Kulanu: May 2023

KULANU A Magazine That Highlights "All of Us"

MAY 2023

Iyyar/Sivan 5783

In This Issue: Who Shall Go Up the Mountain?

The Wisdom of Our Students IHC's Code of Ethics

At a Glance: May View our most up-to-date calendar on the IHC website.

Lilith Salon Tuesday, May 2 at 12:30pm at the Rusty Bucket Women of IHC are invited to Sisterhood sponsored Lilith Salon in May. It is more free flowing than a book club with far fewer pages to read! Articles are emailed ahead of time. For more information and to let us know you are coming, please email Marjorie Gullett. Lilith Salon also meets on May 21 at 12:30pm.

Sisterhood Spring Meeting Wednesday, May 10 from 6:30-8:30pm Learn more about what Sisterhood does for you, IHC, and our community while connecting with Sisterhood friends, new and old. We will also be voting on the 2023-24 budget and changes to bylaws and policies. Please register to attend by May 5. Click here to register and get more details about the spring meeting.

Coffee Hours with Rabbi Chernow-Reader, Friday, May 5 from 10:00-11:30am Come chat and grab some coffee with Rabbi Chernow-Reader at Monon Coffee Company in Broad Ripple. She will also have coffee hours on May 19 from 10:00-11:30am.

IHC Annual Meeting, Thursday, May 11 at 7:00pm on Zoom The Annual Meeting's agenda includes updates from temple leadership as well as the election of new board members and temple executive committee members. Watch your Weekly Update for the Zoom link.

Mahjongg Mavens Friday, May 5 at 2:30pm Grab your tile set and play a game (or ten) with the other IHC Mahjongg mavens. This addicting game of skill, strategy, and luck is a great way to spend time with other IHC enthusiasts.

This Circle also meets on May 12 at 10:00am and May 19 at 2:30pm.

Tot Shabbat: Shavuot, Friday, May 5 at 5:30pm Our youngest friends and their parents/grandparents can come to this short, kid-friendly service with a fun activity to follow.

Click here to let us know you are coming.

Mitzvah Stitchers, Sunday, May 7 at 11:00am If you love to knit, crochet, sew or embroider and love to schmooze while you stitch, then Mitzvah Stitchers is perfect for you. Email Barb Levy to have your name added to the email distribution list so she can provide you the Zoom link for meetings.

Rosh Hashanah Retreat Meeting Sunday, May 7 at 7:00pm Have you felt the joy of attending Rosh Hashanah Retreat? Are you interested in making sure others feel that same joy in 5784? Be a part of Rosh Hashanah Retreat's first meeting on Zoom to help Rabbi Chernow-Reader plan this meaningful day.

Euchre Circle, Monday, May 8 at 10:00am All levels of play are welcome to come and have some fun, meet new people, and compete for a prize. This Circle also meets on May 15 at 10:00am and May 24 at 6:00pm.

Email Melanie Gottlieb for more details.

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Highlighted Calendar of Events

Family Adventure Circle Meetup Saturday, May 13 at 10:30am at the Allardt home Come out to the Allardt home for a summer kickoff gathering! There will be a bounce house and card making craft. Drinks and popsicles provided.

Please let Monica Allardt (317-445-3576) know you are coming so she has an idea of how many people plan to come.

It’s Wine O’Clock Somewhere Wednesday, May 17 at 6:30pm Join the Wine O’Clock Somewhere Circle for a blind Chardonnay tasting. Everyone should bring a bottle of their favorite Chardonnay to share. We will taste test each (using bags to cover the bottles) and vote on our favorite, and then reveal the winner. Email Melissa Noparstak if you plan to attend or have any questions.

Board Game Social Circle, Thursday, May 18 at 6:00pm Take a break from the computer and phone screens and play some tabletop games face to face. We will try both classics and the latest in board games. No experience required. Contact Lou Harry for more details.

IHC Music presents, Celebrations: An Indianapolis Children's Choir performance Sunday, May 24 at 4:00pm Read more about this performance on page 7.

IHC Family News We Celebrate the B'nai Mitzvah of: Sadie Sniderman, who will be called to the Torah on May 6, 2023. She is a seventh grade student at Sycamore School. She loves animals of all stripes, music, ice skating, horseback riding, and spending time with her friends and extended family. Sadie plays soccer for Dynamo and basketball for her school team. Sadie’s parents are Jennifer and Mark Sniderman. She has an older brother, Leo. Olivia Levi, who will be called to the Torah on May 20, 2023. She is a seventh grade student at Creekside Middle School. Her favorite sports include swimming and softball.

