Newsletter
2006-7 (5768)
Celebrate the High Holidays With Us!
September 2007
Rosh Hashanah evening Wednesday Sep 12 6 pm
Calvary Community Church
Rosh Hashanah morning Thursday Sep 13 10 am
Calvary Community Church
Shabbat Shuvah Friday Sep 14 5 pm
(Preceded by) Tashlich
Kalanikai Pavilion,
Kol Nidre Friday eve Sep 21 6 pm
Yom Kippur Saturday Sep 22 10 am
Yizkor 4:00 pm
Neilah 5:30 pm
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Sukkot Building Sunday Sep 23 11 am
Service Friday Sep 28 6 pm
Service Saturday Sep 29 10 am
All Sukkot celebrations at the Myhre’s home, Potluck Friday night , call 325-5140 for directions
Simchat Torah Sunday Oct 7 2 - 5 pm
YMCA Town Hall
All Big Island
Jewish communities invited
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KBS Annual Meeting Friday Eve Oct 26 4:30 pm
Kalanikai Pavilion (OKBR). Sabbath eve service follows meeting. Then Kiddush and potluck supper
Shabbat morning Saturday Oct 27 10 am
Your MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION / CONTRIBUTION FORM is included with this newsletter.
Call
Admission to all the High Holiday Services is free of charge for members of Congregation Kona Beth Shalom. There are no tickets. Non-members who wish to attend are asked to make a contribution to help defray the costs of bringing the Rabbi to Kona. No one will be turned away for inability to contribute.
Calendar
September - October 2007
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Kol Nidre |
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Build Sukkah |
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Sep 26 Sukkot begins |
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Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur Services will be conducted at
The
5768 High Holy Day Rabbi
Rabbi Daniel Lev
Daniel Lev began serving
the Jewish communities in
To
schedule a Monday, Sept 10 counseling session with Rabbi Lev, call
Wednesday, Sep
12, at 6:00 pm
Calvary Community
Church
Thursday, Sep 13, at 10:00 am
Rosh Hashanah marks the time when we Jews begin our annual process of renewal. We hear the sound of the shofar announcing the birthday of the world and use this special time to renew and revitalize our connections with our families and friends. New Years Resolutions have a special meaning for us as we seek inspiration for the coming years and also use the ten “Days of Awe” from Rosh Hashanah to Yom Kippur to ask forgiveness from people we may have offended. The greeting at this time is: L'shana tovah tikateivu, “May you be written into the Book of Life.”
FrIday, September 14, at 5:00 pm Keauhou Beach Resort – Kalanikai Pavilion
Shabbat Shuvah (between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur) is the “Sabbath of the (Re-) Turning.” A day of rest, contemplation and rejuvenation, as is every Sabbath, this particular Shabbat is the awesome time to return and reconnect to our heritage and to the gifts we were given and have only to claim. (No Saturday Service.)
Tashlich is the ceremony conducted at the water’s edge when we throw bits of bread or lint into the ocean as a symbolic act of casting sins away. We will start at 5 pm.
Friday, September
21, at 6:00 pm
Calvary Community Church
Saturday, September 22, at 10:00 am
As the sun sets on Friday evening we chant the Kol Nidre, a prayer written in ancient Aramaic containing a formula that asks Gd's forgiveness for any oaths or vows we have made to Gd that we have failed to keep. Our greeting changes to L'shana tovah tikateivu ve teichateimu or Gemar chatima tovah, “May you be sealed into the Book of Life,” because tradition tells us that we have until sundown on Yom Kippur before the Book of Life is finally sealed for the coming year.
Yom Kippur is the most solemn day in the Jewish calendar. We start fasting at sundown on Friday evening and continue until sundown Saturday to enable us to remain focused and free of distraction. We own up to our behaviors of the past year and we think about commitments we made, not just to others, but also to ourselves and to Gd. The Yom Kippur service begins at 10:00 am. There will be a break at around 1:00 pm and Rabbi Lev will lead an afternoon discussion session.
Yizkor (the Memorial Service) begins at 4:00 pm when we reconvene. When you send in your Membership Application / Contribution Form, please include the names of family and friends you wish to have remembered so that Rabbi Lev can recite their names at this time. Many people like to observe the tradition of donating tzedaka (charity) in the name of their loved ones.
Neilah is the concluding service for Yom Kippur.
We in
Sunday September 23 We gather to build the Sukkah.
