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Rabbi's Message
The Tabernacle is the symbol of transient living and as such is an admirable comment upon the history of our people.
“And they journeyed and they camped” is an expression used dozens of times in the Torah with reference to the odyssey of Israel. This was not only true of the desert itinerary of the Israelites….it has been a dominant fact of our existence from one age to the next.
Paraphrasing, the historians might say: “And they journeyed from Jerusalem and they camped in Babylon; and they journeyed from Babylon and they camped in Jerusalem; and they journeyed from Jerusalem and they camped in Baghdad; and they journeyed from Baghdad and they camped in Fez; ands they journeyed from Fez and they camped in Cordova; and they journeyed from Cordova and they camped in Warsaw; and they journeyed from Warsaw and they camped in Buchenwald; and (some very few) journeyed from Buchenwald and they camped in Jerusalem.
The Tabernacle has been the curse but also the blessing of the Jewish people, for a home that is lost when destroyed but a home which is, portable can be lifted and put up elsewhere.
The boxer whose jaw stands in the way of an oncoming fist is a candidate for the knockout punch, but if the fighter “rolls with the punch” will be up again when the bell rings for the next round. For Centuries we have been absorbing mighty punches and have been rolling with them…we have suffered smashing technical K.O.’s while amassing a long string of “moral” victories.
The wolf has huffed but hasn’t been able to blow our Succah down! But an endless diet of moral victories can lead to a sick stomach and a sicker heart.
And, is not two and and a half thousand years a long enough time?
Rabbi Jerry
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CAT FNL (Friday Night Live) on Facebook Live
Where:
In your home
We will be meeting on
Friday, February 10, 2023 at 6:00 pm
Save The Date - Next service:
Friday, March 3, 2023
Why?
Tradition!
Please like and share with others.
Click on this link where we will be live streaming:
https://www.facebook.com/CreativeArtsTemple/live/
You will also be able to view it on Our Website (creativeartstemple.org) and on YouTube as well.
This is a Streamlined Shabbat Service with special guests. You will be able to chat with us, share any news from your week, or send a virtual hug via Facebook.
We will be chanting the Mishabeirach for global healing and reciting the Kaddish for the current yahrzeits. If you have the names of loved ones you would like to include, please let us know.
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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, or if you are having a problem registering call the temple office at 310-720-9618 and we will help you.
Also, if you don't have computer access, you can call Ralphs at 1-800-443-4438 for assistance.
CAT 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
website.
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February Anniversaries
Mazel Tov to our CAT lovebirds!
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Nathan & Elaine Sperling 2/14/2023
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With a donation of Chai ($18) or above, CAT will mail out a tribute card in your honor of Birthdays, Anniversaries, Get-Well-Soon wishes, Congratulations and In Loving Memory.
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DONATIONS
You now can Order Tribute Cards, Remember A Yarzheit, Make donations to the Services, or Order a Plaque through 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.
Or, you can call the office or just send a donation in the mail.
Click here to make your donation with PayPal.
or go to our website at creativeartstemple.org
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You can now make a donation through Venmo. Our username is @CreativeArtsTemple-10
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February Birthdays
And many happy returns!
Doris Felsen 2/4/2023
Tootsie Veprin 2/10/2023
Debby Bitticks 2/18/2023
Aaron Bush 2/19/2023
Joel Diamond 2/20/2023
Barbara Lee Schulz 2/21/2023
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Service Sponsors
Thank you to our sponsors!
Shabbat Sponsors:
Debby and Ken Bitticks - Oneg Sponsor
Gregory Cruz - Oneg Sponsor
Mike Drake, In memory of Bridget Drake
A special thank you to Joey English. the longest running radio show in the desert - for her shout-outs
Click here to make a donation or go to our website at creativeartstemple.org
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Get Wells
Refuah Shleima
CAT wishes speedy recoveries to:
Debby and Ken Bitticks, Henry Bush, Gregory Cruz, Lowell Dreyfus, Burt Newmark, Donna and Peter Paul.
