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“ KOL T.O.L” The “Voice of the Tree of Life” September 2015 / Elul 5775-Tishrei 5776 Tree of Life Congregation Monthly Newsletter Columbia, South Carolina Inside this issue: From the President 2 From the Rabbi 3 Religious School/ Education News 4-5 Member News/ Contributions / Yahrzeits 8-9 Calendar 12 OCTOBER WORSHIP SERVICES Friday, October 2 7:30pm Shabbat Evening Service Torah: Chol HaMa0eid Sukkot Exodus 33:12-34:26 Friday, October 9 7:30pm Shabbat Evening Service Torah: B’reishit Genesis 1:1—6:8 Friday, October 16 7:30pm Shabbat Evening Serrvice Torah: Noach Genesis 6:9-11:32 Friday, October 23 7:30pm Shabbat Evening Service Torah: Lech L’cha Genesis:23:1-25:18 Friday, October 30 7:30pm Shabbat Evening Service Torah: Vayeira Genesis 18:1-22:24 TOL Welcomes Rabbi Richard Address Friday, October 30 7:30pm Saturday, October 31 10:00am-1:00pm Saturday, October 31 3:00pm-4:00pm Rabbi Address recently completed tenure as senior rabbi of Congregation Mkor Shalom in Cherry Hill, NJ. He assumed this pulpit in July 2011 upon leaving the Union for Reform Judaism. (URJ) Rabbi Address also serves as the co-chair of the Interfaith Working Group on Spirituality and Diversity for the Coalition of Transform Advanced Care (C-TAC). In February of 2013 Rabbi Address created and continues to host a weekly radio show heard in the Philadelphia area called: “Boomer Generation Radion.” For more information about Rabbi Address and Jewish Sacred Aging, visit http://www.jewishsacredaging.com/.

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“ KOL T.O.L” The “Voice of the Tree of Life”

September 2015 / Elul 5775-Tishrei 5776 Tree of Life Congregation Monthly Newsletter Columbia, South Carolina

Inside this issue:

From the President 2

From the Rabbi 3

Religious School/ Education News 4-5

Member News/ Contributions / Yahrzeits 8-9

Calendar 12

OCTOBER WORSHIP SERVICES

Friday, October 2

7:30pm

Shabbat Evening Service

Torah: Chol HaMa0eid Sukkot

Exodus 33:12-34:26

Friday, October 9

7:30pm

Shabbat Evening Service

Torah: B’reishit

Genesis 1:1—6:8

Friday, October 16

7:30pm

Shabbat Evening Serrvice

Torah: Noach

Genesis 6:9-11:32

Friday, October 23

7:30pm

Shabbat Evening Service

Torah: Lech L’cha

Genesis:23:1-25:18

Friday, October 30

7:30pm

Shabbat Evening Service

Torah: Vayeira

Genesis 18:1-22:24

TOL Welcomes Rabbi Richard Address

Friday, October 30

7:30pm

Saturday, October 31

10:00am-1:00pm

Saturday, October 31

3:00pm-4:00pm

Rabbi Address recently completed tenure as senior rabbi of Congregation Mkor Shalom in

Cherry Hill, NJ. He assumed this pulpit in July 2011 upon leaving the Union for Reform

Judaism. (URJ)

Rabbi Address also serves as the co-chair of the Interfaith Working Group on Spirituality and

Diversity for the Coalition of Transform Advanced Care (C-TAC). In February of 2013 Rabbi

Address created and continues to host a weekly radio show heard in the Philadelphia area

called: “Boomer Generation Radion.”

For more information about Rabbi Address and Jewish Sacred Aging, visit

http://www.jewishsacredaging.com/.

