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February 2021—Shevat/Adar 5781 BETH SHALOM SYNAGOGUE BULLETIN - www.edmontonbethshalom.org
Purim is coming on Thursday night, February 25. Another mitzvah on
Purim is to send gifts to
Purim marks the escape of the Jews of the ancient
each other. During the
Persian empire - namely, all the Jews of that time -
pandemic, that's hard to
from the evil plot of Haman, through some deft
do. So as part of the
planning and execution by Esther and Mordechai.
Nefesh Project at Beth
And Beth Shalom is the place to be
Shalom, we are sending
(this year, on Zoom)!
(on your behalf) a gift
Join us starting at 6:15 pm of mishloach manot
for our annual Purim Schpiel (hamentashen and other
goodies) to all of our
Maariv and Megillah reading follow at 7 pm
members.
(bring your own gragger!)
Would you like to help deliver the mishloach
Not only will our festivities be online, manot packages? Please contact Beth Shalom office
but so will the opportunity to perform at info@e-bethshalom.org or 780.4886333/301.
one of the four mitzvot of Purim:
And when your doorbell rings with a volunteer
matanot la'evyonim - gifts to those in need.
from Beth Shalom delivering your gift,
please give them a wave and a thank-you.
You can donate online to Leket, Israel's food bank,
in a special Purim campaign to deliver food to
those who are hungry in Israel. PS - if you would like to help cover the costs of the
mishloach manot, please send your donation to the
Just visit matanotleevyonim.leket.org Rabbi's Discretionary Fund at Beth Shalom,
to make your donation in Canadian dollars or just call the office.
and get a Canadian tax receipt.
About Leket:
Leket Israel, Israel’s National Food Bank, rescues
40,000,000 lbs. of surplus, high-quality food annual- Beth Shalom welcomes adver-
ly, that otherwise would go to waste, from hundreds tising from members of our
of farms, hotels, corporate caterers and IDF army congregation and the commu-
bases. Leket provides the rescued food to over 200 nity. Only business card size
nonprofits feeding 246,000 Israelis of all ads are accepted. The cost is
backgrounds each week. For each dollar received, $25.00 per issue or $250.00 for a full year when paid
Leket Israel rescues and delivers 7 lbs. for in advance. To arrange for an ad in the next Bul-
of fresh surplus food to Israelis in need. letin, please call the office at 780-488-6333, ext. 301.
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A Message from your Rabbi, Steven Schwarzman
Each day brings with it news that alternates between joyful and exasperating. The
vaccines are on their way; the vaccines are going to be delayed.
In Judaism, we learn to live with the ups and downs of life. We work to make things
the best they can be, and then we trust in God to take care of what we can't. And this
message is the central theme, perhaps, of the Book of Esther.
You see, God's name does not appear in the book. It seems, at first glance, to be a very human tale of court
intrigue in ancient Persia, and it is also that. What are Jews doing there? The text tells us: Mordechai was
among the exiles from Judea when the Babylonians destroyed Jerusalem in 586 BCE. Soon after, the Persians
defeated the Babylonians. And so Mordechai and Esther are in Persia.
Like us, Mordechai and Esther do their human best to save their people. And they succeed in the end, which
is why we are here today to tell the story.
And it is the apparently human-centered focus of the story that makes it accessible to us. There are no Red
Sea-like miracles in the story of Purim. Instead, we see people acting pretty much the way we would - with
intelligence, with courage and even daring, and with an eye not only to the present but also the future.
We all pray that the vaccines will soon bring an end to the pandemic. And we also know that we will contin-
ue to get through it together, both on special days like Purim, and on every day.
Join us online for the fun on Purim, and join us every day on Zoom for minyans and classes, and on
livestream for Shabbat services.
Happy Purim!
Rabbi Steven Schwarzman
Learn the basics of Jewish life, thought, history, prayer,
Shabbat and holidays, and more. Suitable for people
considering conversion to Judaism and for Jews
Note: who want to know more about Judaism.
There are additional costs and Classes meet weekly, Tuesday evening, via Zoom.
requirements for conversion,
separate from this course. Cost: Free for Beth Shalom members, non-members $180,
plus purchase of books.
