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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.
Temple Beth-El’s website is used by congregants to find all the latest up to date information on events, and schedules. The site also includes hyper-links to other organizations such as United Synagogue, UJA/Federation and sites that relate to special events highlighted in our schedule. Prospective members and outside individuals can see the vibrant community that is Temple Beth-El. www.templebethe1ll7l0.org HONORABLE MENTION PASADENA JEWISH TEMPLE AND CENTER 250-500 Pasadena, CA Submitted by Judy Callahan 626-798-1161 Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center is very proud of its web site, which is completely edited by a lay member of our congregation (not in the web business) with input from our many committees. As you can see on the attached copy of our Home Page, we want the site to be representative of the many people, activities and involvement opportunities we offer. The site is updated weekly. Along with information about our own synagogue, we offer links to our Federation, our Bikkur Cholim Committee offers links to health information, and our Israel Action page offers links to news updates and organizations representing a broad political spectrum of ways to support Israel. We also offer the ability to read current sermons, contact key synagogue personnel (both professional and lay leaders), keep up with our USY activities and see what is happening at our religious school. Our latest technology is to offer pod casts of classes offered by our clergy. Our site is a major tool in publicity and communication. As our members know it is kept up to date and provides instant access to information. It is supplemented by our monthly written bulletin, The Flame, which offers an alternative to our congregants who would not normally use the web. We have found, however, that more and more congregants are using the web as their first choice for information and even our congregants who prefer The Flame are beginning to check the web for updates. We have not used the site for advertising as we find that keeping it informational draws people to it with the knowledge that they will not be sifting through ads. Its use as a fundraising tool is limited to the publicity for upcoming events and information about our Guardian and other giving opportunities. Again, we want this to be an informational and welcoming introduction to our synagogue. The attractiveness and ease of navigation of our site has already brought members to our synagogue and has brought existing congregants to become more actively involved in synagogue life. A few of our site pages are attached, but to truly appreciate our site, we encourage you to go to www.pjtc.net to see what we are all about. WORSHIP AND RITUAL GOLD JACKSONVILLE JEWISH CENTER 500-900 Jacksonville, FL Submitted by Jonathan Lubliner 904-292-1000 Tiyul To Shul is an inter-generational program designed to encourage Shabbat observance by fostering a palpable sense of community and vice versa. In the spirit of the Compact of Conservative Jewish Commitment, Tiyul To Shul matches the contemporary hunger for meaningful community with Shabbat’s inherent spiritual potential to create collective belonging. Specifically, this program invites worshippers to leave their cars – whether at home or at designated “Parkand-Walk” areas – and walk leisurely to Shabbat services together with others. The synagogue serves as matchmaker, putting together groups of mixed individuals walking from the various locales and leaving at different times. In addition, a number of religious and day school classes and our USYers walk within their own respective groups. Our local synagogue-affiliated Boy Scout troop assists physically challenged participants. Tiyul To Shul is a high impact, low cost program easy to implement in congregations of any size. At the Jacksonville Jewish Center, participation in our annual Tiyul To Shul attracts more than 80 worshippers on average, with a peak year of 120 participants. Most important, each year a handful of families find the experience of walking to services on Shabbat sufficiently compelling to integrate it into their own regular observance.
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