Below is a list of all donations received between November 21, 2012 and April 28, 2013, as well as tributes, mitzvah projects and fundraisers from this time period, and the sponsors of the 2013 Kulanu-Lemba Speaking Tour.<\/p>\n
TODAH RABAH<\/em>\u00a0to all of our supporters for helping Kulanu (Hebrew for \u201call of us\u201d) Please let us know if we have missed your name or contribution (go to www.kulanu.org\/contact and choose \u201cAsk about a Donation\u201d) and we will list you in the next issue. Thank you!<\/p>\n $15,000+<\/strong><\/em> $10,000<\/strong><\/em> <\/span>$2,500-5,000<\/strong><\/em> $1,000-2,499<\/strong><\/em> $500-999<\/strong><\/em> $100-499<\/strong><\/em> Donations in Honor of and in Memory of\u2026<\/strong> *Note: This summer, Kulanu is honoring our president, Harriet Bograd for her years of service (and her 70th birthday!) through an online \u2018ad book\u2019 fundraiser. Contributions to Kulanu\u2019s 2013\u00a0Tribute Journal in honor of Harriet Bograd<\/strong>\u00a0are accepted until May 31st, 2013 (gifts received after this deadline will be published in an Addendum to the Journal), and will be published in the form of a virtual scrapbook of memories from Harriet\u2019s friends and family, and from members of the larger Kulanu community who wish to pay tribute to the woman who is helping change the face of global Judaism. Check out the virtual Journal \u2013 and submit your own gift and message to the Journal or Addendum \u2013 through the Kulanu web site at www.kulanu.org\/tribute<\/p>\n Donations in honor of someone<\/strong> Rabbi Barbara Aiello \u2013\u00a0Congregation Darchei Noam (Toronto, ON)<\/em> Donations in memory of someone<\/strong> Nellie Beckerman \u2013\u00a0George and Toby Wakstein<\/em> Mitzvah Projects & Fundraising Campaigns<\/strong><\/p>\n Sam Levy\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>(New Rochelle, NY)<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 Sam put an exciting twist on his Kulanu Mitzvah Project: he\u2019s hiking Massada in Israel to raise funds for the two Abayudaya schools in Uganda! This is a first for Kulanu, and we\u2019re delighted to announce that Sam\u2019s Personal Fundraising Page has already raised $1,380 toward his $1,800 goal. Sam became\u00a0bar mitzvah<\/em>\u00a0on April 20, 2013.\u00a0Mazal tov<\/em>, Sam!<\/p>\n Temple Beth El Salinas Religious School<\/strong>\u00a0(Salinas, CA)<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 Rabbi Marcy Delbick continues to lead the school\u2019s Kulanu Fundraising Campaign in support of the Dora Bloch Fund, and as of this printing they have raised $2,017.22 \u2013 that\u2019s 74% of what it costs to run this program for a year! The Dora Bloch Fund is designated for the students residing in the girls\u2019 dormitories at the Abayudaya schools in Uganda, and ensures that these students receive three meals a day every day; an important need to fill in this impoverished African community.<\/p>\n Hillel Day School<\/strong>\u00a0(Farmington Hills, MI)<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 The fifth and sixth grade students at Hillel Day School are leading a \u201cClean Water in Uganda\u201d fundraiser, to raise the money needed for the Abayudaya community to purchase a manual borehole pump and a water tank so they have access to clean water in Uganda. The fifth-graders are participating in a \u2018Battle of the Books\u2019 tzedekah project, and the sixth-graders are selling water bottles to raise funds for water sanitation in this remote African Jewish community. Thanks, Hillel Day School, for addressing this urgent need!<\/p>\n
