Shofar THE VOICE OF

CONGREGATION BETH EL – NER TAMID

A Community Supporting Family, Spirituality,

Tradition and Lifelong Learning

April 2021

Shevat/Adar 5781

715 Paxon Hollow Rd

Broomall, PA 19008

610-356-8700

Office@CBENT.org

Website: www.cbent.org

WEEKLY RELIGIOUS SERVICE TIMES

Sunday 9:00am Monday 7:15am

Tuesday 6:30pm Wednesday 6:30pm

Thursday 7:15am Friday 7:00pm

Shabbat 10:00am (6:00pm 1st of month)

Dr. Gary Bernett

Co-President

Dear Fellow Congregants,

Pesach is literally around the corner, and by the time you read this hopefully you will have

recovered from the second set, and hopefully the last set of socially distanced Sederim. The term

“socially distanced” is a term that is new to our vocabulary and probably very few people used it 15

months ago. It is now part of the vernacular, and our everyday lives. Dare I say that, there are very

few members of our Synagogue who are not familiar with social distancing and close adherents?

Pesach and the Seder are the antithesis of social distancing. Pesach has traditionally been the time to

come home and be with family, the larger the Seder the better. I remember when I was very young

it was not unusual for my grandparents to have 40 people each night for Seder, with the crowd

changing from night to night so no one would be left out. It was also traditional to extend an

invitation to an away from home service man to join us.

CBENT has gone to great lengths, while practicing physical social distancing, to maintain, at the

same time, social proximity through our online programs and activities. It is remarkable and

admirable how well we have done keeping our active membership engaged. But appealing to a

“core” group is not the only goal of the synagogue. Rather reaching out and attracting new

members and new ideas. Spring is the traditional time of renewal and rebirth, and this spring needs

to be when CBENT begins its efforts to enlist new participants and grow our membership. Our

newly invigorated Strategic Planning Initiative will be doing just that along with our Membership

Committee. Brainstorming new and creative ideas, and reinvigorating some of our historically

dependable programs ( can you say Bid and Buy) will put us on the right path, but it is also

incumbent on all of us to actively contribute to CBENT’s future by being active members. Sign up

and participate, and bring someone else along, even for services!

By the time the next Shofar is published, we will have been back in the Sanctuary with limited

attendance B’nai Mitzvah. It is exciting and is really a preamble to return to some normalcy. Let’s

hope that all proceeds with safety and success.

Gary Bernett

Marilyn Bamash

Sisterhood President

Wishing everyone a sweet, healthy and safe Passover! Please join the joint program with

Temple Sholom on April 29th at 7:00 PM as I present my pictures and experiences of

The Lessons of the Holocaust. In the mid 1990’s , while teaching in the Philadelphia

School District, I was selected by the Jewish Labor Committee and the American

Federation of Teachers to visit Poland and Israel including on site visits to the Warsaw

Ghetto, Auschwitz, Majdanak and Treblinka. This experience changed my life

including my commitment to carry out the words written in stone at Treblinka,

“NEVER AGAIN!” The Zoom link will be sent out closer to the date, and as always,

everyone is invited.

BID n BUY!! May 6th. Ellen Glassman, Joyce Brody and Karen Brown are once again

working feverishly to give us a great experience while helping raise funds for CBENT.

Please support us in anyway you can! Invite your friends and family. The gift packages

are outstanding!! Again, thank you all for making this difficult year meaningful and fun.

Yours in Sisterhood,

Marilyn

Celebrate Israel Independence Day with an epic, family-friendly and virtual concert! For Israel’s

73rd birthday, our community-wide party will feature American rocker and Jewish camp favorite

Rick Recht, Israeli legend David Broza, and many of their musical friends.

