2016-17 Quality Club Award Criteria and Reporting
# | Submitted | User | IP Address | Club Name | Name | Email address | Club Participation Description | Regional event attended (for item 6.) | Minyan of Comfort | Joint Program | Jewish Observance | Community Service | Synagogue Service | Men’s Club Shabbat | Keruv program | Shomrei Haaretz | Father- Child | Joint Men's Club Program | Purchasing FJMC Material | Next President | Communication method | Budget | Published Calendar | Officer Name | Name Commitee | Attend event | Masorti Activity Description | Document For Attaching to Application |
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| 74 | 2018-03-26 12:16 | BethShalomMensClub | 198.0.253.229 | Congregation Beth Shalom Men'S Club - Northbrook, IL (643) | Dan Sher | bethshalommensclub@gmail.com | Did a four part series of hearing men's voices focusing on our relationships with our parents, our spouse, our children and us. | We had four members at the regional retreat plus members at LDI | Several of our Men's Club members and past presidents are part of our minyan of comfort / shiva leaders. | We do an annual social event with our sisterhood (murder mystery this year) | We did the build-a-pair and also do a men's club shabbat - entirely led by our men's club | Our Lox Box program provides over 600 Lox Boxes for the jewish food pantry (The ARK) and a jewish nursing home (Lieberman Center | We build the sukkah each year for the synagogue | We lead a Men's Club Shabbat annually | The head of the keruv program for our synagogue sits on our board and reports monthly at our meetings | We participate in the yellow candle program every year. | Steven Elisco | We participate in our monthly newsletter for the synagogue, do group emails, facebook, twitter, etc. | Yes | Yes | Harvey Redfern, Executive Vice President | Jerry Agrest - several | We had five tables at our regional Man of the year event | |||||
| 73 | 2017-06-30 18:37 | Friedberg | 67.165.153.81 | Anshe Emet Men'S Club - Chicago, IL (608) | Barry Balik | bmbguy03@yahoo.com | Anshe Emet Men's Club hosts a kayaking on the Chicago River event every year. | Regional retreat, regional Man/Youth of the Year, and annual FJMC Convention | We do several programs with the Anshe Emet Sisterhood including outings to shows and a Passover Wine Tasting and Sale | Men's Club Shabbat service. Instruction to Jews By Choice class on morning minyan and tefillin. | We host a Yom HaShoah program with the Simon Wiesenthal Center that is open to the community. | Subsidize $50 of cost of each of 10 pair of tefillin for purchase by Bnai Mitzvah children and members. Passover wine sale. | Annual Shabbat morning service done entirely by Men's Club. | Jews By Choice class: 2 Men's Club Board members did introduction about Men's Club; instruction on morning minyan and tefillin | Held a religious discussion group with one of our Rabbis in a park overlooking Lake Michigan at sunset. | Several sports event outings and annual talent show were children frequently attend and participate with parents. | Hosted a presentation by an NFL celebrity with a local Bnai Brith lodge. Hosted Yom HaShoah program with Simon Weisenthal Center | Subsidized $500 toward the purchase of tefillin from FJMC. | Barry Balik | Men's Club Facebook page, group email to Men's Club, congregation weekly email and Shabbat morning announcement list. | No | Yes | Gregg Pollack, Jon Norton | We had a full table of attendees at the regional Man/Youth of the Year luncheon. | ||||