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BIG NOSH SPONSORS

Presenting Level $1500

Baker & Baker

BMW of Columbia

Dunbar Funeral Home

Greens Beverage

Platinum Level $1000

Blue Cross Blue Shield of South Carolina

Cohn Construction Services

Jim Hudson Automotive Group

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein

Gold Level $500

Abacus

Ameris Bank

Dick Dyer Mercedes

First Community Bank

Southern First Bank

Terminix

Wells Fargo

Silver Level $250

Ally & Eloise Bake Shop

Bland Richter Law Firm

Boyd Orthodontics

Ed Robinson Laundry & Cleaners

Fields Chiropractic

First Citizens

LTC Associates

Midlands Orthopedics

Morganelli’s

Mungo Homes

NAI Avant

Rite Temp Heating & Air

South State Bank

The Pilates Studio

The Toy Box

Inez & Sam Tenenbaum

Tyler, Cassel, Jackson, Peace & Silver, LLC.

Wilson Kibler

Erika& Jack Swerling

Friend of the Big Nosh™

Brooker Law Firm

Holloway Law Firm

Sullivan Law Firm

Strategic Development Group

Bonnie Foster

Richard & Wendy Gaton

Faye Goldberg Miller

Rabbi Daniel & Morgan Sherman

Dave & Julianne Sojourner

In Kind

Blue Marlin

Bourbon Columbia

Groucho’s

Motor Supply Company Bistro

Rosso Tratoria Italia

Smitty’s Printing Company

The Tree of Life would like to

thank our 2015 Big Nosh ™

Sponsors.

Page 3

FROM THE RABBI

Oh The Places You Will Go This year, our congregation marks Meah V’Esrim, a complete life of 120 years. Oh, the Places You’ve Been! How much history has Tree of Life Congregation lived through! As I reviewed the written histories of this community I was reminded of a refrain we say at another festive time of year: “Dayenu!” If all that our founders had done. was to raise mon-ey for a second synagogue in Columbia years after General Sherman had destroyed the first– Dayenu! If all that our founders had done was to practice a modern Judaism to speak to the next generation - Dayenu! If all that our founders had done was to fundraise for the synagogue to allow it to grow – Dayenu! If all that our early leaders had done was to em-power the women – Dayenu! If all that our early leaders had done was to innovate by establishing one of the earliest Religious Schools in the country – Dayenu! If all that our leaders had done was to show dedicated leadership through the years – Dayenu! If all that our leaders had done was to move the synagogue three times to lay success for a path ahead – Dayenu! If all that our leaders had done was to ensure that rabbi or no, there was always someone to lead services – Dayenu! If all that our leaders had done was to wel-

come with open arms waves of immigration into this community with auspicious hospitality – Dayenu! Each of these actions, and so many others, in the amazing history of Tree of Life would be - Dayenu! - enough for a temple on its own. Tree of Life Congregation - Oh, the Places You’ve Been! Resiliency is to be found at Tree of Life’s inception. The congregation survived a court case between the more traditional moneyed Or-thodox and those who wanted a more modern Judaism through the Reform movement. viA leit-motif of Strong Vision was established – something that has sustained, revisited and re-newed this community for 120 years. Crisis in economics and rabbinic leadership occurred at Lady Street. Lay- leaders August Kohn and Isadore Schayer, pledged to keep the congregation going through rabbi-less times. August Cohn’s daughter Helen is quoted as saying “on many occasions they were literally the only two members present, but the doors were open, the lights were burning, and services were held every Friday evening.” We have a history of dedicated memberswho have always contributed to the synagogue’s survival. Rabbinic leadership challenged the congregation again when congregants and rabbi enlisted in the Second World War. Ingenuity and resourceful-ness became part of Tree of Life’s DNA.

