CONGREGATION P’NAI TIKVAH (Formerly Valley Outreach Synagogue) Kol Kiruv August 2013 Av/Elul 5773 Vol. 20—No. 3 Table of Contents Cover Page Rabbi’s Message Cantor’s Notes President’s Message Shabbat Around the Valley Women’s Rosh Chodesh Jewlicious Learning Inquiring Minds Want to Know Challah Baking at the Rabbi’s MiShebeirach Updates & Fundraising Birthdays & Anniversaries Kidz Korner Yahrzeits High Holiday Services Grandma Sadie Getting Married Help the Homeless Calendar at a Glance Clergy and Staff Rabbi: Yocheved Mintz Cantor: Marla Goldberg Accompanist: Timothy Cooper Newsletter: D’vorah Turrentine, Educator: Rabbi Mintz Bookkeeper: Lynn Pisetzner Office Administrator: ‘D’vorah Turrentine [email protected]www.pnaitikvahlv.com CPT on the Web: www.pnaitikvahlv.org Social Network with CPT: www.facebook.com/ pnaitikvahlv www.twitter.com/ pnaitikvahlv 1 יִ י לִ דֹ דוְ י וִ דֹ דוְ י לִ נֲ אHard to believe, but we are entering the month of Elul, the last month of the Jewish calendar year, the month of in- trospection, seeking and granting for- giveness, and taking account of our souls. Elul is a Hebrew acronym, however, standing for “Ani L’Dodi V’Dodi Li”—-I am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine. Our To- rah readings and Hafttarah messages remind us that we have an inti- mate relationship with G-d, and tradition reminds us that this is the month where “the King is in the meadow.” We don’t need to go to the Royal Palace to speak to the Sovereign of Sovereigns of Sover- eigns. As we prepare our selves for the coming New Year, let us also think about our community and resolve to help one another grow this holy congregation . Do join us for services in August on the 2nd and on the 16th. Bring the kidlets for Tot Shabbat on the 2nd. RSVP for Torah Study (this month we’re going to do some Talmud study). Be sure to get your membership registrations in, if you haven’t already; and order your tickets for the Days of Awe as soon as you can. This is a good time to invite friends and acquaintances to join you at our second annual Challah Baking afternoon, at the Rabbi’s house, the Texas Station for Days of Awe, at the Rabbi’s home for Slichot, and at Sunset Park for Tashlich. 1 2 3 4 5 6 6 7 7 7 8 9 9 10 11 12-13 14 15 Congregation P’nai Tikvah will worship on Shabbat, August 2nd and 16th, at Kraft-Sussman Chapel, in the Bank of Nevada Business Park at 3975 S. Durango, Suite 104, in Las Vegas. Tot Shabbat will be held on August 2nd at 6:30 PM. Kabbalat Shabbat and Maariv services will begin at 7:30 PM. Torah Study will take place at 10:00 AM on August 3rd and 17th at Rabbi Mintz’s home. A bagels and lox brunch is served. Please RSVP by calling the administrative office at (702) 436-4900 or by emailing [email protected].
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CONGREGATION P’NAI TIKVAH
(Formerly Valley Outreach Synagogue)
Kol Kiruv
August 2013 Av/Elul 5773 Vol. 20—No. 3
Table of Contents
Cover Page
Rabbi’s Message
Cantor’s Notes
President’s Message
Shabbat Around the Valley
Women’s Rosh Chodesh
Jewlicious Learning Inquiring Minds Want to Know
Challah Baking at the Rabbi’s
MiShebeirach
Updates & Fundraising
Birthdays & Anniversaries
Kidz Korner
Yahrzeits
High Holiday Services Grandma Sadie Getting Married
Hard to believe, but we are entering the month of Elul, the last month of the Jewish calendar year, the month of in-trospection, seeking and granting for-
giveness, and taking account of our souls.
Elul is a Hebrew acronym, however, standing for “Ani L’Dodi V’Dodi Li”—-I am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine. Our To-rah readings and Hafttarah messages remind us that we have an inti-mate relationship with G-d, and tradition reminds us that this is the month where “the King is in the meadow.” We don’t need to go to the Royal Palace to speak to the Sovereign of Sovereigns of Sover-eigns.
