Yasher koach to the 2024-25 Board of Trustees. Special thanks to outgoing board members – Risa Bernstein and Adam Dembrow.
Welcome to new board members – Jenni Friedman, Mike Friedman, Kelli Mason, and Judy Wildman.
This poem was written for Bruce’s 80th birthday in March 2019. (more…)
Bruce Baff, a long-time marketing and advertising executive and travel writer for Jewish publications, passed away on June 11, 2025, at the age of 86. Bruce was the beloved husband of Natalie Goulston Baff, to whom he was married for 53 years, a loving father to his daughter Arlene Yoskowitz and his son, Adam Baff and his wife, Maia, and the adored grandfather of grandchildren Sivan, Eden, Golan, Eli and Owen. (more…)
What little Jewish education I had when I was a kid mostly went in one ear and out the other. When I joined Shomrei in middle age, I decided to up my Jewish literacy. I attended Rabbi Greenstein’s Sunday Talmud class. I enjoyed it, but I was looking for an approach to learning that was a bit more interactive. Would Rabbi Greenstein teach me one-on-one? No, he wouldn’t do that, but he did recommend I find myself a havruta – a study partner — through a program called Project Zug. (more…)
Editor’s Note: Nick shared his conversion story during Shabbat services on June 7, continuing our tradition of inviting a different congregant each year to share their journey when we read from the Book of Ruth on Shavuot.
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