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Our Leadership | Rabbi | Mark David Finkel | | Cantor | Menachem Toren | | Executive Director | Barbara L. Herman - Director's Message, click here. | | Educational Director | Mary Sheydwasser | | Nursery School Director | Rosanne Mendelowitz
| | Youth Group Advisors | Ariel Lippa, Andrea Goldsmith, Hadas Toren, Emily Golloub
| | Officers | | | President | Glenn G. Fox | | 1st Vice President | Judy Gothelf | | 2nd Vice President | Jonathan Cabelly | | 3rd Vice President | Craig Weiss | | Treasurer | Sheila Weinreb | | Financial Secretary | Howard Freeman | | Corresponding Secretary | Ellis Mass | | Recording Secretary | Jonathan Cohen |
President's Message November 2011 With the recent Torah carnival on October 30 and the upcoming visit on November 20 of the sopher who is writing the new Torah donated by the Davis Foundation, we mark the culmination of Project Simcha. As many of you know, Project Simcha began as, and continues to be in very large part, a program to raise funds to beautify Scheinman Hall. There is still time to be part of this fundraising effort through donations large and small and to have the sopher inscribe a word, phrase or passage on your behalf and to be included on the donor plaque. The sopher will be working into the winter and donations can be made throughout that time (please call the main office).
Like many projects, however, Project Simcha has become something much more than a fundraising effort. It has developed into a wonderful learning experience and celebration for the entire congregation, young and old. We have learned from the various visits from the sopher how a Torah is written.
With our two Torah carnivals, our young people have learned more about the stories of the Torah in a fun way. This project is a shining example of how the PBJC family can come together and grow spiritually and socially.
I want to give a special thanks to the Davis Foundation for making this all possible, to the Project Simcha chairs, Jerry Oppenberg and Betsy Steckelman, for their tireless efforts, to Immediate Past President Alan Rothberg and former Vice President of fundraising Ira Rosenbloom for their support for this project, and to Religious School Director Mary Sheydwasser for developing the educational aspects of the program. I am sure I have left out others and I thank you all.
Glenn Fox
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