As we prepare our selves for the coming New Year, let us also think about our community and resolve to help one another grow this holy congregation .
Do join us for services in August on the 2nd and on the 16th. Bring the kidlets for Tot Shabbat on the 2nd. RSVP for Torah Study (this month we’re going to do some Talmud study). Be sure to get your membership registrations in, if you haven’t already; and order your tickets for the Days of Awe as soon as you can. This is a good time to invite friends and acquaintances to join you at our second annual Challah Baking afternoon, at the Rabbi’s house, the Texas Station for Days of Awe, at the Rabbi’s home for Slichot, and at Sunset Park for Tashlich.
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Congregation P’nai Tikvah will worship on Shabbat, August 2nd and 16th,
at Kraft-Sussman Chapel, in the Bank of Nevada Business Park at 3975 S.
Durango, Suite 104, in Las Vegas. Tot Shabbat will be held on August 2nd
at 6:30 PM. Kabbalat Shabbat and Maariv services will begin at 7:30 PM.
Torah Study will take place at 10:00 AM on August 3rd and 17th at Rabbi
Mintz’s home. A bagels and lox brunch is served. Please RSVP by calling
the administrative office at (702) 436-4900 or by emailing
I have given much thought of about what I wanted to write in this article. The High Holidays are fast approaching as Rosh Hashanah begins in the evening of September 4, 2013. Traditionally, through-out the thousands of synagogues, Presidents will reach out to their membership asking for donations during the annual Kol Nidre Appeal. I decided to research Kol Nidre Appeals on the internet. I was looking for some special, spiritual appeal but what I found was the standard format from the many Ap-peals that I read. No matter how the message was written, the story line was the same- “we must re-ly on fundraising activities such as the Kol Nidre Appeal in order to maintain the programming and services on which all of us have come to depend.” In some cases, the letters to the Congregational members addressing the importance of the Kol Nidre Appeal went into quite some detail as to the fi-nancial status of the Congregation. I could have easily substituted the name of our Congregation in any of these letters and speeches, asking our members to donate generously for the exact reasons- Kol Nidre Appeals do provide the extra funding that allows our Congregation to continue to provide the services to our members. But for me, I wanted to say something more. If we think about the High Holidays, it is about transi-tions, our past, present and future. As individuals, it is a time for reflection of our past, our present and our future and so it is with our Congregation, where we have been, where are we now and where will our future take us. We are at a turning point as your board of directors, your spiritual leaders, Rabbi Mintz and Cantor Goldberg continue to build upon the foundation of the past leadership of President Sam Lieberman. In order for P’nai Tikvah to take the next step into the future, we need our members to make a personal commitment, a personal investment as a home can only be as strong as the family that supports it. According to Pirke Avot, “the world rests on three things, Torah, prayer and acts of loving kind-ness”. In the Netaneh Tokef prayer, we exclaim, “repentance, prayer and charity shall… As we col-lectively prepare for the holidays, we appreciate your generous donations. Please join us to celebrate the High Holidays at the Texas Station. In closing, I wanted to share the words of Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman as I finally found the spiritual words I was looking for in writing this article. “ What attracts us to this strangely haunting ritual of Kol Nidre? Is it the music? Surely. Is it also the high drama of the occasion? Yes, it is that as well. But it is more. For a brief moment, as Kol Nidre is chanted, we are in touch with the sacred and with our finitude: with those we love and with the broader human universe; with our own better selves and with G-d….” Barbara Holland, CPM President
Shabbat Around the Valley Hosted by Sam Lieberman Hosted by Rabbi Mintz
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A special thank you to Sam Lieberman, Jennifer Cohen and Rabbi Mintz for hosting every-
one have a good time, the food was delicious and the Shabbat spirit was felt by all.
For details regarding current CPT fundraisers or suggestions for future fundraising opportunities, please contact Dale Gardner [email protected]
you can think of helps the congregation’s sustaina-
bility and funds future
Jewlicious Learners
Summertime and our Jewlicious Learn-
ers are involved in all sorts of summer
activities. Performing, swimming,
sports, traveling, and, yes, learning.
