June 17
June 17 - 24, 2016 12 - 18 Sivan 5776 Shabbat Naso
Check out the new "Getting To Know You" section on the last page.
Shabbat Times Shabbat Candle Lighting: 8:19 pm (Plag 7:03 pm) Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat: 6:45 pm (Sanctuary), 7:10 pm Youth-Led Ruach Minyan (Youth Beit Midrash) 7:45 pm (Sanctuary) Shacharit: 7:00 am, 8:00 am, 8:45 am, 9:15 am (Youth-led) Early Mincha: 6:00 pm (Sanctuary)** Mincha: 8:15 pm (Sanctuary) Maariv/Shabbat Ends: 9:26 pm Candle Lighting Next Shabbat: 8:20 pm (Plag 7:05 pm) **Note that we will pilot an early mincha at 6pm on Shabbat for the next 4 weeks**
Shabbat Speakers and Shiurim 7:00 am: Seth Weissman 8:00 am: Rabbi Avi Weinstein 8:45 am: Sarah Tabin Youth: Aliza Mintz Mechy Frankel's Gemara Shiur: 9:00 am Review of this week's Daf Yomi: 10:30 am 6:30 pm: Shiur by Rabbi Weinberg, as part of the 3rd Annual Gordon Lederman Memorial Weekend, followed by seudah shlishit 7:15 pm: Seudah Shlishit with Divrai Torah Between 8:15pm Mincha and Maariv: ~Dr. Dov Zakheim ~David Eisenman's Gemara Shiur
Mazal Tov ~ Mazal tov to Elon Fass on the occasion of his Bar Mitzvah. Mazal tov to Rebecca Blumenfeld & Larry Fass, Elon's sisters Idy and Esther, grandparents Fred & Fran Blumenfeld and their extended family & friends. ~Mazal tov to Sarah Tabin on the occasion of her Bat Mitzvah. Mazal tov to Jennifer and Joel Tabin, big brother, David, and the entire extended family. ~Mazal tov to Ina and Larry Lerman on the birth of a grandson to Michael and Tova Lerman of Modiin.
Condolences ~We extend our condolences to Mel Plotinsky on the passing of his brother, Ira, z"l. May Mel and his family be comforted among the mourners of Zion and Yerushalayim. ~We extend our condolences to Rosh Yeshiva, Rav Ahron Lopiansky, on the loss of his mother, Esther Lopiansky, z”l. May Rav Lopiansky and his family be comforted among the mourners of Zion and Yerushalayim.
Weekday Youth Minyan As we do every year, KMS will host a “summer vacation” Youth Shacharit at 9:00am on weekdays, (until school starts again). Please come to support this minyan.
Tzeitchem L'Shalom There are a number of members of KMS who are moving out of Kemp Mill this summer and we want to wish them a Tzeitchem L'Shalom. Each of them have contributed to life here in KMS in many ways and will be missed. We hope that KMS will continue to feel like home for them and they will continue to return to visit us: ~Howard and Roseanne Benn ~Ezra and Elisheva Pinsky and family ~Kurt and Jill Pauly ~Maurie and Susan Rosenberg Some of our members are moving to Israel (or back to Israel): Mazal Tov! ~Aaron and Courtney Cohen and family ~Joel and Tamara Starr and family ~Yaakov and Tamara Glick and family ~Shlomo and Yifat Weisman and family ~Mike and Chaya Lebson and family ~Joey Rubinstein
Shabbat Kiddush Hashkama Minyan Kiddush is by sponsored by Marti and Michael Herskovitz in memory of the yartzeit of Michael's mother, Zelda Herskovitz Z"L. 8:00 am Minyan Kiddush is sponsored by Rebecca Blumenfeld and Larry Fass in honor of Elon’s Bar Mitzvah and in honor of the yahrzeit of Larry’s parents, Martin and Joan Fass. 8:45 am Minyan Kiddush is sponsored by Jen and Joel Tabin in honor of Sarah’s Bat Mitzvah. Youth Minyan Kiddush is sponsored by Hope, David and Benjamin Taragin in honor of Lauren's High School graduation and to all 2016 graduates
This Weekend ~3rd Annual Gordon Lederman Memorial Weekend at the Kemp Mill Synagogue. For further details, please see flyer at this url:
http://bit.ly/28I5jYk •
•
This Shabbat, please join us for a shuir by Rabbi Weinberg at 6:30 pm followed by seudah shlishit in Gordon's memory. Sponsored by all those who have contributed to the Gordon Lederman Weekend. Thank you to A Capital Challah for donating the Zomicks rolls. This Sunday, between 3:30 and 5:00, please join us at KMS to participate in a wide variety of chesed activities suitable for adults and children. Please bring books and baby items for donation to A Wider Circle.