| 72 | 2017-06-14 10:23 | chefmoyel | 168.221.159.28 | Beth Torah Men'S Club - North Miami Beach, FL (DISAFFILIATED) | Mark Moyel | chefmoyel@aol.com | Started a silver sneakers program for our older members, waiting for equipment for program | We had two people attend the keruv training | Rich Burger is doing Minyan of confort program & we are helping with changing shabbat themes to attract more attendees | Kosher cooking deministration for sisterhood | Teaching our lay leaders to help lead services, weekly and shabbat | Dilivering Thanksgiving meals to holocaust suvivors and the shut-ins in our community ( non-members of our Shul) | Ushering at all services not just the holidays, and checking Tallisim and yarmukles | Saturday morning | We welcome all interfaith people and help them acclimate to synagouge life, prayers, services with our Rabbi's | A major reduction in paperwork/mailings etc to help reduce our carbon foot print, more electronics deliverys | Base Ball games, Hockey games and a BBQ at the park for family's Johnithan dickson state park | The sports games we go to are with all of the other mens clubs in south Florida Beth Am, Temple Beth Sarray tezeck | We are planning on purchase materials for the Minyan of comfort at the national Convention | Mr Arnie Schecter | e-mails, shuls website and constant contact | Yes | Yes | Mr Ed Margolis Florida Region President | Mr Rich Berger | We hosted last years Man& youth of the year dinner for the South florida Clubs and had two people selected ( Rich Berger) | We worked with a shul in Canada (skipe) for WWW | |
| 71 | 2017-06-09 21:21 | anneavni@gmail.com | 67.85.121.194 | North Shore Jewish Center Men's Club - Port Jefferson Sta., NY (894) | Aaron Avni | aaronavni@gmail.com | Softball league, bowling, golf outing | Regional Retreat, Leadership Training Institute | Comedy Night, Art Auction | Sukkah building, Cemetery kaddish for forgotten Jews | Community family sponsorship, Rebbes tish donations | Mens Club Shabbat, print calendars, High Holiday ushering, sukkah building | Saturday morning shabbat held | Family bowling, minor league baseball game | Gary Sosnovich | Group email, synagogue newsletter, facebook | Yes | Yes | Dan Granek, President, Metro NY Region | Man-of-the-Year honoree dinner (>10 attended) | ||||||||
| 70 | 2017-06-09 16:58 | lestershapiro | 100.34.221.203 | Beth Hillel-Beth El Men'S Club - Wynnewood, PA (522) | Lester Shapiro | Shapirobusmach@aol.com | We participate with two teams in the Inter-Synagogue Men's Club Softball League in our area. | LDI in November of 2016 in Arlington, Virginia (Lester Shapiro attending) | Joint Sisterhood/Men's Club Passover Wine Tasting Program | Dinner program with our Rabbi Cooper with discussion on various topics including religious. | We have been planning throughout the past year for our upcoming Hava Nagrilla event that will benefit the Mitzvah Food Pantry. | We put and take down our Synagogue Sukkah and also coordinate the High Holiday ushering for our Synagogue. | We hold an annual family event at Citizens Bank Park each summer to watch the Philadelphia Phillies together. | Annual Family Philadelphia Phillies event held this past year in partnership with Adath Israel Synagogue Men's Club Merion, PA | Larry Nathanson | We send out regular Constant Contact announcements to our members. | Yes | Yes | Lester Shapiro MAR Regional Corresponding Secretary | Regional Man of the Year Dinner in December 2016. Many attended including Jeff Bookman, David Oriel and Lester Shapiro. | ||||||||
| 69 | 2017-06-09 16:21 | agross@alangros... | 108.190.22.41 | B'nai Israel Mitzvah Men's Club - St. Petersburg, FL (1305) | Alan Gross | agross@alangrosslaw.com | WELLNESS PROGRAM EMS AND PREPAREDNESS FOR EMERGENCIES | PHIL REDISCH AND JEFF LITT ATTEND REGULARLY | PUT ON A MINYAN BREAKFAST EVERY MORNING INVITE CONG. TO ENHANCE DAILY MINYAN OBSERVANCE | WE PUT ON A JOINT HANUKKAH FEST PROGRAM WITH WOMENS LEAGUE | WE BUILT A KOTEL IN OUR SOCIAL HALL AND HAD SERVICES AT THE KOTEL WE PARTICIPATE IN THE WORLD WIDE WRAP, BUILD SUKKAH | LEAD SERV. ON FRI. NIGHTS AT MENORAH MANOR NURSING HOME WE ALSO HAD AN ACTIVE SHOOTER PROGRAM FOR THE COMMUNITY WITH THE S | WE PREPARE ANNUALLY A PASSOVER BARBEQUE, ANNUAL SET UP OF SYNAGOGUE AND SOCIAL HALL FOR HIGH HOLIDAYS, | WE LEAD SERVICES ON FRIDAY NIGHT, FOLLOWED BY OUR MAN OF THE YEAR DINNER, WE LEAD SERVICES ON SATURDAY MORNING AND PREP | WE PROVIDE SCHOLORSHIPS FOR USY EVENTS AND CAMP RAMAH, WERE THE LARGEST TICKET HOLDERS FOR THE BUCS | WE ATTENDED A BEER NIGHT WITH KOL AMI IN TAMPA. OUR ATTENDANCE WAS REQUESTED BY ED MARGOLIS, WE'VE INVITED KOL AMI TO ATTEND O | WE PURCHASED ALL OF THE HEARING MENS VOICES BOOKS | ALAN M. GROSS TOOK OVER IN FEB DUE TO DEATH OF LEO LANG PRESIDENT | WE HAVE A SECTION ON OUR SYNAGOGUE WEBSITE, WE HAVE OUR EVENTS INCLUDED ON THE FLORIDA REGION WEBSITE, TWE PLACE AN ART | Yes | Yes | JEFF LITT | WE ATTEND THE FLORIDA REGION CONFERENCE CALL ON SUNDAY EVENINGS | |||||
