THE ACTORS’ TEMPLE

Announcements – Week of December 30, 2013

1. SHABBAT PM, Friday 1/3, 7 PM: Service & Oneg Shabbat with The New Synagogue
2. SHABBAT AM, Saturday, 1/4, 10:30 AM: Service, Discussion, & Oneg, Parashat Vayera
3. LOOKING AHEAD: Jewish Music Series: Vox Hebraica, Tu B’Shevat Seder, A new partnership, & more!
4. EDUCATION: Hebrew School for Children Mondays; No Torah Study this Wednesday.
5. THANK YOU, DONATIONS, & GIVING
6. HEALTH & HEALING
7. YAHRZEIT AND KADDISH
8. NOTEWORTHY EVENTS: Stone & Stone, Heidi Latsky Dance, Women’s Talent Show, Louise Poster’s shows; AT Shows: Black Angels Over Tuskegee, Cuff Me, 50 Shades of Grey, It’s Just Sex, & Honestly Abe; June Stern. Dr. Dalita Rubenstein, Celeste Wiseblood, Valerie Brown, seek clients

THIS WEEK

• SHABBAT, Friday, January 3rd at 7 PM: Service & Oneg Shabbat with The New Synagogue. Beginning 1/3, The New Synagogue will be joining with The Actors’ Temple each first Friday of the month, and as many more as they would like to attend. Rabbis Roger Ross & Scott Matous, Cantors Judy Steel and Jeanie Kwartler and their members will worship with us. We commemorate the Yahrzeits of: Martha Shyatt Libien (1Shevat), Mitchell Fastow (2), Hinda Belsky (4) Bertha Libien (6), Katelin Fried Stark (7) Charles Peimer (8).
• SHABBAT AM Saturday, January 4th, 10:30 AM Service, Discussion, & Oneg Shabbat, Parashat Bo.
  

 LOOKING AHEAD

• Announcing a New Concert Series: Vox Hebraica opens its inaugural season at The Actors' Temple with a double bill featuring the renowned NYC-based Klezmer bands, Metropolitan Klezmer and Isle of Klezbos, Friday, 1/10. 9 PM. Tickets $15; $10/Stu/Srs, APAP & Actors' Temple members/congregants Free or by donation. This series has been created and is curated by Marina Kifferstein.
• Shabbat Service for the Performing Community, 2nd Fridays at 6 PM. Next Service 1/10.
• Two Synagogues Come Together: Beginning 1/3, The New Synagogue will be joining with The Actors’ Temple each first Friday of the month, and as many more as they would like to attend. Rabbis Roger Ross & Scott Matous, Cantors Judy Steel and Jeanie Kwartler and their members will worship with us. We welcome them and look forward to many celebrations in the future!
  
• Tu B’Shevat Seder, Friday, January 17th, 6:30 PM. Seder, Music by James Besser, Piano, and Dinner. Lilly Galperin will play a program: Songs from Around the World during dinner.
• Help Requested: SPONSORS needed for the Tu B’Shevat Seder and people to set up and clean up. Please contact Rabbi Jill to help or to donate. Thank you.
• Bar Mitzvah of Nathaniel Gonzalez, Saturday, January 18th. Kiddush sponsored by the Gonzalez family. 
• Next Children’s Service: 1/24 at 6:30 PM.

WELCOME NEW MEMBER

We welcome Rochelle Kane, our newest member. Thank you so much for joining our synagogue!

EDUCATION

• WEEKLY TORAH STUDY for Adults: Join us Wednesdays, 7:30-9:30 PM, studying in English with Rabbi Jill at 96th Street. Reading the Book of Exodus.  No class this Wednesday, 1/1.
• Hebrew School for K-5 Mondays at 4 PM; Bar/Bat Mitzvah registration ongoing.

THANK YOU AND DONATIONS

• Thank you to: Aron Bederson, Andrew Berkman, Barbara Bova, Sally Gerity, Ira Helf, Peter & Stacy Hochfelder, Hilda Jaffe, Greg & Karin Kayne, David Rothblatt & Judith Steel for your kind donations.
• Special thanks to Barbara Bova, David Bier, and others for setting up and cleaning up our Shabbat services. We really appreciate your help. Thank you to Daniel Miller for maintaining the website.
• Sponsor an Oneg Shabbat or a Musical Service in honor of any Life Cycle event such as: Birthdays, Anniversaries, Births, Graduations, Aufruf, Bar/Bat Mitzvah, Wedding, or any Simcha or event.
• A leaf on our Tree of Life Plaque, is only $180. Chair Plaques can be personalized and donated.
• Please also consider remembering The Actors’ Temple in your will. We are available for Memorial Services and we have Cemetery Plots in New Jersey. Please call or email.

