Annual Report - Temple De Hirsch Sinai

Temple De Hirsch Sinai
Annual Report
2015
Letter from Board President
Dear Members of the Temple Family,
This past year has been remarkable in many ways. There are two major milestones in particular
that I will call to your attention. First, however, it is fitting that I thank you both as Board
President and as a fellow congregant for all that you do each day to make this congregation a true
kehilla kedosha, a family of families.
We continue to grow in membership and in program offerings. We continue to successfully reach
out beyond our synagogue’s walls into the community in many ways. We balance tradition with
innovation to meet the needs of our congregation and the larger community. We take seriously our
responsibility to nurture Temple so that it is strong and vibrant for us, for our children and for their
children.
It is with duty in mind that we completed and published our Strategic Long Range Plan this year,
designed to achieve the bold vision that Rabbi Weiner outlined during our High Holy Days services.
The six pillars or categories of the plan (worship, education, congregation engagement, social action,
finance, real estate) clearly spell out the areas in which we will be devoting our time and resources
over the coming years.
The Strategic Long Range Plan is one of the milestones. The other, which was just recently
completed, was the selling of our interest in the Mayflower Hotel property. In the congregational
email that I recently sent out the details of the transaction and the background of our interest in
the property were laid out. The essential point is that we will have a stronger financial base in the
future. This will allow us to move toward making the longer term program and facility investments
that are essential for Temple. It will also allow us the build the capital reserve and endowment base
that every well-run non-profit organization needs to have to sustain their future.
Taken together, these accomplishments mean that we have both a roadmap for where we want to go
and what we want to be as well as the financial base on which to build for the future.
This is my last letter as President. Next year, Don Loeb will take the chair and I am confident that
with his leadership we will continue to thrive.
This is neither a valedictory essay nor a comprehensive reflection of all that we have achieved
together over the past two years. I do want to thank my fellow Board members, Rabbi Weiner
and all the rabbis, the administration and staff on both campuses and all who work every day for
Temple. I’m grateful that I’ve had the opportunity to serve and I look forward to all that we will be
doing for the next decade and beyond.
Jeff Teper
Board President
Last Year at Temple
We are honored to have our efforts
recognized by the Union for Reform
Judaism Commission on Social
Action. This past year, we won
a 2015 Religious Action Center
Irving J. Fain Award for our
recent Campaign for Gun
Responsibility. Through education,
advocacy, and fundraising,
Temple supported passage of
Initiative 594 for universal
background checks, a milestone
accomplishment in Washington
State.
We supported many
meaningful Tikkun Olam
opportunities to help
our neighbors and
community.
We provided
countless life cycle
events for Temple
members and their
loved ones.
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We greeted more than 2,000 people at our High
Holy Days service.
We offered an amazing range of lifelong learning &
enrichment opportunities…
…as well as over 40 programs, events and social
opportunities that span the generations.
It’s all part of our individual and collective investment in the
future of Reform Judaism.
We thank you for all that you do to make this 116 year old
congregation truly a family of families, a kehilla kedosha – a
caring and sacred community.
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Last Year at Temple
community passover seder, photo by joshua cohen
simchat torah, photo by alison smiley
purim photobooth, photo by snapbar
tribe senior prom event at the summit, photo by joshua cohen
breaking ground for the urban garden
celebrating the torah, photo by alison smiley
Last Year by the Numbers
Support & Revenue: July 1, 2013-June 30, 2014
Revenue
Amount
Percent
Annual Contributions (inc. Circle
Giving & Security Assessment)
$1,841,402
49.4%
Annual Campaign (fundraising,
matching)
$428,000
11.5%
Facilities (Income & Rental)
$252,914
6.8%
JRM & Religion School Income
$906,779
24.3%
Events (Amudim & Deli Night)
$64,800
1.7%
Investment Interest
$85,200
2.3%
Estate/Bequests/Shemanski
$45,000
1.2%
Miscellaneous
$105,100
2.8%
Total Revenue
$3,729,195
100%
Expenses: July 1, 2013-June 30, 2014
Expenses
Amount
Percent
Services, Pulpit, Music, Memorial
Book, Yahrzeit & Social Action
$938,914
25.5%
Religion School & Library, JRM
Expense & Youth Activities
$987,929
26.8%
Membership, Communication,
Programs & Committees
$128,100
3.5%
HHD Expenses
$56,000
1.5%
Administration
$881,736
23.9%
Facilities and Security
$616,060
16.7%
URJ
$25,000
0.7%
Bad Debt Allowance
$50,000
1.4%
Miscellaneous
$5,000
0.1%
Total Expenses
$3,688,739
100%
Volunteers at the Latke Dinner, photo by lisa meyers
fun at kiddish club
Legacy Society Members
Legacy Society Founders
Anonymous (3)
Anonymous
Robert & Bobbi Bridge
Becky & Jack (z’l) Benaroya
Will & Jessica Burgamy
Shirley (z’l) & Mark (z’l) Donner
Toby & William Donner
Jackie & H.L. (Skip) Kotkins, Jr.
