The CMI Bulletin
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NEWSLETTER
JULY 2025
JULY
NEWSLETTER
We are very excited to welcome Jody Dietch as Mishkan Israel’s Executive Director. We feel incredibly blessed to have found a talented and experienced synagogue leader with eighteen years experience in Greater New Haven and Fairfield County.
Jody has a BA from Keene State College and a MS in Public Relations from American University. She lives in Orange with her husband, Jeff. They have two grown sons, Howie (Katie) and Mike, and two grandsons, Noah & Aaron.
Jody looks forward to meeting everyone in our community, so be sure to stop by and introduce yourselves the next time you are in the building.
We are thrilled to welcome Cantor Sierra Fox to Congregation Mishkan Israel. Many of you had the chance to meet Cantor Fox during her interviews here earlier this year, have heard her beautiful voice and have seen how well she fits in with our community.
Some welcome opportunites such as services and open houses will take place at CMI; others will be held at the homes of congregants who have generously offered to host small “meet-and-greet” receptions much like the ones we held to welcome Rabbi Schaefer. As in the past, these will be limited in capacity and will require registration in advance.
The full schedule of these events and links for registration can be found below.
Services
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 4 NO Oneg dues to the holiday 6:00 p.m. Shabbat Evening Service
Service Leaders: Alan Sturtz, Michael Allen, Leslie Redmond & Jonathan Zabin
SHABBAT BALAK
Numbers 22:2 - 25:9
Friday, July 11 6:00 p.m. Shabbat Evening Service 7:00 p.m. Oneg
Service Leaders: Rabbi Schaefer & Cantor Fox
SHABBAT PINCHAS
Numbers 25:10 - 30:1
Friday, July 18 5:30 p.m. Oneg 6:00 p.m. Shabbat Evening Service
Service Leaders: David & Julie Chevan and Dana & Cynthia Astmann
SHABBAT MATOT-MAS’EI
Numbers 30:2 - 36:13
Friday, July 25 5:30 p.m. Oneg 6:00 p.m. Shabbat Evening Service
Service Leaders: Patricia Vener-Saavedra & Cantor Fox
Saturday mornings, July 12 through August 23 at 10:00 a.m.
During July and August, Rabbi Steinberg will lead Torah study on an investigation of the Reform erev shabbat service. We will look at the halachic structure of an erev shabbat service and the liturgical changes from the Union Prayer Book (UPB) through Gates of Prayer and Mishkan Tefilah. Which siddur is most comfortable? We will read and discuss the text of much of the service, followed by a discussion of which text people prefer and which ideas in the service are most appealing.
Special Shabbat Morning Torah Study Project In person & Zoom
TODAH RABAH
Julie Chevan, Sarah Greenblatt, Phil Jacobs, Joel Jacobson, Dave Rodnick, Alan & June Sturtz
JULY GREETERS
TRANSITION EVENTS & OPPORTUNITIES
** Requires registration
JULY
** Friday, July 11 at 6:00 p.m. - Meet Cantor Fox Shabbat service with Rabbi Schaefer followed by special oneg - REGISTER
**Sunday, July 20 from 4-5:30 p.m. - Meet & Greet at home of Michael Dimenstein & Hedda Rubenstein (Branford) - REGISTER
**Saturday, July 26 from 7-10 p.m. - Meet & Greet at home of Jeremy Schwartz and Tracy Rabin; co-hosted by Scott Gaul and Madeline Ravich (Hamden/Spring Glen); aimed at families with teens and tweens but all are welcome. Bring your instruments for a musical Havdalah!- REGISTER
AUGUST
**Friday, August 8 at 6:00 p.m. - Open House and Shabbat service with Rabbi Schaefer and Cantor Fox followed by special oneg - REGISTER
**Sunday, August 10 from 3-5:30 p.m. - Meet & Greet at home David and Julie Chevan (Hamden/Spring Glen) Meet-and-greet and jam session with the Nu Haven Kapelye and Cantor Fox. Musicians and non musicians are welcome to come play or listen. - REGISTER
**Saturday, August 16 from 9:30-10 a.m. - Meet the Cantor Tot Shabbat; 10-11 AM food and crafts (aimed at 0-5 year olds) - REGISTER
**Friday, August 22 at 6:00 p.m. - Open House and Shabbat service with Cantor Fox and Michelle Goldstein followed by dinner; families with school-age children are especially encouraged to attend but all are welcome - REGISTER
Sunday, August 24 at 12:00 Noon - Religious School Brunch for B’nai Mitzvah families with Cantor Fox
SEPTEMBER
Sunday, September 14 from 10-11:00 a.m. - Breakfast/coffee for religious school parents with Cantor Fox; 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon with Rabbi Schaefer
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 4
Arthur Abeshouse Robert Philip Adler 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 11
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 18
Samuel Berger * 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 25
* Memorial Wall Plaque
In Memoriam
Barbara Wareck
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THE CONGREGATION MISHKAN ISRAEL BULLETIN
July 2025 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 Sierra Fox x244 sfox@cmihamden.org
Canor Emeritus Arthur Giglio cantorg@cmihamden.org Jody Dietch, Executive Director x241 jdietch@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