Olivia’s parents are Sandra and Metin Levi.

She has a younger sister, Sofia.

We Mourn with: Rhonda Gerson-Hurwitz, daughter of Audrey Gerson z''l The loved ones of Harvey Kagan z''l Blair Karsch, brother of Dana Karsch Wagner z''l The family of Jill Rose z''l Carol and Elliot Segal, family of Eva Kolten z''l Ann Shepherd, sister of Daniel Chomyn z''l

We Celebrate with: New members: Shira Belkov and Brad Miller Rogan Goldblatt Caitlin Green ~ The baby naming of Debbie & Steve Pearson's grandson, Liam Madhu Danala.

Sarah Skwire, Abigail Waschow, and Penelope Waschow, family of Marjorie Skwire z''l Barbara Wolfson, Phillip (Adrienne) Frank, Lainie (Steve) Hurwitz, and Clair (Brian) Jacobson, family of Lenard Wolfson z''l

z''l stands for stands for zichronam livracha, which means "may their memory be for blessing"

The best efforts were taken to create these listings since the last issue of the Kulanu.

Please reach out to communications@ihcindy.org if you believe there was an omission or error.

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A Message From Your Clergy Rabbi Roxanne Shapiro, RJE Director of Lifelong Learning

Who shall go up the mountain?

As Exodus 19 recalls, we all stood at the base of Mt. Sinai. Moses had led us out of our camp to the foot of the mountain to wait…to wait for God. We were there. Jewish tradition teaches that we all stood at Sinai, even if we do not remember it.

Yet, we were warned to not go up the mountain.

Only Moses could ascend. Moreover, when we saw the thunder and the lightning and the mountain smoldering, we were afraid. We said to Moses, “You speak to us, and we will obey: but let not God speak to us, lest we die" (Exodus 20:16).

We were scared and completely comfortable letting Moses be our liaison.

That day, Moses went up the mountain to receive Torah from God as we heard the thunder, watched the clouds, and awaited Moses’ return. Moses received Torah and this we now celebrate during the festival of Shavuot.

Yet, today, if it were all to happen again in the same way, would we be too afraid and just send Moses? Or would we climb that mountain?

Reform Judaism encourages each of us to climb the mountain for ourselves. Of course, that mountain is not necessarily literal, but figurative.

What is at the peak of the mountain you climb?

As a rabbi, I often see the mountain as having God at the top [though, yes, I do believe that God is all around us, not just on a mountain]. The mountain represents that which we have to figuratively climb in order to make that connection.

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I believe that many of us desire to climb that mountain – the same mountain. I also believe that what I define as God at the top of the mountain may have a different definition for someone else.

Judaism, as with any other faith/ethical belief system, provides for us a path/guide up that mountain; but how do we understand that map?

As an educator, of course, I am going to say that it is through the pursuit of knowledge and understanding that we understand the map. You see, even if the trail guide is in the “language” of a particular religious tradition, the map is going to be different for each of us. We see it through our own lens.

To understand our map, we engage in study. We study the texts and teachings with which we feel comfortable and we study the texts and teachings that challenge us. We learn and grow so much when we wrestle with our tradition, just as Jacob wrestled with the being until dawn (Genesis 32).

Grappling with the text can only make us stronger.

Climbing the mountain can only make our connection deeper.

This Shavuot, as we hear the retelling of our time at Mt. Sinai, may we think about where we stand on that mountain today… are we at the base? Are we afraid to climb, shouting for Moses to do it for us or have we started our ascent? Do we stand at a halfway point? Are we stuck, not knowing which path to take next or are we reaching the summit?

We, at IHC, invite you to take the journey up the mountain with us. If we take the steps together, through study, questioning, and experiencing, the path up the mountain is not only more easily traversed; it is also more engaging along the way.

Chag Shavuot Sameach!

Have a happy and meaningful Shavuot!

“Pirkei Talmidim”: The Wisdom of Our Students The following are the excerpts from several of the Confirmation Class of 5783's "This I Believe" statements. These students will help clergy lead services on Friday May 26 at 6:15pm for Confirmation, Shabbat, & Shavuot Festival Service.

