April 2012 For Website - Flemington Jewish Community Center

FJCC BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Spiritual Leader
Rabbi Evan Jaffe
rabbi@flemingtonjcc.org
Executive Board:
President
Jeff Doshna
1 st Vice President Marilynn Norinsky
2 nd Vice President Mitch Clarin
3 rd Vice President
Secretary
Laurence Shatkin
Treasurer
Jim Fox
Immediate Past President Michael Wolf
Elected Trustees:
Jenn Fine
Richard Frank
Mindy Friedman
Ruth Gallina
Zel Gerstein
Judy Gold
Steven Greenstein
Alan Hylton
Ed Mehrlust
Bruce Moskovitz
Howard Nifoussi
Sharon Rednor
Jody Reich
Sandy Siegel
Neal Wolff
Sisterhood Co-Presidents:
Deborah Kesselhaut
Brooke Liebowitz
Nursery School President:
Jody Reich
Bulletin Editor:
Flo Newrock
Lifetime Trustees:
Bill Blaher
Jack Forman
Sarah Resnick
Paul Schneiderman
Phil Stern
Larry Wissner
Michael Wolf
Ruth Wolf
Flemington Jewish Community Center
5 Sergeantsville Road
Flemington, New Jersey 08822
(908) 782-6410
Fax: (908) 806-7736
office@flemingtonjcc.org
hwww.flemingtonjcc.orgh
April 2012/9 Nissan – 8 Iyar 5772
RABBI’S MESSAGE
It has been an eventful month thus far. The FJCC participated in our first
ever Shabbat Across America, and thanks to the efforts of chair Bruce
Moskovitz, a dinner sponsored by Alissa and Jim Fox, Evie and Phil Stern, Roz
and Harry Zackowitz, and the synagogue, with an assist from Sharon Rednor and
John Fellin, it was a most successful affair. One hundred and forty people
attended. At the same time, Adah Radzin organized a Book Fair, adding yet
another layer of activity. The shul was not exactly bursting at the seams, but
going at full blast or more.
Following Shabbat Across America, we had one of our best attended Purim
services in a long time. Billy Ray Sheet (Laurence Shatkin), Michael Wolf, Alex
Rapkin and Mitch Clarin provided a great musical touch and Billy Ray Sheet’s
rendition of the Megillah was wonderful.
Why do I relate all this? For several reasons. First, to recognize and thank
those who participated and made this happen. Second, I think it is important for
this shul to recognize the great gift it has in offering what few places, secular or
otherwise, can: a community. No doubt, more of this will surface in a future
High Holyday sermon, but Alain de Botton has just written a book entitled
Religion For Atheists: A Non-Believers Guild to the Uses of Religion, excerpted
in the Wall St. Journal. He begins the excerpt with the following: “One of the
losses that modern society feels most keenly is the loss of a sense of community.
We tend to imagine that there once existed a degree of neighborliness that has
been replaced by ruthless anonymity, by the pursuit of contact with one another
primarily for individualistic gains…” to which I wanted to respond, “Duh!” but
thought better of it. However obvious his point is, as I sat in the social hall at the
erev Shabbat dinner, I could not help but notice we had, in contrast to the modern
society Botton describes, a group of people whose ages ranged from 6 months to
over 90, with every age in between, none in “ruthless pursuit of contact…for
individualistic gains” or none that I could detect. There were people with all
different levels of observance, and one who had never really been to a Shabbat
service. Children, adults, elders. How often to we get to experience this kind of
gathering in this day and age? Yes, we may have the same age spread at football
or baseball games, but never with the kind of intimacy that this dinner offered. And if I may show my bias, this dinner was
connected to something greater than itself, to a tradition that is three-thousand-years-old, to Jews who were sitting down to this
same Shabbat dinner all across the country. No sports game can boast of working on all those different dimensions at the same
time. Botton is right; we can, as his subtitle indicates, stand to learn something from religion, or perhaps I should change that to
read: no, we involved in the religious community have known of these uses all along. Glad to see that he’s finally come around.
Hag Same’ach V’Kasher. A happy Passover to all.
BULLETIN INDEX
AROUND THE SYNAGOGUE.........................................4
BIRTHDAYS & ANNIVERSARIES...............................14
DONATIONS ....................................................................12
PARSHIYOT SUMMARIES........................................... 13
YAHRZEIT OBSERVANCES........................................ 14

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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
Fellow Congregants,
On March 2 nd , over 150 people came together at the
FJCC for Shabbat Across America. It was a wonderful
event – dinner, followed by services – and I would like to
thank Bruce Moskovitz for taking charge of the event, and
Sharon Rednor for organizing the dinner. And thanks to
everyone else who helped out with setting up, serving, and
cleaning up. Mark your calendars for March 2013.
But between now and then, the National Jewish
Outreach Program (the people who organize SAA) can also
provide us with resources for other great programs, such as
Crash Course in Basic Judaism
Crash Course in Jewish History
Hebrew Reading Crash Course (Levels I and II)
Hebrew Writing Crash Course
Shabbat Beginners Service
as well as programs around High Holidays, Sukkot,
Chanukah, and Purim. We' like to offer a few of these at the
FJCC over the next year, but need to know what people are
interested in. Please email me at
(president@flemnigtonjcc.org) or leave a note for me in the
office, and we'll see where the greatest interest is.
