Remembering Cantor Asher Balaban, zâl (1923-2007) - Jewish ...

Greater Harrisburg’s 

Jewish Newspaper 

June 22, 2007 • 6 Tamuz, 5767 • Vol. 81; No. 13— 

Published by The Jewish Federation of Greater Harrisburg 

Remembering Cantor Asher Balaban, z”l (1923-2007) 

The following is adapted from an 

article that appeared in the Beth El 

Temple newsletter in the spring of 

2006 as Beth El Temple prepared to 

honor Cantor Asher Balaban at a tribute 

brunch held in conjunction with 

the 80th anniversary of the synagogue. 

The tribute brunch took place 

on April 23, 2006, and on the Shabbat 

immediately following it, Cantor 

Balaban celebrated the 70th anniversary 

of his Bar Mitzvah, parshat 

Tazria/Metzora. Cantor Asher 

Balaban passed away in Baltimore 

on June 8, 2007. He is survived by 

his wife Rosalind, three children, 

eight grandchildren, and four greatgrandchildren, 

and he is remembered 

with deep love and admiration by his 

many friends everywhere and the 

countless members of Beth El 

Temple and the Harrisburg Jewish 

community whose lives he touched. 

Cantor Balaban was blessed 

with 84 years of a life steeped in 

love of Judaism, commitment to a 

traditional lifestyle, and the personally 

and professionally fulfilling 

reward of communicating 

spirituality through song. The 

Yiddishkeit that infused the very 

core of his personality derives 

from the particular times in which 

he grew up and the unique early 

experiences that shaped his career 

path and life’s journey. 

Born in the small town of 

Early morning showers were 

not enough to dampen the day at 

the Tri-State Junior Maccabi 

Games on Sunday, May 20 in 

Wilmington, Delaware. 

Harrisburg was one of 20 cities 

from 5 states that participated in 

the annual event. The Olympicstyle 

sporting event featured 27 

Harrisburg athletes who are ages 

10 to 12. The Harrisburg athletes 

were organized and led by delegation 

head Andrea Weikert. 

After a brief opening ceremonies 

held at the Wilmington 

JCC, athletes were broken up by 

sports and sent to their venues. 

Harrisburg’s swimmers, coached 

by Teri Berman, saw great success. 

The team brought home 4 

gold medals, 3 individual event 

silver medals, 1 relay silver and 

4 bronze medals. Twelve-yearold 

Ali Rubin led the Harrisburg 

swim team by finishing first in 

the 50 Free, 50 Breast, 50 Fly 

and 100 Breast. Dustin Slaff got 

the gold for his first-place finish 

Curug in the Croatian region of 

Yugoslavia in 1923, Cantor 

Balaban came from a line of rabbis 

on both sides of the family. 

His father was rabbi for their 

town and the surrounding area. 

His mother’s father was Rosh 

Yeshiva in Munkacz, Hungary. It 

was that maternal grandfather 

who, convinced there was no 

future for the Jews in Europe, 

encouraged the entire family to 

in the 100 Breast. Emily Woolf 

received silver medals for her 

performances in the 50 Fly and 

100 IM. She also won a bronze 

in the 50 Free. Rebecca 

Solomon finished 3rd in the 100 

Breast resulting in a bronze 

medal. Julian Armstrong, a 

Junior Maccabi veteran won a 

bronze in the 100 IM as did first 

time Junior Maccabi swimmer 

Jennifer Wiley. Another firsttime 

Junior Maccabi participant, 

Zach Ruth, helped the 

emigrate in 1925. Cantor 

Balaban was two years old when 

he arrived in New York City 

amid an entourage of parents, 

grandparents, uncles, aunts and 

cousins. Yankee-born sisters 

joined the family in the years 

after the move to New York. The 

close-knit extended family settled 

in Brooklyn, first in the 

neighborhood of East New York, 

later in Flatbush. Over the years, 

Cantor Balaban’s father continued 

to work as a rabbi while his 

mother established and ran a successful 

kosher catering business. 

In the Orthodox milieu of his 

youth, Cantor Balaban learned 

Yiddish, Hebrew prayers, and 

religious traditions at home as 

well as at daily after-school 

“Heder.” The socialist, secularoriented 

Sholom Aleichem Shule 

where he went on Sundays to 

learn “proper, grammatical, literary” 

Yiddish augmented his early 

Jewish education. In those days 

when Bar Mitzvah celebrations 

were low-key affairs, Cantor 

Balaban received a Torah aliyah 

on a Thursday; already knowing 

Hebrew prayers and melodies 

from Heder and weekly synagogue 

attendance, for him the 

excitement in becoming a Bar 

Mitzvah was rooted in the opportunity 

to lay tefillin with his 

father and the men of the shul. 

Gifted with a beautiful voice, 

Cantor Balaban always loved to 

sing. By his mid-teens he had 

developed into a bass baritone. 

During his high school years at 

Yeshiva Haim Berlin, he began 

private hazzanut lessons with 

Harrisburg relay team, which 

also consisted of swimmers 

Slaff, Rubin and Woolf, earn a 

silver medal in the medley relay. 

