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Results of CBS Annual Meeting - May 3, 2020
Thanks to all who attended our 'virtual' Annual Meeting. There were two items up for consideration, both of which were approved unanimously.
Approved were the 2020-2021 Slate of Officers and Directors, and approval of an additional five term for Rabbi Gurevitz' contract. Information on the meeting, including our 2020 Annual Report are available, as well as a video of the meeting including messages from Rabbis Gurevitz and Eiduson, President Rob Blumberg and incoming President Steven Goldstein are available at Congregation B'nai Shalom Annual Meeting for those logged into our website.
News and Announcements
COVID-19 Update
NEW 3/20: COVID-19 EMERGENCY APPEAL
This year, what has come to be known at times as the “Rabbi’s Wish List” will be dedicated to the Rabbi Debra Hachen Caring Fund. This fund provides emergency money to help congregants in need pay rent, their electric bill, with supermarket gift cards to be used for food, and other emergency contingencies. We foresee an increasing need for these emergency funds and ask again for your help. And, if you are in crisis, please always remember that we are here to help.
If you are able to help in this effort, please go to https://www.cbnaishalom.org/form/covid-19-emergency-appeal.html to donate to the Rabbi Debra Hachen Caring Fund in this time of extraordinary emergency and challenge. We must rely on one another for support.
Please be on the lookout for emails from us in the future with the subject, ‘COVID-19 Update’ for this information, as well as posting all updates on a special page of our temple website at https://www.cbnaishalom.org/
You can review the Massachusetts Department of Public Health recommendations by clicking this link.
CBS Weekly Connections
Read the most recent editions of CBS Weekly Connections by clicking here
In Loving Memory announcements, with funeral and Shiva information can be read here.
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Messages
I’m writing this month’s column on the last night of our Confirmation class trip to Washington, dc with the Religious Action Center of the Union for Reform Judaism. Our students have spent the weekend learning about issues through a Jewish lens and have written their lobbying speeches. As they reflect on issues such as access to abortion, mental health, and global climate change, they’ve shared personally and passionately in ways that demonstrate the breadth of experience they have already had in life.
I write to you, as parents and members of our congregational family, to qvell on a remarkable week in the life of our synagogue school and to share with you that there is definitely more goodness coming!
Message from RobI must admit I am a little short on material this month. It’s probably the combination of twenty months of unique Connection articles and that it is, in fact, my busiest time of year with my day job. It happens! I am going to share a few thoughts and highlights.