Temple Shir Tikva • Wayland, Massachusetts • www.shirtikva.org TST Chai-Lights Vol. 5782, Issue 1 ................................... Aug. 24, 2022
This newsletter has two purposes. First, we want to increase the connection amongst our members. We are all part of a very special community here at Temple Shir Tikva, and it is important that we are kept up to date about all of the great things happening inside of our walls and beyond. Second, we want to provide a snapshot of life at TST that you can share outside of our community. We encourage you to pass this along to friends, family, neighbors, and anyone else who you think may be interested. Table of Contents 2 TST Chai Lights • 5782 1 • Learn more about our programs and events by visiting www.shirtikva.org We are so excited to announce the return of the TST newsletter. Our new “Chai Lights” will come out quarterly and feature recaps and photos from the best events over the past few months, along with what is new and exciting as we look ahead. There will also be sections with interesting articles and stories written about and by our community and so much more. A Message from Jay Lieberman, Marketing and Communications Trustee Thanks to everyone who contributed to this first issue, and we look forward to future contributions from our wonderful community. Enjoy TST Chai Lights! Message from Trustee Jay Lieberman 2 Adult B. Mitzvah Celebration TST Community Fun High Holy Days 5783 Shoresheinu (Our Roots) TST on the Web Stay in Touch Philanthropy @ TST 3 4 7 9 16 18 11 Community 1Updates 7 We would love to get your ideas and suggestions for how we could continue to improve Chai Lights. Please send your ideas and suggestions to Andie Watson at awatson@shirtikva.org. Pan Mass 8Challenge
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Carole Osterer Bellman • Growing up in a conservative shul, I was not a bat mitzvah. So, at a very mature age, I signed up for the Adult B. Mitzvah program at Temple Shir Tikva, becoming a B. Mitzvah in June 2022. It was a wonderful pandemic journey, connecting me to new and old friends of different generations and backgrounds and deepening my experience in the TST community. It was a chance to ask questions about Judaism, to engage with our rabbis and cantor, to examine my own (and family’s) practice of Judaism, to participate in group mitzvah projects, and to learn how to study, interpret and chant Torah. I am very grateful for these opportunities, all of which have enriched me. Growing up, I went to Hebrew school twice a week until age 12. I enjoyed being able to read Hebrew, learned stories that were interesting but without much meaning to me, and wasn’t especially welcomed by the kids around me. When it was time to commit to preparing for a Bat Mitzvah, it wasn’t a priority, and that was the end of my Jewish studies I thought. We didn't believe it was important for a girl anyway, let alone the fourth child in our family. Having the honor to read from the Torah has been an experience I never expected at this point in my life. To have been able to do this in the company of a group of committed adults, standing with me on the bimah for many different reasons, is a gift.
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TST at Fenway Park for Jewish Heritage Night
On Wednesday, June 22nd, members of the TST community traveled to historic Fenway Park to watch the Red Sox defeat the Detroit Tigers 6-2. This night was extra special, because the Red Sox celebrated Jewish Heritage night during the game. Each attendee received a Red Sox jersey in Hebrew and was treated to fun Jewish events, including Israeli dancing. We look forward to going again next year!
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High Holy Days 5783 Yom Kippur Erev Yom Kippur (10/4) 8:00 PM Kol Nidrei Service Sanctuary and Livestream Yom Kippur (10/5) 9:00 AM – Morning Service Sanctuary and Livestream 11:30 AM B’Yachad Morning Service Camp Chickami 1:30 4:30 PM Afternoon Programming 2:30 PM – Yeladim Service 5:00 PM – Afternoon Service 5:30 PM Yizkor 6:00 PM Neilah: Closing the Gates Rosh HaShanah Erev Rosh HaShanah (9/25) Rosh HaShanah I (9/26) 9:00 AM Morning Service Sanctuary and Livestream 11:30 AM – B’Yachad Morning Service Camp Chickami 2:30 PM Yeladim Service Camp Chickami 4:00 PM Tashlich TBD Rosh HaShanah II (9/27) 10:00 AM Morning Service Sanctuary and Livestream 8:00 PM Evening Service Sanctuary and Livestream Sukkot and Simchat Torah Stay tuned for more details about our celebration plans for Sukkot and Simchat Torah, including a weekend of activities with Artist in Residence, Mike Wirth! 7 Selichot September 17th 8:00 PM Selichot Education Service with Student Rabbi Heather Renetzky Zoom 9:00 PM – Selichot Service Zoom As the summer is coming to a close here in MetroWest, at Temple Shir Tikva, we are busy preparing for the upcoming High Holy Days. We are so excited to welcome many of you back into the building or to Camp Chickami to celebrate services with our TST community! Below you can find a list of the exciting programs we have planned to enter 5783 with awe, joy, and reflection as a community. Click here to register for services and programs. TST Chai Lights • 5782 1 • Learn more about our programs and events by visiting www.shirtikva.org Rabbi Danny Yearning and Yizkor September 8th, 15th, and 22nd JoinTST'snewStudentRabbiHeatherRenetzkyto discussthe“why,”“what,”and,“how”behindthe Yizkorprayersaswereflectandprepareforthe recitationofthisserviceonYomKippur.We’lldraw fromliturgy,text,personalexperienceandeven poetryasweexplorewhat’sreallybehindthis uniqueservice. Allarewelcometojoin. Clickheretoregister!