| 68 | 2017-06-09 09:21 | gf28771 | 173.59.48.98 | Temple Sinai Men's Club - Dresher, PA (551) | Greg Fisher | greg.fisher12@verizon.net | Dad and Child Rock Climbing at Doylestown Rock Gym | November 2016 LDI and MAR regional retreat in June 2016 | Sukkah event | Project Hope (deliver Passover food to elderly) | Ushering High Holy Days, Recycling Program | Friday Night Men's Club Shabbat | Help in building a garden for PreSchool | Donuts with Dads, Daddy Daughter Dance | Tour De'Shuls (hosted) | Yellow Candles (joint with other synagogue) | Monthly Men's Club Meetings as well as a Google Group Messenger | Yes | Yes | Bruce Fagan MAR Pres | Alan Budman | David Kepiss - Man of the Year | ||||||
| 67 | 2017-06-08 19:47 | BrandeisMensClub | 165.225.38.188 | Brandeis Men'S Club of Temple Israel - Ridgewood, NJ (969) | David Millman | millman.david@gmail.com | JFS Bike Ride (for Charity) in Rockleigh, NJ; June 2016 | Denis Vogel attended NNJR multi-region Retreat at Camp Zeke, PA; June 2016 | Spaghetti Dinner jointly run/sponsored with Sisterhood | gave multiple sukkot to needy members | Wheels-for-Meals Bike Ride to raise money for meal delivery in Bergen County, NJ | High Holiday ushering | Men's Club lead entire service on Shabbat HaChodesh (March 25, 2017) | Men's Club organized and lead annual Ho-Ho-Kus Brook Cleanup | Youth of the Year recognition, honor, plaque | partnered with Temple Beth Shalom (Fair Lawn, NJ) to purchase and serve drinks and Latkes at childrens Hanukkah Celebration | Arty Freed; selected/accepted in April, 2017 | regular emails to members through server: "mensclub@synagogue.org" | Yes | Yes | Denis Vogel is NNJR VP | over 30 participants at NNJR Man of the Year Dinner in Springfield, NJ (Nov 2016) | ||||||
| 66 | 2017-06-08 10:39 | desesquire | 75.146.254.137 | Beth Sholom Men'S Club - Elkins Park, PA (532) | David Sternberg | sternbergd@comcast.net | Hearing Men's Voices - Our Fathers Ourselves | David Sternberg and Art Lashin attended the Quad Regional retreat | We held a Men's Club Shabbat and have Shabbat Experiences throughout the year | Held a joint Friday Night Service with Sisterhood in November | Held Sunday morning brunch with Jewish speaker | Particpated in Project Hope to deliver Passover Food | Men's club members participate in cleaning and helping throughout the synogogue | Men's CLub Shabbat was held on February 18 | Men's Clun members tend the Mitzva Garden | We working with Adath Jeshurun and Melrose B'ani Israel on the World Wide | Purchased Hearing Men's Voices books | We send out emails of all upcomming events every week | Yes | No | President of MAR - Art Lashin | Many of our members attended the Man of the Year dinner and seminars held througout the year | We work with a sister congregation in Israel on events and fundraising | |||||
| 65 | 2017-06-07 22:35 | DiamondMC | 76.23.232.3 | Beth El Temple Men's Club - West Hartford (217) | David Diamond | daviddiamond2@comcast.net | Walks Around the Reservoir every Tuesday and Thursday, except from late Nov. to early May. HMV: Dinner and Men's Joke Night | Marty Melnick and Phil Schulz attended the Retreat at Camp Ramah, June 2016 | 5/4/17: Co-sponsor w/ Women's Network & Israel Engagement Committee, film and presenter to raise $ for the Yazidis | Year long initiative to support efforts to rebuild Jonathan's Dream, a playground in W. Hartford, CT for those of all abilities. | Substantial donation provided to temple to purchase new industrial ovens for our kitchen. | 5/13/17 - Men's Club let Shabbat services. Included installation of officers and board members for '17-'18. | Provide Camp Ramah scholarships with profits from Yellow Candles. Kosher tailgate BBQ + baseball outing attracted families. | w/ Emanuel Brotherhood, W. Hartford (1) Sun. minyan+breakfast @ private home w/ breathtaking views (2) BBQ + Baseball game. | Co-Presidents: Dave Diamond and Steve Rabb | Temple wide e-blasts, Men's Club member e-blasts, temple newsletter, mailings/inviations to programs; Shabbat leaflets | Yes | Yes | Marty Melnick, President CT Valley Region of FJMC | Marty Melnick, Marketing | ||||||||