Rabbi Mintz is offering one-on-one
Skype Summer Hebrew Enrich-
ment….and, while we currently are work-
ing with pre-Bar/Bat Mitzvah students,
she offers the basics to incoming stu-
dents too.
Classes for the Fall will take place on
Monday afternoons at the Rabbi’s home,
from 4:15 to 6:00, beginning August 26
and continuing Sept 9, 16,23, and 30;
October 6, 21, 28,; November 4, 11, 18,
and 25; December 2, 9, and 16; January
6,13, and 27; February 3,10, and 24;
March 3, 10, 17, 24, 31; April 7, and 28;
May 5, 12.19 and June 2. Registration
now open. Enjoy the rest of summer!
When lighting the Shabbat candles what is the sig-
nificance and number of times of circling around
the candles? (answer on page 7)
Question: When lighting the Sabbath candles, what is the
significance in the number of times of circling the candles?
From Rabbi Mintz: While it would be easy to sing out
“Tradition,” that actually is the reason. It’s a little trickier.
Tradition reminds us that we are not to light a fire on Shab-
bat, but if we say the blessing over the candles the normal
way (blessing first, then partaking of that which we’ve
blessed…like the Motzi and the Kiddush), we’d be breaking
the Sabbath by lighting a fire. So we create what is called “a
legal fiction,” in that we light the Shabbat candles, cover our
eyes until after the blessing, and kind of recreate the
“lighting” by opening our eyes to it. (source: The Shulchan
Auch, Orach Chaim 263:5/) As to the custom of bringing
the mitzvah closer to us by circling three times, it has be-
come tradition to do so, saying “Baruch Hu! Baruch
Sh’mo!” (Blessed is G-d; Blessed is G-d’s Name) each
time. I like to think that the first time is for my family, the
second time for my community (you all), and the third time
for all of Israel and humankind.
Do you have a personal significance that works for you
when the candles are lit? Do share it with us.
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Mi Shebeirach/”Get Well” Wishes to…
Marie Ackerman Marjorie Lieberman Davida Lewin Schermer D’vorah Turrentine Edith Rome Gary Paykel Elliot Bender Paul Bodner Olivia Bender Gittel bat Libba Heika Libba Heika bat Sima Wendy Linker Rabbi Rob Bonem Edward Rueben Patti Lade Fran Fine Jerry Cohen Susan Bindhamer Danny Lev Aaron Shopnick Rozlyn Alexander Marilyn Kapel Marion Loeb Karl Reynolds Tony Reed Peter Hernandez Lou & Sonny Mayron Barbara Raben Phyllis Zuckerman Rabbi Stephen Robbins Craig Goodrich Connie Rivshun Gavriella bat Yisraella v’Yosef Torrey Barrett Ann Brandt Lynn Wexler Margolies Dr. Bryon Sherwin
Are you looking for a great cooking experience? Rabbi Mintz will be
having a challah baking at her home on August 18th 3:00pm. Everyone
is welcome! We will use the challots for the Days of Awe
UPDATES and
Fundraising Opportunities
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Box Tops For Education are an Easy Way to Support P’nai Tikvah’s Jewlicious Learning Program!
Box Tops for Education is a very simple way for you to contribute to CPT’s Jewlicious Learning pro-gram every time you shop! Clip box tops from hun-dreds of products. Each box top is worth 10 cents for the program, and some products are offering double and triple box tops! Bring them to services with you and place them in the “Box Tops for Edu-cation” box. For a complete list of products bearing the Box Tops for Education symbol, go to: http://www.boxtops4education.com .
All Box Tops should be brought to Shabbat Ser-vices or sent to Dale Gardner [email protected]
On’gai Shabbat— Time to Sign up!