The boys’ basketball team 

showed great improvement and 

found themselves thrown into a 

tournament full of talent. The 

boys’ team, led by veteran coach 

Steve Weikert, was composed of 

Ethan DeBroff, Jake DeBroff, 

Joey Good, Jon Wishnow, 

Nathaniel Pinskey, Sam Shaffer, 

Josh Adler, Sam Rosen and Ryan 

Cantor Yehoshua Weisser, a wellknown 

European-trained cantor 

and composer of liturgical music 

whose other students had also 

included Richard Tucker and Jan 

Peerce, who became opera performers. 

For Cantor Balaban, 

singing opportunities abounded 

in New York City, from Cantor 

Weisser’s congregational choir to 

chorus “extra” for city opera 

guilds, including the Moscani 

and the Metropolitan. At 18, the 

year he entered Yeshiva 

University, Cantor Balaban got 

his first High Holidays cantorial 

job with a Conservative congregation 

in Flushing, Queens. 

Thereafter, there was never a 

High Holiday season where he 

didn’t have a cantorial job, mostly 

for Conservative congregations. 

A young man with a good 

voice and hazzanut skills was 

always in demand. Cantor 

Balaban felt privileged to have 

learned cantorial artistry from his 

teacher, Cantor Weisser. 

“Hazzanut,” as Cantor Balaban 

would explain, is more than hitting 

the notes and knowing a 

repertoire of melodies, as beautiful 

as that may be. It is the 

inflection, the timing, the dramatic 

pauses, the dynamics, the 

emphasis on a certain syllable or 

phrase that, in combination one 

Harrisburg Athletes Once Again Medal at Junior Maccabi Games 

Plesco. The boys began their 

day with a very close game. 

After leading much of the way, a 

late-game surge by Central 

Jersey found Harrisburg losing 

by 2 points. However, 

Harrisburg quickly bounced 

back from the defeat and showcased 

their skills with their victory 

over Atlantic County. “The 

guys did a great job of not getting 

discouraged after the earlymorning 

setback. They kept 

playing, and their efforts in the 

second game of the day really 

paid off. They pulled together 

and played hard,” stated Coach 

Weikert. The day ended for the 

boys’ team with a battle against 

Kaiserman JCC. Despite valiant 

efforts, the boys did not advance 

past the Kaiserman game. 

The girls’ basketball team surprised 

many people with its performance, 

but coach Terri 

Travers was not shocked by her 

JUNIOR MACCABI 

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with another, match musicality 

with the meaning of the liturgical 

text, thus conveying mood and 

feeling, inspiring awe, and 

heightening spirituality. 

As World War II drew to a 

close, Cantor Balaban was drafted 

into the Army where he served 

as chaplain on the West Coast 

from 1945 to 1947. On the eve 

of his induction, he married his 

sweetheart, Selma, who accompanied 

him to California. There, 

as in New York, calls would 

come in from congregations 

needing a cantor for the High 

Holidays, and one year Cantor 

and Selma celebrated a memorable 

Rosh Hashana and Yom 

Kippur in Seattle. But their families 

and hearts lay back East, and 

so after Army service, the 

Balabans returned to Brooklyn. 

While deciding on what to do 

next, Cantor Balaban got a call 

from the Jewish Center of Bay 

Shore, a Conservative congregation 

on Long Island, offering him 

a full-time job as congregational 

cantor and tutor for the Bar 

Mitzvah kids. As Cantor 

Balaban recounted: “I didn’t 

choose my career; it chose me!” 

In Bay Shore, the Balabans started 

a family, eventually to number 

four children in all –daughters 

Joyce and Debbie and sons Gary 

(z”l –may his memory be for a 

blessing) and Baruch. 

Over the course of four and a 

half decades of a professional 

cantorial career, Cantor Balaban 

served Conservative congregations 

in Bay Shore, NY, Wilkes- 

Barre, PA, Orangeburg 

(Rockland County), NY, and 

Harrisburg, PA. Countless were 

the congregational events, 

Bar/Bat Mitzvah and other sim- 

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Still 

Can We Talk? 

By David Weisberg, Federation Director and Managing Editor relevant to Jewish communal work. 

This is the second to last column that I’ll ever write for the If only I had known just how similar the two jobs can be. As someone 

Community Review. 

with an admittedly short attention span (I don’t even watch hour- 

To be quite honest, it’s been one of those mornings that might long television shows), I loved the variety that each day brought over 

make one happy that they are weeks away from finishing up a job. the past nine years, never knowing exactly what challenge each new 

It’s Tuesday, June 12. It’s 10:30 a.m. We found out only late yesterday 

morning that the water to the JCC would be shut off this morn- 

And while I must admit that the greatest thing that I missed about 

day might bring. 

ing in order to fix a valve to our fire suppression system. We were municipal government was having taxing authority (how much easier 

told that the work should be completed by 9 a.m. this morning. We the campaign would be if I could just tell everyone how much they had 

informed our members. We rented a bus and moved our soccer camp 

to give), what I gained in exchange was the opportunity to work with 

to Green Hills. We delayed opening our Early Learning Center until 

a spirited community with a history of rising to the occasion to meet 

10 a.m. We have a number of lunch programs today. 

new challenges, be it a flood in the midst of the high holidays or a $5 

It’s 10:30 am. And the water still isn’t back on…and may not be 

million capital campaign to preserve our vital community facilities. 

for another hour. 

