The Brotherhood at Temple Beth El is an exciting group comprised of both new and existing Brotherhood members. If you want to be a part of this group and you have not already filled out a questionnaire telling us what your interests are, please email the President Robert Feldman at rfeldman@sym-bio.com or the Secretary Mike Rein at mike@reinlaw.net for the form.
Past Brotherhood Events
Noah Alper, founder of Noah's New York Bagels, to Highlight Brotherhood's Brunch on June 6th, 2010
Brotherhood's bagel brunch meeting begins at 10:00 a.m., Sunday, June 6th at TBE, followed at 11:00 a.m. by a presentation from Noah Alper, of Noah's New York Bagels fame. The event is free and open to all TBE members, especially aspiring entrepreneurs who want to do well and do good. We all know about Noah's Bagels, and have enjoyed them at our brunches, but what about the man behind the business? Noah Alper is a currently a consultant and a dynamic motivational speaker. Six and a half years after founding Noah's New York Bagels, he sold the business for $100 million. At that time, it was the largest Kosher retailer in the United States. He is also the founder of six other ventures, including the Massachusetts grocery store company, Bread & Circus, which is now part of Whole Foods Market. In his book, Business Mensch, he weaves together Jewish ethical teachings and over 35 years of business and non-profit management experience. This book was awarded a silver medal in the category of Business Ethics in the 2010 Axiom Business Book Awards. Please join us for what is sure to be an outstanding event uniquely connecting business, community and Judiasm.
USGS Scientist Dan Hanes will presented at the Brotherhood Brunch that was held on Sunday, February 28.
JEWISH APPRECIATION DAY WITH THE SAN JOSE GIANTS – 5:00 p.m., Sunday, August 2, 2009
Reform, Conservative, Orthodox, Chabad, Reconstructionist, JCC and college Jewish organizations have purchased 2,500 tickets at $5 each (half the normal price) to celebrate Jewish Appreciation Day at the family-friendly minor league baseball park of the first-place San Jose Giants as they take on the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes. Kosher homemade pastrami on homemade rye with a homemade garlic dill pickle, chips and a drink will be sold for $12. We’re carpooling to the ballpark. Please RSVP to Michael Rein at mike@reinlaw.net by July 19 if you want to join in. Tickets might still be available at the door for late-comers, but no guarantees on that! For more info, click on http://www.jewishgiants.com.
JEWISH HERITAGE NIGHT WITH THE SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS – 7:15 p.m., Thursday, August 27, 2009
OK, it’s starting to look like a pattern. But we couldn’t resist traveling by bus to AT&T Park again this year to watch the much-improved SF Giants take on the Arizona Diamondbacks. This year, we plan to be there in time for the pre-game Jewish-themed tailgate activities, and have some activities on the bus too. Event co-chairs Paul Berman (pukibear@aol.com), Steve Guiney (stevenguiney@sbcglobal.net) and Mimi Guiney (miriambg@sbcglobal.net) will have all the details for us soon (including a request for RSVP’s), but the final price probably will be about $45 again for both the bus ride and the game, which will include a free Giants t-shirt (and the companionship of a busload of wonderful TBE’ers, of course!).
BROTHERHOOD-TEMPLE SCHOOL PICNIC – Sunday, September 13, 2009
Yep, the most fun Brotherhood event of the year is returning to DeLaveaga Park on September 13. It’s an old-fashioned back-to-Temple School picnic, complete with a mouth-watering BBQ and a zillion exciting field games. The cost is zero, the prizes are plentiful, and the total fun, exercise and companionship is priceless. It’s for everyone at TBE, not just Temple School children, so please mark your calendars now. Brotherhood volunteers should contact event chair Jay Lerman (jay_lerman@yahoo.com).
Wow, What a Deli Night!
Deli Night was a total success by everyone’s account. Our annual signature event, accompanied this year for the first time by bulk meat sales, netted about $2,000 for Brotherhood. About 120 people dined at the Temple on April 25 on delicious direct-from-Detroit pastrami, corned beef, tongue, turkey and hot dogs, with deli salads, pickles, vegetarian sandwiches and desserts, serenaded by beautiful dinner music provided by Cabrillo College students. We went through 333 pounds of meat, including the bulk orders. Big Thank-You’s to these generous, hard-working volunteers: Drew Barkley, our event chair and mastermind who worked tirelessly on this event for months, George Badger, Steve Karon, Arnie Levine (huge help from this Deli Night veteran!), Jake Benford, Glenn Millhauser, Wally Brondstatter, Sandra Cohen, Bob Feldman, Scott Roseman, Jerry Goldstein, Bruce Cohen (our most tenured slicer), Dan Seftel, Steve Greenburg, Harvey Segall, Dan Iuster, Len Jackel, Irv Winnick (only guy who cut himself), Jerry Dubin, Rabbi Yitzi Miller, John Oppenheimer, Steve Shapiro, Richie Solomon, Michael Rein, Shana Hall and SRFY members Aly Pomerantz, Daniel Wagman, Rachel Bickert, Abby Imboden and Lily Connor. Thank you volunteers and thank you to all who attended Deli Night or purchased bulk meats! A final request: We need your feedback. Please send your comments about the event to Drew Barkley at dbarkley@tbeaptos.org. We improved over last year’s event due in part to some great feedback, so let Drew hear from you!
