Sunday, September 30, 2018

Volunteer Opportunities October 2018

As a great synagogue with a small congregation, Valley Beth Israel grows and thrives as a result of it's dedicated volunteers.  And we need more help! 

Our volunteers help plan and organize our events, build toward the future as members of our Board, and hold many other roles in between.  YOUR help is most definitely wanted, and needed.

Pauline Reich wanted to remind us that she collects items for servicemen and women, soldiers overseas, and needy veterans here at home. She's been doing this for many years, and needs our help!!

There is a box in the Temple entry on the left side on top of the glass display counter. Here is a list of the useful items Pauline will happily collect:

Birthday, Holiday cards, etc.- that you get in the mail
Pads you get in the mail
Candy - nothing twist ties - must be sealed on all 4 sides
Pens
Snacks, cookies, chips,- individual packages
Toothbrushes
Hot Chocolate Mixes
Foot Powder
Ramen Noodles
Travel Games
Magazines (within the year)
Decks of cards
Soft Cover Books

If you would be kind enough to bring your items to the Temple Lobby, Pauline picks up donations weekly.

Should there be anything the soldiers cannot use, it is given to the veterans at the VA.
Pauline also collects your empty ink cartridges from your printers. They are sold to a company and the money made is used to send all these items overseas.
THESE MEN AND WOMEN ARE  'OUT THERE FOR US'.  IT IS THE LEAST WE CAN CAN DO FOR THEM!!!

Thanks for your help in advance.  If you have any questions, please feel free to call Pauline at: 818-764-8466
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If you want to be involved, but cannot fully commit to a task, please let us know as we would be thrilled to have a list of volunteers we can contact as needs arise.
  • Board Members
  • Event Planning - including creating flyers and marketing our events
  • Event Preparation - shopping / cooking / serving / set up / clean up
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If you have anything you wish to have added to the newsletter, please email Michelle at redheadsrule20000@hotmail.com. Please email your submissions by the 25th of the month, to allow ample time to include your contribution to the following month's newsletter.

Birthdays, Anniversaries and Celebrations October 2018


Our favorite thing to do is CELEBRATE together.  At VBI we hope you will always tell us of the good fortune in your life and allow us to join in your celebration.
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Bobbie Cohen has left for a trip to Vietnam and Cambodia. We're sure she'll have stories to tell of her exotic vacation!
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Please tell us of the births, engagements, weddings, promotions, bar/bat mitzvoth and other wonderful things for which we can celebrate and share in your joy.


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We start each month with a Choral Shabbat as the congregation celebrates birthdays and anniversaries.  Join us Friday evening October 5th, 2018, as we celebrate together.  Services begin at 7:30pm

(Please send your birth announcement, engagements, weddings, promotions, bar/bat mitzvoth and other wonderful things for which we can celebrate and share in your joy, to your newsletter editor, Michelle Jacobs, at redheadsrule20000@hotmail.com).

July through December 2018 upcoming events


The Calendar of Events!

August  12   -  "Horse" Racing and Brunch at the Temple (*bring the kids*)
Sept.  1        -  Selichot Dinner 
Sept. 30       -  Sukkot - Dinner in the Sukkah 
Oct.   21       -  San Manuel Casino (Transportation + snacks + games)
Nov (TBD)   -  Talent Show & Event with Panorama Presbyterian Church
Nov 25        -  Hanukkah comedy play 
Dec    2        -  Hannukah comedy play (and separate dinner event)*
*more details to come

* San Manuel Casino is for adults 21 years and older only.
**Children's pricing is for youth aged 5-13 years old.  Children 4 and under are free!  
*** We will send out flyers for each upcoming event with more details. 