\nassist isolated and emerging Jewish communities around the world.<\/p>\n
\nAnonymous
\nThanks to the Coexist Foundation for their gift of $15,000 to the Abayudaya and $4,000 to Kulanu, and to Louis Weider for $15,000 in memory of his father, Ben Weider and in honor of his mother, Huguette Weider.<\/b><\/p>\n
\nThe Werner and Phoebe Frank Family Foundation
\nThe Estelle Friedman Gervis Family Foundation.<\/p>\n
\nGotham Drywall, Inc; The Marilyn and Ira Polon Philanthropic Fund of the United Jewish Endowment Fund of the Jewish Federation; The Ben and Esther Rosenbloom Foundation; The Matthew and Shelly Stein Philanthropic Fund, a donor advised fund of the Jewish Community Federation and Endowment Fund; The Otto and Marianne Wolman Foundation.<\/p>\n
\nShane Binder; The Enablement Fund of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney GIFT, Inc; Dr Jules and Mrs Josephine Harris; The Glatt-Holtz Gift Fund, a Fidelity Charitable donor-advised fund; The Kanter Family Gift Fund; Marie-Chantal and Judah Klausner; Lois Levy; The Howard Metzenberg Philanthropic Fund, a donor-advised fund of the Jewish Community Federation and Endowment Fund; Aron and Karen Primack; The Samiljan Family Fund of the Jewish Community Foundation; Karen and Andrew Thorburn; Gail B. and Mel Werbach; Ronnie Williams and Suzanne Arnopolin; The Marvin Wolf Fund of the Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee; Jack and Diane Zeller.<\/p>\n
\nAnonymous; Congregation Darchei Noam (Toronto, ON); Congregation Hakafa (Rabbi Bruce Elder \u2013 Glencoe, IL); Hope and Matthew Feldman; The Frank Family Foundation; Dr Evelyn Hutt; Marcia Kaplan; Louis Blumengarten; Irwin and Elaine Berg; Nina Horak; Alan and Agnes Leshner.<\/p>\n
\nBruce Aaron; Susan Agate; Rabbi Barbara Aiello; Kim Ainis; Ruth and Dr David Alexman; Andrew Heiden and Rebecca Teichman; Jim and Marge Auerbach; Dr Stanley Azen; Michael and Mary Baron; The Bassman Family Fund; Joseph Berman, MD; Beth Israel Congregation Religious School (Owings Mills, MD); Vera James and David Biggam; The Tzedakah Fund of B\u2019nai Israel Congregation (Rabbi Jonathan A. Schnitzer \u2013 Rockville, MD); Jeanne and Murray Bodin; Richard Bruce; Edith Bruder; The Number Ten Foundation Inc.; Lisa Burnstein; The Sisterhood of Temple Israel of Canton (Canton, OH); Henry Kister and Susana Chang-Kister; The Chittum Family; Hedy Cohen; The Cohen-Konig Family fund, a donor advised fund of the Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles; Sherman Cohn; Marguerite and Raymond Cross, Jr; Judith Edelstein; Mel and Margery Elfin; Elaine Eskowitz; Judy Featherman and Lionel Lieberman; Charles Feigenbaum; Dr Elizabeth Feldman and Jay Shefsky; James Feldman and Natalie Wexler; Pamela Fox; Linda Joan Freitag; David Kit Friedman; Sara Friedman; Dr Beverly Friend (The China-Judaic Studies Association); Frida Furman; The Gamzu Family Fund, a Fidelity Charitable donor-advised fund; Joe and Mia Buchwald Gelles; The Gendler Family Foundation; Michele Gilbert; Drs Roberta Glick and Terry Gene Unterman; Sholom Gliksman; Harold Goldberg and Alisa Israel Goldberg; The Goldman Family Fund, a Fidelity Charitable donor-advised fund; Letitia Gomez; Elizabeth and Ron Goodman; I Michael Goodman; Curtis and Joan Green; The Irving and Blu Greenberg Foundation of the Jewish Communal Fund; Allen Greenberger; David Greenstein; Eugene and Anne Greenstein; Marion Mackles and Peter Harrison; Marla H & G; Rabbi Lester and Doris Hering; Dr Eugene and Esther Herman; Harriette Hirsch; Michael Hoffman; Bonny Hohenberger; The Arthur D and Helene A Indianer Philanthropic Fund of the United Jewish Foundation; Anne Katz Jacobson and Robert Jacobson; Julian Jaffe; Jerome Fishkin; Michael Kaplan; Amy Katz; Laura Alter Klapman; Dr Adina Sue Kleiman; Rabbi Pinchas Klein; Rabbi Debra Kolodny; Dr Claudine Schweber and Edward Koren; Lewis and Monica Fried Kornberg; David and Ann Kranis; Martha Kahn and Simeon Kriesberg; Marcia Kulick; Stuart \u201cSandy\u201d Leeder; Alan Legatt; Elihu and Sheila Leifer; Susan Lippman; Bonnie Burt and Mark Liss; David London; Steven Lorch and Susanna Kochan-Lorch; Martha Klein Lottman; Leonard and Maxine Lyons; The John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation; David Mackler; Elyse Mancher; Judy Manelis and Shelby Kashket; Judith Ann Manelis; Anonymous; Randal Mars; Howard and Judith Mayer; Jacob Melamed; Donald Menzi and Jane Weprin Menzi; Evalyn and Martin Michaelson; Congregants of Temple Emanu-El in Staten Island (NY); Orlando Milligan; Clare Morris; Jeremy Moskowitz; Marvin and Beth Najberg; Drs Benjamin Natelson and Gudrun Lange; Mark Nazimova; Rabbi Daniel Nussbaum and Dr Jacki Goldstein; Martin Okun; Margaret Park; Faye Altshuler Dittelman and David Perelman; Peter Persoff; Ryia and Mark Peterson; Dr Karen Pierce; Anonymous; Stephen and Linda Pope; The Posner Family; Morton and Rhoda Posner Pruce; Janet and Sidney Quint; Vered; Barbara and Ed Rachlin; The Ransom Family; Edward Rensin; Evelyn Rich; Philip and Iris Kufert Rivo; Betsey Roberts; Mordecai and Paula Rosenfeld; The Howard Rosof Fund, a Fidelity Charitable donor-advised fund; Charles Scheidt; Drs Seymour and Wendy Scheinberg; Myra Schiff; Judith Schlaeger; Mel Schnapper; Laz and Ellen Schneider; The Schonfeld Family Trust; Amy Schuman; Charlotte Schwartz; Fisher Scientific; Barbara and Julius Shair; Mark and Rhonna Shatz, MD; Yehuda and Catherine Sherman; Susan Shevitz; Fran and Albert\u00a0 Sicignano; Rabbi Daniel Siegel; The JDS Fund, a Fidelity Charitable donor-advised fund; Peter and Betty Silverglate; Ellen Singer; Joyce Sirlin-Rand; Aleene Smith; Audrey Sokoloff and Tim Hosking; Susan and Howard Spielberg; Andria Spindel; Bruce Steiner; Barbara Birshtein and Howard Steinman; Herman and Cecilia Storick; Mark Sugarman and Lenore Myers; Rabbis Gerald and Bonita Sussman; Michele and David Tamaren; Rabbi Scott L Glass (Temple Beth-El, Ithaca, NY); Todd Clear and Dina Rose; Alma Realty Trust (Chestnut Hill, MA); Rosette Tucker; Richard Unis; Barbara Vinick; Dr Norman and Mrs Bonnie Weiss; Myra Weiss; Anonymous; David Wise; Woodlands Community Temple (White Plains, NY); Judith and Richard Wurtman; Paula Gorlitz and Steven Zuckerman.<\/p>\n
