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Council are described below. We hope you will agree that these considerable community efforts at Adas Israel merit a 2007 Solomon Schechter Award. HONORABLE MENTION THE CONSERVATIVE SYNAGOGUE 250-500 Westport, CT Submitted by Allison Narins 203-454-4673 In the years 2005 through 2007, four women— Wendy Cohen, Julie Haroun, Allison Narins, and Sheri Warshaw— alternately have taken the reigns of the Social Action or Tikkun Olam Committee at The Conservative Synagogue. Each woman brought her own personal flair for community service and each added her special details to this important committee and its programming. Some of the programs took place on a monthly basis and others were an annual tradition, but all had a link for providing the common good, not only to our local communities but also those needy neighbors abroad. “Partnership” was the Tikkun Olam Committee buzzword for 2005 and became a tradition for 2006 through 2007 and we hope for many years to come. The Tikkun Olam Committee aimed to develop special bonds with all of the Tikkun Olam recipients (most important being those chosen for TCS’s Mitzvah Day focus) by creating special “partnerships” to help them not only immediately but also to encourage these groups to call on us at any time in the future should their needs arise. TCS was very successful in developing our partnership with each Mitzvah Day recipient and have maintained incredibly special relationships with all of them, The George Washington Carver Center (2005), The Interfaith Housing Association of Westport (2006) and Habitat for Humanity (2007). Mitzvah Day each year provides TCS with the perfect platform for the general building ‘fix ups’ needed and as a home base for package assembly of delivery projects (for example, school backpacks, non-perishable meals, fresh start kits). The TCS giving goes way beyond Mitzvah Day through different programming such as preparing and serving meals to those in our local shelter and launching a gently used cell phone drive to aid victims of domestic violence; our giving continues with donations of monies raised from our annual Share the Pie fundraiser. The Tikkun Olam Committee members were always happy to welcome our synagogue professionals and administrators aboard when they were available and thrilled to touch so many TCS members, young and old, on so many levels. Not only did our committee partner with our Tikkun Olam recipients but with many other synagogue committees as well. The TCS Sisterhood and Brotherhood, Religious School and Preschool were all instrumental to the success of all of our programs, not to mention the many congregants who participated in our success. Judging by the degree of press coverage and further written thanks, our Tikkun Olam Committee can be proud of all that our synagogue has accomplished in this community service arena. STRATEGIC PLANNING GOLD TEMPLE BETH EL 250-500 Allentown, PA Submitted by Rance Block 610-435-3521 Temple Beth El (Allentown, PA) relocated to its new facility in January 2006. Although the actual building of the facility is recent, the planning for the relocation of Temple Beth El was a plan that spanned the course of eighteen years. The submission to follow includes information from a historical perspective of development through the completion of the project. This submission includes the formation of a long range planning committee, a feasibility study, congregational survey, the report of the long range planning committee, needs assessment, minutes from congregational meetings, the formation of a building steering committee, and other communications, all of which that brought us to our ultimate goal... .a new home for Temple Beth El. In 1988, the administration of Temple Beth El developed a long-range plan for the viability of the congregation. The existing facility was approaching 50 years of age and was in need of major refurbishment. The synagogue was not located near where the congregants resided and the facility no longer met the programmatic needs of the congregation. A Long Range Planning Committee was appointed and charged with examining the cost of refurbishment and expansion of the existing facility to meet the programmatic needs of the congregation. After obtaining estimates that exceeded $3M for additional space and refurbishment, the committee decided to examine the costs of relocating the facility to a location that was central to where the congregants resided. Additionally, the
committee was fortunate to acquire a piece of land in the right locale at a reasonable price and recommended its acquisition to the Board of Directors to provide a hedge for the future. Over the following eleven years, various studies were undertaken by the Long Range Planning Committee to examine the feasibility of building a new facility on the acquired land. In 2002, a buyer was found for our existing building. The congregation approved the sale of the existing building and the construction of our new facility, with the provision that enough pledges were obtained so that the new facility could be built. Also in 2002, a Steering Committee comprised of a chair, president of the congregation, chairs of the Capital Campaign Committee, Building Committee, Finance Committee and Legal Committee was appointed to oversee the entire project. Shabbat Services were held for the first time in our new facility in January 2006. The project has been a dream come true, eighteen years in the making, proving the value of long term strategic planning. WEBSITE ON LINE GOLD CONGREGATION HAR SHALOM Over 900 Potomac, MD Submitted by Michael L. Simmons 301-299-7987 Congregation Har Shalom of Potomac, Maryland maintains one of the largest collections of Judaic books and materials in all of Montgomery County, Maryland. In addition to providing Jewish library services to the congregation, the Library is utilized by many non-congregants and area Jewish professionals. The Surpass Web-Safari online catalog system was selected and acquired. The librarian then proceeded to reclassify and barcode the entire collection, after which the catalog, along with online instructions, was made available to any computer, from any location, via the internet. Although the library system physically resides on the server at Congregation Har Shalom, the system can easily be accessed through the congregation’s website, www.harshalom.org. Once users click to access the library catalog system, they are redirected (through an updated firewall) to the congregation’s server. The online library system provides the user with the ability to search our 10,000-volume library by Author, Title, or Subject, as well as by using the innovative “Visual Navigator.” This latter facility offers a graphic hierarchy of subjects, each represented by an icon, that greatly facilitate browsing by subject. The congregation’s library webpage and visual navigator page as well as examples of searches by Author, Title, and Subject will follow. GOLD CONGREGATION OR SHALOM 250-500 Orange, CT 203-799-2341 The Or Shalom website is updated weekly by a lay member of the congregation. Congregants use it to keep up with the latest information and to find out about future events. Prospective members have used it to find out about Or Shalom and several have told us after joining that it was our website that served as their introduction to the congregation. Outside individuals use our site to find out about “us.” The latest feature to be unveiled in late spring 2007 will be a payment platform that will allow individuals to pay dues and other fees as well as make donations by credit card online. Both students and parents have “sung along with the Rabbi” on our website as they practice the Torah blessings and learn to chant a number of key prayers in the liturgy. The synagogue bulletin is posted on the website at the time of publication. For some members, that is the primary way they read the bulletin.
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