Nanette & Melvin Freeman
Faye & Herman (z’l) Sarkowsky
Myrna (z’l) & Jack (z’l) Israel
Catherine Mayer & Martin Selig
Myles Kahn
Lucy & Herbert Pruzan
Alice & Arthur (z’l) Siegal
Althea (z’l) Stroum
Douglas Weisfield
Members in Perpetuity
Luba (z’l) & Ira (z’l) Alexander
Charlene Polyansky
Joyce & Raymond Benezra
Lucy & Herbert Pruzan
Linda & George (z’l) Berkman
Bernice & Martin (z’l) Rind
Barbara & Sanford Bernbaum, Jr.
Frances & Fred (z’l) Rogers
Mary Lou & Robert (z’l) Block
Judy & Kermit Rosen
Shirley (z’l) & Herb Bridge
Gladys (z’l) & Sam (z’l) Rubinstein
Bobbi & Robert Bridge
Faye & Herman (z’l) Sarkowsky
Lawrence & Susan Broder
Esther & Walter Schoenfeld
Ruth & David (z’l) Cohn
Helen (z’l) & Edward (z’l) Shekter
Nanette & Melvin Freeman
Alice & Arthur (z’l) Siegal
Jeannette & Raymond Galante
Margaret (z’l) & David Stern
Eileen & Robert (z’l) Gilman
Pauline & Edward Stern, Jr.
Adele & Stanley (z’l) Golub
Minnie (z’l) & Irving (z’l) Sternoff
Betty & Sam (z’l) LeBid
Leena & Melvin Sturman
Lois & Benjamin (z’l) Mayers
Goldie & Stanley (z’l) Tobin
Ann & Lawrence (z’l) Nieder
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$18,000+ Circle
Dina Alhadeff & Jason Long
Becky Benaroya
William & Toby Donner
David & Lynne Feinberg
Donald & JoEllen Loeb
Gail Mautner & Mario
Shaunette
Laurie Minsk & Jerry Dunietz
Jeffrey & Sandy Teper
$10,000 - 17,999 Circle
Stanley & Alta Barer
Edward & Pamela Bridge
Kevin & Lisa Johnson
Steve Pruzan & Janet Abrams
Kermit & Judy Rosen
Gary & Karen Schwartz
Edward & Constance Sherman
Earl & Eva Shulman
$6,000 - 9,999 Circle
Robert & Judith Albert
Robert & Gail Alexander
Kenneth & Marleen Alhadeff
Richard & Dianne Arensberg
Alan & Joyce Bender
Michael & Leslie Bernstein
Jonathan & Bobbe Bridge
Robert & Bobbi Bridge
Joseph & Barbara Buchman
Jay & Rebecca Buxbaum
Earl & Cindy Caditz
Harry Caraco & Jeanie
Alhadeff
Jeffrey & Elizabeth Cohen
Michael & Lauren Cohen
Frederic & Harriette Dorkin
Larry Engel
Herman & Diane Gorlick
James & Gloria Gottesman
Bert Green &
Alexandra Brookshire
Ken & Betsy Greenbaum
Irvin & Laura Karl
Nick & Michele Keller
Michael & Shari Koppel
Harold & Inge Marcus
Marvin & Rebecca Meyers
Kit & Sally Narodick
Matthew & Kerry Perlman
Stanley & Valerie Piha
Brian & Elizabeth Pollack
Brian & Nancy Quint
Donald & Jo Anne Rosen
William & Jeanie Rosen
Jon & Patricia Rosen
Faye Sarkowsky
Jeffrey & Julie Schoenfeld
Randy Silver
Stuart & Lee Weinstein
William & Judith Weisfield
$3,600 - 5,999 Circle
Aaron & Emily Alhadeff
Jeffrey & Brenda Atkin
Alan & Terry Axelrod
Bruce & Karen Bobman
Mark & Terry Brashem
Herb Bridge
Jack & Deborah Calderon
Ronald & Barbara Coe
Grant & Kathryn Degginger
Karen Dixon
David & Peggy Dunner
Mike Ehrenberg & Donna
Richman
Joel Eisenberg & Marcia
McCraw