Friday, September 28 at 6:00 pm
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 at 10:00 am Helen and Erwin Myhre’s Home, KAILUA-KONA
Sukkot begins on Wednesday evening, September 26, and continues for a full week. We will celebrate the holiday on Friday, September 28 for our regular Shabbat Eve service and Saturday, September 29 for our morning service in Kailua-Kona at the home of Helen and Erwin Myhre. For directions, please call 325 5140. We will gather under the Sukkah with the traditional lulav and esrog. Bring potluck to share on Friday night. The Saturday service will include our usual Kiddush.
Sunday, October
7, from 2 – 5
pm
This is
Other Exciting Events:
There are additional events planned with Rabbi Lev, including discussion groups and educational programs:
Monday, September 10, at 7:30 pm, High Holiday Sing-in with Rabbi Lev at the home of Joel Gimpel and Jan Rae, call 325-4991 for directions. Come practice the tunes and words in preparation for Rosh Hashanah.
Thursday, September 13, following services, Oneg sponsored by Ruth and Jason Kantrowitz in honor of the birth and naming of their daughter Emma, at the home of Aviva and Yehudah Plaut, call 322-9860 for directions.
Friday, September 14, at 11:00 am, Rosh Hashanah Study session with Rabbi Lev and Malka Walkover (Rebbetzin) at the home of Shari Berman and Alice Bratton, Potluck, RSVP/directions: 322-0659
Thursday, September 20, at 7:30 pm, yom kippur workshop with Rabbi Lev and Malka Walkover (Rebbetzin) The rabbi and rebbetzin will lead us in spiritual preparation for Yom Kippur.
To receive up-to-date news of these and
other events, be sure you’ve given us your e-mail address when you send in your
Membership / Contribution Form. Also
keep your eye on the West
Congregation Kona Beth Shalom’s Annual Meeting
The KBS Annual Meeting will take place prior to Friday night services on October 26 at 4:30pm at the Keauhou Beach Hotel, Kalanikai Pavilion. We’ll consider how we want our Congregation to move along in the coming year and elect Trustees to our Board. If you have suggestions or if you are interested in joining our Board, call Joel Gimpel (325-4991) and be sure to come to the meeting.
Our present Board is shown below with the dates that the trustees’ terms expire. Terms are for three years. Nominations will be accepted at this meeting. The maximum number of Board members is eighteen (not including the immediate past president).
Congregation Kona Beth Shalom’s Annual Meeting
Friday, October 26, from 4:30 – 6 pm Keauhou Beach Hotel
Sabbath services follow at 6 pm Kalanikai Pavilion
Everyone is welcome to join as the annual meeting. Friday evening Shabbat service begins at 6 pm following the meeting. A potluck supper follows.
Our present Board is shown below, with the dates that the trustees’ terms expire. Terms are for three years. The term of anyone elected or re-elected now will expire in September 2010, or 5771. Nominations will be accepted at this meeting. The maximum number of Board members is eighteen (not including the immediate past president).
Name of Trustee Term expires Name of Trustee Term expires
1. Ruth
Ader
5770 (2009)
10.
Lorraine
2. Marilyn Anderson 5769 (2008) 11. Paul Janes 5769 (2008)
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4. Michael Bernstone 5769 (2008) 13. Erwin Myhre 5770 (2009)
5. Barry Blum ** past president 14. Alan Pollak 5770 (2009)
6. Debera First* 5768 (2007) 15. Bob Rhée* 5768 (2007)
7. Joel Gimpel 5769 (2008) 16. Helen Salzberg* 5768 (2007)
8. Ruth Glatt 5770 (2009) 17. Noah Salzman 5770 (2009)
9. Una Greenaway 5769 (2008)
* Term ending now. Trustee standing for reelection. **Immediate past president.
the Year in Review -- Do you remember?
Our Congregation is blessed with enormous wealth in the form of members who work hard to support our activities and also who care about their commitment to Judaism enough to choose to celebrate their Bar and Bat Mitzvah with us. This year’s Newsletter does not display all the wonderful details of everyone’s activities but does include some of the most momentous occasions we have had the pleasure of celebrating.
What a year this has been! Since our November 5,
2006 Annual Meeting, at which we elected Ruth Glatt and Noah Salzman
and reelected Ruth Ader,
We gathered at the end of October for the first of several B’nei Mitzvah that took place in the last year. October was the adult Bar Mitzvah of KBS trustee Paul Janes. Paul led the entire service. Throughout the year, we celebrated the Bar and Bat Mitzvah of local residents and visitors, including: Madison Blau, Sierra Manker, Richard Chamberlin, Justin Garfield and Samuel Luchsinger.