~June 19, 2016: Fight the Bite: How to reduce the risk and results of infection of Zika. 10:30am-Noon at YISE. Learn about Zika and precautions you can take from Joel Sklar, MD and Richard E. Broth, MD. Sponsored by BCGW, YISE, SSJC and KMS
Monthly Seudah Shlishit Join us at KMS for a monthly Seudah Shlishit! Celebrate a simcha or commemorate a yahrzeit with the congregation.Tentative dates for upcoming seudot shlishit are July 23 and September 3. Sponsorships for upcoming months are available for $350 (subject to change based on attendance). For more information or to sponsor, contact the shul office. Volunteers are needed to help with set up and clean up; if you would like to help, contact Beth Lichy at [email protected].
Weekday Tefilla Times June 19 – 24 - Halachic times for this week Earliest tallit and tefillin: 4:38 am Latest Kriat Shema: 9:26 am; Earliest Mincha: 1:48 pm A full listing of zmanim is available at kmsynagogue.org
Sunday: Shacharit: 8:00 am (Sanctuary), 9:00 am (Youth-Led, Sanctuary) Mincha/Maariv: 8:20 pm Monday: Shacharit: 6:45 am, 9:00 am (Youth), Mincha/Maariv: 8:20 pm Tuesday: Shacharit: 7:00 am, 9:00 am (Youth), Mincha/Maariv: 8:20 pm Wednesday: Shacharit: 7:00 am, 9:00 am (Youth), Mincha/Maariv: 8:20 pm Thursday: Shacharit: 6:45 am, 9:00 am (Youth), Mincha/Maariv: 8:20 pm Friday: Shacharit: 7:00 am, 9:00 am (Youth)
Educational Programming June 19 - 24 To hear Rabbi Weinberg's daily Divrei Mitzva and Divrei Halacha from the daily minyanim, go to http://www.spreaker.com/show/kms-dailydivrei-halacha-and-mitzva and http://www.spreaker.com/show/daily-divrei-halacha. Sunday: ~7:30 pm: Rabbi Yitzhak Grossman: Parashas Beha'alosecha: "Mareh", Metaphor and Meaning in the Bible at KMS ~8:30 pm: Nechama Porat: "Building a G-D fearing, moral society," based on the text of Baba Batra, Chapter 1, at KMS Monday: ** Laura Goldman’s weekly class is on hiatus until the fall** ~8:00 pm: Dina Haramati, Stories of Agnon, at the Haramati’s home Tuesday: ~8:00 pm: Rabbi Amnon Haramati, Torah and Commentaries, Ancient and Modern, at KMS Wednesday: ~9:40 - 10:40 am: Mrs. Esther Dziadek, Siddur reading with TGN at KMS (Classroom C) ~7:30pm: Rabbi Weinberg's Halacha in-Depth class at KMS (Classroom F) ~8:00 pm Rabbi Amnon Haramati, Prophets and Biblical Poetics, taught in Hebrew, at KMS (Classroom C) Thursday: ~1:00 pm: Erica Brown, Women’s Shiur on Sefer Devarim, at the Soltz home
Coming Soon ~July 8-9: KMS welcomes Rabbi Benny and Mrs. Noa Lau as a Scholar in Residence couple. Rav Benny is the director of the Center for Judaism and Society as well as the Institute for Social Justice at Bet Morasha of Jerusalem, and the Rabbi of the Ramban Synagogue in the Katamon neighborhood of Jerusalem. Noa Lau, Vice Dean of Nishmat, is the Shoelet U’Meishiva of Nishmat’s Keren Ariel Yoetzet Halacha Training Program and holds the Moshe and Charlotte Green Chair in Jewish Law at Nishmat. Both are widely acclaimed lecturers and teachers and this promises to be a very special Shabbat. Generously sponsored by David & Barbara Goldschlag, Mark Kahan, and David & Varda Makovsky ~August 28, 2016, Grand Slam Sunday: Jewish Community Day at Nationals Park will be hosted by the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington. The Washington Nationals will be taking on the Colorado Rockies at 1:35 p.m. Join us two hours before the game for activities and fun for all ages! Don't miss out - purchase your tickets today for Kemp Mill Synagogue's ticket block. We'll see you at the Ballpark! https://doinggood.wufoo.com/forms/grand-slam-sunday-group-sales/
Opportunities to Get Involved ~The KMS Tzedaka Fund helps people in need in the greater Kemp Mill Community. Donations to the Tzedaka Fund would help us meet these requests. Please give generously to the KMS Tzedaka Fund by sending your tax-deductible donation to the KMS office. Checks should be made payable to the KMS Tzedaka Fund. If you are in need of financial assistance, please contact Rabbi Weinberg [email protected] ~KMS has joined the Adopt A Road program by adopting Kemp Mill Road. Check out the recognition sign near Kemp Mill/Glenallen and Glenallen/Randolph Roads. KMS members will have the opportunity to do some cleanup on Kemp Mill Road. Please use this url to sign up on the Google doc - http://bit.ly/1UQPIOu.