\nThese were received between November 21, 2012 and April 28, 2013. Please let us know if we have missed anyone (go to www.kulanu.org\/contact) and we will list them in the next issue. Thank you.<\/p>\n
\nDonors are in italics.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n
\nHarriet Bograd \u2013\u00a0The Estelle Friedman Gervis Family Foundation<\/em>
\nAriel, Shira, and Hallel Cohen-Goldberg \u2013\u00a0Susan and Steve Goldberg<\/em>
\nJared Cole \u2013\u00a0Cheryl and Alan Kristal<\/em>
\nSam Cole \u2013\u00a0Cheryl and Alan Kristal<\/em>
\nBeth D\u2019Addario \u2013\u00a0Allen J Greenberger<\/em>
\nMatthew Feldman \u2013\u00a0Beverly Feldman, Gail Margulies<\/em>
\nDavid Friedman –\u00a0Sara M Friedman<\/em>
\nRabbi Scott Glass (Temple Beth-El, Ithaca, NY) \u2013\u00a0Linda and Stephen Pope<\/em>
\nBob and Shirley Goldman \u2013\u00a0Susan and Michael Goldman<\/em>
\nHayden Gutt \u2013\u00a0Gail and Stephen Erlitz<\/em>
\nAvi and Hili Kister \u2013\u00a0Henry Z Kister and Susana Chang-Kister<\/em>
\nLinda Kornberg and Steve Glantz \u2013\u00a0Lewis and Monica Fried Kornberg<\/em>
\nSandy Leeder \u2013\u00a0Nina G Wouk<\/em>
\nAlan H Mankoff \u2013\u00a0Susan Lippman<\/em>
\nDr Brian Primack and family \u2013\u00a0Marcia Kaplan<\/em>
\nDr Marshall Primack \u2013\u00a0Linda Joan Freitag<\/em>
\nKaren and Aron Primack \u2013\u00a0Judy Manelis and Shelby Kashket<\/em>
\nFran Ransom \u2013\u00a0The Sisterhood of Temple Israel of Canton (Canton, OH)<\/em>; and\u00a0Alex, Ami, Asia, Autumn, Dad & Kai (Ransom)<\/em>
\nJoyce Sasson \u2013\u00a0Myra Schiff<\/em>
\nLinda Sidell \u2013\u00a0Hedy Cohen<\/em>
\nTziporah and Rabbi Gershom Sizomu \u2013\u00a0Werner and Phoebe Frank<\/em>
\nAlan and Andrea Titelbaum \u2013\u00a0Jodi Coburn<\/em>
\nBarbara Vinick \u2013\u00a0Marla Belostock, Pamela Fox, Helaine Hazlett, Charlotte Ikels, Harriet Bograd and Ken Klein, Marian Leah Knapp, Sandra and Alexander Lindsey, Alberta and Roger Lipson, Martin and Ruth Weinstein<\/em>
\nHuguette Weider \u2013\u00a0L Weider<\/em>
\nJack Zeller \u2013\u00a0Stewart and Myra Deutsch<\/em><\/p>\n
\nDonors are in italics.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n
\nArlo Boggs \u2013\u00a0Laura L and Arthur S Brecher<\/em>
\nRabbi Moshe Cotel \u2013\u00a0Maarin and Amy Melman<\/em>
\nCharlote Dubin \u2013\u00a0Leah Prawda, Jane Prawda<\/em>
\nRoslyn (Lynne) K Elson \u2013\u00a0Shane Binder<\/em>
\nSorke Gladstone \u2013\u00a0Yaakov Gladstone<\/em>
\nJJ Greenberg \u2013\u00a0Blu and Yitzhak Greenberg<\/em>
\nBernard Jacowitz \u2013\u00a0Jerry Rumain<\/em>
\nHyman and Nettie Kaplan \u2013\u00a0George and Toby Wakstein<\/em>
\nEstelle Katz \u2013\u00a0Anne Katz Jacobson and Robert Jacobson<\/em>
\nHerman and Betty Liss \u2013\u00a0Michele and David Tamaren<\/em>
\nMonet Milligan \u2013\u00a0Orlando Milligan<\/em>
\nMary Polon \u2013\u00a0Ruth and Harris Pitlick<\/em>
\nMortimer S Smith \u2013\u00a0Aleene Smith<\/em>
\nTzwa bat Tshura and Boaz Ben Tzwa \u2013\u00a0Rosalyn Sherman<\/em>
\nBen Weider \u2013\u00a0L Weider<\/em><\/p>\n