December marked the retirement of Barry Blum as KBS president. Barry served us faithfully for over a decade. Our gratitude to Barry for all his many contributions is boundless. Shari Berman officially took over as president at the Board meeting on December 2.
Chanukah was celebrated with the community on December 17, and the party at the Outrigger Keauhou Beach Resort was a huge success with dancing and merriment.
Lois-ellin Datta, Ruth Glatt and Lorraine Highkin organized a Tribute to Barry
Blum on March 9. The event was held at the
The board decided to institute a program to welcome
visiting rabbis and cantors. Rabbi Hanna Sills made a special
presentation for the KBS Jewish Studies group at the home of Shari Berman
and Alice Bratton in early March. Later in the month, we invited Cantor
Kenneth Michael Cohen from
Once again we observed Pesach with a Seder led by Barry Blum and Shari Berman, attended by over 80 people, at the Outrigger Keauhou Beach Resort. At May 25-26 services, we celebrated the nuptials of Elana Olitsky & Noah Salzman with an oneg and an aliyah. They both read from the Torah.
Of course, none of the events, observances and celebrations during the year would have been possible without the dedication and service of our Board of Trustees, the members of the WaKoBeS (the women of Kona Beth Shalom) co-chaired by Jan Rae and Ruth Ader, the AlteKaKoBeS (the wise not-so-old men of Kona Beth Shalom) co-chaired by Erwin Myhre and Alan Pollak, and the many other volunteers who gave so much of their time and energy to our Congregation.
Yasher Koach to you all!! You are inspirations to all of us!
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Mahalo and Todah Rabah
We thank the Outrigger
Keauhou Beach Resort for their long-term commitment of support for our
Congregation. Way back in 1985, it was at the original Keauhou Beach Hotel that
we dedicated our precious Torah just after it arrived here from Westminster
Synagogue in
Mahalo to Yehudah Plaut for maintaining the KBS website. Many thanks to Judi Steinman for her extensive committee work. Thank you to Mike and Ruth Bernstone for their prayer book donations.
The KBS leyners
Thank you to all of the people
who chanted Torah for us this past year on the High Holy Days and Shabbat: Marilyn
Anderson,
HEBREW AND TORAH STUDY (HATS)
Activities include a
KBS Jewish Studies Group
Established in the summer of 2005, Kona Beth Shalom has a small study group made up of approximately twenty adults and teens. In March, Rabbi Hanan Sills made a presentation for our group that ended in a Havdalah service.
WaKoBeS (Wahines/Women of Kona Beth Shalom)
Contact Jan Rae (325-4991, janiamone@aol.com) or Ruth Ader (325-0008, rader36@yahoo.com) for more information on activities and get-togethers.
AlteKaKoBeS (“Wise Men”/Kane of Kona Beth Shalom)
Contact Ernie Knapp (714 423-0601, ebkeze@aol.com) for information.
Contact Vivienne Aronowitz in Waimea (885-3217, aronowitz@gmail.com) for information.
With
the deepest humility and with a commitment to honor the memories of our
departed ancestors, we have purchased a section of the
Jerry & Judy Rothstein are the only individuals who are
interred there at this time. There are spaces for eighteen more burials. Any
members of the congregation who wish to purchase burial plots in advance will
be able to do so. Jewish individuals and their family members who are not KBS
members may also purchase plots although the cost will be higher. Advance
purchases will be less costly than last minute arrangements. Burial in the cemetery
is restricted to individuals who are Jewish and their family members who may or
may not be Jewish.
You may contact Dr. Barry Blum (tel: 808 322-6004, or e-mail: drblum@aloha.net) for more
information.
Thank you to Barry who along with his wife, Gloria Blum, attended a chevra kadisha conference this past summer to familiarize themselves with the various customs of burial arrangements. We appreciate the information they have shared with us. We also thank Marilyn Anderson for her tireless phone calls and negotiations with the cemetery.
judaica
If you would like to purchase a kosher mezuzah
scroll prepared by Rabbi Druin, the sofer who restored our Torah, please
contact Judi Steinman (pbjxs@yahoo.com,
808 987-8752). Also for sale are beautiful glass mezuzah cases made by
Coming soon
Reb Zalman schachter-shalomi & eve Ilsen
We are extremely fortunate to have Reb Zalman,
considered one of the major founders of the Jewish Renewal Movement and his
wife, dynamic speaker, Eve Ilsen agree to visit us here in Kona area
next February. We are tentatively planning to hold a major Shabbaton the
weekend of March 15-17. There will be many other events planned around their
extended stay in
Get well soon
Continue to get well
R’Fuah Sheleima
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Y Erwin Myhre, getting stronger every day.
