24 | 2017-05-05 17:05 | dmandeau | 71.233.211.42 | Temple Emanuel Brotherhood - Newton, MA (719) | Danny Mandeau | dannyleon825@gmail.com | Last one was on how humor affects are lives, 4/4/17 | Several at the regional Retreat, I went to LDI | | Sisterhood comedy night in December, 2016 | Preparing a meaningful Seder with our senior Rabbi, 4/3/17 | Mass Avenue Baptist Church food pantry, major regular participant | I am one of the head Ushers. | March 11, 2017 was Brotherhood Shabbat. Over 25 participants | | | | | | Steve Goldstein | Constant Communication at least 2Xs a month | Yes | No | Marc Lowenthal, regional communications VP | Danny Mandeau, Sales Manager, YC | Marc Lowenthal was our Keeper of the Flame | | |
23 | 2017-05-05 15:58 | jmberk | 100.34.88.147 | Ohev Shalom Men's Club - Richboro, PA (564) | Jeffrey Berk | jberk99@verizon.net | Small groups of men discussing issues common to them all. | Retreat in June of 2016, visits by Regional Officers | members are available to in home minyan comfort. | we occassionally hold joint meetings with our sisterhood counterparts | Torah study | | We provide support and food services to synagouge functions. | Both | | | We send the Hei Class to the Holocaust Museum each year | We are planning a joint meeting with the Club from Shir Ami, a reformed congregation | We purchased the Build A Pair program for the ;ast WWW | Jeffrey Berk | Group emails and a column in the Synagogue Monthly Magazine | Yes | Yes | Ron Wold, VP, Mark Podob, VP | | May of the Year, about 20 members attend. | | |
22 | 2017-05-04 20:59 | Neve_Shalom | 24.185.59.89 | Neve Shalom Men's Club - Metuchen, NJ (962) | Steven Schneider | mensclub@neveshalom.net | Minyan in Motion - walking and biking after minyan on Sunday mornings | Multiple members attended regional retreat | | Purim social with Sisterhood | | | set up and break down for high holidays and sukkot | Men's Club Shabbat | Keruv chairperson to discuss Keruv in our synagogue as well as the larger community | | Family Fun Day on Dec 25 | | | Lon Dobbs | Weekly email to all members | Yes | Yes | Matt Bonus, officer | Jeff Schulman, VP | Ron Becker, regional man of the year | | |
21 | 2017-05-02 19:25 | msholk | 99.38.129.214 | Temple Aliyah Men'S Club - Woodland Hills, CA (CLUB MERGED) | Michael Sholklapper and Alex Romano | mike.sholk@mc.templealiyah.org | Men's Club team participation in LA Jewish Federation's Tour de Summer Camps bike-a-thon | Regional LDI 4/30/17 and Keruv training 3/17/17 | | Vodka and Latkas event joint with Women of Aliyah | Build-a-pair teffilin training (Ashkenazi and Sephardi traditions demonstrated) in conjunction with WWW | Volunteering to serve food at the Jewish food bank | We are responsible for providing the volunteers for the Ushering at high holidays | Saturday morning service 3/25/17 | | | | Scotch Tasting with including STS Men's Club and Ahavat Shalom Brotherhood | Youth of the Year medallion and Yad Shel Chai | Alan Jacobs | Group mailing system using Mail Chimp to full member list Shomrei Haaretz 8. Shomrei Haaretz project. Examples: JNF carbon offse | Yes | Yes | Ben Aminnia, Regional Chaplin | | Alex Romano, training | Man and youth of the Year regional luncheon | |
20 | 2017-05-02 09:52 | hondoman18 | 72.218.127.107 | Beth El Men's Club - Norfolk, VA (1120) | Norman Soroko | nsoroko@cox.net | Did a program on health at our fomer club president's home in November | Training in Maryland and Board meetings | Perform Minyans at Shiva Homes in lieu of the rabbi Attending | Sisterhood and men's club breakfast discussing health issues with a local medical doctor | Lunch and learn with our Rabbi | Friday night services at the Jewish Nursing home | Weekly emails and updates and monthly articles in our bulletin | April 1st | We had a social to invite members of the congregation where one spouse is Jewish and one is not | | | Rodef Shalom and temple israel in Decmeber and ibnvited members of the Seaboard region to attend | Alex pomerantz took care of this task last summer | Howard Horwitz | Weekly emils to our members and include monthly articles in the bulletin as well as our yearly book. | Yes | Yes | Alex Pomerantz Seaboard New president | Norman David Soroko | Alex Pomerantz and Howard Horwitz | Bought and sold new kippots to benefit over seas clubs | |
