Please update your records! The Temple has a new phone number. The new phone number is
310-720-9618
Our address will stay the same.
Creative Arts Temple
P.O. Box 241831
Los Angeles, CA 90024
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Rabbi's Message
Since our last CAT service, we as Jews have been privy to old news and sadly to current events, which have shaken us to the core.
During this past month there was the remembrance of the 75
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anniversary since the closure of the Auschwitz Death Camp. The pictures of our survivors were inhuman. Shells of which reminded us of once vibrant and healthy faces and bodies of thousands of survivors, relatives, friends, and tribal connections from time immemorial. All living ghosts clinging tenaciously to life to prove the bestiality of a nation following a maniacal and hate-filled house painter.
Any compassion from non-Jews towards our survivors was quickly dispelled by the front-page news stories of two powerful and rich men with unmistaken Jewish surnames captivating salacious news headlines throughout the world. All this, with the dire news, that Anti Semitism is on the rise – again. Auschwitz and the Holocaust is once more on the back burners of basically ignorant people who, for whatever reason, voice their baseless hatred of Jews and promote the insidious stories…. never the compassionate, never the cries and beating of Jewish hearts after a massacre at a synagogue, a private home or a Jewish day school.
And, we wait and hope for the tide to turn. Well, my dear friends, we can wait until doomsday for the tide to roll in. It’s not going to happen unless we realize that hoping, thinking, shoulder shrugging, praying, will not change anything.
The raising of voices together with a congregation of dedicated Jews such as the Maccabees of Biblical days can raise the consciousness of humankind to countermand the anti-Semites. To accomplish this, we must first get together and form an unbreakable bond that will sound an earth shattering crescendo which will make everyone, Jewish and non-Jewish alike, aware of a New Jew in town who will fight for the right to live in peace and never relent, back down or surrender our heritage.
Well, my dear friends, we are the New Jews in town, a remnant of the Maccabees and come what may, we shall overcome!
FYI….We meet on Friday, February 7
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7:30 pm. Bring your heart, bring your voice, this is just the beginning.
Rabbi Jerry
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Our Next Shabbat Service
Where:
Belmont Village
10475 Wilshire Blvd
When:
Friday, February 7, 2020
at 7:30 pm
Why?
Tradition!
Extras
Going west on Wilshire as you approach Warner Blvd., one long block west of Beverly Glen, turn into the driveway that has the sign "Church Parking" and park on levels P2 or P3. Take the elevator up to P1 (which is also the lobby). Services are in the Town Hall room directly across from the elevator.
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Renew
Ralphs Community Contributions Now!
Please Register today!
For your convenience, step-by-step website registration instructions can be found at
www.ralphs.com
, click on Community, click on Community Contributions, click on 'Enroll Now'.
If you don't have computer access, please call Ralphs at 1-800-443-4438 for assistance.
C
AT NPO# 92136
Ralphs Rewards Card
Donate to CAT while you grocery shop
Participants are required to register for the new term online at
www.ralphs.comor by calling Ralphs at
1-800-443-4438.
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You will be asked for The Creative Arts Temple NPO number. It is NPO# 92136
Please Note!!
The Scan Bar letters will no longer work at the register.
To verify if Creative Arts Temple is your charity of choice, look at the very bottom of your receipt next time you shop at Ralph's. It should say "At your request, Ralph's is donating to Creative Arts Temple." If you do not see that, you will need to register through the Ralph's
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WE HAVE NEW GELSON'S DISCOUNT CARDS!
Gelson's Discount Cards
Yes, it is Hanukkah all through the year. Gelson's has offered to provide the temple with discount coupons. They are for $10 off your entire order of $50 or more. Pick them up at a Friday night service or call the temple for your coupon(s). Gelson's will honor any expired coupon. Take one or a few!
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Do you shop on Amazon?
Support CAT when you shop on Amazon!
I
f you want Amazon to donate to Creative Arts Temple, you need to start each shopping session at
http://smile.amazon.com
and they will donate 0.5% of the price of your eligible purchases.
