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Education
A Message from Our President
Dear Congregation B’nai Israel Members, Building on the energy and joy created from a magnificent High Holiday experience with Cantor Shira Ginsburg, I have some wonderful news to share with you. During High Holidays, a very generous, anonymous donor initiated a Fund-Raising Challenge! This generous donor has pledged to match any new funds donated by […]
From Our Rabbi
April Yahrzeits
4/1 Louis Blumenfeld 4/1 Fannie A. Levin 4/1 Israel Margolis 4/1 Henry Vogelstein 4/2 Elsie Smith 4/3 Anna P. Reichel 4/4 Sylvia S. Cooper 4/4 Blanche Lyon 4/5 Harry Packer 4/6 Samuel Lazarowitz 4/7 Aladar Hirschler 4/8 Helen Levenson 4/9 Nancy Geller 4/9 Samuel Packer 4/9 Mary Vogelstein 4/12 Jack Minsky 4/16 William M. Price […]
Sad News
Dear friends, Our long-time member, Nancy Rosenberg, passed away today. Please know that plans for the funeral will be shared with you soon. Our sympathies and condolences go out to Terry, Barbara, Robert, and all who are close to her. Rabbi Liebowitz
Fund Raising
October Dates to Remember
1 NO Sunday School 1 Raise the Sukkah 4 Erev Sukkot 4 Hebrew School 4 Decorate the Sukkah Party 6 Kabbalat Shabbat 7 Saturday Service/Sukkot Tisch 8 Sunday School 8 Sisterhood Board Meeting 11 Breakfast Schmooze 11 Hebrew School 12 Yizkor Service 13 Simchat Torah 13 Consecration Dinner 14 Saturday Service 15 Sunday School 18 […]
Hadassah
Hadassah News
There will be no Hadassah meetings for the months of August or September. However, on Saturday, October 6, we will be sponsoring the Sabbath Tisch to give Hannah Keen one final opportunity to prepare for her Bat Mitzvah. One of the main principles of Hadassah is to promote education for women, so we felt it […]
Hadassah Tisch
Saturday, September 15 there will be a Sukkot Tisch sponsored by Hadassah. Please join us so we may have a Shabbes Minyan.
Holidays
High Holidays 5784 In Retrospect by Mark Packer
High Holidays 5784: In Retrospect by Mark Packer Vice President and Ritual Committee Chair For so long, it had only been a rumor. But now it’s confirmed. Music is the language of God. Anyone who attended or watched our High Holiday services this year will agree. Along with our resident musicians (Steve Graff, Keith Jones, […]
High Holiday Services
You may have heard by now that High Holiday services will be conducted this year by Shira Ginsburg, Cantor Emerita at East End Temple in Manhattan. Cantor Ginsburg brings with her a powerful resume, consisting of 20 years of professional experience on […]
In Memoriam
Remembering Rabbi Aaron D. Panken, 12th President of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Z”L
Saturday, May 5, 2018 Rabbi Aaron D. Panken, Ph.D., President of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute (HUC-JIR), died tragically in a plane crash on May 5, 2018, at the age of 53. He served as the 12th President in HUC-JIR’s 143-year history. Dr. Panken led the four-campus international institution of higher learning and seminary for […]
In Memoriam of Rabbi Aaron Panken
Dear members, I wish to share with you the sad news about a remarkable Rabbi of our Reform movement who tragically died this weekend. His exemplary life is reviewed in this moving testimony below. May his deeds and the memory of his life be a blessing to us all. Yossi J Liebowitz Rabbi […]