HEALTH AND HEALING

R'fuah Sh'lema to: Valerie Brown, Milton Platt, Adela Svei, Judith Tedeschi, Dalita Rubenstein, Phyllis Malamud, Matt Clark, Ronnie Eulau, Lois Libien, David Belsky, Maya Demri, Joseph Kashangaki, Alan Bergman,  Zell Schwartzman, Mark Kigler, Liz Strickoff, Sally Gerity, Carole Elfman, Steven Gellman, Elinor & Wendy Rosenthal, and Alan Bandler. We pray they will be well again soon.

YAHRZEITS AND KADDISH

• We remember (Heb. Date of Passing–Tevet: Martha Shyatt Libien (1Shevat), Mitchell Fastow (2), Hinda Belsky (4) Bertha Libien (6), Katelin Fried Stark (7) Charles Peimer (8) 1/3; Philip Greenberg (14) Meyer Libien (15) 1/10; Rebecca Horbund (18); Ruth Langfelder Harris (21), David Rosner (1/17), Father of Su Nissan(1/22), Emily Rantz (1/17), 1/17; Abraham Diamond, Albert Rothstein, Edward Helf (25), Charles Teitelbaum (1/25), Jonas Speciner (1/27), 1/24; Frances Friedman (29), Barry Linden (29), Irving Lerner (29), Jenee Bandler (30), 1/31. Gertrude Speciner (2/11), Harry Crysostomas, 2/7; Natalia Galperin, 2/21.          
• We recall for Kaddish: Michael Rubenstein, Beatrice Friedman, Louis Salko, Roselyn Kessler, Bernard Thaler, Joshua Caruso, Lila Ruth Diamond, Mark Landers, Lorraine May Rubenstein, John Nicholson, Alfonso Ragland, Helen Turner, Ted Tedeschi, Marilyn Rosenthal, Jan Berger, Fred Winters, Regina Reznik, Herschl Koblenz, Linda Bockhold, Miriam Silver, Arnold Rosner.

NOTEWORTHY EVENTS

• The Stone and Stone Show, 12/30, 8 PM, The PIT, 123 E. 24th St., (Park – Lex), $10 Tickets, no drink min.
• Vox Hebraica, A new Jewish Music Series, opens its inaugural season at the Actors' Temple: a double bill featuring the renowned NYC-based Klezmer bands, Metropolitan Klezmer and Isle of Klezbos, 1/10, 9 PM.
• Heidi Latsky Dance performs a new work at West End Theatre, 1/24-26, Soaking Wet series, 263 W. 86th St. (B’way - W. End). Tickets $20, $15 artists/stu/srs.  
• Tomatoes Got Talent: Randie Levine-Miller & Cheryl Benton present the first talent show for women over 40: those who were pros and those in other fields. Apply www.thethreetomatoes.com/talent.html  by 1/4 for audition on 1/11 & show on 1/21 at Stage 72/Triad.
• Phyllis & Mark Marmer of Katz Jewelers will donate 10% of sales/repairs to the temple, for members. 212 697-0655, 237 Park Ave. (46th), specializing in watch & jewelry repair and custom work.
• Louise Poster sings Tues-Fri at L’ybane Restaurant & at Broadway Thai. Sat-Mon.’s. No Covers, 1 Drink min.
• AT Theatre’s shows: It’s Just Sex (about marriage), Cuff Me, 50 Shades of Grey, a parody of an infamous book, also Black Angels Over Tuskegee, & (for kids) Honestly Abe. Telecharge.com or 212/239-6200.
• Valerie Brown, 212 496 6484, available for big cleaning projects. Call Rabbi Jill for Valerie’s contact information. Dr. Dalita Rubenstein seeking psychotherapy clients (sliding scale), 212-627-8624; June Stern seeking tutoring students, Pre-K to 5th.Celeste Wiseblood seeking hypno/psychotherapy clients 917-833-8885.

HAVE A WONDERFUL AND BLESSED WEEK !