It is an honor and privilege to ride the PMC. 100% of donations go to cancer research at the Dana Farber. Great advances are being made to fight cancer and get closer to the cure. The support we get from friends, family and supporters along the route is inspiring. I ride for my loved ones I have lost including most recently my dad. I ride for everyone touched by cancer!
Doug Dolgov: $9,731 raised I am honored and excited to have participated in the Pan Mass Challenge (PMC). This was my sixth year that I rode for my mother-in-law, Nancy Poorvu, as a proud member of Team Duncan. It is my honor to ride in support of Dana Farber, Nancy, and the many people that benefit directly from the money raised through the PMC. I'm a proud supporter of the PMC because it is leading a charge to beat cancer.
Robin Kostin: $6,308 raised
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Adam Gutbezahl: $11,699 raised I rode with Team 3G. We are 30 members strong and a very supportive community. 3G is our dear friend who is battling lung cancer, a cancer that took my Mom and so many others. I am so proud to be a part of it.
Recently, several of our TST members completed the Pan Mass Challenge- raising money for the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, which provides lifesaving care and research. The TST community is so proud of their accomplishments as athletes and philanthropists! www.shirtikva.org
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My grandfather s story as I know it comes from bits and pieces that my mother told me over the years. I was close to my grandfather, but only experienced him as an old man. He was our Zayde, and he died at the age of 76 when I was six years old. I remember that he looked ancient to me, and I never had any thoughts of him other than of being elderly, but of course he was once a young man with plans and dreams and his unique story.
Shoresheinu, meaning 'Our Roots' in Hebrew, was created to celebrate the stories of our own community, both past and present. If you would like to share you or your family's Jewish journey, please reach out to Andie Watson with your story. We are looking for articles of between 750-1000
Recently, my sister and my remaining first cousins met on Zoom to hear each other’s stories and exchange information handed down from his children: my mother, Rebecca [Betty], and my two uncles, Barney and Henry. Both generations are gone now and there is no longer anyone to ask. We realize our stories are now thirdhand and yet we cling to them as we are so hungry to know more about our origins and what our grandparents experienced. We claim these precious fragments as our own history; there is no one left to either corroborate or correct them. Journey From Ukraine by Janet Polansky
There were a large number of Jews in Ukraine at the time my grandfather was born. It was a part of Russia then, and we always said our grandfather came from Russia. Of course, now we know it as a separate country. Jewish people had lived there for close to 1,000 years. It was in the Pale of Settlement, an area decreed by the Government where Jews were allowed to live. Laws were harsh and both their livelihoods and their children’s educations and professional prospects were severely limited. They lived with the fear of pogroms and even experienced them.
