Happenings
Bat Mitzvah Comes of Age Exhibit Opening
(L-R) Jo Ann Arnowitz, executive director, FIU President Mark B. Rosenberg and Wendy Belkin all enjoy the opening reception.
Bonnie Dubbin Askowitz, showing the outfit she wore at the b’not mitzvah that she shared with her mother, Ruth Dubbin, and daughter, Andrea Askowitz, at Beit Breira Congregation of Miami on January 1, 1983. The Dubbin family is one of the first Jewish families to have settled in Miami.
Twelve women from the Golda Leah Hadassah had a b’not mitzvah ceremony at Temple Sinai, Delray Beach on May 14, 2011.
Susan Wides (Burnett) was the first bat mitzvah celebrant at Temple Beth-El in St. Petersburg in January of 1960, which was considered very progressive at the time. Years later, both of Susan’s daughters had a bat mitzvah at Temple Beth-El.
Irene Kogan participated in the first joint b’not mitzvah service at Temple Israel in Tallahassee on November 7, 1992 with five other women. Irene converted to Judaism prior to marrying her husband, Gerald Kogan, at Temple Emanu-El in Miami Beach. Gerald later served as Chief Justice of the Florida Supreme Court.
2013 Glass Ceiling Award Ceremony
(L-R) Sonia Pressman Fuentes, Judge Jeri Beth Cohen, Betsy H. Kaplan, Sherryl Susan Evans and Marilyn Hoder-Salmon receive their awards from event sponsors Kenneth Bloom, Commissioner Sally Heyman and Isabel Bernfeld Anderson, along with Tamra Sheffman, Glass Ceiling committee co-chair.
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Attendees (L-R) Jonathan Symons with Dr. Fredric & Linda Friedman, celebrating with the winners after hearing their inspiring acceptance speeches.
TILES | Newsletter of the Jewish Museum of Florida – FIU | October 2013
(L-R) Marilyn Hoder-Salmon, founding director of FIU’s Women’s Studies Center & 2013 Breaking the Glass Ceiling award winner, with Kenneth G. Furton, Dean of College of Arts & Sciences FIU and Meri-Jane Rochelson, FIU professor and associate chair, Department of English. Meri-Jane is a Glass Ceiling committee member who submitted Marilyn’s nomination.