David Epstein
Lawrence & Annette Fisher
David & Jo Gartenberg
Bradford & Deborah Gliner
Mario & Elizabeth Goertzel
Mark & Cynthia Goldhammer
Evan & Zoe Goldring
Daniel Gottlieb & Karen Boyden
Robert & Estelle Handlin
Charles & Carol Hirsch
Louis & Claudia Isquith
Bruce & Cris Jaffe
Mark & Vicci Kane
Lance & Sandra Korb
Raymond & Linda Kosin
Simon & Raquel Koz
Brian & Marilyn Kremen
Daniel & Holly Levin
Monte Levinson & Rachel Hart
Robert & Cindy Masin
John & Debbie Muscatel
Steven & Lesley Olswang
Richard Pelman & Sally
Browning
Jay & Debra Platt
Steven & Judith Prince
Alan & Juliet Pruzan
Daniel & Alexandra Rosenstein
Cathy Sarkowsky
Walter & Esther Schoenfeld
Kenneth & Beverly Schoenfeld
Howard & Beatrice Seelig
Andrea Selig & Joel Erlitz
Susan Silberman
Michel & Roberta Stern
Fredric & Ana Stern
Gary & Cynthia Stratiner
Philip Stratiner & Louise
Ruben
Stuart & Barbara Sulman
Jay & Judith Turney
Ron & Toni Waldbaum
Neil & Denise Weinstein
Douglas & Marcia Wiviott
Michael & Marcia Wiviott
James & Marianne Wolff
Mark & Elizabeth Zobel
Every effort has been made to
ensure the accuracy of these
listings. If you note an error,
please contact our Development
Director, Stephen Kepher at
[email protected].
tdhs homeless shelter Volunteers, photo by justen van dyke
jrm kids celebrating purim, photo by stacy handlin
sisterhood women of the bible event with rabbi jaclyn cohen
brotherhood basketball
deli night, photo by justen van dyke
exploring at jrm, photo by stacy handlin
donors to 2014-2015 high holy days annual campaign
Anonymous (7)
Jeff & Margie Abolofia
Gail & Bob Alexander
Emily & Aaron Alhadeff
Dina Alhadeff & Jason Long
Kenneth & Marlene Alhadeff
Brett & Ellen Alkan
Paul & Jerilyn Anderson
Dick & Dianne Arensberg
Joel & Amy Arensberg
Rob & Traci Arron
Jeff & Brenda Atkin
Alan & Terry Axelrod
Stanley & Alta Barer
Diana Barnes & Michael
McKinlay
Barbara & Morgan Barokas
Morgan & Kathleen Barokas
Bernice Barrat
Stephen & Jody Bellar
Jonathan & Gitai Ben-Ammi
Becky Benaroya
Joyce & Alan Bender
Robert & Debbie Bensussen
Nancy & Richard Beren
Doris Berg
George & Linda Berkman
Jan & Kenneth Block
Bruce & Karen Bobman
Linda & Randolph Brandeis
Mark & Terry Brashem
Kathie Breslin & Gary Signs
Herb Bridge
Lisa Bridge
Pam & Ed Bridge
Bob & Bobbi Bridge
Bobbe & Jonathan Bridge
Susan & Larry Broder
Barbara & Joseph Buchman
Bill & Marianne Bundren
Barry & Doreen Butterklee
Jay & Rebecca Buxbaum
Joel Buxbaum
Jack & Debbie Calderon
Stephanie Carmel & David Oder
Gayle & Joe Carrol
Fredrick & Rochelle Casserd
Howard & Kari Chansky
Arthur Chaykin & Paulette
Giarranta
Aaron & Nuria Coe
Alex Cohen & Dana Kovalchick
Mike & Laurie Cohen
Rabbi Jaclyn & Josh Cohen
Jeff & Betsy Cohen
Steve Cohn & Laura Scheyer
Lee & Rolaine Copeland
Nancy & Jim Corning