It’s one of the kind of days that can make a Federation exec question 

why he or she chose this line of work. And, oddly enough, it’s 

Yes, if I had my choice, there wouldn’t have been a problem with 

a sprinkler valve in the JCC. We wouldn’t have had to shut off our 

one of the kinds of days that I will miss. 

water supply. We wouldn’t have had to change our building schedule. 

We wouldn’t have had to inconvenience anyone. 

For the six years before I came to work for the JCC and Federation, 

I was a town manager, working in the small towns of Mahanoy City But it’s challenges of days like today that help me appreciate the 

and Columbia, Pennsylvania, each for three years. I dealt with my fair job that I have, the organization that I work for, and the community 

share of excitement in both of those communities, from floods to major that I work with. Someday in the next year or so, I’ll get a community-wide 

email sent out by a new Federation CEO alerting me of a 

drug busts to major snow emergencies to a visit by Mother Theresa. 

In deciding to leave the municipal government world in 1998, I sudden challenge being faced by the Federation or the community. I 

was challenged in interviewing for the job of JCC Director to explain might relax for a minute knowing that it isn’t my responsibility; but 

how the skills that I had developed in town management would be in the back of my mind I know I’ll be thinking “I wish I were there.” 

CORRECTION 

Harris Freedman, husband of Zelma Freedman, was inadvertently omitted from the list of surviving family members in the Louise Grass 

article that appeared in the June 8th issue of the Community Review. We apologize for this error. 

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Campaign Giving Opportunities 

The Jewish Federation of Greater Harrisburg recognizes and thanks the members of the following Societies for their support 

of the 2007 JFGH Annual Campaign(as of 6/1/07). 

The Ben-Gurion Society is a donor recognition program for ages 25-45 who make a minimum individual/household gift of at least $1,000 to their 

Federation's annual campaign. But the Ben Gurion Society is so much more than that; it is An Organization of Young Jewish Leaders 

committed to strengthening the future of the Jewish people locally, in Israel and around the world (And Having Fun Doing It) 

Steven and Lisa Aaron 

Ted and Lorri Bernstein 

Robert and Marianne Caplan 

Joel and Mandy Cheskis 

Scott and Traci DeBroff 

Aaron and Shari Dym 

Jonathan and Andrea Freeman 

James and Julie Halbert 

Lawrence and Judith Hirsh 

Ivy Symons Howells 

David and Debra Kornblatt 

Solomon and Katy Krevsky 

Peter and Debra Kriete 

Steven and Jill Kusic 

Steven and Dena Markowitz 

Eric and Rebecca Morrison 

Rabbi Ron and Leah Muroff 

Dr. Kenneth and Ilene Oken 

Stephen and Jennifer Rubin 

Dan and Judith Schulder 

Daniel and Patricia Schwab 

Clifford and Wendy Shaffer 

Michael and Lisa Silver 

Bradley and Lorianne Swidler 

S. Adam Symons 

Bruce Weber 

David and Jamie Weisberg 

Membership in the Cardozo Society is open to ALL Jewish legal professionals and law students in Harrisburg and is no way 

conditioned upon any minimum level of giving. Nevertheless, we do wish to recognize those within the legal community who contribute a 

minimum gift of $1,000 to the annual campaign by listing their names as members on our honor roll. Associate members are those who contribute 

$500— $999. A special membership category is being established for attorneys in their initial years of practice as well as those over the age of 

60, who have been in practice for a significant number of years. 

Theodore A. Adler 

William L. Adler 

Bruce D. Bagley 

Arthur Berman 

Sondra T. Berman 

Stuart M. Bliwas 

Joel R. Burcat 

Robert E. Chernicoff 

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Daniel Clearfield 

Scott H. DeBroff 

Harvey Freedenberg 

I. Lawrence Gelman 

Paula S. Goldberg 

Julie B. Halbert 

Judith G. Hirsh 

Arthur K. Hoffman 

Joseph A. Klein 

Solomon Z. Krevsky 

Peter F. Kriete 

Debra M. Kriete 

Howard B. Krug 

Arthur A. Kusic 

Ronald G. Lench 

William W. Lipsitt 

Herschel Lock 

Eric M. Morrison 

Gerald K. Morrison 

Stephen C. Nudel 

Nachman Rosenberg 

Jennifer S. Rubin 

Myra Sacks 

Stuart S. Sacks 

Michael A. Sand 

Dan A. Schulder 

LeRoy Smigel 

Michael L. Solomon 

Elliot A. Strokoff 

S. Adam Symons 

Joel Weisberg 

The Lion of Judah program has helped define philanthropy for Jewish women since 1972, the year it was founded by the Greater Miami 

Jewish Federation. Today, the Lion network includes more than 16,000 women worldwide, each of whom makes a $5000 minimum 

annual contribution to her Jewish federation. 

