Dear Fellow Beth Am Members,
Thank you to Rabbi David, Hazzan Harold, Lori Dafilou, Cantor Jenn, and all our teachers, office, maintenance and security professionals. You hold our community in your hearts and hands, every day! We notice, and we are grateful.
Thank you to an amazing Board, an incredible Executive Committee and fabulous Committee Chairs. It has been an honor to work with each of you.
Thank you to Lisa Fair, for being the best right hand from way back in 2015 and strategic planning days through Recording Secretary. Thank you for your honesty, intellectual savvy, sage advice and friendship.
Thank you to Donald Erlichman, for stepping up to be our next President, for an incredible partnership and transition this last 8 months, and for your brain power, compassion and humor. Thank you for your friendship.
Thank you to each Beth Am member. We all contribute. We all belong. It is a delight to be in your community.
Thank you to each member who created community by having lead services, read Torah, built our sukkah, crafted our Ya’ar, coordinated religious life honors, led classes or discussions like book club, Hebrew class or Mussar, coordinated softball and basketball, brought speakers to our synagogue, arranged for tikkun olam and social justice action opportunities, cooked food, delivered food, visited in the hospital or home, baked challah, packed or delivered mishloat manot, supported mourners during shiva periods, invited new members or prospective members to a meal or to a synagogue event, assisted in our Shorashim and Nitzanim programs, sat on committee, weathered our synagogue processing something/anything, marketed events to outside organizations or social platforms, sang our praises, participated in our services, zoom hosted, donated time, money or both, decorated an event, arranged food, games or other to our fundraisers, participated in our medical task force or security systems task force, greeted or ushered, played in a band or participated in music prayer lab or any of our other amazing programs, made food for a potluck, donated to BAI in honor of someone in Mazel Tov Monday or for any reason, for those who purchased a leaf for our wall, for those who contributed a bench or chair or book holder for our Ya’ar, for those of who cared, who smiled, who showed up and simply made BAI wonderful and our true collective, spiritual home, thank YOU!
With love,
Jackie Needleman, Immediate-Past President