There were more than 300,000 Jews living in Ukraine at the time my grandfather Louis was born. The year was 1873, and the place was the small town of Koretz, about 170 miles West of Kiev. He was the oldest of 16 children. Not all lived to adulthood and not all came to America, but I did know several great aunts and uncles who were fortunate enough to come here. My grandfather left Russia around 1900 or 1901. He left behind my grandmother his wife Julia, our Bubbe Yiddis, and a baby, my Uncle Barney, who was born in 1900. He arrived in Boston and was met by cousins and lived with them in the West End of Boston. My grandfather did establish himself and sent for his wife and baby who were now five years old. It took that long for him to get them here. My grandmother was an only child and had never been away from her mother. When my grandfather sent for her, she had to leave her mother and, with her child, cross the border into Western Europe. They eventually sailed from the port of Rotterdam. I don’t know how she got there, but I assume by a long train journey. She arrived in this country and made a home with her husband and their son. more about our programs and events by visiting www.shirtikva.org
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A year later, my uncle Henry was born, and six years later my mother Betty was born. They were living in the south end of Boston and eventually moved to Dorchester where my mother grew up. When my grandmother first arrived, she was lonely and missed her mother. She had literally believed that the streets were paved with gold. She was unhappy and homesick, so my grandfather brought his mother in law, Ida Weber, to join the family. After she arrived here, she married Julius Klayman and became our Bubbe Klayman. My grandfather worked as a furrier and was the foreman of a very large fur retailer. The busiest season for the fur business is October through December. During those busy days, my grandfather left the house at 6:00 AM and came home close to midnight. 1 Learn more about our programs and events by visiting www.shirtikva.org
When I listen to the recent news from Ukraine, I naturally think of my grandparents, and I am so filled with gratitude for their boldness and bravery. I think about the courage it took to leave everything and everyone in their world and start over. Of course this is done when people, a people, my people, are so unhappy, hungry, fearful, and repressed that facing the unknown becomes a risk worth taking. Today, our family is alive and thriving because of a young tailor in Ukraine who, at the turn of the last century, wanted to provide more opportunity for himself and his family. Unknown Ukrainian family, 1900; Source: Volodymyr Kozyuk
My mother said while they weren’t rich, they never felt poor. They had a nice apartment, the children had music lessons, and there was plenty to eat. They did not have hardship, but struggled in the ways immigrants did and still do. I once asked my mother if she had asked her parents about what life was like in the old country. She said she had asked them as she was curious herself. She was told only that life was terrible. It had been hard work without rewards and many limitations; they never felt nostalgic or romanticized about it. With the opportunities available in this country, my two uncles became medical doctors. My mother, typically in that era, was sent to secretarial school, but in a different era could also have become an excellent doctor. My great grandmother knew about herbs and healing, and my mother did too.
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Using imaginative role-play combined with engaged research and mentorship, The Jewish Court of All Time (JCAT) is a web based simulation that asks the question, “What does it mean to learn from history?” in the context of different scenarios connecting aspects of Jewish history with contemporary issues Formerly a program only for day schools, a special version of JCAT, co-sponsored by MTEI, was offered to congregational schools in 2021 and 2022, and Temple Shir Tikva was invited to participate. Student participants in JCAT portray significant figures from across the range of human history. After an extended period of research and introductions, the characters are convened to discuss a contemporary issue with historical resonance. 2021 and 2022 participants investigated questions of free expression and the response to hate speech inspired by the proposed march by neo Nazis in Skokie, Illinois in the late 1970’s, a city with a large Jewish population that includes many Holocaust survivors. Simulation activity ranges from considering the points of view of several “voices of resistance,” who offer different visions for responding to hateful speech and action, to examining relevant primary source documents, such as the First Amendment to the American Bill of Rights. more about our programs and events by visiting www.shirtikva.org
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At Temple Shir Tikva, we are working tofocus on social emotional learning, relationships, and a Mussar curriculum to explore middot, or character/soul traits. I was curious about how an online project like JCAT could offer learners a window into history while stretching their creativity and confidence in trying on another person’s perspective and voice. When Jeff contacted me about the congregational school pilot, I could hardly by Alison Weikel, introduction by Jeff Stanzler
I had been an admirer of JCAT for many years… as an educator, as a researcher, as someone who loves innovative, experiential learning, yet I knew that because it was a program for day school learners, I would likely never be involved with it firsthand.
"Can you BELIEVE what Montefiore said?!"
Participants engage in discussions with peers and also with university student mentors, who seek both to honor the work of the students and to challenge them to think more deeply about their character and about the issues at hand.
The intellectual and creative work of JCAT is perhaps best captured in the moment when, for example, Emma Lazarus and Yitzhak Rabin sit down to discuss whether the American Civil Liberties Union was justified in defending the right of neoNazis to march in Skokie. Neither student playing these luminaries can look in “the back of the book” to see what was really said when these two people spoke about this matter, since this conversation never happened. Instead, the students must draw upon what they’ve learned about their characters, and what they know about the issue at hand, so that they can engage in conversation, leveraging aspects of the work of the historian (“what evidence can I draw upon to craft a plausible sense of what my character might think?”) and the actor (“how might my character express their thoughts?”).
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To introduce the project, Rhonda offered a connective thread, a personal story of hearing about the actual Skokie event on the TV news as a little girl. She told this story, a first person narrative, and captured the students’ attention as they imagined Rhonda, and likely themselves, in the story. Next, Rhonda created ‘secret envelopes’ with the characters’ names and some background information to kickstart their research. Some envelopes had articles, books, or links to reading materials. Some had a DVD; some had photographs with captions. She sent a letter home to parents to help them understand both the excitement around and the expectations for their teen’s participation. Many of the parents read or watched the background materials with their teens. Each week, Rhonda sent reminders to the class over text and email, and she paid attention to who was up-todate with their responses. She made connections between the characters (without revealing their identities) to support the students in responding to each other in character: Aly Raisman and Mark Spitz are both athletes. What might they talk about? How would the experiences they have had in high-level sports affect their decisions in the court case?