I believe that having an unique interpretation of God is, and always has been, a fundamental and important part of Jewish beliefs.

Max Arnold

Music is an extremely valuable thing that I believe in because of its power to unite people, it makes people happy, and makes the world a better place.

Gabriel Hastings

I believe that music is the most spiritual aspect of humanity, and it is one of the ways I choose to define God for myself.

Sierra Krichiver

Life is full of questions, and like life, Judaism is the constant struggle of finding out why.

Cole Bush

I believe in God’s presence through music, through writing, and poems.

While I definitely love educating people on the workings of Judaism, it also feels good to just have that mutual sense of understanding you get when you are around people like yourself.

Isa Galan

Honor a confirmand!

Rachel Mintz

To me, Judaism is a way of life that connects me to my ancestors, my family, and my fellow Jews around the world.

Caleb Rubel

Acknowledge Confirmation students' commitment to Jewish education by making one of your own.

Donate to the Women of Reform Judaism YES Fund, which supports initiatives in education and clergy scholarships around the world.

Click here to learn more.

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A Torah Weeps Rabbi Alex J. Goldman began his Jewish Post article this way: “Holocaust memorials dot the world to recall history’s evil… Communities have felt impelled to personalize and tell the story in sculpture, mound, photograph, building, museum.

The medium is the message…. Yet you don’t have to see the actual artifacts of the Holocaust period to feel your guts turning, twisting and churning…

You have only to see one item, only one, to get the same rending feeling and worse. You have only to see the Torah/Holy Scroll, which you have held, chanted over, admired, touched, perhaps carried on Simchat Torah or at a bar mitzvah service. You have to look in disbelief as our most sacred treasure, the Holy Scroll, physical, parchmented [sic], lying, tightly bound, rolled up, torn, singed, burnt, water-logged, scraped, slashed, parts missing, her face rubbed out, decimated.” (Jewish Post, Marion County, 22 January 1997)

Goldman was describing a pile of 1,564 Torah scrolls which made their way, in 1964, to the Westminster Synagogue overlooking Hyde Park in London. Their stories were varied and unique.

The scrolls represented Jewish communities from Bohemia and Moravia and other parts of what was then Czechoslovakia. Nazis had documented each scroll, along with thousands of Jewish ritual objects and artifacts they had stolen/ gathered/ pilfered for some imagined permanent display. This chapter of Jewish history is well known to many in our IHC community. We have been blessed with the presence of one of those restored and reclaimed “Holocaust Scrolls” since 1988. Many generations of b’nai mitzvah students have read from and carried this treasure in our sanctuary. And each and every time, we have shared its story.

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Rabbi Brett Krichiver Senior Rabbi One great teaching about a Torah scroll is that it represents, in physical form, the continuing narrative of the Jewish people. We are connected to the generations past and future like the sewn together sheets of parchment which give the Torah its shape. In order to get from one end of the Torah to the other, one must roll through the many stories, characters, and laws in between.

That is the nature of a scroll, and that is the nature of our Jewish history as well.

In this case, our Holocaust scroll, which belonged to a small community just outside of Prague called Dobříš (pronounced Dob-zhísh), carries the precious history of Eastern European Jewry in the 20th century, including the Holocaust, the Shoah.

But this scroll also stands in testimony to our continued strength into the 21st century.

And even though our b’nai mitzvah students can no longer read from the damaged parchment, we remind them each and every week of just how special it is for them to celebrate becoming a bat or bar mitzvah in its presence.

IHC's Code of Ethics Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation joins dozens of Union for Reform Judaism (URJ) temples across the nation in establishing a code of ethics.

Past IHC Board President Marc Katz says two things drove the creation of the code. “The URJ came down with a recommendation that congregations develop an ethics policy… at the same time, there were conversations with board members and clergy that there needed to be a level playing field with expectations… that everyone should be bound by the same rule of ethics.” Katz and board member Carly Turow worked together to create IHC’s code of ethics, with past president and current URJ Board Trustee Patti Freeman Dorson providing input.

Five principles guide IHC’s code: Exemplify Holiness (K’Dushah) Honesty (Yosher) Honor (Kavod) Compassion (Rachamim) Justice (Tzedek) “We call them principles [in the code of ethics],” Patti Freeman Dorson explains, “but they are Jewish values. We as a congregation believe in these things and should all act and treat each other in a way that is consistent with these values.”