Dorothy G. Abel 

Marilynn R. Abrams 

Lorri Bernstein 

Miriam G. Bernstein 

Josephine S. Brenner 

Marcia F. Cohen 

Louise B. Grass (z"l) 

Julie B. Halbert 

Hannah Sachs Cantor PACE Fund 

Marilynn R. Kanenson 

Debra Kornblatt 

Terry L. Kusic 

Mary Sachs Trust 

Phyllis Lipsett LOJE Fund 

Linda Schwab 

Marjorie M. Sherman 

Gail Siegel 

Alyce Spector 

Susan Symons 

A Lion of Judah Endowment (LOJE) is a Perpetual Annual Campaign Endowment (PACE) Fund designated for the Women’s Campaign of 

UJA-Federation with a minimum gift of $100,000. This gift enables you to perpetuate your commitment to the Women’s Campaign in a way that best achieves 

your own personal financial and estate planning goals. As a LOJE donor, you will receive the prestigious Or L’Atid flame for your Lion of Judah pin. 

Hannah Sachs Cantor LOJE 

Julie Wright Halbert LOJE 

Phyllis Lipsett LOJE 

Matilda (Tillie) Meyer LOJE 

Gail Siegel LOJE 

Susan Symons LOJE 

Pomegranate Society began in Allentown, and was introduced to the Harrisburg’s Jewish Federation in 1985 to women who contribute a minimum 

of $1500 to the annual campaign. A pomegranate pin, which incorporates the beautiful symbolism of the pomegranate whose 613 seeds 

are said to represent the 613 “mitzvot”. With each $100 increase to the annual campaign a ruby, is added to represent the red seed of the fruit. 

Deborah A. Abel-Millman 

Dorothea B. Aronson 

Annette K. Berman 

Sondra T. Berman 

Beatrice E. Blecker 

Linda Freedenberg 

Leslie B. Freedman 

Estelle C. Fried 

Gail G. Gaynes 

Frances S. Goldberg 

Lois D. Gordon 

Joan C. Hirsh 

Judith G. Hirsh 

Norma Jablon 

Debra M. Kriete 

Edith R. Kushner 

Elayne Leibenson 

Lorena F. Lemons 

Ruth Leventhal 

Alice B. Levy 

Neysa O. Maisel 

Matilda "Tillie" Meyer PACE Fund 

Bobbi and Newton Millner PACE Fund 

Dale G. Orman 

Marcia W. Philips 

Joanne Sackman 

Myra Sacks 

Renee Heyden 

Lois P. Samet 

Vicki Smeltz 

Barbara L. Suden 

Jamie M. Weisberg 

Fern Zlotoff 

A Perpetual Annual Campaign Endowment (PACE) is a permanent fund dedicated to endowing your Jewish community Annual Campaign gift. A PACE 

fund is not intended to take the place of any part of an annual gift -- it is instead a lasting legacy that will continue to make an annual gift to the campaign 

in perpetuity on your behalf. The National PACE Initiative is part of our continuing efforts to help secure the viability of Federation communities. 

Leonard N. and Phyllis Berman PACE 

David (Dody) Cohen PACE 

Lanie and Larry Freedman PACE 

Albert Hursh PACE 

Bobbie and Newton Millner PACE 

Jack and Jan and Harren Pitnick PACE 


Harry Williams Memorial PACE


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Foundation News 

by Nachman Rosenberg, Foundation Director 

NOT EVERY ENDOWMENT DONOR IS A RETIRED MILLIONAIRE 

This column is written by guest columnist Art Kusic, on behalf of the Foundation. 

By Art Kusic 

I am writing this column in order to respond to people who have said to me that they can’t 

work with the Foundation because they cannot afford to establish an endowment of 

$100,000. My answer to them is …..start small. That is what Terry and I did and it was very 

helpful to us. 

So, the question is “How much money is needed in order to establish an endowment or 

fund with the Foundation?” 

The answer to this question is -- “It is up to you.” 

Yes. This answer is vague. It does not state a figure. But, it is a very helpful answer. The 

reason it is helpful is because the Foundation exists to help EVERYONE who wishes to be 

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The Foundation offers charitable vehicles that can help everyone, irrespective of their financial 

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Yes. The Foundation works with millionaires. But it also works with the rest of us who are 

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endowment according to your resources available and also according to what you wish your 

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The three most popular and useful types of endowments and funds are the following: 

DONOR ADVISED: these funds are not predesignated for any specific purpose or organization. 

You can use them to make contributions to almost every charitable organization for 

almost any conceivable charitable purpose, Jewish and non-Jewish, distant and local. The 

Foundation presently manages over 90 such funds. 