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Monthly
Events
Services, Dinners, High Holidays
(Dates are subject to change)
Friday -
February 7, 2020 @ 7:30 pm
Shabbat Services
Belmont Village - Town Hall
10475 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90024
Parking at Belmont Village starting
at P2
Friday -
March 6, 2020 @ 7:30 pm
Shabbat Services
Belmont Village - Town Hall
10475 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90024
Parking at Belmont Village starting at P2
Friday -
April 3, 2020 @ 7:30 pm
Shabbat Services
Belmont Village - Town Hall
10475 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90024
Parking at Belmont Village starting at P2
Friday -
May 1, 2020 @ 7:30 pm
Shabbat Services
Belmont Village - Town Hall
10475 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90024
Parking at Belmont Village starting at P2
Friday -
June 5, 2020 @ 7:30 pm
Shabbat Services
Belmont Village - Town Hall
10475 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90024
Parking at Belmont Village starting at P2
Friday -
July 3, 2020 @ 7:30 pm
Shabbat Services
Belmont Village - Town Hall
10475 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90024
Parking at Belmont Village starting at P2
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Friday -
August 7, 2020 @ 7:30 pm
Shabbat Services
Belmont Village - Town Hall
10475 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90024
Parking at Belmont Village starting at P2
September - High Holiday
Services
More to Follow
Friday -
October 2, 2020 @ 7:30 pm
Shabbat Services
Belmont Village - Town Hall
10475 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90024
Parking at Belmont Village starting at P2
Friday -
November 6, 2020 @ 7:30 pm
Shabbat Services
Belmont Village - Town Hall
10475 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90024
Parking at Belmont Village starting at P2
Friday -
December 4, 2020 @ 7:30 pm
Shabbat Services
Belmont Village - Town Hall
10475 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90024
Parking at Belmont Village starting at P2
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February Anniversaries
Mazel Tov to our CAT lovebirds!
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Barry & Cindy Smith 2/14/2020
Nathan & Elaine Sperling 2/14/2020
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With a donation of Chai ($18) or above, CAT will mail out a tribute card in your honor for Birthdays, Anniversaries, Get-Well-Soon wishes, Congratulations and In Loving Memory.
We'll post your tribute in our newsletter, no matter what amount you're able to donate.
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You now can Order Tribute Cards, Remember A Yarzheit, Make donations to the Oneg Shabbat Table, Order a Plaque t
hrough your Temple Talk Email or on our website.
Just click on the link and choose what kind of donation you would like to make.
Paypal is secure and safe. You can choose to use your credit card or through your bank. Once we receive your information, we will send you a confirmation email to let you know that we are in receipt of your donation.
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February
Birthdays
And many happy returns!
Doris Felsen - 2/4/2020
Dimitry Svetlitsa - 2/6/2020
Tootsie Veprin - 2/10/2020
Debby Bittecks - 2/18/2020
Aaron Bush - 2/19/2020
Eunice Brown - 2/20/2020
Joel Diamond - 2/20/2020
Barbara Lee Schulz - 2/21/2020
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January Tributes
Your Thoughtfulness is Truly Appreciated
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January Onegs
Thank you to our sponsors!
Stephen Ellman
In memory of Doris Ellman Cohen
Stephen Ellman
In memory of Leslie Ellman
Sherwyn & Edythe Horwitz
In honor of Sherwyn and Edie's Anniversary
As always, thank you to our Annual Oneg Sponsor:
Arnold and Gladys Charitan
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Get Wells
Refuah Shleima
CAT wishes speedy recoveries to
GLADYS CHARITAN, JOAN DOREN, CHARLOTTE HELLER, DENA FLEMING-SERACENO, MARVIN MARKOWITZ, CONNIE MARTINSON
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January Yahrzeits
May you be comforted by the mourners of Zion
Ross & Fern Bloom
In memory of Nathan Bernard Taylor (AKA Bernie)
Ralph & Cynthia Bovitz
In memory of Sam Bovitz
Arnold & Gladys Charitan
In memory of Jack Charitan
Gerald & Joan Doren
In memory of Sanford Kaplan
Faye Frankel
In memory of Neda Born
Harry & Leann Hiles
In memory of Millie Polakov
Susan Isaksen
In memory of Myer Hodes
Maria Jacobs
In memory of Simmy Jacobs
Nicole Karsenty Ligeti
In memory of Charles Ligeti
Arlene Ludwig
In memory of Irving Ludwig
Barbara Persten
In memory of Sherman, Peter, & Barry Block
Bernard & Jane Shapiro
In memory of Estelle Loeffler
Dee Ann Simon
In memory of Morton Goldberg
Phyllis Spear & Irwin Schwartzman
In memory of Delphine Schwartzman
Carole Speer
In memory of Jack and Judy Trystman
Lucy Weltsch
In memory of Riza & Ron Weltsch
If you made a donation in memory of your loved one and you don't see it here, it is because it was received after publication deadline and will appear next month
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Behind the scenes at Israel’s historic gathering of world leaders
Nearly 50 heads of state and their entourages flew to Jerusalem for the fifth annual World Holocaust Forum and meetings with Israeli officials.