Please join Men's club for a fun-filled Magical Event. On April 18th at 7:30 PM Men’s club will be hosting a magic night with magician Ari Paul Felber. Ari is a very accomplished and professional magician that has been featured on multiple TV stations, hired by multiple professional sporting organizations, and has done over 50 Zoom magic shows during the pandemic. This is a great opportunity to enjoy something different and live. The charge is $36 per household. Contact the office and we will send you the zoom link. This will be an interactive show and is open to members and nonmembers alike. We appreciate your support and look forward to enjoying this evening together. We would also like to thank our individual sponsors for their support; Debbie & Henri Levit, Janet and Marc Belitsky, Bonnie and Gary Bernett, Pam Stein & Alan Gorberg, Sondra and Michael Gutkind, Karen and Andy Rosenfeld, Audrey and Arthur Pollin, Sarah Wolf and Rich Gordon, and Matt Rosin.

The CBENT men's softball team has been given the go ahead to begin the season. The first game will be on April 18th at 9:30 AM. The schedule will be posted on the synagogue website. Everyone is welcome to come and support our team as we take on different synagogues throughout the Delaware County and mainline region.

Ari Paul Ferber, Magician

Saturday night September 18th, WELCOME BACK BASH. We are going to throw a big party with music, dancing, food, and spirits. This is a great opportunity to shake off the COVID cobwebs and dance all night. Enjoy gossiping and catching up with friends and congregants that we have not seen since the start of COVID. We will also be honoring our past President and past Treasurer David Wolf. More to come on this event.

Marc Belitsky

Dr. Marc Belitsky

Now is my favorite time of the year! What a joy it is to wake up to the sounds of the birds

singing, to open the windows and let the spring in, to watch days become brighter, the world

greener and new flowers appearing every day! After a dark and cold winter, spent in isolation

(and after being fully vaccinated, B”H), I am filled with anticipation of being able to visit people

I love, outside of my household, and to gradually reunite with my Or Tamid family.

We just celebrated virtually the Bar Mitzvah of Ian Shapiro at Or Shalom, who did an

outstanding job leading congregation in prayer and chanting or Sacred Texts! We hope, it will

be our last Zoom Bar Mitzvah. Our eighth graders who had their Bar or Bat Mitzvah on Zoom

last year, have put extra work and are prepared to do it again, this time from the bimah in the

CBENT Sanctuary, although with a very limited attendance. As a mother, who was lucky to

celebrate my daughter’s Bat Mitzvah just a few months before the pandemic and the quarantine,

I have a lot of empathy and admiration for these students and their families, and applaud their

resilience and hard work. They are making us all very proud! And our sixth graders are getting

ready for their big day, just look at the picture and see what a beautiful, exclusive hand painted

yad each of them made in class! This year every class had multiple opportunities to lead

different prayers at student services, and their confidence and fluency in liturgy increased

greatly. Many thanks to our dedicated teachers and staff for carrying us through this difficult

year.

As the warm weather sets in, I hope to be able to celebrate many special events outside with you, and to have fun with our Or Tamid family in the open air in person, from Ready Set Aleph Bet gatherings to the Confirmation of our graduating class. On April 3oth this year we will be celebrating Lag BaOmer, a day on which according to a tradition of the geonim, the great plague ended in the time of Rabbi Akiva. May it also mark overcoming COVID! Amen.

Cantor Larisa Averbakh

Education Director

A Note From the Desk of Larry Gorson-Marrow

Executive Director

An Update on Building Security, Part I

Following the Tree of Life tragedy in Pittsburgh, we chose to conduct a comprehensive security evaluation of our facility and operations, paid by the generosity of Jewish Federation of Philadelphia Real Estate Division.

Several security related upgrades to our facility were recommended. We have applied for and been awarded a security grant from The Pennsylvania Commission on Crime & Delinquency (PCCD) of approximately $30K. The grant required a 30% CBENT investment. The additional funds to pay for the project came from the Security Fees paid by the congregants and designated fund donations.

We have also applied and have been awarded a secondary security grant in March 2021 in the amount of $23,500. The grant proceeds are to be used to replace the emergency exits doors in the Sanctuary, and to apply “Bullet Resistant Film” to the remaining, unprotected glass windows.

Completed Security Projects

• New interior and exterior camera system (with recording capability)

• New extended burglar alarm system. All exterior doors are now alarmed for added interior protection.