DESIGNATED: these funds are predesignated for a specific purpose or organization. You 

can establish a restricted fund which is dedicated for your favorite charitable agency, institution, 

synagogue, project, program, service or activity. These funds are very effective in 

channeling financial assistance for a specific purpose. The Foundation presently manages 

over 110 such funds for a wide range of organizations and purposes, including synagogues, 

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To summarize, the Foundation is very flexible in its approach to charitable giving. Its goal is to 

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Please consider having a conversation with me or with Nachman Rosenberg to explore how 

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Amanda J. Keefer Photography 

Exhibit in the Spector Art Gallery 

The Jewish Federation of Greater Harrisburg is honored to announce an exhibition of 

the photographic art of Amanda J. Keefer for the months of July and August 2007 in the 

Spector Art Gallery. We have found this a most rewarding program for the artist and 

the membership, allowing artists to share their works and exposing our membership to 

different mediums for expanding their art appreciation. 

JCC ADULT PROGRAMS 

Classes available at the Jewish 

Community Center: PLEASE NOTE TIMES 

Young At Heart – A low-impact exercise class consisting of chair, 

chair support and moderate walking level aerobics. 

Mondays/Wednesdays 9:15-10:00 a.m. Drop in Fee $3.00 per 

class. Free to JCC members. 

ARTIST’S STATEMENT: 

Art has been a form of communication for me from an early age. My mother and 

father, artists, mother more traditional and father a photographer, more abstract. I have 

developed an eye for both and have learned to find my own style. 

I started with a more traditional form of art, taking as many classes as I could fit into 

my schedule; drawing, painting, pen and ink etc. By the time I had graduated from 

high school, I had about six full credits of art. My plan was to go to an Art School in 

Philadelphia, but finances did not allow for this, so I went to work after graduation. 

Eventually, the thought of going to an art school became a distant memory, and I put it 

out of my mind. I still continued to draw and paint in my spare time, but it never went 

any further. 

A few years later, I was in a terrible car accident, and spent four days in the ICU at the 

Hershey Medical Center. Along with many other serious breaks and injuries, my right 

hand and wrist were badly broken, which left me unable to draw, paint or write without 

severe pain. I was devastated that my ability to express myself through art was gone. 

Shortly after the car accident, I had purchased my first digital camera. I quickly realized 

that with each picture I took, the pain of no longer being able to draw or paint 

seemed to disappear. Photography became a form of therapy and an outlet for me. It 

wasn’t long before photography became my way to communicate how I was feeling and 

a way for me to share the beauty of G-d’s creation with the world. 

The word photography comes from the Greek words “Draws with light”. Instead of 

using pencils or paint, I “draw with light”. 

Amanda has generously offered 15% of all proceeds to benefit the JCC Senior Adult 

Department. Her photographic art can be viewed during regular operating hours of the 

Harrisburg Jewish Community Center during the months of July and August. To purchase 

any work of photographic art, please contact, Cheryl Yablon at 236-9555, Ext. 3115. 

AMERICAN RED CROSS BLOOD DRIVE 

PLEASE DONATE!!! 

The JCC will be having another American Red Cross Blood Drive on 

Wednesday, June 27, 2007 from 1:00 PM to 6:00 PM in the Mary 

Sachs Auditorium. The Northeastern Pennsylvania region is responsible 

for collecting 102, 000 units of lifesaving blood in the coming fiscal 

year. To meet the needs of patients in hospitals that the region 

serves, over 400 units of blood must be collected daily. Please help 

by donating blood if you can. For a specific time to come in, call 

Cheryl Yablon, 236-9555, ext. 3115. Drop-ins are welcome. 


Liquid Fit – Aquacise class given on Mondays/Wednesday 9:30- 

10:30 a.m.. Drop in Fee $5.00 per class. Free to JCC members. 

T’ai Chi For Arthritis (Instructors trained and certified through 

the Arthritis Foundation) – Tuesdays/Thursdays 10:15-11 a.m. 

(NO EVENING CLASS IS OFFERED) Fee $48 for 12 classes. Free 

to JCC members. 

The Jewish Community Center is offering the following senior 

events at the Harrisburg Jewish Community Center, 3301 North 

Front Street, Harrisburg: 

Every Tuesday at 10:00AM – Discussion Group 

11:00AM – Chair Exercise 

11:30AM – Line Dancing 

Every Thursday at 10:00AM – Choral Group 

11:00AM – Chair Exercise 

11:30AM – Line Dancing 

Senior Lunch will be served Tuesdays and Thursdays at Noon. 

Reservations are preferred two days in advance, if possible, 

but no later than 4:00 p.m. the day before. After-Lunch 

Programs are: 

Tuesday, June 26 

Wednesday, June 27 

Thursday, June 28 

Tuesday, July 3 

Thursday, July 5 




Wednesday, July 18 



Mike Berry of the Tri-County Blind 

Association will give an “Update on more 

New Products for Low Vision Needs” 

American Red Cross Blood Drive 1-6 p.m. 

“Art Talk” presented by Louis Kerner 

“4th of July Party”, music presentation 

“A Patriotic Celebration of America” 

Something Historic by Herb Rochman 

Business Meeting/Birthday Party FREE 

Blood Pressure Screenings by 

Bayada Nurses 

History of the Hershey Gardens 

by Mary Houts 

Capitol BlueCross Senior Bingo 

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Arielle Ettinger celebrated her Bat Mitzvah on Saturday, June 16, 2007 at 

Temple Ohev Sholom. Arielle is a seventh-grade honor student at Central 

Dauphin Middle School where her favorite classes are Math and Gym. She 

enjoys playing on her school’s basketball team; she also participates in the JCC’s 

Junior Maccabi Games. 