This year we will celebrate our history. Adding to the three wonderful historic books already published by this community celebrating our past, I am launching a new project to record our history and present for our future. You may have noticed outside the sanctuary is information on our creation of a Tree of Life StoryCorps. If you would like to volunteer to help with this – please let me know! Instructions and opportunities are outside, with guidelines on how to interview each other and record those interviews for ourselves, and for our children and for our future members. Our stories will be made available on Facebook as they are uploaded; select interviews will be found on our We bsite; and all interviews will be placed for posterity in the sear chable StoryCorps Archives of the Library of Congress. As we celebrate our past, we are re-opening our Temple to your ideas and participation... tell us of ways that you are willing to commit yourself to make this year a special 120 in this community’s life. Your imagination and dedication and involvement are keenly sought after. So many possibilities: – Could you augment our congregational museum with new technology? Help create new opportuni-ties for congregational participation? Join forming and established or to-be-established Neighborhood Groups, Committees and Task Forces? Could you be a Torah reader, a Service Leader, a Bnai Mitzvah tutor or share your musical talents with the community? Or is there something else you can gift the Temple with your generous heart and mind? Dayenu. Give and it shall be enough for us. However you choose to participate, we welcome your contribution in planning, sustaining or in just being present. In this 120th year we will not just look to the past, but also create our future. Ad Meah V’Esrim we journey on to the next 120. At Tree of Life Congregation we want to listen and learn from you, to focus on the values you hold dear, evaluating what type of congregational personnel is needed to take you into our fu-ture, plotting and planning the next era of the Temple’s life. Search Committees are in the process of being established under the leader-ship of Jeff Selig and Elisa Westfall, to find new professional leadership to take us in value-driven direction. They will need your input, your sharing, your interest a nd your candid thoughts to successfully find new professionals, folk that can fulfill the vision and needs of this synagogue moving for-ward into its future. Avail yourself of the opportunities ahead to meet with these Search Committees and their members, talk with them, and provide them feedback. Oh, the places we have been! Oh, the places we will go! In 5776 we celebrate a full lifetime, 120 years, and we begin our congregational life again, looking ahead to the next 120 years with thoughtful intention. With apologies to Dr. Seuss and his classic work Oh! The Places You’ll Go – we end with yet another riff of his words and a prayer - “And will you succeed? Yes! You will indeed, (98 ¾ percent guaranteed.) Tree of Life, You’ll move mountains. Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So... get on your way!” Oh, the Places You’ll Go.... Rabbi Linda Joseph

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RELIGIOUS SCHOOL DIRECTOR

As Yom Kippur, the most solemn of holidays, comes to an end we find ourselves in the midst

of the Festival of Sukkot, one of the most joyful, which begins five days after Yom Kippur, on

the 15th day of Tishrei. Sukkot literally means “booths” and refers to the temporary homes

that the Jews lived in during their 40 years of wandering in the desert after the Giving of the

Torah atop Mount Sinai. We build a structure with non-permanent walls every year as we

fulfil the commandment to “dwell” in a sukkah. I want to thank the Tree of Life Brotherhood

for constructing our Sukkah for us on Sunday Sept. 20th, our first day of Religious School this

year. Our students had a great time on Sunday, Sept. 27th making decorations for our suk-

kah and I am so proud of the way they all worked together as one community to create all

kinds of crafts including the very long paper chain that you will find in our Sukkah (provided

it can withstand the rain). I hope you all take the opportunity to stop by our Sukkah and

check it out. Eight days following the beginning of Sukkot, we celebrate Simchat Torah, the

festival to honor the Torah Simchat Torah means “Rejoicing in the Torah” and is celebrated

by congregations around the world with the congregants carrying the Torah Scrolls around

the sanctuary seven times (called hakafot). Those not carrying the Torah usually carry

brightly colored flags and sing Hebrew songs as we march around during hakafot – singing,

dancing, and waving the flags in celebration. On Simchat Torah we read the concluding sec-

tion of the fifth book of the Torah Deuteronomy (D’Varim) and start again with the First book

of the Torah – Genesis (B’reishit). This holiday is a reminder that we constantly need to

study Torah and all that Torah teaches us. Once we have celebrated both of these holidays, we will wrap up the Month of October

with a visit from Rabbi Richard Address. We are very excited that Rabbi Address will be spending the weekend with our

congregation. He will be involved in Saturday Morning services and some weekend workshops as well as helping our kids at

Sunday School with the meaning of Bikur Cholim – visiting the sick/helping the elderly. This will reinforce just how important

community is to us here at Tree of Life and to our kids in Religious School. I am so proud of them and all they already have

accomplished and will accomplish in the coming year.

