Sollie Award

I was honored to join Judy and Lester Goldman at the United Synagogue Kallah last week in San Diego to accept our two Sollie awards. B'nai Amoona won an award in the area of inclusion for the great work our synagogue is doing to make sure that all members of our community feel included and welcome. Lester wrote the award mainly discussing the efforts the synagogue underwent this summer to redesign our bima as well as the work we do in all areas of our synagogue to make sure we are inclusive of all types of people. And I wrote an award discussing the on-going partnership we have developed with Gaeway180, mainly our MLK day of service last year and Purim carnival. I was honored that our program were one of ten chosen to present at the conference. We were in a class with many other inspiring and exciting programs happening in Conservative synagogues across the country.

I am still in awe that our design to add a tikkun olam component to the Washington DC trip has led to a better understanding in our community, specifically amongst the youth, about the poor in St Louis, has created a meaningful partnership between two good organizations which continues to grow and expand and exposes kids in St Louis to Judaism in a positive and powerful light.

When you reach out to do good in the world, you never know how far your reach is going to go. Yeshir koach to all the B'nai Amoona staff and youth who dreamed, encouraged, and made this all happen.