YITRO

February 3, 2018 • 18 Shevat, 5778

BAR MITZVAH
Maxwell Victor

CLERGY
Rabbi Aaron L. Starr
Rabbi Yonatan Dahlen
Hazzan David Propis, D.M.
Assistant Cantor Leonard S. Gutman
Cantor Emeritus Chaim Najman, D.M.
 SERVICES
TORAH AND HAFTARAH READINGS
Torah Reading: Haftarah:
Exodus 19:1--20:22, page 436 Isaiah 6:1-7:6, 9:5-6, page 452
Maftir: Haftarah Reader:
Exodus 20:18-22, page 449 Maxwell Victor

SERMON Rabbi Aaron Starr

called to the torah for an aliyah as a bar mitzvah:

MAXWELL VICTOR
MEIR PELEH BEN TZVI V’ROCHEL
SON OF: Rachel and Hugh Victor
BROTHER OF: Sydney Victor
GRANDSON OF: Joyce and Saul Rubenstein, Janet (z’l) and Robert (z’l) Victor

SPONSORS
Congregational Kiddush and Lunch are Sponsored by:
Rachel and Hugh Victor, in honor of their son, Max, on his Bar Mitzvah.
Congregational Kiddush is in honor of:
Wolf Gruca’s 98th birthday, by his children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren
and Rachel Yager.
Bimah Flowers are Sponsored by:
Sisterhood.

Sponsorship Information
EVERY SPONSORSHIP HELPS DEFRAY OUR COSTS.
To sponsor Bimah Flowers, Congregational Kiddush and/or Shabbat
Lunch, please contact Beverly Frank at bevmakfrank@yahoo.com or 248.646.8594.
Be a friend of the Sisterhood Shabbat Lunch Fund – With an automatic monthly
credit card deduction of $18/month for 60 months, you help sustain the Shabbat
Lunch program, and are honored with a nameplate on the Shabbat Lunch Plaque!
Contact Janice Stoneman at 248.770.3454 for details.
To sponsor a Morning Minyan Breakfast and/or S’udah Sh’lishit, contact
Assistant Cantor Leonard Gutman at lgutman@shaareyzedek.org or 248.357.5544.
 SERVICES

Y.E.S.!
Youth Experiences on Shabbat
Ruach Activities Me & My Preschooler Kehillah Kids
• Tikvah Chapel • Room 6 • Tikvah Chapel
• 10:00 AM • 10:45 AM • 10:45 AM
• Children ages 3-7 • Children ages 2-4 • Children ages 4-7
A lively Shabbat Joyful adult and child Music and games
babysitting experience class with music, snacks, with Hilary Duberstein.
with Rena Meyers, for Shabbat-oriented games
children whose parents and small group activities
wish to attend services. with Ariana Mentzel.

