Rabbi Mona Alfi50th Birthday Celebration
November 3, 2018Congregation B’nai Israel
Thank You to our Generous Sponsors
Diamond Bobbi and Dick Nathanson
The Family of Rabbi Emeritus Lester Frazin
PlatinumAnonymous
GoldDorothy and Brian Landsberg
Elizabeth Landsberg and Gordon Dean
Silver Margaret Gladstein and Tim Brandabur
BronzeLinda and Ken Henderson
Nancy BernheimerDoris Pittell Morris
Carol and Steve GoldbergNorman Fassler Katz
Twila Morris and Dale KaslerJennifer and Todd Kaufman Deborah and Dan Gordon
Event
Estelle Opper Roxanne and Phil Stanger
Bill SchwartzJane and Steve Orkand
Bina Lefkovitz and Jay SchenirerCheryl and Fran Bremson
Lynne Galin
Linda and Marvin KamrasLouise Muller
Hope and Jeff RabinovitzLaura Rosenthal
Choco and Bob Dresser Wendy and Greg Hubbs
Gretchen and Alan SteinbergEileen and Howard Sarasohn
Rabbi Mona Alfi50th Birthday Celebration
November 3, 2018Congregation B’nai Israel
Rabbi Mona Alfi50th Birthday Celebration
November 3, 2018Congregation B’nai Israel
Rabbi Mona Alfi50th Birthday Celebration
November 3, 2018Congregation B’nai Israel
Rabbi Mona Alfi50th Birthday Celebration
November 3, 2018Congregation B’nai Israel
Rabbi Mona Alfi is fueled by a passion for tikkun olam (repairing the world) and a vision for reaching out to Sacramento’s diverse Jewish community. As the spiritual leader of B’nai Israel, Rabbi Alfi hopes to foster a caring community that is engaged both in the life of the synagogue and in our broader society. “The purpose of religion is not only helping us get closer to God, but in getting closer to God, we should be motivated to become more engaged in the world and in people’s lives,” she said.
Merging religion and social action has been at the center of Rabbi Alfi’s career. Before being appointed B’nai Israel’s Senior Rabbi, she served three years as the Executive Director of the Hillel at Davis and Sacramento, worked for five years as B’nai Israel’s assistant and associate rabbi, and spent four years as the chaplain for the California State Assembly from 1998-2002. Rabbi Alfi also served as the Chaplain of the California State Senate from August 2008 to December 2015.
These positions have enabled Rabbi Alfi to cultivate relationships with varied branches of the local Jewish and non-Jewish community – young
and old, gay and straight, single and married, as well as members of the interfaith community of Sacramento. Beyond her leadership at B’nai Israel, Rabbi Alfi was on the Board of the Pacific Association of Reform Rabbis from 2001-2003, and served as president of the Rabbis’ Association of Sacramento from July 2007 to June 2008. She currently sits on the Commission on Social Action (CSA) as a representative of the CCAR. The CSA is a joint committee of the Union of Reform Judaism (URJ), the Central Conference of American Rabbis (CCAR) and the Religious Action Center (RAC) that recommends policy for the Reform Movement in North America.
Rabbi Alfi has written prayers and Torah commentaries and published an essay about the 1999 bombing of B’nai Israel in “Chicken Soup for the Jewish Soul.” She was ordained in 1998 by the Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR) in New York, and received a Master of Arts in Hebrew Letters at HUC-JIR’s Los Angeles campus in 1996. Rabbi Alfi was raised in Southern California in a family that mixed the traditions of her Ashkenazi mother and her Iranian born Jewish father. This heritage of blended traditions has informed Rabbi Alfi’s view of Judaism as a dynamic religion that changes to reflect society, and is not monolithic in its expression. “There’s not a single right way to be Jewish, but many “right” ways to be Jewish,” she said.
Rabbi Alfi and her husband Glenn are delighted to be raising their sons as fourth generation members of Congregation B’nai Israel.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY RABBI ALFI BEST WISHES LOVE THE NATHANSON FAMILY
We are delighted to celebrate Rabbi Mona Alfi’s 50th
Birthday with our Congregation B’nai
Israel family
Lindie and Ken Henderson
Happy BirthdayRabbi Alfi
Here’s to Many More
with
Great Admirationand Thanks
Mazel Tovon the milestone in your life.
Here’s to the next 50!
Much Love,Estelle ‘n Family
Happy Five-O!
Lots of love from Alan, Gretchen, Zev and Sasha
Wishing you a Happy Birthday &
a wonderful decade!
Welcome to the over 50 club.
