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

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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

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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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