Our Year-in-Review Video
Our Congregational Meeting was a huge success yesterday – we voted in the new Board of Trustees and approved the 2016/17 budget! As always, Cantor’s Year-in-Review video was a highlight. Click below to view! […]
A Concert in Honor of Cantor Mark Childs
“My Cantor… The Doctor!” A Concert in Honor of Cantor Mark Childs Sunday, May 22 7 PM Join us for a very special concert honoring Cantor Mark Childs and his entire cantorial school graduating class. […]
Czech Memorial Holocaust Torah
In 2011, we restored our Czech Memorial Holocaust Torah. On three occasions in October, we joined together in small groups to rewrite a Hebrew letter in our Torah. It is the 613th mitzvah to write a Torah, and by joining our hand with our Sofer’s, we performed this mitzvah. In addition to restoring our Torah, we [...]
WWII Veteran Legacy Award Honoree: Robert Wechter
Bob and Dora Wechter Oct 9, 2015 in your home Tell the story of how you met and where you were in the time of your life when you met D: I was two yrs before a divorce. Went to Temple with my then husband. Bob;s daughter was in charge of a youth group which [...]
WWII Veteran Legacy Award Honoree: Howard Smith
Born in Cornis, Utah December 4, 1924 90 years old Volunteered for U.S. Airforce as B-17 bomber pilot. Flew 29 missions over Europe. Pearl Harbor 1:48- I was skiing and we came down off of the mountain. We were about 30 miles from home, so we stopped at a drugstore to get something to [...]
WWII Veteran Legacy Award Honoree: Leonard Rosenfield
Born in Minnesota. Volunteered for the US Army Was rejected from combat units (too skinny) Stayed in USA working for the Army on secret radio and communications projects. 4:03 He’s a certified art teacher, graduated from the Walker Arts Center in Minnesota and also went through Chouinard Institute out in L.A. and L.A. trade tech. [...]
WWII Veteran Legacy Award Honoree: Bernhard Penner
Born in 1926 in Germany in a small town , 89 years old. Enlisted in the U.S. Army. Served in the Pacific in the Infantry as rifleman. In 1938 I was one of a very small group of Jewish kids from Germany who were on a kinder transport. You’ve probably heard of kinder transports to [...]
WWII Veteran Legacy Award Honoree: Jack Nadel
Born Brooklyn, NY. 92 years old. Volunteered in U.S. Army Aircorp as a B-29 bomber navigator and radar officer. Flew 27 missions. 1:50-3:50- story about horse sculpture, study for a dream about horses running from east to west side of Berlin wall. 4:00 Born October 4, 1923 in Brooklyn, was 171/2 living in NY [...]
WWII Veteran Legacy Award Honoree: Oscar Lowenschuss
Born in Germany and fled the Nazis. Volunteered for U.S. Navy as engineer. Did not serve overseas. Supervised German prisoners in the USA and did training/jobs stateside. worked for Raytheon after service. Has 21 patents on various gadgets, equipment that the Navy or Army uses Was born in Vienna Austria in 1925. My parents had [...]
WWII Veteran Legacy Award Honoree: Benjamin Lipman
When they first called me I was 18 with the 18’s and we were for 6 weeks infantry training then we were distributed to different regiments which were going overseas right away When I was 18 years old I was living with my parents 1:40-5:31- Story about wife and how they met. 5:40- I was [...]