SIMCHAS
42 The Jewish Voice & Herald
june 21, 2013
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ACHIEVEMENT – Judy Moseley, Temple Beth-El’s executive director since 2011, has become a Fellow in Temple Administration. By becoming a Fellow, she is among an elite minority of synagogue executive directors who has achieved this level of professional skill and excellence. Her project was writing an extensive safety/security manual for synagogues. She will be officially presented as a Fellow at the National Association for Temple Administration at the organization’s October conference in Dallas. Judy Moseley
Office of Lt. Governor Elizabeth Roberts
Lt. Governor Elizabeth Roberts, left, Myra Shays and Governor Lincoln Chafee
Naomi Heilweil and Jimmy Rotenberg
AWARD – Myra Shays, founder and immediate past president of the greater Providence chapter of Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG), was honored at a June 6 state-
house ceremony. The PFLAG chapter is part of an international network of some 350 self-sustaining chapters, comprising some 200,000 people.
She had served the local PFLAG chapter as its president for 15 years. A resident of Providence, Shays is a member of Temple Habonim.
WEDDING – Jimmy Rotenberg and Naomi Heilweil were married June 2 at Brown RISD Hillel in Providence. Jimmy is the son of Fred and Sally Rotenberg of Providence. He is also the grandson of Leonard and Ruth Rotenberg of Providence, and the late Sam
and Lenore Sherwin of Evanston, Ill. Naomi is the daughter of Edwin and Toby Heilweil of Potomac, Md., the granddaughter of Israel and Harriet Heilweil of Princeton, N.J., and the granddaughter of the late Dorothy and Norman Zankel of Potomac, Md.
Rabbi Wayne Franklin of Temple Emanu-El of Providence and Cantor Marshal Kapell of Congregation B’nai Tzedek of Potomac officiated; Rabbi Mordechai Rackover of Brown RISD Hillel delivered a d’var Torah.