Refua Shleima Nechama Yenta bat Raizal, Yehoshua Dan ben Naomi, Bayla Tova bat Rivka, Rachel Blimah bat Freydel, Levi Yizchok HaCohen ben Rochel, Menucha bat Aharon, Chaim ben Rachel, Tova Necha bas Rifka Sipa, Yehoshua Gavriel ben Bracha, Mordechai Ozer Yoseph ben Chaia Rochel, Sarah bat Chana, Chana Kayla bas Shoshana Ruchel, Tzvia Hinda bat Chaya Gittel, Belah Tova bat Rivka, Miriam Rachel bat Aiga Sarah, David Ze'ev ben Pearl, Michal Meira bat Fayge Ita, Akiva Yosef ben Fayge Ita, Kalman ben Shayna, Yaakov ben Jody, Tzipporah Gittel bas Chaya Leah . Please keep these names in mind during recitation of the misheberach for cholim. Please email the office at [email protected] if you would like to add names to this list. Community Connection announcements can be found at www.kmsynagogue.org/community#
Getting To Know You In an effort to promote the warm community feeling we strive for here at KMS, we are embarking on a new initiative. We hope you enjoy meeting your fellow members.
Dina and Matt Levitt Dina and Matt Levitt have lived in Kemp Mill and have attended KMS since they moved to the community in 1998. Dina, who hails from Nashville TN, heads the Women's Tefilah Group (and chairs the math Department at CESJDS). Matt, from Boston, MA, is a longstanding member of the security committee (and directs the counterterrorism program at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy). Together they chair the shul's special needs committee. The Levitt boys--Tani 23, Uriel 20, Yona 16, Noam 12--are committed KMS youth minyan participants. The Levitts are hardcore Boston Red Sox fans (is there any other kind?)
and have been spending family time together at Deep Creek Lake every summer for the past 17 years. The Levitts love many things about KMS. But among many wonderful things, the KMS Youth Minyan is a very special place. Not only do the kids have amazing opportunities for learning, leadership, and growth, but the level of amazing inclusion is unprecedented there. Where else can a teen with Down Syndrome be considered by all to be a Gabbai with specific and meaningful jobs, where teens don't bat an eye when he joins them for Hotza'at HaTorah, belting out Shma together with the Chazzan? KMS gave a home to this unique and special group of kids.
Jill Goldwater and Stephen Prensky Jill Goldwater and Stephen Prensky have lived in Kemp Mill since 1998. Jill is from Los Angeles and Steve is from Queens, New York. Prior to arriving in Maryland, they lived in Boulder, Colorado, and New Orleans, Louisiana. They have two children, Benjamin and Miriam, both were born in Boulder. Moving to to the DC metro area, and specifically to Kemp Mill, has given their family a true home. Jill is currently a synagogue Executive Director at Shaare Tefila in Olney and Steve is a contract editor and technical writer for the upstream (E&P) petroleum industry.
When not working, they love to visit their five grandchildren and take advantage of Steve’s overseas professional meeting obligations to travel around the world. Steve has has served KMS on a gabbai team, on the team that set the building lighting timers and thermostats before these tasks were automated, and on the previous team that organized the monthly seudat shlishit. Jill has served on the board of directors, several nominating committees, has been active in Women’s Tefila Group, and was a member of the Rabbi Search Committee. They were attracted to Kemp Mill because it is a welcoming community with many families and diverse Jewish opportunities. KMS has helped them to grow Jewishly and build lifelong friendships.