• New Audio and Video Intercom on the Paxon Hollow Entrance

• Wireless Panic Button Alarms installed

• Kitchen and classroom doors “open alarm”. (The office will be notified when any of these doors are left open for more than 1 minute.)

Upcoming Security Projects

(expected to be completed within the next month)

• New vestibule (Paxon Hollow entrance)

• New Doorway Audio and Video Intercom (Sanctuary Lobby Doors)

• New Keypad Entry (Sanctuary Door)

• Bullet resistant film applied to both entrances

• New Kitchen Door (located between sheds)

• New Sanctuary Lobby Doors

Our goal is to protect our congregation. These upgrades will aid in securing our building and improve the safety of our daily synagogue operations.

Unfortunately, we have experienced a number of false alarms with the new system. False alarms can be costly ($250 fine); if you expect to be in the synagogue after normal business hours, please contact the office (610) 356-8700. The office will provide you with the necessary procedures to prevent an unwanted security breach alarm.

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CONGREGATION BETH -. EL NER TAMI D'S

Virtual Services First Friday

of each month!

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Email office@CBENT.or for links!

As our Talmud wisely teaches: “Just as my ancestors planted for me, I too shall plant for my

descendants.” Ta’anit 23a

The formation of CBENT’s L’dor V’dor Legacy Society was announced in the December 2020

issue of the Shofar. Now, we are actively asking our fellow congregants to join the Legacy Society.

This is a way for you to show your support for CBENT that doesn’t have any current cost to you! All

that is required to become a member of the Legacy Society is for you to tell us that you have made a

planned gift to CBENT.

Making a planned gift means taking formal action to provide for CBENT in the future, such as

providing for CBENT in your will, trust or beneficiary designation of a retirement account or life

insurance policy. A Legacy Society member must do more than merely intend to name CBENT later.

However, anyone who wishes to become a Legacy Society member will be accepted based upon her

or his indication that an actual planned gift has been made to CBENT. No documents or proof will

have to be provided.

A planned gift means that no current payment is required. Thus, there’s no current financial

pain whatsoever. A planned gift may be in any dollar amount – no gift is too small.

We already have a few founding members of the Legacy Society. You, too, can have your

name recorded permanently as a founding member if you join by June 30, 2021. We invite you to

contact any of us, or CBENT’s office, to express your interest in joining the Legacy Society, and we’ll

be reaching out to many of you personally in the coming weeks. We hope you will join the Legacy

Society to bolster the future financial stability of CBENT.

Sincerely,

The L’dor V’dor Legacy Society Committee

Richard Chaitt Marc Jaffe Arthur Pollin Matt Rosin

Congregation Beth El – Ner Tamid

L’dor V’dor Legacy Society

Please mark one or more of the boxes below and return this form to the office. Be sure to enter the date,

sign, print your name, and enter your phone number and email address

I/we would like to learn more about the L’dor V’dor Legacy Society or I’m/we’re interested in becoming a

member of the L’dor V’dor Legacy Society;

I’m/we’re in the process of making a planned gift to Congregation Beth El – Ner Tamid;

I/we have already made a planned gift to Congregation Beth El – Ner Tamid and please list me/us as a mem-

ber of the L’dor V’dor Legacy Society.

Print name(s) to be listed: __________________________

I/we have already made a planned gift to Congregation Beth El – Ner Tamid but wish to remain anonymous.

I’m/we’re interested in being on the L’dor V’dor Legacy Society Committee.

Date: _____________________ Print name(s): ____________________________________

Phone number(s): ________________________________

Email address(es): ________________________________

Donations to Designated, Non–Designated & Rabbi’s Fund Congregation Beth El – Ner Tamid has many worthy Designated Funds. Below you will find the mission statement for each of these funds. Please consider making a donation in memory/honor of someone to one or more of these funds. In addition, donations can bb made to the Rabbi’s Discretionary Fund. Please note that there are also opportunities to donate to the General Fund of the synagogue in the name of Funds that do not meet the requirements to be a Designated Fund. See the section labeled “Undesignated Funds” on the following pages for donations made to undesignated funds this past month.

