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SAVE THE DATE
THIRD ANNUALGOLF AND TENNIS OUTING
TUESDAY, JUNE 9, 2009
Your invitation will be arriving any day now! Join us onTuesday, June 9 for a fabulous day of golf, tennis, dinner anddancing. Socialize with TSTI members and help fund importantprogramming at Temple and scholarships for the ReligiousSchool. This year during the evening festivities, we will honorsome of our very special congregants whose contributions toTSTI have been inspirational and invaluable over the years.
Sabbath, Scholarand Supper
 
Lucette Lagnado
“My Family’sExodus from Egypt”
Friday, April 246:00 P.M.
Born in Cairo, Lucette Lagnado and her family were forced to fleeEgypt as refugees when she was a small child, eventually comingto New York. She is the author of 
The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit 
which documents her family’s exodus fromEgypt. Currently, Lagnado is a senior special writer andinvestigative reporter for The Wall Street Journal. Since joiningThe Wall Street Journal, she has been the recipient of numerousawards including the 2008 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature,presented by The National Jewish Book Council.
Co-sponsored by the TSTI Women’s Connectionand National Council of Jewish Women
Shabbat dinner to follow:
RESERVATIONS MUST BE MADE BY APRIL 17Registration is on a first-come-first-serve basis and space is limited.$20 per member if registered by April 10.$25 per member if registered after April 10.$30 per non-member.To register for the April 24 Shabbat dinner, make check payable toTSTI, list name(s), number, email. and mail to:TSTI Adult Education432 Scotland Road, South Orange, NJ 07079
Thanks to the Gates of Israel Foundationfor supporting Adult Education Programs.
Andrea’s enthusiasm and dedication have had ameaningful impact on Temple since she becamea member in 2001. Among her many areas of leadership are The Women’s Connection,Capital and Endowment Campaign,Membership, Shabbat B’bayit and, mostrecently, the Torah Writing Project.
Spirit of Service Award Winners
Helene joined Temple in 1999 and since then shehas brought her leadership and talents to manyareas including Women’s Connection, BlueRibbon Panel creating our new by-laws,Membership, Leadership Development and lastyear’s Cabaret fundraiser.Matty and Dan have been active members of Temple for decades. The list of theircontributions to Temple life seems endless.From Temple President through RenaissanceCommittee Presidents and everything inbetween, Matty and Dan have left their specialtouch on so many of us. They are a “caringcommunity” unto themselves!
Helene Sorin Andrea Baum Matty and Dan Goldberg
 
APRIL 37:04 P.MAPRIL 107:11 P.M.APRIL 177:19 P.M.APRIL 247:26 P.M.
Friday, April 17
Shemini, Leviticus 9-11
Kabbalat Shabbat, 6:00 P.M.Shabbat Service, 7:30 P.M.Ruth Bass Sanctuary Building
Saturday, April 18
Minyan Service, 9:15 A.M.Gross Bet MidrashBar Mitzvah of Matthew Wile, 10:15 A.M.
Friday, April 24
Tazria-Metzora, Leviticus 12-15 
Shabbat Service with ScholarLucette Lagnado, 6:00 P.M.Ruth Bass Sanctuary Building
Saturday, April 25
Minyan Service, 9:15 A.M.Gross Bet MidrashB’nai Mitzvah of Amy Barr, AlexandraMischel and Nathaniel Schwamm,10:15 A.M.Bar Mitzvah of Ben Glicklich, 10:30 A.M.
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Clergy
Rabbi Daniel M. Cohen, D.Min.Rabbi Ellie Lynn MillerRabbi Harvey S. Goldman, EmeritusRabbi Herbert Weiner, EmeritusCantor Theodore AronsonJoan Finn, Cantorial Soloist
Lay Leadership
Jack Fersko, PresidentHope Pomerantz, VPAdam Leight, VPJay Rice, VPArlene Gordon, VPRobert Ozer, VPPaula Lieber, VPJudy Epstein, VPJesse Bayer, TreasurerBreena Fishback, Secretary
Executive Director
Leslie Sporn
School Directors
Carol Paster, PreschoolPia Kutten, Religious School
Program Director
Tracy Horwitz, LSW
Bulletin
Sunny Seglin
MEMBER CONGREGATIONUNION FOR REFORM JUDAISM
Schedule of ServicesSchedule of ServicesSchedule of ServicesSchedule of ServicesSchedule of Services
Thursday, April 2
Bar Mitzvah of Brandon Rothberg,6:00 P.M.
Friday, April 3
Tzav,
Leviticus 6-8Kabbalat Shabbat, 6:00 P.M.Shabbat Service, 7:30 P.M.Ruth Bass Sanctuary Building
Saturday, April 4
Minyan Service, 9:15 A.M.B’nai Mitzvah of Griffin Burrough,Ariel MacArthur and Lauren Young,10:15 A.M.
Thursday, April 9
Passover Service, 10:30 A.M.
Friday, April 10
Passover, Leviticus 22:26-23:44 
Shabbat Service, 6:00 P.M.New Chapel
Saturday, April 11
Minyan Service, 9:15 A.M.Gross Bet Midrash
Wednesday, April 15
Yizkor Service andLunch of Remembrance, 10:30 A.M.
CANDLE LIGHTING TIMES
Contact us at info@tsti.orgVisit our website at www.tsti.orgPh: 973-763-4116 Fax: 973-763-3941
Delightful Passover Wares for Your Tableat The Women’s Connection Gift ShopYizkor Service andLunch of Rembrance
Wednesday, April 1510:30 A.M.New Chapel
A time to reflect, through prayer andcommunity, on loved ones whoare no longer with us.Please join us,especially if you havelost a dear one since last Passover.Lunch after services is providedthrough the generosity of theAdam Katz Memorial Fund.
Celebrate your Seder table with afine china seder plate and silvercandlesticks. Matzah plates andcovers, shining glass bowls for saltwater and Elijah and Miriam’scups look spledid on the table. Wehave froggy toys and matzahbeach balls for the children . . .and remember to pick upsomething special for your host orhostess.
 