Follow-Up to Our Recent Alternative Energy Presentation
Alan Miller spoke at Brotherhood’s March meeting about a form of alternative energy called OTEC being developed by Alan and others at Lockheed Martin. As a follow-up, we thought you’d like to see the superb article and photo (which includes Alan!) that ran in the NY Times last month:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/30/business/energy-environment/30thermal.html?_r=1
Some further published details on the same general topic are in the article on Energy with a photo on page 7:
http://www.lockheedmartin.com/data/assets/corporate/documents/April2009-LMToday.pdf
An Open Discussion on the Relationship Between UCSC and Santa Cruz City - Sunday, November 23, from 10:00am - 12:00noon at Temple Beth El
Enjoy bagels and other goodies to eat.
UCSC plays a major role in California higher education and provides numerous benefits locally, including cultural contributions and tax revenue. However, planned growth raised new challenges including increased traffic, greater demands on water use and residential crowing. What are the roles of the City and the University in meeting these challenges while maintaining the unique qualities of Santa Cruz? Please join the TBE Brotherhood for an open forum with Santa Cruz Mayor Ryan Coonerty and UCSC Executive Vice Chancellor David Kliger. Bring your interests, concerns and questions. Audience participation is welcome. The discussion is open to the entire TBE community.
Please RSVP to Glenn Millhouser or Steve Shapiro so that they have enough food on hand.
Special Meeting with guest speaker Dr. Jerry Dubin --Sunday, May 18, 10:00am at Santa Cruz Title Company, 1955 41st Avenue in Capitola
Bagels and other brunch goodies are included, as always. Our speaker Dr. Jerry Dubin, an organizational psychologist and management consultant -- who just happens to be married to a rabbi! Jerry works with a variety of firms, offering services in team building, management training and development, attitude surveys, company image studies, conflict resolution, personnel selection and personnel retention. Jerry was a Men’s Club chapter president, resurrecting a dormant chapter and leading it to become an award-winning group. He later was a Regional President and served on the advisory board of the Federation of Jewish Men’s Clubs (of the Conservative Movement) where he created an international program for Men’s Club Shabbat and a program about creating and sustaining relationships.
Brotherhood Game Night Returns--Saturday February 16, 7:30pm at Casino TBE
Join the Brotherhood for a great evening of obnoxious shirts & table games! Snacks & drinks as well as poker chips and cards will be provided. Bring any games you’d like to play (even you’re own poker supplies if you prefer). Be sure to wear your loudest shirt! No cost, but donations accepted. RSVP to Richie Solomon solomonzoo@sbcglobal.net.
Brotherhood NFL Playoffs Party-- Sunday, January 20, 2008, times TBA as they become available
Calling all pro football fans! TBE's Brotherhood is sponsoring an NFL Playoffs Party at the home of Paul and Carol Berman. The championship games for the NFC and AFC Conferences will be televised on Sunday, January 20, 2008. Members and those interested in becoming members of Brotherhood, along with their "significant others" (sorry, no minors), are invited to this FREE event. We'll have some tasty food and drinks and some of the best football matches of the year to watch on the Berman's XL big-screen TV.Brotherhood will announce the game times as soon as we know them. Hope to see you there!
SUKKAH CONSTRUCTION AT TEMPLE BETH EL
Hope you had a chance to see the very attractive (and sturdy!) sukkah on the Temple grounds. Underneath the Ritual Committee’s beautiful decorations is the wooden sukkah structure itself, which was diligently reconstructed this year by veterans Rick Hochler, Paul Jacobson and Eddie Scher and “newcomers” Richie Solomon, Jonathan Palmer, Drew Barkley, Gus Gold, Michael Rein and Dan Iuster. Thanx to Paul Jacobson, Michael Rein and Jonathan and David Palmer for taking the sukkah down and returning it to storage for another year.
HIGH HOLIDAY USHERING
Those friendly guys ushering you into the sanctuary and trouble-shooting throughout High Holidays were the Brotherhood Ushers (no, that’s not a Country rock group!). Many thanks to John Oppenheimer for coordinating our ushers again this year, and the following guys for ushering with distinction: Jerry Goldstein, Len Jackel, Arnie Levine, Ken Lande, Larry Levin, Richie Solomon, Steve Shapiro, Andrew Goldenkranz, Neal Langholz, Dan Iuster, Michael Rein, Steve Greenburg, Dennis Caspe, Michael Tuttle, Mark Yellin and Ken Wagman.
GAME NIGHT WAS A WINNER!
About 40 folks enjoyed a night of gambling, game playing and snacking at our Summer Game Night on August 25. No one lost money, but everyone gained a good time and some new friends. Special thanks go to Steve Shapiro, Drew Barkley, John Oppenheimer, Dan Iuster and Michael Rein for helping put together the event. Thanx also to all the brave souls who dared to enter the Brotherhood Game Room that evening!
To learn more about Brotherhood or to speak to a
Brotherhood Representative, call the Temple at 479-3444.
Membership
Membership costs only $30 per year. Members receive postcard notification of meetings and events.
