2007 - United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism

could possible be coming from to Congregation Ohav Shalom. Our Hebrew School page contains all grades, teacher
info as well as upcoming Talmud Torah events. This page also discusses USY and all of Ohav’ s youth information.
Our nursery school page consists of teachers, times and classes as well as class and school theologies. Our next
page is very innovative and it changes every few months with the rabbi’s sermon as well as some words from both of
our rabbis. We have a links page that connects our congregant to Jewish websites in the area. Our last page is a contact
us page that has our full staff with links of our emails on each name as well as comprehensive list of our board,
executive and committee lay leaders.
Our website is updated by a lay leader and past president of the shul, Alan Dom. It has great readability, design
and we always have great use of graphics. We are introducing a rabbi’s blog that will be interactive and quite exciting
for our shul. We use this website as a method of publicity for our events as it highlights our upcoming events and gives
contact information to receive more information. Our staff and lay leaders are constantly sending information to our
website lay leader to update their page of interest. We also use our construction page as a fundraising page for our
capital campaign. This page shows how much everything costs and how much money we still need to raise. We hope
that once our congregants see that the work is actually being done, it will propel them to make new or larger
contributions.
HONORABLE MENTION
BETH HILLEL SYNAGOGUE
100-250 Bloomfield, CT
Submitted by Lynn Kaplan 860-242-5561
Most synagogues today have websites to help publicize both their congregations and their activities; however, they
differ greatly in both design and content. Smaller congregations are not able to afford a “professionally” developed site
and are dependent upon talented volunteers.
This is the case with Beth Hillel Synagogue in Bloomfield. We have a dedicated volunteer who develops,
maintains, and often upgrades this website. It enables us to attractively present our synagogue and its activities to our
membership, our local community and any who may be considering visiting/moving to the area.
People can send e-mail to any of the synagogue officers or ask questions. They can read news updates and see
photographs of recent events. They can download forms and access the synagogue bulletin in an attractive and wellordered
manner. They remain current even when not attending services.
The use of the congregation website is one important way that Beth Hillel Synagogue maintains and improves
contact with its membership.
HONORABLE MENTION
TEMPLE BETH-EL OF BELLMORE
100-250 North Bellmore, NY
Submitted by Ronald Minor 516-781-2650
The Temple Beth-El website greets visitors to the page with a picture of the front of the temple at the top of each page.
Each page has information relating to that page on the upper left corner. A menu of available pages is located beneath
the header of the home page. Of note on the home page is the calendar of upcoming events on the left hand side of the
screen. Each event is listed and a link is available to retrieve more information on these events from the Events page.
The home page also displays some basic information about Temple Beth-El, the officers on the board, and more. Our
pages are edited as events are added to our calendar and our schedule of services is amended on a weekly basis by our
webmaster, Avi Buchweitz, the son of one of our members. Avi is a computer wiz but is not a professional webmaster.
With the unfortunate passing of our Rabbi, a memorial page has been set up where members and others can
submit writings, pictures and remembrances of the Rabbi. Temple Beth-El website also features an events page where
members and others can find the most up to date information for all upcoming events, as well as contact information to
participate. Other pages of note include the schedule page, where information for each Shabbat can be found, Youth
page where information about our youth groups is displayed as well as upcoming activities and events.