Check out the new "Getting To Know You" section on the last page.
Shabbat Times Shabbat Candle Lighting: 8:19 pm (Plag 7:03 pm) Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat: 6:45 pm (Sanctuary), 7:10 pm Youth-Led Ruach Minyan (Youth Beit Midrash) 7:45 pm (Sanctuary) Shacharit: 7:00 am, 8:00 am, 8:45 am, 9:15 am (Youth-led) Early Mincha: 6:00 pm (Sanctuary)** Mincha: 8:15 pm (Sanctuary) Maariv/Shabbat Ends: 9:26 pm Candle Lighting Next Shabbat: 8:20 pm (Plag 7:05 pm) **Note that we will pilot an early mincha at 6pm on Shabbat for the next 4 weeks**
Shabbat Speakers and Shiurim 7:00 am: Seth Weissman 8:00 am: Rabbi Avi Weinstein 8:45 am: Sarah Tabin Youth: Aliza Mintz Mechy Frankel's Gemara Shiur: 9:00 am Review of this week's Daf Yomi: 10:30 am 6:30 pm: Shiur by Rabbi Weinberg, as part of the 3rd Annual Gordon Lederman Memorial Weekend, followed by seudah shlishit 7:15 pm: Seudah Shlishit with Divrai Torah Between 8:15pm Mincha and Maariv: ~Dr. Dov Zakheim ~David Eisenman's Gemara Shiur
Mazal Tov ~ Mazal tov to Elon Fass on the occasion of his Bar Mitzvah. Mazal tov to Rebecca Blumenfeld & Larry Fass, Elon's sisters Idy and Esther, grandparents Fred & Fran Blumenfeld and their extended family & friends. ~Mazal tov to Sarah Tabin on the occasion of her Bat Mitzvah. Mazal tov to Jennifer and Joel Tabin, big brother, David, and the entire extended family. ~Mazal tov to Ina and Larry Lerman on the birth of a grandson to Michael and Tova Lerman of Modiin.
Condolences ~We extend our condolences to Mel Plotinsky on the passing of his brother, Ira, z"l. May Mel and his family be comforted among the mourners of Zion and Yerushalayim. ~We extend our condolences to Rosh Yeshiva, Rav Ahron Lopiansky, on the loss of his mother, Esther Lopiansky, z”l. May Rav Lopiansky and his family be comforted among the mourners of Zion and Yerushalayim.
Weekday Youth Minyan As we do every year, KMS will host a “summer vacation” Youth Shacharit at 9:00am on weekdays, (until school starts again). Please come to support this minyan.
Tzeitchem L'Shalom There are a number of members of KMS who are moving out of Kemp Mill this summer and we want to wish them a Tzeitchem L'Shalom. Each of them have contributed to life here in KMS in many ways and will be missed. We hope that KMS will continue to feel like home for them and they will continue to return to visit us: ~Howard and Roseanne Benn ~Ezra and Elisheva Pinsky and family ~Kurt and Jill Pauly ~Maurie and Susan Rosenberg Some of our members are moving to Israel (or back to Israel): Mazal Tov! ~Aaron and Courtney Cohen and family ~Joel and Tamara Starr and family ~Yaakov and Tamara Glick and family ~Shlomo and Yifat Weisman and family ~Mike and Chaya Lebson and family ~Joey Rubinstein
Shabbat Kiddush Hashkama Minyan Kiddush is by sponsored by Marti and Michael Herskovitz in memory of the yartzeit of Michael's mother, Zelda Herskovitz Z"L. 8:00 am Minyan Kiddush is sponsored by Rebecca Blumenfeld and Larry Fass in honor of Elon’s Bar Mitzvah and in honor of the yahrzeit of Larry’s parents, Martin and Joan Fass. 8:45 am Minyan Kiddush is sponsored by Jen and Joel Tabin in honor of Sarah’s Bat Mitzvah. Youth Minyan Kiddush is sponsored by Hope, David and Benjamin Taragin in honor of Lauren's High School graduation and to all 2016 graduates
This Weekend ~3rd Annual Gordon Lederman Memorial Weekend at the Kemp Mill Synagogue. For further details, please see flyer at this url:
http://bit.ly/28I5jYk •
•
This Shabbat, please join us for a shuir by Rabbi Weinberg at 6:30 pm followed by seudah shlishit in Gordon's memory. Sponsored by all those who have contributed to the Gordon Lederman Weekend. Thank you to A Capital Challah for donating the Zomicks rolls. This Sunday, between 3:30 and 5:00, please join us at KMS to participate in a wide variety of chesed activities suitable for adults and children. Please bring books and baby items for donation to A Wider Circle.