| 64 | 2017-06-07 22:02 | DavePropper | 24.107.1.16 | Kol Rinah Men'S Club - St. Louis, MO (633) | S David Propper | k2dp@charter.net | Bike ride program with B'nai Amoona Mens Club - May 2017, HMV program with new rabbi to discuss the spirituality of being Jewish | Visit by FJMC Midwest Region Officers - April 2017 and participation in Regional Retreat for Midwest Region 2016 | Annual Trivia Night co-sponsored with Sisterhood - March 2017 | Build- A Pair, January 2017 | High Holiday Ushering - September 2016, (organized and led by Mens Club) | Men's Club Shabbat - March 2017 | Keruv Scholarship - sponsored synagogue attendance at annual Keruv International Workshop/Convention - 2017 | Bike Riding program with B'nai Amoona Mens Club in St. Louis | Build a Pair Kits for World Wide Wrap - January 2017 | 1)Synagogue Newsletter, Synagogue "E-mail Blast", e-mail from Mens Club president to membership, synagogue "advertising" | Yes | Yes | Bob Olshan - Regional Officer | Multiple members attended the 2017 FJMC Man of the Year/Youth of the Year award luncheon in St. Louis | ||||||||
| 63 | 2017-06-07 21:58 | jasonkreisman | 108.24.144.42 | Temple Beth Sholom Men's Club - Cherry Hill, NJ (561) | Jason Kreisman | jasonkreisman@gmail.com | Men's Healthcare Symposium | Joe Swerdlow-Annual Retreats and Convention | Three Minyan Breakfasts with the Rabbis' and Congregants | Jews, Brews, and Views with Sisterhood at TBS featuring David Brill | How to Build a Sukkah (Lowes Sponsorship) | Camden City Jewish Cemetery Clean Up | Staff of 30+ to handle High Holy Days ushering. Power wash exterior of shul. | Both-January 27-28 | Clergy organized with Men's Club board members & synagogue volunteers in various breakout sessions throughout 2016 and 2017. | JNF Joint TBS Men's Club Event (Cheese and Trees) Event to raise money for green growth in Israel | Early Childhood Education Program Grant/Donation of $900 | Joint Event with Beth El Synagogue in Voorhees, NJ-Responding to Anti-Semitism with ADL's Kenneth Jacobson | Purchase Club President Pins and Yellow Candles | Seth Mirowitz | Weekly E-blast announcements and direct mailing. | Yes | Yes | Joe Swerdlow | Adam Pollack and Joe Swerdlow | Jason Kreisman President and Man-of-the Year Dr. Scott Schaffer 2016 | World Wide Wrap-Members visited Israel and donated funds to the Masorti Movement on behalf of Temple Beth Sholom | |
| 62 | 2017-06-06 13:42 | hefcpa | 50.73.210.165 | Temple Beth Or-Beth Torah Men's Club - Clark, NJ (930) | Harvin Freedman | hefcpa@aol.com | January meeting-Hearing Men's Voices When a Spouse is Ill | a. Regional Retreat 4 Regions in Pennsylvania | January 11 Movie Night with Sisterhood | Men's Club Sukkah Program | Throughout the year Adults with Special Needs in conjunction with ARC. | We cleaned out bushes around the Shul. | Men's Club Shabbat Late August and March | NA | Converted plastic and paper plates to environmentally friendly products | December went with children to regional train show and lunch | Veterans day project with Scotch Plains and Cranford temples | April 13th program. | Co Presidents Michael Goldstein and Dr. Michael Miller | Email Blasts | Yes | Yes | Dr Michael Miller Shomrei Horetz Chair | 12 People to Regional MOY dinner in November | ||||