Please contact Rabbi Schwarzman for
more information at Registration is required - to sign up, please contact the
rabbi@edmontonbethshalom.org Beth Shalom office at info@e-bethshalom.org or 780.4886333/301
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Shabbat Services February 6 Yitro Elizabeth Chung Zoe Wright
Shacharit 9:30 am February 13 Mishpatim Adam Zepp Nava Shafir
Josh Miller Mindelle Jacobs
February 20 Terumah
Aaron Bercovich Esther Karrel Lisa Miller
February 27 Tetzaveh Mark Huberman Doug Haines Sam Oshry
edmontonbethshalom.org/livestream.html Sharon Marcus Boris Belkin Earl Bubis
Zoya Kingston Ruth Swerling Emily Levine
Havdalah Services on Saturdays, at Ruth-Ellen Shafir David Chung Joshua Levine
7 pm The Zoom link for Havdalah Howard Davidow Debby Karasick Elly Pearson
is: https://bit.ly/3jfycVD
Courtney Gleiberman Jonah Zwaigenbaum
Weekday Morning Minyans: Benaron Gleiberman Donna Freedman
Sunday at 9:00 am https://bit.ly/2yE4EyR
Monday to Friday at 8:00 am https://bit.ly/352FllT Michael & Denise Webster
Boris & Mila Plots
Learners' Minyan, Sunday mornings at 9 am -
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85075108038?
pwd=S3pFUWxpaS9pTW5EWHh5THNSVDZyQT09
To our New Member:
On Sundays, we begin with a few minutes learning
from the laws of prayer and in-depth study of one Landon Elkind
prayer each week. We also go at a slower pace, to al-
low those who are working on their Hebrew to feel
If you have a special occasion or
more comfortable in prayer.
accomplishment to share with the
February 1 5:07pm congregation please call the office
Candle at 780-488-6333 ext. 301 or write
February 12 5:21pm
Lighting to info@e–bethshalom.org.
February 19 5:35pm
Time on
February 26 5:49pm
To B’nai Mitzvah Parents:
Baruch Atah Adonai, Eloheinu Melech Ha Olam,
Please make sure we receive the article and photo
Asher Kidshanu B’Mitzvotav Vitzevanu Lehadlik
of your child as soon as possible! This will help us to
Ner Shel Shabbat. Blessed art Thou, O Lord our
ensure their information is available in the
God, Sovereign\ of the Universe, Who has sanctified
appropriate monthly bulletin. Thank You!
us by Thy commandments, and has commanded
us to kindle the Sabbath lights..
Beth Shalom's
Supporting our Kiddush Lunch Fund: Bnai Mitzvah Class
It is customary to help sponsor our Kiddush Lunch
to honour the memory of loved ones at the time of Zoom Link
their Yahrzeit or in honour of a special occasion.
https://bit.ly/2yE4EyR
Donations to the Kiddush Lunch
Fund can be made online on our web-
site or by contacting the office at Sundays at 9:00 am,
780.488.6333 ext. 301. Tax receipts are provided. starting with Minyan
We are grateful for your ongoing support!
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A Message from your President, Laurence Abbott
Here we are, nearly a year after we began taking our earliest measures in response
to the COVID crisis, and normal seems so far in the past and still far off, too, into
the future. At Beth Shalom, we began our response to COVID by suspending hand-
shaking, followed a couple of weeks later by modifications to our Kiddush lunch,
moving next to moving morning minyanim onto Zoom, and then we started
livestreaming on Shabbat, beginning in August. Each transition we have made,
from in-person to online, and then to a hybrid of both, has been accompanied by technological and halachic
issues and complexities. While we wish for plug-and-play solutions to the technological challenges, what we’re
working with is often more complicated – multiple platforms, multiple service providers, integrating hardware
purchased at different times, and most of it was acquired with no intention of supporting the kinds of services and
programming we have been doing since March 2020. Further, with our daily and weekly rituals, and with holy days
and festivals, we’re exploring and seeking ways to reconcile Jewish law and customs with our current reality.
We know that our virtual shul has been essential to supporting our members who have lost loved ones, and
that our morning minyanim with its cohort of regular participants has been there to ensure we have a minyan
so that mourners and those with yahrzeits can recite kaddish. But we all recognize there are dimensions of
our services and our programming that are difficult to replicate online. There are tactile facets of services, like
touching the Torah as it passes in procession, and shaking hands, and casual conversations, that Zoom and
livestreaming cannot capture. There is the regular stream of movement of people going up to the Bima for
honours, and the regular coming and going that characterizes the casual formality of services. There is a collective
sense of being together and sharing the experience of being in the sanctuary at the same time that is elusive, when all
we’re sharing at the moment is a common mosaic of faces of our kehillah members. Fundamentally, it is the social
dimension of being in the shul that is the aspect of this we all miss most, especially the kiddush lunch. When we think
of the Hebrew term for a shul, beit ha’knesset, a house of assembly, and note the same meaning echoed in the Greek roots
of synagogue, we recall and acknowledge that that people being together are the necessary part of a shul.