Arielle’s Torah portion dealt with feelings and acts of jealousy. “Learning about 

my Parashat has helped me to recognize how important it is to appreciate our 

blessings and how fortunate we are to be living in this wonderful community”, 

states Arielle. 

In preparing for her Bat Mitzvah, Arielle donated her time to several organizations 

and will be donating some of her savings to organizations in Israel that help 

women and children. She would like to thank Rabbi Peter Kessler, Cantor Judith 

Ovadia, Mrs. Lillian Rappaport, and her teachers at The Rabbi David L. Silver 

Yeshiva Academy who have helped her to reach this wonderful day. 

Arielle is the daughter of Shira and Steven Ettinger, the sister of Joshua and 

Michael, and the granddaughter of Sasha and Burton Ettinger and Ilse Feldheim 

and the late Eric Feldheim. 

This announcement originally appeared in the June 8th issue of the Community 

Review, but Mr. and Mrs. Feldheim’s names were inadvertently omitted. 

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BALABAN continued from page 1 

cha celebrations with families 

over the years. Numerous, too, 

the professional experiences that 

were especially memorable: conducting 

a 60-person choir for 

Ernst Bloch’s Sacred Service 

with the Wilkes-Barre 

Symphony Orchestra, one of 

four soloists along with a 100- 

person choir at Madison Square 

Garden for the 100th anniversary 

concert of the Hazzan’s Farband, 

cantorial concerts at Town Hall 

and Carnegie Hall to raise money 

for the new cantorial school at 

the Jewish Theological 

Seminary, consultant to television 

programs produced by 

Edward R. Murrow, and teaching 

education courses in Yiddish and 

Yiddish literature. A personal 

hobby that developed into a lifelong 

passion was Cantor 

Balaban’s extensive archival collection 

of rare synagogue books 

and music manuscripts, many 

from pre-war European communities. 

Over the years, Cantor 

Balaban was a member of the 

Cantors Assembly, the Jewish 

Liturgical Society of America, 

the Jewish War Veterans, Bnai 

Brith, and the Masonic Order. In 

2003, Cantor Balaban was 

awarded an honorary doctorate 

from the Jewish Theological 

Seminary’s H.L. Miller Cantorial 

School and College of Jewish 

Music, capping an exemplary 

professional career. 

Beth El Temple was truly 

blessed to have had Cantor 

Balaban as congregational cantor 

from 1981 to 1993, and doubly 

lucky that he retired in our 

community, so that his davening 

could still be heard on special 

occasions as Cantor Emeritus. 

Cantor Balaban and Selma happily 

celebrated their 50th wedding 

anniversary, but sadly 

Selma passed away shortly 

thereafter. Cantor Balaban 

remarried --to Rosalind, a fellow 

Brooklynite; the two had actually 

been classmates at Thomas 

Jefferson Junior High School 

years before. Together these last 

few years, they shared naches 

from their children, grandchildren, 

and greatgrandchildren. 

JUNIOR MACCABI continued from page 1 

The following is a synopsis of 

the eulogy Rabbi Eric Cytryn 

delivered at Cantor Balaban’s 

funeral on June 10, 2007. 

“Cantor Balaban wanted a 

short service (without) long 

eulogies… Asher Balaban knew 

he had brought deep spirituality 

into people’s lives during his 

career in the American 

Cantorate; he knew he had 

brought profound appreciation 

of God’s presence into people’s 

lives as their teacher, their 

Hazzan and their Bal Tefillah; he 

knew he had been a mensch, and 

inspired others to treat Jewish 

professionals and volunteers in a 

kind and menschlich manner. 

He didn’t need to be praised 

after his death; he knew in life 

that he was appreciated. And he 

believed in God’s reckoning, 

which transcends our meager 

words… HaRav HeHazzan 

Asher ben Ha Rav Yitzhaq Tzvi 

v’Sarah was a giant of a spiritual 

leader, a symbolic exemplar 

of the godliness our tradition 

insists we model for ourselves, 

for each other and for God… 

Shiru LaShem Shir Hadash 

–Sing unto the Lord a New 

Song, the Psalmist commands 

us, and Cantor Asher Balaban 

could sing the oldest melody and 

make it sound new, brand new. 

We who heard him sing were 

blessed to have heard that voice, 

that knowledge, that neshama 

revealed. In that way he was the 

consummate Bal Tefillah… 

Asher Balaban was a master of 

prayer –he could get you to spiritual 

places you couldn’t get to 

on your own, without his understanding 

of the liturgy and his 

incredibly deep, resonant and 

profoundly moving voice. 

In describing kabbalistic 

prayer, Rabbi Adin Steinsalz 

wrote the following: In 

Kavvanah, the person praying and 

the words being prayed are one; 

there is no longer a dividing line 

between one’s inner reality and 

one’s outer expression, between 

communal ritual and the personal 

voice of the heart. That describes 

Cantor Balaban’s davening. 