| 61 | 2017-06-06 00:36 | bflenett | 96.59.13.189 | Beth Shalom Men'S Club - Clearwater, FL (1328) | Blake Lenett | blake.lenett@verizon.net | HMV event held on 11/30/16 - "R'fuah Sh'leimah: Healing Men's Mind, Body, and Spirit". Topic: Why Men Don't Go To The Doctor. | Visited by Regional President, Ed Margolis, on 1/7/17. | Musical Friday Night Shabbat services held quarterly. | Karaoke Night held on 9/4/16 with CBS Sisterhood. Back to School Breakfast held on 8/28/16. | Put up Sukkah (10/16/16), Take down Sukkah (10/30/16) | Purim Shpiel at assisted living home (Inn on the Pond). | Contributed funds for new Youth Siddur, Ushering for High Holidays, Hagbah Training during WWW (2/5/17) | CBS Men's Club Shabbat held on Friday, 2/24/17 and Saturday, 2/25/17 | Shabbat Kiddush Bar and Suds in the Sukkah (10/20/16) enhances welcoming of interfaith families. | JNF Trees purchased for members who have lost loved ones. Biblical garden project. | Back to School Breakfast (8/28/16). Family Fishing Trip (11/6/16), Hockey Night (3/16/17), Lag B'Omer Pizza Party (5/17/17) | Family Fishing Trip (11/6/16) held with Temple Ahavat Shalom Brotherhood and Temple B'nai Israel Brotherhood. | HMV - Jewish Men at Crossroads | Jeff Liss | Group E-mails, Robo-calls, Shabbat handouts, Event flyers, Constant Contact, Facebook, Synagogue Website | Yes | Yes | Blake Lenett - Florida Region VP | N/A | Blake Lenett attended Florida Region Man of the Year / Youth of the Year event on 11/20/16. | N/A | |
| 60 | 2017-06-05 23:31 | letraca | 24.185.2.143 | Highland Park Conservative Temple Men's Club - Highland Park, NJ (910) | Craig Artel | craig.artel@yahoo.com | Held three Hearing Men's Voices sessions: Listening to God (Jan.26); How Our Work Defines Us (Apr.2); Opening The Soul (Jun.11) | Club members attended Multi-Regional Retreat at Camp Zeke in the Poconos, June 3 - June 5, 2016 | Held weekly class for grade school children to learn parts of Shabbat service (Anim Zemirot, Adon Olam, etc) | Community blood drives held on June 26, 2016 and January 16, 2017 | Assembled sukkah for the Temple (October 2, 2016) and disassembled (October 30, 2016) | Sat., March 25, 2017 (Vayakhel-Pkudei - Shabbat HaChodesh) | Annual sporting event (kickball) - Men's Club vs. USY (Sat., May 27, 2017); donated to USY and Kedima camp scholarship funds | Alan S. Davis | Email listserv; social media (Facebook, Twitter, G+); column in temple newsletter | Yes | Yes | Club members attended Northern New Jersey Region's "Man and Youth of the Year" Dinner on November 9, 2016 | ||||||||||
| 59 | 2017-06-05 21:00 | wayne4bnai | 73.250.193.227 | B'nai Israel Men's Club - Rockville, MD (1103) | Wayne Berman | wayneb4me@aol.com | Our Men's Club has a very active and winning spring and fall Softball team with over 25 members and we play basketball with USY | Our President and other members attened the Seaboard Regional retreat in 2016 at the Pearlstone Center near Baltimore. | We regularly have Men's Club Shabbat led by our members and we have a Tu b'shvat seder as part of the Kiddish experience. | We have held Sunday morning speaker-brunches with our Sisterhood as well as movie nights, Hanukah events and cooking. | We sell sukkahs annually. our members work in talmud torah classses to "Build-A-Pair" | For 12 years, we have held an Health and Fitness Expo for the Rockville community and we cook and deliver food to shelters | We usher and do seat numbering for High Holiday services for our 1100 family congregation. We serve food at other hoildays. | WE held Men's Club Shabbat on Februrary 26, 2016 | Have not done this | Have not done this | OUr very successful "Afternoon with Abba" program brings Dads and kids together for a baseball games, bowling, & laser tag | Have not done this | Purchase "Build-a-Pair" kits for our Talmud Torah | Wayne Berman and Richard Saltzman, co-Presidents | We have weekly e-mail blasts, monthly flyers, articles, and weekly listings in Shabbat program | Yes | Yes | No one at this time | No one at this time | Bram Hass was BNAI Israel's Blue Yarmulke Man-of-the-Year for 2016 - honored at the Seaboard Region Dinner on May 21, 2017 | Not at this time | mens_club_may_june_v2.pdf (610 KB) mens_club_march_april_programs_2017.pdf (403 KB) mens_club_feb_march_programs_2017.pdf (334 KB) |
