Congregation Beth Yeshurun, my JCC and BBYO. I loved everything about being Jewish both ritually and culturally. For three years in high school, I taught all of the B’nai Mitzvah kids their prayers. I worked at the Jewish Herald-Voice (our Jewish newspaper) as a typesetter. BBYO was especially amazing – there was no better place for leadership development, ruach, creativity, and “giving back.” One of most influencing factors
in my life, was the Houston Pilgrimage to Israel – where I was lucky to spend six weeks in Israel learning its history, flavors, and people. It was also in Houston where I met my husband, Steve, on a blind date. I was going to be a freshman at Sophie Newcomb College of Tulane University; he was a rising Junior. The rest, as they say, is history. Together, Steve and I chaired the
UJA campaign on campus and were involved in Hillel. We got married very young – I was just 21 and he was 22. I moved to Miami where he was attending law school. He promised we would go back to Texas in two years; 42 years later…… For the past 40 years, I have been blessed to be involved in the Miami Jewish south Dade community serving on the boards of the Alper JCC (where I’m also a Past President), Bet Shira Congregation and the Federation’s Southwest Dade Women’s Division. Through the Greater Miami Jewish Federation, I co- chaired Super Sunday and Steve and I co-chaired two Family Missions to Israel. It was such an incredible feeling to share Shelly’s grandmother, Nanny Eskowitz
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