President’s Message

This year has emphasized to me the huge and important role that RST has at the end of our lives.  Our wonderful Rabbi, our dedicated volunteers, and our caring congregation all embrace us through the ancient traditions that we observe in the ritual preparations, memorial services, internment, and shiva gatherings.  I am proud to be a part of this big and diverse RST family that is present for us during all of the seasons of our lives.  Dying is inevitable, and it is comforting to know that our RST community is here to embrace us.  If you know of someone who is ill or in a terminal condition, please call the RST office so we can alert Rabbi and our volunteers. We continue to have a fantastic response to the RST Endowment matching challenge of $150,000 by the Bernard A. and Lorraine Morewitz Charitable Foundation.  Our RST Endowment allows meaningful gifts to have perpetual impact.  Both cash/property gifts and estate pledges count toward this matching challenge.  Please contact the RST office for more information and help making a gift to our RST Endowment.