Hebrew/Yiddish Eye Chart
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Mendocino E-Megillah
Mendocino Coast Jewish Community February 2011
(5771)
The Jewish Center (Shul) is
located at 15071 Caspar Road, Caspar CA.
The MCJC can be reached at
(707) 964-6146
Mail can be sent to PO Box 291,
Little River, CA 95456
website: http://www.mcjc.org email: mcjcmegillah@mcjc.org PDF Version: http://www.mcjc.org/mjoldart/Megillah/MJMM0000.htm Facebook: MCJC - Mendocino Coast Jewish Community MCJC Kids |
Rabbi’s Notes: Maintaining A Jewish Infrastructure
I’m going to do something which I don’t
usually do here: write about money. This isn’t an ask;
it’s a mull. But I’m aware as I write that this comes
at the time when the good folks who organize our Jewish
community for us are asking...I had a chat recently with friends who live somewhere else. They were reflecting on how they give tzedaka in their family. One particular question they were asking could be phrased, I think, something like: ‘In a community and world of such enormous need, where should contributing to the local shul’ [they actually used another, bigger-city term] ‘fit in to our priorities?’
As it happens, I’ve been chewing on this question ever since our tzedaka series at the shul last year, and it’s been one of those little questions that opens for me into bigger and bigger questions. I remember the panel we held to open that series last year, in which four or five of people in our community spoke about how they make their tzedaka decisions. Each speaker had a different approach: one only gives to individuals, another only to organizations. One looks to foster social change; another wants to meet immediate needs, and so on.
As you all know, I meticulously don’t know who contributes to MCJC. (Here’s a tip of my kippah to the effort which our Board extends to keep it this way! That policy is a small but crucial part of our vision of MCJC as a community encompassing everyone without preference.) Still, I might guess that a number of people on the panel that night do in fact contribute to MCJC -- but they didn’t mention it. If this were a sample of thousands instead of a sample of five, it would lead me to hypothesize that, while people may find it important to support their religious community, they don’t see this support as part of their charitable giving. Which is an interesting little hypothesis.
For ten points: how is contributing to a shul, or a church or a mosque or a sangha, different from contributing to (to pick a noble charity at random) Doctors Without Borders? Or our local Food Bank? One answer might be that we hope never to need the services of Doctors Without Borders or the Food Bank. So contributing there has an air of impeccability which is different than contributing to sustain a resource that we do use ourselves. It’s for others, needier than ourselves.
How then is supporting a shul different than paying dues to a health club? Well, with the health club, once you flake out on your exercise program, you stop paying dues. And the qualms you feel are not about the nobility of the health club enterprise and its reliance on your generosity but about what you should be doing (Zumba) versus what you actually are doing (lying on the couch.) So contributing there is strictly fee-for-service. It has very little moral content.
I think that the shul/church/mosque/sangha occupies an interesting middle space between the purely altruistic charity and the purely fee-for-service business. It’s an institution that we do use ourselves, or maybe think we should use ourselves. It’s not really for someone else. But it has a kind of moral weight which feels a little more serious than does the health club. We have some funny, hard to pin down need for the shul to be there, however little or much we partake. (One might or might not say the same of theater, opera, museums...)
I actually think that a better metaphor than either the food bank or the health club and contributions thereto is that religious institutions are like the government, and our contributions are like taxes. Sounds weird, I know -- but stay with me a minute.
Until the modern era the local Jewish community was the government of the Jews. A feudal lord somewhere might demand payments, but schools, hospitals, care for the poor, marrying and burying, culture, crime prevention, defense, not to even mention religious life -- all these were the purview of the local village council, beit din or whatever. There was very little distinction between responsibility for the bodies and responsibility for the souls of the community’s Jews. Jewish law covered banking, home construction and the content of marriage contracts no more and no less than it did the timing of Shabbat or the shape of the shofar.
Once the Emancipation happened, Jews could be, and more or less had to be, citizens of nations. And at this point, one might say, a kind of psychic separation began between the purview of the government -- which was largely, though not entirely, on the physical plane -- and religious institutions, which became -- largely but not entirely -- the address for matters of the soul.
Mordecai Kaplan, the founder of the Reconstructionist movement, said famously (well, famously to Reconstructionist rabbis anyhow) that Jews today live in two civilizations. And we’re constantly moving back and forth between them. We live in secular civilization and we live in Jewish civilization both. Secular civilization does everything we know it does, for good and for ill. And Jewish civilization does some things we see and some maybe we don’t. It’s a huge oversimplification to say that the Jewish community administers services to the soul. But it’s not totally off-base either. The Jewish community, like other religious institutions, sees to the moral, cultural and spiritual development and nurture of its constituents.