~June 19, 2016: Fight the Bite: How to reduce the risk and results of infection of Zika. 10:30am-Noon at YISE. Learn about Zika and precautions you can take from Joel Sklar, MD and Richard E. Broth, MD. Sponsored by BCGW, YISE, SSJC and KMS
Monthly Seudah Shlishit Join us at KMS for a monthly Seudah Shlishit! Celebrate a simcha or commemorate a yahrzeit with the congregation.Tentative dates for upcoming seudot shlishit are July 23 and September 3. Sponsorships for upcoming months are available for $350 (subject to change based on attendance). For more information or to sponsor, contact the shul office. Volunteers are needed to help with set up and clean up; if you would like to help, contact Beth Lichy at [email protected].
Weekday Tefilla Times June 19 – 24 - Halachic times for this week Earliest tallit and tefillin: 4:38 am Latest Kriat Shema: 9:26 am; Earliest Mincha: 1:48 pm A full listing of zmanim is available at kmsynagogue.org
Sunday: Shacharit: 8:00 am (Sanctuary), 9:00 am (Youth-Led, Sanctuary) Mincha/Maariv: 8:20 pm Monday: Shacharit: 6:45 am, 9:00 am (Youth), Mincha/Maariv: 8:20 pm Tuesday: Shacharit: 7:00 am, 9:00 am (Youth), Mincha/Maariv: 8:20 pm Wednesday: Shacharit: 7:00 am, 9:00 am (Youth), Mincha/Maariv: 8:20 pm Thursday: Shacharit: 6:45 am, 9:00 am (Youth), Mincha/Maariv: 8:20 pm Friday: Shacharit: 7:00 am, 9:00 am (Youth)
Educational Programming June 19 - 24 To hear Rabbi Weinberg's daily Divrei Mitzva and Divrei Halacha from the daily minyanim, go to http://www.spreaker.com/show/kms-dailydivrei-halacha-and-mitzva and http://www.spreaker.com/show/daily-divrei-halacha. Sunday: ~7:30 pm: Rabbi Yitzhak Grossman: Parashas Beha'alosecha: "Mareh", Metaphor and Meaning in the Bible at KMS ~8:30 pm: Nechama Porat: "Building a G-D fearing, moral society," based on the text of Baba Batra, Chapter 1, at KMS Monday: ** Laura Goldman’s weekly class is on hiatus until the fall** ~8:00 pm: Dina Haramati, Stories of Agnon, at the Haramati’s home Tuesday: ~8:00 pm: Rabbi Amnon Haramati, Torah and Commentaries, Ancient and Modern, at KMS Wednesday: ~9:40 - 10:40 am: Mrs. Esther Dziadek, Siddur reading with TGN at KMS (Classroom C) ~7:30pm: Rabbi Weinberg's Halacha in-Depth class at KMS (Classroom F) ~8:00 pm Rabbi Amnon Haramati, Prophets and Biblical Poetics, taught in Hebrew, at KMS (Classroom C) Thursday: ~1:00 pm: Erica Brown, Women’s Shiur on Sefer Devarim, at the Soltz home
Coming Soon ~July 8-9: KMS welcomes Rabbi Benny and Mrs. Noa Lau as a Scholar in Residence couple. Rav Benny is the director of the Center for Judaism and Society as well as the Institute for Social Justice at Bet Morasha of Jerusalem, and the Rabbi of the Ramban Synagogue in the Katamon neighborhood of Jerusalem. Noa Lau, Vice Dean of Nishmat, is the Shoelet U’Meishiva of Nishmat’s Keren Ariel Yoetzet Halacha Training Program and holds the Moshe and Charlotte Green Chair in Jewish Law at Nishmat. Both are widely acclaimed lecturers and teachers and this promises to be a very special Shabbat. Generously sponsored by David & Barbara Goldschlag, Mark Kahan, and David & Varda Makovsky ~August 28, 2016, Grand Slam Sunday: Jewish Community Day at Nationals Park will be hosted by the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington. The Washington Nationals will be taking on the Colorado Rockies at 1:35 p.m. Join us two hours before the game for activities and fun for all ages! Don't miss out - purchase your tickets today for Kemp Mill Synagogue's ticket block. We'll see you at the Ballpark! https://doinggood.wufoo.com/forms/grand-slam-sunday-group-sales/
Opportunities to Get Involved ~The KMS Tzedaka Fund helps people in need in the greater Kemp Mill Community. Donations to the Tzedaka Fund would help us meet these requests. Please give generously to the KMS Tzedaka Fund by sending your tax-deductible donation to the KMS office. Checks should be made payable to the KMS Tzedaka Fund. If you are in need of financial assistance, please contact Rabbi Weinberg [email protected] ~KMS has joined the Adopt A Road program by adopting Kemp Mill Road. Check out the recognition sign near Kemp Mill/Glenallen and Glenallen/Randolph Roads. KMS members will have the opportunity to do some cleanup on Kemp Mill Road. Please use this url to sign up on the Google doc - http://bit.ly/1UQPIOu.
