The Mosaic - Passover 2023/5783

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ON THE COVER

Explore how TCS has grown from humble beginnings to a multigenerational family.

Making this Night Different and Memorable

Dear Friends,

Passover is the quintessential family holiday. It is known as the most widely celebrated Jewish holiday and for good reason. Pesach is filled with meaningful rituals, stories, and food — and many of us have childhood memories to reflect upon and share with those around us.

My father likes to tell the story of his grandfather, “Pa Yiddel,” for whom I was named, who led the seder for decades in his family. When my family was growing up, the prize for the Afikoman was “gelt,” a financial gift. The problem was that his grandfather, who was a traditional man, did not handle money on Shabbat or Holidays like Passover. So whenever my father would find the Afikoman he would go to Pa Yiddel for his “reward” and his grandfather would tell him to come back after the holiday to receive his “gelt.” When the holiday ended and my dad would go to receive his gift, Pa Yiddel would say “I don’t remember who found the Afikoman.” This seemed to scar my father for the rest of his life — and as a result, he always makes sure to have his Afikoman gifts ready for his grandchildren!

My father’s first cousin Murray has led the seder for his family for decades now in Cleveland and has developed his own traditions, including a Pesach Quiz that he has written each year for the past 43 years. He has also been known to choose a plague to be a “theme” of the seder. One year the family was taken aback when live insects showed up crawling on the seder table! Another year, the lights went out throughout the house to pay tribute to the plague of darkness.

Many years ago, a guest at Riki’s family seder introduced a tradition of leaving Elijah’s cup empty at the beginning of the seder so that the guests could participate in filling up the cup and helping to personally bring upon “salvation.”

Before singing “Eliyahu HaNavi,” they pass Elijah’s cup around the table and each person offers their own blessing or wish for the upcoming year and then pours some of the wine from their own cup into Elijah’s cup. We have incorporated this tradition into our seder at home ever since. This is the power of sharing a seder and family traditions with others. Over time, our seder evolves and improves and incorporates the wisdom we learn from our community and friends.

What traditions do you have in your family? If you have special childhood Passover memories, be sure to share them at your seder this year — who knows, those stories may continue to be told for generations to come.

Wishing you and your family a happy and sweet Passover.

Hag kasher v’sameach, Rabbi Jeremy Wiederhorn Rabbi Jeremy Wiederhorn

If you have special childhood Passover memories, be sure to share them at your seder this year — who knows, those stories may continue to be told for generations to come.

The Meaning of Pesach

Dear TCS Families,

This Passover at the opening of our Sedarim we will be reciting the following:

This is the bread of poverty that our ancestors ate in the land of Egypt. Anyone who is famished should come and eat, anyone who is in need should come and partake of the Pesach sacrifice. Now we are here, next year we will be in the land of Israel. This year we are slaves, next year we will be free people.

There are two different expressions here. For those who are hungry, we say, “kol d’khfin” — All who are hungry come eat the bread of poverty. For those who have food but don’t have the means to observe the rituals of Passover eve, we say, “kol d’tzrikh”— All who are in need come celebrate Passover.

The memory of where we came from is one of the main recurrent themes of Passover. We invite the needy to come and eat with us. The main purpose of Pesach is to pass on the story to our children — “You shall tell your child.” Teaching our children our “Master Story” is important because our Judaism stems out from this story. Feeding the hungry is not only a mitzvah during Passover but all year round. Telling is only one way to teach. Another way is by doing.

Last February 4th, we participated in the Midnight Run, like we have been doing for years. Midnight Run is a volunteer organization dedicated to finding common ground between the housed and the homeless. It coordinates over 1,000 relief missions per year, in which volunteers from churches, synagogues, schools, and other civic groups distribute food, clothing, blankets and personal care items to the homeless poor on the streets of New York City. The late-night relief efforts create a forum for trust, sharing, understanding, and affection. That human exchange, rather than the exchange of goods, is the essence of the Midnight Run mission.

I feel proud of our USYers who together with some adult volunteers, fulfilled this mitzvah in the middle of the night, just like the story of the Exodus, of feeding and clothing those less fortunate.

Being part of this year’s Midnight Run was such a privilege. I witnessed how our former b’nei mitzvah students were highly motivated and eager to interact with the people we met in New York City. They were enacting what the opening line of the Haggadah is reminding us: to make sure that those who are hungry have something to eat.

The commentary “Pe Echad” says regarding this declaration, that when man accepts the commandment that he must help the poor, a gate of mercy is opened in heaven to pour out a blessing for him before he gives.

May heaven pour out abundant blessings to those who fulfil this mitzvah, this Passover, and the rest of the year. May we be able to contemplate with gratitude what we have and to continue acting as agents of the divine, like our own teenagers did last February. May we be able to take advantage of this teaching as a way of making this celebration relevant for all the generations.

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TCS SCENE

1: Rededication: TCS Co-President Eric Baron 2: Rededication: TCS Co-President Eric Baron, Cantor Luis Cattan, Past TCS Co-President and Koach Chair Ilene Frost, Third Selectwoman Candi Savin

3: Rededication: US Senator Richard Blumenthal, Cantor Luis Cattan, and Rabbi Jeremy Wiederhorn 4: Rededication: Carol Boas 5: Rededication: Rabbi Jeremy Wiederhorn, Cantor Luis Cattan 6: Rededication: US Senator Richard Blumenthal 7: Rededication: Nadja Streiter, Past TCS Co-President and Koach Chair Ilene Frost, Amy Weisman

8: Rededication: Members of the TCS Community

All names listed from left to right. Children are not identified by name to protect their privacy.

1: Purim Megillah Reading 2: Purim Megillah Reading 3: Purim Megillah Reading: Lisa Kessler, Past TCS Co-President Ilene Frost, Lauren Barnett, Linda Sharkey 4: Purim Megillah Reading: Rabbi Jeremy Wiederhorn, Cantor Cattan 5: Purim Megillah Reading: Comedian Andrew Ginsburg 6: Purim Megillah Reading 7: Purim Carnival 8: Purim Megillah Reading: Rabbi Jeremy Wiederhorn, Seth Golob 9: Purim Carnival

Welcome to the World!

Solomon Hays Boas, son of Nat & Hallie Boas, grandson of Andy & Carol Boas

Ari Erwin Brosler, son of Jason & Sydney Brosler, grandson of Roy & Dara Brosler

Peyton Glory Cook, daughter of Matt Cook & Carlie Kleinman, granddaughter of Larry & Sally Kleinman

Maila Coralie, daughter of Ira & Dana Reibeisen, sister of Calla & Ella

Billie Noa Golob, daughter of Seth & Sophie Golob

Layla Rose Hirsch, daughter of Jacob & Rachel Hirsch, granddaughter of Rick & Julie Chernok

Naomi Devorah Horwitz, daughter of Daniel Horwitz & Kelly Pecore, sister of Raphy, Eden & Amalia

Bailey Dylan Koffsky, daughter of Jacob & Stephanie Koffsky, granddaughter of Daniel & Laura Koffsky, great-granddaughter of Judi Koffsky

Asher Elijah Merlis-Stephens, son of Noah & Ilana Merlis-Stephens, brother of Nathan Isaiah, grandson of Scott & Joan Merlis

Mazal Tov to....

Weddings:

Jeff & Wendy Cohen on the marriage of their son

Andrew Cohen to Emily Perelman

David & Faith Schachne on the marriage of their daughter

Lexie Schachne to Tyler Kugler

Engagements:

David & Suzanne Haber on the engagement of their son

Cameron Haber to Alexis Chestnov

Marty Fox & Ellen Graff on the engagement of their daughter

Sarah Fox to Eric Levin

Jeffrey & Carol Kaplan on the engagement of their son

Mr. Adam Kaplan to Mr. Ashley Day

David & Gwen Baker on the engagement of their daughter

Gaby Baker to Daniel Greenstone

Todah Rabah for Sponsoring Kiddush Lunch

Steven Goldring in memory of his father

David & Courtney Burton and their children

Wyatt & Noah

Hyman & Cynthia Cohen

Eileen Gress

Gadi & Deborah Slade and their children

Amalia, Ella & Leo

New Members Welcome

New Preschool Family

Drew Rudnick & Emma Lowenstein (Nell – 2’s)

The Cohen Family in honor of Andrew Cohen & Emily Perelman’s aufruf

The Meisel Family in honor of Andrew’s bar mitzvah

The Ginsberg Family in honor of Stella’s bat mitzvah

The Hodes Family in honor of Lauren Hodes & Jason Schneider’s aufruf

Kol Hakavod to ...

Torah

Nicki Abramowitz

Andrew Adler

Cantor Luis Cattan

David Cohen

Henry Feuerstein

Ted Ginsberg

Ellen Friedman

Phil Glick

Judy Greenberg

Mark Highman

Howard Hochster

Adam Hodes

Lauren Hodes

TCS Upcoming Events

Bob Israely

Stew Levine

Micah Meisel

Lissy Moskowitz

Susan Ochman

Ramona Saft

Jay Rand

Leon Serfaty

Mark Steckel

Geoffrey Stern

Carol Wahler

Rabbi Jeremy Wiederhorn

You can register on the TCS website or through your Shabbat Shalom email newsletter. The next issue of The Mosaic will not come out until September. So check your weekly Shabbat Shalom email for new events before then.