DICK PACKEL LEARNING SUPPORT FUND

The funds defray the cost of the Dick Packel Special Needs Education Program and any other special education needs for the children of the Religious School. In addition, the funds help defray the cost of Religious School tuition for families in need.

J. JAY WOLF FUND

The funds are for the education programming for the Religious School or to help children in some as of yet unspecified capacity as well as helping families defray the cost of Religious School tuition.

LANDSCAPING

These funds defray the cost of keeping the lawn, shrubs and flowers in good condition based on the need of the season and any special occasion landscaping needs of the Congregation.

THE RELIGIOUS SCHOOL FUND

To help defray, augment and enhance the programming for Beth El - Ner Tamid's Religious School students.

THE SHAMES SCHOLARSHIP FUND

To provide money for families in need of financial assistance in order to pay for Religious School fees, tutoring, textbooks, trips and items necessary to the education of the children involved. This fund will be allocated jointly with the Shames family, the Rabbi, Principal of the Religious School and Executive Director.

THE JUDY LINDER FUND

The funds will be used for education (adult, school, or extra programming) purposes and/or in whatever capacity the Board and Founder may determine.

THE DOROTHY & WILLIAM SAMPSON FUND

The funds will defray the cost of bringing lecturers, speakers and programming for educational purposes or whatever capacity the Board and Founder/s may determine.

ADULT EDUCATION FUND

To provide funding towards Jewish and Israel themed educational program, classes and speakers for the CBENT adult community 18 years and older. The Adult Education Committee shall allocate funds for programming. In lieu of an Adult Education Committee, Rabbi, Hazzan and the Education Director will have input on adult educational programming.

THE DORI RIESENFELD FUND

The funds will defray and continue in support of the Beth El-Ner Tamid Gift Shop and/or whatever capacity the Board and Founder may determine.

THE DAVID M. SCHWARTZ SCHOLARSHIP FUND

The fund will defray the cost of Religious School fees, tutoring, textbooks, trips and items necessary for the scholarship and education of children who have demonstrated leadership skills with recommendations from the CBENT School Board.

THE FLORENCE FRIEDLANDER FUND

A designated fund in memory of Florence Friedlander which provides scholarships for CBENT Religious School students or CBENT young adults who exhibit energy in enriching our synagogue and the Jewish Community. The funds may be used for candidates to strengthen their Jewish education/identity. In the spirit of Florence’s love for learning, the fund may also provide tuition assistance for Bar/Bat Mitzvah tutoring. CBENT School Board along with the Rabbi may identify the recipients.

CANTORIAL FUND FOR MUSICAL PROGRAMMING

To provide funding for musical programming, activities and equipment that will benefit the congregants and religious school. The Hazzan will have the principal authority to submit a request to the CBENT designated fund representative for use of these funds. The request will include a cost estimate and a brief description of the program and/or equipment. Prior to making the request, the Hazzan shall have consulted with the Rabbi and/or a representative of the religious committee regarding the contents of the programming.

THE RABBI & AMY BLUM SOCIAL ACTION FUND

A designed fund to honor Rabbi Barry Blum on his retirement, The Rabbi Barry and Amy Blum Social Action Fund will in the best tradition of Jewish Tzedakah, identify and support programs that address food insecurity, increase self-sufficiency, provide acts of loving kindness, and promote social justice to enrich the quality of life for those in need. Suggestions for disbursement of the fund’s monies will be done by Barry and Amy Blum in partnership with the Designated Fund Chair.

MEMORIAL PLAQUES

Honor a deceased loved one by purchasing a Memorial Plaque. Plaques are placed in the Hall of Remembrance and

provide a lasting memory. On the yahrzeit date, the plaque is brought to the sanctuary entrance and mounted on the yahrzeit memorial wall located outside the Minyan chapel

entrance.

Cost is $350.00

THE JULIE LYNN GORSON-MARROW MEMORIAL MUSIC FUND

The Julie Lynn Gorson-Marrow Memorial Fund is established for the musical education and enjoyment of Beth El – Ner Tamid children.

