Congregation Anshai Torah Men's Club
Anshai Torah Men’s Club Mission Statement
The Anshai Torah Men’s Club is dedicated to:
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Making Judaism more meaningful to its members through religious, cultural, and social programming
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Strengthening Anshai Torah by striving to increase its membership and promoting attendance at all of its activities.
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Educating its members about Judaism’s traditions and customs so that they can live lives that exemplify its tenets and teachings
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Introducing its members to community leaders to encourage participation as American Jews in our democratic institutions at the local level
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Assisting in the Jewish education of Anshai Torah members’ children by providing scholarships for Jewish camp and travel programs.
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Congregation Anshai Torah Men’s Club Youth Scholarship
Applications are now being accepted for the Congregation Anshai Torah Men’s Club Youth Scholarship. The Scholarship is a fund which assists young Anshai Torah congregants towards having meaningful Jewish experiences.
In 2022/2023, Men's Club will award at least $13,000 in scholarship money for qualifying events. Scholarships are funded by Men’s Club, Sisterhood, Hazak, and by the discretionary funds of Rabbis Weinberg & Kushnick. Scholarships are available on the basis of both financial need and personal merit.
Terms and policies for the scholarship program can be found here. Please review them before applying.
Eligibility
- Applicants must be the child of a current member of Congregation Anshai Torah.
- Applicants can be either age 17 or younger (on June 1, 2023,) or a senior in high school for the 2022 / 2023 school year.
- Children of Men’s Club Scholarship Committee members are excluded.
Qualifying Activities
Applicant must show plans to attend a camp, program, mission or trip activity that has a distinctly Jewish character, taking place between November 1, 2022 and October 31, 2023. Activities can include, but are not limited to: Jewish day camps, overnight camps, field trips, educational experiences, Hebrew study, Jewish youth group conferences, trips or missions.
The Men’s Club Scholarship Committee will make final determination of an activity’s qualification for scholarship award. All determinations of eligibility by the Men’s Club Scholarship Committee will be final.
If there is any doubt as to the eligibility of a potential camp or activity, please just go ahead and apply. To discuss further, please contact the Scholarship Committee chairman.
While any Jewish activity is eligible for consideration, the committee will give preference to those programs
most closely supporting Anshai Torah’s core values. These include kosher food, Shabbat observance, egalitarian tefillah, and support of Israel.
Preference will also be given to programs directly affiliated with Anshai Torah or the United Synagogues of Conservative Judaism (USCJ). These are: programs offered through United Synagogue Youth (USY) such as USY on Wheels or USY Summer or USY Israel; programs offered through USCJ’s Ramah movement such as Ramah camps or Israel missions.
Application Process
Applications will be accepted October 28 to November 27, 2022.
Click here to apply.
Scholarship Notifications & Awards
All applications must be received by November 27, 2022 to be considered. Scholarship recipients and their families will be notified of their awards by December 31, 2022. Those receiving awards have until January 31, 2023 to accept their awards and commit to the activity or program.
Application Evaluation & Applicant Privacy
All applications received on or before Nov. 27, 2022 will be considered by the Scholarship Committee.
All applications and their contents will be treated as confidential, and will not be shared beyond the Men’s Club Scholarship Committee. Applicant names and family names will be masked by the committee chair, making all applications anonymous even to the members of the Scholarship Committee during the evaluation period. Only the committee chair will know the identity of each masked applicant.
Scholarship recipients’ names and the programs to be attended (but not the amount received) will be recognized in the March 2023 Kol Emet newsletter unless parents specifically request otherwise before January 31, 2023.
Recent Men’s Club Events
On June 28, Anshai Torah had the Weinberg Family Golf Classic, a sold-out, successful event that raised significant monetary support for the Men's Club Youth Scholarship Program. We look forward to providing more scholarships to provide financial support for Anshai's youth at 2022 summer camps, youth activities, conferences, and more!
Other events to look out for include:
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World Wide Wrap
Sukkah Build
NFL Football in the Sukkah
Latke Fry
...and More!
About Men's Club:
Anshai Torah Men's Club is an auxiliary organization of the synagogue whose objective is to provide opportunities for social interaction for our members. We seek to involve our members in fun and fulfilling activities that will benefit the synagogue and be of service to our community.
We have monthly meetings in the synagogue, usually on the third Sunday of the month, beginning at 9:00 AM. Watch the synagogue announcements and weekly emails for specific dates. We serve bagels, muffins, fruit, juice and coffee, and, while we nosh, we have a short business meeting where we discuss upcoming events and new activity ideas. Many of our meetings also include short programs.
Throughout the year the Men's Club:
- Holds fun and educational events such as Scotch-Tasting Seder or our annual inaugural Beer Tasting
- Helps out with High Holiday ushering and handles the construction and subsequent dismantling of the congregation's sukkah
- Our Sunday afternoon Football in the Sukkah is a great annual event!
- Fries all of the latkes for the shul's Chanukah celebration
- Purchases and delivers Yom Ha Shoah candles for the entire congregation
- Supports the annual Weinberg Family Golf Classic benefiting the Men's Club Scholarship Fund
- Holds games nights, bike rides, movie nights, and other social activities
Interested in learning more or joining the organization? Click here to be taken to our membership form.
You can contact us via email at MensClub@anshaitorah.org
Men's Club 2022-23 Board
President: Howard Eisenberg
Immediate Past President: David Ginchansky
Treasurer: Brad Welcher
Communications: Jon Feldman
Religious Chair: Eric Berman
Holocaust Education Chairman: Michael Frank
Scholarship Program Chairman: Jacob Ratner
Did you know that Congregation Anshai Torah Men's Club has a Facebook Page? Please follow us!
Contact Howard Eisenberg at MensClub@anshaitorah.org and he will add you as a member to the CAT Men's Club Page.
Join Us!
All men are welcome. Our dues are $40 per year per member. This amount covers various men's club events and supports the Men's Club Scholarship Fund. If you are new to Anshai, your first year of membership is free!!
You can contact us via email at MensClub@anshaitorah.org
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