The code of ethics does more than just explain the congregation’s dedication to the ethical treatment of one another. It also details the process for addressing allegations of unethical behavior.

It is important to note that legal obligations take precedence if an allegation could cause any imminent and substantial harm to a person. The Ethics Committee is involved in addressing any allegation(s) of unethical behavior.

The committee will inform the appropriate professional organization if allegations of unethical behavior involve a rabbi (CCAR), cantor (ACA), executive director (NATA), or educator (ARJE). For Carly Turow, this was a vital part of the document.

“It is one thing to tell someone that everyone is held to the same standards,” but in this code, “ethics are ethics. Everyone is held to the same standard.”

Emily Kaufmann, Communications Specialist The IHC Board approved the code of ethics in April 2022, two months after the URJ first released the Report of the Independent Investigation which contained numerous recommendations, including congregations create a code of ethics. For Turow, IHC’s swiftness in creating this code shows how important this is for IHC. “[A code of ethics is] taken as a no brainer for some, including me. But it is needed.” She appreciates the way this code gives her guidance as a board member. Earlier this year, the URJ set a goal that 60% of member congregations adopt a code of ethics this year.

Marc Katz is excited that IHC is far ahead of the pack and that the temple felt strongly enough about ethics and governance to get this code off the ground. Patti Freeman Dorson is also proud of IHC for taking this code seriously and creating it in a way that has “timeless elasticity” so that if things change decades down the road, the code of ethics is adaptable to those changes.

This May, we mark the holiday of Shavuot, where we recall the story of Moses receiving the Torah from God on Mount Sinai. In accepting that gift, the Israelites entered a covenant, an agreement, with God. Each year, Shavuot is a time where Jews renew that covenant.

IHC’s code of ethics is not unlike a covenant, as we agree to adhere to a set of ethical and ritual behaviors. Under it, we agree to treat one another with respect. We agree to treat one another fairly.

In the same way the Israelites held themselves accountable to God, we, as IHC members, hold ourselves accountable to one another, to create spaces where all feel safe, welcomed, and protected.

You can review the IHC Code of Ethics by clicking here. There also is a copy of the policy in the temple’s front office and on the IHC website at ihcindy.org/resources.

If you have further questions about the policy, you can reach out to Rabbi Krichiver, IHC President Mitch Katz, and Executive Director Pete Smithhisler. You can also contact Marc Katz, Carly Turow, and Patti Freeman Dorson.

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IHC Music presents:

Indianapolis Children’s Choir’s Master Chorale and the Anderson Area Youth Chorale

On May 21 at 4:00 pm, singers from the Indianapolis Children’s Choir’s Master Chorale and the Anderson Area Youth Chorale will perform at IHC as part of the IHC Music Spring Concert Series. These talented young singers will be accompanied by an orchestra for a full celebration of springtime in Indiana as they present two uplifting major choral works: Vincent Persichetti’s Celebrations and Leonard Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms. This concert also honors our graduating seniors of these ensembles as the choir dedicates and performs some of their favorite choral pieces to celebrate the fun, friendships, and experiences that the ICC offers its singers over the years.

Celebrations sets Walt Whitman’s poetry to music as it explores the resilience and optimism of the human spirit. Works include Whitman classics such as Stranger, Voyage, and You Who Celebrate Bygones. Chichester Psalms is an exciting composition that sets to music the complete texts of Psalms 100, 23, and 131, together with a few verses from Psalms 108, 2, and 133. The work debuted in 1965 and was commissioned for the 1965 Southern Cathedrals Festival at Chichester Cathedral. Across its three movements, the piece builds and explores the themes of unity and the brotherhood of man.

Emma Robinson

Development & Marketing Coordinator,\ Indianapolis Children's Choir

Currently in its 37th season, the Indianapolis Children’s Choir (ICC) has grown to become one of the largest professional children’s choirs in the world. Led by Artistic Director Joshua Pedde, the ICC serves more than 2,500 central Indiana children from ages 18 months through 18 years.

The Anderson Area Children’s Choir and Youth Chorale division was founded in the fall of 1992 and is dedicated to serving the children and youth who reside within Anderson and Madison County.

The Indianapolis Children’s Choir community nurtures and inspires student achievement through quality music education and the pursuit of artistic excellence in choral music performance.