19 (draft) | 2017-04-28 15:20 | otmember123 | 100.36.181.147 | Olam Tikvah Men's Club - Fairfax, VA (1147) | Steven Tursky | stevetursky@gmail.com | We did two Hearing Men's Voices Programs on Taking Care of Aging Parents, and Telling Our Immigrant Stories. | Last July, 18 members of our Club attended Seaboard Region's Biennial Retreat, From Good to Great | Family Shabbat Dinner | | Selling Sukkah kits. This year our club engineered the Sukkot with materials purchased from Home Depot and sold them for $229.. | Military Shabbat where we hold an annual service to express our support of the Military. | Giving financial support to our Eagle Scout candidates who have build a special cabinet for Talit bags and a storage box | | | Annual gleaning program where congregants go out to a farm and harvest vegetables which are given to a local anti-hunger group.. | Our Men's Club sponsors a Boy Scout troop, Troop 1818, and a Girl Scout troop. | | | Howard Sloan | We have Constant Contact messages to our members. | No | Yes | Bruce Gordon, Seaboard Region President | Robert Watts, FJMC Technology Committee | Steven Tursky, Seaboard Region Blue Yarmulke Man of the Year. Fifteen members attended the event. | Selling kippot made by the Abuyadaya Ugandan Jewish Community; Financially supporting translation of Charles Simon's Book into | |
18 | 2017-04-27 16:16 | hfreed | 108.31.64.202 | Har Shalom Men's Club - Potomac, MD (1151) | Hal Freed, Past President | hiphal2@verizon.net | We have reguar golf in the fall, spring and summer. | Hal Freed attended the November 2016 LDI and the Seaboard Retreat in July '16 | | Men's Club and Sisterhood support each other's Shabbt by working in the kitchen while other Sabbat service goes on | We annually sell Sukkah kits to members of our congregation and other clubs | We distributed food to Russian Families on High Holidays and conduct monthly Shabbat Services at a Senior's home | We regularly help in the kitchen with the Shabbat Kiddush & jointly hold Purim Carnival and Yom Ha'Atzmaut with shul | We held our Men's Club Shabbat on March 25. | | | A scholarship was give to a worthy student to attend a Jewish program | Members of B'nai Tzedek of Potomac Md and Share Torah of Gaithersburg were included in a Brunch with politicians | | Pres K. Hartman will do the 2nd yr of his 2 year term in 2017-2018. A President Elect, to be elected in May, will succeed him | Club communicates through the synagogue monthly newsletter and a club list serve to our members | Yes | Yes | Hal Freed as Immediate Past President of the Seaboard Region, is an officer of the region | Mark Berlin is on the FJMC Nominations Committee | J. Markowitz will be honored at the Seaboard BYMOY Gala on May 21. | Sold kippahs made by Uganda Jews to rais money for them as part of Seaboard Projecdt that has raised over $3000 for Ungandan Jew | |
17 (draft) | 2017-04-25 19:22 | a062688 | 73.201.79.182 | Shaare Tikvah Men'S Club - Waldorf, MD (1132) | Keith Meyers | a062688@comcast.net | Hearing Men's Voices: Discussion of death - November Meeting | Attendance at regional retreat | | Baffle Bowl with Sisterhood | | Donating food to the local food bank. | Providing for the services of a Torah reader for Shabbat services. | Both | | Participation in recycling program. | | | | | Group e-mail and Synagogue newsletter | Yes | Yes | Edwin Rosenzweig | | BlueCademy | | |