Just a few days later, we celebrated the festival holiday
of Purim. It was wonderful to see such a big crowd on
Wednesday night for our family Megillah reading, especially
all the kids. Thanks as always to Rabbi Jaffe and his
Hebrew High Players, as well as to Laurence Shatkin, Mitch
Clarin, Mike Wolf, and Alex Rapkin for their performance.
Thanks to Sharon Rednor for organizing our hamentashen
baking. I also want to thank Jami Miller and Rochelle
Moneta for once again working with Lori Findley to
organize our Mishloach Manot fundraiser. And finally, to
Jackie Lefkow and our YJ kids for a great Purim Carnival
the following Sunday. Thanks as well to Jane Wasserman,
Jenn Fine, and everyone else who helped out with our Café.
And if I've forgotten to thank anyone, my sincere
apologies.
As we begin our observance of Pesach on the night of
April 6 th , it is my sincere wish that everyone in the FJCC
family enjoys a chag kasher v'sameach.
Jeffrey Doshna
SISTERHOOD In The ‘Hood…
Happy Nisan and April, everyone! Despite the mild
winter, it's always wonderful when spring has finally sprung,
and we hope you are enjoying it. Just a few quick notes
from Sisterhood this month:
Please make sure you will be joining us for our annual
Mother's Day event this May. The Woman of the Year
award brunch will be held on Sunday, May 6, at noon.
Please make a note in your calendars, the invitations will be
on their way to you very soon. As always, the brunch will
be an enjoyable mix of great food, fun entertainment, prizes,
and a lovely time with your friends. Don't forget, we'll also
be naming the Woman of the Year for 5772/2012. Who will
it be? We know you'll want to be there to find out!
Thank you to everyone who baked a huge amount of
tasty hamantaschen, led by Sharon Rednor, for the
synagogue Purim Spiel as well as the Purim Carnival.
Thank you to Jane Wasserman and Jenn Fine, who ran the
Purim Café at the carnival. With their staff of Purim Café
helpers, they cooked up and served a yummy lunch. A great
time was had by all! Purim at the FJCC is a fun celebration,
and we're so glad Sisterhood can lend a hand with the
festivities.
Thank you to Lois and Dale for their tremendous
efforts, and to everyone who lent a hand, for another
successful Rummage Sale. Your contributions are always an
important part of the Sisterhood effort to the FJCC
community.
Coming up soon will be the Sisterhood Scholarship
awards – please don't miss this special Friday night Shabbat
Service on May 4. Sisterhood is proud to support our soonto-be
FJCC collegians; they are our future. We hope you
will join us.
Chag Same’ach Pesach! Happy Passover
Chat ha'avav same’ach! Happy Spring
Brooke Liebowitz and Deborah Kesselhaut
Sisterhood Co-Presidents

ABOUT THE HOLIDAYS
MAKE YOUR PASSOVER SEDER BEAUTIFUL AND MEMORABLE
The following suggestions, although not part of the
formal laws, will help create a true ruach, or spirit, of
Passover:
Parents should involve the children in the hustle and
bustle of pre-Pesach house
cleaning and general holiday
preparations. The memories
of the sights, sounds and
smells of the home around
holiday time remain with us
as Jews throughout our adult
lives. So let the children feel
the excitement and
anticipation.
Let your Seder table be as elegant as your means permit.
Spare nothing in endeavoring to make the service superb, the
setting breathtaking, and the floral arrangements thrilling.
Order an adequate number of copies of the Haggadah
sufficiently in advance.
The leader of the service must set the tone of a religious,
though cheerful, home service. The service is to be the
central part of the celebration, and the meal secondary. The
parents can help establish this tone by giving the younger
children a late afternoon snack so that their hunger will not
make them restless.
The leader should assign, in advance, the portions to be
read by others so as to give them time to become proficient.
He/she should personally study the "Ma Nishtanah," the Four
Questions, with the youngest child. This may prove one of
the happiest by-products of the Seder service.
Since the service is, in larger measure, designed for the
children, they must be involved at every opportunity,
especially in the description of the Four Children, the
opening of the door for Elijah, the Echod Mi Yodeah and the
Had Gadya. Teenage children can easily be taught to make
charades or quiz programs of these portions. These incidents
are not only good, but are placed in a setting so gay as to give
our children a sense of joyfulness of the Jewish story.
The evening must not end with the meal. The closing
portions of the Haggadah should be reserved for after the
meal.
Anyone unfamiliar with our lore will feel a bit awkward
about conducting a religious service, but the awkwardness
wears away with the doing, and in its place comes a sense of
belonging to a great tradition, of participating in the birth of a
people's freedom.