Realistically, we’re imagining another challenging year. The board is anticipating that the 2021 operating year
will, to a fair extent, mirror 2020. It seems likely we will be able to resume in-person Shabbat services in the
next couple of months, once it is safe to do so, albeit with the same kinds of measures we had in place from
July to November. We’re looking at streaming a seder for Pesach, and we’re already beginning to look at
scenarios for High Holidays. We’re hoping for closer-to-normal services in the fall, and all of us recognize
that the future new normal, when we can be together, once again, remains a moving target. Possibilities for
member-generated programs are there through the Nefesh program – for information on this, please contact
Rabbi Schwarzman or the synagogue office.
I know all of us continue to be very grateful to all of our staff and all our volunteers at Beth Shalom who
continue to sustain our operations, programs and services.
Respectfully,
Laurence Abbott
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Beth Shalom M. Yedlin Memorial Library Please consult
Netta Phillet about
BETH SHALOM M. YEDLIN MEMORIAL LIBRARY the possibility of
BOOKS BY DEBORAH LIPSTADT donating to the library prior to
bringing books to the library.
We’re sure many of us listened to Ms. Lipstadt on January 27, courtesy
of the Calgary Public Library and the Calgary Jewish Federation. If you Thank You !
want to read more the Beth Shalom Library has four of her books.
“Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory”, (1993)
“History on Trial”, (2005) ; “The Eichmann Trial”, (2011); “Antisemitism Here and Now”, (2019)
Lipstadt was born in New York City in 1947. She studied at the Hebrew Institute of Long Island, and spent
her junior year of college in Israel during the Six-Day War, where she stayed as an exchange student at the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She completed her undergraduate work in American History at the City
College of New York in 1969, receiving a BA. She then enrolled at Brandeis where she completed her Masters
in 1972 and then her Ph.D. in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies in 1976. She taught first at the University of
Washington in Seattle from 1974 to 1979, then as an Assistant Professor at UCLA. When she was denied tenure
there, she left in 1985 to be the director of the independent Brandeis-Bardin Institute for two years, during which
time she also wrote a monthly column for The Jewish Spectator. Lipstadt then received a research fellowship from
the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, during which
she studied Holocaust denial, and taught at Occidental College part time. She then became an Assistant Professor of
Religion at Emory University in Atlanta in January 1993, becoming the Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish and
Holocaust Studies that fall. She helped to create the Institute for Jewish Studies there.
In 1996, Holocaust denier David Irving sued Lipstadt and her publisher Penguin Books for libel in an English
court for characterizing some of his writings and public statements as Holocaust denial in her book “Denying
the Holocaust”.
English libel law places the burden of proof on the defendant rather than the plaintiff. Lipstadt and Penguin
won the case using the justification defence, namely by demonstrating in court that Lipstadt's accusations
against Irving were substantially true and therefore not libelous. The case was argued as a bench trial before
Mr. Justice Gray who produced a written judgment 349 pages long detailing Irving's systematic distortion of
the historical record of World War II. The Times (April 14, 2000, p. 23) said of Lipstadt's victory, "History has
had its day in court and scored a crushing victory."[8]
Despite her acrimonious history with Irving, Lipstadt has stated that she is personally opposed to the three-
year prison sentence Austria imposed on Irving for two speeches he made in 1989, where he claimed there
had been no gas chambers at Auschwitz. In Austria, minimizing the atrocities of the Third Reich is a crime
punishable with up to 10 years' imprisonment. Speaking of Irving, Lipstadt said, "I am uncomfortable with
imprisoning people for speech. Let him go and let him fade from everyone's radar screens ... Generally, I
don't think Holocaust denial should be a crime. I am a free speech person, I am against censorship."
continued on page #8
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Women’s League News
Women’s League will have their next zoom Book Club meeting on Tuesday, March 9
at 7pm. The book to be discussed is “Song of the Jaded Lily” by Kirsty Manning. If you
need more information, please contact Netta.
SAVE THE DATE!