16 | 2017-04-24 11:28 | jlisman | 74.215.79.202 | Adath Israel Brotherhood - Cincinnati, OH (301) | Josh Lisman | jlisman@earthlink.net | We started a group walking program on Mitzvah Day and have continued it. | KIO Regional retreat (4 of us--Joel Kling, Gary Smith, Josh Lisman, and Mike Mills) | We were/are instrumental in our shul's new roll out of Minyan of Comfort. New book and new training. | 170th Brotherhood/Sisterhood Gala recognizing all past Presidents | Bible & Beer (8 times this year)--Torah study with Rabbi and noshing/drinking | Brotherhood Garden. We grow organic produce for the food pantry. | | 4/29/17 | | | | | | Brett Leonard | Monthly newsletter powered by Constant Contact | No | Yes | Joel Kling Regional Predisent | Gary Smith VP | Man of the Year regional brunch--Mike Weisman, Joel Kling | | |
15 | 2017-04-24 10:13 | brian_j_rubenstein | 12.234.201.130 | Beth Torah Men's Club - Richardson, TX (1713) | Brian Rubenstein | brian@lotn.org | Hearing Men's Voices program will be our wrap-up breakfast topic for this year and will be held on Sunday, May 21, 2017 | Rusty Dworkin has an active role with our board and serves as our liason to FJMC. Dave Mandell, and Dave Gerstein as well | | we hold 2 joint breakfasts with CBT Sisterhood, in November and in February | We do have Torah study with our Rabbi ocassionaly & we teach how to lay tefillin with our learning center kids at morning minyan | done outreach at emergency youth shelter, collected food / donated it & meals to the hungry through family services | our club provides ushers for high holidays and other larger services (bar/bat mitzah, etc). also do synagogue handyman work | held this past year on march 24/25. had the FJMC Sefer Haftarah that weekend, too! | | collect cardboard to recycling from events / deposit in on-site container for pick up, also an annual document shredding event | have random bowling mornings for members and their kids (bowling and bagels) | participate in the WORLD WIDE WRAP, which in Dallas is a joint program of the 3 local clubs/ conservative shuls | participate in the youth medalion award | David Duchin will be our next president for the 2017-2018 term | we send 2-3 emails a month with updates on what's going on with our club and upcoming events | Yes | Yes | Rusty Dworkin | Rusty Dworkin, Dave Mandell | | we encouraged our membership to support the mezuzot program for Cuba | |
14 (draft) | 2017-04-23 12:18 | pjleg140 | 173.48.215.194 | Temple Israel of Natick Men's Club - Natick, MA (733) | Philip Legro | pjleg140@verizon.net | HMV-3 times annually. For 2017,1st Vice President ran topics of Meninism, "Sunrise, Sunset" & Inlaws-Past, Present & Future | 3 members Camp Ramah, regional reps at our MC Shabbat. | | We work with Sisterhood in running & serving at Natick Open Door Dinner for elderly & needy. | Build-A-Pair in conjunction with WWW activities. | Natick Open Door Dinner Program & Hastings House (provided gift bags & visited with elderly) | Usher weekly service/holidays services; set up/take down Temple Sukkah/High Holiday tent; provide each Bar/Bat Mitzvot w/Chumash | 25 February 2017 Saturday morning | | | | | | Current 1st Vice President Jay Salinger | Advertise in HaKol, Weekly Temple newsletter, Bi-monthly letter to all members. | Yes | Yes | David Singer - President NER FJMC | | KOF event | Contributed funds to provide Mesusot to ten Cuban families | |
13 (draft) | 2017-04-21 16:16 | darthzaydah@gma... | 75.133.170.199 | Kol Rinah Men'S Club - St. Louis, MO (633) | Max Brown | darthzaydah@gmail.com | Topics have included among others, Creating an Ethical Will, Examining Your Faith and My Father Myself. The sessions are conduct | Members have attended Midwest Region retreats and FJMC Keruv training. | | We have an annual joint trivia night fundraiser with our Sisterhood. | We have a Build-A-Pair program and are beginning a Yad Shel Chai program. We participate in the WWW. | | The Men's Club is the official usher corp for High Holidays. | Men's Club Shabbat is a Saturday morning worship service run entirely by Men's Club members. | We have a very active Keruv program and we have