Minchah Today: 5:30 PM

followed by
S’udah Sh’lishit, Ma’ariv
and Havdalah
Shabbat Ends: 6:34 PM

HELP MAKE A
minyan
Daily Minyan Times, February 4 - February 9, 2018
Morning Evening
Sunday 8:30 AM 5:00 PM
Monday 7:30 AM 5:30 PM
Tuesday 7:30 AM 5:30 PM
Wednesday 7:30 AM 5:30 PM
Thursday 7:30 AM 5:30 PM
Friday 7:30 AM 5:45 PM
Shabbat Candle Lighting 5:39 PM
PROGRAMMING
SERVICES AND
LEARNING
Shaarey Zedek Shabbat
Fridays,
February 9,16, 23, 2018
5:45 PM
Join us for Minchah and our lively,
participatory Kabbalat Shabbat and
Ma’ariv services, featuring the
CSZ clergy. The community is welcome.
MEMBER SUPPORT
A Time to Heal
February 4 & 18, 2018
9:30 AM
A support group for those experiencing
bereavement, loss, or chronic pain. Led
by Dr. Jay Inwald, the sessions are held
on the first and third Sundays.
The community is also welcome to
join us for Morning Minyan, including
Kaddish, at 8:30 AM and/or breakfast
at 9:00 AM.
Memorial Plaques
A beautiful Memorial Plaque at
Congregation Shaarey Zedek is a
heartfelt reminder of those you have
loved and lost.
The new dedication of Memorial
Plaques will take place at the
Yizkor service on Shavuot,
Monday, May 21, 2018. To
include your loved one in that
dedication ceremony, your
plaque order must be placed by
Tuesday, March 27, 2018.
For information or orders, contact Janet
Pont at jpont@shaareyzedek.org or
248.357.5544.
YOUTH, FAMILY & TEEN
EVENTS
Thrilling Thursdays
February 1, 8, 15 & 22, 2018
10:00-11:30 AM
Our drop-in playgroup for children ages
0-5 and their favorite adults,
led by Lindsay Mall with Rabbi Yonatan
Dahlen.
Donations are gratefully accepted to
support this program. Thank you!
Contact Julie Wohl at jwohl@
shaareyzedek.org or 248.357.5544.
Teen Talks
Learning with the Rabbis for students in
grades 8-12.
Respectful Relationships: The
Jewish Approach to Friendship,
Family and Love
with Rabbi Yonatan Dahlen
Sunday, February 11, 2018
10:30 AM - 12:00 NOON
RSVPs requested to rabbidahlen@
shaareyzedek.org.
Shaarey Zedek Receives 2018
Hazon Seal of Sustainability
Congragatulations to CSZ’s Green
Team for successfully demonstrating our
synagogue’s commitment to sustainability
and environmental stewardship for the
second year!

BERMAN CENTER FOR
JEWISH EDUCATION
BERMAN NIGHT OF LEARNING
Traditional Jewish Cuisine: How
Jewish Values Infludenced Our
Culinary Legacy
With Rabbi Tzvi Muller
Thursday, February 8, 2018
7:00 PM
Judaism and Recovery
With Rabbi Benny Greenwald
Thursday, February 15, 2018
7:00 PM
A discussion of the Jewish perspectives
on the opiod drug crisis and drug
abuse.
BDS Conversation
With University of Michigan
Professor Victor Lieberman
Thursday, February 22, 2018
7:00 PM
An overview of the goals, world view
and social base of the BDS movement,
followed by an audience Q&A session.
All Berman Night of Learning events
are free and open to the community.
Come early for sips, sweets and
schmoozing before the learning begins!
For information, call 248.357.5544.
Berman Night of Learning
PROGRAMMING
AFFILIATES
Game Day
Thursday, February 8, 2018
11:30 AM-4:00 PM
Bring your games and your players to
CSZ and Sisterhood’s day of tabletop
play. Delicious lunch included! Cost:
$6 per player if your RSVP is received
no later than 12:00 Noon on Monday,
February 5, 2018. After the deadline
pay $8 per player. RSVP to www.
shaareyzedek.org or 248.357.5544.
Men’s Club Intercongregational
Dinner
Thursday, February 8, 2018
6:00 PM
Appetizers, Dinner, Speaker
Congregation Beth Shalom
14601 Lincoln Street, Oak Park
Cost: $54 per person. Send check to
CSZ, payable to CSZ Men’s Club.
Sisterhood Presents
ADL Insider Briefing
Sunday, February 11, 2018
10:00 AM-12:00 NOON
Guest speaker Heidi Budaj, ADL
Executive Director, followed by a Words
to Action interactive workshop facilitated
by ADL’s Arleen Platt and Shoshana
Janer. No cost to attend, but RSVPs are
requested to www.shaareyzedek.org
by February 9, 2018. For information,
contact Sisterhood at sisterhood@
shaareyzedek.org or 248.357.5544.
Shaarey Zedek Seniors present
Italian Travelogue, Part II
Tuesday, February 13, 2018
1:30 PM
Photography and local color with Jeri
Fishman. RSVPs requested to Janet
Pont at jpont@shaareyzedek.org or
248.357.5544.
PROGRAMMING