THE PRESIDENTS

Rebirth and Rebuilding

Spring is a time of rebirth. With an eye toward the future of TCS, we look to build on our strengths and birth new ideas to build a stronger community. Over the past two years, a team of dedicated individuals have worked together to generate ideas and craft a strategic plan and roadmap for TCS for a 3-5 year horizon. Through a thriving congregational assessment, young family discussions, community conversations, congregational survey, and discussions with the board and strategic planning team, we have identified the critical opportunity areas to meet the current and future needs of our congregation. Our community is looking for us to shift to a more relational focus where community and connections are at the center and where we facilitate building relationships across the congregation.

Through the implementation of the strategic plan, we want to meet people where they are and provide:

• More social opportunities

• Spiritual and cultural experiences that meet the diverse needs of our congregation

• A clear membership journey including the role of volunteerism

We have outlined specific objectives and strategies that will help us achieve these goals. Many of these initiatives are already underway; our building renovation and rededication, the new branding, new communications methods, and a process for engaging new members, but there are many still to come. A community is only as strong as its individual members, so there will be many opportunities for the congregation to get involved in developing and implementing the ideas sparked in the strategic plan. We hope you will join us and get involved in building a stronger TCS.

Why Building Community Matters

Community is critical to our overall well-being; the decline of our connectedness because of the pandemic has left us missing our people, our network, and our community. Our health and happiness are linked with our connections. Yet despite the sweeping effects of the pandemic, we can strengthen and sustain our community.

Strong communities have a significant sense of purpose. When we are part of a thriving community, we feel a sense of kinship, camaraderie, and connectedness.  Invest time and energy in maintaining your bonds. The most effective communities support members who take risks, try new things, and go out on limbs to create and innovate.

Effective communities also embrace diversity working through differences of opinion and making space for civil discourse and the learning that occurs from appreciating multiple points of view. Help members of your group who are struggling by encouraging expression, especially from those with fresh or novel life experience to share.

THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

There are so many opportunities to reconnect within the TCS community:

• Invite a fellow parent, friend, or congregant to join you for a cup of coffee in our new Community Room space

• Attend one of the many programs we host such as Who Will Write Our History Film Screening (April 16), Sisterhood’s Challah Baking (April 20), and Mitzvah Day (April 30)

• Volunteer your time to one of the committees

• Introduce yourself and welcome newcomers at services

We are craving community and cannot live our best lives without it!

Check the Shabbat Shalom weekly email newsletter for event details and registration

CYNTHIA BANNON

Sisterhood

BY IVY GOSSEEN & GALINA BLISHTEYN Co-Chairs

TCS Sisterhood is the place where all of the women in the synagogue have a home. The group has been very busy these past few months preparing for our spring and summer activities.

Our first foray with packing supplies/ bags for Dignity Grows in November (part of the Federation of Greater Fairfield County that supplies females in need with feminine hygiene products) was a huge success. Therefore, we did it again on Sunday, March 26th in our synagogue’s new social hall. It was a great chance for our members to come together and get to know each other in our new space while supporting a great cause.

We also have our first LIVE and IN-PERSON Challah Bake since pre-Covid, with Challah baker extraordinaire, Riki Wiederhorn. Save Thursday, April 20th as the date for the bake. We “knead” you there!

Our College Connection Crew led by Leslie Gold and Jessica Siegel sent out Amazon gift cards for Hanukah to our TCS college students. Now they are planning something special for the upcoming Passover holiday too. For more info on how to sign up, reach out to the synagogue at 203-454-4673.

Sisterhood is looking into another Bagels and Beagles event sometime this spring/ summer so our furry family members can represent for TCS too.

Finally, keep an eye out for info on our annual Sisterhood Beach Bash. It’s a perennial fave and sure to be a blast. For more info on how to get involved with Sisterhood, please reach out to the office 203-454-4673 and they will connect you with our awesome community.

Tamid

BY WENDY SCHAEFER & DIANA SUSSMAN Co-Chairs

For those who don’t know, Tamid is composed of a group of vibrant people over the age of 45, many of whom are empty nesters. We schedule a wide variety of events designed to educate, entertain, and bond this micro-community. These events include dinners, lunches, hikes, and going to sporting events, theatre, lectures, exhibits, etc.

Given all the issues of anti-semitism in the news, Tamid has invited the Anti-Defamation League to prepare a presentation for TCS members. They will explain what has been happening and the steps being taken to address this problem. This event will take place on May 11th from 6:30-9:30PM.

Tamid is also looking at ideas for other events in the late spring and fall and is open to hearing yours.

If you would like more information about Tamid, want to share ideas Tamid could pursue, or want to help plan events, contact us at EditorialboardforTCS@gmail.com.

Brotherhood

BY MIKE AMRON & MIKE KAIDEN Co-Chairs

Over the past year, the Brotherhood has had three successful events. Our inaugural event in the fall of 2021 was a Bourbon/Whiskey Tasting that was held at the home of our co-chair, Mike Kaiden. In the spring of 2022 we held a Poker Night at Birchwood Country Club. This past fall, we rounded out the season with a great Bowling event held at Pinstripes, where our competitive spirit was ever present.

Our next event is coming up on April 27th and will be hopefully the first of many “Networking” cocktail parties This is the first event that we will be holding at our newly renovated synagogue. We are excited to create a fun and relaxed environment to get to know our fellow brothers and exchange business ideas and connections.

Sisterhood volunteers preparing bags for Dignity Grows

Kehillah Corner

BY SETH GOLOB Director of Education & Marketing Communications

Passover is truly a home-based holiday. At Kehillah, we send our kids home with knowledge and tools to enhance their own seders. Celebrating Passover at home can be a fun and memorable experience for children. Here are some tips and tricks to use for your seder from TCS Kehillah:

Location!

Why not start your seder in the living room and venture, like the Jews did out of Egypt, to the dining room. Taking those symbolic steps from room to room will connect our families to the story we’re telling that night.

Make the Seder Interactive

The seder is a highly interactive ritual, so involve children in the reading of the Haggadah. Encourage them to ask questions and participate in discussions. You can also incorporate fun Passoverthemed songs, games, or puzzles to keep them engaged.

Games

Don’t just hunt for the afikoman. Plan Passover-themed activities such as a matzah taste test, Passover bingo, or a Passover-themed scavenger hunt. These activities will help keep children engaged and excited about the holiday.

Study the Four Children

One of the most relatable sections of the Haggadah is the Four Children. Take some time to read through and study as a family. We all have a piece of each of the four children within us!

Let the Youngest Help Lead

Children love to be involved in holiday preparations. Have them partner with the seder leader to call out parts, or to help wash their hands. Also, assign them ageappropriate tasks such as setting the table or making the seder plate. This will help them feel more connected to the holiday and excited to celebrate.

USY

BY RACHEL STEINMETZ Youth Director

It has been a giving time with our teens at TCS. We had our annual Midnight Run at the beginning of February, where we collected hundreds of donations from the TCS community. We sorted through clothing donations. We made soup with a recipe from TCS member, Sheri Warshaw. We gave out many donations to the homeless throughout New York City.

Focus on the Meaning of the Holiday

Passover is a holiday that celebrates freedom and liberation. Explain the meaning of the holiday to your children in a way that they can understand. You can also encourage them to perform acts of kindness and giving to help others.

By involving children in the preparations, telling the Passover story in a child-friendly way, making the seder interactive, and focusing on the meaning of the holiday, you can create a Passover celebration that is enjoyable and memorable for children. Happy Passover!

Our teens helped at the Purim Carnival by running games and serving the food. They had a blast! More recently, we had a group of teens go to It! Adventure Park in New Haven to meet up with the rest of the regional chapter. It was amazing to see our TCS teens leading throughout the New England region. Everyone had so much fun flying through the air!

I am always amazed with how much the community is willing to give and help out. I, as well as our teens are extremely grateful for the TCS community.

USY teens run Purim carnival

USY teens in NYC for Midnight Run

Preschool Patter

BY LAURAN PANCOAST Director of Early Childhood, Preschool Programming & Operations SUSAN BERNSTEIN Director of Early Childhood, Education & Curriculum

Winter has finally made its exit, and we are slowly but surely tipping back towards the sun. The warmer weather will allow for more time outdoors, where we will continue to play, learn and explore our natural environment. The children have grown so much in the last couple of months, exploring new topics, acquiring new skills, developing new friendships and gaining new perspective on the world around them.

Over the last few weeks, it has been a joy to watch the children immerse themselves in our Passover curriculum. We were thrilled to see their curiosity alive and engaged, participating in hands-on activities to further their

The Four Questions, and the pre-kindergarten children each created a seder plate and their own Haggadah, allowing them to actively participate in making the pages with hands-on artwork, storytelling, and photographs. The books are a unique and individual representation of how the children approached each new concept and how they processed and internalized the holiday. Each class brought something home that families will be able to enjoy for many Passovers to come.

Next up: Yom Ha’atzmaut, Israel Independence Day, where we will be exploring all things “Israel,” including food, dance, and more.

knowledge and understanding of this holiday. Our classroom activities as well as the interactive “Passover River Ride” experience helped make this holiday come alive and offered the opportunity to learn through active participation.

