Funerals

When a death occurs, the whole Temple Micah community reaches out to the bereaved family to try to ease the pain, trauma and confusion at this difficult time. The Rabbi helps to make the funeral arrangements and the temple office notifies the congregation about the death. A Cemetery Trustee is available to help with various details and order food for the traditional light meal that follows internment. If the burial is to take place at the Temple Micah Cemetery, the Trustee assists the family with those arrangements.

Sitting Shiva

After the burial, Jews traditionally observe a week-long formal mourning period, called Shiva (the Hebrew word for seven). At Temple Micah, this observance varies. In consultation with the family, the Rabbi arranges for a service in the mourners’ home. The Office notifies the congregation about time and place.

Yahrzeits

For those who have provided information to the Temple, a Yahrzeit notice will be sent. Yahrzeits are commemorated on Friday evening and Saturday. Individuals who wish to make a brief oral presentation in commemoration of a loved one, should contact the Temple office about the availability of the desired date.

Yahrzeit will be observed for these relatives and friends of the Micah Community at the following Shabbat Services:

April 19 and 20:  Cyril Bachorik, Louise Brunner, Rabbi Herman Cohen, Bessie Fenster, Helen Gaymont, Sophie Glukenhous, George Goda, Rabbi Milton Greenwald, Benjamin Grossman, Regina Grossman, Fred Hart, Gustave Hollander, Jerry Josen, Anita Kaufman, Sanford Lazar, Minni Levi, Beatrice Lynn, Ruth Neubauer, Marty Obrand, Esperanza Pasco, Edmund Pollack, Mildred Rothstein, Lydia Sablosky, Thomas Sablosky, Bernard Shapiro, Albert Sheer, Rabbi Jack Stern, Seymour Stern, Harris Tarlin, Ann Weiner, Jonathan Wentworth

April 26 and 27:  Ruth Sonnenblick Appleton,  Shlomo Haim Bardin, Mitch Bernstein, Milton Booth, Leon Chadajo, Irving Checkman, Patricia Cohn, Bette Gelula Cooper, Morris Enda, Chester Fienberg, Harriet Goldman, Beverly Grusin, Reuben Heller, Barchoff Herbert, Doris Hoelter, Esther Hoffer, Ida Russakoff Hoos, Ralph Kartzman, Herbert Lahne, Fred Neubauer, Jane Ryan, Irwin Schumacher, Sidney A. Simon, Joan Soloway, Ted Wagman, Saul Zizmor

May 3 and 4:  Florence Aron, Milton Blechman, Sarah Blumenfeld, Belle Chernak, Lloyd Dickelman, Rosalie Dorfman, Hyman Glass, Janice Glazer, Sam Glossman, Zipporah Spiegel Grohman, Regina Jacob, Simon Jacob, Donald Kirby, Rosalind Kodis, Mildred Leiderkramer, Melvin Lurie, Nicolaas Pansegrouw, Fred Reinharz, Gertrude Russi, Simon Russi, Betsy Schuchat Schoen, Alvin "Sam" Seligman, Lillian Strauss, Edward Weinberg, Martha Weinheimer, Sam Werber, James Wheatley, Wynne Woo

May 10 and 11:  Violet Anenberg, Harold Blatt, Rita Blatt, Robert Blatt, Sam Bordman, Irving Falb, Beatrice Greenberg, Bezalel Herschkovitz, Jorgen Kristensen, Ada Lewis, Lillian Meyers, Murray Peltz, Richard Charles Sachs, Leah Sandhaus, Samuel Vale, Joseph Weisman

May 17 and 18:  Emily Adler, Martin Anenberg, Ben Appel, Louis Appleton, Esther Aronson, Sidney H. Closter, Daniel Michael Effros, Lilian Freeman, Bob Gillanders, David Goldberg, Bernice Korn, Carl Lang, Sylvia Lang, Irving Richter, Maxine Sablosky

May 24 and 25:  Gertrude Betcher, Lenore Kathleen Bodner, Ida Broide, Ida Rosenberg Broide, Estelle Checkman-Phillips, Arnold Hollander, Manuel Kurzberg, Annette Matsil, Goldie Ominsky, Edward Makowsky Petsonk, Robert Riggs, Emily Rachel Sachs, Deborah Sachse, Ruth Mayerson Schiff, Bella Weiner, Nathan Weinstock, Ida J. White, Joseph J. Wolf, Richard Wolf

May 31 and June 1:  Oscar Charlson, Morton Gordon, Sylvia Grossman, Julius Halpern, Ida Melnitsky Heller, Leo Leifer, Ida Lipman, Jack Newman, Howard Rothman, Maurice B. Sachse, Sally Schwartz, Nathan Valasky, Jeannette Vale, Jerome Wald

June 7 and 8:  Abraham Broide, Sophy Goldberg, Harry Klayman, Bertram Klein, Elaine Leibman, Owen Lipscomb, Martin Luray, Harry Luterman, Sid Meyers, Esther Morgenstern, Edward Platoff, Peter Rosenstein, Kenneth Schaefer, Emma Seelig, Barbara Lang Shapiro, Harriet P. Stein

June 14 and 15:  Rabbi Bernard J. Bamberger, James G. Banks, Kathe Rastatter Brennan, Gerald J. Epps, Josephine Furr, Evelyn Goldberg, Ellen Kurzman, Barbara Lewis, Lynn Lubitz, Florence Simon, Freda Simon, Elaine Taswell, Michael Temchin, Stan Wang

June 21 and 22:  Shirley Axelrod Auslander, Milton Effros, Herbert Elisburg, Edward Faber, Sidney Katz, Freda Kovey, Paul Liebman, Henry Lipman, Hallene Marks, Sam Morgenstein, Anne Ominsky, Virginia K. Rosenbaum, Cecile Schifferes, Harold Schwalb, Allan Seidenberg, Benjamin M. Seiger, Howard Stanfield

June 28 and 29:  Herbert Brand, Louis Gould, Saul Grubin, Theodore Kessler, Henrietta Komisar, Harold Oppenheim, Judith Oppenheim, Bill Ransohoff, Joseph Robinson, Edward Isaac Salkovitz, Bee Schwartz, Florence Silverman, James Spector, Shirley Springer, Evelyn Wendel, Samuel Yett

July 5 and 6:  Rose Brown, Diane Diskin, Ethel Fargotstein, Berenice Futterman, Harold Greenstein, Howard Shea Grob, Herman Lubens, Harvey Nassau, Ceal Ominsky, Murray David Poller, Ruth Reiniger, Lillian Sacks, Evelyn Schlein, Evelyn Stern, David Umansky