When Cantor Balaban led us, we 

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toughest battle of the day in the semi-final game against Cherry Hill. 

It was a close game and went back and forth, but Harrisburg ended 

up losing by a few points. Travers stated, “The Cherry Hill game 

really was a turning point for this team. They showed how hard they 

could play and amazed me with their improvement. Even though we 

came up a little short, I have never been more proud of this group.” 

The team featured numerous three-year Junior Maccabi participants, 

as well as a few second-year athletes. The team included Arielle 

Ettinger, Rachel Glick, Emily Baseman, Dani Oken, Annie Doctrow, 

Jocelyn Green, Sophie C. Fox, Sophie K. Fox, Emily Wolf and 

Andrea Picciotto. After losing in the semi-final game, the girls 

played for the bronze medal only to fall just short of the prize. 

Travers noted, “We had a shot at the bronze against Kaiserman, but 

the girls were just exhausted after the game against Cherry Hill. If 

we had been fresh, I have no doubt we could have won.” 

danced with him, heart and soul. 

We will sorely miss him. 

T’he Nishmato Tzrurah B’tzror 

Hahayim. May Cantor Asher 

Balaban’s soul be bound up in the 

bond of life. May his memory 

always be for a blessing.” 

A Shloshim Service of 

Remembrance and Reflection 

will be held at Beth El Temple 

on July 8, 2007. 

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Service times: 

Mornings: Sunday, 9 a.m.; 

Monday to Friday, 7 a.m., 

Afternoons: Sunday to 

Thursday, 5:30 p.m. 

Friday evenings- June 8 

6:15 p.m., June 15 7:30 

p.m. (Shabbat Under the 

Stars), June 22 and June 29 

8 p.m. 

Saturday mornings - 9:15 

a.m. Rosh Hodesh Tammuz 

June 16 9 a.m. 

Adult Education 

Join Rabbi Eric Cytryn for 

five interactive sessions, 

Tuesday evenings, May 29 

to June 26. "The Thirteen 

Petalled Rose: A Discourse 

on the Essence of Jewish 

Existence and Belief.” 

The course is based on 

Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz's 

book by the same name on 

Jewish Mysticism and 

Kabbalah. Participants are 

welcome to attend as many 

sessions as desired, all of 

which will be in the Beth El 

Temple Lower Auditorium 

Tuesday nights from 7:15 - 

8:45 p.m. 

CHISUK EMUNA 

CONGREGATION 

232-4851 

Please support the Daily 

Minyan at Chisuk Emuna. 

Times for minyan are as follows: 

Monday and Thursday 

mornings, 6:50 am, Sunday 

through Thursday evenings, 

7:15 pm; Tuesday, 

Wednesday and Friday 

mornings at 7:00 am. 

For more information, 

please call the shul at 232- 

4851 or e-mail chisukemuna@paonline.com. 

CONGREGATION BETH 

ISRAEL, LEBANON 

273-2669 

Visit the Congregation Beth 

Israel Web Site at 

www.congregation-bethisrael.org 

All are welcome to our egalitarian 

services: Sundays 

at 9 a.m., Mondays and 

Thursdays at 7:30 a.m. Our 

Shabbat services, lead by 

Rabbi Paula Reimers, 

are at 8:00 p.m. on Friday 

evenings and on Shabbat 

morning at 9:00 a.m. followed 

by Kiddush. Tot 

Shabbat is held the first 

Friday of each month at 

7:00 p.m. 

HISTORIC B’NAI JACOB, 

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Historic B'nai Jacob 

Synagogue, Water and 

Nissley Streets in 

Middletown, will conduct 

Shabbat services on Friday, 

June 22nd at 7:30 pm. We 

are a Community Shul - all 

are welcome. 

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245-2811 

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Sunday and Federal holidays 

at 8 and 9 am, 

Monday through Friday at 

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Chodesh and fast days at 

6:30 and 8:30 am. Evening 

services begin at 20 minutes 

before sunset. 

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697-2662 

www.tbshalom.org 

Rabbi Gendra will be offering 

an Introduction to 

Talmud class on 

Wednesdays from 6:30 to 

8:00 p.m., beginning June 

6, at TBS. The text will be 

from the tractate Berachot 

[this is Blessings] and more 

specifically its chapter 4. 

Rabbi Gendra will be providing 

the text in English. 

For a list of dates or to sign 

up for the class, please 

contact the Temple office. 

This activity is open to 

everybody. 

There will be a meeting of 

the Temple Sisterhood on 

Monday, July 9 at 7:00 p.m. 

Be sure to check out 

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www.tbshalom.org, or 

call the office, 697-2662, for 

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06/29 @ 6:00 PM 

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ABRAHAM BERKOFF 

Abraham Berkoff, 91, of Harrisburg, formerly of Levittown, PA, 

died Thursday, May 31, 2007, at the Jewish Home of Greater 

Harrisburg. He retired from the federal government working in supply 

and logistics. He was a member of Chisuk Emuna Congregation 

and volunteered for the Levittown Public Library and the senior 

games. Surviving are two daughters, Barbara Bloom and her husband, 

Ira of Hummelstown, and Susan J. Schulman and her husband, Ira of 

Edison, NJ; one granddaughter, Rachel Walker and her husband, Matt 

of Broomfield, CO; a nephew, Jeffrey M. Shapiro; and a niece, Marcy 

Huggin, both of Minneapolis, MN. He was preceded in death by his 

wife, Alice G. Berkoff. Funeral services and burial were held Friday, 

June 1st at Chisuk Emuna Cemetery. At the family’s request memorial 

contributions can be made to Chisuk Emuna Congregation, P.O. 