| 58 | 2017-06-05 20:01 | Ron Freeman | 104.172.166.83 | Shomrei Torah Men'S Club - West Hills, CA (CLUB MERGED) | Ron Freeman | ronfreeman@socal.rr.com | We have had one on Exercise, one on Kaddish and what it means to you and more. | We had 5 members attend Regional Retreat in Malibu. | We had a Jewish Music producers program with Sisterhood as Well as a fun Musugganah Auction | We have donated both funds and time to Sova, a food pantry. | We provide the ushering for the High Holidays, we worked on fencing around an area of the Synagogue. | We had a very well attended Men's Club Shabbat on Saturday Morning | We provide tefillin for all the 7th graders in Religious school. Parents must attend 9 sunday minyans and we provide brunch | We attended Valley Beth Shaloms Steak night and Aliyah's Scotch night. | Purchased another full set of Hearing Men's Voices books. We do about 6 HMV per year. | David Gabai | We have a newsletter 2-4 times a month, with updates | Yes | Yes | Ron Freeman and Mitch Daks | Ron Freeman-Man of the Year program | We have about 15-30 people attend per year. Last year was about 25, this year will be 30 or more | We have donated to the Abuduyah Community | |||||
| 57 | 2017-06-05 10:46 | mensclub | 164.144.248.29 | B'Nai Amoona Men'S Club - St. Louis, MO (631) | Congregation B'nai Amoona Men's Club | mensclub@bnaiamoona.com | We did a CPR program for the congregation prior to the high holidays. We also did our first congregational Bike Ride | We had several members attend our regional retreat. We also had an attendee to LDI | Build-A-Pair | Run Service at a nursing home | Teach Tefillin Wrapping to the Bar Mitzvah Class. Hearing Jewish Voices Program on 2nd Day Rosh Hashanah | Saturday Morning Men's Club Shabbat | Dad and Me Craft Program, Camp Scholarships | Joint Bike Ride and Joint Man of the Year Program - With Kol Rinah Congregation | Mail Chimp is used to inform members of events | Yes | Yes | Creighton Cohn, VP, Ed Herzog, Financial, Marc Givarz Prsident | Marc Givarz attended Chicago Man of the Year | |||||||||
| 56 | 2017-06-04 15:45 | cbernstein | 71.229.76.167 | Etz Chaim Men's Club - Marietta, GA (1711) | Charles Bernstein | csbwsm@aol.com | Financial wellbeing through professional retirement planning | Anshei Darom Retreat Feb 2017 | Joint programs with Sisterhood throughout year | Helping Hebrew school students build tefillin sets | Ushering for High Holidays | Men's Club Shabbaton with Rabbi Simon | Purchased FJMC Books for co-president | group emails of upcoming Men's club activities | Yes | Yes | Steve Dix - Regional President, Steve Krodman - interim president | Steve Dix - FJMC director, incoming FJMC treasurer | Chuck Bernstein presented man of the year award at regional brunch in April. | Contributed siddurim to Masorti congregation in Israel | ||||||||
| 55 | 2017-06-04 13:06 | jforeman | 69.47.48.59 | Tifereth Israel Men'S Club - Columbus, OH (303) | Jonathon Foreman | foreman_jon@hotmail.com | We have successfully encouraged members to participate in walking and bicycling events. And we have a Labor Day golf outing. | 7 members attended regional retreat.KIO regional retreat in September. Doug Segerman and Karl Rubin at LDI. | We have started a monthly interpretive/experiential Shabbat services. | We co-sponsored a program to bring in a former White House chef who walked us through several WH Seder recipes. | We build the Sukkah every year and hold many events in it. And Yad Shel Chai. | We are very active in aiding and comforting incarcerated Jewish men at a local prison. | Men's Club members are very active in the ushering program and are leading the drive to fund new Shabbat prayer books. | We have expanded MC Shabbat to include Kabbalat Shabbat and Ma'ariv services. | We are in charge of restoring a lovely,but neglected courtyard space to become a welcoming space for gatherings and prayer. | We have held family outings to professional sporting events. We have joint activities with USY - i.e. Hamantashen bake. | We have a joint program with Agudas Achim to plant flags and the tombstones of Jewish War Veterans. | We have purchased awards certificates this year, yellow candles and yads. | Lawrence Cohen | E-mail, synagogue bulletin and e-bulletin, facebook pages | Yes | Yes | Karl Rubin, Regional Exec. VP; Dale Levy - VP for Mens Health. | Doug Segerman - Chair of LDI. | Doug Segerman was honored as Maasim Tovim recipient at biennial regional luncheon hosted by TI men's club and attended by many |