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January Yahrzeits
We thank those who have made a donation in memory of your loved one.
Rena Barness
In memory of Amnon Barness
Ross & Fern Bloom
In memory of Nathan Bernard Taylor
Ralph & Cynthia Bovitz
In memory of Sam Bovitz
Douglas & Roni Cohen
In memory of Lenore Stern
Lowell & Penny Dreyfus
In memory of Rose Dreyfus
Herb Freed
In memory of Marion Freed
Michelle Ghaffari
In memory of Leo and Geane Kaye
Lorain Goldberg
In memory of Charles Zaggy Goldberg
Maria Jacobs
In memory of Simmy Jacobs
Barbara Persten
In memory of Barry and Sherman Block
Steven & Janice Seligman
In memory of Bernie Seligman
Rosalie Shulman
In memory of Maurice Shulman
Dee Ann Simon
In memory of Morton Goldberg
Phyllis Spear & Irwin Schwartzman
In memory of Delphine Schwartzman
Joe Stein
In memory of Gloria Stein
Lucy Weltsch
In memory of Riza & Ron Weltsch
May you be comforted by the mourners of Zion
If you made a donation and you don't see it here, it is because it was received after the publication deadline and will appear next month
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An inspiring story of a school that relocated to escape the Nazis
Reviewed by CAT member
Stephen Maitland-Lewis
There is no shortage of books on the Holocaust and the overall inferno of the Hitler years.
Reading anything from the vast published material on this subject is bound to evoke obvious disgust and horror. Yet, the question remains: how could this have happened in the 20th century, in a country which hitherto was considered one of the foremost cultured and educated of all civilized nations?
Deborah Cadbury in her The School That Escaped the Nazis skillfully evokes another, more heartwarming emotion, and this book goes a long way to confirm that amid the carnage of that era there were instances of profound goodness and human decency.
Anna Essinger, a young German schoolteacher, had established a small progressive school in southern Germany. She saw the writing on the wall when Hitler came into power in 1933. She had read Mein Kampf and abhorred its wicked ideology.
With an abundance of courage, determination, and pure defiance, in spite of her limited resources, she succeeded in relocating her school to the rural county of Kent in southeast England. The school flourished and soon attracted a number of English pupils as well as teachers. Before long, as a result of Nazi regulations which made it impossible for Jewish teachers and pupils to remain within the German school system, there was an additional influx of pupils and highly qualified academic staff.
The school swiftly earned a fine reputation and enjoyed good relations with its neighbors. The local villagers were largely friendly, supportive and hospitable. But, in 1939 upon the outbreak of war, the school faced new challenges. Many of the German staff and the older students were interred as enemy aliens far away from Kent. The locals, who had treated the school and all those connected with it with respect, now treated it with suspicion. The school’s neighbors shunned it.
The British Government requisitioned the school’s strategically important premises for British military purposes, and another evacuation was necessary. On short notice, Essinger found a decrepit mansion for the school, two hundred miles away. Simultaneously, the school was struggling to take in as many Jewish children as it could among those who had remained in Germany. Additionally, the school admitted countless others whose parents the Nazis had kidnapped and sent to concentration camps throughout Germany and Poland.
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The author recounts the testimony of many of the students who described how they left their homes and families only to struggle with the differences in culture and a new language, as well as with the heartache of not knowing whether they would ever reunite with their parents and other family members. Essinger and her colleagues had to deal not only with the academic and overall well-being of her pupils but also with the immense trauma that they were suffering.
The school became a home for the children, a haven of love and warmth where they could live peacefully and without fear of being bullied and treated as outcasts in their native Germany. They formed lifetime bonds and a great many succeeded as adults in their chosen fields.
Essinger and her colleagues created a loving home for approximately nine hundred pupils between 1933 and 1948 when the school finally closed. Despite all the miseries and suffering that the children and the German staff members, had endured, she created a happy and productive environment. To describe reading about this period of history as a joyful experience is counterintuitive. However, Deborah Cadbury succeeds in delivering an uplifting and inspiring book about the challenges that Essinger, her pupils, and her colleagues faced. So many books on the Holocaust focus heavily on statistics that in time one becomes almost immune to the savagery. Case studies of specific named individual children, some as young as eight, who arrived at the school traumatized and how they fared carry more weight. Cadbury illustrates the teamwork between teachers and pupils who together faced hurdles and survived.