Lynn Belzer
Happy Birthday
Rabbi Alfi
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Dear Rabbi Alfi
For all you do for our family
L’Dor V’Dor
From generation to generation
Happy Birthday Rabbi Alfi –Thank you for all that you do
for our community.
The Federation Board & Staff
Rabbi Alfi, you bring passion, scholarship, leadership, warmth, and – above all – joy, to everything you do.
Mazel tov and toda raba! The Gordon and Stoecklein families.
Mazel tov, Rabbi Alfi
With appreciation for all you do,
Jane and Steve Orkand
You’re a blessing to our congregation and to our community.
Thank you for your leadership. Happy birthday.
With great appreciation,
Jay Schenirer and Bina Lefkovitz
A Magical Person From time to time into each of our lives there steps a magical person. Out of nowhere, seemingly for no reason, a human being appears whose romance with life is so beautiful and rare, so whimsical and holy that, without any effort at all, she enchants us with her extraordinary gift for living. Such people are life’s magicians, purveyors of joy, imaginers of the uncommon. They stir our pots; they ruffle our feathers. They paste twinkling stars on the dark night sky of life’s drab dailiness. Living by magic, they let us recapture the magic in ourselves. Knowing that love is the only real magic there is, they invite us again – with their words, with their ways, with their dreams, with their faith – to believe in the magical power of love. — Daphne Rose Kingma
Rabbi Mona, You are a Magical Person!
Happy Birthday!Birthday love and hugs from the Blackman Acosta Family
Carol and Peter, Abbie, Andrew, Sydney and Avery, Josh, Ariel, Tatum and Jack
Happy birthday to our favorite Rabbi!!
With love from Jennifer and Todd
Rabbi,You have blessed the lives of four generations of Landsberg Deans.
Rabbi Alfi, you are a blessing in our lives.
Happy 50th birthday!
With much love, Chavurah Mishpachah
Happy Special Birthday to a
Very Special Woman
-Lynne Galin
The Tochterman Family loves you.Ron, Linda, Joel, Regina, Leo & Nate
Happy Birthday Rabbi Alfi
You inspire us to serve our Congregation!
Members of the Board of Trustees
2018-19
Mazal Tov ad me’ah v’esrim!
The Marshalls
ברכות ליום הולדתך To Rabbi Alfi
Love,
The Prugers and Rabinovitzes
Mazel tov on your
first half century, Rabbi!
Kelley Taber &
Gary Jakobs
Cracks, bams and dots, you’re always in our thoughts Winds, dragons, flowers; we could hear you preach for hours True, no jokers in a pair,
but B’nai Israel has ruach to spare!Rabbi Alfi, happy 50th to you, from your favorite Interfaith Mah Jongg crew!
(Bergs, Goldbergs, Kaslers, Makarczyks, Carol McCollam, Priscos, Schooleys)
May your next 50 years be happy healthy and fun. May you continue to enrich our congregation
with your passion and wisdom. You are a treasure to all of us.
With appreciation, best wishes and love, Nancy Bernheimer
Thank you for all you do!Wishing you the happiest
of birthdays...Fondly,
Phillip and Roxanne Stanger
Family: A little bit of crazy, a little bit of loud, and a whole lot of love.
Much birthday love from Randy and Rachel
Dear Rabbi, Wishing you much happiness and shalom on this special birthday. With deep gratitude for your leadership, inspiration and commitment to our community, Alan, Jeanette and Alexander
Happy Birthday, Rabbi Alfi
From Paul and Gary Slavit on behalf of Mary Slavit
Wishing you the happiest of
birthdays, and the hope for many, many more...
- Dan & Maryann Rabovsky
The Tochterman Family loves you.Ron, Linda, Joel, Regina, Leo & Nate
The Tochterman Family
loves you.Ron, Linda, Joel, Regina, Leo & Nate
Through six generations of life cycle events, we’re still celebrating together.
Happy Birthday, Sue & Harry Sperber
TOP ROW: Left to right-Elliot Kramsky, next two unknown), 4th from left -Kurt Weil, Paul Simon, Michael Schneider, unidentified, Barry Kauffman, Rabbi Irving Hausman, Peter DaruCENTER ROW: Left to right-Joan Winston, Elena Friedman, Brenda Leavitt, Mitzi Kauffman, Sue Heller, Sharon MarksBOTTOM ROW: Left to right-Stefan Wolfson, Sue Caplan (Sperber), Laurie Shuper, Sabra Feldstein, (4th-2nd from right are unidentified), Louise Anapolsky (Caplan)
Thank you Rabbi Mona for making our family’s life cycle events special and memorable.
