Tachlis - Life Cycle Events
An engaged Jewish life can provide deep meaning and strong community, and we strive to achieve both. We believe that it is a Jewish value to look to the future with hope. -- Kolot Chayeinu Values Statement
MAZEL TOV!
BIRTHS:
- New member, Laura Tanenbaum, welcomes new baby Eli Julius, bon January 26, 2012. The baby will receive his Hebrew name on Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012 at a ceremony led by Cantor Segal.
- To Raul Rothblatt and Jennifer Gellmann, the new parents of a baby boy, Eli.
BNAI MITZVAH 5772:
- Hannah Adler Levine
- Stuart Ross
- Abigail Drach
- Tamar Cohen-Eckstein
- Adeline Kim
- Ruby Simon
- Olivia Stone Lemberg
- Oliver Vickers Batzdorf
- Hannah Finamore-Rossler
- Nina Potischman
- Seth Westerman
- Josephine Stevens
- Natania Kosman
- Olivia Hag-Rubin
BOOKS
- Elizabeth Holtzman, Cheating Justice: How Bush and Cheney Attacked the Rule of Law, Plotted to Avoid Prosecution, and What We Can Do About It
- Arthur Goldwag, The New Hate: A History of Fear and Loathing on the New Right
- Jennifer Egan, A Visit From The Goon Squad
- Myla Goldberg, The False Friend
- Jack Ross, Rabbi Outcast: Elmer Berger and American Jewish Anti-Zionism
- Arthur Strimling, Mitzvah Stories
CONVERSION:
- Simone Levine
- Heath Reynolds
- Matt Holman
NEW HOMES:
- To Kolot's Director of Education Ora Wise, on her new home in Crown Heights
WEDDINGS:
- Rachel Brook and Matt Holman
- Cantor Lisa B. Segal officiated at the wedding of new Kolot members Sandy Abramson and Terry DeFiore on October 23rd, after celebrating their 18th year together! Mazel tov!
- Rabbi Lippmann officiated at the New Orleans wedding of former Kolot member Simone Levine to Will Harrell. You can read about it in the Sunday Times wedding notices.
BARUKH DAYAN haEMET. OUR CONDOLENCES:
- To Sarah Lowe, her partner Elisabeth Smith, and their son Simon, on the death of Sarah's father, Charles Upton Lowe.
- To Cindy Menell and her husband Michael Skinner, and Luci and Eric, on the death of Michael's father.
- To Phyllis Arnold, on the death of her father, Norman, on Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2011.
- We mourn acclaimed Yiddish singer, cultural worker, activist and friend, Adrienne Cooper, who died on December 25th after a battle with cancer. A memorial service will be held in NYC on Sunday, January 1st, 12:00 p.m. at Ansche Chesed, 251 West 100th Street, New York, NY.
- To Ellen Neipris on the death of her father, Marvin Neipris.
- To Leonore Gordon on the death of her mother, Adeline Klebanow Gordon, on Tuesday, October 25.
REFUA SHLEIMAH/HEALING - Our thoughts and prayers are with:
- Melanie Holcomb's mother and her husband
- Marie Nachsin's mother
- Sarah Lowe, who is caring for her father at the end of his life.