MORRIS & ESTHER BERNETT Z”L LITURGICAL BOOK FUND

Provide the Congregation new editions of Etz Hayim, a contemporary replacement for the outdated and worn Hertz Humashim. Once sufficient quantities of the books have been purchased for congregational needs, the Fund can be used to purchase replacement for prayer books or other devotional books as needed and as determined by the Rabbi and/or Religious Committee.

ELLEN GLASSMAN MITZVAH FUND

The purpose of this fund is to continue Ellen Glassman’s legacy of kind, compassionate and generous mitzvot. Funds may be used to help others in ways that will enhance their lives.

UNDESIGNATED FUNDS

Davidow Fund Prayer Book Fund

Hulnick Fund K’Tonton Fund

Library Fund Orloff Fund

AVAILABLE FOR DEDICATION

AVAILABLE FOR DEDICATION AMOUNT

Eternal Light $ 36,000

School Entrance $ 10,000

Chapel Chairs (group of 10) $ 2,500

Sound System $ 5,000

Chapel Built-In $ 3,000

Kipah Holders (2) $ 2,500

Founder $ 1,500 -$ 1,999

Jr. Congregation Ark $ 1,000

Sanctuary Seats $ 500

Chapel Mezuzah $ 500

Sponsor $ 100 -$ 499

*Some members already gave $5,000

CHAI WALL Celebrate a Bar/Bat Mitzvah, Wedding

Anniversary, significant Birthday

or Wedding by purchasing a Chai

Wall Plaque.

Cost is only $175.00.

Your Simcha will always be remembered in our Synagogue!

Contact the Synagogue office for

details.

610-356-8700

DESIGNATED FUNDS RELIGIOUS SCHOOL FUND

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARCY ABRAMS!

Audrey & Arthur Pollin

IN HONOR OF RABBI JANKOVITZ

ON THE BIRTH OF EVIE JANKOVITZ PASTOR

Audrey & Arthur Pollin

IN MEMORY OF FRANCES WEISFIELD

Phyllis Weisfield

IN HONOR OF NATALIE PACKEL MARKOWITZ ON THE BIRTH OF

GREAT GRANDSON DILLON MAX

Audrey & Arthur Pollin

IN MEMORY OF PAUL COHEN

BROTHER OF DR. ALAN COHEN

Audrey & Arthur Pollin

ADULT EDUCATION FUND

IN MEMORY OF LOUIS WEISS

Debbie Weiss

IN HONOR OF LILLIAN GARFINKEL

HAPPY 90th BIRTHDAY!