Edmonton’s Sisterhood is hosting a Virtual Spring Conference on Sunday, April 11
and Monday, April 12, 2021. There will be presentations (History of Jews in Choco-
late); Torah Fund Program by Rabbi Mitchell Berkowitz (a recent graduate at the Jew-
ish Theological Seminary in New York); the plenary and installation of the new Region Judaica Shop Open:
Executive; a Book Club discussion of “The Third Daughter” and interview of the au- Monday-Thursday
thor Talia Carner and much more. Registration information will be coming. Watch for
between
the full schedule in March.
9:30am & 4:00pm;
Friday between
Purim is on February 25th this year and Beth Shalom needs drivers to deliver packets
of goodies to its members. If you would be willing to help deliver Mishloach Manot 9:30am & 2:30pm
please let me know. The Judaica Shop
remains open by
appointments only
Colleen Paull,
at this time
Women’s League President
• Ritual items
Gift items
5781 TORAH FUND CAMPAIGN Special orders
The Torah Fund campaign of Women’s League for Conservative
• Tallitot
Judaism has been ongoing for almost 80 years. Since its inception in
Kippot
1942, the members of Women’s League across North America have
Mezuzah Cases
raised more than $97 million dollars (U.S.) to support the students of our five Con-
Scrolls
servative/Masorti Seminaries. They are the Jewish Theological Seminary in NY, Zieg-
ler School of Rabbinic Studies in Los Angeles, The Schechter Institute in Israel, The Candles
Seminario Rabinico Latin-American in Buenos Aires, and the Zacharias Frankel Col- Candle Holders
lege at the University of Potsdam in Germany. The graduates of these amazing centres Menorahs
of excellence are employed throughout the world as congregational rabbis (like Ed- Challah plates
monton Beth Shalom’s own Rabbi Schwartzman) and cantors, Jewish educators and in Pesach merchan-
numerous other capacities. Women’s League for Conservative Judaism is proud to dise and much
provide scholarships, special programs, and student programming for the students of more
these five degree-granting Seminaries around the world. These students are the future
of Conservative/Masorti Judaism for us, our children and future generations. But Gift Registry
many of these students cannot assume the daunting financial costs on their own. They available for
can’t do it without the financial support of Torah Fund and Torah Fund can’t do it Weddings &
without you.
Bar/Bat Mitzvahs.
continued on page # 8
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Women’s League News continued from page #7
B’Yachad…Together is this year’s Torah fund theme. Please think of our seminary students
and teachers when making your charity commitments for this year. Any amount is appreciat-
ed. A donation of $180.00 or more will be recognized with a gift to you from WLCJ of a lovely
pin/pendant (pictured above) that shows your generous support. Donors will receive a
Canadian tax receipt. Simply make out a cheque to the Jewish Theological Society (JTS) and contact me at
780-487-1360 or email me at pennyhardin@shaw.ca. I collect the cheques on behalf of Women’s League and
forward them to the JTS office in Toronto. That office issues donor receipts to Canadians while remitting our
donations to the New York Torah Fund office in U.S. funds. The campaign is unable to accept Canadian
credit card donations at this time.
The scholarships and programs funded by Torah Fund ensure a strong Jewish future. Thank you in
advance for your support.
Penny Hardin, Torah Fund Chair, Beth Shalom Women’s League
continued from page # 6
Beth Shalom M. Yedlin Memorial Library
In late 2011, Lipstadt attacked American and Israeli politicians for what she called their invocation of the
Holocaust for contemporary political purposes, something she thought mangled history. She rebuked Repub-
lican Party presidential candidates for speeches that 'pandered' to the Evangelical constituency, as much as it
did to the Republican Jewish Coalition. She also judged Howard Gutman's remarks on causal links between
Muslim antisemitism and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict as "stupid". According to Haaretz, "She decried the
'hysteria' and 'neuroses' of many Jews and Israelis who compare the current situation in Europe and in the Middle East
to the Holocaust era".
In the same interview, she argued that, "If anti-Semitism becomes the reason through which your Jewish view
of the world is refracted, if it becomes your prism, then it is very unhealthy. Jewish tradition never wanted
that." On a visit to London in September 2014, Lipstadt criticized the Israeli government and said that the
government had "cheapened" the memory of the Holocaust by using it to justify war. She has also rejected the
view that Israeli military actions during the 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict constituted a genocide
Lipstadt returned to the theme of soft-core Holocaust denial in The Atlantic when responding to the Trump
administration's statement on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27, 2017 which was con-
demned for the absence of a specific mention of Jews, as the principal victims of the Holocaust or of antisemi-
tism itself. "The Holocaust was de-Judaized. It is possible that it all began with a mistake. Someone simply
did not realize what they were doing. It is also possible that someone did this deliberately.”