Dori Nudelman

Education Director

FALL ADULT EDUCATION

Wednesday, October 7th, 21st & 28th from 6:00pm-8:00pm

Jews and the Zodiac

With Rabbi Linda Joseph

“Mazal Tov!!” we proclaim at a happy Jewish occasion! It means:” under a good star.” “Siman Tov”

we say when we hear that something went well. ! It means:” under a good sign.” So do Jews

believe in Astrology? Together we will we will look at Jewish interpretations of the star signs, and

work out for ourselves -- skeptics and believers – what we think about Jews and the Zodiac.

RELIGIOUS SCHOOL NEWS

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YOUTH NEWS

Sunday, October 9 @ 6:45pm

Saturday, October 3

7pm-10pm

At Rabbi Joseph’s House

Sunday, October 18

Religious School Discussion

No Religious School

Sunday, October 11th

We will resume our regular schedule the following

week.

NFTY Fall Kallah Friday, October 9th-

Sunday, October 11th

We will be discussing the parts of the

Torah and Simchat Torah (Celebration

of Festivals).

Chai School

Join us as we kick our first KIDZ

Shabbat of the year!

Childcare available for 7:30pm Evening Service

Sunday, October 4

Lunch in the Sukkah weather permitting

We will be discussing important books other

than the Torah like,

Sunday, October 25

Religious School Discussion

What is a mensch? How can we be a mensch in

our school and in our community?

Page 6 KOL T.O.L.

MEMBER NEWS

Mazel Tov

Condolences to

Ira Radin, on the loss of his mother, Gertrude Radin

Lois Green, on the loss of her father, Kenneth Saulser

September Honor Roll

Office - Ann Gaton

Religious School - Joan Tucker

Hospital Patient List - Sandy Hertz

Green Team/Recycling - Carolyn Hudson, David Potter

Oneg Shabbat Coordination - Laura Becker & Annette

Goldstein

WRJ Bimah Rep Coordination - Amanda Hamilton

SEPTEMBER BIRTHDAYS

SEPTEMBER ANNIVERSARIES

October 1

Doris Davidson

Jessica Elfenbein

Libbie Fechter

October 10

Rabbi Sanford

Marcus

Sarah Kathryn

Weiss

October 12

Joanne Barkan

October 13

Bonnie Horn

October 16

Staci Allen-Schilit

Samuel Moses

October 18

Jocelyn Burg

Karen Goldenfield

October 19

Cheri Alexander

Oliver Chartock

Eloise Kalb-Ogden

October 20

Allan Brett

Rachel Crawford

Barbara Drucker

October 21

Bonnie Goldberg

Amy Scully

October 24

Carolyn Conway

October 25

Alan Brill

Diane Kall

October 26

Leah Meador

October 29

Susan Brill

Ellie Rose Feuerstein

October 31

Marc Posner

October 9 Steven & Linda Kerner

October 12 Harry & Bonnie Goldberg

Refuah Shelima

Get well wishes to TOL Members recently hospitalized or at

home recovering: Ann Gaton, Carol Beck, Bill Sims & Revera

Wayburn

WRJ BIMAH REPRESENTATIVES

October 2 Karen Goldenfield

October 9 Annette Goldstein

October 16 Deborah Greenhouse

October 23 Lisa Helfer

October 30 Beth Helman

Page 7

BIMAH FLOWERS YAHRZEITS

September 4

Kim, David, Shayna & Daniel Bannister, in memory of Arnold S.