Yahrzeits October 2018

October 5, 2018

Jennie Goldfarb            Harry Feinstein                Dorothy Samuels
Isaac Urbach                 Aaron Fuhr                       Miriam Gill
Nathan Drucker            Joseph Joswitz                Abraham Skroopka
Max Shalat                    Solomon Friedberg          Rose Katz
Fred Robbins                Joseph Farsht                 Abraham Guss
Edith Lumer                  Morris Pechersky            Dorothy Gurner
Louis Brown                 Jenny Snider                   Lena Warner
David Gordon               Goldie Gross                   Pearl Lofchie
*Mary Schwartz            *Robert Bobiner             *Gabriel Kaczor
*Hyman Litwin              *John Sheftel                  *Gertrude Lieberman
*Anna Novatt                *Riva Cofsky                   *Ralph Raiken
*Jennie Schatz             *Milton Scharf                 *Morris Olshan
*Gabriel Glassman      *Louis Cohn                    *Samuel Scharf                                                                   
October 12, 2018

Hyman Brickman         Samson Friedman           Terry Goldstein
Jacob Lerner                Rose Kroll                        Henry Grossberg
Oscar Firstenberg        Luba Landa                     Meyer Rubenstein
Don Weinberg              Louis Rosenbaum           Esther Getz
Sarah Weinstein           Max Levine                      Harold Rubin
Benjamin Wadler         Annie Saltman                 Aaron Gladstein
Zalman Jaffa                Pauline Mechelson          Sam Schoor
Vivian Gelfand             Davis Tateel                     *Esther Burns
*Eliezer Givertz            *Louis Kasselman           *Billie Hyman
*Jessie Litwin              *Sol Gilbert                       *Pauline Tive
*Geraldine Dubin         *Alfred Dinsfriend           *Joseph Price
*Hyman Mednick         *Abraham Meyerson        *Miriam Youngman
*Minnie Hyman            *Philip Brick                     *Mary Forsch
*Jacob Goldin             *David Rubinstein            *Rose Sherman 

October 19, 2018

Abraham Bass              Gladys Gorelick               Bella Roth
Arthur Weiss                 Katie Elinson                    Fred Lofchie
Louis Levensbaum       Pearl Blank                       Leonard Glass
Leila Weiner                  Shirley Koffler                  Mae Ginsberg
Rose Holzband              *Rose Spitz                      *Ely Weissberg
*Samuel Barnett            *David Schwartz              *Irving Lederich
*June Debardas             *George Porte                 *Alan Stone
*Hannah Cohen             *Louis Mangel                 *Sara Ogulnik
*Malvina Brooks            *Rose Israel                     *Walter Leopold 

October 26, 2018

*Israel MIlgrim               *Joseph Zuckerman          *Carl Burns
*Mary Katz                     *Abraham Lensman           Leya Smith
Fannie Levy                   Sarah Geller                       Judith Gold
Gertrude Tushner         Samuel Farkas                   Edith Michel
Seymour Shuster          Ruth Katz                           Ben Zion Leinwand
Mildred Leinwand         Samuel Lieber                   Abraham Ehrlich
Francs Friedman           *Hedy Bernstein               *Sam Goldstein
*Herman Hibbard          *Edythe Gershen               *Herman Exler 
*Hyman Malik                *Cynthia Sklar                   *Tessie Simon
*Irving Cohen                *Harriett MacDougall

*Denotes Memorial Plaque

Torah Fund October 2018


WHY TORAH FUND?

For the past several years, funds raised by Torah Fund have gone toward scholarships to all the schools.   There are continuing opportunities for all of us to provide support to all five institutions through Torah Fund.   Thousands of dedicated volunteers have contributed to the spiritual, aesthetic, and material well being of these educational communities by supporting Torah Fund projects.

Our Torah Fund Pin for 5779 (2018-2019) ATID means “future” in Hebrew.   As Women’s League enters its second century, Torah Fund begins its 77th year and the State of Israel enters its 71st, we look forward with joy to our future together with you, all our supporters of Torah Fund.

For those who have not sent in your pledges, please write a check to Valley Beth Israel Torah Fund.

Again, thank you for your continued support of Torah Fund. 

Bobbie Cohen (818) 764-7952
Torah Fund V. P.

Thursday, September 13, 2018

Torah Fund September 2018





By now you have received letters explaining about Torah Fund for the 2018-2019 campaign.   You have the opportunity to participate in preserving, promoting and perpetuating Conservative/Masorti Judaism through active giving to the Torah Fund Campaign of Women’s League in support of The Jewish Theological Seminary, Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies, Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies, Seminary in Buenos Aires, and Zacharias Frankel College in Potsdam, Germany.

