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Annual Report Thursday, May 16, 2019 Annual Report Thursday, May 16, 2019 Table of Contents Opening Prayer ....................................................................................................................4 Agenda .................................................................................................................................4 Senior Rabbi’s Report .........................................................................................................5 President’s Report ............................................................................................................ 11 Treasurer’s Report and Budget ....................................................................................... 14 BHS New Heights Capital Campaign............................................................................... 17 Nominating Committee .................................................................................................... 18 General Donations ........................................................................................................... 19 Tribute Gifts ...................................................................................................................... 24 High Holy Days Schedule ................................................................................................. 28 Executive Director’s Report ............................................................................................. 29 Membership Commitments 2019-20 ............................................................................. 31 Membership Statistics ..................................................................................................... 32 B’nai Mitzvah Students, This Year and Next .................................................................. 36 Associate Rabbi-Educator’s Report on Education at BHS............................................. 37 Religious School Tuition Schedule .................................................................................. 40 Director of Early Childhood Education’s Report ............................................................. 41 “BHS is a special place for our families, friends, and community to come together to celebrate our past, enjoy the present, and build an even better future.” -Why BHS Matters to Me Brooklyn Heights Synagogue Annual Meeting May 16, 2019 Opening Blessing: Agenda: Report from the Senior Rabbi Report from the President Report from the Treasurer and Approval of the Budget Report from the Nominating Committee and Election of Trustees and Officers Report from Executive Director Report from Director of Member Engagement Report from Associate Rabbi-Educator Report from Director of Early Childhood Education New business 4 Brooklyn Heights Synagogue Annual Meeting May 16, 2019 Opening Blessing: Agenda: Report from the Senior Rabbi Report from the President Capital Campaign Report Update Report from the Treasurer and Approval of the Budget Report from the Nominating Committee and Election of Trustees and Officers Report from Executive Director Report from Director of Member Engagement Report from Associate Rabbi-Educator Report from Director of Early Childhood Education New business 4 Senior Rabbi’s Report Tonight, I am grateful to mark twenty-two years of service as the spiritual leader of the Brooklyn Heights Synagogue. Thank you all for the privilege of service. Our 60th program year was marked by constancy in our professional staff and lay leadership as well as some additions and departures in our support positions and custodial staff. Our Director of Early Childhood Education, Pam Karlin, continues to guide the school, its faculty, students, and parents with an expert hand and along with Assistant Preschool Director Jennifer Kendall and Assistant Parenting Center Director Rebecca Leighton, continues to strengthen and expand our program and sharpen our vision. We wish Rebecca Leighton great success as she leaves us to become director of Grace Church’s Preschool! Sue Gold, our indispensable Executive Director will take a well-deserved mini-sabbatical in June. Safe travels and return! Rabbi Molly G. Kane our BHS Associate Rabbi-Educator continued to oversee record enrollment while reviewing, renewing, and expanding our religious education programming. In addition to guiding our religious and adult education programming, Molly brings unbridled energy and vision to our program and community. She also oversees BHS’s ‘The Other Friday Night’ -- a Shabbat Experience for Young Professionals in their 20s and 30s. Our annual BHS Women’s Seder held once again at Grace Church was a huge success. Thanks to Rabbi Kane, Michelle Citrin, and of course our lay leaders. Lena Eson Roe joined us at the beginning of the year as our new Associate Director of the Religious School. Abby Johnson as our BHS Education Program Manager continued her hands-on and steady contributions to our program. Faye Wilbur from JBFCS joined us in a very part time capacity (half a day per week) as BHS’s Social Worker. In that role, working with Myriam Bucatinsky and with the help of the Membership Engagement Team, our Community as Family Program also was initiated. Our Religious School and Preschool once again participated in the UJA Israeli Shinshinim (Sh’nat Sheirut – gap year) Program. Rabbi Hara Person, having been selected as the incoming Chief Executive of the Central Conference of American Rabbis (CCAR) as of this July 1, concludes her final year as BHS Adjunct Rabbi, facilitating chavurah, study groups, and life-cycle support and coverage. She has offered a lifetime of experiences from here at BHS to our upcoming B’nai Mitzvah families at programs she facilitated throughout the year. We have been blessed to have her in this limited but highly valued role for these past many years as Adjunct Rabbi at BHS. Cantor Bruce Ruben has served as BHS’s Cantor in a part-time (30 hrs/wk) position, bringing good humor, strong chanting skills, a pedagogical background, and his resonant voice to our community. Cantor Ruben has noticeably increased our Adult Choir’s opportunities to perform for us and in the larger community. He has done a masterful job teaching our 7th Grade as well as providing individual one on one tutoring for all of our upcoming b’nai mitzvah students. This year, along with Rabbi Kane, he hired and supervised Rabbinic Student Healy Slakman who provided introductory prep tutoring for our 30 plus students. Cantor Ruben organized a congregant band that has joined us on a number of third Fridays of the month for Shir Shabbat. Cantor Ruben also has recruited Torah and Megillah chanters for Festivals and other occasions. He once again helped organize our participation in Martin Luther King Jr. weekend events with First Presbyterian Church. We wish him success and blessings into the future as he concludes his term of service at BHS. We are blessed that Miriam Daly continues to serve as our Accompanist/Musical Director. Miriam creates and accomplishes tiny unnoticed musical miracles every time she is at the piano. She leads a terrific band and has been a talented rehearser for the choirs. Liann Herder joined us in August as our Executive Assistant to Senior Clergy and Development and has made an outstanding impact upon our synagogue community and organization in these past months! 5 Dave Ramos supported an outsized program as our Head Custodian/Building Superintendent. We wish him well as he moves on to a new position closer to home and family in Massachusetts. We saw packed family attendance and participation once a month at Shabbat our B'yachad: Family Service & Dinners thanks to Rabbi Kane’s planning, Lena Eson Roe’s attention, and Student Rabbi Evan Sheinhait’s leadership, vision, and energy, Cantor Ruben’s willingness to jump in, and the assistance of Miriam Daly providing her musical talents. Special Mazal Tov and y’sharkoach to Evan who was ordained at the beginning of May as Rabbi Evan Sheinhait and will serve in this coming Fall as the Reform Rabbi on the campus of Brandeis University! At worship services, we announced the coming of the new Hebrew moon each month, continue the custom of Counting the Omer, and blessed congregants' numerous simchas and publicly recognized good tidings on one Friday of each month. And we have named numbers of infants, children of members and our neighbors on many Friday evenings. LOTS AND LOTS OF BABY NAMINGS!!! We celebrated festivals and holidays, minor and major. Saturday morning Chavurah continued to grow and prosper under myself, Rabbi Molly Kane, Rabbi Hara Person, Rabbi Daniel Lehrman, Rabbi Sue Oren, Student Rabbi Evan Sheinhait, and our rotating pool of facilitators. Thanks to lay prayer leaders and facilitators Ken Roff, David Hirschland, and Laura Szapiro. We celebrated births, namings, birthdays, conversions, weddings, anniversaries, and other simchas in our sanctuary and elsewhere. We worried and prayed through sickness and adversity and celebrated many joys as well. We call to mind the untimely passing of BHS members Grace Gutman and Arthur Radin, as well as BHS Past President Lola Lea. Far too many of us lost a parent, sibling, or close friend in this past year. Both in adversity and in celebration, we at BHS have buoyed each other up and offered the hand of comfort. Our youngsters learned in our religious school, and at Parenting Center programs and family education programs. Our well-attended Tot Shabbat program continued to be led by Lauren Demby. My 'Welcoming Shabbat' program on Friday mornings continues
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