Vol. 33, No. 6 lyar-Sivan-Tammuz 5771 June-July 2011 An Affiliate of the Jewish Federation of Greater Charlotte Temple Beth El Welcomes Rabbi Jonathan Freirich and Cantor Mary Thomas As of July 1, Temple Beth El will weleome two talent ed and dynamie elergy. Rabbi Jonathan Freirieh will join Beth El as Assoeiate Rabbi and newly invested Cantor Mary Thomas will beautifully round out the elergy team. Rabbi Freirieh has served Temple Bat Yam, a Reform synagogue, in South Lake Tahoe for the past eight years. Prior to that, he worked with Hillel in Tueson, AZ and Cleveland, OH for four years. Those Beth El members who have met Rabbi Freirieh deseribe him as learned, personable, outgoing, funny, and a great fit for our eongregation. His pas sions inelude Jewish learning, eombining fun aetivities with a Jewish flavor, and enthusiastie partieipation in eommunity life. He loves to bike, ski, and read sei- enee fietion and fantasy. His wife, Ginny, Rabbi Jonathan Freirieh Illi TEMPLE BETH EL is a ketubah artist and his four year old son, Jude, eannot wait to play in the Levine JCC’s Camp Katan and learn in our Charlotte Jewish Presehool. Rabbi Jonathan grew up as a Reform Jew at Central Synagogue in Manhattan and was ordained at the Reeonstruetionist Rabbinieal College in Philadelphia. He and Ginny met as undergrads at Middlebury College in Vermont. Rabbi Jonathan has been a longtime member of both the Central Conferenee of Ameriean Rabbis and the Reeonstruetionist Rabbinieal Assoeiation. Many in our eommunity are already familiar with the talents of Cantor Mary Thomas as she served Beth El for three years as a Cantorial Intern prior to attend ing Cantorial Sehool. Cantor Thomas will be working part-time leading serviees, teaehing B’nei Mitzvah with Cantor Bernard, working with the Religious Sehool, teaehing adult edueation, ereating family programming, and sharing with all (Continued on page 11) r. Temple Israel Welcomes New Assistant Rabbi A Rabbi Noam Rancher, his wife, Tamar, and baby Judah Reuben. Rabbi Noam Raueher was born and raised in Hamden, CT, with his par ents, Gail and Steve, both teaehers, and his three sib lings: Ari, Miehal, and Aviva. With gratitude Noam believes the person he has beeome is due, in large part, to the amazing family from whieh he eomes. Rabbi Raueher graduat ed from the Ameriean Jewish University in May 2011. He attended Hofstra University in Hempstead, NY where he earned his Baehelor of Arts with a major in Judaie Studies. As a Rabbinie Intern at Temple Beth Am in LA, he volunteered at the soup kitehen and worked on transitional hous ing projeets. He also ereated and implemented a Learner’s Minyan, guiding partieipants to develop a deeper under standing of prayers and tradi tions. Rabbi Raueher worked with others to build a earing eompassionate intra-syna gogue network governed by Jewish values. Also, while at Temple Beth Am, he served as an Edueation Intern/Viee Prineipal of Religious Sehool where he ereated meaningful and ongoing learning models. He developed multiple family- oriented lessons for family Shabbat morning serviees that integrated eommunieation, eross-generational learning and Jewish literaey. While at Ameriean Jewish University he served as the Direetor of Student Life where he sue- eessfully developed one-on-one relation ships with students and planned programs sueh as aleohol and drug awareness, blood drives and eareer fairs. While at Ziegler Sehool of Rabbinie Studies, he served as Minyan Coordinator, where he helped organize and guide stu dent-led morning and after noon serviees. He also men tored students to assume lead ership roles. He worked at UCLA v; (Continued on page 10) Temple Beth El Brotherhood and Jewish Federation Present U.S. Representative Sue Mvrick Homeland Security and Homegrown Terrorism Please join us for this very timely program on Sunday, June 12, at 10 AM at Temple Beth El. This event is free and open to the entire eommunity. The Temple Beth El Brotherhood will sponsor an optional breakfast prior to the program beginning at 9 AM whieh will take plaee in the Silverman Soeial Hall at a eost of $10. Reservations for the break fast ean be made by going to ON ‘311O1HVH0 80Zf #lll/\IH3d aivd 39visod s n aisidSdd pe)senbey eojAjes eOueqQ 9ZZ8Z ON ‘9HO|JBMo ZU# Slins ‘peoy eouepjAOJd Z009 www.beth-el.eom/rsvp. The Brotherhood of Temple Beth El and the Jewish Federation Community Relations Couneil join together in weleoming U.S. Representative Sue Myriek to dis- euss the growing global threat of Hezbollah and Iran, and what the mainstream media won’t tell you about the Muslim Brotherhood, and the online jihad in our baek- yard. In 2009, Sue Myriek was seleeted by House Leadership to serve on the House Permanent Seleet Committee on Intelligenee. The Intelligenee Committee has jurisdietion over the Intelligenee eommunity, ineluding intelli- genee-related aetivities of the CIA, Defense Intelligenee Ageney (DIA), the National Seeurity Ageney, and other ageneies of the Department of Defense (DOD), and the Departments of State, Justiee, and Treasury. Reeently, Rep. Sue Myriek was appointed ehairwoman of a sub- eommittee on the full Intelligenee Committee. Myriek, a Charlotte Republiean, will take over as ehairwoman of the Subeommittee on Terrorism, Human Intelligenee, Analysis and Counterintelligenee. The role puts Myriek in the posi tion of holding hearings and inves tigations, ineluding a ehief eon- eem of hers, homegrown terror ism. Representative Sue Myriek (NC-9) eame to Congress in 1995 after building a sueeessful adver tising and publie relations busi ness, and serving two terms as mayor of Charlotte, NC, the state’s largest eity and eommereial hub. She is eurrently in her eighth term representing North Carolina’s 9th distriet, whieh eovers portions of Union, Meeklenburg, and Gaston Counties. Sue Myriek is also leading the eharge nationally on issues related to terrorism. She is the founder of the Congressional Anti-Terrorism Caueus, whieh has more than 120 Members. This eaueus meets with experts on terrorism and works to Rep. Sue Myriek edueate the publie about the dan gers we faee from radieal Islamists. ^ Brotherhood TEMPLE BETH EL JEWISH^ FEDE^RAT10N$ OF GREATER CHARLOTTE. Local, Global, Eternal

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