Zellman

Annette Goldstein, in memory of Louis Masur

Marcie & John Baker, in memory of Daria Baker

Terry Garber, in memory of Norine L. Eschen

Bonnie G. Foster, in memory of Melvin J. Glass

Benjamin, Jean & Jack Ginsberg, in memory of Elizabeth G. Nick-

ell Kalman

Lisa Helfer & family, in memory of Robert Zucker

Barbara & Art Levy, Dorothy Levy

September 11

Judith Kalb & Alexander Ogden, in memory of Rose Bell Green

Robert Cook, in memory of Matthew Garvey

Helga & Steven Cohen, in memory of Myrna Cohen

Raymond Cohen, in memory of Myrna Cohen

Marc Rapport, in memory of Mike & Josh Rapport

Belle Fields, in memory of Edward S. Fields

Irene & Fred Fields, in memory of Samuel T. Rothfeder

Irene & Fred Fields, in memory of Edward S. Fields

Jan Barkan, in memory of Max Barkan

Donna & Ernie Magaro, in memory of Stanley Davidson

Revera Wayburn, in memory of Lewis I. Waxelbaum

September 18

Roberta & Steve Friedland, in memory of Bruce Nifoussi

Annette Goldstein & family, in memory of Larry Goldstein

Revera Wayburn, in memory of Paula Louise Kahn

Bonnie G. Foster, in memory of David L. Glass

Steven, Naomi & Sam Grosby, in memory of Audrey Grosby

September 25

Tom & Linda Rodgers, in memory of Rodger Lee Rodgers

Marcie & John Baker, in memory of Sandee Screiber

Jocelyn & Bob Burg, in memory of Robert Burg & Claire Cody Burg

October 2

Sara Franklin Rubenstein, Pauline Q. Garber*, Frank

Sheffler, Harry Blenner, Carrie G. Cohen*, Robert Fechter*,

Peter Metzler*, Lena Rothberg*, Samuel Rubin, Harry

Sunshine, Esther Borgan, Annie Fisch*, Irving Goldenfield,

Marvin Goldstein, Goldie Langer Morris, Elaine Lapine,

Sylvia Rose Mellitz, Chaim Fingerhut, Gladys Garber, Julie

Ann Harvey*, Jerry Joseph*

October 9

Rose Posner*, Isadore Schayer*, David Weiner*, Michael

Benenson*, Earl Brown, Albert Cartiff, Florence Emanuel,

Vivian Baum, Lazarus Levkoff*, Nathan Sanborn*, Annie

Chernikoff, Julius Green*, Elaine Posner-Dover, Maurice

Finkel, Helen Schulman, Frank Baker*, Clinton A.

Hagenbuch, Rakhil Vaynshteyn

October 16

Herbert Gabriel, Max Gindman*, Maxine Potter, Reuben

Slone, Samuel Winter*, Samuel Bernard Bass*, Samuel

Chimes, Harriett Helman Horowtiz*, Helen Mellichamp*,

Rose Witkin*, Sol Flwischman*, Rose Weinberg, Louis Ber-

ry, Frances Chimes, Arthur Cohn, Michael Rothberg*

October 23

Sophie G. Hack*, Mae Loewe-Gottlieb, Bessie Fine

Ginsberg, Dena S. Katzenberg*, Edward Magrill, Louis Cher-

ney, Lide Jordan, Hyman Lipsitz, Israel Nezvesky, Solomon

Savitz*, Albert Kohn*, Charles Reyner, Jr.*, Jane Rubin*,

Florence “Bloomy” Schreiber*, Rose Berry, Harold Cohen,

Ethel Kosovske*, Jenny Zarek Schayer*, Irving Strogatz,

Boyd Garber, Sam Ritter, Boris Shtessel

October 30

Sam Fidelholtz*, Julius E. Garber*, Lloyd Hill, Ida Lipschutz

Birch*, Lena G. Baker*, George Armistice Baum, Esther

Chisling, Evelyn Daniel*, Lewis Ira Glaser*, Irving Levine,

Dorothy “Dolly” Newton*, Miriam Sheckler, Ruth Beindheim,

Gertrude Bogatin, Barnet Weisberg*, Miriam Havens, Lena

Goldblatt, Bernard H. Havens, Diana B. Sobel*, Louis M.