Refua Shleima Nechama Yenta bat Raizal, Yehoshua Dan ben Naomi, Bayla Tova bat Rivka, Rachel Blimah bat Freydel, Levi Yizchok HaCohen ben Rochel, Menucha bat Aharon, Chaim ben Rachel, Tova Necha bas Rifka Sipa, Yehoshua Gavriel ben Bracha, Mordechai Ozer Yoseph ben Chaia Rochel, Sarah bat Chana, Chana Kayla bas Shoshana Ruchel, Tzvia Hinda bat Chaya Gittel, Belah Tova bat Rivka, Miriam Rachel bat Aiga Sarah, David Ze'ev ben Pearl, Michal Meira bat Fayge Ita, Akiva Yosef ben Fayge Ita, Kalman ben Shayna, Yaakov ben Jody, Tzipporah Gittel bas Chaya Leah . Please keep these names in mind during recitation of the misheberach for cholim. Please email the office at [email protected] if you would like to add names to this list. Community Connection announcements can be found at www.kmsynagogue.org/community#
Getting To Know You In an effort to promote the warm community feeling we strive for here at KMS, we are embarking on a new initiative. We hope you enjoy meeting your fellow members.
Dina and Matt Levitt Dina and Matt Levitt have lived in Kemp Mill and have attended KMS since they moved to the community in 1998. Dina, who hails from Nashville TN, heads the Women's Tefilah Group (and chairs the math Department at CESJDS). Matt, from Boston, MA, is a longstanding member of the security committee (and directs the counterterrorism program at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy). Together they chair the shul's special needs committee. The Levitt boys--Tani 23, Uriel 20, Yona 16, Noam 12--are committed KMS youth minyan participants. The Levitts are hardcore Boston Red Sox fans (is there any other kind?)
and have been spending family time together at Deep Creek Lake every summer for the past 17 years. The Levitts love many things about KMS. But among many wonderful things, the KMS Youth Minyan is a very special place. Not only do the kids have amazing opportunities for learning, leadership, and growth, but the level of amazing inclusion is unprecedented there. Where else can a teen with Down Syndrome be considered by all to be a Gabbai with specific and meaningful jobs, where teens don't bat an eye when he joins them for Hotza'at HaTorah, belting out Shma together with the Chazzan? KMS gave a home to this unique and special group of kids.
Jill Goldwater and Stephen Prensky Jill Goldwater and Stephen Prensky have lived in Kemp Mill since 1998. Jill is from Los Angeles and Steve is from Queens, New York. Prior to arriving in Maryland, they lived in Boulder, Colorado, and New Orleans, Louisiana. They have two children, Benjamin and Miriam, both were born in Boulder. Moving to to the DC metro area, and specifically to Kemp Mill, has given their family a true home. Jill is currently a synagogue Executive Director at Shaare Tefila in Olney and Steve is a contract editor and technical writer for the upstream (E&P) petroleum industry.
When not working, they love to visit their five grandchildren and take advantage of Steve’s overseas professional meeting obligations to travel around the world. Steve has has served KMS on a gabbai team, on the team that set the building lighting timers and thermostats before these tasks were automated, and on the previous team that organized the monthly seudat shlishit. Jill has served on the board of directors, several nominating committees, has been active in Women’s Tefila Group, and was a member of the Rabbi Search Committee. They were attracted to Kemp Mill because it is a welcoming community with many families and diverse Jewish opportunities. KMS has helped them to grow Jewishly and build lifelong friendships.
