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BLOOD DONOR DRIVE AT BETH YESHURUN
I. C. B. M.
USY ON WHEELS MEMBERS:
RABBI WEINBERG S COLUMN:
“See the USA on Wheels With USY”
If any of you happened to be at Beth Yeshurun on Sunday
evening, July 11, you may have seen me followed by some
40-plus teenagers, who were gaping with awe at the size of
our building and its facilities. These youth were members of
the United Synagogue Youth on Wheels, across-the-USA-by-
bus tour, visiting national and Jewish spots of interest. This
tour is a project of the Conservative movement, which, more
than offering just another nice vacation, offers an exciting
Jewish experience. This kind of experience can not be had in
the classroom nor by going on any travel agency tour.
Three such groups will pass through Houston, the third
one a Mexican-based group. Beth Yeshurun, together with
Beth Am and Brith Shalom, has played host to one of the
groups. The leaders were Rabbi Aaron and Peggy Pearlstein
and Phillip and Shellie Dickstein. The group arrived here
from New Orleans Sunday afternoon, had dinner and a tour
of Beth Yeshurun, and then went to a swim party at the JCC
with the local US Yers. Leaders were Lynn Landis, Past
Beth Yeshurun USY President, Susan Levy, upcoming Beth
Yeshurun USY President, and Nancy Rosenfeld, Regional
USY President. On Monday, they had a tour of NASA, the
Battleship Texas, the Astrodome, and the Medical Center.
After dinner at Beth Yeshurun, they went to the Galleria
Shopping Center for ice skating and, of course, shopping.
The next day they were off for El Paso.
This offers an unusual opportunity in Jewish education.
The youngsters, most from non-traditional backgrounds,
have an experience in Jewish living, in keeping Kashrut
and Shabbat at least for the duration of the trip, of seeing
Jewish communities across the United States, of living and
learning with guides who are also Rabbis, teachers of
Judaism, or Rabbinical students. An Israeli high school
student also joined this group in seeing the US and the world
beyond the borders of Israel for the first time. (Other groups
of the USY on Wheels even had some teenagers who had only
recently escaped Russia).
In a month, Beth Yeshurun will host the Mexican Wheel-
niks, from Mexico City, under the leadership of Rabbi and
Mrs. Samuel Lerer, who make Beth Yeshurun a must stop
every year on their tour of the US. They will be our guests,
from Thursday night, August 12, until Saturday night,
August 14, when they return to Mexico. This is a wonderful
Front row seated L to R: Barbara Friedland (New Jersey),
Jan Vogel (New Jersey) and Mark Weinberg (Florida).
Back row seated L to R: Jo Anne Rhine (New Jersey), Sue
Linsk (New Jersey), Gail Nagin (New Jersey) and Jack
Pearlstein (Connecticut).
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The Social Action committee, headed by Frank Shaw,
is tentatively scheduling a blood drive at Beth Yeshurun
on Sunday, September 19. Houston suffers from a chronic
blood shortage, so acute that surgeries are often postponed
for lack of adequate supplies of blood. Only 3% of Houston’s
population presently donates blood. By your participation,
your gift assures a supply when it is needed for you and your
family. Your participation is not only encouraged but
necessary.
Friday evening, July 9th, Rabbi Segal joined the ASTROS
IV group leaving for Israel in the Tephillat Haderech prayer.
He also announced that the group was taking $1,930 in
donations to Israel to help Israeli orphans whose fathers were
killed during the Six Day War or Yom Kippur War. The
money would help these boys have Bar Mitzvahs in Israel.
However, before the weekend was over, Rabbi Segal received
additional donations for this I.C.B.M. (Israeli Children Bar
Mitzvah) project. By the time the weekend was over, Rabbi
Segal had $2,583.76 for the orphans.
However, together with one donation (from Channah
Weintraub) a poem was also enclosed. Rabbi Segal thought
that the entire congregation would like to read that poem.
Chai to our ever living God whose love has brought
us to this day;
Chai to our beloved Israel, which is part of us, the
culmination of our faith and dreams;
Chai to the six million who twice gave their lives
and blood for Israel — once leaving Egypt — and
again in the holocaust;
Chai to our Rabbi and wives and families — Rabbi
Jack Segal and Rabbi Norbert Weinberg;
Chai to the people of Israel — whose very existence
fills us with pride;
Chai to the Jews the world over — may they join
together with our Rabbis, our teachers, to keep
God alive the world over.
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Rabbi Weinberg’s Column: Continued
opportunity for our Beth Yeshurun teenagers to meet youth
of a different country and culture.
URGENT - We are in need of housing for the Mexican
Wheelniks, for the nights of August 12 and 13. We es-
pecially need such housing for several youngsters who do not
ride on Shabbat and have to be in walking distance of Beth
Yeshurun. Please contact Mrs. Ernest (Gail) Rudder,
5475 Indigo, Tel: 667-3801, as soon as possible and volun-
teer your hospitality.
I would like to thank the people who have taken part in
the work for this past reception of the USY on Wheels. I
thank our Youth Committee members who took part, but
especially Mrs. Sheldon (Shirley) Arsham, who made ar-
rangements for feeding and sightseeing for our guests, and
Sue Gotlin, of Beth Am, who helped me out by providing
housing for twenty-two of the youngsters at the homes of
members of Beth Am.
If any of you have teenagers who would be interested
in going on such a USY on Wheels program, I suggest that
you contact Mr. Moshe Schreiber, our Youth Director. Hope-
fully, however, Beth Yeshurun will have next year, as it had
planned for this year, some extended tours for our own
teenagers.
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