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FAST OF THE FIRST BORN
Friday, April 6
PASSOVER SCHEDULE OF SERVICES
6:30 AM
FIRST DAY OF PASSOVER
Friday evening, April 6 - 6:00 PM Light candles 7:12 PM
Saturday morning, April 7 - 9:15 AM
SECOND DAY OF PASSOVER
Saturday evening, April 7 - 6:00 PM
Sunday morning, April 8 - 9:15 AM Light candles 8:16 PM
SEVENTH DAY OF PASSOVER
Thursday evening, April 12 - 7:15 PM Light candles 7:18 PM
Friday morning, April 13 - 9:15 AM
EIGHTH DAY OF PASSOVER
Friday evening, April 13 - 7:00 PM Light candles 7:19 PM
Saturday morning, April 14 - 9:15 AM
Yizkor - 10:30 AM
Holiday ends Saturday, April 14 th , at 8:23 PM.

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AROUND THE SYNAGOGUE
YAD SQUAD
We wish a yasha co’ach to those who read Torah and Haftara in March:
Torah: Kaitlin Greenstein, Fallon Gross, Loren Hurwitz, Leah Kleiman and Melissa Kleiman
Haftara: Dan Gross, Fallon Gross and Danielle Rubin
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BINGO VOLUNTEERS
We would like to thank all those who helped make BINGO such a success in March.
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MAZEL TOV TO:
• The Searles Family on the Bat Mitzvah of Sydney
• Jeanne Weisblatt and Eliot Silverstone on their marriage
• Rachel Silberman and John Sosidka on winning 1 st prize for
their video submission to the New Jersey Bar Association
YouTube contest
REFUAH SHLEMAH TO:
• Sarah Resnick
• Matt Schutz
OUR DEEPEST CONDOLENCES TO:
• Marlene & Neal Wolff on the loss of his beloved grandfather,
Lee Coleman
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NEW JERSEY BAR ASSOCIATION LAW DAY YOUTUBE CONTEST
Mazel Tov to Jon Sosidka and Rachel Silberman for winning
first place in the NJ Bar Association Law Day YouTube
contest which showcased the work they did together for their
Bar/Bat Mitzvah project. It took a lot of their hard work,
helped Jon and Rachel to see situations that included
homelessness, sickness, mental illness, and broken families
where people were looking for ways to get back on their feet.
Jon and Rachel are raising awareness that funding has been
time, and considerable film editing skills! Visit cut to this organization, which can use our help. Please view
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtMD2RymwPw&feature
=email to see the interviews they did with the real people in
our area who were in need of legal services, and were helped
through the work of Legal Services of Northwest Jersey
the 3 minute video and consider making a donation at
www.lsnwj.org in honor of Rachel's upcoming Bat Mitzvah
on May 5 th , and Jon’s Bar Mitzvah, which was on December
10 th .
when they otherwise could not have afforded it. This project
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ROBYN DILLER TO SPEAK
Please join us on Shabbat morning, April 14, to hear
Robyn Diller speak about her memoir, How Everything
Changed, the moving story of a woman who was established
in her life as a single mother of three young boys and as a
respected psychologist but who one day realizes she is not
happy. Robyn then makes a dramatic decision to move to
Israel where she finds peace of mind, spiritual contentment,
emotional fulfillment and even a new career. In the book,
Diller describes the trials and obstacles she faced in making
this decision: from selling her home and relocating to a new
country and a radically different culture, to closing up her
practice and finding schools for her children, to telling her
parents, her boyfriend and her neighbors about the move.
Robyn Diller graduated from Northwestern University
writer’s program and then went to Emory University where
she received her Ph.D. in psychology. She established her
practice in Connecticut, married, had three children, then
divorced. Since moving to Israel she has become a partner in
a travel agency. She is currently working on her first fiction
novel.
The Forman Family would like to thank the congregation for their support and donations
during the time of the passing of Nomi’s beloved mother, Beverly Kogan.

Mark Your Calendar
Sunday, April 1 st - Gan-Bet Family Model Seder
Monday, April 2 nd - Gimel – B/B Mitzvah Class Model Seder
HEBREW SCHOOL NEWS
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Spring Break - No School from Tuesday, April 3 rd - Sunday, April 15 th
Classes Resume Monday, April 16 th
On Wednesday, March 14 th , the students bagged up all
the canned goods, over 600 items in all, and loaded them in a
truck for delivery to the Flemington Food Pantry. Special
thanks to Jake Walsh and Jake Clarin for making the
delivery.
The Purim Megillah reading was well attended. It was a
pleasure to see over 70 students participate in or watch the
Purim Story performed by the Hebrew High School students
accompanied by Billy Ray Sheets and his band (Laurence
Shatkin, Alex Rapkin, Mike Wolf and Mitch Clarin).
This past month, the students collected money to
purchase Mishloach Manot for soldiers in Israel. The
students raised $154.47 in addition to the congregation’s
Hebrew School Happenings
three half-shekels donation of $142.00. All in all, we raised
$300 to send 30 soldiers, a unit, Purim Baskets.
In April our focus for tzedakah will be to raise money
for Meir Panim in Israel in order to provide lunches for
children who live below the poverty level.