Each year, each grade participates in a project to culminate their exploration of this holiday. This year, the twos created a matzah cover or afikomen bag, the threes made pillows to recline on at the seder and a book focusing on

As always, we continue to be impressed by the children and their understanding of the holidays we celebrate, values we promote, and traditions we uphold. Whether it is energetically exclaiming “the longer the sizzle the better the week!” while extinguishing the Havdalah candle, reciting the blessings for Shabbat, or acting out the stories of Hanukkah, Purim, or Passover in their classrooms, to being part of their journey so far, both educationally and Jewishly has been amazing.

Purim fun

All dressed up for Purim

Two pals prowling around in Candyland for Purim

FEATURE : L’DOR V’DOR

L’Dor V’Dor at TCS

BY DIANA SUSSMAN

members of TCS, sharing experiences — Hebrew school, b’nei mitzvahs, brises, baby namings, and other life cycle events.

Lori’s parents loved that their daughter, her family, and their friends were all TCS members. It enabled them to be really involved grandparents. All the children knew them because they drove the kids to activities and attended every preschool and Hebrew school event, including TCS’ first preschool graduation.

return with their families as adults. As founding member Isabel Moskowitz noted, “When we [she and her thenhusband Lewis Sperber] started the synagogue there was no older generation. I was 36 years old. Now the fact that we have this multi-generation membership is really special. Now we get to watch all the kids bring back their children.”

Isabel’s daughter Alyssa Gold essentially grew up at TCS. She was only nine years old

When a small group of families started a synagogue in 1987, they had no idea the seed they planted would blossom into the TCS we have today. They met in an office space a touch larger than the size of someone’s living room. Since it was located above Baskin Robbins, they unofficially dubbed it B’nei Baskin Robbins.

As Martina Israely described, “back then everyone knew everyone. When the bulletin was going out, we sat on the floor of someone’s kitchen, stapled it, stamped it, and sorted it. When one member thought the color of the walls washed out the new rabbi, she painted the walls blue to match the rabbi’s eyes.”

Today, TCS has 430 member families and is thriving. It has a large, beautiful, renovated building and owns Rabbi Wiederhorn and Cantor Cattan’s homes. Our clergy hold positions on national boards. The choice of many grown children of TCS members to return and raise their own families at TCS has added to our community’s growth.

Lori and David Popkin were one of the first “children” to come home to TCS.

Lori’s parents Michael and Cynthia Lieberbaum joined TCS in the late 1980s when Lori was in college. She remembers meeting this warm and welcoming group while attending services with her husband David and her recently-born daughter Alex. So, when they moved down from Boston in the early 1990s, it was a “nobrainer” to join TCS, even though TCS didn’t have a permanent home or offer preschool at that time.

Once TCS opened a preschool, Lori and many of her friends enrolled their children. These families all grew up together as

Always active, the Lieberbaums and Popkins contributed to our community in many ways. For instance, for many years the Lieberbaums have donated the honey that TCS gives out at Rosh Hashanah, David served on the rebuilding committee, and Lori has been on and off the board and executive board in various positions since joining. In fact, she is once again heading the nominating committee. As she explained, “I keep being drawn in because I love the place.” She feels that despite the incredible growth, “TCS is still the type of warm, welcoming place we fell in love with; it still has a lot of heart.”

Although Lori’s and David’s three children, Alex, Josh, and Ben now live elsewhere, she

knows they understand the importance of being a part of a community. As she noted, “David and I met all our best friends at the Synagogue. We raised our kids together and have been through the life cycles with our core group of friends, all from the synagogue and that is very special. I hope wherever [my children] go, they find that community of support and friends like I found at TCS.”

The founders of our synagogue have taken particular pleasure watching their children

when our synagogue was founded. She was the second person to become a bat mitzvah at TCS and she and her husband Josh Gold were the first to be married by both Rabbi Wiederhorn and Cantor Cattan. In 2020, the Golds moved to Westport and joined TCS. Their daughter Abigail is now in the fours. You’ve probably seen her during Shabbat at the Beach playing with her preschool friends. Not surprisingly, Alyssa has already become an active, engaged member. Given her marketing expertise, she served on the marketing committee to help with the rebranding of TCS. She feels close to both the Rabbi and Cantor and, when deciding whether to take a position as COO of a not-for-profit organization, felt comfortable enough to ask advice of several TCS members who had held similar positions. Everyone was happy to help.

At a recent board meeting, Isabel realized that she and two other board members and fellow founding members — Dick Kalt and Bob Israely – had grandchildren in the preschool. She found it heartwarming and

TCS IS STILL THE TYPE OF WARM, WELCOMING, PLACE WE FELL IN LOVE WITH; IT STILL HAS A LOT OF HEART.

Isabel Moskowitz, her daughter Alyssa Gold, and Alyssa’s daughter are all TCS members

TCS Congregants during B’nei Baskin Robbins years

noted that if “the synagogue is our legacy and if our children get involved and our grandchildren are attached then that is the best thing we’ve ever done.”

Bob Israely and his wife Martina have also been thrilled that their daughter Ruth Israely and her wife Anne Kendall have chosen to settle in the area, join TCS, and send their two children to Kehillah –eight-year-old Caroline attends second grade and five-year-old Judah attends kindergarten. Martina felt that TCS Kehillah has taken some responsibility off of herself and her husband. “It’s so nice to have them there, see them there, watch them grow, be taught Judaism, the same moral basis and our values. We don’t have to slam them over the head.”

Martina found it “heartwarming to see our community accept our daughter and her wife (who is not Jewish)” and is grateful the “synagogue community has been overwhelmingly supportive toward them in both good times and bad times.”

Ruth, Anne, and their children have made many friends. Funny enough, two girls that Judah met in preschool each had a parent Oliver Olanoff and Alyssa Gold — who was a former classmate of Judah’s uncle Michael Israely.

As Martina noted, “it’s wonderful to watch our children involved in the

to the TCS community, and their eight grandchildren see that connection. For instance, their son Michael lives in Manhattan but his daughter Moxie had her baby naming at TCS alongside her cousin Caroline. Michael and their other son Jeffrey, who lives in Paris, still visit TCS members they knew from childhood. One of Jeffrey’s childhood friends, Eric Levin, asked Bob Israely to serve as the gabbai at his daughter’s bat mitzvah. Ruth has been friends with Elizabeth Boas, another TCS member, since they met in the twos at the TCS preschool. So “the friends you make in preschool could be friends you make for life.”

The lifelong ties created while growing up in our synagogue led Jonathan Levy and his wife Sara to the “inevitability” of moving back to Westport and joining TCS. His parents, Harold and Shari z”l Levy, joined TCS during the Baskin Robbins years. Shari z”l was one of TCS’ most active members. Jonathan noted that “my mom was nice to every single person she ever met and the staff of TCS held a big piece of her heart.”

struggle of wanting to make conscious choices and a conscious choice is something laudable, it’s important to make choices, but there is an opposite pull of doing things because that is how we’ve always done them. Like they say in Fiddler on the Roof, it’s tradition.”

Sara also saw the TCS community as where their roots were. Westport was the place where they had spent their summers. Rabbi Wiederhorn had officiated at their wedding. They had gone to TCS for High Holiday services. She recalled going up to the bimah for an aliyah during services, and despite people wearing masks because of Covid, they felt connected as they recognized many faces in the congregation. Then a new preschool family was brought up. I said that “one day that will be us and then it was.”

synagogue today.” Bob Israely added that it will be wonderful to know that at their grandchildren’s mitzvah the rabbi can mention how they spent time with their grandparents when they were young.

Their grandchildren love Shabbat at the Beach, their teachers, the Cantor, and the Rabbi. They appreciate how different their grandchildren’s experiences attending Hebrew school today are from their own children’s experience. Back then, things were not as structured.

Despite their other three children living elsewhere, the Israelys feel connected

He remembers the early years and attending High Holiday services at Town Hall, Norwalk High School, and Norwalk Community College before TCS had its own building. He spent at least two afternoons at week at the synagogue because his mom spent so much time there teaching and volunteering. He notes that over 35 years, there have been many changes for the better. “Rabbi Wiederhorn and Cantor Cattan have taken us to a new level. Preschool and Hebrew School teachers are more professional now. But my mom teaching so much is why I had to be there. I hope people are still involved.” He believes that he and Sara received such a warm welcome when they joined because of the groundwork his mother laid. “While there are some new people, the facilities personnel who knew my mom greeted me with a smile and knew my name.” When Jonathan forgot to turn off his headlights, someone recognized his car and offered to turn them off for him. They knew him. He has even reconnected with people he knew from growing up — like Dana Bernstein, Nate Cohen, and Aaron Tolkin.

Since Jonathan and Sara always knew that their real community was in Westport, they never sought out a Jewish community when they lived in Chelsea, even though it might have been easier to attend Yom Kippur locally. Jonathan emphasizes, “[Joining TCS] wasn’t a choice. There’s a

She felt a sense of “things coming full circle” when the woman Sara heard her mother-in-law interviewing for the director of preschool gave her and her eldest daughter Charlotte a tour of the preschool. Charlotte now attends the fours and Victoria attends the twos. William, who is six months old, will attend when he is old enough.

