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Al Brunwasser sent me an interesting story to share with the congregation. It appeared in the bulletin of Adas Israel congregation in Washington DC. The story is about Naomi and Nehemiah Cohen. Please see the article at the right. Who knew that the guy who started Giant groceries was from Carnegie? Coincidently, Al tells me that his great uncle Joe Cohen had a fruit market just up the street in Glendale way back in the day.
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I hope everyone is having a wonderful Pesach. This is a great time of the year. Spring weather making its first appearances. Family gatherings. Kids and grandkids. Digging the golf clubs out of the garage.
But part of our tradition is to always balance our simchas with reminders that not everyone is sharing a joyous Springtime. As most of you know, Izzy Horowitz had a heart attack and is recuperating at the Jewish Home in Homestead (Charles Morris Rehab). Izzy has been a valued member of our congregation for over 40 years. Each Shabbos morning he would set out Kiddush for us. He took special delight in making sure we had the various cakes, bagels, and cheeses necessary for a delightful lunch. Now he’s at Charles Morris and we are missing him every Shabbos.
The doctors say that he is not eating as well as he should be. Perhaps if we take the time to pay him a visit, as Joey did just before Peaach, he will find renewed spirit and interest in returning to his apartment in Carnegie. And this might spur him to a stronger appetite and regaining his strength. It would be a big mitzvah.
I hope all of you continue to be blessed during this Pesach season. Be reminded that we will have morning services for the last two days of Pesach, this Friday and Saturday, with Yizkor service on Saturday. As weekday holiday services are difficult for some, we would especially appreciate it if you are available to help make minyan on Friday morning.
Be well,
Rick
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Rabbi Harvey Brotsky
Just a quick note to everyone that Rabbi Harvey Brotsky will be visiting the Carnegie Shul this coming Shabbos, January 28, for morning services. In 2009, Rabbi Brotsky retired from New Light Congregation after 25 years of service. He and his wife continue to live in Squirrel Hill but have taken time to travel. This weekend he will be traveling all the way to Carnegie to spend a Shabbos morning with us!
I am fairly certain we will be able to impose upon the rabbi to daven part of the service. As a reminder, preliminary services start at 9:20 and Shachris starts at 9:40. I hope that many of you will be able to join us and welcome Rabbi Brotsky to Carnegie. Following services, we will have our usual Kiddush— bagels, cheese, and fish. This week’s Kiddush is sponsored by Burt Dodick.
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The term “hacking” may be new to you unless you’re a computer geek. Hacking is the name to given to breaking into someone’s website by using malicious software. The hacker may just be trying to show how skilled he is at breaking through someone’s passwords or firewalls. But sometimes he means to do real harm to the website owner. We can’t be sure what motivated the hacker who trashed the shul website, this blog, on December 26. It is a lesson for all of us that computers are not completely fool proof and whenever you put something “out there” in cyberspace, it is vulnerable to attack.
My first hint that something was wrong actually came on December 26 when I started to get junk mail from our blog. Since I have software on the blog that filters filters out junk, I knew that something had stopped working. But it didn’t seem serious. I had family matters to attend to last week and decided I would look at it on the weekend. However, on Shabbos morning at shul, Joel informed me that the shul blog was “down”. This elevated my concern, and I began an investigation right after we finished Kiddush. Little did I know that I would be spending the rest of the day, New Year’s Eve, performing website maintenance. Continue reading
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Rabbi Rudolphe Weiss
When this conversation started, I thought it would a simple one. But it has yielded some very interesting comments and I realized I should have posted it here on the blog so that everyone could see and comment.
This dialogue started with a request from Lynn Donovan asking who were the rabbis when she was a member here between 1958 to 1965. Since my source of historical data, Stan Roth, is no longer with us I sent out an email asking for information. Let me post the responses here and you all can continue the conversation directly.
From Brenda Miller I received the following:
“my husband Larry (Izzy Miller Furniture) and I were married in 1960. Rabbi Rudolph Weiss was the Rabbi who officiated and was the rabbi until 1965. He may have been here longer than that but I do know after he went elsewhere we interviewed a number of rabbi’s, but I don’t remember any being hired. I started teaching Sunday School around 1966 and the only person I recall taking charge was Stan Roth.Hope this helps. I was the one who went to the rabbi’s from Beth El and Temple Emanuel to see if we could start sending our children to one of their Religious school’s. We were taken in by Temple Emanuel, they gave membership to the families who had children in religious school. Some of the families joined on their own after their children were Confirmed. During the High Holidays we hired student rabbi’s to conduct services.”
From Roger Wilk,
“I believe the Rabbi at the time you refer to was Rabbi Rudolph Weiss. I will try and find a document that states that, but since I lived there at that time and Morris was President until 1963 I believe I am correct.”
From Morry Miller,
“Rabbi Rudolph Weiss was a holocost survivor and bore a numbered arm tatoo. Prior to Rabbi Weiss was Rabbi Helfgot. My brother Larry and I had our Bar Mitzvah in the Shule in December of 1949. The Party was held in the downstairs social hall.”
Lynn adds a follow-up question,
“Do you know why Rabbi Weiss left and where he went?
The photo of Rabbi Weiss is from the Shul’s 1953 Jubilee book. At some point I will scan in the entire book and post a link.
In the meantime, please feel free to add your answers/questions/comments below.
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