Y Mary Osborne
Y Nancy Satz
In Memoriam
Y Irwin Isaac Berman
Y Harry Highkin
Y Bernice Sylvia Weiner
May their memories always be a blessing
for their friends, their families, and for all of us.
Irwin Isaac Berman was born May 11, 1933 in
Bernice Sylvia Weiner was born January 22, 1918, in
Eileen Weiner
Harry Highkin beloved and devoted husband of
Joel Gimpel
A Pur Verter from the Congregation’s President
I have kept the term “Pur Verter” that Barry
always used for this note. Barry was quoting Rabbi Harry Halpern (of the East
Midwood Jewish Center in
One of our goals for the past year was to bring in
rabbis and cantors from other communities. I believe this has been quite
successful. All who have attended these programs have said they were rewarding.
I hope that we can continue to hold these events in the years to come. We have
received a lot of support from the congregation in opening their homes for
these activities. Thank you very much to all of you who hosted events. We
appreciate your support. It has been a source of amazement how such events seem
to spawn new events. Discussions during Rabbi Jack Gabriel’s visit with
us led to inviting Reb Zalman and Eve Ilsen to Kona. This is a
fabulous opportunity for all of us on the
I wish to thank those of you who help set up and clean up after our monthly services and all of the board and committee members that have organized activities throughout the past year. My wish for 5768 is that we encourage and inspire more of you to play an active role in Kona Beth Shalom. I’m sure there are ideas out there that we would love to hear about. I hope that you won’t be shy or hesitant to share them with us. I know we have new families here and more on the way. I welcome all of you newcomers, as well as those of you already established here, to bring your thoughts and talents to Kona Beth Shalom.
When I asked the National Jewish Outreach Program to send us 15 Hebrew books for our free adult Hebrew course last November, they were astonished. It was hard to believe we had that many people here in the middle of the Pacific who wanted to learn or brush up on prayer book Hebrew. I hope we can gather such a group again this year.
Rabbi Daniel Lev and the Rebbetzin, Malka Walkover will be joining us for the
upcoming High Holy Days. I look forward to seeing all of you at our services.
We are grateful to Pastor Deborah and David Rees-Thomas, et al.
at the
B'shalom v'ahava,
In peace and love
May 5768 being a sweet year for
all of us. May it be a year
of good health, peace and prosperity. On behalf of all
the members of Congregation Kona Beth Shalom,
--- L'Shana Tovah Tikateivu!!!
That's the news, folks.
This is the story of your Congregation, Kona Beth Shalom.
If you like what you read about here, please join us for the coming year.
If you have new ideas, share them with us.
Send in your Membership Application / Contribution Form now.
We are not complete without you!
Membership Application / Contribution Form
5768 (Sep. 2007 - Sep. 2008)
Your name:_______________________________________________________________
Name of Spouse or Partner:___________________________________________________
Children under 18, with names and dates of birth:_________________________________________
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Address: ______________________________________________________________________
City:
Home phone: _________________ Work phone: ________________ Fax: _________________
Mobile phone: ________________ E-mail: __________________________________________
please print all above clearly
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Membership Contribution: |
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r Sustaining Membership |
$360 |
Children under 18 |
complimentary |
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r Family Membership |
$270 |
r High Holiday Services only |
$60 per person |
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r Single Membership |
$160 |
r High Holiday Services (Kama'aina) |
$25 per person |
At Yizkor, please remember the following persons:
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r Yizkor Contribution $18 (or any amount): $ _________
r Hebrew and Torah Studies (HATS)
Children’s Hebrew Education Program: $ _________
r Building Fund Contribution: $ _________
Total enclosed: $ _________
Please make your check payable to Congregation Kona Beth Shalom and mail it along with this application to: Michael Bernstone
No one will be turned away from Services for inability to pay.
Please call Shari Berman (322-0659) or Joel Gimpel (325-4991) if you have any questions.
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