Proud of her pre-existing connection to TCS, Sara takes pleasure in telling other TCS preschool moms that Rabbi Wiederhorn had married her and her husband or describing to those moms what the synagogue looked like before the renovation. Unlike many preschool parents, she has experienced services in the main sanctuary.

Coincidentally, Miriam Young, a close friend of Sara’s cousins, is also a TCS member. Sara’s and Miriam’s families have

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WHEN YOU HAVE TCS YOU ALWAYS HAVE A HOME.

The Levy family at the wedding of Dana Levy and Reiss Clauson Wolf.

FEATURE :: MARTIN ROSENFELD

The Spirit and Soul of our TCS Family: Martin z”l and Martha Rosenfeld

BY DEBBI BARER

Perhaps you’re one of the lucky Bar/Bat Mitzvah students tutored by Martin Rosenfeld z”l. Perhaps you sat next to Martin and Martha at a TCS Sukkot dinner or danced with them on Simchat Torah.

These two special people have helped make TCS the thriving community that we all love. We celebrate them, while mourning the loss of Martin on January 23, 2023. He was 95. In addition to his wife Martha (Elowsky), Martin is survived by his daughter Elizabeth, son and daughter-in-law Reuben and Ora, and 3 grandsons.

Born in the Bronx, Martin was a graduate of DeWitt Clinton High School and New York University. He attended Yale University where he became fluent in Japanese, a skill he used during his service in World War II.

Martin and Martha, his wife of 66 years, raised their family in New Rochelle, and were active in their synagogue. When they retired, they looked for a place where they could continue contributing to the community and local Jewish life. How fortunate we are that they chose Westport and TCS.

They lived in Westport from 1998 to 2021. During that time, together, they donated over 16,000 volunteer hours to Norwalk Hospital. Martha held many roles, including president of volunteers. Martin helped patients, visitors, and staff in the ambulatory surgical waiting room; countless area residents remember his warmth and good humor during an undoubtedly stressful time.

At TCS, countless congregants also remember his warmth and good humor. Both Martin and Martha were significant parts of our family. They assisted in the office, shined the silver on the Torah scrolls, and provided Passover seders for people who didn’t have family nearby. In addition, they were avid participants at adult education programs. They even attended Judaic silversmithing classes at the 92nd Street Y, and created many beautiful items including a set of Kiddush cups that nestled one within the other, now treasured by their children. And in 2018, the couple were honored by the Federation for Jewish Philanthropy of Upper Fairfield County.

At the age of 70, Martin learned to read Torah for the first time. Until services were moved to Zoom during the height of the pandemic, he was still going strong — in fact, he was the synagogue’s most prolific reader. Martin was also a popular tutor in the synagogue’s B’nei Mitzvah program. Martha remembers that no matter when they went to TCS, some kids would happily come up to him, including recent and past Bar/Bat Mitzvah. “There was a special connection between child and adult that could make their lives a little more Jewish.”

Now that TCS has been renovated and refreshed, she encourages the congregation to “keep going. Build upon what you have. The shul has all the people, everything in place to keep making connections.”

The only thing missing? “You’ll have to find someone to polish the silver. That was our job.”

Our favorite time at TCS was Sukkot and Simchat Torah. There was such a feeling of belonging.

Martha and Martin Rosenfeld

The shining light that Martha and Martin Rosenfeld brought to TCS will always burn brightly

The Vision Behind the TCS Architectual Plan

BY RICH ROSEN Architect, Perkins-Eastman

Many years ago, I had given a lecture to my daughter’s Hebrew High School class on synagogue design. I tried to speak in terms they could relate to, so I said that Judaism is our software and that the synagogue is our hardware: designed with all the spaces and features that allow Judaism to “run” its program most effectively and inspirationally. Judaism, like software, has been tinkered with and modified over the centuries, and the Judaism we practice today might even be “Release 200!” The synagogue, like all good hardware, has been modified and refined over time to support the changes in the software.

L’DOR V’DOR AT TCS

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The re-imagination of TCS has allowed its already vibrant and warm manifestation of Judaism to feel and function even better for the congregation and the community.

Tikkun Olam

BY RACHEL MEISEL & JODI ROSS Co-Chairs

become close, even though their children are not the same age. It makes Sara feel like a piece of her family is here, too.

As Jonathan explained, “If you grow up attached to a synagogue there is an implicit dream of having the same rabbi do your same life cycle events . . . We obviously went through a number of rabbis but now we are thirteen years with Rabbi Wiederhorn. He didn’t do my bar mitzvah but he did our wedding, our daughters’ baby namings, our son’s bris, and with any luck he will be doing their B’nei Mitzvah in eight years. Having that community was an important aspect of what we saw our life being as a family once we had kids.”

The sentiment Jonathan so eloquently expressed is shared by the children who grew up and chose to come home. Martina Israely overheard her daughter Ruth explaining it her own daughter Caroline. “When you have TCS, you always have a home.”

Spring is a great time to engage in Tikkun Olam — repairing the world! The Tikkun Olam team has organized several initiatives for congregants to engage in meaningful volunteerism.

First is Mitzvah Day, which will be held on Sunday, April 30th. Our main theme is addressing food insecurity, but we also have several other off-site volunteer activities available.  There are activities appropriate for all age groups and on other days so as many people as possible can perform mitzvot. So, please check them out and decide what works for your family.

There will be no Kehillah that day and parents must accompany children younger than 7th grade to any Mitzvah Day activity. Details can be found on the weekly Shabbat Shalom email newsletter or on the Tikkun Olam page on the TCS website. If you are interested in leading a volunteer activity, please email Rachel Meisel at meisel.rae@gmail.com.

Second, TCS, through its partnership with the Interfaith Refugee Resettlement Committee (IRRC), is welcoming another Syrian refugee family. The first resettlement effort was a major success, and we need additional volunteers to help settle this second family.

We are looking for volunteers for these task groups: Healthcare Advocate, Employment, Transportation, Social Services, Financial Literacy, and IT/Application Support. For more information, reach out to Jodi Ross at jodirosnick@yahoo.com.

Lastly, TCS will be hosting a blood drive for the American Red Cross on Thursday, July 20th from 12:30PM to 5:30PM. Please look for details in late spring.

Rabbi Jeremy Wiederhorn affixing a mezuzah to new front entrance of TCS

A Seder Checklist

BY ELISE MEYER

Preparing for Seder is a big job and so easy to forget something. So, it is nice to have a handy checklist . . .

1. Enough wine and grape juice for 4 cups per guests (recommend light grape juice for kids, recommend finding some really great kosher wine for the adults — skip the Manischewitz)

2. Holiday Candles and Candlesticks

3. Kippot

4. Matzah (Shmurah if it’s your custom) on a matzah plate with a cloth cover that has sleeves for 3 sheets of matzah

5. Extra matzah

6. Extra charoset (we form ours into a pyramid shape and decorate with Playmobil and Lego workers)

7. Extra horseradish

8. Wine cup for each person

9. Seder plate with five ingredients: egg; parsley; a roasted shank bone or cut raw beet: dish of salt water; charoset in a bowl, and a bitter herb such as horseradish. Note, Sephardic Jews usually add lettuce. We usually add an orange to symbolize inclusiveness.

TCS Judaica Boutique

BY WENDY SCHAEFER & DIANA SUSSMAN Co-Chairs

Preparing for Seder and find you need something for your table? Going to a Seder and need a nice gift? Check out our TCS Judaica Boutique. Not only does it have Passover items, it has a wide variety of items, predominantly from Israel. It has mezuzahs, kosher mezuzah scrolls, Shabbat candlesticks, kiddush cups, challah cutting boards, and more. Some of our Passover items are shown here.

The Boutique’s merchandise can be purchased online or in person. For more information, stop in the TCS office or email tcs@tcs-westport.org.

10. Pillows for reclining

11. A Haggadah for each participant; transliterated song sheets if needed

12. Elijah’s Cup

13. Cup, water and towel for washing hands

14. Bag or napkin for the Afikoman

15. Afikoman prize

It is always nice to add your own personal touches. Our personal family seder items include . . .

1. Additional readings pertinent to current events

2. Spring flower table arrangement (sprouting bulbs or small flowering plants you can later plant in the garden are a great idea)

3. Passover quiz questions with prizes! (age appropriate to guests)

4. Props for the 10 Plagues (masks, toys, headbands)

5. Individual pots of growing parsley used as place cards

6. Snacks on table like pickles, olives, carrot sticks, hard-boiled eggs

7. Individual plate in front of each person with salt water and:

hard-boiled egg

thick slice of raw horseradish

large sprig parsley

8. Amusing items on the table like plastic jumping frogs

9. Holiday items made by the children and grandchildren

Emanuel Seder Plate

Ceramic Seder Plate

Silver Matzah Plate

Passover Activities Matzah Plate

FEATURE :: HOLIDAY

What’s Cooking?

Caramel Matzah Crunch

BY DEBBI BARER

Ingredients

4-6 unsalted matzah sheets

1 cup unsalted butter

1 cup brown sugar, packed firm

¾-1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips or coarsely chopped semi-sweet chocolate

The Method

Preheat oven to 350°F.

