Leadership - TEMPLE BETH EL

President’s Post – January 2021

January 1, 2021

What Inspires You? Linda Rubin Marla Shwarts Where do you find inspiration from your life at Temple Beth El? What helps you to stay connected to our TBE family, our community, and our faith traditions? Doing tikkun olam and social-action activities? Learning from Rabbi Cassi’s sermons? Studying Torah weekly? Encouraging your children and grandchildren as […]

Open Tent – January 2021

January 1, 2021

Welcome 2021 Doris Jacobson opentent@bethelsp.org The Torah teaches us that Abraham sat at the opening of his tent in the heat of the day. When Abraham saw three strangers approaching, he ran to greet them and made them feel welcome. Abraham truly had the first “open tent.” The Reform Movement refers to the Open Tent […]

Open Tent – December 2020

December 1, 2020

TBE’s MENsch Club Doris Jacobson opentent@bethelsp.org During the past few months, a group of TBE men, spearheaded by Chairperson Jaime Lowenstein, have “rebooted” Temple Beth El’s MENsch Club. With special thanks to Marvin Belzer, Bill Brooks, Cantor Ilan Davidson, Barry Gross, Peter Herwitt, Andrew Kauffman, George Mayer, Eliot Swartz, and Bunky Victor for their leadership […]

President’s Post – December 2020

December 1, 2020

A Six-Month Review Linda Rubin Marla Shwarts As the secular year comes to a close we ponder about what the first six months of our co-presidents’ term means in terms of what has been good for Temple Beth El. Indeed, our time in this position has been a time of learning and doing, of understanding […]

President’s Post – November 2020

October 29, 2020

Connection, Gratitude, and Purpose Linda Rubin and Marla Shwarts, Co-presidents Temple Beth El means different things to different people and all these differences have one thing in common — we are a special community where respect, hard work, commitment, and sacredness matter, because after all, we are Temple Beth El. The Covid-19 crisis and the […]

Open Tent – November 2020

October 29, 2020

Continued Community Doris Jacobson opentent@bethelsp.org Our Open Tent program’s goal is to deepen the connections between our Temple community and by reaching out and welcoming the unaffiliated in the community who are seeking Jewish experiences. With the leadership of chairperson, George Mayer, our Open Tent committee consists of rabbi and cantor, Susan Brooks, Gail Burch, […]

President’s Post – October 2020

October 1, 2020

Building Beyond the Sukkah Linda Rubin and Marla Shwarts, Co-presidents It seems incongruent to be building something like a sukkah as we are so busy closing so much around us (buildings). We seem to be wandering (and wondering) throughout this pandemic (our contemporary desert) as this temporary structure is meant to sustain our blessings, our […]

Open Tent – October 2020

October 1, 2020

Neighborhood Connections Doris Jacobson opentent@bethelsp.org The mission of TBE’s Open Tent program includes enriching and deepening the connections between people within the Temple Beth El community. One way we will do this is through our newly launched Neighborhood Connections program. Through Neighborhood Connections, we will connect people within their neighborhoods so that we can get […]

President’s Post – September 2020

September 1, 2020

So, What’s New? Linda Rubin Marla Shwarts So, what’s new? We ask ourselves and others this question all of the time especially when we meet up with one another. And during these High Holy Days as in most years, we ask this question and we stress the importance of the New Year as we prepare […]

President’s Post – August 2020

July 31, 2020

We’re All in this Together Linda Rubin and Marla Shwarts, Co-Presidents We are encouraged by the partnerships within Temple Beth El. Our congregants, our clergy, and our staff are the souls of the successes of our beloved spiritual home. Together we are able to achieve more than what we could ever do individually. We align […]