Wolff

ONEG SHABBAT

October 9 Chair: Jeff Selig

Steven & Helga Cohen

Richard & Debra Cohn

Alan & Carolyn Conway

Mark & Pam Crawford

David & Erika Cutler

Fred & Doris Davidson

October 16 Chair: Julie Strauss

Carla Davis

Deborah & Scott Decker

Ann Diamond

Meyer & Barbara Drucker

Iris Elfenbein

October 23 Chair: Donna Magaro

Gerald & Sandra Euster

Libbie Fechter

Jessica Elfenbein & Robert Feinstein

Eric & Pamela Feuerstein

Fredrick & Irene Fields

October 30 Chair: Ilene King

Maxine Garber & Rayton Fisher

Bonnie Foster

Carl & Naomi Freedman

Stephen & Roberta Friedland

Daniela Friedman & Michael Dojc

Page 8 KOL T.O.L.

AUGUST CONTRIBUTIONS

TOL FUND DIRECTORY

Please consider making a tax-deductible donation to your favorite TOL General,

Sisterhood, or Endowment fund. Donations make wonderful gifts.

◦ General Funds ($5.00 minimum donation)

◦ Building Fund ($10 minimum donation)

◦ Choir Fund

◦ Green Team

◦ Foyer Leaf Fund ($72)

◦ High Holy Day / Passover Fund

to help cover holiday operating expenses

◦ Library Fund

◦ Memorial Board & Plaque Fund ($500)

◦ Prayer Book Fund

◦ Rabbi’s Discretionary Fund

◦ Religious School Fund

◦ Religious School Neil Cartiff Memorial Fund

◦ Youth Activities Fund

Sisterhood ($5 minimum)

◦ Reyner Convention Fund

◦ Courtesy Fund

◦ Evelyn & Dan Daniel Leadership Development

Fund

Endowment Fund ($25 minimum)

◦ Jeanette Birch Endowment Fund

◦ Diane Brown Sobel Endowment Fund

◦ Marian D. Fleischman Endowment Fund

◦ Ralph & Sarah Levine Endowment Fund

◦ Sylvia & Sam Savitz Music Enrichment

◦ Jonathan Train Youth Group Endowment Fund

General Funds

Jonathan & Lyssa Harvey, in memory of Selma Dickman

Barbara & Bobby Kahn, in memory of Gert Radin & Doris Jordan

Joan Lourie Schwartz, in memory of Selma Dickman

Paul & Angela Hecker, in memory of Toby Lourie

Bobby & Jo Breeden Hecker, in memory of Toby Lourie

Robert & Margaret Hecker, in memory of Toby Lourie

Rabbi’s Discretionary Fund

Melanie & Frank Baker, in memory of Selma Dickman

Youth Activities Fund

Robert & Amy Scully, in memory of Selma Dickman

To make a donation in honor or in memory of a loved one please notate the fund in which you wish to contribute to in the memo

of your check and you may drop it by the Temple Office or mail it to:

Tree of Life Congregation

6719 North Trenholm Road

Columbia, South Carolina 29206

To pay by credit card, go to www.tolsc.com/donate

If you do not find the fund you wish to donate to you may donate your monies under membership dues and fill in the special

notes at check out to delegate where and to whom the donation should be accredited.

Debbie Baker Brookshire, Dan Brookshire & Family,

Dad lived for Israel, Mom lived for her family.