Line a cookie sheet completely with foil. Cover foil with baking parchment paper. This is very important to prevent mixture from sticking.

Line bottom of sheet evenly with matzah sheets, cutting extra pieces to fit any spaces as evenly as possible.

Combine butter and brown sugar in a 3-quart heavy-bottomed saucepan. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly until mixture comes to a boil. Continue cooking 3 more minutes, stirring constantly.

Remove from heat and quickly pour/spread over matzah.

Place in oven and bake 15 minutes, checking every few minutes to make sure mixture isn’t burning. If it seems to be browning too quickly, remove from oven, lower heat to 325°F, and replace.

Remove from oven and sprinkle matzah immediately with chopped chocolate or chips. Let stand 5 minutes, then spread the melted chocolate over the matzah. While still warm, cut into squares or odd shapes (I find using a heavy knife or pizza cutter works well for this). Chill in refrigerator until set. (Freezer works too).

Optional: after spreading the chocolate but before cutting, sprinkle chopped nuts, sea salt, or anything that strikes your fancy.

The Barers prefer their “crack” straight up.

Zucchini Ravioli Stuffed With Ricotta

BY ELISE MEYER

Ingredients

4 medium zucchini

1½ cups jarred or homemade marinara

sauce

Filling:

1 cup part-skim ricotta cheese

¼ cup grated Parmesan cheese

1 egg

¼ cup chopped fresh spinach

2 Tbsp chopped fresh basil

¼ tsp nutmeg

¼ tsp salt

1⁄3 tsp pepper

½ tsp shredded mozzarella cheese

2 Tbsp grated Parmesan cheese

2 tsp olive oil

Salt, to taste

Ground black pepper, to taste

Place upside-down into the baking dish to seal. Repeat with remaining ingredients. Sprinkle ravioli with mozzarella and Parmesan cheeses, olive oil, salt, and pepper.

Bake for 30 minutes, until the zucchini is al dente and the cheese on top turns golden brown.

Serve with additional marinara sauce, Parmesan and fresh basil, if desired. Yields 14-16 ravioli.

Almond Butter Banana Pancakes

BY DIANA SUSSMAN

Good breakfast and brunch dishes are always hard to find during Passover. These pancakes will start your child’s day with a smile.

Ingredients

2 ripe bananas

4 eggs

½ cup almond butter

1 tsp Passover vanilla extract

The Method

Preheat oven to 375°F

Grease 2 (9 x 13-inch) baking pans. Then spread a layer of marinara sauce into prepared pans.

Using a potato peeler, slice the zucchini vertically into thin flat strips. You will end up with 50-60 slices. Discard any slices that contain any outside peel.

For filling: Mix the ricotta, Parmesan, egg, spinach, basil, nutmeg, salt and pepper in a small bowl and set aside.

To form the ravioli, place two strips of zucchini side by side, slightly overlapping. Then cross two more strips perpendicularly over the first strips, creating a plus sign.

Spoon 1 Tbsp of filling into the center of the plus sign. Bring the ends of the strips together, overlapping to create ravioli.

1 tsp cinnamon

1 cup chocolate chips

Butter or cooking oil for frying

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Honey or passover syrup for topping

The Method

Put bananas, eggs, almond butter and vanilla in food processor. Blend until smooth. As an option, you can stir in chocolate chips.

Heat a nonstick frying pan over low heat. Pour 1/4 cup of the batter into hot pan. When the top starts to bubble, flip pancake and fry for a minute more. Repeat with remaining batter. You can add fresh bananas, strawberries and blueberries on top for fun.

Member Spotlight on Shirley Montner

BY DIANA SUSSMAN

At services, Rabbi Wiederhorn would always look for her. If she was nervous about going up to the bimah for an Aliyah because she had issues walking, the Rabbi would take her arm and escort her to the bimah and back to her seat safely. After services, the Rabbi would walk her to the door and wait with her until her ride came. Shirley once told him that he didn’t need to wait with her since she wasn’t a child. He laughed and said, “You know the concept of L’dor V’dor? We provide from door-to-door service.”

Have you met TCS’s oldest member Shirley Montner? Mark Zikara, her neighbor’s son, described her best when he simply said “Shirley’s really something.” Inside this less than 5’2” tall body lies a real powerhouse.

At 105 years old, Shirley works out two and a half hours a day, is well-versed and opinionated about current events, and critical of herself if she makes a minor error. When she forgets the name of someone that she knew 80 years ago, she worries that she is starting to forget things. Then, she proceeds to quote rabbis with accuracy, sing prayers in tune, remind her daughter Deb Montner about a past event, and stand up and do a little dance. The philosophy she credits for her long, full life is being kind and looking out for others. “Kindness can conquer everything,” Shirley quips. “People don’t care about each other enough.” She herself has spent her life helping others, and through her kindness has helped ensure that people got the attention they deserved, which at times helped speed their recovery.

Judaism and her family have always been the two most important things in Shirley’s life. Consequently, she is extremely thankful for the kindness the TCS community and Rabbi Wiederhorn showed her when she relocated to Connecticut from Florida to be near her daughter and son-in-law Michael Smith after her husband had passed.

One way TCS has welcomed her was to ensure that she always had transportation to and from Shabbat services. Shirley has never even had to ask for a ride. A member of the TCS community would routinely reach out to offer one.

Shirley had also given back to her community by substituting as a TCS Hebrew teacher at times. Having taught Hebrew School for 23 years when she lived in Roslyn Heights, Long Island (she also taught French and Spanish but speaks six languages), she was certainly qualified. She loves Hebrew and is still fluent. She also enjoys being around children, relates very well to them, and is particularly close with her six great-grandchildren, who visit often.

One of her favorite memories at TCS involved an event to support the Israeli Defense Forces. After an IDF soldier had finished speaking, Israeli music played. Shirley put aside the cane she was then using to walk, grabbed the hand of the IDF soldier and led the hora. She noted that while some people choose to start a conga line, she chose to start a hora line.

Born in Lomza, Poland in 1918 to her parents Rabbi Pesach (Paul) and Libby Flatow, Shirley is a product of her upbringing. Through her father, and the rare opportunity for a girl to study Torah, she developed her deep love for Judaism. When they came by boat to Ellis Island and moved to Brooklyn, New York in 1922, there were already too many rabbis. So, her father became a cantor. She loved the music of prayer and later enjoyed watching her own daughter Deb, also a longstanding member of TCS, sing in the TCS chorale.

Her mother engrained the importance of helping others. Shirley, whose Yiddish name is Charna, still remembers watching her mother wash her grandmother’s hair. Despite having six siblings, when her father passed in his 40s, Shirley, as the eldest daughter, became her mother’s helper and continued helping others through teaching and volunteering. She received national honors as a past president of Hadassah and the Women’s American Organization for Rehabilitation and Training in Nassau County and spent three

summers volunteering for an organization that helped nearly one million Soviet Jews immigrate to Israel. Despite her busy schedule, Shirley drove to Connecticut from Long Island to help care for her growing grandson Erik when Deb went back to work. She has always loved to make things grow and still gardens with her granddaughter Leah. Shirley is an avid Zionist, having lived through Theodore Herzl conceiving the idea of a Jewish state, the Holocaust, the establishment of the State of Israel, and the Jews eventually being allowed to return to their rightful homeland. She feels people learned from the atrocities committed by the Germans what could happen if the Jews didn’t have their own state. Thus, she sees Israel’s continued success as existentially important. “I have lived to witness Israel become the most revered and feared country in the world . . . even ISIS never attacked Israel.”

Over the last century, she has seen antisemitism decline sharply. She recalls when Jews were not allowed in certain places or positions. At 16 years old, she changed her name from Flatow to Flato so she might be taken for being Italian instead of Jewish when applying for a job. When she first left Brooklyn, she never considered moving to Connecticut. Jews weren’t allowed there. Instead, she went to Long Island. She later found it ironic that her daughter had settled in Connecticut and that she relocated here.

Shirley finds it tremendous that her children didn’t have to worry about antisemitism as she did. Nonetheless, she cautions that Jews cannot let down their guard. “No matter how well Jews have done in this country, no matter how safe we may feel, or how much we have fought for this country, antisemitism still festers here like a sore and is once again rearing its ugly head.” She feels Jews need to be vigilant about stopping the antisemitic patches whenever they act up. But she is optimistic about the future.

At 105 years old, Shirley still has many simchas to look forward to, including her granddaughter’s wedding and the birth of her seventh great-grandchild. Her hair may now be white instead of black, but her love for family, Judaism and her sense of being helpful to her community still burns strong. With a lifetime membership to TCS, Shirley is a valued member of our community and has a fascinating life experience to share.

Shirley Montner with United States Senator Richard Blumenthal

FEATURE :: TCS MEMBER SPOTLIGHT

Member Spotlight on Geoffrey Stern

BY ELISE MEYER

613 commandments. In the introduction, the anonymous scholar explains that he wrote the book to “awaken the hearts” of his teenage son and his peers, hoping to foster in them a connection to the Torah. I don’t judge my podcast based on how many people listen to it. But if one of my kids, someone in my family listens to it today, or sometime in the future, that’s all the satisfaction I need. Although I started it as a blog, one of my kids said, “Dad, you know, it’s kind of hard to read, why don’t you just record it?” That’s when the podcast took off. Then I discovered my sidekick, Rabbi Adam Mintz, on a platform called Clubhouse, and the rest is history. So far, I think I am up to 125 posts and podcasts — half hour each. So you could do the math. I’ve done a lot of talking.

