Sisterhood

SISTERHOOD

Robyn Rosengard My time as Sisterhood President has been challenging and at the same time extremely gratifying. Who knew we would be forced to do and learn all the new things that, by now, we have all become accustomed to? As I have mentioned in past articles, this job cannot be done by one woman alone. Just like everything else, it takes a village. I hope to give thanks to all the members of our Sisterhood village in this bulletin article that is exceedingly difficult for me to write. It takes a village, and the Sisterhood village would not be complete without the very energetic and conscientious members of our Executive Committee and Board Members. You all have dedicated so much time and effort to producing meaningful and enlightening events and programs throughout the past two years and especially pivoting when the pandemic reared its ugly head. To all the past Sisterhood Presidents thank you for your guidance, patience, and friendship. I want to thank Jackie Zelkowitz for being my right and even sometimes my left hand, too. I hope that you have learned from our successes and our infrequent misses and I wish you all the best for your time as Sisterhood President. I will be there to help in any way that I can. Through this crazy time, we have produced many new programs and increased our membership as well as our engagement year after year. The participation through online activity has been nothing short of amazing. We did it as a team and I am immensely proud. I want to thank our Clergy for guiding me spiritually and emotionally through the past two years as Sisterhood President. Rabbi Melman, Rabbi Ferratier, and Cantor Stoehr have all played a significant role in one way or another and I cannot thank them enough. To the CBS administrative staff, professionals, and our Executive Director, Susan Karlinsky, thank you all, for your hard work and dedication to all things CBS. I am sure that without each of you, we would all be somewhat lost when it comes to planning and carrying out our programs and endeavors. And to the fabulously hard working maintenance team, you all do such a great job keeping our home, just that, our home. I have been so fortunate to work alongside an extraordinarily talented and hardworking CBS Executive Board and I have learned so much from all of them these past two years. A special thanks to Tanya Solomon, who has guided us as a community so eloquently and has been a great sounding board for me personally. Finally, to my family, thank you for putting up with all my craziness and late night conversations surrounding Sisterhood business. Thanks to Neil for all his fabulous help and creative writing, do you think I could write all these fantastic bulletin articles on my own? No way! I have learned so much and will cherish my time as Sisterhood President. My experience has greatly enhanced my love for CBS. It has been my honor to serve as Sisterhood President through some of the toughest years our community has ever seen. We have emerged Bigger, Stronger and Better than ever before, able to leap tall buildings and so on and so forth. I hope to see you in our building sooner, rather than later. With Love, Robyn Rosengard

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L’ Shana Tova Greetings

Rosh Hashanah begins on the evening of Monday, September 6th. It is not too early to think about wishing your congregation friends a happy holiday season.

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2020 2021 Torah Fund Donors $1200 Patrons Laurie B. Davis+~ Edna Schrank+~ $600 Associate Patrons Nancy Chudacoff $300 Guardians Cindy Marder Marjorie Maxwell Jan Sabin Elana Schrank Laura Shulman Sara Weinstein $180 Benefactors Judy Balter Barbara Gelfeld Lea e Gelfeld Reva Gomberg Judith Greenberg Eleanor Greenberg Judith Greenman Ellen Grossman Ellen Gulatkin Deborah Hamilton Rita Janowitz Fern Kaplan Caron Knopoff Diana Lewis Marcia Rabinowitz Robyn Rosengard Elisa Rotman Ma y Shechtman Beth Sher Jody Sigal Elyse Stern Linda Weingart $50 Berakhot Donors Bobbi Fink+ Cecelia Lasinsky Barbara Libauer Jill Olefsky Darlene Padnos Carol Schnitzler+ S A ”lharon Telpner lana Werth z $36 Double Chai Donors Darcey Becker Fran Brookstein Suzanne Gilford Amy Golden Carol Grad Ronna He man Adrienne Holtzman Lisa Rosengard $18 Chai Donors

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Steven Elisco

As I begin my two-year term as your Men's Club President… Hey, wait a minute, that’s not right. It should be, “As I conclude my two-year term as your Men’s Club President”. Can you believe it has been two years? I can’t. Having spent two thirds of that time under COVID-19 has not helped my time perception. Sometimes the days seemed to drag on. But then I would have a moment of clarity and realized multiple weeks just passed by. Was I really Men’s Club President or just some mystical ZOOM Master? All kidding aside, serving as your Men’s Club President has been an honor and an extremely rewarding experience. As I told the Club when I first started, being the Men’s Club President was not a long-term goal of mine. However, as I began my twelve-year journey up through the ranks of Men’s Club leadership, I began to realize that accepting the Club Presidency was the natural progression of the commitment I made to Congregation Beth Shalom as the first CBS USY President from 1972-1974. On June 30, 2021, I will officially become a “Past President” and join the ranks of all those wonderful men who proceeded me. We are so lucky to have so many Past Presidents that remain active and are important to the Club’s success. While my responsibilities will shift, the commitment to the Club will remain steady and true. Speaking of Past Presidents, Steve Lessman will be reprising his role as President from 1995-1997, as one of our Co-Presidents for the 2021-2023 term. He has an aggressive plan for building Club Leadership in both the short and long terms. Andy Wagner as Co-President, brings a youthful enthusiasm to the position with great creativity in both the Social and Ritual aspects of the Club. Together, both Steve and Andy will be a great team to move our Club forward. We learned a lot about ourselves this past year. As a Club we have patience, we have the flexibility to quickly make a change for better results, many of our programs designed to work around COVID-19 can be adapted for successful programs post COVID-19 and most importantly, we are far more productive when we focus on what we CAN DO and not what we cannot do. L ‘Shalom, Steven

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