President's Message
Dear Chaverim:
As I begin my second year as your President, I am grateful to have celebrated so many holidays and events with all of you both in person as well as online. I am also thankful for the tremendous support working with our talented Rabbi, our dedicated office administrator, Jennifer Restivo and our wonderful Board of Directors, who are engaged and committed to providing the very best to our Temple community. We have faced some challenges during this past year, with COVID being the most significant along with all the issues it presented, but together we weathered it well and have become stronger as a result.
Based on the tremendous work of the Rabbi, our Ritual Committee and many Temple volunteers, we recently had a very successful Red, White & Blue BBQ and Shabbat Services on July 2nd with over 75 members attending in person and another 25 attending online, all enjoying celebrating Shabbat along with our nation’s birthday.
Now with the re-tightening up of the mask requirements with the recently revised CDC guidelines, our Temple leadership will be requiring mask wearing when inside the Temple for everyone attending services and events in order to protect our community, especially our youngest members who are not yet able to be vaccinated and our other members who are vaccinated but maybe immune compromised.
Assuming we do not receive any further changes to the current CDC guidelines, we look forward to having our annual Flip Flop Shabbat outside at Paradise Beach on August 13, at which time we will also honor our Temple’s High School and College Graduates. This annual event, in memory of our co-founding members and my dear in-laws, Jerry and Barbara Perlmutter, provides a wonderful time for our community to get together at the beach in our “flip flops” to be with each other while enjoying a delicious BBQ, playing instruments and singing along with the sound of the ocean in the background, all while celebrating Shabbat.
Our High Holidays are starting early this year beginning on Monday, September 6th. While the COVID situation remains fluid with the new variant taking its course, at this time, we plan to have our Selichot service, following all our current COVID guidelines, on Saturday night, August 28th starting at 7:00 pm at the Temple. Depending upon the situation at that time, we hope to have hors d'oeuvres before the service and an oneg following. We will also be officially installing our new Board of Directors as well as changing out the Torah covers as we prepare for the High Holidays. We hope all of you will be able to attend and share in this wonderful event.
Our Rabbi and Ritual Committee have been working hard to prepare for our High Holiday services, trying to make them a meaningful and spiritual experience for us all. This year’s High Holy Days in particular provide us with an opportunity to connect with G-d and with each other, away from all the demands and stress of everyday life as we hopefully enter into a post COVID world. Again, we hope to be back inside the Temple for our services following our revised COVID guidelines and will offer online zoom participation as well. It is my hope and prayer that we will be enriched with each other’s presence, whether in person or online, as we reach out to renew ourselves and our Temple community.
As always, your Temple leadership considers the safety and health of our TBS community as one our most sacred obligation. We will continue to monitor the situation and keep you apprised of any changes required to our plans.
On behalf of myself, Lisa, David, my mother, Ann, and the rest of my family, I wish you all a Happy and Healthy New Year!
Shanah Tovah and G’mar Chatima Tovah
Bill Troner
President
As I begin my second year as your President, I am grateful to have celebrated so many holidays and events with all of you both in person as well as online. I am also thankful for the tremendous support working with our talented Rabbi, our dedicated office administrator, Jennifer Restivo and our wonderful Board of Directors, who are engaged and committed to providing the very best to our Temple community. We have faced some challenges during this past year, with COVID being the most significant along with all the issues it presented, but together we weathered it well and have become stronger as a result.
Based on the tremendous work of the Rabbi, our Ritual Committee and many Temple volunteers, we recently had a very successful Red, White & Blue BBQ and Shabbat Services on July 2nd with over 75 members attending in person and another 25 attending online, all enjoying celebrating Shabbat along with our nation’s birthday.
Now with the re-tightening up of the mask requirements with the recently revised CDC guidelines, our Temple leadership will be requiring mask wearing when inside the Temple for everyone attending services and events in order to protect our community, especially our youngest members who are not yet able to be vaccinated and our other members who are vaccinated but maybe immune compromised.
Assuming we do not receive any further changes to the current CDC guidelines, we look forward to having our annual Flip Flop Shabbat outside at Paradise Beach on August 13, at which time we will also honor our Temple’s High School and College Graduates. This annual event, in memory of our co-founding members and my dear in-laws, Jerry and Barbara Perlmutter, provides a wonderful time for our community to get together at the beach in our “flip flops” to be with each other while enjoying a delicious BBQ, playing instruments and singing along with the sound of the ocean in the background, all while celebrating Shabbat.
Our High Holidays are starting early this year beginning on Monday, September 6th. While the COVID situation remains fluid with the new variant taking its course, at this time, we plan to have our Selichot service, following all our current COVID guidelines, on Saturday night, August 28th starting at 7:00 pm at the Temple. Depending upon the situation at that time, we hope to have hors d'oeuvres before the service and an oneg following. We will also be officially installing our new Board of Directors as well as changing out the Torah covers as we prepare for the High Holidays. We hope all of you will be able to attend and share in this wonderful event.
Our Rabbi and Ritual Committee have been working hard to prepare for our High Holiday services, trying to make them a meaningful and spiritual experience for us all. This year’s High Holy Days in particular provide us with an opportunity to connect with G-d and with each other, away from all the demands and stress of everyday life as we hopefully enter into a post COVID world. Again, we hope to be back inside the Temple for our services following our revised COVID guidelines and will offer online zoom participation as well. It is my hope and prayer that we will be enriched with each other’s presence, whether in person or online, as we reach out to renew ourselves and our Temple community.
As always, your Temple leadership considers the safety and health of our TBS community as one our most sacred obligation. We will continue to monitor the situation and keep you apprised of any changes required to our plans.
On behalf of myself, Lisa, David, my mother, Ann, and the rest of my family, I wish you all a Happy and Healthy New Year!
Shanah Tovah and G’mar Chatima Tovah
Bill Troner
President