E: Do you have favorites among the podcasts that you’ve done?

many years. It was kind of interrupted by COVID. I’d love to go back to it. The Rabbi made a comment to me recently that maybe we should reconstitute, so you never know.

I am really excited by the new social hall in the synagogue. I think that it has so much potential. It has intimacy, it’s somewhere where people can gather. And my dream really is that Adult Ed and other groups within the synagogue form and use it for learning opportunities. I think there’s also a potential for taking part in the bigger learning community. I personally belong to an egalitarian yeshiva called Hadar. Hadar offers many classes that they do Chevruta style (small group learning) or online. I’m hoping that we can sign up for some courses where we can gather in the social hall and possibly take a class together and then discuss it afterwards. I think that would be wonderful.

Today I am talking to Geoffrey Stern, a very visible member of TCS who hosts a popular podcast called Madlik every Thursday night on the Clubhouse Platform. Geoffrey and Orna Stern, their three grown children, and four grandchildren are frequently seen around TCS.

E: So, Geoffrey, tell us a little bit about Madlik.

G: Well, I call Madlik “Disruptive Torah” and what we try do is to look at the weekly Torah portion, the parshah, from a slightly different angle, so that by the end of the discussion, if we’ve done our job, you think about it differently, no matter how many times you have considered that portion. Hopefully, you might think about your Judaism a little differently. And come back again next week.

E: How long have you been doing it?

G: Well, it really began as a blog. But Torah study has been an important part of my life since the age of 14, at which time I left my Upper East Side private High School and enrolled in an Orthodox Yeshiva for six years, postponing college for three years. So, studying Torah is a big part of my life. Even though I’m not an Orthodox Jew anymore, they say that you can leave the yeshiva, but the yeshiva doesn’t leave you. So, it’s a big part of my life. And I literally enjoy looking at the parshah every week.

So Madlik started as a blog, maybe six years ago. There’s a wonderful book called The Sefer Ha Chinuch where a 13th century scholar wrote in detail about the

G: Oh, am I supposed to say that like, favoring your children? I love them all. I don’t know. There were some that I very much enjoyed. And that’s the beauty of it. I look at sources that I studied when I was a kid. So it’s like, either making new friends or revisiting old ones. But I think pretty much every week I discover something that I didn’t know before, so I really enjoy preparing for them. But I can’t think of one in particular that is my favorite. I have a few, a few ones that I regret, but nothing that sticks out as a favorite.

E: How long have you been part of the TCS community?

G: We’ve been members since our daughter Abigail became a bat mitzvah. Prior to that we were members of an Orthodox shul in town, where our two older sons became bar mitzvah. And then we decided to go to the other side, so as to be totally egalitarian. There’s no going back. So probably about, oh, I don’t know, 20 years.

E: You’ve had some wonderful roles in the synagogue — a frequent Torah and Haftorah reader, the chair of Adult Ed, and are somewhat famous for your Purim costumes. But you also started the Kavanah group, could you tell us a little about it?

G: Kavanah was, for a time, an opportunity for members of the congregation to get together for an occasional study session. It met on Shabbat morning, before the Torah service began. Kavanah means “intentionality,” so we tried to rediscover our prayers a little, and members of the congregation would prepare sessions. And we did it for

E: Final question. What does Madlik mean?

G: So we all know how on Chanukah and Shabbat we light the candles with the words “ Le Hadlik n’er shel (Shabbat). Well, if you go to a really cool party or a disco in Israel, in slang, you say, “how was it?” the answer might be “Madlik!” or “baby that was LIT!” So we’d like to bridge the gap between lighting the candle on Friday night and going to a disco. It’s somewhere in between. We hope you’ll find it yourself.

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E: Well, thank you, Geoffrey, as one of your most faithful students, I try to tune in every Thursday night. Do you have anything else that you’d like to say?

G: Just come experience Madlik. You can come on to Clubhouse every Thursday at 8:00 pm Eastern so you can participate in our weekly live discussion of the Parsha and join us live. Or you can listen to a recording of the Clubhouse session as a Madlik podcast online at https://madlik. com. But if you do, give us a few stars and say something nice.

Don’t miss an episode! Subscribe to the Madlik podcast on your favorite platform, including Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Audible

Here is the link to Clubhouse: https://www. clubhouse.com/join/Madlik/Yyi9cR3C

Mazal Tov to Our B’nei Mitzvah

Adult Education

BY LAUREN BARNETT & BOB ISRAELY Co-Chairs

In May, TCS will be joined by well-known and much-celebrated Union College Professor of Holocaust and Jewish Studies, Stephen Berk.

We are currently finalizing dates and details for a Hummus event, a preschool morning coffee and conversation, a Lower East Side food tour, and a Burekas cooking class.

Our Women’s learning group meets a few times a month with Cantor and Rabbi.

If any other TCS members are interested in joining together for a small group class, please reach out. Stay tuned!

GABRIEL YOUNG May 13 — Behar Behukotai

CASSI KESSLER May 29 — Naso

MARYN BROOKS June 17 Sh’la h L’kha

NAOMI FRIDMAN June 3 — Naso

Passover Quiz for Family Fun

1. The name of which common Pesach treat was first coined by French satirist Rabelais in 1552 in his comedy Gargantua and Pantagruel?

2. True or false? In Morocco it was traditional for Muslims to bring their Jewish neighbors some of their sourdough starter the evening after Pesach ended.

3. The largest matzah ball ever made weighed 267 lb. It was made on August 6, 2009. Where was it made?

4. Where is the largest seder in the world held?

A. Tel Aviv

B. Buenos Aires

C. Kathmandu

5. What is customarily said at the end of a Seder?

6. What are the names of Moses’ two siblings?

A. Aaron & Miriam

B. Daniel & Mitzie

C. Isaac & Mimi

7. Matzah is usually made from wheat flour, but five grains are acceptable for matza making. What are they?

8. There is no gefilte fish swimming around in the ocean. It is a poached mixture of ground deboned fish. What four types of fish are used to make a gefilte fish?

9. In 1945, the National Jewish Welfare Board produced matza for shipment to Jewish military personnel to use at their Passover seders. In what shape was the matza made?

10. A popular Italian Pesach dish, Scacchi, consists of layers of matza with alternating fillings of leek, spinach, artichoke and meat. But what does scacchi actually mean?

A. ‘Chess’ - because the matza is said to look like a chess board

B. ‘Spring’ - because that is when the dish is eaten

C. ‘Scratchy’ - because the matza has rough edges

11. Falsche fish, or ‘false fish’ is served by some Chasidim on Pesach in place of gefilte fish. What is used to make it?

12. Which of the following foods failed to make it onto the Washington Post’s 2014 list of “The 10 least awful Passover foods”. Was it...

A. Gefen tomato ketchup

B. Kosher for Pesach Coca-Cola

C. Oppenheimer chocolate covered orange peel

13. True or false? In An Essay on Food, Sigmund Freud once wrote, “Knaidlach have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair... They are capable of arousing the strongest emotions.”

14. What did Hebrews put on their doorposts to prevent the deaths of their firstborn sons?

15. For whom is a seat typically saved at a seder?

16. Passover takes place on what date in the Hebrew calendar?

17. Which U.S. President was the first to host a Passover Seder at the White House?

A. Bill Clinton

B. Barack Obama

C. George Bush

18. What were the names of Moses’ birth parents?

19. What does Kiddush mean?

A. Benediction

B. Libation

C. Sanctification

20. “Seder” is a Hebrew word. What does it mean

A. Dinner

B. Order

C. Retelling

20. B. Order

False 14. Lamb’s blood 15. Elijah 16. The 15th of Nisan 17. B. Barack Obama 18. Amram and Yocheved 19. C. Sanctification

6. A. Aaron & Miriam 7. Wheat, spelt, barley, oats, and rye 8. Carp, whitefish, mullet, and pike 9. V for victory 10. A. Chess, because the matza is said to look like a chess board 11. Chicken or turkey meat 12. C. Oppenheimer chocolate covered orange peel 13.