To my loving favorite Baker Aunts, Aunt Toby Lourie, Aunt Freida

Kornblut & Aunt Pat Baker

SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY

1 2

Shabbat Evening

Service

7:30pm

3

Chai School

Sukkah Movie

Night

7:00pm

4

Religious School

9:00am

Simchat Torah

Service

6:30pm

5

Simchat Torah

Temple Office

Closed

6

Family Caregiver

Support Group

7:00pm

7

Fall Adult

Education

w/Rabbi Joseph—

Jews and the

Zodiac

6:00pm

8 9

NFTY Fall Kallah

Kidz Shabbat

6:45pm

Shabbat Evening

Service

7:30pm

10

NFTY Kall Kallah

11

NFTY Fall Kallah

12 13 14

Executive Board

Meeting

6:00pm

Board of Directors

Meeting

7:00pm

15 16

Potluck Shabbat

Dinner and Class

Service Rehearsal

6:00pm

Shabbat Evening

Service

7:30pm

17

18

Religious School

9:00am

19 20 21

Fall Adult

Education

w/Rabbi Joseph—

Jews and the

Zodiac

6:00pm

22 23

Shabbat Evening

Service

7:30pm

24

Shabbat Morning

Service, Torah

Study & Oneg

10:30am

25

Religious School

9:00am

26 27 28 29 30

Shabbat Evening

Service w/Rabbi

Richard Address

7:30pm

31

Shabbat Morning

Service & Lunch

w/Rabbi Richard

Address

10:00am

Workshop

w/Rabbi Richard

Address

3:00pm

◦ General Funds ($5.00 minimum donation)

◦ Building Fund ($10 minimum donation)

◦ Choir Fund

◦ Green Team

◦ Foyer Leaf Fund ($72)

◦ High Holy Day / Passover Fund

to help cover holiday operating expenses

◦ Library Fund

◦ Memorial Board & Plaque Fund ($500)

◦ Prayer Book Fund

◦ Rabbi’s Discretionary Fund

◦ Religious School Fund

◦ Religious School Neil Cartiff Memorial Fund

◦ Youth Activities Fund

Sisterhood ($5 minimum)

◦ Reyner Convention Fund

◦ Courtesy Fund

◦ Evelyn & Dan Daniel Leadership Development

Fund

Endowment Fund ($25 minimum)

◦ Jeanette Birch Endowment Fund

◦ Diane Brown Sobel Endowment Fund

◦ Marian D. Fleischman Endowment Fund

◦ Ralph & Sarah Levine Endowment Fund

◦ Sylvia & Sam Savitz Music Enrichment

◦ Jonathan Train Youth Group Endowment Fund

Tree of Life Congregation

6719 North Trenholm Road

Columbia, South Carolina 29206

Tree of Life Congregation

Office: 803.787.2182 Fax: 803.787.0309

Website: www.tolsc.org Email: [email protected]

Office Hours

Monday—Thursday 9:00am-5:00pm

Friday 9:00am-4:00pm

Rabbi Linda Joseph

[email protected]

Dori Nudelman, Education Director

[email protected]

Rabbi Emeritus Sanford T. Marcus, D.D.

OFFICERS COMMITTEE CHAIRS BOARD MEMBERS

President Rick Cohn Endowment Ned Strauss Susan Brill Donna Magaro

First Vice President Alan Brill Finance Ernie Magaro Laney Cohen Ernie Magaro

Second Vice President Bruce Miller House & Grounds Todd Weiss Jackie Dickman-Babcock David Pollen

Secretary Lisa Helfer Membership Susan Brill & David Polen Jessica Elfenbein Amy Scully

Treasurer Joy Parks Religious School Board Yuliana Iskhakov Eric Feuerstein Jeff Selig

Immediate Past President Steve Savitz Ritual Jessica Elfenbein Annette Goldstein Jeff Silver

Programs Adam Schor Scott Kaplan Julie Strauss

AFFILIATES TEMPLE STAFF Roger Kuperman Todd Weiss

Brotherhood President David Carr Office Manager Elizabeth Tyler

Sisterhood President Donna Magaro/Joan McGee Custodian Demitrius Gilmore LIFE TIME BOARD MEMBERS

COFTY President Spencer Amado Music Director Sharon Witherell Bernard Fleischman, Jr Howard Weiss

Green Team President Carolyn Hudson Director Emeritus Jackie McNeil Stephen Savitz