We are looking ahead to celebrating Passover with two
Sederim. The first, on Sunday, April 1 st , will include
Charoset Making, Matzah Baking and Model Seder with
Rabbi Jaffe. This is a parent-child program. Details coming
soon. Then on Monday, April 2 nd , the Gimel - B/B Mitzvah
students will have a Model Seder. After Passover break the
students will participate in the candle lighting ceremony at
the Yom HaShoah program. The following week there will
be two Yom HaAtzmaut programs.
Karen Walsh
A lobby full of food for the Food Pantry
FJCC Student proud of their efforts
Loading the Truck
Volunteers Jake Walsh and Jake Clarin ready to make the
delivery

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BOOK FAIR EPILOGUE
Well our lobby is now less crowded, but emptier and not as colorful. After all the books were packed and their red stands were
trucked away, it does look a little bare, though now we do have room for the festivities of our Spring Bar and Bat Mitzvah season.
It was a pleasure to watch our Hebrew School students excitedly peruse the displays. I truly enjoyed discussing the literature
with my fellow congregants. For a week and a half we were literally “The People of the Book.”
Of course, as with all FJCC endeavors, the success of the Book Fair was due to our numerous volunteers. The efforts of the
following people were greatly appreciated:
• Alex and Laurie Rapkin for a day spent unpacking and arranging the books
• Our booksellers: Pam Nemeth, Seth Cohen, Heather Michaels, Barbara Clarin, Sara Kippelman, Audrey Riche, Debbie
Hilton, and Myra Rosner
• Sharon Rednor and Amy Steinfeld for packing up
• Kimi Mittler for keeping track of all the sales, and Karen Walsh for her support and general assistance
• Last but not least, thanks to everyone who supported the Book Fair by buying books
We couldn’t have done it with out everybody’s help. Happy reading to all.
Adah Radzin
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BIKUR CHOLIM
Just a reminder of our very easy "3 Step Program":
Note: If you cannot make your scheduled time, please
1. Call the FJCC Friday after 10:30 AM to get the names
arrange for an alternate.
and room numbers of the Jewish patients in
If you are unable to do so, contact Sharon
Hunterdon Medical Center. Bring one Shabbat
Brooks and she will cover for you. If you are out
reading flier for each person, which you should
of brochures, please let Sharon know and she
have received by mail.
will mail you more. Also, if you hear about
2. Stop by Flemington Floral to pick up a flower and
patients who have been in the hospital for long
FJCC card, one per patient. The flowers cost
periods of time, or who would benefit from
approximately $1.00 each. Please note a flower
additional visits during the week rather than just
can be purchased almost anywhere. Just write a
on Fridays, please let Sharon know so that it may
best wishes card from the FJCC and include Rabbi
be arranged.
Jaffe’s name and the synagogue telephone number.
Thank you to the great Bikur Cholim volunteers! We
3. Stop by the hospital and deliver the flower and well
always hear such great things back from nursing every time
wishes some time before Shabbat. Please bring the
we go, so please note that your efforts are well appreciated.
trifold Shabbat readings with the flower and card.
Sharon Brooks
April 6 Erev Pesach May 4 Sharon Brooks
April 13 Pesach May 11 Adah Radzin
April 20 Marta Klepner May 18 Evie Stern
April 27 Marsha Gerstein May 25 Nomi Forman

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The final Jewish LIFE program of the season will be the
Community-Wide Yom Hashoah Program featuring Felice
Cohen, author of What Papa Told Me, Thursday, April 19, at
7:00 PM, hosted by Temple Beth El in Somerset.
To register for all Jewish LIFE programs and to become a
Jewish LIFE Benefactor or Sponsor, please call the Shimon
and Sara Birnbaum JCC at 908-725-6994 x201.
FEDERATION NEWS
Jewish LIFE (Learning is for Everyone)
For additional information, contact Laura Friedman, JCC
Associate Executive Director at 908-725-6994 x213;
LFriedman@ssbjcc.org. Jewish LIFE also offers courses
taught by rabbis at the participating synagogues. For a
complete listing, go to www.ssbjcc.org to view the Jewish
LIFE brochure.
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of Hunterdon County, Inc.
Incorporating Interfaith Hospitality Network
HIOC UTILITY ASSISTANCE FUND UPDATE
As of March 9, 2012, $20,860 has been spent to help 38 households with 54 children.
- 19 are homeowners and 19 are renters.
- Of the 19 households that own their home, five are currently in foreclosure.
Those helped have been from 14 towns in Hunterdon County:
Annandale - 3 households
Frenchtown – 4 households
Asbury- 2 households
Hampton – 2 households
Califon – 1 household
High Bridge – 2 households
Clinton – 1 household
Lebanon – 2 households
Flemington – 8 households
Milford – 3 households
Ringoes - 1 household
Stockton - 2 households
Whitehouse - 1 household
Whitehouse Station – 6 households
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Flemington Jewish Community Center
5 Sergeantsville Road
908-782-6410
www.flemingtonjcc.org
Doors Open at 6:15
Game Starts at 7:00
April 16
April 23
May 7
May 14
June 4
June 18
June 25
July 9
July 16
July 30
August 6
August 20
August 27
Contact Barbara to volunteer
barb@flemingtonjcc.org
782-6410 ext. 11

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Gift Shop
Springtime is here and that means Passover is around the corner. We have
beautiful matzah covers, hand painted ceramic Seder plates, Seder plate glass
liners, matzah trays, Afikomen sets, matzah sweepers, colorful table linens, and
for the kids we have an assortment of jumping frogs, pop up frogs, finger puppets,
and walking matzah balls which make great Afikomen gifts. We also have
coloring books and cassette tapes for the holiday. Mothers
Day, graduation, and Bar and Bat Mitzvah gifts await you as
well. We have jewelry for all the women in your life
including the famous butterfly necklace in new colors of
pink and blue, and traditional gifts such as Kiddush cups, Shabbat
candles, Flo Newrock's challah plate, tallit for men and women, tallit
clips and so much more. And thanks to Fallon Gross, we’ll be having
new gifts from Israel.