3. Noah’s Ark Original Deli in New York 4. C. Kathmandu 5. “Next year in Jerusalem!”

2. True

1. Macaroon

Answers:

TCS LOVES :: DONORS, DOERS, & DAVENERS

TCS Thanks Its Donors, Doers & Daveners

Adult Education Fund

Susan & Matthew Byer in memory of Dr. Herrick Cohen z”l

Bob & Martina Israely in memory of Morris Peskin z”l

Judi Koffsky in memory of Miriam Brightman z”l

Orna & Geoffrey Stern in memory of Shimon Wexler z”l

Building/Security Fund

Steven Goldring in memory of Jaime Guttenberg z”l

Sandy & Mark Rappaport in memory of Dr. Kenneth Feldman z”l

Barbara Reis

Wendy & Phil Schaefer in memory of Joel Kane z”l

Cantor’s Discretionary Fund

Judi Koffsky in honor of Cantor Cattan for officiating at the funeral of her brother Leonard Brightman z”l

Arthur & Linda Meisel in honor of Andrew Meisel becoming a bar mitzvah

Frank & Diane Safran in memory of Joel Kane z”l

Judith Udell in memory of Nora Jacobs z”l

General Fund

Gwen & David Baker in memory of:

• Stanley S. Baker z”l

• Debra Haring z”l

Lorin Blitzer in memory of Marty Blumenfeld z”l

Stephen Bloch & Jennifer Gabler in appreciation of Rabbi Wiederhorn and Cantor Cattan

Jonathan Dentz & Kelly Mansdorf

Ilene & Alan Frost in memory of:

• Arlene Blumenfeld z”l

• Marty Blumenfeld z”l

Steven Goldring in memory of:

• Robert Davis z”l

• Marvin Goldring z”l

Linda & Michael Gordon in memory of Joel Kane z”l

Richard & Barbara Greenspan in memory of Sandra Myerson Small z”l

Margie Jacobson in memory of Benjamin “Buddy” Cohen z”l

Brian Kabcenell

Sally & Larry Kleinman in memory of Martin Rosenfeld z”l

Judi Koffsky in memory of:

• Jay Brightman z”l

• Steven Salen z”l

The Korn Family in memory of Martin Blumenfeld z”l

The Kornbluth Family in memory of Martin Rosenfeld z”l

Margie & Bob Labarre in memory of Marty Blumenfeld z”l

Stewart & Elisabeth Levine in memory of:

• Martin Rosenfeld z”l

• Steven Salen z”l

Cynthia Lieberbaum in memory of:

• Robert Greenberger z”l

• Louis Lieberbaum z”l

• Sheldon Lieberbaum z”l

Roger & Hilary Machlis in memory of Leonard Machlis z”l

Gena & Billy Mann in memory of Elizabeth Lopez z”l

Susan Ochman in memory of Martin Rosenfeld z”l

Barbara & Alan Phillips in memory of:

• Frieda Builder z”l

• Irving Builder z”l

Mark & Sandy Rappaport in memory of Frances Rappaport z”l

Laura Resnikoff in memory of Elizabeth Lopez z”l

Jessica, Joel, & Evan Siegel in memory of Martin Rosenfeld z”l

Barbara & Chuck Taubman in honor of the wedding anniversary of Rabbi Jeremy and Riki Wiederhorn

The Waller Family in memory of:

• Henry Dreznick z”l

• Rachelle Dreznick z”l

• Herbert Dreznick z”l

Fred & Sherry Wiener in memory of:

• Abraham Russakoff z”l

• Benjamin Wiener z”l

Michele & Lee Wrubel in honor of the engagement of Dana Rappaport and Nathan Pilcowitz

Michele & Lee Wrubel in memory of:

• Shari Levy z”l

• Martin Rosenfeld z”l

• Carole Soloff z”l

Holocaust Education Fund

Terry & Russ Bernard in memory of Steven Salen z”l

Maxine Gerson in memory of Martin Blumenfeld z”l

Howard & Amy Matson in memory of:

• Debra Haring z”l

• Phillip J. Knoblock z”l

Alli & Jon Olefson in memory of Gabrielle Olefson z”l

Yvonne & Mark Rothenberg in memory of Carole Soloff z”l

Hospitality Fund

The Baker Family in honor of Dan Gross’ presentation

Linda & Len Russ in memory of Martin Rosenfeld z”l

Wendy & Philip Schaefer in memory of:

• Martin Rosenfeld z”l

• Franklyn Schaefer z”l

• Arlene Weintraub z”l

• Bernard Weintraub z”l

Jill Stitzer, Liz Cooperstein, Rachelle Rehner, & Linda Polack in memory of Martin Blumenfeld z”l

Jewish Cultural Arts Fund

Howard & Amy Matson in memory of Peter Nathan z”l

Kehillah School Fund

Debbi Barer & Diane Benke in honor of the birth of Billie Noa Golob

Ellen & Art Gang and Family in memory of Martin Rosenfeld z”l

Ellen Sudranski Friedman in memory of Dorothy B. Sudranski z”l

Susan Ochman in honor of the birth of Billie Noa Golob

Library Fund

Howard & Amy Matson in memory of Rhoda Friedland z”l

Music Fund

Stephen & Isabel Moskowitz in memory of Sam Moss z”l

Eva & Lee Rawiszer in memory of Adam Blankroth z”l

Peter R. Lessler Scholarship Fund

Karen Lessler in memory of Daniel Weckstein z”l

Karen Lessler & Jack Schwartz in memory of Martin Blumenfeld z”l

Jack Schwartz in memory of Renee Schwartz z”l

Kim & Neil Phillips in memory of Marty Blumenfeld z”l

Prayer Book & Chumash Fund

Nancy Gold in memory of:

• Barry Ilberman z”l

• Gloria Ilberman z”l

Howard & Amy Matson in memory of Martin Rosenfeld z”l

Beth & Jay Rand in memory of Martin Rosenfeld z”l

Preschool Scholarship Fund

Mona Liss in memory of Howard Paul Liss z”l

Stephen & Isabel Moskowitz in memory of Dan Gold z”l

Kenneth Wirfel & June Eichbaum in memory of:

• Saree Eichbaum z”l

• Barbara Wirfel z”l

Rabbi’s Discretionary Fund

Susan & Lew Abramson in memory of Alexis Berman z”l

Lois & Eric Baron

Barbara & Ed Berliner in memory of Ludwig L. Levi z”l

Fred & Judy Block in memory of:

• George Block z”l

• Ruth Cohen z”l

Susie & Todd Blumenfeld in honor of Andrew Meisel becoming a bar mitzvah

Todd & Susie Blumenfeld in honor of Rabbi Wiederhorn for his compassion during our time of sorrow

Karen Cohen in memory of:

• Martin Cohen z”l

• Steven Cohen z”l

• Jules Sturtz z”l

Laurie & Michael Friedland in memory of Stuart Friedland z”l

Arthur & Ellen Gang in memory of:

• Hyman Gang z”l

• Jeanette Gang z”l

David & Abby Goldstein in memory of Fred Goldstein z”l

Jon & Annette Goldstein in honor of Stephen and Lynne Goldstein and Family

Ivy & Ben Gosseen in honor of:

• Dan Gross on his Inside the Rabbi’s Study appearance

• Gwendolyn Lopez-Cohen

Ellen Graff & Martin Fox in loving memory of:

• Edith Graff z”l

• Henry Graff z”l

Mitch & Judy Greenberg in memory of Martin Rosenfeld z”l

Richard & Barbara Greenspan in memory of Mazie Greenspan z”l

Robert & Martina Israely in memory of:

• Claudia Kopel z”l

• Boris Israely z”l

• Muriel Nicholls z”l

• Paul Nicholls, Jr. z”l

• Paul Nicholls III z”l

Richard & Lydia Kalt in memory of:

• Charles A. Kalt z”l

• Charles D. Kalt z”l

• Louis V. Martin z”l

• Martin Rosenfeld z”l

The Kamisar Family in honor of Rabbi and Riki for receiving their well-deserved Humanitarian Award from The New York Board of Rabbis

Jordan & Jennifer Kanfer in memory of:

• Buddy Cohen z”l

• Norman Kanfer z”l

Rich & Marji Kaplowitz in memory of:

• Gita Kaplowitz z”l

• Ike Kaplowitz z”l

Michael & Shelly Kassen

Ann Katz in memory of Martin Rosenfeld z”l

Babs & Bill Kinneary in memory of Rosalind Schaefer z”l

Anthony & Jillian Klaff in memory of:

• Marigold Gelfand z”l

• Jacob Klaff z”l

• Steven Salen z”l

Judi Koffsky in honor of Rabbi Wiederhorn for his counsel and participation in the funeral of my brother Leonard Brightman z”l

Judi Koffsky in memory of David Koffsky z”l

The Korn Family in appreciation of Rabbi Wiederhorn for all his kindness and support

Laurence Kurzner in memory of Wilma E. Kurzner z”l

Matthew & Elayne Landau in memory of:

• Michael Anstey z”l

• Martin Rosenfeld z”l

Denny & Jan Magid in honor of Stella Ginsberg becoming a bat mitzvah

Wes Malowitz & Lauren Soloff in memory of Carole Soloff z”l

Debra & Marshall Levin in memory of:

• Francis Hirshout z”l

• Sylvia Hirshout z”l

Denise Lewis in memory of Polly Wachtenheim z”l

Gwen Lopez-Cohen in memory of Elizabeth Lopez z”l

Arthur & Linda Meisel in honor of Andrew Meisel becoming a bar mitzvah

Susan & Murray Morrison in memory of:

• Abraham Kobren z”l

• Benjamin Morrison z”l

Stephen & Isabel Moskowitz in memory of Miriam Moskowitz z”l

Sharon & Steven Navarro in memory of Albert Cassuto z”l

Lori & David Popkin in honor of Rabbi Rabbi and Riki for receiving their well-deserved Humanitarian Award from The New York Board of Rabbis

Lori & David Popkin in memory of:

• Debra Haring z”l

• Eve Popkin z”l

Meredith Poster in memory of Dennis Poster z”l

Beth & Jay Rand in honor of Rabbi and Riki for receiving their well-deserved Humanitarian Award from The New York Board of Rabbis

