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62nd Gala Celebration to Be Held Sunday, June 5, 2016 Honoring Elise and Barry Richman Barry had grown up not far away in Elise and Barry Richman are touched and Sharon, Massachusetts, where he attended delighted to be honorees for this year’s Dinner Temple Israel. Following in his father’s Dance; all the more so because they are sharing footsteps, Barry became an accountant, getting this special evening with the very deserving his Bachelor of Business Administration at President’s Ne’emanim Service Award winners, the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Shery and Howard Rosenstein! After graduation, he went to work for Arthur Elise Keltz grew up at Lincoln Park Jewish Anderson, but was already working at a small Center (LPJC) in Yonkers, where her parents accounting firm in Winchester when he met remain members. She attended Hebrew School, Elise. As soon as they married, Barry went celebrated her bat mitzvah, and led Junior into practice for himself and opened an office Congregation services there. When LPJC in Randolph. started sending its Hebrew School graduates In 1987, expecting their first child, the to Beth El’s Community Hebrew High School, Richmans decided to move to New Rochelle Elise was in the first group of students to carpool Barry and Elise Richman to be closer to family. Barry sold his practice to to New Rochelle. One of her wonderful teachers was the young Assistant Rabbi, Melvin N. Sirner. She already knew build a new one in New York. Years later, he merged his accounting other Beth El students from Camp Ramah in the Berkshires and USY. and tax practice with ERE, which itself later merged with the After high school, Elise headed to Boston to attend the Boston larger firm MBAF, where Barry remains a partner. Elise secured a University (BU) six-year Biomedical Program. It was in the stairwell faculty position at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, working at of the BU Hillel that she was swept off her feet by a dashing graduate a community mental health center in the Bronx, where she is now student she was to marry less than three years later. Barry and Elise a medical director. She most loves seeing patients and teaching. With newborn son Nate in tow, Elise and Barry happily relocated were wed when Elise was in her second year of medical school. They moved to Randolph, on Boston’s South Shore, and joined Temple and immediately joined Beth El Synagogue Center, since Elise’s Beth Am. Elise completed medical school, her internship in Internal older brother Teddy and wife, Beth, were already members, and Medicine, and residency in Psychiatry while there. [continued, page 8] Ben Zoma says: “Who is wise? One who learns from all people.” (Psalms 119:99).
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Special Needs Seder.......................... page 3 SMART People.................................. page 7 Chesed Seeks Volunteers................... page 3 BeTzelem Elokim............................... page 9
Nursery School................................. page 11 Youth & Family Engagement... pages 14, 15