"Leadership is not a position or title, it is action and example."
Tuesday night was the first official Board meeting of your new Board. After the approval of the minutes, Heshy Chaitoff started us off with an interesting shuir about Birkat HaMazon.
Committees were picked and reports were given. One of the highlights, leading to extensive discussion, was from the Ritual committee. Their first order of business was about the daily minyanim and Friday night services. We are encouraging people to come back to shul. Many of our regulars go away during the summer, and men are needed to maintain our minyan. Friday night services are a beautiful way to welcome in Shabbat for men, women and children. We encourage all to make davening at shul a regular committment after such a long period of isolation due to the pandemic..
With the High Holidays quickly approaching, there is extensive planning involved:
Yizkor Book , Kol Hanearim preparation , Camp Shofar, seating, various additional minyanim, shofar blowing, membership, unvaccinated members, fundraising, shtick, NCSY, and the sukkah hop, to name a few.
This could have been an entire meeting in and of itself. We have several volunteer opportunities for interested people. There will be a honey sale lead by Eytan Irwin to insure everyone's holiday is sweet. Aaron Greenberg will be compiling the Yizkor Book. If you are willing to help out in any capacity to make the upcoming holidays inspiring for all, please reach out to me.
Sam Tilonsky reported for Security that there have been no updates from CHPD about the incident at shul two weeks age. He has increased surviellance with more Security Greeters. For the High Holidays there will be more hours for our paid Security Guard and the need for more volunteers. The grant from Homeland Security is progressing with the hopes of having the Sukkah doors replaced prior to the High Holidays. To volunteer to be a Greeter or to help Sam out, please contact him at drsamod@gmail.com
The Jubilee Committee is in full swing preparing for the kick-off on August 1st from 5-7pm, which coincidentally is Rabbi Davies first day. Many of the kosher establishments will be there to purchase foods and to show off their wares, we will have games for the children, a mural to decorate, booths of all the opportunites at SOI, beautiful T-shirts with our new logo and many many more. Save the date.
Membership is progressing nicely. We would like to encourage everyone to please go to your Shul Cloud account to make a payment or set up a monthly payment plan. Reduced memberships and payment plans do not automatically renew. Invoices were sent out via email and snail mail. If you did not receive your invoice or would like to have it sent again, have any questions about dues, or help with dues due to your unique situations please do not hesitate to reach out to Heshy Chaitoff, heshychaitoff@gmail.com or Michael Partnow, mrpmjp@aol.com. All communication with the financial secretaries are held with the strictest confidence.
The Youth Committee has lots of work moving forward and with the influence of Rabbi Davies and introduction of NCSY, under the leadership of Asaf Mizrachi, back in Cherry Hill there is lots in the works. We are looking to expand groups and get the youth more involved. Volunteers are needed. Please reach out to Sabrina Spector at sabrinaspector@gmail.com.
We have many things to look forward to as we try to recover from the pandemic, come back to shul, and to celebrate a sweet New Year and new beginnings.
Shabbat Shalom
Donna Moskowitz
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Rabbi Serebrowski has graciously agreed to be on call or available for in-person issues until Rabbi Davies' start date of August 1. His cell phone number is 908-770-8248 and his email is yserebrowski@torahlinks.org.
Rabbi Rothman and Rabbi Shaffer will be glad to answer halachic questions by phone or email.
Rabbi Rothman 856-495-6757 evyk1savta1@gmail.com
Rabbi Shaffer 201 394-7447 rebshaff@aol.com
We greatly appreciate the support and help of our community Rabbis through this transition and moving forward.
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