Elaine Cohen

RABBI BARRY & AMY BLUM

SOCIAL ACTION FUND

IN MEMORY OF SARAH RIFE

The Brenner Family

IN MEMORY OF BERNARD BRENNER

The Brenner Family

IN MEMORY OF GIL COHEN

Judi Ostroff & Family

RABBI’S DISCRETIONARY FUND

IN MEMORY OF ABE BROOKS

Susan Ellman

IN MEMORY OF RON ELLMAN

Susan Ellman

IN MEMORY OF JONATHAN LAFAIR

Beth & Steve Burak

IN HONOR OF AMY BLAKE

IN MEMORY OF BELOVED FATHER PHILIP COHEN

Ina & Arnie Galer

IN HONOR OF RABBI JANINE JANKOWITZ

ON THE BIRTH OF EVIE JANKOVITZ PASTOR

Helen Alexander

Debbie Weiss

Eileen & Mark Jacobs

Debbie & Scot Goldberg

Sandy & Marvin Melnikoff

ELLEN GLASSMAN MITZVAH FUND

IN MEMORY OF LILLIAN ISAACSOHN

Marilyn Bamash

IN MEMORY OF STUART HIRSH

Andi & Adlai Joseph

IN MEMORY OF IRENE KOSSMAN

Ellen & Arnie Glassman

IN MEMORY OF SHERRY LITCHCO

Feri Law

IN MEMORY OF RAHIM BENHAIM

Feri Law

IN MEMORY OF HESHMAT BENHAIM

Feri Law

CANTORIAL FUND FOR MUSIC PROGRAMMING

N MEMORY OF LEONAD LAFAIR

Beth & Steve Burak

DICK PACKEL LEARNING SUPPORT FUND

IN MEMORY OF MOLLIE HALPERN

Natalie Packel Markowitz & Family

IN HONOR OF DRS. CARYN & STEVE RICHFIELD

WE ARE EXCITED & DELIGHTED TO WISH YOU MAZEL TOV ON

BECOMING PARENTS

Sandy & Marvin Melnikoff

IN HONOR OF NATALIE PACKEL MARKOWITZ

WE ARE EXCITED & DELIGHTED TO WISH YOU MAZEL TOV

ON BECOMING A GREAT-GRANDMOTHER

Sandy & Marvin Melnikoff

IN HONOR OF STEPHANIE & GERMANY RICHFIELD

WE ARE EXCITED & DELIGHTED TO WISH YOU MAZEL TOV ON

BECOMING PARENTS

DONATIONS

IN MEMORY OF HELEN LEICHTMAN

BELOVED AUNT OF RHONDA WENNER

Rhonda Wenner

UNDESIGNATED FUNDS

ROY HULNICK FUND

IN MEMORY OF GLORIA HULNICK

Judy Ostroff & Family

DAVIDOW FUND

IN MEMORY OF JACK SAMBERG

Andrea & Vance DiCristo

DESIGNATED FUNDS, CON’T

IN HONOR OF JESSE RICHFIELD

WE ARE EXCITED & DELIGHTED TO WISH YOU MAZEL TOV ON

BECOMING AN UNCLE!

Sandy & Marvin Melnikoff

IN HONOR OF RABBI JANKOVITZ

WELCOME BABY EVIE

Natalie Packel Markowitz & Family

IN HONOR OF MR. & MRS. JEREMY RICHFIELD

ON THE BIRTH OF DYLAN MAX

Great Grandmother Natalie Packel Markowitz

IN MEMORY OF RONA MELNIKOFF ROSNER

OUR BELOVED DAUGHTER

Sandy & Marvin Melnikoff

IN MEMORY OF SARA HOFFMAN

Natalie Markowitz Packel

K’TONTON FUND

IN MEMORY OF CELIA MEYERS

Penny & Maury Reiter

IN MEMORY OF REUBEN REITER

Penny & Maury Reiter

IN MEMORY OF RITA SHERIN

Penny & Maury Reiter

GENERAL FUND

IN MEMORY OF MELVIN BLAKE

Amy Blake & Bill Wegener

IN MEMORY OF BELOVED HUSBAND

NATHAN FORM

Beatrice Form

IN HONOR OF THE CBENT SISTERHOOD

WITH THANKS & APPRECIATION OF PURIM CELEBRATION

Bonnie & Richard Kaplan

IN MEMORY OF VICKI GINSBERG

IN MEMORY OF CHARLOTTE LAFAIR

Judi Ostroff & Family

IN MEMORY OF CHARLES J. WENNER

BELOVED HUSBAND AND FATHER OF

RHONDA & SARA WENNER

Rhonda Wenner

IN MEMORY OF IVAN D. MILLER

BELOVED FATHER OF RHOINDA WENNER

Rhonda Wenner

Congregation Beth El – Ner Tamid (CBENT)

Security Protocols Building Entry/Door Policy

Updated by Security Committee for Kitchen Doors (as per CBENT Board

Direction) 12/18/2018

Goal/Background: This procedure is to establish guidelines for entry into the CBENT

building thereby improving security of the all of those within the building. This is a

“live” document and this procedure is expected to be updated when new building

improvements are approved by the CBENT Board which may include an intercom

system, additional door cameras, a key fob system, driver license scanner and new

lobby doors. etc.

Entry Points - A single point of entry and exit would be the preferred situation in order

to best control and be aware of the occupants of the building. But given the current

uses, infrastructure and layout of the building - school, pre-school and office nearest

Paxon Hollow entrance and services and programs occurring near parking lot entrance -

two points of entry will be established with their own set of protocols, except for a

narrowly defined use for Kitchen doors. ALL OTHER DOORS ARE FOR EMERGENCY

EXITS ONLY.