Arnold Davidson
Grant & Kathy Degginger
Karen Dixon
Bill & Toby Donner
Fred & Harriette Dorkin
Esther Druxman
Mike Ehrenberg & Donna Richman
Don & Linda Elman
Larry Engel
David Epstein
Marty Eskenazi & Madeleine
Balgley
Beth Featherstone
Cynthia Wallace & Julie Fein
Kip & Diane Fern
Larry & Annette Fisher
Charlene Friedman
Dr & Mrs Leonard Fromer
Averill & Shoshana Galante
Raymond & Jeannette Galante
David & Jo Gartenberg
Debra & Stanley Geddes
Natalie Gendler
Eileen & Bob Gilman
Sandy & Ken Glass
Brad & Debbie Gliner
Mario & Elizabeth Goertzel
Jack & Elinor Goldberg
Steven & Joan Goldblatt
Mark & Cynthia Goldhammer
Bruce & Elaine Goldstein
Miriam Goldstein
Jay & Meredith Goldstein
Adele Golub
Tony & Catherine Gonchar
Pam & Robert Gordon
Herman & Diane Gorlick
Sonia Grebe
Jon Greenbaum
Richard & Katherine Greenberg
Harvey Greenberg
Peter & Hilary Grilley
Jerry Gronfein & Marcie Buckner
Jeffrey & Vivian Grossman
Steve & Reyna Gustav
Jack & Alison Handlin
Robert & Estelle Handlin
Larry & Aliza Hauser
Alex & Sylvia Hayden
Vance Dingfelder & Steph
Hemsworth
Jerry & Ellen Hendin
Stanley & Elizabeth Herring
Chuck & Carol Hirsch
Rabbi Norman & Margaret Hirsh
Lisa & Lewis Horowitz
Howard Kaplan & Jessica Towbin
Wendie Hunt Burgess & Kim
Burgess
Jane Isenberg & Phil Tompkins
Dr Louis & Claudia Isquith
David Israel & Audrey Rosenfeld
Sue Israel
Ellen & Michael Jones
Kristin & Larry Jordan
Debra & Marc Kadish
Lawrence & Shannon Kahn
Myles Kahn
Bruce & Tina Kahn
Erica Sweet & Aaron Kallberg
Mark & Vicci Kane
Charles & Betsy Kapner
Irv & Laura Karl
Rachel Katzenellenbogen &
Bernard Mansavage
Matthew & Emmi Kearns
Ilana & Jonathan Kennedy
Stephen & Jan Kepher
Dr Steve & Dr Nancy Klein
Raymond & Nataly Kluger
Laurie & Randy Koehler
Mike & Shari Koppel
Sandra & Lance Korb
Marci Hennes-Koslow & Alan
Koslow
Simon & Raquel Koz
Robert & Lori Kraft
Brian & Marilyn Kremen
Matthew Davidson & Inna
Kuperman
Catherine Lanham
Ellen Laschansky
Deborah & Stephen Lawson
Linda Mattox Burns & Jon
Lellelid
Joan Lerner
Holly & Dan Levin
Amie Batson & Orin Levine
Monte Levinson & Rachel Hart
Jan Levy
Julie Levy
Bryan & Carol Leyton
Priscilla Leytus
Loeb Family Charitable
donors to 2014-2015 high holy days annual campaign
Foundations
Don & JoEllen Loeb
Ron Loewenherz & Karen Boher
John & Paula Loewy
Karen & Mike Lucero
Robert & Natalie Malin
Harold & Inge Marcus
Natalie & Jerome Margolis
Ami & Jonathan Maron
Robert & Cindy Masin
Gail Mautner & Mario
Shaunnette
Robert & Barbara Mesher
Rabbis Aaron & Emily Meyer
Betty Abrams & Jack Meyers
Marv & Rebecca Meyers
Pip & Miriam Meyerson
Jerry Dunietz & Laurie Minsk
Martin & Allison Mollner
Dean & Sharon Morell
Kit & Sally Narodick
Haidee Neiman
Michelle & Claude Nesis
Ann Nieder
Harry & Neale Obedin
Todd Oberlander