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President Reuven Rivlin hosts over 40 world leaders as part of the World Holocaust Forum, on January 22, 2020. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90i
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For the first time in history, about 50 global and Israeli leaders gathered for an official dinner hosted January 22 by Israeli President Reuven Rivlin at Beit HaNasi (President’s House).
The event was held on the evening before the fifth annual World Holocaust Forum at Jerusalem’ Yad Vashem Holocaust Remembrance Center.
The dinner was highlighted by remarks from Rivlin, King Felipe VI of Spain and Israel Prize laureate Prof Yehuda Bauer, a Holocaust scholar at the Hebrew University.
“This is a historic gathering, not only for Israel and the Jewish people, but for all humanity,” Rivlin said. “This evening as we remember the victims of the Holocaust, and World War Two, we also mark the victory of freedom and human dignity.”
The following morning, Rivlin and Prince Charles planted an English Oak tree in the garden of Beit HaNasi in tribute to the tree planted in the Avenue of the Righteous Among the Nations at Yad Vashem by President Ezer Weizman and The Duke of Edinburgh in honor of Charles’s grandmother, Princess Alice, who harbored a Jewish family during the Holocaust.
This year’s World Holocaust Forum marks the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
In honor of the occasion, a special film for dinner guests included remarks by 44 world leaders calling for Holocaust remembrance and fighting antisemitism. Those comments appear in a unique book published by Yad Vashem and the World Holocaust Forum.
After the first course was served by 200 waiters, Israeli singers David D’Or, Miri Mesika and Amir Benayoun performed “The Last Survivor,” written in 2018 for the Knesset delegation to the March of the Living by Amir Benayoun with words by Moshe Klughaft.
The opening to the song was played on a violin owned by Holocaust survivor Itzhak Reider, a talented musician living Warsaw when war broke out.
A German friend smuggled Reider into Belarus with a fake passport, but he was caught on the way by the SS. They forced him to play for them and thus decided to let him live. Eventually he made his way to Moscow, but his violin was left behind and his entire family was murdered by the Nazis in the Warsaw Ghetto and in Auschwitz.
Reider managed to rebuild his life through music and became a noted professor, had a family and immigrated to Israel. In 1973, a stranger knocked on his door and returned his lost violin to his son Vladimir.
In another touching moment, Israeli artist Shlomi Shaban performed a special arrangement of Leonard Cohen’s “Dance Me to the End of Love.” Cohen wrote the song based on testimonies of survivors of death camps who spoke about string ensembles forced to play music as prisoners were marched to their death in the gas chambers. Shaban is the grandson of a Holocaust survivor who survived Dr. Josef Mengele’s cruel medical experiments and helped other prisoners survive.
“The future lies in the choices we make, especially, those we make together, as countries and nations,” Rivlin said.
“I hope and pray that from this room, the message will go out to every country on earth, that the leaders of the world will stand united in the fight against racism, antisemitism and extremism, in defending democracy and democratic values. This is the call of our time. This is our challenge. This is our choice,” Rivlin said.
Among the statesmen in attendance were Prince Charles, US Vice President Mike Pence, Russian President Vladimir Putin, French President Emmanuel Macron, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Italian President Sergio Mattarella, Dutch King Willem-Alexander and Belgian King Philippe.
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