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From the Rabbi’s Study 
Rabbi Daniel Cohen 
Dear Friends,On the bookshelf in my home study are numerous PassoverHaggadot. (I went through a Haggadah collecting phase many  years ago.) They range from the most traditional to truly modern;from simplistic versions intended for children to highly complex, scholarly versions which would take days or weeks tofully study. And each year, as our Spring Festival of freedomapproaches, I am struck by the creativity within our community over the millennia that is reflected in this diversity of Haggadot.Equally striking is the fact that each version focuses on a specificset of lesson and values. For example, a Women’s Haggadahmight focus on importance of gender equality — somethingnone of us should take for granted. A Haggadah written by EllieWeisel focuses on freedom from human cruelty and includesmany of the teachings he valued as a young man. And one of my favorites, the Haggadah for the Liberated Lamb, speaks of thevalue of respect and care for animals (a central Jewish value!)and the importance of vegetarianism as a religious value.(Disclaimer: I am not a vegetarian although I do not eat red meatand I have not eaten veal in more than a decade.) Each Haggadahtakes the central story of our people — the story of ourenslavement under cruel Pharaoh and our ultimate redemptionand entry into a covenant with the Divine, teaches that story through a unique lens. I believe that part of the beauty andpower of the Passover, and one of the reasons that we havecontinued as a religious community throughout the millennia, isthat this festival contains within it a limitless number of lessonswhich can be learned and that fact, reflect a flexibility within Judaism that is truly exceptional.As we approached the Passover festival this year, here are somenew lessons that emerge for me.The first is that our ancestors were able to endure the cruelty of Pharaoh and ultimately find redemption only because they worked together as a community. They understood that at alltimes, but particularly at difficult times, it is important for us tobe there for one another. I look at the way in which the membersof our senior staff have worked together to address the currenteconomic crisis, helping to ensure the health and vitality of oursynagogue and I see that lesson being lived. I look at the way inwhich our volunteer leaders have, likewise, been working tohelp address the challenges we face and I am equally awed. AndI look at the way in which our senior staff and our volunteerleaders have worked together as partners. I am truly grateful, forthat is not always the case in synagogue life. And I look at theacts of kindness and support that members of our community dofor one another and, again, I see this lesson in action. We willendure this challenging time but, as our ancestors learned, only by working together as a community.The second lesson from the Passover story is a more bitter pill toswallow — it is the realization that relief does ultimately arrive,but not necessarily in the time frame that we would like. Ourancestors found redemption from Egyptian slavery and cruelty,but they first had to endure 10 plagues. Redemption dideventually come to our ancestors, but only because they didn’t give up and were willing to endure an extended period of challenge. Relief comes. Of that I am certain. But it comes on itsown timetable, not ours. Fortunately, (as our ancestors displayedas soon as they crossed through the Reed Sea,) we, as members of the Jewish community, are remarkably resilient and forward-looking. That has, and will, serve us well.As we each sit with family and friends and celebrate our springholiday of redemption I wish all of you
a spring season of renewed energy and a wonderful zest for life.
Mysticism 101Tuesday, May 5, 7:00-8:30pm
This session will examine the spiritual core of Jewishlife and offer a brief history of Jewish mysticism. Learnsome key concepts behind this esoteric area of study.
Adult Educationwith Rabbi Cohen
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