We still have a few openings left for those of you who want to celebrate a simcha or commemorate the memory of a loved one by sponsoring an Oneg Shabbat. And for you foodies who want to get your Bobby Flay or Gordon Ramsey on, there’s still time! Check the schedule below; an opening is your opportunity:
August 2 Sponsor Needed Caterer—Nancy Goldberg
August 16 Sponsors & Caterer Annie & Joey Goodrich
Annie & Joey Goodrich
September 20 Sponsor & Caterer Needed
October 4 Sponsor & Caterer Needed
October 18 Sponsor & Caterer Needed
November 1 Sponsor & Caterer Needed
November 15 Sponsor & Caterer Needed
December 6 Sponsor– Scott Linker Caterer Needed
December 20 Sponsor & Caterer Needed
Note URL for Congregation P’nai Tikvah , As well as Facebook and Twitter Addresses
Make our web address, www.pnaitikvahlv.org , a favorite! Social networking with our shul is easier than ever! “Like” us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/pnaitikvahlv and follow us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/pnaitikvahlv .
Thanks to Cindy Fox, Jon Axelrod, and Danielle Holland—CPT’s social network mavens—for keeping us current!! Anyone else
wish to volunteer? Just call 436-4900 to be our new ma-ven!
If you refer someone to a car dealership, on behalf of CPT,
we can receive a referral fee. This is a wonderful and easy
way to do a mitzvah for CPT . More information contact
Doris 869-2700.
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Happy August
Birthday!!
KIDZ KORNER for August
HAPPY AUGUST BIRTHDAYS
Gary Ullman Mason DeLee Meera Kamegai Palmie Turrentine Marvin Korach Elizabeth Barton Iris Katz David Aris Sandy Rich Rachel Piekarsky
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY
Ellen & Ron Royer August 5 Iris & Joel Katz August 22 Jennifer & Jerald Cohen August 26
B’RUCHIM HaBAIM / WEL-
COME TO NEW MEMBERS
Welcome to Arlene Waters
August 1
August 10
August 14
August 15
August 21
August 24
August 27
August 29
August 29
August 30
Memorial plaques are available for your consideration,
To honor the departed,
To inspire the living.
To be remembered in the hearts of those we leave
behind is,
In a sense, to live forever.
For further information, call the Synagogue office at
702-436-4900
Mitzvah donations also appreciated
YAHRZEITS
FOR AUGUST
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Sam Bender -Remembered by Elliot Bender Barry Corchnoy -Remembered by Anne & Gary Ullman Patricia Elliot -Remembered by Rachel Piekarsky Dorothy Hillman -Remembered by Anne & Gary Ullman Herbert Hirsch -Remembered by Eileen & Cort Ancman
Shirley Kamanitz -Remembered by Barbara Holland Alma Spector -Remembered by Caren & David Epstein Samuel Weiman -Remembered by Barbara Holland
Remembering Friends and Family: If you know of someone who can use a little cheer in their life because of illness or a death in their family-or a simcha -mazel tov celebration; the "Sunshine La-dy” Phyllis Zuckerman would like to send a card. Please contact her at:(702)617-0585 or [email protected]
August 2 Tot Shabbat 6:30 pm Kabbalat Shabbat and Maariv Services 7:30 pm at Kraft-
Sussman Chapel
August 3 Torah Study at Rabbi Mintz Home
August 5 Simchat Chochmah 7:00 pm
August 8 CPT Board Meeting at Rabbi’s home
August 11 Women’s Rosh Chodesh Get-together for the month of Elul
August 16 Kabbalat Shabbat and Maariv Services 7:30 pm at Kraft Sussman Chapel
August 17 Torah Study at Rabbi Mintz ‘s home
August 18 Challah Baking at the Rabbis’s home—3:00pm
August 19 Simchat Chochmah 7:00 pm
August 26 Jewlicious Learning 4:15 p.m.
August 26 Simchat Chochmah 7:00 pm
August 31 Slichot—7:00 pm at the Rabbi’s home
Blessing for the Month of Elul This is a month of spiritual grace. Take the easy smooth path to get in
touch with what is pure and constant within; seek forgiveness and offer
forgiveness; reflect on the past and plan for the future; and may we all
be blessed with wisdom, understanding, and the ability to return to our
most noble and promising selves. Amen
Kol Kiruv, the newsletter of Congregation P’nai Tikvah, is available on-line at www.pnaitikvahlv.org at no cost. If mailed, hard copy delivery is $36 annually. Please notify us and remit payment .