Joan Okrent
Jane & Mark Orenstein
Marc & Karen Ovetz
Kerry & Matthew Perlman
Ellen Pieper
Estate of Sidney Pinch
Eric & Gail Pinczower
Ricca & Billy Poll
Brian & Elizabeth Pollack
Hyman Pollack
David Pollart
Don & Alice Porter
Terry & Erica Posner
Steve & Judith Prince
Peggy J Printz
Herb & Lucy Pruzan
Steve Pruzan & Janet Abrams
Ariel Pupko
Brian & Nancy Quint
Mike & Linda Rackner
Susan Raine
Rochelle & Jesse Reingold
Bernice Rind
Vicki Robbins & Rocky Silverman
Richard & Esther Robinson
Jack & Elinor Rodman
Frances Rogers
Debbie & Rob Rosemont
Jon & Patricia Rosen
Donald & Jo Anne Rosen
Judy & Kermit Rosen
Nathan Rosenbaum & Sabrina
Seward
Bobbie Rosenthal
Neil Ross & Lisbeth Davis
Gil & Miriam Roth
Alexis & Grant Rubenstein
David & Eileen Rubenstein
Nina Sanders
Eanna Sarah
Faye Sarkowsky
Josh & Lauren Schaer
Barbara & William Schatz
Dr Jay Schinfeld
Katherine Lois Schubert
Steve & Pamela Schwartz
Joel Erlitz & Andrea Selig
Ronn & Linda Seligman
Edward & Constance Sherman
Earl & Eva Shulman
Karl & Stacie Siebrecht
Arthur (z’l) Siegal
Alice Siegal
Martin & Rose Silberfarb
Susan Silberman
Beverley Silver
Lynne & Brad Smith
Nelly Sofer
Naomi Sokoloff & Douglas Berry
Carolyn Spiegel
Craig & Liz Spiezle
Ed & Fran Spring
Bob & Judi Ann Standley
Margie & Ben Starnes
David & Eileen Stempel
Fredric & Ana Stern
Bobbie & Michel Stern
Charlotte Stern
Edward & Pauline Stern, Jr
Barbara & Burton Sternoff
David & Marcie Stone
Rachel & Brian Stoner
Gary & Cindy Stratiner
Daniel & Linda Strickman
Helen Stusser
Stuart & Barbara Sulman
Dr & Mrs Samuel Tarica
Gary & Helen Teper
Jeff & Sandy Teper
Chris & Dawn Thomas
Elisa Thomases
Judy & Jay Turney
Andrew & Lucie Ury
Jay & Lynn Vernon
Bernard & Sarah Wacher
Brett & Halli Waldbaum
Rodney & Nina Waldbaum
Ron & Toni Waldbaum
Susan Waldbaum
Saralee Warnick
Michael & Linda Warren
Diane & Dennis Warshal
Jerrold & Ardee Warshal
Brian & Ashley Wax
Steve & Lisa Weidling
Lynnette Weiner
Rabbi Daniel & Cynthia Weiner
Neil & Denise Weinstein
Mort & Judy Weisman
Helen Weiss
David Widlan
Douglas & Marcia V. Wiviott
Michael & Marcia Wiviott
Jacquelyn Wiviott
Ronni Wolfe
Jim & Marianne Wolff
Lorraine Wright
Dr. Bernard & Joyce Zeldow
Mark & Elizabeth Zobel
Lee & Cindy Zulch
We wish to acknowledge the
generous support of the Microsoft
Matching Gifts Program which
has provided generous support
to our community outreach
programs by matching gifts to the
Women’s Shelter, the Libraries
and the Jennifer Rosen Meade
Preschool. No goods or services
were provided in exchange for
these gifts. Every effort has been
made to ensure the accuracy of
these listings. If you note an error,
please contact our Development
Director, Stephen Kepher, at
[email protected].
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