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PACE 16 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE February 7, 1986
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Several of the women and teenaged girls who have read Torah in services at Etz Chaim gather around the
Greenspun Torah.
Left to right are: Miriam Rosenbaum, Julie Pristach, Elissa Budow, Susan Avren, Rabbi Shalom Lewis,
Rachel Popowcer and Traci King.
Special Torah adds dimension
to Etz Chaim Sisterhood event
Special to The Southern Israelite
Every year the women of Etz
Chaim’s Sisterhood celebrate Sister
hood Shabbat by conducting the
entire service. The women read
from theTorah, chant the Haftorah,
act as hazzanim and present Divrei
Torah on the portion of the week.
It is a traditional yet egalitarian
service.
This year, however, a new dimen
sion was added to this celebration
of the Shabbat and of the congre
gation’s women.
The story begins several years
ago at the Council of Jewish
Federation’s General Assembly held
in Atlanta. One of the delegates
was a woman named Shellie
Greenspun from Cherry Hill, N.J.
At one of the sessions she spotted
Rabbi Shalom Lewis of Congregation
The
Best
in
Town!
Etz Chaim and gave him regards
from his father, Rabbi Albert Lewis,
at whose congregation she was a
member. Rabbi Lewis then invited
Shellie and her New Jersey delegation
to Etz Chaim for Shabbat services.
On that Saturday morning, Shellie
was offered an aliyah and accepted.
She had been a longtime member
in Rabbi Shalom Lewis’ father’s
synagogue in New Jersey and had
been an ardent advocate of women’s
full participation in services. Her
hometown synagogue, however, did
not grant women aliyot, but nonethe
less she refused to resign, hoping
that the policy would soon change.
She also chose not to accept an
aliyah iri any but her own congre
gation in New Jersey. But while
visiting Atlanta and a guest of Etz
Chaim she reasoned, “It’s not a
strange shul. It’s Shalom’s shul and
so here I’ll accept an aliyah.” With
tears in her eyes and a glow of true
devotion, Shellie was called to the
Torah on the Shabbat for the first
time in her life. When she returned
home she wanted to express her
gratitude to Etz Chaim for her
“very special moment,” as she referred
to her aliyah.
In gratitude she arranged with
her family to donate a Sefer Torah
to Etz Chaim because “I know it
will be used by all Jews, both men
and women, equally.” The Torah
was dedicated this past Rosh Hashana
and was designated the Greenspun
Torah to be used by the young
congregation and specifically to be
read on the morning of Sisterhood
Shabbat.
The simcha of placing a new
Sefer Torah in the Ark, however
was a bittersweet event. Shellie
Greenspun, the generous benefactor,
had died several months earlier of
a brain tumor. The aliyah that she
had received at Etz Chaim was not
only the first, but the only aliyah
she ever received in her life.
This year's Sisterhood Shabbat
was significant not only because of
the beautiful services conducted by
women but also because they read
for the first time from the Greenspun
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