Dear Friends,

Our children are back to school now and the month of August is coming to a close.  We will be having another meet and greet this weekend on Sunday, August 29th from 10am to 12pm at the home of Rebecca and Cliff Gross in the community of Broken Sound.  So, please RSVP to our volunteers at561-912-1453 or

At this time let me add some additional thoughts about the Kupferberg great adventure.  We have visited Europe many times in the past, Israel, five times for me and ten times for Joan and we have cruised the local area seas.  This trip had a profound effect on my feelings about Jewishness and being Jewish.  Some of the cities visited on this trip had a vital role during the second World War.

One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things. And see, we did. It became clear to me that Jews who travel will seek out the Jewish community; the Synagogue. 

Though we saw magnificent palaces and learned of the Hapsburg dynasty, it was always the Synagogue that we sought.

Prague has many synagogues, but the New-Old Synagogue was the most important for me. It is the oldest synagogue in Europe. Though the   building is beautiful, it is the 80 thousand names of Prague Jews who perished in Terezin, written on every conceivable wall that grabbed and stunned me. The drawings of the children of  Terazin are also there, and I saw drawings of black boots; stick figures with rifles; trains…..

Dear Temple Beth Shira Family and Friends,

Several important thank you’s are in order. David Clayman, Ileen Greenberg, Joan Kupferberg and Bill Kupferberg inspired all of us greatly at our erev Shabbat service last Friday evening.  My deepest gratitude to all of them. Please take the time to read the reflections that the Kupferbergs shared with us at the service which are now posted to our web site. Thank you as well to Mike

Dear Temple Beth Shira Family and Friends,

We often comment that the High Holy Days are either ‘early’ or ‘late’ when actually they are always on time! But this year I confess that the Yamim Nora’im (“Days of Awe”) DO feel particularly early. Our preparations are well under way. But along with the work that I do preparing sermons and Torah and Haftarah readers, and the work that David Clayman and our Ritual Committee do by inviting many of you for bima honors, and the work that the Sisterhood does preparing our Yom Kippur break fast and food collection, and