Family-friendly, FREE and open to the community! Join us for a Purim shpiel and
costume parade, Purim Carnival featuring games, inflatables, photo booth, DJ and
dancing, and more! Food will be available for purchase.Our Traditional Megillah
reading will take place in the Chapel, followed by Purim Afterglow for Adults with
refreshments and entertainment, featuring mentalist Marc Salem.
For more information, call 248.357.5544, or go to www.shaareyzedek.org.
 IN REMEMBRANCE

May God bring comfort to our families,

together with all the other mourners
of Zion and Jerusalem.
Julie Reyes Taubman

WE CONTINUE TO OBSERVE THE

SH’LOSHIM PERIOD OF THE
FOLLOWING MEMBERS OF OUR
CONGREGATIONAL FAMILY.

Mel Borock
Debbie Belkin
Mildred Rosenbaum
Lawrence Silets
Dorothy Podolsky
Michael David Schram

The road of righteousness leads to life.

By way of its path there is no death.
Proverbs 12:28
YAHRZEITS

FEBRUARY 3 – FEBRUARY 9, 2018

February 3, 2018 • 18 Shevat, 5778
Louis Bielfield Flora B. Goldstein Alan J. Sorscher
Harry Blaize Regina Grossman Morris Stein
Fay Bortman Irwin Kahn Rudolph Straus
William Brown Mary Koppelman Samuel Varkle
Gladys Davis Esther Rube Ben Victor
Joseph A. Freedman Sharon Satovsky Rebecca Ruth Weiss
David A. Goldman Milton D. Shiffman Goldie Ziff

February 4, 2018 • 19 Shevat, 5778

Jack R. Berman Mollie Landau Max H. Shultz
Dobe Chak Eli Levin Bertha Soifer
Herman E. Cohen Rosalind Metz Bernard Stashefsky
Libbie Dubrinsky Rose Rubin Ida Zager-Wasser
Jane B. Fineberg Pauline Saltzburg Leon M. Zechman
Paul Gene Hazle Schembeck

February 5, 2018 • 20 Shevat, 5778

Max Applebaum Sam Goldberg Louis Ruda
Helen Baruch Harriet Jackson Gerald Sable
Ralph Berman Ida Kahn Neal Schechter
Jerome Bennett Bernstein Joseph Kleiman Amy Sherman
Louis Davidson Joanne Ruth Liebow Lama Shetzer
Moshe Dorfman Arthur Miller Max Charles Shiovitz
Jenny Elbling Annette Paul Charles Smith
Edith W. Ellenson Jerry Raymond Rebecca E. Zackheim
Margaret Frank Abraham E. Remocker
Perla Gamil Marvin Ressler

February 6, 2018 • 21 Shevat, 5778

Henry Samuel Atlas Jean Goldman Louis H. Luckoff
Arthur Barit Fred S. Goodman Eva Lux
Merle J. Bronstein Samuel Katz Dorothy R. Sarut
Israel Broudy Bertha Keidan Menachem Ben Zion Spevakow
Manuel Eizelman Jacob Kellman Clara Weisberg
Max Friedman Sara Krut Rosi Young
Phyllis Gilman Esther Kuper
Esther Gold David Lichtman
 YAHRZEITS

18 SHEVAT – 24 SHEVAT, 5778

February 7, 2018 • 22 Shevat, 5778
Sophie Auslander Hilda Erman Abraham B. Miller
Leonard Baron Harry B. Hoffert Meyer Robiner
Max Bassin David King Alice Rosen
Rina Benisty Bertha Klein Lillian Schubiner
Martin Donenfeld Deborah Bluma Klein Morris Weiner
Ann Eisenberg Jenny Mandelbaum Charles Wolf

