INTRODUCING ADAM AND KERI BERMAN by Marylyn Shultz

Adam grew up in Hingham, Keri in Revere, and they now reside in Norwell with their son Benjamin.  They recently moved back to Massachusetts, after being away for over four years.  During that time, Adam spent three months in Singapore on a special work project.  He is the Vice President of Sales for Scientific Intake, a medical company based in Lawrence, Massachusetts.  Keri is, in her own words, “strictly a stay-at-home mom” keeping tabs on Ben, who will turn 6 in March, and is currently enrolled in the kindergarten class at CSS.  Mom proudly states that Ben is smart, funny, loving, easygoing, and loves sports and all things superheroes.

Adam and Keri travel frequently, Maui being one of their favorite destinations.  While they love visiting all of the Caribbean, they look forward to expanding their travels, in a few years, with Greece, Italy, Spain and Israel on their bucket list.  Both of them enjoy playing tennis and golf, love that Ben has showed an interest, and look forward to playing with him as well.  Adam really likes to cook and loves to prepare amazing meals for family and friends.  He would like to own a deli one day; hopefully it would be local!

Adam’s mom and dad, Joel and Christine, have been long-time members of Sha’aray Shalom. Adam grew up in our congregation, becoming a Bar Mitzvah during Rabbi Stephen Karol’s tenure, and in later years Rabbi Joseph and Cantor Weiss officiated at Keri’s conversion, their wedding and Benjamin’s baby naming.

A HEARTY WELCOME TO THE BERMAN FAMILY!

The Scroll by Scott Garland

 Welcome to the beginning of our online newsletter, The Scroll.  Originally, the congregation published a monthly newsletter and mailed a hard copy to each congregant or congregant-family.  We eventually replaced this paper monthly bulletin with weekly e-mails, as postage and printing costs increased and the costs of e-mail decreased.

Some of you have asked for the monthly bulletin to return.  You recognize that e-mails are fast, flexible, cheap, and convenient.  They allow the temple to address current topics quickly, as we did in reaction to Charlottesville, for example.  But you also note that e-mails are hard to sort through and clutter your inbox.  And you have also noted that while our e-mails convey what’s happening on the calendar, they often lack the content that our monthly bulletin conveyed:  thoughts from the clergy and the president, introductions to b’nai mitzvah students and new congregants, and the like.

We have listened and responded.  In addition to our weekly e-mails about upcoming events, we are reintroducing longer articles (such as this message) on this new online newsletter, The Scroll, essentially a congregational blog.  At the same time, we are upgrading our website to make its information more current and accessible.  And for those of you who want hard copies, we will collect these articles and other information into a printed newsletter which we will mail to you quarterly.  In recognition of higher printing and mailing costs, however, this quarterly printed newsletter will be subscription-only and require a modest reimbursement.

We hope that this multi-pronged approach meets our congregants’ varied needs.  We will be setting up an Aceptiva page for subscriptions to the printed newsletter. To contribute or comment about our communications, or, even better, help the Communications Committee, please contact csscommunications101@gmail.com.

I look forward to all that the coming year brings and to spending more time with you. If you ever need to talk with me about anything, please e-mail me at president@shaaray.org.

Shalom,

Scott Garland

President