THE ACTORS’ TEMPLE

Announcements – Week of September 9, 2013

This Week

• Broadway Blessing, Monday, September 9th, 7 PM, Little Church Around the Corner, 1 East 29th Street, with: Melissa Errico, Christiane Noll, Rich Swingle, and Rabbi Jill.

• KOL NIDRE: Friday, 9/13 at 6:30 PM. Cantorial Intern Aron Bederson returns to assist Rabbi Jill, with James Besser at the piano, Marina Kifferstein, violin, plays Kol Nidre.  We commemorate the Yahrzeits of: Doris Tuvim (10), Rose Orenstein (14), Thelma Feld, (15)  and William Seif (15).

• YOM KIPPUR: Saturday, 9/14, 10 AM. Yizkor at 1 PM; Mincha and N’ila at 5:15. Break the Fast at 7:45. Children’s Service provided on Saturday, 10:30 – 12:30,. Come Celebrate the Holy Days with us! A spiritual beginning for your New Year! No one is ever turned away.

• Children’s Service for Yom Kippur 10:30 – 12:30, Saturday 9/14.

• Sukkot Package Delivery, 9/15: Please contact Michael Verdel or Florence Cohen to participate, through Dorot.

• PLEASE write a review on YELP of our services and mention a Free Rosh Hashanah Service for the Community. Thank you very much!

• IMPORTANT: Anyone who opted out of our regular mailings, please email Rabbi Jill directly at hausjill@aol.com to receive the Holy Days mailing. Purchasing Holy Days tickets online has been enabled.

Looking Ahead

• Peace Day Party Live, Times Square, Saturday, September 21: Noon-12:30 PM; produced by Paul Sladkus. Early service, 10 AM so we can participate in the worldwide moment of silence for peace & sing-a-long.

• Erev Sukkot, Wednesday, September 18, 7 PM

• Sukkot Morning, Thursday, September 19, 10:30 AM

• Potluck in the Sukkah on Shabbat Sukkot, Friday, September 20th. Dinner at 6, Service at 7. Please bring a dairy/veggie dish to share. Lilly Galperin plays piano at 6:30, Songs from Around the World.

• Broadway Cares Fights Aids Flea Market, Sunday, September 22. Please contact Michael Verdel or Barbara Bova, or email Rabbi Jill to sign up for two hour slots, from 9 AM to 6 PM.

• Shemini Atzeret, Thursday, 9/26, 10:30 AM; and Simchat Torah, Friday, 9/27, 7 PM.

• Children’s Services for the Fall: 6:30-7 PM on 10/18 & 12/13; 10-10:30 AM on 11/16. All are invited!

Education

• Actors’ Temple Hebrew School Open School Night for current and prospective parents and kids, Monday, September 16th, 6:30 PM. Come meet our new teacher! Find out about Children’s Shabbat Services too.

• Our new Hebrew School teacher is Phyllis Marmer, whose son went to PPAS, in the neighborhood and who has extensive experience teaching kids about Judaism. Classes begin on September 16th.

• Hebrew School for K-5 Mondays at 4 PM; Bar/Bat Mitzvah registration ongoing. Hebrew School website, by Noah Hichenberg. If there is sufficient demand, we will have a second class for the younger grades.

• WEEKLY TORAH STUDY for Adults: Resumes in October. Join us Wednesdays, 7:30-9:30 PM, studying in English with Rabbi Jill at 96th Street. Reading the Book of Exodus.

Thank You and Donations

• Thank you to Aron Bederson and James Besser, for all the services; to Ilan Abikhzir and Aaron Hawkins for the shofar, to Aimee Beyda, Judy Buchman, Harry Ellison, Fred Fastow, , Fred Hechinger, Sarah Labiner, Daniel Miller, for participating in the Creative Service; to speakers Bob Greenberg, Jonathan Lovitz, and June Stern. Thank you to all who ushered, set up, and cleaned up: Barbara Bova, the Felds, June Stern, Michael Verdel, Thank you to our Board of Directors, President Bob Reicher, Larry Roberts, Facilities Manager, and Angel Viloda, Superintendent. Thank you to many others who helped and served!

• Thank you to Su Nissan for sponsoring the Oneg on Erev Rosh Hashana, in honor of her birthday.

• Special thanks to David Bier, Barbara Bova, Michael Verdel, and others for setting up and cleaning up our Shabbat services. We really appreciate your help. Thank you to Daniel Miller for 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 & Healing

R'fuah Sh'lema to: 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, Fred Winters, Marjorie Conn, and Ruth Krausman. We pray they will be well again soon.

Yahrzeits & Kaddish

• We remember: (Heb. Date of Passing–Elul & Tishri): Doris Tuvim (10), Rose Orenstein (14), Thelma Feld, (15) William Seif (15), 9/13; Lillian Berger (16), Annie Spegal (17), Dr. Merrill Goodman (19), 9/20; Leo Simon (23), Larry Levine (25), Ruth Tobin (29), Harry Waldman (29), 9/27.

• We recall for Kaddish: Howard Strowman, Shirah Kober Zeller. Dorothy Platt, George Greenstein, Louis Strowman, Michael Rubenstein, Menashe Benyaminov, 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.
  

Noteworthy Events

• Randie Levine-Miller’s Broadway Showstopper Divo’s – A Swell Party, Monday, 9/16, 7 PM, Metropolitan Room, http://metropolitanroom.com/show.cfm?id=92947.

• Poetry Reading with Harry Ellison, Wednesday, 9/11, 11 AM, Kew Gardens Community Center, Rm A.

• Mah Jongg, The Musical, by and with Mimi Scott, 10/3, 10, 17, 24; 7 PM, Don’t Tell Mama; $16+2 Drinks.
  

• Dave Konig hosts the (private) Friars Club Benefit, 9/18. Mazel Tov!

• Louise Poster sings at Lybane Restaurant Tues. & Fridays, 9-12, 709 8th Ave.(44-45)212-582-2012; Mondays with the Rick Bogart Trio, The Hudson Eatery, 601 W. 57th St.(11th-12th Aves.) 6:30-9:30 PM, One 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 is available for cleaning projects (closets, stoves, refrigerators). 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!