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Jeanne Daman, Janusz Korczak, and Sir Nicholas Winton all nurtured or rescued children during the Holocaust. What motivated them? Where did they find their courage and moral compass? How would they respond to each other? Rhonda held little contests for the students--which characters would be the first to post each week? Which would make the highly motivating Highlight Reel on the home page of the simulation, a call out contain my excitement. It was like being invited to hop the fence and join a party I had been longing to attend. I was eager to introduce this opportunity to the TST learning community. During the 20-21 school year, due to the pandemic, our learning program met online. For the past few years, our 7th grade core class has been “Narratives of the Holocaust” and Rhonda Magier Cohen, its fantastic teacher, uses personal stories from her life and her family, first-person narratives from survivors and upstanders, and other primary sources to bring students into the learning in a deep and meaningful way. With the combination of a yearlong Holocaust course, and the fact that issues of injustice and antisemitism could be found in local, national, and international news almost daily, we suspected that taking a close look at the intersection and collision of free speech and antisemitism would be both relevant and compelling. Our Zoom classes were 45 minutes long, and JCAT provided a way to extend the students’ learning, with asynchronous opportunities (meaning they signed in to simulation outside of class time) that encouraged expressiveness and critical thinking.
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In the 21-22 school year, we returned to in-person learning, and Rhonda and her students co-created a classroom community that allowed for the shock and sadness of the worst moments of human history to co exist with the trust and hope that people have the power to support, love, and save each other. When she introduced JCAT in the second semester, the students were focusing on inspiring stories of upstanders as well as their own potential powers to heal the broken world. They were ready to apply their learning to a realistic our programs events visiting
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of a delight than a surprise. It was something we had hoped would happen in participation in JCAT, and is best captured in the reflection of one of our students at the end of the semester: “JCAT helped me be open to other points of view, even if I didn’t agree.”
Oh, if only the world could learn from this wise 7th grader. What a place it would be. to all participants of the top responses and interactions? With which other characters can your character interact? She offered small prizes and rewards either a special delivery of candy or the choice of having her make a tzedakah donation in their honor. At the end of the simulation, she wrote personal notes and gave gift cards to the top four most active participants. 7th graders live in the liminal space of young teenhood sometimes a candy bar is highly motivating and sometimes they position themselves as the upstanders about whom they have been learning. Just as they fluidly stepped into their JCAT characters, they stepped into this new role in their own personhood journey with courage and conviction. In a brilliant move of modeling, Rhonda had the class take on a character (Leonard Montefiore) as a group. She logged into JCAT and shared her screen on a large monitor for the whole class to see. They decided together how to participate and respond as Montefiore and this helped students prepare to respond individually in their own characters’ voices. Our biggest surprise in the 20-21 school (online) year was how much JCAT engaged students who were otherwise struggling to engage whether that was because of the stress of the pandemic, the excessive screen time that learning (in all areas of their lives) required, or any number of reasons why young teens lose interest in learning. Students who were previously not showing up to class or who were sitting silently in class with cameras off were suddenly motivated and participating in the simulation. We used class time to work with individual students in breakout rooms to support their participation. In the 21-22 school year, the momentum seemed to build each week and I loved to visit the class and hear the students’ questions and insights. Our surprise this year was really more
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Originally published by eJewish Philanthropy by Jenna Friedman For the first two years of my job as director of youth engagement, I had an “if you build it, they will come” mentality. Having inherited a struggling youth program – which I was hired with the explicit expectation of resuscitating I immediately poured my efforts into revamping all areas of teen synagogue offerings. Social action, youth group, you name it I invented or reinvented it. I designed logos. I bought T-shirts. I created playlists. I made our programming seem as fresh, new and sexy as I could. But I still struggled with seeing the engagement and continuity I was working so hard to foster. Over the past three years, though, things have changed and I think I know why.
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Hebrew vowels – but that’s not what they need me for. (Finally, after years of imposter syndrome, I have made peace with this.)
