Brotherhood Honors & Awards
Honors & Awards
The Federation of Jewish Men's Clubs, FJMC, has honored our Brotherhood with the title of Quality Club at the highest level, Super Club! Worldwide only one other club has achieved this level.
Temple Israel Brotherhood wins 7 Torch Awards at the 2023 FJMC International Convention
At the 2023 Biennial FJMC Brotherhood Convention in Philadelphia, we were awarded Gold Torch Awards for Hearing Men's Voices (Yasher Koach Norm & Matt), Education (Routes with Rabbi Fineberg), 'Other' (Cause Without Applause), Overall Club Administration, and BEST Overall Activities. We earned a Silver for Brotherhood Shabbat and a Bronze for Fundraising (The Combined Charities Golf Tournament).
And of course we also received a Quality Club award.
These awards reflect the passion of so many in our Brotherhood who continually step up as volunteers to help run these programs as well as administer our activities and finances. I want to particularly call out our immediate Past President Michael Getz. His tireless dedication and determination was clearly evident to the committee who evaluated all of the submissions from across the U.S. and Canada and selected Temple Israel's Brotherhood as The Best!
Yasher Koach!!
-Gary Keimach, President
Temple Israel Brotherhood wins 2 Torch Awards at the 2021 FJMC International Convention
Bronze | Best Overall Programming |
Silver | Best Program “Paid Up Movie Night 2020” |
Temple Israel Brotherhood wins 6 Quality Awards at the 2019 FJMC International Convention
Gold | Best Overall Programming, “Celebrity Speaker Series” |
Bronze | Best Overall Programming, “Overall Programming 2017-2019” |
Gold | Other Programs, “Improv Brotherhood – A Night of Laughter” |
Bronze | Hearing Men’s Voices, “Hearing Men’s Voices” |
Bronze | Israel / Masorti Programs, “Peace of Mind” |
Silver | Youth Programming, “March of the Living” |
Temple Israel Brotherhood wins 8 Quality Awards at the 2017 FJMC Convention, including Silver Award for Best Overall Club
13 Brotherhood members attended the FJMC Convention in July in the Washington DC area. We came home with our luggage a little heavier thanks to the recognition our club received.
Gold | Club Administration - Strategic Planning Offsite |
Gold | Joint Programming - The Combined Temples Charity Golf Tournament |
Gold | Programming for Younger Men - Dad's Day Out |
Gold | Fundraising - Comedy Night / Auction Kickoff |
Silver | Best Overall Club |
Silver | Fundraising - Lift Your Spirits |
Silver | Hearing Men's Voices |
Bronze | Israel/Masorti - Search for D'or Hadash Rabbi |
Bob Zeitsiff z"l | 2001 |
Art Spar | 2002 |
Motti Pupkin | 2003 |
Morey Waltuck | 2004 |
Elliot Feldman | 2005 |
Sam Hurvitz z"l | 2006 |
Harvey Wolf | 2007 |
Neal Fineman | 2008 |
David Arons | 2009 |
Larry Lencz | 2010 |
Irv Kempner | 2011 |
Paul Davidson | 2012 |
Alan Kritz | 2013 |
Michael Getz | 2014 |
Noah Horowitz | 2015 |
Andy Fandel | 2016 |
Ron Czik | 2017 |
Stephen Shrago | 2018 |
Mark Popovsky | 2019 |
Aaron Kischel | 2020 |
Larry Sandberg | 2021 |
Sonny Michelson | 2022 |
Harold Waisel | 2023 |
Men of the Year
Men honored by the Brotherhood in recognition of their outstanding contribution to the Brotherhood and Temple Israel
Bob Zeitsiff z"l | Founder |
Sidney Smith z"l | 1982 |
Al Rudner z"l | 1983 |
George Small z"l | 1984 |
Edward Morris z"l | 1985 |
Sam Natansohn z"l | 1985 |
Joseph Walter z"l | 1986 |
Al Hoffman z"l | 1987 |
Motti Pupkin | 1988 |
Elliot Feldman | 1989 |
Morey Waltuck | 1990 |
Sidney Hentoff z"l | 1991 |
Phill Chapman z"l | 1992 |
Michael Flatto | 1993 |
Arthur Spar | 1994 |
Sam Hurvitz z"l | 1995 |
Paul Abrams | 1996 |
Henry Katz | 1997 |
Jay Schwab z"l | 1998 |
David Beckman | 1999 |
Steve Bergel | 2000 |
Paul Bettan | 2001 |
Roy Klein z"l | 2002 |
Harvey Wolf | 2003 |
Larry Lencz | 2004 |
Hy Lamb z"l | 2005 |
Neal Fineman | 2006 |
Marty Grandberg | 2007 |
David Arons | 2008 |
Rob Carver | 2009 |
Irv Kempner | 2010 |
Paul Davidson | 2011 |
Jerry Wine | 2012 |
Brian Brenner | 2013 |
Ron Czik | 2015 |
Cantor Steven Dress | 2016 |
Gary Keimach | 2017 |
Jimmy Slovin | 2018 |
Michael Getz | 2019 |
Harold Waisel | 2020-2021 |
Scott Shikora | 2022 |
Howard Rothberg | 2023 |
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