Our “Honored” Dead
By Rabbi Josh Knobel
Each year, Israelis remember the price of their independence and security by sharing the stories of those who died in defense of their nation or in terror attacks. For the families and students of the El-Harizi Elementary School, this commemoration, known as Yom HaZikaron, is more than a national day of mourning.
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Center for Tikkun Olam partners with LA Family Housing – donations and volunteers needed

Help others this season by assisting our partners at LA Family Housing in providing gift bags, groceries, and meals to families in need. Here are the ways you can make an impact:

1. Donate funds towards gift bags. Your contribution of $150 supplies a family with needed items, including gift cards for groceries. Help us reach our goal of donating 50 gift bags.

2. Donate funds towards gift cards. Your contribution of $40 or $80 will go towards the purchase of cards needed for bags.

3. Volunteer on Sunday, December 24 from 3pm – 6pm. Join your Wise community in preparing dinner for families at LA Family Housing.
DONATE NOW
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Now Accepting Nominations to the Temple Board for 2018-19!
by Glenn Sonnenberg
Are you or someone you know very involved in our Temple community? Would you like to deepen your connection with the Temple by joining our leadership team? If so, we’re calling on all of our members to submit recommendations for the 2018-2019 Board of Directors, Congregational Fund Trustees, and Officer positions. The Nominating Committee requests that all Board nominee recommendations be submitted in writing to Glenn Sonnenberg, Nominating Committee Chairperson. Please include in the subject line of your email: 2018-2019 nominations to ensure proper delivery.
 
 
 
Worship
This Week’s Torah Portion: Toldot

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17
6:15 p.m. Shabbat Services | Plotkin Chapel
Led by Rabbi David Woznica and Cantor Emma Lutz

8 p.m. Soulful Shabbat Services | Sanctuary
Led by Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback, Rabbi David Woznica, Cantor Nathan Lam, and Cantor Emma Lutz

The topic of Rabbi Woznica’s sermon will be: “Personal and Spontaneous Prayer: Discovering One of Life’s Most Important Experiences“

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18
Saturday Morning Services and Torah Study | Plotkin Chapel
9 a.m. Torah Study
10 a.m. Morning Service followed by potluck lunch
Led by Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback and Cantor Emma Lutz

PLEASE NOTE: There will be no pre-service nosh this week or next week.
 
Learning Opportunities with Clergy
Bible Study with Rabbi Ron Stern: Monday, November 20 at 9 a.m. | Temple Conference Room
Talmud Study with Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback: Wednesday, November 29 at 12 p.m. | Taub Annex
 
 
 

Wise Family Camp
Friday, January 26 – Sunday, January 28 | Camp Ramah
Unplug, recharge, and connect with us in Ojai. Take a break from the busy-ness of life, and spend quality family time with your own family and your Stephen Wise Temple family. Whether it’s a Friday night song session with Rabbi Yoshi, the ropes course, hiking with Rabbi Stern, a Havdalah dance party, or just the chance to relax with a glass of wine, a good book and good friends – Wise Family Camp is made for YOU.
Parents and young children will stay in comfortable rooms and kids in grades 2 through 12 will bunk in cabins with trained and beloved Camp Wise staff.
REGISTER NOW – spots are filling up fast!
 
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Participate in Shoes that Fit 2017!
It’s that time of year! Become a “Shoe Buddy” for Shoes that Fit 2017 benefiting the 5th graders at 93rd St. Elementary School. Each year Stephen Wise Temple and Wise School gifts over 200 pair of shoes – one each for every 5th grader at 93rd St. Elementary. For many of these children, this is the first pair of NEW shoes they’ve ever worn as many have old, worn out hand me downs from older siblings and donations. Become a “Shoe Buddy” to 1, 2 or more kids and give the gift that keeps on giving. Contact Lori Tyberg at [email protected] to receive the name, gender and shoe size of a well deserving child. We will be collecting the shoes through Thanksgiving.
 