To assist with learning these works, the choirs have partnered with several members of the community including Cantor Aviva Marer, who will run a clinic for singers, and Steve Rappaport, who will lead a discussion with singers regarding the background and inspiration for the Chichester Psalms.

In a partnership with the Indianapolis Symphonic Choir, several members will perform with ICC and AAYC singers and have also served as their mentors, plus Director Eric Stark will conduct a few of the movements at the performance.

To purchase advance tickets for the Celebrations concert, please visit icchoir.org/tickets or call 317-940-9640.

Tickets are $14 each. Ages 5 and under can attend for free but require a ticket.

If the concerts do not sell out in advance, additional tickets will be available for purchase at the door prior to the performance.

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Temple Library When seeking a simple explanation of a topic, it often is worthwhile to look at a child’s book first. In addition to a story or custom, an adult may find background information that usually is accurate.

I am reminded how effective children’s books can be while re-reading, Cheesecake for Shavuot, by Allison Ofanansky, photographs by Eliyahu Alpern.You may think of cheesecake when preparing for Shavuot (“weeks” –seven weeks after Passover), but the holiday also is referred to as: Hag Hakatzir, the holiday of the grain harvest, Hag Habikurim, the holiday of the first fruits (fruits were brought to the Temple on Shavuot), and Hag Matan Torah, the holiday of the giving/receiving of the Torah at Mount Sinai. And some think of Shavuot as a dairy holiday since cow and goat milk are plentiful at that time of year.

The easily understandable text describes a youthful Israeli class planting and watering wheat seeds in the fall. The wheat will grow and be harvested in the late spring. Children watch the seeds sprout grass Close to Passover, they see rows of green seeds on top of the stalks. When the seeds ripen and turn brown and droopy, students use a sickle to cut the stalks.

IHC Librarian Evelyn Pockrass Some grains fall and they are called gleanings.

These are supposed to be left for the poor (see The Book of Ruth). The cut stalks keep drying and are tied (called a sheaf).The students bring the gleanings to feed goats at a petting zoo.

Then, the week before Shavuot, when the wheat is totally dry, they beat the stalks as grains fall to the ground (threshing). Wind blows away any straw, chaff, dirt (winnowing) and just the grains remain. Those grains are put through a flour grinder so the children have flour for the cheesecake crust. The class bakes a cake using the wheat flour, the goat cheese they helped facilitate through feeding the goats, and berries that grow during this season. Attractive, bold photographs show the children every step of the way. A recipe is provided.

Cheesecake for Shavuot brings to life the agricultural foundation of Shavuot and complements the religious aspects.

It is one of the many “gems” for you to borrow from your temple Library.

Jewish Book Club Tuesday, May 9 at 12:00pm. The Italian Ballerina

by Kristy Cambron Tuesday, June 13 at 12:00pm, A Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys

Up Next at IHC

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May Their Memory Be for Blessing...

May Yahrzeits May 1 Eric Bulloff Herman Gilbert Dorothy Gitlin Louis Jaffe Thomas McCormack James Moody Rosalie Moskowitz Esther Richman Milton Tavel Leyb Voldman May 2 Walter Cardwell Ruth Efroymson Albert Eichenberg Ralph Kaplan Charles Kaufman Marilyn Millman Harry Redish Rae Resnick Irene Schwartz Ruell Wattam Ralph Wohlmuth May 3 Maxwell Abramson Fan Blickman Stacy Harris Anna Kaplan Werner Loeb Majid Rastegar May 4 Bertha Asher Carole Barkan Louis Bassler Florence Bulloff Mark Cohen Louis Goldsmith Theodore Grossman Irving Kaminsky James Leeds Abe Miller Lloyd Reed Mollie Reiter Robert Scott Clare Stevens Alan Yosha May 5 Robert Berg Joe Cohen Peter Dluz Ethel Greenberger Jack Guttman Robert Johnson Ruth Kammen Nicholas Katona Emanuel Millman Arthur Sachs Ruth Satz Helen Siegel Ida Stillerman Julia Weisz-Varga