Box 5507, Harrisburg, 17110; the Jewish Home of Greater 

Harrisburg, 4000 Linglestown Road, Harrisburg, 17112 or to 

Compassionate Care Hospice, 100 Brown Street, Middletown, 17057 

CANTOR EMERITUS DR. ASHER BALABAN 

Cantor Emeritus Dr. Asher Balaban, 84, of Harrisburg, passed away early 

Friday, June 8, 2007 at English Gardens Assisted Living, Baltimore, MD. 

He was the Cantor Emeritus at Beth El Temple. Surviving are his wife, 

Rosalind "Roz" Balaban; sisters, Leah Balaban and Shoshana Melmed of 

Brooklyn; son, Baruch (Chaya Sarah) Balaban of Brooklyn; daughter, Joyce 

David of Brooklyn; daughter, Debbie Childress of Baltimore; eight grandchildren, 

Laura (Jonathan) Shyman, Jonathan (Michelle) David, Oren 

Balaban, Sara, Yitzhak, Laya, Abraham, and Aviva Childress; four greatgrandchildren; 

and Roz Balaban's family, Roz's daughter, Carol (Arthur) 

Hagler; grandchildren, Michelle (Ian) Adelstein, Danny and Shuki Hagler; 

and a great-granddaughter, Alissa. He is predeceased by his first wife, Selma 

Balaban and son, Gary Balaban. Funeral services were held Sunday, June 

10th at the Kesher Israel Cemetery Chapel with Rabbi Eric Cytryn, Rabbi 

Chaim Schertz and Cantor Seymour Rockoff officiating. Memorial donations 

can be made to Beth El Temple, 2637 North Front Street, Harrisburg, 

PA 17110. To send condolences, please visit hetrickfuneralhome.com. 

BERNARD BRODY 

Bernard Brody, 76, brother of Beth El Temple member Audrey 

Girsch, passed away Monday, June 11, 2007. Mr. Brody was predeceased 

by his daughter, Maureen Robin. Surviving are his wife 

Jean Brody of Staten Island; sister Audrey (Ron) Girsch of 

Harrisburg; son Richard Brody of Manhattan. Funeral services 

were held Sunday, June 17 in Staten Island, New York with burial in 

Queens, NY. Expressions of sympathy by attending minyan or in the 

form of a contribution to Beth El Temple or Hospice of Central 

Pennsylvania will be a source of comfort and support to the family. 

STANLEY F. ORLOWITZ 

Stanley F. Orlowitz, 81, of Harrisburg, formerly of Philadelphia, passed 

away Tuesday, June 12, 2007 at the Hershey Medical Center. He was born 

in Philadelphia May 17, 1926, the son of the late Maurice and Lena 

Orlowitz. Stanley was a 1944 graduate of Olney High School. After graduation, 

he enlisted in the Army and served in Germany during World War 

II, where he was a prisoner of war. After more than 60 years, Stan was 

awarded the Bronze Star, Good Conduct Medal and Combat Infantry 

Badge. These medals were presented to him by Major General Hontoon at 

a ceremony November 27, 2006 at the Army War College in Carlisle. He 

spent most of his adult working life at Standard Pipe and Supply Company. 

He was a member of Beth El Temple. Stan was an avid fisherman, loved 

his boats and adored his family. He is remembered by all as a kind, considerate, 

thoughtful, fun-loving man. He is survived by his partner, Belle 

Witte of Harrisburg; sister, Ellen Levin of Philadelphia; son, George 

(Andie) Orlowitz of Philadelphia; daughter, Neysa (Mark) Maisel; and five 

grandchildren, Daniel, Marnie Orlowitz, Matt, Sydney and Aaron Maisel. 

He was preceded in death by his wife, Delores H. (Smith) Orlowitz and a 

sister, Zelda Golkaw. Graveside services were held Friday, June 15th at the 

Roosevelt Memorial Park in Trevose, Pennsylvania with Rabbi Eric Cytryn 

officiating. Memorial contributions can be made to Beth El Temple, 2637 

North Front Street, Harrisburg, PA 17110 or the Delaware Valley 

Hemophilia Foundation, 222 South Easton Road, Suite 122, Laverock, PA 

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Adult Discussion Group, 10 a.m., JCC 

SUNDAY, JUNE 24 

Hadassah Family Picnic, 2 p.m., JCC 

MONDAY, JUNE 25 

First Day of JCC Summer Camp, Green Hills 

TUESDAY, JUNE 26 

Senior Adult Lunch Program, 10 a.m., JCC 

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27 

Red Cross Blood Drive, 1-6 p.m., JCC 

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