We don’t usually think of the taxes we pay to the government as tzedaka. But in an important way they are. They are the vehicle through which our secular civilization pays for its enterprises of maintaining the bodies (and to some extent the minds and hearts) of its constituents. In fact I was surprised last year, when doing some research on tithing, to learn that something like half of the Federal budget goes to safety net programs, if you include Social Security and Medicare in the equation (only about 9% if you don’t.) We may be appalled by how our taxes are disbursed. We may see the need for revolution! But I don’t think many of us would feel it right to have a world in which there was no social entity charged with organizing how we care for each other in need, educate our children or build and maintain infrastructure bigger than our own home, and no responsibility to pay taxes to support all this.
Okay, now let’s try the tax analogy on the Jewish community. The infrastructure which religious groups build and maintain isn’t as tangible as roads and bridges, because it has to do more with the spirit. Religious institutions of all kinds build and maintain calendars of celebration and introspection. We build community. We build moral education. We build structures for people passing through life transitions. We provide soul support, and some amount of resource, to the enterprise of caring for people who fall through the safety net. We provide access to traditional texts and practices designed to accomplish all of these things. Like the government we may do it well or poorly. Our very ideas may be wise or ridiculous, life-affirming or divisive and dangerous, in the eyes of any viewer. There are certainly times for revolution in the religious world, even in little old MCJC. But I think that many of us understand the need for there to be some kind of social institution charged with nurturing and maintaining souls.
Okay, dear friends, it’s time for me to step away from the computer and make some pretty things for the table for Tu B’shevat. Not exactly roads and bridges (or tanks or rockets), but hopefully something tiny that feeds a little morsel to the soul of the world.
- Rabbi Margaret Holub © 2011
Mussar and More Mussar
The thirteen-week Mussar Workout will meet EVERY Tuesday in February (and every Tuesday in March and the first Tuesday in April) from 5:30 to 7:00 PM, with a mincha service at 5:00 for those who wish. Our new, mussar-dik policy is to start right at 5:30 -- come a little early to get yourself a cup of tea and get settled. (mh)
What is a Good Death?
The final Death Class will meet on Thursday, February 3, from 5:30 to 7:00 PM. the topic will be, “What is a good death?” All are welcome to attend. (mh)
Hevra Kadisha Training
Our Hevra Kadisha (group which cares for the dead) will be holding a training on Sunday, February 27, 2:00 - 5:00 PM at the shul. We will review the procedures for taharah, the ritual washing and dressing of a person who has died. Those who are considering participating in this mitzvah will certainly want to attend the training; it will also be useful for those who have already performed taharah in the past, as we can both share our wisdom and also make sure that we all are on the same page with each other about how to do the ritual. Please let Margaret know if you are planning to come, so we will have the right amount of materials -- 937-5673 or mholub@mcn.org. (mh)
It's Time to Start Your Holiday Gift Collection!
With Hanukkah fresh in our memories, it's a good time to remember that Purim is the traditional gift-giving holiday in Jewish tradition. And the classical form is shalach manos (in the European pronunciation) or mishloach manot in Israeli Hebrew -- literally "sent portions" -- a plate or box of goodies which you give to your friends and neighbors to usher in the Purim spirit. You may not even know that for many years now MCJC has sent a box of shalach manos to all our students away at college, to remind them of home and the holiday.
Our community's friend Ellen Robin, down in Sonoma County, is the mistress of brilliant shalach manos. She collects little goodies all year long. Sometimes I get a box in the mail with a couple of treats in it: a dried persimmon from her tree, a little pad of paper held together with a cereal box-top and a popsicle stick, a couple of hamantaschen and always a cartoon or two or three... I always laugh and laugh when I open the box.