In October 2019, Lipstadt had a letter to the editor published in The New York Times in which, prompted by
the awarding of the Nobel Prize in Literature to Peter Handke, she wrote that the Nobel Committee awarded
Handke a platform "he does not deserve" and that "the public does not need him to have", adding that such a
platform could convince some that his "false claims must have some legitimacy".
February 2021—Shevat/Adar 5781
8 BETH SHALOM SYNAGOGUE BULLETIN - www.edmontonbethshalom.orgCondolences TRIBUTE FUNDS
To Debbie Anson & family (Charitable tax receipts are sent out every year in February).
On the loss of Debbie’s mother,
Phyllis Engelberg Todah Rabah, Mazal Tov, Get Well, Condolences $18.00
From: Hersh & Jane Sobel Yedlin Library $18.00 & up
Rabbi’s Discretionary Fund $18.00 & up
To Rhonda Eidelman & family Chai Fund $18.00 & up
On the loss of her sister Book of Remembrance $175.00
From: Toni & Phillip Gold Tree of Life $250.00
B’Kol Echad Song Book $18.00
To Rhonda Eidelman & family Sim Shalom Siddur Machzor/Lev Shalem Machzor $54.00
On the loss of her sister Etz Hayim Chumash 1/2 share $62.50
From: Minnie Emas Etz Hayim Chumash $125.00
Building Improvement Fund $50.00 & multiples
To Oded & Louise Klinghoffer Torah Restoration Fund $18.00 per letter/ $36.00 per word
& family
On the loss of Oded’d father, It is appropriate to perform an act of tzedaka in memory
Yehoshua (Ossi) Klinghoffer of your loved one at the time of a yahrzeit.
From: Howie & Debbie
Sniderman In addition to the Fund above please consider to install
Memorial Plaque in the Sanctuary $540
To Jack & Gail Finkelstein & Kiddush Fund A donation has been made
family In memory of Judith’s mother,
On the loss of their daughter, A donation has been made
Anne Shuler
Ilana In memory of Lena’s father,
From: George & Judith Goldsand
From: Howie & Debbie Joseph Lederman
From: Lena & Victor Linetsky continued on page # 10
Sniderman
Prayer Book Fund A donation has been made
In memory of Victor’s
A Chumash has been grandfather Sholom Linetsky
dedicated in memory of Ruth- From: Lena & Victor Linetsky
Ellen’s parents, Norman & Suni WITTEN LLP, Barristers &
Silverman
Solicitors
From: Ruth-Ellen & Joe Shafir & A donation has been made
family In memory of Marvin’s parents, #2500, Canadian Western Bank Pl.
Ralph & Trudy Katz 10303 Jasper Ave.,
From: Marvin & Bridget Katz Edmonton, AB T5J 3N6
Mazal Tov
Tel: (780) 428-0501/
To Rabbi Steven & Bettina
A donation has been made Fax: (780) 429-2559
Schwarzman
In memory of Laurence’s
On the birth of their grandson Email: lawyers@wittenlaw.com;
grandmother, Molly Abbott
From: Howie & Debbie ww.wittenlaw.com
From: Laurence Abbott & family
Sniderman
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continued from page #9 In memory of Marilyn’s
father, Leon Krygier
From: Marilyn & Marvin
Torah Restoration Fund Berkovich
BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!! To Paull family
A word has been inscribed Rabbi’s Discretionary
Edmonton Jewish On the loss of their father, Fund
Community Directory 2021 grandfather & great
grandfather, Cecil Paull A donation has been made
Make sure you’re part of it!! To the Leket Israel
From: Debbie Anson
From: Michael & Colleen
After an outpouring of requests from our Paull
Edmonton Jewish community members, Mazal Tov to Rabbi Steven &
May their memory be for a blessing.
