I am happy to announce that we are going to restart Temple Israel’s Men's’ Club! After a number of years of dormancy, let’s get the Men’s Club back in operation!

For many years Temple Israel’s Men’s Club was a very active organization, sponsoring many activities/fundraisers for the Temple. As a member of this organization since the late eighties (some of those years as its Treasurer), I was very impressed with its organizational structure, and the ease with which it was able to plan its activities, especially major fundraisers for the Temple. With volunteers and leadership always available to assist in whatever events were being planned, work was easy and the events themselves came out successfully. Whether we made a lot of money or not, the main thing was that we had a good time.

Unfortunately a lot has changed over time. Volunteers and leadership for the Men’s Club is lacking. For the last number of years finding someone to take on the leadership of the Men’s Club has been difficult. One cannot argue that people are busy and that other priorities must come first. Even so, we must make every effort to create an organized Men’s Club which will be long lasting and hopefully contribute to the continued growth of Temple Israel.

That is why I would like to make another attempt to revive Temple Israel’s Men’s Club. A major goal, is to bring the men of Temple Israel together to form a new, long lasting Men’s Club. Let’s start off small, meeting to discuss what we want to do for the future and how we plan to do it. To avoid confusion, I have no desire planning any fundraising activities so soon after starting up the organization again. It could take a couple of months or a year before we are ready to undertake any type of fundraiser. Let us first organize ourselves, meet, talk, and continue to meet and talk until we feel comfortable that we are ready to undertake a fundraising event. At that point I hope to have people who would be able to commit some of their time to planning and running such an event.