In addition, there are copies of Ilene Beckerman's new book The Smartest Woman I Know.
Ilene was kind to donate these books voted a must read by the Jewish Council.
Cara London also has her watercolors for sale.
We are very interested in getting your opinion on what you'd like to see in the shop and we'll
do our best to accommodate you. So come visit us soon for all your shopping needs. We look
forward to seeing you!
Volunteering at the shop is lots of fun and a great way to put your talents to helping
Sisterhood and the synagogue. Contact Lois Gross @908-806-744 or by email.
Hours of operation:
Sundays 10:45-11:30 AM
Wednesdays 5:45-6:30
By appointment and during regular office hours
Thanks to Kim Mueller for volunteering in March and to Gene Esterkin for donating a Kiddush
cup.
Your Gift Case Committee:
Lois Gross
Gayle Neibart
Tutoring: Reading, Writing, Study Skills
Adah Radzin, MA ABD
aradzin@comcast.net
908-788-1083
Reading Specialist
Learning Disabilities Teacher Consultant
Discount for Synagogue Members
5% of Proceeds will be donated to FJCC
Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions
For additional information contact
Monica K. Coe
monica.coe@kaplan.com
732 395-9571

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Todah rabah to all those who made donations to:
BUILDING FUND
• Marsha & Zel Gerstein:
• For a mazel tov to Jeanne Weisblatt and Eliot
Silverstone on their recent nuptials
• For a mazel tov to the Goldman family on the
engagement of Nadine to Ari
• For a happy 90 th birthday to Gene Esterkin
• For the yahrzeit of Marsha’s beloved mother,
Evelyn Simon
KIDDUSH FUND
• Nathan Treinish in memory of Beverly Kogan, beloved
mother of Nomi Forman
RABBI’S DISCRETIONARY FUND
• Isabel & Sid Benjamin for the yahrzeit of Sid’s beloved
sister, Doris Hilzer
• Antje Doyle for the yahrzeit of her beloved mother,
Hilda Likuski
• Fred Eisenger for the yahrzeit of his beloved mother
• Ellen & Seth Esterkin in honor of Gene Esterkin’s 90 th
birthday
• Neila & Jeff Green in memory of Beverly Kogan,
beloved mother of Nomi Forman
• Nancy & Joel Hirschtritt in memory of Beverly Kogan,
beloved mother of Nomi Forman
• Marta & Mike Klepner:
• In memory of Beverly Kogan, beloved mother of
Nomi Forman
• In memory of Samantha Langer-McBride, beloved
daughter of Barbara and Dov Langer
• For the yahrzeit of Mike’s beloved father, Samuel
• Judy Nussbaum & Marv Gelblat:
• For a mazel tov to the Goldman family on the
engagement of Nadine to Ari
• For a mazel tov to Jeanne Weisblatt and Eliot
Silverstone on their recent nuptials
GENERAL FUND
• Robin & Jeff Alexander:
• In memory of Beverly Kogan, beloved mother of
Nomi Forman
• For a complete and speedy recovery to Michelle
Cohn
• Vivian & Fred Daniel:
• For a mazel tov to the Goldman family on the
engagement of Nadine to Ari
• In memory of Samantha Langer-McBride, beloved
daughter of Barbara and Dov Langer
• Lori & Harry Findley for a mazel tov to The Goldman
family on the engagement of Nadine to Ari
• Rachel & Josh Kalafer in memory of Beverly Kogan,
beloved mother of Nomi Forman
• Bruce Kestenbaum for the yahrzeit of his beloved father,
Melvyn
DONATIONS
• Rosemary & Ed Mehrlust:
• For a complete and speedy recovery to Allan
Goodman
• For a complete and speedy recovery to Michelle
Cohn
• Nadine Milecofsky for the yahrzeit of her beloved
father, Herbert Milecofsky
• Bruce Moskovitz & John Fellin:
• In memory of Beverly Kogan, beloved mother of
Nomi Forman
• For a mazel tov to Jeanne Weisblatt and Eliot
Silverstone on their recent nuptials
• For a mazel tov to the Goldman family on the
engagement of Nadine to Ari
• Susan & David Puskar in memory of Alan Stolpen,
beloved father of Susan Stolpen
• Sue & Rick Rothstein:
• For a complete and speedy recovery to Michelle
Cohn
• For the yahrzeit of Rick’s beloved grandmother,
Minnie Arowitz
• In honor of the marriage of Jeanne Weisblatt and
Eliot Silverstone
• For a mazel tov to the Goldman family on the
engagement of Nadine to Ari
• Eileen Schwalb:
• In honor of Rabbi Jaffe and Phil Stern for helping