Paxon Hollow Entrance (Business and School Entrance) - Students known to office or

school staff will be buzzed in. Staff will have a list of all enrolled students. Unknown

adults will provide driver’s license for identification upon asking to enter. School staff is

to be stationed at Paxon Hollow entrance during high traffic periods. When people are

asking to be buzzed in during low traffic times, synagogue office or school staff MUST go

to door, check driver’s license and sign in the visitor if the person trying to enter is

unfamiliar. If the person states that they have an appointment, this must be confirmed

before the individual is allowed into the building. If no appointment, then the person

they are planning to meet with must authorize entry. A visitors book has been

established that requires all non-synagogue members and their guests to sign in upon

entering the building and sign out upon exit.

Sanctuary Lobby (Services and Programs) - Door is either to be locked or attended

by a congregant or staff member at all times. Congregant is to let known people in.

Those who are unknown will be asked for their driver’s license and their names will be

checked against the membership lists or a RSVP list for events that will be kept at the

door. Members who are expecting guests should provide their names to the office and

whenever possible plan on meeting their guests at the door. Regular attendees of

services and minyans will be provided with the security code for the Paxon Hollow door

as an alternative point of entry as it is difficult to staff the lobby door during low

attendance services and maintain a minyan.

Kitchen Doors – The kitchen doors are to be kept closed and locked at all times

except in the cases of accepting deliveries and removing trash from the building.

All deliveries, whether from a CBENT member or non-CBENT member, must first

check in with the synagogue office. See Paxon Hollow entry procedure for guidance

for non-CBENT member entry protocol. When the office is closed, a synagogue

member with knowledge of the delivery must meet the delivery person at CBENT.

Deliveries through the kitchen door can only be made if the door is either

continually attended/monitored by an adult while the delivery person moves

between the delivery vehicle and the door, or the door is closed and locked behind

the person as they move between their vehicle delivery and the door.

Trash may be taken out through the kitchen door closest to the trash bins. The

person removing the trash must keep visual contact with the door at all times and

immediately re-enter the building and close and lock kitchen doors once trash is

loaded in bins.

Meetings - Effective immediately, all synagogue, school and outside groups

(ORT, Weight Watchers, etc.) meetings must be scheduled and a list of attendees

must be given to the Synagogue Office. The after-hour meeting leader will be

given the security code for Paxon Hollow entrance so that they can let

themselves in and accommodate the other meeting attendees. The dance group

must have a designated door monitor at Felinton door.

Maintenance Staff - Shall not open doors for children, adults, or any vendors,

unless they are expecting them. Front Office Staff will supply off hour meeting lists

to Maintenance Staff just for knowledge of building population (not to let people in).

K’tonton Pre-School - K’tonton has its own set of security procedures in place

that were developed in consultation with a security consultant.

Job Opening:

Religious School Office Administrator

Broomall, PA. synagogue is looking for an individual who is organized, attentive to details, and diplomatic.

Candidate should have excellent written and oral communication and be comfortable working inde-

pendently as well as collaboratively.

GENERAL JOB DESCRIPTION:

Must be in person on school days (Wednesdays 3:00pm -6 :30 pm and Sundays

8:30 am- 12:30 pm) during school year; independent prep time.

Oversee day-to-day functions of the Religious School

Maintain inventory and supply demands of faculty

Assist in creating and monitoring schedules, events and meeting

Provide flyers for school events

Uphold PA state requirements for working with children;

Open, monitor and close school facilities on Wednesdays and Sundays when school is in session

Typical clerical duties

Skills needed:

Microsoft Office – Excel and Word

Publisher and PowerPoint a plus, but not required

Email proficiency – group emails, group mailings

Hebrew/Judaism knowledge helpful

Additional Duties (school aide):

Delegate or shop for events and school snacks as needed

Provide guidance for student aides

Oversee event set ups as needed

Hours and salary:

Approximately 13 hours/week including Sundays and Wednesdays

Annual Salary $11,320

Please send CV/Resumé to amyb@cbent.org

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Please contact amyb@cbent.org or call 610-356-8700

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