Every year I mean to follow Ellen's good example and start saving fun stuff for shalach manos. And I always mean to put something in the February Megillah to encourage you to do the same. And look -- this year I remembered! So here's a little reminder, if you're into it, to start tucking away little surprises to make your friends laugh. Then, of course, there is the problem of remembering to actually give them out. (Purim is March 20th, so that string on my finger is going to have to last awhile...) Happy well-before-Purim, Margaret. (mh)
MCJC Board Meeting Dates
The next MCJC Board meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, February 16th. If you would like to attend the meeting please call the shul at 964-6146. (mc)
Mitzvah Freezer
Now that winter is in full force don’t forget to make use of the freezer if you need some comfort food. If you need food from the freezer contact one of the Bikkur Cholim committee Mina at 937-1319 or mcohen@mcn.org, Fran Schwartz at 937-1352 or franamie@cs.com, or Karen Rakofsky at 937-5522 or nerak@mcn.org. You can access the freezer anytime. (mc)
Kabbalat Shabbat
In February we will be celebrating our home Kabbalat Shabbat and dinner on Friday, February 18th at the home of Polly Green in Mendocino. Please call her at 937-3478 for directions and to let her know you are coming. In March our hosts will be Ron and Marnie Press at their home in Mendocino. The monthly Kabbalat Shabbat includes a song-filled short service that begins at 6:00 pm and is followed by a pot luck vegetarian dinner. If you would like to host this wonderful event in your home in future months, contact Mina at 937-1319. (mc)
Torah School
In February we will be meeting on February 4th (Tisch following) and again on the 18th. If your child has not attended in the past and would like to start contact Jessica at 937-2115 or mcop@mcn.org. (mc)
PJ Library
We are still accepting sign ups for the PJ Library, a free book each month for any child in our community between the age of 6 months and 8 years old. Contact Mina at mcohen@mcn.org if you want to sign up. The deadline is the 20th of the month.
Book Group
The book group
will meet Monday, February 21st at 3:00 pm at Joanne
Dickson’s home in Mendocino. Please call Fran Schwartz
at 937-1352 if you wish to join us. We will be reading
“The Finkler Question” by Howard Jacobson. This book won
the Man Booker Prize last year. “The Finkler Question”
is a scorching story of friendship and loss, exclusion
and belonging, and of the wisdom and humanity of
maturity. The book is described as funny, furious, and
unflinching. Books are available at Cheshire Books with
a 10% discount if you say you are in the MCJC book
group. In March we will be reading “Betraying Spinoza”
by Rebecca Goldstein. (mc)Yiddish Culture Festival in Santa Rosa - February 27th
A Yiddish Culture Festival is being held in Santa Rosa on 02/27/2011 at the Santa Rosa Veterans Memorial Building. Sponsored by the JCC of Sonoma County, there will be a Klezmer dance festival, food and other events. For additional information, please see http://www.jccsoco.org/index.php?src=gendocs&ref=SimchaSunday&category=AnnualEvents (mc)
Appetizers prepared by MCJC’s finest cooks at 6:00 pm Dinner at 7:00 pm Great selection of local wines included Salad of Baby Greens with Basil Vinaigrette and Flowers *** Ratatouille with White Beans & Mushroom Timballo or Duck Breast with Ratatouille & White Beans *** Strawberry Rhubarb Cobbler *** Coffee and Tea Service $50.00 per person
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Movie Night: Grace Paley, Collected Shorts
Our first film
night of the year will be Saturday, March 5th at 7:30
pm. Grace Paley: Collected Shorts brings to life the
momentous times in which this author and activist lived
and worked. Her work has been translated into 92
languages. She was a firebrand on the front line of
protest. She opposed war and nuclear proliferation, and
fought for the rights of women, which often landed her
in jail. As a teacher she influences generations of
writers. Grace Paley is a New York icon whose life
attests to the possibility that one person can combine
public responsibility with individual creativity.
Filmmaker Lily Rivlin directed this film and it has
received awards at the Woodstock Film Festival, Denver
Film Festival, and has been shown at the San Francisco
Jewish Film Festival. Tickets will be sold at the door
for $10/8 seniors. Refreshments will be available as
always. Trailer available online at http://www.gracepaleythefilm.com/paleytrailer.htmlTisch
Our February Tisch will be Friday, February 4th 6:00 pm. Come and enjoy a Shabbat meal, delicious challah baked by our torah school students. This is a multi-generational gathering. Greet your old friends, make some new ones, and enjoy a vegetarian meal prepared by our own Ruby Gold. If you are so inclined you can bring dessert, otherwise just bring yourself. (mc)
Prayer Book Dedications
If you would like to honor or remember someone, a dedication plate can be inserted in one of our prayerbooks at the shul. Cost for this is $36. Please include information that you would like on the book plate when you send your donation to P.O. Box 291, Little River 95456.
Sheltering The Unsheltered
MCJC participated in the Interfaith Community's effort to provide assistance to the unsheltered this past December.