her with Mezzuzot
• For the yahrzeit of her beloved mother, Mildred
Schwalb
• Nancy & Laurence Shatkin in memory of Beverly
Kogan, beloved mother of Nomi Forman
• Elaine & Ken Stern in memory of Beverly Kogan,
beloved mother of Nomi Forman
• Ellen & David Teitelbaum for a mazel tov to the
Goldman family on the engagement of Nadine to Ari
• Barbara Thomas in memory of Beverly Kogan, beloved
mother of Nomi Forman
• Jane & Eric Wasserman in memory of Beverly Kogan,
beloved mother of Nomi Forman
• Andy & Larry Wissner in memory of Beverly Kogan,
beloved mother of Nomi Forman
MILLION PENNY FUND (Ruth Wolf & Eleanor
Berkowitz, the Penny Ladies)
• Ruth Wolf:
• For the yahrzeit of Leo and Leonie Wolf, the
beloved parents of Manny Wolf
• For the yahrzeits of her beloved parents, Paul and
Martha Seligman

PARSHIYOT SUMMARIES FOR APRIL
Courtesy of Torah from Dixie, Inc. at TFDIXIE.COM
April 7, 2012 – Passover, Second Seder
April 14, 2012 – Passover, 8 th Day
Parshat Shemini – April 21, 2012
Parshat Shemini (Leviticus 9:1-11:47) begins by
discussing the events which occurred on the eighth and final
day of the melu'im, inauguration service in the Mishkan
(Tabernacle). After months of preparation and anticipation,
Aaron and his sons are finally installed as Kohanim (priests)
in an elaborate service. Aaron blesses the people, and the
entire nation rejoices as Hashem's presence rests upon them.
However, the excitement comes to an abrupt halt as Aaron's
two eldest sons, Nadav and Avihu, are consumed by a
heavenly fire and die in the Mishkan while offering a ketoret
(incense) on the altar. The Torah states that they died
because they brought a "strange fire" into the inner sanctum
of the Mishkan, the meaning of which is discussed by the
commentators at great length. Aaron is informed that the
Kohanim are forbidden to enter the Mishkan while
intoxicated, and the Torah continues to relate the events
which occur immediately after Nadav and Avihu's tragic
death. The portion concludes with a listing of the kosher
and non-kosher animals, and various laws about tumah,
ritual contamination.
Parshiyot Tazria and Metzora – April 28, 2012
Parshat Tazria
After the discussion at the end of last week's portion
regarding tumah (spiritual impurity) resulting from dead
animals, Parshat Tazria (Leviticus 12:1-13:59) introduces
the various categories of tumah emanating from human
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beings, beginning with a woman upon giving birth. The rest
of the portion describes in great detail the varying and
numerous manifestations of the disease called tzaraat.
Although it has been commonly mistranslated as leprosy,
this skin disease has little resemblance to any bodily ailment
transmitted through normal exposure. Rather, tzaraat is the
physical manifestation of a spiritual malaise, a punishment
from Hashem primarily for the sin of speaking lashon hara
(evil speech), amongst other transgressions and anti-social
behavior. Known as a metzora, someone afflicted by a
tzaraat-like patch on his skin is subject to a series of
examinations by a Kohen (priest), who declares the patient
to be either tahor (pure) or tamei (impure). If tamei, he is
isolated outside of the camp, an appropriate punishment for
someone whose foul tongue caused others to become
separated from one another. After describing the various
forms, colors, and manifestations of the disease on a person's
skin, head and beard, the portion concludes with a discussion
of garments contaminated by tzaraat.
Parshat Metzora
Parshat Metzora (ibid. 14:1-15:33) continues the
discussion of tzaraat, detailing the three-part purification
process of the metzora administered by a Kohen, complete
with immersions, korbanot (offerings) and the shaving of the
entire body. After a lengthy description of tzaraat on houses
and the command to demolish the entire residence if the
disease has spread, the final chapter of the portion discusses
several categories of natural human discharges which render
a person impure to varying degrees.