the Edmonton Talmud Torah is looking Bettina Schwarzman
forward to re-publishing a community A word has been inscribed A donation has been made
directory in the spring of 2021. On the birth of their grand- In appreciation of Rabbi
son From: Debbie Anson Schwarzman’s guidance &
help during Shiva for
Although Covid 19 has physically separated Phyllis Engelberg
us, it has also kindled a need to connect From: Debbie Anson; Ronni
A letter has been inscribed
us with each other. Our community has Jacobson & Steve Engelberg
In memory of Ruth-Ellen’s
always been close, and the phonebook has grandmother, Fruma Dozar
served as a tool to maintain and connect From: Ruth-Ellen & Joe Tribute Cards
individuals, institutions and businesses Shafir are a wonderful
throughout the city as well as being a major way to honor
fundraiser for the Talmud Torah School. and recognize your love to
A letter has been inscribed family, friends and loved
In memory of Ruth-Ellen’s
Please take a few minutes now to go to this ones in times of joy,
grandfather, Chaim Dozar
link that will take you to a form where you celebration and even
From: Ruth-Ellen & Joe
can fill out your listings information: Shafir in sadness.
https://bit.ly/2021ttlistings
If you prefer to provide your information via Join Beth Shalom on Facebook
phone or email, please call the Talmud Torah
Society office at 780.481.3377 or email Join the conversation in our special
TTlistings2021@gmail.com Facebook group, open only to
Beth Shalom members, at
WE HOPE TO COLLECT YOUR RESPONSE
BEFORE FEBRUARY 15th. facebook.com/groups/BethShalomEdmonton
Please forward this email to your
Edmonton family and friends who
may wish to be listed or to advertise
in our new directory.
February 2021—Shevat/Adar 5781
10 BETH SHALOM SYNAGOGUE BULLETIN - www.edmontonbethshalom.orgCongregation Beth Shalom Important Kehila Reminders
11916 Jasper Ave. NW
Edmonton AB T5K 0N9 Bikkur Cholim: If you would like to be contacted by
Phone: (780) 488-6333 Rabbi Schwarzman please contact him at 780.4886333/302
Fax: (780) 488-6259 or rabbischwarzman@e-bethshalom.org.
Email: info@e-bethshalom.org
Website: http://www.edmontonbethshalom.org Scent Free Shul: Out of respect for your fellow congre-
Office Hours gants who may suffer from allergies, please reduce your
Monday-Thursday 9:00 AM — 4:30 PM use of scented products when you are in the synagogue.
Friday 9:00 AM—2:30 PM
A Reminder from Beth Shalom Catering: Presently our
catering services are closed and will reopen when it is safe
Board of Directors 2020-2021 to do so.
Laurence Abbott President
Lana Black Past President Accuracy of Information: We do our best to ensure
Sylvia Alpern Secretary the accuracy of all the information in the Bulletin, but
Adam Merrick Treasurer despite our best efforts, sometimes an error appears.
Debbie Anson Director Please accept our sincere apologies for any errors.
Please let us know so that we can correct them as soon
Boris Belkin Director
as possible or update our records where necessary.
Sam Fialkow Director
Drew Hanson Director
Mishebeirah—prayer for the sick: If you would like us
Marvin Karrel Director
to include the name of someone who is not well during the
Anna Linetsky Director Mishebeirach prayer when services begin again on Shabbat
Seth Glick Director morning, please either call 780.488-6333/301 or email
Shelley Weinstein Director info@e-bethshalom.org, with their Hebrew or English name/s.
Colleen Paull Women’s League President Traditionally we include the person's Hebrew name(s) and
their mother's Hebrew name(s), for example, “Moshe ben
D'vorah” or “D’vorah bat Miriam” (ben or bat means son or
Synagogue Staff daughter of). If, however, you do not have a Hebrew name for
this person or they are not Jewish then an English name will
Rabbi Steven Schwarzman-Spiritual Leader do. If a name on the list should no longer be listed, can you
rabbischwarzman@e-bethshalom.org or kindly let us know so we can remove the individual from our
rabbi@edmontonbethshalom.org or ext. 302 list?
Due to the Canadian privacy of information laws we
Cantor David Mannes — Ritual Assistant require that congregants get permission from the ill
dmannes@edmontonbethshalom.org, ext. 303 person(s) to have their name(s) read aloud from the Bimah
on Shabbat.
Helena Khazanovsky — Office Manager
info@e-bethshalom.org, ext. 301
Todah Raba to our Publishing Volunteers
Dorothy Turner — Bookkeeper Thank you to Sharon Abbott & Ruth-Ellen Shafir
bookkeeper@e-bethshalom.org, ext. 304 for editing our Beth Shalom Publications.
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