We opened our shul during the week that included the Christmas holiday, to a group of men that numbered from 4 to 10 per night, when severe weather occurred. This turned out to include the entire week. The men who were screened by the Coast Community Center arrived via a Mendocino County van at the shul after dinner at the Hospitality House, where they were met by someone from MCJC. A representative from the Coast Community Center spent the night at the shul. Following clean up very early in the morning, the van picked up everyone and returned them to the Hospitality House for breakfast.
The men enjoyed watching videos and snacking on home made cookies, popcorn and soda that members of the community dropped off for them. They were wonderful guests, and extremely grateful to be given shelter. The shul felt safe, warm and welcoming to them. It was an honor to have them stay with us.
Special thanks to Pamela Duncan and her family who dropped off treats for the men, and met the van in the morning to close up the shul after it's departure. Our thanks to Nina Ravitz who shared this responsibility as well.
MCJC is grateful for the opportunity to assist in this program which builds community in our own Jewish community, and in our community at large. We will sign up for another week later in the winter, although continued funding for this program is in jeopardy because of budget cuts. - Joan Katzeff
TODAH RABAH! (Great Thanks)
For The Following Generous Contributors Who in the Last Month Helped Sustain Our Community
Michael &
Sharon Shapiro; Ceril Lisbon; Sandy Glicjfeld: Peter
& Alicia Kafin; Ruby Gold; Marnie & Ron Press;
Dr Jeff Berenson & Mina Cohen.In Memory of Shira Stern by Dianna Paviso Stern.
(dm)
(the following was submitted by Hyla Bolsta in response to January's Rabbi's Notes)
DAVEN, DAVNEN
Daven is the usual Yiddish word for “to recite prayers.” It refers specifically to the Jewish style of worship, where each word of the prayer text is spoken, either quietly in private or aloud in chant.
The word daven is used only by Jews of Eastern European origin. While very widespread in later Yiddish (and Judeo-English), it makes its first textual appearances among Lithuanian Jews in the 16th and 17th centuries. many theories have been offered to explain the origins of this term, which is not cognate to any usage in German, Hebrew, or any of the Slavic languages, which are the usual roots of Yiddish. Some have tried to relate it either to Latin divinus (“divinity”) or to the English “dawn.”
A most interesting (though unproven) theory connects daven to a similar-sounding Lithuanian word meaning “gift.” The claim is that the word is a direct Lithuanian translation of the Hebrew minhah, the afternoon service, but literally meaning “offering” or “gift.” Of the three daily prayer services, so the theory goes, only the minhah prayers often had to be recited in public, when Jews in the marketplace were seen praying by their non-Jewish neighbors. In the course of excusing themselves for prayer or explaining to their neighbors or customers what they were doing, Jews hit upon the word daven, a literal translation of minhah. Over the years it was incorporated into Yiddish speech.
This is an interesting theory. In any case, it carries with it the very Jewish notion that prayer replaces sacrifice and that to pray is, in fact, to give a gift, to make a verbal offering to God. The heart becomes an alter.
excerpted from THESE ARE THE WORDS: A Vocabulary of Jewish Spiritual Life, by Arthur Green, Jewish Lights Publishing, Woodstock, VTMendocino Maven
Planning is afoot for the Annual
MCJC Dinner in March. This is always a lot of fun
and is an important fund raiser for the community.
One almost inevitably has the chance to catch up
with old friends and make new ones. Harriet
reminds me that it usually sells out, so please
make your reservations in advance and save Harriet
the tsuris of trying to squeeze you in at the last
moment. :-) Mimosa Montag is continuing to rock the Bay Area fashion world, having recently moved to another subsidiary of VFC. Mimosa has moved from JanSport to lucy Activeware as a Marketing Production Coordinator. She has already been recognized with the prestigious Super Banana Award at lucy for her work on their Spring 11 Marketing campaign. Mazel Tov!.
A somewhat belated Mazel Tov goes out to Marinela Miclea on the birth of her second son Olivier Simon, who was born on October 2, 2010. We hope to see both boys in shul before long.
During the month of Shevat, there was a show of Andrea Luna's art at the Shul in honor of the New Year of the Tree, Tu B'shevat. The works "Branched Poem/Bracha" #1 and 2 ("Nishmat" and " Shehechiyanu for Spring") interweave Hebrew blessings and poetry on frameworks of saplings and branches. Bunches of bare branches represent the Tree in winter. Luna's "Picto-Haggadah for Tu B'shevat also made its yearly re-appearance on the east wall.
If you have simchas (joys) that you would like to share with the community, please email maven@mcjc.org.