been meeting with the Rabbi to review and revise the shul's by-laws for inclusio | | We are planning a father-child bowling party for this summer. We also provide scholarships for Jewish learning opportunities. | We are holding our 2nd annual bike ride with Congregation B'nai Amoona, June 25. We also jointly celebrate Man of the Year event | We purchased the Hearing Men's Voices series of books when we implemented our HMV program. | James Singman | We have group emails using Constant Contact. | Yes | Yes | Bob Olshan, Midwest Region Treasurer & Don Singer MW Region Secretary | | We average 20 of our members attending the annual Man of the Year event in St. Louis and 4 or 5 attend regional retreats. | | |
12 | 2017-04-19 09:14 | dglass04 | 24.246.124.164 | Temple Beth Ahm Yisrael Men'S Club - Springfield, NJ (921) | David Glass | david.seth.glass@gmail.com | We participate in the local community Quarry Walks. | We have two members that attended the last regional retreat. | | We had a joint breakfast program with our Women's League with a speaker on the War with Lebanon in 2006. He was an Israeli Vet. | We did Build-A-Pair, Torah Study Every 3rd Thursday Night | We sponsor a Holocaust Essay Scholarship at local High School | We usher for holidays, and build the sukkah annually. | We did a Friday Night men's Club Shabbat March 24th | | | | | We bought two books from HMV series. | David Glass | We have an email list serv just for the club and a Facebook Page | No | No | David Glass, NNJR Recording Secretary | | Paul Peyser attended the Man of the Year | | |
11 | 2017-04-13 14:30 | ismsolutions | 104.34.136.109 | Temple Ramat Zion Men's Club - Northridge, CA (1020) | Rick Mark | rick@ismcentral.com | Hearing Men's Voices programs dealing with spirituality, job loss, retirement, parenting, and more. | Trainings are attended regularly each year, retreats, and we had one of our HMV programs led for us. | We have helped our Temple with out Shabbat Experience program that enlightens our Shabbat Services with music, guest cantors | We have a yearly breakfast and BBQ that we host with our sisterhood. | We do offer the Build a Pair Program with our Rabbi, challah baking, and Shabbat Dinner building | We put do 10 dinners a year for our congregation and deliver food to our Police and Fire Departments after each one | We handle ushering at all events and holidays, provide Shabbat Dinners, assist our USY and Hebrew school for their events. | We do a Men's Club weekend - Friday night and Saturday, with lunch and learn on Saturday and speaker theme the whole weekend. | We had an HMV program this year specifically working with members who were not Men's Club Members to to bring them into the fold | Our Club has adopted our Rabbi's garden and keeps it beautiful year round. This garden is visible and used by all. | We have brought our Men's kids into our kitchen to learn about cooking and our various meals we make...our Junior Chef's | We worked together with the Men of Temple Ahavat Shalom for our Purim Carnival festivities this year. It was great! | We have purchased yellow candles this year and are about to purchase the HMV series as well. | Our next Club President is going to be Alberto Hananel. | We have a communications VP, JP Wolk, and we send weekly notifications, info etc. via email, phone, and our Temple website | Yes | Yes | | | Steve Berger, Rick Mark, Alberto Hananel and others attended MOY | | |
10 | 2017-04-07 10:24 | MBRASS153 | 174.44.18.117 | East Meadow Jewish Center Men's Club - East Meadow, NY (833) | Michael Brass | MBRASS153@YAHOO.COM | Riding with the rabbi (excersizing on bicycles) around the neighborhood | fjmc convention in florida | | had a joint program with sisterhood (concert) (breakfast) | Scribe breakfast | collecting and donating toys for hanukkah and purim for needy children, as well as clothes, and | repairing tallisim for morning minyon | mens club shabbat program on March 25,2017 | | | | mens club softball with temple beth-el and temple emanu-el of EM | Donated yellow candles to the holocaust tolerance center as well for our Yom Hashoa program | Carey Welt 1St VP | Email and text messages | Yes | Yes | Jay Steinmetz 1st Vp of fjmc | | We had 20 members attend the fjmc awards dinner | | |