College Kids: Hanukkah Gifts, Parents Lunch 11/30 & Dinner with Clergy in Boston 12/7
We are sending college kids a gift for Hanukkah with a note from our clergy. If you haven’t already sent us their information and you would like your child to receive a gift, please email us: their name, email, cell phone, university/college (or alma mater if they’ve recently graduated), and year of graduation. Also, we’d love your help and company in packing the gifts over lunch with Rabbi Stern on 11/30 at 12:30-2 p.m. at member Susan Berger’s home in Encino. Address available on RSVP. Finally, if you have a child (or recent grad!) living in Boston, let us know. Rabbi Yoshi, Rabbi Stern, and other members of our team are headed there for the URJ Biennial and they’d love to connect.
Please email Lucy Harel, Director of Membership: [email protected]
 
 
 
Shesh Besh (Backgammon) in Shalom Garden
Saturday, December 2 at 1:30 p.m.
Join Rabbi Zweiback, Remi Levy, and Tanel Harunzade for a leisurely Shabbat afternoon of backgammon in the newest, prettiest spot on our campus!
RSVP HERE
 
Shabbanukkah
Friday, December 15
Part Hanukkah. Part Shabbat. All awesome.
5 p.m. | Family-friendly latke nosh with music and dreidel games
6:15 p.m. | Hanukkiyot Lighting and Shabbat Services
7:30 p.m. | Dinner
REGISTER FOR DINNER
 
Upcoming Events
Luncheon with Rabbi Meir Azari of Isarael’s Bet Daniel Center for Progressive Judaism
Tuesday, November 28 at 12 p.m.
Bet Daniel in Israel has grown to three spiritual centers and provides Jewish progressive curriculum and education experiences in public schools to thousands. Rabbi Meir Azari will give a special presentation about the excellent work done at Bet Daniel, including the Shonim Children’s Art Project for Tolerance and Pluralism. Learn about how Bet Daniel Centers embraced the “Shonim B’yahad” (Embracing Our Differences) Project in 2015 The center works in Arab and Jewish public schools to teach tolerance, diversity and shared existence using art as our medium.
REGISTER HERE
 
Center for Jewish Life presents:
Hollywood’s Spies: The Undercover Surveillance of Nazis in Los Angeles
Dr. Laura Rosenzweig
Monday, December 4 at 7:30 p.m.
Hollywood’s Spies tells the long-hidden story of American Jewish Resistance to Nazism during the 1930’s and the role that Jewish Hollywood played in combating this threat to democracy.  Between 1934 and 1941, Louis B. Mayer, Jack Warner and the other Jewish executives of Hollywood secretly paid private investigators to infiltrate Nazi groups operating in Los Angeles.  For seven years, Hollywood’s spies infiltrated the German-American Bund and its nativist, Naz—influenced allies, reporting on seditious plots and collusion with the German government.  After eighty years, the story is told.
REGISTER HERE
 
Third Annual Men’s Ski Trip
February 23-25, 2018
Hit the slopes with the guys of Wise! This is an incredible getaway for a limited group of Wise guys including Rabbi Yoshi and Rabbi Stern!  We spend two days enjoying the mountains and snow of Mammoth Mountain, the services of our own personal chef, Shabbat, great camaraderie and some awesome skiing.  Even if you’re not a skier, Mammoth offers great winter activities from snow-mobiling to snow-shoeing and we’ll have access to the spa and gym at the Snowcreek mountain center.   To register and hold your place (as of this notice there are only seven slots left!) click here. 
 
Community Calendar
Valley Beth Shalom presents
American Conservatism and the Republican Party in the Trump Era
Monday, November 27 at 7:30 p.m.
Rabbi Ed Feinstein will moderate a panel that includes Stephen Wise Temple member Bruce Bialosky, Larry Greenfield, and Arnold Steinberg. This event is free and open to the public.
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West Coast Jewish Theatre presents
New York Water by Sam Bobrick and directed by Howard Teichman
Playing now through December 17 | Pico Playhouse
Linda and Albert are a New York couple who have just met and feel they have been held back by the city. Follow them as they try to make a go of it in Davenport, Iowa, Los Angeles and then, no longer together, wind up meeting back in New York. This madcap journey of love stars Ross Benjamin and Bridget Flanery.
PURCHASE TICKETS
 