The Megillah: Email or Hardcopy; Have it your way
The Mendocino Megillah is published in two formats: the hardcopy format which is optimized for printing on 8 1/2 x 11 inch paper and the HTML format which is formatted for easier reading on a computer display. You can subscribe to the hardcopy version and have it mailed to you, you can subscribe to the email version or you can receive both. If you want to change the way you receive the Megillah please email Myra at myrah@mcn.org or leave a message at the shul 964-6146.
BTW, the E-Megillah is posted on the MCJC website at
http://www.mcjc.org/mjoldart/Megillah/MJMM0000.htm (rge)
Shabbat Minyan
Every Saturday morning starting at 10:30a, there is a Shacharit (Morning) Service at the shul in Caspar, usually led by Rabbi Margaret Holub. The service is in English and Hebrew, including a short reading from the Torah scroll, but you don't need to know Hebrew to participate. It is a small, variable, and welcoming group. If you have Kaddish to say or Gomel (for surviving a dangerous experience), want to say a prayer for healing for yourself or someone else, or just want a little spiritual recharge, please join us. The service usually ends around 12:30p with Kiddish. Margaret always says to come and leave whenever you want. Come as you are, and leave renewed. (rge)
Looking to the Future
From time to time members have given additional financial help to MCJC. Upon the sale of a home, stocks or some other positive financial event they have shared their good fortune. Also, several members have remembered MCJC in their wills. These generous acts insure the long term strength and sustainability of the Jewish Community and our shul here on the Coast.
We encourage you to do this if you can. (dm)
Subscription and Notification
If you would like to subscribe to this publication and/or receive email notifications for events, changes, or important news from MCJC contact Myra Beals at myrah@mcn.org or P.O. Box 1113, Mendocino. Let her know if you prefer to receive a printed Megillah coming in the USPS mail or by email (or both). If you would like to receive notifications by email please indicate that as well. Subscription to the Megillah is included with a contributing membership of $200. or more. A subscription alone to the newsletter is $25. per year. Checks can be made payable to MCJC and mailed to P.O. Box 291, Little River, CA. 95456. (mc)
Editorial Policy
The Mendocino Megillah is published monthly. The deadline for submission of articles is the 10th of the month before desired publication. The editor will include all appropriate material, space permitting with the exception of copyrighted material that does not have permission of the author. The material printed in the Megillah is not necessarily the policy or representative of the opinions of the Board of Directors of Mendocino Coast Jewish Community. Divergent opinions are welcome. (mc)
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to the MCJC can be sent to: MCJC, Box 291, Little River, CA 95456. Please specify if your contribution is in memory or honor of someone, and include your name and mailing address. Thanks! (dm) |
Using the Shul
If you are closing the shul please double check that the furnace, water heater and lights are all off and that all doors are locked when you leave. As a courtesy to our neighbors, please make sure that the lights are turned off in the front. THANKS! (rge)
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3 Death Class 5:30p |
4 Tisch
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5 Movie Night 7:30p Parashat TerumahRosh Chodesh Adar I |
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8 Mussar Class 5:00p |
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11 5:29p Candle lighting |
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15 Mussar Class 5:00p |
16 Board Meeting |
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18 Kabbalat Shabbat 6:00p Purim Katan5:37p Candle lighting |
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21 Book Club 3:00p |
22 Mussar Class 5:00p |
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25 5:44p Candle lighting |
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27 Hevra Kadisha Training 2:00pYiddish Culture Festival |
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| Rituals and Holidays (including Hevra Kadisha/Cemetery) | Joan
Katzeff* |
964-9161 | jkatzeff@mcn.org |
| Community Care (rides, help when ill) |
Fran Schwartz* |
937-1352 |
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| Outreach
(new
to the community) |
Susan
Tubbesing* |
962-0565
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susan.tubbesing@gmail.com |
| Culture (films/ speakers/ Women’s Retreat) | Harriet Bye* | 937-3622 | bysawyer@mcn.org |
| Education (adult and children/ library) | Stacy Pollina* | 961-6037 | stacyandjay@comcast.net |
| Treasurer
(finance and donations) |
Donna Montag* | 877-3243
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montag@mcn.org |
| Board Secretary |
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| Building Maintenance | Harriet Bye* | 937-3622 | bysawyer@mcn.org |
| Torah School | Jessica Grinberg | 937-2115 | mcop@mcn.org |
| Book Group | Fran
Schwartz * |
937-1352 | franamie@cs.com |
| Megillah Submissions and Website | Bob Evans | bobevans@mcjc.org | |
| Name
& Address, Subscription Changes |
Myra
Beals |
myrah@mcn.org |
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= board member
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