This book is a worthy edition to the countless books written about this painful historical period. The school was devoid of any form of religious syllabus or practice but nevertheless, Anna Essinger, as the author states, “fulfilled in her own way, the old Hebrew saying, ‘Tikkun Hoaolam’ — ‘mend the world.’”
This piece originally appeared in the Washington Independent Review of Books.
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Roots Music & Beyond
KPFK 90.7 FM
Saturdays,
6-8 a.m.
New Christy Minstrels, Art Podell, was a Greenwich Village folk singer in 1958. In the rush to capitalize on the folk boom, Columbia Records signed Podell and partner Paul Potash and, as the duo “Art & Paul,” they released two albums in 1960 and ’61, which are sought-after today by folk music aficionados.
"I thought I was watching and listening to Will Rogers with an Ivy League education and maybe that's true, but your humor and songs - both touching and delightful - was better and much more enjoyable than his lasso"
-Herb Freed, Film-maker, novelist, and friend
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If you are a fan of the classic folk music of the fifties/sixties, this might be the program for you.
Add to that some flavors of old-time jazz and bluegrass. We'll be catering to your musical pallets while offering some wonderful premiums to help support KPFK.
Roots Music & Beyond celebrates ten years on air in March!
Third Saturday host: Art Podell art@artpodell.com,a bona fide Greenwich Village folkie, one-half of the legendary duo Art and Paul and an original member of The New Christy Minstrels, and Professor.
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Fern Field Brooks, author of Letters to My Husband, has written a new meowmoir on her cat called Destiny's Children. You can order this charming book at http://www.books2cherish.com. Temple members and friends can add "Temple Member" to your shipping instructions and 10% of all sales will go to C.A.T.
"LOVED IT! A clever and refreshing approach to a memoir!"
Mary Lou Belli, Director, Author, Teacher
"Wow! Destiny is incredible! I read it in two evenings and was absolutely enthralled. This book is one in a million!"
Laurel D. - Miami
"I Love Destiny and Fern! I was concerned for Destiny on every adventure, felt relieved when all was well, and eagerly await the rest of the series! Engaging. Charming. Insightful - about cats and humans!"
Dr. Linda Seger, Author, Script Consultant, Lecturer
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Burial Plots for Sale
In Mount Sinai Memorial Parks and Mortuaries
Garden of Moriah
Hollywood Hills
Original Price: $30,000 Asking Price: $24,000 Or Best Offer
For more information contact the Temple Office at 310-720-9618
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SAVING THE OCEAN FROM PLASTIC
Environmental nonprofit EcoOcean says the waters of the Earth have much to give us if we keep them healthy and plastic-free.
By ISRAEL21c Staff
January 4
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Arik Rosenblum is worried about Planet Earth – in particular, the waters that make up 70 percent of the planet.
Plastics ose the biggest danger to the world’s seas and oceans, says Rosenblum, xecutive director of the nonprofit EcoOcean that’s dedicated
to protecting the marine environment.
“We definitely try to be the voice of the sea,” he says.
Getting out into the water in the organization’s research vessel,
the Mediterranean Explorer, yields many good surprises, too, like a sponge
EcoOcean researchers discovered that may help cure Alzheimer’s disease.
But the ain task of EcoOcean – and all of us – is to cut down on single-use plastics nd never to discard them on the beach. Once these cups, bottles, and bags get into the water, they break down into harmful microplastics that
fish ingest and then people ingest when we eat the fish.
“It’s not ust saving the animals. To save the sea is to save us,” says Rosenblum.
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Creative Arts Temple
P.O. Box 241831
Los Angeles, CA 90024
310-720-9618
creativeartstemple@gmail.com
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