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1 - Alyssa Fox
- Heather Kaplan
- Lindsay Maranca
- Charles Miller
- Ethan Rednor
2 - Alexandra Fox
- Steve Fox
- Phillip Franklin
- Matthew Winnick
3 - Bruce Kamich
- Seth Liebowitz
4 - Marin Weisblatt
- Carol Wolf
5 - Brian Goodman
- Eleanor Pavlovsky
- Michelle Stern
6 - Benjamin Goodman
- Wendy Roth
- Andrew Weinstein
8 - Steven Weinstein
9 - Kurt Goldman
9 - Don Shuman
10 - Douglas Atlas
- Elyssa Krampel Barberio
8 - Laurie & Mark Weinstein
14 - Jane & Eric Wasserman
20 - Liz & Ray Slavin
1 - Bea Friedman
- Hyman Ritkofsky
- Sadie Strober
2 - Ida Halpern
- Leizer Mozeico
- Samuel Ochacher
3 - Dorothy Pavlovsky
- Blanche Zagoren
4 - Gustav Bendix
- Hersch Weiniger
- Herbert Weinstock
5 - Solomon Goldings
- Joseph Trager
6 - Rubin Cohen
7 - Peter Doshna
- Annie Goodman
- Mildred Schwalb
- Victoria Wieder
8 - Gladys Berg
9 - Sarah Benari
- Paul Merel
- Edith Powell
- Ethel Weiner
10 - Regina Auerbach
- Barbara Knobler
- Jacob Miles
APRIL BIRTHDAYS
10 - Danielle Rubin
11 - Lesley Short
12 - Charlotte Byne
- Roz Zackowitz
13 - Gregory Scibilia
14 - Alexander Rapkin
- Cheryl Schutz
15 - Jacob Walsh
16 - Shelley Sobel
17 - Marsha Gerstein
- Shellie Jacobson
18 - Joshua Camins-Esakov
- Keith Gerstein
- Leah Greenstein
- Alexandra Rubin
19 - Phyllis Lerner
- Dana Schindler
20 - Alan Blankstein
- Fred Daniel
- Bruce Kay
- Stuart Kippelman
21 - Ethan Gertzman
- Sophia Reich
23 - Mel Dvoor
APRIL ANNIVERSARIES
APRIL YAHRZEIT OBSERVANCES
- Sophie Schurr
- Hyman Trager
11 - Samuel Bass
- Eleanor Dreifuss
- Ida Dvoor
- Herman Steinhorn
12 - Jacob Jacobson
- Abe Kuchinsky
- Shirley Paikin
- Martin Shapiro
13 - Perla Duenas
- Nathan Poppel
15 - Leo Seligsohn
17 - Henry Rubin
19 - Jacob Dvoor
- Sol Gerstein
20 - Joseph Deutsch
- Irwin Goldman
- Stu Gross
21 - Nathan Barry Camerman
- Laura Green
- Samuel Lacob
- Dorothy Ort
22 - Harold Coppersmith
- Faye Nahama
- Jerome Weiner
Yahrzeit candles are lit the night before the yahrzeit is observed.
23 - Harry Gropper
- Colin Jakubowski
- Ian Jakubowski
- Jennifer Jennis
- Amy Marshall
24 - Donna Levinston-Braff
25 - James Fox
- Elise Franklin
26 - A. Brett Bragin
27 - Jen Fine
- Amy Levin
- Nathaniel Nemeth
- Lauren Weinstock
28 - Jared Camins-Esakov
- Jackie Lefkow
- Debbie McInerney
- Jessica Nahama
- Sydney Searles
- Douglas Shuman
- Jonathan Weiss
29 - Noah Doshna
- Sharon Goldstein
30 - Alan Hylton
22 - Rachel & Scott Liebman
30 - Darlene & Ira Arden
23 - Etta Frankel Guttman
- Fanny Rosenbleeth
- Harvey Shiffman
24 - Minnie Arowitz
- Bessie Hurwitz
- Ruth Levine
- Sophie Colchamiro Michaelson
- Bertha Tillinger
25 - David Benjamin
- Herman Lefkow
- Louis Meshover
- Irving Straus
- Benjamin Thomas
26 - Isador Leon Nagler
- Fanny Rosenthal
- Arnold Rubenstein
27 - Morris Karp
- Florence Selgiman
28 - Dora Berkowitz
- Amelia Dudda
- Gerald Korn
29 - Daniel Orlin
- Abraham Salamon
- Gertrude Seligsohn
30 - Blanche Abramson
- Henrietta Menell
PLEASE NOTE: If your birthday, anniversary or yahrzeit information is missing or incorrect, please bring or mail your information to
the FJCC office, or email it to Flo Newrock so it can be included in future bulletins.

CONTRIBUTIONS
If you have an event
Tzedakah is always “in season.”
coming up such as an anniversary, a birthday, a yahrzeit,
etc., it’s a mitzvah to contribute to your favorite fund.
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You can send your check to the FJCC with a note telling us
where you would like the money used, or call one of the
following people. Do a mitzvah – send a donation.
Gift Shop
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Library
Nursery School
Prayer Books & Pentateuchs
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Education Fund
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7394 or visit their Party Supply Store at ChesarPro.com,
and mention #12.