Barbara Reis in memory of Sylvia Backlar z”l

Liz & Mony Rueven in memory of:

• Ned Brightman z”l

• Sandee Schlegel Doctrow z”l

• Rhoda Friedland z”l

• Ziskind Greenman z”l

• Steven Salen z”l

• Chaya Wexler z”l

David & Faith Schachne in memory of Thelma Ratner z”l

Marsha Shrago in memory of her father, and her grandfather Irving Funk z”l

Matthew & Emmanuelle Slossberg

Laura Steinbrecher in memory of Stephen Steinbrecher z”l

Bruce & Tami Weiser

James Weisz & Robyn Levy in memory of Rosalind Schaefer z”l

Stephanie & Craig Willis

Kenneth Wirfel & June Eichbaum in memory of:

• Arnold Wirfel z”l

• Larry Wirfel z”l

Sisterhood – Mitzvah Fund

Robin & Barry Babbin in memory of Mona Gabry z”l

Ellen Lane in memory of Evelyn M. Lane z”l

Howard & Amy Matson in memory of Rosalind Schaefer z”l

Barbara & Alan Phillips in memory of Rosalind Schaefer z”l

Beth & Jay Rand in memory of:

• Dr. Herrick Cohen z”l

• Jack Schlegel z”l

• Stacy Schlegel z”l

Eva & Lee Rawiszer in memory of Bernard Rawiszer z”l

Ana & Steven White in memory of Sonia Gorfinkel z”l

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Please note, this listing includes all contributions received by February 28, 2023. Any contributions received after this date will appear in the next issue.

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TCS LOVES :: DONORS, DOERS, & DAVENERS

THE WANDERING JEWS

Life is returning to a new normal after the pandemic and people, once shuttered in their homes, are eager to explore. Many TCS members have been travelling and visiting sites of Jewish significance around the World.

To share all of these wonderful experiences with others, we are asking all members to submit pictures of themselves and their families visiting Jewish sites. Please send to EditorialBoardforTCS@gmail.com so we can feature them in the next issue of The Mosaic.

Jews arrived in Tunisia in the third century with the Romans and flourished from the seventh to eleventh centuries. During the Jewish Golden Era, there was a synagogue, yeshiva, and cemetery.

Born in Córdoba in 1138, Maimonides (an acronym for Rabbi Moses Ben Maimon — AKA RaMBam) was a lawyer, philospher, doctor, astronomer, and the most eminent thinker of Medieval Judaism. The centerpiece of his legal work was the Mishna Torah (the Second Torah), the most compelling compilation of Jewish law ever written.

Lesley, Amy & Howard Matson visit the city of Kairouan, Tunisia

Ellen & Art Gang visit Israel

Carol Boas, Henry Feuerstein & Elise Meyer at the Sephardic Museum in Córdoba, Spain

Henry Feuerstein at Maimonides Plaza in Córdoba, Spain

Córdoba synagogue built in 1315

Cantor Cattan led TCS families on a tour of Uruguay, Argentina, and Brazil. They visited AMIA — the center of the Jewish community in Argentina. Most Jews came from France, Germany, and Austria. Most of them were technicians or professionals and established the Jewish Congregation in 1862.

Jews escaping the

The Amsterdam Sephardic Community was one of the largest and richest Jewish communities in Europe during the Dutch Golden Age. This large Portuguese synagogue called the Esnoga or Snoge, completed in 1675, reflects this. Esnoga means Judaeo-Spanish.

Built in 1878, the Maghain Aboth Synagogue is the oldest and largest synagogue in Southeast Asia.

TCS Members at AMIA entrance are Barbara Phillips, Ellen Graff, Alan Phillips, Martin Fox, Cantor Luis Cattan, Martina Israely, Bob Israely, Leah Zisfein, Stacey Foodim-Sloan, Wendy Schaefer, Daniel Sussman, Alan Radin & Bobbi Radin

Back: Cantor Cattan. Middle Row: Leah Zisfein & two others. Front: Ellen Graff, Stacey Foodim-Sloan, Barbara Phillips & Daniel Sussman.

Henry Feuerstein in Marakkesh

Spanish Inquisition founded the Lazama Synagogue. This was one of more than thirty synagogues in the Mella (Jewish Quarter).

Wendy & Phil Schaefer visit Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim in Charleston, South Carolina

Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim was formally organized the day after Rosh Hashana in 1749 by Jewish pioneers who had begun to settle in then Charles Town, now Charleston, South Carolina.

Michelle Scher Saunders and Diana Sussman at The Maghain Aboth Synagogue in Singapore.

Alan & Barbara Phillips visit the Portuguese synagogue in Amsterdam

High Holiday Appeal

We are so grateful to those families who generously contributed to our High Holiday Appeal (HHA).  It is never easy to ask for contributions, yet the graciousness of our members made that so much easier.

The HHA, along with our annual Gala, are the key contributors of our revenue in addition to our dues.  Your participation allows TCS to continue to thrive and offer meaningful programs to our Community.

So our HHA Committee sends a big thank you to all those who participated.  Your support is most gratifying.

The following donations have been received since the last issue of The Mosaic:

Michael & Allison Amron

Jacob & Ilyssa Axel

Barry & Robin Babbin

David & Gwen Baker

Eric & Lois Baron

Scott & Stacey Berger

Richard & Melissa Birns

Cantor Luis Cattan

Andrew & Lauren Ceisler

Barbara Cohen

David & Livia Feig

Alan & Ilene Frost

David & Pamela Furth

Andrew Genser & Julia Marx

Samuel & Amy Gettler

Leslie Gold

Stephen & Lynne Goldstein

Jonathan & Deborah Goodman

Judith & Mitchell Greenberg

Daniel Gross & Candice Savin

John & Amy Herrera

Richard & Lydia Kalt

Jonathan & Melissa Kane

Larry & Marilyn Katz

Neil & Amy Katz

Judi Koffsky

Robert & Margie Labarre

Matthew & Elayne Landau

Roger & Hilary Machlis

Murray & Susan Morrison

Steven & Sharon Navarro

Seth & Corri Neckritz

Jay & Beth Rand

Ira & Dana Reibeisen

Eric Shrago & Alisha Gerber

Barney Spivack & Robin Oshman

Jacqueline Tolkin

Jesse & Susan Wexler

Jeremy & Riki Wiederhorn

Fred & Sherry Wiener

Nelson & Ruth Willick

Scott & Hallie Wofsy

Lee & Michele Wrubel

Marc & Julie Zuckerman

Condolences

Dr. Herrick Cohen z”l, father of Shari (Gary) Korn

Steven Salen z”l, father of Elayne (Matthew) Landau

Martin Steinmetz z”l, father of Rachel Steinmetz

Rosalind Schaefer z”l, mother of Phil (Wendy) Schaefer

Rhoda Friedland z”l, mother of Michael (Lauri) Friedland

Polly Wachtenheim z”l, mother of Denise Lewis

Dan Gold z”l, father of Josh (Alyssa) Gold

Elizabeth Lopez z”l, mother of Gwen Lopez-Cohen

Debra Haring z”l, sister of Wes (Lauren Soloff) Malowitz

Michael Anstey z”l, brother of Jose (Maggy) Anstey

Marty Blumenfeld z”l, father of Todd (Susie) Blumenfeld

Martin Rosenfeld z”l, husband of Martha Rosenfeld

TCS THANKS ITS DONORS, DOERS & DAVENERS

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TIES Fund

Phil, Sara, Emma, and Ava Glick in memory of Philip Glick z”l

Carol & Jeffrey Kaplan in memory of Felix Adler z”l

Beth & Jay Rand in honor of the marriage of Sarah Glasser to Josh Lavian

Hong Yuen Wong in memory of Martin Rosenfeld z”l

Tikkun Olam Fund

Linda & Michael Gordon in memory of Buddy Cohen z”l

Cynthia Haddad & Jay Hamburger in memory of Leona Haddad z”l

Ted & Susan Kantor

Stacy & Jonathan Kamisar in memory of Rosalind Schaefer z”l

Isabel & Steve Moskowitz in memory of Martin Blumenfeld z”l

Wendy & Phil Schaefer in memory of:

• Marty Blumenfeld z”l

• Steven Salen z”l

Alison & David Politziner in honor of Andrew Meisel becoming a bar mitzvah

Eileen & Howard Shapiro in memory of Marty Blumenfeld z”l

The Tapfar Family in memory of Greg Tapfar z”l

Please note, this listing includes all contributions received by February 28, 2023. Any contributions received after this date will appear in the next issue of the Mosaic.

Joel Kane z”l, father of Jon (Melissa) Kane

Carole Soloff z”l, mother of Lauren (Wes Malowitz) Soloff

Rosalyn Darefsky z”l, mother-in-law of Amy Darefsky

Benjamin “Buddy” Cohen z”l, father of Julie (Ken) Podziba

Myron Levine z”l, father of Robin (Barry) Babbin

Marvin Silberberg z”l, father of Ilene (Alan) Frost

We are blessed to have been friends and neighbors with The Conservative Synagogue for so many years... and more to come!

The Mitchell Family

CALENDAR OF UPCOMING EVENTS

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