Hadag Nahash with Hanan Ben Ari
Saturday, December 2 at 8:30 p.m. | AJU Gindi Auditorium
Hadag Nahash combines funky hip-hop grooves with flavors of rock, reggae and Middle Eastern music. The best-selling hip-hop artists in Israel, they have shared a stage with superstars like The Black Eyed Peas, Cypress Hill, and Matisyahu. Hadag Nahash features a full electric band, along with turntables and samples backed by their notoriously bold frontman. Feverishly devoted to equality and civil rights, the group is the soundtrack for the Israeli struggle against corruption and racism.
Hadag Nahash will be joined by Israel’s “best new artist” for 2016 – Hanan Ben Ari!
PURCHASE TICKETS
 
Lifecycle • Yahrzeits

We remember with love those who died in recent days and weeks:

Aviad Cohen, Gail Friedman, Gloria Goldsmith, Gerald Gross, Dafna Presnell, Arthur Siegel

We observe the yahrzeits of:

Martin Baumann*, Eduard Bergher, Rose M. Bertholdi, Benjamin Blatt*, Frances Brown, Seymour Brown, Yelizaveta I. Brusilovskaya*, Ethel Simon Cooper, Joseph First, Sanford Jay Fleisher*, Gloria Goldsmith, Herman Gordon*, Robert Henry Greenwald, Donald L. Gursey*, Roger I. Harris*, Sylvia Hecht*, Louis A. Klene*, Karen Ellen Korngute*, Isadore Kossman, Betty Kramer*, Elaine Krupsaw, Anna Kuznitsky*, Goldie Levin*, Paul Magasinn*, William V. Masser*, Arthur Michael*, Sylvia Newmark*, Irwin Perll*, Emil Isaac Pyes*, Maurice Ravins*, Edward Roodberg*, Lenore Rosenberg*, Gerald Rubinger*, Herbert Schneider*, Rose Sessin*, Julia Shames*, Rose Singer*, Sara Woolfe Snofsky*, Leonard Sokolow*, Harry I. Solomon*, Belle Stern, David Stone*, Wolf Szkolnik, Irwin Terris

*Designated on our memorial walls
 
Lifecycle • Mazal Tov
Shehechianu Moment

Do you have a milestone birthday or anniversary approaching? We’d like to celebrate your special day on the bima during Friday evening Shabbat Services! Invite your family, join your Wise community, make it a “shehechianu moment” – a time to give thanks for life, health, and the blessings that enable you to reach this great moment in your life. Let us know by emailing Arlene Spiegelman or calling 310.889.2272 and she’ll make sure to schedule a date that works for you. We’d love to share your celebration!

Wishing you a future filled with joy and blessings.

Mazal tov to:

Dr. Pedram and Shauna Kahen on the birth of their daughter Kayla Shaya Kahen.
 
Lifecycle • Condolences
We reach out as a community and offer our support and deepest sympathy to those among us who are mourning the loss of a loved one.

Steven Friedman on the loss of his wife Gail Friedman.
 
Lifecycle • Tributes

We honor people through charitable giving.

CANTORS’ DISCRETIONARY FUND

IN MEMORY OF:

Ruth Joseph and Sylvia Kantor, by Marla and Michael Kantor

 

EARLY CHILDHOOD ANNUAL GIVING

IN MEMORY OF:

Dafna Presnell, by Jill and Lenny Fromer

 

HOMES FOR HEROES

IN MEMORY OF:

Steve Alpert and Dr. Richard Kramer, by Allan and Karen Entous

 

YAHRZEIT

IN MEMORY OF:

Wolf Szkolnik, by Lesley and Fred Szkolnik                            

Joseph First, by Lois Kinzelberg

Matthew Goldstein, by Barbara and Isaac Levy

Claire T. Peha, by Sylvia Ward
 

To make a donation in someone’s honor or in memory of a loved one, please visit wisela.org/giving.
 
Thank You
We appreciate our wonderful volunteers:

Nosh Volunteer:
Susan Firestone

Gift Shop Volunteers:
Terrie Baumann
Emil Cobar
Rochelle Fox
Lori Rubin
Carol Sookman
 
A Welcoming Community
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Shabbat Shalom
 
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