The Goldberg Family
Best Wishes from
The Schwartz Family
The Women of B’nai Israel wish Rabbi Alfi the happiest of Birthdays!
“Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.” — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
We consider it an honor to join you every day as we lead our congregation into a bright future.
Wishing you the happiest of all birthdays!
Love, Julie, Rian, Leslie, Melissa, Sandora, Denise, Dean,
Abbie, Keren, Ari, Barbara, and LJ
Thank you for all you have done for our family and our community!
Margaret Gladstein, Tim Brandabur and Michelle
Rabbi Mona Alfi50th Birthday Celebration
November 3, 2018Congregation B’nai Israel
Special thanks for the hard work of our Event CommitteeNancy Bernheimer • Lindie Henderson • Marc Koenigsberg, Chair
Bina Lefkovitz, Ex Officio • Bobbi Nathanson • Estelle Opper • Doris Pittell
Happy Birthday Rabbi Alfi!Abbie BlackmanAndrew AcostaWendy Hubbs Greg HubbsHilary AbramsonKaren ZiskindSteven GevercerMary GevercerGary TownsendSusan RoseZelda SchuleBruce BergBarbara BergRobert MandelsonCecile Kaplan Joseph RaddingTina GustavsonGail BrosnanYvonne ChotzenSuzy UnderwoodEd LowryMaurice HoullouJosh MastronardeKelly LewellenMaggy KrellCary HuxsollLinda TochtermanKen PoppersLaura PoppersKen BrodyLisa BrodyBrinn YterdalJeff YterdalMatt Halseth Meredith HalsethCarol BlackmanPeter BlackmanEileen JacobowitzSharon Rogoff
Michael Rogoff "Denise GottliebPaul GottliebDrew Mendelson Susan AguilarDavid LangJenna LangMarci Ortega Paul OrtegaSue SchooleyTim SchooleyFrank SeversonKatharine SeversonDavid FrankelKim BussAnn SolowayLaurel HollisJules GruenDiann GruenMarc KoenigsbergRobb LayneLinda GrassoDenise Crevin Dan CrevinDavid Brubaker Elaine BerghausenFred Howe Meredith HoweBendan BlueJohn BlueMark BlumDonna BlumAnnette Davis Ken DavisLisa BrodkeyRob WienerNaomi FeldmanJohn BachBeryl Michaels
Deni MarshallSteve MarshallPaula MendellTodd MendellSheri RosenblumSandy KaufmanArt BaumR.S. JacobsonAnnie MorganBernie MarksKen BudmanSheila BudmanStephen MendickTeresa MendickArt ZimmermanEric Stern Rachel SternTerri GainesRegina Tochterman Joel TochtermanRandy RobertsRachel TookerMartha MoonJudy HeimanLainie JosephsonGregg JosephsonDoris PittellElliot PearlArlene PearlLouis NelsonTami NelsonRadyne CitrenbaumDavid CitrenbaumSheila VarshawskyDavid VarshawskyAlan KreegerTimothy ZeffDebra ZeffMaryann Rabovsky
Dan RabovskyMelanie PassovoyDave PassovoyJonathan CristyTerri CristyEsther GainesBonnie PenixElaine HusseyZlata ArestovaAyhan DurakJessica HeskinRobert StephensAlyssa HeskinJonathan Brosin Garry GoodmanMadeline GoodmanEstelle OpperFarla KaufmanNeil DubrovskyBruce GantBarbara GantJilian Bar-orJonathan Bar-orRachel ResnickJennifer WebbStacey WallachNancy BernheimerJennifer KaufmanTodd KaufmanCarol Moon GoldbergSteve GoldbergTwila MorrisDale KaslerLinda HendersonKen HendersonCheryl BremsonFran BremsonJane OrkandSteve Orkand
Lynne GalinJay SchenirerBina LefkovitzPhillip StangerRoxanne StangerLaurel HollisRandy RobertsRachel TookerGary SlavitSue SperberHarry SperberElaine AltschulBobbi NathansonDick NathansonDeAnna StevensSusan HaywardNancy LeadermanMatthew BrayMindy RichardsonWendi ShulmanSandy LeeNita DavidsonSandy Kreeger Alex SwedlowJoanne SwedlowHope RabinovitzJeffery RabinovitzNeal Meredith Erika MeredithJeff BeckMandy MasciarelliMegan FloridaBlair LeatherwoodJudy Emick-LeatherwoodDebbie Albert Daniel AlbertSharene LinkDavid LinkSunny Romer
Rabbi Mona Alfi50th Birthday Celebration
November 3, 2018Congregation B’nai Israel
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