14 AV 5779 • AUGUST 15, 2019 • VOLUME XXXX, NUMBER 16 • PERIODICALS POSTAGE PAID, SYRACUSE, NY
Jewish Community Foundation adds $300,000 to Federation 2019 Campaign BY MICHAEL BALANOFF The Jewish Community Foundation of Central New York held its 18th annual meeting on July 16. Foundation Chair Neil Bronstein said, “This was a celebration of the Foundation’s continued success in raising money for the benefit of the Jewish community’s short- and long-term future. An amazing and talented number of people passionate about and committed to the success of the future of the Jewish community started this Foundation that was long thought to be important – but never brought to fruition until almost 20 years ago. The faith our founders and supporters and contributors had and continue to display in the community and its future have led to the Foundation’s continued success. That faith has paid off: “From zero, they established 118 donor advised funds. “From zero, they established 78 endowment funds. “From zero, they established 37 legacy funds valued in excess of $3 million. “From zero, they established nine
agency funds. “From zero, we administer almost $18.5 million in assets. “From zero, over $300,000 was added to the Federation’s annual Campaign.” Elected to serve a four-year term were: Jeffry Berman, Stephen Davis, Vicki Feldman, Neil Goldberg, Victor Hershdorfer, Sheldon Kruth, Lois Ross, Phillip Rubenstein and Jeffrey Scheer. Officers elected were: Neil Bronstein, board chair; Lynn Smith, vice chair; Steven Miron, financial vice president; Howard Port, treasurer and Mark Field, secretary. Under the leadership of Bronstein and its Investment Committee, led by Steve Miron, as well as so many other committed volunteers who serve on the board and various committees, the Foundation is flourishing, and its future looks even brighter. Thank you to everyone who has been a part of the Foundation and contributed to its growth. Michael Balanoff is the Foundation’s executive director.
NCJW to present 47th annual Hannah G. Solomon Award to Cantor Esa Jaffe
United Synagogue Youth and BY VICKI FELDMAN is a graduate of the Syracuse The National Council of JewHebrew Day School and the ish Women, Greater Syracuse Rabbi Jacob Epstein Hebrew Section At-Large, will present High School. the 2019 Hannah G. Solomon She began her professional Award to Cantor Esa Jaffe, of life at Temple Adath Yeshurun, Manlius, at a luncheon on Monafter returning to Syracuse day, September 16, at Pascale at with her husband, Chaim. She Drumlins, 800 Nottingham Rd., first worked as a teacher in the Syracuse. Registration will start religious school and as youth at 11:30 am, with the luncheon advisor, and later became the Esa Jaffe and program beginning at noon director of education, a job sharp and ending by 1:30 pm. she held for eight years, after which, she Reservations are $36 per person. The Hannah G. Solomon Award is a transitioned to the job of ba’alat tefillah. She taught music at the Syracuse Henational award presented by individual sections of NCJW. This is the 47th year of brew Day School first, in the late 1990s the Syracuse Hannah G. Solomon Award. and early 2000s, and has taught Judaic “The award is named for the founder of music there for the past three years. She NCJW and is given to women who have also taught at the Epstein School during demonstrated exceptional service to both her career. Through her role as clergy the Jewish community and the communi- in the community, she has also been inty-at-large,” said organizers of the event, volved with the creation and running of “and Esa has made a commitment to the Syracuse Community Hebrew School. improving the quality of life in Syracuse.” Along with the other local cantors, Jaffe Jaffe has been a multi-faceted member has had a role in the community’s Yom of the Syracuse Jewish and music com- Ha’atzmaut celebration organizing the munities for most of her life. She grew up musical portion of the program, and the See “Jaffe” on page 4 at Temple Adath Yeshurun, was active in
Boichik to headline 20th annual Syracuse Jewish Music and Cultural Festival BY VICKI FELDMAN Back by popular demand, the band Boichik, featuring Cantor Kari and Joe Eglash, will appear on the Price Chopper stage at 3 pm at the 20th annual Syracuse Jewish Music and Cultural Festival on Sunday, September 15, from 12-5:30 pm, at the Sam Pomeranz Jewish Community Center. JMAC organizers are “excited to have the band back after its festival debut in 2017, once again performing toe-tapping, contemporary arrangements of familiar Jewish music.” Cantor Kari Siegel Eglash joined Temple Concord in July 2014 and serves as cantor and director of education. Originally from Milwaukee, WI, she was ordained in 2001 by the Debbie Friedman School of Sacred Music at the Hebrew Union College Jewish Institute of Religion. Her journey to the cantorate took her from Beloit College, where she earned her bachelor’s in history, to Tata, Hungary, where she taught English to high school students, to five years in the business world of investment and finance. Through all these experiences, her love of Judaism, history, teaching and music remained strong and led her to her true calling – the life of a cantor.
Joe Eglash has had a lifelong passion and love for music. He is a guitarist/ multi-instrumentalist, accompanist, editor, arranger and composer in Syracuse, and studied classical guitar with Jeffrey Van at the University of Minnesota. He taught guitar professionally for many years and has a bachelor’s degree in Judaic studies from Brooklyn College. Formerly the managing director of Transcontinental Music Publications and Union for Reform Judaism Press, music/ book publishing divisions of the Union for Reform Judaism, he has hundreds of publications to his credit. In 2015, he returned to Transcontinental Music as its first director under American Conference of Cantors ownership. Under his leadership, the first Jewish music licensing agency, JLicense, was created and was launched in 2017. Independent musical artists, small businesses and publishers know him as a jack-of-all-trades designer, consultant, composor, engraver and publisher. He is considered an authority in the Jewish music industry, and is a consultant of musical repertoire, marketing and building congregational instrumental ensembles. His T’filah Band songbook series, containing See “Festival” on page 4
The band Boichik will headline the 20th annual Syracuse Jewish Music and Cultural Festival on September 15 at the JCC campus. L-r: Joe Eglash, John Martin, Cantor Kari Siegel Eglash and Steve Fleury.
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