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Book of Memories

Edith Sokoloff – Fayga bat Mordechai – June 25, 2012

We are here today to mourn the passing but also to honor the life of Edith Sokoloff, beloved mother and grandmother. Edith was 95 going on 96 and she lived a long full life. While we mourn her we also know that this was her time and that life wasn’t life anymore. So we focus today not on her death but her life.

Edith was born in Boston on July 13, 1916, so she was almost 96 years old. She was the daughter of Max and Adela. Edith was the oldest and then came Helen Dolly and Jack. We mourn today with her sister Dolly and remember the late William, we mourn with her brother Jack and his wife Bessie and we remember her sister Helen with respect today.

She graduated high school. She was working at a cosmetic store and a young man asked her to go get a chicken salad sandwich. (more…)

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President's Message

July/August 2012: Opportunity to Introduce Myself

I would like to take this opportunity to introduce myself. I look forward to working together with you over the next few years. My wife Debby and I were married by Rabbi Scolnic and our children, Sara and Molly attended K’Tanim and Hebrew School at TBS. Debby has been a Kinderlach/ Primary 1 teacher in the Hebrew School over the past ten years. I grew up in Hamden. My parents were members of the Hamden Jewish Community Center in Centerville in the 40’s and 50’s and charter members of our Temple. My mother is also a member here at TBS.
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Israel Matters! / Uncategorized

IM Issue 60 – July/August 2012

U.S. Aides in Israel Give Assurances About IranPresident Obama and his senior advisers have said little publicly about Iran since the resumption of negotiations over its nuclear program in April, preferring to let the diplomats hash out the issues in the hope that tensions with Tehran can be managed, at least until the election in November. In Israel, however, the United States is saying plenty, with a stream of current and former officials traveling there to threaten additional sanctions on Iran and to reiterate President Obama’s readiness to use military action against Iran if diplomacy fails.click Israel Matters! 60 to read the complete issue.

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July 2012: Lihitr’ot from Evan


Did you know that some people consider there to be seven books of the Torah?  During one of the Rabbi’s recent Shabbat sermons, we learned that there is a portion in Numbers (Bamidbar) that is set off from the rest of the section with the letter Nun (one on each side, inverted like parentheses).  There are only a few lines in this section, and the midrash says that this would have been the final book if Israel had not committed the multitude of rebellious acts in the Sinai leading up to and around the time when Moses received the 10 commandments.  While there is a proper name for this book-that-did-not-happen, I have come to think of it as the Book of What Could Have Been. (more…)

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