May 7 Ron Corn Esther Kaufman Barbara Kushick Nina Lobb Sadie Miller Steven Rudoff Sofie Strauss Melvin Weisman May 8 Mary Aptowitz Bessie Drescher Jill Dumes Ferdinand Kahn Lillian Koby Dorothy Krauss Herman Leightman Max Nelson Della Reeder May 9 Henry Abraham Estelle Burnstein Robert Mages James Mitchell Hans Rosenstock Sally Soshnick Gary Traynor May 10 Miriam Ackerman Gertrude Cohen Rose Cohen Jennie Diamond Sol Gold Rose Goldberg Leonard Koplow Harry Loganofsky David Mintz Fanny Norris Melvin Stern Abe Vilensky May 11 Lena Cohen Gertrude Goldstein Rudy Grumbacher Sadie VerVeer May 12 Eva Greenburg Abe Hantman Harry Langman Charles Logan Gerald Maholowitz Joseph Schahet Steven Schreibman Amely Silver Adele Stein

May 13 Hugo Cahn Hannah Cohen Edna Cohen Renae Firestone May 6 Hilda First Michelle Dwosken Milton Gellman Linda Gatrell Julius Goldberg William Graff Simon Goldsmith Madelyn Lillianfeld Michael Goldstein Imogene Mitchell Jacqueline Heilbrunn Sophye Pintchuck-Cohen Eleanor Lane Helen Rome Hilda Rockmore Esther Tanner Mary Widner

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May 14 Robert Cantor Morris Gold Sarah Gumbiner Florence Hymson Stephen Leader Earle Peachin Harold Stadler Priscilla Stern Elinor Tasch May 15 Ida Druker Ben Gittelsohn Hortense Goodman Rose Katz Geraldine Mansbach James McKown Betty Rothbard Frances Simon Ida Spector May 16 Harry Ancel Jacob Cassell Bernard Feuer Rosalyn Helford Harry Jacobs Philip Schiff Jon Tisius Sam VerVeer May 17 Leo Cassell Nathan Engelberg Paul Fletman Joe Galbo Rose Gould Harry Greenwald M. Bernie Herman Carrie Hyman Molly Karsh Marsha Keenan James Klineman Freda Lippman Meyer Maierson Sam Mishelow Leon Nefouse Clara Tanenbaum May 18 William Deckelbaum Elza Freiberg Marilyn Jacobson Jeanne Koplow John Kouts Richard McKown Sydney Romer Edward Rose Samuel Rosenblatt Morris Satz Marshall Seidman Molly Smalline Carole Stark Patrick Steen May 19 Meriam Cohen Ben Deremiah Irving Goodman Jules Heisler Frank Longo Luna Mishelow Jean Modiano Ruth Rivlin

May 20 Bruce Gerstein Jane Goldsmith Betty Hardie Lester Hart Pauline Koppel Helaine Plaut Sam Slivka Jack Speyer William Sulkin Harry Vaprin

May 27 Ruth Feinberg Ervin Fuchs Lillian Goldstein Scott Nahmias Sarah Simon Jean Weiner May 28 Alys Caplan Celia Freedland Heinrich Grumbacher Jerome Hurwitz Simon Koppelson Florence Kushnarov Bertha Lutz Samuel Marcus Richard Perk Jack Ridge Rosa Schmalgrund Emma Yegge

May 21 Lawrence Blum Carol Cohen Miles Fishman Nelly Kagan Joseph Mallitz Harry Morgan Clifford Rubenstein Raymond Tauber May 22 Isaac Burman Ellen Eichler Mary Lou Hargis Dave Henry Bette Jacobs Frances Levin Germaine Mandelbaum Miya Medalie Gerhard Oakley Leonard Pryweller Robert Rubin Beatrice Shander Helen Steinert May 23 Gerald Arenson Saul Herman Shirley Jacobs Max Kaplan Peggy Miller Henrietta Ruekberg May 24 Roger Abelson Seymour Fox Mary Garman Robert Goldberg Wendy Good Sadye Katz Simon Koester Miriam Marx Moe Rosen Sanford Rosenberg Irvin Talesnick May 25 Adolph Blickman Leanore Block Hulda Cassell Carl Centman Isadore Krieger Wolf Rosenblum Benjamin Schuff May 26 Sarah Braunstein Ben Goldberg H. Maurice Kantor Paul Levine Doris Nesler Dorothy Newman Joseph Parker Caroline Rice Lilyan Sax Frank Shepard Norman Wormser

May 29 Dorothy Buchwalter Julia Cooperman Jules Gradison Gert Iskow Roger Jones Theodore Medias Byrdie Roven May 30 Larisa Braslavskaya Max Cohen Richard Cook Luverne Gillock Dave Goldstein Rebecca Klapper Rose Klein Lydia Lowenstein Sylvia Margolis Morris Nahmias Leonard Newman Nathan Regenstreif Alexander Rheins Robert Scher Henrietta Schneider Anne Shapiro Esmin Weinberg May 31 Helen Barrett Bruce Glazer Christina Kouzios Frederick Linkon Julius Lurie Barney Segal June Seidman Laura Sirota Louis Stricker Evelyn Waldman Gertrude Werner Lilo Wolff

Reading the name of a loved one on a yahrzeit is a way to honor them, their lives and their memory.