Since becoming a leader within the Jewish community just over 20 years ago, I have observed a major focus on engaging young adults. We can see that there are services and programs set up with the explicit purpose of attracting young adults to connect with synagogues or to their Jewish identity. Over the years, millions of dollars have been invested as we try to “crack the code” to successfully engage young adults with their Judaism. More recently the language has shifted from young adults to millennials, so that currently we are talking about engaging people who are now between the ages of 26 and 41. But despite the articulated focus of this work on young adults/millennials, the real target group has often ended up being single Jews in their 20s and 30s (with emphasis at one point being Jewish singles events). This has also meant that almost all the investment has gone into urban centers where people in this age group tend to choose to live. For the longest time it has felt like attracting and engaging young adult singles is the “Holy Grail” of the Jewish community, even for synagogues and communities who might be located in areas without a New York suburbanite (shoutout to Carvel. It was COVID that eventually drew me there, in an attempt to reconnect with kids who I hadn’t seen since before the pandemic. They had dropped off from our programming over our year and a half online, and, having known them in the past, I invited them to come to Dairy Queen for one on one meetings to catch up. And one by one, they came. But why did they come? I had the answer spelled out for me at a recent youth event. Over an end-ofyear pizza-making gathering with our sixth graders, a student named Harry, who hadn’t been at the synagogue since third grade, questioned why I called him by his first and last name. “Is there another Harry, or something?” he asked. Quickly, the other students chimed in. “No,” said the girl to my right, “she just does that. She calls me by my first and last name all the time.” The other students offered eager agreement. “It’s just a personality thing,” the girl concluded, before returning to her pizza. Harry nodded, satisfied.
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And she’s right – without planning it, this has become a part of my persona in my role. In the sense of being a charismatic, memorable presence, it’s a “personality thing.” It also meets a much deeper, more important goal: Our kids know that I know who they are. And that makes all the difference.
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Theo knows that I know where he goes to camp. Rachel knows that I know what sports she plays. Carly knows that I know which TV actor she adores. They all know that I know what pronouns they use, what books they’re reading, where they’ve been and where they want to go. They may not know that I can’t list the Hebrew calendar months by memory, or that I don't know the technical names of the Don't Forget the Other Millennials
There is an exciting opportunity for us to develop this type of programming, responding to the desires of this group, while providing meaningful and relevant Jewish content that creates a sense of belonging as part of the community.
As organizations and foundations continue investing in millennial engagement in the urban centers as a way of connecting young Jewish singles to the community and their Judaism, it is important that we do not forget the millennials who have started families and are already in the suburbs. This group will be an important part of our Jewish future and they need our investment and attention to ensure that they find ways to engage with their Judaism and the Jewish community. critical mass in this demographic. And while this is an important group worth investing in, it does miss an often neglected group of their peers those in the suburbs as young singles, young couples and young families. Having worked in both urban and suburban settings, I have seen that the differences in the young adults/millennials with whom I was engaging often revolved around where they were on their personal life’s journey. Those who had moved to the suburbs tended to (though not exclusively) have found their life partner, or have begun growing their own family. A move to the suburbs is often less determined by age and more by stage of life, which can happen at different times for different people. There are lots of young adults/millennials we need to invest in, they just happen to no longer be singles living in the city. For the Jewish community, as we focus on millennials, I would argue that we need to begin investing (in earnest) more significantly in the engagement of young couples and young families as the area of priority. I suggest that we, in suburban synagogues, cannot be complacent bystanders, watching, waiting and assuming that people will reach a “natural” point of reengagement with the Jewish community when they start to grow their family in the suburbs. This is far from a given in today’s world and there is a real need to develop more programs and services to engage this group of millennials. As we seek to engage with this group, we need to recognize that we cannot simply assume that they will fit neatly into the community structures and programs we already have. Just because something worked for Boomers or Gen X, we shouldn't imagine our programs and events by visiting
that it will prove compelling or attractive to millennials, especially as we are emerging from a pandemic. Far too often the work that has been done by the Jewish community in the suburbs has sought to engage young adults with pre-existing programs, rather than asking them what they actually want from Jewish life in the suburbs.
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As part of an Upstart program, I had the opportunity to engage with a few young families in our local area to actually ask them what they are looking for, not specifically in terms of Judaism, but in relation to community and connection. What became clear is that (perhaps unsurprisingly) these young adults want to connect with people of a similar age and stage of life in their local community. They are also primarily looking for social programming where they can spend time together as couples or with their children. Jewish content and learning were not a top priority, although there was a willingness to engage with this content if it would help provide them with social engagement, community, and connection.
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Temple Shir Tikva has established the L’Dor v’Dor (from Generation to Generation) Legacy Society to recognize and honor those who make commitments to Shir Tikva through their estate plans. It is through these meaningful gifts that we will ensure that Shir Tikva flourishes, and what better way to do it than through our wills. As you think about your future plans, we hope that you will consider joining us by ncluding Temple Shir Tikva in your estate plans.
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