9 | 2017-03-30 17:24 | Friedberg | 38.125.122.10 | Midway Jewish Center Men's Club - Syosset, NY (890) | Jason Saltsberg | jsaltsberg@olshanlaw.com | Heaing Men's Voices Monthly Discucssion Group | 3 members attended FJMC leadership training in March; 3 members registered for convention | | Taste of Israel - wine tasting and fundraiser for JNF | Scotch, steak and seder | | High holiday ushering | Men's Club Shabbat held on Friday, March 10 | Introduced Haver program to offer assistance to members to help them feel more comfortable attending synagague events | | Father-child Escape the Room event | Annual golf outing with Plainview Jewish Center and Woodbury Jewish Center | The Ties That Bind - FJMC Film - (DVD) | David Sieradski | E-mail distribution list and artcile in synagogue bulletin | Yes | Yes | Jason Saltsberg - incoming regional 3rd VP | | Annual Regional Man of the Year and Youth of the Year Dinner - 4 honorees and approximately 40 attendees | | |
8 | 2017-03-26 21:49 | chief6 | 98.110.25.166 | Beth El Men's Club - East Windsor, NJ (980) | Peter Cheifetz | cheifetz@gmail.com | Hearing Men's Voices Discussion in January regarding health. | A. Bob Held; B. Rob Blitzer | | | Building the Shul and Rabbi's Sukkahs, | Cooking for the local food pantry during Beth El Mitzvah Day | Babysitting monitoring during High Holidays | Men's Club Shabbat for Yitro, both days | | Composting of foodstuffs from kitchen to a MC member's compost bin | | | | Peter Cheifetz | group email, regular article in the synagogue newsletter, flyers in the newsletter, events in synagogue weekly email | No | Yes | Rob Blitzer, VP Rosh South (NNJR) | | Man of the Year Dinner, many people - Man of the Year was Tom Golbert | | |
7 | 2017-03-23 15:29 | jasoneid | 173.3.249.242 | Congregation Sons of Israel Men'S Club - Briarcliff Manor, NY (1809) | Jason Eidlitz | jshoedog@optonline.net | fall bike ride in october | retret, 2016 ldi washington | minyan of comfort on going plus working on regional training | minyn breakfest on american cemetrys in ny area lead by member | minyan of training with hazzan ongoing | passover food drive thats connected to shul we as mens club help pack bages for delivery and all mens club events they are incou | all mens cub members are strongly encoureged to usher durning high hollidays (90%) | april 29th | | shul as an working organic farm mens club helps when asked | yearly baseball game | jewish day baseball at citi feld dan hammer attented email went to all in region | comfert of minyn | jason eidlitz | having meetings quartly, events,emails | Yes | Yes | jason eidlitz region ecexitive vice president hvr | jason eidlitz waiting to be asinged | bob morgoulis moy man of the luncheon april 30th | as a region we do a fri night oneg service west point people we attened | |
6 | 2017-03-16 22:08 | rmfreiberg | 173.188.133.250 | Temple Israel Men'S Club - Charlotte, NC (1709) | Richard Freiberg | hvrprez@windstream.net | Discussion of Jewish issues impacting conservative movement | Regional Retreats for 2016 and 2017 - 2 in 2016 and 4 in 2017 | | | Torah with the Rabbi during Sukkot 2015 and 2016 | Helping at both Food Kitchen, Mentoring students with reading at local school and building Sukkah/collecting Schach | | Saturday March 25, 2017 | | | Hanakah Father - Child dance December 24, 2016 | | | | group email and facebook commuications and publicity | Yes | Yes | Michael Abadi | Michael Abadi - VP and Latin America Liasion | | Through WorldWide Wrap collect money towards purchasing Tefillin for South America | |
