April 2011 ~ www.templenashville.org

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Randy Goldstein
We begin the month with our incredible Temple Arts Festival, our annual fundraiser. This year once
again promises to be an exciting event, with artists from all around the country participating. I would
like to thank Event Co-Chairs Lisa & Steve Small, Rae & Bruce Hirsch, Leah Berman, Erica Jacobs,
Mary Jones, Suzanne Schulman, Barbara Speller and LouAnne Wolfson for chairing this year’s event.
I would also like to thank our Honorary Chairs, Annette Eskind and Heloise Kuhn for their ongoing
support. There are also over 100 volunteers who join together during this two day event. The TAF is
a tremendous undertaking, and it helps The Temple both scally and communally.
The 2011 Annual Giving Campaign has received con rmed pledge cards from 400 families representing an increase of
over $50,000 – 5% greater than last year. If you have not responded we hope you will do so soon. Your Temple needs
your support and your annual gift helps solidify our nancial future. I would like to thank Mark Goldfarb and Jeff Jacobs
who served as this year’s Annual Giving Chairs.
As we move into April, we begin the Annual Budget process for 2011-2012. Ben Russ, Budget Chair and Lisa Crockett,
Finance Director, have already sent letters to the staff and Committee Chairs. The Temple Playschool, Religious School
and the Cemetery budgets are all presented to the committee during April. The preliminary budget will be presented
in May to the Board of Trustees and set for nal approval during the June Board Meeting.
Passover will be celebrated on April 18 th and 19 th . The Temple will be offering a Seder led by Rabbi Schiftan and Cantor
Gutcheon on the second night of Passover. Check within these pages of The View for details.
It’s hard to believe that April brings the end of the four year term for six of our Board of Trustees. Though I will have
another time to recognize the special volunteers during our May 6 th Annual Meeting I wanted to say thank you to
those Trustees ending their term. As I have mentioned before, all our Trustees Chair or Co-Chair one of Temple’s
many committees. Jeff Jacobs has served as Annual Giving Co-Chair and has served on the Executive Committee;
Joyce Friedman has Chaired Communication/Public Relations; Marshall Karr has served as Chair of the Cemetery
Committee for the past four years and will continue as Co-Chair next year; Karen Shaffer rst served as Chair of
the Playschool Advisory Board and recently has served as Religious School Chair; Lisa Shmerling has served on the
Beauti cation Committee; and Carol Smith is a Co-Chair of our Development Committee. I have enjoyed working with
these individuals the past four years and I appreciate all they have accomplished.
I thank all our members of the Board of Trustee for their dedication and to the work they give for our Temple.
Larry Weinberg Kicks Off Our Focus on Israel Month
April 1 st at 6:00 p.m.
“Idealized? Demonized? What is the reality of Israel today?”
April 8 th at 6:00 p.m.
Congregants will share their re ections on the
recent Israel trip.
Larry Weinberg serves as chief communications of cer of the Jewish Agency for Israel, a highly known,
regarded and successful organization in its niche of pro-Israel communications. Prior to this, he was a key
part of efforts to improve Israel’s brand and image in America, serving more than seven years as the executive
vice president of the highly regarded and innovative nonpro t news service and advocacy group, ISRAEL21c.
Additionally he is a member of the board of directors of United Support of Artists for Africa (USA for Africa) the nonpro t responsible
for both the original “We Are The World” song and HANDS ACROSS AMERICA.
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