Your generosity will also assure that Conservative Judaism remains an option for your children’s children.

Thank you in advance for your pledge and your check should be made out to Valley Beth Israel Torah Fund.

Again, thank you for your continued support of Torah Fund.  

Bobbie Cohen (818) 764-7952
Torah Fund V. P.





Yahrzeits September 2018

September 7, 2018

*Alex Drogichen           *Bessie Saposhnek          *Paul Kay
*Molly Miller                  *Anna Escovitz                 *Sol Cogan
Isadore Brown               Roy Cadish                      *Jennie Dubin
Mary Eidman                *Yetta Rosen                      *Blanche Miller
Tillie Rosen                   Bessie Lefkovits               Fanny Levin
Bertha Wainstock         *Hermina Frank                  Willie Friedman
Meir Sack                      *Maurice Ratner                 Florence Feldner
*Nachman Greenberg   Abraham Knopf                Barry Cohen
*Frances Farber            *Rev. Benzion Eisenberg  Reuben Ross
Issie Liss
                                                                                              
September 14, 2018

*Sadie Price                  Philip Frank                         Rose Rosenblum
*Hilda Jubas                 Fanny Kaminsky                 Charles Schwager
*Yitzchak Haas             *Mendle Schneider              *Max Skolnick
*Barbara Pava              *Benjamin David Minz         Rose Harris
*Mary Anne Aaron       Jankle Brenwasser             Miriam Brenwasser
*Alexander Friedberg  Wolfe & Golda Handle         Anna Kaplan
Olga Lewinson             Sophie Renton                    *Tibor Neuman
*Bessie Gold                *Emma Mane                       *Abraham Nagel
*Phillip Hochberg        Joseph Bachlis                   Joseph Bachelis
*Eleanor Sommers      *Rebecca Komen                *Benjamin Haas
Pnina Liberman           *Esther Burns                     *Mollie Rosenberg
*Phillip Allen Stein       Max Wall                                   Samuel Borokoff
Mollie Gordon               Samuel Mazo                      Ida Umanskaya
Sanford Goldberg        *Teresa Youngman             *Ida Cohen
Anna Hipshman           *Earl F. Lovett                     *Steven Ostroff
Lewis Margel                 Mattye Rubenstein            Mollie Bersak
*Mailec & Pearl Serber & Family      *Helen Gertrude Kubernek
*Samuel Farkas & Family                   *Sidney William Goldsmith
Meyer Hirsch Chesler

September 21, 2018

Morris Guthaim             Martin S. Glasberg              Max D. Greenfield 
*Michael Schaftel          *Morris Steinberg                 *Frances Bielsky
*Simeon Galfand           Genevieve Tateel                 Ivan Frank
Lottie Brown                  *Helene Gastwirth              *Harry Korman
Julia Schwarz                *Ben Byer                            Minnie Friedberg
Martin Lipkin                 Sarah Cobern                         Herman Flagg
Joseph Saiger              *Lawrence George Berger   *Anna Saltz   
*Irving Henry Alpert      *Leonard Rosenberg           *James Shannon
*Rose Anne Steinberg

September 28, 2018

*Theodore Titner           Colman Gass                      Samuel Greenseid
Marc Steven James      Libbie Niemark                   *Frank Markowitz
*Sherry Tarson             Sidney Freedman               Sarah Olshan
Pinchus Bronstein       Gloria Friedman                  *Esther Reiman
Leo Levine                    *Joseph Prieser                  *Sam Zuckerman
*Pesyah Kirshner         *Moishe Kirshner                *Simpson Snadow
Morris Gelfound           *Esther Schrag                    Harry Zelman
Rubin Shuman              Hattie Solursh                     Morris Gelfound
*Harry I. Goldsmith       Nathan Grossman              *Blima Kraut
Meyer Rabinek              *Harry Moshin                     Guillermo Vitali
Abraham Lutsky           *Anne Becker                      Izik Oknyansky
Selma Wollman             Jacob Weichsel                  Harry Siderman
*Herman Welber            Fannie London Guy      
*Abraham Nathan Reiman          *Feige Mogolewska


*Denotes Memorial Plaque