Eunice Addelson Alan Miller, in memory of Arlene Miller Marsha & Mark Milstein, in memory of Eunice Addelson Lita Passen, in memory of Eunice Addelson Marcy & Paul Schumacher, to the Rabbi’s Discretionary Fund, in memory of Eunice Addelson, with appreciation to Roger and Susan for sharing Eunice with us all these years Karen Seeley & Family, Warren Seeley & Family, Ellen Seeley Finnegan & Family, to the Rabbi’s Discretionary Fund, in honor of Aileen & Robert Seeley's 65th wedding anniversary Carol & Carl Spielman, to the Rabbi’s Discretionary Fund, sending best wishes to Rabbi Chalom for a peaceful new year Sue & Ilya Talman, in memory of Eunice Addelson Elizabeth Weiss, to the General Fund Yom Kippur Memorial Donations We thank the following members for their donations in memory of family and friends on Yom Kippur. Susan & Roger Addelson Lori Gerberding Marsha & Mark Milstein Lenore & Howard Adler Irene Chase & Jeremy Gibson Mary Vanderbeck & Dan Parker Eleanor & Louis Altman Joyce & William Goldman Lita Passen Elaine & Jerome Baer Betty Gordon Ellard Pfaelzer Joan Berger Peggy Bartelstein & Bill Gurolnick Victoria Ratnaswamy Alexandra & William Brook Rhonda & Robert Hart Kathryn Schoenbrod Laura & Ken Burk Leora Hatchwell Marcy & Paul Schumacker Rabbi Adam & AJ Chalom Terry & Geoff Kass Sheila & Ronald Sebor Julie Deutsch Susan & Andrew Kramer Aileen & Robert Seeley Faye Eisenberg Arthur Kroft Margaret Wittlinger & Ross Ruth & Gilbert Feldman Ann & Paul Krouse Shepard Patricia & Daniel Finkelman Nina & K. Michael Lipkin Nancy Sohn & Mike Simon Roland Finkelman Susan Wagner & Michael Lippitz Merle & James Styer Dawn & Mark Friedman Margie Marcus Laurie & Michael White 2014-15 Supporting and Sustaining memberships will be acknowledged in the November issue of the Shofar. We thank our members who renewed their memberships with additional support to Kol Hadash. - 10 -