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UPCOMING EVENTS
April 6
Erev Passover
June 4
BINGO
April 7 – 14 Passover
June 9
Bat Mitzvah of Caroline Riche
April 16
BINGO
June 16
Bat Mitzvah of Abby Reid Green
April 19
Yom Hashoah
June 17
Father’s Day
April 22
Yom Hashoah Program
June 18
BINGO
April 23
BINGO
June 23
Bat Mitzvah of Hannah Ellenberg
April 25
Yom Hazikaron
June 25
BINGO
April 26
Yom Ha’Atzmaut
June 30
Bar Mitzvah of Ben Kestenbaum
April 28
Bat Mitzvah of Sydney Searles
July 4
Independence Day
May 4
Sisterhood Scholarship
July 8
Fast of Tammuz
May 5
Bat Mitzvah of Rachel Silberman
July 9
BINGO
May 7
BINGO
July 16
BINGO
May 10
Lag B’Omer
July 29
Fast of Tisha B’Av
May 12
Bar Mitzvah of Noah Doshna
July 30
BINGO
May 13
Mother’s Day
August 6
BINGO
May 14
BINGO
August 20
BINGO
May 20
Yom Yerushalayim
August 27
BINGO
May 27 & 28 Shavuot
May 28
Memorial Day
June 2
Bat Mitzvah of Mikayla Fine
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ONEG/KIDDUSH/BAGEL NOSH SPONSORSHIP
ONEG Sponsor KIDDUSH Sponsor
April 6 Erev Passover April 7 Passover
April 13 Passover April 14 Passover
April 20 Lisa Harper in honor of her daughter, Sophie, April 21
leading services
April 27 Searles Family in honor of Sydney’s Bat
Mitzvah
April 28 Searles Family in honor of Sydney’s Bat
Mitzvah
If you would like to sponsor ongei Shabbat or kiddushim at the FJCC, please call 782-6410 or email Lori at the FJCC office
(office@flemingtonjcc.org). Last minute sponsors may not necessarily appear in the above calendar.
Do you like to shop? The Kiddush Committee is looking for a few willing and able shoppers for weekly Kiddush
sponsors. Do you like to plan meals? The Kiddush Committee is looking for members to put together a practical
Package 3 alternative to offer for weekly Kiddush sponsors. Call Marilynn Norinsky to volunteer.
ShopRite of Flemington has kosher cut up fruit that doesn’t need to be pre-ordered.

April 2012
9 Nisan 5772 - 8 Iyar 5772
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1 2 3 4 5 6 ¡¡7:12PM 7 §8:16PM/¡¡8:16PM
Services 9:00 Gimel-B/B Mitzvah
NO HEBREW
NO HEBREW
EREV PASSOVER
PASSOVER I
Gan-Bet Family Model Class Model Seder
SCHOOL -
SCHOOL -
Services 6:30 AM & Services 9:15 AM &
Seder
PASSOVER
PASSOVER
6:00 PM
6:00 PM
Youth Group
Chocolate Seder 2:00
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9 Nisan 10 Nisan 11 Nisan 12 Nisan 13 Nisan 14 Nisan 15 Nisan
8 §8:17PM 9 10 11 12 ¡¡7:18PM 13 §8:22PM/¡¡7:19PM 14
§8:23PM
PASSOVER II
HOL HAMOED PASSOVER I HOL HAMOED PASSOVER II HOL HAMOED PASSOVER III HOL HAMOED PASSOVER IV
PASSOVER VII
PASSOVER VIII (YIZKOR)
Services 9:15 AM & Services 9:15
7:00 PM
Yizkor 10:30
NO HEBREW
SCHOOL -
PASSOVER
Services 9:00
NO HEBREW
SCHOOL -
PASSOVER
NO HEBREW
SCHOOL -
PASSOVER
NO HEBREW
SCHOOL -
PASSOVER
NO HEBREW
SCHOOL -
PASSOVER
Services 7:15 PM
16 Nisan/1 L'Omer 17 Nisan/2 L'Omer 18 Nisan/3 L'Omer 19 Nisan/4 L'Omer 20 Nisan/5 L'Omer 21 Nisan/6 L'Omer 22 Nisan/7 L'Omer
15 16 17 18 19 §8:28PM 20 ¡¡7:26PM 21
§8:30PM
NO HEBREW
BINGO 7:00
YOM HASHOAH
Services 7:00
Shemini
SCHOOL -
Oneg: Lisa Harper Services 9:15
PASSOVER
Services 9:00
23 Nisan/8 L'Omer 24 Nisan/9 L'Omer 25 Nisan/10 L'Omer 26 Nisan/11 L'Omer 27 Nisan/12 L'Omer 28 Nisan/13 L'Omer 29 Nisan/14 L'Omer
22 23 24 25 §8:34PM 26 §8:35PM 27 ¡¡7:33PM 28
§8:38PM
ROSH HODESH I
ROSH HODESH II
YOM HAZIKARON YOM HA'ATZMAUT
Services 7:00
Tazria
Metzora
Services 9:00 BINGO 7:00
Bat Mitzvah of Sydney
Yom HaShoah
Services 9:15
Searles
Program 10:30
Bat Mitzvah of Syndey
Oneg: Searles Family
Searles
Kiddush: Searles
Family
30 Nisan/15 L'Omer 1 Iyar/16 L'Omer 2 Iyar/17 L'Omer 3 Iyar/18 L'Omer 4 Iyar/19 L'Omer 5 Iyar/20 L'Omer 6 Iyar/21 L'Omer
29 30
Services 9:00
Yom HaAtzmaut
Program
7 Iyar/22 L'Omer 8 Iyar/23 L'Omer
[¡¡Candle Lighting, §Observance End for Flemington, NJ]