Brotherhood
Brotherhood at CBE
Brotherhood strives to enhance our congregational community, by enabling members to find identity, involvement and inspiration in their lives through greater participation in the Beth Emeth community. Your Brotherhood enhances the Jewish experience for our congregants by:
• Organizing and cooking for the Religious School opening day picnic
• Building the congregational Sukkah
• Donating funds for special Religious School projects.
• Recognizing the graduating seniors involved in the CBE Religious School with Scholarship Awards.
• Recognizing the efforts of our b’nai mitzvah and Confirmation students with gifts from the congregation.
• Donating funds to our youth group, CBEYG.
• Providing opportunities for Religious School students to attend special programs.
• Providing scholarship funds for children to attend Jewish overnight summer camp.
• Helping to keep the memory of the Holocaust alive by purchasing and distributing Yom HaShoah Candles to the greater Jewish community with help from other local synagogues.
• Contributing to the success of the Soup Kitchen
• Membership and all of our events are open to Beth Emeth Members and the Greater Jewish Community.
We encourage you to continue the tradition of l'dor vador.
From the kitchen of our esteemed Brotherhood Chef -- Rob Dorkin! Check out some of his favorite go-to recipes, in particular his delicious kugel.
2023-2024 Membership
Officers and Directors 2022-2023
- Jay Hurewitz, President
- Mark Swyer, VP Programming
- Mike Horelick, VP Membership
- Barry Davis, VP Social Action
- Joe Bierman, Secretary
- Don Basen, Treasurer
History of CBE Brotherhood
Organized in 1923 as a successor to the Temple Men’s Club, which had been founded in 1915, Brotherhood continues its service to Reform Judaism, Congregation Beth Emeth and the Capital Region Jewish Community. Since 1923 as a charter member of the National Federation of Temple Brotherhoods (now the M.R.J. - Men of Reform Judaism), Beth Emeth’s Brotherhood strives to enhance the experience of temple membership by enabling men to find identity, involvement and inspiration in their lives through fuller participation in our temple community
Past Presidents (1923 – 2022)
- 2017-2022 Barry Davis/Mark Swyer
- 2014-2017 Mark Swyer
- 2011-2014 Robert Dorkin
- 2008-2011 Scott Gollop
- 2006-2008 Michael Barnas
- 2004-2006 Bret Kauffman
- 2002-2004 David Cherubin
- 2000-2002 Garrett Sanders
- 1998-2000 William J. Nathan
- 1996-1998 Harvey Gingold
- 1994-1996 Steven Cariati
- 1992-1994 Aaron Liebman
- 1990-1992 Arnold Kaye
- 1988-1990 Joseph Meda
- 1987-1988 Jesse Mendelsohn
- 1985-1987 Ronald H. Miller
- 1983-1985 Jason J. Rice
- 1981-1983 Howard D. Lewis
- 1979-1981 Mordecai Bressler
- 1977-1979 Leonard E. Friedlander
- 1975-1977 Martin A. Goldstein
- 1973-1975 Irving Green
- 1972-1973 Leon Ratzker
- 1970-1972 Franklin J. Steinhardt
- 1969-1970 Arnold Grushky
- 1968-1969 Joel L. Levy
- 1967-1968 Dr. Edward Berg
- 1965-1967 David G. Loeb
- 1963-1965 Henry S. Gould
- 1962-1963 Milton Lewis
- 1961-1962 Edgar Blumberg
- 1960-1961 S. Sylvan Raab
- 1958-1960 Leonard L. Rosenthal
- 1956-1958 Charles Kapner, Jr.
- 1954-1956 Murray R. Nathan
- 1952-1954 Leon Klein
- 1951-1952 Dr. J. Clinton Brand, Jr.
- 1950-1951 Cerf J. Levy
- 1949-1950 Louis Baere
- 1948-1949 Edward S. Laventall
- 1947-1948 Louis B. Yaguda
- 1946-1947 Joseph H. Einhornto
- 1944-1946 James A. Paul
- 1940-1944 Joseph Wander
- 1939-1940 Dr. Henry Swartz
- 1938-1939 George Meyers
- 1936-1938 Eugene J. Steiner
- 1934-1936 Theodore Sonnenfeld
- 1932-1934 Dr. E. Martin Freund
- 1923-1932 Judge Leopold Minkin
