Cong. Rodeph Sholom

Rodeph Sholom’s 2010 -11 of ficers and board Front row: Honorary President, Sam Verkauf. Second row (L-R): Jonathan Kaplan, president Men’s Club; Burton Bernstein, vice-president fundraising; Jay Hoffer, president; Carol Simon, vice-president membership; Lisa Tawil, member-at-large. Third row (L-R) : Stephen Kreitzer, member-atlarge; Lillian Stark, vice-president ritual ; Robert Lynn, member-at-large; and Michael Shapiro, secretary. Missing from photo: Margot Marcadis, immediate past president; Carnot Nelson, past president representative; Valarie Blau, Sisterhood president; Russell Leisner, Marc Ostroff, Errol Pegler and Joseph Weissman, members- at -large. Award winners: Awards presented at the recent annual meeting were: Sam Reiber, Member of the Year; Evan Brownstein, New Member of the Year; Dana Kanfer, the Sinsley Education Award; and Sally and the late Mendel Riba, the Lifetime Achievement Award. Sam Verkauf was named Honorary President of the congregation.

Speaker series: The Saturday summer speaker series continues with D’var Torahs presented by Stephen Kreitzer, July 24; Rob Schwartzberg, July 31; Caryn Baird, Aug. 7 and Fred Neusner, Aug. 14.

Needlework: The congregation is organizing a knitting/cocheting club on Thursday mornings. Time and dates to be announced. A yarn exchange is also going to be included.