The CMI Bulletin
More than a place - We’re a community
NEWSLETTER
JULY 2024
JULY
Sivan- Tammuz
A Message From Rabbi Daniel Schaefer
I am thrilled to return home to Connecticut and become the rabbi at Mishkan Israel this summer. Over the last few months, I’ve been spending more time in Greater New Haven, searching for a house and preparing for the move. With each visit, different memories return - of meals enjoyed with friends, basketball games played, and trips into nature.
Memory is especially important in Judaism and to the Jewish people. The Hebrew word for remember - zachor - appears nearly 200 times in the Hebrew bible. Over and over we are commanded to remember - to remember Shabbat, our covenant with God, and our redemption from Egpyt. The historian Yosef Haim Yerushalmi in his book, “Zakhor: Jewish History and Jewish Memory,” argues that the commandment to remember has been central to the survival of the Jews over thousands of years.
Synagogues in general, and Mishkan Israel, in particular are exceptional containers for our memories. When we enter the building and see familiar faces and places, we remember loved ones, times of joy and sadness, moments of building community and building a better world. CMI holds a lot of wonderful memories for me - running around the religious school hallways as a child during High Holy Day services, Purim carnivals, celebrating b’nei mitzvahs with friends and family, and much more. I know I’m not alone.
I’m honored to help lead a community that holds significant memories for so many people and I’m excited to help create new ones. I look forward to celebrating simchas and holidays, learning together, and working to improve our community. I can’t wait to build those memories with you. There are so many things to look forward to this summer and beyond. I hope you’ll join us for a meet and greet, Shabbat service, or event this summer.
L’shalom,
Rabbi Daniel Schaefer
Services
SHABBAT KORACH
Numbers 16:1 - 18:32
Friday, July 5 5:30 p.m. Oneg 6:00 p.m. Shabbat Evening Service
Service Leaders: Rabbi Schaefer, Hedda Rubenstein & Jonathan Zabin
Join your CMI community for Shabbat Services each Friday evening and Saturday mornings when we have a B’Mitzvah to celebrate!
SHABBAT CHUKAT
Numbers 19:1 - 22:1
Friday, July 12 5:30 p.m. Oneg 6:00 p.m. Shabbat Evening Service
Service Leaders: Michael Allen & Jonathan Zabin
SHABBAT BALAK
Numbers 22:2 - 25:9
Friday, July 19 5:30 p.m. Oneg 6:00 p.m. Shabbat Evening Service 7:00 p.m. Pizza on the Patio
Service Leaders: Rabbi Schaefer, Alan Sturtz, Dana & Cynthia Astmann
SHABBAT PINCHAS
Numbers 25:10 - 30:1
Friday, July 26 5:30 p.m. Oneg 6:00 p.m. Shabbat Evening Service
Service Leaders: TBD
TODAH RABAH
Cohen Family, Ivey Cooley, Sarah Greenblatt, Phil Jacobs, Joel Jacobson, Howard Lurie, Dave Rodnick, Diane Rosen
JULY GREETERS
TRANSITION EVENTS & OPPORTUNITIES
** Requires registration
JULY
**Tues 7/9: Michael Allen & Eun-Mi Shim 7-8:30 PM (North Haven)
**Tues 7/16 Jeremy Schwartz & Tracy Rabin 7:00-8:30 PM (Hamden/Spring Glen)
Fri 7/19 Shabbat service w/ pizza on the patio - CMI - 6:00 PM (signup will be required for dinner)
**Thurs 7/25 Rachel & Ian Alderman - 7-8:30 PM (Westville)
**Tues 7/30 Michele Abrams & Dalton King 7:00-8:30 PM (Hamden/Spring Glen)
AUGUST
Fri 8/16 Shabbat service w/ dinner on the patio - CMI - 6:00 PM (signup will be required for dinner)
**Thurs 8/22 Mark & Judy Sklarz 7-8:30 PM (Milford)
**Sun 8/25 Jim Horwitz & Sandy Allison 4-5:30 PM (Woodbridge)
SEPTEMBER
Fri 9/6 -Shabbat Under the Stars 6 PM CMI (signup will be required for dinner)
**Mon 9/9 Whitney Center tea 2PM-3:30 PM
Sat 9/14 - Shabbat Schmooze - 3 PM - CMI
Thurs 9/12 - Brews and Schmooze (sponsored by Brotherhood at Twelve Percent Brewery in North Haven)
Sun 9/15 First day of Religious School; breakfast with families
**Sun 9/22 Sue & David Millen - 4-5:30 PM (North Haven)
TBA: Religious School and teen events in September!
