Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein, Board Chairs Betsey Lane, President Stephen Lessnick, Vice President Matan Gutwaks, Vice President Stuart Appelbaum, Secretary Michael Broidy, Treasurer Gary Blumberg, Past President
Rabbi Howard Zack, Rabbi Rabbi Ari Neuman, Associate Rabbi Frances Gellman, Office Manager Jorge Flores, Facilities Manager
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Calendar Corner January 14th Bar Mitzvah of Jacob Schuman January 21st Security Shabbat January 21st Trivia Panoply January 23rd Rosh Chodesh Shevat January 28th Movie Night January 31st "Entry Point" Congregational Virtual Security Training with Community Security Service February 3rd Family Kabbalat Shabbat & Dinner February 18th Bat Mitzvah of Sonia Weprin February 19th Lauri Podell Zofan z"l Torah Dedication February 21st & 22nd Rosh Chodesh Adar March 6th & 7th Purim March 12th The Main Event: A Night on the Town March 18th Scolar in Residence Shabbat with Rabbi Alex Israel
Mazel Tov! to Jennifer and Brian Schuman, Arlene and Ami Sapir, and Gloria Schuman on the Bar Mitzvah of their son and grandson, Jacob
Refuah Shleyma to Miriam Goldmeier, Sam Nutis, and Yehudit Rut Bat Aliza
Condolences to Jay Schottenstein and family on the passing of uncle, Irving Harris
Kiddush Luncheon & Seudah Shlisheet Kiddush Luncheon (dairy) this week is sponsored by Gloria Schuman, Jacob Schuman’s grandmother, in honor of his Bar Mitzvah
Seudah Shlisheet this week is sponsored by the kiddush fund, please click here to make a donation Kiddush Team Captain: Rabbi Ari Neuman
Donations
RABBI'S FUND in appreciation of Rabbi Ari Neuman from Vicki & Yefim Dobkin in commemoration of the yahrzeit of mother, Thelma Z. Rogovin from Vicki & Yefim Dobkin in memory of Mildred Blumenfeld from Susan & Jon Diamond, dear brother, Robert Stephen Asch from Terri & Rick Barnett, Irving Harris from Ari Kinsberg wishing a refuah shleymah for Sam Nutis from Beverly Roseman-Shapiro & Stewart Shapiro
SYNAGOGUE FUND in memory of Mildred Blumenfeld from Rochelle & Randy Topolosky wishing a mazel tov to Rebecca and Hal Levy, and Terri and Rick Barnett on the birth of their daughter and granddaughter from Sarah Frank
Happy birthday this week to: 1/13: Sara Dobkin, Micah Lessnick; 1/15: Michelle Broidy; 1/16: Cynthia Zimm; 1/17: Karyn Bass; 1/18: Micha Bitton, Michelle Lessnick
Yahrzeits for this week are Neil M. Kalef, father of Raymond Kalef; grandfather of Jeremy Kalef Allan Goodman, father of Allison Zofan Baruch Frank, father-in-law of Sarah Frank Harold Schottenstein, father of Terri Schottenstein and James Schottenstein Thomas Schmelzer, brother of Victor Schmelzer Jenny Rothschild, grandmother of Marilyn Cole Joseph Klein, father of Margot Zack; grandfather of Rabbi Howard Zack Max Friedman, father of Edward Friedman Sam Jaffe, grandfather of Hillard Abroms; great grandfather of Stacy Bandler
Safety & Security Corner
The safety and security of our community requires participation by our community. The Torat Emet Safety and Security Committee has been working with other synagogues and organizations in Columbus, and beyond, to share information and best practices, and to keep one-another informed about potentially concerning security issues. Importantly, we have been working with Jewish Columbus' new Director of Community-Wide Security, Stephen Flowers, who has been instrumental in coordinating these efforts.
We are pleased that we will have an opportunity to introduce Mr. Flowers to the Torat Emet community on Saturday, January 21, 2023. He will tell us about himself and his role at Jewish Columbus, and will stay afterwards to meet the community more informally at kiddush.
Finally, we have scheduled a special training session, called Entry Point, with Community Security Service on Tuesday, January 31, 2023, at 7:30 pm. This will be a live interactive virtual session via Zoom and is open to all of our congregants. This training will help you to better identify security threats and recognize suspicious behavior. We strongly encourage everyone to sign-up for this session via the email that was sent out this week. This is an easy way for our community to participate in our security efforts and to help keep ourselves, and one-another, safe.
Torat Emet Book Club Torat Emet's book group will convene to read and discuss Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel's Sabbath. We will divide the book into three parts. Our first meeting is scheduled for Monday, January 23 at 7:00 pm. If you're interested in participating, please contact Betsey Lane ebetsey@yahoo.com.
Chesed Request Former congregant Chad Friedman recently announced that he is in need of a kidney transplant. If you are interested in seeing if you can help as a donor match, go to renewal.org.
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