February 8, 2018 • 23 Shevat, 5778

Sherwin Berman Sophie Freed Jack Miller
Sara R. Bernstecher Fannie Goldberg Edward “Eddie” Mitteldorf
Betty Dobbs Sol Granadier Benjamin Pollack
Philip Elkus Joseph Konikof Sheldon H. Roth
Helen Finkel Joseph H. Kukes Albert Winnick
Sidney Frank Sonya Levit Louis Zlatkin

February 9, 2018 • 24 Shevat, 5778

Rebecca Alger Hazzan Isaac Katz Pearl Rottenberg
Meyer Bing Marie Katzman Mordechai Rube
Harry Boxman Joseph Kaufman William Rubinoff
Jacob Breyer Bernard L. Kerner Bessie Libbie Silvarman
Bertha Colvin Sheldon M. Klein Robert Silverman
Joseph L. Colvin Samuel Matasar Charles Steinberg
Sidney Eidelman Sola H. Modell Alexander Veksler
Irving Skippy Flanders Charles Chuck Perlman
Renee Greenspan Marion R. Pierce
 LEADERSHIP

Executive Officers and Board of Trustees

Larry Nemer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . President

Jeri Fishman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Vice-President

Janice Stoneman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Vice-President

Rick Cohen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . At-Large Member of the Executive Board

Robert Goodman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . At-Large Member of the Executive Board

Susan Kozik Klein . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . At-Large Member of the Executive Board

Board of Trustees
Kari Alterman Morry Levin
Kelli Saperstein Anderson Murray Levin (Seniors)
Wendy Arnold I. Matthew Miller
Nicole Eisenberg David Moses
Milton Feldberg (Men’s Club) Leigh Moss
Lisa Findling Susan Oleinick
Adam Finkel Michael Rowe
David Grey Hy Safran
Barbara Heller David Salama
Steven Hurvitz Alice Silbergleit
Jay Inwald Brooke Weingarden
Gary Karp Barbara Zack (Sisterhood)
Karen A. Katz Ira Zaltz
Betsy Kellman
 MISSION & HISTORY

CONGREGATION SHAAREY ZEDEK Mission

C ongregation Shaarey Zedek is a warm, welcoming, inclusive and egalitarian

Conservative Jewish community. We provide to all generations innovative,
stimulating and diverse spiritual, educational, leadership and social opportunities
that nurture our love and commitment to Jewish life, our Synagogue, our country and
the State of Israel.

Our spiritual direction is led by committed, knowledgeable and caring clergy

available to all.

Together, all participate in celebrating our history, enriching our community and
planning our future.

CONGREGATION SHAAREY ZEDEK History

In 1861, at the beginning of the Civil War, seventeen followers of Traditional

Judaism withdrew from the Beth El Society in Detroit to found the “Shaarey
Zedek Society.” In 1877 the membership constructed the first building in Detroit
to be erected specifically as a synagogue at Congress and St. Antoine. Over the
years, Congregation Shaarey Zedek has been located in a number of beautiful and
picturesque buildings. These include Winder between St. Antoine and Beaubien
Streets, Willis Street E and Brush, and Chicago Boulevard and Lawton which is still
standing. At the 100th annual meeting of the Congregation on April 12, 1961,
more than 700 members approved the recommendation from the Board of Directors
that a new synagogue be built on a forty acre site in the city of Southfield.

Since the 19th century, members of our congregation have proudly played leading
roles in Michigan, the nation and throughout the world Jewry. For more than
150 years Congregation Shaarey Zedek has been a house of prayer, a house
of learning and a community gathering place, transmitting Conservative Jewish
teaching, dor l’dor, from generation to generation.
Synagogue Office
27375 Bell Road
Southfield, MI 48034-2079
248.357.5544
Fax 248.357.0227
www.shaareyzedek.org

Clover Hill Park Cemetery

2425 East Fourteen Mile Road
Birmingham, MI 48009-7257
248.723.8884
Fax 248.723.8886
www.cloverhillpark.org