NOVEMBER
Fri 11/15: Save the date for Rabbi Schaefer’s Installation service and celebration
Yahrzeits
Gusta J. Abels Robert Philip Adler Hannah Alderman * Abner A. Alderman * Sadye Stein Battalin * Roslyn C. Beck * Jerome Daive Berman * Jon Blitman * Sidney Brown * Ann Cohen Muriel (Nonnie)Cooperman * Adele Goldstein Davis Dr. Joseph Fleischer * Paula Forman-Schiffman Ann Gallert * Shifra Garland Louis W. Goodman * Lillian Lyons Grannick * Cheryl Gusenburg Samuel I. Hershman * Jeanne Jacobson Joseph H. Katsoff * Morris Knopp Frances Lazaroff Ester Levine Sam Levine Amelia Oppenheimer * Solomon Rosenbluth * Ralph Sasson Arnold Shanbrom Celia Shure * Jack Silberberg Sol Z. Silver Martin Sirkin Gloria Steiner
July 5
Sarah Chasnoff Allinson * Sol Arnold Arnold M. Astmann Ruth Baltimore * Muriel Freedman Braverman David Burg Clare Cole Fannie Drabkin Sally Feldman Mildred Festa Lee Gallin Pearl Gans Rabbi Robert E. Goldburg Phillip Goodhart * Hattie Isaacs Hamerman * Merton Haut Irwin Horowitz * Philip Isaacs * Isaac L. Kleiner * Dr. Simon Bretzfelder Kleiner * Donna Krug Meyer L. Lazarus Phyllis Weisbart Litoff Fred Loewenbaum Claire Merriam * Sadie Milstone Renee Parker Lucille R. Pollak Eleanor Miller Pripstein Dr. Harry S. Rosenberg * Louis Rudnick * Enid Scheps Kenneth Schlessel Arlene Shanbrom Barbara Tellar Bruce Thalberg Stephen A. Wareck *
July 12
Samuel Ackerman Macy H. Battalin * Rose Merson Bennett * Samuel Berger * Vera Maude Blegen Matilda O. Bromberg * James Carmody Clara Chasin * Glenn Chasin Edward D. Cohen Esther Ziering Cooley * Miriam Danishevsky * Louise Klee Gips Sherry Louise Goldman * Eileen Gorman Helen Serow Horwitz * Joseph M. Jacobs * Caroline K. Johnson * Nina Rohinsky Kaufman Samuel Kaufman Perl Lehtman Raphael Marcus * Jeffrey Postman Shirley Rosenstein Sam Rotkopf Ely Rozovsky * Herbert Alfred Saxe * Paul Scholder Emilie Schwartz Emily Shindler Jacob R. Silverman Isidore Stein * Linda Shanbrom Wallace * Florence Winer * Marvin Wolf * I. Sidney Zaur
July 19
Shirley Lufer Bershtein * Susan Bush David S. Casher James Defeo Frances Eisman Irma Evans Dora Feinstein Morris Field Pearl Fleischer * Annette Pripstein Freeman Bernice Glassman * Betty Goldstein Elaine Ann Greenberg * Lisa Beth Grove Joseph L. Gurian * Rose Hatkin Dr. Stuart Jacobson * Joseph M. Lambert * Jennie E. Leshine Bernice Lesnick Martin P. Levin * Shirlie Enson Levine * Ida Lurie Selma Matloff Sarah Mendelsohn * Dorothy Perell Miller * Samuel Milner Sophie Moore Dr. Louis H. Nahum * Gertrude Markle Nitkin Alan Stuart Postman * Albert B. Rogowski * Marilyn Rosenbaum Rita Rubin* Harriett Shiff * Grace Sterling * Leon Suppe Lucille Packard Turmelle Bernard Virshup Doris Vitale Lawrence White * Frances E. Wilensky Rita Yedlin
July 26
* Memorial Wall Plaque
In Memoriam
Donald Germaine
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THE CONGREGATION MISHKAN ISRAEL BULLETIN
June 2024 Newsletter
THE CONGREGATION MISHKAN ISRAEL
785 Ridge Road, Hamden, CT 06517
Phone: (203) 288-3877 Fax: (203) 248-2148
http://cmihamden.org
Rabbi Daniel Schaefer x236 dschaefer@cmihamden.org
Rabbi Emeritus Herbert N. Brockman, Ph.D. D.D. x238 cmirabbi@cmihamden.org
Cantor Arthur Giglio x244 cantorg@cmihamden.org
Steven Jacober, Executive Director x241 sjacober@cmihamden.org
Michelle Goldstein, Religious School Director x237 mgoldstein@cmihamden.org
Jennifer Verrier, Early Learning Director x246 jverrier@cmihamden.org
Alan Sturtz, President president@cmihamden.org