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Thoughtful Thursdays Committee: Combining Social Time With Social Action
There’s a rhythm to the activities in Room 106 when the Thoughtful Thursdays team assembles. The conversations begin almost as soon as the volunteers arrive, with only a few pauses along the way for instructions about the cans, bottles, packages, and educational lessons that will be included in the bags for 86 Temple Head Start students. The […]
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Training Puppies: The Gift of Independence
Deborah and Michael Worpell never expected to be training a puppy in their spare time – especially now that their children are in college. But at the urging of a friend who is legally blind, the Temple members got involved in 2012 with Leader Dogs for the Blind. “We’d been talking about how we always had […]
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Rena Black: Keeping The Story of the Holocaust Alive
It’s important to Rena Black that the history of the Holocaust and its lessons are not forgotten. As the new chair of the Temple’s Holocaust Education Committee, Rena has a personal connection that informs her involvement. Her father Curt Stein left Germany in the early 1930s to live in the United States. After the Nazis […]
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Searching Holocaust Records for My Grandmother’s Story
Irv Adler, the Temple’s Treasurer, traveled to Vienna recently to place a Stone of Remembrance in front of the home where his grandmother Clara Bader Nichtern lived before she was killed by the Nazis. Through extensive research that he continues today, Irv learned that his grandmother was murdered in June 1942 at the Maly Trostinets death camp […]