Jewish tradition teaches that the memory of one who has lived righteously lives on for blessing. We hope the memories of your loved one will bring you consolation and lighten your grief on their yahrzeit.

When a yahrzeit is observed, there is a Jewish custom to give tzedakah. This can be a donation to your favorite charity. If IHC is the charity of your choice, there is a full list of our tzedakah funds at ihcindy.org/give

Temple Donations CONFIRMATION PROJECTS FUNDS

DISCRETIONARY FUNDS (Continued)

TEMPLE GENERAL FUNDS (Continued)

SARAH GOODMAN AWARD Memory of Jill Rose John Goodman & Sarah Kunz

CANTOR’S DISCRETIONARY Memory of Ron Isroff Karla Yale Memory of Peter Zucconi Phil Weisberger Memory of John Dimaccio Phil Weisberger Memory of Jill Rose Doug, Michelle, Jane & Tom Rose Memory of Sillik Polayes Deborah Polyaes

YAHRZEIT MEMORIAL FUND Memory of Larry Berns Rhonda Berns Memory of Irving Freeman Patti & Roland Dorson Memory of Irvin Rheins Joy Rheins Memory of their parents Svetlana & David Weinstock Memory of Dr. Aaron Rabb Joseph Rabb

YOUTH PROJECTS FUNDS SPITZBERG FAMILY YOUTH FUND FOR ISRAEL Memory of Jill Cooper Rose The Carafiol Family LIBRARY & ARCHIVES FUND

TEMPLE GENERAL FUNDS

JOSEPH CANTOR LIBRARY Honor of Evelyn Pockrass Roth Family Memory of Eva Kolten Dr. Joel Sagalowsky IHC FOUNDATION FUNDS FAY BICCARD GLICK FUND Memory of Marilyn K. Glick Arlene & Tom Grande FOUNDATION GENERAL FUND Antonio Paolo Zavattini Memory of Jill & Irwin Rose Doug & Michelle Rose Family DISCRETIONARY FUNDS SENIOR RABBI’S DISCRETIONARY Memory of Jacqueline Green Lapidus Douglas Lapidus ASSOCIATE RABBI’S DISCRETIONARY Carol & Elliott Segal

TEMPLE GENERAL FUND Anonymous Anonymous Elizabeth Bodner Trust Memory of Jill Rose Wendalon & Philip Larman Sarah Lugar & family Doug & Michelle Rose Family Hannah Step Memory of Audrey Gerson Sonja Kantor & Henry Efroymson Memory of Dana Karsch Wagner Sonja Kantor & Henry Efroymson THE CANTOR JANICE L. ROGER MUSIC AND CULTURAL ARTS FUND Memory of Regina Krieger Phyllis & Stanley Herman OUTDOOR BEAUTIFICATION/HARVEY GADDIE FUND Memory of Grace Christensen Deborah Playes ROBERT & SOPHIA MARKS FUND Honor of Johanna Marvin Kitchell Beck & Ben Marvin

CEMETERY FUND Memory of Ronald Popp Susan Popp Memory of Marijane Popp Susan Popp SOCIAL JUSTICE CHEVRAT CHESED – CARING COMMUNITY Honor of Sara & Brian Cox The Harry Family HUNGER PROGRAM Honor of Adult Purimspiel – Food Insecurity Initiative Sarah Freeman & Ian Stewart GLEANERS FOOD BANK Memory of Allan Segal Carol & Elliott Segal Speedy Recovery for Ellen Gabovitch Carol & Elliott Segal INTERFAITH HOSPITALITY PROJECT/NETWORK (FAMILY PROMISE) Memory of Jill Rose Rose-Marie & Bob Goodman SHELLEY SHANE SOCIAL ACTION Memory of Kim Barcheck Lacy Barcheck

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