5 | 2017-03-14 16:42 | sshrago | 71.233.105.140 | Temple Israel of Sharon Brotherhood - Sharon, MA (738) | Stephen Shrago | sshrago@yahoo.com | Hearing Men's Voices - This year our topic was 'Making Prayer Personal'. We have 6 sessions scheduled for this year. | We have 5-10 attend Retreat, several attended regional Leaders Club Training, 1 attended LDI and 1 attended Keruv training | The Brotherhood leads minyan at houses of shiva. | We held a deli night, featuring 'DeliMan' with the Sisterhood. We help on Sisterhood Shabbat | We build the Temple sukkah, 3 sessions of 'Routes' with Rabbi leading us in discussion about Biomedical Ethics in Jewish Life | Deliver food on Thanksgiving & Xmas; Mitzvah day - perform community service; work with Habitat for Humanity | Usher for High holydays; Took lead in Keruv initiative for temple; | Friday night, Saturday morning and night (Jan 6-7) | A Brotherhood member is leading the Keruv initiative at temple, working with the Rabbi | We sponsor a gleening project at our temple. | We are having a Father's Day out at a gymnastic place, provide scholarship for graduating seniors | HMV with Temple Sinai(R), Ahavath Torah(C), Beth Abraham(C), Golf Tourney w/Emanuel(C), Beth AM(C) | | Harold Waisel (2017-2018) | Email, Facebook, Website, occasional postal mail, temple wide newsletters and emails, weekly Shabbat handout | Yes | Yes | Eliott Feldman (exec VP - region), Stephen Shrago (treasurer - region) | Paul Davidson - Torch award | NERFJMC Keeper of the Flame - host temple - 30 members | Worked with Dor Chadash (Hungary) - they were looking for a Rabbi, | |
4 | 2017-03-14 06:58 | goodmanRB | 107.10.243.62 | Park Synagogue Men's Club - Cleveland, OH (335) | Ross Goodman | goodmanrb@sbcglobal.net | Wellness lecture by Dr. Elliot Davidson and Yoga. | Ross Goodman, Bruce Gendler, Danny Silverstein, Tom Sudow at KIO Regional Retreat | | Yoga event was for both Men's Club and Sisterhood members. | Rum and the Rabbi events both 1/24/17 and 3/1/17. Packed and distributed over 1000 Yom Hashoah candles. | Refugee Response lecture and Purple Heart Homes volunteering. | Led the Bingo All the Way first night of Hanukkah, chinese dinner, bingo and movie night to raise money and build community. | Saturday morning April 1, 2017 was Men's Club Shabbat. | | | Sports Night and Steak Dinner with Cleveland Indians GM Mike Chernoff had many grandfather/father/child attendees. | Mens Club Dinner and Dance with Shaary Tikvah and Bnai Jeshurun; Men in the Mikvah with Bnai Jeshurun and Shaarey Tikvah. | | Ross Goodman | Monthly Board meeting with email of Meeting Notes. Park Weekly Wrap and Monthly bulletin announces Men's Club Events. | No | Yes | Danny Silverstein - KIO Regional President | Tom Sudow - International 1st VP. | Park MC to be represented at KIO Regional Man of the Year in Columbus for Doug Segerman | Donated $180 to Tefillin for Cuba Jews for World Wide Wrap. | |
3 | 2017-02-19 22:21 | stevejew18@fron... | 50.53.137.81 | Neveh Shalom Men'S Club - Portland, OR (1097) | Stephen Sirkin | stevejew18@frontier.com | We sponsored a hike of Wachella Falls this past summer and generally have hikes annually. | Steve Sirkin attended the Western Regional Retreat this past May near Malibu | | We will be holding a program on "Sex Trafficking in Portland" this March and jointly sponsored a brunch for our Aliyah Parents. | Participated in World Wide Wrap | Toilet Paper Menorah supporting Neighborhood House; co-sponsored Shabbat Service at Senior Home | Build a sandbox for our Foundation School. | Held Men's Club Shabbat on Friday evening in February. | | | Sponsored bowling and miniature golf for K-2 fathers and their children in our Aliyah program. Scholarships for camp & school. | Have begun working with Congregation Beth Israel's Brotherhood. Looking into small home project for homeless. | Purchased several cased of Yellow Candles | Mitch Elovitz | Regular email communications. Also in synagogue email blasts and Chronicle newsletter. | Yes | Yes | | | | | |